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Dimension X - "Dr Grimshaw's Sanatorium" (1950) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: At a rural cemetery, a coffin from Dr. Grimshaw's institution
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: is found to contain a sand-filled dummy. Private Detective John
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Doherty is then hired by a wealthy father whose son
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: supposedly died at the sanatorium and enters the exclusive facility
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  Speaker 1: outside Gawanda, New York, posing as an alcoholic patient. Tonight's
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  Speaker 1: Dimension X is episode 25, Dr. Grimshaw's Sanatorium, first heard
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  Speaker 1: on NBC on September 22, 1950. Adapted by George Lefferts
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  Speaker 1: from a short story by Fletcher Pratt, it stars Carl
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  Speaker 1: Weber as John Doherty with Roger DeKoven as Arthur Kay,
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  Speaker 1: Edward King directed. And now we return to the original broadcast.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: Adventures in time and space told in future tense. What
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: you will hear transcribed in the next half hour represents
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  Speaker 2: either a magnificent hoax or the true explanation of the
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  Speaker 2: famous Grimshaw Sanatorium scandal, which made the headlines back in 1947.
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  Speaker 2: The manuscript upon which this account is based was removed
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  Speaker 2: by the New York State Police from a fountain pen
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  Speaker 2: cover found in the doorway to Dr. Grimshaw's study. We
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  Speaker 2: offer this manuscript as evidence only. Whether it is authentic
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  Speaker 2: or not, you must judge for yourself. My name is
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  Speaker 2: John Doherty, Hamilton College, class of 34, member of Theta Alpha.
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  Speaker 2: I'm one of those fools who wanted some excitement in life.
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  Speaker 2: So instead of going into my father's shoe business, I
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  Speaker 2: became a private detective. These are facts. You can check
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  Speaker 2: them if you like. The rest of what I write
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  Speaker 2: here is so fantastic that I don't expect it to
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  Speaker 2: be believed. If anyone should find this manuscript and read it,
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  Speaker 2: all I ask is that you notify Miss Millicent Armbruster
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  Speaker 2: of 299 Wallace Avenue, Buffalo, that Johnny Doherty is dead.
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  Speaker 2: On the evening of July 1st, Miss Armbruster and I
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  Speaker 2: were driving to a wedding. Not our own, though I
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  Speaker 2: wish it had been. It was Sunday, and in order
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  Speaker 2: to avoid traffic, I took the old Mill Road, a
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  Speaker 2: single-lane dirt affair that runs past the Gawanda Cemetery. Hey, Johnny,
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  Speaker 2: aren't you going too fast? Not for this road. There
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  Speaker 2: isn't a thing around except some tombstone.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny, there's a.
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  Speaker 2: Gate to the cemetery. What about it?
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  Speaker 4: That hurts.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see anything.
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  Speaker 4: Johnny, look out!
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  Speaker 2: Look out! It was a big black hearse with no
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  Speaker 2: lights on, pulling out of the cemetery. Lucky I had
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  Speaker 2: good brakes. We skidded for about 20 feet and slammed
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  Speaker 2: into the back of the hearse. Two rear doors buckled
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  Speaker 2: and snapped open. It was a freak. A huge oak
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  Speaker 2: coffin with brass handles tipped up and began slowly to
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  Speaker 2: slide back toward us.
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  Speaker 5: John!
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how horrible. You stay right here, honey. I'll help
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  Speaker 2: the driver with that thing. Hey, you okay in the
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  Speaker 2: speed limits, do you, Jack? Now, look, let's not get
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  Speaker 2: hung up on who was right and who was wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I was going too fast, and you were traveling without
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  Speaker 2: lights after dark. Main thing is, nobody's hurt and no
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  Speaker 2: damage done, except for that coffin. And I don't suppose
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  Speaker 2: the occupant minds too much. Let's see the driver's license
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  Speaker 2: and registration. Right here. Hmm. John Doherty. Oh, a private eye, huh?
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  Speaker 2: You listen to the radio too much, Junior. Now, if
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  Speaker 2: you don't mind, who does this joy wagon belong to?
