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• 0:00
  Speaker 1: On a mountain road bound for Smuggler's Notch, Linda Dixon's
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: failing car leaves her alone after dark as a prison
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: brake alert warns motorists of an armed killer. From CBS,
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: this is Inner Sanctum Mysteries, episode 513, Terror by Night,
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  Speaker 1: originally broadcast June 29th, 1952. Agnes Moorhead stars as Linda,
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: a vacationer headed toward Mount Mansfield who stops at an
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: all-night service station as storm clouds gather. The script is
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: by Emile C. Tepperman, with Hyman Brown producing and directing.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: And now, our story begins.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: Good evening, friends of the creaking door.
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: This is your host to welcome you into the inner sanctum.
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: Come in, come in.
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: Ah, I always feel lighthearted in weather like this.
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  Speaker 4: So perhaps we ought to have a little poetry before
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  Speaker 4: we begin.
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  Speaker 3: An Arab girl named Yuhim was lied to by her husband, Menuhim.
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  Speaker 3: For this little trifle, she shot him with a rifle.
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  Speaker 3: And now she can see right through him.
• 1:19
  Speaker 5: .
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  Speaker 3: And now, if your scalpels are sharpened and ready, we
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: will proceed with the business of the evening. Tonight, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to do a little study in terror.
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  Speaker 4: Have you ever been alone with fear? Alone in the
• 1:44
  Speaker 4: night and frightened?
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  Speaker 3: Well, here is our star, Agnes Moorhead, in the role
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  Speaker 3: of Linda Dixon, who will tell us a tale of
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: terror by night.
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  Speaker 5: It was Friday night, and I think I was already
• 2:01
  Speaker 5: a little nervous as I drove north into the mountains.
• 2:05
  Speaker 5: I hadn't wanted to waste even an hour of my
• 2:07
  Speaker 5: two-week vacation, so I'd had all my bags packed and
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  Speaker 5: the car waiting at the curb in front of my
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  Speaker 5: office building. Everything would have been all right if the
• 2:16
  Speaker 5: fuel pump in my six-year-old car hadn't acted up. It
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  Speaker 5: took the mechanic almost two hours to get me going.
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  Speaker 5: So now I was driving through the night with 50
• 2:25
  Speaker 5: miles more to go and I was tired and nervous
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  Speaker 5: and irritated. And then I heard the whistle in the distance.
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  Speaker 5: At first I couldn't place it. And then I remembered
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  Speaker 5: the state prison was somewhere in the vicinity. The whistle.
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  Speaker 5: It meant, it meant a prisoner had escaped. I reached
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  Speaker 5: over and turned on the radio. Maybe they were broadcasting
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  Speaker 5: something about it.
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  Speaker 6: Motorists are warned.
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  Speaker 7: To be on the lookout for Lee Hartley, who escaped
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  Speaker 7: from the death cell at State Prison at 9.15 p.m. Tall,
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  Speaker 7: dark hair, regular features, no distinguishing marks. Hartley is a
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  Speaker 7: confirmed killer. He is believed to be armed.
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  Speaker 6: Beware of Hartley. He would rather kill than eat.
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  Speaker 5: He would rather kill than eat? And that man was loose,
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  Speaker 5: perhaps waiting around the next bed in the road.
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  Speaker 7: Hartley was helped to escape from the outside by his.
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  Speaker 6: Sweetheart, Helen Hearn. A red-headed woman just as vicious as
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  Speaker 6: Hartley himself.
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  Speaker 7: It is thought that Hartley and the Hearn woman may
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  Speaker 7: have separated after the escape. All motorists are warned to
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  Speaker 7: beware of a dark-haired man and a red-haired woman alone
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  Speaker 7: or together.
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  Speaker 5: My hand was shaking a little as I turned off
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  Speaker 5: the radio. I looked in the car mirror and shivered. I, too,
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  Speaker 5: have red hair.
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  Speaker 6: Oh!
