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The Whistler - "Murder Is Blind" (Old Time Radio, 1945) · The Whistler | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A woman cannot accept that the man she loves intends
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  Speaker 1: to marry another, and jealousy drives her toward a desperate
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  Speaker 1: course involving blindness. From The Whistler comes Murder is Blind,
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  Speaker 1: episode 158, first heard June.
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  Speaker 2: 4th, 1945.
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  Speaker 1: This half-hour CBS Pacific and KNX broadcast came during the
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  Speaker 1: series Signal Oil sponsored run, where romantic betrayal and obsession
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  Speaker 1: set the situation in motion. The Whistler now brings us
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  Speaker 1: a story of rejection, determination, and the consequences that follow
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  Speaker 1: when one woman refuses to let go. Here is the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Signal gasoline. Let every traffic signal remind you, you do
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  Speaker 3: go farther with signal gasoline. Yes, you do go farther
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  Speaker 3: with signal. The Signal Oil Company and your neighborhood signal
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  Speaker 3: dealer bring you another curious story by The Whistler.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight, murder is blind.
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  Speaker 4: The Whistler.
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  Speaker 2: I am the whistler. And I know many things, for
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  Speaker 2: I walk by night.
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  Speaker 5: I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of
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  Speaker 5: men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
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  Speaker 2: Most people are blind.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, they're blind to the shortcomings of someone close to them,
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  Speaker 5: someone sometimes to their own. That was the way with
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  Speaker 5: the three women who lived in the old Hopkins house
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  Speaker 5: on the hill. Three very different women, but all of
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  Speaker 5: them blind to the characters of the others. There was
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  Speaker 5: Lorna Hopkins, mistress of the house, warm, sincere Lorna, happy
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  Speaker 5: in her coming marriage to Gregory. There was Patsy Hopkins,
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  Speaker 5: Lorna's cousins, whose only happiness is in herself, her youth,
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  Speaker 5: her loveliness. And old Freulein, the old German housekeeper who
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  Speaker 5: has been Patsy's governess and who had found happiness in serving.
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  Speaker 2: Her with years of devotion.
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  Speaker 5: None of them really knew the others. All of them
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  Speaker 5: were a little blind. That is, until it happened. It
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  Speaker 5: started the night Patsy was helping Lorna with her hair.
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  Speaker 6: There.
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  Speaker 7: That's the list.
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  Speaker 8: Fraulein can help you with the rest.
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  Speaker 7: Now what? Gregory, he's waiting in the living room.
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  Speaker 8: Do keep him company like a good girl, Patsy.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, really, Lorna?
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  Speaker 6: It's a bit tiresome playing substitute. Besides, he doesn't want
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  Speaker 6: to see me.
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  Speaker 7: Of course he does.
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  Speaker 8: Be an angel and try to keep him consoled till
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  Speaker 8: I get dressed. Listen.
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  Speaker 7: Greg playing the phonograph. To Sally Serenade. Lovely, isn't it?
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  Speaker 9: Is it?
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  Speaker 8: Greg once said it was a musical description of me.
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  Speaker 8: Can you imagine? He can say such nice things. Oh, look, Patsy,
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  Speaker 8: I'm not nearly ready. Do run down and pay the
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  Speaker 8: poor man a little attention like a good girl.
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  Speaker 7: You're pretty sure of yourself.
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  Speaker 8: Sure about what, Pat?
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  Speaker 9: Nothing. I'll go.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Patsy.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, don't get up, Greg. Lorna's still dressing. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 8: I'm supposed to entertain her.
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  Speaker 2: You always have.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks.
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  Speaker 8: You're leaving for New.
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  Speaker 7: York soon, aren't you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in a few days. Mother wants me to handle
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  Speaker 2: some of her affairs. I'll be back after a while.
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  Speaker 3: For Lorna?
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: We expect to be married in Mother's home, you know.
