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Suspense - "Till Death Do Us Part" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Peter Lorre heads a cast that includes Alice Frost, David Gothard,
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: and Mercedes McCambridge in a radio script by John Dixon Carr.
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  Speaker 1: From CBS's Suspense comes Till Death Do Us Part, Episode 5,
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  Speaker 1: dated December 1st, 1942. In an isolated English country cottage
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  Speaker 1: during the opening days of the Second World War, Lorre
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  Speaker 1: plays Professor Irwin Craft, whose suspicions center on his wife, Cynthia,
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  Speaker 1: and a young American doctor, Dr. Jim Craig. As the
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: evening unfolds, Professor Kraft confronts Cynthia in the close quarters
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  Speaker 1: of that remote cottage. William Speer produced, John Dietz directed,
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  Speaker 1: and now our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense. Tonight, Columbia brings you, as a guest star, Peter Lorre,
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  Speaker 2: one of the screen's past masters of the art of suspense.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense is compounded of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure.
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  Speaker 2: In this series... are stories calculated to intrigue you, to
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  Speaker 2: stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation, and
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  Speaker 2: then withhold the solution until the last possible moment.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight, for instance, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Lorry plays for us a doctor, a husband, with something
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  Speaker 2: dark and terrible on his mind. Was it murder? And
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  Speaker 2: if so, can this at last be the really perfect crime?
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  Speaker 2: We trust that while you are wondering, we shall keep
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  Speaker 2: you in... Suspense.
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  Speaker 3: For Suspense tonight, CBS presents Till Death Do Us Part
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  Speaker 3: by John Dixon Carr, starring Peter Lorre.
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  Speaker 2: Late one night in December of 1941, a man and
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  Speaker 2: his wife sat beside the fire in their country cottage.
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  Speaker 2: This man? Look at him. A professor of mathematics, stout, middle-aged,
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  Speaker 2: guileless as a child... In the remote corner of England
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  Speaker 2: where he lives with his pretty English wife. They say of.
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  Speaker 4: Him, jolly decent fellow, you know, for a foreigner.
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  Speaker 5: Isn't he? Always a smile for everybody and so polite.
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  Speaker 5: That's why it's such a shame about his wife and
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  Speaker 5: that young American. There hasn't been anything between them yet,
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  Speaker 5: I'm almost sure. But if the American stays here much longer.
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  Speaker 3: Shh, I tell you.
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  Speaker 2: A happy man, this Professor Craft. His cottage in the
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  Speaker 2: country is rather isolated. Three miles from the nearest house.
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  Speaker 2: No electricity or central heating or telephone. And on December
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  Speaker 2: nights like this, a great wind comes rushing off the
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  Speaker 2: Sussex Downs. It rattles at the windows, growls in the chimney...
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  Speaker 2: and makes unsteady the oil lamp on the table. Professor
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  Speaker 2: Owen Craft sits before the fire in a snug book-lined room.
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  Speaker 2: And across from him, sewing, sits his young wife, Cynthia.
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  Speaker 2: A domestic scene. A very domestic scene. Oh, my pet,
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  Speaker 2: this is wonderful, isn't it? Oh, so nice and cozy.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. It's a pleasure to be indoors on a
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  Speaker 2: night like this, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Did my darling have a good day?
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  Speaker 2: Just about as usual. No adventures, huh? Not exactly.
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  Speaker 6: I walked into the village.
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  Speaker 2: Walked? Oh, I really blame myself for burying you out here.
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  Speaker 2: I ought to get you a car.
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  Speaker 6: That's not necessary, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Come now, come. Did something happen to upset my little
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  Speaker 2: pet today?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: You know, darling... I look at you and I marvel.
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  Speaker 6: You marvel at what?
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  Speaker 2: At a wife who can actually blush, yes, with a
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  Speaker 2: skin so fair and a conscience so transparent that she
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  Speaker 2: can actually blush.
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  Speaker 6: I wasn't blushing about.
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  Speaker 2: About what?
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  Speaker 6: About anything you might be thinking. It's your horrible habit
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  Speaker 6: of putting everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Else in the wrong. Oh, but the neighbors don't think
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  Speaker 2: that about Papa Croft.
