Sept. 7, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Terror on the Heath and at the Gallows: Four Horror Stories of Murder and Suspense

Unknown Broadcast | Terror on the Heath and at the Gallows: Four Horror Stories of Murder and Suspense

My dear, the dial glows in a dark room where classic old-time radio horror breathes again—vintage OTR suspense, murder mystery, and supernatural dread from the golden age of radio drama.

🌫️ Terror on the Heath
A moor-side reincarnation riddle from the vintage radio vault—identity, obsession, and a past-life murder mystery that won’t stay buried (hosted by E.G. Marshall).

🚂 Journey into Fear
Eric Ambler’s espionage thriller from Escape (CBS): a hunted man flees Istanbul by night train as an assassin stalks the corridors—pure OTR suspense.

🪦 The Accusing Corpse
A grave, a poison, a name the dead won’t let go—classic old-time radio whodunit where forensics, exhumation, and guilt resurrect the truth.

🪢 The Hangman’s Rope
From The Hall of Fantasy: a cursed relic, a tightening noose, and a creeping supernatural horror that marks its victims before the gallows claims them.

Listen closely, my dear: vintage radio horror may be old… but terror, terror is always new.

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Ah, my dear, so good of you to come back.

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Oh what's that?

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Well?

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I suppose I have been in a good mindset as

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of late, although sometimes I feel a bit morose over

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the idea of missing wide open spaces, places beyond my

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humble habitat, as it were. Please please get comfortable. I'll

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get you a little something to drink, something hot to

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warm your soul and your spirit, while I have already

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found something to chill our old bones. I miss the

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fields and the son, I miss terror on the heat.

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Come in, welcome, I'm e g marshall.

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I'm sure you will agree that almost every religion holds

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that the soul is immortal and recognizes a life after death. However,

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we're going to be telling you about people who believe

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in reincarnation, and they have a somewhat different approach to immortality.

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Those who believe in reincarnation are convinced that your soul

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lives on in another person and his body in a

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later life. Some men and women even claim they remember

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bits and pieces of their former lives. I see a gallows,

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it's a hanging man. I can hear the creak of

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the gibbet and a rattle of chambers. I hear them plainly.

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There are people watching people dress strangely dressed in clothing

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of a different century, some of them agating and drinking.

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They're enjoying watching a man hang, a man like me, me,

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David Matts, who lives today.

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I see them and they're hanging, and I know I

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was there.

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I was there. Our mystery drama Terror on the Heath

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was written especially for the mystery Theater by Murray Burnett

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and stars Shepherd Strudwick.

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The KCBS Mystery Theater, the Theater of the Mind. There's

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always news and more on KCBS.

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Are you a browser, I mean a browser in a bookstore.

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If you are, you will readily acknowledge that bookstores are

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sectioned off with books in various classifications. One of the

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largest sections has become the how to books. On those shelves,

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the reader can find a book that will tell him

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how to do almost anything, from painting or sewing.

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They're making a harpsichord.

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Everything that is, except a book telling a man how

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to explain to his wife that.

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He's leaving her.

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David Darling, I didn't know this was serious, very serious.

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But whatever it is, we'll weather it. We've had quite

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a few ups and downs in ten years of marriage.

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Will handle it together.

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That's just it. This is this is something that you

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will have to handle alone. I don't understand.

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Look, Jan, I don't know any other way of saying this.

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I'm going to leave you.

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You mean that, don't you?

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Yes, I'm sorry, all right, David? Why I can't tell you?

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You can't tell me, David, look at me. I'm the

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woman you loved. But at least I think you love me.

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For ten years You're not.

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Going I still love you, Jan, and I swear, Then

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why are you leaving?

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Because because I have to have to, you won't have

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a thing to worry about. I'll take care of you

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and the children, just as if.

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I were leaving you.

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I just don't believe this whole scene. It's like something

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out of Alice in.

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Wonderland or ed Gallan Pole what.

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I think, twenty five hundred a month should cover everything.

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But if you need you mean about Edgar Allan Poe.

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Nothing is twenty five hundred going.

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To be using words as a smoke screen to hide

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the truth.

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We've never done that. I guess there's no way a

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man can ever tell a woman he's leaving. All I

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want is the reason why you're leaving.

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That's just what I can't tell you. What are you

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going to tell the children?

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Isn't that your job? You're the one who's leaving. Oh David,

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this isn't like you.

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What's happened?

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I wish you was something simple and less cruel, like

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being a to say, Jen, I've fallen in love and

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I want a divorce. But it isn't like that at all?

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And what is it like a horror story?

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No?

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No, no, secretary is going to tell me that Dave

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Mason's not into me.

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He'll see me and he's going to It's all right,

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miss Manners, I'll see miss Dampson coming on. Well, thanks? Now,

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what's this business about? You're leaving?

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Jad?

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All about? I suppose this couldn't be avoided? Why would

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you want to avoid me? Your best friend?

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What is all this stuff about horror stories? Ned Grallan

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Poe or it's just a figure of Oh sure, just

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enough to make you walk away from what I know

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was a good marriage. Thanks long, and you're going to

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tell me why you're doing it, but only only if

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you give me your solemn promise that you won't tell

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Jan or Cicely.

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But that's exactly I know.

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I know, that's exactly why you came to find out

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and try to help to tell Jan.

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But that's the one thing you can't do. Okay, you

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have my word.

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I'd like you to look at these photostatic copies of

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the English newspapers of the eighteen fifties?

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Are you kidding? Breed them?

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Hampstead Heath terror strikes again, vicious killer claims a victim

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nine year old girl, stabbed to death. Look, David, I

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don't see what these want. But these are just more

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of the same police baffled.

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By Heath knifings.

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Inspector Gregory of Scotland yard brands, slasher esadist.

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That's enough to give you the general idea.

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Yes, it's also enough to confuse me thoroughly. What the devil?

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The devil? That's a good word.

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Ever?

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Hear a reincarnation one?

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Oh no, Now, wait a minute. You're not going to

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try to make me believe that you are the twentieth

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century reincarnation of this madman. And that should make it

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obvious why I must leave Jan and cannot tell her

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why And you believe this on the basis of these

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newspaper clipping not quite long. There's more, much more. It

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was incredible to me at first when was first about

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six months ago, I read a book by Robert Ripple,

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a book that was a factual account of the lives

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of three notorious criminals of the nineteenth century. I was

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impressed for the writing and by the author, an assistant

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curator of the nineteenth Century wing of the Museum.

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Of English History.

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There was one criminal in particular that fascinated me. I

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somehow felt I knew him, This Hampstead Heath Knifer right,

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And that was when I had the first dream.

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Dream.

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Yes, I had a few drinks with Bob Ripple before

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coming home and we talked about some changes, and I

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dreamed I saw Hampstead Heath quite clearly.

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It's really a forest, you know.

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And then along a walk outside the forest, I saw

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a woman's figure. I ran after her, and she turned

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to face me with her hands outstretched, not to welcome me,

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long to ward me off. And when I saw a

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face and streaming blood, blood from knife slashes, and then.

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And then I woke up.

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All right, all right, So you had a nightmare. That

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doesn't prove.

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That was only the first.

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They began to come more and more frequently, and in

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greater and more monstrous de tale with women and young

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girls and blood, and I don't want to open it up. Well,

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all right, all right, I'll grant you it's pretty rough, David,

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but still, okay, come on around behind my desk. What

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do you see in the drawer?

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A knife?

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Not just any knife long, that's a switch blade with

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a spring, lethal and illegal.

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Okay, when did you get it and why?

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I don't remember buying it, and I have no idea

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of how it got there, but I distinctly remember the

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first time I saw it there. It was a day

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after I had my face slept by a girl I'd

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never seen in my life and been called a murderer.

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What I was coming back from a lunch with Bob Ripple,

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the author of the book that opened the floodgates, a

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rather attractive girl in her early twenties approached us.

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I don't know exactly how it happened, but.

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Suddenly we found ourselves face to face and started to

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indulge in that ridiculous walls of both stepping the same

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way to get.

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Out of each other's well.

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Oh, I know, I know, Suddenly she looked full at

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me and hissed murderer and fainted right there on the sidewalk.

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Well, she she was sick.

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That was what Bob Ripple kept telling me as he

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hustled me away.

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But why why would she call me a murderer?

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Well, I don't know.

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She's the one with problems. There's nothing wrong with you, Lon.

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Do you think it's possible but that maybe this girl

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was the reincarnation of one of this killer's victims and

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she recognized me as this killer. Oh No, I don't

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think it's possible, but obviously you do.

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It was the next day that I saw the knife

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in my desk. Look, Dave, look, you're in a state.

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How would you like to see a face long, my face,

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my face on the picture of a nineteenth century killer?

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What come with me? And I show it to you, Lon.

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This is Robert Ripple, assistant curator of the nineteenth Century

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wing of this museum.

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Ah, nice meeting you, pleasure.

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Bob and I waited the room with the photographic exhibits.

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Would you fill on in? Glad you This particular exhibit

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started because of my interest in the three notorious criminals

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of the era. Naturally, I collected all the newspaper clipping, stories, drawings,

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and photographs I could find and placed them in the

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room along with other items that I drew them into

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the collection. I hear I exhibited the degeotypes of some

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of the fabulous characters of the period, along with the criminals,

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and heal on can look at this, to Garrett type

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and tell me what you think. Let me see, well,

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good looking guy, nice face. And if you want me

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to say he looks like you, I'll say it. There's

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a great resemblance, all right?

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Who is he? You tell him?

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That man is Charles Mason, otherwise known as the Terror

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of Hampstead Teeth, the killer who was hanged at Tyburn

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December ninth, eighteen forty one.

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I can remember, I can almost hear David.

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Let him go back, Let him remember, you can hurt

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him to try to bring him back.

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Now, I can hear the wind.

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And the creak of the gibbet, and the James and

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the people, the people shaving their eyes against the cool sun,

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looking up to see what kind of monster was suspended

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in air, paying with his life a slashed and bleeding

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bodies of the women he had mutilated.

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God Lord, have you seen him like this before, only once.

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What do we do if it follows the pattern of

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the other time. He'll come out of it soon. He's

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coming around. I'm sorry.

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I guess I made a pool of myself. You couldn't

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help it, Dave weld.

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On, what do you think? Well? I, uh, self hypnosis?

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What self hypnosis? You read Ripple's book. It impressed you.

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You became involved in the several hours you were here.

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You saw that bagheera type that resembles you, and now

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you've hypnotized yourself into believing that you're a reincarnation of

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a murderous madman. I don't blame you for not wanting

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to believe I'm the reincarnation of a killer like Charles

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may Look, what just happened was frightening, but not necessarily

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any proof that you're right, mister Ripple. Did you you

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write about the hanging of Charles Mason?

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Oh?

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Certainly, And there was nothing Dave said that he couldn't

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have gotten from reading your book. Huh, yes, that's right,

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or some of the other books I showed him.

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There have been many graphic descriptions of the hangings of Tyburn. Ah. Well,

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there you are, Dave I wish you were right, Dave.

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Yes, I've thought of something that might just solve your

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friend's problem.

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All right, let's hear it.

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One of the most horrible on Mason's crimes was the

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murder of a young lady named Letty Legroux in eighteen

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thirty seven. Her nude corpse was found on Hampstead teeth

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horribly butchered. Her clothes were never recovered. Or what are

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you trying to say? If if Dave could remember what

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clothes Letty Legroux was wearing. But how can we check

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out whether I'm telling the truth. I can give some

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kind of a description, but you just said nobody ever.

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You'll have to trust me, Dave. I believe there might

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be a clue if you're willing to give it a try,

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of course, So we go back to the gallery. No,

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you stay here, I'll go fetch to the Garrett type

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of mission. It's hard to see because it's a storm brewing.

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I see the leaves blowing and the trees bending.

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There's something else. I think you a woman.

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Please, I mustn't slip afore.

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He's following me.

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I know he's following your Dear God, help me.

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I see something going a dress. Yes, it's a dress,

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alarm dress. The girl is holding it up, she's running.

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I have to carry gaining the leave of the dress.

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What hollow is the dress?

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Day?

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Can you see? She's gone gone? The color of the dress?

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Was it white?

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No?

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Not white?

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And yelling?

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A yellow dress with a pale.

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Matching scar and a lace handkerchief. The hankeetiff is white,

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but the dress is yellow. There have been some fairly

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convincing arguments on the side of reincarnations. There are a

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number of reputable people who insist they can recall bits

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and portions of a life lived in another time.

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I know one young lady who.

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Vividly recalls a life as a waitress in Jamestown during

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colonial days. But I don't know of anyone who can

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recall being a murderer. I'll be back shortly with that too.

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Now back to misteryes. On New seventy four KCBS. Most

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people go to museums to view the works of art.

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David Matson took his best friend Lan Henderson to a

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museum to prove to Henderson that he Mathson was really

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the reincarnation of a monstrous killer of the nineteenth century

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named Charles Mason. He showed Lawn a degerotype of Mason,

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and Lawn was impressed by the resemblance, but he demanded

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more positive poof Bob. You said there might be some

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clue you could learn something if I identified some.

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Clothes that a girl was wearing. I did. Did you

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find the clue? I'm afraid we did, Dave. Afraid that

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means you believe that Dave is the reincarnation of Charles Mason.

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I told you the clothes that lennyleg Grow wore when

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she was slashed to death never been found. What I

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didn't tell you was that some six or seven years

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after her murder, a fine piece of white cambric that

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had obviously been a lady's handkerchief was found on the heath,

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together with some yellow material. Some historians were convinced that

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the handkerchief had been Ladylick Rose, and that the yellow

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material was part of a dress she'd been wearing, but

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no one could prove.

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It until now.

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Until now, until you just described a yellow dress and

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a white handkerchief.

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Hello, Robert Ripple speaking.

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This is missus David Natson.

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You don't know me.

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Well, the wife of the publisher.

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Yes, that's right, I'd like to come and see you.

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What about.

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Husband and the reason he left me? My dear missus Matson.

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I find this conversation was strange. You perfect stranger calling

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me to discuss your merital problems. Why in the world

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would you believe that I would.

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Be told.

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By whom I can't understand why mister Henderson preferred you

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to me because.

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He's our best friend, that.

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He finally gave me your name.

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They also has the information I have. That's all I

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want tell mister Henderson. I find he's putting you on

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to me cowardly. I have no intention, Missus Madison, love

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seeing you or discussing your husband and his actions at

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any time now or in the future.

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I must thank you, mister Ripple for your curtesy and

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showing me so much of your part of the museum.

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Not at all, Missus Larson, when the curator called and

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told me you were interested in become a patron of

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the museum, because only natural we should try to show

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you the sort of things in which we spend your money.

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Well, and you've impressed me very much, so.

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If you don't think me impertinent, Missus Larson, how much

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so did you have any specific sum for a contribution

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in mine?

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Not precisely. I really need more information. Now I must

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return to Boston later today. So well, I just want

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to thank you for making time for me in your

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busy schedule.

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Pleasure. Oh really this picture? Uh de guerotype, Missus Lawston? Whatever?

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Now?

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Why this man? He looks so familiar? Who's he?

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A notorious killer man named Charles Mason who was hanged

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in eighteen forty one?

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Now if we couldare move on's a moment.

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Now this vay seem somewhat strange request, But I would

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like this bagariat type.

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I beg your pardon. I'd like to purchase.

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Them or let me say, I would make a substantial

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bequest in the museum if I could have this picture.

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And why would you want that particular picture, Missus Larson,

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I take it?

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No other will do will? Surely I don't have to

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explain what you do?

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God, what what are you doing calling a guard to

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escort you out of the building?

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Missus Matson?

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Why are you?

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And I'd advise you not to make a fuss, because

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if you so much to utter another syllable, I'll call

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the police and have you arrested for impersonating a donor

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when you had no such intention.

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Now get out of here. I honestly wait.

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I did help him at his I told you before

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me on the golf course all afternoon, but I told you.

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To get a message to him that it was a

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matter of.

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Life and death.

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We have I don't know why.

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Right now, listen, tell him I'm coming out to see him,

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and he should wait there for me, no matter what happens.

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That picture, that picture, it.

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Was exactly the face of David.

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I've got to find one. He's trying to avoid me.

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It's too dark now for him to be out on

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the golf course. Oh ouse, Well, it's gravel. I should

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have remembered to change my shoes. I think I'll walk

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on the grass.

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Who's that? Is there anyone there?

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I know you're behind that bush, and I'm not in

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the mood to play any stupid games.

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No one. I got really nice?

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Oh, oh, cham Chen, Do you realize that guy could

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have killed you?

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I don't know.

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I don't know why he came at me, but I'm

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very glad you got there when you did.

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Well, I didn't. I missed catching him. Didn't you see

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his face?

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No, no, He came up from behind me. He circled

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around the bushes.

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I see, do you think you should stay in this

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house alone? Well? Why not? It's my own home. Jen,

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You're not completely right.

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I appreciate your concern. They'd never have let me out

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of the emergency room at the hospital.

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They didn't think I was Okay. No, I'm his bandage.

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It doesn't bother me at all, But you do me.

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Why did you send me to Ripple? Oh? Jan, how

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much do you know about reincarnation?

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You mean, the belief that your soul lives on in

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someone else's body after you die. Yes, yes, well what's

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all that got?

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No?

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Wait, David's involvement with Ripple's book has somehow convinced him

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that the soul of this night eighteenth century killer Charles

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Mason was in his body.

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Oh that's ridiculous. Yes, that's what I thought too. Thought.

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Then you believe?

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Yeah?

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Please.

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After reading Ripple's book, Dave told me he felt strangely

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familiar with all the events that related to Charles Mason.

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He said he felt as if he'd almost lived them.

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He went to the museum to talk with Ripple about

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this strange phenomenon. And then he saw the picture, and

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well you saw it.

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Can you deny that.

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You allowed a resemblance to convince you that David was

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a reincarnation of a nineteenth century criminal.

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I refuse to believe that there's more Jack.

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Nothing that you can say will convince me reincarnational.

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Listen.

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People have been arguing about whether there really is such

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a thing as a soul for century.

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Now listen to me.

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David looked at that picture and went into some sort

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of a trance. He recalled actual scenes in incidents from

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more than one hundred years ago.

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David is a bright man with a vast store of knowledge.

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His subconscious must retain his readings from hundreds of books

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and manuscripts, and then, because of some quirk and his

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vivid imagination, he's able to recall it.

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No. I know, I felt the way you did, and

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I brought up the subject of self hypnosis. It was

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then that David described the clothing of one of Mason's victims,

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and that's one thing he couldn't have read or heard anywhere.

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Then you must believe that David was right to leave me. Well,

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he loves you, what else could he have done? Trusted

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that love trusted our years together, trusted the strength that's.

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Made our marriage work, and told me the truth and

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tried to work it out together.

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Well, how do you go about working something like this out?

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If David really is I'm not going to consider that possibility.

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You have to why because of that bandage you're wearing

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on your arm?

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It was somebody went after you with a knife. I know,

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And why would anyone want to slash you? I don't know.

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We live in a violent world. No, no, Jan, No,

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this happened at the club. This was no ordinary mugging.

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What are you trying to say? I'm look, are you

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sure there wasn't anything familiar about the man who attacked you,

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something that might.

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Remind you of were trying to make me think it

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was David? Aren't you? You are trying to make me

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say it was David. You think it was David, don't you? Jan? Look, Please,

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we have to get out of my house.

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Please be reasonable, I said, and I meant it.

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Oh lord, Oh, I'm so glad you came. Now. I

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apologize for my behavior the other night. There was no no, no,

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no no.

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I forgive you, Jan, I understand, But what do you

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want from me now?

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To go with me to see Jason Beckwith and tell

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him everything you know about this strange delusion of David's.

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Jason Beckwith he's a.

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Professor of Romance languages at the university, and he's also

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a highly regarded student of the occult. I shouldn't say student,

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he's an acknowledged authority.

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Jan Have you seen today's paper? No? And you haven't

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read the story about the woman who was killed in

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the park last night.

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Lon, I promised I wouldn't lose my temper no matter

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how many ridiculous though.

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Hold it, it's not ridiculous. A woman was slashed to

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death in Hudson Park Earl this morning by a man

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with a knife. Now that's a newspaper.

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I suppose that you don't have a sneaking suspicion that

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that man with a knife might have been David.

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You bet I have. David is not a killer, all right?

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All right? Why don't you call him and ask him

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where he was? He couldn't kill anyone?

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Are you afraid to call him?

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Hello?

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Oh, David Darling?

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How are you?

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Jan? Look Dan?

486
00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:14.440
If you didn't get to check, I'm sorry, but I

487
00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:18.880
really have been bombed out for the last past few days.

488
00:28:19.960 --> 00:28:25.000
I don't remember, Bob, try to talk. Look, Jan, I'm

489
00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:25.920
not the guy in you.

490
00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:28.680
Don't you try to tell me who you are. David,

491
00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:31.599
you're talking to the girl who married you.

