Jan. 12, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | "The Evil Eye" "The Evil Adelaide Winters" "Flee from Evil" "The Rising Sun"

Unknown Broadcast | "The Evil Eye" "The Evil Adelaide Winters" "Flee from Evil" "The Rising Sun"

In this episode, E.G. Marshall dives into the deep and often unsettling themes of evil, identity, and the darkness that can lurk within human nature. The narrative begins on a dark, cold evening, setting a foreboding tone. Marshall introduces the concept of evil, stating that it exists within us all and presenting a thought-provoking definition from the dictionary: anything that impairs happiness or welfare, depriving one of good. He challenges listeners to reflect on their own experiences, suggesting that anyone has the capacity for evil, igniting a philosophical exploration of morality and the human condition.

As the episode unfolds, we are treated to a dramatic reading titled "The Evil Eye," written by Elspeth Eric, featuring characters that exemplify both the creative struggle and the complex dynamics within relationships. The main character, Louise Bates, is introduced as a successful female writer grappling with her self-worth and the pressures of the literary world. Her frustrations boil over upon learning that her rival, Vanita Barlow, has received a lucrative book deal, sparking jealousy and dark thoughts within her. The tension escalates as Louise expresses a potential wish for harm towards those she perceives as threats to her success.

The story delves into the chaotic environment that Louise inhabits, highlighting her intense need for solitude and the lengths she goes to create. Her husband, John Bates, often becomes a victim of her creative demands and tumultuous feelings, showcasing the strain that ambition can place on personal relationships. Their interactions reveal a poignant dynamic between support and resentment, as John attempts to be the anchor in the chaos of Louise's artistic life, but often feels overwhelmed and inadequate.

In a turn of events, Louise receives devastating news about both Vanita Barlow and Stephen Bennett, another character whose desperation and connection to Louise's creative struggles lead to a dangerous spiral. The juxtaposition of Louise's artistic awakening against the backdrop of tragedy raises questions about the consequences of one’s ambitions, the ripple effects of jealousy, and the nature of evil itself. As Louise discovers her ‘power’ through her writing—a metaphorical ‘evil eye’—the boundaries between inspiration and destruction blur, suggesting that creators may wield more influence over their surroundings than they comprehend.

The episode blends elements of suspense and drama, as it weaves through themes of power dynamics in relationships and the existential crises that often accompany creative endeavors. As the finale approaches, we witness the ultimate manifestation of Louise's artistic struggle and the moral complexities that surround her choices, culminating in a chilling reflection on the ease with which one may stray into moral darkness.

Through Marshall's introspective narration, the audience is left pondering the deeper meanings of evil and the choices we make every day. The story challenges us to confront our own potential for darkness while weaving a cautionary tale about the costs of ambition, the fragility of human connections, and the thin line between creation and destruction.

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Ah, hello, my dear, happy to see you. What's that?

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Oh no, just another dark, cold evening. Not much more

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to say than that, I suppose, while I should know better,

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Sometimes I swear there are nights darker and colder than others.

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But I suppose putting the kettle on and getting the

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fire roaring or just might turn this night around. Please

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please get comfortable. I'm sorry, I'm not in much of

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a entertaining mood, I suppose, I swear tonight I feel

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almost curse, almost as if someone has given me the

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evil eye.

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Come in, welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall. Evil exists.

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We all agree on that only I mean, we read

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about it here, of it, sometimes witness it, even if

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we are that unfortunate have it done to ourselves?

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But what is it?

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The Dictionary defines evil as anything impairing happiness or welfare,

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or depriving of good. If we accept, at least for now,

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this definition, then who of us, in the course of

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a lifetime has not done evil or darkly thought of

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doing it. I'm waiting who.

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Anyone can do it? I can't. Don't be silly, of

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course you can, But how first you.

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Have to believe you can do it, and then then

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why then you go ahead.

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And do it.

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Our mystery drama The Evil Eye was written especially for

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the Mystery Theater by Elsbeth Eric and stars Mendel Kramer

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and Carol Titell. I'll be back shortly with that one.

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I intimated at.

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The start that this is to be a story of evil,

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and before long you will realize that I did not exaggerate. Cheating, lying, stealing.

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Such things a commonplace. We read about them daily. Then

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there is betrayal, slander, perjury.

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Oh, the number is endless. And what is worse? All

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lurk in every human heart.

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Listen to the words of Bles Pascal, who lived and

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wrote more than three hundred years ago. Evil is easy

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and has infinite forms.

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It's a terrible thing being a woman.

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The only thing that's worse is being a successful woman.

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You've heard of me.

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I'm sure, Charity Ormsby, you've certainly read one of my books.

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More likely you've read them all. I'm the best known

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female writer in the country. Of course, few know that

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my real name is Louise Bates, married nearly twenty years

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to John Bates, mother of two, both boys, both thanks

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the Lord away at school.

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At any rate.

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When the events I am about to relate came about,

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there was no one in the house but John and myself.

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It is.

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Louise, it's me John.

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Oh, yes, come in, come in.

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Good morning, dear.

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Oh, I've waked up to better ones.

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Rot you some coffee.

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What time is it?

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That's a little early, But I have to get to

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the office. You know, income tax time is coming up.

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Everybody wants their returns. So I thought before I left,

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I bring you your coffee? Would you like me to

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pour it?

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I guess so.

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Oh, I was sleeping so soundly, as.

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Though I were in my tool depressed by you.

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Yeah, here's your coffee.

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Oh, thank you your pork cup.

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As soon as you get back to work. I suppose

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you always do. I do don't always. Well, I really

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should be getting started.

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It's a dreadful Hiatis between two books that gets me down,

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the feeling that it's.

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All over, that my talent is all used up.

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I'll never right again if I have another idea.

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I can't imagine how depressing it is.

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No, I guess I can't.

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Ah, you're lucky to be an accountant, John, am.

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I yes, I suppose in some ways I am speaking

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of which I really better get doing.

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Oh, oh will you answer that for me?

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Will you do all right?

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Hello?

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Is miss Armsby there?

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Yes, yeah, she's here?

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Or should I say missus Bates?

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Is this mister Bates?

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Yes? It is?

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Is this Kathy?

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Oh? Yes, how are you Miss Cargan?

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Oh?

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You know?

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Can I think with your wife?

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Well?

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Can you?

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Can you hold on miss Cargan and I'll see if

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she's able to talk.

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I'll hold on.

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It's your agent, so I gather it.

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Can you talk to her?

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I can try.

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Oh, don't go just yet, John, I need support.

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Well, it's hello, Kathy.

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I was just wondering if you're working.

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No, no, I'm not right.

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When do you think you will be the weis?

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Oh?

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For heaven's sake, Kathy, don't you know anything about my

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habits after all these years?

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No?

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I know you didn't.

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You didn't think at all?

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No, perfectly.

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Well, I can't.

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Put a word on paper until the whole thing suddenly

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takes shape in my mind.

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So that happens, I'm helpless as a baby.

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When do you think something will take shape?

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Oh?

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How do I know?

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I can't plan to have it take shape? You know

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I can't command it to take shape. I can't just

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trick it, or or seduce it, or bribe it.

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I can't.

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I understand.

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Well, then why do you insist thought?

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You might like to know that Anita Barlow has just

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been given a million dollar advance?

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What on her next book?

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Anita Barlow got a million dollar advance?

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Yes she did, thanks for calling? How about that?

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How about that that overdressed, overblown that no talent for

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Anita Barlow has just no.

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I know, I heard a million dollars. A million dollars.

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You're better than she is, Louise, You're much better.

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I know that I'm better.

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I know that you're the best.

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Louise know I'm the best.

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But do those income poop publishers know it?

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No? All they know is Benita Barlow, Benita Barlow.

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So she gets all the.

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Advertising, she gets the interview, she gets all the fanfare,

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all the roops you do.

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I could kill that woman's not doing you don't mean that.

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I mean that I could kill her. Trouble is she's

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in England and I'm here. Then it happened.

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The idea for my next book sprang into my head,

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full blown, the way it had always done before. Oh oh,

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What a joy, What a relief after months of sterility,

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I was, I need to write again. In ten days,

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my public would have what they awaited. So breathlessly I

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could scarcely wait to tell John, it'll be all about

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a beautiful black woman and a white man, and they're

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enduring love for each other.

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Do we know any black women, Louise.

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Oh, that's beside the point. I can santisize it. You

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can satisize anything.

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Of course.

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I shall call it a dark cluster, good title.

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All right, Now, John, you.

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Know what you have to do. I must have ten

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full days to complete it. I shall shut myself in

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my room. Now you know how it goes. We've been

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through this before. Yes, Now you'll stay home. You have

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to cut your own meat.

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You eat them by yourself.

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Yes, you will sit by the window the way you

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always have to stop anyone who comes to the door.

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Now you will have to.

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Hold the phone in your lap so you can answer

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it the second it starts to ring.

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And if that.

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Dog down the block starts to box, you will silence it.

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And if the people next door play there was awful records,

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you will make them stop.

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Oh it will be heavenly.

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Shall I answer it?

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No, I'll take it this one last time, the last

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call I take for ten the least days. Hello, Louise,

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this is Kathy, Kathy, Kathy.

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The most beautiful thing has happened.

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Sweet.

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I am starting a new book.

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You're the last person I'll speak to for ten whole days.

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Then you will have the completed manuscript.

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It's going to be called Dark Luster.

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Have you heard about Banita Barlow?

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It's all about this week.

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Huh.

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Anita Barlow is very ill, very very ill.

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Oh it is.

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It's a very rare disease.

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It's always fatal.

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She can't live.

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Mo Is that?

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So? I just thought I should tell you, well.

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I'd like.

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In ten days precisely.

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Huh. Banita Barrows come down with some strange sort of disease.

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It's terminal. The news about Benita Barler made hardly any

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impression on.

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Me at all.

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The concept for my new novel was burgeoning within me,

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and I could scarcely wait.

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To begin again.

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I wrote feverishly. The words leapt onto the page. My

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fingers could barely keep up at the racing of my brains.

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For nine full days, I wrote, only taking time for

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an hour or to.

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Sleep here and there. Now and then, and even as

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I slept.

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The words, the words, the blessed words, ran pell mell

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through my mind. Then, on the tenth day, to stop

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the pain on the door, John John's are pretty safe

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when you make it stop.

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Your home, John John.

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When you make him go away, John, go to the door,

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John a shop.

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When the world is bad, You you down there, you

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at the door, when you go away.

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You are doing a terrible thing. You are interrupting an

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act of creation. You are a dreadful, ignorant person, a desecrator.

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Of vandal, a protainer on the order of art.

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I help you, dreadful man.

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You don't deserve to live.

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I slam down the window, trembling with rage, that creak,

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that ignorant, selfish, stubborn creep.

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I crawled into my.

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Big, comforting easy chair, who curled myself into a ball,

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and huddled there, cursing him and shivering as though I'd

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been slitting with a fever.

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I was exhausted, drained. After a while I heard the

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outside door open. Who could it be but John, my loyal,

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devoted husband, who had promised to defend me against such intrusions.

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Shaking with anger, I went downstairs. John was just coming in.

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And where where, if you will be so kind as

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to tell me, have you.

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Been Why at the office, Louis at the.

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At the office.

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While I was draining the blood from my veins to

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finish my novel, my masterpiece, while I was forty pages

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from the ending, you.

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Were at the office.

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Well, there was so much work to do.

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Work you call what you do work.

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Well, you know very well that for these ten days

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your work was here to silence the phone, to drive

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away callers, to keep that dog from barking, to make

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those people stop playing their dreads rock and roll. Well,

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you know what you've done, now, don't you, Luise, You

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have ruined my novel.

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That's what you've done. It's dead, it's finished, it's over.

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I am going upstairs and tear it to friends.

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Then I shall burn it.

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Writers are indeed strange creatures, with strange habits of work.

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What suits one will not do for another.

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Some write long hand, others type, Some work early in

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the morning, others only.

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Late at night.

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Some paste a floor, others sit and meditate. Some compose rapidly,

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others with infinite slowness. Yes, a strange quite as strange

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as the rest of us.

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I'll be back shortly without.

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And have you driven at night past houses lighted from within,

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perhaps rightly enough to make visible the figures of the inhabitants.

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Have you tried to imagine what they were doing.

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What they were saying or not saying, what they were.

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Feeling or not feeling.

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I wonder what you would have imagined had you seen

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the persons of John and Louise Bates as they confronted

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each other on a certain singular night. I'm John Baths,

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and I know I shouldn't have done what I did,

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But I got so bored, so unutterably bored, just sitting

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on the front window seat, holding a phone in my hands,

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listening from music from next door or the sound of

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a dog barking down the block. I wasn't away for

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more than a half hour, maybe not that long.

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And when I.

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Returned, I let myself into the house as quietly as possible.

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And where where, if you will be so kind as

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to tell me, have.

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You been Why at the office? Louise?

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While I was draining the blood from my veins, you

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were at the office. You know what you've done with

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your trip to the office, don't you?

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You've killed my novel.

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It's dead, it's finished, it's over.

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I am going upstairs and tear it to Fred's. Then

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I shall burn it.

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Louise, Louise, don't do that. Don't do anything while you're

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upset like this.

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Now tell me what happened.

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Happened was that some idiot came to the door and

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banged on it, banged and banged and banged. I was

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forty pages away from finishing my book, and this monstrous

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little man marched up our front steps and stood at

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our front door and banged on it. What you want,

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do I know what he wanted to come into the house.

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I suppose you didn't let him in.

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Let him in.

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I opened the window and I shouted at him.

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I told him at.

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The top of my voice that he was desecrating the

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temple of Art. If he was an ignorant clod and

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a terrible man who shouldn't be allowed to live. Then

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I slammed down the window and I waited for.

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You to show up.

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And now now that it's too late, here you are.

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I'm sorry, Louise, now and going upstairs and.

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Destroy my not wait wait, wait, wait a minute, what did.

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This man look like? The one who came to the door.

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How should I know?

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I could see was the top of his head? Oh

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he had he had red hair. I remember that, long

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red hair down to his shoulders.

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Disgusting.

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Might have been Stephen Bennett.

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Who Stephen Bennett?

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I do his income? Text?

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Well?

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I hope they soak him plenty. He destroyed my work.

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Now I am going upstairs. Do you want me to

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answer that? No, no, it's too late. I'll answer it.

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Yes.

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Hello, Oh you No, No, not well at all?

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Nothing's going well?

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No has that?

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Oh well thanks for telling me.

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Not that it matters, but thanks. Anyway, that was Kathy Carrigan.

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Oh what did she want?

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Just to tell me Anita Barlow is dead? You know what, John,

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Maybe I won't destroy my book after all.

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I lied to Louisa when I said I went to

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the office.

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I didn't. I was with a girl. Yes, a girl.

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I've been seeing her for quite a while. I felt

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guilty as hell about it, but I couldn't help myself.

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I'm in love with her, and I think she's in

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love with me, and sometimes it's hard to tell.

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Anyway. After Louise decided not to tear.

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Up her novel, I stayed around the house for a

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couple of days, just to make sure that you know

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that she was all right.

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Then I went to see this girl. I had to Kathy,

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I don't know what's going on at home with Louise.

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You mean, of course Louise, Louise will home to you.

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Well, of course I'm married to her.

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I see, Okay, go on, Kathy.

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When you called and told her that Benita Barlow was dead,

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she decided not to tear up her novel.

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Was she going to do that?

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Yes?

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I mean you don't know about Stephen Bennett there, never

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heard of it.

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Well, he's a client of mine.

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It seems that he tried to see me in my

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office and I wasn't there.

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Because you know, because you were here.

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That's right.

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Stephen Bennett was trying to see me because he was

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worried about his taxes, among other things.

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I mean, he'd given me some false.

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Figures and he was afraid that he was going to

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be found out, and he wanted my help.

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I wasn't at the office, so.

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He went to my house and Louise was almost finished

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with her novel. There was even an out of order

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sign above the doorbell.

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I mean I put it there myself. So he started

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banging on the door.

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I mean, the man was really desperate, and Louise leaned

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out the window and she hollered at him. I mean,

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she told me all this herself, called him an ignorant

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clod and a terrible man, you know, stuff like that,

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and I guess he just finally gave up and went away.

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Yeah, no, I can't.

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It's in the paper this morning. Steve Bennett is dead.

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He took an overdose of something and he's dead.

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Well, I'm sorry about that, but after all he Isn't

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it a close friend or.

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Anything like that.

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No, but I mean, you know, if I'd been in

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my office or even at home where I was supposed

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to be, maybe he wouldn't have done it.

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Oh nonsense.

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I mean I was here with you.

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Where you were or weren't, had nothing to do with

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what happened was my fault. You stopped taking credit for

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something you couldn't help.

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You're just being arrogant, arrogant me, it's.

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It's Louise, Louise.

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What about Louise first, Benita bar alone.

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Now that Stephen Bennett both did.

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But Louise didn't know either one of them.

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That doesn't mean a thing not when you have the

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capacity for evil. The evil eye what I'm sure you've

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heard that.

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That's the eagle eye.

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I've heard of it. But I mean, but what is it?

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I mean?

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It is the power to destroy whatever stands in your way.

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Oh no, I'm yes, yes, ket you mean Louise?

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Can you mean she can destroy people?

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Well?

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She has done it, hasn't she.

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On purpose?

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I don't know. I don't know precisely how it works.

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I wish I did.

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But what do I I mean, what am I supposed

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to do?

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I'm not sure? Let me think.

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I mean, what if she decides to destroy me?

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Oh?

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You, that is what I'm thinking about. Look, John, you

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said she didn't destroy her.

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Books right after you called about Anita Barlow. She said

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maybe she wouldn't.

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You have got to insist that she finished it him,

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since she must have felt such a great surge of

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power when she heard about Anita Barlow. Can you tell

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her about Stephen Bennett? If we can direct all that

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psychic energy into her work, if she'll finish the books,

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who knows, who knows what might happen?

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I can tell you my head was in a whirld.

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My wife had the evil eye Louise. Louise had the

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evil eye, the power to do away with people if

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she didn't like them, if they interfered with her.

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I mean, well, it just seemed absurd, impossible.

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Still, Benita to borrow and Stephen Bennett. I mean, it

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did seem so you know, so on and really horrible.

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But Cathy had said there might be hope if I

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could persuade Louise to finish her novel.

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Insist on it, she said me, insist.

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I've never insisted on anything in my whole life.

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Still I could try it, Louise. You you didn't tear

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up your novel, did you not. Yes, well, don't do it, Louise.

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It's mine to do with whatever I can.

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I prefer not to discuss it, John, if you don't mind.

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But I do mind.

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I think we have to.

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Talk about there's nothing to talk about. If my novel

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stays unfinished, it's your fault. Remember that if you had

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stayed where you belonged and protected me from the outside

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world in the full day, that novel would have been completed.

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But no, no, you had to run after your stupid

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little office, and that stupid little man ste whoever he was,

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he interrupted my concentration, and he ruined the whole thing.

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He's dead, Louise, Oh, is he yes? He took an

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overdose of something and he's dead.

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Was he a friend of yours?

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Well, he was a client.

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You seem so upsets.

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Well, he came here looking for me. If you had been,

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if you had let him in.

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What are you getting.

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At, John? Are you trying to tell me it's my fault?

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The man overdosed himself.

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I don't think you know how powerful you are, Louise.

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I'm only powerful if you're here to protect me.

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I can't be here all the time.

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No one's asking you to be here all the time.

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Ten days out of a whole year, you call that

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all the time.

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Please finished the book, Louise, I mean, if you don't,

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If I don't, what.

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You remember? Benita Barlaw?

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Not English woman? What about her?

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She died?

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Oh?

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Anita Barlow died of some mysterious disease.

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I didn't know her. I've never even met her.

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She was your rival. Right here in this very room.

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I heard you say it. You said I could kill her.

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He said it twice, Louise. I was right here, right

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here with you when you said it, I could kill her.

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You said that doesn't.

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Mean I did. How could I not not?

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If you have the evil eyes?

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What's that? What's the evil eye?

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It's the power to hurt people just by wanting to

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hurt them, even people.

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You don't know, even people who lived thousands of miles away.

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Do you think that that I have this power?

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I think maybe you haven't, and I'm afraid of it. Louis,

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I couldn't tell whether I was making any impression on

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her or not.

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After all, I didn't really know what I was talking about.

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I just put words together and hoped that they would

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make sense.

489
00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:38.839
They sounded all right when I.

490
00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:41.359
Said them, but I couldn't tell what effect they were

491
00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:43.440
having on my wife. For her, her dark eyes open

492
00:25:43.519 --> 00:25:44.440
wider and wider.

493
00:25:44.559 --> 00:25:48.559
Her cheeks got paler and paler. She walked out of

494
00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:49.720
the room without answering me.

495
00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:54.279
I waited downstairs, hoping to hear the sound of the typewriter,

496
00:25:54.359 --> 00:25:56.119
but I heard nothing.

