March 17, 2024
Unknown Broadcast | "The Tell Tale Heart"
Oh my, don't be afraid. I mean, not of this show. It's not real, at least I don't think it is. My dear, just relax and listen. These ghosts, ghouls, monsters, murderers and more aren't really here to get you, but your ears may lie to you...
Oh my, don't be afraid. I mean, not of this show. It's not real, at least I don't think it is. My dear, just relax and listen. These ghosts, ghouls, monsters, murderers and more aren't really here to get you, but your ears may lie to you...
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Ah, I see you've returned yet
again, searching that radio dial for my
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tonality as it were. Well,
I'm glad to have you here, because
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tonight I've dusted off something very special, a classic, if you will,
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even by my standards, a classic, because you see, I feel like
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some people don't have the appreciation they
need of the classic arts, at least
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when they come to scaring someone.
And I do love to be scared,
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and I do love to do a
little bit of scaring every now and then.
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Oh oh no, no, no
no, don't you worry about what
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my name is. To be honest, i'm not sure that I have one
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anymore. But that's not what's important. What is important is that you make
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yourself very comfortable, make yourself very
at home, because I have a story
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of Edgar Allan Poe performed by some
of the greatest performers of our era and
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beyond beyond, and I know you're
going to enjoy it as much as I
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will. That's why I've made this
extra cup of cocoa just for you.
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For you. Yes, it's very
good, isn't it. What's that?
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Oh? Yes, I put just
a dash of cayenne pepper and peer it
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makes you remember it doesn't it doesn't. Oh, my mother used to do
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that for me. It's delicious,
isn't it Just it gets quite addictive.
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So get comfortable and I'll prepare you
a second month. But for now,
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let's listen, because I'm too darn
excited. Excited, boris Carla, I'm
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in a thanksome mystery brought to you
by the makers of Colors Pails m p
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is mean friend, and let me
welcome you once more for the inter sanctum.
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This is Raymond, your host.
Come in, won't jone sit down?
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No, No, I'm not being
polite. I'd prefer you to said
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see, because within the next five
minutes you're going to be so weak in
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the knees that you won't be able
to stand in any Thanks the Mysteries.
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Again, there's the pleasure of bringing
you the famous doll a radio screen and
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stage now featured in the current Broadway
success Arsenic and Oldlace Boys Colo this evening,
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Mister Coloff appears in Robert Newman's drammatization
of Edgar Allen Poe's famous story The
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Tell Tale Heart, presented for your
entertainments by the makers of Connor's Little Liver
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Pill the best friend, your funny
disposition. Now our story story based on
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the tail by the greatest master of
the Macabres that ever lived at Grayland Pole,
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The story of a man who could
hear not only every sound on earth,
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but uh, even things that don't
exist. Oh, turn down the
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lights, all in a friend or
neighbor to keep your company and listen to
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Boris Karloff as Simon in a Tall
Tale Heart. It's early evening. The
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sun is just studying behind a range
of low hills. On top of the
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nearest hill is a huge rambling building
surrounded by park like grounds. A road
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wines from its gates down to the
little village below. Down this road comes
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a man, his tall, gaunt, his hair snow white. It's so
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busy with his stop that he doesn't
see the small dark man as it's by
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the roadside. But just as he
is about to person good evening. Huh
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oh, why good evening? Nice
evening, isn't it nice? Why it's
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the most wonderful, perfect evening I'll
ever know this side of heaven. You
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don't say, and you can't know
what it's like to feel as if you've
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just risen from the dead, as
if your tomb was open, and you
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were told that you could return to
the world that you knew and none about
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you. Can't you see? My
name is Simon. I was a musician.
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Two years ago I went stone deaf
suddenly completely. Do you know what
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deafness means to a musician. It's
like dying, or worse, like dying
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and knowing that you're dead. Why
went to doctors, but they could do
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nothing for me. And but finally
one of them sent me to see the
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doctor that was the place up on
the hill here, doctor a dare Yes,
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doctor Adair. He kept me with
him for six months, and now
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now I'm going home again. Who
cured you? You can hear? Hear?
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Listen, listen hard, and tell
me what you can hear right now?
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I think very much the wind,
cricket, cricket and the wind.
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Do you know what I can hear? I can hear the glass growing,
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the shop, rising in the trees. I can hear the stars moving in
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their courses. I can hear things
that no man ever heard before. Now
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do you know why I said that
this was the most wonderful evening that ever
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was? Yes, Simon, But
I know why before you see, I
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just left the place except from the
hill myself. You left the You mean
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when I was close to there?
I was flying? Uh your eyes here,
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sir, I haven't noticed before the
day last. But shall we walk
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on together? Simon? At just
where did you plan to go? Well?
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I've been thinking about that for weeks
now, All the weeks when I
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couldn't leave my room, I just
get used to being able to hear again.
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Gradually from my window I could see
an old mill just this side of
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the village. Yes, it's it's
deep in the woods, deserted. There's
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mass on the water wheel, and
the door hangs open by one hind.
