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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.
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Oh that's too bad. But I just called my father.
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He's coming to pick us up. You call your father, yes,
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just now on the phone at the railroad station.
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Oh, Mercy, that is a miracle. I didn't know. That's
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so never worked.
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Can We're happy to enjoy your hospitality while we're waiting.
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We still can't understand why there's no one else in town.
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You live here all alone, each my home. It's not
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bad living alone. I get by.
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We thought it was some sort of restoration.
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I don't know what a restoration is.
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A restoration is an old town or house that's been
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restored to look the way two years ago. Oh, this
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town's looked like this from the beginning, every since.
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It came from Scotland.
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The town came over from Scotland.
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It's an exact duplicate of Taylortown in Scotland. The streets
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and the houses, in all the furnishings came from Scotland.
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Oh, Mercy, don't ask me. How long ago then?
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You were born here?
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I guess so you guess so well, I've never been
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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.51300:30:49.160 --> 00:30:50.680
I just get my shawl.51400:30:50.920 --> 00:30:54.799
It won't be a minute. She shouldn't be living alone51500:30:54.880 --> 00:30:57.680
like this. It's made her completely confused.51600:30:57.720 --> 00:30:59.920
So I know, well, there's nothing we can do.51700:31:01.039 --> 00:31:05.079
She kept offering us scoons and the plate was empty.51800:31:05.680 --> 00:31:07.200
She's living in the past.51900:31:07.759 --> 00:31:10.000
I wish it's hurry. I don't want to miss dad.52000:31:10.200 --> 00:31:13.039
Well, we've got lots of time. If you said an hour,52100:31:14.039 --> 00:31:15.359
we've only been here a few minutes.52200:31:16.799 --> 00:31:20.880
I wonder what's keeping Missus McGinnis. Look, why don't we52300:31:21.039 --> 00:31:24.119
just go on? She'll follow us. She knows where the52400:31:24.160 --> 00:31:24.759
hotel is.52500:31:25.200 --> 00:31:30.960
Missus McGinnis. You about ready, Missus McGinnis.52600:31:31.160 --> 00:31:32.000
Oh, not again.52700:31:32.480 --> 00:31:34.359
I'll talk about the Cheshire cat.52800:31:35.119 --> 00:31:37.480
Come on, let's get out of here.52900:31:44.319 --> 00:31:46.920
Do you want your eggs scrambled off fried this morning?53000:31:46.960 --> 00:31:51.799
Will I do? Hope we hear from the children soon53100:31:52.680 --> 00:31:55.559
getting awfully nervous.53200:31:55.599 --> 00:31:57.759
At least arrived last night, but.53300:31:57.880 --> 00:31:58.440
Not to go.53400:31:59.359 --> 00:32:00.960
It's not like Joan.53500:32:01.519 --> 00:32:04.559
Why that just means there's nothing wrong? Har Is they53600:32:04.680 --> 00:32:05.240
got trouble?53700:32:05.319 --> 00:32:06.440
We'd have been the first to.53800:32:06.440 --> 00:32:10.240
Know something's not right. I just feel it.53900:32:10.640 --> 00:32:16.880
Well, stead after nine, if they're not here by nose,54000:32:18.039 --> 00:32:19.559
maybe I'll call the police.54100:32:19.599 --> 00:32:21.400
Oh, I'll get it.54200:32:24.559 --> 00:32:29.960
Hello, Hello, is it Joan? Now?54300:32:30.039 --> 00:32:33.279
There seems to be a voice that I can't make54400:32:33.319 --> 00:32:39.279
it out. Joan. No, it's a bad connection. I don't54500:32:39.319 --> 00:32:46.599
know if it's Joan or no. Dear Hello, Hello, Hello,54600:32:49.000 --> 00:32:53.440
It's no use. Whoever it was will have to call back.54700:32:55.000 --> 00:32:56.640
We'll just have to wait.54800:33:04.599 --> 00:33:10.279
Keep I'm terribly frightened. I wasn't before, but now now54900:33:10.319 --> 00:33:14.240
I really am. There's something evil here.55000:33:15.359 --> 00:33:17.480
I mean no people accept that?55100:33:17.680 --> 00:33:19.440
Crazy missus McInnis.55200:33:18.920 --> 00:33:20.400
With your dad's on the way.55300:33:20.720 --> 00:33:24.240
I wonder it's been two hours now, Well, maybe he55400:33:24.319 --> 00:33:24.920
had trouble.55500:33:25.680 --> 00:33:29.720
At least he knows where we are, doesn't he?55600:33:30.240 --> 00:33:33.799
How I know? All we do is is ask each other.55700:33:33.880 --> 00:33:38.480
Still we questions. I'm cold, and I'm tired, and I'm hungry.55800:33:38.680 --> 00:33:42.319
Oh we might just die here, don't you realize?55900:33:42.359 --> 00:33:44.759
That we might just die here.56000:33:46.039 --> 00:33:53.400
Stop it. I'm I'm sorry, Hannah, I had to stop you.56100:33:55.799 --> 00:33:57.279
I'll get control of myself.56200:33:57.319 --> 00:34:00.160
I'm sorry.56300:34:00.240 --> 00:34:02.880
Well, well just have to wait.56400:34:12.440 --> 00:34:16.239
Everyone seems to be waiting. Joan and Skip are waiting56500:34:16.239 --> 00:34:18.679
in Tailor town or expecting her father to pick them56600:34:18.719 --> 00:34:21.679
up any minutes. But Joan's father, as we now know,56700:34:22.079 --> 00:34:24.760
didn't get the call, and he and his wife.56800:34:24.480 --> 00:34:26.079
Are waiting to hear from Joan.56900:34:26.840 --> 00:34:29.320
It looks as though Skip and Joan won't be whether57000:34:29.320 --> 00:34:33.559
the books for Christmas after all, or at all for57100:34:33.679 --> 00:34:36.840
that matter. We'll just have to wait to see how57200:34:36.840 --> 00:34:40.960
it turns out. When I returned shortly with Act three,57300:34:43.280 --> 00:34:57.599
and for the way things look now, it's not going57400:34:57.639 --> 00:34:59.960
to be a very merry Christmas for Skip and Joan.57500:35:00.079 --> 00:35:04.440
Bartram apparently marooned in a strange little Ohio tom with57600:35:04.559 --> 00:35:09.199
only one inhabitant. After encountering the elusis Missus mcinni's for57700:35:09.199 --> 00:35:11.920
a second time, Skip and Joan have gone to the57800:35:11.920 --> 00:35:12.880
hotel to.57900:35:12.880 --> 00:35:14.079
Wait for Jones' father.58000:35:14.880 --> 00:35:19.079
It's a cold December afternoon and it's been a long wait.58100:35:20.360 --> 00:35:22.599
What time is it ten after two?58200:35:23.320 --> 00:35:26.360
I'm going to phone home again. Maybe there's a reason58300:35:26.480 --> 00:35:27.400
Dad was delayed.58400:35:27.679 --> 00:35:29.920
And after that, I'm going to call the state police.58500:35:30.880 --> 00:35:32.679
I should have thought of it before. We're in a58600:35:32.760 --> 00:35:36.440
real emergency here. They'll tow us out. Come on.58700:35:37.960 --> 00:35:42.079
But suppose Dad comes after we've gone.58800:35:41.639 --> 00:35:43.920
We'll ask missus McGinnis to watch for her.58900:35:44.199 --> 00:35:48.559
Missus McInnis, missus Houdini. You mean I wouldn't trust her59000:35:48.599 --> 00:35:49.840
to give Dad a message.59100:35:50.159 --> 00:35:52.719
Well, we're getting out of here as fast as we can,59200:35:52.920 --> 00:36:00.719
your father or the police, whichever comes first. Okay, Okay, here, folks, again,59300:36:07.159 --> 00:36:12.719
it's dead. There's no dial tone. Nothing makes sense in59400:36:12.800 --> 00:36:13.280
this place.59500:36:14.360 --> 00:36:16.360
Oh it's no use, it's dead.59600:36:17.960 --> 00:36:19.199
Stay right where you are.59700:36:20.519 --> 00:36:23.440
She's got a gun. You better be kicking off.59800:36:24.559 --> 00:36:26.320
Missus McGinnis. Why the gun?59900:36:26.679 --> 00:36:28.480
How do you know my name?60000:36:29.119 --> 00:36:29.360
Uh?60100:36:29.400 --> 00:36:32.599
Lucky guess. Why are you pointing that gun at us?60200:36:32.760 --> 00:36:37.159
I want you out of here now. I don't truss strangers.60300:36:37.400 --> 00:36:40.000
Missus McGinnis, you were so hospitable to us before.60400:36:40.079 --> 00:36:41.079
Why are you before?60500:36:42.400 --> 00:36:46.280
I've never seen you before in my life.60600:36:46.679 --> 00:36:50.440
Now get out of here, start walking Where to do?60700:36:50.519 --> 00:36:54.760
Wherever you come from? I don't allow straight you're here.60800:36:55.079 --> 00:36:56.280
This is a nightmare.60900:36:56.480 --> 00:36:58.960
You don't scare us because I know in a couple61000:36:59.039 --> 00:37:00.400
of minutes you're going into disappear.61100:37:00.639 --> 00:37:02.079
What are you talking about.61200:37:02.199 --> 00:37:05.079
You've been popping up and vanishing all morning. In a61300:37:05.079 --> 00:37:08.280
few minutes you'll just disappear poop. So we are waiting61400:37:08.360 --> 00:37:11.679
right here, will come on Jones? She means it?61500:37:11.719 --> 00:37:13.960
But where can we go back to the car? She61600:37:14.000 --> 00:37:15.239
would really shoot her.61700:37:15.519 --> 00:37:17.039
She couldn't be doing.61800:37:17.440 --> 00:37:19.719
We're not taking chances with that crazy old woman.61900:37:19.880 --> 00:37:22.639
But we'll freeze out here and Dad won't.62000:37:22.440 --> 00:37:24.159
Find you if you'll have to press the car on62100:37:24.199 --> 00:37:27.760
the highway. Nothing makes any sense.62200:37:27.800 --> 00:37:35.599
Here, we're back. You are right, she's gone.62300:37:40.199 --> 00:37:44.880
We'll be okay here from motor works. I'll just turn62400:37:44.920 --> 00:37:50.559
on the here, come on hop in here. Oh, there's62500:37:50.639 --> 00:37:54.320
more damage than I thought. The whole front end's caved in.62600:37:55.920 --> 00:37:57.960
What are Christmas? This is turned out to me?62700:37:58.480 --> 00:38:00.880
Oh honey, we'll get out of this. Yeah, let me62800:38:00.920 --> 00:38:01.679
get the hitter going.62900:38:03.559 --> 00:38:06.239
We might as well get some holiday spirits if the63000:38:06.360 --> 00:38:12.639
radio still works. Oh, I am so bush.63100:38:13.280 --> 00:38:16.719
Oh you didn't sleep all night and I didn't get63200:38:16.840 --> 00:38:18.440
much myself, and I wouldn't couch.63300:38:18.719 --> 00:38:20.400
I hope Dad come soon.63400:38:21.519 --> 00:38:25.760
Yeah, we can't keep the motor running. All day.63500:38:26.119 --> 00:38:29.079
So I hope missus mckinnis doesn't show up again.63600:38:29.400 --> 00:38:33.239
Oh, she wouldn't follow us out here, but locked the63700:38:33.280 --> 00:38:42.719
doors anyway.63800:38:36.760 --> 00:38:52.039
So, hey, you are right in there.63900:38:53.320 --> 00:38:57.480
Hey you too? Huh? Who's there?64000:38:58.079 --> 00:38:58.679
What's the mare?64100:39:00.039 --> 00:39:00.519
Are you too?64200:39:00.679 --> 00:39:03.280
Okay? Oh it's a stay trooper.64300:39:05.320 --> 00:39:06.800
We sell asleep.64400:39:08.000 --> 00:39:08.519
My leg.64500:39:10.480 --> 00:39:13.119
Are we glad to see you? Anybody hurt?64600:39:13.480 --> 00:39:13.679
No?64700:39:14.440 --> 00:39:17.880
Oh no, we must have dozed off, dozed off.64800:39:17.679 --> 00:39:19.000
And ran off the road.64900:39:19.639 --> 00:39:22.159
A helicopter spotted your car and called us.65000:39:22.360 --> 00:39:24.119
Oh, thanks the Lord for that.65100:39:25.800 --> 00:39:30.119
How'd you get on this road? It's officially closed? Well,65200:39:30.119 --> 00:39:33.440
there weren't any signs about that. It connected within the65300:39:33.519 --> 00:39:36.280
state forty and we just stayed on and had the65400:39:36.320 --> 00:39:39.800
bad luck. It's get in the bullders. This extension isn't65500:39:39.840 --> 00:39:43.960
due to open until next summer. Where are you heading?65600:39:44.480 --> 00:39:45.320
Runionville?65700:39:45.920 --> 00:39:47.000
My parents live there.65800:39:47.559 --> 00:39:49.519
We're going home for the holidays.65900:39:50.599 --> 00:39:53.480
You wouldn't have gotten there on this road. It ends66000:39:53.480 --> 00:39:57.119
about one hundred yards up ahead. Our radio for a66100:39:57.239 --> 00:40:00.559
toe and get you folks to your onion bill. And66200:40:00.639 --> 00:40:05.199
when did you go off road last night? You been66300:40:05.239 --> 00:40:05.920
here all night?66400:40:06.679 --> 00:40:06.920
Well?66500:40:07.239 --> 00:40:12.480
No, we went into Taylor Town. Taylor Town, Yeah, right66600:40:12.559 --> 00:40:15.039
up the road. But it's a ghost town except for66700:40:15.039 --> 00:40:20.000
a crazy old woman who lives there. I'd better get66800:40:20.039 --> 00:40:24.280
you folks to the hospital first, just to check out,66900:40:24.599 --> 00:40:27.960
you know, possible concussion. Oh no, no, no, we're all right.67000:40:28.599 --> 00:40:31.239
My wife's ankle was twisted, but once we got out67100:40:31.239 --> 00:40:33.760
of the car, she was okay. We do not need67200:40:33.760 --> 00:40:36.760
a hospital. Do you say you spent the night in67300:40:36.840 --> 00:40:42.920
a place called Taylortown? His There is no Taylor Town67400:40:43.000 --> 00:40:43.639
around here.67500:40:44.480 --> 00:40:48.000
I've lived here all my lives, and there just isn't67600:40:48.000 --> 00:40:51.960
any place called Taylor Town right up the road.67700:40:52.400 --> 00:40:53.280
Look for yourself.67800:40:53.360 --> 00:40:54.400
We were there all night.67900:40:55.199 --> 00:41:01.960
I'm sorry man, and maybe us their Look ah, oh.68000:41:01.760 --> 00:41:02.920
There's nothing there.68100:41:03.960 --> 00:41:05.239
There's no village at.68200:41:05.159 --> 00:41:11.519
All, No man. Road ends at that vacant field, not68300:41:11.679 --> 00:41:22.239
a town as far as you can see. How are68400:41:22.239 --> 00:41:26.400
they doctor well, no sign of concussion at all, no injuries,68500:41:26.519 --> 00:41:30.360
accept abrasions on the woman's ankle. Well, what about that68600:41:30.559 --> 00:41:34.159
story about spending the night in the village called Taylor Town?68700:41:35.039 --> 00:41:39.599
Hard to say. Maybe they did. They must have imagined it.68800:41:40.079 --> 00:41:43.559
They showed no signs of exposure. They only think they68900:41:43.559 --> 00:41:47.960
were there through the night. They may be down the69000:41:48.039 --> 00:41:52.079
road only a couple of hours. The helicopters spotted them69100:41:52.440 --> 00:41:57.599
two hours ago. They went to a village named Taylor Town.69200:41:58.920 --> 00:42:04.719
They were hallosin hallucinations quite common in extreme circumstances. Mirage69300:42:04.840 --> 00:42:08.039
is in the desert man, anxiety can produce them.69400:42:09.000 --> 00:42:11.639
Then you think they spent the night, like they said,69500:42:11.719 --> 00:42:13.599
in a village that isn't there.69600:42:14.679 --> 00:42:19.920
They had an emotional experience. Physically they're fine. I see69700:42:19.960 --> 00:42:23.559
no reason to keep them here. They're better off going69800:42:23.639 --> 00:42:25.639
home to the woman's parents.69900:42:32.519 --> 00:42:41.360
Will they're here? A police cars riding up you.70000:42:41.920 --> 00:42:46.199
We glad to see your Oh, we were just about70100:42:46.280 --> 00:42:48.760
to send her. Please start looking for you when you70200:42:48.960 --> 00:42:50.280
call for the hospital.70300:42:50.440 --> 00:42:52.199
Oh, I'm going to send that stay true for a70400:42:52.199 --> 00:42:55.599
whopping Christmas gift. I got his name in badge number Skiff.70500:42:55.599 --> 00:42:59.199
It's so good to see him. Same here, Thank Heaven.70600:42:59.320 --> 00:43:03.960
Here, Come on in and everybody, no use standing here in70700:43:04.000 --> 00:43:05.239
the cool And what happened?70800:43:05.320 --> 00:43:05.599
Dad?70900:43:06.119 --> 00:43:07.679
We thought you were coming to pick us up in71000:43:07.679 --> 00:43:09.199
that place called Tailor Town.71100:43:10.039 --> 00:43:14.199
Uh, that's what puzzles me. We never heard from you.71200:43:15.480 --> 00:43:18.440
The phone ran earlier this morning with no one was there.71300:43:19.079 --> 00:43:22.480
I know I had a bad connection, but I was sure.71400:43:22.519 --> 00:43:24.199
I heard you say you'd meet us.71500:43:25.079 --> 00:43:25.960
You seem to know.71600:43:25.880 --> 00:43:26.480
Where we were.71700:43:27.360 --> 00:43:32.320
You mentioned this table town. There's no place like that71800:43:32.480 --> 00:43:36.280
around here. We exactly were you.71900:43:36.920 --> 00:43:40.400
Well, I've never heard of it either, but we were there.72000:43:41.360 --> 00:43:43.840
I know that youoper thought we were looting. Oh I72100:43:43.960 --> 00:43:48.320
don't know fuck to say about all this. Why don't72200:43:48.360 --> 00:43:52.199
you both just relax. I've got a buffet already. We'll72300:43:52.199 --> 00:43:54.320
have cocktails and you can tell us all about it.72400:43:54.639 --> 00:43:55.320
That's I.72500:43:56.840 --> 00:43:59.400
I'll get your suitcases up to the guest room.72600:44:00.000 --> 00:44:01.719
We had to leave all our gifts in the car,72700:44:01.840 --> 00:44:04.920
but they're towing it in tonight, so we'll have them72800:44:04.920 --> 00:44:09.280
in time for Christmas. They don't matter, Dear. Having you72900:44:09.400 --> 00:44:13.920
here and safe is what's important. Now. You just relax73000:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.519
and enjoy the tree while I get things ready.73100:44:17.119 --> 00:44:18.480
You won't be furnished.73200:44:19.159 --> 00:44:22.360
Oh it's so good to be home again, and at73300:44:22.440 --> 00:44:25.039
Christmas time everything's so pretty.73400:44:25.360 --> 00:44:27.280
Yeah. Oh that's some tree.73500:44:27.639 --> 00:44:31.000
I just love the skip.73600:44:32.079 --> 00:44:36.760
Look what under the tree? Come closer?73700:44:38.199 --> 00:44:45.199
Oh, so little village set out under the tree, cardboard houses. Look,73800:44:45.440 --> 00:44:51.440
Look at the hotel. It's tailor to mother and dad73900:44:51.599 --> 00:44:55.000
got to set when I was a child. I've forgotten it.74000:44:55.960 --> 00:45:00.239
Every house, every street is just the way it was, the.74100:45:00.239 --> 00:45:02.920
Railroad station, the little store, and.74200:45:04.599 --> 00:45:06.000
Missus mckinness's house.74300:45:06.519 --> 00:45:12.920
John, wait a minute, we weren't. We couldn't have been there.74400:45:13.679 --> 00:45:14.920
That's what the trooper said.74500:45:15.719 --> 00:45:22.599
What happened to us? Hey, I'm getting the chills. Look74600:45:22.639 --> 00:45:26.360
at those pine needles from the tree. Those are the74700:45:26.440 --> 00:45:28.039
green logs that hit the roof.74800:45:28.480 --> 00:45:33.840
I wonder what Missus mckinnis. Could she be?74900:45:34.400 --> 00:45:38.039
Hi, I think she disappeared for the last time.75000:45:39.320 --> 00:45:40.880
What should we tell mother and dad?75100:45:43.119 --> 00:45:48.719
I don't know. I think we said enough. I don't75200:45:48.719 --> 00:45:52.480
know what happened to us last night, but we better75300:45:52.519 --> 00:45:53.719
stop talking about it.75400:45:54.320 --> 00:45:58.320
I guess you're right here the orders you can pour75500:45:58.360 --> 00:46:04.440
the wine wills a holiday toast everybody. Oh, I see75600:46:04.480 --> 00:46:06.719
you admiring the village under the tree.75700:46:06.960 --> 00:46:09.239
How we haven't set it up for years.75800:46:10.199 --> 00:46:13.440
We used to put it up regularly when Jones child.75900:46:14.480 --> 00:46:17.199
Lately we've just had a table tree now.76000:46:17.400 --> 00:46:20.519
But this year, with you both coming, we went all out,76100:46:20.800 --> 00:46:25.039
big tree everything. Yes, yes, and it's lovely.76200:46:26.039 --> 00:46:29.800
The detail in those houses is exquisite, isn't it.76300:46:29.960 --> 00:46:32.920
Yes, yes, very very realistic.76400:46:33.159 --> 00:46:36.360
It was imported from Scotland. It's been in my family76500:46:36.360 --> 00:46:43.079
for years. Well he is to a wonderful holiday visit.76600:46:43.920 --> 00:46:50.519
Merry Christmas everyone.76700:46:50.559 --> 00:46:54.840
If there were an explanation for everything, where would the76800:46:54.920 --> 00:46:58.480
magic in life be? I think we'd all lose interest76900:46:58.519 --> 00:47:03.840
if everything were cut and neatly packaged. Chest right, we77000:47:03.880 --> 00:47:06.559
need a bit of amazement now and then to soften77100:47:06.639 --> 00:47:10.880
the blow of reality. Skip and Joan left reality for77200:47:10.960 --> 00:47:14.199
a brief period and it gave them something to remember.77300:47:14.800 --> 00:47:16.360
All the lions.77400:47:17.039 --> 00:47:20.599
Well, would you say, are feeling the spirit now?77500:47:20.760 --> 00:47:21.159
My dear?77600:47:23.079 --> 00:47:23.519
Very good.77700:47:24.239 --> 00:47:26.360
I'm so glad you could join me tonight. I know,77800:47:26.559 --> 00:47:31.000
I know it's such a busy time finding the gifts,77900:47:31.239 --> 00:47:34.639
doing all the obligations we all have, or at least78000:47:34.880 --> 00:47:38.480
least had, But I'm happy to be here with you,78100:47:38.599 --> 00:47:41.639
and of course staying up late at night. That's a78200:47:41.679 --> 00:47:45.400
part of Christmas that makes me remember being a young78300:47:45.480 --> 00:47:51.679
boy waiting for the click click on the rooftop of78400:47:51.760 --> 00:47:54.760
a strange man who would be entering my home soon,78500:47:55.519 --> 00:48:01.639
who watches me all year long without my knowing. Anyway,78600:48:01.840 --> 00:48:05.920
My point is it all starts with a Christmas gift.78700:48:07.920 --> 00:48:10.440
And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is78800:48:10.559 --> 00:48:14.039
unique among all mystery programs because even when you know78900:48:14.079 --> 00:48:17.519
who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at79000:48:17.519 --> 00:48:21.719
the final curtain. In the Signal Oil program, The Whistler79100:48:22.280 --> 00:48:25.599
transcribed by the Signal Oil Company to enable the entire79200:48:25.639 --> 00:48:28.880
production staff of The Whistler to spend the Christmas weekend79300:48:28.920 --> 00:48:44.360
at home with their families, Signal the famous Go Farther79400:48:44.480 --> 00:48:48.159
Gasoline invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange79500:48:48.199 --> 00:48:50.800
story by the Whistler.79600:49:08.519 --> 00:49:12.000
I am the Whistler, and I know many things.79700:49:12.079 --> 00:49:13.239
For I walk by night.79800:49:14.039 --> 00:49:17.440
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of79900:49:17.519 --> 00:49:20.880
men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,80000:49:21.840 --> 00:49:25.800
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.80100:49:28.559 --> 00:49:31.679
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange80200:49:31.719 --> 00:49:34.400
Story Christmas Gift.80300:49:46.239 --> 00:49:49.880
Christmas was only a few hours away, and Mary Winston80400:49:49.920 --> 00:49:52.800
couldn't help but marvel that its spirit could reach down80500:49:53.599 --> 00:49:56.719
and touch a cheap night club like Pete's canteena on80600:49:56.760 --> 00:50:02.599
the outskirts of Panama City. Sitting alone at a table,80700:50:02.679 --> 00:50:06.239
she gazed at her tawdry surroundings, and then from the80800:50:06.280 --> 00:50:08.280
bar at the far end of the club came the80900:50:08.280 --> 00:50:11.840
strains of a Christmas melody, a melody which brought back81000:50:11.960 --> 00:50:17.880
memories of happier Christmas eves. Yes, the Christmas spirit is undying,81100:50:18.000 --> 00:50:18.320
isn't it.81200:50:18.400 --> 00:50:18.679
Mary.81300:50:20.119 --> 00:50:23.119
You watch the strolling soloist Sailor Reynolds nod as he81400:50:23.159 --> 00:50:29.760
