1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Will you give a few seconds of your time to help win this war? 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Then listen. At Stalingrad the other day, a Nazi tank unit attacked a corps of Russian soldiers. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,000 The Russians tried to stop the tanks and fought until their guns were silenced. 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,000 Then did they surrender? Did they retreat? 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:24,000 No. Eighteen of them rushed forward with bombs in their hands, got under the tanks and blew them up. 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 They gave their lives for their country. 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:34,000 You and I are not asked to give our lives for ours. All we're asked to do is buy war bonds and stamps. 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Our American soldiers are giving their lives for us each day. 9 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,000 More and more of them every day. 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Columbia's parade of outstanding thrillers, produced by William Spear and scored by Bernard Herman. 16 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:42,000 The notable melodramas from stage and screen, fiction and radio, presented each week to bring you to the edge of your chair. 17 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 To keep you in service. 18 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Tonight's story deals with a remote and dangerous house, and a terrifying thing that happened there because the rain went on for days and days. 19 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:04,100 The 20 00:02:04,100 --> 00:02:15,200 Tonight's story deals with a remote and dangerous house, and a terrifying thing that happened there because the rain went on for days and days. 21 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:21,200 It deals with a surgeon and a girl, a giant and a young man who took a long chance. 22 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:28,200 And over them all, the moan of the night wind and the ceaseless roar of the storm. 23 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:43,200 For your suspenseful listening, we invite you to learn about... 24 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:56,200 The Kepler Method. 25 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:04,200 Four days of rain have been ceaseless, teeming, pouring with a steady, relentless rhythm. 26 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:14,200 Four solid days. The fields around Coulston had been turned into huge puddles that reflected the heavy, swollen sky. 27 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:18,200 And Dr. Morrissey was stirred by a deep anxiety. 28 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:25,200 He stood beside a window in his sanitarium, which rose high on a lonely hill, a few miles from the little town of Coulston. 29 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,200 He stared into the jagged, spraying screen of rain. 30 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:35,200 It was just three o'clock. Three o'clock of an afternoon he would long remember. 31 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:45,200 He was on the point of sending for Caffrey, the ward attendant, when the door opened, and Caffrey came in, pale, disturbed. 32 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:46,200 Dr. Morrissey. 33 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,200 Is there anything wrong, Caffrey? 34 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,200 I don't know. There's a feeling down in the ward. 35 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,200 Feeling? 36 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,200 This rain's going on too long. 37 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:55,200 The patient's getting uneasy? 38 00:03:55,200 --> 00:04:01,200 They're bound to, ain't they? If a guy with good nerves gets jumpy, I can imagine what it does to theirs. 39 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,200 Seem to be affecting anyone in particular? 40 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,200 Number five's been carrying on. 41 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:06,200 Kettler? 42 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,200 Yeah. I brought him up. Nurse Carter's waiting with him out in the hall. 43 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:11,200 Bad as that. 44 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:15,200 He's upsetting the others. He keeps asking for some guy named Benham. 45 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,200 Oh, that's the man he killed. 46 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,200 I didn't know he was homicidal. 47 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:23,200 Oh, it was an accident. He was performing a brain surgery on Benham and... 48 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:24,200 Him? 49 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,200 Oh, Kettler was a very important surgeon, Caffrey. Didn't you know that? 50 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,200 He keeps saying so, but... 51 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,200 It's perfectly true. Very successful Dr. Kettler was. 52 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:36,200 Until he perfected an operative procedure that he called the Kettler Method. 53 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,200 A new process of brain operation. Spent most of his life on it and... 54 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:44,200 Well, when he tried it for the first time on this young lad Benham and... 55 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,200 Benham died on the table, it... it unbalanced his mind. 56 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,200 I've got to go back down there now. 57 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,200 I think you'd better wait while I talk with Kettler. 58 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,200 Okay, I'll bring him in. But don't make it long. 59 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,200 I don't like the feel of things around here. 60 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,200 Nurse! Miss Carter! 61 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:00,200 Yes, we're coming. 62 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,200 You can bring him in now. 63 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,200 Come along. Dr. Morrissey wants to see you. 64 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,200 Does he now? Does he? 65 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:09,200 Come in, Kettler. 