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Suspense - The Diary Of Sophronia Winters · Suspense

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  Speaker 1: Suspense. And the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills,
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  Speaker 1: the master of mystery and adventure, William N.
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  Speaker 2: Robeson. One of the axioms of drama might be summed
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  Speaker 2: up in the words, don't cheat the audience. Yet one
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  Speaker 2: of the most famous short stories of the century, The
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  Speaker 2: Lady of the Tiger, does just that. No, we are
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  Speaker 2: not about to bring you that famous masterpiece, but the
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  Speaker 2: story we are going to tell, in addition to being
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  Speaker 2: well calculated to keep you in suspense, is also guaranteed
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  Speaker 2: to start a lot of arguments, none of which we
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  Speaker 2: hope will become too serious. Frankly, we don't know whether
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  Speaker 2: Sophronia Winters or Hiram Johnson is telling the truth, and
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  Speaker 2: whether one or both of them are crazy. But there's
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  Speaker 2: one point at which we can all agree. Sophronia's diary
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  Speaker 2: makes mighty thrilling reading. Listen. Listen then, as Miss Mercedes
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  Speaker 2: for Cambridge stars in The Diary of Sophronia Winters, which
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  Speaker 2: begins in just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: Another visit with Joe and Daphne Forsythe.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, honey, I'm home. Daphne.
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  Speaker 4: Drop dead.
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  Speaker 5: Uh-oh, what's the matter, honey?
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  Speaker 4: Don't you speak to me, you Don Juan.
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  Speaker 5: Don Juan?
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  Speaker 6: Daphne, I'm no Don Juan.
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  Speaker 2: No, hablo espanol.
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  Speaker 4: Very funny.
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  Speaker 3: Ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it was no prize winner, but.
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  Speaker 4: Neither are you, you lethario.
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  Speaker 6: I've often wondered, what's a lethario?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, but that's what the wives on TV
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  Speaker 4: always call their husbands. I guess it applies.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want me to go out and.
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  Speaker 5: Come in again?
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  Speaker 4: As far as I'm concerned, you can go for a
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  Speaker 4: long walk, preferably on a short pier.
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  Speaker 3: Well, oh, come on, Daphne, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 4: Your good friend Harry called, and he spilled the beans.
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  Speaker 2: Which beans?
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  Speaker 4: He said, quote, Tell Joe he was right about those blondes.
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  Speaker 4: They're great.
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  Speaker 5: Unquote.
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  Speaker 2: Blondes?
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  Speaker 4: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 2: He didn't say blondes.
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  Speaker 6: He said bonds.
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  Speaker 2: Savings bonds.
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  Speaker 5: What? Sure.
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  Speaker 2: I bought them on the payroll savings plan.
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  Speaker 6: And I told Harry he ought to do it, too.
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  Speaker 3: Savings bonds have a guaranteed interest that pays back $ 4
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  Speaker 3: for every three, which is a pretty good investment.
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  Speaker 4: That's a pretty good story, too.
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  Speaker 5: It's true, so help me.
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  Speaker 2: That's why Harry's so happy. Savings bonds are great.
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  Speaker 4: Well, maybe you're right. You wouldn't really fool around with blondes,
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  Speaker 4: would you? You're too faithful and sweet and kind and.
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  Speaker 5: Fast-talking.
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  Speaker 2: And now.
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  Speaker 1: The Diary of Sophronia Winters, starring Mercedes McCambridge. A tale
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  Speaker 1: well calculated to keep you in.
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  Speaker 1: Suspense.
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  Speaker 5: February 1st, St. Petersburg, Florida. I, Sophronia Winters, have hereby
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  Speaker 5: begun this diary... Because on this date, I feel for
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  Speaker 5: the first time in my 60 years that I have
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  Speaker 5: begun to live. It happened this morning. I had just
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  Speaker 5: settled myself on the beach when I noticed a man,
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  Speaker 5: a thrilling-looking man, strolling toward me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, sitting out here all by your lonesome?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, well, yes. Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't I see you last night over at the Starfish
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  Speaker 3: Tea Room?
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  Speaker 5: The Starfish Tea Room? Oh, yes, yes. I was there yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I said we might go to a table over there.
