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Suspense - 62-09-23 (944) At The Point Of A Needle · Suspense

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  Speaker 3: Suspense.
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  Speaker 2: In a moment, Act One of At the Point of
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  Speaker 2: an Eagle, starring Betty Gard and Walter Kinsella, and written
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  Speaker 2: especially for suspense by Joseph Cochran.
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  Speaker 4: Suspense.
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  Speaker 5: George, you've simply got to do something about this terrible heat.
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  Speaker 5: I can't stand it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good grief, Myra. I'm not to blame for the weather.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't say that. But we can escape it by
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  Speaker 6: taking a cottage at the beach.
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  Speaker 3: Like last year? When we got there, all you did
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  Speaker 3: was complain about the same heat. The flies, the hot sand,
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  Speaker 3: the freezing water. And the people. You just couldn't stand
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  Speaker 3: these awful people who cluttered up the beach.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you're just making up excuses. I certainly prefer a
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  Speaker 5: cool beach to this stifling house. I've never known such heat.
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  Speaker 6: This is the hottest summer I've ever known.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you think so, George?
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  Speaker 5: Well, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: George, you're not answering me.
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  Speaker 6: Isn't this the hottest summer you've... No.
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  Speaker 3: Last summer was just as hot. Hotter even.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, don't be silly.
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  Speaker 6: Couldn't have been. We've never known heat like this.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's right here in the paper. The average temperature
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  Speaker 3: as of today is just two degrees less than last summer.
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  Speaker 3: This day last year was 1.8 hotter than newspapers.
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  Speaker 6: A lot they know.
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  Speaker 5: The man sits on top of a nice, cool building
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  Speaker 5: where there's a breeze and charts the temperature. He's not
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  Speaker 5: sweltering in that kitchen, George. I just can't do a thing.
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  Speaker 5: Just the thought of preparing a meal sickens me. Don't
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  Speaker 5: you feel the heat?
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  Speaker 3: Of course I feel it, Maya, but what's the use
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  Speaker 3: of griping about it?
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  Speaker 6: So then why don't you want to get out of it?
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  Speaker 3: Good heavens, who said I didn't? Don't you think I
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  Speaker 3: have the same heat at the office? Do I come
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  Speaker 3: home every night wringing wet?
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  Speaker 5: Well, then why don't you want to take a cottage
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  Speaker 5: at the beach?
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  Speaker 3: Money, Myra. Ever hear of it? Just a little matter
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  Speaker 3: of money. Oh, I wish to goodness you'd stop griping
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  Speaker 3: about the heat long enough to sit down and discuss
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  Speaker 3: my income, my expenses, how much money I've left at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the month.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's just another excuse. Whenever I want to do something,
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  Speaker 5: you change the subject to money. Certainly if the Bennets
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  Speaker 5: can afford the beach, we can.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I know. I know that one by heart. I
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  Speaker 3: made just as much money as Dave Bennett. But I've
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  Speaker 3: told you a hundred times that Bennett's cut down on
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  Speaker 3: other things so they can go to the beach.
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  Speaker 5: So now you're accusing me of being extravagant. But look
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  Speaker 5: at me.
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  Speaker 4: Just look at me.
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  Speaker 6: I dress in rags. I slave all year in this house.
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  Speaker 5: And what does it get me? Other people go to
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  Speaker 5: the beach for months at a time. But if I
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  Speaker 5: want to get away from the heat for a few days,
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  Speaker 5: you start finding excuses for not going. Oh, George, I
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  Speaker 5: don't want to complain, but I think I do deserve
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  Speaker 5: a little consideration.
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  Speaker 3: Don't start that again, Myra. We'll go to the beach.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, so money was just an excuse all along, huh?
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  Speaker 5: You didn't want to get me out of the hot kitchen, huh?
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  Speaker 3: We're going to the beach, Myra. Isn't that what you want?
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  Speaker 3: I'm arranged for the money somehow.
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  Speaker 5: But why didn't you agree to the beach in the
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  Speaker 5: first place and save all this fuss? It's just upset
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  Speaker 5: me terribly, George.
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  Speaker 3: Look, it's for your good, too.
