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Suspense - "The Mystery of Marie Roget" (1960) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Jackson Beck stars as C. Auguste Dupin, the investigator called,
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  Speaker 1: when Paris is confounded by conflicting reports surrounding the disappearance
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  Speaker 1: of young Marie Roget. After a woman's body is recovered
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  Speaker 1: from the Seine, official inquiries have stalled, and the prefect
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  Speaker 1: turns to Dupin for an examination of testimony and reported clues.
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  Speaker 1: This is Suspense, episode 839, broadcast on CBS, February 7th, 1960. E.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Newman adapted Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 Dupin story with
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  Speaker 1: Robert Dryden as the prefect, Ethel Everett as Duloc, and
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  Speaker 1: Abby Lewis as Marie Roget. Now back to the golden
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  Speaker 1: age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Another tale well calculated to keep you in... Suspense.
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  Speaker 3: Mary Cecilia Rogers was murdered in the vicinity of New
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  Speaker 3: York City in the summer of 1842. It was still
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  Speaker 3: an unsolved crime in November when The Mystery of Marie
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  Speaker 3: Roget was published. The author, Edgar Allan Poe. It paralleled
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  Speaker 3: in every essential detail the murder of Mary Rogers... Poe
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  Speaker 3: wrote it, far from the scene of the atrocity, with
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  Speaker 3: only the newspaper reports of the day. Nevertheless, the subsequent
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  Speaker 3: confession connected with the murder of Mary Rogers confirmed not
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  Speaker 3: only the killer named by Poe, but all the chief
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  Speaker 3: details by which he arrived at his identification.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Dupin. I should like to extend an invitation.
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  Speaker 4: Regard first a certain event which truly occurred in New
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  Speaker 4: York City on a warm summer night in 1842. Secondly,
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  Speaker 4: I invite you to employ your imagination and displace that
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  Speaker 4: same event, intact with all of the essential facts, to
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  Speaker 4: a cobbled old world Paris on an identical warm and
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  Speaker 4: fragrant summer night in the same year. Lastly and most interesting,
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  Speaker 4: I should like to invite you to attend that event.
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  Speaker 2: It is a murder.
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  Speaker 4: The general design and mental character of the atrocity, indeed
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  Speaker 4: the first knowledge of its occurrence, came to my attention
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  Speaker 4: on Wednesday night, the 25th day of June.
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  Speaker 2: Who is the prefect of police?
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  Speaker 5: I am, monsieur.
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  Speaker 2: Dupin? Yes, monsieur.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you for coming, monsieur. I wasn't certain my
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  Speaker 5: messenger would find you. No, this way, monsieur. Please. Andre,
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  Speaker 5: the lantern for monsieur Dupin.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, she died harshly.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Beaten, choked, drowned out. Yes, quite hardly, yes. She was beautiful, monsieur.
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  Speaker 5: Once, perhaps, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Still.
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  Speaker 4: But mademoiselle what? In life she had a name. In
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  Speaker 4: death she must also have a name.
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  Speaker 2: Any of you?
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  Speaker 5: Monsieur, none of them know her, I have asked. But
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  Speaker 5: her clothes and jewels say she was known, Dupin. Good clothes,
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  Speaker 5: torn and disordered in her terrible struggle, but good. And
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  Speaker 5: the jewelry, not expensive, but tasteful. This woman, in my opinion, Dupin,
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  Speaker 5: was known.
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  Speaker 2: And loved, Monsieur Prefect. No doubt. Dupin.
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  Speaker 5: This is why I said for you, I have been
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  Speaker 5: through these things before. The newspapers will write stories, their
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  Speaker 5: reporters will make conjecture, and although there is no name
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  Speaker 5: for her now, there will eventually be a name, and then, monsieur,
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  Speaker 5: I will be called upon to produce her assassins. There
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  Speaker 5: is so little to go on. The eyes of the
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  Speaker 5: public will be upon me, and my honor is at stake.
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  Speaker 4: And my honor, too, Monsieur Prefect, if I am involved
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  Speaker 4: in the investigation.
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  Speaker 5: Dupin, listen. There is a fund at the Prefecture, a
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  Speaker 5: sizable fund, which I am authorized to use when circumstances arise.
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  Speaker 5: For your services, I am willing to make a direct
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  Speaker 5: and liberal proposition.
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  Speaker 2: Dupin.
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  Speaker 5: You will help me to find the answer to this
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  Speaker 5: woman's death?