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  Speaker 3: Mind if I sit down beside you?
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  Speaker 6: Not at all.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, just a minute. Sit on this magazine. This sand
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  Speaker 5: sticks to your clothes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, sand, don't bother me. Johnson's name, Hiram Johnson, come
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  Speaker 3: from Green Harbor, Maine. We're in a big hotel up there,
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  Speaker 3: some of us. That's my whole history in a nutshell.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Sophronia. Sophronia Winters. Sophronia.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's quite a coincidence. My sister-in-law's name was Sophronia.
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  Speaker 3: Sophronia Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: You ever heard of her?
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  Speaker 6: She looked quite a bit like you.
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  Speaker 5: Sophronia Johnson? No, I'm afraid I haven't. Who was she?
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  Speaker 5: Someone very famous... I'm so ignorant about these things.
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  Speaker 3: No, Sponia wasn't very famous up in the state of
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  Speaker 3: Maine for a while, some time back. Well, look where
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  Speaker 3: that sun climbed to. I'd say it was close to lunchtime,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going on a hunger strike unless you have
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  Speaker 3: lunch with me.
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  Speaker 5: Dear, dear diary, now I know what they mean by
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  Speaker 5: the young in heart. There is indeed a boy for
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  Speaker 5: every girl in the world, and I have found mine.
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  Speaker 5: He is so kind and so generous and so strong,
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  Speaker 5: and I am so weak because I want to be.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, what's the good of waiting, Sophronia?
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  Speaker 6: I've got to be back at the hotel in a week.
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  Speaker 3: We may never see each other again.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Hiram, don't say that.
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  Speaker 6: I couldn't bear it.
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  Speaker 3: Then let's do it right away, tomorrow. There's a parson
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  Speaker 3: out on Coral Avenue who'll do the job for us.
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  Speaker 3: We can take a nice moonlight drive out to the
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  Speaker 3: alligator farm afterwards and have a nice shore dinner. Then
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  Speaker 3: climb on board the Orange Blossom tomorrow night for Maine.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, but what would your family think? Wouldn't they be shocked?
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  Speaker 3: Family's all dead. I'm my own boss. I'll just be
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  Speaker 3: the two of us, alone together.
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  Speaker 5: The two of us, alone together. The two of us alone, together.
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  Speaker 5: But dear diary, not exactly as I had imagined it.
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  Speaker 5: Our wedding trip north on the Orange Blossom Express was
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  Speaker 5: all that I could have dreamed of. But now, now
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  Speaker 5: we are at the end of the journey. Looming in
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  Speaker 5: front of us, In the deepening winter twilight is a
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  Speaker 5: huge resort hotel. Hiram's Hotel. Its wide veranda empty. Its
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  Speaker 5: ancient cupolas menacing against the gray sky. And not a
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  Speaker 5: single light burning at any of its hundreds of windows.
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  Speaker 5: What are you locking the gate for, Hiram?
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  Speaker 3: Why not? Nobody coming in after us. All going out again.
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  Speaker 2: For a while.
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  Speaker 5: But I thought you said... The hotel.
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  Speaker 6: The hotel is empty.
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  Speaker 5: Hiram.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what is it now?
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  Speaker 5: Hiram, darling, I know it sounds silly, but let's not
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  Speaker 5: go in there tonight. It's so dark and empty. Let's
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  Speaker 5: wait until morning. Let's stay in the village just for tonight.
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  Speaker 2: We'll stay in here.
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  Speaker 3: Now, get inside.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my arm.
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  Speaker 5: Hiram.
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  Speaker 3: You remember me telling you down in Florida about my sister-in-law, Sophronia?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's her. That painting there on the wall. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you take a look at her.
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  Speaker 2: Good look.
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  Speaker 5: But why?
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  Speaker 2: She was a murderess.
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  Speaker 3: She was hanged in Portland 25 years ago for the
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  Speaker 3: murder of my brother, Ephraim. Here in the lobby of
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  Speaker 3: this hotel. They come downstairs singing a hymn and murdered
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  Speaker 3: him in cold blood with an axe. That fire axe
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  Speaker 3: hanging over.
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  Speaker 2: There on the wall.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, horrible. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you stand over there under that painting.
