Unknown Broadcast | "In Fear and Trembling"

WEBVTT

1
00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:14.279
Me, me, me, me
how now, brown cow? How now?

2
00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:20.160
Brown cow? Mommy makes me mash
my eminem Oh hello, hello,

3
00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:24.440
I reckon, you found me on
your radio dial yet again. I was

4
00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:29.359
just doing my well. It's somewhat
embarrassing to admit my vocal exercises. You

5
00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:34.000
see, I don't do a whole
lot of talking when I'm not being visited

6
00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:38.000
by you, So I like to
stay in shape, as it were,

7
00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:46.200
and I do some preparations when I
bust out. This old microphone sue works,

8
00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:52.719
though they don't make them like they
used to do they. Oh what

9
00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:55.399
was that? Oh no, no, no, no, don't even concern

10
00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:58.640
yourself. No, no, no, not at all, not at all.

11
00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:03.479
You'll be just fine. Just relax, find your favorite spot to sit.

12
00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:07.159
I feel like at this point you
must have a spot you enjoy here.

13
00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:11.640
You come here almost every night.
Relax, kick your feet up.

14
00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:17.719
I'll make you something warm to drink
as the winter is raging on further and

15
00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:22.319
further further. But don't you ever
worry. You know, when I'm done

16
00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:26.159
with you, you'll be You'll be
released back to your warm bed bed.

17
00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:33.680
Some people just don't know how good
they've got it, got it? But

18
00:01:33.840 --> 00:02:12.280
now my dear, it's time to
bring in the fear suspense. This is

19
00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:19.000
the Man in Black here again to
introduce Columbia's program Suspense. Our star tonight

20
00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:23.199
is Miss Mary Astor, one of
Hollywood's most charming and resourceful actresses and a

21
00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:29.599
lady who has no stranger to the
art of keeping audiences in suspense. Ask

22
00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:35.840
anyone who saw her in the Maltese
falcon or across the Pacific. The story

23
00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:40.919
called In Fear and Trembling by J. Donald Wilson is Tonight's tale of suspense.

24
00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:46.479
If you have been with us on
these Tuesday nights, you will know

25
00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:53.800
that suspense is compounded of mystery and
suspicion and dangerous adventure. In this series,

26
00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:58.520
our tales calculated to intrigue you,
stir your nerves, to offer you

27
00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:04.280
a precarious situation, and then withhold
the solution until the last possible moment.

28
00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:08.479
And so it is with In Fear
and Trembling and Miss Mary Astor's performance,

29
00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:22.479
we again hope to keep you in
suspense. At the edge of the cliff

30
00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:28.120
overlooking the seas sits a greystone mansion, weather beaten by the storms of several

31
00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:32.960
decades. To this mansion Gilbert Durant
brought his bride Lucia. That was four

32
00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:38.560
years ago. Gilbert and Lucia were
quite happy until a year ago when Lucia's

33
00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:44.639
half sister, Beverly came deliver them. Gradually, something began to happen.

34
00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:51.879
Lucia felt it felt that some insidious
horror was beginning to naught her happiness.

35
00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:55.879
She began to know that Gilbert's ardor
was beginning to cool. He became more

36
00:03:55.919 --> 00:04:02.000
absorbed in his writing, and felt
the cold clamminess of the great Stone structure

37
00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:06.840
creeping about her, clutching at her
heart. Anyone who saw her could tell

38
00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:12.120
that fear was growing in her mind, a fear of something which she could

39
00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:17.680
not or would not explain. One
evening, Lucia, having excused herself at

40
00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:25.399
dinner, tossed on her bed in
a fretful sleep. No, don't,

41
00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:36.160
don't get away from me in what
on earth is wrong? Why we are

42
00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:41.079
screaming of bens? And I must
have been dreaming it was horrible fighters a

43
00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:48.199
ghost and oh missus driving men.
That makes the fourth and fifth time I've

44
00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:53.000
damed the same thing, the same
and every did I've never been you screamed

45
00:04:53.040 --> 00:05:00.519
before that's probably because it always comes
a little closer to me tonight that almost

46
00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:03.720
reached me. It what you mean? I don't know what it is.