66 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:13,200 I'd like to ask Dr. Morrissey a question. 67 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,200 I'd like to ask him a question. 68 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,200 Yes, Dr. Kettler. 69 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,200 I should like to ask him where lad Benham is. 70 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,200 I know he'll never tell me. 71 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:23,200 But I will, Kettler. 72 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,200 Lad Benham is buried somewhere out there under the rain. 73 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,200 He is at peace, Kettler. 74 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,200 Can't you forget about him? Just forget. 75 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,200 You'd all like me to forget about him, wouldn't you? 76 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,200 Then you could keep him hidden away forever, couldn't you? 77 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,200 Benham is dead, Kettler. You know that. Benham died. 78 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,200 He did not. He's alive. 79 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,200 He was alive when you and the rest of the envious medical profession... 80 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,200 stole him from the operating table. 81 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,200 Kidnapped him with my bandages still round his head. 82 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:52,200 You were determined to make the Kettler Method seem a failure, weren't you? 83 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:53,200 Weren't you? 84 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:54,200 Easy, easy now. 85 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:55,200 Believe me, Kettler. 86 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:59,200 I let Benham die now, Dr. Morrissey. 87 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,200 He's in the cellar under the ward downstairs, isn't he? 88 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:03,200 Isn't he? 89 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:04,200 Kettler. 90 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,200 Let me see him. 91 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,200 There. Benham. 92 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,200 You'd better take him down, Keffrey. 93 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,200 All right. Come along now, sir. 94 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:13,200 I'll take him, nurse. 95 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,200 You won't show him to me. 96 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,200 Even though it would make me well again. 97 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,200 My cellars are empty, Kettler. Believe me, Benham isn't there. 98 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,200 You sit there in power and order me away. 99 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:23,200 Come on, Kettler. 100 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,200 There's something I have to say. 101 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:29,200 I've always been above violence, Dr. Morrissey. 102 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,200 But the time comes when there's no other course. 103 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,200 This is a warning, doctor. A warning. 104 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,200 And the joke is that you won't heed it. 105 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:38,200 Come on with your... 106 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,200 You won't heed it now. 107 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,200 But you'll remember it. And soon you'll remember it. 108 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,200 Tables turned, Dr. Morrissey. 109 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,200 Tables turned. 110 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,200 Poor thing. 111 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,200 I'm afraid I'm failing with him. 112 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:58,200 Failing completely. 113 00:06:58,200 --> 00:06:59,200 But you're not. 114 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,200 It takes time to put a man back together. 115 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,200 It's taken me too long with Kettler. 116 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,200 I'm beginning to be afraid. 117 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,200 If you'll pardon me, doctor. 118 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:08,200 Yes? 119 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:09,200 I do think you're making a mistake. 120 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:10,200 With him? 121 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,200 No. With yourself. 122 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,200 You haven't had a real vacation in three years, Dr. Morrissey. 123 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:19,200 Oh. You think I'm wearing a bit thin just now, don't you? 124 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:20,200 And you're right. 125 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,200 But I really can't leave my patients in anyone else's hands. 126 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:25,200 Not now, at any rate. 127 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,200 No, I'll have to make the best of it. 128 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:28,200 But you need relaxation. 129 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,200 I know, I know. 130 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,200 Well, I hope to soothe my ragged nerves somewhat over this weekend. 131 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,200 I've some friends coming down from the city Friday night. 132 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,200 Leslie and Claire Winton. 133 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,200 Young married couple, newlyweds. 134 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,200 And I'm just going to relax with them and forget everything until Monday morning. 135 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,200 You must, doctor. You do need it so badly. 136 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:47,200 Oh, by the way, doctor. 137 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:48,200 Yes? 138 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,200 I slipped some of those new sample bandages into your coat pocket. 