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  Speaker 2: After that, the honeymoon. Someplace in the Northwoods. Someplace where
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  Speaker 2: we can be together far away from everybody.
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  Speaker 7: What a picture.
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  Speaker 8: How beautifully sentimental. Do you know, my dear, you're beginning
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  Speaker 8: to tire me dreadfully.
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  Speaker 2: I've suspected that before. What's the matter with us, Patsy?
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  Speaker 7: Is there something the matter?
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  Speaker 2: We used to get along together so well. Lately, we
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  Speaker 2: don't seem to understand each other at all. Shall we
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  Speaker 2: talk about something else?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: Something's come between us. Ever since I became engaged to Lorne.
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  Speaker 8: That has nothing to do with it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, of course not. But what is it, Pats? What's
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  Speaker 2: going on, anyway?
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  Speaker 8: Nothing, I tell you. I.
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  Speaker 5: I.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, for heaven's sake, stop that thing. Take that sickening
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  Speaker 8: record off.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sure, sure, Pats. I always thought you liked it.
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  Speaker 8: Turn it off! Greg. Yes?
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  Speaker 7: I want you to do something for me.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 7: Anything.
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  Speaker 2: Anything.
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  Speaker 7: I want you to go back to New York.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I am, Patsy. I'm leaving toward the end of
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  Speaker 2: the month.
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  Speaker 7: I mean now. Today.
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  Speaker 2: Today?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what's the matter, Patsy? Don't you even like me anymore?
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  Speaker 8: Like you?
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  Speaker 7: Why, you fool, I love you.
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  Speaker 10: What?
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  Speaker 8: It's my first day we met.
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  Speaker 7: Haven't you seen it?
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  Speaker 2: This is incredible. You can't mean this.
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  Speaker 6: I never meant anything more in my life. I know
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  Speaker 6: I'm shameless, Greg, but I can't help it.
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  Speaker 2: What about Lorna?
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  Speaker 6: Lorna will never make.
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  Speaker 8: You happy, never.
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  Speaker 6: She's good and sweet and kind, but goodness and sweetness
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  Speaker 6: can be tiresome.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, and kindness, too. I know Lorna, Greg, and I
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  Speaker 8: know you. In a year, you'll grow to hate her.
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  Speaker 2: Please, Pats, please, you mustn't say these things.
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  Speaker 9: But it's true.
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  Speaker 8: I've got to say these things. Don't you see, my darling?
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  Speaker 6: I'm thinking of your happiness.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, and Lorna's, too.
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  Speaker 2: And you?
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  Speaker 8: And of mine.
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  Speaker 6: I have the right to think of mine, haven't I, Greg?
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  Speaker 6: We needn't hurt Lorna too much. You'd go away, go
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  Speaker 6: back to New York, and after a while, six months.
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  Speaker 7: I'd come to you.
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  Speaker 2: And Lorna, she would have forgiven me?
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  Speaker 6: When she saw we were happy, what else could she do?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Patsy, I'm trying hard to believe that you can't
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  Speaker 2: mean all this.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, but I do, I do.
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  Speaker 10: I love you, Greg.
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  Speaker 8: I love you so much that you must know it,
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  Speaker 8: feel it.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'm sorry for you. I can't tell you how sorry.
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  Speaker 2: It's Lorna. There can't be anyone else that never will be.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, but you don't love her.
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  Speaker 8: You can't love her.
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  Speaker 7: You love me.
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  Speaker 9: You do.
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  Speaker 10: I know you do.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Greg, my darling.
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  Speaker 10: Stop it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think for a minute I'd give up Lorna
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  Speaker 2: for you?
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  Speaker 4: Greg.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't deserve this kind of deal from you, Patsy.
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  Speaker 2: She's taken you into our home. For years she's cared
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  Speaker 2: for you like a sister.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, it's cheap.
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  Speaker 8: Don't, please.
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  Speaker 7: Put your arms around me.
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  Speaker 8: Greg, I'm right.
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  Speaker 7: I know I'm right. You slapped me.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: So?