497
00:26:01.039 --> 00:26:02.000
Is that you, John?

498
00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:07.559
Yes, come in here, will you right away?

499
00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:09.440
Did you have a hard day?

500
00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:12.759
Well, you know, it's income tax time. Everybody's kind of anxious.

501
00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:14.279
Yes, that's what I am.

502
00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:19.880
Anxious, Terribly terribly anxious, agonizingly anxious.

503
00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:21.720
Well, realizingly anxious.

504
00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:24.720
Maybe if you were to, you know, finish your book.

505
00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:26.839
I try, I try.

506
00:26:27.640 --> 00:26:30.160
I sit there in front of the typewriter and I

507
00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:31.079
stare at it.

508
00:26:31.480 --> 00:26:32.880
I sit and I spare.

509
00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:35.960
But I can't even put my fingers on the keys.

510
00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:38.519
I can't even miss my hands to put the paper

511
00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:40.839
in the roller. But I do try.

512
00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:44.799
M Maybe it doesn't sound like it, but I do try. Really,

513
00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:50.640
I do. Really, I do believe me. You you do

514
00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:52.400
believe me, don't you, Louise?

515
00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:56.839
If you would just say to yourself, I can do it,

516
00:26:57.799 --> 00:26:59.079
and I will do it.

517
00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:02.359
I can, I will.

518
00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:05.279
That's all you need, the power and the window, the

519
00:27:05.319 --> 00:27:07.559
power and the will.

520
00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:12.119
That's all I could try again, of course you could.

521
00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:14.519
Oh.

522
00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:16.480
By the way, Louise, coming home, I stopped to talk

523
00:27:16.519 --> 00:27:17.960
to the people down the block, you know, the one

524
00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:18.440
with the dog.

525
00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:20.440
He died.

526
00:27:20.839 --> 00:27:24.200
The dog died. The people said it was you know,

527
00:27:24.279 --> 00:27:26.359
old age. He just laid down in the sun and

528
00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:26.799
he died.

529
00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:28.559
The dog died.

530
00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:31.440
Yes. And you know the couple next.

531
00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:33.359
Door, the ones with all that rock and roll all the.

532
00:27:33.319 --> 00:27:41.039
Time, they're getting a divorce. The second I stopped talking,

533
00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:45.599
Louise gave me a peculiar look. Then she got up

534
00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:49.400
and left the room. She went upstairs. I really didn't

535
00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:51.119
know what I'd said to make her do that, but

536
00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:54.960
a minute later I heard something that made me not

537
00:27:55.079 --> 00:28:07.839
happy exactly, but very very relieved. You remember what I

538
00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:10.440
quoted you towards the beginning of our show, the words

539
00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:11.279
of Bles Pascal.

540
00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:14.039
Evil is easy and has infinite forms.

541
00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:17.880
Think what has happened so far, and we've only presented

542
00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:22.240
two acts. A woman dies, a man dies, a dog dies,

543
00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:23.640
a marriage dies.

544
00:28:24.279 --> 00:28:27.599
What's left for act free? I'll be back shortly.

545
00:28:29.400 --> 00:28:29.920
And then.

546
00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:38.000
If you tell me that you have never had the

547
00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:41.319
urge to destroy someone, I shall not believe you. The

548
00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:44.480
desire starts at each one of us at an early age.

549
00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:47.920
It resides in the tiny infants, who, if his strength

550
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:50.559
matched his fury, could destroy the world.

551
00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:52.200
As he grows, the.

552
00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:57.640
Wish is modified, tamed, deflected, but it never really dies.

553
00:29:01.559 --> 00:29:04.920
I'm Kathy Harrigan, and I'm the best literary agent in

554
00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:08.319
the country. To begin with, I have impeccable taste.

555
00:29:08.920 --> 00:29:10.440
That's just the starters.

556
00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:14.119
Then I have to wear a context, which I've cultivated

557
00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:17.920
over the years. And finally, I am a super salesperson.

558
00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:19.920
That's about sums it up.

559
00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:23.920
I think why I should have fallen for an insignificant

560
00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:27.960
little man like John Bates. I'll never know, but I had.

561
00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:29.200
And that's that.

562
00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:32.880
Every time the phone rang, I hoped desperately it would

563
00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:35.440
be John and not his frightful wife.

564
00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:39.240
Hello, Kathy, this is Louise.

565
00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:41.480
Oh, yes, Louise, how are you?

566
00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:42.319
Kathy?

567
00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:44.119
I have great news for you.

568
00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:45.039
Tell me.

569
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:45.759
Can't wait.

570
00:29:46.119 --> 00:29:52.519
I've finished the novel, Kathy, did you hear me? I've

571
00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:53.880
completed my book.

572
00:29:54.839 --> 00:29:56.599
What, Louise, that's wonderful.

573
00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:57.720
I didn't think I caught.

574
00:29:58.079 --> 00:29:59.960
Things have been so peculiar around here.

575
00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:01.400
What things?

576
00:30:01.480 --> 00:30:03.480
Oh, I don't have time to go into all that

577
00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:06.160
right now, just all things, you know.

578
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:09.039
Well, they throw me off my stride for a while.

579
00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:11.559
But now I think I've got to make Oh when

580
00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:12.319
can I read the book?

581
00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:14.160
I could bring it over to your office right now,

582
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:17.079
except that I am exhausted.

583
00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:19.240
I couldn't you send someone for it?

584
00:30:19.920 --> 00:30:21.480
Why did you ask John to bring it over?

585
00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:21.680
Oh?

586
00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:22.240
I don't know.

587
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:26.200
You don't have anybody to send. John's really responsible for.

588
00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:29.279
My finishing it in a way, although he's the one

589
00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:30.759
who kept me from finishing.

590
00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:31.039
In weeks ago.

591
00:30:31.240 --> 00:30:34.000
I don't if John's always so obliging, I'm sure.

592
00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:36.039
Oh okay, and.

593
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:41.200
John, Oh Cathy, I can't wait till you read it.

594
00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:48.079
Neither can I tell John to hurry it up? Of

595
00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:50.000
course I could have sent somebody. I could have sent

596
00:30:50.039 --> 00:30:53.000
my secretary, I could have hired a messenger. But I

597
00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:54.799
wanted to see John, and I wanted to see him

598
00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:58.240
right away to find out how he had accomplished the

599
00:30:58.359 --> 00:31:02.400
miracle of making Louise her book. I couldn't concentrate on

600
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:03.920
my work waiting for him to arrive.

601
00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:07.400
John, Hello, Kathy, girl said to go right in.

602
00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:09.039
Ah, you got a kiss for me?

603
00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:09.599
You bet it?

604
00:31:09.640 --> 00:31:17.039
M Okay, Now I got the manuscript right here. Well

605
00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:20.240
it's the right way. Oh, that's it down, John.

606
00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:21.759
Listen, I got a lot of work all piled up.

607
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:25.319
Well, just for a minute, I want to know how

608
00:31:25.400 --> 00:31:26.000
you did it.

609
00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:27.960
You mean, how I got Louise to finish the book?

610
00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:29.680
It was easy?

611
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:31.519
How did you do it? It couldn't have been that easy.

612
00:31:31.559 --> 00:31:33.799
Well, after you told me about the evil Eye, I

613
00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:37.000
got to thinking about it, and I told Louise that

614
00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:37.720
she had it.

615
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:40.440
You didn't. Wasn't I supposed to mean?

616
00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:40.839
I asked you?

617
00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:43.359
I mean I pointed out that Benita Barlow had died

618
00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:45.000
after Louise had said she could kill her.

619
00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:48.559
She did say that, you know, yeah gone. And Stephen Bennett, a.

620
00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:50.160
Man who came to the house and banged on the door,

621
00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:50.599
the one.

622
00:31:50.440 --> 00:31:52.599
That she was so furious with, he died.

623
00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:55.640
Go on, Well, none of that made very much of

624
00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:58.240
an impression on her. Nothing did until I told her

625
00:31:58.279 --> 00:31:59.039
about the dog.

626
00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:01.599
What dog?

627
00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:04.359
The dog the one down the block that barks sometimes.

628
00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:07.720
And I told her about the couple next door.

629
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:09.119
What couple?

630
00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:11.880
A couple that played their rock and roll records so loud.

631
00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:14.039
They're getting a divorce.

632
00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:16.599
That's all you did.

633
00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:20.720
That's about it. Let's not. I better get back to work, John.

634
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:24.599
I love you. You know that, do you, Cathy?

635
00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:26.440
Because I love you?

636
00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:26.720
Oh?

637
00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:31.720
Look, don't you think we ought to tell Louise about us.

638
00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:33.440
She has a right to know. She's got to know something.

639
00:32:33.559 --> 00:32:36.079
No, no, no, she doesn't know. She hasn't believed me.

640
00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:38.160
She doesn't want to know. She wouldn't like knowing, she'd

641
00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:41.720
hate it. Well, she mustn't know. Would be very bad

642
00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:42.039
if she.

643
00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.279
Knew, all right, all right, good.

644
00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:45.480
Be just terrible if she knew.

645
00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:49.720
You run along, sweetheart, and you tell Louise, I'll call

646
00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:55.720
her as soon as I finished the novel. Poor John,

647
00:32:56.400 --> 00:33:01.599
so timid, so fearful, afraid of everything, and everybody frightened,

648
00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:02.440
the little.

649
00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:03.000
Mouse of a man.

650
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:06.240
But I loved him, and.

651
00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:09.640
He had accomplished the remarkable feat of persuading his wife

652
00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:13.000
to finish her book, a book on which I expected, along.

653
00:33:12.759 --> 00:33:14.559
With her, to make a great deal of money.

654
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:18.319
I stayed up past the night reading it. In the

655
00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:19.279
morning I made a date with.

656
00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:20.000
Her for luncheon.

657
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:29.000
Well tell me, tell me it's great, isn't it. I

658
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:32.400
tell you, Kathy, this is going to be the best yet,

659
00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:37.960
a smash, a blockbuster. Tell me, am I right, of course,

660
00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:42.400
I'm right. After all these days, Kathy, I know these things.

661
00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:46.839
This book is going to light up the sky. Look way,

662
00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:48.240
you did read it, didn't your voice?

663
00:33:48.279 --> 00:33:48.759
I read it?

664
00:33:48.839 --> 00:33:49.599
You know I read it?

665
00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:49.920
Well.

666
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:52.000
Well, I stayed up past the night reading it.

667
00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:58.039
I told you that on the phone. Well what am

668
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:05.519
I right? No, No, Louise, You're not right, at least

669
00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:06.359
in my opinion.

670
00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:10.280
I am right. I'm always right about my own work.

671
00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:14.159
This is a great book. This is a great book, Louise.

672
00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:15.880
I was just giving you my opinion.

673
00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:19.639
Now, everybody's entitled to have an opinion, don't you agree, Not.

674
00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:24.559
When it's the wrong opinions. Louise, How did you happen

675
00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:25.199
to finish it?

676
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:27.480
John told me I could?

677
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:33.920
Oh, he said, Louise, you have the power and the will.

678
00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:37.760
And I went upstairs and finished it.

679
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:40.360
And they said, whatever's enough.

680
00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:45.320
After all, if I had the power and the will

681
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:47.360
to do what.

682
00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:48.760
I'd already done, and.

683
00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:49.239
What was that?

684
00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:53.400
I never mind. The point is I had it. I

685
00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:57.119
had the power and the will. He told me I

686
00:34:57.159 --> 00:34:58.559
had it, and I had it.

687
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:02.880
Of course I've known all along I had it, but

688
00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:04.840
nobody ever told me I had it.

689
00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:07.039
You see them when he told me I.

690
00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:11.400
Had it, then I knew that I had it, or

691
00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:13.679
I needed with somebody to tell me I had it,

692
00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:14.719
don't you see?

693
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:17.159
I don't know that I do, Louise.

694
00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:25.159
And I'm sorry for you, really neatly, profumbly sorry.

695
00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:34.079
Really well, let me tell you something, Louise. It is

696
00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:37.679
a cheap, trashy book. Cheap and trashy. Even know that

697
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:40.039
all your books haven't been cheap and trashy, Louise, because

698
00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:43.079
they have been, but you believed in them so utterly.

699
00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:46.079
Something came through people who read them came to believe

700
00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:46.840
that life could.

701
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:48.960
Be sweet and wonderful and full of joy and love

702
00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:53.280
and light, without pain, without suffering, where goodness and sweetness

703
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:55.679
were rewarded and meanness and cruelty were punished.

704
00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:56.559
Well, I believe that it.

705
00:35:57.039 --> 00:35:58.800
It's such a fool. I'm sure you do believe it.

706
00:35:59.239 --> 00:36:02.440
And because it's what everybody wants to believe. Your books

707
00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:03.480
sell like crazy.

708
00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:05.480
Love conquers all.

709
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:08.480
That's all your book says, that's all Any of your

710
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:10.079
books that ever said, well, it's true?

711
00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:10.920
How would you know?

712
00:36:11.079 --> 00:36:12.159
What?

713
00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:13.159
What did you say?

714
00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:17.400
I said, how would you know about love? I know

715
00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:18.400
all about it?

716
00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:20.519
And nobody could tell it from your books. They are

717
00:36:20.599 --> 00:36:21.360
sleazy and.

718
00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:24.960
Phony and trump chums, some sex thrown in every fifty

719
00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:27.480
pages just to show you're with it, And even those

720
00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:30.000
parts aren't very good. There is phony and full of

721
00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:31.199
sakery as the rest of it.

722
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:34.079
Shut shut and ask me.

723
00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:36.880
I will never ask you again. You can bet on that.

724
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:39.800
What's more, I'll make you eat your words casting you

725
00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:41.760
weep and said, what I believe?

726
00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:42.480
What it?

727
00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:50.159
Cassie, Cassie, what is it? If you want a glass

728
00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:50.400
of water?

729
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:51.800
And I do to me.

730
00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:54.599
I'm all right.

731
00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:59.440
I was just joking on my words.

732
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:04.400
You mean that I did not tea, I did it.

733
00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:10.639
You're a very powerful woman, Louise, very very powerful, and

734
00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:19.039
teat It was true. I hadn't taken a bite of food,

735
00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:24.360
we hadn't even ordered. But the power of Louise's hatred,

736
00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:29.559
her malevolence, told me, had brought on one of those

737
00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:32.440
helpless fits of coughing until they stop, you think you're

738
00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:35.920
going to die. It was only when I realized, even

739
00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:39.000
as I was gasping for breath, that it was the

740
00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:43.760
evil eye of Louise Bates that was threatening my very life.

741
00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:49.320
It was only then I was able to stop. Johanna

742
00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:54.599
was awful? Were Cathy for a baby? I'm so FRIGHTENFULU.

743
00:37:55.639 --> 00:37:59.440
I told her her novels were terrible, and I told

744
00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:03.280
her something. I told her she didn't know anything about love.

745
00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:05.039
Oh boy, that was worse.

746
00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:07.119
But she doesn't know anything about love, not the way

747
00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:07.800
we know it.

748
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:09.639
Look, I don't think it was a very good thing

749
00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:10.159
to tell her.

750
00:38:11.760 --> 00:38:15.719
Chaffy, I think I better be getting on well, I

751
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:20.480
think I better. What was that somebody knocking at the door.

752
00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:23.360
Can't imagine who, Jafy.

753
00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:26.400
Me it's Louise.

754
00:38:26.920 --> 00:38:28.199
I need to talk to you.

755
00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:30.000
Jaffy, what do we do?

756
00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:36.760
Leave it to me? Come in, Louise.

757
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:37.679
Thank you.

758
00:38:38.719 --> 00:38:42.000
Oh John, Hello Louise.

759
00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:46.400
I didn't expect to find you here, but maybe I

760
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:46.880
should have.

761
00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:48.559
Maybe I've been stupid.

762
00:38:48.639 --> 00:38:50.480
Oh, I've been stupid.

763
00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:51.280
About a lot of things.

764
00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:55.440
Like I never knew till you told me, John that

765
00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:57.039
I had the evil eye.

766
00:38:57.400 --> 00:38:57.760
Louise.

767
00:38:57.840 --> 00:38:59.920
When I think of what I've.

768
00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:05.599
Done, the power I've had, the power I've used, it's

769
00:39:05.719 --> 00:39:06.840
awful to contemplate.

770
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:09.039
We don't think about it. You couldn't help.

771
00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:12.360
It, but I must help it. I must learn to

772
00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:17.679
control us. Are you too in.

773
00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:18.760
Love with each other?

774
00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:20.480
Yes?

775
00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:20.880
We are?

776
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:22.639
We are?

777
00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:27.920
Yes, Well, then you have my blessing. I won't stand

778
00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:29.920
in your way, Louise.

779
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:31.280
You mean that with.

780
00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:33.000
All my heart.

781
00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:35.679
I hope the two of you will be very happy.

782
00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:38.679
Thank you. And Kathy.

783
00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:42.719
You don't have to show my last novel to the

784
00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:44.119
publishers if you.

785
00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:45.280
Don't want to, but I do.

786
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:47.280
It probably isn't very good anyway.

787
00:39:48.280 --> 00:39:55.480
Goodbye, And with that, Louise turned and walked out out

788
00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:58.719
of the room and out of our lives. What had

789
00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:01.320
happened as near as I can figure out is that

790
00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:04.280
she had been so shocked and horrified by the realization

791
00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:07.599
of her power that she had turned completely in the

792
00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:11.440
opposite direction and was determined to become a saint.

793
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:18.280
It's John Bates again, and I'd like to add a

794
00:40:18.280 --> 00:40:18.840
few words.

795
00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:21.639
After all, I'm responsible for the whole thing.

796
00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:24.039
I was the one who taught Louise to say I

797
00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:28.079
can and I will. Kathy and I are married now

798
00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:32.360
it's working out all right, I guess. But Kathy is

799
00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:36.840
a very powerful woman too, and one of these days

800
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:41.360
I may have to say to myself, I can and

801
00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:47.280
I will. Then I'll go back to Louise, who has

802
00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:59.840
turned into a really very nice person. How things are

803
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:03.119
learned about in this world. The cheater becomes the cheated,

804
00:41:03.480 --> 00:41:07.360
and the rob becomes a robber, the perpetrator becomes a victim,

805
00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:11.199
and no one is satisfied, at least not for long.

806
00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:16.800
A very very strange world, indeed, but alas the only

807
00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:29.079
one we've got. I'll be back shortly. Let me read

808
00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:31.840
to you one more time from the works of Bles Pascal.

809
00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:37.199
What a chimera is man, What a novelty, what a monster?

810
00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:42.599
What a chaos? What a contradiction? What a prodigy, judge of.

811
00:41:42.559 --> 00:41:47.039
All things, feeble, worm of the earth, depository of truth,

812
00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:52.199
a saint of uncertainty and error, the glory and the

813
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:56.480
shame of the universe. Ourcasts included Carol t I Tell,

814
00:41:56.639 --> 00:42:00.280
Mandel Kramer, and Terry Keene. The entire production was under

815
00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:06.199
the direction of i'mon Brown and now a free view

816
00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:10.280
of our next tale. That woman's not saying those words, Peter,

817
00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:12.519
her lips on even moving.

818
00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:14.400
It's a trick, George.

819
00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:19.960
Please limits there are now as you climb the hilltop.

820
00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:23.840
When you reach the summit of your hill, you will

821
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:27.360
find your dreams guarding the top most peak.

822
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:33.519
Oh yes, yes, sir Walter, I shall, I shall. That's

823
00:42:33.559 --> 00:42:35.079
not Sir Walter Scott.

824
00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:37.199
George, please, I beg of you.

825
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:42.039
The sun will set, the quietness and twilight will fall

826
00:42:42.119 --> 00:42:46.400
around you and your own, your beloved. What evil and

827
00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:47.519
will speak?

828
00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:51.039
It's a big Peter. Look at this wire in my hand.

829
00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:54.599
I've pulled it out. There's someone in another room speaking

830
00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:58.039
into a microphone. It's a far This is E. G.

831
00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:01.920
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for

832
00:43:02.039 --> 00:43:39.719
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant dreams.

833
00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:50.159
I can't say that I feel my curse has been absolved,

834
00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:54.800
so to speak. But I do think this cup of

835
00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:59.880
tea could use a bit of company. So I'll refill

836
00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:05.079
this and refresh it. Or what's that it? No, no, no,

837
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:13.920
only the wind. It blows and blows. It never stops. Really,

838
00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:19.480
you think it does, but that's just your perspective. It

839
00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:23.920
never truly stops. It's not like you are me. There's

840
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:28.639
no end coming for the wind, just as there's no

841
00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:33.800
end to the eve of Adelaide Winters.

842
00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:39.119
You're about to hear a story based on actual events.

843
00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:42.760
To protect the innocent, names and places have been changed.