47
00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:06.839
It's a figure, a human figure, but I can't tell whether it's a

48
00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:12.000
man or a woman. It comes
through that door and walks slowly across the

49
00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:16.000
room with its arms outstretched reaching for
me. Are you sure you are dreaming?

50
00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:21.360
Now that I think of Really isn't
like a dream, ordinary dream.

51
00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:28.120
Its reality seems to carry over even
after I'm awake. That's what's made you

52
00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:31.879
so ill. This dream, if
it is a dream, means something.

53
00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:40.120
Is that what you think? It's
a premonition? Perhaps? What time is

54
00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:45.639
it? Nine o'clock? Where's Gilbert? Your husband went horseback riding over an

55
00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:49.959
hour ago? Did he go alone? Your sister went with him, Beverly?

56
00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:55.439
Why didn't he ask me to go? Well? You've not been yourself

57
00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:59.680
lately, not been feeling well?
Yes, yes, of course. Well

58
00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:02.360
if you feeling better, I'll go
back to my room. Oh yes,

59
00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:17.920
I thank you, good night,
good night. Lucia lay there for a

60
00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:23.800
while, staring wild eyed at the
patch of moonlight on the bedroom door,

61
00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:31.360
listening, waiting. Mm hmmm.
Ten the clock struck past ten. The

62
00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:36.959
door opened and the figure stepped into
the room and moved noiselessly through the moonlight

63
00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:46.839
to Lucia's bed. Suddenly, Lucia
opened her eyes. Lucia, what's wrong

64
00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:49.480
with you? What are you doing
in my room? To know how you

65
00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:53.199
felt? How long have you been
standing there? Oh? Just a few

66
00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:57.879
seconds. I was streaming, I
guess, and I woke up and startled

67
00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:00.560
me. Why were you yelling?
Don't? I don't know. I haven't

68
00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:05.199
the slightest idea. I talked with
doctor Hendley about you today. I told

69
00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:08.639
him I'll run down you were,
and he suggested that I got a tonic

70
00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:11.639
for you. I'll drop in at
the drug store on my way home tomorrow

71
00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:15.720
evening a tonic? Yes, what? Well? What is it? Oh?

72
00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:20.519
I don't remember something? Something in
strictness. Yes, see, you

73
00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:26.399
said we'll give you an Appathey.
Where have you been, gil? Oh?

74
00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:30.079
I've been riding nice smoon light night. Sorry, plea, wasn't it?

75
00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:33.920
Did Beverly enjoy it? Yeah?
She's an excellent writer. I decided

76
00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:39.199
to buy that Philly from Thompson going
over there tomorrow afternoon. Is Beverly going

77
00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:43.079
with you? Yes? She's a
good judge of postploge. Fine, nothing,

78
00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:48.000
I just asked, well, good
night, Lucia. Do you got

79
00:07:48.000 --> 00:08:01.319
breakfast? Yes, good night?
Something something in strictnes something something, And

80
00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:05.480
stricken, Lucia jumps from her bed, rushes down to the library, steps

81
00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:09.959
on the light, and steps to
the shelf holding the encyclopedia. She runs

82
00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:11.879
her fingers down the long line of
books L M N O, P R.

83
00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:20.600
And then she stops and stairs.
Yes to T is missing, and

84
00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:24.360
she sees it on the desk,
the missing volume. She rushes to the

85
00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:28.279
desk and stares down at the open
page, kissed. Yes, that's it,

86
00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:35.360
string, I'll tell you what be
I entirely up to you. To

87
00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.159
me, deil, that's not fair? Why not? But suppose she turns

88
00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:43.200
out to be a lemon. I
don't think she will, because you're going

89
00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.919
to have the job of training.
Oh, you certainly flatter me. Not

90
00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:50.519
in the leaves. Oh, good
morning, Lucia. I just realized what

91
00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:54.519
time it was. You'll be leaving
in a few minutes. Yes, it's

92
00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.000
nine this very minute. I'll step
on it. More coffee, Beverly,

93
00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:01.320
how did you deal, Lucia?
Better? Much better? You better eat

94
00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:05.399
something? No, no, I
can't least some coffee. Yes, I'll

95
00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:07.440
have some coffee. I've got to
run. See you letter, Lucia.

