Oct. 20, 2024

Unknown Broadcast | "Vanishing Lady" "The Skull That Walked" "Dead Ernest" "No Hiding Place"

Unknown Broadcast | "Vanishing Lady" "The Skull That Walked" "Dead Ernest" "No Hiding Place"
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Well, hello, my dear, it seems to be another beautiful night. Huh.

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It's a wonderful time of year. Yes, yes, still can't

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believe it was just one year ago and I started

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seeing you every so often, that you would wander in

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the dark just to spend a little, a little of

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your tide with me or what's that? Oh no, no,

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I'm very happy about it, and very happy tonight. I

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figure we could sit back and enjoy a little extra

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yet again. So sit down in my favorite chair. Don't worry,

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they can't get in, I promise. This first one is

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is all about what happens when you deal with a

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vanishing lady.

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Tired of the everyday routine, ever dream of a life

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of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all.

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We offer you Escape, Escape designed to free you from

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the four walls of today for a half hour of

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high adventure.

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Tonight, we escape to pre war Paris and the terrifying

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experience of a young English girl who is the victim

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of a gigantic conspiracy of silence. As Alexander Walcott tells

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it in his version of the legend, The Vanishing Lady, a.

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Cup of tea brews no thank you, my dear. I

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think I'll just have a Johnny Walker and soda and

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take a look at the evening stamper.

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I'd like another, please, Mother, all right, Alice, only one sugar, tear.

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We must watch our figures.

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Nonsense.

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A going girl like Alice needs plenty of.

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Sugar, see mother, Daddy of Prune perhaps, but mother is

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still boss.

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Yes, Mother, she certainly, Alice.

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Mother, here's dear, I've been thinking. Here's dear, I've been

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thinking about my grandparents.

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Oh.

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I know all about Daddy's parents. How grandfather Stanley commanded

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a dreadnought at the Battle of Jackland.

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And how it was not a dreadnought, Alice, it was

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a heavy cruiser.

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Or a heavy cruiser and he got the VC. And

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how grandmother Stanley was a volunteer nurse at Westwall Arch

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when the Zeppelins came over. And I know about your

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father too, and how he died in India from his rooms,

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and how gallant he was.

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At the Kuiper Pass.

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But Mother, yes, dear, you never told me anything about

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grandmother Winship. I I haven't no, and I'd like to

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know something.

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About And a child sixteen, I think it's time she knew,

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but Bruce, and you'll probably feel better to get it

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off your chest.

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What Mother, what is it? Oh, my dear, I've never

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talked about your grandmother because well, I've always half believed

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that some day, somehow she would come down our garden

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walk and then I know it sounds silly, but explain

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where she has been for the last twenty years. Why

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what happened to her?

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I don't know.

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I don't suppose I ever will.

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Well I, Cynthia Darling, if it's going to upset, No.

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No, no, Bruce, You're quite right. It would be best

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to get it off my chest, as you put it, Alice.

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As you know, I was born and brought up in India.

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I was about your age. When my father was killed

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in the Cable Campaign. Mother decided to leave India for

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good and returned to her old home in Warwickshire. However,

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it was necessary for her to go to Paris to

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attend to some details of my father's estate. The Great

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Paris Exposition had just opened and the city was jammed

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with visitors from all over the world. You can imagine

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our relief when we arrived at the Grand Hotel Universal

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and heard the clerk say in quite understandable English.

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Ah, Madame, Mademoiselle Wynship, welcome, welcome, You will please to

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sign your register here and.

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Here you have our reservation.

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Indeed, yes, and you are most fortunate, Madame, that you

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telegraphed for I have reserved for you the last room

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in the house.

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Ah.

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I'm so relieved.

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Here, Cynthia, you may as well now to sign a

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register for yourself. Yes, Mama, where do I ride there

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on that line?

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Oh?

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Yes, I see.

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Well you have fatigue from your journey.

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Yes, I shall have the boys show you to your

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wounds at once, Madame, and Mademoiselle Wynship, and you may

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or twas so charan.

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To sweet machine.

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These are your baggage, madam.

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Yes, these six the baggage. Yes, Cynthia, you just carry

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the little one with the medicine in it. Yes, thank you.

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I'll take that one, the little red one.

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Yeah, this sailing is Keep.

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Your eye on that port of Cynthia. I don't trust

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this frenchman. I don't think he'll make off without things. Mama,

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here's the list, you.

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Know what I mean.

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I do wish we could have gone straight on to Southampton,

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but you only have had to come back across the

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channel to see the solicitor. We really save time this way,

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I suppose. I mean, I wish we hadn't had to

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come to Paris at all. It's it's such a sinister place.

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Oh mama, Well.

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They swell ladies the eye and care on Hu's care.

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Ladies.

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What a lovely big group. Oh look, mama, French windows

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and the park out there, and that square with the statues.

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On here, thank you ladies.

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Oh my mind, it's like something out of a book. Yes,

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my dear, that's the trouble with Paris. It's so attractive.

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But underneath it's even the gilt clock, this lovely marble table.

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Oh mamma, everything's so so so French. Well, I'll be

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very glad to be on my way to wear everything's

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English by this time tomorrow. No, come away from that

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window and help me get into something comfortable. There's a

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do yes, yes, mama. I don't know when I've been

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so tired.

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I just can't.

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Seem to catch Mama, Mama, what's the matter. Mama, speak

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to me. Oh here, I'll get you up in the bed. Now,

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let me loose in your corset. Here, mamma, here are

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the smiling, salts breathe deeply. Mama, Oh the telephone. I've

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got to get a doctor. Please hurry, please, hello operator,

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Will you please send a doctor up to room number

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Let me see number three four two. Will you please

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send a doctor to room number three four to two.

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This man was dizzy and doctor, please a doctor, doctor, women.

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I'm quite sure it was not long, although it seemed

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like an eternity before the doctor arrived, accompanied by the

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manager of the hotel. To my great relief, the doctor

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spoke English, he felt mother's poets, took her temperature, did

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the usual things that doctors do, and then he turned

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to the tail coded hotel.

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Manager measured firm doctor force pass. It's you, absolutely, monsieurs,

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she said to Fraserus losco Metre said family to Pando

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the best, and I couldn't reviva wood si less you

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say for tatel, Pierre dust jeer non sa malo tell

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me to Paris bidoracid and us exposes yoursel.

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The talk in this language I couldn't understand. I looked

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from one face to the other, trying to read from

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their expressions how serious my mother's earnest was. They were

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as casual as though they were ordering dinner. Finally I

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could stand no longer. They must please you. You must

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tell me what's the matter with.

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Her, Mademoiselle, your mother, I say, yes, seriously, it is

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a collapse. I do perhaps this train of traveling, however,

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a week or two of absolute rest will work.

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One day, a week or two. Well, we were to

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go on to England tomorrow, Oh, that.

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Would be out of the question.

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Mademoiselle. She cannot be moved for at least several days.

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Right now she must have complete hast. The next twenty

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four hours will be critical. No, no, no, no, Mademoiselle

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Lester right down too. I need your help.

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Yes, yes, of course, doctor.

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Immediately I need some mezine.

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Will you fetch it for me?

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Yes?

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But Melo is more.

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I must not leave your mother for a moment during

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his critical hours. Here I will write down this address

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and a little message to my wife.

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Your wife.

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Yes, I have the medicine already prepared at my home.

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It would be faster to go there for it to

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a pharmacy. There are very few chemists who have the ingredients.

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Couldn't you telephone malus, I have no telephone. Well, here

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is the address. Twenty four piece re volcas and here

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is the message to give to my wife.

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But doctor, I don't know Paris atolla. I'm a total

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stranger here.

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I'm sure the manager here will give the necessary instructions

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to the taximan.

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But certainly if Mademoiselle is ready.

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Before I quite knew what was happening, I was seated

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in a rickety taxicab outside the hotel, the doctor's message

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clutched in my hand, while the hotel manager gave valuable

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directions to the cab.

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Wow, tell stay on taxi to nerf not monsouvenevou brune

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la route la pri Land, conduize la pri Land mont

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posy SUSO can't pret text nou la ramney passisia mondezer camprite.

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It is arranged.

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Mademoiselle Jacques is one of our most trusted chauffeur. He

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will get you to the doctor's house and back in safety.

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Oh, thank you so much, sir, And you'll look after

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my mother. Thank you.

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But of car sab that you may be sure, how

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lazy an tondie siso lappies.

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When we left the hotel, we crossed a huge square

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with statues around it, and turned into a wide avenue,

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which led up a gentle inclined at the top of

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which was a huge arch. But before long we turned

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off to the right into narrower streets. It must have

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been twenty minutes later when we turned into another wide

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boulevard and I saw another huge arch up ahead or

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was it the same Buche haven't we passed that arch before?

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We're mademoiselle, while I lock de trion while I lock.

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Please, I don't want a sightseeing tour. I want to

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go to this address directly. Don't you understand now? Please

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take me there at once.

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Office score blue, Mademoiselle, the sway don't kill eleben said

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by your mail Marta.

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At last we turned into a narrow street and pulled

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up before a grim gray house. The blue and emo

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sign on the wall read number twenty four pieces. I

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jumped out of the cab almost before it stopped, rushed

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up the three stone steps and called at the boss

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dell no, hurry, hurry, hurry, please please hurry monjeu mademoiselle,

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monsieur le doctor by the doc go send me for

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some medicine and be here. Read this please.

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Goodney, sir gianfanmo signor percine.

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De barri membe la france, autrey.

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Thank you. The doctor's wife stood there reading you re,

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reading the note as though she didn't understand it, and

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until I thought I would scream, Oh, please, please hurry,

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give me the medicine. It's my mother. She may be dying.

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I must get back to her. Please hurry, I see you.

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She pointed to a chair and slowly walked down the

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horn and closed the door behind her. I waited and waited,

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and wondered about the time the cab had taken to

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get here, about that arch that looked so familiar, And

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I was torn by the hundred nameless anxieties that taught

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you and your nearest and dearest is ill. And then

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I heard something that throws my blood. A telephone, a

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telephone clearly ring somewhere in the house. But the doctor

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had said he had no telephone. That was the reason

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I must come all this way for the medicine. Oh no, no,

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it couldn't be in this house. It it must be

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next door or across the street. Of course, that's where

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the sound was coming from. But no, it was the

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voice of the doctor's wife answering the phone. Oh no, no,

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what monstrous plot was this? I felt my scalp crawled

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with terror, my brain pondered, my head fellows though it

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would burst. I wanted to scream, to run out of

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this awful house, to run all the way across Paris

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to the bedside of my mother.

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While that meets you, Oh, thank you, thank you.

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Now driver, please please, in the name of your own mother,

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hurry back to the hotel as fast as possible.

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Please, in just a moment, we continue with the second

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act of escape. But first, no, you won't be hearing

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double that'll be Groucho Marx appearing on two different CBS

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shows tomorrow night, first in his own hilarious ad lib

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quiz you bet your Life, and then immediately following as

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Bing Crosbie's guest don't miss this great meeting on CBS

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tomorrow night. And now we return you to.

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Escape.

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I pleaded with the taxi driver. I begged him to hurry.

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I explained to him in tears that my mother was

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desperately ill. But the taxicab never increased its speed. We

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crept across Paris just as slowly as we had come,

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until at last we pulled up before the entrance of

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the hotel.

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Weller, Mademoiselle.

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I jumped out of the cab, and then I saw

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the sign over the hotel entrance. It said, Hotel rich

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a driver, You've taken me to the wrong hotel. I'm

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staying at the Grand Hotel Universal.

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No, Mademoiselle, wose rich is ramineo reach a vasa forsy

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corto koto it way you made yet more.

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Or puce please. I don't understand what you're saying, but

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I want you to take me to the Grand Hotel Universal.

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The City's secretions, the city secrets for me, said.

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Don't?

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She was all redo, you stupid, stupid man. Can't you

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understand my mother is ill. You've taken more than two

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hours to get me to that doctor's house in back?

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Can't you understand my mother is sick, perhaps.

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Dying, Mademoiselle for problem, No, rup don't she was.

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Universe?

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Was all.

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I looked around me. A small group of pursers bar

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I had stopped and were listening curiously to the argument,

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and then they joined in, taking salves everywhere. I looked

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for foreign things as stranger's enemies, and then, shouldering through

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the crowd, I saw the bareheaded young man in tweeds

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with a pipe planting his teeth, and before he had

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a chance to speak, I knew that help her come

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having some trouble, Thank Heaven and Englishman.

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Yes, that's right. What seems to be the matter?

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I told him rapidly as I could, and he paid

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the Muish cab driver popped me into another cabin. Five

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minutes later we walked into the lobby of the Grand

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Hotel Universal. The manager was behind the desk. Please, my mother,

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is she all right? I beg your pardon, my mother,

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missus Winship in three four two? Is she all right?

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There is no Madam Windship in three four two? What

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three four two is occupied by Monsieur August NOA, I

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a permanent guest.

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Please don't you remember me? I'm Cynthia Winship. Two hours

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ago you put me into a taxi to go to

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the doctor's house with some medicine for my mother.

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I'm afraid Mademoiselle is mistaken. I have never seen her

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before in my life.

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When I look here, what is it?

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No, listen, I swear to you it is as I say.

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We signed a register less than three hours ago. We

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got in on a train from Marseille.

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Well, now, let's have a look at the register.

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Oh yes, yes, sir, I'll show you. I'm in three

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four two. Where is the register?

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Is here?

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Mademoiselle.

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You may see for yourself see today's date, fourteen guests register.

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But I don't see any of Mademoiselle, Madame Winship?

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Do you? But?

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But this is monstrous, It's impossible. My mother is somewhere

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in this hotel. What have you done with her?

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What have you done with her?

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Now?

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How do you appear on Miss Winship?

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Better?

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Thank you?

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Sir, was very nourishing.

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Well when you have something else? Saad? Or a bit

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of gross?

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No? No, thank you?

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Just a cup of tea?

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Perhaps, Gilson, monsieur, mademoiselle, do we miss you?

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I don't know how to thank you. Mister. Do you

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realize I don't even know your name?

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Well, it's Bruce, Bruce Stanley.

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I'm glad to meet you, mister Stanley.

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Why, it's a pleasure in Miss Winship.

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Mister Stanley, you believe me, don't you?

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Of course I do.

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We did register that hotel. We were in room three

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four two. Why I can even describe the furnishings. There

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was a big window that went from the ceiling to

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the floor.

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Every hotel room in Paris has windows like that, Miss Winship.

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They do, yes, well, in this room, the draperies were

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plum colored, and there was a marble top table black

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marble it was, and a guilt clock. It had run

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down the hand stopped. I remember it at twenty minutes

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past three. The walls were covered in rose brocade, and

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the bedspread was a washed out yellow.

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Or.

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If I could only get into that room, you'd see

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that I'm not making this up.

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No, I'm sure that you are not, and perhaps I

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can find a way to make them let you in

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the room. You can, Yes, we'll see. I'm with the

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Embassy under secretary sort of thing. I believe that the

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British Empire has enough influence to change the mind of

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an obstinate Paris in keeper.

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Well, then let's do it right away.

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Well, I'm afraid the might have Britain can't move that

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fast past dinner time. But tomorrow we shall see it tomorrow.

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Oh, but I must get in that room tonight. I

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have no money and no way to sleep.

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Well, we can do nothing with the people at the hotel.

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You saw that.

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We'll just have to be patient until tomorrow. I'm sure

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that I can find a room for you tonight and

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a party on near the embassy.

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You're you're so very kind. How can I ever thank you?

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Mister Stanley.

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You you might begin by calling me books. Thank you, Bruce,

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thank you, Cynthia. Oh oh, what is it?

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I just thought of something. The doctor. The doctor, yes,

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the one the hotel manager brought in to look after mother.

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I still have his address somewhere here in my bag.

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Just a minute, Yes, here it is. We must go

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there immediately. He can tell us about mother.

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Twenty four best as well. It's not fine. That's just

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off the bus by. It's near the German Panas.

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So how long would it take to get there by taxi?

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But it took over an hour this afternoon.

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While I'm miss sure van catbistri val grass.

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Here we are, yes, yes, this this is the place.

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The girl m the horse is dark.

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Well, it's quite late.

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And I don't care. We've got to find out tonight.

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He don't bar where is he?

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Oh? Is that there the upstairs window? A monsiela doctor? Say, mademoiselle, Winship.

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Go ahead, Winship.

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He says, he doesn't know.

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You, but he must, he must doctor. Don't you remember

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this afternoon? You you sent me here to your house

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for medicine for my mother?

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And he says he doesn't understand English.

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The liar, he does. He speaks perfect English.

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But the aspect police.

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Sorry, Cnthia.

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Bruce, What am I going to do? What am I

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going to do? If it hadn't been for Bruce, I'm

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certain I should have gone out of my mind that

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dreadful night. He found a room for me at Poncion,

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near the embassy, where I spent a sleepless night. I

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tossed and turned and worried myself in an agony almost

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beyond endurance. Where was my mother? What had they done

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with her? Bruce called for me at half past ten

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the next morning and took me back to the hotel.

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To my surprise, the attitude of the manager had changed completely.

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But of course Mademoiselle may inspect Room three hundred forty two.

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We are only too glad to convince Mademoiselle to her

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mother is not and never was in the Grandetel Universay. Hi,

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I never, I personally will escort you to the room

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this way, Please do the acencer, Oh Bruce.

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That terrible man, that horrible, horrible Asna.

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Don't let him upset you.

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Now, Bruce, Remember but I told you last night you'll

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see come color draperies, black marble top table, rose was

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and a girl club with hands stopped at twenty minutes

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past three, you'll see.

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Yes, my lady, this way it was room three hundred

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and forty two.

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You wish to see, Mademoiselle.

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Yes, that's right, third door to the right, So here

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we are. Oh you see, Bruce, I know where it is.

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Yes, my dear.

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Voila at a please.

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Now, Bruce. Now you'll see the yellow bed speller.

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Not quite the room you just described in the elevator, Mademoiselle.

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The drapes are royal blue. Hey, little Dusty, I fear

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I must have this room right now, debated, There is

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no marbletop tape.

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No.

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Hey, the clock, as you notice, is running.

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No.

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And right on time.

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It seems.

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The walls are not rose brocade but yellow flower.

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Now, dear mademoiselle, you see how thoroughly mistakes.

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They had tried to make me think I was mad.

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They succeeded. I remembered nothing until I awoke in my

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aunt's house. In England two weeks later, thanks to Bruce,

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who never left my side during those terrible days when

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my sanity hung in the balance. Well, I listen, that's

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the story. That's why I've never been able to talk

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to you about your grandmother winship. Oh mother, how horrible,

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because all these years I've clung to the foolish hope

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that somehow she'd come back and tell us herself what happened.

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You, poor dear, you may as well dispel that hope forever. Cynthia,

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what well, since you've at last brought yourself to discuss

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your mother's disappear inside, I think it's time you knew

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the true facts. Ooose your mother died twenty minutes after

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you left the hotel on that fool's errand with the

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doctor no she She died of the bubonic plague. She

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caught it in India before she sailed. The doctor recognized

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the symptoms the moment he examined her. He told the

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hotel manager in French in your presence. They agreed that

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the matter must be kept completely secret. If the news

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leaked out that there was a case of plague in Paris,

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the city would have been emptied of visitors, and the

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exposition would have been a failure. Oh oose, The conspiracy

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of silence began in the hotel. The bell boy was

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paid to claim I never saw you. The taxi driver

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was paid to take you to the doctor's house by

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the most roundabout route. The note to the doctor's wife

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advised her to detain you as long as she could,

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and the taxi driver added his own imagined touch by

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returning you to the Ritz instead of the universe.

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Eal.

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I shudder to think what might have happened if I

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hadn't come through the plasvandor just then. But you didn't know,

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not then?

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When did you find out?

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The next morning? By then the conspiracy had grown to

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international proportions. The embassy had been advised if the exposition

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was a failure, the frank would fall and the pound

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sterling would be affected.

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That that sort of thing.

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I knew when we went back to the hotel, you

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would not find your plum drapes and rose colored walls

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and black marble topped tables.

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And you let me go through with that.

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What could I do, Cynthia, I was acting under orders.

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I knew that the hotel had completely fumigated and redecorated

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the room overnight, and everything was in readiness. To repudiate

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your story, I had to let the last actor that

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dreadful fast play do it's dreadful end.

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What did they do with mother?

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Her body was removed from the room less than thirty

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minutes after you left it and immediately burned.

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Why why didn't you tell me years ago? Why did

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you let me go on all this time?

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This is the first time that you've ever mentioned your

481
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mother since then, My dear.

482
00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:37.400
Alice. Yes, mother, there's a new issue of the Tattler

483
00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:40.519
in the library. Wouldn't you like to look at it?

484
00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:45.440
Good Mother? I'm no, there there's a good girl. I

485
00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:50.039
want to have a talk with your father.

486
00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:10.039
Escape is produced and directed by William N.

487
00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:10.640
Robson.

488
00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:14.559
Tonight we have presented The Vanishing Lady by Alexander Wilcott,

489
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:18.279
freely adapted for radio by mister Robson. Featured in the

490
00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:21.599
cast were Joan Banks as Cynthia, Ben Ryder is Bruce,

491
00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:24.880
Anthony Ross is the doctor, and John Hoyt as the

492
00:29:24.920 --> 00:29:29.759
hotel manager. Also heard were Irene Tedrow, Ramsey Hill Nan Boardman,

493
00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:34.319
Daphneil Callahan, and Paul Freeze. Special music was composed and

494
00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:35.880
conducted by Del Castillio.

495
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:47.200
My my, the chill of me air is persistence, isn't it?

496
00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:50.880
Isn't it? Well? Well, luckily I have no shortage of

497
00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:54.960
hot tea to share with you, so please don't worry.

498
00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:59.240
I'll freshen your cup right now. Oh yes, yes, of course,

499
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:02.599
of course, plenty of wood for the fire here, I'll

500
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:07.720
put one on right now. So as I was digging

501
00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:11.559
around trying to find something fun and frightening for us

502
00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:16.160
to share, as I do love our visits, I found

503
00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:19.640
this little bast about something even I had never heard

504
00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:27.039
of in all of my years. The skulls skulls that walked.

505
00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:45.319
Hmmm, good evening, This is Sergeant X.

506
00:30:46.599 --> 00:30:49.359
They say that ghosts and the like just don't exist,

507
00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:53.039
and when a person passes on, he just lies quietly,

508
00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:55.720
not bothering another soul, so to speak.

509
00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:58.000
You believe that, don't you.

510
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:00.680
Well?

511
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.759
Did you ever hear about the skull that walked?

512
00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:04.880
No?

513
00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:29.640
Then listen, my friends, to the Mystery Playhouse. I guess

514
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:33.119
superstition is a pretty hard thing to down completely, isn't it.

515
00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:38.039
I mean, under certain circumstances, almost anybody can get the

516
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:42.079
creeps and get them good. I guess most of us

517
00:31:42.119 --> 00:31:45.839
are a little bit afraid of the unknown. For instance,

518
00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:50.319
taking a midnight stroll through a graveyard isn't exactly your

519
00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:53.119
idea of fun, is it? And I don't suppose you

520
00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:56.319
particularly go into ecstasies if you happen to witness a good,

521
00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:01.480
gory murder either. Well, there's all I know who thinks

522
00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:03.720
this all comes under the heading of good clean fun.

523
00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:08.960
His hobby is horror, and he likes to tell stories

524
00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:12.000
along those lines. I think he has one for you

525
00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:23.480
right now. Wait till I try this door here, Good.

526
00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:29.319
Evening, friends of the n Sanctum. This is Raymond, your hosts.

527
00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:31.799
Hell, come in, won't you?

528
00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:33.440
Yes?

529
00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:34.960
How are your spirits this evening?

