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Suspense 48-04-03 (291) Suspicion (Suspense 48-04-03 (291) Suspicion.mp3) · Suspense

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  Speaker 5: Oh, Kimmage.
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  Speaker 9: A full 60 minutes of suspense. Tonight, the noted stage
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  Speaker 9: actor Sam Jaffe is our star in Suspicion by Dorothy Sayers.
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  Speaker 9: A suspense play produced and directed by Anton M.
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  Speaker 7: Leder.
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  Speaker 10: It is very quiet in Hammersmith, the western metropolitan borough
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  Speaker 10: of London. Orderly homes line orderly residential streets. And inside
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  Speaker 10: these homes, quiet people live quiet lives. An outsider might
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  Speaker 10: notice the changeless security of Hammersmith, while the natives regard
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  Speaker 10: it without comment as part of their peaceful pattern of living.
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  Speaker 4: It is a point of pride that St. Paul's School,
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  Speaker 4: located within the borough's limits, dates back to the 12th century.
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  Speaker 10: The Godolphin School to the 16th century and the Edward
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  Speaker 10: Latimer Foundation to the 17th. And it's a matter of record...
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  Speaker 10: that the last disruptive influence exerted itself over the town
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  Speaker 10: and its people in the year 879, when the Danish
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  Speaker 10: invaders occupied it as their winter camp.
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  Speaker 4: It isn't Hammersmith. Our story is laid.
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  Speaker 10: And now, with the performance of Sam Jaffe as Edward Mumray,
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  Speaker 10: Lorene Tuttle as his wife Ethel, Alan Reed as Brooks,
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  Speaker 10: and with suspicion by Dorothy Sayers, we again hope to
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  Speaker 10: keep you in.
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  Speaker 4: Suspense!
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  Speaker 11: My name is Edward Mummery of Hammersmith.
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  Speaker 4: I'm 48 years of age, fair of complexion, agreeable, I believe,
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  Speaker 4: as to disposition. I have my business, real estate, in
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  Speaker 4: the city, which I run together with my partner, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Harold Brooks. I have my own home, I occupy my
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  Speaker 4: leisure hours with gardening, and I've just been married. That is,
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  Speaker 4: practically just. Six years, to be exact. My wife Ethel
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  Speaker 4: is the most brilliant thing that ever happened to me.
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  Speaker 4: These are the outward facts. I recognize that I am
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  Speaker 4: a very ordinary person. And yet, can a person be
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  Speaker 4: considered ordinary when into his life there suddenly explodes the extraordinary?
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  Speaker 4: for this is what happened to me. On one single day,
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  Speaker 4: like any other day in a quiet, carefully clad life,
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  Speaker 4: I smelled the odor of the grave, and I saw
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  Speaker 4: with my own eyes a supreme horror of all existence.
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  Speaker 4: It began on the railway carriage going to London to
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  Speaker 4: my office. Perhaps it was the thick pall of tobacco
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  Speaker 4: smoke in the carriage that first made me aware of
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  Speaker 4: my nausea. I slipped a digestive tablet into my mouth. Lately,
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  Speaker 4: I'd taken up the habit of carrying them about with me.
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  Speaker 4: But I leaned back my head and closed my eyes. DeVries,
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  Speaker 4: who traveled with me every morning, was giving me the
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  Speaker 4: benefit of this morning edition.
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  Speaker 12: Ah, here's something.
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  Speaker 4: Smack on the front page. A question has been asked
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  Speaker 4: in the house about government typewriters. Now, there's the press
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  Speaker 4: for you.
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  Speaker 13: The world going to the devil so fast it makes
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  Speaker 13: my head spin, and all they can print in their
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  Speaker 13: precious newspapers... I say, old chap, you're looking terribly pale
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  Speaker 13: this morning. Could you just open the window a bit?
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  Speaker 13: I don't feel very well.
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  Speaker 4: Why, certainly.
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  Speaker 7: There you are. Just lean your head into it. Get
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  Speaker 7: some fresh air. There, Peter.
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 12: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Must have been something you had for breakfast.
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  Speaker 12: I suppose so. Sorry to be such.
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  Speaker 4: A fool about it.
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  Speaker 7: Not at all, old man, not at all.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead. Thank you.
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  Speaker 12: Lead me some.
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  Speaker 4: More of this earth-shaking news.
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  Speaker 7: All right, if you'd like.
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  Speaker 14: A further split has occurred in the Labour Party. Well,
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  Speaker 14: let's skip over politics for the day. Two girls trapped
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  Speaker 14: in burning factories. I can do without the morbid, too.
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  Speaker 14: The police are still looking for the woman who poisoned.
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  Speaker 7: A family in Lincoln.
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  Speaker 4: I took a tram to my office, gritting my teeth
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  Speaker 4: against this nausea that had me dizzy and trembling. How
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  Speaker 4: I got up the stairs, I'll never remember. The world
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  Speaker 4: swam black before my eyes. Then I was seated at
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  Speaker 4: my desk, breathing a bit hard, but once more in
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  Speaker 4: control of myself, my heart no longer pounding.
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  Speaker 7: Morning, Mummery.
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  Speaker 4: Cold enough for you? Yes, Brooks, quite. And pleasantly raw,
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  Speaker 4: in fact.
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  Speaker 7: Beastly, beastly. Your tulip bulb's all in?
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  Speaker 4: Not quite all. As a matter of fact, I haven't
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  Speaker 4: been too well lately.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, too bad.
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  Speaker 15: Bulbs ought to go in early. You're lucky you're not
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  Speaker 15: living in the country. You want to take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 7: How's the missus?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. She's very much better.
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  Speaker 7: Glad to hear that. Very glad.
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  Speaker 15: I hope we shall have her about again this winter,
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  Speaker 15: as usual. Can't do without her in the drama society.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure you're very kind.
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  Speaker 7: I mean it.
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  Speaker 15: By Jove, I shall forget her acting last year in Romance.
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  Speaker 15: She had young Welbeck positively.
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  Speaker 7: Brought down the house.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she was good, wasn't she?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Welbeck's been asking after her only yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: She'll be up and around again soon. The doctor says
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  Speaker 4: she mustn't overdo it. No worry, he says. That's the
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  Speaker 4: important thing. She's to go easy and not rush about
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  Speaker 4: or undertake too much.
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  Speaker 7: Quite right. Molly's a devil and all. I cut out
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  Speaker 7: worrying years ago. Look at me.
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  Speaker 15: Fit as a fiddle for all I shan't see 50 again.
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  Speaker 15: You're not looking altogether the thing, by the way.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, touch of the steps, sir. Nothing much. A chin
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  Speaker 4: on the liver, I suppose.
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  Speaker 7: That's what it is. Is life worth living? Depends on
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  Speaker 7: the liver. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we'd better be getting to that lease of therapies.
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  Speaker 7: I have it right here. Oh, by the way, I
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  Speaker 7: suppose your wife doesn't know of a good cook, does she?
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  Speaker 4: I doubt it. They aren't so easy to find nowadays.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, we've only just got suited ourselves.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I promised the Philipsons I'd look around.