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  Speaker 5: There was a storm coming on and I was driving
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  Speaker 5: into it and the night was black and I felt
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  Speaker 5: small and lonely and frightened in the car. And then
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  Speaker 5: I saw them in the mirror. The headlights sweeping up
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  Speaker 5: behind me. A car. It had come out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 5: It was pulling alongside, cutting me off. I cowered behind
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  Speaker 5: the wheel and watched the door of that other car open.
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  Speaker 5: A man stepped out. Oh, and I breathed a sigh
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  Speaker 5: of relief. It was a state trooper.
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  Speaker 6: You're driving all alone, miss?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, officer.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry if I scared you. We're stopping all cars. Where
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  Speaker 6: are you headed for?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm going up to the lodge at Smuggler's Notch.
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  Speaker 5: That's near Mount Mansfield. You see, I started out late
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  Speaker 5: from the city and I'm having motor trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 6: Can I see your driver's license, please?
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  Speaker 5: My driver's license?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, of course.
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  Speaker 5: Here, I've got it somewhere in my purse. I seem
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  Speaker 5: to be all fingers. It's that escaped prisoner, Hartley.
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  Speaker 2: How'd you know about him?
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  Speaker 5: I heard the prison whistle, and then it came over
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  Speaker 5: the radio about Hartley and his red-haired girlfriend.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, you've got red hair, too.
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  Speaker 5: You don't think I'm that woman.
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  Speaker 6: Find that license yet?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, I'm sure it's in here. There aren't so
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  Speaker 5: many things in this bag. Oh, here, here, I've got it.
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  Speaker 5: Here's my license.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm. What time did you say you left the city?
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  Speaker 5: About five o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: It took you a long time to get up this far.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I told you I had motor trouble.
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  Speaker 2: So you did.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Miss Dixon, here's your license.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: You can go ahead. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, darn. There it goes again.
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  Speaker 2: More motor trouble.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's the same thing. The mechanic said it might
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  Speaker 5: happen again. Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it started again. You want to get that fixed,
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  Speaker 6: first chance you get.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's too late. All the service stations are closed.
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  Speaker 8: Well, there's one that's open all night, about two miles
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  Speaker 8: up the road.
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  Speaker 6: Better stop there.
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  Speaker 4: Bill Slater's place.
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  Speaker 2: He's a good mechanic.
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  Speaker 6: He'll fix you up. Tell him Joe Nesbitt sent you.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, I will.
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  Speaker 6: And listen, Miss Dixon.
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 6: You be careful. Don't stop to give anyone a lift,
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  Speaker 6: man or woman.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, don't worry. I won't. In a few minutes, I
• 6:06
  Speaker 5: saw the lights of the station. I swung into the
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  Speaker 5: open space in front of the pumps and stopped. There
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  Speaker 5: was another car, a coupe, parked at the pump, but
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  Speaker 5: there was nobody in it. And I didn't see any
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  Speaker 5: attendant around either. I pressed the horn button. No one answered.
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  Speaker 5: Everything seemed so quiet and suddenly ominous. I found myself shivering.
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  Speaker 2: Shivering?
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  Speaker 5: I had a curious feeling that someone was watching me.
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  Speaker 5: I had to get away from there.
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  Speaker 6: Fast!
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  Speaker 5: Oh, the starter wouldn't work again. Oh, it won't start again.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it won't start.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it won't.
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  Speaker 5: Start. For a long time I sat behind the wheel listening.
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  Speaker 5: Listening for the sound of footsteps stealing up behind the car.
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  Speaker 5: But there were none. Then I could bear it no longer.
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  Speaker 5: I had to get out of the car. I had
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  Speaker 5: to see what was in that office. I opened the
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  Speaker 5: door of the car and stepped down on the gravel.
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  Speaker 5: Anybody in there?
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  Speaker 2: No answer.
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  Speaker 5: I clenched my fists and stepped inside. There on the
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  Speaker 5: floor at my feet lay the body of a man.
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  Speaker 5: His mechanic's jumper was stained red. And his throat was cut.
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  Speaker 5: How long I stood there, I'll never know. I was petrified.