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  Speaker 6: You know that.
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  Speaker 4: You look awful tired.
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  Speaker 6: And the beach will be just the place for you
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  Speaker 6: to relax.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, George.
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  Speaker 6: A little more to the left. I want that sign
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  Speaker 6: right in the middle.
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  Speaker 3: Myra, I don't see any point in it, putting up
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  Speaker 3: the signs.
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  Speaker 5: They say plainly no trespassing, don't they?
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  Speaker 3: For what? And then look to the retaining wall. No
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  Speaker 3: one's going to climb over the wall again on your property.
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  Speaker 3: People come here to sit on the sand.
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  Speaker 5: George, the idea of the signs is to keep people
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  Speaker 5: off the sand in front of our cottage.
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  Speaker 3: What? Oh, now look, Myra, you're going to stop last
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  Speaker 3: summer all over again.
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  Speaker 5: We rented this cottage, and I think we should be
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  Speaker 5: able to enjoy the sand in front of it without having.
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  Speaker 6: It messed up by those awful people who come for
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  Speaker 6: the day. This is our home, and we have some.
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  Speaker 5: Right to privacy.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, for the love of Mike, everyone's house has people
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  Speaker 3: in front on the sand. No one else signs up.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we're going to have. You may not object to
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  Speaker 5: a swarm of noisy people in front of our cottage,
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  Speaker 5: but I do.
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  Speaker 3: Myra, please be reasonable.
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  Speaker 4: George, if you don't.
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  Speaker 5: Want to put up the signs, give me the hammer.
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  Speaker 6: And I'll do it.
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  Speaker 3: Never mind, never mind. I can see right now if
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  Speaker 3: I don't put them up, I'll hear about it all summer.
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  Speaker 3: Where do you want the other one?
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  Speaker 5: On the other side of the steps. Oh, and be
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  Speaker 5: sure it's exactly the same height and evenly spaced with
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  Speaker 5: this one... And don't try to get sand all over
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  Speaker 5: my blanket.
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  Speaker 6: As you walk by, will you?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Myra.
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  Speaker 6: And when you get the sign up, I want you
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  Speaker 6: to bring down the umbrella.
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  Speaker 3: I can't hear you. Well, if you'd.
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  Speaker 6: Stop that hammering for a minute.
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  Speaker 5: And pay some attention, you would. I said, when you
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  Speaker 5: get through, I want you to bring down the beach
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  Speaker 5: chairs and the umbrella and some blankets. We'll spread them
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  Speaker 5: out in front of the cottage so those awful people
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  Speaker 5: will know this space is safe.
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  Speaker 3: Beach cottage. What a place to get a rest. I
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  Speaker 3: try to relax in a swarm of bees.
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  Speaker 6: George, did you say something?
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  Speaker 3: No, Myra, not a thing.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it certainly sounded like it.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing, nothing at all.
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  Speaker 5: Well, will you please stop hammering when you talk to me?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Phil, here's a good spot.
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  Speaker 3: Let's spread a blanket. Yeah, this is fine, Esther.
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  Speaker 5: Here, hold the thermos and books while I spread the blanket. Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, gee, it's good to get here. Oh, look at
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  Speaker 6: that ocean.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it wonderful? Oh, it sure is.
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  Speaker 5: But I am going to lie on the sand and
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  Speaker 5: lap up all the sunshine I can.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to get some tan.
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  Speaker 2: On my heart.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, isn't that little cottage cutesy? I wish we'd get
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  Speaker 5: one of the white ones.
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  Speaker 2: Plenty of stuff out there on the porch.
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  Speaker 4: Chairs and blankets. And a perfect circus under that umbrella.
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  Speaker 6: Well, all the nerve.
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  Speaker 3: Come here, George.
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  Speaker 5: Look out there. Do you see what I see?
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  Speaker 3: What did you expect?
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  Speaker 5: Well, if you'd put those chairs and blankets out like
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  Speaker 5: I told you, this wouldn't have happened.
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  Speaker 2: But no.
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  Speaker 6: Leave them on the porch.