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  Speaker 6: Neighbors don't have to live with you.
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  Speaker 5: I do.
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  Speaker 2: And you mustn't scratch either. Not when we are so
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  Speaker 2: snug here, so cozy. And the kettle on the fire
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  Speaker 2: is nearly boiling. And the rum is ready and the
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  Speaker 2: lemon juice and the sugar for her medicine.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, and must I drink that stuff? I don't like rum.
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  Speaker 3: But you have a cold, darling.
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  Speaker 6: I haven't got a cold.
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  Speaker 2: Really, I haven't. Now, darling, twice today I heard you cough.
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  Speaker 2: You are going to take your medicine, Cynthia, and take
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  Speaker 2: it here and now, and not offend your clumsy old
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  Speaker 2: husband by refusing.
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  Speaker 6: Why do you keep on treating me like a girl
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  Speaker 6: of 16?
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  Speaker 2: I love to treat you like that, Cynthia, because I
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  Speaker 2: cannot fathom your thoughts. You lock up your thoughts, and
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  Speaker 2: that is a dangerous English habit. You see, thoughts accumulate
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  Speaker 2: and won't be stifled. And sooner or later, when you
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  Speaker 2: least expect it.
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  Speaker 6: Look out, the kettle's boiling over.
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  Speaker 2: So it is.
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  Speaker 6: Owen, please, lift it down from there.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, of course. I apologize. I apologize, my darling.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 6: For a second, you know, you almost frightened me.
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  Speaker 2: I frightened you?
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  Speaker 6: I suppose it's foolish.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Here we are, my dear, here we are. Now, see,
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  Speaker 2: I put two tumblers on the coffee table. And now,
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  Speaker 2: a spoon in each, so that the heat doesn't crack them.
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  Speaker 6: My dear, must you give me so much rum? Can't
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  Speaker 6: I have the small one?
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  Speaker 2: But we have to cure that cold of yours, Cynthia.
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  Speaker 2: Now comes the lemon juice.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And now comes hot water to the top. Here we are.
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  Speaker 2: And two lumps of sugar for each of us. There
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  Speaker 2: you are, darling. Now let's drink up, huh? Owen, listen.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hear anything.
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  Speaker 7: I did.
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  Speaker 6: It came from that cupboard over there. It sounded like
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  Speaker 6: your accordion.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's nonsense, darling. That's nonsense.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 6: There it is again.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's only the wind. Or perhaps a rat that
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  Speaker 2: got into the cupboard.
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  Speaker 6: Irwin, I'm terrified of rats. Go and kill it, would
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  Speaker 6: you mind?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you really set very heavy levers, my sweet, for
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  Speaker 2: one of my weight. Well, if you insist, all right. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll take a good heavy poker from the fireplace. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, it means a little trip to the cupboard.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, and never mind.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't changed your mind, have you?
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  Speaker 6: It'd probably run out across the floor.
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  Speaker 2: Come back. Wouldn't run very far, I'm sure. Well, again,
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  Speaker 2: if you insist.
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  Speaker 6: I can't think what's the matter with me tonight.
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: No. You're sure nothing upset you in the village today, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Certainly not. How about this young American? That fledgling doctor,
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  Speaker 2: what's his name?
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  Speaker 6: You mean Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Craig? That's it, Dr. Craig.
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  Speaker 3: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Craig. Didn't someone say he was leaving today for London
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  Speaker 2: and then back to the States?
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  Speaker 6: I believe so. That's what Lady Randolph told me.
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  Speaker 2: And you didn't say goodbye to him?
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  Speaker 6: Certainly not.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that wasn't kind of you, darling. That wasn't friendly.
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  Speaker 3: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 2: Don't you like my nice hot rum drink?
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  Speaker 3: No. No.
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  Speaker 6: But you'll give me no peace till I do drink it.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, darling. That's right. Now, take it down like
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  Speaker 2: a good girl. I'm keeping you company.
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  Speaker 3: See?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how pretty she looks. With her yellow hair in
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  Speaker 2: the firelight. And her red mouth. And her light little hands.
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  Speaker 2: Very pretty. Oh, there is just one other thing, Cynthia.