96
00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:11.080
Yes, you, and I'll see
you this afternoon at two Beverly. Yes,

97
00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:13.879
I'll meet you endown it too.
Oh, Gil, don't forget Lucia's

98
00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:22.240
medicine. No, I won't.
By Lucia, are you meeting Gill in

99
00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:24.799
town Beverly? Yes? He wants
me to decide on that Philly he's interested

100
00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:28.720
in. Where did you learn so
much about hossps? Seems to be natural?

101
00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:33.240
Why don't you get interested in horses, Lucia? Why should I?

102
00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.440
What are you interested in? Well? I am interested in a few things,

103
00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:45.000
my husband in particular. You don't
act interested in anything really. Well,

104
00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:46.799
if you'll take my advice, you'll
snap out of this coma and get

105
00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:52.360
some pep? Does Gil like women
with pep? No man cares about a

106
00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:56.600
woman who sits around in mobs.
I think you're a hypochondria? Do you?

107
00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:01.120
And you should do something about it? I intend to. I intend

108
00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:03.039
to do something about it. I'm
glad to hear it. Get out and

109
00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:09.679
do things they game golf, tennis, swim and ride. Maybe this medicine

110
00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:11.399
will fix you up. You know
all about it, do you? What

111
00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:16.559
is it? I don't know.
It's a tonic, a builder up and

112
00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:18.200
I wish I could lead that.
But at least you can try. It

113
00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:31.360
won't hurt you, no, I
wonder. Oh, come in, doctor

114
00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:35.639
handy. Oh Lucia, why did
you call me out here? What's wrong?

115
00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:37.559
I just couldn't make it into town. Oh, it can't be as

116
00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.679
bad as all I am. Did
Gilbert talk to you about me yesterday?

117
00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:45.279
Nice old gil for a few moments
at the club during lunch, said you

118
00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:48.399
were run down? Did you give
him a prescription for me? Oh?

119
00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:52.120
Never do that until I've examined the
patient. You didn't give him a prescription?

120
00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:56.919
Well? No, what did you
suggest for me? Oh? I

121
00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:00.559
don't know. I mentioned a few
tonics you might get for you, smoke

122
00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:05.120
a beefer and on wine and carry
an egg and oh, I don't remember

123
00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:11.879
what else? Then you mentioned nothing
specifically. I think I see now that

124
00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:16.360
seems to be wrong with you.
Luhim. I don't know exactly, but

125
00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:22.559
something has been happening to me that
well. Frankly, I'm afraid I'm losing

126
00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.639
my mind. We all feel that
way. I'm serious. Things happened to

127
00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:30.879
me in the night. What sort
of thing? At first I thought they

128
00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:33.919
were just nightmares. But when you
have a nightmare, you wake up and

129
00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:37.600
the fear is gone. You realize
the truth. But this vision that comes

130
00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:41.759
to me haunts me through the waking
hours as well. Vision something I think

131
00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:46.559
it's a person comes through my bedroom
door, comes toward my bed without stretched

132
00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:50.159
arms, as though it intends to
strangle me. Each time it comes a

133
00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:54.639
little closer, and my fear is
that eventually it will get to me before

134
00:11:54.679 --> 00:12:01.080
I wake up. Se orways dream
the same dream. If it is a

135
00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:05.279
dream, yes, and who is
the person? I don't know. You

136
00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:09.879
don't think it's really a dream?
No, I think it's a premonition.

137
00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.080
Have you any basis for such a
fear in real life? Is there someone

138
00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:20.799
or something that you're afraid? Doctor, I'm convinced they're not dreams that I'm

139
00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:24.840
not asleep. I'm positive they're not
mere dreams. Well, I think it's

140
00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:30.360
all duty or rundown condition. You
probably don't sleep as soundly as you should,

141
00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:33.559
so you transfer sounds in the night
to dreams at night. That's exactly

142
00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:37.159
what I mean. If I'm only
half asleep, I may be transferring actual

143
00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:41.600
movements and sounds into dreams. In
other words, if someone slams a door

144
00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:46.200
in the night, I may half
hear it and attribute it to a dream.

