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Well, hello, aren't you a side for sore eyes? Yes,
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that's the saying, I believe. How are you, my dear?
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I know the holidays have a lot of hustle and bustle,
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so I'm very thankful you could find a little bit
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of time to spend with eerie old me in my
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home of swords. Oh what's that? Oh no, no, no,
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the fire will burn bright, and they simply can't get
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in here, not with these walls so thick full of
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concrete and steel. Now let's get you something nice and
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hot to drink while we listen to something truly chilling,
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as chilling as the air outside, as the snow falling.
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Right now, let's leave my home line and visit the
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House of fear.
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Have you heard the strange tales of the Whistler?
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I'm the Whistler.
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Please, Paul, take me away from here. I can't stand
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this lonely. Please, I'm frightened. It's too quiet here. If
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you don't take me away, I'll leave by myself.
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Saturday night and again, CBS presents the Whistler.
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I the Whistler know many things, for I walk by night.
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I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the
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hearts of men and women who've stepped into the shadows.
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And so I tell you tonight, the amazing story of
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House of Fear. In an apartment overlooking New York City,
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a young man and a young girl stand facing each other.
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The girl is calm, the young man is tense with anger.
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The girl is Leana Wallace. The young man Paul Garson.
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Silence reigns for a few seconds.
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Then what what.
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Did you say?
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Lana?
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I said I was going to be married, Paul. Married, Yes, married.
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But but Lana, you don't know what you're saying.
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You are your mind?
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No, Paul, I'm quite saying I.
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Thought you were in love with me, that we were
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going to be married.
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In all the months I've known you, you've never said
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a word about marriage.
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Until you knew I was mad in love with you.
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Yes, Paul, but there was nothing about marriage.
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Cheleez Mana, please listen to me.
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You don't know what you're doing.
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You'll never be happy with anyone else, now, Priese think
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it over, Plice, wait until you're sure.
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I am sure, Paul. I've made up my mind.
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What's the matter with me?
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But nothing's the matter with you?
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Oh No?
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And there must be something nothing. Oh then why change
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your mind so suddenly?
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There's nothing sudden about it. I've known a man I'm
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going to marry for.
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Some time sometime, you mean a few days.
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I suppose it doesn't matter.
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It does to me? Who is this man?
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It doesn't matter.
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How does it happen? You never told me about him.
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I didn't think it was necessary.
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Oh, I see playing both ends against the middle.
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Eh, you'd better go, Paul.
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Do you love him?
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I said, you'd better go.
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You love this man? Or is it just a matter
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of when you leave? Is it money you're after?
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Is he some old duck ready to kick off?
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Please? You talking?
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Man?
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Who is he?
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I insist on knowing. His name is Gregory Hellman?
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Gregory Hellman?
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Yes? And who's Gregory Hellman?
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He is a manufacturer?
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Oh, some old duck you're taking for a ride.
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At least he's not as young as fit as you are.
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All right, all right, go ahead and marry him. But
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I'll tell you this, you'll be bored.
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With him from the day you marry him.
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That's my business.
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What a sap I've been all this wild? What a
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stupid knit with good bipop?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the way it goes. I suppose. Well,
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there's no use crying over spilt milk as there. Well,
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so long, Lana, Goodbyepole.
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Oh i'll run into you one of these days. I'll
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have one of my shoulders patted especially for you, for
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crying purposes only.
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Salong, Lana.
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Nevertheless, Lana had a mind of her own. A few
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weeks later found her married to elderly Gregory Hellman. Now
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they're on a train following the ceremony on their honeymoon.
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Okay, well, my dear, are you happy?
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Of course I am, Gregory, I've never been so happy
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in my life.
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You seem a bit solemn, do I? Yes, you've been
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staring vacantly out the window for half an hour.
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What are you thinking about?
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Nothing, nothing in particular.
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Are you wondering if you've done the right thing?
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Oh? No, greg certainly not. I'm really very happy.
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It's it's just just why.
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Oh, I don't know. But for some reason, it's something
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about a wedding ceremony that makes me sad.
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Sad.
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I don't know why, but it seems so much like oh,
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like a funeral service.
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Funeral Oh, good heavens.
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I'm sorry, Gregory. I know that's an awful thing to say.
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Oh, come, come line, I stop thinking about it.
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Cheer up.
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Yes, I must get such a thought out of my mind.
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Just where we get to our honeymoon house. You'll cheer
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up then, Yes, did you buy a place buy? Oh no,
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I wouldn't buy a place way down here. It's too
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far from New York. You rented it, yes, took it
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for a month.
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What is it a cottage?
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Oh no, it's a villa.
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Well what's it like?
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Well I've never seen it, but I understand.
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It's on a cliff overlooking the sea, quite secluded, and
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about eight miles from the town.
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How on earth did you happen to rent a place
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way down here, a place you've never seen?
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Oh?
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I was looking for an out of the way place,
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and this agent approached me, and it sounded like the
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very thing for a quiet honeymoon. No one around, not
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even servants. No servants, no, And I doubt very much
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would be able to get any But we'll get along.
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In fact, i'd prefer.
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It that way.
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A villain. So I'm fascinating, doesn't it.
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That's why I took it. I'm sure you'll like it, Lana.
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Yes, Gregory, I'm sure I will here, Darling.
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You know, I never realized how vacant my life has
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been the past ten years, How really lonely i've been
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since Emma died. No children, no close relations.
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No relatives, Gregory.
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No, oh, I think I have a second cousin somewhere.
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Well, I'll do my best to make up for those
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lonely years, Gregory.
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I'm sure you will, Darling.
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It's strange here I am fifty years old, and all
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of a sudden I feel like a youngster again.
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You think I look.
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Fifty, certainly, nudge. You're very young looking.
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Well, I'll keep up with you, even though I am
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twice your age.
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I'm not falling apart yet, of course you're not.
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You know.
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I think i'll retire from business. I have plenty now.
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Why should I go on working like a slave when
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I can forget everything and enjoy life.
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Give up your business.
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Yes, we'll find some nice, RESTful spot somewhere and take
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it easy from now on.
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Let's say, yes, Greigly, i'd like that, just the two
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of us.
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All right, Darling, it's a deal.
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And so two weeks go by, two lazy weeks, happy
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weeks for Gregory. He laughs about the villa, reading and sleeping,
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having the time of his life, but Lana, being so
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much younger, is at times somewhat bored. However, she's most
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tolerant with her elderly husband and does her best to
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be satisfied with his idea of happiness. Then, early one morning,
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Gregory flies up to New York and returns in the evening. Well, Llana,
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I'm back.
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Gregory so soon. I didn't really expect you this early.
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Oh well, it's a quick trip by plane. Good weather
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all the way.
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How did you find things at the office running.
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Along as though I'd never left the place?
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That's good.
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Well, the business left run without me for no on, Darling,
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without you. That's right. I'm through with it.
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You mean you're not going back?
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Nope, I've sold out to another.
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Firm, Gregory.
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You don't mean it.
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I do mean it. It didn't take an hour.
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I had several good offers, so I took the best one,
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closed the deal, signed the papers, and said goodbye to
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the whole thing.
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Oh and what are you going to do now?
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Oh?
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I don't know.
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Take it easy around as much as we can, look
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for a place to settle down.
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Maybe a farm or a ranch. You'd like that, Lner
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a farm?
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Well, it doesn't have to be a farm, someplace where
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I can putter about with a few flowers and maybe
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a little garden, putter about. Oh, we'll find a place,
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and we'll keep going till we.
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Do, Gregory. Yes, dear, what's wrong with this place?
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This place?
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Yes, it's secluded. There's plenty of ground for me to
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grow things and putter about. Why not this place?
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Well, I hadn't thought about this villa, but I suppose
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it would be all right.
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I'm sure it would be the very thing. You may
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travel the country over and never find another spot so
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nice as this.
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Maybe not? You like it here?
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Yes?
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I like the quiet and in the sea, it's very RESTful.
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Well, maybe it isn't for sale.
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You could find out.
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Sure you'd like to stay here?
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Yes, greg sure I would.
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Well, then i'll see the local agent in the morning, yes, Gregory. Oh,
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by the way, aren't you driving in tomorrow to the hairdressers?
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Yes?
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Well, then why don't you see the agent?
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I but I wouldn't know how to handle it.
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Of course you would.
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If the place is for sale, take an option on it,
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and perhaps it'd be best to lease it for a
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year with an option to purchase, simple enough.
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I don't know what the place is worth.
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Well, I offer him seventy five thousand, but it comes
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to a showdown, I'd be willing to pay one hundred thousand.
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There's a lot of land here very well.
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I'll talk to him who owns the villa.
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I don't know.
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It's part of a huge estate. I don't think anyone
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lived here very much.
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You know, at first I was depressed here, but there
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seemed to be something about this villa that made me
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feel so alone, sort of melancholy feeling. But it's apparently
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worn off. I'd like to own the place.
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Well, then we will by all means.
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What did you tell your associates at the office?
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Oh, I just said so long that they probably wouldn't
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see me again for a long time because I was
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just travel around the country for a while.
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That's good. At least you won't have your mind on
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business from now on.
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Nope, nothing but rest and fudder about in the sun.
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Well, dinner's ready if you are.
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I'm famish darling.
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Well, missus Hellman. The villa is for sale. It's been
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up for sale for quite a spell.
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What do they ask?
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I haven't set a price. What do you offer?
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Seventy five thousand?
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Mm hmmm, Well that's someone in line. I think that
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would be accepted.
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Where's the owner house soon? Could you contact him?
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Yeah, that's trouble. I don't know. Whorry is just now
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and run around all over the country. Why didn't you
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take an option?
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Well, i'd rather least the place for a year with
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an option to buy at any time.
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Fair enough, at least for a year, an option to buy.
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I'll make out the lease and the option. You better
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put up ten percent on the option. That'd be seventy
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five hundred.
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Very well, i'll give you a check.
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Good. I'm sure this will go through because the owner
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wants to get rid of the place. Has been here
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in two years.
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Where does the owner want to get rid of it?
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I don't know.
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There's too many other place I guess. Well it's yours
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for a year. Anyway.
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You feel confident he'll accept?
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I know he will. Don't you worry about that?
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Thank you, mister Rogers.
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Thank you just to make me a nice commission. I've
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been trying to sell the villa for several years and
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this is the first offer I've had I see, just
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take a few minutes, missus Helman to drop the papers.
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Then six months passed by, six months during which Lanna
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became more and more bored with her elderly husband and
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his puttering about in the garden. There were harsh words
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about it, and so they closed the villa. Gregory left
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and Lana took a plain for Mexico City, and there
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she ran into all people, young Paul Garson, Why.
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Lana, what honor are you doing in Mexico City?
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Oh? Nothing in particular.
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I'm certainly glad to see you, are you, Paul?
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Yes?
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And now I guess now is the time to apologize
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for the way I acted when you ditch me.
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You don't need to apologize, Paul. I wish I had
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listened to you.
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What didn't Your marriage were not right?
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No?
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Oh what happened?
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Oh?
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I just couldn't stand it any longer. I was bored
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within an inch of my life. So I up and
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left him.
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Left him.
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Well, no, no, no, not exactly that. He left me too.
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We just left each other. He went away and I
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came down here.
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Well, why down here to get a divorce? Oh, Nana,
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a divorce?
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Did you get him.
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I did what happened to your husband?
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I don't know. He was notified, but he didn't contest.
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He didn't even answer the charges incompatibility. Yes, did you
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ask for a property settlement?
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No? Why not?
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Because he'd already signed over half his cash assets to
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me and several other articles. So I felt that was
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enough to take care of me for a long while. I. Oh,
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I just couldn't go on, Paul, I just couldn't. No,
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he was so much older than I. He was ready
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to settle down in an armchair and sit the rest
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of his life away. I just couldn't do that.
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I understand, Dear, you're wide awake, Lana, you're just starting.
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I know how it must have been.
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Oh, he was nice enough. I just couldn't go on.
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I just couldn't be.
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Fifty blanda, Dear? Can you forgive me for saying the
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things I did? Yes, Paul, I was so much in
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love with you that well, I thought I couldn't live
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without you.
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But you have, Paul, haven't you?
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No, Lana?
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No, I haven't banged around all over this hemisphice and
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you turned me down, and I haven't been happy one
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single moment, haven't you Paul. No, No, not until until
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this very moment.
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I'm sorry, so sorry. I made a big mistake.
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You did.
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Yes, I should have married you.
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Then why didn't you?
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Well, I'll tell you this is a confession. As a child,
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I lived in poverty. Everything I had was a hand
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me down. My father never earned his salt, my mother
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was always in need. So I made up my mind
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that love wasn't worth it, that I would sacrifice love
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for the things I felt I deserved.
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So you turned me down for this man, Helman, because
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he could give you the things you've always wanted. Yes, well,
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how did you know that I couldn't have given you
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those things?
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How did I know you could?
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You?
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You didn't indicate that.
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Oh, I took you the cheap little cafes. I was
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apparently penny pitching, but it wasn't necessary for No. Why
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every girl I knew was after me for my money.
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That's why when I found you, I acted as though
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I didn't have an extra dollar. I never dreamed it
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was money you wanted.
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I loved you, Paul, I still do, but I made
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up my mind that I wouldn't marry a poor man.
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I understand, Yes, Alanna, I understand and I sympathize with you.
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I see now what it must have meant to you.
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But I have money, Lena, plenty of money. I admire
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you for your sacrifice you made.
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You do understand really?
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Yes?
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I do you still love me?
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Yes?
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Then why not marry me?
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No reason? I'd love to If you still want me?
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Oh wonderful, darling. Will be married as soon as possible.
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We can be married tomorrow.
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Then tomorrow it is, dolly.
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Yes.
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And where where should we go for a honeymoon? Where
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would you like to go, Lona?
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Oh, I don't care anywhere.
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I'll leave it to you, all right, Darling. I know
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just the place you'll love it.
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Cuba.
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No, No, not Cuba, but but quite like it wherever
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you say for Oh, Darling, Darling, I feel as though
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I'd been born all over again.
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I feel like a new man. I'm happy.
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What a fool I've been I should have known better.
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Oh.
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From now on, Darling, I'll see to it that your
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life is filled with surprises, never a single monotonous moment.
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Yes.
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So Paul and Lana are married and set forth on
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their honeymoon. Paul owns a lovely place by the sea,
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and there he takes Lana. But from the night they arrived,
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Lana has been ill. Some strange melody has come upon her.
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Just what no one seems to know. A doctor stands
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beside her bed as Paul slips into the room.
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How is she? Doctor?
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Still the same? I haven't the slightest idea that's all
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with her? But I'm just given the resentative.
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Are you suppose it's a climate?
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Oh it should be sunny trumpetl here? Yes, well, there's
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nothing more I can do along.
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Now, yes, sir, and thank you doctor Flana, Flana, Paul, Lana, Dear,
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what is it? What's wrong with you? Why don't you
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tell me?
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Well, I don't know what it is. I just said
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I want to cry all the time. I can't help
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it cry here has ever since I've been here, I've
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wanted to cry? But why, Darling, I don't know, but
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I can't help it.
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Don't you like it here?
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I don't know, Paul, I don't know what it is.
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I'm afraid afraid of what. I don't know, nothing in particular.
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But I'm afraid you mean you'd rather leave here? Yes? Well,
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I don't want to say here.
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This is such a nice, quiet place, dear, it's so RESTful.
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Where would you go that would be better for you?
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I don't know, but I'd rather leave.
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Why I don't know why? There must be a reason.
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Do I hear things?
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What things?
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Change? Sounds, noises?
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I've heard nothing strange I have.
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I hear them all night at a time. I've seen things,
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what things, saying things? And I won't stay here another day.
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Hold on, I think you're just hysterical. You're letting your
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imagination run away with I'm not.
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I'm sick, terribly sick.
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What's The doctor doesn't know what's wrong with you.
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Please, Paul, please take me away from here. I don't
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like this lonely. Oh please, I've always been trying to
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be lonely. That's one it gives. It's too quiet here,
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too alone. You don't take me away. I'll leave by
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my son now.
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Now, Now, don't get yourself so excited.
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The doctor has given you a senative again.
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I'll go to sleep, you'll be all right in the morning,
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and then we'll take a walk over the estate. Now, please, Allan,
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please try to sleep.
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Lana all right, coul I'll try.
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I'll try.
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Well.
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Anna.
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Apparently you are allergic to big houses, big silent houses.
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You felt somewhat like this once before, when you were
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with Gregory. Remember that house made you feel sad and melancholy.
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Now the night has passed and the morning has come.
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Paul has a visitor in the library.
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I've been trying for many months to get in touch
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with you, mister Garson. Ard you left state.
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Yes, yes, I was in Mexico City.
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I surprised to learn that you were back here.
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Oh, why surprise?
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Well, although no one's been living here for several months,
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a party holds a lease on the place.
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Oh I didn't know that.
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Yeah, they took an option to buy it. They did, yes, sir,
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So who you can see that you're sort of trespassing.
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Well, no one is being inconvenience.
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Not exactly. What did the party offer for the place?
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Seventy five thousand.
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Well that's fair enough, But.
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I don't want to sell what No, No, I've changed
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my mind. I want to keep the place, keep it.
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But mister Garson, I've practically made the deal.
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Well you can call it off. Oh did the party
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make a deposits? Yes, then return the deposit with my apologies.
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But I've worked hard for two years or more trying
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to sell this place, and now you back down on it.
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Well, what would your commission have been?
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Well, thirty seven hundred and fifty dollars.
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Very well, I'll give you the thirty seven to fifty,
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but call off the deal. I'd prefer to retain owner ship.
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Yes, yes, yes, of course, thank you very much, mister Garson.
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That's many kind of you.
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Oh yes, well what is that hammering?
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Does that noise harring?
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My dear?
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Why that's the workman.
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Yes, I'm having the place completely renovated, Dolly, from the
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garret to the cellar and all for you. Oh, you'll
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love it when it's finished. I see you should be
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in bed dollar.
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Yes, Oh, the hammering made me so nervous. I wondered
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what it was all run along?
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Sorry, said the purty.
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Well, mister project, I think that you'd better, mister project.
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But well, what's wrong with you?
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Sir?
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I I your as white as a sheet man?
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Or you will?
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Who who is that woman? That's my wife?
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You're a wife? Yes, well I am. How long have
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you known that?
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Oh for a long time, several years now. I see
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what what are you trying to say?
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It's got.
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I don't understand it. But that is the woman who
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wants to buy this house.
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What do you know what you're talking about?
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She is the one who took a lease in an
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option to buy.
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Oh, you must be out of your head.
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My wife, that woman lived here for seven months with
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her husband, with her live, yes, sir, And they closed
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the place up, and she come to me and said
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they were leaving for a while, but to go ahead
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with the deal.
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Are you sure?
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Yes?
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What was the woman's name, missus Gregory Hellman. I see,
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well you've got to run along now, mister Blagett. I'll
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see you in the day or so.
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Oh, yes, yes, yes, sir, of course.
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A good day, sir, Yes, good day, mister Blanna.
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Mata, what are you doing?
509
00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:58.319
I'm packing. If you won't take me away from here,
510
00:22:58.319 --> 00:22:58.920
I'll go alone.
511
00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:00.000
But Manna, why should you leave?