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  Speaker 5: Hiram, I.
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  Speaker 2: Get over there.
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  Speaker 5: Hiram, please. You're hurting me.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you stand there quietly. Now, you remember I said
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  Speaker 3: you resembled my dead sister-in-law? Well, you do. You are
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  Speaker 3: a spitting image.
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  Speaker 1: In a moment, we continue with the second act of.
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  Speaker 3: Suspense.
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  Speaker 6: In what form can an act of military heroism be acknowledged?
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  Speaker 6: In one example, the form is a rectangular blue ribbon
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  Speaker 6: set in a gold-colored metal frame of laurel leaves, worn
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  Speaker 6: centered over the right breast pocket of the uniform. a
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  Speaker 6: bronze oak leaf cluster may be affixed to the ribbon
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  Speaker 6: for each subsequent award of the same decoration. This is
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  Speaker 6: the emblem of the Distinguished Unit Citation, awarded to units
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  Speaker 6: of our armed forces and those of our allies for
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  Speaker 6: extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy. One of
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  Speaker 6: America's newer military decorations, it is designated to recognize activity
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  Speaker 6: on or after December 7, 1941. The Distinguished Unit Campaign
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  Speaker 6: Screamer is blue, with the name of the sighted action
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  Speaker 6: embroidered in white. To be eligible for this citation, the
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  Speaker 6: degree of heroism required is the same as that which,
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  Speaker 6: in an individual, would warrant the presentation of our second
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  Speaker 6: highest award for valor, the Distinguished Service Cross. The Distinguished
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  Speaker 6: Unit Emblem may be worn permanently by all those involved
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  Speaker 6: in the cited action, but for those individuals joining the
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  Speaker 6: unit later, the emblem may be worn only for the
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  Speaker 6: duration of their assignment. Both as individuals and as members
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  Speaker 6: of military units, America's servicemen have proved themselves worthy of
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  Speaker 6: medals and worthy of admiration by their countrymen.
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  Speaker 1: And now, starring Mercedes McCambridge, Act II of The Diary
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  Speaker 1: of Sophronia Winters.
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  Speaker 5: I cannot understand it, and my heart is heavy. The
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  Speaker 5: hotel is deserted, unchanged and apparently uninhabited for 25 years.
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  Speaker 5: Wash bowls and pitchers still stand in the empty rooms
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  Speaker 5: covered with cobwebs. The great dining room with its oak
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  Speaker 5: woodwork is alive with rats. And a row of broken
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  Speaker 5: rocking chairs on the front porch faces emptily out to sea.
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  Speaker 5: Does he mean this? To be my home?
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  Speaker 3: And now, my dear, let me show you the grounds.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, but it's dark.
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  Speaker 3: I want to show you where my sister-in-law Sophronia is buried.
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  Speaker 5: But can't I see it tomorrow in the daylight?
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  Speaker 3: You'll see it now, Sophronia.
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  Speaker 5: Hiram, you're hurting me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, my dear, but you must learn to do
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  Speaker 3: what I say. And then we shall have no trouble.
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  Speaker 3: There we are. Just yonder on that mound. That's where
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  Speaker 3: my sister-in-law Sophronia was laid away 25 years ago. Buried
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  Speaker 3: her ourselves, without a service. Out here by herself on
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  Speaker 3: the grounds. Ephraim was buried in town, but not Sophronia.
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  Speaker 3: I had a feeling I'd have to keep an eye
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  Speaker 3: on her.
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  Speaker 5: Keep an eye on her? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I knew she was one of those restless sleepers who
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't stay quiet in a grave.
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  Speaker 5: You mean you think she haunts this place? Nope.
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  Speaker 3: Not this place. She never had any use for it,
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  Speaker 3: live or dead. No, she makes for the warmer climates.
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  Speaker 3: She was always a cold-blooded little woman, freezing and shivering
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  Speaker 3: all the time. Places like California and Texas and Florida
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  Speaker 3: she makes for.
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  Speaker 5: Florida. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: One of her favorite haunts. Particularly around St.
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  Speaker 5: Petersburg.
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  Speaker 3: She likes the flowers and the sun and the romance.