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  Speaker 15: Their girl's getting married. That's the worst of bringing young
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  Speaker 15: girls into work for you. I said to the Philipsons,
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  Speaker 15: do you mind what you're doing? I said, get somebody
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  Speaker 15: you know something about. You may find yourself landed with
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  Speaker 15: this poisoning woman. What's her name?
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  Speaker 7: Andrews. What we're sending means to your funeral in a while,
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  Speaker 7: I said.
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  Speaker 15: He laughed, but it's no laughing matter. What we pay
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  Speaker 15: the police for, I simply don't know. Nearly a month now,
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  Speaker 15: they can't seem to lay hands on the woman. All
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  Speaker 15: they say is, they think she's hanging about the neighborhood
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  Speaker 15: and may seek a situation as crook.
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  Speaker 4: As cook, now I ask you. There was a theory
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  Speaker 4: in the papers that she'd committed suicide.
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  Speaker 7: Don't you believe it, my boy.
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  Speaker 15: That co-founder of the river was all I watched. They
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  Speaker 15: don't commit suicide, that's all.
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  Speaker 7: That's all?
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  Speaker 15: She's poison maniacs, cutting as weasels, that's what they are. Well,
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  Speaker 15: I hope they catch her before she ties her hand
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  Speaker 15: on anybody else. As I told Phillips.
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  Speaker 4: Then you think this Mrs. Andrews did it?
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  Speaker 15: Of course she did it. You've been following the case,
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  Speaker 15: haven't you? Looked after her old father, and he died suddenly.
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  Speaker 7: Left her a bit of money, too.
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  Speaker 15: Then she keeps house with an elderly gentleman, and he
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  Speaker 15: dies suddenly.
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  Speaker 7: Now there's this husband and wife. Man dies, woman taken
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  Speaker 7: very ill. Of arsenic poisoning.
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  Speaker 4: Cook runs away. Till you ask, did she do it?
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  Speaker 4: I only thought it might be a coincidence.
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  Speaker 15: I don't mind betting that when they dig up the
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  Speaker 15: father and the other old bird, they'll find them bug-full
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  Speaker 15: of poison, too.
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  Speaker 7: Once that sort gets started, they don't stop, you know.
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  Speaker 7: What is the matter, Marbury? I.
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  Speaker 16: I.
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  Speaker 7: Marbury, let me call you a doctor. No.
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  Speaker 4: Just some water.
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  Speaker 7: Listen. Here you go. Slowly now. That's all right. Now
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  Speaker 7: hold your head.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. Thank you, Brooks. You sure you're all right? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 7: My dear fellow. Don't mind telling you, you gave me
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  Speaker 7: a start. I thought I was losing you here and now.
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  Speaker 4: It's only my stomach.
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  Speaker 12: Nothing serious.
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  Speaker 4: Hold on a moment.
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  Speaker 7: What did you have for breakfast?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: The usual.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: Tell me. We'll get to the bottom of this.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then, brown bread, bacon, eggs, just the nicely set kind. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 16: Coffee.
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  Speaker 4: Made it only in Mississippi. can. Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Sutton?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, that's your new cook.
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  Speaker 4: She's a real find. I'm terribly thankful for her.
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  Speaker 16: Yes, I can imagine.
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  Speaker 15: Your wife down with a nervous breakdown must be a
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  Speaker 15: blessing to have someone capable running the house.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. Ethel hasn't been at all fit, poor child.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want her to mention it to her books.
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  Speaker 4: She gets upset so easily. I don't want her worrying
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  Speaker 4: about me. Of course not, my boy. Isn't it odd, Brooks?
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  Speaker 7: What's that?
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  Speaker 4: This photograph of that Mrs. Andrews.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, in the newspaper.
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  Speaker 4: She looks like such a sweet, motherly-looking woman.
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  Speaker 15: Take care, mother. From the way your stomach's acting up,
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  Speaker 15: I'd say this poisoner and your precious Mrs. Sutton are
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  Speaker 15: one and the same. That's hardly a joke, Brooks. As
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  Speaker 15: a matter of fact, if they were the slightest resemblance,
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  Speaker 15: I'd be terrified. But this Mrs. Andrews looks so... oh,
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  Speaker 15: so angelic. She's got a bad mouth. Look to the mouth,
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  Speaker 15: Mama Ray, before you trust your fellow man. That's where
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  Speaker 15: the true story.
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  Speaker 4: Is. Death by poison. Fiends and murderers. The darkness, the pit,
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  Speaker 4: the unholy face of evil. These are things we read about.
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  Speaker 4: These are horrors we get at second hand through fiction
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  Speaker 4: and films. But they do not really happen to people
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  Speaker 4: like me, the suburban gardener. a real estate broker, and
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  Speaker 4: that was a comfort. If I were to go through
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  Speaker 4: life without any great distinction, at least I should avoid
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  Speaker 4: any great terror. So I told myself as I left
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  Speaker 4: the office for lunch. I was a little nervous to
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  Speaker 4: begin with, so I had some boiled fish and a
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  Speaker 4: custard pudding. The wrenching pain seemed gone entirely, and I
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  Speaker 4: became positively lightheaded as the bogey of illness and doctors'
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  Speaker 4: bills ceased to haunt me. I bought a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: bronze chrysanthemums for Ethel, just by way of celebration. And
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  Speaker 4: I got home at the usual time, 7.10. I was
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  Speaker 4: a little dashed by not finding Ethel in the sitting room.
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  Speaker 4: Still holding the flowers, I went down the passage toward
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  Speaker 4: the kitchen door. and opened it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, sir.
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  Speaker 4: I seem to have startled you, Mrs. Sutton.
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  Speaker 12: Yes, yes, she did.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't hear the front door go.
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  Speaker 7: Where's Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Brummery? Not feeling bad again, is she?
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  Speaker 5: Well, sir, she's got a bit of a headache, poor lamb.
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  Speaker 17: I made her lay down and took her up a
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  Speaker 17: nice cup of.
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  Speaker 5: Tea at half past four. I think she's dozing nicely now.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it was very considerate, Mrs. Sutton.
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  Speaker 17: Oh, it was turning out the dining room that done it,
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  Speaker 17: I think.
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  Speaker 5: I asked her not to overdo, but you know how.
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  Speaker 8: She is, sir.
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  Speaker 5: She gets so restless. Can't seem to bear to be
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  Speaker 5: doing nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I know. She's such a natural little person. This
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  Speaker 4: illness is very hard on her. Well, I'll just run
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  Speaker 4: up and have a peep. She'll disturb her if she's asleep.
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  Speaker 4: Want me to put the flowers in a vase? No,
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  Speaker 4: I'll take them up to her first. By the way,
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  Speaker 4: what are we having for dinner?
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  Speaker 17: Well, I have made a nice taken kidney pie.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, pastries. I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: You see, I.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you'll find it beautiful and light. And it's made
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  Speaker 6: with butter, sir.
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  Speaker 5: You haven't said you found blood indigestible?
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure it'll be most excellent.
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  Speaker 5: It's just.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you see, Mrs. Sutton, I haven't been too well lately.
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  Speaker 4: Something about a stomach upset. Is that so? Yes. Do
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  Speaker 4: you have any idea what it might be? Oh, I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure it's nothing out of my kitchen, Mr.