512
00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:01.519
I won't stay here another minute?51300:23:01.559 --> 00:23:02.599
Why not, darling? Why not?51400:23:02.960 --> 00:23:06.920
I don't know. I have no real reason, but I51500:23:06.920 --> 00:23:08.759
I just don't like to hear, and I won't stay.51600:23:08.839 --> 00:23:09.880
I don't understand you long.51700:23:10.079 --> 00:23:10.759
It doesn't matter.51800:23:10.799 --> 00:23:14.440
I'm leaving now, all right, all right, Lana, if you insist,51900:23:14.480 --> 00:23:14.880
you may go?52000:23:15.640 --> 00:23:18.319
Sorry poor but yes.52100:23:18.920 --> 00:23:21.680
Oh mister, yes, yes, yes, what is it.52200:23:21.759 --> 00:23:23.759
We've been working in the cellar. Yes, you better come52300:23:23.799 --> 00:23:25.599
down in, mister Darson. Why we here.52400:23:26.000 --> 00:23:30.000
We just uncovered a body buried, Yes, buried in the52500:23:30.039 --> 00:23:30.599
cellar floor.52600:23:31.759 --> 00:23:32.160
Body.52700:23:32.400 --> 00:23:37.519
You better say, Helana, I'll not be long, Yes, Paul, Yes.52800:23:44.240 --> 00:23:48.079
All accompany the workmen to the cellar, examines the body52900:23:48.160 --> 00:23:51.720
buried in the dirt floor, called the police, and several53000:23:51.759 --> 00:23:54.599
hours later is talking with a detective in the living room.53100:23:56.200 --> 00:23:57.880
Well, there's no doubt about it. It's the body of53200:23:57.920 --> 00:23:58.599
Gregory Helmer.53300:23:58.680 --> 00:24:02.960
Oh no, no, I mean no, heke me. How could53400:24:03.000 --> 00:24:03.240
it be?53500:24:03.400 --> 00:24:06.640
Mister he was the agent for this estate. Did you53600:24:06.680 --> 00:24:08.519
ever rent this house to mister Hellman?53700:24:09.000 --> 00:24:09.240
Why?53800:24:10.279 --> 00:24:12.119
Go ahead and logic, go ahead, tell the truth.53900:24:12.440 --> 00:24:15.880
No, I didn't. I never saw mister Hellman. House was54000:24:15.920 --> 00:24:18.519
rented by another age in New York that it was54100:24:18.559 --> 00:24:19.839
rented at Gregory Hellman.54200:24:20.039 --> 00:24:21.359
You never saw mister Hellman.54300:24:21.880 --> 00:24:28.759
No, But but why I well, go ahead, blatchet. I54400:24:28.920 --> 00:24:31.079
knew Missus Hellman, Missus Hellman.54500:24:31.400 --> 00:24:31.880
Where is she?54600:24:32.960 --> 00:24:34.480
That woman is Missus Hellman?54700:24:35.000 --> 00:24:37.440
This woman, but I thought she was Missus Garson.54800:24:37.559 --> 00:24:39.920
She used to be Missus Hellman. She came to me54900:24:39.960 --> 00:24:42.440
and wanted to buy the place for years. Leaves was55000:24:42.480 --> 00:24:44.920
an option to buy and made a substantial deposit.55100:24:45.319 --> 00:24:47.200
Right, that's true.55200:24:46.960 --> 00:24:50.240
I did. I was mister Hellman, but I was divorced55300:24:50.279 --> 00:24:51.400
in Mexico divorce.55400:24:51.759 --> 00:24:52.799
Why did you get a divorce?55500:24:52.960 --> 00:24:55.880
Because mister Hellman and I decided to separate where we55600:24:55.920 --> 00:24:58.559
couldn't get along together. He said he was going to55700:24:58.599 --> 00:25:00.640
New York. I left the first, to Mexico.55800:25:00.920 --> 00:25:03.680
Are you sure you left here first?55900:25:04.519 --> 00:25:05.720
Yes, of course, I'm sure.56000:25:06.000 --> 00:25:07.640
Why did you trying to buy the place.56100:25:08.799 --> 00:25:11.319
Because my husband, mister Hellman, asked.56200:25:11.119 --> 00:25:12.440
Me to Why didn't he attend to one?56300:25:12.519 --> 00:25:14.799
But I don't know. He asked me to see to it.56400:25:14.880 --> 00:25:17.240
Did you get part of the estate through this Mexican divorce?56500:25:17.279 --> 00:25:17.319
You?56600:25:18.039 --> 00:25:20.519
Heman had given me considerable cash and property before this.56700:25:21.000 --> 00:25:22.200
Are you telling the truth? Blumber?56800:25:23.079 --> 00:25:24.079
Are you yes?56900:25:25.119 --> 00:25:27.720
I don't believe you. From the day you arrived here,57000:25:27.759 --> 00:25:29.319
you wanted to leave. You became ill, you said, the57100:25:29.319 --> 00:25:30.440
place depressed.57200:25:30.000 --> 00:25:30.680
You frightened you.57300:25:31.079 --> 00:25:33.640
Now I know why why you was so upset, why57400:25:33.680 --> 00:25:35.240
you wanted to get away because of what was buried57500:25:35.279 --> 00:25:38.200
in the cellar. You told me yourself that you were bored,57600:25:38.200 --> 00:25:40.279
that you couldn't stand him any longer. Then you went57700:25:40.319 --> 00:25:42.640
to Mexico. He was dead when you divorced him. No57800:25:42.640 --> 00:25:44.000
wonder he couldn't contest the case.57900:25:44.079 --> 00:25:48.279
Oh please please listen. I don't know who killed him.58000:25:49.279 --> 00:25:50.119
What did you say?58100:25:50.400 --> 00:25:52.119
I don't know who did it.58200:25:52.519 --> 00:25:53.160
He was murdered.58300:25:53.440 --> 00:25:56.200
Well, I didn't say that.58400:25:56.440 --> 00:25:59.039
You know he was murdered. It was just that meta that.58500:25:59.200 --> 00:26:01.640
Yes, yeah, I guess I didn't do it.58600:26:01.759 --> 00:26:04.559
I didn't, lady, you might as well tell the rest58700:26:04.599 --> 00:26:04.880
of it.58800:26:05.079 --> 00:26:10.359
Yeah, yes, but I well, I found him dead in58900:26:10.440 --> 00:26:11.680
his room, in his room.59000:26:12.440 --> 00:26:13.799
Then who buried him in the cellar?59100:26:15.400 --> 00:26:15.799
I did?59200:26:16.720 --> 00:26:17.200
Why?59300:26:17.400 --> 00:26:19.480
Why didn't you call the police because.59400:26:19.200 --> 00:26:22.160
I was afraid, afraid they'd think I did it?59500:26:22.359 --> 00:26:23.759
Well, why would you be afraid of that?59600:26:24.720 --> 00:26:29.359
Because of Well, he's just the found out about.59700:26:29.079 --> 00:26:32.519
Me, found out what my record?59800:26:32.799 --> 00:26:36.319
Well, missus Hellman or a Garsian, we know all about59900:26:36.359 --> 00:26:37.559
your record record.60000:26:37.599 --> 00:26:38.400
What do you mean record?60100:26:38.519 --> 00:26:39.119
She served a.60200:26:39.160 --> 00:26:40.759
Term in the state penitentiary.60300:26:41.240 --> 00:26:44.400
I swear I didn't I buried him. I admit that.60400:26:44.400 --> 00:26:46.880
That's why I wanted to buy the place. But I60500:26:46.920 --> 00:26:47.720
didn't kill him.60600:26:47.720 --> 00:26:48.839
I didn't like you did.60700:26:49.039 --> 00:26:50.200
That's why you wanted to leave here.60800:26:50.519 --> 00:26:53.160
Please please believe me. I wanted to buy the place60900:26:53.200 --> 00:26:55.039
to no one would ever come here, so no one61000:26:55.079 --> 00:26:59.279
would ever know. But I didn't kill it, I swear and.61100:26:59.400 --> 00:27:03.839
Sounding on, But I don't believe you. Mister Garson. Where61200:27:03.839 --> 00:27:07.839
did you meet this woman in Mexico City? Really didn't61300:27:07.839 --> 00:27:08.400
know her before?61400:27:08.440 --> 00:27:08.640
Then?61500:27:09.599 --> 00:27:12.519
What you've heard me? Oh you didn't know her before61600:27:12.519 --> 00:27:16.079
she married Hellman? Why, yes, you'll know her? What you61700:27:16.119 --> 00:27:16.920
are starlin about?61800:27:17.279 --> 00:27:17.480
Well?61900:27:18.839 --> 00:27:20.440
Yes I did know. That's what I thought.62000:27:20.839 --> 00:27:22.759
You were in love with her, wanted her to marry her,62100:27:23.039 --> 00:27:24.400
but she turns you down for Hellman?62200:27:24.640 --> 00:27:28.240
What are you talking about? But are you trying to62300:27:28.279 --> 00:27:31.480
accuse me of killing Hellman? That's possible you had a motive.62400:27:31.599 --> 00:27:32.559
Oh that's ridiculous.62500:27:32.599 --> 00:27:34.880
I didn't even know the man, Murphy.62600:27:35.160 --> 00:27:36.880
Why did you find out about Paul Garson?62700:27:37.359 --> 00:27:40.200
Well, his financial affairs weren't in any too good a condition.62800:27:40.480 --> 00:27:42.440
Who's been trying to dispose of a lot of white62900:27:42.480 --> 00:27:43.680
elephants like this villa?63000:27:43.839 --> 00:27:44.359
I ashame?63100:27:45.160 --> 00:27:47.480
Well, you know what I think, mister Garson. I think63200:27:47.519 --> 00:27:50.400
you and miss Lana Wallace know what this is all about.63300:27:50.640 --> 00:27:53.039
I think you're in this together. So I'm going to63400:27:53.079 --> 00:27:55.599
take it down and book your boat and a charge63500:27:55.640 --> 00:28:08.839
of murder, and that just what the officer did booked63600:28:08.920 --> 00:28:12.319
Lenna and Paul on a charge of murder, and the63700:28:12.359 --> 00:28:16.240
case came up for trial, and Lana was convicted and63800:28:16.720 --> 00:28:21.519
so was Paul. Yes, Paul was convicted as an accomplice.63900:28:22.279 --> 00:28:25.440
The evidence piled up against them. Lana admitted that she64000:28:25.519 --> 00:28:29.680
buried Hellman's body, but denied that she killed him. Paul64100:28:29.759 --> 00:28:32.839
couldn't prove where he was when Hellman was murdered, and64200:28:32.880 --> 00:28:38.720
so he was convicted as an accomplice, an accessory. Poor Lena,64300:28:38.920 --> 00:28:43.680
Poor Paul. They are now awaiting execution in the state penitentiary.64400:28:44.720 --> 00:28:48.000
But don't feel too badly about them, because I know64500:28:48.119 --> 00:28:53.160
the truth. I know what really happened. When Paul learned64600:28:53.160 --> 00:28:56.359
that Lana was marrying Hellman, he arranged for an agent64700:28:56.400 --> 00:28:59.160
to contact him and offer his villa for a honeymoon house.64800:29:00.000 --> 00:29:03.640
Pail himself killed Helman, hoping to have the blame placed64900:29:03.680 --> 00:29:06.839
on Lana, but when nothing was heard of Hellman's death,65000:29:07.359 --> 00:29:10.960
Paul followed Lana to Mexico City and enticed her back65100:29:11.000 --> 00:29:13.599
to the villa to find out what had become of65200:29:13.640 --> 00:29:42.799
Hellman's body, and he found out, much to his Sorrow.65300:29:43.799 --> 00:29:57.680
CBS has presented the Whistler. Original music for this production65400:29:57.880 --> 00:30:00.400
was composed and conducted by Wilbur hatch A.65500:30:00.440 --> 00:30:02.079
Whistler has written and directed by J.65600:30:02.240 --> 00:30:05.519
Donald Wilson and originates from Columbia Square in Hollywood.65700:30:08.880 --> 00:30:12.559
Where are you feeling a little more festive now that65800:30:12.640 --> 00:30:16.599
you've had your hot cocoa? I know usually it's tea,65900:30:16.720 --> 00:30:19.759
but I'm happy to provide whatever it is you enjoy66000:30:20.319 --> 00:30:22.799
as I enjoy your company. That's the treat for me,66100:30:22.960 --> 00:30:26.240
and I hope that it's a treat for you too.66200:30:26.359 --> 00:30:31.279
The holidays are all about being together, and I'm very66300:30:31.319 --> 00:30:36.319
grateful to spend this time with you. What's that? Of course?66400:30:36.400 --> 00:30:39.799
Of course, but let's not worry about that right this second,66500:30:40.599 --> 00:30:42.680
because you see, I found another one I think you'll66600:30:42.759 --> 00:30:48.599
enjoy and it has a similar concept. This one is66700:30:48.640 --> 00:30:58.960
about how sometimes fear paints a picture and it's very grim.66800:30:59.319 --> 00:30:59.680
Now.66900:31:00.480 --> 00:31:04.519
The Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents.67000:31:10.160 --> 00:31:15.920
Suspense Nights.67100:31:16.039 --> 00:31:19.599
Roma Winds bring you the suspenseful play called Fear Paints67200:31:19.640 --> 00:31:27.480
a Picture starring Miss Lana Turner. Suspense is presented for67300:31:27.559 --> 00:31:29.640
your enjoyment by Roma Wines.67400:31:30.000 --> 00:31:31.240
That's r M.67500:31:31.400 --> 00:31:35.799
A Roma wines, those excellent California wines that can add67600:31:35.839 --> 00:31:38.359
so much pleasantness to the way you live, to your67700:31:38.359 --> 00:31:42.319
happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals.67800:31:42.960 --> 00:31:43.960
Yes, right now a.67900:31:43.920 --> 00:31:47.720
Glassful would be very pleasant, as Roma wines bring you68000:31:48.440 --> 00:31:50.920
a remarkable tale of suspense.68100:31:50.720 --> 00:31:53.720
And with fear paints a picture and with the performance68200:31:53.720 --> 00:31:57.160
of Hollywood's most glamorous young star, Miss Lana Turner, Roma68300:31:57.200 --> 00:32:00.599
winds hope indeed to keep you in suspense.68400:32:08.400 --> 00:32:11.039
There is a picture hanging on a wall. You look68500:32:11.079 --> 00:32:16.319
at it casually, an extraordinary picture, You'll say, he's skillfully done.68600:32:17.839 --> 00:32:22.039
Look at those fine brush strokes, look at those superb colors.68700:32:24.079 --> 00:32:28.480
But isn't the subject matter a little bizarre? It's something68800:32:28.519 --> 00:32:34.599
more than just bizarre, you see. It was that picture68900:32:34.640 --> 00:32:45.000
that first convinced me that I was insane. But let69000:32:45.039 --> 00:32:48.400
me begin from the beginning. In his last will and testament,69100:32:48.599 --> 00:32:51.160
my father made me heir to all his considerable fortune,69200:32:51.519 --> 00:32:56.240
except that, well here you read the will.69300:32:57.000 --> 00:33:02.039
Yeah, okay, I Benjamin Powell here by request that after69400:33:02.079 --> 00:33:04.359
my death, my daughter Julia live in my old San69500:33:04.359 --> 00:33:08.720
Francisco house with mister Harvey Lyons my lifelong friend until69600:33:08.720 --> 00:33:12.039
her twenty third birthday, at which date all my worldly69700:33:12.079 --> 00:33:16.480
belongings will come into her possession, provided that nothing untoward69800:33:16.640 --> 00:33:19.960
happens to her by that time. But in the event69900:33:20.039 --> 00:33:23.200
that she is incapable of taking over my estate upon70000:33:23.200 --> 00:33:26.680
her twenty third birthday, I hereby appoint Harvey and Laura70100:33:26.799 --> 00:33:29.640
Lyons as my final heirs, there being no other living70200:33:29.640 --> 00:33:32.640
blood relatives, and trust to their judgment that they will70300:33:32.839 --> 00:33:36.200
take care of Julia adequately and with kindness.70400:33:36.920 --> 00:33:38.599
Sign Benjamin Powell.70500:33:44.279 --> 00:33:47.720
Three months later, seated around the huge ornate fireplace of70600:33:48.160 --> 00:33:52.160
that dark, musty living room, we were three silent people.70700:33:53.039 --> 00:33:56.640
Harvey was reading his newspaper, Laura was knitting with nibble fingers,70800:33:56.680 --> 00:34:00.440
and I I stared with unseen eye. He said, an70900:34:00.480 --> 00:34:01.079
open book.71000:34:01.480 --> 00:34:06.720
You're not reading, Julia, I'm not concentrating. Are you feeling71100:34:06.720 --> 00:34:07.079
all right?71200:34:07.160 --> 00:34:07.400
Dear?71300:34:07.559 --> 00:34:09.320
Oh, yes, yes, I'm all right.71400:34:09.719 --> 00:34:12.559
Hey you do look a little tired, Julia. Perhaps you'd71500:34:12.559 --> 00:34:13.400
better get some rest.71600:34:13.679 --> 00:34:17.800
I'm not tired, Harvey. I I've been wanting to ask.71700:34:17.880 --> 00:34:20.840
In a week, Julia will be twenty three. Isn't that wonderful?71800:34:20.840 --> 00:34:21.159
Harvey?71900:34:21.360 --> 00:34:23.920
Next Tuesday's her birthday, we'll.72000:34:23.719 --> 00:34:24.400
Have a party.72100:34:24.679 --> 00:34:26.719
I'll get old Tom in his fiddle and we'll have72200:34:26.760 --> 00:34:28.239
a real old fashioned party.72300:34:28.639 --> 00:34:29.039
Harvey.72400:34:30.079 --> 00:34:31.559
What did father mean by the will?72500:34:32.800 --> 00:34:33.119
Will?72600:34:33.360 --> 00:34:36.159
Perhaps you'd better go to bed. You look a little pale, Julia.72700:34:36.840 --> 00:34:39.239
The will said that I might not be able to72800:34:39.239 --> 00:34:41.800
take over the estate by my twenty third birthday.72900:34:42.760 --> 00:34:47.119
What doesn't mean I don't remember that I didn't read73000:34:47.480 --> 00:34:48.760
the will very carefully.73100:34:48.920 --> 00:34:51.199
Oh, yes you did, Harvey. You know what I'm talking about.73200:34:51.239 --> 00:34:53.599
Perhaps we'd better discuss it in the morning. You're tired.73300:34:53.679 --> 00:34:55.840
It's no use, Laura. I've got to know.73400:34:56.239 --> 00:34:59.639
No, you're a very high strong girl, Julia, and i'd73500:34:59.679 --> 00:35:04.360
rather know upset you before bedtime upset me you and73600:35:04.559 --> 00:35:07.079
you sort of get moody very.73700:35:06.880 --> 00:35:10.320
Often now, Harvey. Laura, I'm not going to bed until73800:35:10.320 --> 00:35:13.320
i find out what all this means. I've got to73900:35:13.400 --> 00:35:14.239
find out.74000:35:15.039 --> 00:35:18.239
You don't like your room, do you?74100:35:18.280 --> 00:35:18.480
No?74200:35:19.000 --> 00:35:23.599
No, I don't. It's big, the wallpaper. I don't like74300:35:23.639 --> 00:35:24.679
the pictures on the wall.74400:35:24.920 --> 00:35:28.039
There's nothing wrong with a big room. Everyone prefers a74500:35:28.119 --> 00:35:31.119
large room. Everyone likes pictures in the wall.74600:35:31.480 --> 00:35:35.880
Maybe it's the kind of pictures, Yes, it's the pictures74700:35:35.920 --> 00:35:38.239
they rub me the wrong way.74800:35:38.519 --> 00:35:42.719
You see, your feelings about things are different, different from74900:35:42.760 --> 00:35:44.800
the feelings of normal people.75000:35:46.079 --> 00:35:46.880
Normal people.75100:35:46.880 --> 00:35:49.960
I can't stand this tortuous way of telling her. I'll75200:35:49.960 --> 00:35:53.000
tell you, Julia, your mother died in an asylum. She75300:35:53.079 --> 00:35:55.519
went mad after her twenty third year. It's been in75400:35:55.599 --> 00:35:57.400
the family for generations.75500:35:58.679 --> 00:35:59.840
I never saw my mother.75600:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.760
I really didn't want to tell you this. I wish75700:36:02.800 --> 00:36:04.920
you hadn't, but you forced us.75800:36:05.679 --> 00:36:09.920
You mean I'm liable to become insane.75900:36:10.519 --> 00:36:15.559
Well, you see, any one of us can become insane.76000:36:15.679 --> 00:36:18.880
There's nothing wrong with me. I'm perfectly all right. I'm76100:36:18.880 --> 00:36:21.840
a sane as anyone. Being high strung doesn't make me mad.76200:36:22.360 --> 00:36:24.920
I don't like it here. I don't like this house.76300:36:25.760 --> 00:36:28.000
I'm sane. I'm sane.76400:36:28.320 --> 00:36:31.840
Of course you are, Julia. There's nothing the matter with you.76500:36:31.840 --> 00:36:34.719
You'll be all right. Your father wasn't sure, that's all.76600:36:35.199 --> 00:36:37.800
You're a sane as any one of us. Come along,76700:36:38.360 --> 00:36:40.480
I'll take you to your room. We'll have a cup76800:36:40.519 --> 00:36:56.119
of tea together. How is she, Laura, she's calmed down?76900:36:56.880 --> 00:36:57.599
Is she asleep?77000:36:57.760 --> 00:36:58.760
No, Harby, she's reading.77100:36:59.639 --> 00:37:06.440
But be doctor Barrow open the door. How do you77200:37:06.480 --> 00:37:08.400
