1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 Suspense. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Now let's see. 3 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Suspect, suspectant, suspend. 4 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Ah, here we are. 5 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Suspense. 6 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 The condition of mental uncertainty, 7 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,000 usually accompanied by apprehension or anxiety. 8 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Fear of something which is about to occur as 9 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:05,000 do not keep me any longer in suspense. 10 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,000 For our story of suspense tonight, we invite you to enjoy 11 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:24,000 The Devil in the Summer House by John Dixon Carr. 12 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Somewhere along the Hudson, perhaps not far from 13 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Terrytown, there is a modest house in its own grounds. 14 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Behind it, in the spacious garden, stands a summer house of 15 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,000 evil memory. 16 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 More than 25 years ago, a man shot himself, or at least 17 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 died in that summer house. 18 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,000 They found Major Kenyon with a scorched bullet hole in his 19 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 head and the weapon beside him. 20 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,000 But we are in the present now. 21 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,000 The lattice summer house has grown heavy with vines, and 22 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,000 only the other evening two men came into that garden at 23 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,000 twilight, over the shaggy grass, as a storm was brewing 24 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,000 along the Hudson. 25 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Two men, the lawyer from New York. 26 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Who's there? 27 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 And Captain Burke of the Homicide Squad. 28 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Easy, my friend, easy. I was just going to ask you the same thing. 29 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,000 My name is Parker. I'm an attorney. 30 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 You're not Captain Burke. 31 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Yeah, the very same and no other. 32 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,000 I thought I recognized you, Mr. Parker. 33 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Must be something important to bring you so far from New 34 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,000 York at this time of night. 35 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000 I was in Terrytown anyway. 36 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:44,000 I thought there'd be a housekeeper here, but I don't see any lights. 37 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 You've got business here? 38 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Yes, in a way. Have you? 39 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 I don't know. I'll tell you better after you tell me what 40 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 brought you to a place that no one has lived in for ten years. 41 00:02:53,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Tell me, Captain, did you ever get an anonymous letter from a dead man? 42 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Did you? 43 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 No, I can't say I did. 44 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 The letter's anonymous, how do you know the man's dead? 45 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Because they're all dead. 46 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Every last one of them. 47 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Dead and under the ground, where they can't be hurt any longer. 48 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Look, there's the summer house where Jerry Kenyon used to work. 49 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:27,000 There are the windows of the library and the dining room. 50 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Looking toward it, can't find this lightning. 51 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Makes the windows blaze, don't it? 52 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Jerry Kenyon hadn't a care in the world, yet he shot himself. 53 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 I'll show you the letter. 54 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Now, look, Mr. Parker, I couldn't read anything in this light, 55 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,000 but if we can get inside the house now... 56 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Certainly we can get into the house. 57 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,000 I was the family attorney, I've got the keys. 58 00:03:53,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Why should a dead person send me a letter? 59 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 No lights working, eh? 60 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,000 But you got a flashlight, I see. 61 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Came here prepared for anything, eh? 62 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 The library. 63 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,000 There were always candles on the mantel. 64 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Yes, there they are. 65 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Have you a match, Captain? 66 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Yes, I like them. 67 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,000 That's better. 68 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Same old heavy furniture. 69 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Same old thick carpet, same old globe map. 70 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Mr. Parker, this letter that you were talking about. 71 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Read it. 72 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Hey, wait a minute. 73 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,000 This thing is dated November 2, 1918. 74 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,000 That's right, and be careful of that paper. 75 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,000 You see how old it is? 76 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 That it was mailed yesterday. 77 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,000 From where? 78 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,000 I don't remember, I didn't keep the envelope. 79 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Read it. 80 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Dear Joe. 81 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,000 In case you didn't know it, I am Joe. 82 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Dear Joe, if you want to know how Major Kenyon really died... 83 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 But we know how he died. 84 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 It was suicide. 85 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Are you sure it was? 86 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Whoever wrote this letter doesn't seem to think so. 87 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,000 If you want to know how Major Kenyon really died, 88 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 look in the third drawer of the desk in the library. 89 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Press hard at the back of the drawer, yours very truly. 90 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,000 That's not signed. 