492
00:28:31.599 --> 00:28:33.000
You just saw what you're up against.

493
00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:36.680
But I do, I don't know.

494
00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:41.640
You know, I know exactly what you believe, and I

495
00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:46.559
also know it's a lot of nonsense. Oh darling, I

496
00:28:46.599 --> 00:28:47.720
want you to come home.

497
00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:50.920
Lone should never have told you he betrayed me and

498
00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:52.279
did you no good?

499
00:28:53.359 --> 00:29:03.799
I can't face you now ever, Well he hung up

500
00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:06.200
on me, mm hmm. And what about last night?

501
00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:09.680
He couldn't remember? He well, I guess you must have

502
00:29:09.720 --> 00:29:12.559
been drinking. Bombed out was the phrase he used.

503
00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:15.000
Put your mouths to, admitting that he doesn't have an

504
00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:16.079
alibi for last night.

505
00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:19.640
He doesn't need an alibi. David is not a criminal.

506
00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:20.960
He thinks he is.

507
00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:21.160
Well.

508
00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:23.359
He's getting a lot of support from some of his

509
00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:24.240
best friends.

510
00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:27.039
And please believe I thoughted you wanted the museum You

511
00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:28.119
didn't see and hear why?

512
00:29:28.279 --> 00:29:30.839
And you haven't lived with David for ten years?

513
00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:34.599
You think you can ever know David as I do?

514
00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:34.960
Oh?

515
00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:37.640
Well, how can I answer that? You don't try?

516
00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:40.960
Just come along with me and keep the appointment with

517
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:41.960
Professor Beckwith.

518
00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:52.759
It's not unusual for a wife to believe in her husband.

519
00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:56.960
It's also not too startling to find that her husband

520
00:29:57.119 --> 00:30:02.720
doesn't believe in himself. However, it's both strange and frightening

521
00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:05.839
to find a wife that seems to be willing to

522
00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:09.880
reach back into the past to prove her husband's innocence.

523
00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:15.519
I'll be back shortly with Act three. The radio station

524
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:19.119
that lets you use your mind. You're listening to mystery

525
00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:32.839
theaters four K CDs. The power of Love against the

526
00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:38.799
power of death, the power of good against evil. Most

527
00:30:38.839 --> 00:30:42.559
of us like to believe that good will triumph, but

528
00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:45.519
very few of us are ever asked to put our

529
00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:47.599
beliefs to the acid test.

530
00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:52.000
Janice is doing just that. She refuses to.

531
00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:55.720
Believe the evidence that her husband, David, is the reincarnation

532
00:30:55.880 --> 00:30:59.559
of a nineteenth century killer. And she and her husband's

533
00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:02.440
best friend and have come to an appointment with an

534
00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:10.160
expert on reincarnation and your cult. Remarkable, most interesting, in fact,

535
00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:13.640
one of the most remarkable stories I've ever heard. Professor

536
00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:15.759
you can take my word for it. I saw just

537
00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:18.279
what I told you. Nothing came from my imagination. My

538
00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:22.519
dear Henderson, do stop calling me, professor, and do stop

539
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:25.880
being so defensive. I know you told me the truth.

540
00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:28.680
You don't mean you believe David is a reincarnation of

541
00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:29.440
that killer, My.

542
00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:34.240
Dear missus Matson, Jan, my dear Jan. Before I can

543
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:38.559
answer that question, and before you panic, you have to

544
00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:41.839
understand more about the whole theory of reincarnation.

545
00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:43.599
That's why we're here now.

546
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:49.000
Reincarnation is part of some, but not all, Oriental religions,

547
00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:54.079
the belief that the soul needs to be reborn, and

548
00:31:54.359 --> 00:31:58.680
final liberation and release from this need is the highest

549
00:31:58.680 --> 00:31:59.640
possible achievement.

550
00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:02.480
Why is there a need to be reborn because of

551
00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:07.519
impurities in the or sin? Professor? I'm sorry, mister Beckway.

552
00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:11.759
The final liberation of the soul, Henderson, is possible only

553
00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:16.359
for a human being who has attained purity of thought.

554
00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:19.720
And if one doesn't have this purity of.

555
00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:22.720
Thought, then a new life is generated from an old

556
00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:26.160
just as a new candle is lighted from an old one.

557
00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:27.519
A new life.

558
00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:32.599
You said, that's right, completely new and completely different. Trying

559
00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:35.400
perhaps to rid yourself of impurities.

560
00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:38.319
Possibly, well, then how do you account for the almost

561
00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:41.160
total recall that Dave had for the events and crimes

562
00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:42.640
connected with Charles Mason.

563
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:47.359
One explanation would be that he remembers them. But if

564
00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:49.640
David was striving for a new life, I.

565
00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:53.599
Didn't say there wouldn't be traces and memories of another life.

566
00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:58.720
And I believe David has surfaced these memories. But that

567
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:03.000
doesn't necessarily prove David Metson is the reincarnation of Charles Mason.

568
00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:05.880
Well how else could Dave have none could.

569
00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:10.240
Have experienced the things he recalled A suspectator.

570
00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:12.000
No, no way back with I was in the museum

571
00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:12.599
and you weren't.

572
00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:16.680
I saw and heard a deep emotional involvement on Dave's part.

573
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:18.960
He was no spectator, Henderson.

574
00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:23.839
You've just put your finger on the single most significant

575
00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:28.039
bits of evidence in this hostage history. In fact, it's

576
00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:40.079
the cornerstone of a theory I'm beginning to form.

577
00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:43.119
Come on, now, look I feel like a criminal. Now,

578
00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:44.960
don't be silly, but I'm setting David up.

579
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.000
He thinks he's going to see me, and wait till

580
00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:48.599
you see the look he gives me when you walk

581
00:33:48.599 --> 00:33:51.799
into his arm. Come on, where are you going?

582
00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:55.039
We're going in the back way. If I passed the

583
00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:57.200
desk the receptionist for phone David.

584
00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:02.759
Uh, you know January really something else. I just hope

585
00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:07.400
that they had me worry about David Law. All right, David,

586
00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:09.159
I'm sorry we used the back door, but it was

587
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:14.119
my idea. I can Why didn't you call to tell

588
00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:16.239
David you look awful?

589
00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:18.239
You look so tired.

590
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:23.239
You know you could use a vacation up at the lodge.

591
00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:28.079
We could, Yeah, how I wish I could that It

592
00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:30.239
was as simple as that. I'd love to go away

593
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:32.559
with you for a while, just the two of us.

594
00:34:33.079 --> 00:34:38.119
Well, we can't, what I thought. I mean, we've got

595
00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:39.039
some work to do.

596
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:43.000
First, work Yes on your head. Now listen, Lon, what

597
00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:45.159
is it. She's your wife and she's great, and she

598
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:47.920
has met with Professor Jason Beckwith and he's agreed to

599
00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:48.920
work out an experiment.

600
00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:50.320
What kind of an experiment?

601
00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:52.960
Well, I think Jan had better explain it since she's

602
00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:55.159
also going to be part of it.

603
00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:03.440
Sorry, Jan, it sounds too risky, Darling.

604
00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:08.039
I've told you it's a controlled experiment. Who's with yes,

605
00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:09.639
and Lon will be there too.

606
00:35:10.119 --> 00:35:13.880
The plain truth Jan is that I'm afraid, well, of course,

607
00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:16.639
and you're afraid to come home and you're afraid to

608
00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:19.880
see me alone. You're afraid to face the night. Is

609
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:21.440
that the way you want to live for the rest

610
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:23.679
of your life? I may have to, but don't.

611
00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:28.280
You see the experiment offers us a way out. I

612
00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:31.360
know you're not Charles Mason in any way.

613
00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:34.400
And when you say it, you almost make me believe it. Well,

614
00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:38.599
it's true, so trust me. Oh, I trust you. It's me.

615
00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:43.199
I'm worried about. How's your arm? It's much better. You

616
00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:45.920
can see this out of the sling. The police haven't

617
00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:49.039
found who attacked you yet. They're working on it. Now.

618
00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:52.679
When do you want me to arrange for this? Badly hurt? Now?

619
00:35:52.679 --> 00:35:55.960
It's just a surface cut. Now listen, David Darling, it's Wendy.

620
00:35:56.199 --> 00:36:00.920
I'll be back in a moment. I'm not feeling I'll

621
00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:01.719
be with you in a minute.

622
00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:07.559
Jim Londo after him? What I don't want? Hurry David?

623
00:36:08.199 --> 00:36:10.079
Oh, Doland, don't tell you that go down?

624
00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:22.360
Why did you grab my hand on? Why didn't you

625
00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:25.800
let me kill myself? Because that's no answer. You asked

626
00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:27.800
about the alternative and this is the one that takes

627
00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:28.559
care of everything.

628
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:30.480
Are you sure about that?

629
00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:31.239
What?

630
00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:35.239
Who are you this is Jason that quest Darling. We

631
00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:39.199
sent for him after after your stupidity. I knew exactly

632
00:36:39.239 --> 00:36:40.519
what I was doing, and I knew.

633
00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:43.760
Why then explain it to I don't have to explain anything.

634
00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:46.760
You don't find it difficult to believe that the soul

635
00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:49.880
of a man dead more than one hundred years has

636
00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:51.719
been reborn in your body.

637
00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:53.599
It's been pretty well proven to me.

638
00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:56.800
And because you're afraid of the soul of this murderer

639
00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:59.639
will force you into killing your wife or some other women,

640
00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:00.320
you decid it.

641
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:03.039
To kill yourself. That's about it. And what happens to

642
00:37:03.320 --> 00:37:07.400
the immortal soul? What I asked?

643
00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:10.239
What do you think will happen to that soul that

644
00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:14.079
didn't die on the gallows at Tyburn in eighteen forty one?

645
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:19.239
What happens when David Matson blows his brains out?

646
00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:27.440
What happens to that soul? I don't know? Think about it?

647
00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:32.440
Does it go on to inhabit another body and continue killing?

648
00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:35.960
I would know that, do you know?

649
00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:40.199
But I'd like to try and find out if you'll

650
00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:43.519
help me and go along with the experiment I have

651
00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:44.119
in mind.

652
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:53.440
You want to go ahead with this, Dave?

653
00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:57.559
Yes, okay, But I'm under orders to inform you that

654
00:37:57.599 --> 00:37:59.960
this will be the last experiment into the past, conduct

655
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:03.320
it on these premises, and the Professor's briefed you on

656
00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:04.920
what we hope to accomplish her tonight.

657
00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:06.119
No, not completely.

658
00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:10.079
I assume it's the continuation of your trips into the past,

659
00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:11.519
with some additions.

660
00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:12.159
Mister Ripple.

661
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:17.159
Those marbles you have in that bag, all right, hmm interesting.

662
00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:19.519
I assume they're going to play some part in the

663
00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:23.800
proposed expand oh they are, as will. The clothing I

664
00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:26.599
have in this box? Is that a knife?

665
00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:29.159
It is with.

666
00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:32.159
A sharp blade, as sharp as I could get it.

667
00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:35.880
Don't you think that? I believe that On the top

668
00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:40.119
floor of this museum there's a long, narrow corridor which

669
00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:41.800
runs the length of the building.

670
00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:46.320
Correct connects two rally use storerooms. I'm much for you.

671
00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:49.400
It's probably very stuffy up There is the window we

672
00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:54.000
can open. Well, yes, yes, good, good, With the exception

673
00:38:54.159 --> 00:39:05.400
of Jan, I suggest we all get up there quickly. Excellent,

674
00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:10.199
mister Ripple. Er a corridor just as you described it,

675
00:39:11.400 --> 00:39:15.039
And now the window has been opened and we're all

676
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:16.960
gathered here ready to start.

677
00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:21.599
I thought Jan was She told me she had to

678
00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:23.639
be part of the experiment. She'll be a long leader.

679
00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:27.400
David, there were some things we had to keep from here, Ripple,

680
00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:29.559
Is there anyway you could light this corridor better?

681
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:32.760
It's fine the way it is. Uh, I'll move down

682
00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:33.360
the corridor.

683
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:35.960
Can you see this?

684
00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:37.000
Uh?

685
00:39:37.239 --> 00:39:40.480
Something shining a knife is quite visible to anyone with

686
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:41.280
normal eyesight.

687
00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:41.840
Professor.

688
00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:49.079
Good, Now, Henderson, if you'll station yourself about halfway down

689
00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:53.400
the corridor and wait there, and uh, don't touch the marble.

690
00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:56.440
Don't worry. Never was any good at shooting marbles. Back

691
00:39:56.480 --> 00:39:58.239
with where do you want me, Professor?

692
00:39:58.679 --> 00:40:02.400
As we agreed, wherever you think you'd send the museum's

693
00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:03.360
interest best.

694
00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:05.559
I think I'll stay near you.

695
00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:11.239
Fine. Now what we have is the corridor, perfect view,

696
00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:18.159
and along the corridor gleaming knife. David, you stand on

697
00:40:18.239 --> 00:40:21.800
my right, mister Ripple. That puts you on my left,

698
00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:27.880
and we all agree the corridor is quite empty. Now,

699
00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:32.280
mister Ripple, may I have the deguerotype here you are?

700
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:38.880
Thanks? Now, David, look closely at this face.

701
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:44.880
The face of a man named Charles Mason, and David.

702
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:49.239
As I drop the marbles one by one on the

703
00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:52.920
stone floor, they'll start to bounce.

704
00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:59.840
And bounce, bounce, bounce back.

705
00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:07.199
Through the years. Listen to them bouncing, bouncing down the

706
00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:15.079
long corridor of time and the years slide by, slide by,

707
00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:17.440
alive with.

708
00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:18.920
The echoes of the past.

709
00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:26.000
Do you see them, David, I see them.

710
00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:33.880
And hear them as they walk. I'm walking walking along

711
00:41:33.920 --> 00:41:36.719
near the top of the hero on the heath, and

712
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:39.440
I see.

713
00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:42.639
I see a single horse. He's silhouetted for a moment

714
00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:52.320
against the moon. It becomes riding, riding, and he stops.

715
00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:55.119
In his bounce.

716
00:41:56.320 --> 00:42:00.440
And he hides so carefully in the bush back with

717
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:02.039
I haven't take what's happening.

718
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:04.400
That's Ripple. He's under two. He thinks he's ash.

719
00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:09.039
They stand stone still, the man and the horse. The

720
00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:10.000
bushes hid.

721
00:42:11.800 --> 00:42:11.960
Her.

722
00:42:12.039 --> 00:42:16.159
Lady, the lady, she's walking.

723
00:42:16.840 --> 00:42:19.800
She has a cape with a hood. I can't see

724
00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:27.000
her face. Pretty lace and pretty face. I no help

725
00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:30.599
against sharp steel, No, no, Ripple. He's got the knife.

726
00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:33.519
He's down the card act. Look on, I got him,

727
00:42:33.960 --> 00:42:34.679
I got your.

728
00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:37.360
Day, rolling on.

729
00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:50.280
Help hold me. Robert Ripple was pure evil. He was

730
00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:51.880
also Charles Mason wanting.

731
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:57.159
Perhaps perhaps he just saw an opportunity to destroy a

732
00:42:57.199 --> 00:43:00.480
good man. When he discovered that the you're a type,

733
00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:04.000
and realize the man in it looked exactly like you.

734
00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:08.519
He simply took a nameless photo and gave it a

735
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:10.400
name and gave me the horrors.

736
00:43:11.719 --> 00:43:15.480
But, Professor, isn't there any chance of finding out who

737
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:17.360
the man in that picture really was?

738
00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:19.039
I'd like to know his real name.

739
00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:24.400
Oh, David, my darling. Let's just live in the twentieth century.

740
00:43:25.159 --> 00:43:29.039
I admit it's difficult enough, but it's our very own.

741
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:40.199
Here we are in the twentieth century, and I have

742
00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:44.599
a little parlor game for you to play. Imagine yourself

743
00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:50.119
is some famous character in history whom you know and admire. Okay,

744
00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:56.639
now close your eyes and think hard and imagine yourself

745
00:43:56.679 --> 00:44:02.360
alive back in those days. And as you think, you

746
00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:05.760
may see some pictures in your mind that you've never

747
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:06.880
seen before.

748
00:44:08.360 --> 00:44:10.960
Try it. I'll be back shortly.

749
00:44:26.320 --> 00:44:29.840
I find this whole question of reincarnation fascinating.

750
00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:31.599
But there's an.

751
00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:34.400
Area that's not very well covered in the books and

752
00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:37.719
essays that have been written, and that is the question

753
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:40.320
of animals and their souls.

754
00:44:41.440 --> 00:44:43.239
Do they possess souls.

755
00:44:43.719 --> 00:44:47.719
And indeed, do they return in some form as some

756
00:44:47.840 --> 00:44:48.480
other animal?

757
00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:51.920
Or which I don't like to believe.

758
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:57.199
Are those of us who sin greatly reduced to becoming

759
00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:03.320
animals before we can stop trying to be reborn. Our

760
00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:07.760
cast included Shepherd Strudwick, Marion Felders, William Redfield, Alan Clark,

761
00:45:08.119 --> 00:45:11.960
and Chris Gambell. The entire production was under the direction

762
00:45:12.119 --> 00:45:13.039
of Hymon Brown.

763
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:22.440
Well, I suppose terror is as terror does. Well, maybe

764
00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:27.960
maybe not. I'm not entirely sure. Oh what's that? Oh no, no, no,

765
00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:34.519
I'm pretty certain they don't bite. As I think back

766
00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:38.360
to all the times in the past and in the

767
00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:42.960
future that I've had the pleasure of spending time with you,

768
00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:50.199
sharing such scary surprises, I'm proud to know that every

769
00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:57.320
evening when we gather and enjoy ourselves, it's truly a

770
00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:00.000
journey into fear.

771
00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:08.119
You finding life rather dull, dreaming again of exotic places,

772
00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:26.719
wishing you were somewhere else. We offer you escape.

773
00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:29.639
Escape with us.

774
00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:33.719
Now to Istamboul, the nerve setter of Bulkan, intrigue and violence,

775
00:46:34.039 --> 00:46:36.159
and the story of a man caught in the fatal

776
00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:39.639
web of the most cold blooded political organization on earth.

777
00:46:40.159 --> 00:46:44.079
As Eric Ambler tells it in his famous tale, Journey

778
00:46:44.199 --> 00:47:05.400
into Fear, tho.

779
00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:05.960
Swam as you.

780
00:47:09.119 --> 00:47:30.800
Yeah, it seemed as if a bar of white hot

781
00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:34.079
metal had been suddenly pressed against my hand, and then

782
00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:36.719
it was numb, but I could feel the blood beginning

783
00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:40.800
to trickle through my fingers. There wasn't a sound, and

784
00:47:40.840 --> 00:47:43.639
as I crouched against the wall, I became dimly aware

785
00:47:43.639 --> 00:47:45.760
that the window was open and that someone was moving

786
00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:49.400
by it. And then my eyes, becoming used to the darkness,

787
00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:51.840
I saw that whoever had been at the window had

788
00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:55.679
left by it. I reached for the light switch and

789
00:47:55.800 --> 00:48:10.880
found it. The hand hurt like the very devil. Yes,

790
00:48:11.679 --> 00:48:13.159
is that you Kopeikin?

791
00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:14.000
Yes?

792
00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:16.119
What is it? I have only this moment. Come in?

793
00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:20.679
Where are you in my hotel room? Listen? Something right?

794
00:48:20.719 --> 00:48:23.599
That stupid has happened there. There was a burglar up here.

795
00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:25.320
He took what shots at me as I came in,

796
00:48:25.360 --> 00:48:27.079
and one of them hit me in the hand.

797
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:28.440
Are you badly hurt?

798
00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:29.039
No?

799
00:48:29.079 --> 00:48:30.679
But give me a nasty shock.

800
00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:32.400
Have the police been notified?

801
00:48:32.679 --> 00:48:32.840
No?

802
00:48:33.079 --> 00:48:33.559
Not yet?

803
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:37.000
Good Leave the matter to me. I will speak to

804
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:39.800
a friend of mine about it. He is connected to

805
00:48:39.880 --> 00:48:43.119
the police and with great influence. As soon as I

806
00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:44.280
am finished, I shall.

807
00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:44.639
Come over well.

808
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:45.679
There's no need for that.

809
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:47.159
Excuse me, my.

810
00:48:47.159 --> 00:48:49.800
Dear fellow, there is ever in need. You must stay

811
00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:51.559
in your room until I arrived.

812
00:48:51.599 --> 00:48:54.280
Well, I had no intention of going out. Well, if

813
00:48:54.280 --> 00:48:56.679
you must come over Kopeikin, please hurry. I want to

814
00:48:56.679 --> 00:48:57.639
get some sleep tonight.

815
00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:09.480
Does it occur to you that this man was shooting

816
00:49:09.519 --> 00:49:11.440
to kill you and that he came here for no

817
00:49:11.519 --> 00:49:12.239
other purpose?