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  Speaker 2: Go on to funeral service. It's being rented to Grimshaw. Who?
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  Speaker 2: Grimshaw from the private sanatorium. Do you mind if I
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  Speaker 2: ask what you were doing after dark coming out of
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  Speaker 2: a cemetery with a wooden kimono? We're moving one of
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  Speaker 2: Grimshaw's patients to a new grave.
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  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: Do they always travel like this? Now look, Hawkshaw, how
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  Speaker 2: about skipping the third degree and giving me a hand
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  Speaker 2: getting the box back in the wagon, huh?
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  Speaker 5: The pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Better screw on the cover again. It's going to slide off.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get it in the hearse first. Okay, Junior. You
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  Speaker 2: get on that end.
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  Speaker 6: Ready?
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  Speaker 3: Lift.
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  Speaker 2: Just slide it.
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  Speaker 3: Brother, who's in there, King Cole?
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  Speaker 2: Look out for the cover. Hey. I told you that'd happen. Hey.
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  Speaker 2: What's the guy's name, Junior? Why don't you ask him?
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  Speaker 2: Real wise guy, huh? I've got half a mind to
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  Speaker 2: report this accident.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: See what gets you. Grimshaw's got a lot of influence
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  Speaker 2: around here, mister. A lot of influence. Now, if you'll
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  Speaker 2: pardon me, I'll deliver the body. So long, Junior.
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  Speaker 4: Johnny?
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  Speaker 2: Johnny?
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  Speaker 3: I'm coming, honey.
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  Speaker 5: Johnny?
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  Speaker 3: Everything all right, Johnny?
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  Speaker 2: I thought so until a few seconds ago. Listen, baby,
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  Speaker 2: can you sit here in the car for another five minutes? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: we're due at the wedding in half an hour. I
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  Speaker 2: won't be long. Where are you going? For a stroll
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  Speaker 2: through the cemetery. Oh, hey, Johnny, stop making jokes. Honey,
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  Speaker 2: when we lifted that coffin back on a meat wagon,
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  Speaker 2: I got a good look inside of it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly how I felt. I figured we'd knock the stuffing
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  Speaker 2: out of the corpse... I mean, I didn't expect the
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  Speaker 2: stuffing to be sand. What? Yes. It wasn't a body.
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  Speaker 2: It was a dummy stuffed with sand. A dummy with
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  Speaker 2: a wax face. Johnny! Which brings up an interesting question.
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  Speaker 2: Who's supposed to be in that box? And just where
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  Speaker 2: is the dead man spending his time?
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  Speaker 5: Ah!
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes in my business, when things drop off, you have
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  Speaker 2: to go out and dig up new clients. My next
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  Speaker 2: case was a gentleman named Harlan Ward, Sr., the wealthy
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  Speaker 2: automobile manufacturer. I'd gotten his name off his son's tombstone.
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  Speaker 4: Are you trying to tell me, Dorothy, that my son
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  Speaker 4: Harlan was never buried at Kuanda Cemetery?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, Mr. Ward.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe if you'll tell me the circumstances surrounding your son's death,
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  Speaker 2: I can help answer that. My son was a rather
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  Speaker 2: impetuous young man, tall, good-looking. After his graduation from Princeton,
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  Speaker 2: he began drinking quite heavily. After he got into a
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  Speaker 2: couple of scrapes, we sent him to Dr. Grimshaw's sanatorium
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  Speaker 2: in the hope that he could be cured. While my
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  Speaker 2: wife and I were in Europe, we received.
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  Speaker 4: Word that he had died. He was buried at Gawanda
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  Speaker 4: in our absence. Last week, my wife and I decided
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  Speaker 4: to have his body removed to the.
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  Speaker 2: Family vault here at Short Hills. How did your son die, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Ward?
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  Speaker 2: Suicide. He slashed his wrists at the sanatorium. You never
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  Speaker 2: saw the body? No.
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  Speaker 4: We couldn't get back from Europe in time.
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  Speaker 2: I see. See here.
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  Speaker 4: How do I know this whole thing isn't a plan
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  Speaker 4: to fleece me? How do I know that you didn't
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  Speaker 4: remove the body yourself?