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You lean that that you can see
it from here, and my eyes have
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become as good as your hearing.
You thought of going there, living there
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for a while until I was ready
to return to the world, Oliver.
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Why don't you come with me?
Then, when we are both ready,
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we can go back together to the
world. Hey, I could do that.
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Think of what it going to mean, how much we're going to be
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able to help people, You with
your sight and I with my hearing helps
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Yes, yes, of course,
all right, Simon. We'll go to
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your old male this way, Oliver, up this path they almost coming to
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the farmer. He seems to be
looking for something. I'm looking for my
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cow. Have you seen her?
For? What kind of a cow?
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Is she? A brown and a
white one with a crooked horn? Wait?
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I hear her. She's grazing in
the fields on the opper side of
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the woods here, that's almost a
mile from here. I have good ears.
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Good, he must have ears like
a fox. But that feels that's
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the squire's How did you get there? Do you think someone took her?
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Who would Well, it's the squire's
land. But he's the richest man around
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here. Why should he have taken
my car? Wait a minute, well
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let me see. Yes, yes, I do see someone with your cow.
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He's just leaving her. You can
see that right through the woods.
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I have good eyes. Who is
it? What's he like? Is it
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all wearing a brown jacket? Yes? I knew it. It's the squire.
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He's trying to steal my car.
I'd better go get her. Thank
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you very much. Perhaps i'll see
you both again, Perhaps we'll both be
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staying around here for a while there
in the old mill. Why did you
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tell him that, Oliver? Did
you really see the squire taking his cow.
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I saw what he wanted me to
see. What do you mean he
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hates the squire because the squire's rich
and he's poor. But what never mind,
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Simon, Shall we go on to
the mill. Here we are,
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and it's just the way I knew
it would be. The wire's peaceful,
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no noises just found, and even
those are dulled. But the waterfall,
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yes, just the way I knew
it would be. Too dark, dank,
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the home of the rats and spiders. We'll be happy living here with
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them, Happy with rats and spiders. Why because they're like me, Rats
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see in the dark, and spiders
thin web. I don't understand you,
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Oliver. Must you all we see
the worst and the most evil side of
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everything always? But why don't you
love people? Don't you think that this
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is a good world? A good
world? When I was blind for more
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than two years, whose fault was
there? What difference does that make?
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I was blind? And did anyone
care that I was? Now? Love
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people? I hate the pliver.
That's wrong. You've no right to hate
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anyone or anything. But fact it
sounds like Weedon's like, yes, there
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it is there a swallow Why it's
frightened trying to get out why it's beating
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itself against the wall, and all
poor thing is it's hurt itself, fallen
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to the ground. I'd better catch
it. Is it badly hurt? No,
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I don't think so. Oh,
just this one way there, let's
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see perhaps we can put a splint
on it. Heal it? Do you
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think so? Here? Here,
Ali, but be gentle. It's still
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terribly frightened. Will I will Oliver? What are you doing to a word?
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Doing blood? You were you crushed
the swallow, killed it? I
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have you you killed it deliberately?
Do you think so? I told you
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we all have some badness deep inside
it, even you here, you are
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ready to believe the worst of me
that I'd wantonly crush her, a harmless
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little sad that deaf and Simus,
what is it? I don't know,
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but that's something in your face,
something that wasn't say. I don't know
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what you're talking about. I'm going
up to bed, Simon. Simon,
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Wait, it wasn't that was blind? It was I eyes or he's bad
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even clean food. He's like one
of the fight as he loved so much,
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lurking here and spinning funning waves to
catch with some people in what he
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saw in my face just now.
There was something there, something that wasn't
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there before death. Why does this
have to happen to me? I was
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so happy just a little while ago. I loved everyone, the whole world,
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And now now I have to kill
him. And here I am,
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friend, Raymond, You're hosting me, and I thank him. Oh so
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loved everyone. So Simon has decided
he must murder his companion, not because
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he wants to, but in order
to keep him from spreading the hate and
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evil he seems to love. That's
a charming idea. But if all of
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his eyes are as good as he
says they are good enough to see death's
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faith, how will he be able
to do it? Mmmm? Quite a
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problem, isn't it? Well,
Raymond, everyone has problems, it's the
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answer that cont it. Certainly does, mister Hurley in a mystery drama,
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Yes, and in a domestic drama
too. If you don't believe it,
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listen to what Agnes Vale says to
her husband at the dinner table, Bob,
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you hadn't got a word about the
case, and I bake it especially
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for your business. After thirty.
No one wants to be reminded of birthdays.
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That's silly. Well, if that
was the case, I'd be about
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sixty you mean ninety. No one
could save up the grout you've gotten only
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sixty years. If you fell as
irritable, low and out of sort as
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I have lately, you'd be grouchy
too. Of course I would. Anybody
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would do everything to do that to
feel that way. What can anyone do
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about it? Very simple, my
dear, Try Cotton's Little liverpills. Right
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then, when you don't feel good, try Cotters Little liver pills. They
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do the work of klamo, but
have no calamel in them. Or they
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are simple pills made of vegetable drugs. They wake up the floor up one
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of our most vital adjusted juices.