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  Speaker 5: Hiram, I feel cold. I'm shivering. Do you mind if
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  Speaker 5: I go inside now?
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  Speaker 2: In a minute.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't explained everything. You see those birches over there?
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  Speaker 3: Under every one of them is a grave. See, I
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  Speaker 3: found her wandering the earth in disguise three times.
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  Speaker 1: I killed her three times.
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  Speaker 3: Still don't do any good. She's still restless.
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  Speaker 5: You mean you've killed three different women? Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'll keep another grave open to remind her. Waiting now.
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  Speaker 3: Would you like to see it, Sophronia?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no. No, Hiram.
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  Speaker 4: No, please. I.
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  Speaker 5: I.
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  Speaker 1: You afraid to see it, Sophronia?
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  Speaker 5: No. I... Oh, Hiram, you don't think just because my
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  Speaker 5: name happens to be Sophronia and that I look a
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  Speaker 5: little like.
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  Speaker 3: Think what, Sophronia?
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  Speaker 5: Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Leia.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we mustn't have you catch a cold, my dear.
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  Speaker 3: When you come back along in the hotel, I'll show
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  Speaker 3: you to your room.
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  Speaker 5: My? Room?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Suprunya.
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  Speaker 5: Your room.
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  Speaker 3: Now, this room's cleanest in the hotel. Always expected to
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  Speaker 3: be occupied again sometime.
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  Speaker 5: There you see.
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  Speaker 3: Kept everything just as it was.
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  Speaker 5: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 5: Nothing. It's just that.
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  Speaker 3: Seem kind of familiar?
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  Speaker 5: No. No.
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  Speaker 3: Just as she left it that afternoon. She walked downstairs
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  Speaker 3: to murder my brother. Serum embroidery on the table, needle
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  Speaker 3: sticking in it. Her hymn book still open. She was
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  Speaker 3: very fond of singing hymns, Sophronia was. Had a nice voice, too.
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  Speaker 3: I used to accompany her on the harmonium down the parlor.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll turn down the bed for you. And you
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  Speaker 3: can get undressed while I go make you some hot tea.
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't want any.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, there's the closet. You can put on one of
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  Speaker 3: Sophronia's dressing gowns, make yourself at home.
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  Speaker 5: Hiram. Why are you locking my door? What?
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  Speaker 2: It's safer, dear.
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  Speaker 5: Safer?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Always lock doors, outside and inside.
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  Speaker 2: Windows, too. Much safer for everybody.
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  Speaker 5: It must be nearly midnight now. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know how long it's been since he locked that
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  Speaker 5: door on me... and left me alone in this horrible room...
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  Speaker 5: with its hideous little mementos of a dead murderess. I
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  Speaker 5: have lit the pink-flowered oil lamp, and I am sitting
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  Speaker 5: here at her little wicker table, trying to maintain my
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  Speaker 5: sanity as I write this. I can hear him downstairs,
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  Speaker 5: in the shabby little parlor off the lobby, playing the harmonium,
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  Speaker 5: playing the same piece over and over again. My hand
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  Speaker 5: has just brushed against her needlework lying beside the open
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  Speaker 5: hymn book. Open at the same hymn he is playing.
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  Speaker 5: The same hymn he is playing. I shall go mad.
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  Speaker 5: I shall go mad. I shall go mad.
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  Speaker 1: In a moment, we continue with the third act of.
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  Speaker 5: Suspense.
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  Speaker 7: We have together ample capacity and freedom to defend freedom.
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  Speaker 7: This is NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Day after day,
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  Speaker 7: month after month, since April 4th, 1949, the activities of
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  Speaker 7: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have moved steadily forward on
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  Speaker 7: many fronts. This complete cooperation must and will continue because
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  Speaker 7: the concept of national self-sufficiency is out of date. Countries
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  Speaker 7: of the free world are interdependent and only in genuine
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  Speaker 7: partnership and by combining their resources, sharing tasks in many fields,
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  Speaker 7: can progress and safety be found. The United States of
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  Speaker 7: America is a part of NATO. You should be aware
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  Speaker 7: of and alert to Objectives and programs of the North
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  Speaker 7: Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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  Speaker 1: And now, starring Mercedes McCambridge, Act 3 of The Diary
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  Speaker 1: of Sophronia Winters.