do mister Lyons, is it, doctor Barrow.77300:37:08.480 --> 00:37:08.880
That's right.77400:37:09.199 --> 00:37:10.239
This is my wife, Flora.77500:37:10.360 --> 00:37:10.800
How do you do.77600:37:10.920 --> 00:37:11.719
I'm glad to meet you.77700:37:11.760 --> 00:37:12.079
Doctor.77800:37:12.239 --> 00:37:15.079
Let me take your things. We'll have your room ready77900:37:15.079 --> 00:37:15.639
in a few minutes.78000:37:15.679 --> 00:37:15.960
Thank you.78100:37:16.000 --> 00:37:17.760
It's very good to you here. Sit down, sit down,78200:37:17.800 --> 00:37:18.840
make you self comfortable.78300:37:19.000 --> 00:37:22.800
Well, thank you, I will. Well, how's Julia.78400:37:23.400 --> 00:37:27.320
Oh, she's been very moody lately, very moody. I've heard78500:37:27.320 --> 00:37:29.039
her talking to herself very often.78600:37:29.079 --> 00:37:31.119
Well, that's nothing. All of us talk to ourselves once78700:37:31.159 --> 00:37:31.559
in a while.78800:37:31.920 --> 00:37:35.519
I don't know, doctor, I don't think she's very stable.78900:37:35.760 --> 00:37:38.440
Mister Powell described Julia's case to me just before he died.79000:37:38.679 --> 00:37:40.239
I had occasion to observe.79100:37:39.920 --> 00:37:41.800
Her just once, mister Powell.79200:37:41.840 --> 00:37:45.119
Will oh, yes, quite the number of years I treated79300:37:45.119 --> 00:37:45.920
his wife.79400:37:46.039 --> 00:37:51.280
Poor missus Powell. She went mad, and now poor Julia.79500:37:51.440 --> 00:37:54.559
I wouldn't make that comparisons to Lyons so fa. There's79600:37:54.599 --> 00:37:56.199
no basis for any such theory.79700:37:56.440 --> 00:38:00.440
Well, then Julia just has strong dislikes, okay, hate the79800:38:00.480 --> 00:38:01.320
pictures in the room.79900:38:01.800 --> 00:38:02.320
Pictures.80000:38:02.320 --> 00:38:05.239
Eh. I'd like to go and see her if she's80100:38:05.280 --> 00:38:05.719
not asleep.80200:38:05.880 --> 00:38:07.039
Well, I guess it's all right.80300:38:07.119 --> 00:38:09.519
She's not asleep yet the room's a second from the right,80400:38:09.920 --> 00:38:10.320
reached the.80500:38:10.239 --> 00:38:11.000
Top of the stairs.80600:38:11.000 --> 00:38:11.320
Thank you.80700:38:11.360 --> 00:38:20.239
I was just stopping for a few minutes. Come in, Hello, Julia.80800:38:20.960 --> 00:38:22.599
You remember me, don't you?80900:38:22.599 --> 00:38:27.639
No, No, not exactly. I guess maybe i've seen your face.81000:38:28.400 --> 00:38:28.880
I don't know.81100:38:29.239 --> 00:38:31.119
Doctor Barrol a friend of your father's. I treated your81200:38:31.119 --> 00:38:34.719
mother my mother. No, now, don't be alarm. I'm staying81300:38:34.719 --> 00:38:36.840
with your guardians for a few weeks. I'm sure you're81400:38:36.880 --> 00:38:39.000
going to be all right. Do you mind if I81500:38:39.000 --> 00:38:39.840
come in for a few minutes.81600:38:40.719 --> 00:38:42.639
No, no, I guess not.81700:38:44.840 --> 00:38:45.119
Well.81800:38:45.119 --> 00:38:47.760
This is a fine room, Julia, very comfortable one.81900:38:48.000 --> 00:38:51.880
I don't like it. It's too big. It makes me long.82000:38:52.039 --> 00:38:56.360
No nonsense, you're just imaginative. You think someone might be82100:38:56.400 --> 00:38:58.199
hiding in here while you're asleep, don't you know?82200:38:58.320 --> 00:39:00.559
Huh? It isn't that.82300:39:00.760 --> 00:39:02.440
Don't you like that picture?82400:39:02.519 --> 00:39:02.840
Julia?82500:39:03.159 --> 00:39:04.519
What picture?82600:39:05.280 --> 00:39:06.360
The one you're staring at?82700:39:07.320 --> 00:39:07.480
Oh?82800:39:07.559 --> 00:39:11.880
It's an unpleasant picture. It gives me nightmares. Look at it,82900:39:12.280 --> 00:39:14.880
that frightful looking man about to come through the doorway,83000:39:15.199 --> 00:39:17.440
and the unsuspecting girl sitting in a chair with her83100:39:17.480 --> 00:39:18.280
back towards him.83200:39:19.000 --> 00:39:21.000
He's not fright for looking at all. It's just a83300:39:21.039 --> 00:39:22.519
black scarf around his neck.83400:39:23.079 --> 00:39:24.280
He's about to kill her.83500:39:25.320 --> 00:39:29.000
You certainly have a vivid imagination. I'm sure the artist83600:39:29.039 --> 00:39:30.320
had no such idea in mind.83700:39:30.760 --> 00:39:34.400
That picture has a horrible fascination for me. I just83800:39:34.440 --> 00:39:37.199
can't take my eyes away from it. Well, last night83900:39:37.199 --> 00:39:39.639
I dreamed that the man in the picture came through84000:39:39.679 --> 00:39:42.920
the door with a knife in his hands and kill84100:39:43.000 --> 00:39:45.719
the girl. It was an awful dream.84200:39:45.760 --> 00:39:48.559
It was only a dream. But if I take that84300:39:48.599 --> 00:39:51.360
painting off the wall, Julia, you'll find other things to84400:39:51.400 --> 00:39:54.599
be afraid of. Dear, You've got to conquer your fears84500:39:55.000 --> 00:39:55.760
or they'll conquer you.84600:39:55.840 --> 00:39:56.159
Julia.84700:39:56.920 --> 00:39:59.199
Nah, Now you do as I say. Forget about this picture.84800:39:59.239 --> 00:40:01.320
Get a good night's There's nothing like a good night's84900:40:01.320 --> 00:40:04.199
sleep to lift the spirits. If the picture fascinates you,85000:40:04.280 --> 00:40:06.440
will keep on looking at it, but don't be afraid85100:40:06.440 --> 00:40:08.360
of it, Julia. Will you do that now?85200:40:10.000 --> 00:40:13.119
Yes, Doctor Beryl, if you say so, Ah.85300:40:13.079 --> 00:40:15.119
That's fine, I'll see you in the morning.85400:40:15.280 --> 00:40:17.320
Good night, Julia, good night.85500:40:29.719 --> 00:40:32.800
Or suspense Roma wines are bringing you as star mis85600:40:32.880 --> 00:40:35.519
Lana Turner, whom you've heard in the first act of85700:40:36.079 --> 00:40:39.519
Fear Pains, a picture by Sigmund Miller, which is Roma85800:40:39.519 --> 00:40:43.039
Wind's presentation Tonight of Suspense.85900:40:50.079 --> 00:40:53.199
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Roma Wines. Elsa Maxwell is recognized internationally as an authority86100:40:58.840 --> 00:41:02.320
on gracious living. The other day she said this about86200:41:02.400 --> 00:41:04.519
wine and wartime food rationing.86300:41:04.960 --> 00:41:05.280
Listen.86400:41:06.119 --> 00:41:08.880
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delicious meals aren't bothered much by food rationing. That secret86600:41:13.119 --> 00:41:16.679
is to enjoy good Roma wine with food. For instance,86700:41:17.000 --> 00:41:19.480
I recently had dinner where the main dish was kidney86800:41:19.480 --> 00:41:22.840
bean casserole, and to give this simple food a delightful86900:41:22.880 --> 00:41:28.159
party flavor, my hostess served cool Roma California Burgundy. Every87000:41:28.159 --> 00:41:31.719
One remarked about its wonderful bouquet and aroma, and about87100:41:31.719 --> 00:41:35.000
the way that good Roma Burgundy added enjoyment to our87200:41:35.079 --> 00:41:39.000
plain meal. Such added enjoyment is one of the reasons87300:41:39.000 --> 00:41:43.199
why more and more people serve delightful Roma wine.87400:41:43.280 --> 00:41:47.119
That's a grand suggestion from Elsa Maxwell. So why not87500:41:47.280 --> 00:41:51.280
try Roma California Burgundy with your dinner tomorrow night. You'll87600:41:51.440 --> 00:41:56.639
enjoy its tart piquancy, It's fruity, robust taste. The happy87700:41:56.679 --> 00:42:00.639
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guiding them to perfection by the ancient wine skill of87900:42:04.800 --> 00:42:09.679
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always enjoyable, yet cost only pennies of glass. Remember, more88100:42:14.840 --> 00:42:21.119
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Roma Wines and.88300:42:23.559 --> 00:42:26.360
Now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood sound stage.88400:42:26.440 --> 00:42:30.360
Lana Turner as Julia Powell in Fear Paints a picture88500:42:31.000 --> 00:42:34.559
a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.88600:42:46.559 --> 00:42:49.480
About midnight in my room, the large room with its88700:42:49.519 --> 00:42:53.599
many pictures, I was dreaming, dreaming again of the man88800:42:53.639 --> 00:42:56.400
in the picture, and the figure with a flowing black88900:42:56.440 --> 00:43:02.679
scarf was alive, and does hands grew longer longer, And89000:43:02.719 --> 00:43:09.000
there were footsteps, footsteps over my head. And then and89100:43:09.159 --> 00:43:12.719
I was awake, waite, awake, with my eyes staring at89200:43:12.719 --> 00:43:14.039
it and on the wall.89300:43:22.480 --> 00:43:26.760
Julia, what's happened in the hall together? Juh?89400:43:26.880 --> 00:43:29.920
That man, that man? What the man in the picture,89500:43:30.000 --> 00:43:33.800
he's moved the picture. The man at the door, He's89600:43:33.800 --> 00:43:34.480
not at the door.89700:43:34.800 --> 00:43:37.960
He's inside the room.89800:43:39.039 --> 00:43:40.920
Julia, what's happened to you?89900:43:41.000 --> 00:43:44.400
He moved? I saw it. He's not outside the door anymore,90000:43:45.000 --> 00:43:50.360
he's inside. It wasn't a dream. The thunderwalk me and90100:43:50.440 --> 00:43:54.199
I heard footsteps coming from the ceiling. And then I90200:43:54.239 --> 00:43:56.480
looked at the picture, the picture I told you I90300:43:56.519 --> 00:43:59.320
didn't like. Doctor man was inside the room.90400:44:00.079 --> 00:44:00.880
Possible, Julia.90500:44:01.199 --> 00:44:03.079
Figures and pictures can't move.90600:44:03.039 --> 00:44:03.440
Of course.90700:44:03.480 --> 00:44:03.559
Not.90800:44:03.639 --> 00:44:04.880
It was just a bad dream.90900:44:05.119 --> 00:44:06.559
No, it's true, I saw it.91000:44:06.599 --> 00:44:06.920
All right.91100:44:07.039 --> 00:44:08.760
Come along, Julia, we'll all take a look.91200:44:08.679 --> 00:44:09.199
At the picture.91300:44:09.480 --> 00:44:11.920
No, no, I don't want to go back into the room.91400:44:11.960 --> 00:44:13.079
Now, there's nothing to be afraid of.91500:44:13.159 --> 00:44:15.880
We'll all go with you here. Oh yes, come on, Julia,91600:44:16.119 --> 00:44:18.719
don't be frighten if you've got to fight off these91700:44:18.960 --> 00:44:20.239
delusion here, give.91800:44:20.079 --> 00:44:20.639
Me your hand.91900:44:20.719 --> 00:44:21.320
Come along.92000:44:24.519 --> 00:44:25.039
Now.92100:44:25.519 --> 00:44:26.599
Which picture is it?92200:44:26.760 --> 00:44:28.559
The one, the one near the bed?92300:44:29.079 --> 00:44:30.800
Oh, yes, there, Ralph, Paul.92400:44:30.719 --> 00:44:32.519
Your family was always very proud of it.92500:44:32.760 --> 00:44:34.159
Well, there it is.92600:44:34.599 --> 00:44:36.440
It's the same as I saw it a few hours ago.92700:44:37.199 --> 00:44:42.199
Look at it, Julia, Well, I can't believe it.92800:44:42.280 --> 00:44:44.760
The man with the black scarf is still outside the door.92900:44:45.280 --> 00:44:49.360
And we'll stay there, Julia, until the picture crumbles to dust.93000:44:50.960 --> 00:44:54.719
I was so sure I saw him inside the room,93100:44:55.400 --> 00:44:57.920
approaching the girl, and then the footsticks.93200:44:57.960 --> 00:45:00.119
Dreams can be very vivid, and there are no who93300:45:00.199 --> 00:45:01.400
steps coming from the storeroom.93400:45:02.280 --> 00:45:06.519
Oh I must be out of my mind. I could93500:45:06.519 --> 00:45:07.079
have saved you.93600:45:07.239 --> 00:45:09.239
You want to, I'll take the picture out of her room.93700:45:09.320 --> 00:45:12.960
No, no, I don't think it's wise, Julia. You will93800:45:13.000 --> 00:45:15.599
have to fight these unreasonable fears. Never give in to them.93900:45:16.239 --> 00:45:18.840
I'll go crazy if I keep looking at that picture.94000:45:19.199 --> 00:45:21.760
It might be the other way around, Julia. If you94100:45:21.840 --> 00:45:24.639
run away from it, a mental disease prevalent in your94200:45:24.679 --> 00:45:27.840
family will take a firm hold in you. You'll get94300:45:27.880 --> 00:45:30.679
worse and worse. As doctor Barrow says, you need to94400:45:30.719 --> 00:45:33.599
be afraid of your own shadow. You'd be afraid of everything,94500:45:33.719 --> 00:45:36.199
of everyone you meet, afraid to be alone, afraid to94600:45:36.239 --> 00:45:39.000
be with people, afraid of yourself, afraid of your own94700:45:39.039 --> 00:45:40.039
clutching fingers.94800:45:40.079 --> 00:45:41.960
No, no, don't tell me any.94900:45:41.760 --> 00:45:44.639
Please, mister Lions, Please, there's no need for this kind95000:45:44.639 --> 00:45:48.960
of talk. Look at the picture, Julia. It's nothing but95100:45:49.000 --> 00:45:51.159
some paint on the canvas with a frame around it.95200:45:51.679 --> 00:45:54.960
There's nothing about it that can harm you. The dangerlize95300:45:55.000 --> 00:45:57.079
in yourself. You've got to keep staring at it as95400:45:57.079 --> 00:46:01.000
often as you can. By candlelight in the dark. Until95500:46:01.039 --> 00:46:02.440
you've learned to laugh at it.95600:46:02.440 --> 00:46:03.320
It won't be easy.95700:46:05.800 --> 00:46:06.360
I'll try.95800:46:06.559 --> 00:46:08.920
That's fine. I knew you had courage.95900:46:08.920 --> 00:46:10.519
I'll get you a sedative so that you'll be able96000:46:10.559 --> 00:46:10.880
to sleep.96100:46:11.280 --> 00:46:15.400
But I'll be all right in the morning. I'm sure96200:46:15.440 --> 00:46:24.920
i'll be. And I was all right For a few days.96300:46:25.599 --> 00:46:28.360
The figure in the picture remained motionless, and I heard96400:46:28.360 --> 00:46:31.119
no more footsteps until one evening.96500:46:31.280 --> 00:46:33.880
Julia, it's eleven o'clock, and you know what doctor Barrow says.96600:46:34.639 --> 00:46:37.519
I'm not at all sleepy, Laura. I'd much rather stay96700:46:37.599 --> 00:46:39.559
up for a while. You see, I'm in the middle96800:46:39.599 --> 00:46:43.760
of a fascinating story. That's wrong, Julia, No, no, of96900:46:43.760 --> 00:46:45.559
course not. Everything's fine, Laura.97000:46:45.840 --> 00:46:48.400
You're afraid to go to sleep, aren't you, Julia.97100:46:48.159 --> 00:46:51.280
Dear, no, no, it isn't that.97200:46:52.159 --> 00:46:53.920
Is that picture bothering you again?97300:46:54.760 --> 00:46:55.000
Oh?97400:46:55.159 --> 00:47:00.199
Yes, last night I heard footsteps again. The sound me97500:47:00.880 --> 00:47:05.119
a figure in the picture. It moved, it moved closer97600:47:05.159 --> 00:47:05.800
to the girl.97700:47:06.000 --> 00:47:08.800
Oh, how terrible. We thought you were over it.97800:47:09.639 --> 00:47:12.559
Well, I took some sleeping tablets and I fell asleep again.97900:47:13.480 --> 00:47:16.599
And in the morning, well, the picture was the same98000:47:16.639 --> 00:47:23.719
as ever, I see, Laura, do you think I'm crazy.98100:47:23.920 --> 00:47:24.559
Of course not.98200:47:24.920 --> 00:47:26.239
You're as same as I am.98300:47:26.960 --> 00:47:29.079
Tell me the truth. I must know.98400:47:29.719 --> 00:47:32.199
You're just nervous and I strung, and you have a98500:47:32.239 --> 00:47:34.000
vivid imagination, and that's all.98600:47:34.119 --> 00:47:35.360
You're trying to soothe me.98700:47:35.760 --> 00:47:37.480
Why didn't you tell the doctor that you thought the98800:47:37.519 --> 00:47:38.400
picture moved again?98900:47:39.119 --> 00:47:39.320
Right?99000:47:40.119 --> 00:47:41.000
I was ashamed.99100:47:41.239 --> 00:47:43.880
You shouldn't be ashamed. Doctor Barry was here to help99200:47:43.920 --> 00:47:45.440
you get well, and I'm sure that.99300:47:45.639 --> 00:47:46.239
Hello, Laura.99400:47:46.920 --> 00:47:49.039
Well, I've arranged to have old Tom in this fiddle99500:47:49.079 --> 00:47:51.760
here tomorrow night for Julia's birthday, and I've invited the99600:47:51.840 --> 00:47:55.119
Grovers and they'll be delighted to come. That is, if99700:47:55.199 --> 00:47:56.280
Julia's feeling well.99800:47:56.360 --> 00:47:58.199
Julie, you should be in bedice after eleven.99900:47:58.360 --> 00:47:59.760
She's afraid to go to sleep.100000:48:00.119 --> 00:48:02.840
Please, Laura, it's the picture again, isn't it?100100:48:03.639 --> 00:48:08.119
Yes, doctor it moved again. At at least I thought100200:48:08.159 --> 00:48:10.239
it moved. Oh but I went back to sleep.100300:48:10.440 --> 00:48:13.599
Well, well that's an improvement. You didn't get hysterical and100400:48:13.639 --> 00:48:14.920
try to run away like the last time.100500:48:15.039 --> 00:48:18.679
Come, Julia, I'll go with you to your room.100600:48:18.880 --> 00:48:22.440
Perhaps Laura cann't sleep in my room tonight, Oh just tonight,100700:48:23.440 --> 00:48:26.679
you see, I'll feel a lot more comfortable, and tomorrow night, well,100800:48:27.000 --> 00:48:29.119
I'll be able to face it alone much better.100900:48:30.280 --> 00:48:33.159
Well, Julia, that would be an admission of defeat, you know,101000:48:33.480 --> 00:48:36.119
But if you, oh, well.101100:48:36.440 --> 00:48:41.559
All right, if you think it's best, good night, Good night, Julia,101200:48:41.960 --> 00:48:43.159
keep up your courage.101300:48:45.400 --> 00:48:48.039
Wow, doesn't look so good, does a doctor?101400:48:48.159 --> 00:48:50.920
Well, not too good, but it's not hopeless. She has101500:48:50.920 --> 00:48:54.320
an unstable, imaginative mind, subject to delusions which become very101600:48:54.360 --> 00:48:57.119
real to her. Oh, her obsession about the pictures not101700:48:57.159 --> 00:49:00.599
so bad. We all suffer occasionally from optical illusions. But101800:49:00.760 --> 00:49:03.400
hearing footsteps coming from the storeroom above her.101900:49:03.760 --> 00:49:07.320
The storeroom. How did you know there's a storeroom above her?102000:49:08.480 --> 00:49:09.800
Why your wife told me about it?102100:49:10.320 --> 00:49:14.639
Of course? Well, that storeroom hasn't been opening years. I102200:49:14.679 --> 00:49:17.039
guess there's no point in investigating it, is there.102300:49:17.159 --> 00:49:19.559
No, I don't think so. Those footsteps, like the moving102400:49:19.599 --> 00:49:21.760
figure and the painting are all in her mind.102500:49:22.800 --> 00:49:25.840
Her mother behaved just like that before she went mad,102600:49:26.159 --> 00:49:26.599
didn't she.102700:49:27.360 --> 00:49:32.519
Well, there's some similarity in say, you haven't been to102800:49:32.559 --> 00:49:33.800
the storeroom recently, have you?102900:49:33.920 --> 00:49:34.239
No?103000:49:34.239 --> 00:49:36.199
No, I just mentioned to you that it hasn't been103100:49:36.239 --> 00:49:37.000
opened in years.103200:49:37.320 --> 00:49:38.760
Oh, yes, yes, so you did so you did.103300:49:39.360 --> 00:49:39.559
Oh.103400:49:39.639 --> 00:49:41.840
I just hope that Julia will be all well for103500:49:41.880 --> 00:49:43.000
her party tomorrow.103600:49:43.559 --> 00:49:45.400
I had no idea she was having a birthday. How103700:49:45.400 --> 00:49:46.039
old will she be?103800:49:46.280 --> 00:49:47.800
She'll be twenty three.103900:49:48.119 --> 00:49:51.400
Really, I must remember to get her a gift. Well,104000:49:52.280 --> 00:49:53.119
I guess I'll go to.104100:49:53.039 --> 00:49:55.360
