June 1, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Alone with Death: Stories of Solitude and Fear

Unknown Broadcast | Alone with Death: Stories of Solitude and Fear

You hear it, don’t you? The silence. The absence. The breathing space between this world and the next. Tonight, I offer you four stories—not merely of fear… but of isolation, that most intimate form of terror. These are the whispers heard only when...

You hear it, don’t you?

The silence. The absence. The breathing space between this world and the next.

Tonight, I offer you four stories—not merely of fear… but of isolation, that most intimate form of terror. These are the whispers heard only when you are truly alone… when no one is listening… except them.

  •  In a Lonely PlaceAn empty building. A man on the run. But what he finds in the shadows isn’t refuge… it’s a watcher. A thing made of silence.
  • Death Wears a Lonely SmileA nurse with a gift for comfort… and a patient with a secret pact. Death comes quietly—but sometimes, it smiles first.
  • The Lonely RoadA midnight detour. A road not found on any map. A journey into the kind of night you don’t return from.
  • I Won’t Die AloneA recluse lives in fear of dying without witness… but something is already waiting for him. Something that remembers.
These are tales for the forgotten, the overlooked, the vanished. Stories to be heard in the stillest hours, when the world holds its breath and your heartbeat is the only thing reminding you—you’re still here.

For now.

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And if you, too, have wandered down a road no one else remember... Reach out. I'm always listening.

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🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Ah, good to see you. To be perfectly honest, I

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wasn't entirely sure you were coming. Oh nothing, nothing, nothing

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at all.

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You know.

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Everything's as it should be as far as I can tell.

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What's that? Oh no, no, please have seats. I've been

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thinking about what we should enjoy together all week. I

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have quite a list, it says pertinent as it is lengthy.

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So please put your feet up.

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Feet.

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The tea is almost done steeping. I suppose in the

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back of my mind I knew you were coming. But

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I suppose you could say that I'm finding myself in

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a Lonely Place.

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Suspense Radio's outstanding theater A Frails brings you an hour,

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a full sixty minutes of suspense, directed by Anton em

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Leader and produced by Robert Montgomery, who tonight also stars

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in a play entitled In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B.

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Hughes.

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This is Robert Montgomery. The other day a friend of

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mine repeated a familiar phrase. He indicated the travel folder

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on his desk and said, with a kind of triumph,

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I'm going to get away from at all. He's lucky,

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my friend is. He's going to change the scene. The

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whole scene new horizons, new vistas, new people or no

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people at all, new thoughts or no thoughts at all.

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He has a rendezvous with a cloudless sky and a

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peaceful stream and the easy whisper of the wind. Only

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time stands between him and a fresh beginning. Indeed, he

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has a lonely place where there is no loneliness. Yes,

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my friend's lucky. He can get away from it all

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with a simple change of scene, and he has no

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fear of being alone with his thoughts. It isn't like

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that with Dixon Steel. It isn't like that at all.

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And so with the performance of Robert Montgomery as Dixon Steel,

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and with our play in a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes,

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we again hope to keep you in suspends.

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I stood there at the foot of sunset, at the

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end of the city of Los Angeles, looking out through

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the evening fog at the Pacific. The swirling mists kept

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lifting themselves like gauzy veils, coming up to touch my face.

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There was something in it like flying, the sense of

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being lifted.

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High above the crawling earth, of being part of the

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wildness of air, and something more of being wrapped tight

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in a strange world of fog and cloud and wind.

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I had liked.

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Flying at night, but the war's ending had finished that.

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Since then it had left me that feeling of power

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and exhilaration and freedom that came from being alone in

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the sky. But here tonight, at the edge of this noisy,

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fog drenched ocean, I had it again. Then I turned away.

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I was already late for my appointment with Brub and

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his new wife. I walked past my coup, parked at

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the curb, and went up the path to the little

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white cottage. The lights from the living room windows made

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little concentric circles in the heavy fog. It would be

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good to see brother Brub again, you old son of

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a secret. What do you mean but not calling us

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before now letting me see you. It's the same boy, Brub.

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I haven't changed a bit, and either of you.

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I was sure I have for the better.

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And this is why, Sylvia, this is Dix Dixon Steel.

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Hello, Dix.

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We're old friends.

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Really, You've been Brubb's favorite topic of conversation as long

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as I've known.

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Oh, we flew together, Sylvia. Brub took care of me

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like a big brother.

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You needed some looking after Colonel Steele.

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Remember the night and save it for later, mister, and

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it's not colonel anymore. The Army made me a gentleman,

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gave me the only mark of distinction I've ever had,

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and then took it away from me. Say why didn't

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you tell me you were married to such a lovely girl?

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Thank you, Dan, tell you called me up five months ago,

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at last April the eighth, to be exact, told me

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you'd just get in and let me know as soon

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as you were located. That's the last I heard. You

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checked out of the Ambassador three days later, and you

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didn't leave a forwarding address.

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How could I tell you anything? Keeping tabs on me,

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bro oh, trying to find you, you crazy love, And

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here I am. It's like being home again.

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We'll brief me, boy, what have you been doing? And

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how's it going?

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Slow? Brob slow. I've got a little apartment in the

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car and the typewriter. That's about it.

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The typewriter is a new touch.

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Try to write a book like ninety percent of the

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other gis a detective novel. My rich uncle Fergus back

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east is taking me for a year to see what

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I can do. He calls it giving me a hand

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over the period of my readjustment.

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So that keeps me busy most of the time and

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the rest of the time. The rest of the time,

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I hardly know what to do with myself. You were

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a hot pilot in England, Dicks, just a kid at

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that sure, just gonna take a little time.

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Did anyone care for something to eat or drink cold beer?

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No, hiks, not at the moment. I'm too relaxed.

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We were a casual generation, Dix, and I put us

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in the middle of something that wasn't very casual.

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There's bound to be a reaction.

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Oh, Brub's always looking for the hidden motive power. That's

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because he's a policeman.

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A policeman or not a policeman now, Darling a detective.

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What happened to you?

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Bro Oh?

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My old buddies ask me why, and I can't help him.

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I don't know why. All I do know is it's

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rotten hard work.

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So the things men do, you with a badge and

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me with a typewriter, And that reminds me I ought

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to be getting back to it.

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Oh, but it's still what's the hurry?

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Dick Brubble wanted his rest Sylvia if he's going to

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dig around for the glory of the La Police Force.

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It is La, isn't it? And it is indeed, and.

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You do need some sleep, plenty of work in La.

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No funny. I'll be seeing you too.

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Good night, Dix.

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We'll expect you to come off.

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Hey, wait a minute, we don't have your number.

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My number.

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Sure we'll want to get in touch.

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Oh yeah, right, Crestview nine eight nine eight nine o

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eight nine eight.

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You'll be hearing from.

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Me, Dix.

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I'd be hearing from Brub, and why not, good old

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Brub with his tired eyes and rumpled hair. Grub had

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been my big brother, but he hadn't known everything there

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was to know. Some things a man keep secret. It's

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amusing to keep something secret. I wondered if they were

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surprised by my quick exit. But I had to get

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out of there. I couldn't stay. I had to figure

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things out. So Brub was a detective now, and he

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had my telephone number. It's something amusing about Brub being

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able to lay his hands on me whenever he wanted.

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Amusing and more than anything that had happened in a

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long time. The Hunter and the Hunted arm in arm,

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the hunt sweetened by danger. I was driving slowly, hugging

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the curb, and then I saw her, a girl, an

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unknown girl, standing alone on the corner of Camden Drive,

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waiting for a bus. And buses didn't run often out

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here at night. I pulled up a block ahead and

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got out, shutting the door so it made no sound,

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and then I walked back toward her. She heard me

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coming in the fox.

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She turned her.

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Face to me, smiling a little, glad to have someone

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to share the darkness and the silence with her. I

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walked up to her slowly, and I was smiling back. Yes, Hello, hello,

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Dick speaking. Oh was it Sylvia? How'd you know recognize

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your voice?

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I've been ringing and ringing.

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Oh, I guess I slept through it. I was up

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late last night working on the book.

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Can you break away long enough to have dinner with

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us tonight?

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Tonight? Oh? Of fine, fine? What time?

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Oh?

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Body almost forgot?

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Don't dress?

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We inform olymp Thanks you had me a little worried

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my dinner coach rank while I was away flying.

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They you gentlemen all together too well.

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All.

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Thanks for calling Sylvia. I had slept late. The day

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was almost gone. The apartment was already in shadows. The

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afternoon paper was on the lawn just outside my window.

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The paper. I threw on a robe and ducked out quickly,

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and I was back in the room, standing in the

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middle of the floor, holding it still folded in my hand,

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listening to the blood hammer in my head. I switched

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on the floor lamp and sank down into an easy chair.

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I lit a cigarette, and I took a deep drag,

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and I unfolded it, and that was all I had

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to do. It lay spread open in my lap. They'd

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found their biggest type for the headline, strangler strikes again.

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Hicks over here, Oh Sylvia, where's.

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Brav He called the last minute to say he'd be detained.

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It's like being married to a doctor.

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Drink meanwhile here he is now, Sorry to be late, darling. Hello,

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Dix brag you could join us.

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You look exhausted, bro all day.

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Haven't you seen the papers?

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No?

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I didn't get a chance.

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Why it's another.

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One, oh brod well, what's it all about?

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Another woman killed the same way.

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Did the commissioner call you in?

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Yeah, the whole department. We've been with him since five.

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We got to stop it, yes, darling. Oh was it

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someone important?

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No?

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No, it never is. Oh I forgot you were just

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a visit her Dix.

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You see.

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The only pattern we can find is in the time schedule.

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They come one a month regularly, must.

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Be star Rob. Would you like to order in a minute?

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Baby?

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I went on wine, have a high ball anyway, Malcolm, Yes,

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missus nikolay three Scotch and sodas Malcolm, Well, order later.

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Cut, ma'am.

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The first one was about four months ago, made to be.

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Exact, May sixteenth, the night before my birthday party.

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There was a girl down on skid Row. She was

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a nice enough kid, dancer in a cheap joint. We

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found her in an alley, strangled, no clues, and that

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was number one.

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Yeah.

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In June, number two we found her in Westlake Park.

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Wasn't any reason for it? A nice, normal girl, young

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and attractive. She'd been killed the same way and no clue.

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And then the others.

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Last night was the fourth, no mode of no connection

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between any of them, and never the same neighborhood. Last

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night Beverly Glen Canyon upward its country. She was lying

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in the brush at the side of the road. We're

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about five hundred car tracks superimposed on that particular stretch,

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so it wouldn't do any good to lift them. And

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but we've got one clue, a great one. We know

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the killer uses a car. How can you tell?

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Bruh?

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Well, her name was Mildred Atkinson, and she'd been playing

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bridge with three girl friends in Beverly. At eleven, she

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and another girl went out to the bus stop together.

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Friend caught a Wiltshire bus and left Mildred behind waiting

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for a Hollywood lit. So how did she get up

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to the canyon where we found her this morning? It's

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a long way. The answer is she went for a ride.

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Where's that drink?

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Just another minute, dawn.

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Los Angeles is too big, too sprawling. You can't patrol

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every street every night.

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He's safe.

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He's insane, of course.

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Sure he is a maniac walking in the streets, mannered

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and soft spoken and looking as normal as anyone a

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homicidal maniac. I sat there watching Brub's angry black eyes

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and Sylvia's white, pallid face. He's insane, of course. Their

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imaginations were poor, blunted little things, reaching only as far

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as the obvious. He's insane, of course, So that was

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to be the chorus, what could they know the world

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of imagination and beauty? In which a seen man as

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sane as any could kill and kill again?

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Don't you like it?

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Ran Dick?

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Huh oh sure, Boston the fog, Eh boy, but I

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know why do you?

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It could have been that little Banning girl over the

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next table. That could it be that she reminds you

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of someone?

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I don't know what you're talking about, brub What girl?

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And what them? Now he sees her?

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What's a mystery about Betsy Banning is?

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Dick's no, no, Darling, It's just that she's a dead

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ringer for another girl we used to know in England,

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especially Dix, he knew were well?

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Am I right?

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Yeah, yes, you're right little Brucie.

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This, sir, this girl is so much like her.

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You're wrong, Dick. She is not as pretty as Brucey.

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Don't you remember?

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Remember?

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Yes, I remember Brucie, But I didn't want to remember

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Bruce Bruceie of the Sea green Eyes, Bruceie, whom I

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had loved and wanted and needed.

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No, I'd been through it before. It was now that mattered.

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It was today in southern California, six thousand miles away

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from her, with something else hammering in my head to

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be looked at and examined. What Oh, yes, tires, they

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were good tires. No patches, no distinguishing marks. Robert said

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it himself. They couldn't get tire marks from dry concrete.

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I hadn't thought so. Still, I should have made sure

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certain gambols illegitimate, like taking Mildred to that drive in

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last night, gambling on the muddled memory of waitresses who

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served hundreds of average looking men and women every day,

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every night. Sure it was a risk. Her risks were

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like spice, like stunt flying. As long as you used

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them like spice, bearingly like stunts, planning them with precision.

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I could afford to take risks. I just couldn't make mistakes.

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I left the club right after dinner, got back to

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the apartment early. I pulled up in front and got out.

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I started up through the patio to my place at

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the rear. When I saw I wasn't alone out there.

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She was hurrying in, not noticing me. In the blue light.

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Her hair and her slacks and her jacket were all blue,

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different depths of blue. I did it out of impulse,

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without thought, I I beg your pardon.

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Where is it?

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I'm your neighbor. My name's Steele.

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So your name is Stele.

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Did you drop something?

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I don't know? Did I?

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Oh, no, you didn't. It's just conversation.

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Try again another time.

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No, no, no, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. I just

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lost my dinner date. I thought maybe you'd lost yours too.

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Sorry, mine'll be here any minute.

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You've got red hair. I didn't notice that.

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It's no secret.

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Like I say, I'm your neighbor for a If you

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do ever loseer dinner date, let me know.

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I'll be sure to make a note of that.

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Good night.

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I got some cold beer and some cheese from the

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refrigerator and draped myself over the dive in the night

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was a scorcher Los Angeles, September night. I lay there,

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eating and drinking and waiting for it. Not that I

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thought for a minute it would come, but I was

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waiting for it, and it did come. It's you.

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I've just lost a dinner day.

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Come in, come in. Maybe you'll find him here, I

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hope not.

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I told him I had a headache and was going

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to bed, and that I was disconnecting the phone.

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But I still want dinner?

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Do you mind if I finish my beer?

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Go ahead?

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I'm Dick Steele. Who are you?

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My name is Laurel, and that's all you get for

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the time being.

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Right, Laurel, I don't mind beginning at a crawl. I

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suppose you're in pictures.

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Not often. I don't like getting up morning now.

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I don't either. That's why I'm a writer. Why'd you

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come by, Laurel?

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Because I'm hungry?

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Because tonight I didn't want to sit opposite a man

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who's rich and sixty and eats oatmeal.

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You have a grudge against money, No.

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Only against the men and women who go with it,

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people who think that everything in life is for sale.

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I hate them.

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Sometimes they pay their rent, and the jewelers.

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They don't pay mine. How did we get onto this?

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Haven't you finished the beer yet?

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All finished? And already let's go, Laurel. We ated cars

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out on the road to Malibu. We didn't say much.

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We ate and smoked and had coffee, and I watched

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what the lights did glinting on that red hair. When

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we left there, I knew it. I knew it was

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the beginning of something, of something good. She was beside

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me and with me, and that was enough. I'd needed

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her for a long time, ever since, Brucie, that's how

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long this girl, this Laurel, could make it up to me.

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You could make me forget. I parked on an open

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stretch overlooking the dark beach in the ocean. She wanted

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to go down closer, so we left the car and

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struggled through the sand down to the water's edge. I

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held her hand tightly. The spin drifts sorted our lips.

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I haven't done this in a long, long time, having fun.

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O wonderful. You can really smell the ocean here. Breathe, Dix, Breathe.

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Deep, Laurel. Would you laugh at me if I said

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I was happy, that I never thought i'd be happy again,

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that I didn't think I could be. No, Dix, Laurel, Laurel,

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You're wonderful, Laurel.

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Come here, come here.

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Hello, Hello, Dix, it's prop. Did I break into your writing?

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No? No, not at all. What's up?

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Who was that redhead I seen you with last night?

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What are you talking about? Where did you see me?

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You didn't see us. We were pulling out a car's

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restaurant when you went in Sylvia spotted you, and I

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spotted the redhead.

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There are always people looking, brub, They're always eyes to see.

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Sure, boy, you can't take a step in this world.

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You know that. But listen.

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How about lunch? Fine? Fine? What time and where? Noon?

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At the Beverly Hills Station.

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Beverly Hills Station, Police Station.

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Kit pick me up there.

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Okay, bron, I'll see you there noon. That was a

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nice station you got there, brub flowers and shrubs and

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a white facade. It looks like a small Eastern university.

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Beverly Hills is just a small town. Dick's almost a village,

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but of course is first rate. I'll be working out

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of there from now on.

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How's the case coming in case? Oh that it's a

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dead end. I'm afraid you mean you're closing the books.

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Ah.

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We don't ever close the books.

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After the newspapers and all the rest of them, forget it.

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Our books are still open. That's the way it.

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Is, that's the way it has to be.

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I guess there's been tough cases before, but we find

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the answer. Our departments had cases running ten twelve years.

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Sometimes it's just because we're waiting for the next move,

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but we find them.

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This is dick so o, pal remembered. What are you

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trying to tell me that the criminal doesn't escape? That's right,

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one way or another. He's caught. Sometimes it's because he's

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caught there in that lonely place, living with himself, so

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it ends in suicide. Or the insane is silent, but

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there's no escape. You were saying the other night that

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this killer is insane.

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He is.

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I can't figure it. He's been pretty smart, hasn't he.

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The insane are more clever about their business and more

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careful too, than the same. It's normal for them to

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be sly and secretive. That's part of the menia. But

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they give themselves away. How do you like a a

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apple pie?

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Just like Mom used to make? How do they give

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themselves away? And they repeat the pattern? Now take the strangler.

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Look at his pattern. I don't see any I must

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be riding a lousy detective medal.

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Okay, Look it's a girl at night alone. He comes

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along in a car, she accepts a ride.

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You're positive about the car. It has to be.

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My theory is he didn't use it on the last one,

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on Mildred until he'd made the approach on foot and lowder.

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She was waiting for a bus and he's waiting on

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the same corner and gets to talking. He invites her

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to have a cup of coffee, and then he mentions

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his cars and far away, and he'll give her a lift.

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He takes her to the drive in drive in. What

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drive in?

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Oh, that's something new. One of the car hops recognized

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Mildred's picture after the story broke. She remembered her coming

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in with a man in ordering coffee.

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Good girl, that's a big help. Yeah it is. And

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the man did she remember him? It could be you

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me or our grandfather's. No, she couldn't remain. Half a

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loaf is better than none.

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I've got to go up to Beverly Glenn, the scene

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of the crime.

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Want to come along, I had a date. Come on,

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I can give you a better idea of what we're

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up against. All right, I'll charge it up to research

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on the book.

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Good show me and take your car of mine?

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What was that my car? Why was brob suspicious? Did

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he want my car back up on that street? That street?

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Was this lunch arranged? No, I'd already hesitated too long

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in answering. It couldn't matter which car it had been

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too late and too foggy. Did you say something, Brob,

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I'm sorry.

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Thinking about the redhead, I said, whose car do we take?

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Yours are mine? Oh, you might as well take mine.

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You don't mind another passenger hot at all? The Chief

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wants to come along, Jack Blackner. We'll go back by

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the station for him.

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We swung out towards sunset, all three of us up front.

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Lockner was a tall, thin man with wispy gray hair.

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He didn't look like the chief of anything. I drove carefully.

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I suppose it's the thing to do with cops. Besides him,

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I stay for a ride. Yeah, okay, so I'll shut up.

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This is a dick's turnRight, Beverly Glenn. My hands began

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to sweat. If brub hadn't called out, I knew I

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would have turned out of that street myself automatically. And

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I was a visitor from the east who didn't know

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the country very well. There was tension in my hands

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and arms, fear that I might recognize the place at

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the side of the road and react to it. And

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then slowly I relaxed again, realizing that I didn't know

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the road, that I could never find the spot even

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if I wanted to, for it had been dark. We

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climbed into the valley. There was a chill in the air,

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and the sun was far away. Nobody spoke. These two

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men were on a case that had them tired and sore.

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It wasn't the time for a conversation.

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Piece.

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I drove on, waiting for somebody to tell me to stop.

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Here we are huh, Just pull up along here, mister Steele.

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If you will, is this way.

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You found her right there in the brush.

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You see how thick it is in here. He'd have

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known that. He'd have figured that she wouldn't be found

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for a long time, with the leaves falling on her,

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covering her, and every day there'd be more leaves. Not

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many people look off at the side of the road

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when they're driving, not unless there's something seen to look

479
00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:02.799
at this canyon, it'd be perfect.

480
00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:04.480
Then how is she found so quickly?

481
00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:04.960
Look?

482
00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:07.559
Nope, man picked this spot in the world to have

483
00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:08.079
a flat.

484
00:26:08.200 --> 00:26:13.519
The killer figured it's smart. See how the road curves here. Well,

485
00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:17.000
he could see any lights coming from behind two loops below,

486
00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:19.119
and he could look up to the top of the

487
00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:22.119
hill see the lights of a car approaching him. When

488
00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:25.920
it takes the first of those two curves, he can

489
00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:29.200
sit with her in the car, looking like a spooner

490
00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:33.839
until the other cars go by. He was playing it safe,

491
00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:38.279
so he does it. He opens the door of the car,

492
00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:40.920
he rolls her out into the leaves, and he's away.

493
00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:44.440
No chance of being caught at it, and strangling is

494
00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:45.319
the easiest way.

495
00:26:45.559 --> 00:26:50.720
Yes, yeah, that makes sense. How about it, Rob find anything?

496
00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:54.279
The experts had been over every inch with their microscopes.

497
00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:58.119
He won't find anything. Prodi wanted to have another look around,

498
00:26:58.160 --> 00:26:59.079
so I came along.

499
00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:02.319
Well, it seems hope to me, mister Lockney, if there's

500
00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:04.480
nothing here. Of all places, where can you look?

501
00:27:04.599 --> 00:27:06.240
Only one place we'll find anything?

502
00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:09.799
And where's that? In his car, in the murderer's car.

503
00:27:10.119 --> 00:27:13.480
That's where the evidence is right now, enough to send

504
00:27:13.519 --> 00:27:14.960
them to the gas chamber.

505
00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:22.599
Cigarette Captain Lotty? Yeah, thanks, got it?

506
00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:23.359
Ye got it.

507
00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:29.599
You. You haven't been able to get a description of

508
00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:31.119
that car yet, have you not yet?

509
00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:33.519
We're working on the people at the drive in. One

510
00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:35.119
of them is going to remember.

511
00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:36.759
And when you find it, then you will go through

512
00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:39.680
it for those clues that you were talking about. Hairpins

513
00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:40.279
and lipstick.

514
00:27:40.359 --> 00:27:45.160
No mister Steele, nothing like that. What then, dust, mister Steve.

515
00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:46.559
Dust.

516
00:27:46.839 --> 00:27:49.200
You don't heard the man Dix? He said, dust like

517
00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:51.599
this stuff all over me. No matter how much I

518
00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:53.319
beat it, I can't get it all out.

519
00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:57.400
Yeah, that's dust. We've got dust from the drive in,

520
00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:00.279
dust from her clothes and her shoes, and dust from

521
00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:04.440
here on a little thicket off Beverly Glen, three different kinds,

522
00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:07.039
and all of them in Hayscott.

