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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
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at this canyon, it'd be perfect.
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Then how is she found so quickly?
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Look?
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Nope, man picked this spot in the world to have
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a flat.
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The killer figured it's smart. See how the road curves here. Well,
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he could see any lights coming from behind two loops below,
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and he could look up to the top of the
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hill see the lights of a car approaching him. When
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it takes the first of those two curves, he can
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sit with her in the car, looking like a spooner
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until the other cars go by. He was playing it safe,
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so he does it. He opens the door of the car,
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he rolls her out into the leaves, and he's away.
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No chance of being caught at it, and strangling is
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the easiest way.
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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. Hairpins51300:27:39.720 --> 00:27:40.279
and lipstick.51400:27:40.359 --> 00:27:45.160
No mister Steele, nothing like that. What then, dust, mister Steve.51500:27:46.200 --> 00:27:46.559
Dust.51600:27:46.839 --> 00:27:49.200
You don't heard the man Dix? He said, dust like51700:27:49.279 --> 00:27:51.599
this stuff all over me. No matter how much I51800:27:51.759 --> 00:27:53.319
beat it, I can't get it all out.51900:27:53.559 --> 00:27:57.400
Yeah, that's dust. We've got dust from the drive in,52000:27:57.640 --> 00:28:00.279
dust from her clothes and her shoes, and dust from52100:28:00.319 --> 00:28:04.440
here on a little thicket off Beverly Glen, three different kinds,52200:28:04.799 --> 00:28:07.039
and all of them in Hayscott.52300:28:07.200 --> 00:28:10.559
It's really fantastic. And even in ten or twelve years,52400:28:10.559 --> 00:28:13.319
the dust will still be there, some of it will. Yeah,52500:28:13.480 --> 00:28:16.480
you want my opinion of this case, gentlemen, The strangler52600:28:16.519 --> 00:28:20.480
doesn't have a chance. I swung the car around and52700:28:20.519 --> 00:28:23.759
we rolled back down the canyon and into town. They52800:28:23.799 --> 00:28:27.319
were sitting beside me again, up front, sitting on the52900:28:27.440 --> 00:28:30.680
dust they wanted so desperately, breathing it into their lungs,53000:28:30.880 --> 00:28:32.960
having it settle on the flesh of their hands and53100:28:33.000 --> 00:28:36.680
their faces and in their hair. The golden little molecules53200:28:36.720 --> 00:28:39.640
that would send the strangler to the gas chamber floated53300:28:39.680 --> 00:28:42.759
gently and unseen before our eyes as we drove back,53400:28:43.799 --> 00:28:48.599
and I felt good. My hands were easy on the wheel.53500:28:49.279 --> 00:28:52.200
I could be talkative now, I was expected to be53600:28:52.319 --> 00:28:55.759
curious and impressed. I would come back to it again.53700:28:57.720 --> 00:28:59.640
Did it help you, Brud? Coming back?53800:29:00.200 --> 00:29:01.960
I didn't find anything. Didn't expect to.53900:29:02.240 --> 00:29:03.160
You know something.54000:29:04.359 --> 00:29:07.720
He's from the East, yes, oh though you mean the54100:29:07.720 --> 00:29:09.480
waitress recognized in an Eastern accent.54200:29:09.680 --> 00:29:12.400
No, he talked just like anybody else. No accent, that's54300:29:12.480 --> 00:29:13.920
just Lockner's reconstruction.54400:29:14.000 --> 00:29:16.640
He's from the East. I know that he's a mugger.54500:29:16.799 --> 00:29:19.160
I'm afraid I don't follow your, cap'n. What's a mugger?54600:29:19.359 --> 00:29:21.759
Certain gangs used to operate in New York. One man54700:29:21.799 --> 00:29:24.880
would get the victims, so you see, with his right arm,54800:29:25.039 --> 00:29:27.559
and the others had robb him until they found out54900:29:27.559 --> 00:29:29.839
it could be a one man job. You don't need55000:29:29.880 --> 00:29:32.599
more than two fingers to strangle a man or a woman.55100:29:32.680 --> 00:29:35.440
He's a mugger. He doesn't use his fingers. There are55200:29:35.680 --> 00:29:39.880
any finger marks. He used his arm. He's from the East.55300:29:40.079 --> 00:29:42.680
As a fellow Eastern there, cap lock, Now you must55400:29:42.720 --> 00:29:44.960
admit that a Westerner could have learned the trick.55500:29:45.119 --> 00:29:47.279
I've seen the way they did it in New York.55600:29:47.920 --> 00:29:49.839
He knows how same way.55700:29:50.119 --> 00:29:52.440
I think you're right, Locke. We keep getting.55800:29:52.200 --> 00:29:55.559
Closer will miss Steele. I get out right here, all right.55900:29:58.359 --> 00:30:01.240
Thanks for the lift, Steve, Thanks for letting me go along.56000:30:01.480 --> 00:30:03.000
I'll see you at the station bra.56100:30:10.880 --> 00:30:12.759
Ever since this thing started, I've.56200:30:12.599 --> 00:30:16.359
Been afraid for for her. You mean Sylvia.56300:30:16.599 --> 00:30:18.920
She's lived in the canyon all her life. She never56400:30:19.000 --> 00:30:21.599
had any fear, wandered all over at any time of day.56500:30:22.200 --> 00:30:24.359
But the canyon at night, the way the fogs come56600:30:24.400 --> 00:30:26.279
in is it's a place for him, and I have56700:30:26.400 --> 00:30:29.559
scared her. She's alone so much. I never know what56800:30:29.680 --> 00:30:32.519
hours I have to keep. You know our street, how56900:30:32.599 --> 00:30:34.400
dark and lonely it is, and the way our house57000:30:34.480 --> 00:30:37.720
is set up there. I'm the one who scared Dix.57100:30:37.720 --> 00:30:39.720
I've infected her and I can't help. But I can't57200:30:39.720 --> 00:30:43.279
pretend until we've caught him. She isn't safe.57300:30:43.920 --> 00:30:48.799
Sylvia isn't safe. I saw how it was with both57400:30:48.839 --> 00:30:53.160
of them, how they clung together, fear in both of them,57500:30:54.039 --> 00:30:56.480
the woman fearing to have her man close on the57600:30:56.519 --> 00:31:00.960
heels of a murderer, and Brob afraid for her because57700:31:01.000 --> 00:31:04.039
she was a woman, because she was his woman, and57800:31:04.119 --> 00:31:08.200
women were being stalked in the night. And yet even57900:31:08.200 --> 00:31:11.880
though he was afraid, he would leave her because he58000:31:11.960 --> 00:31:15.960
was a hunter and this was a big hunt for58100:31:16.119 --> 00:31:20.920
wild game, Yeah, wild game.58200:31:29.680 --> 00:31:33.519
In Tonight's full hour of Suspense, mister Robert Montgomery stars58300:31:33.599 --> 00:31:37.559
has Dixon Steel in the play in a Lonely Place,58400:31:37.759 --> 00:31:49.119
Tonight's study in Suspense. In just a moment, we will58500:31:49.160 --> 00:31:51.160
return with that two of suspense.58600:31:51.480 --> 00:31:56.359
Listen is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System and.58700:31:56.359 --> 00:32:00.839
Now back to our Hollywood soundstage and act two in58800:32:00.920 --> 00:32:04.759
a Lonely Place starring mister Robert Montgomery in a narrative58900:32:04.839 --> 00:32:07.799
well calculated to keep you in suspen.59000:32:19.200 --> 00:32:23.119
I was very tired, tired of thinking about Sylvia and59100:32:23.200 --> 00:32:26.240
Brubb and the fear that had bound them as desperately59200:32:26.279 --> 00:32:29.480
as their love for each other. I was weary of59300:32:29.519 --> 00:32:32.519
the big hunt for I was hunting on my own.59400:32:33.319 --> 00:32:37.000
I was looking for happiness. I spent the next few59500:32:37.079 --> 00:32:39.440
days with Laurel. It got so that I didn't count59600:32:39.480 --> 00:32:43.200
the hours anymore. All I knew was beauty, and I59700:32:43.279 --> 00:32:48.519
knew intensity, and I called it happiness, and all the59800:32:48.599 --> 00:32:52.440
time I knew it wouldn't last. I sensed the restlessness59900:32:52.480 --> 00:32:53.920
coming into her. I could feel it.60000:32:57.400 --> 00:32:59.880
Dix, Dix, what is it?60100:33:01.559 --> 00:33:09.799
Did I say something Laurel, Laurel, Oh, what is it?60200:33:10.799 --> 00:33:11.480
You tell me?60300:33:12.960 --> 00:33:15.680
You've been sitting there without moving for more than an hour.60400:33:16.319 --> 00:33:17.160
Just daydreaming.60500:33:18.000 --> 00:33:20.240
Was it something nice? Tell me about it?60600:33:20.640 --> 00:33:22.599
Turn off the radio. Dixon's making me nervous.60700:33:22.880 --> 00:33:25.359
All right?60800:33:26.480 --> 00:33:27.200
You like a drink?60900:33:27.519 --> 00:33:27.759
Yes?61000:33:27.920 --> 00:33:28.279
Please?61100:33:37.640 --> 00:33:38.000
Thanks?61200:33:38.640 --> 00:33:40.720
You know what we ought to do tonight? Go out61300:33:40.759 --> 00:33:43.119
on the town, put on our Sunday best and have61400:33:43.160 --> 00:33:45.480
the biggest dinner on the menu. The sky is the limit.61500:33:45.519 --> 00:33:46.240
How does that sound?61600:33:46.440 --> 00:33:48.880
Where do you want to go to a drive in?61700:33:50.200 --> 00:33:50.599
Text?61800:33:51.039 --> 00:33:55.440
I'm sorry? Seemed to be all thumbs No, no, no,61900:33:55.440 --> 00:34:00.319
that's all. I didn't want it anyway. Oh baby, drive62000:34:00.319 --> 00:34:02.839
in for you tonight? You're not the drive in type?62100:34:04.039 --> 00:34:04.880
What type?62200:34:04.920 --> 00:34:05.279
Am I?62300:34:05.599 --> 00:34:09.079
The cero type? Baby, expensive and plush and chromium plate62400:34:09.119 --> 00:34:11.639
it CEO's. That'll do fine. I'll call a reserve a62500:34:11.679 --> 00:34:12.559
table for ten o'class.62600:34:12.639 --> 00:34:15.000
Save your money. You can take me to a drive62700:34:15.039 --> 00:34:15.519
in tonight.62800:34:15.960 --> 00:34:17.320
I won't take you to a drive in.62900:34:17.599 --> 00:34:20.239
Why not? Are you afraid someone might see you there?63000:34:20.360 --> 00:34:20.599
Is that?63100:34:20.639 --> 00:34:20.920
Why?63200:34:21.079 --> 00:34:21.920
What do you mean by that?63300:34:22.000 --> 00:34:23.400
I mean you're keeping hitting away from sight?63400:34:23.679 --> 00:34:25.519
Is if we might run into some of your friends63500:34:25.559 --> 00:34:27.920
like that brub and Sylvia is if I wasn't good63600:34:28.000 --> 00:34:28.440
enough for you.63700:34:29.760 --> 00:34:35.599
Look, baby, relax, you're not making sense. Didn't I say63800:34:35.639 --> 00:34:38.440
I wanted to spread out tonight, guest, get dressed up63900:34:38.480 --> 00:34:42.159
for once and go to CEO's. Hide you away. You64000:34:42.320 --> 00:34:44.320
come with me tonight and I'll show you all for64100:34:44.400 --> 00:34:45.480
everybody to see.64200:34:45.880 --> 00:34:49.079
No, I'm tired. I don't want to get dressed and64300:34:49.119 --> 00:34:50.760
go places. All I want is to go up to64400:34:50.800 --> 00:34:51.280
the drive.64500:34:51.280 --> 00:34:54.960
We're not going to the drive in. We're not going.64600:34:55.320 --> 00:34:56.280
You're hurting me.64700:35:02.480 --> 00:35:06.480
Hello, Hello, Dix, How are you fine? What's on your mind?64800:35:06.800 --> 00:35:08.440
Can you come over to the house. I want to64900:35:08.440 --> 00:35:08.840
see you.65000:35:08.960 --> 00:35:10.400
Sorry, bro, but I got a date tonight.65100:35:10.559 --> 00:35:12.000
I have just had a letter from England.65200:35:12.079 --> 00:35:12.440
Dicks.65300:35:12.599 --> 00:35:13.760
It's about Brucie.65400:35:14.800 --> 00:35:15.239
Brucie.65500:35:15.679 --> 00:35:22.920
That's right, Okay, I'll be right over. Okay, it seems65600:35:23.920 --> 00:35:26.920
that I can't have dinner with you after all. All right,65700:35:28.320 --> 00:35:34.719
you don't seem very unhappy about it. Hello, Yes, I'm sorry.65800:35:34.719 --> 00:35:36.280
If I hurt you, forget it.65900:35:36.280 --> 00:35:36.880
It's all right.66000:35:37.719 --> 00:35:42.199
We haven't been softlovers. We haven't played it that way.66100:35:43.519 --> 00:35:47.679
The world keeps coming in between us. That makes me afraid.66200:35:48.599 --> 00:35:50.559
Why should you be afraid?66300:35:51.000 --> 00:35:54.760
Because I might lose you. I have to keep telling66400:35:54.840 --> 00:35:58.840
myself to remember, to remember that I can't take any66500:35:58.920 --> 00:36:01.519
chances that I can't lose you.66600:36:03.320 --> 00:36:04.159
I can't, Laurel.66700:36:05.199 --> 00:36:11.440
Don't be afraid, Dix. You see I love you very much.66800:36:22.239 --> 00:36:23.519
Have a chair, Dix, All right?66900:36:23.960 --> 00:36:25.320
Would you care for anything to eat?67000:36:25.400 --> 00:36:25.480
No?67100:36:25.599 --> 00:36:31.280
Thanks, Sylvy. I just finished him, remember Adam Tyne Dix? No,67200:36:31.679 --> 00:36:34.679
sure you do. The flight commander from Bath. Nice quiet fellow.67300:36:34.920 --> 00:36:36.639
We saw a lot of him, that's spring and forty three.67400:36:36.760 --> 00:36:38.280
We knew a lot of fellas over there. Brother, I67500:36:38.280 --> 00:36:38.840
don't remember.67600:36:39.039 --> 00:36:41.760
Well, it's not important. Accept that I've had a letter67700:36:41.800 --> 00:36:44.599
from him first one and more than a year. That's67800:36:44.679 --> 00:36:45.960
a sad piece of news.67900:36:46.000 --> 00:36:46.280
Dix.68000:36:46.920 --> 00:36:55.800
Let's have it. Brucie is dead. Brucie, It's dead, Brucie.68100:36:57.440 --> 00:37:02.880
Xy Dix, I'm sorry, Dix. I guess none of us68200:37:02.920 --> 00:37:04.679
realized how much, how much you and.68300:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.960
Bruce Brucey, we didn't know, Dix.68400:37:08.559 --> 00:37:16.360
No, how could you? How could anyone know? How did68500:37:16.400 --> 00:37:16.920
she die?68600:37:18.079 --> 00:37:23.960
Buys Bob's no, Well then how how she was murdered?68700:37:25.119 --> 00:37:25.519
Murdered?68800:37:25.800 --> 00:37:26.559
Yeah, murdered?68900:37:27.639 --> 00:37:29.760
Well huh why?69000:37:30.880 --> 00:37:31.119
Why?69100:37:31.239 --> 00:37:34.559
Who the police have never found out. Better not talk69200:37:34.559 --> 00:37:35.559
about it, Dix, Oh, I.69300:37:35.519 --> 00:37:37.920
Want to talk about it. I want to know who69400:37:37.920 --> 00:37:38.280
did it.69500:37:39.360 --> 00:37:42.239
Why should anyone kill Bruce They don't know. Her family69600:37:42.239 --> 00:37:44.440
missed her for two weeks. When she was found, it69700:37:44.519 --> 00:37:47.000
was in a rocky cove. She'd been strangled.69800:37:55.480 --> 00:38:01.159
Brucie was dead. Brucie, whom I had loved it, who69900:38:01.280 --> 00:38:06.360
was my only love. Bruceie was dead, and no one cared.70000:38:06.360 --> 00:38:28.559
No one in all the world cared except me. I70100:38:28.679 --> 00:38:32.199
called Laurel when I got home that night. She didn't answer.70200:38:32.679 --> 00:38:35.000
I stepped outside and looked up to her apartment across70300:38:35.039 --> 00:38:37.960
the patio from mine. It was dark. She didn't come70400:38:38.000 --> 00:38:40.199
home at all that night, or the next day, or70500:38:40.239 --> 00:38:42.599
the next night. No word from her, not a sign.70600:38:42.679 --> 00:38:47.800
Nothing following morning was a dirty gray rag. I call70700:38:47.880 --> 00:38:51.679
Laurel's number once more, no answer. I had to get70800:38:51.719 --> 00:38:54.880
out of that cramped room, away from the unremembered shape70900:38:54.920 --> 00:38:57.559
of my dreams. I didn't take the car. I wanted71000:38:57.559 --> 00:39:01.239
to breathe, put motion into my body. I walked as71100:39:01.239 --> 00:39:03.199
far as Wilsham, then went up to Beverly Drive to71200:39:03.239 --> 00:39:04.960
my favorite delicatest.71300:39:06.639 --> 00:39:08.960
Dick, where'd you spring from?71400:39:09.320 --> 00:39:12.920
Well, a guy gets hungry, brouck, how are you, Captain Locker?71500:39:13.079 --> 00:39:15.400
Fine? Fine, good to say again.71600:39:15.280 --> 00:39:18.800
Slide in, Okay, thanks, would you like, Jordan ouncer.71700:39:18.559 --> 00:39:20.960
If you please salami, sandwich on rye and a beer.71800:39:20.800 --> 00:39:22.159
Please, It'll be just a few minutes.71900:39:22.559 --> 00:39:24.920
Well, I'm more trouble in Beverly.72000:39:25.239 --> 00:39:26.679
No, same oldcasion.72100:39:26.679 --> 00:39:28.639
I'm not going to let it happen again, that's all.72200:39:28.679 --> 00:39:31.039
And you think it comes from this neighborhood.72300:39:31.159 --> 00:39:34.199
It's the last clue we have. We pick up a72400:39:34.280 --> 00:39:35.679
little more each time of check.72500:39:35.800 --> 00:39:37.239
Yeah, but where do you check? How?72600:39:37.639 --> 00:39:40.199
And we've been talking to the help again. It's the72700:39:40.320 --> 00:39:42.079
drive in where he stopped with her that night.72800:39:42.159 --> 00:39:43.400
Any luck, I.72900:39:43.360 --> 00:39:45.679
Don't know yet. In these neighborhood spots, a lot of73000:39:45.719 --> 00:39:47.159
people combined eat regularly.73100:39:47.719 --> 00:39:48.880
I got to thinking about it.73200:39:49.559 --> 00:39:51.599
There must have been some of the regulars around that73300:39:51.679 --> 00:39:55.199
night when he took Mildred in for coffee, the Nerva73400:39:55.559 --> 00:39:58.000
driving in there, coming in under all those bright lights,73500:39:58.000 --> 00:40:00.239
and gambling that no one would remember what he looked like.73600:40:01.280 --> 00:40:05.000
You and me, brob an ordinary man, Yeah, an ordinary73700:40:05.079 --> 00:40:07.880
man with the nerve of a jet pilot. I see73800:40:07.880 --> 00:40:11.559
what you're after, Brah. Have the help ask questions of73900:40:11.599 --> 00:40:14.119
the regulars when they come in. Were they at the74000:40:14.199 --> 00:40:16.159
drive in the night of the murder? And did they74100:40:16.159 --> 00:40:18.599
see the couple? That's it? And I suppose you're hoping74200:40:18.599 --> 00:40:19.760
this fellow is a repeater.74300:40:19.519 --> 00:40:21.559
Too, and that'd be a break. But there's no chance,74400:40:22.559 --> 00:40:24.639
no chance except for his nerve.74500:40:25.039 --> 00:40:27.159
You mean he might have the nerve to walk in again.74600:40:27.440 --> 00:40:30.079
He might take She just might. And you think the74700:40:30.119 --> 00:40:32.760