530
00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:36.319
Oh?

531
00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:41.039
God, hear that our spirits are fine too. Would you

532
00:32:41.720 --> 00:32:45.920
like to see them? Oh, it's no trouble at all. Now,

533
00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:49.640
if which would you care to see first, the spirit

534
00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:53.279
or the body? Well, the body is right over there

535
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:58.680
on the floor, and the spirit is right next to it. Oh, oh,

536
00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:01.960
you can't see it. I forgot to tell you you

537
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:17.039
have to be one in order to see one. Shall

538
00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:18.160
we get started?

539
00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:19.119
Well?

540
00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:24.519
Naturally? Now turn out the lights. No, no, you won't

541
00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:25.519
see any ghosts in.

542
00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:26.240
The dark, but.

543
00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:28.720
They'll be able to see you.

544
00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:34.240
Far from town.

545
00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:38.039
A group of three hills on the summit of the

546
00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:41.200
highest of them is the Cruise estate, owned by two brothers,

547
00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:44.920
Arthur and Carl. At this moment, Carl and his wife

548
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.720
Lucille are digging a hole at the entrance of the estate,

549
00:33:48.200 --> 00:33:50.279
planting young poplar trees.

550
00:33:55.640 --> 00:33:57.000
Carl, I think it's deep enough.

551
00:33:58.160 --> 00:33:59.599
I think we ought to go a little deeper down.

552
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:04.400
M Oh, here, come, Spears, you're digging.

553
00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:07.000
Yes, we're going to flight a whole row of Lombardy poppers.

554
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:08.199
You mean right here?

555
00:34:08.360 --> 00:34:10.320
Yeah, we're gonna line both sides of the road.

556
00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:13.440
Perhaps you had better let me do it. I'm your caretaker.

557
00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:14.440
I should do the gardens.

558
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:17.199
You look upset. What's the matter?

559
00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:22.320
Well, the way you're digging is no Indian very is

560
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:22.679
a curse.

561
00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:25.840
Oh, don't worry about it, Spears. You don't believe it,

562
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:28.199
of course, not if you're still and I don't go

563
00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:29.079
in for superstition.

564
00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:32.960
Yes, but it's no superstition. Sorry, it's you hit a rock.

565
00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:39.840
That sounds like a rock, little hollow. Figure it up

566
00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:50.639
whatever it is. We school, Yes, Scarf Spears is right.

567
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:53.199
Space must have been an old Indian burial around.

568
00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:53.760
Please put it.

569
00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:57.159
Back, keep it, car, Perhaps you'd better put it.

570
00:34:57.639 --> 00:35:00.280
Please, please bear it again, mister Cruz. It will bring

571
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:01.480
bad luck to all of them.

572
00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:03.880
No, Spears, that's just a silly superstition.

573
00:35:04.679 --> 00:35:06.519
What about the rest of the skeleton.

574
00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:11.480
It doesn't seem to be one.

575
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:15.480
No, just a skull.

576
00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:16.880
Huh.

577
00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:21.039
You bring it into the hospital, Spirits. I'd rather not,

578
00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:23.000
all right, I'll take it in myself.

579
00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:23.840
Don't either.

580
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:25.320
Have you mentioned this to my brother Arthur.

581
00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:28.119
He's terribly scared of things like this, and he's just

582
00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:29.559
gotten over his nervous breakdown.

583
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:33.280
Carl, perhaps you should put the skull back, Steal.

584
00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:35.639
You're not being taken in by this. Who come about curses?

585
00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:35.920
Are you?

586
00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:40.880
That sounded like my wife Mary. She was cleaning the windows.

587
00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:44.960
Good.

588
00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:50.519
She fell out of the window, Mary, Mary, Mary, But

589
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:54.320
she's unconscious. Please do something, You must do something.

590
00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:58.159
I'm afraid there's nothing we can do, Spears. She hit

591
00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:11.320
her head against a rock. She's dead, how Spears, he's

592
00:36:11.400 --> 00:36:14.599
quieted down. I can't understand it. There's only one rock

593
00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:17.440
underneath the window, and Marry hit that that one rock.

594
00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:19.679
There isn't even a pebble around for yards.

595
00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:21.280
So go imagining things again.

596
00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:24.360
Arthur Spears kept talking about a curse.

597
00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:26.840
Spears believes in pixies and gremlins too.

598
00:36:26.920 --> 00:36:29.559
Don't forget well, I feel rather funny about it all.

599
00:36:29.880 --> 00:36:32.639
Oh, Carl, maybe you'd better switch some more lambs on.

600
00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:34.800
This living room feels gloomy.

601
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:36.639
Oh, let's cut this nonsense.

602
00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:36.960
Ot.

603
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:39.880
Wait you hear anything?

604
00:36:41.719 --> 00:36:41.920
Oh?

605
00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:45.119
I don't, yees.

606
00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:47.960
Nothing is coming from the ceiling.

607
00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:50.519
What's coming from the ceiling? I don't hear.

608
00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:53.559
What is It?

609
00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:59.559
Must be the beams. I sometimes do that.

610
00:36:59.559 --> 00:36:59.960
From the heat.

611
00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:02.559
It's not the beams, it's too regular a sound.

612
00:37:03.800 --> 00:37:05.920
What room is directly above us?

613
00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:08.760
It's an old bedroom. We use it as a store

614
00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:10.159
room now. It hasn't been opened in years.

615
00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:13.360
Something up there.

616
00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:16.039
Of copsairs, A lot of old things from years back.

617
00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:18.360
Did you bring the scarf?

618
00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:19.960
The scar yes?

619
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:26.840
What are you too whispering? It's coming down the stairs settlements.

620
00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:30.400
So far?

621
00:37:32.199 --> 00:37:35.440
Look at your feet, Carl.

622
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:36.679
The skull?

623
00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:40.719
How did they get down here?

624
00:37:41.679 --> 00:37:43.920
It came down the steps.

625
00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:47.760
Seems to be looking up a skull?

626
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:50.960
How did it get into the house?

627
00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:54.679
Carl found it while digging. Spears said it belongs to

628
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:56.199
the minion Spears was right.

629
00:37:56.960 --> 00:37:58.159
There is a curse on the house.

630
00:37:58.719 --> 00:37:59.480
We'll all be killed.

631
00:37:59.519 --> 00:37:59.960
I'm leaving.

632
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:06.559
I can't stand this, will Car. What are you going

633
00:38:06.639 --> 00:38:07.320
to do with the skull?

634
00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:10.239
Lock it up in the closet.

635
00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:14.760
Lock it, Carl, you'd better bury it again.

636
00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:17.679
I can't do that, Lucille.

637
00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:22.599
If I do, it means I believe in all this

638
00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:23.880
tummy rod about ghosts.

639
00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:27.400
And suppose you tell me how a skull could open

640
00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:29.800
a door and then come bouncing down the steps.

641
00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:31.440
I don't know.

642
00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:34.800
Maybe someone's playing a trick.

643
00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:40.039
Honestly, what happened to Mary was no trick, Carl, nor.

644
00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:43.000
Is this and you know it well, whatever it is,

645
00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:44.880
I'm not going to bury it. We'll keep it locked

646
00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:48.599
up in the closet. Yes, what is it, sirs?

647
00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:51.000
It isn't my place to tell you so.

648
00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:54.400
But you're referring to the skull, aren't you, Yes, sir, Well,

649
00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:55.519
it won't bother us anymore.

650
00:38:56.400 --> 00:38:56.760
Whole thing.

651
00:38:56.920 --> 00:39:00.440
Some queer trick got it safely hidden in the closet.

652
00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:02.320
I'm putting a lock on the outside.

653
00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:03.960
But the lock isn't going to do any good, sir.

654
00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:06.679
It will break through the door, just like.

655
00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:07.360
The last time.

656
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:11.039
I don't think anything like that can happen again. I'm

657
00:39:11.079 --> 00:39:12.679
the only one that has the key to this lock.

658
00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:16.480
If the skull wants to break out, you have to

659
00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:17.880
come to me for the key.

660
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:28.639
How are you feeling, Arthur, I'll never feel right in

661
00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:29.360
this house again.

662
00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:34.440
Whole nonsense. I just put a light on. Days there's

663
00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:36.679
morbid sitting here in the dark by yourself.

664
00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:38.639
We're all going to die.

665
00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:43.719
Don't be ridiculous out her. Where is the skull where

666
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:46.199
it can't get out? Tomorrow I'll take it into town

667
00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:47.119
and let the police look at it.

668
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:49.679
Tomorrow will be too late. But I'm getting tired of this.

669
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:52.719
You've got to get hold of yourself. You go completely

670
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:55.679
the pieces. You think I'm a coward, don't you.

671
00:39:56.119 --> 00:39:59.480
Oh no, you're not a coward.

672
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:03.280
He's just a victim of your own exaggerated imagination.

673
00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:07.480
Wait, there's someone at the door.

674
00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:11.440
I'll open it.

675
00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:15.559
Who is it?

676
00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:18.119
I I don't know.

677
00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:20.440
No one came in.

678
00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:23.440
Something came in. For having's sake. Put the light on.

679
00:40:26.840 --> 00:40:30.920
The skull happen. I can't believe it.

680
00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:32.639
You can't believe it.

681
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:39.480
Where it is grinning at you from the floor, But

682
00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:40.400
you can't believe it.

683
00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:42.400
You don't believe in these things.

684
00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:45.679
I put a lock on the door.

685
00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:46.840
Locks aren't going to help.

686
00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:50.760
Nothing is going to help. We're all going to die.

687
00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:02.559
It's it's an hour later now Arthur has gotten over his.

688
00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:05.360
Hysteria, but he is still terrified.

689
00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:08.280
I'm not going to spend another night in this house, Carl.

690
00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:10.719
But Arthur, there's got to be some logical explanation.

691
00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:13.119
I'm not in the least bit curious, and i just

692
00:41:13.239 --> 00:41:14.199
want to get out of here tonight.

693
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:15.320
I'm gonna go with him.

694
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:20.920
Carl se Well, guys, you will bury it again. We'll

695
00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:22.360
put it back in the same place we found That

696
00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:24.960
won't do any good. It's too late now, don't be ridiculous.

697
00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:26.679
If it wants anything at all, it wants to get

698
00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:30.280
buried again. I'm sure all this mysterious business will come

699
00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:31.679
to an end. As soon as we bury it.

700
00:41:32.119 --> 00:41:33.639
The house won't ever be the same.

701
00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:35.760
We'll stop it, both of you. You're acting like a

702
00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:36.880
couple of scared children.

703
00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:39.280
We'll put the skull back where we found it, and

704
00:41:40.159 --> 00:41:41.840
we won't be bothered by it anymore.

705
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:46.719
Spears Spears, Yes, mister, this.

706
00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:54.199
Skull, Let's take it out, bury it in the same place.

707
00:41:54.239 --> 00:41:54.920
Where we found it.

708
00:41:55.599 --> 00:41:59.519
I'm glad you reconsidered, sir. It's the only way.

709
00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:07.639
I don't seem to remember the spot.

710
00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:12.239
When it's on the other sides, right near the entrance road. Oh, yes, yes, sir,

711
00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:17.679
here it is. Yeah, but the hole we dug it's

712
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:20.400
not here. I filled an in.

713
00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:24.719
Oh well, we'd better take it out. Yes, if you

714
00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:26.239
hold the skull out to get open, we might as

715
00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:28.440
well do it, right. I know exactly how deep it was.

716
00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:30.960
If you don't mind, miss Screws, I'd rather not touch

717
00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:39.760
the skull. All right, Yeah, that's about right there. I

718
00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:43.800
will put the thing back, but it doesn't seem to

719
00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:44.920
want to go back now.

720
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:48.440
I just miss dropping it into the hole. Hold the

721
00:42:48.480 --> 00:42:53.960
face side down here, Yes, well that does it.

722
00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:55.159
Oh.

723
00:42:55.320 --> 00:42:57.239
I hope we'll have no more trouble.

724
00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:05.000
Welcome.

725
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:06.199
Did you bury it?

726
00:43:06.639 --> 00:43:08.039
Yes, same place.

727
00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:09.639
That's all.

728
00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:11.400
Forget about it, shall we?

729
00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:15.480
Maybe it's easy for you, Carl. I won't forget about

730
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:16.400
it for a long time.

731
00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:19.519
Neither will I. I'll be having nightmares about it for months.

732
00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:22.199
I don't know what's gotten into your seal. You're never

733
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:23.599
easily frightened.

734
00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:27.280
I'm not, But skulls that roll by themselves give me

735
00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:28.199
a funny feeling.

736
00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:32.840
We come on, let's play cards, hearts. We don't need

737
00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:35.000
more than three hands to play. We'll forget the whole

738
00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:38.960
crazy businesses. Okay, I might as well, all right, steal

739
00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:47.920
the cards. Okay, well we're getting back to normalcy.

740
00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:50.880
Huh, Arthur, that's your card.

741
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:54.159
That win came up suddenly?

742
00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:54.960
Who's first?

743
00:43:55.800 --> 00:43:56.119
You are?

744
00:43:56.800 --> 00:43:56.920
Oh?

745
00:43:57.880 --> 00:43:58.280
All right?

746
00:43:59.239 --> 00:43:59.360
Uh?

747
00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:00.440
Nine of diamonds.

748
00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:06.360
You're gone. Come on, throw a card.

749
00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:10.159
I think I hear something.

750
00:44:10.679 --> 00:44:11.320
Of course you do.

751
00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:12.239
The wind?

752
00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:15.800
No, I I thought I heard a rapping sound.

753
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:18.079
Look, just pay attention to the game and stop listening

754
00:44:18.119 --> 00:44:18.719
for sounds.

755
00:44:19.639 --> 00:44:20.320
Here's my curR.

756
00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:23.440
You threw a club diamonds, Sue.

757
00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:24.559
Oh, I'm sorry.

758
00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:25.880
Did you hear that?

759
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:27.599
What was it?

760
00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:31.800
It's only the wind blowing the shutter. Oh, come on,

761
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:34.239
let's play a card, Arthur.

762
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:35.800
Is someone at the door.

763
00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:40.519
Isn't the wind? Someone's outside? All right, I'll open the door.

764
00:44:41.320 --> 00:44:42.559
No, don't open the Please.

765
00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:45.119
Lucille, sitting here frightened, is gonna do it? Something good?

766
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:46.039
We've got to open the door.

767
00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:46.679
Don't open it.

768
00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:49.079
Card away the car.

769
00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:55.159
It was nothing, It's just the wind.

770
00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:57.360
You lying her place as white as a sheet.

771
00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:01.760
I know it's the skull. It's come back.

772
00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:04.719
I'll tell you it's nothing, just the wind.

773
00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:06.000
Nobody was there.

774
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:07.960
I'll see for myself.

775
00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:11.239
A scull.

776
00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:25.119
Oh, Missus Cruise. I I didn't hear you knock.

777
00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:28.679
I didn't. I want to talk to you, Spears.

778
00:45:29.239 --> 00:45:31.360
Yes, Missus Cruise, but it's rather late.

779
00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:33.440
You've been up late before.

780
00:45:33.880 --> 00:45:36.639
Oh, yes, but it's just as I'm tired tonight. I

781
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:38.639
don't mean to be rude.

782
00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:41.119
You been doing a lot of night work.

783
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:43.920
What are you referring to, Missus Cruise.

784
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:45.559
Spears.

785
00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:48.880
You don't really believe in skulls that move around by themselves,

786
00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:49.840
do you?

787
00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:53.800
I I warned your husband about it. It's a curse.

788
00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:56.360
Is it part of a curse for a skull to

789
00:45:56.519 --> 00:45:58.400
use a troll to one bury itself?

790
00:45:58.840 --> 00:45:59.559
Your troll?

791
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:02.679
My trowell? You're mistaken.

792
00:46:03.159 --> 00:46:05.119
No, I'm not. I just came from there.

793
00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:07.280
Why would I want to do anything like that?

794
00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:08.440
Why?

795
00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:09.880
That's why I'm here.

796
00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:13.679
I'd like to know why, Please, Missus Cruise. I'm tired.

797
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:15.119
We'll talk about it.

798
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:17.840
The more we'll talk about it now, Spears, right now,

799
00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:25.159
get out of my room, all right, I'm going straight

800
00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:28.559
to the police. I've got the trowell. You'll see if

801
00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:30.360
the skull left any fingerprint.

802
00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:33.360
You won't do that, missus cruise, yes, I will.

803
00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:36.480
All right, spears, just sit right where you are. I'll shoot.

804
00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:41.480
Please let the gun down. Start talking, it's all a mistake.

805
00:46:41.599 --> 00:46:46.039
If you don't start talking, I'll shoot in self defense.

806
00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:48.440
Did you dig up that skull?

807
00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:50.079
I did you?

808
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:53.480
Yes, yes, I did.

809
00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:56.079
And you roll the skull down the steps the first

810
00:46:56.159 --> 00:46:57.400
night it was in this house, didn't you?

811
00:46:57.599 --> 00:46:59.880
It was only a joker, and you also managed to

812
00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:00.719
open a closet.

813
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:02.519
Yes, but I whose skull is it?

814
00:47:03.480 --> 00:47:04.000
I don't know.

815
00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:06.840
You're lying That skull has something to do with you.

816
00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:12.079
I checked up on it. Your first wife disappeared. Perhaps

817
00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:14.360
the police can identify the skull, so.

818
00:47:14.440 --> 00:47:18.519
Please don't go to the police. I well, it was

819
00:47:18.679 --> 00:47:23.000
my first wife, Jane. I killed her. I didn't want

820
00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.440
your husband to bring the skull to the police, so

821
00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:27.480
I tried to scare all of you away from here,

822
00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:28.719
the safest measure.

823
00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:29.599
Go on.

824
00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:35.559
Yes, wait a minute, who rolled the skull into Arthur's room.

825
00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:37.199
It wasn't me.

826
00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:39.039
It must have.

827
00:47:41.400 --> 00:47:41.599
Was me.

828
00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:47.239
Perhaps you and I can work things out. I tried

829
00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:50.280
to frighten my dear brother in law, Arthur away, so

830
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:52.880
that I can have complete ownership of the entire estate.

831
00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:56.440
You say, Arthur is leaving tonight.

832
00:47:56.880 --> 00:48:02.079
Here, Perhaps we can help each each other. No one

833
00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:03.719
has to know of our little conversation.

834
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:05.639
No one is going to know.

835
00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:10.440
Well, now that we've both accomplished our purpose, maybe it

836
00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:13.159
would be the best thing to bury the skull again.

837
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:16.199
We'll do it now.

838
00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:24.360
Well, here we are.

839
00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:25.559
Let's hurry.

840
00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:27.480
They'll miss me if I'm out here too long.

841
00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:30.760
Perhaps we'd better dig another hole, doesn't matter. Will you

842
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:31.719
hold the skull.

843
00:48:33.360 --> 00:48:33.719
Rather not?

844
00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:36.800
You haven't suddenly gotten squeamish? Have you missed?

845
00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:39.559
Cruise with a skull in the ground and dig that hole?

846
00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:45.320
What's the matter?

847
00:48:47.599 --> 00:48:47.880
Skull?

848
00:48:48.840 --> 00:48:49.320
Look at it?

849
00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:50.159
What about it?

850
00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:51.199
It's moving?

851
00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:56.480
It is just the wind putting it up there. Yes,

852
00:48:56.920 --> 00:49:01.159
there is cheap enough. Now, hand me color? Oh, I

853
00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:03.599
forgot you. You won't do it all right, I'll get

854
00:49:03.639 --> 00:49:04.119
it myself.

855
00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:06.000
That's the matter.

856
00:49:06.840 --> 00:49:07.280
My hand.

857
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:11.280
I can't get my hand out, the jaws clean down.

858
00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:14.320
Please help me.

859
00:49:14.760 --> 00:49:17.239
You've got to help me do something.

860
00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:18.719
You've got to do something.

861
00:49:18.760 --> 00:49:19.519
You want to let me go?

862
00:49:20.679 --> 00:49:20.800
Oh?

863
00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:24.519
Please, Jane, Jane Darling I didn't mean to kid you.

864
00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:28.159
You're my wife. I didn't mean it. It was an accident.

865
00:49:28.760 --> 00:49:29.480
Do you believe me?

866
00:49:29.559 --> 00:49:30.840
I'll do anything.

867
00:49:31.400 --> 00:49:31.559
Hey?

868
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:50.119
Oh no, no, Jane, how is she cal.

869
00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:56.000
Pretty bad? Doctor says it's hopeless. There's nothing more I

870
00:49:56.039 --> 00:49:56.280
can do.

871
00:49:58.000 --> 00:49:58.719
Her hair.

872
00:50:00.039 --> 00:50:07.760
Turned completely white, out of her mind. Horrible Spears died

873
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:11.199
this morning. He never recovered consciousness, died.

874
00:50:11.039 --> 00:50:14.199
Of fright Everything else seems to make sense. But I

875
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:18.079
don't understand how the skull could have clamped its jaws

876
00:50:18.119 --> 00:50:18.840
on his hand.

877
00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:21.400
When he picked it up. He must have picked it

878
00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:25.280
up upside down. The lower jaw, which swings on a hinge,

879
00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:30.320
came down so frightened that his hand froze.

880
00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:30.639
To the skull.

881
00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:35.519
Spears was just frightened to death.

882
00:50:47.800 --> 00:50:47.880
Uh.

883
00:50:50.719 --> 00:50:55.280
I want that skull, yes, sir, I wanted as a

884
00:50:55.400 --> 00:51:01.920
knocker for the inner thanked in door, Good night, pleasant the.

885
00:51:12.280 --> 00:51:12.480
Well.

886
00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:17.239
Thank you very much, friend, Raymond. Your sense of humor

887
00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:20.920
is really quite refreshing. That isn't a gholie sort of way.

888
00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:25.159
We'll be trying your creaking door again soon for some

889
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:28.880
more laughs. All right, now, let's look in on the

890
00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:31.599
green room where the players are rehearsing the next performance

891
00:51:31.639 --> 00:51:32.559
in the mystery playhouse.

892
00:51:33.480 --> 00:51:34.519
Follow me, please.

893
00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:45.159
Come, want to cry?

894
00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:47.840
Say Dexter, how does it feel to be both a

895
00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:50.719
spy catching hero and the prospective bride group at the

896
00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:51.159
same time.

897
00:51:51.519 --> 00:51:53.840
At the moment, it feels like being the thirteenth sided

898
00:51:53.880 --> 00:51:55.440
dean in a ten built for twelve.

899
00:51:55.599 --> 00:51:58.079
Dog hous is always like this, Hey, finish your story, Samley.

900
00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:01.320
About Dexter reporting the German agent what's his name, Courtz?

901
00:52:01.440 --> 00:52:01.719
Courtz?

902
00:52:01.840 --> 00:52:03.960
Well, Dexter here figures that Courts is up to something,

903
00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:05.480
so he tips off the FBI.

904
00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:07.480
Hey, hey, you guys, take a look at that gall

905
00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:10.239
the black dress. That's fine talk for a guy who's

906
00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:11.159
about to get married.

907
00:52:11.400 --> 00:52:13.920
Go on, Stemmy, Dexter's only trying to change the subject.

908
00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:17.400
Well, following up Dexter's tip, the federal men trap Courts.

909
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:21.440
That was six weeks ago, So today, in three minutes,

910
00:52:21.480 --> 00:52:23.639
in fact, Kortz is going to get quite a shock.

911
00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:26.280
Quite a shock, you mean they're going to that's right

912
00:52:26.840 --> 00:52:29.599
at six o'clock. That'll be less than three minutes now

913
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:33.559
Kartz is being electrocuted. You want to read the newspapers, lieutenant,

914
00:52:33.599 --> 00:52:34.760
and find out about things.

915
00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:36.800
Well, when you just got back from the canal zone.