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  Speaker 2: Now listen, Patsy.
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  Speaker 8: You listen to me.
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: This is important. Remember it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 8: You'll never marry Lorna.
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  Speaker 7: Do you understand? No. If I can't have you, she'll
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  Speaker 7: not have you.
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  Speaker 2: Will you please tell your cousin I'm waiting for her?
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  Speaker 8: Remember that, Gregory.
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  Speaker 2: What? Conundrums.
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  Speaker 3: We've all played the old game in which someone describes
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  Speaker 3: a thing and you guess what it is. For example,
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  Speaker 3: someone says, it's round, it's black, and it has big
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  Speaker 3: yellow letters on it, spelling something that helps your car
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  Speaker 3: go farther. Well, of course, you Whistler fans know, that's
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  Speaker 3: Signal's yellow and black circle sign, which identifies the friendly
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  Speaker 3: Signal gasoline dealers who bring you this program. And friends,
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  Speaker 3: in today's game of trying to make rationed gasoline go farther,
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  Speaker 3: remembering that signal sign is your surest way to win
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  Speaker 3: most miles per gas stamp. You see, in keeping with
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  Speaker 3: its 14-year tradition of quality, Signal Oil Company is still
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  Speaker 3: bringing you the very finest gasoline that can be marketed
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  Speaker 3: under wartime conditions. And the famous signal formula still places
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  Speaker 3: the emphasis on mileage. So to stretch those gas stamps,
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  Speaker 3: cry signal in your car. Prove for yourself that it's
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  Speaker 3: not just a slogan, it's a fact. You do go
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  Speaker 3: farther with Signal Gasoline. And now, back to the whistler. Well, Patsy,
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  Speaker 3: you never dreamed that Gregory would be difficult. that he
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  Speaker 3: would reject your love, did you? You were sure that
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  Speaker 3: he would fall just as all the other men in your.
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  Speaker 2: Life had fallen. But that's the way things go, Patsy.
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  Speaker 5: The one you really want is always the one who
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  Speaker 5: doesn't respond. And now as you lie in your lonely room,
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  Speaker 5: your thoughts aren't very pleasant, are they?
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  Speaker 9: You are sleeping, Miss Patricia?
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  Speaker 7: No, Fraulein. Come in if you wish.
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  Speaker 10: I've come to see what it is that's making my
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  Speaker 10: little girl unhappy. There is something, isn't there, yes?
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  Speaker 7: Unhappy? Why do you think that, Fraulein?
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  Speaker 9: Fraulein can always tell. What is it, my baby?
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  Speaker 7: Nothing. You're imagining things.
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  Speaker 9: So?
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  Speaker 10: Ah, you are so much like your mother... One minute
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  Speaker 10: laughing and gay, her eyes shining. The next, poof, when
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  Speaker 10: she becomes sad.
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  Speaker 7: Was she really very pretty?
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  Speaker 9: Pretty and clever.
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  Speaker 10: And sometimes unhappy like you. Often she thought your papa
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  Speaker 10: didn't love her. She only knew, really knew, when it
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  Speaker 10: was almost too late.
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  Speaker 7: When she was dying?
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: Then your papa almost went crazy. He hadn't paid attention
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  Speaker 10: to her headaches. He thought she was pretending.
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  Speaker 9: Them to get sympathy. But later on, when she became blind.
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  Speaker 7: Poor mother. Brain tumor must be a horrible thing.
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  Speaker 9: She didn't suffer too greatly.
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  Speaker 5: Headaches, yes.
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  Speaker 10: And her eyes became so big, so staring.
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  Speaker 9: The pupils so dilated.
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  Speaker 7: And father?
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  Speaker 9: He went all to pieces. Cried just like a little boy.
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  Speaker 10: Your mama died happy. For toward the end, she knew
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  Speaker 10: how much.
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  Speaker 9: He really loved her.
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  Speaker 7: He really did love her.
