Dec. 14, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Six Horror Stories of Guilt, Poison, and the Pendulum

Unknown Broadcast | Six Horror Stories of Guilt, Poison, and the Pendulum
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Unknown Broadcast returns with classic old-time radio horror stories—radio suspense steeped in paranoia, poison, prison clocks, and a blade that never stops its kiss. Settle in, my dear: this ghost stories podcast slips between classic OTR chambers—Mystery Theater, Escape, The Whistler, and more—where alibis are stitched on ocean liners, serpents nest under sheets, and justice keeps perfect time. Tonight’s anthology is candlelit, close-mouthed, and very patient. Breathe quietly.
  • 🚢 Sea of Troubles — A clever man trades places on the S.S. Empress and thinks he’s outsailed consequence; the wake behind him says otherwise.   
  • 🐍 Poison — In a dark room, a whisper: don’t move. Something cold is coiled beneath the sheet, and the clock refuses to help. 
  • 🗝️ Escape by Death — A sealed ledger opens; debts are tallied in hush and ash, and only one exit is properly marked. 
  • 🕵️ You Can’t Trust a Stranger — A pleasant voice, a harmless favor, a turn of the key… and suddenly every shadow knows your name. 
  • ⏳ The Last Day of a Condemned Man — Footsteps count backwards; the final morning tastes of iron and prayer. 
  • 🕳️ The Pit and the Pendulum — Stone, rats, and a blade that sings closer with each breath you dare. 
Stay very still, my dear—some doors unlock when you breathe too loudly, and some blades do not miss twice.

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Well, my dear, so good to see you back. Oh

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what's that. Well, I'm sure we can find a way too.

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Unwind a bit. After all, the holidays are for joy

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and cheer. I suppose I should get this fire burning

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bright and hot. It is the winter, after all, so

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cold it could chill you to the bone. Oh, where

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are my manners? Here's a cup of hot tea to enjoy.

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I know how much you like it. Now, don't you

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worry one bit. Put your feet up in my favorite chair.

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I know right now everything seems are everything feels like

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a see of troubles.

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I'm now mystery there, brought to you in part by

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True Value Hardware, your store of first choice.

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Come in.

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Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall.

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Welcome to the sound of suspense. Welcome to the fear

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you can hear. Welcome to the world of terrifying imagination.

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The subject of the story you're about to hear is murder,

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but the subject is also time. We've all heard of

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killing time, but have you heard about using time to kill?

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You will in the next few minutes, when mister Owen

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Layton himself tells you his most ingenious scheme for getting

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rich quick by means of sudden death.

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Owen, for heaven's sake, what are you doing here?

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You're supposed to be in powering chalk.

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Harrias, and I seem to have done exactly that. By

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the way, I met your charming dance Indreka, although I'm

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quite sure he didn't see me, But I don't understand

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how could you possibly have returned home so soon? I

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was in a terrible hurry to see you, darling. I

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simply couldn't wait to see you, and dude bid.

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Our mystery drama Sea of Troubles was written especially for

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the mystery theater by Henry Schlesser and stars got Scotworth.

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Our spine Tingler begins across the sea in the delightful

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city of Paris. They say that you can sit at

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a sidewalk cafe in one of these streets, and sooner

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or later meet everyone you've ever known. Well, now we're

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going to introduce you.

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To someone who you don't know, but whose acquaintance you

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will enjoy.

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Me.

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His name is Owen Layton, and he prefers to tell

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you his unusual story in his own words.

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I arrived at Paris at ten o'clock that morning, but

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I didn't leave my hotel room until well after four.

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I knew my brother Gerald's habits only do well. He'd

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probably be sleeping until noon, so I knew where he

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would be at four pm. Of course, at Patrick's cafe

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with the Montparna's. Everyone loved Gerald at Patrick's because he

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was famous for always paying his bills with my money.

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Of course, was a missi bojoule. I chose a table

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well to the side, but my appearance still attracted considerable attention.

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And why not with my rumpled English tweeds, a long

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gray beard in the style of Ulysses as grant a

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pair of crutches to keep my monstrously bandaged foots off

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the Parisian as folk, I must have been quite a

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sight you guys. Pound knows you will play them as.

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Well what he had no one for the love of pay.

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Hello, Gerald, I'm glad you were able to recognize me

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under all his hair and bandages. What's the matter with

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your foot? I never mind about bad Give me a

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look at you. I haven't seen my kid brother in

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over a year. You know something, you look more French.

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Than every Come on, now let's hear about that foot.

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Open the beard what did you grow? Well, that's hrubbery.

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Well I got the idea.

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From you the last time I was in Paris.

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This thing, this is nothing compared to you, Alison.

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The last time I saw a beard like that, it

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was on.

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A fifty dollars bill. I guess you got a little

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out of hand. I think you trending it as a

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matter of fact, more like your style.

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I'll introduce you to my barber.

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May do me a favorite? Gerald finished this paranol for me.

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I shouldn't be drinking with my foot.

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Well, what's your foot get.

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To do with it? It's the gout you remember I

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wrote you about it a few months ago. I had

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the tactics before I sailed to Europe. Well, how's your

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painting coming along?

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You sold anything you have any I sold my watch.

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As if you didn't know.

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Yes, I know you came to Paris to starve in

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the garrets. But you look pretty well fed to me. Oh,

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speaking of that, I was Harriet. So speaking of which,

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the money I sent you or being well fed? You

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know what I mean?

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How is she still the same?

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No, she's more of the same. She's richer than ever,

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and she's fatter than ever. You also meaner than ever.

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Well, she couldn't be to me.

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Now she lets you grow that beard.

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He still don't see why you wanted to grow it.

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You always made this fun of mine, and I have

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my reason, Gerald. It was part of my plan. Plan

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what plan? Why could kill my mean fat wife? Of course,

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so this is your Garrett. They're pretty luxurious for a

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starving artist.

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Isn't it not bad?

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And all those canvases, some even have paint on them.

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But don't tell me you're really working.

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Oh and I know you're no saint, but I don't

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think you're wicked enough to do what you said strangle

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har it.

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No, Gerald, I'm wicked enough, just not foolish enough. My

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wife's money will be precious little good to me in prison.

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Don't tell me you've got.

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Some kind of a fool proof scheme, owen, because there

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is no such things. And no matter how clever you are,

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there's always someone cleverer.

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In the detective novels raps, that's the time before I

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kick you with my gouty foot. I've got five tons

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of bandage there. It makes quite a weapon.

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I don't understand what you meant about gout.

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It's the very cornerstone of my plans. I have established

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a medical history of the disease. If questions arise later,

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question yeah, about the bandages, Owen.

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I have never seen you like this.

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You're really talking wildly.

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I always crutches and being always crazy, talking about killing people.

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What's not crazy at all. It's a beautiful, rational scheme

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and one.

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That you will be eager to see succeed.

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Ohen, what's happened between you and Harriet? I nothing sudden.

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It's been a gradual change, perhaps the inevitable result of

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advancing years. You know, I was considerably younger than Harriet's

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when we married. Now it seems I am not young enough.

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How wait, are you cutting me off? Are you going

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to stop sending me money? Nothing of the can. As

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long as my income can support it, you can continue

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to develop your artistic talent. And the question is how

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long will my income continue. It's been ten years since

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I married Harriet. The difference between our ages is suddenly

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not so great. Harriet is discovering that there are younger

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men in the world. In fact, there's one particular one

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she's fond of. You're joking. He's a dancing instructor. As

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a matter of fact, she met him when I had

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my first attack of gouts. They couldn't move for a month. Well,

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Harriet indulged yourself in non domestic pleasures, right dancing?

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What to talk about killing her?

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Yailing her carefully, gerud with due regard to the risks involved.

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Actually I thought of the answer when I was lad

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on my back.

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I had plenty of time to think then about what

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a unique phenomenon of the modern age, the magnificent paradox

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of transy travel. Traveling a ship makes it journey in

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some five days, Jeff, plane takes only a few hours.

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But you hate planes.

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You've never been on a plane in your line, That's right.

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They terrify me. Well, what does all this have to

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do with gilling Harry's everything? For you and I, brother

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are going to put that trends atlantic paradox to use.

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We're going to prove that the difference between a ship

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and a plane is a lovely way to commit murder.

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It was almost two weeks later that Gerald and I

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have stood on the dark at Lahab and looked at

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the trim lines of the Empress. She wasn't exactly the

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largest red of the lying at Acker, but to get

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a sanity. She was certainly oblivious. That was fine with me.

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More excitement on the pier, the less noticeable Gerald and

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I were as we made our way toward a deck.

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Our progress was slow, since I never really managed to

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use those crutches. Finally we made our way to stateroom G,

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and then the door finally shut behind it. I collapsed

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on the bunk. I looked at my younger brother's face

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and felt considerably better. Poor Gerald, his complexion was so

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pale white against his reddish beard, now fuller by two

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barbleous weeks. Relaxed, Gerald, I had your confidence one. So

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let's take care of the passports first, and then we

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can call the Stewart.

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All right here they are good.

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Now we have to do with infinite patience, I said

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about the delicate task of removing the small photographs from

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both passports. I was as precise as a jeweler, and

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I squeezed blue from a tiny tube and replaced them,

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one bearded face substituted for the other one. Yes, my

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brother and I look quite a bit alike, despite the

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six year difference in our age. Owen, are you sure

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nobody will notice?

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Now you're not supposed to tap over these paths born as.

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That's true, and I understand it's also a crime to

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kill someone. Nevertheless, that's exactly what I plan to do. Now,

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let's ring for the stewart. The man who words ad

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our ring was a perfect delight, an aging pumpany with

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a thin crest of white hair, the mouth of a pixie,

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and the squirtty eyes of a myopic. The latter, of course,

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was going to be a blessing. Everything all right, was

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delight and yes, everything's just fine. Your name mister Porkins. Hey, yes,

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that's me to Porkins, it's your chirvy Hawkins. I'm afraid

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I'm going to be something of a burden to you

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on this voyage. As you see, i'm an invalid. Oh yes,

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your poor foot share exactly my poor foot. As a result,

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I'm going to be forced to take all my meals

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in here, so you'll have to arrange matters with the

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dining steward. I trust that can be arranged.

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Oh yes, sir, don't you worry none about that time,

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Nor will.

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I be spending any time on deck. The least bit

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of role is extremely painful for me, so I remain

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in my state room until we reach Port Hark. What

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a pity share. It's all right, it's all right. I've

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got a great deal of business to take care of

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between here and New York, and I have enough paperwork

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to keep me busy. So if you'll just bring me

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my meals and keep me from being disturbed, you'll be

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doing your job handsomely. All right, understood?

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Oh understood, Richard.

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I see you later then, mister Porkin, Oh, yes, sure,

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we were lucky. He sees how your cooperative geezeer has.

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But be careful. Always keep your door locked so he

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can never enter without knocking. And every time he brings

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you that tray, make sure that you're either dozing or

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buried in papers. You understand, understood. Well, when I think about,

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well she's going to do in New York while I'm

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on board the ship, I oh, and I'm going to

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do in New York is going to be a pleasure.

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But you're so cold, blunted about it.

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You are going to kill a human being.

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Oh, I never said that. I said I was going

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to kill Harriet.

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Poor Harriet, where she is in her lavish New York townhouse,

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thinking about nothing but her dancing lessons. While aboard the

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SS Empress, two men are plotting her demise. Of course,

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we're not yet certain how Owen Leyton plan to get

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away with murder. Even if he does fly to New

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York and his brother sails in his place.

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We'll simply have to wait until I continue shortly with

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that too. Now let's return to the stateroom G on

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a deck of the Empress.

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It's almost failing time.

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The first all Visitors Ashore warning has been sounded on

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all levels of the great ship, but in Stateroom G.

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Of course, the warning has a special significance because now

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the visitor has become the passenger, and the passenger has.

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Become the visitor. But let mister Owen Layton speak for himself.

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Listen to me, Generald, listen very careful for Pete's sake.

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Oh and we've been over this a hundred times. I'm

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seeing it for the last time. You must do exactly

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what I've said, exactly. The smallest variation can cause total disaster.

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I promise you I won't move from the stateroom.

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I'll be a good little rabbit in my case.

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Yes, that's exactly what worries me. Your rabbit like tendencies.

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Don't expect me to enjoy it.

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Well, I think of all those cute little funnies strolling

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around in the.

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Bank, or just forget they're there, I understand. Let me

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get this bandage off my foot. Oh, and don't forget

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the sixth night. You'll manage, all right, we'll be atty funoughly, yes,

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neither would it been any fun to fill gas tanks

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and hoboken. Not as much fun as living on the

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Left Bank with those Parisian beauties of yours. All right,

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all right, I know we don't forget who's really doing

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the hard work, Junior, including that plane trip tonight. Ooh,

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I mean that's the worst part of it all. Listen,

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how high did those buddy things fly?

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Oh?

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Thirty thousand feet? I think bird's preposterous. Bad The bandages off, now,

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let's get them on you. By the time the next

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tall ashore sounded, the transformation had been made. The bandages

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were on my brother's foot, and the crutches were lying

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snugly beside his book, and I was all set to leave.

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With Gerald's gray tweed coat belted around me, with Gerald's

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hat on my head, I strolled to the visitor's gangplank

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and left the ss Empress to its business. In a way,

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it was fortunate that I dreaded air travel so much.

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I thought of being carried a offf some thirty thousand

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feet inside the monstrous machine part at the Gate seven

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on Olive Field was completely engrossing. For this reason, I

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overcame and he nervousness I might have had upon confronting

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the immigration authority. The official merely glanced at the photograph

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and my passport book, snapped it shut briskly and handed

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it back. Mister Gerald Robin Layton was on his way

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back home. I don't recall much about the flight. I

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remember about ten minutes of sheer terror when we took

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off on what seemed like a ridiculously short runway. I

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know there were several more hours of alternating freight numbness

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and drowsiness, helped by liberal amounts of alcohol. And then

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there was that agonizing half hour following the captain's announcement

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of our approach ingto Kennedy in the National Airport, and

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wonder of wonders, I was safe. The only one in

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danger was my wife. It was midnight in New York,

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and I climbed into a taxi and gave the driver

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on destination Grand Central Station. In the terminal, I deposited

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my single piece of luggage in a public locker and

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took still another taxi to the street where Harriet and

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I had spent the last four years of our marriage.

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The brownstone was an imposing building from the exterior, but

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Harriet's money had made it possible to stoop out the

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interior and transform it into a duplex of cunningly modern design.

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I had spent several happy hours in this house, about

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seven or eighth I think it was one twenty in

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the morning by the time I arrived, and the traffic

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had gone from the quiet streets of Sutton Place. The

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dreet was empty. The shades of the building's opposite had

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all been drawn against the night, and I felt certain

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that no one's me quietly and said the key into

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the lock of the front door. I went quietly upstairs

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in the bedroom. It was empty, but that was no surprise.

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It was Saturday night, because they would be. I was

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in Paris. Therefore, Harriet was on the town, probably in

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the company of her dance instructor friend. In a way,

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I was glad that she was running through to form.

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It helped me feel justified in taking the drastic.

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Course that I was about to take.

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About twenty minutes later, I heard the front door opening again.

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Oh my seat.

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Danced, my little sissies up.

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The night you stare you.

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That's what you're paying me for, missus Lee, that's what

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you think love?

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Speaking of stop it? You mean I don't even get

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a yish good night tomorrow night? Maybe right now?

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I just want to go to sleep.

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And I thought you looked a bit preoccupied tonight.

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Is anything wrong?

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No, unless you count a cable from my husband. Well,

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he's still embarrassed me.

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He sailed on the Empress to be here in another

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five days. That's too bad, and he can stay tomorrow.

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All right, count of the eyes your night time and

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said good night, And then Harriet started up the stairs.

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I picked up the pretty blue vase that adorn her

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dressing table and placed it behind my back. Hello, Harriet,

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and said, what are.

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You doing here?

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You're supposed to be in paril.

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I thought i'd surprise you, darling. So I think they're

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done exactly that.

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But your cable you said you were taking the Empress.

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She won't arrivee a day I.

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Changed my mind about taking me ship. I flew and said,

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you you.

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Were never inside a plane in your life.

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Well, there's always the first time, isn't for everything? But

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why when you're you're so terrified of flying? Because I

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was in a hurry, darlings, I simply couldn't wait to

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see you and do this. It was a shame about

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the bay you s had cost the small fortune. Really

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distasteful part came now, as you may have gathered, I'm

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a manifestidious taste, but when you have five days to lose,

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you can't afford the nine of these. I knew it

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would be easier to lose myself in the region of

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the city where the lower depths are at their lowest.

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Started my britty suits, my Italian loafers, and my continental manners.

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In an old pair of flax and heavy wool shirt,

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I made my way to the Bowery. My first act

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was to join a shambling silent line a vagrance outside

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the clothing Relief agency, and I emerged with a costume

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superiod or anything I could have invented. The mart eaton sweater,

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a double wrested jacket with a shredded lining and a

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thousand unhirnable creases. And then I bought a bottle of

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so turned for ninety eight cents, and readed a bed

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in a hotel called Miller's for seventy five cents a night,

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and then the next day in a steam filled diner

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with a coffee taste that I got a septic. I

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picked up a month stained newspaper from the dirty tile floor.

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There on the second page was a night in which

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gave me an appetite even in that place it said

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woman found murdered in east Side brown Stone. With a

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smaller headline beneath it was even more delicious. It read

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dancing teacher held as suspect. It wasn't something I planned

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or expected, but well why not?

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Why not?

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I think i'd a said all that coffee? And then

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the five days were over. It wasn't very far from

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the Miller Hotel to the docks. The first glimpse I

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had of the empress beautiful bow on horizon thrilled me

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in a way I had never known before. But I

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couldn't stand hiout an admirers. I had things to do.

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I made my way as unobtrusively as possible. In fact

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the Grand Central Terminal. I removed my luggage from the locker,

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and then in the washroom I shaved and changed into

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clean clothes. Then I went down to Peer sixteen to

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greet the arriving Empress. I knew that Gerald would be

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among the lats of the passengers to appear, But then

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there he was, wearing my green plasktop coat with a

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collar full around his throat. I'm wearing my humber hanging

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low over his eyes. And he was using my crutches too,

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not very well, but with his foot so heavily bandaged,

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he still made a convincing cripple. Owen, owen over here.

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You know, for a minute, I didn't think you didn't

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think you'd make it?

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Well?

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Well I was it? How did everything go?

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Fine?

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Fine?

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Look?

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Where can I get rid of these crutches?

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I still never mind the crutches? But if I obscured

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mister Pawkins, did you see him before you left the ship?

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No?

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No, I managed to avoid you.

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I didn't even tipping either.

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Just as you said, good, I'll get into that car.

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We can do your car. It's a rental car to

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get any sign so we can switch clothes.

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A rental car.

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Well, I wasn't taking the chance. I read it it

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in your name, Junior. Don't worry about it. You really

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thought of everything, Owen. I have to give you credit,

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or just give me my clothes and that bandage and fast,

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and so we made the switch as before. By the

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time I stepped out of the resid automobile, I was

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dressed in the hamburg and the green plaid coat, and

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the bandagers were back where he had originated. In fact,

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the crutches seemed like old friends. As I hobbled back

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to the entrance of pair at sixteen, I spotted the

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ship's petty officer emerging from the passenger exits.

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We'll find me there, Yes, sir, What can I do

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for it?

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What it is?

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It's rather embarrassing.

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You see.

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There's a steward that I meant to take care of

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before I left my stateroom. He was very kind to me,

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me Parkins. He's an old fellow, very nice. I hated

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to miss him when I left, or somehow I did,

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and all the exactly Yes, old mister Parkins was born

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than pleased. When I handed them for two fifty dollars bills,

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they were actually tears in his eyes.

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Oh this is most generous, most generously.

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You took very good care of me, Parkins. I know

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I was a usace.

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Oh no, sir, you were't never what I aren't even

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so you should.

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Well there you brought me all my meals and so forth,

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didn't you.

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Well.

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I was glad to do it like that, to be

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a service, and I hope you'll be back on the

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Empress with the shooter.

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Games tend to be Parkins, Yes, you can be sure

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of that. As soon as I knew that mister Pawkins

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was remembered properly and that he remembered me properly, I

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knew that everything was going to be just trying. I

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told my younger brother to drive his new car to

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the village, find himself a small apartment in Lailo, and

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I took a taxi to my home. I knew there

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would be a company waiting for me.

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Mister Layton, Yes, I'm Old Layton.

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Who are you? Name?

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Is Litis firing?

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Mister late New York Police Department. Police wants the matter?

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My husband robbed or something.

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I'm sorry we couldn't meet you at the ship. We

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knew you were coming back today, but we thought it

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would be easier to meet you here and.

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Uh break the news to here. What news? What are

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you talking about?

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Bad news? I'm afraid maybe we uh.

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We better go inside. Yes, him, of course I knew

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exactly what the bad news was going to be. Now,

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all they had to do was to keep from laughing

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up loud.

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We seem to have been witnessed to the perfect murder.

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Owen Leyton can't be blamed for the murder of his wife,

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and for the most natural reason in the world, Owen

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Layton wasn't in New York when his wife was murdered.

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Owen was on the high seas.

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Just ask mister Porkins or anyone else aboard the SS Empress.

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But before we congratulate mister Layton on his cleverness, Owen

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Layton is a happy man today.

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Despite the fact that he is all alone in the

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reconverted brownstone on Ston Place.

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The smile never seems to leave his face, even as

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he hobbles towards the front door to answer the insistent chimes.

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His bandaged foot and crutches don't seem to bother him

469
00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:18.079
in the least. In fact, one has the impression that,

470
00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:20.799
despite the tragic loss of his wife.

471
00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:25.799
Mister Layton, even mister Lighton.

472
00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:28.799
Oh hey, oh it's all right, I hope, Yes, the gouge.

473
00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:32.000
You were a bit too broken up about that terrible

474
00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:33.079
thing that happened to your wife.

475
00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:35.519
So I'm sure you don't blame me, Lieutenant, to the

476
00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:39.200
great shock. Here, let me take your raincoat rating outside

477
00:28:39.240 --> 00:28:39.440
of it.

478
00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:44.319
Yeah, frankly, it was my decision not to.

479
00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:47.160
Send a radiogram to the ship about your wife's death.

480
00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:50.319
I mean, it didn't seem right to break.

481
00:28:50.119 --> 00:28:51.799
The news to you that way, but I was very

482
00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:53.000
considered of you, Lieutenant.

483
00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:55.920
We knew you were aboard the Empress because of your cable.

484
00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:59.160
Yes, but you were right not to tell me when

485
00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:03.559
I was aboard. It would have been very helpless feeling

486
00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:06.240
knowing that there was nothing I could do about it.

487
00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:07.480
That's what I thought too.

488
00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:10.519
At any rate, I suppose you've had some time to

489
00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:14.039
well think about what may have happened.

490
00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:18.880
No, old Lieutenant, the truth is, I still don't understand

491
00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:23.240
that man who killed her. What was his name again,

492
00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:27.559
Douglas Denton started his real names. He called himself that

493
00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:27.839
at the.

494
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:30.960
Dancing school, but he was born Bernard you Bank, I

495
00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:34.119
uh I take it you didn't know, mister Denton.

496
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:36.319
Oh no, I never met the man before in my life.

497
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:39.359
And why would you want to kill my poor Harry.

498
00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:41.920
Well, actually he's still denying that he did.

499
00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:45.000
How can he from what I read in the newspaper,

500
00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:49.720
Well you need to call him attended. Well, no, not

501
00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:50.559
quite that good.

502
00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:54.640
And we knew that he'd been uh well, he and

503
00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:57.000
your wife had been seeing each other during your visits abroad,

504
00:29:57.759 --> 00:29:59.640
and that they'd seen each other that Saturday night she

505
00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:02.480
was kid. In fact, he was seen in the vicinity

506
00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:05.799
of your house by several witnesses, not more than ten

507
00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:07.880
minutes from the time when we estimated that she was

508
00:30:09.079 --> 00:30:09.880
budging to death.

509
00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.400
I'm sorry, that's a little too graphic, I know, is

510
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.279
all right, Lieutenant. I want to know that details, I

511
00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:20.200
really do. But I want detail we.

512
00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:22.799
Don't know is why he would have done such a thing.

513
00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:25.319
I mean, frankly, we have, mister Dent. In fact, that

514
00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:27.279
there rather small time, you.

515
00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:31.000
Know, giggle. I'm sorry to tell you that too. So

516
00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:35.000
it's all right. I'm sure Harriet wasn't to blame. I'm

517
00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:38.519
sure that that man just did whatever Gigglows did and

518
00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:41.480
made a fool of her. But if your wife do

519
00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:45.160
that sort of thing often, I don't know. I suppose

520
00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:46.960
he's made a few mistakes.

521
00:30:46.519 --> 00:30:48.359
Which was handled well.

522
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:51.240
Now if you could be more specific, you know, Lieutenant,

523
00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:56.319
I'm sorry. I want Harriet's killer punished to tesn't folly,

524
00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:58.920
but not at the expense of scandalizing my wife.

525
00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:01.279
I'm afraid that's it. Can't a little be easy to avoid.

526
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.240
We know she was having an affair with mister Danley.

527
00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:05.240
He's as meted that himself.

528
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:08.039
But I don't give money reason to break a vase

529
00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:08.640
over her head.

530
00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:12.319
Yes, un as she had decided to end the affair,

531
00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:16.599
of course. Wow, it's one possible theory. Of course, didn't

532
00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:19.400
you say you found my cabled her by not coming

533
00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:22.119
home on the Empress. Yeah, that's right. Harriet didn't know

534
00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.079
I expected to return from Europe so soon. Perhaps when

535
00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:29.200
she informed her jig her friend with the dent and

536
00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:33.119
he got angry. Yeah, that's possible too, So he might

537
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.960
have just she acted impulsively. Yes, Lieutenant, I'm sure it

538
00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:42.359
happened just that way. They quarreled in your bedroom very well,

539
00:31:42.440 --> 00:31:45.599
in our bedroom. Yes, they quarreled and he picked up

540
00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:50.279
the vase. He struck her somehow. I can't believe it

541
00:31:50.440 --> 00:31:55.359
was cold blooded or premeditated. No matter what the man is, Lieutenant,

542
00:31:56.119 --> 00:32:04.519
I hope the law isn't too harsh with him. I'll

543
00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:09.599
tell you what wasn't easy. There was a waiting. I

544
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:12.039
had to wait for the outcome of two legal actions,

545
00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:14.400
the verdicts of both the criminal.

546
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:15.079
And the probate courts.

547
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:18.960
But I had every confidence that human interests and doctice

548
00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:24.240
would be done. And then one night, a little more

549
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:31.160
than two weeks after my return, Hello, oh, eat Hila,

550
00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:34.000
I beg your pardon.

551
00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:38.319
I feel terrible. I'm not telling you for this, but

552
00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:39.279
I just found out.

553
00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:42.279
What happened through the whole thing in the paper that issue.

554
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:45.279
Oh must be in a state.

555
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:47.519
Are you sure you're calling the right number?

556
00:32:48.319 --> 00:32:51.279
Of course I am, at least that's the number in

557
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:55.119
the terrible book eight one five five five five five.

558
00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:58.279
Well you certainly have the right number, my but that

559
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:01.039
I believe you have the wrong Bogy stop it.

560
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:03.839
You'll be godly oenly with the directory.

561
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:05.359
Oh that doesn't mean very much.

562
00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:06.759
See what is this?

563
00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:08.319
What are you trying to do?

564
00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:10.960
I'm simply trying to find out who you are and

565
00:33:11.599 --> 00:33:12.640
why you think you know me.

566
00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:16.440
Wait a minute, is there someone there with you?

567
00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:18.240
Is that what all the dog talks about?

568
00:33:18.440 --> 00:33:19.240
No, I'm alone.

569
00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:21.200
Wouldn't want me a big cat.

570
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:26.200
I told you not to try any of the board

571
00:33:26.279 --> 00:33:27.079
romance stuff on me.

572
00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:27.960
I won't stand for it.

573
00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:32.920
Did you say shipboard romance? You hurt me?

574
00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:36.240
I warned you that I wasn't interested in the friendly

575
00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:38.240
little kid of the gang playing kind of stuff.

576
00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:44.160
Listen, if you're you're not talking about it. The ship

577
00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:45.519
you mean isn't the Empress?

578
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:47.200
Of course, it's the Empress.

579
00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:53.200
Share owed you idiot what you see? So you mean?

580
00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:55.599
I'm just sorry, so mixed up about things right now?

581
00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:58.680
You can't be so upset that you forget about me.

582
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.680
Right from the way you talked about your wife, she didn't.

583
00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:06.839
Mean a thing to you, ook, Sheila. I can't talk

584
00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:07.559
anymore right now.

585
00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:09.079
You're not brushing me off easily.

586
00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:11.639
Oh when I warn you, I'm not trying to brush

587
00:34:11.679 --> 00:34:15.760
you off. It's just that I'm having visitors, Sheila, important

588
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:16.880
people of business.

589
00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:19.559
Right tomorrow, Man, tomorrow.

590
00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:22.519
I'm not sure I can make it tomorrow either. I

591
00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:24.880
may have to go out of town. There are things

592
00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:26.440
to settle regarding my wife's state.

593
00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:30.119
There are things to sit all right between us.

594
00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:48.559
Oh God, dear god, he's ruined everything everything, picking up,

595
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:54.440
pick up my phone. You're miserable, Garrel, it's your brother,

596
00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:58.880
Oh high, never better, never better.

597
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:01.599
You're farewell well.

598
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:04.880
Why shouldn't that be well? I just had a lovely

599
00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:08.440
chest with a no doubt charming young lady. Her name

600
00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:08.960
is Sheila.

601
00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:11.039
Isn't that a lovely name?

602
00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:11.559
Sheila?

603
00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:12.159
Oh?

604
00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:14.159
Is that name familiar to you?

605
00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:14.639
Oh?

606
00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:16.960
No, before you say anything, when you listen to me.

607
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:19.840
Yes, that's why I'm calling to listen to you, to

608
00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:21.840
see if there's anything you can say, anything at all,

609
00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:24.840
to will mitigate my intention of coming right over there

610
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:25.599
and sprangling you.

611
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:28.320
You've got to understand how and why, Owen, I was a.

612
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:29.440
Prisoner in that state room.

613
00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:32.599
Virtual prisoner, Yes, and that was the idea.

614
00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:35.840
I told you never to leave that room, never do

615
00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:38.239
so much as poke your ugly head out of the door.

616
00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:40.880
It's easy enough for the first stage, yer, old, and

617
00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:42.480
for almost twenty four hours to that.

618
00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:44.440
How many other women did you take up with?

619
00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:45.280
Owen?

620
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:48.400
She was the only one of thebsolutely, the only one

621
00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:49.440
I had anything to do with.

622
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:51.920
If I know you, you had plenty to do with her.

623
00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:54.119
Oh, I couldn't live like a hermit for Pete's sake.

624
00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:56.800
I can't believe what I'm hearing. I can't.

625
00:35:57.599 --> 00:36:00.360
You knew how important it was convince her that you.

626
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:01.719
Were me when I did that?