help might spot him if he did. I think they might.74800:40:33.480 --> 00:40:37.440
They're keyed up to remember, mister Steele, the little car74900:40:37.440 --> 00:40:39.960
hop gene ther name is swear she'd know him again75000:40:40.039 --> 00:40:43.679
if he came in. She'll know him if she sees.75100:40:43.519 --> 00:40:46.320
Him again, Only she can't describe him. That's the trouble75200:40:46.360 --> 00:40:47.480
with people in these cases.75300:40:47.679 --> 00:40:50.239
You remember how it was when we were flying, Brob,75400:40:50.440 --> 00:40:52.840
How do you mean you said yourself, he's a gambler,75500:40:53.079 --> 00:40:56.039
he's reckless. I mean he'll take chances, like going to75600:40:56.079 --> 00:40:59.039
that drive in before killing the girl. Well, it occurs75700:40:59.079 --> 00:41:01.239
to me that it's the same kind of recklessness we75800:41:01.280 --> 00:41:04.519
had when we were flying during the war. We took chances,75900:41:05.079 --> 00:41:07.440
but we were sure that we'd pull out of them.76000:41:07.639 --> 00:41:09.440
Mister Steele makes sense.76100:41:09.559 --> 00:41:12.320
And something else. He's probably an ex serviceman. How do76200:41:12.320 --> 00:41:14.000
you figure that? Well, the people who saw him at76300:41:14.000 --> 00:41:16.039
the drive in or say he's a nice looking fellow76400:41:16.039 --> 00:41:18.719
with nice clothes. At least that's what the newspaper accounts76500:41:18.800 --> 00:41:21.559
have to say. Am I right so far? Then it's76600:41:21.559 --> 00:41:25.119
ten to one. He's the right age, good, healthy specimen average,76700:41:25.320 --> 00:41:29.760
the average were in the service. That's not a very76800:41:29.800 --> 00:41:33.480
brilliant deduction, but it fills out the picture a little more.76900:41:33.760 --> 00:41:35.559
I'll buy that, mister Steele.77000:41:36.119 --> 00:41:37.639
Yeah, I'm little too.77100:41:38.199 --> 00:41:40.039
Well, I'll be getting back to the office.77200:41:40.239 --> 00:41:42.159
I'll be in a little later today, Chief okay.77300:41:42.280 --> 00:41:45.039
By the way, Captain Lockner, yeah, every time I see you,77400:41:45.159 --> 00:41:46.719
I seem to be asking a lot of questions. I77500:41:46.800 --> 00:41:47.960
hope you haven't minded.77600:41:47.920 --> 00:41:50.599
Not at all, brob vauts here a long time ago.77700:41:50.800 --> 00:41:51.800
You just keep asking.77800:41:52.280 --> 00:41:54.000
I will, Captain, and thanks, And.77900:41:54.039 --> 00:41:56.519
I'm late now. I'm want to check over those Bruce78000:41:56.599 --> 00:41:59.239
reports again. See me as soon as you get back.78100:41:59.719 --> 00:42:01.159
Right, here's yoder, sir.78200:42:02.400 --> 00:42:05.079
I beg fine, wasn't yours the salami sales?78300:42:05.280 --> 00:42:05.400
Oh?78400:42:05.480 --> 00:42:06.000
Yes, thank you?78500:42:06.079 --> 00:42:07.599
I would that be all today?78600:42:07.639 --> 00:42:14.360
Yeah, that's all you checks, sir, Thank you, Bruce It78700:42:14.519 --> 00:42:16.880
is a pretty common name. There must be a hundred78800:42:16.920 --> 00:42:19.920
thousand in the United States at least, and hundreds in78900:42:20.000 --> 00:42:24.559
Los Angeles. Yeah, he said he was going to check79000:42:24.599 --> 00:42:28.760
the bruce reports. It's not the same one, Rock, It79100:42:28.840 --> 00:42:30.000
couldn't be, not Brucie.79200:42:30.079 --> 00:42:32.639
I'm sorry, Dick Sein and know it's a raw wound,79300:42:32.679 --> 00:42:35.440
but I couldn't help talking to Lockner about her. I79400:42:35.519 --> 00:42:37.239
was knocked off my pins when I heard the news,79500:42:37.239 --> 00:42:38.920
and I wanted to report on the case. I figured79600:42:38.960 --> 00:42:41.440
you'd want one too. You were right then what happened?79700:42:41.639 --> 00:42:44.119
Lock cabled to London police. He thought it did help79800:42:44.159 --> 00:42:46.599
us that maybe Brucey was one of a series like79900:42:46.639 --> 00:42:50.440
our series. It's far fetched, but the killer might have80000:42:50.519 --> 00:42:53.320
been an American. England was full of geis at the time.80100:42:53.280 --> 00:42:55.519
And was she one of the series?80200:42:55.880 --> 00:42:58.400
They don't know it was a series, but it didn't80300:42:58.440 --> 00:43:01.480
start right after Bruceie. Couple of months then it began80400:43:01.920 --> 00:43:04.960
the same pattern. Strangler, Well, what was the matter with him?80500:43:05.000 --> 00:43:05.880
Couldn't they catch him?80600:43:05.960 --> 00:43:06.039
No?80700:43:06.199 --> 00:43:07.079
I was never caught.80800:43:08.440 --> 00:43:11.199
After six months, it stopped just as suddenly as it80900:43:11.239 --> 00:43:13.599
had begun. Maybe he was shipped back home.81000:43:14.320 --> 00:43:17.159
If I could ever find him, if I could ever81100:43:17.199 --> 00:43:20.559
get my hands on him, A man who killed Brucie.81200:43:20.599 --> 00:43:23.719
I guess we feel the same about that. Do you81300:43:23.719 --> 00:43:25.880
want to come back with me, Dixon, see the reports?81400:43:26.079 --> 00:43:28.840
No, I I don't think I could take them, brub81500:43:28.920 --> 00:43:31.519
You understand, of course I do, ticks, of course I do.81600:43:37.199 --> 00:43:39.039
I went back to the apartment and lay on the81700:43:39.079 --> 00:43:42.280
dive nd for the rest of the afternoon, thinking about Brucie,81800:43:42.559 --> 00:43:47.840
strangled so many miles away, and Laurel, who lived just81900:43:47.880 --> 00:43:50.159
across the patio from me and had disappeared as if82000:43:50.199 --> 00:43:53.119
the earth had swallowed it. I thought of them both,82100:43:53.679 --> 00:43:56.280
and soon their figures swam together in my mind and82200:43:56.320 --> 00:44:00.920
were commingled so that they became one. Was already dark,82300:44:01.639 --> 00:44:04.519
and I found myself very hungry. I got in the82400:44:04.559 --> 00:44:07.719
coop and drove over to wheelchair, not knowing where I'd eat,82500:44:09.000 --> 00:44:14.719
passed the Savoy Romanov's the Tropics, and then suddenly the82600:44:14.800 --> 00:44:18.239
brilliant lights of the driving glittered ahead at me. I82700:44:18.239 --> 00:44:21.440
didn't stop to think. I twisted the wheel and pulled82800:44:21.440 --> 00:44:25.039
into a parking space right up front, right under the lights.82900:44:25.679 --> 00:44:28.320
They were looking for a man of my height, a83000:44:28.440 --> 00:44:32.639
man of my build. I was here for them. I'd come.83100:44:34.039 --> 00:44:36.239
Two young fellas were in the card in my left,83200:44:36.840 --> 00:44:41.559
a middle aged coupled in my right. No police, no83300:44:41.679 --> 00:44:47.320
police inside. I was safe. The girl who came with83400:44:47.400 --> 00:44:49.960
the menu was pert and pretty, no more than sixteen.83500:44:50.159 --> 00:44:52.920
Good evening, Hello, what se a menu?83600:44:53.719 --> 00:44:55.679
I know what I want. I'll have the special tonight.83700:44:56.119 --> 00:44:57.440
It's kind of a celebration.83800:44:57.559 --> 00:44:58.239
Yes, I.83900:45:00.480 --> 00:45:03.239
I wondered what the girl's name was. I wondered if84000:45:03.280 --> 00:45:05.960
she was Jean, the car hop whom the police had alerted,84100:45:06.159 --> 00:45:08.079
the girl who had come up to each customer in84200:45:08.079 --> 00:45:12.440
the hope of finding me, and here to night she84300:45:12.559 --> 00:45:17.679
had found me, and she didn't know it. I ate slowly,84400:45:18.000 --> 00:45:21.440
lingering over the food, and before I left, I handed84500:45:21.480 --> 00:45:25.360
her a large tip, just to be sure she remembered me.84600:45:26.360 --> 00:45:32.079
She thanked me, smiling and said, and I promised I would.84700:45:32.519 --> 00:45:35.559
I went out Wiltshiir to the ocean. The fog blew84800:45:35.599 --> 00:45:38.320
in at fourteenth Street, and I should have turned back then,84900:45:38.360 --> 00:45:43.880
but I didn't. I could hear the boom of the breakers,85000:45:44.360 --> 00:45:46.960
and I could smell the sea in the fog, and85100:45:47.039 --> 00:45:50.599
the fog itself was sweet and cool. It was silent.85200:45:51.079 --> 00:45:55.159
The world was shrouded in mists and silence except for85300:45:55.199 --> 00:45:58.159
the thump of the water, the far off cry of85400:45:58.199 --> 00:46:04.119
the fog horn. And then, at that moment, I knew85500:46:04.239 --> 00:46:08.800
what I was going to do. I got out of85600:46:08.800 --> 00:46:12.519
the car, and I listened to my footsteps across the85700:46:12.559 --> 00:46:16.519
pavement towards the beach, and then I listened to the85800:46:16.599 --> 00:46:21.519
silence as I began walking in the sand, Sludging through85900:46:21.599 --> 00:46:25.360
heavy damp sand, I passed the clover I'd gone to86000:46:25.400 --> 00:46:28.639
dinner one night with Brub where I'd seen a young girl,86100:46:29.159 --> 00:46:34.360
a pretty brown haired girl who looked like Brucie. I86200:46:34.440 --> 00:46:37.840
went on, trying to forget it. I drifted along the86300:46:37.880 --> 00:46:40.639
deserted beach, looking for the shape of a living thing86400:46:41.880 --> 00:46:46.320
of a woman. So I was alone. I passed a86500:46:46.400 --> 00:46:49.239
beach house where people huddled together in warmth and gayety,86600:46:49.559 --> 00:46:52.960
and found myself trembling with hatred for Lauol. If she86700:46:53.000 --> 00:46:54.800
had come back to me, I'd not be shut out86800:46:54.880 --> 00:46:58.760
like this, cut off. Always leave you before you're ready.86900:47:00.079 --> 00:47:03.239
Hoped on my feet changed in the MUDs, and I87000:47:03.280 --> 00:47:06.199
stumbled and fell to one knee. I stayed there, my87100:47:06.280 --> 00:47:09.199
head buried in my arms. I was there for a87200:47:09.280 --> 00:47:10.199
long time.87300:47:10.599 --> 00:47:14.519
Lost in the world of swirling fog and a crashing wave,87400:47:15.400 --> 00:47:18.800
lost in a lonely place, and the red knots tightened87500:47:18.840 --> 00:47:19.440
in my brain.87600:47:21.039 --> 00:47:24.719
Suddenly something came running through the darkness. A small, dark87700:47:24.840 --> 00:47:27.800
shape hurkled upon me, and I realized it was a dog,87800:47:28.880 --> 00:47:33.920
a friendly terrier. I stroked it gently and held it close,87900:47:35.360 --> 00:47:38.840
and then there were footsteps coming over the sand. I88000:47:38.840 --> 00:47:42.199
could feel my blood begins the pound with excitement. Where88100:47:42.239 --> 00:47:46.599
there was a dog, there was a master or a mistress.88200:47:48.000 --> 00:47:51.280
The sound of the steps came closer, and then she88300:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.639
stepped forward out of the fog. I looked up from88400:47:54.679 --> 00:48:00.360
the dog and said hello, and then I smiled. She88500:48:00.440 --> 00:48:02.960
couldn't know that behind that smile lay.88600:48:02.800 --> 00:48:06.320
My hatred of Laurel, my hatred of bub my hatred88700:48:06.400 --> 00:48:09.840
of Sylvia, my hatred of Lachna, of everyone in the88800:48:09.880 --> 00:48:11.239
whole living world, of.88900:48:11.239 --> 00:48:35.840
Everyone but Brucie. And Brucie was dead Laurel at last, Laurel.89000:48:36.360 --> 00:48:40.920
No, it isn't Laurel. What brings you brub Am?89100:48:40.960 --> 00:48:41.719
I invited in.89200:48:41.920 --> 00:48:47.599
Yeah, of course, so dah yeah, anything wrong?89300:48:48.199 --> 00:48:48.840
Plenty wrong?89400:48:49.599 --> 00:48:49.800
Is it?89500:48:49.840 --> 00:48:50.239
Sylvia?89600:48:50.679 --> 00:48:50.880
No?89700:48:51.840 --> 00:48:52.840
What makes you think it is?89800:48:52.920 --> 00:48:53.039
Well?89900:48:53.039 --> 00:48:55.360
I don't know. You look so worried. You mean you90000:48:55.400 --> 00:48:57.920
mean you don't know what's happened. I don't know. From nothing.90100:48:58.599 --> 00:49:01.039
I awoke to a beautiful morning, the birds singing, the90200:49:01.079 --> 00:49:04.159
California sunshine, and I decided it was a day for90300:49:04.239 --> 00:49:06.960
the beach. I've been out there all day riding the breakers. Oh,90400:49:07.119 --> 00:49:07.960
wonderful sport.90500:49:08.079 --> 00:49:09.599
You were at the beach today?90600:49:10.360 --> 00:49:10.679
Sure?90700:49:11.519 --> 00:49:15.360
What's wrong with that? He was out again last night.90800:49:15.840 --> 00:49:19.800
The strangler. He did it on a beach. Bro again.90900:49:20.079 --> 00:49:23.239
The little Banning girl, Betsy Banning. You remember the girl91000:49:23.239 --> 00:49:28.599
that looked like busy. Yeah, I remember. When I get him,91100:49:28.719 --> 00:49:31.559
and I will get him. I'm gonna kill him, and91200:49:31.719 --> 00:49:34.679
ben to kill him with my hands, the way he91300:49:34.840 --> 00:49:36.920
likes to do it. Oh, I'll take it easy, brother,91400:49:37.559 --> 00:49:40.199
Would you like a drink? She always took her dog91500:49:40.239 --> 00:49:42.400
out for a run at night, no matter what time91600:49:42.440 --> 00:49:42.800
it was.91700:49:43.559 --> 00:49:47.159
She wasn't afraid. She was like Sylvia. The ocean was91800:49:47.239 --> 00:49:51.480
always something safe, something good. And she had her dog91900:49:52.119 --> 00:49:57.639
and the dog buried in the sand, dead, strangled, poor92000:49:57.679 --> 00:50:00.639
fella right on time. Just about a month on the92100:50:00.679 --> 00:50:01.719
nose every month.92200:50:02.159 --> 00:50:03.440
And no clues on the.92300:50:03.440 --> 00:50:07.280
Sands, No, no clues no buttons, no fingerprints, no cigarette stubs,92400:50:07.280 --> 00:50:09.079
no match folders, not even a calling card.92500:50:09.159 --> 00:50:11.960
Well, there's not much I'm good for at a time92600:50:12.079 --> 00:50:15.840
like this, but if there's anything I can do, Brub, anything.92700:50:15.639 --> 00:50:17.960
That was in the neighborhood, I had to stop by92800:50:18.000 --> 00:50:22.199
and talk, how are we going now? Thanks Dix.92900:50:22.320 --> 00:50:32.320
Anytime, Brub, you know that anytime. The sand had been93000:50:32.360 --> 00:50:36.119
my first mistake, for sand was an evil, penetrating thing93100:50:36.440 --> 00:50:38.760
and could never wholly be rid of it. If dust93200:50:38.800 --> 00:50:42.039
could tell a story, then sand screamed out its secrets aloud.93300:50:43.000 --> 00:50:45.480
That was why the morning afterward early I had gone93400:50:45.480 --> 00:50:47.199
down to the beach and spent the whole day there93500:50:47.199 --> 00:50:49.400
in the sand. That was why I had been ready93600:50:49.440 --> 00:50:51.800
for Brubb when he came. That was why I was93700:50:51.840 --> 00:50:55.000
ready for the whole La police force if they wanted93800:50:55.000 --> 00:50:58.119
to come. After Brub left, I went out of the93900:50:58.159 --> 00:51:00.559
house and drove to the cleaners on Pico and left94000:51:00.559 --> 00:51:03.599
a bundle of dirty clothes, and I ate Beverly and94100:51:03.639 --> 00:51:06.159
afterward went into Warner's Theater for a double bill. On94200:51:06.239 --> 00:51:08.519
the way home, I thought I was being followed a94300:51:08.599 --> 00:51:11.199
large gray sedan that stayed with me for three miles94400:51:11.199 --> 00:51:14.119
when I was wrong. We were together in a red light,94500:51:14.199 --> 00:51:16.199
and when it changed, the sedan shot ahead of me94600:51:16.360 --> 00:51:23.119
and disappeared into the night. I slept without dreams, and94700:51:23.199 --> 00:51:27.360
didn't wake until late afternoon of the next day, and94800:51:27.440 --> 00:51:31.760
still Laurel hadn't come back. Do you love me, I'd94900:51:31.760 --> 00:51:35.039
ask him, and she said yes.95000:51:36.360 --> 00:51:39.679
She lied in my face and in my arms. I95100:51:39.800 --> 00:51:41.679
hated her, a cheek and a liar.95200:51:42.400 --> 00:51:44.920
No one cared, No one ever cared.95300:51:45.719 --> 00:51:50.079
Only brucee Brucie, who was dead, who had left me95400:51:50.159 --> 00:51:54.880
alone alone forever for all of my life.95500:51:56.360 --> 00:52:12.159
Ah, mister Steele, Yes, Captain Lockner would like to see95600:52:12.199 --> 00:52:12.920
you for the station.95700:52:13.039 --> 00:52:15.280
If you don't mind, I don't mind at all. Or95800:52:15.360 --> 00:52:15.960
take your time.95900:52:16.039 --> 00:52:18.159
There's no hurry. Well that's all right, I'm ready. Now96000:52:18.440 --> 00:52:20.360
you can follow me in your own curve. You right,96100:52:20.639 --> 00:52:24.079
it doesn't matter. You might as well take yours. You96200:52:24.159 --> 00:52:25.880
know the way, don't you? Oh? Yes, I know the way.96300:52:27.360 --> 00:52:31.119
So they wanted to look at my car by Lockner96400:52:31.239 --> 00:52:36.400
kept me occupied. I laughed out loud, driving over. Let96500:52:36.440 --> 00:52:38.880
them crawl through. I'd let them look at the sand96600:52:38.920 --> 00:52:41.880
and the dust, let them make casts of the tires.96700:52:41.920 --> 00:52:44.880
It didn't mean nothing to me. It only made the96800:52:44.960 --> 00:52:46.199
game more exciting.96900:52:47.000 --> 00:52:48.800
But maybe you could help us steal.97000:52:49.840 --> 00:52:51.559
I'd be glad to captain you name it.97100:52:51.559 --> 00:52:54.599
It's the Bruce case, the English girl. I understand you97200:52:54.719 --> 00:52:55.199
know her.97300:52:55.119 --> 00:52:57.639
Yes, yes, brother and I both know her. Wonderful girl.97400:52:57.880 --> 00:53:00.840
I've been doing a good deal of thinking about miss Bruce.97500:53:01.159 --> 00:53:03.559
Brub told me your idea. It could have been the97600:53:03.559 --> 00:53:04.039
same man.97700:53:04.159 --> 00:53:06.320
I got a list here of American men who were97800:53:06.360 --> 00:53:09.199
friendly with the Bruce girl, and we're all in England97900:53:09.199 --> 00:53:10.000
when it happened.98000:53:10.400 --> 00:53:11.039
Just look it over.98100:53:11.320 --> 00:53:14.280
See what you can remember about these men, anything they98200:53:14.360 --> 00:53:14.880
might have said.98300:53:15.119 --> 00:53:23.000
John here, Oh, I see Brub's name is Anna. Yeah,98400:53:23.239 --> 00:53:23.719
mine too.98500:53:24.119 --> 00:53:26.159
But you'd been transferred before then, Dixon.98600:53:26.239 --> 00:53:29.320
My transfer wasn't completed until after I got back from Scotland.98700:53:29.519 --> 00:53:30.960
I had a month's leave accumulated.98800:53:31.000 --> 00:53:32.880
You came home after that, No, no, no.98900:53:32.920 --> 00:53:35.199
I was sent to Paris and into Germany on the cleanup.99000:53:35.559 --> 00:53:37.000
I was overseas another six months.99100:53:37.039 --> 00:53:38.639
You've read about the men on that list.99200:53:38.760 --> 00:53:40.760
I can't tell you a thing against any single one99300:53:40.760 --> 00:53:43.400
of them. They were all good men. Not one could99400:53:43.400 --> 00:53:44.440