Bed, so all I see you in the morning.104200:50:02.679 --> 00:50:05.880
But I wasn't thinking about my birthday. When I stood104300:50:05.880 --> 00:50:10.920
alone inside my own room, panic, black, unreasoning panic began104400:50:11.039 --> 00:50:14.519
to take hold of me in wild haste. I began104500:50:14.559 --> 00:50:20.679
to undress, never looking at the picture and talking to myself, Yes,104600:50:20.920 --> 00:50:25.159
talking to myself all the while. Now now I won't104700:50:25.159 --> 00:50:28.400
look at it. I'll take some pills and fall asleep.104800:50:29.800 --> 00:50:31.400
All I have to do is keep from looking at104900:50:31.400 --> 00:50:34.920
the picture. It can't do me any harm if I105000:50:34.920 --> 00:50:39.199
don't see it. I mustn't even think of it. I know,105100:50:39.280 --> 00:50:42.039
I'll think about the trip I made to South America.105200:50:43.840 --> 00:50:48.280
It was a wonderful trip. The sun sets and what105300:50:48.440 --> 00:50:55.440
was that footsteps? Those footsteps again? But I mustn't hear it.105400:50:56.360 --> 00:51:00.559
I mustn't hear it. It was a wonder foot trip105500:51:01.159 --> 00:51:04.960
the Blue Caribbean and Rio is a beautiful city and105600:51:05.079 --> 00:51:11.039
Sugarloaf Mountain and the music and the dancing way. It's105700:51:11.119 --> 00:51:14.960
not the footsteps. It's just my heart beating.105800:51:16.320 --> 00:51:16.599
I know.105900:51:17.079 --> 00:51:21.480
I'll close my eyes. How please please let me stream.106000:51:22.679 --> 00:51:24.000
I don't want to look at the picture.106100:51:24.760 --> 00:51:25.280
I won't.106200:51:26.760 --> 00:51:30.079
I know what I'll see. He'll be closer to her,106300:51:31.400 --> 00:51:35.800
and maybe he'll have killed it. But I mustn't open106400:51:35.840 --> 00:51:42.760
my eyes. I mustn't. I won't like. Oh, I've got106500:51:42.800 --> 00:51:50.280
to look at it. He has moved, he's closer to106600:51:50.320 --> 00:51:55.400
the girl. I'm not dreaming. It's real.106700:51:56.000 --> 00:51:56.440
The girl.106800:51:57.679 --> 00:52:01.599
Why it's me, that girl, me me.106900:52:01.760 --> 00:52:04.800
I can't stand and I can't.107000:52:04.800 --> 00:52:05.719
I can't.107100:52:09.480 --> 00:52:12.440
Julia, Oh you, poor, poor dear girl.107200:52:12.880 --> 00:52:16.119
It's the same thing, Laura. Again and again. I tried107300:52:16.159 --> 00:52:17.800
not to look at the picture, Laura. I tried so107400:52:18.079 --> 00:52:21.639
very hard, but it was hopeless. I had to. And107500:52:21.679 --> 00:52:24.440
the figure with the black scarf was inside the room,107600:52:24.840 --> 00:52:27.320
a knife in his hands, very close to the girl.107700:52:28.400 --> 00:52:32.119
This time the girl had turned around, and and it107800:52:32.239 --> 00:52:35.000
was my face, my face.107900:52:35.519 --> 00:52:36.920
Did you hear any footsteps?108000:52:37.159 --> 00:52:39.239
Yes, yes, I heard them as soon as I got108100:52:39.239 --> 00:52:44.239
into the room. But the picture it's the same, it108200:52:44.320 --> 00:52:46.599
hasn't changed. Look at it.108300:52:47.360 --> 00:52:52.719
Yes, the picture doesn't seem to her. What's the matter, Laura, Nothing,108400:52:53.280 --> 00:52:53.840
nothing at all?108500:52:54.559 --> 00:52:58.199
There they did you hear it? Footsteps?108600:52:58.239 --> 00:53:00.880
Probably a board greeting. Now you go to sleep. I108700:53:00.920 --> 00:53:03.000
think everything will be all right in the morning.108800:53:04.280 --> 00:53:06.440
You won't leave me, No, Julia.108900:53:06.800 --> 00:53:09.639
I'll stay here till you fall asleep.109000:53:10.199 --> 00:53:32.360
Oh, thank you, Laura, Thank you very much, Laura.109100:53:33.639 --> 00:53:34.840
Laura. Is that you?109200:53:36.400 --> 00:53:36.760
Laura?109300:53:39.440 --> 00:53:45.159
Well she's gone. She's left me alone. But I I'm109400:53:45.199 --> 00:53:52.559
not alone. Something woke me. The picture. It's the picture.109500:53:53.280 --> 00:53:57.360
I must look at it again if he's moved again.109600:53:58.840 --> 00:54:03.320
But I'm just look straight at it. I look straight109700:54:03.559 --> 00:54:03.880
at it.109800:54:05.559 --> 00:54:05.719
Oh.109900:54:07.800 --> 00:54:13.760
Why he's killed the girl. He stabbed her. He stabbed me.110000:54:15.039 --> 00:54:18.679
I'm the girl and I've got to get out out.110100:54:21.440 --> 00:54:29.639
Oh oh, and now you're here. Why you you've come110200:54:29.679 --> 00:54:34.599
to life in my room? The man in the black scarf?110300:54:36.119 --> 00:54:42.119
You what do you want me to do? No? No,110400:54:42.239 --> 00:54:49.000
I won't run away and I won't scream. What are110500:54:49.039 --> 00:54:52.960
you asking me? Do I want to spend the rest110600:54:53.000 --> 00:54:58.079
of my life in an asylum like my mother? No? No,110700:54:58.199 --> 00:55:03.719
I don't. I don't you You want me to.110800:55:03.679 --> 00:55:04.519
Open the window?110900:55:07.119 --> 00:55:15.400
Ah, yes, yes, I'll open it. Yeah, you say, you111000:55:15.440 --> 00:55:18.679
say it would be best for everybody if I jump.111100:55:20.320 --> 00:55:26.239
Oh yes, it's the only way out, the only way,111200:55:26.280 --> 00:55:32.880
and I'll do it. I'll do it now without even thanking.111300:55:32.960 --> 00:55:37.199
It will will only take it a moment.111400:55:41.559 --> 00:55:45.440
Julia, Stop, Stop, Julia, Clara, what do you do when111500:55:45.440 --> 00:55:45.800
you games?111600:55:45.880 --> 00:55:46.320
Just in time?111700:55:46.679 --> 00:55:47.519
I've got a harmy.111800:55:47.800 --> 00:55:49.800
She's safe, I'm safe.111900:55:50.000 --> 00:55:52.519
You can come out from behind that chair, my friend, friend,112000:55:52.719 --> 00:55:53.840
come out, or I'll shoot.112100:55:54.880 --> 00:55:59.199
I don't understand. My head's going around in a circle.112200:56:00.199 --> 00:56:01.159
I was merely observing.112300:56:01.239 --> 00:56:02.960
Julius procedure was a little unusual.112400:56:03.480 --> 00:56:06.239
I'll do the explaining, Doctor Barrow. You tried to drive112500:56:06.320 --> 00:56:07.000
Julia crazy.112600:56:07.239 --> 00:56:09.880
He tried to drive me crazy.112700:56:09.880 --> 00:56:11.800
That's right. He tried to do it with the picture.112800:56:11.840 --> 00:56:14.079
You're all making a serious mistake, a mistake.112900:56:14.679 --> 00:56:17.159
Look at the picture. The figure is inside the room113000:56:17.239 --> 00:56:20.800
stabbing the girls. No, it wasn't your imagination, Julia. He113100:56:20.840 --> 00:56:23.760
painted several pictures, each one of them the figure close113200:56:23.800 --> 00:56:26.519
of the girl. He used the storeroom upstairs. That's why113300:56:26.559 --> 00:56:27.400
you heard footsteps.113400:56:27.440 --> 00:56:29.280
I got suspicious when I found a black scarf in113500:56:29.320 --> 00:56:30.840
his room. And when I look at the picture a113600:56:30.840 --> 00:56:32.800
little while ago, it was full of dust. I had113700:56:32.880 --> 00:56:34.760
dusted it off my stuff a few hours just before.113800:56:34.920 --> 00:56:36.960
Yes, and doctor Barrow seemed to know there was a113900:56:37.000 --> 00:56:40.000
storeroom above you. I couldn't understand how he knew that114000:56:40.400 --> 00:56:43.079
because this old house of your father's been closed for years?114100:56:43.880 --> 00:56:46.960
Why why should he want to drive me crazy?114200:56:47.199 --> 00:56:51.159
Because he's not doctor Barrow. What's Ralph Powell, your cousin114300:56:51.199 --> 00:56:53.840
who just appeared many years ago everyone thought he was dead.114400:56:54.000 --> 00:56:56.519
He painted the picture originally, so it was easy for.114500:56:56.519 --> 00:56:59.800
Him his plans to drive you insane then contest the114600:56:59.800 --> 00:57:01.920
with since he's the nearest blood relative.114700:57:01.960 --> 00:57:03.880
I had no intention of killing Julia. I swear I didn't.114800:57:03.920 --> 00:57:06.960
I just wanted to fight in her I almost.114900:57:07.880 --> 00:57:10.960
I almost jumped out of the window. I might have115000:57:11.039 --> 00:57:15.239
been dead right now, lying dead outside.115100:57:15.800 --> 00:57:18.280
Don't think about it, Julia. Yeah, it's all over now,115200:57:18.559 --> 00:57:19.360
you're all right.115300:57:20.199 --> 00:57:22.559
He may not. I'm not.115400:57:23.440 --> 00:57:28.440
I didn't say you, of course not, Julia. I almost forgot.115500:57:28.760 --> 00:57:29.840
Why it's Thursday?115600:57:30.239 --> 00:57:30.440
Why?115700:57:30.519 --> 00:57:30.719
Yes?115800:57:31.480 --> 00:57:34.800
Happy birthday, Julia? How does it feel to be twenty115900:57:34.800 --> 00:57:35.639
three years old?116000:57:37.920 --> 00:57:40.800
Hip feels wonderful?116100:57:57.599 --> 00:58:02.440
Oh, this cocoa is good. Thank you for the suggestion.116200:58:02.760 --> 00:58:06.559
I don't usually dabble in something so sweet and rich,116300:58:06.639 --> 00:58:10.159
but well, it is a special time of year, and116400:58:10.239 --> 00:58:12.880
I'm happy to do it with you. You know, you know116500:58:13.679 --> 00:58:16.280
I'm going to do something extra special next week, so116600:58:16.360 --> 00:58:20.000
I sure do hope I see you here. We'll listen116700:58:20.079 --> 00:58:23.559
to a whole lot of scary stories, a plethora of them.116800:58:24.079 --> 00:58:27.639
We'll stay up late, we'll eat snacks and cookies and116900:58:28.119 --> 00:58:34.320
drink tea and cocoa because there's so much more to117000:58:34.400 --> 00:58:39.960
life and death than just being alone. But now now117100:58:40.239 --> 00:58:42.159
let's listen to Fear.117200:59:00.800 --> 00:59:08.119
Come in. We welcome. I'm E. G. Marshall. Our story117300:59:08.239 --> 00:59:09.960
is concerned with fear.117400:59:11.760 --> 00:59:12.800
What is fear?117500:59:13.840 --> 00:59:18.840
We know it's symptoms, the chilled blood, shortened breath, But117600:59:18.960 --> 00:59:24.039
what is the emotion itself and where does it come from? Well,117700:59:24.800 --> 00:59:28.239
it is the anticipation of something that has not yet happened.117800:59:29.159 --> 00:59:31.760
It is the alarm our bodies.117900:59:31.559 --> 00:59:34.280
Set up to tell us we're about to be injured.118000:59:35.199 --> 00:59:38.119
All we really know is that the thing to be118100:59:38.239 --> 00:59:41.960
feared is not now, it's around the corner.118200:59:42.840 --> 00:59:46.000
Fear is the voice that says watch out.118300:59:47.559 --> 00:59:51.719
Our mystery drama Fear was written especially for the Mystery118400:59:51.760 --> 00:59:56.360
Theater by Elsbeth Eric and stars Jack Grimes. It is118500:59:56.400 --> 00:59:59.639
sponsored in part by Anhuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of but118600:59:59.760 --> 01:00:03.400
why and your singer sewing Center. I'll be back shortly118701:00:03.559 --> 01:00:18.280
with that one. And no one lives, has lived, or118801:00:18.320 --> 01:00:23.400
will ever live without fear. The rich, the powerful, the elite.118901:00:24.000 --> 01:00:27.400
You think they don't feel fear. I think they feel119001:00:27.400 --> 01:00:31.599
it constantly, because they are constantly on guard lest they119101:00:31.639 --> 01:00:36.000
be toppled from their positions. Well, the hero of this119201:00:36.119 --> 01:00:40.840
story occupies no such position. He is an obscure bank119301:00:40.880 --> 01:00:45.920
teller close to middle age, and his name is Edgar Ellerby.119401:00:46.039 --> 01:00:49.199
But he, too, like the rest of us, is.119501:00:49.239 --> 01:00:50.679
Haunted by fear.119601:00:56.079 --> 01:01:00.800
I've been afraid all my life of what of everything119701:01:01.239 --> 01:01:02.440
that I mean everything.119801:01:03.760 --> 01:01:04.719
When I was little and.119901:01:04.719 --> 01:01:06.960
In school, I was afraid the teacher would call on120001:01:07.039 --> 01:01:09.719
me and I wouldn't know the answer. If I knew120101:01:09.719 --> 01:01:11.519
at one time, I was sure I wouldn't know it120201:01:11.599 --> 01:01:14.880
the next. If I asked a girl for a date120301:01:14.920 --> 01:01:16.880
and she turned me down, I was scared to death.120401:01:16.920 --> 01:01:19.320
There was something repulsive about me that I didn't know120501:01:19.360 --> 01:01:22.840
about and couldn't correct. If she accepted, I was sure120601:01:22.880 --> 01:01:26.920
there was something awful about her. Even now, I can't120701:01:27.000 --> 01:01:29.079
nail a letter without worrying that I've forgotten to put120801:01:29.079 --> 01:01:31.320
a stamp on it, or have gotten the zip code wrong.120901:01:33.480 --> 01:01:37.039
You'll wonder why I became a bank teller. Well, there121001:01:37.119 --> 01:01:39.239
was something about having to account for money at the121101:01:39.320 --> 01:01:43.280
end of every single day. You can't go home unless121201:01:43.320 --> 01:01:46.920
you balanced everything out. I thought that would be a121301:01:46.960 --> 01:01:51.000
calming influence, going home every day knowing that it had121401:01:51.039 --> 01:01:53.199
all come out. Even then, I was in the clear.121501:01:54.800 --> 01:02:00.840
And then one day it happened. I think, I'm sure.121601:02:01.840 --> 01:02:05.400
I think I'm sure. We all know you're short, Eddie.121701:02:05.559 --> 01:02:06.519
You're just finding it out.121801:02:06.960 --> 01:02:08.840
I'm in short my cash?121901:02:08.880 --> 01:02:09.559
How much Eddy?122001:02:09.840 --> 01:02:10.599
Ninety dollars?122101:02:10.639 --> 01:02:12.360
Oh, you're gonna catch it.122201:02:12.400 --> 01:02:14.880
Don't be like that, Hilda. It can happen to anybody.122301:02:14.960 --> 01:02:15.920
It's never happened to me.122401:02:16.440 --> 01:02:18.119
You want me to count it up for you? Ready?122501:02:18.239 --> 01:02:20.039
Oh? Mary Low, would you? I've been over it so122601:02:20.119 --> 01:02:20.719
many times.122701:02:20.719 --> 01:02:21.039
Watch it.122801:02:21.280 --> 01:02:22.320
Here comes old Topper.122901:02:23.119 --> 01:02:24.960
Wait until he goes into his office.123001:02:24.760 --> 01:02:27.440
Right, writer, wouldn't do to have the manager finnd out?123101:02:27.519 --> 01:02:29.519
You can't. I'm tired, that's all.123201:02:29.800 --> 01:02:33.000
Just shut up, build up, good afternoon, mister Tupper.123301:02:33.239 --> 01:02:37.440
Miss mister Tupper, h step into my office, will yellow me?123401:02:37.760 --> 01:02:40.679
But now, mister Tupper, right now.123501:02:40.679 --> 01:02:43.760
Afternoon, mister Tupper later normal short.123601:02:44.760 --> 01:02:47.400
What do you suppose he wants He couldn't have found out.123701:02:47.440 --> 01:02:50.280
I'm sure my cash. I just found out myself.123801:02:50.320 --> 01:02:53.880
Sad news to a foul Oh that don't be so dumb.123901:02:54.280 --> 01:02:56.199
This is the first time he's asked to see me124001:02:56.320 --> 01:02:58.039
about anything heady.124101:02:58.559 --> 01:03:01.119
Maybe it's about a promotion. Did you ever think of that?124201:03:02.800 --> 01:03:03.719
You could think it could be?124301:03:03.920 --> 01:03:05.199
Well, you've been going to school.124401:03:06.199 --> 01:03:08.639
He's gonna make you a vice president with a great124501:03:08.679 --> 01:03:09.920
big desk up front.124601:03:10.320 --> 01:03:14.079
My grades aren't even in. Yes, don't worry till you no.124701:03:14.440 --> 01:03:15.559
Don't keep you waiting.124801:03:15.960 --> 01:03:19.039
That's one thing bank managers don't care for being kept waiting.124901:03:19.079 --> 01:03:21.239
You run along, Eddie and then come back and tell125001:03:21.400 --> 01:03:22.960
them good luck.125101:03:27.920 --> 01:03:31.480
Coming. That's coming.125201:03:31.599 --> 01:03:37.480
Lebby up, Thank you, sir, take care of leby. This125301:03:37.639 --> 01:03:40.000
Detective Bradshaw, Bradshaw.125401:03:40.079 --> 01:03:48.320
This is ed Yellowby. Hello, Detective brad Show. Uh, brad Show. Sorry,125501:03:48.400 --> 01:03:52.559
nice to meet you, Yes, sir, thank you sir.125601:03:53.039 --> 01:03:57.599
And I I suppose you're wondering why Detective Bradshaws here.125701:03:59.760 --> 01:04:03.480
I'm wondering why I'm here. Well, that comes straight to125801:04:03.480 --> 01:04:06.639
the park. One of our branches was held up this noon?125901:04:07.760 --> 01:04:09.480
Why held up?126001:04:10.159 --> 01:04:11.559
He went over by the river.126101:04:12.400 --> 01:04:17.039
That's terrible. Fella got away with eight thousand dollars. She126201:04:17.239 --> 01:04:18.639
that makes me feel terrible.126301:04:19.159 --> 01:04:20.679
It happened about twelve fifteen.126401:04:21.199 --> 01:04:23.800
Twelve fifteen, that's terrible.126501:04:24.079 --> 01:04:26.840
Guy walks up to one of the tellers, is handed over,126601:04:27.000 --> 01:04:29.760
Tell her hands it over. Guy walks out over done126701:04:29.800 --> 01:04:32.599
with like that?126801:04:32.599 --> 01:04:33.400
That's awful.126901:04:34.400 --> 01:04:36.280
Where were you at that time? Elvine?127001:04:36.960 --> 01:04:38.840
For me? Why I was here?127101:04:39.360 --> 01:04:39.480
Oh?127201:04:39.599 --> 01:04:41.679
On a way? Do you? You said? Twelve fifteen?127301:04:41.920 --> 01:04:42.480
That's right.127401:04:42.760 --> 01:04:45.760
Oh, I was on my launch hower. That's my lunch127501:04:45.760 --> 01:04:49.079
hour at twelve to one. Do you mind telling us127601:04:49.320 --> 01:04:51.639
where you wait lunch? Which restaurant?127701:04:52.599 --> 01:04:54.719
Well, I tell me eat in restaurants.127801:04:54.760 --> 01:04:57.920
I eat well, I mean I bring my own lunch127901:04:58.119 --> 01:05:00.880
in a lunch box, you know, sandwich, a piece of fruit,128001:05:00.960 --> 01:05:06.159
and well, sometimes in the park. Sometimes I eat it here.128101:05:06.840 --> 01:05:09.920
Where did you eat it today?128201:05:11.239 --> 01:05:13.400
Today? It was so hot?128301:05:13.599 --> 01:05:15.159
Well today I didn't eat in the park.128401:05:15.199 --> 01:05:17.239
I ate down by the river.128501:05:17.480 --> 01:05:17.840
Uh huh.128601:05:18.480 --> 01:05:21.400
But nowhere near the bank. Nowhere near but blocks somewhere128701:05:21.480 --> 01:05:25.599
that branch is blocked from there. Anybody see you? But128801:05:26.239 --> 01:05:32.079
somebody must have. Oh somebody. I went right down to128901:05:32.119 --> 01:05:34.440
the river bank. I wanted to catch a breeze off129001:05:34.480 --> 01:05:37.159
the river if I could. I remember I thought of129101:05:37.239 --> 01:05:39.320
going out on one of the piers, but they were129201:05:39.360 --> 01:05:42.920
unloading a boat, so I didn't. I I just sat129301:05:43.000 --> 01:05:43.800
down on the bank.129401:05:44.840 --> 01:05:47.039
So the guys unloading the boat didn't see you.129501:05:48.119 --> 01:05:50.519
Well, they might have noticed me that they might have129601:05:50.559 --> 01:05:53.320
a of course, they were pretty busy, but they.129701:05:55.039 --> 01:05:55.280
Look.129801:05:56.440 --> 01:05:59.480
You don't think you can possibly think that you well,129901:05:59.480 --> 01:06:02.360
you couldn't think that now, you couldn't think that.130001:06:02.639 --> 01:06:05.199