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  Speaker 2: I gave you a letter to post this afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: Did you post it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Registered? Yes. And did you notice to whom the
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  Speaker 2: letter was addressed?
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  Speaker 6: Everybody notices the address on an envelope. It was to
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  Speaker 6: Sir Mr. Hatherby at Market Shepherd.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: But I don't know who he is, if that's what
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  Speaker 6: you mean.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Hatherby is the coroner of this district. The coroner? That's right.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. But.
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  Speaker 6: Is there any reason why you should be writing letters
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  Speaker 6: to the coroner?
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 2: there will be tomorrow morning. We have been just drinking poison,
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  Speaker 2: my love. Why do you drop your glass, darling? I
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  Speaker 2: don't believe you. No? This will interest you. Monkshoe. No. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: homegrown in our own little garden. You know, one sixteenth
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  Speaker 2: of a grain has been a fatal dose.
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  Speaker 6: There's no telephone here. No car, not even a neighbor.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, my angel.
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  Speaker 6: Take your hands off me. Let me get up.
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  Speaker 2: No, my pet. In about five minutes, you see, the
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  Speaker 2: first symptoms will come on. Symptoms? Yes. Yes. Our throats
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  Speaker 2: will grow dry. Our eyesight will turn dim.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: And presently, we'll lose the use of our limbs. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there are convulsions before the end, I believe, but we
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  Speaker 2: won't feel them.
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  Speaker 6: Let me up.
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  Speaker 2: If you try to hit at me, Angel, you'll upset
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  Speaker 2: that lamp. And, well, if you upset the lamp, this
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  Speaker 2: cottage would go up like tinder. We don't want to
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  Speaker 2: burn to death, do we?
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  Speaker 6: Irwin, why are you doing this? Why are you doing it?
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  Speaker 2: Why? Do you think all proper craft is blind, my pet?
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: If I can't have you, Cynthia, nobody else.
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  Speaker 3: Is going to have you.
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  Speaker 6: You mean Jim Craig?
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  Speaker 2: So it is Jim Craig.
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  Speaker 6: That was nothing. My tongue slipped.
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  Speaker 2: A cynic would see, my dear, that your foot slipped.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think I don't know what happened the other night.
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  Speaker 3: At the schoolhouse? Schoolhouse?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the Market Shepherd Schoolhouse. At Lady Randolph's little concert
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  Speaker 2: in aid of the war relief.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing happened. I swear it didn't.
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  Speaker 2: No? No. Oh, then it was coincidence, I suppose, that
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  Speaker 2: you and that Dr. Craig didn't arrive until the concert
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  Speaker 2: was nearly over.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it was.
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  Speaker 6: We didn't go there together.
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 8: We met in the little hall outside the auditorium. It
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  Speaker 8: was just as you were finishing your number on the accordion.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I beg your pardon.
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: It's so dark here, I almost bumped into you. Isn't
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  Speaker 3: that Mrs. Craig?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Good evening, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Craig.
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  Speaker 3: We... We seem to be late.
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  Speaker 6: Very late, I'm afraid. I.
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  Speaker 3: I was detained on a case.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't feel like coming here at all.
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  Speaker 3: Just a moment before I open that door for you.
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  Speaker 3: Won't it look a little funny, our arriving here together?
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  Speaker 2: Funny?
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  Speaker 6: Why should it?
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  Speaker 3: No reason at all, only....
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  Speaker 2: Cynthia, listen to me.
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  Speaker 6: Do you know, Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Craig, that's the first time you've ever called me by
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  Speaker 8: my first name?
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  Speaker 3: I did want to have a word with you somehow.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, you've heard the news.
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  Speaker 2: What news?
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  Speaker 3: We're on the radio for the past couple of days.
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  Speaker 8: We're too far out to get much news.
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  Speaker 6: My husband isn't interested.
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  Speaker 3: He isn't interested? He isn't interested in anything but himself.
