March 22, 2026

Unknown Broadcast | What Returns in the Night: Four Tales of Ghosts, Betrayal, and Retribution

Unknown Broadcast | What Returns in the Night: Four Tales of Ghosts, Betrayal, and Retribution
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Unknown Broadcast leaks once more into the Weekly Spooky feed, carrying four old-time radio horror stories in its teeth and insisting they are perfectly harmless. Tonight’s signal wanders through reincarnation and resentment, jungle danger and false names, poison and polite suburban dread, and finally a grim little reckoning delivered by The Whistler himself.

If you came seeking classic OTR horror, vintage radio suspense, gothic mystery, and those deliciously strange old broadcasts that sound as though they were never meant for civilized company, then do sit down. Just don’t sit with your back to the door. The lineup for this episode is The Return of the Moresbys, John Jock Todd, The Burning Court, and Retribution.       

🐈 The Return of the Moresbys
A husband sneers at the unseen, laughs at spiritual notions, and finds murder much easier to imagine than remorse. But some wives are difficult to escape, especially when devotion curdles into haunting and the grave proves distressingly porous. This Radio Mystery Theater tale was written by Henry Slessor.
🗡️ John Jock Todd
Then off we go into dust, danger, and the kind of frontier where a man’s name is rarely the most suspicious thing about him. Old grudges, savage reckonings, and jungle survival all come striding in together, looking for blood and perhaps a little justice, though the two are so often confused. The episode credits this as John Jock Todd by Robert Simpson, adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield
🥃 The Burning Court
Now a glass of sherry, a handsome room, and all the proper comforts of domestic life — which is usually when murder feels most at home. From John Dixon Carr’s famous novel comes a tale of poison, suspicion, and secrets moving quietly through well-appointed rooms with very bad intentions. 
⚖️ Retribution
And last comes The Whistler, who never sounds quite as though he is judging you and never quite as though he isn’t. A lonely courthouse, a storm-black road, and a story promised as “the strange story of retribution” make for an ending full of guilt, fate, and the sort of payment that always arrives overdue but never forgotten.   

So there you are: four doorways, four warnings, four invitations dressed up as entertainment. You may call it classic radio horror, vintage suspense, supernatural mystery, or old-time gothic drama. I call it a rather lovely way to spend an evening with the lights too low and the conscience unguarded.

Some doors open onto memory, some onto guilt, and some onto the sort of justice that has all the time in the world.   

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My dear, so happy to see you. Oh what's that?

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Why?

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Yes, it seems to be beautiful outside, not that I

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would know, at least not firsthand. Please please have your seat,

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I've of course had it ready for you. And of

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course the fire is burning, nice and bright, cozy, even

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when it's not the dead of winter. If you ask me,

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the tea will be done steeping in just a moment.

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And I well, I'm simply jubilant, so why not get

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the festivities going. I can't speak for you, my dear,

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but for me, nothing is quite as exciting as the

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return of the More's bees.

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Come in.

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Welcome, hi'm e g.

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Marshall.

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Welcome to the Sound of Suspense, the fear you can hear.

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For the next fifty two minutes, we're going to take

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you into the world of mystery, into the world of

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terrifying imagination. The story you are going to hear concerns

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a question which has been asked since the first men

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on Earth were born and died? Is there a life

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after death? Is there a way to return from the grave?

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And if there is, and we come back in the

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body of a living creature, even one that has claws

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instead of fingernails. Here is one chilling answer, Doctor Singh,

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have to tell me? Could my wife have come back

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as a bird?

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Sparrow? Something like that?

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Well, your wife was a rather big woman, mister Morrisby.

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And the physical is how about the snake? A seagull?

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How about a cat? A great, big fat cat?

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A cat?

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Our mystery drama, The Return of the Moresby's was written

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especially for the radio mystery theater by Henry Slesser and

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stars Patrick O'Neill. I'll be back shortly with that one.

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Now here is act one. Like all murder stories, soon

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or later it reaches the office of a daily newspaper.

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You wanted to see me, chief, You bet I want

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to see you, Prownie, come in and shut that door.

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I bet I know what it's about. That story I

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filed on Richard Morrisby.

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Right, I got a flash for you, Prowdie. This is

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a newspaper office, not a fiction magazine. You take this

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story of yours and see if you can sell it

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to Weird or Digest or something.

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But get it off my desk. Now, wait a while, Max.

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I know it's offbeat, but I thought I handled it

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with a kind.

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Of a light touch. Story's about murder.

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Can't be handled with a light touch, not on this paper.

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But it's accurate.

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I mean, this is exactly what the guy mores Be

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told me just before he died.

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Real he must have been out of his head. He

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asked for somebody to hear his story. That's how I

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got to meet him.

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I was at the hospital covering that subway accident.

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No, that story made sense to me, nothing but nice,

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clear facts.

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But this nonsense, piez. Let me tell you about this guy,

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Maybe you'll change your mind. I thought about him. Well,

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For one thing, he was a real distinguished looking guy.

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The only thing peculiar about him was his eyes.

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His eyes, Yeah, they were the palest blue eyes I

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ever saw on a man.

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They weren't really blue at all. They're like silver.

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Big deal.

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So he had silver eyes.

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And when he started to tell me about himself, well

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I just had to hear the whole story.

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Gee. Yes, I was born in a lot too.

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My family moved to the States when I was young.

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They didn't improve much on a climate when I did.

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We lived in Vermont.

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I don't think I was ever warm enough until the

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age of twenty four, when I moved to southern California.

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I lived on beaches, a superb swimmer, a superior surf border,

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and a terrible bum. It was on the beach at

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Malibu that I met the woman who was to become

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my wife.

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Her name was Una. She was as pale as a Gardeenian,

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a Gardenia with bones.

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Una had more bones than any other woman I've ever met,

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isn't it I beg your pardon, I said, it's.

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A beautiful day. I don't think I've ever seen the

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ocean look pretty old. Frankly, the Pacific always looked a

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little money to me.

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I wonder if that's what Balboa said when he first

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saw it.

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He probably said, what a great place for surfing.

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Ah, I see you have a serf board.

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Yes. As a matter of fact, I think I see

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a wave that I like. Will you excuse me? I

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wish I had the nerve to try it. Yeah, you

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really should.

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Well by now, maybe I'll ask my chauffeur to teach me.

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I'm sorry, what did you say.

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Charles, my chauffeur, he's very good at sports.

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Sure, you know.

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Come to think of it, that wave doesn't look so

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good after all. By the way, my name is Richard

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Richard Morris.

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How do you do?

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My name is Una, Una Vandermeyer. That was her name.

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As soon as I realized that she was from the

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Vandermeyer family, she.

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Didn't seem half as bony as she did before.

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In fact, not only do I become accustomed to Owner's appearance,

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I was even able to tolerate her name conversations.

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Can't you just feel the mystery of the stars, Richard?

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Sometimes I feel their vibrations as if they're trying to

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communicate with me.

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Do you ever feel that? WHOA? Sometimes I suppose I.

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Really think we must be one with the universe?

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Do too?

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I really believe there's just one great universal soul and

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we're all part of it.

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Don't you think so too? Yes?

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Of course, right on as they say, you see what

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I mean? She talked that way all the time, from

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the first day of our honeymoon.

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Well, it was a fine honeymoon, just the same.

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It lasted a whole year on the beaches of the Caribbean,

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on the French Riviera.

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I got browner and browner, Oooner got freckles.

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Finally, we returned to our home in Los Angeles and

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settled down to a quiet, comfortable Marriage.

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Of Earth. Is that your play?

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It's sitar music.

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Dolly, Oh, it's just so spiritual.

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What what made you buy the record?

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No, doctor Singh recommended it. Who doctor sing at the

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Temple of Metapsychosis. You know what Metapsychosis? I told you

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about joining the temple last week? Oh, Richard, sometimes I

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think you don't listen to me.

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Now.

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As you may know, Southern California abounds and quasi religious organizations.

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And she'd gone through a numberblem without discovering the universal

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soul at any other authors.

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Darling, please come to one of doctor Singh's lectures. He's

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such a magnificent speaker. He emits such vibrations.

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And I went, you see what an obliging husband I was.

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Actually it turned out to be more interesting than I thought.

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The temple itself was unpretentious, and doctor Singh was an

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impressive man, And when he spoke, I realized why his

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message had such appeal for uner, because he preached a

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doctrine that combined eternal life with the love of small animals.

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This sole is immortal, This hold cannot die. The soul,

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upon leaving the body, must make its passage.

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Every swear it.

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Is a science called Eschitalogy, which deals with the last

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four things, death, judgment, heaven, and hell. It is the

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most ancient of all sciences, and from its wisdom has

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come the inescapable certainty of the transmigration of souls.

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Yeah, yeah, I know it's a bit weird, but stay

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with it.

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And where does the soul go?

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According to the wise man of all generations past, this

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soul departs from the mouth of the dying. It is

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consequently a small thing, a bird, a snake, a mouse, a.

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Dove, or a hawk, a dog, a cat, an insect.

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For these small creations of God are empty vessels placed

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upon Earth for only one purpose, to house the departing

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souls of humanity, so that they need not wonder forever

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in a trackless eternity.

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Yeah, yes, it's pure right, of course.

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But that's what the man said, and Honor sat there

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and believed every single word.

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Oh, wasn't in math stretch?

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Isn't it wonderful that the soul never dies, that we

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can all come back as a little animal.

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I'm not sure I want to come back as an animal,

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but you'd still be you, Richard.

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Oh don't you see?

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Well?

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By the way, what was that envelope you handed doctor

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Singh after the meeting.

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The envelope that was my donation. Of course, you're a

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donation to the temple.

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Yes, to support the work of doctor Singh to open

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other temples.

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Around the world. Well, how much money was in the envelope?

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And what does it matter, Richard, I'm.

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Just curious two thousand dollars? Uma, you go to that

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temple once a week? Do you always give that kind

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of donation. It's all in a very good cause, Richard.

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Well, in an equally good cause that.

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Of finding out exactly how much of my wife's money

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was supporting this nonsense. I sneak a look at UNA's checkbook.

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The answer astonished me. Not only had my wife put

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more than thirty thousand dollars into doctor Singh's collection plate,

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she had also donated some twenty thousand more to various

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institutions for the care and feeding of cats, dogs and birds.

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It was so kind of you to honor us with

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a visit, Doctor Singh. I know how terribly busy you are.

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On the contrary, you are kind to invite me to

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your lovely home.

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Oh, now tell me, doctor Singh, what determines the kind

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of animal one becomes when the soul escapes after death.

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Uh, missus Morsby, that is a question which has baffled

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wiseman for countless generations.

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But isn't it possible to do well research?

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Yes, Missus Morrisby, I don't doubt that we could find

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the answer to such great questions if only.

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We had the proper resources.

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But unfortunately that would record fired money, a great deal

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more money than the movement has at present.

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Well, it seems to me you don't do badly. Well,

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there you are, hello, Richard.

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Well, we've been all morning right here in my little

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sewing room.

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Don't tell me you were sewing. Oh, don't be silly.

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Actually, I've been composing something, oh, something more important than that, Richard.

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Do you realize that I have no last will and testamenty?

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Well, why should you healthy young chicken like you.

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I can't call myself young anymore, Richard.

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You'll always be young to me, darling.

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Oh that's very sweet, But that's the same. It's only

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practical to have a will. Would you read it over,

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Richard and see if it well, if it sounds legal.

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Enough, certainly, Well, let's see now I will Vandermiah Morsby,

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a resident of the City of Los Angeles, State of California,

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residing at ah Shard and Drive, being over the age

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of twenty one of sound and disposing mind and memory.

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Darling, this is superb. Where on earth did you get

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the language?

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Well, to tell you the truth, I copied it out

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of Daddy's will.

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The one that left you ten millions. Yes, well, I

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don't see how you can go wrong.

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Let's see now, not acting under duress, menace, fraud, or

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undue influence of any person whosoever.

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And gosh, lord, what is it what I'm serious about?

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This?

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Oh?

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About making a will?

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Of course, I mean this, this bequest, the temple mumbo jumper,

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what's wrong with it?

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Now?

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Listen, Darling, I told you how important doctor Singh's work is,

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but it requires money to carry it on, tons of money.

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So the least I can do is to help the

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poor man as much as I can. But you're giving

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him ninety percent of your entire fortune. Ah, I'll still

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have a million dollars if I go first, Richard.

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Isn't that enough?

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No, it isn't.

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No.

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I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. Don't you realize

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that man? Is a fraud, a charlatan.

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What for heaven's sake will open your eyes? Don't you

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realize the simple truth? Your money won't build any temples.

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It's just going to line the pockets of that turban phony.

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Richard, what a terrible thing to say.

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Well, you told me you like doctor Singh, that you

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are very impressed by his theory of transmigration.

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Darling. I was only saying all that to please you.

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But now I'm telling you that the only thing doctor

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Singh is planning to transmigrate is your money into his

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savings account.

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And frankfully, I'm not gonna let him do it. Richard,

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what are you doing? You're tearing up my Will's right?

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How dare you do such a thing.

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It's my money and I'll do whatever.

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Me is with it.

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Ohn, Darling, I just want you to have a chance

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to come to your sense.

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There's nothing wrong with my senses. I can see very

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clearly what the the real trouble is. If I didn't

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leave a will, all my money would go to you,

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wouldn't it.

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Well, naturally, i'm your husband. You don't have any other owner.

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That's why you're acting this way. It's just plain and

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simple greed. Una, listen to me. Oh, it's all right,

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it's all right.

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I'm glad you tore up that will Richard, because I

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realize now that I was quite wrong, do you. Yes,

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it's a mistake to leave only nine million of my

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money to the temple.

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I'm going to leave all.

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Of it to doctor Singh.

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When Una actually drafted that incredible document, we called our

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attorney for a Monday morning appointment.

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I realized that I.

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Had to do something very drastic before the weekend was over.

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I had to kill my poor, misguided wife. I had

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to make her one with the universe. It's obvious that

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mister Moresby is going to be a very reluctant murderer.

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The question is will his reluctance get in the way

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of his efficiency. We'll get the details when we returned

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shortly with that too. Now let's return to Richard Moresby.

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In order to find him, we'll have to search the

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highway for Richard has taken his white Jaguar out for

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a spin.

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But there he is now.

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On Saturday morning, I took a little spin in my

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ex kale and did some thinking on the open road.

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I didn't want to kill poor una. Of course, the

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whole idea was repellent.

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But on the other hand, the thought of doctor Singh

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spending the fortune that was rightfully mine was even more abhorrent. However,

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I decided I would make one more stab at a reconciliation, Darling,

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to your living room too.

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It doesn't feel like it.

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Matter of fact, I've felt like a stranger in this

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house for the past two days, and I suppose that's

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my fault. Well, you haven't been exactly cordial, have you.

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I've hardly been home, Richard.

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I spent all day yesterday at the temple, all morning

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at the pet breast kennels.

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And are all the little souls doing?

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You just won't stop being a reverend for you. It's

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been my money all along, hasn't it, Richard? From the

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very beginning you were attracted to my money.

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Darling, If you thought that you would never have married,

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I didn't want to believe it.

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I don't want to believe it now.

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Now, How can I prove to you that you're mistaken?

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Richard?

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Do you really want to prove it? Of course, I'll

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do anything you said.

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All right, Well, I know exactly what you can do.

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You can let me leave my money to doctor Sing

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in the tempoo, the whole ten million.

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Yes, because that's the only way I'll know it's.

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Me you love.

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Well, you can't say I didn't try.

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The only's decision now left me with absolutely no alternative.

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I was still deeply unhappy about the necessity of taking

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your life.

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Honor Faith was kind to me that very afternoon.

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Now you're sure that you.

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Want me to continue reading your child, of course, darling.

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Well, I'm sort of embarrassed about this part.

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It's a paper that I wrote myself, or something you wrote.

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Yeah, I wrote it this morning. I was going to

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show it to doctor Sing. It's well, this is sort

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of a poem.

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It's called death, surfy title. Look, I can read my

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own handwriting.

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Death has become nothing to me.

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Death holds no fear for me. Come death, I welcome you.

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Lead me to the woods, the.

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Waters, the air, above the earth.

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Come take me death. Your touch is kind riches, Oh,

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Richard White, you look like that?

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Is it really that terrible?

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Oh terrible, my darling, It's it's beautiful.

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You mean it.

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You must give it to me. Oh, I must have it?

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You like it that much?

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Yes, I certainly do.

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Well, I'll type it up for you.

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Rich No, I'm must have the original now, just just

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the way you wrote it.

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Oh, darling, I'm so flattered.

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What would you do with it? Oh, I'm going to

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I'm going to put it in a frame, of course,

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and I know just where I'm going to hang it.

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Yes, I could hardly believe my ears Ulla had written

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her own suicide note, and her own handwriting. It was

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truly calmer at work.

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Now there was no question of failure and no longer

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any need for delay. Oh what a lovely idea. This

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was Richard candlelight dinner for two. Yes, I thought you'd

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enjoy it.

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So sweet of you to handle the whole menu with

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cook You spoil me shamefully.

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That night I spoiled her just a bit more by

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bringing hot cocoa to her in bed.

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Oh oh, rich And you shouldn't have started, but I know.

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How you like your hot cocoa before retiring. Only you

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can't get to sleep without it. Yelda Parker could have

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brought it to me. Oh no, this is something I

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had to do myself. Don't drink it down now I'm

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drinking it. Does it taste all right?

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Oh?

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Tastes just fun.

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Now That was very good news, because I'd prepared the

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hot cocoa myself, and I had no idea whether.

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Twenty five melted sleeping pills would seriously affect the flavor.

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Finally, UNU was all tucked in for the night.

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I went into my study, picked up the poem she

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had written for doctor Singh, and brought.

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It to the bedroom. I placed it carefully on the

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night table beside it.

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Then I bent over my sleeping darling to see if

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she was getting along all right.

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She was very quiet. A dreadful thing happened. Open eyes.

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Red Richard, Richard, hush, hush, daring not go go back

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to sleep, Richard, I'm I'm sick.

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No no, no, no, no no, you're only sleeping.

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Go go tasted so strange, I might not have to

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set you.

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Richard, you'll feel much better in the morning, or not.

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I promise you tomorrow morning, you'll you'll be the one

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with the universe. That paper, what paper?

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Dollar is my arm?

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My mother arms?

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Doctor singing? What's it doing? I was just just reading

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it over, Darling. That's all.

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Bottle of my sleeping pills.

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Us, it's.

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Tea.

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The bottle is empty.

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Oh, Richard, Richard have you done nothing, darling, nothing, Now

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just go to.

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Cock you sleeping spills in it of them, I think.

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Don't try to get up. I don't. Don't.

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Don't trying to kill me, trying to do for Having's say, now,

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stop saying things like that.

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Your servants to hear. Oh, somebody, now, come on, light.

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Out, light down, for Haven's sake, Come on now, let

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light up.

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Oh that's that's better. You won't get up with it.

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You won't get Richard. I promise you anything you say, Darling,

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come back, Richard.

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You know how I'll be back.

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Yes, yes, of course. Just just welcome death the way

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you wrote in your little poem, b that hi.

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Swearing.

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Oh.

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The funeral was held two days later. It was a

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magnificent occasion of cross. I gave Ola a farewell that

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was consistent with her vast fortune.

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Everything was the best, often flowers, picture everything.

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Her burial place was one of the choicest bits of

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real estate at Forest Laws. The only discordant note was

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the fact that doctor Singh insisted on saying a few

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words at the service. They were familiar words, but frankly

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they gave me a slight bit of a chill and

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uner Morvesby is dead, but her soul lives on.

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The soul cannot die. The soul is immortal.

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It has left the earthlier remains of this woman and

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has sought the body of a small living thing. There

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it will abide until the almighty is ready to choose

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its next home.

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More not the end of Una Morsty, for there is knowing.

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I couldn't help congratulating myself on how well everything had gone.

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When I called for medical attention the knight of.

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UNA's death, the physician was only too ready to declare

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her suicide. The police had to be informed, naturally, and

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they too agreed with the doctor's verdict.

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Ulla had died by her own hand, and she died

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with all a will.

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There was simply no question that the matter would be

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provailed in my favor. Suddenly I realized I was not

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only rich, but a rich widower. What fist is open

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for me?

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The devil? Look out, your stupid mag.

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I'm trying to get run over. I ad bet I

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was shaken up by it. I mean it was sort

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of coincidence, you know. Right after the fiddle and all that.

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I was very glad to be home again. You can

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be sure.

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Excuse me, mister Margeby. Yes, Parker, Cook is worried about

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the raccoon, Sir lo what There's been a raccoon at

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the kitchen door all morning, and Cook is badly along.

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I'm afraid I've tried to scare it away, but it keeps.

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Me turning a raccoon for having said, why don't you

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just shoot it and make a coat out of it?

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I was wondering if you wished me to call the

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game wardens.

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Please, Parker, do whatever you please about it. I'm going

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to take a nap.

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Yes, very good.

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I went upstairs at once, undressed and got into bed.

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It was a warm day, and yet yet I found

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myself cold. I got out the electric blanket and soon

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felt very cozy. Indeed, in fact, I've felt so much

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better that I made a phone call. Hello, may I

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speak to Rachel.

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Thank you very much. Hello Rachel. Rachel.

474
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You probably don't even know my name, but it's Moresby,

475
00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:49.319
Richard Morsby. You met me at the club numerous times.

476
00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:53.200
I'm the rather distinguished looking gentleman who sits at the

477
00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:53.799
table on the.

478
00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:57.000
Far right corner. Yeah, I know, I know it is,

479
00:27:57.079 --> 00:27:58.319
and I've always regretted it.

480
00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:00.440
Frankly, I would have enjoyed my lunches at the club

481
00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:01.519
even moore if you would.

482
00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:05.039
Serve them stright. Well, what I wanted to find out

483
00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:08.000
was if you're busy this evening, Oh, what you have

484
00:28:08.119 --> 00:28:12.640
in mind? A little uh, quiet dinner? Perhaps? Is that

485
00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:15.279
all you had in mind? Why don't we just wait

486
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:17.960
and see. I can pick you up outside the club

487
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:18.680
whenever you're free.

488
00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:22.160
It's you, I mean, I'm still gonna show what him

489
00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:22.680
when you are.

490
00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:25.920
Oh, I'll be sitting in the next kale jaguar. Do

491
00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:27.119
you think you'll recognize it?

492
00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:27.920
Check?

493
00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:38.359
I get off at six thirty see you? Then? Yes,

494
00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:41.319
I was feeling very good, now, very good.