have had anything to do with this.99500:53:44.599 --> 00:53:48.920
It's impossible, Okay, Okay, Brub's been telling me the same thing.99600:53:49.000 --> 00:53:52.840
It's another dead and well it's enough for the day.99700:53:53.159 --> 00:53:57.119
I'm going home to sleep for twenty hours. Thanks for99800:53:57.159 --> 00:53:58.039
coming over.99900:54:01.000 --> 00:54:04.280
Good boy Dix. Why because I stood up for the fellows.100000:54:04.519 --> 00:54:08.400
You did too, We had to. I never knew about Scotland.100100:54:08.840 --> 00:54:12.719
How'd you like it up there? It was wonderful because100200:54:12.760 --> 00:54:18.920
she was with me, Brucie. She loved it there, and100300:54:18.960 --> 00:54:29.239
I loved her. The car was where I'd left it.100400:54:29.559 --> 00:54:32.320
If the police had gone after dust, they hadn't taken much.100500:54:32.800 --> 00:54:35.199
The floor mat was no cleaner than it had been before.100600:54:35.840 --> 00:54:38.039
I went home and sat in the living room watching100700:54:38.079 --> 00:54:40.199
it get dark, not bothering to turn on any of100800:54:40.199 --> 00:54:43.639
the lights. There were no slips, no mistakes. There had100900:54:43.679 --> 00:54:46.800
never been any, there never would be any. I go101000:54:46.920 --> 00:54:49.639
back east. I get my trunk off tomorrow by express,101100:54:49.639 --> 00:54:53.119
and then I'd go by plane. Bye robs By, Sylvia.101200:54:53.320 --> 00:54:56.360
Thanks for the buggy ride. At first, I'd find a101300:54:56.519 --> 00:54:59.599
room not too far away and hold up for a101400:54:59.639 --> 00:55:03.039
few days. Once I was gone, Laurel would come back101500:55:03.079 --> 00:55:06.239
to her apartment and I'd be waiting in the shadows.101600:55:07.000 --> 00:55:10.119
I'd take care of Laurel I sat there in the101700:55:10.119 --> 00:55:14.360
heavy darkness. My finger is aching my head banded by iron.101800:55:14.599 --> 00:55:19.440
There were footsteps outside. No, not Laurel, a man coming101900:55:19.480 --> 00:55:22.599
home late from the office. But she might come tonight.102000:55:23.000 --> 00:55:25.519
I've been cleared by the police. No one need be102100:55:25.519 --> 00:55:30.280
afraid of me. Tonight she might come. I sat behind102200:55:30.280 --> 00:55:33.840
the dark window, hardly breathing, and then I heard them coming,102300:55:34.400 --> 00:55:39.599
clicking on the pavement, high pointed heels. I looked out, slacks,102400:55:40.039 --> 00:55:42.079
the careless coat over the shoulders of scoff to mask102500:55:42.159 --> 00:55:45.639
her flaming hair. I moved quickly out the door, stepping102600:55:45.679 --> 00:55:47.159
softly through the windows, coming.102700:55:47.039 --> 00:55:47.679
Up behind her.102800:55:50.039 --> 00:55:58.320
So you decided to come back? Turn around? Look at me, Sylvia, Yes, Sylvia,102900:55:59.000 --> 00:56:02.519
where's Laurel? Where's Laurel? What have you done with her?103000:56:02.599 --> 00:56:04.679
Laurel is all right, Dix, She's all right.103100:56:04.760 --> 00:56:07.119
Where is she? Where is she?103200:56:07.119 --> 00:56:09.920
She isn't coming back. She's safe and she's going to103300:56:09.960 --> 00:56:10.559
stay safe.103400:56:10.559 --> 00:56:12.880
Are you poisoned her against me? Because you hate me103500:56:12.920 --> 00:56:13.960
from the beginning? You hate me?103600:56:14.039 --> 00:56:17.039
No, Dix, No, only I did feel something was wrong103700:56:17.079 --> 00:56:19.440
with you, And the first night you've walked into our house,103800:56:19.519 --> 00:56:21.159
I knew something was terribly wrong.103900:56:21.480 --> 00:56:24.480
What could you know a jealous dame? You couldn't even104000:56:24.519 --> 00:56:27.000
stand to see Brub have a friend like me. Wanted104100:56:27.039 --> 00:56:29.320
me all for yourself, didn't you? And now Laurel you104200:56:29.440 --> 00:56:30.559
take her away from me too.104300:56:30.639 --> 00:56:33.000
Came to us because she was afraid, afraid of you104400:56:33.079 --> 00:56:36.320
and what you might do. That that's a lie, is it?104500:56:36.360 --> 00:56:36.679
Dix?104600:56:38.119 --> 00:56:40.199
Tell me what happened to the girl who had coffee104700:56:40.199 --> 00:56:43.440
and the drive in with you? What happened to the104800:56:43.480 --> 00:56:47.480
girl in Westlake Park? The girl down on skid.104900:56:47.280 --> 00:57:07.760
Row, Sylvia, I'm going to kill you.105000:57:00.159 --> 00:57:00.719
Head worried.105100:57:15.719 --> 00:57:19.239
We were all in my apartment, Lochner and Brubb and105200:57:19.280 --> 00:57:22.679
Sylvia and some of the boys I'd seen from the105300:57:22.679 --> 00:57:26.760
Beverly station. They put on the lights and sat me105400:57:26.840 --> 00:57:31.280
down on the diving and they stood around looking down105500:57:31.280 --> 00:57:35.159
at me, all of them. With Sylvia. They stood between105600:57:35.199 --> 00:57:38.320
me and the chair in which she sat huddled, and105700:57:38.400 --> 00:57:40.760
Lockner was looking down to talk to me.105800:57:41.480 --> 00:57:45.199
I'm arresting you in suspicion of the murder of Mildred Atkinson,105900:57:45.639 --> 00:57:48.760
that's very funny, and suspicion of the murder of Betsy106000:57:48.880 --> 00:57:53.719
Barney and the attempted murder of Sylvia Nikolai have you106100:57:53.800 --> 00:57:54.639
anything to say?106200:57:55.119 --> 00:57:57.320
Yes, I think you're crazy.106300:57:57.440 --> 00:57:59.840
Listen to me, Dix. It's no use. We have Mildred106400:58:00.000 --> 00:58:02.599
Dilkinson's fingerprints in your car. There's only one way they106500:58:02.599 --> 00:58:03.239
could get there.106600:58:03.400 --> 00:58:06.599
Would you be lying? You an old friend just to106700:58:06.679 --> 00:58:07.079
trap me?106800:58:07.159 --> 00:58:08.079
And we have the dust?106900:58:08.280 --> 00:58:10.039
Do you know what a good lawyer could do with107000:58:10.079 --> 00:58:12.119
your precious dust? I'm not through, Dix.107100:58:12.679 --> 00:58:15.360
There's quite a bit of lint from the Atkinson girl's coat,107200:58:16.079 --> 00:58:18.960
lint and their hairs from Betsy Banning Scottie dog. We107300:58:19.039 --> 00:58:26.840
found them on the suit you took to the cleaners by.107400:58:27.239 --> 00:58:31.360
You can't think of everything, Brob, especially when you're rushed,107500:58:33.000 --> 00:58:36.239
when your luck runs out, Dix, Dix, look at me.107600:58:37.000 --> 00:58:40.000
Why did you do it? Why was it because you107700:58:40.199 --> 00:58:43.519
loved Brucey and she wouldn't have you? Is that what107800:58:43.679 --> 00:58:46.400
sets you off? Is that what made you do it?107900:58:47.000 --> 00:58:47.199
Rob?108000:58:48.920 --> 00:58:49.320
Why?108100:58:49.320 --> 00:58:49.719
Dix?108200:58:49.880 --> 00:58:50.239
Tell me?108300:58:50.360 --> 00:59:15.480
Why? Because because I killed Brucie. This is Robert Montgomery again,108400:59:15.760 --> 00:59:19.800
with thanks to our cast for their splendid performances. Next week,108500:59:19.840 --> 00:59:23.719
for suspense, we've chosen the story with triple threat possibilities.108600:59:24.039 --> 00:59:26.719
The title, the story and the author taken by themselves108700:59:26.719 --> 00:59:30.000
are enough to command our interest. In combination, they become108800:59:30.039 --> 00:59:34.119
a dramatic force, powerful in suspense. I speak of Nightmare108900:59:34.320 --> 00:59:38.360
by William Irish, a story which fuses reality with unreality109000:59:38.880 --> 00:59:42.159
and a frightening pattern of fear and suspicion. If you've109100:59:42.159 --> 00:59:45.159
ever had a nightmare, you know its impact, you know109200:59:45.239 --> 00:59:48.079
the difficulty with which you cast it. Aside, if you've109300:59:48.119 --> 00:59:50.880
never had a nightmare, we cordially invite you to have109400:59:50.880 --> 00:59:54.360
one on us next week, when with Nightmare by William Irish,109500:59:54.760 --> 00:59:56.760
we again hope to keep you in suspense.109600:59:57.480 --> 01:00:01.440
Good night, Mister Montgomery may be seen in the Universal109701:00:01.440 --> 01:00:05.440
International production ride The Pink Horse in a Lonely Place109801:00:05.519 --> 01:00:08.760
by Dorothy B. Hughes was adapted for radio by Irving Ravag,109901:00:09.280 --> 01:00:13.159
directed by Anton M. Leader and produced by Robert Montgomery.110001:00:13.679 --> 01:00:16.960
Blud Gluskin is our musical director and conductor, and Lucian110101:00:17.000 --> 01:00:18.960
Morrowek composes the original scores.110201:00:21.079 --> 01:00:25.320
Well that was a I'd say, a good start to110301:00:25.400 --> 01:00:30.360
the evening. Or what's that? Well, of course there's more.110401:00:30.440 --> 01:00:35.199
There's always more, my dear, There's always so much, so110501:00:35.360 --> 01:00:43.199
much more. Sometimes I worry about how my mind handled110601:00:43.360 --> 01:00:48.920
so much time, more time than I think anyone can110701:00:48.960 --> 01:00:54.360
really imagine time away time.110801:00:55.599 --> 01:00:56.320
On my own.110901:00:58.800 --> 01:01:06.440
It's something I honder as I wonder if Death wears111001:01:06.440 --> 01:01:07.079
a smile.111101:01:15.360 --> 01:01:19.559
Good evening friend, this is your host to welcome you111201:01:19.719 --> 01:01:23.000
through the creaking door into Leona Sanctum.111301:01:23.280 --> 01:01:23.599
Come in.111401:01:23.760 --> 01:01:26.119
I want you to see the changes we've made around him.111501:01:26.239 --> 01:01:30.840
Very very smart. Now, this new morbid motif was designed111601:01:31.360 --> 01:01:38.599
by those Southern decorators or Topsy and Evil. There's three111701:01:38.639 --> 01:01:41.159
parts section himself, who was made especially for the wife111801:01:41.199 --> 01:01:44.840
of Harry the hatchet Man. You see, Harry left his111901:01:44.920 --> 01:01:48.280
wife in pieces, so naturally we let the chip and112001:01:48.480 --> 01:01:54.719
dales fall where they may. Now here's our new drop112101:01:54.840 --> 01:01:59.960
living room, just freshly dug. It's for render, real bug,112201:02:00.079 --> 01:02:03.280
and all you have to do is slave on the112301:02:03.440 --> 01:02:04.679
down payment.112401:02:13.480 --> 01:02:17.360
The Night's Inner Sanctum mystery, Death Wears a Lonely Smile112501:02:17.840 --> 01:02:21.119
was written by Ed Adamson and Bob Sloan and stars112601:02:21.199 --> 01:02:24.599
Mister Sloan and the Roll of Walter, with Mercedes McCambridge112701:02:24.639 --> 01:02:33.360
as Carol. Well, now let's get to the Night's torturous tale.112801:02:34.320 --> 01:02:37.079
Find your places and make yourself comfortable before we begin.112901:02:38.079 --> 01:02:42.280
As Harry the Hatchetman says, we're not seating anyone. Before113001:02:42.320 --> 01:02:48.880
the first axe curtain fall, It's does, and a cold113101:02:48.920 --> 01:02:53.000
wind whipped through the burial ground, stirring the leafless branches113201:02:53.039 --> 01:02:55.280
into wordless whispers of.113301:02:55.360 --> 01:03:00.119
Dead, forgotten voices. Amid the gravestones, the Big Man, and113401:03:00.239 --> 01:03:04.519
with a bloodied gash in his forehead, stands hatless, his113501:03:04.719 --> 01:03:08.760
massive ape like arms hanging limply at his side, his113601:03:08.920 --> 01:03:14.400
eyes set in a lost, vacant stare. The Big Man113701:03:14.440 --> 01:03:18.480
remains there, transfixed as a young woman in black comes113801:03:18.519 --> 01:03:20.320
out of the shadows behind him.113901:03:20.679 --> 01:03:21.440
Can I help you?114001:03:21.760 --> 01:03:25.079
Well? Where did you come from?114101:03:26.039 --> 01:03:28.360
I was over there putting flowers on my father's grave,114201:03:28.400 --> 01:03:32.760
and I show you standing here, and you seemed lost?114301:03:33.239 --> 01:03:33.559
Lola?114401:03:35.079 --> 01:03:39.920
What I've been waiting for you? Lola? I knew you'd114501:03:39.960 --> 01:03:42.519
come if I waited. Lola, I knew you would.114601:03:42.840 --> 01:03:44.000
But my name isn't Lola.114701:03:44.119 --> 01:03:46.840
I waited so long, I waited every day.114801:03:47.000 --> 01:03:48.960
I told you I'm not Lola. You've mistaken me. My114901:03:49.079 --> 01:03:56.320
name is Carol, Carol, Carol Finley. But Lola said she'd come,115001:03:56.960 --> 01:04:03.280
She promised me. I needed who is Lola? Lola's my friend?115101:04:03.760 --> 01:04:07.280
She never made fun of me because I'm I'm so big.115201:04:08.280 --> 01:04:11.559
Lola never laughed like all the others, like all those115301:04:11.559 --> 01:04:13.039
other ones who are so mean.115401:04:14.800 --> 01:04:15.679
What's your name?115501:04:16.039 --> 01:04:19.079
I told you it's Carol. What's yours?115601:04:19.679 --> 01:04:20.079
Walter?115701:04:21.320 --> 01:04:21.639
Walter?115801:04:22.639 --> 01:04:24.719
You better let me take you home?115901:04:24.880 --> 01:04:25.159
Yes?116001:04:26.280 --> 01:04:26.960
Where do you live?116101:04:27.320 --> 01:04:30.039
Why? I don't know.116201:04:31.199 --> 01:04:32.679
There's something the matter with you?116301:04:33.880 --> 01:04:38.039
Yes, your hurt? That cut on your forehead cut? Yes, Look,116401:04:38.079 --> 01:04:39.719
I'll take you to my place. My mother has a116501:04:39.800 --> 01:04:42.280
rooming house, and you can stay there until you feel better.116601:04:42.360 --> 01:04:46.199
No, I can't go. I must wait for Lola. I116701:04:46.960 --> 01:04:50.840
promised i'd wait. Yeah.116801:04:50.960 --> 01:04:53.400
What's her name, Lola Douglas.116901:04:53.480 --> 01:04:55.280
Yeah, yeah, Lola Douglas.117001:04:56.199 --> 01:04:57.480
There's no use in your wait.117101:04:57.719 --> 01:05:01.280
Oh, you mustn't talk like that. She'll be here, she will,117201:05:01.679 --> 01:05:02.719
She's already here.117301:05:03.920 --> 01:05:05.199
That gravestone there, look at it.117401:05:06.400 --> 01:05:18.760
Lola Douglas died March sixth, nineteen forty eight. There you117501:05:18.800 --> 01:05:21.719
are water now. That bandage will do for a while.117601:05:22.000 --> 01:05:26.280
Hey, you're nice to me, Carol, you like Lola. You're117701:05:26.320 --> 01:05:27.119
not afraid of.117801:05:27.119 --> 01:05:28.360
Me, of course not.117901:05:28.480 --> 01:05:30.039
Why should I be afraid.118001:05:29.880 --> 01:05:33.519
Because I'm so big? I remember when I was in118101:05:33.559 --> 01:05:36.960
school a boy made fun of me. I grabbed his118201:05:37.119 --> 01:05:40.199
arm and I tell him to stop he just laughed118301:05:40.239 --> 01:05:42.599
at me. I didn't mean to hurt him, but I118401:05:43.480 --> 01:05:48.000
broke his arm. I just squeezed a little and and118501:05:48.159 --> 01:05:51.960
it broke. And they were all afraid of me.118601:05:53.239 --> 01:05:54.679
They shouldn't have laughed at you.118701:05:55.440 --> 01:05:58.440
I like you, but I can't stay here.118801:05:58.679 --> 01:06:01.360
It's perfectly all right to my mother, and she said118901:06:01.360 --> 01:06:03.119
that you can have my room for a few days119001:06:03.239 --> 01:06:04.400
and I'll move downstairs.119101:06:04.400 --> 01:06:07.000
Oh, I have to find Lola. I promise that.119201:06:07.320 --> 01:06:12.239
I try to understand. Lola is dead. Oh no, she119301:06:12.360 --> 01:06:13.719
was buried over a year ago.119401:06:13.840 --> 01:06:17.000
Oh that isn't true. I saw Lola last week. I119501:06:17.639 --> 01:06:18.400
spoke to her.119601:06:20.880 --> 01:06:21.239
All right.119701:06:21.320 --> 01:06:25.760
Well all right, and tomorrow you can start looking for119801:06:25.800 --> 01:06:30.239
her again. But now you must get some rest. You119901:06:30.400 --> 01:06:31.800
just lie down here and i'll.120001:06:34.039 --> 01:06:34.400
Soarah.120101:06:35.800 --> 01:06:37.480
Why are you looking at me like that?120201:06:38.159 --> 01:06:41.239
This is on the table among the things you took120301:06:41.239 --> 01:06:41.920
out of your pocket.120401:06:42.079 --> 01:06:42.719
What is it?120501:06:43.159 --> 01:06:44.320
A newspaper clipping?120601:06:44.639 --> 01:06:46.800
I didn't have a clipping in my pocket.120701:06:46.880 --> 01:06:53.719
It's dated March seventh, nineteen forty eight. Woman found brutally crushed.120801:06:53.719 --> 01:06:54.239
The dead.120901:06:55.559 --> 01:06:59.559
Victim identified as Lola Douglas.121001:07:04.639 --> 01:07:08.519
Carol. I just stopped by for a minute. Oh I'm sorry.121101:07:08.559 --> 01:07:10.039
I thought Carol Findley was here.121201:07:10.559 --> 01:07:17.239
Carol gave me her Lola. Lola. I knew you weren't dead.121301:07:17.800 --> 01:07:18.760
My name isn't Lola.121401:07:18.840 --> 01:07:21.000
I knew they were lying all the time. Lol.121501:07:21.119 --> 01:07:23.199
Now I'm glad it's herd. I lived down the horse here.121601:07:23.199 --> 01:07:26.239
They were trying to keep me from you. Come in, Lola.121701:07:27.199 --> 01:07:32.039
Go with my hand with me, Lola, please, oh my hand.121801:07:32.199 --> 01:07:32.719
You're hurting.121901:07:33.159 --> 01:07:37.400
I wouldn't, Loly, you know I wouldn't go. You mustn't122001:07:37.440 --> 01:07:41.159
talk so loud, Lola, tell hear you. They'll think I'm122101:07:41.239 --> 01:07:45.239
hurting you. Please please let me try to get away122201:07:45.280 --> 01:07:47.880
from me, Lola. I might hurt you. I don't want122301:07:47.920 --> 01:07:50.760
to hurt you, Lola, but you might make me. You122401:07:50.840 --> 01:07:54.320
see I'm hurting you. Yeah, you're making me and I122501:07:54.320 --> 01:08:00.320
I don't want you.122601:08:00.840 --> 01:08:01.239
Open it?122701:08:05.079 --> 01:08:05.840
What do you want?122801:08:05.880 --> 01:08:08.000
And I was downstairs and I heard someone scream.122901:08:08.440 --> 01:08:09.960
Who are you carous about that?123001:08:10.000 --> 01:08:10.320
Missus?123101:08:10.320 --> 01:08:10.719
Sidney?123201:08:10.920 --> 01:08:12.239
The scream came from this room.123301:08:12.280 --> 01:08:12.880
I'm sure of it.123401:08:13.039 --> 01:08:14.000
Oh no, missus.123501:08:15.079 --> 01:08:19.479
She is on the floor in there. Get dollar by way,123601:08:20.560 --> 01:08:23.680
glatt us, gettus. What have you done to her?123701:08:24.319 --> 01:08:28.319
She wasn't here before Lola was here, But now she's good.123801:08:29.079 --> 01:08:34.439
Gets you all right, Oh missus Sidney, who is? Keep123901:08:34.479 --> 01:08:35.079
him away from it?124001:08:35.439 --> 01:08:35.720
Away?124101:08:35.840 --> 01:08:39.079
Now you're all right here, I'm here kill me.124201:08:39.119 --> 01:08:42.479
No, No, I wouldn't hurt anybody.124301:08:42.560 --> 01:08:43.880
He probably wanted your money.124401:08:43.960 --> 01:08:45.920
I don't want money.124501:08:46.199 --> 01:08:47.119
There's money in it.124601:08:47.640 --> 01:08:48.439
How much you to have?124701:08:48.479 --> 01:08:48.840
Gis?124801:08:50.079 --> 01:08:53.000