139 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,200 Thanks. Thanks. I'll have a look at them. 140 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,200 I think they're quite good. The salesman said that... 141 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,200 Yes, nurse. What is it? 142 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,200 Did... did you hear something? 143 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,200 Thunder, wasn't it? 144 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:09,200 Something else besides thunder. I thought it. 145 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,200 Well, I didn't hear it. 146 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,200 My nerves must be getting the best of me. 147 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:16,200 Perhaps it's a case of nurse heal thyself, eh? 148 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:19,200 I'm not the only one who needs a rest. 149 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,200 You know, it might be a very good idea if we both... 150 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:24,200 Move! 151 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:25,200 Dr. Morrissey. 152 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:26,200 I heard that. 153 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:27,200 What is it? 154 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,200 It's coming from the ward. Sounds like... 155 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:30,200 That was a shock, nurse. 156 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,200 You get on the phone. Call the police at Colston. 157 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,200 Hello? Hello? Hello? 158 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:36,200 Keep at it. Keep at it. 159 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:38,200 Hello? 160 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,200 Someone's trying to get in from the hall. 161 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,200 Dr. Morrissey! Dr. Morrissey! 162 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,200 It's Caffrey. Just a moment. 163 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,200 Caffrey! Caffrey, what is it? 164 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,200 It's ganged up on me. 165 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,200 All of them are coming up the stairs. 166 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,200 Kittler, clear out of here. 167 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,200 Steady, nurse. 168 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,200 He's dead, isn't he? Isn't he? 169 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,200 Yes. 170 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,200 Dr. Morrissey. 171 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:10,200 Kittler! 172 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,200 Remember my warning. 173 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:14,200 Remember it, doctor. 174 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,200 Tables turn, Dr. Morrissey. 175 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:40,200 Tables turn. 176 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,200 It rained for three more days. 177 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,200 Friday night came, black, wet and glistening. 178 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,200 The 815 Express groaned into Colston Station, 179 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:56,200 bringing Leslie and Claire Wentley out from the city with their weekend luggage. 180 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,200 Isn't Dr. Morrissey sending his car for us, Leslie? 181 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,200 Yes, Claire. The chauffeur was supposed to drive us over to the sanitarium to pick up the dock, 182 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,200 and then we're all going over to his house together. 183 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,200 I don't see any car to you. 184 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,200 I don't see anything but water. 185 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:18,200 Maybe we're rowing over in a skiff. 186 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,200 Oh, oh, I hate that sound. 187 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,200 Like somebody's in agony. 188 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,200 I think you're a little depressed, dear. 189 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,200 Well, I shouldn't be surprised. 190 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,200 My head's still aching dreadfully. 191 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,200 Poor lover. How long's that been going on now? 192 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,200 Almost a week. It frightens me. 193 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,200 I don't think it's anything serious. 194 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,200 Waiting in the rain like this doesn't do it any good, I'm sure. 195 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:47,200 I don't understand. Docks usually sell punctual right on the dot. 196 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,200 You don't suppose we ought to call the sanitarium... 197 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,200 You people for Dr. Morrissey, yes? 198 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,200 Well, yes, yes, we're the Wintons. 199 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,200 Doc sent you to pick us up? 200 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:03,200 Aye, Kato. Dr. Morrissey's chauffeur. 201 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,200 You got luggage? 202 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:07,200 Yes. Here it is. 203 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:11,200 I take. You follow me to Carr. Come. 204 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,200 We're coming. 205 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:15,200 Leslie? 206 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:16,200 Yes? 207 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,200 He's tremendous, isn't he? 208 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,200 He must be six and a half feet tall. 209 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,200 I'm over six myself, darling. 210 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,200 He's nearer eight. That's a giant. 211 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:29,200 Get those shoulders. He could snap me in two like a matchstick. 