1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,760 This is Hollywood and CBS presenting forecast number four. 2 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:20,260 Herbert Marshall directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the first program of a proposed new series 3 00:00:20,260 --> 00:00:36,800 entitled Suspense. 4 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:42,280 Tonight's forecast program ladies and gentlemen represents the ideal form of collaboration. 5 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:46,240 Mr. Alfred Hitchcock, brilliant English director of such outstanding motion pictures as the 6 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:51,320 39 steps, Rebecca and foreign correspondent was eager to create a very special type of 7 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,340 radio drama, the suspense story. 8 00:00:54,340 --> 00:00:58,520 As narrator and star for his production, he thought at once of the distinguished actor 9 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:03,800 with whom he had been associated in countless British film successes, Herbert Marshall. 10 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:08,740 Mr. Marshall suggested that they dramatize a certain favorite story of his and that story 11 00:01:08,740 --> 00:01:11,720 happened to be the very one Mr. Hitchcock had had in mind. 12 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:30,720 This is Bella Clown's classic in chills, The Lodger. 13 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:35,200 The Lodger is a work of fiction which springs from recorded fact. 14 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:39,360 A story which begins in the year 1888 in London. 15 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,920 A London terrorized by the fifth in a succession of recent murders. 16 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:48,280 It was believed that these deeds were the work of one person, a tall gaunt figure in 17 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:52,760 a black Inverness cape carrying a small narrow bag. 18 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:57,320 That meager description provided by a highly unnerved witness was the sum total of all 19 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,360 that was known of the murderer. 20 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:03,720 It was enough however to keep alive and alert the interest of all London, of all those in 21 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:11,840 fine quarters and all those in small grimy houses as for example, Ellen Bunting. 22 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,960 Ellen was no different from all the other middle aged housewives dwelling in the great 23 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,480 city's squalid Whitechapel district. 24 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,140 She knew all the known facts of the case. 25 00:02:20,140 --> 00:02:24,180 As Herbert Marshall will tell you, Ellen knew it was quite proper to refer to this wielder 26 00:02:24,180 --> 00:02:31,120 of the knife as the Avenger. 27 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:40,160 Of course, Ellen Bunting was far more concerned with her personal problems than with thoughts 28 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:41,160 of the Avenger. 29 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:45,120 Yet the case of that strange elusive killer quite often forced all other matters from 30 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:46,120 her mind. 31 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:50,800 There was that mad meaningless scheme he seemed to follow. 32 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,200 All his victims for example have been women. 33 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:58,160 All have been young, attractive and oddly enough, blonde. 34 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:03,520 But Ellen could no more understand the motive for his brutal slashings than could the police. 35 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:09,040 This night she and her husband Robert Bunting sat before their fireplace reading the newspaper 36 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,120 account of the latest murder. 37 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:18,280 The Avenger had struck again. 38 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,280 As Ellen expressed it, he might be anybody. 39 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,280 He might be the fellow you pass on the street. 40 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,520 It's a terrible thought. 41 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,440 Yes, if only the police had something to go on. 42 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,960 It looks like that Avenger's just too quick for them. 43 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,480 Look, it says here that this girl he got last night was like all the others. 44 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:39,680 Pretty, blonde and let's see, described by her friends as a very light-hearted girl. 45 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:40,680 What a pity. 46 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,160 Did you ever stop to think who fits that to a tee? 47 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:44,640 In fact, fits all those girls? 48 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:45,640 Why? 49 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:46,640 By my own Daisy. 50 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:47,640 Oh, that's a horrible thought. 51 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,040 Well, maybe it's a good thing she's with her aunt then instead of here. 52 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,280 London ain't a safe place for any girl right now. 53 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,880 Ah, just the same, I can't help thinking how fine it'll be to have her back, Ellen. 54 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,480 Now Bunting, you know that Daisy seems just as much my own daughter as she is yours. 55 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,800 But I'm telling you, there's no sense even thinking about having her back right now. 56 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:06,080 We just can't afford it. 57 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:07,080 Oh, I know that Ellen. 58 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,120 Only, well, maybe we could manage it some way. 59 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:11,120 How? 60 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,540 Haven't I scrimped myself half crazy trying to keep us going? 61 00:04:13,540 --> 00:04:15,200 But you don't care about that, do you? 62 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,440 No, your Daisy's more important to you than I am. 63 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,080 No, no, no, Ellen, Ellen, that don't sound like you. 64 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,200 Oh, I can't help if it don't. 65 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:22,320 What are we going to do? 66 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:23,320 Tell me that. 67 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:24,320 We'll get along, dear. 68 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:25,320 Something will turn up. 69 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:26,880 Oh, we haven't had a lodger for months. 70 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:28,720 Nobody even comes to look at the room anymore. 71 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:30,120 Yes, but things will work out, Ellen. 72 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,200 Oh, they ain't never going to work out. 73 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,640 So we won't even have a roof over our heads and... 74 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:35,640 What? 75 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:37,840 Oh, I'm sorry, Robbie. 76 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:39,360 I didn't mean to take on so... 77 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:40,360 Oh, I know, dear, I know. 78 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:41,360 It's all right. 