Unknown Broadcast | "Cold Storage" "Habit" "Murder Comes at Midnight" "Nothing Up My Sleeve"

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Well, hello, my dear,
so glad to have you back. Or

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what's that? Oh? Well,
thank you, thank you. I'm trying

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my best to get into the holiday
spirit, as it were. My decorations

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may be humble, but so am
I. What's that? Oh no,

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no, no, I'll put another
log on the fire and make sure you're

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plenty warm. I have quite a
few chilling wounds for you, but nothing

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a hot cup of tea and a
warm smile can't get you through. No,

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no, Well, since we're both
talking about the weather and how chilling

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it's become, how about a story
all about cold storage. Yes, well,

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it may not be the most clever
segue I've ever come up with,

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but I sure. I am glad
you've spun your radio dial until you've found

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me ourselves. I put on my
a game, as it were. So

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put your feet up in my favorite
chair, and let's listen. Listen together

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together, Come in. Welcome,
I need you, marshall. Welcome to

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the terrifying world of the imagination.
I am a man normally filled with the

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milk of human kindness, but prepared. I'm afraid to curdle your blood with

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a tale not of life and death, but rather death and life. I

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offer you one small comfort. It
could hardly happen today. But in the

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last century, and the old Montgomery
estate in Maryland, in a great dark

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rambling house called Westerly, it was
easier to be marked for death than in

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this one. Yes, mother,
you look at home in your coffin,

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sleep fast. It's taken many years, but you've made your son a very

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happy man. It's old mine,
fast questery, I'm money, the jewels,

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I'm my own man. Oh,
I've hated you the way you've kept

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me on a leash like some own
dog. Well, somebody's mind. And

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you'll hardly needs the rings they let
you word your grave. I'll take some

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stark can buy you hang on to
them. But I should have known you'd

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come back to hold me, see, even before we got you to the

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grave. Our mystery drama Cold Storage
was written especially for the mystery theater by

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Ian Martin and stars Rubie d and
John Barrow Gray. It is sponsored in

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part by the Kellogg Company, makers
of Kellogg's Special K serial Some Ghules robbing

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a grave. Many years before Buford
Montgomery found himself engaged in essentially the same

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activity, where every bit is shot
when the corpse whose rings they were tearing

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off suddenly sat up alive. An
epileptic seizure in other times could counterfeit death.

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The rules, of course, had
a recourse. They ran away.

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Rufford Montgomery has to stay and faced
his problem. When you put me down,

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when I'm ready, I am quite
able to walk. I want to

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make sure you don't rhyn. What
are you talking about? What are you

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doing? Nucking in? Look?
Keep away from me? Just a all

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right, mother, I'm not going
to harm you. I heard you standing

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over me in that confidence I need
got the way that doddering old Numskull.

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He almost had you buried alive.
You know he signed your death certificate.

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But how could he? I am
alive. Oh, yes, I'm quite

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satisfied you or I'll go. What
happened another of your epileptic feizures? Oh?

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We were all convinced this one was
fatal at last, Only it wasn't

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quite a disappointment to my beloved son. Well, at least I know now

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where we stand. Now you opened
that door and send hand up to me.

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Not yet, mother, Why because
you see we don't really know just

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quite how we stand, Douie,
don't you look at me like that hour

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was I looking, Mama, dear
you want me dead second that coffin.

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I want all the things I thought
were finally mine, the estate, the

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money, and most almost of all, the freedom to be a man.

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Look at me, Mama, listen
to me. Call you that mama,

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a grown man said, eight years
old, tied to his mother's apron strength

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like some sniveling little boy. I
never meant to take your tied down.

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You did. You even did it
with the judge. Father's life wasn't his

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own either. You killed him.
You have mad to keep away, keep

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away you want to kill him.
I'm not going to kill you, mama.

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You know I haven't got the strength
of will for that. Of course

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you won't, son, But you
can have anything you want. Now we've

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had this little talk. Snaw to
please get kind of like a good boy.

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No, Mama, I don't need
you anymore. You left me everything

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in your will. But I'm not
dead to all the world except me.

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You are, and you're going to
stay that way. If you come one

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step close off free, no one
will hear you. Not in this big

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old house, westerly thick walls have
no ease. What are you going to

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do to me. You see,
mother, you'll see it. Put in

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the coffin, marry me alive.
Yes, I haven't any choice, sir,

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Please please, please don't worry.
You'll be quite comfortable. I'm going

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to bear you alive, but not
in the coffin. Anah, yes,

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master duplet, I want you here
in the hall. What is it,

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sir? Where's William? He's in
the stable, master groom and the horses

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for the funeral tomorrow. You won't
I should fetch you? No, not

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yet, to sit down. I
want to talk to you, yes,

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sir, Now tay to begin?
Uh, Hannah, you were mighty beholden

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to my father, weren't you.
Judge Montgomery was a fine man, was

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very kind to you and your son. The judge was powerful good to me

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and William and my mother. Missus
Montgomery is a fine lady. It's been

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a privilege to have served as housekeeper, and will you consider the privilege to

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serve me in the same capacity if
you want me? Sir? And William?

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Where I go? William Gold you
know he's just a great, big,

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overgrown baby. Has to be cared
for like one, or they'd shut

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him away somewheres and I wouldn't ever
let them do that to my boy.

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He couldn't stand being shut in,
He'd why he'd he wouldn't let it do

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that to him, would you,
Master Buford? Not? If I can

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chunt on you to help me,
he can, Sir, he can.

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Oh what about William? He does
what I tell him. He's old as

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you are, but he has the
mind of a child. I'd want to

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be absolutely sure of both of you. I don't understand your, Master Bufford,

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then I'll make myself play there.
I think you must have always hated

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my mother? Why did you stay
on after father died? I stayed because

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where else could I go? You're
sure it wasn't because you were afraid,

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afraid of work, not of Hannah, for h for William. Right,

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Oh, don't look so terrified.
I'm trapped. I know it all,

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Hannah, I know it all,
Master Buford. I how you must really

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hate us all? Even father the
end, not the judge, Never the

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judge, even after what he made
you sign. What would the judge?

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I I have wanted me to sign
a confession that you saw your son William

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commit a murder ten years ago.
Oh, how did you know? It's

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one of the advantages of my dear
mother's unexpected death. It was among the

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papers the lawyer turned over to me, so she did know all these years.

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How could Randolph had done that to
me? You know why? You

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were an eyewitness, and you know
that William wasn't alone. It was an

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accident, and you were only boys, pretty old for boys, Hannah.

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We were both going on nineteen,
and the couple kid was only fifteen.

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It was only my father being a
judge that saved us all. And a

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jury and horse country like this could
have told that boy's neck wasn't broken by

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any fall from a horse. The
finger marks for a gouge into the flesh,

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the rope burns were raw on his
wrists. Why did you do it?

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Massaduset not I? Hannah? Remember
William was the culprit. William didn't

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know what he was doing. You
egged him on. If I did,

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I didn't mean it to go so
far. William didn't doesn't know his own

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strength. What does it matter,
it's nearly twenty years ago. Why do

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you rake up old ashes? There
are certain things I have to be sure

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of. What, in spite of
everything, your complete loyalty to me.

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I have a little choice. If
you have any confession, I have it

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in your own handwriting, and William
squawl too. I'm going to ask you

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to stretch your conference further. Come
with me. No, no, massa

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dufret. Don't bring it to the
carp and I don't want to look at

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her. Stop. I don't want
him to stop at it. You can

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look stop in your eyes. Oh
it's empty. She's gone. What have

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you done with her? She's in
her bedroom upstairs. What's she I'm afraid

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that blind old bagla Doctor Wayne frightly
exaggerated my mother's untimely and I mean she's

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alive and unfortunately quite well. I
see the news. Is that disappointing to

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you as they were to me?
Oh, don't try to hide it,

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Hannah. You know you hated her
quite as much as I. I won't

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deny it. The humiliation, the
day by day degradations your mother has put

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me through all these years since your
father died. I can never forgive her

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for them. I'm glad to hear
it, and she's dead. I'm glad

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God forgive me. It was one
of the happiest days of my life and

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mine. That's why she's going to
stay dead, Hannah, you're mad.

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You can't murder your own mother.
Nothing is further from my mind. No,

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dear Mamma will come to no physical
harm. You and William will see

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to it that her body needs are
well taken care of, and I,

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as complete master of Westerly at last, will see to it in turn that

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you and William are taken care of. What are you going to do with

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us? First of all, Hannah, you're going to explain to William and

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bring him here so we can nail
up this coffin and the very old services

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can be completed tomorrow. You No, you can't better tell William to bring

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a sack of meal or corn.
Won't do to have the coffin to light?

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How How on earth can you hide
your mother from from everyone on earth?

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That's very apt. I'll tell you
what we're going to do with her,

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Hannah, Just what we do with
the roots and the preserves. We're

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going to put Mama in cold storage. Make sure to drive them home,

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William, do the machine bury a
whole good sacle from feed. I picked

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up the worth of what I can
find. That's enough now to finish up

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finished. Now stop the light in
Hunter, Yes, sir, all right,

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did you strip the bed in the
spare room? Hunter, Yes,

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sir, I did. William,
you go on up there and bring that

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bed and all the furniture downstairs to
the old Heidi hole. Right, sure,

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will is this this Heidi hole?
William could tell you as good as

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me or better. He's the one
who found it. Must be fifteen years

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ago, sixteen, Masterbufid. That
was the year miss Prudence dropped her first

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fold. That's when old mister top
Hunt of the bet Man told me all

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about his daddy and your grandfather and
how they dug out the hobby hole and

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made it our big room, like
a station on the underground railroad. William,

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go see to the furniture. Yeah, from take me a while to

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get the bit of bark. Take
your time the underground railroads. You mean

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this was a slave station to hide
out, a scape slave, being passive

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and all what it was. But
you can't put your mother in a place

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like that. Why not she spent
her lifetime trying to turn the clock back,

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make a slave of everyone else.
Why shouldn't it be her turn for

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a change. How sharper than a
serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless

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child, as King Lear had occasion
to remark, still on the record,

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Mama is not much of a prize
either. Let's leave her in cold storage

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until we turned shortly with that too. In the weeks that passed, Missus

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Randolph Price Montgomery is finding her quarters
somewhat less elegant than she liked, but

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at least they are less confining than
a coffin. Beauford, her son and

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now heir has been living as high
as he promised himself and cutting a swath

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that the county's most sought after bachelor. I just love you, but I

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thought I'd never be able to coach
you away from all the other ladies.

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Natural Lee. They may have had
my arms, but my heart was with

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you. I'd have tell a lot
too of that if I've had your name

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a little more often in my car. I just don't want us to get

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talked about too much. Why ever, not? Would you be ashamed to

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have your name linked with mine?
Why? Nancy Lee, you know better

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than that. Aren't you gonna sit
with me? Ses? Oh? Why?

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Why? Sure? Honey? Ho? My hey just lies in mine

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like a little bird. Now that's
more like my beafrid kiss me Angel,

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still the same old thrill gives me
goosebumps all over. That's nice. I

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wouldn't want to think i'd lost the
power to get you going. Why would

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you think that? Well, I'll
tell you, beautiful, I thought when

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your mother died it would give us
a chance to be closer than ever.

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I mean, since we could come
right out in the open. I didn't

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think it would stop you chasing after
as a pretty girl in sight, I

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wouldn't take one of them or exchange
any of them for you. Now.

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I'm right glad to hear you say
that. S because I'm afraid you're not

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going to be a bachelor anymore.
Huh. I got something to tell you.

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You're going to have to go back
to being a family man again.

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I'm afraid. What what? What
are you saying? That you're going to

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be a daddy? Uns proud?
Good Lord? Are you sure said I'm

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in a family way? What's very
easy for a girl to be sure of

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that? Well? What are we
going to do? What with mama?

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God, there's no problem at all. You're just going to have to make

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an honest woman of me. My
parents surely won't object, and you wouldn't

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want the colonel to come after you
with a girl, knowing that my daddy

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is the best shot in South Carolina. Now wait a minute. You know

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I'm only funny, and I know
you're going to be every bit as happy

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as I am when she gets used
to it. Oh, honey, Auntle's

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just thrilled the death. We're going
to get married. Come in, excuse

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me, master beauty. What is
it, Hannah, it's about missus Montgomery.

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She isn't that yet. I meant
your mother, sir? Oh?

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Or what about her? She keeps
asking for you? We tell her,

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I'm just don't tell her anything.
You haven't said anything about the wedding tomorrow,

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No, sir, But but what
about your mother? She she wants

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to talk to you, and it
does seem so inhumane to keep her locked

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up alone. He sees you or
William every day, doesn't she? Yes,

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her quarters are comfortable and clean,
aren't they. Yeah, she's in

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perfectly good health. Oh yes,
never better. More's the pity. Well,

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then she's she's lonely. So was
I all those years she had me

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under her thumb, and I'm not
going back to that. By tomorrow,

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I'm going to have my own woman. And the beauty. Is that are

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going to spoil that for me?
Yes, sir, I'm sorry, sir

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good Now get out of here and
take the whisker carp with you and fill

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it up. It's almost empty again, yes, sir, Master Beaufort,

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Sir William, Yes, Mama,
take this carafe and fill it with Master

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Dupus bourbon and bring it back to
him in his study. Yes, I

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reckon, old Master Buffer is getting
himself looked up for the bachelor party.

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I reckon he's trying to build himself
some Dutch courage. What do you mean,

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Mark, I mean, I don't
think he exactly figured on getting tied

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up again when he cut his mama's
ape and string. Oh look at that.

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It started into such a pretty night
too. M let's go on after

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bed and now husband all every seems
to think of now he's made me his

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little goods and chatto Nancy Lee.
All I mean was I'm tired tired of

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me after too short weeks. And
you know I didn't mean that I'll come

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in and lay your head on mama's
break. Don't say that what happened to

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be so stasy that your mama's dead
and gone? Yes, although sometimes I

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swear to goodness, I get to
feed him in this wickedy old house.

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She's still sort of around. Oh
what makes you think that? Oh,

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don't jump so, darling. If
it's just just a spooky feeling, maybe

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you and me should have gotten rid
of Westerley and gone back on the South

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Carolina with Mom and Popper. No, we can't leave here, all right,

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sugar, don't take on. So
I didn't mean to jump at your

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Oh of course you didn't. Just
so kind a little one. Me and

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you were so generous to lend the
colonel all that money, go back south

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with Mama to build up our old, lovely old plantation again. It must

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be the size of house, the
state, what it's costing the restora,

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Well, it had gotten run down
sort of. But you've nothing to worry

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about Beaufort. You'll get the money
back, of course, of course,

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Nancy Lea, what is it?
It's so ported, it's gotten the leak

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like a sieve. I'll have William
look at it in the morning. That's

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the old lame brain beautifort. If
we're going to stay here at Westerly,

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I want some changes made. I'd
like to do some rebuilding. We can

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discuss that in the I want some
new servants. I don't want that silly

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old William and Tanna around. They've
got to go. No but Beaufort.

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Whatever happens, William and Hannah stay
and we stay. That's final, myt

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Beufid. You are so masterful when
you get mad, I could just swoon.

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Come on, let's go on up
to bed and I'll show you just

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how wonderful it is to be married. I came up with your mother's train.

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That's a pupid, and she nearly
caught me. What the sam Hill

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was Nancally doing in the cellar?
I don't know. She didn't see anything,

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I'm sure not. Does she suspect
anything? I don't think I am

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that woman. That's who. Now, God, Hannah, I'll handle this.

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Yes, sir Natally. What the
devil were you doing down in the

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cellar? No need to take on, so I was. I was just

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making up my mind where to put
the wine cellar? What wine cellar?

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The one we're going to build in
the back there? What for? Well?

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I intend to start entertaining, having
guests to stay. Well, bring

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this house a lie, no,
no wine cellar and no guests, and

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you stay out of that downstairs.
Won't you order me around? I'll do

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what I want in my own house. And what did you mean by locking

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me out of our bedroom last night? I don't allow anyone can't behave like

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a gentleman in my room. If
you think just by withholding your favors from

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me, you can get your own
way. You listen to me, Beaudford,

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one way or another. I always
get my own own way. And

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don't you forget you can't sleep here
on the floor, sir? Oh yeah,

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I got to Hannah own. Why
for let me in bedroom? Come

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on, sir, you've been drinking. I've made you up a bed in

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one of the guest rooms. Honestly's
on bedroom. I guess ironic, isn't

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it. Hannah don't have much luck
with with the lady. All of the

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frying pan into the fire. She's
got to go, except can't because of

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the got child to say. God
can't figure that one out, William,

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is my house ready? Morning?
Nancy Lee, my aunt you the prettiest

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I asked about my horse. Oh
yes, this is Nancy, I cold

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and currant and shine that old horse
would bring around to the front. Yes,

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sir, Miss Nancy, And the
name is Missy's Montgomery, Yes,

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missus Montgomery. Oh, get out
of my state. When you bring around,

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let me know, I'll be in
the parlor. Stupid here, Hannah

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said, you wanted to see me. I want to talk to you.