844
00:44:48.440 --> 00:44:51.480
Auto Light and it's ninety six thousand dealers bring you

845
00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:56.960
Miss Agnes Moorehead in a story taken from Life Tonight's presentation.

846
00:44:56.559 --> 00:44:59.880
Of Suspense.

847
00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:10.119
Tonight Autolite presents the evil of Adelaide Winters, a story

848
00:45:10.199 --> 00:45:14.039
about the awful results of a woman's greed, starring Miss

849
00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:23.880
Agnes Moorehead. Well, there's Stanley Smart, the brainy boss of

850
00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:27.760
our bustling baseball club. What's the matter stand battery trouble.

851
00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:29.840
Yeah, hollo, I forgot to fill my battery with water,

852
00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:32.360
and it's dead as a cellar dweller's pen and chances,

853
00:45:33.360 --> 00:45:34.880
Oh why not farm it out in favor of an

854
00:45:34.920 --> 00:45:37.320
auto light stay full battery, the battery that needs water

855
00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:39.440
only three times a year in normal car use.

856
00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:42.039
Lots on the ball, he Hallow not sure has stand

857
00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:44.400
because the famous auto light stay full has over three

858
00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:47.480
times the liquid reserve of batteries without stay full features,

859
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:50.519
and that advantage alone helps overcome one of the greatest

860
00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:51.760
causes of battery failure.

861
00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:54.440
Sounds like just when I need hollo, I stand.

862
00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:57.800
The auto light stay full is top's independable starting power

863
00:45:57.800 --> 00:46:00.320
and gives longer life as proved by tests, can inducted

864
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:02.360
according to accepted life cycle standard.

865
00:46:02.679 --> 00:46:03.840
Lead me to it, Hollow.

866
00:46:04.039 --> 00:46:07.000
Just call Western Union by number and ask for operator

867
00:46:07.039 --> 00:46:09.760
twenty five. She'll quickly and without obligation tell you the

868
00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:12.599
name and address of your nearest auto lighte battery dealer

869
00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:16.559
who handles the famous autolite stayfull, the battery that needs

870
00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:19.280
water only three times a year in normal car use.

871
00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:23.280
And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right

872
00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:28.440
with autolite. And now with the evil of Adelaide winters

873
00:46:28.679 --> 00:46:32.760
and the performance of miss Agnes moorehead, Autolite hopes once

874
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:36.079
again to keep you in suspence.

875
00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:42.000
I am grateful for any chance to tell my story,

876
00:46:42.039 --> 00:46:46.400
to explain my position in the entire horrible affair. Since

877
00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:48.559
the doctor's finally removed the bullet from the base of

878
00:46:48.599 --> 00:46:52.079
my skull, I'm able to speak. For over six years,

879
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:55.199
my body has been paralyzed, and I've had to remain silent.

880
00:46:55.280 --> 00:47:00.239
But now I can speak. You wait, you weigh all

881
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:03.639
the facts about whether I did Edward Porter more harm

882
00:47:03.679 --> 00:47:12.079
than good. The war years had made the work of

883
00:47:12.119 --> 00:47:17.400
astro communicators mediums. They'd made our work important and necessary.

884
00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:21.079
We believe it's as necessary as life itself to believe

885
00:47:21.119 --> 00:47:24.360
in life after death, especially during the war when people's

886
00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:28.840
loved ones are dying, it's important mediums bring courage to despair.

887
00:47:31.079 --> 00:47:32.480
Did you get all the newspapers?

888
00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:34.800
Yeah, late, I got them all.

889
00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:37.679
Read me the list.

890
00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:41.679
For the week of July eighth, the War Department announces

891
00:47:41.719 --> 00:47:44.280
the following members of the Army listed as dead.

892
00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:47.960
PFC Thomas, just those missing in action, Robert.

893
00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:51.480
Please, oh late, I still don't like it.

894
00:47:51.400 --> 00:47:53.079
It doesn't make much difference if you like it.

895
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:55.840
Oh look, I taught you everything about this medium racket.

896
00:47:55.920 --> 00:47:58.960
Oh yes, you taught about tin horns blowing and faces

897
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:02.519
painted with posphorus and coloring. You taught me a series

898
00:48:02.559 --> 00:48:08.119
of Halloween tricks, carnival mumbo jumbo. I made it pay, Robert,

899
00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:09.199
I made it a science.

900
00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:10.880
You took them from me.

901
00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:13.119
I didn't need them. I have inside you don't. I

902
00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:16.559
know about people's superstition and desperation. I can read people's weaknesses.

903
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:18.239
Did you teach me those things?

904
00:48:18.519 --> 00:48:18.920
You?

905
00:48:18.920 --> 00:48:21.480
You don't know anything, not even your own weakness. You're

906
00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:25.639
a terrible weakness. You need me, Robert, I don't need you.

907
00:48:26.559 --> 00:48:29.199
I did once, but not now, not anymore. Go ahead,

908
00:48:29.880 --> 00:48:32.039
go ahead, walk out, walk out the front door.

909
00:48:32.199 --> 00:48:35.480
Please don't talk like that, Adelaide you No, I'd.

910
00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:37.239
Never leave you, of course I do.

911
00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:41.239
Look, haven't we made enough, all the people we've taken.

912
00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:45.119
So far, Roberts. That's why you've never been a successful medium.

913
00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:47.039
We haven't taken or used anyone.

914
00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:50.360
We've helped them, rich old dowagers who were on their

915
00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:54.039
last legs anyway, people with nothing but time and dote away, people.

916
00:48:53.800 --> 00:48:57.119
Who've lost their loved ones. The bereaved and despairing, we

917
00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:00.960
give them hope. The widows and weeping, we bring them

918
00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:04.559
contact with their loved ones who've died on some distant battlefield.

919
00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:08.280
I wish I understood you. I wish I knew what

920
00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:08.840
you want.

921
00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:11.320
I want money and happiness, and they're the same.

922
00:49:11.800 --> 00:49:13.440
But we've got money not enough.

923
00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:17.480
Read me the list of those missing inaction, Robert, and

924
00:49:17.519 --> 00:49:19.840
their addresses and their phone numbers.

925
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:25.400
Please, Pfc. Timothy Alington nine twenty seven North King Avenue,

926
00:49:25.480 --> 00:49:26.199
Cutler nine.

927
00:49:26.360 --> 00:49:28.480
Not a good neighborhood, oh lade?

928
00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:30.760
Would it be simple to just contact the relatives of

929
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:33.519
the men who were killed? Wouldn't it be easy to

930
00:49:33.599 --> 00:49:34.159
work them?

931
00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:34.480
No?

932
00:49:34.719 --> 00:49:37.239
I told you know, with a man missing in action,

933
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:39.599
who's to say my information about how or if he

934
00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:40.679
died is right or wrong?

935
00:49:41.199 --> 00:49:41.679
Who?

936
00:49:42.320 --> 00:49:44.000
Not even the War Department, not even the meadow was

937
00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:44.679
supposed to know.

938
00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:50.400
Continue Roberts Staff Sergeant A. Fineman eight twenty six East

939
00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:51.440
thirty second Street.

940
00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:53.960
Very poor district. People are poor.

941
00:49:54.599 --> 00:49:59.079
I see Corporal John Porter fourteen thirty eight Williamsburg Road

942
00:49:59.159 --> 00:49:59.880
Hammer Force.

943
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:03.639
Call that one, Robert, use that phone. I'll listen in

944
00:50:03.679 --> 00:50:11.960
on this one.

945
00:50:21.159 --> 00:50:25.639
Hello, is this mister Porter? Yes, Corporal John Porter's father.

946
00:50:25.719 --> 00:50:26.239
I'm his father.

947
00:50:26.360 --> 00:50:26.840
What is it?

948
00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:29.119
This is the war to pardon you found me.

949
00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:32.119
I'd almost given up hope, but you found my son alife.

950
00:50:32.599 --> 00:50:34.360
Your son is dead, mister Porter.

951
00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:42.280
Well, all right, you can say what you like. But mostly,

952
00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:45.199
and I've pieced the reports together, mostly missing in action

953
00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:48.239
means the worst kind of death in a war. Oh,

954
00:50:48.440 --> 00:50:51.000
people officials arguing with me, they say that missing in

955
00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:52.199
action only means missing.

956
00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:53.440
Yes, but for how long?

957
00:50:54.760 --> 00:50:57.360
Edward Porter? That was his name, Edwards the father he

958
00:50:57.400 --> 00:51:00.880
didn't know, And even though he was skeptical when I

959
00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:05.159
telephoned him, he came to my office skeptically, but in desperation,

960
00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:08.039
don't you see? He came to my office with the

961
00:51:08.159 --> 00:51:09.960
hope he'd find his dead son.

962
00:51:10.199 --> 00:51:13.519
I usually never come to these things.

963
00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:16.039
You don't believe in them, mister Porter.

964
00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:19.519
I don't know. I knew once, I don't know now.

965
00:51:19.559 --> 00:51:21.960
Well, it's difficult to know anything for certain in moments

966
00:51:22.039 --> 00:51:22.239
like this.

967
00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:24.960
I've been a realist out my life, yes, so have I.

968
00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:28.760
I'm a successful businessman. I've always dealt with facts, facts

969
00:51:28.760 --> 00:51:29.480
and figures.

970
00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:31.559
Ah, this is real, mister Porter.

971
00:51:31.719 --> 00:51:35.039
Maybe I mean, I don't know what.

972
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:38.199
You really mean? Is you you hope? So you hope

973
00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:40.440
it's true? You hope it's real.

974
00:51:41.039 --> 00:51:44.360
Yes, yes, that's it. I hope it's real.

975
00:51:44.480 --> 00:51:48.480
That it's not a racket. Rackets are only out for money. Well,

976
00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:51.760
I will want money, mister Porter. I must live too,

977
00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:54.159
But I only want your money if I've helped you.

978
00:51:55.039 --> 00:51:57.880
Do you understand only if I've made the life of

979
00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:00.639
the astral world, of the life beyond this one, Only

980
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:02.519
if I've made it. Bring happiness to you?

981
00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:07.599
Here, good woman, missus whitters a good woman.

982
00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:12.079
We shall start, mister Porter, with the lights on, with

983
00:52:12.159 --> 00:52:19.639
all things visible to you, we shall start. What could

984
00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:23.760
Edward Porter turn to his friends? They all had their

985
00:52:23.760 --> 00:52:27.639
own problems, the same kind, are different, But problems could

986
00:52:27.639 --> 00:52:31.000
he turn to? His work didn't mean anything anymore, or

987
00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:33.920
his money. He had only gathered it for his son,

988
00:52:34.119 --> 00:52:38.840
his only son, his only child, and that child was dead.

989
00:52:38.840 --> 00:52:42.800
Only I could help, and we tried for seven days

990
00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:47.320
to make contact with his son, seven days devoted exclusively

991
00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:48.159
to Edward Porter.

992
00:52:57.360 --> 00:52:59.960
I hear, I.

993
00:53:01.440 --> 00:53:05.320
Hear the faint sounds of guns firing.

994
00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:10.480
Yes, it's it's very distant, very distant.

995
00:53:12.119 --> 00:53:19.360
I can't quite yes, yes, a face, I can't I

996
00:53:19.400 --> 00:53:25.119
cannot see the face. A voice, yes, it's a voice.

997
00:53:26.639 --> 00:53:33.639
Was terrible who who is it?

998
00:53:33.679 --> 00:53:36.960
Is it? John? John's a Jew voice?

999
00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:38.559
You speak.

1000
00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:40.880
Quere friends.

1001
00:53:41.800 --> 00:53:47.559
I was afraid of dying, but now here now it

1002
00:53:47.599 --> 00:53:52.679
is beautiful, is hard and his beauty?

1003
00:53:53.280 --> 00:53:54.800
Please please.

1004
00:53:57.559 --> 00:53:58.760
I am John.

1005
00:54:00.199 --> 00:54:01.559
His job father.

1006
00:54:03.119 --> 00:54:06.519
Thank I must please.

1007
00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:19.440
John stay, please stay? Oh John, my son.

1008
00:54:20.280 --> 00:54:25.119
Ah, this is with us. Oh.

1009
00:54:26.880 --> 00:54:30.920
Oh we've reached him, mister Porter.

1010
00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:34.280
We've reached your son.

1011
00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:46.559
Thank you, We just thank you, thank you, thank you.

1012
00:54:47.320 --> 00:54:50.760
Some say I should have known. Some say I made

1013
00:54:50.840 --> 00:54:54.639
him ill, that the shock well, that it affected him.

1014
00:54:54.920 --> 00:54:57.159
But I say it would have happened anyway because he

1015
00:54:57.199 --> 00:55:00.119
had nothing to hold on to, nothing. I gave give

1016
00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:04.400
him something. You may disagree with the astral science. You

1017
00:55:04.519 --> 00:55:07.280
may that you're right, But who else did Edward Porter

1018
00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:09.880
any good when his son was killed in combat? Who

1019
00:55:09.920 --> 00:55:13.239
else brought him any comfort for that horrible, horrible thing?

1020
00:55:14.079 --> 00:55:19.599
I did only I. Maybe that's why he would sit

1021
00:55:19.719 --> 00:55:23.960
for extra hours waiting, not just for a seance for me.

1022
00:55:25.480 --> 00:55:37.039
I had brought him happiness, missus Red.

1023
00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:38.559
Come in, come in, mister Porter.

1024
00:55:39.679 --> 00:55:39.880
Oh.

1025
00:55:39.920 --> 00:55:44.199
I've helped so many people today, so many, but that's

1026
00:55:44.199 --> 00:55:46.239
my dedication. Anyone who needs help.

1027
00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:47.239
Maybe too many?

1028
00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:50.400
Why did you say that? Why too many? How could

1029
00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:52.079
I possibly help too many?

1030
00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:53.239
Never mind, let's begin.

1031
00:55:54.079 --> 00:55:58.760
You're acting unusual to Damester Porter. Is something wrong? I mean,

1032
00:55:58.840 --> 00:56:01.760
is there a new problem I can help you with?

1033
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:04.280
I said, begin, no talk, begin see.

1034
00:56:04.159 --> 00:56:06.599
Here, mister Porter. I offer my services. I give freely

1035
00:56:06.599 --> 00:56:08.639
of my services to help others. But after all, that

1036
00:56:08.719 --> 00:56:13.280
doesn't give license to you or anyone else, well even you,

1037
00:56:13.559 --> 00:56:17.159
I mean, considering the amount of sessions we've there, I know,

1038
00:56:18.039 --> 00:56:20.840
but it doesn't even give you a right to talk

1039
00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:26.239
like that. Did you hear me, mister Porter, Mister Porter.

1040
00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:30.679
I can't stand your spending so much time with others.

1041
00:56:30.760 --> 00:56:34.119
It's my work, Missus Winders, I want all your time.

1042
00:56:34.239 --> 00:56:36.480
That's quite impossible and quite expensive.

1043
00:56:36.599 --> 00:56:38.519
I can have thought that I must be with my

1044
00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:39.239
son Mark.

1045
00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:42.519
We'd be pested all day along by other clients. Mister Porter, that.

1046
00:56:42.719 --> 00:56:44.760
Keep coming, I know, I realized.

1047
00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:48.119
And McBain my assistant, he has always been with me.

1048
00:56:48.519 --> 00:56:51.559
Bring both of you live in my home. It's a

1049
00:56:51.679 --> 00:56:56.079
huge house. Since my wife died. Yeah, but you know

1050
00:56:56.159 --> 00:57:00.800
all that said she died. No, my son, I need

1051
00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:04.599
your help. You can bring my son to me. You must,

1052
00:57:05.199 --> 00:57:06.280
you must lie.

1053
00:57:06.800 --> 00:57:10.599
I would be failing mankind if I didn't, I would

1054
00:57:10.599 --> 00:57:14.800
be failing my duty. Of course, Edward.

1055
00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:16.559
Of course.

1056
00:57:30.280 --> 00:57:33.840
Auto Light is bringing you Miss Agnes moorehead with Joseph

1057
00:57:33.920 --> 00:57:37.960
Kerns and Herb Butterfield in the Evil of Adelaide Winters

1058
00:57:38.320 --> 00:57:43.159
Tonight's production in radio's outstanding Theater of Thrills suspense.

1059
00:57:55.480 --> 00:57:57.239
Wow, that's the old ball game.

1060
00:57:57.360 --> 00:58:00.840
Congratulations, Stan Never could have managed it with that picture.

1061
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:04.920
Hollow You mean Ace McDougall. No, my new auto light stainful.

1062
00:58:05.320 --> 00:58:07.639
That's the power pitture for perfect starts.

1063
00:58:07.719 --> 00:58:08.639
What a battery?

1064
00:58:08.760 --> 00:58:08.920
Oh?

1065
00:58:08.960 --> 00:58:10.760
You visited your auto light battery dealer?

1066
00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:13.280
Stand Yes, sir, and I found his name by calling

1067
00:58:13.320 --> 00:58:16.599
Western Union and asking for Operator twenty five. You're set

1068
00:58:16.679 --> 00:58:19.480
now because the auto light stayfule needs water only three

1069
00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:22.159
times a year in normal car use, and what's more,

1070
00:58:22.199 --> 00:58:25.320
it gives longer life. Has proved by tests conducted according

1071
00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:27.199
to accepted life cycle standards.

1072
00:58:27.320 --> 00:58:30.639
It can't beat that winning compensation. No, sir, hollow right,

1073
00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:33.440
you are so friends. See you're nearest auto light battery

1074
00:58:33.480 --> 00:58:36.920
dealer soon to quickly learn his address, Call Western Union

1075
00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:40.639
by number, ask for operator twenty five. Without obligation, she

1076
00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:43.559
will tell you where you can buy an auto light stafule,

1077
00:58:44.239 --> 00:58:49.559
the battery that proves you're always right with autolite, and

1078
00:58:49.639 --> 00:58:52.840
now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage.

1079
00:58:53.039 --> 00:58:57.519
Miss Agnes Moorehead in Elliott Lewis's production of the Evil

1080
00:58:57.599 --> 00:59:01.760
of Adelaide winters a dramatic report, well calculated to keep

1081
00:59:01.800 --> 00:59:04.079
you in suspense.

1082
00:59:20.079 --> 00:59:22.519
Why should I think there was anything wrong in moving

1083
00:59:22.559 --> 00:59:26.119
into Edward Porter's huge home. It was a beautiful new

1084
00:59:26.119 --> 00:59:29.239
home for his son. But now his son was dead

1085
00:59:29.239 --> 00:59:32.440
in the war, and I was bringing his son to him,

1086
00:59:32.440 --> 00:59:35.199
making Edward Porter think the life his son had gone

1087
00:59:35.239 --> 00:59:39.280
to was really a better life, a fuller life, a

1088
00:59:39.400 --> 00:59:45.280
happier life. Maybe that should have been my warning. Maybe

1089
00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:49.320
I should have known. But the money was so wonderful,

1090
00:59:49.519 --> 00:59:53.440
the house was so beautiful, the money and house for

1091
00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:58.199
a dead man's voice once a day only Robert McMain

1092
00:59:58.280 --> 00:59:59.039
warned against it.

1093
01:00:00.880 --> 01:00:03.440
I just picked up the mail. There's a letter for you, me,

1094
01:00:04.599 --> 01:00:06.639
a letter for me here, War Department.

1095
01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:09.280
You opened it. You opened my mail.

1096
01:00:09.519 --> 01:00:12.320
It's addressed to Porter, but it's for you.

1097
01:00:12.599 --> 01:00:14.320
What was it? What did it say?

1098
01:00:14.559 --> 01:00:15.760
Eh? Read it yourself.

1099
01:00:17.320 --> 01:00:20.599
Seems the government doesn't like mediums posing as the war department.

1100
01:00:20.599 --> 01:00:21.960
Who could have told him about me?

1101
01:00:22.320 --> 01:00:23.639
They don't mention anything, but.

1102
01:00:23.559 --> 01:00:26.519
They say mediums have been contacting the parents of war casualties.

1103
01:00:26.559 --> 01:00:27.880
I've done that. They must be me.

1104
01:00:28.079 --> 01:00:30.440
Well, what difference does it make? We've taken Porter for enough?

1105
01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:31.000
Shut up?

1106
01:00:31.079 --> 01:00:33.880
I'm warning you, Adelaide. I can see it. You can't.

1107
01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:36.360
I can see his eyes when when you walk past

1108
01:00:36.400 --> 01:00:38.360
him it's time to lay off, to get out.

1109
01:00:38.519 --> 01:00:44.480
Oh no, oh no, Robert, you would like that. You'd

1110
01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:47.760
like me to run, to leave all this? Well, I

1111
01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:52.400
won't because I'm going to marry Edward Porter.

1112
01:00:54.440 --> 01:00:58.880
Oh you can't. You wouldn't, Adelaide. I've worked for you,

1113
01:00:58.960 --> 01:00:59.559
I've loved you.

