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Oh, my goodness, it seems
you've found me yet again. You do

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seem to be quite good at that. I'm very flattered you now that you

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would take the time to search your
radio dial for little old me in the

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middle of a cold, dark night. Truly, it warms my heart,

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or what's left of it. At
least it is a cold one. I

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noticed the wind is blowing quite hard. Oh but these walls are so thick.

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I don't think anything could get through
them. What's that? Oh no,

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no, no, no, my
dear, no, my dear,

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do not concern yourself at all with
that. No, no, no,

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no, no, nothing is wrong. Everything is right in this exact moment.

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Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, are you comfortable? Comfortable?

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You should try to make yourself more
so. I myself am getting a positioned

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in my favorite rocking chair chair,
happy that this old microphone still works,

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and that you are sitting here with
me to enjoy this piece of suspense.

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Oh goodnessness, I hope you enjoy
it as much as I do. There's

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nothing quite like listening to a little
piece of fear in the middle of the

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night. As if the dark dark
isn't enough, I suppose so let's get

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through that right now. I think
it's about time to give you a little

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bit of a friendly scare suspense.
This is the Man in Black here again

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to introduce Columbia's program Suspense. In
our starring Hollywood cast tonight are mister John

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Sutton, who appears as a young
English doctor Jim Norwood, who knew a

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great deal more than he admitted concerning
the strange events which we are about to

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relate. And mister George Zuko,
who plays the village curate the Reverend Arthur

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Morley. Our story and it bears
none but a coincidental resemblance to H.

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G. Wells's famous short novel The
Invisible Man is by John Dixon Carr and

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is called a Man Without a Body. Tonight's tale of Suspense. If you

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have been with us on these Tuesday
nights, you will know that suspense is

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compounded of mystery and suspicion and dangerous
adventure. In this series, our tales

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calculated to intrigue you, and so
it is. With the Man Without a

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Body and the performances of John Sutton
and George Zuko, we again hope to

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keep you in suspence. A lonely
beach of low white sand hills edged by

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the surf of the North Sea,
and back from the beach trowsing as it

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has drowsed for ten centuries, lies
the village of Aldbridge in super There is

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the sea wall, now defaced by
air raid shells, and there are the

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rolling grain fields, that thatched white
cottages, the spire of Saint Duke's Church

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above the oak trees, ancient and
bell haunted, lost among hedgerows. This

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village could never cause consternation in London
newspaper offices. And yet on that warm

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night nearly four years this time it's
really happened. And then without a body

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completely in Toby boy Olivar. Look
at this dispatch. Reign of terror in

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Suffolk village has another of it?
G Wells romances come true? An invisible

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man. I can't believe it.
What's the matter with that village? They

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all gone static? Mister George Wellman
builder states that as he was returning home

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along the main road from Belly Saint
Edmunds, he distinctly saw a man's hat

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without any head under it. Who
will towards him? About six feet above

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the ground. God wasn't full of
beer. We can't use this story,

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copy Boy. Even more surprising evidence
was given by the Reverend Arthur Morley Vickers

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and Duke's Church. Oh the parson, you don't think he us full of

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beer? One question above all agitates
the village. Who is Professor Msmith?

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Who is this elderly American said to
be an inventor, who has settled it

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all Bridge and leased a part of
the house belonging to the local doctor out

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of some terrifying workshop to strike like
a maniac we are least expected, has

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there lasting words a real invisible man. The Church of Saint Luke, Allbridge,

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on that same Sunday evening evening services
over now, though an echo bell

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still lingers in the vestry at the
rear of the church, where white surpluses

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hang like ghosts. The Reverend Arthur
Marley sits with his daughter Janie. It

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is a stone room of painted windows, now many colored in the sunset.

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And here as the drowsy summer light
turns to dusk, Jannis, I don't

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believe it. I know, father, I saw it with my own eyes.

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Yet I don't believe it. You
don't think we were dreaming, do

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you? No, Father, we
weren't dreaming. If this goes on,

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the whole village will be in a
frenzy. But what can I do?

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We could go to Professor Ansmith and
ask him straight out, ask him whether

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he's responsible for these? Yes,
I wonder, Jennis, a man isn't

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hurting anybody? You know, you
couldn't ask for a quiet a person or

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a better neighbor. And yet what's
that? Father? You are upset?