145
00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:52.639
But then perhaps I'm not dreaming,
don't you see? M I think

146
00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:56.639
you'd better come into town and have
a thorough physical Do you mean a check

147
00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:00.519
out by a psychiatrist? Or I
may have someone help me. It's the

148
00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:09.399
usual thing, you know, everything's
going to be all right. I'm afraid,

149
00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:15.440
afraid that I'm going to die if
someone is trying to kill You're not

150
00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:20.960
going to die, that's ridiculous.
I'll call you, make an appointment very

151
00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.559
well. Meantime, trying not to
think about it, keep your mind on

152
00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:33.559
the bright side. Yes, I'll
try all afternoon and on into the evening.

153
00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:39.759
That awful gnawing of jealousy and fear
occupy every moment. Gill and Beverly.

154
00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:45.759
How could they do such a thing? And how far will they go

155
00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:48.519
to get you out of the way, Lucia? Will they stop even and

156
00:13:48.919 --> 00:14:09.279
murder? Are you asleep, Lucia? No? I know. Are you

157
00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:13.919
feeling I seem to developed a headache? Have you eaten anything today? No?

158
00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:18.480
I didn't care for anything. Well, let's go to help him better.

159
00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:22.000
Take a dose now, I'll measure
it for you. What is it?

160
00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:28.000
It's the tonic. Did doctor Henry
prescribe it? Yes, yes he

161
00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:33.519
did. Where's Beverly in the library? Did you buy the horse? Yes?

162
00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.480
Beverly thought she was a fine animal. I didn't know Beverly knew so

163
00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.159
much about horses. He's a horsewoman
after my own heart. Yes, she

164
00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:45.960
ride's like the wind too. She
had intended to go home tomorrow. Is

165
00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:48.519
she staying on? She's got to. I wouldn't think about leaving now.

166
00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.919
Why not? Well, for one
thing, she's going to train the horse.

167
00:14:52.559 --> 00:15:01.240
And what else? Why nothing else? Here? Take it's a little

168
00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:03.759
bitter, but you'll get used to
it. We'll go ahead. It won't.

169
00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:07.879
I don't want it, and why
not? It has poisoned in it.

170
00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.960
I suppose it does have a little
yes, but only enough to act

171
00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.320
as a tonic. I don't want
it. I won't take it. Are

172
00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:16.559
you going to act like a child? Take it and quit argue? I

173
00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:18.919
won't. I won't take it.
Swallow it down. I can't take it.

174
00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:24.399
You're impossible. I'm afraid you need
this medicine, but you're so confoundedly

175
00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:28.320
stubborn, you'd abt to sit around
and mopole lorry. Well, there it

176
00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.039
is. You can take it or
not. I'm disgusted trying to help you

177
00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:33.240
pull out of this good night.
No, no, no, no,

178
00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:35.320
wait, kill it. I'll take
it. I'll take it. I don't

179
00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:43.000
care whether you're doing not there.
I've taken it terribly bitter. That's gonna

180
00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:48.559
like it. I'll take another dose
around eleven? Ye, where's missus Benson?

181
00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:52.200
Why? I told her she could
have a night off. Thought she

182
00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:54.600
might have liked to spend the evening
in town. You let her off?

183
00:15:54.799 --> 00:16:00.200
Yes, she's been sticking pretty close
lately. Yes, yes she has good

184
00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:11.919
night, Good night versa. What's
wrong, Gill? You look upset?

185
00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:15.879
I am. Lucia didn't want to
take me No, why not? She's

186
00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:19.519
afraid of medicine. What are you
going to do? She finally took a

187
00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:22.600
door setting, but if I know
her, she'll never take another drump.

188
00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:26.799
She's got to take it. Kill
You've got to figure out a way to

189
00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:30.480
make her take it. You can't
be disguised, stupid. Try something else.

