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Columbia's parade of outstanding thrillers, produced by William Spear and scored by Bernard Herman. 01:33.000 --> 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. 01:42.000 --> 01:45.000 To keep you in service. 01:45.000 --> 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. 01:55.000 --> 02:04.100 The 02:04.100 --> 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. 02:15.200 --> 02:21.200 It deals with a surgeon and a girl, a giant and a young man who took a long chance. 02:21.200 --> 02:28.200 And over them all, the moan of the night wind and the ceaseless roar of the storm. 02:28.200 --> 02:43.200 For your suspenseful listening, we invite you to learn about... 02:43.200 --> 02:56.200 The Kepler Method. 02:56.200 --> 03:04.200 Four days of rain have been ceaseless, teeming, pouring with a steady, relentless rhythm. 03:04.200 --> 03:14.200 Four solid days. The fields around Coulston had been turned into huge puddles that reflected the heavy, swollen sky. 03:14.200 --> 03:18.200 And Dr. Morrissey was stirred by a deep anxiety. 03:18.200 --> 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. 03:25.200 --> 03:29.200 He stared into the jagged, spraying screen of rain. 03:29.200 --> 03:35.200 It was just three o'clock. Three o'clock of an afternoon he would long remember. 03:35.200 --> 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. 03:45.200 --> 03:46.200 Dr. Morrissey. 03:46.200 --> 03:48.200 Is there anything wrong, Caffrey? 03:48.200 --> 03:51.200 I don't know. There's a feeling down in the ward. 03:51.200 --> 03:52.200 Feeling? 03:52.200 --> 03:54.200 This rain's going on too long. 03:54.200 --> 03:55.200 The patient's getting uneasy? 03:55.200 --> 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. 04:01.200 --> 04:03.200 Seem to be affecting anyone in particular? 04:03.200 --> 04:05.200 Number five's been carrying on. 04:05.200 --> 04:06.200 Kettler? 04:06.200 --> 04:10.200 Yeah. I brought him up. Nurse Carter's waiting with him out in the hall. 04:10.200 --> 04:11.200 Bad as that. 04:11.200 --> 04:15.200 He's upsetting the others. He keeps asking for some guy named Benham. 04:15.200 --> 04:17.200 Oh, that's the man he killed. 04:17.200 --> 04:19.200 I didn't know he was homicidal. 04:19.200 --> 04:23.200 Oh, it was an accident. He was performing a brain surgery on Benham and... 04:23.200 --> 04:24.200 Him? 04:24.200 --> 04:27.200 Oh, Kettler was a very important surgeon, Caffrey. Didn't you know that? 04:27.200 --> 04:28.200 He keeps saying so, but... 04:28.200 --> 04:32.200 It's perfectly true. Very successful Dr. Kettler was. 04:32.200 --> 04:36.200 Until he perfected an operative procedure that he called the Kettler Method. 04:36.200 --> 04:40.200 A new process of brain operation. Spent most of his life on it and... 04:40.200 --> 04:44.200 Well, when he tried it for the first time on this young lad Benham and... 04:44.200 --> 04:48.200 Benham died on the table, it... it unbalanced his mind. 04:48.200 --> 04:50.200 I've got to go back down there now. 04:50.200 --> 04:52.200 I think you'd better wait while I talk with Kettler. 04:52.200 --> 04:55.200 Okay, I'll bring him in. But don't make it long. 04:55.200 --> 04:57.200 I don't like the feel of things around here. 04:57.200 --> 04:59.200 Nurse! Miss Carter! 04:59.200 --> 05:00.200 Yes, we're coming. 05:00.200 --> 05:02.200 You can bring him in now. 05:02.200 --> 05:05.200 Come along. Dr. Morrissey wants to see you. 05:05.200 --> 05:08.200 Does he now? Does he? 05:08.200 --> 05:09.200 Come in, Kettler. 05:09.200 --> 05:13.200 I'd like to ask Dr. Morrissey a question. 05:13.200 --> 05:15.200 I'd like to ask him a question. 05:15.200 --> 05:17.200 Yes, Dr. Kettler. 05:17.200 --> 05:20.200 I should like to ask him where lad Benham is. 05:20.200 --> 05:22.200 I know he'll never tell me. 05:22.200 --> 05:23.200 But I will, Kettler. 05:23.200 --> 05:26.200 Lad Benham is buried somewhere out there under the rain. 05:26.200 --> 05:28.200 He is at peace, Kettler. 05:28.200 --> 05:30.200 Can't you forget about him? Just forget. 