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  Speaker 16: Mummery.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, I'm sure it isn't. Well, I believe I'll
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  Speaker 4: live through it. Steak and kidney is just fine. Now
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  Speaker 4: I'll run up and look at my wife. I tiptoed
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  Speaker 4: up and opened the door carefully. At first I thought
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  Speaker 4: Ethel was asleep. She lay snuggled under the eiderdown and
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  Speaker 4: looked very small and fragile in the big double bed.
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  Speaker 4: But she didn't look at all well. It drenched my
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  Speaker 4: heart to see her face so pale and wasted. And
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  Speaker 4: the doctors couldn't seem to find her ailment at all.
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  Speaker 4: What could be the insidious disease that had done this
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  Speaker 4: to her? Nervous breakdown, they called it. But I wasn't
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  Speaker 4: satisfied with that. It must be something more. I came closer,
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  Speaker 4: and she stirred on the bed and smiled at me.
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  Speaker 8: Hello, darling.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, sweet.
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
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  Speaker 18: I got tired and headachy, and Mrs. Sutton packed me
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  Speaker 18: off to bed.
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  Speaker 4: You've been doing too much. You know what the doctor
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  Speaker 4: said about resting.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I know.
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  Speaker 8: It was foolish of me. Oh, Edward, such lovely flowers.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it would cheer you up, Edward.
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  Speaker 7: A little spot of color.
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  Speaker 8: Darling, you are.
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  Speaker 12: Good to me.
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  Speaker 18: And I can't have been much fun for you lately.
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  Speaker 5: Really, I could cry.
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  Speaker 4: Edward.
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  Speaker 8: Don't tire of me, Edward. I'll get well, I promise you.
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  Speaker 4: Of course you will. Oh, that's funny. Me, tired of you.
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  Speaker 5: Then hand me my robe and I'll.
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  Speaker 8: Come down with you.
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  Speaker 4: Much better stay in bed, dear, and let Mrs. Sutton
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  Speaker 4: send your dinner up.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, but I want to be with you tonight.
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  Speaker 4: I've got to be firm with you, Ethel. If you
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  Speaker 4: don't take care of yourself, you won't be able to
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  Speaker 4: go to the Dharma Society meetings. You've no idea how
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  Speaker 4: anxious everyone is to have you back. Oh. The Welbecks
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  Speaker 4: have been asking after you and saying that they really
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: couldn't go on without you.
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  Speaker 5: Did they?
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  Speaker 8: It's very sweet of them to want me.
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  Speaker 7: Not at all.
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  Speaker 4: You're the best of the lot. They need you.
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  Speaker 8: Well, perhaps I'll stay in bed after all.
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  Speaker 13: Good.
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  Speaker 8: Now, have you been all day, dear?
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  Speaker 4: Not too bad, not too bad.
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  Speaker 8: No more bothersome tummy aches?
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  Speaker 4: Well, perhaps just a little one. But it's quite gone now.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely nothing to worry about.
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  Speaker 8: Darling, you sure?
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  Speaker 4: Quite sure, sweet. All gone and forgotten. I experienced no
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: more distressing symptoms that night or the next day. Following
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: the advice of the newspaper expert on the subject, I
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  Speaker 4: took to drinking a great deal of orange juice. The
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  Speaker 4: results were wonderful. It was as though I had never
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  Speaker 4: known pain in my life. The next night, we retired early.
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  Speaker 4: I fell asleep almost at once, and slept the deep
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  Speaker 4: and dreamless sleep of a child. Until about three in
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  Speaker 4: the morning. Then I was awake. For it had come back.
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: Ethel!
• 16:59
  Speaker 16: Ethel!
• 17:00
  Speaker 15: Wake up!
• 17:01
  Speaker 18: Please, wake up! Ethel!
• 17:05
  Speaker 16: Help me!
• 17:06
  Speaker 19: What's wrong?
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: Ethel, come on, what's the matter? What is it?
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: I think I am dying. I suppose it is different
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: for every man when his time comes. For myself, I
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: can only say that it was like sinking, as though
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: my body were an insupportably heavy weight plummeting down into
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: the soft, icy ground, sinking deep, deep, deep into the
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: black regions of the earth. I've got some hot water
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: to go with it. Now, just swallow this pill. Come
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: along now. I know it's hard. You can swallow just once.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: There you are. Goes to work in a jiffy.
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: I dare say you're feeling better already.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Doctor.
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: Now then, Mrs.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Mummery, just a few questions, please. What did you have
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: for dinner?
• 18:03
  Speaker 18: That's what's so baffling. It couldn't have been the dinner.
• 18:07
  Speaker 18: I had the same things to eat, and so did Mrs.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Sutton.
• 18:09
  Speaker 20: Nonetheless, we have to be thorough about this.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: If you will.
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: Well, then, um, pig's trotters and a milk pudding.
• 18:18
  Speaker 18: Oh, yes, round there.
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: You're sure about that?
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: And before we went to bed, Edward had a large
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: glass of orange juice, according to his new regime. Seems
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: to have been helping him so much.
• 18:27
  Speaker 20: Now, there's your trouble. Orange juice is an excellent thing
• 18:29
  Speaker 20: in so-and-so trotters, but not in combinations. Wings and oranges
• 18:33
  Speaker 20: together are extraordinarily bad for the liver.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I don't know why they should be, but there's no
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: doubt that they are. I see.
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: Feeling better, Mummery?
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Yes. It's much easier.
• 18:43
  Speaker 20: I'll send you around a prescription. You stick to slops
• 18:46
  Speaker 20: for a day or two and keep off pork. Don't
• 18:49
  Speaker 20: you worry about him, Mrs.
• 18:50
  Speaker 16: Mummery.
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: He's as sound as a trout.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: You're the one we've got to look after.
• 18:53
  Speaker 18: I was so frightened. I believe my own trouble has
• 18:55
  Speaker 18: been shocked right out.
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, not yet.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: It hasn't.
• 18:59
  Speaker 20: Don't want to see those black rings under your eyes.
• 19:02
  Speaker 20: Of course, tonight was disturbed. But you make up for
• 19:04
  Speaker 20: it now. Get plenty of sleep. Taking your tonic regularly?
• 19:08
  Speaker 12: Oh, yes.
• 19:09
  Speaker 20: That's right. Well, don't be alarmed about this hulking brooch here.
• 19:13
  Speaker 20: We'll soon have him out and about again.
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: Now, good night to you.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Doctor. Yes, Mama? I'm sorry I had to put you
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: out in the middle of the night.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: That's why we're about, old man. It's nothing.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: It means a great deal to me. You see, if
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: you hadn't been able to come, I'm sure that tonight
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I should have died.
• 19:36
  Speaker 21: My diet was bread, milk, and beef tea.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: For the next three days. On Saturday afternoon, though I
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: still felt seedy, I managed to stagger downstairs. Brooks had
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: sent a few papers down from the office for my signature,
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: and afterwards, Ethel sat down with me and we ran
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: over the household accounts together.
• 20:07
  Speaker 18: Then we have the butcher's settles.
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: That's right.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: The baker.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 20:10
  Speaker 18: The dairy.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: The coal merchant.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: And the coal merchant. All finished.
• 20:16
  Speaker 12: And there's Mrs.
• 20:16
  Speaker 18: Sutton.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'd almost forgotten.