79 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:42,840 Oh, I didn't think it. 80 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:44,440 It's just that I've been so worried. 81 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,440 Well, don't you go worrying another second, old girl. 82 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,240 Why, first thing you know, you won't be pretty anymore. 83 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:49,800 You'll have your face all wrinkled and your... 84 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:50,800 Now, I'll see here, Bunting. 85 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:52,560 Let's see a smile. Come on, just have one smile for me. 86 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:53,560 Oh, leave me alone. 87 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:54,560 Just one smile like you used to, eh? 88 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:55,560 I'll be darned with you. 89 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:00,560 Well, who do you suppose that could be? 90 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,560 Well, late for visitors, I... 91 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,840 Bunting, do you think it could be somebody looking for rooms? 92 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:07,840 Well, it might be. 93 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:09,320 You want me to go to the door? 94 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:10,320 No, I'll go. 95 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:11,320 Oh. 96 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:12,320 You just stay here. 97 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:13,320 Yes, all right. 98 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,320 Now, be sure you get a good look at the ways before you let them in, dear. 99 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:17,320 Oh, I'm coming. 100 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:20,320 Oh, I do hope it's... 101 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,320 Yes, sir? 102 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:28,320 Is it not true that you let lodgings? 103 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:29,320 Yes, sir. 104 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:30,320 Won't you come in, sir? 105 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:31,320 Thank you. 106 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:32,320 Could I, uh... 107 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:33,320 Could I take your cape, sir? 108 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:34,320 There's no need. 109 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:35,320 Now, I am looking for a quiet room. 110 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:36,320 It must be quiet. 111 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:37,320 Oh, we have that, sir. 112 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:38,320 Above all, our house is quiet. 113 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:39,320 Your bags, sir. 114 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:40,320 May I take it? 115 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:41,320 No, I'll hold it. 116 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:42,320 It'll be so good as to show me the room, please. 117 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:43,320 Oh, yes, yes. 118 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:44,320 I'll be very happy to. 119 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:45,320 Oh, I'll be very happy to. 120 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:46,320 Oh, I'll be very happy to. 121 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:47,320 Oh, I'll be very happy to. 122 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:48,320 Oh, I'll be very happy to. 123 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:49,320 Oh, I'll be very happy to. 124 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:50,320 Oh, yes, yes, sir. 125 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:51,320 It's right up these stairs, sir. 126 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:52,320 This way. 127 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:53,320 Thank you. 128 00:05:53,320 --> 00:06:02,320 You see, sir, there's just my husband and me here, and we're ever so quiet, and I'm 129 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,320 sure you'll find this room to your liking, sir. 130 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,320 Here we are. 131 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,320 Now, I'll just light the gas. 132 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:11,320 There. 133 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:12,320 Mm-hmm. 134 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:13,320 Very good. 135 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:16,320 It is pleasant, isn't it, sir? 136 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:18,320 And there's not many rooms with such pretty pictures. 137 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:19,320 Are there now? 138 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:21,320 We've had them in the family for years, sir, and... 139 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,320 Pictures interest me very little. 140 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:28,320 You see, what really impresses me about the room is the very simplicity of it, the, um, 141 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:29,320 the bareness. 142 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:30,320 Yes, sir. 143 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:31,320 It's not at all crowded, is it? 144 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:33,320 It will be quite suitable, Mrs... 145 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:34,320 Buntings. 146 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:35,320 Mrs. Buntings. 147 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:39,320 You see, I do a great deal of studying in my book here, the Holy Bible. 148 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:40,320 Yes, sir. 149 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:42,320 Please, sir, let me help with your luggage. 150 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:43,320 No, don't touch it. 151 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:44,320 Oh, but I only wish to... 152 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:45,320 Oh, you only wish to help, of course. 153 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:46,320 You must forgive me, Mrs. Buntings. 154 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,320 It's just that I... 155 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,320 I'm so very weary. 156 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:52,320 Of course, sir. 157 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,320 He bringeth them to their desired haven. 158 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,320 Beautiful words, Mrs. Buntings. 159 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:58,320 Indeed they are, sir. 160 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,320 And now at last I have found my haven of rest. 161 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:02,320 Yes, sir. 162 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:04,320 Then, then you'll be taking the room. 163 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:09,320 Let us see now, um, what you're going to charge me with, attendance mind. 164 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,320 I shall be staying in most of the time and I shall be wanting meals. 165 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:13,320 Oh, we can see to that. 166 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:17,320 Then does, um, 30 shillings a week suit you? 167 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:18,320 30... 168 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,320 Why, yes, sir, yes, sir, that will be quite all right. 169 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,320 Good, and I shall pay you in advance. 170 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,320 My name is Sleuth, Mrs. Buntings. 171 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:26,320 Mr. Sleuth. 