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  Speaker 6: No form about the mouth, as in the case of
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  Speaker 6: the merely drowned, monsieur.
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  Speaker 2: Air bruises, impressions of fingers. It was a strangulation. By hand.
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  Speaker 2: And by this card, monsieur. Yes. Dr. Stupin?
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  Speaker 4: An ingenious knot in that cord, don't you think? This
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  Speaker 4: is a slip knot. A sailor's knot. Sailor's knot. She
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  Speaker 4: was found in water. Why did she die, monsieur? For
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  Speaker 4: her beauty, perhaps. For love or hate.
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  Speaker 2: It was Sunday.
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  Speaker 7: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Observe, doctor.
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  Speaker 4: There are no marks to prove she was weighted and
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  Speaker 4: then shaken loose. Yes, she quit life on Sunday. Murdered
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  Speaker 4: in the dark, thrown into the river, unweighted. Monday, Tuesday,
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  Speaker 4: she remained as a corpse, will on the bottom. And
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  Speaker 4: then on the third day, tonight, as a corpse, will,
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  Speaker 4: she rose. She was murdered on the bank, then taken
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  Speaker 4: out to her grave in a boat. And there had
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  Speaker 4: to be a man who knew how to handle a
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  Speaker 4: boat in the tricky current.
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  Speaker 2: Who's there?
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  Speaker 5: It is I, the prefect. I have someone who thinks
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  Speaker 5: he may know her.
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  Speaker 2: Come in, monsieur. Ahead of me, please.
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  Speaker 5: With your permission, doctor, monsieur Dupin, monsieur Beauvais.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do?
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  Speaker 5: Monsieur Beauvais has been searching since Monday for news of
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  Speaker 5: a Marie Roget. Mademoiselle Roget is an employee of monsieur Beauvais, correct, monsieur?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I am a perfumer.
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  Speaker 5: I called on her mother, madame Roget, Monday when Marie
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  Speaker 5: did not appear at my shop. Madame informed me that
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  Speaker 5: Marie had left Sunday to visit her aunt at Rue
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  Speaker 5: des Drons. She has not yet returned.
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  Speaker 2: I see. And what else?
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  Speaker 5: I cannot say, monsieur. So far, I have ascertained that
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  Speaker 5: she never arrived at Rue des Drons. And indeed, no
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  Speaker 5: one has seen her since Sunday. Not even Jacques Saint-Eustace.
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  Speaker 5: Who is Jacques Saint-Eustace, Beauvais? Monsieur Saint-Eustace is the accepted
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  Speaker 5: suitor of Marie Roget. He lodges and takes meals at
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  Speaker 5: the pension kept by Madame Roget. He was to have
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  Speaker 5: gone for his betrothed at dusk Sunday... and to have
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  Speaker 5: escorted her home. In the afternoon it rained heavily... and
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  Speaker 5: supposing that she would remain at her aunt's... he did
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  Speaker 5: not think it necessary to keep his promise. She has
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  Speaker 5: stayed there under similar circumstances. And where is Jacques Saint-Eustace
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  Speaker 5: at this moment? Searching and anxious as I am for
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  Speaker 5: Marie Roget... But where he went, I.
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  Speaker 2: Do not know. It is three days since Sunday. Four days, really.
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  Speaker 4: But three that Marie Roget has been considered missing. Your
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  Speaker 4: search is tardy. I know, monsieur.
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  Speaker 2: Well? I am at your mercy.
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  Speaker 5: She has disappeared twice.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 5: The first time she disappeared was about three years ago.
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  Speaker 5: Her mother, her friends were unable to account for her disappearance.
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  Speaker 5: I was distracted with anxiety and terror. Did you notify
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  Speaker 5: the police? In that case, immediately, sir. But suddenly, Marie
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  Speaker 5: reappeared one fine morning after being absent all week.
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  Speaker 4: So you did not call the police the second time
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  Speaker 4: she disappeared. Well, what has happened once can happen again, monsieur.
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  Speaker 4: What did happen that week she was away?
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  Speaker 2: I do not know.
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  Speaker 5: I do not honestly know.
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  Speaker 4: But you doubt the story of visiting a relative.
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  Speaker 2: I will not say.
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  Speaker 8: Show him what we have, doctor. If you will kindly
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  Speaker 8: step over here, monsieur Beauvais. Now, Monsieur Beauvais, if you please.
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  Speaker 8: You know this woman, sir?
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  Speaker 2: It is her!