212 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,200 Well, I hope he likes us. 213 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,200 So do I, light of my life. 214 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,200 Far waiting. You come, please. 215 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,200 But I really don't think he does. 216 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,200 Coming. 217 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:00,200 The heavy car lurched and hurtled over the rain-soaked roads, 218 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:06,200 tearing wildly through the dark and careening up the hillside toward the stark walls of the sanitarium. 219 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,200 It skidded to a standstill in front of the main entrance, 220 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:13,200 and cold, black Kato led them inside. 221 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:19,200 The brightly lit corridors were deserted, silent, like hallways in a nightmare. 222 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,200 Claire was aware of her headache growing steadily worse. 223 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,200 This Kato opened the double doors and ushered them into the waiting room. 224 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,200 You'll tell Dr. Morrissey we're here, huh? 225 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:34,200 Doctor, be with you soon. You do not go away. 226 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,200 Yes, thanks. 227 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,200 I hope we're not staying in here very long. 228 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,200 It isn't very cheery, is it? 229 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,200 I don't like places like this. 230 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:54,200 I suppose it's very foolish of me, but I always feel as if I'm in some sort of danger. 231 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,200 That's the headache again. 232 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:00,200 Everything seems worse than it really is when you're not feeling well. 233 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:01,200 Don't you always find... 234 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:02,200 Leslie. 235 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:03,200 Yes? 236 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,200 Listen. What is it? 237 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,200 Somebody's knocking. 238 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,200 Just a moment. 239 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,200 Gracias, adios. 240 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:13,200 Who is it, Leslie? 241 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,200 I don't know. 242 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,200 What? You do not know me? 243 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,200 I am Arturo Alvarez, the South American pianist. 244 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:21,200 You have heard of me? 245 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:26,200 Sure, I've heard of Arturo Alvarez, but I'd hardly expect to find him in... 246 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,200 Leslie, humor him. 247 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,200 Of course, for a moment I forgot where I was. 248 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:35,200 I've heard of you, Mr. Alvarez. Is there anything I can do for you? 249 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,200 Will you help me? I must get out of this place. 250 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,200 Oh, sure. 251 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:44,200 I came here several days ago to be treated for a mild nervous trouble. 252 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,200 Now they won't let me go. 253 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:52,200 I am being held a prisoner, and tonight I am scheduled to give a concert at Carnegie Hall, 254 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,200 and I must get out of here. Please, will you help me? 255 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:58,200 Ah, number 10 out of the ward again, I see. 256 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,200 How many times must I tell you that that is strictly against the rules? 257 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:06,200 I was doing nothing wrong. I was only telling this gentleman that I must be at Carnegie Hall for my concert. 258 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,200 Yes, yes, yes. I'm sure the gentleman was very interested. 259 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:10,200 Kato. 260 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:11,200 Yes, doctor? 261 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:13,200 Kato, you will escort number 10 back to the ward 262 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,200 and see to it that he doesn't wander back into the waiting room. 263 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,200 No, no, I will not be taken back to the ward. Help me. 264 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:20,200 Oh, no. 265 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:24,200 Help me, no. No, no, no. No. 266 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:28,200 Ah, how strongly he believes in his delusion. 267 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,200 Strange fantasy of a diseased mind. 268 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,200 Seriously believes that he's Arturo Alvarez. 269 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,200 He was telling me. 270 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,200 Why, I'm very sorry. I'm afraid I haven't been very cordial. 271 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,200 Won't you sit down? Is there anything I can do for you? 272 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,200 Well, you see, Dr. Morrissey invited us up for the weekend. 273 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,200 Oh, yes, of course. He told me he was expecting you. 274 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:47,200 Does he know we're here? 275 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,200 I'm afraid not. 276 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:53,200 Dr. Morrissey was unexpectedly called away on an emergency case, 277 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:56,200 and I'm in charge of the sanitarium until he returns. 