172 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,320 S-L-E-U-T-H. 173 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,320 Think of a hound, Mrs. Buntings, and you'll never forget my name. 174 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:35,320 Twenty-three, four, 30 shillings. 175 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:36,320 Thank you, sir. 176 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:40,320 And I think I should enjoy a little light supper now, Mrs. Buntings. 177 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:41,320 Bread and butter, perhaps. 178 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:43,320 Could you arrange that? 179 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:44,320 Most certainly, sir. 180 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:45,320 I-I'll do that now. 181 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,320 And if you'd be requiring any beer or spirits... 182 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:48,320 Certainly not. 183 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,320 Oh, sir, what, what did I say? 184 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,320 I thought you understood me, Mrs. Buntings, 185 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,320 and I had hoped that you and your husband were abstainers. 186 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:55,320 But we are, sir. 187 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,320 We don't keep nothing about. 188 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:58,320 I would have had to go out and... 189 00:07:58,320 --> 00:07:59,320 Of course, of course. 190 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,320 Oh, I'm sorry, Mrs. Buntings. 191 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,320 I fear I spoke sharply. 192 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:05,320 I don't wish you to think me rude. 193 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,320 After all, you, you've been so kind. 194 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:08,320 Consider it. 195 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,320 I hope I know a gentleman when I see one. 196 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,320 Thank you, thank you very much. 197 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,320 Now I'll just hurry with your supper. 198 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,320 Ellen, Ellen, did he take the room? 199 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,320 Don't bother me now. I have to get him some supper. 200 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:28,320 What did you mean? 201 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,320 Come to the kitchen where he won't hear us. 202 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:31,320 He took it, Ellen? 203 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:32,320 Yes, he took the room. 204 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,320 Yes, we're all right now. 205 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,320 Look, 30 shillings. 206 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:38,320 30 shillings. 207 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:39,320 A week in advance. 208 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,320 Oh, it's wonderful, wonderful. 209 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:42,320 Ellen, do you see what this means? 210 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,320 Yes, you can have Daisy now. 211 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:45,320 Yes. 212 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:46,320 Here, Bunting, 213 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,320 warm that teapot and put some tea leaves in it. 214 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:49,320 Righto, righto. 215 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:50,320 Do you know something, old girl? 216 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,320 We're not going to worry too much about Daisy being 217 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:53,320 in danger of that Avenger fella. 218 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:54,320 Whatever do you mean, Robbie? 219 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,320 Well, she's not a girl who takes a drink, you know. 220 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:57,320 What's that to do with it, please? 221 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,320 Oh, something I read in the paper while he was upstairs 222 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:00,320 with the gentleman. 223 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,320 They just found out that every one of the Avenger's victims 224 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:04,320 had been drinking. 225 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,320 They figured he must be some kind of a rabid abstainer. 226 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,320 What up a kill, dear chan? 227 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:12,320 Now hurry, Bunting, please. 228 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:13,320 Yes. 229 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:15,320 Two thoughts. 230 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,320 Two thoughts only governed Ellen's mind. 231 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,320 The lodgers liked supper and her own good fortune 232 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,320 at having such a lodger. 233 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:23,320 Mr. Sleuth was an eccentric sort, 234 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,320 but then he was such a gentleman, so quiet, 235 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,320 so very religiously inclined. 236 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:30,320 She started up a staircase to Mr. Sleuth's room, 237 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,320 her husband at her side. 238 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,320 You won't be long to be safe, though, 239 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:35,320 once Daisy's back in London, eh? 240 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:37,320 We'll see if she stays closer than the house. 241 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:38,320 Hmm? 242 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:39,320 Well, I'll be downstairs. 243 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,320 Hurry up with your supper, old girl. 244 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,320 She has passed down many wounded from her. 245 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,320 Many strong men have been slain by her. 246 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:49,320 Come in. 247 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,320 And know the wickedness of folly. 248 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:53,320 By Mr. Sleuth? 249 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:54,320 Yes. 250 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:55,320 What is it? 251 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:56,320 Those pictures. 252 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:57,320 Those pretty girls. 253 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:02,320 You've turned all their faces to the wall. 254 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,320 And that maneuver, that strange action, 255 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,320 was the beginning of Ellen's concern. 256 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,320 Soon they came to her a recollection 257 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:18,320 of the black Inverness cape, 258 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:19,320 the small narrow bag, 259 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,320 the urgent matter of alcoholic drink. 260 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,320 And these details began to shape themselves 261 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:25,320 into a pattern which grew more disturbing 262 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,320 with each passing hour. 263 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:29,320 The day following, the larger did not leave 264 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,320 the upstairs room once, 265 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,320 nor did he leave the next day. 266 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,320 And the oddness of this took its place in the pattern. 