916
00:52:36.800 --> 00:52:40.000
You're likely to neglect the newspapers for the first few days. Hey,

917
00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:41.960
the gal behind us? What you said next to the

918
00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:43.000
gal behind us? Won?

919
00:52:43.079 --> 00:52:45.920
The black dress mob's too thick. I can't even turn

920
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:47.840
around to get a look at her. Hey, go on, stemmy,

921
00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:48.800
what was this Courts?

922
00:52:48.840 --> 00:52:50.920
After plans of a new type mortar?

923
00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:51.920
Wasn't it texted mortar?

924
00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:52.840
I can't say.

925
00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:55.079
Oh, don't be such a clam but it's taboo.

926
00:52:55.159 --> 00:52:55.519
I'll tell you.

927
00:52:55.800 --> 00:52:56.880
I'll get sure about it.

928
00:52:57.119 --> 00:52:59.280
Who's so come on, come on, let's get out of

929
00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:01.239
this mob and fire some less crowded joint.

930
00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:03.639
Huh, I'll take it easy. Let's have at least one

931
00:53:03.719 --> 00:53:09.000
drink here. And now we finally got to the baruch.

932
00:53:10.559 --> 00:53:12.079
Well, it's a matter of Texas and somebody step on

933
00:53:12.119 --> 00:53:12.599
your corns.

934
00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:15.599
Oh no, it felt like someone stuck a needle in

935
00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:17.920
my hand. But the way I'm wedged in here, I

936
00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:19.519
can't even lift my hand to see.

937
00:53:19.360 --> 00:53:23.199
He probably a pen scratched you for all these women about, Hey, Dexter.

938
00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:26.039
According to the clock on the wall there, Courts is

939
00:53:26.079 --> 00:53:28.360
being executed right this second, so it's.

940
00:53:28.559 --> 00:53:29.400
Kind of close in here.

941
00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:31.199
Let's get out and get some fresh air.

942
00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:33.559
Take a look in the mirror over the bar, Stanley.

943
00:53:33.960 --> 00:53:37.519
That woman behind me, that's what Dexter's been muttering about.

944
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:39.760
The brunette and black smooth.

945
00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:41.519
Hey, do you know her?

946
00:53:41.679 --> 00:53:43.079
It makes you think I know her well.

947
00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:45.599
I thought she nodded at you, just my nactual good looks.

948
00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:47.719
I never saw her before in my life.

949
00:53:47.920 --> 00:53:51.639
It's close in here. Let's get out and hardly.

950
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:54.320
I stopped climbing. Dexter good leaning on me.

951
00:53:54.679 --> 00:53:57.400
See it ain't Dexter just because he's going to be married.

952
00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:00.800
You shouldn't have mentioned marriage. Stanley. Way, he's leaning on me.

953
00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:03.920
He must have faded. That's all her fright context to

954
00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:06.280
take your way. Then, oh, I go to take care

955
00:54:06.280 --> 00:54:12.039
of myself. This Stanley he has painted or something.

956
00:54:12.119 --> 00:54:13.760
No kidding on, Texter's a practical.

957
00:54:14.039 --> 00:54:16.320
This isn't a joke. He's all gray about the lips.

958
00:54:16.360 --> 00:54:17.639
I'm looking, I mean, holding mismally.

959
00:54:19.599 --> 00:54:20.039
What's the matter?

960
00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:25.960
Text is all right?

961
00:54:26.599 --> 00:54:27.079
What's the matter?

962
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:29.960
What is it all right?

963
00:54:30.760 --> 00:54:30.800
No?

964
00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:32.320
He isn't it.

965
00:54:33.880 --> 00:54:35.840
I think he's dead. It's impossible.

966
00:54:36.400 --> 00:54:39.280
The doctor here, open this tolar or something. Just don't

967
00:54:39.360 --> 00:54:45.599
let him lay there, Please let the doctor through time.

968
00:54:45.679 --> 00:54:46.800
What on earth happens the doctor.

969
00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:48.519
Maybe he can tell us that the doctor.

970
00:54:48.360 --> 00:54:52.400
Robert here, crowd, Yeah, let's have a look. Help him

971
00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:56.840
turn this man over there. Looks like he's been suffocated.

972
00:54:57.039 --> 00:55:00.840
Doctor. Is he dead? He's dead, all right, he can't be.

973
00:55:01.639 --> 00:55:04.159
Only a minute ago he was standing here talking with us.

974
00:55:04.199 --> 00:55:06.320
He said something about somebody sticking a needle in.

975
00:55:06.360 --> 00:55:08.360
His hand, cleaned the black people on the back of

976
00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:09.000
his right hand.

977
00:55:09.039 --> 00:55:10.000
You what, don't touch him?

978
00:55:10.280 --> 00:55:10.800
Don't touch it.

979
00:55:11.920 --> 00:55:12.199
Hmm.

980
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:15.599
It's thin black cardboard, perfect circle, about a quarter an

981
00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:18.559
inch diameter, with a tiny hole in the exact center.

982
00:55:19.280 --> 00:55:19.559
Hmm.

983
00:55:20.679 --> 00:55:22.800
There's a small puncture in the skin on the back

984
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:24.960
of the right hand, right over the place where the

985
00:55:25.039 --> 00:55:28.440
circular piece of cardboard was. Drop of blood caused the

986
00:55:28.519 --> 00:55:32.280
cardboard to adhere to his hand. Somebody better call the police.

987
00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:32.760
The police.

988
00:55:33.079 --> 00:55:36.000
Why because it looks as if your friend here has

989
00:55:36.119 --> 00:55:36.760
been murdered.

990
00:55:36.880 --> 00:55:38.119
But that couldn't have been murdered.

991
00:55:38.119 --> 00:55:39.320
I was standing right beside.

992
00:55:39.119 --> 00:55:39.719
Him all the time.

993
00:55:39.960 --> 00:55:40.480
And sleep.

994
00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:42.079
Everybody, stay right where you are.

995
00:55:42.280 --> 00:55:44.599
And you over there, call the police department and asked

996
00:55:44.599 --> 00:56:04.079
for hermicide. I'm Detective Sardian Locke. You're the doctor. Called

997
00:56:04.079 --> 00:56:06.280
headquarters yes, that's right. Who's the guy on the floor.

998
00:56:06.480 --> 00:56:07.239
What happened to him?

999
00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:08.000
Willard Dexter?

1000
00:56:08.679 --> 00:56:10.280
As to what happened to him.

1001
00:56:10.239 --> 00:56:10.679
We don't know.

1002
00:56:10.760 --> 00:56:13.960
What you don't know. Who was Nurse Dexter at the time.

1003
00:56:14.239 --> 00:56:15.960
Well, Lieutenant and I were with him.

1004
00:56:16.280 --> 00:56:18.000
I was behind him until with this lady.

1005
00:56:18.039 --> 00:56:19.760
Oh you well, how about that lady?

1006
00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:20.880
Yes, I guess that's right.

1007
00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:23.159
Okay, then I want to take your two ladies and

1008
00:56:23.440 --> 00:56:27.119
you Lieutenant and you mister desided for questioning. We'll go

1009
00:56:27.239 --> 00:56:30.280
in this office here, a doctor, would you come along

1010
00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:31.440
to please argan?

1011
00:56:32.599 --> 00:56:35.760
All right? Just step in there, all right, Blondie, you too,

1012
00:56:36.719 --> 00:56:39.360
go on, get in there.

1013
00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:40.519
Am I arrested?

1014
00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:43.119
Are you look? Blondie? You will be in just about

1015
00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:44.239
one second if you don't get in.

1016
00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:46.679
There, all right, but don't call me blondie.

1017
00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:51.760
He don't let anyone in here. Ah, we got a

1018
00:56:51.800 --> 00:56:56.679
little privacy. Uh, Lieutenant, let's tell your story first. Well,

1019
00:56:57.639 --> 00:57:01.079
we were standing in the crowd. Your name had Max Lurbany, Okay,

1020
00:57:01.159 --> 00:57:03.960
go ahead. Stanley and Dexter and I were at the

1021
00:57:04.039 --> 00:57:08.280
bar in what are they order? Oh h well, Dexter

1022
00:57:08.440 --> 00:57:10.199
was on the right. I was in the middle and

1023
00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:13.480
Stanley was on the left, all right, go on. Dexter

1024
00:57:13.559 --> 00:57:15.639
said that someone stuck a needle in his hand, and

1025
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:16.760
suddenly he went.

1026
00:57:16.679 --> 00:57:17.760
Limp and fell to the floor.

1027
00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:20.320
Stargeant on the back of his right hand. I found

1028
00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:23.119
this little black cardboard disc. Eh, under the disc is

1029
00:57:23.159 --> 00:57:25.519
a small wound, and I've made a study of poisons.

1030
00:57:26.280 --> 00:57:28.800
I believe that this man Dexter was poisoned.

1031
00:57:28.960 --> 00:57:29.360
Poison.

1032
00:57:29.519 --> 00:57:32.280
Yes, there's a poison which taken internally may do no

1033
00:57:32.360 --> 00:57:35.079
harm at all, but the smallest bit introduced directly into

1034
00:57:35.079 --> 00:57:38.159
the blood stream causes almost immediate paralysis of the nerves

1035
00:57:38.320 --> 00:57:42.679
which control the breathing bod Poison Karrari. H as a

1036
00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:44.760
trace of what seems to be Karrari on the underside

1037
00:57:44.800 --> 00:57:45.599
of that black.

1038
00:57:45.559 --> 00:57:48.280
Cardboard disc, and you'll think he was murdy.

1039
00:57:48.679 --> 00:57:50.559
It appears probable, your idea.

1040
00:57:50.360 --> 00:57:52.840
Doctor, that someone jabbed a poison coated needle in the

1041
00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:53.800
Dexter's hand.

1042
00:57:53.800 --> 00:57:56.079
A minute or so before he collapsed. Why would a

1043
00:57:56.079 --> 00:57:58.800
guy get this stuff, Well, certainly not from the average

1044
00:57:58.880 --> 00:58:02.559
drug store. Prarie is made by the South American Indians.

1045
00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:04.320
It's very rare in this country.

1046
00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:05.840
Say Stanley, did.

1047
00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:08.480
You notice Dexter died at the same time Courts was

1048
00:58:08.519 --> 00:58:11.519
executing it, I hadn't select that the spy was electricated. Yes,

1049
00:58:11.559 --> 00:58:14.320
Sergeant Dexter was the clerk in the Army Ordnance Department

1050
00:58:14.320 --> 00:58:15.480
who suspected Courts.

1051
00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:16.199
And tipped off the FBI.

1052
00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:18.840
Eh, it couldn't have been a coincidence that they both

1053
00:58:18.920 --> 00:58:20.320
died it practically the same minute.

1054
00:58:20.880 --> 00:58:24.400
You don't suppose to hide dominator falls anything yet such

1055
00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:27.239
photo and fingerprint boys are here, right, will you dargan?

1056
00:58:27.880 --> 00:58:30.119
Now everyone just said tied him in it.

1057
00:58:31.960 --> 00:58:35.480
Say that's a rather unusual way to kill somebody, don't

1058
00:58:35.480 --> 00:58:38.800
you think. I wonder if that police sergeant is right

1059
00:58:39.480 --> 00:58:43.159
and the killer really is one of those four people. Wow,

1060
00:58:43.880 --> 00:58:45.679
it's too bad our time is all up. Or we

1061
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:48.599
could stay around and find out. I'm afraid you'll have

1062
00:58:48.679 --> 00:58:51.320
to wait until next time, when we present the entire

1063
00:58:51.440 --> 00:58:58.239
story of death in the Doghouse. This is Sergeant X

1064
00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:05.679
closing the doors of the mystery playhouse. Good Night sleep type.

1065
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:47.800
This is the Armed Forces Radio Service.

1066
01:00:13.159 --> 01:00:16.239
Well, that is a very fair point. You know, these

1067
01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:21.880
these stories don't exactly help with the the chills that

1068
01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:25.880
we're feeling, and do they? But they are all so

1069
01:00:26.159 --> 01:00:30.880
very much fun. What's that what's that. Well, I'm not

1070
01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:34.960
really sure. I'm sure. I suppose we'll find out together.

1071
01:00:36.840 --> 01:00:40.400
But how about this one? This one is all about

1072
01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:44.719
how important it is to be truthful with your friends,

1073
01:00:45.960 --> 01:00:55.519
especially when they're livingly challenges. You should always be Dead Earnest.

1074
01:00:57.800 --> 01:01:03.440
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1075
01:01:03.480 --> 01:01:09.079
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1076
01:01:09.159 --> 01:01:12.880
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1077
01:01:12.559 --> 01:01:15.679
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1078
01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:24.000
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1079
01:01:24.559 --> 01:01:28.199
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1080
01:01:28.639 --> 01:01:37.800
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1081
01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:40.280
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1082
01:01:40.519 --> 01:01:41.840
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1083
01:01:42.559 --> 01:01:47.119
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1084
01:01:47.199 --> 01:01:53.800
Americans than any other wine. For friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. Yes,

1085
01:01:54.000 --> 01:01:57.199
right now a glassful would be very pleasant as Roma

1086
01:01:57.239 --> 01:02:00.239
Wines bring you Wally Mayer in a remarkable.

1087
01:01:59.800 --> 01:02:02.800
Ty hellow suspense.

1088
01:02:04.880 --> 01:02:08.440
Accident reports submitted to Police Inspector Brandon from Lieutenant Steve Healy,

1089
01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:12.800
placed Fifteenth Street and Fourth Avenue, time two forty five pm,

1090
01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:18.719
eleven remarks. Ernest Bowers, age thirty four, was crossing the

1091
01:02:18.800 --> 01:02:21.840
intersection as signal light changed from green to red. A

1092
01:02:21.960 --> 01:02:24.760
car driven by Theodore Toby made legal right turn from

1093
01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:26.719
fifteenth Street into Fourth Avenue.

1094
01:02:28.199 --> 01:02:41.000
Hey, hangout, I'm smart, Come on now, let me throw

1095
01:02:42.239 --> 01:02:45.760
all right, stand back, crazy hurt, bad officer.

1096
01:02:45.840 --> 01:02:47.400
I didn't see him, honest, I said't.

1097
01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:48.639
I had the right of way.

1098
01:02:49.039 --> 01:02:51.519
Fans start one of your people. Call for an ambulance.

1099
01:02:51.840 --> 01:02:54.760
Yeah you okay, move back, move back.

1100
01:02:55.519 --> 01:02:56.519
He's pleading here.

1101
01:02:56.920 --> 01:02:57.840
I'll prop up his head.

1102
01:02:57.960 --> 01:03:03.360
Yeah, he was his jacket. Aw, he's limbs. It was

1103
01:03:03.440 --> 01:03:04.159
just like he's dead.

1104
01:03:09.840 --> 01:03:13.440
Yes, en hiss powers felt like he was dead.

1105
01:03:14.880 --> 01:03:19.519
Ernest's powers suffered from cataalepsy, a strange disease. He carried

1106
01:03:19.519 --> 01:03:21.840
at all times a note in his inside coat pocket

1107
01:03:21.920 --> 01:03:24.360
stating that he was a cataleptic and that in the

1108
01:03:24.440 --> 01:03:27.360
event of seeming death, his wife should be immediately notified

1109
01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:30.119
or as doctor in the event his wife is unavailable.

1110
01:03:31.480 --> 01:03:35.239
The letter also requested that no autopsy or embalming should

1111
01:03:35.239 --> 01:03:38.199
be performed on his body for seventy two hours, although

1112
01:03:38.239 --> 01:03:40.519
in his particular case the duration of the attacks were

1113
01:03:40.639 --> 01:03:41.960
usually four.

1114
01:03:41.800 --> 01:03:42.480
Hours or less.

1115
01:03:44.039 --> 01:03:45.599
Ernest Powers also.

1116
01:03:45.519 --> 01:03:50.480
Wore a sterling silver bracelet with an inscription reading, do

1117
01:03:50.679 --> 01:03:51.920
not embalm me.

1118
01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:54.440
I am not dead.

1119
01:03:55.880 --> 01:03:58.000
Catalypsy is a disease of the nerves and mind.

1120
01:03:58.079 --> 01:04:00.280
The physical condition of the catalyptic when he is under

1121
01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:04.039
a spell closely resemble depth in all aspects, including the

1122
01:04:04.079 --> 01:04:07.960
primary stages of Brigham Artists. Officer Rabbit was at the

1123
01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:10.159
scene of the accident. He administered first aid to the

1124
01:04:10.199 --> 01:04:12.599
injured man before making out his revolt.

1125
01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:18.320
And that on a sampter Bladonto's like just to cut

1126
01:04:18.360 --> 01:04:20.679
on his forehead when he hit the ground. Nothing much.

1127
01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:22.400
He can't be hurt bad, Officer.

1128
01:04:22.840 --> 01:04:23.679
I didn't hit him hard.

1129
01:04:23.920 --> 01:04:25.239
That's right, Officer, I saw it.

1130
01:04:25.519 --> 01:04:27.280
I look like this a little bummer.

1131
01:04:27.079 --> 01:04:29.920
All right now, cleear back, cleear black. Let's have a

1132
01:04:29.960 --> 01:04:33.480
little air here. I'll have to take down some information.

1133
01:04:33.599 --> 01:04:35.199
What's your name, Theodore Toby?

1134
01:04:35.400 --> 01:04:36.840
Here? Here's my license?

1135
01:04:36.920 --> 01:04:39.760
Hey, hey, you kids, how one of those kids do.

1136
01:04:42.400 --> 01:04:42.559
Well?

1137
01:04:42.599 --> 01:04:43.199
Here it comes.

1138
01:04:43.840 --> 01:04:44.719
I hope he's all right.

1139
01:04:45.679 --> 01:04:47.119
Doesn't look like he's breathing.

1140
01:04:47.639 --> 01:04:49.239
My god, you haint I told you.

1141
01:04:49.360 --> 01:04:49.960
To get back.

1142
01:04:50.280 --> 01:04:50.719
Come out.

1143
01:04:50.840 --> 01:04:52.800
He's back here.

1144
01:04:54.400 --> 01:04:54.519
Right.

1145
01:04:54.639 --> 01:04:55.440
Let just throw here.

1146
01:04:55.400 --> 01:04:59.800
Please, glad you got here. He's hot cold. Yeah, I say,

1147
01:05:00.159 --> 01:05:00.760
is uh?

1148
01:05:01.159 --> 01:05:01.679
Have a look?

1149
01:05:02.159 --> 01:05:03.239
Well, let's get him away.

1150
01:05:04.440 --> 01:05:05.000
He's dead.

1151
01:05:05.719 --> 01:05:07.480
Well anyway, it didn't happen in the coach.

1152
01:05:07.719 --> 01:05:11.119
Okay, do take him away. Keep them back, office, will you? Okay,

1153
01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:16.599
keep back clear offs on. It's the second one today. Yeah,

1154
01:05:17.519 --> 01:05:17.800
let's go.

1155
01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:21.760
Whose jacket was that he was laying on?

1156
01:05:22.199 --> 01:05:23.440
I don't know, did you pick it up?

1157
01:05:23.480 --> 01:05:23.519
No?

1158
01:05:24.159 --> 01:05:26.519
Hey, officer, where's the jacket?

1159
01:05:27.559 --> 01:05:29.159
But the jacket, the guy's jacket?

1160
01:05:29.440 --> 01:05:31.239
Oh, oh my.

1161
01:05:31.519 --> 01:05:32.400
Gosh, it's gone.

1162
01:05:32.719 --> 01:05:35.280
Okay, Oh, those chicks have a mind.

1163
01:05:35.760 --> 01:05:36.360
Let's go pay.

1164
01:05:46.719 --> 01:05:50.480
Dennis Bowers had lost the identification of his condition. The

1165
01:05:50.599 --> 01:05:53.320
letter was in the inside pocket of his jacket. The

1166
01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:56.079
silver chain he wore on his left wrist had snapped

1167
01:05:56.079 --> 01:05:59.840
and fallen into the pavement. Two youngsters picked up the chain. Robertman,

1168
01:05:59.880 --> 01:06:02.360
now aged nine and a half. Then Tommy Stone a ate.

1169
01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:06.960
Hey, that cop yelled at us. Did you hear it?

1170
01:06:07.199 --> 01:06:07.400
Yeah?

1171
01:06:07.880 --> 01:06:09.039
Maybe we should give it back?

1172
01:06:09.199 --> 01:06:09.320
Now?

1173
01:06:09.480 --> 01:06:11.119
What for so he can keep it?

1174
01:06:11.360 --> 01:06:13.239
Let's go around the back to your father shop, Bob.

1175
01:06:14.760 --> 01:06:15.880
Sure's a nice change.

1176
01:06:16.480 --> 01:06:17.599
Hey, who's writing on it?

1177
01:06:17.880 --> 01:06:19.519
Maybe it's a guy's name? Will he hurt?

1178
01:06:19.599 --> 01:06:19.760
Dad?

1179
01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:22.440
Hey, what's it saying just a second, we'll be out

1180
01:06:22.440 --> 01:06:22.880
of the yelling.

1181
01:06:23.559 --> 01:06:24.559
Yeah, Pop's gone home.

1182
01:06:24.639 --> 01:06:25.719
Deep Can you read it now?

1183
01:06:26.079 --> 01:06:27.039
Wait a second, will you?

1184
01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:33.840
It says, do not im baul, do not something me,

1185
01:06:34.480 --> 01:06:37.360
I'm not dead, not screwy from What do.

1186
01:06:37.440 --> 01:06:37.920
We do with it?

1187
01:06:38.280 --> 01:06:38.559
Sell it?

1188
01:06:38.679 --> 01:06:39.000
Dopey?

1189
01:06:39.559 --> 01:06:41.679
Well, that's stealing, bothered age?

1190
01:06:41.719 --> 01:06:42.159
Stealing?

1191
01:06:42.280 --> 01:06:44.800
We found it, didn't we When we try to sell

1192
01:06:44.840 --> 01:06:46.119
it to the lastic where we got it?

1193
01:06:46.559 --> 01:06:49.159
What do we tell him? Nothing? I use your head?

1194
01:06:49.480 --> 01:06:52.519
You know what we'll do what We'll use Pop's welding torch.

1195
01:06:52.760 --> 01:06:55.159
We'll meld it. Don but but he told us.

1196
01:06:55.119 --> 01:06:55.800
Not to use it.

1197
01:06:56.239 --> 01:06:57.320
Pop ain't here, is he?

1198
01:06:57.800 --> 01:06:57.840
No?

1199
01:06:58.519 --> 01:06:58.760
Well?

1200
01:06:59.280 --> 01:07:02.079
Come on, well there it is.

1201
01:07:02.440 --> 01:07:04.960
Yeah, here you put it on that brick.

1202
01:07:06.760 --> 01:07:10.519
Okay, yeah, there be careful?

1203
01:07:13.400 --> 01:07:13.840
Why are you?

1204
01:07:15.599 --> 01:07:15.760
Oh?

1205
01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:17.639
Pop?

1206
01:07:17.880 --> 01:07:20.679
Nothing, mister Manelli, We ain't doing nothing nothing.

1207
01:07:21.199 --> 01:07:22.000
I thought I told you.

1208
01:07:22.079 --> 01:07:23.679
Okay there, that's so gonna need get taught.

1209
01:07:24.480 --> 01:07:26.559
We want to melt this, give.

1210
01:07:26.440 --> 01:07:26.639
Me that.

1211
01:07:29.559 --> 01:07:29.719
Now.

1212
01:07:29.760 --> 01:07:30.639
What's it all about?

1213
01:07:31.239 --> 01:07:32.599
We found this chain, Poppa.

1214
01:07:32.719 --> 01:07:34.039
We want to melt it down and sell it.