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I'm afraid I don't have time.
I'm going riding. That's what I want

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to talk to you about. Do
you think it's why? What all this

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writing? In your condition? In
my condition? Oh, and i'd near

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forgotten? Forgotten? How could you
forget the baby you're carrying. I'm sure

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I wouldn't if I were only I'm
not. I never had one. What

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all, Beautiford, don't splutter.
So if you'd have a brain in your

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head, you to realize that long
ago it all a trick to get me

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to marry you. At the time, you seem such a catch in the

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competition with a little heavy so I
thought i'd just make sure of you,

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and it worked. I'm really sorry
of disappointing you about the child. Disappointed.

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You don't know how I laved.
I am now there's no problem.

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What do you mean no problem?
To end this marriage, to get a

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divorce. You think that's no problem. It shouldn't be. I'm prepared to

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make a reasonable settlement, And just
what would you consider reasonable, mister montgoment.

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We can waive the money I loaned
your father and call it a day.

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The money you loaned my father.
That wasn't a loan, that was

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a little payoff for a nice background
of southern gentility to trap me a man

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the termel and his wife are just
as pony as I am, dear heart,

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and they are long gone, and
where I want to be with a

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name I like, And I'm not
getting it up for anyone. You are

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never going to get rid of little
Nancy Lee, know how, no away

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at all? Now, if you'll
excuse me, dear husband, why Hannah,

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Hello? Did you get a nice
ear? For the door will open?

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Missus? Montgomery and William asked me
to come in here and tell you

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that he's waiting outside with your horse. He could have told me himself.

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And I hope that damn bee throws
her and breaks her neck. All right,

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Hannah, what are you waiting for? It's your mother, sir,

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she's in a state. She in
siskon. No, I've had enough of

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Montgomery women for one day. Tell
her I no, I get that,

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Hannah. I've changed my mind.
I think I will pay Mama visit.

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I have a little surprise for her. What you can't be so prula beautiful

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keeping me here locked up like a
like an animal. You've got to let

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me go. You know I can't
do that, Mother. I've explained again

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and again why you can't suddenly turn
up alive. But I can't stand it

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anymore, like being very alive,
so lonely. I know that, Mama,

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and I know it's just plain.
Isn't fair? So I thought of

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a solution. What, dear,
how would you like to have a nice,

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permanent companion. Did I make an
unguarded statement that Buford was no match

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for the ladies. Perhaps in one
sense that's true, But in another,

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well, it seems that Nancy Lee
is going to have cause to regret her

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match with Buford. We'll find that
out shortly when we return with Act three.

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Now, it's one thing to get
away with disposing of someone already legally

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certified as dead and supposedly suitably interred. Nancy Lee is another problem. She

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can't have a convenient epileptic seizure.
Can Buford get away with it? Nancy

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Lee, I've been thinking about us. Don't waste your time. Nothing's going

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to change. I've got nobody but
you and nowhere in the whole wide world

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to go. I'm a permanent sixty
Youford. Oh, I know that,

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honey, And I was wrong to
think anything else. Don't you know?

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I really want you here with all
my heart on my turne. Don't you

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try to fancy talk me. Won't
you please let me tell you what I

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was thinking about. If you make
it sure, I'm sweet. What I

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was going to suggest, just to
clear the air sort of and give us

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both a chance to get a new
perspective, was a trip. I don't

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want to go anywhere with you,
Oh ha hahi. I didn't mean together.

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I meant just you alone, Sugar, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia.

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You could buy yourself a whole new
wargobe like it was the Trusseau you never

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really had. Washington, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, even Paris, France, if

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you want Paris France, awhole,
beautiful? Do you mean it? Anything's

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worth trying just to work things out
for us, and to prove I mean

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it? You just go tell all
your friends and everyone around it you're on

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your way. Oh, want to
make them squirm with envy? Washington,

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Philadelphia, Paris, Franks. Then
you'll go what woman will pass up the

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tents? Well, I'll ride everywhere
this week and let everyone know just one

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thing, beautiful. You ought to
understand. What's that, sugar? This

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doesn't change anything. I'm still going
to spend the rest of my life right

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here in this house. Oh I
know that, man, See Lee,

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I know that for sure, Master
Fish, you just can't get away with

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it. Now you're Watchatanah, I'm
going to But what will other people say?

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There's nothing for them to say.
Nancy Lee went off on a little

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trip and she never came back.
Master Bauffort, you're flying in the faith

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of God, Hannah to the devil
with it. Now you do what I

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say here, Yes, sir,
Now you and William have already got the

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extra beds set up downstairs, and
the chest of drawers and so on.

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Yes, fine, and get busy
and take all miss Montgomery's clothes downstairs.

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Shouldn't take it too long. Most
of her wardrobe is already packed. What

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am I going to tell your mother? Ever since we moved the extra furniture

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in, she's been like to drive
me out of my mind asking questions You

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haven't told her who to expect,
you said, not, that's quite right,

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Hannah. We have to preserve the
proprieties. I think it's my place

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to introduce my mother to my bride. Oh, miss Montgomery, what is

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it, Hannah? Master Duport ask
me to have you go right downstairs soon

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as you got back from riding.
But I want to bath and change,

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he said right away the moment you
got here. Why, he said he

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had a little surprise for you.
Oh, very well, Beaulford, Natalie,

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Yes, what do you want me
for? Come on down, I'll

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show you. Oh, for goodness
sake, hold that line from a little

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high I can't see a house up
better right over here by the back wall.

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And they said you had a surprise, Why beautiful, you're going to

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do it? Do what put in
my wine cellar while I'm gone? Something

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like that. Of course, we'll
have to build regular bends instead of these

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old rickety shells. You know what
I thought when I was looking about down

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here before? What was that if
we tore down these shells? Well,

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what I mean is I was sort
of stepping off the house upstairs, and

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it's some longer than this cellar,
is it? Yes? I walked off

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the cellar too. You suppose there
might be any room behind there. We

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could sort of scoop out to make
it bigger. Now, why don't you

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and me just try and find out? Why don't we? Of course I

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reckon you need help? Oh I
don't think so. It might be quite

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easy, like like this stre example, it's a secret. No in a

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room. There's no one in there. A room you're going to be sharing

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for a long time. No,
no, no, I won't go.

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Yes you will. You'll do your
toes. You put my hand, you

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get in there. You can't keep
me any I'll Oh no, you won't.

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You'll keep your mouth shut at once
and do your toes. Oh no,

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I won't. You willn't they shoot
me? Don't tempt me. You'll

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put put that pistol down. It
can't me? Who are you? Don't

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you remember the first missus Montgomery?
But she your mother? Your mother's day?

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A popular misconception. Let's just keep
this private? Shows you you really

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judgment Montgomery's wife. Certainly Beauford,
What is this fluck doing here? Now?

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Mama? That's not mine? Isn't
that Nancy Lee person? I want

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you to stay away from? Yes, sir, maybe about the one time

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you were right, Mama, we'll
get her out of here. I don't

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water and how demand you release me
too? You know I can't do that.

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The best I can do is provide
you with Nancy Lee. You're not

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going to lock me up with his
horrid old woman. Now, that's no

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way to talk to your mother in
law. Oh what, Oh, I'm

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sorry, Mama, and all the
excitement, I forgot to tell you,

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Nancy Lee is my bride. We
got married. That makes you both missus.

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Mo. That's how come I thought
it would work out real nice to

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have your roommates sort of keep it
all in the family. Mar Mar takes

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the libry him. It started me
so I almost break my hand on the

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stone, Ma, what are we
going to do? What is it done?

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Here? Here? Sit down?
It's shaken all over. You know

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that big old stones you wanted down
in the preserved cellar to make a table

404
00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:40.440
of for making car meals and such. Yes, well, a while ago

405
00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:45.159
I took it to bring it all
down for you. You lifted that heavy

406
00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:49.840
stone by yourself. It's what happened
when I was down there. What well,

407
00:35:51.079 --> 00:35:54.800
I didn't have no light and I
didn't hear Master Bukey come on down

408
00:35:54.840 --> 00:36:00.039
there all of a sudden, I
see him a lot of Latin and the

409
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:05.960
furst. I can say anything.
Missus Montgomery, come on down there to

410
00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:10.519
join him. I know I sent
her down there. You you knew what

411
00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:15.119
he was gonna do to her.
Son, you gotta understand, I can't

412
00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:21.599
help myself. He knew he was
gonna throw her in the hide the hall

413
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:27.400
with old Missus Montgomery. I knew. But she's so pretty, and he

414
00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:31.719
hurt her. Ma, Master Beauford
hurt her. He took that little girl

415
00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:37.719
that's like a like a little chicken
beee bird, and he's gonna shut her

416
00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:40.639
up in there. Don't think about
it now, son, I gotta think

417
00:36:40.679 --> 00:36:45.960
on him. I couldn't be shut
up, Ma, I couldn't be shut

418
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:51.079
up nowhere. I know that.
Son. I just keep my home throat

419
00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:55.119
with my hands, like I've done
with with someone a long time ago.

420
00:36:55.239 --> 00:37:01.639
Out y'all, William, don't do
that to yourself. No, not to

421
00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:09.000
me, to Master Befith, to
Master Beufid, unless he lets her go,

422
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.320
that's whoy I got to know.
No, listen to me, let

423
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:21.280
me explain, Let me go,
mam, Let go swim. You've got

424
00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:29.400
to understand that. I Ma,
Ma, you all right? I hope

425
00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:43.360
I didn't hurt you, Mam.
No, you all right, just sleeping.

426
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:51.280
I'll wake you, Mam. I'll
wake here. Just as soon as

427
00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:59.480
I said that, poor little bird
free. I spent my life trying to

428
00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:02.519
get free of you, Mama,
and I did. Then I got myself

429
00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:07.760
trapped again. Now I've got to
get free of Nancy Lee too. Goodbye.

430
00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:12.679
You'll never see me again. You
can't leave me here with if I

431
00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:15.960
want. I can't be shut up
anymore. You've been drinking again. You

432
00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:21.199
look drunk. I feel drunk,
drunk with relief. An, I'm William.

433
00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:23.119
All you'll ever see from now,
as far as I care. You

434
00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:34.280
cut both rocked. That's a funny
smell. I had. I need a

435
00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:38.639
drink. But who's that? It's
me? Master, if you fit,

436
00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:45.960
I'm sorry for for what I got
to do, you know, Master,

437
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:51.039
stupid, Master, dupid. I
don't mean to do nothing, Master,

438
00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:58.800
I didn't mean to do nothing.
It was just a bird has to fly,

439
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:06.480
freeze. You can't keep it locked
up, William, William, are

440
00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:09.800
you down there? I'm here,
Mar What are you doing? What's happened?

441
00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:15.840
Where's Master Buforth. I'm glad you
woke up. Mar Something's happened to

442
00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:21.480
Master Buford. Oh my god,
who was that? Let me see?

443
00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:25.599
I didn't mean him no harm.
It was just missus, Nancy. I

444
00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:34.920
didn't want to hurt him, mar
Mar he's dead. Oh, William,

445
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:39.519
William, you killed him. I've
never even touched him, Marrow. How

446
00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:47.360
would you know, poor twisted mine? How would you know? Heaven help

447
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:52.039
me? What are we gonna do? Now? I've got to think,

448
00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:07.000
well, I'm all packed, and
well you're gonna taking my things down to

449
00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:14.800
the carriage. Now, what about
you? Mother? I suppose you have

450
00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:19.079
to call me that. We might
as well get used to it, just

451
00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:22.239
as you'll have to try to sound
a little fonder when you talk to your

452
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:28.960
daughter. Nancy Lee. Very well, Nancy Lee, and I not only

453
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:32.000
am all packed, but my trunks
have already been taken to the railroad station,

454
00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:37.280
already for our new life he is. Oh, come on, now,

455
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:39.920
this was all worked out before the
funeral, and you had a lovely

456
00:40:40.039 --> 00:40:45.280
time of it, haven't you,
playing the bereaved widow, being whined and

457
00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:49.320
dyed and sad? Farewell? Well, I had to stay hidden it home

458
00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:52.960
for you could scarce to come popping
out of the grave without creating a legal

459
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:57.280
so I know, I know it's
better this way. I hope we can

460
00:40:57.400 --> 00:41:01.440
smuggle me out successfully at night in
Hannah's cape. There'll be no question,

461
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:07.480
nothing left to be done. I
don't think so. Hannah and William will

462
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:09.840
stay with the house until the estate
is sold, and the lawyer will forward

463
00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:15.000
us the money wherever we settle.
Huh, wherever we settle. You and

464
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:20.559
I not much of a life to
look forward to. It's the best your

465
00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:28.800
son left us, Your husband's beautiful
Beaufort. I wonder about his death.

466
00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:36.199
Why the doctor certified it is a
heart attack? You don't think they No,

467
00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:38.800
William is so simple minded that if
he says he never touched him,

468
00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:45.159
he never did. No, it
was something else. What if that was

469
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:52.159
the same doctor who wrote out my
death certificate. You don't suppose Beaufort,

470
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:58.920
by any chance, could have had
the epilepsy. It's a disease that does

471
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:08.559
run in the fact. You know, if Sarah Montgomery should have been right,

472
00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:15.440
then poor Buford went to far more
than his just reward. After all,

473
00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:22.079
the coffin was already in the ground
for over a week. But that's

474
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:39.000
really too horrible prospect to duella,
isn't it. I'll return shortly before I

475
00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:45.199
go. I really do owe you
an apology for that quite dreadful picture of

476
00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:51.119
poor Buford Montgomery awaking to far more
confined quarters than he condemned his mother too,

477
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:55.559
But as a storyteller, you have
to agree the irony is perfect.

478
00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:02.440
And then, of course also did
promised to curdle your blood. Our cast

479
00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:07.119
included John Barrow, Gray Ruby,
d Brina Rayburn, Roxy Roker, and

480
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:12.960
Todd Davis. The entire production was
under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio.

481
00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:17.679
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by
Anheuser Busch Incorporated brewers of Budweiser. This

482
00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:22.280
is E. G. Marshall inviting
you to return to our Mystery Theater for

483
00:43:22.360 --> 00:44:09.960
another adventure in the macabre. Until
next time, Pleasant Dreams. Is the

484
00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:15.440
tea warming here? Let me touch
that up for you. There, you

485
00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:20.679
are something hot to drink on a
cold night. Nothing beats it beats?

486
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:24.800
Oh what's that? Oh? No, I don't have anything a little extra

487
00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:30.960
to add to it. No,
no, no, such things I've left

488
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:37.800
behind. I prefer the simple pleasures, my dear. But you know,

489
00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:45.000
as they often say, you can
judge a man by his habits. Now

490
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:52.559
this story his cold habit, and
maybe it'll touch on that just a little

491
00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:57.880
bit more. This is one I
dusted off. I couldn't tell you the

492
00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:01.159
last time I heard it, but
I remember so much, such, so

493
00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:06.280
much, how it made me feel. And I'm looking forward to sharing that

494
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:10.599
with you. So so tip the
cup. It's nice and warm now,

495
00:45:12.519 --> 00:45:20.639
and let's listen. Listen. Sped
up with the everyday grind, tied out

496
00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:25.400
from the summer heat, I want
to get away from it. We offer

497
00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:36.159
you escape, escape designed to free
you from the four walls of today,

498
00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:45.159
for a half hour of high adventure. You are clinging precariously to a diving,

499
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:51.599
pitching longboat lashed by mountainous seas in
the middle of a hurricane, and

500
00:45:51.679 --> 00:45:58.679
at the helm driving you on is
a man bent on revenge and willing to

501
00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:12.719
kill for it. Tonight we escaped
to the open sea with an ancient tramp

502
00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:17.119
steamer and its fighting captain. As
fr Buckley told it in his ironic story,

503
00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:37.920
happened, Yeah they were. We
caught us. No more questions.

504
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:45.679
Step down, Please thank you,
sir, I mean your honor. Well,

505
00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:51.800
Captain Weatherfield, You've just had the
complaining witness. Have you anything to

506
00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:55.360
say in your own defense? Here? Hit the man about a bit,

507
00:46:55.800 --> 00:47:02.960
No doubt that johnag with half chance, they founded his blasted head off fired

508
00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:09.199
more than the court. Then you
admit the charges, Captain Weatherfield. Then

509
00:47:09.199 --> 00:47:15.440
I hit him. He had stenuined
in circumstances. Yanna, I see,

510
00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:20.760
and what were there? He laughed
at my ship at the wakeling your honor,

511
00:47:21.480 --> 00:47:23.599
his finer freighter has ever steamed out
of here on the Liverpool Run.

512
00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:29.159
Don't quite stood there on the wharf, squint eyed, son of a landloved

513
00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:31.719
lawyer. He said, my ship
looked like an old woman with her dress

514
00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:37.320
on backwards, her hair not combed. That's what I'm flattened about. Yes,

515
00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:42.559
I still say that's what she looks
like. God, why you can't

516
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:49.119
found squeak, I'll break your part. Sat down, captain, We can't

517
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:59.960
car Weatherfield, can't turn Weatherfield.
This court finds you guilty of assault,

518
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:05.360
and Bettery has charged and sentences you
to seven days in the New Bristol City

519
00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:16.280
Jairs. All right, then knock
him up. And that's the way it

520
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:22.480
started, with the captain getting seven
days in the New Bristol jail. Yeah,

521
00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:24.719
but it went a whole lot further
before it was over. It was

522
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:30.760
like a bolt of chain lightning that
may take a dozen strange turns of more

523
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:37.920
before it finally strikes home. And
actually, of course the Wakeland was a

524
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:42.920
funny looking old scowl. She'd had
thirty years in the North Atlantic with never

525
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:46.119
a part being replaced, so long
as there was some way of patching it

526
00:48:46.239 --> 00:48:51.079
up. Yeah, she was a
regular joke of a ship, as to

527
00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:55.719
everybody except Captain Weatherfield. Then,
those of us who were officers support her

528
00:48:55.719 --> 00:49:00.000
had learned a long time before,
not the hint anything like that to him.

