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  Speaker 3: And now, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 3: In a moment, Act One of Devilstone, starring Christopher Carey
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  Speaker 3: My name is Martin, Timothy Martin. I live here in Dublin,
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  Speaker 3: and very nicely too, thanks to a considerable inheritance and
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  Speaker 3: sale of the family estate in County Kilkenny, which bought
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  Speaker 3: a very good price. I have a comfortable cottage, a
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  Speaker 3: faithful manservant by the name of Everts, and everything else
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  Speaker 3: I need to live an easy, contented life, and without
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  Speaker 3: the need of applying myself to any sort of labor.
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  Speaker 3: Even my financial matters are no bother to me, though,
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  Speaker 3: handled by a penny-pinching old solicitor by the name of
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  Speaker 3: Ian Carney. And mine was a contented life, until that is.
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  Speaker 3: until a long-forgotten uncle died and left me some property
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  Speaker 3: he'd owned but never lived on up in County Fermanagh
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  Speaker 3: near Innerskillen, a place known as Devilstone. And then... But
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  Speaker 3: let me digress for a moment. I should say, let
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  Speaker 3: me seem to digress for a moment and remember this, please,
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  Speaker 3: for it may have much to do with a strange,
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  Speaker 3: terrifying tale I'm about to tell you. Deep under St.
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  Speaker 3: Micah's Church, here in Dublin, is a crypt... It possesses
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  Speaker 3: most amazing properties. In it lie scores of bodies in
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  Speaker 3: a state of perfect preservation. Albeit they are hundreds of
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  Speaker 3: years old. The old ones used to say it's due
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  Speaker 3: to some wondrous form of black magic. But modern science,
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  Speaker 3: modern chemistry, has exploded that ancient belief. Has shown that
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  Speaker 3: certain gases... generated by the unusual composition of the dark,
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  Speaker 3: dank earth in which the crypt is located, those gases
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  Speaker 3: have produced this amazing phenomenon. Very well. Now, a few
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  Speaker 3: days ago, I called Mr. Carney, my solicitor, on the telephone.
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  Speaker 5: I've been hoping you'd call me, Timothy. I wish to
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  Speaker 5: speak with you about that house and property in County
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  Speaker 5: Fermanagh that your uncle left you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've certainly no desire to move away from Dublin, Mr. Carney,
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  Speaker 3: so I've decided to rent out the old place.
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  Speaker 5: Rent it out?
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  Speaker 3: And why not, sir?
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  Speaker 5: You really think you can?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm quite certain I can.
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  Speaker 5: I doubt it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, as a matter of fact, an American couple by
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  Speaker 3: the name of Stoker left here only yesterday for a
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  Speaker 3: look at it.
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  Speaker 6: I see.
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  Speaker 3: I expect they'll be back here a moment now to
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  Speaker 3: agree to lease it for the summer.
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  Speaker 5: Timothy, you showed them the pictures and description of the place?
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday morning. They were so intrigued by them, they were
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  Speaker 3: all for signing a lease then and there.
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  Speaker 5: You'd better to have taken their money and let them
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  Speaker 5: do it, my boy.
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Aye. Well, I'm sure I don't see why. Well,
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  Speaker 3: surely they're entitled to look at the place over before
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  Speaker 3: they take it. After all, Mr. Carney, never having been
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  Speaker 3: there myself, there wasn't too much I could tell them
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  Speaker 3: about Devilstone.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly as it should be, Timothy.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm afraid I don't understand you, sir.
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  Speaker 5: I mean that now, my boy. You will never rent
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  Speaker 5: it to them, nor to anyone else who goes there.
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  Speaker 3: Why not? Now, why do you say that, Mr. Carney? Well?
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  Speaker 5: You don't know?
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  Speaker 3: Well, of course I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Then perhaps your tenants, I should say erstwhile prospective tenants,
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  Speaker 5: will tell you if you ever see them again.
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  Speaker 3: Now, what do you mean by... Oh, excuse me a moment, Mr. Carney. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: what is it, Evertz?
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  Speaker 6: I beg your pardon, sir, but there's a Mr. Stoker
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  Speaker 6: here to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Stoker? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: And if I may say so, he appears to be
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  Speaker 7: quite excited about something.
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  Speaker 6: Rather angry.
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 7: Shall I tell him you're busy and suggest he see
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  Speaker 7: you another time?