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  Speaker 6: I'd rather you didn't talk that way about my husband.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 6: Would you push the door open a little? Lady Randolph
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  Speaker 6: is saying something.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure we've all enjoyed our friend Professor Croft's musical
• 13:36
  Speaker 7: numbers on the accordion. And the vicar's conjuring tricks. And
• 13:46
  Speaker 7: little Miss Linshaw's spirited recitations. It only remains for me
• 13:50
  Speaker 7: to tell you that the collection for this little entertainment
• 13:53
  Speaker 7: will amount to this.
• 13:55
  Speaker 6: Yes, Colonel Thompson, what is it? Colonel Thompson's going across
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  Speaker 6: the platform in rather a hurry. Looks like an announcement
• 14:00
  Speaker 6: of some kind. Ladies and gentlemen, your attention.
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  Speaker 9: We have just received some late news by the 9
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  Speaker 9: o'clock bulletin.
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  Speaker 3: I think I can guess what it is.
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  Speaker 9: Following yesterday's declaration against Japan, the Congress of the United
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  Speaker 9: States today declared war against Germany and Italy.
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  Speaker 7: No applause, please. I think I can say that these
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  Speaker 7: things go too deep for applause. We entered a war lightly,
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  Speaker 7: and we have learned... But before the vicar ends.
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  Speaker 9: This meeting, I shall ask the orchestra to play us
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  Speaker 9: the song numbered 83 in the book. A song we
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  Speaker 9: know is dear to the hearts of all Americans.
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  Speaker 1: Close the door, Cynthia. Jim.
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  Speaker 6: This doesn't affect you.
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  Speaker 3: Naturally it does.
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  Speaker 6: You won't be leaving England.
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  Speaker 3: Probably in a very short time. You'll be needing doctors.
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  Speaker 6: But does a formal declaration of war make any difference?
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  Speaker 6: What does it mean to you? What does it mean?
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  Speaker 3: I can't explain it, Cynthia. It's all in that song.
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  Speaker 3: If they're going to need me, I'll go back.
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  Speaker 6: But can't you do just as much good here in England?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. That depends on what the army says.
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  Speaker 6: And doesn't anything depend on what I say?
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  Speaker 3: We haven't got much time, Cynthia. That crowd will be
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: out in a minute. Yes. And we won't admit it,
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: will we?
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: Admit what?
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Admit how we feel about each other.
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: I haven't said.
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  Speaker 3: Nor I. I was only talking about what we were thinking.
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  Speaker 2: No, we won't admit it.
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  Speaker 6: You say you can't explain about the war... I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Explain about this.
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  Speaker 3: Don't try. It's better this way.
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  Speaker 6: Erwin's been very good to me. He's such a childlike person.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Everybody likes him.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, he has his tempers, and he's not easy to
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: live with sometimes, in spite of what they think. But
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  Speaker 8: I can't do anything to hurt him, because he'd never
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: do anything to hurt me.
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  Speaker 6: Never, never, never in the world.
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  Speaker 2: A very fair estimate of my character, too.
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  Speaker 6: That's exactly what I said about you.
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  Speaker 2: So you are in love with that fellow?
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  Speaker 6: I admit it now.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me, darling, do you feel anything yet?
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: Feel anything?
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  Speaker 2: I mean dryness, muscular contraction of the throat.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought so.
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  Speaker 6: I won't die.
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  Speaker 2: I won't. And how do you propose to stop yourself?
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  Speaker 2: Your only chance would be to reach the village infirmary.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: And I'll see to it that you don't get there.
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  Speaker 6: But what if the poison takes you before it takes me?
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  Speaker 6: Then you can't stop me.
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  Speaker 2: But it won't, darling.
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  Speaker 6: You seem terribly sure of that.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: You see, the amount I gave you... as you perhaps noticed,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: was more than I gave myself. I'm going to follow you,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: my little pet... into the dark... where there are no Dr.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Jim Craigs. But not too quickly... I shall still have
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: most of my faculties, Cynthia. When your convulsions are already beginning.
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  Speaker 6: I wonder if you will.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Why do you say that?
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: Your legs don't seem any too steady.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It must be the heat of the fire, perhaps.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: It's very hot in this room.
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  Speaker 2: Cynthia.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Cynthia, darling, listen to me. Yes, Irwin?