05:30.200 --> 05:32.200 You'd all like me to forget about him, wouldn't you? 05:32.200 --> 05:35.200 Then you could keep him hidden away forever, couldn't you? 05:35.200 --> 05:38.200 Benham is dead, Kettler. You know that. Benham died. 05:38.200 --> 05:40.200 He did not. He's alive. 05:40.200 --> 05:43.200 He was alive when you and the rest of the envious medical profession... 05:43.200 --> 05:45.200 stole him from the operating table. 05:45.200 --> 05:48.200 Kidnapped him with my bandages still round his head. 05:48.200 --> 05:52.200 You were determined to make the Kettler Method seem a failure, weren't you? 05:52.200 --> 05:53.200 Weren't you? 05:53.200 --> 05:54.200 Easy, easy now. 05:54.200 --> 05:55.200 Believe me, Kettler. 05:55.200 --> 05:59.200 I let Benham die now, Dr. Morrissey. 05:59.200 --> 06:02.200 He's in the cellar under the ward downstairs, isn't he? 06:02.200 --> 06:03.200 Isn't he? 06:03.200 --> 06:04.200 Kettler. 06:04.200 --> 06:06.200 Let me see him. 06:06.200 --> 06:08.200 There. Benham. 06:08.200 --> 06:10.200 You'd better take him down, Keffrey. 06:10.200 --> 06:12.200 All right. Come along now, sir. 06:12.200 --> 06:13.200 I'll take him, nurse. 06:13.200 --> 06:15.200 You won't show him to me. 06:15.200 --> 06:17.200 Even though it would make me well again. 06:17.200 --> 06:20.200 My cellars are empty, Kettler. Believe me, Benham isn't there. 06:20.200 --> 06:22.200 You sit there in power and order me away. 06:22.200 --> 06:23.200 Come on, Kettler. 06:23.200 --> 06:26.200 There's something I have to say. 06:26.200 --> 06:29.200 I've always been above violence, Dr. Morrissey. 06:29.200 --> 06:32.200 But the time comes when there's no other course. 06:32.200 --> 06:35.200 This is a warning, doctor. A warning. 06:35.200 --> 06:37.200 And the joke is that you won't heed it. 06:37.200 --> 06:38.200 Come on with your... 06:38.200 --> 06:40.200 You won't heed it now. 06:40.200 --> 06:43.200 But you'll remember it. And soon you'll remember it. 06:43.200 --> 06:46.200 Tables turned, Dr. Morrissey. 06:46.200 --> 06:48.200 Tables turned. 06:53.200 --> 06:55.200 Poor thing. 06:55.200 --> 06:57.200 I'm afraid I'm failing with him. 06:57.200 --> 06:58.200 Failing completely. 06:58.200 --> 06:59.200 But you're not. 06:59.200 --> 07:01.200 It takes time to put a man back together. 07:01.200 --> 07:03.200 It's taken me too long with Kettler. 07:03.200 --> 07:05.200 I'm beginning to be afraid. 07:05.200 --> 07:07.200 If you'll pardon me, doctor. 07:07.200 --> 07:08.200 Yes? 07:08.200 --> 07:09.200 I do think you're making a mistake. 07:09.200 --> 07:10.200 With him? 07:10.200 --> 07:12.200 No. With yourself. 07:12.200 --> 07:15.200 You haven't had a real vacation in three years, Dr. Morrissey. 07:15.200 --> 07:19.200 Oh. You think I'm wearing a bit thin just now, don't you? 07:19.200 --> 07:20.200 And you're right. 07:20.200 --> 07:24.200 But I really can't leave my patients in anyone else's hands. 07:24.200 --> 07:25.200 Not now, at any rate. 07:25.200 --> 07:27.200 No, I'll have to make the best of it. 07:27.200 --> 07:28.200 But you need relaxation. 07:28.200 --> 07:30.200 I know, I know. 07:30.200 --> 07:33.200 Well, I hope to soothe my ragged nerves somewhat over this weekend. 07:33.200 --> 07:36.200 I've some friends coming down from the city Friday night. 07:36.200 --> 07:38.200 Leslie and Claire Winton. 07:38.200 --> 07:40.200 Young married couple, newlyweds. 07:40.200 --> 07:43.200 And I'm just going to relax with them and forget everything until Monday morning. 07:43.200 --> 07:46.200 You must, doctor. You do need it so badly. 07:46.200 --> 07:47.200 Oh, by the way, doctor. 07:47.200 --> 07:48.200 Yes? 07:48.200 --> 07:50.200 I slipped some of those new sample bandages into your coat pocket. 07:50.200 --> 07:52.200 Thanks. Thanks. I'll have a look at them. 07:52.200 --> 07:55.200 I think they're quite good. The salesman said that... 07:56.200 --> 07:58.200 Yes, nurse. What is it? 07:58.200 --> 08:01.200 Did... did you hear something? 08:03.200 --> 08:05.200 Thunder, wasn't it? 08:05.200 --> 08:09.200 Something else besides thunder. I thought it. 08:09.200 --> 08:11.200 Well, I didn't hear it. 08:11.200 --> 08:13.200 My nerves must be getting the best of me. 08:13.200 --> 08:16.200 Perhaps it's a case of nurse heal thyself, eh? 08:17.200 --> 08:19.200 I'm not the only one who needs a rest. 08:19.200 --> 08:22.200 You know, it might be a very good idea if we both... 08:22.200 --> 08:24.200 Move! 08:24.200 --> 08:25.200 Dr. Morrissey. 