267 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:38,320 Then, too, the approaching arrival of Daisy, 268 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,320 her stepdaughter, added to her concern. 269 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,320 On the second night, her sleep was restless 270 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,320 with vague, horrifying images. 271 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,320 And so when she heard the first stealthy footsteps 272 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,320 outside her bedroom, she was instantly awake. 273 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:53,320 Oh. 274 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,320 Tensely. 275 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:57,320 She followed those steps down the stairs, 276 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:58,320 down the hallway. 277 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:00,320 She heard the front door open 278 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:02,320 and then click shut. 279 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,320 Out of stillness, fell upon the house. 280 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:06,320 And outside, the streets were so silent, 281 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,320 she could hear distinctly the clock from a church tower 282 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:12,320 a mile away, told the owl. 283 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,320 In her troubled frenzy, 284 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:16,320 she pictured a lone figure 285 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,320 plodding through the deep fog, 286 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,320 moving quietly, 287 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:21,320 stealthily, 288 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,320 stalkingly, 289 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:24,320 searching, 290 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:26,320 finding. 291 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,320 When, soon after, she heard the ludge of return, 292 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,320 she sought to quiet the horrible dread 293 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:38,320 which had possessed her. 294 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,320 She assured herself that Daisy's arrival that day 295 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,320 was no cause for alarm. 296 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,320 Now she reasoned, 297 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,320 how could there be anything really evil 298 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,320 about so religious a gentleman as Mr. Sleuth? 299 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,320 But for her, there was no more sleep, 300 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:53,320 merely a tormented state of half-consciousness, 301 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,320 a state which suddenly had dropped from her 302 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,320 shortly after pay break. 303 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,320 Horrible murder! 304 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,320 Horrible murder. 305 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,320 That was the piercing scream of a newsboy 306 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:07,320 far down the street. 307 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,320 The Avenger strikes during night! 308 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,320 Then in bunting, heard the boy cry out 309 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,320 the Avenger's latest trope, 310 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:16,320 made during the night. 311 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,320 It's the Avenger! 312 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,320 Horrible murder in King's Trough! 313 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:26,320 A man of sex, he's become an Avenger! 314 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,320 He's become an Avenger! 315 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:30,320 The Avenger strikes again! 316 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,320 He's become an Avenger! 317 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:36,320 A victim of my horrible murder! 318 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:37,320 Avenger! 319 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:38,320 Avenger! 320 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:51,320 Avenger! 321 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,320 Ellen's first glimpse that morning 322 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,320 of the grave-faced lodger 323 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,320 brought the steepest night's warm terror 324 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,320 full to the surface. 325 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:00,320 But on the next instant, 326 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:04,320 she saw the pitilable helpless weariness in his eyes, 327 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:08,320 and curiously the terror began to pass. 328 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:09,320 She found that she was hoping desperate 329 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,320 that her fears were unfounded. 330 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:13,320 Earlier, she had determined to tell bunting 331 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,320 of the awful convictions in her mind. 332 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,320 Now, however, she felt she must be certain, 333 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,320 certain before she spoke to a soul. 334 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,320 She knew there was one thing she must examine. 335 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,320 That was the lodger's single piece of luggage. 336 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:26,320 She'd thought of it often. 337 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,320 What could it hold? 338 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:29,320 Not much in the way of clothing, surely. 339 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:32,320 It was too small, too narrow. 340 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,320 It was more like a case. 341 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,320 A case for a knife. 342 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:42,320 It was along toward noon 343 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:43,320 that Ellen found her opportunity 344 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,320 to search the lodger's room. 345 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:47,320 Soon after bunting left to meet Daisy, 346 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:49,320 Mr. Sleuth himself walked from the house. 347 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:50,320 Ellen watched the tall, thin figure 348 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,320 in the black, inward-esquip 349 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:53,320 disappear down the street, 350 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,320 and then she rushed upstairs into the room. 351 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:57,320 Quickly, she moved to the closet. 352 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,320 It was no different from what it had always been. 353 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:00,320 I tell you empty. 