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  Speaker 3: I was nailing up those old trespassing signs, which are
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  Speaker 3: supposed to make people run away from the spot.
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  Speaker 5: I guess some people can't read.
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  Speaker 6: Lyra, stop it.
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  Speaker 3: They'll hear you down there.
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  Speaker 6: Let them hear me. What's the matter with her?
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  Speaker 5: That woman in that cottage, she's shouting something about us.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no, Esther.
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  Speaker 5: Why does she mean a thing to some people? Sure
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  Speaker 5: she's talking about us, didn't you hear her?
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  Speaker 6: Well, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think she wants us here. Well, it's just
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  Speaker 2: too bad.
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  Speaker 4: George, George.
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  Speaker 2: This is a public beach. Now, you ignore her.
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  Speaker 4: How about calling me some calls? Look at them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they think they are.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Well, aren't you going to do anything?
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  Speaker 3: Myra, there isn't anything I can do. They're not hurting us.
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  Speaker 3: They have a right to sit on the beach.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 5: They're practically in our yard. I want to look at
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  Speaker 5: the ocean without a lot of riffraff making a garbage
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  Speaker 5: dump in my lap.
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  Speaker 3: No one's making a garbage dump.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, they will. They'll eat their lunch and throw papers
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  Speaker 5: and scraps of food all over.
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  Speaker 3: Myra, look. This is a public beach. We can't run
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  Speaker 3: people away just because you don't happen to like seeing
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  Speaker 3: them around.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, so you're sticking up for them against your own wife, huh?
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  Speaker 5: You know, it would be nice if for once, just once,
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  Speaker 5: you'd be on my side.
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  Speaker 3: I can be on your side, Maria, when you're in
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  Speaker 3: the right. But most of the time, you're not. We're
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  Speaker 3: only half right.
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  Speaker 6: That's ignorance.
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  Speaker 5: Phil, did you hear that? We're ignorant.
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  Speaker 7: Let her lay.
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  Speaker 3: You won't have to sit and listen to that.
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  Speaker 5: It's a free country.
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  Speaker 2: Let her talk.
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  Speaker 5: She's not going to be very pleasant if she keeps
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  Speaker 5: it up. Some people act as if they own the
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  Speaker 5: whole thing. Will you quiet down?
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  Speaker 3: Will you let her scream her head off if you want?
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  Speaker 6: Did you hear that?
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  Speaker 4: She's talking about us.
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  Speaker 5: About me.
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  Speaker 4: You started it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm asking you to stop it.
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  Speaker 5: Upstart.
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  Speaker 6: That's all they are.
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  Speaker 5: She is getting kind of nasty.
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  Speaker 2: She's some old sourpuss, huh?
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  Speaker 5: Come on, let's move.
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  Speaker 3: Why should we?
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  Speaker 6: We have a right to be here.
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  Speaker 5: I know that, but she's going to see to it
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  Speaker 5: that we don't enjoy ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Now, life is too short to quibble. It's simpler to move.
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right.
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  Speaker 6: But there's houses all along.
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  Speaker 5: Suppose everybody tries to drive us away.
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  Speaker 6: No, everybody won't be as nasty as she is.
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  Speaker 2: Now, they couldn't be.
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  Speaker 3: All this stuff for me, huh?
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  Speaker 5: Boy, I sure feel sorry for her husband.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he looks like a pretty good scout, too. Probably
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  Speaker 6: embarrassed about the whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: But he is married to her and.
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  Speaker 3: Has to listen to her.
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  Speaker 2: We don't.
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  Speaker 3: They're going.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that does it. Bill, I am not going to
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  Speaker 5: let anybody drive us off a public beach.
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  Speaker 6: We're staying right here.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: They're still out there. Three hours.
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  Speaker 3: For the love of heaven, Marissa, down, eat your lunch.
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  Speaker 5: How can you expect me to enjoy my lunch or
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  Speaker 5: anything else as long as that disgusting girl and that
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  Speaker 5: awful man are lying right in front of our doorstep?
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  Speaker 3: Will you please stop then and let me eat?
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  Speaker 6: Staring at our windows.