1114
01:00:59.599 --> 01:01:01.679
I've I've hung around because I loved.

1115
01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:03.360
It, And you can still hang around. Robert.

1116
01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:06.039
No, No, not now, not now.

1117
01:01:06.119 --> 01:01:10.920
I won't getting brave again, Robert. This is a comfortable life,

1118
01:01:11.119 --> 01:01:14.880
just being a dead man's voice. Going to throw it

1119
01:01:14.920 --> 01:01:19.119
over for love? I'm not marrying for love? Why should

1120
01:01:19.119 --> 01:01:20.559
you throw all this away for love?

1121
01:01:22.119 --> 01:01:23.280
Did he ask you to marry him?

1122
01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:25.360
Speak up, Robert, I can't hear you.

1123
01:01:26.079 --> 01:01:28.159
I said, did he ask you to marry him?

1124
01:01:28.519 --> 01:01:30.320
No? But he will.

1125
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:33.039
Oh, you're awfully sure of yourself about everything.

1126
01:01:33.079 --> 01:01:36.559
Of course, he'll ask me, because he must hold on

1127
01:01:36.639 --> 01:01:39.440
to me. I'm the only person who can bring his

1128
01:01:39.519 --> 01:01:43.920
son to him every day, like a clock, like a stopwatch,

1129
01:01:45.639 --> 01:01:46.679
like a pistol shot.

1130
01:01:47.239 --> 01:01:49.559
Something's wrong with him, I'm warning him.

1131
01:01:49.639 --> 01:01:53.400
Yes, I can bring his son to him like a stopwatch, Robert.

1132
01:02:02.199 --> 01:02:05.880
Even now, I say, no one, no one could have

1133
01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:08.760
foreseen the events. I'm sure of that, as sure as

1134
01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:11.119
I am that no one would have acted any differently

1135
01:02:11.199 --> 01:02:14.440
than I did. As little by little, I became the

1136
01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:18.400
most important thing, the only thing in Edward Porter's life,

1137
01:02:18.599 --> 01:02:23.760
the only thing beside a voice. He worshiped, Yes, worshiped.

1138
01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:27.320
Could any woman refuse such adoration, such love?

1139
01:02:29.400 --> 01:02:34.199
John sounded happy, Adelaide, What what Edward I said? He

1140
01:02:34.320 --> 01:02:37.159
sounded happy, happier than I've ever heard him.

1141
01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:39.920
Yes, they are happy in that other world.

1142
01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:44.679
How wonderful to feel happy again, to feel hopeful.

1143
01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:47.800
To share your life with someone.

1144
01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:48.920
To share it with you.

1145
01:02:50.280 --> 01:02:50.599
Edward.

1146
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:57.320
John didn't say much today. That isn't like him. He's

1147
01:02:57.400 --> 01:03:02.159
always talkative. I wonder if I've been saying the right

1148
01:03:02.199 --> 01:03:02.920
things to him.

1149
01:03:03.000 --> 01:03:03.559
At Lee.

1150
01:03:04.039 --> 01:03:09.360
You speak of him as if he's like us, isn't

1151
01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:12.880
he well? Of course we're all one spirit. Of course

1152
01:03:12.880 --> 01:03:15.239
he's like us. But we have a life on this

1153
01:03:15.320 --> 01:03:17.599
world to live before the other one. We have so

1154
01:03:17.719 --> 01:03:18.559
much to live for.

1155
01:03:18.840 --> 01:03:21.320
Can it compare to the other world beyond the grave?

1156
01:03:21.920 --> 01:03:25.880
Why no? But we must wait our time. We cannot

1157
01:03:25.920 --> 01:03:29.800
ignore this life. We are in it. We must live

1158
01:03:29.880 --> 01:03:30.880
as best we can.

1159
01:03:31.639 --> 01:03:35.599
I don't know if I ever could without John. This

1160
01:03:35.960 --> 01:03:37.440
was built for my son.

1161
01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:41.039
You haven't lost him through me. Regain John.

1162
01:03:41.320 --> 01:03:43.199
That's why all this is yours.

1163
01:03:43.719 --> 01:03:45.800
Well, I'm only a kind of employee.

1164
01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:48.039
Don't say that all salary.

1165
01:03:48.159 --> 01:03:52.679
You're not an employee, more like a member of the family.

1166
01:03:53.679 --> 01:03:58.840
But not. Actually, there's a great difference between like and actually.

1167
01:03:58.599 --> 01:03:59.639
You're the family.

1168
01:03:59.719 --> 01:04:02.360
You when John and I, you and I.

1169
01:04:04.079 --> 01:04:05.400
John is a spirit.

1170
01:04:05.519 --> 01:04:09.679
Now you and John and I one family, one unit.

1171
01:04:09.719 --> 01:04:10.000
Again.

1172
01:04:10.159 --> 01:04:13.000
I'm not your wife. You speak like I'm your wife.

1173
01:04:13.280 --> 01:04:15.599
I'm not Edward, not at all.

1174
01:04:16.199 --> 01:04:21.599
You will be my wife, my dear, my wonderful wife.

1175
01:04:22.199 --> 01:04:29.599
Edward, kind, sweet Edward, my husband, Edward.

1176
01:04:31.800 --> 01:04:37.679
I said something odd here now with us, No Edward,

1177
01:04:37.760 --> 01:04:42.480
no darling, like we were with John for the first time,

1178
01:04:43.039 --> 01:04:44.400
as if we were with John.

1179
01:04:44.480 --> 01:04:45.199
No, Edward.

1180
01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:48.800
It's not that he wanted us to share our happiness

1181
01:04:48.840 --> 01:05:00.519
with him, like he wanted us to be with him.

1182
01:05:00.679 --> 01:05:04.480
I was terrified. I'd never seen it before, a reaction

1183
01:05:04.679 --> 01:05:09.679
like kids. Well, once a woman she just disappeared. One

1184
01:05:09.760 --> 01:05:12.840
day she lost her husband and two children an automobile accident,

1185
01:05:12.880 --> 01:05:15.320
and I calmed her down in seances, talking to her

1186
01:05:15.360 --> 01:05:18.159
dead family, making them seem real. Then one day she

1187
01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:21.599
just disappeared and left a note. She said she was

1188
01:05:21.639 --> 01:05:23.800
going to join them.

1189
01:05:24.039 --> 01:05:25.360
He's sick.

1190
01:05:25.400 --> 01:05:26.440
He's dangerous at all.

1191
01:05:26.519 --> 01:05:27.960
You're trying to intimidate me.

1192
01:05:28.039 --> 01:05:29.320
He doesn't know what's real or not.

1193
01:05:29.480 --> 01:05:30.360
You're jealous again.

1194
01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:32.679
I'm trying to tell you how dangerous it is.

1195
01:05:32.639 --> 01:05:34.239
How dangerous rabit.

1196
01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:36.119
I don't know exactly.

1197
01:05:36.119 --> 01:05:38.440
Will he turned me over to the police was more?

1198
01:05:38.599 --> 01:05:39.159
Something more?

1199
01:05:39.199 --> 01:05:41.400
Will he demand his money back? The money he's paid me.

1200
01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:42.639
I don't know.

1201
01:05:42.760 --> 01:05:44.480
The money means nothing to him.

1202
01:05:45.079 --> 01:05:47.840
He's losing his reason, his what what?

1203
01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:48.840
Oh?

1204
01:05:49.320 --> 01:05:51.199
Don't generalize, be specific.

1205
01:05:51.639 --> 01:05:53.199
If you're as smart as you say you are, you

1206
01:05:53.239 --> 01:05:53.760
ought to run.

1207
01:05:53.880 --> 01:05:56.119
Not until I have all of this.

1208
01:05:56.639 --> 01:05:59.360
You can walk out that front door now with me.

1209
01:05:59.639 --> 01:06:01.199
I have to say, staying at what I worked for,

1210
01:06:01.360 --> 01:06:01.920
it's mine.

1211
01:06:02.519 --> 01:06:03.159
You're scared.

1212
01:06:03.239 --> 01:06:06.320
I won't leave, not for anything, not until I'm married

1213
01:06:06.320 --> 01:06:06.639
to him.

1214
01:06:06.920 --> 01:06:08.840
You're really frightened. You're just putting on an act.

1215
01:06:08.920 --> 01:06:12.199
Nothing can make me leave, nothing, nothing, nothing.

1216
01:06:12.400 --> 01:06:14.360
You know I'm right, Please please, Adelaide.

1217
01:06:14.360 --> 01:06:15.480
You know you're a coward.

1218
01:06:15.599 --> 01:06:16.440
You're a cow.

1219
01:06:22.239 --> 01:06:25.119
I should have listened to Robert's warning. I should have.

1220
01:06:25.960 --> 01:06:27.599
But how could I take the advice of a man

1221
01:06:27.639 --> 01:06:32.280
I didn't respect. How I couldn't even accept Robert's advice

1222
01:06:32.280 --> 01:06:35.000
when Edward Porter canceled the seances for one entire day,

1223
01:06:35.559 --> 01:06:37.760
even though he was with me every minute of those

1224
01:06:37.800 --> 01:06:40.960
twenty four hours, even when he sat in a chair

1225
01:06:41.039 --> 01:06:45.599
in my room while I slept, not speaking, just watching,

1226
01:06:46.880 --> 01:06:52.000
always watching. Even then, I couldn't admit Robert was right.

1227
01:06:52.760 --> 01:06:55.239
I had to be right. I had always been right.

1228
01:06:55.880 --> 01:06:58.840
Even though I barely slept. I was afraid to sleep,

1229
01:06:58.920 --> 01:07:04.280
so terribly afraid. Even then, I couldn't admit Robert was right,

1230
01:07:05.239 --> 01:07:06.760
that Edward Porter.

1231
01:07:06.760 --> 01:07:16.199
Was past my control, Adelaide, Adelaide, I'm not asleep, Edward.

1232
01:07:16.760 --> 01:07:21.119
I thought you were. I've been watching you for hours, and.

1233
01:07:21.079 --> 01:07:24.559
I've been watching you too, Edward. I couldn't sleep, so

1234
01:07:24.800 --> 01:07:28.320
very strange, like you didn't trust me.

1235
01:07:28.519 --> 01:07:33.039
Oh, but I do. I do, my dear, my dear Adelaide.

1236
01:07:33.920 --> 01:07:37.159
I trust you more than I've ever trusted any human being.

1237
01:07:37.239 --> 01:07:40.280
I've known what's wrong, what's bothering you?

1238
01:07:41.920 --> 01:07:45.599
How much does this mean to you? Our marriage, this.

1239
01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:49.239
House nothing without you, Edward, and my money only something

1240
01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:51.440
to share with you, nothing more nothing.

1241
01:07:52.360 --> 01:07:56.159
You're my life and you are mine? You and John,

1242
01:07:56.920 --> 01:07:57.440
both of you.

1243
01:07:57.519 --> 01:08:01.320
Why do you keep saying that what about John? John

1244
01:08:01.400 --> 01:08:05.119
is dead, Edward, he's waiting, that he's not with us?

1245
01:08:05.400 --> 01:08:05.960
Not really?

1246
01:08:06.519 --> 01:08:08.920
What does John bean to you?

1247
01:08:09.400 --> 01:08:10.079
A son?

1248
01:08:10.880 --> 01:08:11.960
Your son and mine?

1249
01:08:13.039 --> 01:08:14.679
You love him as I love him.

1250
01:08:15.039 --> 01:08:17.000
I told you that.

1251
01:08:17.520 --> 01:08:18.720
Why do we have to wait?

1252
01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:20.600
Edward? I don't understand.

1253
01:08:20.760 --> 01:08:22.479
Why must we keep him waiting?

1254
01:08:24.199 --> 01:08:25.479
You can't be serious.

1255
01:08:25.479 --> 01:08:28.920
You've said this world, this material world, meant nothing without me.

1256
01:08:29.079 --> 01:08:33.319
No, No, this is our world, this is the one

1257
01:08:33.359 --> 01:08:33.880
we live in.

1258
01:08:34.039 --> 01:08:36.199
What is there to wait for? This is a place

1259
01:08:36.199 --> 01:08:38.479
of evil and sin and corruption? You said, so.

1260
01:08:38.840 --> 01:08:43.279
You showed me that held that put it away. You

1261
01:08:43.520 --> 01:08:47.600
showed me the beautiful world that lies beyond it was exaggerated.

1262
01:08:47.840 --> 01:08:51.560
I mean, understrain and upset, things get distorted. We see

1263
01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:54.680
what we want to. Don't you understand it's not perfect beyond.

1264
01:08:54.720 --> 01:08:55.640
It isn't don't.

1265
01:08:55.439 --> 01:08:58.359
Say that you taught me faith. Don't lose faith now,

1266
01:08:58.640 --> 01:09:00.359
don't be afraid of leaving word.

1267
01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:03.279
That's the only world, the only one. There's no extra

1268
01:09:03.399 --> 01:09:05.000
world beyond none.

1269
01:09:05.439 --> 01:09:06.159
It was a lie.

1270
01:09:06.199 --> 01:09:07.520
I only wanted money in position.

1271
01:09:08.039 --> 01:09:10.720
I believe the only money in position, and the rest

1272
01:09:10.760 --> 01:09:11.199
was a lie.

1273
01:09:11.359 --> 01:09:15.840
John's voice, John's voice, my own son's voice. I know

1274
01:09:16.039 --> 01:09:17.800
his voice in a crowd in eternity.

1275
01:09:17.840 --> 01:09:18.640
I know his voice.

1276
01:09:18.680 --> 01:09:19.760
I'll show you, I'll show you.

1277
01:09:19.800 --> 01:09:22.439
It was a lie. Robert McMain is in his wrong.

1278
01:09:22.680 --> 01:09:23.960
Come on, come to his room.

1279
01:09:26.079 --> 01:09:26.600
It's a lie.

1280
01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:27.000
Robert.

1281
01:09:27.199 --> 01:09:31.760
You tell you there's no life beyond Robert, tell him

1282
01:09:31.520 --> 01:09:35.119
that you Robert, Robert, where are you?

1283
01:09:35.319 --> 01:09:39.960
Oh no, oh, no, Cord Cord left.

1284
01:09:40.199 --> 01:09:42.119
It was a lie, a lie.

1285
01:09:42.159 --> 01:09:43.279
It's no life beyond.

1286
01:09:43.600 --> 01:09:48.560
It's not beyond, you're saying.

1287
01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:05.359
H John.

1288
01:10:06.880 --> 01:10:18.920
M Six years it's been just lying here, not able

1289
01:10:18.960 --> 01:10:24.119
to talk to tell my side of it. But now

1290
01:10:24.159 --> 01:10:26.279
it's out. Now you know.

1291
01:10:28.760 --> 01:10:58.720
You judge, You judge whether I did harm.

1292
01:10:59.039 --> 01:11:04.720
Sound spend presented by Auto Light to night Star Miss

1293
01:11:04.760 --> 01:11:09.319
Agnes Moorehead, And here she is again, first Lady of Suspense,

1294
01:11:09.720 --> 01:11:10.920
Miss Morehead, Thank.

1295
01:11:10.800 --> 01:11:15.199
You, Harlow. First Lady of Suspense is a title I'll always.

1296
01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:18.279
Cherish, Agnes. I believe this was your twentieth appearance as

1297
01:11:18.439 --> 01:11:19.359
Star Suspense.

1298
01:11:19.479 --> 01:11:23.399
I guess you're right, Harlow, right with Auto Light. You see,

1299
01:11:23.399 --> 01:11:25.199
I've been here so often. I can do the commercials,

1300
01:11:25.640 --> 01:11:29.199
but seriously, I thoroughly enjoy Suspense and I'm looking forward

1301
01:11:29.239 --> 01:11:29.960
to the next time.

1302
01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:32.520
Well it'll be soon, Agnes, because you're an important part

1303
01:11:32.560 --> 01:11:36.159
of the big Auto Light family, a friendly family extending

1304
01:11:36.279 --> 01:11:39.319
from coast to coast. In twenty eight Plants auto Light

1305
01:11:39.399 --> 01:11:43.039
makes over four hundred products for cars, trucks, planes and boats,

1306
01:11:43.640 --> 01:11:46.920
complete electrical systems used as original factory equipment on many

1307
01:11:47.039 --> 01:11:50.359
leading makes of our finest cars, trucks and tractors. Auto

1308
01:11:50.399 --> 01:11:54.279
Light batteries including the famous auto Light Stay, full ignition,

1309
01:11:54.359 --> 01:11:58.239
Engineered auto Light Standard and resistor type spark plugs, all

1310
01:11:58.279 --> 01:12:01.960
backed by constant Auto Light research and precision, built to

1311
01:12:02.039 --> 01:12:06.319
assure top performance. So remember, from bumper to tail light,

1312
01:12:06.800 --> 01:12:19.840
you're always right with auto Light. Next week on Suspense,

1313
01:12:20.079 --> 01:12:23.279
our star will be mister Charles Lawton. In another story

1314
01:12:23.319 --> 01:12:27.319
based on actual events concerning a man historically famous as

1315
01:12:27.359 --> 01:12:31.199
the most notorious poisoner who ever lived. A dramatic report,

1316
01:12:31.239 --> 01:12:36.439
we call Neil Cream doctor of Poison. In weeks to come,

1317
01:12:36.479 --> 01:12:40.039
we shall also present mister Tony Curtis and Miss Gene Crane,

1318
01:12:40.640 --> 01:12:41.359
all on.

1319
01:12:42.800 --> 01:12:43.920
Sauspence.

1320
01:12:47.560 --> 01:12:51.079
Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music

1321
01:12:51.079 --> 01:12:54.920
composed by Lucian Morlick and conducted by lud Gluskin. The

1322
01:12:55.119 --> 01:12:58.439
Evil of Adelaide Winters was written for suspense by Arthur

1323
01:12:58.520 --> 01:13:01.520
Ross in Tonight's story, Sorry her Butterveel was hurt as

1324
01:13:01.560 --> 01:13:03.960
Potter and Joseph Kerns as McMain.

1325
01:13:10.760 --> 01:13:16.359
Well, my dear, I certainly hope we never hear anything

1326
01:13:16.439 --> 01:13:22.600
more of Adelaide. She seems a bit on the troublesome,

1327
01:13:22.600 --> 01:13:28.039
a size I would say. As the night grows later

1328
01:13:28.159 --> 01:13:33.600
and later, I'm just not sure. I'm not sure what's

1329
01:13:33.640 --> 01:13:38.319
coming next, If the sun will rise, or if it

1330
01:13:38.399 --> 01:13:47.159
will hide it's warm, gor poory light, keeping it to itself?

1331
01:13:49.159 --> 01:13:54.680
Will I ever truly flee from evil?

1332
01:13:56.920 --> 01:13:59.399
And now stay hune for the mystery program That is

1333
01:13:59.479 --> 01:14:02.960
unique a my all mystery programs, because even when you

1334
01:14:03.039 --> 01:14:06.479
know who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise

1335
01:14:06.640 --> 01:14:11.640
at the final curtain in the Signal Oil program, the

1336
01:14:11.680 --> 01:14:27.520
Whistler signal the famous go Farther gasoline invite you to

1337
01:14:27.560 --> 01:14:33.199
sit back and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.

1338
01:14:50.960 --> 01:14:54.600
I am the Whistler, and I know many things where

1339
01:14:54.600 --> 01:14:55.439
I walk by night.

1340
01:14:56.199 --> 01:14:57.039
I know many.

1341
01:14:56.840 --> 01:14:59.720
Strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women

1342
01:14:59.760 --> 01:15:04.159
who stepped into the shadow. Yes, I know the nameless

1343
01:15:04.279 --> 01:15:06.560
terrors of which they dare not speak.

1344
01:15:10.319 --> 01:15:13.800
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's strange

1345
01:15:13.880 --> 01:15:16.640
story Flee from Evil.

1346
01:15:29.119 --> 01:15:32.279
There was almost complete darkness around the parked car on

1347
01:15:32.319 --> 01:15:35.439
the lonely road on the outskirts of Seattle, and the

1348
01:15:35.479 --> 01:15:38.439
man at the wheel, heavy set and fiftyish, tried to

1349
01:15:38.479 --> 01:15:42.159
peer through this darkness. He couldn't see, but he could

1350
01:15:42.159 --> 01:15:45.479
imagine what was taking place some fifty yards further up

1351
01:15:45.520 --> 01:15:53.439
the road. A raised gun, careful aim, and then the

1352
01:15:53.520 --> 01:15:56.840
shot that Bert Macklin was waiting to hear, shots, followed

1353
01:15:56.840 --> 01:15:59.520
by the sound of running feet. A few moments later,

1354
01:15:59.560 --> 01:16:02.840
Bert's if you had run to the car leaped inside.

1355
01:16:03.119 --> 01:16:04.640
I don't have the motor running, the.

1356
01:16:04.640 --> 01:16:06.439
Car and gear moving forward.