190
00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:34.919
I'll try and coax her into it
again. Isn't this something that tastes

191
00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:41.039
more pleasant? Or something you could
put in milk or orange juice. I

192
00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:45.759
don't know. I'll find something,
of course you will. You got to

193
00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:52.639
wait a minute. Someone listening outside
the door. Oh oh, sir,

194
00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:57.039
well Benson, what are you doing
standing here in the dark. I was

195
00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:00.759
just going upstairs to see if Missus
Durant anything before I went down, I

196
00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:04.319
see, by the way, I'm
staying home for a couple of days,

197
00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:07.400
and I thought that since you've been
staying so close to the job, you'd

198
00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:14.400
welcome a few days leave. Please
wait, Yes, but Missus Durant me

199
00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.640
preferred that I stay. I think
you'd better take a little rest yourself.

200
00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.720
You needn't come back to Friday,
but I I don't need a rest.

201
00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:27.680
You come back Friday. Yes,
they went, but that night, for

202
00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:33.720
once, the good Missus Benson disobeys
orders. A few minutes before twelve,

203
00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:38.000
she returns to the mansion. No
lights are burning, so she makes her

204
00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:44.359
way quietly through the back entrance,
slips up the stairs, and taps lightly

205
00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:52.799
on Lucia's bedroom door. Missus Ray. Then she turns the knob, opens

206
00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:57.279
the door and snaps on the light. Missus Durant, are you here?

207
00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:02.559
And Benson steps quickly to the bed. The bed is empty, but a

208
00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:11.799
horrible sight meets her eyes. Blood
blood all over the bed. Oh,

209
00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:25.680
get me the police department. All
right, missus benchon now, just calm

210
00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:29.720
down and tell us what happened this
evening. Well, earlier in the evening,

211
00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.119
mister Durant told me that I could
have the night off since I'd been

212
00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:37.000
staying close to Missus Durant for some
time. And then later he said he

213
00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:40.359
decided to let me off until Friday. I didn't want to go, but

214
00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:44.200
he insisted. Was there anyone else
in the house? Yes, Missus Durant's

215
00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:47.920
half sister, Beverly. Did you
leave the house. Yes, But I

216
00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:52.200
sneaked up the backstairs and told Missus
Durant I'd be back about midnight if you

217
00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:57.400
had a Friday. Why did you
come back at midnight? Because we were

218
00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:03.440
both frightened. What Missus Durant had
been having premonitions that someone was trying to

219
00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:07.839
kill her. Who was trying to
kill her? She didn't know, but

220
00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:14.359
she was terribly frightened. Is that
all? No? Her husband tried to

221
00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:18.039
get her to take some medicine he
had brought home. She refused, and

222
00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:22.640
he got angry How do you know
he was angry. I I heard him

223
00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:26.160
talking about it to Beverly. They
were in the library, and he told

224
00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:30.559
Beverly that Lucia was stubborn. Beverly
said that he'd have to think of some

225
00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:34.599
other way. Did Missus Durant suspect
her husband and Beverly of trying to do

226
00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:41.319
her away with her? Yes,
yes she did. She was convinced that

227
00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:45.000
mister Durant and Beverly were in love
and wanted her out of the way.

228
00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:49.279
I see, mm hmm. Well, so you came back tonight because you

229
00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:53.559
anticipated that something was going to happen. Yes, the house was dark,

230
00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:57.640
so I came up the backstairs knocked
on her door. When I got no

231
00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:02.200
answer, I came in turned on
the light. So she was gone,

232
00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:07.960
and then I saw the bed all
covered with blood. She wouldn't take the

233
00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:11.880
poison, so they did it another
way. That's what they planned in the

234
00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:15.839
library. Where are they now any
idea? Well, they didn't expect me

235
00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.960
back tonight, so they're probably gone
to dispose of the body, intending to

236
00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:25.160
come back here and clean the place
up later. I see anybody else know

237
00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:29.440
about missus Durant's fairs? Yeah,
she talked to doctor Henry. I called

238
00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:32.880
him right after polling the police and
told him about it. He knows doctor

239
00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:34.160
Handy, capt'n Bley. What in
the world is the meaning of this?

