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The Whistler - "Death Wears a White Robe" (Old Time Radio, 1945) · The Whistler | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: October 1st, 1945 marked episode 175 of The Whistler on
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  Speaker 1: the CBS Pacific Network under the sponsorship of Signal Oil Company.
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  Speaker 1: In Death Wears a White Robe, architect Sam Wixon and
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  Speaker 1: his wife Leah are spending a late winter visit at
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  Speaker 1: their cabin high on Bald Mountain with Leah's friend Suzanne
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  Speaker 1: and her husband Harvey. Suzanne carries knowledge of a private
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  Speaker 1: matter between Sam and Leah, and when the men are
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  Speaker 1: called away as the weather worsens, the two women remain
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  Speaker 1: at the isolated cabin. And now, we return to the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Signal. Signal gasoline.
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  Speaker 3: The Signal Oil Company and your neighborhood signal dealer bring
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  Speaker 3: you another curious story by The Whistler.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight, death wears a white robe.
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  Speaker 2: The Whistler.
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  Speaker 3: I am the whistler, and I know many things, for
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  Speaker 3: I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
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  Speaker 3: in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
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  Speaker 3: into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
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  Speaker 3: which they dare not speak. The cabin, high on the
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  Speaker 3: slope of Bald Mountain, had always been an important part
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  Speaker 3: of the marriage of Sam and Leah Wixon. A successful
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  Speaker 3: marriage on the surface. Only two people had any reason
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  Speaker 3: to think otherwise. One was Leah herself, and the other
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  Speaker 3: was her best friend, Suzanne. Leah and Sam had met
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  Speaker 3: at the cabin. Their romance had begun there. And one
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  Speaker 3: bright day in late winter, some five years afterwards... Suzanne
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  Speaker 3: had come to the conclusion it should properly end there.
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  Speaker 3: Leah could feel something coming when Suzanne engineered the invitation
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  Speaker 3: for herself and her husband, Harvey, for the week.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Leah, you.
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  Speaker 3: Wonder what's behind those innocent eyes of Suzanne. What's making
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  Speaker 3: the wheels whir in that sharp little mind as you
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  Speaker 3: and she and Sam approach the cabin?
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  Speaker 4: Lucky there's a crust in the snow today. Never make
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  Speaker 4: it otherwise.
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  Speaker 2: Well, these snowshoes are fun. Suzanne, darling, do let Sam
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  Speaker 2: carry that suitcase. Well, he's already carrying yours and his.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not crippled.
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  Speaker 4: Here's an idea, Leah.
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  Speaker 2: On what?
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  Speaker 4: On how to win men and influence them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if I were the strong, rangy type, I'd carry
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  Speaker 2: one for you, dear. You know I'm not athletic.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the strong, rangy type definitely has her points. I'll
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  Speaker 5: stack your snowshoes over in the corner there. Well, everything
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  Speaker 5: seems to be just as we left it.
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  Speaker 2: No bears?
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  Speaker 4: Not a bear. Now, where's the key to the shack?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what a beautiful spot. I'm sick just thinking what
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  Speaker 2: Harvey and I've missed not coming up here.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to have you up several times, but.
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  Speaker 2: We've just never been able to work it out, dear.
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  Speaker 2: Have we, Sam? No.
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  Speaker 4: The door's stuck a little. There.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what a dream of a place. Sam, the fireplace.
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  Speaker 2: It's mine. Oh, wait till Harvey sees that.
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  Speaker 4: Like it? I built it with my own two hands.
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  Speaker 3: It's perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Did you design it, Sam? Suzanne, dear, you're positively gushing.
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  Speaker 2: Sam's an architect, remember?
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  Speaker 4: Of course, Leah. She likes the fireplace. Let it go.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't. It's like a pile of bleached bones.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Suzanne. Now, you and Harvey can have this room, darling. Sam,
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  Speaker 2: bring Suzanne's bag in here.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you freshen up, Susie? You look utterly ravaged.
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  Speaker 2: Your nose absolutely gleams. Oh, really, dear? I might pass
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  Speaker 2: you a helpful hint. You apparently swallowed all your lipstick
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  Speaker 2: with that hamburger we ate in town. I never worry
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  Speaker 2: about makeup, darling. When you're on the right side of 30,
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  Speaker 2: it isn't so important. Ora, do you remember?