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: It's the end of the month, you know.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: So it is. Well, you're quite satisfied with her, aren't you, darling?
• 20:27
  Speaker 18: Yes, father. Aren't you?
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: She's a good cook. And a warm, motherly old thing, too.
• 20:33
  Speaker 18: Don't you think it was a real brainwave of mine.
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: Engaging her like that?
• 20:36
  Speaker 16: Honestly.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: I do indeed.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: It was a perfect providence, her turning up like that.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Just after that wretched Jane had gone off without even
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: giving notice.
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: I was in absolute despair.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: Was a little bit of a gamble, of course.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: Taking her without any reference.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: I suppose it was.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: But if she'd been looking after a widowed mother, you
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: couldn't expect her to give references.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: No.
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: What is it, darling? Why do you say no like that?
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Well, the truth is... I felt a bit uneasy about
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: this at the time. I didn't like to say anything
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: because we simply had to have somebody.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: But I didn't much like it either, but after all,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: it has worked out so well. We're perfectly happy with
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: her now, aren't we?
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Yes, dear. But just for the record, it occurs to
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: me that we might write to the clergyman back in
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: the parish. You should be able to give her a reference.
• 21:27
  Speaker 18: I'm sure he's an excellent clergyman, but he couldn't tell
• 21:29
  Speaker 18: us anything about her cooking.
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: And cooking, after all, is the chief point.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: All right. And we are satisfied with her cooking. Then
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: here's a month's wages from Mrs.
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: Sutton.
• 21:40
  Speaker 18: I'll tell her she's passed with flying colors.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: And by the way, dear, you might just mention to Mrs.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Sutton that if she must read the morning paper before
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: I come down, I should be obliged if she would
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: fold it neatly afterwards.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Oh, darling, darling.
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: What an old fussbox you are.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: But she does fuss it up pretty thoroughly. And by
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: the way, The pages that she folds back, and by
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: the way she folds it back, I can tell that Mrs.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Sutton is following this poison case as avidly as I am.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: On Sunday, I felt very much better. Quite my old self,
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: in fact. I had roast sirloin for luncheon with the
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: potatoes under the meat, Yorkshire pudding of delicious lightness, and
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: an apple tart to follow. After the three days of
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: my invalid diet, it was a real pleasure to savour
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: the crisp fat and the underdone meat. I ate carefully, moderately,
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: but with an almost sensuous enjoyment. And then, over coffee,
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: while Ethel was still toying with the food, I took
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: up the newspaper and turned to the account of a
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: woman poisoner.
• 23:03
  Speaker 18: Are you still following those horrible murders?
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Yes, my dear.
• 23:06
  Speaker 18: Whatever makes you so morbid, Ethel?
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: I find it very interesting, Ethel, to see what human
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: beings are capable of doing.
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: I suppose it is interesting.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Thrilling, too.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Because it's so far into the kind of lives we
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: lead here in Hammersmith.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's just like a Fascinating fairy tale.
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: I say.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: What is it?
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Why, Brooks was right.
• 23:30
  Speaker 18: Right about what?
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: They've gone and dug up Mrs. Andrews' father and her
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: former employer.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: Oh, Edward, please.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: And sure enough, they were both found full of it.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Bung full of poison. My head was full of conjecture
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: about this sweet, motherly murderess. This middle-aged cook who mixed
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: arsenic into her delicious luncheons and dinners. This Mrs. Andrews,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: for whom the police were looking so desperately. At three o'clock,
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: with the roast beef settling properly, I went out into
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: the garden to put the tulip bulbs in. I got
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: my bag of tulips and a trowel, and then remembering
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: I still had on my good trousers, I decided it
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: would be wise to take a mat to kneel on.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: The mat had been left last in the corner under
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: the potting shelf. I stooped down and felt about in
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: the dark among the flower pots. Yes, it was there.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: But there was something else. Something in the way. It
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: looked like a tin. I lifted it out carefully. Yes,
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: of course, it was a tin. The remains of the
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: weed killer I had used the summer before. I looked
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: at the pink label printed in staring letters with the legend,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Arsenical Weed Killer. Poison. The blood suddenly began to pound
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: in my temples. I'd been thinking of Mrs. Andrews so
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: long that it came to me with a nasty shock
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: that I was holding in my hands the very same
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: brand of stuff she used to destroy so many poor souls.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: It gave me the disdain. Tinkly, unpleasant impression that by
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: owning some poison myself, I was directly in touch with
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: important and costly events. I smiled a little at myself
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: for being so foolish. And then I noticed that the
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: stopper had been put in very loosely. Now, how did
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I ever come to do a thing like that? What
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: a stupid fool. It would just serve me right if
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: all the goodness had gone off it. Besides, it was
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: so very dangerous to leave it loose like that. I
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: took out the stopper and squinted into the can. It
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: seemed to be about half full, and I ran the
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: thing home again and gave it a sharp thump with
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: the handle of the towel for better security. After that,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I washed my hands carefully at the scullery. I am
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: a man who does not believe in taking risks.
• 26:25
  Speaker 18: Oh, Edward, look who just dropped in.
• 26:29
  Speaker 22: My son and I were just in the neighborhood, Mr.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Mummery, and we thought we'd have a cup of tea
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: with you. Happy to see you again, Mrs. Welles.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Oh, hello, John.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: How are you, Mr.
• 26:37
  Speaker 18: Mummery?
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: We were talking about the Lincoln poisoning case, Mr.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: Mummery.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: That is, I seem to have been doing all the talking.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: The tea is ready, ma'am.
• 26:44
  Speaker 19: Thank you, Mrs.
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: Sutton.
• 26:45
  Speaker 18: Just put it by me.
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: I'll pour it.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Very good, ma'am.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: Will that be all?
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: That'll be all, Mrs.
• 26:51
  Speaker 12: Sutton.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, not at all, ma'am.
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: Milk and sugar, Mrs.
• 26:55
  Speaker 18: Welbeck?
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: Only some lemon, please.
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: You'll have milk and sugar, John.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you. I see you've remembered.
• 27:03
  Speaker 16: Edward.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Thank you, my dear.
• 27:06
  Speaker 22: I can't help prattling on about it, but there's been
• 27:08
  Speaker 22: nothing else in my head ever since the first of
• 27:11
  Speaker 22: these murders.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: I mean, now just take me.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: You, Mrs.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: Wellbeck? Yes, I'm about her age, this Mrs. Andrews.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Oh, I see.
• 27:18
  Speaker 22: And yet, when I look into my own heart and
• 27:20
  Speaker 22: ask myself whether I could take a human life in
• 27:23
  Speaker 22: cold blood, oh, well, as a matter of fact, I
• 27:26
  Speaker 22: suppose I could. When it comes down to that, I
• 27:29
  Speaker 22: suppose we all could.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: Why.
• 27:32
  Speaker 22: If you live long enough, you're bound to run across
• 27:34
  Speaker 22: a few people you'd love to see dead and underground.
• 27:38
  Speaker 22: And if you're pushed far enough, I suppose you simply
• 27:41
  Speaker 22: up and do it. Except that I shouldn't use poison.
• 27:45
  Speaker 22: I'd be apt to find some more forthright way of.
• 27:48
  Speaker 12: Dealing with it.