495
00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:45.400
Indeed, I would have drifted off into a pleasant sleep,

496
00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:46.599
except for one thing.

497
00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:50.880
The moment I thought a bomb had gone off in

498
00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:53.640
the room. Then I realized it was nothing more than

499
00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:54.000
a bird.

500
00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:57.519
A foolish sparrow had dived in headfirst into the plate

501
00:28:57.599 --> 00:28:59.960
glass window of the bedroom, and now they stunned them

502
00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:03.160
the carpet. I looked at the things fluttering a little heart,

503
00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:05.640
and suddenly I was struck.

504
00:29:05.839 --> 00:29:12.960
By a terrifying competition. Wi the dog, the raccoon, the bird.

505
00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:18.599
Good Lord could one of them have been.

506
00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:30.759
As Una Moresby returned from the grave in.

507
00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:37.039
Oddsense, such things don't really happen, but perhaps we should

508
00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:48.440
reserve judgment until I returned shortly with Act three. Now

509
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:51.119
let's see if common sense has returned to our hero.

510
00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:55.000
He's doing a sensible thing right now. He's taking a

511
00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:56.359
good refreshing shower.

512
00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:04.000
By the time evening came, I was feeling better.

513
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:10.440
All my peculiar notions about UNA's animal reincarnation seemed ludicrous.

514
00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:13.119
As I stood in front of the shaving mirror, I

515
00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:16.240
thought about the delicious young woman that was waiting for

516
00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:17.039
me at the club.

517
00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:20.799
I'd admired Rachel's way with a tray for months, but

518
00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:23.640
ever faithful to my wife, I hadn't done more than

519
00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:24.680
gays from Afar.

520
00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:30.119
But now things were going to be different. Yes, so

521
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:30.480
is it?

522
00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:31.960
It's Parker, sir?

523
00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:37.839
Yes, come in, Parker. It's all right. Excuse me, sir,

524
00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:40.279
A bit of emergency in the kitchen.

525
00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:41.680
Well, what is it?

526
00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:42.839
A snake?

527
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:43.079
Sir?

528
00:30:43.799 --> 00:30:43.920
Oh?

529
00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:44.039
What?

530
00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:48.079
Cook insists that there's a snake curled up in the

531
00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:48.920
telephone wire.

532
00:30:49.720 --> 00:30:52.880
That's ridiculous, Parker Cook says, it's there.

533
00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:55.680
Mister Mordby they do get into the house.

534
00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:57.960
Sometimes we'll tell cook she's seeing things.

535
00:30:58.039 --> 00:31:00.279
Tell her to stop nipping at the cooking sher and

536
00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:02.119
she'll soon stop seeing snakes.

537
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.039
What was that? I would guess it was cook, sir?

538
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:09.920
Oh for heaven, say go down and see to at Parker.

539
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:13.559
But I'm not very good with snakes.

540
00:31:13.880 --> 00:31:24.160
Well what do you think? I am an expert. But

541
00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:25.319
that wasn't the end of it.

542
00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:29.720
Ten minutes later, Parker was back upstairs, saying that snake

543
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:32.559
had left the kitchen and run into the living room. No,

544
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:36.680
I suppose snakes don't run, They slither. It slithered into

545
00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:39.599
the living room and was now embracing still another telephone wire,

546
00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:41.160
obviously mistaking it.

547
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:47.559
For a long lost love. But then another another unsettling

548
00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:52.920
thought came into my mind. What if? What if the snake? No, No,

549
00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:54.279
that that was ridiculous.

550
00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:00.000
Hello, Hi, Yes, who.

551
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:03.079
This Rachel from the club? Oh? Yes, Rachel?

552
00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:03.480
What is it?

553
00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:07.519
Could you make it six instead of six? Thanty? I'll

554
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:09.079
try to sneak out a little early.

555
00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:11.799
Yes, fine, I'll be as soon as I can in

556
00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:14.240
the jack War, Yes, yes, in the Jaguar.

557
00:32:14.359 --> 00:32:14.559
Listen.

558
00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:17.000
The reason I want to leave earlier is because my

559
00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:18.160
husband always.

560
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:20.599
Picks me up at six daddy, what was that? So?

561
00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:22.319
I asked one of the girls I work with to

562
00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:25.960
tell him I got another job someplace il Gia.

563
00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:30.400
He likes me to an extra money. Yes, I see,

564
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:32.079
so just to make.

565
00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:34.960
The story look good, I guess you'll have to lend

566
00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:37.319
me a few dollars after our day.

567
00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:39.079
Yes, of course.

568
00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:43.200
And listen, I really do remember you shook it.

569
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:47.440
You're the handsome one with a cute bald head. See

570
00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:57.440
your sound as it happens. I have a very full

571
00:32:57.519 --> 00:32:58.039
head of hair.

572
00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:02.640
But distressing as Rachel's telephone call was, an even more

573
00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:07.480
disturbing thought intruded the snake was in the telephone wire.

574
00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:11.079
What if the sink had been trying to listen in

575
00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:15.839
on the extension phone. I knew the idea was absurd,

576
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:20.000
but I couldn't help the superstitious shiver of dread.

577
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:23.960
In fact, I was so troubled that I decided to

578
00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:25.960
forego my date with Rachel the waitress.

579
00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:30.160
It wouldn't matter anyway, she'd be angry at some man

580
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:32.359
at the club with a cute bald head.

581
00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:37.839
The next day, I did the only thing that really

582
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:40.359
relaxed me. I went to the beach.

583
00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:44.519
It proved to be an excellent idea. I stretched out

584
00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:47.039
on the golden sand and let the sun warm me.

585
00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:50.119
I listened to the waves beating against the shore.

586
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:54.119
I listened to the haunting cries of seagulls surfing overhead.

587
00:33:56.319 --> 00:33:58.200
Suddenly I was aware that the gulls, which had been

588
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:02.920
hovering over the water, now hovering over me. Instead of

589
00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:05.920
their cries being sad and plaintive, now they now.

590
00:34:05.799 --> 00:34:09.440
They seemed menacing. I stood up hastily, But the gulls

591
00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:11.119
seemed to be increasing in number.

592
00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:15.920
I saw their sharp pointed beaks. They're raking claws. They

593
00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:18.840
were predators, of course. How many times had I seen

594
00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:21.639
them swoop into a dive and snatch up some poor

595
00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:24.800
fish out of the sea. And there was one sea

596
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:28.599
down in particular, Its beady eyes seemed to be staring

597
00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:32.239
at me. So it was my imagination. Of course, it

598
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:35.079
wasn't the fish. I was a man, But just the same,

599
00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:39.440
I found myself found myself running down the beach, running,

600
00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:41.000
running for dear life.

601
00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:44.880
And that's that's where I knew it was time to

602
00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:45.519
see a doctor.

603
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:56.320
Yes, mister Morsey, And did it pleased that you honor

604
00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:58.000
the temper with your crass.

605
00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:01.159
I'm greatful met your willing to see me, doctor, saying,

606
00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:06.280
I realized that, well, you had a disappointment. The disappointment,

607
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:10.239
I'm afraid I don't understand. I know my wife made

608
00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:13.079
certain promises to you concerning her will.

609
00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:17.119
I believe she mentioned some modest donation. She wasn't in

610
00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:19.599
her right mind, of course, I mean when she took

611
00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:20.639
her sleeping pills.

612
00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:25.119
Yes, it was very sad. I trust that she has

613
00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:28.800
found the peace and happiness that she thought. Frankly, that's

614
00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:31.000
that's what I wanted to talk to you about it.

615
00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:34.760
I mean about whether you really believe that my wife

616
00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:38.079
is well, that she's some kind of animal right now.

617
00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:41.719
But of course I believe it, mister Mosby, I don't

618
00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:47.480
merely believe. I'm positive when your wife passed from this

619
00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:51.920
world into the next, rasoul made its a skip, yes,

620
00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:53.280
says I know how it goes.

621
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:57.119
But what I'd really liked your opinion about is what

622
00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:00.599
sort of animals do you think she might be? Now?

623
00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:04.440
I told you, mister Morsebeard, we have no way of knowing,

624
00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:05.920
But can't you take a guess?

625
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:08.920
I mean, you said it might be influenced by a

626
00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:11.440
person's calmer, am I quoting you right?

627
00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:15.440
Is the kind of person she was in life may

628
00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:18.039
well determined the kind of animal she is.

629
00:36:18.199 --> 00:36:18.320
Now.

630
00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:23.840
Your wife was soft, Your wife was gentle, Your wife

631
00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:25.480
was independent, dispirit.

632
00:36:26.519 --> 00:36:31.320
Now what animal does that remind you of? I don't know.

633
00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:33.159
I can't think.

634
00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:37.800
Then go home and think about it, mister Morsebard, go

635
00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:41.840
home and try to be one with the universe.

636
00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:48.800
I went home, and I tried to be one with

637
00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:51.880
the universe. And when that didn't work, I tried being

638
00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:55.000
one with a bottle of scotch. I was still in

639
00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:57.840
the library and sleep in the big leather chair. When

640
00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:01.559
I heard the noise in the cellar. I simply had

641
00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:06.639
to investigate. I looked into the sewer. I found that

642
00:37:06.760 --> 00:37:10.119
one bad ball wasn't enough for a thorough search. I

643
00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:13.440
found a flashlight and I went down the cellar steps.

644
00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:22.400
Firsts there was nothing I could see, but then it's

645
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:23.360
an empty oil can.

646
00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:27.480
Swiftly my my flashlight picked out the culprit. At first

647
00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:29.960
I thought it would turn out to be a mouse,

648
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:38.920
but instead instead it was a large white cat. I

649
00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:39.880
don't like cats.

650
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:43.480
I never had skulking cynical creatures.

651
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:47.239
And the beam of by flashlight hit it as the

652
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:51.159
cat froze. I thought it was an alley cat. It's

653
00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:55.800
it's fur shaggy, it's its eyes nailful in the light.

654
00:37:56.519 --> 00:37:59.719
It was fat, and yet it was bony too. I

655
00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:03.079
said I had scat, but it didn't scat. Instead, it

656
00:38:03.199 --> 00:38:09.280
started to walk toward me, and I knew what Doctor

657
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:12.239
Singh had meant. I knew for certain I was looking

658
00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:14.719
at the reincarnation of my wife.

659
00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:19.400
As soon as that hideous copparation howled at me, I

660
00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:25.039
rade a cowarded dash for the cellar door. Once I

661
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:27.800
was on the other side, I remembered the hunting rifle

662
00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:29.480
that Una had given me the Christmas.

663
00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:35.199
It stood unused in an upstairs closet. I found it.

664
00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:39.199
I loaded it and brought it back to the cellar.

665
00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:43.960
I hadn't fired a rifle since boyhood. I stood on

666
00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:46.840
the top of the stairs with my flashlight picked out

667
00:38:46.920 --> 00:38:50.599
the ghostly white form of the cat. I put down

668
00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:55.480
the light, raised the weapon, and squeezed the trigger.

669
00:38:56.800 --> 00:39:00.599
The report was definitely, but the recoil was worse. Therecarious

670
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:02.320
balance on the top step was lost.

671
00:39:02.599 --> 00:39:03.480
I felt to the bottom.

672
00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:15.960
I tried to get up again, but the pain in

673
00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:19.800
my right leg was agonizing. I found out later, and

674
00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:23.840
it's broke. Well the cat, the cat was still alive,

675
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:27.679
and it was regarding me at an eye level. Now

676
00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:34.280
it's fur matted with plastic dust, its eyes filled with hatre.

677
00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:38.920
Tried to crawl towards my fallen rifle.

678
00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:42.280
Such as I saw the creature and seemed towards me.

679
00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:44.480
I screamed, oua.

680
00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:50.599
My hand was on the rifle now, grasping it too

681
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:52.920
quickly in my panic, my fingers touched the trigger.

682
00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:54.079
The rifle went off again.

683
00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:06.079
Well that's how Moresby ended up in the hospital chief

684
00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:08.400
with a broken leg and a bullet in his hip,

685
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:09.599
and then he died.

686
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:11.960
But I think he was telling the truth.

687
00:40:12.639 --> 00:40:16.119
You can see it in his eyes, his silver eyes, right, yeah,

688
00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:19.760
his silver eyes. And you really believe that the guy's

689
00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:23.000
wife came back is at cat to get her revenge?

690
00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:26.760
Why does it matter? It's still a good story. Sorry, proudy,

691
00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:27.679
I can't helpkay it.

692
00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:31.280
Well, what if I got more details? What if I

693
00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:33.320
talked to this doctor singh? If I went to the

694
00:40:33.400 --> 00:40:36.320
Morsby cellar and found that cat, and what would you do?

695
00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:41.119
Then? Ask her if she's missus Moresby. I still think

696
00:40:41.159 --> 00:40:44.119
it's worth a try, Chief. I'll tell you what, proudy,

697
00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:48.400
what are you doing for lunch? I hadn't thought about it. Well,

698
00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:49.840
think about buying my lunch.

699
00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:50.639
You.

700
00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:53.559
There's a pretty good restaurant right around the corner where

701
00:40:53.639 --> 00:40:56.639
the Morsby's lived. Now he can get a bite there

702
00:40:56.800 --> 00:41:07.519
and then check out that cellar. So, uh, this is

703
00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:08.119
where it happened.

704
00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:12.440
Man Boysby fell from these steps when he fired that rifle. Hey,

705
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:14.480
you can still see the plaster dust where the bullet hit.

706
00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:18.679
Yeah, I see it, but I don't see any white cat.

707
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:21.840
It might be hiding someplace, or it might be a

708
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:26.280
figment of his imagination if he saw hold it.

709
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:32.719
Did you hear something? No, listen, there it is.

710
00:41:33.559 --> 00:41:38.280
Look hmm it's a catt all right, and it looks

711
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:42.760
like it just found its supper. Oh that mouse is

712
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:45.280
still alive, but that's for long. Look at the squirm

713
00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:49.000
he's eating it. Yeah, and there goes your mouse.

714
00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:53.079
Oh my god, that's a matter. Probably never see a

715
00:41:53.159 --> 00:41:55.880
cat eat a mouse before. Jeez, did you see that mouse?

716
00:41:55.960 --> 00:41:56.159
Sure?

717
00:41:56.239 --> 00:42:00.920
I saw it. Didn't you notice something like? Why it's eyes? Chief?

718
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:02.760
Did you ever see a mouse with eyes?

719
00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:03.039
Like that.

720
00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:09.159
They were so pale blue they were almost silver.

721
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:18.800
And so the cat and mouse game comes to an end.

722
00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:24.559
But according to doctor Singh, there is no end. Perhaps

723
00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:28.199
Richard Moresby will have his turn next in another afterlife.

724
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:30.599
I'll be back in a few moments.

725
00:42:41.519 --> 00:42:46.599
Do you believe in reincarnation? Do you believe the dead return?

726
00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:52.320
We have to believe it, because here we are the

727
00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:57.519
reincarnation of radio drama. We hope you'll keep us alive

728
00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:02.039
by listening again to the radio miss Theater. Our cast

729
00:43:02.159 --> 00:43:05.920
included Patrick O'Neal, Marion Zodas, Nick Pryor.

730
00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:06.760
And Dan Uncle.

731
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:10.119
The entire production is under the direction of Hyman Brown.

732
00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:23.679
My dear, aren't memories something? I don't mean to be obtuse,

733
00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:28.679
I just mean there's so many things to so many people,

734
00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:37.239
and well beyond. Some memories are sweet, some memories are sour.

735
00:43:38.079 --> 00:43:43.159
Some memories are a combination of the two. And some

736
00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:48.800
people like bitter sweet more than they like sweet alone.

737
00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:54.840
But no memory has me as bitter as that of

738
00:43:55.079 --> 00:44:05.000
John Jock Todd. Escape.

739
00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:13.840
You are groping in the dark of the African jungle night,

740
00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:18.000
trapped on a wharf above a crocodile infested river, fighting

741
00:44:18.119 --> 00:44:21.480
for your life against a ruthless giant from whom you

742
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:23.400
must escape.

743
00:44:33.320 --> 00:44:36.239
Escape designed to free you from the four walls of

744
00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:38.840
today for a half hour of high adventure.

745
00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:46.679
A tonight we escape to the tank jungles of the

746
00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:50.639
Segwanga Valley in Africa, into the heart of a courageous man.

747
00:44:51.400 --> 00:45:12.800
As Robert Simpson told it in his story John Jack Todd, no.

748
00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:15.519
Doubt you may presume my Scotch ancestry from a wee

749
00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:18.280
bit of the old speech that still links to my voice,

750
00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:21.599
though it's been some years now since I last walked

751
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:25.039
in the heather of the hellens of Abergorie. My name

752
00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:28.159
is John Todd, the same as my father's, though to

753
00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:31.320
be sure, he is more often called Jock Todd, Jock

754
00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:34.639
being the fighter's equivalent to John, and a name which

755
00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:37.719
in no wise applies to me. I am a peace

756
00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:40.840
loving man, not a fighter, and no man can deny

757
00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:46.039
it even today. However, in other respects, I was a

758
00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:48.360
raw lad, for certain when I sailed up from Glasgow

759
00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:50.360
and came here to this heathen.

760
00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:50.800
Land of Africa.

761
00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:53.119
And that's a thing which cannot be said of me

762
00:45:53.159 --> 00:45:55.719
at present. If a man lives at our in this

763
00:45:55.800 --> 00:45:59.280
steaming hot jungle at the Niger River. Then he must

764
00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:03.400
learn very quickly, and most especially so if he lands

765
00:46:03.440 --> 00:46:07.000
at that dirty little trading post and say Guanga Creek.

766
00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:14.599
FP side by London, coming up.

767
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:19.199
Hell, here you are, mister hurt sa Gwanga landing, and

768
00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:20.480
you can have it as far as I am.

769
00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:23.519
Consultants, Well, I might say the Parlor Company had somewhat

770
00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:25.199
more elaborate offices than Glasgow.

771
00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:28.559
Mister Simpsons, Hey, hey, no doubt about that. And how

772
00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:29.440
long did you sign up?

773
00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:29.519
For?

774
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:30.679
Four years?

775
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:33.639
Four years waking for them? They catch you fellows in

776
00:46:33.679 --> 00:46:35.280
Glasgow before they ever seen the place.

777
00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:39.119
There's a fair looking buildings there on the bank.

778
00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:39.960
Reagan buildings.

779
00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:43.079
Hey, what's that help any you want to tear out

780
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:43.480
the world.

781
00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:46.840
They don't suppose you've heard anything about rock.

782
00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:49.199
And they told me I should report for the agent

783
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:52.400
in charge. Here a man named Captain Brock hurts.

784
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:55.559
And druck every agent in the stink and jungle calls

785
00:46:55.639 --> 00:46:56.440
himself the captain.

786
00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:58.159
That's him there in the world.

787
00:46:58.719 --> 00:47:02.239
Heasy, boy, get a lie ready now, all right? Put

788
00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:02.679
the model.

789
00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:05.320
He's up their size man for seven.

790
00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:08.559
He's big enough right in some ways, so as a

791
00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:12.920
gorilla watch out. Can I say I understand you? You will,

792
00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:14.719
mister Tudd, if you live long enough.

793
00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:18.400
Topside Row's a lion, boy, yes.

794
00:47:18.639 --> 00:47:22.519
Me cuts quick that the fellow with him is named Ganson.

795
00:47:23.199 --> 00:47:25.519
You get nothing to fear from him till after Box

796
00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:28.639
made a move. He's a sneaking little jack all but

797
00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:30.440
he never makes his own kill.

798
00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:33.199
I still can't understand what you're talking about, mister Simpson.

799
00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:36.400
You find out soon enough, butn't help you. No, No,

800
00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:38.840
now to go ahead of time? All right, tack here

801
00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:41.320
once a week on the river run. But you're still

802
00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:41.880
on your own.

803
00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:45.039
You better know it right now, mister Simpson. You will

804
00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:45.800
have to explain.

805
00:47:46.079 --> 00:47:48.519
No, mister Simpson, all same, plenty fast.

806
00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:51.039
All right, boy, come on, mister Tudd, you may as

807
00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:52.079
well meet your new boss.

808
00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:55.400
Coo blong.

809
00:47:55.639 --> 00:48:01.519
Look up the amorphae senatious this time have Ganson. Well, Simpson,

810
00:48:01.519 --> 00:48:02.880
you are half a day late, and.

811
00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:05.480
I start running my boat on the schedule. I'll send

812
00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:06.239
you a copy of it.

813
00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:08.880
Brock m If there was another boat on this river,

814
00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:11.199
I could ship my stuff on. You know what I

815
00:48:11.239 --> 00:48:12.239
would do then, don't.

816
00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:15.119
June, No, you wouldn't rock, not as long as you know,

817
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:16.320
I carry a gun.

818
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:22.119
Hey you there, you then you junior assistant.

819
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:24.400
That's right, sir. My name is John Todd.

820
00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:26.800
And I assume your cow'll take the time to find

821
00:48:26.840 --> 00:48:29.320
out your name later. And I do not give two

822
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:33.199
cents for what you assume. That's tell him, and did

823
00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:37.159
not I tell you to shut up and get out there?

824
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:38.800
Those natives of the war, right.

825
00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:39.320
Joe captain?

826
00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:41.320
All right, move along? Are you ready? Peggers? Come on

827
00:48:41.360 --> 00:48:44.360
home now you they're wrong, You just step.

828
00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:49.320
I have some brandy over the bungalo Simpson, if you

829
00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:50.800
would like a drink while the boys.

830
00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:53.199
Are loading, I just had a drink on board.

831
00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:57.519
You there, whatever, your name is, John Todd, sir, Ah,

832
00:48:58.079 --> 00:48:59.480
So it is John Todd, is it?

833
00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:03.719
And I suppose you call yourself Jack like the rest

834
00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:07.159
of your blasted countrymen, No, said Jock is the name

835
00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:10.079
for a fighting man such as my father gonna say

836
00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:10.559
it fits me?

837
00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:13.639
So you are not a fighting man.

838
00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:13.920
Eh.

839
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:18.320
It makes things a lot easily. You don't hit block.

840
00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:21.400
As soon as you're both is loaded, you can bring

841
00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:25.920
the lading bills up to the office. Well, Todd, you're

842
00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:27.679
going to stand here on the wharf. The rest of

843
00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:29.679
the day, No, sir, but I thought you'd be one.

844
00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:35.119
You are not paid to think. Get your stuff up

845
00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:40.000
to the bungalow and be quick about it. Whatever you say,

846
00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:41.559
Captain block.