278 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,200 Well, do you have any idea about when that'll be? 279 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:00,200 It's very hard to say. 280 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:04,200 However, he asked me to ask you to wait and see to it that you're made comfortable. 281 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,200 Let me see now. Your name is? 282 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,200 Wynton, Leslie Wynton, and this is my wife, Claire. 283 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,200 Ah, yes. Let me introduce myself. 284 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,200 I'm Dr. Kettler, Dr. Morrissey's assistant. 285 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:19,200 What can I do for you? A bite of food or a drink, perhaps? 286 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:20,200 I don't think so. 287 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,200 There's nothing in the world I want so much as an aspirin. 288 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:24,200 Aspirin? 289 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,200 Yes, Doctor, she's had a headache that's been troubling her for days. 290 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:27,200 It's terribly annoying. 291 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:31,200 I can well imagine. Annoying and interesting. 292 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,200 That is, to a man of my profession, of course. 293 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,200 But if you will step into the inner office, 294 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,200 I think I can offer you something a good deal more effective. 295 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:40,200 Oh, I'd hate to trouble you. 296 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,200 No trouble at all. I find these things most intriguing. 297 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:44,200 Should I, Leslie? 298 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:48,200 I think you might as well. Morrissey won't be back for a long time by the looks of things. 299 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:52,200 You're quite right, Mr. Wynton. Dr. Morrissey won't be back for a long, long time. 300 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,200 Well, then, which way do I go? 301 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:58,200 Right this way, the large door on your left. 302 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,200 You won't mind waiting alone, will you, darling? 303 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,200 Oh, Mr. Wynton shall make himself comfortable. 304 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,200 There are cigarettes in the box, whiskey in the liquor cabinet, 305 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,200 and no radio behind the ferns there. 306 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,200 I'm sure he'll be quite happy. 307 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:10,200 After you, Mrs. Wynton. 308 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:12,200 If Dr. Morrissey comes in, let me know. 309 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,200 I hope you'll find everything you want, sir. 310 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,200 Thanks. Oh, by the way, doctor. 311 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:18,200 Yes? 312 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,200 You said you had something better than aspirin. 313 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,200 I didn't know there was anything better than aspirin for a headache. 314 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,200 I have something, Mr. Wynton. 315 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:26,200 Really? 316 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:31,200 It is a process which I invented myself, one that never fails. 317 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:39,200 A little treatment, very effective and highly complicated, called the Kettler Method. 318 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:44,200 Please make yourself at home, Mr. Wynton. 319 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,200 Leslie sat there alone in the big waiting room for a while. 320 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,200 Then creeps began setting in and he thought to himself, 321 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,200 maybe I'll have that drink after all. 322 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:11,200 He rose and went over to the liquor cabinet that Kettler had pointed out to him and opened it. 323 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,200 Why, there's nothing in here but books. 324 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,200 Yes, books. 325 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:20,200 Books that were so thick with dust that it was clear they'd been there for months. 326 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,200 No drink for Leslie. Maybe a cigarette. 327 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,200 Kettler said the box was full. 328 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,200 He picked it up and started opening it. 329 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:31,200 Why, it isn't even a cigarette box. The darn thing's a book end. 330 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,200 Yes, that's just what it was. 331 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:39,200 Leslie began to think it was a tough job making himself at home in that waiting room. 332 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,200 Then the idea occurred to him. 333 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,200 Maybe the radio works. 334 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:48,200 He went over to the radio then, turned it on and... 335 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:54,200 We are sorry to announce that the program scheduled for this time from Carnegie Hall has been canceled 336 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:59,200 due to the mysterious disappearance of Arturo Alvarez, the noted South American pianist. 337 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,200 Mr. Alvarez was known to be suffering from a minor nervous disorder 338 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:08,200 and was last seen departing on a short trip to Colston in upstate New York. 339 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,200 Alvarez. That guy is Alvarez. 340 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,200 What's going on here? 341 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,200 Claire, Claire! 342 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,200 Locked. 