1357
01:16:07.439 --> 01:16:09.960
Swing around, Uncle Bert, Well we'll go back the way

1358
01:16:09.960 --> 01:16:13.840
we came right. You got him here, yes.

1359
01:16:13.720 --> 01:16:15.880
I got hey. Look, God, you're getting off the road.

1360
01:16:15.880 --> 01:16:20.960
We'll get stuck. Gosh, you gotta get out of here.

1361
01:16:21.479 --> 01:16:22.399
You keep stepping on it.

1362
01:16:22.439 --> 01:16:23.399
Now, I'll give her a portion.

1363
01:16:26.159 --> 01:16:39.000
Let up, Let up now, one, two, three, keep.

1364
01:16:38.920 --> 01:16:43.720
Three, let's let's go, Uncle Beet, get us away from here.

1365
01:16:43.840 --> 01:17:00.520
It's fast, Ah, nothing to worry about, Freddy.

1366
01:17:01.760 --> 01:17:04.359
You're sure you took care of him. That's what I

1367
01:17:04.399 --> 01:17:07.800
came here for, all the way from London. Yes, I

1368
01:17:08.279 --> 01:17:08.880
took care of him.

1369
01:17:08.920 --> 01:17:10.920
I'm sure you didn't get a look at him. You know.

1370
01:17:10.920 --> 01:17:12.479
It was too dark, But he was sitting at the

1371
01:17:12.479 --> 01:17:14.720
wheel of his car, and I slipped up alongside.

1372
01:17:14.840 --> 01:17:20.600
I see where. Maybe it's over, really over at last.

1373
01:17:21.199 --> 01:17:23.199
There's no maybe about it.

1374
01:17:22.880 --> 01:17:26.199
All right, But I'll last a month of paying off,

1375
01:17:26.279 --> 01:17:27.640
wondering when i'd be tapped again.

1376
01:17:28.520 --> 01:17:30.680
It doesn't seem possible that I'm rid of him, Freddy.

1377
01:17:31.680 --> 01:17:34.199
Inheriting money does have its drawbacks.

1378
01:17:34.079 --> 01:17:38.920
Decidedly good thing. The fellow was only getting started. Even

1379
01:17:39.039 --> 01:17:41.479
my entire inheritance could go fast that way.

1380
01:17:41.600 --> 01:17:44.239
Yeah, you better slow down on Corbette. Were almost into time.

1381
01:17:45.000 --> 01:17:47.760
We'll go directly back to the party. Gives some excuse,

1382
01:17:48.119 --> 01:17:50.800
and Freddy, you've done me a great favor.

1383
01:17:51.079 --> 01:17:53.760
Yes, I'm you're going to show your appreciation, of course,

1384
01:17:54.359 --> 01:17:55.520
our bargain.

1385
01:17:55.640 --> 01:17:59.039
You know, I'll never forget this, your health, what you

1386
01:17:59.439 --> 01:18:00.000
just did back.

1387
01:18:00.800 --> 01:18:02.560
It'll be healthier from me here if you do forget

1388
01:18:02.560 --> 01:18:07.399
it right now, killing a man, even a blackmailer where

1389
01:18:07.520 --> 01:18:08.079
some sort.

1390
01:18:07.880 --> 01:18:09.239
Of law, isn't that, Uncle Bert?

1391
01:18:09.800 --> 01:18:13.000
I prefer the other law, the one you mentioned earlier

1392
01:18:13.000 --> 01:18:15.479
this evening, A nye for an eye.

1393
01:18:19.840 --> 01:18:22.680
Yes, you did say that, didn't you? Bet an eye

1394
01:18:22.720 --> 01:18:25.600
for an eye? You were quite willing to lend a hand,

1395
01:18:25.800 --> 01:18:26.920
so eager to corperate.

1396
01:18:28.039 --> 01:18:28.640
You feel a.

1397
01:18:28.640 --> 01:18:31.319
Surge of confidence back at the house, facing the others

1398
01:18:31.479 --> 01:18:34.239
as Uncle Bert extends his apologies for being away.

1399
01:18:34.399 --> 01:18:37.199
Oh sorry, lie, Veronica, we didn't intend to be gone

1400
01:18:37.199 --> 01:18:37.520
so long.

1401
01:18:37.600 --> 01:18:37.800
You know.

1402
01:18:39.439 --> 01:18:41.560
We went for a spin in Uncle Beth's new car.

1403
01:18:41.720 --> 01:18:44.560
He's already imagining all sorts of things wrong with it,

1404
01:18:44.920 --> 01:18:45.479
not at all.

1405
01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:47.800
I just wanted ready to try it out. He's very

1406
01:18:47.800 --> 01:18:49.000
handy with machines, you know.

1407
01:18:49.439 --> 01:18:51.319
My he is talented, isn't he.

1408
01:18:51.399 --> 01:18:56.840
Oh I don't know, Veronica, I say, where is Uncle Frank? Oh?

1409
01:18:56.880 --> 01:19:00.000
He left here shortly after you said that, he suddenly

1410
01:19:00.079 --> 01:19:01.439
remember the business appointment.

1411
01:19:01.800 --> 01:19:06.800
Oh, a business appointment. Frank had a business appointment.

1412
01:19:06.399 --> 01:19:09.319
But must have been rather important for him to walk

1413
01:19:09.319 --> 01:19:12.039
out when so many drinks are being passed around drinks.

1414
01:19:12.159 --> 01:19:13.520
Oh, now, look here, Freddy.

1415
01:19:13.720 --> 01:19:16.680
If any drinks were passed, they were passed right by me.

1416
01:19:17.680 --> 01:19:20.039
Oh, I'm sorry. What we told missus fellow who act

1417
01:19:20.079 --> 01:19:21.319
as hosted two? We got beat?

1418
01:19:21.800 --> 01:19:24.720
Oh, your uncle's housekeeper made it quite clear to us

1419
01:19:24.880 --> 01:19:27.279
that if we wanted any drinks while you two were gone,

1420
01:19:27.319 --> 01:19:30.439
we'd have to fix them ourselves. Dinner, she said, is

1421
01:19:30.479 --> 01:19:32.600
the only thing she'd attend to this evening.

1422
01:19:32.680 --> 01:19:33.239
Oh did she?

1423
01:19:33.720 --> 01:19:33.840
Well?

1424
01:19:33.920 --> 01:19:36.199
I told her we'd only begun a little while the

1425
01:19:36.279 --> 01:19:37.319
old God.

1426
01:19:37.039 --> 01:19:38.720
We come, now, Freddy, we.

1427
01:19:38.760 --> 01:19:40.800
Go attend to the drinks right away? Why don't we

1428
01:19:40.840 --> 01:19:41.600
all go into the bar?

1429
01:19:42.039 --> 01:19:43.000
Wonderful idea?

1430
01:19:43.800 --> 01:19:44.399
Are you coming?

1431
01:19:44.479 --> 01:19:51.760
Uncle Ben? Uncle Bert? Eh? Oh? Oh, yes, Freddy, just

1432
01:19:51.800 --> 01:19:54.560
a minute. What's the matter Frank?

1433
01:19:55.720 --> 01:19:56.039
Freddy?

1434
01:19:57.159 --> 01:19:59.800
You don't suppose Frank's one uncle Frank?

1435
01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:00.359
What?

1436
01:20:01.880 --> 01:20:04.640
No, I never thought of that. It is funny he's

1437
01:20:04.680 --> 01:20:07.000
having a business appointment just after we left the party

1438
01:20:07.039 --> 01:20:08.920
to keep our appointment with your black man.

1439
01:20:09.039 --> 01:20:12.039
It could have been. You know, we'll find out soon enough.

1440
01:20:12.800 --> 01:20:16.479
There's not much we can do now, No, I'm comfort

1441
01:20:17.159 --> 01:20:20.920
uncle Frank. Frank's not really your own call Fuddie. He's

1442
01:20:21.000 --> 01:20:21.800
my half brother.

1443
01:20:22.760 --> 01:20:25.319
I wouldn't put it past him sponging off made the

1444
01:20:25.359 --> 01:20:26.119
way he's been doing.

1445
01:20:26.159 --> 01:20:29.239
Those who could that be? It's nest to.

1446
01:20:29.159 --> 01:20:36.920
See nathing gentlemen, let's see now you'd be mister Britt

1447
01:20:36.960 --> 01:20:38.680
Macklin and you'd be mister Frank.

1448
01:20:39.039 --> 01:20:40.720
What is it, my kind.

1449
01:20:42.319 --> 01:20:47.159
Sydney Hawker, private investigator? I don't understand, mister Hawker.

1450
01:20:47.000 --> 01:20:47.359
You will.

1451
01:20:48.439 --> 01:20:50.159
I'd like to commend for a little talk if you

1452
01:20:50.199 --> 01:20:50.960
don't mind.

1453
01:20:50.720 --> 01:20:53.039
Well, that's quite impossible. We have dinner, guess.

1454
01:20:53.359 --> 01:20:56.319
Of course, naturally you wouldn't want them to hear what

1455
01:20:56.399 --> 01:20:57.039
I had to say.

1456
01:20:57.119 --> 01:20:59.319
Now, see here, what is the nature of your business?

1457
01:20:59.319 --> 01:21:02.159
Hey? At all ties in rather neatly with that little

1458
01:21:02.159 --> 01:21:04.520
display you and Freddy here put on a little while

1459
01:21:04.600 --> 01:21:09.000
ago in the outskirts of town of fred. I think

1460
01:21:09.000 --> 01:21:15.039
we'd best step outside, close the door. Oh, mister Hawker,

1461
01:21:15.079 --> 01:21:17.279
if you'll get to the point, Well, that's shooting. A

1462
01:21:17.279 --> 01:21:21.079
little while ago. That was me that Freddie boy humped

1463
01:21:21.119 --> 01:21:24.720
those bullets into or rather was my overcoat. You'll notice

1464
01:21:24.760 --> 01:21:25.199
the holes.

1465
01:21:25.600 --> 01:21:25.920
What's it?

1466
01:21:26.600 --> 01:21:26.800
Yeah?

1467
01:21:26.840 --> 01:21:27.920
I rolled up.

1468
01:21:27.880 --> 01:21:31.319
A few blankets, put my overcoat around them, my hat

1469
01:21:31.399 --> 01:21:32.680
on top, and.

1470
01:21:32.760 --> 01:21:36.560
Left it slumped over the wheel of the car. I

1471
01:21:36.600 --> 01:21:38.840
shot at a dummy. I see.

1472
01:21:39.159 --> 01:21:41.319
It's nearly acting on behalf of my client.

1473
01:21:41.520 --> 01:21:42.640
Client. That's right.

1474
01:21:43.359 --> 01:21:46.279
These days, I'm forced to take anything that comes along

1475
01:21:47.439 --> 01:21:48.479
out of the business at hand.

1476
01:21:48.600 --> 01:21:48.840
Jains.

1477
01:21:49.640 --> 01:21:52.680
As you know, my client has definitely proof, mister Macklin,

1478
01:21:52.800 --> 01:21:55.640
that the death of a former associate of yours was

1479
01:21:55.720 --> 01:22:00.439
anything but accidental. Your former associate's name was Edward Wilson.

1480
01:22:01.119 --> 01:22:04.439
This information could be dropped into a mailbox.

1481
01:22:03.920 --> 01:22:09.640
To the police unless I pay to see Freddy it

1482
01:22:09.760 --> 01:22:13.560
isn't over. But he want, mister Hawker, how much well

1483
01:22:13.840 --> 01:22:16.800
my client fields in view of what's happened this evening,

1484
01:22:16.880 --> 01:22:20.800
the attempted murder that this payment should.

1485
01:22:20.560 --> 01:22:24.119
Be five thousand, five thousand. Think it's the uncle good.

1486
01:22:24.880 --> 01:22:28.840
I haven't any choice. Where do we deliver the money,

1487
01:22:28.840 --> 01:22:29.399
mister Hawker?

1488
01:22:29.640 --> 01:22:33.279
My office will do Freddy boy say about nine tomorrow evening?

1489
01:22:34.520 --> 01:22:43.279
Goodn't I jen win wicked? Freddy be through funny funny?

1490
01:22:43.680 --> 01:22:45.079
I fail to see the humor of it.

1491
01:22:45.239 --> 01:22:50.840
Oh, I mean I'm not a murderer of all, am I.

1492
01:22:49.800 --> 01:22:53.000
No, that's right, you're not.

1493
01:23:01.239 --> 01:23:04.840
During dinner, you watch your uncle Bert close his eyes

1494
01:23:04.960 --> 01:23:08.279
wander about the team, settling on one ghast and then another.

1495
01:23:08.920 --> 01:23:11.880
And you know what he's thinking about, don't you. Uncle

1496
01:23:11.960 --> 01:23:13.960
Frank could still be the blackmailer.

1497
01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:14.399
Couldn't be?

1498
01:23:14.880 --> 01:23:17.479
You know that thought is going through your uncle Bert's mother.

1499
01:23:18.359 --> 01:23:22.000
Then there's Lloyd Giller's an associate at the Lumberman. He

1500
01:23:22.039 --> 01:23:26.359
could be mister Hacker's client. Yeah, either one of them

1501
01:23:26.439 --> 01:23:29.399
could know about Bert's dead Collie, the one who was

1502
01:23:29.399 --> 01:23:33.760
supposed was committed suicide. And occasionally, Freddy, you feel Uncle

1503
01:23:33.800 --> 01:23:42.199
Bert's eyes around you too. Dinner over, you take Veronica home,

1504
01:23:42.760 --> 01:23:46.199
then return to the house. Fine, uncle Bert has something

1505
01:23:46.199 --> 01:23:50.960
on his mind, Freddy. Hmmm, this girl Veronica, what do

1506
01:23:50.960 --> 01:23:51.600
you know about her?

1507
01:23:52.159 --> 01:23:52.399
Well?

1508
01:23:52.680 --> 01:23:55.039
Or how much does one to know about anyone you

1509
01:23:55.079 --> 01:23:56.239
meet on a boat's clipment?

1510
01:23:57.119 --> 01:23:59.439
Why? I was just wondering about her.

1511
01:24:00.000 --> 01:24:02.560
I mean you think that she could No, it's a

1512
01:24:02.640 --> 01:24:05.439
nonsense suit. You just here visiting at six sister, helping

1513
01:24:05.439 --> 01:24:07.439
out for a bit, that's or no, if you ask me,

1514
01:24:07.520 --> 01:24:08.800
Uncle Frank's you're a blackmailer.

1515
01:24:08.920 --> 01:24:13.359
It couldn't be anybody, Freddy, even you me.

1516
01:24:14.560 --> 01:24:17.760
Oh now, really, isn't that a bit thick? And you're

1517
01:24:17.760 --> 01:24:19.399
forgetting You asked me to come here all the way

1518
01:24:19.399 --> 01:24:21.720
from London a month ago to help you out.

1519
01:24:21.800 --> 01:24:23.520
Yes, I did ask you. We made a bargain.

1520
01:24:23.520 --> 01:24:25.319
You were to help me get this blackmailer off my

1521
01:24:25.399 --> 01:24:27.560
neck and return I was to make you my sole heir.

1522
01:24:27.720 --> 01:24:27.960
Yes.

1523
01:24:28.239 --> 01:24:30.359
And if I might point out, you had already been

1524
01:24:30.399 --> 01:24:32.520
approached by the blackmailer while I was still in London,

1525
01:24:32.520 --> 01:24:32.920
that's right.

1526
01:24:33.159 --> 01:24:36.760
I had been approached, but through an intermediary, and something

1527
01:24:36.760 --> 01:24:39.279
else happened. Thinking about why should a blackmailer share his

1528
01:24:39.319 --> 01:24:41.600
good fortune with the go between her because he doesn't

1529
01:24:41.640 --> 01:24:43.600
wish to reveal his identity to me, or because he

1530
01:24:43.640 --> 01:24:45.239
doesn't happen to be on the scene at the moment.

1531
01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:50.239
He could be anywhere, even in London, Freddy, Oh really,

1532
01:24:50.359 --> 01:24:54.359
Uncle Bert, you're letting this thing get you. No, you

1533
01:24:54.359 --> 01:24:58.199
you better stick with uncle Frankly. You're a blackmailer. Well,

1534
01:24:58.840 --> 01:25:02.520
I'm going to turn him from sleep. You'll have the

1535
01:25:02.760 --> 01:25:06.600
money tomorrow night. Yes, I'll see what I can do.

1536
01:25:07.479 --> 01:25:16.520
Good night, Freddy, you're worried aren't you, Frett, Because the

1537
01:25:16.560 --> 01:25:19.399
thing that brought you here from London, your Uncle Bert's

1538
01:25:19.399 --> 01:25:21.560
money you promise to leave you in his will, is

1539
01:25:21.560 --> 01:25:26.119
slowly slipping away and you're powerless to prevent him. Yes,

1540
01:25:26.359 --> 01:25:30.199
uncle Bert's past is threatening your future, and you're even

1541
01:25:30.239 --> 01:25:32.479
more certain of it. The following evening, as you sit

1542
01:25:32.560 --> 01:25:35.800
in Sid Hawker's office and wait as he calls his.

1543
01:25:35.800 --> 01:25:53.319
Client, Allow, this is hacker. Yes he's here now, but

1544
01:25:53.359 --> 01:25:56.880
with only half the money. I know, But he says

1545
01:25:56.880 --> 01:25:58.159
the rest is tied up at the moment.

1546
01:25:58.159 --> 01:25:59.960
If it'll be a week at least before he can manage,

1547
01:26:00.439 --> 01:26:02.159
he says, you'll have the rest in another week.

1548
01:26:03.920 --> 01:26:10.760
Man man, got it. My client isn't very happy, Freddie boy.

1549
01:26:10.800 --> 01:26:12.920
But he is giving us more time.

1550
01:26:13.000 --> 01:26:21.319
One week, Freddie boy, no more.

1551
01:26:23.039 --> 01:26:25.119
It's while you're walking back to the house that an

1552
01:26:25.159 --> 01:26:26.039
idea strikes you.

1553
01:26:26.119 --> 01:26:29.680
Sup. You want to find uncle Bert's black theater, don't you.

1554
01:26:30.199 --> 01:26:33.880
Yes, But instead of getting rid of him, you wondered

1555
01:26:33.920 --> 01:26:37.880
about joining forces with him. Then you could start collecting

1556
01:26:37.920 --> 01:26:40.640
on uncle Bert's money now, rather than wait years to

1557
01:26:40.680 --> 01:26:44.439
inherit it. Inside the house, you hurry to the telephone,

1558
01:26:44.840 --> 01:26:46.760
pick it up and toy with a.

1559
01:26:46.760 --> 01:26:49.279
Dial counting the clicks.

1560
01:26:52.600 --> 01:26:55.399
Interesting, isn't this, Frett? If you can learn to count

1561
01:26:55.439 --> 01:26:58.720
the clicks perfectly and listen again when sid Hacker calls

1562
01:26:58.760 --> 01:27:02.399
his clients, and then remember the sound pattern you have, it,

1563
01:27:02.439 --> 01:27:05.720
wouldn't you Fred the phone number of your uncle's blackmailer.

1564
01:27:06.520 --> 01:27:09.640
Once you know that Fred, you can contact the blackmailer directly,

1565
01:27:10.399 --> 01:27:14.479
offer him your valuable assistance in blackmailing Uncle Bert, and

1566
01:27:14.680 --> 01:27:15.720
split the money with it.

1567
01:27:17.920 --> 01:27:30.720
One two, three four By George. I think I can

1568
01:27:30.800 --> 01:27:34.640
count the clicks. I think I can do it. With

1569
01:27:34.840 --> 01:27:36.960
a little more practice, I know I can do it.

1570
01:27:37.720 --> 01:27:56.760
After that, I'll have everyone just where I want them.

1571
01:27:57.039 --> 01:28:02.479
Extra pep batra pep. Make those heels in high. Put

1572
01:28:02.600 --> 01:28:06.880
signal ethel in your car and it will really fly.

1573
01:28:09.239 --> 01:28:11.720
If you're surprised to hear me sing, just wait till

1574
01:28:11.720 --> 01:28:13.800
you hear your car thing when you treat it to

1575
01:28:13.840 --> 01:28:17.199
its first tank full of signal ethyl yes with the

1576
01:28:17.199 --> 01:28:21.079
premium grade of signals famous go farther gasoline in your tank.

1577
01:28:21.479 --> 01:28:24.119
It'll be music to your ears. When you touch the

1578
01:28:24.199 --> 01:28:28.319
starter on cold morning, Presto, your motor starts.

1579
01:28:28.079 --> 01:28:30.520
Humming a tune quicker and you can turn on your radio.