1215
01:07:34.480 --> 01:07:37.239
Che We don't know?

1216
01:07:37.719 --> 01:07:38.400
Do we tell me?

1217
01:07:38.599 --> 01:07:38.639
No?

1218
01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:38.960
No?

1219
01:07:39.239 --> 01:07:39.840
No, we don't.

1220
01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:41.239
Yeah, where you get it?

1221
01:07:41.519 --> 01:07:42.320
We found it? O?

1222
01:07:42.440 --> 01:07:43.559
Come on, come, on, let me have it.

1223
01:07:43.599 --> 01:07:45.760
Well, there's nothing wrong, Pop, We just found it.

1224
01:07:45.920 --> 01:07:48.119
See it's all shut up?

1225
01:07:50.000 --> 01:07:51.480
Do not and.

1226
01:07:54.079 --> 01:07:58.840
Baalam mean I am not too dead? Okay?

1227
01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:01.039
What to that?

1228
01:08:01.239 --> 01:08:01.960
That's screwy?

1229
01:08:02.840 --> 01:08:06.320
Where do you find it in the street, asked Tommy.

1230
01:08:06.599 --> 01:08:08.199
All right, they're going to get out of here.

1231
01:08:08.639 --> 01:08:10.639
How about melting it down? Pop? But we can sell

1232
01:08:10.679 --> 01:08:11.800
it and buy some baseball?

1233
01:08:13.039 --> 01:08:14.840
All right, I'm keep back.

1234
01:08:18.159 --> 01:08:19.960
Yeah, look at Tommy, you see it?

1235
01:08:20.439 --> 01:08:23.920
Yeah, shot in the melt You see how he doesn't

1236
01:08:24.000 --> 01:08:24.640
get away?

1237
01:08:24.960 --> 01:08:25.359
Hold you?

1238
01:08:26.239 --> 01:08:27.239
So now then.

1239
01:08:34.600 --> 01:08:38.359
They sold the melted chain for a dollar thirty to

1240
01:08:38.479 --> 01:08:44.159
a dealer one dollar and thirty cents. But the coat,

1241
01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:46.840
the coat was the principal thing in the coat. In

1242
01:08:46.920 --> 01:08:49.840
the inside pocket was the letter. The information about Ernest

1243
01:08:49.880 --> 01:08:53.199
Bower's condition was in the lever, the instructions that could

1244
01:08:53.239 --> 01:08:56.479
save his life. The coat was picked up from the

1245
01:08:56.520 --> 01:09:01.039
street by honest Jerry Murdoch. Now there's a big sign

1246
01:09:01.119 --> 01:09:04.880
near the corner of fifteenth Street. It says honest Jerry

1247
01:09:04.960 --> 01:09:08.479
Murdoch swap shop. He brought the coat into a store,

1248
01:09:08.560 --> 01:09:10.920
rummaged around on his shelves until he found some cleaner,

1249
01:09:11.439 --> 01:09:12.560
then started to clean the.

1250
01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:17.520
Bloodstains uh, I'll look for a sports chack just a moment.

1251
01:09:17.680 --> 01:09:19.159
What kind conservative?

1252
01:09:19.560 --> 01:09:21.000
Ah, come over here please?

1253
01:09:24.159 --> 01:09:26.600
Mm yeah, something on that order.

1254
01:09:26.920 --> 01:09:29.079
Hey, yeah, I just pick out what you want. How

1255
01:09:29.159 --> 01:09:29.920
much you want to spend?

1256
01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:30.880
About five bucks?

1257
01:09:31.399 --> 01:09:35.880
Uhlease? Costs more from eight to twelve? Now over here

1258
01:09:35.960 --> 01:09:36.359
we got.

1259
01:09:36.319 --> 01:09:38.720
Some cheap he's gonna look so hot for eight bucks.

1260
01:09:38.479 --> 01:09:39.439
From eight to twelve.

1261
01:09:40.720 --> 01:09:41.640
Well, I'll pick the one.

1262
01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:43.960
Mmm.

1263
01:09:45.720 --> 01:09:46.960
No, no, he's doing appeal for me.

1264
01:09:47.039 --> 01:09:48.079
And what size do you wear?

1265
01:09:48.199 --> 01:09:48.520
Forty?

1266
01:09:49.199 --> 01:09:49.359
Uh?

1267
01:09:49.640 --> 01:09:49.880
Yeah?

1268
01:09:50.039 --> 01:09:52.520
Try this one on? Nice and conservative there.

1269
01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:56.760
Yeah, it's hind of tight around his shoulders. Yeah, that

1270
01:09:56.840 --> 01:09:59.720
looks cheesy. Well, I guess you ain't got what I want.

1271
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:03.000
Wait, wait a minute, waite, what's your hurry? I'm just

1272
01:10:03.199 --> 01:10:05.640
putting a new one in stock over here by the county.

1273
01:10:05.800 --> 01:10:08.880
Huh that looks so right?

1274
01:10:08.920 --> 01:10:09.399
What size?

1275
01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:11.760
I don't know? Here, let's let's try it on you. Alright,

1276
01:10:13.039 --> 01:10:13.560
how's thatch?

1277
01:10:14.079 --> 01:10:14.319
Yeah?

1278
01:10:14.800 --> 01:10:15.520
That fills all right?

1279
01:10:15.560 --> 01:10:17.600
All right, it's kind of stiff in front.

1280
01:10:17.840 --> 01:10:19.800
It's almost a new way and that you'll break it in.

1281
01:10:19.880 --> 01:10:21.439
It feels like cardboarders.

1282
01:10:21.600 --> 01:10:24.880
Look you want it five dollars? Okay, there might be

1283
01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:27.000
still a couple stains on it. I had have time

1284
01:10:27.079 --> 01:10:28.960
to take them out. You use some cleaner on her

1285
01:10:29.000 --> 01:10:29.880
to bring it to the tailors.

1286
01:10:29.920 --> 01:10:31.359
He'll spot it. It'll be better than new.

1287
01:10:31.520 --> 01:10:33.399
Yeah. Here there's the five.

1288
01:10:39.640 --> 01:10:39.920
Nis.

1289
01:10:40.000 --> 01:10:42.399
Powers was brought to the receiving room of the Better

1290
01:10:42.479 --> 01:10:47.119
General Hospital the time four ten. If Powers was going

1291
01:10:47.159 --> 01:10:49.640
to awaken, it would probably be before six forty five.

1292
01:10:50.439 --> 01:10:53.079
Intern on Judy. Doctor Weldon made out his report. He

1293
01:10:53.119 --> 01:10:55.800
wrote it down while he was standing near the telephone switchboard.

1294
01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:02.600
Hello, this is the Vetter General Hospital.

1295
01:11:02.720 --> 01:11:04.600
Is it anybody by the name of bowis at home?

1296
01:11:04.640 --> 01:11:07.239
That's Bows b O W E R R. No, nobody

1297
01:11:07.239 --> 01:11:07.640
at home.

1298
01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:09.039
Is mister Bows married?

1299
01:11:09.640 --> 01:11:12.079
His wife thinks, So where can I reach her?

1300
01:11:12.119 --> 01:11:13.159
There's been accidents.

1301
01:11:13.359 --> 01:11:13.760
I don't know.

1302
01:11:14.039 --> 01:11:16.479
She's out. Will you tell her to call a Vetter

1303
01:11:16.600 --> 01:11:17.520
General Hospital?

1304
01:11:18.359 --> 01:11:18.560
Yeah?

1305
01:11:19.439 --> 01:11:21.359
What happened? Mister Bowers is dead?

1306
01:11:22.920 --> 01:11:27.199
That's funny, just a superficial cut on the forehead. Well

1307
01:11:27.680 --> 01:11:28.399
that's cardiac.

1308
01:11:28.520 --> 01:11:30.680
Be coming to go. They get me the orderly room.

1309
01:11:30.720 --> 01:11:32.520
Honey, okay, name right.

1310
01:11:36.520 --> 01:11:39.119
Yeah, there's a doctor Weldon. There's a delivery for you

1311
01:11:39.239 --> 01:11:39.960
to go to the morgue.

1312
01:11:40.319 --> 01:11:42.960
Morgue now, yeah, I ain't had anything to eat.

1313
01:11:43.359 --> 01:11:44.840
Yeah, I know since lunch.

1314
01:11:45.159 --> 01:11:46.680
Go on now, it's down the receiving room.

1315
01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:47.720
The papers are down there too.

1316
01:11:47.880 --> 01:11:48.880
Can I get a sandwich?

1317
01:11:48.920 --> 01:11:49.159
Firs?

1318
01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:50.920
No, go on, get going.

1319
01:11:51.279 --> 01:11:54.000
Oh wait a few minutes. It's got to go now.

1320
01:11:54.560 --> 01:11:56.800
They want to stop the embombing so they can go home.

1321
01:12:00.960 --> 01:12:04.800
It was then four twenty two in the afternoon. Doctor

1322
01:12:04.960 --> 01:12:05.600
Theodore J.

1323
01:12:05.880 --> 01:12:10.319
Weldon left her honey at the switchboard and walked upstairs

1324
01:12:10.399 --> 01:12:12.319
to the in turn quarters and settled down to reading

1325
01:12:12.359 --> 01:12:16.079
the sports page of the afternoon paper. At that moment,

1326
01:12:16.119 --> 01:12:18.159
if anyone had been in Receiving Room B of the

1327
01:12:18.239 --> 01:12:21.079
Veda General Hospital, where the body of Ernest's powers lay

1328
01:12:21.119 --> 01:12:24.800
on the patient carriage, they would have seen a fly

1329
01:12:25.399 --> 01:12:30.439
crawl slowly across the face of the dead man, and

1330
01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:45.079
they would have seen his nose twitch. For suspense, Rama

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1351
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star cast of Hollywood radio players. In Dead Earnest, a

1352
01:14:34.760 --> 01:14:49.960
tale well calculated to keep you in suspense, Henry Prince

1353
01:14:50.079 --> 01:14:51.880
had purchased the coat in which was the letter that

1354
01:14:51.920 --> 01:14:55.159
could save the life of Earnest Bowers. When Henry Prince

1355
01:14:55.319 --> 01:14:59.119
left arm As Jerry Murdoch's second hand store, he stopped

1356
01:14:59.159 --> 01:15:01.920
to have a chat some friends, made some purchases at

1357
01:15:01.920 --> 01:15:06.520
the grocery store, and then started home. The time a

1358
01:15:06.600 --> 01:15:09.960
few minutes after five. He lived about two blocks from

1359
01:15:09.960 --> 01:15:12.079
the scene of the accident, and his wife was waiting

1360
01:15:12.159 --> 01:15:12.479
for him.

1361
01:15:15.159 --> 01:15:17.159
Oh look, sorry, I have to lose some of that weight.

1362
01:15:17.239 --> 01:15:17.720
Looks better.

1363
01:15:17.880 --> 01:15:20.880
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, what's that spive take

1364
01:15:20.920 --> 01:15:23.000
it off a minute here?

1365
01:15:23.319 --> 01:15:26.039
Yeah, yeah, I wonder what that is, he said to

1366
01:15:26.079 --> 01:15:27.720
a couple of spots. Clear O take him out.

1367
01:15:27.760 --> 01:15:30.399
Yeah, it looks like it might be. What's this in

1368
01:15:30.479 --> 01:15:30.960
the pocket?

1369
01:15:31.760 --> 01:15:32.079
I don't know.

1370
01:15:33.720 --> 01:15:37.920
Heaven's sake. To whom it may concern, please open and read.

1371
01:15:38.239 --> 01:15:39.199
Well that's what the felt.

1372
01:15:39.680 --> 01:15:45.079
Yeah. This note is carried on my person wherever I go.

1373
01:15:45.720 --> 01:15:51.399
It is to advise responsible parties that I am a cataleptic,

1374
01:15:52.399 --> 01:15:55.720
that if it appears as though I am dead, I'm not,

1375
01:15:58.840 --> 01:16:01.079
and that my body is not to be molested for

1376
01:16:01.159 --> 01:16:06.079
a period of seventy two hours, neither by autopsy nor

1377
01:16:06.479 --> 01:16:12.359
by embalming. Although the maximum periods of my attack usually

1378
01:16:12.560 --> 01:16:15.920
do not exceed four hours. Please tell phone my wife,

1379
01:16:15.960 --> 01:16:18.640
missus Margaret Bowers, at putting one one two three one.

1380
01:16:18.760 --> 01:16:21.279
This is a boarding house address eight four one one

1381
01:16:21.319 --> 01:16:24.840
half West twenty fifth Street. If she is not there,

1382
01:16:24.960 --> 01:16:27.239
please try asks mister four three four to two to two.

1383
01:16:27.439 --> 01:16:31.000
This is the number of doctor Benton. It is of

1384
01:16:31.239 --> 01:16:36.600
vital importance. It may mean my life. Thank you, Ernest Flowers.

1385
01:16:38.199 --> 01:16:39.199
Where'd you get that jacket?

1386
01:16:39.279 --> 01:16:40.039
Harry had?

1387
01:16:40.119 --> 01:16:41.039
Honest Jerry murder?

1388
01:16:41.319 --> 01:16:42.159
Gee? I wonder what we can do?

1389
01:16:42.279 --> 01:16:44.600
Well, not that it's probably forgotten already. Somebody sold the

1390
01:16:44.640 --> 01:16:46.319
jacket to them, forgot to take the letter of it.

1391
01:16:46.399 --> 01:16:49.159
Sounds like something a guy i'd forget, but it might

1392
01:16:49.239 --> 01:16:52.720
be important. Say look at that, Harry. Those spots look

1393
01:16:52.840 --> 01:16:57.319
like blood, not too dark. That's the color that blood turns.

1394
01:16:57.399 --> 01:16:58.560
I'm gonna telephone that now.

1395
01:16:58.680 --> 01:17:01.039
Well, go ahead, but I think your waist you'll hush?

1396
01:17:01.119 --> 01:17:01.800
Will you a minute?

1397
01:17:02.359 --> 01:17:03.279
Crying out loud?

1398
01:17:09.880 --> 01:17:13.840
Hello, I I'd like to talk to missus. Uh Bowers?

1399
01:17:14.199 --> 01:17:16.479
S Well, how do you know you didn't even go

1400
01:17:16.560 --> 01:17:19.680
to fight out? And you ain't the first after? Who

1401
01:17:19.760 --> 01:17:20.960
else wanted to get in touch with her?

1402
01:17:21.079 --> 01:17:21.239
Oh?

1403
01:17:21.399 --> 01:17:22.279
Somebody I don't know.

1404
01:17:22.760 --> 01:17:26.279
Oh, well, thank you there. You see you're wasting your time.

1405
01:17:26.359 --> 01:17:27.359
I'll try that doctor.

1406
01:17:27.520 --> 01:17:30.600
Oh, for having's sake, turn into a regular busy fither.

1407
01:17:30.800 --> 01:17:31.680
Think of somebody else.

1408
01:17:32.079 --> 01:17:33.039
Well, i'm getting hungry.

1409
01:17:33.199 --> 01:17:34.000
Oh hush, will you?

1410
01:17:34.279 --> 01:17:34.640
Oh h.

1411
01:17:36.479 --> 01:17:37.279
How about some things?

1412
01:17:37.359 --> 01:17:40.840
It's cooking? It's cooking. Honestly, I can't get it out

1413
01:17:40.880 --> 01:17:44.159
of my head. That guy, whoever he is, just lying

1414
01:17:44.199 --> 01:17:46.399
there and people thinking him dead when he ain't. Maybe

1415
01:17:46.479 --> 01:17:50.960
doing things to him. Gee, what's embalming?

1416
01:17:51.760 --> 01:17:51.880
Oh?

1417
01:17:52.000 --> 01:17:53.960
They do that at the more it gets, preparing his

1418
01:17:54.039 --> 01:17:56.279
body for burial. I think they take all the blood out.

1419
01:17:56.199 --> 01:17:56.720
Of his veins.

1420
01:17:57.439 --> 01:18:00.039
That would kill him if he wasn't already dead, and

1421
01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:02.439
kill him any dinner, Harry, I'm going to find out

1422
01:18:02.439 --> 01:18:04.159
about that code. Now, where's this place you bought?

1423
01:18:04.199 --> 01:18:04.279
Now?

1424
01:18:04.319 --> 01:18:06.399
Wait a minute, Francis, I put in a good day's work.

1425
01:18:06.439 --> 01:18:08.439
I'm tired. I don't want to run around the city

1426
01:18:08.439 --> 01:18:09.840
looking for something I don't even know about it.

1427
01:18:09.840 --> 01:18:10.880
Well, i'll go myself.

1428
01:18:10.920 --> 01:18:12.760
How about me at home here while you'll go out.

1429
01:18:13.079 --> 01:18:13.720
I want to eat.

1430
01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:14.279
I'm hungry.

1431
01:18:14.399 --> 01:18:17.319
Dinner won't be ready for another fifteen minutes. Anyway, where's

1432
01:18:17.359 --> 01:18:17.760
the place?

1433
01:18:17.960 --> 01:18:20.520
Oh all right, I'll go with you.

1434
01:18:30.319 --> 01:18:33.239
Sure, so, yeah, we want to find out about the

1435
01:18:33.239 --> 01:18:34.640
man next door. Do you know when we'll come back?

1436
01:18:36.199 --> 01:18:36.399
Yeah?

1437
01:18:36.720 --> 01:18:40.239
No, no, he is, And Harry, listen, go take another book.

1438
01:18:40.359 --> 01:18:41.319
I'll try that number again.

1439
01:18:41.560 --> 01:18:42.680
Oh I haven't said.

1440
01:18:55.600 --> 01:18:57.640
Oh, well.

1441
01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:02.000
I answer, I'm using this.

1442
01:19:02.239 --> 01:19:03.760
Oh well, he ain't back yet.

1443
01:19:03.760 --> 01:19:05.199
But what does his signs say? Ten minutes?

1444
01:19:05.279 --> 01:19:06.920
Yeah, but those guys put up signs like that if

1445
01:19:06.920 --> 01:19:08.359
they're going away for an hour, We'll.

1446
01:19:08.319 --> 01:19:10.199
Just wait a couple of more minutes. Oh, come on,

1447
01:19:12.560 --> 01:19:17.039
is missus Bowers in? No, uh, mister Bowers, he's dead.

1448
01:19:17.600 --> 01:19:19.279
He is, that's what they tell me.

1449
01:19:19.520 --> 01:19:21.319
Look, listen, were you bothering me?

1450
01:19:21.439 --> 01:19:21.680
Lady?

1451
01:19:21.760 --> 01:19:23.520
I got a meal set up on the table. I

1452
01:19:23.640 --> 01:19:26.439
can't be answering a million questions. All I want to

1453
01:19:26.479 --> 01:19:27.920
know is when mister Bowers died.

1454
01:19:28.079 --> 01:19:28.800
How do I know?

1455
01:19:29.039 --> 01:19:33.640
Ask Missus Bowers. She'll be home. So, yeah, well thanks, Well,

1456
01:19:34.000 --> 01:19:37.239
mister Bowers is dead. I've found that out. I told you, Well,

1457
01:19:37.279 --> 01:19:39.840
what about the letter? Then what if he did? What

1458
01:19:39.920 --> 01:19:40.960
if the only think he's dead?

1459
01:19:42.840 --> 01:19:45.680
If I have to well without me, then we'll just

1460
01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:46.640
do as you please.

1461
01:19:46.680 --> 01:19:47.239
I'll be home.

1462
01:19:47.319 --> 01:19:49.720
I'm hungry. It's after six. If you think more of

1463
01:19:49.760 --> 01:19:51.279
a crazy letter than you do a feat in your

1464
01:19:51.319 --> 01:19:51.920
own husband.

1465
01:19:52.159 --> 01:19:52.840
Then that's all.

1466
01:19:53.039 --> 01:19:53.600
What do you mean?

1467
01:19:53.720 --> 01:19:55.039
That's all just what I said.

1468
01:19:55.199 --> 01:19:57.760
That's all Harry, the trouble with you as you haven't

1469
01:19:57.760 --> 01:19:58.479
done the imagination.

1470
01:19:58.600 --> 01:20:01.079
No, I haven't got any imagination. Just a home loving guy,

1471
01:20:01.199 --> 01:20:04.199
that's all. I don't sticking my nose where don't fall?

1472
01:20:04.439 --> 01:20:06.760
Oh for heaven, say go home, man, I'll find out

1473
01:20:06.800 --> 01:20:09.760
about it. Think it's something besides your stomach once in

1474
01:20:09.800 --> 01:20:14.920
a while, officer, officer, Do you know where the fellow

1475
01:20:14.920 --> 01:20:18.520
who owns at swapshop lives? Honest Jerry Murdoch, No, ma'am,

1476
01:20:18.600 --> 01:20:20.800
I don't. Dear gee, I want to get in touch

1477
01:20:20.840 --> 01:20:22.159
with him. And there's a sign on his door.

1478
01:20:22.119 --> 01:20:23.479
Seat I ask him, ma'am.

1479
01:20:25.600 --> 01:20:31.039
Oh gee, thank you, mister Murdoch. Gem su're glad you

1480
01:20:31.119 --> 01:20:31.800
came back.

1481
01:20:33.479 --> 01:20:34.159
Having to buy tea.

1482
01:20:34.279 --> 01:20:36.920
Yeah, listen, you saw my husband a jacket is sports

1483
01:20:36.960 --> 01:20:37.920
jacket this afternoon?

1484
01:20:38.319 --> 01:20:39.079
Did I what kind?

1485
01:20:39.199 --> 01:20:39.319
Well?

1486
01:20:39.600 --> 01:20:41.479
A light blue one with little red boxes in it.

1487
01:20:41.760 --> 01:20:42.800
It had a few stains on it.

1488
01:20:43.000 --> 01:20:45.640
Oh sorry, I can't think anything back once show No, no, no.

1489
01:20:45.760 --> 01:20:47.720
I don't want to give it back. Listen, where did

1490
01:20:47.760 --> 01:20:48.039
you get it?

1491
01:20:48.119 --> 01:20:48.279
Mister?

1492
01:20:48.359 --> 01:20:48.680
Murdoch.

1493
01:20:48.880 --> 01:20:50.159
Can I remember where I got it?

1494
01:20:50.439 --> 01:20:52.159
Long ago? Was it very long ago?

1495
01:20:52.479 --> 01:20:54.239
I don't see wach any of your business when I

1496
01:20:54.279 --> 01:20:54.479
got it?

1497
01:20:54.560 --> 01:20:56.119
Well, it may be important. I've been trying to reach

1498
01:20:56.159 --> 01:20:58.359
the numbers, the doctor's numbers always busy, and his his

1499
01:20:58.800 --> 01:20:59.760
his wife isn't home yet.

1500
01:20:59.880 --> 01:21:01.119
I don't know what you're talking about.

1501
01:21:01.319 --> 01:21:03.000
Tell me one thing, just one thing. Did you have

1502
01:21:03.159 --> 01:21:06.399
the jacket in here a long time? Well, oh, please listen,

1503
01:21:06.439 --> 01:21:07.399
it's very important.

1504
01:21:07.680 --> 01:21:10.479
Well no, no, I just got it in this afternoon.

1505
01:21:10.560 --> 01:21:11.359
But where did you get it?

1506
01:21:11.560 --> 01:21:13.560
Look, you said one question? He asked that. I answered,

1507
01:21:13.560 --> 01:21:14.039
that's all.

1508
01:21:14.960 --> 01:21:15.880
There was blood on it.

1509
01:21:16.079 --> 01:21:17.239
Well that I can't help.

1510
01:21:17.359 --> 01:21:17.600
Listen.

1511
01:21:17.680 --> 01:21:19.560
If that man's alive and they do anything to him,

1512
01:21:19.560 --> 01:21:21.640
I'll just never get over it. I'll never be able

1513
01:21:21.640 --> 01:21:22.439
to live with myself.