529
00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:05.800
Now she was the Queen Mary and
the Normandy and his first born child,

530
00:49:05.920 --> 00:49:09.320
all rolled up in the one,
So you can bet your life we

531
00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:14.559
all kept sober places when the Captain
finally came aboard at the end of the

532
00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:21.159
week. Yes, sir, well
everything in all that, will we be

533
00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:22.800
able to sail in an hour?
Yes, sir, I've been keeping her

534
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:28.480
ready for the last four days just
in case. I'm fully aware that we're

535
00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:32.239
four days past schedule, and the
reason for it will not be discussed on

536
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:37.920
board, is that clear, Yes, captain, and badly treated in this

537
00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:43.599
town, mister Conley thrown behind bars
like some feline docrat. Don't feel good

538
00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:46.280
about it. If it takes me
the rest of my life, I'm going

539
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:51.599
to even up the score. Do
you understand that? I uh think so?

540
00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:55.000
You think so, sir? Yes, sir? All right, then

541
00:49:55.079 --> 00:50:07.000
button up your color and go get
up ahead of steam. So three days

542
00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:12.280
later we were plowing through a heavy
sea, five hundred and eighty miles out

543
00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:15.920
on the Atlantic. The spray was
freezing the rigging. We were flirting with

544
00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:27.800
the fringe of a northeast hurricane.
Yea last, this double blasted confounded wind.

545
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:36.920
It's Connley. How's she looking,
mister Connelly? And that's a bad

546
00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:39.199
We're taking the season our quarter,
and so far we're making only about four

547
00:50:39.239 --> 00:50:43.920
inches of water an our four inches
of water an hour, sir, yes,

548
00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:47.920
sir. Good. Then we'll take
a chance on it, and take

549
00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:53.079
a chance on what sir, and
distress message just picking up the wireless sheck.

550
00:50:53.719 --> 00:51:00.480
Yeah, take a look the freighter
Johannes out of New Bristo, sharp

551
00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:05.920
broken auxiliaries out of commission ship and
water fires, latitude forty six thirty longit

552
00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:12.760
two let me see, yeah,
about ninety mile from a snow by the

553
00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:15.639
west. Yeah, that's right,
mister Conley, lay out the court.

554
00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:21.199
You know what, we should sight
her sometime around dawn. If we hold

555
00:51:21.199 --> 00:51:25.400
at full speed all night, full
speed, get into what hurricane Wakelanard fall

556
00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:30.000
apart in two hours. I doubt
it. He's a good ship layout the

557
00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:34.000
cost. Yeah, but that Johannes
is right in the main ship in lane.

558
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:37.320
Somebody else has found to pick her
up before morning. Anyway, mister

559
00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:42.119
Connolly, we can hope not.
What do you mean hope not? Evidently

560
00:51:42.199 --> 00:51:45.880
you didn't notice her, registrate,
mister Connley, she's out of New Bristol.

561
00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:49.440
Oh what of it that, as
you may recall, is the town

562
00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:52.360
that threw me into jail, got
all the papers like as not. My

563
00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:55.840
daughters have been mean, have probably
read about it. For now, I'll

564
00:51:55.880 --> 00:51:59.719
not have them thinking their father as
a man who does nothing but go around

565
00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:01.599
bunch people in the nugget. All
right, but what's it got to do

566
00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:06.719
with this. I'm going to be
alongside the Johannes before anybody else is,

567
00:52:06.760 --> 00:52:10.239
mister Connley. I'm going to rescue
every man about her. Then I'm going

568
00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:14.639
to take him back to New Bristol
and get a public apology out of the

569
00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:19.039
town. I'll see that that gets
in the papers too. I've never heard

570
00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:23.440
of anything so crazy. You've never
heard of, mister Conley. Lay out

571
00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:28.880
that cost now before I get mad, decide to punch somebody's gusted head off.

572
00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:43.519
Well, the little cock of the
walk made good the first part of

573
00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:47.039
his plan, all right, in
spite of a broken steam injector that had

574
00:52:47.079 --> 00:52:52.360
to be patched up with Briggin wym
By. Shortly after dawn he had us

575
00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:57.280
hove to half cable length off on
the Johannes. She was down by the

576
00:52:57.400 --> 00:53:01.440
stern and listing badly and still afloat
the winds, howling like a benshee,

577
00:53:01.440 --> 00:53:07.039
and the flying stume was freezing all
over our decks. There was no doubt,

578
00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:09.039
but what the next part of our
job is going to be a lot

579
00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:15.639
tougher than the first time, Hester
Conley. You got a boat two together,

580
00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:17.360
Yes, sir, there'll be five
seamen and the third mate, I'll

581
00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:22.199
take charge myself. Heave a third
made of bard. I'll take charge percent

582
00:53:22.639 --> 00:53:24.639
it's my show. I'm good to
ruddy all right, Champ, whatever you're

583
00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:29.320
saying, well, that's holding this
up. Let's get this boat over the

584
00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:32.880
side, not bro Captain Carvin is
trying to break a loose Well, he's

585
00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:37.719
not cracking walnuts at the tea party, hair chips. Give me that mellet,

586
00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:42.440
mister Robtts, Yes, sir,
you'll stay on one if thee but

587
00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:47.960
oil sleep running waves on that pretty
high, really high. I haven't seen

588
00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:53.119
him anyh Well, I can't help
it, mister Cunley. I've got stand

589
00:53:54.639 --> 00:54:09.920
ready there away. For the seven
of us who went overside in the longboat,

590
00:54:09.960 --> 00:54:15.320
that command was the beginning of a
nightmare. If things had been bad

591
00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:19.000
up on the Wakeland's deck, there
were a hundred times worse down there.

592
00:54:19.039 --> 00:54:22.599
In the very midst of that smash, in that tumbling mail stream of water

593
00:54:22.679 --> 00:54:29.000
and wind, a continuous driving spray
was torn from the wave crests and froze

594
00:54:29.039 --> 00:54:34.079
solid on the gunwales and the boat
seats and on our faces. One man

595
00:54:34.199 --> 00:54:38.360
baled constantly, while the others pulled
away on the oars with bleeding hands.

596
00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:45.800
And even then we were never far
from foundering. Captain Weatherfield sat in the

597
00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:49.599
stern and shouted orders. None of
us could hear, but we could see

598
00:54:49.639 --> 00:54:52.159
his face, and that was enough
to keep us at it. With a

599
00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:58.559
halo of sheet glass round his souester
and his gray beard turned to a frozen

600
00:54:58.639 --> 00:55:04.280
mass of jumble issac. He looked
like Neptune come to life, or maybe

601
00:55:04.360 --> 00:55:15.920
even more like like the devil himself. It took us over two hours before

602
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:21.519
we finally hauled in against the rusty
side of the battle. Old Johannes h

603
00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:31.639
the day. I sure did what
you'll have to jump for it. Can't

604
00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:40.559
use the letter. She's too heavy, understand, away, wait till we

605
00:55:40.639 --> 00:55:45.679
come up. But as swell we
hold as steady as we can. And

606
00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:52.360
fine, no, not yet,
lord. He fell on the gun.

607
00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:55.599
Lasted fool told him to eat.
He smashed in his chest. It's the

608
00:55:55.679 --> 00:55:59.280
captain of the ship. Then he
had no business jump in first anyhow,

609
00:55:59.480 --> 00:56:06.480
holimbo, get hi right away?
All right, ready on deck? Alright

610
00:56:06.559 --> 00:56:14.440
there, daddy, Now stole that
man half there? Okay, wait,

611
00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:22.000
well wait wait now a plast to
see your hand. You are deck jumped

612
00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:30.039
out play you then helped him up. There comes another catchaim, catch him

613
00:56:30.239 --> 00:56:34.519
good black horse shoes sad by one
and a half night. There pick comes

614
00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:38.840
another one, honor, steady,
keep one or against this idea? Anybody

615
00:56:38.880 --> 00:56:45.639
else up there and is good now, sir, others have lost overboard last

616
00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:47.440
night. All right, then back
off yours you that Plan'll get ahold of

617
00:56:47.440 --> 00:56:52.599
that order. He can't do it
very well with with only one arm tapping,

618
00:56:52.679 --> 00:56:54.119
not doing, you mean one arm. He broke his arm a couple

619
00:56:54.159 --> 00:56:57.880
of minutes ago when we bumped the
side, and give him a bucket.

620
00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:08.679
Least he can bail, all right. It was six hours before we finally

621
00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:14.199
got back aboard the Wakeland, but
we did get back, and I doubt

622
00:57:14.199 --> 00:57:17.039
if any other man but Captain Weatherfield
could have done it. True enough,

623
00:57:17.119 --> 00:57:22.079
he fainted across the engine room hatch
once we were on board. But don't

624
00:57:22.119 --> 00:57:27.960
forget he was seventy two years old. He'd taken a crew of six out

625
00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:30.079
in an open boat in the high
seas in the middle of a hurricane,

626
00:57:30.440 --> 00:57:35.280
rescued six more men off a sinking
ship, and brought the whole twelve back

627
00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:38.719
alive. Well one of them,
of course, was only barely alive,

628
00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:43.880
and that was Captain Miller of the
Johannes. He was still unconscious. I

629
00:57:43.960 --> 00:57:47.840
had him put in a bunk and
hoped for the best, and then I

630
00:57:49.039 --> 00:58:02.039
turned in to grab a few hours
sleep. I guess it was some time

631
00:58:02.199 --> 00:58:07.880
after midnight when the third mate called
me. I got dressed, went down,

632
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:14.639
woke up the captain. I founded, mister Conley can't a man,

633
00:58:14.679 --> 00:58:16.440
he can close his eyes, bought
this ship that somebody roused him out of

634
00:58:16.480 --> 00:58:21.199
his bunk. I'm sorry, captain, thought you ought to know. Miller's

635
00:58:21.320 --> 00:58:23.639
conscious now and wants to see you. He thinks he is. He's dying,

636
00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:29.000
dying, is it? I'll see
about that. Where's my pants?

637
00:58:29.159 --> 00:58:35.760
Well? Here you are, sir, thank you. Yeah, it might

638
00:58:35.840 --> 00:58:39.280
be a good thing if Miller did
die, according to his first mate,

639
00:58:39.360 --> 00:58:45.519
Larson Well. Larson says they had
plenty of warning this storm, but Miller

640
00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:49.239
drove straight on into it. He
was racing for Port. Racing for Port

641
00:58:49.719 --> 00:58:52.199
bad business. There will be an
inquiry on it. He'll lose his ticket

642
00:58:52.239 --> 00:58:57.639
when they find out. It's also
bad business, mister Connley. When first

643
00:58:57.719 --> 00:59:02.719
mates talk out of ten, come
on, where is he? I put

644
00:59:02.800 --> 00:59:06.480
him in the cabin off the wardroom, and the third mates in there with

645
00:59:06.599 --> 00:59:10.800
him. Now, how is the
ship heading lo south? We're running before

646
00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:14.639
the wind. Can't do anything else. I told you, mister Connelly,

647
00:59:14.679 --> 00:59:16.239
to lay a cost for New Bristol
Pie. No, but we can't do

648
00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:20.639
it. The main boilers out and
we're on the auxiliaries. They take two

649
00:59:20.719 --> 00:59:25.159
days to fix conund the black risk
my life to rescue a man tries to

650
00:59:25.239 --> 00:59:29.599
die on me. Now that bone
hit engineers let the main boiler break down.

651
00:59:29.800 --> 00:59:31.280
That's not his fault. It should
have been replaced five years ago.

652
00:59:31.559 --> 00:59:36.559
Five years ago. What's mister connolly? Five years ago? Sir? Good,

653
00:59:37.719 --> 00:59:44.239
Here we are to go, sir. I was getting worried. It's

654
00:59:44.239 --> 00:59:46.639
all right, mister Roberts, Yes, stand back a bit rul the night

655
00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:55.039
app Yes, there that's Rye evening. Captain Miller, he captain. Yeah

656
00:59:55.199 --> 01:00:02.920
in seven pain I ticket. Yeah, here's a something sharp stick at my

657
01:00:04.119 --> 01:00:10.159
chest getting worse, something sharpe,
no doubt. The broken in the rib

658
01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:17.519
poking into your LUTs. Yeah yeah, yeah, yes, hey he feels

659
01:00:17.599 --> 01:00:25.719
like there's a rib gone. Oh
h well, I want to make this

660
01:00:27.480 --> 01:00:31.280
statement. The log I do figure
you're getting ready to die? Is that

661
01:00:31.400 --> 01:00:38.519
it? Yeah? Not much chance? Shouldn't I shouldn't have jump first,

662
01:00:38.840 --> 01:00:44.800
No, you shouldn't. He understand
you was racing for pot, drove straight

663
01:00:44.880 --> 01:00:52.639
into the star. Yeah ahead.
It's my wife, her first baby wanted

664
01:00:52.679 --> 01:00:55.639
to be with her. What's he's
saying to her while he's thinking of having

665
01:00:55.639 --> 01:01:05.000
a baby? Rabbits statement responsibility.
We'll discuss that leader, Captain. That

666
01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:07.599
lung gets a whole punched in it. Get done for. It's practically done

667
01:01:07.639 --> 01:01:12.199
for now, you know, mister
Connley saw a doctor open up a man

668
01:01:12.280 --> 01:01:15.119
once pick a broken ribot. Think
I can remember fairly well how he went

669
01:01:15.159 --> 01:01:21.320
about it, and there ought to
be some qualify on board. Captain Weathers.

670
01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:24.000
You shut up, mister Conley.
Captain Miller, it's one chance,

671
01:01:24.079 --> 01:01:29.239
the Midian, but you've got no
chance now, how about it? Eh,

672
01:01:29.760 --> 01:01:37.320
anything doesn't matter, be an inquiry
report. Better die well. We'll

673
01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:42.519
worry about that leader all right.
Then we'll find that qlify mister Roberts,

674
01:01:42.760 --> 01:01:45.039
Yes, sir, and bring me
a bar of soap. Yes, and

675
01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:47.280
get a couple of their little knives
whatever they call them, out of the

676
01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:52.840
medicine locker. Yes, mister Condley, do wake up that first fraid of

677
01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:54.920
his get him in here. We'll
need a witness to Captain Miller's consent,

678
01:01:55.639 --> 01:02:00.159
and mister Connley fine chips and borrow's
chest of tools. Never can tell what

679
01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:15.320
you'll find once you start open the
man up in ten minutes we had everything

680
01:02:15.400 --> 01:02:20.000
ready. Larson signed a statement swearing
that Captain Miller had agreed to him,

681
01:02:20.800 --> 01:02:23.360
and the third mate, with his
face white as a sheet, stood at

682
01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:29.280
the head of the bunk, dripping
chloroform under a towel, holding it over

683
01:02:29.440 --> 01:02:34.400
Miller's nose and mouth. I held
a light in one hand and kept the

684
01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:39.079
other on the patient's pulse while Captain
Weatherfield rolled up his sleeves and started in

685
01:02:39.239 --> 01:02:52.400
on a major operation that he thought
he'd seen some doctor perform. Once everything

686
01:02:52.519 --> 01:02:55.119
snugging, brobab has he seemed to
be getting along. Mister Connley, Uh,

687
01:02:55.199 --> 01:02:59.159
oh no, he's still breathing.
You know he's breathing. Man,

688
01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:04.280
his chest operating on. How's his
pulse? Pretty weak? No worse than

689
01:03:04.360 --> 01:03:08.400
it was. Keep that chloroform dripping, mister Roberts, yes, sir,

690
01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:16.239
well, there's no time like the
person. Oh hold that like steady,

691
01:03:16.280 --> 01:03:22.559
mister Connley, sir, steady yourself. Now let me see I think that

692
01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:30.159
doctor did it like like this mm
hmm. Have used up half the chloroform,

693
01:03:30.239 --> 01:03:35.360
captain, Keep it dripping, rabbitts, m Well, well, now

694
01:03:36.320 --> 01:03:42.920
don't remember anything like that being in
there. See now pulses getting pretty weak,

695
01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:45.599
mister Connley. Don't bother me.
Got more important things here to think

696
01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:52.360
about. Mm hmm. Okay,
that's it. Here's the end of the

697
01:03:52.480 --> 01:03:57.840
rap right now. I can just
that's all right, let it go.

698
01:03:58.360 --> 01:04:01.280
Don't need the knife anymore, founded
Conley, give me a little more room

699
01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:05.960
to work in Kevin small enough days. Captain, his post is stopped.