08:25.200 --> 08:26.200 I heard that. 08:26.200 --> 08:27.200 What is it? 08:27.200 --> 08:29.200 It's coming from the ward. Sounds like... 08:29.200 --> 08:30.200 That was a shock, nurse. 08:30.200 --> 08:32.200 You get on the phone. Call the police at Colston. 08:33.200 --> 08:35.200 Hello? Hello? Hello? 08:35.200 --> 08:36.200 Keep at it. Keep at it. 08:36.200 --> 08:38.200 Hello? 08:38.200 --> 08:40.200 Someone's trying to get in from the hall. 08:40.200 --> 08:43.200 Dr. Morrissey! Dr. Morrissey! 08:43.200 --> 08:45.200 It's Caffrey. Just a moment. 08:48.200 --> 08:50.200 Caffrey! Caffrey, what is it? 08:50.200 --> 08:52.200 It's ganged up on me. 08:52.200 --> 08:54.200 All of them are coming up the stairs. 08:54.200 --> 08:56.200 Kittler, clear out of here. 08:59.200 --> 09:01.200 Steady, nurse. 09:01.200 --> 09:04.200 He's dead, isn't he? Isn't he? 09:04.200 --> 09:06.200 Yes. 09:07.200 --> 09:09.200 Dr. Morrissey. 09:09.200 --> 09:10.200 Kittler! 09:10.200 --> 09:12.200 Remember my warning. 09:12.200 --> 09:14.200 Remember it, doctor. 09:14.200 --> 09:16.200 Tables turn, Dr. Morrissey. 09:16.200 --> 09:40.200 Tables turn. 09:41.200 --> 09:43.200 It rained for three more days. 09:43.200 --> 09:47.200 Friday night came, black, wet and glistening. 09:47.200 --> 09:51.200 The 815 Express groaned into Colston Station, 09:51.200 --> 09:56.200 bringing Leslie and Claire Wentley out from the city with their weekend luggage. 10:02.200 --> 10:05.200 Isn't Dr. Morrissey sending his car for us, Leslie? 10:05.200 --> 10:09.200 Yes, Claire. The chauffeur was supposed to drive us over to the sanitarium to pick up the dock, 10:09.200 --> 10:11.200 and then we're all going over to his house together. 10:11.200 --> 10:13.200 I don't see any car to you. 10:13.200 --> 10:15.200 I don't see anything but water. 10:15.200 --> 10:18.200 Maybe we're rowing over in a skiff. 10:19.200 --> 10:22.200 Oh, oh, I hate that sound. 10:22.200 --> 10:25.200 Like somebody's in agony. 10:25.200 --> 10:27.200 I think you're a little depressed, dear. 10:27.200 --> 10:29.200 Well, I shouldn't be surprised. 10:29.200 --> 10:31.200 My head's still aching dreadfully. 10:31.200 --> 10:34.200 Poor lover. How long's that been going on now? 10:34.200 --> 10:37.200 Almost a week. It frightens me. 10:37.200 --> 10:39.200 I don't think it's anything serious. 10:39.200 --> 10:42.200 Waiting in the rain like this doesn't do it any good, I'm sure. 10:42.200 --> 10:47.200 I don't understand. Docks usually sell punctual right on the dot. 10:47.200 --> 10:50.200 You don't suppose we ought to call the sanitarium... 10:50.200 --> 10:53.200 You people for Dr. Morrissey, yes? 10:53.200 --> 10:57.200 Well, yes, yes, we're the Wintons. 10:57.200 --> 10:59.200 Doc sent you to pick us up? 10:59.200 --> 11:03.200 Aye, Kato. Dr. Morrissey's chauffeur. 11:03.200 --> 11:05.200 You got luggage? 11:05.200 --> 11:07.200 Yes. Here it is. 11:07.200 --> 11:11.200 I take. You follow me to Carr. Come. 11:11.200 --> 11:13.200 We're coming. 11:14.200 --> 11:15.200 Leslie? 11:15.200 --> 11:16.200 Yes? 11:16.200 --> 11:18.200 He's tremendous, isn't he? 11:18.200 --> 11:20.200 He must be six and a half feet tall. 11:20.200 --> 11:22.200 I'm over six myself, darling. 11:22.200 --> 11:25.200 He's nearer eight. That's a giant. 11:25.200 --> 11:29.200 Get those shoulders. He could snap me in two like a matchstick. 11:29.200 --> 11:32.200 Well, I hope he likes us. 11:32.200 --> 11:34.200 So do I, light of my life. 11:34.200 --> 11:37.200 Far waiting. You come, please. 11:37.200 --> 11:39.200 But I really don't think he does. 11:39.200 --> 11:41.200 Coming. 11:56.200 --> 12:00.200 The heavy car lurched and hurtled over the rain-soaked roads, 12:00.200 --> 12:06.200 tearing wildly through the dark and careening up the hillside toward the stark walls of the sanitarium. 12:06.200 --> 12:09.200 It skidded to a standstill in front of the main entrance, 12:09.200 --> 12:13.200 and cold, black Kato led them inside. 