comes closer and passes your table. It's been three months81500:50:29.760 --> 00:50:32.159
now since you were hired as a singing hostess at81600:50:32.199 --> 00:50:36.880
Pete' scantina. Three months that you've been billed as candy porter,81700:50:37.079 --> 00:50:41.440
with no one, not even the proprietor, knowing your real identity,81800:50:41.920 --> 00:50:46.440
Mary Winston. At long last, as candy porter, you seem81900:50:46.480 --> 00:50:57.199
to be safely away from your past. As the music ends,82000:50:57.239 --> 00:51:00.960
you look up, aware suddenly that Pete guardinasing heavy set82100:51:00.960 --> 00:51:04.360
proprietor is approaching your table candy.82200:51:04.719 --> 00:51:08.559
Candy, that this American gentleman just came in. He wants82300:51:08.599 --> 00:51:11.679
to buy you some champagne. Champagne you here.82400:51:11.760 --> 00:51:13.000
Please, I'm not in the mood.82500:51:13.000 --> 00:51:16.679
DENI okay, this looks like a peag spender if he82600:51:16.800 --> 00:51:18.119
wants to buy champagne.82700:51:18.199 --> 00:51:23.320
All right, all right, You.82800:51:23.400 --> 00:51:26.320
Turn and see the tall, heavy set American approach and82900:51:26.440 --> 00:51:30.760
suddenly become tense. After a year of running away, you've83000:51:30.840 --> 00:51:33.639
learned to spot his kind in a moment, haven't you married?83100:51:34.440 --> 00:51:37.719
You're certain he's a detective, and now you have to83200:51:37.800 --> 00:51:41.840
fight to remain calm as he approaches. Sit down, mister Funday,83300:51:42.119 --> 00:51:42.679
see down.83400:51:43.199 --> 00:51:45.039
Sure you don't mind the mists supporter?83500:51:45.639 --> 00:51:47.679
Of course not, and that.83600:51:47.719 --> 00:51:48.360
Case I will.83700:51:48.800 --> 00:51:51.199
I'll go get this champagne. I keep you more nice83800:51:51.519 --> 00:51:52.719
eleven years.83900:51:52.480 --> 00:51:57.719
Old too, cigarette, mister Fontaine, you don't mind if I do?84000:51:58.360 --> 00:52:00.960
Of course not go here? Right?84100:52:01.599 --> 00:52:01.920
Thanks?84200:52:03.320 --> 00:52:05.719
Hell, this is very unusual for me spending the Christmas84300:52:05.719 --> 00:52:10.840
season so far away from home. How come business important business,84400:52:11.440 --> 00:52:11.920
couldn't it?84500:52:12.000 --> 00:52:12.159
Wait?84600:52:13.039 --> 00:52:16.920
No, this business means a lot to it people I84700:52:16.960 --> 00:52:17.239
work for.84800:52:18.719 --> 00:52:19.199
Y Ye.84900:52:19.320 --> 00:52:22.119
See when you say the bubble water.85000:52:23.639 --> 00:52:27.719
From Marseille thirty years old, you said eleven.85100:52:27.679 --> 00:52:31.400
That was from love. This is even better now I85200:52:31.440 --> 00:52:33.280
put him back in the ice. If you want some more,85300:52:33.679 --> 00:52:35.800
just gold, pete, I've got more.85400:52:35.840 --> 00:52:36.119
Just like.85500:52:37.920 --> 00:52:39.840
Well, I guess it's a few hours early to say85600:52:40.280 --> 00:52:43.639
Merry Christmas, MIAs Porter, so I guess i'd better just85700:52:43.719 --> 00:52:45.039
say good luck.85800:52:45.800 --> 00:52:46.199
Thanks.85900:52:47.760 --> 00:52:50.960
He is hoping you find whatever you came here for.86000:52:56.000 --> 00:53:00.480
Oh I've already found what I came for you, say86100:53:00.519 --> 00:53:03.159
I came for you, Mary Winston.86200:53:14.039 --> 00:53:16.480
Friends, to all of you who have opened your homes86300:53:16.480 --> 00:53:19.079
to The Whistler, not only throughout the year, but even86400:53:19.079 --> 00:53:23.400
tonight on this last busy weekend before Christmas, Signal Oil86500:53:23.400 --> 00:53:26.599
Company has asked me to express their sincere appreciation for86600:53:26.639 --> 00:53:30.280
this privilege and pleasure, and we of the cast want86700:53:30.320 --> 00:53:33.760
to add our thank you to During the nine consecutive86800:53:33.840 --> 00:53:37.039
years that The Whistler has been broadcast by Signal Oil Company,86900:53:37.519 --> 00:53:40.039
many of us have celebrated Christmas with many of you87000:53:40.280 --> 00:53:43.559
a number of times, and believe me, we're mighty proud87100:53:43.599 --> 00:53:46.280
that you consider us a part of your entertainment family.87200:53:47.400 --> 00:53:50.920
Tonight on behalf of Signal Oil Company and the independent87300:53:50.960 --> 00:53:57.119
Signal dealers who serve you in the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona,87400:53:57.159 --> 00:54:02.199
and Utah. I want to convey warmest season's greetings. May87500:54:02.239 --> 00:54:04.880
the many blessings of living in these United States of87600:54:04.960 --> 00:54:09.239
America enrich your holiday season and the new year.87700:54:28.159 --> 00:54:32.159
It's ironic, isn't it. Mary hasorry Christmas gift After all87800:54:32.199 --> 00:54:35.320
the months of hiding, running from one town and then another,87900:54:35.800 --> 00:54:38.400
using a different name in each place, but never your88000:54:38.440 --> 00:54:42.559
own Mary Winston. These past three months, you've been known88100:54:42.559 --> 00:54:46.599
as Candy Porter, singing hostess in Pete's canteena here in88200:54:46.679 --> 00:54:50.360
Panama City. And now this detective sitting across from you88300:54:50.440 --> 00:54:54.599
has called you by your real name, Mary Winston, and88400:54:54.679 --> 00:54:58.719
you can't run? Can you marry? Facing Fontaine? You decide88500:54:58.719 --> 00:55:02.159
there's only one move you can make that you've only88600:55:02.199 --> 00:55:05.519
won card left well, if you play it wisely, carefully,88700:55:06.079 --> 00:55:07.639
it might prove to be an ace.88800:55:07.960 --> 00:55:11.400
You say you came here after me, mister Fontaine, m88900:55:12.280 --> 00:55:13.159
I don't know what you mean.89000:55:13.280 --> 00:55:15.440
I think you do, and if I were you, I'd89100:55:15.480 --> 00:55:17.000
be ready to leave Los Angeles in the morning.89200:55:17.079 --> 00:55:19.960
Miss Ones, like the billing says, my name is Candy Porter.89300:55:20.119 --> 00:55:22.679
I know what the billing says. I know what it89400:55:22.760 --> 00:55:24.760
said in Brooklyn when you were build as Doris Trent89500:55:25.320 --> 00:55:28.159
and Denver, when you were built as Gladys James. But89600:55:28.400 --> 00:55:30.320
when you took a powder out of Los Angeles a89700:55:30.400 --> 00:55:32.079
year ago, you were Mary Winston.89800:55:33.199 --> 00:55:37.679
You know it's strange you're mentioning Mary Winston. I was89900:55:37.719 --> 00:55:41.039
even thinking about her when you came in. A lot90000:55:41.039 --> 00:55:44.039
of other people have mistaken me from Mary Winston. We90100:55:44.119 --> 00:55:47.599
could have passed the twin sisters. She was my best friend.90200:55:49.239 --> 00:55:51.440
I could tell you a lot about her. If you90300:55:51.559 --> 00:55:52.880
feel like listening.90400:55:52.639 --> 00:55:56.480
Sure, Sure I'll listen. Go ahead and talk of it will90500:55:56.480 --> 00:55:58.960
make you feel any better. We can't get away until90600:55:58.960 --> 00:55:59.440
tomorrow morning.90700:55:59.480 --> 00:56:02.320
Anyway. The more you tell now, the less you'll have90800:56:02.440 --> 00:56:03.000
to tell letter.90900:56:03.559 --> 00:56:11.039
Thanks you see, mister Fantee, Mary Winston was just too good.91000:56:11.000 --> 00:56:13.679
Kid who've got a bad break. She was in love91100:56:13.719 --> 00:56:16.679
with a swell guide but scared the death.91200:56:16.480 --> 00:56:17.199
Of a hoodlums.91300:56:18.119 --> 00:56:20.440
It's an unusual story, in mister Fonteine.91400:56:27.679 --> 00:56:29.719
It was an unusual story, wasn't it.91500:56:29.840 --> 00:56:30.159
Mary.91600:56:30.880 --> 00:56:33.440
It began a year ago at a Christmas party given91700:56:33.440 --> 00:56:38.559
by your employers, the Southwestern Manufacturing Company, in the pink91800:56:38.639 --> 00:56:41.920
room of the swank Wilchester Hotel, and you were the91900:56:42.000 --> 00:56:42.719
hit of the evening.92000:56:43.480 --> 00:56:46.000
You sang three songs and went over big.92100:56:46.559 --> 00:56:48.840
Your friends from the office hadn't known of your talent,92200:56:49.360 --> 00:56:52.000
but they all agreed you were fine. And when the92300:56:52.039 --> 00:56:54.800
party was over, you were feeling good, So good you92400:56:54.880 --> 00:56:58.519
decided to drop into the hotel cocktail low, make a92500:56:58.599 --> 00:57:01.559
phone call it too, and have a nightcap by yourself92600:57:01.599 --> 00:57:04.760
before going home when you finished your phone and you92700:57:04.840 --> 00:57:08.519
walk to a vacant stool at the bar Scotch and soda.92800:57:09.519 --> 00:57:14.960
Make mine the same, Bill got you. I heard you92900:57:15.000 --> 00:57:16.599
sing to night. You were terrific.93000:57:16.840 --> 00:57:17.280
Thanks.93100:57:18.400 --> 00:57:21.000
What's the matter to he stands you up? Who the93200:57:21.039 --> 00:57:25.199
guy you were just talking to on the phone? And no,93300:57:26.119 --> 00:57:27.679
I guess he didn't stand you up?93400:57:27.880 --> 00:57:29.000
Didn't he?93500:57:29.000 --> 00:57:31.840
He's on his way here right now, lucky guy.93600:57:32.800 --> 00:57:34.079
I take it out of here, Bill.93700:57:34.719 --> 00:57:38.559
Dollar Radio, Well, no, look here, mister, take it easy.93800:57:38.639 --> 00:57:39.840
It's practically Christmas.93900:57:39.880 --> 00:57:40.440
What's the harm?94000:57:40.480 --> 00:57:43.480
Am I buying you one drink? Like I said, I94100:57:43.719 --> 00:57:45.800
liked your voice?94200:57:46.199 --> 00:57:46.760
Thank you? Bill?94300:57:47.199 --> 00:57:48.000
You a detective?94400:57:48.079 --> 00:57:48.639
Or remind me?94500:57:49.039 --> 00:57:51.400
Oh you mean your name? It wasn't any trick to94600:57:51.400 --> 00:57:53.719
find that out. I just asked one of the boys94700:57:53.760 --> 00:57:57.119
I saw dancing with you. My name is Joe Collins.94800:57:58.760 --> 00:57:59.960
I see you've never heard of me?94900:58:00.400 --> 00:58:01.639
Should I?95000:58:02.199 --> 00:58:02.639
Oh?95100:58:02.719 --> 00:58:03.360
Now I get it.95200:58:03.400 --> 00:58:05.880
You're a professional talent scout and won't get me into95300:58:05.920 --> 00:58:06.400
the movies.95400:58:07.800 --> 00:58:12.760
Nope, I'm a gambler and disapproved.95500:58:13.119 --> 00:58:16.320
Why live and that lives my motto, and that's exactly95600:58:16.360 --> 00:58:17.440
what I'm gonna do right now.95700:58:17.559 --> 00:58:20.360
But live my life, and that you live yours, Good night,95800:58:20.400 --> 00:58:21.199
mister Collins.95900:58:21.599 --> 00:58:23.199
Just think I can tell the girls at the office96000:58:23.199 --> 00:58:25.400
tomorrow I met a real live gambler.96100:58:25.599 --> 00:58:28.880
Uh wait a minute. You could tell them a lot96200:58:28.960 --> 00:58:32.840
more than that if you believed in your voice as96300:58:32.920 --> 00:58:33.559
much as I do.96400:58:34.079 --> 00:58:37.960
Really, you've heard of Domingoes out on sunset, haven't you.96500:58:38.360 --> 00:58:40.039
It's an undercover gambling club, isn't it.96600:58:40.119 --> 00:58:42.559
It's more than a gambling club. There's a slow floor show.96700:58:42.800 --> 00:58:46.320
A lot of big people go out there, people that count.96800:58:46.400 --> 00:58:49.000
And all innimate friends of yours. I'm sure no.96900:58:49.920 --> 00:58:52.599
But I know quite a few some who could push97000:58:52.639 --> 00:58:55.320
you right to the top with that voice of yours.97100:58:55.199 --> 00:58:56.119
Mister Collins.97200:58:56.159 --> 00:58:58.239
This is the oldest line I ever heard.97300:58:58.280 --> 00:59:01.400
It's not a line, but skip it. Go on home,97400:59:01.519 --> 00:59:03.079
listen to the radio, eat candy.97500:59:03.199 --> 00:59:05.880
You have a terrific time. If you go to Domingo's97600:59:05.960 --> 00:59:08.599
with me. You can't tell what might happen. You might97700:59:08.679 --> 00:59:11.599
have to meet a couple of show producers, maybe even sing.97800:59:12.440 --> 00:59:14.199
So play it safe. Go on home.97900:59:14.599 --> 00:59:17.000
May be dull, but you'll always get to work on time.98000:59:17.960 --> 00:59:19.119
Is that all you have to say?98100:59:19.519 --> 00:59:21.800
Yeah, that's all except I did.98200:59:21.760 --> 00:59:28.119
Not wait, wait a minute, yeah, could we be back early.98300:59:28.840 --> 00:59:29.760
We'll leave any time.98400:59:29.840 --> 00:59:32.880
You say, well, what are we waiting for?98500:59:33.000 --> 00:59:34.800
Well, now you're making sense, I'll call a cat.98600:59:34.880 --> 00:59:36.719
Well, never mind, I have a car. It's parked right98700:59:36.719 --> 00:59:37.440
around the corner.98800:59:44.159 --> 00:59:47.400
Joe Collins used just the right approach, didn't he? Marry98900:59:47.960 --> 00:59:50.639
You realized you were being a fool, But as the99000:59:50.679 --> 00:59:54.519
hours passed, you told yourself your fears were groundless. Joe99100:59:54.639 --> 00:59:58.239
treated you with perfect courtesy, introduced you to several people,99200:59:58.280 --> 01:00:01.920
including the producer of the Fores. You even sang a99301:00:02.039 --> 01:00:06.039
number which was well received. Later, you watched the gambling99401:00:06.119 --> 01:00:09.199
for a while and then proceeded to the Silver Room99501:00:09.280 --> 01:00:11.039
to enjoy the second floor show.99601:00:12.320 --> 01:00:13.519
Afterwards, you had.99701:00:13.400 --> 01:00:16.480
Supper in the main dining room and watched the guests dancing.99801:00:20.559 --> 01:00:20.840
Jane.99901:00:21.000 --> 01:00:22.159
Suddenly you've had.100001:00:22.079 --> 01:00:26.519
Enough, Joe, do you mind if we leave now?100101:00:26.880 --> 01:00:30.519
I said we'd leave anytime. You said, what hits you?100201:00:30.599 --> 01:00:31.079
The music?100301:00:31.719 --> 01:00:32.440
I guess that's it.100401:00:33.320 --> 01:00:38.159
Another guy, Another guy, My fiancee, doctor Frank Wilson.100501:00:39.079 --> 01:00:41.880
What happened to doctor Wilson?100601:00:42.159 --> 01:00:46.519
He's in Korea, Marines, No doctor, it was his car.100701:00:46.599 --> 01:00:48.239
We drove out here in Oh.100801:00:49.239 --> 01:00:52.320
It's too bad. We could have had a lot of fun.100901:00:53.880 --> 01:00:54.760
Well shall we go?101001:00:54.960 --> 01:01:08.039
Please hopen, unless you want me to drive no ill,101101:01:08.119 --> 01:01:08.800
God good.101201:01:08.880 --> 01:01:20.039
We'll probably be safer that way.101301:01:23.440 --> 01:01:26.360
As you drove towards your little apartment on Clinton Avenue,101401:01:26.760 --> 01:01:29.920
you were glad your reckless little adventure was nearing its hid.101501:01:30.719 --> 01:01:33.880
Everything had been fine so far, but you couldn't throw101601:01:33.920 --> 01:01:38.320
off a feeling of uneasiness. For a few miles. Jove101701:01:38.639 --> 01:01:42.360
said little, and then he seemed preoccupied, and you were101801:01:42.360 --> 01:01:45.400
relieved when he finally broke his strange silence.101901:01:45.840 --> 01:01:48.400
Say, Mary, would you mind stopping for a minute at102001:01:48.400 --> 01:01:49.000
that drive?102101:01:49.039 --> 01:01:49.079
In?102201:01:49.639 --> 01:01:51.119
All of a sudden, I got an awful headache.102301:01:51.119 --> 01:01:52.360
Maybe I can get some aspro in there.102401:01:52.760 --> 01:01:55.119
My doubt it, but we'll give it a dry.102501:01:57.360 --> 01:01:59.119
You can keep the motor running while I'm gone.102601:01:59.199 --> 01:02:01.039
Huh, be gone a few seconds?102701:02:01.039 --> 01:02:13.599
Okay, Joe, get going?102801:02:14.400 --> 01:02:14.639
Joe?102901:02:14.679 --> 01:02:15.119
You shot?103001:02:15.400 --> 01:02:17.559
I said, get going fast. It's a gun in your ribs.103101:02:17.559 --> 01:02:17.760
Baby.103201:02:17.800 --> 01:02:19.440
You just saw what happened to one guy that crossed me.103301:02:29.920 --> 01:02:30.800
Did you kill him?103401:02:30.880 --> 01:02:33.039
I don't know you?103501:02:33.239 --> 01:02:33.840
Why was I?103601:02:33.880 --> 01:02:35.800
Did you turn right at the next corner?103701:02:35.800 --> 01:02:37.679
A car has been telling us for the last five minutes.103801:02:37.719 --> 01:02:38.159
I'm glad.103901:02:38.199 --> 01:02:39.199
I ope, it's a prowl car.104001:02:39.239 --> 01:02:40.840
Don't they be the trouble of phoning the police?104101:02:40.840 --> 01:02:47.239
I said, turn, He didn't turn.104201:02:47.320 --> 01:02:47.639
Baby.104301:02:49.719 --> 01:02:51.320
You know you shouldn't have said what you did about104401:02:51.320 --> 01:02:54.440
phoning the cops. Nobody but me and you knows about104501:02:54.440 --> 01:02:58.280
that drive in job. You just better pull over and park.104601:02:58.639 --> 01:03:00.360
We got a couple of things to talk. Walk over,104701:03:02.199 --> 01:03:03.119
I said, pull over.104801:03:06.000 --> 01:03:08.760
Please, Joe, Jo, don't kill me.104901:03:09.119 --> 01:03:10.800
I know you can do it easy, but I'll never105001:03:10.880 --> 01:03:11.639
tell about tonight.105101:03:11.760 --> 01:03:13.519
That's the way you feel now and off and now105201:03:13.519 --> 01:03:14.239
you'll feel different.105301:03:14.280 --> 01:03:16.039
Oh no, I won't. I'm my word of honor.105401:03:16.679 --> 01:03:18.920
I'll make a deal with you, Joe. I'll trade you105501:03:19.000 --> 01:03:22.239
my silence for my life. I swear I won't talk105601:03:22.280 --> 01:03:23.239
about it Everitt.105701:03:23.840 --> 01:03:25.199
It sounds like you really mean.105801:03:25.079 --> 01:03:25.840
Now, do you mean?105901:03:26.000 --> 01:03:30.679
Joe is swearing and swear it? You're swear enough, Yes, Joe,106001:03:31.400 --> 01:03:34.880
I swear it. Well, I'm not being very smart, but106101:03:34.920 --> 01:03:38.559
I'm going to take a chance. You drove the getaway cast,106201:03:38.559 --> 01:03:45.559
so I guess that makes us partners anyway. Yeah, you know, partner.106301:03:45.639 --> 01:03:49.880
We ought to have a lot of fun to get him. Now,106401:03:49.920 --> 01:03:51.880
how about dropping me off at my place?106501:03:51.960 --> 01:03:52.119
Huh?106601:03:55.400 --> 01:03:56.239
Tell me where to go?106701:03:57.119 --> 01:03:58.559
Love about six blocks from here.106801:03:58.679 --> 01:03:59.559
Just turn to the ride of.106901:04:08.119 --> 01:04:11.280
After you dropped Joe and reached your apartment, you were107001:04:11.360 --> 01:04:15.079
so weak you could hardly stand. You literally fell into bed.107101:04:15.679 --> 01:04:19.400
You tried to sleep, but sleep was impossible. Early the107201:04:19.440 --> 01:04:23.360
following morning, you heard the newsboys shoving the morning paper107301:04:23.440 --> 01:04:27.400
under your apartment door. You hurried across the room and107401:04:27.440 --> 01:04:32.039
looked at the front page headlines and stories sickened you.107501:04:32.360 --> 01:04:37.760
Driving managers shot in attempted hold up guys. Unidentified man107601:04:37.800 --> 01:04:40.639
and woman seen fleeing from scene of crime in dark107701:04:40.679 --> 01:04:44.559
green forty nine models to day in pedestrian leaves. He107801:04:44.599 --> 01:04:46.159
can identify car.107901:04:47.360 --> 01:04:51.199
There It was Mary. Your situation looked hopeless, didn't it.108001:04:51.800 --> 01:04:54.719
You felt you must keep your word at Joe Collins,108101:04:55.280 --> 01:04:58.039
but you knew you must never see him again. Only108201:04:58.119 --> 01:05:00.440
one avenue seemed open to you.108301:05:00.440 --> 01:05:02.400
You had to leave town disappear.108401:05:03.199 --> 01:05:07.239
You dressed hurriedly, packed a few belongings withdrew your savings108501:05:07.239 --> 01:05:11.320
from the bank, and by noon were on an eastbound108601:05:11.400 --> 01:05:15.039
plain for New York. You decided to take advantage of108701:05:15.079 --> 01:05:19.039
your voice and become a professional entertainer. The first few108801:05:19.079 --> 01:05:24.000
weeks you auditioned almost daily, with negative results. But finally,108901:05:24.440 --> 01:05:27.800
after three months, you were singing at the Golden Lion,109001:05:28.519 --> 01:05:32.159
a prosperous little night club in Brooklyn, New York. After109101:05:32.199 --> 01:05:35.559
a shaky start, you became a featured performer under the109201:05:35.599 --> 01:05:39.559
name of Doris Trent. As the weeks went by, your109301:05:39.599 --> 01:05:43.800
work improved, you became sure of yourself, and one night109401:05:43.840 --> 01:05:47.880
you noticed Verne Shields, famous musical comedy producer.109501:05:47.480 --> 01:05:48.119
In the audience.109601:05:48.800 --> 01:05:51.760
His presence seemed to inspire you, and you went over109701:05:51.800 --> 01:05:55.599
better than ever. Afterwards, in your dressing room, you wondered109801:05:55.599 --> 01:05:58.760
what he thought of your voice. You were certain that109901:05:58.840 --> 01:06:01.960
your visitor was Verne Shields. Weren't you married?110001:06:02.480 --> 01:06:06.400
Come in, Oh long time?110101:06:06.480 --> 01:06:10.239
No see missus Trent, Doris Trent, it says on the program. Yo,110201:06:10.559 --> 01:06:13.280
I'm surprised you recognized me. I thought you'd forgotten me.110301:06:13.360 --> 01:06:15.519
All right, Joe, your phone me? Now, what's on your mind?110401:06:16.440 --> 01:06:17.599
You double crossmad?110501:06:17.639 --> 01:06:18.000
Baby?110601:06:18.079 --> 01:06:18.960
Were you crazy?110701:06:19.519 --> 01:06:21.199
That's why I left town so I wouldn't even have110801:06:21.239 --> 01:06:22.119
to talk to anybody.110901:06:22.199 --> 01:06:24.079
You wrote the police, though, didn't you were?111001:06:24.079 --> 01:06:25.400
You're wrong, Joe, I didn't write anybody.111101:06:25.519 --> 01:06:27.239
It had to be you. It couldn't have been anybody else.111201:06:27.239 --> 01:06:29.159
Two days after you left, they picked me up a questions.111301:06:29.199 --> 01:06:29.719
It wasn't me.111401:06:29.760 --> 01:06:31.039
I've kept my word with you, Joe.111501:06:31.159 --> 01:06:36.159
Yeah, there's one way you can convince me. Oh, marry me, goodnight,111601:06:37.480 --> 01:06:37.960
marry you.111701:06:38.079 --> 01:06:38.519
Mm hmmm.111801:06:38.840 --> 01:06:41.880
That way I'll be sure of you. Wives can't testify111901:06:41.920 --> 01:06:45.119
against their husbands. Besides, I'll know what you're doing all112001:06:45.159 --> 01:06:45.559
the time.112101:06:46.119 --> 01:06:50.039
Look, Joey, I gotta do my show. Let's talk this112201:06:50.079 --> 01:06:51.000
over in the morning.112301:06:50.760 --> 01:06:54.079
To night we went up to Connecticut. Go ahead and112401:06:54.159 --> 01:06:57.199
do your show. Only if you've got any ideas about112501:06:57.239 --> 01:06:59.920
calling the cops. Don't forget you drove the getaway car.112601:07:00.920 --> 01:07:02.840
And in case anything happens to me, there's a ridden112701:07:02.880 --> 01:07:05.320
confession in my pocket telling exactly how you help me112801:07:05.320 --> 01:07:09.320
pull the job, how we use your boyfriend's car, how112901:07:09.360 --> 01:07:10.880
you kept the motor running waiting for me.113001:07:11.000 --> 01:07:13.079
You've thought of everything, haven't you everything?113101:07:13.159 --> 01:07:17.119
So don't try anything. I'll go ahead and do your show.113201:07:17.159 --> 01:07:18.079
I'll wait for you here.113301:07:22.360 --> 01:07:26.719
You started down the hallway, turned toward the powder room offstage.113401:07:27.199 --> 01:07:30.920
Suddenly you read You realize what a fool you'd been,113501:07:31.599 --> 01:07:33.360
But you made up your mind not to keep on113601:07:33.480 --> 01:07:36.400
being a fool. Didn't you marry not with that wall113701:07:36.519 --> 01:07:39.000
telephone just five steps ahead of you.113801:07:40.840 --> 01:07:43.360
Operator, get me police headquarters.113901:07:43.440 --> 01:07:46.639
Harry better hang up quick, baby, I mean quick. I114001:07:46.639 --> 01:07:48.320
had to hunt you try to double cross me. Now114101:07:48.360 --> 01:07:49.960
I know for sure who wrote that note to the cop.114201:07:50.159 --> 01:07:51.199
Didn't you want as I didn't?114301:07:51.199 --> 01:07:52.599
You just tried to call him, don't jim All of114401:07:52.599 --> 01:07:54.800
a sudden, I've lost interest in getting married.114501:07:55.480 --> 01:07:57.079
We're just going to take a little ride.114601:07:57.199 --> 01:08:02.880