523
00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:10.559
It's really fantastic. And even in ten or twelve years,

524
00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:13.319
the dust will still be there, some of it will. Yeah,

525
00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:16.480
you want my opinion of this case, gentlemen, The strangler

526
00:28:16.519 --> 00:28:20.480
doesn't have a chance. I swung the car around and

527
00:28:20.519 --> 00:28:23.759
we rolled back down the canyon and into town. They

528
00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:27.319
were sitting beside me again, up front, sitting on the

529
00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:30.680
dust they wanted so desperately, breathing it into their lungs,

530
00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:32.960
having it settle on the flesh of their hands and

531
00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:36.680
their faces and in their hair. The golden little molecules

532
00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:39.640
that would send the strangler to the gas chamber floated

533
00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:42.759
gently and unseen before our eyes as we drove back,

534
00:28:43.799 --> 00:28:48.599
and I felt good. My hands were easy on the wheel.

535
00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:52.200
I could be talkative now, I was expected to be

536
00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:55.759
curious and impressed. I would come back to it again.

537
00:28:57.720 --> 00:28:59.640
Did it help you, Brud? Coming back?

538
00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:01.960
I didn't find anything. Didn't expect to.

539
00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:03.160
You know something.

540
00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:07.720
He's from the East, yes, oh though you mean the

541
00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:09.480
waitress recognized in an Eastern accent.

542
00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:12.400
No, he talked just like anybody else. No accent, that's

543
00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:13.920
just Lockner's reconstruction.

544
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:16.640
He's from the East. I know that he's a mugger.

545
00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:19.160
I'm afraid I don't follow your, cap'n. What's a mugger?

546
00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:21.759
Certain gangs used to operate in New York. One man

547
00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:24.880
would get the victims, so you see, with his right arm,

548
00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:27.559
and the others had robb him until they found out

549
00:29:27.559 --> 00:29:29.839
it could be a one man job. You don't need

550
00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:32.599
more than two fingers to strangle a man or a woman.

551
00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:35.440
He's a mugger. He doesn't use his fingers. There are

552
00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:39.880
any finger marks. He used his arm. He's from the East.

553
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:42.680
As a fellow Eastern there, cap lock, Now you must

554
00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:44.960
admit that a Westerner could have learned the trick.

555
00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:47.279
I've seen the way they did it in New York.

556
00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:49.839
He knows how same way.

557
00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:52.440
I think you're right, Locke. We keep getting.

558
00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:55.559
Closer will miss Steele. I get out right here, all right.

559
00:29:58.359 --> 00:30:01.240
Thanks for the lift, Steve, Thanks for letting me go along.

560
00:30:01.480 --> 00:30:03.000
I'll see you at the station bra.

561
00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:12.759
Ever since this thing started, I've.

562
00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:16.359
Been afraid for for her. You mean Sylvia.

563
00:30:16.599 --> 00:30:18.920
She's lived in the canyon all her life. She never

564
00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:21.599
had any fear, wandered all over at any time of day.

565
00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:24.359
But the canyon at night, the way the fogs come

566
00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:26.279
in is it's a place for him, and I have

567
00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:29.559
scared her. She's alone so much. I never know what

568
00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:32.519
hours I have to keep. You know our street, how

569
00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:34.400
dark and lonely it is, and the way our house

570
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:37.720
is set up there. I'm the one who scared Dix.

571
00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:39.720
I've infected her and I can't help. But I can't

572
00:30:39.720 --> 00:30:43.279
pretend until we've caught him. She isn't safe.

573
00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:48.799
Sylvia isn't safe. I saw how it was with both

574
00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:53.160
of them, how they clung together, fear in both of them,

575
00:30:54.039 --> 00:30:56.480
the woman fearing to have her man close on the

576
00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:00.960
heels of a murderer, and Brob afraid for her because

577
00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:04.039
she was a woman, because she was his woman, and

578
00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:08.200
women were being stalked in the night. And yet even

579
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:11.880
though he was afraid, he would leave her because he

580
00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:15.960
was a hunter and this was a big hunt for

581
00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:20.920
wild game, Yeah, wild game.

582
00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:33.519
In Tonight's full hour of Suspense, mister Robert Montgomery stars

583
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:37.559
has Dixon Steel in the play in a Lonely Place,

584
00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:49.119
Tonight's study in Suspense. In just a moment, we will

585
00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:51.160
return with that two of suspense.

586
00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:56.359
Listen is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System and.

587
00:31:56.359 --> 00:32:00.839
Now back to our Hollywood soundstage and act two in

588
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:04.759
a Lonely Place starring mister Robert Montgomery in a narrative

589
00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:07.799
well calculated to keep you in suspen.

590
00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:23.119
I was very tired, tired of thinking about Sylvia and

591
00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:26.240
Brubb and the fear that had bound them as desperately

592
00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:29.480
as their love for each other. I was weary of

593
00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:32.519
the big hunt for I was hunting on my own.

594
00:32:33.319 --> 00:32:37.000
I was looking for happiness. I spent the next few

595
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:39.440
days with Laurel. It got so that I didn't count

596
00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:43.200
the hours anymore. All I knew was beauty, and I

597
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:48.519
knew intensity, and I called it happiness, and all the

598
00:32:48.599 --> 00:32:52.440
time I knew it wouldn't last. I sensed the restlessness

599
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:53.920
coming into her. I could feel it.

600
00:32:57.400 --> 00:32:59.880
Dix, Dix, what is it?

601
00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:09.799
Did I say something Laurel, Laurel, Oh, what is it?

602
00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:11.480
You tell me?

603
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:15.680
You've been sitting there without moving for more than an hour.

604
00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:17.160
Just daydreaming.

605
00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:20.240
Was it something nice? Tell me about it?

606
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:22.599
Turn off the radio. Dixon's making me nervous.

607
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:25.359
All right?

608
00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:27.200
You like a drink?

609
00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:27.759
Yes?

610
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:28.279
Please?

611
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:38.000
Thanks?

612
00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:40.720
You know what we ought to do tonight? Go out

613
00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:43.119
on the town, put on our Sunday best and have

614
00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:45.480
the biggest dinner on the menu. The sky is the limit.

615
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:46.240
How does that sound?

616
00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:48.880
Where do you want to go to a drive in?

617
00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:50.599
Text?

618
00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:55.440
I'm sorry? Seemed to be all thumbs No, no, no,

619
00:33:55.440 --> 00:34:00.319
that's all. I didn't want it anyway. Oh baby, drive

620
00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:02.839
in for you tonight? You're not the drive in type?

621
00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:04.880
What type?

622
00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:05.279
Am I?

623
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:09.079
The cero type? Baby, expensive and plush and chromium plate

624
00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:11.639
it CEO's. That'll do fine. I'll call a reserve a

625
00:34:11.679 --> 00:34:12.559
table for ten o'class.

626
00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:15.000
Save your money. You can take me to a drive

627
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:15.519
in tonight.

628
00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:17.320
I won't take you to a drive in.

629
00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:20.239
Why not? Are you afraid someone might see you there?

630
00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:20.599
Is that?

631
00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:20.920
Why?

632
00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:21.920
What do you mean by that?

633
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:23.400
I mean you're keeping hitting away from sight?

634
00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:25.519
Is if we might run into some of your friends

635
00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:27.920
like that brub and Sylvia is if I wasn't good

636
00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:28.440
enough for you.

637
00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:35.599
Look, baby, relax, you're not making sense. Didn't I say

638
00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:38.440
I wanted to spread out tonight, guest, get dressed up

639
00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:42.159
for once and go to CEO's. Hide you away. You

640
00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:44.320
come with me tonight and I'll show you all for

641
00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:45.480
everybody to see.

642
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:49.079
No, I'm tired. I don't want to get dressed and

643
00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:50.760
go places. All I want is to go up to

644
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:51.280
the drive.

645
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:54.960
We're not going to the drive in. We're not going.

646
00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:56.280
You're hurting me.

647
00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:06.480
Hello, Hello, Dix, How are you fine? What's on your mind?

648
00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:08.440
Can you come over to the house. I want to

649
00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:08.840
see you.

650
00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:10.400
Sorry, bro, but I got a date tonight.

651
00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:12.000
I have just had a letter from England.

652
00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:12.440
Dicks.

653
00:35:12.599 --> 00:35:13.760
It's about Brucie.

654
00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:15.239
Brucie.

655
00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:22.920
That's right, Okay, I'll be right over. Okay, it seems

656
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:26.920
that I can't have dinner with you after all. All right,

657
00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:34.719
you don't seem very unhappy about it. Hello, Yes, I'm sorry.

658
00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:36.280
If I hurt you, forget it.

659
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:36.880
It's all right.

660
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:42.199
We haven't been softlovers. We haven't played it that way.

661
00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:47.679
The world keeps coming in between us. That makes me afraid.

662
00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:50.559
Why should you be afraid?

663
00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:54.760
Because I might lose you. I have to keep telling

664
00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:58.840
myself to remember, to remember that I can't take any

665
00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:01.519
chances that I can't lose you.

666
00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:04.159
I can't, Laurel.

667
00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:11.440
Don't be afraid, Dix. You see I love you very much.

668
00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:23.519
Have a chair, Dix, All right?

669
00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:25.320
Would you care for anything to eat?

670
00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:25.480
No?

671
00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:31.280
Thanks, Sylvy. I just finished him, remember Adam Tyne Dix? No,

672
00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:34.679
sure you do. The flight commander from Bath. Nice quiet fellow.

673
00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:36.639
We saw a lot of him, that's spring and forty three.

674
00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:38.280
We knew a lot of fellas over there. Brother, I

675
00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:38.840
don't remember.

676
00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:41.760
Well, it's not important. Accept that I've had a letter

677
00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:44.599
from him first one and more than a year. That's

678
00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:45.960
a sad piece of news.

679
00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:46.280
Dix.

680
00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:55.800
Let's have it. Brucie is dead. Brucie, It's dead, Brucie.

681
00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:02.880
Xy Dix, I'm sorry, Dix. I guess none of us

682
00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:04.679
realized how much, how much you and.

683
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.960
Bruce Brucey, we didn't know, Dix.

684
00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:16.360
No, how could you? How could anyone know? How did

685
00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:16.920
she die?

686
00:37:18.079 --> 00:37:23.960
Buys Bob's no, Well then how how she was murdered?

687
00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:25.519
Murdered?

688
00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:26.559
Yeah, murdered?

689
00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:29.760
Well huh why?

690
00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:31.119
Why?

691
00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:34.559
Who the police have never found out. Better not talk

692
00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:35.559
about it, Dix, Oh, I.

693
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:37.920
Want to talk about it. I want to know who

694
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:38.280
did it.

695
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:42.239
Why should anyone kill Bruce They don't know. Her family

696
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:44.440
missed her for two weeks. When she was found, it

697
00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:47.000
was in a rocky cove. She'd been strangled.

698
00:37:55.480 --> 00:38:01.159
Brucie was dead. Brucie, whom I had loved it, who

699
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:06.360
was my only love. Bruceie was dead, and no one cared.

700
00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:28.559
No one in all the world cared except me. I

701
00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:32.199
called Laurel when I got home that night. She didn't answer.

702
00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:35.000
I stepped outside and looked up to her apartment across

703
00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:37.960
the patio from mine. It was dark. She didn't come

704
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:40.199
home at all that night, or the next day, or

705
00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:42.599
the next night. No word from her, not a sign.

706
00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:47.800
Nothing following morning was a dirty gray rag. I call

707
00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:51.679
Laurel's number once more, no answer. I had to get

708
00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:54.880
out of that cramped room, away from the unremembered shape

709
00:38:54.920 --> 00:38:57.559
of my dreams. I didn't take the car. I wanted

710
00:38:57.559 --> 00:39:01.239
to breathe, put motion into my body. I walked as

711
00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:03.199
far as Wilsham, then went up to Beverly Drive to

712
00:39:03.239 --> 00:39:04.960
my favorite delicatest.

713
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:08.960
Dick, where'd you spring from?

714
00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:12.920
Well, a guy gets hungry, brouck, how are you, Captain Locker?

715
00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:15.400
Fine? Fine, good to say again.

716
00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:18.800
Slide in, Okay, thanks, would you like, Jordan ouncer.

717
00:39:18.559 --> 00:39:20.960
If you please salami, sandwich on rye and a beer.

718
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:22.159
Please, It'll be just a few minutes.

719
00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:24.920
Well, I'm more trouble in Beverly.

720
00:39:25.239 --> 00:39:26.679
No, same oldcasion.

721
00:39:26.679 --> 00:39:28.639
I'm not going to let it happen again, that's all.

722
00:39:28.679 --> 00:39:31.039
And you think it comes from this neighborhood.

723
00:39:31.159 --> 00:39:34.199
It's the last clue we have. We pick up a

724
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:35.679
little more each time of check.

725
00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:37.239
Yeah, but where do you check? How?

726
00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:40.199
And we've been talking to the help again. It's the

727
00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:42.079
drive in where he stopped with her that night.

728
00:39:42.159 --> 00:39:43.400
Any luck, I.

729
00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:45.679
Don't know yet. In these neighborhood spots, a lot of

730
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:47.159
people combined eat regularly.

731
00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:48.880
I got to thinking about it.

732
00:39:49.559 --> 00:39:51.599
There must have been some of the regulars around that

733
00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:55.199
night when he took Mildred in for coffee, the Nerva

734
00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:58.000
driving in there, coming in under all those bright lights,

735
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:00.239
and gambling that no one would remember what he looked like.

736
00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:05.000
You and me, brob an ordinary man, Yeah, an ordinary

737
00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:07.880
man with the nerve of a jet pilot. I see

738
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:11.559
what you're after, Brah. Have the help ask questions of

739
00:40:11.599 --> 00:40:14.119
the regulars when they come in. Were they at the

740
00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:16.159
drive in the night of the murder? And did they

741
00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:18.599
see the couple? That's it? And I suppose you're hoping

742
00:40:18.599 --> 00:40:19.760
this fellow is a repeater.

743
00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:21.559
Too, and that'd be a break. But there's no chance,

744
00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:24.639
no chance except for his nerve.

745
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:27.159
You mean he might have the nerve to walk in again.

746
00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:30.079
He might take She just might. And you think the

747
00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:32.760
help might spot him if he did. I think they might.

748
00:40:33.480 --> 00:40:37.440
They're keyed up to remember, mister Steele, the little car

749
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:39.960
hop gene ther name is swear she'd know him again

750
00:40:40.039 --> 00:40:43.679
if he came in. She'll know him if she sees.

751
00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:46.320
Him again, Only she can't describe him. That's the trouble

752
00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:47.480
with people in these cases.

753
00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:50.239
You remember how it was when we were flying, Brob,

754
00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:52.840
How do you mean you said yourself, he's a gambler,

755
00:40:53.079 --> 00:40:56.039
he's reckless. I mean he'll take chances, like going to

756
00:40:56.079 --> 00:40:59.039
that drive in before killing the girl. Well, it occurs

757
00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:01.239
to me that it's the same kind of recklessness we

758
00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:04.519
had when we were flying during the war. We took chances,

759
00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:07.440
but we were sure that we'd pull out of them.

760
00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:09.440
Mister Steele makes sense.

761
00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:12.320
And something else. He's probably an ex serviceman. How do

762
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:14.000
you figure that? Well, the people who saw him at

763
00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:16.039
the drive in or say he's a nice looking fellow

764
00:41:16.039 --> 00:41:18.719
with nice clothes. At least that's what the newspaper accounts

765
00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:21.559
have to say. Am I right so far? Then it's

766
00:41:21.559 --> 00:41:25.119
ten to one. He's the right age, good, healthy specimen average,

767
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:29.760
the average were in the service. That's not a very

768
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:33.480
brilliant deduction, but it fills out the picture a little more.

769
00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:35.559
I'll buy that, mister Steele.

770
00:41:36.119 --> 00:41:37.639
Yeah, I'm little too.

771
00:41:38.199 --> 00:41:40.039
Well, I'll be getting back to the office.

772
00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:42.159
I'll be in a little later today, Chief okay.

773
00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:45.039
By the way, Captain Lockner, yeah, every time I see you,

774
00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:46.719
I seem to be asking a lot of questions. I

775
00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:47.960
hope you haven't minded.

776
00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:50.599
Not at all, brob vauts here a long time ago.

777
00:41:50.800 --> 00:41:51.800
You just keep asking.

778
00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:54.000
I will, Captain, and thanks, And.

779
00:41:54.039 --> 00:41:56.519
I'm late now. I'm want to check over those Bruce

780
00:41:56.599 --> 00:41:59.239
reports again. See me as soon as you get back.

781
00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:01.159
Right, here's yoder, sir.

782
00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:05.079
I beg fine, wasn't yours the salami sales?

783
00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:05.400
Oh?

784
00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:06.000
Yes, thank you?

785
00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:07.599
I would that be all today?

786
00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:14.360
Yeah, that's all you checks, sir, Thank you, Bruce It

787
00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:16.880
is a pretty common name. There must be a hundred

788
00:42:16.920 --> 00:42:19.920
thousand in the United States at least, and hundreds in

789
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:24.559
Los Angeles. Yeah, he said he was going to check

790
00:42:24.599 --> 00:42:28.760
the bruce reports. It's not the same one, Rock, It

791
00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:30.000
couldn't be, not Brucie.

792
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:32.639
I'm sorry, Dick Sein and know it's a raw wound,

793
00:42:32.679 --> 00:42:35.440
but I couldn't help talking to Lockner about her. I

794
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:37.239
was knocked off my pins when I heard the news,

795
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:38.920
and I wanted to report on the case. I figured

796
00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:41.440
you'd want one too. You were right then what happened?

797
00:42:41.639 --> 00:42:44.119
Lock cabled to London police. He thought it did help

798
00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:46.599
us that maybe Brucey was one of a series like

799
00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:50.440
our series. It's far fetched, but the killer might have

800
00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:53.320
been an American. England was full of geis at the time.

801
00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:55.519
And was she one of the series?

802
00:42:55.880 --> 00:42:58.400
They don't know it was a series, but it didn't

803
00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:01.480
start right after Bruceie. Couple of months then it began

804
00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:04.960
the same pattern. Strangler, Well, what was the matter with him?

805
00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:05.880
Couldn't they catch him?

806
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:06.039
No?

807
00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:07.079
I was never caught.

808
00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:11.199
After six months, it stopped just as suddenly as it

809
00:43:11.239 --> 00:43:13.599
had begun. Maybe he was shipped back home.

810
00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:17.159
If I could ever find him, if I could ever

811
00:43:17.199 --> 00:43:20.559
get my hands on him, A man who killed Brucie.

812
00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:23.719
I guess we feel the same about that. Do you

813
00:43:23.719 --> 00:43:25.880
want to come back with me, Dixon, see the reports?

814
00:43:26.079 --> 00:43:28.840
No, I I don't think I could take them, brub

815
00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:31.519
You understand, of course I do, ticks, of course I do.

816
00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:39.039
I went back to the apartment and lay on the

817
00:43:39.079 --> 00:43:42.280
dive nd for the rest of the afternoon, thinking about Brucie,

818
00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:47.840
strangled so many miles away, and Laurel, who lived just

819
00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:50.159
across the patio from me and had disappeared as if

820
00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:53.119
the earth had swallowed it. I thought of them both,

821
00:43:53.679 --> 00:43:56.280
and soon their figures swam together in my mind and

822
00:43:56.320 --> 00:44:00.920
were commingled so that they became one. Was already dark,

823
00:44:01.639 --> 00:44:04.519
and I found myself very hungry. I got in the

824
00:44:04.559 --> 00:44:07.719
coop and drove over to wheelchair, not knowing where I'd eat,

825
00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:14.719
passed the Savoy Romanov's the Tropics, and then suddenly the

826
00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:18.239
brilliant lights of the driving glittered ahead at me. I

827
00:44:18.239 --> 00:44:21.440
didn't stop to think. I twisted the wheel and pulled

828
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:25.039
into a parking space right up front, right under the lights.

829
00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:28.320
They were looking for a man of my height, a

830
00:44:28.440 --> 00:44:32.639
man of my build. I was here for them. I'd come.

831
00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:36.239
Two young fellas were in the card in my left,

832
00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:41.559
a middle aged coupled in my right. No police, no

833
00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:47.320
police inside. I was safe. The girl who came with

834
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:49.960
the menu was pert and pretty, no more than sixteen.

835
00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:52.920
Good evening, Hello, what se a menu?

836
00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:55.679
I know what I want. I'll have the special tonight.

837
00:44:56.119 --> 00:44:57.440
It's kind of a celebration.

838
00:44:57.559 --> 00:44:58.239
Yes, I.

839
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:03.239
I wondered what the girl's name was. I wondered if

840
00:45:03.280 --> 00:45:05.960
she was Jean, the car hop whom the police had alerted,

841
00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:08.079
the girl who had come up to each customer in

842
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:12.440
the hope of finding me, and here to night she

843
00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:17.679
had found me, and she didn't know it. I ate slowly,

844
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:21.440
lingering over the food, and before I left, I handed

845
00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:25.360
her a large tip, just to be sure she remembered me.

846
00:45:26.360 --> 00:45:32.079
She thanked me, smiling and said, and I promised I would.

847
00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:35.559
I went out Wiltshiir to the ocean. The fog blew

848
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:38.320
in at fourteenth Street, and I should have turned back then,

849
00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:43.880
but I didn't. I could hear the boom of the breakers,

850
00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:46.960
and I could smell the sea in the fog, and

851
00:45:47.039 --> 00:45:50.599
the fog itself was sweet and cool. It was silent.

852
00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:55.159
The world was shrouded in mists and silence except for

853
00:45:55.199 --> 00:45:58.159
the thump of the water, the far off cry of

854
00:45:58.199 --> 00:46:04.119
the fog horn. And then, at that moment, I knew

855
00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:08.800
what I was going to do. I got out of

856
00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:12.519
the car, and I listened to my footsteps across the

857
00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:16.519
pavement towards the beach, and then I listened to the

858
00:46:16.599 --> 00:46:21.519
silence as I began walking in the sand, Sludging through

859
00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:25.360
heavy damp sand, I passed the clover I'd gone to

860
00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:28.639
dinner one night with Brub where I'd seen a young girl,

861
00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:34.360
a pretty brown haired girl who looked like Brucie. I

862
00:46:34.440 --> 00:46:37.840
went on, trying to forget it. I drifted along the

863
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:40.639
deserted beach, looking for the shape of a living thing

864
00:46:41.880 --> 00:46:46.320
of a woman. So I was alone. I passed a

865
00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:49.239
beach house where people huddled together in warmth and gayety,

866
00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:52.960
and found myself trembling with hatred for Lauol. If she

867
00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:54.800
had come back to me, I'd not be shut out

868
00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:58.760
like this, cut off. Always leave you before you're ready.

869
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:03.239
Hoped on my feet changed in the MUDs, and I

870
00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:06.199
stumbled and fell to one knee. I stayed there, my

871
00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:09.199
head buried in my arms. I was there for a

872
00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:10.199
long time.

873
00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:14.519
Lost in the world of swirling fog and a crashing wave,

874
00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:18.800
lost in a lonely place, and the red knots tightened

875
00:47:18.840 --> 00:47:19.440
in my brain.

876
00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:24.719
Suddenly something came running through the darkness. A small, dark

877
00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:27.800
shape hurkled upon me, and I realized it was a dog,

878
00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:33.920
a friendly terrier. I stroked it gently and held it close,

879
00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:38.840
and then there were footsteps coming over the sand. I

880
00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:42.199
could feel my blood begins the pound with excitement. Where

881
00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:46.599
there was a dog, there was a master or a mistress.

882
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:51.280
The sound of the steps came closer, and then she

883
00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.639
stepped forward out of the fog. I looked up from

884
00:47:54.679 --> 00:48:00.360
the dog and said hello, and then I smiled. She

885
00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:02.960
couldn't know that behind that smile lay.

886
00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:06.320
My hatred of Laurel, my hatred of bub my hatred

887
00:48:06.400 --> 00:48:09.840
of Sylvia, my hatred of Lachna, of everyone in the

888
00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:11.239
whole living world, of.

889
00:48:11.239 --> 00:48:35.840
Everyone but Brucie. And Brucie was dead Laurel at last, Laurel.

890
00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:40.920
No, it isn't Laurel. What brings you brub Am?

891
00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:41.719
I invited in.

892
00:48:41.920 --> 00:48:47.599
Yeah, of course, so dah yeah, anything wrong?

893
00:48:48.199 --> 00:48:48.840
Plenty wrong?