818
00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:14.679
That's nonsense. The man was a thief. Why should anyone

819
00:49:14.679 --> 00:49:16.719
wish to kill me? I'm the most harmless man alive.

820
00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:19.920
Are you remember I told you that I was going

821
00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:21.559
to telephone a friend of mine.

822
00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:25.079
Yes, we are going to see him at once. Well,

823
00:49:26.000 --> 00:49:27.320
I'm tired, I want to go to bed.

824
00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:30.519
Unfortunately I have official instructions.

825
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:33.559
A man tried to murder you tonight. Something must be

826
00:49:33.599 --> 00:49:34.280
done about.

827
00:49:34.039 --> 00:49:34.760
It at once.

828
00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:35.360
Murdered?

829
00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:37.360
Are you out of your mind?

830
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:40.920
I am sorry, my dear fellow. I can understand your feelings.

831
00:49:41.239 --> 00:49:45.159
But this friend of mine is Colonel Hockey. He is

832
00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:47.199
the head of the Turkish secret police.

833
00:49:47.320 --> 00:49:49.760
Oh no, look here goppeg And what's this all about?

834
00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:52.880
I thought you were my company's Turkish representative. Can you

835
00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:54.760
talk about secret service and all that?

836
00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:55.480
Brother? Please?

837
00:49:55.679 --> 00:49:57.239
I cannot tell you anything more.

838
00:49:57.800 --> 00:50:00.360
It is to our mutual interest that we go at

839
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:01.599
once to Colonel Hockey.

840
00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:03.079
You must believe me.

841
00:50:03.159 --> 00:50:06.320
All this is sterearier of absolutely nothing.

842
00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:10.480
My dear fellow. It is most certainly not nothing. Get

843
00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:11.800
your overcoat, it's called out.

844
00:50:21.039 --> 00:50:24.239
You must realize, mister Graham, that an attempt was made

845
00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:25.280
to kill you tonight.

846
00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:27.199
Now I don't see that at all. I mean I

847
00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:29.280
disturbed the thief it is working, fired at me and

848
00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:33.440
escape the thief. Unfortunately, No, I have a duty to do,

849
00:50:33.480 --> 00:50:37.840
mister Graham. It is to protect you, protect me from.

850
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:40.679
What you are in the employer of vessels Keater and

851
00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:44.960
Bliss Limited, the English armament manufacturers. Yes, you are, I believe,

852
00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:47.599
mister Graham, a naval ordnance expert.

853
00:50:48.119 --> 00:50:50.280
I'm an engineer and a naval ordnance happens to be

854
00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:51.480
my subject exactly.

855
00:50:52.199 --> 00:50:55.079
And your firm has contracted to do some work for

856
00:50:55.199 --> 00:50:58.400
my government set the new guns and torpedoes to re

857
00:50:58.599 --> 00:50:59.800
arm our naval vessels.

858
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:01.079
Well, that's true.

859
00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:04.840
It is also true that our government stipulated that the

860
00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:06.840
work should be completed before spring.

861
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:08.559
Yes, exactly.

862
00:51:09.599 --> 00:51:12.760
Due to the international situation, we must have the equipment

863
00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:16.159
in our dockyards by that time. Let us suppose then

864
00:51:16.199 --> 00:51:19.960
that your thief had not merely graised a hand what

865
00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:20.760
had killed you.

866
00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:24.840
Well, actually, my company would send another man out.

867
00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:30.599
Which would take time instagram, unless, of course, there exists sketches,

868
00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:34.159
drawings and all that they need to know about our ships.

869
00:51:34.519 --> 00:51:39.239
Oh no, I mean I was forbidden to put certain

870
00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:39.960
things on paper.

871
00:51:40.079 --> 00:51:40.280
Ah.

872
00:51:41.360 --> 00:51:44.480
Then if you were to die, it would take a

873
00:51:44.519 --> 00:51:47.440
great deal of time for another man to accomplish what

874
00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:51.760
you have already done. No, and when spring comes, our

875
00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:55.559
navy's strength is still precisely what it is now. Do

876
00:51:55.639 --> 00:51:58.880
you know, mister Graham, that our enemies will do anything

877
00:51:59.119 --> 00:51:59.719
to see.

878
00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:00.199
That it is so?

879
00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:04.239
Anything, mister Graham, do you understand?

880
00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:06.800
Oh?

881
00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:07.440
Quite so.

882
00:52:09.599 --> 00:52:13.360
I have here, mister Graham, a photograph of a man.

883
00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:16.280
I am aware you did not catch a glimpse of

884
00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:19.320
the assassin's face. But I want you to cast your

885
00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:22.039
mind back over the time you have been in Turkey

886
00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:25.679
and tell me if you have ever seen him before.

887
00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:35.440
Ah eh ah, hello, yes, well sure positive have a look. Opeikin,

888
00:52:35.880 --> 00:52:37.599
he was at the cabaret you took me to tonight.

889
00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:38.599
I remember him at the bar.

890
00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:40.159
Yes, he was there.

891
00:52:40.519 --> 00:52:46.159
Excellent why not Romanian I hired the murderer.

892
00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:47.880
We know him well.

893
00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:52.840
His price ranges from fifty thousand francs upward. His employer

894
00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:55.960
is a man named Boroshin, who in turn is hired

895
00:52:56.000 --> 00:53:01.079
by his country to eliminate you. Unfortunately we possess no

896
00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:02.039
photograph of him.

897
00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:06.920
I begin to understand, of course, you do now replace

898
00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:07.599
the problem.

899
00:53:08.239 --> 00:53:12.760
You must return to England safely. But how the train

900
00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:14.760
is out of the question. You wouldn't live for an

901
00:53:14.760 --> 00:53:16.480
hour your aeroplane.

902
00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:19.559
Unfortunately the weather here has disrupted service.

903
00:53:20.079 --> 00:53:24.639
There is the sastri Levant selling for Athens tomorrow afternoon, your.

904
00:53:24.519 --> 00:53:27.519
Small bottom, and we can see that your enemies do

905
00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:31.079
not bother from Athens. You can take the plane to England.

906
00:53:31.559 --> 00:53:34.960
Well, I don't know, Colonel. In view of what you've

907
00:53:34.960 --> 00:53:36.519
told me, perhaps I should get in touch with the

908
00:53:36.559 --> 00:53:37.480
British embassy here.

909
00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:40.079
And what do you expect them to do? Send you

910
00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:41.280
home in a cruiser?

911
00:53:41.880 --> 00:53:44.039
No, no, my dear mister Graham.

912
00:53:44.199 --> 00:53:45.519
This is a question of time.

913
00:53:46.199 --> 00:53:49.239
Leaving tomorrow afternoon will lend you in Athens the day after.

914
00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:54.239
That is how it is to be well. I seem

915
00:53:54.280 --> 00:53:55.719
to have no choice in the matter.

916
00:53:56.039 --> 00:53:59.239
I am happy to see that you are cooperative, return

917
00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:07.400
to your hotel. We shall see you safely aboard tomorrow.

918
00:54:09.079 --> 00:54:12.400
The next afternoon go picking and Colonel Hackey saw me

919
00:54:12.440 --> 00:54:16.039
aboard as a bon voyage gift, presented me with the

920
00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:20.400
bottle of Johnny Walker and a small pistol, out of

921
00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:25.519
which I put in my suitcase. Besides myself, there were

922
00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:28.679
four other passengers, all of whom Colonel Hackey assured me

923
00:54:28.840 --> 00:54:33.440
were harmless. The gangway went down, I bought, the ship

924
00:54:33.519 --> 00:54:38.800
swayed gently, and the journey had begun. My companions were

925
00:54:38.840 --> 00:54:43.000
an odd assortment of continental travelers. They were the Mattis

926
00:54:43.039 --> 00:54:45.440
who occupied the cabin next to mine, a middle aged

927
00:54:45.480 --> 00:54:50.159
French couple who argued incessantly. Their voices penetrated the thin

928
00:54:50.199 --> 00:54:52.599
wooden bulkhead with dismaying ease.

929
00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:55.519
The sheets are damn No, no, it is simply that

930
00:54:55.559 --> 00:54:58.039
they are called. You think not.

931
00:54:58.159 --> 00:54:59.920
You may sleep as you wish, but do not complain

932
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.840
to me about your kidney's called sheets to the Halbi

933
00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:05.280
kidneys Sherry we hapy for our tickets.

934
00:55:06.679 --> 00:55:09.599
Then there was a mister Corvettli, whom I learned at

935
00:55:09.599 --> 00:55:12.599
the dinner table, was a dealer in tobacco. A short,

936
00:55:12.719 --> 00:55:15.159
heavy man with a smile fixed like that of a

937
00:55:15.199 --> 00:55:16.320
pentriloquist doll.

938
00:55:16.639 --> 00:55:19.599
I go to England. Trade in tobacco is very good.

939
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:23.519
England buys much tobacco from Turkey. You know, with American

940
00:55:23.559 --> 00:55:27.320
dollar so expensive and possibility of war, it is good business.

941
00:55:27.320 --> 00:55:28.000
Mister Mattie.

942
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:32.280
So I arrange a good deal of transportation for tobacco companies.

943
00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:34.400
What company do you represent?

944
00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:40.960
A passa of Istanbul passar, I must say this excusy.

945
00:55:41.440 --> 00:55:44.800
The last passenger was a thick, round shouldered man with

946
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:49.039
a pale face and prominent blue eyes. He introduced himself

947
00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:50.519
over a brandy on the lounge.

948
00:55:51.039 --> 00:55:55.400
My name is Halla, doctor Fritz Halla. I am a Cherman,

949
00:55:55.519 --> 00:55:58.320
a vest term, and I am on my way back

950
00:55:58.360 --> 00:55:59.039
to my country.

951
00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:00.719
How have you been long in Turkey?

952
00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:04.840
A few weeks? I came there from Persia oil business.

953
00:56:05.360 --> 00:56:17.960
Mister our chaology, Oh how interesting those were my fellow passengers.

954
00:56:18.599 --> 00:56:21.320
At nine o'clock that night, the cutter came out from

955
00:56:21.400 --> 00:56:23.760
Kanakali to take off the pilot. And when it came

956
00:56:23.800 --> 00:56:27.679
a telegram it was from Kopeikin in Istanbul, and it

957
00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:32.599
read H requests me to inform you that Bannatt left

958
00:56:32.679 --> 00:56:37.760
for Sophia on trained all well, safe journey to England,

959
00:56:38.559 --> 00:56:42.719
best wishes. I thought of the pistol in my cabin

960
00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:51.320
and I laughed to myself. It was an egan day,

961
00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:56.400
intensely colored in the sun, with small pink clouds drifting

962
00:56:56.440 --> 00:57:00.920
in a bleached indigo sea. I lay in my bunk,

963
00:57:01.079 --> 00:57:05.280
I had coffee, and in later I was standing by

964
00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:06.880
the rail talking to the little frenchman.

965
00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:10.440
Beautiful, beautiful.

966
00:57:11.360 --> 00:57:14.760
My wife has no appreciation for the lights such as these.

967
00:57:14.920 --> 00:57:18.519
Oh, what a shame my wife, you mean, Oh, well,

968
00:57:18.800 --> 00:57:20.079
one cannot have everything.

969
00:57:20.519 --> 00:57:21.880
She is a wonderful cook.

970
00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:23.039
Ah, fortunate.

971
00:57:23.280 --> 00:57:23.519
Yes.

972
00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:26.519
Oh, by the way, have you met our new passenger?

973
00:57:26.800 --> 00:57:27.480
New passenger?

974
00:57:27.719 --> 00:57:30.119
Yes, didn't you know? We stopped at the island of

975
00:57:30.199 --> 00:57:33.760
Lemnos during the night. He came aboard, then a greet.

976
00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:37.119
I think I hardly heard what he said, because at

977
00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:40.400
that moment from the lounge stepped a maund. I meet

978
00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:44.039
the high crowned, soft felt hat with the pale, dowy

979
00:57:44.159 --> 00:57:47.239
features of a face I had seen before, a face

980
00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:50.760
in a photograph, a photograph that Colonel Hockey had shown me.

981
00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:53.559
It was the man who had tried to kill me.

982
00:57:54.519 --> 00:57:56.360
The Romanian by Nat.

983
00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:12.519
Escape under the direction of Norman McDonald returns in just

984
00:58:12.599 --> 00:58:13.039
a moment.

985
00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:16.079
Even the children cheer when they know school's open.

986
00:58:16.119 --> 00:58:19.679
And or Miss Brooks classroom. Yeah she's here, charming, romantic,

987
00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:22.599
utterly mad cat and played at the hilt by Hollywood's

988
00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:25.719
Eve Varden. You'll love her, You'll laugh with her again tonight,

989
00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:28.599
and most of these same CBS stations, or Miss Brooks

990
00:58:28.639 --> 00:58:36.880
starring Eve Arden. And now back to Escape.

991
00:58:39.480 --> 00:58:41.960
I heard Matis's voices, though from a long way.

992
00:58:41.760 --> 00:58:43.920
Off, monsieur, do you not feel well?

993
00:58:44.199 --> 00:58:46.119
Then I turned them, without looking at the man who

994
00:58:46.119 --> 00:58:49.440
had just come on deck, I went below. Somehow Bannatt

995
00:58:49.519 --> 00:58:51.559
must have learned that I was on the Sestri Levante.

996
00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:53.880
He had taken the train for Sophia, and then as

997
00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:56.199
soon as it had crossed the Greek border, left it.

998
00:58:56.199 --> 00:58:57.760
It was a simple thing to fly from there to

999
00:58:57.840 --> 00:59:03.119
Lemnas I thought of that telegram, Oh well, those idiots,

1000
00:59:03.760 --> 00:59:06.840
and I was caught. Bannatt wouldn't miss twice. He was

1001
00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:10.280
a professional murderer. I had to get help, and so

1002
00:59:10.320 --> 00:59:13.000
I went to the purses office. He was a precise

1003
00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:16.480
little man who smiled when I talked to him. Look,

1004
00:59:16.760 --> 00:59:18.599
I've found out there is a man on this ship

1005
00:59:18.639 --> 00:59:20.800
who is here for the express purpose of murdering me

1006
00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:24.719
in d And what is his name? Banat b A

1007
00:59:25.079 --> 00:59:27.360
M A T. He's a Romanian.

1008
00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:30.199
Banat one woman, sir.

1009
00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:32.199
And look here, you don't suppose he'd give his real name,

1010
00:59:32.239 --> 00:59:32.679
do you?

1011
00:59:33.360 --> 00:59:35.960
Banat? No, there is no one of that name or

1012
00:59:36.119 --> 00:59:37.280
nationality aboard.

1013
00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:40.239
He got on during the night at lemnas Ah. Hell

1014
00:59:40.360 --> 00:59:43.920
is mister Mavrodopoulos. He's a Greek businessman. That may be

1015
00:59:44.039 --> 00:59:46.079
what his passport says. His real name is Banat and

1016
00:59:46.079 --> 00:59:48.679
he's a Romanian. Have you proof of that? Have I

1017
00:59:48.760 --> 00:59:49.000
put it?

1018
00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:49.360
Now?

1019
00:59:49.400 --> 00:59:52.440
Look if you're just radio Colonel Hockey of the Turkish

1020
00:59:52.440 --> 00:59:55.239
police at Istanbul, he'll confirm what I say.

1021
00:59:55.400 --> 00:59:58.559
As I say, sir, we do not have radio for

1022
00:59:58.679 --> 00:59:59.480
that purpose.

1023
01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:03.519
I suggest that you leave the matter until we reach Athens.

1024
01:00:03.679 --> 01:00:07.159
But can't you understand that man intends to kill me? No, Sir,

1025
01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:11.239
I do not understand. Nobody on this ship is going

1026
01:00:11.280 --> 01:00:15.039
to murder you. There are too many people about. Oh,

1027
01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:18.480
you have had bad dreams. It is ridiculous. I want

1028
01:00:18.480 --> 01:00:22.760
to see the captain. I am extremely busy, sir. If

1029
01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:28.719
you will close the door as you leave. I was

1030
01:00:28.760 --> 01:00:31.679
almost sick with fear and anger. As I left, I

1031
01:00:31.679 --> 01:00:35.760
went back to my cabbin. Well, I could still go

1032
01:00:35.840 --> 01:00:37.840
to the captain, but I could well imagine his reaction

1033
01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:41.519
to my story. There was no proof, and these people

1034
01:00:41.519 --> 01:00:46.599
were loath to stir up international complications. Oh, I was

1035
01:00:46.679 --> 01:00:49.400
alone with my murderers, somewhere on the ship with me.

1036
01:00:50.800 --> 01:00:53.639
And then I remember the revolver Kopeikin had given me.

1037
01:00:54.480 --> 01:00:56.199
I'd never handled a gun before, but at least it

1038
01:00:56.199 --> 01:00:59.000
would give me a chance. It was something. I went

1039
01:00:59.039 --> 01:01:01.199
to my suit casein I opened.

1040
01:01:00.920 --> 01:01:10.719
It must be I put it in myself just before

1041
01:01:10.719 --> 01:01:11.320
I got on board.

1042
01:01:11.320 --> 01:01:17.639
It had to be there. There was nothing. Someone had

1043
01:01:17.639 --> 01:01:21.039
been in my cabin and had taken the gun.

1044
01:01:28.440 --> 01:01:30.440
Ah, mister Graham, we were.

1045
01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:31.320
All worried about you.

1046
01:01:31.440 --> 01:01:33.880
I told them that you had the sickness too much.

1047
01:01:33.960 --> 01:01:39.079
See No, I'm sorry, I had rather a bad headache.

1048
01:01:39.239 --> 01:01:41.039
I hope that it is nothing serious.

1049
01:01:41.199 --> 01:01:42.679
No, thank you, mister Halla.

1050
01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:46.119
Have you met the misters.

1051
01:01:45.719 --> 01:01:49.360
No, I haven't had the pleasure.

1052
01:01:49.599 --> 01:01:51.800
This is our English friend, mister Grayham.

1053
01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:54.639
How do you doing nice?

1054
01:01:58.320 --> 01:02:01.440
The soup is nauseating, but you Graham I suggested you

1055
01:02:01.480 --> 01:02:04.199
do that partic of it when this to keep on?

1056
01:02:04.920 --> 01:02:09.440
Sorry, mydea, tell me, Maples, are you bound for happens

1057
01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:12.000
or do we enjoy your company as far as Genoa.

1058
01:02:12.960 --> 01:02:17.679
I go to Athens, then perhaps I continue on or

1059
01:02:17.679 --> 01:02:18.440
perhaps not.

1060
01:02:18.880 --> 01:02:23.519
A difficult decision, eh mister Marredopolis.

1061
01:02:23.840 --> 01:02:31.239
Yes, and not as your hand, mesieur. This bandage an accident.

1062
01:02:31.599 --> 01:02:36.480
Nothing serious. A pullet wound, to be exact. Some dirty

1063
01:02:36.519 --> 01:02:39.679
little thief took a shot at me in Istanbul.

1064
01:02:39.960 --> 01:02:44.559
Dirty little thief. And you must look after yourself carefully.

1065
01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:48.360
You must be ready to shoot back next time.

1066
01:02:48.760 --> 01:02:53.239
Oh I shall. There's not the slightest doubted that to.

1067
01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:58.719
Carry a pistol, naturally, that is good. One must be

1068
01:02:58.840 --> 01:03:02.039
so careful. You should be very careful.

1069
01:03:02.559 --> 01:03:06.519
I don't think it's necessary. That sort of scum doesn't

1070
01:03:06.599 --> 01:03:11.960
risk his skin with an armed man. A grin that

1071
01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:14.840
had been on the Romanian's face faded. He hadn't liked that.

1072
01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:19.880
And then I thought of something. Bannat had taken my gun.

1073
01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:23.079
It must be somewhere in his cabin. If I could

1074
01:03:23.119 --> 01:03:25.199
slip away for five minutes, there was still a chance.

1075
01:03:26.320 --> 01:03:28.719
As soon as the luncheon ended, I excused myself and

1076
01:03:28.760 --> 01:03:32.440
I wandered off. I could see Bannat engaged in conversation

1077
01:03:32.559 --> 01:03:34.440
with my tea, and I prayed that it would be

1078
01:03:34.440 --> 01:03:40.719
a long one. Bannat's cabin was strangely bare, A gray

1079
01:03:40.880 --> 01:03:43.280
raincoat hung with a soft hat behind the door, and

1080
01:03:43.360 --> 01:03:46.599
a battered suit case was under the lower berth. But

1081
01:03:46.639 --> 01:03:50.159
the gun was nowhere to be found, nor was it

1082
01:03:50.239 --> 01:03:53.639
anywhere in the cabin. I went to my quarters, feeling

1083
01:03:53.719 --> 01:03:58.360
helpless and needing a drink to steady my nerves.

1084
01:03:59.599 --> 01:04:01.760
I have been way I think for you, mister Grab.

1085
01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:06.440
Mister Halla.

1086
01:04:06.960 --> 01:04:09.519
I rather think that you have been looking for something

1087
01:04:10.159 --> 01:04:12.840
a gun? Possibly? Would this be it?