Not come on, baby, No, not an eye?114701:08:02.920 --> 01:08:04.119
What's going on here?114801:08:04.719 --> 01:08:06.519
Such a long dars? This guy bothering you?114901:08:07.440 --> 01:08:08.079
Yes he is.115001:08:08.159 --> 01:08:10.880
He he wants to date me.115101:08:12.400 --> 01:08:13.239
Tell him leave?115201:08:13.559 --> 01:08:14.159
Will you read?115301:08:14.360 --> 01:08:16.279
Maybe I better take him into the office and call115401:08:16.319 --> 01:08:16.880
the cops.115501:08:18.119 --> 01:08:20.199
No, thanks, Eddie that there is no need for that.115601:08:20.239 --> 01:08:22.079
He's just another wolf.115701:08:23.079 --> 01:08:23.880
Tell him to leave.115801:08:23.920 --> 01:08:24.760
That's good enough.115901:08:24.960 --> 01:08:27.840
You hate what the lady said, Bob, start.116001:08:27.640 --> 01:08:31.800
Traveling, okay, pop anything you'll say. I'll see the lady later.116101:08:32.880 --> 01:08:36.720
I'll be parked right across the street from miss friend.116201:08:38.039 --> 01:08:39.680
You should have let me call the cops.116301:08:40.000 --> 01:08:42.720
I would have if he hadn't had you covered with116401:08:42.760 --> 01:08:43.119
a gun.116501:08:44.840 --> 01:08:45.960
Oh, I see.116601:08:47.600 --> 01:08:51.039
She thanks kidding. I guess you saved my life.116701:08:51.159 --> 01:08:55.039
Kip it, look at you. I gotta get out of116801:08:55.079 --> 01:08:56.479
town and fast.116901:08:56.199 --> 01:08:57.880
After what you just did for me, getting you out117001:08:57.920 --> 01:09:00.960
of town as a cinch crab some for my wife.117101:09:00.960 --> 01:09:02.880
I'm bringing you home. We'll go at the rear entrance.117201:09:02.920 --> 01:09:04.239
My car's on a lot next door.117301:09:04.960 --> 01:09:07.199
Tomorrow i'll call a friend of mine in Denver. He'll117401:09:07.199 --> 01:09:10.800
put you to work right away. You better change your name, though,117501:09:11.520 --> 01:09:12.479
that'll be easy.117601:09:13.159 --> 01:09:27.600
I'm getting used to it, so, mister Fonteine.117701:09:27.680 --> 01:09:30.800
That's where I met Mary Winston in Denver, the High117801:09:30.800 --> 01:09:33.840
Hat Club built his bad as James. She was there117901:09:33.880 --> 01:09:37.199
for quite a while, room with me. Then she left,118001:09:37.720 --> 01:09:40.560
just like that. One night when a waiter told her118101:09:40.720 --> 01:09:43.000
some guy I wanted to interview her for a magazine.118201:09:44.399 --> 01:09:46.760
She figured it was Joe'collins.118301:09:46.840 --> 01:09:47.079
Again.118401:09:48.840 --> 01:09:50.159
That's the last I have saw it.118501:09:51.000 --> 01:09:52.239
That's the end of the story.118601:09:52.600 --> 01:09:53.279
That's the end.118701:09:53.840 --> 01:09:55.640
And Mary Winston told you all.118801:09:56.199 --> 01:09:58.000
Well, we were close friends.118901:09:58.800 --> 01:09:59.680
I'll say your work.119001:10:01.760 --> 01:10:03.760
You don't believe me, do you?119101:10:04.960 --> 01:10:06.840
If you were in my position, would you believe a119201:10:06.840 --> 01:10:07.479
story like that?119301:10:10.399 --> 01:10:13.760
No, don't suppose I would.119401:10:27.760 --> 01:10:31.000
With Santa's arrival only two days away, who can help119501:10:31.039 --> 01:10:34.640
being in a whimsical frame of mind tonight, whimsical about119601:10:34.640 --> 01:10:38.039
such things as how Santa can travel so far in119701:10:38.119 --> 01:10:46.119
one night. Well, maybe here's the answer. A child asked119801:10:46.159 --> 01:10:48.960
his father one day how Saint Nick went so far119901:10:49.119 --> 01:10:52.479
on a sleigh. The wise father replied, he can take120001:10:52.520 --> 01:10:55.159
that long ride because his reindeer drinks signal.120101:10:55.279 --> 01:10:55.760
They say.120201:10:57.319 --> 01:11:00.359
Well, I decided to check this story with Santa him himself,120301:11:00.520 --> 01:11:07.680
and now I can report to you, said Santa, when120401:11:07.720 --> 01:11:11.560
boarding his sled this year. I'm using my head. It's120501:11:11.600 --> 01:11:15.239
signal for me. I'll go farther you'll see and over120601:11:15.279 --> 01:11:19.640
the rooftops, he sped. Now, as you've no doubt guessed.120701:11:19.640 --> 01:11:22.479
In addition to letting you in on Santa's mi lead secret,120801:11:22.520 --> 01:11:29.640
there's also a moral to this story, which is the120901:11:29.760 --> 01:11:33.279
gas used by Santa, my Lassie or lad is also121001:11:33.359 --> 01:11:36.520
the gas that is best for dear Dad. With signal,121101:11:36.680 --> 01:11:40.000
Dad's car will not only go far, but give top121201:11:40.039 --> 01:11:42.159
performance the best to be had.121301:11:56.000 --> 01:11:58.680
Well, Mary, it looks as though you've lost. Doesn't it121401:11:59.000 --> 01:12:02.520
that your show wasn't good enough? The man across the table,121501:12:02.800 --> 01:12:05.119
the detective you're certain, has come to take you back121601:12:05.159 --> 01:12:08.039
to Los Angeles to stand trial for a murder you121701:12:08.119 --> 01:12:12.119
had nothing to do with, doesn't believe you. You're certain, too,121801:12:12.560 --> 01:12:15.199
that the jury in Los Angeles won't believe you, not121901:12:15.359 --> 01:12:20.199
after your running away, your phony names, your present surroundings.122001:12:20.680 --> 01:12:24.319
You're sure Joe Collins has been captured, that the authorities122101:12:24.319 --> 01:12:28.199
have read his confession, that he's trumped your last card,122201:12:28.520 --> 01:12:31.520
ruin forever, your hopes of eventual reunion with the man122301:12:31.560 --> 01:12:35.840
you still love, Doctor Frank Wilson. Yes, Mary, it looks122401:12:35.880 --> 01:12:38.399
as though you've lost, but you're going to play the122501:12:38.479 --> 01:12:45.159
game through to the end anyhow, White Christmas. If Sailor122601:12:45.239 --> 01:12:48.399
Reynolds knew what that song did to you, the memories122701:12:48.439 --> 01:12:51.359
it brings back, he'd play something else, wouldn't he. Marry122801:12:52.760 --> 01:12:56.520
Fontaine gazes into space and drums his fingers silently on122901:12:56.560 --> 01:13:01.079
the table. You watch him closely, await his next words.123001:13:01.640 --> 01:13:03.159
How long did you say you've been here?123101:13:03.960 --> 01:13:06.600
I didn't say, but I got here about three months ago.123201:13:06.720 --> 01:13:11.439
Call I get here? No, that's what I figured, he look.123301:13:11.319 --> 01:13:12.760
Missus cigarette, mister Fonte.123401:13:13.359 --> 01:13:21.760
Yeah, thanks thanks again, miss Porter.123501:13:22.800 --> 01:13:25.039
Did you say Porter.123601:13:25.960 --> 01:13:28.720
That you said your name wasn't? That's what the building123701:13:28.760 --> 01:13:33.760
says too, And I mean you believe me it's out123801:13:33.760 --> 01:13:38.359
of state to name. Well, it looks as though I123901:13:38.399 --> 01:13:41.279
came a long way for nothing, doesn't it tell? I'm124001:13:41.359 --> 01:13:44.039
kind of glad I came. I always figured that confession124101:13:44.039 --> 01:13:46.199
they found out Joe Collins's body was a phony.124201:13:48.279 --> 01:13:52.000
Joe Collins did, Yeah.124301:13:51.119 --> 01:13:53.800
The Brooklyn police got him one night, about five months ago.124401:13:54.560 --> 01:13:56.479
A woman called the police from a little next cub,124501:13:56.520 --> 01:13:59.800
the Golden Lions Club. She hung out before they answered124601:13:59.800 --> 01:14:02.359
the phone, but the Brooklyn boys decided to investigate anyway.124701:14:03.159 --> 01:14:04.439
One of them spotted Collins and.124801:14:04.439 --> 01:14:05.720
The car park across the street.124901:14:06.079 --> 01:14:08.199
He got bigger happy, and that was that.125001:14:10.920 --> 01:14:12.319
Right.125101:14:13.039 --> 01:14:16.159
Well, miss porter, if you ever run into Mary.125201:14:15.920 --> 01:14:18.359
Winston, I'll tell her all about the Christmas gift. I125301:14:18.439 --> 01:14:21.279
got this well detective named Fonte.125401:14:23.760 --> 01:14:27.159
I'm just a private detectiveness porter. But the police gave125501:14:27.199 --> 01:14:30.319
me the tip that you said, I mean, Mary Winston125601:14:30.399 --> 01:14:31.199
might be working here.125701:14:31.720 --> 01:14:32.800
Oh then they.125801:14:32.760 --> 01:14:35.680
Knew a man named Wilson tired me for the kid.125901:14:36.199 --> 01:14:37.439
A doctor Frank Woods.126001:14:39.760 --> 01:14:40.079
Oh.126101:14:41.199 --> 01:14:44.039
He he's out of the army now, still very much126201:14:44.039 --> 01:14:47.279
in love with Mary Winston. Doesn't care where she's been,126301:14:48.239 --> 01:14:50.640
just wants her to come back and marry him.126401:14:50.920 --> 01:14:53.199
He must be quite a guy.126501:14:53.319 --> 01:14:54.880
Yeah, it's okay.126601:14:55.680 --> 01:14:55.760
Now.126701:14:55.840 --> 01:15:01.560
Incidentally, do you think you'll ever see Miss Winston again, Yes,126801:15:01.800 --> 01:15:02.239
I do.126901:15:03.279 --> 01:15:03.800
Well. Do you.127001:15:05.239 --> 01:15:07.960
Think she might come back to Las Anglers sometimes and127101:15:08.399 --> 01:15:11.880
clear things up with the police, make the doctor happy.127201:15:12.399 --> 01:15:17.119
I'm sure she will some day. You see, a girl127301:15:17.199 --> 01:15:21.720
like Mary gets to feel a little sore out afterwards and.127401:15:21.720 --> 01:15:22.640
Around joints like this.127501:15:23.920 --> 01:15:26.600
She'd probably want to spend a year or so and127601:15:27.600 --> 01:15:32.840
cleaner surroundings, maybe out in the desert, started freshening up127701:15:32.840 --> 01:15:37.439
before going home, seeing anyone she cared about.127801:15:38.119 --> 01:15:43.159
Yeah, and what you said, I expect she would. Well,127901:15:44.279 --> 01:15:48.920
I might as well be getting along. Merry Christmasmas, Porter,128001:15:50.079 --> 01:15:50.800
Happy New Year.128101:16:15.439 --> 01:16:18.159
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil128201:16:18.159 --> 01:16:21.119
program The Whistler each Sunday night at the same time128301:16:21.960 --> 01:16:25.039
Signal Oil Company has asked me to remind you there's128401:16:25.079 --> 01:16:27.279
an easy way we can all help to make this128501:16:27.399 --> 01:16:32.399
holiday season happier for ourselves and others. Drive at sensible speeds,128601:16:32.520 --> 01:16:37.079
be courteous, and obey traffic regulations. It may save a life,128701:16:37.560 --> 01:16:53.960
possibly your own. Featured in tonight's story where Bill Foreman128801:16:54.039 --> 01:16:57.000
is the whistler, Betty lou Gerson, Bill Conrad, Bill Brust,128901:16:57.319 --> 01:17:00.960
Marvin Miller, and Brettwood on the harmonica. The Whistler was129001:17:00.960 --> 01:17:03.720
produced and directed by George w Allen, with story by129101:17:03.840 --> 01:17:07.520
Ed Bludworth, music by Wilbur Hatch, and was transcribed and129201:17:07.600 --> 01:17:11.680
transmitted overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The Whistler129301:17:11.720 --> 01:17:14.640
was entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on The Whistler129401:17:14.640 --> 01:17:18.359
are also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance to129501:17:18.479 --> 01:17:20.840
persons living or dead is purely coincidental.129601:17:22.680 --> 01:17:26.199
I suppose it is better to give you than receive.129701:17:28.359 --> 01:17:31.640
But of course, as you know, I consider the greatest129801:17:31.680 --> 01:17:36.880
present of them all, your presence. So happy to spend129901:17:36.880 --> 01:17:41.479
this time with you. Share a little merry, cheer and fear,130001:17:41.600 --> 01:17:44.560
and a hot cup of tea when you need it.130101:17:45.359 --> 01:17:48.399
I know, I know it's very cold out there. I130201:17:48.520 --> 01:17:54.000
know that it's quite brutal as the temperatures dropped. But130301:17:54.800 --> 01:18:00.520
I'm glad you came over here into my home sorts130401:18:01.319 --> 01:18:07.000
to celebrate with me a dead man's holiday of sorts.130501:18:16.560 --> 01:18:20.239
Lift and tea and lift and soap present in a130601:18:20.560 --> 01:18:40.600
sanctum mystery. Good evening, friend, this is your host of130701:18:40.680 --> 01:18:43.560
the inn a Sanctum, welcoming you to another half hour130801:18:43.640 --> 01:18:48.000
of mystery and terror. Guarantee to take ten years off130901:18:48.000 --> 01:18:52.520
your life. Don't just stand there, Come on in. We've131001:18:52.560 --> 01:18:56.079
been fixing up the place, making it more homey. Yes,131101:18:56.279 --> 01:18:59.399
you see that beam over there with the rope hanging down.131201:19:00.399 --> 01:19:02.800
You just stand on the table, put your head through131301:19:02.800 --> 01:19:07.640
the noose, and that's right. It's for the convenience of131401:19:07.640 --> 01:19:10.880
anyone who feels like hanging around after the broadcast.131501:19:12.479 --> 01:19:14.399
I wish you wouldn't say things like that.131601:19:14.600 --> 01:19:16.560
Oh you're right, Mary, I'm a bad host.131701:19:17.039 --> 01:19:19.399
Yeah, I invite everybody to hang around, and there's only131801:19:19.439 --> 01:19:22.239
one rope. I guess we'll have to hang together instead131901:19:22.239 --> 01:19:26.279
of hanging separately. Not you, unless, of course, we want132001:19:26.279 --> 01:19:28.840
to hang ourselves with a black ribbon that comes with132101:19:28.920 --> 01:19:32.840
that Lipton Sterling silver medallion. We've got plenty of them,132201:19:32.960 --> 01:19:34.279
haven't be marry well.132301:19:34.119 --> 01:19:34.680
I don't know.132401:19:35.199 --> 01:19:37.560
Thousands of women are writing in every day for that132501:19:37.680 --> 01:19:41.119
special sterling silver medallion, so i'd advise all of you132601:19:41.199 --> 01:19:43.159
ladies who want to own one to send in for132701:19:43.239 --> 01:19:47.159
it tonight. Yes, they're going mighty fast, because this medallion132801:19:47.239 --> 01:19:50.600
is made of solid sterling silver and it's decorated with132901:19:50.680 --> 01:19:53.920
the Chinese symbol for good luck. The medallion is just133001:19:53.960 --> 01:19:57.279
the right size too, about an inch in diameter. You133101:19:57.319 --> 01:19:59.640
can wear it as a necklace or a choker because133201:19:59.680 --> 01:20:02.640
it's on a narrow black gray on satin ribbon, or133301:20:02.680 --> 01:20:04.319
if you wish, you can simply add it to your133401:20:04.399 --> 01:20:08.319
charm bracelet. And here's how you get this handsome medallion. Listen,133501:20:08.960 --> 01:20:11.640
just send twenty five cents and the box top from133601:20:11.640 --> 01:20:14.840
a package of Lipton's the Tea with the brisk Flavor133701:20:15.239 --> 01:20:19.319
to Lipton Tea Box ninety two. That's box nine to133801:20:20.000 --> 01:20:20.720
New York City.133901:20:21.079 --> 01:20:23.319
All right, Mary, I write down the address on the134001:20:23.359 --> 01:20:24.720
cuff of my shroud.134101:20:25.960 --> 01:20:27.319
And now her friends tell me.134201:20:28.079 --> 01:20:29.359
Do you like holidays?134301:20:30.039 --> 01:20:30.159
Right?134401:20:30.239 --> 01:20:33.880
You won't after you hear tonight's story. It's called dead134501:20:34.000 --> 01:20:38.119
Man's Holiday and it's an original radio play by that134601:20:38.399 --> 01:20:43.560
scryptic mystic Robert Sloan s and our star tonight is134701:20:43.680 --> 01:20:46.600
Myron McCormick, who plays the role of Eric.134801:20:47.319 --> 01:20:48.359
Yeah.134901:20:48.760 --> 01:20:52.159
Not far from the waterfront, in a gloomy shack where135001:20:52.199 --> 01:20:55.600
death hour is near, a man stirs uneasily on a135101:20:55.600 --> 01:21:00.159
bloodstained cut as he struggles for the last breaths of life.135201:21:00.640 --> 01:21:06.439
His tortured mind forced his words to his lips. Hey,135301:21:07.159 --> 01:21:08.479
they don't have to tell me.135401:21:10.520 --> 01:21:13.840
I know I can't live more than a little while longer.135501:21:15.960 --> 01:21:20.439
I don't want him. I want this nightmare to end.135601:21:21.600 --> 01:21:25.479
It should have ended long before that day. I was135701:21:25.560 --> 01:21:32.840
hurt on the train. I remember it so clearly, sitting135801:21:32.880 --> 01:21:36.119
in the coach looking out the window, and then.135901:21:36.840 --> 01:21:40.119
Suddenly the plane shouted to a violent start.136001:21:42.880 --> 01:21:44.479
As they her out of my seat and threw me136101:21:44.520 --> 01:21:47.960
against the glass window, which both if I had.136201:21:49.760 --> 01:21:51.680
For a moment was time.136301:21:53.319 --> 01:21:55.279
In the back of my mind, I could hear the136401:21:55.359 --> 01:21:59.199
conductor cuieting in the passage.136501:21:58.239 --> 01:22:02.359
Right right, I tell you, nothing serious happened. You stuck136601:22:02.399 --> 01:22:04.439
an empty car on the grade crossing. The engineer had136701:22:04.439 --> 01:22:05.520
a jam on the bleakes.136801:22:05.720 --> 01:22:06.520
Is there anybody hurt?136901:22:06.720 --> 01:22:08.159
Anybody need a doctor around here?137001:22:08.840 --> 01:22:13.720
The doctor was coming down the aisle, questioning passengers, looking137101:22:13.760 --> 01:22:14.079
them over.137201:22:15.640 --> 01:22:18.439
My head was clear now, and.137301:22:18.399 --> 01:22:22.239
Immediately I thought of my wife in the seat next137401:22:22.239 --> 01:22:25.600
to mine. I turned to see if she'd been injured.137501:22:27.119 --> 01:22:30.560
There in the seat which she had occupied was a137601:22:30.640 --> 01:22:35.159
man I'd never seen before. He spoke to me, You137701:22:35.199 --> 01:22:39.000
all right, Yes, I was shaking up a bit.137801:22:39.439 --> 01:22:39.920
I'm all right.137901:22:40.640 --> 01:22:42.680
I've got an ansty cut on your lip. All right,138001:22:44.560 --> 01:22:49.319
I guess it was the glass. Excuse me, please, what's138101:22:49.319 --> 01:22:50.319
the matter my wife?138201:22:50.399 --> 01:22:52.239
I was looking for my wife. She was sitting right138301:22:52.279 --> 01:22:58.159
next to me. Elena, Elena will as my wife.138401:22:58.399 --> 01:23:01.159
She is gone, conductor, she's gone, right, don't get excited.138501:23:01.199 --> 01:23:02.359
She was sitting right next to me.138601:23:02.479 --> 01:23:02.640
Right.138701:23:02.720 --> 01:23:03.800
Well, this man is sitting now.138801:23:04.039 --> 01:23:08.000
You must be mistaken. Why there wasn't any woman sitting138901:23:08.000 --> 01:23:08.439
next to you?139001:23:08.520 --> 01:23:12.359
What are you trying to tell me? My wife was139101:23:12.359 --> 01:23:13.239
sitting in that seat.139201:23:13.319 --> 01:23:15.880
All right, all right, she's on the train. We'll find139301:23:15.880 --> 01:23:17.960
her in the meantime. You've got to come with me139401:23:18.000 --> 01:23:19.159
and have that lip of yours.139501:23:19.000 --> 01:23:20.880
Attempt until I find out what's happened.139601:23:20.960 --> 01:23:26.239
Nothing's happened, mister, just a little days. That's your wife139701:23:26.319 --> 01:23:27.119
isn't on this train.139801:23:27.199 --> 01:23:27.680
That's why.139901:23:28.840 --> 01:23:31.079
Why would I want to die to I don't.140001:23:30.880 --> 01:23:32.840
Know what your reason is, but you're trying to hide140101:23:32.920 --> 01:23:33.520
something from me.140201:23:33.880 --> 01:23:36.960
I'm willing to swear you bought this train alone.140301:23:38.319 --> 01:23:39.079
How do you know that?140401:23:39.560 --> 01:23:42.680
Because I've been sitting next to you ever since you140501:23:42.800 --> 01:23:43.119
got on.140601:23:50.600 --> 01:23:56.479
I was taken to a hospital given another stake. When140701:23:56.479 --> 01:24:02.640
I came to a doctor us standing over me. He140801:24:02.680 --> 01:24:04.920
said I was well enough to get dressed to leave.140901:24:05.079 --> 01:24:08.760
But when I mentioned.141001:24:08.399 --> 01:24:12.399
The disappearance of my wife, he acted as train you141101:24:12.680 --> 01:24:16.000
had a severe shock, mister Keating, and sometimes an accident141201:24:16.079 --> 01:24:18.680
like this is the way of playing tricks on the mind.141301:24:19.479 --> 01:24:22.920
You don't believe that my wife was on that train.141401:24:23.000 --> 01:24:25.800
I don't see how she could have been. Any number141501:24:25.840 --> 01:24:29.000
of the passengers were questioned. They all told the same story.141601:24:29.039 --> 01:24:33.159
You got on the train alone, so you're in on141701:24:33.279 --> 01:24:33.600
it too.141801:24:34.680 --> 01:24:35.439
I beg your pardon.141901:24:35.520 --> 01:24:37.279
You're on the railroad and the man who was sitting142001:24:37.319 --> 01:24:40.600
next to me you're on it. What are you trying142101:24:40.600 --> 01:24:41.119
to do to me?142201:24:41.239 --> 01:24:42.600
I don't do what you're talking about.142301:24:42.680 --> 01:24:46.199
Don't sure? Are you sure this isn't some kind of142401:24:46.199 --> 01:24:48.039
a plot to try and drive me out of my mind?142501:24:48.079 --> 01:24:52.000
I think you need arrest, mister Keating. Just look at yourself.142601:24:52.000 --> 01:24:57.520
In the merry days he had drawn you on all right, heaven?142701:24:58.920 --> 01:25:00.199
Doctor? What's the matter? Yeah?142801:25:01.479 --> 01:25:06.000
My face? What have you done to me? What happened142901:25:06.000 --> 01:25:06.479
to my face?143001:25:06.640 --> 01:25:06.960
Nothing?143101:25:07.640 --> 01:25:09.680
I had to put a few stitches in your lips,143201:25:09.680 --> 01:25:10.399
but off my lip.143301:25:10.479 --> 01:25:17.600
It's my whole face. Why you've done something to it?143401:25:17.680 --> 01:25:18.680
Step mister Keating.143501:25:18.880 --> 01:25:22.720
Idea is I tell you, you've chased my face.143601:25:29.600 --> 01:25:34.000
Next morning, I went straight to my house on Pine Street.143701:25:35.520 --> 01:25:39.199
I had no key, so I rang the bell, hoping143801:25:39.199 --> 01:25:41.439
against hope my wife would be there to answer it.143901:25:43.039 --> 01:25:48.880
But when the door opened, I was face to face144001:25:48.960 --> 01:25:53.119
with a gaunt, little aged woman I'd never seen before.144101:25:53.920 --> 01:25:58.640
Yes, oh you, I beg you answer me?144201:25:58.680 --> 01:25:59.239
Who are you?144301:26:00.279 --> 01:26:01.359
I'm the housekeeper.144401:26:01.439 --> 01:26:06.039
Don't lie to me. We don't have a housekeeper. What144501:26:06.079 --> 01:26:06.760
are you doing here?144601:26:07.479 --> 01:26:10.039
I don't see why I should answer your questions?144701:26:10.199 --> 01:26:14.840
Better answer them. I'm mister Keating, Mister Keating, I live here.144801:26:16.079 --> 01:26:16.960
Where's missus Keating?144901:26:16.960 --> 01:26:17.920
What have you done with her?145001:26:18.359 --> 01:26:20.159
You must have the wrong Andrews.145101:26:20.199 --> 01:26:20.760
What do you mean?145201:26:21.359 --> 01:26:23.840
Nobody but the name of Keating limbs here?145301:26:24.520 --> 01:26:26.119
What I work for?145401:26:26.319 --> 01:26:28.960
Mister and missus Drury. Don't you see the name plate145501:26:29.079 --> 01:26:29.640
on the door?145601:26:29.760 --> 01:26:33.000
Yes, I said, why did you put it there last night?145701:26:33.640 --> 01:26:35.319
You've got the wrong adresses.145801:26:38.039 --> 01:26:38.479
You see that.145901:26:38.560 --> 01:26:42.159
Picture over there, the one on the hall table. Yes,146001:26:43.560 --> 01:26:44.960
that's a picture of my wife.146101:26:45.800 --> 01:26:50.039
I beg your pardon, sir, but that's the picture missus Drury.146201:26:51.760 --> 01:26:53.880
Drury, Drory.146301:26:55.760 --> 01:26:59.279
I didn't know anybody by the name of Drury. I146401:26:59.279 --> 01:27:02.680
couldn't imagine why he or anybody else would go to146501:27:02.720 --> 01:27:06.800
so much trouble to keep me from my wife. I146601:27:06.840 --> 01:27:09.479
walked down to the corner drug store to follow the police,146701:27:10.520 --> 01:27:11.199
but just as I.146801:27:11.119 --> 01:27:12.920
Got their card, drove.146901:27:12.800 --> 01:27:16.640
Up and stopped, and it was the man who sat147001:27:16.720 --> 01:27:17.720
next to me on the train.147101:27:19.479 --> 01:27:22.800
I hurried over to speak to him. You remember me?147201:27:23.520 --> 01:27:23.760
Why?147301:27:23.920 --> 01:27:24.279
Yes?147401:27:24.399 --> 01:27:29.920