847
00:49:41.719 --> 00:49:45.039
Four years of it, mister Todd, Welcome to Sagua.

848
00:49:55.159 --> 00:49:58.039
I didn't understand it at all the reason for Captain

849
00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:00.960
brock having acted in such a strange way. I'd never

850
00:50:01.079 --> 00:50:03.320
met the man, nor could I think that he'd never

851
00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:06.320
heard of me before. And I couldn't be certain of

852
00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:08.719
the extent of the man's authority here in the jungle.

853
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:12.320
The Home Office in Glasgar having been a wee bit

854
00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:15.719
unclear about the matter, they had said only that the

855
00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:18.159
agent was very much like the captain a board of ship,

856
00:50:18.760 --> 00:50:22.480
and that he carried full responsibility in his own two hands.

857
00:50:23.639 --> 00:50:27.679
But about the attitude of Captain Brockie himself, I very

858
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:31.199
soon had few doubts left in my head. I didn't

859
00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:34.400
see the man again the afternoon arrived, but a houseboy

860
00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:35.840
came and wakened me in the middle of the night

861
00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:38.559
and said the captain wished to see me in the

862
00:50:38.639 --> 00:50:49.079
main room of the bungalow. Immediately, Captain brock the boy said,

863
00:50:49.079 --> 00:50:49.880
you'd sent for meself.

864
00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:54.079
You do not have to tell me that it took

865
00:50:54.159 --> 00:50:55.559
you long enough to get here too.

866
00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:57.320
I took no more time than to put on a

867
00:50:57.400 --> 00:50:58.000
pair of pants.

868
00:50:58.239 --> 00:51:02.360
Ah, So it makes you argument if to wake you

869
00:51:02.519 --> 00:51:04.079
up in the middle of the night, I was not

870
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:07.800
intending to be, so I am not interested in your intentions,

871
00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:08.440
mister Tat.

872
00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:11.480
You will learn to keep a civil tongue in your head. Well,

873
00:51:11.519 --> 00:51:12.079
I was not mean.

874
00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:12.559
Shut up.

875
00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:15.000
That's better.

876
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:18.920
And I suppose you're wondering why I had you waked

877
00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:20.199
up like this in the middle of the night.

878
00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:23.119
I'll presume you had a reason.

879
00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:28.000
Oh you presume, do you? Who is? And what do

880
00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:29.880
you presume the reason is?

881
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:33.199
I'm afraid I couldn't say. Then I will tell you

882
00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:38.079
I sent for you, mister Toad, simply to show you

883
00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:41.000
I can have you waked up any time I please

884
00:51:41.119 --> 00:51:45.960
to you. Have no other reason than that, none at all,

885
00:51:46.079 --> 00:51:53.920
mister Tat. A fighting man might resent it, but then

886
00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:58.079
you are not one. I you too bad.

887
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:01.480
All you've got to say to me, then I'll go

888
00:52:01.559 --> 00:52:02.159
back to my bed.

889
00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:03.440
That is all.

890
00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:06.519
Now get out of my office.

891
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:09.360
Just as you say, Captain Brook.

892
00:52:19.800 --> 00:52:21.719
The attitude of the man didn't change. One of the

893
00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:24.960
next few weeks, and I couldn't find in my head

894
00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:28.760
any reason for his hatred, And it was hatred. It

895
00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:30.639
was in his eyes every time he spoke to me.

896
00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:34.440
I took care of my duties and stayed clear of him. Otherwise,

897
00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:37.159
and for the most part, we came to no head

898
00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:42.639
on clash. That with the two exceptions, however, the first

899
00:52:42.719 --> 00:52:43.760
one happened.

900
00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:44.880
About a week after I had arrived.

901
00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:47.880
I was supervising a group of Nats at the time

902
00:52:48.400 --> 00:52:50.519
working on the breakwater at the end of the war.

903
00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:54.159
It's the time. What the devil are those boys supposed.

904
00:52:53.719 --> 00:52:54.159
To be doing.

905
00:52:54.519 --> 00:52:55.719
They're repairing the breakwater.

906
00:52:56.119 --> 00:52:59.159
I can see that without being born. Now where did

907
00:52:59.199 --> 00:53:01.239
you get your thought? Or is it to buy the timber?

908
00:53:01.679 --> 00:53:04.760
Why you ordered it last week yourself from chee Glory?

909
00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:08.320
Maybe I told you to accept delivery without having me

910
00:53:08.440 --> 00:53:09.239
look at it first.

911
00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:11.320
You told me to receive it when it came in,

912
00:53:11.400 --> 00:53:14.159
and that's what I did. It's good timber. I checked

913
00:53:14.199 --> 00:53:14.679
it myself.

914
00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:16.880
How would you know if it is good timber?

915
00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:20.079
My father happens to be a forester back in Colin

916
00:53:20.199 --> 00:53:22.079
the devil take you and your father both.

917
00:53:23.239 --> 00:53:26.199
I'd advise you never to say that in my father's hearing.

918
00:53:28.239 --> 00:53:30.400
Are you threatening me?

919
00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:35.880
No, I'm nothing like that, But I'm sort of suggesting

920
00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:38.119
it isn't always wise to insult.

921
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:38.840
A man you've never seen.

922
00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:43.880
I see, now that I come to think of it.

923
00:53:44.519 --> 00:53:47.000
He is the one that is a fighter, isn't he?

924
00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:53.719
That's correct, the one they called Jack. Well, it is

925
00:53:53.920 --> 00:54:00.280
too bad he is not around here. Mister John Ta boy,

926
00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:05.000
you're there, Throw that piece of timber you're using, and

927
00:54:05.079 --> 00:54:07.320
if POOL could see it's too short up on a deal,

928
00:54:07.679 --> 00:54:10.880
I said, throw it out. I will teach you to wager.

929
00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:18.239
You get back at your feet, I said, get and

930
00:54:18.440 --> 00:54:19.760
your feet before I kick.

931
00:54:19.679 --> 00:54:20.159
Your head off.

932
00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:27.639
I'd seen him knock Ganson down the same way and

933
00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:30.360
then kick him like I did the natives, and Gansen

934
00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:33.760
took it and saved these courses until Brock was not around.

935
00:54:35.199 --> 00:54:37.400
I wondered what I might do if he ever tried

936
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:40.960
it on me, And the next week I saw that

937
00:54:41.039 --> 00:54:42.960
he would try it sooner or later.

938
00:54:44.920 --> 00:54:45.159
Yeah.

939
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:54.679
Shift thea wanna and his boy coming from back country

940
00:54:54.719 --> 00:54:57.119
with a dozen canoes full of palm nuts, and I

941
00:54:57.280 --> 00:54:59.880
was out in the warehouse checking in the load. We

942
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.519
He used a big wicker basket for measure in called

943
00:55:02.559 --> 00:55:05.360
a cooler for some reason or other, and the one

944
00:55:05.400 --> 00:55:07.519
as boys would fill this and then we'd dump it

945
00:55:07.559 --> 00:55:10.320
on the pilot at the end of the building. Gansen

946
00:55:10.480 --> 00:55:12.599
was boushing the load and and I check off each

947
00:55:12.679 --> 00:55:15.840
cooler in the teybook as it was dump. It was

948
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:17.920
late in the afternoon when we finally finished.

949
00:55:18.159 --> 00:55:20.440
All right, all right, step loudly now you then light

950
00:55:20.519 --> 00:55:23.280
as yet write no more. The trouble about after that one?

951
00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:25.239
All right, Todd is the last one?

952
00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:26.840
You got it? Mark? Have you flight Canton?

953
00:55:27.159 --> 00:55:28.400
All right, now you're ruddy beggars.

954
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:30.079
Let's take it back and top it. Come on, put

955
00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:33.400
your backs to a name, pick her up.

956
00:55:33.480 --> 00:55:33.800
Let's you.

957
00:55:35.800 --> 00:55:37.119
A shake him out, chake.

958
00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:38.039
Him out everything, and.

959
00:55:38.039 --> 00:55:42.239
That's what happens. I'm on, chake him out. That does it?

960
00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:43.039
All right?

961
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:47.840
How many killers did we have? Turned eight and twenty

962
00:55:48.239 --> 00:55:51.599
or the many you count? How many caller you'll get?

963
00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:57.760
Oh save me? Maybe nineteen to nineteen? Me count? Oh

964
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:02.199
same twenty? Well, Lork, it's not you miss one, Todd,

965
00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:03.599
you miss twenty.

966
00:56:03.880 --> 00:56:08.880
I didn't miss one, mister Ganson. Thetally is nineteen turn

967
00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:09.199
the wrong.

968
00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:13.880
Will you pay me twenty trouble.

969
00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:18.440
Strana that stands at nineteen, be a crazy fool to

970
00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:19.159
give it two?

971
00:56:19.239 --> 00:56:20.199
And what's one cooler?

972
00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:20.800
More or less?

973
00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:24.320
Meet though Captain Brook, he picks good that.

974
00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:26.039
Will not be necessary to wanna.

975
00:56:27.480 --> 00:56:28.840
What is the trouble here, Todd?

976
00:56:29.559 --> 00:56:31.400
I mean you got sense enough to taking a few

977
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:33.320
palm nuts without getting your feet twisted.

978
00:56:33.679 --> 00:56:35.639
My fate have nothing to do with it, Captain Brook.

979
00:56:36.159 --> 00:56:39.159
He claims twenty coolers, and I counted nineteen.

980
00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:39.800
Then you missed one.

981
00:56:40.360 --> 00:56:41.119
Give him twenty?

982
00:56:41.840 --> 00:56:42.360
Can I do that?

983
00:56:42.519 --> 00:56:42.639
Sir?

984
00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:43.000
You?

985
00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:46.440
What can I sign my name to help cheat the company?

986
00:56:47.039 --> 00:56:47.880
Cool? Blimy?

987
00:56:47.880 --> 00:56:48.760
If right down right?

988
00:56:48.840 --> 00:56:49.639
You shut up.

989
00:56:49.599 --> 00:56:56.239
Gnson, mister Todd out here, I am the company.

990
00:56:56.800 --> 00:56:58.440
Now write out that credit check.

991
00:57:00.039 --> 00:57:01.599
Whatever you say, Captain Brook.

992
00:57:02.519 --> 00:57:04.599
It's taking your orders like a good check.

993
00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:12.159
Mister Todd, I thought you'd ched your Hoganson. Well have

994
00:57:12.280 --> 00:57:13.719
you got it written? Mister Todd?

995
00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:18.679
Here you are Captain.

996
00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:26.119
Brook's lucky you decided. Mister you have made this out

997
00:57:26.199 --> 00:57:33.199
for nineteen, which is according to my account, lusted little,

998
00:57:35.559 --> 00:57:41.519
I'll advise you to stop and think before you move. Well, no,

999
00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:46.119
you wouldn't be picking up that shovel with any hostile intent,

1000
00:57:46.280 --> 00:57:50.480
would you no man, no more than you'd be advanced

1001
00:57:50.519 --> 00:57:58.360
and tadd me with a hostile intent like that, Doanna,

1002
00:57:59.159 --> 00:58:01.760
I'm tearing up this track. I will give you one

1003
00:58:01.840 --> 00:58:05.360
myself for twenty you always come to me. I will

1004
00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:06.000
make it right with.

1005
00:58:06.079 --> 00:58:10.199
You, Yes, Captain all same like you say mm hmm.

1006
00:58:11.280 --> 00:58:15.280
And mister Todd, I will make it right with you too.

1007
00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:17.920
You can depend on that.

1008
00:58:23.480 --> 00:58:25.559
Roc stayed clear of me for a few weeks, and

1009
00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:27.719
outside of the job of work I was hired to do,

1010
00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:28.760
I had.

1011
00:58:28.639 --> 00:58:29.440
No words with him.

1012
00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:33.159
I recall mister Simpson saying to watch out for him.

1013
00:58:34.199 --> 00:58:36.119
I was here certain he was only waiting for the

1014
00:58:36.280 --> 00:58:39.159
chance to make his move. He outweighed me for fifty pounds,

1015
00:58:39.199 --> 00:58:41.679
and I knew beyond doubt that I couldn't stand up

1016
00:58:41.719 --> 00:58:45.360
to him. But what really worried me was not known

1017
00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:48.440
of any reason for the man's attitude. It made no

1018
00:58:48.639 --> 00:58:50.679
sense that a man should go looking for a fight

1019
00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:55.039
without no reason at all. At any rate, the weeks passed,

1020
00:58:55.639 --> 00:58:59.280
the jungle steamed, and the muddy river rolled past the wharf,

1021
00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:08.199
and then one day it happened Sunday was my one

1022
00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:10.639
three day in the week, so I'd hired a canoe

1023
00:59:10.679 --> 00:59:12.599
and paddled up stream for a visit with a fellow

1024
00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:16.840
countryman at another trading post some few miles away. It

1025
00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:19.239
was just getting dark when I came back to the wall,

1026
00:59:19.599 --> 00:59:22.760
and when I got in close, I saw Brocks standing

1027
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:25.280
there smoking, leaning on a pilot.

1028
00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:26.159
At the far side.

1029
00:59:27.119 --> 00:59:29.920
The watchboy squatted near the edge waiting to take the

1030
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:35.280
line from my canoe. He caught it and pulled the

1031
00:59:35.320 --> 00:59:38.760
boat in and made it fast, and I climbed out onto.

1032
00:59:38.599 --> 00:59:41.880
The war ow. Good trick, Muster Tod, not so bad,

1033
00:59:41.960 --> 00:59:46.840
bit hot, that was all you savey Which place canoe

1034
00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:47.320
man live?

1035
00:59:47.519 --> 00:59:49.480
Yes, sir, live on breakwater side?

1036
00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:54.119
Then go tell him, come get canoe. Tell him two

1037
00:59:54.320 --> 00:59:57.320
day pass, I give him check for pay.

1038
00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:02.880
Live on now, till man, please soon, boy, you're there.

1039
01:00:03.840 --> 01:00:06.719
He's hold and Brock, did I give you permission to

1040
01:00:06.800 --> 01:00:11.519
leave the war mussa? What Muster Todd is I tell

1041
01:00:11.599 --> 01:00:14.199
you you could leave moussa?

1042
01:00:14.679 --> 01:00:17.440
All right? And go get the head man.

1043
01:00:18.519 --> 01:00:21.360
Tell him I want him here right away, and you

1044
01:00:21.559 --> 01:00:30.199
come back with him. Oh boy, all right, Todd, get

1045
01:00:30.320 --> 01:00:31.079
up to your quarters.

1046
01:00:31.679 --> 01:00:35.039
I think I'll be staying right here. Captain Brock. If

1047
01:00:35.079 --> 01:00:37.000
your planning to tie that boy to a post and

1048
01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:39.400
flog him, because I have no doubt you've decided to do.

1049
01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:44.440
Then you'll be having a word with me first, Canson.

1050
01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:45.559
Is that you all right?

1051
01:00:45.639 --> 01:00:47.280
Y'are cap I heard what he said.

1052
01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:48.920
If it's a witness you want it, I will tell

1053
01:00:48.960 --> 01:00:52.800
you when I want anything, Captain, no man. Take mister

1054
01:00:52.960 --> 01:00:54.800
Todd up to his room and keep him there. I

1055
01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:55.960
will attend to him later.

1056
01:00:56.400 --> 01:00:58.840
If either of you lay a hand on me, it

1057
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:01.400
will be a most up a day in your lives.

1058
01:01:02.599 --> 01:01:08.760
You don't say so, mister Tar, mister John, I've told

1059
01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:10.119
you what you may expect.

1060
01:01:10.639 --> 01:01:11.320
Show you hair.

1061
01:01:12.519 --> 01:01:15.880
I am not to lay a hand on you, not

1062
01:01:16.079 --> 01:01:16.679
even like.

1063
01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:20.119
This till the proper hit him again.

1064
01:01:20.639 --> 01:01:21.599
Mister Toad, get.

1065
01:01:23.599 --> 01:01:26.159
At his foot smash into my side. I tried to

1066
01:01:26.360 --> 01:01:28.280
get up onto my knees and I couldn't.

1067
01:01:28.519 --> 01:01:31.760
I told you to get up again.

1068
01:01:32.519 --> 01:01:34.760
I know it wouldn't take many to finish me off.

1069
01:01:35.320 --> 01:01:37.679
My head hung over the side of the wharf. I

1070
01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:40.280
made one effort and rolled off into the water.

1071
01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:44.039
There he's calling it to the water, Captain, maybe because

1072
01:01:44.079 --> 01:01:46.960
when that is his hard luck, I supposed trousers, the

1073
01:01:47.000 --> 01:01:49.119
resident commission will be done almost but certain I don't

1074
01:01:49.119 --> 01:01:49.960
want to shie him.

1075
01:01:49.880 --> 01:01:54.519
Afghanstan, Yes, sir, he can't swim all right there he

1076
01:01:54.639 --> 01:01:56.000
is now climbing out on the bank.

1077
01:01:57.159 --> 01:02:00.800
May what's the matter, mister Parr. You are not leaving

1078
01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:04.079
us Io. You have not changed your mind about having

1079
01:02:04.119 --> 01:02:07.199
a word with me, have you? Mister Chad.

1080
01:02:15.039 --> 01:02:17.199
Back in my own quarter, as I changed into dry clothes,

1081
01:02:17.639 --> 01:02:20.480
hurrying as fast as I could, I couldn't have find

1082
01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:22.159
it in my heart to be angry with the man.

1083
01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:25.000
He had struck me without warning and kicked me while

1084
01:02:25.039 --> 01:02:27.599
I was down, and they was panning out to flog

1085
01:02:27.639 --> 01:02:30.039
a native boy without the lad having committed to vote.

1086
01:02:31.039 --> 01:02:34.159
It was not a thing to become angry about. Captain

1087
01:02:34.199 --> 01:02:37.280
Brock had to be punished, that was all, And though

1088
01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:40.800
it would mean my own life most likely, it had.

1089
01:02:40.679 --> 01:02:43.599
To be done. It was snow more than a matter

1090
01:02:43.599 --> 01:02:54.360
of simple justice. Within five minutes I was back at

1091
01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:57.159
the wall. The watchboy had come back with the headman,

1092
01:02:57.440 --> 01:02:59.119
and a group of natives had gathered.

1093
01:02:58.880 --> 01:03:01.440
Around the circle of light. Will not fire a hurricane lantern.

1094
01:03:02.199 --> 01:03:03.960
They didn't see me at first.

1095
01:03:05.199 --> 01:03:07.960
All right, Ganson his hands up all his head and

1096
01:03:08.039 --> 01:03:11.400
tie them there, stretch your mark right the captain. The

1097
01:03:11.480 --> 01:03:13.920
watch boy stood there, trembling with fear, while Ganson bound

1098
01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:14.920
his hands to the heavy post.

1099
01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:17.320
Hurry after, you come, sifool, and make it tight. I

1100
01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:19.400
wanted to hang there after I'm through with him.

1101
01:03:19.559 --> 01:03:23.239
Oh he'll do that all right, cap Miss Todd.

1102
01:03:25.679 --> 01:03:29.639
Well, mister you are just in time to see the

1103
01:03:29.679 --> 01:03:31.280
boy again what he's coming to him?

1104
01:03:34.000 --> 01:03:37.400
Rock. I told you before you'll not be doing this

1105
01:03:37.559 --> 01:03:38.679
without having a word with me.

1106
01:03:39.599 --> 01:03:42.119
I was under the impression that you had already had

1107
01:03:42.159 --> 01:03:45.880
your word, mister Tar. You've been laying into me ever

1108
01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:48.760
since I came here. For reasons if your own, whatever they.

1109
01:03:48.719 --> 01:03:52.599
Might be, and one do you plan to do about it?

1110
01:03:52.719 --> 01:03:53.280
Mister Tar?

1111
01:03:53.920 --> 01:03:56.199
You may be somewhat within your rights in that respect,

1112
01:03:56.280 --> 01:03:57.840
but you're not so when you hit a man with

1113
01:03:57.880 --> 01:04:00.679
that warning and kick him while he's lying on the ground.

1114
01:04:01.039 --> 01:04:02.159
Kevin, give him what for?

1115
01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:05.199
I take it, then, mister Todd, you have objections to

1116
01:04:05.400 --> 01:04:08.360
hitting a man without warning? Perhaps it is the thing

1117
01:04:08.440 --> 01:04:10.400
your father would not think of doing.

1118
01:04:11.000 --> 01:04:13.800
No objections, mister Rock now, but I know you do

1119
01:04:13.920 --> 01:04:16.559
it well. It's a thing that one can do as

1120
01:04:16.599 --> 01:04:17.199
well as the other.

1121
01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:21.079
Here you I don't mind not that I know.

1122
01:04:22.760 --> 01:04:24.199
I cropped him along one side of the head and

1123
01:04:24.239 --> 01:04:25.760
then again or the other. And why do you rock

1124
01:04:25.800 --> 01:04:27.840
back from the blows? I trenched my hands around his stick,

1125
01:04:28.719 --> 01:04:29.760
fingers into his throat.

1126
01:04:31.320 --> 01:04:34.119
Stop, Kevin, tells out your bloody don't stop.

1127
01:04:34.159 --> 01:04:36.159
Crust and struggled and twitching for I held on and

1128
01:04:36.239 --> 01:04:39.360
kept choking him, tensing my hands tighter and tighter. He

1129
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:40.840
struck at me, and I let go with one hand

1130
01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:41.679
and cuffed him again.

1131
01:04:41.840 --> 01:04:42.480
And he.

1132
01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:47.360
Mistake in my pot for the and raging. So he

1133
01:04:47.400 --> 01:04:49.440
taught himself loose and smash his fish into my face.

1134
01:04:50.719 --> 01:04:51.760
You gotta love Kevin.

1135
01:04:53.559 --> 01:04:54.159
I have a shory.

1136
01:04:56.199 --> 01:04:57.719
Kill him, Kevin killing.

1137
01:04:59.519 --> 01:04:59.760
God.

1138
01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:01.400
Haven't can his bloody.

1139
01:05:01.119 --> 01:05:01.760
Anything for him?

1140
01:05:01.800 --> 01:05:04.039
Give him a good lot. He's got your.

1141
01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:08.880
Rankers head Dimmand when he's gone.

1142
01:05:10.159 --> 01:05:12.360
And you're running for you're breaking his leg.

1143
01:05:12.440 --> 01:05:19.440
That's right, Canson. Get up, rock on your feet. Man

1144
01:05:20.599 --> 01:05:24.119
through only pretended, Come on, get up on your feet.