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  Speaker 10: Till the day he died. I've upset you talking about
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  Speaker 10: your mama.
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  Speaker 7: No, Fraulein, I'm glad. I'm glad you told me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad you told me.
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  Speaker 2: What's in your mind now, Patsy?
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  Speaker 5: Why do you leave your bed, go to the dressing table,
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  Speaker 5: and stare deeply, searchingly into its mirror? Your eyes slowly
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  Speaker 5: widen and you shudder a little bit. After a while,
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  Speaker 5: you return to your bed and your eyes hold a curious,
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  Speaker 5: furtive expression, as though, Patsy, you were hiding a guilty secret.
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  Speaker 2: And in the days that follow.
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  Speaker 7: I've kept you waiting, haven't I, Greg? I'm sorry, really.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, forget it. Anything the matter?
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  Speaker 8: Nothing serious. I've been upstairs comforting Patsy. Patsy?
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  Speaker 7: Poor girl. She's having such a headache. I know, Greg.
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  Speaker 8: That's why I called you. I'd counted on seeing you, too.
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  Speaker 8: But Patsy has a splitting headache. We'll make it tomorrow,
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  Speaker 8: shall we? It's Patsy again, Greg.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 8: I'll call you later. There is something the matter with Patsy, Greg.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure of it. These pains, these spells of dizziness,
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  Speaker 8: they worry me.
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  Speaker 2: I can see that. But don't you think you're inclined
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  Speaker 2: to exaggerate her condition? After all, everybody has headaches, you know.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I know, but not like Patsy's. They're doing something
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  Speaker 8: terrible to her. She looks badly, Greg. Her eyes seem
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  Speaker 8: so strange. I don't like it.
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  Speaker 2: This is something new, then?
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  Speaker 7: Her eyes, yes. But her headaches, well.
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  Speaker 8: She told me she's been having them for weeks.
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  Speaker 7: She said nothing because she didn't want.
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  Speaker 9: To worry me.
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  Speaker 1: I see.
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  Speaker 8: It's a text when she has one, she's practically helpless.
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  Speaker 7: She's so dependent on me, Greg.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and always at a time when I want to
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  Speaker 2: take you to dinner or to the theater.
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  Speaker 8: That's not fair, Greg.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps not, but are you being fair with me?
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  Speaker 9: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: I'm leaving for New York in a day or two,
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  Speaker 2: but that seems to make very little difference to you.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, that's not true. Let's not quarrel, Gregory.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not quarreling. All this nonsense is getting too much
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  Speaker 2: for me. If anything was seriously wrong with a girl.
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  Speaker 7: You don't think there is?
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  Speaker 2: Not as bad as she pretends. Frankly, I think she's
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  Speaker 2: putting on an act of some kind. What's that?
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  Speaker 7: Patsy!
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  Speaker 9: Miss Lorna, hurry, come to me.
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  Speaker 7: What is it, Boylein?
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  Speaker 9: It's Miss Patsy. She can't see.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Miss Lorna, she's blind.
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  Speaker 9: Blind.
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  Speaker 7: Oh!
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  Speaker 5: And now, Gregory, you're ashamed and remorseful, aren't you? You'd
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  Speaker 5: give anything to recall yesterday's words spoken so bitterly to Lorna.
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  Speaker 5: Those scornful phrases doubting the sincerity of Patsy's illness. You
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  Speaker 5: thought Patsy's headaches were a game, the sort a willful
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  Speaker 5: woman might play for sympathy or attention.
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  Speaker 6: Didn't you, Gregory?
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  Speaker 5: Now, as you look down at her white face and
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  Speaker 5: into her tragic, unseeing eyes, a deep wave of sympathy
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  Speaker 5: comes over you. You feel helpless in the shocking tragedy
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  Speaker 5: before you, don't you, Gregory?
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  Speaker 7: There's no fever, Greg. At least that's one thing to
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: be thankful for. She slept a little last night, didn't you, dear?