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  Speaker 4: I'm taking the sled and going to get a load
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  Speaker 4: of wood before dark.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, well, Leah, you better show Suzanne where the linen
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  Speaker 5: closet is so she can get her bed made up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, can't we help?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Sam, what a cute bell on that sled.
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  Speaker 5: Back home in Connecticut, we always had a bell on
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  Speaker 5: the sled that brought in the yule log, and I
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  Speaker 5: thought it was a cute idea, so I put one
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  Speaker 5: on this.
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  Speaker 2: You have such nice ideas, Sam. Um, where do you
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  Speaker 2: have to go for wood? You sure we can't help?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I think I can manage all right. Woodshed's about
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  Speaker 4: 50 yards from the house.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of inconvenient, but it was already built when we
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  Speaker 5: bought the property, and I haven't gotten around to moving
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  Speaker 5: it yet.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll see you girls later. Oh, I hate to
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  Speaker 2: think of Sam having to drive all the way back
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  Speaker 2: to the city for Harvey. Or is it that you
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  Speaker 2: hate to think of Harvey coming up here, Susie? You're
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  Speaker 2: not just a teensy bit bored with Harvey, are you?
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  Speaker 2: There aren't any men here now, Leah. You can skip
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  Speaker 2: the teensy. You didn't answer me, darling. Don't judge others
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  Speaker 2: by yourself. What do you mean? I married for love,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not money. Did you? Well, could anybody doubt it,
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  Speaker 2: looking at Sam? Oh, I grant you, Sam's a handsome man. Oh, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you've noticed. I thought you had, dear. Yes, I'm a
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  Speaker 2: very lucky girl. I've often thought how discouraging it would
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  Speaker 2: be to be married to someone who was bald and
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  Speaker 2: fat and unimaginative, even if he did have gobs of money.
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  Speaker 2: You're referring to Harvey? Oh, darling, I think Harvey's cute.
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  Speaker 2: In a pudgy sort of way. By the way, does
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  Speaker 2: he still take bicarbonate? Leah, I might point out that
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  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to eat my cake and have it, too.
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  Speaker 2: Just what do you mean? I'm talking about your Red
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  Speaker 2: Cross activities.
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Those evenings you donate to good works. Patronizing the arts.
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? Shall I come to the point?
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  Speaker 2: Or would you like to vent? You're not being clever, dear. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll try to be more specific. I'm referring to the
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  Speaker 2: movie type you picked up at Sandra Gilman's. The pianist.
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  Speaker 2: Picked up? I hardly know him. My dear, you're actually blushing.
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  Speaker 2: I can see it clear through that Westmore No.
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  Speaker 3: 12.
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  Speaker 2: I've nothing to hide. Your taste isn't bad at that.
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  Speaker 2: He is fascinating and talented. Uh, musically, of course. But
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  Speaker 2: I should think you'd worry a little of Chopin after
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  Speaker 2: six months. It has been six months, hasn't it? You
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't dare. You wouldn't die. Listen, Suzanne, it's all over.
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  Speaker 2: Believe me. There was nothing between us. I know I
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  Speaker 2: was foolish. I just didn't realize what was happening. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: Sam would understand all of that, of course. You're not
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  Speaker 2: going to say anything, Suzanne. You can't. Sam would think
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of things. He wouldn't understand. He'd work. He'd
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  Speaker 2: work out on you, wouldn't he, Leah? He isn't the
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  Speaker 2: kind a woman can make a fool of. Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you see it would wreck our marriage? You wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: do that, Suzanne. You couldn't gain anything by it. We've
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  Speaker 2: been friends too long for that. You can get off
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  Speaker 2: your knees now. I hate you. Of course you do.
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  Speaker 2: You always have. You're just trying to get back at me.
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  Speaker 2: You've been waiting for a chance like this ever since
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  Speaker 2: Sam and I were married. You love him, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: You've been in love with him for years. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: say that. But it's true. And you think this is
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  Speaker 2: your opportunity. But you won't tell Sam what you found out.
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  Speaker 2: You won't, do you understand? My darling, you're so terribly dramatic.
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  Speaker 2: How could you stop me? I don't know. But I will, Susan.
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  Speaker 2: I will if I have to. Have to what, Leah?
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  Speaker 2: There's just the two of us here. And I'm the strong, rangy,
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  Speaker 2: athletic type. Remember? Remember?