627
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:03.400
Oh, I told her I was you.

628
00:36:03.880 --> 00:36:05.519
Hey, that was clever.

629
00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:07.199
I don't know she thinks I am you.

630
00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:09.280
Oh No, look the fat that he telephoned you.

631
00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:10.239
And doesn't that prove it?

632
00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:10.719
Oh?

633
00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:13.320
Yes, said proves it completely, Owen.

634
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:16.360
Oh, it was really going crazy in that tiny roof.

635
00:36:16.519 --> 00:36:19.760
I took just one little stroll on deck one night.

636
00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:20.920
And met Sheila.

637
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:23.679
I swear, I swear that I never know she tried

638
00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:24.440
to get in touch.

639
00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:27.360
With this Your girlfriend. Sheila is in New York right now.

640
00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:32.000
She's demanding to see me for you me. What I

641
00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:34.800
mean is she's she's read about Harriet's death. She knows

642
00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:39.159
that you, she knows that I. But she knows that

643
00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:43.119
Owen lateness free and unencumbered and will soon be very,

644
00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:46.760
very rich. I am planning to hear that own, haven't

645
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:51.000
your friend? Sheila isn't going to give up that easily.

646
00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:53.599
She's going to track me down. She's going to try

647
00:36:53.639 --> 00:36:56.559
to renew her this shipboard romance. And do you know

648
00:36:56.719 --> 00:36:57.880
what will happen when she does?

649
00:36:58.400 --> 00:36:58.440
What?

650
00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:01.639
Think about it, Gerald, She's going to take one look

651
00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:06.599
at me and I'll be cooked, roasted, fried. She'll know

652
00:37:06.679 --> 00:37:09.480
I wasn't aboard the Empress. She'll know that she spent

653
00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:14.119
all that glorious week with another man. And how long

654
00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:15.960
do you suppose it'll take for her to put two

655
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:17.039
and two together on?

656
00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:18.719
Couldn't you put her off?

657
00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:22.760
Couldn't you leave her feet? Well, if he should leave town, if.

658
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:23.360
You could get away.

659
00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:26.920
That the only thing that's occurred to me too. If

660
00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:27.440
I left it.

661
00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:30.960
Once, you could always go back to Paris. You always

662
00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:34.039
send it your favor. Today, then give what I saw

663
00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:38.119
in the papers that the Empress is sailing again tomorrow

664
00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:39.199
for Lahar.

665
00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:48.559
For the first time in my life, I wasn't looking

666
00:37:48.599 --> 00:37:51.360
forward to a sea voyage, and I knew that my

667
00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:54.679
idiotic younger brother had been no other choice. In the

668
00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:56.599
minute I was off the phone with him, I was

669
00:37:56.639 --> 00:37:59.239
on again, this time to my very obliging travel agent,

670
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:04.119
who told me that passage aboard the Empress was indeed possible. So,

671
00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:06.760
for the first time in my shipboard travels, I couldn't

672
00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:10.960
get a state room, couldn't even do better than b Deck. Well,

673
00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:13.639
it was an indignity I was forced to accept.

674
00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:15.559
Me for this time.

675
00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:20.639
My cabin steward wasn't an amiable gentleman like mister Parkins,

676
00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:24.239
but a gruff, uncommunicative type who made no promises of

677
00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:28.360
devoted service. Right then, I wouldn't require much service. For

678
00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:31.719
one thing, I no longer needed my bandages and trudges.

679
00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:35.440
So as far as the world is concerned, my troublesome

680
00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:36.519
gout was healed.

681
00:38:36.840 --> 00:38:40.719
Oh me, yeah, shoot the gentleman who sailed with us

682
00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:43.719
a couple of weeks ago, that Paulkins Chap.

683
00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:47.639
Oh oh, yes, that's right. You were the officer who

684
00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:50.000
helped me find the steward. If everything worked out all

685
00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:54.159
right there, Yes, everything went fine. Unfortunately I couldn't get

686
00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:57.079
such good accommodations to this trip. It's ashamed, sir.

687
00:38:57.719 --> 00:38:59.440
But then I don't think we'll have as easy a

688
00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:01.960
crossing of this time. Why not all a bit of

689
00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:02.800
rough weather ahead?

690
00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:08.760
They say, oh, fine, that's all I need. But rough

691
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:12.039
weather ahead or not, that's for that afternoon. The Empress

692
00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:15.440
pulled slowly away from the pier, and I admit that.

693
00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:21.599
I breathed a heavy sigh of relief. That evening I

694
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:24.239
was taking for dinner when someone knocked on my door.

695
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:33.079
Oh who who is it? That must be unfriendly neighborhood steward. Yeah, hello,

696
00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:36.960
Oh I'm sorry. Oh was this something you wanted?

697
00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:37.519
Miss Well?

698
00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:38.519
I had made a mistake.

699
00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:40.719
I thought this was mister Layton's Kevin.

700
00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:42.400
What it is? I'm mister Layton.

701
00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:44.719
Oh but you're not mister Owen Layton.

702
00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:46.440
And that's the party I was looking for it, But

703
00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:47.719
I am Owen Layton.

704
00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:54.000
Well that's an interesting coincidence. I mean, two people would

705
00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:57.239
have the same names and even look a little bit alike.

706
00:39:58.320 --> 00:39:58.599
Oh.

707
00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:03.360
Well, the Owen Layton I mean is quite a bit younger.

708
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:06.400
I don't know what in the world you're talking about.

709
00:40:06.639 --> 00:40:09.440
I saw your name on the passenger list. But the man,

710
00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:13.719
I mean, well, a bunch of height and Hi's beers

711
00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:14.079
like yours.

712
00:40:14.119 --> 00:40:19.280
But he's well, he's not you, right, And who are you?

713
00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:21.960
My name is Sheila, Sheila Roy Sheila.

714
00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:24.719
I met Owen Layton two weeks ago, right on the ship.

715
00:40:26.079 --> 00:40:31.000
And now suddenly there's another Owen Layton going the other way.

716
00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:31.159
That.

717
00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:34.079
Oh, there's something very fishy going on.

718
00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:36.079
Here your mistake, and I swear your mistake.

719
00:40:36.159 --> 00:40:37.679
I'm mister whatever your name is.

720
00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:39.079
I don't know what this is all about.

721
00:40:39.239 --> 00:40:41.760
I don't know why there are two Owen Layton's going

722
00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:42.920
back and forth on the ship.

723
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:46.000
Well, well, but's so strange about that. I mean, so,

724
00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:47.679
why are you going back and forth me?

725
00:40:49.159 --> 00:40:51.679
Because I have to, because it's my job.

726
00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:55.840
I'm a social director. I mean, you worked on the Embers,

727
00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:56.400
that's right.

728
00:40:57.800 --> 00:40:59.920
Right now, I'm gonna work.

729
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:00.880
I'm finding out what.

730
00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:01.800
This is all about.

731
00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:06.280
Oh.

732
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:09.000
I stood rooted to the cabin floor, listening to the

733
00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:13.239
melancholy sound of his ship's whistled, warning the seas ahead

734
00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:18.039
that we were on our way, heading straight for troubled waters.

735
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:26.440
As you have heard, Owen.

736
00:41:26.239 --> 00:41:32.239
Leyton's perfect murder had the customary imperfection. But at least

737
00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:35.679
he'll be able to enjoy one last ocean voyage before

738
00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:39.760
the authorities send him up the river. Isn't it nice

739
00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:45.400
to see justice triumph? Beg your pardon to hear justice triumph.

740
00:41:56.639 --> 00:42:02.239
We hope you enjoyed tonight's voyage, Dan Acle and Ian Martin,

741
00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:04.840
My production was under the direction of Himaun.

742
00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:06.679
This is E. J.

743
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:09.800
Marshall inviting you to rip a mystery theater for I'm

744
00:42:09.840 --> 00:42:11.280
sure in the macabre.

745
00:42:12.039 --> 00:42:56.559
Until next time, pleasant dream, Oh, my.

746
00:42:56.760 --> 00:43:00.960
Dear, no worries. I'll make up enough pot right now.

747
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:06.599
It'll steep and then warm you right up. Everything is

748
00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:10.800
certainly as good as it could hope to be.

749
00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:13.000
Well.

750
00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:19.480
I suppose we'll find some more jolly old cheer, or

751
00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:27.440
would it be jolly old fear? Oh, here you go,

752
00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:32.079
a hot cup of tea on a cold winter's night,

753
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just for you, So warm, so good, and not.

754
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755
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756
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757
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758
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761
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762
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763
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Tonight we escape to India and the story of a

764
00:44:38.599 --> 00:44:42.800
man trapped in his bed by a crate the most deadly,

765
00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:47.400
poisonous snake in the world, as Raoul Dahl tells it

766
00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:51.440
in his terrifying story Poison.

767
00:44:58.760 --> 00:44:59.039
Listen.

768
00:44:59.119 --> 00:45:01.320
It's an awful good story. But to get the points,

769
00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:03.960
you got to understand about two things. What kind of

770
00:45:04.039 --> 00:45:06.360
a guy Harry Pope was and what kind of a

771
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:11.800
snake a crate is? First, the crate you spell it kriait.

772
00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:13.000
They're in India.

773
00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:15.679
The crates are little snakes, sometimes not more than three

774
00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:16.559
or four inches long.

775
00:45:17.239 --> 00:45:18.679
You have to look real careful if you're going to

776
00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:19.280
see one at all.

777
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:22.880
Really almost like a worm, except that it's the most

778
00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:24.119
poisonous snake in the world.

779
00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:26.440
It can bite faster than a bumblebee.

780
00:45:26.440 --> 00:45:28.159
And when it does, you go off like a firecracker,

781
00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:30.800
swell up like a hot water bottle, and then fly

782
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:37.519
the angels. Crate, tiny little snake. Now about Harry, Harry Pope,

783
00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:42.119
funny guy. He had it in for anybody who wasn't American,

784
00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:45.840
who didn't speak his language. He called him foreigners, and

785
00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:49.039
he called him that army word guk. Didn't matter if

786
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:52.559
they were French, Italian or Japanese. Gook foreigner, he'd say,

787
00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:57.360
it's kind of buggy. On the subject, funny guy, Well,

788
00:45:57.440 --> 00:45:59.159
Harry and me. We got sent out to Bombay in

789
00:45:59.239 --> 00:46:02.400
this construction job, and that's where the trouble started. You see,

790
00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:04.320
except for the two of us, the crew was made

791
00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:07.800
up of local boys, Hindus and Moslems, four of them.

792
00:46:08.519 --> 00:46:10.199
Harry was like a cat and a room full of

793
00:46:10.280 --> 00:46:13.119
dogs had his back up every minute. After a month

794
00:46:13.199 --> 00:46:15.440
or so, it began to wear him out. So his

795
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:18.400
appetite wasn't right. He was smoking three and four packs

796
00:46:18.440 --> 00:46:20.519
a day and he wasn't getting asleep. I used to

797
00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:22.519
try to straighten him out, used to tell him he

798
00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:23.000
was wrong.

799
00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:27.119
There's no use talking, I said, Harry. They're all good boys.

800
00:46:27.159 --> 00:46:28.159
Why don't you take it easy?

801
00:46:28.239 --> 00:46:28.559
Wood are?

802
00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:30.000
You and I are good friends. But a lot of

803
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:32.639
things you just don't understand. You ought to take it easy, Harry.

804
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:35.119
They're all human beings, just like you and me. The

805
00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:38.719
goots were they foreign us. Look it, Think about it

806
00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:41.719
this way. How'd you like your sister to marry one?

807
00:46:41.800 --> 00:46:43.559
I haven't got a sister, And anyway, you've asked me

808
00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:45.760
that before. Yeah, you see, you want to make the

809
00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:46.880
effort to understand.

810
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:54.480
Well, that's how it was with Harry, and you know

811
00:46:54.599 --> 00:46:58.519
about the create Now about what happened was June, the

812
00:46:58.599 --> 00:47:00.679
last year was hot in Stay, even though.

813
00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:02.559
The sun was down. I was putting on a clean

814
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:03.360
shirt to go out.

815
00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:08.639
Oh man, I'm really beat tonight.

816
00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:11.440
What's of you, Woodie?

817
00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:13.960
What's the clean shirt for going out?

818
00:47:14.559 --> 00:47:15.360
What do you got day?

819
00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:18.880
No, I thought i'd stop off a doctor Ganderbys. He

820
00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:20.599
promised he'd show me the photos he made down on

821
00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:24.079
the leper column. Gandab, Yeah, these photos are supposed to

822
00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:26.800
be pretty interesting. Step, how about Hary? Would you like

823
00:47:26.840 --> 00:47:31.440
to come along, Gandaby. He's a hindoo, a gook foreigner.

824
00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:35.440
I don't want to spend no evening with a gook. Shoot,

825
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:41.719
not old Harry. So I went off to the doctors

826
00:47:41.760 --> 00:47:44.000
and Harry went to bed with the detective's story. I

827
00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:47.280
had a very interesting evening. Later, Old Harry was plenty

828
00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:53.440
sorry that he stayed home. I didn't leave the doctors

829
00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:56.000
until around midnight, and when I drove back through the

830
00:47:56.039 --> 00:47:59.719
Sleeping city it was very quiet and dark. I thought

831
00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:02.719
about the pictures of the lepers I had seen. I

832
00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:04.800
remember thinking, I hope Harry is awaking because I'd like

833
00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:06.119
to tell him about those pictures.

834
00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:12.880
And when I got home, I was glad to see

835
00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:14.480
the light in his room was still burning.

836
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:17.159
Harry you up.

837
00:48:18.920 --> 00:48:21.679
I didn't get an answer, probably fell asleep reading.

838
00:48:23.119 --> 00:48:24.639
Harry you awake?

839
00:48:24.719 --> 00:48:25.000
Harry?

840
00:48:26.360 --> 00:48:27.840
Would he stop?

841
00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:30.039
Harry boy? What's the matter?

842
00:48:30.159 --> 00:48:30.400
Kish?

843
00:48:31.320 --> 00:48:31.920
Stop with it?

844
00:48:33.199 --> 00:48:36.440
Take off your shoes or I couldn't tell what was

845
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:38.199
the matter, but I knew he was serious whatever it

846
00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:43.760
was about, so I did what he wanted. He was

847
00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:46.639
in bed under his netting with a reading light on

848
00:48:47.079 --> 00:48:50.239
his book on the floor. He lay quite still, and

849
00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:53.440
the sheet came halfway up his chest. He was wearing

850
00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:55.840
those corny pajamas of his with the big checks all

851
00:48:55.880 --> 00:48:58.679
over him, and the pajamas were soaked in the sweat

852
00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:01.679
that was rolling off his face. He laid like a corpse,

853
00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:03.639
flat on his back, with his hands lying dead on

854
00:49:03.719 --> 00:49:06.199
the bed. His hands, even the backs of 'em, were sweating.

855
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:08.920
His eyes looked like he was watching. Somebody saw his

856
00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:09.440
leg off.

857
00:49:10.159 --> 00:49:11.960
Wo he it's a matter of boy.

858
00:49:11.920 --> 00:49:16.400
Said crepe, creep?

859
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:18.679
Where from here? With six?

860
00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:21.360
Where where's the crape?

861
00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:22.239
And he.

862
00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:24.360
Under the netting?

863
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:26.719
No, under the sheet?

864
00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:29.039
Where did bite you?

865
00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:31.679
It hasn't yet.

866
00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:33.719
Where under the sheet?

867
00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:34.800
Right on my bed?

868
00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:37.360
Holy sun, you.

869
00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:39.519
Canna wake it up? If you don't cut out there, Yellow.

870
00:49:41.199 --> 00:49:41.960
How did it get in there?

871
00:49:42.039 --> 00:49:44.920
I don't know. Come up under the net. I guess

872
00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:47.760
it's been in the bed all day.

873
00:49:49.559 --> 00:49:50.519
Is it a big one?

874
00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:54.880
No, create don't have to be big. Looked about three

875
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:57.559
or four inches. Come along my side.

876
00:49:58.440 --> 00:50:02.679
I didn't move, went under the sheet, one of them fools,

877
00:50:03.360 --> 00:50:05.159
one of the breaks of my belly.

878
00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:07.000
How long ago did it come?

879
00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:11.559
Ours? Hours and hours and days and weeks. I've been

880
00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:13.000
waiting a year for you to get home.

881
00:50:13.639 --> 00:50:14.480
Must be sleeping in there.

882
00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:16.960
Huh, yeah, I think you do.

883
00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:19.760
Is I now listen, Harry? Maybe it'll wake up and

884
00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:21.360
go away, go home or something.

885
00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:21.599
Huh.

886
00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:24.719
I can't wait. I've been lying here scared. I moved

887
00:50:24.760 --> 00:50:25.679
suddenly wake it up?

888
00:50:25.960 --> 00:50:27.199
Yeah, you're scared a little bite.

889
00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:29.480
I've been lying here scared to death of cough.

890
00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:31.159
Right, don't you worry about a thing, Harry.

891
00:50:31.159 --> 00:50:32.920
I know just what to do where you're going? Would

892
00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:34.039
he don't leave me?

893
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:37.599
The thing was to be ready to cauterize the bite

894
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:39.599
right away. I'd heard about one method.

895
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:41.239
I went out to the kitchen and I got a

896
00:50:41.280 --> 00:50:42.920
whole fist full of those big kitchen matches, and I

897
00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:44.880
took them back to the bedroom, arranged them all with

898
00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:46.920
their heads together, held them like you to hold a torch.

899
00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:47.840
What do you can do?

900
00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:50.000
What are the matches for? I listen, Harry, here's how

901
00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:52.480
it goes. These will carter ice see so we count three,

902
00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:54.199
flip back the sheet and you jump out of bed

903
00:50:54.239 --> 00:50:54.760
and no you follow me?

904
00:50:55.400 --> 00:50:57.400
No, no, listen, Harry. If the great bite you, I

905
00:50:57.519 --> 00:50:59.079
strike the bundle and press it against the spot and

906
00:50:59.119 --> 00:50:59.960
it burns out the poisons.

907
00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:03.159
He well, the matches, get away from me, your bubblehead

908
00:51:03.159 --> 00:51:06.360
of No, Harry, I'm on tra listen with the taking

909
00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:08.639
matches and bright ads and get the heck out of here.

910
00:51:08.760 --> 00:51:10.239
Call the doctor, the doctor.

911
00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:12.880
I never thought of that. I get to Okay, Harry,

912
00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:13.440
who do you want?

913
00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:14.079
Ganderby?

914
00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:18.119
Or foresythe full size things are bad in love without you.

915
00:51:18.280 --> 00:51:19.920
Gotta bring my gook in here.

916
00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:26.800
I dug through the telephone book and I found doctor

917
00:51:26.840 --> 00:51:28.599
Matson be for size number, and I dial it.

918
00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:42.519
This is the residence called the doctor side.

919
00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:43.480
Please, yeah, let.

920
00:51:43.480 --> 00:51:44.239
Me speak to the doctor.

921
00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:44.920
It's very urgent.

922
00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:46.599
Who is calling? Please?

923
00:51:47.039 --> 00:51:47.800
Arthur Woods?

924
00:51:48.320 --> 00:51:49.800
Who Woods?

925
00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:50.840
Arthur Woods?

926
00:51:51.440 --> 00:52:00.920
Spell please Woods? W oh oh oh, you have already said,

927
00:52:01.079 --> 00:52:03.159
oh I have already written.

928
00:52:03.239 --> 00:52:06.280
Oh, have the kindness to give me the next letter.

929
00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:06.679
Please.

930
00:52:07.239 --> 00:52:12.119
Oh it's oh after oh please, my name is Woods.

931
00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:20.440
Spill please w oh oh d w o oh aha

932
00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:22.639
d s Woods.

933
00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:26.320
Woods Woods, mister Wood.

934
00:52:26.559 --> 00:52:28.639
That's right, that's just right now. Let me speak to

935
00:52:28.679 --> 00:52:29.039
the doctor.

936
00:52:29.079 --> 00:52:32.639
Please, sorry, doctor notting, call tomorrow.

937
00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:39.599
Across the room, Harry lay very still sweating, trying to

938
00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:42.440
keep every muscle relaxed. His face was beginning to twitch

939
00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:45.599
a little. I was scared if that twitch should spread.

940
00:52:46.719 --> 00:52:48.039
I called the doctor's house again.

941
00:52:50.480 --> 00:52:52.480
Please, I do not understand.

942
00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:55.039
Look, I said, if you don't tell me where the

943
00:52:55.079 --> 00:52:56.400
doctor is, I'm gonna come over there and pull your

944
00:52:56.480 --> 00:52:57.599
arms off and then I'm gonna take you by the

945
00:52:57.599 --> 00:52:59.440
next doctor at the club.

946
00:52:59.599 --> 00:52:59.840
Please?

947
00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:00.480
What club?

948
00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:02.320
The country club?

949
00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:03.039
Bring?

950
00:53:03.639 --> 00:53:05.039
Six seven three.

951
00:53:09.679 --> 00:53:12.880
Harry lay very still fighting the twitches, trying to keep

952
00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:15.119
from jumping out of his skin, while I waited for

953
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:19.400
the bartender at the club to locate doctor forsythe After about.

954
00:53:19.199 --> 00:53:21.280
Five minutes and nothing, I got this.

955
00:53:22.360 --> 00:53:24.960
Well, listen, doctor, you gotta get over here right away.

956
00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:27.079
This is Arthur Woods and my partner. He's got a

957
00:53:27.119 --> 00:53:28.000
snake in the bed with him.

958
00:53:29.159 --> 00:53:34.320
Doctor, would you remind your appreci as old boy.

959
00:53:34.719 --> 00:53:36.800
I said, snake. He's got a snake in the bed

960
00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:37.159
with him.

961
00:53:39.719 --> 00:53:42.440
I say, who is his? He says, Captain smile speaking.

962
00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:44.559
Please, doctor, you gotta get over here right away.

963
00:53:44.599 --> 00:53:47.599
It's urgent spies you can you don't fool me up.

964
00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:50.079
Doctor.

965
00:53:53.119 --> 00:53:55.360
Listen, is this doctor Forsyth speaking?

966
00:53:56.039 --> 00:53:57.639
Of course he's goin hawk.

967
00:53:58.159 --> 00:53:59.400
Well, let me speak to the doctor.

968
00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:01.159
Please's your cardo fellow?

969
00:54:01.719 --> 00:54:02.039
Why not?

970
00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:04.639
Why he's jolly red palstang as you.

971
00:54:04.679 --> 00:54:07.639
Know, passed outcrow.

972
00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:17.880
Yeah, listen, Harry, you gotta forget all this prejudice stuff.

973
00:54:18.199 --> 00:54:23.639
Gander buys your only chance. No, no, he's like goog

974
00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:24.559
he went to Oxford.

975
00:54:24.559 --> 00:54:24.800
Harry.

976
00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:27.639
He's like it's him or the Undertaker. He said, I'm

977
00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:28.679
gonna call him Harry.

978
00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:33.280
All right, go ahead call it. But he's a gook.

979
00:54:36.920 --> 00:54:38.840
I called him when I mentioned create.

980
00:54:38.880 --> 00:54:40.760
He was quiet for a good ten seconds, and then

981
00:54:40.760 --> 00:54:42.920
he said he'd be right over, and he was within

982
00:54:43.039 --> 00:54:46.679
five minutes. He was wearing felt slippers, and he moved

983
00:54:46.719 --> 00:54:50.000
silently into the bedroom. He was carrying his black satchel.

984
00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:52.920
And when I saw the lamplight glinting softly in his

985
00:54:52.960 --> 00:54:57.519
steel rimmed spectacles, saw his wise, gentle eyes, his bald

986
00:54:57.599 --> 00:54:58.159
brown head.

987
00:54:59.119 --> 00:55:02.840
I thought to myself, right, he looks just like my heart.

988
00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:07.360
M Again, he looked silently at Harry and smiled encouragingly.

989
00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:12.440
Harry looked at him, looked at me, looked away.

990
00:55:13.400 --> 00:55:16.639
Now, first we must very carefully remove the netting from

991
00:55:16.719 --> 00:55:20.320
about the bed. Mister Pope, I want you to pay

992
00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:23.760
no attention to us. You are to concentrate on being

993
00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:28.480
very quiet, on letting the little snake sleep. It is

994
00:55:28.519 --> 00:55:32.360
a very little snake and it's very tired. You must

995
00:55:32.440 --> 00:55:35.880
tell yourself this, and you must believe it is necessary

996
00:55:36.159 --> 00:55:40.599
for it to sleep. Yeah, yeah, mister Woods, help me

997
00:55:40.679 --> 00:55:48.480
lift the netting getty slowly? Eh, good, good?

998
00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:50.519
What are you going to do for me?

999
00:55:50.679 --> 00:55:53.440
Sh think about the little snake?

1000
00:55:53.519 --> 00:55:55.199
What do you think I'm thinking about? What are you

1001
00:55:55.239 --> 00:55:56.000
going to do for me?

1002
00:55:57.360 --> 00:56:02.119
The snake? It is here. It's one of those falls

1003
00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:03.920
over his abdomen.

1004
00:56:04.159 --> 00:56:07.840
Doctor, Now we all know where they'll shh.

1005
00:56:09.119 --> 00:56:12.440
Pretend you are the mother of the little snake. You

1006
00:56:12.559 --> 00:56:14.960
are keeping it warm. It is sleepy.

1007
00:56:16.280 --> 00:56:18.719
That is good, just so as it don't wake up

1008
00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:20.639
and walk breakfast you joke.

1009
00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:21.800
That is good.

1010
00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:25.000
I wish I was back home in the good old USA.

1011
00:56:26.320 --> 00:56:29.559
Then what are you going to do? Doctor? I have

1012
00:56:29.679 --> 00:56:32.559
a serum here he was injected into the blood of

1013
00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:36.280
mister Pope. Then, as he put it, the little snake

1014
00:56:36.360 --> 00:56:41.760
made breakfast to his heart's content, without harm to without

1015
00:56:41.800 --> 00:56:43.079
harm to Mamma.

1016
00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:47.519
His hands were brown and slender and astonishingly deft.

1017
00:56:48.159 --> 00:56:50.679
He poked the hypodermic into a capsule of thick, yellowish

1018
00:56:50.679 --> 00:56:53.519
stuff the serum, and then, with infinite carry, drew the

1019
00:56:53.599 --> 00:56:57.960
plunges slowly and steadily upward. The glistening chamber filled. He

1020
00:56:58.039 --> 00:57:01.440
withdrew the needle, laid the hypodermic down, and then with

1021
00:57:01.519 --> 00:57:04.320
all the gentleness in the world, he began to fold back.

1022
00:57:04.400 --> 00:57:08.119
Harry's sleeve was as though he were folding rare old lace.

1023
00:57:09.159 --> 00:57:13.639
He instant sleeve carefully under and up Harry's arm until

1024
00:57:13.679 --> 00:57:14.800
the vein came into view.

1025
00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:18.159
I'm going to fasten the torn kit on your arm now,

1026
00:57:18.639 --> 00:57:21.519
if we'll be just above the elbow, Do not move

1027
00:57:21.559 --> 00:57:23.920
your arm, do not tweet your muscle.

1028
00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:28.840
Gently, Gently, he tightened the rubber tourniquet, and Harry's arm

1029
00:57:28.880 --> 00:57:31.880
began to flush dark. The vein began to swell blue

1030
00:57:31.960 --> 00:57:34.920
and tight. Harry kept his eyes on the ceiling.

1031
00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:38.280
Now, I'm going to insert the needle in the vein.

1032
00:57:38.840 --> 00:57:41.719
You must not react by that, I mean you must

1033
00:57:41.800 --> 00:57:46.239
not tinge your abdominal muscles. Believe me, mister Pope, this

1034
00:57:46.440 --> 00:57:47.280
will not hurt.

1035
00:57:49.480 --> 00:57:52.840
Very carefully, he placed the syringe almost flat against the arm,

1036
00:57:53.639 --> 00:57:56.239
slid the needle in sideways through the skin and into

1037
00:57:56.320 --> 00:58:00.320
the blue vein. Slid it slowly, but so firmly that

1038
00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:03.440
it went in smooth, smooth as a knife going into

1039
00:58:03.480 --> 00:58:04.760
a cheese dark.

1040
00:58:05.039 --> 00:58:05.519
Ssh.

1041
00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:08.000
You're good, aren't you duck?

1042
00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:09.360
You must believe that.

1043
00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:11.000
Yeah, I gotta let me die.

1044
00:58:11.039 --> 00:58:11.599
Are you duck?

1045
00:58:12.079 --> 00:58:14.599
I am your friend. You must believe that.

1046
00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:15.400
Are you duck?

1047
00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:16.320
You won't let me die?

1048
00:58:16.559 --> 00:58:19.679
No, No, I will not let you die. Now be

1049
00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:24.840
still and think about that all the care in the world.

1050
00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:27.199
As he had pushed the needle into the vein, Now

1051
00:58:27.239 --> 00:58:30.199
he pressed the plunger down, pressed the serum, threw the

1052
00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:34.320
needle and into Harry Pope's body. I watched Harry. His

1053
00:58:34.480 --> 00:58:37.000
eyes were on the wise, gentle face of doctor Ganderby.

1054
00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:40.679
His eyes wanted desperately to believe what Ganderby had told him.

1055
00:58:42.079 --> 00:58:45.760
Now the hypodermic was empty, and slowly it was withdrawn,

1056
00:58:46.760 --> 00:58:49.920
and then slowly the deft, graceful little hands loosened the

1057
00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:54.800
rubber tourniquet, and then Ganderby looked up, met Harry's eyes

1058
00:58:54.880 --> 00:58:59.000
and smiled. Harry tried to smile back, but the smile

1059
00:58:59.119 --> 00:59:00.400
jumped and twitched and died.

1060
00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:03.920
You got taken care of me, on doc, Yes.

1061
00:59:03.840 --> 00:59:07.039
My son. Now you must be still while the serum

1062
00:59:07.159 --> 00:59:10.400
is pumped through your body. Be very still, and be

1063
00:59:10.679 --> 00:59:14.920
very assured. I am your friend. The serum will save you.

1064
00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:16.880
You would escape.

1065
00:59:16.639 --> 00:59:20.679
Harm, he beckoned to me, and I followed him out

1066
00:59:20.719 --> 00:59:22.760
of the room and out onto the dark porch.

1067
00:59:23.199 --> 00:59:24.400
The air was heavy and hot.

1068
00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:28.400
Ganderby stared out at the blackness, drummed his fingers softly

1069
00:59:28.480 --> 00:59:28.920
on the railing.

1070
00:59:30.679 --> 00:59:33.960
Nor your friend is engraved danger.

1071
00:59:34.360 --> 00:59:38.760
Yeah, but the serum you gave him. The serum I

1072
00:59:38.960 --> 00:59:43.800
gave him the serum. But it isn't any good.

1073
00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:49.360
It is the finest known to medical science, and it

1074
00:59:49.480 --> 00:59:50.199
is worthless.

1075
00:59:59.360 --> 01:00:02.639
The most of its science is something strange and mysterious.