1145
01:05:24.760 --> 01:05:26.320
I get up, you.

1146
01:05:28.840 --> 01:05:29.239
Blimy.

1147
01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:32.440
If you ain't broken, I doubt it. I'm taking it

1148
01:05:32.480 --> 01:05:36.880
to only twisted Canson. Yes, the boys give him hand

1149
01:05:36.880 --> 01:05:39.199
to his room if he needs it. I'm going to

1150
01:05:39.239 --> 01:05:42.320
my quarters and clean up a bit right miss to

1151
01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:44.280
Todd and Captain Brock.

1152
01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:46.880
You have no reason to be calling me a killer.

1153
01:05:47.639 --> 01:05:49.880
I'm a peace loving man, and I have no good

1154
01:05:49.960 --> 01:05:52.119
opinion of such things as killing in fighting.

1155
01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:54.599
Tried to do me in, Todd.

1156
01:05:55.679 --> 01:05:58.519
You are going to pay for it. I'm going to

1157
01:05:58.639 --> 01:05:59.159
kill you for it.

1158
01:05:59.280 --> 01:06:01.239
Maybe today, i'll be next month, but I am going

1159
01:06:01.280 --> 01:06:03.159
to kill you. You can't count on it.

1160
01:06:10.199 --> 01:06:12.480
I went to my quarters then, and I didn't know

1161
01:06:12.559 --> 01:06:13.599
what happened just after that.

1162
01:06:14.360 --> 01:06:17.159
I didn't know about Block kicking Gansen off the stairs

1163
01:06:17.199 --> 01:06:19.599
while the little man was trying to help him, nor

1164
01:06:19.679 --> 01:06:23.679
about Ganson going to the Captain's room a few minutes afterward.

1165
01:06:28.280 --> 01:06:29.559
How are you feeling, Captain.

1166
01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:31.960
I'll shut your mouth, Ganson, or I will shut it

1167
01:06:32.079 --> 01:06:32.280
for you.

1168
01:06:32.920 --> 01:06:36.320
You've got no call to betraying me like that. I'd

1169
01:06:36.360 --> 01:06:38.199
have helped you if I could, but they just want

1170
01:06:38.280 --> 01:06:41.119
no chance. They'd have done for me the same as.

1171
01:06:41.079 --> 01:06:42.199
You can shut up.

1172
01:06:43.800 --> 01:06:45.280
I cannot even move my leg.

1173
01:06:45.920 --> 01:06:48.599
It wan't no cold to kick me A while ago,

1174
01:06:48.800 --> 01:06:50.440
neither I could get out of this chair.

1175
01:06:50.519 --> 01:06:52.280
I'd do the same again.

1176
01:06:53.559 --> 01:06:57.199
You can't get up, Kevin Bruh, How could I hope

1177
01:06:57.280 --> 01:06:59.159
to well?

1178
01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:02.039
What is in your mind, you little beggar.

1179
01:07:03.239 --> 01:07:06.239
You've been booting me around for nearly two years now,

1180
01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:10.559
haven't you the autonomy? The first minute I landed like

1181
01:07:10.719 --> 01:07:13.199
you've got an abbot of doing when a bloke is new,

1182
01:07:13.880 --> 01:07:14.119
and I.

1183
01:07:14.119 --> 01:07:16.079
Will break your darky little nick as soon as I

1184
01:07:16.119 --> 01:07:16.519
can walk.

1185
01:07:16.840 --> 01:07:20.679
You've been treating me like a ruddy dog, capt'n, and

1186
01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:24.840
I've been taking it too until now.

1187
01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:27.719
Ooh, what are you up to?

1188
01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:31.519
Henson eh Anson?

1189
01:07:37.880 --> 01:07:40.800
I sat in my room for a long time, holding

1190
01:07:40.880 --> 01:07:42.760
the distol I'd taken from a door of the desk.

1191
01:07:43.880 --> 01:07:46.599
I couldn't see any way out of it. Sooner or

1192
01:07:46.679 --> 01:07:49.559
later that the first chance you could find Brok was

1193
01:07:49.599 --> 01:07:52.920
going to kill me. And aside from murdering the man

1194
01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:55.679
in cold blood, I didn't see any way of preventing him.

1195
01:07:56.360 --> 01:07:58.719
I couldn't leave the trading post, and for certain I

1196
01:07:58.840 --> 01:08:01.320
couldn't stay on my guard for twenty four hours a day.

1197
01:08:02.679 --> 01:08:04.719
I couldn't say how long it was.

1198
01:08:04.800 --> 01:08:07.840
I sat there, holding the pistol in my hand and

1199
01:08:08.079 --> 01:08:11.159
trying to think how I might keep from dying, and

1200
01:08:11.320 --> 01:08:14.119
not even knowing why the man hated me enough to

1201
01:08:14.280 --> 01:08:18.439
wish to kill me. Then I heard somebody coming down

1202
01:08:18.479 --> 01:08:22.399
the hall outside my door. But for a moment they

1203
01:08:22.479 --> 01:08:23.560
might be going passed.

1204
01:08:24.119 --> 01:08:24.760
But then.

1205
01:08:29.279 --> 01:08:35.439
I raised the gun and pointed at the door, dancer,

1206
01:08:37.880 --> 01:08:39.319
dancing man.

1207
01:08:39.399 --> 01:08:40.760
What have you done to your hands?

1208
01:08:42.760 --> 01:08:43.000
Man?

1209
01:08:44.560 --> 01:08:48.000
Oh you ought to see him, mister Todd. You ought

1210
01:08:48.039 --> 01:08:51.119
to come take a look at him. Oh, blody, if

1211
01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:54.720
I ain't marked him up all right? I marked him good.

1212
01:08:54.920 --> 01:08:55.399
What do you saying?

1213
01:08:55.439 --> 01:08:55.600
Man?

1214
01:08:55.760 --> 01:08:59.359
What have you done? He was always thought he was

1215
01:08:59.479 --> 01:09:02.479
so much just because it was bigger than me.

1216
01:09:03.319 --> 01:09:06.279
I showed him all right, what have you done?

1217
01:09:07.840 --> 01:09:10.359
And you can't take a look for yourself, mister Todd,

1218
01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:14.319
Come and see what used to be so I a

1219
01:09:14.560 --> 01:09:31.560
mighty calling itself kept and brook. Take a look at him,

1220
01:09:31.600 --> 01:09:35.239
mister Todd. He ain't quite so tough now as he

1221
01:09:35.520 --> 01:09:36.079
was before.

1222
01:09:38.199 --> 01:09:39.439
You done to him.

1223
01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:46.560
With my own two hands.

1224
01:09:46.640 --> 01:09:48.039
I've done it, mister Todd.

1225
01:09:48.119 --> 01:09:49.600
I beat his face to.

1226
01:09:52.439 --> 01:09:57.159
Get as bad as he as. Gunson. You're not going

1227
01:09:57.199 --> 01:09:59.359
to hit your brock get your own gunton.

1228
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:06.479
Ah, anyway, I marked him. I've marked his place up good, so.

1229
01:10:06.600 --> 01:10:08.399
It will show for a long time.

1230
01:10:10.319 --> 01:10:10.640
Again.

1231
01:10:10.760 --> 01:10:13.800
Shut up your great glove around baby, most like you

1232
01:10:13.920 --> 01:10:16.800
live through it, all right? Oh you may never look

1233
01:10:16.920 --> 01:10:20.079
the same again. Hell And you've been having a bit

1234
01:10:20.119 --> 01:10:21.760
of excitement, oh, mister Simpson.

1235
01:10:22.079 --> 01:10:24.239
He doted the wharf ten minutes ago. The boys told

1236
01:10:24.239 --> 01:10:28.720
me what had happened to you? Good plot, you did

1237
01:10:28.840 --> 01:10:30.399
all that not to his face.

1238
01:10:31.119 --> 01:10:34.640
Gunson has been settling up an old score. I'm afeared

1239
01:10:34.680 --> 01:10:36.399
the little man has a vicious disposition.

1240
01:10:36.880 --> 01:10:40.560
I never thought i'd see it. Brock praying like.

1241
01:10:40.680 --> 01:10:43.960
A baby, and the sound of it fairly sickened me.

1242
01:10:45.119 --> 01:10:47.119
Suppose we step outside and let him be.

1243
01:10:48.760 --> 01:10:55.960
Hit me plea, mister Simpson, I've found out why Captain

1244
01:10:56.000 --> 01:10:57.279
Broock hated me the way he did.

1245
01:10:58.439 --> 01:10:59.520
Well, he threatened to kill me.

1246
01:11:00.920 --> 01:11:03.159
But do you think it is the man?

1247
01:11:03.279 --> 01:11:05.800
The coward? That's all you saw him in.

1248
01:11:05.800 --> 01:11:06.399
There just now.

1249
01:11:07.600 --> 01:11:09.840
He knew he was a coward, and he was afraid

1250
01:11:09.880 --> 01:11:12.920
i'd find it out. You may be right, there's no

1251
01:11:13.039 --> 01:11:16.159
doubt of it. And I'm thinking you'll have him for

1252
01:11:16.239 --> 01:11:19.720
a passenger when you go back down river'll not be

1253
01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:23.399
able to stay here now that we understand him, and

1254
01:11:23.479 --> 01:11:25.399
I'll see to it that Gunson goes along with him.

1255
01:11:25.640 --> 01:11:28.680
Helly, I can't say that I'll mind the change.

1256
01:11:28.880 --> 01:11:32.119
I mean, doing business here from now on with a

1257
01:11:32.239 --> 01:11:34.359
gent by the name of Jock Todd.

1258
01:11:35.039 --> 01:11:35.279
Job.

1259
01:11:36.359 --> 01:11:40.479
Oh no, you're taking me all wrong. I'm a peace

1260
01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:44.159
loving man and my name is John. It's no wise

1261
01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:46.760
proper to call a man jock unless he's a fighter.

1262
01:11:47.600 --> 01:11:50.479
Now you take my father for instance. Here's a man

1263
01:11:50.520 --> 01:11:52.439
who can hold his own in any kind of company.

1264
01:11:53.319 --> 01:11:54.119
Well, I don't know.

1265
01:12:06.199 --> 01:12:09.640
Escape Produced and directed by Norman MacDonald. Tonight Brought You

1266
01:12:09.840 --> 01:12:13.479
John Jack Todd by Robert Simpson, Adapted for radio by

1267
01:12:13.560 --> 01:12:17.840
Les Crutchfield, featuring Wilms Herbert as John Todd, Jack Krusian

1268
01:12:18.039 --> 01:12:21.720
as Captain Brock, and Tony Barrett as Ganson, with Don

1269
01:12:21.840 --> 01:12:25.680
Diamond and Paul McVeigh. The musical score was conducted by

1270
01:12:25.800 --> 01:12:26.479
Wilbur Hatch.

1271
01:12:29.560 --> 01:12:35.000
Next week, you are rushing forward through time, far into

1272
01:12:35.039 --> 01:12:38.920
the future, trying desperately to flee the clutching fingers of

1273
01:12:39.000 --> 01:12:42.920
a band of night creatures, a dreamlike horror from whom

1274
01:12:43.039 --> 01:12:46.520
there seems no escape.

1275
01:12:56.520 --> 01:12:59.800
Next week we escape with H. G. Wells's awesome story

1276
01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:02.159
The Time Machine. Good Night.

1277
01:13:02.279 --> 01:13:05.000
Then until the same time next week, when once again

1278
01:13:05.079 --> 01:13:13.479
we offer you escape. This's the CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting.

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1280
01:13:42.079 --> 01:13:47.279
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1281
01:13:47.399 --> 01:13:55.600
believe your own will, your own observations, The observations of

1282
01:13:55.680 --> 01:14:00.640
others are easy to doubt. But when doubting oneself, things

1283
01:14:00.800 --> 01:14:05.079
can get a little messy and quickly.

1284
01:14:05.399 --> 01:14:05.720
At that.

1285
01:14:07.800 --> 01:14:12.680
I feel like sometimes when I'm certain of something, I

1286
01:14:12.800 --> 01:14:19.079
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1298
01:15:48.439 --> 01:15:51.680
Ah a glass of sherry by the fireside of a

1299
01:15:51.760 --> 01:15:56.560
beautiful suburban home. What could be more comforting? You're an

1300
01:15:56.600 --> 01:16:00.920
admirable host, mister lepa, and it's really, our first meeting

1301
01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:03.880
is under such a cloud. It's also a shame I

1302
01:16:03.960 --> 01:16:06.520
have so little time to tell you which one of

1303
01:16:06.560 --> 01:16:20.039
your guests here a murdered your uncle last week. Now

1304
01:16:20.159 --> 01:16:23.600
let's see now, I believe we're all here, Your wife,

1305
01:16:23.920 --> 01:16:26.439
your friend, mister Stevens, Captain Brennan.

1306
01:16:26.199 --> 01:16:29.920
Yes, and accidentally yourself. Just who did you say you were?

1307
01:16:30.279 --> 01:16:33.479
Will no wonder you've had so much difficulty with the case, Captain.

1308
01:16:33.960 --> 01:16:39.640
My name is Cross, go Dan Cross, the writer. As

1309
01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:42.239
a matter of fact, it's because of my just completed book,

1310
01:16:42.640 --> 01:16:45.279
Poisoning Throughout the Ages that I happen to be here now,

1311
01:16:46.079 --> 01:16:48.239
and Ted Stevens there happens to be a member of

1312
01:16:48.279 --> 01:16:51.079
the firm which publishes my work. I'd never seen him

1313
01:16:51.119 --> 01:16:55.319
until tonight, but I've been told what happened. This afternoon.

1314
01:16:55.399 --> 01:16:58.199
He began reading my manuscript for the first time on

1315
01:16:58.359 --> 01:17:02.239
the train, the commuter Trade, which every afternoon deposited him

1316
01:17:02.279 --> 01:17:05.720
safely and soundly here in Crispin. I imagine he was

1317
01:17:05.800 --> 01:17:08.239
halfway home by the time he finished the first chapter.

1318
01:17:09.640 --> 01:17:10.880
Then he turned a page.

1319
01:17:11.920 --> 01:17:16.159
Attached to the following leaf was a picture, and looking

1320
01:17:16.199 --> 01:17:20.399
at it, the young man stiffened. Suddenly and all but

1321
01:17:20.560 --> 01:17:23.800
cried out his shock. It was a picture of a

1322
01:17:23.880 --> 01:17:30.199
young woman, and under it had been printed famous poisoner

1323
01:17:30.520 --> 01:17:36.800
Marie Doubray sixteen seventy six. Ted Stevens was looking at

1324
01:17:36.840 --> 01:17:50.880
a picture of his own wife. Imagine, imagine his twenty

1325
01:17:50.960 --> 01:17:55.439
five year old wife in seventeenth century costume. The face,

1326
01:17:55.600 --> 01:17:58.960
the features, even a wistfulness of expression, were identical.

1327
01:17:59.359 --> 01:18:00.079
Even the name h.

1328
01:18:00.840 --> 01:18:04.000
Dobray was his wife's maiden name. But no, no, no,

1329
01:18:04.199 --> 01:18:07.880
that was ridiculous. This woman in the picture was well

1330
01:18:08.000 --> 01:18:09.479
one of his wife's ancestors.

1331
01:18:09.680 --> 01:18:10.880
Yes, that was it, That was it.

1332
01:18:11.520 --> 01:18:15.319
Simply an amazing family resemblance. Marie would be waiting for

1333
01:18:15.439 --> 01:18:17.000
him at the station, and he'd have to tell her

1334
01:18:17.039 --> 01:18:21.159
about it, he wondered. Why, however, she never told him

1335
01:18:21.399 --> 01:18:25.720
about Oh, hell, but you don't discuss such an ancestor,

1336
01:18:25.800 --> 01:18:29.079
do you. Ted Stevens glanced down at the chapter to

1337
01:18:29.159 --> 01:18:30.600
which the picture had been attached.

1338
01:18:31.239 --> 01:18:35.119
It was entitled The Affair of the Non Dead Woman.

1339
01:18:43.319 --> 01:18:43.560
Hello.

1340
01:18:43.760 --> 01:18:46.880
Ted Stevens was almost joldered from his seat.

1341
01:18:47.479 --> 01:18:50.039
It was doctor Weldon, professor of English at the College,

1342
01:18:50.079 --> 01:18:52.800
an old friend of his. Quickly he thrust the picture

1343
01:18:52.840 --> 01:18:54.279
beneath the manuscript.

1344
01:18:53.840 --> 01:18:57.359
And moved over. Hi, I didn't see you, Doc, Oh, here,

1345
01:18:57.800 --> 01:18:59.800
have a seat. I thought maybe you were giving me

1346
01:18:59.880 --> 01:19:02.520
the uh what do they call it? The brush off?

1347
01:19:02.640 --> 01:19:02.840
Oh?

1348
01:19:03.039 --> 01:19:07.199
No, I say, as a matter of fact, Doc, you're

1349
01:19:07.239 --> 01:19:10.199
the one man I do want to see. Very flattering.

1350
01:19:10.880 --> 01:19:14.560
Remember those discussions we used to have about murders better

1351
01:19:14.640 --> 01:19:15.479
than Bridge anytime?

1352
01:19:16.119 --> 01:19:17.720
Well, I got the idea that you made sort of

1353
01:19:17.760 --> 01:19:20.840
a hobby out of the old cases, the historical one all.

1354
01:19:20.960 --> 01:19:23.880
I've studied quite a number of them. Yes, never hear

1355
01:19:23.920 --> 01:19:28.880
of a woman named Marie Wray read Debray.

1356
01:19:30.239 --> 01:19:31.439
Read Pray.

1357
01:19:32.399 --> 01:19:36.640
Oh, yes that was her name, of course, one of

1358
01:19:36.720 --> 01:19:40.319
the finest specialist and arsenic poisonings you could ever hope

1359
01:19:40.359 --> 01:19:44.000
to find. We're almost at our station, said, let's get

1360
01:19:44.000 --> 01:19:44.399
to the door.

1361
01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:47.439
Yes, a real charmer.

1362
01:19:47.520 --> 01:19:51.239
Murray was must have discolded half a hundred husbands, lovers,

1363
01:19:51.279 --> 01:19:53.640
suitors and just plain friends.

1364
01:19:53.439 --> 01:19:56.399
Before she was called. What happened to her?

1365
01:19:56.479 --> 01:19:56.640
Doc?

1366
01:19:56.960 --> 01:19:59.079
She was beheaded and burned.

1367
01:20:00.359 --> 01:20:00.960
Christmas.

1368
01:20:05.720 --> 01:20:16.000
Oh absurd, laughable ted Stevens kept saying this to himself,

1369
01:20:16.039 --> 01:20:18.880
and yet what he knew was a foolish dread followed

1370
01:20:18.960 --> 01:20:21.199
him straight through the small suburban.

1371
01:20:20.840 --> 01:20:23.560
Station and clung to him as he reached the street,

1372
01:20:24.520 --> 01:20:27.800
and there in the roadster was Marie, leaning toward him

1373
01:20:27.800 --> 01:20:30.479
a little to hold the door open, and smiling at him.

1374
01:20:31.239 --> 01:20:33.600
Oh, dear, what on earth youer stirring?

1375
01:20:33.720 --> 01:20:33.760
It?

1376
01:20:34.119 --> 01:20:35.800
That straight light shining on your hair?

1377
01:20:35.920 --> 01:20:36.640
I like that.

1378
01:20:37.199 --> 01:20:39.920
Ooh, you're tired, Come on, get in the car.

1379
01:20:45.319 --> 01:20:48.239
Then like a wisp of smoke, it was gone. The

1380
01:20:48.359 --> 01:20:51.039
whole ridiculous fear, the delusion.

1381
01:20:51.880 --> 01:21:03.439
When at home, Marie brought the cocktails into the living room,

1382
01:21:04.159 --> 01:21:07.920
the logs were burning brightly in the fireplace, throwing a soft,

1383
01:21:08.079 --> 01:21:10.880
dancing glow upon a room that was darkening with dusk.

1384
01:21:12.600 --> 01:21:14.600
To you, Marie, and to you dear.

1385
01:21:17.159 --> 01:21:20.600
As Stevens placed his glass down, he noticed the manuscript

1386
01:21:20.680 --> 01:21:23.520
of my book. It was there on the table, right

1387
01:21:23.600 --> 01:21:26.920
where he placed it when he first came in. Deliberately

1388
01:21:27.000 --> 01:21:30.880
he turned from it and then turned back. The manuscript

1389
01:21:31.000 --> 01:21:34.560
had been moved only an inch or so, but it

1390
01:21:34.720 --> 01:21:38.640
had been moved. Keeping his back to his wife, he

1391
01:21:38.800 --> 01:21:42.279
thrumbed through that early chapter and discovered, just as he

1392
01:21:42.359 --> 01:21:51.479
knew he would, that the photograph was gone. For a

1393
01:21:51.560 --> 01:21:54.720
long moment he thought of what to do. Then slowly

1394
01:21:55.560 --> 01:22:02.439
he turned around this book by cross Home. Yeah, there

1395
01:22:02.520 --> 01:22:03.960
was a story of poisoner in it.

1396
01:22:04.479 --> 01:22:07.239
Rather funny. Her name happens to be the same as yours.

1397
01:22:07.399 --> 01:22:12.000
If your maiden name, that is odd, isn't it, Darling?

1398
01:22:12.920 --> 01:22:14.399
Well she a relative of yours?

1399
01:22:14.760 --> 01:22:18.000
Why did You're serious in a way?

1400
01:22:18.279 --> 01:22:20.560
Yes? Oh, I don't mean it. It's really important.

1401
01:22:20.640 --> 01:22:21.079
It's just that.

1402
01:22:21.760 --> 01:22:23.520
Well, when you run across a person who's a dead

1403
01:22:23.600 --> 01:22:25.359
ringer for your own wife and who lived three hundred

1404
01:22:25.439 --> 01:22:25.960
years ago.

1405
01:22:25.880 --> 01:22:28.720
And was a top flight poisoner, well you like to

1406
01:22:28.800 --> 01:22:29.800
hear about it, that's all.

1407
01:22:30.319 --> 01:22:31.800
What on earth are you talking about?

1408
01:22:32.439 --> 01:22:35.600
Darling? Be honest with me. Didn't you look at this

1409
01:22:35.680 --> 01:22:37.159
manuscript when I was out of the room.

1410
01:22:37.439 --> 01:22:40.520
No, you didn't take out a picture of a poisoner

1411
01:22:40.600 --> 01:22:42.800
named Marie wa I most certainly did not.