354 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:01,320 She found nothing into the bed. 355 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:02,320 She went then to the chest of drawers 356 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:03,320 against the wall. 357 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:04,320 She opened the top drawer 358 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:05,320 and found inside nothing but a frayed shirt, 359 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:06,320 two handkerchiefs, 360 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:08,320 the next drawer underclothes, socks, 361 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:09,320 the next empty. 362 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:10,320 There remained then only one possible place 363 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:11,320 for the small, narrow bag, 364 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,320 the bottom drawer, and it was locked. 365 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:15,320 Tugging at the drawer, she heard suddenly 366 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,320 the opening of the front door downstairs. 367 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:19,320 Panic stricken, she rushed out of the room 368 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,320 and down the hall to the head of the stairs. 369 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:22,320 Upstairs, Ellen. 370 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,320 Ellen, Daisy's here. 371 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,320 Oh, Mother Ellen, it's so good to see you. 372 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,320 Oh, whatever's the matter? 373 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:30,320 Yeah, she's gone quite white. 374 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,320 Oh, well, I'm all right. 375 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:35,320 I wasn't expecting you so soon. 376 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:38,320 Oh, you don't know how fine it is to be back, Mother Ellen. 377 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:39,320 The country's all right in its way, 378 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,320 but there's nothing like London now, is there? 379 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:43,320 No, no, there isn't. 380 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:44,320 But as long as that avenger's about, 381 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,320 I can see we're going to have to do something 382 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:47,320 about these blonde locks, say, Ellen. 383 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:49,320 Oh, don't worry about that. 384 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,320 I'll dye them maybe, or just pin them under my hat. 385 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,320 Daisy, I might as well get you settled. 386 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:56,320 Oh, now, Father, isn't that just like her? 387 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,320 She's straight to the point. 388 00:14:58,320 --> 00:14:59,320 No, of course. 389 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:00,320 With a sixpence, she'll have a dust cloth in your hand 390 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,320 before you've got your coat off. 391 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:03,320 Oh. 392 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:07,320 Mr. Sleuth. 393 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,320 Mrs. Bunting, I see my door is open. 394 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,320 Oh, we were just leaving, sir. 395 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,320 Does this mean that all of you have been in my room? 396 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:14,320 Oh, not at all, sir. 397 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:15,320 What must I do? Keep it locked? 398 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,320 But you see, sir, I was just tidying up a bit, 399 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,320 and Mr. Bunting, he brought his daughter up, sir. 400 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,320 She just arrived. 401 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:24,320 Mrs. Daisy, sir. 402 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,320 Pleased to meet you, sir. 403 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,320 She's been away for quite a long while, you see, Mr. Sleuth, 404 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,320 and that's why we're a bit excited, you might say. 405 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:34,320 Yes, you must have been surprised when you came in, 406 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:36,320 hearing us laughing and carrying on that way. 407 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:38,320 Yes, yes, I must say I was. 408 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:43,320 However, Miss Daisy, there are all types of joy, are there not? 409 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:45,320 Yes, I'm sure there are. 410 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,320 The despicable evil joy of the abandoned 411 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,320 and the divine happiness of the blessed. 412 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,320 A vast difference, that. 413 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,320 You do understand me, don't you? 414 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,320 Yes, sir. Yes, Mr. Sleuth. 415 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,320 I devoutly hope so, Miss Daisy. 416 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,320 Nowadays there are so very few young women like yourself who do. 417 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:06,320 In fact, I... I all but despair ever of finding one. 418 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,320 If... if you'll excuse us now, sir, 419 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:10,320 we'll... we'll be getting Daisy's things put away. 420 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:14,320 Of course, Mrs. Bunting, and I must be getting to my room. 421 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,320 Believe me, Miss Daisy, it's been a revelation to meet you. 422 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,320 Oh, thank you, sir. 423 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:21,320 I'm sure we shall have much to discuss. 424 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:26,320 You're a queer when all right, but such a gentleman, Miss Daisy. 425 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:37,320 At that moment, Ellen had been determined to pour out her terrible knowledge, 426 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,320 and then the moment passed by. 427 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,320 She told herself that perhaps the past few days had been nothing more 428 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,320 than a grim illusion, a tormenting play of imagination. 429 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,320 She would wait then until she had attended the Colonel's inquest 430 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:50,320 into the last avenge of murder. 431 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,320 There, perhaps, she would hear evidence to disprove all her fears, 432 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:57,320 to assure her there was no earthly harm in Daisy being so near the lodge. 433 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,320 This was her gravest concern now, 434 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:03,320 for on the next day, Mr. Sleuth made it a point to see the girl more than once, 435 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:07,320 and fearfully, Ellen saw that Daisy welcomed his visits. 436 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,320 As Ellen was preparing to step out to the inquest, 437 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:13,320 she heard once more the voices of her stepdaughter and the lodger 438 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:16,320 coming to her through the kitchen door. 439 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:18,320 She hesitated before entering. 