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Is there only mister Emmett coming down
from the belfry? Oh yes, of

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course is that you, mister Emmett. It's merely or rocher and very much

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in the flesh. Did you think
I was invisible man? Mister Emmett,

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I forbid you to mention that subject. Very good cheer, But there's that

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there is begging your pardon that do
mention it? Oh yes, yes,

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forgive me. I spoke too sharply. That's all right, sir, No

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arm done, No Baron's broken mind. You're not that I I would with

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this talk about invisible men ain't naturally, I say, it ain't hardly Christian.

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I'm a green grosser by trade,
and I believe in what I can

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weigh and feel. What's the mada, mister Remont, is anything wrong.

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Excuse me? Yeah, and you
too, Miss Do you see anybody in

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this room except ass No, of
course not, why because I could have

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sworn something brushed past me. Just
now you're imagining things, mister Remmit.

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So hard to say. There's nobody
hidden in the belfry tower. I hope

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no, Sir, I had a
look see. And what's more, there's

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not going to be anybody up there
once I've locked the door. Now that

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the blighter try and get in.
Oh please, mister Remmitt, are you

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too, father? You're talking about
this invisible names? So he actually existed.

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There's something funny going on. Miss. You can't deny that, No,

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none of us can deny it.
And what's more, say, it's

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getting pretty dark in here, and
you and miss Jennie Betty get along to

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the vicarage while I lock up.
No, we can't go just yet,

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Miss Remmitt. We're expecting doctor Norwood, Doctor Jim Norwood. Sir, what

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does he say about all this?
You might ask him yourself, Miss Remmitt,

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I think that's probably him. Now
come in the best who does not

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love? Oh? Hello, Padre, Hello Jannis, I'm sorry, I'm

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made. Hello Jim. You seem
a good deal out of breath. I

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am out of breath, Jennis,
because there's blue blazes to pay down in

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the village, not more trouble.
Yes, I'm afraid, sir. They're

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holding a mass meeting at the Coach
and Horses and they've read it on murder

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Professor an Smith. If this invisible
man cuts any more capers, we may

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see a real old fashioned lynching in
an English village. Now look here,

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my boy, this has got to
stop. I know that, pard Ray,

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but how are we going to stop
it? Sit down there, Jim

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across the table from me, Yes, sir. First of all, what

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do you know about this Professor an
Smith? Nothing, sir, nothing at

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all. But you wrent part of
your house to him? How am I

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dear pottery that houses twice as big
as I can possibly manage. That's only

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too glad to get a tenant.
He gave you references, I imagine,

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yes, but I didn't bother to
check him. He's a quiet old boy,

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pays his rent on the dot,
never does anything except read and go

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for long walks. Are you quite
sure of that, Jim? Her village

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has more nerves. That's all.
The camouflage aerodrome in the neighborhood. They

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have to imagine anything true, perhaps, but let talk about Dynamo's humming in

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the old boy's room and blue lights
flashing his rubbish out of a sensational film.

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They imagined the whole thing. Finally, this crazy story about an invisible

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man playing the gramophone. While that's
not a crazy story. Jim Janis and

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I saw it happen. You what
last night? About half past nine,

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Jennis and I were out for a
walk in the lane that runs past your

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house. On the way we met
Willie Flendrick and he joined us. Well,

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sir, listen, Jim. On
that side of a house, there's

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a little square room with two windows
and no signature except a round table and

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a couple of chairs. Do you
know the one we mean? Yes,

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of course, Professor Ansmith uses it. What about the room? It wasn't

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quite blackout time, The windows were
up, the curtains weren't drawn, and

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the room was brightly lighted. On
the table stood an old fashioned gramophone with

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a horn and a crank hander.
Beside it lay a pair of fight cotton

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gloves, like like Gardener's gloves.
The gramophone was playing away for dear life.

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But there was nobody in the room. Jaris thought that was a bit

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odd a gramophone going full tilt with
nobody there, and called my attention to

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it. Just then the gramophone started
to run down. We could hear the

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records slow and go off key as
it did. So, well, sir,

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go on as it did so?
Those fight gloves got up off the

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table, got up off the table, got up off the table, took

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hold of the gramophone and wound it
up again. Mister Ellis, what on

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earth are you doing? I dropped
some canvaston so I see, please pick

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them up again, Padre, you
serious, perfectly serious? A pair of

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gloves without any hands inside them?
Yes, but what did they do?