• 27:48
  Speaker 16: Mother, you're letting.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Your tea get cold.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Oh, so I am, darling. Thank you.
• 27:56
  Speaker 22: You know, I tell myself that I'm a strong nerd person.
• 27:59
  Speaker 22: In fact, my husband tells me the same thing all
• 28:01
  Speaker 22: the time. And still, the thought of this poisoner is
• 28:05
  Speaker 22: running around loose in our neighborhood.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: Gives me a chill. I confess it's a rather delicious chill.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: But nonetheless, I'm uneasy, too. Oh, we've seen her.
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: Picture, of course.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: But it's not much of a help. It could be
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: almost anyone.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, hello, and you stopped to say... Those horse-eye cuttings, Mrs. Welbeck.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: I beg your pardon?
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: I remember you wanted some cuttings. If you care to
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: come down to the garden, I'll get them for you
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'd adore to have some. They'll fill up my
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: garden so beautifully.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Do let's go. Ethel had been getting more and more
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: white and tremulous as this horrible woman ran on with
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: her cheerful horrors. As we rose to go, I noticed
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: a relieved glance pass between Ethel and young Welbeck. Evidently,
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: the boy understood the situation and was chafing at his
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: mother's tactlessness. Mrs. Welbeck and I went outside together. And
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: I selected and trimmed the cuttings for her.
• 28:59
  Speaker 18: Oh, Mr.
• 29:00
  Speaker 22: Mammeray, if I only had your skill and patience. For
• 29:03
  Speaker 22: you've made for yourself a true garden of Eden here.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: It's so nice of you to say so.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: And your gravel paths, they're so thoroughly immaculate.
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: I simply cannot keep my weeds down.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: You need a good weed killer, that's all. There's an
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: arsenic preparation on the market that does wonders.
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: That stuff?
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: No, thank you, Mr.
• 29:21
  Speaker 13: Mammeray.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't have it in my place for a thousand pounds.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid there's no other way to rid yourself of weeds.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: But it's so foolhardy, so dangerous to have poison around.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: It seems to me you're simply opening your doors and
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: inviting trouble.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: It's not as bad as all that. We keep it
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: well away from the house.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: But the slightest carelessness.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: We are not careless people. Except that.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: Except that what?
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: I just remembered. I have been a bit careless. I
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: found the stopper to the can loose just this afternoon.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: It was unforgivable of me.
• 29:58
  Speaker 12: There, you see?
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: That's how accidents begin. From something as simple as that.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: But you're fortunate you don't have any little children poking around.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: I suppose we are, Mrs.
• 30:09
  Speaker 13: Welbeck.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: I suppose we are. When we got back to the house,
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: young Welbeck was already on his feet. and holding Ethel's
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: hand in the act of saying goodbye. He was a
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: good boy, anxious to get his mother out of the
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: house with tactful promptness. I went into the kitchen to
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: clear up the newspapers I'd fished out in order to
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: wrap Mrs. Welbeck's cuttings. And as I picked them up,
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: something odd struck me about them. Something I had to verify.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: I turned the papers over carefully, sheet by sheet, Yes,
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: I've been right. Every portrait of Mrs. Andrews, every paragraph,
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: every line about the Lincoln poisoning case had been carefully
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: cut out. Someone in my own house had gone to
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: all this trouble. Why?
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: In tonight's full hour of suspense, Sam Jaffe stars as
• 31:35
  Speaker 9: Edward Mummery in Suspicion by Dorothy Sayers. Tonight's study in suspense.
• 31:48
  Speaker 9: In just a moment, we will return with Act Two
• 31:50
  Speaker 9: of Suspense.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: In tonight's full hour of suspense, Sam.
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: Jaffe stars as Edward Mummery in Suspicion by Dorothy Sayers.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: Tonight's study in Suspense.
• 32:08
  Speaker 21: In just a moment, we will return with Act Two
• 32:16
  Speaker 21: of Suspense.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 32:24
  Speaker 9: And now, back to our Hollywood soundstage and act two
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: of Suspicion, starring Sam Jaffe with Lorene Tuttle and Alan
• 32:32
  Speaker 9: Reid in a narrative well calculated to keep you in suspense.
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: Suspense.
• 32:52
  Speaker 10: It hasn't been too long ago in Edward Mummery's consciousness
• 32:55
  Speaker 10: that arsenic was only a weed killer and Mrs. Andrews,
• 32:58
  Speaker 10: the motherly murder suspect, was simply a name in the newspapers.
• 33:02
  Speaker 10: A fear far removed from him and his quiet home
• 33:05
  Speaker 10: in Amherst. But a sudden terror grips him now. A
• 33:10
  Speaker 10: terror that certainly includes deadly poisonings. and seems also to
• 33:14
  Speaker 10: include the motherly woman who cooks his meals.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: Now the thing that is only a vague and uncomfortable
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: gnawing at the back of my brain came boiling up,
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: engulfing me. A bud happened in my head and made
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: me giddy. There was a curious cold lump in my stomach.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Someone in my own household. That night, I couldn't close
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: my eyes. I had to tell someone about this awful suspicion,
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: but there was no one to tell. Not at all, certainly,
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: in her condition. And so I kept it within myself
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: until I reached town the next day and could talk
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: to Brooks. Now, take hold of yourself, Mama Ray. Let's
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: not jump to any conclusions. I'm not Brooks. I'm only
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: asking questions that must be asked.
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: Very well.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: Let's examine the facts once again. If only I had
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: a picture of Mrs. Andrews.
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: You were publishing plenty of them only last week.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: I know. I've tried to recall those pictures. I've tried
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: so hard. But I don't seem to have a very
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: good visual memory.
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: I suppose we could get hold of one at the library.
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: They keep files, you know.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: You remember you showed me her picture here at the
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: office one day last week. Yes, that's right. And... How
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: was it I described her? Motherly, wasn't it?
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes, motherly. That seemed to be about all
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: you could say.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: I've been counting up the time since that poison of Mrs.
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: Andrews disappeared. It comes to just a little more.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: Than a month.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Yes, that would be my count. Very well, a month.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: And I just paid our Mrs. Sutton a month's wages.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: How can I spare her from any shock and anxiety?
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: That's the thing that keeps eating away at me. You
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: know how evil she is. Then you simply must do
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: it on your own, Manoré.
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: You must cope with this monstrous suspicion by yourself.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: And I must be sure of my ground. Simply to
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: dismiss the only decent cook we've ever had out of
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: sheer blind panic. Why, it would be wanton cruelty to
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: both women.
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: If it's to be done at all, it must be
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: done quickly and arbitrarily. without suggesting any of these horrors
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: to Ethel.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: And then, don't you see? There's something else. If there's
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: anything at all to these terrible suspicions, it means Ethel
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: is being exposed every minute that the woman is in
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: the house. Good Lord. Think of her family, Lincoln. Think
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: of the husband dead. Of the old father dead.
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: It must be fast, old boy.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: She's been here so long, poor darling. I've seen her
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: wasting away before my eyes. Why, Brooks? Why? Why? A
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: nervous breakdown? Why should Ethel be having a nervous breakdown?
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Or is it something else? Is this woman doing it
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: to Ethel? Slowly? Day by day? Is that what it means?