894
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:49.800
Is it?

895
00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:50.239
Sylvia?

896
00:48:50.679 --> 00:48:50.880
No?

897
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:52.840
What makes you think it is?

898
00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:53.039
Well?

899
00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:55.360
I don't know. You look so worried. You mean you

900
00:48:55.400 --> 00:48:57.920
mean you don't know what's happened. I don't know. From nothing.

901
00:48:58.599 --> 00:49:01.039
I awoke to a beautiful morning, the birds singing, the

902
00:49:01.079 --> 00:49:04.159
California sunshine, and I decided it was a day for

903
00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:06.960
the beach. I've been out there all day riding the breakers. Oh,

904
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:07.960
wonderful sport.

905
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:09.599
You were at the beach today?

906
00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:10.679
Sure?

907
00:49:11.519 --> 00:49:15.360
What's wrong with that? He was out again last night.

908
00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:19.800
The strangler. He did it on a beach. Bro again.

909
00:49:20.079 --> 00:49:23.239
The little Banning girl, Betsy Banning. You remember the girl

910
00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:28.599
that looked like busy. Yeah, I remember. When I get him,

911
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:31.559
and I will get him. I'm gonna kill him, and

912
00:49:31.719 --> 00:49:34.679
ben to kill him with my hands, the way he

913
00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:36.920
likes to do it. Oh, I'll take it easy, brother,

914
00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:40.199
Would you like a drink? She always took her dog

915
00:49:40.239 --> 00:49:42.400
out for a run at night, no matter what time

916
00:49:42.440 --> 00:49:42.800
it was.

917
00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:47.159
She wasn't afraid. She was like Sylvia. The ocean was

918
00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:51.480
always something safe, something good. And she had her dog

919
00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:57.639
and the dog buried in the sand, dead, strangled, poor

920
00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:00.639
fella right on time. Just about a month on the

921
00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:01.719
nose every month.

922
00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:03.440
And no clues on the.

923
00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:07.280
Sands, No, no clues no buttons, no fingerprints, no cigarette stubs,

924
00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:09.079
no match folders, not even a calling card.

925
00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:11.960
Well, there's not much I'm good for at a time

926
00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:15.840
like this, but if there's anything I can do, Brub, anything.

927
00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:17.960
That was in the neighborhood, I had to stop by

928
00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:22.199
and talk, how are we going now? Thanks Dix.

929
00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:32.320
Anytime, Brub, you know that anytime. The sand had been

930
00:50:32.360 --> 00:50:36.119
my first mistake, for sand was an evil, penetrating thing

931
00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:38.760
and could never wholly be rid of it. If dust

932
00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:42.039
could tell a story, then sand screamed out its secrets aloud.

933
00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:45.480
That was why the morning afterward early I had gone

934
00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:47.199
down to the beach and spent the whole day there

935
00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:49.400
in the sand. That was why I had been ready

936
00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:51.800
for Brubb when he came. That was why I was

937
00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:55.000
ready for the whole La police force if they wanted

938
00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:58.119
to come. After Brub left, I went out of the

939
00:50:58.159 --> 00:51:00.559
house and drove to the cleaners on Pico and left

940
00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:03.599
a bundle of dirty clothes, and I ate Beverly and

941
00:51:03.639 --> 00:51:06.159
afterward went into Warner's Theater for a double bill. On

942
00:51:06.239 --> 00:51:08.519
the way home, I thought I was being followed a

943
00:51:08.599 --> 00:51:11.199
large gray sedan that stayed with me for three miles

944
00:51:11.199 --> 00:51:14.119
when I was wrong. We were together in a red light,

945
00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:16.199
and when it changed, the sedan shot ahead of me

946
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:23.119
and disappeared into the night. I slept without dreams, and

947
00:51:23.199 --> 00:51:27.360
didn't wake until late afternoon of the next day, and

948
00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:31.760
still Laurel hadn't come back. Do you love me, I'd

949
00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:35.039
ask him, and she said yes.

950
00:51:36.360 --> 00:51:39.679
She lied in my face and in my arms. I

951
00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:41.679
hated her, a cheek and a liar.

952
00:51:42.400 --> 00:51:44.920
No one cared, No one ever cared.

953
00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:50.079
Only brucee Brucie, who was dead, who had left me

954
00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:54.880
alone alone forever for all of my life.

955
00:51:56.360 --> 00:52:12.159
Ah, mister Steele, Yes, Captain Lockner would like to see

956
00:52:12.199 --> 00:52:12.920
you for the station.

957
00:52:13.039 --> 00:52:15.280
If you don't mind, I don't mind at all. Or

958
00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:15.960
take your time.

959
00:52:16.039 --> 00:52:18.159
There's no hurry. Well that's all right, I'm ready. Now

960
00:52:18.440 --> 00:52:20.360
you can follow me in your own curve. You right,

961
00:52:20.639 --> 00:52:24.079
it doesn't matter. You might as well take yours. You

962
00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:25.880
know the way, don't you? Oh? Yes, I know the way.

963
00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:31.119
So they wanted to look at my car by Lockner

964
00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:36.400
kept me occupied. I laughed out loud, driving over. Let

965
00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:38.880
them crawl through. I'd let them look at the sand

966
00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:41.880
and the dust, let them make casts of the tires.

967
00:52:41.920 --> 00:52:44.880
It didn't mean nothing to me. It only made the

968
00:52:44.960 --> 00:52:46.199
game more exciting.

969
00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:48.800
But maybe you could help us steal.

970
00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:51.559
I'd be glad to captain you name it.

971
00:52:51.559 --> 00:52:54.599
It's the Bruce case, the English girl. I understand you

972
00:52:54.719 --> 00:52:55.199
know her.

973
00:52:55.119 --> 00:52:57.639
Yes, yes, brother and I both know her. Wonderful girl.

974
00:52:57.880 --> 00:53:00.840
I've been doing a good deal of thinking about miss Bruce.

975
00:53:01.159 --> 00:53:03.559
Brub told me your idea. It could have been the

976
00:53:03.559 --> 00:53:04.039
same man.

977
00:53:04.159 --> 00:53:06.320
I got a list here of American men who were

978
00:53:06.360 --> 00:53:09.199
friendly with the Bruce girl, and we're all in England

979
00:53:09.199 --> 00:53:10.000
when it happened.

980
00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:11.039
Just look it over.

981
00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:14.280
See what you can remember about these men, anything they

982
00:53:14.360 --> 00:53:14.880
might have said.

983
00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:23.000
John here, Oh, I see Brub's name is Anna. Yeah,

984
00:53:23.239 --> 00:53:23.719
mine too.

985
00:53:24.119 --> 00:53:26.159
But you'd been transferred before then, Dixon.

986
00:53:26.239 --> 00:53:29.320
My transfer wasn't completed until after I got back from Scotland.

987
00:53:29.519 --> 00:53:30.960
I had a month's leave accumulated.

988
00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:32.880
You came home after that, No, no, no.

989
00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:35.199
I was sent to Paris and into Germany on the cleanup.

990
00:53:35.559 --> 00:53:37.000
I was overseas another six months.

991
00:53:37.039 --> 00:53:38.639
You've read about the men on that list.

992
00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:40.760
I can't tell you a thing against any single one

993
00:53:40.760 --> 00:53:43.400
of them. They were all good men. Not one could

994
00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:44.440
have had anything to do with this.

995
00:53:44.599 --> 00:53:48.920
It's impossible, Okay, Okay, Brub's been telling me the same thing.

996
00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:52.840
It's another dead and well it's enough for the day.

997
00:53:53.159 --> 00:53:57.119
I'm going home to sleep for twenty hours. Thanks for

998
00:53:57.159 --> 00:53:58.039
coming over.

999
00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:04.280
Good boy Dix. Why because I stood up for the fellows.

1000
00:54:04.519 --> 00:54:08.400
You did too, We had to. I never knew about Scotland.

1001
00:54:08.840 --> 00:54:12.719
How'd you like it up there? It was wonderful because

1002
00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:18.920
she was with me, Brucie. She loved it there, and

1003
00:54:18.960 --> 00:54:29.239
I loved her. The car was where I'd left it.

1004
00:54:29.559 --> 00:54:32.320
If the police had gone after dust, they hadn't taken much.

1005
00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:35.199
The floor mat was no cleaner than it had been before.

1006
00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:38.039
I went home and sat in the living room watching

1007
00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:40.199
it get dark, not bothering to turn on any of

1008
00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:43.639
the lights. There were no slips, no mistakes. There had

1009
00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:46.800
never been any, there never would be any. I go

1010
00:54:46.920 --> 00:54:49.639
back east. I get my trunk off tomorrow by express,

1011
00:54:49.639 --> 00:54:53.119
and then I'd go by plane. Bye robs By, Sylvia.

1012
00:54:53.320 --> 00:54:56.360
Thanks for the buggy ride. At first, I'd find a

1013
00:54:56.519 --> 00:54:59.599
room not too far away and hold up for a

1014
00:54:59.639 --> 00:55:03.039
few days. Once I was gone, Laurel would come back

1015
00:55:03.079 --> 00:55:06.239
to her apartment and I'd be waiting in the shadows.

1016
00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:10.119
I'd take care of Laurel I sat there in the

1017
00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:14.360
heavy darkness. My finger is aching my head banded by iron.

1018
00:55:14.599 --> 00:55:19.440
There were footsteps outside. No, not Laurel, a man coming

1019
00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:22.599
home late from the office. But she might come tonight.

1020
00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:25.519
I've been cleared by the police. No one need be

1021
00:55:25.519 --> 00:55:30.280
afraid of me. Tonight she might come. I sat behind

1022
00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:33.840
the dark window, hardly breathing, and then I heard them coming,

1023
00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:39.599
clicking on the pavement, high pointed heels. I looked out, slacks,

1024
00:55:40.039 --> 00:55:42.079
the careless coat over the shoulders of scoff to mask

1025
00:55:42.159 --> 00:55:45.639
her flaming hair. I moved quickly out the door, stepping

1026
00:55:45.679 --> 00:55:47.159
softly through the windows, coming.

1027
00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:47.679
Up behind her.

1028
00:55:50.039 --> 00:55:58.320
So you decided to come back? Turn around? Look at me, Sylvia, Yes, Sylvia,

1029
00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:02.519
where's Laurel? Where's Laurel? What have you done with her?

1030
00:56:02.599 --> 00:56:04.679
Laurel is all right, Dix, She's all right.

1031
00:56:04.760 --> 00:56:07.119
Where is she? Where is she?

1032
00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:09.920
She isn't coming back. She's safe and she's going to

1033
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:10.559
stay safe.

1034
00:56:10.559 --> 00:56:12.880
Are you poisoned her against me? Because you hate me

1035
00:56:12.920 --> 00:56:13.960
from the beginning? You hate me?

1036
00:56:14.039 --> 00:56:17.039
No, Dix, No, only I did feel something was wrong

1037
00:56:17.079 --> 00:56:19.440
with you, And the first night you've walked into our house,

1038
00:56:19.519 --> 00:56:21.159
I knew something was terribly wrong.

1039
00:56:21.480 --> 00:56:24.480
What could you know a jealous dame? You couldn't even

1040
00:56:24.519 --> 00:56:27.000
stand to see Brub have a friend like me. Wanted

1041
00:56:27.039 --> 00:56:29.320
me all for yourself, didn't you? And now Laurel you

1042
00:56:29.440 --> 00:56:30.559
take her away from me too.

1043
00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:33.000
Came to us because she was afraid, afraid of you

1044
00:56:33.079 --> 00:56:36.320
and what you might do. That that's a lie, is it?

1045
00:56:36.360 --> 00:56:36.679
Dix?

1046
00:56:38.119 --> 00:56:40.199
Tell me what happened to the girl who had coffee

1047
00:56:40.199 --> 00:56:43.440
and the drive in with you? What happened to the

1048
00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:47.480
girl in Westlake Park? The girl down on skid.

1049
00:56:47.280 --> 00:57:07.760
Row, Sylvia, I'm going to kill you.

1050
00:57:00.159 --> 00:57:00.719
Head worried.

1051
00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:19.239
We were all in my apartment, Lochner and Brubb and

1052
00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:22.679
Sylvia and some of the boys I'd seen from the

1053
00:57:22.679 --> 00:57:26.760
Beverly station. They put on the lights and sat me

1054
00:57:26.840 --> 00:57:31.280
down on the diving and they stood around looking down

1055
00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:35.159
at me, all of them. With Sylvia. They stood between

1056
00:57:35.199 --> 00:57:38.320
me and the chair in which she sat huddled, and

1057
00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:40.760
Lockner was looking down to talk to me.

1058
00:57:41.480 --> 00:57:45.199
I'm arresting you in suspicion of the murder of Mildred Atkinson,

1059
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:48.760
that's very funny, and suspicion of the murder of Betsy

1060
00:57:48.880 --> 00:57:53.719
Barney and the attempted murder of Sylvia Nikolai have you

1061
00:57:53.800 --> 00:57:54.639
anything to say?

1062
00:57:55.119 --> 00:57:57.320
Yes, I think you're crazy.

1063
00:57:57.440 --> 00:57:59.840
Listen to me, Dix. It's no use. We have Mildred

1064
00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:02.599
Dilkinson's fingerprints in your car. There's only one way they

1065
00:58:02.599 --> 00:58:03.239
could get there.

1066
00:58:03.400 --> 00:58:06.599
Would you be lying? You an old friend just to

1067
00:58:06.679 --> 00:58:07.079
trap me?

1068
00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:08.079
And we have the dust?

1069
00:58:08.280 --> 00:58:10.039
Do you know what a good lawyer could do with

1070
00:58:10.079 --> 00:58:12.119
your precious dust? I'm not through, Dix.

1071
00:58:12.679 --> 00:58:15.360
There's quite a bit of lint from the Atkinson girl's coat,

1072
00:58:16.079 --> 00:58:18.960
lint and their hairs from Betsy Banning Scottie dog. We

1073
00:58:19.039 --> 00:58:26.840
found them on the suit you took to the cleaners by.

1074
00:58:27.239 --> 00:58:31.360
You can't think of everything, Brob, especially when you're rushed,

1075
00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:36.239
when your luck runs out, Dix, Dix, look at me.

1076
00:58:37.000 --> 00:58:40.000
Why did you do it? Why was it because you

1077
00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:43.519
loved Brucey and she wouldn't have you? Is that what

1078
00:58:43.679 --> 00:58:46.400
sets you off? Is that what made you do it?

1079
00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:47.199
Rob?

1080
00:58:48.920 --> 00:58:49.320
Why?

1081
00:58:49.320 --> 00:58:49.719
Dix?

1082
00:58:49.880 --> 00:58:50.239
Tell me?

1083
00:58:50.360 --> 00:59:15.480
Why? Because because I killed Brucie. This is Robert Montgomery again,

1084
00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:19.800
with thanks to our cast for their splendid performances. Next week,

1085
00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:23.719
for suspense, we've chosen the story with triple threat possibilities.

1086
00:59:24.039 --> 00:59:26.719
The title, the story and the author taken by themselves

1087
00:59:26.719 --> 00:59:30.000
are enough to command our interest. In combination, they become

1088
00:59:30.039 --> 00:59:34.119
a dramatic force, powerful in suspense. I speak of Nightmare

1089
00:59:34.320 --> 00:59:38.360
by William Irish, a story which fuses reality with unreality

1090
00:59:38.880 --> 00:59:42.159
and a frightening pattern of fear and suspicion. If you've

1091
00:59:42.159 --> 00:59:45.159
ever had a nightmare, you know its impact, you know

1092
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:48.079
the difficulty with which you cast it. Aside, if you've

1093
00:59:48.119 --> 00:59:50.880
never had a nightmare, we cordially invite you to have

1094
00:59:50.880 --> 00:59:54.360
one on us next week, when with Nightmare by William Irish,

1095
00:59:54.760 --> 00:59:56.760
we again hope to keep you in suspense.

1096
00:59:57.480 --> 01:00:01.440
Good night, Mister Montgomery may be seen in the Universal

1097
01:00:01.440 --> 01:00:05.440
International production ride The Pink Horse in a Lonely Place

1098
01:00:05.519 --> 01:00:08.760
by Dorothy B. Hughes was adapted for radio by Irving Ravag,

1099
01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:13.159
directed by Anton M. Leader and produced by Robert Montgomery.

1100
01:00:13.679 --> 01:00:16.960
Blud Gluskin is our musical director and conductor, and Lucian

1101
01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:18.960
Morrowek composes the original scores.

1102
01:00:21.079 --> 01:00:25.320
Well that was a I'd say, a good start to

1103
01:00:25.400 --> 01:00:30.360
the evening. Or what's that? Well, of course there's more.

1104
01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:35.199
There's always more, my dear, There's always so much, so

1105
01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:43.199
much more. Sometimes I worry about how my mind handled

1106
01:00:43.360 --> 01:00:48.920
so much time, more time than I think anyone can

1107
01:00:48.960 --> 01:00:54.360
really imagine time away time.

1108
01:00:55.599 --> 01:00:56.320
On my own.

1109
01:00:58.800 --> 01:01:06.440
It's something I honder as I wonder if Death wears

1110
01:01:06.440 --> 01:01:07.079
a smile.

1111
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:19.559
Good evening friend, this is your host to welcome you

1112
01:01:19.719 --> 01:01:23.000
through the creaking door into Leona Sanctum.

1113
01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:23.599
Come in.

1114
01:01:23.760 --> 01:01:26.119
I want you to see the changes we've made around him.

1115
01:01:26.239 --> 01:01:30.840
Very very smart. Now, this new morbid motif was designed

1116
01:01:31.360 --> 01:01:38.599
by those Southern decorators or Topsy and Evil. There's three

1117
01:01:38.639 --> 01:01:41.159
parts section himself, who was made especially for the wife

1118
01:01:41.199 --> 01:01:44.840
of Harry the hatchet Man. You see, Harry left his

1119
01:01:44.920 --> 01:01:48.280
wife in pieces, so naturally we let the chip and

1120
01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:54.719
dales fall where they may. Now here's our new drop

1121
01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:59.960
living room, just freshly dug. It's for render, real bug,

1122
01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:03.280
and all you have to do is slave on the

1123
01:02:03.440 --> 01:02:04.679
down payment.

1124
01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:17.360
The Night's Inner Sanctum mystery, Death Wears a Lonely Smile

1125
01:02:17.840 --> 01:02:21.119
was written by Ed Adamson and Bob Sloan and stars

1126
01:02:21.199 --> 01:02:24.599
Mister Sloan and the Roll of Walter, with Mercedes McCambridge

1127
01:02:24.639 --> 01:02:33.360
as Carol. Well, now let's get to the Night's torturous tale.

1128
01:02:34.320 --> 01:02:37.079
Find your places and make yourself comfortable before we begin.

1129
01:02:38.079 --> 01:02:42.280
As Harry the Hatchetman says, we're not seating anyone. Before

1130
01:02:42.320 --> 01:02:48.880
the first axe curtain fall, It's does, and a cold

1131
01:02:48.920 --> 01:02:53.000
wind whipped through the burial ground, stirring the leafless branches

1132
01:02:53.039 --> 01:02:55.280
into wordless whispers of.

1133
01:02:55.360 --> 01:03:00.119
Dead, forgotten voices. Amid the gravestones, the Big Man, and

1134
01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:04.519
with a bloodied gash in his forehead, stands hatless, his

1135
01:03:04.719 --> 01:03:08.760
massive ape like arms hanging limply at his side, his

1136
01:03:08.920 --> 01:03:14.400
eyes set in a lost, vacant stare. The Big Man

1137
01:03:14.440 --> 01:03:18.480
remains there, transfixed as a young woman in black comes

1138
01:03:18.519 --> 01:03:20.320
out of the shadows behind him.

1139
01:03:20.679 --> 01:03:21.440
Can I help you?

1140
01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:25.079
Well? Where did you come from?

1141
01:03:26.039 --> 01:03:28.360
I was over there putting flowers on my father's grave,

1142
01:03:28.400 --> 01:03:32.760
and I show you standing here, and you seemed lost?

1143
01:03:33.239 --> 01:03:33.559
Lola?

1144
01:03:35.079 --> 01:03:39.920
What I've been waiting for you? Lola? I knew you'd

1145
01:03:39.960 --> 01:03:42.519
come if I waited. Lola, I knew you would.

1146
01:03:42.840 --> 01:03:44.000
But my name isn't Lola.

1147
01:03:44.119 --> 01:03:46.840
I waited so long, I waited every day.

1148
01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:48.960
I told you I'm not Lola. You've mistaken me. My

1149
01:03:49.079 --> 01:03:56.320
name is Carol, Carol, Carol Finley. But Lola said she'd come,

1150
01:03:56.960 --> 01:04:03.280
She promised me. I needed who is Lola? Lola's my friend?

1151
01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:07.280
She never made fun of me because I'm I'm so big.

1152
01:04:08.280 --> 01:04:11.559
Lola never laughed like all the others, like all those

1153
01:04:11.559 --> 01:04:13.039
other ones who are so mean.

1154
01:04:14.800 --> 01:04:15.679
What's your name?

1155
01:04:16.039 --> 01:04:19.079
I told you it's Carol. What's yours?

1156
01:04:19.679 --> 01:04:20.079
Walter?

1157
01:04:21.320 --> 01:04:21.639
Walter?

1158
01:04:22.639 --> 01:04:24.719
You better let me take you home?

1159
01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:25.159
Yes?

1160
01:04:26.280 --> 01:04:26.960
Where do you live?

1161
01:04:27.320 --> 01:04:30.039
Why? I don't know.

1162
01:04:31.199 --> 01:04:32.679
There's something the matter with you?

1163
01:04:33.880 --> 01:04:38.039
Yes, your hurt? That cut on your forehead cut? Yes, Look,

1164
01:04:38.079 --> 01:04:39.719
I'll take you to my place. My mother has a

1165
01:04:39.800 --> 01:04:42.280
rooming house, and you can stay there until you feel better.

1166
01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:46.199
No, I can't go. I must wait for Lola. I

1167
01:04:46.960 --> 01:04:50.840
promised i'd wait. Yeah.

1168
01:04:50.960 --> 01:04:53.400
What's her name, Lola Douglas.

1169
01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:55.280
Yeah, yeah, Lola Douglas.

1170
01:04:56.199 --> 01:04:57.480
There's no use in your wait.

1171
01:04:57.719 --> 01:05:01.280
Oh, you mustn't talk like that. She'll be here, she will,

1172
01:05:01.679 --> 01:05:02.719
She's already here.

1173
01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:05.199
That gravestone there, look at it.

1174
01:05:06.400 --> 01:05:18.760
Lola Douglas died March sixth, nineteen forty eight. There you

1175
01:05:18.800 --> 01:05:21.719
are water now. That bandage will do for a while.

1176
01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:26.280
Hey, you're nice to me, Carol, you like Lola. You're

1177
01:05:26.320 --> 01:05:27.119
not afraid of.

1178
01:05:27.119 --> 01:05:28.360
Me, of course not.

1179
01:05:28.480 --> 01:05:30.039
Why should I be afraid.

1180
01:05:29.880 --> 01:05:33.519
Because I'm so big? I remember when I was in

1181
01:05:33.559 --> 01:05:36.960
school a boy made fun of me. I grabbed his

1182
01:05:37.119 --> 01:05:40.199
arm and I tell him to stop he just laughed

1183
01:05:40.239 --> 01:05:42.599
at me. I didn't mean to hurt him, but I

1184
01:05:43.480 --> 01:05:48.000
broke his arm. I just squeezed a little and and

1185
01:05:48.159 --> 01:05:51.960
it broke. And they were all afraid of me.

1186
01:05:53.239 --> 01:05:54.679
They shouldn't have laughed at you.

1187
01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:58.440
I like you, but I can't stay here.

1188
01:05:58.679 --> 01:06:01.360
It's perfectly all right to my mother, and she said

1189
01:06:01.360 --> 01:06:03.119
that you can have my room for a few days

1190
01:06:03.239 --> 01:06:04.400
and I'll move downstairs.

1191
01:06:04.400 --> 01:06:07.000
Oh, I have to find Lola. I promise that.

