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The Columbia Network takes pleasure in bringing you Suspense.

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Columbia's play theater of outstanding thrillers produced and directed by William Spear and

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scored by Bernard Herman. The notable melodramas from fiction and stage and screen from the world's

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great literature of entertaining excitement presented each week to bring you to the edge

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of your chair to keep you in suspense. Tonight's story by America's distinguished author playwright

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Owen Johnson gathers its suspense in a very gentle way. It doesn't have a spectacular finish

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garnished with revolver shots. There are no graveyard watches. There's not so much as a

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single lifeless body identified or unidentified. It's a tale told in a club room the artists and

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writers club in New York. A tale of high-class robbery and suspicion and of how some ladies

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and gentlemen nervously counted 100 in the dark. Ah that was a fine meal. Me for the club anytime.

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Here we can all sit here buddy. Yes if you'll just draw up that chair for Mr. Peters. Oh yeah.

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Do you all know Peters? This is Mr. Steingal. How do you do? Mr. Gollier? Oh I agree with Matt.

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Oh yes. Oh you know each other. Yes. And the one who drew up the chair Mr. Rankin. How do you do?

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Well I guess we're all acquainted now. To get back to our table discussion Queenie. Oh yes.

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How about a drink? Who'll join me? Oh pleasure. John. Well now Steingal as I said there are only half a

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dozen stories in the world. What is more to the point? There's every reason. Yes sir. What? Oh five

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with soda John. Yes sir. Now now where was I? Oh yes. What is more to the point gentlemen is the

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small number of human relations that are so simple and yet so fundamental that they can be eternally

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played upon, redressed and reinterpreted in every language in every age and yet remain inexhaustible

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in the possibility of variation. That's true of course. It's very possible. Take the eternal triangle

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to men and a woman or to women and a man. Its variations extend to thousands. That right Rankin?

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Well in a way. Oh here we are. Set them down right there John. A little soda. Here you are.

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Thank you. And you. A little soda Peter. Yes please. Here you are. Thanks. And here's yours. Thank you.

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And now a little soda mine. Well here's to you all. Cheers. I'm afraid we can't see eye to eye

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Quinny. I believe there are situations, original situations that are independent of your human

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emotions that exist just because they are situations, accidental and nothing else. As for

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instance. Well I'll just cite an ordinary one that happens to come to my mind. In a group of

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five men such as we are here, a theft takes place. One man is the thief. Which one? Now I'd like to

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know what emotion that interprets and yet it certainly is an original theme at the bottom of

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the whole literature. It's not the same thing at all. Detective stories. I could answer that the

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situation you give can be traced back to the commonest of human emotions, curiosity. I think

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Quinny has you there Rankin. What is the peculiar fascination that the detective problem exercises

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over the human mind? You will say curiosity. Yes and no. Admit it once that the whole art of a

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detective story consists in the statement of the problem. Anyone can do it. I can do it.

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Steingold can do it. Rankin I believe even you can do it. The solution doesn't count. It is usually

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but now it should be prohibited. What interest thus is? Can we guess it? There you have it. The

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problem, the detective story. Now why the fascination? I'll tell you. It appeals to our

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curiosity. Yes but deeper to a sort of intellectual vanity. Five men present. The theft takes place.

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Who's the thief? Who will guess it first? Whose brains will show its superior cleverness? You see

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that's all. That's all there is to it. Out of all of which the interesting thing is that Rankin has

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supplied the reason why the supply of detective fiction is inexhaustible. It does all come down

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to the simplest terms. Five possibilities. One answer. Well the reason is that the situation

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does constantly occur. It's a situation that any of us might get into anytime. Yes I know of an

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incident of that kind that happened to a friend of mine last month. Of course, of course gentlemen.

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You are glorifying common places. Every crime I tell you expresses itself in the terms of the

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picture puzzle that you feed your six-year-old. It's only the variation that is interesting.

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Take the well-known instance of the visitor at a club and the rare coin for example. You all know

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that story. I don't think I have. Sure. Why it's very well known. Go ahead Quenny. A distinguished

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visitor is brought into a club. A dozen men say present at dinner. Long table. Conversation finally

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veers around to curiosities and relics. One of the members present then takes from his pocket what

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he announces as one of the rarest coins in existence. Passes it around the table. Coin travels back and

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forth. Everyone examining it. And the conversation goes to another topic. All at once the owner calls

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for his coin. It is nowhere to be found. Everyone looks at everyone else. First they suspect a joke.