When this vital juice flows at the rate
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of two points a day, it
helps to adjust our food and bring back
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the glorious feeling that goes with regularity. Then most folks feel like happy days
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are here again. But be sure
you get the genuine Cotter's Little Liver pills
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our friends, Are you sorry?
I advised you to sit down before I
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thought that. You still want me
to go on with the story of the
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tell Tale Heart? Very well,
it's a little later that same evening,
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Simon is sitting in the upper story
of the old deserted mill, waiting,
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listening sleep olive us sleep. Aren't
you ever going to sleep? Or I
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know you're lying down. I heard
you getting undressed. I even heard the
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French snap when you pull that button
off your shirt. It's not a yet.
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I can tell me you're breathing the
way your heart's beating. And that's
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what I must wait for the time
when you're really asleep, when you close
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those hawk eyes that conceive and in
the dark that could read murder in my
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face when I didn't know it was
there myself. Wait a minute, there,
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Now you're asleep. Now I must
go easy with the jaw, careful
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and even more careful going down the
stairs. Sh don't reek like that.
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I suppose he waits. No,
he can't. He won't wake up.
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He can't. And even if he
does. Ah, here we are the
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door to his room. How shall
I do it? No sex, he's
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using an So I pull them out
and held them over his face and spotted
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him. That's let this, and
then I wouldn't have to touch him,
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my wild who's there? There is
someone there? I can feel you.
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Hey, it's Simon. Yes,
it's Simon. What do you want?
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What are you doing here? I
know you've come and kill me. Yes,
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Oliver, I've come to kill you. You can't do that. You
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can't you, Oliver, I can
and I have to pain or please his
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song struggle like that. I'm tonger
than you are. You can't get away
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from me. You can't, you
can't. H and no, I hear
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it, your heart beating, pounding, driving the blood through your veins beating
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more slowly now slower and painter,
hunging down like a tired clock. And
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I'm not going to let you go
until it stopped. So don't crackle,
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don't truckle, please just a few
seconds more. Uh. I can hardly
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hear it now, just a faint
dropping murmur. And now even that's God.
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Yes, it stopped and you're dead. However, listen, I didn't
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want to do it. I didn't, but I had to. You were
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only interested in hurting people. That's
why I had to do it. And
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that's why I'm not going to give
myself apple, confess that I killed you,
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because I could still help people.
You understand, don't you. That's
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why I must get rid of your
body, hide it somewhere. Oh what
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am I to do with you?
I know, I'll keep you here,
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tear up the floor and hide you
underneath it. Uh. Now this is
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this crowbar in this one here and
there that should be big enough. And
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now in your car. Uh uh, goodbye, Oliver, goodbye. I
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put these boards back, nail them
down again, and we're the same,
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rusty nails. And it's done.
Now I've spread this dust over the cracks.
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No one will be able to tell
what I've done. No, not
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even with your eyes if you could
still use them. What's that all?
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Light? A lantern outside? Someone
at the door. Maybe Christie's come back
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again? Yes, who is it? It's strength, A constable, a
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constable. But what do you want? Oh? Nothing much that I dropped
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in. Hello, come in,
constable, come right in. Thanks?
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Wait time a night to be visiting. But there were strangers living out the
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end, I thought I might well, of course, it's part of your
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job to investigate strangers. In a
way, you're a stranger. Exactly what
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do you mean? I've been around
here for some time, haven't you a
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doctor Darre's place in Nail? I
mean, oh, ses, of course
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I just left there this afternoon.
Uhh, and your friend way, she's
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sleeping friends. There's no one here
with me. I'm all alone. And
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that they said you might have around, of course, And I said,
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I doubt your word or anything like
that. Oh no, I don't apologize.
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Comfortable, go right ahead, well
comfortable, certainly no sign of anyone
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else had I told yourself? And
she did, Now, and just sit
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down here for a minute, type. I love that. I don't sit
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there, yeah, because uh well, it was stuffed up. The floor
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looked a little rotten right there,
and and I was afraid that. I
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guess it's all right. Don't have
to hold me anyway, don't you good?
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Heaven? What's that? That's why? That's that's fobbing. That noise
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beating away like I don't hear any
noise, but you must. Hell ah,
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those ears of fine sometimes they're too
good. It's just your watch ticking
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watch. I haven't got a watch
on me, you know you haven't.
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But then must oh look comfortable.
I could use a bit of exercise.
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I suppose I walk you back to
the village, and it's many nice of
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you. The name of your company. There's no hurries. Then it lets
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you do for a while, and
I don't want to say Constable, wills
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will come now now as minute.
If you don't know, I don't know
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what I'll do. I have gotten
yourself into the state in the matter when
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no, No, of course not. It's it's just that I get nervous,
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restless, and you won't mind if
I if I walk up and down
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right here? Will you? It'll
make you feel any better in your head?