Just test to check? Sixty eight dollars?124901:08:53.359 --> 01:08:58.840
It was your rent twenty forty sixty five.125001:09:00.359 --> 01:09:01.079
Fifty eight.125101:09:01.800 --> 01:09:04.800
It's all here. Come on now, dear, I'll take you125201:09:04.840 --> 01:09:08.399
to your room and you I want you to tear.125301:09:08.279 --> 01:09:08.800
Out of here.125401:09:08.920 --> 01:09:10.319
No, I can't go.125501:09:11.319 --> 01:09:13.920
You're getting out. To understand, you're getting out.125601:09:14.079 --> 01:09:19.000
I can't go. Loela's coming back. I promised her i'd wait,125701:09:19.399 --> 01:09:26.680
and I'm staying here until she comes.125801:09:27.720 --> 01:09:30.039
Carol, Carol, what is it?125901:09:30.079 --> 01:09:30.319
Mom?126001:09:30.319 --> 01:09:33.520
What's the matter? I can't find Gladys. Her bed wasn't126101:09:33.520 --> 01:09:35.000
slept in. Did you see her?126201:09:35.079 --> 01:09:35.279
No?126301:09:35.560 --> 01:09:37.520
When I went to her room and she wasn't there.126401:09:38.279 --> 01:09:40.359
I had a feeling when you brought him home the126501:09:40.359 --> 01:09:42.600
other night, I had a feeling I should have turned126601:09:42.640 --> 01:09:46.159
him away. He's killed glad Mom, stopped and stop talking126701:09:46.239 --> 01:09:47.640
right there. Well, he tried it.126801:09:47.760 --> 01:09:50.439
You know she didn't, Mom, He's just mixed up. You've126901:09:50.439 --> 01:09:53.119
got to try to understand him. Please take it easy,127001:09:53.119 --> 01:09:54.560
glad he's probably left for worker.127101:09:54.920 --> 01:09:58.000
No, sir, she didn't leave this house alive. I was127201:09:58.039 --> 01:10:00.880
in her room. He's done something to her. He's hidden127301:10:00.920 --> 01:10:01.479
her bottomy.127401:10:01.600 --> 01:10:03.640
I don't believe you do anything like that. Then what127501:10:03.720 --> 01:10:04.960
about Lola Douglas?127601:10:05.199 --> 01:10:07.359
She was murdered a year ago. You told me about127701:10:07.359 --> 01:10:08.079
that yourself.127801:10:08.279 --> 01:10:12.119
I guess, but there's no proof that Walter killed her mom.127901:10:12.199 --> 01:10:14.840
I understand him. I'll go up and talk to him.128001:10:14.880 --> 01:10:18.239
No, you won't. You're staying right here. I'll do the128101:10:18.319 --> 01:10:20.840
talking to him. I've got to get him out of128201:10:20.880 --> 01:10:27.960
this house before we're all murdered. You've got to get128301:10:27.960 --> 01:10:28.520
out of here.128401:10:28.920 --> 01:10:32.920
Please, Missus Finley, don't make me go. Lola will come back.128501:10:33.119 --> 01:10:35.239
Lola Douglas was murdered a year ago.128601:10:35.399 --> 01:10:39.319
That's not true. Lola is alive. I saw last week.128701:10:39.279 --> 01:10:41.000
She was murdered by you.128801:10:41.159 --> 01:10:43.199
No, I wouldn't hurt Lola.128901:10:43.399 --> 01:10:46.199
Are you to do the same way you killed Gladys.129001:10:45.720 --> 01:10:48.880
Well, you shouldn't say things like that, Missus Finley.129101:10:48.560 --> 01:10:50.479
You too, get us out of here last night.129201:10:50.520 --> 01:10:55.600
Murdered Missus Finley. I didn't leave. I was waiting for Lola.129301:10:55.359 --> 01:10:57.920
You're a monster, a horrible crazy.129401:10:57.600 --> 01:11:00.920
Month, you saying mean things to me. Missus Finley.129501:11:01.039 --> 01:11:03.039
I want you out of my house. I want you129601:11:03.079 --> 01:11:04.039
out right now.129701:11:04.199 --> 01:11:09.000
You are not like Carol. Carol's nice. Carol said I129801:11:09.000 --> 01:11:11.399
could stay here in her room, Yes.129901:11:11.279 --> 01:11:14.760
But not if you don't pay pay Why No, you130001:11:14.840 --> 01:11:17.800
have no money. You can't stay here another moment unless130101:11:17.800 --> 01:11:20.279
you pay it. And I want a month's rent in advance.130201:11:21.119 --> 01:11:22.520
Now what do you say to that?130301:11:23.479 --> 01:11:26.119
All right, Missus Finley, and the quicker you get out130401:11:26.119 --> 01:11:30.640
of your money? Which is just enough for a month130501:11:31.079 --> 01:11:45.279
in advanced Missus Finley, it's sixty eight dollars enough, sixty130601:11:45.319 --> 01:11:45.960
eight dollars.130701:11:46.000 --> 01:11:49.119
Gerald here, look, he gave me sixty eight dollars.130801:11:49.159 --> 01:11:52.039
I don't understand it. Mom. Yesterday he didn't have a130901:11:52.039 --> 01:11:52.800
penny in his pocket.131001:11:52.880 --> 01:11:55.680
But don't you see what is prus It's just as131101:11:55.720 --> 01:11:57.239
I told you, he's murdered.131201:11:57.279 --> 01:11:57.680
Laddys.131301:11:58.000 --> 01:12:00.880
That's exactly what she had in her pocket book last night.131401:12:01.079 --> 01:12:02.359
Sixty eight dollars.131501:12:08.840 --> 01:12:11.359
Surgeant Piers twelfth, praising Sergeant.131601:12:11.880 --> 01:12:15.159
This is missus Finley five twenty nine elm Street. You'd131701:12:15.199 --> 01:12:16.439
better come over right away.131801:12:16.399 --> 01:12:19.039
Finley, I have twenty nine. Now, what's the trouble, lady.131901:12:19.199 --> 01:12:23.079
Well, one of my rumors, glad it's hard. She's missing missing.132001:12:23.279 --> 01:12:26.560
I'll wait, don't handle that, lady, a missing person.132101:12:26.600 --> 01:12:30.279
Wait just a minute, please. Yeah, Well, this woman, she's132201:12:30.279 --> 01:12:32.600
not just missing, she's been murdered.132301:12:33.039 --> 01:12:35.760
Look, lady, which isn't you're missing the boat?132401:12:36.079 --> 01:12:38.159
She hasn't been in the room all night. She had132501:12:38.199 --> 01:12:39.880
sixty eight dollars in her pocketbook.132601:12:39.880 --> 01:12:46.079
And well are you missus Finley?132701:12:46.560 --> 01:12:47.680
What's going on there? Hello?132801:12:49.039 --> 01:12:52.279
I'm sorry I troubled you office, right, I made a mistake.132901:12:53.159 --> 01:12:56.560
That is hard to lie. She she just walked in.133001:13:06.880 --> 01:13:08.920
Who was there?133101:13:09.119 --> 01:13:09.640
Oh?133201:13:10.079 --> 01:13:10.960
Come in, Carol?133301:13:12.399 --> 01:13:13.880
Did I disturb your Hi?133401:13:14.960 --> 01:13:18.520
I was listening to the music on the radio. It's133501:13:18.680 --> 01:13:20.319
nice music, isn't it, Carol?133601:13:20.479 --> 01:13:21.680
Yes, Walter, very pleasant.133701:13:22.159 --> 01:13:25.039
Lula likes music just like that too.133801:13:25.800 --> 01:13:26.119
Really.133901:13:27.000 --> 01:13:30.520
Yeah, I came up to apologize for the way mom.134001:13:30.359 --> 01:13:30.960
Acted to you.134101:13:31.479 --> 01:13:33.840
Missus Finley said mean things to me.134201:13:34.119 --> 01:13:35.399
My mom didn't understand.134301:13:35.680 --> 01:13:39.640
Missus Finley said, I kill that girl. I didn't kill us.134401:13:39.720 --> 01:13:40.600
Yes, we know that now.134501:13:40.880 --> 01:13:42.720
Gladys came in a little while ago. She stayed at134601:13:42.720 --> 01:13:47.399
a friend's house overnight. Walter, where did you get the134701:13:47.399 --> 01:13:48.279
money you gave mom.134801:13:48.600 --> 01:13:51.479
Well, it was in my pocket. I found her sixty134901:13:51.479 --> 01:13:52.840
eight dollars in my pocket.135001:13:52.880 --> 01:13:55.560
But it was more than sixty eight dollars. Yes, Mom135101:13:55.680 --> 01:13:57.079
was so excited when you gave it to her, she135201:13:57.119 --> 01:13:59.159
forgot to count it. But you gave her eighty.135301:13:58.960 --> 01:14:01.039
Five dollars only had sixty eight.135401:14:01.159 --> 01:14:03.039
You must have made a mistake. You had eighty five.135501:14:03.359 --> 01:14:06.079
You gave mom seventeen dollars too much. So here she135601:14:06.199 --> 01:14:07.600
told me to give you back the seventy.135701:14:07.800 --> 01:14:11.039
Oh, you keep it, Carol. You're nice to me.135801:14:12.039 --> 01:14:17.119
You're yours. Please take it, Carol, Yes.135901:14:17.279 --> 01:14:22.199
There's money. I well, would you let me take you136001:14:22.319 --> 01:14:22.800
to dinner?136101:14:23.920 --> 01:14:24.680
Well, you see I do.136201:14:24.880 --> 01:14:24.920
No.136301:14:25.079 --> 01:14:28.359
You wouldn't be ashamed to go with me because I'm136401:14:28.439 --> 01:14:33.159
so big, because people would look at me and live.136501:14:33.399 --> 01:14:37.479
Of course, I wouldn't be ashamed, and you'll go, Yes, Walter,136601:14:37.520 --> 01:14:40.159
I'd be very glad to go with you. I'll just136701:14:40.239 --> 01:14:42.920
run downstairs and get my things. You meet me out136801:14:42.960 --> 01:14:44.279
in front of the house in ten minutes.136901:14:44.319 --> 01:14:48.359
All right, Carol, I'll meet you. We'll have a nice time, yes.137001:14:48.239 --> 01:14:49.439
Walter, I'm sure we will.137101:14:58.840 --> 01:14:59.000
Here.137201:14:59.000 --> 01:15:02.399
It's additional on the murder. This afternoon in Washington Park.137301:15:02.840 --> 01:15:04.640
An empty purse seems to be the clue to.137401:15:04.680 --> 01:15:05.680
The brutal crime.137501:15:06.159 --> 01:15:08.600
Where did woman had any five dollars in bills when137601:15:08.600 --> 01:15:11.359
she left the house last night? According to the police,137701:15:11.399 --> 01:15:14.159
the murder was undoubtedly committed by a large man with137801:15:14.239 --> 01:15:17.680
great power in his hands. Local and state authorities are137901:15:17.720 --> 01:15:19.199
conducting an extensive search.138001:15:19.840 --> 01:15:25.439
They stopped playing the music. The music was so nice,138101:15:26.800 --> 01:15:28.199
and they stopped playing it.138201:15:37.760 --> 01:15:42.000
Call what's the matter? Oh, I've been looking all over138301:15:42.039 --> 01:15:44.479
the house for you. You're all right, of course, I'm138401:15:44.479 --> 01:15:47.079
all right. What Why are you putting on your coupe138501:15:47.119 --> 01:15:50.000
and going out to dinner? Out to dinners with Walter?138601:15:50.880 --> 01:15:53.720
And oh, thank Kevin's I got here in time?138701:15:53.800 --> 01:15:54.840
And what are you talking about?138801:15:55.039 --> 01:15:55.880
He's a murderer.138901:15:55.960 --> 01:15:57.359
You're not going to talk that all over again.139001:15:57.600 --> 01:16:00.000
It just came over the radio. A woman was killed139101:16:00.119 --> 01:16:02.520
last night Washington Park. That doesn't prove the water as139201:16:02.560 --> 01:16:05.760
a man does. The radio said the woman had eighty139301:16:05.800 --> 01:16:08.199
five dollars in her pocket book. She has what eighty139401:16:08.239 --> 01:16:11.439
five dollars? But that's what he gave me this afternoon,139501:16:11.479 --> 01:16:14.479
eighty five dollars. That's what he killed that woman.139601:16:14.279 --> 01:16:15.640
For her Mom, I can't believe it.139701:16:15.920 --> 01:16:18.279
That's how he suddenly had the money to pay the rent.139801:16:18.520 --> 01:16:20.600
And the radio said the woman was crushed it at139901:16:20.640 --> 01:16:22.359
by a man who was big and powerful.140001:16:22.439 --> 01:16:23.039
We can call him.140101:16:23.159 --> 01:16:26.000
It's him. Oh, and you would have been the next140201:16:26.039 --> 01:16:27.920
cattl Where is he now?140301:16:28.039 --> 01:16:29.600
I was supposed to meet him outside the house. I140401:16:29.600 --> 01:16:30.960
suppose he's out there waiting for him.140501:16:31.279 --> 01:16:33.880
That man's a lunatict, crazy killing Luna.140601:16:33.880 --> 01:16:35.560
Say, what are we going to do?140701:16:35.560 --> 01:16:38.000
You stay here in this room now and don't leave it.140801:16:38.079 --> 01:16:38.560
What about who?140901:16:38.760 --> 01:16:42.760
Well, I'm going downstairs and caller police. I'll be back141001:16:42.800 --> 01:16:43.520
in a few minutes.141101:16:44.159 --> 01:17:02.399
And remember, no matter what happens, don't leave this room there.141201:17:02.800 --> 01:17:04.319
I'll bring the police.141301:17:04.479 --> 01:17:06.000
Quick, get me the police.141401:17:06.920 --> 01:17:11.600
Hello, you're calling the police.141501:17:11.920 --> 01:17:16.399
No, No, you're wrong. I was going to.141601:17:27.920 --> 01:17:29.119
What took you so long? I was?141701:17:30.800 --> 01:17:31.800
Hello, Carol?141801:17:33.479 --> 01:17:34.239
Hello?141901:17:33.840 --> 01:17:36.159
What I was waiting for you?142001:17:36.399 --> 01:17:36.760
Carol?142101:17:37.760 --> 01:17:40.840
Well, I M I'm not ready yet.142201:17:41.159 --> 01:17:42.760
You've got your hat and coat on.142301:17:43.319 --> 01:17:44.960
Well can't we wait just a little long?142401:17:45.359 --> 01:17:48.800
You're afraid? You're afraid to go to dinner with you?142501:17:48.840 --> 01:17:51.720
No otherwise you go with me right now? Well?142601:17:54.039 --> 01:17:57.760
All right, all all right, I'll do just as you like,142701:17:59.359 --> 01:18:00.159
we'll go right, know.142801:18:09.800 --> 01:18:13.000
Taro, Why did you change me?142901:18:13.239 --> 01:18:15.039
Change? I don't know what you mean.143001:18:15.399 --> 01:18:18.000
I don't think you like me anymore, but I do143101:18:18.199 --> 01:18:20.520
like you. You want to get away from me. I143201:18:20.520 --> 01:18:22.760
can tell you don't want to be with me.143301:18:22.880 --> 01:18:24.840
I came up with you. I'm going to dinner with you.143401:18:24.960 --> 01:18:27.199
You don't want to. I can tell by the way143501:18:27.239 --> 01:18:29.640
you act. You keep pulling away from me.143601:18:29.760 --> 01:18:34.159
Wait, wait, what is it? Did you really want me143701:18:34.199 --> 01:18:34.840
to like you wanting?143801:18:35.479 --> 01:18:37.239
Yeah? Very much?143901:18:38.000 --> 01:18:41.199
Did I tell you what? This Floria shop? Here? You144001:18:41.279 --> 01:18:43.720
go in there? You buy me some flowers?144101:18:43.880 --> 01:18:48.119
Some flowers? Oh all right? Well what kind?144201:18:48.239 --> 01:18:50.720
Or any kind? And I always hear why you don't know?144301:18:50.760 --> 01:18:51.960
You know? You come with me?144401:18:52.079 --> 01:18:54.680
You picked them up, But I want you to surprise me.144501:18:55.600 --> 01:18:57.760
I don't want you to be alone. You might run144601:18:57.800 --> 01:19:00.800
away from me. If you want some flowers, you got144701:19:00.920 --> 01:19:01.920
to come in the shop with me.144801:19:03.119 --> 01:19:10.319
All right, I'll go with you, good evening.144901:19:10.640 --> 01:19:11.840
What can I do for you?145001:19:12.279 --> 01:19:14.439
What kind of flowers do you want? Carol?145101:19:14.520 --> 01:19:14.960
Roses?145201:19:15.920 --> 01:19:19.239
Yes, roses roses very nice?145301:19:19.479 --> 01:19:19.960
A dozen?145401:19:20.520 --> 01:19:23.960
Yes, and I'll have them for you, miss, yes, Miss145501:19:24.000 --> 01:19:26.119
I have to make a phone call.145601:19:26.159 --> 01:19:26.720
I wonder if I can.145701:19:26.920 --> 01:19:28.640
There's the paper's over there behind the phone.145801:19:28.840 --> 01:19:31.840
Thank you. I'll just be a minute. Water here for145901:19:31.920 --> 01:19:48.439
the flowers. I'll be right back. Operate here, give me146001:19:48.439 --> 01:19:49.880
the police.146101:19:54.319 --> 01:19:56.359
Sorry, you listen.146201:19:56.239 --> 01:19:57.720
To me carefully. I don't have much time.146301:19:58.239 --> 01:20:00.960
My name is Carol Finley, and the man who murdered146401:20:00.960 --> 01:20:03.279
that woman in Washington Park last night is with me146501:20:04.319 --> 01:20:06.560
in Creamer's Florida shop on sixth Street. But we're leaving146601:20:06.560 --> 01:20:08.680
here in a minute. You're taking me to dinner at146701:20:08.680 --> 01:20:10.439
the Black Grotto down the block.146801:20:11.600 --> 01:20:21.439
Hurry the time. Oh you have the flowers, Walter. Oh146901:20:21.479 --> 01:20:22.319
they're very pretty.147001:20:22.640 --> 01:20:24.239
What did you call Carol?147101:20:24.319 --> 01:20:24.479
Why?147201:20:26.039 --> 01:20:27.159
Old man?147301:20:27.520 --> 01:20:30.479
You talk to missus Finley?147401:20:30.600 --> 01:20:32.079
Yes, I just wanted to let her know where i'd147501:20:32.079 --> 01:20:33.319
be so that she wouldn't worry.147601:20:33.680 --> 01:20:36.079
You talk to us.147701:20:36.159 --> 01:20:39.199
Yes, I just told her that I did. Come on, Walter,147801:20:39.279 --> 01:20:41.800
and I'm hungry, all right, Carol.147901:20:46.399 --> 01:20:48.359
Right, Carol, I'll call a taxi.148001:20:48.520 --> 01:20:50.359
We're just going to the Black Grotto. We don't need148101:20:50.359 --> 01:20:51.960
a taxi. It's just down the street there.148201:20:52.079 --> 01:20:54.920
I changed my mind, Carol, when i'd go into the148301:20:54.960 --> 01:20:59.520
Black Grotto. I'm taking you to a nicer place, much nicer.148401:21:08.800 --> 01:21:12.000
Why did you take me out here.148501:21:12.399 --> 01:21:15.600
There's something in this cemetery. I want to show you.148601:21:15.640 --> 01:21:17.279
Water, Please, let's go back to talk.148701:21:17.439 --> 01:21:22.119
We would be long. It's right here. This is what148801:21:22.199 --> 01:21:23.239
I wanted to show you.148901:21:24.279 --> 01:21:26.640
It's an empty grave.149001:21:26.760 --> 01:21:30.920
Yes, Carol, and we have the flowers to put on.149101:21:30.960 --> 01:21:32.920
It, but no one's in there. It's empty.149201:21:33.359 --> 01:21:37.720
You'll be bad, Carol. It's for you.149301:21:39.039 --> 01:21:41.800
You want to hurt me, Walter, I'm your friend.149401:21:41.920 --> 01:21:45.600
Remember, Oh no, you're bad. You'll like all the rest149501:21:45.600 --> 01:21:47.880
of them. I thought you were nice, but you don't.149601:21:47.880 --> 01:21:49.159
You remember I tried to help you.149701:21:49.359 --> 01:21:52.479
You didn't call Missus Finley from the flower shop.149801:21:52.600 --> 01:21:54.039
Yes, I did, Water, I spoke tomorrow.149901:21:54.119 --> 01:21:56.760
That's not the truth. You couldn't talk to her. Missus150001:21:56.760 --> 01:22:02.880
Finley is dead. I killed that. She was going to150101:22:02.920 --> 01:22:05.880
tell the police about me. I put my hands around150201:22:05.880 --> 01:22:12.000
her neck and I squeezed, and she was dead. I150301:22:12.079 --> 01:22:16.520
put her in the cellar. Now I've got to kill you.150401:22:16.560 --> 01:22:19.439
No wait, wait, If you do anything to me, there150501:22:19.439 --> 01:22:23.560
won't be anybody left to help you find Lola. Yes, Lee, Yes, Water,150601:22:23.640 --> 01:22:25.920
I can help you find Lola. I can kind of150701:22:25.960 --> 01:22:26.600
where she's hiding.150801:22:27.239 --> 01:22:31.199
Dead. She laughed. She laughed at me. She said I150901:22:31.319 --> 01:22:35.119
was crazy, a big, crazy fool, That's what she said.151001:22:35.159 --> 01:22:37.800
I thought she was my friend, but she wasn't. She151101:22:38.000 --> 01:22:40.680