700
01:04:06.119 --> 01:04:12.719
No it hasn't, mister Connley.
Now why the devil doesn't get rid?

701
01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:15.920
Come loose when I it's no use, Captain, He's dead. His heart

702
01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:20.079
stopped beating. Mister Connley, don't
stand there try to tell me his heart

703
01:04:20.119 --> 01:04:25.960
stopped when I can see it beating
right now, mister Larson, Yes,

704
01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:29.320
sir. Would you look at that
tool chest behind Jeff see if you can

705
01:04:29.400 --> 01:04:41.280
find me a pair of pliers.
I doubt if there's ever been another operation

706
01:04:41.519 --> 01:04:45.000
like it before or since. By
all rights, Captain Miller should have died

707
01:04:45.079 --> 01:04:56.360
ten times over right there on the
bunk. Only he didn't. He was

708
01:04:56.440 --> 01:05:00.800
unconscious for forty eight hours, but
on the fifth day he sitting up on

709
01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:04.920
a deck chair and cussing because somebody
had slung his broken rib overboard instead of

710
01:05:05.360 --> 01:05:15.559
saving it, so he could whittle
out a letter opener. We were driven

711
01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:18.320
six hundred miles to the south before
the storm blew itself out, and we

712
01:05:18.440 --> 01:05:23.559
got the main boiler back into operation
and could lay a course for New Bristol,

713
01:05:24.599 --> 01:05:28.880
and three days away from port.
Captain Weatherfield called all of us officers

714
01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:32.199
of the Weightman together in the chart
room, along with first mate Larson under

715
01:05:32.280 --> 01:05:38.800
Johannes. Gentlemen, there may be
some questions in your minds in regard to

716
01:05:38.880 --> 01:05:42.480
what this meeting is all about.
No doubt your wondering, even if you

717
01:05:42.519 --> 01:05:45.199
aren't asking. Am I right?
Well, yes, sir, we have

718
01:05:45.280 --> 01:05:49.280
been trying to guess. Then I'll
tell you, gentlemen. I called this

719
01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:54.400
meeting to put a stop to certain
idle rumors which I hear have been floated

720
01:05:54.440 --> 01:05:59.480
around. Just what kind of rumors, Captain Weatherfield nim which says that Captain

721
01:05:59.519 --> 01:06:04.199
Miller of Lateship Johannes liberately drove hidden
into a storm while racing to make port.

722
01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:10.159
There's no rooman about that. It's
what he was doing as his first

723
01:06:10.280 --> 01:06:14.159
mate. I should know, and
I say he wasn't, mister Lasson the

724
01:06:14.239 --> 01:06:17.760
way I figure it got caught by
the storm without anyone in he gave orders

725
01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:20.480
for full speed to try to beat
out of it. A couple of hours

726
01:06:20.559 --> 01:06:26.360
later, mainshaft broke left him helpless
without stirageway. Could happen to anybody?

727
01:06:26.800 --> 01:06:32.199
Maybe only it didn't. I was
there, Captain Weatherfield. I know what

728
01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:36.320
happened, and there's five of my
crew left to back me up. They'll

729
01:06:36.400 --> 01:06:41.079
pack up anything you say, mister
Larson, you know that, and there's

730
01:06:41.159 --> 01:06:44.960
nothing to talk about. And a
board of inquiry gets through with Miller.

731
01:06:45.599 --> 01:06:49.639
He won't command another ship as long
as he lives, so there's not going

732
01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:55.199
to be any pod of inquiry.
Ah, maybe that's not up to you,

733
01:06:55.599 --> 01:06:58.800
which is what we're here to decide. I don't get it. Captain

734
01:06:59.039 --> 01:07:01.280
Miller's a rat, was the first
one to jump when we come alongside.

735
01:07:01.760 --> 01:07:05.000
Anything that happens to him serves him
right now, Why should you stick up

736
01:07:05.079 --> 01:07:08.320
for him? My personal opinion of
the man has nothing to do with this,

737
01:07:08.400 --> 01:07:13.000
Miss Conley. I say there'll be
no bout of inquiry because it suits

738
01:07:13.039 --> 01:07:16.840
my purposes the defeat, And just
what are your purposons, Captain? I

739
01:07:17.039 --> 01:07:20.639
drove my ship ninety miles off of
course in a hurricane, risked my life

740
01:07:20.639 --> 01:07:25.280
in an open boat just for one
reason, mister Larson, because I knew

741
01:07:25.320 --> 01:07:29.199
you were registered out of New Bristol. Ah, so that's it him,

742
01:07:29.239 --> 01:07:32.000
mister Conley, that's it. I
updated on. A man saved his life

743
01:07:32.079 --> 01:07:34.840
just so he could stand up alongside
of me. Have our pictures taken for

744
01:07:34.880 --> 01:07:40.159
the newspapers? I get it.
So you don't want some massive board of

745
01:07:40.239 --> 01:07:43.679
inquiry, don't want scandal in the
story of your noble rescue on the high

746
01:07:43.800 --> 01:07:46.079
sea? Eh? You want to
be a blessed hero, mister Larson.

747
01:07:46.320 --> 01:07:49.239
Being a hero has got nothing to
do with it. But I am planning

748
01:07:49.320 --> 01:07:53.760
to get a public apology out of
the town of New Bristol, and you

749
01:07:54.280 --> 01:07:56.840
or nobody else is going to do
anything to stop me. Oh well,

750
01:07:56.880 --> 01:07:59.519
it's too bad you haven't got the
whole say about it, captain. And

751
01:07:59.639 --> 01:08:02.239
it's too bad yourself bullheaded said on
swear the way your captain's ticket, that

752
01:08:02.360 --> 01:08:05.559
you forced me to teach you a
lesson, And just how are you aiming

753
01:08:05.679 --> 01:08:10.719
to do that by knucking a little
sense into your thick knugin something like this?

754
01:08:13.599 --> 01:08:20.000
So what's up right, you're am, captain? Teach me a lesson?

755
01:08:21.319 --> 01:08:27.520
Learn I teach you all right,
captain, Get up, mister Larson,

756
01:08:28.640 --> 01:08:32.279
Oh, catch up, all right, it's not the ner So you

757
01:08:32.560 --> 01:08:41.720
t like to step in? What? Well? Listen, kay? What

758
01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:50.600
about his hun threw? They're going
to be a part of inquiry. Now,

759
01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:55.680
I'll back up anything you say,
good? What about the rest of

760
01:08:55.760 --> 01:09:01.880
you? Anything I say? Go
yes? Get back on? What what

761
01:09:01.960 --> 01:09:13.279
do you think? This is a
peaceful harbor of a sunday. It was

762
01:09:13.359 --> 01:09:16.720
a clear, sunshiny day when we
esteemed in the New Bristol Harbor and dropped

763
01:09:16.760 --> 01:09:23.119
anchor at the mouth of the river. Captain Weatherfield sent Miller on ashore quarantine,

764
01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:28.840
he insisting that his reason was not
just to make sure of having a

765
01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:33.439
reception ready. Nonetheless, he spent
an hour and a half shaving, trimming

766
01:09:33.520 --> 01:09:38.760
his hair, and dressing up in
his best shore going clothes. But he

767
01:09:38.880 --> 01:09:42.920
had a right to strut a little
of them. He'd moved through a whole

768
01:09:43.039 --> 01:09:46.159
series of tough jobs, and every
one against almost impossible odds, and he'd

769
01:09:46.239 --> 01:09:50.399
come out on top, and all
because he wanted his daughters up in Maine.

770
01:09:51.159 --> 01:09:56.359
Though he could do something once in
a wild designs punch people in the

771
01:09:56.520 --> 01:10:05.439
nuggin. It was mid afternoon by
the time we finally rowed ashore on the

772
01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:10.840
long boat, and the good sized
crowd that assembled on the wall, and

773
01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:14.279
when we got him close we could
see Captain Miller waiting by the landing,

774
01:10:14.359 --> 01:10:19.159
along with the regular reception committee,
all dressed up in striped pants and top

775
01:10:19.239 --> 01:10:25.239
hats like a bunch of foreign diplomats. And the headman of the whole layout

776
01:10:25.319 --> 01:10:30.199
was the same judge had given the
captain seven days in jail. Easy damage,

777
01:10:30.279 --> 01:10:46.000
Conley and all those studies their thank
you, yeah, welcome weather here

778
01:10:46.319 --> 01:10:49.279
on behalf of the town of New
Bristol. Milla's mighty nice, have you

779
01:10:49.399 --> 01:10:54.800
judge a dog, Captain, We're
the one on the whole town. We

780
01:10:54.920 --> 01:10:57.720
want you to know it well,
Thank you, judge. Captain Miller here

781
01:10:57.800 --> 01:11:00.920
has given us a complete story.
Rescue it see the daring operation that saved

782
01:11:00.920 --> 01:11:04.199
his life here here. How you
feeling, Captain Miller. I'm a little

783
01:11:04.319 --> 01:11:10.119
tired right now, Captain. It's
been pretty busy arranging things, you know,

784
01:11:11.560 --> 01:11:15.239
of course, now here in this
town, Captain Weatherfield, there's nothing

785
01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:17.520
too good for you. Real proud
of you. I was wondering if you

786
01:11:17.640 --> 01:11:20.760
recall a little incident where we met
before Judge, not so long ago.

787
01:11:21.520 --> 01:11:25.920
A terrible mistake I'll never forgive myself. I mean, I owe your public

788
01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:29.319
apology, Captain Wetherfield. Yeah,
don't believe you know just what to say,

789
01:11:29.399 --> 01:11:32.079
Judge. But then at all two
say, Captain Wetherfield, As I

790
01:11:32.119 --> 01:11:35.560
said before, we're the ones that
are honored the whole town of New Bristol,

791
01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:39.960
all of New England too. By
Joe, what's those reporters get their

792
01:11:39.960 --> 01:11:44.800
stories on the wire? Is hey? Well, now that's doing too much

793
01:11:44.840 --> 01:11:47.720
trouble, Judge. Right there will
be wanting an interview with you. You

794
01:11:47.800 --> 01:11:53.199
know that quite a time keeping them
off this long. You're a hero man.

795
01:11:53.279 --> 01:11:56.079
Do you realize that I only did
my duty? Judge? The New

796
01:11:56.199 --> 01:12:00.479
Bristol needs more men who only do
their duty. Captain Weatherfield. Nightly nice

797
01:12:00.479 --> 01:12:03.000
of you to say so when I
recall the way you were treated here a

798
01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:06.760
few weeks ago, Captain, Well, all I can do is to ask

799
01:12:06.800 --> 01:12:11.319
your forgiveness publicly. Has suspect that
might your range, Judge, and not

800
01:12:11.439 --> 01:12:15.920
a man there at that's which your
actions are proven, sir, have been

801
01:12:15.960 --> 01:12:18.520
there, fellows with the cameras,
the reporters are there. Oh yes,

802
01:12:18.760 --> 01:12:23.000
yes, indeed, Captain well,
of course the photographer. Really, they're

803
01:12:23.039 --> 01:12:27.319
taking them pictures to print the newspapers. That's right, Captain, They'll be

804
01:12:27.439 --> 01:12:31.039
seen by people all over the country. Nay, I suppose we might walk

805
01:12:31.079 --> 01:12:35.800
over that week, certainly, Captain
Weatherfiell's certainly anything you like want to join,

806
01:12:35.920 --> 01:12:42.640
is Captain Miller. Thanks, gentlemen. You know, I was just

807
01:12:42.760 --> 01:12:45.319
thinking, if they print a picture
of that ship out there, nobody will

808
01:12:45.319 --> 01:12:49.720
believe the story. What did you
say, Captain Miller, I said,

809
01:12:49.720 --> 01:12:54.239
they wouldn't believe it. To look
at that old mud sky, you wouldn't

810
01:12:54.239 --> 01:12:59.520
think she could float in the calm
see much less whether you struck them to

811
01:12:59.560 --> 01:13:12.479
call my scarfed sentiment, stop by
say stummis stoppy, constable? Constable addressed

812
01:13:12.840 --> 01:13:25.680
man and look him up. I'm
finding the charge of assault and feathery escape.

813
01:13:25.720 --> 01:13:29.399
Produced and directed by Norman McDonald,
Tonight Brought You a Habit by F.

814
01:13:29.600 --> 01:13:32.319
R. Buckley, adapted for radio
by Less Crutchfield, with editorial supervision

815
01:13:32.359 --> 01:13:38.520
by John Duncle. Featured in tonight's
cast where John Dayner as mister mcconley and

816
01:13:38.720 --> 01:13:43.520
Louis van Ruten as Captain Weatherfield,
with Wilms Herbert as Captain Miller, Barry

817
01:13:43.560 --> 01:13:47.199
Kroger as the Judge, and Bill
Bouchet as first mate Larson. Special music

818
01:13:47.319 --> 01:13:55.960
by Ivan Ditmars. Next week,
you are making your painful way over the

819
01:13:56.039 --> 01:14:01.119
great Indian desert alone and dying of
thirst, while behind you pursuing you.

820
01:14:01.239 --> 01:14:09.159
What the fanatical copy is once bowed
to you as king, and now call

821
01:14:09.359 --> 01:14:21.239
for your life? What is it
about being up so late at night that

822
01:14:21.439 --> 01:14:28.960
makes us us concerns? That makes
us worse? After all, a full

823
01:14:29.079 --> 01:14:34.359
moon and sky full of stars is
quite beautiful, is it not yet?

824
01:14:34.680 --> 01:14:43.640
Yet? When nightfall comes, we
all become a little little edgy, we

825
01:14:43.840 --> 01:14:49.279
all get a little bit sharp,
as it were. Well, this story

826
01:14:49.439 --> 01:14:56.800
is about why. That's a part
of human nature, you see this story.

827
01:14:58.520 --> 01:15:02.520
Murder comes at me night. Well, don't worry, my dear,

828
01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:08.600
it's far past midnight. I don't
reckon anything like that is going to happen,

829
01:15:08.640 --> 01:15:12.960
to happen, not tonight anyway,
So go on, go on,

830
01:15:13.319 --> 01:15:16.319
put your feet back up. Relax
or what's that? What's that? Oh

831
01:15:16.479 --> 01:15:20.840
no, no, no, no, don't concern yourself at all. Just

832
01:15:20.960 --> 01:15:30.960
relax and listen with me, with
me, Billy ling Creed, I like

833
01:15:30.079 --> 01:15:45.520
your listery playoffs fell in a title
Good Evening, Friends of the Inner Sanctum.

834
01:15:46.640 --> 01:15:53.520
Is your host inviting you into the
squeaking door. I just want to

835
01:15:53.600 --> 01:15:57.319
send him man. He runs an
all night's billiard academy near the cemetery.

836
01:15:58.359 --> 01:16:02.680
After midnight, the uncovered the goold
tables, but no rough stuff in his

837
01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:10.199
place. Now he settles all arguments
by arbitration, simply lifts the shroud and

838
01:16:10.439 --> 01:16:15.000
points out they haven't a leg to
stand. Believe the old motto that a

839
01:16:15.159 --> 01:16:32.920
fiend in need is a fiend indeed. Now dust off the edge of your

840
01:16:33.079 --> 01:16:36.920
chair, because that's where you'll be
sitting for the rest of the tare hour,

841
01:16:38.880 --> 01:16:44.159
and listen to murder comes at midnight. This is the story of how

842
01:16:44.239 --> 01:16:48.199
one average family, even as yours
and mine, spent a quiet night at

843
01:16:48.199 --> 01:16:56.600
the rented country house the night of
terror. As I said, the Cannings

844
01:16:56.640 --> 01:17:00.000
were just an average family. Harry
was twenty nine and worked as a sound

845
01:17:00.079 --> 01:17:04.960
and engineer for a broadcasting studio in
the city. Ethel was twenty seven,

846
01:17:05.720 --> 01:17:10.600
had been a school teacher before she
was married. Now she was kept pretty

847
01:17:10.640 --> 01:17:14.520
busy between writing the Great American novel
and taking care of Judy, her seven

848
01:17:14.600 --> 01:17:16.960
year old daughter. This was the
first year they had rented a house in

849
01:17:17.039 --> 01:17:20.720
the country for the summer, and
Ethel didn't take much to the idea being

850
01:17:20.760 --> 01:17:30.800
alone the first I didn't know what
it was it will be. Perhaps it

851
01:17:30.880 --> 01:17:33.720
was because I was expecting Harry.
He formed that he was working all the

852
01:17:33.760 --> 01:17:38.560
time. He wouldn't be home till
after midnight. I didn't like the idea

853
01:17:38.600 --> 01:17:43.520
of driving sixty miles from the city
at that art for Maybe it was just

854
01:17:43.600 --> 01:17:47.560
because I wasn't used to being alone
with Judy in the old house. I

855
01:17:47.640 --> 01:17:54.399
got out of bit. I opened
the connecting door to Judy's room. She

856
01:17:54.560 --> 01:18:04.000
was sleeping quietly. The door softly
went across to my window. Something had

857
01:18:04.039 --> 01:18:10.399
awakened me, of course. Was
it a sound I heard in my sleep

858
01:18:14.479 --> 01:18:19.000
or was it a premonition? I
looked out the window and I was dark.