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Exactly? The left hand gloves steadied
the gramophone, the right hand glove wound

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it up. Then they both hung
in the air, beating time to the

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music. It should have been funny. I can only assure you wit was

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not funny. Oh what happened then? Oh, Jimet was horrible. Willie

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Kendrick yet out of yell and ran
down the lane between the apple trees,

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and so the devil were after him. I can't say I blame him,

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father, and I just stood there
and stared. Is the word, my

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dear, he is stared. I
can't forget any of it, the three

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legged table, and the whirling record, and the blue flowers on the wallpaper.

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But there was nobody there. We
could see past the table and under

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the table and all over the room, and there was nobody there except the

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man without anybody, confound a man
without anybody, Father, suppose it is

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true. As a clergyman, my
dear, I prefer to remain agnostic.

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This thing is a trick. But
how's it done? And why? And

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that's the whole point, Jim.
What worries me is the effect on our

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people here. We called ourselves intelligence, and yet look at us, even

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mister Emmett there, Hey, what's
that about, Misa? A few minutes

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ago you thought something brushed past you
when you were coming down the stairs from

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the bell tower. Oh didn't you, Yes, sir, you see what

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I mean, Jim. But I
didn't really think so, sir, Not

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really. It was imagination, Just
like the doctor said, because I searched

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that t I locked the door after
it, exactly that, the mere force

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of suggestion, nothing more might lead
you to believe that's not suggestion. Father.

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By below, there's nobody in that
belfry. Bells can't ring by themselves.

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Old man, there's somebody pulling the
rope up there, and we're going

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to find out who it is.
At one moment, all of you,

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what's wrong, Padre? You're as
white as a ghost. This blasphemous mockery.

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It seemed to extend even to the
church. Very well, you will

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stay with the Jannis, my boy, Emmitt, and I will color this

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invisible man. Why can't I go
too? I don't believe in this,

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but I should prefer to have someone
with the janet. You're not afraid,

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mister Emmitt. If it's alive,
sir, I'm not afraid of it.

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And if it's dead, well,
well you're not afraid of it. The

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car doors open, so I'm ready. Don't do it for the don't you

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can't help him? Janney's sit down
here, Take it easy, Jim,

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know it? What's wrong with you? Wrong with me? You've got an

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hard look too, And the lights
fading, and the surpluses look like ghosts.

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And in another minute that bell would
write me mad. Suppose he has

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got in, Oh, the invisible
man, don't talk, rod As there

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are sounds that the ear cannot hear, so there are colors that the eye

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cannot see. I read that somewhere. He hasn't hurt anybody yet. But

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suppose he turns nasty and does hurt
somebody. He can't hurt anybody, you

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know, Janney's listened to me.
Take my hand. But I want to

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tell you a few things you won't
understand. I don't ask you to understand.

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I just asked you to remember,
Well, what is it? The

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first is a question if you were
a government official and wanted to find an

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expert on camouflage, where would you
go an expert on camouflage? Yes?

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And the second point is this,
I studied medicine in Germany. IX.

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One night on a bet I hit
backstage at the Winter Garden Theater in Berlin.

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I saw the whole show from backstage, and and I learned a great

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deal. Jim, Nor, what
on earth are you talking to? George

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Wellman and I have talked the whole
thing over in a way, Janie,

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there is an invisible man. I
can tell you who he is and how

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he works. But there's no danger. Do you understand? There's no danger

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at all? If what was it? I don't know? You do know?

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I can see it in your face. You don't know. I think

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somebody's fallen, fallen from the top
of the belfry. Stay here, Janis,

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you can't do any goods, Thank
god, my arm. Oh you're

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not. I didn't think what the
danger might be besides that somebody coming down

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the stairs. Now stay just where
you are and don't move until. Oh,

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father, father, you are right, said take it easy. Now,

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I'm perfectly all right, yes,
but you'd better go into the churchyard

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and see to him. He fell, No, Genesee did not fall.

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He was thrown thrown by who has
no time to argue. Now you're a

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doctor, go out and see to
him. And I don't know. Go

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he's air, or I will work
a deed in your days which he will

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not believe, though it be told
you, Janie's this is incredible. Why

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you heard of the bell ring?
I saw it ring without anybody there.

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I was as close to that bell
as I am to you. Now.