was mean. She laughed at me. She was mean like151201:22:40.800 --> 01:22:42.239
all the rest, they all laughed.151301:22:42.359 --> 01:22:43.840
I wouldn't laugh at your water, I wouldn't.151401:22:43.880 --> 01:22:47.079
They hate it when people laugh at me. I want151501:22:47.119 --> 01:22:49.319
to hurt them, just like I want to hurt you.151601:22:49.439 --> 01:22:54.840
Because you're laughing at me. Now, you please, let's go151701:22:55.119 --> 01:22:59.600
me laugh and stop stop laughing. I wouldn't have to151801:22:59.720 --> 01:23:08.079
hurt you, but you would stop you, Lola, Lola, make151901:23:08.159 --> 01:23:15.760
them stup, Loualla, please make them stop there. You're hurting me.152001:23:19.920 --> 01:23:23.880
You all right, Mason, Yes, I'm all right. It was152101:23:23.880 --> 01:23:26.800
a close call you had. You didn't turn up at152201:23:26.800 --> 01:23:29.760
the Black Grotto. I checked with the florist. You saw152301:23:29.800 --> 01:23:32.720
him take you into a cab outside her shop. What152401:23:32.840 --> 01:23:34.159
do you think I got out here in time?152501:23:34.640 --> 01:23:34.800
Yes?152601:23:36.000 --> 01:23:37.960
The shore was a big guy, wasn't he.152701:23:38.439 --> 01:23:43.640
Yes, he was a big guy who didn't want people152801:23:43.720 --> 01:23:45.800
to laugh at him.152901:23:46.119 --> 01:23:58.680
Uh.153001:23:59.279 --> 01:24:03.640
That closes the lid on tonight's little coffin of curious characters,153101:24:04.239 --> 01:24:06.760
and waters certainly proved the point. The bigger they are,153201:24:06.800 --> 01:24:11.840
the harder they fall into a grave. Say, Carol certainly153301:24:11.880 --> 01:24:14.600
had a narrow escape, and she, the poor girl, almost153401:24:14.680 --> 01:24:18.640
died laughing. You know that's the trouble with most people.153501:24:18.720 --> 01:24:21.439
No sense of humor. Some of them just can't take153601:24:21.479 --> 01:24:27.800
a choke. All right, So my gags leave you more153701:24:27.800 --> 01:24:30.680
ofid You didn't want to sleep tonight anyway?153801:24:31.760 --> 01:24:33.439
Oh? Did you?153901:24:45.439 --> 01:24:45.920
Good night?154001:24:47.399 --> 01:24:49.159
Pleasant dreams?154101:24:50.760 --> 01:25:09.720
M I don't know if these stories are necessarily affecting154201:25:09.800 --> 01:25:16.359
my melancholy, but I am happy to have someone to154301:25:16.399 --> 01:25:19.640
share them with, My dear. It can be a very154401:25:21.920 --> 01:25:29.960
long road when you live where I live, when you154501:25:30.039 --> 01:25:33.800
see the things I see day and night. Although that's154601:25:34.079 --> 01:25:39.960
a misnow there is no there is no daytime. It154701:25:40.079 --> 01:25:46.399
all starts to blend together because it truly is a154801:25:46.520 --> 01:25:48.199
lonely road.154901:25:49.880 --> 01:25:50.279
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Okay, thanks, Doc.156401:26:57.680 --> 01:27:01.640
Where Hello, Gare? How goes it not bad? You want156501:27:01.640 --> 01:27:04.439
to stayment? I suppose? M M. That's right. Well tell156601:27:04.439 --> 01:27:08.920
me first, is is she have to get the extreme penalty?156701:27:09.520 --> 01:27:12.000
Well, that'll depend a lot upon what you have to say.156801:27:12.720 --> 01:27:16.079
I see, well, I'll I'll give it to you straight.156901:27:16.880 --> 01:27:19.880
I'm counting on you to do your best for her. Sure, sure,157001:27:20.680 --> 01:27:30.560
I'll go ahead. Shoot, Okay. The first time I saw Jenny,157101:27:30.640 --> 01:27:33.600
she was coming along the road carrying the suitcase. I157201:27:33.680 --> 01:27:35.760
knew she was headed for our place because it's the157301:27:35.800 --> 01:27:39.079
only house for miles around there. I was trimming the157401:27:39.119 --> 01:27:40.960
hedge and I've got as far as the rear gate.157501:27:41.039 --> 01:27:43.920
When she reached it, I waited for her to speak,157601:27:44.680 --> 01:27:47.479
Is this the Gare place? That's right? What can I157701:27:47.520 --> 01:27:48.319
do for you?157801:27:48.319 --> 01:27:50.359
You had an eye in the paper for a girl157901:27:50.399 --> 01:27:51.640
to do general housework.158001:27:51.920 --> 01:27:54.600
Oh, yes, of course we'll come along into the house.158101:27:54.640 --> 01:27:56.039
My wife will want to have to talk with you.158201:27:58.560 --> 01:28:02.279
This is a beautiful place, Scott here, mister Gure, but158301:28:02.359 --> 01:28:03.159
it's certainly.158401:28:02.880 --> 01:28:05.880
High to get to you've walked from the highway.158501:28:06.359 --> 01:28:09.680
Yeah, must have been almost five miles. The sun is158601:28:09.720 --> 01:28:14.159
something fierce almost gave up. Old lady bushes run along here.158701:28:14.600 --> 01:28:17.159
No, we're pretty isolated. When there's help in the house.158801:28:17.199 --> 01:28:19.000
I always manage to give him a lift in the town.158901:28:20.560 --> 01:28:22.119
That makes his niceness to gear.159001:28:24.079 --> 01:28:26.560
What's your name, Jenny? Jenny?159101:28:26.600 --> 01:28:28.039
What Jenny'll do?159201:28:28.760 --> 01:28:31.960
All right? Jenny in here please? And missus s Gere159301:28:32.000 --> 01:28:33.600
is a trifle heart of hearing, so you'll have to159401:28:33.640 --> 01:28:36.760
speak up a bit, Oh, helen, missus Jenny, she's come159501:28:36.800 --> 01:28:38.000
in answer to our advertisement.159601:28:38.159 --> 01:28:41.359
Oh yes, I'm very glad to see you, Jenny, won't159701:28:41.359 --> 01:28:41.920
you sitty?159801:28:49.880 --> 01:28:55.399
She was extraordinarily not beautiful or pretty striking, I guess159901:28:55.399 --> 01:28:58.760
would be the word. She had heavy black braids wound160001:28:58.800 --> 01:29:01.840
about her head. Her eyes were a clear green and160101:29:01.880 --> 01:29:05.279
looked straight through you. And she was lean and powerful,160201:29:06.079 --> 01:29:09.000
like a young animal, a leopard or a panther or something.160301:29:10.319 --> 01:29:13.159
While my wife engaged Jenny that night. She cooked an160401:29:13.199 --> 01:29:16.640
excellent dinner and served it well. She had on a160501:29:16.640 --> 01:29:20.520
purple skirt in a serese. I guess you'd call it blouse,160601:29:20.520 --> 01:29:24.079
and I could see Helen Iyott with dis favor. Every160701:29:24.079 --> 01:29:27.319
time the girl came close to the eye, I could160801:29:27.359 --> 01:29:30.359
feel the strength of her, and those green eyes watched160901:29:30.439 --> 01:29:32.600
us as if she were sizing us up. We took161001:29:32.600 --> 01:29:34.840
our coffee and cigarettes out on the veranda after dinner.161101:29:35.079 --> 01:29:36.680
You can look right over the orange and grove to161201:29:36.720 --> 01:29:37.880
the hills. It's nice.161301:29:40.119 --> 01:29:40.600
See.161401:29:41.439 --> 01:29:43.039
What do you think about Jenny.161501:29:43.960 --> 01:29:47.079
Was a little early to judge. Seems capable enough. There's161601:29:47.079 --> 01:29:49.159
a darn good dinner. If you ask me, maybe we're161701:29:49.159 --> 01:29:49.840
in luck, darling.161801:29:50.600 --> 01:29:52.399
Maybe what does she do?161901:29:52.520 --> 01:29:53.640
Think Mexican?162001:29:53.880 --> 01:29:54.000
Oh?162101:29:54.079 --> 01:29:56.359
I say Slavic with that build and shape of face,162201:29:57.199 --> 01:29:58.640
and walk coffee hell and have a cup.162301:29:59.279 --> 01:30:00.159
She probably.162401:30:01.840 --> 01:30:07.800
It is a sort of old gipsy arrogance boldness about it.162501:30:07.800 --> 01:30:11.760
It makes me how uneasy, as if I'd had something162601:30:11.800 --> 01:30:12.479
to cope with.162701:30:18.359 --> 01:30:21.000
We went up to bed early. I was pretty exhausted162801:30:21.039 --> 01:30:23.000
every night with all the physical work I had to do.162901:30:23.359 --> 01:30:25.960
I turned out the light and for some reason stepped163001:30:25.960 --> 01:30:29.239
over to the window. Jenny's room was downstairs, on the163101:30:29.239 --> 01:30:30.640
same side of the house as ours.163201:30:30.680 --> 01:30:31.079
In the rear.163301:30:31.720 --> 01:30:35.039
Her light was still on. She was getting ready for bed,163401:30:35.079 --> 01:30:38.479
and her shadow, huge and black, lay across the lawn.163501:30:39.720 --> 01:30:42.279
Her arms were raised to take down those heavy braids.163601:30:43.279 --> 01:30:47.920
There was something actually classic about the thing. The picture163701:30:47.960 --> 01:30:50.079
of it stayed in my mind long after I'd got163801:30:50.079 --> 01:30:56.760
into bed. Well, two or three days went by, and Jenny, Well,163901:30:56.800 --> 01:30:59.399
the thing was, you were conscious of her all the time.164001:31:00.039 --> 01:31:02.119
Wherever she was about the house, whatever she was doing,164101:31:02.159 --> 01:31:05.119
you thought about her. I was working in the garage164201:31:05.119 --> 01:31:08.199
one afternoon when she came out there with the butcher knife.164301:31:08.760 --> 01:31:11.760
Missus Gere says, you're a wheatstone out here. Then I164401:31:11.800 --> 01:31:13.359
get you to shop my knife for me.164501:31:13.399 --> 01:31:15.439
Mister Gear, of course, just a moment.164601:31:18.560 --> 01:31:19.640
What's that you're doing.164701:31:19.840 --> 01:31:21.560
Oh, I'm trying to mend this old bear trap.164801:31:22.000 --> 01:31:24.279
Oh are you a trapper, mister Gear.164901:31:24.439 --> 01:31:28.199
Oh no, hardly, as kyote around that's been stealing the chickens.165001:31:28.199 --> 01:31:40.199
I'm hoping to catch him there. Well, they have the knife.165101:31:41.159 --> 01:31:42.520
What do you do, mister Gear?165201:31:43.319 --> 01:31:45.399
Oh daring. Missus Gere was a concert pianist at the165301:31:45.399 --> 01:31:48.159
times called marriage. I was a manager. Now I take165401:31:48.199 --> 01:31:50.319
care of her properties, holdings, investments.165501:31:50.359 --> 01:31:53.119
You know you mean you signed things far like checks165601:31:53.119 --> 01:31:54.439
and papers and things.165701:31:54.319 --> 01:31:57.800
Barbor Tary. Yes, that's part of it.165801:31:57.960 --> 01:31:59.119
Pretty soft for you.165901:32:00.079 --> 01:32:04.479
On the contrary, it's quite a job. Keeps me busy.166001:32:05.079 --> 01:32:07.640
I still say, you've got a pretty setup. And she166101:32:07.680 --> 01:32:11.079
didn't get such a bad deal herself. She's crazy in166201:32:11.079 --> 01:32:12.840
love with you. Anybody can see that.166301:32:14.199 --> 01:32:14.560
Why not?166401:32:15.880 --> 01:32:20.800
You're a good looking figure and young. You must be166501:32:20.840 --> 01:32:23.520
at least at least twelve years young and than she is.166601:32:25.359 --> 01:32:28.600
Now here's your knighte Jenny. Careful now it's like a razor.166701:32:28.880 --> 01:32:31.279
Thanks a lot. That's the way I want it. I166801:32:31.319 --> 01:32:36.479
can't stand a dull night, so I'll probably bother you often.166901:32:37.560 --> 01:32:46.479
A few more days went by. I finished my trap167001:32:46.479 --> 01:32:48.520
and set it out near the chicken run, hoping i'd167101:32:48.640 --> 01:32:52.199
catch my thief. And one night, after dinner, we were167201:32:52.199 --> 01:33:05.920
in the living what's the matter, Helen?167301:33:07.840 --> 01:33:10.720
She was standing there in the dining room door listening, Jenny.167401:33:11.119 --> 01:33:12.239
She probably likes music.167501:33:12.279 --> 01:33:15.359
What's the hot isn't that she's always listening and watching.167601:33:16.600 --> 01:33:18.079
It's beginning to get on my nerves.167701:33:18.319 --> 01:33:18.800
How about her?167801:33:18.840 --> 01:33:19.039
Work.167901:33:20.079 --> 01:33:22.720
She works hard enough, She's willing and clean as a pin.168001:33:22.800 --> 01:33:26.000
But I have a feeling she doesn't respect me. That168101:33:26.359 --> 01:33:28.479
I just don't think you're in her scheme of things.168201:33:28.479 --> 01:33:30.960
She's she's just simply taken the place over. I don't168301:33:30.960 --> 01:33:32.359
even run my own house anymore.168401:33:32.760 --> 01:33:34.920
Fire or why don't you No, I couldn't say the168501:33:34.960 --> 01:33:35.560
word and I'll do it.168601:33:35.720 --> 01:33:37.079
No, No, I don't.168701:33:36.880 --> 01:33:41.600
Want you to, Steve. Frankly, i'd be afraid to tell168801:33:41.600 --> 01:33:45.439
her to go. She might get ugly and set fire168901:33:45.479 --> 01:33:46.279
to the house or something.169001:33:46.319 --> 01:33:50.079
Oh, I've never heard such a nonsense in my life. Well, Helen,169101:33:50.079 --> 01:33:50.399
aren't you.169201:33:50.439 --> 01:33:53.840
Well, I'm just terribly nervous, Steve. Maybe that's why she169301:33:53.920 --> 01:33:54.520
takes advance.169401:34:00.439 --> 01:34:03.600
Well, that's settled that. I felt like a heel, though,169501:34:03.640 --> 01:34:07.039
because I was relieved that Kell didn't didn't want to169601:34:07.079 --> 01:34:10.479
fire Jenny, I was obliged to admit to myself that169701:34:10.560 --> 01:34:13.880
the girl was getting under my skin. Any little service169801:34:13.920 --> 01:34:18.199
she had to perform for me, she made very special. Standing.169901:34:18.199 --> 01:34:21.840
As close as she did, I could feel a magnetism170001:34:21.840 --> 01:34:26.960
of that strong, perfect body. Her hair smelled like new apples,170101:34:27.439 --> 01:34:30.680
and those clear green eyes would linger pressingly in mind.170201:34:32.439 --> 01:34:35.439
Then after about two weeks. One night, it must have170301:34:35.520 --> 01:34:36.399
been one or.170401:34:36.319 --> 01:34:43.680
Two o'clock, Steve, Steve, wake up, what's the matter that girl.170501:34:44.399 --> 01:34:46.720
I think she's out there in the hallway. I think170601:34:46.760 --> 01:34:50.720
she's been in this room. I'm frightened, Steve, so youse,170701:34:50.760 --> 01:34:52.840
make a light all.170801:34:52.840 --> 01:35:02.880
Right, no one around Helen. He must have been dreaming there,170901:35:03.920 --> 01:35:04.680
Perhaps I was.171001:35:04.720 --> 01:35:09.840
I dream about her often, Steve. Horror confused kind of dreams.171101:35:10.600 --> 01:35:12.560
I'm trying to scream for help and can't.171201:35:12.600 --> 01:35:16.079
It's too good, Lord, Helen. I never thought anybody could171301:35:16.079 --> 01:35:18.760
get you down. I've got to control yourself somehow. This171401:35:18.840 --> 01:35:29.239
it's just plain silly. Yes, yes, I turned out the171501:35:29.279 --> 01:35:32.680
light and got back into bed. In a little while,171601:35:33.159 --> 01:35:36.039
I could hear Helen's even breathing, and knew she was asleep.171701:35:37.439 --> 01:35:41.960
I lay there thinking about Jenny. Of course, I never171801:35:42.000 --> 01:35:46.319
thought of much else. In a moment, I heard the171901:35:46.319 --> 01:35:52.520
piano so faint I thought I was imagining it, and172001:35:52.600 --> 01:36:02.720
it came again, weird, ghostly. I got up again, put172101:36:02.760 --> 01:36:06.520
on my robe, and slipped downstairs. The living room was172201:36:06.600 --> 01:36:10.159
dark except for the moonlight pouring through the window, and172301:36:10.319 --> 01:36:13.479
Jenny's figure, black against the light, was moving towards me,172401:36:14.359 --> 01:36:16.720
almost before I knew what. She'd pressed close against me,172501:36:17.560 --> 01:36:19.199
crushing her mouth to mine.172601:36:20.039 --> 01:36:31.399
It was like being stunned, sharp, sweet, terrible, Jenny, what172701:36:31.600 --> 01:36:31.880
is this?172801:36:33.199 --> 01:36:36.039
Don't kid me. You knew this was coming, but it172901:36:36.119 --> 01:36:39.159
had to come that nothing could keep us apart. Now173001:36:39.199 --> 01:36:40.640
everything's going to be all right.173101:36:41.760 --> 01:36:46.520
But but Jenny, we can't Helen. There's no food.173201:36:46.600 --> 01:36:48.039
We can't let her stand in our way.173301:36:49.279 --> 01:36:51.640
What do you mean it won't be hard.173401:36:52.039 --> 01:36:53.880
Just a matter of figuring the best way.173501:36:54.119 --> 01:36:56.199
I don't know what you mean, Jenny. And we can't173601:36:56.239 --> 01:36:58.079
stay here talking nights any longer.173701:37:01.840 --> 01:37:05.439
He'll be just you and me, Steve and all that money.173801:37:05.640 --> 01:37:06.760
Think what we can do with it?173901:37:06.840 --> 01:37:07.199
Just think?174001:37:07.279 --> 01:37:08.600
Are you crazy?174101:37:08.520 --> 01:37:12.000
Yeah? Crazy for you, just like you are for me,174201:37:12.760 --> 01:37:13.439
missus Steve.174301:37:13.800 --> 01:37:15.479
Inside of five or six years, you're going to be174401:37:15.479 --> 01:37:17.840
stuck with a deaf old woman. What you're gonna do?174501:37:17.960 --> 01:37:19.239
Sit here and grow old with her?174601:37:19.720 --> 01:37:20.119
Not you?174701:37:21.119 --> 01:37:23.000
Sooner or later you clear out.174801:37:23.359 --> 01:37:25.439
So why not now? But me?174901:37:26.119 --> 01:37:29.479
Why that's so simple as you make it sound, My dear.175001:37:29.800 --> 01:37:32.119
All you have to do is to spread around the175101:37:32.159 --> 01:37:35.119
town that Helen's going to visit her folks, Mississippi or175201:37:35.119 --> 01:37:40.600
someplace and leave her to me. Afterwards, you can say175301:37:40.640 --> 01:37:43.319
your wife's decided to stay down south, that you're going175401:37:43.399 --> 01:37:46.760
to going to sell out and join her. Then we175501:37:46.800 --> 01:37:54.159
can turn everything into cash and we're on our way easy.175601:37:55.920 --> 01:37:58.399
The next few days, I worked outside with my hands175701:37:58.439 --> 01:38:01.720
bled and my whole body shriek with pain. To keep175801:38:01.720 --> 01:38:05.720
from thinking, I began having nightpaers. I'd wake up in175901:38:05.760 --> 01:38:08.840
a cold sweat and lie there longing for daylight, swearing176001:38:08.840 --> 01:38:10.520
that as soon as morning came, I'd throw that girl176101:38:10.560 --> 01:38:15.079
out of the house, but she'd brush against me. I176201:38:15.239 --> 01:38:18.279
touched my hand, and I'd been wild for her again.176301:38:20.159 --> 01:38:23.079
I guess I knew then that sooner or later I'd176401:38:23.079 --> 01:38:41.760
agreeed to nearly anything she asked or suspense.176501:38:41.920 --> 01:38:45.039
Roma Wines are bringing you as star Gregory Peck in176601:38:45.199 --> 01:38:49.399
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who has Stephen Gare in the Lonely Road, continues a178901:40:34.880 --> 01:40:38.439
narrative well calculated to keep you in suspense.179001:40:44.880 --> 01:40:52.319
More, Helen began to get on my nerves. It seemed179101:40:52.319 --> 01:40:56.560
that every day she looked older, washdown became differ I179201:40:56.600 --> 01:40:59.199
began to despise her to wander out of my way,179301:40:59.199 --> 01:41:04.000