12:13.200 --> 12:19.200 The brightly lit corridors were deserted, silent, like hallways in a nightmare. 12:19.200 --> 12:22.200 Claire was aware of her headache growing steadily worse. 12:22.200 --> 12:26.200 This Kato opened the double doors and ushered them into the waiting room. 12:26.200 --> 12:29.200 You'll tell Dr. Morrissey we're here, huh? 12:29.200 --> 12:34.200 Doctor, be with you soon. You do not go away. 12:34.200 --> 12:37.200 Yes, thanks. 12:42.200 --> 12:44.200 I hope we're not staying in here very long. 12:44.200 --> 12:46.200 It isn't very cheery, is it? 12:46.200 --> 12:49.200 I don't like places like this. 12:49.200 --> 12:54.200 I suppose it's very foolish of me, but I always feel as if I'm in some sort of danger. 12:54.200 --> 12:56.200 That's the headache again. 12:56.200 --> 13:00.200 Everything seems worse than it really is when you're not feeling well. 13:00.200 --> 13:01.200 Don't you always find... 13:01.200 --> 13:02.200 Leslie. 13:02.200 --> 13:03.200 Yes? 13:03.200 --> 13:06.200 Listen. What is it? 13:06.200 --> 13:08.200 Somebody's knocking. 13:08.200 --> 13:10.200 Just a moment. 13:10.200 --> 13:12.200 Gracias, adios. 13:12.200 --> 13:13.200 Who is it, Leslie? 13:13.200 --> 13:15.200 I don't know. 13:15.200 --> 13:17.200 What? You do not know me? 13:17.200 --> 13:20.200 I am Arturo Alvarez, the South American pianist. 13:20.200 --> 13:21.200 You have heard of me? 13:21.200 --> 13:26.200 Sure, I've heard of Arturo Alvarez, but I'd hardly expect to find him in... 13:26.200 --> 13:28.200 Leslie, humor him. 13:28.200 --> 13:31.200 Of course, for a moment I forgot where I was. 13:31.200 --> 13:35.200 I've heard of you, Mr. Alvarez. Is there anything I can do for you? 13:35.200 --> 13:38.200 Will you help me? I must get out of this place. 13:38.200 --> 13:40.200 Oh, sure. 13:40.200 --> 13:44.200 I came here several days ago to be treated for a mild nervous trouble. 13:44.200 --> 13:47.200 Now they won't let me go. 13:47.200 --> 13:52.200 I am being held a prisoner, and tonight I am scheduled to give a concert at Carnegie Hall, 13:52.200 --> 13:55.200 and I must get out of here. Please, will you help me? 13:55.200 --> 13:58.200 Ah, number 10 out of the ward again, I see. 13:58.200 --> 14:01.200 How many times must I tell you that that is strictly against the rules? 14:01.200 --> 14:06.200 I was doing nothing wrong. I was only telling this gentleman that I must be at Carnegie Hall for my concert. 14:06.200 --> 14:09.200 Yes, yes, yes. I'm sure the gentleman was very interested. 14:09.200 --> 14:10.200 Kato. 14:10.200 --> 14:11.200 Yes, doctor? 14:11.200 --> 14:13.200 Kato, you will escort number 10 back to the ward 14:13.200 --> 14:16.200 and see to it that he doesn't wander back into the waiting room. 14:16.200 --> 14:19.200 No, no, I will not be taken back to the ward. Help me. 14:19.200 --> 14:20.200 Oh, no. 14:20.200 --> 14:24.200 Help me, no. No, no, no. No. 14:24.200 --> 14:28.200 Ah, how strongly he believes in his delusion. 14:28.200 --> 14:31.200 Strange fantasy of a diseased mind. 14:31.200 --> 14:33.200 Seriously believes that he's Arturo Alvarez. 14:33.200 --> 14:34.200 He was telling me. 14:34.200 --> 14:37.200 Why, I'm very sorry. I'm afraid I haven't been very cordial. 14:37.200 --> 14:40.200 Won't you sit down? Is there anything I can do for you? 14:40.200 --> 14:43.200 Well, you see, Dr. Morrissey invited us up for the weekend. 14:43.200 --> 14:46.200 Oh, yes, of course. He told me he was expecting you. 14:46.200 --> 14:47.200 Does he know we're here? 14:47.200 --> 14:49.200 I'm afraid not. 14:49.200 --> 14:53.200 Dr. Morrissey was unexpectedly called away on an emergency case, 14:53.200 --> 14:56.200 and I'm in charge of the sanitarium until he returns. 14:56.200 --> 14:59.200 Well, do you have any idea about when that'll be? 14:59.200 --> 15:00.200 It's very hard to say. 15:00.200 --> 15:04.200 However, he asked me to ask you to wait and see to it that you're made comfortable. 15:04.200 --> 15:06.200 Let me see now. Your name is? 15:06.200 --> 15:09.200 Wynton, Leslie Wynton, and this is my wife, Claire. 15:09.200 --> 15:11.200 Ah, yes. Let me introduce myself. 15:11.200 --> 15:15.200 I'm Dr. Kettler, Dr. Morrissey's assistant. 