440 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:23,320 Intense. Strangely apprehensive. 441 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:27,320 I do believe, Mrs. Sleuth, I've never known a gentleman with such funny ideas. 442 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:31,320 Oh, Mother Ellen, you should hear what Mr. Sleuth was just saying. 443 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,320 Perhaps, Daisy, you would excuse yourself. 444 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:37,320 He thinks people, and especially girls, should spend all their time praying. 445 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:39,320 I sought to explain, Mrs. Bunting, 446 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,320 that all women are placed on this earth filled with evil. 447 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:46,320 They therefore must struggle constantly to find the paths of righteousness. 448 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:50,320 Why, Mr. Sleuth, you mean a girl's not to enjoy life at all? 449 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:51,320 Not to have fun? 450 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,320 Frivolity, my child, is the devil's breeding ground, 451 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,320 and all his implements are there. 452 00:17:56,320 --> 00:18:00,320 Temptation, pleasure, wine. 453 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,320 Oh, that's crazy. 454 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,320 Well, there's nothing I like better than a glass of wine, and I'm... 455 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:07,320 You drink. 456 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,320 She didn't know what she was saying, Mr. Sleuth. 457 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,320 Just a child, and Daisy, you'd better go now. 458 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,320 But I didn't say nothing wrong. 459 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:18,320 What's the harm in a glass of wine? 460 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,320 She lieth in wait as for a prey, 461 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:22,320 and increaseth the transgressors among men. 462 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,320 I don't know what you mean. 463 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,320 I never heard such nonsense. 464 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,320 You call holy scripture nonsense? 465 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:30,320 So what I prayed against is true. 466 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,320 You are beyond salvation. 467 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,320 That's not so. I'm a good girl, I am, and I won't have you saying that. 468 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,320 Daisy, Daisy, go into the front room. 469 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:41,320 It's quite all right, Mrs. Bunting. I must be going upstairs anyway. 470 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,320 I'm used to being misunderstood, you know. 471 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:47,320 People never realize that my efforts are simply for the greater good of humanity. 472 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:49,320 Of course, sir. 473 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:53,320 And that the power on high will direct my hand toward the expulsion of all evil. 474 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,320 Daisy, Daisy, listen to me. 475 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:58,320 Yes? 476 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:00,320 I've got to tell you about... about... 477 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:02,320 About what, Mother Ellen? 478 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,320 Nothing. I've got to go out for a while now. 479 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:13,320 I'll be back. 480 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:20,320 The moment to reveal the secret horror had come again and passed. 481 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:22,320 Ellen's sudden recollection of Mr. Sluphes, 482 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:24,320 as he stood in the doorway, had overwhelmed her. 483 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:26,320 She must give him this vast chance, 484 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,320 this last frantic search for disproving evidence, 485 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,320 this trip to the inquest. 486 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,320 If that chance should fail, 487 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,320 she would tell Bunting or the police. 488 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,320 So, with the knowledge that Bunting was left in the house to look after Daisy, 489 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,320 she boarded the underground train bound for the coroner's court. 490 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,320 But as the train pulled away from the station, 491 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:48,320 a new torture came to her, began to mount in her mind. 492 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,320 It was the sudden realization that provided Sluphes was the murderer, 493 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,320 she was equally responsible for his crimes. 494 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,320 She had been giving him protection. 495 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:01,320 Protection, protection, protection, protection, protection. 496 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:05,320 If anything should happen to Daisy, she would be equally guilty. 497 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:09,320 Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. 498 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,320 Only as guilty as the Avenger. 499 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:35,320 Avenger, Avenger, Avenger, Avenger. 500 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:39,320 Alan, seated at the rail of the small but crowded inquest room, 501 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,160 seated at the rear of the small but crowded inquest room, 502 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,420 listened to each of the witnesses as they were called. 503 00:20:44,420 --> 00:20:48,080 And from one of them she found the first hope she had known for many days. 504 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:52,460 This witness lived next to the alley in which the avenger had committed his crime that night. 505 00:20:52,460 --> 00:20:57,420 She had seen him from her window and the man she described in no way resembled Evans Largent. 506 00:20:57,420 --> 00:21:01,040 But in another moment, Evans' hope was swept away. 507 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,080 It was pointed out that the fog had been so heavy that night 508 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,680 that the witness could not possibly have seen the murderer from her window. 509 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:10,280 She left the stand replaced by a Mr. Cannot. 510 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:14,680 This elderly gentleman was certain that he had not only seen but talked with the avenger. 511 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,480 He was in Regent's Park, he testified, only a few moments before... 512 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,640 Only a few moments before the murder, Mr. Coroner. 513 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:26,200 When I saw him, he was quite a tall man, very gaunt looking and carrying a handbag. 514 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:27,480 A handbag, you say? 515 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,640 Yes, a small, narrow one. 516 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:33,720 Just such a bag, I might add, as might contain a knife. 517 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,000 Has Ellen heard these words? 518 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,960 The tension which had been mounting up within her became almost unbearable. 