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Then it becomes serious. The coin is immensely valuable. Who has taken it? The owner is a

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gentleman. Does the gentlemanly idiotic thing of course. Laughs as he knows someone is playing a

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practical joke on him and that the coin will be returned tomorrow. The others refuse to leave the

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situation so. One man proposes that they all submit to a surf. Everyone gives his assent until

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it comes to the stranger. He refuses curtly roughly without giving any reason. Uncomfortable silence.

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The man is a guest. No one knows him particularly well but still he is a guest. One member tries to

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make him understand that no offence is offered. That the suggestion was simply to clear the

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atmosphere. The stranger becomes very firm, very proud and says I refuse to allow my person to be

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searched and I refuse to give the reason for my action. Another silence. The visitor evidently

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has the coin but he is their guest and etiquette protects him. Nice situation, eh? What's the answer?

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The table is cleared. A waiter removes a dish of fruit and there under the ledge of the plate

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where it's been pushed is the coin. Banal explanation, eh? Of course. Solutions always should be.

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At once everyone apologizes to him. Whereupon the visitor rises and says now I can give you

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the reason for my refusal to be searched. There are only two known specimens of that coin in

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existence and the second happens to be here in my vest pocket. That's rather obvious. Of course

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the story is well invented but the turn to it is very nice. Very nice indeed. Well I don't know.

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Ending is very unsatisfactory. The visitor should have had on him not another coin but something

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absolutely different, something destructive say of a woman's reputation and a great tragedy

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should have been threatened by the casual misplacing of the coin. Well I've heard the same story told in

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a dozen different ways. Oh it's happened a hundred times. It must continually happen. I know of one

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extraordinary instance, in fact the most extraordinary instance of this sort I've ever heard. Peters you

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rascal. I see you've been quietly letting us set the stage for you. Well it's not a story that will

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please everyone. Why not? Because you will want to know what no one can ever know. It has no conclusion

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then. Yes and no. As far as it concerns a woman, quite the most remarkable woman I've ever met,

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the story is complete. Do I know the woman? Possibly, probably I should say. As a matter of

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fact this should be particularly interesting to you because I believe that most of you are

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acquainted with the people involved. The names of course are disguised. I think yes I have.

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Just time before I catch my train to tell it to you.

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Mrs. well Mrs. Rita Kildare inhabited a charming bachelor girl studio, very elegant,

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with a duplex pattern and one of the buildings just off Central Park West. She knew very nearly

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everyone in that indescribable society in New York that's drawn from all levels and that imposes

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but one condition for membership to be amusing. In this mingled society her invitations were

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eagerly sought. Her dinners were spontaneous and the discussions though gay and usually daring were

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invariably under the control of wit and good taste. On the Sunday night of this adventure she had,

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according to her custom, sent away her Filipino butler and invited to an informal chaffing dish

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supper seven of her more unusual friends. At seven o'clock having finished dressing she put in order

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her bedroom which formed a sort of free passage between the studio and a small dining room to the

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kitchen beyond. Then going into the studio she struck a match and was about to light the candlesticks

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which illuminated the room when the bell rang and a Mr. Flanders, a broker, compact, nervously alive,

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well groomed, was waiting as she opened the door. Well you're early. On the contrary you are late.

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Well in any case hello and come inside. Here let me take your things. Thank you.

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Ah the first I suppose. Of course and since you are you can be a good boy and help me with the

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candles. Delighted. Who's to be here tonight? The Enos Jacksons. I thought they were separated.

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Not yet. How interesting. Only you dear lady would dream of serving us a couple on the verge.

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It is interesting isn't it? Assuredly. Where did you know Jackson? Through the wearings.

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Jackson's a rather doubtful person isn't he? Well let's call him a very sharp lawyer.

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They tell me though he's been gambling pretty much in deep. How about yourself? Me? I'm a bachelor.

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If I lose my shirt it makes no difference. Is that possible? Probably even. Who else is coming?

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Oh uh Maude Lilly. You know her? I don't think so. You met her here some time ago. A journalist.

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Oh yes yes of course I've forgotten. Mr. Harris, the clubman is coming and the Stanley Cheevers.