Of course? Did you find your wife? No, I'm sorry147501:27:29.960 --> 01:27:32.960
to hear that. Can I be of any assistance to you?147601:27:34.319 --> 01:27:35.520
I worked with the railroad, you know.147701:27:35.640 --> 01:27:40.720
That's I had a feeling you did. What's your name, Rory?147801:27:40.880 --> 01:27:41.119
Rory?147901:27:43.039 --> 01:27:43.199
Uh?148001:27:44.439 --> 01:27:47.880
You live in the white house around the corner, the148101:27:47.960 --> 01:27:48.960
one on Pine Street.148201:27:49.840 --> 01:27:50.319
That's right?148301:27:51.319 --> 01:27:51.800
How did you know?148401:27:51.960 --> 01:27:55.640
I was just over there? I thought it belonged to148501:27:55.680 --> 01:27:56.720
a man named Katie.148601:27:57.239 --> 01:28:04.000
Well it did originally You knew him, knew yes?148701:28:05.000 --> 01:28:07.239
Why do you speaking the past tense? Your sounds of148801:28:07.319 --> 01:28:08.479
the man were dead.148901:28:09.079 --> 01:28:12.319
Didn't you know he is dead?149001:28:14.920 --> 01:28:17.720
You can't imagine what it was like to have him149101:28:17.760 --> 01:28:21.079
tell me that Eric Keating was dead.149201:28:23.000 --> 01:28:24.680
I was Eric Keating.149301:28:25.720 --> 01:28:29.039
I hurried away from him, kept walking towards the center149401:28:29.079 --> 01:28:33.039
of town, but it wasn't long before I realized that149501:28:33.119 --> 01:28:36.359
I was being followed by a man in a gray hat.149601:28:37.600 --> 01:28:40.439
I waited until he caught up with me. Then as149701:28:40.439 --> 01:28:42.479
he started to pass, I stopped to purposely.149801:28:43.159 --> 01:28:44.039
He got a good look.149901:28:43.840 --> 01:28:44.359
At his face.150001:28:45.600 --> 01:28:48.880
Excuse me? Yes? Can I trouble you for a match?150101:28:49.319 --> 01:28:51.000
Certain me? Thanks?150201:28:51.600 --> 01:28:55.279
And then await a minute? Why are you following me?150301:28:56.159 --> 01:28:56.840
Who was his arm?150401:28:56.880 --> 01:28:59.920
It's pretty obvious? Are you better tell me what your150501:29:00.079 --> 01:29:00.439
game is?150601:29:00.600 --> 01:29:02.960
I'll call a cop that wasn't doing much good, mister,150701:29:04.479 --> 01:29:08.600
I'm on the course. Think closemen. Commas is the name?150801:29:10.840 --> 01:29:15.319
I don't understand. Why are you watching me? That's my business?150901:29:15.319 --> 01:29:20.359
Watching people? Faced a kind of familiar to me. What's151001:29:20.359 --> 01:29:20.760
your name?151101:29:21.279 --> 01:29:21.840
Eric Keating?151201:29:23.399 --> 01:29:23.640
Again?151301:29:23.720 --> 01:29:23.960
Mister?151401:29:24.880 --> 01:29:25.840
Better tell me the truth?151501:29:25.840 --> 01:29:27.920
This time I am telling you the truth. Why don't151601:29:27.920 --> 01:29:28.399
you believe me?151701:29:28.520 --> 01:29:30.319
I happen to know what Edic Kating is right now?151801:29:31.439 --> 01:29:39.520
I saw his grave just the other day. Is gray?151901:29:39.840 --> 01:29:43.600
Yes, he's bettered than the same cemetery as my sister152001:29:44.640 --> 01:29:47.399
been bettered six years.152101:29:50.319 --> 01:29:54.239
I had a feeling that Colors was lying when he152201:29:54.439 --> 01:29:58.399
let me go a moment later, not proving my identity.152301:29:58.439 --> 01:30:02.319
I could have sworn he wasn't the detective, but I152401:30:02.359 --> 01:30:04.199
had to make sure, I had to catch him in152501:30:04.239 --> 01:30:05.960
a lie.152601:30:06.720 --> 01:30:08.399
I took a bus up to the cemetery.152701:30:09.880 --> 01:30:12.199
It was dark by the.152801:30:12.159 --> 01:30:16.439
Time I got there, but I had a flashlight, and152901:30:16.560 --> 01:30:22.000
with it I saw the very thing I hoped I153001:30:22.039 --> 01:30:26.159
wouldn't find, a tombstone.153101:30:27.119 --> 01:30:28.319
With my name on it.153201:30:30.760 --> 01:30:33.439
The shop was like a blinding light in the darkness,153301:30:34.359 --> 01:30:37.800
and for a moment I lost my senses. Insanely, I153401:30:37.880 --> 01:30:39.760
dug into the earth with a piece of sharp stone,153501:30:40.119 --> 01:30:44.800
determined to see the empty coffin or the bones of153601:30:44.840 --> 01:30:48.399
the man who had been buried in my place.153701:30:50.279 --> 01:30:52.479
Charlie, you better come with me, mister.153801:30:53.760 --> 01:30:54.279
What's wrong?153901:30:54.319 --> 01:30:58.079
What have I to? He's the man? Maybe? Yeah?154001:30:58.960 --> 01:31:04.960
The police secular? All right, murder, that's right. The picture154101:31:05.000 --> 01:31:07.359
underneath those words is yours or your twin brothers.154201:31:07.399 --> 01:31:12.359
No, I'm not this man. I may look like his picture,154301:31:12.399 --> 01:31:13.279
but I'm not the man.154401:31:13.520 --> 01:31:16.279
Finger Princess said, lest they've got his on the circular,154501:31:16.600 --> 01:31:17.920
and we've got to get yours.154601:31:18.800 --> 01:31:20.439
The objections.154701:31:21.760 --> 01:31:33.640
I won't call, will you don't try?154801:31:36.119 --> 01:31:36.479
Now?154901:31:36.680 --> 01:31:40.000
There's a case of being wanted for murder, dead or alive,155001:31:40.880 --> 01:31:44.000
and this guy Keating seems to fit both conditions very well.155101:31:45.840 --> 01:31:47.560
I'd hate to see him get killed, though, it'd be155201:31:47.600 --> 01:31:49.680
like killing two birds with one stone.155301:31:50.680 --> 01:31:53.439
I'm really sorry for that poor man. He's so confused,155401:31:53.680 --> 01:31:54.439
I should.155501:31:54.079 --> 01:31:57.159
Say so many imagine digging up a grave and finding155601:31:57.159 --> 01:32:00.920
yourself in it. Well, let that proves that a man155701:32:00.960 --> 01:32:02.680
can be two places at the same time.155801:32:02.880 --> 01:32:06.560
Noncentse that's impossible. But you know, as far as killing155901:32:06.600 --> 01:32:09.039
two birds with one stone is concerned.156001:32:08.680 --> 01:32:10.760
That's easy. Any lady can.156101:32:10.640 --> 01:32:12.960
Do that just by sending in for the Lipton Sterling156201:32:13.000 --> 01:32:13.880
silver medallion.156301:32:14.000 --> 01:32:15.760
Why yes, you see, this.156401:32:15.760 --> 01:32:18.960
Sterling silver medallion is not only lovely, but it's a156501:32:19.039 --> 01:32:21.720
very useful piece of jewelry as well. It's just the156601:32:21.760 --> 01:32:23.960
thing to brighten up a simple silk dress or a156701:32:24.039 --> 01:32:26.720
dressy suit. And it can be worn as a necklace156801:32:26.800 --> 01:32:29.640
or a choker, or simply by removing the narrow black156901:32:29.680 --> 01:32:31.840
ray on satin ribbon on which it's hung, you can157001:32:31.880 --> 01:32:34.439
add it to your charm bracelet. And the medallion makes157101:32:34.439 --> 01:32:38.159
such a smart appearance. It's made of real sterling silver,157201:32:38.600 --> 01:32:41.439
and it's decorated with the Chinese characters that stand for157301:32:41.560 --> 01:32:44.159
good luck, so you might say the medallion is a157401:32:44.279 --> 01:32:47.960
Chinese good luck charm. And best of all, ladies, the157501:32:48.039 --> 01:32:50.239
Lipton people are making it easy for you to own157601:32:50.279 --> 01:32:53.000
one of these handsome medallions. All you have to do157701:32:53.079 --> 01:32:55.720
is send twenty five cents and the box top from157801:32:55.760 --> 01:32:58.800
a package of Lipton's the tea with the brisk flavor157901:32:59.279 --> 01:33:04.600
to Lipton Box ninety two, that's box nine to New158001:33:04.680 --> 01:33:05.199
York City.158101:33:06.000 --> 01:33:08.680
Well, Mary, if the medallion really brings good luck, I158201:33:08.680 --> 01:33:11.439
hope our friend Derrick Keating sends for one, because he's158301:33:11.439 --> 01:33:14.039
going to need it. When we left him, he was158401:33:14.079 --> 01:33:16.680
telling us how a detective named Connor's was about to158501:33:16.760 --> 01:33:20.479
arrest him for murder. Eric resisted and they struggled at158601:33:20.479 --> 01:33:23.279
the cemetery. Connor's fire shot.158701:33:24.640 --> 01:33:27.039
A bullet went through my left arm. Before I could158801:33:27.079 --> 01:33:29.119
reach Connor's. With the stone I had in my hand,158901:33:30.199 --> 01:33:35.800
I pouted it against his temple. He dropped to the ground, unconscious,159001:33:36.359 --> 01:33:38.960
and I ran as fast as I could, holding one159101:33:39.039 --> 01:33:43.520
arm with the other, losing blood all the time. Somehow159201:33:44.079 --> 01:33:48.439
I got away. I was exhausted by the time I159301:33:48.520 --> 01:33:49.720
staggered into the doctor.159401:33:52.199 --> 01:33:54.800
Well, I guess you'll be all right now, i'ms Keating.159501:33:55.600 --> 01:33:56.319
Thank you, doctor.159601:33:56.800 --> 01:33:58.960
Tell me, how did you happen to get this wound?159701:34:00.560 --> 01:34:05.319
I was carrying a jar and I felt you better159801:34:05.399 --> 01:34:05.920
not lie to me.159901:34:05.960 --> 01:34:06.560
Mister Keating.160001:34:06.920 --> 01:34:10.760
The bullet was still in your arm.160101:34:11.479 --> 01:34:12.600
I don't know his name.160201:34:12.640 --> 01:34:14.800
I would have a great deal if you did. I160301:34:14.960 --> 01:34:17.680
have to report this, you know, so you'd better tell160401:34:17.760 --> 01:34:18.239
me the truth.160501:34:18.319 --> 01:34:19.199
I will in a moment.160601:34:19.239 --> 01:34:19.640
Doctor it.160701:34:21.279 --> 01:34:22.920
First I'd like to ask you a favor.160801:34:23.359 --> 01:34:23.960
What is it?160901:34:24.960 --> 01:34:27.039
Do you know anything about fingerprints?161001:34:27.680 --> 01:34:30.680
No, not a great deal or they must know something. Here,161101:34:31.319 --> 01:34:33.560
take a look at the ones on the circular.161201:34:34.439 --> 01:34:35.920
Why is the circular tournment?161301:34:35.920 --> 01:34:39.159
I never mind about that. Just look at the fingerprints.161401:34:39.560 --> 01:34:41.079
M hm hm.161501:34:41.439 --> 01:34:44.359
Now look at the ones on my head.161601:34:44.760 --> 01:34:44.920
You know.161701:34:46.239 --> 01:34:49.279
Would you say that I belonged to the same man?161801:34:51.000 --> 01:34:51.760
Unquestionably?161901:34:52.439 --> 01:34:52.800
Of course.162001:34:52.840 --> 01:34:54.520
I'm not an expert, no am I.162101:34:56.239 --> 01:34:58.840
But I can say that those are my fingerprints.162201:34:58.840 --> 01:34:59.239
All right.162301:35:00.920 --> 01:35:05.079
Somebody has done a perfect job of framing me either that.162401:35:06.920 --> 01:35:08.960
I am a murderer, mister Keating.162501:35:09.399 --> 01:35:12.680
I suppose I just report my work to the police.162601:35:12.279 --> 01:35:13.079
And let it go that.162701:35:13.239 --> 01:35:15.199
I can't let it go at that, don't you understand162801:35:15.239 --> 01:35:17.239
I've been framed every possible way.162901:35:17.880 --> 01:35:20.600
If I let it go out, it's enter the chair.163001:35:20.680 --> 01:35:23.079
No, none of your innocent I can't take the chance. Well,163101:35:23.119 --> 01:35:24.600
I'm very much afraid you'll have to.163201:35:26.319 --> 01:35:29.920
I reached the paperweight on his desk. I crept a163301:35:29.960 --> 01:35:37.720
little closer, and then keating. I struck him hard on163401:35:37.800 --> 01:35:40.359
the side of the head. His body dropped to the floor,163501:35:40.399 --> 01:35:43.119
and I bent over him. My heart was pounding against163601:35:43.159 --> 01:35:46.079
my chest. Something in the back of my mind kept163701:35:46.159 --> 01:35:48.279
driving me on. A voice kept saying, kill him.163801:35:48.399 --> 01:35:49.000
You're a murderer.163901:35:49.119 --> 01:35:50.159
Kill him.164001:35:50.479 --> 01:35:53.239
I don't know why, but I struck him again and164101:35:53.319 --> 01:35:58.720
again and again until his lifeless body choked out its164201:35:58.760 --> 01:36:05.760
last breath. And then I knew I was a murderer.164301:36:09.640 --> 01:36:12.039
I hurried away in the darkness, took a bus to164401:36:12.039 --> 01:36:15.399
a neighboring tower. I heard a room in a boarding house.164501:36:16.359 --> 01:36:20.159
I stayed there three days, hiding, not going out on164601:36:20.199 --> 01:36:25.359
the street. Then on the fourth day, the land lady164701:36:25.640 --> 01:36:26.359
paid me a visit.164801:36:26.439 --> 01:36:28.399
You you don't have to get out of here.164901:36:28.439 --> 01:36:30.760
I can't take a chance of having you around anymore.165001:36:31.039 --> 01:36:32.079
Killing that doctor.165101:36:32.520 --> 01:36:35.640
Weren't in enough trouble already. I gotta think you got165201:36:35.680 --> 01:36:37.880
to get out of here. They'll be searching this place165301:36:37.920 --> 01:36:40.760
before you know it, because you were here before. I165401:36:40.800 --> 01:36:44.960
never should have let you come back. Come back now,165501:36:45.039 --> 01:36:47.119
get your coat and beat it well like gold.165601:36:47.439 --> 01:36:48.399
Take it easy.165701:36:49.039 --> 01:36:51.520
I never let anybody down yet here.165801:36:51.920 --> 01:36:53.920
This is the address of a shack iron over near165901:36:53.960 --> 01:36:54.640
the waterfront.166001:36:55.039 --> 01:36:55.920
You can hide out.166101:36:55.760 --> 01:36:56.479
There for a while.166201:36:57.239 --> 01:36:58.119
They food in that shack.166301:36:58.279 --> 01:36:59.199
Never mind about that.166401:36:59.239 --> 01:37:01.560
I'll get in touch with Ruse and tell away, Ruth.166501:37:01.880 --> 01:37:03.760
Yes, go on, now get out of here.166601:37:03.640 --> 01:37:04.560
Before it's too late.166701:37:10.840 --> 01:37:13.560
I waited in the shack for two days before this166801:37:13.680 --> 01:37:18.800
girl roof shut up. When she did get there, the166901:37:18.800 --> 01:37:20.119
first thing she said was.167001:37:20.560 --> 01:37:22.359
Gosh, you looked terrible.167101:37:22.640 --> 01:37:23.960
I know I've been through a lot.167201:37:24.239 --> 01:37:27.119
Well start working on these groceries. You must be starting.167301:37:27.640 --> 01:37:28.279
Thanks, I am.167401:37:28.840 --> 01:37:31.880
I never thought i'd see you again. Huh, why'd you167501:37:31.960 --> 01:37:32.319
do it?167601:37:32.840 --> 01:37:35.359
I couldn't help myself. He was going to turn me167701:37:35.359 --> 01:37:36.119
over to the police.167801:37:36.239 --> 01:37:38.199
I don't mean the doctor. I mean Richie.167901:37:38.239 --> 01:37:41.560
Oh Richie, you looking.168001:37:41.319 --> 01:37:43.199
At me like that for bye.168101:37:44.680 --> 01:37:49.000
I'm just trying to think you should have done something.168201:37:49.039 --> 01:37:51.800
And before you buried his body where you did? They168301:37:51.840 --> 01:37:52.920
found it the next.168401:37:52.760 --> 01:37:58.439
Day, Richie rules straorry the landlady.168501:37:59.039 --> 01:37:59.960
What is it going to stop?168601:38:00.079 --> 01:38:00.319
Hey?168701:38:00.560 --> 01:38:00.880
Take it.168801:38:01.159 --> 01:38:02.680
I gotta get out of here. I gotta get out168901:38:02.680 --> 01:38:03.199
of here right now.169001:38:03.239 --> 01:38:04.800
Don't be crazy. You'll get care.169101:38:04.840 --> 01:38:05.479
Have you got a car?169201:38:05.760 --> 01:38:05.960
Yeah?169301:38:06.159 --> 01:38:10.840
But let me let's go. Y, Come on, where where169401:38:10.840 --> 01:38:11.439
do you want to go?169501:38:11.560 --> 01:38:16.319
Back to my house? I've got to find my wife169601:38:19.760 --> 01:38:20.239
in the dock.169701:38:21.760 --> 01:38:25.600
We drove to my house on Te Street. Both waited169801:38:25.600 --> 01:38:27.560
for me in the cars. I sneaked into the garage169901:38:28.239 --> 01:38:31.760
and came up through the cellar entrance. The house was170001:38:31.840 --> 01:38:35.479
dark except for a light in the study. My wife170101:38:35.600 --> 01:38:38.720
was sitting there alone, reading a book.170201:38:39.399 --> 01:38:44.880
I tried not to frighten her. Elena, Elena, that you joined. No, dear,170301:38:45.840 --> 01:38:46.319
it's Eric.170401:38:49.520 --> 01:38:49.920
Who are you?170501:38:51.079 --> 01:38:52.079
What are you doing here?170601:38:52.880 --> 01:38:53.920
Don't you recognize me?170701:38:55.119 --> 01:38:55.840
Don't get out of the.170801:38:57.520 --> 01:38:57.840
Darling.170901:38:57.920 --> 01:39:00.039
I got to make you understand I'm your husband and171001:39:00.760 --> 01:39:01.880
Eric you're insane.171101:39:02.640 --> 01:39:03.239
Eric is dead.171201:39:03.279 --> 01:39:08.079
No, you mustn't believe what they've been telling you. It's171301:39:08.119 --> 01:39:12.119
all part of a scheme. I can't understand. But they're171401:39:12.199 --> 01:39:15.159
against a celinder, trying to keep us apart.171501:39:15.520 --> 01:39:16.159
Eric is dead.171601:39:16.199 --> 01:39:17.199
I don't say that.171701:39:17.359 --> 01:39:18.920
He died six years ago.171801:39:20.079 --> 01:39:23.600
And you're in on it too. You want it this way?171901:39:25.000 --> 01:39:25.520
What do you mean?172001:39:25.600 --> 01:39:27.439
You and Drury want to be together. That's why you're172101:39:27.439 --> 01:39:27.840
framed me.172201:39:28.079 --> 01:39:29.319
You and Drury house.172301:39:30.159 --> 01:39:31.279
We been married for three years.172401:39:31.279 --> 01:39:33.199
You can't get away with a celender. I won't let172501:39:33.239 --> 01:39:33.439
you have.172601:39:35.119 --> 01:39:37.159
I tied her to a chair and kagged so that172701:39:37.159 --> 01:39:40.000
she couldn't scream or call the police, and I left172801:39:40.000 --> 01:39:41.720
the house and got back into the car with Ruth.172901:39:42.680 --> 01:39:46.800
We waited there about ten minutes, and then I saw173001:39:46.880 --> 01:39:52.319
the man I'd been waiting for, George Drury was walking173101:39:52.319 --> 01:39:52.640
down the.173201:39:52.560 --> 01:39:54.680
Fire side of the street on the sidewalk.173301:39:55.079 --> 01:39:56.960
And I knew he'd have to cross over to get173401:39:56.960 --> 01:39:59.800
to the house, so I started the car.173501:40:01.359 --> 01:40:05.039
What are you doing getting ready? He's got across the street,173601:40:05.079 --> 01:40:06.279
he's got What.173701:40:06.199 --> 01:40:06.840
Are you gonna do?173801:40:08.000 --> 01:40:18.600
Now? What are you fool? Shot? Where are you going.173901:40:20.000 --> 01:40:23.800
To pick up your body? Here? Where you are? I'll174001:40:24.399 --> 01:40:25.439
get back in a second.174101:40:32.760 --> 01:40:37.399
The three of us had a long ride that night, Ruth,174201:40:38.359 --> 01:40:40.199
George Strory's.174301:40:39.680 --> 01:40:40.920
Body, and myself.174401:40:41.600 --> 01:40:45.279
Automatically, I seem to know where I was heading, even174501:40:45.319 --> 01:40:48.840
though I had no destination in my mind. I made174601:40:48.840 --> 01:40:52.960
one turn after another unconsciously, almost until last I came174701:40:53.000 --> 01:40:55.039
to a dark stretch of road along the railroad track.174801:40:56.439 --> 01:40:57.600
I stopped the cart.174901:40:59.399 --> 01:41:00.600
Who are you think you do?175001:41:00.840 --> 01:41:04.159
I'll ask any questions. I'm burying the body here.175101:41:04.479 --> 01:41:08.680
Are you crazy? Why don't this place look familiar to you?175201:41:10.920 --> 01:41:16.319
Yes? I think it does. I can't remember why.175301:41:16.119 --> 01:41:17.279
You lost your mind?175401:41:17.359 --> 01:41:19.840
Complete You stop talking like that and tell me what's175501:41:19.840 --> 01:41:20.640
wrong with this place?175601:41:21.800 --> 01:41:23.479
Why can't I bury the body here?175701:41:24.159 --> 01:41:27.439
Because it's the same place you're buried, Richie.175801:41:27.600 --> 01:41:32.359
Richie, Richie, Richie Riche. Why am I wanted for his murder?175901:41:32.560 --> 01:41:35.359
You're wanted because you killed him in cold blood, just176001:41:35.399 --> 01:41:38.760
the way you killed Druli. Only Richie was your partner.176101:41:38.800 --> 01:41:40.319
You pulled all your jobs together.176201:41:42.239 --> 01:41:46.399
It couldn't have been me, Rude, not me. I didn't176301:41:46.439 --> 01:41:49.439
know Ritchie, I'm Eric Keating.176401:41:50.239 --> 01:41:51.399
Is that your real name?176501:41:52.520 --> 01:41:53.920
You never told me the real one?176601:41:54.000 --> 01:42:00.399
All right, But I say what I got to get176701:42:00.399 --> 01:42:00.800
out of here.176801:42:07.159 --> 01:42:10.640
We left Jury's body near the railroad track and drove176901:42:10.680 --> 01:42:12.640
back to the height out on the waterfront.177001:42:12.800 --> 01:42:14.520
My route had let me earlier in the evening.177101:42:16.000 --> 01:42:19.439
There I began to sew the threads of a horrible177201:42:19.479 --> 01:42:22.840
story which had been my life for the past six years.177301:42:23.079 --> 01:42:26.079
The first time I saw it was about five years ago.177401:42:26.479 --> 01:42:28.319
And I looked as I looked now.177501:42:28.560 --> 01:42:31.399
Yeah, more or less, you just had a plastic surgery177601:42:31.439 --> 01:42:33.279
job done. You told me it was because your face177701:42:33.359 --> 01:42:37.399
was burned. Only I didn't believe you that was true.177801:42:37.760 --> 01:42:40.000
My face was burned badly.177901:42:40.399 --> 01:42:47.279
How YESHI, I'm beginning to remember a railroad accident just178001:42:47.319 --> 01:42:50.159
about six years ago. The car I was in caught fire.178101:42:51.399 --> 01:42:53.560
I struck my head trying to climb out of a window.178201:42:54.039 --> 01:42:56.199
You mean you lost your memory from that blood?178301:42:56.239 --> 01:42:56.960
I lost her.178401:42:57.840 --> 01:42:59.920
I must have wandered away from the scene of the wreck,178501:43:00.079 --> 01:43:02.359
not knowing who I was, and you began.178601:43:02.119 --> 01:43:05.640
A new life of people like Richie.178701:43:06.359 --> 01:43:07.239
I began to steal.178801:43:07.760 --> 01:43:10.039
But your wife in the railroad company give you up178901:43:10.079 --> 01:43:10.560
as dead.179001:43:11.039 --> 01:43:14.479
So I can understand that there were charred bodies in179101:43:14.520 --> 01:43:19.119
that wreck, charred beyond recognition. When I didn't show up,179201:43:19.119 --> 01:43:20.760
they must have listed me as one of them and179301:43:20.800 --> 01:43:22.600
buried another man's remains in my place.179401:43:25.239 --> 01:43:26.239
I wish it had been me.179501:43:27.479 --> 01:43:28.119
Very dead.179601:43:29.640 --> 01:43:32.039
All the while you were suffering from ems, your wife179701:43:32.039 --> 01:43:33.000
thought you were dead.179801:43:33.600 --> 01:43:35.319
I didn't believe that when she said she'd married this179901:43:35.399 --> 01:43:36.039
fellow Drury.180001:43:37.319 --> 01:43:37.560
Ah.180101:43:39.039 --> 01:43:41.239
Funny how I sat next to him on the train180201:43:41.319 --> 01:43:47.279
that day. Joe sent my mind back six years, and180301:43:47.359 --> 01:43:50.720
I thought I was Eric Keaty coming home from a.180401:43:50.680 --> 01:43:53.159
Trip with word.180501:43:54.520 --> 01:43:58.039
Was there the hands up pity Please, I got this180601:43:58.159 --> 01:44:00.000
this and you better do what he said?180701:44:00.399 --> 01:44:02.960
What for my prolongedly agony any more than I have to,180801:44:03.399 --> 01:44:10.199
don't call me Eric. Eric Keating is dead. I'll let180901:44:10.199 --> 01:44:12.039
this other man die the way he should have died.181001:44:12.319 --> 01:44:14.079
Eric's gonna be a fool. You can't get up that181101:44:14.159 --> 01:44:16.920
one of the.181201:44:18.800 --> 01:44:25.560
All right, it's all right, I wanted it.181301:44:27.199 --> 01:44:39.479
Just this way.181401:44:40.159 --> 01:44:43.239
Well, they finally got him, and this time they'll give181501:44:43.279 --> 01:44:46.079
him a grave he can call his own. I just181601:44:46.119 --> 01:44:48.560
hope he stays put this time, instead of wandering as181701:44:48.560 --> 01:44:51.520
a ghost. A guy like that might not remember where181801:44:51.520 --> 01:44:52.159
he was buried.181901:44:52.560 --> 01:44:54.079
I'm glad he's finally at rest.182001:44:54.199 --> 01:44:57.079
Now he'll be so sure. Mary, that guy needs a182101:44:57.079 --> 01:44:58.039
tag on him.182201:44:58.399 --> 01:45:02.359
If you want to send him one of those silver medallions, yes,182301:45:02.399 --> 01:45:04.720
and we'll get all these aliases engraved on it too,182401:45:04.840 --> 01:45:07.119