240
00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:37.680
From all indications, Missus Durant has
been murdered and the body disposed of,

241
00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:41.039
Doctor Anistam. Missus Durrant told you
that she was afraid that something was going

242
00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:44.000
to happen to her, that she
was going to die. I told you

243
00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:47.119
that, Missus Benson. Here I
see, well, she did call me

244
00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:49.440
in this morning. She'd been having
strange dreams, premonis, she called them.

245
00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:52.599
I called them hallucinations. Don't you
think it was She couldn't tell whether

246
00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:56.519
it was a man or a woman, but someone was always approaching her bed

247
00:20:56.559 --> 00:21:00.200
without stretched arms, trying to choke. Do you think it was more more

248
00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:03.359
than a dream? She was a
sort of hypochondriac. I asked her to

249
00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:07.519
come into town where I could give
her a thorough examination. I didn't take

250
00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:11.160
her story too seriously, but this
certainly puts a different slant on the entire

251
00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:12.880
picture. Yes, we haven't found
a body, but I have men out

252
00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:17.759
looking. Now we'll find it.
Here's mister Durand and assist in law.

253
00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.319
I found them about half mile down
the beach. How are you rant in

254
00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:23.480
the world? Goes on? Here? What's wrong? Doctor? Take a

255
00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:32.359
look at that bed? What happened
Lucia? But where is she? We

256
00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:34.480
got you might enlighten this on that
point. What do you mean? Where

257
00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:41.240
is she? It's Lucia? Did
oh kil what happened? We think your

258
00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:45.160
wife has been murdered. Murdered?
But what are you doing here? Missus?

259
00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:48.480
Vincent? I thought you were gone
to Friday. Why did you tell

260
00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:52.960
her to go unto Friday? I
thought she needed to rest, she'd been

261
00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.359
having long hours. Where is Lucia? Where have you? And your sister

262
00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:00.160
in law? Of inn my?
I slipped upstairs and saw her. She

263
00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:03.920
was asleep, so we decided to
take a little ride down the beach still

264
00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:07.240
early. Mm hmm. Didn't take
anything? Will you certainly not? What

265
00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:10.559
do you mean by that? What
would we take? I don't know.

266
00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:14.960
I just asked, did you two
try to get Lucia to take some medicine?

267
00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:17.119
No? Wait a minute, Beverly, that won't do any good.

268
00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:21.720
Yes, we did. Lucia was
run down and needed the tongue, but

269
00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:25.640
she refused to take medicine. Why
did she refuse. I don't know.

270
00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:30.240
Maybe she was afraid of being poisoned. Poisoned? Why should I want to

271
00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:34.440
poison that? Lucia was my wife? How long has your sister in law,

272
00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:40.079
Beverly been here with you? I
don't know, quite some time just

273
00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:45.680
to meet. Are you inferring that
Gil? And I'm not inferring anything.

274
00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:48.160
I merely asked you a question.
What do you tell him? Just a

275
00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:52.319
moment, missus Benson, What have
you been saying? What did you tell

276
00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:53.640
them? I told him the truth? Do you think I planned to kill

277
00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:56.200
Lucia? Is that it? Yes, you and this woman, you're out

278
00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:59.519
of your mind. You tried to
get it to take some medicine. You

279
00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:02.440
in love with her sister, and
that you were trying to poison it.

280
00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:06.000
And how did she come to that
conclusion? She had premonitia That means nothing.

281
00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.519
And besides, I heard you talking
to you and Beverly finding the whole

282
00:23:08.519 --> 00:23:14.440
thing what she's lying. I heard
you when you realized Lucy wouldn't take the

283
00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:17.559
medicine. Beverly said, you have
to think of some other ways, some

284
00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:19.559
of the way to what to get
rid of her the killer. There must

285
00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:25.160
be some docter Handy. You know
better than miss. Do you think I

286
00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:27.920
had a reason back of wanting to
know about various medicines? No? No,

287
00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:32.839
I didn't, not at the time. But now now what Well?