859
01:18:19.039 --> 01:18:23.640
With a thousand secrets. Harry should
have been home by this time.

860
01:18:24.279 --> 01:18:28.319
My watch showed a few minutes after
twelve. Maybe he'd had an accident.

861
01:18:28.359 --> 01:18:32.119
Maybe that's why I awakened, some
sort of telepathy. And then I saw

862
01:18:32.159 --> 01:18:36.039
the headlights. It was Harry.
He was turning in our road. The

863
01:18:36.119 --> 01:18:40.239
headlights shabby for a moment, and
he swung into our driveway. Everything was

864
01:18:40.319 --> 01:18:45.760
all right. I'll be right down, Harry. Restlessly, I raced downstairs

865
01:18:45.760 --> 01:18:49.399
because I mean, I was so
happy I could cry. It was only

866
01:18:49.479 --> 01:18:54.159
then I realized what tension I had
been under all because of my silly views.

867
01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:58.239
I unlocked the door quickly. Oh, Harry, I was so ware.

868
01:18:59.680 --> 01:19:02.880
Sorry. The body is the late
man and an accident with my tid.

869
01:19:04.039 --> 01:19:12.199
Oh I thought you were my husband. Sorry to disappo you. Oh

870
01:19:12.279 --> 01:19:14.479
no, no, I'm afraid you
can't come in. My husband isn't home

871
01:19:14.600 --> 01:19:18.119
yet. Well I won't be for
long. I haven't you heard get your

872
01:19:18.159 --> 01:19:24.279
own heard in the accident said it's
broken? Was the poor man? Here's

873
01:19:24.479 --> 01:19:31.159
John right here? That's better.
I'm so limp. Do you really think

874
01:19:31.159 --> 01:19:35.600
it's broken? I can't tell.
It's kind of numb here. I feel

875
01:19:35.640 --> 01:19:41.159
so helpless. I don't know what
to do. I took a birthdade course

876
01:19:41.239 --> 01:19:44.560
during the war, but I don't
remember a thing. Maybe I got a

877
01:19:44.600 --> 01:19:46.720
call doctor show, so please don't
go to the trouble trouble. The phones

878
01:19:46.800 --> 01:19:51.880
right here, I said, no
doctor down that phone. Please. I

879
01:19:51.920 --> 01:20:03.439
don't understand. Maybe you understand this
A drum but the phone down. Who

880
01:20:03.560 --> 01:20:11.000
are you? I'll ask the questions
from now on. Your name's Canning,

881
01:20:11.119 --> 01:20:15.720
isn't it? How did you know
names on the door? Isn't it?

882
01:20:15.800 --> 01:20:23.079
Oh? And the phone is there? What do you mean? And your

883
01:20:23.159 --> 01:20:25.680
dialogy? You have to ask the
operator for the numbers? Oh, you

884
01:20:25.840 --> 01:20:31.279
just push the phone over here to
this side of the table. Who are

885
01:20:31.319 --> 01:20:35.560
you going to call the phone?
You better get out of here before my

886
01:20:35.680 --> 01:20:41.600
husband comes home. The phone.
How do you think you'd make out in

887
01:20:41.680 --> 01:20:50.520
an argument? Was there? Oh? The phone? Thank you? Let's

888
01:20:50.560 --> 01:20:57.960
step back a little. That's good. Good. I have to put this

889
01:20:58.279 --> 01:21:01.520
gun down while I make my call. It's on my mind. But you

890
01:21:01.800 --> 01:21:05.119
understand that I can pick it up
faster than you could reach it from there,

891
01:21:05.199 --> 01:21:10.840
don't you. Yes, I understand. I see. We'll get along

892
01:21:10.920 --> 01:21:15.279
all right. Oh, operator,
get me plasand nine nine, nine seventh.

893
01:21:15.319 --> 01:21:19.439
Oh yeah, let me please,
But this is the eighth sixty four.

894
01:21:19.640 --> 01:21:25.079
Please after your phone call, you
get out before my husband comes home.

895
01:21:25.840 --> 01:21:30.520
He's laid already. You wouldn't turn
an injured man out of your house

896
01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:34.600
in the middle of the night.
Hello, went done, that's right.

897
01:21:36.159 --> 01:21:41.159
I had a little trouble out of
my arm. Look, I think you'd

898
01:21:41.159 --> 01:21:44.439
better come up here. Yeah,
I'm bringing Fred and Doc Stetson along.

899
01:21:45.479 --> 01:21:49.000
Oh no, no, it's fine, there'll be any trouble. I'm a

900
01:21:49.840 --> 01:21:56.880
guest. I'm very good. Friends
up here canning to me. Or you

901
01:21:57.079 --> 01:22:00.720
drive up Highway twenty six to a
court and turn right when you pass the

902
01:22:00.800 --> 01:22:04.560
first gas station just a mile from
there. You ought to be here by

903
01:22:04.640 --> 01:22:13.159
six in the morning. There'll be
a light Hoddan stairs window in the morning.

904
01:22:14.640 --> 01:22:18.600
You can't stay here all night.
You got shut out. Uh?

905
01:22:23.720 --> 01:22:28.560
What's that over there? Radio?
Yes, pretty big. It's depending and

906
01:22:28.640 --> 01:22:33.680
receiving. Terry build it in Chelseas
the radio engineer, and you get short

907
01:22:33.720 --> 01:22:44.920
waves please cause yes, turn it
on. It no where getting brave.

908
01:22:45.159 --> 01:22:47.920
Huh. I don't think you dare
to shoot me. It would be murdered.

909
01:22:47.920 --> 01:22:51.239
They tend you to the kid.
Now you get out of you you

910
01:22:51.319 --> 01:22:54.960
call your friends and tell them to
beat to something else. How there,

911
01:22:55.000 --> 01:23:01.920
I've opened the door and I'll get
out. Where about your husband? Afraid

912
01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:04.720
of what will happen to him if
he comes home Now? I want you

913
01:23:04.800 --> 01:23:08.199
to go away, and if you
don't go now, I'll run out and

914
01:23:08.239 --> 01:23:10.920
scream for help. There are other
houses in this neighborhood, and somebody will

915
01:23:10.960 --> 01:23:15.600
hear me, So go ahead and
run. What I won't shoot you?

916
01:23:16.159 --> 01:23:24.560
You won't. I don't have to. What do you mean you wouldn't dare

917
01:23:24.680 --> 01:23:30.039
to run out and leave your kid
upstairs? That little redheaded kid with a

918
01:23:30.359 --> 01:23:39.960
cute girl, Judy. How do
you know I have a daughter? Easy

919
01:23:40.840 --> 01:23:45.840
dog carriage over there? How do
you know she has red curve? Maybe

920
01:23:45.880 --> 01:23:53.680
I guessed it and her name too. Then I'm at radio all right,

921
01:24:01.439 --> 01:24:09.000
Young Highway twenty six. All cards
must be searched. Every passenger positively identify

922
01:24:09.039 --> 01:24:14.880
it. Officers are warned to exercise
extreme caution. They'll believe to be wounded.

923
01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:19.079
He's armed and dangers, I will
repeat. Arnie Bishop, known as

924
01:24:19.119 --> 01:24:25.520
the Gentleman Killer, escaped from custody
on board the Allegheny Limited at eleven o'clock

925
01:24:25.600 --> 01:24:30.079
while being escorted to the death House
at the State Britain. He's not to

926
01:24:30.159 --> 01:24:45.960
be heading north in the direction.
Now you know who I am? My

927
01:24:45.079 --> 01:24:48.159
friends and I'll stay here for a
few days. We'll make a fine hide

928
01:24:48.199 --> 01:24:51.960
out. What will you do when
my husband comes home? Don't worry about

929
01:24:53.000 --> 01:24:58.239
him. No, both we go
in the kitchen then you can make me

930
01:24:58.319 --> 01:25:02.199
something to eat. Tweet. Why
did you choose this? How to come

931
01:25:02.279 --> 01:25:08.920
to just talk to all of it? Can? He gets, yes,

932
01:25:09.000 --> 01:25:13.560
I can. How did you know
Judy's names and about the color of her

933
01:25:13.600 --> 01:25:15.279
head? Ah, you're getting warm. My husband, Harry, Harry told

934
01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:17.920
you you know you're pretty. Oh
please, don't you have any pity.

935
01:25:17.960 --> 01:25:21.760
You don't tell me what you did
to Harry hurt much. I just tapped

936
01:25:21.840 --> 01:25:26.199
him on the head, picked me
up on the road, give me a

937
01:25:26.279 --> 01:25:32.000
lip. I pumped him, found
out all about this house and about you

938
01:25:33.239 --> 01:25:38.640
and Jude. I knocked him out, kept going. It was pretty tough,

939
01:25:38.760 --> 01:25:41.960
driding with one hand, but I
made it. Where is here the

940
01:25:42.039 --> 01:25:44.399
back of the car. You can't
get loose. I'm going on to the

941
01:25:45.640 --> 01:26:00.680
I can't leave mother alone about this
little redheaded kitty. And you wouldn't better

942
01:26:00.800 --> 01:26:19.119
stay here if you want to make
sure to eat. Now, let's return

943
01:26:19.279 --> 01:26:25.680
to the little white Shingles house on
the hill, where Ethel Channing is entertaining

944
01:26:25.800 --> 01:26:30.039
her uninvited guests. Arnie Bishop,
you know, he's a pretty courageous guy

945
01:26:30.279 --> 01:26:35.840
for an ex convict. But then
maybe he has the courage of his convictions.

946
01:26:39.920 --> 01:26:44.680
But Annie isn't so smart and not
tangling with a redheaded garwn You ought

947
01:26:44.720 --> 01:26:49.720
to recall that old diddy hours ago. Beware of a girl with deep red

948
01:26:49.920 --> 01:26:56.119
hair, a man who is safer
in the electric chair, but who can

949
01:26:56.199 --> 01:26:59.920
tell how a taiale will end,
not in a sanctum. Let's join them

950
01:27:00.079 --> 01:27:05.640
the kitchen. M M. Excellent
baking eggs. I'm sure my friends are

951
01:27:05.720 --> 01:27:15.079
like cooking when they come. Or
coffee. Yeah, therefore I was gonna

952
01:27:15.079 --> 01:27:19.960
be reaching for the coffee cup.
I thought you might have ideas about grabbing

953
01:27:20.079 --> 01:27:32.119
this. There's for coffee. M
twenty after two, uh say, a

954
01:27:32.119 --> 01:27:35.960
half hours to go before my friends
get here. How will they get through

955
01:27:35.960 --> 01:27:40.319
the roadblock? Oh? You leave
it to there? What's that? That's

956
01:27:40.359 --> 01:27:42.319
the telephone. It's in the living
room. You better get to it.

957
01:27:43.640 --> 01:27:50.399
You don't, let's go that gun. You should have tried to What are

958
01:27:50.439 --> 01:27:56.319
you think to do? Answer that
telephone? First? Get gone? Anybody

959
01:27:56.359 --> 01:27:59.680
in the habit of calling in at
disar all right? Answer? But we

960
01:27:59.760 --> 01:28:09.439
kept what you say? Yes,
this is mister Kenny. Huh, it's

961
01:28:09.479 --> 01:28:14.720
for you, M all right?
May to receive it down on the table

962
01:28:14.760 --> 01:28:24.920
and walk away. It's fine enough. Don't try anything. Hello Linda,

963
01:28:26.399 --> 01:28:34.079
But would you get started yet?
But where are you? What roadblock?

964
01:28:35.039 --> 01:28:40.079
But you've got to get through.
I need Doc said, you've gotta make

965
01:28:40.119 --> 01:28:46.439
it and I can't stay awake forever. All right, all right, do

966
01:28:46.520 --> 01:28:53.680
your bed, Tell me back later
there. Oh it's ana, Missisha.

967
01:28:55.079 --> 01:28:59.439
Are your friends falling down? Oh? You don't have anything to worry about,

968
01:28:59.439 --> 01:29:02.199
Missidici. Aren't you a guest to
the cannies and the little white singled

969
01:29:02.239 --> 01:29:05.399
house a mile off Highway twenty sixth
north of a court boy? You can

970
01:29:05.520 --> 01:29:11.680
be sarcastic too. Why wouldn't there
be sarcastic to you? Especially when you

971
01:29:11.760 --> 01:29:15.479
have that gun and with my husband
unconscious in the car and you've gottening to

972
01:29:15.560 --> 01:29:18.119
harm my child? Don't know?
No, you still hold all the cards,

973
01:29:18.199 --> 01:29:21.520
mister Bishop. And you're such a
big, strong, brave man.

974
01:29:23.840 --> 01:29:26.560
What are you trying to do?
Get me mad enough? Aren't you going

975
01:29:26.640 --> 01:29:30.479
to kill me? Anyway? What
makes Because you're a kill her by instinct,

976
01:29:30.560 --> 01:29:32.800
mister Bishop, it's easier for you
to kill than to do anything else.

977
01:29:33.640 --> 01:29:36.479
I wonder why you didn't murder my
husband instead of just knocking him out?

978
01:29:38.359 --> 01:29:42.079
Was it because you thought you might
need him. You're not afraid of

979
01:29:42.199 --> 01:29:46.000
me anymore? No, I'm not. No, I just realized I can't

980
01:29:46.039 --> 01:29:50.239
afford to be afraid. I'm a
woman fighting for her family, for Harry

981
01:29:50.319 --> 01:29:55.640
and Judy, and I've got to
use all my wits against you. I

982
01:29:55.720 --> 01:29:59.479
can't afford to be afraid. You've
got some scheme in that crazy little brain

983
01:29:59.520 --> 01:30:01.960
of yours, that's, mister Bishop, I have I think I found a

984
01:30:02.079 --> 01:30:08.159
chink in your armor. You're a
cowet me. Yes, you you're the

985
01:30:08.199 --> 01:30:12.079
one who's afraid. Now. Your
friends aren't coming. You have a wound

986
01:30:12.119 --> 01:30:14.840
in your arm that needs treatment,
and you know you can't trust me.

987
01:30:15.760 --> 01:30:17.760
You don't have to close your eyes
even for five minutes, and you may

988
01:30:17.840 --> 01:30:20.159
have to stay here for several days. How do you like the prospect of

989
01:30:20.199 --> 01:30:24.439
seeing awake night and day, watching
me every minute of the time. I'm

990
01:30:24.479 --> 01:30:27.520
saying that you might drop off to
sleep at any minute. Oh, that's

991
01:30:27.920 --> 01:30:30.680
figure. Maybe you're gonna kill us
all right now, mister Bishop. That

992
01:30:30.760 --> 01:30:33.359
would be easy, wouldn't it.
Just three bullets? Then you wouldn't have

993
01:30:33.399 --> 01:30:39.720
to worry about watching any one.
That's an excellent idea, Yeah, But

994
01:30:39.800 --> 01:30:42.520
then you'd have other words, things
to worry about. Yes, this is

995
01:30:42.520 --> 01:30:45.279
Saturday morning. The milkman will come
to collect for the weak's milk. The

996
01:30:45.319 --> 01:30:48.399
neighbors will stop by to ask if
I want my marketing done? And what

997
01:30:48.479 --> 01:30:54.199
when you do stalk in the cellar
while they ring the doorbell? And then

998
01:30:54.239 --> 01:30:57.159
there's the police. What the police. They'll surely start this part of the

999
01:30:57.199 --> 01:31:00.439
country. They'll be making inquiries at
Oh, how do you want them to

1000
01:31:00.479 --> 01:31:09.039
find the car outside w Harry in
it? Oh? You figured all the

1001
01:31:09.119 --> 01:31:14.760
angles and you know you're pretty smart. Missus Kenny. I think you're even

1002
01:31:14.840 --> 01:31:21.800
smarter than Linda. But you forget
one thing. Yes, you forget that

1003
01:31:23.039 --> 01:31:28.199
little girl that's dead. What do
you mean? Come along and I'll show

1004
01:31:28.199 --> 01:31:33.199
you. You stay away from juice. Maybe you think you've got everything to

1005
01:31:33.239 --> 01:31:38.800
figure it out, but I'm still
the port gun muscle hurts, doesn't it?

1006
01:31:41.239 --> 01:31:53.279
Nah? Shelley up? So you
think Arnie Bishop is licked? Huh?

1007
01:31:57.560 --> 01:32:01.079
Yuh? Which you? What are
you going to do to? Which

1008
01:32:01.319 --> 01:32:04.720
is Judy's room? Are you going
to make me open all the doors to

1009
01:32:04.800 --> 01:32:12.000
find a that one? Uh?
All right, let's go in. So

1010
01:32:12.159 --> 01:32:16.960
you first, Missus Kenny one?
You want your first? Missus Kenny Jilly.

1011
01:32:18.560 --> 01:32:29.359
Do you ah, very pretty child, how peaceful she loves? And

1012
01:32:29.439 --> 01:32:34.840
then you know childhood at that time
in life, it's almost a pity to

1013
01:32:34.920 --> 01:32:38.720
grow up out of it. You
couldn't You couldn't hear? Oh, I

1014
01:32:38.880 --> 01:32:43.159
assure you, missus Canning. I
won't lay a hand on it. Oh

1015
01:32:43.359 --> 01:32:48.840
no, not on a beautiful child
like that. But I've got to protect

1016
01:32:48.960 --> 01:32:56.640
myself. I'd see. That's the
connecting door to your room, isn't it.