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  Speaker 5: Look at her. She's laughing like a silly fool. Can't
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  Speaker 5: we do something?
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  Speaker 6: Call the police and have them come in.
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  Speaker 3: No, Myra, I told you no 40 times. There's no
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  Speaker 3: grounds for arrest. They haven't done anything.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I wanted to have lunch on the beach myself,
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  Speaker 5: but we couldn't because of them.
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  Speaker 3: You definitely did not. You said we were to eat
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  Speaker 3: in the cottage today and have a picnic lunch tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I changed my mind. It's a perfect day for
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  Speaker 5: being outside.
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  Speaker 6: Tomorrow it may rain.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I give up.
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  Speaker 6: I've got it.
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  Speaker 5: I'll show them. George, you go up to the attic
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  Speaker 5: and get that old phonograph and some of those records
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  Speaker 5: the owner left up there.
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  Speaker 3: Now what are you going to do?
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  Speaker 5: You'll see.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see whether they can camp in front of our.
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  Speaker 5: Cottage and expect to enjoy themselves.
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  Speaker 3: I wish to goodness you'd forget those two people out
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  Speaker 3: there and try to get some pleasure out of this vacation.
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  Speaker 5: Are you going to do as I ask? Or do
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  Speaker 5: you want me to lug that heavy phonograph down all
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  Speaker 5: by myself?
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  Speaker 6: All right, Myra.
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  Speaker 3: You win. As always, I'll get the phonograph.
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  Speaker 6: No, finish your lunch.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't mean this minute.
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  Speaker 3: After lunch.
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  Speaker 5: George, come back and.
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  Speaker 6: Eat your lunch.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not hungry anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you don't have to.
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  Speaker 7: Make so much noise. I'm going to say just one
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  Speaker 7: more thing, Myra.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot depends on what you do after I've
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  Speaker 3: said it.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, George.
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  Speaker 3: Every time you play that record, you're making a fool
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  Speaker 3: out of me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, don't be silly. Why can't I play it?
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  Speaker 3: It's a free country.
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  Speaker 5: That man said so.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, honey.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my baby. But she's not getting away with it.
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  Speaker 6: We're coming back tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I can dig up an old phonograph somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: They're leaving.
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  Speaker 6: They couldn't take it.
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  Speaker 4: See?
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  Speaker 5: See, George?
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  Speaker 6: I told you so.
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  Speaker 3: We've won, George. We have won? Oh, no, Myra. You
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  Speaker 3: have won. You just scratched the heart out of me
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  Speaker 3: with that old worn-out needle.
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  Speaker 5: George, when you get the dishes done, get those chairs
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  Speaker 5: and blankets in front of the cottage.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, the chairs.
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 3: I forgot to bring them in last night.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, how could you? I told you to bring them in.
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  Speaker 5: I distinctly remember telling you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you told me, all right. I forgot. After yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't care much.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's a wonder you wouldn't remember when I asked
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  Speaker 5: you to do things. They'll be all damp, soaking wet
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  Speaker 5: from the fog. If they're still out there, if they
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  Speaker 5: haven't been stolen.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, don't get excited. I can see them from the window.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's a miracle they haven't been stolen. Anybody could have.
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  Speaker 5: George!
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  Speaker 3: Now what?
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  Speaker 6: Come here this instant. Look out there.
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  Speaker 5: They've come back, that fellow and girl. They're putting their
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  Speaker 5: stuff right where they were yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Myra, will you please cut it up?
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  Speaker 6: They'll get the same thing they got yesterday, all right.
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  Speaker 6: Get that phonograph.
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  Speaker 3: Be reasonable, for the love of heaven, be reasonable.
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  Speaker 6: Why don't you ask them to be reasonable? Why don't
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  Speaker 6: you go down and shout at them to be reasonable? Oh, no,
• 12:50
  Speaker 6: you won't do that. You put the blame on me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm the unreasonable one.
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  Speaker 5: You won't lift a finger to keep them away, and
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  Speaker 5: when I want to do something, I'm unreasonable.
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  Speaker 3: Look, George.
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  Speaker 6: They've got a phonograph.
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  Speaker 5: They're playing it on our beach.