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  Speaker 5: Unable to move, unable to take my eyes from the body.
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  Speaker 5: What's that? Someone coming downstairs.
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  Speaker 6: Hartley.
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  Speaker 5: It must be Hartley, the killer. He must have been
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  Speaker 5: hiding somewhere upstairs. I must get away.
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  Speaker 6: But how?
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  Speaker 5: My car won't run. That other car, the coupe. The coupe,
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  Speaker 5: I can jump into that, yes. Yes. Oh, if I
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  Speaker 5: can reach that coupe before he comes down.
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  Speaker 2: Anything wrong, sister?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, too late.
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  Speaker 2: Anything I can do for you, sister?
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  Speaker 5: Yes. Yes, it's my car. It won't start. I thought
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  Speaker 5: someone here might help me.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry. There doesn't seem to be anybody around.
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  Speaker 8: That's my coop over there. I stopped for gas and
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  Speaker 8: no one came out, so I went in.
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  Speaker 2: And looked around.
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  Speaker 6: But did.
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  Speaker 5: Did you find anybody?
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  Speaker 8: There isn't a living soul in there.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: You, uh... You look kind of tired.
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  Speaker 5: No, no. No, I'm all right.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Taylor. John Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, I'm Linda Dixon.
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  Speaker 2: Linda Dixon, hmm?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to know you.
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  Speaker 8: You traveling far tonight?
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to Mount Mansfield, to the largest smuggler's notch.
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  Speaker 5: They're expecting me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what do you know about that?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 8: Mount Mansfield is the place I'm heading for, too.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that a coincidence?
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure it is.
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  Speaker 2: And your car won't run, huh? I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 8: We'll put your baggage in my car, and I'll give
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  Speaker 8: you a lift.
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  Speaker 2: To Mount Mansfield. You can send for your car in
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  Speaker 2: the morning.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 6: I'll have your bag switched and.
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  Speaker 8: Please.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'd rather not.
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  Speaker 8: Hang on.
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  Speaker 6: All switched.
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  Speaker 2: Now, come on. Get in here.
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  Speaker 5: We drove away into the night, leaving behind.
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  Speaker 9: Us the dead man in the service station.
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  Speaker 3: Well, from where we sit, it looks as if Linda
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  Speaker 3: Dixon's got herself into an awful jam.
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  Speaker 4: And believe me, she's shaking like jelly.
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  Speaker 3: Now, let's see how our star Agnes Moorhead and the
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  Speaker 3: role of Linda Dixon is making out. All alone in
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  Speaker 3: the car with a strange man. But after all, she
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't be too scared of him. He's just a felon
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  Speaker 3: who needs a friend.
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  Speaker 5: I sat stiff and tense beside the man who called
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  Speaker 5: himself John Taylor... He had both hands on the wheel
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  Speaker 5: and he stared out through the windshield. My eyes focused
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  Speaker 5: on something on his right hand. It was a stain,
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  Speaker 5: a small stain, but it was wet and red. I
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  Speaker 5: couldn't take my eyes off it.
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  Speaker 2: What are you looking at?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, nothing, nothing at all.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'll turn on the radio. Did you know
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  Speaker 2: there's been a jailbreak?
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  Speaker 6: Hartley is 5'10, very dark hair. Don't be fooled by
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  Speaker 6: his pleasant manner. He is a killer by instinct.
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  Speaker 5: A killer by instinct? He is a killer by instinct.
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  Speaker 6: And very dangerous.
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  Speaker 7: He is accompanied by Helen Hearn. Helen Hearn is a
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  Speaker 7: clever and dangerous woman. 5'3, red hair, very pretty.
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  Speaker 5: I caught Taylor looking at me out of the corner
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  Speaker 5: of his eye. What are you looking at?
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  Speaker 2: At your hair. It's red.
• 12:28
  Speaker 5: There was a streak of lightning, and looking out of
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: the rain-swept window, I glimpsed a signpost. The lightning illuminated
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: the sign, and my heart skipped a beat at what
• 12:37
  Speaker 5: I saw. That sign we just passed.