1017
01:32:57.880 --> 01:33:03.159
There's a key in the door.
Lock it. Please, I'll give

1018
01:33:03.199 --> 01:33:11.600
me the key, thank you.
I will go out the way we came

1019
01:33:11.680 --> 01:33:17.560
in. I will take the key
out of this store too, thanks you.

1020
01:33:17.720 --> 01:33:28.159
Put I will lock this door on
the outside. Yeah, yeah,

1021
01:33:29.079 --> 01:33:34.239
everything said. You just want to
make sure she doesn't get out something like

1022
01:33:34.399 --> 01:33:40.520
that. Now, will you pull
a mattress and sheets off your bed and

1023
01:33:40.600 --> 01:33:43.439
bring him out here? Please?
Are you going to sleep in front of

1024
01:33:43.439 --> 01:33:48.119
pray door? Do as I said. I'll help you. I don't understand

1025
01:33:48.880 --> 01:33:59.680
why do you want to sleep out
here? Everything just the way I wanted.

1026
01:34:00.760 --> 01:34:04.520
The mattress against Judy's door, against
the door. I didn't say I

1027
01:34:04.760 --> 01:34:08.560
was going to sleep on. What
are you going to Kenning? We'll see

1028
01:34:08.600 --> 01:34:15.800
if you can figure out how to
beat this thing. What would happen if

1029
01:34:15.159 --> 01:34:19.840
I would have put a match to
this mattress and Benny, that's whole flord

1030
01:34:19.960 --> 01:34:27.119
being flamed in five minutes, both
doors locked. Judy wouldn't have much of

1031
01:34:27.199 --> 01:34:35.079
a chance. I don't think Annie
Bishop is licked, Missus Kenny. You're

1032
01:34:35.159 --> 01:34:40.600
right about one thing, Missus Kenny. I am in a corner for this

1033
01:34:40.840 --> 01:34:44.840
bum. Armor's got no chance running
if the police come. So if they

1034
01:34:45.039 --> 01:34:49.119
do, and if I'm cornered,
I have been a match to this mattress

1035
01:34:49.239 --> 01:34:55.680
and buy them off in the whole
house is just a bunch of rubble with

1036
01:34:56.159 --> 01:35:03.439
Judy in it. You were under
stand me thoroughly, Missus Canning. So

1037
01:35:03.960 --> 01:35:09.399
it's up to you to see if
the police don't come. You're gonna lie

1038
01:35:09.560 --> 01:35:12.800
for me, Missus Canning, and
you're gonna cheat for me, and you're

1039
01:35:12.880 --> 01:35:17.720
gonna kill for me. It's necessary
because oh we just had a naturality.

1040
01:35:19.800 --> 01:35:29.439
Now, do you still feel like
try any tricks? I'll do whatever you

1041
01:35:29.560 --> 01:35:33.880
say. More like it now.
The first thing you have to do,

1042
01:35:34.039 --> 01:35:36.880
get downstairs and run that car into
the garage. Get it out of the

1043
01:35:36.960 --> 01:35:40.800
way, but don't cut your husband. Don't even look in the back of

1044
01:35:40.880 --> 01:35:45.960
the car. I'll be watching.
Understand, glad, we understand each other.

1045
01:35:45.079 --> 01:35:59.920
At last, let's go. I'll
be standing right here in the drive

1046
01:36:00.079 --> 01:36:10.079
way. But remember I'm watching Cherry
here. Can you hear me? Harry

1047
01:36:12.039 --> 01:36:25.520
Sherry? Are you still unconsciousness?
Blood on? Is it you did take

1048
01:36:25.560 --> 01:36:27.880
a look at him, didn't you? No? No? All right,

1049
01:36:28.439 --> 01:36:35.520
all right? Inside? Ah,
fill for night, isn't it. She'll

1050
01:36:35.560 --> 01:36:42.000
be morning, almost six, and
milk plan should be here to me?

1051
01:36:42.439 --> 01:36:47.039
Oh wow, here's where you start
lying for me, after you, madam.

1052
01:36:51.119 --> 01:36:56.960
Now, I'm gonna sit right here
in the chair with my hand in

1053
01:36:57.119 --> 01:37:04.119
my pocket and in my hands the
gun. Then here, that's a milkman.

1054
01:37:04.359 --> 01:37:06.880
Tell him I'm your cousin, just
visiting here for a few days.

1055
01:37:08.520 --> 01:37:12.880
She'll wonder why you're up to orting. Let him wonder. Go on,

1056
01:37:15.479 --> 01:37:18.079
good morning, miss Kenny. I'm
a new milkman on the route. Open,

1057
01:37:18.119 --> 01:37:24.239
didn't wake yep? Uh has two
bottles of milk you wanted this morning

1058
01:37:24.319 --> 01:37:28.680
and a bottle of cream. You
can put them on the table. All

1059
01:37:28.760 --> 01:37:31.279
right, Oh, this is my
cousin. He's visiting this day. Oh

1060
01:37:31.319 --> 01:37:34.800
all right, Hello, you have
my built. Yeah, I got right

1061
01:37:34.880 --> 01:37:40.560
here in my pocket here. Hey, is that that's right? Bishop of

1062
01:37:40.640 --> 01:37:45.760
the gun. It's still take your
hand out of your pocket very carefully.

1063
01:37:46.239 --> 01:37:51.239
Okay, okay, you win.
But how come a milkman with a gun?

1064
01:37:51.399 --> 01:37:58.560
I borrowed this coat and the regular
milkman I'm de targying right to please?

1065
01:37:58.920 --> 01:38:02.479
Ken say please? How did you
know I was here? Missus canning

1066
01:38:02.520 --> 01:38:09.079
callers? She how I didn't let
her out of my sight? She broadcast

1067
01:38:09.199 --> 01:38:15.600
into it. But yes, over
this set, mister bishop, remember the

1068
01:38:15.640 --> 01:38:17.479
seach I made you. You didn't
know what had come over me. I

1069
01:38:17.640 --> 01:38:20.640
was really talking to the state police
over the short waves. Don't you remember

1070
01:38:20.680 --> 01:38:24.720
I told you that this was descending
and receiving sets, that my husband built

1071
01:38:24.760 --> 01:38:27.479
it. And when I turned off
the short wave stingals, I turned the

1072
01:38:27.479 --> 01:38:30.079
switch descending, and then I hoped, I just hope my message would get

1073
01:38:30.119 --> 01:38:39.079
through. Ah. I didn't think
you was smart enough, and I thought

1074
01:38:39.159 --> 01:38:45.359
I had to scared this. You
looked like the kind was scary. Oh

1075
01:38:45.439 --> 01:38:51.159
I am, mister, I am. I wanted you. This was a

1076
01:38:51.279 --> 01:39:16.000
time when I couldn't afford to be
scared, which all goes to prove that

1077
01:39:16.159 --> 01:39:20.880
a determined man can always get what
he goes at. You remember, Bishop

1078
01:39:20.920 --> 01:39:26.279
tried to get free board and lodging
for me Valcanning. He finally got it

1079
01:39:26.359 --> 01:39:30.199
all right, but not exactly where
he wanted it. You know. As

1080
01:39:30.239 --> 01:39:32.720
a matter of fact, Bishop was
a type of man who should never have

1081
01:39:32.800 --> 01:39:39.079
gone in for murder. Oh too
many risks. He should have specialized in

1082
01:39:39.199 --> 01:39:58.720
austin. That's always a sure fire
undertaking. That was your host, Raymond

1083
01:39:58.840 --> 01:40:03.880
Edwood Johnson closing the or Inn Sight
the Night performance and then by her It

1084
01:40:04.039 --> 01:40:40.079
Lake, Greece. So good night. I do certainly hope you're comfortable,

1085
01:40:40.199 --> 01:40:45.680
my dear. I pride myself on
being quite the host, giving you the

1086
01:40:45.760 --> 01:40:50.920
best ambionce i'm capable of, granted, as we've said, I'm a humble

1087
01:40:51.000 --> 01:40:57.439
man with a humble home. The
walls do get cold when they're so thick,

1088
01:40:57.760 --> 01:41:01.000
thick and made of concrete. What's
that? Oh no, no,

1089
01:41:01.119 --> 01:41:05.560
no, no no, that's why
the walls are so thick. Nothing gets

1090
01:41:05.640 --> 01:41:13.039
in gets in, and maybe nothing
gets out gets out. But being a

1091
01:41:13.119 --> 01:41:19.479
good host is often often something people
feel is almost a magic, tragic tragic,

1092
01:41:19.680 --> 01:41:26.159
a kind of fugazi as it were. Well, this story made me

1093
01:41:26.319 --> 01:41:32.760
think just about that. It's called
nothing up my sleeve, because when you're

1094
01:41:32.800 --> 01:41:38.720
in my home, my dear,
my welcome guest. Yes, I would

1095
01:41:38.800 --> 01:41:43.359
never lie to you, and I
would never fool you. So let's listen.

1096
01:41:43.600 --> 01:42:11.359
Listen. Suspense Tonight, Columbia brings
you as guest stars two deaf players

1097
01:42:11.439 --> 01:42:15.000
from the movie Lots of Hollywood,
the Stages of Broadway. It's a Lesser

1098
01:42:15.079 --> 01:42:19.640
Landy and mister George Coloris. They
are here to spend with us a half

1099
01:42:19.720 --> 01:42:28.680
hour of suspense. Suspense is compounded
of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure.

1100
01:42:29.680 --> 01:42:32.520
In this series, a story is
calculated to intreagute you, to stir your

1101
01:42:32.640 --> 01:42:39.079
nerves, to offer you a precarious
situation, and then withhold the solution until

1102
01:42:39.119 --> 01:42:44.760
the last possible moment. Tonight,
for instance, Miss Landy plays for us

1103
01:42:45.159 --> 01:42:49.439
an agreeable young lady who is on
the trail of some hot money. And

1104
01:42:49.560 --> 01:42:55.920
mister Coloris plays for us a disagreeable
young man who may or may not know

1105
01:42:56.840 --> 01:43:00.520
more about the money than he says. We trust with this tale, we

1106
01:43:00.560 --> 01:43:10.520
shall keep you in suspense or a
suspense. Tonight, CBS presents Alyssa Landy

1107
01:43:10.760 --> 01:43:29.920
and George Colorus in Nothing Up My
Sleeve by John Dixon Carr xtray axtray right,

1108
01:43:30.000 --> 01:43:33.159
all about it, shock Walking clot
Next Stray extray, Right, all

1109
01:43:33.239 --> 01:43:38.239
about it, shock walking clot.
It's New Year's Eve. Remember the Times

1110
01:43:38.319 --> 01:43:41.960
Square is celebrating. The fiery lights
flash no longer, but the crowds are

1111
01:43:42.000 --> 01:43:45.000
still the same, strong and jostling, singing, drowning out a voice at

1112
01:43:45.000 --> 01:43:48.359
the street corner when it says,
Yo, con fiddle, let your Mecca

1113
01:43:48.680 --> 01:43:56.399
right, all about it, dro
gun fuddle let Jamaica Right? But would

1114
01:43:56.520 --> 01:44:00.239
that cry perhaps reach as far as
a large and sedate cory house some twenty

1115
01:44:00.319 --> 01:44:04.680
miles from New York. Out there, the earth is sealed up with snow.

1116
01:44:05.359 --> 01:44:09.880
The white pillars of the house rise
up high and ghostly against it,

1117
01:44:10.520 --> 01:44:16.159
showing no outward lightness. A lonely
house that's mentioned in fir Wood, just

1118
01:44:16.239 --> 01:44:19.800
the place for a murder. I've
always said, wouldn't surprise me either.

1119
01:44:20.279 --> 01:44:25.960
He's Ralph or a funny lot.
And alone in that house tonight, apparently

1120
01:44:26.239 --> 01:44:30.239
alone is a man practicing shots in
a billiard room, a long and paneled

1121
01:44:30.279 --> 01:44:38.640
room at the back of the house. Now look at mister Derrick Rose as

1122
01:44:38.760 --> 01:44:43.199
tall and lean and well tailored.
As ever, many people don't like him.

1123
01:44:43.760 --> 01:44:46.399
He's a little too supersilio. It's
a little too short of himself,

1124
01:44:46.560 --> 01:44:53.119
too suggestive, of the lifted lip
and the glazed eye. There he stands

1125
01:44:53.199 --> 01:44:57.760
in the billiard room, under the
snow covered skylight, leaning over the green

1126
01:44:57.880 --> 01:45:06.439
cloth and the brilliant light. Just
the moment, please, good shut,

1127
01:45:08.840 --> 01:45:12.880
yes, come in. Excuse me, mister rap Oh not at all,

1128
01:45:14.520 --> 01:45:17.760
aren't you, miss? I'm Dorothy
Dale. You're a social secretary. Surely

1129
01:45:17.800 --> 01:45:20.880
you remember that. Oh? Of
course, of course, forgive me for

1130
01:45:20.960 --> 01:45:26.640
forgetting your name. You surprise me, Dorothy, Yes, I thought I

1131
01:45:26.760 --> 01:45:29.760
surprised you a little. No,
I mean you surprised me by being in

1132
01:45:29.840 --> 01:45:32.720
the house at all. Why?
Why this is New Year's Eve. Shouldn't

1133
01:45:32.720 --> 01:45:38.720
you be out getting drunk and blowing
cardboard horns and doing the other fantastic things

1134
01:45:38.760 --> 01:45:43.239
that people do. I haven't much
heart for that tonight. Please don't become

1135
01:45:43.279 --> 01:45:48.479
emotional, Dorothy. I did test
emotions. You're shivering over by the radiator.

1136
01:45:48.680 --> 01:45:53.119
Mister May I ask you a question? Of course? Did you ever

1137
01:45:53.159 --> 01:45:55.960
feel sick at heart? Physical?
It's sick, I mean so that you're

1138
01:45:56.000 --> 01:46:00.199
inside's turned over and you couldn't get
your breath And did you No? No,

1139
01:46:00.399 --> 01:46:04.960
I can't say I did. M
May I move you aside just a

1140
01:46:05.039 --> 01:46:12.880
moment? Thank you? That's bad. Can't you guess why I came here

1141
01:46:12.960 --> 01:46:15.520
to see you tonight? No?
Because I'm in terrible trouble, mister Ralph's

1142
01:46:15.680 --> 01:46:19.560
desperate trouble, and I think you
can help me. I can help you.

1143
01:46:20.159 --> 01:46:24.279
How For one thing, you're making
quite a name for yourself as a

1144
01:46:24.359 --> 01:46:27.520
lawyer. Yes, that's what others
have told me. For another thing,

1145
01:46:29.520 --> 01:46:36.439
do you know a man named Shark
Morgan? Sharply you say Shark Morgan.

1146
01:46:38.439 --> 01:46:41.520
No, I'm sure I've never heard
that name before. You ought to know

1147
01:46:41.680 --> 01:46:44.479
him. He's a little, dark
faced man with most of his upper lip

1148
01:46:44.560 --> 01:46:46.279
cut away in a knife fight so
that you can see all his teeth.

1149
01:46:46.640 --> 01:46:50.960
That's why they call him shark.
He sounds like a person. He is

1150
01:46:51.159 --> 01:46:56.319
or was a ghastly looking person.
You don't know him. He's not a

1151
01:46:56.399 --> 01:47:02.680
client of yours. I don't believe
you. Just a moment, mister Dorothydeale,

1152
01:47:03.600 --> 01:47:08.880
I must put down this cue and
say a few words myself, Please

1153
01:47:08.960 --> 01:47:12.119
do I don't want to be offensive
for you. But it seems to me

1154
01:47:12.199 --> 01:47:15.159
that for a paid employee of my
aunt, practically a servant, you are

1155
01:47:15.279 --> 01:47:17.079
taking a great deal on yourself.
If you're trying to hurt me that way,

1156
01:47:17.079 --> 01:47:20.159
you're succeeding. But go ahead,
you come to me at eleven o'clock

1157
01:47:20.159 --> 01:47:24.039
at night. You come rushing into
this billiard room. Observe, I call

1158
01:47:24.119 --> 01:47:28.039
it a billiard room. So this
is actually a pool table. Just as

1159
01:47:28.079 --> 01:47:30.880
everything in life gets its wrong name. I entirely agree is what you agree

1160
01:47:30.880 --> 01:47:34.680
about? What? But everything gets
its wrong name? Honest men are called

1161
01:47:34.760 --> 01:47:39.960
thieves, and thieves are called honest
men. Would you mind explaining that remark?

1162
01:47:40.199 --> 01:47:44.600
I can explain it very easily.
I'm engaged to be married to Jerry

1163
01:47:44.680 --> 01:47:48.600
Winton. Well, I don't say
you don't know who Jerry Winton is.

1164
01:47:48.680 --> 01:47:54.159
He was in college with you.
I played on our extremely second rate baseball

1165
01:47:54.279 --> 01:47:58.000
team with him. Yeah, you
never liked him? Did you liked him?