91 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,000 That's right. 92 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Are you sure you don't know who wrote that letter? 93 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 This is the first time I've been back in this room, Captain. 94 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,000 It was almost home to me once. 95 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,000 There's the chair where Isabelle sat on the afternoon it happened. 96 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Isabelle was Jerry Kenyon's wife, beautiful woman. 97 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:01,000 There's the door that the maid let me in by that afternoon. 98 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:06,000 You know, Captain, seems to me they're all here tonight. 99 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Who? 100 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 We stand... 101 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,000 ...neath the sounding rafter... 102 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,000 ...and the walls around us are bare... 103 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:24,000 ...as they echo our peals of laughter. 104 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,000 It seems that the dead are there. 105 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Yet we stand to our glasses steady. 106 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,000 You know it? 107 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,000 I was in my school reader. 108 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,000 How does the rest of it go? 109 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Yet we stand to our glasses steady... 110 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,000 ...and drink to our comrades' eyes. 111 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Here's a glass to the dead already. 112 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Hurrah for the next that dies. 113 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Excuse me, Captain. 114 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,000 I don't know what's come over me talking that way. 115 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,000 I was very fond of these people. 116 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Are you going to look in the desk room? 117 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,000 This is a lot of nonsense. 118 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Then why are you here, Mr. Barker? 119 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Jerry Kenyon was always a happy man. 120 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 At least that's what I always thought. 121 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Big, boisterous fellow. 122 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,000 I am? 123 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,000 He had a good position with Visitone. 124 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,000 You know, the phonograph company. 125 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Yeah, sure I know. 126 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,000 But he'd just been made a major in the Army. 127 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,000 1917. 128 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 There was a war on then, too, if you remember. 129 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,000 I remember. 130 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 To make the world safe for democracy. 131 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Old days. 132 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Old heartaches. 133 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Old memories. 134 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,000 I remember that blazing hot day in August. 135 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,000 When all the windows were up. 136 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 I remember this room. 137 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:51,000 And Isabel, that was Jerry's wife, sitting in that chair. 138 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Knitting. 139 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,000 I remember. 140 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Oh, yes, Kitty. 141 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,000 What is it? 142 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,000 There's a man to see you, Miss Kenyon. 143 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 He says his name's Parker. 144 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Yes, I'm expecting him. 145 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Show him in, please. 146 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,000 All right, ma'am. 147 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Shall I take your knitting and your knitting bag? 148 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Why should you take my knitting? 149 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,000 I don't know, Miss Kenyon. 150 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 I just wondered. 151 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 You can come in now. 152 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,000 I'll be right back. 153 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 I'll be right back. 154 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,000 I'll be right back. 155 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000 I'll be right back. 156 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,000 I'll be right back. 157 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,000 I'll be right back. 158 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,000 I'll be right back. 159 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,000 I'll be right back. 160 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,000 I'll be right back. 161 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,000 I'll be right back. 162 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,000 I'll be right back. 163 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,000 I'll be right back. 164 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,000 You can come in now. 165 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Thank you. 166 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Hello, Joe. 167 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Hello, Isabel. 168 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000 You sent for me? 169 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Joe, I must apologize for Kitty. 170 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Servants are getting to be a problem nowadays. 171 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 She looks pretty enough to get along. 172 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Oh, Kitty's got large ideas. 173 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,000 She wants to go on the stage, if you please, and do imitations, like Miss Draper. 174 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,000 She only knew how hard it was acting all your life. 175 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Isabel, you've been crying. 176 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,000 I have not. 177 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,000 At least... 178 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 Is that why you sent for me? 179 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,000 I've missed you. 180 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,000 You haven't been here in over a week, Joe. 181 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,000 I had an idea Jerry was getting a little tired of having me around this house. 182 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Oh, no, Joe. 183 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Why, Jerry... 184 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Yes? 185 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:04,000 What about Jerry? 