out of Jenny's way. One morning, at breakfast, Jenny came179401:41:04.039 --> 01:41:06.039
in and stood there looking at me fixedically.179501:41:08.520 --> 01:41:12.560
Well, Jenny, what is this if you're going to town179601:41:12.600 --> 01:41:15.680
to Dames to Gare. I'd written down some things to179701:41:15.720 --> 01:41:16.199
the house.179801:41:18.039 --> 01:41:21.079
Very well, Jenny, if you're list ready to give it179901:41:21.119 --> 01:41:29.760
to me, I'll be leaving in a few minutes. I180001:41:29.840 --> 01:41:33.279
knew what she meant. She was getting impatient. A reply,180101:41:33.439 --> 01:41:36.359
which she waited for with those green eyes fixed on mine,180201:41:37.279 --> 01:41:40.640
was virtually a consent to her plan. Because for me,180301:41:40.720 --> 01:41:44.159
I wasn't sure what I meant to do, but I180401:41:44.159 --> 01:41:46.000
thought it would do no harm at least to set180501:41:46.039 --> 01:41:49.039
the ball rolling in town. I dropped into the garage180601:41:49.079 --> 01:41:52.399
and asked the mechanic to look the car over. I said,180701:41:52.399 --> 01:41:54.479
missus Gare was planning a trip to visit her family180801:41:54.520 --> 01:41:57.279
in Mississippi, but I'd have to drive her into Tucson180901:41:57.359 --> 01:41:59.880
to take the train, and that my tires went so good.181001:42:00.439 --> 01:42:02.880
After that, I stopped at the realty office. Well, I181101:42:03.199 --> 01:42:06.199
really missed the gear. You're thinking of selling that beautiful181201:42:06.199 --> 01:42:09.319
place of yours? Oh, it was just a possibility. I181301:42:09.399 --> 01:42:12.760
don't want any prospective buyers about the places yet. My181401:42:12.760 --> 01:42:14.880
wife is planning at Trip South, and I may follow181501:42:14.880 --> 01:42:19.199
her and remain there permanently. Helped such a problem place181601:42:19.199 --> 01:42:21.199
of ours takes a lot of handling that will get181701:42:21.199 --> 01:42:22.319
sped up after a while.181801:42:22.479 --> 01:42:24.680
Will there'd be no difficulty disposing of the property.181901:42:24.760 --> 01:42:27.039
Miss the gare Just let me know when you're.182001:42:26.920 --> 01:42:34.840
Ready, And meanwhile, I won't bother you with people. I182101:42:34.960 --> 01:42:38.359
drove home in a sort of trance. I wasn't shocked182201:42:38.359 --> 01:42:40.680
at what I've done, and the thing was still wide182301:42:40.680 --> 01:42:44.319
open if I wanted to back out. When I got home,182401:42:44.399 --> 01:42:47.399
I didn't want to go into the house. So far,182501:42:47.439 --> 01:42:49.359
I'd had no luck with the coyotes, so I busied182601:42:49.359 --> 01:42:52.159
myself setting the trap in another spot. While I was182701:42:52.159 --> 01:42:54.560
doing this, Jenny came out with that butcher knife again182801:42:55.199 --> 01:42:59.000
and we went into the garage. Helen was at the piano.182901:43:07.640 --> 01:43:09.960
Did you do what I told you to see?183001:43:10.239 --> 01:43:10.479
Yes?183101:43:11.159 --> 01:43:11.640
Good.183201:43:12.239 --> 01:43:13.720
I can't stand this much longer.183301:43:16.039 --> 01:43:18.079
I can't bear to be here when.183401:43:18.119 --> 01:43:23.680
Kiss me, Steve, don't worry, it'll be when you're out183501:43:23.680 --> 01:43:24.199
of the house.183601:43:27.720 --> 01:43:30.039
She didn't say anymore, just just looked at me with183701:43:30.079 --> 01:43:33.439
a twisted little smile. I gave her the sharpen knife,183801:43:33.800 --> 01:43:35.279
and she kissed me and went into the house.183901:43:36.279 --> 01:43:41.840
At dinner that night, Helen said, I had words with184001:43:41.960 --> 01:43:45.680
Jenny today, Steve. I can't have her around any longer.184101:43:46.840 --> 01:43:48.600
You can fire her tonight if you will.184201:43:48.800 --> 01:43:48.840
What.184301:43:50.000 --> 01:43:52.159
Oh, no, my dear. I offered to do it once184401:43:52.159 --> 01:43:53.479
and you wouldn't let me. Now you'll just have to184501:43:53.479 --> 01:43:54.279
do it yourself, Steve.184601:43:54.319 --> 01:43:55.680
I'm afraid of her terribly.184701:43:55.680 --> 01:43:56.960
Why is she being ugly threatening?184801:43:57.039 --> 01:43:59.359
Don't shout so, Steve, I'm not as deaf as all that,184901:44:00.560 --> 01:44:05.359
and she'll hear you. No, No, she hasn't threatened me,185001:44:05.399 --> 01:44:08.439
nothing like that. There's just something about it that fills185101:44:08.479 --> 01:44:09.079
me with horror.185201:44:09.319 --> 01:44:12.600
Well, you're imagining things, Helen. What possible reason could she185301:44:12.680 --> 01:44:13.399
have for harming me?185401:44:13.439 --> 01:44:16.159
I don't know, but this house has become a dreadful place,185501:44:16.199 --> 01:44:19.039
and I'm cold all the time, and I'm shaky, and185601:44:21.039 --> 01:44:23.520
you seem different. You look at me sometimes.185701:44:23.039 --> 01:44:23.800
As if you hate me.185801:44:24.000 --> 01:44:25.239
Oh, see here, that's not.185901:44:25.319 --> 01:44:26.680
A reason with me. If she doesn't get out of186001:44:26.680 --> 01:44:29.479
this house quick, I'll lose my mind. She's like a186101:44:29.520 --> 01:44:31.359
witch or something malignant or evil.186201:44:33.760 --> 01:44:36.039
Jenny came in just then to change the plates for dessert,186301:44:36.960 --> 01:44:39.840
and she bent over to take the platter. She held186401:44:39.880 --> 01:44:41.600
that knife in her hand in such a way that186501:44:42.399 --> 01:44:45.760
my blood ran cool for a minute after she'd gone out.186601:44:47.359 --> 01:44:50.079
You haven't noticed it, but lately I haven't taken a186701:44:50.119 --> 01:44:52.319
mouthful of food until i've seen you start to eat,186801:44:52.359 --> 01:44:53.520
for fear she'll poison me.186901:44:54.399 --> 01:44:57.319
That's ridiculous. Why shouldn't she poison me as well?187001:44:57.800 --> 01:45:01.520
Because she's crazy about you? Oh, for heaven's sake, and187101:45:01.640 --> 01:45:05.600
you're crazy about her. Don't deny it, Steve. I may187201:45:05.600 --> 01:45:07.560
be deaf, but I'm not blind.187301:45:08.119 --> 01:45:11.079
Look heron. I'm going into town for a drive. If187401:45:11.079 --> 01:45:12.960
you want to fire Jenny while I'm gone, that's all187501:45:13.039 --> 01:45:25.840
right with me. I tried not to dwell on the187601:45:25.840 --> 01:45:29.039
immediate events, but to think about the time when i'd187701:45:29.039 --> 01:45:32.279
be free to go away with Jenny. The drive into187801:45:32.319 --> 01:45:35.199
town seemed empress but at last I pulled up in187901:45:35.199 --> 01:45:49.199
front of the hotel. Even Miss gare come the papers yes,188001:45:49.279 --> 01:45:56.119
and a cigar. Maybe Fred looked around the little lobby,188101:45:57.279 --> 01:45:59.000
wasn't it wasn't a soul in there that I knew.188201:46:00.319 --> 01:46:03.319
I watched the people, one minute, feeling sorry for them188301:46:03.359 --> 01:46:07.000
because their lives were so drabbed, the next ending them188401:46:07.000 --> 01:46:11.359
because they were so secure simple. I was sitting there,188501:46:11.439 --> 01:46:15.720
staring unseeingly at the local paper when I here suddenly188601:46:15.760 --> 01:46:18.800
came out of this transfer a spell that I'd been under,188701:46:19.720 --> 01:46:23.279
shock of realization was frightful. I didn't want anything to188801:46:23.319 --> 01:46:39.720
happen to Helen. I prayed to Heaven I'd get home188901:46:39.720 --> 01:46:43.600
in time. I kept recalling similar instances of such crimes189001:46:43.640 --> 01:46:46.600
I'd read in newspapers. I'd always wondered how people could189101:46:46.640 --> 01:46:50.039
become involved in such things. Well I knew all about189201:46:50.079 --> 01:46:53.520
it now. We fooled a litter of coarse creature like189301:46:53.560 --> 01:46:55.840
that lead me into such a thing. If only I189401:46:55.840 --> 01:46:59.039
could be in time, I'd throw that girl out intovote189501:46:59.039 --> 01:47:03.359
the rest of my life to make Helen happy. Helen generous, loving,189601:47:03.399 --> 01:47:06.760
intelligent and talented. Why hadn't I thought about this before?189701:47:08.000 --> 01:47:10.720
Then I saw the car. It was park at the189801:47:10.720 --> 01:47:13.039
side of the highway, right at my turn off. I189901:47:13.119 --> 01:47:15.720
knew it was a police car. I cursed to myself190001:47:15.720 --> 01:47:18.800
and prayed, don't let them take on. I've got to190101:47:18.840 --> 01:47:19.880
be in time for Helen.190201:47:20.199 --> 01:47:20.600
Please.190301:47:21.600 --> 01:47:24.880
An officer stepped out into the road and waved his flash. Please,190401:47:24.960 --> 01:47:34.000
I said to myself, Please, Hello, what's up, officer?190501:47:34.199 --> 01:47:37.199
Oh, looking for a stolen car, but not a baby190601:47:37.239 --> 01:47:37.760
like that one?190701:47:38.640 --> 01:47:39.720
A local car wasn't.190801:47:39.920 --> 01:47:42.479
Yeah, hey, you better let me have a look at190901:47:42.520 --> 01:47:43.479
your operator's card.191001:47:43.600 --> 01:47:46.039
My friend, you must have been doing about eighty along191101:47:46.079 --> 01:47:46.560
that stretch.191201:47:46.640 --> 01:47:50.800
Oh, sure, here, your officer. Sorry, I was overdoing it.191301:47:50.880 --> 01:47:53.399
I was just in town, and I guess I stayed191401:47:53.399 --> 01:47:55.800
longer than I intended. My wife's alone in the house191501:47:55.800 --> 01:47:59.039
and not very well, and I was in a hurry191601:47:59.079 --> 01:48:02.399
to get home. You lived down this road, that's right.191701:48:03.600 --> 01:48:06.279
Say maybe that car could have got down in there.191801:48:06.359 --> 01:48:10.000
I think I'll no, no, no, I I mean I I191901:48:10.039 --> 01:48:10.760
would have seen it.192001:48:12.520 --> 01:48:15.800
Okay, mister Gaere, just take it easy, will you?192101:48:16.159 --> 01:48:43.560
Certainly? We'll offser and thanks. I didn't know what to do.192201:48:44.840 --> 01:48:47.800
I stood there in the doorway looking up. There was192301:48:47.840 --> 01:48:50.880
a light upstairs in the window of our bedroom. Threw192401:48:50.920 --> 01:48:52.840
a radiance on the screen door and burned with a192501:48:53.359 --> 01:48:55.960
steady glow, as if it if it had been burning192601:48:56.000 --> 01:48:58.520
like that for ages, as if it had witnessed a192701:48:58.600 --> 01:49:02.079
scene of horror and brooded over it, keeping the secret192801:49:02.159 --> 01:49:06.920
to itself. When I started finally for the house, my192901:49:07.000 --> 01:49:11.359
legs were so stiff, like I could scarcely walk. I193001:49:11.399 --> 01:49:14.760
stayed off the gravel, walking on the grass, and went193101:49:14.800 --> 01:49:26.680
in the back door. There wasn't a sound. I tiptoed193201:49:26.680 --> 01:49:30.279
through the kitchen, through the dining room, across the hall.193301:49:31.279 --> 01:49:33.279
Then I could see the light from that lamp spilling193401:49:33.319 --> 01:49:35.079
down the stairway at the far end of the dark193501:49:35.079 --> 01:49:39.199
living room. My heart thump so loud I could hear it.193601:49:39.880 --> 01:49:43.000
I wanted to call out, but I didn't dare whom193701:49:43.000 --> 01:49:47.560
would I call. Perhaps everything was all right, Perhaps Helen193801:49:47.640 --> 01:49:50.319
was up there in bed, How I prayed she was.193901:49:51.520 --> 01:49:53.880
I hesitated on the threshold, thought him glancing in the194001:49:53.920 --> 01:49:58.239
Jenny's room. But that would have looked queer if nothing194101:49:58.279 --> 01:50:04.000
had happened. I st over the threshold. It was that trap,194201:50:04.199 --> 01:50:06.279
that bear trap. Somebody had placed it there ready for me.194301:50:06.720 --> 01:50:10.560
Who he was excruciating? I wrenched him two little.194401:50:10.359 --> 01:50:13.920
Things, Helen, Jenny, Somebody come and give me a.194501:50:13.960 --> 01:50:23.439
Hair oh, oh, oh.194601:50:21.960 --> 01:50:25.000
Who is it? Oh help me, I'll be hurry.194701:50:25.039 --> 01:50:25.880
I'm caught in this trap.194801:50:26.319 --> 01:50:27.680
Get the hammer, flyers anything.194901:50:28.000 --> 01:50:32.359
Oh oh.195001:50:32.479 --> 01:50:34.199
She reached the bottom of the stairs and snapped on195101:50:34.239 --> 01:50:38.600
the lights. I've never seen a sight in my life.195201:50:39.920 --> 01:50:43.439
It was blood all over the place, on the wallpaper,195301:50:43.720 --> 01:50:48.520
the white paint. Then I saw Jenny lying on the195401:50:48.560 --> 01:50:52.039
floor in a crumpled heap, her long braids soaking in195501:50:53.880 --> 01:50:57.359
Helen's dress. Her hands and face were spattered with it.195601:50:58.039 --> 01:51:01.279
Her hair was dishevel her eye there like pinpoints of fire,195701:51:02.279 --> 01:51:04.000
and against her side I could see the gleam of195801:51:04.039 --> 01:51:09.039
that long, sharp knife. She was coming slowly towards me. Oh,195901:51:09.079 --> 01:51:12.560
you were beautifully caught Jenny and I. She with a knife,196001:51:12.840 --> 01:51:18.760
I with my trap. Kelen looked like that. What's happened?196101:51:19.960 --> 01:51:24.279
You plan this together, you two, but it didn't turn196201:51:24.319 --> 01:51:25.760
out just as you thought it might.196301:51:25.920 --> 01:51:27.800
Helen. Please don't look at me like that.196401:51:29.279 --> 01:51:30.399
Well there she is.196501:51:31.039 --> 01:51:31.720
Look at her.196601:51:32.319 --> 01:51:34.239
If I hadn't been ready for I'd be lying in196701:51:34.279 --> 01:51:36.880
her place, and you'd be glad, wouldn't you steal?196801:51:37.000 --> 01:51:37.199
No?196901:51:37.199 --> 01:51:40.600
No, Helen, helenyone stayed up that knife for heaven. Say,197001:51:40.640 --> 01:51:44.119
can listen to me. She came closer. I made a197101:51:44.159 --> 01:51:46.600
lunch for her. With the grip of that steel about197201:51:46.640 --> 01:51:49.000
my lady threw me off balance and I fell forward.197301:51:49.319 --> 01:51:50.039
She sprang on me.197401:51:50.439 --> 01:51:52.000
I pot her off, but that knife came at me197501:51:52.159 --> 01:51:56.319
face brooke everywhere like flashes of lady Helen, don't do197601:51:56.439 --> 01:51:56.840
this to me.197701:51:57.399 --> 01:51:58.479
I swear. I came back.197801:52:00.319 --> 01:52:17.920
No, no, lieutenant, please, car arrived in time to save197901:52:17.960 --> 01:52:22.840
my life, like I wish they uld have finished the198001:52:23.000 --> 01:52:25.359
job then in there.198101:52:28.079 --> 01:52:34.359
Okay, Gear, okay, thanks, I'll send the doc right in198201:52:34.800 --> 01:52:39.960
and Gere. I wouldn't worry too much about Helen. I198301:52:40.000 --> 01:52:40.920
think she'll be all right.198401:53:00.119 --> 01:53:04.840
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Well, my dear, it is getting very very late. I200301:54:29.560 --> 01:54:36.279
appreciate your patience with this old man. Or what's that? Well, no,200401:54:36.439 --> 01:54:44.960
it won't. It won't be much longer. I can tell you. You200501:54:43.199 --> 01:54:51.119
see how I needed this this evening, a little calm,200601:54:51.199 --> 01:54:59.479
quiet with a friend, someone to acknowledge that I exist200701:54:59.479 --> 01:55:06.560
at all, something I often debate privately. I think we're200801:55:06.600 --> 01:55:14.239
all just dreaming and wondering, wondering and dreaming, hoping I200901:55:14.319 --> 01:55:29.680
won't die alone.201001:55:30.359 --> 01:55:41.920
Virtual presents the mysterious Traveler. This is the mysterious Traveler201101:55:42.600 --> 01:55:45.560
inviting you to join me on another journey into the201201:55:45.560 --> 01:55:48.920
realm of the strange and the terrifying. I hope you201301:55:48.960 --> 01:55:51.920
will enjoy the trip, and it will trill you a201401:55:51.920 --> 01:55:55.880
little and chill you a little. So settle back, get201501:55:55.880 --> 01:55:59.039
a good rip on your nerves, and be comfortable if201601:55:59.079 --> 01:55:59.560
you can.201701:56:00.399 --> 01:56:02.039
As you hear the story I call.201801:56:03.840 --> 01:56:19.479
I Won't die alone. Our story begins in nineteen thirty one.201901:56:20.680 --> 01:56:23.520
Two young men are speeding along in a car on202001:56:23.600 --> 01:56:26.640
a lonely West Virginia road at seventy miles an hour.202101:56:27.359 --> 01:56:29.640
There's a tight, tense look on the face of the driver,202201:56:29.800 --> 01:56:32.760
Steve Martin, as he takes the curves on the road202301:56:32.800 --> 01:56:38.199
without slowing down. His companion, Chuck Williams, wipes the perspiration202401:56:38.279 --> 01:56:41.920
from his face with trembling hands. He turns and watches202501:56:41.960 --> 01:56:45.880
the road behind fearfully now and then glancing at Steve's202601:56:45.880 --> 01:56:47.279
face reassurance.202701:56:49.239 --> 01:56:50.720
Turn on the radio, Chuck, Let's see if they got202801:56:50.760 --> 01:56:54.359
an alarm out yet. Yeah, okay, oh well, what do202901:56:54.359 --> 01:56:57.039
you think of Chances are, Steve hard to say It203001:56:57.079 --> 01:56:59.079
all depends on how fast the copspread.203101:56:58.600 --> 01:57:03.159
The word Man robbed the Third National Bank of Louisbourg203201:57:03.479 --> 01:57:06.319
of over a quarter of a million dollars shortly before203301:57:06.359 --> 01:57:10.680
closing time. Word has just been received that the two203401:57:10.800 --> 01:57:14.319
bank robbers are now driving east on Highway six.203501:57:14.199 --> 01:57:16.800
B towards the Allegheny Mountains.203601:57:17.159 --> 01:57:17.800
That's not good.203701:57:18.359 --> 01:57:22.359
State Police Car nine take up position adjunction of Highway203801:57:22.359 --> 01:57:24.239
eleven A and River Road.203901:57:24.880 --> 01:57:25.680
They moving fast.204001:57:25.720 --> 01:57:29.720
Eight Police Car ten take up position adjunction of Highway204101:57:29.880 --> 01:57:31.920
three and Highway six B.204201:57:32.560 --> 01:57:33.920
Steve, Highway six B.204301:57:34.079 --> 01:57:34.600
We're on it.204401:57:34.680 --> 01:57:38.319
Yeah, that is all. Stand by for further orders.204501:57:38.560 --> 01:57:40.840
Steve. You gotta turn back. We're head for trap. Take204601:57:40.880 --> 01:57:43.800
it easy, will you. There's still a chance. Twenty miles ahead,204701:57:43.800 --> 01:57:46.000
there's a small dirt road, little detourse right around them.204801:57:46.039 --> 01:57:49.239
Twenty miles. Will never make it, Steve. Isn't there any204901:57:49.239 --> 01:57:50.399
other road we can turn off on?205001:57:50.760 --> 01:57:50.800
No?205101:57:51.039 --> 01:57:53.199
Are you sure I was born in these parts? I205201:57:53.199 --> 01:57:54.199
know we're being into the country.205301:57:55.800 --> 01:57:56.079
Steve.205401:57:56.119 --> 01:57:58.880