1076
01:00:03.320 --> 01:00:07.239
We think of magic medicines and supersonic planes. But here's

1077
01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:10.480
a scientific achievement that's as real as your car and

1078
01:00:10.639 --> 01:00:14.199
as near as your rich Field dealer, it's xilene, one

1079
01:00:14.239 --> 01:00:18.239
of the highest anonok gasoline components ever discovered by scientific research.

1080
01:00:19.039 --> 01:00:22.719
And silene can benefit you today because every gallon of

1081
01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:27.280
Richfield gasoline now contains xilene. Xilene to give your car

1082
01:00:27.400 --> 01:00:31.400
that smooth, knockless power that eats up the miles. Xilene

1083
01:00:31.440 --> 01:00:35.360
for that swift, eager response you need in traffic. Furthermore,

1084
01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:38.320
there's a rich Field gasoline to fit your motor. Your

1085
01:00:38.440 --> 01:00:41.760
rich Field Dealer offers two great rich Field gasolines, both

1086
01:00:41.840 --> 01:00:45.679
with xilene. Get Richfield highatane at regular price for the

1087
01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:49.519
average motor, or Richfield Ethyl ethyl at its best for

1088
01:00:49.679 --> 01:00:54.199
top results in highest compression motors. Get Richfield Gasoline tomorrow.

1089
01:00:54.719 --> 01:00:57.400
Stop where you see the Richfield Eagle on the cream

1090
01:00:57.559 --> 01:00:58.360
and blue pumps.

1091
01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:03.039
Ah, we return you to escape.

1092
01:01:06.599 --> 01:01:09.639
So there it was Harry Pope, the man who had

1093
01:01:09.639 --> 01:01:11.760
been an enemy of anyone and everyone who didn't come

1094
01:01:11.800 --> 01:01:14.559
from his country or speak his language, was now halfway

1095
01:01:14.599 --> 01:01:17.440
through death's door, and his only hope laying a doctor

1096
01:01:17.480 --> 01:01:20.960
ganderby of another race, another creed, another country, and another color.

1097
01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:24.559
Now for the first time in his life, Harry admit

1098
01:01:24.599 --> 01:01:26.800
a gesture of friendship toward a person of another race

1099
01:01:27.400 --> 01:01:30.000
first time, and it seemed to me the last.

1100
01:01:30.920 --> 01:01:34.119
No, my friend, the serum is worth us. What can

1101
01:01:34.159 --> 01:01:34.360
we do?

1102
01:01:34.480 --> 01:01:36.880
Then the snake is bound awake. Sooner or later Harry'll move,

1103
01:01:36.920 --> 01:01:38.440
he won't be able to help himself, and the snake

1104
01:01:38.440 --> 01:01:38.880
will strike.

1105
01:01:39.039 --> 01:01:41.719
We must think. Look, I'll shoot it.

1106
01:01:42.039 --> 01:01:43.519
I can hold a gun low and flat so that

1107
01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:45.599
even if I hit Harriet won't be a penetrating wound.

1108
01:01:45.639 --> 01:01:47.320
I'll blow the snake sheet and all clear the bed.

1109
01:01:47.400 --> 01:01:49.280
Huh, but you don't even know which of the many

1110
01:01:49.360 --> 01:01:52.920
folds increases in that cheach is the harbor of the snake. Yeah,

1111
01:01:53.440 --> 01:01:56.559
you might shoot the air, you would, No, certain he

1112
01:01:56.639 --> 01:01:59.480
wake the snake there, No, we can't do that. I

1113
01:02:00.639 --> 01:02:04.360
think I think I have a solution, mister Woods. Yeah

1114
01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:12.079
we will. We will anesthetize this snake. Yes, we will

1115
01:02:12.199 --> 01:02:20.239
use nitis oxide, but we sir, oh, chloroform, I think

1116
01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:23.639
the last chloroform. Yes, we put the snake out right

1117
01:02:23.679 --> 01:02:25.440
while he's lying on. Harry is at the ONEA. That

1118
01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:27.679
is it, mister Woods. Now, if you will please drive

1119
01:02:27.760 --> 01:02:30.119
quickly down to my house, my boy will show you

1120
01:02:30.199 --> 01:02:33.039
where I keep my supplies. The chloroform is in a

1121
01:02:33.079 --> 01:02:36.000
bottle with an orange Laibe orange label. Yes, bring it

1122
01:02:36.119 --> 01:02:38.239
back as quickly as you can, I will say with

1123
01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:41.440
mister Pope, and try to keep him assured. He seems

1124
01:02:41.480 --> 01:02:45.119
to like you. We all like the doctor when we

1125
01:02:45.239 --> 01:02:51.400
are sick. I drove it as fast as I could.

1126
01:02:51.639 --> 01:02:53.440
The houseboy at the doctors thought I was a madman

1127
01:02:53.480 --> 01:02:55.480
at first, but then he decided in my favor showed

1128
01:02:55.519 --> 01:02:57.480
me where the stuff was. I found the bottle where

1129
01:02:57.480 --> 01:02:59.480
the orange label, smelled it to make sure, and then

1130
01:02:59.519 --> 01:03:00.639
took off to the house.

1131
01:03:01.039 --> 01:03:03.039
I used the car up the driveway and tiptoed into

1132
01:03:03.079 --> 01:03:03.519
the bedroom.

1133
01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:06.239
My friend doctor.

1134
01:03:07.800 --> 01:03:08.280
By Paul.

1135
01:03:08.639 --> 01:03:11.320
Yes, I am your friend, and I am not going

1136
01:03:11.400 --> 01:03:13.000
to let any harm come to you.

1137
01:03:13.800 --> 01:03:17.840
Uhh, here's Willy, he's my friend too, Doc.

1138
01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:20.320
Here's the stuff, doctor Worthy.

1139
01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:24.440
I've been an awful dope on my life, you know that, Willie.

1140
01:03:24.800 --> 01:03:27.199
It's okay, Harry, You're gonna be okay from.

1141
01:03:27.079 --> 01:03:28.400
Now on the dock.

1142
01:03:28.519 --> 01:03:33.719
Here my friend here. I didn't like him when he

1143
01:03:33.840 --> 01:03:38.280
first come into the room. Why because he wasn't an

1144
01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:40.360
American even an Englishman.

1145
01:03:41.920 --> 01:03:45.800
What do you know about that? Huh, he's my friend.

1146
01:03:46.239 --> 01:03:48.320
It's okay, Harry, You're gonna be okay now.

1147
01:03:48.280 --> 01:03:50.639
Boy, I've been a PRIs dope, mister.

1148
01:03:50.760 --> 01:03:52.599
Would you would have to help me right?

1149
01:03:56.639 --> 01:03:59.239
He pulled a prescription pad out of his case toward

1150
01:03:59.320 --> 01:04:01.280
the cardboard back backing off, and twisted it into a

1151
01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:02.199
neat little funnel.

1152
01:04:02.760 --> 01:04:04.119
He laid this on the edge of the bed.

1153
01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:07.199
Then he took the piece of hollow rubber tubing which

1154
01:04:07.199 --> 01:04:09.119
had been used as a tourniquet, and he began to

1155
01:04:09.159 --> 01:04:11.559
slide it into the sheet. It went in where the

1156
01:04:11.599 --> 01:04:14.800
sheet ended across Harry's chest, and he slid it down.

1157
01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:18.639
He slid it slowly, so slowly that although I was

1158
01:04:18.679 --> 01:04:21.880
watching it, I didn't see it move. Ours seemed to

1159
01:04:21.960 --> 01:04:25.960
crawl by. The tube, benched invisibly on and down, down

1160
01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:29.800
and down, past the unseen buttons of his jacket, passed

1161
01:04:29.840 --> 01:04:31.280
the unseen cord to his trousers.

1162
01:04:31.719 --> 01:04:32.400
Then it stopped.

1163
01:04:33.079 --> 01:04:35.000
Ganderby had sent it by a route which did not

1164
01:04:35.119 --> 01:04:37.280
cross any of the creases in the sheet. It was

1165
01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:39.280
being very careful not to prod the snake with it.

1166
01:04:39.599 --> 01:04:42.039
He was sweating too, now, sweating and biting his lip

1167
01:04:42.079 --> 01:04:44.760
with his teeth. Funny. I remember now one was gold.

1168
01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:47.039
I remember staring at it while he instant tube.

1169
01:04:48.039 --> 01:04:51.719
Now the funnel I fitted into the end of the tube,

1170
01:04:51.760 --> 01:04:55.440
and already, mister Poope, this is going to be very cold.

1171
01:04:56.079 --> 01:04:59.039
The evaporation of the chloroform will cause a sharp lowering

1172
01:04:59.119 --> 01:05:02.079
of the temperature. You must be prepared for this. It

1173
01:05:02.159 --> 01:05:04.719
will take rather a long time. Another factor for which

1174
01:05:04.760 --> 01:05:08.159
you must prepare yourself. The snake is a reptile, and

1175
01:05:08.239 --> 01:05:11.400
reptiles do not react quickly to the anesthetics which are

1176
01:05:11.480 --> 01:05:14.559
intended for the use of warm blooded animals. And bear

1177
01:05:14.639 --> 01:05:17.199
these things in mind. Are you ready?

1178
01:05:18.880 --> 01:05:19.119
Sure?

1179
01:05:21.119 --> 01:05:21.159
En?

1180
01:05:22.199 --> 01:05:24.320
He opened the bottle and began to drip the stuff

1181
01:05:24.320 --> 01:05:27.400
into the funnel, slowly, very slowly. Drop by drop, the

1182
01:05:27.440 --> 01:05:29.679
clear liquid entered the tube and traveled a long dark

1183
01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:32.400
route to Harry Pope's stomach, where the crate lay sleeping.

1184
01:05:33.039 --> 01:05:36.679
Drop by drop, A pale, swirling vapor hung over the funnel.

1185
01:05:37.079 --> 01:05:38.960
Down there on the sheet where the tube bended, a

1186
01:05:39.119 --> 01:05:42.960
wet gray patch began to spread the chloroform, spreading and evaporating,

1187
01:05:43.239 --> 01:05:44.360
spreading and evaporating.

1188
01:05:44.760 --> 01:05:47.760
The room began to rig of it, and I remembered.

1189
01:05:47.400 --> 01:05:51.119
Other places and other times, hospitals, operations, the death of

1190
01:05:51.239 --> 01:05:53.039
loved ones, smell of chloroform.

1191
01:05:53.719 --> 01:05:55.920
Harry began to twitch now his nose. He seemed to

1192
01:05:55.960 --> 01:05:56.519
be in agony.

1193
01:05:57.199 --> 01:05:58.519
What Harry, what is it?

1194
01:06:00.079 --> 01:06:01.039
Think up?

1195
01:06:02.280 --> 01:06:02.800
Sneeze?

1196
01:06:03.920 --> 01:06:09.079
Don't do it boy, hang on, Harry, don't. Ganderby looked

1197
01:06:09.079 --> 01:06:09.800
at Harry's face.

1198
01:06:09.960 --> 01:06:12.119
He reached up, pressed his knuckle against some nerve on

1199
01:06:12.159 --> 01:06:14.320
Harry's upper lip, and the agon eyes looked vanished.

1200
01:06:15.559 --> 01:06:19.519
The relentless dripping of the chloroform continued. Harry was getting cold.

1201
01:06:19.519 --> 01:06:21.519
I could see goose flesh along his arms, across the

1202
01:06:21.599 --> 01:06:23.559
top of his chest where the jacket was opened.

1203
01:06:24.039 --> 01:06:25.800
Danderby looked at this and stopped pouring.

1204
01:06:26.840 --> 01:06:29.679
This is nothing. I think our little friends should be

1205
01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:34.199
thoroughly unconscious. Now, mister Pope, you must remain very still.

1206
01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:36.519
We are going to remove the sheet.

1207
01:06:36.719 --> 01:06:40.519
Now then it's seeing you, said doctor.

1208
01:06:40.719 --> 01:06:43.519
Mister Woods, you take the other side. We will have

1209
01:06:43.679 --> 01:06:48.360
to do this ever so carefully. We each took a

1210
01:06:48.440 --> 01:06:51.079
side of the hymn. I watched Ganderby and did everything

1211
01:06:51.119 --> 01:06:54.400
that he did. Harry's arms were still flat on the bed,

1212
01:06:54.840 --> 01:06:58.239
pointing toward his feet. We hinched the sheet under and

1213
01:06:58.440 --> 01:07:01.599
free of these was rough because we had to do

1214
01:07:01.679 --> 01:07:04.719
it without disturbing the main area of the sheet. When

1215
01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:07.559
it was free of his arms, we began to raise it, slowly,

1216
01:07:08.239 --> 01:07:10.800
gathering the material in our hands as we progressed ever

1217
01:07:10.880 --> 01:07:14.440
so slowly down Harry's chest. We reached the end of

1218
01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:19.199
his jacket. No sign of the snake. My hands were

1219
01:07:19.239 --> 01:07:22.760
beginning to shake. Ganderby paused while I turned my head

1220
01:07:22.800 --> 01:07:25.760
away for air. The odor of chloroform was stifling. And

1221
01:07:25.840 --> 01:07:30.199
then we went on, slowly, thread by thread, raising the

1222
01:07:30.280 --> 01:07:32.920
sheet and easing it away down past the cord of

1223
01:07:32.960 --> 01:07:36.599
his pajamas, and down and down, and still no sign

1224
01:07:36.639 --> 01:07:39.559
of the snake. I'd stopped looking for it by now

1225
01:07:39.840 --> 01:07:42.559
I was concentrating on keeping my arms from shaking. And

1226
01:07:42.679 --> 01:07:47.159
then quite suddenly we were done. Ganderby dropped the sheet

1227
01:07:47.159 --> 01:07:50.320
on the floor. Harry lay on his back, not moving,

1228
01:07:50.719 --> 01:07:54.719
but watching us with wide terrorized eyes. Ganderby splindied it

1229
01:07:54.800 --> 01:07:56.719
both sides of Harry at his legs.

1230
01:07:58.079 --> 01:07:58.559
Where is it?

1231
01:08:00.119 --> 01:08:02.320
It is not as you suppose on the outside of

1232
01:08:02.400 --> 01:08:13.719
your pajama pens. It must be up one of the lakes, Harry.

1233
01:08:13.840 --> 01:08:28.800
No, No, I don't see it. Kick those tatters of

1234
01:08:28.880 --> 01:08:33.239
thought or remains of his pain. No, nothing the under

1235
01:08:33.279 --> 01:08:33.560
the pin.

1236
01:08:33.680 --> 01:08:37.800
Y're not me, Harry, Harry, not your feet. No, there's nothing,

1237
01:08:38.600 --> 01:08:41.520
mister pope. Are you Are you quite certain you saw

1238
01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:45.439
a snake? Sometimes when we are very tired, we find

1239
01:08:45.520 --> 01:08:48.439
our auto suggestive faculties run a bit out of hair.

1240
01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:50.079
Are you calling me alive?

1241
01:08:50.199 --> 01:08:50.399
Why?

1242
01:08:50.439 --> 01:08:50.479
No?

1243
01:08:50.560 --> 01:08:52.680
No, I merely say that the auto suggestion.

1244
01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:55.359
Are you telling me I'm a liar?

1245
01:08:55.399 --> 01:08:55.680
Harry?

1246
01:08:56.279 --> 01:08:59.640
Why are you losy little quack call me a liar?

1247
01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:03.760
Your steak, a little hindo witch doctor with your fancy pants.

1248
01:09:03.880 --> 01:09:06.560
Tell Harry come in here sticking me for your cheap

1249
01:09:06.640 --> 01:09:07.479
no good medice?

1250
01:09:07.760 --> 01:09:09.760
Go boy, that freezing cold up.

1251
01:09:10.199 --> 01:09:10.960
Let me take it easy.

1252
01:09:11.000 --> 01:09:16.000
Harry's your friend, my friend, that little hunk of farm

1253
01:09:16.239 --> 01:09:17.600
trash my friend.

1254
01:09:19.199 --> 01:09:20.920
Where I come from, where youse guys live?

1255
01:09:21.000 --> 01:09:23.479
Cake You like him for bus boys, You make a mistake.

1256
01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:24.159
You are wrong.

1257
01:09:24.880 --> 01:09:26.840
Bus boys for waiters for nothing.

1258
01:09:27.479 --> 01:09:28.359
You're a fauner.

1259
01:09:29.039 --> 01:09:30.840
You're a goat, You're a nothing.

1260
01:09:32.239 --> 01:09:33.600
To beat you to a bloody pop.

1261
01:09:33.680 --> 01:09:37.039
You and your chloroform, you, you and your stump of

1262
01:09:37.159 --> 01:09:40.960
a friendship and Mama snake, and I must make out

1263
01:09:41.119 --> 01:09:41.359
like I.

1264
01:09:41.680 --> 01:09:46.079
Like you I'll just spwitch your hand wide open, your.

1265
01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:49.279
Go, your go car, go you go.

1266
01:09:55.000 --> 01:09:59.640
Please, doctor forgive him. He's been und a great strain.

1267
01:10:00.920 --> 01:10:06.960
He doesn't mean it a great strain. Yes, he needs

1268
01:10:07.000 --> 01:10:12.560
a good holiday. Good night, mister Woods.

1269
01:10:18.520 --> 01:10:18.960
That's all.

1270
01:10:20.319 --> 01:10:22.720
I couldn't tell this if old Harry was still alive,

1271
01:10:24.079 --> 01:10:28.640
Poor old Harry. He didn't die in India. He died

1272
01:10:28.680 --> 01:10:32.920
in Chicago in the loop, got run over by a

1273
01:10:33.039 --> 01:10:37.119
taxi cab. The driver was third generation Irish, a real

1274
01:10:37.279 --> 01:10:41.399
hundred percent white American. Maybe that means something. I don't know,

1275
01:10:42.920 --> 01:10:43.840
poor old Harry.

1276
01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:56.079
Believe it or not, but the very life of your

1277
01:10:56.159 --> 01:10:59.600
car depends on oil. Without oil, your motor would grind

1278
01:10:59.680 --> 01:11:02.520
itself to pieces in a matter of minutes. That's why

1279
01:11:02.600 --> 01:11:05.520
you need an oil that stands up under every driving condition.

1280
01:11:06.359 --> 01:11:10.199
That's why you need Richlube all weather motor oil. Richlub

1281
01:11:10.279 --> 01:11:13.439
is refined one hundred percent from the finest Pennsylvania crude

1282
01:11:13.479 --> 01:11:17.520
oil ever discovered. That's your guarantee that Richlub won't burn

1283
01:11:17.680 --> 01:11:20.199
up even under the terrific heat of hard summer driving.

1284
01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:24.239
Its tough, long lasting oil film is your faithful watchdog.

1285
01:11:24.840 --> 01:11:28.039
It protects your motor every mile you drive. You can

1286
01:11:28.119 --> 01:11:32.239
depend on it. Moreover, Richlub motor oil combat carbon and

1287
01:11:32.399 --> 01:11:36.560
other harmful deposits by its special cleansing action. It cleans

1288
01:11:36.760 --> 01:11:40.039
as it lubricates your motor. Keep your motor young, keep

1289
01:11:40.119 --> 01:11:43.720
your motor clean. See your rich Field gasoline dealer tomorrow

1290
01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:47.119
ask him to change your oil to Richlube All Weather

1291
01:11:47.199 --> 01:11:52.520
Motor Oil. Escape is produced and directed by William and

1292
01:11:52.640 --> 01:11:55.800
Robson and Tonight has presented Poison by Roll dal and

1293
01:11:55.840 --> 01:11:59.039
adapted for radio by James Poe Richard and Tonight's cast

1294
01:11:59.079 --> 01:12:02.479
where Jack Webb's Bill Conrad as Harry, Jane Novella is Gandabay,

1295
01:12:02.880 --> 01:12:05.880
and Charlie Long is the houseboy. Special music arranged and

1296
01:12:05.920 --> 01:12:09.319
played by ivand Admirers. Next week, at this time, the

1297
01:12:09.439 --> 01:12:11.800
Richfield Oil Corporation of New York can invite you to

1298
01:12:11.960 --> 01:12:14.560
escape with an exciting story of evil and violence in

1299
01:12:14.640 --> 01:12:17.399
the deadly swamps of New Guinea. As Jewels Archer tells

1300
01:12:17.399 --> 01:12:20.199
it in Too Came Back. Goodbye then until the same

1301
01:12:20.279 --> 01:12:23.680
time next week, when once again we offer you escape.

1302
01:12:24.439 --> 01:12:28.359
Tom Hanland, speaking over CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System.

1303
01:12:42.520 --> 01:12:45.399
Don't allow the cold to get to you. My dear,

1304
01:12:46.239 --> 01:12:51.279
winter is still very early on, and I think you'll

1305
01:12:51.359 --> 01:12:52.960
be just fine.

1306
01:12:54.000 --> 01:12:54.359
What's that?

1307
01:12:55.279 --> 01:13:00.680
Well, I suppose winter never dies, does last.

1308
01:13:02.399 --> 01:13:03.399
But what does.

1309
01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:05.119
I mean?

1310
01:13:06.159 --> 01:13:11.079
In the broad scheme of things, nothing can last forever,

1311
01:13:13.319 --> 01:13:20.399
except perhaps for nothing itself. A total absence could, in theory,

1312
01:13:21.000 --> 01:13:25.760
exist forever. But now I'm getting far too in the weeds.

1313
01:13:27.119 --> 01:13:32.800
If it's cold, put on a blanket, or if you're serious,

1314
01:13:34.039 --> 01:13:36.000
Escapes by Death.

1315
01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:42.600
That sal book.

1316
01:13:52.479 --> 01:13:55.960
Once again, the keeper of the book is ready to open,

1317
01:13:56.000 --> 01:13:59.199
the ponderous volume in which has recorded all the secrets

1318
01:13:59.239 --> 01:14:04.840
and mysteries of mankind through the ages, all the strange

1319
01:14:04.880 --> 01:14:09.720
and mystifying stories of the past, the present, and the future.

1320
01:15:46.800 --> 01:15:49.920
Keeper of the book, what tale will you tell us

1321
01:15:50.079 --> 01:15:50.560
this time?

1322
01:15:50.920 --> 01:15:52.399
What tales shall I tell you?

1323
01:15:53.159 --> 01:15:57.319
I have tales here of every kind, tales of murder,

1324
01:15:58.000 --> 01:16:03.520
tales of madness, of deeds and events strange beyond all belief.

1325
01:16:04.680 --> 01:16:07.239
Eh let me see.

1326
01:16:10.359 --> 01:16:15.039
Yes, here's a tale for her, A strange and terrible

1327
01:16:15.239 --> 01:16:18.760
story of two old ladies and how they tried to

1328
01:16:19.000 --> 01:16:25.640
escape from their doom. I call the story escape by Death.

1329
01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:33.880
My story begins in a big, shabby old house in

1330
01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:38.439
the country, fully a mile from any other habitation in

1331
01:16:38.560 --> 01:16:42.439
a large ground floor room which is both their bedroom

1332
01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:46.720
and sitting room. Martha and Louise Abbot listen to the

1333
01:16:46.800 --> 01:16:54.439
wind howl outside. Louise is an invalid confined to a wheelchair. Martha,

1334
01:16:54.920 --> 01:16:58.439
though able to walk, can only hobble a few steps

1335
01:16:58.479 --> 01:17:02.640
at a time, so that to them, the lonely house

1336
01:17:02.960 --> 01:17:05.319
is almost like a prisoner.

1337
01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:09.640
Oh, listen to that, win, Louise. Oh, I do hate

1338
01:17:09.720 --> 01:17:12.239
living out in the country like this. We're so isolated

1339
01:17:12.279 --> 01:17:14.199
from everybody who is math.

1340
01:17:14.600 --> 01:17:17.439
It was so much nicer when we lived in our

1341
01:17:17.520 --> 01:17:19.119
own house in the village.

1342
01:17:19.399 --> 01:17:22.199
Even if Roger and Hester are our nephew and niece,

1343
01:17:22.279 --> 01:17:24.359
we should never have looked them persuade us to move

1344
01:17:24.439 --> 01:17:29.840
out here with them. What is it, Toby Queenie our

1345
01:17:30.039 --> 01:17:35.000
mother's darlings hungry? Even Toby and Queeny don't like living here?

1346
01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:41.399
Is they do seem unhappy? Queenie hasn't been eating, will.

1347
01:17:41.640 --> 01:17:44.079
Louise, It's very foolish for us to stay here with

1348
01:17:44.239 --> 01:17:47.439
Roger and Hester. I think I hear Hester coming now.

1349
01:17:47.960 --> 01:17:49.960
We'll tell her right away that we want to go

1350
01:17:50.199 --> 01:17:52.000
back to our old home here.

1351
01:17:52.079 --> 01:17:54.239
I have at last had Louise Martha.

1352
01:17:54.600 --> 01:17:56.479
I've rod your teeth and some cake.

1353
01:17:56.560 --> 01:17:58.960
I just made this afternoon. Thank you.

1354
01:17:59.159 --> 01:18:02.520
Dear Daily sent little for you. George Gibson just delivered it.

1355
01:18:02.960 --> 01:18:04.239
I haven't even opened it yet.

1356
01:18:04.319 --> 01:18:04.600
Thank you.

1357
01:18:05.600 --> 01:18:09.359
Roger, Louis and I have been talking things over. That

1358
01:18:09.600 --> 01:18:11.520
was very kind of you to invite us to live

1359
01:18:11.600 --> 01:18:14.399
here with you, but we were much happier living in

1360
01:18:14.520 --> 01:18:15.000
the village.

1361
01:18:15.359 --> 01:18:18.199
We want to go back, but an Martha, it's much

1362
01:18:18.279 --> 01:18:20.119
better for you here, really it is.

1363
01:18:20.359 --> 01:18:23.159
Of course, you're just homesick, both of you.

1364
01:18:23.399 --> 01:18:26.199
You'll get over it pretty soon. You love the country

1365
01:18:26.239 --> 01:18:27.000
as much as we do.

1366
01:18:27.159 --> 01:18:27.279
Now.

1367
01:18:27.359 --> 01:18:29.800
We don't want to hear another word about your leaving us,

1368
01:18:30.279 --> 01:18:32.560
but we couldn't be happy thinking of you alone and

1369
01:18:32.760 --> 01:18:33.760
help us in the village.

1370
01:18:34.199 --> 01:18:36.319
Come along, Roger, let them drink their tea, all right,

1371
01:18:37.000 --> 01:18:37.479
both later.

1372
01:18:39.119 --> 01:18:41.520
I do wish they'd let us go back.

1373
01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:44.079
There's no reason why we shouldn't, do.

1374
01:18:44.159 --> 01:18:47.880
You Remember the teas we used to give Marry Thompson

1375
01:18:48.039 --> 01:18:49.760
came over every afternoon.

1376
01:18:50.079 --> 01:18:51.399
It was so nice.

1377
01:18:51.600 --> 01:18:54.279
There's no reason we can't move back and get those

1378
01:18:54.359 --> 01:18:54.920
teas again.

1379
01:18:55.640 --> 01:18:58.560
We won't be alone a helpless either, and all the

1380
01:18:58.640 --> 01:19:01.119
money father leftists weak and of a dozen servants.

1381
01:19:02.079 --> 01:19:05.319
Louise, we are going back. I've made up my mind.

1382
01:19:05.439 --> 01:19:07.640
Oh, my son, I'm so glad.

1383
01:19:08.600 --> 01:19:12.520
Listen to Tony and Queene. They're glad we're going back

1384
01:19:12.600 --> 01:19:15.039
to aren't you you? Bet old darling?

1385
01:19:15.439 --> 01:19:21.039
Hoy understand your mother. They know we're not going to

1386
01:19:21.159 --> 01:19:23.880
stay here much longer, of course they do.

1387
01:19:24.920 --> 01:19:28.560
Well, now that's settled. Let's see what's in the sentinel.

1388
01:19:29.439 --> 01:19:31.680
M AT's see now.

1389
01:19:32.079 --> 01:19:36.279
Oh, Matha, let's look at the obituary notices.

1390
01:19:36.439 --> 01:19:41.399
Fast, Just what I was turning to Louise, and here

1391
01:19:41.479 --> 01:19:41.800
we are.

1392
01:19:42.199 --> 01:19:44.359
Did anyone we know die?

1393
01:19:44.960 --> 01:19:45.119
Now?

1394
01:19:45.319 --> 01:19:47.399
Let me see? Ah?

1395
01:19:47.560 --> 01:19:51.960
Yes, y you remember Amos Wilson, don't you? He died

1396
01:19:52.039 --> 01:19:52.840
two days ago?

1397
01:19:54.000 --> 01:19:54.880
Poor Amos.

1398
01:19:55.640 --> 01:19:57.760
He was about your age, wasn't he?

1399
01:19:57.920 --> 01:19:58.279
Martha?

1400
01:19:58.560 --> 01:20:01.960
Certainly not. He was a good deal of Oh, math

1401
01:20:02.239 --> 01:20:02.720
look at this.

1402
01:20:03.920 --> 01:20:07.439
Why it says that Mary Thompson is entering the County

1403
01:20:07.560 --> 01:20:09.359
Home for the Infirm.

1404
01:20:09.520 --> 01:20:12.600
The poor house. Oh don't know, he can't be. You

1405
01:20:12.720 --> 01:20:18.119
can read it for yourself. Oh, that dreadful place. I'd

1406
01:20:18.239 --> 01:20:20.279
rather be dead than in that home.

1407
01:20:20.199 --> 01:20:21.079
Of poor Mary.

1408
01:20:21.319 --> 01:20:21.640
Martha.

1409
01:20:22.239 --> 01:20:24.239
After we moved back to the village, can't we have

1410
01:20:24.399 --> 01:20:25.600
Mary come to live.

1411
01:20:25.520 --> 01:20:28.359
With us, Yes, of course, why going to the poor

1412
01:20:28.439 --> 01:20:31.680
house would be the death of her? No, no, it

1413
01:20:31.840 --> 01:20:34.880
can't be what can't be read what.

1414
01:20:35.000 --> 01:20:36.840
It says there in the real estate column.

1415
01:20:37.640 --> 01:20:41.640
The old Abbit Mansion, owned by the missus Martha and

1416
01:20:41.840 --> 01:20:46.439
Louise Abbot, has been put up for sale by their nephew.

1417
01:20:46.199 --> 01:20:46.920
Roger Clark.

1418
01:20:47.199 --> 01:20:50.600
What why it must be a mist We never told

1419
01:20:50.680 --> 01:20:54.680
Roger to sell our house, Roger, Roger?

1420
01:20:54.800 --> 01:20:56.680
Now, mother, we mustn't get excited.

1421
01:20:56.840 --> 01:20:58.960
But why should he want to sell our house and

1422
01:20:59.279 --> 01:21:03.920
permit it? Yes, Roger, what's this in the sentinel about

1423
01:21:03.960 --> 01:21:05.359
our house being up for sale?

1424
01:21:05.960 --> 01:21:06.119
Oh?

1425
01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:07.800
Is it in the sentinel?

1426
01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:08.840
Oh?

1427
01:21:08.880 --> 01:21:09.600
I'm so sorry.