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  Speaker 8: Toward morning, I did.
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  Speaker 6: The pain seemed to go away then.
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  Speaker 8: Do I look terrible, Greg?
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  Speaker 2: Terrible? Oh, no, you could never look that bad. A
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: little pale, perhaps. Your eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Do they pain you? They seem so big, the pupils
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  Speaker 2: so dilated. Tell me, what did the doctor say?
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  Speaker 8: She won't have a doctor. Fraulein and I are almost crazy.
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  Speaker 8: I won't have one, I won't. He'll operate, I know
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  Speaker 8: he will. Please, Lorne, I.
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  Speaker 7: But we must find out what this condition is. Do
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  Speaker 7: be reasonable, dear.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anyone in town, a good eye doctor, who'd
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  Speaker 2: know about this kind of thing?
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  Speaker 8: No, there isn't.
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  Speaker 7: There's no one.
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  Speaker 8: Now, Patsy, there is one, and you'll know it. He's
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  Speaker 8: considered very fine. I won't have him.
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  Speaker 9: He's old and.
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  Speaker 8: You want me to die just like my mother?
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  Speaker 6: Don't you care what happens to me?
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  Speaker 7: You see, Greg.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want us to do, Pastor?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We must do something.
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  Speaker 8: I thought that.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 16:27
  Speaker 8: The best eye doctors... The specialists... Aren't they in the
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  Speaker 8: big cities... I thought I could go to one of them.
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  Speaker 7: Where, Patsy?
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: Isn't New York a kind of medical center?
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  Speaker 7: New York? Oh, no, that's impossible.
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  Speaker 8: You couldn't leave your job here in town, and I
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  Speaker 8: couldn't go alone.
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  Speaker 7: What do you think, Greg?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what you want, Patsy?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, but Lorna's job. She loses. Oh, if that mattered.
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  Speaker 7: There are other jobs, plenty of them.
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  Speaker 9: Even if there were.
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  Speaker 2: There's no necessity for your taking her, Lorna. I'm leaving
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  Speaker 2: for New York anyway. Patsy can come right along with me.
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  Speaker 7: What, you, Greg?
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  Speaker 8: Can I.
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  Speaker 2: Of course. I'll put you up at Mother's place. Then
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  Speaker 2: we'll have the best men in the city come to
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  Speaker 2: look at you.
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  Speaker 7: I'd feel better if I went with her.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know. I had nothing you could do, Lorna.
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  Speaker 7: Don't you see? I suppose so. You could keep me
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  Speaker 7: in touch, couldn't you, Greg? Let me know everything.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, by long distance every day. You just sit tight
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  Speaker 2: and let me handle this. And you get Patsy ready.
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  Speaker 7: Of course. Fraulein will help.
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  Speaker 2: It'll take two or three days to make the necessary arrangements.
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  Speaker 7: Haven't you both forgotten something?
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  Speaker 2: Have I?
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  Speaker 7: You and Lorna.
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  Speaker 8: Your marriage.
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  Speaker 2: Our marriage?
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  Speaker 7: You mustn't worry about that, Patsy. That'll keep till you're
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: well again. We can wait, can't we, Greg?
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  Speaker 2: Naturally.
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  Speaker 8: I am a nuisance, aren't I?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my eyes.
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: They're starting to hurt again. Oh, do get me some ice, dear.
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: I'm sure there's some downstairs.
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: I shan't be long.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Greg?
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: You did forget, didn't you?
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: Forget?
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: About you and Lorna getting married.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Did I?
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: You did. You know you did. Suppose I get well, Greg.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Of course you're going to get well. After we arrive
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: in New York, everything's going to be all right.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: Do you know... I think so, too.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: Well, Greg, perhaps you're being a little blind, too. You've
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: forgotten Patsy's warning, haven't you? And her helplessness is a
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: rebuke to your conscience, isn't it, Gregory? For you remember,
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: in spite of Lorna's warnings, your indifference to Patsy's repeated headings.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: And you know that if this girl dies, nothing can
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: ever be quite the same for you and Lorna. It's
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: imperative that Patsy regain her health not only for her
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: own sake, but for the sake of your marriage as well.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: And now, after a day spent in making traveling arrangements,
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: you return to the house with Lorna.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: We're home early, Lorna.