1166
01:47:58.800 --> 01:48:01.680
I'm afraid I never noticed him.
Jerry Winton works at City and Provincial

1167
01:48:01.720 --> 01:48:06.520
Bank on fifty first Street. He's
a teller there. Does that mean anything

1168
01:48:06.600 --> 01:48:10.079
to you? No? You see, it's not my bank. I was

1169
01:48:10.119 --> 01:48:14.880
at City and Provincial Bank. Yesterday
afternoon. Yesterday afternoon, mister Ralph,

1170
01:48:15.279 --> 01:48:18.279
just before closing time. It was
a dark day and the lights were on.

1171
01:48:18.840 --> 01:48:21.880
There weren't many people in that big
marble hall. I went up to

1172
01:48:21.960 --> 01:48:32.800
Jerry's window. If, as you
call it, can you catch a check

1173
01:48:32.840 --> 01:48:38.720
for a million dollars O doll Hello, Jerry, you glad to see me?

1174
01:48:38.840 --> 01:48:41.680
I am not pleased to see you
here in thelle I'm never pleased to

1175
01:48:41.680 --> 01:48:45.720
see you here, And why not
because I can't make Can you imagine anybody

1176
01:48:45.760 --> 01:48:48.720
making love on a bank? Oh, we might sneak into the President's office.

1177
01:48:48.960 --> 01:48:51.159
A matter of fact, I've dreamed
the folding a party in there.

1178
01:48:53.199 --> 01:48:57.079
Party will never happen unless I'm fired, which is very likely. Jerry.

1179
01:48:57.239 --> 01:49:00.399
Sometimes I wish you weren't so easy
going. I'm not easy going with the

1180
01:49:00.399 --> 01:49:02.359
bank's money, Dolly. Otherwise I'd
be shoving it out to each of the

1181
01:49:02.399 --> 01:49:05.720
window and double handfuls like this,
Jerry. If I haven't sake, No,

1182
01:49:06.479 --> 01:49:10.720
they didn't state your business, madam. The convict in the next cage

1183
01:49:10.800 --> 01:49:14.199
is watching us already. I want
to cash a check here. It is

1184
01:49:15.039 --> 01:49:17.640
twenty dollars, that is, if
my account can stand it. Yes,

1185
01:49:17.800 --> 01:49:20.199
I think we can manage that.
How do you have it? Oh,

1186
01:49:20.279 --> 01:49:28.000
it doesn't matter anyway, Jerry.
That's all. Look over there, over

1187
01:49:28.119 --> 01:49:30.279
there by that marble table with the
pens and ink on it, the little

1188
01:49:30.319 --> 01:49:34.880
man with no upper lip to his
mouth and all his teeth showing, ugly

1189
01:49:35.000 --> 01:49:41.680
looking never i'd miss he's carrying something
like a violin case. Hold on,

1190
01:49:42.960 --> 01:49:46.000
I've seen that fellow someplace before.
Of course you have, don't you remember

1191
01:49:46.079 --> 01:49:49.960
where it was? Out of mister
Ralph's house in the country when you came

1192
01:49:50.000 --> 01:49:54.720
to visit me last Sunday. The
man with the teeth and five other men

1193
01:49:54.800 --> 01:49:57.479
were coming out on the porches we
were going in. Wait a minute,

1194
01:49:57.560 --> 01:50:02.239
Dolly, that's not all. Mhm, what is it? Some very funny

1195
01:50:02.279 --> 01:50:11.520
looking customers in this bank right now
where mister Wallace's windows's window, not by

1196
01:50:11.560 --> 01:50:14.760
the guard at the front door.
They don't seem to make any sound,

1197
01:50:15.600 --> 01:50:18.399
as though they all were rubbers,
old shoes. Jerry, something's gonna happen.

1198
01:50:18.479 --> 01:50:20.399
I know it is, unless I
can get off this tool. And

1199
01:50:23.359 --> 01:50:25.560
that was just the car. Your
attention, folks, just the car,

1200
01:50:25.600 --> 01:50:29.000
your attention. I just stay with
you, all of you, nobody I

1201
01:50:29.079 --> 01:50:33.760
can hide I'm scared. We'll watch
just stands. I don't stare turn around.

1202
01:50:35.520 --> 01:50:40.520
Yes, I don't want any funny
presidents. I've had a larm fells

1203
01:50:40.600 --> 01:50:44.119
say one of the boys has already
gone behind and take up the collection.

1204
01:50:44.960 --> 01:50:46.560
Just stay where you're at it til
you gotta do. You can't get away

1205
01:50:46.560 --> 01:50:49.600
with it. Oh look, boys, here's a guy at the front with

1206
01:50:49.720 --> 01:50:54.199
a nice mahogany desk and a plate
with his name on it, who says,

1207
01:50:54.239 --> 01:50:58.159
we can't get away with that.
Sure that wasn't in her orders.

1208
01:50:58.159 --> 01:51:04.920
And we can't get away with it's
crazy? Somebody else talking j I had

1209
01:51:05.000 --> 01:51:09.800
somebody oway, Oh it's your kid, both one side of the window.

1210
01:51:09.840 --> 01:51:15.039
Did. I ain't gonna hide you? Oh a bit of it? Thanks

1211
01:51:15.079 --> 01:51:17.319
for having this. You'll get your
cat lighting. What do you mean my

1212
01:51:17.520 --> 01:51:20.560
cut? That's what I said.
You'll get your share when we yet.

1213
01:51:21.039 --> 01:51:25.279
I don't know anything about this robber. I tell you, I don't know

1214
01:51:25.359 --> 01:51:51.479
anything about this robber. Sixth fall
in the in for got it? Are

1215
01:51:51.560 --> 01:51:55.920
you listening, mister rap? This
shark Morgan must have got a pooler.

1216
01:51:56.079 --> 01:51:58.600
I grant you that he was a
fool. He must have been crazy.

1217
01:51:59.159 --> 01:52:02.119
But they've held Jerry Police headquarters just
the same. Well, that's very unfortunate

1218
01:52:02.159 --> 01:52:04.800
if he's innocent. Do you know
he's innocent? I'm afraid I don't know

1219
01:52:04.880 --> 01:52:09.199
anything about it. Don't you even
know what happened today? Haven't you read

1220
01:52:09.239 --> 01:52:13.199
the newspaper? The police trapped that
whole gang in a Long Island farmhouse.

1221
01:52:13.239 --> 01:52:16.479
There was a gunfight. That's so
oh, no casualties, I hope,

1222
01:52:16.560 --> 01:52:20.000
do you hope? I must tell
you again? Dollars, they don't.

1223
01:52:20.199 --> 01:52:24.880
Don't be emotional, I test emotions. The whole gang were killed, every

1224
01:52:25.039 --> 01:52:28.319
last one of them, including Shark
Morgan. So there's nobody to talk,

1225
01:52:28.479 --> 01:52:32.600
nobody to tell. But as you
were saying, they didn't find the money.

1226
01:52:32.800 --> 01:52:36.279
What money? The stolen money?
Eighty eight thousand dollars taken from that

1227
01:52:36.399 --> 01:52:40.279
bank, and yet the police can't
fight a cent of it. Shall I

1228
01:52:40.359 --> 01:52:43.520
tell you why, mister Rald?
Because it was passed on to somebody else

1229
01:52:43.600 --> 01:52:46.079
for safe keeping. Oh, passed
on to somebody else, That's what I

1230
01:52:46.279 --> 01:52:50.399
said. Well, perhaps your friend
Jerry Winton could tell us where it is.

1231
01:52:50.600 --> 01:52:55.119
That's what the police think. Can
you imagine what he's going through tonight.

1232
01:52:55.359 --> 01:52:57.680
It's not a pleasant way to spend
New Year's Eve, I admit,

1233
01:52:58.760 --> 01:53:03.279
excuse me, but after all,
the late Shark Morgan did accuse Winton.

1234
01:53:03.319 --> 01:53:08.640
Now, if he isn't guilty,
why should Morgan accuse him meanness? I

1235
01:53:08.800 --> 01:53:12.600
don't think I understand meanness, the
sort of meanness that some people call a

1236
01:53:12.680 --> 01:53:16.279
sense of humor. Morgan saw Jerry
in this house? Oh, be careful,

1237
01:53:16.319 --> 01:53:19.199
young, Maybe that's an actionable statement. I've already made it to the

1238
01:53:19.239 --> 01:53:23.359
police. Thanks. Oh and did
they believe you? No, they're a

1239
01:53:23.600 --> 01:53:27.239
very intelligent crowd down at Center Street. And after all, your story isn't

1240
01:53:27.319 --> 01:53:30.800
very credible. Why not Shark Morgan
sees your friend Winton, sees him for

1241
01:53:30.840 --> 01:53:34.560
perhaps ten seconds coming out of this
house, and then accuses him of complicity

1242
01:53:34.600 --> 01:53:39.000
in a bank roppery? Now is
that very likely? Yes? Very likely?

1243
01:53:39.439 --> 01:53:42.399
If somebody put him up to it. Again, I don't understand you.

1244
01:53:42.600 --> 01:53:45.279
Somebody deliberately told Morgan to accuse Jerry
and get him into as much trouble

1245
01:53:45.319 --> 01:53:49.319
as possible. Tell me, mister
Ralph, why do you dislike Jerry so

1246
01:53:49.560 --> 01:53:54.359
much? You know now that you
mentioned that fellow, I can recall who

1247
01:53:54.359 --> 01:53:58.399
he is. Thanks for condescending to
Yes, yes, indeed, why he

1248
01:53:58.600 --> 01:54:02.199
was the man in our clust voted
most likely to succeed. And let's see

1249
01:54:02.319 --> 01:54:05.279
where did you say is night?
He's just where you put him. You

1250
01:54:05.359 --> 01:54:09.119
know, you're trying my patience to
the very limit, young woman. And

1251
01:54:09.239 --> 01:54:12.560
out in a Long Island farmhouse,
there are five bodies full of bullet holes,

1252
01:54:12.720 --> 01:54:16.000
five men you will never speak again. And somewhere else, maybe not

1253
01:54:16.319 --> 01:54:20.600
very far from here, is the
man who engineered the whole robbery, planned

1254
01:54:20.640 --> 01:54:24.960
it and staged it and got his
accomplices killed. Thank goodness, you must

1255
01:54:25.000 --> 01:54:29.039
have supernatural powers. No witnesses,
nobody to testify. Oh, if I

1256
01:54:29.079 --> 01:54:31.159
could only find the money eighty eight
thousand dollars, I think you said,

1257
01:54:31.199 --> 01:54:33.760
I could only find the money and
prove who had done it, and proved

1258
01:54:33.800 --> 01:54:38.359
Jerry innocent. And just for one
second, get past that devilish smug mask

1259
01:54:38.439 --> 01:54:45.560
of your that's driving me anything wrong, though, No, no, nothing

1260
01:54:45.600 --> 01:54:49.399
at all. You've been following me
around and around this table. Have you

1261
01:54:49.520 --> 01:54:56.760
been looking for something, only admiring
your billiard room that? Oh, you

1262
01:54:56.880 --> 01:55:01.279
haven't been looking at the suitcase forrinstance, suitcase over on the bench under the

1263
01:55:01.319 --> 01:55:08.560
Q rack, the suitcase that contains
legal papers. I haven't even noticed it,

1264
01:55:09.960 --> 01:55:13.920
mister ral Yes, Dorothy, I'm
afraid I've taken up a lot of

1265
01:55:13.960 --> 01:55:17.880
your time and not done myself any
good and made something of aspective of myself

1266
01:55:18.680 --> 01:55:23.640
you have. Well, if you
won't help me, you won't be that.

1267
01:55:24.119 --> 01:55:26.560
If you don't mind, i'd like
to go now. I suppose,

1268
01:55:26.640 --> 01:55:30.119
my dear, I didn't choose to
let you go? But why why shouldn't

1269
01:55:30.119 --> 01:55:33.000
you? What harm can I do? Right now? Who was it?

1270
01:55:33.039 --> 01:55:36.159
Who was it was? It was
it Meredith who remarked that the last thing

1271
01:55:36.199 --> 01:55:41.720
to be civilized by man will be
woman. I think it was, yeah,

1272
01:55:42.239 --> 01:55:44.199
And you know, and a slandress
woman can do a great deal of

1273
01:55:44.279 --> 01:55:47.720
harm. But I haven't done you
any harm so far. We're all alone

1274
01:55:47.800 --> 01:55:53.880
in this house. There's not even
a servant here. Now. If I

1275
01:55:54.119 --> 01:55:58.039
chose to get between you and the
door like this, came away from me.

1276
01:55:58.279 --> 01:56:00.239
Oh, I'm not coming near you, Dorothy mell is standing between you

1277
01:56:00.319 --> 01:56:05.279
and the door. Now. I
suppose you realize that I could turn very

1278
01:56:05.399 --> 01:56:10.000
nicely if I like, what are
you going to do? Do what?

1279
01:56:11.079 --> 01:56:15.279
I'm going to open the door for
you like this? I'm going to say,

1280
01:56:15.199 --> 01:56:19.079
I'll bless you my child as with
its a New Year's greeting. I'm

1281
01:56:19.119 --> 01:56:27.199
going to show you out. I
wish you good night? You would you?

1282
01:56:27.880 --> 01:56:32.159
You? You don't mind mine?
That's certainly not. You've got something

1283
01:56:32.199 --> 01:56:36.439
to hide, haven't you, mister
Ralph? No, no, nothing,

1284
01:56:36.520 --> 01:57:01.800
young woman that I can't hide.
Good night? M hm operator. What

1285
01:57:01.960 --> 01:57:06.119
number are you calling? Please?
Operator? I want to get police headquarters

1286
01:57:06.159 --> 01:57:08.760
in New York City. No,
no, no, no, that that

1287
01:57:08.840 --> 01:57:12.479
doesn't take too long. Wait wait, wait, get me the local police

1288
01:57:12.479 --> 01:57:16.199
station. This is maling For eight
eight nine one, the local police station.

1289
01:57:16.439 --> 01:57:19.560
Yes, yes, that's right.
The number you want is maling Ford

1290
01:57:19.800 --> 01:57:27.159
three two six. I will ring
them. Thank you. Why is he

1291
01:57:27.319 --> 01:57:33.600
so confident? What has he got
up his sleeve? Malingford Police Station.

1292
01:57:34.199 --> 01:57:42.039
Oh let me speak to the chief
of police please, ma'am. Nobody else

1293
01:57:42.119 --> 01:57:45.800
has stay up here? And is
he? My name is Dale, Miss

1294
01:57:45.960 --> 01:57:49.239
Dorothy Dale. I'm speaking from Green
Acres, mister Derrick Roff's house about two

1295
01:57:49.279 --> 01:57:53.800
miles up the post road. Do
you know it? Yes, I know.

1296
01:57:56.680 --> 01:58:00.119
I don't dare talk loud. I'm
speaking from a phone just outside the

1297
01:58:00.159 --> 01:58:03.960
billiard room door. Listen, you
want to recover the city and provincial bank

1298
01:58:04.039 --> 01:58:08.520
money. Don't you sure do?
Miss that? Money's hot? But it's

1299
01:58:08.600 --> 01:58:13.119
here. It's in this house,
in this billiard room. Now, oh,

1300
01:58:13.760 --> 01:58:19.479
who's got it? Dereck Ralph himself
looks is the level. I swear

1301
01:58:19.600 --> 01:58:24.720
it's true. I've seen the money. Prominent people. You know. I

1302
01:58:24.880 --> 01:58:30.000
can't help that. There's a big
suitcase completely full of money in packages fastened

1303
01:58:30.039 --> 01:58:33.920
with the paper label of the city
and provincial bank. And that's not his

1304
01:58:34.119 --> 01:58:39.920
own bank. The liddle. The
suitcase wasn't quite closed. He thought he'd

1305
01:58:39.960 --> 01:58:43.079
be alone here tonight, and that's
why he was careless. Has he no,

1306
01:58:43.439 --> 01:58:46.520
you saw the money? Did I
see the money? I I I'm

1307
01:58:46.560 --> 01:58:51.119
not quite sure. You're not sure? No. I could almost have sworn

1308
01:58:51.159 --> 01:58:55.319
he knew I saw the money,
but he didn't seem to care. He

1309
01:58:56.199 --> 01:59:00.520
be careful. The billiard room door
was someone using the telephone out here?

1310
01:59:01.079 --> 01:59:08.199
Excuse me, mister Ralph. I
only these doors are rather thick, Dorothy.

1311
01:59:08.279 --> 01:59:12.520
But I was under the impression that
I heard somebody say police, Yes,

1312
01:59:13.279 --> 01:59:16.880
well, yes you did. You
weren't phoning the police byany chance?

1313
01:59:16.920 --> 01:59:21.720
Will Yes? I was, why, I go on, go on?