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: Perhaps you should see the police. But it's nothing but
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: the wildest of suspicions. And besides, I feel so very lonely.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: I'm so tired. It's almost as if I didn't care
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: what happened anymore. Your illness has taken it out on you. Yes.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Too bad you can't discuss it with her. I don't
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: want her to be afraid. But perhaps I will. Perhaps
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: she should know.
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: I say, Mama.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: What? These illnesses of yours, when.
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: Did they begin?
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I think I've always been subject to
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: vicious attacks. As long as I can.
• 37:03
  Speaker 16: No, no, no.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: I mean the other ones.
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: The severe attacks.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Well, they began about three weeks ago. Three weeks ago, Mama?
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: That's right. About three weeks ago.
• 37:21
  Speaker 21: Three weeks ago.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: Trains seemed forever getting home that night. I came softly
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: into the house, listening to the sound of my own footsteps.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: It was dusk, and yet none of the lights in
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: the house were on. I moved through heavy enveloping shadows
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: into the sitting room. Ethel was tucked up in a
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: corner of a chesterfield, leaning back wearily against the cushions.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Good evening, darling. Hello, Edward. You look tired, my dear.
• 37:54
  Speaker 8: I am tired, Edward. I seem to be drained and empty.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: I noticed you didn't sleep well last night. It was
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: probably that woman yesterday with the talking. Really, Mrs. Welbeck
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: talks altogether too much.
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: It's all about that horrible case.
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: I don't like hearing about such things.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Of course not, dear. And yet.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: And yet whatever.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: When a thing like this happens in the neighborhood, people
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: will gossip and talk. It would be a relief if
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: it caught the woman. One doesn't like to think.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: I don't want to think about it at all. So hateful.
• 38:30
  Speaker 18: She must be a horrible, perverted creature, this Mrs.
• 38:32
  Speaker 16: Andrews.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, quite so. You know, I was talking to
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Brooks about it only today, and he said.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: I don't want to hear what he says.
• 38:40
  Speaker 16: I don't want to hear about it at all.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: Of course not, darling. I'm sorry.
• 38:47
  Speaker 18: Oh, Edward, I just want to be quiet. I just
• 38:51
  Speaker 18: so want.
• 38:51
  Speaker 16: To be quiet.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: And so you shall, Ethel. It's all my fault. The
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: doctor warned me not to disturb you like this.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, Ethel.
• 39:02
  Speaker 16: Oh, darling.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: There, there, my dear. Everything's all right. No need for tears.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: It doesn't concern us anyway. Oh. I helped her upstairs
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: and into bed. And then when she had stopped sobbing,
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: and was at last asleep, I came down again very quietly.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: I was aware of a reluctance to face Mrs. Sutton,
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: but I had to. A proud face to amend. Her
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: eyes obscured by thick, horn-rimmed spectacles. And what was there
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: about her mouth? The tight lips, the hard chin. What
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: was it Brooks had said about looking first to the mouth?
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: Would you be requiring anything, sir, before I go up?
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: No, thank you, Mrs. Sutton.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: I hope you're feeling better, sir. No more of that trouble.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: Quite better, thank you, Mrs. Sutton.
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: Mrs.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: Munner is not indisposed, is she?
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: Why, no. She's asleep.
• 40:18
  Speaker 17: Do you think I ought to wake her to bring her.
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: A hot glass of milk?
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: No, no, thank you, Mrs. Sutton. I believe we'll just
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: let her be.
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: And you, sir?
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: Do you care for anything?
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: Not a thing, Mrs.
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: Sutton.
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, it wouldn't be no bother.
• 40:34
  Speaker 17: Only take a minute.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: Not tonight.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: All right, then.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: Uh, Mrs.
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: Sutton?
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir?
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Were you aware that my can of arsenic out in
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: the shed had a loose stopper?
• 40:49
  Speaker 8: The garden isn't my department, is it, sir?
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: No. No, it isn't. I didn't know about the arsenic.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: Very well.
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: I'll be saying goodnight, then.
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: Oh, Mrs. Sutton.
• 41:03
  Speaker 16: Yes?
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: One more thing.
• 41:06
  Speaker 8: Certainly, sir.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: Nothing, Mrs. Sutton. Nothing at all. The next few days
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: were the most agonizing of my life. I began the
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: habit of coming down early in the morning and prowling
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: about the kitchen. This only served to make Ethel more nervous.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: But Mrs. Sutton offered no remark. She watched me silently
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: and with good humor, almost with amusement. And after all,
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: it was ridiculous. What was the use of supervising the
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: breakfast when I had to be out of the house
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: every day between half past nine in the morning and
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: seven in the evening? On Thursday night, Brooks persuaded me
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: to go to a little bachelor dinner for a friend
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: who was being married. It was in my district, and
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: we weren't out of there until after midnight. By then
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: it was too late for Brooks to catch a train
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: back to town, so I invited him to come over
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: and spend the night at my place. The household had
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: long since gone to bed. Shh. Careful, Brooks. I don't
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: want to disturb Ethel. Sorry, old man. Your room is
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: just off here. I think you need a fresh pillow, sir.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: I'll be fine.
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: Hello.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: What's this?
• 42:32
  Speaker 7: Somebody writing a note?
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: Here, Mr. Nunnery. There's some fresh cocoa in the kitchen.
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: It only needs some hutting up. Mr. Sutton. Well, I
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: should just hit the spot. Yes, indeed. Come along. Let
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: me just get the switch. There we are. I'd better
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: get the cocoa ready. It'll only be a minute.
• 42:54
  Speaker 15: It's quite a show, isn't it, for a young father
• 42:58
  Speaker 15: to send them off in marriage and style.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: Glad to see him getting settled. People ought to marry young.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: All the more years to enjoy the only real blessing
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: life gives you.
• 43:09
  Speaker 7: How many years has it been for you with Ethel?
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: Just six.
• 43:12
  Speaker 7: Good years, eh?
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: And they get better all the time. That's the wonder
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: of it. Tell me, Brooks, how did you happen to
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: miss getting married?
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: Didn't miss it at all, chap. It was getting along
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: very well without it.
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: Hello.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: Our cocoa's ready.
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: And here's my cup. It's just hot enough.
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: Brooks. Yes, old man? Is it just my fancy, or
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: is there something queer about the taste? The taste? It
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: seems to me... Take another sip, Brooks. Go on. Hold
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: it round on your tongue. Do you taste it? The
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: faint tang, like metal?
• 44:05
  Speaker 14: No.
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: Spit it out.
• 44:06
  Speaker 16: Spit it out.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: Amelie. I don't know. I don't know. Amelie, what are
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: you going to do? I've never been in a situation
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: like this before. You ought to take a specimen to
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: the chemist. Have it analyzed. Yes. Yes, I will. first
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: thing in the morning. But first, Brooks, I want you
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: to come with me.
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: Where to?
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: Just outside, in the garden. I want to see something
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: in the potting shed.
• 44:50
  Speaker 16: Montgomery, I can't see a thing.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: Just hold on to me. We're almost there. All right.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: This is the shed. Now, just about four steps inside.
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: Here we are.
• 45:20
  Speaker 7: Marbury, where are you?
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: Just at your feet, old man.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: I'm still being down.
• 45:26
  Speaker 21: Oh.
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: Wouldn't it be good enough to strike.