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  Speaker 2: You don't. But you're a rich man, Mr. Ward, and
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  Speaker 2: you're perfectly willing to take a chance that I'm on
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  Speaker 2: the level and that your son may still be alive.
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  Speaker 2: You sound very sure of yourself, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Doherty.
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  Speaker 2: My fee is $ 2, 000 retainer plus expenses. What sort of expenses?
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  Speaker 2: However much it costs to take the cure at Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Grimshaw's sanatorium. What do you say, Mr. Ward? All right, Doherty.
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  Speaker 2: My secretary will send you a check in the morning. Good. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: one other thing. What's that? I want a photograph of
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  Speaker 2: your son, a good one. I think that can be arranged.
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  Speaker 2: Look here, Dorothy.
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  Speaker 4: If I cooperate, how do I know that you won't
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  Speaker 4: run off?
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  Speaker 2: I won't guarantee it. On the other hand, I might
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  Speaker 2: have to get myself killed on this job. We both
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  Speaker 2: take a risk, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Ward.
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  Speaker 2: THE END.
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  Speaker 3: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Grimshaw's sanatorium was just outside Gawanda, and it was strictly
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  Speaker 2: for the $ 460 a day. Most of the cases were
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  Speaker 2: nervous breakdowns and alcoholics. I committed myself as a dipso,
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  Speaker 2: and just to make it convincing, I stopped at five
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  Speaker 2: or six bars on the way over. I was interviewed
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  Speaker 2: by Grimshaw himself, a small man with a fringe of
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  Speaker 2: white hair. He seemed on the level.
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  Speaker 5: And yet.
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  Speaker 2: There was something just the slightest bit phony about the
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  Speaker 2: whole deal. You understand, Mr. Doherty? That's not my real name,
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  Speaker 2: of course. Social reasons. We understand. Our paid clientele is
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  Speaker 2: very select. Our rates are rather high. You'll be paid
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  Speaker 2: in cash and in advance, Dr. Grimshaw. You find us
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  Speaker 2: most sympathetic. Um, how long does a cure usually take, Doctor? Well, that,
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  Speaker 2: of course, depends on the degree of alcoholism. This is
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  Speaker 2: my assistant, Dr. Boyd. Now, how do you do? How
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  Speaker 2: do you do? We are accepting Mr. Doherty as a patient.
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  Speaker 2: Better place him in the ward with Mr. Kay and Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Crakey.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Kay is a long-term patient. Mr. Doherty, highly intelligent man,
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  Speaker 2: formerly a professor of plant pathology. Mr. Crakey suffers mild delusions.
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  Speaker 2: I think you'll find him rather amusing. After about three days,
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  Speaker 2: my roommates, Arthur Kay and Craigie, got used to me,
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  Speaker 2: and we even began to play three-handed bridge. Kay was
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  Speaker 2: a chronic dope addict, an intelligent, sensitive man. Craigie was
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  Speaker 2: nothing but a clown. He kept a big black cat
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  Speaker 2: named the Professor, which he talked to as if it
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  Speaker 2: were human. And so I said to her, my dear Countess.
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  Speaker 6: If you don't like the company of my cat, then
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  Speaker 6: you don't like me. She looked at me as if
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  Speaker 6: I were insane, but of course the joke was on
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  Speaker 6: her because I was. Eh, Professor?
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  Speaker 2: You'll have to forgive Count Crakey, Mr. Doherty. When you've
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  Speaker 2: been here as long as I have, you'll get used
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  Speaker 2: to him. Do you like cats, Mr. Doherty?
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  Speaker 6: I do hope you like cats since we are to
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  Speaker 6: have adjoining rooms. The Professor is very sociable and excellent company.
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  Speaker 2: Except when he kills birds and deposits them in your bed.
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  Speaker 2: He's nothing but a feline murderer as far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 3: Huh? Ah, see?
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  Speaker 2: You have insulted him. Come here, Professor. Let's make friends.
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  Speaker 2: How about giving me your paw? Hey, catch me, you
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  Speaker 2: black devil.