1192
01:06:07.320 --> 01:06:12.239
I try to understand. Lola is dead. Oh no, she

1193
01:06:12.360 --> 01:06:13.719
was buried over a year ago.

1194
01:06:13.840 --> 01:06:17.000
Oh that isn't true. I saw Lola last week. I

1195
01:06:17.639 --> 01:06:18.400
spoke to her.

1196
01:06:20.880 --> 01:06:21.239
All right.

1197
01:06:21.320 --> 01:06:25.760
Well all right, and tomorrow you can start looking for

1198
01:06:25.800 --> 01:06:30.239
her again. But now you must get some rest. You

1199
01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:31.800
just lie down here and i'll.

1200
01:06:34.039 --> 01:06:34.400
Soarah.

1201
01:06:35.800 --> 01:06:37.480
Why are you looking at me like that?

1202
01:06:38.159 --> 01:06:41.239
This is on the table among the things you took

1203
01:06:41.239 --> 01:06:41.920
out of your pocket.

1204
01:06:42.079 --> 01:06:42.719
What is it?

1205
01:06:43.159 --> 01:06:44.320
A newspaper clipping?

1206
01:06:44.639 --> 01:06:46.800
I didn't have a clipping in my pocket.

1207
01:06:46.880 --> 01:06:53.719
It's dated March seventh, nineteen forty eight. Woman found brutally crushed.

1208
01:06:53.719 --> 01:06:54.239
The dead.

1209
01:06:55.559 --> 01:06:59.559
Victim identified as Lola Douglas.

1210
01:07:04.639 --> 01:07:08.519
Carol. I just stopped by for a minute. Oh I'm sorry.

1211
01:07:08.559 --> 01:07:10.039
I thought Carol Findley was here.

1212
01:07:10.559 --> 01:07:17.239
Carol gave me her Lola. Lola. I knew you weren't dead.

1213
01:07:17.800 --> 01:07:18.760
My name isn't Lola.

1214
01:07:18.840 --> 01:07:21.000
I knew they were lying all the time. Lol.

1215
01:07:21.119 --> 01:07:23.199
Now I'm glad it's herd. I lived down the horse here.

1216
01:07:23.199 --> 01:07:26.239
They were trying to keep me from you. Come in, Lola.

1217
01:07:27.199 --> 01:07:32.039
Go with my hand with me, Lola, please, oh my hand.

1218
01:07:32.199 --> 01:07:32.719
You're hurting.

1219
01:07:33.159 --> 01:07:37.400
I wouldn't, Loly, you know I wouldn't go. You mustn't

1220
01:07:37.440 --> 01:07:41.159
talk so loud, Lola, tell hear you. They'll think I'm

1221
01:07:41.239 --> 01:07:45.239
hurting you. Please please let me try to get away

1222
01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:47.880
from me, Lola. I might hurt you. I don't want

1223
01:07:47.920 --> 01:07:50.760
to hurt you, Lola, but you might make me. You

1224
01:07:50.840 --> 01:07:54.320
see I'm hurting you. Yeah, you're making me and I

1225
01:07:54.320 --> 01:08:00.320
I don't want you.

1226
01:08:00.840 --> 01:08:01.239
Open it?

1227
01:08:05.079 --> 01:08:05.840
What do you want?

1228
01:08:05.880 --> 01:08:08.000
And I was downstairs and I heard someone scream.

1229
01:08:08.440 --> 01:08:09.960
Who are you carous about that?

1230
01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:10.320
Missus?

1231
01:08:10.320 --> 01:08:10.719
Sidney?

1232
01:08:10.920 --> 01:08:12.239
The scream came from this room.

1233
01:08:12.280 --> 01:08:12.880
I'm sure of it.

1234
01:08:13.039 --> 01:08:14.000
Oh no, missus.

1235
01:08:15.079 --> 01:08:19.479
She is on the floor in there. Get dollar by way,

1236
01:08:20.560 --> 01:08:23.680
glatt us, gettus. What have you done to her?

1237
01:08:24.319 --> 01:08:28.319
She wasn't here before Lola was here, But now she's good.

1238
01:08:29.079 --> 01:08:34.439
Gets you all right, Oh missus Sidney, who is? Keep

1239
01:08:34.479 --> 01:08:35.079
him away from it?

1240
01:08:35.439 --> 01:08:35.720
Away?

1241
01:08:35.840 --> 01:08:39.079
Now you're all right here, I'm here kill me.

1242
01:08:39.119 --> 01:08:42.479
No, No, I wouldn't hurt anybody.

1243
01:08:42.560 --> 01:08:43.880
He probably wanted your money.

1244
01:08:43.960 --> 01:08:45.920
I don't want money.

1245
01:08:46.199 --> 01:08:47.119
There's money in it.

1246
01:08:47.640 --> 01:08:48.439
How much you to have?

1247
01:08:48.479 --> 01:08:48.840
Gis?

1248
01:08:50.079 --> 01:08:53.000
Just test to check? Sixty eight dollars?

1249
01:08:53.359 --> 01:08:58.840
It was your rent twenty forty sixty five.

1250
01:09:00.359 --> 01:09:01.079
Fifty eight.

1251
01:09:01.800 --> 01:09:04.800
It's all here. Come on now, dear, I'll take you

1252
01:09:04.840 --> 01:09:08.399
to your room and you I want you to tear.

1253
01:09:08.279 --> 01:09:08.800
Out of here.

1254
01:09:08.920 --> 01:09:10.319
No, I can't go.

1255
01:09:11.319 --> 01:09:13.920
You're getting out. To understand, you're getting out.

1256
01:09:14.079 --> 01:09:19.000
I can't go. Loela's coming back. I promised her i'd wait,

1257
01:09:19.399 --> 01:09:26.680
and I'm staying here until she comes.

1258
01:09:27.720 --> 01:09:30.039
Carol, Carol, what is it?

1259
01:09:30.079 --> 01:09:30.319
Mom?

1260
01:09:30.319 --> 01:09:33.520
What's the matter? I can't find Gladys. Her bed wasn't

1261
01:09:33.520 --> 01:09:35.000
slept in. Did you see her?

1262
01:09:35.079 --> 01:09:35.279
No?

1263
01:09:35.560 --> 01:09:37.520
When I went to her room and she wasn't there.

1264
01:09:38.279 --> 01:09:40.359
I had a feeling when you brought him home the

1265
01:09:40.359 --> 01:09:42.600
other night, I had a feeling I should have turned

1266
01:09:42.640 --> 01:09:46.159
him away. He's killed glad Mom, stopped and stop talking

1267
01:09:46.239 --> 01:09:47.640
right there. Well, he tried it.

1268
01:09:47.760 --> 01:09:50.439
You know she didn't, Mom, He's just mixed up. You've

1269
01:09:50.439 --> 01:09:53.119
got to try to understand him. Please take it easy,

1270
01:09:53.119 --> 01:09:54.560
glad he's probably left for worker.

1271
01:09:54.920 --> 01:09:58.000
No, sir, she didn't leave this house alive. I was

1272
01:09:58.039 --> 01:10:00.880
in her room. He's done something to her. He's hidden

1273
01:10:00.920 --> 01:10:01.479
her bottomy.

1274
01:10:01.600 --> 01:10:03.640
I don't believe you do anything like that. Then what

1275
01:10:03.720 --> 01:10:04.960
about Lola Douglas?

1276
01:10:05.199 --> 01:10:07.359
She was murdered a year ago. You told me about

1277
01:10:07.359 --> 01:10:08.079
that yourself.

1278
01:10:08.279 --> 01:10:12.119
I guess, but there's no proof that Walter killed her mom.

1279
01:10:12.199 --> 01:10:14.840
I understand him. I'll go up and talk to him.

1280
01:10:14.880 --> 01:10:18.239
No, you won't. You're staying right here. I'll do the

1281
01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:20.840
talking to him. I've got to get him out of

1282
01:10:20.880 --> 01:10:27.960
this house before we're all murdered. You've got to get

1283
01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:28.520
out of here.

1284
01:10:28.920 --> 01:10:32.920
Please, Missus Finley, don't make me go. Lola will come back.

1285
01:10:33.119 --> 01:10:35.239
Lola Douglas was murdered a year ago.

1286
01:10:35.399 --> 01:10:39.319
That's not true. Lola is alive. I saw last week.

1287
01:10:39.279 --> 01:10:41.000
She was murdered by you.

1288
01:10:41.159 --> 01:10:43.199
No, I wouldn't hurt Lola.

1289
01:10:43.399 --> 01:10:46.199
Are you to do the same way you killed Gladys.

1290
01:10:45.720 --> 01:10:48.880
Well, you shouldn't say things like that, Missus Finley.

1291
01:10:48.560 --> 01:10:50.479
You too, get us out of here last night.

1292
01:10:50.520 --> 01:10:55.600
Murdered Missus Finley. I didn't leave. I was waiting for Lola.

1293
01:10:55.359 --> 01:10:57.920
You're a monster, a horrible crazy.

1294
01:10:57.600 --> 01:11:00.920
Month, you saying mean things to me. Missus Finley.

1295
01:11:01.039 --> 01:11:03.039
I want you out of my house. I want you

1296
01:11:03.079 --> 01:11:04.039
out right now.

1297
01:11:04.199 --> 01:11:09.000
You are not like Carol. Carol's nice. Carol said I

1298
01:11:09.000 --> 01:11:11.399
could stay here in her room, Yes.

1299
01:11:11.279 --> 01:11:14.760
But not if you don't pay pay Why No, you

1300
01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:17.800
have no money. You can't stay here another moment unless

1301
01:11:17.800 --> 01:11:20.279
you pay it. And I want a month's rent in advance.

1302
01:11:21.119 --> 01:11:22.520
Now what do you say to that?

1303
01:11:23.479 --> 01:11:26.119
All right, Missus Finley, and the quicker you get out

1304
01:11:26.119 --> 01:11:30.640
of your money? Which is just enough for a month

1305
01:11:31.079 --> 01:11:45.279
in advanced Missus Finley, it's sixty eight dollars enough, sixty

1306
01:11:45.319 --> 01:11:45.960
eight dollars.

1307
01:11:46.000 --> 01:11:49.119
Gerald here, look, he gave me sixty eight dollars.

1308
01:11:49.159 --> 01:11:52.039
I don't understand it. Mom. Yesterday he didn't have a

1309
01:11:52.039 --> 01:11:52.800
penny in his pocket.

1310
01:11:52.880 --> 01:11:55.680
But don't you see what is prus It's just as

1311
01:11:55.720 --> 01:11:57.239
I told you, he's murdered.

1312
01:11:57.279 --> 01:11:57.680
Laddys.

1313
01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:00.880
That's exactly what she had in her pocket book last night.

1314
01:12:01.079 --> 01:12:02.359
Sixty eight dollars.

1315
01:12:08.840 --> 01:12:11.359
Surgeant Piers twelfth, praising Sergeant.

1316
01:12:11.880 --> 01:12:15.159
This is missus Finley five twenty nine elm Street. You'd

1317
01:12:15.199 --> 01:12:16.439
better come over right away.

1318
01:12:16.399 --> 01:12:19.039
Finley, I have twenty nine. Now, what's the trouble, lady.

1319
01:12:19.199 --> 01:12:23.079
Well, one of my rumors, glad it's hard. She's missing missing.

1320
01:12:23.279 --> 01:12:26.560
I'll wait, don't handle that, lady, a missing person.

1321
01:12:26.600 --> 01:12:30.279
Wait just a minute, please. Yeah, Well, this woman, she's

1322
01:12:30.279 --> 01:12:32.600
not just missing, she's been murdered.

1323
01:12:33.039 --> 01:12:35.760
Look, lady, which isn't you're missing the boat?

1324
01:12:36.079 --> 01:12:38.159
She hasn't been in the room all night. She had

1325
01:12:38.199 --> 01:12:39.880
sixty eight dollars in her pocketbook.

1326
01:12:39.880 --> 01:12:46.079
And well are you missus Finley?

1327
01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:47.680
What's going on there? Hello?

1328
01:12:49.039 --> 01:12:52.279
I'm sorry I troubled you office, right, I made a mistake.

1329
01:12:53.159 --> 01:12:56.560
That is hard to lie. She she just walked in.

1330
01:13:06.880 --> 01:13:08.920
Who was there?

1331
01:13:09.119 --> 01:13:09.640
Oh?

1332
01:13:10.079 --> 01:13:10.960
Come in, Carol?

1333
01:13:12.399 --> 01:13:13.880
Did I disturb your Hi?

1334
01:13:14.960 --> 01:13:18.520
I was listening to the music on the radio. It's

1335
01:13:18.680 --> 01:13:20.319
nice music, isn't it, Carol?

1336
01:13:20.479 --> 01:13:21.680
Yes, Walter, very pleasant.

1337
01:13:22.159 --> 01:13:25.039
Lula likes music just like that too.

1338
01:13:25.800 --> 01:13:26.119
Really.

1339
01:13:27.000 --> 01:13:30.520
Yeah, I came up to apologize for the way mom.

1340
01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:30.960
Acted to you.

1341
01:13:31.479 --> 01:13:33.840
Missus Finley said mean things to me.

1342
01:13:34.119 --> 01:13:35.399
My mom didn't understand.

1343
01:13:35.680 --> 01:13:39.640
Missus Finley said, I kill that girl. I didn't kill us.

1344
01:13:39.720 --> 01:13:40.600
Yes, we know that now.

1345
01:13:40.880 --> 01:13:42.720
Gladys came in a little while ago. She stayed at

1346
01:13:42.720 --> 01:13:47.399
a friend's house overnight. Walter, where did you get the

1347
01:13:47.399 --> 01:13:48.279
money you gave mom.

1348
01:13:48.600 --> 01:13:51.479
Well, it was in my pocket. I found her sixty

1349
01:13:51.479 --> 01:13:52.840
eight dollars in my pocket.

1350
01:13:52.880 --> 01:13:55.560
But it was more than sixty eight dollars. Yes, Mom

1351
01:13:55.680 --> 01:13:57.079
was so excited when you gave it to her, she

1352
01:13:57.119 --> 01:13:59.159
forgot to count it. But you gave her eighty.

1353
01:13:58.960 --> 01:14:01.039
Five dollars only had sixty eight.

1354
01:14:01.159 --> 01:14:03.039
You must have made a mistake. You had eighty five.

1355
01:14:03.359 --> 01:14:06.079
You gave mom seventeen dollars too much. So here she

1356
01:14:06.199 --> 01:14:07.600
told me to give you back the seventy.

1357
01:14:07.800 --> 01:14:11.039
Oh, you keep it, Carol. You're nice to me.

1358
01:14:12.039 --> 01:14:17.119
You're yours. Please take it, Carol, Yes.

1359
01:14:17.279 --> 01:14:22.199
There's money. I well, would you let me take you

1360
01:14:22.319 --> 01:14:22.800
to dinner?

1361
01:14:23.920 --> 01:14:24.680
Well, you see I do.

1362
01:14:24.880 --> 01:14:24.920
No.

1363
01:14:25.079 --> 01:14:28.359
You wouldn't be ashamed to go with me because I'm

1364
01:14:28.439 --> 01:14:33.159
so big, because people would look at me and live.

1365
01:14:33.399 --> 01:14:37.479
Of course, I wouldn't be ashamed, and you'll go, Yes, Walter,

1366
01:14:37.520 --> 01:14:40.159
I'd be very glad to go with you. I'll just

1367
01:14:40.239 --> 01:14:42.920
run downstairs and get my things. You meet me out

1368
01:14:42.960 --> 01:14:44.279
in front of the house in ten minutes.

1369
01:14:44.319 --> 01:14:48.359
All right, Carol, I'll meet you. We'll have a nice time, yes.

1370
01:14:48.239 --> 01:14:49.439
Walter, I'm sure we will.

1371
01:14:58.840 --> 01:14:59.000
Here.

1372
01:14:59.000 --> 01:15:02.399
It's additional on the murder. This afternoon in Washington Park.

1373
01:15:02.840 --> 01:15:04.640
An empty purse seems to be the clue to.

1374
01:15:04.680 --> 01:15:05.680
The brutal crime.

1375
01:15:06.159 --> 01:15:08.600
Where did woman had any five dollars in bills when

1376
01:15:08.600 --> 01:15:11.359
she left the house last night? According to the police,

1377
01:15:11.399 --> 01:15:14.159
the murder was undoubtedly committed by a large man with

1378
01:15:14.239 --> 01:15:17.680
great power in his hands. Local and state authorities are

1379
01:15:17.720 --> 01:15:19.199
conducting an extensive search.

1380
01:15:19.840 --> 01:15:25.439
They stopped playing the music. The music was so nice,

1381
01:15:26.800 --> 01:15:28.199
and they stopped playing it.

1382
01:15:37.760 --> 01:15:42.000
Call what's the matter? Oh, I've been looking all over

1383
01:15:42.039 --> 01:15:44.479
the house for you. You're all right, of course, I'm

1384
01:15:44.479 --> 01:15:47.079
all right. What Why are you putting on your coupe

1385
01:15:47.119 --> 01:15:50.000
and going out to dinner? Out to dinners with Walter?

1386
01:15:50.880 --> 01:15:53.720
And oh, thank Kevin's I got here in time?

1387
01:15:53.800 --> 01:15:54.840
And what are you talking about?

1388
01:15:55.039 --> 01:15:55.880
He's a murderer.

1389
01:15:55.960 --> 01:15:57.359
You're not going to talk that all over again.

1390
01:15:57.600 --> 01:16:00.000
It just came over the radio. A woman was killed

1391
01:16:00.119 --> 01:16:02.520
last night Washington Park. That doesn't prove the water as

1392
01:16:02.560 --> 01:16:05.760
a man does. The radio said the woman had eighty

1393
01:16:05.800 --> 01:16:08.199
five dollars in her pocket book. She has what eighty

1394
01:16:08.239 --> 01:16:11.439
five dollars? But that's what he gave me this afternoon,

1395
01:16:11.479 --> 01:16:14.479
eighty five dollars. That's what he killed that woman.

1396
01:16:14.279 --> 01:16:15.640
For her Mom, I can't believe it.

1397
01:16:15.920 --> 01:16:18.279
That's how he suddenly had the money to pay the rent.

1398
01:16:18.520 --> 01:16:20.600
And the radio said the woman was crushed it at

1399
01:16:20.640 --> 01:16:22.359
by a man who was big and powerful.

1400
01:16:22.439 --> 01:16:23.039
We can call him.

1401
01:16:23.159 --> 01:16:26.000
It's him. Oh, and you would have been the next

1402
01:16:26.039 --> 01:16:27.920
cattl Where is he now?

1403
01:16:28.039 --> 01:16:29.600
I was supposed to meet him outside the house. I

1404
01:16:29.600 --> 01:16:30.960
suppose he's out there waiting for him.

1405
01:16:31.279 --> 01:16:33.880
That man's a lunatict, crazy killing Luna.

1406
01:16:33.880 --> 01:16:35.560
Say, what are we going to do?

1407
01:16:35.560 --> 01:16:38.000
You stay here in this room now and don't leave it.

1408
01:16:38.079 --> 01:16:38.560
What about who?

1409
01:16:38.760 --> 01:16:42.760
Well, I'm going downstairs and caller police. I'll be back

1410
01:16:42.800 --> 01:16:43.520
in a few minutes.

1411
01:16:44.159 --> 01:17:02.399
And remember, no matter what happens, don't leave this room there.

1412
01:17:02.800 --> 01:17:04.319
I'll bring the police.

1413
01:17:04.479 --> 01:17:06.000
Quick, get me the police.

1414
01:17:06.920 --> 01:17:11.600
Hello, you're calling the police.

1415
01:17:11.920 --> 01:17:16.399
No, No, you're wrong. I was going to.

1416
01:17:27.920 --> 01:17:29.119
What took you so long? I was?

1417
01:17:30.800 --> 01:17:31.800
Hello, Carol?

1418
01:17:33.479 --> 01:17:34.239
Hello?

1419
01:17:33.840 --> 01:17:36.159
What I was waiting for you?

1420
01:17:36.399 --> 01:17:36.760
Carol?

1421
01:17:37.760 --> 01:17:40.840
Well, I M I'm not ready yet.

1422
01:17:41.159 --> 01:17:42.760
You've got your hat and coat on.

1423
01:17:43.319 --> 01:17:44.960
Well can't we wait just a little long?

1424
01:17:45.359 --> 01:17:48.800
You're afraid? You're afraid to go to dinner with you?

1425
01:17:48.840 --> 01:17:51.720
No otherwise you go with me right now? Well?

1426
01:17:54.039 --> 01:17:57.760
All right, all all right, I'll do just as you like,

1427
01:17:59.359 --> 01:18:00.159
we'll go right, know.

1428
01:18:09.800 --> 01:18:13.000
Taro, Why did you change me?

1429
01:18:13.239 --> 01:18:15.039
Change? I don't know what you mean.

1430
01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:18.000
I don't think you like me anymore, but I do

1431
01:18:18.199 --> 01:18:20.520
like you. You want to get away from me. I

1432
01:18:20.520 --> 01:18:22.760
can tell you don't want to be with me.

1433
01:18:22.880 --> 01:18:24.840
I came up with you. I'm going to dinner with you.

1434
01:18:24.960 --> 01:18:27.199
You don't want to. I can tell by the way

1435
01:18:27.239 --> 01:18:29.640
you act. You keep pulling away from me.

1436
01:18:29.760 --> 01:18:34.159
Wait, wait, what is it? Did you really want me

1437
01:18:34.199 --> 01:18:34.840
to like you wanting?

1438
01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:37.239
Yeah? Very much?

1439
01:18:38.000 --> 01:18:41.199
Did I tell you what? This Floria shop? Here? You

1440
01:18:41.279 --> 01:18:43.720
go in there? You buy me some flowers?

1441
01:18:43.880 --> 01:18:48.119
Some flowers? Oh all right? Well what kind?

1442
01:18:48.239 --> 01:18:50.720
Or any kind? And I always hear why you don't know?

1443
01:18:50.760 --> 01:18:51.960
You know? You come with me?

1444
01:18:52.079 --> 01:18:54.680
You picked them up, But I want you to surprise me.

1445
01:18:55.600 --> 01:18:57.760
I don't want you to be alone. You might run

1446
01:18:57.800 --> 01:19:00.800
away from me. If you want some flowers, you got

1447
01:19:00.920 --> 01:19:01.920
to come in the shop with me.

1448
01:19:03.119 --> 01:19:10.319
All right, I'll go with you, good evening.

1449
01:19:10.640 --> 01:19:11.840
What can I do for you?

1450
01:19:12.279 --> 01:19:14.439
What kind of flowers do you want? Carol?

1451
01:19:14.520 --> 01:19:14.960
Roses?

1452
01:19:15.920 --> 01:19:19.239
Yes, roses roses very nice?

1453
01:19:19.479 --> 01:19:19.960
A dozen?

1454
01:19:20.520 --> 01:19:23.960
Yes, and I'll have them for you, miss, yes, Miss

1455
01:19:24.000 --> 01:19:26.119
I have to make a phone call.

1456
01:19:26.159 --> 01:19:26.720
I wonder if I can.

1457
01:19:26.920 --> 01:19:28.640
There's the paper's over there behind the phone.

1458
01:19:28.840 --> 01:19:31.840
Thank you. I'll just be a minute. Water here for

1459
01:19:31.920 --> 01:19:48.439
the flowers. I'll be right back. Operate here, give me

1460
01:19:48.439 --> 01:19:49.880
the police.

1461
01:19:54.319 --> 01:19:56.359
Sorry, you listen.

1462
01:19:56.239 --> 01:19:57.720
To me carefully. I don't have much time.

1463
01:19:58.239 --> 01:20:00.960
My name is Carol Finley, and the man who murdered

1464
01:20:00.960 --> 01:20:03.279
that woman in Washington Park last night is with me

1465
01:20:04.319 --> 01:20:06.560
in Creamer's Florida shop on sixth Street. But we're leaving

1466
01:20:06.560 --> 01:20:08.680
here in a minute. You're taking me to dinner at

1467
01:20:08.680 --> 01:20:10.439
the Black Grotto down the block.