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  Speaker 2: What about it?
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  Speaker 5: It said Barrington ahead. We're going the wrong way. We
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  Speaker 5: should be on the Mansfield Road, not the Barrington Road.
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  Speaker 2: That's funny. I must have taken the wrong turn.
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  Speaker 5: Well, aren't you going to turn back?
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  Speaker 2: Sure. Whatever you say.
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  Speaker 8: We'll turn right around and go back.
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  Speaker 2: We're in the ditch.
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  Speaker 5: In the ditch.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Not good. She won't budge. Well... Looks like we're stuck
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  Speaker 2: here for the night. I.
• 13:25
  Speaker 5: I think I'd better get out and walk. Perhaps there's
• 13:27
  Speaker 5: a house nearby.
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  Speaker 6: Walk?
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  Speaker 2: In this weather?
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  Speaker 5: I don't mind the weather, really. I don't.
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  Speaker 2: You can't walk in this storm.
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  Speaker 8: You're staying right here until I get the car out
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  Speaker 8: of the ditch.
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  Speaker 2: I've got some tools in the trunk compartment. You stay put.
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  Speaker 5: I heard him open the trunk in the back. other sounds,
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: but there was nothing. I didn't hear him moving back there.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't hear any tools. I had to find out
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  Speaker 5: what he was doing. Slowly, carefully, I got my door open.
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: I stepped out into the rain and sneaked back toward
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  Speaker 5: the rear. I saw him there, not moving, in front
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: of the open trunk compartment, bending over with a flashlight
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: in his hand. The ray of light was focused on
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  Speaker 5: something curled up inside. It wasn't baggage or tools. It
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: was a woman's body.
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  Speaker 2: Just then he saw me.
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  Speaker 5: He snapped the flashlight off, but not before I caught
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  Speaker 5: a glimpse of red. Then I must have fainted. When
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  Speaker 5: I came to, I found myself seated inside the car again.
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  Speaker 5: The storm was over. The night was quiet.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, so you're awake again. I.
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  Speaker 5: I don't feel well.
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  Speaker 2: Is it because of what's in the trunk compartment?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, she's dead.
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  Speaker 2: I told you not to get out of the car.
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  Speaker 5: What are you going to do with me?
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: They say that when a person loses all hope, he
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: subconsciously seeks refuge in sleep. That's what must have happened
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  Speaker 5: to me. I must have dozed, or perhaps I fainted.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. But I awoke with a start at
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: the sound of brakes. I sat up straight and saw
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: that we had stopped in front of a small fieldstone house.
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: Why are we stopping here?
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  Speaker 2: I'm out of gas.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. We're going in.
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  Speaker 5: The sign on the door said, Roger Bryce, M.D. A
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: doctor's house. I began to feel a spark of hope.
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  Speaker 5: There might be a chance.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do the talking. Is that clear?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: There's the bell. It must be awake. There's a light
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: in the parlor. How do you do? Oh, good evening.
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  Speaker 8: Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Bryce?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Can I help you?
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  Speaker 8: I'm terribly sorry to disturb you, Doctor, but my sister
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  Speaker 8: and I were heading for Mansfield and we seem to
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  Speaker 8: have gotten lost.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: And we're out of gas.
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  Speaker 5: His sister? He was passing us off as brother and sister.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: Now I knew why he hadn't cut my throat as
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: he had that service station man's. He was carrying me
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: for protection. I was his passport through the police cordon.
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  Speaker 2: His sister.
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  Speaker 8: I'm afraid I can't be of much help to you.
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  Speaker 8: I'm seven miles from the nearest town and I haven't
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: any spare gasoline.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: But come in, won't you? Why, yes, thank you, we will.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if I could offer you my hospitality for
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: the night. Oh, that would be imposing. Not at all.
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  Speaker 2: I have two rooms that aren't being used.