We are not thinking anything right at the moment.130101:06:05.559 --> 01:06:06.760
Yeah, but you must have a reason.130201:06:06.800 --> 01:06:09.559
I mean, why ask me where I was? I mean,130301:06:09.599 --> 01:06:10.719
why me especially?130401:06:11.199 --> 01:06:14.599
We have a reason to that. You see, we have130501:06:14.679 --> 01:06:15.360
it unfilmed.130601:06:16.679 --> 01:06:20.880
Why I'm film? The holder de montors are running all130701:06:20.920 --> 01:06:21.239
the time?130801:06:21.320 --> 01:06:21.599
Elb.130901:06:21.800 --> 01:06:24.679
Now you know that? Yeah, I know that way. It's131001:06:24.760 --> 01:06:27.159
all there. The hold up man shows up very clear.131101:06:28.280 --> 01:06:29.800
Oh you think I might know him?131201:06:30.119 --> 01:06:32.639
Why don't we roll the film, mister Tuffer, I can131301:06:32.719 --> 01:06:34.239
set up right here if that's all right?131401:06:35.239 --> 01:06:38.159
Sure? Sure, And why are you doing that? I'm going to.131501:06:38.119 --> 01:06:40.199
Get a couple of other people in here who it131601:06:40.320 --> 01:06:44.480
might help with the identification. Go right ahead, back in131701:06:44.519 --> 01:06:50.280
a second, who did he go together?131801:06:50.519 --> 01:06:51.400
I don't know exactly.131901:06:54.000 --> 01:06:55.639
Do you need any help with that?132001:06:56.719 --> 01:06:58.199
No, thanks, I'm pretty used to it.132101:07:00.880 --> 01:07:04.440
You specialize in bank called up.132201:07:05.320 --> 01:07:07.480
They're part of my job, not all of it, just132301:07:07.559 --> 01:07:09.199
part I see.132401:07:09.320 --> 01:07:13.119
I think, wow, interesting work.132501:07:13.199 --> 01:07:13.880
I imagine.132601:07:14.960 --> 01:07:17.960
How long have you worked for the bank, llerb oh.132701:07:17.840 --> 01:07:20.719
A long long time? The twelve years here?132801:07:21.599 --> 01:07:22.159
This branch?132901:07:22.760 --> 01:07:25.760
No No. I started downtown of five and a half133001:07:25.840 --> 01:07:28.760
years there. Then I came uptown this branch.133101:07:29.000 --> 01:07:32.920
No no, the River branch.133201:07:34.480 --> 01:07:36.599
But I left there two years ago and I came133301:07:36.639 --> 01:07:37.119
over here.133401:07:37.679 --> 01:07:40.840
There was not pretty well the River branch.133501:07:41.719 --> 01:07:44.239
I haven't been inside it since they moved me over here.133601:07:46.840 --> 01:07:48.599
Mister Temper said he was going to get some people133701:07:48.599 --> 01:07:51.639
who might help to identify the thief. Now why would133801:07:51.679 --> 01:07:54.039
anybody in this branch be able to identify a thief133901:07:54.039 --> 01:07:55.079
and the River branch?134001:07:55.920 --> 01:07:58.440
I might as well tell you, ller b out of134101:07:58.440 --> 01:08:03.559
the film. They'll hold up man, looks like you you're134201:08:03.639 --> 01:08:05.480
killing I never a kid.134301:08:06.880 --> 01:08:12.679
I go writing. Girls, Okay, now, everybody take chairs addy134401:08:15.079 --> 01:08:15.559
very low.134501:08:15.679 --> 01:08:19.079
I this is Detective Bradshaw, girls, Miss Grant, Miss Schwartz134601:08:19.159 --> 01:08:19.960
from the police.134701:08:20.439 --> 01:08:22.159
Well, I'll have to stand up in the back.134801:08:22.199 --> 01:08:25.119
Here a Detective Bradshaw's going to show us piece film134901:08:25.800 --> 01:08:28.119
taken from one of the monitors at our River branch.135001:08:28.600 --> 01:08:31.800
And there was a hold up there today twelve fifteen,135101:08:31.840 --> 01:08:33.119
and it's all on film.135201:08:33.680 --> 01:08:33.840
Now.135301:08:33.880 --> 01:08:36.439
It only runs about a minute. You'll see the whole thing.135401:08:37.159 --> 01:08:40.720
The hold up man shows up very clearly, so paid135501:08:40.720 --> 01:08:42.880
posttention and see if you recognize him.135601:08:43.560 --> 01:08:43.920
Uh.135701:08:44.199 --> 01:08:48.079
Detective Bradshaw can stop the film at any point if135801:08:48.079 --> 01:08:49.159
you wanted to run over.135901:08:49.039 --> 01:08:53.079
Again, just say so. Now you understand, yes, mister, I136001:08:53.119 --> 01:09:00.119
guess we're ready, detective pay attention now, k.136101:09:02.760 --> 01:09:04.720
Oh my, look at that?136201:09:06.560 --> 01:09:08.680
Oh stop stop the picture?136301:09:09.000 --> 01:09:10.239
You recognize somebody?136401:09:10.600 --> 01:09:11.319
Can you go back?136501:09:11.600 --> 01:09:11.880
Sure?136601:09:17.720 --> 01:09:18.520
Here we go again.136701:09:22.880 --> 01:09:26.439
Keep Eddie yielder Eddie, if.136801:09:26.319 --> 01:09:30.880
You ah, you're sure, mischwartzh's knowing anywhere?136901:09:31.119 --> 01:09:31.600
May I know?137001:09:33.439 --> 01:09:34.640
I'd like to see it again.137101:09:35.279 --> 01:09:38.960
Okay, it's brain as anything, it's Eddie.137201:09:39.199 --> 01:09:40.319
I want to see it again.137301:09:45.479 --> 01:09:53.000
Here we go playing as day shut up?137401:09:53.079 --> 01:09:58.119
Yelda huh now would you stop it?137501:09:58.199 --> 01:09:58.439
Please?137601:10:00.359 --> 01:10:01.359
That's not Eddie.137701:10:01.560 --> 01:10:02.800
How can you say that?137801:10:03.479 --> 01:10:04.640
And he's not that tall?137901:10:05.840 --> 01:10:09.479
Ah that you can see that man's shoulders over the138001:10:09.479 --> 01:10:12.319
top of the counter. Well, if it was Eddie, You138101:10:12.319 --> 01:10:15.319
wouldn't be able to you'd just see his head and138201:10:15.359 --> 01:10:15.800
his neck.138301:10:16.199 --> 01:10:18.640
Oh, how do you know all this, Miss Grant.138401:10:19.439 --> 01:10:22.560
Mister Ellerby is five feet one and a half inches tall,138501:10:23.279 --> 01:10:26.439
and the counter is four feet four inches high, so138601:10:27.199 --> 01:10:28.920
standing at the counter, you'd see only a.138701:10:29.039 --> 01:10:30.039
Sigh as his shoulders.138801:10:30.079 --> 01:10:32.520
You wouldn't see his shoulders at all.138901:10:33.439 --> 01:10:34.800
What's your height, Lerbie?139001:10:35.520 --> 01:10:37.079
Five feet one and a half.139101:10:37.079 --> 01:10:40.800
You won't mind if I checked that later? No, not139201:10:40.920 --> 01:10:44.039
at all, But of course I'll check the counter to.139301:10:44.680 --> 01:10:45.720
Him, of course.139401:10:45.960 --> 01:10:50.279
All right, folks, that's all I'd like to say something else,139501:10:50.319 --> 01:10:51.920
mister top That is all, Miss Grant.139601:10:51.920 --> 01:10:55.000
Anybody who thinks that mister Ellerby would rob a bank.139701:10:54.840 --> 01:10:57.039
Is crazy, Miss Gramps.139801:10:57.640 --> 01:10:59.279
We are just investigating.139901:10:59.479 --> 01:11:01.560
Possibility.140001:11:01.640 --> 01:11:04.039
Is not a possibility.140101:11:04.239 --> 01:11:06.840
It's not possible for Edar Lb to be a fief140201:11:07.119 --> 01:11:11.039
liar or anything like that. Mister Allibie is honest and140301:11:11.159 --> 01:11:18.600
sincere and kind and good. Wonderful man, Oh, wonderful man, wonderful.140401:11:22.760 --> 01:11:23.680
I just sat there.140501:11:25.359 --> 01:11:29.520
I couldn't believe what had happened, and I couldn't believe140601:11:29.560 --> 01:11:33.720
what was happening. I couldn't believe that a man who140701:11:33.760 --> 01:11:36.239
looked like me had robbed the bank and taken eight140801:11:36.319 --> 01:11:40.399
thousand dollars. I couldn't believe that the camera had taken140901:11:40.439 --> 01:11:44.600
a picture of the whole thing. And I couldn't believe141001:11:44.680 --> 01:12:00.119
that Mary Luke Grant thought I was a wonderful man.141101:12:00.399 --> 01:12:05.079
One of the most fearful sensations is that of being trapped.141201:12:06.119 --> 01:12:08.239
In fact, I think it should be put at the141301:12:08.279 --> 01:12:14.000
head of the list. Illness is frightening. Natural disasters are frightening.141401:12:14.800 --> 01:12:18.640
The unknown can be frightening. But to be caught in141501:12:18.720 --> 01:12:23.399
a snare, to be ambushed, that may well be the141601:12:23.399 --> 01:12:26.960
most frightening thing of all. I'll be back in a141701:12:26.960 --> 01:12:43.279
few moments with a two and Edgar Ellerby has come141801:12:43.359 --> 01:12:46.840
under suspicion of robbing the bank for which he works,141901:12:47.600 --> 01:12:52.239
though at a different branch. The bank manager, a police detective,142001:12:52.760 --> 01:12:55.840
and two of Edgar's fellow tellers watched while a.142101:12:55.840 --> 01:12:57.960
Film of the hold up was run off.142201:12:58.960 --> 01:13:03.039
There was no doubt that the seat uncannily resembled Edgar,142301:13:03.720 --> 01:13:08.399
so said Hilda Schwartz, But Mary Lou Grant quickly and dramatically,142401:13:08.880 --> 01:13:12.720
indeed passionately, pointed out that the film showed a man142501:13:12.920 --> 01:13:14.920
visibly taller than Edgar.142601:13:15.439 --> 01:13:16.239
Mister Ellerby.142701:13:16.359 --> 01:13:19.239
It's five feet one and a half inches tall. The142801:13:19.319 --> 01:13:23.239
counter is four feet four inches tall, So standing at142901:13:23.239 --> 01:13:26.159
the counter you'd see only as far as his shoulders.143001:13:26.720 --> 01:13:29.279
You wouldn't see his shoulders at all, you'd only.143101:13:29.199 --> 01:13:31.680
See his head in his neck was your height, Alerby143201:13:32.600 --> 01:13:33.760
five one and a half.143301:13:33.800 --> 01:13:35.239
You won't mind if I'd check.143401:13:35.079 --> 01:13:36.920
On them, not at all.143501:13:37.399 --> 01:13:40.199
Anybody who thinks Eddie Ellerby would rob a bank is crazy.143601:13:40.760 --> 01:13:41.720
Mister Ellerby is.143701:13:41.880 --> 01:13:46.079
Honest and sincere, and kind and good, and the wonderful143801:13:46.239 --> 01:13:49.279
man that will be as ground, a wonderful man.143901:13:49.359 --> 01:13:55.880
Wonderful Mary Lou had tears in her eyes when she144001:13:56.079 --> 01:14:00.279
and Hilda and I left mister Tupper's office. The first144101:14:00.279 --> 01:14:01.880
time in my life that I've been in trouble of144201:14:01.960 --> 01:14:05.439
any kind, and it was the first time in my144301:14:05.479 --> 01:14:07.880
life anyone had shed tears because of me.144401:14:08.520 --> 01:14:11.359
Don't worry, Eddie. It'll all come out all right.144501:14:11.680 --> 01:14:14.279
I hope. Believe me, I'll try.144601:14:14.520 --> 01:14:16.880
You got to admit the man on the film looks144701:14:17.000 --> 01:14:19.479
like you, I know, looks exactly like you.144801:14:19.680 --> 01:14:20.000
I know.144901:14:20.199 --> 01:14:22.880
He no same eyes, same upper.145001:14:22.720 --> 01:14:25.199
Little You know Eddie didn't do it.145101:14:25.560 --> 01:14:31.880
Then it was his doppel ganger, his what his doppel ganger,145201:14:32.039 --> 01:14:32.840
his double?145301:14:33.840 --> 01:14:36.199
I've got a double everybody.145401:14:35.600 --> 01:14:39.880
Has, Didn't you know that? Sometimes it's a ghost and145501:14:40.000 --> 01:14:42.720
a ghost would hold up a bank? How do you145601:14:42.880 --> 01:14:44.239
know what a ghost would do?145701:14:44.479 --> 01:14:45.560
And I guess I don't.145801:14:46.119 --> 01:14:49.760
Sometimes the ghost doesn't just look like the human double,145901:14:50.279 --> 01:14:51.479
he sounds.146001:14:51.119 --> 01:14:52.800
Like him too. Well.146101:14:52.800 --> 01:14:56.079
The film doesn't record the sound, just a picture, but146201:14:56.199 --> 01:14:58.960
the tellow at the river branch might remember the voice146301:14:59.000 --> 01:15:02.439
and it might turn out be your voice there held up.146401:15:02.520 --> 01:15:04.239
Sometimes people see.146501:15:04.159 --> 01:15:10.680
Their own doppel gangers. Scary, huh, very scary, But you.146601:15:10.560 --> 01:15:13.000
Can't get away from the fact that the hold up146701:15:13.039 --> 01:15:16.800
man was taller than Eddie, two or three inches taller.146801:15:17.079 --> 01:15:21.119
Sometimes double gangers float above the ground.146901:15:21.920 --> 01:15:22.640
Didn't you know?147001:15:24.039 --> 01:15:27.039
Why is that? Because that ghosts? Little man?147101:15:28.720 --> 01:15:34.640
Well, I'm going home. He's been quite a day. Song everybody, goodbye?147201:15:34.720 --> 01:15:35.119
Held up?147301:15:35.199 --> 01:15:36.479
He see them all?147401:15:36.960 --> 01:15:37.479
Probably?147501:15:39.560 --> 01:15:40.319
What does she mean?147601:15:40.520 --> 01:15:44.279
Probably Eddie should think I'll be arrested. Does she think147701:15:44.279 --> 01:15:44.960
I'll be in jail?147801:15:45.039 --> 01:15:45.319
Horse?147901:15:45.399 --> 01:15:45.479
Not?148001:15:46.000 --> 01:15:47.159
Then? What what does she thinks?148101:15:47.319 --> 01:15:52.479
Never mind? What held us think? Listen, Eddie, I found148201:15:52.479 --> 01:15:53.800
the ninety dollars?148301:15:54.199 --> 01:15:55.640
What ninety dollars?148401:15:56.119 --> 01:15:58.760
The ninety dollars you were shut. It was a mistake148501:15:58.800 --> 01:15:59.800
in a deposit slip.148601:16:00.600 --> 01:16:01.960
Oh, I should have caught it.148701:16:02.119 --> 01:16:03.079
Never mind icon it?148801:16:03.920 --> 01:16:05.399
Oh Mary Loah, Eddie.148901:16:06.640 --> 01:16:09.800
I don't think that you should be alone tonight. Why149001:16:09.800 --> 01:16:12.000
don't we have dinner together? Wouldn't that be a good idea?149101:16:14.680 --> 01:16:16.000
I guess it would that.149201:16:16.680 --> 01:16:17.880
Do you want to come to my place?149301:16:19.560 --> 01:16:19.760
Well?149401:16:19.840 --> 01:16:22.399
I prepare a meat loaft this morning. It's it's in149501:16:22.439 --> 01:16:22.920
the fridge.149601:16:23.199 --> 01:16:24.800
Do you white meat loafs?149701:16:25.159 --> 01:16:26.199
I love meatloaft.149801:16:27.079 --> 01:16:30.640
I make it with oatmeal. Interesting, I soaked the oatmeal149901:16:30.640 --> 01:16:30.960
and milk.150001:16:31.039 --> 01:16:35.199
First, Let's go to your place and have meat loaf, and.150101:16:35.159 --> 01:16:35.960
I have broccoli.150201:16:37.560 --> 01:16:38.680
Come on, let's go.150301:16:44.560 --> 01:16:44.920
Funny.150401:16:46.039 --> 01:16:48.039
This was the first date I'd ever had with the girl,150501:16:48.039 --> 01:16:51.000
and I looked forward to him, not that I had150601:16:51.039 --> 01:16:53.239
so many days, but the ones I did have never150701:16:53.319 --> 01:16:54.119
turned up too well.150801:16:55.479 --> 01:16:57.800
Now Here I was in my own apartment with a.150901:16:57.760 --> 01:17:00.199
Girl I had worked next to for two years is151001:17:00.239 --> 01:17:01.600
and never asked to go.151101:17:01.600 --> 01:17:02.039
Out with me.151201:17:03.159 --> 01:17:05.439
Here I wasn't the only real trouble I'd ever been in,151301:17:05.520 --> 01:17:08.560
and I was having a wonderful time.151401:17:10.199 --> 01:17:11.039
Well, I mean lawful.151501:17:11.079 --> 01:17:13.680
Take an hour, so I opened the bottle of wine.151601:17:13.880 --> 01:17:17.479
Wonderful I don't know if you'll like the broccoli. And151701:17:17.600 --> 01:17:20.239
of course I real whileye par roilet and then I151801:17:20.319 --> 01:17:21.920
saw ted and butter and garlic.151901:17:22.720 --> 01:17:24.199
Sounds fascinating.152001:17:24.399 --> 01:17:28.359
Wow, it's it's different. Uh, there's your wine, thank you?152101:17:29.600 --> 01:17:31.159
I mean just looking at your books.152201:17:31.359 --> 01:17:33.800
Oh yeah, yeah, I read a lot.152301:17:34.319 --> 01:17:38.239
You read a lot of books like how to love yourself,152401:17:38.319 --> 01:17:41.800
books like that and be a happy neurotic.152501:17:42.159 --> 01:17:42.359
Yeah.152601:17:42.399 --> 01:17:46.479
Well, I've always had trouble in that department.152701:17:46.479 --> 01:17:48.920
The loving yourself department.152801:17:50.079 --> 01:17:52.199
That's hard for me even to put up with myself.152901:17:52.560 --> 01:17:53.319
That's too bad.153001:17:53.760 --> 01:17:54.840
Yeah.153101:17:54.880 --> 01:18:00.000
Well, cheerio cheio? You see see how like that? Why153201:18:00.119 --> 01:18:01.399
why did I say cheerio?153301:18:01.760 --> 01:18:02.319
But why not?153401:18:02.760 --> 01:18:05.800
Because cheerio was for English people to say, not people153501:18:05.880 --> 01:18:08.319
like me. I'm always trying to impress people and I153601:18:08.399 --> 01:18:10.720
don't know how, and I hate myself for trying.153701:18:10.920 --> 01:18:12.920
I'm not succeeding gadgets.153801:18:14.520 --> 01:18:18.600
Do you mind very much being short?153901:18:21.279 --> 01:18:22.479
Well, I'm not crazy about it.154001:18:23.720 --> 01:18:28.399
Well, I'm not crazy about having such itcky hair.154101:18:30.319 --> 01:18:32.800
Your hair isn't so wicky, and you are not so short.154201:18:34.399 --> 01:18:35.119
How tall are you?154301:18:36.239 --> 01:18:38.479
And five six without heels?154401:18:39.720 --> 01:18:41.279
That's four inches taller than me.154501:18:41.640 --> 01:18:42.880
Well, I never figured it out.154601:18:43.079 --> 01:18:44.000
Well, that's what it is.154701:18:45.000 --> 01:18:48.680
I guess it's been very hard on you, not being taller.154801:18:50.600 --> 01:18:55.279
The trauma, you know what, trauma is something that hurts.154901:18:55.560 --> 01:19:00.560
Trauma is a shock, a disturbing experience. It was the analyst.155001:19:00.600 --> 01:19:04.279
His name was Ottle Rank. She said that all the155101:19:04.359 --> 01:19:07.159
trauma you go through later in life are reproductions of155201:19:07.279 --> 01:19:07.840
being born.155301:19:09.359 --> 01:19:09.920
Do you believe that?155401:19:10.840 --> 01:19:10.880
She?155501:19:12.039 --> 01:19:13.279
I don't know aady, do you?155601:19:14.560 --> 01:19:18.479
Yeah? Sometimes I think I do. Sometimes I think the155701:19:18.520 --> 01:19:19.840
worst thing that can happen.155801:19:19.600 --> 01:19:20.520
To you is to be born.155901:19:22.680 --> 01:19:25.279
Here you are, inside your mother, where it's all warm156001:19:25.399 --> 01:19:29.000
and safe, and all of a sudden she decides she's156101:19:29.039 --> 01:19:29.760
had enough of you.156201:19:30.000 --> 01:19:30.680
She starts to.156301:19:30.640 --> 01:19:31.520
Get rid of you.156401:19:31.600 --> 01:19:33.680
Yeah, and I know what you do.156501:19:33.880 --> 01:19:35.840
And of course there's nothing you can do because you156601:19:35.880 --> 01:19:41.039
don't even know what's happening. You're pushed out out into156701:19:41.079 --> 01:19:44.840
the cold, into the lights and all the noise and156801:19:45.000 --> 01:19:46.680
clamor and charaoss of living.156901:19:47.000 --> 01:19:49.600
Yeah, and you.157001:19:49.680 --> 01:19:52.880
Never get over it. Never.157101:19:55.560 --> 01:19:57.079
I think I'd like a little more wine.157201:19:58.600 --> 01:20:02.359
Oh, sure, there.157301:20:02.279 --> 01:20:05.239
Must be some way to get over it.157401:20:07.159 --> 01:20:11.039
I don't know what it is. So right now, right.157501:20:11.000 --> 01:20:15.119
This very minute, I feel like I'm starting.157601:20:14.760 --> 01:20:15.520
To get over it.157701:20:17.680 --> 01:20:19.279