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 3: There is a copy.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Of Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence on the... There, over on the
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: shelf there. Please, please get it for me.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: I'm afraid you'll have to get it for yourself, my dear.
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  Speaker 6: That is, if you can.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll get it.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: I'll... Mind the lamp, Irwin. We don't want the house afire,
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: just as you said yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I'll mind the lamp. Listen to me. You know, some
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: people's systems aren't tolerant to poisons. The experience in minutes
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: what ought to take hours.
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  Speaker 6: Does it hurt, Irwin? Does it hurt?
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: But you'll find out soon enough, my pet. Because... Because
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: you'll never make three miles to the village.
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  Speaker 4: Never.
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  Speaker 2: You think not? I know it.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: And.
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  Speaker 2: And just remember... I... I shall be waiting. Waiting?
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  Speaker 4: Out.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: In the dark and cold... Where there is neither marriage...
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  Speaker 2: Nor giving in in marriage. I'll be waiting... For my
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: little pet to come... And join me. I... I shall be. Wait.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Irwin. Irwin. Oh.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: I hate you. I loathe you. I'm afraid of you.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: But I don't want you to die because of me.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: And yet, you are dead, Erwin. But I'm not going
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: to join you. I've never prayed much, Erwin, but I'm
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: praying now.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: Whatever comes over my wits and makes my senses weak.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Give me strength enough to get to the village. Just
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: give me strength enough to get to the village.
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  Speaker 2: An empty room now. Except for the motionless figure by
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: the fire. The great wind enters... through an open front
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: door and makes the lamp shake dangerously on the tables.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: The whole house creeps. Otherwise, it is very quiet.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Suddenly, the corpse sits up.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Professor Kraft looks pleased, doesn't he? Very pleased. Very alert.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: As he moves over to a certain cupboard door.
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: Well, and now I think the real fun can begin. Patience, patience, patience,
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: my friend, while I open the cupboard door.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Well, there we are. I hope you haven't been too uncomfortable, Dr.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: James Craig.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I'm all right, thanks.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: So you managed to get the gag out of your mouth, huh?
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I managed it, yes, just now. I'm too late.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Well, you are still securely tied up, I'm glad to think.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: You know, you gave me several very, very unpleasant moments,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: young man, when you got your foot on that accordion.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Did I?
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Well, Cynthia thought you were a rat and wanted me
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: to kill you. You know, she shows very good sense sometimes.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: I could hear both of you talking. Thanks very much.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Of course, you could, of course. Excuse me, please.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I forgot. Yes, and I could see you, too, through
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: a crack in the door.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Well, you were intended to see us. But now, come on.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: First of all, I'll drag you out of here. Yes,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I'll let me take you. Yes, I'll... Now we can
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: sit down and have a nice, cozy little chat, huh?
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: How much aconite did you give Cynthia?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: How much?
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, about two grains.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Two grains? Well, then she can't possibly.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: No, she can't possibly live until morning. But she can
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: live long enough to testify that she saw me die.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: And how much poison did you take yourself? I? None.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: None at all? But you mixed those drinks out of
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: the same materials. I saw you do it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Well, but there wasn't any poison in the rum, young man.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: You see, two lumps of sugar steeped in aconite were
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: dropped into Cynthia's gas. I marked them. And I didn't
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: make a mistake. Can you see the beginnings of Poppercroft's plan?
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Why, you.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: You see, Cynthia left the door open, my friend. And
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: there is a very strong wind blowing tonight.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Just observe how it lifts the table covers, flutters the magazines,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: makes the lamp tremble. I shouldn't be surprised, you know,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: if one of those lamps blew over. A fine crash
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: in a sheet of flame. And when they come here
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: tomorrow morning, after Cynthia's testimony in my letter to the coroner,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: They'll expect to find at least a few charred bones
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: among the ruins. And, of course, they must find some remains.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Whose remains? Yours. Yes, you've got me tied up pretty well,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: haven't you?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: And now, you see, now comes the best. You were
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: last seen going towards the railway station, to London, and
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: then to America. Nobody... nobody will inquire after you.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Except Cynthia.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: That's right, except Cynthia, who.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Will be dead.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: That I waylaid you and brought you here while Cynthia
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: was in the village will not be known to our
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: good coroner, and I shall disappear. What do you think
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: of it, young man, huh? I think it's rather good, huh?