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Hack you this flow? It?
It is noisy? Isn't it noisy
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enough? Constable? This leave here? I didn't wondering about it? What's
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it for? You know? Yes? I think it opens the sloops,
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starts the middle whee journey. It
does then, and it's try it see
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if it still works? Yeah,
it works all right? When I get
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done? Is not loud enough?
He'll comfortable? But I haven't think will
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come out leave here with me?
If you don't doubt by group, there's
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no need to get so excited yet
if I'm not excited, like perfectly calm
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and quiet, will you come now
right away? I told you I know
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what you're doing sitting there changing you
haven't heard making me stay here and listen
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put beating louder louder, louder.
All right, I confess killed you.
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I kill him body his wife.
I beleeps you under the floor, I
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kill you, annoyed you? Here
is it? Stelltale a Hello doctor there
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Ah Constable? Hello? Well did
you find them? Yes? Doctor,
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I'm gud. Some of my boys
will be bringing the other one, Oliver
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along a little while bringing him?
Is matter with him? Were Charter?
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Were in the old male by the
river ham in at evidence. We tried
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to kill Oliver, but he hadn't
done a good job of it. He
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nailed them up underneath the floor.
And then when we got him out he
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was unconscious and he's still pretty weak. I see bring Simon in, will
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you? Yeah? All right,
Damond and yeah it's comfortable now. Uh
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turn him aroundswer that he's facing me
that well? Hello Simon, Hello doctor
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Simon. Why did you run away
from here this afternoon? Run away?
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I didn't run away one there?
What need was there for me to stay
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when I was cured? Oh?
And uh what you did? Uh rather
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try to do to Oliver? H
That was wrong? I know it was
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wrong, but I had to do
it. He was bad, doctor bad.
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He hated everyone, wanted to hurt
them, and I couldn't let him.
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You know, it's strange, constable, two men, both mental cases
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because of a sudden affliction. But
while Oliver's blindness made him hate, Simon's
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deafness filled him with love for all
mankind. Deafnish you mean he's deaf.
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But but but when you talk to
me, answers you. Yes, he
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reads lips. That's why I had
your turn him around, for he was
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facing me. But he's stone death. He will never hear again. What's
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that you're saying? Death? But
I'm not deaf where there's no one can
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hear better than I know one.
I heard everything when I left here,
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sings no man has ever heard before, the song of the swan, the
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breathing of the fish. While I
even heard the beating of Oliver's heart after
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I'd killed him. Yes, Simon, of course I'm not death, I
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tell you I'm not. I'm not. Oh, Simon, did hear all
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the things he said? He did, even the beating of the telltale heart,
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And not with his ears, but
with something else deep insidet. He's
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for sick brains speaking of telltale heart. I sorry, it's not how to
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talk. Just mister hurler, he's
knees knocking together. And if you think
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you're kidding Raymond, you're crazy.
I'm not kidding ed and mister Carlile's audiences,
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that's the equivalent of applause. Since
everything is generally much too scared to
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sell the usual approval with her hands, so we won't take any chances.
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We'll just use words and say thanks
for us called out for your splendid performance
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of tonight's staminization of pose the Telltale
Heart. If it's a pleasure, Raymond,
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to be able to bring our friends
one of the world's most famous stories.
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And I'm very grateful to whether it's
Sloan as Oliver and us or Theiaga
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who played Christy for the help that
they gave me. So now I suggest
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that you listen to ed Herlihy,
who has some helpful advice for which you
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may be very grateful. This is
Raymond again, your host, and getting
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ready to close that door to the
inner Sanctum and say good night until the
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same time next week. In the
meantime, if you care to do a
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little bloodthirsty reading, try this month's
in a Sanctum novel. I'll eat you
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last. I hate the Brandon in
case you've already read that, why not
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try some of the other stories by
the author of tonight's mystery drama Edre Allan
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Paul. According to all critics,
this writer has quiet a future. Have
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a good night you, Thank you. Mysteries will be on the here again
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next Sunday night. Stay in station, same time with an chiller four thriller
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fans they'll be With that said,
this is it early speaking for the makers
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and cutters, little liver pills,
and reminding you when you don't feel good,
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Why cutters, little liver pills,
the best friends, your sunny disposition.
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This is the Blue Network of the
National Broadcasting Company. Wasn't that simply
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chilling chill and a nice balance with
the hot cocoa? I would say,
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as you've drunken all of it,
well, I'm glad you enjoyed yourself as
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much as I did. I might
have to make you another cup sometime,
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especially when we have a night as
cold and dark as this one is.
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This one, but the night is
nearly over now, the sun will be
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up soon, in my time will
be over yet again until of course tomorrow.
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Now I look forward to seeing you
again. Make sure to find me
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on your radio dial because I assure
you we I'll be waiting for you.
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And if you want to child and
get a hold of me, you can
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go to weirdash Mysteries dot com.