288
00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:36.680
Sorry to say, it all adds
up to something suspicious. Seems more than

289
00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:42.480
just coincidental. Do you think I
killed Lucia? Look about you? Look

290
00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:47.640
at the room? What else am
I to think? What was the tarnice

291
00:23:47.720 --> 00:23:51.119
you've tried to give your wife?
It had strycment in it? That right,

292
00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:55.279
Durant, Yes, it was one
of the things doctor Handy mentioned It

293
00:23:55.359 --> 00:24:00.359
was iron quine. I'm in strickenin
Did you mention that? Doctor, Well,

294
00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:04.160
I suppose I did. It's commonly
norm tonic if you add anything else

295
00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:07.519
to it, Duran certainly not.
I'm about a sergeant. What's a report

296
00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:15.480
bottle contain iron quinine and strickling and
a heavy content of largely awesenic. But

297
00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:18.000
that isn't possible. I put nothing
in it. Where would I get austen?

298
00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:22.920
It was in there just the same? What happens? Doctor? This

299
00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:26.480
isn't true, you know it isn't. I hate to see it. You.

300
00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:30.680
The evidence looks bad for you.
What this is all about? She's

301
00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:33.079
lying. She knows Gil wouldn't do
such a thing. She's back of it

302
00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:37.440
all. Why I don't know,
but believe me, I'll find out.

303
00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:40.480
If I have that'll do? That'll
do? Are the circumstances. I think

304
00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:44.160
it all better come down a headquarters
so we can keep you separated. Come

305
00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:49.440
on, and no more talking.
WHOA. After forty eight hours hours of

306
00:24:49.480 --> 00:24:53.960
relentless grilling, endless questioning, Il
and Beverly are released on a writ of

307
00:24:53.960 --> 00:25:00.079
habeas Cooks. Weeks go by,
Lucia's body has not been discovered, so

308
00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:04.599
the district Attorney makes a public announcement
and no murder charges can be preferred against

309
00:25:04.680 --> 00:25:11.480
them due to lack of corpus delicti
the failure to produce the body lucious body.

310
00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:15.720
Then one evening, Beverly and Gil
talked in the library. Beverly,

311
00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:21.079
I want you to know how wonderful
I think You've been stuck right beside me

312
00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:25.680
and never lost your nerve, and
well you're one girl in a million,

313
00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:30.440
thanks Gilbert. It isn't over there. They won't stop their search for lucious

314
00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:33.680
body, and if they find it, we haven't a chance, I know.

315
00:25:33.759 --> 00:25:36.640
But what can we do about it? Well? Why couldn't we leave

316
00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:40.799
the country together? Not necessarily,
we'd be sure to follow us. But

317
00:25:40.839 --> 00:25:44.279
we can do separately and in different
ways, and meet someplace later on.

318
00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:48.400
Is that what you mean? Yes, I mean it seems a bit mad.

319
00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:52.839
That would be equal to an out
and out confession. But guilty,

320
00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:56.000
find lucious body. We haven't a
chance. It's too strong against us.

321
00:25:56.119 --> 00:26:00.960
We could never come back. Beverly. What it won't die you? And

322
00:26:02.039 --> 00:26:07.119
I don't want anything to happen to
you, Doubly. Oh, I don't

323
00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:08.599
want to say. I'm frightened,
Gila. I can't stay here. It

324
00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:12.279
was a horrible fear hanging over me. I'll go mad. If you don't

325
00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:15.559
go, then I will. I'll
leave tonight. Please, Beverly, I

326
00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:18.319
need you more than ever now.
Please don't go. Don't worry, Gilbert.

327
00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:23.000
She won't leave you. Heaven's Lucia. I won't let her leave you.

328
00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:27.640
I'll see that you both go together
and stay together for a long long

329
00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:33.240
time. Lucia. What Lucia?
We thought you were dead? Disappointed aunt

330
00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:34.720
you? Where have you been?
What are you going to do with that

331
00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:38.440
gun? We thought I was dead, but I'm not. I'm live enough

332
00:26:38.440 --> 00:26:42.720
to pull this trigger. I've been
hiding for weeks, and I've been behind

333
00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:47.960
those curtains for the last twenty minutes. I heard every word. Now I

334
00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:51.079
know you're in love with each other. Now I know you wanted to do

335
00:26:51.160 --> 00:26:56.240
away with me, Doubly and I
from the day she came here. She