1580
01:28:31.159 --> 01:28:34.520
When it comes to acceleration, signal ethyl will show you

1581
01:28:34.600 --> 01:28:38.239
pep that makes even Dixie Land Jazz seem taped. And

1582
01:28:38.319 --> 01:28:40.880
the knock free power of signal ethyl will send you

1583
01:28:40.960 --> 01:28:44.760
uphills as smoothly and effortlessly as a coloratura from the

1584
01:28:44.800 --> 01:28:48.960
met sores to high seeds. And why not, after all,

1585
01:28:49.079 --> 01:28:51.880
signal ethyl is engineered to bring out the best in

1586
01:28:51.960 --> 01:28:52.479
any car.

1587
01:28:53.279 --> 01:28:54.520
So if it's best.

1588
01:28:54.279 --> 01:28:58.279
Performance you want, just remember the famous last verse of

1589
01:28:58.319 --> 01:29:03.800
that great shower room baritone Marvin Miller. So further and

1590
01:29:04.119 --> 01:29:09.520
have on enjoy your every spin to get more out

1591
01:29:09.560 --> 01:29:12.319
of any car protignal Apple.

1592
01:29:12.600 --> 01:29:34.319
And it's been a trial, hasn't it said from the beginning.

1593
01:29:33.920 --> 01:29:35.960
When you first discovered that your uncle.

1594
01:29:35.760 --> 01:29:40.640
Bert was being blackmailed and your own future fortunes threatened. Yes,

1595
01:29:40.840 --> 01:29:43.439
you were willing to commit murder to prevent it. But

1596
01:29:43.560 --> 01:29:46.960
the attempted murder backfire and the blackmailer doubled his price.

1597
01:29:47.920 --> 01:29:50.039
But now you feel your in command again that your

1598
01:29:50.039 --> 01:29:53.520
little plan will pay off a few days of practice.

1599
01:29:53.840 --> 01:29:56.039
And you can tell any phone number now when you

1600
01:29:56.079 --> 01:29:59.279
hear it being dial by carrying the clicks, remembering the

1601
01:29:59.359 --> 01:30:03.359
sound patter. Yes, all you have to do is listen carefully.

1602
01:30:03.399 --> 01:30:05.680
The next time you're with Sid Hawker when he calls

1603
01:30:05.720 --> 01:30:10.199
his client. Then a great idea hit you. True, it's

1604
01:30:10.199 --> 01:30:13.279
a dangerous one. Something could go wrong, but it's worth

1605
01:30:13.279 --> 01:30:16.680
considering carefully, isn't it? And it's constantly on your mind

1606
01:30:16.680 --> 01:30:19.760
and the days that follows. Then, on the evening of.

1607
01:30:19.720 --> 01:30:21.800
Your appointment with Hawker to pay the rest.

1608
01:30:21.560 --> 01:30:24.039
Of the money you promise, you step into the study

1609
01:30:24.520 --> 01:30:27.880
find Uncle Bert standing at the window, staring out into

1610
01:30:27.920 --> 01:30:32.439
the night. It's almost eight, Uncle Bert, Oh, freddie, where

1611
01:30:32.479 --> 01:30:34.279
haven't I better be getting over to Hawkers.

1612
01:30:34.600 --> 01:30:37.520
You don't have to be there till nine such you

1613
01:30:37.520 --> 01:30:38.720
won't get there at all?

1614
01:30:38.720 --> 01:30:40.800
You mean you didn't manage to get the rest of

1615
01:30:40.840 --> 01:30:41.199
the money.

1616
01:30:41.199 --> 01:30:43.079
Oh, I got it all right. It's just that I'm

1617
01:30:43.119 --> 01:30:45.239
not certain I want to turn it over to Hawker's client.

1618
01:30:46.000 --> 01:30:47.680
Been trying to make up my mind all day on.

1619
01:30:47.840 --> 01:30:48.960
Now look here, Uncle Bert.

1620
01:30:49.000 --> 01:30:51.880
I know, I know if I don't pay up, mister

1621
01:30:51.920 --> 01:30:53.319
Hacker's client will expose me.

1622
01:30:53.960 --> 01:30:56.359
Perhaps that's what I really want. Get it, double it

1623
01:30:56.439 --> 01:30:59.000
once and for all. Why should I go on paying

1624
01:30:59.039 --> 01:31:01.399
and paying and saying he'll bleed me? Why?

1625
01:31:01.479 --> 01:31:03.359
But I thought we'd agreed the other day that you'd

1626
01:31:03.399 --> 01:31:05.439
go on paying for a while at least and bide

1627
01:31:05.439 --> 01:31:07.960
your time. He's bound to make a mistake, I could

1628
01:31:08.000 --> 01:31:10.359
be sure. No, I say, pay off this chap. Pay

1629
01:31:10.359 --> 01:31:13.279
as long as you're able. It's better than the noose.

1630
01:31:13.399 --> 01:31:16.359
M I don't know. I don't know.

1631
01:31:17.079 --> 01:31:19.520
It will take time and money, but it'll be worth it.

1632
01:31:19.720 --> 01:31:22.920
Perhaps you're right, Freddy. We'll catch up to mister Hawker's clients.

1633
01:31:23.119 --> 01:31:24.720
You'll see, all right.

1634
01:31:25.439 --> 01:31:28.159
Bring the car around, I'll get the money out of

1635
01:31:28.159 --> 01:31:28.520
the safe.

1636
01:31:29.880 --> 01:31:38.000
Why uncle Bert had you worried for a moment, didn't

1637
01:31:38.039 --> 01:31:38.279
he fret?

1638
01:31:38.960 --> 01:31:40.600
Yes, you saw your.

1639
01:31:40.600 --> 01:31:44.159
Entire plan collapse and all that easy money slipping from

1640
01:31:44.159 --> 01:31:47.840
your grass. But suddenly it was already and Uncle Bert

1641
01:31:47.880 --> 01:31:51.239
agreed to go on paying his black nail. Now, with

1642
01:31:51.399 --> 01:31:54.399
the money tucked away in your coat pocket, you drive

1643
01:31:54.479 --> 01:31:56.960
downtown to Hawker's office.

1644
01:31:58.399 --> 01:31:59.439
Good evening, mister Hawker.

1645
01:32:00.039 --> 01:32:03.640
Well, mister Macklin, Johnny on the spotty and with the money.

1646
01:32:03.439 --> 01:32:06.640
Johnny on the spot Yes, with the money. No, what's

1647
01:32:06.680 --> 01:32:08.520
this now? You see, mister hacker, Uncle had a bit

1648
01:32:08.560 --> 01:32:09.800
of difficulty raising the money.

1649
01:32:09.840 --> 01:32:13.800
Now see here I ask is a few hours I see.

1650
01:32:14.439 --> 01:32:16.479
Do you think that will be agreeable for your client?

1651
01:32:16.560 --> 01:32:17.079
Mister Hawker?

1652
01:32:17.279 --> 01:32:20.119
It might be, and then again it might not, don't

1653
01:32:20.159 --> 01:32:22.640
you ask your client? All right?

1654
01:32:22.920 --> 01:32:26.760
And well, you sit at the edge of the death.

1655
01:32:26.960 --> 01:32:29.600
Try to appear calm. As Hawker stepped to the telephone.

1656
01:32:30.840 --> 01:32:33.439
You listen carefully as he dials.

1657
01:32:46.600 --> 01:32:50.600
Well, this is sin hacken man, there's been a delay.

1658
01:32:50.840 --> 01:32:53.279
Mister Macklin's having a better trouble raising the money.

1659
01:32:53.560 --> 01:32:53.800
One.

1660
01:32:54.920 --> 01:32:57.520
Oh no, no, only once is a little more time.

1661
01:32:58.000 --> 01:33:05.279
Huh man, Let me talk to your client. I only

1662
01:33:05.319 --> 01:33:05.680
wanted to.

1663
01:33:06.039 --> 01:33:10.479
I'll answer any questions you have. Is that clear as

1664
01:33:10.520 --> 01:33:13.399
you wish? You'll just have to call your client again.

1665
01:33:13.680 --> 01:33:14.439
I can afford it.

1666
01:33:15.359 --> 01:33:18.920
Well, my uncle is ready to make a settlement the night.

1667
01:33:19.800 --> 01:33:22.279
He's willing to pay twenty thousand dollars if your client

1668
01:33:22.319 --> 01:33:24.720
will turn over every shred of evidence he holds against

1669
01:33:24.760 --> 01:33:27.640
my uncle and drop the matter once and for all

1670
01:33:27.840 --> 01:33:34.119
twenty thousand. Well that sounds reasonable. Well suppose you see

1671
01:33:34.159 --> 01:33:36.159
if your client thinks so right?

1672
01:33:36.560 --> 01:33:39.079
Not mind, you're no tricks, no tricks.

1673
01:33:40.840 --> 01:33:43.800
You've got to make certain, don't you. And you listen

1674
01:33:43.880 --> 01:33:47.079
careful as he dials the number again. It's the same

1675
01:33:47.199 --> 01:33:50.960
number he dial before. There's no mistake, and you're confident

1676
01:33:51.039 --> 01:33:53.439
now you'll be able to dial that same number when

1677
01:33:53.439 --> 01:33:54.439
the time comes.

1678
01:33:55.439 --> 01:33:58.279
Well, it's a honker, it's a gravel. But my client

1679
01:33:58.319 --> 01:34:00.880
wants the money delivered here by all the nights. Good.

1680
01:34:01.079 --> 01:34:10.239
I'll see you then, mister Hawker, you hurry out of

1681
01:34:10.279 --> 01:34:14.079
the office downstairs into your car. From the glove compartment,

1682
01:34:14.119 --> 01:34:16.760
you remove a gun. You slip it into your pocket.

1683
01:34:17.439 --> 01:34:20.000
As you start back. You see Hawker walk out of

1684
01:34:20.000 --> 01:34:22.199
the building head for the parking lot in the rear.

1685
01:34:22.680 --> 01:34:24.279
Quickly you move after him.

1686
01:34:24.680 --> 01:34:27.439
Then in the darkness behind the building, you catch up

1687
01:34:27.439 --> 01:34:29.399
to him as he slides in behind the wheel of

1688
01:34:29.439 --> 01:34:29.840
his car.

1689
01:34:30.840 --> 01:34:34.239
Or Howker, h oh, it's you. Hey, I see how

1690
01:34:34.279 --> 01:34:35.239
the other gun. Move over?

1691
01:34:36.159 --> 01:34:36.760
What are you doing?

1692
01:34:36.760 --> 01:34:38.720
I said, move over? That's a good chat.

1693
01:34:39.479 --> 01:34:41.479
Per start up, Howker.

1694
01:34:42.159 --> 01:34:43.520
We're going for a bit of a spin.

1695
01:34:55.560 --> 01:34:59.000
I think this will do Hawker and I start deserted roads.

1696
01:34:59.760 --> 01:35:00.920
Then it plays for a chap.

1697
01:35:01.359 --> 01:35:02.119
What's the idea?

1698
01:35:02.279 --> 01:35:03.159
Pull over? All man?

1699
01:35:04.479 --> 01:35:04.840
All right?

1700
01:35:07.039 --> 01:35:07.239
Now?

1701
01:35:07.279 --> 01:35:07.319
What?

1702
01:35:07.760 --> 01:35:07.920
Well?

1703
01:35:07.960 --> 01:35:10.680
First off, that that business about uncle wanting to make

1704
01:35:10.720 --> 01:35:12.880
a settlement. That was a bit of a trick on

1705
01:35:12.920 --> 01:35:13.399
my partner.

1706
01:35:13.439 --> 01:35:14.000
I said, why.

1707
01:35:14.239 --> 01:35:16.359
Yes, you see, I was merely interested in having you

1708
01:35:16.479 --> 01:35:17.600
dial that phone again.

1709
01:35:17.640 --> 01:35:18.760
What are you talking about?

1710
01:35:19.079 --> 01:35:20.840
I had to make certain I had the right number,

1711
01:35:21.319 --> 01:35:23.520
you see, Hawker, by simply listening to the dial as

1712
01:35:23.560 --> 01:35:27.640
it spins, counting the number of flicks. You mean you can, Yes, yes,

1713
01:35:27.720 --> 01:35:29.960
I can dial that number again with very little difficulty.

1714
01:35:30.800 --> 01:35:34.199
Now are you going to tell me who the blackmailer is?

1715
01:35:35.079 --> 01:35:37.680
Or must I find out for myself?

1716
01:35:37.720 --> 01:35:38.920
You don't know yet?

1717
01:35:39.279 --> 01:35:41.760
Would it be Frank MacLean by AA chut let me

1718
01:35:41.840 --> 01:35:45.159
see or Lloyd Killis have never heard of him.

1719
01:35:45.680 --> 01:35:48.439
I don't recognize the number at all. Of course, it

1720
01:35:48.479 --> 01:35:50.880
could be a booth somewhere or a little hide away

1721
01:35:51.239 --> 01:35:52.680
and the part I wouldn't know.

1722
01:35:53.479 --> 01:35:53.880
I see.

1723
01:35:54.920 --> 01:35:56.720
Well, if you won't cooperate, I shall have to find

1724
01:35:56.720 --> 01:35:59.720
out by calling and other sertain I recognize the voice,

1725
01:35:59.760 --> 01:36:00.359
and I will.

1726
01:36:00.239 --> 01:36:02.640
Be most careful not to review my own identity. Of course,

1727
01:36:03.159 --> 01:36:05.239
now that that's settled, what more do you want with me?

1728
01:36:05.600 --> 01:36:05.880
I know?

1729
01:36:05.960 --> 01:36:07.119
Good anymore? That's right.

1730
01:36:08.000 --> 01:36:10.000
However, as much as I tend to do business with

1731
01:36:10.039 --> 01:36:10.840
your client.

1732
01:36:10.760 --> 01:36:14.359
Sort of partnership arrangement in the near future, so that's it.

1733
01:36:15.439 --> 01:36:17.399
You're going to be part of the scheme from now.

1734
01:36:17.479 --> 01:36:21.079
I yes, and my plans do not include you. I'm

1735
01:36:21.119 --> 01:36:25.640
afraid is that upset you? Yes, I'm sure it does.

1736
01:36:26.720 --> 01:36:29.279
Now I shouldn't want you around, mister Hawker to slip

1737
01:36:29.279 --> 01:36:31.680
the word to dear Uncle Bert and tell him what.

1738
01:36:31.720 --> 01:36:35.159
I'm doing here. What do you mean obvious? Quite ours?

1739
01:36:35.840 --> 01:36:36.079
No?

1740
01:36:36.039 --> 01:36:38.840
No, no, I'm sorry, mister Hawker. As you so aptly

1741
01:36:38.880 --> 01:36:40.960
put it, you ain't no good to me anymore.

1742
01:36:54.359 --> 01:36:58.079
While watching some Christmas shoppers, I couldn't help thinking if

1743
01:36:58.119 --> 01:37:01.279
folks shop is carefully for automal bial batteries as they

1744
01:37:01.319 --> 01:37:04.920
do for Christmas gifts, practically all drivers will decide on

1745
01:37:05.039 --> 01:37:09.479
Signal Deluxe batteries. Just compare the power of various batteries,

1746
01:37:09.840 --> 01:37:12.840
you'll find Signal Deluxe batteries give up the thirty five

1747
01:37:12.920 --> 01:37:16.479
percent more power for quicker starting and to take care

1748
01:37:16.479 --> 01:37:19.760
of your radio and other electrical gadgets. That's because of

1749
01:37:19.840 --> 01:37:23.479
signals micropolus all rubber separators, which have been called the

1750
01:37:23.520 --> 01:37:27.479
greatest battery improvement in twenty years. Compare the life of

1751
01:37:27.600 --> 01:37:31.039
various batteries, you will see that Signal Deluxe batteries are

1752
01:37:31.039 --> 01:37:33.319
guaranteed up to two and one half times as long

1753
01:37:33.359 --> 01:37:37.319
as ordinary batteries a full thirty months on a service basis,

1754
01:37:37.800 --> 01:37:40.960
which also means that the cost per months is amazingly low,

1755
01:37:41.520 --> 01:37:44.279
even lower when you deduct the trade and allowance. Signal

1756
01:37:44.279 --> 01:37:47.800
dealers are giving for old batteries, and liberal credit terms

1757
01:37:47.800 --> 01:37:51.920
are available. No wonder more and more shoppers drivers who

1758
01:37:51.960 --> 01:37:57.600
really compare batteries are choosing signal Deluxe batteries at signal

1759
01:37:57.760 --> 01:38:16.079
service stations.

1760
01:38:16.640 --> 01:38:19.359
It's done, isn't it. Thread Hawker is dead. The thread

1761
01:38:19.359 --> 01:38:21.800
has been removed, and he lies buried.

1762
01:38:21.520 --> 01:38:23.640
In the shallow grave on the outskirts of town.

1763
01:38:24.520 --> 01:38:26.640
Now all you have to do is call the blackmail

1764
01:38:27.319 --> 01:38:30.159
and once you've learned his identity without revealing your own,

1765
01:38:30.720 --> 01:38:34.279
you expect to approach him again later cautiously inform him

1766
01:38:34.279 --> 01:38:37.279
of your plan for a partnership to continue to blackmail

1767
01:38:37.319 --> 01:38:41.439
your uncle together, and you certainly will refuse because you

1768
01:38:41.560 --> 01:38:45.159
then reveal his identity to Uncle Bert. You drive back

1769
01:38:45.199 --> 01:38:48.319
to town park Hawker's car and the lot behind his

1770
01:38:48.359 --> 01:38:52.039
office building, and then hurry upstairs. As you sit at

1771
01:38:52.039 --> 01:38:54.880
Hawker's desk, you glance at your watch and a smile

1772
01:38:55.000 --> 01:38:59.439
covers your face. Yes, you're confidence now that you've made

1773
01:38:59.439 --> 01:39:00.000
the right to say.

1774
01:39:00.840 --> 01:39:06.119
An't you hello, Freddy? Uncle Bert? What are you doing here?

1775
01:39:06.319 --> 01:39:07.439
Looking for sid Hawker?

1776
01:39:07.560 --> 01:39:09.399
I thought I might persuade him to tell me who

1777
01:39:09.399 --> 01:39:13.560
the blackmailer is, confirm my suspicions with this. Oh, no,

1778
01:39:14.000 --> 01:39:16.760
Uncle Brett, to put that gun away. Hawker's not here,

1779
01:39:17.000 --> 01:39:19.560
so I see delivering the money to his client.

1780
01:39:19.600 --> 01:39:22.560
I suppose, yes. I think you should know, Freddy, that

1781
01:39:22.600 --> 01:39:25.239
I contacted the police tonight. What.

1782
01:39:25.640 --> 01:39:28.239
Yes, I told the police why I was being blackmail

1783
01:39:28.279 --> 01:39:30.520
But I killed a man some time ago. I was

1784
01:39:30.560 --> 01:39:32.760
going to give myself up, and I was going to

1785
01:39:32.760 --> 01:39:36.159
get the blackmailer first. That's why I came here. I

1786
01:39:36.279 --> 01:39:38.279
was sure Hawker could lead me to the blackmailer. But

1787
01:39:38.560 --> 01:39:40.079
I thought that I was going to go.

1788
01:39:40.039 --> 01:39:41.439
On paying now.

1789
01:39:41.520 --> 01:39:44.399
I decided against that shortly after you left the house tonight.

1790
01:39:44.600 --> 01:39:49.079
Oh really, Well that I wasn't very clever. No, and

1791
01:39:49.159 --> 01:39:50.720
you're going to regret it, Freddy.

1792
01:39:51.479 --> 01:39:52.239
What Oh?

1793
01:39:52.279 --> 01:39:54.359
I have suspected for a long time you were behind

1794
01:39:54.399 --> 01:39:58.960
all this. Well, that's ridiculous it Let's see if my

1795
01:39:59.039 --> 01:40:02.720
hunt is right. Empty your pocket my pockets and I'll

1796
01:40:02.720 --> 01:40:03.960
give you three.

1797
01:40:03.880 --> 01:40:09.760
Now wait, wait, one? Two? All right? All right? That's better.

1798
01:40:12.079 --> 01:40:17.119
Yeah, you do have the money. My hunt was right,

1799
01:40:17.720 --> 01:40:21.479
I can explain. So Harker paid off his client. Eh

1800
01:40:21.560 --> 01:40:21.960
I could bear.

1801
01:40:23.279 --> 01:40:25.239
No, I could forgive you stealing money from me, but

1802
01:40:25.399 --> 01:40:26.399
not blackmailing me.

1803
01:40:26.479 --> 01:40:29.399
Freddy, you don't understand this. I haven't blackmailed you.

1804
01:40:29.800 --> 01:40:32.199
Look, I'll find the blackmailer for you.

1805
01:40:32.399 --> 01:40:34.039
None of your tricks. Put that phone down.

1806
01:40:33.880 --> 01:40:35.840
But then let me call a number. I swear you'll

1807
01:40:35.840 --> 01:40:37.760
hear the blackmailer's voice with your only.