You can contact me. You can maybe
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even leave a tip, because,
believe it or not, where I am
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money is still quite handy and I
could use the support, I suppose,
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but really, all I ask is
that you yourself show up again again,
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So please please come back tomorrow night. Until then, good night night,
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get into your warm bed and appreciate
what you've got.
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Ah, I see you've returned yet
again, searching that radio dial for my
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tonality as it were. Well,
I'm glad to have you here, because
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tonight I've dusted off something very special, a classic, if you will,
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even by my standards, a classic, because you see, I feel like
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some people don't have the appreciation they
need of the classic arts, at least
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when they come to scaring someone.
And I do love to be scared,
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and I do love to do a
little bit of scaring every now and then.
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Oh oh no, no, no
no, don't you worry about what
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my name is. To be honest, i'm not sure that I have one
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anymore. But that's not what's important. What is important is that you make
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yourself very comfortable, make yourself very
at home, because I have a story
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of Edgar Allan Poe performed by some
of the greatest performers of our era and
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beyond beyond, and I know you're
going to enjoy it as much as I
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will. That's why I've made this
extra cup of cocoa just for you.
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For you. Yes, it's very
good, isn't it. What's that?
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Oh? Yes, I put just
a dash of cayenne pepper and peer it
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makes you remember it doesn't it doesn't. Oh, my mother used to do
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that for me. It's delicious,
isn't it Just it gets quite addictive.
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So get comfortable and I'll prepare you
a second month. But for now,
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let's listen, because I'm too darn
excited. Excited, boris Carla, I'm
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in a thanksome mystery brought to you
by the makers of Colors Pails m p
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is mean friend, and let me
welcome you once more for the inter sanctum.
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This is Raymond, your host.
Come in, won't jone sit down?
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No, No, I'm not being
polite. I'd prefer you to said
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see, because within the next five
minutes you're going to be so weak in
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the knees that you won't be able
to stand in any Thanks the Mysteries.
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Again, there's the pleasure of bringing
you the famous doll a radio screen and
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stage now featured in the current Broadway
success Arsenic and Oldlace Boys Colo this evening,
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Mister Coloff appears in Robert Newman's drammatization
of Edgar Allen Poe's famous story The
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Tell Tale Heart, presented for your
entertainments by the makers of Connor's Little Liver
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Pill the best friend, your funny
disposition. Now our story story based on
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the tail by the greatest master of
the Macabres that ever lived at Grayland Pole,
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The story of a man who could
hear not only every sound on earth,
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but uh, even things that don't
exist. Oh, turn down the
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lights, all in a friend or
neighbor to keep your company and listen to
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Boris Karloff as Simon in a Tall
Tale Heart. It's early evening. The
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sun is just studying behind a range
of low hills. On top of the
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nearest hill is a huge rambling building
surrounded by park like grounds. A road
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wines from its gates down to the
little village below. Down this road comes
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a man, his tall, gaunt, his hair snow white. It's so
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busy with his stop that he doesn't
see the small dark man as it's by
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the roadside. But just as he
is about to person good evening. Huh
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oh, why good evening? Nice
evening, isn't it nice? Why it's
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the most wonderful, perfect evening I'll
ever know this side of heaven. You
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don't say, and you can't know
what it's like to feel as if you've
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just risen from the dead, as
if your tomb was open, and you
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were told that you could return to
the world that you knew and none about
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you. Can't you see? My
name is Simon. I was a musician.
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Two years ago I went stone deaf
suddenly completely. Do you know what
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deafness means to a musician. It's
like dying, or worse, like dying
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and knowing that you're dead. Why
went to doctors, but they could do
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nothing for me. And but finally
one of them sent me to see the
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doctor that was the place up on
the hill here, doctor a dare Yes,
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doctor Adair. He kept me with
him for six months, and now
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now I'm going home again. Who
cured you? You can hear? Hear?
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Listen, listen hard, and tell
me what you can hear right now?
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I think very much the wind,
cricket, cricket and the wind.
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Do you know what I can hear? I can hear the glass growing,
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the shop, rising in the trees. I can hear the stars moving in
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their courses. I can hear things
that no man ever heard before. Now
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do you know why I said that
this was the most wonderful evening that ever
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was? Yes, Simon, But
I know why before you see, I
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just left the place except from the
hill myself. You left the You mean
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when I was close to there?
I was flying? Uh your eyes here,
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sir, I haven't noticed before the
day last. But shall we walk
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on together? Simon? At just
where did you plan to go? Well?
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I've been thinking about that for weeks
now, All the weeks when I
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couldn't leave my room, I just
get used to being able to hear again.
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Gradually from my window I could see
an old mill just this side of
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the village. Yes, it's it's
deep in the woods, deserted. There's
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mass on the water wheel, and
the door hangs open by one hind.
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You lean that that you can see
it from here, and my eyes have
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become as good as your hearing.
You thought of going there, living there
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for a while until I was ready
to return to the world, Oliver.
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Why don't you come with me?