1514
01:21:22.479 --> 01:21:23.359
What are you talking about?

1515
01:21:23.439 --> 01:21:23.920
Listen to me.

1516
01:21:24.640 --> 01:21:24.880
Yeah.

1517
01:21:25.720 --> 01:21:28.079
There was a letter in the inside pocket of that jacket,

1518
01:21:28.159 --> 01:21:31.119
you see. It said that Ernest Bauers was a cataleptic.

1519
01:21:31.720 --> 01:21:33.439
What's said he goes into fil No, no, no.

1520
01:21:33.479 --> 01:21:36.399
A cataleptic is somebody who looks like he's dead at times,

1521
01:21:36.600 --> 01:21:39.039
and he isn't. He goes into a spell and it

1522
01:21:39.119 --> 01:21:41.680
looks as though he's dead. You see, sometimes they take

1523
01:21:41.720 --> 01:21:45.239
dead bodies to the morgim and bomb them. That means

1524
01:21:45.279 --> 01:21:46.800
they take all the blood out of their veins. Now, now,

1525
01:21:46.880 --> 01:21:49.479
this fellow Bowers is a cataleptic. I don't know whether

1526
01:21:49.520 --> 01:21:51.560
he's dead or alive. Read and if he's worrying about

1527
01:21:51.560 --> 01:21:52.760
this letter. But I got to find out.

1528
01:21:54.560 --> 01:21:56.800
There was what what an accident before?

1529
01:21:57.279 --> 01:21:57.720
Who is in it?

1530
01:21:57.800 --> 01:21:59.720
I don't know, Believe me, lady, I didn't know anything.

1531
01:21:59.479 --> 01:21:59.920
About all that.

1532
01:22:00.520 --> 01:22:02.439
You think that this guy was taking away an ambulance

1533
01:22:02.560 --> 01:22:03.279
was a catalepticy?

1534
01:22:03.359 --> 01:22:04.199
That coat was it his?

1535
01:22:04.720 --> 01:22:06.359
Yeah, lady, but it was left there in the street.

1536
01:22:06.359 --> 01:22:08.399
They drove away and left who the ambulance?

1537
01:22:08.439 --> 01:22:09.479
What ambulance? I don't know.

1538
01:22:09.600 --> 01:22:11.000
It was on the corner of the cop was there?

1539
01:22:11.079 --> 01:22:12.920
He told somebody to call an ambulance and came and

1540
01:22:12.960 --> 01:22:13.600
took away the man.

1541
01:22:13.760 --> 01:22:14.880
Is that the cop out there right now?

1542
01:22:14.920 --> 01:22:15.039
Oh?

1543
01:22:15.119 --> 01:22:15.279
Yeah?

1544
01:22:15.279 --> 01:22:16.720
But look, look you're gonna protect me.

1545
01:22:16.800 --> 01:22:18.680
I ain't done anything wrong. I didn't know anything like

1546
01:22:18.760 --> 01:22:19.279
this had happened.

1547
01:22:19.319 --> 01:22:22.520
I've never taken a cone of Officer.

1548
01:22:30.840 --> 01:22:32.960
Ernest Bowers lay on a slab.

1549
01:22:33.119 --> 01:22:36.800
But the more, if you were alive, probabilities were that

1550
01:22:36.840 --> 01:22:41.000
he would regain consciousness before six forty five. The twoing

1551
01:22:41.119 --> 01:22:43.800
bombers on Judy at the time had decided to get

1552
01:22:43.840 --> 01:22:46.479
a fight to me when the phone rang.

1553
01:22:47.039 --> 01:22:50.439
Ever, we're going out, d Yeah, I know. Another one

1554
01:22:50.600 --> 01:22:53.399
just came and we got it here. Oh what's a rush?

1555
01:22:54.279 --> 01:22:54.479
Ah?

1556
01:22:54.680 --> 01:22:56.760
No, we just want to grab a cup of coffee.

1557
01:22:56.800 --> 01:22:57.680
We'll get right on it.

1558
01:22:58.760 --> 01:23:00.359
Was it our wall of it comes in when we

1559
01:23:00.479 --> 01:23:03.760
want to have it. Oh, oh we can go home

1560
01:23:03.840 --> 01:23:06.079
after Ah. That puts a different complexion.

1561
01:23:06.920 --> 01:23:10.640
Okay, yeah, Hey, what time is it? Anthony?

1562
01:23:11.720 --> 01:23:14.159
Good doc says if we embomb this one now, we

1563
01:23:14.199 --> 01:23:14.640
can go home.

1564
01:23:14.760 --> 01:23:15.680
Let's start in then.

1565
01:23:16.000 --> 01:23:22.399
I'm hungry, Okay, I'll start them older, Yeah, young guy.

1566
01:23:22.560 --> 01:23:23.479
Any yeah.

1567
01:23:24.479 --> 01:23:26.600
I was saying to the wife about that yesterday.

1568
01:23:26.720 --> 01:23:28.399
Oh, get the injector out with you, Tony.

1569
01:23:28.760 --> 01:23:32.239
She was saying, more and more people die older and older.

1570
01:23:32.479 --> 01:23:32.680
Here.

1571
01:23:34.000 --> 01:23:35.760
Yeah, it looks like we can open through the neck.

1572
01:23:36.000 --> 01:23:39.680
Yeah, any piece of that Guze, I said to Velma,

1573
01:23:39.920 --> 01:23:41.600
she should be around this place a while.

1574
01:23:41.800 --> 01:23:42.880
We get them all ages.

1575
01:23:43.479 --> 01:23:44.199
You want me to do it?

1576
01:23:44.520 --> 01:23:46.000
No, no, you get the injector ready.

1577
01:23:47.840 --> 01:23:48.359
Look at him.

1578
01:23:49.399 --> 01:23:51.479
You'd never think that such a little thing like his

1579
01:23:51.640 --> 01:23:55.920
heart stops beating could make him dead and not alive. Yeah, okay,

1580
01:23:57.000 --> 01:24:06.199
I'll hold a steady with you. Yeah, ready just a second, yep, ah,

1581
01:24:06.479 --> 01:24:08.159
right here we go.

1582
01:24:10.520 --> 01:24:15.000
H what's the matter my glasses they're clouding up?

1583
01:24:15.960 --> 01:24:16.600
Take him off.

1584
01:24:17.039 --> 01:24:18.479
Ah, that's sorry, I'll just clean him.

1585
01:24:20.159 --> 01:24:21.039
What DoD wife say to that?

1586
01:24:21.560 --> 01:24:23.279
What oh about all ages?

1587
01:24:23.359 --> 01:24:23.560
Yeah?

1588
01:24:23.760 --> 01:24:26.159
Oh she didn't have anything to say, only that most

1589
01:24:26.199 --> 01:24:27.960
of the guys we deal would probably come to a

1590
01:24:28.079 --> 01:24:28.640
violent end.

1591
01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:30.439
Something in that.

1592
01:24:30.760 --> 01:24:37.800
Yeah, okay, I got my glasses clean. Ah, let's see here. Hmm,

1593
01:24:38.800 --> 01:24:43.880
what's the matter they're steamed up again? That's funny. Every

1594
01:24:43.960 --> 01:24:49.439
time I bend over and knit, I wondered what Ah,

1595
01:24:50.079 --> 01:24:51.520
it must be my imagination?

1596
01:24:51.760 --> 01:24:53.039
What oh?

1597
01:24:53.439 --> 01:24:56.800
I could have sworn this guy was breathing on my glasses?

1598
01:24:58.319 --> 01:24:58.479
Is he?

1599
01:24:59.439 --> 01:24:59.560
Na?

1600
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:00.119
Oh?

1601
01:25:00.199 --> 01:25:01.960
Could he? Oh?

1602
01:25:02.079 --> 01:25:03.000
Come on, then let's go.

1603
01:25:03.640 --> 01:25:05.159
It's a quarter to seven already.

1604
01:25:05.279 --> 01:25:05.439
Yeah.

1605
01:25:06.960 --> 01:25:08.800
Oh, hold it, I'll get the phone. No, now, let's

1606
01:25:08.840 --> 01:25:14.640
get this started first. Okay, we'll just stop. Huh, huh,

1607
01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:16.079
what's the matter with you?

1608
01:25:16.840 --> 01:25:20.960
I thought I saw this guy's hand twitch.

1609
01:25:21.680 --> 01:25:22.680
Don't be silly.

1610
01:25:23.680 --> 01:25:28.119
Sure, give me a scare. Let's wait a second.

1611
01:25:28.319 --> 01:25:29.000
I'll get the phone.

1612
01:25:29.239 --> 01:25:31.560
It'll probably be another job, and we'll never get out

1613
01:25:31.600 --> 01:25:32.399
of here and illt a ring.

1614
01:25:32.560 --> 01:25:34.840
But the doc said we could go home after Oh.

1615
01:25:35.199 --> 01:25:38.079
All right, Oh come on, let's get this thing over

1616
01:25:38.199 --> 01:25:38.880
with out.

1617
01:25:39.520 --> 01:25:41.159
Okay, now give me the knife again.

1618
01:25:42.239 --> 01:25:51.680
Ah ah, I'll make a nice neat little incision, right, Hey, Tony, Yeah,

1619
01:25:52.319 --> 01:25:54.359
Look I'm bent over like this.

1620
01:25:54.600 --> 01:25:58.960
See I ain't gonna move. My glasses are full of

1621
01:25:59.039 --> 01:25:59.760
steam again.

1622
01:26:01.600 --> 01:26:02.840
Oh lord, is.

1623
01:26:04.359 --> 01:26:04.800
He alive?

1624
01:26:06.880 --> 01:26:08.479
Hey, we'll look at me.

1625
01:26:08.720 --> 01:26:09.840
I'm shaken all over.

1626
01:26:10.960 --> 01:26:11.520
Look at him?

1627
01:26:11.600 --> 01:26:13.520
How look at his lips?

1628
01:26:13.640 --> 01:26:18.000
Huh listen, shut that thing off.

1629
01:26:55.319 --> 01:26:58.920
Apparently the life of Ernest Bowers was worth one dollar

1630
01:26:59.039 --> 01:27:01.880
and thirty cents for a silver bracelet to the boys

1631
01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:05.399
who ran away with it, and five dollars for a

1632
01:27:05.479 --> 01:27:11.079
blood stained jacket to honest Jerry Murdoch. Their petty thefts

1633
01:27:11.119 --> 01:27:14.159
brought a man to the brink of death. As for

1634
01:27:14.239 --> 01:27:17.000
the busy telephone in the doctor's office, it wasn't busy

1635
01:27:17.119 --> 01:27:21.840
at all. The good doctor had unwittingly replaced the receiver

1636
01:27:22.039 --> 01:27:24.079
on the phone stand incorrect.

1637
01:27:25.720 --> 01:27:26.039
There is.

1638
01:27:27.279 --> 01:27:30.520
There's just one more episode, which perhaps does not belong

1639
01:27:30.720 --> 01:27:33.960
in an accident report, but which I would like to include.

1640
01:27:35.479 --> 01:27:39.680
After regaining full consciousness. Ernest Bowers put in a telephone

1641
01:27:39.800 --> 01:27:41.680
call from the morgue.

1642
01:27:46.159 --> 01:27:47.920
Hello, hello, Missus Brawley.

1643
01:27:48.079 --> 01:27:49.119
Is Missus Bowers in?

1644
01:27:50.039 --> 01:27:54.680
I don't know, I'll say, jose see Missus Bowers at home?

1645
01:27:55.960 --> 01:27:56.479
Who are that?

1646
01:27:56.800 --> 01:27:57.920
This is mister Bowers.

1647
01:27:58.520 --> 01:28:03.159
How as they told me you was dead the hospital

1648
01:28:03.279 --> 01:28:03.560
call it.

1649
01:28:03.920 --> 01:28:05.760
I know, Missus Brawley, but they made a mistake.

1650
01:28:06.119 --> 01:28:09.560
Oh well, his is Hello Ernest.

1651
01:28:10.119 --> 01:28:11.439
Where are you well, darling?

1652
01:28:11.479 --> 01:28:12.560
It is quite a long story.

1653
01:28:12.760 --> 01:28:15.279
Well never mind, you get right home. You hear your

1654
01:28:15.319 --> 01:28:16.600
dinner's getting ice cold.

1655
01:28:30.880 --> 01:28:34.039
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1656
01:28:34.279 --> 01:28:40.520
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1657
01:28:40.560 --> 01:28:43.359
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1658
01:28:44.399 --> 01:28:47.680
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1659
01:28:47.720 --> 01:28:51.840
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1660
01:28:51.880 --> 01:28:56.520
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1661
01:28:56.600 --> 01:29:02.239
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1662
01:29:02.920 --> 01:29:07.039
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1663
01:29:07.840 --> 01:29:13.760
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1664
01:29:14.399 --> 01:29:18.800
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1665
01:29:18.960 --> 01:29:24.600
dinner ideal for entertaining. Now, it is my pleasure to

1666
01:29:24.680 --> 01:29:29.800
introduce mister Don Thornberg, vice President of the Columbia Broadcasting System.

1667
01:29:31.119 --> 01:29:36.079
Ladies and gentlemen, your regular suspense listeners, will I'm sure

1668
01:29:36.279 --> 01:29:40.359
be pleased to know that your suspense program has won

1669
01:29:40.520 --> 01:29:45.960
the nineteen forty six George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding

1670
01:29:46.079 --> 01:29:51.479
Excellence in Radio Drama in behalf of the Columbia Broadcasting System.

1671
01:29:52.520 --> 01:29:58.319
I congratulate producer William Spear, the actors, the musicians, sound

1672
01:29:58.359 --> 01:30:04.520
effects men, technicians, announcers, and the sponsor Roma Wines, whose

1673
01:30:04.600 --> 01:30:08.439
combined efforts have earned for Suspense the well deserved title

1674
01:30:09.119 --> 01:30:13.960
of radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrill. Dead Ernest heard this

1675
01:30:14.079 --> 01:30:17.199
evening is one of the plays upon which the Peabody

1676
01:30:17.239 --> 01:30:18.119
Award was based.

1677
01:30:21.119 --> 01:30:25.000
Wow, after that, even I wish I had a little

1678
01:30:25.000 --> 01:30:28.960
bit to drink. You know, well, no, no, no no,

1679
01:30:29.359 --> 01:30:34.880
that time is long behind me. But let me get

1680
01:30:34.960 --> 01:30:38.640
you a little more tea. We have won more and

1681
01:30:38.800 --> 01:30:42.840
it's a good but it'll take a while. So I

1682
01:30:42.960 --> 01:30:46.720
want you to have yourself nice hot cot cot to

1683
01:30:46.840 --> 01:30:50.880
cradle in your hands, to warm the bones in your

1684
01:30:50.960 --> 01:30:57.319
fingers and keep you good and cozy. Yes, yes, yes,

1685
01:30:58.239 --> 01:31:02.880
I do so enjoy these evenings together view what's that?

1686
01:31:03.079 --> 01:31:07.079
What's that? Well, of course, of course, but now is

1687
01:31:07.119 --> 01:31:12.920
the time to realize there is no hiding Place.

1688
01:31:29.880 --> 01:31:30.239
Come in.

1689
01:31:33.479 --> 01:31:36.199
Welcome, I am E. G. Marshall.

1690
01:31:36.920 --> 01:31:42.760
Welcome to the world of terrifying imagination. Our story deals

1691
01:31:42.840 --> 01:31:43.399
with fate.

1692
01:31:44.439 --> 01:31:45.399
Some call it luck.

1693
01:31:46.239 --> 01:31:49.760
Whatever it is, it works in the strangest ways to

1694
01:31:49.920 --> 01:31:55.279
reward us or defeat us. Fate walked into Charles Powell's

1695
01:31:55.319 --> 01:31:58.760
life and the person of Clint Livits or look Clint.

1696
01:31:58.560 --> 01:32:00.199
Or whatever your name is. I don't like you, and

1697
01:32:00.279 --> 01:32:02.600
I don't like your insinuations. If you don't get out

1698
01:32:02.600 --> 01:32:04.840
of my office and leave these premises immediately.

1699
01:32:04.439 --> 01:32:05.319
I'll have you put out.

1700
01:32:05.720 --> 01:32:09.600
You must be pulling an an act, mister Charles Powell.

1701
01:32:11.039 --> 01:32:16.359
Maybe this will jose your memory three five, four, one.

1702
01:32:16.560 --> 01:32:18.239
Oh six three.

1703
01:32:19.560 --> 01:32:21.039
What yeah?

1704
01:32:23.239 --> 01:32:27.079
I thought that would do with Shirlie. I thought that

1705
01:32:27.359 --> 01:32:29.079
might help you remember.

1706
01:32:35.479 --> 01:32:39.279
Our mystery drama No Hiding Place was written especially for

1707
01:32:39.399 --> 01:32:44.239
the Mystery Theater by Sidney Sloan and stars Larry Haynes.

1708
01:32:45.319 --> 01:32:48.359
It is sponsored in part by the Kellogg Company, makers

1709
01:32:48.399 --> 01:32:50.239
of Kellogg's Special K serials.

1710
01:32:50.720 --> 01:32:55.359
I'll be back shortly with that one tale as of

1711
01:32:55.439 --> 01:33:02.000
all chase as Kellogg's Special k wait on an overnight prink.

1712
01:33:02.079 --> 01:33:03.000
It is he taken?

1713
01:33:03.159 --> 01:33:04.000
Please sit down.

1714
01:33:05.199 --> 01:33:08.319
You have exceptional legs, But why is one of them

1715
01:33:08.359 --> 01:33:09.720
attached to a ball and chain?

1716
01:33:09.880 --> 01:33:10.880
It's fall and change.

1717
01:33:11.359 --> 01:33:13.920
It's a symbols funny. I would have sworn it was

1718
01:33:13.960 --> 01:33:14.880
a ball and change.

1719
01:33:15.000 --> 01:33:18.239
I mean you you tying around if you extra band?

1720
01:33:18.399 --> 01:33:19.800
Can you just like lugging around it?

1721
01:33:19.920 --> 01:33:20.600
Fall and chain?

1722
01:33:20.920 --> 01:33:21.359
I see?

1723
01:33:21.479 --> 01:33:22.680
May I suggest something?

1724
01:33:23.119 --> 01:33:23.520
You try?

1725
01:33:23.600 --> 01:33:26.560
A bowl of Special Case skim milk, orange juice and coffee.

1726
01:33:26.600 --> 01:33:27.640
It's the special Cap.

1727
01:33:27.479 --> 01:33:29.000
Breakfast making rain.

1728
01:33:29.199 --> 01:33:32.920
No, you must also exercise and eats smarter every year.

1729
01:33:33.640 --> 01:33:35.880
Do you know the special Cake breakfast is less than

1730
01:33:35.920 --> 01:33:38.640
two hundred and forty calories ninety nine percent fact.

1731
01:33:38.479 --> 01:33:39.399
Free and delicious?

1732
01:33:39.840 --> 01:33:41.840
No, but if you hum it, you buy the wine

1733
01:33:42.199 --> 01:33:44.800
and that's another tail of the ball and change.

1734
01:33:45.439 --> 01:33:49.000
You're happy? Ending could begin with the Killogg's Special Care

1735
01:33:49.079 --> 01:33:55.399
Breakfast Gallant Special Case. Well, it's all right to tell

1736
01:33:55.479 --> 01:33:56.359
one lie, isn't it.

1737
01:33:56.800 --> 01:33:59.680
You can't then help out lying just a little bit?

1738
01:34:00.279 --> 01:34:01.199
Now that a little bit?

1739
01:34:01.640 --> 01:34:01.960
You mean?

1740
01:34:02.239 --> 01:34:03.159
You can never lie?

1741
01:34:03.880 --> 01:34:05.159
Never well why not?

1742
01:34:05.880 --> 01:34:07.479
Because when you tell a lie?

1743
01:34:08.239 --> 01:34:10.680
Yeah, I start and said, you're.

1744
01:34:10.600 --> 01:34:14.079
Heart You mean that just one lie will make your

1745
01:34:14.159 --> 01:34:14.720
heart dark?

1746
01:34:15.159 --> 01:34:16.560
Makes your sense too.

1747
01:34:17.439 --> 01:34:20.119
Oh then what should you do if you tell a lie?

1748
01:34:20.600 --> 01:34:22.760
Well, you you said sorry?

1749
01:34:23.359 --> 01:34:27.119
And then what then the like goes instead? You're heart?

1750
01:34:27.760 --> 01:34:28.640
Oh the light goes on?

1751
01:34:29.239 --> 01:34:29.479
Yeah?

1752
01:34:30.199 --> 01:34:32.119
Oh like does it really go on in your heart?

1753
01:34:32.199 --> 01:34:32.439
Does it?

1754
01:34:33.000 --> 01:34:33.800
Yes? It does?

1755
01:34:34.359 --> 01:34:34.920
Well how do you know?

1756
01:34:35.520 --> 01:34:39.640
Because because a lie in your heart, it's shine in

1757
01:34:39.760 --> 01:34:40.319
your eyes.

1758
01:34:41.039 --> 01:34:43.840
Oh, and then you'll be happy.

1759
01:34:44.560 --> 01:34:44.880
Hmm.

1760
01:34:45.840 --> 01:34:47.640
I wonder why people tell lies?

1761
01:34:48.319 --> 01:34:52.640
I will do why too? From the Franciscans with Love.

1762
01:35:04.800 --> 01:35:08.800
Everything looked right to Charles Powell at Chris September morning

1763
01:35:08.880 --> 01:35:12.399
when he walked into his executive office at the JP McCready.

1764
01:35:12.079 --> 01:35:13.960
Company, And why shouldn't it.

1765
01:35:14.760 --> 01:35:18.520
Charlie Powell was a big shot there at thirty seven,

1766
01:35:18.840 --> 01:35:22.520
executive vice president of one of the largest manufacturers of

1767
01:35:22.600 --> 01:35:25.640
heavy construction equipment in the country, and he had done

1768
01:35:25.680 --> 01:35:28.680
it all in less than twelve years. It was a

1769
01:35:28.760 --> 01:35:32.960
real life Horatio algia story, even to his being engaged

1770
01:35:33.000 --> 01:35:35.000
to JP McCready's daughter, Allison.

1771
01:35:35.680 --> 01:35:37.319
How could anything go wrong?

1772
01:35:38.520 --> 01:35:39.000
But it did.

1773
01:35:39.720 --> 01:35:45.359
The moment he walked into his private office. Yes, I see.

1774
01:35:46.920 --> 01:35:50.600
Appointed, No, sir, but he said that you'll see him, Paul.

1775
01:35:51.199 --> 01:35:52.000
Maybe i'd better.

1776
01:35:51.880 --> 01:35:52.720
Come in and explain.

1777
01:35:53.479 --> 01:35:54.119
Yes, a recular.

1778
01:35:57.239 --> 01:36:00.760
Sorry my sounds strange, but really, mister, Oh, that man

1779
01:36:00.880 --> 01:36:02.039
is kind of frightening.

1780
01:36:02.359 --> 01:36:03.479
Frightening will He.

1781
01:36:03.560 --> 01:36:05.640
Just sits there and grins at me. I told him

1782
01:36:05.640 --> 01:36:08.319
he didn't see people without an appointment. He said, oh,

1783
01:36:08.479 --> 01:36:11.199
you'll see me. Just tell him it's an old friend, Clint.

1784
01:36:12.039 --> 01:36:14.600
Do you know anybody by that name Clinton?

1785
01:36:14.720 --> 01:36:18.880
Clint, No, it doesn't ring a bell. All right, send

1786
01:36:18.960 --> 01:36:19.880
me in. I'll get rid of him.