Let's setch the Carr cutuit the mountains on foot. Are205501:57:58.920 --> 01:58:01.680
you crazy? It's forty miles in the mountains. We never205601:58:01.720 --> 01:58:03.800
make it walking. I gotta keep driving it so I'll205701:58:03.800 --> 01:58:05.640
only t run right into that trap. I tell you,205801:58:05.720 --> 01:58:08.720
they'll be waiting with tommy guns. We'll beat dead pigeons. Okay,205901:58:08.760 --> 01:58:12.119
then we'll be dead pigeons. I give up my shadow,206001:58:12.119 --> 01:58:14.600
all right out, I'll be out of this. You gotta206101:58:14.640 --> 01:58:16.279
get me out of this, Dave, you got it all206201:58:16.359 --> 01:58:20.079
shut up. Look, Steve, if you want to let me206301:58:20.119 --> 01:58:21.680
out of the car and keep on gunning yourself, I206401:58:21.720 --> 01:58:24.039
might be able to get away. The cops would be206501:58:24.079 --> 01:58:25.720
so busy chasing you. I'd be able to give him206601:58:25.760 --> 01:58:29.359
this slab you lovesy rat. No look at him? My way, Steve,206701:58:29.520 --> 01:58:31.880
Do I no use both? I getting caught. That don't206801:58:31.920 --> 01:58:34.119
make sense. Great when it comes to share on the door,206901:58:34.159 --> 01:58:36.199
but when the heats on you one out. Yeah, but207001:58:36.199 --> 01:58:39.399
but I'm willing to pay for you can keep my207101:58:39.439 --> 01:58:40.239
share at a bank call.207201:58:40.319 --> 01:58:41.039
Now that's fair enough.207301:58:41.079 --> 01:58:44.720
Painted Huh, I had a good that don't do me if207401:58:44.720 --> 01:58:46.359
I get caught. But I'm sick of hearing you whine.207501:58:47.239 --> 01:58:49.359
All right, it's it to you if I get through207601:58:49.399 --> 01:58:53.560
the doors, all mine. If I don't, why I don't, thanks, Stave. Thanks,207701:58:53.600 --> 01:58:57.880
I'll never forget this. I want to get out. Which uh?207801:58:57.920 --> 01:58:59.920
Which way do I go? Steve? Head of coross the207901:59:00.000 --> 01:59:02.159
field until you hit a small stream, then head upstream208001:59:02.159 --> 01:59:04.680
for about six miles. There's a railroad water tower there.208101:59:04.720 --> 01:59:07.479
You want to be able to hop a freight. Thanks Steve,208201:59:08.199 --> 01:59:28.560
rob Yeah, so long, Chuck, whoa, whoa?208301:59:29.079 --> 01:59:29.640
Where are you.208401:59:33.079 --> 01:59:35.960
Show up for the paper they got Steeve?208501:59:36.359 --> 01:59:40.720
Yeah, and let me see that paper says here. They208601:59:40.760 --> 01:59:44.520
caught him yesterday afternoon at five hour after I left him?208701:59:44.560 --> 01:59:45.000
What you do?208801:59:45.159 --> 01:59:46.039
Run out on him?208901:59:46.239 --> 01:59:46.279
No?209001:59:46.439 --> 01:59:49.880
I didn't run out on him, just right? And smart?209101:59:50.760 --> 01:59:51.920
What are you looking at me like that?209201:59:52.000 --> 01:59:52.039
For?209301:59:52.199 --> 01:59:54.239
It wasn't no sense in both that being caught, was it?209401:59:54.319 --> 01:59:54.439
No?209501:59:54.560 --> 01:59:56.279
I guess not? Where's the dough?209601:59:56.520 --> 01:59:56.680
What?209701:59:56.800 --> 01:59:57.000
Though?209801:59:57.439 --> 01:59:59.359
But two hundred and fifty four grand you got in209901:59:59.399 --> 01:59:59.920
the bank shop?210002:00:00.319 --> 02:00:01.000
Had that though?210102:00:01.399 --> 02:00:01.479
What?210202:00:03.199 --> 02:00:04.920
Look what it says there in the paper?210302:00:05.600 --> 02:00:05.760
Oh?210402:00:05.760 --> 02:00:06.439
I had read it.210502:00:07.880 --> 02:00:12.760
Martin when captured, though police, he knew nothing about the210602:00:12.840 --> 02:00:18.199
stolen bank money. Police believed that Martin's unknown companion escaped210702:00:18.239 --> 02:00:20.600
with the loot. But I didn't fly it didn't. Did210802:00:20.600 --> 02:00:22.039
he've had that though? When I left him?210902:00:22.039 --> 02:00:22.159
Then?211002:00:22.199 --> 02:00:24.760
Why didn't the police find it when they caught him?211102:00:25.000 --> 02:00:28.560
There's only one answer. Steve stopped and hit the dough211202:00:28.640 --> 02:00:29.960
someplace before they got him.211302:00:30.800 --> 02:00:32.000
Yeah, let's see it.211402:00:33.239 --> 02:00:35.319
He's too smart to risky and caught and having all211502:00:35.319 --> 02:00:38.319
that dough taken away from him.211602:00:38.520 --> 02:00:51.039
Poor guy to probably throw the book at him.211702:00:51.439 --> 02:00:53.479
Have been so long? Why what happened at the trial?211802:00:54.039 --> 02:00:55.640
They give him twenty five years?211902:00:55.920 --> 02:01:01.119
Twenty five years? How did he take it? He didn't212002:01:01.199 --> 02:01:04.680
bat any Maybe you'll think things over and squeal on.212102:01:04.720 --> 02:01:06.079
You Stop sniffling, will you?212202:01:07.279 --> 02:01:08.079
He's just the kind of.212302:01:08.039 --> 02:01:09.079
Guy to do anything like that.212402:01:09.880 --> 02:01:13.640
Yeah, sure, why should he want to squeal on me? Besides,212502:01:13.640 --> 02:01:15.199
if he did, the cuts would find out that I212602:01:15.199 --> 02:01:17.520
didn't have the bank though that it's stable, got it?212702:01:18.159 --> 02:01:22.479
He wouldn't want that to happen. Sure, why we could212802:01:22.479 --> 02:01:24.760
be heavy. He'll be on in eighteen or nineteen years212902:01:25.399 --> 02:01:27.880
and you'll have all that dow Head'd.213002:01:27.319 --> 02:01:29.159
Rather be eighteen or nineteen years?213102:01:29.199 --> 02:01:29.279
Not?213202:01:31.600 --> 02:01:34.199
Well, it's a nice no on you chuck.213302:01:34.720 --> 02:01:37.319
Oh wait, I'm gonna flow, don't go? What why not?213402:01:37.479 --> 02:01:40.800
Stick around? Would make a good tame. We don't need Steve,213502:01:41.039 --> 02:01:42.119
we don't.213602:01:43.279 --> 02:01:46.880
And just what would I get sticking around? You haven't213702:01:46.880 --> 02:01:50.560
got brain, muscle or dough. What's the attraction?213802:01:50.760 --> 02:01:53.960
Listen? Flow, stick with me and I'll get dough. I've213902:01:54.000 --> 02:01:55.600
always gotten what I wanted in the act.214002:01:55.680 --> 02:01:58.560
Without Steve, you haven't got a chance. He had all214102:01:58.560 --> 02:01:59.760
the brains, all the guts.214202:02:00.039 --> 02:02:02.600
Yeah, and where did it get him? You notice I214302:02:02.640 --> 02:02:06.560
ain't behind boys, and I'll get that big dough yeat.214402:02:06.520 --> 02:02:10.520
Three years when you do look me up.214502:02:16.760 --> 02:02:21.720
Seventeen years first seventeen years in which earth shaking events214602:02:21.760 --> 02:02:26.239
took place. With the passing of time, Steve Martin became214702:02:26.359 --> 02:02:28.520
just a memory to Chuck Williams and Flow de Val.214802:02:29.640 --> 02:02:33.199
During the thirties, Chuck struggled desperately to make money and214902:02:33.239 --> 02:02:38.560
a half dozen petty rackets, but failed miserably. However, with215002:02:38.640 --> 02:02:41.960
the coming of the war, his luck changed, and in215102:02:41.960 --> 02:02:44.960
the years that followed he thrived on the black market,215202:02:45.520 --> 02:02:48.119
and with his new found wealth, he was able to215302:02:48.159 --> 02:02:53.319
win Flow Dupa nineteen forty eight found Chuck Williams a happy,215402:02:53.720 --> 02:02:56.880
prosperous citizen without care in the world.215502:02:58.880 --> 02:03:01.159
How many times have I told you to knock before215602:03:01.199 --> 02:03:02.439
you committed its?215702:03:02.600 --> 02:03:06.399
Napoleon say that big shot stuff your stooges.215802:03:08.079 --> 02:03:10.479
Save over Flow. I guess that's what I like it215902:03:10.520 --> 02:03:11.359
about you. Baby.216002:03:11.439 --> 02:03:15.960
Now you've got that superior look on your face again.216102:03:16.000 --> 02:03:17.399
Who are you planning a knife now.216202:03:18.760 --> 02:03:22.119
Just got word that our old pal Steve, it's getting216302:03:22.119 --> 02:03:27.199
out of prison tomorrow, Steve Martin one and only in216402:03:27.359 --> 02:03:30.079
seventeen years now, it's a long time.216502:03:30.520 --> 02:03:31.359
Yeah.216602:03:31.640 --> 02:03:33.880
I think I'll drive down to the prison, be there216702:03:33.920 --> 02:03:35.119
when Steve gets out.216802:03:35.079 --> 02:03:37.960
Before I'm bothered a write or visit him.216902:03:38.000 --> 02:03:41.880
Since the day was sent up, I know, but as217002:03:41.920 --> 02:03:44.960
a matter of unfinished business between the two of us,217102:03:45.039 --> 02:03:49.600
unfinished business, yeah, be exact, two hundred and fifty four grand.217202:03:50.640 --> 02:03:52.840
I mean, you're going after that dough that Steve has217302:03:52.920 --> 02:03:53.520
dashed away.217402:03:53.840 --> 02:03:54.880
That's just what I mean.217502:03:55.159 --> 02:03:56.800
But you gave up your share of that bank the217602:03:56.800 --> 02:03:58.279
other day, you and Steve separated.217702:03:58.760 --> 02:04:00.000
Bank can always change his.217802:04:00.439 --> 02:04:03.359
Chuck lea Steve alone, that money, by rights is here.217902:04:03.479 --> 02:04:06.760
He paid seventeen years for its sor you don't need it.218002:04:06.840 --> 02:04:08.079
You got more dough than that already.218102:04:08.159 --> 02:04:10.159
Maybe so, but that isn't gonna stop me from getting218202:04:10.159 --> 02:04:12.840
that two hundred and fifty four grand. And you ought218302:04:12.840 --> 02:04:14.720
to know by this time. I always get what I218402:04:14.760 --> 02:04:31.279
go after. It gets you then, baby, huh. Remember baby,218502:04:31.319 --> 02:04:33.399
when those gates open and Steve comes out, let me218602:04:33.479 --> 02:04:34.039
do the talk.218702:04:34.199 --> 02:04:34.840
Don't worry.218802:04:34.960 --> 02:04:37.920
I will I don't want any part of this duty. Relaxed, baby,218902:04:38.000 --> 02:04:40.560
Relax when I get that to undred fifty four Jesus219002:04:40.640 --> 02:04:44.279
by a fancy diamond, Bryce, So then you'll feel better. Hey, boss,219102:04:44.720 --> 02:04:45.640
they're opening the gate.219202:04:46.159 --> 02:04:46.640
Is that him?219302:04:47.760 --> 02:04:50.720
No, Steve is twice as big as that guy, Chuck,219402:04:51.640 --> 02:04:56.359
That is key. Can't be that guy looks at least six.219502:04:57.680 --> 02:05:03.439
You're right, it is Steve staying a car. Hey, Steve,219602:05:04.520 --> 02:05:07.640
Steve over here. What's the matter. Don't you remember the219702:05:07.720 --> 02:05:14.319
old pole? Hello, Chuck. Well, I didn't recognize you at first.219802:05:14.399 --> 02:05:17.920
Well here, pow, I guess I'm kind of surprised to219902:05:17.960 --> 02:05:20.239
see you after all these she is, Well, I've been220002:05:20.279 --> 02:05:22.399
living in South America most of the time, only got220102:05:22.479 --> 02:05:24.800
back a year ago. I know I should have written you,220202:05:24.920 --> 02:05:27.399
but I never wasn't any good at pack.220302:05:28.760 --> 02:05:30.800
Boy. Yeah, sure, smell, it's better out here.220402:05:30.880 --> 02:05:32.359
Come on, come on, let's get in my car. I220502:05:32.439 --> 02:05:34.960
got a surprise for you. I surprised. Yeah. Do you220602:05:35.039 --> 02:05:36.159
remember flow through Bold?220702:05:36.199 --> 02:05:37.479
Don't you there?220802:05:37.560 --> 02:05:37.880
She is?220902:05:38.279 --> 02:05:39.520
Hello?221002:05:39.720 --> 02:05:43.199
Flow it's nice seeing you again. Come on, Steve, get in.221102:05:43.279 --> 02:05:46.479
We're driving you at a time. Thanks, Chuck. Okay, we'll221202:05:46.520 --> 02:05:53.399
expect the time, right, boss, you don't look well, it's221302:05:54.000 --> 02:05:58.239
just this prison parlor flow in seventeen years. Well that's221402:05:58.279 --> 02:06:01.159
all behind you. Now, Steve, a few weeks of good221502:06:01.239 --> 02:06:03.279
rest and good food, he'll be.221602:06:03.359 --> 02:06:03.880
A no man.221702:06:04.319 --> 02:06:06.840
I'd like to believe that. Just take my word for it.221802:06:06.920 --> 02:06:11.720
I'm never raw. Oh you seem to have done all right, Chuck. Yeah,221902:06:11.840 --> 02:06:15.359
not bad. I own a nightclub at Bowling Alley, used222002:06:15.439 --> 02:06:19.640
car business, a couple of apartment houses. I can't complain.222102:06:20.119 --> 02:06:22.119
I'm glad to hear it. I'm not forgetting an old222202:06:22.199 --> 02:06:24.920
pile either. Now flowing me wants you to come and222302:06:25.000 --> 02:06:27.439
stay with us until you get on your feet. You know,222402:06:27.600 --> 02:06:30.399
a house. Guess I'd rather not, Chuck. I don't want222502:06:30.399 --> 02:06:33.720
to put you out put me out. Huh. Listen to222602:06:33.800 --> 02:06:38.399
the guy. Well, we got sweet servants everything, Steve, I222702:06:38.560 --> 02:06:40.199
just won't take no for an answer.222802:06:44.760 --> 02:06:48.439
A week past, then two weeks during which Steve Martin222902:06:48.520 --> 02:06:50.920
did little other than he eat and sleep and take223002:06:51.039 --> 02:06:54.479
long walks. Chuck Williams played the role of the gracious223102:06:54.560 --> 02:06:57.720
host of perfection, and he's guests like nothing in the223202:06:57.800 --> 02:07:00.800
way of comfort, so consumed and was Chuck with his223302:07:00.920 --> 02:07:04.479
guest welfare that he always knew exactly where Steve was223402:07:05.319 --> 02:07:10.399
and what he was doing. And one day, as Chuck223502:07:10.479 --> 02:07:13.600
had known it would happen, Steve came into his office223602:07:13.920 --> 02:07:15.159
for a private chance.223702:07:16.199 --> 02:07:19.840
Hey, is he Chuck? No, No, I have a say Steve. Thanks,223802:07:21.079 --> 02:07:24.520
that's on your mind? Well, while I was doing time,223902:07:24.600 --> 02:07:26.479
my old man died and left me a small farm224002:07:26.520 --> 02:07:28.840
in West Virginia. That's where I was born and raised.224102:07:28.840 --> 02:07:32.159
You know, yeah, I remember you're telling me, Well, I'm224202:07:32.199 --> 02:07:34.079
going back to the old farmhouse and settled down there224302:07:34.119 --> 02:07:34.520
for a while.224402:07:35.279 --> 02:07:35.760
I'd see.224502:07:36.680 --> 02:07:40.880
Well anything you say, Steve, All right, let's keep in touch. Yeah, sure,224602:07:40.960 --> 02:07:43.600
think Jock. Why an't you thinking of leaving tomorrow morning?224702:07:43.880 --> 02:07:46.159
Well that's soon. Huh. Well we'll have to have a224802:07:46.199 --> 02:07:49.920
little farewell party tonight. Okay, yeah fine, I'll see you later,224902:07:50.079 --> 02:07:59.479
right yeah yeah, Baelex, come in here.225002:08:00.039 --> 02:08:00.439
What's up?225102:08:00.479 --> 02:08:03.159
Bus? I passed Steve.225202:08:03.199 --> 02:08:05.039
If he's getting ready to make his move.225302:08:05.199 --> 02:08:07.079
Yess, he can't wait no longer to get his hands225402:08:07.119 --> 02:08:07.600
on that dough.225502:08:07.840 --> 02:08:10.640
Looks that way. He's leaving tomorrow morning for a small farm.225602:08:10.680 --> 02:08:13.399
He's got it in West Virginia, West Virginia. Huh yeah,225702:08:14.279 --> 02:08:16.439
farmhouse can't be more than thirty or forty miles from225802:08:16.439 --> 02:08:17.479
where he stashed the dough.225902:08:17.600 --> 02:08:19.239
Is there any chance he might have hitting it on226002:08:19.319 --> 02:08:19.680
the farm?226102:08:21.399 --> 02:08:24.000
CAP's caught him before he got that far. He hit226202:08:24.039 --> 02:08:25.880
that dough someplace off Highway six B.226302:08:26.479 --> 02:08:28.159
How many of the boys you want me to take along?226402:08:28.960 --> 02:08:32.520
Take four? I don't want any slip ups. Watch him226502:08:32.600 --> 02:08:35.279
day and night and without being seen. Just leave it226602:08:35.359 --> 02:08:36.960
to me sooner or letter. He'll lead you to the226702:08:37.079 --> 02:08:39.000
dough when he does.226802:08:39.960 --> 02:08:40.760
But you know what to do.226902:08:41.079 --> 02:08:43.119
Yeah, okay, then you better start packing.227002:08:48.239 --> 02:08:50.680
The next morning, when Steve Martin took a train for227102:08:50.800 --> 02:08:55.640
West Virginia, two very inconspicuous men were seated at the227202:08:55.720 --> 02:08:58.600
other end of the coach he was riding, and they227302:08:58.680 --> 02:09:00.560
watched him get off the train at an all but227402:09:00.760 --> 02:09:04.239
deserted station in West Virginia. It made no move to227502:09:04.319 --> 02:09:08.000
follow him. As the train started off, Steve hired a227602:09:08.079 --> 02:09:10.479
car to take him to the farm he'd inherited. It227702:09:10.640 --> 02:09:15.000
was dusk when he finally reached the deserted farmhouse on227802:09:15.079 --> 02:09:18.479
a heavily wooded hill one hundred yards away. Felix and227902:09:18.560 --> 02:09:22.520
a companion watched through field glasses as Steve lit a228002:09:22.560 --> 02:09:24.840
fire in the farmhouse and prepared to.228102:09:25.039 --> 02:09:28.880
Settle down for the night. In the days and nights228202:09:28.960 --> 02:09:32.399
that followed, Felix and his men took turns watching Steve228302:09:32.479 --> 02:09:36.920
Martin's every action, and every evening, Felix would phone Chuck228402:09:36.960 --> 02:09:40.319
Williams and report that Steve hadn't made a move as yet.228502:09:43.159 --> 02:09:45.159
How many times have I told you that? Not before228602:09:45.239 --> 02:09:47.720
coming into this office, Napoleon?228702:09:48.680 --> 02:09:49.960
Are things working out?228802:09:50.319 --> 02:09:52.279
I told you to lay off that Napoleon stuff. I228902:09:52.319 --> 02:09:55.119
don't like it. I must be Felix.229002:09:55.720 --> 02:09:58.159
Hello, Hello, push Felix.229102:09:58.319 --> 02:09:59.119
Well, what's happening?229202:10:00.119 --> 02:10:02.520
He still hasn't made a move. All he does is229302:10:02.600 --> 02:10:03.279
fish and read.229402:10:03.680 --> 02:10:04.600
What about visitors?229502:10:04.800 --> 02:10:06.760
He hasn't seen any one since the day he got here.229602:10:07.119 --> 02:10:08.600
Are you sure he didn't give me the slip during229702:10:08.640 --> 02:10:09.560
the night and get the dough?229802:10:09.720 --> 02:10:11.960
Got a chance? I got two boys watching the house229902:10:11.960 --> 02:10:12.319
at night.230002:10:12.520 --> 02:10:14.199
Maybe he knows he's been watched, and that's why he230102:10:14.239 --> 02:10:15.079
hasn't tried anything.230202:10:15.199 --> 02:10:17.399
I bet my last buck he hasn't spotted us.230302:10:17.560 --> 02:10:17.720
Uh.230402:10:18.520 --> 02:10:21.359
Nothing ever goes right unless I'm running the show. I'm230502:10:21.439 --> 02:10:24.880
leaving tonight for West Virginia. I'll see you in the morning, okay, Boss,230602:10:25.239 --> 02:10:37.960