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No hand held the rope, and
want no strings or wires or any tricks

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to make it move. It clanged
back and forth alone in the tower,

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and I thought I heard someone laugh. Don't take that too seriously. We

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were both overwrought and the bell was
deafening. What about mister evett Emmett yelled

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some words I couldn't hear, and
lunched for the bell. Then something caught

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him. Something caught him and gave
him a sledgehammer blow in the back at

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bellf is nothing but open hearted.
You heard him scream. I saw his

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face just before he went over.
Lock the door to the tower, Father,

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lock it. I can't lock it, and it has the key.

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But why should I lock it?
Because he's still in there. He he

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hadn't done any harm before, but
he's done harm now. There's no telling

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what might happen if he gets loose. You mean, I mean Professor Ansmiths

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protege, whoever he is, the
man without her body. Under the red

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sunset, some quarter of a mile
away, a grass carpeted lane winds between

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rows of apple trees. The lane
is dusky. The lights shine into it

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from the windows of a large stone
house, doctor Norwood's house, beyond the

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apple trees. Up and down,
up and down, A shadowy figure is

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pacing an elderly figure. A dejected
figure call and frail as a shadow among

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shadows, muttering to itself, shaking
its head now and then raising one fist

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in bewilderment or anguish. Sometimes a
light gleams on large spectacles, and a

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kindly mouth up and down, endlessly, up and down strives Professor Hansmith.

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I'm not guilty. I'm not guilty. How can I convince them that I'm

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not? Who's there? I saw
your dodge behind that tree stand out?

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Sir? Did you call me,
Professor Hansman? Yes? I did call

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you. Who are you? You
probably won't recognize me, Professors. Nevertheless,

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my friend, may I ask what
your name is? My name is

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Wellman, Professor George Wellman. Wellman, Wellman, I've read that name.

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Maybe you have. I'm a builder
by trade and a great friend of doctor

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Norwood. Wait one moment. Aren't
you the young man whose firm is putting

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up these air raid shelters along the
sea wall and making such an unholy din

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with your riveting machines. That's me? And come to think of it,

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aren't you the one who first started
this alarm about an invisible man? Yes?

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Because I met him. You did
not meet him, sir. This

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whole thesis is scientific nonsense, and
I won't have it. You won't have

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what. I'm an old man,
mister Wellman, I never did anybody the

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least tom as God is my judge. I know nothing whatever about this this?

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What's that? It looks like the
biggest car, Professor. You'd better

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stand back, mister pretty all.
Nay answer Professor hanswer yes, mister Morley,

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I hear you wife over here straight
away. I think you met my

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daughter, and of course you know
doctor Norwood. Yes, there was no

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time for any social formalities. Get
into your house, Professor Ansmith, get

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in quickly and close the shutters.
But why should I do that? Because

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of the mob comings there and we
can't stop them. Hurry, do hurry?

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A mob coming here? Why comen't
you have the news? I've heard

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nothing, my friend. The only
person I've seen has been that young man

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there who choose a toothpick and hides
behind the tree. George Wellman, what

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the earth are you doing here?
Watching? Janis watching and waiting just as

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usual. Listen to me, Professor
Ansmith. Henry Emmett, the head verge

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with some lukes was thrown from the
belfery window not twenty minutes ago, Not

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by me, sir. I assure
you I had nothing to do with no,

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not by you, but apparently I'm
the invisible man. Oh father in

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heaven. Will this never stop,
not till we catch the fellow. No,

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be glad, mister Bob. I'm
paid. I'm sorry, Padre,

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I take it back, I myself
can testified that no visible person laid hands

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on emmittt. He was struck,
struck as though with a gigantic fist.

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What's the matter, Professor Ansmith?
Is anything wrong? No? No,

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no, no, no. I
was just thinking, is in it dead?

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Fortunately no, I'm glad of that, my friend. For a certain

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patient's shake. He's not even seriously
hurt. The bell tower isn't high,

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and a trigger broke of force of
his fall, but he's badly shaken up.

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And that crowd of the coach and
horses means trouble. If you hadn't

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anything to say to us, if
you haven't a word of explanation to utter.

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Listen, Padre, don't you hear
anything? Yes? I thought I

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heard voices. Can't be that crowd
from the village. We're too far ahead

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of them. It's a crowd,
all right, and they've been here for

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hours. But where I don't see
anybody, Kim, look behind the trees,

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Look behind the trees, beyond the
headrows, look for any place where

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a watcher can high, and may
I ask what they're doing here? They're

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watching you, proficience more of your
spies. You mean you can call them

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anything you please. They're getting impatience
and they want to show down. If

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I as much as holding my hand
up like this, don't hold of the

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windows you hold, only bring me
doctor's widow. Gentlemen, I can't have

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any more of this. Be quiet, all of you and listen to me.