I think I'm getting over it too.157801:20:24.399 --> 01:20:28.000
She liked the meat loaf, and she liked the broccoli,157901:20:29.079 --> 01:20:31.319
and we had melon for dessert, and she liked that.158001:20:32.439 --> 01:20:34.880
After dinner we each had a brandy with our coffee.158101:20:35.920 --> 01:20:37.159
I was feeling just wonderful.158201:20:38.479 --> 01:20:39.560
I couldn't stop talking.158301:20:40.039 --> 01:20:43.720
I tried, but I couldn't stop. It's like a disease158401:20:43.800 --> 01:20:47.720
with me trying to be something because I feel like158501:20:47.760 --> 01:20:51.600
I'm nothing. Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror158601:20:51.680 --> 01:20:54.560
just to be sure I'm there, that I haven't evaporated158701:20:54.640 --> 01:20:59.279
or dissolved or disappeared. I want to show you something.158801:20:59.319 --> 01:21:01.319
You stay right there and I'll get it. I've never158901:21:01.359 --> 01:21:04.920
shown as to anybody in my whole life. I never159001:21:04.920 --> 01:21:06.720
thought I would show it to anybody.159101:21:06.319 --> 01:21:10.680
Because it's it's so silly. But I don't know tonight,159201:21:10.720 --> 01:21:12.760
I feel like it. What is it?159301:21:12.880 --> 01:21:13.359
What are you?159401:21:13.359 --> 01:21:15.319
You're just wait? You say you're just you're just wait.159501:21:15.399 --> 01:21:19.920
It's so silly. What do you think of it?159601:21:21.119 --> 01:21:23.000
What is it?159701:21:23.000 --> 01:21:26.399
It's a top hat? What a top hat? Ah? I159801:21:26.640 --> 01:21:28.520
so cat it. It was my grandfather's.159901:21:28.560 --> 01:21:30.560
Oh yeah, I've seen them in the movies.160001:21:30.520 --> 01:21:33.560
Freda Stair movies. He made one called top hat.160101:21:34.000 --> 01:21:37.199
He wore a white tie and tails. I used to160201:21:37.239 --> 01:21:38.720
admire him more than anybody.160301:21:39.239 --> 01:21:39.840
I still do.160401:21:40.199 --> 01:21:42.560
Ask him on TV, Well, all I have is a160501:21:42.600 --> 01:21:43.039
top hat.160601:21:43.159 --> 01:21:47.439
I never had tails or a white tie. And of160701:21:47.479 --> 01:21:50.039
course I can't dance.160801:21:50.399 --> 01:21:53.279
And of course you're not freda stare.160901:21:54.600 --> 01:21:56.880
No, No, I'm not.161001:21:59.680 --> 01:22:01.359
Want me home many, it's not far.161101:22:02.560 --> 01:22:08.319
You have to go home? Yes, well, sure i'll walk out.161201:22:14.960 --> 01:22:18.840
You say you're five or six without heels.161301:22:19.159 --> 01:22:23.159
You're not scrunching down? Not what? Or you're not trying161401:22:23.159 --> 01:22:23.720
to be shorter?161501:22:24.520 --> 01:22:30.159
But why should I A huh? Let's have lunch together tomorrow?161601:22:31.640 --> 01:22:32.239
Do you want to?161701:22:32.359 --> 01:22:33.000
I'd love to.161801:22:34.359 --> 01:22:35.880
Well, we could go to.161901:22:36.319 --> 01:22:38.199
Or I could bring a box lunch to work and162001:22:38.279 --> 01:22:39.359
not for both of us.162101:22:40.439 --> 01:22:41.560
Would you really like to do.162201:22:41.600 --> 01:22:42.159
I love it?162301:22:43.399 --> 01:22:45.359
Well, we could go to the park and either.162401:22:45.359 --> 01:22:47.920
Yeah, we could do that. We could go to the park,162501:22:48.039 --> 01:22:50.199
or or we could go down by the river.162601:22:53.720 --> 01:22:55.239
I love to at the door of the place where162701:22:55.279 --> 01:23:00.479
you live. I was working the days could think of.162801:23:00.640 --> 01:23:03.319
Was having lunch with her the next day in the162901:23:03.399 --> 01:23:07.800
park or down by the river. I almost ran home163001:23:07.880 --> 01:23:09.119
and up the stairs.163101:23:12.079 --> 01:23:13.000
My door was opening.163201:23:14.000 --> 01:23:15.840
I knew I'd locked it, but it was open.163301:23:16.680 --> 01:23:23.159
Hello there, Hello, it takes a Bradshaw remember me.163401:23:24.199 --> 01:23:29.600
Yeah, from this afternoon mister Tupper's office, right you, I163501:23:29.680 --> 01:23:30.439
wanted to talk to me.163601:23:31.000 --> 01:23:33.800
You uh had somebody here for dinner.163701:23:34.079 --> 01:23:35.520
Merry little Grant from the bank.163801:23:35.600 --> 01:23:39.000
You met her, the one that stood up for you,163901:23:39.279 --> 01:23:41.359
the one that said you couldn't be the hold up164001:23:41.359 --> 01:23:44.680
man because you're too short five foot one she said,164101:23:45.319 --> 01:23:47.600
I had five one and a half. She said, the164201:23:47.840 --> 01:23:50.640
collar at the bank is four foot four inches, and164301:23:50.720 --> 01:23:53.399
if the hold up man was you, your shoulders wouldn't164401:23:53.399 --> 01:23:57.239
show up on the field, only your head and neck, Now, isn't.164501:23:57.039 --> 01:23:58.039
That what she said?164601:23:58.640 --> 01:23:58.880
Yes?164701:24:01.119 --> 01:24:02.760
Your girl is Mary loube.164801:24:02.600 --> 01:24:05.039
Yes, and no, she's a friend.164901:24:06.479 --> 01:24:11.479
She know you wear lifts. What does she know?165001:24:11.640 --> 01:24:16.319
You wear lifts in your shoes? Three inch lifts? I165101:24:16.479 --> 01:24:20.560
don't know now what are these? I found them in165201:24:20.560 --> 01:24:31.239
a bureau. Eh, Yes, yes, they are three inch lifts.165301:24:32.119 --> 01:24:34.760
With these in your shoes, you'd be five foot four165401:24:34.800 --> 01:24:38.600
and a half inches, wouldn't you, and your shoulders would165501:24:38.640 --> 01:24:42.439
show above the counter. That's how I figure it, oill be,165601:24:43.800 --> 01:24:44.960
How do you figure.165701:24:54.960 --> 01:24:59.359
Just when the blood has cooled, just when the knots165801:24:59.520 --> 01:25:03.520
in the stuff have come untied, just when the breathing165901:25:03.760 --> 01:25:04.880
has slowed.166001:25:04.479 --> 01:25:07.800
Down, just as the world has begun.166101:25:07.680 --> 01:25:13.039
To look friendly and life inviting, just at that very moment,166201:25:13.800 --> 01:25:17.439
fate can strike a man down with a heavy mallet166301:25:18.199 --> 01:25:22.720
of fear. I'll be back shortly with the final act166401:25:22.720 --> 01:25:37.319
of our story. Edgar Ellerby, who stands five feet one166501:25:37.359 --> 01:25:40.319
and a half inches, seemed to be cleared of a166601:25:40.359 --> 01:25:43.000
bank hold up when it was pointed out that a166701:25:43.039 --> 01:25:46.960
man of that stature could barely see across the teller's counter.166801:25:48.079 --> 01:25:51.479
After an intimate dinner with his friend and defender, as166901:25:51.479 --> 01:25:55.279
well as fellow teller Mary lou Grant, Edgar returned home167001:25:55.479 --> 01:25:59.159
to be confronted by Detective Bradshaw, who had discovered a167101:25:59.199 --> 01:26:03.359
pair of three inch lists clearly meant to be inserted167201:26:03.800 --> 01:26:08.079
in Edgar Lerby's shoes in order to increase his height.167301:26:09.159 --> 01:26:12.880
Now it is the following day, noontime in fact, and.167401:26:12.960 --> 01:26:16.560
Nice here by the river had got fried chicken and167501:26:16.640 --> 01:26:19.359
three bean salad. You like three being salad?167601:26:19.880 --> 01:26:25.560
Why never have any w Very good, very little. Everything's167701:26:25.640 --> 01:26:28.640
changed in the last night after I walked you.167801:26:28.760 --> 01:26:32.520
Home, after one of the nicest evenings I ever spent167901:26:32.640 --> 01:26:36.399
it was nice. I thought telling you about me wanting168001:26:36.439 --> 01:26:39.239
to be like Fred Astairs, showing you my top half.168101:26:39.319 --> 01:26:42.239
I have a watch, you know, I just kept it.168201:26:42.399 --> 01:26:46.720
Kind of a symbol of an old dream. You what168301:26:46.840 --> 01:26:47.960
good at old dreams?168401:26:48.960 --> 01:26:52.760
What good at timbols? Especially symbols of old dreams?168501:26:53.520 --> 01:26:57.399
Like the list theft would have miss.168601:26:58.680 --> 01:27:05.079
Things, men putting the shoes to make them taller, look taller.168701:27:06.520 --> 01:27:08.800
When I first met you, when I realized that you168801:27:08.880 --> 01:27:13.680
were five or five at least, and I dreamed of168901:27:13.760 --> 01:27:19.399
taking you out, even dancing with you. I thought, if169001:27:19.439 --> 01:27:21.800
I had three inch lifts in my shoes, you wouldn't169101:27:21.840 --> 01:27:27.399
mind dancing with me. I never wore them. I tried169201:27:27.439 --> 01:27:30.119
them out around the room, but I kept falling down.169301:27:30.159 --> 01:27:33.920
I couldn't even walk. Could I possibly dance? So I169401:27:33.960 --> 01:27:34.680
put them away.169501:27:35.119 --> 01:27:37.840
I think we should throw them out. They take me169601:27:37.960 --> 01:27:38.800
dancing tonight.169701:27:39.119 --> 01:27:40.920
I could be in jail tonight.169801:27:42.479 --> 01:27:42.800
Merrily.169901:27:42.840 --> 01:27:45.279
When I got home last night, Detective Bradshaw was there.170001:27:45.399 --> 01:27:48.880
He had found the lifts, so now he thinks the170101:27:48.920 --> 01:27:52.159
hold up man could have been me. That's who I met.170201:27:52.199 --> 01:27:54.159
The man on the film looked exactly like me.170301:27:54.399 --> 01:27:55.920
No, you didn't have your expression.170401:27:56.479 --> 01:27:58.760
Well, I imagine your expression changes when you're holding up170501:27:58.800 --> 01:27:59.119
a bench.170601:28:01.720 --> 01:28:03.680
Well, you had enough to eat.170701:28:04.920 --> 01:28:06.359
I wasn't very hungry.170801:28:06.920 --> 01:28:08.479
Well, why don't you pick up the trash and throw170901:28:08.479 --> 01:28:09.479
it in that trash basket?171001:28:09.479 --> 01:28:13.039
And I think I'll just look out on the pier171101:28:13.079 --> 01:28:14.840
and take one last look at the river.171201:28:19.159 --> 01:28:22.119
I started putting the chicken away and the three being salad.171301:28:23.960 --> 01:28:24.760
I felt so bad.171401:28:26.560 --> 01:28:28.359
I looked at Mary Lou standing at the end of171501:28:28.359 --> 01:28:36.600
the pier. I'm sure, so slim, so graceful, so pretty.171601:28:36.000 --> 01:28:40.279
And so tall. Still she'd asked me to take her dancing.171701:28:42.079 --> 01:28:42.720
Was it possible?171801:28:42.760 --> 01:28:46.279
She didn't mind being four inches taller than me, but171901:28:46.439 --> 01:28:48.720
I didn't have to mind being four inches shorter.172001:28:50.640 --> 01:28:52.319
And I picked up the trash and threw it.172101:28:52.279 --> 01:28:54.199
In the basket, and Mary Lou and I went back172201:28:54.199 --> 01:29:05.079
to the bank.172301:29:00.279 --> 01:29:01.920
To meet lunch people coming out.172401:29:02.399 --> 01:29:08.720
Yeah, sorry, long of them? Fine? Next? Oh yes, huh?172501:29:09.880 --> 01:29:16.279
Everything you've got? Hand it over? What all of it?172601:29:17.159 --> 01:29:18.319
This ain't a chapter?172701:29:18.520 --> 01:29:22.399
So well, what are you all right? Eddie?172801:29:23.159 --> 01:29:29.760
It happened you look funny, wet stalar lb an. I172901:29:29.760 --> 01:29:31.600
don't know what came over me. It didn't feel like173001:29:31.640 --> 01:29:33.760
me at all. I didn't think what I should do,173101:29:33.880 --> 01:29:35.600
or what I should what would happen if I did it.173201:29:35.680 --> 01:29:37.439
I just stared into the face to what it was173301:29:37.479 --> 01:29:39.520
exactly like mine, and heard the voice like mine. I173401:29:40.000 --> 01:29:42.279
didn't think about doing anything about giving up the money.173501:29:42.279 --> 01:29:43.239
You're not giving up the money.173601:29:43.319 --> 01:29:44.239
I didn't think at all.173701:29:45.079 --> 01:29:46.000
You are.173801:29:47.479 --> 01:29:50.119
What I did. I jumped across the counter. Now I173901:29:50.159 --> 01:29:52.640
don't know how I did it. I looped across that counter.174001:29:52.680 --> 01:29:53.720
Maybe I flew across it.174101:29:54.159 --> 01:29:56.199
I don't know, but my hands weren't right for that blow.174201:29:57.920 --> 01:29:59.880
We struggled on the floor for a few seconds. Then174301:29:59.880 --> 01:30:01.039
he got away from me and ran out of.174401:30:01.000 --> 01:30:01.520
A bunch.174501:30:03.159 --> 01:30:03.520
Stop.174601:30:05.479 --> 01:30:08.039
I ran after him. He ran false. I ran faster.174701:30:08.520 --> 01:30:10.760
I never know I could run so fast. He ran174801:30:10.800 --> 01:30:13.760
into the street. What what's up?174901:30:13.920 --> 01:30:14.119
Thing?175001:30:14.920 --> 01:30:15.640
You've got faith?175101:30:15.760 --> 01:30:20.039
Hould up the bank land the police stay ahead for175201:30:20.159 --> 01:30:22.119
the river chests.175301:30:22.119 --> 01:30:24.039
We were heading for the river. I was gaining an arm.175401:30:24.560 --> 01:30:26.640
I thought to myself, maybe he's got lips and his shoes,175501:30:26.640 --> 01:30:29.119
that's why he can't run so banks. Small people on175601:30:29.159 --> 01:30:31.279
the street stop, their mouths dropped open.175701:30:31.479 --> 01:30:34.479
Up here with them ran along with me. I'll call175801:30:34.520 --> 01:30:35.199
it confident.175901:30:36.760 --> 01:30:39.119
The Dandelin must have been plowing into my veins a barrelament,176001:30:39.119 --> 01:30:42.079
and my legs moved like pistons, my short little.176101:30:41.960 --> 01:30:43.520
Legs I'd always thought were so useless.176201:30:43.880 --> 01:30:45.680
I kept my eyes on the man I was chasing,176301:30:45.800 --> 01:30:49.960
my double, my dappel danger, Oh look your goat whatever, whichever, whatever,176401:30:50.079 --> 01:30:51.159
he was responsible for the.176501:30:51.159 --> 01:30:53.800
Sudden change in my life. And it flashed like lightening176601:30:53.880 --> 01:30:55.680
across my mind, the sudden change in me.176701:30:57.359 --> 01:30:59.279
We ran and we ran, and we came to the river.176801:30:59.800 --> 01:31:01.720
He ran out onto a pier and I ran after him.176901:31:02.199 --> 01:31:03.920
He reached the end of the pier, he stopped for177001:31:03.960 --> 01:31:06.760
a second. I was almost on top of him. Then177101:31:06.760 --> 01:31:10.239
I heard her splashing and he just appeared. I dove177201:31:10.319 --> 01:31:13.920
after him under the water. I opened my eyes. I177301:31:14.079 --> 01:31:17.039
was I'm that's desperate to go to work at that's impossible.177401:31:17.880 --> 01:31:18.439
He was stutty.177501:31:18.520 --> 01:31:21.600
It seemed to be so, I said him. I took out.177601:31:21.640 --> 01:31:23.000
I couldn't swim, but then.177701:31:22.960 --> 01:31:25.720
If strong arms went on my neck, and then.177801:31:25.680 --> 01:31:26.359
We through the water.177901:31:26.439 --> 01:31:30.760
I heard a pamidiate voice. You're like, yeah, all right, don't.178001:31:35.600 --> 01:31:36.399
I can't fall back.178101:31:39.000 --> 01:31:43.720
I got and was detective bride and guy. He told178201:31:43.760 --> 01:31:46.119
me to showing up on the back. I was so178301:31:46.239 --> 01:31:48.720
surprised to see him. I'm so happy. I tried to178401:31:48.800 --> 01:31:50.119
thank him, but he wouldn't listen.178501:31:51.439 --> 01:31:54.520
I'll be around later. Now the police car is going178601:31:54.600 --> 01:31:57.159
to drive you home. You just take a hot path178701:31:57.960 --> 01:32:02.359
called into bed. Try to less little for you've done good.178801:32:06.239 --> 01:32:10.239
I didn't mind that little fellow that I liked him178901:32:10.279 --> 01:32:15.359
saying you'd done good. Six foot six or five foot one.179001:32:16.119 --> 01:32:19.479
What's the difference when somebody says you've done good.179101:32:24.720 --> 01:32:26.920
I went home and took a hot bath and laid179201:32:26.960 --> 01:32:29.560
down on the bed and thought, what a nice feeling179301:32:30.079 --> 01:32:34.119
not to be afraid anymore, Not really because I'd run179401:32:34.159 --> 01:32:36.600
after the bank robber, but more because I'd found out179501:32:36.640 --> 01:32:38.520
that I'd had it in me to do something like that.179601:32:40.079 --> 01:32:41.640
I thought about it till I fell asleep.179701:32:42.880 --> 01:32:54.960
A couple of hours later, the phone rang. Oh, oh, yeah,179801:32:55.960 --> 01:32:59.279
I was fine, mister t I one night. Mind coming179901:32:59.319 --> 01:32:59.920
down to the bank.180001:33:00.520 --> 01:33:04.560
Oh did they find a robbery dragging the river?180101:33:04.920 --> 01:33:05.079
Oh?180201:33:05.199 --> 01:33:09.880
Maybe swam to the other side. Uh, maybe he swam180301:33:10.039 --> 01:33:10.720
down rubbery.180401:33:10.920 --> 01:33:13.560
The current's pretty starm, man, I don't think he'd make it.180501:33:14.199 --> 01:33:15.760
Oh maybe got washed out the sea.180601:33:15.920 --> 01:33:18.680
Yeah, maybe we'll see you at the bank and bebo180701:33:18.800 --> 01:33:26.600
in half an hour. I'll be there, mister Tupper. When180801:33:26.640 --> 01:33:28.520
I got to the bank, mister Tupper met me and180901:33:28.560 --> 01:33:29.720
showed me into his office.181001:33:30.439 --> 01:33:31.680
That was just like before.181101:33:32.760 --> 01:33:34.479
Keller was there and.181201:33:34.600 --> 01:33:38.720
Mary Lou and Detective Bradshaw, and the projector was set181301:33:38.800 --> 01:33:41.760
up in the screen and the detective Bradshaw was talking.181401:33:42.079 --> 01:33:44.920
No, what's this? Carefully please, I have a chair older181501:33:45.000 --> 01:33:45.560
bit you all right?181601:33:45.720 --> 01:33:47.000
Yeah, I'm fine, thank you.181701:33:47.159 --> 01:33:47.319
Good.181801:33:47.399 --> 01:33:49.880
Now I'm going to run the film from the monitor as.181901:33:49.800 --> 01:33:54.000
Of one fifty six this afternoon. Uh, miss Tupper, if182001:33:54.039 --> 01:33:55.000
you will turn off the lights.182101:33:56.920 --> 01:34:06.920
Now, that's mister Potter. He he met a deposit. That's182201:34:07.000 --> 01:34:11.039
missus Connor. She cast a check, fifty dollars. Oh, here's182301:34:11.079 --> 01:34:12.640
where the man right here?182401:34:12.760 --> 01:34:17.760
Wait stop where he want me to go back? Put182501:34:17.800 --> 01:34:24.600
the please? Please, here we go.182601:34:27.159 --> 01:34:31.600
Mister Potter, Missus Connors.182701:34:33.520 --> 01:34:36.319
Then nobody.182801:34:38.520 --> 01:34:42.920
I see somebody there, you go ellerby across the counter.182901:34:43.119 --> 01:34:46.319
But there was somebody. Want me to run it again,183001:34:46.520 --> 01:34:47.760
Look there was somebody.183101:34:47.840 --> 01:34:49.640
Why would I jump over the counter if there wasn't183201:34:49.640 --> 01:34:50.239
anybody there?183301:34:50.800 --> 01:34:52.880
You didn't see anybody on the film, did no?183401:34:53.119 --> 01:34:54.159
But I did.183501:34:54.600 --> 01:34:59.319
I saw somebody now now, Hilda, I did nobody else183601:34:59.359 --> 01:35:02.279
did not. Everybody has the power to see ghosts.183701:35:03.479 --> 01:35:04.840
Just what did you see on the film?183801:35:04.880 --> 01:35:05.039
Hill?183901:35:05.840 --> 01:35:09.760
I saw mister Alliby only a little taller.184001:35:10.039 --> 01:35:11.640