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: You're going to let me burn to death?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, and I shall enjoy the necessity. By the way,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Too bad you missed my performance at Lady Randolph's concert.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: It was very nice. But then I think you were
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: otherwise occupied.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: You could call it that.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Occupied, I think, in making love to my wife. You
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: hurt my vanity, young man. And you are going to
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: suffer for it.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I never made love to your wife.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: No?
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: No. But I don't suppose you could possibly believe that.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Are you already begging for mercy? Now, come on, now,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: come on. Are you begging for mercy?
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: No, I think not. Dr.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Craig, I don't like the way you're taking this. I
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: really don't.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Don't you? No.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: You ought to be afraid. All decent men should be afraid.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: And no man is heroic when he sees death coming.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: But you are as white as a plate. You can't
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: take your eyes off me. And you seem to be
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: expecting something.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Maybe I am expecting something.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Well, I think I can persuade you to tell me
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: what's on your mind, my friend. If I use the
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: poker out of the fire? You see, you see, I'm
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: a mathematician. I leave nothing to chance.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Do you hear that, Professor Crafts? A car has stopped
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: out in front.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Well, they won't come in here.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: But of course they will. It's probably the home guard.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Look, you fool, you've left the front door standing wide
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: open in a blackout.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Don't be childish. Do you think to upset me with that?
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Something's upset you. Take a look at yourself in the mirror. Nothing.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Nothing can upset my plans now. Everything is ready. My
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: clothes and my money are in the stable. This place,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: this pretty little cottage, will be a furnace... All I
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: have to do is... All I have to do is
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: pick up that lamp, you see, like this, and... Something
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: is wrong with me!
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: You're not acting this time, are you? You're not pretending now.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: You! You swine! What have you done to me?
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: I have done nothing.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: You! You have done something to me. I... I can
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: feel it. There is sweat all over me.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: My throat is choking.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: This way, Lady Randall.
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: Through the gate and up the path.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: That sounded like my wife's voice.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: It was Cynthia's voice.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: What is wrong with you?
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: A person would think you were drunk.
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, Lady Randall.
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: Stopping me in the road and asking to be taken
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: to the infirmary at 80 miles an hour. And then
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: finding there was nothing wrong with you.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: But... But it can't be.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: It isn't possible.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, but it is.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: You see, your plans didn't include the fact that Cynthia
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: doesn't like rum. Remember, you poured a very large drink
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: for her and a small one for yourself. And you
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: filled both glasses with hot water. Oh, remember when she
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: got you to leave her and come over to this cupboard?
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: She changed the glasses then.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: You're the one who swallowed the poison, two grains of aconite. No.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Help me. Please. Please. Help me. Nothing on earth can
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: save you. Help me, please.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: In the name of... Please, please.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Please help me.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Nothing on earth can save you.
• 28:08
  Speaker 10: Please.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: No.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: You won't.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Then.
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: Then I'll show you.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: I'll... I'll take you with me. I'll take everybody with me.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Where are you going?
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I'll... I'll get that lamp. I'll take you with me.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Why, look at you.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: You can't even see.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: You're blind.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: You're staggering straight into that cupboard.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I'll take you. I'll take you with me. I'll take you.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Jim.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Jim, what are you doing here? Come in, Cynthia.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Cynthia.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Come in and take a look at the man who
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: died twice. And so ends Till Death Do Us Part,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: starring Peter Lorre. Tonight's story of suspense. Columbia presents these
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: tales of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure for your
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: relaxation and enjoyment. Next Tuesday, there'll be another in this series.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Same hour, 9.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Laurie was starred as Professor Craft. He was supported by
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Alice Frost as Cynthia. David Gothard as Dr. Craig. And
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Mercedes McCambridge as Lady Randolph. William Spear, the producer. John Dietz,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: the director. Bernard Herman, the composer-conductor. And John Dixon Carr,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: the author. Our collaborators on.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Suspense.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: The curtain falls now on Suspense Till Death Do Us
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Part from 1942. Follow Suspense for more classic broadcasts.