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Stanley Cheevers? Are we going to gamble? Don't tell me you object. Certainly not.

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Certainly not. Only the Cheevers. They play quite a game. Yes well united.

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They have an unusual streak of good luck. Oh by the way it's uh Jackson isn't it who is so

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attractive to Mrs. Cheever? Quite right. What a charming party. Where does Maude Lilly come in?

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Don't joke. She's in a desperate way. And young Harris? Oh he used to make the salad and cream the

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chicken. Ah see the whole party. I of course am to wear the element of respectability. Of what?

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Don't play baby with me my dear Flanders. I apologize. That's better. No one of course

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knows who else is coming. No one of course. The Stanley Cheevers entered. A short fat man

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with a vacant fat face and slow moving eye and his wife. Valuable, nervous, overdressed, pretty.

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Mr. yes Mr. Harris came in with Maude Lilly. A woman straight, dark, Indian, great masses of

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somber hair. Held in a little too loosely for neatness with thick quick lips and eyes that

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rolled away from the person who was talking to her. The Enos Jacksons were late and still agitated as

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they entered. His forehead had not quite banished the scowl nor her eyes the scorn. He was of the

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type that never lost his temper but caused others to lose theirs. Mrs. Jackson seemed

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fastened to her husband by an invisible leash. You looked at her curiously and wondered what such

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a nature would do in a crisis with a lurking sense of a woman who carried with her her own impending

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tragedy. As soon as the company had been completed and the incongruity of the selection

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had been perceived a smile of malicious anticipation ran the rounds which the hostess cut short by

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saying well well now that everyone's here this is the order for the night you can quarrel all you

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want you can whisper all the gossip you can think of about one another but everyone is to be amusing

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also everyone is to help with dinner and nothing formal nothing serious we may all be bankrupt

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we may all be bankrupt divorced to dead tomorrow but tonight we'll be gay that's the invariable rule of the house

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if you'll excuse me i'll get on with the cooking uh harris i'll need you

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all right with you may i be of any help thank you more dear oh mrs cheever you might come along too all right

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this is an adorable bedroom oh thank you dear

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uh now for my apron oh there it is uh tie me up to the back will you please mod of course

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there you are fine thanks now just let me get my rings off and i'll be all ready to go to work

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oh this is such a lovely apartment mrs gilder soap and water always seem to do it

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ah there your rings are so beautiful they are nice aren't they but there's only one that's very

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valuable the sapphire oh it's beautiful let me see oh it must be very valuable it cost 10,000

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six years ago it's been my talisman ever since for the moment however i'm a cook you're not going to

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leave the rings there why of course now i'm the cook mod lily you're the scullery maid harris is

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the chef and we're all under his orders mrs cheever did you ever peel onions oh would heavens know

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well there are no onions peel all you have to do is help set the table

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under their hostess's gay guidance the seven guests began to circulate busily through the room

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laying the table grouping the chairs opening bottles and preparing the material for the

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shaping dishes mrs gilder in the kitchen ransacked the ice box and with her own hands shredded the

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chicken and measured the cream slanders carry this in carefully cheever stop watching your wife and

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put the salad bowl on the table everything ready harris all set all right everyone sit down i'll

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be right in she went into her bedroom took off her apron and hung it in the closet then going

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to a dressing table she drew the hat pin around which were her rings from the pin cushion and

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carelessly slipped them on her fingers but all at once she frowned and looked quickly at her hand

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only two rings were there the third ring the sapphire was missing stupid she said to herself

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and returned to a dressing table immediately she stopped she remembered quite clearly putting the

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hat pin through the three rings she made no attempt to search further but remained without

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moving her fingers slowly drumming on the table who had taken the ring each of our guests had had a

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dozen opportunities in the course of the time she'd been busy in the kitchen she ran over their

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she ran over their characters and their situations as she knew them strangely enough at each

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her mind stopped upon some reason that might explain a sudden temptation to find out nothing

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this way that's not the important thing to me just now important thing is to get the ring back

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and slowly deliberately she began to walk back and forth a clenched hand beating the deliberate

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rhythmic measure of her journey five minutes later as harris installed the chef over the chafing

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dish was giving directions spoon in the air mrs killbear came into the room like a lengthening

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shadow her entrance had been made with scarcely a perceptible sound and yet each guest was aware

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of it at the same moment with a little nervous start