186 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,000 I wish I knew, Joe. 187 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,000 That's why I wanted you here. 188 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Where is he, by the way? 189 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,000 I want to say goodbye to him before he leaves. 190 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,000 He's probably out in the summer house where he works with all those papers. 191 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,000 He's got a lot of work to catch up with. 192 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,000 He's going overseas tomorrow. 193 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Yes, I know. 194 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:24,000 He's out there. 195 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,000 He's been out there all day. 196 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 His last day here. 197 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 I've been alone. 198 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 That sounded like a shot. 199 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Yes, it was a shot, Joe. 200 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:35,000 In the house? 201 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,000 It doesn't seem to worry you. 202 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,000 It's only Paul, Jerry's brother, Paul. 203 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,000 Oh, I thought you'd gotten him off your hands for good. 204 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Jerry asked him out. 205 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,000 He got here two nights ago. 206 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 That doesn't make it any easier for you, does it? 207 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,000 No, I don't mind. 208 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Jerry's fixed him up with a pistol range in the cellar. 209 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Paul's a terribly bad shot. 210 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Not like the rest of us. 211 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,000 You don't seem to like it, Joe. 212 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Shall I have Kitty go down and tell him? 213 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,000 No, no, no, it's bearable. 214 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,000 As long as he keeps away. 215 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Poor Joe. 216 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:12,000 But, uh, about Jerry, who is it this time? 217 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Joe, Jerry's been home five days on leave from camp. 218 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Well, never mind what camp. 219 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,000 But he spent four evenings of those five with... 220 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,000 with that Fisk woman. 221 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Diane Fisk? 222 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 The redhead with all the money? 223 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Oh, she got money? 224 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Well... 225 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,000 She must have some attraction then. 226 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Please understand me, Joe. 227 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,000 It's not that I'm jealous any longer. 228 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,000 No, no, of course not. 229 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Jerry goes his way and I go mine. 230 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:45,000 I may not be without admirers myself if it comes to that. 231 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,000 You have no idea how true that is, Isabel. 232 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,000 No, uh, I was thinking about Jerry. 233 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,000 He may not always be lucky. 234 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,000 He may meet some girl who's not as broad-minded as I am. 235 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,000 And then when he gives her the go-bob... 236 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Paul must be getting really furious down in that cell. 237 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,000 He's not hitting anything. 238 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,000 He must be using a lot of ammunition. 239 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Now, your trouble, Joe, is that you're too much of a gentleman. 240 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:15,000 And if you really want to see Jerry, there he is now. 241 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Where? 242 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Just standing in the door of the summer house. 243 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Look out the window. 244 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Infinitely bright out there. 245 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Doesn't he look noble in his new uniform? 246 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Sam Brown belt and revolver and everything. 247 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Look how he turns around and waves his cap at us. 248 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Like a real soldier. 249 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Real soldiers don't exactly wave their caps, do they? 250 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000 He does. 251 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Jerry! Jerry! 252 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Hello there! 253 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Jerry, Joe Parker's here! 254 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,000 Who? 255 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Joe Parker. He wants to see you. 256 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Well, maybe they're bringing you something. 257 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 I'll be up in a minute. 258 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Into the summer house again. 259 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Not a care in the world, has he? 260 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Now, listen, Isabelle, you've got to slow down. 261 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 You'll be crying again in a minute. 262 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Come on over here and sit down. 263 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 The light hurts my eyes, that's all. 264 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Well, then we'll just pull these blinds. 265 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 We'll still be able to see. 266 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 There, how's that? 267 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 It's better, thanks. 268 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Now, can I get you anything? 269 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Oh, no, you heard the great white chief's orders. 270 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 I'm to get you something. 271 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 What do you have, Joe? A highball? 272 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Don't bother with that. 273 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Oh, it's no bother. 274 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Everything's out in the dining room here. 275 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,000 The ice man didn't deliver today of all days, 276 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,000 so I'm afraid I can't give you any ice. 277 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,000 I read in the paper yesterday that we're likely to have 278 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,000 automatic ice boxes any day now. 279 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,000 You know, things that freeze ice by electricity or something. 