1468
01:20:11.600 --> 01:20:21.439
Hurry the time. Oh you have the flowers, Walter. Oh

1469
01:20:21.479 --> 01:20:22.319
they're very pretty.

1470
01:20:22.640 --> 01:20:24.239
What did you call Carol?

1471
01:20:24.319 --> 01:20:24.479
Why?

1472
01:20:26.039 --> 01:20:27.159
Old man?

1473
01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:30.479
You talk to missus Finley?

1474
01:20:30.600 --> 01:20:32.079
Yes, I just wanted to let her know where i'd

1475
01:20:32.079 --> 01:20:33.319
be so that she wouldn't worry.

1476
01:20:33.680 --> 01:20:36.079
You talk to us.

1477
01:20:36.159 --> 01:20:39.199
Yes, I just told her that I did. Come on, Walter,

1478
01:20:39.279 --> 01:20:41.800
and I'm hungry, all right, Carol.

1479
01:20:46.399 --> 01:20:48.359
Right, Carol, I'll call a taxi.

1480
01:20:48.520 --> 01:20:50.359
We're just going to the Black Grotto. We don't need

1481
01:20:50.359 --> 01:20:51.960
a taxi. It's just down the street there.

1482
01:20:52.079 --> 01:20:54.920
I changed my mind, Carol, when i'd go into the

1483
01:20:54.960 --> 01:20:59.520
Black Grotto. I'm taking you to a nicer place, much nicer.

1484
01:21:08.800 --> 01:21:12.000
Why did you take me out here.

1485
01:21:12.399 --> 01:21:15.600
There's something in this cemetery. I want to show you.

1486
01:21:15.640 --> 01:21:17.279
Water, Please, let's go back to talk.

1487
01:21:17.439 --> 01:21:22.119
We would be long. It's right here. This is what

1488
01:21:22.199 --> 01:21:23.239
I wanted to show you.

1489
01:21:24.279 --> 01:21:26.640
It's an empty grave.

1490
01:21:26.760 --> 01:21:30.920
Yes, Carol, and we have the flowers to put on.

1491
01:21:30.960 --> 01:21:32.920
It, but no one's in there. It's empty.

1492
01:21:33.359 --> 01:21:37.720
You'll be bad, Carol. It's for you.

1493
01:21:39.039 --> 01:21:41.800
You want to hurt me, Walter, I'm your friend.

1494
01:21:41.920 --> 01:21:45.600
Remember, Oh no, you're bad. You'll like all the rest

1495
01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:47.880
of them. I thought you were nice, but you don't.

1496
01:21:47.880 --> 01:21:49.159
You remember I tried to help you.

1497
01:21:49.359 --> 01:21:52.479
You didn't call Missus Finley from the flower shop.

1498
01:21:52.600 --> 01:21:54.039
Yes, I did, Water, I spoke tomorrow.

1499
01:21:54.119 --> 01:21:56.760
That's not the truth. You couldn't talk to her. Missus

1500
01:21:56.760 --> 01:22:02.880
Finley is dead. I killed that. She was going to

1501
01:22:02.920 --> 01:22:05.880
tell the police about me. I put my hands around

1502
01:22:05.880 --> 01:22:12.000
her neck and I squeezed, and she was dead. I

1503
01:22:12.079 --> 01:22:16.520
put her in the cellar. Now I've got to kill you.

1504
01:22:16.560 --> 01:22:19.439
No wait, wait, If you do anything to me, there

1505
01:22:19.439 --> 01:22:23.560
won't be anybody left to help you find Lola. Yes, Lee, Yes, Water,

1506
01:22:23.640 --> 01:22:25.920
I can help you find Lola. I can kind of

1507
01:22:25.960 --> 01:22:26.600
where she's hiding.

1508
01:22:27.239 --> 01:22:31.199
Dead. She laughed. She laughed at me. She said I

1509
01:22:31.319 --> 01:22:35.119
was crazy, a big, crazy fool, That's what she said.

1510
01:22:35.159 --> 01:22:37.800
I thought she was my friend, but she wasn't. She

1511
01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:40.680
was mean. She laughed at me. She was mean like

1512
01:22:40.800 --> 01:22:42.239
all the rest, they all laughed.

1513
01:22:42.359 --> 01:22:43.840
I wouldn't laugh at your water, I wouldn't.

1514
01:22:43.880 --> 01:22:47.079
They hate it when people laugh at me. I want

1515
01:22:47.119 --> 01:22:49.319
to hurt them, just like I want to hurt you.

1516
01:22:49.439 --> 01:22:54.840
Because you're laughing at me. Now, you please, let's go

1517
01:22:55.119 --> 01:22:59.600
me laugh and stop stop laughing. I wouldn't have to

1518
01:22:59.720 --> 01:23:08.079
hurt you, but you would stop you, Lola, Lola, make

1519
01:23:08.159 --> 01:23:15.760
them stup, Loualla, please make them stop there. You're hurting me.

1520
01:23:19.920 --> 01:23:23.880
You all right, Mason, Yes, I'm all right. It was

1521
01:23:23.880 --> 01:23:26.800
a close call you had. You didn't turn up at

1522
01:23:26.800 --> 01:23:29.760
the Black Grotto. I checked with the florist. You saw

1523
01:23:29.800 --> 01:23:32.720
him take you into a cab outside her shop. What

1524
01:23:32.840 --> 01:23:34.159
do you think I got out here in time?

1525
01:23:34.640 --> 01:23:34.800
Yes?

1526
01:23:36.000 --> 01:23:37.960
The shore was a big guy, wasn't he.

1527
01:23:38.439 --> 01:23:43.640
Yes, he was a big guy who didn't want people

1528
01:23:43.720 --> 01:23:45.800
to laugh at him.

1529
01:23:46.119 --> 01:23:58.680
Uh.

1530
01:23:59.279 --> 01:24:03.640
That closes the lid on tonight's little coffin of curious characters,

1531
01:24:04.239 --> 01:24:06.760
and waters certainly proved the point. The bigger they are,

1532
01:24:06.800 --> 01:24:11.840
the harder they fall into a grave. Say, Carol certainly

1533
01:24:11.880 --> 01:24:14.600
had a narrow escape, and she, the poor girl, almost

1534
01:24:14.680 --> 01:24:18.640
died laughing. You know that's the trouble with most people.

1535
01:24:18.720 --> 01:24:21.439
No sense of humor. Some of them just can't take

1536
01:24:21.479 --> 01:24:27.800
a choke. All right, So my gags leave you more

1537
01:24:27.800 --> 01:24:30.680
ofid You didn't want to sleep tonight anyway?

1538
01:24:31.760 --> 01:24:33.439
Oh? Did you?

1539
01:24:45.439 --> 01:24:45.920
Good night?

1540
01:24:47.399 --> 01:24:49.159
Pleasant dreams?

1541
01:24:50.760 --> 01:25:09.720
M I don't know if these stories are necessarily affecting

1542
01:25:09.800 --> 01:25:16.359
my melancholy, but I am happy to have someone to

1543
01:25:16.399 --> 01:25:19.640
share them with, My dear. It can be a very

1544
01:25:21.920 --> 01:25:29.960
long road when you live where I live, when you

1545
01:25:30.039 --> 01:25:33.800
see the things I see day and night. Although that's

1546
01:25:34.079 --> 01:25:39.960
a misnow there is no there is no daytime. It

1547
01:25:40.079 --> 01:25:46.399
all starts to blend together because it truly is a

1548
01:25:46.520 --> 01:25:48.199
lonely road.

1549
01:25:49.880 --> 01:25:50.279
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1550
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1551
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1552
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1553
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1554
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1555
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1556
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1557
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1558
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1559
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1560
01:26:35.079 --> 01:26:39.600
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1561
01:26:39.720 --> 01:26:42.760
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1562
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1563
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Okay, thanks, Doc.

1564
01:26:57.680 --> 01:27:01.640
Where Hello, Gare? How goes it not bad? You want

1565
01:27:01.640 --> 01:27:04.439
to stayment? I suppose? M M. That's right. Well tell

1566
01:27:04.439 --> 01:27:08.920
me first, is is she have to get the extreme penalty?

1567
01:27:09.520 --> 01:27:12.000
Well, that'll depend a lot upon what you have to say.

1568
01:27:12.720 --> 01:27:16.079
I see, well, I'll I'll give it to you straight.

1569
01:27:16.880 --> 01:27:19.880
I'm counting on you to do your best for her. Sure, sure,

1570
01:27:20.680 --> 01:27:30.560
I'll go ahead. Shoot, Okay. The first time I saw Jenny,

1571
01:27:30.640 --> 01:27:33.600
she was coming along the road carrying the suitcase. I

1572
01:27:33.680 --> 01:27:35.760
knew she was headed for our place because it's the

1573
01:27:35.800 --> 01:27:39.079
only house for miles around there. I was trimming the

1574
01:27:39.119 --> 01:27:40.960
hedge and I've got as far as the rear gate.

1575
01:27:41.039 --> 01:27:43.920
When she reached it, I waited for her to speak,

1576
01:27:44.680 --> 01:27:47.479
Is this the Gare place? That's right? What can I

1577
01:27:47.520 --> 01:27:48.319
do for you?

1578
01:27:48.319 --> 01:27:50.359
You had an eye in the paper for a girl

1579
01:27:50.399 --> 01:27:51.640
to do general housework.

1580
01:27:51.920 --> 01:27:54.600
Oh, yes, of course we'll come along into the house.

1581
01:27:54.640 --> 01:27:56.039
My wife will want to have to talk with you.

1582
01:27:58.560 --> 01:28:02.279
This is a beautiful place, Scott here, mister Gure, but

1583
01:28:02.359 --> 01:28:03.159
it's certainly.

1584
01:28:02.880 --> 01:28:05.880
High to get to you've walked from the highway.

1585
01:28:06.359 --> 01:28:09.680
Yeah, must have been almost five miles. The sun is

1586
01:28:09.720 --> 01:28:14.159
something fierce almost gave up. Old lady bushes run along here.

1587
01:28:14.600 --> 01:28:17.159
No, we're pretty isolated. When there's help in the house.

1588
01:28:17.199 --> 01:28:19.000
I always manage to give him a lift in the town.

1589
01:28:20.560 --> 01:28:22.119
That makes his niceness to gear.

1590
01:28:24.079 --> 01:28:26.560
What's your name, Jenny? Jenny?

1591
01:28:26.600 --> 01:28:28.039
What Jenny'll do?

1592
01:28:28.760 --> 01:28:31.960
All right? Jenny in here please? And missus s Gere

1593
01:28:32.000 --> 01:28:33.600
is a trifle heart of hearing, so you'll have to

1594
01:28:33.640 --> 01:28:36.760
speak up a bit, Oh, helen, missus Jenny, she's come

1595
01:28:36.800 --> 01:28:38.000
in answer to our advertisement.

1596
01:28:38.159 --> 01:28:41.359
Oh yes, I'm very glad to see you, Jenny, won't

1597
01:28:41.359 --> 01:28:41.920
you sitty?

1598
01:28:49.880 --> 01:28:55.399
She was extraordinarily not beautiful or pretty striking, I guess

1599
01:28:55.399 --> 01:28:58.760
would be the word. She had heavy black braids wound

1600
01:28:58.800 --> 01:29:01.840
about her head. Her eyes were a clear green and

1601
01:29:01.880 --> 01:29:05.279
looked straight through you. And she was lean and powerful,

1602
01:29:06.079 --> 01:29:09.000
like a young animal, a leopard or a panther or something.

1603
01:29:10.319 --> 01:29:13.159
While my wife engaged Jenny that night. She cooked an

1604
01:29:13.199 --> 01:29:16.640
excellent dinner and served it well. She had on a

1605
01:29:16.640 --> 01:29:20.520
purple skirt in a serese. I guess you'd call it blouse,

1606
01:29:20.520 --> 01:29:24.079
and I could see Helen Iyott with dis favor. Every

1607
01:29:24.079 --> 01:29:27.319
time the girl came close to the eye, I could

1608
01:29:27.359 --> 01:29:30.359
feel the strength of her, and those green eyes watched

1609
01:29:30.439 --> 01:29:32.600
us as if she were sizing us up. We took

1610
01:29:32.600 --> 01:29:34.840
our coffee and cigarettes out on the veranda after dinner.

1611
01:29:35.079 --> 01:29:36.680
You can look right over the orange and grove to

1612
01:29:36.720 --> 01:29:37.880
the hills. It's nice.

1613
01:29:40.119 --> 01:29:40.600
See.

1614
01:29:41.439 --> 01:29:43.039
What do you think about Jenny.

1615
01:29:43.960 --> 01:29:47.079
Was a little early to judge. Seems capable enough. There's

1616
01:29:47.079 --> 01:29:49.159
a darn good dinner. If you ask me, maybe we're

1617
01:29:49.159 --> 01:29:49.840
in luck, darling.

1618
01:29:50.600 --> 01:29:52.399
Maybe what does she do?

1619
01:29:52.520 --> 01:29:53.640
Think Mexican?

1620
01:29:53.880 --> 01:29:54.000
Oh?

1621
01:29:54.079 --> 01:29:56.359
I say Slavic with that build and shape of face,

1622
01:29:57.199 --> 01:29:58.640
and walk coffee hell and have a cup.

1623
01:29:59.279 --> 01:30:00.159
She probably.

1624
01:30:01.840 --> 01:30:07.800
It is a sort of old gipsy arrogance boldness about it.

1625
01:30:07.800 --> 01:30:11.760
It makes me how uneasy, as if I'd had something

1626
01:30:11.800 --> 01:30:12.479
to cope with.

1627
01:30:18.359 --> 01:30:21.000
We went up to bed early. I was pretty exhausted

1628
01:30:21.039 --> 01:30:23.000
every night with all the physical work I had to do.

1629
01:30:23.359 --> 01:30:25.960
I turned out the light and for some reason stepped

1630
01:30:25.960 --> 01:30:29.239
over to the window. Jenny's room was downstairs, on the

1631
01:30:29.239 --> 01:30:30.640
same side of the house as ours.

1632
01:30:30.680 --> 01:30:31.079
In the rear.

1633
01:30:31.720 --> 01:30:35.039
Her light was still on. She was getting ready for bed,

1634
01:30:35.079 --> 01:30:38.479
and her shadow, huge and black, lay across the lawn.

1635
01:30:39.720 --> 01:30:42.279
Her arms were raised to take down those heavy braids.

1636
01:30:43.279 --> 01:30:47.920
There was something actually classic about the thing. The picture

1637
01:30:47.960 --> 01:30:50.079
of it stayed in my mind long after I'd got

1638
01:30:50.079 --> 01:30:56.760
into bed. Well, two or three days went by, and Jenny, Well,

1639
01:30:56.800 --> 01:30:59.399
the thing was, you were conscious of her all the time.

1640
01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:02.119
Wherever she was about the house, whatever she was doing,

1641
01:31:02.159 --> 01:31:05.119
you thought about her. I was working in the garage

1642
01:31:05.119 --> 01:31:08.199
one afternoon when she came out there with the butcher knife.

1643
01:31:08.760 --> 01:31:11.760
Missus Gere says, you're a wheatstone out here. Then I

1644
01:31:11.800 --> 01:31:13.359
get you to shop my knife for me.

1645
01:31:13.399 --> 01:31:15.439
Mister Gear, of course, just a moment.

1646
01:31:18.560 --> 01:31:19.640
What's that you're doing.

1647
01:31:19.840 --> 01:31:21.560
Oh, I'm trying to mend this old bear trap.

1648
01:31:22.000 --> 01:31:24.279
Oh are you a trapper, mister Gear.

1649
01:31:24.439 --> 01:31:28.199
Oh no, hardly, as kyote around that's been stealing the chickens.

1650
01:31:28.199 --> 01:31:40.199
I'm hoping to catch him there. Well, they have the knife.

1651
01:31:41.159 --> 01:31:42.520
What do you do, mister Gear?

1652
01:31:43.319 --> 01:31:45.399
Oh daring. Missus Gere was a concert pianist at the

1653
01:31:45.399 --> 01:31:48.159
times called marriage. I was a manager. Now I take

1654
01:31:48.199 --> 01:31:50.319
care of her properties, holdings, investments.

1655
01:31:50.359 --> 01:31:53.119
You know you mean you signed things far like checks

1656
01:31:53.119 --> 01:31:54.439
and papers and things.

1657
01:31:54.319 --> 01:31:57.800
Barbor Tary. Yes, that's part of it.

1658
01:31:57.960 --> 01:31:59.119
Pretty soft for you.

1659
01:32:00.079 --> 01:32:04.479
On the contrary, it's quite a job. Keeps me busy.

1660
01:32:05.079 --> 01:32:07.640
I still say, you've got a pretty setup. And she

1661
01:32:07.680 --> 01:32:11.079
didn't get such a bad deal herself. She's crazy in

1662
01:32:11.079 --> 01:32:12.840
love with you. Anybody can see that.

1663
01:32:14.199 --> 01:32:14.560
Why not?

1664
01:32:15.880 --> 01:32:20.800
You're a good looking figure and young. You must be

1665
01:32:20.840 --> 01:32:23.520
at least at least twelve years young and than she is.

1666
01:32:25.359 --> 01:32:28.600
Now here's your knighte Jenny. Careful now it's like a razor.

1667
01:32:28.880 --> 01:32:31.279
Thanks a lot. That's the way I want it. I

1668
01:32:31.319 --> 01:32:36.479
can't stand a dull night, so I'll probably bother you often.

1669
01:32:37.560 --> 01:32:46.479
A few more days went by. I finished my trap

1670
01:32:46.479 --> 01:32:48.520
and set it out near the chicken run, hoping i'd

1671
01:32:48.640 --> 01:32:52.199
catch my thief. And one night, after dinner, we were

1672
01:32:52.199 --> 01:33:05.920
in the living what's the matter, Helen?

1673
01:33:07.840 --> 01:33:10.720
She was standing there in the dining room door listening, Jenny.

1674
01:33:11.119 --> 01:33:12.239
She probably likes music.

1675
01:33:12.279 --> 01:33:15.359
What's the hot isn't that she's always listening and watching.

1676
01:33:16.600 --> 01:33:18.079
It's beginning to get on my nerves.

1677
01:33:18.319 --> 01:33:18.800
How about her?

1678
01:33:18.840 --> 01:33:19.039
Work.

1679
01:33:20.079 --> 01:33:22.720
She works hard enough, She's willing and clean as a pin.

1680
01:33:22.800 --> 01:33:26.000
But I have a feeling she doesn't respect me. That

1681
01:33:26.359 --> 01:33:28.479
I just don't think you're in her scheme of things.

1682
01:33:28.479 --> 01:33:30.960
She's she's just simply taken the place over. I don't

1683
01:33:30.960 --> 01:33:32.359
even run my own house anymore.

1684
01:33:32.760 --> 01:33:34.920
Fire or why don't you No, I couldn't say the

1685
01:33:34.960 --> 01:33:35.560
word and I'll do it.

1686
01:33:35.720 --> 01:33:37.079
No, No, I don't.

1687
01:33:36.880 --> 01:33:41.600
Want you to, Steve. Frankly, i'd be afraid to tell

1688
01:33:41.600 --> 01:33:45.439
her to go. She might get ugly and set fire

1689
01:33:45.479 --> 01:33:46.279
to the house or something.

1690
01:33:46.319 --> 01:33:50.079
Oh, I've never heard such a nonsense in my life. Well, Helen,

1691
01:33:50.079 --> 01:33:50.399
aren't you.

1692
01:33:50.439 --> 01:33:53.840
Well, I'm just terribly nervous, Steve. Maybe that's why she

1693
01:33:53.920 --> 01:33:54.520
takes advance.

1694
01:34:00.439 --> 01:34:03.600
Well, that's settled that. I felt like a heel, though,

1695
01:34:03.640 --> 01:34:07.039
because I was relieved that Kell didn't didn't want to

1696
01:34:07.079 --> 01:34:10.479
fire Jenny, I was obliged to admit to myself that

1697
01:34:10.560 --> 01:34:13.880
the girl was getting under my skin. Any little service

1698
01:34:13.920 --> 01:34:18.199
she had to perform for me, she made very special. Standing.

1699
01:34:18.199 --> 01:34:21.840
As close as she did, I could feel a magnetism

1700
01:34:21.840 --> 01:34:26.960
of that strong, perfect body. Her hair smelled like new apples,

1701
01:34:27.439 --> 01:34:30.680
and those clear green eyes would linger pressingly in mind.

1702
01:34:32.439 --> 01:34:35.439
Then after about two weeks. One night, it must have

1703
01:34:35.520 --> 01:34:36.399
been one or.

1704
01:34:36.319 --> 01:34:43.680
Two o'clock, Steve, Steve, wake up, what's the matter that girl.

1705
01:34:44.399 --> 01:34:46.720
I think she's out there in the hallway. I think

1706
01:34:46.760 --> 01:34:50.720
she's been in this room. I'm frightened, Steve, so youse,

1707
01:34:50.760 --> 01:34:52.840
make a light all.

1708
01:34:52.840 --> 01:35:02.880
Right, no one around Helen. He must have been dreaming there,

1709
01:35:03.920 --> 01:35:04.680
Perhaps I was.

1710
01:35:04.720 --> 01:35:09.840
I dream about her often, Steve. Horror confused kind of dreams.

1711
01:35:10.600 --> 01:35:12.560
I'm trying to scream for help and can't.

1712
01:35:12.600 --> 01:35:16.079
It's too good, Lord, Helen. I never thought anybody could

1713
01:35:16.079 --> 01:35:18.760
get you down. I've got to control yourself somehow. This

1714
01:35:18.840 --> 01:35:29.239
it's just plain silly. Yes, yes, I turned out the

1715
01:35:29.279 --> 01:35:32.680
light and got back into bed. In a little while,

1716
01:35:33.159 --> 01:35:36.039
I could hear Helen's even breathing, and knew she was asleep.

1717
01:35:37.439 --> 01:35:41.960
I lay there thinking about Jenny. Of course, I never

1718
01:35:42.000 --> 01:35:46.319
thought of much else. In a moment, I heard the

1719
01:35:46.319 --> 01:35:52.520
piano so faint I thought I was imagining it, and

1720
01:35:52.600 --> 01:36:02.720
it came again, weird, ghostly. I got up again, put

1721
01:36:02.760 --> 01:36:06.520
on my robe, and slipped downstairs. The living room was

1722
01:36:06.600 --> 01:36:10.159
dark except for the moonlight pouring through the window, and

1723
01:36:10.319 --> 01:36:13.479
Jenny's figure, black against the light, was moving towards me,

1724
01:36:14.359 --> 01:36:16.720
almost before I knew what. She'd pressed close against me,

1725
01:36:17.560 --> 01:36:19.199
crushing her mouth to mine.

1726
01:36:20.039 --> 01:36:31.399
It was like being stunned, sharp, sweet, terrible, Jenny, what

1727
01:36:31.600 --> 01:36:31.880
is this?

1728
01:36:33.199 --> 01:36:36.039
Don't kid me. You knew this was coming, but it

1729
01:36:36.119 --> 01:36:39.159
had to come that nothing could keep us apart. Now

1730
01:36:39.199 --> 01:36:40.640
everything's going to be all right.

1731
01:36:41.760 --> 01:36:46.520
But but Jenny, we can't Helen. There's no food.

1732
01:36:46.600 --> 01:36:48.039
We can't let her stand in our way.

1733
01:36:49.279 --> 01:36:51.640
What do you mean it won't be hard.

1734
01:36:52.039 --> 01:36:53.880
Just a matter of figuring the best way.

1735
01:36:54.119 --> 01:36:56.199
I don't know what you mean, Jenny. And we can't

1736
01:36:56.239 --> 01:36:58.079
stay here talking nights any longer.

1737
01:37:01.840 --> 01:37:05.439
He'll be just you and me, Steve and all that money.

1738
01:37:05.640 --> 01:37:06.760
Think what we can do with it?

1739
01:37:06.840 --> 01:37:07.199
Just think?

1740
01:37:07.279 --> 01:37:08.600
Are you crazy?