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  Speaker 2: Myra.
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  Speaker 4: George.
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  Speaker 6: George, make them stop.
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  Speaker 3: George.
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  Speaker 5: George.
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  Speaker 3: Stop them, George.
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  Speaker 6: Myra, you're making a fool of yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Make them stop, I say. Stop them, George. Court's in session.
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  Speaker 2: Now I have this to say to both parties in
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  Speaker 2: this dispute. We are glad to see all the summer
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  Speaker 2: people come to our beach. We welcome all. so long
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  Speaker 2: as they behave themselves.
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  Speaker 3: But I want it understood that the beach is a public.
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  Speaker 2: One, not a private one. Mr.
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  Speaker 3: And Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Pettit, the line of the property you rented for the
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  Speaker 2: summer is the retaining wall that ends where the beach
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  Speaker 2: sand begins. It is my understanding this disturbance took place
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  Speaker 2: on the beach and the two parties were creating a
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  Speaker 2: nuisance to other people by playing loud and continuous certain
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  Speaker 2: antiquated records.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, Your Honor. This lady got huffy because we
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  Speaker 3: were lying in the sand in front of her cottage.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, Your Honor. She got an old record, and
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  Speaker 3: she played it over and over.
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  Speaker 4: The next day, we came back.
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  Speaker 2: With a machine of our own.
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  Speaker 5: Your Honor, I happened to like that song, and I
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: was trying to study the singer's voice.
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: Myron.
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: Now, that's for the truth.
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: Myron.
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: Myron.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: You are directed to study voice in the privacy of
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: your home, not on a public beach.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: Furthermore, to observe the rules of.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: Conduct which any person of common sense knows. Now, it's
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: too nice a day to be arguing in a stuffy courtroom.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: You are fined $ 10, but I suspend sentence.
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: However, let me warn all of you.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: That should you be brought into this court again, I
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: shall hand out the severest sentence in the book. Now,
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: all of you get out of my court and take
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: a dip in the ocean to cool off.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Justice.
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: Is that what they call justice?
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: Isn't there such a thing as a right to privacy
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: in this country anymore? Huh. We might as well be
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: living in Russia. And that judge.
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: Did you see that judge, George?
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Wasn't he awful looking?
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: Like a gangster.
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: I bet he never saw the inside of a law school.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: I bet he never went through the third grade in school.
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: How can they put people like that on the bench, George?
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: How can they?
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know.
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: There ought to be something we could do about him.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Myra, we got off easy. Now, let's forget it.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: Forget it?
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: What are you talking about?
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: Do you expect me to forget a humiliation like that? Why,
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: he acted as if we were criminals, like we were
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: the trespassers.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: We did lose, you know. We were fined and the
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: sentence was suspended.
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: I can't believe it. About ten with a hayseed like
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: that on the bench, I can believe anything. Where did
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: he learn the law? I'd certainly like to see his diploma.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: If I knew where he went to college, I'd write
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: them a letter and tell them what kind of lawyers
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: they graduate.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: His degree was framed and hanging on the wall. He
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: went to Harvard.
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: Don't be silly. He couldn't have.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Will you stop telling me not to be silly? Silly
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: means weak-minded.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: An idiot.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: Of course it doesn't. Now, look, I don't think you're weak-minded.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: But I do think you could be more.
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: Forceful and aggressive.
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: The trouble with you, George, is that you let people
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: run all over you.
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: If you had done what I.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: Asked and told those people to move on, this.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: Never would have happened. You're driving too fast. How many
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: times have I told you not to drive so fast?
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: At least a thousand times.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: Well, don't drive so fast.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: You know it upsets me. Now, as I was saying,
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: your trouble is that you take whatever people hand out
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: to you. You never raise a fuss or tell people
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: to get out of your way. Oh, no.
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: It's one reason why you don't get anywhere.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Please, I'm tired. And I don't want criticism.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: But I'm not criticizing, George.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: I'm just telling you for your own good.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: That judge ought to be disbarred. He's a disgrace to
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: the legal profession. Maybe we ought to write to the
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Bar Association.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: I'll bet they'd do something.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: We came to the beach to enjoy ourselves, not spend
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: our time reforming the judicial system.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Well, at least we can appeal the case. Look, couldn't
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: you write that friend of yours in Boston, you know,
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: that big lawyer friend of yours? Tell him what happened
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: to us. Why don't you invite him down here for
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: dinner some night and discuss it with him?