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  Speaker 6: Timothy?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? No, Everett. Come in, please.
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  Speaker 6: Very good, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, hello, Timothy. Oh, sorry, Mr. Carney, but I've someone
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  Speaker 3: here to see me.
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  Speaker 5: How about Devilstone, Timothy?
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  Speaker 3: I think I'd better call you back.
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  Speaker 5: Very well, if you like. But there is something about Devilstone.
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  Speaker 3: It's history.
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  Speaker 5: That you might not be cognizant of.
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  Speaker 3: All right, well, I'll get back to you shortly.
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  Speaker 5: Timothy!
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  Speaker 6: Goodbye, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Well, at least you didn't try to skip out on me.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Stoker, how are you? Nice to see you again. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: it is, eh? Did you and your wife get over
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  Speaker 3: to look at Devilstone as you planned?
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  Speaker 6: We certainly did.
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  Speaker 3: And by heaven, Martin, if this is your idea of
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  Speaker 3: some practical joke... My what?
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  Speaker 8: Sending you alone to that ungodly place would have been
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  Speaker 8: bad enough.
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  Speaker 3: But my wife... Martin, do you want to be horsewhipped? No, wait, please.
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  Speaker 3: I'll have you know that as a result of your
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  Speaker 3: having let her go there, you and your twisted sense
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  Speaker 3: of humor... What? What is the matter with you, anyway?
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  Speaker 3: The poor woman nearly went out of her mind.
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  Speaker 6: Mr. Stoker, I just.
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  Speaker 3: She still hasn't recovered from it. Sure, sure, I got
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  Speaker 3: her back to Dublin all right. But the doctor has
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  Speaker 3: ordered her to bed. Had to give her strong sedatives. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I warn you, young man, if she doesn't recover... Now,
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  Speaker 3: just a minute, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Stoker.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, don't bother, Martin. The less you say, the less
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  Speaker 3: I have to see of you from here on out,
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  Speaker 3: the better.
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  Speaker 9: Here.
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  Speaker 3: Here are the keys to that... that place. Now, look here. Goodbye, Martin.
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  Speaker 3: If I ever see you again, it will be in
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  Speaker 3: a court of law. Believe me, Mr. Stoker, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what you're talking about. What are you so upset about? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: you don't, eh? Do you mean to say there's something...
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  Speaker 3: something wrong with Devilstone? And do you mean to say
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  Speaker 3: that you... The owner of it don't know? Don't know what, sir?
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  Speaker 8: You don't know that that ungodly place is haunted?
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 3: You heard me.
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  Speaker 8: Haunted!
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  Speaker 3: Haunted!
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  Speaker 8: Could I possibly have heard that, sir?
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  Speaker 5: Haunted!
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  Speaker 3: Haunted!
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  Speaker 6: But that's what he said, Mr. Martin, aren't you?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that's what he said.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, dear, oh, dear.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I beg your pardon, sir.
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  Speaker 6: But really, really, it's too amusing.
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  Speaker 3: It's perfectly all right, Everett. You go right ahead and laugh,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll join you. Well, that's about as no sir
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  Speaker 3: excuse I've ever heard.
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  Speaker 6: Excuse me, sir.
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  Speaker 3: You don't think he meant it? What, the devil's own
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  Speaker 3: is haunted?
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  Speaker 6: How could he?
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  Speaker 3: Haunted houses went out of fashion a hundred years ago. No, Everett,
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  Speaker 3: it was simply a silly excuse for not seeing the place.
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  Speaker 3: Now that he and his wife have had a look
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  Speaker 3: at it. But what an excuse. Does he think that
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  Speaker 3: we Irish are nothing but a lot of stupid, superstitious idiots?
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  Speaker 6: He's right, sir.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, of course not, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Well, anyhow, it's completely ridiculous. So we'll simply forget it.
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  Speaker 3: Forget about the Stokers. Place an advertisement in the papers
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  Speaker 3: and find ourselves some other tenants. Yes, sir. Maybe we'd
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  Speaker 3: best reduce the rate on it a bit. Perhaps that's
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  Speaker 3: what scared them off.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, that could be, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Or who knows? Perhaps Devilstone isn't in as good condition
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  Speaker 3: as we've been led to believe. But can you imagine
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  Speaker 3: anyone coming up with an excuse so patently absurd, so
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  Speaker 3: completely asinine, and so utterly foolish, and expecting us to
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  Speaker 3: believe him, to take him seriously?