1787
01:36:20.039 --> 01:36:24.960
Okay, don't say I didn't warn you. Mister Powell will

1788
01:36:25.039 --> 01:36:25.359
see you.

1789
01:36:28.000 --> 01:36:31.199
Nights of you to see me. Mister Powell, Well, I

1790
01:36:31.319 --> 01:36:34.039
try to see everybody, mister just Clint.

1791
01:36:34.880 --> 01:36:37.640
I don't think you ever knew me by anything, but Clint,

1792
01:36:39.000 --> 01:36:41.319
you must remember, mister Powell.

1793
01:36:41.439 --> 01:36:44.199
Well, I'm sorry, but I come on. Give it a try,

1794
01:36:44.600 --> 01:36:46.560
Give it a good try. Now look here, I'm busy,

1795
01:36:46.600 --> 01:36:48.319
and I have neither the time nor the face.

1796
01:36:48.560 --> 01:36:49.159
You must be.

1797
01:36:49.279 --> 01:36:55.039
Putting on an act, mister Charles Powell. Maybe this will

1798
01:36:55.159 --> 01:37:01.239
jolt your memory. Three five four one O sixty three.

1799
01:37:02.760 --> 01:37:10.319
What yeah, I thought that would do with Charlie. I

1800
01:37:10.560 --> 01:37:22.680
thought that might help you remember Charles. Oh, I'm sorry,

1801
01:37:22.760 --> 01:37:25.479
mister mccreedy. I guess it was daydreaming. Something bothering you,

1802
01:37:25.600 --> 01:37:28.800
young man. No, no, I hope not yet.

1803
01:37:28.880 --> 01:37:31.119
I take you to the best French restaurant in town.

1804
01:37:31.680 --> 01:37:34.600
You pick at your food, gaze in the space, send

1805
01:37:34.640 --> 01:37:35.319
your dinner away.

1806
01:37:35.359 --> 01:37:39.520
I'd thoughtful. Did I send all that good food back

1807
01:37:39.560 --> 01:37:40.840
without eating it? You did?

1808
01:37:41.920 --> 01:37:47.439
I particularly wanted to see you alone, Charles, because I

1809
01:37:47.520 --> 01:37:51.800
have a little news for you. News what what kind

1810
01:37:51.840 --> 01:37:55.399
of news, mister mcreedy. And that's another thing. You're so

1811
01:37:55.600 --> 01:38:00.199
damned formal with me. Mister McGready, do you realize in

1812
01:38:00.319 --> 01:38:02.119
exactly five weeks you're.

1813
01:38:02.000 --> 01:38:04.119
Going to be one of the family. Yes, of course

1814
01:38:04.199 --> 01:38:06.760
I realized. How could I overlook it when Allison keeps

1815
01:38:06.840 --> 01:38:08.800
reminding me regularly? Very well?

1816
01:38:08.920 --> 01:38:12.119
Then do you think you're proper to call your father

1817
01:38:12.279 --> 01:38:15.920
in law to be mister McGready, If you don't start

1818
01:38:16.039 --> 01:38:20.920
calling me John, okay, John little bee, I'm going to

1819
01:38:21.119 --> 01:38:24.760
leak a little information to you. Yes, as you know,

1820
01:38:24.920 --> 01:38:28.079
I've been thinking of stepping down from the presidency of

1821
01:38:28.159 --> 01:38:28.560
the company.

1822
01:38:28.720 --> 01:38:31.000
Yes, well, it has been rumored, but I wish you'd

1823
01:38:31.279 --> 01:38:33.960
reconsider it. Well, sincerely, the place wouldn't be the same

1824
01:38:34.000 --> 01:38:37.319
without you. I'll still be there, Charlie, I'm not giving

1825
01:38:37.439 --> 01:38:39.960
up my stock. The name of the company will still

1826
01:38:40.000 --> 01:38:43.640
be JP mcgreeedy Company. The only difference will be that

1827
01:38:45.199 --> 01:38:51.600
you will be sitting at my desk, city at your desk. Well,

1828
01:38:51.840 --> 01:38:54.079
I thought Hatches were slated to take over when you

1829
01:38:54.159 --> 01:38:59.520
stepped out. No, No, Tom was seriously considered, but he's

1830
01:38:59.520 --> 01:39:02.920
a bit too for the job. Now the company needs

1831
01:39:03.039 --> 01:39:03.600
young blood.

1832
01:39:03.920 --> 01:39:09.039
Well, I'm really bold over, I've watched you grow, come

1833
01:39:09.119 --> 01:39:13.000
up on merit ability. You're going to go far, my boy.

1834
01:39:14.000 --> 01:39:17.560
Of course, the board will have to vote on your appointment,

1835
01:39:17.760 --> 01:39:21.439
but that is I'm saying, goes is in the bag.

1836
01:39:21.880 --> 01:39:26.039
Well, there's something you've omitted. John. You haven't asked me

1837
01:39:26.079 --> 01:39:27.079
if I wanted the job.

1838
01:39:27.760 --> 01:39:31.000
Is it necessary to ask? I remember another lunch with

1839
01:39:31.079 --> 01:39:35.239
you several years ago. We got talking about ambitions and

1840
01:39:35.359 --> 01:39:38.239
you said that you would never be satisfied with second best.

1841
01:39:38.880 --> 01:39:41.840
It had to be the top job or you'd move on.

1842
01:39:42.920 --> 01:39:49.039
Yes, but that was before this morning. What h nothing,

1843
01:39:49.359 --> 01:39:52.439
just mumbling. I'd like to know how you feel about it.

1844
01:39:52.560 --> 01:39:55.359
Jobs, Well, heavens to be considered for the position as

1845
01:39:55.359 --> 01:40:00.760
anonymous John and your answer, let me think it over.

1846
01:40:02.159 --> 01:40:04.199
I must think it over.

1847
01:40:13.800 --> 01:40:18.119
Trying to collect your life insurance, Charles? What to where

1848
01:40:18.159 --> 01:40:21.439
you're driving? You have to get me yourself and both

1849
01:40:21.479 --> 01:40:21.640
of you.

1850
01:40:21.800 --> 01:40:24.199
Oh, I'm sorry, dear. I guess I didn't realize how

1851
01:40:24.279 --> 01:40:26.239
fast I was going. This car has more power than

1852
01:40:26.279 --> 01:40:28.399
it needs, more than I need. I'm sorry.

1853
01:40:30.000 --> 01:40:32.199
At least it gave us a topic for conversation.

1854
01:40:33.359 --> 01:40:35.520
Hey, what did you're driving?

1855
01:40:36.760 --> 01:40:40.560
Darling? I'm the cure you asked to marry you. Something

1856
01:40:40.680 --> 01:40:42.119
is troubling, something.

1857
01:40:41.960 --> 01:40:46.359
Big, Alison. Did your father tell you what he's planning?

1858
01:40:46.640 --> 01:40:48.680
Dad never tells me anything. I have an idea. He

1859
01:40:48.720 --> 01:40:49.720
thinks of me as a bird brain.

1860
01:40:49.880 --> 01:40:52.520
He wants me to take over the presidency of the company.

1861
01:40:52.840 --> 01:40:55.720
That's marvelous. Couldn't have made a better chance.

1862
01:40:55.800 --> 01:40:58.439
What you're prejudiced, But it's a nice kind of prejudice.

1863
01:40:59.000 --> 01:40:59.119
Uh.

1864
01:41:00.800 --> 01:41:02.039
I don't think i'll accept.

1865
01:41:02.479 --> 01:41:07.399
What But Darling, it's right for you. You've worked with

1866
01:41:07.640 --> 01:41:09.920
that go You're the right man for the job, am I?

1867
01:41:10.920 --> 01:41:12.640
What is this lack of confidence?

1868
01:41:12.720 --> 01:41:13.279
Buck Fever?

1869
01:41:13.800 --> 01:41:14.760
You're being ridiculous.

1870
01:41:14.880 --> 01:41:19.239
Don No I'm being practical and sensible. My being president

1871
01:41:19.279 --> 01:41:21.560
of the McCready company would bring nothing but trouble.

1872
01:41:21.960 --> 01:41:22.520
What are you saying?

1873
01:41:22.600 --> 01:41:26.640
I'm even considering resigning my present job? Why, Alison?

1874
01:41:26.880 --> 01:41:29.520
Tell me, whatever it is, I'll never stop loving you.

1875
01:41:31.720 --> 01:41:36.119
I'll tell you when I get up enough courage. Please, Darting,

1876
01:41:36.199 --> 01:41:38.920
be patient with me, Just be patient.

1877
01:41:40.319 --> 01:41:50.960
I love you too. So you finally got here. I

1878
01:41:51.039 --> 01:41:52.840
thought you were going to forget her a point high.

1879
01:41:52.880 --> 01:41:56.279
You didn't really think that, Clint. I know you'd come.

1880
01:41:57.319 --> 01:42:03.159
You wouldn't dare not to come. So you got it

1881
01:42:03.239 --> 01:42:06.039
with you? Yes, I've got it in small boats five

1882
01:42:06.119 --> 01:42:12.079
s tens that specified. Let's have it. Oh it's a

1883
01:42:12.199 --> 01:42:16.239
pretty minal envelope, too nice and knee nice. Now, look,

1884
01:42:16.279 --> 01:42:18.000
I don't know how much longer I can do this.

1885
01:42:18.239 --> 01:42:20.479
You'll do it as long as I say, And if

1886
01:42:20.520 --> 01:42:22.920
I run out of money, you just have to scrounge

1887
01:42:22.960 --> 01:42:24.000
around and flying more.

1888
01:42:24.119 --> 01:42:26.279
I'm thinking of quitting my job. You wouldn't want to

1889
01:42:26.399 --> 01:42:30.319
do that, Charlie. Well suppose suppose it gets too much

1890
01:42:30.359 --> 01:42:31.439
for me and I say, go ahead?

1891
01:42:31.479 --> 01:42:34.720
Spell what you know you wouldn't do that. You're gonna

1892
01:42:34.720 --> 01:42:36.039
marry a very rich girl.

1893
01:42:36.640 --> 01:42:39.359
A couple of extra yards ain't gonna change your manner

1894
01:42:39.399 --> 01:42:45.359
of living. Even a couple extra grand How long you're

1895
01:42:45.399 --> 01:42:48.640
gonna suck my blood. I don't like the way you

1896
01:42:48.880 --> 01:42:52.920
put that, Charlie. I'd rather you'd think of it like

1897
01:42:53.039 --> 01:42:53.960
it was sort.

1898
01:42:53.720 --> 01:42:59.079
Of sharing the wealth. You got the bread. I got nothing.

1899
01:43:00.119 --> 01:43:02.960
This way, we both got something. I got a nice

1900
01:43:03.039 --> 01:43:06.960
living and you you've got your freedom.

1901
01:43:18.640 --> 01:43:22.920
Hello Charles, Oh oh yes, mister, Yes, John.

1902
01:43:23.119 --> 01:43:24.520
Sorry to bother you at this hour.

1903
01:43:24.880 --> 01:43:26.840
He wanted to sleep. Were you at ten fifteen?

1904
01:43:26.920 --> 01:43:26.960
No?

1905
01:43:28.760 --> 01:43:32.560
The reason I'm calling yes is something bothering you?

1906
01:43:32.720 --> 01:43:35.960
My boy? Well, I uh, I've had some things on

1907
01:43:36.000 --> 01:43:37.880
my mind lately. I'm sorry. It was so noticeable.

1908
01:43:38.119 --> 01:43:39.239
What occurred to me that a.

1909
01:43:39.279 --> 01:43:41.560
Young man gets a bit absent minded there is a

1910
01:43:41.640 --> 01:43:43.399
day of his wedding approaches.

1911
01:43:43.239 --> 01:43:44.119
Perhaps a bit fright.

1912
01:43:44.279 --> 01:43:47.800
No, no, no, it isn't that JP. Oh excuse me, John,

1913
01:43:47.840 --> 01:43:50.079
someone's at my door. Hold on just a moment.

1914
01:43:52.399 --> 01:43:53.600
To give me for coming years.

1915
01:43:53.880 --> 01:43:55.560
I've got your father around the phone. Come in darning.

1916
01:43:59.279 --> 01:44:02.039
Hello John. It was just a porter with a package.

1917
01:44:02.039 --> 01:44:02.600
What were you say?

1918
01:44:03.119 --> 01:44:08.039
Oh? Nothing, really, I'm just concerned what I was troubling

1919
01:44:08.079 --> 01:44:11.199
you could be taken care of. I'm backing you all

1920
01:44:11.319 --> 01:44:11.640
the way.

1921
01:44:12.039 --> 01:44:12.199
Well.

1922
01:44:12.239 --> 01:44:15.039
I appreciate your feelings, JP, but there really is no

1923
01:44:15.159 --> 01:44:15.960
cause for concern.

1924
01:44:16.039 --> 01:44:17.520
I'll snap out of this in a day or so.

1925
01:44:17.840 --> 01:44:18.079
Good.

1926
01:44:18.600 --> 01:44:21.520
It's reassuring you say that I forgive me.

1927
01:44:21.600 --> 01:44:24.600
For disturbing you. Know I wasn't disturbed. Thanks for calling.

1928
01:44:24.880 --> 01:44:26.039
Good night, good night, JP.

1929
01:44:27.760 --> 01:44:31.720
Even Dad notices that something is wrong. I haven't seen

1930
01:44:31.800 --> 01:44:34.760
you in three days. You trying to tell me something.

1931
01:44:36.039 --> 01:44:38.560
All I hear. All I want to tell you is

1932
01:44:38.600 --> 01:44:41.159
that I love you very much.

1933
01:44:41.319 --> 01:44:44.960
From a distance. I called you what your office twice this.

1934
01:44:45.039 --> 01:44:50.319
Afternoon, Alison, Alison, I can't keep this from you.

1935
01:44:50.520 --> 01:44:52.720
I thought I could, but every day, every hour, it

1936
01:44:52.840 --> 01:44:55.359
grows bigger, until now it feels as though it's going

1937
01:44:55.439 --> 01:44:57.680
to win gulf me and you are.

1938
01:44:57.600 --> 01:44:59.640
Life everything that has meaning for me.

1939
01:45:00.239 --> 01:45:02.720
No, no, no, hear me out, and then if you

1940
01:45:02.760 --> 01:45:06.359
want to go out that door quietly, I won't say

1941
01:45:06.399 --> 01:45:08.760
anything more, and you can forget that you've ever known me.

1942
01:45:09.239 --> 01:45:12.279
He loved you? Are you trying to say you don't

1943
01:45:12.319 --> 01:45:14.359
want to marry me? Did you stop loving me?

1944
01:45:14.520 --> 01:45:17.119
Darling? It's because I love you that I'm going to

1945
01:45:17.159 --> 01:45:17.399
tell you.

1946
01:45:18.439 --> 01:45:20.760
I considered keeping the whole matter from you, writing out

1947
01:45:20.800 --> 01:45:22.520
the trouble and probably overcoming it.

1948
01:45:22.680 --> 01:45:24.680
Darling, how little you know me? No matter what the

1949
01:45:24.800 --> 01:45:27.079
trouble is. I want to be with you if you

1950
01:45:27.159 --> 01:45:27.479
want me.

1951
01:45:32.079 --> 01:45:38.600
Alison, I'm a fraud. I'm not Charles Powell. It's a

1952
01:45:38.720 --> 01:45:42.079
name I assumed to hide my real identity.

1953
01:45:44.960 --> 01:45:47.760
Want me to go on, yes, Darling, go on.

1954
01:45:50.680 --> 01:45:54.159
At the age of twenty two, I was charged and

1955
01:45:54.319 --> 01:45:58.199
convicted of murder and to san Quentin for life. I

1956
01:45:58.359 --> 01:46:02.079
was innocent, evidence circumstantial, and court appointed attorney who didn't

1957
01:46:02.079 --> 01:46:03.239
know what to do it didn't care.

1958
01:46:04.479 --> 01:46:07.079
A weak effort to appeal, which was refused, and.

1959
01:46:08.560 --> 01:46:12.279
There I was, at twenty two, in prison for life,

1960
01:46:13.319 --> 01:46:15.760
chance of for parole only after serving twenty years.

1961
01:46:15.800 --> 01:46:16.359
I'd be old.

1962
01:46:16.439 --> 01:46:22.680
All my young life confined in prison. So when I

1963
01:46:22.720 --> 01:46:25.880
had a chance to get out and ran for two years,

1964
01:46:26.920 --> 01:46:27.239
do you know.

1965
01:46:27.279 --> 01:46:28.359
What it means to be hunted?

1966
01:46:28.439 --> 01:46:30.239
You can't get a job, you have no place to live,

1967
01:46:30.279 --> 01:46:32.039
you can't have a sleep for fear someone will see

1968
01:46:32.039 --> 01:46:32.760
you and turn you will.

1969
01:46:33.520 --> 01:46:35.000
I was ready to give myself up.

1970
01:46:37.199 --> 01:46:41.119
When I suddenly discovered that it wasn't necessary to run

1971
01:46:41.319 --> 01:46:44.640
any longer. I picked up a two week on newspaper

1972
01:46:44.720 --> 01:46:47.199
and read a report of my death. Yes, a man,

1973
01:46:47.880 --> 01:46:49.920
a man had been burned to death in a flop

1974
01:46:49.960 --> 01:46:52.840
house fire. The only thing he had on him was

1975
01:46:52.880 --> 01:46:56.239
something that I had kept my only possession, a locket

1976
01:46:56.720 --> 01:46:59.600
belonging to my mother, and I had a picture of

1977
01:46:59.680 --> 01:47:04.399
Earth taken when she married my father, and it had

1978
01:47:04.439 --> 01:47:06.239
been stolen from me. As I lay asleep in a

1979
01:47:06.279 --> 01:47:08.039
freight car, I guess that hee thought it was gold.

1980
01:47:08.119 --> 01:47:10.000
It was just cheap gold plate.

1981
01:47:10.199 --> 01:47:11.720
And the man was identified as you.

1982
01:47:12.239 --> 01:47:16.000
My mother and father's names were inscribed on the back.

1983
01:47:17.399 --> 01:47:19.359
The man was so badly burned that the locket was

1984
01:47:19.399 --> 01:47:22.199
the only thing that could possibly identify him, and after

1985
01:47:22.239 --> 01:47:26.119
two years of hunting, the authorities were glad to close

1986
01:47:26.199 --> 01:47:26.560
the file.

1987
01:47:27.960 --> 01:47:30.760
I'm Robert Haven.

1988
01:47:31.960 --> 01:47:38.239
Robert Hagen sounds so strange. The name doesn't fit you.

1989
01:47:38.560 --> 01:47:42.960
It sounds strange to me too, now, Donny, I'm innocent.

1990
01:47:43.720 --> 01:47:45.119
I never did it. It was all a mistake.

1991
01:47:45.159 --> 01:47:47.680
I don't doubt that for an instant. Dearis I only

1992
01:47:47.760 --> 01:47:48.880
wish I'd never told me.

1993
01:47:49.399 --> 01:47:55.680
I had to tell you is see, someone knows who

1994
01:47:55.800 --> 01:48:01.000
I am. He's black wailing.

1995
01:48:09.159 --> 01:48:15.439
When you're being blackmailed. You don't have many alternatives. Charles

1996
01:48:15.560 --> 01:48:20.279
Powell's whole life is future, the happiness of the woman

1997
01:48:20.359 --> 01:48:25.399
he loves, all hanged by a very thin, slimsy thread.

1998
01:48:26.600 --> 01:48:30.159
I'll be back shortly with that too. I'm High Brown,

1999
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producer of radio Mystery Theater, and as you may imagine,

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2002
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2024
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2025
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2026
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2027
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2028
01:50:06.039 --> 01:50:08.840
group of lamps and pictures are as much as sixty

2029
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percent off the regular price, so shop early while selections

2030
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are good. During Adele Hunt's Great Winner sam Adele Hunts

2031
01:50:16.039 --> 01:50:19.000
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2032
01:50:19.039 --> 01:50:23.760
Hill creston University Park where Dallas buys with Confidence, Open

2033
01:50:23.840 --> 01:50:25.439
tonight till nine pm.

2034
01:50:37.560 --> 01:50:41.000
When Charles Powell chose to give in to his blackmailer.

2035
01:50:41.680 --> 01:50:44.439
He didn't envision the trouble that was building up for him.

2036
01:50:45.399 --> 01:50:47.680
Just keep paying and I'll keep my mouth.

2037
01:50:47.479 --> 01:50:49.520
Shut, his blackmailer assured him.

2038
01:50:50.319 --> 01:50:55.279
But then something happened that threatened to destroy charles fragile security.

2039
01:50:57.359 --> 01:50:59.760
Yes, Elsie, if a Helma is here to see.

2040
01:50:59.680 --> 01:51:03.159
You, George Hamil, we're not playing tennis until tomorrow.

2041
01:51:03.439 --> 01:51:04.399
I know that, Charlie.

2042
01:51:04.600 --> 01:51:06.279
I've got something else to talk about.

2043
01:51:06.600 --> 01:51:07.000
Business.

2044
01:51:07.760 --> 01:51:13.239
Business, yours are mine mine, but it concerns you. Okay,

2045
01:51:13.319 --> 01:51:13.960
come in, George.

2046
01:51:16.359 --> 01:51:19.079
Sorry to bar je Anya. I know you're busy.

2047
01:51:19.159 --> 01:51:21.479
Oh I'm never too busy to see George Hamil, rising

2048
01:51:21.560 --> 01:51:23.520
young district attorney and next governor of the.

2049
01:51:23.560 --> 01:51:29.159
State near Humor Creeks. Charlie, Seriously, I've got something that

2050
01:51:29.319 --> 01:51:30.359
sort of disturbs me.

2051
01:51:30.680 --> 01:51:34.319
Oh what does Last night in a bar over on

2052
01:51:34.399 --> 01:51:37.199
the West Side, a man was bashed over the head

2053
01:51:37.239 --> 01:51:41.479
with a bottle. He's in serious condition. Well, what has

2054
01:51:41.520 --> 01:51:43.720
that got to do with me? Well, the man who

2055
01:51:43.800 --> 01:51:45.760
did the bashing, the next.

2056
01:51:45.640 --> 01:51:49.479
Con by the name of Clinton Levitz, is he's asking

2057
01:51:49.560 --> 01:51:54.680
for you, says you'll go as bail. What I want

2058
01:51:54.760 --> 01:51:57.319
to know is, how does a guy like you get

2059
01:51:57.399 --> 01:51:58.600
mixed up with a joe like that.

2060
01:52:00.239 --> 01:52:01.840
George, what did you think that he and I were

2061
01:52:01.880 --> 01:52:04.680
buddies or something? I didn't know what the thing?

2062
01:52:04.760 --> 01:52:08.319
Well, I do know the man. He applied for a

2063
01:52:08.399 --> 01:52:10.000
job with the company a week or so ago. The

2064
01:52:10.079 --> 01:52:12.479
foreman who interviewed him discovered he was an ex con

2065
01:52:12.600 --> 01:52:16.039
and he refused to hire him. It was brought to

2066
01:52:16.159 --> 01:52:19.079
my attention when one of the societies that helps x

2067
01:52:19.199 --> 01:52:21.279
cons called me, so.

2068
01:52:21.439 --> 01:52:22.720
You got him a job in the plant.

2069
01:52:22.800 --> 01:52:24.880
No, no, no, no, I couldn't. I mean, I wouldn't

2070
01:52:24.880 --> 01:52:26.680
go over the head of the foreman. But I did

2071
01:52:26.840 --> 01:52:29.720
see him, and I, you know, handed him a couple

2072
01:52:29.800 --> 01:52:30.199
of dollars.

2073
01:52:30.199 --> 01:52:31.039
A couple of dollars.