15:15.200 --> 15:19.200 What can I do for you? A bite of food or a drink, perhaps? 15:19.200 --> 15:20.200 I don't think so. 15:20.200 --> 15:23.200 There's nothing in the world I want so much as an aspirin. 15:23.200 --> 15:24.200 Aspirin? 15:24.200 --> 15:26.200 Yes, Doctor, she's had a headache that's been troubling her for days. 15:26.200 --> 15:27.200 It's terribly annoying. 15:27.200 --> 15:31.200 I can well imagine. Annoying and interesting. 15:31.200 --> 15:33.200 That is, to a man of my profession, of course. 15:33.200 --> 15:36.200 But if you will step into the inner office, 15:36.200 --> 15:39.200 I think I can offer you something a good deal more effective. 15:39.200 --> 15:40.200 Oh, I'd hate to trouble you. 15:40.200 --> 15:43.200 No trouble at all. I find these things most intriguing. 15:43.200 --> 15:44.200 Should I, Leslie? 15:44.200 --> 15:48.200 I think you might as well. Morrissey won't be back for a long time by the looks of things. 15:48.200 --> 15:52.200 You're quite right, Mr. Wynton. Dr. Morrissey won't be back for a long, long time. 15:52.200 --> 15:55.200 Well, then, which way do I go? 15:55.200 --> 15:58.200 Right this way, the large door on your left. 15:58.200 --> 16:00.200 You won't mind waiting alone, will you, darling? 16:00.200 --> 16:02.200 Oh, Mr. Wynton shall make himself comfortable. 16:02.200 --> 16:05.200 There are cigarettes in the box, whiskey in the liquor cabinet, 16:05.200 --> 16:07.200 and no radio behind the ferns there. 16:07.200 --> 16:09.200 I'm sure he'll be quite happy. 16:09.200 --> 16:10.200 After you, Mrs. Wynton. 16:10.200 --> 16:12.200 If Dr. Morrissey comes in, let me know. 16:12.200 --> 16:15.200 I hope you'll find everything you want, sir. 16:15.200 --> 16:17.200 Thanks. Oh, by the way, doctor. 16:17.200 --> 16:18.200 Yes? 16:18.200 --> 16:20.200 You said you had something better than aspirin. 16:20.200 --> 16:23.200 I didn't know there was anything better than aspirin for a headache. 16:23.200 --> 16:25.200 I have something, Mr. Wynton. 16:25.200 --> 16:26.200 Really? 16:26.200 --> 16:31.200 It is a process which I invented myself, one that never fails. 16:31.200 --> 16:39.200 A little treatment, very effective and highly complicated, called the Kettler Method. 16:39.200 --> 16:44.200 Please make yourself at home, Mr. Wynton. 16:54.200 --> 16:58.200 Leslie sat there alone in the big waiting room for a while. 16:58.200 --> 17:01.200 Then creeps began setting in and he thought to himself, 17:01.200 --> 17:03.200 maybe I'll have that drink after all. 17:03.200 --> 17:11.200 He rose and went over to the liquor cabinet that Kettler had pointed out to him and opened it. 17:11.200 --> 17:13.200 Why, there's nothing in here but books. 17:13.200 --> 17:15.200 Yes, books. 17:15.200 --> 17:20.200 Books that were so thick with dust that it was clear they'd been there for months. 17:20.200 --> 17:23.200 No drink for Leslie. Maybe a cigarette. 17:23.200 --> 17:25.200 Kettler said the box was full. 17:25.200 --> 17:27.200 He picked it up and started opening it. 17:27.200 --> 17:31.200 Why, it isn't even a cigarette box. The darn thing's a book end. 17:31.200 --> 17:34.200 Yes, that's just what it was. 17:34.200 --> 17:39.200 Leslie began to think it was a tough job making himself at home in that waiting room. 17:39.200 --> 17:41.200 Then the idea occurred to him. 17:41.200 --> 17:43.200 Maybe the radio works. 17:43.200 --> 17:48.200 He went over to the radio then, turned it on and... 17:48.200 --> 17:54.200 We are sorry to announce that the program scheduled for this time from Carnegie Hall has been canceled 17:54.200 --> 17:59.200 due to the mysterious disappearance of Arturo Alvarez, the noted South American pianist. 17:59.200 --> 18:03.200 Mr. Alvarez was known to be suffering from a minor nervous disorder 18:03.200 --> 18:08.200 and was last seen departing on a short trip to Colston in upstate New York. 18:08.200 --> 18:12.200 Alvarez. That guy is Alvarez. 18:12.200 --> 18:14.200 What's going on here? 18:14.200 --> 18:16.200 Claire, Claire! 18:16.200 --> 18:18.200 Locked. 18:18.200 --> 18:21.200 Dr. Kettler, open this door. 18:21.200 --> 18:23.200 Open it, do you hear me? 18:23.200 --> 18:25.200 Yes, Quinton. 