343 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,200 Dr. Kettler, open this door. 344 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,200 Open it, do you hear me? 345 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,200 Yes, Quinton. 346 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,200 You, tell him to open up. Tell him, tell him. 347 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:34,200 Doctor, send me. Tell you young lady headache, bad, very bad. 348 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:35,200 What do you mean? 349 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:36,200 He operate. 350 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:37,200 Operate? 351 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:44,200 He say take long time. He say you not wait. You come back tomorrow. 352 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:46,200 Operate? No, no. 353 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:51,200 Kettler, Kettler! Claire, can you hear me? Can you hear me? 354 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:56,200 Of course she can hear you, Mr. Quinton. The operating table is just inside the door. 355 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,200 Bring her out here. Let her go, I tell you, Kettler. 356 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,200 But I find that an operation is indicated, Mr. Quinton. 357 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:02,200 I forbid you to touch her. 358 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:07,200 You forbid? You? I'm in charge here. No one forbids me. Do you understand? 359 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:13,200 You're insane. You're... If you lay your hands on her, I'll kill you. So help me. I'll kill you. 360 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,200 Very well, Mr. Quinton. You do not wish me to operate. That's all there is to it. 361 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,200 I would scarcely force my service upon you. 362 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,200 However, the girl's condition is quite serious and I... 363 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:30,200 Good work. Good work, Kettler, my boy. A master stroke. 364 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:35,200 Do you still forbid me, Mr. Quinton? Do you? Do you? 365 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,200 Oh, you don't answer. Good. Good. Take him to the cellar, Kettler. 366 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,200 And lodge him there with his friend, Dr. Morrissey. 367 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:47,200 They should have a good deal to talk over in the still hours of the night while I cure the young lady's headache... 368 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,200 ...unmolested. 369 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,200 You've got to pull yourself together, Leslie. Now try. Try to think. 370 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:12,200 Hicado brought you down a few moments ago. You've been hit in the head. Can you remember? 371 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:17,200 Yes. I was talking to Kettler, trying to make him let Claire go. 372 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,200 Claire? Oh, good Lord, Morrissey. 373 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,200 Where is she? He's got her. 374 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:27,200 Kettler? She's on that operating table up there. We've got to do something. We've got to do something. 375 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:31,200 Well, I'm afraid there's not much we can do. I've been here for three days and nights. 376 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,200 What happened? 377 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:36,200 Oh, it was a nightmare come to life. I'd had Kettler in my office for treatment. 378 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:37,200 Yeah? 379 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:42,200 He was off on a wild tangent, insisting that I had a man whom he had killed hidden down here in the cellar. 380 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:48,200 That I and the rest of the medical profession had kidnapped him off the operating table with his head still suave. 381 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:54,200 He thinks I've been keeping this venom from him all along, even though I've known that just one side of him would cure his mental disorders. 382 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:59,200 He hates me with every fiber of his twisted brain. He's a dangerous case, Leslie. 383 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,200 He'll... he'll kill Claire? 384 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,200 He may. There's a slim chance he won't. 385 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:04,200 What's that? 386 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:08,200 Well, all the surgical instruments are locked away. It's possible they may not be able to find them. 387 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,200 Isn't there any way we can get out of here? 388 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:11,200 Wouldn't I have used it? 389 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:12,200 Where does that corridor lead to? 390 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,200 To the staircase that goes to the first floor. 391 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:15,200 Well? 392 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:20,200 Not a chance. It comes out in the operating room and they keep that door locked as tight as a drum. 393 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,200 Besides, Kettler still has the pistol he took from my nurse. 394 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:27,200 I've got to think. I've got to. And my head hurts so I can't make good sense. 395 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,200 Let's see that. I think they gave you a nasty cut. 396 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:31,200 Oh, it doesn't matter. 397 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:32,200 Say, Doc. 398 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,200 Yes? 399 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:34,200 What was his name? 400 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:35,200 Who? 401 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,200 The guy Kettler thought you were keeping from him. The one he killed. 402 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:38,200 Binnum. 403 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:39,200 Led Binnum. Why? 404 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:40,200 Was he a young fellow? 