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  Speaker 5: February 12th. Can it be only a week since I
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  Speaker 5: became the bride of a madman? Now I live only
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  Speaker 5: from moment to moment, listening to each creak on the stairs.
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  Speaker 5: each note as it slowly wheezes from the old harmonium,
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  Speaker 5: wondering when he will come for me, when he will
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  Speaker 5: drag me out to join those other Sophronius in their
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  Speaker 5: frosty graves beneath the naked birches.
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  Speaker 3: Sophronius!
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  Speaker 5: It's come.
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  Speaker 6: Sophronius!
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  Speaker 5: Come downstairs.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to sing with me.
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  Speaker 5: Sing, sing. She sang with him, he said. How? How
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  Speaker 5: can I come downstairs when my door is locked? It's unlocked.
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  Speaker 4: You try it.
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  Speaker 5: Unlocked? Oh, no, how could it? Oh, it is. It is.
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  Speaker 5: And I never knew it. I never knew it.
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  Speaker 7: Come in, Sophronia.
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  Speaker 5: He unlocked it sometime while I was just sitting there. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: why didn't I try a few more times? Why did
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  Speaker 5: I just sit there assuming? No.
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  Speaker 6: No, he'd have got me anyway.
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  Speaker 5: He'd have known. But I might have got away. Now
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  Speaker 5: it's too late. He's going to kill me. No, Grona! Yes, Hiram.
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  Speaker 5: I'm coming. Hiram, where are you? Down here in the parlor.
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  Speaker 5: At the harmonium? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Waiting to sing with you.
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  Speaker 5: All right. I'll sing. I haven't sung in years, but
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  Speaker 5: I'll try. I'll sing with you. I'll stay out here
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  Speaker 5: in the hall. My voice will carry better.
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  Speaker 3: Always did carry better in the hall, didn't it, Bronya?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, you know both the front and back doors
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  Speaker 3: a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I know, Harvey.
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  Speaker 4: Abide with me.
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  Speaker 5: Fastful, saving light. Love, darkness deepens. Lord, with me abide.
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  Speaker 3: When all the.
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  Speaker 5: There's only one more page. Shall... Shall I read it
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  Speaker 5: to you, nurse? Yes. Yes, go ahead. March 22nd. I
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  Speaker 5: have been sick, I think, for a very long time.
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  Speaker 5: The pages of my diary are blank... But I shall
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  Speaker 5: take you out again, poor diary, today and start you
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  Speaker 5: over again. I shall never look back at the other pages.
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  Speaker 5: I shall only write on and on about this beautiful
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  Speaker 5: place so that no one reading this diary will ever
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  Speaker 5: know that I did it. But I did do it, diary.
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  Speaker 5: I was smarter than he. When I opened that door
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  Speaker 5: at the head of the stairs and heard the music.
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  Speaker 5: When I saw the fire axe still hanging on the wall. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: I was so cautious. So terribly cautious. I tiptoed like
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: a little mouse. Even as I sang the hymn. Into
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  Speaker 5: that room where he was playing. If a reflection of
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: that axe had so much as glimmered across the wood.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: If he had turned. But I was clever. So much
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: cleverer than he. I kept on singing. And now I'm free.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Free as a bird. I'm free. And he shall never
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: catch me now. Not this time. Or ever again. Because
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: he's dead. Isn't he, nurse? Nurse? Isn't my dear brother-in-law, Hyland,
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: really dead?
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Fronia, he's dead. And now we'll put the diary away,
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: shall we? Remember what the doctor said. We mustn't overdo
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: if we're to get well. Oh, but I don't want
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: to get well. Ever. I like being sick. I feel
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: so safe.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Suspense. In which Mercedes McCambridge starred in William N. Robeson's
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: production of The Diary of Sophronia Winters by Lucille Fletcher.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Supporting Mercedes McCambridge in the Diary of Sopronia Winters were
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Carl Swenson and Ellen Morgan.
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  Speaker 5: Listen.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Listen again next week when we return with Miss Kathy
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Lewis starring in The Bridge, another tale well calculated to
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: keep you in suspense.