I saw mister Allaby double.184101:35:12.239 --> 01:35:14.199
We don't believe in ghosts at this bank, and I184201:35:14.279 --> 01:35:16.640
don't imagine the police believer in there either.184301:35:17.199 --> 01:35:20.960
And who what did I chase down the street? Who184401:35:21.199 --> 01:35:21.920
dove into the river?184501:35:22.279 --> 01:35:25.159
We haven't found a buddy, have my doubts we ever will?184601:35:26.319 --> 01:35:30.319
It's funny though we did find something a cue you184701:35:30.399 --> 01:35:32.640
found a nothing like that.184801:35:33.840 --> 01:35:36.520
We found a high silk hat what they used to184901:35:36.560 --> 01:35:38.720
call the top hat. You remember them?185001:35:40.000 --> 01:35:42.880
No, why would anybody saw a top hat in the river?185101:35:43.760 --> 01:35:45.720
Why would anybody even own the top hat?185201:35:50.359 --> 01:35:54.399
Marlyan and I left together. We wandered down to the185301:35:54.520 --> 01:35:57.119
river where we'd had lunch just a few hours before.185401:35:59.039 --> 01:36:00.399
There was the pier where I've.185501:36:00.279 --> 01:36:03.199
Gone after what I thought was a bank ropper, where185601:36:03.239 --> 01:36:04.359
i'd seen him jump in.185701:36:04.560 --> 01:36:07.399
I'd heard the splash where I jumped in after him.185801:36:09.319 --> 01:36:10.159
How do you feel, Eddy?185901:36:11.880 --> 01:36:12.439
All right?186001:36:12.520 --> 01:36:14.800
I guess miss it down Shelley.186101:36:17.279 --> 01:36:20.720
Imagine this is where it all happened, or didn't happen,186201:36:21.239 --> 01:36:22.159
So it happened?186301:36:22.279 --> 01:36:24.680
Or right, what happened?186401:36:25.880 --> 01:36:28.439
Did I have a hallucination? What was it?186501:36:29.079 --> 01:36:29.199
Oh?186601:36:29.319 --> 01:36:29.600
Maybe?186701:36:30.560 --> 01:36:32.600
Did I make up the whole thing? Was I just186801:36:33.279 --> 01:36:34.359
showing off of once?186901:36:34.479 --> 01:36:35.399
Because that mattered?187001:36:35.560 --> 01:36:36.319
It does to me.187101:36:36.720 --> 01:36:39.840
Why can't you look at it this way? You thought187201:36:40.039 --> 01:36:43.479
you saw a bankropper that looked like you, except that187301:36:43.600 --> 01:36:47.800
he was three inches taller, or if Hilda's right, you187401:36:47.920 --> 01:36:50.119
did see him, you saw your double, your.187501:36:51.560 --> 01:36:55.920
Stoppelganger. But whichever it was, you didn't sold up or187601:36:56.000 --> 01:36:57.880
fall over in a state or even yell for help.187701:36:57.960 --> 01:37:00.520
You jumped across the cattle and you tackled him, and187801:37:00.600 --> 01:37:02.239
then you chase him out of the bank and down187901:37:02.319 --> 01:37:04.079
the street, and you jump in the river after him188001:37:04.079 --> 01:37:05.119
when you cant of them swim?188101:37:05.600 --> 01:37:09.000
Yeah, right? To do you think that a man who188201:37:09.039 --> 01:37:11.239
goes out in the dark after a burglar.188301:37:10.840 --> 01:37:14.680
Without a gun and all alone is any less brave188401:37:14.760 --> 01:37:16.760
because there was no robber there in the first place188501:37:17.479 --> 01:37:22.039
he thought there was, and he went anyway. Well, I188601:37:22.159 --> 01:37:27.079
think that's very brave. You do, I almost certainly do.188701:37:30.960 --> 01:37:35.159
We've never been what you'd call really close, Marry Low.188801:37:37.000 --> 01:37:40.279
I've always stuck close to you Eddie, you just haven't188901:37:41.159 --> 01:37:41.960
stuck close to me.189001:37:43.960 --> 01:37:47.279
I wanted to No, you wanted to.189101:37:47.279 --> 01:37:51.840
Be fed Astare. I wasn't Ginger Rogers.189201:37:54.159 --> 01:37:55.920
Feel prettier than Ginger Rogers.189301:37:56.960 --> 01:38:03.920
I'm one thing Ginger Rogers isn't. I'm here. Yeah, you189401:38:04.039 --> 01:38:08.000
still want to be fred Astare and we're a top hat.189501:38:09.399 --> 01:38:12.199
And I think I'll throw it away my top hat.189601:38:15.600 --> 01:38:16.359
I already did.189701:38:18.479 --> 01:38:18.880
You did.189801:38:19.600 --> 01:38:22.840
Well, that's your top hat. They found floating in the river.189901:38:24.000 --> 01:38:26.279
I stole it last night though we had our dinner.190001:38:26.520 --> 01:38:29.079
I threw it in the river this noon when you190101:38:29.119 --> 01:38:30.119
were packing up the lunch.190201:38:31.479 --> 01:38:33.319
Very look, well, why did you do that?190301:38:34.640 --> 01:38:39.000
I thought you didn't really need it anymore. I thought190401:38:39.039 --> 01:38:41.399
it was high time you stopped wanting to be fred190501:38:41.520 --> 01:38:45.479
Astaire because I knew that I could never be Ginger Rogers.190601:38:46.920 --> 01:38:47.640
And now we're just.190701:38:49.119 --> 01:38:49.520
You and.190801:38:51.119 --> 01:38:54.800
Me. AT's btter this way.190901:38:57.039 --> 01:39:03.520
I think it's perfect, so funny.191001:39:07.000 --> 01:39:09.199
What are you doing today? Nothing?191101:39:10.279 --> 01:39:10.479
Why?191201:39:12.239 --> 01:39:14.520
Well, let's here and me don't dancing.191301:39:25.840 --> 01:39:32.439
Hear means paralysis. Here means the inability to act. Fear191401:39:32.600 --> 01:39:37.399
means being stopped in your tracks. Fear means being helpless191501:39:37.439 --> 01:39:41.479
as an infant. Fear is the enemy of life. Yes,191601:39:41.680 --> 01:39:44.359
as we have seen in the case of Edgar Allaby,191701:39:44.880 --> 01:39:48.720
the paralysis can be broken, the ability to act can191801:39:48.800 --> 01:39:53.800
be restored. We can overcome helplessness and move in our tracks.191901:39:54.239 --> 01:39:59.560
So the real enemy is not fear itself, only the192001:39:59.720 --> 01:40:01.600
fe fear of fear.192101:40:02.880 --> 01:40:03.880
I'll be back shortly.192201:40:06.640 --> 01:40:17.680
There's plenty in the world today to fill us with fear.192301:40:18.520 --> 01:40:20.560
We'd be fools not to feal fear.192401:40:21.279 --> 01:40:26.399
Yet we must move, must act, must overcome paralysis and192501:40:26.520 --> 01:40:30.640
stop acting like children. So with fear in our hearts,192601:40:31.479 --> 01:40:36.079
let us be courageous, haunted by dred, Let us dare192701:40:36.199 --> 01:40:40.399
to look around the corner, see what's there, and whatever192801:40:40.479 --> 01:40:42.039
it is, deal with.192901:40:42.119 --> 01:40:43.000
It the best we can.193001:40:44.279 --> 01:40:48.359
For all we know it may be a ghost, a193101:40:48.479 --> 01:40:53.560
ghost as frightened as we are. Our cast included Jack Grimes,193201:40:53.640 --> 01:40:56.479
Marion Pelders, Jane White and Earl Hammond.193301:40:57.000 --> 01:40:59.960
The entire production was under the direction of Hymond Brown.193401:41:00.520 --> 01:41:00.800
Radio.193501:41:00.920 --> 01:41:04.159
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Duick Motor Division.193601:41:04.720 --> 01:41:05.319
This is E. G.193701:41:05.560 --> 01:41:08.960
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for193801:41:09.079 --> 01:41:11.199
another adventure in the macabre.193901:41:12.439 --> 01:41:16.399
Until next time, pleasant dreams.194001:41:23.760 --> 01:41:29.640
Oh goodness, it is getting quite late. Time does fly194101:41:30.159 --> 01:41:33.800
when you're having fun. Oh what's that, my dear? Well, well,194201:41:34.399 --> 01:41:36.920
it just so happens. I do have one more for you.194301:41:37.720 --> 01:41:41.840
So I'll put another log on the fire, I'll put194401:41:41.880 --> 01:41:46.720
another kettle on the stoves, and we'll get cozy and194501:41:46.920 --> 01:41:52.159
warm so that we can get fearful and chill. Now,194601:41:52.239 --> 01:41:55.680
let's see this one. I'd been saving for a night194701:41:56.560 --> 01:42:00.920
much like this. Since parting is such eat sorrow, and194801:42:01.680 --> 01:42:05.880
sorrow can be a part of fear. Well, I started194901:42:05.960 --> 01:42:10.960
to think more about how fear is made, how there195001:42:11.079 --> 01:42:16.520
is a pattern for fear, And that's the story.195101:42:28.680 --> 01:42:33.159
Good evening, friends, this is your host to welcome you195201:42:33.439 --> 01:42:38.119
through the creaking door into the inner tanker. Well, when195301:42:38.239 --> 01:42:42.359
picnicking over the weekend, find a lovely, RESTful.195401:42:41.920 --> 01:42:42.840
Would the place?195501:42:43.479 --> 01:42:47.560
Oh it's beautiful, so quiet you could hear a body drawn,195601:42:48.720 --> 01:42:50.159
And quite a few days.195701:42:53.800 --> 01:42:55.199
The sun was so happy?195801:42:55.279 --> 01:42:57.520
What about party melted to the ground.195901:42:58.520 --> 01:42:59.760
I'd always wondered.196001:42:59.520 --> 01:43:03.760
Over that waxen Look about Charlie, Phil It's an ill196101:43:03.800 --> 01:43:05.640
wind because Charlie had his usefulness.196201:43:05.680 --> 01:43:07.680
A bad came the deep night.196301:43:07.800 --> 01:43:13.000
We ran a string through him and played marbles by candlelight.196401:43:23.279 --> 01:43:26.600
The Knight's Inner sanct a mystery pattern for Fear was196501:43:26.640 --> 01:43:30.039
written by John Robert and stars Everett Sloane and the196601:43:30.119 --> 01:43:38.479
role of Ludwig with Cameron Budham as Larabie. And now196701:43:38.600 --> 01:43:43.520
for to Night's ramble in the Never Never Lands. We're196801:43:43.520 --> 01:43:48.479
in the Avalanche Lounge, a fashionable metropolitan restaurant. A waiter196901:43:48.560 --> 01:43:52.119
approaches a table secluded behind an arrangement of tall potted197001:43:52.199 --> 01:43:56.680
plan A lone patron sits at the intimate circular table197101:43:56.760 --> 01:43:57.119
for two.197201:43:58.600 --> 01:44:02.039
Your order, Saint, if you please, I will take your197301:44:02.079 --> 01:44:03.720
all that you know what I want.197401:44:04.239 --> 01:44:04.760
Lud Big.197501:44:07.399 --> 01:44:12.600
Got you, Unawar, I had forgotten you in five years197601:44:12.640 --> 01:44:17.000
of one. Forget and I'll reintroduce myself. Captain Larabie ninth197701:44:17.079 --> 01:44:20.239
preaching you read the morning papers, maybe.197801:44:20.880 --> 01:44:23.159
I can recommend our lots on you burg.197901:44:23.399 --> 01:44:27.439
The recit page one headline says that Gutrie Stewart Gop198001:44:27.560 --> 01:44:28.319
dead of a stroke.198101:44:29.720 --> 01:44:33.479
Men die, Captain Laddabe, every day man die.198201:44:33.560 --> 01:44:36.640
So that your life maybe with Gudrie Stewart dead and gone.198301:44:36.760 --> 01:44:40.880
Now you want to talk about things, You're there.198401:44:40.800 --> 01:44:45.119
Wrong, Captain Ladderby, I have no wish to talk, and in.198501:44:45.159 --> 01:44:47.359
That case, I guess I'll just have to make myself198601:44:47.479 --> 01:44:49.359
comfortable and wait right here.198701:44:49.640 --> 01:44:51.119
You're just wasting your time.198801:44:51.319 --> 01:44:55.840
I don't think so, Ludby. You're still suffering something in silence.198901:44:56.640 --> 01:45:00.520
Guthrie Stewart died without a word. But there's an envelope199001:45:00.560 --> 01:45:04.800
somewhere now, and it's way over here to you. An envelope. Yes,199101:45:04.840 --> 01:45:08.239
it is coming by a special messenger. The envelope reads199201:45:09.039 --> 01:45:12.960
to be delivered on Guthrie Stewart's death. Yeah, don't look199301:45:13.000 --> 01:45:16.000
so be fuddled. Stewart's lawyer tipped me off about that199401:45:16.159 --> 01:45:20.239
envelope fifteen minutes ago. I said, I'll wait, lood Big.199501:45:21.000 --> 01:45:29.680
What I really mean is, well, wait, we wait. The199601:45:29.800 --> 01:45:30.560
policeman and I.199701:45:31.800 --> 01:45:34.720
In a grim watch for the messenger soon to come.199801:45:36.199 --> 01:45:39.880
Captain Lodby doesn't say it, but I am his prisoner.199901:45:41.239 --> 01:45:45.439
The restaurant fills up with people, and my mind thinks200001:45:45.560 --> 01:45:48.600
back five years to the same table for two hidden200101:45:48.640 --> 01:45:53.000
behind the planet. I remember a conversation I overheard by chance,200201:45:53.600 --> 01:45:55.279
and the terror that came out.200301:45:56.199 --> 01:45:58.560
Are you absolutely clear on what you want to do?200401:45:58.960 --> 01:46:01.000
Lady murderers business that they.200501:46:00.960 --> 01:46:02.560
Will repeat my instructions again?200601:46:02.920 --> 01:46:05.800
Okay, I'm up there on the terrace outside his bedroom,200701:46:05.880 --> 01:46:07.239
holding a shub machine gun.200801:46:08.119 --> 01:46:10.399
When the eleven thirty train comes around the curve, I.200901:46:10.560 --> 01:46:13.319
Shoot to kill you empty the machine gun into his bed.201001:46:14.239 --> 01:46:16.239
Understand you empty it.201101:46:17.319 --> 01:46:18.800
You don't just want him killed.201201:46:19.159 --> 01:46:21.880
There must be no chance of his surviving this time.201301:46:22.359 --> 01:46:24.800
This time, so you tried it before.201401:46:25.239 --> 01:46:25.439
Yes.201501:46:26.479 --> 01:46:30.279
Here the address is on the slip of paper. Read it,201601:46:31.239 --> 01:46:33.439
memorize it, and then destroy it.201701:46:33.720 --> 01:46:36.000
When do I get paid tomorrow?201801:46:36.039 --> 01:46:39.479
At six? Here, at this table I leave it.201901:46:42.640 --> 01:46:46.479
I watched a leaf the restaurant, a heavily veiled woman202001:46:46.600 --> 01:46:49.640
in black whose face I could not see. A man202101:46:49.920 --> 01:46:52.600
was to be murdered by a killer for hire, a202201:46:52.760 --> 01:46:57.159
killer with a cold, business like look. I watched him202301:46:57.239 --> 01:47:00.520
read their dress, tear it to bits, it into the202401:47:00.560 --> 01:47:03.279
pocket plant, and then pushed the bits of.202501:47:03.319 --> 01:47:04.399
Paper under the earth.202601:47:07.079 --> 01:47:09.479
When he left, I recovered the bits of paper and202701:47:09.560 --> 01:47:15.279
pieced them together. The victim was Guthrie Stewart. The address202801:47:15.439 --> 01:47:18.800
was half of mya Heights in the suburbs, just outside202901:47:18.840 --> 01:47:19.239
the city.203001:47:20.199 --> 01:47:27.319
A man's life was in my hand. The murder was203101:47:27.399 --> 01:47:28.520
to be at eleven thirty.203201:47:29.159 --> 01:47:32.479
At ten, I was in Guthrie Stuart's library warning him203301:47:33.079 --> 01:47:37.319
but he was only amused, and his wife too, So.203401:47:37.439 --> 01:47:38.800
I'm to be murdered in my bed.203501:47:39.000 --> 01:47:42.199
Yeah, at eleven thirty when the train goes around the curve.203601:47:42.319 --> 01:47:45.399
Well, darling, somebody then darreny heard him snore and has203701:47:45.479 --> 01:47:47.560
finally decided to take drastic action.203801:47:47.880 --> 01:47:50.039
Well, you'll make a charming widow. Well, and if it203901:47:50.119 --> 01:47:53.319
all comes true. Oh but it is true, mister Stewart,204001:47:53.359 --> 01:47:58.279
you joke foolishly. I overheard them plucking. See I have204101:47:58.439 --> 01:48:00.640
heard the pieces of paper the killer in the base204201:48:00.680 --> 01:48:01.239
of the plant.204301:48:01.600 --> 01:48:07.319
Look, that's my name and address, all right, But what204401:48:07.439 --> 01:48:09.720
does it prove? I'm in the phone book. Anybody could204501:48:09.760 --> 01:48:11.239
jot down my name and address.204601:48:12.880 --> 01:48:13.399
Anybody.204701:48:15.319 --> 01:48:20.119
What did you say your name was, again, Ludwick, Ludwig.204801:48:19.760 --> 01:48:25.079
Heller, I am a waiter at the Avalon Lounge. Do204901:48:25.159 --> 01:48:29.359
you think perhaps I wrote your name down? The way205001:48:29.399 --> 01:48:31.119
you look at me, I see you think I am205101:48:31.159 --> 01:48:33.680
a crank, even crazy perhaps.205201:48:33.520 --> 01:48:36.439
Well, Frankly, Ludwig, I don't know exactly what to think.205301:48:36.680 --> 01:48:40.840
You have no enemies, not a one, so far as205401:48:40.880 --> 01:48:41.079
I know.205501:48:42.439 --> 01:48:48.920
I heard her speak a voice lasting for blood, your blood,205601:48:49.039 --> 01:48:53.720
mister Stewart, and I saw him a man without a heart,205701:48:54.359 --> 01:48:56.319
a cold machine that kills.205801:48:57.640 --> 01:48:57.680
You.205901:48:57.880 --> 01:49:01.720
Ought to die, mister Stuart sick hear that.206001:49:03.359 --> 01:49:06.640
The train close to your home, just as I heard206101:49:06.720 --> 01:49:10.039
her say, Yes, laugh and make jokes, but when the206201:49:10.039 --> 01:49:11.760
eleven thirty train goes around the.206301:49:11.800 --> 01:49:13.600
Curve, you are going to die in.206401:49:13.600 --> 01:49:14.439
The stuff, Stuart.206501:49:22.000 --> 01:49:25.159
A man's life was in my hands, but I couldn't206601:49:25.199 --> 01:49:28.840
make the victim believe in his own approaching death. I206701:49:28.960 --> 01:49:31.640
went to the local police station to a Captain Larrabee.206801:49:32.079 --> 01:49:35.279
There I blurt about the story once more. I waited206901:49:35.359 --> 01:49:37.720
when he talked to Guffrie Stewart on the telephone.207001:49:38.119 --> 01:49:42.840
Yes, I got it, Yes, I understand, mister Stewart. Good thing.207101:49:42.920 --> 01:49:47.439
I'll do just as you say. Look at you, Ludwig207201:49:47.920 --> 01:49:51.119
Ludrig Heller, Look Heller. I relate what you told me207301:49:51.199 --> 01:49:53.000
to Guthrie Stewart, what I told you.207401:49:53.119 --> 01:49:54.520
It was of no use to do that.207501:49:54.680 --> 01:49:55.760
He just laughs at it.207601:49:56.039 --> 01:49:59.000
He's not laughing anymore. A matter of fact, he's not207701:49:59.119 --> 01:50:02.039
being mad right now, and his missus too o being207801:50:02.119 --> 01:50:05.880
mad at you, at me, at you. He says, if207901:50:05.880 --> 01:50:08.119
you keep peddling that fish story around, he's going to208001:50:08.159 --> 01:50:12.560
prefer charges of malicious persecution. He will put for charges208101:50:12.600 --> 01:50:15.560
against me right. In fact, he left it squarely up208201:50:15.560 --> 01:50:18.239
to me. You had to promise me you go about208301:50:18.279 --> 01:50:21.079
your business. Whenever that is, I am to clap you208401:50:21.159 --> 01:50:22.399
in the clink for observation.208501:50:23.800 --> 01:50:25.600
He thinks I am crazy.208601:50:25.520 --> 01:50:28.199
Sure of it. A matter of fact, from the looks208701:50:28.239 --> 01:50:30.199
of you, I am not sure. You're not crazy either.208801:50:31.680 --> 01:50:33.079
Now you're going to do the sensible thing.208901:50:34.199 --> 01:50:45.199
Yes, yes, kept lady, I will go home, the sensible thing.209001:50:46.600 --> 01:50:52.760
Go home. Eleven o'clock. In thirty minutes, a.209101:50:52.800 --> 01:50:55.960
Man would die, and his blood would stain all the209201:50:56.039 --> 01:50:59.199
rest of my life because I was powerless to save him.209301:51:00.520 --> 01:51:04.359
The sensible thing, Go home, the police captain had said.209401:51:05.039 --> 01:51:06.199
But I did not go home.209501:51:06.840 --> 01:51:09.479
I had to see death, look deep into its face.209601:51:10.560 --> 01:51:13.439