18:25.200 --> 18:28.200 You, tell him to open up. Tell him, tell him. 18:28.200 --> 18:34.200 Doctor, send me. Tell you young lady headache, bad, very bad. 18:34.200 --> 18:35.200 What do you mean? 18:35.200 --> 18:36.200 He operate. 18:36.200 --> 18:37.200 Operate? 18:37.200 --> 18:44.200 He say take long time. He say you not wait. You come back tomorrow. 18:44.200 --> 18:46.200 Operate? No, no. 18:47.200 --> 18:51.200 Kettler, Kettler! Claire, can you hear me? Can you hear me? 18:51.200 --> 18:56.200 Of course she can hear you, Mr. Quinton. The operating table is just inside the door. 18:56.200 --> 18:58.200 Bring her out here. Let her go, I tell you, Kettler. 18:58.200 --> 19:01.200 But I find that an operation is indicated, Mr. Quinton. 19:01.200 --> 19:02.200 I forbid you to touch her. 19:02.200 --> 19:07.200 You forbid? You? I'm in charge here. No one forbids me. Do you understand? 19:07.200 --> 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. 19:13.200 --> 19:17.200 Very well, Mr. Quinton. You do not wish me to operate. That's all there is to it. 19:17.200 --> 19:20.200 I would scarcely force my service upon you. 19:20.200 --> 19:24.200 However, the girl's condition is quite serious and I... 19:26.200 --> 19:30.200 Good work. Good work, Kettler, my boy. A master stroke. 19:31.200 --> 19:35.200 Do you still forbid me, Mr. Quinton? Do you? Do you? 19:35.200 --> 19:38.200 Oh, you don't answer. Good. Good. Take him to the cellar, Kettler. 19:38.200 --> 19:41.200 And lodge him there with his friend, Dr. Morrissey. 19:41.200 --> 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... 19:47.200 --> 19:50.200 ...unmolested. 20:03.200 --> 20:07.200 You've got to pull yourself together, Leslie. Now try. Try to think. 20:07.200 --> 20:12.200 Hicado brought you down a few moments ago. You've been hit in the head. Can you remember? 20:12.200 --> 20:17.200 Yes. I was talking to Kettler, trying to make him let Claire go. 20:18.200 --> 20:21.200 Claire? Oh, good Lord, Morrissey. 20:21.200 --> 20:23.200 Where is she? He's got her. 20:23.200 --> 20:27.200 Kettler? She's on that operating table up there. We've got to do something. We've got to do something. 20:27.200 --> 20:31.200 Well, I'm afraid there's not much we can do. I've been here for three days and nights. 20:31.200 --> 20:32.200 What happened? 20:32.200 --> 20:36.200 Oh, it was a nightmare come to life. I'd had Kettler in my office for treatment. 20:36.200 --> 20:37.200 Yeah? 20:37.200 --> 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. 20:42.200 --> 20:48.200 That I and the rest of the medical profession had kidnapped him off the operating table with his head still suave. 20:48.200 --> 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. 20:54.200 --> 20:59.200 He hates me with every fiber of his twisted brain. He's a dangerous case, Leslie. 20:59.200 --> 21:01.200 He'll... he'll kill Claire? 21:01.200 --> 21:03.200 He may. There's a slim chance he won't. 21:03.200 --> 21:04.200 What's that? 21:04.200 --> 21:08.200 Well, all the surgical instruments are locked away. It's possible they may not be able to find them. 21:08.200 --> 21:10.200 Isn't there any way we can get out of here? 21:10.200 --> 21:11.200 Wouldn't I have used it? 21:11.200 --> 21:12.200 Where does that corridor lead to? 21:12.200 --> 21:14.200 To the staircase that goes to the first floor. 21:14.200 --> 21:15.200 Well? 21:15.200 --> 21:20.200 Not a chance. It comes out in the operating room and they keep that door locked as tight as a drum. 21:20.200 --> 21:22.200 Besides, Kettler still has the pistol he took from my nurse. 21:22.200 --> 21:27.200 I've got to think. I've got to. And my head hurts so I can't make good sense. 21:27.200 --> 21:30.200 Let's see that. I think they gave you a nasty cut. 21:30.200 --> 21:31.200 Oh, it doesn't matter. 21:31.200 --> 21:32.200 Say, Doc. 21:32.200 --> 21:33.200 Yes? 21:33.200 --> 21:34.200 What was his name? 21:34.200 --> 21:35.200 Who? 21:35.200 --> 21:37.200 The guy Kettler thought you were keeping from him. The one he killed. 21:37.200 --> 21:38.200 Binnum. 21:38.200 --> 21:39.200 Led Binnum. Why? 21:39.200 --> 21:40.200 Was he a young fellow? 