1088
01:04:12.960 --> 01:04:15.559
Well, I don't understand how I know, mister Graham.

1089
01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:17.320
Please don't come any closer.

1090
01:04:17.599 --> 01:04:18.159
I sit down.

1091
01:04:18.719 --> 01:04:22.760
I came to have a little talk with you. Sit down,

1092
01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:29.239
you know, mister Graham. Oh mavrodupless, or should I say,

1093
01:04:29.400 --> 01:04:32.239
but not as quite upset as I am. You have

1094
01:04:32.320 --> 01:04:34.320
caused us a great deal of trouble and money.

1095
01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:36.880
Yes, I begin to see now. I wonder if your

1096
01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:39.000
name happens to be Boroshen not Halla.

1097
01:04:39.599 --> 01:04:41.480
Dear me, I had no idea that you are so

1098
01:04:41.559 --> 01:04:45.400
well informed girl, Hackey must have been a very talkative mood.

1099
01:04:46.079 --> 01:04:48.000
And did he know I was in Istanbul.

1100
01:04:48.199 --> 01:04:48.800
I don't think so.

1101
01:04:49.239 --> 01:04:51.719
I thought not. You see, in order to take care

1102
01:04:51.760 --> 01:04:54.840
of you, I had to take a hand myself. Barnard

1103
01:04:54.960 --> 01:04:58.840
was extremely careless at your hotel. When I found yesterday

1104
01:04:58.920 --> 01:05:00.960
morning that you were to leave this boat, I had

1105
01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:04.920
to move very quickly. Luckily, there was a man named

1106
01:05:05.079 --> 01:05:08.400
Halla who had book passage with his assistant three days ago.

1107
01:05:09.320 --> 01:05:14.239
Therefore I took over his ticket and passport. Poor unfortunate,

1108
01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:17.599
but it would have been awkward to book passage at

1109
01:05:17.599 --> 01:05:20.519
the last minute without attacking Colonel Hacket's attention.

1110
01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:22.159
Yes, I imagine it would.

1111
01:05:22.760 --> 01:05:25.840
And I supposing you come to the point, certainly it

1112
01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:28.159
must be clear to you that we cannot allow you

1113
01:05:28.199 --> 01:05:31.960
to return to England. The obvious method of reading ourselves

1114
01:05:31.960 --> 01:05:35.039
of your presence is to shoot you the moment you land,

1115
01:05:36.039 --> 01:05:37.880
but that could become complicated.

1116
01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:39.519
It could.

1117
01:05:39.800 --> 01:05:43.360
The other alternative is to induce you to take a

1118
01:05:43.440 --> 01:05:45.679
holiday for six weeks or more.

1119
01:05:46.599 --> 01:05:49.280
I see. In other words, you hold up my return

1120
01:05:49.320 --> 01:05:51.519
to England so that my company's work would be delayed

1121
01:05:51.519 --> 01:05:53.480
to the point of uselessness. For the Turkish government.

1122
01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:58.760
You have a keen mind, mister Graham. Tonight we rich Athens.

1123
01:05:59.039 --> 01:06:01.119
If you like the idea, dear, you will live to

1124
01:06:01.159 --> 01:06:02.280
see you England again.

1125
01:06:02.719 --> 01:06:06.920
And if I refuse to take this holiday, then things

1126
01:06:06.960 --> 01:06:10.559
will be complicated, will they not? I think you're bluffing.

1127
01:06:11.320 --> 01:06:13.000
Hasn't it occurred to you that I shall repeat this

1128
01:06:13.039 --> 01:06:14.079
conversation to the captain.

1129
01:06:14.239 --> 01:06:16.800
It has occurred to me as a matter of fact.

1130
01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:18.840
The person was telling me about your little talk with

1131
01:06:18.920 --> 01:06:22.840
him this morning. I'm afraid that the ship's officers, including

1132
01:06:22.880 --> 01:06:26.239
the captain, have enjoyed the joke very much, as they

1133
01:06:26.280 --> 01:06:33.639
call you the mad Englishman and love well mister Graham.

1134
01:06:33.719 --> 01:06:34.920
Rich is it two be?

1135
01:06:35.840 --> 01:06:40.400
If I take this holiday, where will it be?

1136
01:06:40.440 --> 01:06:44.239
In a charming villa near Athens? You will enjoy all

1137
01:06:44.239 --> 01:06:47.880
the comforts of home. I assure you. I shall give

1138
01:06:47.920 --> 01:06:52.039
you an hour to think about it. Remember you are

1139
01:06:52.039 --> 01:06:54.719
not at war, mister Graham. You are not a soultier.

1140
01:06:54.760 --> 01:07:00.639
In reality, you are doing your country no disservice. We'll

1141
01:07:00.679 --> 01:07:01.199
ever know.

1142
01:07:03.880 --> 01:07:07.159
He left me alone. It was not a pleasant choice

1143
01:07:07.199 --> 01:07:10.159
he had given me. I knew that Banatta and he

1144
01:07:10.199 --> 01:07:12.079
could keep their promise to kill me when I landed,

1145
01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:15.480
and I was equally sure that the holiday or Rochene

1146
01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:19.559
spoke of would be a very long one, that either way,

1147
01:07:19.599 --> 01:07:23.039
I should never return to my wife or to England.

1148
01:07:24.280 --> 01:07:27.039
I sat for half an hour, smoking and trying to think,

1149
01:07:28.119 --> 01:07:42.119
and then I remembered Matty. Yes, oh, may I speak

1150
01:07:42.119 --> 01:07:42.760
to you for a moment.

1151
01:07:42.800 --> 01:07:45.760
But of course, what is it monsieur my share?

1152
01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:47.320
Would you come into my cabin?

1153
01:07:47.519 --> 01:07:50.280
Certainly I should be back in a moment, My dear.

1154
01:07:52.320 --> 01:07:53.360
I need your help.

1155
01:07:53.599 --> 01:07:56.760
I thought that you looked serious. Is it money?

1156
01:07:57.039 --> 01:07:57.599
No?

1157
01:07:57.599 --> 01:07:59.000
No, I want you to take a message for me

1158
01:07:59.039 --> 01:08:02.480
when we talk at Athens, A message, Monsieur Matti. You

1159
01:08:02.559 --> 01:08:04.960
are the only man aboard I feel that I can trust. Oh,

1160
01:08:05.039 --> 01:08:08.519
I am a no listen, I'm employed by a British

1161
01:08:08.639 --> 01:08:11.840
armor manufacturer. I am working in joint service with the

1162
01:08:11.880 --> 01:08:15.159
British and Turkish governments. No, when I get off the

1163
01:08:15.159 --> 01:08:17.319
ship tonight, an attempt will be made to kill me.

1164
01:08:17.760 --> 01:08:18.479
This is true.

1165
01:08:18.680 --> 01:08:20.800
Is I'm afraid it is. What I want you to

1166
01:08:20.800 --> 01:08:22.840
do is to go to the Turkish consulate in Athens

1167
01:08:22.840 --> 01:08:25.239
and give him a message for me. Will you do that?

1168
01:08:27.119 --> 01:08:30.640
I will do it. You realize the message is highly confidential.

1169
01:08:30.760 --> 01:08:31.920
I will say nothing.

1170
01:08:33.279 --> 01:08:37.880
All right, then this is it? Inform Colonel Hackey Istanbul

1171
01:08:38.640 --> 01:08:42.199
that Graham is forced to accompany Soviet agents Borosheen and

1172
01:08:42.279 --> 01:08:48.560
Banat traveling with passports of Halla and Maopolis.

1173
01:08:48.960 --> 01:08:49.760
Is it possible?

1174
01:08:50.079 --> 01:08:53.159
Unfortunately it is I go on. In the event of

1175
01:08:53.159 --> 01:08:55.720
my death, Please inform the British consul of these men

1176
01:08:55.800 --> 01:08:57.560
are responsible, mon dieux.

1177
01:08:57.760 --> 01:08:59.680
So that is why you looked sick when I spoke

1178
01:08:59.680 --> 01:09:02.439
of mar Dopplos this morning. Why do we not to

1179
01:09:02.439 --> 01:09:04.159
get a shoot down the fifty swine?

1180
01:09:04.239 --> 01:09:06.119
I have you have a gun here?

1181
01:09:06.319 --> 01:09:08.319
But yes, when won't trouble and then there is.

1182
01:09:08.319 --> 01:09:10.319
Something else you can do for me. Let me buy

1183
01:09:10.319 --> 01:09:10.760
your revolver.

1184
01:09:11.039 --> 01:09:12.159
I will not sell it to you.

1185
01:09:12.600 --> 01:09:15.119
I give it to you here.

1186
01:09:15.159 --> 01:09:16.640
Thank you, but let me help you.

1187
01:09:16.680 --> 01:09:19.760
No, no, this is splendid. I am grateful, Monsieur Mattie,

1188
01:09:20.319 --> 01:09:21.960
and you will take the message.

1189
01:09:22.119 --> 01:09:24.319
It is understood, have no fear.

1190
01:09:30.640 --> 01:09:33.199
Half an hour later, I told Barashen that I would

1191
01:09:33.199 --> 01:09:36.119
agree to his plan. I'm sure that he didn't believe me,

1192
01:09:36.600 --> 01:09:39.720
but nor did he know that I was armed. It

1193
01:09:39.880 --> 01:09:42.760
was a forlorn hope. But if I was going to die,

1194
01:09:43.000 --> 01:09:45.359
I would have the satisfaction of knowing that others would

1195
01:09:45.359 --> 01:09:50.199
die with me. At eight o'clock sasstril Levante was approaching

1196
01:09:50.199 --> 01:09:53.279
her birth, I had agreed to pass through customs and

1197
01:09:53.279 --> 01:09:56.279
to meet Varashen on the street. As I stood at

1198
01:09:56.279 --> 01:10:00.279
the rail, watching the key drawing closer, I saw Nat

1199
01:10:00.439 --> 01:10:03.600
standing to one side, hand and pocket and a fat

1200
01:10:03.640 --> 01:10:06.680
smile on his face. He knew that he was going

1201
01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:11.960
to earn his fee tonight. Barrachines stepped off the ship first, turned,

1202
01:10:12.600 --> 01:10:15.760
waved cheer a little me. Bannatt followed him, and they

1203
01:10:15.800 --> 01:10:19.079
both disappeared into the custom shirt. I walked slowly down

1204
01:10:19.119 --> 01:10:21.680
the gangway. Mister Corvette came pushing after me.

1205
01:10:23.880 --> 01:10:26.399
Yes, what is it, Kennel Huckey would be very angry

1206
01:10:26.439 --> 01:10:28.479
with me if I allowed you out of my side, Hucky.

1207
01:10:28.760 --> 01:10:31.199
I wanted to tell you before on deck, but Bynart

1208
01:10:31.239 --> 01:10:33.680
was watching. I did not dare to say anything earlier.

1209
01:10:34.119 --> 01:10:35.520
Your face gives away too much.

1210
01:10:35.560 --> 01:10:39.039
Mister Graham, you correctly you're a Turkish agent, one of

1211
01:10:39.079 --> 01:10:39.680
Hockey's men.

1212
01:10:39.800 --> 01:10:42.680
Yes, I nearly gave the game away when I spoke

1213
01:10:42.720 --> 01:10:45.880
of my non existent tobacco firm. I thought you would

1214
01:10:45.920 --> 01:10:49.199
know when the Frenchman questioned me. Kennel Hockey wanted to

1215
01:10:49.279 --> 01:10:50.760
be sure that you caught your plane safely.

1216
01:10:51.159 --> 01:10:53.039
That is why I was aboard. But what can we

1217
01:10:53.079 --> 01:10:53.920
do together?

1218
01:10:54.039 --> 01:10:54.720
We go through.

1219
01:10:54.520 --> 01:10:56.399
Customs and then we shall.

1220
01:10:56.119 --> 01:11:03.600
Seeton's inspection, as ever on the continent, was slow, although

1221
01:11:03.640 --> 01:11:06.600
I find myself wishing that it would never end. But

1222
01:11:06.720 --> 01:11:09.960
it did, and if Corvette had a plan, the evidently

1223
01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:12.960
didn't feel that way. Have mentioned he smiled at everyone,

1224
01:11:13.359 --> 01:11:16.520
the plump little businessman who to all appearances, would deal

1225
01:11:16.600 --> 01:11:21.920
in ladies finery rather than international intrigue. We found ourselves

1226
01:11:22.000 --> 01:11:24.880
suitcases in hand, walking toward the street.

1227
01:11:26.439 --> 01:11:27.319
So that is over.

1228
01:11:27.680 --> 01:11:30.800
I find these inspections so tedious. Now look here to Betley.

1229
01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:33.000
I'm extremely grateful for your presence, But what are we

1230
01:11:33.039 --> 01:11:35.479
going to do? Boroshen and Bannatt are waiting out there

1231
01:11:35.479 --> 01:11:36.600
with a car. They're waiting for me.

1232
01:11:36.880 --> 01:11:39.359
I know, I know it has all been arranged.

1233
01:11:39.399 --> 01:11:41.199
What do you mean that we walked through those doors

1234
01:11:41.199 --> 01:11:41.600
and do it?

1235
01:11:41.640 --> 01:11:41.920
Nothing?

1236
01:11:42.119 --> 01:11:44.720
Absolutely nothing? You will see.

1237
01:11:45.000 --> 01:11:47.079
I hope you have a gun? I have good So

1238
01:11:47.159 --> 01:11:48.439
have I?

1239
01:11:48.520 --> 01:11:48.880
Oh?

1240
01:11:49.239 --> 01:11:50.640
Yes, thanks to the Frenchman.

1241
01:11:52.960 --> 01:11:53.479
There they are.

1242
01:11:53.760 --> 01:11:55.239
But do we run for it? Go and work in

1243
01:11:55.279 --> 01:11:58.039
mister Graham. If your hand away from your pocket, that's it.

1244
01:11:58.319 --> 01:11:59.880
Are you mad? They'll kill us.

1245
01:11:59.760 --> 01:12:01.159
You, mister Graham, not me.

1246
01:12:01.680 --> 01:12:01.920
Go on.

1247
01:12:02.920 --> 01:12:04.960
My overcoat is a gun. Please, do not make trouble.

1248
01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:09.439
Go on, a little idiot. You're one of them too.

1249
01:12:09.640 --> 01:12:13.119
We're ready, worsh you taken long enough, hurry up.

1250
01:12:13.399 --> 01:12:16.439
The converation left your pocket in, mister crap.

1251
01:12:23.640 --> 01:12:26.119
I remember a perfect chuse a lative shots, and then

1252
01:12:26.640 --> 01:12:29.960
something cracked me on the skull and I was falling.

1253
01:12:30.960 --> 01:12:39.640
It was all very dark and comfortable, mister Graham, mister Graham,

1254
01:12:42.359 --> 01:12:43.319
mister Graham.

1255
01:12:43.920 --> 01:12:49.239
Ah, he's all right, mister Graham, this good picking lucky

1256
01:12:49.720 --> 01:12:50.319
you're safe.

1257
01:12:51.159 --> 01:12:53.600
Oh, oh, good show.

1258
01:12:54.199 --> 01:12:58.760
You've been unconscious. Really you were at the airport. Now

1259
01:12:59.159 --> 01:13:02.680
you see. We found the bodies of two men in Ankara.

1260
01:13:03.279 --> 01:13:08.239
They were archaeologists Halla and his assistant. I realized that

1261
01:13:08.359 --> 01:13:10.560
Boroshine and one of his men must have boarded the

1262
01:13:10.600 --> 01:13:14.079
ship using their passport. As I found that out, we

1263
01:13:14.199 --> 01:13:16.720
flew a government plane here Kopekin and I to wait

1264
01:13:16.760 --> 01:13:17.039
for you.

1265
01:13:17.399 --> 01:13:18.920
The Greek authorities were kind.

1266
01:13:18.840 --> 01:13:22.960
Enough to assist, yes, sir, very kind, not at all.

1267
01:13:23.399 --> 01:13:25.359
And now, my dear fellow, the plane is waiting to

1268
01:13:25.399 --> 01:13:26.279
take you to England.

1269
01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:31.760
We'll see you safely aboard. Yes, I say, what about

1270
01:13:32.199 --> 01:13:35.399
Bannatt Woshene and badly?

1271
01:13:35.640 --> 01:13:35.800
Oh?

1272
01:13:35.880 --> 01:13:39.640
Yes, it was rather unfortunate after you felt they tried

1273
01:13:39.640 --> 01:13:42.000
to get away in the car, someone hit a tire,

1274
01:13:42.239 --> 01:13:44.920
there was a smash up, the petrol tank exploded.

1275
01:13:46.119 --> 01:13:46.840
A tragedy.

1276
01:13:47.199 --> 01:13:52.680
Oh yes, well, it's very decent of you, my dear fellow.

1277
01:13:52.720 --> 01:13:55.279
It has been a pleasure. Come along. We will help

1278
01:13:55.279 --> 01:13:57.800
you to your plane. I am sure you're anxious to

1279
01:13:57.840 --> 01:13:59.399
get home to England and your wife.

1280
01:13:59.680 --> 01:13:59.960
Come on.

1281
01:14:12.760 --> 01:14:15.720
Under the direction of Norman MacDonald, Escape has brought you

1282
01:14:15.840 --> 01:14:19.640
journey into fear by Eric Embler, especially adapted for Escape

1283
01:14:19.640 --> 01:14:23.319
by Anthony Ellis. Ben Wright was starred as Graham featured

1284
01:14:23.359 --> 01:14:26.720
in the cast where Wilms, Herbert, Edgar Barrier, Ralf Sedan

1285
01:14:27.119 --> 01:14:30.760
and Morrison, Jack Krushian, Louke Krugman, and Shim and Ruskin.

1286
01:14:31.239 --> 01:14:34.079
The special music for Escape was composed and conducted by

1287
01:14:34.199 --> 01:14:35.760
Ivant at Mars.

1288
01:14:38.880 --> 01:14:42.039
My dear idea, I hope I haven't put you on

1289
01:14:42.279 --> 01:14:47.640
edge with all the talk of fear, terror, heaths and

1290
01:14:47.680 --> 01:14:52.920
so on. My only goal is simple, simple, It's to

1291
01:14:53.000 --> 01:14:58.359
make you feel welcome, to make you feel comfortable, to

1292
01:14:58.439 --> 01:15:04.319
get you to enjoy yourself and selfishly, I have a

1293
01:15:04.359 --> 01:15:10.520
little break from my mundane as well. But I don't

1294
01:15:10.560 --> 01:15:14.159
want you to think that I'm here to browbeat you

1295
01:15:14.279 --> 01:15:18.840
in some way or suspect you of something you may

1296
01:15:18.920 --> 01:15:24.159
or may not have done, because, after all, you're my friend,

1297
01:15:24.760 --> 01:15:28.079
and the last thing I'd ever want is to be

1298
01:15:28.800 --> 01:15:30.319
the accusing corpse.

1299
01:15:40.640 --> 01:15:57.880
The Mysterious Traveler. This is the mysterious Traveler inviting you

1300
01:15:57.960 --> 01:16:00.760
to join him on another journey into the realm of

1301
01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:05.560
the strange and terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip,

1302
01:16:06.399 --> 01:16:09.439
that it will free you a little and chill you

1303
01:16:09.479 --> 01:16:13.600
a little. So settle back, get a good grip on

1304
01:16:13.680 --> 01:16:18.760
your nerves. Where are we going. We're going to journey

1305
01:16:18.800 --> 01:16:21.720
to the grave and learn the secrets of the dead.

1306
01:16:22.600 --> 01:16:34.880
In a tale titled The Accusing Course, some years ago,

1307
01:16:35.279 --> 01:16:38.159
when I was a county colonel, I was called in

1308
01:16:38.159 --> 01:16:42.279
on a most interesting case, a case which had begun

1309
01:16:42.359 --> 01:16:57.520
in the country home of Philith Drake, the wealthy stockbroker Roger.

1310
01:16:57.720 --> 01:16:59.439
Thank goodness you were able to get here in time.

1311
01:17:00.039 --> 01:17:02.640
Time Right after I received your call, what's wrong Philip,

1312
01:17:02.640 --> 01:17:05.520
you sounded so upset over the phone. Thanks, Vivian. She's

1313
01:17:05.560 --> 01:17:08.079
upstairs in her room packing. She says, she's leaving me,

1314
01:17:08.439 --> 01:17:11.199
leaving you. Why she seems to feel unmarried has been

1315
01:17:11.239 --> 01:17:14.680
a mistake, Roger. Won't you speak to her persuaded to stay?

1316
01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:17.520
After all, she is your sister. I am afraid, Philip,

1317
01:17:17.560 --> 01:17:19.800
that Vivian and I have never been as close as

1318
01:17:19.880 --> 01:17:25.319
sister and brother should be. She's always been wild and spoiled. Perhaps, Philip,

1319
01:17:25.359 --> 01:17:27.239
it would be better if if you were to let

1320
01:17:27.279 --> 01:17:31.119
her go. No, I couldn't do that. I love her, Roger.