336
00:26:56.359 --> 00:26:59.240
took you away from me. I
didn't. We never thought of such a

337
00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:03.200
thing, never resident Why lie about
it. You've got your imagination run away

338
00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:04.599
with you. Lucia. You're insane, you think so, But if I

339
00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:08.119
am, it's your fault, yours
and Beverly's. You've driven me insane,

340
00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:11.720
both of you. I had a
plan to get even with you, to

341
00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:14.000
make you pay for what you've done, but it failed. A play,

342
00:27:14.359 --> 00:27:18.119
you see, I didn't know about
the law of corpus delicti, but I

343
00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:21.920
do now. And this time there
will be a body, two bodies,

344
00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:26.359
yours and Beverly. You're a suspicious
minded devil. I plan to trap you

345
00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:29.359
on a murder charge, my murder, but it's gonna be your murder.

346
00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:32.799
Now convinced that Beverly and I were
in love, of course, I never

347
00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:37.200
needed a dream or a premonition.
I cut myself in smeared blood on the

348
00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:40.799
bed and disappeared. But I found
they couldn't touch you without the corpus delicti.

349
00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:44.720
I came back to kill you,
Lucia, you fool, you vicious

350
00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:51.119
minded fool. I'm going to tell
you something, and go ahead and shoot

351
00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:55.880
me if you will, Lucia,
not until now, this very moment has

352
00:27:55.920 --> 00:28:03.400
the fault of loving Beverly ever occurred
to me. You never love. But

353
00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:06.680
I can tell you this, Lucia, not that I've seen you as you

354
00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:14.319
really are. I could never love
you again, never, But I was

355
00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:18.400
sure I was missed you. You
were sure only because your warp jealous mind

356
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:23.839
convinced you that there was something between
us. You certainly made a sorry mess

357
00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:32.559
of your life, Luci. All
I've done is chilled your love, Oh

358
00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:37.279
Gil, and you have no one
to blame, no one but your own

359
00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:55.720
miserable self. Lucia, don't for
you, You yes, but it's it's

360
00:28:55.759 --> 00:29:22.880
probably the best thing for her and
for us. And so closes in Fear

361
00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:30.440
and Trembling, starring Metro Golden Mayor's
Mary Astor to Night's Tale of Suspense.

362
00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:41.559
The broadcast originated in Columbia Square in
Hollywood. This is Your narrator, the

363
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:48.559
Man in Black conveys to you Columbia's
invitation to spend this half hour in suspense

364
00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:55.039
us again next Tuesday, when another
of the screens, lovelier leading ladies Geraldine

365
00:29:55.039 --> 00:30:07.319
Fitzgerald star in the uneasy drama called
You Walk Into My Palm. William Spear,

366
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.000
the producer, Headlist, the director
at Lusk and the musical director,

367
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:17.400
Lucian Morowick the composer, and Jay
Donald Wilson, the author, collaborated on

368
00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:45.000
tonight's suspense. There's the Columbia Broadcasting
System. Ah. You know, a

369
00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:52.559
good song is like a delightful hot
cup of tea. It brings you a

370
00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:57.319
lot of joy and comfort, even
when it's very simple, and especially when

371
00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:03.240
it's given to you by someone who
cares about you. About you, That's

372
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:06.759
who you are to me, someone
I get a chance to care about when

373
00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:11.240
honestly, I thought those kinds of
feelings were beyond me. I'm very happy

374
00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:14.119
to have you here, and I
know I keep saying it, but believe

375
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:18.240
me, I've learned in many ways, including the hard way, you should

376
00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:23.039
always say how you truly feel,
because you never know when your opportunity will

377
00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:30.440
be cut short. But don't worry
about that. In fact, worry about

378
00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:34.720
nothing at all. Everything is beautiful, everything is wonderful. The sun will

379
00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:38.119
be out soon, and that's a
time when you will get to enjoy yourself

380
00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:44.319
very much, in a time where
I will simply retire. But I'll be

381
00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:48.839
back tomorrow night with another story,
and I hope I want to see you,

382
00:31:48.920 --> 00:32:05.640
then, remumbling privately pregent for