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  Speaker 5: It is Marie-Angèle!
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  Speaker 9: It is her!
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  Speaker 5: Poor little Marie.
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  Speaker 2: Poor Marie.
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  Speaker 5: Why does Beauvais cry, Dupin? The girl only worked for him. Ah,
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  Speaker 5: he has not told us all. He is suspect, Dupin,
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  Speaker 5: and I will have a word with him.
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  Speaker 2: Stay.
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  Speaker 5: But, Dupin, why does he weep for a shop girl,
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  Speaker 5: a grisette who is promised to another?
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  Speaker 2: He weeps for youth and beauty. In just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: we will return for the second act of.
• 9:22
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  Speaker 4: You will recall the event we have been attending in Paris.
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  Speaker 4: I invite you now to keep in mind the solemn
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  Speaker 4: fact that Marie Roget died violently. That her lover, Jacques Saint-Eustace,
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  Speaker 4: is missing. Where she died, who administered her death, for
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  Speaker 4: what reason, remain to be known. Attend, at this point,
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  Speaker 4: another event, if you will, which was arranged by that
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  Speaker 4: zealous and righteous man, the prefect of police.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, thank you for coming, Dupin. You have located the lover, Saint-Eustache?
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  Speaker 5: Saint-Eustache? No, no, he's unimportant, I assure you. Somewhere, right now,
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  Speaker 5: he drinks and tries to forget. But what I have
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  Speaker 5: here is important, most important. Madame Dulac, if you please...
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  Speaker 5: Good evening, gentlemen. Good evening. This is Madame Dulac. She
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  Speaker 5: has something of interest to tell you, and I have
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  Speaker 5: something of interest to show you.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening, Madame.
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  Speaker 11: I have maintained this tavern many years. Right here, close
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  Speaker 11: to the bank of the river.
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  Speaker 2: No fear with me, Madame.
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  Speaker 4: I have no authority to do anything but respect your
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  Speaker 4: person and your thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: What is this information?
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  Speaker 11: I saw a young woman here Sunday. Monsieur says it
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  Speaker 11: was Marie Roget.
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  Speaker 2: It was, definitely. Just a moment. Sunday? Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Mid-afternoon. And later, perhaps.
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  Speaker 2: Where?
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  Speaker 9: Right here in my town.
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  Speaker 11: She arrived accompanied by a young man of dark, swarthy complexion.
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  Speaker 11: The two remained here for some time. On their departure,
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  Speaker 11: they took the road through some thick woods.
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  Speaker 2: That way.
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  Speaker 5: Toward the River Dupin. And this is a secluded neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, go on, madame. Go on, go on.
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  Speaker 11: Soon after they left, a gang of miscreants made their
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  Speaker 11: appearance here. They behaved boisterously. They ate and drank without payment.
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  Speaker 11: Then left and followed the route of the young girl.
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  Speaker 5: And the young man. That same way.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 11: About dusk, the same gang reappeared and recrossed the river
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  Speaker 11: in great haste.
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  Speaker 2: I see. And you are certain it was Marie Roget?
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  Speaker 5: Never fear. My men spoke with an omnibus driver, a
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  Speaker 5: man named Valence, who knew Marie Roget. He claims he
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  Speaker 5: saw her cross the Seine on the Sunday afternoon in
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  Speaker 5: question with a swarthy man who fits the exact description
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  Speaker 5: of Madame.
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  Speaker 2: What else, monsieur?
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  Speaker 5: I will show you.
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  Speaker 9: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: I followed him through the back of.
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  Speaker 4: The tavern into the thick wood which lined the Seine
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  Speaker 4: at that point. He stopped when we had come to
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  Speaker 4: a close thicket within which were three or four large
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  Speaker 4: stones forming a kind of seat with a back and
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: a footstool.
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  Speaker 5: Note, Dupin, a white petticoat here and here a silk scarf, parasol, gloves,
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  Speaker 5: pocket handkerchief. Inspect the handkerchief, Dupin.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: You note the name Marie Roget embroidered there?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: So this is the place she met her death.
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  Speaker 5: Of course it is, and I have found it. Look,
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  Speaker 5: the earth is trampled where she struggled, and over here...
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  Speaker 5: Bushes still broken. Every evidence of a terrible struggle. And here,
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  Speaker 5: the fence has been taken down. And the ground shows
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  Speaker 5: that some heavy burden was dragged along in it.
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  Speaker 2: Toward the river.