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  Speaker 3: You insulted him.
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  Speaker 2: You hurt his feelings. Well, keep him away from me.
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  Speaker 2: It will be a pleasure. I would advise you not
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  Speaker 2: to insult him again.
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  Speaker 6: Count Crakey is not altogether without influence here, as Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Cable informed you. Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: And evening.
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  Speaker 2: Is he always as nuts as that? Ever since I've
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  Speaker 2: been here. How did they let him keep that black Satan?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I suppose Grimshaw wants to pamper him.
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  Speaker 2: He's been here since they opened the place, I understand.
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  Speaker 2: Spends about three hours a day getting therapy from Grimshaw.
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  Speaker 2: What's his problem? Manic depressive. A little paranoid, too. How
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: long have you been here, Arthur? Grimshaw's two years. I
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  Speaker 2: left for a while, but I couldn't stay away from
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  Speaker 2: the junk, so I committed myself again. Did you happen
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  Speaker 2: to know a patient here named Harlan Ward? Why do
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  Speaker 2: you ask that? Do you know him? I met him
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  Speaker 2: socially a few times. I understand he died here. So
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  Speaker 2: the newspapers said. I wouldn't know. Suicide, wasn't it? Was it?
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  Speaker 2: You're being pretty careful, aren't you? Mr. Doherty, what would
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  Speaker 2: you say if I were to tell you that I
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  Speaker 2: don't believe Harlan Ward is dead? What makes you so certain?
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  Speaker 2: Harlan Ward used to share this room with us. He
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  Speaker 2: slept in the same bed you now use. I see.
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  Speaker 2: He was an alcoholic. Doing quite well, too, from what
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  Speaker 2: I could observe. We all expected him to go home soon.
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  Speaker 2: Then one evening, he had a violent fight with Craigie.
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  Speaker 2: Craigie accused him of snooping or something. Later that night,
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  Speaker 2: Grimshaw and Boyner took him out.
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  Speaker 5: Where?
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: They take all the special treatment cases to the charity clinic.
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  Speaker 2: It's that small building on the other side of the
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  Speaker 2: stone wall... I think they do their surgery cases there.
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  Speaker 2: Why did they take him there?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Confinement, I guess. A few days later, we read about
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  Speaker 2: his death. Suicide, they said. Why do you think he's
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  Speaker 2: still alive, Arthur? This. About a month ago, I was
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  Speaker 2: in the garden next to the wall that separates us
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  Speaker 2: from the charity clinic. Suddenly, I thought I heard a
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: sound like a child whimpering. It stopped. A moment later,
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  Speaker 2: this note came over the wall wrapped around a stone.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'm certain I heard a blow and a scream
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  Speaker 2: again like a child. What does the note say? Help me,
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  Speaker 2: for God's sake, Harlan Ward. I haven't told anyone yet
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  Speaker 2: for fear Grimshaw and Voyner might find out. It might
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  Speaker 2: just be some insane prank by one of the charity cases.
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  Speaker 2: And yet, why should Dr. Grimshaw want to pretend Harlan
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  Speaker 2: Ward is dead? I'm not an oracle, Mr. Doherty. What
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  Speaker 2: about this charity clinic? I've always been curious. Grimshaw and
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  Speaker 2: Voyner make sure that no patient goes there unsupervised. Many
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  Speaker 2: of those have been taken across like Harlan Ward. I've
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: never seen again. Arthur, how'd you like to have some fun?
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  Speaker 2: Like what? Like sneaking out tonight and going over the wall.
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  Speaker 2: What do you say? It'd break the monotony a little.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. If there's something fishy going on, it'd
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: be better to find out now, wouldn't it? I suppose
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: there's no real harm in it? Of course not. I'd
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: go alone, but I'll need help scaling that wall. Will
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: you do it? All right. I'll go with you. It
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: was shortly after midnight when Kay and I slipped out
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  Speaker 2: of the room and made our way out to the garden.
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  Speaker 2: Count Crakey was snoring soundly when we left. The wall
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: was about eight feet high, but we made it without
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  Speaker 2: too much trouble. Count! All clear.