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: Yes, I know.
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: It's nearly seven.
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: Patsy doesn't expect us back for a couple of hours yet.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: Must be very quiet.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Think she's sleeping?
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: I hope so.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: She promised me she'd try. After a while, I'll go
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: up and peek in at her. Oh, dear, I would forget.
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: I meant to bring Fraulein something from the corner drugstore.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, want me to go for you?
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: No, I'll go.
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: I know what she wants.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: You stay here. I'll only be a few minutes.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Mind turning out the lights? Just leave that small one
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: on over by the photograph. That'll be enough. I'm going
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: to sit over here in the dark and relax.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: All right?
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Fine. Hurry back.
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: Ha, ha, ha.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: It is lovely, isn't it, Patsy? Play it through. It's
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: a bit late to stop now. Greg. Yes, gullible Greg. Simple,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: trusting Gregory.
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: I didn't expect.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: You didn't see me? Of course you didn't, my dear.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: It's all very obvious. Shall I leave you with your serenade?
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: This record, I knew where it was.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: I know where everything is.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: I've lived here so long.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: It's not what you think, Greg.
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: I don't have to see to find my way around.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Stop it, Patsy.
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: Listen to me, Greg.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: You're not blind. You never were.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: What are you going to do?
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: That's better. Now, will you be good enough to tell
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: me what it was all about?
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: You.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Flattery.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: I made up my mind to have you, Greg.
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: And it didn't make the slightest difference to me how
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: I did it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Not even if it smashed things up for Lorna?
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: That didn't matter.
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: Nothing mattered but you.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: And what was I to get out of all this?
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Happiness.
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: I could have made you happy, Greg.
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: I can still make you happy.
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: You?
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: Try me. Give me a chance.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Let's go back a bit, shall we? Tell me, how
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: did you expect to fool a clever eye specialist? You
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: must have known he'd find you out.
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: I didn't expect to.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: No?
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: You see, I had no intention of coming under his care.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: The important thing was to get you away from Lorna,
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: to have you by myself for a while.
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: After that.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Anything could happen?
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: Anything. And now?
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: I've lost. We've all lost.
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: You, Lorna, and I.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're wrong, Patsy. Lorna and I haven't lost. You see,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: tomorrow we'll be married.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Tomorrow?
• 22:10
  Speaker 9: Tomorrow.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: If she'll have me, then. No.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: No, you can't.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: It's beyond your control now, Patsy. It's beyond anything your
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: selfish mind can trick up.
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: Is it beyond... death?
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: Perhaps my love for you was a selfish thing. But
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: to me, it was everything.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: Don't you understand, Greg?
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Nothing will be gained by shooting me, Patsy.
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: If I can't have you, nobody else shall. Remember when
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: I told you that?
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Don't. For all our sakes.
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: Patsy, what are you doing?
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: Patsy!
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Craig!
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: Craig!
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Yes, Patsy, you did it. You've killed Greg, the only
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: man you ever really loved. You watch, fascinated and horrified,
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: as Lorna drops to the floor beside him, weeping. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: you want to tell her it's no use, that now
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: she'll never have him.
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: You're glad, glad. You hate Lorna, Patsy.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: You turn all your suppressed grief for yourself into.
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: Hate for her. Get up.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: You can't bring him back.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: What is she doing?
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: It doesn't matter now.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Craig.
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: Craig, darling. Don't be an hysterical fool.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: You've got to help me. Here. Take the gun.
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: Take it and hide it, you hear?
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: The gun.
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: You want me to go to jail?
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: Don't stop to think.
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: There.