1314
01:59:21.880 --> 01:59:25.840
Why? As a matter of fact, I was trying to get in touch

1315
01:59:25.880 --> 01:59:29.119
with Jerry. That's it. He's
a police headquarters in New York, and

1316
01:59:29.159 --> 01:59:30.800
I was trying to get in touch
with him to see if they'd let me

1317
01:59:30.880 --> 01:59:33.279
talk to him on New Year's Eve. You know, I thought it would

1318
01:59:33.359 --> 01:59:39.800
cheer him up. This is the
Moling for Chief Police Maling. Well,

1319
01:59:39.840 --> 01:59:43.359
it's a New York called relayed through
the local station. You you you don't

1320
01:59:43.399 --> 01:59:47.000
mind, not at all? Please
go right ahead. Oh by the way,

1321
01:59:47.520 --> 01:59:51.159
But I don't think you will find
that money, young woman. Couldn't

1322
01:59:51.159 --> 01:59:58.000
I listen? Miss Are you still
on the end of the wire. Yes,

1323
01:59:58.079 --> 02:00:01.039
but I couldn't talk to you.
He was here, who Derek Ralph?

1324
02:00:01.640 --> 02:00:05.600
He said, I'd never find the
money. You mean he's got it?

1325
02:00:06.159 --> 02:00:10.600
Well, no, he just smiles
and smiles. He's got some trick

1326
02:00:10.720 --> 02:00:15.079
up his sleeve. I know it. Please never mind that. Can you

1327
02:00:15.159 --> 02:00:19.279
come over now? All right?
Miss out, I'll take a chance.

1328
02:00:19.960 --> 02:00:24.039
Who else is in the house with
you? Nobody? I'm all alone with

1329
02:00:24.159 --> 02:00:26.800
him. What are you going to
do? Because I light out with the

1330
02:00:26.880 --> 02:00:29.199
money, I don't see what I
can do. That's all the more reason

1331
02:00:29.239 --> 02:00:31.199
for you to get here quickly.
I swear you find the money in that

1332
02:00:31.319 --> 02:00:54.479
billiard room. Only hurry five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes. It

1333
02:00:54.600 --> 02:00:58.680
can seem a very long time to
awaiting girl pouching in a cold and dimlit

1334
02:00:58.760 --> 02:01:04.880
hallway side of closed door, hearing
only the clicking of billiard box and watching,

1335
02:01:05.600 --> 02:01:15.600
wondering and praying until miss Stale,
Miss Tale, this way, Miss

1336
02:01:15.680 --> 02:01:19.319
Tale. I'm Joe Hollister, Chief
of Police. Yes, I recognized your

1337
02:01:19.399 --> 02:01:23.439
voice. The front door wasn't laugh
so I just walked in. I hoped

1338
02:01:23.479 --> 02:01:27.000
you would. I didn't want to
leave here as mister Ralph come out of

1339
02:01:27.039 --> 02:01:30.159
that room since you talked to me, and, according to what you claim,

1340
02:01:30.199 --> 02:01:31.640
me still in there with a suitcase
full of money. That's right,

1341
02:01:31.720 --> 02:01:36.079
mister Hollister. Before we go any
further, there's something I ought to tell

1342
02:01:36.119 --> 02:01:40.960
you. Well, well, I
I checked with New York about you,

1343
02:01:41.600 --> 02:01:45.520
and what did they say, yes, miss Alisa, and what did they

1344
02:01:45.560 --> 02:01:47.680
say about her? Mister Row rather
interested in knowing that myself. So you

1345
02:01:47.760 --> 02:01:50.720
could hear everything through that door,
of course I could hear everything through the

1346
02:01:50.800 --> 02:01:55.560
door, including your conversation with our
friend, the chief of police. Good

1347
02:01:55.600 --> 02:01:59.560
evening, mister Hollister, mister Ralph, this young lady says. I know,

1348
02:01:59.800 --> 02:02:01.880
I know what she says. Will
you come into the billiard room please,

1349
02:02:02.119 --> 02:02:06.800
both of you? Oh? Thank
you? Just what trigger you up

1350
02:02:06.840 --> 02:02:10.399
to now? Rick? You talk
of tricks? Just a minute, now,

1351
02:02:10.640 --> 02:02:14.199
take it easy. What I want
to know is where's this suitcase Miss

1352
02:02:14.359 --> 02:02:16.359
Dale was talking about? There?
It is what you mean? That empty

1353
02:02:16.399 --> 02:02:19.600
suitcase on the bench beside your empty
suitcase? Yes, that's what I said.

1354
02:02:19.720 --> 02:02:23.359
It wasn't empty when I left this
room. Chief, you mind saying

1355
02:02:23.399 --> 02:02:29.880
to yourself, oh it's empty now, Miss Hollister, it would gratify me

1356
02:02:30.000 --> 02:02:32.479
to clear this matter up here,
and now gratify me too. I'm tired

1357
02:02:32.520 --> 02:02:35.560
of this Slanders nonsense and I mean
to end it. This young woman told

1358
02:02:35.560 --> 02:02:40.159
you that I had what was it, some eighty eight thousand dollars in this

1359
02:02:40.319 --> 02:02:43.560
room only a few minutes ago.
I still say you had curb your temper

1360
02:02:43.600 --> 02:02:46.000
please while I ask you some straight
questions? Can you do that? You

1361
02:02:46.199 --> 02:02:50.000
better answer? And miss all right, I'll try. Did I or did

1362
02:02:50.079 --> 02:02:53.960
I not leave the billiard room at
any time? No? You didn't.

1363
02:02:54.119 --> 02:02:59.840
Good. There's only one door and
no window and the skylight covered with snow,

1364
02:03:00.439 --> 02:03:01.760
so I didn't leave that way?
Did I? No, I suppose

1365
02:03:01.800 --> 02:03:05.279
you didn't. Unless you are lying. The money must still be in this

1366
02:03:05.399 --> 02:03:08.720
room. Yes, and where is
it? I don't know. You must

1367
02:03:08.760 --> 02:03:13.720
have hidden it someplace where I'm afraid
mister Ralph's right. Miss, take a

1368
02:03:13.760 --> 02:03:16.760
look around you. One pool table
comes apart, so you can examine it.

1369
02:03:17.079 --> 02:03:20.800
One radio cool, I'll examine that
tool. One overhead light, one

1370
02:03:20.880 --> 02:03:25.640
standing lamp, one bare bench,
one rack of cues, one rack of

1371
02:03:25.720 --> 02:03:28.920
pool balls. Now that's everything.
Now can you tell me where I could

1372
02:03:29.000 --> 02:03:31.359
hide enough money to fill a suitcase? No? I can. It's impossible.

1373
02:03:31.439 --> 02:03:34.000
Miss. The stuff's not here.
It must be here. It's either

1374
02:03:34.079 --> 02:03:39.840
here or else. Haven't we had
quite enough of this? Yes? I

1375
02:03:39.880 --> 02:03:42.800
guess we have. Now, Okay, Miss Hale. I like the way

1376
02:03:42.840 --> 02:03:45.920
you talked, and I thought you
were talking straight. Will you just tell

1377
02:03:45.000 --> 02:03:47.479
me why you try to string me
along like that? You know? I

1378
02:03:47.560 --> 02:03:50.680
think I can tell you, Chief
Hollister, I wasn't exactly asking you,

1379
02:03:51.039 --> 02:03:56.800
mister Rolf. Well, go ahead. You know perhaps that she's engaged to

1380
02:03:56.880 --> 02:03:59.720
a man who's mixed up in the
city and provincial robbery. He was not.

1381
02:04:00.000 --> 02:04:01.640
It was neither a very clever and
are a very fast sighted attempt.

1382
02:04:02.319 --> 02:04:06.119
I'm inclined to think that she will
not have a job when my aunt returns.

1383
02:04:06.840 --> 02:04:09.800
But as I say, it was
a case of any old attempt to

1384
02:04:09.800 --> 02:04:15.359
shield Jerry Wincom. Somebody mentioned my
name, Jerry, Jerry Steady. I'm

1385
02:04:15.399 --> 02:04:18.239
alive. I'm not a ghost.
You needn't die. Feed me. How

1386
02:04:18.359 --> 02:04:21.319
did you get here? How did
you get away? I was trying to

1387
02:04:21.439 --> 02:04:25.920
tell you, miss when our host
part it in the da is convinced you

1388
02:04:25.960 --> 02:04:28.439
a young man had nothing to do
with this. That's right, Dolly,

1389
02:04:28.760 --> 02:04:30.880
and I thought i'd better come out
and take you back to New York with

1390
02:04:30.039 --> 02:04:34.039
me. I would never so bad
to see anybody in my life. Put

1391
02:04:34.079 --> 02:04:38.760
your arms around. I suppose you'd
mind if I picked up this chew and

1392
02:04:38.840 --> 02:04:43.840
went on practicing try eight ball all
the way down the table. Come on,

1393
02:04:44.000 --> 02:04:45.159
Dolly, it'll be New Year's in
a few minutes. There's nothing to

1394
02:04:45.239 --> 02:04:48.079
worry. There is something to worry
about. He's got the money, the

1395
02:04:48.159 --> 02:04:51.600
whole eighty eight thousand. I know
it, I'm sure of it. Only

1396
02:04:51.680 --> 02:04:55.800
we can't find it. It's hidden
somewhere in this room. As I said

1397
02:04:55.840 --> 02:04:59.039
before, haven't we had just about
enough arrest? Chief of Police? There

1398
02:04:59.079 --> 02:05:00.520
won't believe it, but it's it's
true. I've heard a lot about that

1399
02:05:00.680 --> 02:05:04.960
money myself. I'll bet you have
sun for nothing but hot money, hot

1400
02:05:05.039 --> 02:05:08.279
money, hot money? And where
is it? Where is it? Where

1401
02:05:08.359 --> 02:05:11.399
is it? Until I thought I
was going off my nut if I could

1402
02:05:11.479 --> 02:05:16.199
prove Derek Rolf had anything to do
with this, I really what's the money?

1403
02:05:17.560 --> 02:05:21.359
Yes? Miss, I think I
know now where he's hidden the money.

1404
02:05:25.119 --> 02:05:29.000
That was a bad shot myself.
You've made the white ball jump clear

1405
02:05:29.079 --> 02:05:31.000
off the table. There are plenty
of others on the table. I tell

1406
02:05:31.000 --> 02:05:33.880
you I know where he's hidden.
It is it in this room? Yes?

1407
02:05:35.359 --> 02:05:40.720
Where in the pool table, in
our radio, in some secret panels?

1408
02:05:40.840 --> 02:05:43.399
No, you better speak up,
Dolly. Has it ever struck you?

1409
02:05:43.720 --> 02:05:45.680
Any of you? But there is
such a thing as an invisible piece

1410
02:05:45.680 --> 02:05:50.960
of furniture. An invisible piece of
furniture You mean we can't see it?

1411
02:05:51.159 --> 02:05:55.239
No, it's in plain sight,
smack in front of your eyes. But

1412
02:05:55.399 --> 02:05:59.840
nobody ever sees it. You can't
see it. Now we may not understand,

1413
02:06:00.199 --> 02:06:03.920
Dolly, but by George Derek Ralph
does look at his face? Yes,

1414
02:06:04.920 --> 02:06:08.359
I'm looking at it. What's the
matter with all of you? Please,

1415
02:06:08.399 --> 02:06:12.199
don't become emotional, mister Ralph,
I detest emotion. Miss there's a

1416
02:06:12.239 --> 02:06:15.479
reward of ten thousand for the recovery
of that money. You know where it

1417
02:06:15.640 --> 02:06:18.239
is. Tell us nothing easier.
It's before that young woman says something she

1418
02:06:18.279 --> 02:06:20.319
may regret. Please listen to me. You've got in, Dolly. I

1419
02:06:20.319 --> 02:06:24.439
don't know how why, but you've
gotten And mister Ralph, tell me Whinton.

1420
02:06:24.520 --> 02:06:26.600
You and I used to play on
the same baseball team, didn't we?

1421
02:06:26.720 --> 02:06:28.720
That's right? What about it?
What did I play on that team?

1422
02:06:29.119 --> 02:06:31.199
With a picture? Why was I
good with the best control on the

1423
02:06:31.239 --> 02:06:35.640
best fast one I ever? Wait
a minute, why are you picking up

1424
02:06:35.640 --> 02:06:39.399
that pool ball? What are you
gonna do? Take it easy, mister

1425
02:06:39.479 --> 02:06:41.399
Rob, you will three out across
the room from me. I have a

1426
02:06:41.479 --> 02:06:44.720
number of rather dangerous objects on the
table here, and I'll split that girl's

1427
02:06:44.760 --> 02:06:46.239
colleor. She says another word,
it'll be your blasted thing. I can't

1428
02:06:46.239 --> 02:06:51.039
do it. Well? Does that
convince you? I haven't lost my pitching

1429
02:06:51.199 --> 02:06:56.479
arm. You didn't even get a
chance to raise that gun. You don't

1430
02:06:56.960 --> 02:06:59.279
I'm try to pick it up?
Said it? Lie down the floor?

1431
02:06:59.319 --> 02:07:01.439
Get behind me? Who say we
are a step up first, Blase,

1432
02:07:01.520 --> 02:07:05.720
and maybe you had better listen to
miss Taiale. Well, what are you

1433
02:07:05.760 --> 02:07:09.920
gonna do, Ralf? You can't
keep us here forever? You're proposed to

1434
02:07:09.960 --> 02:07:12.680
keep you there forever. I'm not
so enamored of your company. And what's

1435
02:07:12.760 --> 02:07:15.039
the game? Well, I will
make a bargain with you. Well,

1436
02:07:15.760 --> 02:07:18.840
my car is outside with a little
more gast than the state allows. Give

1437
02:07:18.880 --> 02:07:23.119
me one clear hour to get away. Well, what do you say?

1438
02:07:23.840 --> 02:07:27.279
I'm a cup mister Ralph. I
can't make any bargains with him. No,

1439
02:07:27.920 --> 02:07:30.680
no, And I'm coming over there
after you and you will compel me

1440
02:07:30.800 --> 02:07:33.720
to start throwing down all down under
the people. Hey, you missed that

1441
02:07:33.880 --> 02:07:41.479
one, miss with this one.
That's shame. That must ture mister Ralph.

1442
02:07:41.479 --> 02:07:43.920
But I'm still coming for you,
your boss, your control. Old

1443
02:07:44.000 --> 02:07:47.199
time, You're done for right,
Try that with the wildest pitcher. Don't

1444
02:07:47.279 --> 02:07:53.359
look, don't get up the block. It's not the whole thing sideways.

1445
02:07:53.680 --> 02:07:56.560
Do ever see that happen already there
before? Of course not because it's a

1446
02:07:56.640 --> 02:08:03.520
dummy radiator. I catch her off. I'm not ald like you have got

1447
02:08:03.640 --> 02:08:13.199
such one. I'll take a chance. What what was that about? Don't

1448
02:08:13.279 --> 02:08:16.840
be rady. It is. Look. Look here, it's a little oil

1449
02:08:16.880 --> 02:08:20.319
burner inside to make it give out
heat. Yeah, and the hinges at

1450
02:08:20.319 --> 02:08:22.000
the back to form a lot of
compartments where you can hide as much money

1451
02:08:22.000 --> 02:08:24.119
as you like. I saw the
hinges when he told me to go over

1452
02:08:24.199 --> 02:08:28.640
to the radiator, but I didn't
guess what they meant. It's really a

1453
02:08:28.760 --> 02:08:33.800
safe that never attracts attension because nobody
ever notices it. And the stuff's here,

1454
02:08:33.880 --> 02:08:39.680
all right, That's what I saw
in the suit case. And I

1455
02:08:39.840 --> 02:08:43.960
told you there was a ten thousand
dollar reward for that miss Did you hear

1456
02:08:45.119 --> 02:08:48.000
that? Then? On the radio, Jerry, go on, turn it

1457
02:08:48.119 --> 02:08:52.000
on, Welcome in the New Year. Didn't you tell me, all of

1458
02:08:52.079 --> 02:09:46.199
you that the money was hot?
And so when nothing of My Sleep,

1459
02:09:46.159 --> 02:09:58.439
starring Alissa Lundy and George coloris to
night's story of suspense, Columbia presents these

1460
02:09:58.560 --> 02:10:07.560
tales of mystery, intrigue, dangerous
adventure for your relaxation and enjoyment. Oh

1461
02:10:07.479 --> 02:10:13.560
well, I suppose the sun will
be coming up very soon, my dear,

1462
02:10:15.279 --> 02:10:20.760
So it's about time I say good
night to you. As the sun

1463
02:10:20.920 --> 02:10:26.680
rises, I'll have to go back
to wherever it is I come from,

1464
02:10:26.760 --> 02:10:30.119
and you, you, my dear, have to go back to your warm,

1465
02:10:30.319 --> 02:10:35.439
warm, comfy bed, to your
beautiful home. You have a pillow,

1466
02:10:37.279 --> 02:10:41.800
bake it, aache it for your
head to rest on it, for

1467
02:10:41.960 --> 02:10:46.960
you to head off to the land
of now. So go on now and

1468
02:10:48.119 --> 02:10:52.600
be safe on your journey to your
beautiful home. I'll be here waiting for

1469
02:10:52.760 --> 02:10:58.920
you next time, but just promise
me. As your eyelids get heavy tonight,

1470
02:11:00.199 --> 02:11:07.439
be thankful. Thank you for what
you have. Musical body Emily comes

1471
02:11:07.479 --> 02:11:13.720
along with me my family. Thank
your family, whom like him to follow

1472
02:11:13.880 --> 02:11:28.600
all into wronging mumbling, think of
pregnant