280 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Do you believe that, Joe? 281 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 I doubt it. Listen, Isabella. 282 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Here you are. 283 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 It's not cold at all. It's the best I could do. 284 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Thanks very much. 285 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,000 What I wanted to say was, 286 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,000 couldn't you get that brother of yours to give up practicing now? 287 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Hasn't he done his good deed for the day? 288 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Yes, maybe he has. 289 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,000 I'll ring for Kitty. 290 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 You don't have to call me, Miss Kenyon. I'm here. 291 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Oh, yes, Kitty. What is it? 292 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,000 It's only to tell you there's another visitor. 293 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 This time it's a woman. 294 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Lady Kitty. Call her a lady, please. 295 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Oh, maybe. 296 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000 She says her name's Diane Fisk. 297 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Diane Fisk? That's Jerry. 298 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Kitty, tell the lady I'm not in. 299 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Lady. 300 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,000 She's a fine lady. 301 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,000 I don't want to intrude, my dear. I don't want to intrude. 302 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,000 Anyway, it's too late, Miss Kenyon. She's coming down the hall now. 303 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,000 My dear Mrs. Kenyon. 304 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,000 How do you do, Diane? 305 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 This is a friend of ours, Miss Fisk. Mr. Parker. 306 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Now, I don't want to intrude, really. I don't. 307 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,000 I wouldn't have intruded for words, especially on a day like this, 308 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,000 isn't it awful? But your husband simply insisted, my dear Mrs. Kenyon, 309 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000 he simply wouldn't take no for an answer. 310 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 I'm sure he wouldn't. 311 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Do you know what he's brought from his office as a surprise? 312 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 No. 313 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,000 A phonograph recording machine. He's going to let us use it. 314 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,000 So that we can all hear ourselves talk twice. How nice. 315 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Kenny's name. Can't somebody stop that firing? 316 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Don't fly off the handle. Take it easy now. 317 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Kitty. Yes, ma'am. 318 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Would you please go down the cellar and tell Mr. Kenyon's brother 319 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000 he's driving us all crazy. Tell him to stop. 320 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 Yes, ma'am. 321 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,000 My dear Mrs. Kenyon, I do hope I haven't offended you in any way. 322 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,000 I know I'm a silly little chatterbox. 323 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,000 They say people who have red hair often are. 324 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Because at your age, you must find the heat very dry. 325 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Don't you think we'd all better sit down? 326 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 I think... I was very much interested in what Miss Fisk said about 327 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 our phonograph recording machine. 328 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,000 Mrs. Kenyon was just talking about a machine to make ice. 329 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Yes, yes. Isn't science wonderful? 330 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 But I do think it was me to make you Kenyon to invite me out here 331 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,000 and then go and fall asleep in the summer house. 332 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Oh. Did you say fall asleep? 333 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,000 Yes, of course. 334 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:44,000 How did you know? 335 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,000 Well, I came up the back way and I saw him in the summer house 336 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,000 with his head forward on the table. 337 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Taking a nice little snooze. 338 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,000 That's very queer. 339 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Of course, you couldn't see much except in the bright light of the door. 340 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 I think I saw him there. 341 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 I didn't disturb him naturally. 342 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 But I think I'd better disturb him. 343 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Oh, now please don't trouble on my account. 344 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:09,000 The fact is, my dear, I don't altogether trust myself in this room. 345 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:13,000 A woman of my age has to conserve her strength, you know. 346 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 So if you'll just excuse me. 347 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Well, of course if you'll... 348 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,000 Oh dear, I just can't think what I'm always saying 349 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,000 because I have the best intentions in the world, Mr. Barker. 350 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Parker. 351 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:30,000 But I do somehow manage to offend people being so dependent and everything. 352 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Except the men, of course. 353 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,000 I couldn't defend you, Mr. Barker, of Parker. 354 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Now could I? 355 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Madam, I'm not sure. 356 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Of course, the person I really came to see was Paul, Mr. Kenyon's brother. 357 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,000 He's a little young, of course, but he's joining up next month 358 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,000 and I think we should all do our bit, don't you? 359 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 He has such a pleasant personality. 360 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 I think he likes me. 361 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Why, if he walked in at that door this minute... 362 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Now how am I ever going to get anyplace? 363 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Someone's always interrupting my revolver practice 364 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,000 just when I'm getting to the point where I can... 365 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Oh. 366 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,000 What, Paul? 367 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 Good Lord, are you here again? 