Then, when we are both ready,
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we can go back together to the
world. Hey, I could do that.
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Think of what it going to mean, how much we're going to be
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able to help people, You with
your sight and I with my hearing helps
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Yes, yes, of course,
all right, Simon. We'll go to
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your old male this way, Oliver, up this path they almost coming to
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the farmer. He seems to be
looking for something. I'm looking for my
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cow. Have you seen her?
For? What kind of a cow?
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Is she? A brown and a
white one with a crooked horn? Wait?
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I hear her. She's grazing in
the fields on the opper side of
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the woods here, that's almost a
mile from here. I have good ears.
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Good, he must have ears like
a fox. But that feels that's
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the squire's How did you get there? Do you think someone took her?
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Who would Well, it's the squire's
land. But he's the richest man around
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here. Why should he have taken
my car? Wait a minute, well
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let me see. Yes, yes, I do see someone with your cow.
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He's just leaving her. You can
see that right through the woods.
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I have good eyes. Who is
it? What's he like? Is it
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all wearing a brown jacket? Yes? I knew it. It's the squire.
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He's trying to steal my car.
I'd better go get her. Thank
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you very much. Perhaps i'll see
you both again, Perhaps we'll both be
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staying around here for a while there
in the old mill. Why did you
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tell him that, Oliver? Did
you really see the squire taking his cow.
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I saw what he wanted me to
see. What do you mean he
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hates the squire because the squire's rich
and he's poor. But what never mind,
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Simon, Shall we go on to
the mill. Here we are,
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and it's just the way I knew
it would be. The wire's peaceful,
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no noises just found, and even
those are dulled. But the waterfall,
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yes, just the way I knew
it would be. Too dark, dank,
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the home of the rats and spiders. We'll be happy living here with
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them, Happy with rats and spiders. Why because they're like me, Rats
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see in the dark, and spiders
thin web. I don't understand you,
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Oliver. Must you all we see
the worst and the most evil side of
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everything always? But why don't you
love people? Don't you think that this
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is a good world? A good
world? When I was blind for more
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than two years, whose fault was
there? What difference does that make?
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I was blind? And did anyone
care that I was? Now? Love
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people? I hate the pliver.
That's wrong. You've no right to hate
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anyone or anything. But fact it
sounds like Weedon's like, yes, there
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it is there a swallow Why it's
frightened trying to get out why it's beating
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itself against the wall, and all
poor thing is it's hurt itself, fallen
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to the ground. I'd better catch
it. Is it badly hurt? No,
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I don't think so. Oh,
just this one way there, let's
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see perhaps we can put a splint
on it. Heal it? Do you
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think so? Here? Here,
Ali, but be gentle. It's still
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terribly frightened. Will I will Oliver? What are you doing to a word?
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Doing blood? You were you crushed
the swallow, killed it? I
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have you you killed it deliberately?
Do you think so? I told you
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we all have some badness deep inside
it, even you here, you are
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ready to believe the worst of me
that I'd wantonly crush her, a harmless
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little sad that deaf and Simus,
what is it? I don't know,
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but that's something in your face,
something that wasn't say. I don't know
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what you're talking about. I'm going
up to bed, Simon. Simon,
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Wait, it wasn't that was blind? It was I eyes or he's bad
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even clean food. He's like one
of the fight as he loved so much,
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lurking here and spinning funning waves to
catch with some people in what he
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saw in my face just now.
There was something there, something that wasn't
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there before death. Why does this
have to happen to me? I was
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so happy just a little while ago. I loved everyone, the whole world,
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And now now I have to kill
him. And here I am,
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friend, Raymond, You're hosting me, and I thank him. Oh so
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loved everyone. So Simon has decided
he must murder his companion, not because
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he wants to, but in order
to keep him from spreading the hate and
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evil he seems to love. That's
a charming idea. But if all of
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his eyes are as good as he
says they are good enough to see death's
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faith, how will he be able
to do it? Mmmm? Quite a
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problem, isn't it? Well,
Raymond, everyone has problems, it's the
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answer that cont it. Certainly does, mister Hurley in a mystery drama,
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Yes, and in a domestic drama
too. If you don't believe it,
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listen to what Agnes Vale says to
her husband at the dinner table, Bob,
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you hadn't got a word about the
case, and I bake it especially
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for your business. After thirty.
No one wants to be reminded of birthdays.
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That's silly. Well, if that
was the case, I'd be about
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sixty you mean ninety. No one
could save up the grout you've gotten only
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sixty years. If you fell as
irritable, low and out of sort as
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I have lately, you'd be grouchy
too. Of course I would. Anybody
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would do everything to do that to
feel that way. What can anyone do
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about it? Very simple, my
dear, Try Cotton's Little liverpills. Right
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then, when you don't feel good, try Cotters Little liver pills. They
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do the work of klamo, but
have no calamel in them. Or they
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are simple pills made of vegetable drugs. They wake up the floor up one
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of our most vital adjusted juices.