1412
01:22:43.640 --> 01:22:47.479
Oh what is this all about? How are you getting it?

1413
01:22:47.880 --> 01:22:47.920
For?

1414
01:22:48.199 --> 01:22:51.439
Just this? Somebody took that picture out of that manuscript

1415
01:22:51.479 --> 01:22:56.000
since i'd been home. Who's that? Well, I'll take a look,

1416
01:22:56.720 --> 01:22:59.359
and I don't feel like why it's Mark?

1417
01:23:00.640 --> 01:23:00.920
Mark?

1418
01:23:01.479 --> 01:23:07.159
Ted? Wait a second, Ted, whatever is you want? Promise

1419
01:23:07.319 --> 01:23:08.000
you won't do it.

1420
01:23:09.039 --> 01:23:10.079
Promise I won't do it.

1421
01:23:11.119 --> 01:23:15.520
Promise you won't get yourself involved. Please, Ted, don't go

1422
01:23:15.720 --> 01:23:16.239
out tonight.

1423
01:23:16.520 --> 01:23:17.479
So what in the world is.

1424
01:23:19.000 --> 01:23:19.119
Well?

1425
01:23:19.199 --> 01:23:23.960
Anyway, we can't let him stay outside, Mark, how are

1426
01:23:24.039 --> 01:23:26.920
you come on in? Thanks to thinking about giving you

1427
01:23:26.920 --> 01:23:27.600
a call later.

1428
01:23:28.319 --> 01:23:32.039
Let me have your thanks, I Maria, I hope you'll

1429
01:23:32.039 --> 01:23:34.720
excuse me for popping in like this, but well I

1430
01:23:34.800 --> 01:23:35.800
wanted to talk to Ted.

1431
01:23:36.079 --> 01:23:38.840
It's rather important. Well I don't mind at all. Come on, Mark,

1432
01:23:38.880 --> 01:23:40.600
we'll step into the library. Do you mind, dear?

1433
01:23:40.720 --> 01:23:43.159
Of course, not Ed. I'll be waking the sandwiches for I'll.

1434
01:23:43.039 --> 01:23:44.000
Grab that chair in the corner.

1435
01:23:44.119 --> 01:23:46.039
Mark. Well, let's hear it.

1436
01:23:47.000 --> 01:23:50.680
What's the trouble, Ted? My uncle Miles was murdered?

1437
01:23:51.399 --> 01:23:51.800
Murdered?

1438
01:23:51.920 --> 01:23:54.720
Oh, the talk hasn't reached you yet, but it's already started.

1439
01:23:55.319 --> 01:23:58.720
Nothing definite, of course, just that there was something wrong

1440
01:23:58.760 --> 01:23:59.840
about uncle miles death.

1441
01:24:00.079 --> 01:24:03.239
But I don't Mark, are you sure of this? No,

1442
01:24:03.399 --> 01:24:05.680
he was murdered. I don't know, of course, I don't.

1443
01:24:06.399 --> 01:24:08.279
I just don't see how it could be any other way.

1444
01:24:08.960 --> 01:24:11.239
Uncle Miles, you know, had been sick for quite a while,

1445
01:24:11.680 --> 01:24:14.039
but last Saturday he seemed so much better that Miss

1446
01:24:14.199 --> 01:24:17.119
Corbett that was his nurse, decided to take the day

1447
01:24:17.199 --> 01:24:17.520
off and.

1448
01:24:17.800 --> 01:24:18.800
Oh you know all this.

1449
01:24:19.279 --> 01:24:22.600
You and Marie were over that afternoon. Anyway, Lucy and

1450
01:24:22.640 --> 01:24:25.239
I went to the club that night, to that masquerade party,

1451
01:24:25.319 --> 01:24:29.520
and we left the old boy completely alone. I've cursed

1452
01:24:29.560 --> 01:24:32.000
myself a thousand times since thought, what about.

1453
01:24:31.760 --> 01:24:35.359
Your housekeeper, missus? What her name Henderson? Wasn't she around?

1454
01:24:35.680 --> 01:24:35.960
Sure?

1455
01:24:36.880 --> 01:24:39.920
In that little house out and beck? We told her

1456
01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:40.840
to look in now and then.

1457
01:24:40.920 --> 01:24:44.479
But well that wasn't good enough. It was after midnight

1458
01:24:44.520 --> 01:24:49.079
when Lucy and I got back. Uncle Miles was dying ted.

1459
01:24:49.399 --> 01:24:52.319
It looked exactly like one of his regular attacks. But

1460
01:24:52.439 --> 01:24:57.520
then later, after he was gone, I happened to glance

1461
01:24:57.600 --> 01:25:00.159
under the chest of drawers in his room. It was

1462
01:25:00.199 --> 01:25:04.840
a small silver cup under there, almost drained, and Uncle

1463
01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:05.479
miles cat.

1464
01:25:06.840 --> 01:25:11.000
The cat was still warm, but quite dead.

1465
01:25:11.199 --> 01:25:11.439
Oh.

1466
01:25:12.399 --> 01:25:13.880
I managed to get the cat out of the house

1467
01:25:13.920 --> 01:25:17.000
and buried without anyone seeing me. Next day I had

1468
01:25:17.000 --> 01:25:22.760
the contents of the cup analyzed. It was poison, yes, arsenic.

1469
01:25:25.279 --> 01:25:27.600
Well what do you want me to do?

1470
01:25:28.000 --> 01:25:30.399
Help me open the crypt? What I want to have

1471
01:25:30.479 --> 01:25:33.920
a private autopsy performed. Help me get Uncle Miles's body

1472
01:25:33.920 --> 01:25:36.359
out of that vault. Oh, I know, it's a tough job.

1473
01:25:36.439 --> 01:25:37.560
The thing is sealed solid.

1474
01:25:37.640 --> 01:25:39.680
But we can do it, you mean without the police

1475
01:25:39.720 --> 01:25:43.239
knowing about it, without anybody knowing about it. Missus Henderson's

1476
01:25:43.319 --> 01:25:45.600
visiting her sister, and I managed to send Lucy over

1477
01:25:45.640 --> 01:25:48.680
to the club. You must be crazy playing with dynamite, Mark,

1478
01:25:49.119 --> 01:25:50.640
This is something you've got to tell the police.

1479
01:25:50.680 --> 01:25:50.800
Now.

1480
01:25:51.000 --> 01:25:53.359
I can't take that chair. Must They'll have to know sometimes,

1481
01:25:53.399 --> 01:25:54.680
You're only I got to know first.

1482
01:25:54.720 --> 01:25:59.000
I tell you you don't understand it. It was somebody

1483
01:25:59.039 --> 01:26:02.199
in uncle Miles's room night, handing him something in a

1484
01:26:02.239 --> 01:26:05.520
silver cup. Missus Henderson was on the porch by the window.

1485
01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:08.920
She saw her, She saw her tied.

1486
01:26:10.039 --> 01:26:12.039
She thinks it was my wife.

1487
01:26:12.760 --> 01:26:13.960
Oh, Lucy.

1488
01:26:14.199 --> 01:26:17.039
It doesn't mean anything to missus Henderson yet because she

1489
01:26:17.079 --> 01:26:18.039
doesn't suspect anything.

1490
01:26:18.079 --> 01:26:21.760
But well, ten, you've got to see why. I've got

1491
01:26:21.840 --> 01:26:24.159
to be sure why. I've got to know how Uncle

1492
01:26:24.239 --> 01:26:27.560
Miles died because it wasn't Lucy, Ted. I know it wasn't,

1493
01:26:27.640 --> 01:26:30.000
of course not Mark. She had an alibi. What she

1494
01:26:30.159 --> 01:26:31.319
was with you at the club, wasn't she?

1495
01:26:31.520 --> 01:26:31.680
Yes?

1496
01:26:32.800 --> 01:26:36.279
Except for half an hour. I see you will help me,

1497
01:26:36.359 --> 01:26:36.920
won't you, Ted?

1498
01:26:37.720 --> 01:26:38.359
When do we start?

1499
01:26:38.640 --> 01:26:41.119
As soon as you can make it okay, Come on now,

1500
01:26:41.279 --> 01:26:43.199
I'll get your head. You trod on ahead. Now'll come

1501
01:26:43.199 --> 01:26:45.000
over as soon as I can see Marie. You're not

1502
01:26:45.039 --> 01:26:46.920
going to tell her about this, of course not.

1503
01:26:47.560 --> 01:26:48.319
I'll think of something.

1504
01:26:48.319 --> 01:26:49.039
Don't you worry about it?

1505
01:26:49.079 --> 01:26:49.680
No? Thanks, Ted?

1506
01:26:50.079 --> 01:26:57.279
Thanks a lot, Uh, Marie Darling Mark asked me to.

1507
01:26:59.359 --> 01:26:59.600
Bet it.

1508
01:26:59.640 --> 01:27:01.880
Take your sandwiches with you will be hungry?

1509
01:27:03.600 --> 01:27:04.319
K Who I was going on?

1510
01:27:04.880 --> 01:27:09.600
Yes, I knew I couldn't help it, Ted, I had

1511
01:27:09.600 --> 01:27:12.439
an idea what Mark's visit was about. To talk about

1512
01:27:12.520 --> 01:27:15.359
his uncle dead. There's a lot of gossip about it

1513
01:27:15.439 --> 01:27:17.720
in the village. That's why I tried to tell you.

1514
01:27:18.920 --> 01:27:20.159
I didn't want you to get.

1515
01:27:20.079 --> 01:27:20.640
Mixed up in it.

1516
01:27:21.399 --> 01:27:22.840
But it's too late, No, isn't it.

1517
01:27:22.960 --> 01:27:24.199
I mean you're going.

1518
01:27:24.319 --> 01:27:27.920
I can tell by the way you look, Ted. Wait

1519
01:27:28.000 --> 01:27:31.159
a second. There's just one thing I want.

1520
01:27:31.039 --> 01:27:32.159
To tell you before you leave.

1521
01:27:33.039 --> 01:27:36.079
That is that, no matter what happened, no matter what

1522
01:27:36.199 --> 01:27:41.279
you find or think or believe, I love you. You

1523
01:27:41.479 --> 01:27:42.520
remember that, won't you?

1524
01:27:43.680 --> 01:27:44.279
I remember?

1525
01:27:44.359 --> 01:27:44.399
You?

1526
01:27:45.760 --> 01:27:46.560
Said so, Marie.

1527
01:27:54.680 --> 01:27:57.399
By the light of a dim kerosene lantern, Mark and

1528
01:27:57.520 --> 01:28:00.840
Ched Stevens pounded their way through a thick shelf of

1529
01:28:00.960 --> 01:28:05.039
rock that covered the depart's ancestral tomb. Pride opened the

1530
01:28:05.079 --> 01:28:08.239
great slab of stone which lay across the subterranean door,

1531
01:28:09.119 --> 01:28:12.520
and then at last descended to the dank, ink black chamber.

1532
01:28:13.760 --> 01:28:17.159
They found the coffin. They dragged it from its grip

1533
01:28:17.960 --> 01:28:21.760
and placed it on the cold stone floor. They unclamped

1534
01:28:21.800 --> 01:28:22.279
the lid.

1535
01:28:23.159 --> 01:28:23.760
And opened it.

1536
01:28:25.159 --> 01:28:30.840
Mark it empty. That's impossible, it can't be, but it is.

1537
01:28:31.000 --> 01:28:31.239
Mark.

1538
01:28:32.239 --> 01:28:33.119
You know what this means.

1539
01:28:34.000 --> 01:28:36.199
That body wasn't in this coffin when it was placed here.

1540
01:28:36.399 --> 01:28:39.119
Elsewhere it was tied from the time that coffin was

1541
01:28:39.159 --> 01:28:42.520
closed on Uncle Miles, somebody the undertaker or Lucy or me.

1542
01:28:42.880 --> 01:28:45.199
Somebody was with it until it was buried, and the

1543
01:28:45.239 --> 01:28:47.840
crypt was sealed right after, and somebody beat us to it.

1544
01:28:48.119 --> 01:28:49.119
Somebody's broken in here.

1545
01:28:49.039 --> 01:28:52.119
Ahead of us, broken in listened to it. Lucy and

1546
01:28:52.199 --> 01:28:54.520
I have hardly left the house since the funeral. Do

1547
01:28:54.560 --> 01:28:57.079
you think anybody could break in here, smashed through that

1548
01:28:57.199 --> 01:28:59.840
stone and cement without our seeing them, without our hearing them?

1549
01:29:00.520 --> 01:29:02.039
Well, well.

1550
01:29:04.319 --> 01:29:05.840
Well you might as well come on out.

1551
01:29:05.880 --> 01:29:06.039
Man.

1552
01:29:06.840 --> 01:29:09.720
Who is that me and mister day Pa up here?

1553
01:29:12.239 --> 01:29:14.279
My name's Captain Brennan. I'm from the office of the

1554
01:29:14.319 --> 01:29:17.399
Commissioner of Police. Like to talk to him. You know,

1555
01:29:17.560 --> 01:29:20.800
my mister Dave Pi here, follow my flash light up.

1556
01:29:21.960 --> 01:29:26.199
But I don't understand. How did you How did you

1557
01:29:26.279 --> 01:29:28.079
know about this by listening? Maylee?

1558
01:29:28.640 --> 01:29:30.359
Do you mind if we go up to your house,

1559
01:29:30.399 --> 01:29:34.600
mister day bar No, not at all, Oh thank you,

1560
01:29:35.199 --> 01:29:38.720
Oh Freddy, look here, Captain Night Freddy, this is mister

1561
01:29:38.880 --> 01:29:41.319
deve par But Doc Gray, I'm glad to know you,

1562
01:29:41.359 --> 01:29:43.880
Misterday And mister Ted Stevens.

1563
01:29:43.920 --> 01:29:46.680
Is that how did you? How did you know my name?

1564
01:29:46.960 --> 01:29:49.239
Very simple? I got the names of everybody who is

1565
01:29:49.279 --> 01:29:51.079
here at the day pas the day the old man died.

1566
01:29:51.560 --> 01:29:54.920
You and your wife were included. Oh here we are.

1567
01:29:55.239 --> 01:29:58.880
But I don't Captain who gave you those names? My housekeeper,

1568
01:29:58.920 --> 01:30:02.920
of course, Missus Henderson. You didn't think Missus Henderson saw

1569
01:30:02.960 --> 01:30:05.680
the dead cat, did you, mister Depa, But she did.

1570
01:30:06.439 --> 01:30:10.520
She also saw you bury it, and we've been interested

1571
01:30:10.640 --> 01:30:16.119
in the case ever since. Nice place you have here,

1572
01:30:16.279 --> 01:30:16.960
mister Deepa.

1573
01:30:18.199 --> 01:30:19.039
Well, let's see.

1574
01:30:19.960 --> 01:30:22.600
Godding to missus Henderson. Your wife was wearing some kind

1575
01:30:22.640 --> 01:30:24.279
of a mess great costume that night.

1576
01:30:24.880 --> 01:30:26.119
What kind of a thing was it?

1577
01:30:26.479 --> 01:30:28.000
Well? It wasn't there.

1578
01:30:28.079 --> 01:30:28.680
You can see it.

1579
01:30:29.359 --> 01:30:31.119
It was copied from the dress and that old painting

1580
01:30:31.159 --> 01:30:36.640
over there. Oh yes, funny, where's the woman's face?

1581
01:30:37.000 --> 01:30:39.399
It's always been that way long as I can remember.

1582
01:30:39.920 --> 01:30:42.399
Somebody must have thrown acid on it or something. I

1583
01:30:42.760 --> 01:30:43.640
can't blame them much.

1584
01:30:44.079 --> 01:30:45.920
She was a poisoner. A poisoner.

1585
01:30:46.159 --> 01:30:46.359
Yes.

1586
01:30:47.000 --> 01:30:49.640
The story goes that one of my ancestors was responsible

1587
01:30:49.680 --> 01:30:51.920
for her execution, Maury Dobray.

1588
01:30:52.000 --> 01:30:55.119
Her name was Oh yes, I've read about her, learned

1589
01:30:55.159 --> 01:30:56.760
all the poison tricks from one of her lover's.

1590
01:30:56.840 --> 01:30:58.199
Guy for the name of God.

1591
01:30:58.000 --> 01:31:02.159
Ass Akra goodess o, Yes, mister Stevens, we cops read

1592
01:31:02.279 --> 01:31:05.600
now and then did you say good as a car?

1593
01:31:06.039 --> 01:31:08.399
That's French, we call it cross.

1594
01:31:08.800 --> 01:31:12.119
Absolutely no limit to a cops education is there.

1595
01:31:13.520 --> 01:31:16.039
But to get back to your wife, mister de bar

1596
01:31:16.960 --> 01:31:20.720
she was dressed like the famous Marie. Now, when missus

1597
01:31:20.760 --> 01:31:21.760
Henderson looked through.

1598
01:31:21.640 --> 01:31:24.479
That win just a minute, Captain Missus Henderson can't prove

1599
01:31:24.560 --> 01:31:25.600
she saw a thing, and you know it.

1600
01:31:25.840 --> 01:31:27.640
What do you mean? I mean, you haven't any right

1601
01:31:27.680 --> 01:31:31.000
to insinuate that my wife within that room? Well, who's insinuating?

1602
01:31:31.119 --> 01:31:34.279
I'm trying to say that Missus Henderson, after thinking it over,

1603
01:31:34.399 --> 01:31:37.399
realizes she was kicked by the custom. The woman she

1604
01:31:37.479 --> 01:31:40.239
saw the funny clothes handing the cup of poison to

1605
01:31:40.319 --> 01:31:44.319
your uncle wasn't your wife or tall? Because your wife

1606
01:31:44.439 --> 01:31:47.840
is an unusually tall young woman, and the one Missus

1607
01:31:47.920 --> 01:31:52.239
Henderson saw was fully half a head shorter. More on

1608
01:31:52.439 --> 01:31:56.680
the order, let's say of mister Stevens's wife, My wife

1609
01:31:57.720 --> 01:32:01.159
absolutely ridiculous. I don't know all right, what's the matter,

1610
01:32:01.199 --> 01:32:03.000
mister Stevens, you're tumbling like a leaf?

1611
01:32:04.760 --> 01:32:09.039
Tell me now, just for fun, where it was missus

1612
01:32:09.079 --> 01:32:12.920
Stevens that night? She was home with me the whole evening.

1613
01:32:13.520 --> 01:32:17.600
Certainly she retired early? Yes, we both did you?

1614
01:32:17.840 --> 01:32:20.000
I suppose were sound asleep by midnight? Yes?

1615
01:32:20.039 --> 01:32:20.359
I was?

1616
01:32:20.520 --> 01:32:23.520
And how do you know where your wife was? Lucky Stevens.

1617
01:32:23.760 --> 01:32:25.840
She had to have a custume that would match missus Dave?

1618
01:32:25.920 --> 01:32:26.239
Pause?

1619
01:32:26.640 --> 01:32:28.239
How did she manage that? Where did she get it?

1620
01:32:28.319 --> 01:32:30.319
But she she never had one. She never had a

1621
01:32:30.399 --> 01:32:32.600
dress like that. But about I'm motive? Why did she

1622
01:32:32.720 --> 01:32:34.920
poison him? I don't know how money? Suddenly?

1623
01:32:35.159 --> 01:32:35.520
What was it?

1624
01:32:35.640 --> 01:32:35.880
Hate?

1625
01:32:36.079 --> 01:32:37.079
Did she hate myles day?

1626
01:32:37.560 --> 01:32:37.720
Yes?

1627
01:32:37.800 --> 01:32:40.920
Yes, she can tell her? No, Oh, I don't know why.

1628
01:32:40.960 --> 01:32:45.000
I don't know. I tell you yesterday ProLAN got hold

1629
01:32:45.000 --> 01:32:47.119
of his stay part in the nurse. All right, met

1630
01:32:47.199 --> 01:32:48.000
missus Stevens.

1631
01:32:48.800 --> 01:32:49.439
I the reach her.

1632
01:32:50.279 --> 01:32:51.199
Prom won't answer.

1633
01:32:53.680 --> 01:32:54.600
Yeah, I don't pick up.

1634
01:32:54.840 --> 01:32:55.520
I'm going home.

1635
01:32:56.359 --> 01:32:56.760
Stevens.

1636
01:32:56.800 --> 01:32:59.600
Come a here, I might even get my wife. Stop?

1637
01:33:01.039 --> 01:33:14.239
Noory, very well?

1638
01:33:14.279 --> 01:33:14.479
Are you?

1639
01:33:15.159 --> 01:33:18.279
It's the horie? What have you done Forria?

1640
01:33:19.479 --> 01:33:19.640
Oh?

1641
01:33:20.159 --> 01:33:21.119
Oh, good evening?

1642
01:33:22.439 --> 01:33:23.159
Who are you? I?

1643
01:33:24.239 --> 01:33:27.880
My name is Cross, Go down Cross? Cross was my wife?

1644
01:33:28.119 --> 01:33:28.920
What have you done to her?

1645
01:33:29.720 --> 01:33:30.199
You think?

1646
01:33:30.279 --> 01:33:32.000
What have you done to my wife? You were nothing

1647
01:33:32.039 --> 01:33:34.840
at all? Young man? Here here, here's a lying Something's

1648
01:33:34.880 --> 01:33:36.399
happened to her? The police do just phoned?

1649
01:33:36.399 --> 01:33:37.119
There wasn't an answer.

1650
01:33:38.079 --> 01:33:39.960
Why are you here? Why am I here?

1651
01:33:40.479 --> 01:33:40.680
Well?

1652
01:33:41.479 --> 01:33:44.520
Because your wife, reading my chapter on the Dubrays, realized

1653
01:33:44.560 --> 01:33:46.920
I knew more about the family than even she did.

1654
01:33:47.479 --> 01:33:49.720
Because she found my phone number on the front cover

1655
01:33:49.800 --> 01:33:53.520
of the manuscript, and because I know an exceptional case

1656
01:33:53.600 --> 01:33:55.680
when I hear one? Does that answer your question?

1657
01:33:56.000 --> 01:33:56.039
No?

1658
01:33:56.279 --> 01:33:57.119
And you know it doesn't.

1659
01:33:58.079 --> 01:34:01.159
Can't you see? I've got to I've got.