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  Speaker 3: Give me your hand and I'll lift.
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  Speaker 2: You. Careful when you drop. Ready? Go ahead. There's a
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  Speaker 2: charity building over there. One of the lights in the
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: basement window. Come on. We'll make a run across the
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: driveway and hide in that clump of bushes alongside the building. Ready?
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: All right. Okay, hold it. Drop that. What's the matter?
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Let's crawl over toward the window with the light. Maybe
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: we can see something. I suppose you've got the chance.
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  Speaker 3: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Take it easy. Sounds like it. Can you make out
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: what he's saying? Good Lord. What was that? Probably some
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: patient having a DTs. I think it came from that
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: basement window. Let's get over there where I can have
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  Speaker 2: a look.
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  Speaker 3: Easy.
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  Speaker 2: What do I do to get caught now? Just. See anything? Relax.
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  Speaker 2: It's some sort of laboratory. That's right. I can see Grimshaw.
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  Speaker 2: I know. And someone else with its back toward me.
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  Speaker 2: If we're still, we may make out what they're saying.
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  Speaker 2: Take it quietly. It will be easier. No. I warn you.
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  Speaker 3: Please, please.
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  Speaker 2: It will all be over soon. You won't remember anything.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't want to go.
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  Speaker 2: Boyner, give it to him.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Shut him up, Boyner.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Good Lord. What is it? Come on. We've got to
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: get out of here. What did you see? What did
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: they do to that child? Arthur, that wasn't a child.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: It was a midget. The smallest midget I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: What were they doing? Trying to give it some sort
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  Speaker 2: of injection. When it resisted, Voyner.
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  Speaker 3: Knocked it out.
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  Speaker 2: What did you suppose they were doing to it? I
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: don't know, Arthur. All I know is that when it fell,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: it had the face of Harlan Ward. Harlan Ward All
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: the way back to our room, my brain was working
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: like a pinball machine. Only the score wouldn't add up.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: The pieces were there all right. A crazy old doctor,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: a brutal assistant, a private sanatorium, and a midget with
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: a dead man's face. But I couldn't figure it out.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: I thought that when I got back to our room,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I'd have some time to think about it. But I'd
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: forgotten about our friend, the happiness boy, Count Craigie. I
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: told you, I have caught you.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Fine.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: So, you've caught us. Now, how about crawling back into
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: the woodwork like a good little count? Where were you?
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Mink hunting. Arthur and I like to go mink hunting
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: at night. It's a funny thing, though. The mink weren't
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: running very good. The grunion were running like crazy, though,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: weren't they, Arthur? Like crazy, Mr. Doherty. You make fun
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: of Count Craigie. You're lying. I shall report you to Dr. Boyner.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Better not, if you know what's good for you. So
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: you threaten me. Me come Craigie, world's champion gymnast and
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: barbell balancer. I shall scream for help.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Help! Help!
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Did you hurt him? Just knocked him out. What do
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: we do now? Put him to bed. Hope that when
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: he wakes up in the morning, he's forgotten the whole thing.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: And if he hasn't? They won't take him seriously anyway.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I don't think Grimshaw would believe him. Besides which, he
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: doesn't know what we actually were doing. Come on. Let's
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: get him back into bed. I went to sleep in
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: my own room. And the next thing I felt was
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: the sharp jab of the hypodermic needle in my left arm.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I started to struggle, but it was no use. Voyner
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: and another assistant were holding me down. Grimshaw stood over me,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: the empty needle still in his hand.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: It would be useless to struggle, Mr.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: Daugherty.
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  Speaker 2: In a moment, your motor nerves will be completely paralyzed.
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  Speaker 2: What's this about, Grimshaw? I might ask the same of you.
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  Speaker 2: My good friend Count Crakey informs me you and Mr.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Kay decided to do some snooping earlier tonight. He followed
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: you and saw you climb the wall. Crakey's insane. That
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: is a matter of opinion, Mr. Daugherty. Crakey, what is this?
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Perhaps my assistant, Dr. Grimshaw, would be good enough to explain. Assistant?