1428
01:21:09.760 --> 01:21:11.720
It is a mistake, isn't it, Roger?

1429
01:21:11.920 --> 01:21:15.960
Well, no, Aunt Louise, since the house isn't being used,

1430
01:21:16.159 --> 01:21:17.920
I thought it'd be a good idea to sell it.

1431
01:21:18.000 --> 01:21:19.800
But you had no right to put the house up

1432
01:21:19.880 --> 01:21:20.880
for sale without telling me.

1433
01:21:21.119 --> 01:21:23.840
Now, don't get yourself excited, Anne Martha, you don't want

1434
01:21:23.880 --> 01:21:24.520
the household.

1435
01:21:24.640 --> 01:21:25.840
I'll remove it from the market.

1436
01:21:25.960 --> 01:21:29.199
You must, Roger, we couldn't live if the house was sold.

1437
01:21:29.439 --> 01:21:31.640
All right, All right, now, I'll take care of everything.

1438
01:21:31.720 --> 01:21:33.680
Don't you worry. Everything's going to be all right.

1439
01:21:34.319 --> 01:21:36.840
I don't like it, Louise. I don't like it at all.

1440
01:21:37.520 --> 01:21:39.600
Why should he try to sell it without telling us?

1441
01:21:39.760 --> 01:21:40.159
He does?

1442
01:21:40.319 --> 01:21:42.359
Seem strange, Louise.

1443
01:21:42.720 --> 01:21:45.159
We must get in touch with Judge Morris at once.

1444
01:21:45.720 --> 01:21:48.640
He's the administrator of father's estate. He'll take care of

1445
01:21:48.720 --> 01:21:52.000
everything for us the way we want it. I didn't

1446
01:21:52.199 --> 01:21:55.640
like the look in Roger's eyes just now. I've always

1447
01:21:55.720 --> 01:21:58.520
been suspicious of Roger, and if you want my opinion,

1448
01:21:58.720 --> 01:22:00.840
he and Hester are up to something.

1449
01:22:11.560 --> 01:22:13.920
Is Mother's beautiful queene hungry?

1450
01:22:14.760 --> 01:22:17.800
Well, here's a nice piece of meat from the lovely

1451
01:22:17.920 --> 01:22:19.319
supper Hester just brought us.

1452
01:22:20.159 --> 01:22:22.000
Oh, Queenie is hungry.

1453
01:22:22.119 --> 01:22:22.399
Mother.

1454
01:22:23.119 --> 01:22:26.359
She's got her appetite back since she learned we intend

1455
01:22:26.439 --> 01:22:27.640
going back to the village.

1456
01:22:27.760 --> 01:22:30.600
Yes, she has. But where's Tokey? I don't see him

1457
01:22:30.640 --> 01:22:31.479
around any place?

1458
01:22:31.600 --> 01:22:35.600
Probably in the kitchen. Martha, when are you going to

1459
01:22:35.680 --> 01:22:38.560
speak to Roger and Hester again about our leaving?

1460
01:22:38.720 --> 01:22:40.680
And I'm waiting until we can get in touch with

1461
01:22:40.800 --> 01:22:44.119
Judge Morris. He'll come get us, whether Roger wants us

1462
01:22:44.159 --> 01:22:48.520
to go or not. There's been something very strange about

1463
01:22:48.600 --> 01:22:50.920
Roger's manner ever since we told him yesterday.

1464
01:22:50.960 --> 01:22:53.159
We didn't think to stay, Martha.

1465
01:22:53.560 --> 01:22:56.760
Look, queen is here, that meets You gave her his

1466
01:22:56.920 --> 01:22:58.239
name as sick Queenie.

1467
01:22:58.560 --> 01:23:00.520
Oh, what's the matter with mother, darling?

1468
01:23:00.880 --> 01:23:01.159
Mother?

1469
01:23:01.800 --> 01:23:03.640
There's something terribly wrong with her?

1470
01:23:03.840 --> 01:23:04.239
Queenie?

1471
01:23:04.560 --> 01:23:05.039
What is it?

1472
01:23:05.600 --> 01:23:06.920
Oh, Louise, what can we do?

1473
01:23:07.159 --> 01:23:08.039
Can you give us the water?

1474
01:23:08.119 --> 01:23:13.640
Maybe that her help? Matha? She's fallen down.

1475
01:23:14.319 --> 01:23:21.920
She's dead, Louise. Queenie is dead, but she is. She

1476
01:23:22.079 --> 01:23:25.119
was perfectly all right until I gave her that meat.

1477
01:23:25.399 --> 01:23:30.159
She was so she just bolted to do math She

1478
01:23:30.319 --> 01:23:31.399
must have chooked it.

1479
01:23:31.560 --> 01:23:35.119
She just choked, did she? I'm not so sure.

1480
01:23:35.840 --> 01:23:37.680
What do you mean?

1481
01:23:37.880 --> 01:23:40.479
What else could it have been? She acted more as

1482
01:23:40.560 --> 01:23:43.760
if she were poisoned, poisoned. This, I'm sure of it.

1483
01:23:44.159 --> 01:23:47.960
The meat was poisoned. That's why Queeney died. God, how

1484
01:23:48.119 --> 01:23:49.119
is that possible?

1485
01:23:49.399 --> 01:23:52.640
It was poisoned because that meat was meant for.

1486
01:23:52.800 --> 01:23:53.640
Us, Matha.

1487
01:23:54.319 --> 01:23:58.479
You you don't mean that Roger in hestereus? Louise, Oh,

1488
01:23:58.640 --> 01:24:02.000
I see it now. That's why they brought us out here.

1489
01:24:02.359 --> 01:24:05.720
Why they won't let us leave. They're planning to kill us.

1490
01:24:05.920 --> 01:24:07.000
They're after our money.

1491
01:24:07.399 --> 01:24:08.960
Martha, what are we going to do?

1492
01:24:09.279 --> 01:24:11.560
We've got to get in touch with Judge Morris right away.

1493
01:24:12.000 --> 01:24:15.279
You'll say that, good Martha, how can we the telephone?

1494
01:24:15.319 --> 01:24:19.680
It's upstairs in Hester's room, and neither of us conclined stairs.

1495
01:24:19.800 --> 01:24:23.840
I know that we've got to figure another waiter reach him, Louise,

1496
01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:25.479
our lives depend upon it.

1497
01:24:34.279 --> 01:24:35.640
All that night the.

1498
01:24:35.680 --> 01:24:39.520
Two old ladies tear in their hearts, tossed and turned

1499
01:24:39.560 --> 01:24:41.399
in an effort to think of a way of escape

1500
01:24:41.439 --> 01:24:45.000
from the horrible trap in which they found themselves. In

1501
01:24:45.119 --> 01:24:47.880
the morning, they thought they had discovered how to do it.

1502
01:24:48.560 --> 01:24:52.880
When George Gibson, the rural mail carrier, came by, Louise

1503
01:24:53.039 --> 01:24:55.720
called to him and gave him a frantic message to

1504
01:24:55.840 --> 01:24:59.960
Judge Morris, which he promised to deliver. However, a few

1505
01:25:00.119 --> 01:25:05.079
minutes later, encountering Roger, their nephew, George Gibson told him

1506
01:25:05.119 --> 01:25:08.159
what had happened, and Roger managed to persuade him not

1507
01:25:08.399 --> 01:25:12.479
to deliver the message. Then Roger hurried home to consult

1508
01:25:12.600 --> 01:25:13.079
with Hester.

1509
01:25:14.239 --> 01:25:16.159
Roger, you say that while Marth was out here in

1510
01:25:16.199 --> 01:25:19.760
the kitchen with me, Louise was giving George Gibson a method.

1511
01:25:19.560 --> 01:25:20.279
For Judge Morris.

1512
01:25:20.439 --> 01:25:23.279
Yes, and she seems so excited that George stopped me

1513
01:25:23.279 --> 01:25:24.439
on the road to tell me about it.

1514
01:25:25.159 --> 01:25:25.439
Hester.

1515
01:25:25.840 --> 01:25:26.920
I'm afraid they suspect.

1516
01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:28.079
Oh no, no, they mustn't.

1517
01:25:28.439 --> 01:25:30.439
We mustn't let them, I should say not. After all

1518
01:25:30.479 --> 01:25:33.840
the trouble we've gone to, we would ruin everything. We've

1519
01:25:33.880 --> 01:25:36.520
got to quiet their suspicion. Somehow, we've got to make

1520
01:25:36.600 --> 01:25:38.880
them like it here so they'd be perfectly content to

1521
01:25:38.920 --> 01:25:40.680
stay with us until they die.

1522
01:27:58.640 --> 01:28:02.159
And now to return to the story of escape by

1523
01:28:02.359 --> 01:28:05.920
death as it is written in the Sealed Book. For

1524
01:28:06.159 --> 01:28:10.439
twenty four hours, Martha and Louise have waited in trembling

1525
01:28:10.560 --> 01:28:14.840
impatience for George Gibson to bring words that Judge Morris

1526
01:28:14.920 --> 01:28:17.399
has received their friendic appeal for help.

1527
01:28:18.920 --> 01:28:21.520
Oh Martha, where can George be?

1528
01:28:21.840 --> 01:28:23.680
He's more than an only.

1529
01:28:23.680 --> 01:28:26.800
He's probably just been delayed. Maybe the car broke down.

1530
01:28:26.880 --> 01:28:27.680
He'll be here soon.

1531
01:28:28.039 --> 01:28:32.439
Yes, here he comes. Now he's turning up the trial. Oh, Martha,

1532
01:28:32.520 --> 01:28:33.800
I was so worried.

1533
01:28:34.039 --> 01:28:35.560
I told you he wouldn't fail us.

1534
01:28:36.640 --> 01:28:38.760
There's Roger taking the mail from him.

1535
01:28:39.319 --> 01:28:41.760
Suppose Roger doesn't let him see us, he.

1536
01:28:41.840 --> 01:28:43.920
Might always What is it, Martha?

1537
01:28:44.159 --> 01:28:44.720
What's wrong?

1538
01:28:44.880 --> 01:28:48.520
That isn't George Gibson delivering the mail. Not George Gibson. No,

1539
01:28:48.760 --> 01:28:52.279
that's a much younger man. Now he's leaving. Roger's coming

1540
01:28:52.359 --> 01:28:53.000
back in the house.

1541
01:28:53.279 --> 01:28:53.640
Martha.

1542
01:28:53.960 --> 01:28:55.520
Where do you suppose Georgie.

1543
01:28:55.760 --> 01:28:56.159
I don't know.

1544
01:28:56.600 --> 01:29:00.399
I don't understand. Perhaps he's sick to disher.

1545
01:29:00.520 --> 01:29:03.960
Hello on Martha and Louise. Here's a magazine that came

1546
01:29:04.000 --> 01:29:05.680
in the mail. I thought you might like to see it.

1547
01:29:06.079 --> 01:29:07.039
Thank you, Roger.

1548
01:29:07.720 --> 01:29:10.399
Why didn't George Gibson deliver the mail today?

1549
01:29:10.800 --> 01:29:10.960
Oh?

1550
01:29:11.439 --> 01:29:13.000
You saw that there was a new driver.

1551
01:29:14.199 --> 01:29:16.680
Well, I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but

1552
01:29:16.880 --> 01:29:20.039
yesterday afternoon, poor George was killed.

1553
01:29:20.319 --> 01:29:20.600
Killed.

1554
01:29:20.800 --> 01:29:24.640
No, he had a bad accident as he was returning

1555
01:29:24.680 --> 01:29:25.159
to the village.

1556
01:29:25.680 --> 01:29:26.479
An accident.

1557
01:29:26.680 --> 01:29:29.119
Yes, I'd rather not talk about it anymore. Now it'll

1558
01:29:29.159 --> 01:29:31.840
just upset you. Hesse'll bring you some sopper soon.

1559
01:29:32.920 --> 01:29:36.439
Poor George let me to Judge Morris. Didn't get our message?

1560
01:29:36.520 --> 01:29:41.000
Oh ma't you see, Louise, that wasn't any accident. George

1561
01:29:41.119 --> 01:29:44.199
was killed to keep him from going to Judge Morris. Marfa,

1562
01:29:44.359 --> 01:29:46.680
you you can't mean with Roger and Hess.

1563
01:29:46.760 --> 01:29:49.600
Yes, Louise, they'll stop at nothing to get our money.

1564
01:29:49.760 --> 01:29:51.319
But what are we going to do?

1565
01:29:52.079 --> 01:29:55.560
We can't get a message to anyone, and they're poisoning

1566
01:29:55.600 --> 01:29:58.920
our food. We haven't eaten a thing since poor queen

1567
01:29:58.960 --> 01:30:02.199
He died. I can't go on throwing the food away,

1568
01:30:02.319 --> 01:30:03.079
or we'll starve.

1569
01:30:03.399 --> 01:30:07.279
There's only one thing to do. Toby must sample our food.

1570
01:30:07.840 --> 01:30:10.319
You mean to see if it's poisonous.

1571
01:30:11.039 --> 01:30:14.039
It's dreadful having to risk put Toby's life, but it's

1572
01:30:14.079 --> 01:30:27.079
the only thing we can do. You are Toby a

1573
01:30:27.239 --> 01:30:30.359
nice piece of meat for mother's darling, Martha.

1574
01:30:30.479 --> 01:30:34.119
I get so frightened every time I see Toby eating something.

1575
01:30:34.880 --> 01:30:38.239
I keep remembering Queenie, the dreadful wishing to.

1576
01:30:38.359 --> 01:30:41.800
Now Now, Louise, we mustn't think of that here, Toby, dear,

1577
01:30:43.359 --> 01:30:44.520
why are you feeding Toby?

1578
01:30:44.760 --> 01:30:46.960
He gets plenty to eat in the kitchen. He'll die

1579
01:30:47.039 --> 01:30:49.000
of overeating if you are Carol.

1580
01:30:49.039 --> 01:30:51.279
I've always sped Toby for my own plate.

1581
01:30:51.560 --> 01:30:54.119
He expects it, an, Martha. If you feed that meat

1582
01:30:54.119 --> 01:30:55.560
to the cat, there won't be enough for you.

1583
01:30:56.479 --> 01:30:59.279
And if you're to get well, you need all that food.

1584
01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:02.039
I don't want you feeding Toby anymore of it here.

1585
01:31:02.119 --> 01:31:04.279
Toby, come on, boy, come on, come on, come on,

1586
01:31:04.479 --> 01:31:06.960
come on out the kitchen and Martin Luisy to supper.

1587
01:31:16.760 --> 01:31:16.920
Here.

1588
01:31:17.000 --> 01:31:18.439
You aren't, Mother, Louise.

1589
01:31:18.479 --> 01:31:20.600
I've got your lunch. Doesn't it look good?

1590
01:31:21.039 --> 01:31:22.840
Yes, sister, it's very.

1591
01:31:22.840 --> 01:31:27.840
Nice here Toby. Esther, have you seen Toby?

1592
01:31:28.319 --> 01:31:29.439
No, Muther, I haven't.

1593
01:31:29.880 --> 01:31:30.920
But where could he be?

1594
01:31:31.479 --> 01:31:35.039
Toby's always on time for me. He's probably some place

1595
01:31:35.079 --> 01:31:35.760
around the house.

1596
01:31:36.159 --> 01:31:38.439
Now eat your lunch before it gets call home off.

1597
01:31:38.880 --> 01:31:39.680
Where can he be?

1598
01:31:40.000 --> 01:31:42.399
Toby will be along in a few minutes. We won't

1599
01:31:42.439 --> 01:31:44.720
touch a bit of this food until he's eaten some

1600
01:31:44.880 --> 01:31:45.039
of it.

1601
01:31:45.279 --> 01:31:47.079
I do wish he were here.

1602
01:31:47.640 --> 01:31:51.520
I'm so hungry, Louise. Don't touch a thing on that tray.

1603
01:31:51.600 --> 01:31:52.840
It isn't safe here.

1604
01:31:53.079 --> 01:31:53.520
Toby.

1605
01:32:07.920 --> 01:32:09.600
Good evening at Martha and that Louise?

1606
01:32:09.880 --> 01:32:11.319
How are you good evening? Roger?

1607
01:32:11.479 --> 01:32:12.840
I have sadly here for you too.

1608
01:32:15.159 --> 01:32:16.439
Neither of you ate your lunch.

1609
01:32:16.840 --> 01:32:17.359
What's wrong?

1610
01:32:17.680 --> 01:32:19.600
We weren't hungry?

1611
01:32:19.880 --> 01:32:20.039
Esther?

1612
01:32:20.279 --> 01:32:21.600
Have you found Toby yet?

1613
01:32:22.159 --> 01:32:25.039
No, I've looked everywhere for him, but he seems to

1614
01:32:25.119 --> 01:32:25.760
have disappeared.

1615
01:32:26.199 --> 01:32:29.159
No, No, Now you mustn't worry. I'm sure he'll turn

1616
01:32:29.279 --> 01:32:29.600
up all.

1617
01:32:29.920 --> 01:32:32.880
Martha, you and Aunt Louise can't afford to miss meals

1618
01:32:32.920 --> 01:32:33.880
in your state of health.

1619
01:32:34.000 --> 01:32:36.880
Certainly not now we want you to eat everything that

1620
01:32:36.960 --> 01:32:37.640
Hester's brought you.

1621
01:32:38.359 --> 01:32:40.640
You'll make us very unhappy if you don't.

1622
01:32:41.079 --> 01:32:41.800
Now, please eat it.

1623
01:32:41.880 --> 01:32:42.359
Well, it's hot.

1624
01:32:42.800 --> 01:32:44.079
Come along, Roger, I'll.

1625
01:32:43.920 --> 01:32:44.960
Get you yourself all right?

1626
01:32:45.039 --> 01:32:45.199
There?

1627
01:32:45.680 --> 01:32:49.319
Did you hear but she said about Toby, Louise, he's

1628
01:32:49.479 --> 01:32:50.479
very nonsense.

1629
01:32:50.560 --> 01:32:51.319
They've killed him.

1630
01:32:51.800 --> 01:32:54.079
I saw how angry they were last night when we

1631
01:32:54.199 --> 01:32:57.039
fed Toby from our plates. They've killed him so he

1632
01:32:57.199 --> 01:32:58.520
won't spoil their plans.

1633
01:32:58.600 --> 01:33:01.000
Oh are we going to do?

1634
01:33:01.880 --> 01:33:05.279
I'm so hungry that my head spins and I'm dizzy.

1635
01:33:05.399 --> 01:33:06.800
I know, Louise, so am I?

1636
01:33:07.520 --> 01:33:07.680
Oh?

1637
01:33:07.880 --> 01:33:09.520
I hate them? I hate them.

1638
01:33:09.680 --> 01:33:12.560
We're leaving them our money in our wheels. They'll get

1639
01:33:12.640 --> 01:33:15.000
it soon enough. Why must they kill us?

1640
01:33:15.119 --> 01:33:17.520
Because they're nothing but common murderers.

1641
01:33:17.960 --> 01:33:21.239
I distrusted Roger from the minute Hester first rock into

1642
01:33:21.319 --> 01:33:21.800
our house.

1643
01:33:21.920 --> 01:33:23.159
Yes, it's his fault.

1644
01:33:23.279 --> 01:33:24.520
He's changed Hester.

1645
01:33:25.119 --> 01:33:27.439
She used to be such a sweet girl.

1646
01:33:27.960 --> 01:33:30.560
There was only some way to get word to the village,

1647
01:33:30.920 --> 01:33:35.319
or to bring somebody here to help us. Louise, I

1648
01:33:35.600 --> 01:33:39.000
have an idea, What is it, Martha? There's one way

1649
01:33:39.159 --> 01:33:40.119
to bring people here?

1650
01:33:40.439 --> 01:33:41.159
What Martha?

1651
01:33:41.560 --> 01:33:44.560
If we were to set fire to the house, somebody

1652
01:33:44.640 --> 01:33:46.319
would be sure to see the flames.

1653
01:33:46.560 --> 01:33:50.880
Yes, of course, and then the fire company would come home.

1654
01:33:51.039 --> 01:33:53.560
Then we'd be able to tell them we'd be saved.

1655
01:33:53.880 --> 01:33:57.119
Oh, but Martha Hester and Roger would put out the

1656
01:33:57.279 --> 01:33:58.800
fire before it could get.

1657
01:33:58.720 --> 01:33:59.920
Big enough to be seen.

1658
01:34:00.279 --> 01:34:02.800
Louise, I know a way we can prevent them from

1659
01:34:02.840 --> 01:34:05.840
putting out the fire. You do, Yes, we can.

1660
01:34:05.840 --> 01:34:21.159
Save ourselves, Louise, We can save ourselves. Yeh, Toby, why

1661
01:34:21.159 --> 01:34:23.039
are you looking down the cellar stairs like that?

1662
01:34:23.560 --> 01:34:24.319
Now you should be in.

1663
01:34:24.399 --> 01:34:27.119
Your room, certainly should. It's drafty out here in the hall.

1664
01:34:27.479 --> 01:34:29.359
Now close the cellar door and go back to your room.

1665
01:34:29.439 --> 01:34:32.399
But I heard Toby crying he's down in the cellar,

1666
01:34:32.479 --> 01:34:34.720
and I won't go to my room until I get him.

1667
01:34:35.119 --> 01:34:37.600
Mark, Roger, just to put out in Martha's mind at ease,

1668
01:34:37.800 --> 01:34:39.680
why don't you go down the cellar and see if

1669
01:34:39.720 --> 01:34:40.520
Toby is there?

1670
01:34:40.720 --> 01:34:41.520
All right?

1671
01:34:41.960 --> 01:34:42.119
When?

1672
01:34:42.119 --> 01:34:46.079
If you ask me, please help him. Look for Toby Hester.

1673
01:34:46.359 --> 01:34:48.840
You'll find him so much quicker if you both have fully.

1674
01:34:50.640 --> 01:34:53.640
Oh, very well, But you go back to your rooms.

1675
01:34:53.680 --> 01:34:56.479
You don't catch cold, Roger.

1676
01:34:56.840 --> 01:34:57.319
You see.

1677
01:34:58.920 --> 01:35:02.720
In the cellar, you'll see just how smart you are

1678
01:35:03.079 --> 01:35:08.720
trying to poison us. Uh, you won't stop us from escaping.

1679
01:35:08.840 --> 01:35:10.640
Now I'm just get Louise.

1680
01:35:11.279 --> 01:35:13.199
Louise, Louise, it worked.

1681
01:35:13.600 --> 01:35:16.000
You mean you were able to lock them in.

1682
01:35:16.079 --> 01:35:19.039
The cellars, and with the door knocked they can't get down.

1683
01:35:23.920 --> 01:35:25.520
They found out they're locked in her.

1684
01:35:25.640 --> 01:35:28.399
Don't you worry about it, Louise. I'll take care of everything.

1685
01:35:28.560 --> 01:35:32.000
What are you doing with that kerosene, lamplock pouring the

1686
01:35:32.119 --> 01:35:33.439
kerosene around the rooms?

1687
01:35:33.479 --> 01:35:34.640
Who will burn better?

1688
01:35:35.279 --> 01:35:35.680
Oh? Yeah?

1689
01:35:36.359 --> 01:35:37.760
Are you ready to leave, Louise?

1690
01:35:37.920 --> 01:35:41.960
Yes, Martin, listen, I'll strike the match and start the fire.

1691
01:35:44.880 --> 01:35:47.159
How quickly it's starting to splay.

1692
01:35:47.840 --> 01:35:48.600
We've got to leave.

1693
01:35:49.119 --> 01:35:52.000
I'll push your wheelchair, Louise, and you try to help

1694
01:35:52.079 --> 01:35:53.640
by rolling the fiels.

1695
01:35:54.199 --> 01:35:57.840
Mother, we're coming along.

1696
01:35:58.119 --> 01:35:58.920
I stay.

1697
01:36:00.399 --> 01:36:09.840
If Papa, I do hate to do this, Louise.

1698
01:36:09.960 --> 01:36:12.600
You mustn't waste any pity on them, even if they

1699
01:36:12.680 --> 01:36:15.439
are our niece and nephew and nothing but common murderers.

1700
01:36:15.600 --> 01:36:17.119
Yes, I suppose you're right.

1701
01:36:17.359 --> 01:36:17.520
Now.

1702
01:36:17.840 --> 01:36:23.319
I'll just open the front door and we'll be free. Now,

1703
01:36:24.119 --> 01:36:34.880
old aheels free. Just you eat more and we'll be safe. Yes, How,

1704
01:36:34.920 --> 01:36:37.560
we're far enough away from the house to be perfectly.

1705
01:36:37.960 --> 01:36:40.600
Why the whole house is on fire.

1706
01:36:41.520 --> 01:36:43.600
Do you think they can see it in the village

1707
01:36:43.720 --> 01:36:46.319
by no, I'm sure they do.

1708
01:36:46.840 --> 01:36:49.640
Now, remember, Louise, when the fire company gets here, we

1709
01:36:49.720 --> 01:36:51.039
don't know what happened.

1710
01:36:50.760 --> 01:36:53.600
To Roger and estor We've just managed to get out ourselves.

1711
01:36:53.680 --> 01:36:56.880
Yes, if we told them what we were forced to

1712
01:36:57.000 --> 01:37:00.159
do to escape, we have to reveal that our own oh,

1713
01:37:00.399 --> 01:37:03.319
niice and nephew were poisonous murderess.

1714
01:37:03.840 --> 01:37:06.239
They don't want to disgrace the family name.

1715
01:37:06.319 --> 01:37:06.680
Louise.

1716
01:37:06.840 --> 01:37:09.000
Oh no, Martha, of course, not.

1717
01:37:13.479 --> 01:37:13.800
Knowing.

1718
01:37:19.199 --> 01:37:20.760
And here comes the fire engine.

1719
01:37:20.920 --> 01:37:23.319
Louise, you saved, We are saved.

1720
01:37:33.000 --> 01:37:34.359
Good morning, Judge.

1721
01:37:34.119 --> 01:37:37.880
Morris, Good morning, Miss Martha, missus Louise. I trust you

1722
01:37:38.000 --> 01:37:39.960
well after that terrible ordeal last night.

1723
01:37:40.119 --> 01:37:41.920
Oh we're feeling much better.

1724
01:37:42.239 --> 01:37:43.600
Thank you, Judge Morris.

1725
01:37:43.920 --> 01:37:46.520
I know it'll be painful for you, but now that

1726
01:37:46.600 --> 01:37:48.399
your niece and never you are gone, we must plan

1727
01:37:48.520 --> 01:37:49.119
for your future.

1728
01:37:49.319 --> 01:37:51.039
Oh, you don't have to bother, Judge.

1729
01:37:51.359 --> 01:37:53.520
All we want to do is move back to our

1730
01:37:53.600 --> 01:37:56.560
old house, hire a few servants, and live as we

1731
01:37:56.720 --> 01:38:00.199
used to. And I was wondering if you could rang

1732
01:38:00.319 --> 01:38:03.000
to have Mary Thompson come live with us. I won't

1733
01:38:03.079 --> 01:38:05.920
hear of her going to that dreadful home for the infirm.

1734
01:38:06.520 --> 01:38:08.000
Why the poor house would be the.

1735
01:38:08.079 --> 01:38:08.560
Death of her.

1736
01:38:08.640 --> 01:38:11.279
Oh no, we can't let her go there.

1737
01:38:11.640 --> 01:38:14.000
With all the money father leftist, there's no reason why

1738
01:38:14.079 --> 01:38:14.520
she should.

1739
01:38:15.439 --> 01:38:18.479
Ladies, I'd hoped I'd never have to reveal the truth

1740
01:38:18.560 --> 01:38:21.239
to you, but now it appears I must the truth.

1741
01:38:21.720 --> 01:38:23.079
I don't understand, Judge.

1742
01:38:23.520 --> 01:38:24.720
Some weeks ago, the.

1743
01:38:24.760 --> 01:38:26.840
Bonds and the trust fund your father left you became

1744
01:38:26.920 --> 01:38:29.840
utterly worthless what your never your niece were afraid the

1745
01:38:29.880 --> 01:38:31.880
shock of learning you are penniless would be too much

1746
01:38:31.920 --> 01:38:34.039
for you, so it was decided to keep the news

1747
01:38:34.119 --> 01:38:36.520
from you. That's why the three of us persuaded you

1748
01:38:36.600 --> 01:38:38.880
to move in with him. Your house here in the

1749
01:38:38.960 --> 01:38:40.680
village had to be sold to meet the debts of

1750
01:38:40.720 --> 01:38:41.159
the estate.

1751
01:38:41.279 --> 01:38:44.800
But that can't be father left us so much, it's.

1752
01:38:44.720 --> 01:38:45.760
All worthless now.

1753
01:38:46.439 --> 01:38:48.319
Perhaps I should have told you this a month ago,

1754
01:38:49.119 --> 01:38:50.760
but your niece and never you wouldn't hear of it.

1755
01:38:50.960 --> 01:38:52.960
In spite of the fact that they had only Roger's

1756
01:38:52.960 --> 01:38:54.960
salary to live on. They were determined to prevent you

1757
01:38:55.039 --> 01:38:56.600
from ever learning of your misfortune.

1758
01:38:56.720 --> 01:39:02.279
But the deaths of poor Queenie into George Gibson.

1759
01:39:02.840 --> 01:39:07.560
George Gibson, Yes, I'm afraid I don't understand. Surely you

1760
01:39:07.720 --> 01:39:10.000
heard that he was killed, the tire blew out and

1761
01:39:10.119 --> 01:39:10.920
his car turned over.

1762
01:39:11.199 --> 01:39:12.680
You mean he wasn't murdered?

1763
01:39:13.239 --> 01:39:13.840
Certainly not.

1764
01:39:14.239 --> 01:39:16.319
Oh are you feeling well?

1765
01:39:16.720 --> 01:39:18.039
Has my new has been too much for you?

1766
01:39:18.199 --> 01:39:18.359
Now?

1767
01:39:18.800 --> 01:39:18.840
No?

1768
01:39:20.119 --> 01:39:23.199
Well, now that your niece, have you a gone? There's

1769
01:39:23.239 --> 01:39:25.640
no one to support you. I'm afraid there's only one

1770
01:39:25.720 --> 01:39:26.239
thing left?

1771
01:39:26.640 --> 01:39:27.520
One thing left?

1772
01:39:28.199 --> 01:39:28.560
What's that?

1773
01:39:29.319 --> 01:39:34.199
I'm sorry to say. Believe me, I am the County

1774
01:39:34.319 --> 01:39:37.039
Home for the Infirm, the poor house.

1775
01:39:49.560 --> 01:39:53.399
And that is the tale of escape by death, as

1776
01:39:53.439 --> 01:39:55.239
it is written in the Sealed Book.

1777
01:39:56.319 --> 01:39:58.720
Louise and Martha, because they.

1778
01:39:58.720 --> 01:40:01.359
Could not believe that the deaths of their cat was

1779
01:40:01.359 --> 01:40:05.239
an accident, convinced themselves that they were in danger of

1780
01:40:05.359 --> 01:40:10.279
being killed, and in their frantic efforts to escape, ruthlessly

1781
01:40:10.439 --> 01:40:15.880
destroyed their only protectors. Strange other ways in which fate

1782
01:40:16.399 --> 01:40:23.000
plays tricks on mere mortels. The sound of the great

1783
01:40:23.079 --> 01:40:26.079
Gong tells me it's time to close the Sealed Book

1784
01:40:26.159 --> 01:40:26.760
once more.