1321
01:17:31.560 --> 01:17:34.359
I wouldn't want to live without her. Won't you please

1322
01:17:34.439 --> 01:17:36.720
try to persuade her to stay or right, Philip, I'll

1323
01:17:36.720 --> 01:17:39.039
do my best, but I must warn you I haven't

1324
01:17:39.079 --> 01:17:40.000
much influence e her.

1325
01:17:40.960 --> 01:17:44.640
I'm all packing ready to why Roger Darling, what a surprise?

1326
01:17:44.760 --> 01:17:45.800
What are you doing here.

1327
01:17:45.840 --> 01:17:49.560
Vivian, Philip has told me. Now, surely you can be serious.

1328
01:17:50.039 --> 01:17:52.039
You know how he loves you, everything he's done to

1329
01:17:52.039 --> 01:17:52.680
make you happy.

1330
01:17:53.199 --> 01:17:55.199
Roger. You aren't going to start on that, are you.

1331
01:17:55.359 --> 01:17:57.600
Some day, Vivian, you'll get just what you deserve for

1332
01:17:57.960 --> 01:18:01.119
walking over people, breaking their hearts Every time I think

1333
01:18:01.159 --> 01:18:04.000
of you being my sister, I feel rather please. Would

1334
01:18:04.000 --> 01:18:05.760
you mind waiting in the other room. I'd like to

1335
01:18:05.760 --> 01:18:09.239
speak to Vivian alone. Oh all right, Philip, call me

1336
01:18:09.279 --> 01:18:09.920
when you want me.

1337
01:18:13.600 --> 01:18:16.000
Really, Philip, no matter what you have to say, you're

1338
01:18:16.079 --> 01:18:17.079
just wasting your time.

1339
01:18:17.319 --> 01:18:19.560
Vivian, how can you do this to me? You know

1340
01:18:19.680 --> 01:18:22.279
I love you, but I'd do anything to make you happy.

1341
01:18:22.359 --> 01:18:24.800
That's sweet of you, dear. Would you mind letting in

1342
01:18:24.800 --> 01:18:25.880
your car to get to town.

1343
01:18:26.039 --> 01:18:27.920
If you leave me, Vivian, you won't get a cent,

1344
01:18:28.199 --> 01:18:29.319
not the scent to you here.

1345
01:18:29.520 --> 01:18:32.800
Really, did you ever stop to think, Philip, that there

1346
01:18:32.880 --> 01:18:35.680
might be another man with more money than you?

1347
01:18:36.079 --> 01:18:37.960
Another man? Oh no, that couldn't be.

1348
01:18:38.119 --> 01:18:38.680
And why not?

1349
01:18:38.880 --> 01:18:41.560
But we've only been married three months. There couldn't be

1350
01:18:41.600 --> 01:18:45.920
anyone in that time. Oh but there was, Vivian. In

1351
01:18:45.960 --> 01:18:48.359
spite of what you've done, I'm willing to forgive you

1352
01:18:48.399 --> 01:18:49.359
and start over with you.

1353
01:18:50.560 --> 01:18:52.840
But Darling, I don't want you to forgive me. I

1354
01:18:52.880 --> 01:18:53.720
want you to forget me.

1355
01:18:53.960 --> 01:18:56.159
Vivian. You can't do this to me. I love you,

1356
01:18:56.399 --> 01:18:57.279
I won't let you go.

1357
01:18:57.439 --> 01:18:58.119
I really must be.

1358
01:18:58.039 --> 01:18:58.920
Saying goodbye now.

1359
01:18:59.640 --> 01:19:00.600
He's waiting for me.

1360
01:19:00.680 --> 01:19:02.600
In town, and I don't want to be late.

1361
01:19:02.720 --> 01:19:04.439
If I can't have you, no one else will do.

1362
01:19:04.439 --> 01:19:06.880
You here being ridiculous, I must go.

1363
01:19:07.079 --> 01:19:08.720
No, Tellip, what do you doing?

1364
01:19:10.279 --> 01:19:10.680
A gun?

1365
01:19:10.880 --> 01:19:13.560
Yes, Favian, not gun. I told you if I couldn't

1366
01:19:13.600 --> 01:19:14.560
have you, no one else would.

1367
01:19:14.640 --> 01:19:17.399
Oh, Philip, you're insane. Put that gun down.

1368
01:19:17.479 --> 01:19:20.079
If you don't change your mind about leaving, I'll kill you.

1369
01:19:20.319 --> 01:19:22.000
Even with that gun. You can't keep me, do you

1370
01:19:22.079 --> 01:19:24.840
hear I soon have died and go on living with you.

1371
01:19:25.560 --> 01:19:34.159
I'm going and you're not goining to stop.

1372
01:19:30.479 --> 01:19:32.800
You shut.

1373
01:19:36.479 --> 01:19:42.760
Bavian, Philip, Philip, what happened? I thought I heard Vivian Roger?

1374
01:19:43.720 --> 01:19:49.359
Is she dead? Yes? Philip? Do you do you know

1375
01:19:49.399 --> 01:19:53.960
what this may mean? Life, imprisonment, perhaps even the electric chair.

1376
01:19:54.520 --> 01:19:57.760
I know, nothing seems to matter now, but but you

1377
01:19:57.840 --> 01:20:01.079
simply can't throw your life away like that. Oh. Even

1378
01:20:01.079 --> 01:20:03.199
if Vivian was my sister, I don't mind telling you

1379
01:20:03.239 --> 01:20:05.399
that I always felt you were far too good for her.

1380
01:20:05.920 --> 01:20:08.479
She didn't deserve to be your wife. Oh please, Roger

1381
01:20:08.600 --> 01:20:11.479
health look for if if we were to get rid

1382
01:20:11.479 --> 01:20:14.199
of the body, who could possibly know that she didn't

1383
01:20:14.279 --> 01:20:17.640
leave here tonight as she planned oh, oh, it wouldn't work, Roger.

1384
01:20:17.680 --> 01:20:20.720
You can get away with as nonsense. Philip. Now, now,

1385
01:20:20.720 --> 01:20:22.760
if we were to bury her in the woods, but

1386
01:20:22.880 --> 01:20:25.479
no one would ever find the body in the woods.

1387
01:20:25.840 --> 01:20:27.840
I couldn't do that, and I'll do it. You can

1388
01:20:27.840 --> 01:20:30.039
wait here ti my return. But Roger, will I Philip,

1389
01:20:30.079 --> 01:20:32.640
you must let me handle this. You you better give

1390
01:20:32.640 --> 01:20:36.479
me the gun. All right, Roger, you are good now

1391
01:20:36.520 --> 01:20:44.600
you wait here? Will I get rid of the body.

1392
01:20:47.159 --> 01:20:52.199
Philip watched spellbound, unable to say a word, as Roger

1393
01:20:52.279 --> 01:20:56.119
picked up the body and left the room. As Roger,

1394
01:20:56.600 --> 01:21:00.399
carrying his burden past the gardener's shed, he picked up

1395
01:21:00.399 --> 01:21:03.920
a shovel. In a few moments, he reached the woods,

1396
01:21:03.920 --> 01:21:06.199
which began at the rear of the house and extended

1397
01:21:06.199 --> 01:21:10.600
for miles. He carefully made his way through the forest

1398
01:21:10.680 --> 01:21:14.239
underbrush until he was well out of sight of the house.

1399
01:21:14.960 --> 01:21:19.960
Then he stopped and looked about. I think this is

1400
01:21:20.039 --> 01:21:20.760
quite fine enough.

1401
01:21:21.000 --> 01:21:23.279
I think you can put me down that Roger. I'm

1402
01:21:23.359 --> 01:21:25.560
tired of being carried like a sack of potatoes.

1403
01:21:25.800 --> 01:21:32.159
All right, Well, let me congratulate you and your performance

1404
01:21:32.199 --> 01:21:32.800
as a corpse.

1405
01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:35.279
Do you think he suspects anything?

1406
01:21:35.520 --> 01:21:38.319
Of course, he doesn't. He's positive that he shot and

1407
01:21:38.479 --> 01:21:39.000
killed you.

1408
01:21:39.000 --> 01:21:40.079
You've got the gun, haven't you?

1409
01:21:40.159 --> 01:21:41.840
Certainly I've got it. You don't think I was going

1410
01:21:41.880 --> 01:21:44.239
to let him discover that the bullets had been removed

1411
01:21:44.239 --> 01:21:45.920
and blank. Cartre just uped you to do you?

1412
01:21:46.079 --> 01:21:49.920
Oh no, not you, Roger. You always know what you're doing.

1413
01:21:50.079 --> 01:21:51.720
I always try to my dear sister.

1414
01:21:52.399 --> 01:21:54.600
You don't think Philip will give you any trouble, do you?

1415
01:21:55.359 --> 01:21:57.640
Outside of being in love with me? He isn't an

1416
01:21:57.640 --> 01:21:58.159
otter fool.

1417
01:21:58.399 --> 01:22:01.560
Don't worry. I can handle Philip. Now here's the key

1418
01:22:01.600 --> 01:22:03.520
to the apartment I rented in town. You will find

1419
01:22:03.560 --> 01:22:04.960
my car quarter of a mile down the road.

1420
01:22:05.000 --> 01:22:06.880
All right, I'll be waiting for you.

1421
01:22:06.720 --> 01:22:12.079
I'll be there in a few hours. Let me see. Yes, yes,

1422
01:22:12.119 --> 01:22:22.840
this seems like a nice place to dig. The next morning,

1423
01:22:23.359 --> 01:22:27.920
Roger called on Philip at his office. With a calculating glance.

1424
01:22:28.600 --> 01:22:32.199
He noted that Philip's eyes were bloodshot and his hand

1425
01:22:32.399 --> 01:22:35.800
trembled as the two shook hands. How are you, Philip?

1426
01:22:36.039 --> 01:22:39.159
I couldn't sleep at all last night. I kept thinking

1427
01:22:39.199 --> 01:22:43.239
of Vivian. What if her disappearance is noticed? People begin

1428
01:22:43.319 --> 01:22:45.840
asking questions? All you have to do is tell him

1429
01:22:45.840 --> 01:22:48.279
that Vivian left you and you don't know where she is,

1430
01:22:48.520 --> 01:22:51.560
or things like that happen every day. Been very helpful

1431
01:22:51.600 --> 01:22:54.640
to me, Roger. Never I get a chance to pay

1432
01:22:54.680 --> 01:22:57.800
you for it, rest assured I will. That's very good

1433
01:22:57.800 --> 01:23:01.760
at you, Philip. The truth of the matter is you will.

1434
01:23:02.439 --> 01:23:05.199
You could do me a favor if you would, of course,

1435
01:23:05.600 --> 01:23:08.159
what is it? Well, I'm in the midst of a

1436
01:23:08.199 --> 01:23:11.479
business deal and I find myself a little short of capital.

1437
01:23:11.960 --> 01:23:15.119
If you could lend me some money, i'd appreciate, certainly, Roger.

1438
01:23:15.279 --> 01:23:19.760
How much do you need? Twenty thousand, twenty thousand, there's

1439
01:23:19.840 --> 01:23:22.279
quite a lot, naturally, Philip. If you feel you can't

1440
01:23:22.319 --> 01:23:23.960
lend it to me, I'll go to a bank and

1441
01:23:24.000 --> 01:23:26.239
try to Park. Isn't that I can't lend it to you, Roger,

1442
01:23:26.319 --> 01:23:29.920
it's just the amount surprised me. Shall I make the

1443
01:23:30.000 --> 01:23:30.560
check out to you?

1444
01:23:31.279 --> 01:23:32.039
Yes, if you please?

1445
01:23:32.279 --> 01:23:35.560
All right, I can't tell you how much I appreciate this, Philip.

1446
01:23:42.800 --> 01:23:45.720
As Philip wrote out a check for twenty thousand dollars,

1447
01:23:46.439 --> 01:23:51.319
Roger's smile. Things were working out just as he had planned.

1448
01:23:52.560 --> 01:23:55.680
An hour later, Roger entered an old brown stone House

1449
01:23:56.119 --> 01:24:01.880
and went to apartment to see.

1450
01:24:00.439 --> 01:24:01.760
Roger, did you get it?

1451
01:24:01.880 --> 01:24:01.920
Ha?

1452
01:24:02.000 --> 01:24:02.199
Ha?

1453
01:24:03.079 --> 01:24:04.119
What does this look like?

1454
01:24:04.279 --> 01:24:05.640
Oh Roger, that's wonderful.

1455
01:24:05.880 --> 01:24:08.720
Now we can clear on why there is no one

1456
01:24:08.800 --> 01:24:09.600
hundred thousand here.

1457
01:24:09.880 --> 01:24:12.800
No, my dear, I only got twenty thousand from it, but.

1458
01:24:12.760 --> 01:24:15.000
We were out for a hundred thousand. Why didn't you

1459
01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:16.199
get it all this morning when you.

1460
01:24:16.199 --> 01:24:18.800
Saw it, My dear Vivian, it simply isn't done that way.

1461
01:24:19.640 --> 01:24:22.319
Blackmail is an art, an art that calls for the

1462
01:24:22.399 --> 01:24:26.039
use of psychology. Philip will give us many times over

1463
01:24:26.119 --> 01:24:28.640
the money I hold in my hand, all in due time.

1464
01:24:28.680 --> 01:24:30.720
Of course, you mean I'll have to go on hiding

1465
01:24:30.720 --> 01:24:33.239
in this miserable apartment until you finish your little game

1466
01:24:33.239 --> 01:24:35.600
with him, never being able to leave it for fear

1467
01:24:35.640 --> 01:24:36.560
someone will recognize.

1468
01:24:36.640 --> 01:24:39.279
Come, come now, Vivian, You've got the radio and books.

1469
01:24:39.479 --> 01:24:41.560
I won't spend weeks in this apartment. I tell you

1470
01:24:41.600 --> 01:24:41.960
I won't.

1471
01:24:42.600 --> 01:24:46.159
I an't. You'll do exactly as I say, Vivian, exactly.

1472
01:24:46.159 --> 01:24:48.560
Do you understand, Roger, my arm your it is nothing

1473
01:24:48.600 --> 01:24:50.720
to what I'll do if you disobey me. Do I

1474
01:24:50.760 --> 01:24:51.520
make myself clear?

1475
01:24:51.720 --> 01:24:51.960
Yes?

1476
01:24:52.239 --> 01:24:53.600
Yes?

1477
01:24:59.279 --> 01:25:02.840
A week past Yes, a week in which Roger patiently

1478
01:25:02.960 --> 01:25:07.039
bided his time for time he knew was working on

1479
01:25:07.119 --> 01:25:11.520
his side against Philip. Then one morning he called on

1480
01:25:11.600 --> 01:25:15.960
Philip at his office. Good morning, Philip, how do you

1481
01:25:16.000 --> 01:25:18.960
expect me to be this past week? I've been able

1482
01:25:18.960 --> 01:25:22.760
to think of nothing but Vivian and what happened that night, Philip.

1483
01:25:22.840 --> 01:25:26.560
You must stop brooding over it. Whatever happened was her fault,

1484
01:25:26.640 --> 01:25:30.479
not yours. Yes, yeah, you're right. That's what I need

1485
01:25:30.479 --> 01:25:33.560
is a vacation. Yes, yes, of course a trip would

1486
01:25:33.600 --> 01:25:36.880
do you a world of good, and if I could afforded,

1487
01:25:37.239 --> 01:25:40.079
i'd go along with you. You mean you haven't any money.

1488
01:25:40.239 --> 01:25:43.520
I'm I'm afraid not, Philip. That's what I've come to

1489
01:25:43.560 --> 01:25:47.520
see you about. I must have forty thousand dollars at once.

1490
01:25:47.680 --> 01:25:50.840
Forty thousand. Yes, I know it's a good deal of money, Philip.

1491
01:25:51.680 --> 01:25:55.279
Without it, I'll be ruined, naturally. I want to help you, Roger,

1492
01:25:55.319 --> 01:25:58.359
but forty thousand. If I don't get the forty thousand, Philipp,

1493
01:25:59.079 --> 01:26:02.119
I mean, isn't for me. You wouldn't want to see

1494
01:26:02.119 --> 01:26:04.439
if that happen. But you well, of course not Roger.

1495
01:26:04.520 --> 01:26:08.760
After all, Philip, I I saved you from prison. In fact,

1496
01:26:08.800 --> 01:26:11.960
I made myself an accomplice to Vivian's murder by not

1497
01:26:12.079 --> 01:26:16.000
turning you over to the police. Well, yes, I know you.

1498
01:26:16.000 --> 01:26:19.720
You could hardly expect me to remain loyal to you

1499
01:26:19.800 --> 01:26:24.159
if you weren't willing to help me. But you, I

1500
01:26:24.279 --> 01:26:29.159
see it seems I haven't any choice. Very well, Roger,

1501
01:26:29.760 --> 01:26:40.119
I'll write you out of check. Roger's eyes gleamed in

1502
01:26:40.199 --> 01:26:44.560
amusement as he accepted the check from Philip. There was

1503
01:26:44.640 --> 01:26:49.479
no longer any doubt that Philip understood him perfectly. Things

1504
01:26:49.479 --> 01:26:53.960
were working out exactly as he had planned. Later that day,

1505
01:26:54.119 --> 01:26:57.359
Roger went back to the old brown stonehouse. There was

1506
01:26:57.399 --> 01:26:59.680
a smile on his lips as he entered apartment to

1507
01:27:02.920 --> 01:27:06.840
look at this forty thousand dollars in cash.

1508
01:27:06.840 --> 01:27:08.560
Oh, Roger, Now.

1509
01:27:08.520 --> 01:27:11.119
Wasn't this wed staying in hiding for Vivion? And there's

1510
01:27:11.159 --> 01:27:14.840
plenty more where this game from? Who could that be?

1511
01:27:15.600 --> 01:27:19.880
You better get behind that screen, all right, Roger, Yes,

1512
01:27:20.039 --> 01:27:23.479
CLD for Miss Brown and a monster sixty four dollars. Oh,

1513
01:27:23.960 --> 01:27:26.600
you must be mistaken. There's no miss Brown here. This

1514
01:27:26.720 --> 01:27:29.039
is the address she gave. It's in care of mister

1515
01:27:29.199 --> 01:27:32.520
Roger Martinsen. That your name? Why, yes, but I.

1516
01:27:32.439 --> 01:27:36.039
Don't know those packages are for me, Roger? How much

1517
01:27:36.079 --> 01:27:37.159
did you say? The cod was?

1518
01:27:37.279 --> 01:27:38.079
Sixty four dollars?

1519
01:27:38.159 --> 01:27:39.119
Miss?

1520
01:27:40.319 --> 01:27:44.800
Here you are, thank you, Miss. Here's your receipt. Goodbye, goodbye.

1521
01:27:45.960 --> 01:27:49.560
When did you buy those clothes this morning? You mean

1522
01:27:49.640 --> 01:27:51.640
you went out shopping in spite of what I told you.

1523
01:27:51.760 --> 01:27:53.399
Well, I was sick of being cooped up in this

1524
01:27:53.439 --> 01:27:54.399
apartment day and night.

1525
01:27:54.680 --> 01:27:56.159
I had to do something for a chance.

1526
01:27:55.960 --> 01:27:58.760
And one of my plans. You risk everything with so

1527
01:27:58.840 --> 01:27:59.479
much at stake.

1528
01:28:00.720 --> 01:28:01.800
Stop looking at me like that.

1529
01:28:02.520 --> 01:28:04.359
I tell you I couldn't stand being cooped up in

1530
01:28:04.359 --> 01:28:05.319
this apartment any longer.

1531
01:28:05.359 --> 01:28:07.279
I give you orders to stay here, well I won't.

1532
01:28:07.920 --> 01:28:09.239
I want you to get the rest of the money

1533
01:28:09.239 --> 01:28:11.399
at once so we can clear out, and if you don't,

1534
01:28:11.399 --> 01:28:12.960
I'll go shopping whenever I feel like it.

1535
01:28:13.199 --> 01:28:13.960
You can't make me.

1536
01:28:13.880 --> 01:28:18.960
Stay, you'll do exactly as I say. I won't allow

1537
01:28:19.079 --> 01:28:23.119
anything or anyone to interfere with my plants. I've worked

1538
01:28:23.279 --> 01:28:25.960
out every step perfectly, and there isn't going to be

1539
01:28:26.039 --> 01:28:37.600
any slip up. Another week passed, the week in which

1540
01:28:37.800 --> 01:28:41.680
Roger made no effort to see Philip. Then early one evening,

1541
01:28:41.720 --> 01:28:43.920
He got into his car and drove out of the

1542
01:28:43.960 --> 01:28:49.239
city to Philip's home in the country. Oh you're Roger,

1543
01:28:49.840 --> 01:28:53.439
come in, good evening, Philip. Oh well, where the servants?