so the other ghosts will know who he is.182501:45:07.199 --> 01:45:10.840
You don't be silly. There aren't any ghosts. And besides,182601:45:10.880 --> 01:45:14.640
that sterling silver medallion has just one purpose. It's simply182701:45:14.640 --> 01:45:17.119
a lovely piece of jewelry that the ladies will enjoy182801:45:17.199 --> 01:45:20.399
wearing and ladies. To get the medallion, all you have182901:45:20.479 --> 01:45:22.680
to do is send twenty five cents and the box183001:45:22.760 --> 01:45:25.279
top from a package of Lipton's the Tea with the183101:45:25.319 --> 01:45:31.560
Brisk Flavor to Lipton Tea Box ninety two, New York City.183201:45:35.199 --> 01:45:39.600
Well, it's time now to button up my shroud and183301:45:39.760 --> 01:45:44.199
start combing the catacomb. If you insist on a morral183401:45:44.319 --> 01:45:48.079
for tonight's story, try this. The evil that men do183501:45:48.079 --> 01:45:52.119
doesn't always live after them. Sometimes it catches up with.183601:45:52.279 --> 01:46:01.239
Her when it comes to gifts and how cheer. Well,183701:46:02.199 --> 01:46:05.560
I feel like I may be a bit out of practice,183801:46:05.640 --> 01:46:10.239
but I am trying to learn and remember, Oh to183901:46:10.359 --> 01:46:16.880
remember what a simple thought, a simple concept, something you184001:46:17.079 --> 01:46:21.279
truly don't appreciate until you no longer can do it.184101:46:22.279 --> 01:46:25.960
As they say, you don't know what you've got until184201:46:26.000 --> 01:46:29.840
it's gone, But of course you don't know what you've184301:46:29.880 --> 01:46:34.159
got until your gone is probably a better way of184401:46:34.199 --> 01:46:37.960
putting it. Oh what's that? Oh no, no, no, another184501:46:38.039 --> 01:46:41.720
log on the fire. We'll stay warm and merry. You184601:46:41.800 --> 01:46:45.239
don't worry one bit about that. Now, I think it's184701:46:45.359 --> 01:46:49.399
time for a simple, happy holiday story.184801:46:51.680 --> 01:46:55.520
In just a moment, Auto Light presents suspense with Herbert184901:46:55.600 --> 01:47:00.479
Marshall was the night before Christmas, and in Santa Claus sleigh.185001:47:00.479 --> 01:47:04.000
The electrical system was plenty okay, the ignition was perfect,185101:47:04.039 --> 01:47:06.800
worked like a dream, and the sleigh ran so smooth185201:47:06.840 --> 01:47:09.880
it made Santa be What was Santa's secret of them?185301:47:09.960 --> 01:47:12.159
I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight.185401:47:12.359 --> 01:47:15.439
It's no secret at all. It's just auto light. Now185501:47:15.760 --> 01:47:17.600
you see half with all the kids in the world185601:47:17.640 --> 01:47:21.199
depending on old Saint Nick Christmas Eve, he plays safe185701:47:21.199 --> 01:47:23.880
by replacing old or worn out parts in his auto185801:47:23.920 --> 01:47:28.119
light equipped car sleigh with auto light original factory parts, resistance,185901:47:28.119 --> 01:47:31.720
spark plugs, state full batteries, distributors, starting motors.186001:47:31.359 --> 01:47:33.840
Coils, generators, wire and cable.186101:47:33.920 --> 01:47:37.800
All famous for their auto light ignition, engineer dependability.186201:47:38.199 --> 01:47:41.039
Santa does it. Why don't you, Hallo Horllo. Let's switch186301:47:41.039 --> 01:47:42.520
from Santa to suspense.186401:47:54.640 --> 01:48:04.439
Suspense auto light and it's sixty thousand dealers and service186501:48:04.479 --> 01:48:10.159
stations bring you radios. Outstanding theater of thrills, starring tonight186601:48:10.640 --> 01:48:15.560
mister Herbert Marshall in Anton Leader's production of John Collier's186701:48:15.600 --> 01:48:21.800
Holiday Story, A Tale Well calculated to keep you in suspend.186801:48:29.000 --> 01:48:31.800
Jingle bells, jingle all the way.186901:48:33.279 --> 01:48:34.159
Oh what fun?187001:48:35.279 --> 01:48:43.640
Just right, you'll run horsilp and set jingle bells.187101:48:45.319 --> 01:48:48.680
Here's what on are you doing down here as seller?187201:48:48.880 --> 01:48:51.159
Why just do a little digging?187301:48:51.640 --> 01:48:53.920
And why may I ask if you chosen this day187401:48:53.920 --> 01:48:55.920
of all days to dig up the cellar flow?187501:48:56.199 --> 01:48:59.600
Well, I thought the weather's been so damp, this would187601:48:59.640 --> 01:49:02.319
be a good time to plant that little devil's garden.187701:49:02.359 --> 01:49:04.039
I told you about devil's garden.187801:49:04.079 --> 01:49:06.479
What if a nonsense is that?187901:49:06.479 --> 01:49:08.279
That was my little joke about it. You see, I've188001:49:08.359 --> 01:49:10.600
I've managed to get hold of the spores of several188101:49:11.000 --> 01:49:15.720
unclassified wild orchids. In their wild state, they brew under188201:49:15.800 --> 01:49:19.439
damp masses of leaf mold. The Urucanian Indians call them188301:49:19.479 --> 01:49:22.319
devil flowers because they appear to broom under the ground.188401:49:22.399 --> 01:49:25.479
Well, I'm sure the Orucanian Indians will be very interested188501:49:25.520 --> 01:49:28.239
if you would succeed in growing these ridiculous flowers under188601:49:28.239 --> 01:49:32.439
the cellar floor. Whom else it will interest? I can't imagine. Ooh,188701:49:32.960 --> 01:49:34.079
what's that terrible smell?188801:49:34.199 --> 01:49:37.920
That's the leaf mold, chemically identical with the earth blankets188901:49:37.920 --> 01:49:40.800
they grow under in the wild state. I suppose I189001:49:40.800 --> 01:49:42.880
should line the pit with concrete. So it's to prevent189101:49:43.000 --> 01:49:45.399
seepage from this foreign soil. But I don't suppose there'll189201:49:45.399 --> 01:49:48.239
be much time for it now, and I do want189301:49:48.279 --> 01:49:50.119
to get these started before we close the house.189401:49:50.279 --> 01:49:52.520
There certainly will not be time for it. Do you189501:49:52.640 --> 01:49:55.439
realize that we're sailing for America a week from today189601:49:55.840 --> 01:49:59.439
and you've made no arrangements whatever? Unless you call digging189701:49:59.479 --> 01:50:04.159
a hole in this making arrangements, I certainly don't Devil's garden. Indeed,189801:50:05.119 --> 01:50:07.960
sometimes I think you're going soft in the head, Wilfrid.189901:50:08.479 --> 01:50:10.560
I suppose it is inconsiderate of me. You see, I've190001:50:10.600 --> 01:50:12.720
been wanting to try this experiment for a long time.190101:50:12.760 --> 01:50:16.479
But what with my lectures and seminars at the university190201:50:16.479 --> 01:50:17.560
I have, there never seemed to tie.190301:50:17.680 --> 01:50:17.800
Well.190401:50:17.840 --> 01:50:20.800
There certainly isn't any time for it now. I suppose190501:50:20.800 --> 01:50:22.560
you've forgotten I made an appointment for you at the190601:50:22.600 --> 01:50:23.520
barbers this afternoon.190701:50:23.560 --> 01:50:27.560
Oh no, no, no, no, But uh must I shave190801:50:27.640 --> 01:50:29.439
off my beard, Hermione, I thought.190901:50:29.239 --> 01:50:32.079
We'd been through all that. Of course you must. They191001:50:32.119 --> 01:50:34.640
don't wear beards in America. Go get your jacket on191101:50:34.640 --> 01:50:37.079
and do as I tell you. Yes, Harmiam, and don't191201:50:37.119 --> 01:50:39.000
forget to take your umbrella looks like rain.191301:50:39.039 --> 01:50:40.840
Yes, hamyam, Oh, don't look so put.191401:50:40.720 --> 01:50:43.039
Upon, Wilfrid. No, someone has to plan things in this191501:50:43.079 --> 01:50:44.840
house or you'd never even get to the university and191601:50:44.920 --> 01:50:47.159
time for your lectures, much less make arrangements for a191701:50:47.199 --> 01:50:48.079
trip to America.191801:50:48.079 --> 01:50:50.640
Well, I know, I know, but what about my specimens.191901:50:50.640 --> 01:50:53.479
There'll be plenty of time to plant your precious devil's192001:50:53.560 --> 01:50:56.399
garden when we get home from America. We're not going192101:50:56.439 --> 01:50:58.680
to be gone forever, you know, we'll be back here192201:50:58.680 --> 01:50:59.439
for the holidays.192301:51:00.119 --> 01:51:02.319
Yes, of course, back for the holidays I've forgotten.192401:51:02.399 --> 01:51:04.920
We'll try to remember it. And if you can't do that,192501:51:05.199 --> 01:51:07.560
just do as I tell you. I've been making the192601:51:07.600 --> 01:51:10.079
plans in this house for twenty years, and if there's192701:51:10.119 --> 01:51:12.399
any digging to be done, I'll manage that as well,192801:51:12.840 --> 01:51:13.880
you understand, Wilfrid.192901:51:14.079 --> 01:51:14.880
Yes, hermione.193001:51:15.000 --> 01:51:17.920
Good. You have just twenty minutes to clean up this193101:51:17.960 --> 01:51:20.039
mess down here and keep your appointment at the barbers.193201:51:20.119 --> 01:51:22.159
And when you finish there, I want you to come193301:51:22.199 --> 01:51:22.880
straight home.193401:51:23.239 --> 01:51:25.119
Oh I wanted to stop and pick up some books193501:51:25.119 --> 01:51:25.840
I ordered.193601:51:25.760 --> 01:51:28.720
Well, all right, but don't loiter the whole afternoon browsing193701:51:28.760 --> 01:51:31.199
over those old books the way you usually do. Now,193801:51:31.279 --> 01:51:33.279
hurry and clear up this rubbish, get rid of that193901:51:33.439 --> 01:51:35.840
smelly stuff, and no more digging, mind you.194001:51:36.760 --> 01:51:43.960
Yes, hermione, yes, hermione. How many years have been since194101:51:44.000 --> 01:51:47.239
I've been saying that? Ten years? Fifteen, twenty? Clear up194201:51:47.279 --> 01:51:51.760
the rubbish, yes, hermione, don't forget your I'm prevent yes, hermione.194301:51:52.119 --> 01:51:52.960
Do this? Do that?194401:51:53.199 --> 01:51:57.880
Yes, hermione, yes, yes, much longer? Can I stand this?194501:52:05.920 --> 01:52:09.800
Good evening, sir, good evening, Miss Malcolm.194601:52:08.920 --> 01:52:12.479
Why it is, Professor Carpenter, isn't it?194701:52:13.319 --> 01:52:13.960
Oh?194801:52:14.039 --> 01:52:14.399
You were?194901:52:15.079 --> 01:52:16.159
You like me better this way?195001:52:16.399 --> 01:52:19.079
Oh you look ever so much younger without the beard.195101:52:19.560 --> 01:52:23.439
Twenty years, at least twenty years. You'll be glad to195201:52:23.479 --> 01:52:27.359
know those books you ordered a finally arrived books. If195301:52:27.439 --> 01:52:30.880
I toold me of falloid gamatophytes and coniferous shrubs of195401:52:30.880 --> 01:52:33.960
North America, those are the ones you ordered, aren't they?195501:52:34.520 --> 01:52:34.800
Yes?195601:52:35.000 --> 01:52:40.159
Thank you you're very kind, Miss Malcolm, My kind, Professor Carpenter.195701:52:40.319 --> 01:52:42.319
Not many young ladies in bookshops would go out of195801:52:42.319 --> 01:52:44.199
their way to look up rare books for an old195901:52:44.479 --> 01:52:45.720
professor of botany.196001:52:45.800 --> 01:52:48.199
Well you're not, old professor carpenter.196101:52:48.520 --> 01:52:49.680
Really you look.196201:52:51.079 --> 01:52:54.960
And besides, I adore botany. It's my particular hobby.196301:52:55.199 --> 01:52:58.880
Oh really, you never told me that before, Miss Malcolm.196401:52:58.920 --> 01:53:01.800
I was afraid to you were so imposing with the196501:53:01.960 --> 01:53:02.880
beard and all.196601:53:04.239 --> 01:53:07.600
Miss Malkolm. Yes, forgive me of this sounds foolish.196701:53:07.600 --> 01:53:07.840
Better.196801:53:09.199 --> 01:53:11.199
I feel that shaving off my beard is the most196901:53:11.239 --> 01:53:15.039
important thing I've done for for twenty years.197001:53:15.159 --> 01:53:18.079
Oh it is, I'm sure it is. I'm ashamed that197101:53:18.119 --> 01:53:20.439
I've been so distant with you all this time. Oh197201:53:20.439 --> 01:53:23.399
there were times when I almost spoke up. Times when197301:53:23.439 --> 01:53:25.399
you came in here tired after a day with your197401:53:25.399 --> 01:53:29.479
students at the university. You seem so alone, the way197501:53:29.560 --> 01:53:32.239
I'm alone in the world. I'd like to have asked197601:53:32.239 --> 01:53:34.680
you to stay a while and talk with me, But197701:53:34.920 --> 01:53:37.520
some way or other I wound up by giving you197801:53:37.520 --> 01:53:39.680
your change, in letting you go on your way.197901:53:40.000 --> 01:53:42.239
You say you're all alone in.198001:53:42.199 --> 01:53:43.960
The world since my father died.198101:53:44.199 --> 01:53:45.840
Did you never think of marrying?198201:53:46.119 --> 01:53:49.000
My father was a very remarkable man. I never found198301:53:49.079 --> 01:53:50.920
any one who seemed to measure up to what he198401:53:51.079 --> 01:53:52.479
led me to expect of men.198501:53:53.239 --> 01:53:54.680
Miss Markholm, It's been.198601:53:54.560 --> 01:53:57.000
So long since anyone called me by my first name.198701:53:57.600 --> 01:53:59.520
I'd like you too, if you.198801:54:01.159 --> 01:54:06.720
It's Marian, Marian, and yours Wilfred. How long have you198901:54:06.800 --> 01:54:08.199
been alone, Wilfrid?199001:54:08.880 --> 01:54:09.439
Alone?199101:54:09.760 --> 01:54:09.960
Oh?199201:54:10.039 --> 01:54:12.239
I knew you were a widower, of course, the first199301:54:12.239 --> 01:54:13.159
time I saw you.199401:54:14.439 --> 01:54:15.039
A widower.199501:54:15.159 --> 01:54:17.960
I can always tell. There's a certain sadness in a199601:54:18.000 --> 01:54:21.199
man's eyes, a sweet sadness, I think, when he's been199701:54:21.239 --> 01:54:23.079
married and then a widower.199801:54:24.359 --> 01:54:26.359
I never thought of it in quite that way.199901:54:27.079 --> 01:54:30.000
Perhaps I shouldn't be talking like this, but I've often200001:54:30.039 --> 01:54:32.640
wondered what she must have been like your wife.200101:54:32.720 --> 01:54:36.359
I mean Harmione was that her name? Yes, Harmione. Not200201:54:36.439 --> 01:54:39.560
an easy woman to forget, very strong, always managing things,200301:54:40.159 --> 01:54:44.359
the house, my wardrobe, my friends. When we dined at200401:54:44.359 --> 01:54:47.720
a restaurant, she even ordered my food. She was always200501:54:47.760 --> 01:54:52.600
managing things, you might say she yes, she managed herself200601:54:52.640 --> 01:54:53.079
to death.200701:54:56.880 --> 01:54:57.479
Poor woman.200801:54:58.000 --> 01:55:00.800
She must have loved you very much, but she needn't200901:55:00.840 --> 01:55:03.640
have put herself out. So it's plain to see you201001:55:03.720 --> 01:55:08.159
don't need things managed for you. That you need companionship.201101:55:08.239 --> 01:55:11.720
I think someone's sympathetic with your work. But the last201201:55:11.720 --> 01:55:14.840
thing on earth you need is a manager.201301:55:15.720 --> 01:55:19.079
How well you put it, The last thing on earth?201401:55:33.239 --> 01:55:35.680
Well, at last. You certainly took long enough about it.201501:55:36.399 --> 01:55:37.760
What do you look he so pleased about?201601:55:39.239 --> 01:55:42.439
I don't know. For myone, getting rid of the beard, Pats,201701:55:43.279 --> 01:55:44.439
I feel twenty years younger.201801:55:44.600 --> 01:55:49.039
Oh, look even smaller. Your face looks triangular or something.201901:55:49.920 --> 01:55:53.079
I'd forgotten. Your chin was so weak. But never mind202001:55:53.079 --> 01:55:55.760
that you can grow it back soon enough after the holidays.202101:55:56.199 --> 01:55:58.760
Where are you going down on, Marcella? Oh, I just202201:55:58.840 --> 01:56:01.199
bought this electric lantern. I thought it. I'd put it202301:56:01.199 --> 01:56:02.079
away down there now.202401:56:02.159 --> 01:56:03.840
Whatever possessed you to buy a thing.202501:56:03.720 --> 01:56:05.560
Like that, I don't know. I rather like this lantern202601:56:06.119 --> 01:56:06.880
might come in handy.202701:56:06.880 --> 01:56:10.199
Who knows, now, gilfriend, don't start digging down there again.202801:56:10.439 --> 01:56:12.000
I have a hundred things to do put in the202901:56:12.000 --> 01:56:13.720
house in order before we leave. I want you to203001:56:13.760 --> 01:56:14.920
carry these boxes.203101:56:14.600 --> 01:56:16.039
Upstairs for you, yes, Hermione.203201:56:16.520 --> 01:56:18.640
And if you are going down to the cellar, take203301:56:18.680 --> 01:56:20.319
this along and stuff it into the furnace.203401:56:20.600 --> 01:56:22.560
Well, this is my old bath robe I made need it.203501:56:22.600 --> 01:56:24.760
Nonsense, I brought you a new one. Get rid of it,203601:56:25.479 --> 01:56:29.079
and don't start parttering down there with that devil's garden203701:56:29.159 --> 01:56:30.359
or whatever you call it.203801:56:31.279 --> 01:56:34.319
I'm through digging, my dear, I think the pit is203901:56:34.399 --> 01:56:47.800
quite deep enough now from my devil's garden. It would204001:56:47.800 --> 01:56:51.319
all have to be carefully planned, of course, just as204101:56:51.359 --> 01:56:53.960
carefully planned as Amona as planning the trip to America.204201:56:55.680 --> 01:56:58.039
We both went about our arrangements as the days past.204301:56:59.359 --> 01:57:01.199
I spend all the time I could with Mariam, and204401:57:01.279 --> 01:57:05.520
finally she consented. And then it was the last day204501:57:05.520 --> 01:57:08.560
of the big day, the day we were to sail204601:57:08.600 --> 01:57:10.159
for America.204701:57:11.199 --> 01:57:15.039
Operator operator, Are you there? I'm still waiting on that204801:57:15.039 --> 01:57:20.640
call to Salisbury. Well, put them on quickly. Hello. Is204901:57:20.680 --> 01:57:25.199
this Paul Holton Sons. It's missus Wilfrid Carpenter. Did you205001:57:25.239 --> 01:57:26.039
receive my letter?205101:57:27.279 --> 01:57:27.600
Good?205201:57:28.479 --> 01:57:30.800
Now, Remember we'll be back for the holidays and I205301:57:30.840 --> 01:57:35.199
want the job done with that failed what's that? Oh no,205401:57:35.399 --> 01:57:38.479
I'll be sure he doesn't suspect anything. Send the bill205501:57:38.520 --> 01:57:40.479
to me in New York, as I instructed you, addressed205601:57:40.479 --> 01:57:43.680
in my name of course. Ohlies, I've already put them205701:57:43.680 --> 01:57:47.399
in the mail. You get them tomorrow. Thank you, thank205801:57:47.439 --> 01:57:51.640
you so much. Oh here you are, Wilfrid.205901:57:52.239 --> 01:57:56.000
Where have you been backstairs? I dismissed the servants.206001:57:56.880 --> 01:58:00.359
Dismiss the servants. But I've asked some friends of mine206101:58:00.399 --> 01:58:02.840
into a farewell tea. Go and tell them it's mistake.206201:58:02.960 --> 01:58:05.159
I'm fait it's too late now they've packed and gone.206301:58:05.239 --> 01:58:08.039
You have missed things up properly. How many times have206401:58:08.119 --> 01:58:09.239
I told you to leave things to me?206501:58:09.399 --> 01:58:09.960
I make the.206601:58:09.920 --> 01:58:12.680
Plans around here, Yes, hermione, You'll have to do better206701:58:12.720 --> 01:58:14.279
than this when I plan the trip home, or we'll206801:58:14.279 --> 01:58:16.720
never in the world be back here for the holidays, back.206901:58:16.560 --> 01:58:18.199
Here for the holidays, back here for the holidays.207001:58:18.239 --> 01:58:20.880
Must keep saying that, why not, we are coming back207101:58:20.920 --> 01:58:21.880
for the holidays, aren't we?207201:58:21.960 --> 01:58:24.279
I supposing I've offered a professorship in one of those207301:58:24.319 --> 01:58:25.720
wealthy American universities.207401:58:25.800 --> 01:58:28.640
Nonsense. Americans care nothing for botany.207501:58:29.319 --> 01:58:30.760
Luther Burbank was an American.207601:58:30.880 --> 01:58:34.319
That's different. What have you ever done except knock around207701:58:34.319 --> 01:58:36.359
in the dirt with a lot of roots and tubers.207801:58:36.640 --> 01:58:39.920
They asked me to lecture. That means something, of course.207901:58:39.640 --> 01:58:42.439
They ask you to lecture. Americans will pay to here208001:58:42.479 --> 01:58:46.319
any foreigner deliver a lecture once. Now, there's no use208101:58:46.319 --> 01:58:48.920
getting yourself in a state about this, wilfriend. No doubt208201:58:49.000 --> 01:58:51.640
this extra money will come in very handy when we arrived.208301:58:51.399 --> 01:58:52.800
Back for the holidays.208401:58:53.520 --> 01:58:57.079
Decisely, and it's no good you are making a joke208501:58:57.119 --> 01:59:00.239
of it. Heaven knows where you'd be today if I208601:59:00.279 --> 01:59:01.800
hadn't got a sense of time.208701:59:02.399 --> 01:59:04.079
Yes, my dear Hermione, And as.208801:59:03.960 --> 01:59:06.840
You've been so foolishus and dismiss the servants, you may208901:59:06.840 --> 01:59:08.840
empty the ashtrays and straighten up this room. How we're209001:59:08.880 --> 01:59:11.399
waiting for the guests to arrive. I'm going upstairs to209101:59:11.520 --> 01:59:13.479
change only when they get here.209201:59:13.680 --> 01:59:27.720
Yes, Miami, Mariam, it's wilfred No, my Donny, nothing's wrong.209301:59:27.760 --> 01:59:31.199
My plans are the same, and less you've changed. No,209401:59:33.359 --> 01:59:36.159
we'll meet in New York and get married there. I'll209501:59:36.159 --> 01:59:39.880
explain why later. You'll have to trust me. Yes, yes,209601:59:39.920 --> 01:59:43.960
my Donny. Sorry I can't talk no longer. Yes, I'll209701:59:44.000 --> 01:59:46.279
meet to New York without fail until they might.209801:59:46.359 --> 01:59:49.319
Donny, were you talking on.209901:59:49.279 --> 01:59:50.199
The phone just now?210001:59:50.560 --> 01:59:51.159
Yes, Miami.210101:59:51.520 --> 01:59:55.600
Whoever was it Phy Sinclair?210201:59:55.920 --> 01:59:58.239
Didn't I hear you say something about meeting somebody.210301:59:57.920 --> 01:59:58.359
In New York?210401:59:58.680 --> 02:00:02.079
Yes, Old Freddy said he might possibly get over there210502:00:02.079 --> 02:00:04.800
before we leave. I should, of course we meet him there.210602:00:04.800 --> 02:00:06.000
If he did decide to go.210702:00:06.079 --> 02:00:08.359
It seems very peculiar, But then all of your friends210802:00:08.359 --> 02:00:10.600
are peculiar, yes, Hawaianne. I just look at your jacket.210902:00:10.640 --> 02:00:12.039
Have you been digging in that cellar again?211002:00:12.159 --> 02:00:12.399
Yes?211102:00:12.520 --> 02:00:15.920
Man, well there's no need for it. You can't possibly211202:00:15.960 --> 02:00:19.079
get that Devil's garden thing finished. Go and change your211302:00:19.079 --> 02:00:21.680
clothes before the guests arrive. Yes, oh, never mind, I211402:00:21.720 --> 02:00:22.840
see somebody coming up the walk.211502:00:22.880 --> 02:00:26.640
Now go and let them in, Yesmione, Wilfred, Yes, my dear.211602:00:26.800 --> 02:00:29.520
Look out the window. There's Professor and missus. Goodenough, But211702:00:29.520 --> 02:00:35.640
who's that with him? Precisely Freddison Claire Hulu. You should211802:00:35.640 --> 02:00:36.960
have been talking to him on the phone not three211902:00:36.960 --> 02:00:39.800
minutes ago, and now here he is.212002:00:38.960 --> 02:00:39.359
Isn't it.212102:00:40.760 --> 02:00:44.359
But then, as you say, Hamie, all my friends are peculiar.212202:00:44.319 --> 02:00:47.159
Not half so peculiar as you digging in the cellar212302:00:47.199 --> 02:00:50.039
an hour before we leave for America. Just look at yourself,212402:00:50.760 --> 02:00:53.680
and now that I think of it, yes, Hamionny, Oh212502:00:53.760 --> 02:00:54.800
never mind, go and let them in.212602:00:55.439 --> 02:00:58.399
No, you're going to ask me something the whole I'm212702:00:58.399 --> 02:00:59.159
digging in the cellar.212802:00:59.439 --> 02:01:02.319
Oh good heaven, stop rolling your eyes about that way.212902:01:02.359 --> 02:01:04.359
One would think you were digging a grave down there213002:01:04.399 --> 02:01:05.640
instead of a storage bin.213102:01:06.159 --> 02:01:08.399
Yes, Hamione, what's that?213202:01:09.479 --> 02:01:09.800
I said?213302:01:09.840 --> 02:01:10.520
Yes, o'mione.213402:01:11.359 --> 02:01:14.359
Oh bar the open the door and stop saying yes o'mione.213502:01:16.680 --> 02:01:20.319
I think, my dear, I've said it for the last time.213602:01:30.640 --> 02:01:34.119
For suspense. Auto light is bringing you, mister Herbert Marshall213702:01:34.560 --> 02:01:38.399
in radio's outstanding Theater of thrills suspense.213802:01:45.159 --> 02:01:47.600