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: You see, I am the actual head of the Grimshaw sanatorium.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Grimshaw? Count Craigie feigns many delusions, Mr. Doherty, but in
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: this case he's telling the truth. Count Craigie is actually
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Professor Ernst Hussler. Professor Hussler and I worked together in
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: the Berlin Neurological Institute before the last war.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: Unfortunately, my political affiliations with the Third Reich were under
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: investigation after the war by the War Crimes Commission.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: However, Dr.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: Grimshaw managed to snag... me into this country where I
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: masquerade as a mental patient. Thus, we are able to
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: continue certain experiments which were interrupted by the American army.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I can imagine the sort of experiments you've conducted. You
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: and your friend, Mr. K, will discover their exact nature
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: very shortly, Mr. Doherty. It's a magnificent opportunity to serve science.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Then I passed out. And the next thing I knew,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: I was coming to in a different room. I guessed
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: it was somewhere in the charity building because of the
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: angle of the sun through the windows. They had me
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: in a straitjacket and kept doping me until I lost
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: count of time. I don't know how long it kept up.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I remember one day being wheeled along a corridor into
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: an operating room and hearing the voices of Boiner, Grimshaw,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: and Craigie as if from a great distance. Pituitary and pituitary.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: Four cc's.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Four cc's. How are the measurements? Reducing rapidly. We'll operate
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: at once. If Boiner start the anesthesia. All right, doctor.
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  Speaker 4: Commence.
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  Speaker 2: When I came to again, I had a blinding headache.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: After that wore off a horrible sensation of weakness. I
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: began to wonder if Craigie and Grimshaw weren't doing something
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: to drive me insane... because I lost all sense of perspective.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: The room seemed to grow in size. I don't know
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: how much time passed, but one day Grimshaw came into
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: the room with a bundle in his arms... about the
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: size of a newborn baby. The bundle was my friend,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Arthur Kay. Good morning, Mr. Doherty. I've brought you a companion...
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you two gentlemen will enjoy each other's company.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Put me out.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Of here. Put me out. I couldn't believe my eyes
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: until Grimshaw sat Arthur down on the bed beside me.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: It was then that I got the real shock.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: For I realized that what had looked.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Like a tiny bundle in Grimshaw's arms was actually the
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: same size.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: That I was. Then, for the first time, I began
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: to understand what was happening to us. Arthur Kay and
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I were being made into midgets. We got the full
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: explanation next morning when the eminent Professor Hassler, alias Count Crakey,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: came in to gloat over us. Allow me to congratulate you, gentlemen.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: How are you feeling?
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: You speak much. I am disappointed, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: Do you not feel privileged to be a.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: Part of an experiment that will place me at the
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: very top rank of the world's endocrinologists?
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: What are you doing to us?
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: It has been long established, gentlemen, that dwarfism and giantism
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: result from injury to, or malfunction of, the pituitary and
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: thyroid glands. The interlock between these glands was thought to
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: be a hormone. I have discovered that this was incorrect.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: It is an enzyme, an enzyme I isolated some years ago.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: I was well on the way to synthesis in Germany
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: when the surrender interrupted me. The interruption also limited the
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: number and type of subjects on whom I could experiment.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I was forced to find others.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Such as Harlan Ward?
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Ward was only a control experiment. And now you've done
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: the same to us.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: No, gentlemen.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: For you, I have reserved a special privilege. You gentlemen
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: will be the first to test the full effects of
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: the enzyme. In short, I intend that you, Mr. K,
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: and you, Mr. Doherty, when the experiment is completed, will
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: emerge as perfectly healthy, normal individuals.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Except, of course, that you will.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Be only five inches tall.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Nightmare a nightmare from which Arthur and I awoke for
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: brief periods to find ourselves in a strange new world
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: a huge frightening world where everything was enlarged a hundred
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: times when we finally emerged we found ourselves imprisoned in
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: a tiny mouse cage judging by the relative size of
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: things we could not have been more than five inches
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: tall now that our senses cleared we realized that the
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: experiment was at an end that from now on it
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: was either escape or be destroyed.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Suppose we don't make it. At least you've written a
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: story on that scrap of paper. Someone may find it
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: and read it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Nobody will believe it. Why'd you bother to write it?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: My friends I'm for feeding I trust that you.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: So you've managed to break out it won't do you
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: know there is no way you could have gotten out.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Of the room with the door and window locked.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I know you're in here.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: I would advise you to save yourselves trouble and give
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: up no Perhaps you are in the desk drawer. Or
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: behind this decanter. Then perhaps in this cabinet.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: Very well.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: I shall count to five. One.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: Two.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Three. Four. Five. You will not get off me. Very well,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: my tiny friends.