405 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,200 Yes. A rather tall, slender chap. 406 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:44,200 Say, Doc. 407 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,200 Hmm? 408 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:46,200 Do you have any bandages down here? 409 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:47,200 What? 410 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:47,200 Bandages. 411 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,200 Why, yes. I think so. They're... they're stored down here. 412 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,200 Enough to bandage my whole head, face and everything? 413 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:53,200 Why? 414 00:21:53,200 --> 00:22:04,200 I might have a chance of getting through that door up there. 415 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:10,200 Please. Let me go now. Oh, let me go. Leslie! Leslie! 416 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:17,200 You will be better soon. Much better. I will take the pain away, Mrs. Wynton. 417 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:18,200 Kato. 418 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:19,200 Hmm? 419 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:20,200 Have you found the surgical case? 420 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,200 Not found yet. I look. Kato, look. 421 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,200 Find it. We must not keep Mrs. Wynton in agony. 422 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,200 Find it, I say. 423 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,200 You'll have to create some order in this place. 424 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,200 I want my instruments at hand on a moment's notice. 425 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,200 Please. Let me go. Oh, let me go. 426 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,200 You shall be well again, my dear. I promise you, you shall be. 427 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:44,200 Doctor, here tall white cabinet behind curtain. 428 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,200 That's it. Open it. Open it, Kato. 429 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:47,200 Locked. Locked, Doctor. 430 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:48,200 Smash it open. Open it. 431 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,200 I do. 432 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,200 You'll find scalpels on the top tray. Bring them to me. 433 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,200 Yes, Doctor. Is here, Doctor. See? Knives. Good. Sharp knives. 434 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,200 Kato find. He find them. 435 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:07,200 Excellent. How they glitter. 436 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:12,200 Ah, it is good to feel the knife in my hand again. 437 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,200 Put the others right beside my pistol here on the table. 438 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,200 Please. Oh, please. 439 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:22,200 There, there, my girl. I shall expend all my genius on you. 440 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:27,200 You shall be well again. No. No. No. 441 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,200 Now to work. 442 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,200 What was that? 443 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:35,200 Who's there? 444 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,200 Doctor Ketler. 445 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,200 Who is it? 446 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,200 I have found my way back to you. 447 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,200 Open the door, Doctor Ketler. 448 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,200 I've come back again. 449 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,200 Who are you? 450 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:51,200 You remember? You remember Led Benham? 451 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,200 Kato. Kato. 452 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:54,200 Yes, Doctor. 453 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,200 The door. The door. Let him in. He's come back. Let him in, I say. 454 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:58,200 Yes, Doctor. 455 00:23:58,200 --> 00:23:59,200 Oh, let me out of here. 456 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:04,200 He's come back. He's come back, Kato. 457 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,200 Doctor Ketler. 458 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,200 Benham. Benham, I knew it. 459 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,200 I knew it all along. You're alive. You're living. 460 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,200 Yes. Yes, Doctor Ketler. 461 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:19,200 You. Just as they took you from the table. 462 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,200 Yes. They took me away before the operation was complete. 463 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,200 Finish it now. Hurry. 464 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,200 I can't live much longer. I'm about to die. 465 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,200 No, no. Kato. Get Benham out of the table. 466 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,200 Girl. Girl. On table. 467 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,200 Take her off. Take her out of here. Put her in the cellar. 468 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,200 Let Benham take her place. At once. You hear? 469 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:39,200 Yes, Doctor. Kato. 470 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,200 No. No. I won't be put in the cellar. I won't. 471 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,200 It might be well if you went down into the cellar, you know. 472 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,200 It's nice down there. You'll see old friends, perhaps. 473 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,200 Old friends who need help. 474 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,200 Leslie. 475 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:52,200 Hurry. Hurry, I say. 476 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,200 Yes, Doctor. Come. 477 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,200 I'm coming. 478 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:57,200 Are you all right, Benham? 479 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,200 Weaker. Weaker. 