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  Speaker 6: Well, really.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come, come, I insist.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: I had hoped for a chance to talk to Dr.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: Bryce alone, just a word to warn him. But Taylor
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: never left us alone for a minute. He insisted on
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: coming into my room to make sure, he said, that
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: it was comfortable enough for me. Then he took the
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  Speaker 5: doctor by the arm and went out with him.
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  Speaker 8: Good night, sis.
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  Speaker 2: And sweet dreams.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: I was alone, free of the presence of John Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: I had another lease on life. I lay down on
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: the bed, but I didn't dare close my eyes. I waited,
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: my heart pounding to give them both a chance to retire.
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  Speaker 9: And I slipped off.
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  Speaker 6: My shoes and got off the bed in my stocking feet.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: I stole across the room and inched my door open.
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: Slowly, carefully, I stepped.
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  Speaker 5: Out into the corridor and turned right toward the doctor's room.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: What's the matter, sister?
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Sleepwalking?
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: No. You weren't thinking of going anywhere, sister, were you?
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: I wanted a drink of water.
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  Speaker 2: A drink of water, huh? In case you didn't know it,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: there's a water pitcher on your dresser.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I didn't see it.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Good night, sister.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: I turned around and went back into my room.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: It was no use.
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  Speaker 5: I lay down on the bed. How long I lay there,
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Perhaps I slept, perhaps not, but I
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: heard that slight creak as my door began to inch open.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: The blood chilled in my veins. Vaguely, I saw the
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: outline of the hand. And the knife it held. I
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: wanted to scream, but I couldn't. Slowly, he came toward
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: the bed. Now he stands over here. He raises the knife.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Ah!
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: I screamed and rolled over on the bed just as
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: the knife slashed down. I rolled off the bed and
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: cowered in a corner. That horrible figure came around the
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: bed after me with a knife up her head.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: Help!
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Dr. Price! While I cowered there in the corner, as
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: they fought all over the room in the dark, I
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: had no strength to move, to think, not even to hope.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: All the life seemed to have gone dead in my veins.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: And then, then it was over. But who, who had won?
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: In the dark I strained my eyes to see. Doctor? Doctor?
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Dr.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Bryce?
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Is that you? No, Linda.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: It isn't Dr.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Bryce.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: It's... It's I. John Taylor.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: John Taylor.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: It was John Taylor standing there at the light switch.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: And on the floor lay Dr. Bryce, unconscious, with a
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: long dash.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: In his head. I... I had to hit him with a...
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: a water pitcher.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: My eyes swung back to Dr. Bryce. And I saw
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: the knife still gripped in his right hand.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: That's Hartley, Linda.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: What?
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Lee Hartley, the killer.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: It... it was he who came in here with the knife? Right.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I was down in the cellar just now.
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: The real Dr. Bryce is down there, dead. This guy
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: posed as Bryce when we came to the house.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, then you... You're not Hartley.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, what a situation.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: All the time you thought I was Lee Hartley, and
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: I thought you were Helen Hearn, on account of your
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: red hair.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, but the body of that red-haired woman.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: That's Helen Hearn.
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: This guy must have killed her back at the service
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: station and stuffed her body in my trunk compartment while
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: I was inside.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: That all happened last summer. In time, I think I'll
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: manage to forget that night of terror. But it won't
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: be soon. Sometimes in the night I dream that I
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: see that awful figure with a knife hoised above my throat.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: And I... I wake up screaming. But then John takes
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: me in his arms and holds me tight and tells
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: me that everything is all right. You see, I'm Mrs.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: John Taylor now.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Well, what do you know? A happy ending. As for Mr. Hartley,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: that pleasant killer, he got what he deserved.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Some people never know when they're well off. He should
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: have stayed in jail. Where they never raise your rent.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Where they make no charge for meals. Or for electric current.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: You see, when you're in jail, everything is free.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Except you.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Well, friends, it's time once again to close that creaking door.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Until next week at this same time when we'll be
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: back with a little hunk of horror.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: You'll be sure to listen, won't you?
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Until next week, then. Good night. Pleasant dreams.
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• 23:38
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