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  Speaker 5: Come, look for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: What do you say now? I am wondering. Wonder? We
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  Speaker 2: have facts now, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Important facts. Do you recall a strip of one of
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  Speaker 5: the unfortunate girl's petticoats had been tied about her mouth,
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  Speaker 5: probably to prevent her screams?
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 5: This was done by fellows who had no pocket handkerchiefs.
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  Speaker 2: Miscreants, Dupin.
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  Speaker 5: Miscreants such as those who visited Madame Dulac's tavern, and
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  Speaker 5: later went the same way as Marie Roget and her companion.
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  Speaker 5: There are many such gangs about here. Now, all we
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  Speaker 5: have to do is locate them, and I know how
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  Speaker 5: to do that.
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  Speaker 8: THE END.
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  Speaker 2: In just a moment, we will return for the concluding
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  Speaker 2: act of... Suspense. Pepsi-Cola refreshes without filling. Why? Because it's
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: truly light.
• 15:30
  Speaker 9: Charlie, you're forgetting something.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Wait, Kay, there's more. Yes, ice-cold Pepsi is the delicious
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: refreshment that goes great at a picnic or a party.
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  Speaker 9: But, Charlie.
• 15:39
  Speaker 12: And Pepsi goes fast. People like it, so keep plenty handy.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, you did fine. Except for one thing.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I mentioned lightness and how Pepsi refreshes and how
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  Speaker 12: fast it goes.
• 15:52
  Speaker 9: You left out Pepsi sociability. You know the Be Sociable song.
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  Speaker 2: But, Kay, I can't sing. I can listen.
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  Speaker 5: Be sociable, not smart.
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  Speaker 9: Keep up to date with Pepsi. Drink light, refreshing Pepsi.
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  Speaker 10: Stay young and fair and dead and air.
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  Speaker 5: Be sociable, have a Pepsi.
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  Speaker 12: Well, at least I can say this. Pick up an
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  Speaker 12: extra carton of Pepsi today.
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  Speaker 9: Please do.
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  Speaker 4: That night, the shrill cries of the Paris newsboys proclaimed
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  Speaker 4: the prefect's resolve. He offered a reward of 20,000 francs
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  Speaker 4: and a full pardon for any king's evidence.
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  Speaker 2: It was an accepted.
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  Speaker 4: Conclusion that Marie Roget had been well-aid and slain by
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  Speaker 4: a gang of miscreants in the vicinity of Madame du
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  Speaker 4: Lac's tavern.
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  Speaker 5: Well, now you defeated Monsieur Dupin, now that I have solved.
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  Speaker 2: The mystery of Marie Roget. No, monsieur.
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  Speaker 5: I have doubled the reward. Soon one of the miscreants
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  Speaker 5: will come forward. Then you will see, 40,000 francs should
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  Speaker 5: be temptation enough.
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  Speaker 2: 20,000 was temptation enough. What? No one will come forward, sir.
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  Speaker 4: A gang such as he's hoped for would be composed
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  Speaker 4: of men who have never seen more than a hundred
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  Speaker 4: Franks at one time. Twenty thousand would bring all of them,
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  Speaker 4: if they had any knowledge of Marie Roget's murder.
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  Speaker 2: They are just waiting, you know that? Waiting? When each
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  Speaker 2: is in jeopardy because of the other? Oh, we shall see, Dupin. Wait.
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  Speaker 2: It was one man.
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  Speaker 9: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: A man who dragged the body of Mademoiselle to the
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  Speaker 4: river's edge. A gang, even two men, could have carried it.
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  Speaker 4: A gang would have lifted it over the fence easily
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  Speaker 4: instead of taking a fence down as it was taken down.
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  Speaker 4: One man labeled hard.
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  Speaker 5: My conjecture is as good as yours. Are you talking
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  Speaker 5: of Saint-Eustace?
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  Speaker 2: No. He is quite unguilty.
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  Speaker 4: Monsieur, allow me to point out that the newspapers, the police,
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  Speaker 4: all have identified themselves with what apparently happened. We must
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  Speaker 4: consider what did not happen. First, a gang did not
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: set upon her and murder her. Secondly, Marie Roget had
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: no intention of visiting her aunt at Rue des Drômes
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  Speaker 4: when she left her mother and lover last Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 2: Dupin! If you have confidential information, explain yourself. I have
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  Speaker 2: the same information as you. Nothing else. You said she
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  Speaker 2: had no intention of visiting her aunt that day.