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: A match for me?
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: Just a moment. Here we are.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: That's fine. Hold it closer. It should be behind these
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: pots here. Yes, it's here. Oh, careful. These things don't
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: burn on. Can you strike another? What is it, Mother?
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: It's a tin of weed killer. You mean arsenic? Yes. Arsenic.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: Just look, Mother. The stopper is loose. I know, Brooks.
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: Want another match? No. It isn't necessary.
• 46:19
  Speaker 7: Why should it be loose, Mummery? That's the question.
• 46:23
  Speaker 11: It is.
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: Especially since I took the trouble to ram it in
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: as tight as it would go only last week. Mummery,
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: old man, I don't like to frighten you, but you
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: see what this means. Simply means... There's a murderer in
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: my house. It was there, in that shed that smelled
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: of earth, in my dress and in overcoat, holding the
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: tin in my hand and facing brooks in the darkness,
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: that the beast Praddock seized me in its claws and
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: held me so tight that I could hardly breathe. I
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: felt a sudden impulse to run out into the dark
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: streets of Hammersmith and scream out of the sleeping village
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: the terrible thing I had discovered.
• 47:11
  Speaker 21: Instead, I.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: Replaced the tin exactly where it had been. And Brooks
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: and I went back into the garden for the house. Look, Brooks.
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: See that light? Whose window is it? Mrs. Sutton's. Terrifying.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: Is she watching us? I can't tell from here. Where
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: does Ethel sleep? Our bedroom is right up there. Oh, yes.
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: It's dark, thank heaven. If she'd drunk anything deadly, there'd
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: be lights everywhere. She'd call out, just as I did
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: the night I was attacked. Yes, yes, of course. Oh,
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: what's your plan? Plan?
• 47:59
  Speaker 16: Yes, yes.
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: Plan... I'll get you off to bed. Yes. Then I'll
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: go into the kitchen, wash out the saucepan, and make
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: another blue cocoa. I let it stand in the saucepan overnight.
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: Just to erase suspicion, don't you see?
• 48:18
  Speaker 12: Yes, excellent.
• 48:19
  Speaker 7: Then in the morning, off to the chemists.
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: That's right. Remember, you told me last week to move fast. Well,
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: my time's run out. I'm not a man of action, Brooks.
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: But when my life is threatened, when the life of
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: the person I love most is in danger, then I
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: can do it, Brooks. Then I can. When I'd finished
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: in the kitchen, I turned out all the lights and
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: started softly up the stairs. I hadn't meant to wake
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: in effort I meant to keep all this from her
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: until it was over and finished. But she must have
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: heard me as I came into the room.
• 49:09
  Speaker 12: Edward? Yes, my dear?
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: How late you are, you naughty boy. Have a good
• 49:15
  Speaker 8: time at your party?
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: Not bad. Not bad at all.
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: Well, tonight was young... Farnsworth's last, Mr.
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: Batchelor. His last. He seemed like a lamb all ready
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: for the sacrifice. You all right?
• 49:29
  Speaker 8: Quite all right.
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: Did Mrs.
• 49:32
  Speaker 8: Sutton leave something hot for you? She said she would.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: Yes. But I wasn't thirsty.
• 49:39
  Speaker 8: Oh, if it's that sort of party, was it?
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: I sat down on the bed beside her. She was
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: asleep again in a moment. I took her hand and
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: I clutched it tight, so defying death and hell to
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: take her from me. Next morning, I would act. I
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: thank God it was not too late. At eight o'clock
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: in the morning, I stood outside the little untidy shop
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: on Springbank, where a weather-beaten sign informed the world that
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: this place of business belonged to B. A. Dinthorpe, chemist.
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: Dunthorpe himself was an aged little fellow, as untidy himself
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: as the shop in which he potted about, day and night.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: I paused a moment before entering. How many times have
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: we sat together in the room at the back, our
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: chairs tilted against the wall, exchanging views on Greenfly and
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: Club Road? How many lazy evenings we have passed together,
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: discussing the passion of our lives, the art of garden.
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: This morning, I had to see him on another matter,
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: on the new passion in my life. This morning, we
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: should be concerned with the art of murder. Good morning. Why,
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: I be of assistance. Mama Ray. Good morning, Dinthorpe.
• 51:28
  Speaker 5: What brings you so early in the day?
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: Another prescription for Hethel?
• 51:32
  Speaker 7: No, no.
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: Hethel's much better these days. It's quite another matter. You'll
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: be like for work, won't you?
• 51:39
  Speaker 15: This is hardly the time to continue the battle of
• 51:42
  Speaker 15: lilacs versus poppies.
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: Dinthorpe. Yes? I wonder if you could do a little
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: job for me.
• 51:50
  Speaker 7: Happy to, if it's within me power.
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: Well, this is very much in your line of work. Well, then, certainly.
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: I have here a bottle. It contains a cup of
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: ordinary cocoa. Cocoa, Marmarie?
• 52:02
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: I was wondering if you'd be good enough to analyze
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: it for me. And just what is it you want
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: me to look for? I should... I should like you
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: to look for traces of arsenic, if you would.
• 52:15
  Speaker 7: Very well, Marmarie.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: Arsenic. This cocoa was left in the saucepan for me
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: at home last night. I found that it tasted very
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: hard and pleasant and metallic. I know, but that's oddly enough.
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: You see, Dimthorpe, I have reason to believe that we
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: have living with us at present the Lincoln Poisoner. I
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: dare say you know the case. The Lincoln Poisoner? Correct.
• 52:40
  Speaker 12: Oh, but Mamma Maria, how dreadful.
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: I have reason to believe that this woman is attempting
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: to murder both my wife and myself. I think I
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: have proof. Your analysis will be the final one. I
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: shall put everything else aside, Mummery. You may rely on me.
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: I do, Dimthorpe. I do. And may I congratulate you
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: on your prudence and on your intelligence in bringing me
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: this specimen. Thank you. I'll have it ready for you
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: by this evening. And if it's what you think it is,
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: then we shall have a clear case on which to
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: take action. Thank you, Dimthorpe. This evening, then. Right-o. I
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: see I'm to pass a very long day.
• 53:16
  Speaker 21: I was a bit late in getting to the office.
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: Brooks was already there waiting for me with a white
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: face and the hushed voice of a conspirator.
• 53:30
  Speaker 7: Good morning.
• 53:30
  Speaker 18: Good morning.
• 53:31
  Speaker 15: You were already out of the house when I woke
• 53:33
  Speaker 15: this morning.
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: Yes. I had my call to make. Sleep well last night?
• 53:38
  Speaker 7: Like a log. It's funny considering.
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: It is funny.
• 53:41
  Speaker 7: You didn't, I gather. No. Oh. You've taken care of
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: the matter?
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 53:46
  Speaker 7: When shall we know?
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 53:47
  Speaker 7: When shall we know?
• 53:49
  Speaker 15: Late this afternoon. Everything seemed all right when I left
• 53:53
  Speaker 15: the house, had breakfast with Ethel. She seemed very well,
• 53:55
  Speaker 15: completely unsuspecting.
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: Did you notice her?
• 53:58
  Speaker 7: I did indeed, our dear Mrs.
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: Sutton. Well?