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  Speaker 3: fill her up with new signal gasoline. And now, back
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  Speaker 3: to the whistler. Well, Leah, you thought you'd managed the
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  Speaker 3: musician pretty cleverly, didn't you? And he'd seemed so important
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  Speaker 3: to you for a while. But now, with the prospect
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  Speaker 3: of losing, Sam staring you in the face.
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  Speaker 4: It's different.
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  Speaker 3: He'll walk out, you're sure of it. You know him
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  Speaker 3: too well. Suzanne holds you in the palm of her hand, Leah.
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  Speaker 3: The moment she chooses to open her mouth, Sam is
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  Speaker 3: gone forever. And with him goes everything. Money, social position, friends.
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  Speaker 3: Everything your calculating mind.
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  Speaker 4: Bargained for when you married him.
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  Speaker 3: All through dinner, you wait for the axe to fall,
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  Speaker 3: but nothing happens. You can hardly bring yourself to look
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  Speaker 3: at her. That self-satisfied half-smile on her face makes you
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  Speaker 3: want to scream. And that night, when you and Sam
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  Speaker 3: are finally alone.
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  Speaker 4: Suzanne finally go to bed?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, her lights just went out.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Now, perhaps you can let me in on it. On what?
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  Speaker 4: On what's been going on around here. You two have
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  Speaker 4: been at each other's throats all day.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's just our way, dear. We've always been frank
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  Speaker 2: with each other.
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  Speaker 4: Too frank, I'd say.
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  Speaker 5: The air was so full of daggers for a while
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  Speaker 5: this afternoon, I could hardly see what I was doing.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Suzanne's all wrapped up in music, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: particularly Chopin. Well, there's a pianist we all admire that
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  Speaker 2: she met personally the other day, and, uh, well, we
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  Speaker 2: thought she wasn't being quite fair to Harvey.
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  Speaker 3: You mean.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was nothing serious, of course. Oh, Sam, you
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  Speaker 2: mustn't breathe a word of this to anyone. If either
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  Speaker 2: she or Harvey ever found out, I... I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what I'd do. It's all very silly.
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  Speaker 4: It isn't silly. It's darn serious.
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  Speaker 2: But you don't understand, Sam. It was really nothing.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care how insignificant it is. If people are
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  Speaker 5: talking about it, it's serious. I can hardly believe she'd
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  Speaker 5: do a thing like that.
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  Speaker 4: She just isn't like Suzanne.
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  Speaker 2: Harvey's a little jealous.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what's wrong with being jealous of your wife? Harvey's
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  Speaker 5: got a right to be jealous. I've got a right
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  Speaker 5: to be jealous. Thank heaven you're not like that.
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  Speaker 2: You mean you wouldn't understand if.
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  Speaker 4: Leah, just don't ever give me any cause. Don't ever
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  Speaker 4: let me down that way.
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  Speaker 2: I'd... I'd... You'd what, then?
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  Speaker 4: It scares me. I... I'd probably do something terrible.
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  Speaker 3: Sam.
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  Speaker 4: Just remember that, Leah. Don't ever give me a reason.
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  Speaker 4: Promise me.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Sam.
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  Speaker 6: I promise.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty sure of yourself, aren't you, Leah? That was a
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  Speaker 3: dangerous step to take. But it's your word against hers,
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  Speaker 3: after all. Perhaps you have something else in mind, something
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  Speaker 3: involving the day and a half the two of you
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  Speaker 3: will be alone in the cabin while Sam goes back
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  Speaker 3: to the city to pick up Harvey. They say the
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  Speaker 3: best defense is a first-class attack. Maybe that's why you
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  Speaker 3: seem to have regained a little of your old self-confidence
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  Speaker 3: the next morning as you and Suzanne go out to
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  Speaker 3: the shed for firewood an hour after he's gone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, don't stand there, Leah. Help me with the door.
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  Speaker 2: Take your time. We've got a day and a half. Oh, wonderful. What? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you've got the strength of a horse. You're pretty chipper
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  Speaker 2: this morning, aren't you? I'm delirious with excitement. A day
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  Speaker 2: and a half all to ourselves. That's a grim prospect. Well,
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  Speaker 2: are you going to stand in a corner and rhapsodize?