2074
01:52:32.000 --> 01:52:33.359
You know how much money he had on him, and

2075
01:52:33.439 --> 01:52:36.520
we brought him in two hundred and seventy six dollars.

2076
01:52:36.760 --> 01:52:39.760
Oh well, maybe he got lucky at the races with

2077
01:52:39.840 --> 01:52:42.520
the money I gave him. How much was oh gee,

2078
01:52:42.560 --> 01:52:45.039
I don't remember, fifteen twenty. I just took it out

2079
01:52:45.079 --> 01:52:46.880
of my pocket and handed it to him. It was a,

2080
01:52:47.439 --> 01:52:49.399
you know, a way of easing my conscience. I felt

2081
01:52:49.439 --> 01:52:51.239
bad about the way our foreman had treated him.

2082
01:52:51.399 --> 01:52:55.039
Well, take my word for it. This Clint Live. It

2083
01:52:55.199 --> 01:53:01.680
is a bad customer, stay away from him. What will

2084
01:53:01.840 --> 01:53:04.119
become of them? Where you'll go back to the pen

2085
01:53:04.159 --> 01:53:04.960
wary belongs?

2086
01:53:05.119 --> 01:53:10.079
And what's the bail set at five thousand? And you're

2087
01:53:10.119 --> 01:53:12.239
not seriously considering putting it up?

2088
01:53:12.279 --> 01:53:12.520
Are you?

2089
01:53:12.720 --> 01:53:14.800
It's just asking because if you are, that's the last

2090
01:53:14.840 --> 01:53:17.479
you'll see of your money for that matter, mister Libert

2091
01:53:17.520 --> 01:53:18.279
see jump.

2092
01:53:18.119 --> 01:53:20.920
Bailies, George, I'm a big boy now and I think

2093
01:53:20.960 --> 01:53:25.000
I can make my own decisions. Well, who would have thought,

2094
01:53:25.920 --> 01:53:30.039
Charles Powell bleeding hearts? How Look, we've been friends for

2095
01:53:30.079 --> 01:53:32.840
over five years. When you were running for DA I

2096
01:53:32.960 --> 01:53:36.199
backed you with substantial contributions. I like you, you're my friend.

2097
01:53:36.960 --> 01:53:40.840
Let's not kick that all out because of some stupid disagreement. Now,

2098
01:53:42.079 --> 01:53:43.119
let's not kick it out.

2099
01:53:44.520 --> 01:53:48.960
I'm sorry, Charlie, but I just can't understand what your

2100
01:53:49.000 --> 01:53:50.640
connection with that ex con is.

2101
01:53:58.960 --> 01:53:59.479
Mister bow.

2102
01:54:00.119 --> 01:54:02.960
I hope you'll understand. I accept Kenton Livid's gates with

2103
01:54:03.039 --> 01:54:06.960
strong reservation. Yes, I understand, great earn. Yeah, well, how

2104
01:54:07.000 --> 01:54:11.560
shall I put you? You don't like your client exactly, However,

2105
01:54:11.640 --> 01:54:13.560
I shall do my best to get him off, or

2106
01:54:13.600 --> 01:54:17.159
at least getting a light sentence. I'm extremely pessimistic about

2107
01:54:17.199 --> 01:54:19.359
mister Livert's even showing up for trial. Yes.

2108
01:54:20.439 --> 01:54:23.399
George Hammill also said he expected that Lippitts will jump his.

2109
01:54:23.399 --> 01:54:25.880
Play and you would forfeit five thousand dollars.

2110
01:54:25.920 --> 01:54:29.960
Yes, I know that doesn't disturb you. No, No, I

2111
01:54:30.000 --> 01:54:30.880
don't believe he'll run.

2112
01:54:31.520 --> 01:54:35.720
I see you want to speak with him. He's been released.

2113
01:54:35.760 --> 01:54:38.960
He's waiting in the other roof. Not particularly, he says

2114
01:54:39.000 --> 01:54:43.239
he wants to see you. Oh well in that case, yes,

2115
01:54:43.560 --> 01:54:46.079
I'll see him. Send mister Liverts in.

2116
01:54:47.319 --> 01:54:49.399
I'll leave you alone. He didn't need me.

2117
01:54:49.479 --> 01:54:53.319
I'll be in the other office. Now, come in, mister Livertz.

2118
01:54:53.680 --> 01:54:56.359
Mister Powell will speak to you nice. I'll be back

2119
01:54:56.399 --> 01:54:58.960
when you call. Just flip the switch on the intercom, Yes,

2120
01:54:59.039 --> 01:54:59.319
I will.

2121
01:55:02.800 --> 01:55:06.039
You sure know how to complicate things, Clinton, storry of

2122
01:55:06.159 --> 01:55:08.479
my life. Do you realize you could go up for

2123
01:55:08.760 --> 01:55:10.520
one to five years for what you've done?

2124
01:55:10.800 --> 01:55:13.600
No, couldn't happen. What do you mean that couldn't happen

2125
01:55:13.880 --> 01:55:15.960
because you wouldn't let it happen, Shirley.

2126
01:55:16.039 --> 01:55:18.319
Look, even with the best lawyer defending you, he can't

2127
01:55:18.359 --> 01:55:20.640
guarantee he'll win the k oh won't let me go

2128
01:55:20.800 --> 01:55:21.199
to prison.

2129
01:55:21.680 --> 01:55:26.319
I'm doing my best for you, but no, but I'm

2130
01:55:26.399 --> 01:55:29.920
not going back to the band. Okay, okay, you're not

2131
01:55:30.000 --> 01:55:30.479
going back.

2132
01:55:31.439 --> 01:55:35.079
I suppose just suppose during the trial, if things look bad, yeah,

2133
01:55:35.359 --> 01:55:38.039
we get you out of town and let you run

2134
01:55:38.079 --> 01:55:39.039
for it, forfeit your bail.

2135
01:55:40.680 --> 01:55:43.520
Oh you'd like that, wouldn't you. I'd be out of

2136
01:55:43.600 --> 01:55:45.600
your hair, and all it would cost you would be

2137
01:55:45.760 --> 01:55:48.000
the five g's with the baby. No, no, no, no no,

2138
01:55:48.560 --> 01:55:53.000
I give you a substantial soul, mister Powell. Oh, sale

2139
01:55:54.279 --> 01:55:57.159
to all the run. Well, suppose I got you out

2140
01:55:57.199 --> 01:56:00.319
of the country with a good nager Brudgstad the way

2141
01:56:00.399 --> 01:56:05.159
for me Swiss bank account. I don't know. Why don't

2142
01:56:05.199 --> 01:56:21.640
we play it by year? Come in? You wanted to

2143
01:56:21.680 --> 01:56:21.960
see me?

2144
01:56:22.119 --> 01:56:22.319
JP?

2145
01:56:24.000 --> 01:56:25.600
Yes, can you spare a minute?

2146
01:56:25.720 --> 01:56:25.880
Yeah?

2147
01:56:25.960 --> 01:56:29.079
Sure, I've heard it on the grapevine that you were

2148
01:56:30.039 --> 01:56:32.399
how shall I put it, that you were aiding some

2149
01:56:32.640 --> 01:56:34.920
ex convict in trouble with the police.

2150
01:56:35.520 --> 01:56:40.520
That's true, Yes, it's true, John, And I think I

2151
01:56:40.680 --> 01:56:43.359
know what kind of grapes grow on that grapevine.

2152
01:56:43.840 --> 01:56:48.039
All right, George Hammer that time phusy party, Why can't

2153
01:56:48.079 --> 01:56:50.479
he stick to his job, and George is a friend.

2154
01:56:51.840 --> 01:56:55.319
He tells me that the man you're protecting is a

2155
01:56:55.439 --> 01:57:02.359
rather reprehensible cap Will you then let me explain it's.

2156
01:57:00.479 --> 01:57:04.159
Just a matter of policy my helping this man. Paula said, well, yes,

2157
01:57:04.239 --> 01:57:04.560
you were.

2158
01:57:05.199 --> 01:57:07.000
You did ask me a few days ago to consider

2159
01:57:07.079 --> 01:57:08.840
taking over the job of running this company.

2160
01:57:09.039 --> 01:57:11.479
You're going to accept? Well, I was going to tell

2161
01:57:11.479 --> 01:57:16.520
you today wonderful, wonderful news. Alison will be delighted. I

2162
01:57:16.640 --> 01:57:19.319
know she's been worried about your seeming relucked. Oh no, no,

2163
01:57:19.560 --> 01:57:22.640
not reluctant any longer. In fact, I've got all sorts

2164
01:57:22.680 --> 01:57:25.000
of ideas about what I want to do. This business

2165
01:57:25.039 --> 01:57:27.159
of giving a hand to ex conference is just one

2166
01:57:27.239 --> 01:57:29.760
of them. Do you realize what this would mean in publicity?

2167
01:57:29.840 --> 01:57:31.920
For the company to take an interest.

2168
01:57:31.680 --> 01:57:34.600
In the rehabilitation of men would otherwise be lost to

2169
01:57:34.640 --> 01:57:35.800
burden to the taxpayer.

2170
01:57:36.119 --> 01:57:37.960
I'm going to hire a pr man. We're going to

2171
01:57:38.039 --> 01:57:47.640
be the big corporation with a heart JP Lies, lies,

2172
01:57:47.760 --> 01:57:50.920
lies and more lies. How can I keep all these

2173
01:57:51.000 --> 01:57:52.079
tony stories straight?

2174
01:57:52.159 --> 01:57:54.680
Alison? It's like a long, dark tunnel with no envy.

2175
01:57:54.800 --> 01:57:56.920
It will and it will all turn out all right,

2176
01:57:57.079 --> 01:57:59.159
don't lose your courage. No, I love you and need

2177
01:57:59.279 --> 01:58:00.960
to worried it out together.

2178
01:58:01.159 --> 01:58:01.960
You know you know what.

2179
01:58:02.039 --> 01:58:05.039
I've considered it, going to the authorities and saying, look,

2180
01:58:05.119 --> 01:58:08.520
I'm Robert Haigen, the man you say died thirteen years ago.

2181
01:58:08.600 --> 01:58:10.880
No, darling, they'd throw you back into prison, while.

2182
01:58:10.720 --> 01:58:12.000
I'd prior the best lawyer.

2183
01:58:12.119 --> 01:58:14.960
No, please, don't take such a chance. What would I

2184
01:58:15.000 --> 01:58:17.800
do without you, Johnny.

2185
01:58:19.960 --> 01:58:22.199
Journey. I don't know how much longer I can stand

2186
01:58:22.199 --> 01:58:24.640
in this pressure. I've got to do something, something to

2187
01:58:24.760 --> 01:58:25.439
free myself.

2188
01:58:25.520 --> 01:58:27.079
Why not give him a lot of money and ask

2189
01:58:27.159 --> 01:58:29.159
him to go away, promise to stay away forever.

2190
01:58:29.359 --> 01:58:32.000
In hart Grave's office, I suggested that he jump down

2191
01:58:32.079 --> 01:58:34.279
and get out of the country. What did he say, Well,

2192
01:58:34.319 --> 01:58:37.039
when I mentioned a big sum, I didn't exactly say

2193
01:58:37.119 --> 01:58:38.960
how much, you know, a Swiss bank account?

2194
01:58:39.399 --> 01:58:42.880
He was interested? Did he say, well, we were interrupted

2195
01:58:42.920 --> 01:58:44.279
and he didn't say definitely.

2196
01:58:44.479 --> 01:58:46.199
Offer him anything to get him to go.

2197
01:58:46.560 --> 01:58:48.880
How would I get a large sum of money together?

2198
01:58:49.000 --> 01:58:51.600
I have some small investments of fair bank account, but

2199
01:58:53.279 --> 01:58:54.880
what he might want would be beyond me.

2200
01:58:55.359 --> 01:58:57.359
You forget you're marrying a very rich girl.

2201
01:58:57.520 --> 01:58:58.880
No, No, I wouldn't think of that.

2202
01:58:59.279 --> 01:59:02.079
Don't give me that male eco business. I've got money.

2203
01:59:03.119 --> 01:59:04.800
It was nice enough to give me a big hunt

2204
01:59:04.800 --> 01:59:05.039
when I.

2205
01:59:05.119 --> 01:59:08.399
Was twenty one, Cluck Allison, with all my earthly goods.

2206
01:59:09.640 --> 01:59:10.520
We're not married yet.

2207
01:59:10.840 --> 01:59:12.800
You're not going to back up now, not have to.

2208
01:59:12.880 --> 01:59:15.399
I've and down you with all my earthly or is

2209
01:59:15.479 --> 01:59:16.359
it worldly goods?

2210
01:59:18.640 --> 01:59:18.800
You know?

2211
01:59:18.920 --> 01:59:21.800
You other nuttiest woman I've ever known.

2212
01:59:21.880 --> 01:59:25.800
I see I've got to laughing, Darling. Oh, our troubles

2213
01:59:25.840 --> 01:59:26.920
are going to evaporate.

2214
01:59:27.159 --> 01:59:32.720
Spanish. No, it won't work out us. It'll never work

2215
01:59:32.840 --> 01:59:33.520
But you said no.

2216
01:59:35.039 --> 01:59:38.279
Clinton Lippts will never stick to any bargain. You'll want more,

2217
01:59:38.319 --> 01:59:40.279
and he'll want more. He'll never be satisfied.

2218
01:59:40.359 --> 01:59:41.399
We got him out of the country.

2219
01:59:41.479 --> 01:59:43.520
What's to keep him from coming back when he's broke,

2220
01:59:43.640 --> 01:59:47.439
or even threatening us from abroad. I gave him a

2221
01:59:47.479 --> 01:59:50.439
thousand dollars in cash only a few days ago. When

2222
01:59:50.479 --> 01:59:51.880
he was picked up in the bar, he had only

2223
01:59:51.880 --> 01:59:54.439
about two hundred and seventy some dollars left. In a

2224
01:59:54.479 --> 01:59:57.479
matter of two days, it squandered over seven hundred.

2225
01:59:57.640 --> 01:59:59.680
But if you were made to understand that the summer

2226
01:59:59.720 --> 02:00:01.000
greet was all he was going to do.

2227
02:00:01.399 --> 02:00:05.039
I make you understand we're not dealing with a rational,

2228
02:00:05.239 --> 02:00:10.399
honest man. He'll agree to anything, and then he'll when

2229
02:00:10.479 --> 02:00:13.319
his money runs out or he decides he wants more,

2230
02:00:13.399 --> 02:00:15.079
he'll he'll be right back.

2231
02:00:16.159 --> 02:00:23.039
What can you do? There are only two things one

2232
02:00:23.119 --> 02:00:26.640
can do about a black man. Keep on pain and

2233
02:00:26.800 --> 02:00:33.960
paying forever and the other and the other kill him.

2234
02:00:40.000 --> 02:00:44.359
Just two ways to deal with a blackmailer. Charles now

2235
02:00:44.479 --> 02:00:48.680
must face his conscience. The thought that has been in

2236
02:00:48.720 --> 02:00:52.359
the hidden recesses of his mind has been spoken aloud.

2237
02:00:53.560 --> 02:01:03.720
We will be back shortly with Act three. When you say, Buddha,

2238
02:01:04.680 --> 02:01:08.079
you said a lot of things nobody else can see here.

2239
02:01:09.680 --> 02:01:13.840
When you see, buddy, you've got it hard. You can

2240
02:01:13.920 --> 02:01:19.840
go and get the very well I think about it.

2241
02:01:20.479 --> 02:01:24.439
Decide yourself for sure the budweins of people really do

2242
02:01:24.520 --> 02:01:26.760
when he willn't be a right doesn't make a difference.

2243
02:01:27.479 --> 02:01:36.600
But being that up to you becall the game allround.

2244
02:01:38.159 --> 02:01:39.399
When you said.

2245
02:01:42.279 --> 02:01:47.800
You study, and I said, well, yeah, St. Louis, who

2246
02:01:47.920 --> 02:01:52.199
knows how to help you solve your shopping problems? The

2247
02:01:52.359 --> 02:01:55.680
better business girl knows, honey.

2248
02:01:55.720 --> 02:01:57.800
The TV that just won't work?

2249
02:01:58.079 --> 02:02:00.800
Who do I take it to the lady down the

2250
02:02:00.840 --> 02:02:03.520
street took hers into a place that charged her more,

2251
02:02:03.560 --> 02:02:04.399
and her set.

2252
02:02:04.359 --> 02:02:04.840
Was the worse.

2253
02:02:05.199 --> 02:02:06.520
Gosh, I don't know.

2254
02:02:09.880 --> 02:02:10.920
I'll tell you what to do.

2255
02:02:11.239 --> 02:02:15.039
Folks, who are you? I'm the man from your Better

2256
02:02:15.079 --> 02:02:18.760
Business Bureau. Now, before you take your set in for repairs,

2257
02:02:19.279 --> 02:02:22.439
shop around and check into a firm's reputation. You know

2258
02:02:22.560 --> 02:02:25.920
that's even more important than the price. Friends and neighbors

2259
02:02:26.000 --> 02:02:28.520
can help, or you can ask for a few names

2260
02:02:28.600 --> 02:02:31.960
of previous customers to find out if they were satisfied.

2261
02:02:32.600 --> 02:02:34.880
And since the amount you pay will vary from one

2262
02:02:34.920 --> 02:02:37.840
place to another, it's up to you to find out

2263
02:02:37.920 --> 02:02:40.960
an advance what a service will cost if you have

2264
02:02:41.079 --> 02:02:45.720
it fixed at home. Just another consumer tip from your

2265
02:02:45.760 --> 02:03:04.600
Better Business Gil Charles Powell's life has reached a climax.

2266
02:03:05.720 --> 02:03:09.479
He must make a decision to rid himself forever of

2267
02:03:09.600 --> 02:03:13.680
his blackmailer, and perhaps that very decision will destroy his

2268
02:03:13.840 --> 02:03:17.800
life and the life of a woman he loves. The

2269
02:03:17.920 --> 02:03:31.359
alternative is to keep paying and paying, never feeling safe. Oh, Alison,

2270
02:03:31.439 --> 02:03:35.680
I was expecting him, weren't you. Yes, I scatthered as

2271
02:03:35.760 --> 02:03:37.760
much when I called him at the office this afternoon.

2272
02:03:39.079 --> 02:03:46.239
Aren't you going to ask me in uh you you

2273
02:03:46.359 --> 02:03:47.399
were so evation.

2274
02:03:48.920 --> 02:03:51.840
Well to see me the safety. He wants more money

2275
02:03:52.119 --> 02:03:53.319
and you're going to give it to him. Well, I

2276
02:03:53.359 --> 02:03:54.439
haven't many choices, have I?

2277
02:03:55.079 --> 02:03:55.840
You mentioned one?

2278
02:03:56.039 --> 02:03:56.079
No?

2279
02:03:57.760 --> 02:04:00.800
No, Allison, I'm sorry I let that slip on. I

2280
02:04:00.880 --> 02:04:04.399
didn't mean it. I couldn't go through with that. If

2281
02:04:04.439 --> 02:04:09.560
I wanted to, I could. Well, I mean, you don't

2282
02:04:09.640 --> 02:04:10.399
know what you're saying.

2283
02:04:10.479 --> 02:04:13.199
I know very well, but I'm saying, how long do

2284
02:04:13.279 --> 02:04:14.960
you think you can keep this business hidden?

2285
02:04:15.000 --> 02:04:15.920
Well, I don't know. I don't know.

2286
02:04:16.000 --> 02:04:19.039
Maybe forever. Look, Look, he's not a young man. All

2287
02:04:19.079 --> 02:04:21.119
those years in prison, a kind of life he's led.

2288
02:04:21.159 --> 02:04:23.239
How many years do you think he has left? He

2289
02:04:23.319 --> 02:04:25.680
could die tomorrow, he could do something tomorrow that would

2290
02:04:25.720 --> 02:04:26.840
expose the whole game and them.

2291
02:04:26.840 --> 02:04:30.880
Where would we be? No, Charles, I love you. I

2292
02:04:31.000 --> 02:04:33.279
want us to marry and live a good, peaceful life.

2293
02:04:33.600 --> 02:04:35.119
How can we with all that hanging over?

2294
02:04:35.439 --> 02:04:36.600
Alison? Darling?

2295
02:04:37.479 --> 02:04:41.279
Darling, you don't really know what you're suggesting. Look, maybe

2296
02:04:41.319 --> 02:04:42.800
if we could get him to leave the country.

2297
02:04:42.880 --> 02:04:44.760
You said there were only two ways to deal with

2298
02:04:44.840 --> 02:04:46.920
a black mean to keep.

2299
02:04:46.840 --> 02:04:49.640
Paying no, no, to murder him is unthinkable.

2300
02:04:50.920 --> 02:04:52.960
George Hammill asked me to stop by at his office

2301
02:04:53.000 --> 02:04:55.239
this afternoon. Why he's not stupid.

2302
02:04:56.159 --> 02:04:58.800
Sorry, you gave my father about helping ex convicts of

2303
02:04:58.840 --> 02:05:00.840
public relations and washed with him.

2304
02:05:01.520 --> 02:05:02.640
He wanted to know what I knew.

2305
02:05:02.720 --> 02:05:03.760
Well, he was just fishing.

2306
02:05:04.439 --> 02:05:07.000
The best way would be to make it look like an.

2307
02:05:06.960 --> 02:05:11.840
Accident, Carson, we clear me out a car accident. Oh

2308
02:05:13.520 --> 02:05:15.479
if I cracked up with Clint in the car, I

2309
02:05:15.560 --> 02:05:17.239
might be the one who gets it. And what guarantee

2310
02:05:17.279 --> 02:05:19.119
do we have that he would die? Now?

2311
02:05:19.199 --> 02:05:20.439
You can't be in the same car.

2312
02:05:21.680 --> 02:05:24.840
If he were in another car and you were following him,

2313
02:05:25.560 --> 02:05:27.479
and if you raced ahead of him and cut him

2314
02:05:27.520 --> 02:05:29.560
off and forced him to crash off the road.

2315
02:05:29.720 --> 02:05:34.039
Oh if, if, if it's too diffy, it's so impersible,

2316
02:05:34.159 --> 02:05:35.119
it's so dream like.

2317
02:05:35.520 --> 02:05:39.159
It was a dream last night. I dreamt you were

2318
02:05:39.199 --> 02:05:42.079
in a car with me. We saw Clint up ahead

2319
02:05:42.119 --> 02:05:46.640
of this. I said, there's Clint ahead of his cut

2320
02:05:46.720 --> 02:05:50.840
him off and make him crash faster, faster. We had

2321
02:05:50.960 --> 02:05:54.319
nearly caught him now right alongside him, pushed him over,

2322
02:05:54.439 --> 02:05:58.520
got in front of him, and I woke up.

2323
02:05:58.560 --> 02:06:01.640
I was calling out. I was afraid someone had hurt.

2324
02:06:01.920 --> 02:06:04.479
Oh my, it's also real.

2325
02:06:05.920 --> 02:06:08.359
That's click Now, honey, you go at the back door.

2326
02:06:08.479 --> 02:06:09.039
I'll phone your.

2327
02:06:09.000 --> 02:06:11.199
Lates and when you say a meeting, no, I'm staying.

2328
02:06:11.880 --> 02:06:13.039
I've got something to say to it.

2329
02:06:13.119 --> 02:06:17.600
You won't like your being here, Well, it sure took

2330
02:06:17.680 --> 02:06:20.600
long enough. What's the idea, Powell?

2331
02:06:20.800 --> 02:06:20.920
Uh?

2332
02:06:21.279 --> 02:06:25.199
This is my fiance Alison MacCready? What's she doing here?

2333
02:06:25.279 --> 02:06:28.239
Will you come in and stop being childish? Year, I

2334
02:06:28.279 --> 02:06:32.079
ain't say anything. You got nothing on me. And remember,

2335
02:06:32.159 --> 02:06:35.000
mister Powell, you got a lot more to lose than

2336
02:06:35.039 --> 02:06:35.279
I have.