1741
01:37:08.520 --> 01:37:12.000
Yeah? Crazy for you, just like you are for me,

1742
01:37:12.760 --> 01:37:13.439
missus Steve.

1743
01:37:13.800 --> 01:37:15.479
Inside of five or six years, you're going to be

1744
01:37:15.479 --> 01:37:17.840
stuck with a deaf old woman. What you're gonna do?

1745
01:37:17.960 --> 01:37:19.239
Sit here and grow old with her?

1746
01:37:19.720 --> 01:37:20.119
Not you?

1747
01:37:21.119 --> 01:37:23.000
Sooner or later you clear out.

1748
01:37:23.359 --> 01:37:25.439
So why not now? But me?

1749
01:37:26.119 --> 01:37:29.479
Why that's so simple as you make it sound, My dear.

1750
01:37:29.800 --> 01:37:32.119
All you have to do is to spread around the

1751
01:37:32.159 --> 01:37:35.119
town that Helen's going to visit her folks, Mississippi or

1752
01:37:35.119 --> 01:37:40.600
someplace and leave her to me. Afterwards, you can say

1753
01:37:40.640 --> 01:37:43.319
your wife's decided to stay down south, that you're going

1754
01:37:43.399 --> 01:37:46.760
to going to sell out and join her. Then we

1755
01:37:46.800 --> 01:37:54.159
can turn everything into cash and we're on our way easy.

1756
01:37:55.920 --> 01:37:58.399
The next few days, I worked outside with my hands

1757
01:37:58.439 --> 01:38:01.720
bled and my whole body shriek with pain. To keep

1758
01:38:01.720 --> 01:38:05.720
from thinking, I began having nightpaers. I'd wake up in

1759
01:38:05.760 --> 01:38:08.840
a cold sweat and lie there longing for daylight, swearing

1760
01:38:08.840 --> 01:38:10.520
that as soon as morning came, I'd throw that girl

1761
01:38:10.560 --> 01:38:15.079
out of the house, but she'd brush against me. I

1762
01:38:15.239 --> 01:38:18.279
touched my hand, and I'd been wild for her again.

1763
01:38:20.159 --> 01:38:23.079
I guess I knew then that sooner or later I'd

1764
01:38:23.079 --> 01:38:41.760
agreeed to nearly anything she asked or suspense.

1765
01:38:41.920 --> 01:38:45.039
Roma Wines are bringing you as star Gregory Peck in

1766
01:38:45.199 --> 01:38:49.399
The Lonely Road by Marion Orth Roma Winds presentation tonight

1767
01:38:49.439 --> 01:38:53.760
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1768
01:39:02.279 --> 01:39:05.399
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1769
01:39:05.640 --> 01:39:09.479
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1770
01:39:09.600 --> 01:39:14.039
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1771
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1772
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1773
01:39:23.239 --> 01:39:26.880
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1774
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1775
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1776
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1777
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1778
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1779
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1780
01:39:54.600 --> 01:39:57.720
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1781
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1782
01:40:01.159 --> 01:40:05.239
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1783
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1784
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1786
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1787
01:40:28.119 --> 01:40:31.239
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1788
01:40:31.600 --> 01:40:34.760
who has Stephen Gare in the Lonely Road, continues a

1789
01:40:34.880 --> 01:40:38.439
narrative well calculated to keep you in suspense.

1790
01:40:44.880 --> 01:40:52.319
More, Helen began to get on my nerves. It seemed

1791
01:40:52.319 --> 01:40:56.560
that every day she looked older, washdown became differ I

1792
01:40:56.600 --> 01:40:59.199
began to despise her to wander out of my way,

1793
01:40:59.199 --> 01:41:04.000
out of Jenny's way. One morning, at breakfast, Jenny came

1794
01:41:04.039 --> 01:41:06.039
in and stood there looking at me fixedically.

1795
01:41:08.520 --> 01:41:12.560
Well, Jenny, what is this if you're going to town

1796
01:41:12.600 --> 01:41:15.680
to Dames to Gare. I'd written down some things to

1797
01:41:15.720 --> 01:41:16.199
the house.

1798
01:41:18.039 --> 01:41:21.079
Very well, Jenny, if you're list ready to give it

1799
01:41:21.119 --> 01:41:29.760
to me, I'll be leaving in a few minutes. I

1800
01:41:29.840 --> 01:41:33.279
knew what she meant. She was getting impatient. A reply,

1801
01:41:33.439 --> 01:41:36.359
which she waited for with those green eyes fixed on mine,

1802
01:41:37.279 --> 01:41:40.640
was virtually a consent to her plan. Because for me,

1803
01:41:40.720 --> 01:41:44.159
I wasn't sure what I meant to do, but I

1804
01:41:44.159 --> 01:41:46.000
thought it would do no harm at least to set

1805
01:41:46.039 --> 01:41:49.039
the ball rolling in town. I dropped into the garage

1806
01:41:49.079 --> 01:41:52.399
and asked the mechanic to look the car over. I said,

1807
01:41:52.399 --> 01:41:54.479
missus Gare was planning a trip to visit her family

1808
01:41:54.520 --> 01:41:57.279
in Mississippi, but I'd have to drive her into Tucson

1809
01:41:57.359 --> 01:41:59.880
to take the train, and that my tires went so good.

1810
01:42:00.439 --> 01:42:02.880
After that, I stopped at the realty office. Well, I

1811
01:42:03.199 --> 01:42:06.199
really missed the gear. You're thinking of selling that beautiful

1812
01:42:06.199 --> 01:42:09.319
place of yours? Oh, it was just a possibility. I

1813
01:42:09.399 --> 01:42:12.760
don't want any prospective buyers about the places yet. My

1814
01:42:12.760 --> 01:42:14.880
wife is planning at Trip South, and I may follow

1815
01:42:14.880 --> 01:42:19.199
her and remain there permanently. Helped such a problem place

1816
01:42:19.199 --> 01:42:21.199
of ours takes a lot of handling that will get

1817
01:42:21.199 --> 01:42:22.319
sped up after a while.

1818
01:42:22.479 --> 01:42:24.680
Will there'd be no difficulty disposing of the property.

1819
01:42:24.760 --> 01:42:27.039
Miss the gare Just let me know when you're.

1820
01:42:26.920 --> 01:42:34.840
Ready, And meanwhile, I won't bother you with people. I

1821
01:42:34.960 --> 01:42:38.359
drove home in a sort of trance. I wasn't shocked

1822
01:42:38.359 --> 01:42:40.680
at what I've done, and the thing was still wide

1823
01:42:40.680 --> 01:42:44.319
open if I wanted to back out. When I got home,

1824
01:42:44.399 --> 01:42:47.399
I didn't want to go into the house. So far,

1825
01:42:47.439 --> 01:42:49.359
I'd had no luck with the coyotes, so I busied

1826
01:42:49.359 --> 01:42:52.159
myself setting the trap in another spot. While I was

1827
01:42:52.159 --> 01:42:54.560
doing this, Jenny came out with that butcher knife again

1828
01:42:55.199 --> 01:42:59.000
and we went into the garage. Helen was at the piano.

1829
01:43:07.640 --> 01:43:09.960
Did you do what I told you to see?

1830
01:43:10.239 --> 01:43:10.479
Yes?

1831
01:43:11.159 --> 01:43:11.640
Good.

1832
01:43:12.239 --> 01:43:13.720
I can't stand this much longer.

1833
01:43:16.039 --> 01:43:18.079
I can't bear to be here when.

1834
01:43:18.119 --> 01:43:23.680
Kiss me, Steve, don't worry, it'll be when you're out

1835
01:43:23.680 --> 01:43:24.199
of the house.

1836
01:43:27.720 --> 01:43:30.039
She didn't say anymore, just just looked at me with

1837
01:43:30.079 --> 01:43:33.439
a twisted little smile. I gave her the sharpen knife,

1838
01:43:33.800 --> 01:43:35.279
and she kissed me and went into the house.

1839
01:43:36.279 --> 01:43:41.840
At dinner that night, Helen said, I had words with

1840
01:43:41.960 --> 01:43:45.680
Jenny today, Steve. I can't have her around any longer.

1841
01:43:46.840 --> 01:43:48.600
You can fire her tonight if you will.

1842
01:43:48.800 --> 01:43:48.840
What.

1843
01:43:50.000 --> 01:43:52.159
Oh, no, my dear. I offered to do it once

1844
01:43:52.159 --> 01:43:53.479
and you wouldn't let me. Now you'll just have to

1845
01:43:53.479 --> 01:43:54.279
do it yourself, Steve.

1846
01:43:54.319 --> 01:43:55.680
I'm afraid of her terribly.

1847
01:43:55.680 --> 01:43:56.960
Why is she being ugly threatening?

1848
01:43:57.039 --> 01:43:59.359
Don't shout so, Steve, I'm not as deaf as all that,

1849
01:44:00.560 --> 01:44:05.359
and she'll hear you. No, No, she hasn't threatened me,

1850
01:44:05.399 --> 01:44:08.439
nothing like that. There's just something about it that fills

1851
01:44:08.479 --> 01:44:09.079
me with horror.

1852
01:44:09.319 --> 01:44:12.600
Well, you're imagining things, Helen. What possible reason could she

1853
01:44:12.680 --> 01:44:13.399
have for harming me?

1854
01:44:13.439 --> 01:44:16.159
I don't know, but this house has become a dreadful place,

1855
01:44:16.199 --> 01:44:19.039
and I'm cold all the time, and I'm shaky, and

1856
01:44:21.039 --> 01:44:23.520
you seem different. You look at me sometimes.

1857
01:44:23.039 --> 01:44:23.800
As if you hate me.

1858
01:44:24.000 --> 01:44:25.239
Oh, see here, that's not.

1859
01:44:25.319 --> 01:44:26.680
A reason with me. If she doesn't get out of

1860
01:44:26.680 --> 01:44:29.479
this house quick, I'll lose my mind. She's like a

1861
01:44:29.520 --> 01:44:31.359
witch or something malignant or evil.

1862
01:44:33.760 --> 01:44:36.039
Jenny came in just then to change the plates for dessert,

1863
01:44:36.960 --> 01:44:39.840
and she bent over to take the platter. She held

1864
01:44:39.880 --> 01:44:41.600
that knife in her hand in such a way that

1865
01:44:42.399 --> 01:44:45.760
my blood ran cool for a minute after she'd gone out.

1866
01:44:47.359 --> 01:44:50.079
You haven't noticed it, but lately I haven't taken a

1867
01:44:50.119 --> 01:44:52.319
mouthful of food until i've seen you start to eat,

1868
01:44:52.359 --> 01:44:53.520
for fear she'll poison me.

1869
01:44:54.399 --> 01:44:57.319
That's ridiculous. Why shouldn't she poison me as well?

1870
01:44:57.800 --> 01:45:01.520
Because she's crazy about you? Oh, for heaven's sake, and

1871
01:45:01.640 --> 01:45:05.600
you're crazy about her. Don't deny it, Steve. I may

1872
01:45:05.600 --> 01:45:07.560
be deaf, but I'm not blind.

1873
01:45:08.119 --> 01:45:11.079
Look heron. I'm going into town for a drive. If

1874
01:45:11.079 --> 01:45:12.960
you want to fire Jenny while I'm gone, that's all

1875
01:45:13.039 --> 01:45:25.840
right with me. I tried not to dwell on the

1876
01:45:25.840 --> 01:45:29.039
immediate events, but to think about the time when i'd

1877
01:45:29.039 --> 01:45:32.279
be free to go away with Jenny. The drive into

1878
01:45:32.319 --> 01:45:35.199
town seemed empress but at last I pulled up in

1879
01:45:35.199 --> 01:45:49.199
front of the hotel. Even Miss gare come the papers yes,

1880
01:45:49.279 --> 01:45:56.119
and a cigar. Maybe Fred looked around the little lobby,

1881
01:45:57.279 --> 01:45:59.000
wasn't it wasn't a soul in there that I knew.

1882
01:46:00.319 --> 01:46:03.319
I watched the people, one minute, feeling sorry for them

1883
01:46:03.359 --> 01:46:07.000
because their lives were so drabbed, the next ending them

1884
01:46:07.000 --> 01:46:11.359
because they were so secure simple. I was sitting there,

1885
01:46:11.439 --> 01:46:15.720
staring unseeingly at the local paper when I here suddenly

1886
01:46:15.760 --> 01:46:18.800
came out of this transfer a spell that I'd been under,

1887
01:46:19.720 --> 01:46:23.279
shock of realization was frightful. I didn't want anything to

1888
01:46:23.319 --> 01:46:39.720
happen to Helen. I prayed to Heaven I'd get home

1889
01:46:39.720 --> 01:46:43.600
in time. I kept recalling similar instances of such crimes

1890
01:46:43.640 --> 01:46:46.600
I'd read in newspapers. I'd always wondered how people could

1891
01:46:46.640 --> 01:46:50.039
become involved in such things. Well I knew all about

1892
01:46:50.079 --> 01:46:53.520
it now. We fooled a litter of coarse creature like

1893
01:46:53.560 --> 01:46:55.840
that lead me into such a thing. If only I

1894
01:46:55.840 --> 01:46:59.039
could be in time, I'd throw that girl out intovote

1895
01:46:59.039 --> 01:47:03.359
the rest of my life to make Helen happy. Helen generous, loving,

1896
01:47:03.399 --> 01:47:06.760
intelligent and talented. Why hadn't I thought about this before?

1897
01:47:08.000 --> 01:47:10.720
Then I saw the car. It was park at the

1898
01:47:10.720 --> 01:47:13.039
side of the highway, right at my turn off. I

1899
01:47:13.119 --> 01:47:15.720
knew it was a police car. I cursed to myself

1900
01:47:15.720 --> 01:47:18.800
and prayed, don't let them take on. I've got to

1901
01:47:18.840 --> 01:47:19.880
be in time for Helen.

1902
01:47:20.199 --> 01:47:20.600
Please.

1903
01:47:21.600 --> 01:47:24.880
An officer stepped out into the road and waved his flash. Please,

1904
01:47:24.960 --> 01:47:34.000
I said to myself, Please, Hello, what's up, officer?

1905
01:47:34.199 --> 01:47:37.199
Oh, looking for a stolen car, but not a baby

1906
01:47:37.239 --> 01:47:37.760
like that one?

1907
01:47:38.640 --> 01:47:39.720
A local car wasn't.

1908
01:47:39.920 --> 01:47:42.479
Yeah, hey, you better let me have a look at

1909
01:47:42.520 --> 01:47:43.479
your operator's card.

1910
01:47:43.600 --> 01:47:46.039
My friend, you must have been doing about eighty along

1911
01:47:46.079 --> 01:47:46.560
that stretch.

1912
01:47:46.640 --> 01:47:50.800
Oh, sure, here, your officer. Sorry, I was overdoing it.

1913
01:47:50.880 --> 01:47:53.399
I was just in town, and I guess I stayed

1914
01:47:53.399 --> 01:47:55.800
longer than I intended. My wife's alone in the house

1915
01:47:55.800 --> 01:47:59.039
and not very well, and I was in a hurry

1916
01:47:59.079 --> 01:48:02.399
to get home. You lived down this road, that's right.

1917
01:48:03.600 --> 01:48:06.279
Say maybe that car could have got down in there.

1918
01:48:06.359 --> 01:48:10.000
I think I'll no, no, no, I I mean I I

1919
01:48:10.039 --> 01:48:10.760
would have seen it.

1920
01:48:12.520 --> 01:48:15.800
Okay, mister Gaere, just take it easy, will you?

1921
01:48:16.159 --> 01:48:43.560
Certainly? We'll offser and thanks. I didn't know what to do.

1922
01:48:44.840 --> 01:48:47.800
I stood there in the doorway looking up. There was

1923
01:48:47.840 --> 01:48:50.880
a light upstairs in the window of our bedroom. Threw

1924
01:48:50.920 --> 01:48:52.840
a radiance on the screen door and burned with a

1925
01:48:53.359 --> 01:48:55.960
steady glow, as if it if it had been burning

1926
01:48:56.000 --> 01:48:58.520
like that for ages, as if it had witnessed a

1927
01:48:58.600 --> 01:49:02.079
scene of horror and brooded over it, keeping the secret

1928
01:49:02.159 --> 01:49:06.920
to itself. When I started finally for the house, my

1929
01:49:07.000 --> 01:49:11.359
legs were so stiff, like I could scarcely walk. I

1930
01:49:11.399 --> 01:49:14.760
stayed off the gravel, walking on the grass, and went

1931
01:49:14.800 --> 01:49:26.680
in the back door. There wasn't a sound. I tiptoed

1932
01:49:26.680 --> 01:49:30.279
through the kitchen, through the dining room, across the hall.

1933
01:49:31.279 --> 01:49:33.279
Then I could see the light from that lamp spilling

1934
01:49:33.319 --> 01:49:35.079
down the stairway at the far end of the dark

1935
01:49:35.079 --> 01:49:39.199
living room. My heart thump so loud I could hear it.

1936
01:49:39.880 --> 01:49:43.000
I wanted to call out, but I didn't dare whom

1937
01:49:43.000 --> 01:49:47.560
would I call. Perhaps everything was all right, Perhaps Helen

1938
01:49:47.640 --> 01:49:50.319
was up there in bed, How I prayed she was.

1939
01:49:51.520 --> 01:49:53.880
I hesitated on the threshold, thought him glancing in the

1940
01:49:53.920 --> 01:49:58.239
Jenny's room. But that would have looked queer if nothing

1941
01:49:58.279 --> 01:50:04.000
had happened. I st over the threshold. It was that trap,

1942
01:50:04.199 --> 01:50:06.279
that bear trap. Somebody had placed it there ready for me.

1943
01:50:06.720 --> 01:50:10.560
Who he was excruciating? I wrenched him two little.

1944
01:50:10.359 --> 01:50:13.920
Things, Helen, Jenny, Somebody come and give me a.

1945
01:50:13.960 --> 01:50:23.439
Hair oh, oh, oh.

1946
01:50:21.960 --> 01:50:25.000
Who is it? Oh help me, I'll be hurry.

1947
01:50:25.039 --> 01:50:25.880
I'm caught in this trap.

1948
01:50:26.319 --> 01:50:27.680
Get the hammer, flyers anything.

1949
01:50:28.000 --> 01:50:32.359
Oh oh.

1950
01:50:32.479 --> 01:50:34.199
She reached the bottom of the stairs and snapped on

1951
01:50:34.239 --> 01:50:38.600
the lights. I've never seen a sight in my life.

1952
01:50:39.920 --> 01:50:43.439
It was blood all over the place, on the wallpaper,

1953
01:50:43.720 --> 01:50:48.520
the white paint. Then I saw Jenny lying on the

1954
01:50:48.560 --> 01:50:52.039
floor in a crumpled heap, her long braids soaking in

1955
01:50:53.880 --> 01:50:57.359
Helen's dress. Her hands and face were spattered with it.

1956
01:50:58.039 --> 01:51:01.279
Her hair was dishevel her eye there like pinpoints of fire,

1957
01:51:02.279 --> 01:51:04.000
and against her side I could see the gleam of

1958
01:51:04.039 --> 01:51:09.039
that long, sharp knife. She was coming slowly towards me. Oh,

1959
01:51:09.079 --> 01:51:12.560
you were beautifully caught Jenny and I. She with a knife,

1960
01:51:12.840 --> 01:51:18.760
I with my trap. Kelen looked like that. What's happened?

1961
01:51:19.960 --> 01:51:24.279
You plan this together, you two, but it didn't turn

1962
01:51:24.319 --> 01:51:25.760
out just as you thought it might.

1963
01:51:25.920 --> 01:51:27.800
Helen. Please don't look at me like that.

1964
01:51:29.279 --> 01:51:30.399
Well there she is.

1965
01:51:31.039 --> 01:51:31.720
Look at her.

1966
01:51:32.319 --> 01:51:34.239
If I hadn't been ready for I'd be lying in

1967
01:51:34.279 --> 01:51:36.880
her place, and you'd be glad, wouldn't you steal?

1968
01:51:37.000 --> 01:51:37.199
No?

1969
01:51:37.199 --> 01:51:40.600
No, Helen, helenyone stayed up that knife for heaven. Say,

1970
01:51:40.640 --> 01:51:44.119
can listen to me. She came closer. I made a

1971
01:51:44.159 --> 01:51:46.600
lunch for her. With the grip of that steel about

1972
01:51:46.640 --> 01:51:49.000
my lady threw me off balance and I fell forward.

1973
01:51:49.319 --> 01:51:50.039
She sprang on me.

1974
01:51:50.439 --> 01:51:52.000
I pot her off, but that knife came at me

1975
01:51:52.159 --> 01:51:56.319
face brooke everywhere like flashes of lady Helen, don't do

1976
01:51:56.439 --> 01:51:56.840
this to me.

1977
01:51:57.399 --> 01:51:58.479
I swear. I came back.

1978
01:52:00.319 --> 01:52:17.920
No, no, lieutenant, please, car arrived in time to save

1979
01:52:17.960 --> 01:52:22.840
my life, like I wish they uld have finished the

1980
01:52:23.000 --> 01:52:25.359
job then in there.

1981
01:52:28.079 --> 01:52:34.359
Okay, Gear, okay, thanks, I'll send the doc right in

1982
01:52:34.800 --> 01:52:39.960
and Gere. I wouldn't worry too much about Helen. I

1983
01:52:40.000 --> 01:52:40.920
think she'll be all right.

1984
01:53:00.119 --> 01:53:04.840
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2002
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Well, my dear, it is getting very very late. I

2003
01:54:29.560 --> 01:54:36.279
appreciate your patience with this old man. Or what's that? Well, no,

2004
01:54:36.439 --> 01:54:44.960
it won't. It won't be much longer. I can tell you. You

2005
01:54:43.199 --> 01:54:51.119
see how I needed this this evening, a little calm,

2006
01:54:51.199 --> 01:54:59.479
quiet with a friend, someone to acknowledge that I exist

2007
01:54:59.479 --> 01:55:06.560
at all, something I often debate privately. I think we're

2008
01:55:06.600 --> 01:55:14.239
all just dreaming and wondering, wondering and dreaming, hoping I

2009
01:55:14.319 --> 01:55:29.680
won't die alone.

2010
01:55:30.359 --> 01:55:41.920
Virtual presents the mysterious Traveler. This is the mysterious Traveler

2011
01:55:42.600 --> 01:55:45.560
inviting you to join me on another journey into the

2012
01:55:45.560 --> 01:55:48.920
realm of the strange and the terrifying. I hope you

2013
01:55:48.960 --> 01:55:51.920
will enjoy the trip, and it will trill you a

2014
01:55:51.920 --> 01:55:55.880
little and chill you a little. So settle back, get

2015
01:55:55.880 --> 01:55:59.039
a good rip on your nerves, and be comfortable if

2016
01:55:59.079 --> 01:55:59.560
you can.

2017
01:56:00.399 --> 01:56:02.039
As you hear the story I call.

2018
01:56:03.840 --> 01:56:19.479
I Won't die alone. Our story begins in nineteen thirty one.

2019
01:56:20.680 --> 01:56:23.520
Two young men are speeding along in a car on

2020
01:56:23.600 --> 01:56:26.640
a lonely West Virginia road at seventy miles an hour.

2021
01:56:27.359 --> 01:56:29.640
There's a tight, tense look on the face of the driver,

2022
01:56:29.800 --> 01:56:32.760
Steve Martin, as he takes the curves on the road

2023
01:56:32.800 --> 01:56:38.199
without slowing down. His companion, Chuck Williams, wipes the perspiration

2024
01:56:38.279 --> 01:56:41.920
from his face with trembling hands. He turns and watches

2025
01:56:41.960 --> 01:56:45.880
the road behind fearfully now and then glancing at Steve's

2026
01:56:45.880 --> 01:56:47.279
face reassurance.

2027
01:56:49.239 --> 01:56:50.720
Turn on the radio, Chuck, Let's see if they got

2028
01:56:50.760 --> 01:56:54.359
an alarm out yet. Yeah, okay, oh well, what do

2029
01:56:54.359 --> 01:56:57.039
you think of Chances are, Steve hard to say It

2030
01:56:57.079 --> 01:56:59.079
all depends on how fast the copspread.