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: Now you must hide it.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: It must never be found, do you understand?
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: Hide it?
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: But.
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: What are you going to do?
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: I heard a noise.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: Gregory, he's hurt.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: What is it, Lorna?
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: What happened?
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: Tell us, Patsy. You can tell, Fraulein. I?
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I tell, Fraulein?
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: What is it, Patsy?
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: But I don't know.
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: You don't know?
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: How could I? I was in my room.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Patsy.
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: I heard Lorna and Greg downstairs, and their voices sounded strange.
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: Sharp as though they were crawling. What are you saying, Patsy?
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: It frightened me.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: I'd never heard them quarrel before. After a while, I
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: got up and felt my way out of the room
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: down the stairs. I could hear Lorna more plainly now.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: She was angry. She sounded as though she.
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: She hated him.
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: But that's not true, Patsy.
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: You're not telling the truth. The tone of her voice
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: was unbearable. I couldn't stand it. I opened the door,
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: and there was this horrible noise, like an explosion.
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: I'm frightened, Fraulein.
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: Please take care of me.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I didn't kill him.
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: It was Patsy.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Greg, kill?
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: Greg, Dad, don't listen to her, Fraulein.
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: I tell you, Patsy did it. She did it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: Oh, this is terrible. You believe me, don't you, Fraulein?
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: But why should Patsy do this horrible thing? What reason
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: could she have?
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: I don't know. I don't know.
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: She's blind, Lorna. We both know that. She couldn't have
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: seen to do this.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: I didn't know it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Then why have you a gun in your hand?
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: Shouldn't we... Call the police?
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: Fraulein?
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: The Whistler will return in just a moment with a
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: strange ending of tonight's story. Meantime, with reconversion beginning, the
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: time is drawing closer when you'll be able to buy
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: those new things you've been wanting. That new home or
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: new car or new radio. But with what? Why, with savings,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: of course. And there's no better way to save today
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: than in war bonds. In war bonds, your money is
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: not only drawing good interest, but it's telling those brave
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: guys who are fighting and dying out in the Pacific
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: that you're still back of them. So stay in the fight.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Stay on the job. Keep supporting all the home front activities.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Save waste fat.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Save paper. Take care of your tires.
• 26:34
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• 26:37
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• 26:41
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• 26:44
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• 26:46
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• 26:52
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• 26:57
  Speaker 9: The Whistler.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: Well, Patsy, you've won, haven't you? Not only have you
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: killed Greg, but you're having your revenge on Lorna for
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: taking him away from you. She's going to jail for murder,
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: isn't she, Patsy? The police are here now. The detective
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: is questioning Lorna, looking at the bodies. But there's something
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: you didn't count on, Patsy.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: You were blind to someone else's character.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Fraulein.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: She stood by you all these years.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: But murder is something else. And suddenly you see her
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: come back into the room and walk over to the detective.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: And she's holding something in her hand that freezes you
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: with horror.
• 27:54
  Speaker 10: Fraulein! Yes, Miss Patsy, I found it. I saw it
• 27:58
  Speaker 10: hidden in your dresser a few days ago. I thought
• 28:00
  Speaker 10: it was strange then, but now I know.
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: What?
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: What is it, Fraulein?
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what is it you're talking about, Miss?
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: This.
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: No, Fraulein, no!
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: I thought you couldn't see. So did we all. But
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: this little bottle proves how she fooled us.
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: It's belladonna to make her pupils dilate, to make her
• 28:20
  Speaker 10: look blind.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Hey, old pear, stop. Come back here.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, Fraulein, stop her.
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: Patsy, stop.
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: Fraulein, what's she doing? She's running, running out there.
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: Wait, Miss Lorna, the detective is after her.
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: But she's running right out of the street.
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: Look, Fraulein, that car.
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: Patsy, look out, Patsy. Oh, Fraulein. You know, she didn't
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: even see it.
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: The belladonna in her eyes.
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: She didn't even see the curse.
• 29:21
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