519 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,120 Rigid with horror, she gripped the arms of her chair. 520 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:41,560 She heard the coroner... 521 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:45,560 I shall have to ask for more order in the court. 522 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:49,320 And now, Mr. Cannot, I understand you heard this man speak. 523 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,600 Oh, yes, he had a rather high, hesitating voice. 524 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,640 An educated man, I would judge, but quite mad. 525 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:56,680 What do you mean by that? 526 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,920 Well, as he emerged from the fog, he was talking aloud to himself. 527 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:05,960 Believe me, sir, he was reciting scriptures from the Bible. 528 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,440 Scriptures from the Bible? 529 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:16,360 Horrified, Ellen rose from her seat, only half hearing the confusion about her. 530 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:19,960 Are you asking us to believe? 531 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:25,960 I would say, Mr. Cannot, that the man we are looking for would be least of all, a religious man. 532 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,120 And that's where you're in error, Mr. Coroner. 533 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:30,920 The religious note is the very key to the case. 534 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,080 Very interesting. That'll be all, Mr. Cannot. 535 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,040 Just a moment, sir. Don't you understand? 536 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,320 The man you're after must be a religious maniac. 537 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,160 That's the only explanation possible. 538 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,160 You will please stand down. 539 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,080 The court was dismissing the very truth. 540 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:48,440 Ellen knew that now. 541 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:49,800 She would no longer keep silent. 542 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:51,800 Her hands shut forth and she screamed. 543 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,400 I... I want to say... 544 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,400 Ellen Bunting, on the verge of speaking, fainted. 545 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,400 And then, when she was revived a few moments later, she said nothing. 546 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,400 Her brain was in too great a turmoil. 547 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,400 Her nerves too shocked. 548 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,400 Like one in a dream, she allowed herself to be led from the courtroom. 549 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,400 The voices of spectators were only vague sounds to her. 550 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,400 I thought she was going to say something. 551 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,400 Yes, it was hysterics. 552 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,400 Yeah, that bit about the noise. 553 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,400 I thought she was going to say something. 554 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,960 Yes, it was hysterics. Yeah, that bit about the knife. 555 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:23,960 Yeah, the knife. 556 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,960 The knife. The knife. 557 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:27,960 As Ellen Bunting proceeded home, 558 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,960 with the remarks from the spectators remain in her mind, 559 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:31,960 she heard them over and over. 560 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,960 That bit about the knife. 561 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:35,960 Such a vag is making me... 562 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:37,960 That knife. 563 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,960 We all see she stays closer than the house, eh? 564 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:43,960 No harm in being safe. 565 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:45,960 Direct my hand toward the expulsion of all evil. 566 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,960 Expulsion of all evil. 567 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,960 I saw her in a glass of wine. 568 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,960 I didn't say nothing wrong. 569 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,960 As Ellen neared her neighborhood, 570 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:55,960 her dread increased. 571 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,960 With each moving footstep, the grip of terror grew tighter, 572 00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,960 tighter about her. 573 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:01,960 She moved faster, faster. 574 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:03,960 Before she were in time, she was two streets away from the house. 575 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:05,960 Then one, then... 576 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:07,960 Then she saw Bunting. 577 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,960 Sharp like the thrust of a knife, she realized what this meant. 578 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,960 Daisy was left alone with the lodger. 579 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:13,960 BUNTING! 580 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:15,960 BUNTING! 581 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:17,960 Yes, your son in? What is it? 582 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,960 Oh, Bunting, tell me, Bunting. 583 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:21,960 Where's Daisy? Where is she? I say, where? 584 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,960 Why, at home. 585 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:25,960 Oh, listen to me. Try to understand. 586 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,960 Sleuth is the Avenger. 587 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:29,960 What are you saying? 588 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,960 Oh, lodger, he's the Avenger, Bunting. 589 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:33,960 Oh, but there's no time for that. Daisy's in danger. Hurry! 590 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:43,960 Here we are, Bunting. Here we are. 591 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,960 Daisy! Daisy! 592 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:47,960 Daisy, where are you? I look in the kitchen, Bunting. 593 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:49,960 You try the sitting room. 594 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:51,960 Daisy! Daisy! Where are you, Daisy? 595 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,960 Answer me, Daisy! 596 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,960 Oh. 597 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:57,960 She's right in the bedroom. 598 00:24:57,960 --> 00:24:59,960 Geez, she's not here. What about the dining room? 599 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:01,960 She's not there. She's not downstairs. 600 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:03,960 She has just his room. 601 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:13,960 Go on. 602 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,960 Open the door. 603 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:17,960 Oh. 604 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:33,960 Cut! 605 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,960 Okay, Mr. Hitchcock. 606 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,960 Track cut and clear. 