When this vital juice flows at the rate
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of two points a day, it
helps to adjust our food and bring back
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the glorious feeling that goes with regularity. Then most folks feel like happy days
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are here again. But be sure
you get the genuine Cotter's Little Liver pills
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our friends, Are you sorry?
I advised you to sit down before I
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thought that. You still want me
to go on with the story of the
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tell Tale Heart? Very well,
it's a little later that same evening,
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Simon is sitting in the upper story
of the old deserted mill, waiting,
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listening sleep olive us sleep. Aren't
you ever going to sleep? Or I
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know you're lying down. I heard
you getting undressed. I even heard the
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French snap when you pull that button
off your shirt. It's not a yet.
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I can tell me you're breathing the
way your heart's beating. And that's
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what I must wait for the time
when you're really asleep, when you close
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those hawk eyes that conceive and in
the dark that could read murder in my
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face when I didn't know it was
there myself. Wait a minute, there,
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Now you're asleep. Now I must
go easy with the jaw, careful
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and even more careful going down the
stairs. Sh don't reek like that.
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I suppose he waits. No,
he can't. He won't wake up.
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He can't. And even if he
does. Ah, here we are the
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door to his room. How shall
I do it? No sex, he's
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using an So I pull them out
and held them over his face and spotted
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him. That's let this, and
then I wouldn't have to touch him,
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my wild who's there? There is
someone there? I can feel you.
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Hey, it's Simon. Yes,
it's Simon. What do you want?
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What are you doing here? I
know you've come and kill me. Yes,
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Oliver, I've come to kill you. You can't do that. You
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can't you, Oliver, I can
and I have to pain or please his
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song struggle like that. I'm tonger
than you are. You can't get away
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from me. You can't, you
can't. H and no, I hear
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it, your heart beating, pounding, driving the blood through your veins beating
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more slowly now slower and painter,
hunging down like a tired clock. And
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I'm not going to let you go
until it stopped. So don't crackle,
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don't truckle, please just a few
seconds more. Uh. I can hardly
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hear it now, just a faint
dropping murmur. And now even that's God.
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Yes, it stopped and you're dead. However, listen, I didn't
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want to do it. I didn't, but I had to. You were
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only interested in hurting people. That's
why I had to do it. And
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that's why I'm not going to give
myself apple, confess that I killed you,
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because I could still help people.
You understand, don't you. That's
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why I must get rid of your
body, hide it somewhere. Oh what
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am I to do with you?
I know, I'll keep you here,
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tear up the floor and hide you
underneath it. Uh. Now this is
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this crowbar in this one here and
there that should be big enough. And
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now in your car. Uh uh, goodbye, Oliver, goodbye. I
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put these boards back, nail them
down again, and we're the same,
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rusty nails. And it's done.
Now I've spread this dust over the cracks.
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No one will be able to tell
what I've done. No, not
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even with your eyes if you could
still use them. What's that all?
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Light? A lantern outside? Someone
at the door. Maybe Christie's come back
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again? Yes, who is it? It's strength, A constable, a
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constable. But what do you want? Oh? Nothing much that I dropped
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in. Hello, come in,
constable, come right in. Thanks?
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Wait time a night to be visiting. But there were strangers living out the
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end, I thought I might well, of course, it's part of your
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job to investigate strangers. In a
way, you're a stranger. Exactly what
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do you mean? I've been around
here for some time, haven't you a
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doctor Darre's place in Nail? I
mean, oh, ses, of course
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I just left there this afternoon.
Uhh, and your friend way, she's
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sleeping friends. There's no one here
with me. I'm all alone. And
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that they said you might have around, of course, And I said,
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I doubt your word or anything like
that. Oh no, I don't apologize.
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Comfortable, go right ahead, well
comfortable, certainly no sign of anyone
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else had I told yourself? And
she did, Now, and just sit
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down here for a minute, type. I love that. I don't sit
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there, yeah, because uh well, it was stuffed up. The floor
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looked a little rotten right there,
and and I was afraid that. I
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guess it's all right. Don't have
to hold me anyway, don't you good?
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Heaven? What's that? That's why? That's that's fobbing. That noise
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beating away like I don't hear any
noise, but you must. Hell ah,
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those ears of fine sometimes they're too
good. It's just your watch ticking
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watch. I haven't got a watch
on me, you know you haven't.
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But then must oh look comfortable.
I could use a bit of exercise.
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I suppose I walk you back to
the village, and it's many nice of
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you. The name of your company. There's no hurries. Then it lets
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you do for a while, and
I don't want to say Constable, wills
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will come now now as minute.
If you don't know, I don't know
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what I'll do. I have gotten
yourself into the state in the matter when
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no, No, of course not. It's it's just that I get nervous,
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restless, and you won't mind if
I if I walk up and down
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right here? Will you? It'll
make you feel any better in your head?
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Hack you this flow? It?
It is noisy? Isn't it noisy
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enough? Constable? This leave here? I didn't wondering about it? What's
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it for? You know? Yes? I think it opens the sloops,
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starts the middle whee journey. It
does then, and it's try it see
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if it still works? Yeah,
it works all right? When I get
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done? Is not loud enough?