1785
01:40:27.119 --> 01:40:30.239
One moment, Keeper of the book, What story from the

1786
01:40:30.319 --> 01:40:32.279
Sealed Book will you tell us next time?

1787
01:40:32.640 --> 01:40:36.720
Next time. What kind of a tale would you like,

1788
01:40:37.239 --> 01:40:42.520
a history of ghosts, of vampires, of ware wolves howling

1789
01:40:42.600 --> 01:40:46.640
in the night, A tale of dark plots and evil deeds,

1790
01:40:47.359 --> 01:40:49.920
of a strange fate overtaking the guilty.

1791
01:40:50.800 --> 01:40:51.520
Let me see.

1792
01:40:52.359 --> 01:40:54.760
I'll find one for you in just a moment.

1793
01:42:39.600 --> 01:42:42.560
And now, Keeper of the book, have you found the

1794
01:42:42.640 --> 01:42:44.319
story that you'll tell next time?

1795
01:42:44.640 --> 01:42:48.359
Yes, yes, I found one for you. It's the amazing

1796
01:42:48.600 --> 01:42:52.399
story of a woman's jealousy, so brief that it would

1797
01:42:52.479 --> 01:42:55.760
not let her lae quietly in her grieve, but made

1798
01:42:55.840 --> 01:42:59.760
her sec revenge even from behind the dark veil of

1799
01:43:01.079 --> 01:43:03.880
I call it its etch.

1800
01:43:04.119 --> 01:43:11.159
Tomhouse, be sure to be with us next time to

1801
01:43:11.279 --> 01:43:19.720
hear another strange and mysterious story from lessial book. The

1802
01:43:19.840 --> 01:43:22.560
Sealed Book, written by Bob Arthur and David Cogan, is

1803
01:43:22.600 --> 01:43:24.640
produced and directed by Jack McGregor.

1804
01:43:27.680 --> 01:43:31.399
Well make sure you blow on this before you take

1805
01:43:31.439 --> 01:43:36.079
a sip. I wouldn't want you to burn yourself, not

1806
01:43:36.319 --> 01:43:41.800
in weather like this. It be so ironic. It sure

1807
01:43:42.079 --> 01:43:45.479
is very cold for this time of year. But I

1808
01:43:45.600 --> 01:43:50.319
suppose in a way that's just festive. So I'll learn

1809
01:43:50.439 --> 01:43:58.079
to enjoy it, and I hope you do too. Times

1810
01:43:58.279 --> 01:44:03.399
like these remind me of very long ago, a time

1811
01:44:03.600 --> 01:44:10.960
to string lights, to make mary, and to never trust

1812
01:44:11.039 --> 01:44:11.720
a stranger.

1813
01:44:13.319 --> 01:44:15.920
And now stay tuned for the program that has rated

1814
01:44:16.000 --> 01:44:19.479
tops in popularity for a longer period of time than

1815
01:44:19.600 --> 01:44:23.520
any other West Coast program in radio history, The Signal

1816
01:44:23.640 --> 01:44:24.479
Oil Program.

1817
01:44:25.640 --> 01:44:26.920
The Whistler.

1818
01:44:36.880 --> 01:44:38.359
UH five.

1819
01:44:40.720 --> 01:44:47.439
Name SIG.

1820
01:44:49.640 --> 01:44:53.239
Signal, the famous go Farther Gasoline invites you to sit

1821
01:44:53.359 --> 01:44:57.960
back and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.

1822
01:45:14.359 --> 01:45:18.000
I am the whistler, and I know many things. For

1823
01:45:18.159 --> 01:45:19.039
I walk by night.

1824
01:45:19.840 --> 01:45:22.680
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of

1825
01:45:22.800 --> 01:45:26.000
men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,

1826
01:45:26.760 --> 01:45:30.399
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.

1827
01:45:33.960 --> 01:45:37.720
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's strange story.

1828
01:45:38.760 --> 01:45:40.800
You can't trust a stranger.

1829
01:45:55.039 --> 01:45:57.640
As you walk down the crowded corridor from the District

1830
01:45:57.680 --> 01:46:00.840
Attorney's office, you can feel the stairs and hear the whispers.

1831
01:46:01.239 --> 01:46:04.439
There's Frank Maloy. He's getting out, but not for long.

1832
01:46:05.399 --> 01:46:08.279
It's costing you ten thousand dollars to walk out that

1833
01:46:08.399 --> 01:46:11.239
front door. But it's worth it, isn't it, Frank, Because

1834
01:46:11.279 --> 01:46:14.479
you have a plan at least part of one. Yes,

1835
01:46:15.279 --> 01:46:17.760
you reach the front entrance, push open the heavy door,

1836
01:46:17.880 --> 01:46:21.439
and go out into the street. There at the curb,

1837
01:46:21.560 --> 01:46:25.079
you recognize the long yellow convertible and the attractive blonde

1838
01:46:25.119 --> 01:46:29.760
sitting inside. She slides over as you slip in behind

1839
01:46:29.840 --> 01:46:30.279
the wheel.

1840
01:46:38.840 --> 01:46:39.960
In again, out again.

1841
01:46:40.319 --> 01:46:43.079
Yeah, how was jail this time?

1842
01:46:43.159 --> 01:46:46.640
When I read in the papers they're gonna put you

1843
01:46:46.720 --> 01:46:50.720
away for a long, long time after the small formality.

1844
01:46:50.159 --> 01:46:50.640
Of a trial.

1845
01:46:50.720 --> 01:46:53.199
Well, I don't believe everything you read. I'm not going

1846
01:46:53.279 --> 01:46:53.840
on trial.

1847
01:46:54.199 --> 01:46:54.520
You are.

1848
01:46:54.680 --> 01:46:57.920
No, I'm gonna be around long enough to give my chance.

1849
01:46:58.560 --> 01:47:01.039
You're gonna jump in exactly what I'm gonna do.

1850
01:47:01.239 --> 01:47:02.760
You'll lose your ten thousand dollar.

1851
01:47:02.640 --> 01:47:05.600
Bars, doesn't matter. I've got plenty, and it's put away

1852
01:47:05.600 --> 01:47:06.800
where I can get at it in a hurry.

1853
01:47:06.960 --> 01:47:07.560
Where will you go?

1854
01:47:08.319 --> 01:47:12.479
We we're going together, baby, I'm ready, Frank.

1855
01:47:13.239 --> 01:47:15.520
I don't know how where we're going, but we're getting

1856
01:47:15.520 --> 01:47:17.600
out of the States. We can beat it to a

1857
01:47:17.720 --> 01:47:20.760
Vanna and then maybe South America. I'll get a divorce

1858
01:47:20.800 --> 01:47:23.640
and we're all set. I've got enough money to last

1859
01:47:23.720 --> 01:47:24.720
us the rest of our lives.

1860
01:47:24.840 --> 01:47:27.560
This sounds wonderful, But how do you expect to get away.

1861
01:47:27.640 --> 01:47:29.800
The moment they miss you, they'll be watching for you everywhere.

1862
01:47:29.880 --> 01:47:32.079
Yeah, I know Da wants to see me in a

1863
01:47:32.159 --> 01:47:34.960
couple of days. So whatever we're gonna do, we're gonna

1864
01:47:34.960 --> 01:47:35.680
have to move fast.

1865
01:47:36.000 --> 01:47:38.399
We can't just take a plane or a train before

1866
01:47:38.439 --> 01:47:40.600
we start running. Frankly, we have to think of something,

1867
01:47:40.880 --> 01:47:43.800
some kind of plan. Yeah, I know, what about a

1868
01:47:43.880 --> 01:47:46.439
private plane and pilot. Let's find out about it right away.

1869
01:47:46.600 --> 01:47:49.600
No, there's something else I've got to find out first.

1870
01:47:50.479 --> 01:47:52.720
What do you mean I'm going out to the ranch.

1871
01:47:53.439 --> 01:47:57.000
I'm gonna see my wife. You're going out to see Martha.

1872
01:47:57.199 --> 01:48:02.760
That's right, Why, Vivian, didn't you ever wonder how the

1873
01:48:02.840 --> 01:48:05.279
district attorney got hold of all my records and books

1874
01:48:05.319 --> 01:48:07.680
that I get. You think I sent them to them?

1875
01:48:08.239 --> 01:48:10.199
You think I wanted the smoothest gambling syne in the

1876
01:48:10.239 --> 01:48:13.680
state to come crashing down around my neck. Oh, but

1877
01:48:13.840 --> 01:48:16.960
somebody else did. It had to be somebody I trusted,

1878
01:48:17.000 --> 01:48:19.880
somebody close to me. I want to be sure it

1879
01:48:20.079 --> 01:48:22.800
wasn't Martha. And they have enough on me to put

1880
01:48:22.840 --> 01:48:25.640
me away for twenty years. I want to know where

1881
01:48:25.640 --> 01:48:26.000
they got it.

1882
01:48:26.520 --> 01:48:27.600
What difference does it make?

1883
01:48:27.680 --> 01:48:27.800
Now.

1884
01:48:27.880 --> 01:48:29.399
All that matter is now is getting away.

1885
01:48:29.520 --> 01:48:32.720
We'll get away, baby, don't worry. But first I want

1886
01:48:32.720 --> 01:48:35.600
to see Martha. I just want to know.

1887
01:48:44.039 --> 01:48:46.680
As you drive through the city and across the Bay Bridge,

1888
01:48:46.760 --> 01:48:48.079
your thoughts dwell upon.

1889
01:48:48.039 --> 01:48:49.439
Your wife, Martha, don't they.

1890
01:48:49.560 --> 01:48:53.119
Frank you begin to think back, wondering just how much

1891
01:48:53.239 --> 01:48:56.760
Martha knew about you and your organization, Wondering if she

1892
01:48:56.840 --> 01:49:00.880
knew about Vivian or any of the others. Wondering if

1893
01:49:00.920 --> 01:49:03.760
it could have been Martha who brought everything crashing down,

1894
01:49:03.920 --> 01:49:04.880
sending you to jail.

1895
01:49:05.840 --> 01:49:07.840
And there are other things to be thought of.

1896
01:49:08.720 --> 01:49:10.600
How will you manage to get out of the country

1897
01:49:10.640 --> 01:49:14.159
before the district attorney knows you're gone? Chartered plane and

1898
01:49:14.279 --> 01:49:17.760
a private pilot might work. And you do have friends

1899
01:49:17.800 --> 01:49:20.000
in Florida who would help you and Vivian get out

1900
01:49:20.000 --> 01:49:23.720
of the country. After an hour of driving and thinking,

1901
01:49:23.800 --> 01:49:27.359
you're suddenly startled as Vivian pulls violently at your arm.

1902
01:49:32.359 --> 01:49:32.920
Can I hit him?

1903
01:49:33.279 --> 01:49:34.359
I don't know.

1904
01:49:34.560 --> 01:49:36.199
He's lying by the side of the highway.

1905
01:49:37.880 --> 01:49:39.439
Oh was he doing out the middle of the highway?

1906
01:49:39.840 --> 01:49:40.560
Look, he's getting up.

1907
01:49:40.720 --> 01:49:43.319
We better have a look at him. Come on, he

1908
01:49:43.600 --> 01:49:48.520
is getting up doesn't look like he's hurt too badly. Hey, hey,

1909
01:49:48.560 --> 01:49:52.600
you all right? I don't know, I think so. What

1910
01:49:52.720 --> 01:49:54.239
were you doing out the middle of the highway.

1911
01:49:54.359 --> 01:49:55.560
I was trying to catch it ride.

1912
01:49:55.720 --> 01:49:57.479
What does anything feel broken?

1913
01:49:57.880 --> 01:49:59.760
No, no, I don't think so.

1914
01:50:00.079 --> 01:50:01.680
I saw you coming right at me and I dove

1915
01:50:01.760 --> 01:50:02.680
for the side of the road.

1916
01:50:03.239 --> 01:50:03.880
You didn't hit me.

1917
01:50:04.000 --> 01:50:08.119
Oh, it's a relief. Looks like my trousers are finished.

1918
01:50:08.279 --> 01:50:09.399
You're sure you're all wrong?

1919
01:50:09.680 --> 01:50:12.560
Yeah, yeah, yeah, forget it. It's my own fault for

1920
01:50:12.680 --> 01:50:13.920
standing in the middle of the highway.

1921
01:50:14.439 --> 01:50:23.840
Hey. What's your name? My name, yeah, Chuck. Why well, Chuck.

1922
01:50:23.920 --> 01:50:25.920
I feel kind of bad about this. I think the

1923
01:50:26.039 --> 01:50:28.159
least I can do is offer you a ride. Do

1924
01:50:28.319 --> 01:50:32.039
something about those trousers too. Forget it, forget it. It's

1925
01:50:32.119 --> 01:50:35.039
my fault. Wow, we can't leave you standing here. We're

1926
01:50:35.079 --> 01:50:39.359
going another ten miles. Okay, let me get my hat

1927
01:50:39.399 --> 01:50:40.039
out of the ditch.

1928
01:50:41.720 --> 01:50:42.039
Thank you.

1929
01:50:42.079 --> 01:50:43.079
You have to give him a lift.

1930
01:50:43.119 --> 01:50:44.279
He admits it was his fault.

1931
01:50:44.319 --> 01:50:45.039
Let's get out of here.

1932
01:50:45.239 --> 01:50:48.600
To notice something, Vivian, something really interesting about that fellow.

1933
01:50:49.279 --> 01:50:51.479
What are you talking about? Look, he's just turned around.

1934
01:50:51.560 --> 01:50:56.880
Look at him, now, look at me. Notice anything. Frank say,

1935
01:50:56.920 --> 01:51:00.520
it looks not like me. Huh, same sign build even

1936
01:51:00.560 --> 01:51:03.840
as features. Yeah, if I worked it out right, I

1937
01:51:03.880 --> 01:51:07.640
could get away with it, get away with Just think

1938
01:51:07.680 --> 01:51:09.960
for them how much easier it would be for us

1939
01:51:10.000 --> 01:51:12.199
to get away if everybody thought.

1940
01:51:12.000 --> 01:51:12.680
That I was dead.

1941
01:51:28.239 --> 01:51:30.920
If you really want to protect the money invested in

1942
01:51:31.000 --> 01:51:34.159
your car, then the motor oil for you is signals

1943
01:51:34.199 --> 01:51:38.439
amazing new heavy duty oil that reduces engine ware fifty

1944
01:51:38.600 --> 01:51:43.760
percent Signal Premium heavy duty Signal Premium. Now there's the

1945
01:51:43.840 --> 01:51:48.079
oil that really protects your car. Disproved and improved heavy

1946
01:51:48.159 --> 01:51:51.600
duty signal oil does more, much more than just lubricate.

1947
01:51:52.199 --> 01:51:56.960
In addition, Signal Premium motor oil cools, cleans, cushions, seals,

1948
01:51:57.000 --> 01:52:01.560
and protects result tests under all types of driving conditions.

1949
01:52:01.680 --> 01:52:06.680
Proved new Signaled Premium motor oil reduces engine ware fifty percent.

1950
01:52:07.319 --> 01:52:10.680
Your engine keeps its light new pepin power twice as long.

1951
01:52:11.359 --> 01:52:14.399
So if you're still using lazy, old fashioned oil that

1952
01:52:14.520 --> 01:52:17.800
merely lubricates, it's high time to make a change for

1953
01:52:17.880 --> 01:52:21.479
the better. Change oil. Next time at a signal service station.

1954
01:52:21.960 --> 01:52:25.840
Change to new, harder working, signaled Premium motor oil that

1955
01:52:26.000 --> 01:52:29.159
reduces engine ware fifty percent.

1956
01:52:32.399 --> 01:52:37.479
Signal gasoline your goal, I'll cover the cacoline.

1957
01:52:54.760 --> 01:52:57.399
Almost every piece of the plan seems to fit together,

1958
01:52:57.479 --> 01:52:57.840
doesn't it.

1959
01:52:57.920 --> 01:52:58.159
Frank.

1960
01:52:58.640 --> 01:53:00.880
If the police thought you were dead, you and Vivian

1961
01:53:00.960 --> 01:53:03.159
could take your time about getting out of the country.

1962
01:53:03.600 --> 01:53:06.600
You could go knowing they weren't watching for you. You'll

1963
01:53:06.640 --> 01:53:08.800
study the man whom you almost hit on the highway,

1964
01:53:09.239 --> 01:53:12.199
and already you're planning the last few hours of his life.

1965
01:53:12.239 --> 01:53:13.880
I'd be real nice to him, Vivian and get him

1966
01:53:13.920 --> 01:53:16.319
to talk about himself. We have to find out as

1967
01:53:16.399 --> 01:53:18.039
much about him as we can. You just leave it

1968
01:53:18.079 --> 01:53:21.359
to me, Frank, Okay, I'll set check. Yeah, let's go

1969
01:53:21.479 --> 01:53:22.119
then huh.

1970
01:53:33.760 --> 01:53:37.840
Some buggy. Yeah, always promised myself i'd have one of

1971
01:53:37.880 --> 01:53:38.479
these someday.

1972
01:53:39.720 --> 01:53:42.479
Look at me. I don't even have bus fare. My

1973
01:53:42.600 --> 01:53:44.920
clothes are dirty and wrinkled, and I need a shave.

1974
01:53:46.279 --> 01:53:49.319
I look like a tramp. I don't blame people for

1975
01:53:49.479 --> 01:53:50.199
passing me by.

1976
01:53:50.520 --> 01:53:53.000
Where were you headed, Jock? Los Angeles?

1977
01:53:53.039 --> 01:53:55.600
I guess they tell me the Knights are bombing down there.

1978
01:53:56.159 --> 01:53:58.520
It makes a difference when you're sleep in parked cars.

1979
01:53:58.760 --> 01:54:00.840
But don't you have any friends in Los Angeles?

1980
01:54:01.239 --> 01:54:04.520
I don't have any friends anywhere. That's a pretty broad statement.

1981
01:54:04.640 --> 01:54:08.600
Check must have friends somewhere, maybe back home.

1982
01:54:09.119 --> 01:54:09.680
I wouldn't know.

1983
01:54:10.800 --> 01:54:16.560
I haven't been home in a long time. Been everywhere else, Australia, Africa, Brazil,

1984
01:54:17.159 --> 01:54:20.800
been working on freighters. Just got back to the States

1985
01:54:20.880 --> 01:54:21.600
last week.

1986
01:54:21.960 --> 01:54:26.159
Just last week. Huh right, been gone nearly five years. Oh,

1987
01:54:26.399 --> 01:54:29.760
where is your home? I come from a place called Hyannas.

1988
01:54:30.079 --> 01:54:30.560
Never hear it.

1989
01:54:31.199 --> 01:54:34.439
It's in Massachusetts, Cape Cod No, I never heard of it.

1990
01:54:34.520 --> 01:54:35.640
It's a fishing village.

1991
01:54:35.760 --> 01:54:35.920
Oh.

1992
01:54:36.640 --> 01:54:39.000
Still, it doesn't seem possible that a man doesn't have

1993
01:54:39.039 --> 01:54:39.640
any friends.

1994
01:54:40.079 --> 01:54:41.640
Oh, you must have a girlfriend.

1995
01:54:43.840 --> 01:54:47.439
Had a girl once in Hyanna's The name was Mami.

1996
01:54:47.960 --> 01:54:49.680
Maybe it's a.

1997
01:54:49.720 --> 01:54:52.000
Long time ago, when I was young and foolish.

1998
01:54:52.760 --> 01:54:55.279
Whatever happened to Maymie, I wouldn't know.

1999
01:54:56.319 --> 01:54:58.199
I wrote it for a while, but when I didn't

2000
01:54:58.239 --> 01:55:01.800
get any answer to my letters, they just forgot about Maybe, say, Chuck,

2001
01:55:01.880 --> 01:55:03.520
tell me what kind of work.

2002
01:55:03.359 --> 01:55:03.680
Do you do.

2003
01:55:04.880 --> 01:55:07.600
I'm one of those guys who can do anything until

2004
01:55:07.640 --> 01:55:09.520
you pin me down, and then it turns out I

2005
01:55:09.600 --> 01:55:10.680
can't do much of anything.

2006
01:55:10.920 --> 01:55:14.800
Well, I'm sure you'll fit in somewhere someday. Just haven't

2007
01:55:14.840 --> 01:55:15.560
run into it yet.

2008
01:55:15.920 --> 01:55:21.000
Maybe in the meantime, I like drifting around the world.

2009
01:55:23.760 --> 01:55:26.520
I don't talk it too much. I don't get the

2010
01:55:26.680 --> 01:55:29.960
chance to talk to people very often, especially about myself.

2011
01:55:31.119 --> 01:55:33.319
Everybody likes to talk about themselves.

2012
01:55:34.960 --> 01:55:36.159
What are you going to do when you get back

2013
01:55:36.159 --> 01:55:40.359
to La look for work? I guess I'm broke. Well,

2014
01:55:40.399 --> 01:55:42.159
if you really want a job, Chuck, maybe I can

2015
01:55:42.239 --> 01:55:48.079
do something for you. What do you mean, Well, do

2016
01:55:48.159 --> 01:55:51.359
you have a ten bar? No? I own a string

2017
01:55:51.439 --> 01:55:54.079
of bars throughout the valley. If you're willing to learn,

2018
01:55:54.119 --> 01:55:55.840
maybe I can put you to work as a bartender.

2019
01:55:56.560 --> 01:56:01.760
Me a bartender, A guy's on his feet a lot,

2020
01:56:01.840 --> 01:56:04.760
and that kind of work. You can make good money. Yeah, yeah,

2021
01:56:05.199 --> 01:56:11.279
I can believe that. But tell me something, why all

2022
01:56:11.399 --> 01:56:12.359
the interest in me?

2023
01:56:12.720 --> 01:56:14.920
Oh? We might have run over you, maybe killed you.

2024
01:56:15.520 --> 01:56:17.119
I think the least Frank can do is try and

2025
01:56:17.159 --> 01:56:18.039
help you out a little.

2026
01:56:19.840 --> 01:56:22.640
Do you do you think I could learn to tend bar?

2027
01:56:22.880 --> 01:56:23.000
Oh?

2028
01:56:23.079 --> 01:56:24.319
I'm sure you could, Jock.

2029
01:56:25.720 --> 01:56:29.760
It's an interesting proposition, mister malloy. Just call me Frank.

2030
01:56:30.199 --> 01:56:32.399
I'm Vivian Jack. Hi.

2031
01:56:35.479 --> 01:56:36.119
How do you like that?

2032
01:56:37.239 --> 01:56:40.560
Yesterday I was bumming around Today I'm going to be

2033
01:56:40.600 --> 01:56:41.279
a bartender.

2034
01:56:42.840 --> 01:56:44.800
Who knows what will happen tomorrow?

2035
01:56:51.399 --> 01:56:54.199
You know, don't you, Frank, You know exactly what's in

2036
01:56:54.319 --> 01:56:57.479
store for Chuck tomorrow. As a matter of fact, you

2037
01:56:57.600 --> 01:57:01.960
wonder if you'll even be alive tomorrow. Because now you're settlement.

2038
01:57:02.000 --> 01:57:03.960
He will do fine as a part of your plan.

2039
01:57:04.600 --> 01:57:07.319
No one knows about him. No one even knows where

2040
01:57:07.359 --> 01:57:08.960
he is. No one would miss him if.

2041
01:57:08.920 --> 01:57:10.800
He disappeared, he assured you of that.

2042
01:57:12.600 --> 01:57:15.680
As you turn off the main highway towards your small ranch,

2043
01:57:15.760 --> 01:57:18.359
you already have the first stages of the plan ready.

2044
01:57:19.600 --> 01:57:21.119
You stop the car at the gate.

2045
01:57:23.439 --> 01:57:25.159
I have to take care of some business here. Check.

2046
01:57:25.560 --> 01:57:27.479
You go with Vivian. She'll put you out for the afternoon.

2047
01:57:27.600 --> 01:57:30.760
Whatever you say, Boss, second of my apartment. Huh, here's

2048
01:57:30.800 --> 01:57:33.920
his key. I'll call you when as soon as I've

2049
01:57:33.960 --> 01:57:35.479
made the arrangements we were talking about.

2050
01:57:35.800 --> 01:57:36.800
Will they take long?

2051
01:57:37.119 --> 01:57:41.840
No, everything will be taken care of by the night tonight. Yeah,

2052
01:57:42.399 --> 01:57:44.439
and take good care of Check. Huh. Make him feel

2053
01:57:44.439 --> 01:57:44.920
at home.

2054
01:57:44.880 --> 01:57:46.159
Now, but we'll be at your place.

2055
01:57:46.319 --> 01:57:50.359
You call me, I'll call him. Well. I see you

2056
01:57:50.479 --> 01:57:53.600
late at night. Check your thing, mister molloy. Bye baby, fine.

2057
01:58:01.439 --> 01:58:04.079
You watch them disappear down the road, Frank, and then

2058
01:58:04.159 --> 01:58:08.319
you turned toward the house. Everything seems peaceful and undisturbed,

2059
01:58:08.840 --> 01:58:11.119
and you realize how long it has been since you've

2060
01:58:11.159 --> 01:58:14.279
come out to the ranch. As you reach the steps

2061
01:58:14.319 --> 01:58:17.319
and put your hand to the door knocker, you wonder

2062
01:58:17.399 --> 01:58:19.600
if Martha will be surprised to see you.

2063
01:58:22.479 --> 01:58:27.880
Hello, Frank, Hello Martha, I I've come to see you.

2064
01:58:29.119 --> 01:58:29.399
Come in.

2065
01:58:33.079 --> 01:58:34.479
You don't seem surprised to see me.

2066
01:58:35.680 --> 01:58:35.960
I'm not.

2067
01:58:36.760 --> 01:58:40.479
You were expecting me, yes, and you knew I was

2068
01:58:40.560 --> 01:58:41.079
out of jail.

2069
01:58:42.359 --> 01:58:43.119
Sit down, Frank.

2070
01:58:43.840 --> 01:58:45.079
Do you like a cup of coffee?

2071
01:58:45.279 --> 01:58:49.159
No, nothing except Martha, I think you know turned me

2072
01:58:49.239 --> 01:58:51.319
into the district attorney. Who was it?

2073
01:58:52.439 --> 01:58:56.239
Why I did? I did what I thought was right.

2074
01:58:58.560 --> 01:59:00.720
You must have known, Frank, always trusted you.

2075
01:59:01.840 --> 01:59:03.239
You were the one person I thought I didn't have

2076
01:59:03.239 --> 01:59:03.760
to worry about.

2077
01:59:03.880 --> 01:59:04.920
That's it, exactly, Frank.

2078
01:59:04.960 --> 01:59:07.399
You never worried about me. I don't think you even

2079
01:59:07.439 --> 01:59:10.079
thought about me. There was a time when I was

2080
01:59:10.159 --> 01:59:11.560
the most important thing in the world.

2081
01:59:13.039 --> 01:59:13.720
Prison you belong.

2082
01:59:13.800 --> 01:59:18.079
In prison, you become nothing more than a gangster, a hoodlum.

2083
01:59:18.960 --> 01:59:21.960
You're not the man I married fifteen years ago. Little

2084
01:59:22.000 --> 01:59:24.239
by little I watched you change. You began to make money,

2085
01:59:24.279 --> 01:59:27.039
lots of money, and along with your money, you gained power.

2086
01:59:27.399 --> 01:59:29.760
The more you got, the more you wanted, and anything

2087
01:59:29.800 --> 01:59:31.119
you couldn't have you destroyed.

2088
01:59:31.720 --> 01:59:32.800
What did you expect to do?

2089
01:59:33.039 --> 01:59:36.760
Own everything and everyone? Some days I had to stop

2090
01:59:36.840 --> 01:59:38.479
you for your own sake, and I did.

2091
01:59:38.439 --> 01:59:39.760
It the only way I knew how.

2092
01:59:41.199 --> 01:59:43.840
I cried for months because I knew the only way

2093
01:59:43.880 --> 01:59:47.279
to stop you was just to call the district attorney.

2094
01:59:48.960 --> 01:59:50.479
I did what I thought was right.

2095
01:59:56.840 --> 01:59:59.399
Now you know, Frank, you know who betrayed you, and

2096
01:59:59.520 --> 02:00:00.359
Wyatt was done.

2097
02:00:00.920 --> 02:00:04.079
You begin to pace around the room, walking faster and faster,

2098
02:00:04.560 --> 02:00:07.880
pumping into things and knocking them over. And suddenly you

2099
02:00:08.000 --> 02:00:11.119
stop in front of the man. You see the clock,

2100
02:00:11.239 --> 02:00:15.039
and the feeling of rage subside. You realize that by

2101
02:00:15.159 --> 02:00:18.319
nine o'clock tonight, things will be all right, and Martha,

2102
02:00:18.720 --> 02:00:22.479
conscientious Martha will have a strange punishment, won't she, Frank,

2103
02:00:23.319 --> 02:00:27.800
You'll always believe she sends you to your death. After

2104
02:00:27.880 --> 02:00:31.239
a long silence, Martha throws a shawl over her shoulders

2105
02:00:31.319 --> 02:00:33.239
and walks outside.

2106
02:01:06.399 --> 02:01:09.880
Hello, Frank, Vivian, everything all right? Yes, I've been listening

2107
02:01:09.920 --> 02:01:11.279
to the story of Chuck's life.

2108
02:01:11.800 --> 02:01:14.159
Jimsy's girlfriend Mamie was quite a gal.

2109
02:01:14.920 --> 02:01:17.720
How our boughtenders in the other room, practicing with your liquor.

2110
02:01:17.800 --> 02:01:19.640
But now listen, Vivian, get one of my suits out

2111
02:01:19.640 --> 02:01:21.560
of the closet and give it to check. Have him

2112
02:01:21.600 --> 02:01:24.920
shower and shave and put the suit on. We're going

2113
02:01:25.000 --> 02:01:27.800
to a party, I understand. Tellom you're meeting me at

2114
02:01:27.840 --> 02:01:30.000
one of my places up at the lake. Leave my

2115
02:01:30.079 --> 02:01:32.640
apartment by eight thirty and drive up on skyline. Drive

2116
02:01:32.760 --> 02:01:35.640
to Mountain View Club. Now, don't stop anywhere. When you

2117
02:01:35.760 --> 02:01:38.119
get there, wait in the parking lot and back be

2118
02:01:38.239 --> 02:01:39.199
there by nine o'clock.

2119
02:01:39.279 --> 02:01:41.439
Clear, clear and simple.

2120
02:01:42.680 --> 02:01:44.840
What exactly are you planning, Frank?

2121
02:01:45.520 --> 02:01:49.840
Like I said, a party? I see good. May sure

2122
02:01:49.840 --> 02:01:50.439
you've got it all.

2123
02:01:50.720 --> 02:01:53.920
We'll see you at the party nine at nine?