21:40.200 --> 21:43.200 Yes. A rather tall, slender chap. 21:43.200 --> 21:44.200 Say, Doc. 21:44.200 --> 21:45.200 Hmm? 21:45.200 --> 21:46.200 Do you have any bandages down here? 21:46.200 --> 21:47.200 What? 21:46.200 --> 21:47.200 Bandages. 21:47.200 --> 21:50.200 Why, yes. I think so. They're... they're stored down here. 21:50.200 --> 21:52.200 Enough to bandage my whole head, face and everything? 21:52.200 --> 21:53.200 Why? 21:53.200 --> 22:04.200 I might have a chance of getting through that door up there. 22:04.200 --> 22:10.200 Please. Let me go now. Oh, let me go. Leslie! Leslie! 22:10.200 --> 22:17.200 You will be better soon. Much better. I will take the pain away, Mrs. Wynton. 22:17.200 --> 22:18.200 Kato. 22:18.200 --> 22:19.200 Hmm? 22:19.200 --> 22:20.200 Have you found the surgical case? 22:20.200 --> 22:22.200 Not found yet. I look. Kato, look. 22:22.200 --> 22:26.200 Find it. We must not keep Mrs. Wynton in agony. 22:26.200 --> 22:28.200 Find it, I say. 22:28.200 --> 22:31.200 You'll have to create some order in this place. 22:31.200 --> 22:33.200 I want my instruments at hand on a moment's notice. 22:33.200 --> 22:36.200 Please. Let me go. Oh, let me go. 22:36.200 --> 22:40.200 You shall be well again, my dear. I promise you, you shall be. 22:40.200 --> 22:44.200 Doctor, here tall white cabinet behind curtain. 22:44.200 --> 22:46.200 That's it. Open it. Open it, Kato. 22:46.200 --> 22:47.200 Locked. Locked, Doctor. 22:47.200 --> 22:48.200 Smash it open. Open it. 22:48.200 --> 22:52.200 I do. 22:52.200 --> 22:55.200 You'll find scalpels on the top tray. Bring them to me. 22:55.200 --> 22:59.200 Yes, Doctor. Is here, Doctor. See? Knives. Good. Sharp knives. 22:59.200 --> 23:02.200 Kato find. He find them. 23:02.200 --> 23:07.200 Excellent. How they glitter. 23:07.200 --> 23:12.200 Ah, it is good to feel the knife in my hand again. 23:12.200 --> 23:15.200 Put the others right beside my pistol here on the table. 23:15.200 --> 23:17.200 Please. Oh, please. 23:17.200 --> 23:22.200 There, there, my girl. I shall expend all my genius on you. 23:22.200 --> 23:27.200 You shall be well again. No. No. No. 23:27.200 --> 23:31.200 Now to work. 23:31.200 --> 23:34.200 What was that? 23:34.200 --> 23:35.200 Who's there? 23:35.200 --> 23:37.200 Doctor Ketler. 23:37.200 --> 23:38.200 Who is it? 23:38.200 --> 23:41.200 I have found my way back to you. 23:41.200 --> 23:43.200 Open the door, Doctor Ketler. 23:43.200 --> 23:45.200 I've come back again. 23:45.200 --> 23:47.200 Who are you? 23:47.200 --> 23:51.200 You remember? You remember Led Benham? 23:51.200 --> 23:53.200 Kato. Kato. 23:53.200 --> 23:54.200 Yes, Doctor. 23:54.200 --> 23:57.200 The door. The door. Let him in. He's come back. Let him in, I say. 23:57.200 --> 23:58.200 Yes, Doctor. 23:58.200 --> 23:59.200 Oh, let me out of here. 23:59.200 --> 24:04.200 He's come back. He's come back, Kato. 24:04.200 --> 24:06.200 Doctor Ketler. 24:06.200 --> 24:10.200 Benham. Benham, I knew it. 24:10.200 --> 24:12.200 I knew it all along. You're alive. You're living. 24:12.200 --> 24:15.200 Yes. Yes, Doctor Ketler. 24:15.200 --> 24:19.200 You. Just as they took you from the table. 24:19.200 --> 24:23.200 Yes. They took me away before the operation was complete. 24:23.200 --> 24:26.200 Finish it now. Hurry. 24:26.200 --> 24:29.200 I can't live much longer. I'm about to die. 24:29.200 --> 24:32.200 No, no. Kato. Get Benham out of the table. 24:32.200 --> 24:34.200 Girl. Girl. On table. 24:34.200 --> 24:36.200 Take her off. Take her out of here. Put her in the cellar. 24:36.200 --> 24:38.200 Let Benham take her place. At once. You hear? 24:38.200 --> 24:39.200 Yes, Doctor. Kato. 24:39.200 --> 24:42.200 No. No. I won't be put in the cellar. I won't. 24:42.200 --> 24:45.200 It might be well if you went down into the cellar, you know. 24:45.200 --> 24:48.200 It's nice down there. You'll see old friends, perhaps. 24:48.200 --> 24:50.200 Old friends who need help. 24:50.200 --> 24:51.200 Leslie. 24:51.200 --> 24:52.200 Hurry. Hurry, I say. 24:52.200 --> 24:54.200 Yes, Doctor. Come. 24:54.200 --> 24:56.200 I'm coming. 24:56.200 --> 24:57.200 Are you all right, Benham? 24:57.200 --> 24:59.200 Weaker. Weaker. 