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  Speaker 5: Why do you say that?
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  Speaker 4: Monsieur, consider what might have happened if your intended Jacques
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  Speaker 4: Saint-Eustace had called for her at her aunt's... and discovered
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  Speaker 4: she was not there. That she had not been there
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  Speaker 4: all day. He would have been chagrined, suspicious, angry. Saint-Eustace
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  Speaker 4: would have been all of these... Something for Marie Roget
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  Speaker 4: to worry about when she returned home. But nothing to
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  Speaker 4: worry about if Marie did not intend to return home.
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  Speaker 5: A point to consider, perhaps. Go on.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Consider that she kept a rendezvous instead. This we know.
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  Speaker 4: A rendezvous with a swarthy man. We have been told
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  Speaker 4: by two witnesses who saw him. Now, monsieur, I ask you,
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  Speaker 4: as I have asked myself... Did this swarthy companion allow
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Marie to be slain before his eyes? Or was he
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: himself slain trying to help her? If so, where is
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: his body?
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: He left her before she was set upon, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Did he leave her alone in such a dark district?
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Would they quarrel? Indeed they did. Another question. Marie Roget's
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: death is known everywhere in France. Why, I he not
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  Speaker 4: come forward to help us clear up the mystery?
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  Speaker 5: For many reasons. Perhaps he's married. He has left. He's uninformed.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: He has a swarthy complexion. A sea complexion. A well-attested fact.
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  Speaker 4: Now accumulate that with the cord that was tied about
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: her neck in a sailor's knot.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Monsieur Dupin, I cannot.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: And the need of.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: A skilled boatsman to handle a boat on the river
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: to dispose of the body.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: But it could be anyone.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: No, it could not.
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  Speaker 9: Huh?
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Marie Roget was a gay, not an abject girl. And
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: no common seaman for her, an officer. A naval officer, monsieur.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Like the one who might have led her into a
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: false elopement the first time she disappeared.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Three years pass.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: The approved time for a French man-of-war to consume encircling
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: the globe. The officer returns, thinking of the same coquette
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Marie Roget, the same bargain. What he has managed to
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: do once, he can do again. Marie meets him Sunday
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: for this purpose. Then she thinks the better of an
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: elopement and refuses to accompany him. Saint-Eustace has captured her love.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Her former lover slays her in quick anger, and he
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: drags her body to the river, commandeers a boat and.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Where do I find him? On whatever ship has arrived
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: from the world cruise. His name?
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: What is his name, Dupin?
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Inquire for the name of the young officer who has
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: applied for leave to get married.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: But there must be many such among a ship's complement
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: returning after a long cruise.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Agreed.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: But, Monsieur Prefect, there is only one naval officer who
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: has returned to his ship without a bride.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: André!
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: André! We leave at once for the naval yards.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: It has been an interesting evening. And now I issue
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: a last invitation, my friends. I invite you to retain
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: all that you have earned. And employ this time, instead
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: of your imagination... Your sense of reality. For Marie Roget
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: of Paris was truthfully Mary Rogers of New York. Let
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: your reality move you back to New York City. On
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: a winter day, some months after the event described, in
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: the darkening afternoon... inside a grey stone building.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I invite you to attend another event.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: I think you will find it significant.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Ensign Robert Bryant Wilson.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: You have been found guilty of the murder of Mary
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Cecilia Rogers.
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  Speaker 5: It is the judgment of this court that you be
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: hanged by the neck until you are dead.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Suspense.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: You've been listening to The Mystery of Marie Roget, a
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: story by Edgar Allan Poe written for suspense by E.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Jack Newman. In a moment, the names of our players
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: and a word about next week's story of suspense.
• 23:36
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• 23:40
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• 23:47
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• 23:48
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• 24:08
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• 24:12
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• 24:15
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• 24:20
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• 24:24
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• 24:28
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• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Heard in tonight's story were Jackson Beck as Dupin, Bob
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Dryden as the Prefect, and Guy Rapp as Volvay. Others
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: in our cast included Abby Lewis, Jim Bowles, Ethel Everett,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: and Ronald Dawson. Listen again next week when we return
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: with the radio classic. First broadcast on Suspense, May 25th, 1943. Sorry,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: wrong number. Starring Agnes Moorhead. Another tale well calculated to
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: keep you in... Suspense.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: On CBS Radio.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Suspense and the mystery of Marie Roget now fade from
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the air. Thank you for joining us, and good night.
• 25:23
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• 25:27
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