Well, halp, what kind of presents are you giving your213902:01:47.680 --> 02:01:48.640
car this Christmas?214002:01:48.800 --> 02:01:50.640
My car would now be sensible.214102:01:50.920 --> 02:01:53.520
I am being sensible have because the most sensible thing214202:01:53.560 --> 02:01:55.560
every car owner can do is treat his car to214302:01:55.640 --> 02:01:58.760
auto light preventive service and auto light factory parts. Now214402:01:59.119 --> 02:02:02.119
right now it does for with an auto light check up.214502:02:02.159 --> 02:02:04.520
Now your car won't let you down later. Here we go.214602:02:04.680 --> 02:02:07.960
Look look half auto light parts our original factory parts214702:02:08.000 --> 02:02:10.479
on many makes of our finest cars, the same as214802:02:10.479 --> 02:02:12.680
those put in the car the day it was made. Resistor,214902:02:12.720 --> 02:02:16.800
spark plug, stay full, batteries, generators, distributors, starting motors, coils,215002:02:16.800 --> 02:02:20.239
wire and cable. Your car uses them all. Auto light215102:02:20.359 --> 02:02:22.960
makes them all. You know, auto light parts and your215202:02:22.960 --> 02:02:26.079
auto light equipped car go together. Like Damon and pitheis215302:02:26.119 --> 02:02:28.720
like Duncan and Fife, Like Chip and Dale. What's one215402:02:28.760 --> 02:02:29.319
without the other?215502:02:29.439 --> 02:02:30.199
Chip and Dale?215602:02:30.279 --> 02:02:32.720
So don't accept parts that are supposed to be as215702:02:32.760 --> 02:02:35.760
good get auto light parts for auto light parts are215802:02:35.800 --> 02:02:38.760
built for your car, Sata's car, everybody's car.215902:02:38.920 --> 02:02:42.439
Hello, you're wonderful. Why you've got send and everybody switching216002:02:42.439 --> 02:02:43.079
to autoline.216102:02:43.119 --> 02:02:46.239
So friends, follow the footsteps of Dasher, Dancer, Dunder and216202:02:46.279 --> 02:02:49.039
Blitzen and whip on down to your nearest autolite service216302:02:49.039 --> 02:02:51.279
station or the dealer who sells your make of car216402:02:51.560 --> 02:02:54.439
and ask for original factory parts and service.216502:02:54.479 --> 02:02:59.920
Okay, Harlow right, now here suspends, and now auto Light216602:03:00.079 --> 02:03:03.920
brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, mister Herbert Marshall,216702:03:04.239 --> 02:03:08.399
starring in a gripping tale well calculated to keep you216802:03:08.520 --> 02:03:09.920
in suspense.216902:03:21.560 --> 02:03:25.640
Back for the holidays. Hermione was so positive, and we'll217002:03:25.680 --> 02:03:29.079
be back for the holidays. That last afternoon, pouring tea217102:03:29.119 --> 02:03:30.760
for a few friends who'll come in to say last217202:03:30.760 --> 02:03:32.680
minute farewell, She kept reiterating it.217302:03:32.800 --> 02:03:35.199
Now, mind you were man, you don't get those Americans217402:03:35.279 --> 02:03:38.119
law your husband with one of their fat university jobs.217502:03:38.359 --> 02:03:40.680
We absolutely must have you with us for the holidays.217602:03:40.720 --> 02:03:42.119
He will be back. I promise.217702:03:42.319 --> 02:03:44.600
It's not absolutely certain, of course, wil What.217802:03:44.560 --> 02:03:46.720
Do you mean it's not certain? Of course, it's certain.217902:03:46.800 --> 02:03:49.760
After all, Wilfred, our boy, you've contracted to lecture for218002:03:49.800 --> 02:03:51.000
only two months, that's right.218102:03:51.079 --> 02:03:52.399
But then, of course anything may happen.218202:03:52.439 --> 02:03:56.960
Oh Wilfrid adores being unpredictable. Now what other men would218302:03:56.960 --> 02:04:01.079
decide the very day, mind you, before leaving for America218402:04:01.199 --> 02:04:03.960
to dig a great hole in the floor of the cellar.218502:04:04.000 --> 02:04:07.479
In the cellar, Yes, he's going to put some unclassified218602:04:07.680 --> 02:04:11.720
wild orchids down there, a devil's garden, if you please. Oh,218702:04:11.800 --> 02:04:16.079
my son, so mysterious. That's Wilfrid. Though it's really quite218802:04:16.159 --> 02:04:18.880
simple once you find out what he's up to. Now218902:04:18.920 --> 02:04:20.560
take that telephone call he put through to you a219002:04:20.640 --> 02:04:23.720
few minutes before you arrive, Freddy to me, of course,219102:04:24.079 --> 02:04:26.560
Wilfred wanted to surprise me about your plan to meet219202:04:26.600 --> 02:04:28.680
us in New York next month. Wasn't that why he219302:04:28.760 --> 02:04:30.520
called to ask you not to mention it?219402:04:30.800 --> 02:04:31.920
My dear Hermiami.219502:04:32.119 --> 02:04:35.119
Wilfrid couldn't possibly have telephoned me within the past star,219602:04:35.520 --> 02:04:37.439
I've been walking in the park since three.219702:04:37.920 --> 02:04:39.479
He didn't telephone you, How could he?219802:04:39.840 --> 02:04:42.119
And there's her my going to America. No, I not comforted.219902:04:42.159 --> 02:04:44.319
You may as well own up Hermione. Has found me220002:04:44.319 --> 02:04:46.079
out again. But Wilfred ol' chap.220102:04:46.199 --> 02:04:49.600
I really don't you see what a poor liar Wilfrid makes.220202:04:49.680 --> 02:04:52.600
He's as red as a beach. Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Professor,220302:04:52.840 --> 02:04:55.840
stringing poor Hermione along like that it has for you, Freddy,220402:04:55.920 --> 02:04:59.039
I'm furious you said nothing to us about going to America.220502:04:59.119 --> 02:05:02.359
Look here, old girl, I've been trying to tell everyone.220602:05:02.039 --> 02:05:06.279
Here, Oh, stuff and nonsense. The game's gone on long enough. Besides,220702:05:06.479 --> 02:05:09.479
we must start getting ready. It was marvelous of all220802:05:09.479 --> 02:05:12.039
of you to come in to say goodbye, and don't220902:05:12.079 --> 02:05:15.640
worry about Wilfrid's little jokes. I will bring him back221002:05:15.680 --> 02:05:18.439
for the holidays. You may rely on it.221102:05:21.239 --> 02:05:24.239
They all believed her for Yeah, she'd been promising me221202:05:24.279 --> 02:05:27.640
for dinner parties, garden parties, committees, and the promises had221302:05:27.680 --> 02:05:30.920
always been kept. This time they wouldn't be. I'd seem221402:05:30.960 --> 02:05:34.520
to that the servants were gone for good. The farewells221502:05:34.520 --> 02:05:37.000
all said. I had time to the minute. How long221602:05:37.000 --> 02:05:38.119
it would take to fit in the hole in the221702:05:38.199 --> 02:05:43.079
cellar my devil's garden upstairs in the bedroom, my unbreast221802:05:43.119 --> 02:05:46.720
folded my clothes over a chair, put on my old bathrobe.221902:05:46.760 --> 02:05:50.920
Then I opened the door into her min his room. Hermione,222002:05:50.960 --> 02:05:51.960
have you a moment to spare?222102:05:52.600 --> 02:05:54.359
Of course here, I'm just finished.222202:05:54.359 --> 02:05:56.079
Then come in here for a moment. There's something rather222302:05:56.119 --> 02:05:57.000
extraordinary here.222402:05:57.600 --> 02:06:00.359
Oh, good heavens, Wilfrid. What are you lounging it that222502:06:00.479 --> 02:06:02.720
fills the old bathroom for? I told you to put222602:06:02.760 --> 02:06:03.479
it into the furnace.222702:06:03.520 --> 02:06:05.359
I'll do it today, Yes, I very will, I promise.222802:06:05.520 --> 02:06:08.359
Well, high time. Now what is it you want to show?222902:06:08.520 --> 02:06:09.920
This is in the bathroom here?223002:06:10.319 --> 02:06:10.800
Just look?223102:06:11.840 --> 02:06:14.079
Who in the world is supposed dropt the gold chain223202:06:14.199 --> 02:06:15.279
down the bathtub grain?223302:06:15.600 --> 02:06:18.039
Nobody has, of course, nobody wears such a thing.223402:06:18.479 --> 02:06:19.680
Then what's it doing in the then?223502:06:20.560 --> 02:06:22.159
Well, I don't see anything here.223602:06:23.159 --> 02:06:26.039
I don't hold this flash lad for you. If you've223702:06:26.000 --> 02:06:27.960
been right over, you can see it shining deep down.223802:06:28.079 --> 02:06:32.159
Such a lot of nonsense. Just as well, I don't223902:06:32.199 --> 02:06:33.000
see it, Wilfred.224002:06:33.119 --> 02:06:34.079
Go I'm looking Hermione.224102:06:35.119 --> 02:06:38.800
In just the moment, Wilfred, I absolutely refuse, Wilfred, what.224202:06:38.760 --> 02:06:39.239
Are you doing?224302:06:39.840 --> 02:06:41.039
Take your hands off my neck?224402:06:41.119 --> 02:06:42.800
I will Harmione. Just as soon as I finished the224502:06:42.880 --> 02:06:45.119
arrangements for my trip to America, what are you talking224602:06:45.119 --> 02:06:46.920
about You thought we were the only one who could224702:06:46.920 --> 02:06:49.920
plan things into Hermione. Well, I've been making some plans224802:06:49.920 --> 02:06:52.199
of my owness past week. In exactly one minute and224902:06:52.239 --> 02:06:54.880
forty five seconds. Who we did, you see? I've planned225002:06:54.920 --> 02:06:55.720
it very accurately.225102:06:56.279 --> 02:06:57.600
You'll never get away with it.225202:06:57.920 --> 02:07:00.199
I thought you'd say that, Hermione. But I will get225302:07:00.199 --> 02:07:02.560
away with it. You won't mind the smell of the225402:07:02.640 --> 02:07:03.920
leaf bowl down on the cellar when.225502:07:03.840 --> 02:07:04.960
I take you down there today.225602:07:05.560 --> 02:07:08.680
Yes, that's why you're going, Hamione, into my devil's garden.225702:07:08.720 --> 02:07:09.840
That annoyed you so much.225802:07:10.359 --> 02:07:13.520
My friends they all expect me back for the holidays,225902:07:13.760 --> 02:07:16.119
and if I don't come back, they'll start asking questions.226002:07:16.119 --> 02:07:19.119
Now they want no, because you'll write them letters, HAMIONI226102:07:19.159 --> 02:07:22.479
I'm the typewriters you always do. They'll be signed H226202:07:22.520 --> 02:07:24.960
in that need cryptic way you always sign your notes226302:07:25.000 --> 02:07:25.520
to your friends.226402:07:25.560 --> 02:07:27.279
Oh, let me up.226502:07:27.359 --> 02:07:31.720
Now, it won't work, Wilfred. You are never any good226602:07:31.720 --> 02:07:32.199
at planning.226702:07:32.520 --> 02:07:35.479
But I've changed. I've learned from watching you all these years.226802:07:35.600 --> 02:07:39.159
Selective people in America. They'll be expecting you to travel226902:07:39.159 --> 02:07:39.720
with your wife.227002:07:39.720 --> 02:07:42.119
I will be traveling with my wife, but not my227102:07:42.199 --> 02:07:46.840
present wife Comione. Fortunately they've never met you. I'll write227202:07:46.840 --> 02:07:49.800
a few letters home for you. Then fewer and fewer.227302:07:50.960 --> 02:07:52.600
I might even come back alone in your Europe to227402:07:52.680 --> 02:07:56.199
and sell the place. Say you died in America. Nobody227502:07:56.199 --> 02:07:58.319
will ever suspect that you're lying under the floor of227602:07:58.399 --> 02:07:59.760
the cellar in this buddy house.227702:08:00.079 --> 02:08:03.279
Well, frigid won't work. I tell you that pit you dug.227802:08:03.039 --> 02:08:04.920
In the cellar, I can assure you, my dear Harmiona,227902:08:04.960 --> 02:08:08.399
it will serve its purpose. Well you must, sorry, dear,228002:08:08.520 --> 02:08:11.239
I've got to get this done. According to pen you228102:08:11.279 --> 02:08:14.159
have just five seconds to say your prayers.228202:08:13.680 --> 02:08:34.000
Where Fred You must listen the seller, don't you, oh Stewart,228302:08:34.439 --> 02:08:36.079
Yes her, my wife is in dispose.228402:08:36.119 --> 02:08:38.600
You'll be taking her meals in hostage frum by the228502:08:38.760 --> 02:08:41.199
whole voyage, Yes, for the whole voyage.228602:08:45.239 --> 02:08:47.279
Well, I trust your wife is feeling better this morning,228702:08:47.279 --> 02:08:48.439
Professor Kavanick.228802:08:48.279 --> 02:08:50.439
A little, yes, thin, not yet well enough to leave228902:08:50.479 --> 02:08:50.880
her cabin.229002:08:51.119 --> 02:08:51.800
I'm sorry.229102:08:52.520 --> 02:08:54.760
Oh, by the way, here's a copy of the radiogram229202:08:54.760 --> 02:08:55.960
you sent for your wife last year.229302:08:56.000 --> 02:09:00.319
All you think you, I'll just check it over, but229402:09:00.439 --> 02:09:05.880
look here, what is it? Did the typists make a mistake? No, No,229502:09:05.960 --> 02:09:13.880
nothing important. She can correct it later. For a moment,229602:09:13.880 --> 02:09:15.720
I had a feeling that Hamiah had been leaning over229702:09:15.760 --> 02:09:19.159
my shoulder again correcting what I had written. She always did.229802:09:21.079 --> 02:09:23.279
I had written a radio brand Professor Goodenough and his229902:09:23.319 --> 02:09:28.760
wife have not been out of cabin the whole beasted trip, Wilfred, Well,230002:09:29.279 --> 02:09:32.159
doubt will be back for the holidays. The copy read230102:09:33.159 --> 02:09:36.079
no doubt will be back for the holidays, exactly what230202:09:36.119 --> 02:09:37.119
Harmione would have written.230302:09:38.800 --> 02:09:39.039
Well.230402:09:40.399 --> 02:09:43.159
The rest of the voyde was uneventful, and Marian and230502:09:43.199 --> 02:09:45.039
I met in New York just as I had planned.230602:09:46.359 --> 02:10:08.560
Just as I had planned, Professor and Missus Carpenter, we230702:10:08.640 --> 02:10:11.279
have reservations, I believe. Oh, yes, we've been expecting you,230802:10:11.399 --> 02:10:12.439
sir boy.230902:10:12.680 --> 02:10:15.680
Yes, sir, thank Professor and Missus Carpenter's luggage up to231002:10:15.720 --> 02:10:16.119
this week.231102:10:17.359 --> 02:10:20.880
You know, Missus Carpenter, you're quite a surprise. A letter231202:10:20.920 --> 02:10:26.000
reserving the rooms was so thorough. I was expecting an older,231302:10:26.039 --> 02:10:27.279
more forbidding sort of person.231402:10:27.319 --> 02:10:30.600
Frankly, ma'am no, as a matter of fact, we are231502:10:30.680 --> 02:10:33.960
just married. But my letter reserving the.231602:10:33.960 --> 02:10:37.159
Room, I wrote the letter my dear and signed Missus231702:10:37.159 --> 02:10:38.720
Wilfred Carpenter, just as a joke.231802:10:39.199 --> 02:10:41.640
What a cunning old fox you are, Wilfrid.231902:10:42.479 --> 02:10:42.920
I am round.232002:10:43.239 --> 02:10:46.479
Oh, I almost forgot a letter for you, missus Carpenter.232102:10:46.880 --> 02:10:47.840
That's peculiar.232202:10:48.199 --> 02:10:49.119
I wonder who wonders.232302:10:49.159 --> 02:10:51.359
Well, we'll find out in good time. No, you come along.232402:10:51.880 --> 02:11:11.199
We're keeping the boy waiting. M like a cold brisk charge.232502:11:11.279 --> 02:11:17.760
But a man writes mm hmmmmmm mm hmmmm hmm mmmm.232602:11:19.359 --> 02:11:20.079
This letter.232702:11:20.239 --> 02:11:24.199
Oh, yes, yes letter, don dye my hair, will you?232802:11:24.560 --> 02:11:25.079
Yes? Dear.232902:11:25.520 --> 02:11:28.000
It seems to be a bill of some sort from233002:11:28.039 --> 02:11:30.600
a building contractor in Sulisbury.233102:11:33.199 --> 02:11:34.720
Oh, buzzard, not your own.233202:11:37.239 --> 02:11:39.720
Let's see this, sir, see this bill or whatever it is.233302:11:40.159 --> 02:11:43.880
It's very puzzling. Wilfred, you were a widower, weren't you.233402:11:44.000 --> 02:11:46.239
I mean Hermione isn't still alive.233502:11:46.279 --> 02:11:53.159
Hope heavens now. Let's have that. Yeah, dear madam, that's233602:11:53.199 --> 02:11:56.680
a good one. This is to acknowledge your order together233702:11:56.760 --> 02:12:01.000
with the keys to your house in lonstant place. Amen,233802:12:01.439 --> 02:12:04.439
have no difficulty in finding the place where your husband233902:12:04.439 --> 02:12:09.039
has begun the excavation in the cellar. But apparently he234002:12:09.159 --> 02:12:11.600
changed his mind at the last moment and filled it234102:12:11.640 --> 02:12:12.000
in again.234202:12:12.399 --> 02:12:12.960
What is it? Wi?234302:12:13.279 --> 02:12:16.359
Our men will begin digging tomorrow. You may rest assured234402:12:16.399 --> 02:12:18.479
that it will be a professional job and will be234502:12:18.600 --> 02:12:21.680
completed in ample time for your surprise Christmas present to234602:12:21.720 --> 02:12:24.960
your husband. We are happy to be conspirators with you234702:12:25.079 --> 02:12:28.399
in this thoughtful gesture and hope that Professor Carpenter will234802:12:28.399 --> 02:12:30.520
be pleased at the results of our work that he234902:12:30.640 --> 02:12:35.520
so quaintly calls his devil's gardener. Read it through to yours,235002:12:36.439 --> 02:12:38.239
Paul Holton's sons compractice.235102:12:42.039 --> 02:12:43.239
What does it mean, Wilfrid.235202:12:43.479 --> 02:12:46.039
It means that a mile it was right.235302:12:47.399 --> 02:12:52.399
I will be back for the holidays, back for the holidays,235402:12:53.319 --> 02:12:57.039
Back for the holidays, Back for the holidays, back for235502:12:57.159 --> 02:12:57.760
the holidays.235602:13:24.000 --> 02:13:28.520
Thank you Herbert Marshall for a splendid performance. Mister Marshall235702:13:28.520 --> 02:13:30.000
will return in just a moment.235802:13:31.439 --> 02:13:34.920
Jingle bells, jingle bell, jingle through the snow.235902:13:35.359 --> 02:13:38.520
Your car's all have bits full of with all all right,236002:13:38.680 --> 02:13:42.920
you know right you are and by Cornelia's electrical problems,236102:13:42.960 --> 02:13:45.560
won't keep your car down when you stop at the236202:13:45.600 --> 02:13:48.760
shop that features auto light parts and service. Sure as236302:13:48.840 --> 02:13:52.239
Chris Kringle means Christmas auto light original factory parts and236402:13:52.399 --> 02:13:56.359
service top the town, So friends stop in tomorrow at236502:13:56.439 --> 02:13:59.279
your friendly auto light service station or the dealer who236602:13:59.359 --> 02:14:02.800
sells your make of car, and ask for original factory236702:14:02.960 --> 02:14:04.439
parts and service.236802:14:06.319 --> 02:14:06.800
Auto light.236902:14:07.319 --> 02:14:10.479
You'll find auto light service stations listed in your classified237002:14:10.520 --> 02:14:15.399
telephone directory under Automotive electrical Equipment. And remember your auto237102:14:15.439 --> 02:14:18.079
light ignition system is the lifeline of your car.237202:14:18.399 --> 02:14:22.479
Yes, friends, and remember too, auto light means spark plugs,237302:14:22.600 --> 02:14:25.039
ignition engineered resistor, spark plug.237402:14:25.319 --> 02:14:28.319
Auto light means batteries, say full batteries.237502:14:28.680 --> 02:14:32.520
Auto light means ignition systems the lifeline of your car.237602:14:41.560 --> 02:14:44.560
Well, my dear, I know it's getting a bit late,237702:14:44.680 --> 02:14:48.960
but you seems about as chipper as I did. Well,237802:14:49.119 --> 02:14:52.199
it might be ironic to refer to myself as full237902:14:52.239 --> 02:14:54.680
of life. I'll extend that to you.238002:14:56.039 --> 02:14:56.359
What's that?238102:14:56.800 --> 02:14:56.960
Oh?238202:14:57.159 --> 02:15:00.239
Of course, of course, another log on the fire. I238302:15:00.399 --> 02:15:04.880
lose track of time so easily these days. Well, I238402:15:05.000 --> 02:15:08.479
believe we have time for one more. And let's make238502:15:08.560 --> 02:15:12.680
it a real doozy, as they say, something to really238602:15:12.960 --> 02:15:17.880
sink your teeth into something that encapsulates so much about238702:15:17.920 --> 02:15:22.199
the season of giving and good cheers. The kettle is238802:15:22.239 --> 02:15:27.840
on the stoves, hot cocoa is eminent. And now for238902:15:27.960 --> 02:15:30.079
the Terrifying Gift.239002:15:41.359 --> 02:15:41.720
Come in.239102:15:44.479 --> 02:15:46.079
Welcome. I'm e. G.239202:15:46.319 --> 02:15:51.800
Marshall mention the second sight, forecasting the future, fortune telling239302:15:52.640 --> 02:15:57.600
and what springs to mind the gypsy gets. Strangely enough,239402:15:58.079 --> 02:16:02.000
the gypsy himself or herself would tell you that fortune239502:16:02.039 --> 02:16:05.600
telling is a gimmick, not an any talent or a gift.239602:16:06.319 --> 02:16:08.760
For the truth here, if there is such a thing,239702:16:09.560 --> 02:16:11.439
it could only be a curse.239802:16:12.720 --> 02:16:20.520
You can escape your faith. It is not terminated your239902:16:20.840 --> 02:16:27.239
don or ruse your life. You have to continue to240002:16:27.560 --> 02:16:35.079
service it as long as you. You cannot die till240102:16:35.200 --> 02:16:39.360
you pass it on to your daughter, and to your240202:16:39.680 --> 02:16:44.520
daughter's daughter, and to have daughter.240302:16:53.479 --> 02:16:57.559
Our mystery drama The Terrifying Gift was written especially for240402:16:57.680 --> 02:17:00.879
the Mystery theater by Ian Martin stars ROBERTA.240502:17:00.959 --> 02:17:01.399
Maxwell.240602:17:01.920 --> 02:17:03.719
I'll be back shortly with that one.240702:17:19.159 --> 02:17:23.079
Most of us live relatively on eventful lives. Would you,240802:17:23.479 --> 02:17:26.440
if you had a free choice, exchange the safety of240902:17:26.520 --> 02:17:29.399
your day to day life for a magic gift that241002:17:29.479 --> 02:17:33.360
would make you someone incredibly special like no one else241102:17:33.440 --> 02:17:33.879
in the world.241202:17:34.440 --> 02:17:37.440
Before you answer that, let's have a look at Marca.241302:17:37.200 --> 02:17:41.079
Harriet, who never asked to be special, but was selected241402:17:41.120 --> 02:17:43.760
by fate to be granted a boon. Most of us241502:17:43.840 --> 02:17:47.159
would give our eye teeth to possess, or would we241602:17:47.959 --> 02:17:50.799
if we could put ourselves in her shoes?241702:17:54.159 --> 02:17:57.920
Hello, honey, where have you been?241802:17:58.319 --> 02:17:59.479
That's a long story.241902:18:00.000 --> 02:18:01.879
I hope it's a good one. Do you know I've242002:18:01.920 --> 02:18:02.680
been waiting for you.242102:18:03.719 --> 02:18:05.639
At don Something happened.242202:18:05.719 --> 02:18:07.760
Oh I'm not mad for me, just for Sheila.242302:18:08.120 --> 02:18:08.520
Sheila.242402:18:08.840 --> 02:18:09.399
Yeah, you know.242502:18:09.600 --> 02:18:12.000
We promised to be home early tonight to take her242602:18:12.040 --> 02:18:13.600
to the Girl Scout family dinner.242702:18:13.680 --> 02:18:13.799
Oh.242802:18:13.879 --> 02:18:15.319
I know, but I couldn't help.242902:18:15.360 --> 02:18:16.000
What happened?243002:18:16.959 --> 02:18:18.319
What did Are you all right?243102:18:18.600 --> 02:18:18.799
Yes?243202:18:18.959 --> 02:18:19.639
I'm fine.243302:18:19.840 --> 02:18:23.479
Where are you at the station house Precinct eighteen.243402:18:23.319 --> 02:18:25.520
The police station? Martha?243502:18:25.639 --> 02:18:27.600
For hadn don't get excited.243602:18:27.799 --> 02:18:28.440
I'm all right.243702:18:28.639 --> 02:18:29.719
I haven't done anything.243802:18:29.760 --> 02:18:31.399
Well, then, what are you doing at a police station?243902:18:31.520 --> 02:18:33.920
I had to sign more papers, good papers.244002:18:34.239 --> 02:18:36.000
There's nothing to worry about, deary.244102:18:36.600 --> 02:18:38.120
They just had to do with the corpse.244202:18:38.920 --> 02:18:40.280
The corpse, Martha.244302:18:40.360 --> 02:18:41.959
I shouldn't have said it that way.244402:18:42.600 --> 02:18:44.920
She was quite a sweet old lady, even if she.244502:18:45.120 --> 02:18:49.040
Was well strange in the head. Martha, what are you244602:18:49.280 --> 02:18:50.319
talking about.244702:18:50.280 --> 02:18:52.639
About the old lady who died.244802:18:52.520 --> 02:18:53.440
In my arm?244902:18:53.840 --> 02:18:55.639
What old lady who did Oh?245002:18:55.799 --> 02:18:59.760
Just a minute time. What did you say, Lieutenant, Oh, yes,245102:19:00.040 --> 02:19:01.879
of course, then I can go.245202:19:03.840 --> 02:19:07.000
Oh that's fine, Lieutenant Leo said, I can go.245302:19:07.239 --> 02:19:07.360
Now.245402:19:07.799 --> 02:19:10.079
You hop a cab then, and get right down here.245502:19:10.479 --> 02:19:11.000
Some whale.245602:19:11.079 --> 02:19:12.719
Get me there in twenty minutes.245702:19:12.959 --> 02:19:16.799
Okay, meet me at the garage. It's closer. It'll save time.245802:19:23.799 --> 02:19:24.719