1660
01:34:01.079 --> 01:34:04.000
To know whether, Yeah, I see whether your wife is

1661
01:34:04.119 --> 01:34:08.039
that Marie Dobray who was burnt burnt by Order of

1662
01:34:08.119 --> 01:34:11.560
the High Tribunal for all poisoned cases, the Burning Court

1663
01:34:11.600 --> 01:34:15.840
of France, witchcraft, black magic, the world across the threshold.

1664
01:34:16.680 --> 01:34:19.239
You're quite sure, no doubt also that I am Godwin

1665
01:34:19.319 --> 01:34:22.359
Saint Croix who first wooed her. No, no, my boy,

1666
01:34:22.720 --> 01:34:26.000
he now My real name happens to be, of all things,

1667
01:34:26.119 --> 01:34:30.439
Tom Simpson, most unsuitable for a distinguished writing career. And

1668
01:34:30.600 --> 01:34:33.159
Marie Debray is no more your White's real name than

1669
01:34:33.239 --> 01:34:37.239
mine is Gordan Cross What your esteemed wife was an

1670
01:34:37.279 --> 01:34:41.479
adopted child, mister Stevens, adopted by people in Canada named Dobray,

1671
01:34:42.079 --> 01:34:44.760
remote members of the real family of poisoners.

1672
01:34:45.199 --> 01:34:50.039
Ah, I can't believe it. Oh, why why didn't you

1673
01:34:50.119 --> 01:34:50.399
tell me?

1674
01:34:50.640 --> 01:34:50.760
Ye?

1675
01:34:50.920 --> 01:34:51.119
Why?

1676
01:34:51.640 --> 01:34:54.159
Because until I told her half an hour ago, she

1677
01:34:54.239 --> 01:34:56.640
didn't know it herself. You see, in the course of

1678
01:34:56.720 --> 01:34:59.479
my research on the family, I found out about it,

1679
01:35:00.119 --> 01:35:02.079
and in the course of talking with your wife I

1680
01:35:02.199 --> 01:35:05.760
found out something else. How for years she was haunted

1681
01:35:05.880 --> 01:35:10.079
by the fear that she might be a poisoner, by inheritance,

1682
01:35:10.600 --> 01:35:13.279
by blood. And you can see, can't you why she

1683
01:35:13.399 --> 01:35:17.159
never talked about it her past to you? Yes, yes,

1684
01:35:17.640 --> 01:35:19.960
And yet mister Stevens, You had all but made her

1685
01:35:20.039 --> 01:35:23.720
forget that passed you, and that's why she was willing

1686
01:35:23.800 --> 01:35:27.199
to lie, to steal a picture, do anything in order

1687
01:35:27.279 --> 01:35:28.039
to hold you to her.

1688
01:35:28.239 --> 01:35:31.399
Why, here's I see that now, you know, young man,

1689
01:35:31.520 --> 01:35:36.039
I rather think she loves you. But as you will see, though,

1690
01:35:36.119 --> 01:35:40.800
why she comes only when I call her er, missus Stevens,

1691
01:35:41.479 --> 01:35:44.960
you mean she's yes, Marie, it's you. You're all right?

1692
01:35:45.079 --> 01:35:47.520
Ah, yes, you were both all right now nothing can

1693
01:35:47.640 --> 01:35:52.600
change it ever, Marie, listen doing the same radio, same Maggie, Maggie.

1694
01:35:52.760 --> 01:35:55.520
Oh that's my name, my real name, Maggie Nick Tavish.

1695
01:35:55.800 --> 01:35:58.000
It is a lovely name, dear, the most.

1696
01:35:57.800 --> 01:36:01.680
Beautiful, gorgeous darling, darling Kee. You don't understand the police

1697
01:36:01.720 --> 01:36:03.439
They think you had something to do with miles death.

1698
01:36:03.840 --> 01:36:05.239
They think I did so.

1699
01:36:05.960 --> 01:36:08.479
Now, mister Stevens, before we go back to the depas,

1700
01:36:08.560 --> 01:36:10.560
don't you think you'd better tell me everything that's been

1701
01:36:10.600 --> 01:36:13.199
said and done up to date. Having just saved your

1702
01:36:13.239 --> 01:36:16.319
White's soul from the burning court, now i'll rest her

1703
01:36:16.399 --> 01:36:27.439
body from the electric chair. Yes, mister Depat, truly excellent, Sherry,

1704
01:36:28.199 --> 01:36:30.000
don't you think so, Miss Corbett?

1705
01:36:30.399 --> 01:36:32.279
Yes, yes, it's very nice.

1706
01:36:33.359 --> 01:36:36.359
Well, that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I happen to

1707
01:36:36.439 --> 01:36:40.199
be here. So let us consider first that supernatural hocus

1708
01:36:40.279 --> 01:36:43.319
pocus in the crypt, that body that walked out of

1709
01:36:43.399 --> 01:36:46.800
the sealed tomb, that body that never was in the tomb,

1710
01:36:47.199 --> 01:36:50.840
never was in the tube. No, mister Depa, the murderer

1711
01:36:50.920 --> 01:36:53.479
knew that very soon missus Henderson's story would bring about

1712
01:36:53.479 --> 01:36:54.199
an investigation.

1713
01:36:54.800 --> 01:36:57.760
He had to get rid of the well known corpus delecta. Yes,

1714
01:36:57.840 --> 01:37:00.159
but who could have kept the body out of the

1715
01:37:00.239 --> 01:37:02.840
two oo? Mister depart Why you, sir?

1716
01:37:03.039 --> 01:37:03.079
What?

1717
01:37:03.920 --> 01:37:07.560
Heck? I don't understand that.

1718
01:37:07.640 --> 01:37:10.439
It's very simple. You had the opportunity. I believe you

1719
01:37:10.520 --> 01:37:13.079
said yourself. You were alone with the body before the burial,

1720
01:37:13.680 --> 01:37:16.560
and you had the strength. I dare say you carried

1721
01:37:16.600 --> 01:37:20.000
it down to the furnace where it's now probably nothing

1722
01:37:20.039 --> 01:37:23.800
but ashes ridiculous. Why would he spend an hour smashing

1723
01:37:23.840 --> 01:37:25.640
into a crypt for a body he knew wasn't there.

1724
01:37:25.760 --> 01:37:30.119
Why Captain to impress mister Stevens his witness and also

1725
01:37:30.199 --> 01:37:35.920
apparently you fantastic? Oh no, Lucy, just comic.

1726
01:37:36.640 --> 01:37:38.880
And I suppose, mister Cross that I also put on

1727
01:37:38.960 --> 01:37:41.600
a woman's masquerade costume, went into my uncle's room and

1728
01:37:41.680 --> 01:37:43.560
handed him a nice cup of Arsenay.

1729
01:37:43.760 --> 01:37:46.600
No, no, no, that had to be done by a woman,

1730
01:37:47.279 --> 01:37:49.159
your accomplice. As a matter of fact.

1731
01:37:49.880 --> 01:37:52.000
Oh now, come, come, come, you mustn't all look at

1732
01:37:52.039 --> 01:37:55.560
missus Depart because Mark Depart's one no black was his

1733
01:37:55.640 --> 01:37:58.880
frantic effort to prevent his wife from being charged with

1734
01:37:59.000 --> 01:38:03.800
the crime, a crime which he and nurse Myrah Corbett committed.

1735
01:38:03.920 --> 01:38:07.600
Mira Corbett will yes, sir, yes, mister Stephens, this quiet

1736
01:38:07.640 --> 01:38:10.600
little lady beside me. Why would I do you think money,

1737
01:38:10.640 --> 01:38:13.680
miss Corbett a cutout of Mark Depart's inheritance payments for

1738
01:38:13.760 --> 01:38:14.560
services rendered.

1739
01:38:14.680 --> 01:38:17.119
That's an absolutely cross, you see, ladies and gentlemen.

1740
01:38:17.159 --> 01:38:19.840
Captain Brennan never bothered to check Miss Corbett's whereabouts on

1741
01:38:19.920 --> 01:38:20.640
the night of the murder.

1742
01:38:21.039 --> 01:38:23.800
Why even think of the nurse? She was the custodian

1743
01:38:23.840 --> 01:38:25.840
of the old man's health, And.

1744
01:38:25.920 --> 01:38:28.439
Yet Hubert, a nurse could so naturally offer the old

1745
01:38:28.479 --> 01:38:31.560
man a cup, a cup he was sure contained medicine,

1746
01:38:31.560 --> 01:38:35.199
you hear that? And who but miss Corbett, living right

1747
01:38:35.279 --> 01:38:37.880
here in this house, would know what kind of masquerade

1748
01:38:37.960 --> 01:38:40.920
dress she must copy, would know when missus Henderson would

1749
01:38:40.920 --> 01:38:43.239
pass the window that night, pass and see her and

1750
01:38:43.399 --> 01:38:43.920
accept her.

1751
01:38:44.039 --> 01:38:47.840
She hoped for luc Depart. That's not true.

1752
01:38:48.199 --> 01:38:51.199
Oh yes, miss Carbott, Yes, Miss Corbett, that dress was

1753
01:38:51.279 --> 01:38:54.319
the touch that wrecked you. That was your own idea,

1754
01:38:54.520 --> 01:38:57.239
wasn't it not, Marx. You weren't content with a mere

1755
01:38:57.319 --> 01:38:59.960
murderers share of the prophets. You wanted a white share

1756
01:39:00.159 --> 01:39:03.079
half of the whole estate. You wanted Lucy Depart convicted

1757
01:39:03.159 --> 01:39:03.600
and out.

1758
01:39:03.439 --> 01:39:04.319
Of the way for good.

1759
01:39:05.600 --> 01:39:10.159
M hmm, Well, I give you a toast, Miss Corbett,

1760
01:39:11.039 --> 01:39:17.720
with mister Depat's excellent sherry to a particularly ruthless poisoner.

1761
01:39:19.239 --> 01:39:23.479
And yet you know on the whole I'm rather partial

1762
01:39:23.560 --> 01:39:37.600
to female poisoners. Why only tonight, I h let.

1763
01:39:39.359 --> 01:39:39.880
Mister Cook.

1764
01:39:40.159 --> 01:39:45.520
What's the matter, Brenner? This man is dead and from Cyani.

1765
01:39:45.640 --> 01:39:49.239
If I know anything cyanide from that glass of sherry Cyan,

1766
01:39:49.319 --> 01:39:52.399
I that a nurse could get quite easily. That glass

1767
01:39:52.479 --> 01:39:54.479
was right beside you, Misscovit, and nobody else was there.

1768
01:39:54.479 --> 01:39:56.840
It too bad he didn't drink it as son as

1769
01:39:56.880 --> 01:39:59.560
you hoped. A second ago, we had nobody to use

1770
01:39:59.560 --> 01:40:02.840
against you, but we have now, Miss Cobbett. We have now,

1771
01:40:03.640 --> 01:40:06.159
and I arrest you for the murder of God and crossed.

1772
01:40:19.319 --> 01:40:21.520
Now close to five months ago than the prominent auth

1773
01:40:21.680 --> 01:40:24.399
was murdered, and tonight my recovered pays with her life

1774
01:40:24.399 --> 01:40:24.960
for that crime.

1775
01:40:25.319 --> 01:40:28.840
The former nurse, at first protesting her innocence. Yes, I'm

1776
01:40:28.880 --> 01:40:32.680
in here there. Oh, I thought you're right. What did

1777
01:40:32.720 --> 01:40:35.359
you cut it off for? Huh? What do you mean

1778
01:40:35.680 --> 01:40:36.199
the radio?

1779
01:40:37.000 --> 01:40:37.159
Oh?

1780
01:40:38.079 --> 01:40:40.600
Oh yeah, well I thought you wanted to talk.

1781
01:40:40.880 --> 01:40:43.800
Oh, Ted, don't you think I know you're better than there?

1782
01:40:44.399 --> 01:40:45.359
What was on the radio?

1783
01:40:47.920 --> 01:40:52.239
Okay, it was about my recovered? She goes to the chairs. Man,

1784
01:40:53.279 --> 01:40:54.640
I didn't think you wanted to be reminded.

1785
01:40:55.319 --> 01:40:58.199
I don't really, But making such an effort to hide

1786
01:40:58.239 --> 01:41:01.319
it only keeps it alive, doesn't it? All right?

1787
01:41:01.439 --> 01:41:01.720
Darling?

1788
01:41:02.279 --> 01:41:05.039
No, I came to ask if you wanted a cocktail

1789
01:41:05.079 --> 01:41:05.840
before dinner.

1790
01:41:05.760 --> 01:41:06.920
The largest one you've got.

1791
01:41:07.279 --> 01:41:08.880
Hi, Now, get off the ice cube.

1792
01:41:08.920 --> 01:41:10.800
I know if I all takes up the fire.

1793
01:41:12.960 --> 01:41:16.039
Where are the papers that started right there by the bookcase.

1794
01:41:16.600 --> 01:41:19.159
The name's not Marie, it's Maggie.

1795
01:41:20.199 --> 01:41:20.920
It was Darling.

1796
01:41:21.800 --> 01:41:24.239
Marie did and gone forever?

1797
01:41:37.680 --> 01:41:43.960
Oh no, Marie were never did neither of us it

1798
01:41:44.159 --> 01:41:46.239
was your hand that touched that glass.

1799
01:41:47.039 --> 01:41:50.479
I know that now, and I could return the favor.

1800
01:41:51.479 --> 01:41:56.479
But instead I shall ask that you despatch your husband

1801
01:41:57.720 --> 01:41:59.840
this one like all the other.

1802
01:42:00.039 --> 01:42:05.520
Yes, now, just a little bit of voice in the drink?

1803
01:42:06.039 --> 01:42:09.399
Very any kind of.

1804
01:42:11.359 --> 01:42:15.760
What kind of kids? What kind of a cocktail should

1805
01:42:15.760 --> 01:42:15.960
we have?

1806
01:42:16.960 --> 01:42:22.680
Oh? Any kind darling? Any kind of doll?

1807
01:42:41.640 --> 01:42:44.399
You've just heard The Burning Court from John Dixon Carr's

1808
01:42:44.439 --> 01:42:47.960
famous novel, the first in Columbia's new series of outstanding

1809
01:42:48.039 --> 01:42:51.880
classics and chills by world famous authors. The Night's Play,

1810
01:42:51.960 --> 01:42:54.720
Ladies and Gentlemen, has one rather special significance we think

1811
01:42:54.760 --> 01:42:57.520
you'd like to know about. As you perhaps have heard,

1812
01:42:57.720 --> 01:43:01.119
every fine comedian is said the chish as secret desire

1813
01:43:01.199 --> 01:43:03.960
to do an abrupt, a devout face. He pines for

1814
01:43:04.039 --> 01:43:07.039
the part of a blackguard. Well, tonight you witnessed the

1815
01:43:07.079 --> 01:43:10.479
fulfillment of one such desire. The role of that literary

1816
01:43:10.600 --> 01:43:14.439
and quite infamous die hard, Gordon Cross was portrayed by

1817
01:43:14.479 --> 01:43:18.920
another than Hollywood's expert provoker of laughs, Charlie Ruggles, here

1818
01:43:18.960 --> 01:43:20.720
in New York for the world premiere of his latest

1819
01:43:20.720 --> 01:43:24.680
screen success, Friendly Enemies. The role of Marie Well, that

1820
01:43:24.840 --> 01:43:26.640
was enacted by a young lady who long ago won

1821
01:43:26.760 --> 01:43:29.600
national acclaim is one of Broadway's most accomplished.

1822
01:43:29.079 --> 01:43:31.319
Dramatic actresses, Miss Julie Hayden.

1823
01:43:31.800 --> 01:43:34.119
Thank you, Charlie Ruggles and Miss Julie Hayden for your

1824
01:43:34.159 --> 01:43:38.159
splendid performances. The play to Knit, as all plays in

1825
01:43:38.199 --> 01:43:41.560
this series, was produced and directed by Charles Vander, written

1826
01:43:41.600 --> 01:43:43.680
by Harold Metford and Scort Barbernard Herman.

1827
01:43:45.239 --> 01:43:48.000
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

1828
01:43:58.039 --> 01:44:02.479
My dear, my dear, I'm so glad that you're here.

1829
01:44:04.520 --> 01:44:13.880
I feel lighter, more lively, but not in an excitable.

1830
01:44:13.239 --> 01:44:14.680
Way, more in a.

1831
01:44:16.279 --> 01:44:21.479
I'm not sure how to put it exactly. Oh what's that? Perhaps,

1832
01:44:22.319 --> 01:44:28.520
although doesn't that sound a bit treacherous? I mean, a

1833
01:44:28.640 --> 01:44:33.039
reason to feel alive should be love. It should be compassion,

1834
01:44:33.159 --> 01:44:37.560
It should be care. It should be mutual joy, not

1835
01:44:37.880 --> 01:44:40.079
simply retribution.

1836
01:44:42.640 --> 01:45:03.880
Wait a minute, have you heard the whistler? I am

1837
01:45:04.199 --> 01:45:04.840
the worst man?

1838
01:45:08.840 --> 01:45:10.520
No, no, no, don't come here me.

1839
01:45:10.800 --> 01:45:11.840
I didn't time to kill you.

1840
01:45:11.960 --> 01:45:12.000
No.

1841
01:45:12.439 --> 01:45:13.680
That was John Henry.

1842
01:45:14.199 --> 01:45:17.760
He waited, waited for a chance to sell his soul

1843
01:45:18.119 --> 01:45:18.880
to the devil.

1844
01:45:19.319 --> 01:45:22.760
Money is not enough, John, money is not enough.

1845
01:45:23.800 --> 01:45:29.319
We want you John, We want you. That was his wife,

1846
01:45:29.479 --> 01:45:36.600
mar the former widow Mars Yes, and a simple minded

1847
01:45:36.760 --> 01:45:43.880
son Henry. Ahead, go ahead, we must have John.

1848
01:45:44.039 --> 01:45:55.319
Hind Yes, Yes, goodnight. CBS presents a new mystery series,

1849
01:45:56.079 --> 01:45:57.079
The Whistler.

1850
01:46:02.800 --> 01:46:03.199
And I.

1851
01:46:03.600 --> 01:46:05.359
The Whistler know many things.

1852
01:46:05.560 --> 01:46:06.880
For I walk by night.

1853
01:46:07.920 --> 01:46:12.159
I know many strange tale, many secrets hidden in the

1854
01:46:12.279 --> 01:46:14.239
hearts of men and women who.

1855
01:46:14.159 --> 01:46:15.760
Have stepped into the shadows.

1856
01:46:16.680 --> 01:46:19.680
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak,

1857
01:46:20.720 --> 01:46:25.800
And so I tend to night the strange story of retribution.

1858
01:46:30.880 --> 01:46:34.640
Gaze up this muddy range spatter robe. A small, lonely

1859
01:46:34.800 --> 01:46:39.119
stone building appears against the lighting street sky. The dismal

1860
01:46:39.199 --> 01:46:43.680
courthouse of a southern village, the village of Marsden Birth.

1861
01:46:48.760 --> 01:46:53.239
It's nearly midnight. A trial is in progress, a murder trial.

1862
01:46:54.479 --> 01:47:00.960
John Hendrix is on trial for his life. The stage

1863
01:47:01.159 --> 01:47:06.439
versus Henry killed his wife and steps. He killed his

1864
01:47:06.600 --> 01:47:09.880
wife and her simple minded son, Henry for the ten

1865
01:47:10.039 --> 01:47:13.159
thousand in cash she kept in her big house on the.

1866
01:47:13.199 --> 01:47:16.720
Outskirts of town. Opened the door.

1867
01:47:22.279 --> 01:47:26.000
There he stands John Mandrick's, a huge, silent man of

1868
01:47:26.119 --> 01:47:29.560
the large bony hand. Closed the door.

1869
01:47:30.800 --> 01:47:32.760
Well, what do you think does he.

1870
01:47:32.800 --> 01:47:33.640
Look like a murderer?

1871
01:47:34.119 --> 01:47:36.119
The prosecutor's closing our game.

1872
01:47:37.800 --> 01:47:40.680
That's who That missus Hendrix had no current bank account.

1873
01:47:41.039 --> 01:47:43.199
It has been proven that she did have a large

1874
01:47:43.239 --> 01:47:45.520
sum of money which she kept on her escape.

1875
01:47:46.079 --> 01:47:49.000
John Hendrix knew of his money and attempted.

1876
01:47:48.560 --> 01:47:50.680
To steal it, was caught in the act and killed

1877
01:47:50.720 --> 01:47:51.640
them both in.

1878
01:47:51.760 --> 01:47:52.800
Order to cover up the ft.

1879
01:47:53.159 --> 01:47:54.720
It was not a trap who killed that.

1880
01:47:54.800 --> 01:47:57.840
Old gray haired lady in her simple son. There was

1881
01:47:57.920 --> 01:48:01.880
only one intruder, one thief, one murderer. And there he says,

1882
01:48:02.000 --> 01:48:04.720
ladies and gentlemen, there he said, in all his guilt,

1883
01:48:04.840 --> 01:48:06.600
a vicious killer, a murderer.

1884
01:48:07.880 --> 01:48:09.520
There is only one decision.

1885
01:48:10.479 --> 01:48:12.520
There is only one penalty that kind.

1886
01:48:12.399 --> 01:48:15.439
Of race from this countryside, the stigma, this phedish crime.

1887
01:48:16.039 --> 01:48:19.479
One penalty for this axe murderer, John Hendrix, and that

1888
01:48:19.800 --> 01:48:29.359
penalty is death. State restses and gentlemen of the jury.

1889
01:48:29.600 --> 01:48:30.640
Have you reached a verdict?

1890
01:48:31.760 --> 01:48:32.960
Have you reached a verdict?

1891
01:48:35.800 --> 01:48:39.600
Your honor, We we the jury, do the lack of

1892
01:48:39.680 --> 01:48:43.479
more complete evidence, find the defendant guilty of murder and

1893
01:48:43.640 --> 01:48:44.520
the second.

1894
01:48:44.279 --> 01:48:55.399
Degree second degree cheated death.

1895
01:48:56.079 --> 01:48:56.800
You'll get live.

1896
01:48:57.560 --> 01:49:01.039
Scribe, of course, you are, But it had to be.

1897
01:49:03.640 --> 01:49:04.279
It had to be.

1898
01:49:05.239 --> 01:49:07.560
I know, darn Hendrix.

1899
01:49:07.720 --> 01:49:09.920
Stand up, Yes, John, stand up?

1900
01:49:10.079 --> 01:49:13.159
Based card watching Now he's on the speech.

1901
01:49:13.560 --> 01:49:16.520
Ron Hendrix, I wish to state that I am not

1902
01:49:16.680 --> 01:49:17.199
in the card.