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  Speaker 6: Yes. What is it, sir? Everett's. The truth now? Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Do you believe?
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  Speaker 3: Do you think? Possibly. Oh, no. No, of course not.
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  Speaker 3: It couldn't be. And yet, could that have been what Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Carney was talking about? Or at least implying?
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  Speaker 6: Mr. Carney, the solicitor?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: But Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Carney seems to be a man of good sense.
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  Speaker 3: He was so definite about it, though. When he told
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  Speaker 3: me I should have let them do what they wanted
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  Speaker 3: after they saw the pictures, assign a lease immediately.
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  Speaker 6: Before they even saw a different store?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes. They would have, you know. They would have
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  Speaker 3: signed and paid a couple of months' rent.
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  Speaker 6: And Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Carney said I was wrong in not letting them do it,
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  Speaker 3: in not getting what I could, and immediately.
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  Speaker 6: Would that have been completely ethical?
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 3: Do you mean if something is wrong with the place?
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  Speaker 6: But haunted, sir.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, of course not. Ridiculous. Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: And yet... Well, there's one way to find out.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Shall I put in a call to Mr. Cairns?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. By doing that, I'd be admitting
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  Speaker 3: that I might believe in such ridiculous possibility. No, no, Everts.
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  Speaker 3: You and I will drive up to Devilstone and we'll
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  Speaker 3: investigate ourselves.
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  Speaker 8: Capital, sir.
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  Speaker 6: A splendid idea.
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  Speaker 5: You like it, eh?
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  Speaker 7: Well, never having seen the place either of us and
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  Speaker 7: after Mr. Stoker's reaction to it, it might be quite exciting, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see now. If we leave right away, we should
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  Speaker 3: be able to reach Devilstone by nightfall. Yes, sir. As
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  Speaker 3: of which the car, a couple of flashlights too.
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  Speaker 6: Very good, sir.
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  Speaker 3: And perhaps, perhaps I'd better take along a pistol just
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  Speaker 3: in case. And of course. What, sir? Well, to conduct
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  Speaker 3: our investigation in the ghostly place and style, we'll take
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  Speaker 3: along one of the dogs with us. Say, Red Kim
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  Speaker 3: of Hell's Court.
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  Speaker 6: An excellent idea, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Now, let's get underway. Yes, sir. Well, Everts, if the
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  Speaker 3: man at the petrol station told us right, the rambling
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  Speaker 3: old mansion you now see before you is Devilstone. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: What a gloomy old place, if I may say so, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Now, don't you start conjuring up some ghosts.
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  Speaker 6: Even Kim apparently finds nothing particularly friendly about it.
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  Speaker 3: Now, look, Evans. If you're going to become superstitious about Devilstone... Oh, no, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Come along, we'll have a look at it. Come along, Kim.
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  Speaker 3: Come along, boy. Now, let me see if I can
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  Speaker 3: unlock this door. Yes, sir, here. I'll hold the flash
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  Speaker 3: on it for you. Good. I believe this is.
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  Speaker 6: The key.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the door is already ajar.
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  Speaker 6: Why, yes, sir. Oh, I see. Well?
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  Speaker 3: Come along, you two. Come on, Kim.
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  Speaker 6: He's protesting rather vehemently, sir.
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  Speaker 3: We'll just get him inside and we'll close the door.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Kim!
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  Speaker 3: What the devil's the matter with you? Oh, come now, boy.
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  Speaker 3: Are you a dog or a mouse?
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  Speaker 6: Most certainly is frightened of something, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. He doesn't look like a ghost hunter crouched down
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  Speaker 3: there in the corner that way.
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  Speaker 6: And if I remember the pictures correctly, this door here
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  Speaker 6: should lead to a small, oh, closed court, sir.
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  Speaker 8: And my wood.
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  Speaker 3: Just another night bird, Everts. Don't let it bother you. Now,
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  Speaker 3: do you mind telling me why did you do that?
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  Speaker 6: I beg your pardon?
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  Speaker 3: What? Why, you're still over there at the door. And yet,
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  Speaker 3: I distinctly felt something or someone bump against my shoulder.
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  Speaker 6: And I thought someone walked on past me. Look here.
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  Speaker 6: Look here, Mr. Martin.
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  Speaker 3: Yes? What is it? In the mud.