2337
02:06:35.560 --> 02:06:36.159
I'm not going to.

2338
02:06:36.199 --> 02:06:38.319
Lose anything, mister Livitz, you're going to gain by my

2339
02:06:38.439 --> 02:06:41.560
being here. Yeah, mister Powell has told me his story,

2340
02:06:41.640 --> 02:06:43.560
and I agree that it must not get up.

2341
02:06:44.119 --> 02:06:47.880
Go on, I have a lot more money. And let

2342
02:06:47.960 --> 02:06:50.920
me put it this way, Charles and I are going

2343
02:06:50.960 --> 02:06:53.960
to be married. We want you to leave the country.

2344
02:06:54.359 --> 02:06:58.640
Oh I bet you do. Look, Clint, you'll do better

2345
02:06:58.720 --> 02:06:59.960
by accepting our proposition.

2346
02:07:00.199 --> 02:07:02.600
We intend to hand you fifty thousand.

2347
02:07:02.279 --> 02:07:07.479
Dollars and an airplane ticket one way and never come back.

2348
02:07:07.800 --> 02:07:08.680
And never come back.

2349
02:07:11.960 --> 02:07:17.520
I always wanted to travel, but what fifty gs? Just

2350
02:07:17.680 --> 02:07:18.600
chicken free that's all.

2351
02:07:18.640 --> 02:07:21.920
There is not enough. I'm taking around a quarter of

2352
02:07:21.960 --> 02:07:22.640
a million.

2353
02:07:22.439 --> 02:07:24.840
Out of the question. I'm not going to bargain with you.

2354
02:07:25.760 --> 02:07:28.399
I can raise one hundred thousand, No Alison worth it

2355
02:07:28.520 --> 02:07:30.319
charge if we can depend on Trint to wipe the

2356
02:07:30.359 --> 02:07:32.520
whole matter out of his memory and just go away.

2357
02:07:32.760 --> 02:07:35.840
Oh you can depend on me, I'll keep my bargain.

2358
02:07:37.000 --> 02:07:40.359
Then it to deal a deal good.

2359
02:07:41.319 --> 02:07:43.479
It'll take about ten days to raise the money.

2360
02:07:43.600 --> 02:07:49.000
I am ari you are, And speaking of money, that

2361
02:07:49.159 --> 02:07:53.000
was the reason I came to night Charlie. Here here,

2362
02:07:54.039 --> 02:07:58.000
that's five hundred why he said a g like the last.

2363
02:07:58.000 --> 02:08:00.600
That's all I could raise in a hurry that runs out,

2364
02:08:00.640 --> 02:08:04.199
I'll have more. You went through that first thousand awfully fast.

2365
02:08:04.359 --> 02:08:06.199
Oh I got rolled in that bow where I had

2366
02:08:06.239 --> 02:08:08.720
the trouble. Oh, that reminds me. Your trial comes up

2367
02:08:08.760 --> 02:08:11.399
in less than three weeks. Yeah, oh yeah. Called me

2368
02:08:11.479 --> 02:08:14.880
at my hotel, see if I was still around.

2369
02:08:14.960 --> 02:08:17.119
I guess our plan is for you to jump to

2370
02:08:17.119 --> 02:08:17.520
your bell.

2371
02:08:17.600 --> 02:08:20.119
I'll forfeit the five thousand I put up for it and.

2372
02:08:20.199 --> 02:08:22.520
Get you out of the country with a gista full

2373
02:08:22.560 --> 02:08:27.000
a gree Wait, I ain't got a passport.

2374
02:08:26.560 --> 02:08:28.800
Now that can be arranged, Clifton, just leave that to me.

2375
02:08:30.319 --> 02:08:43.399
Okay, friends, you got yourself a deal, say Charlie, you're

2376
02:08:43.439 --> 02:08:45.560
gonna put this meal on your expense account. I hope

2377
02:08:46.600 --> 02:08:49.399
to rich for your blood, George to rich for my pocket.

2378
02:08:49.439 --> 02:08:53.279
Who JP's favorite French restaurant? Yeah, nice to have wealthy,

2379
02:08:53.359 --> 02:08:57.920
high paid executives for friends. I'm a simple man. I

2380
02:08:58.159 --> 02:09:04.479
like simple things and I like simple answers. Meanie, how

2381
02:09:04.520 --> 02:09:06.560
long you're going to cling to that kakam Amy story

2382
02:09:06.640 --> 02:09:08.960
about your helping ex CON's rehabilitate them?

2383
02:09:09.000 --> 02:09:12.439
So and it's the McCoy George, that guy got something

2384
02:09:12.520 --> 02:09:16.840
on your child. I'd almost hear the telephone or you both. Yes,

2385
02:09:16.920 --> 02:09:20.039
thank you? Where is it? Zy monsieur? I would plug it.

2386
02:09:20.079 --> 02:09:20.479
In for you?

2387
02:09:21.560 --> 02:09:28.319
Thank you, just like the movies. Yeah, hello, Charles. Oh yes, Allison,

2388
02:09:28.479 --> 02:09:29.239
I know George.

2389
02:09:29.039 --> 02:09:30.720
Himmels when you else He told me you were launching

2390
02:09:30.760 --> 02:09:30.960
with me.

2391
02:09:31.680 --> 02:09:33.039
Listen to what I'm going to say.

2392
02:09:32.960 --> 02:09:34.119
But don't get on to George.

2393
02:09:34.319 --> 02:09:38.159
Uh yes, yes, yes, dear Allison says hello, and to

2394
02:09:38.279 --> 02:09:40.079
remind you that in two and a half weeks she

2395
02:09:40.159 --> 02:09:42.199
wants to see you at the church, promptly.

2396
02:09:41.960 --> 02:09:45.920
At the left. I'll try to remember. Okay, he's also darling.

2397
02:09:46.000 --> 02:09:46.800
Now what's so important?

2398
02:09:47.359 --> 02:09:50.359
It's got to be tonight. I'll have a household to myself.

2399
02:09:50.560 --> 02:09:53.239
Uh, why is the color scheme so important?

2400
02:09:53.439 --> 02:09:55.680
The housekeeper and her husband are going into town to

2401
02:09:55.720 --> 02:09:57.920
see their fifteen year old son in the high school play.

2402
02:09:58.239 --> 02:10:01.039
Well, I don't see that that's such a problem. Choose

2403
02:10:01.119 --> 02:10:03.239
whatever color will make the bride's maids happy.

2404
02:10:03.720 --> 02:10:06.199
Rent a car and let Clint take it to drive

2405
02:10:06.279 --> 02:10:07.920
out and be here promptly at nine.

2406
02:10:08.000 --> 02:10:09.039
Do not come together.

2407
02:10:09.840 --> 02:10:12.119
You come out in your own car, but first report

2408
02:10:12.159 --> 02:10:15.680
it broken down, have it picked up tomorrow morning. You

2409
02:10:15.800 --> 02:10:19.239
bring it back after it's all over. Understand, we did

2410
02:10:19.319 --> 02:10:21.760
not see each other. You couldn't get here because your

2411
02:10:21.840 --> 02:10:22.840
car was out of order.

2412
02:10:23.159 --> 02:10:26.239
Oh, yes, yes, I followed here I follow. I'm not

2413
02:10:26.319 --> 02:10:27.119
sure I agree.

2414
02:10:27.840 --> 02:10:30.119
I have a twenty two target pistol. I know how

2415
02:10:30.159 --> 02:10:30.560
to use it.

2416
02:10:31.039 --> 02:10:34.520
Yes, I know you have to ask him to come there.

2417
02:10:34.600 --> 02:10:37.920
But then what do we do with the unwelcome guest.

2418
02:10:38.079 --> 02:10:40.439
There is spot about one hundred yards behind the house.

2419
02:10:40.920 --> 02:10:43.399
We get him out there in a wheelbarrow. There's a

2420
02:10:43.439 --> 02:10:47.600
hole an old cesspool. We drop him in quick gun

2421
02:10:48.399 --> 02:10:49.680
gardener's got several bags.

2422
02:10:49.720 --> 02:10:54.199
But uh, suppose the gardener wants to supply some flowers

2423
02:10:54.279 --> 02:10:54.960
for us all over?

2424
02:10:55.039 --> 02:10:57.760
The ear fired, We didn't hire one after that. As

2425
02:10:57.800 --> 02:10:59.720
soon as it's all over, we'll take the rental car

2426
02:10:59.800 --> 02:11:01.640
and mp it over the edge of the road. Dear town,

2427
02:11:02.359 --> 02:11:04.479
you know that bad place where there's no shoulder on

2428
02:11:04.560 --> 02:11:06.119
the road and only your friendly guard rail.

2429
02:11:06.560 --> 02:11:08.359
Yes, yes, I know, I know.

2430
02:11:08.920 --> 02:11:11.239
We jumped the car there and it smash up If

2431
02:11:11.279 --> 02:11:13.680
it cutches fire, so much the better. Can you take

2432
02:11:13.760 --> 02:11:15.560
me back to the house and rush back to the

2433
02:11:15.640 --> 02:11:17.079
city report.

2434
02:11:16.840 --> 02:11:17.960
The rental car stolen.

2435
02:11:18.760 --> 02:11:20.279
You've been in your apartment all.

2436
02:11:20.279 --> 02:11:23.359
Evening, understand, Yes?

2437
02:11:23.600 --> 02:11:27.279
Uh, the color scheme suits me fine. Dear you sure

2438
02:11:27.359 --> 02:11:32.720
have it all planned. No bibbles, no slip ups. Oh yes,

2439
02:11:33.000 --> 02:11:34.560
I'll be in my office till late.

2440
02:11:34.479 --> 02:11:36.479
Tonight nine at least if you want to reach me.

2441
02:11:36.800 --> 02:11:39.319
Good. That was for George's ears, wasn't it.

2442
02:11:39.439 --> 02:11:43.039
Yes, that's correct, Alison. I now look, I have a

2443
02:11:43.119 --> 02:11:46.680
report to get out. If you've completed your instructions, off,

2444
02:11:46.880 --> 02:11:48.359
get back to my lunch with George.

2445
02:11:48.439 --> 02:11:55.479
Goodbye to Wow, that's only the beginning, Charley, Where does

2446
02:11:55.520 --> 02:11:58.159
she get your signed on the dotted.

2447
02:11:57.880 --> 02:12:09.000
Line, mister Powell, something terrible has happened.

2448
02:12:09.079 --> 02:12:09.720
What is it, Elsie.

2449
02:12:09.760 --> 02:12:12.279
It's been a terrible accident on the late shift. Man's

2450
02:12:12.279 --> 02:12:15.159
got a machine, the big good lord.

2451
02:12:15.239 --> 02:12:17.159
Has the hospital been called? I don't know. I'll call

2452
02:12:17.199 --> 02:12:18.560
him on your phone. I've got to use this.

2453
02:12:18.640 --> 02:12:21.840
One, yes, sir, i'lcohol, and then call down.

2454
02:12:21.720 --> 02:12:22.119
To the plant.

2455
02:12:22.199 --> 02:12:24.159
Tell him I'm coming down. If it's what I think

2456
02:12:24.199 --> 02:12:27.079
it is, the machine will have to be partially dismantled, yes, sir.

2457
02:12:31.560 --> 02:12:35.319
Hell Allison, listen, there's a change of plans, Charles. I'm

2458
02:12:35.319 --> 02:12:39.720
still at the office something. Yes, I know he has

2459
02:12:39.760 --> 02:12:40.479
the rental car.

2460
02:12:40.560 --> 02:12:41.159
I got it for it.

2461
02:12:42.079 --> 02:12:43.840
Well, there's been a bad accident on the night shift.

2462
02:12:43.880 --> 02:12:45.680
A man's caught in the big metal press. I've got

2463
02:12:45.760 --> 02:12:46.479
to help get him out.

2464
02:12:46.800 --> 02:12:49.079
Us about that, well, when it comes, stall them, just

2465
02:12:49.159 --> 02:12:50.880
tell him what happened. Why I'm delayed.

2466
02:12:50.920 --> 02:12:52.359
I haven't got the money to tell him.

2467
02:12:52.359 --> 02:12:54.880
I'm bringing the money, the airplane ticket and the passport.

2468
02:12:55.000 --> 02:12:55.520
Just stall them.

2469
02:12:55.520 --> 02:12:57.600
I'll do my best. Hurry he scares me.

2470
02:13:08.399 --> 02:13:11.439
Ten o'clock an hour later and I'll be still there.

2471
02:13:14.479 --> 02:13:17.880
Your lights around here? Come the two ladies still here?

2472
02:13:22.000 --> 02:13:29.800
Alison, Alison, open up, clan, don't leave clik wait when

2473
02:13:29.840 --> 02:13:32.640
you wait, I'm here, clan Clan.

2474
02:13:33.279 --> 02:13:35.119
I cann't stop him. I gotta catch him.

2475
02:13:49.520 --> 02:13:55.520
Clean Heather, cut him off and make him crash, make

2476
02:13:55.640 --> 02:14:01.800
him crash, cat him off faster. We've canny caught him,

2477
02:14:02.720 --> 02:14:06.239
hid him cli clif for just stuff.

2478
02:14:06.680 --> 02:14:07.960
I'll running off the road.

2479
02:14:08.359 --> 02:14:11.479
Of him off, force him off.

2480
02:14:13.800 --> 02:14:15.000
You cut him off.

2481
02:14:15.840 --> 02:14:16.680
You've done it.

2482
02:14:21.600 --> 02:14:38.760
Crush and burnie, yeah, let him let him burn. He

2483
02:14:39.600 --> 02:14:43.800
is this Arrow Car rental service. Well, I rented a

2484
02:14:43.840 --> 02:14:47.039
car from you people this morning. No, no, no, no no,

2485
02:14:47.199 --> 02:14:51.159
there's nothing wrong with the car. I just want to

2486
02:14:51.239 --> 02:15:00.000
report it stolen City Foreign car service.

2487
02:15:00.439 --> 02:15:00.640
Look.

2488
02:15:00.720 --> 02:15:02.680
I asked for my car to be picked up in

2489
02:15:02.760 --> 02:15:05.600
my driveway and still here. And I called, or rather

2490
02:15:05.920 --> 02:15:08.960
my secretary called, at ten this morning. My name is

2491
02:15:09.039 --> 02:15:09.760
Charles Powell.

2492
02:15:17.159 --> 02:15:21.399
Come on, come on, ian's the phone.

2493
02:15:26.800 --> 02:15:33.279
Just a moment, oh, George, George, it's kind of late

2494
02:15:33.359 --> 02:15:37.640
for a visit coming as I was just trying to

2495
02:15:37.680 --> 02:15:40.560
phone Allison. Or what a night this has been? There

2496
02:15:40.640 --> 02:15:44.039
was an accident at the Planet Peterson. I hope they

2497
02:15:44.039 --> 02:15:46.920
don't have to hechitate, yes, And then when I got

2498
02:15:46.960 --> 02:15:48.640
outside I had a date with Alison in the car

2499
02:15:48.720 --> 02:15:51.319
that I had rendered this morning was missing.

2500
02:15:51.399 --> 02:15:53.840
It was stolen. What happened to that great, big, powerful

2501
02:15:53.960 --> 02:15:54.680
foreign job of you.

2502
02:15:54.880 --> 02:15:57.920
Oh, it wouldn't start this morning. Had Elsie call the

2503
02:15:57.960 --> 02:15:59.680
service people, but they haven't picked it up yet.

2504
02:15:59.720 --> 02:16:00.520
I just called to me.

2505
02:16:01.640 --> 02:16:05.760
They have a night answering service. You've had a busy evening, Yeah.

2506
02:16:05.680 --> 02:16:05.920
Very.

2507
02:16:07.439 --> 02:16:09.880
Well, I think I can clear up one of your puzzles. Charlie.

2508
02:16:10.800 --> 02:16:11.680
Your rental car was.

2509
02:16:11.680 --> 02:16:16.479
Found with a thief in it. You caught him dead,

2510
02:16:17.319 --> 02:16:20.000
burned to a cinder. Must have been going at a

2511
02:16:20.079 --> 02:16:22.960
terrific speed. Tire marks on the road as he went off,

2512
02:16:23.479 --> 02:16:28.600
cracked up and burned. Yeah, some kid, No, this may

2513
02:16:28.720 --> 02:16:33.760
surprise you. It's your protege, Clint Livits. We found enough

2514
02:16:33.760 --> 02:16:38.200
of him to identify him and slightly burnt the still

2515
02:16:38.319 --> 02:16:45.200
usable bank roll those sizeable proportions. Well that closes his case,

2516
02:16:45.319 --> 02:16:52.040
doesn't it? And opens up several others. Incidentally, where were

2517
02:16:52.079 --> 02:16:56.719
you all evening home after I got back from the plant.

2518
02:16:57.000 --> 02:16:57.959
You didn't go up?

2519
02:16:58.000 --> 02:17:00.079
Well, I told you my rental car got stole and

2520
02:17:00.159 --> 02:17:03.600
I came home by cab to change my clathes. The

2521
02:17:03.639 --> 02:17:04.879
big car is out of commission.

2522
02:17:06.120 --> 02:17:09.280
I won't play games with you, Charlie. I checked it

2523
02:17:09.319 --> 02:17:12.639
in the driveway just before I came up. The engine

2524
02:17:12.719 --> 02:17:16.239
is still quite warm. Do you want to explain that?

2525
02:17:19.040 --> 02:17:26.639
No, I don't. I'll explain, Charlie. I'm arresting you for murder.

2526
02:17:27.200 --> 02:17:30.879
I must warn George. What are you talking about? Are

2527
02:17:30.879 --> 02:17:33.920
you accusing me of Clint Livid's dead No, No, that

2528
02:17:34.239 --> 02:17:37.959
was obviously an accident. I'm holding you.

2529
02:17:39.440 --> 02:17:43.360
For the murder of Alison McCready, the girl you were

2530
02:17:43.399 --> 02:17:51.959
going to marry. And in conclusion, ladies and gentlemen of

2531
02:17:52.040 --> 02:17:56.959
the jury, my prosecution of Charles Powell or Robert Hagen

2532
02:17:57.719 --> 02:18:01.680
has been a painful past. I was his best friend.

2533
02:18:02.959 --> 02:18:04.879
It was difficult to believe that he would kill the

2534
02:18:04.920 --> 02:18:10.920
woman he loved. But the evidence is conclusive. Charles killed

2535
02:18:10.959 --> 02:18:15.239
his lovely fiance because she discovered his real identity, an

2536
02:18:15.360 --> 02:18:19.159
escaped convict, a killer sentenced to life for another murder.

2537
02:18:20.399 --> 02:18:24.280
The testimony of the housekeeper, Missus Francis, cannot be doubted.

2538
02:18:25.399 --> 02:18:29.239
She did not leave the house as he thought. She

2539
02:18:29.360 --> 02:18:31.280
saw him run from the house, jump into his.

2540
02:18:31.360 --> 02:18:35.120
Car and race away, and then she discovered the body

2541
02:18:35.159 --> 02:18:36.760
of Alison McCready.

2542
02:18:37.520 --> 02:18:38.559
Shot through the heads.

2543
02:18:46.680 --> 02:18:51.639
You runner, may I may I make a statement before

2544
02:18:51.680 --> 02:18:57.559
you pronounce sentence. I did not kill Alison.

2545
02:18:57.639 --> 02:18:58.159
My love to.

2546
02:19:00.159 --> 02:19:03.920
To say anything more in my defense is useless and unnecessary.

2547
02:19:06.200 --> 02:19:10.639
Alison is dead. All I ask is that I be

2548
02:19:10.719 --> 02:19:17.920
given the chance to follow it swiftly and deficiently.

2549
02:19:23.879 --> 02:19:27.120
And so a man is twice accused of murder and

2550
02:19:27.319 --> 02:19:31.920
twice sentenced for the crime, A weary man who asks.

2551
02:19:31.799 --> 02:19:34.719
Only to be allowed to follow the woman he loves.

2552
02:19:35.799 --> 02:19:36.760
I'll be back shortly.

2553
02:19:37.239 --> 02:19:41.319
Take the childly, sir, Take the chime.

2554
02:19:41.559 --> 02:19:43.600
Agare below.

2555
02:19:43.840 --> 02:19:46.799
You are in my mind?

2556
02:19:46.920 --> 02:19:47.479
Is yours?

2557
02:19:49.639 --> 02:19:50.920
Listen with your.

2558
02:19:52.719 --> 02:19:54.440
Listen with your mind?

2559
02:19:55.799 --> 02:19:56.040
When?

2560
02:20:01.719 --> 02:20:04.520
How do you do? Sir? And my grandmother just died.

2561
02:20:04.559 --> 02:20:07.159
I'm so happy for you. Meet missus minos.

2562
02:20:07.319 --> 02:20:07.959
How do you do?

2563
02:20:08.479 --> 02:20:10.399
Did you know you have spinach on your tea?

2564
02:20:10.520 --> 02:20:11.600
So that's wonderful.

2565
02:20:11.760 --> 02:20:14.280
This is mister Jackson. Nice to meet you. I have

2566
02:20:14.600 --> 02:20:18.399
voted play. Oh yes, mister play meet the reception lines.

2567
02:20:18.440 --> 02:20:21.040
I'm the only places people don't listen when you.

2568
02:20:26.200 --> 02:20:28.079
Love me? What you.

2569
02:20:29.920 --> 02:20:31.840
A lot from the Church of Jesus Christ, of what

2570
02:20:31.959 --> 02:20:49.559
a day saints, the Mormons, and there we have it.

2571
02:20:50.399 --> 02:20:55.239
Charles Powell's joust with Fate. What difference did it make

2572
02:20:55.559 --> 02:21:00.239
that he knew that Clint had murdered Allison. They didn't believed,

2573
02:21:01.319 --> 02:21:04.440
and he was too weary to try to make them believe.

2574
02:21:06.440 --> 02:21:11.200
Our cast included Larry Haynes, Anne Mitscham, Jackson Beck, Sydney

2575
02:21:11.239 --> 02:21:12.920
Walker and Tom Keena.

2576
02:21:14.200 --> 02:21:16.959
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

2577
02:21:19.399 --> 02:21:19.639
Ah.

2578
02:21:20.959 --> 02:21:25.680
Nothing helps end a cold and eerie night quite like

2579
02:21:26.840 --> 02:21:30.280
a pleasant record, and of course the company of a

2580
02:21:31.200 --> 02:21:35.000
pleasant friend. I'm very thankful that you come to see me,

2581
02:21:35.879 --> 02:21:38.159
and I hope you'll be careful on your way back.

2582
02:21:39.079 --> 02:21:44.920
What's that well, I don't know. The sun's is still

2583
02:21:44.959 --> 02:21:49.120
a ways away, but I can feel it coming. So

2584
02:21:49.639 --> 02:21:53.479
while I returned to wherever it is I come from,

2585
02:21:54.479 --> 02:22:00.079
and you take your long walk across the stream with

2586
02:22:00.159 --> 02:22:04.079
the railroad tracks, passed the river and through the woods,

2587
02:22:04.879 --> 02:22:08.879
only not on your way to grandmother's house, I hope

2588
02:22:08.920 --> 02:22:13.159
you'll be safe and care for. Look over your shoulder

2589
02:22:13.479 --> 02:22:16.520
just enough, but not too much to give it away

2590
02:22:17.719 --> 02:22:21.879
because it's out there. And as you lay your head

2591
02:22:21.959 --> 02:22:26.799
on your warm pillow and your beautiful bed, please remember

2592
02:22:28.040 --> 02:22:33.200
be thankful for what you have and I'll see next week,

2593
02:22:33.319 --> 02:22:33.719
next week,