1808
01:40:37.800 --> 01:40:40.359
I'm not that stupid me for for a trick like that.

1809
01:40:40.920 --> 01:40:42.880
And it is a trick, isn't it, Freddy, I want

1810
01:40:42.880 --> 01:40:44.600
to catch me off. God, get close enough to me

1811
01:40:44.640 --> 01:40:45.640
so you can get this gun.

1812
01:40:45.800 --> 01:40:46.920
No, it's not a trick.

1813
01:40:48.159 --> 01:40:53.239
All right, we'll see, but you'd better not try any tricks.

1814
01:40:53.880 --> 01:40:54.479
I'll listen in.

1815
01:40:54.720 --> 01:40:58.960
Yes, but on this extension phone over here, Remember, Freddy,

1816
01:40:59.720 --> 01:41:02.760
I'll have this gun on you. I've already confessed one

1817
01:41:02.840 --> 01:41:05.319
murder of the police. Another one won't matter much.

1818
01:41:06.479 --> 01:41:08.720
Go ahead, make your call.

1819
01:41:17.359 --> 01:41:20.560
Everything depends on this phone call, doesn't it. Press your

1820
01:41:20.600 --> 01:41:23.520
hand is kidded? Sure as you die, you know there

1821
01:41:23.560 --> 01:41:24.520
can't be a mistake.

1822
01:41:24.960 --> 01:41:25.840
But this is the number.

1823
01:41:25.920 --> 01:41:29.279
Hocker calls yes, setin it's the phone number of his client,

1824
01:41:29.479 --> 01:41:30.199
the blackmailer.

1825
01:41:31.239 --> 01:41:36.039
At the tone, the time will be ten nine and

1826
01:41:36.319 --> 01:41:37.880
forty seconds.

1827
01:41:40.159 --> 01:41:46.359
Hawker. Hawker was the blackmailer all the time. No, it

1828
01:41:46.399 --> 01:41:48.760
was you, Freddy that phone call.

1829
01:41:48.800 --> 01:41:54.520
You just made us a trick, and a very stupid one.

1830
01:41:55.439 --> 01:41:56.520
No, Michael Bert.

1831
01:41:56.399 --> 01:42:07.960
Right at the tone, the time will be ten ten exactly.

1832
01:42:32.640 --> 01:42:35.640
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil

1833
01:42:35.680 --> 01:42:39.039
program The Whistler each Sunday night at the same time.

1834
01:42:40.359 --> 01:42:43.439
Signal Oil Company has asked me to remind you if

1835
01:42:43.439 --> 01:42:45.720
there's an easy way we can all help to make

1836
01:42:45.760 --> 01:42:47.920
this holiday season happier.

1837
01:42:47.479 --> 01:42:49.079
For ourselves and others.

1838
01:42:49.880 --> 01:42:54.399
Drive at sensible speeds, be courteous, and obey traffic regulations.

1839
01:42:54.920 --> 01:43:13.640
It may save a life, possibly your own. Featured in

1840
01:43:13.680 --> 01:43:18.800
Tonight's story were Bill Foreman, Ben Wright, Ed Begley, Constance Cavendish,

1841
01:43:19.000 --> 01:43:22.359
and ted Dy Corcier. The Whistler was produced and directed

1842
01:43:22.399 --> 01:43:26.199
by George w Allen, with story by Adrian John Doe,

1843
01:43:26.600 --> 01:43:28.720
music by Wilber Hatch, and was.

1844
01:43:28.640 --> 01:43:31.039
Transmitted to our troops overseas by the Armed.

1845
01:43:30.920 --> 01:43:35.479
Forces Radio Service. The Whistler is entirely fictional and.

1846
01:43:35.479 --> 01:43:37.880
All characters portrayed on the whistler.

1847
01:43:37.399 --> 01:43:38.439
Are also fictional.

1848
01:43:39.159 --> 01:43:42.520
Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons living or

1849
01:43:42.560 --> 01:43:44.239
dead is purely coincidental.

1850
01:43:46.119 --> 01:43:50.920
Well, my dear, it appears perhaps evil is harder to

1851
01:43:51.119 --> 01:43:57.079
escape than one might imagine. But well, I suppose you

1852
01:43:57.279 --> 01:44:04.880
can try. The night has grown late, and I have

1853
01:44:04.920 --> 01:44:09.640
grown very weary. I do apologize if I've not been

1854
01:44:09.720 --> 01:44:14.920
the company you're used to. I'm trying my best, as

1855
01:44:15.239 --> 01:44:20.600
is anyone out there, just trying to make it through.

1856
01:44:20.680 --> 01:44:27.239
One more night, one more tick of the clock, as

1857
01:44:27.279 --> 01:44:36.119
it goes on and on, just waiting and hoping for

1858
01:44:36.199 --> 01:44:38.039
the rising suns.

1859
01:44:41.800 --> 01:44:53.960
Speaking from London, the Black Museum re positive death. Yes,

1860
01:44:54.000 --> 01:44:56.159
here in the grim stone structure on the Thames, which

1861
01:44:56.159 --> 01:44:59.479
houses gone in the yard is a wareuse of homicide.

1862
01:45:00.159 --> 01:45:05.960
Where everyday objects, a dictionaries, stenographer's notebook, a clothes hanger,

1863
01:45:06.960 --> 01:45:09.000
all are touched by murder.

1864
01:45:14.199 --> 01:45:15.039
Here's a post gun.

1865
01:45:15.640 --> 01:45:18.720
It's a familiar object, slightly soiled in its passage to

1866
01:45:18.840 --> 01:45:23.000
the Mayle's usual cancelation over the stamp norder addressed when any.

1867
01:45:22.800 --> 01:45:25.079
Saint Paul's Road, London, The.

1868
01:45:25.119 --> 01:45:29.680
Message yes on the message side of drawing rather well done.

1869
01:45:31.079 --> 01:45:31.920
The rising sun.

1870
01:45:32.760 --> 01:45:37.000
Rather a conventional representation, isn't it Ardant, Yes, sir, conventional,

1871
01:45:37.159 --> 01:45:39.720
still a rather unconventional matter.

1872
01:45:40.279 --> 01:45:45.199
Murder, Yes, yes, it is unconventional. In his ardent, I've

1873
01:45:45.239 --> 01:45:48.479
often wondered why they help so many executions at sunrise?

1874
01:45:48.920 --> 01:45:51.319
Why they end lives at the beginning of the day.

1875
01:45:54.640 --> 01:45:57.840
Anyway, that postcard today with a rising sun on it

1876
01:45:58.960 --> 01:46:00.079
can be seen among the other.

1877
01:46:00.039 --> 01:46:11.239
Their exhibits in the Black Museum.

1878
01:46:11.279 --> 01:46:14.000
From the Annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the

1879
01:46:14.039 --> 01:46:17.199
London Police, we bring you the dramatic stories of the

1880
01:46:17.279 --> 01:46:20.560
crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland Yards.

1881
01:46:20.239 --> 01:46:24.439
Gallery of Death, a Black Museum.

1882
01:46:24.479 --> 01:46:27.520
In just a moment, you will hear the Black Museum

1883
01:46:27.720 --> 01:46:29.079
starring awesome.

1884
01:46:29.199 --> 01:46:32.199
Well, now the.

1885
01:46:32.199 --> 01:46:35.079
Black Museum starring awesome.

1886
01:46:35.239 --> 01:46:55.880
Well, here we are in the Black Museum, Scotland.

1887
01:46:55.399 --> 01:46:57.119
Yards, Museum of Murder.

1888
01:46:58.399 --> 01:47:02.399
Yes, here lies death thereforem swift, a slow, merciful of

1889
01:47:02.479 --> 01:47:06.520
cruel death this year, laid out, remembered in detail, and

1890
01:47:07.279 --> 01:47:15.640
perhaps waiting to strike again. He's a typewriter, Yes, worthy

1891
01:47:15.680 --> 01:47:19.439
of the Black Museum. Definitely, the criminal care, the vicious

1892
01:47:19.479 --> 01:47:22.640
planning that went into its use till a person who

1893
01:47:22.640 --> 01:47:26.880
received the letters written on this machine. In desperation, took

1894
01:47:26.880 --> 01:47:31.720
her own life. Here's a Triald's toy, tiny metal aeroplane.

1895
01:47:32.439 --> 01:47:36.840
It's rusty in places. Propeller didn't turn anymore, but there

1896
01:47:36.840 --> 01:47:40.119
were fingerprints on this. They placed a killer at the

1897
01:47:40.159 --> 01:47:44.960
scene of the crime for which he was hanged. Now

1898
01:47:45.239 --> 01:47:49.319
we are postcards. The postcard with its drawing of a

1899
01:47:49.399 --> 01:47:53.560
rising sun. It's clear at once that a skilled hand

1900
01:47:53.680 --> 01:47:55.880
drew this tiny picture. In this case, many things were

1901
01:47:55.920 --> 01:47:58.960
clear almost at once, and conclusions were drawn.

1902
01:47:59.399 --> 01:48:02.159
However, that, of course, is the story, the story which.

1903
01:48:02.000 --> 01:48:05.680
Begins for us as Alfie Vine and his elderly mother

1904
01:48:05.800 --> 01:48:08.359
turned into the entrance of twenty nine sent Fall's Road.

1905
01:48:08.720 --> 01:48:13.039
London, Healthy. I refuse to go as tet fur.

1906
01:48:13.159 --> 01:48:15.079
Then you've told me what this is all about.

1907
01:48:15.359 --> 01:48:18.239
I'm surprising you. Mums. Are you come all this way?

1908
01:48:18.279 --> 01:48:19.439
You're going to spoil it all now?

1909
01:48:19.680 --> 01:48:21.800
I'm not set for to this house until you stop

1910
01:48:21.840 --> 01:48:22.680
all this mystery.

1911
01:48:22.760 --> 01:48:25.720
Om moms, Well this is where I've got my rooms.

1912
01:48:26.359 --> 01:48:29.680
You're living here, twenty nine sports.

1913
01:48:29.920 --> 01:48:34.680
You know the address rather dirty? My place is all right,

1914
01:48:35.199 --> 01:48:37.039
It's only the outside and it's key.

1915
01:48:37.439 --> 01:48:38.479
Elfie.

1916
01:48:38.720 --> 01:48:41.680
You've not wanted to show me this before. I want

1917
01:48:41.720 --> 01:48:43.800
to show you the girl who's waiting upstairs.

1918
01:48:43.920 --> 01:48:46.199
Hethy you haven't gone and got married.

1919
01:48:46.239 --> 01:48:48.479
Not yet, mums, but we're planning, so I want you

1920
01:48:48.520 --> 01:48:49.119
to meet her.

1921
01:48:49.439 --> 01:48:50.039
All right?

1922
01:48:50.520 --> 01:48:51.039
Are going?

1923
01:48:53.560 --> 01:48:57.000
They will him the shabby young man, the rusty, black clad,

1924
01:48:57.079 --> 01:49:00.880
gray haired woman. They climbed the stairs. One flied, only

1925
01:49:00.920 --> 01:49:02.920
only one, but enough for missus Vine to see the.

1926
01:49:02.880 --> 01:49:06.279
Scabby walls to the dirty staireil and tidy.

1927
01:49:07.680 --> 01:49:09.640
Half had placed his key in the lock and turned

1928
01:49:09.680 --> 01:49:12.760
it over. The door. Light from the window revealed a

1929
01:49:12.800 --> 01:49:14.760
single room and washed.

1930
01:49:21.800 --> 01:49:24.720
The scream was the young lady on the bed, clad

1931
01:49:24.760 --> 01:49:28.119
in the remnants of a nightgown. The gown, the sheets,

1932
01:49:28.159 --> 01:49:34.199
the pillow were bloodstained. Why wouldn't they be? Young lady's

1933
01:49:34.239 --> 01:49:39.800
head had been severed from her body. His mother given

1934
01:49:39.840 --> 01:49:42.000
her the caravan. Neighbor HELFI find some of the police.

1935
01:49:42.760 --> 01:49:45.880
Shortly thereafter he faced Inspector Wood and Sergeant Cross of

1936
01:49:45.960 --> 01:49:47.640
the CID Scotland.

1937
01:49:47.239 --> 01:49:50.520
Yard, Tobias buying that this Ellis Cortland was must we

1938
01:49:50.600 --> 01:49:51.920
say more than a fiancee to you?

1939
01:49:52.239 --> 01:49:52.960
We was married.

1940
01:49:53.640 --> 01:49:55.119
I didn't want my mother to think we're going and

1941
01:49:55.159 --> 01:49:56.960
done it without our knowing, so we planned to do

1942
01:49:57.039 --> 01:49:58.399
it over again after month's better.

1943
01:49:59.399 --> 01:50:00.319
Who were your night?

1944
01:50:00.399 --> 01:50:03.760
Fine? Working? Oh you can check on the postal clok?

1945
01:50:03.920 --> 01:50:07.520
Not you where chrring cross substation? I'll check that started.

1946
01:50:08.239 --> 01:50:11.000
Of course you work. Night's a lot fine. It's a

1947
01:50:11.159 --> 01:50:14.319
split scheduled inspector two or three times, sometimes more a week.

1948
01:50:15.560 --> 01:50:17.079
You don't think, I don't, Edie interview.

1949
01:50:17.319 --> 01:50:20.119
We're not thinking anything yet, not until we find out

1950
01:50:20.159 --> 01:50:22.319
from the lab exactly when she died.

1951
01:50:22.800 --> 01:50:26.279
Poor Alice. She didn't have much of a life, nothing

1952
01:50:26.359 --> 01:50:26.840
to depend on.

1953
01:50:27.000 --> 01:50:29.199
Two she met me? What did she do at night

1954
01:50:29.359 --> 01:50:30.159
while you were working?

1955
01:50:30.800 --> 01:50:31.479
I never asked?

1956
01:50:32.159 --> 01:50:35.159
We trusted each other, we did I see sarteant I

1957
01:50:35.239 --> 01:50:37.640
want the neighborhood jets back to a skeptical You could

1958
01:50:37.640 --> 01:50:39.560
hear in his voice the story was hard, to say

1959
01:50:39.600 --> 01:50:39.960
the least.

1960
01:50:40.760 --> 01:50:43.760
It became a trifle more art one search and cross reported.

1961
01:50:44.600 --> 01:50:47.239
Then you are all right every bar in the district,

1962
01:50:47.439 --> 01:50:50.640
but not as Alice vine. In most places it was

1963
01:50:50.840 --> 01:50:52.880
daisy coming aspector understood.

1964
01:50:53.600 --> 01:50:54.399
Came as no surprise.

1965
01:50:54.439 --> 01:50:57.920
Therefore, and a frightened little man, a mighty shore ship's

1966
01:50:58.000 --> 01:50:59.960
cook on leave turned up.

1967
01:51:01.079 --> 01:51:03.760
Yes, sir, I knew Daisy. But I wasn't with her

1968
01:51:03.760 --> 01:51:06.680
Wednesday night, no, sir. Not then when did you see

1969
01:51:06.720 --> 01:51:07.119
her last?

1970
01:51:07.399 --> 01:51:11.840
That was Tuesday night, inspector, And before that Monday and Sunday,

1971
01:51:11.880 --> 01:51:14.640
do sir? We had dates, Daisy and me whenever.

1972
01:51:14.439 --> 01:51:17.600
I was ashore, always had a few drinks together at

1973
01:51:17.640 --> 01:51:21.000
the Orc, the Rising Sun, places like that along Saint

1974
01:51:21.039 --> 01:51:21.640
Paul's Road.

1975
01:51:22.439 --> 01:51:25.039
Not Wednesday night, no, sir. Not the night she got

1976
01:51:25.039 --> 01:51:28.399
herself killed, No, sir, Why not? She had a date

1977
01:51:28.439 --> 01:51:32.479
with somebody else? I saw, sir in the Rising Sun?

1978
01:51:32.840 --> 01:51:33.399
I saw them.

1979
01:51:34.119 --> 01:51:38.079
Were you jealous? No, sir. I was with Daisy's friend Martie.

1980
01:51:38.560 --> 01:51:38.760
Good.

1981
01:51:38.800 --> 01:51:39.199
Look at you?

1982
01:51:39.600 --> 01:51:42.000
Can you describe the men Daisy was with? W had

1983
01:51:42.000 --> 01:51:42.560
a look at him?

1984
01:51:42.600 --> 01:51:43.760
I I believe I could.

1985
01:51:43.960 --> 01:51:46.000
Could you pick him out of a group? What might sir?

1986
01:51:46.439 --> 01:51:53.479
I would try for you, Inspector, I'd really try. And

1987
01:51:53.680 --> 01:51:55.479
that step forward is about to be made in the

1988
01:51:55.560 --> 01:51:58.199
kiss the ships could gives.

1989
01:51:58.039 --> 01:52:02.159
His description not very big, slim, like too shabby, but

1990
01:52:02.520 --> 01:52:06.239
in a gent too kind of way, about thirty years old,

1991
01:52:06.720 --> 01:52:10.000
always totally love with a pencil kind of fellow can.

1992
01:52:09.960 --> 01:52:11.520
Always become a cheer description.

1993
01:52:12.239 --> 01:52:15.439
Not much to go on, but a starts again the

1994
01:52:15.520 --> 01:52:18.920
canvases covered the area, and now the various bomb hates

1995
01:52:18.920 --> 01:52:21.720
and tavern keepers remembered a man like that, remembered seeing

1996
01:52:21.720 --> 01:52:22.119
a man.

1997
01:52:22.039 --> 01:52:24.439
Like that with Daisy alias Alice.

1998
01:52:25.239 --> 01:52:28.199
The girl literally lost her hint. However, they went off

1999
01:52:28.199 --> 01:52:29.560
further traces of the man in question.

2000
01:52:29.680 --> 01:52:31.880
Inspector Wood and Sergeant Cross went back to the bedroom

2001
01:52:31.880 --> 01:52:32.800
in Saint Paul's Road.

2002
01:52:33.199 --> 01:52:35.880
All right, Sartant, with a fine tooth comb the whole

2003
01:52:35.920 --> 01:52:37.359
room down to the base ports and.

2004
01:52:37.520 --> 01:52:38.640
Behind them if necessary.

2005
01:52:39.520 --> 01:52:41.840
The detectives took the toddy little room of pirates.

2006
01:52:42.600 --> 01:52:45.800
The bed was dismantled, the winters case unrolled, the washtatons

2007
01:52:45.840 --> 01:52:49.239
piping weep explored, the buro wasn't besty, and the drawers

2008
01:52:49.239 --> 01:52:51.640
were fulled up, their contents tossed on the bed.

2009
01:52:53.319 --> 01:52:56.439
Hello, here's something, inspector.

2010
01:52:56.479 --> 01:53:00.840
Postcard I see post marked the day before told in

2011
01:53:00.880 --> 01:53:03.520
the baggaries draw between the bank board and the bottom.

2012
01:53:03.920 --> 01:53:04.359
Interesting.

2013
01:53:04.960 --> 01:53:07.239
What do you make of that drawing, Sarteant, It looks

2014
01:53:07.279 --> 01:53:10.319
like they can't flag to me, I don't know if

2015
01:53:10.359 --> 01:53:12.159
any Javinese eating.

2016
01:53:11.960 --> 01:53:17.560
Place nas victim he Daisy meet me at age fifteen

2017
01:53:17.640 --> 01:53:17.920
at them.

2018
01:53:18.800 --> 01:53:20.479
Whatever the picture means, it's a.

2019
01:53:20.520 --> 01:53:21.760
Rising sun, isn't its artant?

2020
01:53:22.000 --> 01:53:24.880
And there is a rising son well that show fellers

2021
01:53:24.880 --> 01:53:28.840
who are on Wednesday night rather well drawn, almost a skilled.

2022
01:53:28.520 --> 01:53:32.760
Hand an artist maybe maybe possibly the killer as well.

2023
01:53:33.960 --> 01:53:35.880
Right back to work, Sarteant. There may be a few

2024
01:53:35.960 --> 01:53:40.000
more little messages like this. They found two more hidden

2025
01:53:40.039 --> 01:53:43.039
in the recesses at the back of the bureau. That

2026
01:53:43.239 --> 01:53:45.239
was all. It's one thousand to one shots artant, But

2027
01:53:45.359 --> 01:53:47.000
we'll try publishing these in the papers.

2028
01:53:47.399 --> 01:53:50.359
Someone may recognize the handwriting or the sketches, more likely

2029
01:53:50.479 --> 01:53:51.920
the sketches than someone did.

2030
01:54:04.439 --> 01:54:17.159
Hmm, Hello, Larry, this is May May.

2031
01:54:17.720 --> 01:54:19.560
It's wonderful, is it Larry?

2032
01:54:21.079 --> 01:54:21.199
Then?