2124
02:02:05.600 --> 02:02:09.079
What are you doing out here, Martha? Listening to the cricket?

2125
02:02:10.319 --> 02:02:11.119
It's a nice night.

2126
02:02:11.880 --> 02:02:16.039
Yeah, Hm, who used to go riding on nights, likeness?

2127
02:02:17.159 --> 02:02:17.840
You remember that?

2128
02:02:18.279 --> 02:02:22.279
Of course, I'm surprised, Frank, are you.

2129
02:02:23.720 --> 02:02:27.399
Well, here's another surprise for you, Martha. I'm not going

2130
02:02:27.479 --> 02:02:30.880
to do anything about the fact that you've turned against me. Oh,

2131
02:02:31.319 --> 02:02:34.399
matter of fact, when I leave here, I'm going for

2132
02:02:34.479 --> 02:02:37.920
a little ride, one we often used to take together

2133
02:02:39.159 --> 02:02:40.479
along Skyline Drive.

2134
02:02:41.680 --> 02:02:44.880
Frank, what have you got on your mind?

2135
02:02:45.720 --> 02:02:48.720
Just you, Martha. I'll be thinking of you.

2136
02:02:50.479 --> 02:02:51.319
I'll get my coach.

2137
02:02:51.439 --> 02:02:54.520
Oh no, no, Martha, wouldn't be right for you to

2138
02:02:54.560 --> 02:03:00.880
go anywhere with a with a hoodlum, a criminal. Goodbye, Martha. Remember,

2139
02:03:02.159 --> 02:03:03.000
I'll be thinking of you.

2140
02:03:14.479 --> 02:03:17.000
The expression on her face, in her eyes that light you,

2141
02:03:17.119 --> 02:03:19.840
doesn't it, Frank, Martha is still in love with you

2142
02:03:19.960 --> 02:03:24.000
after all this time. And later, when your plan goes through,

2143
02:03:24.159 --> 02:03:27.159
she'll have something to think about, won't she Something that

2144
02:03:27.279 --> 02:03:32.239
will be her punishment. Yes, Martha, conscientious as she is,

2145
02:03:32.720 --> 02:03:35.960
will feel deeply when Chuck's body is finally found in

2146
02:03:36.039 --> 02:03:39.079
your car wearing your clothes at the bottom of the lake.

2147
02:03:40.119 --> 02:03:44.239
Martha will always believe you've killed yourself because she turned

2148
02:03:44.279 --> 02:03:47.720
you into the district attorney. And above all, she'll testify

2149
02:03:47.880 --> 02:03:51.119
that you were heading for the Skyline Drive. That part

2150
02:03:51.199 --> 02:03:56.960
will help eliminate the identification problem. High up on Skyline Drive,

2151
02:03:57.079 --> 02:03:59.279
you pull into the parking lot of the Darkened club

2152
02:03:59.640 --> 02:04:03.039
where you agreed to meet Vivian. A few minutes later,

2153
02:04:03.159 --> 02:04:05.279
the headlights of her car come into.

2154
02:04:05.159 --> 02:04:10.279
View right on time?

2155
02:04:10.399 --> 02:04:13.560
But oh, oh high mister molloy, didn't know you were

2156
02:04:13.600 --> 02:04:15.880
here yet. Say thanks for the suit.

2157
02:04:16.279 --> 02:04:17.880
How do I look? Just fine? Check?

2158
02:04:18.039 --> 02:04:19.279
Are we on time for the party?

2159
02:04:19.359 --> 02:04:19.600
Frank?

2160
02:04:19.760 --> 02:04:22.159
Oh, right on time? Oh say, Chuck, would you give

2161
02:04:22.199 --> 02:04:23.520
me a hand with some stuff in my car? It's

2162
02:04:23.600 --> 02:04:29.640
right over here, Vivian said, we were going to a party.

2163
02:04:30.199 --> 02:04:31.800
Is it in that place up there? No?

2164
02:04:32.119 --> 02:04:36.600
Not there, I didn't think so. Giant looks closed down. Sure,

2165
02:04:36.720 --> 02:04:39.560
dark out here. What are we going to check this?

2166
02:04:42.840 --> 02:04:45.880
Yeah, body's almost over a few check.

2167
02:04:47.479 --> 02:04:48.079
What happened?

2168
02:04:48.279 --> 02:04:50.159
I hit him? I'd be easy to handle this way.

2169
02:04:50.960 --> 02:04:52.359
We'll that door open so I can put him in

2170
02:04:52.359 --> 02:04:52.600
the car.

2171
02:04:52.800 --> 02:04:54.840
Right, What are we going to do now?

2172
02:04:55.119 --> 02:04:57.520
I'm stay here about five minutes and then drive up

2173
02:04:57.520 --> 02:05:00.760
the highway about one mile the road that sharp bend

2174
02:05:00.800 --> 02:05:03.359
around the lake. I'll be waiting. I'll be waiting there

2175
02:05:03.439 --> 02:05:05.760
off the highway. Link your lights as you're approach, and

2176
02:05:05.760 --> 02:05:06.600
I'll come out and wave it.

2177
02:05:09.199 --> 02:05:12.000
I thought you were going to bring Martha with you.

2178
02:05:12.920 --> 02:05:16.920
No, I've taken care of Martha another way.

2179
02:05:25.520 --> 02:05:27.600
You drive out of the parking lot and in a

2180
02:05:27.680 --> 02:05:30.119
few minutes you reach the sharp curve in the highway,

2181
02:05:30.600 --> 02:05:33.039
pull over and stop where the edge drops off into

2182
02:05:33.079 --> 02:05:35.720
the deep end of the lake. And it only takes

2183
02:05:35.800 --> 02:05:38.680
seconds to drag Chuck's body to the front seat behind

2184
02:05:38.720 --> 02:05:42.399
the wheel. Carefully, you go through his pockets and remove everything,

2185
02:05:43.119 --> 02:05:46.720
then plant your belongings in his pockets. You put your

2186
02:05:46.880 --> 02:05:51.199
ring and watch on him, and everything is ready. You

2187
02:05:51.359 --> 02:05:54.279
push the clutch in, put the car in gear. As

2188
02:05:54.319 --> 02:05:56.840
you jump back away from the car, it jerks forward

2189
02:05:56.880 --> 02:06:07.960
and over the ledge to disappear in the deep black

2190
02:06:08.119 --> 02:06:09.119
water of the lake.

2191
02:06:24.119 --> 02:06:28.079
Is it all over save for yourself by the time

2192
02:06:28.159 --> 02:06:29.840
they pull the car to the water to look like

2193
02:06:29.960 --> 02:06:32.880
Frank Molloy was drowned when his car skidded off the

2194
02:06:33.000 --> 02:06:37.199
road and crashed into the lake. That's hope. So the

2195
02:06:37.399 --> 02:06:40.119
weeks before they find the body and the water will

2196
02:06:40.119 --> 02:06:43.199
make positive identification pretty difficult, but they'll find it enough

2197
02:06:43.239 --> 02:06:50.560
there to think it's me. And Matho will help too. Yeah,

2198
02:06:51.199 --> 02:06:52.960
all we have to do is hide out until he's

2199
02:06:53.000 --> 02:06:57.239
found and we'll be free. VIVI, where do we go now? Well,

2200
02:06:57.319 --> 02:06:58.800
first we have to stop at a couple of places

2201
02:06:58.840 --> 02:07:01.039
down the valley pick up the money I put away.

2202
02:07:01.439 --> 02:07:04.319
That's a must. We'll drive on to Los Angeles where

2203
02:07:04.359 --> 02:07:05.039
we can hide out.

2204
02:07:06.199 --> 02:07:10.840
Then we'll see whatever you say, Frank, Now, let's.

2205
02:07:10.720 --> 02:07:18.880
Get out of here. You know it's funny your mother

2206
02:07:19.000 --> 02:07:22.760
tried to send me to jail. When she recognizes my clothes,

2207
02:07:22.840 --> 02:07:26.560
her story, more than anything, will help to set me free.

2208
02:07:38.119 --> 02:07:42.159
Throughout the Western States from Canada to Mexico, one gasoline

2209
02:07:42.239 --> 02:07:48.000
is famous as the go farther gasoline. It's signal gasoline. Now, naturally,

2210
02:07:48.119 --> 02:07:50.720
we're mighty proud of signals good mile age, which has

2211
02:07:50.800 --> 02:07:54.319
built that reputation. But equally important to you as a

2212
02:07:54.399 --> 02:07:57.439
motorist is the way signal gives you such good mileage.

2213
02:07:58.319 --> 02:08:01.560
You see, today's signal helps your engine runs so efficiently.

2214
02:08:01.680 --> 02:08:05.600
You save gasoline three ways. One you save gasoline with

2215
02:08:05.680 --> 02:08:10.520
signals quick starting. Two you save gasoline with signals smooth, obedient, pickup,

2216
02:08:10.640 --> 02:08:14.439
free from balking and hesitation. Three you save gasoline with

2217
02:08:14.560 --> 02:08:18.079
signals lively. Power that gets you into high gear fast

2218
02:08:18.239 --> 02:08:20.439
helps you stay there with a minimum of shifting on

2219
02:08:20.560 --> 02:08:23.800
hills or in traffic. So you see, considering the number

2220
02:08:23.840 --> 02:08:26.640
of times a day you start your car, accelerate and

2221
02:08:26.800 --> 02:08:31.039
shift gears, even a little gasoline saved each time soon

2222
02:08:31.199 --> 02:08:35.439
adds up to a big saving. So they're in a nutshell. Friends,

2223
02:08:35.520 --> 02:08:38.640
is why motor is called signal the go farther gasoline.

2224
02:08:39.239 --> 02:08:42.039
Why not treat your car to a tankful tomorrow and

2225
02:08:42.399 --> 02:08:44.760
go farther with signal.

2226
02:08:46.920 --> 02:08:52.960
Sign gasoline your car, We'll go the gasoline.

2227
02:09:09.880 --> 02:09:10.479
One morning.

2228
02:09:10.600 --> 02:09:13.079
Two months later, you open your eyes in a hotel

2229
02:09:13.399 --> 02:09:16.920
just outside the city of Los Angeles, don't you, Frank. Yes,

2230
02:09:17.079 --> 02:09:20.000
you've been here two months waiting for someone to find

2231
02:09:20.039 --> 02:09:23.119
the body of Chuck and identify him as you, the

2232
02:09:23.239 --> 02:09:27.399
missing Frank Malloy, and last night's paper carried the story

2233
02:09:27.439 --> 02:09:30.760
you've been waiting for, the story of your death. Now

2234
02:09:30.880 --> 02:09:33.720
it'll be safe to change your name and leave the

2235
02:09:33.760 --> 02:09:37.319
country with Vivian. Everything has gone perfectly, hasn't it, Frank.

2236
02:09:38.479 --> 02:09:40.960
You stretch out on the bed and your hand drops

2237
02:09:41.039 --> 02:09:43.960
down to touch this small handbag you've kept beside you,

2238
02:09:44.680 --> 02:09:49.119
the bag containing over a hundred thousand dollars. Suddenly you

2239
02:09:49.199 --> 02:09:52.359
sit up, realizing the bag is gone. You get up

2240
02:09:52.399 --> 02:09:55.239
and search the room frantically, but the money isn't there.

2241
02:09:59.119 --> 02:10:07.600
Operator Operator, Yes, sir, would you connect me with room

2242
02:10:07.640 --> 02:10:09.880
three h three, Miss vian Ne Smith and hurry.

2243
02:10:12.800 --> 02:10:14.920
I'm sorry, sir, but miss Smith checked out at the

2244
02:10:14.960 --> 02:10:15.960
hotel about an hour ago.

2245
02:10:16.079 --> 02:10:17.800
What did she leave a message?

2246
02:10:19.079 --> 02:10:20.680
Nothing, sir, good?

2247
02:10:21.279 --> 02:10:21.800
Anything else?

2248
02:10:23.159 --> 02:10:23.199
No?

2249
02:10:24.800 --> 02:10:36.680
Nothing? Who's there? Vivian? Vivian, the bag with the that's

2250
02:10:36.720 --> 02:10:39.000
what you're looking for you.

2251
02:10:39.399 --> 02:10:42.000
He's from the police department, do the police.

2252
02:10:42.199 --> 02:10:44.680
Yes, he picked me up at the airport. After reading

2253
02:10:44.720 --> 02:10:46.319
the story in the paper last night. I thought it

2254
02:10:46.399 --> 02:10:47.520
was safe enough now to leave.

2255
02:10:47.680 --> 02:10:48.439
Only it wasn't.

2256
02:10:48.600 --> 02:10:51.319
She was taking your money and running out on you, molloy,

2257
02:10:51.479 --> 02:10:51.880
And why not.

2258
02:10:52.199 --> 02:10:53.880
It would only be a matter of time before I

2259
02:10:53.920 --> 02:10:55.159
meant no more to him than master.

2260
02:10:55.920 --> 02:10:57.439
Doesn't matter now, Frank.

2261
02:10:57.920 --> 02:10:59.520
Sure doesn't. You see?

2262
02:10:59.600 --> 02:11:02.239
The news paper story was just to get you out

2263
02:11:02.319 --> 02:11:05.960
in the open. Some fishermen did find a body in

2264
02:11:06.039 --> 02:11:08.680
the lake, but after all this time, it was a

2265
02:11:08.760 --> 02:11:13.159
little hard to identify. He was wearing your clothes, molloy,

2266
02:11:13.279 --> 02:11:16.520
and was in your car. Your wife thought it was you,

2267
02:11:16.680 --> 02:11:18.520
but I don't see how that could tell you something.

2268
02:11:18.640 --> 02:11:18.800
Though.

2269
02:11:19.880 --> 02:11:23.960
At the morgue we found out different. You see, Maloy,

2270
02:11:24.119 --> 02:11:26.760
it wasn't hard to figure out what you'd done when

2271
02:11:26.800 --> 02:11:29.720
we found a tattoo on the drown man's chest.

2272
02:11:31.119 --> 02:11:35.880
Eh. The tattoo of a heart with the words Chuck

2273
02:11:36.479 --> 02:11:37.479
and Maimie.

2274
02:11:56.319 --> 02:11:58.920
Featured in Tonight's story where Bill Foreman is the Whistler,

2275
02:11:59.359 --> 02:12:03.119
Gerald Moore, Betty lou Gerson, Shepherd MANCN, and Charlotte Lawrence.

2276
02:12:03.760 --> 02:12:06.520
The Whistler was produced and directed by George w Allen,

2277
02:12:06.640 --> 02:12:09.960
with story by Gus Bays, music by Wilbur Hatch, and

2278
02:12:10.199 --> 02:12:14.319
was transmitted overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The

2279
02:12:14.359 --> 02:12:17.439
Whistler was entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the

2280
02:12:17.479 --> 02:12:21.600
Whistler are also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance

2281
02:12:21.640 --> 02:12:25.600
to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Remember to

2282
02:12:25.680 --> 02:12:28.279
tune in at this same time next Sunday when the

2283
02:12:28.359 --> 02:12:32.399
Signal Oil Company will bring you another strange story by

2284
02:12:32.760 --> 02:12:37.079
the Whistler. Marvin Miller, speaking for the Signal Oil Company.

2285
02:12:48.079 --> 02:12:51.319
Side name.

2286
02:13:00.800 --> 02:13:03.960
I do so hope that it snows, my dear.

2287
02:13:05.399 --> 02:13:05.760
What's that?

2288
02:13:06.760 --> 02:13:12.039
Well, I suppose I don't often have anywhere to be,

2289
02:13:13.800 --> 02:13:18.159
so I'm not worried about the roads or the walkways.

2290
02:13:19.560 --> 02:13:19.600
No.

2291
02:13:21.399 --> 02:13:26.880
In fact, I wouldn't really see the snow at all.

2292
02:13:31.880 --> 02:13:35.279
I know, I know I shouldn't be so melancholy, but

2293
02:13:35.399 --> 02:13:39.359
it is quite a fine line during this time of year,

2294
02:13:40.319 --> 02:13:44.640
from being holly and jolly to being the last days

2295
02:13:46.000 --> 02:13:47.720
of a condemned man.

2296
02:13:57.359 --> 02:14:00.600
Out of the past phantoms of a world gone by,

2297
02:14:00.840 --> 02:14:06.000
speak again the immortal tale, the last day of a

2298
02:14:06.159 --> 02:14:21.520
condemned man. This is the voice of a man condemned,

2299
02:14:22.560 --> 02:14:26.479
condemned by the law of the state and by freaky circumstance.

2300
02:14:28.039 --> 02:14:31.439
I am, by all ordinary standards, a good citizen of France.

2301
02:14:32.199 --> 02:14:35.640
I have fought under Bonaparte, I have served my country,

2302
02:14:36.239 --> 02:14:39.840
married and fathered a child. But all those things come

2303
02:14:39.920 --> 02:14:44.960
to nothing the cell of the condemned. Hour by hour,

2304
02:14:45.119 --> 02:14:47.880
I await my pardon, but it.

2305
02:14:47.920 --> 02:14:48.600
Will not come.

2306
02:14:49.479 --> 02:14:53.359
I know that, for this is the working of a curse,

2307
02:14:54.600 --> 02:14:57.079
a curse placed upon my father to last through all

2308
02:14:57.119 --> 02:15:00.720
the generations of his line, for having a too well

2309
02:15:01.720 --> 02:15:05.920
a woman who has promised to another man. Each day,

2310
02:15:06.119 --> 02:15:08.520
the specters of those who have gone before me in

2311
02:15:08.560 --> 02:15:12.720
the cell accused me and passed before me to disappoint

2312
02:15:12.800 --> 02:15:13.079
all my.

2313
02:15:13.199 --> 02:15:15.520
Hopes and to horrify me.

2314
02:15:17.159 --> 02:15:21.319
They're here again, murderous thieves. All of the andre andre

2315
02:15:21.479 --> 02:15:25.439
are nerved. Sit down, my friend, control yourself. These things

2316
02:15:25.479 --> 02:15:29.279
are only pictures in your mind. Ah, they're real, Francois.

2317
02:15:29.880 --> 02:15:32.479
They are the homeless spirits of the condemned, murderers and

2318
02:15:32.560 --> 02:15:35.319
thieves who are in this celling years gone by. They've

2319
02:15:35.359 --> 02:15:37.880
come to haunt me, to welcome me among the condemned.

2320
02:15:37.960 --> 02:15:41.520
You know you've done nothing, really nothing that is a crime.

2321
02:15:41.920 --> 02:15:46.399
But everyone thinks I have my wife, my daughter. They've

2322
02:15:46.439 --> 02:15:49.239
accused me. Think of a Francois. They have accused me

2323
02:15:49.319 --> 02:15:51.680
of my own murders and of a crime against my

2324
02:15:51.800 --> 02:15:56.319
own family. Oh, Francois, I wouldn't even harm a hair

2325
02:15:56.439 --> 02:16:00.359
of their precious heads. And these ghosts are they know

2326
02:16:00.439 --> 02:16:04.960
of the curse, They know my release is impossible since

2327
02:16:05.000 --> 02:16:12.680
the state has condemned me, Francois, Francois, what if some

2328
02:16:12.880 --> 02:16:15.279
of them were as innocent as I am? Condemned and

2329
02:16:15.399 --> 02:16:19.439
executed on false evidence. Perhaps that's why they've come to

2330
02:16:19.479 --> 02:16:22.279
welcome me to the guillotine. But you have every reason

2331
02:16:22.359 --> 02:16:24.720
to hope for a pardon when the case is reviewed. Andre,

2332
02:16:25.239 --> 02:16:29.399
you know you're innocent. Forget these ghosts, Andre, when you're free,

2333
02:16:29.479 --> 02:16:32.920
they have vanished from your mind, from your side of

2334
02:16:33.000 --> 02:16:35.799
these bars. It is easy to say that you are

2335
02:16:35.840 --> 02:16:38.920
in prison only for being my companion. But in the

2336
02:16:39.040 --> 02:16:42.799
two inches of space between ourselves there is a world

2337
02:16:42.879 --> 02:16:46.040
of difference. Here on my side lie the spirits of

2338
02:16:46.159 --> 02:16:49.760
men condemned to death for crime, and on your side

2339
02:16:49.760 --> 02:16:52.360
are the spirits of those who have served their sentences

2340
02:16:52.399 --> 02:16:54.440
and gone again into the world of life. But you

2341
02:16:54.600 --> 02:16:58.760
may yet be pardoned. Andrea, those faces, the way they

2342
02:16:58.840 --> 02:17:03.440
looked at me, he looked at you. You saw their faces. Yes,

2343
02:17:04.479 --> 02:17:08.000
for the first time to day they set for my

2344
02:17:09.520 --> 02:17:14.159
my execution. I saw them. I carry their heads under

2345
02:17:14.200 --> 02:17:16.959
their arms, and the eyes of those heads looked at me.

2346
02:17:17.520 --> 02:17:20.040
They seemed to tell me certainly, that I soon would

2347
02:17:20.040 --> 02:17:23.079
be with them. All they are your imagination. You bring

2348
02:17:23.200 --> 02:17:26.000
on those images by thinking about those names scratched on

2349
02:17:26.079 --> 02:17:29.559
the wall of yourself, and the scratchings of those dead men. Yes,

2350
02:17:30.879 --> 02:17:35.680
they were all here here in this very cell, and they, Francois,

2351
02:17:36.280 --> 02:17:39.799
they were all killed by the guillotine, the guillotine that

2352
02:17:39.879 --> 02:17:42.360
they've constructed again in the courtyard out there for me.

2353
02:17:42.559 --> 02:17:45.479
But they were murderers and thieves. That's the difference.

2354
02:17:45.520 --> 02:17:45.959
You are not.

2355
02:17:46.319 --> 02:17:51.159
But they even they have accepted me among their number.

2356
02:17:51.719 --> 02:17:54.200
They know, I can tell by the way they looked

2357
02:17:54.200 --> 02:18:00.920
at me. But the guillotine won't be robbed, Francois, France. Wife,

2358
02:18:00.959 --> 02:18:05.120
she would only come if the child would repent. Then

2359
02:18:05.280 --> 02:18:07.440
they could not look at me. So she will Andre,

2360
02:18:08.000 --> 02:18:11.200
be certain of that child will come, and all will

2361
02:18:11.239 --> 02:18:15.479
be Pyna, Francois. Even I know that my hopes are

2362
02:18:15.520 --> 02:18:19.719
in vain at that dispart of the curse. But my

2363
02:18:19.879 --> 02:18:22.360
own wife and children will disown me in the hour

2364
02:18:22.440 --> 02:18:27.040
of danger and will not even know me. And it works, Francois,

2365
02:18:27.719 --> 02:18:32.719
The curse is working. You remember how it happened, Francois.

2366
02:18:33.799 --> 02:18:36.360
You were with me. Then we were walking along a

2367
02:18:36.440 --> 02:18:39.159
road toward a village. We were laughing and talking and

2368
02:18:39.200 --> 02:18:48.200
feeling happy in our new freedom. Heer, just think, Andre,

2369
02:18:49.319 --> 02:18:54.040
tomorrow will behold her Paris, our wives, everything we've been dreaming.

2370
02:18:54.120 --> 02:18:57.319
I have Only a few days ago, we were forgotten men,

2371
02:18:57.559 --> 02:19:01.079
prisoners of war, forgotten. The war was over and our

2372
02:19:01.159 --> 02:19:05.680
Napoleon was defeated. But we're still left to rock. That's

2373
02:19:05.719 --> 02:19:09.360
the price of defeat, Francois. But we have escaped from

2374
02:19:09.399 --> 02:19:13.079
those harras. This is friends. That should be enough, I suppose.

2375
02:19:13.159 --> 02:19:18.120
But think of home, Francois. Home after so long, perhaps

2376
02:19:18.159 --> 02:19:20.600
after so long Paris will not be the way you

2377
02:19:20.600 --> 02:19:25.639
will mention it. Perhaps it's changed, Paris never, Paris does

2378
02:19:25.719 --> 02:19:28.920
not change, not his home the heart of one who

2379
02:19:29.079 --> 02:19:32.280
loves you as well as Mile Lorrain, my wife, Lorraine

2380
02:19:32.479 --> 02:19:37.399
loves me. Ha had a stop for a moment in restaurant.

2381
02:19:41.120 --> 02:19:44.479
Tell me, aren't you anxious to get back to your

2382
02:19:44.559 --> 02:19:49.520
wife and your child? My wife is dead, Andre, we

2383
02:19:49.879 --> 02:19:53.600
never had a child. I'm sorry, Francois. I didn't know.

2384
02:19:53.840 --> 02:19:56.920
It's long past now. Andre. Thank you though for your sympathy.

2385
02:19:58.000 --> 02:20:00.680
But I do know that tomorrow or the next day,

2386
02:20:00.840 --> 02:20:03.040
when we do come to Paris, after this long journey,

2387
02:20:03.079 --> 02:20:04.000
you will feel happy.

2388
02:20:04.479 --> 02:20:06.479
And I'm glad for you. Thank you, Ransell.

2389
02:20:06.639 --> 02:20:09.639
I'm glad for you because there's never been a better companion. Andre.

2390
02:20:10.239 --> 02:20:13.799
Through everything, we've never had trouble. You are, I believe,

2391
02:20:14.639 --> 02:20:17.559
the gentlest man I've ever met, And you, too, Francois,

2392
02:20:17.600 --> 02:20:22.280
have been a good companion. But a tired one night, perhaps,

2393
02:20:23.280 --> 02:20:26.280
but I suppose anyone's entitled to that after what we've

2394
02:20:26.360 --> 02:20:31.520
been through. But here my stomach's crying for food. I'll

2395
02:20:31.559 --> 02:20:33.079
go on into the village alone and see what I

2396
02:20:33.120 --> 02:20:35.639
can get. It's better anyway, you're better at getting people

2397
02:20:35.680 --> 02:20:38.520
to give us food than I am. Just think after tomorrow,

2398
02:20:38.600 --> 02:20:41.200
we'll never beg again. If you don't come back within

2399
02:20:41.280 --> 02:20:43.360
a short time, I'll follow you into the village and

2400
02:20:43.399 --> 02:20:45.879
help you. Should you have fore no trouble, There will

2401
02:20:45.920 --> 02:20:48.920
be no trouble. People don't mind giving the poor tired

2402
02:20:49.000 --> 02:20:51.840
soldiers like us. I'll be back, Francois.

2403
02:20:52.559 --> 02:21:03.000
I'll meet you here, okay, yes, monsieur, Hello.

2404
02:21:02.920 --> 02:21:05.600
Little one, What is it you want? If you'll open

2405
02:21:05.639 --> 02:21:06.959
the door a little wider, I can.

2406
02:21:06.920 --> 02:21:11.639
Tell you there a little wider now, monsieur, is.

2407
02:21:11.680 --> 02:21:12.680
Your mamma at home?

2408
02:21:13.159 --> 02:21:13.799
She is busy.

2409
02:21:14.479 --> 02:21:16.840
I am a soldier, little one. I only want to

2410
02:21:16.879 --> 02:21:17.879
ask you for some food.

2411
02:21:18.159 --> 02:21:20.879
If you're a soldier, you need nothing. But you don't

2412
02:21:20.920 --> 02:21:23.879
look like a soldier in nose, dirty clothes. I don't

2413
02:21:23.879 --> 02:21:24.319
believe you.

2414
02:21:25.719 --> 02:21:26.399
What is your name?

2415
02:21:26.639 --> 02:21:28.280
Never mind? I don't like you.

2416
02:21:28.440 --> 02:21:30.840
Go away, but I wouldn't hurt you.

2417
02:21:31.000 --> 02:21:31.520
I don't care.

2418
02:21:32.040 --> 02:21:33.399
Go away, go away.

2419
02:21:33.920 --> 02:21:37.840
Somehow you you look? If you do, look like another

2420
02:21:37.920 --> 02:21:42.239
little girl, I know she'd be just about your age too.

2421
02:21:42.799 --> 02:21:46.840
Who Her name is Bernice, and she lives in Paris.

2422
02:21:47.319 --> 02:21:48.639
I lived in Paris once.

2423
02:21:49.200 --> 02:21:51.920
This little girl is still there. I am a father.

2424
02:21:53.559 --> 02:21:54.239
What's your name?

2425
02:21:55.120 --> 02:21:55.639
Bernise?

2426
02:21:56.120 --> 02:21:59.360
Oh you see you're very much like this other little girl.

2427
02:22:00.559 --> 02:22:02.120
How long have you been away from Paris?

2428
02:22:02.280 --> 02:22:05.440
Only? Never mind? Go right away?

2429
02:22:05.760 --> 02:22:11.760
But maybe you No, no, you couldn't be my little girl,

2430
02:22:11.799 --> 02:22:14.719
could you? Where is your papa?

2431
02:22:15.600 --> 02:22:21.120
Papa's gone gone away for a long time. He died

2432
02:22:21.159 --> 02:22:21.639
in the war.

2433
02:22:23.000 --> 02:22:27.719
I'm sorry, Bernice. Would you give me something to eat?

2434
02:22:27.920 --> 02:22:29.840
No, I won't go to the market if you want

2435
02:22:29.920 --> 02:22:36.200
something to eat. They have food there, Bernise, Oh, bernus down, Yes, mamma.

2436
02:22:36.920 --> 02:22:39.200
Was there some one at the door, A nasty man

2437
02:22:39.280 --> 02:22:40.399
who said he was a soldier.

2438
02:22:40.920 --> 02:22:41.600
A soldier.

2439
02:22:42.040 --> 02:22:44.600
He didn't look like a soldier to me. He was

2440
02:22:44.680 --> 02:22:46.399
all dressed in awful old clothes.

2441
02:22:46.600 --> 02:22:47.360
What did he want?

2442
02:22:47.639 --> 02:22:50.239
He wanted something to eat. I sent him to the market.

2443
02:22:50.319 --> 02:22:52.319
They are food there, Oh, Bunis.

2444
02:22:53.120 --> 02:22:57.000
You shouldn't have done that. Oh well, it doesn't matter.

2445
02:22:57.600 --> 02:23:04.360
He will find something, Deniece. Is that the man going

2446
02:23:04.399 --> 02:23:05.440
off down the street there?

2447
02:23:05.879 --> 02:23:07.520
Yes, he's.

2448
02:23:09.760 --> 02:23:11.079
There's something about him.

2449
02:23:12.079 --> 02:23:12.520
He's back.

2450
02:23:12.639 --> 02:23:15.159
Perhaps that looks like your father.

2451
02:23:16.920 --> 02:23:21.879
That's impossible, andres did we had the report from the

2452
02:23:21.959 --> 02:23:22.719
general himself.

2453
02:23:23.120 --> 02:23:25.799
Papa was a hero. You said so mamma.

2454
02:23:26.159 --> 02:23:30.319
Yes, but sometimes, darling, I wish we hadn't moved from

2455
02:23:30.360 --> 02:23:35.719
Paris quite so quickly after we heard Perhaps sometimes I

2456
02:23:35.799 --> 02:23:40.040
think there might be a chance that he'd come back. Ah,

2457
02:23:40.159 --> 02:23:43.000
but these aren't things for you to worry about, Darling.