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: If you prefer to play the game of cat and mouse,
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: then I.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Shall be happy to play.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: How long do you figure it will take them to
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: get downstairs and let the cat into the building?
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Three minutes at most. Then we've got three minutes to
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: get out. How?
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: All the doors in.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: The mental institution lock from the outside. We need a
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: special key to get out and then we could.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute. What is it?
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: John? What?
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Do you see that thin strand of wire running along
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: the molding? What about it? Do you know what it is?
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: No.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: It's the automatic fire alarm. What about it? When the
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: alarm is tripped by a fire, all the locks are
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: sprung so that the patients can escape in their rooms.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Are you certain?
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Positive.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: This door is part of the system. If I can
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: work the insulation off that wire and short it before
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Craigie lifts the can of the building, let's go. There's
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: a tiny sliver of steel in the cage on the floor.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: I'll work with that. You keep an ear to the door.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: What was that?
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: What?
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: I thought I heard a door slam. Mikey couldn't be
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: back so soon. Hurry up or I'll have a gut ache.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Stand away. I've got a show on it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Ready? Okay. We made it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: There goes the door. Come on, we'll make a run
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: for it down the hall. If we can get to
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: the garden, we've got a chance. I smell smoke. The
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: short may have.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Actually started the fire.
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: What's up? I have to go back. The man just...
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Don't be a fool. There's no time. Stop us now. Arthur,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: where are we? It's funny.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Arthur? Arthur?
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Arthur, what's happened to you?
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Arthur? This is the record found in a fountain pen
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: cover in the burned-down hallway of Grimshaw Sanatorium. There is
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: nothing to add, except that the fire which destroyed the
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: sanatorium and killed so many of its occupants, including Dr.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Grimshaw and Dr. Voyner, was definitely of incendiary origin. It
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: is believed by the fire chief that some small creature,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: either a mouse or possibly a cat, chewed the insulation
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: off the wire and short-circuited the system. The two patients,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: John Doherty and Arthur Kay, vanished completely after the fire,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: and their remains were never found. Whether the manuscript which
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: you have just heard is authentic, or whether it was
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: the work of one of the more demented inmates of
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: the sanatorium, we leave to your judgment.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: You have just heard another adventure into the unknown world.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Of the future. The world of... Dimension. Next week on
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Dimension X, and the moon be still as bright. The
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: story of the first despoilers of the planet Mars. The
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: men from... Earth.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: Tonight, Dimension X has transcribed Dr. Grimshaw's sanatorium. Adapted for
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: radio by George Lefferts from an original short.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Story by Fletcher Pratt.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: Featured in the cast were Carl Weber as John Doherty
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: and Roger DeKoven as Arthur Kay. Your narrator was Norman Rose.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: Music by Albert Berman. Engineer, Bill Chambers. Dimension X is
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: directed by Edward King.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Your National Guard is a strong, well-knit military organization of
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: men from every state and territory in the nation. No
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: matter what emergency faces our country, a National Guardsman has
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: ensured his future. He's trained to handle himself if the
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: going gets tough. And at the same time, he's learned
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: new skills to help his civilian career. Regular Army and
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Air Force pay scales apply to every hour of training
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: a Guardsman takes. So men, if you're over 17, join
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: the National Guard. Keep your guard up. Enjoy Bob Hope
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: and Groucho Marx, coming soon on NBC.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: This has been Dimension X, Episode 25, Dr. Grimshaw's Sanatorium.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Until we meet again, good night. Follow old-time sci-fi radio
• 31:21
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