Which where are you going?245902:19:25.079 --> 02:19:25.200
Uh?246002:19:25.399 --> 02:19:28.040
Tunnel and under the belt. With any luck, we'll just246102:19:28.159 --> 02:19:28.840
miss the crush.246202:19:29.000 --> 02:19:31.559
I'm sorry I kept it so late. Never mind that246302:19:31.799 --> 02:19:35.559
what happened to you, it's all so crazy that, looking246402:19:35.639 --> 02:19:38.719
back on it, I can't really believe it did. The246502:19:38.840 --> 02:19:41.479
whole thing is so silly, except for that poor old lady.246602:19:43.479 --> 02:19:45.360
I guess I might as well begin at the beginning.246702:19:45.840 --> 02:19:48.159
Fine, now this time, go right on to the end.246802:19:48.440 --> 02:19:49.319
Please, yes.246902:19:50.440 --> 02:19:52.920
Well, when I left you, I did some shopping.247002:19:53.479 --> 02:19:55.959
Then I got to my lunch and appointment with Julie Sands,247102:19:56.360 --> 02:19:58.440
and she brought a niece of hers along. Who's going247202:19:58.479 --> 02:19:59.440
to Duke University?247302:20:00.120 --> 02:20:02.479
Can we do without all the irrelevant details?247402:20:02.559 --> 02:20:03.319
Ah, but they're not.247502:20:04.520 --> 02:20:08.760
This niece was a very peculiar sort of girl, but fascinating.247602:20:09.159 --> 02:20:10.879
First of all, I was a bit miffed that she247702:20:11.000 --> 02:20:14.399
dominated the conversation. But then it got sort of interesting.247802:20:14.879 --> 02:20:15.559
What was it about?247902:20:16.159 --> 02:20:20.799
Oh, it was about esp ESP you.248002:20:20.920 --> 02:20:25.959
Know, extra sensory perception, mind reading, clairvoyants, that sort of thing.248102:20:26.600 --> 02:20:29.239
This girl is a serious student on a scholarship.248202:20:29.319 --> 02:20:31.399
Grand So how did you get arrested?248302:20:31.680 --> 02:20:33.040
I didn't get arrested.248402:20:33.200 --> 02:20:34.639
He ended up at the police station.248502:20:34.799 --> 02:20:41.239
If you just listen, i'd explain. Well, after lunch, it248602:20:41.360 --> 02:20:44.319
was still too early to meet you. So I started248702:20:44.360 --> 02:20:47.079
wandering window shopping, thinking of all the things that kid248802:20:47.120 --> 02:20:49.559
had said. When all of a sudden, I spotted this248902:20:49.680 --> 02:20:53.479
little shop with signora buonafortuna written across the top of249002:20:53.559 --> 02:20:59.719
the window. Know your future private readings, reasonable prices come in.249102:21:00.280 --> 02:21:03.239
You went to a fortune time for crying out loud?249202:21:03.440 --> 02:21:06.000
Well, I had some time to kill and it was249302:21:06.079 --> 02:21:08.239
the kind of thing we've been talking about at lunch,249402:21:08.440 --> 02:21:17.920
and I was curious, and so h yes, I couldn't249502:21:18.000 --> 02:21:23.680
help myself. I was drawn to it. I opened the door.249602:21:26.879 --> 02:21:31.440
There was a little old lady sitting the oldest person249702:21:31.600 --> 02:21:37.600
I've ever seen. You wish a reading? I don't know.249802:21:37.760 --> 02:21:42.000
I was just curious, for who is not curious about249902:21:42.159 --> 02:21:49.200
what the future? Holes come closer, child, I'm not really sure.250002:21:49.239 --> 02:21:59.319
I want to all you're very pretty, yay, Reilana. Let250102:21:59.559 --> 02:22:01.479
me see the hands please, and.250202:22:01.760 --> 02:22:09.639
Maybe I'll change my mind. I don't really know, Madam Senora.250302:22:10.079 --> 02:22:14.920
Are you all right? I should have long.250402:22:16.479 --> 02:22:21.680
He would send you at last, he who would send250502:22:21.799 --> 02:22:32.479
the good Lord who watches over us auld Louisa, welcome home.250602:22:33.639 --> 02:22:38.440
Look, please let me go. My name isn't Louisa. It's250702:22:38.639 --> 02:22:50.440
Martha Harriet. Or your name is Louisa Alberni Bona Fortua. No, please,250802:22:51.239 --> 02:22:53.959
my husband is waiting for me, and so you took250902:22:54.120 --> 02:22:57.680
the name of your husband. But before that, before that,251002:22:57.920 --> 02:23:02.520
my name was Martha Banks, and before that it was251102:23:03.079 --> 02:23:10.639
Louisa Bonafortola. Now you listen to me. I tell you251202:23:10.879 --> 02:23:16.360
the truth. There is only proof for all year. I'm251302:23:16.479 --> 02:23:21.840
not this Louisa, whoever she was, she was my granddaughter251402:23:22.920 --> 02:23:29.239
that I have not seen in thirty years. Now, I'm sorry.251502:23:29.559 --> 02:23:30.200
Did she die?251602:23:30.799 --> 02:23:31.760
I never knew?251702:23:32.319 --> 02:23:32.680
Please?251802:23:33.399 --> 02:23:38.360
Please, you must not be afraid. I am an old woman,251902:23:39.360 --> 02:23:47.079
sick and dying, and I have a gift for you.252002:23:47.680 --> 02:23:48.520
No, not for me.252102:23:48.760 --> 02:23:55.559
I'm now I can die in the peace. I never252202:23:55.799 --> 02:23:56.959
thought to find.252302:24:02.280 --> 02:24:03.200
Your mother.252402:24:04.760 --> 02:24:12.360
Was Sophia Theresa, My daughter. You never knew her, just252502:24:12.600 --> 02:24:18.319
as no one ever knew your father. So he was wild,252602:24:19.399 --> 02:24:23.479
head strong. When she found that she was carrying you,252702:24:24.680 --> 02:24:29.360
she waited to bring you into the world, but she252802:24:29.559 --> 02:24:36.000
never wanted you. So when you were six months old,252902:24:36.280 --> 02:24:43.440
without my knowing, she told you so. There are always253002:24:44.200 --> 02:24:48.559
people who want to adopt a baby who know. Avocato253102:24:48.680 --> 02:24:53.239
arranged it for her, and she went back to the253202:24:53.440 --> 02:24:57.840
old life. You couldn't stop her. I didn't, not till253302:24:58.719 --> 02:25:04.959
too late. My husband, he was very sick. I had253402:25:05.040 --> 02:25:10.840
to take care of him. He died just after what253502:25:11.440 --> 02:25:19.399
happened to your daughter. God burnished her. She was killed253602:25:20.079 --> 02:25:26.079
by the car in a crash. The same night my253702:25:26.559 --> 02:25:31.200
Powerloh died. I buried them both together.253802:25:31.760 --> 02:25:35.120
How tragic you've been all along this year.253902:25:36.120 --> 02:25:43.079
I had my work. Ill don't know that keep me alive.254002:25:43.959 --> 02:25:50.399
Ill don't know the gift the second sight. But surely254102:25:50.440 --> 02:25:54.920
if you can see into the future, you, I mean,254202:25:55.040 --> 02:25:57.840
couldn't you have tried to stop these things from happening.254302:25:58.040 --> 02:26:02.120
It is not permitted for the one no will don't254402:26:02.239 --> 02:26:07.479
know to know what is to come to her or254502:26:07.559 --> 02:26:10.079
to those of her blood.254602:26:10.760 --> 02:26:17.879
Oh, I see, it's been a long lonely time, Louisa,254702:26:19.040 --> 02:26:20.799
But now you are bad.254802:26:22.399 --> 02:26:27.799
I can die in peace, yes, but I'm not, Louisa,254902:26:28.399 --> 02:26:31.159
And if you forgive me, I really must leave. No,255002:26:32.559 --> 02:26:37.600
not until I pass on. Ill don't. No, it is255102:26:37.879 --> 02:26:38.879
yours now.255202:26:39.760 --> 02:26:41.159
I know I can't accept that.255302:26:41.280 --> 02:26:47.200
I know you must. Since the ancientse it has been255402:26:47.479 --> 02:26:52.319
fast on from mother to daughter to the last remaining255502:26:52.680 --> 02:26:58.799
girl child. The chain cannot be broken. The holder of255602:26:59.079 --> 02:27:06.600
this gift can never die until she can bestowed on255702:27:07.040 --> 02:27:09.840
the follow up. But it wouldn't be any good to give.255802:27:09.760 --> 02:27:10.120
It to me.255902:27:10.520 --> 02:27:13.000
I'm not the person you think I am, and I256002:27:13.159 --> 02:27:13.719
don't want it.256102:27:13.799 --> 02:27:21.639
You cannot refuse. You must carry the burden now, Louisa,256202:27:22.799 --> 02:27:26.920
how Darney bornow for fooa.256302:27:27.879 --> 02:27:28.360
To you?256402:27:29.079 --> 02:27:30.079
I gave.256502:27:31.399 --> 02:27:33.840
A dove, okay.256602:27:34.639 --> 02:27:38.680
Senora, Senora, Oh dear lord.256702:27:39.959 --> 02:27:40.680
Now what do I do?256802:27:42.680 --> 02:27:43.959
What am I going to do?256902:27:46.239 --> 02:27:50.079
That's quite a story, honey, What did you do? Well?257002:27:50.120 --> 02:27:53.000
I just couldn't leave her. She was dead, I thought so,257102:27:53.799 --> 02:27:54.799
but I couldn't be certain.257202:27:55.399 --> 02:27:58.719
I called that emergency police number and the police came257302:27:58.799 --> 02:28:02.000
and they, well, you know this nice lieutenant asked if257402:28:02.000 --> 02:28:03.760
I could come over to the police station and just257502:28:03.840 --> 02:28:05.239
make a statement of what happened.257602:28:05.520 --> 02:28:07.840
You didn't tell him to kock an Amy's story about257702:28:07.840 --> 02:28:08.479
her thinking you.257802:28:08.520 --> 02:28:10.319
Were her blong lost grandchild.257902:28:10.520 --> 02:28:13.639
No, I just said I was a customer, and that258002:28:13.719 --> 02:28:18.280
while we were talking she had this seizure and she died.258102:28:19.479 --> 02:28:20.959
I can't get her out of my mind.258202:28:21.559 --> 02:28:23.879
I hope you don't believe all that malachey she fad258302:28:23.920 --> 02:28:27.920
you about the gift. Of course I don't, even though258402:28:28.000 --> 02:28:30.920
your lunch companion have convinced you there is.258502:28:31.040 --> 02:28:32.319
That's a thing your second size.258602:28:32.879 --> 02:28:34.600
Even if there is, she couldn't have passed it on258702:28:34.719 --> 02:28:35.399
to me, since.258802:28:35.200 --> 02:28:38.799
I'm not her granddaughter, Sir, pity in a way might258902:28:38.879 --> 02:28:39.520
come in handy.259002:28:40.360 --> 02:28:44.079
I mean, you wouldn't like to try to close your eyes.259102:28:44.680 --> 02:28:48.399
See if you could project to a poor but honest stockbroker.259202:28:47.840 --> 02:28:50.559
What's going to happen in the market tomorrow, Like say259302:28:50.879 --> 02:28:51.760
kennebuck Cole.259402:28:52.200 --> 02:28:55.440
You know I don't know anything about the market. Now,259502:28:55.559 --> 02:28:58.000
come on, oh, let's drop this whole subject.259602:28:58.120 --> 02:28:58.600
Get home.259702:28:59.079 --> 02:29:01.799
Sheila will be chewing her nails, thinking we're going to259802:29:01.879 --> 02:29:02.680
disappoint her.259902:29:12.239 --> 02:29:17.079
Do you want anything before I turn out the light? No, darling, Ah,260002:29:18.559 --> 02:29:21.440
it was a nice night, huh, Sheila was happy. Yes,260102:29:21.639 --> 02:29:27.040
she's growing up so fast. I wish what Martha.260202:29:28.639 --> 02:29:30.920
I wish we could have more children one or so?260302:29:31.680 --> 02:29:34.840
Oh so fragile. An extension of us of what we are.260402:29:35.239 --> 02:29:38.159
Yeah, we've been down this road too often before, Darling.260502:29:39.319 --> 02:29:40.319
We can always adopt.260602:29:40.479 --> 02:29:41.200
Is that what you want?260702:29:41.399 --> 02:29:41.440
No?260802:29:41.639 --> 02:29:41.799
Why?260902:29:43.000 --> 02:29:45.879
I just want to protect ro Oh.261002:29:47.559 --> 02:29:47.920
What is it?261102:29:48.040 --> 02:29:48.200
Dear?261202:29:49.799 --> 02:29:51.319
H Okay.261302:29:51.680 --> 02:29:53.479
Stennett wanted to.261402:29:53.479 --> 02:29:56.239
Pick up Sheila with Penny tomorrow afternoon and drive them261502:29:56.319 --> 02:29:58.319
to ride to the amusement party.261602:29:59.440 --> 02:29:59.799
Why not.261702:30:02.079 --> 02:30:05.159
Sounds like fun? I don't know.261802:30:06.319 --> 02:30:09.520
Sheila has an exam coming up. I think I'm going261902:30:09.600 --> 02:30:10.360
to lower the boom.262002:30:11.239 --> 02:30:12.600
You know whatever you said? Done?262102:30:12.680 --> 02:30:13.040
You are?262202:30:14.639 --> 02:30:15.319
You run the home?262302:30:15.440 --> 02:30:15.680
Shit?262402:30:16.520 --> 02:30:19.639
You don't think I'm being too mm hmm.262502:30:22.200 --> 02:30:23.000
Okay for you.262602:30:24.600 --> 02:30:28.120
Or whatever anyone else thinks. I'm not going to let262702:30:28.239 --> 02:30:41.520
she look go with k Hello, Oh, Amelia, this is262802:30:41.600 --> 02:30:45.799
missus Harriet. Could I speak to missus Stennett? Please? What262902:30:48.200 --> 02:30:51.280
when on the way back from play land?263002:30:52.879 --> 02:30:53.079
Oh?263102:30:54.360 --> 02:30:58.680
Well, how how serious? They were sideswiped by a truck?263202:31:00.079 --> 02:31:01.920
Kay is all right, but.263302:31:03.079 --> 02:31:03.600
Kenny is.263402:31:05.239 --> 02:31:11.719
Did Oh how awful? Oh yes, yes, I'll contact the263502:31:11.799 --> 02:31:17.079
hospital myself. I saw the whole accident in my mind.263602:31:19.040 --> 02:31:21.639
Oh Lord, I didn't let my little Sheila go along?263702:31:23.520 --> 02:31:25.079
But could I have stopped it?263802:31:26.680 --> 02:31:30.280
Did I really know it was going to happen?263902:31:37.399 --> 02:31:41.000
Now here is an intriguing circumstance. Is the death of264002:31:41.079 --> 02:31:45.360
her daughter's playmate a quite natural coincidence? Or did Martha264102:31:45.799 --> 02:31:48.879
really have a prescient knowledge that disaster hovered over the264202:31:48.920 --> 02:31:52.000
trick to play lud? Was it just a lucky hunch264302:31:52.479 --> 02:31:55.399
that saved her daughter? Or has she really been given264402:31:55.440 --> 02:32:00.719
the gift? Can she now read the future? Returned shortly264502:32:00.799 --> 02:32:18.440
with that too? If you were offered the privilege of264602:32:18.559 --> 02:32:21.559
looking down the long tunnel of the future, would you264702:32:21.680 --> 02:32:25.719
accept it? There are obvious advantages. You could put every264802:32:25.799 --> 02:32:28.319
cent you owned on the long shot that would make264902:32:28.360 --> 02:32:31.959
you a millionaire. But one of the obverse side of265002:32:32.000 --> 02:32:34.879
the coin a vision of the obituary column in the265102:32:34.959 --> 02:32:38.399
next day's edition of the paper or next month's listing,265202:32:38.920 --> 02:32:42.319
your husband, your child, or even yourself.265302:32:43.239 --> 02:32:44.840
Would you really want this knowledge?265402:32:47.079 --> 02:32:47.680
Hi, Martha?265502:32:49.520 --> 02:32:50.159
How was your day?265602:32:50.520 --> 02:32:50.879
Rugged?265702:32:51.239 --> 02:32:51.959
Oh what happened?265802:32:52.040 --> 02:32:54.239
Let's get out of this rat race before we talk.265902:32:55.040 --> 02:32:56.079
Oh you got me worried?266002:32:56.360 --> 02:33:00.479
N that's nothing compared to the stew i'men how was266102:33:00.520 --> 02:33:01.479
your day breadwinning?266202:33:01.600 --> 02:33:04.440
Hey, super one of the best days of my life,266302:33:04.799 --> 02:33:08.120
thanks to you, thanks to me, well, sort of obliquely.266402:33:08.680 --> 02:33:11.239
Remember I was kidding about Kennebuck coal.266502:33:12.840 --> 02:33:13.159
Stock.266602:33:13.239 --> 02:33:15.440
I oh, yes, well guess what.266702:33:15.840 --> 02:33:18.680
I followed my hunch and sold it short this afternoon266802:33:18.799 --> 02:33:21.639
it went south, went south, you have the bottom fell266902:33:21.680 --> 02:33:23.479
out of it, went down ten points.267002:33:23.200 --> 02:33:28.239
By closing, by tomorrow, hit the floor. We are very lucky, honey.267102:33:28.280 --> 02:33:29.399
We stand and make a bundle.267202:33:30.239 --> 02:33:34.159
Oh no, mmm, do you say something?267302:33:35.479 --> 02:33:40.280
I just don't feel very well. Would you mind driving?267402:33:40.520 --> 02:33:40.719
Hum?267502:33:40.879 --> 02:33:43.120
Of course not. But what is it?267602:33:44.079 --> 02:33:45.479
I'll tell you when I get home.267702:33:51.280 --> 02:33:52.760
You saw the accident.267802:33:52.840 --> 02:33:55.479
I don't know how else to say it. Don It267902:33:55.680 --> 02:33:58.559
was last night when we were going to sleep, and268002:33:58.680 --> 02:34:03.120
I closed my eyes and suddenly it was all there,268102:34:03.959 --> 02:34:07.520
the truck cutting in on Kay's car, spinning out of control,268202:34:08.159 --> 02:34:09.600
and then the crash and Penny.268302:34:10.200 --> 02:34:11.760
Yes, what about Penny.268402:34:12.719 --> 02:34:16.840
I knew she was dead, don't you understand. I knew268502:34:16.959 --> 02:34:20.040
Kay was all right, but the Penny was dead, just268602:34:20.159 --> 02:34:22.520
as Sheila might have been if I'd let her go along.268702:34:22.920 --> 02:34:23.479
I saw it.268802:34:23.959 --> 02:34:27.040
I knew, honey. What's the matter. Don't get so upset?268902:34:27.159 --> 02:34:27.920
You look scared.269002:34:28.040 --> 02:34:31.440
I am scared, Dohn of what of what happened yesterday?269102:34:31.719 --> 02:34:34.639
You mean you think that old gypsy fortune teller or269202:34:34.639 --> 02:34:36.680
whatever she was put some kind of whammy on you.269302:34:36.959 --> 02:34:38.680
Come on, honey, that's silly.269402:34:40.280 --> 02:34:44.000
Is it dawn after my seeing Kay's accident before it happened?269502:34:44.159 --> 02:34:44.639
Sure it is.269602:34:44.799 --> 02:34:47.479
You were dead, tired and rattled last night after a269702:34:47.559 --> 02:34:52.399
pretty harrowing experience at poor old dame dying practically in269802:34:52.440 --> 02:34:55.120
your arms like that made the rest of the nonsense269902:34:55.200 --> 02:34:55.600
haunt you.270002:34:55.760 --> 02:34:58.159
But I knew there was going to be an accident.270102:34:58.280 --> 02:35:00.879
Oh, you just had a hunch like I did about270202:35:00.920 --> 02:35:04.360
the stock. Come on, you can't read the future. You270302:35:04.440 --> 02:35:06.520
don't have second sight any more than I do.270402:35:06.840 --> 02:35:07.959
I hope you're right.270502:35:09.200 --> 02:35:12.360
Well, Uh, how's she La taking the accident?270602:35:12.440 --> 02:35:15.000
She's devastated? Kenny was her best friend.270702:35:15.319 --> 02:35:16.959
Where is she in her room?270802:35:17.399 --> 02:35:20.239
Resting? Doctor Schultz told me to give her a sedative?270902:35:20.680 --> 02:35:21.799
Maybe I'll look in on her.271002:35:21.959 --> 02:35:26.319
That would be nice, that old lady making me out271102:35:26.360 --> 02:35:29.360
to be somebody else, giving me all that mumbo jumble271202:35:29.440 --> 02:35:36.520
about being her granddaughter and the gift and ah don mmm,271302:35:37.520 --> 02:35:39.760
would you mind if I booked a flight to Cleveland271402:35:39.840 --> 02:35:42.319
tomorrow and flew out to see my mother for for271502:35:43.559 --> 02:35:46.159
I think, for my sanity. I've got to find out271602:35:46.200 --> 02:35:48.920
from her who I really am.271702:35:55.120 --> 02:35:58.280
Oh, my darling, I thought you'd never get here.271802:35:58.399 --> 02:36:01.920
Hello, mother, Oh are you all right? We'll come in,271902:36:02.239 --> 02:36:05.200
Come on in. Oh haven't you got any bags? No,272002:36:05.680 --> 02:36:09.200
I just brought myself. I've been on pins and needles272102:36:09.239 --> 02:36:11.440
all morning waiting for you to get here. I told272202:36:11.479 --> 02:36:14.079
you the plane wouldn't get in till nearly eleven. I know,272302:36:14.959 --> 02:36:17.600
but it just seemed to take you forever to get272402:36:17.639 --> 02:36:20.840
here from the airport. Oh, frankly, darling, Since you called272502:36:20.879 --> 02:36:23.639
me yesterday, I've really been out of my head worrying272602:36:23.680 --> 02:36:27.200
what this trip is all about. Oh it's not trouble272702:36:27.280 --> 02:36:32.479
between you and Dawn. No, mother, There's just something rather272802:36:33.520 --> 02:36:36.920
serious I have to talk to you about. Oh, of course, dear,272902:36:37.280 --> 02:36:41.920
anything anything you sit down? Oh you do look so tired.273002:36:42.360 --> 02:36:45.840
You want something to your tea of coffee? Nothing, but273102:36:46.000 --> 02:36:50.200
I will sit down sit here on the couch with me, mom.273202:36:50.440 --> 02:36:55.120
Of course, What what is it, darling? I'll try to273302:36:55.280 --> 02:37:02.840
help you always have. Some very strange happened to me273402:37:02.920 --> 02:37:07.600
the day before yesterday, an experience that's really shaken me273502:37:07.719 --> 02:37:08.399
up terribly.273602:37:09.440 --> 02:37:10.239
Well, that happened.273702:37:11.479 --> 02:37:17.760
I went to a fortune teller's place. You are You273802:37:18.000 --> 02:37:20.879
never believed in such trash. I was shopping in New273902:37:21.000 --> 02:37:22.719
York and it was too early for down to be274002:37:22.760 --> 02:37:24.799
able to leave the office, so I wanted to kill274102:37:24.879 --> 02:37:29.200
some time. There was another reason, but if it doesn't274202:37:29.239 --> 02:37:34.799
matter anymore. The point is I went and this charlatan274302:37:35.239 --> 02:37:39.280
person prophesied that something dire was going to happen to you. No,274402:37:40.559 --> 02:37:44.159
it wasn't about my future at all. What I learned274502:37:44.159 --> 02:37:50.040
about was my past. Your past. Yes, there was a274602:37:50.280 --> 02:37:53.879
very old lady there who looked at my palm and274702:37:54.239 --> 02:37:59.719
insisted that I was her granddaughter, her granddaughter, Yes, that274802:37:59.840 --> 02:38:03.040
her daughter had had me illegitimately and put me out274902:38:03.079 --> 02:38:10.040
for adoption. That my name was Louisa Alberny Bonafortuna. And275002:38:10.239 --> 02:38:11.639
you believe that.275102:38:12.079 --> 02:38:15.840
I don't know, but it has become the most important275202:38:15.879 --> 02:38:17.440
thing in my life that I know.275302:38:19.520 --> 02:38:25.719
Am I this Louisa? It's a very pretty name. You275402:38:26.079 --> 02:38:33.799
haven't answered me, mother, Darling. I suppose I've always known275502:38:33.959 --> 02:38:39.360
that this moment was inevitable. I've prayed all your life275602:38:39.440 --> 02:38:41.920
that it wouldn't be and I have dreaded that it might.275702:38:42.600 --> 02:38:49.399
I'm not your real daughter, No, darling, No you're not.275802:38:51.040 --> 02:38:55.120
We adopted you when you were six months old, and275902:38:55.280 --> 02:38:58.840
you never told me. There were so many times when276002:38:58.879 --> 02:39:03.280
I thought we should, but I didn't want to lose276102:39:03.559 --> 02:39:05.920
the way we were, Martha. The two of you were276202:39:06.000 --> 02:39:12.440
my life, you especially mom. Oh Martha, I'm so ashamed.276302:39:14.360 --> 02:39:16.719
Am I really Louisa Bonafortuna?276402:39:17.040 --> 02:39:22.879
I honestly don't know. You See, a lawyer made all276502:39:22.920 --> 02:39:26.879
the arrangements for a sweet We never knew your real name,276602:39:27.200 --> 02:39:33.479
but I could have been she. Yes, darling, is that276702:39:33.760 --> 02:39:37.600
really so important? I haven't told you all about my276802:39:37.719 --> 02:39:40.479
meeting with the lady who claimed to be my grandmother.276902:39:41.799 --> 02:39:45.319
I haven't told you she died in my arms, or277002:39:45.440 --> 02:39:50.159
that she left me an inheritance. What the gift of277102:39:50.319 --> 02:39:54.159
second sight, the ability to read the future, to read277202:39:54.239 --> 02:39:56.319
what it holds for everyone about me?277302:39:57.000 --> 02:39:57.959
How could she do that?277402:39:58.360 --> 02:40:04.040
Superstition magic handed down from generation to generation on the277502:40:04.120 --> 02:40:09.360
female side, as long as time shall last? Oh, it277602:40:09.639 --> 02:40:12.600
sounds like so much nonsense. You haven't had to live277702:40:12.639 --> 02:40:16.239
through the last days with me. I suddenly do know277802:40:16.360 --> 02:40:18.799
what's going to happen to people? On the plane. Here277902:40:19.600 --> 02:40:23.040
I had my heart in my mouth, A young girl278002:40:23.159 --> 02:40:24.920
on the way to the West coast to join her278102:40:25.040 --> 02:40:27.600
husband who was a pilot in the Air Force, and278202:40:27.760 --> 02:40:33.719
I knew I could see her husband crashing on a278302:40:34.159 --> 02:40:39.399
training landing. I think, my darling, what can I say278402:40:39.559 --> 02:40:45.000
to you? I am just appalled. I never dreamed a278502:40:45.120 --> 02:40:46.399
disaster like this could.278602:40:46.239 --> 02:40:50.600