2458
02:23:43.040 --> 02:23:44.680
I want you to run down to market and buy

2459
02:23:44.719 --> 02:23:45.840
a loaf of bread for lunch.

2460
02:23:46.200 --> 02:23:46.760
We'll need it.

2461
02:23:47.319 --> 02:23:48.840
Here's the money, and do.

2462
02:23:48.959 --> 02:23:49.760
Be careful, darling.

2463
02:23:49.959 --> 02:24:01.520
Yes, m I'll be right down, monsieur monsieur beaker, ma'am bread.

2464
02:24:01.639 --> 02:24:02.239
She likes him?

2465
02:24:02.639 --> 02:24:06.600
Why, Bernice Jermaine, I thought your mamma was going away

2466
02:24:06.639 --> 02:24:08.120
to visit in leo Is.

2467
02:24:09.000 --> 02:24:10.000
She hasn't left yet.

2468
02:24:10.159 --> 02:24:10.520
How long?

2469
02:24:11.600 --> 02:24:16.399
But did I hear you call this child Bernice Jernayne? Yes,

2470
02:24:16.600 --> 02:24:20.239
that is her name for nice Janaine. Then it is you.

2471
02:24:20.239 --> 02:24:21.959
You are, my little girl?

2472
02:24:22.040 --> 02:24:23.239
Oh way, I don't know you.

2473
02:24:23.520 --> 02:24:25.399
You shall leave the child alone. Can't you see that

2474
02:24:25.440 --> 02:24:26.079
you're frightening her?

2475
02:24:26.319 --> 02:24:28.959
She is? She is my own away. I don't know.

2476
02:24:29.399 --> 02:24:32.600
I don't like him, away, my child?

2477
02:24:32.840 --> 02:24:34.239
Why would you not recognize me?

2478
02:24:34.479 --> 02:24:36.719
Away? Why won't you go away?

2479
02:24:36.840 --> 02:24:37.559
The child is right?

2480
02:24:37.639 --> 02:24:39.639
Get out now, get out, leave her alone.

2481
02:24:41.079 --> 02:24:41.479
Very well.

2482
02:24:42.680 --> 02:24:49.760
I'll go goodbye, little one, Thank Heaven.

2483
02:24:49.840 --> 02:24:50.319
He's gone.

2484
02:24:50.840 --> 02:24:54.120
Men like that are no good good riddings. I will

2485
02:24:54.159 --> 02:24:56.159
get the bread that your mother likes. I will have

2486
02:24:56.239 --> 02:24:57.879
to get it from the oven in the back room.

2487
02:25:00.399 --> 02:25:01.639
Pernie, go away.

2488
02:25:02.040 --> 02:25:03.319
Did you hear what the baker said?

2489
02:25:03.440 --> 02:25:04.600
But he is wrong?

2490
02:25:05.200 --> 02:25:06.040
I am monsieur.

2491
02:25:06.520 --> 02:25:08.760
Why would you not go? I tried to help you

2492
02:25:08.799 --> 02:25:09.040
when I.

2493
02:25:09.000 --> 02:25:12.479
Struggle so a minute ago you tried to help me.

2494
02:25:13.360 --> 02:25:15.159
I saw you steal that loaf of bread when I

2495
02:25:15.280 --> 02:25:18.280
came into the shop. My mother said that I should

2496
02:25:18.280 --> 02:25:20.840
have helped you before I made a fuss.

2497
02:25:20.879 --> 02:25:25.399
You could get away my own daughter helping her father

2498
02:25:25.520 --> 02:25:29.600
to steal. Then you do recognize your father. My father

2499
02:25:29.719 --> 02:25:34.719
is dead, but your father is not dead. Child. Look here, venice,

2500
02:25:35.000 --> 02:25:36.959
Here on my sword, my name is engraved there.

2501
02:25:40.399 --> 02:25:46.319
You kill d o way, oh way, don't hurt me.

2502
02:25:48.799 --> 02:25:54.719
Oh you're the hell mother, monsieur, your.

2503
02:25:56.760 --> 02:26:03.120
Lord, sir, monsieur, Hey, hey, hey, what is it?

2504
02:26:04.200 --> 02:26:04.920
What goes on here?

2505
02:26:04.959 --> 02:26:06.840
What did happened? Let me go? Let me go. I've

2506
02:26:06.920 --> 02:26:09.360
done nothing to kill me. You can't ask me with

2507
02:26:09.440 --> 02:26:13.719
that thord he hold there he got What did you

2508
02:26:13.799 --> 02:26:17.000
do nothing? Look at the sword you will find your answer.

2509
02:26:17.079 --> 02:26:19.280
The truth is they are engraved on the blade.

2510
02:26:19.319 --> 02:26:21.360
Truth, get me the thot maker.

2511
02:26:21.440 --> 02:26:25.520
Let me have a look at you here this h now,

2512
02:26:25.719 --> 02:26:28.479
let me see just tell me you tell me so?

2513
02:26:28.639 --> 02:26:29.959
He's done it by my father.

2514
02:26:30.079 --> 02:26:33.479
Andrage, your main officer in the army of Napoleon.

2515
02:26:34.399 --> 02:26:34.559
Uh.

2516
02:26:35.120 --> 02:26:37.200
Where did you come by this, monsieur telling?

2517
02:26:37.360 --> 02:26:37.959
You tell me so?

2518
02:26:38.200 --> 02:26:40.600
Hungry Francois hear my friend?

2519
02:26:40.840 --> 02:26:41.239
Come here?

2520
02:26:41.520 --> 02:26:42.120
What's going on?

2521
02:26:42.920 --> 02:26:45.040
There are all these people here, this Chandra. Tell them

2522
02:26:45.079 --> 02:26:47.520
who I am, Francois I Heaven's sake, tell them who

2523
02:26:47.559 --> 02:26:50.799
I am? Asked a minute, who are you? I was

2524
02:26:50.920 --> 02:26:52.920
waiting in the fields for my friend to come back.

2525
02:26:53.000 --> 02:26:57.360
We're we're on our way to Paris, waiting in the field. Murderer,

2526
02:26:57.600 --> 02:27:01.000
Steve's that's what you are, roaming your out of the countryside,

2527
02:27:01.120 --> 02:27:02.600
blundering small villagers.

2528
02:27:03.319 --> 02:27:04.479
Come with me? Have you.

2529
02:27:06.000 --> 02:27:08.120
Hold office? In just a moment. That voice, that's the

2530
02:27:08.200 --> 02:27:11.040
voice of my wife from Lorraine. Oh you are mad

2531
02:27:11.239 --> 02:27:14.079
come along and it is my darling.

2532
02:27:14.159 --> 02:27:14.920
What has happened?

2533
02:27:15.040 --> 02:27:15.600
And then.

2534
02:27:17.399 --> 02:27:22.719
With his daughter, he says, Madame, that he is your husband. Lorraine.

2535
02:27:23.280 --> 02:27:26.000
Don't you know me? Don't you know me?

2536
02:27:26.079 --> 02:27:26.520
Lorraine?

2537
02:27:28.319 --> 02:27:34.040
But my Andre these few years changed me so much Loraene, No.

2538
02:27:35.879 --> 02:27:41.959
No, you are not my husband. My Andre died. My

2539
02:27:42.159 --> 02:27:43.799
Andre died years ago.

2540
02:28:26.239 --> 02:28:32.760
My Andre died, My Andre died years ago. I heard

2541
02:28:32.840 --> 02:28:35.600
those words from the lips of my own life, and

2542
02:28:35.719 --> 02:28:39.040
I knew in that moment, as I now know, that

2543
02:28:39.159 --> 02:28:43.120
it was the working of the curse. They have set

2544
02:28:43.159 --> 02:28:46.680
four o'clock today is the hour of my end, for

2545
02:28:46.799 --> 02:28:48.879
that is the hour when the rabble can feed their

2546
02:28:48.959 --> 02:28:53.360
curiosity upon the spectacle. And I can only cling to

2547
02:28:53.479 --> 02:28:56.760
the shred of hope that the child or her mother

2548
02:28:57.000 --> 02:29:02.040
will come, will accept me as their own. Now it

2549
02:29:02.120 --> 02:29:05.840
will not happen. I thought for a moment at the

2550
02:29:05.959 --> 02:29:08.440
trial that the curse was broken.

2551
02:29:13.879 --> 02:29:15.200
That man was at our door.

2552
02:29:15.879 --> 02:29:19.079
He threatened my child. Then, from what she says, later,

2553
02:29:19.200 --> 02:29:21.319
when I came looking for at the market, I found

2554
02:29:21.360 --> 02:29:22.840
the scene I told you about.

2555
02:29:25.799 --> 02:29:29.159
All, Madame. Thank you re East Domaine. Please take the

2556
02:29:29.239 --> 02:29:35.319
sund and East Jermaine. I remember a child that all

2557
02:29:35.440 --> 02:29:37.879
you say must be the truth. Tell us what happened

2558
02:29:37.920 --> 02:29:39.479
on that day in the market when you met this

2559
02:29:39.600 --> 02:29:41.879
man there, he tried to kill me with his sword.

2560
02:29:47.399 --> 02:29:49.319
Why did he do this, Beernise?

2561
02:29:49.680 --> 02:29:52.600
He said he was my father, But my father is dead.

2562
02:29:53.520 --> 02:29:56.440
I know because Mamma said so. And he wanted to

2563
02:29:56.479 --> 02:29:58.799
show me his sword, he said. Then he swung it

2564
02:29:58.879 --> 02:30:00.280
at me, and.

2565
02:30:03.840 --> 02:30:04.920
Is this theese?

2566
02:30:05.399 --> 02:30:05.600
Yes?

2567
02:30:05.879 --> 02:30:07.159
Did he take it out of its sheath?

2568
02:30:07.479 --> 02:30:07.639
Oh?

2569
02:30:07.760 --> 02:30:10.600
Yes, he said it had writing on it, but I

2570
02:30:10.719 --> 02:30:14.079
can't read, monsieur, so I don't know that is this?

2571
02:30:14.840 --> 02:30:18.799
Is this the writing he showed you Benese Andre Germain,

2572
02:30:19.000 --> 02:30:20.639
officer in the army of Napoleon.

2573
02:30:21.120 --> 02:30:22.600
And then then he.

2574
02:30:22.639 --> 02:30:23.239
Swung it at me.

2575
02:30:23.319 --> 02:30:25.639
Monsieur, I screamed, and he came after me.

2576
02:30:28.200 --> 02:30:32.200
My own child sat there and accused me. But it

2577
02:30:32.360 --> 02:30:35.239
was not that which held my attention. It was the

2578
02:30:35.399 --> 02:30:38.559
look in the eyes of Lorraine, my wife. For a

2579
02:30:38.680 --> 02:30:42.959
moment it seemed that she recognized me. Then as the

2580
02:30:43.040 --> 02:30:47.559
attorney reached the final words of his charge, she looked

2581
02:30:47.559 --> 02:30:50.600
at me again. It's a stranger. It is my crimen

2582
02:30:50.920 --> 02:30:51.360
to find.

2583
02:30:51.440 --> 02:30:54.319
Andre Jermaine gives me not only of attempting to murder

2584
02:30:54.399 --> 02:30:57.079
this child, but the murder of a fellow officer on

2585
02:30:57.159 --> 02:31:02.040
the field of battle. His companion runs fall Dia. You

2586
02:31:02.159 --> 02:31:04.760
must find kill they of aiding in the attempted christ.

2587
02:31:06.520 --> 02:31:10.079
Monsieur, Yes, I don't know.

2588
02:31:10.200 --> 02:31:13.360
Why you call me by my first name, monsieur. But

2589
02:31:14.200 --> 02:31:16.600
I did not wish to have you so seriously charged

2590
02:31:17.719 --> 02:31:22.159
your punishment for attempting to kill my child. Yes, I

2591
02:31:22.280 --> 02:31:28.840
wanted that, But the other charge no, for I know,

2592
02:31:29.559 --> 02:31:32.120
I know well that my Andre died honorably on the

2593
02:31:32.200 --> 02:31:33.040
field of battle.

2594
02:31:33.120 --> 02:31:37.479
But the rain I am Andre. Don't you recognize me?

2595
02:31:37.520 --> 02:31:38.200
Don't you know me?

2596
02:31:38.680 --> 02:31:40.879
I will do everything I can to have you acquitted

2597
02:31:40.920 --> 02:31:45.920
of the charge of his murder, monsieur, But Andre is dead.

2598
02:31:50.799 --> 02:31:55.639
My cell was like a stone coffin my bed, only

2599
02:31:55.719 --> 02:31:59.600
a palet of damp straw in the room. I could

2600
02:31:59.639 --> 02:32:03.760
feel spirit of those who had gone before me. I

2601
02:32:03.920 --> 02:32:07.479
was separated from Francois by a thick wall, but there

2602
02:32:07.559 --> 02:32:10.440
was a small opening through which we could talk, and

2603
02:32:10.559 --> 02:32:12.799
so he could hear me that first time when the

2604
02:32:12.879 --> 02:32:20.159
processions appeared before my eyes. Francois, Francois, what is it? Andrea?

2605
02:32:20.280 --> 02:32:20.639
What is it?

2606
02:32:21.200 --> 02:32:25.319
These walls they're covered with names. Here is about two

2607
02:32:26.159 --> 02:32:30.559
eighteen fifteen, def whol eighteen eighteen, he killed his father,

2608
02:32:30.799 --> 02:32:35.239
Jean Martei eighteen twenty one, poisonous, And I am among

2609
02:32:35.399 --> 02:32:40.040
these thieves and murderers. Everyone who has been here in

2610
02:32:40.079 --> 02:32:42.440
this cell, they have come to welcome me.

2611
02:32:42.600 --> 02:32:45.559
Andre, Andre, stopman become letting.

2612
02:32:45.559 --> 02:32:47.520
Your imagination went away with you. But they were here,

2613
02:32:47.639 --> 02:32:51.879
Francois saw them in vague shapes, but they passed by me.

2614
02:32:52.200 --> 02:32:54.360
They came to welcome me, Francois. They know that I

2615
02:32:54.440 --> 02:32:56.600
am condemned. They accept me as one of them. But

2616
02:32:56.719 --> 02:32:59.559
you have done nothing, Andrea, remember that you have done nothing.

2617
02:33:00.280 --> 02:33:06.479
The pardon will come. It will come, But I know better.

2618
02:33:08.399 --> 02:33:12.040
I have waited this long time for a pardon. On

2619
02:33:12.159 --> 02:33:16.120
the machinery of state rolls slowly onward. The little document

2620
02:33:16.159 --> 02:33:18.520
that is my request for a pardon is tossed from

2621
02:33:18.879 --> 02:33:21.680
one place to another, and no one will pay it

2622
02:33:21.680 --> 02:33:25.600
any heed. That is the way of the state and

2623
02:33:25.959 --> 02:33:29.440
the way of the curse. Is that an hour left,

2624
02:33:30.319 --> 02:33:33.760
and after that I fear that another figure will join

2625
02:33:33.840 --> 02:33:40.479
that procession of shapes which comes across myself. And yes,

2626
02:33:41.600 --> 02:33:44.040
is there anything you wish in this last hour?

2627
02:33:44.559 --> 02:33:44.600
No?

2628
02:33:44.799 --> 02:33:45.079
Nothing.

2629
02:33:45.799 --> 02:33:55.000
Men stand forward here, open your collar. M Madame Guillotine

2630
02:33:55.079 --> 02:34:00.040
will need some help. Eh, now you are ready. He

2631
02:34:00.120 --> 02:34:02.319
still be in sharply to talk with you. I'm not

2632
02:34:02.399 --> 02:34:04.680
to bother. I have nothing to say that is for

2633
02:34:04.799 --> 02:34:08.399
your own soul to say Andrejami, if you want to

2634
02:34:08.440 --> 02:34:10.520
take that last walk alone.

2635
02:34:11.159 --> 02:34:17.719
Yours is the choice. And yes, why did you do that?

2636
02:34:18.399 --> 02:34:24.040
Refuse to see the priest. Perhaps, Francois, Perhaps I still

2637
02:34:24.239 --> 02:34:26.879
have more hope than even you have for my release.

2638
02:34:28.159 --> 02:34:31.319
Even now, after the crowd of blood hungry watches have

2639
02:34:31.399 --> 02:34:35.000
started to gather them in the courtyard, I still have hope.

2640
02:34:35.600 --> 02:34:41.399
The child will come. Yes, Andre, she will come. What's

2641
02:34:41.440 --> 02:34:43.600
happening out there, Francois, I can't see. The window is

2642
02:34:43.639 --> 02:34:46.559
too high. Road is shouting in a group of fives.

2643
02:34:47.879 --> 02:34:52.280
Just drink, Francois, I'll shout when I go up those steps.

2644
02:34:58.840 --> 02:34:59.760
I don't want to come here.

2645
02:35:00.440 --> 02:35:00.840
You must.

2646
02:35:01.360 --> 02:35:05.760
You must go quickly, Nnice, quickly, Pnie, Loren they've come.

2647
02:35:07.760 --> 02:35:11.239
If so is here, Madame, you may not stay long.

2648
02:35:11.920 --> 02:35:15.239
I don't want to Memmo, go quickly, Bernice, go up

2649
02:35:15.280 --> 02:35:15.760
to the bars.

2650
02:35:16.440 --> 02:35:23.840
Here, come along, Pernice, my child, Memma, yes, he looks

2651
02:35:23.879 --> 02:35:30.559
so different. It is dark in here, Lorene, Bernice, my

2652
02:35:30.840 --> 02:35:41.200
child says something the child thought, Monsieur. Bernice says something, Pernice, Lorraine, No.

2653
02:35:41.360 --> 02:35:48.920
Memo, The child thought, Monsieur that perhaps she had been mistaken.

2654
02:35:50.000 --> 02:35:51.719
You, Loreen, you must know me.

2655
02:35:52.559 --> 02:35:53.239
No monsieur.

2656
02:35:54.440 --> 02:35:58.840
Neither nice nor I was wrong. My husband died on

2657
02:35:58.920 --> 02:36:03.159
the battlefields. Yeah, my Andre is mourned as a hero

2658
02:36:03.360 --> 02:36:10.440
of France. No, monsieur, you couldn't possibly be that man.

2659
02:36:18.600 --> 02:36:24.959
No, indeed, I am condemned. She knew me, but she

2660
02:36:25.200 --> 02:36:28.079
would not recognize me. But you are not guilty, Andre,

2661
02:36:28.799 --> 02:36:34.520
remember that. But they they do not believe that. Francois.

2662
02:36:35.040 --> 02:36:38.840
What is it, Andrea? They are coming again. They're coming back.

2663
02:36:38.879 --> 02:36:40.840
Oh no, no, they've gone, Andrea. They won't be back.

2664
02:36:40.920 --> 02:36:44.200
It's hopeless, and they will never go. They know that

2665
02:36:44.319 --> 02:36:49.159
I'll be with him, Andrea. The ghosts they condemned dead.

2666
02:36:50.159 --> 02:36:55.520
They are coming for me. Now, who look, Francois by here,

2667
02:36:56.680 --> 02:37:04.920
doctor poor Jean Martain Gasta one hundred dollars. They are

2668
02:37:05.040 --> 02:37:10.920
coming for me. Look look, Francois. They are here, all

2669
02:37:11.000 --> 02:37:16.239
of them. They carry their heads. The mouths are smiling.

2670
02:37:17.479 --> 02:37:21.799
The mouths are smiling at me. They are beckoning. They

2671
02:37:21.959 --> 02:37:27.879
want me me, Francois, Andre star star passing by me, Francois,

2672
02:37:28.799 --> 02:37:34.239
But each one beckons as he goes. Then then they

2673
02:37:34.360 --> 02:37:42.280
wait when they are passed. Look back, Francois. They are waiting.

2674
02:37:43.959 --> 02:37:49.440
It is another figure that they're waiting for Francois. Look

2675
02:37:51.040 --> 02:37:58.200
look he's coming now manewhi hah, it is me, Francois.

2676
02:37:59.319 --> 02:38:02.680
It is my figure coming, coming to join the others.

2677
02:38:04.280 --> 02:38:07.639
It's time now, Andres I mean, yes.

2678
02:38:09.200 --> 02:38:17.600
It's time. Now, it's time. I'm with them already. We

2679
02:38:17.760 --> 02:38:35.319
need to quit no longer. The kiss is finished. From

2680
02:38:35.440 --> 02:38:38.200
the time one pages of the past, we have brought

2681
02:38:38.280 --> 02:38:43.479
you the story the last day of a condemned man,

2682
02:38:45.000 --> 02:38:47.920
Bell Gaper all about.

2683
02:39:10.639 --> 02:39:15.280
Well, I'm feeling a little better now. It is getting

2684
02:39:15.440 --> 02:39:19.600
very late, and that's kind of my thing, I suppose.

2685
02:39:20.559 --> 02:39:26.760
Or what's that? Well, thank you, I'm sure it'll all

2686
02:39:27.040 --> 02:39:32.559
be fine. Don't you worry. You worry too much. Leave

2687
02:39:32.719 --> 02:39:38.479
that to me. Just relax. One more bit of good fun.

2688
02:39:41.479 --> 02:39:49.479
Something scary and merry goes together, like peanut butter and jelly.

2689
02:39:50.479 --> 02:39:54.760
Or The Pit and the Pendulum.

2690
02:40:08.239 --> 02:40:09.000
Suspense.

2691
02:40:28.159 --> 02:40:32.280
This is your narrator, a man in black again, about

2692
02:40:32.319 --> 02:40:38.680
to introduce to night's Columbia program suspense. The story is

2693
02:40:38.760 --> 02:40:42.040
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poele, the

2694
02:40:42.120 --> 02:40:46.920
adaptation by John Dixon Carr. Our guest is the distinguished

2695
02:40:46.920 --> 02:40:50.600
American actor mister Henry Hull, who plays the part of.

2696
02:40:50.600 --> 02:40:52.520
A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition.

2697
02:40:53.799 --> 02:40:56.600
If you've been with us on these Tuesday nights, you

2698
02:40:56.639 --> 02:41:01.079
will know that suspense is compounded of mystery, suspicion, and

2699
02:41:01.239 --> 02:41:05.799
dangerous avenger to hold you in a vicarious situation and

2700
02:41:05.920 --> 02:41:10.479
withhold the solution until the last possible moment. And so

2701
02:41:10.719 --> 02:41:13.440
it is with the Pit and the Pendulum and mister

2702
02:41:13.520 --> 02:41:16.840
Hull's performance, we again hope to keep you in.

2703
02:41:18.559 --> 02:41:24.000
Suspense. And now the Pit and the Pendulum.

2704
02:41:38.799 --> 02:41:45.120
I was sick, sick unto death with that long agony.

2705
02:41:46.120 --> 02:41:48.760
And when at lengthy unbound me and I was permitted

2706
02:41:48.799 --> 02:41:51.840
to sit, I felt that my senses were leading me.

2707
02:41:52.799 --> 02:41:58.040
The sound of the inquisittorial voices seemed merged in one dreamy.

2708
02:41:58.040 --> 02:42:03.280
Indeterminate hum. Yet for a while I saw how terrible

2709
02:42:03.280 --> 02:42:05.440
an exaggeration. I saw the.

2710
02:42:05.600 --> 02:42:09.840
Soft and nearly imperceptible waving of the sabled drape breeze

2711
02:42:09.879 --> 02:42:12.920
on the walls of the room. I saw the flames

2712
02:42:13.000 --> 02:42:15.879
of the seven tall candles which burned on the tables.

2713
02:42:16.479 --> 02:42:20.319
I saw the lips of the black hooded judges, and

2714
02:42:20.440 --> 02:42:21.479
these lips appeared to.

2715
02:42:21.559 --> 02:42:27.600
Me wite as paper, white, as horror. I saw them

2716
02:42:28.280 --> 02:42:31.760
rise with a deadly locution. I saw them fashion the

2717
02:42:31.840 --> 02:42:41.280
syllables of my name. Yeah, Delibray, captain Joor.

2718
02:42:41.319 --> 02:42:47.000
Delbray, good father, gentlemen. Ye, my son, I am very

2719
02:42:47.079 --> 02:42:50.280
weak and infirm. I've been confined for many months in

2720
02:42:50.360 --> 02:42:52.920
a dungeon. I've been tormented.

2721
02:42:52.520 --> 02:42:58.079
By nightmare, conscious one puss pray silence around Tonio. Even

2722
02:42:59.000 --> 02:43:01.319
even now, I I have a knowledge of where I

2723
02:43:01.399 --> 02:43:02.840
am or the human that is speaking.

2724
02:43:03.079 --> 02:43:04.920
You are speaking to me, my son.

2725
02:43:05.040 --> 02:43:10.000
I am Propella, Prior of the Dominicans of Segovia and

2726
02:43:10.239 --> 02:43:12.239
Grant Inquisitor of Spain.

2727
02:43:12.639 --> 02:43:16.840
This is this is the court of the inquisition. He oh,

2728
02:43:17.319 --> 02:43:18.319
then God help me.

2729
02:43:18.639 --> 02:43:21.559
He will help you, my son, if you trust him.

2730
02:43:22.000 --> 02:43:24.760
I am a French officer, and it's true a story

2731
02:43:24.959 --> 02:43:28.680
in creature of the art being but a French officer.

2732
02:43:28.440 --> 02:43:31.520
Nonetheless a prisoner of war. But what might you find me.

2733
02:43:31.559 --> 02:43:32.159
In this court?

2734
02:43:32.360 --> 02:43:36.399
Let the clerk read the charges against this prisoner. Gray silence.

2735
02:43:36.479 --> 02:43:38.159
When the clerk reached the church.

2736
02:43:38.000 --> 02:43:40.399
And charges against the prisoner arts fallows in.

2737
02:43:40.520 --> 02:43:44.559
Primis Jean Dalbray, a captain artillery in the Army of Bonapart,

2738
02:43:44.639 --> 02:43:45.559
so called emperor of.

2739
02:43:45.559 --> 02:43:48.520
The prentice means my thing is the prisoner says, it

2740
02:43:48.639 --> 02:43:49.399
is no crime.

2741
02:43:49.760 --> 02:43:50.719
Proceed it.

2742
02:43:50.879 --> 02:43:52.520
Don't get on the bath day of September in the

2743
02:43:52.600 --> 02:43:55.600
year of our eighteen eight, said Jean Dalbray, and went

2744
02:43:55.680 --> 02:43:58.520
as person married the most noble lady Adonia Bite as well.

2745
02:43:58.559 --> 02:44:04.440
There needs some water the moment you are, excellency both Antonio.

2746
02:44:04.719 --> 02:44:08.280
Was any cheat employed to trap this girl into marriage

2747
02:44:08.319 --> 02:44:09.120
against a will?

2748
02:44:10.239 --> 02:44:13.399
No, we have no actual evidence of any cheat.

2749
02:44:13.680 --> 02:44:14.680
Was the girl of age?

2750
02:44:15.120 --> 02:44:20.360
I believe, so wherever is the prisoner here this marriage

2751
02:44:20.479 --> 02:44:21.719
was a deplorable thing.

2752
02:44:21.799 --> 02:44:22.319
If you like.

2753
02:44:22.440 --> 02:44:25.719
Bonaparte himself is almost the gates of my grid. His

2754
02:44:26.000 --> 02:44:30.040
general Lesile Menic is our city of Toledo itself. But

2755
02:44:30.520 --> 02:44:34.200
lawful marriage, however regrettable, is no sin crime.

2756
02:44:34.360 --> 02:44:38.280
There are other matters in the indictment. I think, then continue,

2757
02:44:38.639 --> 02:44:39.520
but give us nothing.

2758
02:44:39.680 --> 02:44:42.920
It is not material item around the prows of October

2759
02:44:42.959 --> 02:44:45.840
eighteen eighth. But Sir rendal Bray, being in command of

2760
02:44:45.879 --> 02:44:48.840
a five gun battery of artillery, they direct the fire

2761
02:44:48.879 --> 02:44:51.360
of his guns against the Holy Church of Saint Martha

2762
02:44:51.440 --> 02:44:56.719
the Kinnerson Watch, and thereby his winning malice destroyed that utterly.

2763
02:44:56.840 --> 02:44:59.760
Captain Dalbray is discharged.

2764
02:45:00.319 --> 02:45:01.319
It is admitted.

2765
02:45:01.719 --> 02:45:03.719
Good Father, here what I have to say. When church

2766
02:45:03.840 --> 02:45:06.360
blew up? I think, would you boast of be your opinion?

2767
02:45:06.479 --> 02:45:06.600
Man?

2768
02:45:06.719 --> 02:45:07.239
That blew up?

2769
02:45:07.280 --> 02:45:10.680
Because it was stored with kegs of gunpowder for your army.

2770
02:45:10.840 --> 02:45:12.360
I had a right to file on it.

2771
02:45:12.520 --> 02:45:15.040
And that is all the defense you have to make.

2772
02:45:15.159 --> 02:45:17.200
I tell you I had every right to file on

2773
02:45:17.319 --> 02:45:18.559
it by military law.

2774
02:45:18.719 --> 02:45:22.200
There was military law above God's law.

2775
02:45:24.440 --> 02:45:24.920
I don't know.

2776
02:45:25.959 --> 02:45:29.440
I did my duty, that's all. Long live the Emperor,

2777
02:45:29.799 --> 02:45:33.000
Captain mark what I say.

2778
02:45:34.159 --> 02:45:37.879
No man, however great is heresy, is ever condemned to

2779
02:45:37.959 --> 02:45:39.239
be burnt in the fire.

2780
02:45:39.559 --> 02:45:40.840
Fire fire.

2781
02:45:41.719 --> 02:45:44.959
The first we cant and acknowledge the error of his ways.

2782
02:45:45.719 --> 02:45:48.600
But for you, Jean d'arbray, there can be no mercy,

2783
02:45:49.280 --> 02:45:53.559
no pity, nor tonement. The only sentence of this court

2784
02:45:53.799 --> 02:45:54.200
can be.

2785
02:45:56.159 --> 02:45:59.719
Yes. The secular a government after.

2786
02:45:59.479 --> 02:46:03.399
Which we must release you, has devised two ways of punishment.

2787
02:46:03.520 --> 02:46:07.159
In case it's such as yours. You hear the tolling

2788
02:46:07.239 --> 02:46:08.840
of the bell, I hear them.

2789
02:46:09.600 --> 02:46:12.879
It is the possession of the contempt going to the

2790
02:46:12.959 --> 02:46:13.799
auto da face.

2791
02:46:13.959 --> 02:46:16.639
Soon the yellow light of the flames will stream through

2792
02:46:16.639 --> 02:46:19.200
the windows and flicker on the floor, and seeing no

2793
02:46:19.559 --> 02:46:25.680
kat or motives into it manderbus domina. Most of those

2794
02:46:25.840 --> 02:46:30.319
condemned out of mercy will be stangled before they apparned.

2795
02:46:31.399 --> 02:46:33.879
It cannot be so with you, Jean Delbray.