480 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,200 Kato. Kato. 481 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:02,200 Kato, close door. 482 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,200 No. Stop wasting time. Leave the door alone. Help me. 483 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,200 Help me get Benham on the table. 484 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,200 Yes, Doctor. Kato, do. 485 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,200 That's right. Now, lift him carefully. 486 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,200 Good. 487 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:20,200 Now, lie back. Lie back. 488 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:24,200 Gently. Gently. 489 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,200 All right. Careful now. 490 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,200 There we are. 491 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:35,200 Kato. Give me the knife. 492 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,200 Yes, Doctor. 493 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,200 Take off the bandages. 494 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,200 From the top, Kato. 495 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,200 That's correct. 496 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,200 That's proper procedure. 497 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,200 There. 498 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,200 Yeah, now that's... 499 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,200 I thought his hair was blonde, not black. 500 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,200 Well, perhaps I've forgotten. 501 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,200 I've forgotten so many things that... 502 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,200 there was a scar on his forehead. 503 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:13,200 I clearly remember a scar on his forehead. 504 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:18,200 Maybe. Maybe I imagine that, too. 505 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,200 Perhaps it was someone else who... 506 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,200 brown eyes. 507 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,200 Benham. 508 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,200 Benham, didn't you have blue eyes? 509 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,200 I know they were blue. 510 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:33,200 And your nose. Your nose was thinner and longer. 511 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,200 Yes. Yes. 512 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,200 And your lips. You had thick lips. 513 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:40,200 That I know. 514 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,200 Bandages off, Doctor. 515 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,200 Doctor Kattler, there's a trick here. 516 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,200 You're not Benham. You're not Benham. 517 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,200 You're that young Mr. Winton. 518 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:49,200 Doctor Kattler, listen to me. 519 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,200 Cheat. Cheat. 520 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,200 So you wanted me to finish you, did you? 521 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:57,200 Yes, Mr. Winton, I will. I will. 522 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,200 Hold him, Kattler. Hold him. 523 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,200 See the knife, Mr. Winton? 524 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:31,200 Watch it glisten as it comes down, down, down and into your... 525 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,200 He's wonderful. 526 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,200 You don't doubt that he's Arturo Alvarez when you hear him play the piano, do you? 527 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,200 That's a marvelous old instrument you have, Doc. 528 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,200 It was my mother's. 529 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,200 This old house has been in the family for generations. 530 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:52,200 Who'd ever thought we'd be alive to sit in your house and listen to somebody play a concerto? 531 00:27:52,200 --> 00:28:01,200 We wouldn't have been. At least I wouldn't have been if you hadn't snatched that revolver off the table right out from under Kattler's nose before they threw you into the cellar. 532 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:05,200 That was the lifesaver. Made the weekend perfect. 533 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,200 I'm afraid it wasn't very restful. 534 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:14,200 Hereafter, I'm spending all weekends in a cozy little corner under the El. 535 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:19,200 It was worse for Claire than anybody. She had a dreadful time. 536 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:24,200 It was ghastly, all right. Horrible. But you know something? 537 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:25,200 What? 538 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:30,200 My headache. It's completely gone. 539 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:53,200 So ends the Kattler Method, the tale of a memorable weekend and a long-awaited dead man who didn't return after all. 540 00:28:53,200 --> 00:29:01,200 This was tonight's story of Suspense. 541 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,200 Suspense is produced by William Spear. 542 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,200 John Dietz was our director this evening. 543 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:12,200 Tonight's radio drama was written by Peter Barry and scored by Bernard Herrmann. 544 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:18,200 Roger DeKoven was Dr. Kettler. John Gibson, Leslie Winton, and Gloria Stewart played Claire Winton. 545 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:24,200 Others in the cast were Guy Rept, Martha Faulkner, Winfield Honey, and Ralph Smiley. 546 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:30,200 Next week at this time, Columbia will bring you another selected story from the world's great literature of thrills. 547 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,200 Another study in... 548 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,200 Suspense. 549 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:49,200 This is Barry Kroger and this is the Columbia Broadcasting System.