1544
01:28:53.560 --> 01:28:58.199
This is their night off? Oh you're You're not looking

1545
01:28:58.319 --> 01:29:01.159
well at all, Philip. You shouldn't remain in this house

1546
01:29:01.199 --> 01:29:03.479
by yourself. What difference does it make where I am,

1547
01:29:03.800 --> 01:29:07.279
wherever I go? The memory of that night follows. Hard

1548
01:29:07.279 --> 01:29:09.479
to believe that it was only two weeks ago tonight,

1549
01:29:09.520 --> 01:29:13.359
that I killed her two weeks ago tonight, so it

1550
01:29:13.560 --> 01:29:17.279
was Oh well. Oh, by the way, Philip, do you

1551
01:29:17.319 --> 01:29:22.479
think you might possibly lend me sixty thousand dollars? Sixty thousand?

1552
01:29:23.239 --> 01:29:25.840
You can't be serious, but I am. But I lend

1553
01:29:25.880 --> 01:29:28.479
you that much already. Yes, I know, but I must

1554
01:29:28.479 --> 01:29:33.239
have more. No, I won't give you another cent. You

1555
01:29:33.319 --> 01:29:36.640
blackmailed me enough. Blackmail is a harsh word. What else

1556
01:29:36.640 --> 01:29:39.640
can you call it? You're just as hard and grasping

1557
01:29:39.640 --> 01:29:41.760
as Vivian was. Yes, but you must remember I am

1558
01:29:41.800 --> 01:29:44.439
alive and she isn't. And I suppose you're glad she's

1559
01:29:44.520 --> 01:29:47.399
dead in life. She was worth nothing to you. In death,

1560
01:29:47.439 --> 01:29:50.920
you're able to get sixty thousand dollars for her in death?

1561
01:29:52.399 --> 01:29:54.920
How do I know she is dead? I don't be foolish, Philip.

1562
01:29:55.119 --> 01:29:58.319
You saw her lying on the floor in this very room, yes,

1563
01:29:59.000 --> 01:30:01.920
But how do I know she dead? Was you who

1564
01:30:01.960 --> 01:30:04.760
examined her and told me so? And you buried the

1565
01:30:04.800 --> 01:30:07.720
body by yourself. I just wanted to spare you, Philip.

1566
01:30:08.119 --> 01:30:11.279
Just exactly where did you bury Vivian? As a matter

1567
01:30:11.359 --> 01:30:13.680
of fact, how do I know the whole affair isn't

1568
01:30:13.680 --> 01:30:16.720
stage for my special benefit so that you can extart

1569
01:30:16.760 --> 01:30:19.119
money from me. Now, surely you don't believe that, Pilip.

1570
01:30:19.520 --> 01:30:22.600
Why you shot her with your own gun? Yes, and

1571
01:30:22.640 --> 01:30:25.039
you took the gun away from me immediately after the shooting.

1572
01:30:25.279 --> 01:30:27.800
Suddenly that whole affair is becoming very clear. I kid you,

1573
01:30:27.880 --> 01:30:30.119
she's dead, Philip, and buried out in the woods. Then

1574
01:30:30.199 --> 01:30:31.840
I want to see the grave and the body you

1575
01:30:31.880 --> 01:30:34.159
say is in it. But this is ridiculous. I won't

1576
01:30:34.199 --> 01:30:36.039
go searching for a grave in the middle of the night.

1577
01:30:36.159 --> 01:30:38.199
You shouldn't have to search for it, Roger, not if

1578
01:30:38.239 --> 01:30:40.439
you really dug one. Come along. We can pick up

1579
01:30:40.439 --> 01:30:41.640
a shovel at the tool. So I won't do it.

1580
01:30:41.680 --> 01:30:45.199
I won't do it. I said, come along, Roger. Oh,

1581
01:30:45.319 --> 01:30:47.760
very well, but I'm not certain i'll be able to

1582
01:30:47.800 --> 01:30:50.520
find the grave. After all, the woods is fairly large,

1583
01:30:50.520 --> 01:30:53.520
and it's been two weeks since I buried. That's all right, Roger,

1584
01:30:53.840 --> 01:30:56.359
we'll stay out there until you do find her. A

1585
01:31:02.359 --> 01:31:05.239
few minutes later, Philip and Roger picked up the shovel

1586
01:31:05.279 --> 01:31:08.039
at the tool shed and then continued on their way

1587
01:31:08.079 --> 01:31:10.399
to the woods that began at the rear of the house.

1588
01:31:12.920 --> 01:31:15.600
Neither of the men spoke as they entered the woods,

1589
01:31:16.520 --> 01:31:21.279
Roger leading the way with a flag flight. Several times

1590
01:31:21.279 --> 01:31:26.000
he stopped trying to get his bearings, then plunged on again,

1591
01:31:26.199 --> 01:31:31.880
hoping to find a familiar landmark, which became apparent that

1592
01:31:32.119 --> 01:31:40.159
Roger was growing less and less sure of himself. Oh,

1593
01:31:40.279 --> 01:31:43.800
the gravest someplace around here, I'm certain of it. Perhaps

1594
01:31:43.800 --> 01:31:45.760
we ought to come back in the daytime. It might

1595
01:31:45.760 --> 01:31:48.319
be easier to find it then. I know, Roger, you

1596
01:31:48.319 --> 01:31:51.520
shouldn't have any trouble finding it now. If it exists,

1597
01:31:51.560 --> 01:31:54.039
it does exist, I tell you, it's just that the

1598
01:31:54.199 --> 01:31:57.560
woods are so confusing. At night. Everything looks so so different.

1599
01:31:57.760 --> 01:32:00.520
Just keep on searching, Roger, and perhaps this is the spot.

1600
01:32:00.960 --> 01:32:03.039
It looks something like this. Well, is it or isn't it?

1601
01:32:03.319 --> 01:32:05.439
I don't know. It looks like the place where I

1602
01:32:05.520 --> 01:32:08.319
buried her, and yet that I'm not certain. Only one

1603
01:32:08.359 --> 01:32:10.439
way to make certain, and that's just start digging. Yeah,

1604
01:32:10.560 --> 01:32:12.680
here's the shovel. But suppose this isn't for the spot,

1605
01:32:12.880 --> 01:32:15.720
then we'll dig somewhere else. In fact, we'll dig up

1606
01:32:15.760 --> 01:32:19.359
the entire woods if necessary. After all, you're certain she

1607
01:32:19.600 --> 01:32:22.279
is buried in the woods, an't you go ahead, Roger?

1608
01:32:22.640 --> 01:32:39.880
Start digging? Oh very well, Well, Roger, you've been digging

1609
01:32:39.920 --> 01:32:42.640
for twenty minutes now and you haven't uncovered her body.

1610
01:32:42.800 --> 01:32:45.000
Tell her, I told you I wasn't sure this was

1611
01:32:45.039 --> 01:32:47.920
the spot where I buried her. You're a great actor, Roger,

1612
01:32:48.119 --> 01:32:51.600
but I'm afraid this time you've overplayed your role. What

1613
01:32:51.600 --> 01:32:54.079
do you mean? Libian isn't dead, and there's no use

1614
01:32:54.119 --> 01:32:56.960
your pretending she is. Everything that's happened was part of

1615
01:32:57.000 --> 01:32:58.960
a scheme. The two of you plan to extort money

1616
01:32:58.960 --> 01:33:01.279
from me. I tell you she and where's a body?

1617
01:33:01.359 --> 01:33:03.960
I thought this was the spot that I must be mistaken.

1618
01:33:04.720 --> 01:33:09.920
I'm sure I didn't sell her any deeper than this, Philip,

1619
01:33:11.000 --> 01:33:16.000
turn the flashlight this way. What is it? Look you

1620
01:33:16.159 --> 01:33:21.159
see what I've uncovered? A hen, Yes, this is the

1621
01:33:21.159 --> 01:33:24.560
spot where I buried her, Philip. Just a few more

1622
01:33:24.640 --> 01:33:29.520
shovelful scene, I'll have her uncovered. Oh it can't be

1623
01:33:31.239 --> 01:33:35.880
stead here you are, Philip. Of course, she's been in

1624
01:33:35.880 --> 01:33:38.199
the ground for two weeks. But I think you can

1625
01:33:38.239 --> 01:33:43.680
easily recognize that it's Vivian. Yes, it's Vivian. Look, Philip,

1626
01:33:44.000 --> 01:33:46.840
here's the bullet hole under her heart, the bullet hole

1627
01:33:46.880 --> 01:33:50.239
that you made. I don't want to see anymore. I

1628
01:33:50.239 --> 01:33:52.720
have had enough. You should trust me a little more, Philip.

1629
01:33:53.039 --> 01:33:56.600
Everything I did was for your own good after all.

1630
01:33:56.640 --> 01:33:59.319
You you don't want to go to the electric chair,

1631
01:33:59.560 --> 01:34:02.960
do you. I don't care what happens anymore. I can't

1632
01:34:03.000 --> 01:34:05.720
stand having heard death on my conscience any longer. I'm

1633
01:34:05.720 --> 01:34:07.359
going to call a police. Don't be a pool flip.

1634
01:34:07.520 --> 01:34:09.640
You know what might well mean the electric chair. I'll

1635
01:34:09.640 --> 01:34:12.000
take my chances. Anything's better than going on living the

1636
01:34:12.039 --> 01:34:14.319
way I have these past two weeks. I'm going back

1637
01:34:14.319 --> 01:34:29.039
to the house and call it. Please come back, operator, operator. Wait,

1638
01:34:29.039 --> 01:34:31.800
don't do anything foolish now, you cut me off. Take

1639
01:34:31.840 --> 01:34:34.000
your hands off that phone. I want you to do Philipps,

1640
01:34:34.039 --> 01:34:36.079
to listen to me for a few minutes. At the

1641
01:34:36.159 --> 01:34:37.560
end of that time, you may you may do as

1642
01:34:37.560 --> 01:34:41.520
you please. Now that's fair enough, isn't it. Nothing you

1643
01:34:41.560 --> 01:34:43.640
can say will make me change my mind about calling

1644
01:34:43.680 --> 01:34:46.079
the police. Listen to me first, then if you still

1645
01:34:46.079 --> 01:34:49.119
want to call the police, you can now please put

1646
01:34:49.119 --> 01:34:49.800
the receiver down.

1647
01:34:51.800 --> 01:34:52.239
That's it.

1648
01:34:53.000 --> 01:34:57.079
Well, what do you want to tell me? Well? Do

1649
01:34:57.119 --> 01:34:59.720
you mind if I mix myself at drink? First? It's

1650
01:35:00.079 --> 01:35:01.640
it's been a rather difficult evening.

1651
01:35:02.439 --> 01:35:02.880
Very well.

1652
01:35:03.000 --> 01:35:05.079
Oh what about one for you? Philip? You look as

1653
01:35:05.119 --> 01:35:07.439
though you could stand a drink? No, thank you all

1654
01:35:07.479 --> 01:35:11.279
and answer do you go? What is it you want

1655
01:35:11.319 --> 01:35:13.760
to say to me? Roger huh oh, yes, say you?

1656
01:35:14.560 --> 01:35:18.199
Oh yes, yes of course. Ah, here's your drink, Philip,

1657
01:35:18.520 --> 01:35:23.479
thank you. Well, now what shall we drink to? We'll

1658
01:35:23.560 --> 01:35:33.079
drink to your good luck? Come what may there? I

1659
01:35:33.239 --> 01:35:37.199
feel a good deal better all right now that we've

1660
01:35:37.199 --> 01:35:39.920
had our drinks. Want to be about to say, oh, yes, yes,

1661
01:35:39.960 --> 01:35:44.119
I er. What I wanted to say was I I

1662
01:35:44.199 --> 01:35:47.800
never let anything interfere with my plans? Philip? What do

1663
01:35:47.840 --> 01:35:50.319
you mean by that? Simply that I can't allow you

1664
01:35:50.399 --> 01:35:52.800
to go to the police, and therefore you shan't. It

1665
01:35:52.840 --> 01:35:55.920
would spoil my plan. Oh it would, would it. Well,

1666
01:35:55.920 --> 01:35:58.159
i'd like to see you stop me. I have him

1667
01:35:59.000 --> 01:36:01.640
in a very little while. In fact, in just a

1668
01:36:01.760 --> 01:36:08.439
few seconds, you'll be dead dead. What are you saying? Yes, Philip,

1669
01:36:09.199 --> 01:36:13.520
the drink I mixed for you was poisoned. Aren't you

1670
01:36:13.560 --> 01:36:19.199
finding that it's becoming difficult to breathe? Well, you couldn't

1671
01:36:19.199 --> 01:36:25.479
have had Yes, I know, Philip. It'll all be over

1672
01:36:25.560 --> 01:36:33.720
in a matter of seconds now, I see it all you, Yes, Philip,

1673
01:36:34.199 --> 01:36:40.760
just a week ago tonight she died according to plant Cool.

1674
01:36:42.279 --> 01:36:45.199
I'm afraid Philip that you haven't the strength left to

1675
01:36:45.560 --> 01:36:46.640
reach the telephone.

1676
01:36:53.560 --> 01:36:53.760
Mum.

1677
01:36:55.600 --> 01:36:59.439
I'm afraid you and Vivian never had a chance, Philip.

1678
01:36:59.920 --> 01:37:06.399
I had things worked out perfectly, down to the smallest detail. Hello,

1679
01:37:06.479 --> 01:37:17.800
operator operator, please connect me with the police. It was

1680
01:37:17.840 --> 01:37:20.600
at this point that I was called into the case.

1681
01:37:21.520 --> 01:37:25.000
Inspector Carlton called me an hour after Roger Martinson had

1682
01:37:25.000 --> 01:37:28.319
phoned the police. When I arrived at the Drake mansion,

1683
01:37:29.119 --> 01:37:31.680
I examined the body of Vivian Drake and that of

1684
01:37:31.680 --> 01:37:36.279
her husband, Philip. When I had finished my examination, I

1685
01:37:36.439 --> 01:37:40.840
entered the library where Inspector Carlton was questioning Roger Martinston.

1686
01:37:41.960 --> 01:37:46.039
Hello, Doc, oh, doc, this is Roger Martinson. Mister Martinson,

1687
01:37:46.159 --> 01:37:48.359
this is doctor Smith a county corner.

1688
01:37:48.600 --> 01:37:51.119
How do you do Hello. I'll be within a few minutes, Doc.

1689
01:37:51.279 --> 01:37:54.000
Just to go around now, mister Martinson, you were telling

1690
01:37:54.039 --> 01:37:55.840
me how you came to this house two weeks ago

1691
01:37:55.880 --> 01:37:58.359
tonight to see your sister and found that she was gone.

1692
01:37:58.720 --> 01:38:01.760
Yes, yes, my in law Philip told me that she'd

1693
01:38:01.800 --> 01:38:04.520
gone on a vacation. I thought it strange at the

1694
01:38:04.520 --> 01:38:06.439
time that she should have gone away without saying goodbye

1695
01:38:06.520 --> 01:38:10.000
to me, as we were always very close. The days

1696
01:38:10.119 --> 01:38:12.560
passed and I didn't hear from her. Only was it

1697
01:38:12.720 --> 01:38:15.239
like your sister to go away and not right? No, no,

1698
01:38:15.319 --> 01:38:18.640
it wasn't, and that's what worried me. So he's passed

1699
01:38:18.640 --> 01:38:20.920
two weeks. Philip kept putting me off when I inquired

1700
01:38:20.920 --> 01:38:24.680
about Vivian's whereabouts. Well, tonight, I tonight. I couldn't stand

1701
01:38:24.680 --> 01:38:26.840
it any longer. I came to this house to have

1702
01:38:26.920 --> 01:38:28.760
it out with him. What did your brother in law

1703
01:38:28.840 --> 01:38:31.520
say when he saw you? He was quite agitated, and

1704
01:38:31.560 --> 01:38:34.600
my unexpected rival. When I couldn't get any satisfaction out

1705
01:38:34.640 --> 01:38:37.279
of him regarding Vivian, I threatened to go to the police.

1706
01:38:38.199 --> 01:38:41.800
Then he broke down and confessed that he murdered Vivian.

1707
01:38:42.199 --> 01:38:44.920
When did he murder He told me that he'd done

1708
01:38:44.960 --> 01:38:47.319
it two weeks ago. Tonight. Why, that was the very

1709
01:38:47.399 --> 01:38:49.439
night i'd come here to see Vivian and he told

1710
01:38:49.439 --> 01:38:53.319
me that she had left for a vacation. Hmm, I see, naturally,

1711
01:38:53.319 --> 01:38:56.560
when he told me he'd murdered her, I was aghast.

1712
01:38:57.159 --> 01:38:59.039
He led me to the woods and showed me the grave,

1713
01:39:00.039 --> 01:39:02.039
learned to the house, and before I knew what had happened,

1714
01:39:02.920 --> 01:39:07.399
Philip had taken poison. Then I called the police.

1715
01:39:07.720 --> 01:39:10.359
Well, it seems like a plain case of murder and suicide.

1716
01:39:10.520 --> 01:39:12.920
Answered of a few questions at the inquest. I don't

1717
01:39:12.920 --> 01:39:13.880
think we'll trouble.

1718
01:39:13.600 --> 01:39:15.960
You anymore, mister Martin. That's quite a right, Inspector. I

1719
01:39:15.960 --> 01:39:19.000
shall be at your service anytime. Just a moment, mister Martinson.

1720
01:39:20.319 --> 01:39:22.439
I was very much interested in hearing what you had

1721
01:39:22.439 --> 01:39:24.800
to say to the inspector regarding the murder of your sister.

1722
01:39:26.560 --> 01:39:29.199
You say that your brother in law confess to murdering her,

1723
01:39:29.560 --> 01:39:30.840
two weeks ago tonight.

1724
01:39:31.199 --> 01:39:31.640
That's right.

1725
01:39:32.039 --> 01:39:37.760
That would be April second, wouldn't it. Yes, that's correct.

1726
01:39:38.199 --> 01:39:40.920
Then you never saw her alive after the night of

1727
01:39:40.960 --> 01:39:43.960
April second. Why well, why no, of course not. What

1728
01:39:44.000 --> 01:39:47.439
are you getting at that, please? Inspector mister Martinson, would

1729
01:39:47.439 --> 01:39:51.119
you mind telling me where you live at four hundred

1730
01:39:51.119 --> 01:39:54.079
and twenty five West one hundred and seventh Street. Tell

1731
01:39:54.119 --> 01:39:56.880
me were some clothes delivered to that address in your

1732
01:39:56.960 --> 01:40:03.079
care a week ago today, April ninth? Clothes? Yes, to

1733
01:40:03.119 --> 01:40:05.600
be exact, a woman's sports suit which costs sixty four

1734
01:40:05.640 --> 01:40:10.399
dollars and arrived cod While why not? You're lying, mister Martinson.

1735
01:40:11.399 --> 01:40:13.479
I have in my hand a slip of paper that

1736
01:40:13.560 --> 01:40:15.560
not only proves that you're lying, but that will send

1737
01:40:15.640 --> 01:40:17.960
you to the electric chair. Doc. What are you saying? Yes,

1738
01:40:18.079 --> 01:40:23.399
Inspector mister Martinson's plan was perfect, but he he slipped

1739
01:40:23.479 --> 01:40:27.439
up badly. I forgot the search Vivian Brake's clothing before

1740
01:40:27.479 --> 01:40:30.720
he buried her, and I examined her body just now

1741
01:40:31.039 --> 01:40:34.000
I found in one of her pockets this receiated bill

1742
01:40:34.439 --> 01:40:38.479
bearing the date April ninth, that proves beyond the doubt

1743
01:40:38.520 --> 01:40:41.399
that she wasn't murdered by her husband on April second,

1744
01:40:41.880 --> 01:40:46.520
as mister Martins in Yere claims. No, no, yes, mister Martinson,

1745
01:40:47.039 --> 01:40:50.039
the corpse has accused you from the grave of murder

1746
01:40:50.560 --> 01:40:53.840
and has given us proof of your gift. No, no,

1747
01:40:54.000 --> 01:40:57.560
it can be. I had everything planned perfectly, perfectly. Do

1748
01:40:57.640 --> 01:41:09.279
you hear down to the last detail? This is the

1749
01:41:09.359 --> 01:41:18.880
Mysterious Traveler again. Have you enjoyed our little trip to

1750
01:41:18.920 --> 01:41:24.079
the grave? Poor Roger, What a pity after all that

1751
01:41:24.239 --> 01:41:26.920
planning and hard work to be tripped up by a

1752
01:41:26.960 --> 01:41:31.199
sales slip found on a corpse just goes to prove

1753
01:41:31.279 --> 01:41:34.039
that you have to be more careful when you're burying

1754
01:41:34.119 --> 01:41:38.960
people you've murdered. Now, I recall another case where a

1755
01:41:39.000 --> 01:41:43.159
woman drugged her husband, And oh, you're getting off at

1756
01:41:43.159 --> 01:41:47.560
the next stime. I'm sorry. I hope you will join

1757
01:41:47.600 --> 01:41:51.840
me again soon, but if you do, please remember this.