2796
02:46:34.600 --> 02:46:38.159
You must die in one of two ways, either with

2797
02:46:38.319 --> 02:46:42.600
the direst a physical agony, a slow fire and green

2798
02:46:42.760 --> 02:46:46.120
wood iced bandages above the head and the heart, so

2799
02:46:46.319 --> 02:46:48.799
that the fire does not approach too quickly.

2800
02:46:49.280 --> 02:46:53.959
Or else, Jean Delbray, you must die in a certain

2801
02:46:54.079 --> 02:46:54.639
other way.

2802
02:46:56.360 --> 02:47:00.639
Pass your sentence and let me go. My Lord does

2803
02:47:00.719 --> 02:47:03.799
not permit me to tell you now what this other way.

2804
02:47:05.000 --> 02:47:07.120
The sentence of discord.

2805
02:47:07.520 --> 02:47:14.040
Therefore I had swooned.

2806
02:47:15.040 --> 02:47:17.920
Yet still I would not say that all of consciousness

2807
02:47:18.079 --> 02:47:21.719
was lost in the deepest slumber. No in delirium, no

2808
02:47:22.079 --> 02:47:28.239
in a swoon, No in death, Oh, even in the grave, all.

2809
02:47:28.319 --> 02:47:29.000
Is not lost.

2810
02:47:29.600 --> 02:47:34.280
There are shadows of memory which tell us indistinctly of tall.

2811
02:47:34.159 --> 02:47:40.280
Figures that lifted me and bore me in silence, down, down, still.

2812
02:47:40.520 --> 02:47:44.639
Down, until the hideous dizziness oppressed me at that descent

2813
02:47:45.399 --> 02:47:51.079
into the earth, And as consciousness swam.

2814
02:47:51.239 --> 02:47:59.280
Back to my wits darkness, the stone floor and darkness.

2815
02:48:00.600 --> 02:48:06.280
Oh beddress, my wife, Bedress. Did you.

2816
02:48:08.840 --> 02:48:09.639
Was that you was born?

2817
02:48:09.719 --> 02:48:12.920
Yes, you were here in the dungeons of the Inquisition.

2818
02:48:13.120 --> 02:48:16.040
I am not really speaking through you, my poor gen.

2819
02:48:16.840 --> 02:48:18.440
I am only in your imagination.

2820
02:48:18.639 --> 02:48:19.159
I'm mad.

2821
02:48:19.639 --> 02:48:23.840
No, but your brain is fevered. You only think you hear.

2822
02:48:23.840 --> 02:48:24.760
No, No, no, I do.

2823
02:48:25.000 --> 02:48:27.719
I do hear you clearly, as clearly as I once heard.

2824
02:48:27.799 --> 02:48:30.239
Give the little church near the april where we were there.

2825
02:48:30.440 --> 02:48:33.120
Yes, yes, yes, I just tried that church, Beatrice. I

2826
02:48:33.239 --> 02:48:35.200
had to. It was my commanding officers order.

2827
02:48:37.159 --> 02:48:37.920
Be comforted.

2828
02:48:38.840 --> 02:48:40.000
There are those who can do.

2829
02:48:40.040 --> 02:48:40.760
You won't leave me.

2830
02:48:40.879 --> 02:48:43.639
As long as I am in your heart, I shall

2831
02:48:43.680 --> 02:48:43.959
be you.

2832
02:48:44.440 --> 02:48:49.159
I was strong once. No, no I am, But once

2833
02:48:49.239 --> 02:48:54.079
I was reckless. Now I am afraid? Am I beardriss?

2834
02:48:54.399 --> 02:48:55.399
What are you going to do to me?

2835
02:48:55.559 --> 02:48:59.479
I cannot tell. Remember, my voice comes only from your

2836
02:48:59.520 --> 02:49:02.040
own brain. Are you fetted?

2837
02:49:02.239 --> 02:49:02.639
Fettered?

2838
02:49:04.760 --> 02:49:07.159
No, They've not chained you to the wall.

2839
02:49:07.479 --> 02:49:10.600
No. No, They've taken away in my uniform. They've given

2840
02:49:10.639 --> 02:49:14.559
me sandals in the robe of what feels like coarse search.

2841
02:49:14.760 --> 02:49:21.000
But I am still free, free, take courage, free and

2842
02:49:21.280 --> 02:49:24.079
in the glass of the inquisition.

2843
02:49:25.840 --> 02:49:30.840
Yes, it's completely dark, there's hardly any air. I bed

2844
02:49:30.920 --> 02:49:33.440
to get up, I read to stretch out my hand.

2845
02:49:33.840 --> 02:49:36.879
Supposed suppose they've buried me alive.

2846
02:49:38.479 --> 02:49:41.799
Courage, can you stand up?

2847
02:49:43.440 --> 02:49:44.000
I think so.

2848
02:49:44.239 --> 02:49:44.399
Yes.

2849
02:49:44.680 --> 02:49:48.280
Then walk, walk as far as you can, measure the

2850
02:49:48.360 --> 02:49:51.000
limit of the cell. If this is not a tool,

2851
02:49:51.079 --> 02:49:55.040
you're like Beatrice that always are you on your feet?

2852
02:49:55.159 --> 02:49:55.319
Yes?

2853
02:49:55.520 --> 02:50:00.920
Now now pray, pray for a poor devil, always meant well.

2854
02:50:02.159 --> 02:50:06.360
One piece, two, pace free four.

2855
02:50:06.719 --> 02:50:07.879
You are very weak.

2856
02:50:08.040 --> 02:50:10.200
Shun rest of moments?

2857
02:50:10.280 --> 02:50:12.360
Where are now appear Chris in the flesh?

2858
02:50:12.520 --> 02:50:13.600
I mean you know that.

2859
02:50:13.760 --> 02:50:17.920
Sharn in the old house, by the olive girl, scorned

2860
02:50:18.000 --> 02:50:21.520
of my peet. Each morning I climb to the hilltop

2861
02:50:21.600 --> 02:50:25.680
and walk. Sometimes I think I hear gun greens grumble

2862
02:50:25.719 --> 02:50:28.799
in the hills, and long moving colors with the red

2863
02:50:29.000 --> 02:50:32.120
dust rising about gor go on. First come the heavy

2864
02:50:32.200 --> 02:50:36.479
cavalry and plume crested elders on their flanks, wheeling like hawks,

2865
02:50:36.600 --> 02:50:39.840
light whose hours in blue and scarlet, and behind them

2866
02:50:40.280 --> 02:50:42.920
in a glitter of bayonets as fast as light points

2867
02:50:42.959 --> 02:50:47.280
on the seas. Rank upon us, the long gray coats

2868
02:50:47.360 --> 02:50:49.399
and the tall their skin cats.

2869
02:50:49.239 --> 02:50:51.879
The old god Hella grand army.

2870
02:50:52.959 --> 02:50:56.600
It is only a vision, my dear ones. They do

2871
02:50:56.799 --> 02:51:02.040
not come, will they ever come? Beatrip?

2872
02:51:02.319 --> 02:51:03.440
I cannot tell.

2873
02:51:03.639 --> 02:51:09.399
Then, and I must face what has been prepared for me.

2874
02:51:10.520 --> 02:51:14.760
Walk again, John, try keep your hand in front of

2875
02:51:14.840 --> 02:51:15.479
your rope.

2876
02:51:15.840 --> 02:51:18.799
Rob impedes me, and the floor is treacherous with slime.

2877
02:51:19.079 --> 02:51:25.239
But I'll try four faces, fry six.

2878
02:51:26.440 --> 02:51:26.799
Seven.

2879
02:51:27.079 --> 02:51:28.200
It can't be a tomb.

2880
02:51:30.719 --> 02:51:38.319
Lookout all right, I tell, I tell them as the

2881
02:51:38.479 --> 02:51:41.639
road row tripped me right.

2882
02:51:42.479 --> 02:51:45.799
My hand is in front of me. It's lower than

2883
02:51:45.840 --> 02:51:46.280
my face.

2884
02:51:46.360 --> 02:51:50.680
But I feel, I feel nothing nothing.

2885
02:51:50.879 --> 02:51:55.319
John's a certain killer, And.

2886
02:51:55.440 --> 02:51:56.559
I tell everybody. Edge of it.

2887
02:51:58.520 --> 02:52:00.159
They would have made you walk into We.

2888
02:52:00.239 --> 02:52:04.159
Cared the loose fragment of rock just inside the edge.

2889
02:52:04.159 --> 02:52:05.559
How if I can just wadge.

2890
02:52:06.200 --> 02:52:20.079
Listen Waters there's something down there?

2891
02:52:20.959 --> 02:52:23.959
Rassi me, rats, Yes, what's something else?

2892
02:52:24.040 --> 02:52:24.959
I heard it?

2893
02:52:25.120 --> 02:52:25.280
Move?

2894
02:52:25.559 --> 02:52:28.120
Did I What is in the picture?

2895
02:52:28.479 --> 02:52:29.399
I don't know what.

2896
02:52:29.600 --> 02:52:38.399
You're saved, saved, saved from the inquisition. My torture has

2897
02:52:38.479 --> 02:52:41.879
been merely postponed.

2898
02:52:57.680 --> 02:52:57.840
Us.

2899
02:52:58.719 --> 02:53:02.600
A deep sleep fell upon me, sleep like that of death.

2900
02:53:03.719 --> 02:53:07.280
How long it lasted I know not. When I opened

2901
02:53:07.360 --> 02:53:10.840
my eyes once again, I could.

2902
02:53:10.840 --> 02:53:17.479
See, yes, see my prison with large and loftiest walls

2903
02:53:17.559 --> 02:53:21.399
formed a massive iron place, bolted adjoined together a wild

2904
02:53:21.559 --> 02:53:24.639
sulfurous luster. I could not face its origin lit up

2905
02:53:24.680 --> 02:53:29.159
the dungeon and the circular pit, and the coogly daubed skeleton.

2906
02:53:29.239 --> 02:53:32.719
Figures painted and evil colors on the iron walls, skeleton

2907
02:53:32.799 --> 02:53:39.120
figures demon figuregoryle figures, the colors a little blurred and

2908
02:53:39.280 --> 02:53:42.879
from the effects of the death. It must approach you

2909
02:53:43.040 --> 02:53:47.479
slowly and force itself into your mind. It must talk

2910
02:53:47.600 --> 02:53:50.959
here like a tire, must bring you face to face

2911
02:53:51.200 --> 02:53:58.520
at last with the King of terrors. When I I

2912
02:53:58.639 --> 02:54:02.639
regained consciousness, I lay on my back and at full

2913
02:54:02.760 --> 02:54:07.079
length on a low framework. Would to this framework, I

2914
02:54:07.200 --> 02:54:13.159
was securely bounded by a long fastening resembling a surgical bandage.

2915
02:54:14.040 --> 02:54:14.440
Bound.

2916
02:54:15.159 --> 02:54:15.959
But why.

2917
02:54:17.280 --> 02:54:21.559
Why why the bandage passed round and round my body,

2918
02:54:22.000 --> 02:54:24.159
leaving a liberty only my head in my left arm.

2919
02:54:24.760 --> 02:54:28.360
With much exertion, I could suptire myself with food from

2920
02:54:28.360 --> 02:54:30.319
an earthen dish on the floor beside me.

2921
02:54:30.920 --> 02:54:36.760
There's meat, highly seasoned, but there was no water.

2922
02:54:40.760 --> 02:54:43.680
Beatrice, Beatrius, Where are you?

2923
02:54:46.399 --> 02:54:46.440
You?

2924
02:54:46.479 --> 02:54:52.239
Always sounds stronger, And I can see you now, I

2925
02:54:52.319 --> 02:54:55.000
can see you as clearly as I saw you months ago.

2926
02:54:55.360 --> 02:54:57.760
I wish it threw your bonnet and the parasol you

2927
02:54:57.840 --> 02:54:58.840
carried in summer, and.

2928
02:54:58.879 --> 02:55:00.399
The high waisted blue dres You are.

2929
02:55:00.399 --> 02:55:04.799
Weaker, my dear, and more fevert Why have I been asleep?

2930
02:55:05.239 --> 02:55:09.760
Yes, they must have been here while I slept. They

2931
02:55:09.840 --> 02:55:10.719
have bound me?

2932
02:55:11.200 --> 02:55:12.760
Why? Why?

2933
02:55:13.959 --> 02:55:14.200
Why?

2934
02:55:15.000 --> 02:55:15.200
Why?

2935
02:55:15.440 --> 02:55:20.840
Stofle's voices stopped my tusure. I am not here, ei,

2936
02:55:21.120 --> 02:55:23.159
Why don't drive me away?

2937
02:55:24.959 --> 02:55:26.799
Let's see Room thirty forty.

2938
02:55:27.159 --> 02:55:27.600
What you see?

2939
02:55:27.920 --> 02:55:30.840
I see painted on the ceiling figure of father time.

2940
02:55:30.920 --> 02:55:35.120
Anything else but father Time carries no sign. He carries

2941
02:55:35.159 --> 02:55:39.360
instead what looks like a gigantic pendulum from an ancient clock.

2942
02:55:39.520 --> 02:55:41.680
About one thing, I swear, I'm in my rec senses.

2943
02:55:41.760 --> 02:55:43.040
I saw that pendulum move.

2944
02:55:43.360 --> 02:55:45.479
Painting cannot move, yet, I swear.

2945
02:55:45.319 --> 02:55:48.760
The pendulum did it swung a little back and thought,

2946
02:55:49.399 --> 02:55:51.639
just like a real pendulum.

2947
02:55:51.799 --> 02:55:56.879
Try not to trouble your brain. Take care, take care

2948
02:55:56.920 --> 02:56:00.399
of what you're not looking at the pendulum. Now from

2949
02:56:00.440 --> 02:56:03.520
the pit, I see them swarming.

2950
02:56:03.200 --> 02:56:04.040
Out in dozens.

2951
02:56:04.360 --> 02:56:06.799
You can see their eyes glitter, one of them ranging

2952
02:56:06.799 --> 02:56:08.200
across the hem of your dress.

2953
02:56:09.159 --> 02:56:11.360
They caught the scent of the meat in the dish.

2954
02:56:11.440 --> 02:56:13.239
Besides, you're not getting car.

2955
02:56:14.399 --> 02:56:15.920
Move your hand above the plate.

2956
02:56:16.040 --> 02:56:18.719
John, where you going?

2957
02:56:20.000 --> 02:56:20.879
I could hardly?

2958
02:56:21.280 --> 02:56:26.360
You are sending me away, sending you away, my poor love,

2959
02:56:26.440 --> 02:56:32.559
you can't Beare to see the rats running about my bed?

2960
02:56:37.719 --> 02:56:45.040
Yes, that's true, their cells swarming with vermin. There are others.

2961
02:56:45.159 --> 02:56:48.239
I had robbers. See here, I had rubbers.

2962
02:56:48.440 --> 02:56:48.840
See you.

2963
02:56:52.840 --> 02:56:58.239
Call me Captain Delbray, and in the spirit I am here.

2964
02:56:58.360 --> 02:56:58.719
Who are you.

2965
02:57:00.200 --> 02:57:06.239
To recognize me? I am the second inquisitor, Bryantonio, whom

2966
02:57:06.280 --> 02:57:10.319
you've got unfair as your trial. But we were not unfair.

2967
02:57:11.440 --> 02:57:13.680
Administer the law, that is all.

2968
02:57:13.840 --> 02:57:18.680
So I command you, oh, not until I have first

2969
02:57:18.799 --> 02:57:20.200
told you what you.

2970
02:57:20.399 --> 02:57:25.079
Already get, which there are two forms of death such

2971
02:57:25.120 --> 02:57:31.120
as you. One death with its direst physical torture. We

2972
02:57:31.239 --> 02:57:35.200
are a death with its direst mental torture.

2973
02:57:35.239 --> 02:57:40.920
And I have been condemned to the second. Your guess

2974
02:57:41.440 --> 02:57:41.840
is good.

2975
02:57:42.920 --> 02:57:44.799
Listen, you're here.

2976
02:57:45.120 --> 02:57:48.680
I think, yes, yes, I do, I hear something.

2977
02:57:49.360 --> 02:57:54.479
Turn your eyes upwards. Look at the ceiling, dum hi.

2978
02:57:54.799 --> 02:57:57.719
The pendulum is descended only a potos.

2979
02:57:58.440 --> 02:58:01.920
Yes, as you know, it is not really a pendulum.

2980
02:58:03.200 --> 02:58:07.399
It's on the side with a Christmas formed of sharp

2981
02:58:08.040 --> 02:58:14.319
a razor, sharp steel, ponderous weight. Captain Dalbray, His movement

2982
02:58:14.520 --> 02:58:18.440
is slow now, but soon it will take on momentum.

2983
02:58:19.280 --> 02:58:25.239
It will swing wider and wider, thirty feet perhaps presently.

2984
02:58:26.079 --> 02:58:30.440
As it swings, you will hear it hiss, and with

2985
02:58:30.600 --> 02:58:35.879
each broad movement it will creep a trifle lower steals

2986
02:58:36.159 --> 02:58:38.200
directly abond.

2987
02:58:37.959 --> 02:58:43.159
Me yes about the region of your heart. Right still,

2988
02:58:44.000 --> 02:58:48.159
and look up at it? How how long before?

2989
02:58:48.559 --> 02:58:52.319
And we'd have no immediate fears. It will not be

2990
02:58:52.639 --> 02:59:00.239
too soon? How soon you'll con the name some answer us?

2991
02:59:01.239 --> 02:59:07.120
Perhaps days is beginning to swing wider. I can't take

2992
02:59:07.200 --> 02:59:12.879
my eyes from it. It's gigar fascinates you. Okay, see

2993
02:59:13.040 --> 02:59:15.920
how it shines in that wildlight. And this says your

2994
02:59:16.159 --> 02:59:18.479
utmost refined to be cruel.

2995
02:59:19.280 --> 02:59:25.520
The law, Captain Dalabery, is never cruel. And now still

2996
02:59:25.680 --> 02:59:30.479
in the spirit I leavil to your meditations. It shall

2997
02:59:30.559 --> 02:59:44.120
not be too soon minutes, hours, days, okay.

2998
02:59:50.120 --> 02:59:50.600
Down.

2999
02:59:51.879 --> 02:59:55.680
STEADI lay down. It crept days past.

3000
02:59:56.520 --> 02:59:59.120
It might have been many days before it it swept

3001
02:59:59.239 --> 03:00:02.879
so close to just to fan me with a smallbid breath.

3002
03:00:04.200 --> 03:00:07.120
Minutes ahs.

3003
03:00:09.079 --> 03:00:09.479
Days.

3004
03:00:11.600 --> 03:00:15.520
The order of the sharp steel forced itself into my nostrils,

3005
03:00:16.360 --> 03:00:16.959
the right.

3006
03:00:18.639 --> 03:00:22.159
To the left, hard and wide.

3007
03:00:23.600 --> 03:00:28.360
The shrieked of a damned spirit to my heart with

3008
03:00:28.520 --> 03:00:31.760
a stealthy pace, hot tiger.

3009
03:00:33.239 --> 03:00:44.079
Down, certainly, relentiously down. I prayed, I really to Heaven.

3010
03:00:44.120 --> 03:00:46.959
With my prayer of his more speedy descent, I grew

3011
03:00:47.000 --> 03:00:49.399
friendically mad and struggled to force myself.

3012
03:00:49.200 --> 03:00:53.680
Up against that swinging, bittering death, A.

3013
03:00:56.840 --> 03:01:02.120
Down, still, unceasfully still, in evidently down.

3014
03:01:02.639 --> 03:01:05.920
The sharp steel flashed past with it, cree.

3015
03:01:06.959 --> 03:01:13.040
Just we're just h We're just spin Where are you?

3016
03:01:14.680 --> 03:01:14.920
John?

3017
03:01:15.440 --> 03:01:22.360
I am here. There's a strange thing. I'm quite calm.

3018
03:01:25.600 --> 03:01:27.120
That is a strange thing.

3019
03:01:28.040 --> 03:01:29.920
Even now I am not resigned.

3020
03:01:30.479 --> 03:01:31.360
Is there a way out?

3021
03:01:31.559 --> 03:01:35.559
How can I be ten twelve or more? Hibritions and

3022
03:01:35.719 --> 03:01:36.200
wild fray?

3023
03:01:36.360 --> 03:01:40.159
The surge of my robe only light laces or water

3024
03:01:40.840 --> 03:01:44.280
in a delicate hand. There will be many sweeps before

3025
03:01:44.319 --> 03:01:48.040
it bites deep, though I can't escape it.

3026
03:01:48.440 --> 03:01:51.239
You kept me away from you, John, You locked me

3027
03:01:51.319 --> 03:01:53.959
out of your plots. If I am here only in

3028
03:01:54.040 --> 03:01:57.719
your clots, why should I hear the reck that you

3029
03:01:57.920 --> 03:01:59.879
open your eyes and your eyes blaze?

3030
03:02:00.760 --> 03:02:01.159
What is it?

3031
03:02:01.319 --> 03:02:01.639
Clutch?

3032
03:02:02.399 --> 03:02:02.680
Today?

3033
03:02:03.120 --> 03:02:05.319
Still swan across the floor.

3034
03:02:05.120 --> 03:02:08.200
And over the meat pack. They have taken nearly all

3035
03:02:08.239 --> 03:02:11.239
your position, and they have sharp well.

3036
03:02:11.600 --> 03:02:12.879
The meat is oily and spiced.

3037
03:02:13.000 --> 03:02:15.360
If I take what remains of it, scatter you can

3038
03:02:16.360 --> 03:02:17.840
let meat from the benches and hold.

3039
03:02:17.719 --> 03:02:19.280
Me John track.

3040
03:02:20.559 --> 03:02:24.280
My body are try it, I tell you, try, But

3041
03:02:24.520 --> 03:02:26.760
look this scatter as soon as I do. Try.

3042
03:02:26.959 --> 03:02:29.520
But they are watching you. I can see their eyes.

3043
03:02:30.479 --> 03:02:32.239
They're creeping back, and I sprained.

3044
03:02:32.280 --> 03:02:34.639
With rats crawling across me. It can of flesh.

3045
03:02:35.399 --> 03:02:38.319
One of them has leaped on the wooden freend. Another follows.

3046
03:02:38.680 --> 03:02:40.879
They're gnawing at the Bend't.

3047
03:02:40.799 --> 03:02:43.680
Eight more sweeps the pendulum and.

3048
03:02:44.120 --> 03:02:46.399
Get right, still shine.

3049
03:02:49.239 --> 03:02:51.479
A dozen rats now is death?

3050
03:02:51.600 --> 03:02:53.040
I wonder worse than this differ.

3051
03:02:53.600 --> 03:02:56.799
A dozen sharp knives could do no better. The bandages

3052
03:02:56.879 --> 03:03:01.280
loosened to ribbons. Now if you move sideways, carefulness and

3053
03:03:01.440 --> 03:03:02.440
drop to the floor a.

3054
03:03:02.559 --> 03:03:05.440
Bit as I can't my arms, my legs are numb.

3055
03:03:05.639 --> 03:03:07.159
There is no power.

3056
03:03:07.479 --> 03:03:10.520
Feel afraid your robe. The minute more will be great

3057
03:03:10.680 --> 03:03:12.559
and time and with all.

3058
03:03:12.440 --> 03:03:12.799
The f.

3059
03:03:14.639 --> 03:03:17.440
And all my hate will I bear my enemies.

3060
03:03:19.559 --> 03:03:20.879
The second rome.

3061
03:03:22.319 --> 03:03:31.360
Free, mum. The pendulum stops. We are drawing it back

3062
03:03:31.440 --> 03:03:31.920
up through the.

3063
03:03:31.959 --> 03:03:38.360
Roof each move I make. He watched, he never doubted.

3064
03:03:38.680 --> 03:03:40.559
Yet with all they could do to you, they have

3065
03:03:40.760 --> 03:03:41.520
failed twice.

3066
03:03:41.639 --> 03:03:44.879
They will not fail no more. Galling with the king

3067
03:03:45.120 --> 03:03:45.799
of terrors.

3068
03:03:46.040 --> 03:03:47.159
What else can they do?

3069
03:03:47.399 --> 03:03:50.000
I can't say. See see how the rat's know in

3070
03:03:50.120 --> 03:03:53.159
silence of that pendage to what food?

3071
03:03:53.479 --> 03:03:54.000
I wonder?

3072
03:03:54.719 --> 03:03:58.959
But you escape the pier I escaped tick once. Listen,

3073
03:04:00.239 --> 03:04:00.840
what do you hear?

3074
03:04:01.280 --> 03:04:05.000
Grown wear? Its grinding as of metal?

3075
03:04:05.479 --> 03:04:07.719
It was only the cock wheels of the pendulum.

3076
03:04:07.879 --> 03:04:09.159
I think that bed. Why not?

3077
03:04:09.360 --> 03:04:12.479
It seemed to come from behind those iron feted walls.

3078
03:04:12.719 --> 03:04:15.360
It seems to shake the dungeon as a mill wheel

3079
03:04:15.440 --> 03:04:16.120
might shake.

3080
03:04:15.920 --> 03:04:18.840
It and stands up my pusson, get up, off your knees.

3081
03:04:18.920 --> 03:04:21.479
I can't be as I can't improcure anymore.

3082
03:04:21.840 --> 03:04:24.680
The paintings on the walls of this dungeon, the skeletons

3083
03:04:24.719 --> 03:04:27.000
and impose and devils, they seem different.

3084
03:04:27.159 --> 03:04:27.840
They are different.

3085
03:04:28.440 --> 03:04:31.799
The color sharpened and grew bright. The demon's eyes glare,

3086
03:04:32.239 --> 03:04:33.719
the skeleton hands out stretched.

3087
03:04:34.239 --> 03:04:37.680
Don't you catch you with yet? The odor of heated iron,

3088
03:04:38.319 --> 03:04:44.920
heated iron. I have been much humbled, but I won't

3089
03:04:45.360 --> 03:04:47.319
I won't have you Samian tears.

3090
03:04:48.079 --> 03:04:48.959
We'll all who.

3091
03:04:48.959 --> 03:04:52.000
Use grow John in the name of Heavy.

3092
03:04:54.239 --> 03:04:55.120
Name of Heaven go.

3093
03:05:02.840 --> 03:05:07.600
A suffocating heat pervaded the prison, A deeper glow settled

3094
03:05:07.639 --> 03:05:10.239
in the painted eyes that glared at me. I could

3095
03:05:10.319 --> 03:05:13.000
draw no breath of air into my lungs against the

3096
03:05:13.120 --> 03:05:14.959
loom of that fiery destruction.

3097
03:05:15.920 --> 03:05:19.920
The thought of the pit and its coolness come like

3098
03:05:20.040 --> 03:05:23.760
a soothing bomb. I staggered to the edge of the pit.

3099
03:05:23.799 --> 03:05:24.399
I looked into it.

3100
03:05:24.840 --> 03:05:28.879
The enkindled walls and a roof lighted it for its depth. Yet,

3101
03:05:28.920 --> 03:05:31.680
for one wild moment, even then, I refused to believe

3102
03:05:31.879 --> 03:05:34.639
the horror of what I saw beneath me.

3103
03:05:35.680 --> 03:05:38.639
Does the pit please you, Captain.

3104
03:05:38.399 --> 03:05:42.479
Darbray, merciful God, anything but that?

3105
03:05:43.000 --> 03:05:44.680
And how shall you avoid it?

3106
03:05:45.559 --> 03:05:45.799
Look?

3107
03:05:47.280 --> 03:05:52.799
The spungem has changed its shape, that is true. Ohs

3108
03:05:53.000 --> 03:05:57.840
are closing in which was formerly a square, and now.

3109
03:05:57.920 --> 03:06:02.959
It is flattening. Slaw called the center to force me

3110
03:06:03.239 --> 03:06:04.040
into the pit.

3111
03:06:04.440 --> 03:06:08.159
Of course, force you along with me again.

3112
03:06:08.440 --> 03:06:12.000
Apparently you must be told, Captain Galbray, that you were

3113
03:06:12.159 --> 03:06:14.319
speaking old with your own sick fancy.

3114
03:06:14.959 --> 03:06:16.319
I am not here at all.

3115
03:06:17.440 --> 03:06:23.600
Farewell, and closer and closer through the red burning walls,

3116
03:06:24.479 --> 03:06:26.959
forcing me into the pit of the swiftness that left

3117
03:06:27.000 --> 03:06:27.920
me no time for thought.

3118
03:06:28.319 --> 03:06:31.680
I shrank back, but the closing wall has me.

3119
03:06:31.799 --> 03:06:36.239
Relentlessly onward at length for my seared and writhing body

3120
03:06:36.280 --> 03:06:38.440
that was no longer an inch of foothold.

3121
03:06:38.959 --> 03:06:40.799
I feed one.

3122
03:06:41.399 --> 03:06:43.200
I pattered on the edge of the pit.

3123
03:06:51.280 --> 03:06:54.959
My revolved rushed back and outstretched arm caught my own.

3124
03:06:55.319 --> 03:06:57.639
But I was about to fall feet into the abyss.

3125
03:06:58.280 --> 03:06:59.959
Because that's a general lesson.

3126
03:07:00.799 --> 03:07:05.079
The French army had entered Tonedo, the inquisition was in

3127
03:07:05.200 --> 03:07:36.799
the hands of anities, and so closes Poe celebrated story

3128
03:07:37.440 --> 03:07:42.159
The Pit and the Pendulum, starring Henry Hoe. We invite

3129
03:07:42.200 --> 03:07:45.399
you to another adventure of suspense next Tuesday at the

3130
03:07:45.479 --> 03:07:51.639
same hour. Until then, this is the Man in Black saying.

3131
03:07:52.840 --> 03:07:53.280
Good night.

3132
03:07:57.600 --> 03:08:02.120
William Spear the producer, John Eat the director, Bernard Hermann

3133
03:08:02.159 --> 03:08:06.879
the composer conductor, and John Dixon Carr, the author are

3134
03:08:07.000 --> 03:08:08.040
collaborators on.

3135
03:08:09.959 --> 03:08:10.520
This pen.

3136
03:08:21.520 --> 03:08:23.680
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

3137
03:08:35.319 --> 03:08:40.319
Well, my dear, I suppose it is very late time

3138
03:08:40.440 --> 03:08:42.639
for you to return home and for me to return

3139
03:08:42.719 --> 03:08:48.680
to Well, we'll discuss that later, but please do return

3140
03:08:49.079 --> 03:08:57.559
very soon. I'll be here same place, same time, always

3141
03:08:57.719 --> 03:09:04.120
with a smile and something warm and chilling. But now,

3142
03:09:04.360 --> 03:09:08.079
as you make your way home in the cold winter air,

3143
03:09:08.959 --> 03:09:12.799
as you trudge along in the street, across the way,

3144
03:09:13.239 --> 03:09:17.680
over the river, through the woods, well, do me one

3145
03:09:18.399 --> 03:09:23.959
small favor. As your eyes get heavy and your head

3146
03:09:24.559 --> 03:09:30.639
reaches your pillow and you blink, blink, blink away, take

3147
03:09:30.719 --> 03:09:35.520
one moment and be thankful for what you have. I'll

3148
03:09:35.600 --> 03:09:36.079
be seeing

3149
03:10:00.440 --> 03:10:00.600
Five