I returned to Hannaya Heights to wait silently in the209701:51:13.520 --> 01:51:19.680
shadows on the terrace and watch. He was there too,209801:51:20.560 --> 01:51:24.840
the killer and his machine gun, a black executioner.209901:51:24.239 --> 01:51:40.159
Waiting him ready. But Guthrie Stuart lived.210001:51:42.199 --> 01:51:44.720
I saw him in the pale moonlight on the terrace,210101:51:45.319 --> 01:51:48.239
A shaken man and a frightened woman, both in their210201:51:48.319 --> 01:51:53.399
night clothes, armed and unharmed, seeking the assassin, but afraid210301:51:53.479 --> 01:51:57.359
to search for him. A moment later, I overheard him210401:51:57.399 --> 01:52:00.640
on the telephone talking with great excitement to get than Larabie.210501:52:00.800 --> 01:52:01.640
I don't want any.210601:52:01.520 --> 01:52:04.199
Publicity on it, but an attempt was just made on210701:52:04.279 --> 01:52:04.680
my life.210801:52:06.159 --> 01:52:09.640
Yes, someone machine gun in my bed while was eleven210901:52:09.720 --> 01:52:10.720
thirty one around the curve.211001:52:12.560 --> 01:52:16.520
Why right, I wasn't in my bed, A dummy was211101:52:16.640 --> 01:52:17.119
machine gun.211201:52:18.239 --> 01:52:19.920
I fixed the bedclothes to make it appear that I211301:52:20.039 --> 01:52:23.399
was in bed just in case, just in case that211401:52:23.479 --> 01:52:25.439
blue big person was really telling me something.211501:52:27.319 --> 01:52:30.760
I melted into the night like the killer head. Guthrie211601:52:30.840 --> 01:52:35.840
Stewart was safe. I had been spared his death. The211701:52:36.039 --> 01:52:39.960
sensible thing now was to go home, but I was211801:52:40.039 --> 01:52:43.279
to have another moment with the police that night. Walking211901:52:43.359 --> 01:52:45.720
along a tree shaded road to a bus stop, a212001:52:45.800 --> 01:52:48.640
police car suddenly flew taught me and I was all212101:52:48.680 --> 01:52:51.279
the two halt there, but I didn't stop.212201:52:51.840 --> 01:52:54.680
Instead, I ran. I don't know why, but I ran212301:52:54.840 --> 01:52:55.720
like the wind.212401:52:58.000 --> 01:52:59.960
Faster than behind me.212501:53:07.479 --> 01:53:12.720
I found the neck of woods and hid lay face212601:53:12.800 --> 01:53:16.319
down in the earth for hours and listening to the night.212701:53:18.359 --> 01:53:22.560
And then just before morning I started back to the city,212801:53:22.800 --> 01:53:23.680
sneaking along the.212901:53:23.720 --> 01:53:24.520
Back roads like.213001:53:26.439 --> 01:53:32.000
A fugitive. A curious thing had happened to me in213101:53:32.119 --> 01:53:34.680
that night, the deep kilt.213201:53:34.760 --> 01:53:39.279
I was sure that killer mas Kiel had transferred itself213301:53:40.199 --> 01:53:40.560
to me.213401:53:51.239 --> 01:53:53.640
Lud big the way they show got himself one big213501:53:53.880 --> 01:53:58.760
chip to a slaughter, Oh his end. The murdy got213601:53:58.840 --> 01:54:02.159
in the band rush over the stewards. What do you213701:54:02.239 --> 01:54:04.600
do with a character who laughs at in advance and213801:54:04.640 --> 01:54:08.760
others of his own death and nobody has strangle him213901:54:08.760 --> 01:54:12.840
on the spot. I say that way, he'll positively believe214001:54:12.960 --> 01:54:15.319
you the next time you're around.214101:54:19.159 --> 01:54:21.720
Yes, the murdering times, only there's.214201:54:21.520 --> 01:54:26.119
A lot of wasted breath. Tell a cross he's dead214301:54:26.159 --> 01:54:32.680
and he'll never disturb it for a minute. Yeah, let's214401:54:33.479 --> 01:54:35.119
worm back into the story.214501:54:35.800 --> 01:54:41.640
M The next evening I went through the Avalon Lounge214601:54:41.680 --> 01:54:44.680
to my job, as I always did. The police had214701:54:44.720 --> 01:54:48.800
been called Ugushri Stewart. It was as if there had214801:54:48.920 --> 01:54:53.159
been no night before, But there had been a night before,214901:54:54.359 --> 01:54:57.000
the same tool. They're at the table again behind the215001:54:57.119 --> 01:55:00.439
tall palms, as they had agreed to be the heavily215101:55:00.600 --> 01:55:03.000
veiled woman in black and.215201:55:03.159 --> 01:55:04.079
The hired killer.215301:55:05.640 --> 01:55:09.720
Five years have passed, but I can remember that conversation215401:55:09.920 --> 01:55:13.920
I overheard word forward bungler Stewart is alive.215501:55:14.279 --> 01:55:16.920
I sprayed a bed full of holes like a Swiss cheese,215601:55:17.000 --> 01:55:17.960
maybe twenty bullets.215701:55:18.000 --> 01:55:19.439
But he wasn't in the bed.215801:55:19.800 --> 01:55:22.720
Someone was Where I stood, I could see a figure215901:55:22.800 --> 01:55:23.520
all curled up.216001:55:23.800 --> 01:55:25.399
Well, you've got to do it all over again.216101:55:26.479 --> 01:55:28.840
Okay, tell me where and how.216201:55:29.359 --> 01:55:33.199
Listen carefully. He will be at a shorefront casino in216301:55:33.319 --> 01:55:36.960
Norwalk tonight. He will motivat there from Rye and then216401:55:37.079 --> 01:55:39.960
back the same way. You will wait at his landing216501:55:40.039 --> 01:55:44.039
pier when he ducks. You will have your second chance.216601:55:44.800 --> 01:55:45.399
What do I do?216701:55:46.600 --> 01:55:47.840
Wait all night at the period?216801:55:47.960 --> 01:55:48.000
No?216901:55:49.039 --> 01:55:51.640
He always returns home close to midnight.217001:55:52.239 --> 01:55:53.720
Which landing period of I wait there?217101:55:53.880 --> 01:55:58.880
Number nineteen? It's Stuart's privacy. The motor boat he drives217201:55:58.960 --> 01:56:00.720
has a black ego painted on it.217301:56:02.479 --> 01:56:03.479
He usually is.217401:56:06.560 --> 01:56:08.600
Do you have a face behind that?217501:56:08.760 --> 01:56:08.920
Ven?217601:56:09.239 --> 01:56:11.359
Don't ever try finding out.217701:56:16.840 --> 01:56:19.960
Guthris Swart's life was in my hand for a second time,217801:56:20.680 --> 01:56:23.479
as if I had been appointed cheaper of his destiny.217901:56:24.439 --> 01:56:27.199
I was there too, with the fog curling around me,218001:56:27.520 --> 01:56:30.960
just before midnight, on the docks facing the Long Island Sound.218101:56:32.399 --> 01:56:36.239
I hid, but as before, the executioner stood in the218201:56:36.399 --> 01:56:39.880
park and missed, not twenty yards away from me waiting.218301:56:41.159 --> 01:56:45.079
There were midnight times, and on the water, moving closer.218401:56:45.600 --> 01:56:49.199
The sound of a motor boat returning to Doc the218501:56:49.319 --> 01:56:53.359
black eagle on the prow was hardly distinguishable. And then218601:56:53.399 --> 01:56:55.680
a figure stepped out from the boat to the pier.218701:56:56.279 --> 01:56:58.399
I saw the killer move and I screamed, stop.218801:56:58.680 --> 01:57:06.760
Look out. How he was in a heap on the pier,218901:57:07.239 --> 01:57:10.399
a white figure. I ran to him and kneel down219001:57:10.439 --> 01:57:14.800
to see if life had gone completely. Mister Stewart, mister Stewart,219101:57:15.000 --> 01:57:15.880
that's not his name.219201:57:17.359 --> 01:57:18.920
You are alive, very much so.219301:57:19.800 --> 01:57:22.119
But he by pilot Jameson.219401:57:23.119 --> 01:57:24.880
He got the bullets evidently intended for me.219501:57:26.239 --> 01:57:30.199
You get No, I don't think I do, but I'm219601:57:30.279 --> 01:57:31.960
not experienced in such things.219701:57:32.039 --> 01:57:35.760
And let me he's alive.219801:57:36.399 --> 01:57:37.479
I did call an ambulance.219901:57:37.560 --> 01:57:41.960
No, I will you go home, But it's better that220001:57:42.079 --> 01:57:45.119
you do for both of us. It is better for220101:57:45.319 --> 01:57:49.840
you that I go home. Yes, I like this treated discreetly.220201:57:50.960 --> 01:57:53.119
I'm an investment broker, quite an important one.220301:57:53.680 --> 01:57:55.479
I know you know.220401:57:56.520 --> 01:57:58.199
Yes, I know a great deal about you.220501:57:59.479 --> 01:58:02.960
That's a god, since I have been given your destiny220601:58:03.039 --> 01:58:07.159
in my keeping, in my hands I have familiarized myself220701:58:07.279 --> 01:58:17.039
with things about you. The next day a heavy manilla220801:58:17.199 --> 01:58:21.000
envelope came to the restaurant for me from Guthrie Stewart.220901:58:22.159 --> 01:58:25.560
The letter told me about his investment business, his social position,221001:58:26.039 --> 01:58:28.680
his fear of scandal and things.221101:58:30.560 --> 01:58:33.319
Besides the letter, there.221201:58:33.319 --> 01:58:38.279
Was a check, a twenty five hundred dollars check for me.221301:58:41.239 --> 01:58:45.279
The police didn't come until the next night. Captain Larabie221401:58:45.319 --> 01:58:48.479
took me to the station house. Gousrie Stewart was there221501:58:48.520 --> 01:58:53.680
and Missus Stewart. Captain laraby was trying hard to understanding221601:58:55.039 --> 01:58:55.479
who were.221701:58:55.439 --> 01:58:58.159
You before you began waiting on tables at the avalanche221801:58:58.239 --> 01:59:01.000
and before you started to do over here murder plots.221901:59:01.520 --> 01:59:05.279
I've was just myself in the world.222001:59:05.479 --> 01:59:07.800
Quit that kind of talk. I meant, what were you222101:59:08.399 --> 01:59:08.760
a waiter?222201:59:09.760 --> 01:59:10.720
I have all of us been.222301:59:11.560 --> 01:59:15.960
You have a mental history somewhere. If you have better,222401:59:16.039 --> 01:59:18.560
talk up might help you out of a jam being222501:59:18.800 --> 01:59:25.920
mentally irresponsible. Okay, don't talk up, Missus Stewart. Yes, Captain222601:59:25.960 --> 01:59:28.960
Harvey on miss Sheet, I have some of the speeches written,222701:59:29.600 --> 01:59:33.039
the speeches that Ludley claims he's overheard that woman made.222801:59:33.399 --> 01:59:36.079
Now please read them in your own natural speaking voice222901:59:36.720 --> 01:59:39.560
and read them like a woman bent on getting somebody murdered.223001:59:39.760 --> 01:59:43.920
Captain Lorby you do look, missus Stewart, no dramatics, please,223101:59:44.000 --> 01:59:46.800
I'm just doing a job. Now read them, please.223201:59:48.600 --> 01:59:49.000
Very well.223301:59:50.640 --> 01:59:53.479
You empty the machine gun into his bed.223401:59:54.760 --> 01:59:55.960
Understand you empty it?223501:59:57.319 --> 01:59:59.000
There must be no chance of his sip.223602:00:00.000 --> 02:00:01.199
Are they surviving this time?223702:00:02.000 --> 02:00:03.720
Oh, captain No?223802:00:05.760 --> 02:00:09.760
Is it the same voice, Ludwig or almost the same voice? No,223902:00:11.119 --> 02:00:14.640
the voices are entirely different. You can say that positively.224002:00:14.880 --> 02:00:15.079
Yes.224102:00:16.199 --> 02:00:21.319
Also, the other woman was taller and much stouter. Okay,224202:00:21.560 --> 02:00:25.279
that's that, and I'm not surprised. I'm sorry, Missustewan. You224302:00:25.399 --> 02:00:28.600
should be put your hands out loud, big put my224402:00:28.800 --> 02:00:33.640
hands out. That's right, graceless for you, good big Heller.224502:00:34.319 --> 02:00:40.880
You're under arrest for a tempted murder. I was sent224602:00:40.960 --> 02:00:43.199
to a mental board for observations.224702:00:43.960 --> 02:00:47.800
There were tests, doctors examining me for weeks and questions,224802:00:48.720 --> 02:00:51.840
and one day again Captain lorry Be came.224902:00:51.800 --> 02:00:55.279
To question me once more. I have fal certificates in225002:00:55.359 --> 02:00:58.560
your room, the big there yours? Anting, Yes, they are225102:00:58.640 --> 02:01:03.239
mine Commons stock certificates in the Guffery Stewart Investment company.225202:01:04.000 --> 02:01:06.199
Fifty of them worth one hundred dollars a peace on225302:01:06.239 --> 02:01:10.239
their face. That's five thousand dollars. Where'd you get five225402:01:10.279 --> 02:01:14.680
thousand dollars to invest in stocks? It was my life's225502:01:14.680 --> 02:01:19.039
savings from waiting on tables. Yes, from waiting on table.225602:01:19.239 --> 02:01:23.439
These stocks took a drop, a big drop. These certificates225702:01:23.479 --> 02:01:26.760
are worth about twenty cents on the dollar today. I225802:01:26.960 --> 02:01:28.600
know that, Captain Lonley.225902:01:28.760 --> 02:01:31.439
Yes, a bear market did it? Some people think a226002:01:31.520 --> 02:01:34.239
lot of big fellows squeeze a lot of little fellows.226102:01:34.279 --> 02:01:38.079
Maybe is that how you figure your life savings were226202:01:38.239 --> 02:01:43.399
wiped out? Maybe maybe Reffe Stewart's market operations cost you226302:01:43.680 --> 02:01:47.560
your life savings. Isn't that how you figured it? Isn't226402:01:47.560 --> 02:01:50.319
that why you came around telling him his life was226502:01:50.359 --> 02:01:53.680
in danger, to terrify him, get money out of him,226602:01:53.800 --> 02:01:57.600
or saving his life, maybe even kill him in the end.226702:01:57.640 --> 02:02:01.640
Anyhow, I am tired, Captain Ladaby.226802:02:01.760 --> 02:02:03.000
I want to sleep now.226902:02:03.439 --> 02:02:04.399
You're not going to answer.227002:02:04.600 --> 02:02:07.720
I wish only to sleep now, Doctor.227102:02:07.800 --> 02:02:11.000
Who case stall, don't confess you toted that machine gun227202:02:11.079 --> 02:02:13.600
up to that terrace and it was you firing away227302:02:13.640 --> 02:02:17.039
on that pier. Quait hired Cray sick, even beat the227402:02:17.119 --> 02:02:20.199
rap that way. But you will still face charges for227502:02:20.319 --> 02:02:23.359
extorting twenty five hundred dollars. You've got your dead to227602:02:23.439 --> 02:02:24.000
write on that.227702:02:24.399 --> 02:02:29.199
No, Captain, I had sent the twenty five hundred dollars back.227802:02:33.520 --> 02:02:34.439
Five years ago.227902:02:36.079 --> 02:02:39.239
I went from the hospital to jail for months without228002:02:39.399 --> 02:02:41.600
bail while the police tried to build a case.228102:02:42.600 --> 02:02:45.079
In the ends, there was no evidence, and I was free,228202:02:46.279 --> 02:02:48.520
free to be watched through the years.228302:02:49.640 --> 02:02:50.239
Like tonight.228402:02:50.359 --> 02:02:51.800
She into avalon lounge.228502:02:52.960 --> 02:02:57.479
Guthrie Stewart is dead, but Captain Landaby sits with me228602:02:58.399 --> 02:02:59.399
as we wait for a.228702:02:59.479 --> 02:03:00.399
Messenger to come.228802:03:00.760 --> 02:03:04.600
Ludwig Heller. Yes, I am Ludwig Heller. I got an228902:03:04.680 --> 02:03:05.279
envelope for you.229002:03:06.039 --> 02:03:11.600
Fine here please, I'll take that letter, Lidi. It's from229102:03:11.640 --> 02:03:16.039
the grave. The envelope reads lud Big Heller on my229202:03:16.199 --> 02:03:22.399
dead god Resteward, and let's see what's inside. You know229302:03:22.479 --> 02:03:26.640
what's inside? Maybe, Helena, Yes, I think I know. The229402:03:26.760 --> 02:03:32.680
second we'll both know doesn't say much.229502:03:33.319 --> 02:03:37.520
Does it say thank you, ludrig from the bottom of229602:03:37.680 --> 02:03:38.159
my heart?229702:03:39.119 --> 02:03:44.560
Yes, yes, it says exactly that, word for word, Godfrey Stewart,229802:03:44.680 --> 02:03:46.399
thanking you what for?229902:03:47.079 --> 02:03:50.399
I have here in my pocket a letter for you, Captain.230002:03:50.479 --> 02:03:53.039
It was sent to me five years ago with the230102:03:53.199 --> 02:03:57.199
check that I returned. Godri Steward told me to give230202:03:57.279 --> 02:04:00.640
this letter to you any time I wished.230302:04:02.359 --> 02:04:04.600
I wish now here.230402:04:04.720 --> 02:04:11.119
Captain Here, Captain Larabee, the Big Heller's story is the truth,230502:04:11.880 --> 02:04:16.439
the whole tooth. The woman plotting my murder is Ellen,230602:04:16.680 --> 02:04:17.239
my wife.230702:04:18.319 --> 02:04:22.880
Not out of hatred, Captain, but out of sickness, the230802:04:23.000 --> 02:04:26.760
mind that has never been strong. She lives in darkness,230902:04:27.960 --> 02:04:31.600
and I too because of her. If I can keep231002:04:31.640 --> 02:04:34.960
the secret, I can live and perhaps help her.231102:04:36.039 --> 02:04:39.479
The Blue Big Heller can endure for me and carry231202:04:39.560 --> 02:04:43.880
my burden, even for a while. Ellen will be hospitalized,231302:04:43.880 --> 02:04:45.319
and we both all hope.231402:04:46.039 --> 02:04:52.880
Look, Big Heller has a strange Now you understand, Captain Larabee.231502:04:53.520 --> 02:04:56.479
Those stock certificates I found in your room, we put231602:04:56.520 --> 02:04:57.840
them there for you to find.231702:04:58.039 --> 02:04:59.960
Captain Gothri Stuat and die.231802:05:01.079 --> 02:05:04.079
You did that. You took the kind of rap you231902:05:04.159 --> 02:05:08.319
did for Guthrie Stewart, for that fellow human in distress. Yeah,232002:05:09.119 --> 02:05:14.239
you let yourself be slapped around, hospitalized, jail found the232102:05:14.359 --> 02:05:15.359
day and night for years.232202:05:15.439 --> 02:05:20.600
Offer for an absolute stranger, for a reward, Captain A232302:05:20.760 --> 02:05:27.239
great reward. Ellen Stewart was pronounced cured six months ago.232402:05:29.000 --> 02:05:31.920
I am not too young in years, but it has232502:05:32.079 --> 02:05:36.079
fallen to me, a mere waiter on tables.232602:05:35.720 --> 02:05:40.000
To bring a new life into the world. It's the232702:05:40.159 --> 02:05:49.399
life of Ellen's Stewart. Really, Yes, Captain lady, let's let's232802:05:49.399 --> 02:05:50.399
take cancer.232902:06:00.880 --> 02:06:01.119
Ah.233002:06:02.279 --> 02:06:06.800
Nothing like an old record to calm you and soothe233102:06:06.920 --> 02:06:12.880
you before a nice night's nat. Well, my dear, I233202:06:13.039 --> 02:06:15.800
do appreciate you coming here again, and I do hope233302:06:15.840 --> 02:06:19.079
to see you next week. We can celebrate the holiday233402:06:19.159 --> 02:06:22.760
the way it really is meant to, with a little233502:06:22.800 --> 02:06:26.800
bit of cheer and a whole lot of fear. But233602:06:27.079 --> 02:06:31.479
now please get your coat. It's time to make that233702:06:31.680 --> 02:06:35.960
long journey hole over the river, through the woods, past233802:06:36.119 --> 02:06:41.640
grandmother's house under a covered bridge, through the streets and233902:06:41.760 --> 02:06:45.279
the snow and the slush and the ice. Be careful,234002:06:45.920 --> 02:06:51.439
do not slip and fall. Now very good, And as234102:06:51.560 --> 02:06:54.720
you get home, as you take off your galoshes and234202:06:54.800 --> 02:06:58.199
your jacket, as you put the hat back on its hook,234302:06:58.880 --> 02:07:02.119
and you decide it's time to rest your head on234402:07:02.239 --> 02:07:06.399
that soft down pillow of yours in that warm bedroom,234502:07:07.319 --> 02:07:11.600
as your eyes get heavy and you drift off. Remember234602:07:12.319 --> 02:07:15.720
take a moment and be thankful for what you have
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