368 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,000 You're a very untidy object, Paul. 369 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Well, that's pretty untidy in the cellar. And dirty. 370 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 I've got cockroaches on me, so keep away. 371 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Did you have a good day shooting? 372 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Swell. One of the best. 373 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Hit the target? 374 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:23,000 On the only shot that mattered, I hit the target dead center. 375 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,000 That sounded like Isabel. 376 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,000 I think it was Isabel. 377 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Why have you got those blinds down? Get them up. 378 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 What is it? What's wrong with you? 379 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:54,000 What are you looking at through that window? 380 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:59,000 That was 25 years ago, Captain Burke. 381 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:04,000 We found Jerry Kenyon lying across the table in the summer house. 382 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:08,000 He'd shot himself through the head with his own revolver 383 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,000 and the holster. 384 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,000 It was lying on the floor beside him. 385 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Shut up, Sarver. I see. 386 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,000 When Isabel found him, he'd been dead about half an hour. 387 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,000 The doctors proved that to them? 388 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:22,000 Yes. That shot had been fired against his head. 389 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,000 The front of his uniform cap was powder-burned 390 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,000 where the bullet entered. 391 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,000 There's no doubt about that. 392 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,000 None at all. 393 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,000 We never noticed the real shot because... 394 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,000 that young lad was shooting off guns like a maniac in the cellar. 395 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Precisely. 396 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Now they're all dead. 397 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:44,000 By accident, illness, they're all gone. 398 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Isabel Kenyon died less than a year afterwards. 399 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:53,000 I think she died just because she was so fond of Jerry. 400 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:58,000 I suppose you've guessed my little secret. 401 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,000 I think I can sort of read between the lines. 402 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 You were in love with Isabel Kenyon, weren't you? 403 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,000 Yes. 404 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Well, these things happen. 405 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,000 I never let her see it, you understand. 406 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Women know pretty generally. 407 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,000 So? They're gone. 408 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,000 The youngest of them. 409 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:20,000 And I'm left alone with old tunes, old ghosts, 410 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 wondering why the fellow ever killed himself. 411 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Why? Why? 412 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,000 And this morning out of a clear sky, 413 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,000 I get a letter saying, 414 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:37,000 if you want to know how Major Kenyon really died, 415 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,000 look in the third drawer of the desk in the library. 416 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,000 But I tell you, we know how he died. 417 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Well, aren't you going to do it? 418 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Naturally. 419 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,000 I've got a key somewhere here that fits the drawer. 420 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Now, listen, Mr. Parker. 421 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,000 In my father's country, in Ireland, 422 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,000 they got a saying that when a man's going to commit suicide... 423 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,000 I thought of doing that too once. 424 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,000 ...then the devil comes in and takes him by the hand and talks to him. 425 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,000 They say you can see the devil as plain as I see you... 426 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 just before you pull the trigger. 427 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,000 The devil must have been in the summer house that afternoon. 428 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Oh, no, he wasn't. 429 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,000 What do you mean? 430 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Major Kenyon didn't kill himself. 431 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 He was murdered. 432 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000 My dear Captain Burke, 433 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,000 the police covered all that at the time. 434 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000 Everybody had an alibi. 435 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,000 They did, did they? 436 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 Well, think of what I've told you. 437 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,000 Isabel and I were together all the time. 438 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:30,000 Paul, her brother, was shooting off guns in the cellar. 439 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Diane Fisk? 440 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,000 Yeah, what about her? 441 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Her chauffeur who drove her there. 442 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,000 He swore he saw her walk straight up to the place. 443 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,000 She passed the summer house but didn't stop there. 444 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Well, that checks. 445 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Even Kitty the maid could prove she'd never stirred out of the house... 446 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:50,000 until just a minute or so before Isabel went herself. 447 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,000 Oh, and why did the maid have to leave the house at all? 448 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,000 She was taking Jerry the black coffee he drank every afternoon. 449 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,000 He'd already been dead half an hour then. 450 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,000 And that, my dear Captain, disposes of everybody. 451 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000 Well, now listen, Mr. Parker. 452 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,000 You're a good guy and I'm not going to hold out on you any longer. 