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Well, sir, we're listening.
I'm a peaceful man. I like

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to live in peace with my neighbors. I have nothing to do with this

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so called reign of terror. But
you don't believe that knew you? No,

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then I must expose a fraud.
Now, don't blame me if I

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expose the trickster. Do I have
made preparations to show you the invisible man,

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the man without everybody. Mister Marley, I believe you and your daughter

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walked through this lane last night while
I was away at the Bury Saint Edmund's.

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I don't know about your being a
waister. My daughter and I was

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asking me here, yes, good, good missus Janie Marley. Yes,

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Professor Anson, will you look towards
your right please at the house. What

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do you see. It's the same
room. What room, the room with

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a little round table and the gramophone. It's a three legged table, you

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notice, Yes, of course,
but there's nobody in the room. No,

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nobody at tall. Our conditions exactly
as they were last night. Yes,

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except there aren't any gloves on the
table. No. But the invisible

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man is there, Oh, a
living peasants ready to act and breathe and

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even kill. With your permission,
I shall now address him. Hello in

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there, Hello in there, Hello, and anybody answers him. Father,

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I'm going to he inquired, Javis
quad. Look the gods they're appearing on

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the table. I call out to
him, and I speak as follows.

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Hold the phonograph with your left glove. That's it. Turn the handle with

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your right one, turn, two, three, four, that's enough.

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Touch the spring with your left hand. Push the record, lore the needle

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with your right. And ladies and
gentlemen, the invisible man hold your b

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the contrary. Let them pull all
they like. Aim at the table,

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my friends, aim at the table. Why are at the table, Because

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then they'll see the trick. I
don't follow you. What frick the trick

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of the looking glasses? There you
see now, my friends, I think

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I do. The legs of the
table form a triangle with its point towards

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you. Panels of looking glass are
fitted in the two sides facing you.

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You think you can see under the
table, but what you actually see are

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the side walls of the room reflected
in those two mirrors. Wait a minute,

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you mean, I mean that my
old servant, hidden behind the mirrors,

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has just been working the gloves to
a panel in the table top.

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It's a very old break, first
shown by Colinalstad there at the London Polytechnic.

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And that's what happened last night,
years and you had nothing to do

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with it, nothing whatever, Nor
had my servants. And who did do

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it? And why? What is
the explanation of all that? Well?

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I can't tell you why. That's
what beats me, but I can tell

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you everything else. This invisible man
who's been scaring us all silly, My

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dear young lady, there's no invisible
man. There never has be. I

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might believe that, Professor Ansmith,
if I hadn't seen a church bell ringing

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where there was no hand to ring
it for oh them, It flung out

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of the tower as though a giant
hand had got hold you're not saying that's

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done with the looking glasses, No, my friend, not at all.

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That's really clever. Strings wires wrote, No, they weren't necessary, but

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the thing's impossible. Oh no.
The same principle was used by my old

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friend Jay and Masculine to make mechanical
figures work. Psycho played whist and Zoe

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do pictures? I myself go answer
you yourself? What are you going to

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say? The secret I was about
to say remains unknown even today. You

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were right in the way when you
tell us that imm It acted as though

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a giant got hold of him.
A giant had got hold of him,

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at least a gigantic force. We
all got completely in air. Would you

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mind telling us what this gigantic force
was? Not at all? It was

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compressed air pressure air. But don't
you see it even yet, any of

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you know? A compressed air pipe
with a thousand pounds pressure behind it was

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run up into the tower facing the
bell. It could be operated from the

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ground outside. The pressure was turned
on and off in bursts. It made

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that heavy bell swing like a toy, Immit. Don't you remember Emmitt rushed

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forwards towards the bell and the air
pressure. The air pressure struck him like

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a sledge Emma, and flung him
headlong out of the tower. There's your

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miracle, gentlemen. That's all there
was to it, Sir, I can't

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doubt what you say. It's still
a circumstantialum to rights. But what,

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my friend, the compressed air tanks, the mechanical operators to work this strict

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well, what about it? How
bad did it come from? Such things

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don't go on bushes, no,
but they do grow on riveting machines.