• 54:01
  Speaker 7: Bad mouth, there's no doubt of it.
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: Anything else?
• 54:03
  Speaker 7: Otherwise perfectly normal. That's what gives them away, don't you see?
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: More normal than normal folk. Do you feel like working today?
• 54:11
  Speaker 7: Frankly, no.
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: Neither do I. Shall we put out the sign? Good idea.
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: We put out the sign saying that we were closed
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: for the day because of illness. And we sat together
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: in the office. The noon hour passed and neither of
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: us moved. Four or five times we heard footsteps outside
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: in the corridor, pausing before our door, and then turning
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: and receding. Neither of us spoke. Neither of us moved.
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: I examined an expanse of wall just over Brooks' head,
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: and he examined the blank space over mine. And the
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: hours passed. Back on Springbank, Dimthorpe would be bending over
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: his vials and Bunsen burners, moving as methodically as only
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: he could move, extracting the truth from a bottle of cocoa.
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: As I told him, this was the longest day of
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: my life. Ahem.
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: Ahem.
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: Ahem.
• 55:10
  Speaker 7: Well, Mama Ray?
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 55:15
  Speaker 7: It was four o'clock.
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: I couldn't wait any longer. Good luck, old man. Brooke
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: shook hands with me, and I went outside into the
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: afternoon sunlight. I was at Springbank in 20 minutes.
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: Mama Ray, is that you?
• 55:29
  Speaker 7: It is, Dimspop. I'm ready for you.
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: Just come into the boat and pass me disturbed. All right, Mummery.
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: Right over here. What does it mean?
• 55:39
  Speaker 5: It means that there's no doubt about it.
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: I see. I used Marsh's test. It was an heavy dose.
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: No wonder you tasted it. There must have been four
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: or five grains of pure rustic.
• 55:52
  Speaker 18: In that bottle.
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: Here, take this mirror. I want you to see it
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: for yourself. All right. Now, just look closely at this
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: little glass tube. It's a stain.
• 56:03
  Speaker 7: A purple stain.
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: Black stain. That's the mark left by the horse neck.
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: Will you ring up the police for me? No, my wife.
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: I've got to get home. All right, leave it to me.
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: I'll ring the police up for you. Oh, go quickly, Mummery.
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: The local train went so slowly and stopped so often...
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: Ethyl poison, dying, dead. Ethyl poison, dying, dead. The wheels
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: stunned hotly in my ears. I jumped from the train
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: before it had stopped and ran out of the station
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: and along the road. A strange car was standing at
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: my door. I saw it from the end of the
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: street and broke into a mad gallop.
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: It had happened.
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: The doctor was there.
• 56:50
  Speaker 12: I was a fool. I was a murderer to have
• 56:53
  Speaker 12: left it so long.
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: Then, while I was still a hundred and fifty yards away,
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: I saw the front door open. A man came out, followed.
• 57:01
  Speaker 16: By Ethel herself.
• 57:02
  Speaker 19: The visitor got into his car and drove away, and
• 57:05
  Speaker 19: Ethel went back into the house.
• 57:07
  Speaker 12: She was safe. She was safe.
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: I could hardly control myself to hang up my hat
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: and coat and go in looking reasonably calm. She had
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: returned to the armchair by the fire, and she looked
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: up at me in surprise. There were tea things on
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: the table. And she was alive.
• 57:27
  Speaker 8: Edward. You're back early, aren't you?
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, dear. Business is slack. Somebody beat the tea?
• 57:34
  Speaker 8: Young Welbert came by.
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: Oh, young Welbert.
• 57:36
  Speaker 8: Yes, we've been talking over arrangements for the drama.
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: Darling, I'm so glad. By having a guest here, you
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: were protected. You were saved.
• 57:45
  Speaker 8: Edward, what are you talking about? You seem so safe.
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: There's something I've got to tell you, Ethel. I should
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: have done it long ago. My darling... It's going to
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: be unpleasant, but you must hear it. Oh, excuse me, ma'am.
• 57:58
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 57:58
  Speaker 17: Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. I didn't know you
• 58:00
  Speaker 17: was in.
• 58:01
  Speaker 18: What is it, Mrs.
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: Sutton? Will you be taking tea, or can I clear away? Yes,
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: the mammy will be wanting some.
• 58:06
  Speaker 8: You'd better leave it.
• 58:07
  Speaker 5: And, oh, ma'am.
• 58:09
  Speaker 18: What is it?
• 58:09
  Speaker 17: There was a young man at the fishmonger's, and he's
• 58:12
  Speaker 17: just come from Grimsby.
• 58:13
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: And, of course, that dreadful woman at Mrs.
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: Andrews.
• 58:17
  Speaker 16: Oh.
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: Isn't it a good thing? Oh, it worried me so
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: to think she was going about like that. But they've
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: caught her.
• 58:24
  Speaker 6: Took a job as housekeeper, she added, to two elderly ladies.
• 58:27
  Speaker 6: And they found a wicked poison on her.
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: Girl has spotted her, she'll get her reward.
• 58:33
  Speaker 17: I've been keeping my eyes open for her myself.
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: But it's at Grimsby she was all the time.
• 58:39
  Speaker 12: Thank you for the news, Miss.
• 58:42
  Speaker 8: That'll be all.
• 58:43
  Speaker 19: Oh, not at all, ma'am. But that's wonderful. Then it's
• 58:51
  Speaker 19: all been a mistake. A mad mistake.
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: Darling, I don't know whether to shout or to cry.
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: I certainly must apologize to Mr. Sutton. We're safe, don't
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: you see?
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: We're safe.
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: But what about the cocoa? Mr. Dinthorpe? And Marcia's test?
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: And five grains of arsenic? What do they all mean?
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: Who could have... Who could have what? Ethel.
• 59:24
  Speaker 16: Ethel.
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: Ethel.
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: Yes? Ethel?
• 59:27
  Speaker 18: Ethel?
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: Be to do it to me.
• 59:33
  Speaker 18: You fool!
• 59:34
  Speaker 7: You fool!
• 59:35
  Speaker 18: Don't you know that it's been well, Beck? That it's
• 59:39
  Speaker 18: always been well, Beck?
• 59:40
  Speaker 16: Yes.
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: It's there in your eyes. Something I've never seen before.
• 59:48
  Speaker 18: It's always been there. It's just that you've never looked.
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: That would be the police. They've come here for you.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 10: Our thanks to Sam Jaffe for a magnificent performance as
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 10: Edward Mummery, and to Lorene Tuttle, Alan Reed, and to
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 10: the entire cast who aroused our suspicion with such effective suspense.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: Next week, Crossfire. Yes, Crossfire.
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  Speaker 7: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 10: Gloria Graham, and Sam Levine playing the roles they created
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 10: for the RKO radio picture. A drama of present-day intolerance
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 10: in an atmosphere of suspense. And with the performances of
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 10: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Graham, and Sam Levine,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 10: and with Crossfire, we'll again hope to keep you in suspense.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 10: Suspicion by Dorothy Sayers was adapted for suspense by Irving
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 10: Radich and was produced and directed by Anton M.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: Leder.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 10: Lud Goskin is our musical director and conductor, and Lucian
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 10: Marowak composes the original scores. Next week, hear Crossfire, starring
• 1:01:24
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