24:59.200 --> 25:01.200 Kato. Kato. 25:01.200 --> 25:02.200 Kato, close door. 25:02.200 --> 25:05.200 No. Stop wasting time. Leave the door alone. Help me. 25:05.200 --> 25:06.200 Help me get Benham on the table. 25:06.200 --> 25:09.200 Yes, Doctor. Kato, do. 25:09.200 --> 25:12.200 That's right. Now, lift him carefully. 25:12.200 --> 25:14.200 Good. 25:14.200 --> 25:20.200 Now, lie back. Lie back. 25:20.200 --> 25:24.200 Gently. Gently. 25:24.200 --> 25:27.200 All right. Careful now. 25:30.200 --> 25:32.200 There we are. 25:32.200 --> 25:35.200 Kato. Give me the knife. 25:35.200 --> 25:37.200 Yes, Doctor. 25:37.200 --> 25:40.200 Take off the bandages. 25:40.200 --> 25:42.200 From the top, Kato. 25:42.200 --> 25:44.200 That's correct. 25:44.200 --> 25:47.200 That's proper procedure. 25:47.200 --> 25:49.200 There. 25:49.200 --> 25:52.200 Yeah, now that's... 25:54.200 --> 25:57.200 I thought his hair was blonde, not black. 25:57.200 --> 26:01.200 Well, perhaps I've forgotten. 26:01.200 --> 26:05.200 I've forgotten so many things that... 26:05.200 --> 26:08.200 there was a scar on his forehead. 26:08.200 --> 26:13.200 I clearly remember a scar on his forehead. 26:13.200 --> 26:18.200 Maybe. Maybe I imagine that, too. 26:18.200 --> 26:21.200 Perhaps it was someone else who... 26:21.200 --> 26:23.200 brown eyes. 26:23.200 --> 26:25.200 Benham. 26:25.200 --> 26:27.200 Benham, didn't you have blue eyes? 26:27.200 --> 26:29.200 I know they were blue. 26:29.200 --> 26:33.200 And your nose. Your nose was thinner and longer. 26:33.200 --> 26:36.200 Yes. Yes. 26:36.200 --> 26:39.200 And your lips. You had thick lips. 26:39.200 --> 26:40.200 That I know. 26:40.200 --> 26:42.200 Bandages off, Doctor. 26:42.200 --> 26:44.200 Doctor Kattler, there's a trick here. 26:44.200 --> 26:46.200 You're not Benham. You're not Benham. 26:46.200 --> 26:48.200 You're that young Mr. Winton. 26:48.200 --> 26:49.200 Doctor Kattler, listen to me. 26:49.200 --> 26:51.200 Cheat. Cheat. 26:51.200 --> 26:53.200 So you wanted me to finish you, did you? 26:53.200 --> 26:57.200 Yes, Mr. Winton, I will. I will. 26:57.200 --> 27:00.200 Hold him, Kattler. Hold him. 27:00.200 --> 27:03.200 See the knife, Mr. Winton? 27:03.200 --> 27:31.200 Watch it glisten as it comes down, down, down and into your... 27:34.200 --> 27:36.200 He's wonderful. 27:36.200 --> 27:40.200 You don't doubt that he's Arturo Alvarez when you hear him play the piano, do you? 27:40.200 --> 27:42.200 That's a marvelous old instrument you have, Doc. 27:42.200 --> 27:44.200 It was my mother's. 27:44.200 --> 27:47.200 This old house has been in the family for generations. 27:47.200 --> 27:52.200 Who'd ever thought we'd be alive to sit in your house and listen to somebody play a concerto? 27:52.200 --> 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. 28:01.200 --> 28:05.200 That was the lifesaver. Made the weekend perfect. 28:05.200 --> 28:07.200 I'm afraid it wasn't very restful. 28:07.200 --> 28:14.200 Hereafter, I'm spending all weekends in a cozy little corner under the El. 28:14.200 --> 28:19.200 It was worse for Claire than anybody. She had a dreadful time. 28:19.200 --> 28:24.200 It was ghastly, all right. Horrible. But you know something? 28:24.200 --> 28:25.200 What? 28:25.200 --> 28:30.200 My headache. It's completely gone. 28:30.200 --> 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. 28:53.200 --> 29:01.200 This was tonight's story of Suspense. 29:01.200 --> 29:04.200 Suspense is produced by William Spear. 29:04.200 --> 29:06.200 John Dietz was our director this evening. 29:06.200 --> 29:12.200 Tonight's radio drama was written by Peter Barry and scored by Bernard Herrmann. 29:12.200 --> 29:18.200 Roger DeKoven was Dr. Kettler. John Gibson, Leslie Winton, and Gloria Stewart played Claire Winton. 29:18.200 --> 29:24.200 Others in the cast were Guy Rept, Martha Faulkner, Winfield Honey, and Ralph Smiley. 29:24.200 --> 29:30.200 Next week at this time, Columbia will bring you another selected story from the world's great literature of thrills. 29:30.200 --> 29:32.200 Another study in... 29:32.200 --> 29:35.200 Suspense. 29:35.200 --> 29:49.200 This is Barry Kroger and this is the Columbia Broadcasting System.