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  Speaker 6: Out there in the coals. Shine your light on us, sir,
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  Speaker 6: where mine.
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  Speaker 3: Is.
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  Speaker 6: Why, yes. Footprints.
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  Speaker 3: Big ones. And fresh.
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  Speaker 6: And do you see? More of them are being made
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  Speaker 6: even as we look at them.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 6: And yet there's no one there to make.
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  Speaker 3: Them. Impossible. Yes.
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  Speaker 6: He knows me.
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  Speaker 3: But you're right, Evans.
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  Speaker 6: You're right.
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  Speaker 3: Back inside now and quickly. Now, whatever is making those
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  Speaker 3: footsteps can't follow us.
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  Speaker 6: It does feel a bit safer in here.
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  Speaker 3: No wonder Kim is frightened. There are things like that
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  Speaker 3: going on. But why? And how?
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  Speaker 6: What do you suppose, sir, that one of the old
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  Speaker 6: labs could be loitered?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if they have any oil in them. And it
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't take us long to find out if they... Oh, now, now, now,
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  Speaker 3: wait a minute. Now, what are we acting this way for?
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  Speaker 3: It's trickery, that's all it is.
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  Speaker 6: It's trickery. By whom, sir? And why?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that is something we shall have to find out. Now,
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  Speaker 3: where is Kim? Oh, there he is, still in the corner.
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  Speaker 6: Siegfried Freud. Do you suppose.
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  Speaker 3: No, nonsense. Whoever it was that scared Stoker and his
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  Speaker 3: wife out of here is trying to scare us now.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean to find him out.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, but the dogs are... And if it's true about
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  Speaker 6: them and that there is a ghost.
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  Speaker 3: Nonsense. Now, we'll just look about here. Where? Now what's
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: the matter? That door.
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  Speaker 6: At the other end.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 3: Behind you.
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  Speaker 6: It's opening by itself into a small room beyond.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, good.
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  Speaker 3: And we shall start our investigation in that room. Well?
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  Speaker 3: Are you coming?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Oh! Oh, clumsy. Now you've dropped your flashlight. What?
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  Speaker 6: I didn't, sir.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't.
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  Speaker 6: It was knocked out in the hand.
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  Speaker 3: It what? Honest.
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  Speaker 6: Honest it was, sir. I swear it, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Everts, don't be silly. Go on back in there
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  Speaker 3: and get it.
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  Speaker 6: I'd really rather not, sir, if you don't mind. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: the door. It's closed by itself. And now we're locked in.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we are.
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  Speaker 8: Who did this?
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  Speaker 6: Who closed this door? Who's there?
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  Speaker 3: Who's there, I say? The same one.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 3: The same thing. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 6: The same thing that struck you to shore, that made
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  Speaker 6: the footprints in the mud, and that frightened poor Kim
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  Speaker 6: so badly.
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  Speaker 3: And frightened you, too. But I say it's trickery. Trickery.
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  Speaker 3: It has to be. Who's doing this? Answer me. Answer me.
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  Speaker 3: You'd best be gone.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 6: You'd best.
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  Speaker 3: Be gone. Yes. Yes. I guess we'd better. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: Not a bit of it.
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  Speaker 6: Please, in the name of heaven, sir.
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  Speaker 3: No. We're going to stay right here, Everts, until we
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: find out. Your death begun.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: Not until we learn just what's going on in... Where's
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: that voice coming from? I've tried to warn you.
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  Speaker 6: Please, sir.
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  Speaker 3: They have tried to scare us, that's all. Tried to
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  Speaker 3: scare us.
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  Speaker 6: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. So that you'd leave this place. Why? Because if
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: you do not, you will.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: Suffer the same fate as the dog.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Kim? Fate? What are you talking about?
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Look, sir. The door is opening.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Yes, look. In the light of the flash, It was
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: dropped in there. Kim.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: Everts.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Everts. Kim is dead. Dead? Mr.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: Martin. Oh, please, sir. I beg of you.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Who did this? Who did this?