He'll comfortable? But I haven't think will
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come out leave here with me?
If you don't doubt by group, there's
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no need to get so excited yet
if I'm not excited, like perfectly calm
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and quiet, will you come now
right away? I told you I know
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what you're doing sitting there changing you
haven't heard making me stay here and listen
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put beating louder louder, louder.
All right, I confess killed you.
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I kill him body his wife.
I beleeps you under the floor, I
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kill you, annoyed you? Here
is it? Stelltale a Hello doctor there
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Ah Constable? Hello? Well did
you find them? Yes? Doctor,
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I'm gud. Some of my boys
will be bringing the other one, Oliver
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along a little while bringing him?
Is matter with him? Were Charter?
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Were in the old male by the
river ham in at evidence. We tried
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to kill Oliver, but he hadn't
done a good job of it. He
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nailed them up underneath the floor.
And then when we got him out he
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was unconscious and he's still pretty weak. I see bring Simon in, will
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you? Yeah? All right,
Damond and yeah it's comfortable now. Uh
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turn him aroundswer that he's facing me
that well? Hello Simon, Hello doctor
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Simon. Why did you run away
from here this afternoon? Run away?
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I didn't run away one there?
What need was there for me to stay
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when I was cured? Oh?
And uh what you did? Uh rather
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try to do to Oliver? H
That was wrong? I know it was
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wrong, but I had to do
it. He was bad, doctor bad.
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He hated everyone, wanted to hurt
them, and I couldn't let him.
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You know, it's strange, constable, two men, both mental cases
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because of a sudden affliction. But
while Oliver's blindness made him hate, Simon's
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deafness filled him with love for all
mankind. Deafnish you mean he's deaf.
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But but but when you talk to
me, answers you. Yes, he
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reads lips. That's why I had
your turn him around, for he was
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facing me. But he's stone death. He will never hear again. What's
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that you're saying? Death? But
I'm not deaf where there's no one can
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hear better than I know one.
I heard everything when I left here,
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sings no man has ever heard before, the song of the swan, the
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breathing of the fish. While I
even heard the beating of Oliver's heart after
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I'd killed him. Yes, Simon, of course I'm not death, I
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tell you I'm not. I'm not. Oh, Simon, did hear all
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the things he said? He did, even the beating of the telltale heart,
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And not with his ears, but
with something else deep insidet. He's
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for sick brains speaking of telltale heart. I sorry, it's not how to
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talk. Just mister hurler, he's
knees knocking together. And if you think
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you're kidding Raymond, you're crazy.
I'm not kidding ed and mister Carlile's audiences,
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that's the equivalent of applause. Since
everything is generally much too scared to
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sell the usual approval with her hands, so we won't take any chances.
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We'll just use words and say thanks
for us called out for your splendid performance
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of tonight's staminization of pose the Telltale
Heart. If it's a pleasure, Raymond,
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to be able to bring our friends
one of the world's most famous stories.
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And I'm very grateful to whether it's
Sloan as Oliver and us or Theiaga
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who played Christy for the help that
they gave me. So now I suggest
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that you listen to ed Herlihy,
who has some helpful advice for which you
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may be very grateful. This is
Raymond again, your host, and getting
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ready to close that door to the
inner Sanctum and say good night until the
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same time next week. In the
meantime, if you care to do a
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little bloodthirsty reading, try this month's
in a Sanctum novel. I'll eat you
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last. I hate the Brandon in
case you've already read that, why not
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try some of the other stories by
the author of tonight's mystery drama Edre Allan
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Paul. According to all critics,
this writer has quiet a future. Have
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a good night you, Thank you. Mysteries will be on the here again
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next Sunday night. Stay in station, same time with an chiller four thriller
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fans they'll be With that said,
this is it early speaking for the makers
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and cutters, little liver pills,
and reminding you when you don't feel good,
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Why cutters, little liver pills,
the best friends, your sunny disposition.
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This is the Blue Network of the
National Broadcasting Company. Wasn't that simply
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chilling chill and a nice balance with
the hot cocoa? I would say,
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as you've drunken all of it,
well, I'm glad you enjoyed yourself as
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much as I did. I might
have to make you another cup sometime,
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especially when we have a night as
cold and dark as this one is.
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This one, but the night is
nearly over now, the sun will be
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up soon, in my time will
be over yet again until of course tomorrow.
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Now I look forward to seeing you
again. Make sure to find me
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on your radio dial because I assure
you we I'll be waiting for you.
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And if you want to child and
get a hold of me, you can
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go to weirdash Mysteries dot com.
You can contact me. You can maybe
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even leave a tip, because,
believe it or not, where I am
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money is still quite handy and I
could use the support, I suppose,
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but really, all I ask is
that you yourself show up again again,
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So please please come back tomorrow night. Until then, good night night,
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get into your warm bed and appreciate
what you've got.