1903
01:49:17.279 --> 01:49:18.760
With the friending of this jury.

1904
01:49:19.479 --> 01:49:21.680
However, there's nothing for me to do but send you

1905
01:49:21.840 --> 01:49:24.880
to the State penitentiary for the remainder of your natural life.

1906
01:49:31.319 --> 01:49:32.159
Know where you are now?

1907
01:49:32.920 --> 01:49:36.119
Recognize that huge sprawling stone structure of the high walls

1908
01:49:36.119 --> 01:49:43.880
around the State Penitentiary. How much later ten years John

1909
01:49:44.000 --> 01:49:48.439
Hendrix is in there. He has a number. Now ten thirteen.

1910
01:49:49.399 --> 01:49:54.399
Let's go through the gates, up the steps, down the corridor.

1911
01:49:56.640 --> 01:49:59.760
Here we are in cell block to night again.

1912
01:50:00.399 --> 01:50:01.279
It must turn me.

1913
01:50:07.119 --> 01:50:09.720
This has been going on for ten years for John

1914
01:50:09.800 --> 01:50:15.159
Hendrick ten thirteen and his cellmate Bill ten fourteen. Bill

1915
01:50:15.479 --> 01:50:18.880
ten fourteen as a gangster, or rather he was, but

1916
01:50:19.000 --> 01:50:22.560
he's changed during five years and been here. Bill has

1917
01:50:22.640 --> 01:50:25.479
decided to go straight if he ever gets out, which

1918
01:50:25.600 --> 01:50:29.239
is very doubtful, but he holds no resentment, has become

1919
01:50:29.319 --> 01:50:32.920
more or less happy. Bill started reading here the philosophy,

1920
01:50:32.960 --> 01:50:35.079
and so far he's changed.

1921
01:50:36.199 --> 01:50:37.600
But what about John Hendry.

1922
01:50:38.840 --> 01:50:44.479
Oh no, not Hendrick, because he has a plan, he

1923
01:50:44.600 --> 01:50:45.399
has a purpose.

1924
01:50:46.439 --> 01:50:48.680
He moves closer to the cell door and listen.

1925
01:50:49.880 --> 01:50:51.760
All I got to say, Bill, is I think you're

1926
01:50:51.840 --> 01:50:53.880
crazy enough to make the try with me. That's a

1927
01:50:54.039 --> 01:50:56.199
matter of opinion, John, But it'll be simple like.

1928
01:50:56.279 --> 01:50:58.479
Everything, will say, it's all big. Not a chance of

1929
01:50:58.520 --> 01:51:01.600
a ship at I'll ficks. Who will well? A friend

1930
01:51:01.640 --> 01:51:04.840
of mine hand say crooked God, Oh he ain't a guard.

1931
01:51:05.439 --> 01:51:07.239
And til they get a fix of the warden, what.

1932
01:51:07.479 --> 01:51:09.479
Difference does it make who it is? Along as the

1933
01:51:09.520 --> 01:51:10.680
whole thing you set and picked.

1934
01:51:11.159 --> 01:51:14.880
You got to have some help inside her out Kendrick,

1935
01:51:15.439 --> 01:51:16.399
I think you're nuts.

1936
01:51:17.199 --> 01:51:17.960
Stir chrasy.

1937
01:51:18.039 --> 01:51:20.000
I'm getting out of this place. I got a reason,

1938
01:51:20.039 --> 01:51:20.680
a good reason.

1939
01:51:20.840 --> 01:51:23.720
I got something waiting for me outside, something I can enjoy,

1940
01:51:23.880 --> 01:51:25.039
something that belongs to me.

1941
01:51:25.640 --> 01:51:27.600
I'm the only one that knows where it is, and

1942
01:51:27.640 --> 01:51:30.640
I'm going out. You're in there for a good long time.

1943
01:51:30.720 --> 01:51:31.760
But then if you don't want.

1944
01:51:31.600 --> 01:51:34.199
To go with me, you can stay in rowl. Kendricks,

1945
01:51:34.800 --> 01:51:36.520
I still think you're nuts, all right?

1946
01:51:36.640 --> 01:51:37.039
What of it?

1947
01:51:37.359 --> 01:51:39.920
I got the right hoping and it works those it does.

1948
01:51:40.600 --> 01:51:42.000
But who would find this money?

1949
01:51:42.079 --> 01:51:42.520
In no way?

1950
01:51:42.520 --> 01:51:46.079
I'm the old lady's estate. What GOODMU do here? You

1951
01:51:46.359 --> 01:51:48.399
killed her and her son to get it, and that's

1952
01:51:48.439 --> 01:51:48.680
a lie.

1953
01:51:48.840 --> 01:51:52.039
I didn't didn't kill anybody. I say ain't true, not

1954
01:51:52.119 --> 01:51:54.600
a word of it. But I know where the money is. Okay,

1955
01:51:54.760 --> 01:51:55.439
you can break.

1956
01:51:55.319 --> 01:51:56.600
Out, you can have the money.

1957
01:51:56.640 --> 01:52:00.439
But well, I've done a lot of wreathing, and since

1958
01:52:00.479 --> 01:52:03.880
i've been here, you're gone sight me so but I.

1959
01:52:03.960 --> 01:52:04.479
Know this much.

1960
01:52:04.560 --> 01:52:08.920
Now, wherever do get out, I'll do things. I'll look different,

1961
01:52:09.399 --> 01:52:12.079
but leave me, Hendrix. I'll tread the string.

1962
01:52:12.279 --> 01:52:12.439
Now.

1963
01:52:13.279 --> 01:52:15.079
I've done a lot of things that I'm sure sorry for,

1964
01:52:15.199 --> 01:52:15.479
and now I.

1965
01:52:16.079 --> 01:52:18.960
I can't under them, but I won't do them again.

1966
01:52:19.560 --> 01:52:20.439
Who knows, sir.

1967
01:52:20.560 --> 01:52:23.800
I'll do things different, not the way I get it before.

1968
01:52:24.279 --> 01:52:26.680
You just got religion, but it won't get young maybe not,

1969
01:52:26.920 --> 01:52:27.840
But I'm resigned.

1970
01:52:29.000 --> 01:52:30.079
I got exactly what's.

1971
01:52:29.920 --> 01:52:33.319
Coming to me and will leave me Hendricks. So will you?

1972
01:52:34.840 --> 01:52:35.319
So will you?

1973
01:52:36.600 --> 01:52:39.279
If you break out, they'll have you back one way

1974
01:52:39.359 --> 01:52:39.720
or another.

1975
01:52:40.840 --> 01:52:42.840
You watch and see, well I'm going.

1976
01:52:42.880 --> 01:52:45.399
So you watch and see what can see.

1977
01:52:53.359 --> 01:52:53.479
Now?

1978
01:52:54.239 --> 01:53:01.319
Another's dog. Another night, a lonely country road.

1979
01:53:01.640 --> 01:53:02.000
A car.

1980
01:53:04.359 --> 01:53:06.680
We're in the south. That village we passed a few

1981
01:53:06.720 --> 01:53:12.960
miles back. That silent sleeping village was Marsdenburg. Yes, Marsdenberg remembers.

1982
01:53:13.039 --> 01:53:15.039
That small, lonely stone building.

1983
01:53:14.840 --> 01:53:18.479
Was the courthouse, the courthouse where John Henwicks was tried

1984
01:53:18.560 --> 01:53:22.079
and convicted. We're on the outskirts now, on a lonely road.

1985
01:53:22.560 --> 01:53:24.359
A young man is driving the old car and.

1986
01:53:24.359 --> 01:53:28.800
As a girl beside him, it's motor trouble. So they're

1987
01:53:28.920 --> 01:53:31.399
just ahead of life. Yes, it's a little cross road.

1988
01:53:31.279 --> 01:53:37.479
Store alon, there's a life.

1989
01:53:38.239 --> 01:53:40.760
I don't see anybody. Oh it's closed.

1990
01:53:40.840 --> 01:53:41.640
We better drive on.

1991
01:53:42.000 --> 01:53:45.399
I guess you're right. Okay, how a being plus a

1992
01:53:45.680 --> 01:53:47.359
right like a trouble?

1993
01:53:47.880 --> 01:53:48.960
We're having motor troubles?

1994
01:53:49.640 --> 01:53:52.199
Is that? I?

1995
01:53:52.239 --> 01:53:53.960
Did you anything? Driving around a night like this?

1996
01:53:54.319 --> 01:53:56.880
A where with mister? Is there an inn or something

1997
01:53:56.920 --> 01:53:58.359
around here where we can stay for the night?

1998
01:53:58.720 --> 01:54:03.640
And in a Yes, there's the place about eight miles

1999
01:54:03.720 --> 01:54:04.159
up the road.

2000
01:54:04.800 --> 01:54:05.800
They'll probably put you up.

2001
01:54:06.319 --> 01:54:08.079
And there's a sign on the left hand side of

2002
01:54:08.079 --> 01:54:08.319
the road.

2003
01:54:08.399 --> 01:54:11.039
Can't miss it. This road's pretty bad when it rains.

2004
01:54:11.479 --> 01:54:14.760
Got a big carefully, you'll sign yourself walk thanks. He'll

2005
01:54:14.840 --> 01:54:17.479
try good nights.

2006
01:54:18.119 --> 01:54:32.079
You will need the light. The storm is increasing now.

2007
01:54:32.800 --> 01:54:35.000
The muddy road sparkles and the flashes of lightning.

2008
01:54:35.439 --> 01:54:37.640
The tall, dark pree swayed back and forth in the

2009
01:54:37.720 --> 01:54:41.079
fury of the storm, like moaning lost souls. The little

2010
01:54:41.119 --> 01:54:43.279
car lurches and bounces in its fight to keep the

2011
01:54:43.319 --> 01:54:44.079
center of the highway.

2012
01:54:48.880 --> 01:54:51.560
Two miles three, miles four maybe five?

2013
01:54:51.640 --> 01:54:54.920
And look there it is straight out on the right

2014
01:54:55.000 --> 01:54:55.600
side of the road.

2015
01:54:55.640 --> 01:54:56.279
A blue light.

2016
01:54:57.239 --> 01:54:59.399
Ah, yes, that's it.

2017
01:55:02.439 --> 01:55:05.960
Wait, George, the old man say, on the right side

2018
01:55:06.439 --> 01:55:07.800
or the left side of the road.

2019
01:55:10.000 --> 01:55:11.079
George, what's wrong?

2020
01:55:11.279 --> 01:55:13.000
I don't know the distribut him.

2021
01:55:13.000 --> 01:55:13.399
It's gotten.

2022
01:55:13.439 --> 01:55:16.840
We have the life before it's gone?

2023
01:55:17.319 --> 01:55:17.720
What is it?

2024
01:55:19.760 --> 01:55:25.199
I was looking? I better turn in here.

2025
01:55:25.279 --> 01:55:29.079
This motor won't last much longer. I can't see, I think,

2026
01:55:29.680 --> 01:55:31.680
can you certainly is.

2027
01:55:31.720 --> 01:55:32.600
Definitely looking for me.

2028
01:55:33.760 --> 01:55:35.520
There must be a house back in there.

2029
01:55:37.600 --> 01:55:39.239
The driveway the head.

2030
01:55:39.359 --> 01:55:42.560
Oh yeah, this motive is about to conker. We've better

2031
01:55:42.640 --> 01:55:43.800
drive in and see if we can find.

2032
01:55:45.800 --> 01:55:53.239
Yes, drive in, George, you'll find something that's right through

2033
01:55:53.319 --> 01:55:53.680
the gate.

2034
01:55:54.520 --> 01:55:55.279
Make the curves.

2035
01:55:55.399 --> 01:55:56.840
Holly, there goes a motor.

2036
01:55:57.399 --> 01:55:58.039
A little more.

2037
01:55:59.359 --> 01:56:03.279
No, oh, we do maybe it.

2038
01:56:04.000 --> 01:56:08.840
Thank Heaven, Yes, that's right, always, Thank Heaven of the time.

2039
01:56:09.000 --> 01:56:12.560
I do all right, Get out and go up on

2040
01:56:12.640 --> 01:56:17.000
the park, or what do we do with the day?

2041
01:56:17.319 --> 01:56:18.880
We'll leave them here in the car. Do we find

2042
01:56:18.920 --> 01:56:19.760
out if there's anyone here?

2043
01:56:20.279 --> 01:56:20.560
Come on?

2044
01:56:33.279 --> 01:56:33.960
You see a bell?

2045
01:56:34.399 --> 01:56:39.079
No, don't see a thing. See this place looks completely deserted.

2046
01:56:39.840 --> 01:56:41.079
I don't think anyone lives here.

2047
01:56:43.319 --> 01:56:43.640
Let's go.

2048
01:56:50.800 --> 01:56:52.159
You're listening to the whistler.

2049
01:56:52.800 --> 01:56:56.279
We pause momentarily for station that adentification. This is the

2050
01:56:56.359 --> 01:56:57.920
Columbia Broadcasting System.

2051
01:57:00.119 --> 01:57:13.840
Uh, George, let's don't knock.

2052
01:57:15.000 --> 01:57:18.159
I don't like this place. Let's go on?

2053
01:57:18.720 --> 01:57:19.720
How with a dead motor?

2054
01:57:20.399 --> 01:57:20.840
Or did we go?

2055
01:57:22.520 --> 01:57:23.000
I'll knock?

2056
01:57:24.039 --> 01:57:29.000
Well, all right, Ah, well.

2057
01:57:28.880 --> 01:57:36.520
That's right, knock George, knock, go ahead, louder.

2058
01:57:38.039 --> 01:57:38.359
Again.

2059
01:57:40.800 --> 01:57:41.880
We've got to have sheltered.

2060
01:57:42.239 --> 01:57:46.760
Yes, we can't stay in that car any longer, can't we?

2061
01:57:47.319 --> 01:57:47.359
No?

2062
01:57:48.520 --> 01:57:48.640
Right?

2063
01:57:48.720 --> 01:57:55.560
Not here it comes now you're on your own, George,

2064
01:57:56.640 --> 01:57:57.640
on your own?

2065
01:58:00.920 --> 01:58:01.640
There is someone?

2066
01:58:05.159 --> 01:58:05.399
Yes?

2067
01:58:05.960 --> 01:58:08.479
Oh what is it?

2068
01:58:08.840 --> 01:58:09.000
Well?

2069
01:58:09.039 --> 01:58:11.359
I you see our car?

2070
01:58:11.920 --> 01:58:13.279
Yes, our car?

2071
01:58:13.439 --> 01:58:15.520
So and we can't go any farther. And it's such

2072
01:58:15.560 --> 01:58:17.520
a terrible night out, but we thought we could stop

2073
01:58:17.560 --> 01:58:19.119
here for the evening. Stop here?

2074
01:58:19.439 --> 01:58:22.640
Why, yes, we saw your light and light?

2075
01:58:23.800 --> 01:58:24.479
What life?

2076
01:58:26.119 --> 01:58:30.159
Quite a little neon out in front there is no light.

2077
01:58:31.079 --> 01:58:32.840
Well have you a room?

2078
01:58:33.399 --> 01:58:35.720
Yes, there is a room.

2079
01:58:36.319 --> 01:58:38.239
Well, could we come in?

2080
01:58:38.920 --> 01:58:40.159
I mean talk?

2081
01:58:40.279 --> 01:58:40.880
We went out here.

2082
01:58:41.560 --> 01:58:42.439
You may come in.

2083
01:58:43.960 --> 01:58:45.000
If you wish.

2084
01:58:45.439 --> 01:58:47.119
Oh, thank you.

2085
01:58:48.880 --> 01:58:51.520
Oh now this is quite a relief. We were afraid

2086
01:58:51.560 --> 01:58:54.039
you'd close up for the night, especially when all the

2087
01:58:54.119 --> 01:58:56.319
lights were out. Are the lights out?

2088
01:58:56.800 --> 01:58:57.399
Yes? You see?

2089
01:58:58.720 --> 01:58:58.920
Huh?

2090
01:58:59.359 --> 01:59:00.520
Of course her out?

2091
01:59:00.760 --> 01:59:03.319
So I didn't know.

2092
01:59:05.079 --> 01:59:07.119
You do take touris dewie?

2093
01:59:07.359 --> 01:59:07.479
Oh?

2094
01:59:07.600 --> 01:59:08.800
Yes, that's what they told us.

2095
01:59:09.359 --> 01:59:11.319
Who told you? For the man?

2096
01:59:11.880 --> 01:59:13.279
The old man at a little store back.

2097
01:59:13.199 --> 01:59:17.079
At the crossroad, little star, Yes, at the crossroad about

2098
01:59:17.079 --> 01:59:20.119
five miles back. You know what the crossroad is?

2099
01:59:20.199 --> 01:59:20.479
Don't know?

2100
01:59:21.000 --> 01:59:25.079
There is no store at the cross road. There isn't

2101
01:59:25.960 --> 01:59:27.800
no I see.

2102
01:59:29.359 --> 01:59:32.159
A look, madam, would you mind turning all the lights?

2103
01:59:33.239 --> 01:59:37.279
I can't see a thing. We have no light here. Lie,

2104
01:59:37.359 --> 01:59:40.760
I'll give me a flash Lia She means there's no electricity.

2105
01:59:41.239 --> 01:59:44.760
No, there is no light here.

2106
01:59:45.199 --> 01:59:46.439
Well saw the flash around?

2107
01:59:46.479 --> 01:59:47.520
Then there must be a lamp.

2108
01:59:47.720 --> 01:59:50.159
No, don't make a light.

2109
01:59:51.159 --> 01:59:53.239
We see well in the dark.

2110
01:59:53.479 --> 01:59:57.199
We who'd we? Is there someone else in the house?

2111
01:59:57.439 --> 02:00:02.039
My son, he's going to be No, he's standing beside.

2112
02:00:02.399 --> 02:00:03.159
Is that who you?

2113
02:00:06.359 --> 02:00:06.560
Yes?

2114
02:00:08.920 --> 02:00:09.199
Got it?

2115
02:00:09.359 --> 02:00:11.920
You got it, she was.

2116
02:00:13.399 --> 02:00:16.640
How long have you been standing above since you came in?

2117
02:00:17.079 --> 02:00:21.000
He so I've been seeing you make anize like a spoof.

2118
02:00:21.159 --> 02:00:23.479
Wow you What is your name? George Kimball?

2119
02:00:24.039 --> 02:00:24.640
This is my wife.

2120
02:00:24.760 --> 02:00:25.039
Children.

2121
02:00:25.600 --> 02:00:27.720
We're on our way west with travelers.

2122
02:00:27.319 --> 02:00:28.359
Travelers.

2123
02:00:29.720 --> 02:00:34.000
Quiet sun fire, No, let him talk. He's quiet enough.

2124
02:00:35.560 --> 02:00:37.159
How long have your books been living here?

2125
02:00:37.479 --> 02:00:41.640
He lived here all our lives? How about closing the door?

2126
02:00:42.600 --> 02:00:43.560
Is the door open?

2127
02:00:43.680 --> 02:00:44.399
Why? Of conscience?

2128
02:00:45.279 --> 02:00:48.279
What you I'll take it easy, Joe, don't get excited.

2129
02:00:49.000 --> 02:00:50.600
I'll look mat And there's a candle on the table

2130
02:00:50.600 --> 02:00:52.239
of the pathlace is there?

2131
02:00:52.479 --> 02:00:52.680
Yes?

2132
02:00:52.800 --> 02:00:55.399
And if you don't mind, I'm going to like please

2133
02:00:55.560 --> 02:00:58.479
don't oh wait a minute. If you want us to

2134
02:00:58.479 --> 02:01:02.000
stay here, we insisted we have some life. You want

2135
02:01:02.039 --> 02:01:03.079
us to stay here, don't.

2136
02:01:02.880 --> 02:01:05.399
You, doey sun?

2137
02:01:07.560 --> 02:01:08.239
Yes mother?

2138
02:01:09.720 --> 02:01:10.520
What are you looking at me?

2139
02:01:11.199 --> 02:01:11.439
Yes?

2140
02:01:11.720 --> 02:01:13.199
Mother? Without life?

2141
02:01:13.800 --> 02:01:14.439
Yes weather.

2142
02:01:16.159 --> 02:01:16.800
I don't want to say.

2143
02:01:17.680 --> 02:01:20.720
This place doesn't look there have been no good here

2144
02:01:21.119 --> 02:01:22.319
for many years.

2145
02:01:23.159 --> 02:01:26.359
I don't get it. You don't seem to want ust

2146
02:01:26.359 --> 02:01:29.319
your son us. How do you make any money that way?

2147
02:01:29.439 --> 02:01:30.720
We don't make money.

2148
02:01:31.000 --> 02:01:33.479
You don't you mean you haven't had any guests?

2149
02:01:34.039 --> 02:01:36.079
No, not for many years.

2150
02:01:36.600 --> 02:01:37.680
Well, you can't expect me?

2151
02:01:37.720 --> 02:01:38.279
Do you act like this?

2152
02:01:38.560 --> 02:01:40.680
But we do expected here?

2153
02:01:41.520 --> 02:01:42.119
We don't we?

2154
02:01:42.399 --> 02:01:42.560
Sir?

2155
02:01:43.439 --> 02:01:43.640
Yes?

2156
02:01:43.880 --> 02:01:46.960
Really well he certainly has a surprise coming.

2157
02:01:47.279 --> 02:01:48.800
Yes he has.

2158
02:01:51.680 --> 02:01:54.439
How many rooms have you st how many rooms? But

2159
02:01:54.720 --> 02:01:55.560
only one?

2160
02:01:55.920 --> 02:01:56.520
Only one?

2161
02:01:57.239 --> 02:01:59.520
That doesn't make sense. What do you mean only one

2162
02:02:00.039 --> 02:02:03.520
for our guess? You mean normally mone equipment? Yes, and

2163
02:02:03.600 --> 02:02:05.680
if you've got a reserve for this guest you expect.

2164
02:02:06.760 --> 02:02:07.560
What are we going to do?

2165
02:02:07.920 --> 02:02:11.039
There is an inn farther along the road. They have rooms.

2166
02:02:11.199 --> 02:02:14.000
They will take care of you. It will be best

2167
02:02:14.199 --> 02:02:14.600
for us.

2168
02:02:15.399 --> 02:02:16.760
Our distributor got wet.

2169
02:02:16.680 --> 02:02:17.640
So our car won't run.

2170
02:02:17.760 --> 02:02:18.720
Where is your car?