1758
01:41:53.119 --> 01:41:55.520
Next Sunday, I shall take a train that leaves at

1759
01:41:55.520 --> 01:42:02.680
three thirty pm Eastern wartime. Don't forget Sunday afternoon at

1760
01:42:02.720 --> 01:42:08.319
half past three.

1761
01:42:12.760 --> 01:42:16.199
You've just heard Chapter twenty of The Mysterious Traveler, a

1762
01:42:16.279 --> 01:42:19.520
series of dramas of the strange and unusual brought to

1763
01:42:19.560 --> 01:42:23.520
you each week by station w R. In tonight's program,

1764
01:42:23.720 --> 01:42:28.399
The Accusing Corpse, Don Randolph played Roger. Also featured were

1765
01:42:28.439 --> 01:42:32.680
Maurice Tarplin and Philip Clark. The Mysterious Traveler, written by

1766
01:42:32.720 --> 01:42:35.960
Barb Arthur and David Cogan, is directed by Jack McGregor.

1767
01:42:36.399 --> 01:42:38.680
Original music was played by Doc Whibble.

1768
01:42:47.680 --> 01:42:52.159
You know, when I was but a young lad, I

1769
01:42:52.239 --> 01:42:57.600
always enjoyed running up and down the hills. In fact,

1770
01:42:58.199 --> 01:43:03.079
often I would fall down those hills. There was a

1771
01:43:03.119 --> 01:43:06.840
feeling that would rise up in your chest as you

1772
01:43:07.840 --> 01:43:16.279
lost control as you fell, not knowing where exactly you'd land,

1773
01:43:16.439 --> 01:43:21.279
or when it was a feeling beyond butterflies. Oh no,

1774
01:43:22.479 --> 01:43:29.640
it was something more exciting, more threatening. When I told

1775
01:43:29.720 --> 01:43:33.600
my father of such a feeling, I'll never forget him

1776
01:43:33.680 --> 01:43:39.279
saying those aren't butterflies. There the Hangman is.

1777
01:43:39.319 --> 01:43:53.640
Rope, and now the alco all of.

1778
01:43:55.439 --> 01:43:59.479
Welcome to the period of radio drama dedicated to a supera,

1779
01:44:00.239 --> 01:44:02.239
the unusual and the unknown.

1780
01:44:03.279 --> 01:44:04.680
Comple with me my plans.

1781
01:44:05.520 --> 01:44:07.840
We shall consent to the world of the unknown and

1782
01:44:07.960 --> 01:44:12.039
forbidden dog with a veil of time to slit them

1783
01:44:12.439 --> 01:44:13.560
and the supernatural.

1784
01:44:13.680 --> 01:44:14.479
Rage is key.

1785
01:44:15.399 --> 01:44:16.720
Come with me and listen to.

1786
01:44:16.680 --> 01:44:19.520
The tailor the Hangman's Rope.

1787
01:44:30.079 --> 01:44:31.319
Kim, it came from our right.

1788
01:44:31.520 --> 01:44:32.359
We better take a look.

1789
01:44:32.399 --> 01:44:43.119
Yeah, I hope nothing hanging from that tree swinging back

1790
01:44:43.159 --> 01:44:43.680
and forth.

1791
01:44:44.560 --> 01:44:45.159
It's a man.

1792
01:44:50.239 --> 01:44:53.479
The Harllow Fantasy will present The Hangman's Rope in just

1793
01:44:53.560 --> 01:44:59.960
a moment, and now for our story, an original tailor

1794
01:45:00.039 --> 01:45:08.000
fantasy entitled The Hangman's Rope.

1795
01:45:09.880 --> 01:45:12.399
There is a legend now a.

1796
01:45:12.520 --> 01:45:14.439
Tile about the England.

1797
01:45:15.640 --> 01:45:20.319
For twenty three years, the executioner for the crowd Jack

1798
01:45:20.439 --> 01:45:24.119
Ketch was his nine governor Jack Kitch.

1799
01:45:31.960 --> 01:45:34.960
I remember we were on our way back from the lake,

1800
01:45:35.600 --> 01:45:39.800
Jim and Carol and I. For some reason, we started

1801
01:45:39.840 --> 01:45:43.039
back to the city later than usual. We hadn't been

1802
01:45:43.119 --> 01:45:45.960
driving for more than half an hour when one of

1803
01:45:45.960 --> 01:45:47.800
those sudden spring storms.

1804
01:45:49.199 --> 01:45:50.920
And now where did that come from?

1805
01:45:51.119 --> 01:45:52.840
Someone said there might be a storm to night, and

1806
01:45:52.920 --> 01:45:55.359
I thought we'd be home before it broke. We'd better

1807
01:45:55.479 --> 01:45:56.399
put the wipers on.

1808
01:45:56.720 --> 01:45:58.319
We started back till late tonight.

1809
01:45:58.520 --> 01:46:01.720
Where was that held us up? Jim, I don't know

1810
01:46:02.159 --> 01:46:04.880
a lot of things. When I finally looked at my watch,

1811
01:46:04.880 --> 01:46:05.920
I couldn't believe my eyes.

1812
01:46:06.079 --> 01:46:08.680
Find out here's a man. I can come to the car.

1813
01:46:10.560 --> 01:46:13.199
You stay here, Carol, Come on, Arnie, we'd better take

1814
01:46:13.199 --> 01:46:13.479
a look.

1815
01:46:13.520 --> 01:46:13.680
Yeah.

1816
01:46:13.760 --> 01:46:19.399
Right, we didn't hit him, did we. I don't think so.

1817
01:46:20.199 --> 01:46:21.840
How I would sell and be out in the middle

1818
01:46:21.880 --> 01:46:24.000
of the road on a night like There's a lot

1819
01:46:24.000 --> 01:46:26.399
of crazy people in this world, Arnie. He must have

1820
01:46:26.439 --> 01:46:30.600
been one of them. And I'm getting soaked now. He

1821
01:46:30.760 --> 01:46:31.920
was just about here.

1822
01:46:33.159 --> 01:46:33.359
Huh.

1823
01:46:34.000 --> 01:46:40.680
I can't understand, Jim fucker Claire. There far beside the tree,

1824
01:46:41.920 --> 01:46:47.800
I don't see anything because I was wrong. You know.

1825
01:46:47.840 --> 01:46:51.159
For a minute, I thought I thought I saw someone

1826
01:46:52.039 --> 01:46:53.399
hanging from their tree.

1827
01:46:54.720 --> 01:46:57.399
Oh, you must have been mistaken, you know.

1828
01:46:57.479 --> 01:46:59.760
I can't figure this out, Arnie. That guy was out

1829
01:46:59.760 --> 01:47:01.920
here on the road, right in front of us. I

1830
01:47:01.960 --> 01:47:04.640
saw him just as plain as day.

1831
01:47:05.840 --> 01:47:06.840
No, there's no one around.

1832
01:47:07.159 --> 01:47:08.840
Yeah.

1833
01:47:09.359 --> 01:47:11.680
Uh, we'd better get back to the car. Yeah, that's

1834
01:47:11.680 --> 01:47:15.600
for sure. There's no sense looking back at that tree, Ynnie.

1835
01:47:15.880 --> 01:47:16.840
There's nothing back there.

1836
01:47:17.079 --> 01:47:21.079
I don't know. I thought I saw someone swinging their

1837
01:47:21.600 --> 01:47:25.119
back and forth with it a rope around his back car.

1838
01:47:25.319 --> 01:47:26.199
Now you couldn't have.

1839
01:47:26.359 --> 01:47:28.600
Maybe it was some kind of optical illusions. It could

1840
01:47:28.600 --> 01:47:30.840
have been a shadow or a branch or anything. Yeah,

1841
01:47:30.880 --> 01:47:34.239
that's right. Anything, Well, there's a car.

1842
01:47:35.000 --> 01:47:36.520
You two must like it out there in the rain.

1843
01:47:36.600 --> 01:47:37.239
Are you kidding?

1844
01:47:38.199 --> 01:47:38.720
No, I'm not.

1845
01:47:39.199 --> 01:47:40.920
All the time that you were out there in the rain,

1846
01:47:41.199 --> 01:47:43.399
the man you almost hit was talking to me.

1847
01:47:45.399 --> 01:47:46.159
What did you say?

1848
01:47:46.560 --> 01:47:47.159
You heard me?

1849
01:47:47.640 --> 01:47:50.319
Oh no, just wait a minute. I looked back at

1850
01:47:50.319 --> 01:47:52.079
the car a couple of times. I didn't see anyone

1851
01:47:52.119 --> 01:47:52.760
talking to you.

1852
01:47:52.840 --> 01:47:54.479
Oh I don't know what's wrong with your eyes.

1853
01:47:54.560 --> 01:47:56.840
Then I asked him if we couldn't give him a lift,

1854
01:47:57.239 --> 01:47:59.560
and he said no, we only had a.

1855
01:47:59.520 --> 01:48:00.439
Little disc to go.

1856
01:48:00.720 --> 01:48:04.880
Carol, Honey, this is the truth. We didn't see anyone

1857
01:48:04.960 --> 01:48:05.720
near this car.

1858
01:48:05.960 --> 01:48:06.199
No.

1859
01:48:06.800 --> 01:48:08.039
Look, I can prove it.

1860
01:48:08.640 --> 01:48:09.840
He insisted that I take this.

1861
01:48:10.800 --> 01:48:13.760
Oh well, that's strange.

1862
01:48:13.239 --> 01:48:19.079
Thought he was such an unusual man, not American. He

1863
01:48:20.520 --> 01:48:23.720
insisted that I accept a ring from him, practically forced

1864
01:48:23.720 --> 01:48:26.039
it on me. I put it in my pocket and

1865
01:48:27.239 --> 01:48:30.239
now it's gone, and in.

1866
01:48:30.239 --> 01:48:33.600
Its place there's a funny little piece.

1867
01:48:33.359 --> 01:48:35.880
Of rope shook.

1868
01:48:35.720 --> 01:48:35.920
Like a.

1869
01:48:37.600 --> 01:48:38.800
Like a han's noose.

1870
01:48:45.239 --> 01:48:48.680
I knew Carol wasn't lying to us. I asked her

1871
01:48:48.680 --> 01:48:50.920
if she would let me have a little piece of rope.

1872
01:48:51.560 --> 01:48:53.680
After I dropped them off at their place, I went home,

1873
01:48:53.960 --> 01:48:57.000
took it out and set it on the table. I

1874
01:48:57.079 --> 01:49:00.439
can't explain it, but there was something about that rope

1875
01:49:00.439 --> 01:49:04.039
which seemed old. It was made of him, the kind

1876
01:49:04.039 --> 01:49:07.199
of rope you would imagine Jack Ketch might have used

1877
01:49:07.199 --> 01:49:11.119
two hundred and fifty years ago when he was the Hangman.

1878
01:49:12.680 --> 01:49:18.119
That night, as I slept, my sleep was troubled. In

1879
01:49:18.119 --> 01:49:21.640
my dreams, there was a huge black gallows. I saw

1880
01:49:21.680 --> 01:49:31.560
a man climbing the stairs to his death. He reached

1881
01:49:31.600 --> 01:49:38.159
the top and stood there. Standing beside him was a black,

1882
01:49:38.199 --> 01:49:45.439
hooded man. He raised his hand and the trap door

1883
01:49:45.520 --> 01:49:50.960
sprung open. There was a scream, and then I saw

1884
01:49:51.000 --> 01:49:54.560
this man swinging back and forth. His face was hidden

1885
01:49:54.560 --> 01:49:58.680
from me, yet there was something strangely familiar about him,

1886
01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:02.840
as if I knew him quite well.

1887
01:50:07.800 --> 01:50:10.680
We'll return to the tale of the Hangman's Rope in

1888
01:50:10.920 --> 01:50:16.880
just a moment. Back now to our tale of fantasy

1889
01:50:17.159 --> 01:50:19.199
entitled the Hangman's Rope.

1890
01:50:23.640 --> 01:50:26.319
When I awoke from my dream, I couldn't get back

1891
01:50:26.319 --> 01:50:30.880
to sleep. From the black blankness of sleep, I had

1892
01:50:30.920 --> 01:50:38.800
come into contact with death. As the morning approached, I

1893
01:50:38.800 --> 01:50:49.319
fell into a nervous sleep. I was awakened. Hello, Arnie,

1894
01:50:49.760 --> 01:50:50.479
this is Carol.

1895
01:50:51.520 --> 01:50:53.520
Could you meet Jim and me for lunch today.

1896
01:50:55.039 --> 01:51:01.239
What time about one? I hope you'll forgive me, sounded away, Carol.

1897
01:51:01.840 --> 01:51:03.479
I just couldn't sleep last night.

1898
01:51:04.319 --> 01:51:10.000
I didn't sleep either, anyhow, I'll see you at one.

1899
01:51:12.239 --> 01:51:14.640
And I guess I wasn't the only one who missed

1900
01:51:14.640 --> 01:51:15.720
out on sleep last night.

1901
01:51:15.760 --> 01:51:16.359
Huh, that's right.

1902
01:51:16.800 --> 01:51:18.279
I don't know what it was, but I had the

1903
01:51:18.399 --> 01:51:21.199
craziest dream. When I woke up, I couldn't get back

1904
01:51:21.199 --> 01:51:21.600
to sleep.

1905
01:51:21.720 --> 01:51:23.039
But that's what happened to me too.

1906
01:51:23.279 --> 01:51:26.640
What kind of dreamer was it, Carol?

1907
01:51:27.279 --> 01:51:32.439
Well, everything was dark and gloomy. I seemed to be

1908
01:51:32.479 --> 01:51:38.600
watching an execution, an old time execution, maybe two or

1909
01:51:38.640 --> 01:51:43.039
three hundred years old. A man walked up the steps

1910
01:51:43.039 --> 01:51:45.720
of the gallows. Another man was there, with a black

1911
01:51:45.720 --> 01:51:46.640
hood over his head.

1912
01:51:47.399 --> 01:51:49.000
He raised his arm.

1913
01:51:49.399 --> 01:51:51.239
The trap door opened, and.

1914
01:51:52.399 --> 01:51:55.840
The man swung back and forth, and there was something

1915
01:51:55.920 --> 01:51:57.840
familiar about him. Isn't that right?

1916
01:51:58.159 --> 01:51:58.439
Yes?

1917
01:51:58.479 --> 01:51:59.600
But how did you know?

1918
01:52:00.560 --> 01:52:05.399
Because my dream was the same as yours, sis, exactly

1919
01:52:05.560 --> 01:52:14.640
the same. Jim's and my vacations were due the following week.

1920
01:52:15.399 --> 01:52:17.680
We decided to spend it up at the lake where

1921
01:52:17.720 --> 01:52:20.640
his family had a cottage. Carol said, she might be

1922
01:52:20.640 --> 01:52:22.560
able to join us on the last weekend, but not

1923
01:52:22.680 --> 01:52:29.199
before that. Jim and I left the following Friday night.

1924
01:52:30.880 --> 01:52:33.760
I can certainly use this vacation and maybe we can

1925
01:52:33.760 --> 01:52:39.159
catch a few northerns this time. Maybe, Ah, is your

1926
01:52:39.239 --> 01:52:41.640
family gonna come up here while we're there? No, no,

1927
01:52:41.840 --> 01:52:45.159
Carol will be up the last weekend. That's all well,

1928
01:52:45.199 --> 01:52:47.840
and I guess we'll have the place to ourselves. Huh, yeah,

1929
01:52:47.880 --> 01:52:48.119
I guess.

1930
01:52:48.199 --> 01:52:48.279
So.

1931
01:52:50.359 --> 01:52:55.279
Hey, why are you stopping here last Sunday night? This

1932
01:52:55.479 --> 01:52:59.520
is where we stopped. I'm gonna get out and take

1933
01:52:59.520 --> 01:53:01.239
a look at the side of the road for a minute.

1934
01:53:01.800 --> 01:53:04.239
Oh, Arnie, why don't you forget about it?

1935
01:53:04.279 --> 01:53:11.359
I just want to check it, that's all. That's the

1936
01:53:11.439 --> 01:53:19.920
tree'st I think so on that limb, that's where I

1937
01:53:19.960 --> 01:53:24.079
saw him hanging. Oh, just thinking about it makes me nervous.

1938
01:53:25.000 --> 01:53:28.520
Come on, let's go back to the car, all right.

1939
01:53:29.039 --> 01:53:30.800
Girl said that while we were out of the car,

1940
01:53:30.960 --> 01:53:33.920
she was talking to the fellow we saw. If that's

1941
01:53:33.960 --> 01:53:36.319
the case, I can't understand why we didn't see him too,

1942
01:53:37.479 --> 01:53:39.560
you know, Jim, there just wasn't enough time for him

1943
01:53:39.560 --> 01:53:41.960
to get away from the car without our seeing him.

1944
01:53:43.319 --> 01:53:48.079
Unless unless, what unless he was never there?

1945
01:53:48.720 --> 01:53:49.920
Ah, but that couldn't.

1946
01:53:51.359 --> 01:53:55.720
Arnie look in the car seat.

1947
01:53:57.000 --> 01:54:06.720
Another little piece of rope. Before I could stop him,

1948
01:54:06.800 --> 01:54:10.119
Jim threw the little noose out into the darkness, a

1949
01:54:10.119 --> 01:54:13.439
little piece of rope, and inanimate thing coiled and twisted,

1950
01:54:13.479 --> 01:54:20.079
which somehow seemed to be alive. We reached the cottage

1951
01:54:20.079 --> 01:54:22.439
perhaps half an hour later, and though we were both

1952
01:54:22.520 --> 01:54:25.760
disturbed by what would happen, still it didn't interfere with

1953
01:54:25.800 --> 01:54:29.000
our sleep. The next day we went out fishing early,

1954
01:54:29.359 --> 01:54:31.239
had little luck, and we're on our way back to

1955
01:54:31.279 --> 01:54:33.479
the cottage. From the woman who owned the property next

1956
01:54:33.479 --> 01:54:34.279
door stopped us.

1957
01:54:37.239 --> 01:54:39.039
Good morning, mister Stanley, Oh.

1958
01:54:39.000 --> 01:54:41.920
Good morning missus Bennett out for the weekend, well for

1959
01:54:41.960 --> 01:54:45.079
the next two weeks. Oh excuse me and miss Bennett.

1960
01:54:45.079 --> 01:54:47.920
This is Arnold Slave, pleased to meet you, mister Slade.

1961
01:54:48.000 --> 01:54:48.520
Well, thank you.

1962
01:54:48.880 --> 01:54:49.079
Here.

1963
01:54:49.399 --> 01:54:51.560
You must be that young man at Harrol's good day.

1964
01:54:52.600 --> 01:54:54.319
Yes, that's right, She'll.

1965
01:54:54.039 --> 01:54:56.039
Make your fine wife, mister Slide.

1966
01:54:58.239 --> 01:54:58.479
Yes.

1967
01:54:59.159 --> 01:55:01.560
The reason I stopped, do you, mister Stanley, is this

1968
01:55:02.359 --> 01:55:05.000
there's something strange going on out here.

1969
01:55:05.239 --> 01:55:05.880
Oh what do you mean?

1970
01:55:06.279 --> 01:55:08.319
Well, the constable.

1971
01:55:07.880 --> 01:55:10.239
Came by the other day and asked me if I'd

1972
01:55:10.279 --> 01:55:11.600
seen any strangers here.

1973
01:55:12.359 --> 01:55:14.800
A couple of people have died over.

1974
01:55:14.600 --> 01:55:17.159
On the other side of the lake, and the constable

1975
01:55:17.800 --> 01:55:19.840
ain't been able to find out what happened.

1976
01:55:19.920 --> 01:55:22.880
Paw, how did these people die?

1977
01:55:23.199 --> 01:55:27.279
Well, that's what's so strange about it. Both of them

1978
01:55:27.479 --> 01:55:32.279
were killed by hanging hang. That's right, old mister Taylor,

1979
01:55:32.279 --> 01:55:35.199
who lived about a mile down by the shore.

1980
01:55:35.520 --> 01:55:38.039
He was one of them, and he couldn't hardly walk.

1981
01:55:38.800 --> 01:55:42.279
They found him swinging from a tree, but he was

1982
01:55:42.359 --> 01:55:46.439
several feet off the ground, and nobody can figure.

1983
01:55:46.119 --> 01:55:47.279
Out how he got up there.

1984
01:55:51.920 --> 01:55:55.319
What the woman had said frightened me. It seemed as

1985
01:55:55.319 --> 01:55:57.600
if we were getting deeper and ever more deeply into

1986
01:55:57.640 --> 01:56:01.920
something from which who would never be able to get away.