I'll be expecting you. That's a farmhouse down their boss.230702:10:38.399 --> 02:10:40.399
Look through the field glasses, you can see it just230802:10:40.479 --> 02:10:41.880
like he was standing in the front.230902:10:41.760 --> 02:10:45.239
Yard, sitting on the porch reading.231002:10:45.600 --> 02:10:47.920
Yeah, reading and fishing is all he does.231102:10:48.199 --> 02:10:50.279
He hasn't been won a couple of hundred yards away231202:10:50.279 --> 02:10:51.279
from the house since he got here.231302:10:51.359 --> 02:10:53.000
He must have spotted you. That must be the reason231402:10:53.039 --> 02:10:54.920
he hasn't made a move. How could he have spotted us?231502:10:54.920 --> 02:10:56.239
You can see how careful we've been.231602:10:57.079 --> 02:11:01.199
Oh, I'll wait a couple more days, see what happens.231702:11:01.920 --> 02:11:05.159
He doesn't move soon, I have to think of something else.231802:11:10.439 --> 02:11:14.000
Leaving Felix to continue his watch over the farmhouse, Chuck231902:11:14.159 --> 02:11:16.880
returned to the village and registered at the village. In232002:11:18.119 --> 02:11:22.039
the hours that followed dragged interminably, and the hatred that232102:11:22.159 --> 02:11:25.439
Chuck felt that Steve Martin grew with each passing hour.232202:11:26.840 --> 02:11:30.600
In the evening, Felix drove into the village and reported232302:11:30.640 --> 02:11:35.920
that nothing new what occurred. Four more proofless days went by.232402:11:37.119 --> 02:11:39.760
Chuck Williams was unable to contain his fury any longer.232502:11:40.399 --> 02:11:42.199
He got into his car and drove to within a232602:11:42.279 --> 02:11:45.199
half mile of the farmhouse, then walked the rest of232702:11:45.239 --> 02:11:46.960
the way to where Felix and his men.232802:11:46.960 --> 02:11:51.119
Were hidden on the hill. Of course, what are you232902:11:51.199 --> 02:11:51.520
doing here?233002:11:51.600 --> 02:11:54.319
I got tired of waiting. You better get down. Boss233102:11:54.359 --> 02:11:57.159
is Steve Martin's labels Spodger. Forget that. We're through playing233202:11:57.199 --> 02:11:58.880
a waiting game. We're gonna move in on him.233302:11:59.039 --> 02:11:59.319
Move in.233402:11:59.600 --> 02:12:02.119
Yeah, maybe you have to a light workout. My pal233502:12:02.279 --> 02:12:04.439
Steve will be willing to tell me where he stashed233602:12:04.479 --> 02:12:04.840
the dough.233702:12:05.000 --> 02:12:07.079
Ah, that sounds more like it. I never did go233802:12:07.199 --> 02:12:08.239
for this cat and mouse game.233902:12:08.279 --> 02:12:10.520
Before we're through with him, he'll be begging to tell234002:12:10.600 --> 02:12:27.600
us what he knows. Hello, Steve, I lonesome for you,234102:12:28.439 --> 02:12:31.479
excited to pay your call. I thought you'd get around234202:12:31.520 --> 02:12:33.920
to it sooner or later. Don't sound very glad to234302:12:33.960 --> 02:12:36.319
see me. It's a fine way to act. Or the234402:12:36.399 --> 02:12:39.640
pallor as your host for the last three weeks. Did234502:12:39.760 --> 02:12:40.520
I treat you right?234602:12:40.960 --> 02:12:41.159
Yeah?234702:12:42.039 --> 02:12:43.680
That's what made me figure I hadn't seen the last234802:12:43.680 --> 02:12:47.079
of you. What do you want? Give you one guess.234902:12:48.199 --> 02:12:50.640
I haven't got it. I know you haven't, but you235002:12:50.760 --> 02:12:53.239
know where it is. So what that money belongs to me,235102:12:53.359 --> 02:12:56.640
not you. That's where you're wrong, Carl. That doe belongs235202:12:56.680 --> 02:12:59.199
to the guy strong enough to get it, that's me,235302:13:00.000 --> 02:13:01.159
and then you go ahead and get it. Should I235402:13:01.199 --> 02:13:04.239
let him have a boss? That's not up to me, Felix,235502:13:04.359 --> 02:13:05.479
that's up to Steve.235602:13:06.800 --> 02:13:07.359
Bro Pal.235702:13:08.079 --> 02:13:11.560
You're gonna dig up that dough for me? No, you're235802:13:11.600 --> 02:13:14.359
not as smart as he used to be. You know,235902:13:14.479 --> 02:13:16.439
I'll get what I want in the end. I wouldn't236002:13:16.439 --> 02:13:18.760
cold it it. Okay, Felix, I get stepup to you236102:13:18.920 --> 02:13:19.359
and slim.236202:13:19.520 --> 02:13:21.920
Nah, he'll talk, won't you?236302:13:22.000 --> 02:13:22.279
Pal?236402:13:26.880 --> 02:13:27.479
That said? Pal?236502:13:28.560 --> 02:13:31.439
I tried getting on your feet here. Let me help you.236602:13:43.039 --> 02:13:43.399
How is he?236702:13:43.479 --> 02:13:46.560
Felix so cold? Boss? You always did have a step236802:13:46.720 --> 02:13:50.560
in streak. Thinking his condition, he couldn't take all that punishment.236902:13:50.319 --> 02:13:50.920
Give him any more.237002:13:50.960 --> 02:13:51.920
He's liable to kick off.237102:13:52.239 --> 02:13:55.079
Sure, Yeah, he's already got a couple of busted ribs.237202:13:54.840 --> 02:13:56.840
And i'd beating around the head didn't help him.237302:13:56.840 --> 02:13:58.199
He gotta make him talk. Wait, got it?237402:13:58.479 --> 02:13:59.760
You have to figure out some other ways.237502:14:00.199 --> 02:14:05.760
Water in his face? Okay, come to Boss, wrap him237602:14:05.840 --> 02:14:10.800
up in that chair. Come on you there, Steve. Can237702:14:10.880 --> 02:14:11.239
you hear me?237802:14:12.439 --> 02:14:12.640
Yeah?237902:14:13.600 --> 02:14:14.119
I can hear you.238002:14:14.800 --> 02:14:20.159
Felix here wants to try the water treatment. Yeah, why238102:14:20.159 --> 02:14:21.800
don't you play it smart and tell me where you238202:14:21.920 --> 02:14:29.279
hit that dough. I don't talk, okay, Felix. Wait wait,238302:14:29.359 --> 02:14:32.479
I'll talk. Well, it's more like it.238402:14:32.520 --> 02:14:33.000
Where is it?238502:14:34.439 --> 02:14:39.199
You could never find it alone. Uh, I'll have to238602:14:39.279 --> 02:14:43.800
take you to it. Just you and me, no matter what.238702:14:43.920 --> 02:14:49.920
Felix coming along, Just you me, okay, okay, I mean238802:14:49.960 --> 02:14:52.479
I'm wondering if you're in convention to make it at Felix,238902:14:53.039 --> 02:14:54.800
a few drinks, try to fix him up right. As239002:14:54.800 --> 02:14:56.680
soon as you've done that, Steve and me will be239102:14:56.840 --> 02:14:57.439
on our way.239202:15:02.239 --> 02:15:05.159
An hour later, Steve, with the assistance of Felix, tatted239302:15:05.239 --> 02:15:07.359
too chuck Williams car and got on the front seat.239402:15:07.920 --> 02:15:11.159
Chuck slid behind the wheel and started the morning. As239502:15:11.199 --> 02:15:15.920
he drove off, he waved to Felix triumphantly. In a239602:15:16.000 --> 02:15:19.880
few minutes, the farm house had faded from view. Steve,239702:15:20.439 --> 02:15:22.960
huddled in a corner of the front seat, fought to239802:15:23.079 --> 02:15:25.720
keep from crying out of every time the car hit239902:15:25.800 --> 02:15:29.239
rotten the road. Now and then he opened his pain240002:15:29.319 --> 02:15:31.279
filled eyes to look out the window.240102:15:32.079 --> 02:15:35.960
Chuck watched him with satisfaction as he drove. How much240202:15:36.039 --> 02:15:39.800
finer is it? You drive about five miles until you240302:15:39.880 --> 02:15:42.720
reach a small gravel road where you'll see a big240402:15:42.800 --> 02:15:47.479
sign saying the Devil's Caverns. He turned right there and240502:15:47.560 --> 02:15:49.199
go two miles Devil's Cabins.240602:15:49.239 --> 02:15:52.319
What did I have a big tourist attraction in these parts?240702:15:52.399 --> 02:15:55.840
During the summer, hundreds of huge underground cabins had run240802:15:55.920 --> 02:15:57.479
for miles in all directions. I mean, that's why you240902:15:57.560 --> 02:16:01.199
stashed it all. Yeah, best place in the world. How241002:16:01.199 --> 02:16:02.760
do you know you'll be able to find it again?241102:16:03.560 --> 02:16:03.720
I know?241202:16:03.800 --> 02:16:06.479
Ever he into the cabins as a kid. My old241302:16:06.520 --> 02:16:09.159
man worked as a tourist guide there. I learn my241402:16:09.199 --> 02:16:12.960
way around from him. Okay, you better find that though241502:16:13.039 --> 02:16:16.359
I'm wanting you. I'll find it now. You should be241602:16:16.399 --> 02:16:18.920
reaching the gravel road in a couple of minutes. Turn right,241702:16:19.000 --> 02:16:31.199
then it's two miles to the Devil's Cabins. This is241802:16:31.239 --> 02:16:35.559
a park. The car that shed over there, I sure looks.241902:16:35.760 --> 02:16:38.600
Is that no one ever comes here? Util June. Is242002:16:38.639 --> 02:16:40.879
that the entrance to the cabins? That door set in242102:16:40.920 --> 02:16:43.719
the rock. Yeah, you'll have to shoot the lock off242202:16:43.799 --> 02:16:47.719
the door, so it's okay, Yeah, no one will ever242302:16:47.760 --> 02:16:50.200
be able to spot the car here. But you said242402:16:50.239 --> 02:16:53.639
no one comes there? And tell Joe, No one does. Right,242502:16:53.719 --> 02:16:56.360
take chances. We need a flashlight.242602:16:57.159 --> 02:16:57.680
I got one.242702:16:59.360 --> 02:17:04.159
I'm at If you're thinking of any tricks, don't remember242802:17:04.200 --> 02:17:05.959
I got this gun, and you're in no condition to242902:17:06.040 --> 02:17:09.719
try anything. Yeah, you sawt of that.243002:17:12.639 --> 02:17:12.799
Come.243102:17:12.840 --> 02:17:14.639
You didn't hide out here when the cops were apt243202:17:14.719 --> 02:17:17.319
he there was any place to hide the car. Chad243302:17:17.399 --> 02:17:21.440
wasn't here seventeen years ago. Tough, and it's us that243402:17:21.520 --> 02:17:25.200
you're lonely looking place. Yeah, well you ought to be243502:17:25.239 --> 02:17:28.040
able to blow this padlock off with one shot. You243602:17:28.120 --> 02:17:46.079
better stand over there. That doesn't How much further is?243702:17:46.159 --> 02:17:48.760
It seems like we've been walking an hour already. Right243802:17:48.879 --> 02:17:53.079
up ahead, Sure you can find your way out again.243902:17:53.600 --> 02:17:55.120
All these cabins look alike to me.244002:17:55.680 --> 02:17:56.680
Yeah, I know the way out.244102:17:58.520 --> 02:17:59.559
Sure it's damp in here.244202:18:00.520 --> 02:18:00.920
What was that?244302:18:01.719 --> 02:18:04.000
Probably just a right running past you. Place is full244402:18:04.040 --> 02:18:08.319
of them, seems the way. It's taken a long time244502:18:08.399 --> 02:18:11.000
to find that place where you head the dog. If244602:18:11.040 --> 02:18:16.639
you're trying anything, I hold the flash that a little higher.244702:18:17.239 --> 02:18:20.159
That's it. I hit the suitcase behind this rock.244802:18:21.920 --> 02:18:22.159
Got it?244902:18:23.479 --> 02:18:28.399
No, not yet here it is? Yeah, that's it. That's it,245002:18:28.440 --> 02:18:30.879
all right. I can still recognize it. Open it up.245102:18:34.280 --> 02:18:38.239
Well there's the dough. Yeah, tell on that bank wrap.245202:18:38.559 --> 02:18:41.200
Look at it over a quarter of a million bucks.245302:18:42.719 --> 02:18:47.200
What's so funny? Answer me? So the other guy always245402:18:47.239 --> 02:18:49.639
gets what he goes after in the end. Uh yeah, no,245502:18:49.799 --> 02:18:52.319
I got that dog. And I'm asking you again' what's245602:18:52.319 --> 02:18:57.000
that funny? Look at the money? Go ahead, look at it.245702:18:57.920 --> 02:19:00.479
I'm looking what about it? Yeah you're looking, asked of mind,245802:19:00.520 --> 02:19:02.879
but you don't see all those bills are gold backs,245902:19:03.559 --> 02:19:04.159
gold backs.246002:19:04.239 --> 02:19:04.840
Yeah, that's right.246102:19:05.479 --> 02:19:07.920
In nineteen thirty three, the government called in all gold backs.246202:19:08.280 --> 02:19:10.639
I'll tell the kidnapped Bruno Hofmann got caught trying to246302:19:10.639 --> 02:19:12.479
pass gold backs after the government had called him in.246402:19:13.319 --> 02:19:15.399
I mean that dough is no good.246502:19:15.600 --> 02:19:16.520
That's just what I mean.246602:19:17.159 --> 02:19:18.840
You try passing any of that doing, you'll end up246702:19:18.879 --> 02:19:21.879
doing time you've done all along. That dow was not246802:19:22.040 --> 02:19:25.440
good ever since nineteen thirty three, knowing it was worthless.246902:19:25.440 --> 02:19:27.760
I never intended coming here for it, but you'll make247002:19:27.799 --> 02:19:29.840
you'll let you have it. You rat for leading me247102:19:29.959 --> 02:19:33.239
on like this, Well why don't you can't I pick247202:19:33.319 --> 02:19:35.760
up that suitcase. Let's get out of here. Oh wait247302:19:35.799 --> 02:19:39.000
a minute, I forgot to tell you Chuck, tell me247402:19:39.120 --> 02:19:45.760
what I'm staying here? Just staying here. Yeah, that's right.247502:19:47.000 --> 02:19:50.159
I look they've had enough out of you start lading247602:19:50.200 --> 02:19:53.760
that way out. I guess you didn't understand I said247702:19:53.799 --> 02:19:56.680
I'm staying here, Garney. You've got it right, bet twenty eyes.247802:19:57.719 --> 02:20:01.920
That doesn't scare me, you teach. Yeah, there was something else.247902:20:01.959 --> 02:20:03.799
I didn't tell you, something else.248002:20:04.079 --> 02:20:04.280
Yeah.248102:20:05.559 --> 02:20:08.639
I didn't get out of prison on good behavior. I248202:20:08.760 --> 02:20:10.600
got out because the doctor said I was going to248302:20:10.719 --> 02:20:15.920
die in three months. You've got to die in three months. Yeah,248402:20:15.959 --> 02:20:19.280
that's right. I thought I died peacefully on my farm.248502:20:20.000 --> 02:20:23.239
Only you wouldn't let me do that. So I've decided248602:20:23.280 --> 02:20:28.719
to die here with you as company. You can't do that.248702:20:29.879 --> 02:20:31.479
Can't do that, Steve. You've got to get me out248802:20:31.520 --> 02:20:31.760
of here.248902:20:31.879 --> 02:20:32.319
You got it.249002:20:32.559 --> 02:20:34.319
I don't have to do anything. I don't want to249102:20:35.040 --> 02:20:36.639
get me out of here, Steve. I'll make it with249202:20:36.760 --> 02:20:38.680
you a while. I got dough. I got lots of dough.249302:20:39.000 --> 02:20:40.680
It's too bad you won't be able to take it249402:20:40.760 --> 02:20:42.719
with you. Steve. I'll get you a hundred cheese, two249502:20:42.840 --> 02:20:44.719
hundred cheese if you'll get me out of here. Not249602:20:44.879 --> 02:20:47.040
going to be tough. For me to die because I249702:20:47.159 --> 02:20:50.559
only got three months anyway. But I'm going to enjoy249802:20:50.680 --> 02:20:54.319
watching you. You're gonna get weaker and weaker as you249902:20:54.520 --> 02:20:57.920
plead with me to lead you out it. Then you're250002:20:57.920 --> 02:20:59.760
going to get desperate and try to find a way250102:20:59.799 --> 02:21:02.959
out by yourself, but you'll never make it. You'll go250202:21:03.120 --> 02:21:05.200
wandering from one cabin to another, and then in the250302:21:05.360 --> 02:21:07.639
end you'll probably wander back here to find me dead,250402:21:08.280 --> 02:21:10.799
and your flashlight's gonna go out. You'll be all alone250502:21:10.840 --> 02:21:13.600
in the dark with the rats in the backs. Stop it, stop,250602:21:14.440 --> 02:21:16.280
go weaker. The rats are gonna close in on you250702:21:16.440 --> 02:21:16.840
before you.250802:21:17.120 --> 02:21:28.159
Steve, Steve, I didn't man, but you made me.250902:21:29.680 --> 02:21:40.000
Steve, stay something mhm stead take it out of here,251002:21:41.159 --> 02:21:43.280
Get out of helf.251102:22:10.879 --> 02:22:15.000
This is the mysterious Traveler again. Did you enjoy our251202:22:15.040 --> 02:22:19.760
little trap? What happened to Chuck williams Oh? The poor251302:22:19.840 --> 02:22:22.959
fellow was found dead a month later when the caverns251402:22:23.000 --> 02:22:26.639
were opened for the summer tourist trade. Seems Chuck had251502:22:26.719 --> 02:22:29.680
wandered from cavern to cavern without being able to find251602:22:29.760 --> 02:22:30.360
his way out.251702:22:31.840 --> 02:22:33.520
Evidently he'd gone mad.251802:22:33.399 --> 02:22:36.000
In his last hours before he was found with his251902:22:36.120 --> 02:22:38.239
pocket stuffed full of bills.252002:22:40.280 --> 02:22:41.040
Rolled backs.252102:22:42.680 --> 02:22:45.840
I recall another case in which two ghosts came fish252202:22:45.920 --> 02:22:49.200
to face, only to discover that, oh.252302:22:49.280 --> 02:22:52.959
You have to get off now. I'm sorry, but I'm252402:22:53.040 --> 02:22:54.200
sure we'll meet again.252502:22:55.280 --> 02:22:59.040
I take this same train every week. At this time.252602:23:12.680 --> 02:23:15.440
You have just heard The Mysterious Traveler, a series of252702:23:15.479 --> 02:23:18.879
dramas of the strange and terrifying. In Tonight's story, all252802:23:19.040 --> 02:23:21.719
characters were fictional, and any resemblance to the name of252902:23:21.799 --> 02:23:25.159
an actual person living or dead was purely coincidental. In253002:23:25.239 --> 02:23:29.399
the cast were Maurice Tarplin, Joe Julian Art, Connie Elspeth,253102:23:29.559 --> 02:23:33.760
Eric and Alan Manson. Original music was played by Paul Taubman.253202:23:34.239 --> 02:23:37.680
A Mysterious Traveler is written, produced, and directed by Robert J.253302:23:38.000 --> 02:23:39.360
Arthur and David Cogan.253402:23:47.360 --> 02:23:51.840
Well, my dear, it's very very late. You've been so kind,253502:23:52.879 --> 02:23:55.559
spend so much of your valuable time with me. I253602:23:56.360 --> 02:24:00.360
really can't quite thank you enough for that. But now,253702:24:00.479 --> 02:24:04.600
oh no, no, you should. You should go home, spend253802:24:04.719 --> 02:24:08.760
some time on the things that matter to you the most, because,253902:24:08.879 --> 02:24:15.200
believe me, the time is not guaranteed. You just never254002:24:15.399 --> 02:24:21.959
know when that our glass will let the final grain through.254102:24:23.159 --> 02:24:28.639
So head home. Now make your way through the forest,254202:24:29.159 --> 02:24:33.360
down the woods, over the covered bridge. I'll be careful there.254302:24:33.520 --> 02:24:37.680
Some of those bricks they're very, very loose. But please,254402:24:37.799 --> 02:24:41.159
I implore you, if nothing else, as you lay your254502:24:41.200 --> 02:24:43.559
head on that warm pillow, as you prepare to go254602:24:43.719 --> 02:24:49.600
to sleep, be thankful for what you have. And I'll254702:24:49.639 --> 02:24:50.280
see you soon.254802:24:50.879 --> 02:24:51.639
I hope.254902:25:01.479 --> 02:25:06.200
Don't bring your wrong bring you won't bring.255002:25:06.360 --> 02:25:07.680
I thank you, break255102:25:10.639 --> 02:25:10.840
Bo
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