2031
01:56:58.600 --> 01:57:03.159
The word Man robbed the Third National Bank of Louisbourg

2032
01:57:03.479 --> 01:57:06.319
of over a quarter of a million dollars shortly before

2033
01:57:06.359 --> 01:57:10.680
closing time. Word has just been received that the two

2034
01:57:10.800 --> 01:57:14.319
bank robbers are now driving east on Highway six.

2035
01:57:14.199 --> 01:57:16.800
B towards the Allegheny Mountains.

2036
01:57:17.159 --> 01:57:17.800
That's not good.

2037
01:57:18.359 --> 01:57:22.359
State Police Car nine take up position adjunction of Highway

2038
01:57:22.359 --> 01:57:24.239
eleven A and River Road.

2039
01:57:24.880 --> 01:57:25.680
They moving fast.

2040
01:57:25.720 --> 01:57:29.720
Eight Police Car ten take up position adjunction of Highway

2041
01:57:29.880 --> 01:57:31.920
three and Highway six B.

2042
01:57:32.560 --> 01:57:33.920
Steve, Highway six B.

2043
01:57:34.079 --> 01:57:34.600
We're on it.

2044
01:57:34.680 --> 01:57:38.319
Yeah, that is all. Stand by for further orders.

2045
01:57:38.560 --> 01:57:40.840
Steve. You gotta turn back. We're head for trap. Take

2046
01:57:40.880 --> 01:57:43.800
it easy, will you. There's still a chance. Twenty miles ahead,

2047
01:57:43.800 --> 01:57:46.000
there's a small dirt road, little detourse right around them.

2048
01:57:46.039 --> 01:57:49.239
Twenty miles. Will never make it, Steve. Isn't there any

2049
01:57:49.239 --> 01:57:50.399
other road we can turn off on?

2050
01:57:50.760 --> 01:57:50.800
No?

2051
01:57:51.039 --> 01:57:53.199
Are you sure I was born in these parts? I

2052
01:57:53.199 --> 01:57:54.199
know we're being into the country.

2053
01:57:55.800 --> 01:57:56.079
Steve.

2054
01:57:56.119 --> 01:57:58.880
Let's setch the Carr cutuit the mountains on foot. Are

2055
01:57:58.920 --> 01:58:01.680
you crazy? It's forty miles in the mountains. We never

2056
01:58:01.720 --> 01:58:03.800
make it walking. I gotta keep driving it so I'll

2057
01:58:03.800 --> 01:58:05.640
only t run right into that trap. I tell you,

2058
01:58:05.720 --> 01:58:08.720
they'll be waiting with tommy guns. We'll beat dead pigeons. Okay,

2059
01:58:08.760 --> 01:58:12.119
then we'll be dead pigeons. I give up my shadow,

2060
01:58:12.119 --> 01:58:14.600
all right out, I'll be out of this. You gotta

2061
01:58:14.640 --> 01:58:16.279
get me out of this, Dave, you got it all

2062
01:58:16.359 --> 01:58:20.079
shut up. Look, Steve, if you want to let me

2063
01:58:20.119 --> 01:58:21.680
out of the car and keep on gunning yourself, I

2064
01:58:21.720 --> 01:58:24.039
might be able to get away. The cops would be

2065
01:58:24.079 --> 01:58:25.720
so busy chasing you. I'd be able to give him

2066
01:58:25.760 --> 01:58:29.359
this slab you lovesy rat. No look at him? My way, Steve,

2067
01:58:29.520 --> 01:58:31.880
Do I no use both? I getting caught. That don't

2068
01:58:31.920 --> 01:58:34.119
make sense. Great when it comes to share on the door,

2069
01:58:34.159 --> 01:58:36.199
but when the heats on you one out. Yeah, but

2070
01:58:36.199 --> 01:58:39.399
but I'm willing to pay for you can keep my

2071
01:58:39.439 --> 01:58:40.239
share at a bank call.

2072
01:58:40.319 --> 01:58:41.039
Now that's fair enough.

2073
01:58:41.079 --> 01:58:44.720
Painted Huh, I had a good that don't do me if

2074
01:58:44.720 --> 01:58:46.359
I get caught. But I'm sick of hearing you whine.

2075
01:58:47.239 --> 01:58:49.359
All right, it's it to you if I get through

2076
01:58:49.399 --> 01:58:53.560
the doors, all mine. If I don't, why I don't, thanks, Stave. Thanks,

2077
01:58:53.600 --> 01:58:57.880
I'll never forget this. I want to get out. Which uh?

2078
01:58:57.920 --> 01:58:59.920
Which way do I go? Steve? Head of coross the

2079
01:59:00.000 --> 01:59:02.159
field until you hit a small stream, then head upstream

2080
01:59:02.159 --> 01:59:04.680
for about six miles. There's a railroad water tower there.

2081
01:59:04.720 --> 01:59:07.479
You want to be able to hop a freight. Thanks Steve,

2082
01:59:08.199 --> 01:59:28.560
rob Yeah, so long, Chuck, whoa, whoa?

2083
01:59:29.079 --> 01:59:29.640
Where are you.

2084
01:59:33.079 --> 01:59:35.960
Show up for the paper they got Steeve?

2085
01:59:36.359 --> 01:59:40.720
Yeah, and let me see that paper says here. They

2086
01:59:40.760 --> 01:59:44.520
caught him yesterday afternoon at five hour after I left him?

2087
01:59:44.560 --> 01:59:45.000
What you do?

2088
01:59:45.159 --> 01:59:46.039
Run out on him?

2089
01:59:46.239 --> 01:59:46.279
No?

2090
01:59:46.439 --> 01:59:49.880
I didn't run out on him, just right? And smart?

2091
01:59:50.760 --> 01:59:51.920
What are you looking at me like that?

2092
01:59:52.000 --> 01:59:52.039
For?

2093
01:59:52.199 --> 01:59:54.239
It wasn't no sense in both that being caught, was it?

2094
01:59:54.319 --> 01:59:54.439
No?

2095
01:59:54.560 --> 01:59:56.279
I guess not? Where's the dough?

2096
01:59:56.520 --> 01:59:56.680
What?

2097
01:59:56.800 --> 01:59:57.000
Though?

2098
01:59:57.439 --> 01:59:59.359
But two hundred and fifty four grand you got in

2099
01:59:59.399 --> 01:59:59.920
the bank shop?

2100
02:00:00.319 --> 02:00:01.000
Had that though?

2101
02:00:01.399 --> 02:00:01.479
What?

2102
02:00:03.199 --> 02:00:04.920
Look what it says there in the paper?

2103
02:00:05.600 --> 02:00:05.760
Oh?

2104
02:00:05.760 --> 02:00:06.439
I had read it.

2105
02:00:07.880 --> 02:00:12.760
Martin when captured, though police, he knew nothing about the

2106
02:00:12.840 --> 02:00:18.199
stolen bank money. Police believed that Martin's unknown companion escaped

2107
02:00:18.239 --> 02:00:20.600
with the loot. But I didn't fly it didn't. Did

2108
02:00:20.600 --> 02:00:22.039
he've had that though? When I left him?

2109
02:00:22.039 --> 02:00:22.159
Then?

2110
02:00:22.199 --> 02:00:24.760
Why didn't the police find it when they caught him?

2111
02:00:25.000 --> 02:00:28.560
There's only one answer. Steve stopped and hit the dough

2112
02:00:28.640 --> 02:00:29.960
someplace before they got him.

2113
02:00:30.800 --> 02:00:32.000
Yeah, let's see it.

2114
02:00:33.239 --> 02:00:35.319
He's too smart to risky and caught and having all

2115
02:00:35.319 --> 02:00:38.319
that dough taken away from him.

2116
02:00:38.520 --> 02:00:51.039
Poor guy to probably throw the book at him.

2117
02:00:51.439 --> 02:00:53.479
Have been so long? Why what happened at the trial?

2118
02:00:54.039 --> 02:00:55.640
They give him twenty five years?

2119
02:00:55.920 --> 02:01:01.119
Twenty five years? How did he take it? He didn't

2120
02:01:01.199 --> 02:01:04.680
bat any Maybe you'll think things over and squeal on.

2121
02:01:04.720 --> 02:01:06.079
You Stop sniffling, will you?

2122
02:01:07.279 --> 02:01:08.079
He's just the kind of.

2123
02:01:08.039 --> 02:01:09.079
Guy to do anything like that.

2124
02:01:09.880 --> 02:01:13.640
Yeah, sure, why should he want to squeal on me? Besides,

2125
02:01:13.640 --> 02:01:15.199
if he did, the cuts would find out that I

2126
02:01:15.199 --> 02:01:17.520
didn't have the bank though that it's stable, got it?

2127
02:01:18.159 --> 02:01:22.479
He wouldn't want that to happen. Sure, why we could

2128
02:01:22.479 --> 02:01:24.760
be heavy. He'll be on in eighteen or nineteen years

2129
02:01:25.399 --> 02:01:27.880
and you'll have all that dow Head'd.

2130
02:01:27.319 --> 02:01:29.159
Rather be eighteen or nineteen years?

2131
02:01:29.199 --> 02:01:29.279
Not?

2132
02:01:31.600 --> 02:01:34.199
Well, it's a nice no on you chuck.

2133
02:01:34.720 --> 02:01:37.319
Oh wait, I'm gonna flow, don't go? What why not?

2134
02:01:37.479 --> 02:01:40.800
Stick around? Would make a good tame. We don't need Steve,

2135
02:01:41.039 --> 02:01:42.119
we don't.

2136
02:01:43.279 --> 02:01:46.880
And just what would I get sticking around? You haven't

2137
02:01:46.880 --> 02:01:50.560
got brain, muscle or dough. What's the attraction?

2138
02:01:50.760 --> 02:01:53.960
Listen? Flow, stick with me and I'll get dough. I've

2139
02:01:54.000 --> 02:01:55.600
always gotten what I wanted in the act.

2140
02:01:55.680 --> 02:01:58.560
Without Steve, you haven't got a chance. He had all

2141
02:01:58.560 --> 02:01:59.760
the brains, all the guts.

2142
02:02:00.039 --> 02:02:02.600
Yeah, and where did it get him? You notice I

2143
02:02:02.640 --> 02:02:06.560
ain't behind boys, and I'll get that big dough yeat.

2144
02:02:06.520 --> 02:02:10.520
Three years when you do look me up.

2145
02:02:16.760 --> 02:02:21.720
Seventeen years first seventeen years in which earth shaking events

2146
02:02:21.760 --> 02:02:26.239
took place. With the passing of time, Steve Martin became

2147
02:02:26.359 --> 02:02:28.520
just a memory to Chuck Williams and Flow de Val.

2148
02:02:29.640 --> 02:02:33.199
During the thirties, Chuck struggled desperately to make money and

2149
02:02:33.239 --> 02:02:38.560
a half dozen petty rackets, but failed miserably. However, with

2150
02:02:38.640 --> 02:02:41.960
the coming of the war, his luck changed, and in

2151
02:02:41.960 --> 02:02:44.960
the years that followed he thrived on the black market,

2152
02:02:45.520 --> 02:02:48.119
and with his new found wealth, he was able to

2153
02:02:48.159 --> 02:02:53.319
win Flow Dupa nineteen forty eight found Chuck Williams a happy,

2154
02:02:53.720 --> 02:02:56.880
prosperous citizen without care in the world.

2155
02:02:58.880 --> 02:03:01.159
How many times have I told you to knock before

2156
02:03:01.199 --> 02:03:02.439
you committed its?

2157
02:03:02.600 --> 02:03:06.399
Napoleon say that big shot stuff your stooges.

2158
02:03:08.079 --> 02:03:10.479
Save over Flow. I guess that's what I like it

2159
02:03:10.520 --> 02:03:11.359
about you. Baby.

2160
02:03:11.439 --> 02:03:15.960
Now you've got that superior look on your face again.

2161
02:03:16.000 --> 02:03:17.399
Who are you planning a knife now.

2162
02:03:18.760 --> 02:03:22.119
Just got word that our old pal Steve, it's getting

2163
02:03:22.119 --> 02:03:27.199
out of prison tomorrow, Steve Martin one and only in

2164
02:03:27.359 --> 02:03:30.079
seventeen years now, it's a long time.

2165
02:03:30.520 --> 02:03:31.359
Yeah.

2166
02:03:31.640 --> 02:03:33.880
I think I'll drive down to the prison, be there

2167
02:03:33.920 --> 02:03:35.119
when Steve gets out.

2168
02:03:35.079 --> 02:03:37.960
Before I'm bothered a write or visit him.

2169
02:03:38.000 --> 02:03:41.880
Since the day was sent up, I know, but as

2170
02:03:41.920 --> 02:03:44.960
a matter of unfinished business between the two of us,

2171
02:03:45.039 --> 02:03:49.600
unfinished business, yeah, be exact, two hundred and fifty four grand.

2172
02:03:50.640 --> 02:03:52.840
I mean, you're going after that dough that Steve has

2173
02:03:52.920 --> 02:03:53.520
dashed away.

2174
02:03:53.840 --> 02:03:54.880
That's just what I mean.

2175
02:03:55.159 --> 02:03:56.800
But you gave up your share of that bank the

2176
02:03:56.800 --> 02:03:58.279
other day, you and Steve separated.

2177
02:03:58.760 --> 02:04:00.000
Bank can always change his.

2178
02:04:00.439 --> 02:04:03.359
Chuck lea Steve alone, that money, by rights is here.

2179
02:04:03.479 --> 02:04:06.760
He paid seventeen years for its sor you don't need it.

2180
02:04:06.840 --> 02:04:08.079
You got more dough than that already.

2181
02:04:08.159 --> 02:04:10.159
Maybe so, but that isn't gonna stop me from getting

2182
02:04:10.159 --> 02:04:12.840
that two hundred and fifty four grand. And you ought

2183
02:04:12.840 --> 02:04:14.720
to know by this time. I always get what I

2184
02:04:14.760 --> 02:04:31.279
go after. It gets you then, baby, huh. Remember baby,

2185
02:04:31.319 --> 02:04:33.399
when those gates open and Steve comes out, let me

2186
02:04:33.479 --> 02:04:34.039
do the talk.

2187
02:04:34.199 --> 02:04:34.840
Don't worry.

2188
02:04:34.960 --> 02:04:37.920
I will I don't want any part of this duty. Relaxed, baby,

2189
02:04:38.000 --> 02:04:40.560
Relax when I get that to undred fifty four Jesus

2190
02:04:40.640 --> 02:04:44.279
by a fancy diamond, Bryce, So then you'll feel better. Hey, boss,

2191
02:04:44.720 --> 02:04:45.640
they're opening the gate.

2192
02:04:46.159 --> 02:04:46.640
Is that him?

2193
02:04:47.760 --> 02:04:50.720
No, Steve is twice as big as that guy, Chuck,

2194
02:04:51.640 --> 02:04:56.359
That is key. Can't be that guy looks at least six.

2195
02:04:57.680 --> 02:05:03.439
You're right, it is Steve staying a car. Hey, Steve,

2196
02:05:04.520 --> 02:05:07.640
Steve over here. What's the matter. Don't you remember the

2197
02:05:07.720 --> 02:05:14.319
old pole? Hello, Chuck. Well, I didn't recognize you at first.

2198
02:05:14.399 --> 02:05:17.920
Well here, pow, I guess I'm kind of surprised to

2199
02:05:17.960 --> 02:05:20.239
see you after all these she is, Well, I've been

2200
02:05:20.279 --> 02:05:22.399
living in South America most of the time, only got

2201
02:05:22.479 --> 02:05:24.800
back a year ago. I know I should have written you,

2202
02:05:24.920 --> 02:05:27.399
but I never wasn't any good at pack.

2203
02:05:28.760 --> 02:05:30.800
Boy. Yeah, sure, smell, it's better out here.

2204
02:05:30.880 --> 02:05:32.359
Come on, come on, let's get in my car. I

2205
02:05:32.439 --> 02:05:34.960
got a surprise for you. I surprised. Yeah. Do you

2206
02:05:35.039 --> 02:05:36.159
remember flow through Bold?

2207
02:05:36.199 --> 02:05:37.479
Don't you there?

2208
02:05:37.560 --> 02:05:37.880
She is?

2209
02:05:38.279 --> 02:05:39.520
Hello?

2210
02:05:39.720 --> 02:05:43.199
Flow it's nice seeing you again. Come on, Steve, get in.

2211
02:05:43.279 --> 02:05:46.479
We're driving you at a time. Thanks, Chuck. Okay, we'll

2212
02:05:46.520 --> 02:05:53.399
expect the time, right, boss, you don't look well, it's

2213
02:05:54.000 --> 02:05:58.239
just this prison parlor flow in seventeen years. Well that's

2214
02:05:58.279 --> 02:06:01.159
all behind you. Now, Steve, a few weeks of good

2215
02:06:01.239 --> 02:06:03.279
rest and good food, he'll be.

2216
02:06:03.359 --> 02:06:03.880
A no man.

2217
02:06:04.319 --> 02:06:06.840
I'd like to believe that. Just take my word for it.

2218
02:06:06.920 --> 02:06:11.720
I'm never raw. Oh you seem to have done all right, Chuck. Yeah,

2219
02:06:11.840 --> 02:06:15.359
not bad. I own a nightclub at Bowling Alley, used

2220
02:06:15.439 --> 02:06:19.640
car business, a couple of apartment houses. I can't complain.

2221
02:06:20.119 --> 02:06:22.119
I'm glad to hear it. I'm not forgetting an old

2222
02:06:22.199 --> 02:06:24.920
pile either. Now flowing me wants you to come and

2223
02:06:25.000 --> 02:06:27.439
stay with us until you get on your feet. You know,

2224
02:06:27.600 --> 02:06:30.399
a house. Guess I'd rather not, Chuck. I don't want

2225
02:06:30.399 --> 02:06:33.720
to put you out put me out. Huh. Listen to

2226
02:06:33.800 --> 02:06:38.399
the guy. Well, we got sweet servants everything, Steve, I

2227
02:06:38.560 --> 02:06:40.199
just won't take no for an answer.

2228
02:06:44.760 --> 02:06:48.439
A week past, then two weeks during which Steve Martin

2229
02:06:48.520 --> 02:06:50.920
did little other than he eat and sleep and take

2230
02:06:51.039 --> 02:06:54.479
long walks. Chuck Williams played the role of the gracious

2231
02:06:54.560 --> 02:06:57.720
host of perfection, and he's guests like nothing in the

2232
02:06:57.800 --> 02:07:00.800
way of comfort, so consumed and was Chuck with his

2233
02:07:00.920 --> 02:07:04.479
guest welfare that he always knew exactly where Steve was

2234
02:07:05.319 --> 02:07:10.399
and what he was doing. And one day, as Chuck

2235
02:07:10.479 --> 02:07:13.600
had known it would happen, Steve came into his office

2236
02:07:13.920 --> 02:07:15.159
for a private chance.

2237
02:07:16.199 --> 02:07:19.840
Hey, is he Chuck? No, No, I have a say Steve. Thanks,

2238
02:07:21.079 --> 02:07:24.520
that's on your mind? Well, while I was doing time,

2239
02:07:24.600 --> 02:07:26.479
my old man died and left me a small farm

2240
02:07:26.520 --> 02:07:28.840
in West Virginia. That's where I was born and raised.

2241
02:07:28.840 --> 02:07:32.159
You know, yeah, I remember you're telling me, Well, I'm

2242
02:07:32.199 --> 02:07:34.079
going back to the old farmhouse and settled down there

2243
02:07:34.119 --> 02:07:34.520
for a while.

2244
02:07:35.279 --> 02:07:35.760
I'd see.

2245
02:07:36.680 --> 02:07:40.880
Well anything you say, Steve, All right, let's keep in touch. Yeah, sure,

2246
02:07:40.960 --> 02:07:43.600
think Jock. Why an't you thinking of leaving tomorrow morning?

2247
02:07:43.880 --> 02:07:46.159
Well that's soon. Huh. Well we'll have to have a

2248
02:07:46.199 --> 02:07:49.920
little farewell party tonight. Okay, yeah fine, I'll see you later,

2249
02:07:50.079 --> 02:07:59.479
right yeah yeah, Baelex, come in here.

2250
02:08:00.039 --> 02:08:00.439
What's up?

2251
02:08:00.479 --> 02:08:03.159
Bus? I passed Steve.

2252
02:08:03.199 --> 02:08:05.039
If he's getting ready to make his move.

2253
02:08:05.199 --> 02:08:07.079
Yess, he can't wait no longer to get his hands

2254
02:08:07.119 --> 02:08:07.600
on that dough.

2255
02:08:07.840 --> 02:08:10.640
Looks that way. He's leaving tomorrow morning for a small farm.

2256
02:08:10.680 --> 02:08:13.399
He's got it in West Virginia, West Virginia. Huh yeah,

2257
02:08:14.279 --> 02:08:16.439
farmhouse can't be more than thirty or forty miles from

2258
02:08:16.439 --> 02:08:17.479
where he stashed the dough.

2259
02:08:17.600 --> 02:08:19.239
Is there any chance he might have hitting it on

2260
02:08:19.319 --> 02:08:19.680
the farm?

2261
02:08:21.399 --> 02:08:24.000
CAP's caught him before he got that far. He hit

2262
02:08:24.039 --> 02:08:25.880
that dough someplace off Highway six B.

2263
02:08:26.479 --> 02:08:28.159
How many of the boys you want me to take along?

2264
02:08:28.960 --> 02:08:32.520
Take four? I don't want any slip ups. Watch him

2265
02:08:32.600 --> 02:08:35.279
day and night and without being seen. Just leave it

2266
02:08:35.359 --> 02:08:36.960
to me sooner or letter. He'll lead you to the

2267
02:08:37.079 --> 02:08:39.000
dough when he does.

2268
02:08:39.960 --> 02:08:40.760
But you know what to do.

2269
02:08:41.079 --> 02:08:43.119
Yeah, okay, then you better start packing.

2270
02:08:48.239 --> 02:08:50.680
The next morning, when Steve Martin took a train for

2271
02:08:50.800 --> 02:08:55.640
West Virginia, two very inconspicuous men were seated at the

2272
02:08:55.720 --> 02:08:58.600
other end of the coach he was riding, and they

2273
02:08:58.680 --> 02:09:00.560
watched him get off the train at an all but

2274
02:09:00.760 --> 02:09:04.239
deserted station in West Virginia. It made no move to

2275
02:09:04.319 --> 02:09:08.000
follow him. As the train started off, Steve hired a

2276
02:09:08.079 --> 02:09:10.479
car to take him to the farm he'd inherited. It

2277
02:09:10.640 --> 02:09:15.000
was dusk when he finally reached the deserted farmhouse on

2278
02:09:15.079 --> 02:09:18.479
a heavily wooded hill one hundred yards away. Felix and

2279
02:09:18.560 --> 02:09:22.520
a companion watched through field glasses as Steve lit a

2280
02:09:22.560 --> 02:09:24.840
fire in the farmhouse and prepared to.

2281
02:09:25.039 --> 02:09:28.880
Settle down for the night. In the days and nights

2282
02:09:28.960 --> 02:09:32.399
that followed, Felix and his men took turns watching Steve

2283
02:09:32.479 --> 02:09:36.920
Martin's every action, and every evening, Felix would phone Chuck

2284
02:09:36.960 --> 02:09:40.319
Williams and report that Steve hadn't made a move as yet.

2285
02:09:43.159 --> 02:09:45.159
How many times have I told you that? Not before

2286
02:09:45.239 --> 02:09:47.720
coming into this office, Napoleon?

2287
02:09:48.680 --> 02:09:49.960
Are things working out?

2288
02:09:50.319 --> 02:09:52.279
I told you to lay off that Napoleon stuff. I

2289
02:09:52.319 --> 02:09:55.119
don't like it. I must be Felix.

2290
02:09:55.720 --> 02:09:58.159
Hello, Hello, push Felix.

2291
02:09:58.319 --> 02:09:59.119
Well, what's happening?