Happen to us, just because I ached for and because I.278702:40:50.760 --> 02:40:53.479
Wanted a child so much. That part of it is278802:40:53.559 --> 02:40:57.520
all right, mother, Nothing will change that. It doesn't matter278902:40:57.680 --> 02:41:00.879
who I was. The real part of my life is279002:41:01.000 --> 02:41:05.079
with Dawn. But now that the past has caught up,279102:41:05.360 --> 02:41:10.399
I just have to try to adjust. One thing I279202:41:10.520 --> 02:41:13.440
have to know is about myself. Who am I or279302:41:13.520 --> 02:41:17.600
who was I? To begin with? The terrible thing that279402:41:17.719 --> 02:41:19.799
I have to say to you, Martha, Dear, is that279502:41:20.959 --> 02:41:24.840
I can't answer that question. Then who can The lawyer279602:41:24.959 --> 02:41:27.559
who arranged with us for your adoption to begin with,279702:41:28.399 --> 02:41:37.680
if he's still alive, his name is Denton Skyler. I279802:41:37.920 --> 02:41:40.600
just hope you'll forgive me for invading your privacy like this,279902:41:40.719 --> 02:41:41.879
mister Skyler.280002:41:41.639 --> 02:41:45.719
My good Joe, my dear, and a break in them,280102:41:45.799 --> 02:41:51.520
and not have my monastic life in the sanctuary for280202:41:51.639 --> 02:41:57.760
their senile is welcome, welcome in particular when it brings280302:41:57.840 --> 02:41:58.799
so pretty a girl.280402:41:59.360 --> 02:42:02.600
You're very kind, but can you help me?280502:42:03.479 --> 02:42:04.239
I'm not sure.280602:42:05.280 --> 02:42:08.200
All I want to find out is the name of280702:42:08.319 --> 02:42:09.399
my real mother.280802:42:09.799 --> 02:42:10.040
Why?280902:42:10.959 --> 02:42:14.360
Well, I couldn't explain that. It's really too complicated, but281002:42:14.479 --> 02:42:16.360
it's desperately important to me.281102:42:16.600 --> 02:42:21.000
Well, you're a woman grown? Were you not happy with281202:42:21.120 --> 02:42:23.680
your Sarah? Good mother? Missus bang?281302:42:23.879 --> 02:42:26.600
I couldn't have asked for a better mother. I never281402:42:26.760 --> 02:42:28.280
wanted another, and why.281502:42:28.159 --> 02:42:29.000
I look for one?281602:42:29.159 --> 02:42:31.639
Now? What could she give you?281702:42:31.799 --> 02:42:34.719
That's the woman who brought you up, didn't nothing?281802:42:35.559 --> 02:42:39.879
She's long ago dead, but her mother, perhaps my grandmother281902:42:40.200 --> 02:42:43.639
left me a legacy. All I ask you is to282002:42:43.760 --> 02:42:47.799
remember my mother's name, the woman who brought me as282102:42:47.840 --> 02:42:50.000
a baby for you to place for adoption.282202:42:50.399 --> 02:42:57.719
You say she's dead, yes, and a grandmother, yes, and282302:42:57.920 --> 02:43:03.239
nobody could be hurt the name? How could anyone forget282402:43:03.319 --> 02:43:10.239
that name? Bona fortunea? She was your natural mother. So282502:43:10.479 --> 02:43:17.120
it's all true, now, you muschool child, I'm sleepy.282602:43:17.360 --> 02:43:21.799
I can't remember what you came for.282702:43:23.000 --> 02:43:25.760
Did I tell you what you wanted to hear?282802:43:27.000 --> 02:43:27.040
No?282902:43:28.760 --> 02:43:37.959
But you told me what I had to know. But now,283002:43:38.239 --> 02:43:39.399
Martha Darling.283102:43:39.760 --> 02:43:41.959
Oh, just take me to the airport. Mother, I've got283202:43:42.040 --> 02:43:44.479
to get home. But I'll worry about you. I'd rather283302:43:44.559 --> 02:43:45.600
you pray for me.283402:43:45.879 --> 02:43:49.719
Why this legacy from my family, now that I know283502:43:49.879 --> 02:43:53.159
it's mine, It's no gift, It's a curse.283602:43:54.520 --> 02:43:55.959
I'll just have to try to learn to.283702:43:56.000 --> 02:43:56.399
Live with it.283802:43:57.360 --> 02:44:01.319
If you really can foretell the future, there must be283902:44:01.520 --> 02:44:05.520
some good things about it. Yes, at least I can284002:44:05.719 --> 02:44:08.239
reassure you that the plane I'm going to fly and284102:44:08.399 --> 02:44:09.239
won't go down.284202:44:15.680 --> 02:44:19.520
But as I take off, I have this deep foreboding284302:44:20.479 --> 02:44:22.239
and a secret wish in my heart that.284402:44:22.319 --> 02:44:25.399
The plane would crash and there would be no future284502:44:25.479 --> 02:44:29.879
for me. But I can't wish that. I can't hurt284602:44:29.920 --> 02:44:34.680
other people. But beyond doubt, I know that the only.284702:44:34.559 --> 02:44:37.520
Way to neutralize what I feel is so strongly an284802:44:37.559 --> 02:44:41.200
evil power is to sacrifice myself.284902:44:42.040 --> 02:44:45.319
You cannot escape your pain.285002:44:46.559 --> 02:44:51.360
It even there eli or.285102:44:51.559 --> 02:44:52.920
Rules your life.285202:44:54.040 --> 02:44:57.959
You've gonna die until you pass out.285302:44:58.280 --> 02:45:02.920
To your daughter, I'll do your pa first daughter, and285402:45:03.120 --> 02:45:04.559
to her daughter.285502:45:05.959 --> 02:45:13.159
Lord, Now not shea she can't be asked to bear285602:45:13.280 --> 02:45:14.319
this burden too.285702:45:18.719 --> 02:45:23.600
An obscure English classical scholar the seventeenth century left us285802:45:23.680 --> 02:45:27.840
with an enduring quotation, whom the gods would destroy they285902:45:27.920 --> 02:45:32.440
first make mad? Is that what destiny holds in store286002:45:32.479 --> 02:45:35.959
for Martha Harriet? Is she condemned for the rest of286102:45:36.000 --> 02:45:38.280
her life to bear the sorrows of the world on286202:45:38.399 --> 02:45:43.079
her shoulder, and worse still, to pass this albatross of fate.286302:45:43.520 --> 02:45:47.399
On to her innocent daughter. I shall return shortly with286402:45:47.559 --> 02:45:48.000
Act three.286502:46:04.959 --> 02:46:09.159
Martha's future is as dark and speculative as all of ours.286602:46:09.920 --> 02:46:12.000
It's only other people's she can read.286702:46:12.879 --> 02:46:14.760
And what use is it to tell someone who's going286802:46:14.799 --> 02:46:17.440
to be lucky let him enjoy it when it comes,286902:46:18.360 --> 02:46:21.600
or to warn him of future mishaps which the inexorable287002:46:21.680 --> 02:46:22.879
law of fate will.287102:46:22.799 --> 02:46:24.040
Not permit him to escape.287202:46:24.840 --> 02:46:28.079
Marthy, He's right, Ildno is no blessing.287302:46:29.040 --> 02:46:29.760
It is a curse.287402:46:30.760 --> 02:46:32.520
Be reasonable, Martha.287502:46:32.440 --> 02:46:36.520
Lost the capacity to be reasonable. Don It can't help us.287602:46:36.760 --> 02:46:40.319
I can't read our stars. That's a closed book to me.287702:46:40.959 --> 02:46:43.680
That's part of ill Donoh, come on, what.287802:46:43.799 --> 02:46:44.920
About kennebuck Cole?287902:46:45.040 --> 02:46:45.559
What about it?288002:46:46.239 --> 02:46:47.920
Why do you think I had the guests to sell288102:46:48.040 --> 02:46:49.399
short You said it.288202:46:49.440 --> 02:46:50.079
Was on a hunch.288302:46:50.559 --> 02:46:52.600
You were hunts but it was a hunch i'd never288402:46:52.680 --> 02:46:54.680
have had if I hadn't known you could somehow see288502:46:54.719 --> 02:46:57.079
I was right. And let me tell you something you288602:46:57.159 --> 02:46:59.520
can thank Heaven we climbed out of it. You must288702:46:59.639 --> 02:47:02.319
know how extended I am, how near we are to288802:47:02.399 --> 02:47:03.159
the ragged edge.288902:47:03.520 --> 02:47:04.760
No, don I don't.289002:47:04.959 --> 02:47:07.079
Yes, start broker's a chancy business.289102:47:07.159 --> 02:47:07.239
Now.289202:47:07.280 --> 02:47:10.079
If I can't swing something big soon, the firm may289302:47:10.159 --> 02:47:13.319
be in serious trouble. I'm asking you to help me,289402:47:13.440 --> 02:47:14.200
to help us.289502:47:14.440 --> 02:47:17.440
I'm trying to explain to you that I can't, can't289602:47:18.399 --> 02:47:25.239
or won't. Don Please, darling, don't press that I have to.289702:47:25.559 --> 02:47:29.680
I have to make you understand. Now, how much is289802:47:29.719 --> 02:47:30.959
it going to drop tomorrow?289902:47:31.079 --> 02:47:31.760
I won't tell you.290002:47:31.959 --> 02:47:33.319
Oh this time, it's won't.290102:47:33.399 --> 02:47:35.920
That means you do no right, don for pity's sake,290202:47:36.479 --> 02:47:40.639
help me. Don't fight me. It can't be used for290302:47:40.879 --> 02:47:42.559
me or anyone close to me.290402:47:42.760 --> 02:47:44.360
Well you knew that Kay and Penny were going to290502:47:44.399 --> 02:47:45.040
have the accident.290602:47:45.079 --> 02:47:49.239
Well don't remind me of that. Yes, I knew about them.290702:47:49.319 --> 02:47:51.600
I didn't see Sheila in it. If she'd been a290802:47:51.680 --> 02:47:56.079
victim too, don't you understand I wouldn't have That's the290902:47:56.280 --> 02:47:57.239
blind spot.291002:47:57.440 --> 02:48:00.760
But you can shut your eyes and see tomorrow's stock reports.291102:48:00.840 --> 02:48:03.319
You can tell me about the hole. No, even if291202:48:03.360 --> 02:48:04.639
I could, I wouldn't Dohn.291302:48:04.760 --> 02:48:05.079
Please.291402:48:05.239 --> 02:48:07.479
I don't want this power. I don't even want to291502:48:07.559 --> 02:48:10.959
believe I have it. It's only destructive. Look what it's291602:48:11.000 --> 02:48:14.319
doing to us. We're calling seriously, for the first time291702:48:14.399 --> 02:48:18.319
in our marriage. You actually hate me right at this moment.291802:48:18.520 --> 02:48:20.959
I think, as long as you've been struck by lightning291902:48:21.000 --> 02:48:23.200
and you might as well use the gift you had.292002:48:23.559 --> 02:48:25.920
All I want to do is to get rid of it,292102:48:26.639 --> 02:48:29.159
or better still, to prove that it was all a delusion,292202:48:29.600 --> 02:48:31.000
a sort of sickness.292302:48:32.040 --> 02:48:33.600
And how do you propose to do that.292402:48:34.920 --> 02:48:38.760
I've made an appointment with a psychiatrist. Let's see what292502:48:38.920 --> 02:48:39.879
he can do for me.292602:48:46.000 --> 02:48:48.319
Come in, missus Harriet, thank you, doctor Phillips.292702:48:49.280 --> 02:48:50.920
Won't you sit down? Please?292802:48:51.479 --> 02:48:53.200
Don't I ever get to lie on the couch.292902:48:54.680 --> 02:48:55.079
Not here.293002:48:55.200 --> 02:48:57.079
I'm afraid that's not your method.293102:48:57.200 --> 02:48:59.600
What it is when I think if patient needs analysis,293202:48:59.680 --> 02:49:05.680
but you don't see I'm I'm afraid there's no way293302:49:05.719 --> 02:49:06.319
I can help you.293402:49:07.280 --> 02:49:12.879
What I think I will sit down.293502:49:13.840 --> 02:49:17.559
Let me explain when you first came to me last week.293602:49:17.600 --> 02:49:19.680
I was confident that I would be able to help you.293702:49:20.959 --> 02:49:24.399
During that visit and your two subsequent visits, I reviewed293802:49:24.520 --> 02:49:27.959
in depth your medical history, your mental state, or a293902:49:28.000 --> 02:49:33.200
psychiatric balance, and I found that you were an eminently healthy,294002:49:33.440 --> 02:49:36.639
well balanced, intelligent young woman with one very.294102:49:36.680 --> 02:49:38.399
Large problem that upsets all that.294202:49:38.799 --> 02:49:42.879
Yes, and the most intriguing one. I must admit that294302:49:43.079 --> 02:49:45.360
in my practice I had never encountered such a.294402:49:45.399 --> 02:49:46.040
Strange and.294502:49:47.719 --> 02:49:52.120
Persistent hallucination. But I found myself at a loss to294602:49:52.280 --> 02:49:53.399
diagnose its cause.294702:49:55.600 --> 02:49:58.680
For seeing this terrible accident in which my friend's little294802:49:58.719 --> 02:50:03.200
girl was killed was just, oh, you know, over protectiveness294902:50:03.280 --> 02:50:06.520
on my part because Sheila is an only child, And295002:50:06.680 --> 02:50:09.760
for telling the stalk reports it could have been a295102:50:10.440 --> 02:50:11.000
lucky gain.295202:50:11.079 --> 02:50:13.159
And the things that you will see happening to everyone295302:50:13.239 --> 02:50:16.159
you come in contact with that you can't shut out295402:50:16.200 --> 02:50:16.760
of your mind.295502:50:17.440 --> 02:50:20.559
I don't really know that they're going to happen. I295602:50:20.639 --> 02:50:23.719
could just be guessing that old woman had such a295702:50:23.799 --> 02:50:28.520
blazing intensity that perhaps he just mesmerized me into believing295802:50:28.600 --> 02:50:33.719
that I have a power I don't have, but I295902:50:33.840 --> 02:50:34.440
don't want.296002:50:34.600 --> 02:50:39.719
Yes, I can understand that, but it isn't something you296102:50:39.840 --> 02:50:41.360
can run away from.296202:50:41.719 --> 02:50:44.120
I don't want to run. I want to face it296302:50:44.680 --> 02:50:48.639
and get cured. Clear this obsession or whatever it is296402:50:48.719 --> 02:50:49.479
out of my mind.296502:50:49.520 --> 02:50:52.479
I'm afraid you can't do that. There must be some way,296602:50:52.799 --> 02:50:58.600
I don't think so. Why not, because because my dear296702:50:58.680 --> 02:51:02.799
you are a true clairvoyant. It isn't a disease or296802:51:02.840 --> 02:51:08.719
a sickness or hallucination. It's a gift, a true gift,296902:51:10.920 --> 02:51:11.559
Missus Harriot.297002:51:11.760 --> 02:51:12.639
You remember on your.297102:51:12.559 --> 02:51:15.879
Last visit I asked if you minded submitting to hypnosis.297202:51:16.159 --> 02:51:16.879
Yes, of course.297302:51:17.159 --> 02:51:18.920
While you were under I asked you a series of297402:51:19.040 --> 02:51:23.159
questions about events that would happen between them and this visit.297502:51:25.559 --> 02:51:28.840
I asked you to visualize a newspaper and read me297602:51:28.920 --> 02:51:32.840
the headlines you saw on the makeup of the front page.297702:51:34.399 --> 02:51:40.120
Here it is today's paper, just as you saw it,297802:51:40.440 --> 02:51:42.879
and read to me word forward.297902:51:44.120 --> 02:51:44.959
Three days ago.298002:51:45.239 --> 02:51:50.280
No, no, oh, please, doctor Phillips. I couldn't stand going298102:51:50.319 --> 02:51:51.040
through the rest of my.298202:51:51.120 --> 02:51:51.680
Life like this.298302:51:52.120 --> 02:51:54.680
I can't live with it. And when I think that298402:51:54.799 --> 02:51:58.840
I I might past this on to my daughter, I298502:51:58.959 --> 02:51:59.680
won't live with it.298602:52:00.159 --> 02:52:03.280
Now, Missus Harriet, Now you are acting like a prospectivation,298702:52:03.600 --> 02:52:04.319
that old.298802:52:04.159 --> 02:52:06.760
Which casts some kind of spell on me. I have298902:52:06.920 --> 02:52:11.760
to exercise her, cast her out. I shouldn't be here,299002:52:12.760 --> 02:52:14.239
I should be talking to my minister.299102:52:15.639 --> 02:52:17.440
Yes, he might be able to help you.299202:52:18.520 --> 02:52:23.319
He'd better be, because if he can't, there's only one299302:52:23.399 --> 02:52:28.520
thing left for me to do. What exorcise her myself.299402:52:29.920 --> 02:52:32.000
If the only way to kill her influence is to299502:52:32.200 --> 02:52:35.280
kill myself, I'll do it.299602:52:45.079 --> 02:52:46.479
Why not end at all? Right now?299702:52:48.000 --> 02:52:49.840
One turn of the wheel and the car goes through299802:52:49.879 --> 02:52:51.799
the guard rail and down the mountain into the river.299902:52:53.079 --> 02:52:55.040
Not for me, for Sheila?300002:52:55.399 --> 02:52:55.760
Why not?300102:52:57.639 --> 02:53:06.680
Because you can't, Senora, Grandma, please help me.300202:53:07.440 --> 02:53:07.840
Free me.300302:53:08.360 --> 02:53:10.120
I can't, Karaiah.300402:53:11.239 --> 02:53:15.600
It is our fate, we who are chosen.300502:53:16.680 --> 02:53:18.040
We must live with.300602:53:18.200 --> 02:53:20.920
It, not my little daughter, not Sheila.300702:53:21.399 --> 02:53:23.000
She cannot escape it.300802:53:24.159 --> 02:53:27.520
You must pass it on your books.300902:53:28.000 --> 02:53:29.280
You have no choice.301002:53:29.879 --> 02:53:32.840
I could take my life. This evil thing would die301102:53:32.920 --> 02:53:33.159
with me.301202:53:33.239 --> 02:53:39.680
If it will not, and you cannot try to turn301302:53:39.879 --> 02:53:41.360
the wheel, I.301402:53:44.239 --> 02:53:44.799
I can't.301502:53:45.120 --> 02:53:51.479
So you must live with it and your daughter and301602:53:51.920 --> 02:53:58.360
hers through the end of time, as it is written301702:53:59.239 --> 02:54:02.840
in the Oh God, what book the book?301802:54:04.079 --> 02:54:04.319
Say?301902:54:05.840 --> 02:54:08.239
The Book of the Devil?302002:54:09.680 --> 02:54:19.760
Oh Lord, please help me. You don't have to walk302102:54:19.799 --> 02:54:22.159
me too. My car it's going to ring.302202:54:22.479 --> 02:54:26.000
Oh, jear me, it has clouded over, hasn't it? Really302302:54:26.159 --> 02:54:29.479
and ugly like you have moved my shilds, and I302402:54:29.600 --> 02:54:31.559
think I will see you to your car. I have302502:54:31.680 --> 02:54:33.920
a few things left to say, but no.302602:54:34.040 --> 02:54:36.280
Way to help me except tell me to pray.302702:54:38.040 --> 02:54:41.040
There are only two who can hit you, my dear God,302802:54:41.399 --> 02:54:44.760
I'm yourself. Come on, come on, let's go before the rain.302902:54:45.360 --> 02:54:48.959
I've tried everything. There's no way I can help myself.303002:54:49.280 --> 02:54:52.000
I can't live with her father, the pain of suffering.303102:54:53.000 --> 02:54:54.079
You can't understand.303202:54:55.079 --> 02:54:59.280
You knew when I was a young priest and I303302:54:59.399 --> 02:55:02.879
first began to hear confessions, I thought too that I303402:55:03.879 --> 02:55:06.440
couldn't live with all the burdens people brought to me,303502:55:06.559 --> 02:55:09.559
bearing the souls of their hearts, till I was filled303602:55:09.639 --> 02:55:14.280
to bursting with their guilts and the remorse and their anguish.303702:55:16.079 --> 02:55:18.280
And for a wrong while I thought I would turn303802:55:18.399 --> 02:55:22.040
my back class and run out into the world where303902:55:22.040 --> 02:55:26.479
I could rid myself of the problems of others. And then,304002:55:26.600 --> 02:55:29.760
you see, I remembered the other side of my mission,304102:55:30.840 --> 02:55:35.440
the help I could bring, the long peace I could304202:55:35.520 --> 02:55:40.360
bring to so many trouble souls, And it balanced out.304302:55:42.319 --> 02:55:46.520
Can you not find an equation like this in your life.304402:55:46.920 --> 02:55:52.000
This power I had, cheever I'm possessed, you were my304502:55:52.159 --> 02:55:56.319
last hope. I still you couldn't offer me any assistance.304602:55:56.639 --> 02:56:03.440
Oh something dramatic that I had. So eh, the Church304702:56:03.520 --> 02:56:07.239
would not permit me, my child, without proof that you304802:56:07.479 --> 02:56:10.040
are invested by your demon that I am.304902:56:10.959 --> 02:56:14.760
This power is evil or a gift.305002:56:15.120 --> 02:56:21.920
From God that only he can take away through prayer.305102:56:22.239 --> 02:56:23.799
I need something stronger than that.305202:56:24.159 --> 02:56:27.159
Now, what could be more powerful than prayer?305302:56:27.840 --> 02:56:29.360
I don't think either of you.305402:56:30.200 --> 02:56:31.399
Would like my prayer.305502:56:31.799 --> 02:56:35.959
You don't have to satisfy me, my dear Holy the Lord.305602:56:36.680 --> 02:56:45.680
Then I would say, please, Lord, free me from this curse. Or,305702:56:45.760 --> 02:56:48.920
if you will not, since I cannot do it myself,305802:56:50.520 --> 02:56:52.200
reach out and strike me.305902:56:58.399 --> 02:57:05.600
Missus hurdtt Oh your poor lost shoe.306002:57:13.799 --> 02:57:16.639
Hi, darling, John all ready to go home?306102:57:16.719 --> 02:57:21.239
They tell me, Yes, darling, hold me just a moment, Oh,306202:57:22.239 --> 02:57:23.319
just a lifetime.306302:57:25.040 --> 02:57:28.799
Oh, my darling, it's a miracle. It's a miracle, all right.306402:57:29.239 --> 02:57:31.280
The lightning didn't hit you directly. It was just a306502:57:31.360 --> 02:57:34.600
sort of ricochet. There's no brain damage at all.306602:57:34.760 --> 02:57:38.719
It did affect my brain in one way, how I306702:57:38.840 --> 02:57:41.319
guess it's like a short circuit.306802:57:41.879 --> 02:57:42.559
It burned out.306902:57:42.600 --> 02:57:47.719
One fuse, what ask me what tomorrow's headlines are, or307002:57:47.799 --> 02:57:50.520
the stock listings or anything in the future.307102:57:51.520 --> 02:57:53.280
All right, I'm asking.307202:57:54.200 --> 02:57:58.840
I don't know. I haven't even the faintest idea. I'm307302:57:58.959 --> 02:58:04.520
back to myself again. That's the best miracle of all.307402:58:11.559 --> 02:58:12.040
There it is.307502:58:13.000 --> 02:58:15.959
Are you willing to accept our story without question? Or307602:58:16.159 --> 02:58:17.399
must you rationalize?307702:58:18.719 --> 02:58:19.479
Okay? Try this.307802:58:20.319 --> 02:58:23.799
If a sensitive woman was mesmerized into truly believing she307902:58:23.879 --> 02:58:27.600
could forecast the future, couldn't she just as easily believe308002:58:28.159 --> 02:58:30.719
in the trauma after being struck by lightning, that a308102:58:30.799 --> 02:58:34.000
gift she never wanted had been taken from her by308202:58:34.120 --> 02:58:35.120
divine intervention.308302:58:36.159 --> 02:58:36.680
It's up to you.308402:58:37.719 --> 02:58:38.680
I'll be back shortly.308502:58:53.120 --> 02:58:54.079
One final word.308602:58:54.920 --> 02:58:57.120
Perhaps you read as I did a few weeks ago,308702:58:57.399 --> 02:58:59.840
of a man, a deafmute, who was struck by like308802:59:00.600 --> 02:59:04.920
and lived not only without damage, but with the miracle308902:59:05.040 --> 02:59:07.879
of being able to speak and hear for the first309002:59:07.920 --> 02:59:12.239
time in his life. Truth is stranger than fiction. All309102:59:12.399 --> 02:59:17.360
things are possible. Our cast included ROBERTA. Maxwell, Russell Horton,309202:59:17.440 --> 02:59:21.079
Carol Titel, and Ian Martin. The entire production was under309302:59:21.120 --> 02:59:25.200
the direction of Hyman Brown, missus E. G. Marshall, inviting309402:59:25.280 --> 02:59:29.319
you to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure309502:59:29.479 --> 02:59:30.319
in the macabre.309602:59:31.639 --> 02:59:35.879
Until next time, pleasant dreams.309702:59:56.559 --> 03:00:00.479
Well, my dear, I suppose it's about time for you309803:00:00.600 --> 03:00:05.440
to get back to your loved ones, your responsibilities, your life,309903:00:06.120 --> 03:00:09.920
your hope. But I do appreciate you spending a little310003:00:09.920 --> 03:00:12.840
bit of your time, or in this case, quite a310103:00:12.920 --> 03:00:17.719
bit with a little old me. That's what the season's310203:00:17.719 --> 03:00:22.040
all about, you know. Like the Cards says, the holiday310303:00:22.840 --> 03:00:26.879
is family, just like the home is where you keep310403:00:26.959 --> 03:00:30.879
your heart. And while I may not have a heart310503:00:30.959 --> 03:00:34.719
to speak of, I certainly feel like I'm at home310603:00:35.920 --> 03:00:40.479
with you. So remember that whether your holiday is filled310703:00:40.559 --> 03:00:43.719
with cheer and laughter and relatives and loved ones, or310803:00:44.680 --> 03:00:50.280
you're spending it alone, because you're never truly alone when310903:00:50.319 --> 03:00:56.319
you're loved. Now, as we prepare to part ways, please311003:00:56.440 --> 03:01:00.639
take a moment after you've gone through the river, past311103:01:00.760 --> 03:01:04.959
the woods, across the bridge, ducking the one horse, open311203:01:05.120 --> 03:01:09.040
sleighs as you go as you come home, and prepare311303:01:09.159 --> 03:01:12.920
to lay your head on that soft, warm pillow and311403:01:13.040 --> 03:01:17.079
allow sugar plums to dance in your head as your311503:01:17.159 --> 03:01:21.799
eyes get heavy as jolly old Saint Nicholas prepares to311603:01:22.719 --> 03:01:26.479
come and visit you with and bring you exactly what311703:01:26.639 --> 03:01:34.239
you deserve, take one moment as you exhire, and please,311803:01:34.440 --> 03:01:42.239
I implore you, be thankful for what you have. Merry Christmas,
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