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Riveting machines, yes, such as
the riveting machine they're using on the air

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raid shelters along the sea wall.
Would you care to tell us, doctor

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James Norwood, why you and your
friend Wellman have been playing all these tricks?

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All of you? Jim Norwith Is
this true? Of course it's true,

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mister Molly, don't be so gullible. Jim and George Wellman doing all

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this? I don't believe that.
Take a look at their faces, young

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lady. Did you ever see a
guiltier looking pair? So we look guilty

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to him? Frankly, you do
he played the whole game and convinced the

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village there was an invisible man.
Is that it? Yes? You work

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the glove treek in your own house
at Wilma, who works the air drake

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with his own equipment? Everything else
was nothing but a pack of lies and

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a lot of atmosphere, playing conjurers
and making a blasted hash of it?

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Is that all, Professor n Smith? Well, remember you brought this on

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yourself. I didn't want to expose
you, oh Professor, I bet you

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didn't. Easy, George, take
it easy, Jim, this is true.

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Before you start pitching into me,
Jennis, let me have my word

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first. Do you remember what I
said to you at the church tonight?

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At the church? Yes, I
asked you to remember something, even if

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you didn't understand it all right?
Can you remember what it was? Oh?

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Jim, Please, you're only trying
to evade this. I'm so confused

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now. I don't remember anything.
All I can think of is this horrible

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business and what's behind it? Father
can't believe it isn't. I'm not much

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better. We've practically idolized you.
All we want you to do is answer

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a straight question, Jim. Are
these accusations true. Yes, they are

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true. Doubtless he had a good
reason, Janne's doubtless he had a good

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reason. Yes, we had a
good reason, the very best reason in

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the world. You had a good
reason for scaring people have to death and

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trying to kill poer Olt Henry Emmett. We didn't mean any harm against Emmittt.

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That was an accident, but you
dared to send yourself. Now,

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yes, just that Before we go
home, father, shall we apologize to

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Pessa Ansmith. I hope you'll try
to think better of English hospitality. Good.

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Jenny's good. I hope he will
too. You hope he will listen

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Janet's. Before you act on any
belief, you have to be absolutely sure

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in your own mind. George and
I had to prove something, and now

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I'm glad to say we have proved
that. Oh I can't stand this any

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longer. If you have anything to
say, go on and say it straight

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out. What was it you had
to prove? We had to prove to

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our own satisfaction that this pretended American
who calls himself professor Ansmith, who calls

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himself professor Ansmith, to prove this
pretended American with no other than Carl Heinrich

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von Kite, the celebrated stage magician
from the Winter Garden Theater in Berlin.

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Who's real job you have to find
the camouflage eerodrome. You have very sent

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Edmund. He explained his own tricks
very nicely. George, we'll swear out

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a warrant in the morning. And
so closes The Man Without a Body,

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starring John Sutton and George Zuko,
Tonight's Tale of Suspense. This is your

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narrator, the Man in Black,
who conveys to you Columbia's invitation to spend

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this half hour in suspense with us
again next Tuesday, when the distinguished actress

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Miss Agnes Moorehead will be heard in
one of her many brilliant characterizations. Starring

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with Miss Morehead will be Miss Ellen
Drew, who is Carol Lindon tells the

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amazing Dore of Uncle Henry's Rosebush.
The producer of these broadcast is William Spear,

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with Ted Bliss the director, Bernard
Herman and Lucia Mahowick conductor and composer,

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and John Dixon car the author,
collaborated on Tonight's suspense. This is

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the Columbia Broadcasting System. Yes nothing
beats a good record to bring your mood

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up after a scary story like that. I suppose yes, But I hope

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you're enjoying yourselves. I hope you
have enjoyed my nightly broadcasts. I'm still

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amazed you spend the time to find
them. And what's that? What's that?

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Oh? Well, if you'd like
to reach me directly, as you

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simply don't have access to Luigi Board, you can email me at Weird Mysteriespod

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at gmail dot com. Because you
see the internet, it goes much further

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than you may assume, my dear, And if you want to go to

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the website, we have one of
those too, at weirdash Mysteries dot com

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you can find all of our terrifying
episodes. Anyway, my dear, it's

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getting colder, but soon the sun
will be up, and that means my

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time is quickly retracted. So I
must go back to wherever it is I

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come from, and you should get
cozy in your warm bed, and if

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you're alone, I hope you actually
are. Good night, and until tomorrow,

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take care care