2292
02:10:00.119 --> 02:10:02.520
He still hasn't made a move. All he does is

2293
02:10:02.600 --> 02:10:03.279
fish and read.

2294
02:10:03.680 --> 02:10:04.600
What about visitors?

2295
02:10:04.800 --> 02:10:06.760
He hasn't seen any one since the day he got here.

2296
02:10:07.119 --> 02:10:08.600
Are you sure he didn't give me the slip during

2297
02:10:08.640 --> 02:10:09.560
the night and get the dough?

2298
02:10:09.720 --> 02:10:11.960
Got a chance? I got two boys watching the house

2299
02:10:11.960 --> 02:10:12.319
at night.

2300
02:10:12.520 --> 02:10:14.199
Maybe he knows he's been watched, and that's why he

2301
02:10:14.239 --> 02:10:15.079
hasn't tried anything.

2302
02:10:15.199 --> 02:10:17.399
I bet my last buck he hasn't spotted us.

2303
02:10:17.560 --> 02:10:17.720
Uh.

2304
02:10:18.520 --> 02:10:21.359
Nothing ever goes right unless I'm running the show. I'm

2305
02:10:21.439 --> 02:10:24.880
leaving tonight for West Virginia. I'll see you in the morning, okay, Boss,

2306
02:10:25.239 --> 02:10:37.960
I'll be expecting you. That's a farmhouse down their boss.

2307
02:10:38.399 --> 02:10:40.399
Look through the field glasses, you can see it just

2308
02:10:40.479 --> 02:10:41.880
like he was standing in the front.

2309
02:10:41.760 --> 02:10:45.239
Yard, sitting on the porch reading.

2310
02:10:45.600 --> 02:10:47.920
Yeah, reading and fishing is all he does.

2311
02:10:48.199 --> 02:10:50.279
He hasn't been won a couple of hundred yards away

2312
02:10:50.279 --> 02:10:51.279
from the house since he got here.

2313
02:10:51.359 --> 02:10:53.000
He must have spotted you. That must be the reason

2314
02:10:53.039 --> 02:10:54.920
he hasn't made a move. How could he have spotted us?

2315
02:10:54.920 --> 02:10:56.239
You can see how careful we've been.

2316
02:10:57.079 --> 02:11:01.199
Oh, I'll wait a couple more days, see what happens.

2317
02:11:01.920 --> 02:11:05.159
He doesn't move soon, I have to think of something else.

2318
02:11:10.439 --> 02:11:14.000
Leaving Felix to continue his watch over the farmhouse, Chuck

2319
02:11:14.159 --> 02:11:16.880
returned to the village and registered at the village. In

2320
02:11:18.119 --> 02:11:22.039
the hours that followed dragged interminably, and the hatred that

2321
02:11:22.159 --> 02:11:25.439
Chuck felt that Steve Martin grew with each passing hour.

2322
02:11:26.840 --> 02:11:30.600
In the evening, Felix drove into the village and reported

2323
02:11:30.640 --> 02:11:35.920
that nothing new what occurred. Four more proofless days went by.

2324
02:11:37.119 --> 02:11:39.760
Chuck Williams was unable to contain his fury any longer.

2325
02:11:40.399 --> 02:11:42.199
He got into his car and drove to within a

2326
02:11:42.279 --> 02:11:45.199
half mile of the farmhouse, then walked the rest of

2327
02:11:45.239 --> 02:11:46.960
the way to where Felix and his men.

2328
02:11:46.960 --> 02:11:51.119
Were hidden on the hill. Of course, what are you

2329
02:11:51.199 --> 02:11:51.520
doing here?

2330
02:11:51.600 --> 02:11:54.319
I got tired of waiting. You better get down. Boss

2331
02:11:54.359 --> 02:11:57.159
is Steve Martin's labels Spodger. Forget that. We're through playing

2332
02:11:57.199 --> 02:11:58.880
a waiting game. We're gonna move in on him.

2333
02:11:59.039 --> 02:11:59.319
Move in.

2334
02:11:59.600 --> 02:12:02.119
Yeah, maybe you have to a light workout. My pal

2335
02:12:02.279 --> 02:12:04.439
Steve will be willing to tell me where he stashed

2336
02:12:04.479 --> 02:12:04.840
the dough.

2337
02:12:05.000 --> 02:12:07.079
Ah, that sounds more like it. I never did go

2338
02:12:07.199 --> 02:12:08.239
for this cat and mouse game.

2339
02:12:08.279 --> 02:12:10.520
Before we're through with him, he'll be begging to tell

2340
02:12:10.600 --> 02:12:27.600
us what he knows. Hello, Steve, I lonesome for you,

2341
02:12:28.439 --> 02:12:31.479
excited to pay your call. I thought you'd get around

2342
02:12:31.520 --> 02:12:33.920
to it sooner or later. Don't sound very glad to

2343
02:12:33.960 --> 02:12:36.319
see me. It's a fine way to act. Or the

2344
02:12:36.399 --> 02:12:39.640
pallor as your host for the last three weeks. Did

2345
02:12:39.760 --> 02:12:40.520
I treat you right?

2346
02:12:40.960 --> 02:12:41.159
Yeah?

2347
02:12:42.039 --> 02:12:43.680
That's what made me figure I hadn't seen the last

2348
02:12:43.680 --> 02:12:47.079
of you. What do you want? Give you one guess.

2349
02:12:48.199 --> 02:12:50.640
I haven't got it. I know you haven't, but you

2350
02:12:50.760 --> 02:12:53.239
know where it is. So what that money belongs to me,

2351
02:12:53.359 --> 02:12:56.640
not you. That's where you're wrong, Carl. That doe belongs

2352
02:12:56.680 --> 02:12:59.199
to the guy strong enough to get it, that's me,

2353
02:13:00.000 --> 02:13:01.159
and then you go ahead and get it. Should I

2354
02:13:01.199 --> 02:13:04.239
let him have a boss? That's not up to me, Felix,

2355
02:13:04.359 --> 02:13:05.479
that's up to Steve.

2356
02:13:06.800 --> 02:13:07.359
Bro Pal.

2357
02:13:08.079 --> 02:13:11.560
You're gonna dig up that dough for me? No, you're

2358
02:13:11.600 --> 02:13:14.359
not as smart as he used to be. You know,

2359
02:13:14.479 --> 02:13:16.439
I'll get what I want in the end. I wouldn't

2360
02:13:16.439 --> 02:13:18.760
cold it it. Okay, Felix, I get stepup to you

2361
02:13:18.920 --> 02:13:19.359
and slim.

2362
02:13:19.520 --> 02:13:21.920
Nah, he'll talk, won't you?

2363
02:13:22.000 --> 02:13:22.279
Pal?

2364
02:13:26.880 --> 02:13:27.479
That said? Pal?

2365
02:13:28.560 --> 02:13:31.439
I tried getting on your feet here. Let me help you.

2366
02:13:43.039 --> 02:13:43.399
How is he?

2367
02:13:43.479 --> 02:13:46.560
Felix so cold? Boss? You always did have a step

2368
02:13:46.720 --> 02:13:50.560
in streak. Thinking his condition, he couldn't take all that punishment.

2369
02:13:50.319 --> 02:13:50.920
Give him any more.

2370
02:13:50.960 --> 02:13:51.920
He's liable to kick off.

2371
02:13:52.239 --> 02:13:55.079
Sure, Yeah, he's already got a couple of busted ribs.

2372
02:13:54.840 --> 02:13:56.840
And i'd beating around the head didn't help him.

2373
02:13:56.840 --> 02:13:58.199
He gotta make him talk. Wait, got it?

2374
02:13:58.479 --> 02:13:59.760
You have to figure out some other ways.

2375
02:14:00.199 --> 02:14:05.760
Water in his face? Okay, come to Boss, wrap him

2376
02:14:05.840 --> 02:14:10.800
up in that chair. Come on you there, Steve. Can

2377
02:14:10.880 --> 02:14:11.239
you hear me?

2378
02:14:12.439 --> 02:14:12.640
Yeah?

2379
02:14:13.600 --> 02:14:14.119
I can hear you.

2380
02:14:14.800 --> 02:14:20.159
Felix here wants to try the water treatment. Yeah, why

2381
02:14:20.159 --> 02:14:21.800
don't you play it smart and tell me where you

2382
02:14:21.920 --> 02:14:29.279
hit that dough. I don't talk, okay, Felix. Wait wait,

2383
02:14:29.359 --> 02:14:32.479
I'll talk. Well, it's more like it.

2384
02:14:32.520 --> 02:14:33.000
Where is it?

2385
02:14:34.439 --> 02:14:39.199
You could never find it alone. Uh, I'll have to

2386
02:14:39.279 --> 02:14:43.800
take you to it. Just you and me, no matter what.

2387
02:14:43.920 --> 02:14:49.920
Felix coming along, Just you me, okay, okay, I mean

2388
02:14:49.960 --> 02:14:52.479
I'm wondering if you're in convention to make it at Felix,

2389
02:14:53.039 --> 02:14:54.800
a few drinks, try to fix him up right. As

2390
02:14:54.800 --> 02:14:56.680
soon as you've done that, Steve and me will be

2391
02:14:56.840 --> 02:14:57.439
on our way.

2392
02:15:02.239 --> 02:15:05.159
An hour later, Steve, with the assistance of Felix, tatted

2393
02:15:05.239 --> 02:15:07.359
too chuck Williams car and got on the front seat.

2394
02:15:07.920 --> 02:15:11.159
Chuck slid behind the wheel and started the morning. As

2395
02:15:11.199 --> 02:15:15.920
he drove off, he waved to Felix triumphantly. In a

2396
02:15:16.000 --> 02:15:19.880
few minutes, the farm house had faded from view. Steve,

2397
02:15:20.439 --> 02:15:22.960
huddled in a corner of the front seat, fought to

2398
02:15:23.079 --> 02:15:25.720
keep from crying out of every time the car hit

2399
02:15:25.800 --> 02:15:29.239
rotten the road. Now and then he opened his pain

2400
02:15:29.319 --> 02:15:31.279
filled eyes to look out the window.

2401
02:15:32.079 --> 02:15:35.960
Chuck watched him with satisfaction as he drove. How much

2402
02:15:36.039 --> 02:15:39.800
finer is it? You drive about five miles until you

2403
02:15:39.880 --> 02:15:42.720
reach a small gravel road where you'll see a big

2404
02:15:42.800 --> 02:15:47.479
sign saying the Devil's Caverns. He turned right there and

2405
02:15:47.560 --> 02:15:49.199
go two miles Devil's Cabins.

2406
02:15:49.239 --> 02:15:52.319
What did I have a big tourist attraction in these parts?

2407
02:15:52.399 --> 02:15:55.840
During the summer, hundreds of huge underground cabins had run

2408
02:15:55.920 --> 02:15:57.479
for miles in all directions. I mean, that's why you

2409
02:15:57.560 --> 02:16:01.199
stashed it all. Yeah, best place in the world. How

2410
02:16:01.199 --> 02:16:02.760
do you know you'll be able to find it again?

2411
02:16:03.560 --> 02:16:03.720
I know?

2412
02:16:03.800 --> 02:16:06.479
Ever he into the cabins as a kid. My old

2413
02:16:06.520 --> 02:16:09.159
man worked as a tourist guide there. I learn my

2414
02:16:09.199 --> 02:16:12.960
way around from him. Okay, you better find that though

2415
02:16:13.039 --> 02:16:16.359
I'm wanting you. I'll find it now. You should be

2416
02:16:16.399 --> 02:16:18.920
reaching the gravel road in a couple of minutes. Turn right,

2417
02:16:19.000 --> 02:16:31.199
then it's two miles to the Devil's Cabins. This is

2418
02:16:31.239 --> 02:16:35.559
a park. The car that shed over there, I sure looks.

2419
02:16:35.760 --> 02:16:38.600
Is that no one ever comes here? Util June. Is

2420
02:16:38.639 --> 02:16:40.879
that the entrance to the cabins? That door set in

2421
02:16:40.920 --> 02:16:43.719
the rock. Yeah, you'll have to shoot the lock off

2422
02:16:43.799 --> 02:16:47.719
the door, so it's okay, Yeah, no one will ever

2423
02:16:47.760 --> 02:16:50.200
be able to spot the car here. But you said

2424
02:16:50.239 --> 02:16:53.639
no one comes there? And tell Joe, No one does. Right,

2425
02:16:53.719 --> 02:16:56.360
take chances. We need a flashlight.

2426
02:16:57.159 --> 02:16:57.680
I got one.

2427
02:16:59.360 --> 02:17:04.159
I'm at If you're thinking of any tricks, don't remember

2428
02:17:04.200 --> 02:17:05.959
I got this gun, and you're in no condition to

2429
02:17:06.040 --> 02:17:09.719
try anything. Yeah, you sawt of that.

2430
02:17:12.639 --> 02:17:12.799
Come.

2431
02:17:12.840 --> 02:17:14.639
You didn't hide out here when the cops were apt

2432
02:17:14.719 --> 02:17:17.319
he there was any place to hide the car. Chad

2433
02:17:17.399 --> 02:17:21.440
wasn't here seventeen years ago. Tough, and it's us that

2434
02:17:21.520 --> 02:17:25.200
you're lonely looking place. Yeah, well you ought to be

2435
02:17:25.239 --> 02:17:28.040
able to blow this padlock off with one shot. You

2436
02:17:28.120 --> 02:17:46.079
better stand over there. That doesn't How much further is?

2437
02:17:46.159 --> 02:17:48.760
It seems like we've been walking an hour already. Right

2438
02:17:48.879 --> 02:17:53.079
up ahead, Sure you can find your way out again.

2439
02:17:53.600 --> 02:17:55.120
All these cabins look alike to me.

2440
02:17:55.680 --> 02:17:56.680
Yeah, I know the way out.

2441
02:17:58.520 --> 02:17:59.559
Sure it's damp in here.

2442
02:18:00.520 --> 02:18:00.920
What was that?

2443
02:18:01.719 --> 02:18:04.000
Probably just a right running past you. Place is full

2444
02:18:04.040 --> 02:18:08.319
of them, seems the way. It's taken a long time

2445
02:18:08.399 --> 02:18:11.000
to find that place where you head the dog. If

2446
02:18:11.040 --> 02:18:16.639
you're trying anything, I hold the flash that a little higher.

2447
02:18:17.239 --> 02:18:20.159
That's it. I hit the suitcase behind this rock.

2448
02:18:21.920 --> 02:18:22.159
Got it?

2449
02:18:23.479 --> 02:18:28.399
No, not yet here it is? Yeah, that's it. That's it,

2450
02:18:28.440 --> 02:18:30.879
all right. I can still recognize it. Open it up.

2451
02:18:34.280 --> 02:18:38.239
Well there's the dough. Yeah, tell on that bank wrap.

2452
02:18:38.559 --> 02:18:41.200
Look at it over a quarter of a million bucks.

2453
02:18:42.719 --> 02:18:47.200
What's so funny? Answer me? So the other guy always

2454
02:18:47.239 --> 02:18:49.639
gets what he goes after in the end. Uh yeah, no,

2455
02:18:49.799 --> 02:18:52.319
I got that dog. And I'm asking you again' what's

2456
02:18:52.319 --> 02:18:57.000
that funny? Look at the money? Go ahead, look at it.

2457
02:18:57.920 --> 02:19:00.479
I'm looking what about it? Yeah you're looking, asked of mind,

2458
02:19:00.520 --> 02:19:02.879
but you don't see all those bills are gold backs,

2459
02:19:03.559 --> 02:19:04.159
gold backs.

2460
02:19:04.239 --> 02:19:04.840
Yeah, that's right.

2461
02:19:05.479 --> 02:19:07.920
In nineteen thirty three, the government called in all gold backs.

2462
02:19:08.280 --> 02:19:10.639
I'll tell the kidnapped Bruno Hofmann got caught trying to

2463
02:19:10.639 --> 02:19:12.479
pass gold backs after the government had called him in.

2464
02:19:13.319 --> 02:19:15.399
I mean that dough is no good.

2465
02:19:15.600 --> 02:19:16.520
That's just what I mean.

2466
02:19:17.159 --> 02:19:18.840
You try passing any of that doing, you'll end up

2467
02:19:18.879 --> 02:19:21.879
doing time you've done all along. That dow was not

2468
02:19:22.040 --> 02:19:25.440
good ever since nineteen thirty three, knowing it was worthless.

2469
02:19:25.440 --> 02:19:27.760
I never intended coming here for it, but you'll make

2470
02:19:27.799 --> 02:19:29.840
you'll let you have it. You rat for leading me

2471
02:19:29.959 --> 02:19:33.239
on like this, Well why don't you can't I pick

2472
02:19:33.319 --> 02:19:35.760
up that suitcase. Let's get out of here. Oh wait

2473
02:19:35.799 --> 02:19:39.000
a minute, I forgot to tell you Chuck, tell me

2474
02:19:39.120 --> 02:19:45.760
what I'm staying here? Just staying here. Yeah, that's right.

2475
02:19:47.000 --> 02:19:50.159
I look they've had enough out of you start lading

2476
02:19:50.200 --> 02:19:53.760
that way out. I guess you didn't understand I said

2477
02:19:53.799 --> 02:19:56.680
I'm staying here, Garney. You've got it right, bet twenty eyes.

2478
02:19:57.719 --> 02:20:01.920
That doesn't scare me, you teach. Yeah, there was something else.

2479
02:20:01.959 --> 02:20:03.799
I didn't tell you, something else.

2480
02:20:04.079 --> 02:20:04.280
Yeah.

2481
02:20:05.559 --> 02:20:08.639
I didn't get out of prison on good behavior. I

2482
02:20:08.760 --> 02:20:10.600
got out because the doctor said I was going to

2483
02:20:10.719 --> 02:20:15.920
die in three months. You've got to die in three months. Yeah,

2484
02:20:15.959 --> 02:20:19.280
that's right. I thought I died peacefully on my farm.

2485
02:20:20.000 --> 02:20:23.239
Only you wouldn't let me do that. So I've decided

2486
02:20:23.280 --> 02:20:28.719
to die here with you as company. You can't do that.

2487
02:20:29.879 --> 02:20:31.479
Can't do that, Steve. You've got to get me out

2488
02:20:31.520 --> 02:20:31.760
of here.

2489
02:20:31.879 --> 02:20:32.319
You got it.

2490
02:20:32.559 --> 02:20:34.319
I don't have to do anything. I don't want to

2491
02:20:35.040 --> 02:20:36.639
get me out of here, Steve. I'll make it with

2492
02:20:36.760 --> 02:20:38.680
you a while. I got dough. I got lots of dough.

2493
02:20:39.000 --> 02:20:40.680
It's too bad you won't be able to take it

2494
02:20:40.760 --> 02:20:42.719
with you. Steve. I'll get you a hundred cheese, two

2495
02:20:42.840 --> 02:20:44.719
hundred cheese if you'll get me out of here. Not

2496
02:20:44.879 --> 02:20:47.040
going to be tough. For me to die because I

2497
02:20:47.159 --> 02:20:50.559
only got three months anyway. But I'm going to enjoy

2498
02:20:50.680 --> 02:20:54.319
watching you. You're gonna get weaker and weaker as you

2499
02:20:54.520 --> 02:20:57.920
plead with me to lead you out it. Then you're

2500
02:20:57.920 --> 02:20:59.760
going to get desperate and try to find a way

2501
02:20:59.799 --> 02:21:02.959
out by yourself, but you'll never make it. You'll go

2502
02:21:03.120 --> 02:21:05.200
wandering from one cabin to another, and then in the

2503
02:21:05.360 --> 02:21:07.639
end you'll probably wander back here to find me dead,

2504
02:21:08.280 --> 02:21:10.799
and your flashlight's gonna go out. You'll be all alone

2505
02:21:10.840 --> 02:21:13.600
in the dark with the rats in the backs. Stop it, stop,

2506
02:21:14.440 --> 02:21:16.280
go weaker. The rats are gonna close in on you

2507
02:21:16.440 --> 02:21:16.840
before you.

2508
02:21:17.120 --> 02:21:28.159
Steve, Steve, I didn't man, but you made me.

2509
02:21:29.680 --> 02:21:40.000
Steve, stay something mhm stead take it out of here,

2510
02:21:41.159 --> 02:21:43.280
Get out of helf.

2511
02:22:10.879 --> 02:22:15.000
This is the mysterious Traveler again. Did you enjoy our

2512
02:22:15.040 --> 02:22:19.760
little trap? What happened to Chuck williams Oh? The poor

2513
02:22:19.840 --> 02:22:22.959
fellow was found dead a month later when the caverns

2514
02:22:23.000 --> 02:22:26.639
were opened for the summer tourist trade. Seems Chuck had

2515
02:22:26.719 --> 02:22:29.680
wandered from cavern to cavern without being able to find

2516
02:22:29.760 --> 02:22:30.360
his way out.

2517
02:22:31.840 --> 02:22:33.520
Evidently he'd gone mad.

2518
02:22:33.399 --> 02:22:36.000
In his last hours before he was found with his

2519
02:22:36.120 --> 02:22:38.239
pocket stuffed full of bills.

2520
02:22:40.280 --> 02:22:41.040
Rolled backs.

2521
02:22:42.680 --> 02:22:45.840
I recall another case in which two ghosts came fish

2522
02:22:45.920 --> 02:22:49.200
to face, only to discover that, oh.

2523
02:22:49.280 --> 02:22:52.959
You have to get off now. I'm sorry, but I'm

2524
02:22:53.040 --> 02:22:54.200
sure we'll meet again.

2525
02:22:55.280 --> 02:22:59.040
I take this same train every week. At this time.

2526
02:23:12.680 --> 02:23:15.440
You have just heard The Mysterious Traveler, a series of

2527
02:23:15.479 --> 02:23:18.879
dramas of the strange and terrifying. In Tonight's story, all

2528
02:23:19.040 --> 02:23:21.719
characters were fictional, and any resemblance to the name of

2529
02:23:21.799 --> 02:23:25.159
an actual person living or dead was purely coincidental. In

2530
02:23:25.239 --> 02:23:29.399
the cast were Maurice Tarplin, Joe Julian Art, Connie Elspeth,

2531
02:23:29.559 --> 02:23:33.760
Eric and Alan Manson. Original music was played by Paul Taubman.

2532
02:23:34.239 --> 02:23:37.680
A Mysterious Traveler is written, produced, and directed by Robert J.

2533
02:23:38.000 --> 02:23:39.360
Arthur and David Cogan.

2534
02:23:47.360 --> 02:23:51.840
Well, my dear, it's very very late. You've been so kind,

2535
02:23:52.879 --> 02:23:55.559
spend so much of your valuable time with me. I

2536
02:23:56.360 --> 02:24:00.360
really can't quite thank you enough for that. But now,

2537
02:24:00.479 --> 02:24:04.600
oh no, no, you should. You should go home, spend

2538
02:24:04.719 --> 02:24:08.760
some time on the things that matter to you the most, because,

2539
02:24:08.879 --> 02:24:15.200
believe me, the time is not guaranteed. You just never

2540
02:24:15.399 --> 02:24:21.959
know when that our glass will let the final grain through.

2541
02:24:23.159 --> 02:24:28.639
So head home. Now make your way through the forest,

2542
02:24:29.159 --> 02:24:33.360
down the woods, over the covered bridge. I'll be careful there.

2543
02:24:33.520 --> 02:24:37.680
Some of those bricks they're very, very loose. But please,

2544
02:24:37.799 --> 02:24:41.159
I implore you, if nothing else, as you lay your

2545
02:24:41.200 --> 02:24:43.559
head on that warm pillow, as you prepare to go

2546
02:24:43.719 --> 02:24:49.600
to sleep, be thankful for what you have. And I'll

2547
02:24:49.639 --> 02:24:50.280
see you soon.

2548
02:24:50.879 --> 02:24:51.639
I hope.

2549
02:25:01.479 --> 02:25:06.200
Don't bring your wrong bring you won't bring.

2550
02:25:06.360 --> 02:25:07.680
I thank you, break

2551
02:25:10.639 --> 02:25:10.840
Bo