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  Speaker 2: Or are we going to get some wood? Oh, all right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see why you're fussing so about wood. There's
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  Speaker 2: enough in the box in the house. To last a
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  Speaker 2: couple of hours. I can't understand why Sam had this
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  Speaker 2: wood sack clear up to the rafters. Can't even reach
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  Speaker 2: the top. Oh, here's one that's loose. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Look out!
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter with you? Don't be a fool. You'll
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  Speaker 2: kill yourself. Do you want that mountain of logs to
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  Speaker 2: crash down on you? Oh, don't be ridiculous. You move
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  Speaker 2: those centerpieces and the whole pile will fall.
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  Speaker 4: Nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: Watch. Look out! There, you see? Nothing happened. The Lord
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  Speaker 2: looks out for drunks and fools, darling. Huzzies, too. Wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute. That just about does it. I've taken about
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  Speaker 2: all I'm going to take from you.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: You want it straight from the shoulder, and I'll give
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  Speaker 2: it to you that way. I said you're a no-good
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  Speaker 2: little huzzy, and I'll say it again. You've been taking
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  Speaker 2: Sam for a ride, and I'm going to make sure
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  Speaker 2: he knows all about it. Is that good enough for you?
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  Speaker 2: You're bluffing. You'll see whether or not I'm bluffing. You're
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  Speaker 2: so jealous of Sam and me, you can't see straight.
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  Speaker 2: I can't say I blame you, staring at that moon-faced
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  Speaker 2: husband of yours across the breakfast table every morning. You're
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  Speaker 2: so miserable yourself, you can't stand happiness in anyone else. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to get anywhere. Sam will never believe
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  Speaker 2: you in a million years. I'm not asking him to
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  Speaker 2: believe me, dear. What do you mean? Sam ought to
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  Speaker 2: recognize your handwriting and your personal stationery readily enough. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you should have known better, Leah. But you weren't quite
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  Speaker 2: yourself at the time, were you? What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: A letter, dated September 18th. Something about you and Arturo
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  Speaker 2: meeting in the lobby of the Metropole at 8 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Where is it? Oh, never mind where it is. I
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  Speaker 2: have it. Where did you get it? Oh, I bought it.
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  Speaker 2: Arturo was quite attached to it. But he had his price. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you cheap unscrupulous... Oh, you didn't really think I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: come prepared, did you? Oh, Leah, dear, how can you be...
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  Speaker 2: Put down that axe. You hear me? Put down that axe.
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  Speaker 6: I'll kill you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, you don't. You're not fixing your horse. Give
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  Speaker 2: me that axe. Do you hear me?
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 2: That's better. You wouldn't do it. You wouldn't do it. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm the strong, rangy type. Remember, strong as a horse. Oh,
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: get up from there. You're not hurt. Knock me down.
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  Speaker 2: You hurt my arm. I hate you. I hate you. Darling,
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  Speaker 2: you nauseate me. You really do. Oh. I'm going out
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  Speaker 2: for a walk, so where the air is clean. I'll
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  Speaker 2: kill you for this, Susan Reiner.
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  Speaker 6: I'll kill you!
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  Speaker 3: And you could do it, couldn't you, Leah? There's a blind,
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  Speaker 3: frustrated hatred inside you that would make you capable of anything.
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  Speaker 3: Even murder. All that day while Suzanne is out walking,
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  Speaker 3: you sit alone in the living room in front of
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  Speaker 3: the big fireplace staring into the embers and thinking, the
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  Speaker 3: two of you alone in the cabin. It would have
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  Speaker 3: to be perfect. The slightest indication that it wasn't an
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  Speaker 3: accident and you'd be done for. There simply wouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: any other suspect. Yes, Leah, it would have to be
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  Speaker 3: perfect or it couldn't be at all. Perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect. Thinking, dear?
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  Speaker 4: Oh. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: When did you get back? Just now. I made a
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  Speaker 2: great to-do about slamming the door and throwing off my snowshoes,
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  Speaker 2: but you didn't budge an inch. What's on your mind? Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: That's as it should be. Where have you been? Over
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  Speaker 2: to the west slope and back. You should have stayed longer. Oh?
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: You might have been caught in the storm. Storm? Don't
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: be silly, dear. The sun was so bright on that
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  Speaker 2: snow you could hardly look at it. The radio said
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: we're in for a bad storm sometime tonight. I just
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: turned it off. That raises a delightful possibility. What's that?