1987
01:56:02.680 --> 01:56:05.520
That night, it was Saturday, Jim and I went out

1988
01:56:05.520 --> 01:56:09.960
for a walk. It was a particularly dark night. The

1989
01:56:10.000 --> 01:56:12.720
moon was obscured by clouds, and as we walked along,

1990
01:56:12.760 --> 01:56:16.199
I could hear the chirping of many crickets, and occasionally

1991
01:56:16.199 --> 01:56:21.119
a bullfrog's hoarse voice raised in protest. Nold, this thing

1992
01:56:21.159 --> 01:56:24.479
has me worried in what way? Jane? This whole thing

1993
01:56:25.119 --> 01:56:28.279
last Sunday night and today, when we stopped by the tree.

1994
01:56:29.000 --> 01:56:32.279
And then what missus Bennett told us. I've been thinking

1995
01:56:32.319 --> 01:56:39.520
about it too. That's strange. On the crickets have suddenly stopped.

1996
01:56:40.840 --> 01:56:47.520
It's too quiet, Jim, she came from over there.

1997
01:56:47.600 --> 01:56:48.640
We better take a look out.

1998
01:56:52.159 --> 01:56:53.119
That's too quiet.

1999
01:56:53.239 --> 01:56:56.159
Just as you said. There must be something terribly wrong

2000
01:56:56.239 --> 01:56:56.520
up here.

2001
01:56:56.600 --> 01:56:57.319
I hope nothing.

2002
01:56:57.960 --> 01:57:06.439
Huh. Look hanging on that tree, swinging back and forth.

2003
01:57:07.479 --> 01:57:09.319
It's it's a man.

2004
01:57:10.680 --> 01:57:12.000
What are we going to do?

2005
01:57:12.119 --> 01:57:13.079
We better cut him down?

2006
01:57:13.319 --> 01:57:17.159
No, we better call the authorities first. I guess you're right.

2007
01:57:17.760 --> 01:57:20.039
Come on, missus Bennett's got a phone. If we hurry,

2008
01:57:20.079 --> 01:57:21.399
we may be able to get out a great deal

2009
01:57:21.399 --> 01:57:25.760
of help to the authority. Jim, did you notice how

2010
01:57:25.880 --> 01:57:32.079
high that branch was? I saw it. Yes, Why mister Stanley,

2011
01:57:32.119 --> 01:57:34.239
it's your missus Bennett. They we use your phone?

2012
01:57:34.359 --> 01:57:35.680
Well I suppose so.

2013
01:57:36.279 --> 01:57:39.239
Come in, Mike, thank you, but it's in the other room.

2014
01:57:39.359 --> 01:57:47.319
Let what's the matter, mister Slade. It looks like something's

2015
01:57:47.319 --> 01:57:48.279
happened to upset you.

2016
01:57:48.319 --> 01:57:52.680
To what's happened?

2017
01:57:52.840 --> 01:57:56.239
We were out for a walk. Yes, we heard a scream.

2018
01:57:56.359 --> 01:57:58.680
I think you better get on your scream and come

2019
01:57:59.680 --> 01:58:03.279
from He found a man hanging from a tree. Right, Yes,

2020
01:58:03.359 --> 01:58:07.640
we'll stay here at Missus Bennett's. Yeah, thanks, are what

2021
01:58:07.720 --> 01:58:08.359
you're doing me.

2022
01:58:08.439 --> 01:58:09.439
The truth, young man.

2023
01:58:09.600 --> 01:58:13.079
That's the truth, ma'am.

2024
01:58:12.000 --> 01:58:15.720
Mister Stanley, is what mister Slade told me.

2025
01:58:16.439 --> 01:58:17.800
The truth. I'm afraid it is.

2026
01:58:18.560 --> 01:58:20.199
Ah, then no one.

2027
01:58:20.119 --> 01:58:24.119
Is safe around here. I wonder who it was.

2028
01:58:24.319 --> 01:58:27.199
What difference does that make, Missus Bennett. A man's been murdered.

2029
01:58:27.399 --> 01:58:29.600
It makes a lot of difference, mister Slade.

2030
01:58:30.520 --> 01:58:31.119
If it was.

2031
01:58:31.119 --> 01:58:34.600
Bill Roberts, then it was just like the other two.

2032
01:58:35.399 --> 01:58:38.560
I saw him just the other day and he said

2033
01:58:38.600 --> 01:58:41.479
someone was playing a joke on him, that he'd been

2034
01:58:41.520 --> 01:58:45.319
sent to a little piece of rope shaped in the

2035
01:58:45.359 --> 01:58:47.199
form of a noose.

2036
01:58:52.279 --> 01:58:54.800
You are listening to the Tale of the Hangman's Rope

2037
01:58:54.920 --> 01:58:57.119
on this week's Journey down the Corridors of the Hall

2038
01:58:57.199 --> 01:58:57.760
of Fantasy.

2039
01:58:58.159 --> 01:58:59.000
We'll return to.

2040
01:58:58.960 --> 01:59:04.720
Our story in Jeff the moment, and now back to

2041
01:59:04.800 --> 01:59:08.279
our story entitled the Hangman's Rope.

2042
01:59:13.760 --> 01:59:17.199
A little piece of rope. Both Jim and I stared

2043
01:59:17.239 --> 01:59:20.720
at each other for a moment. It might be coincidence,

2044
01:59:21.479 --> 01:59:23.720
we need that, but it was difficult trying to make

2045
01:59:23.760 --> 01:59:28.199
ourselves believe that. About half an hour later, the constable arrived.

2046
01:59:28.560 --> 01:59:31.680
You two found him, right, Miss Stanley, that's right. We

2047
01:59:31.680 --> 01:59:34.840
were off taking a walk, we heard a scream and

2048
01:59:34.840 --> 01:59:35.560
then we found him.

2049
01:59:35.600 --> 01:59:37.399
Can't make heads and tails out of this.

2050
01:59:37.640 --> 01:59:39.600
Three of them, three deaths in two weeks, all the

2051
01:59:39.640 --> 01:59:40.079
same way.

2052
01:59:41.319 --> 01:59:43.439
They all received a little piece of rope just before

2053
01:59:43.439 --> 01:59:46.640
they died, A little piece of rope.

2054
01:59:46.800 --> 01:59:49.319
Yes, right, I say all three. I ain't seen the

2055
01:59:49.359 --> 01:59:51.039
body yet, but I have a pretty good idea who

2056
01:59:51.039 --> 01:59:52.039
it is, Bill Roberts.

2057
01:59:52.479 --> 01:59:54.560
It's enough to make a person afraid of the dark.

2058
01:59:54.600 --> 01:59:56.039
Constable, Yeah, I ain't it.

2059
01:59:56.920 --> 01:59:59.159
Well, I want you to to take me to him.

2060
01:59:59.319 --> 01:59:59.920
I'll go too.

2061
02:00:00.000 --> 02:00:02.640
No, you stay here, you stay off the phone.

2062
02:00:03.560 --> 02:00:05.000
I don't want the rest of the people to hear

2063
02:00:05.039 --> 02:00:06.720
anything about this, at least with the time being.

2064
02:00:07.199 --> 02:00:08.439
Things are bad enough as it is.

2065
02:00:09.079 --> 02:00:13.880
All right, come on, let's go now.

2066
02:00:14.000 --> 02:00:15.520
Remember what I said, missus Bennett.

2067
02:00:15.640 --> 02:00:17.239
Don't you worry none, Constable.

2068
02:00:18.640 --> 02:00:21.840
I think that woman stays off the phone. The whole

2069
02:00:21.920 --> 02:00:23.479
county of you in an uproar. She doesn't.

2070
02:00:23.600 --> 02:00:27.199
Do you have any idea who's behind these deaths? Well,

2071
02:00:27.279 --> 02:00:31.119
I haven't a funny thing. He was up so high.

2072
02:00:31.159 --> 02:00:32.800
I don't see how he could have gotten up there

2073
02:00:32.800 --> 02:00:33.319
by himself.

2074
02:00:33.399 --> 02:00:35.079
No, he wish I had something to work on.

2075
02:00:36.159 --> 02:00:37.880
Well, we'll see if he's just like the others a

2076
02:00:37.920 --> 02:00:38.439
little while.

2077
02:00:39.439 --> 02:00:40.359
How far away was.

2078
02:00:43.239 --> 02:00:43.439
There?

2079
02:00:44.720 --> 02:00:45.560
He is, constable?

2080
02:00:46.239 --> 02:00:51.359
I want to get a look at his face. Yeah,

2081
02:00:51.680 --> 02:00:55.319
I don't afraid of that. Who is it, Phil Roberts?

2082
02:00:55.720 --> 02:00:57.239
But how did he get up there?

2083
02:00:57.760 --> 02:01:00.640
Branch's twenty feet off the ground. Take an acre that

2084
02:01:00.760 --> 02:01:03.319
the car left. Three Bill wasn't any acrobat.

2085
02:01:03.479 --> 02:01:05.199
Well how did he get up there? I don't know.

2086
02:01:06.359 --> 02:01:08.680
Three people received pieces of rope, and then a couple

2087
02:01:08.760 --> 02:01:11.279
of weeks later we find him.

2088
02:01:11.199 --> 02:01:12.159
Hanging from a tree.

2089
02:01:13.439 --> 02:01:14.560
You tell me the answer.

2090
02:01:22.800 --> 02:01:25.319
We cut him down, but it took almost an hour

2091
02:01:25.399 --> 02:01:27.800
to get up on that branch. To do it, we

2092
02:01:27.920 --> 02:01:30.039
put him in the Constable's car and drove him back

2093
02:01:30.039 --> 02:01:33.079
to town. Before he left, we told him that we

2094
02:01:33.199 --> 02:01:35.840
too had received the little gift, the noose of rope,

2095
02:01:36.159 --> 02:01:39.720
which had been, in three instances, the forerunner of death.

2096
02:01:44.640 --> 02:01:46.399
When we got back to the cottage, we had a

2097
02:01:46.399 --> 02:01:48.600
bite to eat, and, seeing as we weren't in the

2098
02:01:48.600 --> 02:01:52.079
mood to sleep, we sat down to read. I picked

2099
02:01:52.119 --> 02:01:54.079
up a little book I hadn't seen before and read

2100
02:01:54.119 --> 02:01:57.279
it from cover to cover. It held an eerie fascination

2101
02:01:57.399 --> 02:01:58.920
and I wasn't able to put it down to the

2102
02:01:58.960 --> 02:02:05.640
last page had been turned and the last word read, Jim,

2103
02:02:05.720 --> 02:02:06.199
where did you.

2104
02:02:06.199 --> 02:02:06.840
Get this book?

2105
02:02:07.079 --> 02:02:07.560
I don't know.

2106
02:02:07.880 --> 02:02:10.560
I don't think I've ever seen it before. Why it

2107
02:02:10.680 --> 02:02:13.880
looks like a first edition of two hundred years ago.

2108
02:02:14.359 --> 02:02:14.920
Let me see it.

2109
02:02:15.840 --> 02:02:22.600
Here a short history concerning the mysterious reappearance of Jack Ketch,

2110
02:02:23.279 --> 02:02:26.880
the hangman who served as executioner for twenty three years.

2111
02:02:27.439 --> 02:02:29.640
I've never seen this book before. Well, then, how did

2112
02:02:29.640 --> 02:02:30.119
it get here?

2113
02:02:30.119 --> 02:02:30.560
I don't know.

2114
02:02:31.960 --> 02:02:35.479
Jack Ketch say he was the hangman in England who

2115
02:02:35.520 --> 02:02:36.920
took too much pleasure in his work.

2116
02:02:36.960 --> 02:02:37.439
Isn't that right?

2117
02:02:37.520 --> 02:02:37.800
I think?

2118
02:02:37.840 --> 02:02:37.920
So?

2119
02:02:38.520 --> 02:02:40.960
How much of this did you read? All of it?

2120
02:02:40.960 --> 02:02:44.439
It's not very long, and this is what I got

2121
02:02:44.479 --> 02:02:48.039
out of it. Before he died. The book says he

2122
02:02:48.079 --> 02:02:51.279
had made some kind of a pact with an evil power.

2123
02:02:52.039 --> 02:02:54.159
It seems they actually do have a written copy of

2124
02:02:54.159 --> 02:02:58.680
that agreement somewhere in England. There's his signature and an

2125
02:02:58.720 --> 02:03:02.279
illegible scrawl that no one has ever been able to decipher.

2126
02:03:03.680 --> 02:03:07.039
The fact promises life after death for him in exchange

2127
02:03:07.079 --> 02:03:11.680
for certain services then the book says that year after year,

2128
02:03:11.800 --> 02:03:15.720
some rather mysterious deaths have occurred. They find the victims

2129
02:03:16.159 --> 02:03:19.520
hanging from the branch of a tree, a tree almost

2130
02:03:19.520 --> 02:03:22.319
impossible to climb. And the book also says that each

2131
02:03:22.359 --> 02:03:25.960
of the murdered people received a little piece of rope

2132
02:03:26.560 --> 02:03:29.840
before their deaths, identical to the ones Jack Ketch used

2133
02:03:30.199 --> 02:03:36.039
as executioner. That is the warning, the warning of death

2134
02:03:36.119 --> 02:03:39.520
to follow. But that's impossible. The man's been dead for

2135
02:03:39.600 --> 02:03:42.199
over two hundred and fifty years. That's right, he's dead.

2136
02:03:43.199 --> 02:03:46.760
But the rest of the story, it's exactly the same

2137
02:03:46.920 --> 02:03:56.039
thing that's happening to us. Two days later, in late evening,

2138
02:03:56.720 --> 02:04:00.720
the rest of the story unfolded. Gone down to the

2139
02:04:00.760 --> 02:04:03.319
store to pick up some cigarettes. I had been down

2140
02:04:03.359 --> 02:04:05.439
to the shore doing a little fly casting and had

2141
02:04:05.720 --> 02:04:10.600
started back up to the cottage. I was surprised at

2142
02:04:10.640 --> 02:04:14.760
how quickly night had fallen. I wish that I'd brought

2143
02:04:14.760 --> 02:04:21.800
along a flashlight from somewhere across the lake. I heard

2144
02:04:21.840 --> 02:04:24.079
the cry of a dog, and the sound of it

2145
02:04:24.159 --> 02:04:26.439
filtered through and was carried along by the night. Are

2146
02:04:27.279 --> 02:04:32.319
For some reason, I became unaccountably nervous. I stopped walking,

2147
02:04:33.840 --> 02:04:38.359
I felt someone was watching me. Then from the darkness

2148
02:04:38.359 --> 02:04:41.079
of the trees, a man emerged.

2149
02:04:42.039 --> 02:04:42.279
Here.

2150
02:04:42.359 --> 02:04:47.079
Now where do you go? And or back up to

2151
02:04:47.159 --> 02:04:50.159
my cottage. I was doing some fly casting till night came.

2152
02:04:50.520 --> 02:04:56.760
Any luck, No, I'd better be going. Tell me dairy?

2153
02:04:56.920 --> 02:04:59.720
Why nice out here?

2154
02:05:00.800 --> 02:05:01.479
I suppose so?

2155
02:05:02.079 --> 02:05:08.760
He's trying to sing in the little teachers They stopped

2156
02:05:10.199 --> 02:05:18.199
little creatures, that's right, Govenor. Crickets and the frogs they

2157
02:05:18.239 --> 02:05:19.079
stopped talking.

2158
02:05:22.640 --> 02:05:28.399
Yes they they have you frightened the beak Governor? Of

2159
02:05:28.479 --> 02:05:32.720
course not what are you laughing at?

2160
02:05:34.720 --> 02:05:36.640
You wouldn't understand the governor?

2161
02:05:39.159 --> 02:05:40.920
Is that you down there, mister Snad?

2162
02:05:41.399 --> 02:05:43.720
Oh uh, yes, missus Bennett.

2163
02:05:43.880 --> 02:05:45.159
Do you mind if I join you?

2164
02:05:45.319 --> 02:05:47.000
No? No, of course, not good.

2165
02:05:47.399 --> 02:05:51.319
I'd better be going. Go. I'll see you the other t.

2166
02:05:54.239 --> 02:05:55.239
Who are you talking to?

2167
02:05:55.680 --> 02:05:58.520
I don't know he he just stepped out of the

2168
02:05:58.600 --> 02:06:02.840
darkness and there he was. Well, I guess he's going now, yes,

2169
02:06:02.880 --> 02:06:03.479
I guess he is.

2170
02:06:04.039 --> 02:06:05.520
Where's mister Stanley?

2171
02:06:05.960 --> 02:06:08.199
He went down to pick up some cigarettes. He should

2172
02:06:08.199 --> 02:06:08.760
be back soon.

2173
02:06:09.720 --> 02:06:12.520
When the constable told me to tell you that he'd be.

2174
02:06:12.479 --> 02:06:14.600
Out tonight, Oh thank you would?

2175
02:06:15.600 --> 02:06:19.000
Would you mind walking me back to my place, mister Slade.

2176
02:06:19.800 --> 02:06:23.520
It's rather frightening out here when it's this dark.

2177
02:06:23.560 --> 02:06:26.520
I'll be glad to that man you.

2178
02:06:26.600 --> 02:06:30.000
Were talking to. What did he look like?

2179
02:06:30.399 --> 02:06:32.960
I don't know. I couldn't see his face. He had

2180
02:06:32.960 --> 02:06:36.239
an accent. It sounded like he might have come from London.

2181
02:06:37.600 --> 02:06:40.720
Wait a minute, eh.

2182
02:06:39.760 --> 02:06:45.439
I, I can't understand it. The crickets and frogs. They've

2183
02:06:45.479 --> 02:06:49.560
been starting and stopping all night. They must be afraid

2184
02:06:49.600 --> 02:06:50.119
of something.

2185
02:06:50.800 --> 02:06:53.079
Every time they stop.

2186
02:06:53.279 --> 02:06:53.840
What'd you say?

2187
02:06:54.760 --> 02:06:55.800
Every time they stop?

2188
02:06:57.000 --> 02:07:01.680
Something happens for a while. I'm walking miss Bennett back

2189
02:07:01.720 --> 02:07:04.840
to our cottage. Anything wrong, Oh? I got back from

2190
02:07:04.840 --> 02:07:07.279
the Star and I was wondering where you were. It's

2191
02:07:07.399 --> 02:07:11.319
just that I have a strange feeling that something is

2192
02:07:11.359 --> 02:07:14.800
going to happen. Let's go up to our place in

2193
02:07:14.920 --> 02:07:17.920
missus Bennett. Maybe the constable will want to see you too.

2194
02:07:18.319 --> 02:07:24.399
That's a good idea, man, says mister Slade. The strangest

2195
02:07:24.399 --> 02:07:26.119
things have been happening out here lately.

2196
02:07:27.359 --> 02:07:30.119
We'll be right there. Jim, Well, there's someone up here now.

2197
02:07:30.359 --> 02:07:35.520
I thought of what, Jim, something's wrong, mister Slade.

2198
02:07:35.560 --> 02:07:39.079
I don't know, Jim, what's the matter?

2199
02:07:40.239 --> 02:07:40.760
Answer me?

2200
02:07:41.399 --> 02:07:53.199
Oh, mister slade.

2201
02:07:53.640 --> 02:07:56.960
Look who hanging from that tree.

2202
02:07:57.560 --> 02:08:04.800
It's it's mister Standley.

2203
02:08:07.239 --> 02:08:12.239
There is a legend you now a pile about the hangman.

2204
02:08:13.800 --> 02:08:18.479
For twenty three years the executioner for the Crown jack

2205
02:08:18.600 --> 02:08:25.800
Ketch was his nine governor jack Ketch.

2206
02:08:33.439 --> 02:08:38.199
Thank you so much, my dear, for another evening. I

2207
02:08:38.319 --> 02:08:41.680
do so enjoy them, and I hope you do too.

2208
02:08:42.800 --> 02:08:47.039
Please know, I'll be right here waiting waiting for you

2209
02:08:47.159 --> 02:08:53.439
to come back, same place, same time, same fear. But

2210
02:08:53.600 --> 02:08:58.640
for now, the sun will be rising soon, and I

2211
02:08:58.680 --> 02:09:01.560
suppose you should go home and I should head back

2212
02:09:01.600 --> 02:09:08.159
to wherever it is I tend to go. So please

2213
02:09:09.079 --> 02:09:12.920
be safe on your journey home. It could be a

2214
02:09:12.960 --> 02:09:18.199
long sojourney in the dark, not knowing what might be watching,

2215
02:09:19.239 --> 02:09:23.680
what might be waiting. But I'm sure, my dear, there's

2216
02:09:23.800 --> 02:09:29.399
not anything to worry about. So go on now, wander

2217
02:09:29.439 --> 02:09:34.239
your way home over the river, through the woods, past

2218
02:09:34.319 --> 02:09:39.319
the railroad tracks in the old cemetery. But do me

2219
02:09:39.439 --> 02:09:43.960
one favor. As you lay your head down and blink

2220
02:09:44.039 --> 02:09:49.920
away your consciousness, be thankful for what you have be

2221
02:09:50.159 --> 02:09:50.760
seeing you