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heavens heavens dear lady you come in on us like a greek tragedy what is it you have for us a surprise

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i have something to say to you

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mr enos jackson yes ms killder kindly do as i ask you certainly go to the door go to the door please

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go to the door please lock it and bring me the key

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here you are you've locked it as you wish me to thank you now the bedroom door would you do the same

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thank you mr jackson mr cheever yeah would you blow out all the candles except the candelabra

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on the table blow out all the candles except the candelabra all right

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for goodness sake mrs killbear what is it i am getting terribly worked up my my nerves are all

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made up mrs jackson that's the last candle all right now listen my sapphire ring has just been

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stolen oh you don't believe it the ring has been taken within the last 20 minutes i'm not going to

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mince words the ring has been taken and the thief is among you but mrs killd is it possible yes mrs

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cheever is not the slightest doubt three of you were in the bedroom and i placed my rings in the

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pincushion quite true i was in the room when she took them off the sapphire ring was on top each

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of you has passed through there a dozen times since my sapphire ring is gone and one of you has

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taken it now now listen i'm not going to miss words i'm not going to stand on ceremony

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but i'm going to have my ring back listen to me carefully i'm going to have that ring back

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and until i do not a soul shall leave this room

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i don't care who's taken it all i want is my ring now i'm going to make it possible for whoever took

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it to restore it without possibility of detection the doors are locked and will stay locked i'm going

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to blow out the remaining candles in the candelabra and we're going to count 100 slowly

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there'll be an absolute darkness no one will know or see what's done but if at the end of that time

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if at the end of that time the ring is not here on the table i shall telephone the police

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and have everyone in this room searched am i quite clear

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everyone take his place about the table and remain standing please

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that's it that'll do now i'll blow out the candles and count 100 no more no less

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yes remember either i get that ring or everyone in this room will be searched

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mr cheever you may hand it to me

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well now that that's over we can have a very gay little supper the light someone

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one and there you are gentlemen oh i say peters that's not all absolutely the story ends there

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story ends there but uh who took the ring what you never found out never no clue none i'm not

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sure i like the story it's no story at all permit me it is a story and it is complete in fact i

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consider it unique because it has none of the banalities of a solution and leaves the problem

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even more confused than at the start well i don't see of course you don't see my dear ankin you do

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not see that any solution would be commonplace whereas no solution leaves an extraordinary

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intellectual problem well how so well in the first place whether the situation actually happen or not

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which is in itself a mirage of reality peeters has constructed it in a masterly way the proof of

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which is that he has made me listen any of those present might have taken the ring there are

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therefore seven solutions all possible and all logical but beyond this is left a great

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intellectual problem how so was it a woman who lacked the necessary courage to continue

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or was it a man who repented his first impulse is a man or is a woman the greater natural criminal

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oh that's simple quinny a woman took it of course on the contrary it was a man for

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the second action was more difficult than the first a man certainly the restoration of the

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ring was a logical decision you see personally i inclined to a woman for the reason that a weaker

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feminine nature is strangely susceptible to the domination of her own sex there you are we could

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meet and debate the subject year in and year out and never agree i i recognize most of the

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characters peters mrs. kilter of course is all you say of her an extraordinary woman

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the story is quite characteristic of her flanders i'm not sure of but i think i know him i'm positive

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i do did it really happen exactly as i told it the only one i don't recognize is harris

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your humble servant what you peters you were there i was there i was harris

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having a pardon gentleman oh yes what is it done mr peters sir you're trained you told me to remind

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you oh thank you yes i didn't know it was so late you gentlemen pardon me nice to meet you all night

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curious chap extraordinary well now i i wonder

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i wonder if we're wondering the same thing gentlemen

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and so with the enigmatic smile of mr peters or harris ends 100 in the dark

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owen johnson's smooth story which gave us tonight's suspense suspense is produced by william spear

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tonight's radio drama was written by jack anson fink directed by john deets and scored by bernard

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herman eric dressler was mr peters alice frost played mrs. kilter and ted osborne quinney others

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in the cast were helen lewis jones shay henry at k frank reddick paul luther stefan schnauvel ian

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martin and barry croaker with this evening's performance columbia brings to a conclusion

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the present series of suspense if you like these broadcasts cbs would be pleased to hear from you

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suspense has been a series presented for your relaxation and enjoyment by the columbia broadcasting

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