2033
01:54:21.439 --> 01:54:24.279
Why hadn't I heard from you in weeks after we

2034
01:54:24.399 --> 01:54:27.039
had a quart of beery? I thought a certain beautiful

2035
01:54:27.119 --> 01:54:29.960
mom was pretty wellfome with a certain ard I should be.

2036
01:54:30.199 --> 01:54:31.840
But you're not, Larry.

2037
01:54:32.720 --> 01:54:34.760
Have you seen today's newspapers?

2038
01:54:35.720 --> 01:54:37.119
Why? It's quite simple.

2039
01:54:37.880 --> 01:54:42.159
A girl you've been sending postcards too, was murdered Wednesday night.

2040
01:54:44.159 --> 01:54:44.520
How do know?

2041
01:54:44.560 --> 01:54:45.359
I sent her cards?

2042
01:54:46.039 --> 01:54:47.399
Then in the paper with Jowins.

2043
01:54:47.840 --> 01:54:52.079
I know yours time, even in the past, must.

2044
01:54:51.960 --> 01:54:54.640
Be I guess I'm not Larry.

2045
01:54:55.319 --> 01:54:58.239
The police want to know who sent those cards.

2046
01:54:58.279 --> 01:54:59.880
Hey, will you believe me when I know I had

2047
01:54:59.920 --> 01:55:00.520
a anyone?

2048
01:55:00.800 --> 01:55:04.079
I believe you, I know you know for all times sake?

2049
01:55:04.119 --> 01:55:05.359
Will you help me?

2050
01:55:06.800 --> 01:55:09.920
I'm in trouble, may What do you want me to do?

2051
01:55:10.600 --> 01:55:13.319
Anyone asks you, anyone at all when you say we

2052
01:55:13.479 --> 01:55:16.279
went together from ten thirty on on Wednesday.

2053
01:55:16.000 --> 01:55:17.439
Night for her?

2054
01:55:19.239 --> 01:55:21.720
Then you went to ask court Lam at King's Cross?

2055
01:55:22.119 --> 01:55:24.600
Will where you with her?

2056
01:55:27.439 --> 01:55:27.479
No?

2057
01:55:28.359 --> 01:55:28.880
Not anymore?

2058
01:55:28.920 --> 01:55:34.760
I suppose crise, remember May please thirty of court King's Cross?

2059
01:55:39.800 --> 01:55:42.159
Many Hester artist father? What's more?

2060
01:55:42.279 --> 01:55:45.199
Time in love with artist named Larry, and now has

2061
01:55:45.319 --> 01:55:48.439
to provide an alibi. In fact, I asked to provide

2062
01:55:48.439 --> 01:55:52.560
an alibi which might never be needed. May Haster lived

2063
01:55:52.560 --> 01:55:56.279
with what she knew for a day or so, and then, reluctantly,

2064
01:55:56.439 --> 01:55:58.760
her feet and her conscience took her to an office

2065
01:55:59.279 --> 01:56:00.239
in the old building.

2066
01:56:00.079 --> 01:56:03.319
On the Thames. I understand your position, miss sister. I'm

2067
01:56:03.359 --> 01:56:04.399
grateful you came to see me.

2068
01:56:04.520 --> 01:56:07.039
I don't believe you children inspect Herbert.

2069
01:56:08.039 --> 01:56:10.199
As long as you're looking for him, you won't be

2070
01:56:10.239 --> 01:56:11.520
looking for the right person.

2071
01:56:11.640 --> 01:56:16.239
William. That's one way of saying it, Miss Hester. I

2072
01:56:16.359 --> 01:56:20.680
think you'd better give me his name. It's Mary Duncan.

2073
01:56:21.920 --> 01:56:22.479
You know where he.

2074
01:56:22.520 --> 01:56:23.159
Lives at present?

2075
01:56:26.960 --> 01:56:30.920
May Hester you She gave Inspector Wood an address on London,

2076
01:56:30.960 --> 01:56:33.479
the Western Edge. She left the environs of Scotland Yard.

2077
01:56:34.560 --> 01:56:37.800
So did Inspector Wood company with Sergeant Cross.

2078
01:56:41.720 --> 01:56:45.520
Mister Duncan. Yes, I'm Duncan, I'm Inspector Wood.

2079
01:56:45.640 --> 01:56:47.199
Ceid Microdens.

2080
01:56:47.520 --> 01:56:50.439
This is hard and Cross. Will you come in, gentlemen, no,

2081
01:56:50.600 --> 01:56:53.239
thank you, I'm afraid mister Duncan. We have to ask

2082
01:56:53.319 --> 01:56:55.680
you to come out with us. We need to ask

2083
01:56:55.720 --> 01:56:57.000
you a few questions.

2084
01:56:57.079 --> 01:56:59.640
And it'll be more convenient down at the yard.

2085
01:57:02.319 --> 01:57:02.760
Or to day.

2086
01:57:02.840 --> 01:57:06.479
The post god a little picture of the rising sun

2087
01:57:06.560 --> 01:57:11.199
on It is part of the exhibits in the Black Museum.

2088
01:57:16.000 --> 01:57:18.720
In just a moment we will continue with a Black

2089
01:57:18.920 --> 01:58:30.880
Museum starring Arson Wells. And now we continue with the

2090
01:58:31.039 --> 01:58:34.560
Black Museum starring Awesome well.

2091
01:58:42.119 --> 01:58:44.159
Larry Duncan was held on suspicion of murder.

2092
01:58:45.319 --> 01:58:49.439
The inspector was convinced of his guilt. Duncan protested his innocence.

2093
01:58:50.680 --> 01:58:53.680
The family called in a famous defender, but despite the

2094
01:58:53.760 --> 01:58:56.159
presence in the case of Sir John Gripp, Scotland Yard

2095
01:58:56.319 --> 01:58:59.399
charged Larry Duncan with the murder of Alice Vine Hailias

2096
01:58:59.479 --> 01:59:02.800
Daisy comes and preparations for the trial went forward.

2097
01:59:03.920 --> 01:59:10.880
Sir John conferred with Larry, how are.

2098
01:59:10.880 --> 01:59:11.359
You my boy?

2099
01:59:11.960 --> 01:59:12.199
Really?

2100
01:59:12.279 --> 01:59:12.600
Will sir?

2101
01:59:12.680 --> 01:59:14.800
That does my prison para.

2102
01:59:14.720 --> 01:59:18.520
Shows yes, not yet. I like your confidence, Harry. I

2103
01:59:18.600 --> 01:59:21.359
didn't kill the woman, Sir. However, you were seeing with

2104
01:59:21.520 --> 01:59:24.880
her that night a man. I said that I believe

2105
01:59:24.960 --> 01:59:27.000
who had been with her the three nights previous. So

2106
01:59:27.119 --> 01:59:29.399
you're both together in the rising gun.

2107
01:59:29.600 --> 01:59:33.399
That's why I asked may to say we've been together

2108
01:59:33.479 --> 01:59:34.640
after ten thirty that night.

2109
01:59:34.880 --> 01:59:38.279
Well, they have another witness, a tram conductor who stakes

2110
01:59:38.319 --> 01:59:40.319
you saw you leave that house at five in the morning.

2111
01:59:40.439 --> 01:59:43.840
He couldn't have seen me. I take your word, but

2112
01:59:44.039 --> 01:59:47.000
will a jury after that false alibi? I'll have to

2113
01:59:47.039 --> 01:59:47.960
take my chances on that.

2114
01:59:48.079 --> 01:59:48.399
I guess.

2115
01:59:48.920 --> 01:59:53.760
Well, we'll see a little further investigation may bring a

2116
01:59:53.840 --> 01:59:55.159
few more facts to light.

2117
02:00:02.159 --> 02:00:06.199
Sir John Grips proceeded towards a few more effects. He

2118
02:00:06.279 --> 02:00:07.439
kept me lying very quiet.

2119
02:00:08.359 --> 02:00:10.600
My uncle had tried itself to he reveal his strategy

2120
02:00:11.079 --> 02:00:14.439
the ever expected to produce. In fact, the first move

2121
02:00:14.520 --> 02:00:17.439
came sometime after Inspector Wood and Sergeant Cross had placed

2122
02:00:17.479 --> 02:00:20.680
the police case on the record. The tram conductor won

2123
02:00:20.840 --> 02:00:23.399
Charles Powers, was on the witness stand and I was.

2124
02:00:23.399 --> 02:00:26.199
Certain, mister Powers, that the prisoner in the dark is

2125
02:00:26.239 --> 02:00:28.560
the man who saw Leading twenty nine sent Paul's road

2126
02:00:28.640 --> 02:00:29.079
that morning.

2127
02:00:29.479 --> 02:00:31.039
I am answered positive.

2128
02:00:31.680 --> 02:00:35.640
Oh, mister Boys Walks, he has a kind of a

2129
02:00:35.880 --> 02:00:37.159
free swing in stride.

2130
02:00:37.319 --> 02:00:37.600
Thank you.

2131
02:00:38.920 --> 02:00:45.159
You may cross exact, mister Powers. Let me refresh my memory.

2132
02:00:45.840 --> 02:00:48.960
You have said the weather that tragic morning was Risley. Yeah,

2133
02:00:49.079 --> 02:00:52.159
I did say so, it was, thank you, And that.

2134
02:00:52.239 --> 02:00:54.119
You saw the man quite clearly by the light of

2135
02:00:54.159 --> 02:00:57.399
an ampost. Yes, it's correct. And father that you.

2136
02:00:57.560 --> 02:00:59.920
Heard a church clock in the vicinity stripe find you,

2137
02:01:00.279 --> 02:01:04.199
I did well. I offer him visions as the rebuttal

2138
02:01:04.239 --> 02:01:07.359
of this man's testimony the reports Julia tested of the

2139
02:01:07.439 --> 02:01:11.399
electric light company servicing that district, which contains the record

2140
02:01:11.479 --> 02:01:13.439
that the street lights were extinguished that.

2141
02:01:13.560 --> 02:01:17.560
Morning at four thirty seven a m. This man could

2142
02:01:17.640 --> 02:01:19.720
not have seen anyone by the night of a street lap.

2143
02:01:22.880 --> 02:01:25.760
And if it pleased the court, I have heard.

2144
02:01:25.640 --> 02:01:27.800
That Julie ad tested the records of the London weather

2145
02:01:27.920 --> 02:01:31.560
euro not one drop of rain fell anywhere in London

2146
02:01:31.640 --> 02:01:32.159
that morning.

2147
02:01:32.640 --> 02:01:36.560
I thank forever a skilled lawyer in actions of finding

2148
02:01:36.640 --> 02:01:39.119
to watch, isn't it? Here was a witness and important

2149
02:01:39.119 --> 02:01:42.600
which is completely demolished, his facts called in question, and

2150
02:01:42.680 --> 02:01:46.800
his responsibility to under pieces the prosecution suffered from them.

2151
02:01:46.880 --> 02:01:50.399
Naturally they attempted to regain their loss with Marty Shaw,

2152
02:01:50.560 --> 02:01:51.319
the ship's cook.

2153
02:01:51.880 --> 02:01:56.039
In conclusion, mister Shaw, you identified the prisoner as the

2154
02:01:56.159 --> 02:01:58.439
man who was with the victim, the knight of the murder.

2155
02:01:58.800 --> 02:02:05.880
I ditcher, thank you your witness. Mister Shaw. Were you

2156
02:02:06.319 --> 02:02:08.479
frightened when you heard the Miss Cummings death?

2157
02:02:08.840 --> 02:02:09.000
Now?

2158
02:02:09.800 --> 02:02:11.520
Why should not? Why shouldn't you be?

2159
02:02:12.720 --> 02:02:16.199
After all, mister Shaw, by your own testimony, you spent Sunday,

2160
02:02:16.199 --> 02:02:18.079
Monday and Tuesday evenings with miss Cummings.

2161
02:02:18.880 --> 02:02:23.159
She was killed on Wednesday's killed on Wednesday? Why shouldn't

2162
02:02:23.159 --> 02:02:25.840
you have been frightened? You mean because almost the next

2163
02:02:25.960 --> 02:02:28.680
man to the prisoner, next man to the murderer. Perhaps

2164
02:02:29.319 --> 02:02:32.720
not the next man to the prisoner. Or you realize,

2165
02:02:32.720 --> 02:02:35.920
didn't you that your position might turn out to be unpleasant? Yes, sir,

2166
02:02:36.199 --> 02:02:40.000
I guess, And you discuss the matter with another lady

2167
02:02:40.079 --> 02:02:44.520
friend of the deceased. What forged nothing, nothing at all,

2168
02:02:45.680 --> 02:02:48.600
except perhaps that from this woman you obtained a detailed

2169
02:02:48.680 --> 02:02:52.079
description of a certain friend of Miss Cummings, and from

2170
02:02:52.119 --> 02:02:56.600
that description you picked up the prisoner at an identification parade. Well,

2171
02:02:56.760 --> 02:03:01.479
mister Shaw, answer me, speak of mister Shaw at judged

2172
02:03:01.520 --> 02:03:02.760
that Judy wanted to hear your answer.

2173
02:03:02.920 --> 02:03:06.520
So Ryan, yes, sir, I did that.

2174
02:03:06.880 --> 02:03:18.560
Thank you, mister Shaw. That is all another witness.

2175
02:03:18.640 --> 02:03:23.560
His testament is discredited, his motives called in question the

2176
02:03:23.640 --> 02:03:27.840
propriety of his identification. More than call in question. The

2177
02:03:27.920 --> 02:03:30.439
quadroom crowd was making bets as it filed out. After

2178
02:03:30.479 --> 02:03:33.000
the first day, the odds were swinging away from the

2179
02:03:33.039 --> 02:03:35.680
prosecution and toward the young man who sat quietly in

2180
02:03:35.760 --> 02:03:37.600
the prisoner's dark sketching.

2181
02:03:38.520 --> 02:03:41.560
Sketching. After all, Larry Duncan.

2182
02:03:41.359 --> 02:03:43.960
Was an artist, gernardist wants to keep the record of

2183
02:03:44.039 --> 02:03:47.520
his experiences, even when his life hangsh the balance.

2184
02:03:53.319 --> 02:03:59.600
Next day, the prosecution called may Hester, Miss Hester.

2185
02:04:00.239 --> 02:04:04.840
And how did you learn of this crime in the newspapers?

2186
02:04:05.239 --> 02:04:07.640
And how did you first connect the prisoner with it

2187
02:04:08.119 --> 02:04:08.800
in your mind?

2188
02:04:09.439 --> 02:04:12.520
Well, when I saw the postcard in the paper, the

2189
02:04:12.600 --> 02:04:15.680
one with a drawing on it, it was Larry's, mister

2190
02:04:15.840 --> 02:04:16.760
Duncan's style.

2191
02:04:16.960 --> 02:04:17.840
I recognized it.

2192
02:04:18.159 --> 02:04:18.720
What did you do?

2193
02:04:19.560 --> 02:04:20.720
I called him on the phone.

2194
02:04:21.000 --> 02:04:24.600
What happened? He asked me to give.

2195
02:04:24.520 --> 02:04:26.720
Him an alibi, a false aliba.

2196
02:04:27.159 --> 02:04:30.600
Yes, he wanted me to say that I've been with

2197
02:04:30.680 --> 02:04:32.560
him that night. And what did you do?

2198
02:04:33.119 --> 02:04:33.680
I agreed?

2199
02:04:34.520 --> 02:04:37.359
Then I thought it over and I went to the police.

2200
02:04:37.840 --> 02:04:43.800
Anywhere was yesterday? And thank you cross examin Miss Hester.

2201
02:04:44.840 --> 02:04:47.960
Why did you go to the police. Well, I was

2202
02:04:48.000 --> 02:04:51.239
afraid outpost. Had you been in love with mister Duncan,

2203
02:04:51.560 --> 02:04:54.000
I'm that is yes?

2204
02:04:54.520 --> 02:04:54.880
Uh huh?

2205
02:04:56.000 --> 02:04:57.560
Was he in love with you?

2206
02:04:58.319 --> 02:04:58.840
I thought so.

2207
02:05:00.000 --> 02:05:02.760
I heard of an emotion called jealousy, Miss Hester.

2208
02:05:03.319 --> 02:05:03.880
He was over.

2209
02:05:04.840 --> 02:05:06.000
I knows to be jealous.

2210
02:05:06.199 --> 02:05:09.319
I submit, Miss Hester, that when you thought it over,

2211
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when you realized that mister Duncan had apparently gone to

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this woman after his protestations to.

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You, that you were not afraid that you were jealous

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enough to want revenge? Yes, not so, that's not you

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were afraid of what that this man might try to

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murder you. No, of course not, said mister Duncancan. Wasn't side,

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Miss Hester? When mister Duncan asked you for the alibi.

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Did you know the time of the madder? No? When

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did you learn of it? Yeah? In the medical testimony.

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Did the question of the time of the death enter

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your mind when you went to the police. No, no,

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of course not. I asked you again, Missiston. Can you

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02:05:53.039 --> 02:05:55.920
say you were motivated only by fear and not by

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jealousy or revenge?

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Yes?

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Yes, I was only afraid afraid of what I was afraid, well,

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really hadn't done an' And I.

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Said, I'm like you, and you were willing to sacrifice

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the reputation, perhaps even the life of the man you loved.

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Because you were afraid to get it to the objection

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of Lord irrelevant, incompetent and imma tearing.

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I withdraw the question. That is all, miss Hester, Thank

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you very much. Thereafter, the prosecution rested their case on

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what was left of it. So John call Larry Duncan

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02:06:36.199 --> 02:06:39.520
as his first words for the defense, destiny was short.

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I didn't kill her. I left with the rising sun

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that night around with like I didn't. Nor could the

2238
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Crowns prosecutor shake his statement.

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Next and last witness of the defense one David Wallace,

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a ticket agent on a suburban railroad.

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Mister Wallace. What is your address twenty six Saint Paul's Road?

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02:06:59.560 --> 02:07:01.640
What I When did you leave your house the morning

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after this killing? My regular time, sir, five minutes to five.

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Did you see anyone that morning?

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02:07:10.000 --> 02:07:13.039
Yes, sir, a man going in the opposite direction. Only

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one man, only one, sir? Are you conscious that you

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02:07:17.119 --> 02:07:19.439
have a rather free swinging stride?

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Why do it on purpose?

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It's good for you in the morning, with the provision

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of the plot, I request a small demonstration.

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Whocy stepped down.

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A moment, mister Wallace, please, by sir, no len just

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02:07:32.359 --> 02:07:33.560
jumping up the collar of your coat.

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02:07:34.279 --> 02:07:34.520
Thank you?

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Put on your hat?

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Will you thank you?

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No?

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Will you walk please as you do in the mornings.

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Just out brief deponal please, likeness.

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Some single a free swinging stride. It was established that

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there was a man on proper decent business walkings and

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Paul's Road at five that morning. The prosecution had no

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02:07:59.560 --> 02:08:10.359
crossing examination for mister Wallace. The Crown summed up Sir

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John's sund up. The judge's charge was brief and to

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the point.

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In cases serciousness. If there is any reasonable doubt in

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02:08:19.720 --> 02:08:23.399
your buyings, gentlemen of the journey, it is incumbent on

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02:08:23.520 --> 02:08:27.359
you to give the prisoner the benefit of that doubt.

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And he thirty the same evening that jury fire back

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02:08:33.039 --> 02:08:36.960
into the box. The clerk solemnly intoned the old question,

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02:08:38.199 --> 02:08:39.319
have you reached a verdict?

2272
02:08:40.239 --> 02:08:44.760
We have? Again, the clerk spoke, what is your verdict?

2273
02:08:45.520 --> 02:08:58.279
We find the accused not guilty? Today? That postcard, whatever

2274
02:08:58.319 --> 02:09:02.279
it may mean, with its rising sun propose, isn't a

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02:09:02.279 --> 02:09:04.279
place of honor the Black Museum.

2276
02:09:09.960 --> 02:09:14.119
Well, my dear, it appears another night has come to

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02:09:14.199 --> 02:09:19.199
a close. Perhaps the next one will be different, I

2278
02:09:19.319 --> 02:09:22.199
sure hope. So all I know for certain is I

2279
02:09:22.399 --> 02:09:26.359
hope to see you here again on a dark night

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02:09:27.800 --> 02:09:35.000
when you feel not just lonely but alone. I'll be here,

2281
02:09:36.039 --> 02:09:46.000
waiting quietly, with a smiling face and something chilly to share. Now,

2282
02:09:46.319 --> 02:09:50.279
even with my morose feelings, I have to say that

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02:09:50.439 --> 02:09:53.920
as you head home, as you cross the bridge, as

2284
02:09:54.039 --> 02:09:58.479
you go across that little river, as you march down

2285
02:09:58.560 --> 02:10:03.279
the sidewalk almost home. Now, as you lay your head

2286
02:10:03.319 --> 02:10:08.800
on your pillow, please I imploy take a moment and

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02:10:08.960 --> 02:10:10.880
be thankful for what you have