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  Speaker 2: Sam and Harvey may be delayed, dear. You and I
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  Speaker 2: may have several more charming days together here on the mountain.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: How's the food situation? There's plenty. That's good. Speaking of food,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: what about dinner? I haven't thought about it. Coffee on
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  Speaker 2: the stove. Will you join me in a cup?
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, no.
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  Speaker 2: Shame to waste that gorgeous fire, isn't it, dear? If
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Arturo were only here to join... Suzanne, will you stop it?
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: You've made yourself perfectly clear. I know what you're going
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: to do, and I know how you're going to do it,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: and there's nothing more to be said. I can't stand
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: this jabbing and picking any longer. I can't stand it.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: On second thought, I'll make my own coffee. It's safer
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: that way.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: By midnight, the temperature outside the cabin drops to 20
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: below zero. And at 1.30 in the morning, the blizzard
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: sweeps in from the north.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: The mercury falls.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Another 10 degrees. You're forced to cooperate with her now,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: aren't you, Leah? The two of you take turns all
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: night getting out of bed to put wood on the fire.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: The night seems endless, but morning finally comes. A raw,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: gray morning with that stabbing north wind still piling the
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: drift higher and higher outside.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Well, you finally made it. I thought you were never
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: going to get up. Did you happen to look out
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: your window this morning? Leah, I... We're snowed in, my
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: perfidious friend. All snug and cozy. Leah, is something the matter?
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: You're looking particularly stupid this morning, Suzanne. If I didn't
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: know you better, I'd think you had a hangover. What's
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: the matter with you? Why are you stumbling around there
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: in the doorway? Leah, I can't. I can't see. Leah,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I'm blind. I've gone blind. What? Come out here in
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: the light. Look out for the table. I can't see.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: I can't see.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Your eyes are all drained. I'm blind. I've gone blind. Suzanne,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: were you crazy enough to go out without your sunglasses yesterday? Sunglasses?
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: You stayed out all day, the sun glaring on the snowy... Suzanne,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: you're snow blind. Snow blind? It's only temporary, isn't it?
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Two days, perhaps. Not more than two days. Harvey will
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: be here today. Harvey won't be here today. Probably not tomorrow, either.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: If you could see, you'd know why. The road is blocked.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: The storm's getting worse. No, I think you'll have to
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: rely on me, darling, to be your seeing eye.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: Susanna, knock the door.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: You'll have to come out of your room sometime. You'll
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: freeze to death in there.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Susanna. Well.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: You do have a large mouth, Suzanne, but it doesn't
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: extend as far as you've daubed that lip. You're cruel, Leah.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: You'd like to see me like this. You think it's funny.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: It will go away, though. You said so yourself. I'll
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: be all right tomorrow. I'll be able to see tomorrow.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I'm not afraid of you, Leah. Afraid of me? Well,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: why should you be? Let me guide you to a
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: chair by the fire, darling. Don't touch me. I can
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: get there.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: I can.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: I can feel my way... Better let me help you, darling. No.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I'll just sit right here. Now, what are we going
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: to have for dinner, huh? How about a couple of
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: nice poached eggs on toast? And a steaming cup of coffee.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I don't want anything. Oh, but it's all cooked.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Smell good? I don't want any. Well, you haven't eaten
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: since last night, dear. You've got to have food. Look,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: you're shivering. Take it away. You're cold, darling. Couldn't you
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: possibly force us to swallow this hot coffee down? Do
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: your world of good.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Smell. Good? All right. I'll take the coffee. That's better. Here,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I'd better warm it up from the kitchen. You know,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I never really explored this cabin until today. There are
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: all kinds of interesting things in the cellar. Sam's really
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: quite a trapper, you know. All his equipment's there, the
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: scrapers for the skins, the frames, the traps. There you are, dear.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I put sugar in it. And a big box of
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: some kind of Arsenic he uses to cure the hives.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Arsenic?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Ah, gets rid of the vermin. Come on, dear, drink up.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Do you good. No, I don't want it. Take it away. Oh, Suzanne,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: you're priceless.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: No, Aaliyah, that would be too crude, wouldn't it? You
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: would never work with inquisitive examiners and autopsies. You rejected
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: poison at the start when you first began thinking about
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: killing her. You're just playing with her like a cat
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: with a mouse. You've thought of a better way, haven't you?