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Show yourself. Yes. Yes. I will show myself. You know what? Look, sir.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: Out of thin air.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes. I see him.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Martin, Mr.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Martin.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, all right, all right, we'll leave. Come along, Everts.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Come on. Yes, yes, yes, Mr. Carney. I thought at
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: first it was trickery or perhaps some kind of joint
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: hallucination by Everts and myself, induced perhaps by the gloomy
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: atmosphere of the old house and whatever it was that
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Stoker had said about his wife and her being so terrified.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: No, my boy.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: But when it actually happened, he actually appeared there before
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: us out of thin air, this misty, tenuous, impalpable figure.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: And then when we found there wasn't so much as
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: a little mark on Kim, the dog, who up to
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: that moment had been as healthy as I. But why
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: didn't you tell me about whatever it is that inhabits
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: that place when I talked to you on the phone?
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I tried to, Timothy, but you cut me off.
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: And after all, I've known about it only as a
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: legend from hearsay.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: And he was a huge man and powerful, this ghost.
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: Yes, I should say it was Jason O'Flynn, your ancestor,
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: who built the place for his wife.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: It was to have been her castle. Was? Yes.
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: But the first day she sought to enter into it,
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: she fell, tripped upon the threshold, she struck her head,
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: and she never regained consciousness.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: I see. The doctor was summoned, did all he.
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: Could for her, there in a smaller room off the
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: main salon, yes, but she died that night. And then
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: Jason O'Flynn swore by the book that no one would
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: live in that house.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: But he until his body turned to dust.
• 21:30
  Speaker 9: He walked out of that little room and then And
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: was never seen again. And ever since that time.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: But now you know the rest.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Wait. Yes? Until his body turns to dust. His own words.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: And he wasn't seen to leave.
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: No?
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: What are you thinking of, Timothy? I'm going back there, Mr. Carney. Tomorrow,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: in daylight. Hmm. I just don't get it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: And I certainly found no signs of hollow walls or
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: hidden panels on the floors above, sir.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: And yet, Everett, somewhere, somewhere close to that small room.
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: Hmm.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: Don't you think it's best we simply leave the place?
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: No, no, no. No one but he.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: What?
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Until his body turned to dust.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: What, sir?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: And although there must have been other people about... He
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: wasn't seen to leave. And to me, Evers, that means
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: only one thing. Somewhere in this house lies the key
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: to this mystery.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: But we've been here the most of the day, sir,
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: and we've found nothing. And it's getting down towards dusk.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know. But until I find some...
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, sir. Let me help you.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: The old rug was so badly wrinkled, it's no wonder
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: you tripped.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Wait. Evans.
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: Listen.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: A very hollow floor, I should say.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Here. Help me fold this rug back. Yes, sir. Here now.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: And look. A sort of trap door. And fitted in
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: the floor so tightly.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: And this. It looks like a seal around the edge.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: Why, yes, sir. And a heavy lifting ring.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Well, then give me a hand. We'll see if we
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: can raise it. Now.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's very tight, sir. Yes.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: But the seal is giving way a little. Put everything
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: you have into it now. Yes, sir.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: Ah, good.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: We made it.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: I must say, there's a horrid order coming up out
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: of that place. Yes.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, Evarts. Like that in the caves, the catacombs under St. Micah's.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: You mean where all the bodies are?
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Yes. Quickly now. The flashlight. Give it to me. Here, sir.
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: Now.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Look down there on the earthen floor below. Do you see?
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: Do you see?
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: The wrists are cut. He killed himself. No.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: No, it's he. It's the ghost that we saw.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Yes, Everett. The body of Jason O'Flynn. And so perfectly
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: preserved as though he died only moments ago. Oh, it's horrid.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Until his body turned to dust, he said.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: So we know now. Now that we've found it. So please, sir.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Let's leave this place. Wait, Abbots.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: Wait.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Do you see? Now the fresh air has reached it. Oh. Oh,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: good Lord.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: The color is leaving the cheeks. The pallor of death
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: is taking its place. And yes, now, at long last,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: the body will turn to dust. No longer will Jason
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: O'Flynn walk the night. Requiescat in pace. Suspense. You've been
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: listening to Devilstone, starring Christopher Carey and Neil Fitzgerald, and
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: written especially for suspense by Jonathan Bundy. Suspense is produced
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: and directed by Fred Hendrickson. Heard in tonight's story were
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Gilbert Mack, Walter Grise, Reynolds Osborne, and Frank Milano. Music
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: supervision by Ethel Huber. Sound patterns by Walter Otto. Technical
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: direction by Fred Cusick. Associate director, Bernie Seabrooks. This is
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Stuart Mett speaking.
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