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Myra, we're not going to act like children. We lost,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: we got off easy... And I want you to forget
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: about any further action.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Why? Why should we? Do we have to be humiliated,
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: hauled into court like common criminals because of those cheap,
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: slovenly people who are ruining our beach? Why shouldn't we
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: be able to enjoy our nice cottage? I'm not going
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: to sit by and let people push me around.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Myra, do whatever you want, but in the name of heaven.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Stop talking about it and let me have some peace.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: Don't ask that, George. George!
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: George!
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Why are you driving so fast?
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: I want to see how fast I can go. I
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: want to see how many telephone poles I can break down.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: I want to drive till the engine falls apart like
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I'm falling apart.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: You're driving my brains up and down like the pistons.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Your words are exploding in my weary mind like the
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: gas in the cylinder. George! And I can't stand much
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: more of it. I can't stand much more of it, Myra.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: George, you're drunk.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Now slow down. Please slow down. George, you're ruining my hair.
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: And I just went to the beauty parlor this morning.
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: George.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: George, wake up.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Huh? George.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: What's the matter?
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: George, wake up. Will you get up and see?
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: What? On the beach out front.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: They're back.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: So what? That awful couple.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: No phonograph, but back bold as brass and big as life.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: Now, I asked you last night to get up early
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: this morning and put the chairs and blankets out.
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: Now it's too late.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, I fell asleep.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: You did it purposely. You didn't want to put those
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: things out. You wanted those people to come and annoy me.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, what's the use, Myra?
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: You've got to do something.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Any. Myra.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: But get those two spiteful people away from our front steps. Now,
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: you know as well as I do that they only
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: return to rub in that horrible.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: Business in court.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: All right, Myra.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I'll do something.
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: Now, wait a minute. Not later. Not this afternoon. But now.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: Right now.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Sure, sure. Right now. I'm getting up, Myra. I'll do something.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: I'll warn them to get out. I'll warn them first.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Another day.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: Another day.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Now listen, you two.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: I know why you're back. And I won't have it.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: So go on. Get away from here. Look. I don't
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: want your kind here. Judge or no judge. Nobody can
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: make a fool out of me, you understand? Listen to me.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: If you don't go away, I'll... George.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: George, I've got him.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: George.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: George.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: George, listen.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Don't shoot.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: Don't shoot.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: George, in God's name, what have you done?
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: They won't bother you now, Myra. Anymore. Ever.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: George! Look what you've done!
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: Oh, you fool!
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Why did you do that?
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Why? What difference does it make? You couldn't understand. Operator.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Get me the police.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: I want to report a murder.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: I'll never understand what came over George that morning.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: He must have gone mad.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Stark raving mad. The lawyer, his friend from Boston, well,
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: he said insanity was the only kind of.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Defense to offer.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: But George?
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: No, no, not George. He wouldn't listen.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: He turned stubborn. And I couldn't prod him to do
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: a thing. Not even to save his life. He acted
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: as if he wanted to die. He left me without
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: a penny. Even his life insurance was gone. Little by little,
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: behind my back, he borrowed on it until there was
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: nothing left. What a thing to do to me. After
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: I'd been such a kind and loving wife. Why, I
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: didn't even have enough money to buy a decent morning outfit.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Suspense. You have been listening to At the Point of
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the Needle, starring Betty Gard and Walter Kinsella, and written
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: especially for Suspense by Joseph Cochran. Suspense is produced and
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: directed by Fred Hendrickson, edited by Norman Ober, music supervision
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: by Ethel Huber. Also heard in tonight's story were Bob Reddick,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Terry Keene, and Bill Adams. Sound patterns by Walter Otto.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Technical direction by James Berry. Listen again next week when
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: we return with Devil's Stone, written by Jonathan Bundy. Another
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. Hi, I'm Gerald.
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