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: A perfect, foolproof way.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Leah! Leah, you've gone! You've left me! I'm right here, darling.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Why didn't you answer, Leah? I've been thinking. Of what?
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Of you, of me, of our beautiful friendship. Leah, I
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: want to tell you something. Leah, you know I'm your friend.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Of course, of course. You're my dear, dear friend. And Sam's, too.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Especially Sam. It's not what you think.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Leah, I never.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, spare me, darling. I'm not interested in listening to
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: you unburden your soul. Even when there's no other entertainment available. But, Leah,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I want you to know this. I want... There's nothing
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I want to hear from you.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Where.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Where are you going, Leah? I'm getting our coats and snowshoes.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Our.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Our what? Our coats and snowshoes. We have to get
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: another load of wood. Unless you want to sit in
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: here and freeze today. I can't go outside.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: I can't see.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: And I can't pull that loaded sleigh alone. You'll get along.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I'll guide you. If you fall down out there, you
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: won't hurt yourself. The snow is soft. Very soft, Suzanne.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: It even gets warm after a while. Here, here's your
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: coat and mittens and scarf for your head. I won't
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: go out there.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I won't.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Listen to that wind. We couldn't find our way through
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: that blizzard. I could get to that woodshed blindfold. Come on,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: put on these things.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: I can't.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: I can't.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: But you will. You will.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: No, I.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: There. Now, put on these mittens.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: No.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, Leah.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Leah, you hold my arm. You won't let go of me.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I'll hold your arm. And when we get outside, you
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: can hold on to the rope.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Ready?
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Come on, then. How much farther is it? We're almost there. Oh,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: it seems so much farther than before.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: You let go of the rope now and stand right there.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I'll pull the sleigh up to the shed and load it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, wait.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Lead me to the shed so I can stand out
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: of the wind. Just walk about six steps forward. Right
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: in front of you.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I must be walking in the wrong direction. I haven't
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: come to the shed. Leah!
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Leah!
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Answer me, Leah! Where are you, Leah? Are you in
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: the shed? I... I don't hear you.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: I don't hear the bell, Leah.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Leah. Leah, you're leaving me. You're leaving me out here
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: to die. Oh, Leah, come back, please. Oh, please, Leah,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: please come back.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: Come back.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Which way? Where did you go? Where did you go?
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Answer me. Answer me.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Leah, listen.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Leah, what I said about telling Sam, I won't.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: Honestly, I won't.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I was never going to.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: There isn't any letter.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: You're my friend, Leah. I'm not in love with Sam.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: I'm not.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I'm not in love with him. You're my best friend, Leah.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: You believe me, don't you? You believe me?
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: Answer me, Leah. Answer me! Answer me!
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: The Whistler will return with a strange ending of tonight's
• 25:39
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• 25:42
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• 25:51
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• 25:55
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• 25:58
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• 26:02
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• 26:06
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• 26:09
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• 26:12
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• 26:16
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• 26:21
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• 26:29
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• 26:36
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• 26:42
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• 26:57
  Speaker 6: The Whistler.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: That one was perfect, Leah. It can't miss. You had
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: an argument and she walked out of the house, said
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: she was going to cedar village, that she couldn't stand
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: you anymore. You tried to tell her she'd never make it,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: but she insisted on leaving. And that's all you know.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's perfect.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: No weapons, no blows or marks, just her frozen body
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: 200 yards from the house. Far enough so you couldn't
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: have heard her over the storm. You can't hear her
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: now anymore as you pile wood into the sled. She's
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: probably staggered further in the wrong direction. You'll need plenty
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: of wood, Leah. Make it a full load, enough to
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: carry you through tomorrow. There you are. Pile it high.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: One from the side.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: One from the side.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: One from the end.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Look out. Remember what Suzanne said about pulling one out
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: from the center.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: My leg. My leg. Oh, broken. I can't move. Suzanne.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Suzanne.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, please, God, let her hear me. Suzanne. The door. Oh,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: don't let the door go shut. She'll never hear me. Suzanne.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Open this way, dear. You've got to hear me. We'll
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: both die. The door.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: No.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Suzanne.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Suzanne. Next Monday at 9 o'clock, the Whistler will bring
• 29:14
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• 29:20
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• 29:22
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• 29:26
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• 29:31
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• 29:35
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• 30:13
  Speaker 1: This concludes The Whistler. Death wears a white robe. Good evening,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and thank you for joining us.