607 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:39,960 Did you say cut? What's the idea, Hitch? I've a few more lines to do. 608 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,960 As Mr. Marshall, the narrator, you have. 609 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:45,960 As Mr. Sloof, the lodger. 610 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:47,960 Hitch, you can't stop the play right here. It isn't fair, you know. 611 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,960 Why isn't it, Bob? 612 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:51,960 What more is there to say? 613 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,960 But, Mr. Hitchcock, won't people want to know what Bunting and me found in the room? 614 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,960 All right, Ellen. What precisely did you find? 615 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:01,960 Well, nothing, sir. 616 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,960 There. You see? Nothing. 617 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:05,960 No lodger, no Bible. 618 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:07,960 And that locked dresser drawer. 619 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:09,960 What about that? 620 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,960 We unlocked it, sir. 621 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,960 Nothing, sir. 622 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,960 You asked certain Mrs. Bunting? 623 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,960 Oh, you gave me quite a turn, Mr. Sloof. 624 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:19,960 I mean, Mr. Marshall. Yes, sir, I'm sure, sir. 625 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:21,960 There was nothing. 626 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:23,960 Well, forgive me, Mr. Hitchcock, but don't you think we'd better just mention about Daisy? 627 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:25,960 I don't know, Bunting. 628 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:27,960 What do you think we ought to say? 629 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,960 Well, just that the reason she wasn't in the house when Ellen and me got there was... 630 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,960 Well, she'd gone out for a walk, that's all. 631 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,960 Did she enjoy it? 632 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,960 Oh, very much, sir. Made it to King's Cross and back in just under an hour, sir. 633 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,960 Splendid time, Bunting. 634 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,960 Well, there you are, Bart. 635 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,960 There's the story. 636 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:45,960 Now, wait a minute, Mr. Hitchcock. You can't do that. 637 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:47,960 That's not the story. Of course it's not. 638 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:49,960 Now, look here, Hitch, here's the fellow who composed and conducted all our music, Wilbur Hitch. 639 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,960 He wants to know about this, too. Everybody does. 640 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:53,960 All right, Bart. 641 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,960 What is it they want to know? 642 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:57,960 What became of Mr. Sloof? 643 00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,960 Oh, him. Why, he left that afternoon. 644 00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:01,960 They never saw him again. 645 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:03,960 And now I think we ought to say something about the Columbia Forecast show... 646 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:05,960 Mr. Hitchcock, sir, will you please... 647 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,960 Stop him, Mr. Marshall. 648 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,960 Listen to me. 649 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:11,960 Yes? What is it? 650 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:13,960 They want to know when the Avenger finally was caught. 651 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,960 Oh, well, let me ask you something, Bart. 652 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,960 Are you acquainted with Lauretta Young? 653 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,960 Yes. What's that got to do with it? 654 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:21,960 Well, in next week's Columbia Preview series, 655 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,960 Miss Young will take the starring role in the drama of an American Red Cross nurse. 656 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:25,960 That's good news, isn't it? 657 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:27,960 Oh, that's great. 658 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:29,960 But now, listen, Hitch, 659 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,960 you've just got to tell that audience exactly when and how Mr. Sloof was caught. 660 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,960 Caught? 661 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,960 Why on earth should he be caught? 662 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:37,960 Why? Well, he was the Avenger, wasn't he? 663 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,960 Was he? 664 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:53,960 Your guest, gentle listener, is as good as ours. 665 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:55,960 Even Mrs. Bella Glowns, who wrote the novel, isn't entirely sure. 666 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:01,960 For his masterful direction, 667 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,960 our thanks to Alfred Hitchcock, whose latest pictures are 668 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,960 David O. Selznick's Rebecca and Walter Wanger's Foreign Correspondent. 669 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,960 For his superb characterization of Mr. Sloof, 670 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:11,960 our thanks to Herbert Marshall. 671 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,960 And our thanks to the outstanding British character actor 672 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,960 who tonight portrayed the role of Bunting, Edmund Gwen. 673 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:21,960 If you liked tonight's programme and want to hear more 674 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:23,960 in the same highly original Hitchcock vein, 675 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:25,960 radio versions of The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps, for example, 676 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:27,960 write to CBS and tell us so. 677 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,960 Your interest will help bring suspense to the air as a weekly feature. 678 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,960 Forecast next week presents from Hollywood, 679 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,960 Loretta Young in Angel, 680 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,960 first of a proposed series based on the adventures 681 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:51,960 and the romance of a typical Red Cross nurse. 682 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:53,960 From New York, a new sort of comedy show, 683 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,960 Ed Gardner as Archie, 684 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:57,960 in Duffy's Tavern, 685 00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,960 with Gertrude Neeson, Colonel Stupnagle, 686 00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:01,960 Larry Adler and John Kirby's Orchestra. 687 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,960 Don't miss forecast at this hour next week. 688 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,960 Thomas Friedanzen speaking. 689 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:25,960 From their broadcasting system.