2171
02:02:19.359 --> 02:02:23.279
Right foot of the steps? I see you?

2172
02:02:23.359 --> 02:02:23.840
No car?

2173
02:02:24.279 --> 02:02:26.319
You don't why it's standing right?

2174
02:02:29.680 --> 02:02:30.119
It goes?

2175
02:02:30.439 --> 02:02:30.920
We smoke?

2176
02:02:30.960 --> 02:02:31.479
It is gone?

2177
02:02:32.039 --> 02:02:32.319
Where?

2178
02:02:32.520 --> 02:02:35.720
How what isn't your sounds?

2179
02:02:36.800 --> 02:02:37.720
Throw your light around?

2180
02:02:38.760 --> 02:02:39.479
Not a sign of it?

2181
02:02:40.720 --> 02:02:44.279
Say? What goes on here? Can?

2182
02:02:44.960 --> 02:02:45.159
Yes?

2183
02:02:45.399 --> 02:02:47.640
Wellthy you move the car?

2184
02:02:49.359 --> 02:02:53.800
Yes, I understand, I understand.

2185
02:02:54.119 --> 02:02:56.000
Wait a minute, your son moved it?

2186
02:02:56.560 --> 02:02:57.079
How could he?

2187
02:02:57.720 --> 02:03:00.239
The motor won't even run and even the but what

2188
02:03:00.399 --> 02:03:03.880
we didn't do a sound? So how did you move it?

2189
02:03:04.760 --> 02:03:06.560
I don't know?

2190
02:03:07.640 --> 02:03:10.199
What's a fun thing that we are in a place

2191
02:03:10.239 --> 02:03:13.359
where they don't want us in the way of leaving. Well,

2192
02:03:13.439 --> 02:03:15.560
you've got us on your hands now you have to.

2193
02:03:15.600 --> 02:03:16.199
Make the best of it.

2194
02:03:16.760 --> 02:03:20.840
Nonsense, this is all silly. Come on, let's have some

2195
02:03:21.000 --> 02:03:21.960
light and cut off the monkey.

2196
02:03:23.159 --> 02:03:25.000
And what have we decided?

2197
02:03:25.399 --> 02:03:28.560
Yes, mother, we decided, Yes, very.

2198
02:03:28.479 --> 02:03:34.279
Well, you wish, if you wish, you may stay, stay

2199
02:03:34.479 --> 02:03:36.319
until to whin all night?

2200
02:03:37.119 --> 02:03:41.039
Yes, mother, if you wish's better. And that's more like it.

2201
02:03:42.039 --> 02:03:49.239
Now I like this candle. There we are God, look

2202
02:03:49.239 --> 02:03:53.119
at the dust and the cop wells this looks deserted,

2203
02:03:53.560 --> 02:03:58.279
like an old seller. Well, how about the room? Do

2204
02:03:58.399 --> 02:04:00.199
we get it or the guests or expect.

2205
02:04:00.159 --> 02:04:03.199
There is another room that will loo perhaps.

2206
02:04:04.439 --> 02:04:05.079
Could we see her?

2207
02:04:05.239 --> 02:04:05.399
Yes?

2208
02:04:06.319 --> 02:04:07.760
And by the way, how much do you charge?

2209
02:04:07.840 --> 02:04:08.600
You charge?

2210
02:04:08.920 --> 02:04:11.600
Nothing? Charge nothing?

2211
02:04:12.079 --> 02:04:15.119
Nothing sounds silly, But if it's bright for us, we'll

2212
02:04:15.279 --> 02:04:16.199
not mean short anyway.

2213
02:04:17.239 --> 02:04:18.840
Well, let's see the room.

2214
02:04:18.960 --> 02:04:24.319
Very well, it is upstairs after you?

2215
02:04:24.479 --> 02:04:30.880
No, you go search or well, come on, Joe, bring

2216
02:04:30.960 --> 02:04:35.399
that up the camera follow me. Yes, well.

2217
02:04:37.720 --> 02:04:39.239
I never thought so much dust.

2218
02:04:39.640 --> 02:04:42.880
I must like it, you know, nice cream dust.

2219
02:04:43.880 --> 02:04:45.800
That room at the head of the stairs.

2220
02:04:47.640 --> 02:04:52.560
Why this room was well furnished? Is this the room

2221
02:04:52.760 --> 02:04:55.880
reserved for your expected guest. No, you said you had

2222
02:04:55.960 --> 02:04:58.479
only one room furnished. Who sleeps here?

2223
02:04:58.720 --> 02:05:01.479
I stay here? Now, I see.

2224
02:05:02.920 --> 02:05:07.560
Do I it's a nice stop this It was always comfortable.

2225
02:05:08.640 --> 02:05:09.520
So we will leave you.

2226
02:05:09.720 --> 02:05:10.920
Now come down.

2227
02:05:11.680 --> 02:05:13.720
We must leave them alone.

2228
02:05:13.720 --> 02:05:16.439
Now, yes, mother has to leave them alone.

2229
02:05:16.760 --> 02:05:20.560
Good night, good night. You will lock your doors.

2230
02:05:20.920 --> 02:05:24.600
Huh oh oh, yes, yes, we'll lock.

2231
02:05:26.439 --> 02:05:32.319
Good by. Sorry did she say good night or goodbye?

2232
02:05:32.800 --> 02:05:33.159
I don't know.

2233
02:05:33.319 --> 02:05:37.079
I thought she said she did say goodbye.

2234
02:05:37.359 --> 02:05:40.159
Only want a scorory of it. I wish we hadn't

2235
02:05:40.199 --> 02:05:42.960
had car trouble. That's what we get for trying to

2236
02:05:43.159 --> 02:05:44.039
drive in the storm.

2237
02:05:44.479 --> 02:05:45.560
How much money have we left?

2238
02:05:45.880 --> 02:05:46.079
Much?

2239
02:05:46.720 --> 02:05:48.439
Just enough to get the Los Angeles the way I figure.

2240
02:05:49.319 --> 02:05:50.760
Once I get there, I know there'd be a job

2241
02:05:50.840 --> 02:05:51.039
for me.

2242
02:05:51.520 --> 02:05:51.920
We'll make it.

2243
02:05:51.960 --> 02:05:54.319
Don't worry, you will see me in a nice job

2244
02:05:54.359 --> 02:05:54.920
in Hollywood.

2245
02:05:55.199 --> 02:05:58.760
I'm not worried about seeing you in Hollywood. No, No,

2246
02:06:00.039 --> 02:06:01.279
I'm just worried about being in.

2247
02:06:01.319 --> 02:06:02.079
The morning.

2248
02:06:03.960 --> 02:06:16.399
The same night.

2249
02:06:16.600 --> 02:06:18.399
But later it's midnight.

2250
02:06:19.000 --> 02:06:20.479
Another car on the same road.

2251
02:06:20.800 --> 02:06:23.600
You know who it is. It's John Hendrix.

2252
02:06:24.239 --> 02:06:26.880
You know where he's going. He turns in at our

2253
02:06:26.960 --> 02:06:31.840
deserted mansion up the driveway and stops. He steps out,

2254
02:06:33.000 --> 02:06:35.039
slips up the steps, opens the door, and throws the

2255
02:06:35.079 --> 02:06:38.520
splash about the dusty room. Cobwebs glistens in the beam.

2256
02:06:39.239 --> 02:06:41.279
A few moments and the light comes rest.

2257
02:06:41.039 --> 02:06:41.760
On the fireplace.

2258
02:06:42.279 --> 02:06:44.079
He steps quickly to the mantle.

2259
02:06:44.079 --> 02:06:46.239
Draws a small hammer and chisel from his pocket, and

2260
02:06:46.359 --> 02:06:47.880
sets to work for moving a brick.

2261
02:06:49.800 --> 02:06:51.439
Now he's finished, brick is loose.

2262
02:06:52.119 --> 02:06:55.159
He reaches in and withdraws a heavy yellow envelope. He

2263
02:06:55.279 --> 02:06:57.880
starts to put it in his pocket, but suddenly freezes

2264
02:06:57.920 --> 02:06:58.640
in his tracks.

2265
02:06:59.159 --> 02:06:59.880
He can't move.

2266
02:07:00.600 --> 02:07:06.920
He turns, icy cold, turn around. Hendrix turn around, look

2267
02:07:07.800 --> 02:07:10.199
at the foot of the stairs. Across the room stands

2268
02:07:10.239 --> 02:07:13.199
a woman holding a candle, and beside her a grinning

2269
02:07:13.319 --> 02:07:17.279
youth holding an axe. Turn around Hendrix look at their

2270
02:07:17.399 --> 02:07:18.840
heads covered with blood.

2271
02:07:19.680 --> 02:07:23.720
Turn around and Hendrix murder on Hendry.

2272
02:07:23.800 --> 02:07:31.119
Sea Yes, John, Henry.

2273
02:07:30.920 --> 02:07:31.960
Yes, Jo No.

2274
02:07:32.520 --> 02:07:35.239
No. We've come for you John, the same way you

2275
02:07:35.520 --> 02:07:36.199
came for us.

2276
02:07:36.880 --> 02:07:38.720
We've been waiting for you, John.

2277
02:07:39.319 --> 02:07:41.199
We knew you'd come back for the money.

2278
02:07:41.359 --> 02:07:45.720
We've been waiting. We've come to take you John. No, No,

2279
02:07:46.079 --> 02:07:46.920
Please don't come.

2280
02:07:46.800 --> 02:07:50.159
Here me, Please, you must suffer John, as we have suffered.

2281
02:07:50.239 --> 02:07:50.960
I have suffered.

2282
02:07:51.079 --> 02:07:53.680
I'm not enough, John, not enough.

2283
02:07:53.840 --> 02:07:54.800
I didn't mean to do it.

2284
02:07:54.880 --> 02:07:55.840
I didn't plan to kill you.

2285
02:07:56.319 --> 02:07:59.119
I went bad offt my head. No, no, don't come

2286
02:07:59.159 --> 02:07:59.399
here me.

2287
02:07:59.560 --> 02:08:02.359
You can money you have, then give it to us, John,

2288
02:08:02.960 --> 02:08:03.960
give us the money.

2289
02:08:04.079 --> 02:08:05.199
You won't need it.

2290
02:08:05.359 --> 02:08:06.960
Now comes home.

2291
02:08:07.560 --> 02:08:09.920
We must have the money and we must take John.

2292
02:08:10.279 --> 02:08:14.880
Comes, hon Come, no, no, there's some money on the ploor.

2293
02:08:15.000 --> 02:08:17.960
Money is not enough, John, money is not enough.

2294
02:08:18.640 --> 02:08:20.840
Go ahead and go ahead.

2295
02:08:21.319 --> 02:08:24.640
We must have John Hendrick murderers.

2296
02:08:30.279 --> 02:08:31.880
Bullets won't stop up?

2297
02:08:37.479 --> 02:08:42.119
Good Lord? It that I heard a scream downstairs?

2298
02:08:44.479 --> 02:08:44.880
All open?

2299
02:08:44.920 --> 02:08:48.319
The door must have been downstairs. I don't see a

2300
02:08:48.399 --> 02:08:52.760
thing last night, Great Scott. Look a man down here

2301
02:08:52.800 --> 02:08:53.239
on the floor.

2302
02:08:53.600 --> 02:09:01.039
Come on, what took the gun?

2303
02:09:01.159 --> 02:09:01.880
It's been fired.

2304
02:09:02.760 --> 02:09:05.520
I don't see a mark on ge Come on you

2305
02:09:06.079 --> 02:09:07.600
and crops.

2306
02:09:08.039 --> 02:09:08.840
What's going on here?

2307
02:09:09.000 --> 02:09:09.760
Hand over that gun?

2308
02:09:10.520 --> 02:09:10.880
Thanks?

2309
02:09:11.560 --> 02:09:12.239
What are you doing here?

2310
02:09:14.119 --> 02:09:17.520
We're stopping here? Is we're just leaving?

2311
02:09:17.680 --> 02:09:20.279
I can see that always man on the floor and.

2312
02:09:22.399 --> 02:09:23.960
Yes, yes, Joan, what's the matter with you?

2313
02:09:24.079 --> 02:09:24.119
No?

2314
02:09:24.279 --> 02:09:25.279
No, no, we don't.

2315
02:09:27.720 --> 02:09:28.720
What are you two doing here?

2316
02:09:28.800 --> 02:09:30.119
Why we're guess?

2317
02:09:30.920 --> 02:09:31.079
Yes?

2318
02:09:32.560 --> 02:09:33.760
Whose I guess?

2319
02:09:34.039 --> 02:09:37.000
Lodgers Taurus guests of the old lady. Old lady, the

2320
02:09:37.039 --> 02:09:39.079
old lady that lives here, The old lady and her son,

2321
02:09:39.840 --> 02:09:40.039
and I.

2322
02:09:40.039 --> 02:09:41.399
Have to cook up a better one than that.

2323
02:09:41.560 --> 02:09:42.840
What do you mean drive here?

2324
02:09:43.279 --> 02:09:43.840
Where's your car?

2325
02:09:43.960 --> 02:09:45.720
The son took us and old lady. What are you

2326
02:09:45.840 --> 02:09:46.279
talking about?

2327
02:09:46.399 --> 02:09:46.960
They live here?

2328
02:09:47.000 --> 02:09:48.960
They said they owned this place. We had bo of

2329
02:09:49.000 --> 02:09:49.960
trouble and they put us.

2330
02:09:49.920 --> 02:09:50.359
Up at the night.

2331
02:09:50.439 --> 02:09:51.000
What about him?

2332
02:09:51.000 --> 02:09:52.479
Thank that isn't dead breathing.

2333
02:09:52.720 --> 02:09:54.520
That's so I had a stroke or something. Say all right,

2334
02:09:54.840 --> 02:09:55.760
John Hendricks.

2335
02:09:55.680 --> 02:09:56.399
Take a look around.

2336
02:09:56.880 --> 02:09:57.920
See if there's anyone else here.

2337
02:09:58.840 --> 02:10:01.560
What's your name, George can This is my wife.

2338
02:10:02.000 --> 02:10:04.720
We're on our way to California. Do you know who

2339
02:10:04.760 --> 02:10:05.239
this man is?

2340
02:10:05.399 --> 02:10:07.800
Certainly we've been on his trail. He's an escaped country

2341
02:10:07.960 --> 02:10:09.880
They sure gun, No, si, did you shoot at you?

2342
02:10:10.000 --> 02:10:11.199
No, sir, you shoot at him?

2343
02:10:11.680 --> 02:10:13.880
This gun's been fired. We heard shots returned in the

2344
02:10:13.960 --> 02:10:16.840
driveway out side of anyone's up, Not but Dustin Cobweb

2345
02:10:16.880 --> 02:10:19.439
Blood Campbell. You said there was an old lady and

2346
02:10:19.520 --> 02:10:21.720
his son. He sure they were here all evening and're

2347
02:10:21.760 --> 02:10:22.319
out here now.

2348
02:10:22.840 --> 02:10:23.039
Well.

2349
02:10:23.119 --> 02:10:26.079
They let us in and showed us to our room.

2350
02:10:27.560 --> 02:10:28.720
They certainly were here.

2351
02:10:30.039 --> 02:10:31.600
What did the old lady look like?

2352
02:10:32.239 --> 02:10:36.039
Well, she had gray hair, wore a house dress and

2353
02:10:36.079 --> 02:10:36.520
an apron.

2354
02:10:37.000 --> 02:10:38.119
What did the boy look like?

2355
02:10:38.800 --> 02:10:42.239
It was a big kid about twenty, had a round

2356
02:10:42.359 --> 02:10:45.640
rosie face, and I think, well that I know he

2357
02:10:45.760 --> 02:10:46.680
was kind of simple minded.

2358
02:10:47.199 --> 02:10:50.479
He had a strange laugh, and he had red hair.

2359
02:10:50.840 --> 02:10:54.399
Well, I'll be darned, what do you think of that, Frank,

2360
02:10:54.640 --> 02:10:59.000
Golly's me the creeps? Why so you know who you've

2361
02:10:59.199 --> 02:11:02.920
just described? You know, the old lady and her son

2362
02:11:03.079 --> 02:11:07.600
who used to live here, used to live Yeah, they

2363
02:11:07.680 --> 02:11:10.359
were murdered here ten years ago.

2364
02:11:11.079 --> 02:11:11.960
What murdered?

2365
02:11:12.119 --> 02:11:16.239
Sure, This man on the floor was her husband, the

2366
02:11:16.359 --> 02:11:17.279
boy's stepfather.

2367
02:11:18.079 --> 02:11:19.680
He was tried for killing.

2368
02:11:19.520 --> 02:11:21.920
Them with an axe and stealing her money and buns.

2369
02:11:22.800 --> 02:11:26.119
He got off at second degree because of lack of evidence.

2370
02:11:26.680 --> 02:11:28.479
He escaped a week to go and headed this way.

2371
02:11:29.319 --> 02:11:31.600
They've been on his trail ever since. He ended this county.

2372
02:11:32.640 --> 02:11:36.560
So you see, Kimball, if there was anybody else here tonight,

2373
02:11:36.920 --> 02:11:38.960
it must have been a figment of your imagination.

2374
02:11:40.159 --> 02:11:43.239
This house has been deserted for ten years.

2375
02:11:43.800 --> 02:11:47.600
Oh joy, good lord.

2376
02:11:48.640 --> 02:11:51.239
On the envelope on the back door, sta it's the money, Well,

2377
02:11:51.319 --> 02:11:54.119
what do you know? The money in the bond, Old

2378
02:11:54.319 --> 02:11:59.239
Martha Hendrick's money. That's why Hendrix came here. But where

2379
02:11:59.319 --> 02:11:59.640
did they go?

2380
02:12:00.439 --> 02:12:02.079
The old lady, no place.

2381
02:12:02.399 --> 02:12:06.800
Because they weren't here, Kimball, Well, better get him out

2382
02:12:06.800 --> 02:12:07.880
of here and back to the headquarters.

2383
02:12:08.000 --> 02:12:10.239
Wait a minute, totally of us, he won't. You're coming

2384
02:12:10.239 --> 02:12:13.159
along to why we need you for a day or two.

2385
02:12:13.760 --> 02:12:16.439
All right, let's get going, Frank, Come on, But where

2386
02:12:17.039 --> 02:12:17.640
where did they go?

2387
02:12:18.760 --> 02:12:19.520
We saw them?

2388
02:12:19.960 --> 02:12:20.960
I know they were here.

2389
02:12:21.159 --> 02:12:24.359
Well, you certainly described them to a t, but don't

2390
02:12:24.479 --> 02:12:25.600
worry too much about it.

2391
02:12:25.680 --> 02:12:28.680
You know, things like this can drag you nuts, you

2392
02:12:28.760 --> 02:12:32.479
know what I mean, Things like this will Dreams like

2393
02:12:32.600 --> 02:12:34.159
this sometimes just.

2394
02:12:35.399 --> 02:12:36.720
Just happened, you know what I mean.

2395
02:12:38.119 --> 02:12:42.239
No, well, oh, come on, let's go before I get

2396
02:12:42.319 --> 02:12:43.319
the He be gvs.

2397
02:12:47.279 --> 02:12:48.119
What did he say?

2398
02:12:49.079 --> 02:12:56.560
Things like this just sometimes happened, just happened. Well, sometimes

2399
02:12:56.600 --> 02:12:58.319
they do, and that they explained.

2400
02:13:00.359 --> 02:13:01.359
But not this time.

2401
02:13:02.319 --> 02:13:04.880
Oh no, not this time.

2402
02:13:05.840 --> 02:13:11.920
This can be explained. Remember John Hendrick cellmate Bill Bill

2403
02:13:12.119 --> 02:13:17.119
number ten fourteen. He can explain. He knows all about

2404
02:13:17.199 --> 02:13:22.560
it because he planned it. Bill wanted the money. He

2405
02:13:22.560 --> 02:13:26.079
had learned all the dope from Hendrix. He sent his pals,

2406
02:13:26.239 --> 02:13:29.399
the Phony spooks, made up like the old lady and

2407
02:13:29.439 --> 02:13:32.680
her son, to grab the money. When Hendrix recovered it,

2408
02:13:33.760 --> 02:13:36.279
too bad, they dropped it in their hurry to get away.

2409
02:13:37.600 --> 02:13:41.479
Bill didn't want to hurt John. He wanted to scare

2410
02:13:41.600 --> 02:13:47.159
him out of it. Remember Bill ten fourteen had change.

2411
02:13:48.439 --> 02:13:50.880
He said he'd never do things the way he'd done

2412
02:13:50.960 --> 02:13:56.279
them before, and he didn't. Bill meant what he said.

2413
02:14:01.239 --> 02:14:01.760
Good night.

2414
02:14:24.800 --> 02:14:28.159
If this came upon you unaware, and you listen, we've

2415
02:14:28.279 --> 02:14:36.640
served our purpose. A whistler with original music composed and

2416
02:14:36.720 --> 02:14:39.800
conducted by Wilberhats is written and directed by Jay Donald

2417
02:14:39.840 --> 02:14:44.600
Wilson and originates from Columbia Square in Hollywood. Next week,

2418
02:14:44.840 --> 02:14:50.359
same time, the whistler returns. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

2419
02:15:05.199 --> 02:15:09.760
Well, my dear, I think our time has come to

2420
02:15:09.840 --> 02:15:13.600
an end for well, for this week, I do hope

2421
02:15:13.640 --> 02:15:17.319
to see you back here. I'll be here waiting, of course,

2422
02:15:18.319 --> 02:15:25.520
same time, same place, and always happy to have you.

2423
02:15:26.760 --> 02:15:30.800
But for now, the morning is coming quickly and I

2424
02:15:30.960 --> 02:15:34.199
have to get back to my own mourning as well.

2425
02:15:35.520 --> 02:15:39.359
So as you make your way home, as you enter

2426
02:15:39.520 --> 02:15:43.760
the threshold of your humble abode. As you lay your

2427
02:15:43.880 --> 02:15:48.600
head down on your cool down pillow, do me this

2428
02:15:48.920 --> 02:15:55.760
one favor before you drift away into sleep. Just take

2429
02:15:55.880 --> 02:16:00.760
one moment and be thankful for what you have, and

2430
02:16:00.960 --> 02:16:02.119
I'll be seeing you.

2431
02:16:05.640 --> 02:16:10.600
Come along my family, the family whom I begin to

2432
02:16:10.840 --> 02:16:16.760
follow again.

2433
02:16:18.119 --> 02:16:19.000
That's the wronging

2434
02:16:26.359 --> 02:16:26.840
You break.