453 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:13,000 You see, I say Major Kenyon was murdered because I know he was murdered. 454 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:14,000 By an outsider? 455 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:15,000 By one of the people in the house. 456 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,000 That's impossible. 457 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Is it? 458 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,000 Why don't you open that desk drawer and see? 459 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,000 What time is it? 460 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Uh, it's a quarter to eight. 461 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Quarter to eight? 462 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,000 And I haven't got much time. 463 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,000 For what? 464 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Holy St. Patrick, will you open that drawer? 465 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:33,000 If it's waited 25 years, my friend, it can wait a minute more. 466 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:38,000 I've got the keys somewhere in this bunch of keys. 467 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Everything the same. 468 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,000 For all never altered, all the inherited. 469 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:47,000 Same old desk, same old phonograph. 470 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,000 Same old... I think this is the key. 471 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,000 Yeah, it opens. 472 00:20:55,000 --> 00:21:01,000 There's nothing here except one or two old newspapers. 473 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,000 Everything very dirty. 474 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,000 The letter says to press hard at the back. 475 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,000 Have you tried that? 476 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,000 Doesn't seem to. 477 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Yes, my George, it does work. 478 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Well? 479 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,000 There seems to be a movable back on a hinge. 480 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Well, what's inside? 481 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Uh, some sort of flat, brown paper parcel, sealed with wax, 482 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000 and about as dirty as it can get. 483 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000 Open it, man, open it. 484 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 I'm going to. 485 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,000 It's a phonograph, I thought. 486 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:45,000 There's a plain, white label, something on it written in pencil. 487 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 I don't see too well nowadays without my glasses. 488 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,000 Well, here, give it to me, I'll read it to you. 489 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,000 Just go on. 490 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,000 A record of how I killed Jerry Kenyon. 491 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Say, don't you get it, Mr. Parker? 492 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,000 This is the real goods. 493 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,000 The murderer's going to tell us his own story 25 years later. 494 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,000 Be careful, whatever you do, don't drop it. 495 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000 You seem to be interested enough now. 496 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,000 I don't say I'm not interested, I say I can't believe it. 497 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000 You know, when you were talking about the dead coming back 498 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,000 and that kind of thing, you sure started giving me goose pimples. 499 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 But that's just what it is, a dead person. 500 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,000 Now, there's the phonograph. 501 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,000 Put that record on, let's hear what the ghost says. 502 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,000 Any of them could have made the record, of course. 503 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 The apparatus was all here. 504 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Don't just stand there by the phonograph. 505 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,000 Won't it work? 506 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Yes, it works. 507 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,000 Is it wound up? 508 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000 Yes, it's wound up. 509 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,000 Here goes. 510 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Now, look, Mr. Parker, whose voice do you think it's going to be? 511 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,000 I don't know. 512 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Now, I want to warn you, the voice you're going to hear from there. 513 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Please, be quiet, listen. 514 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,000 I've started it up. 515 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Well, speak up. 516 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,000 Who killed Jerry Kenyon? 517 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,000 I killed him, Joe, dear. 518 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Wasabel. 519 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:01,000 I'm sorry about it, Joe, but I had to have you for an alibi. 520 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,000 And you were so terribly easy to fool. 521 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,000 It's only a phonograph record, man. 522 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Don't look at it as if it was alive. 523 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,000 You said you and I were always together, Joe. 524 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 But that wasn't quite true. 525 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,000 I left you to go into the dining room and mix a highball, remember? 526 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Yes. 527 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,000 And I was carrying my big knitting bag. 528 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000 Remember that, too? 529 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,000 And there was something else in it besides knitting. 530 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,000 I'm an awfully good revolver shot, Joe. 531 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 I told you we were all good except Paul. 532 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:36,000 And the back windows of the dining room face the same way as the back windows of the library. 533 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Thank you, Isabel. 534 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Thank you very much. 535 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Jerry was in the summer house. 536 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:48,000 I made a sign to him from the window, and he came to the door there in bright sunlight, 50 feet away. 537 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Okay, Isabel. 538 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Joe, don't you know what August heat is in a wooden summer house? 539 00:23:55,000 --> 00:24:02,000 Didn't you, didn't anybody see that no man would be wearing a cap inside on a day like that? 540 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,000 Jerry had taken his cap off before he went into the summer house. 541 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 We saw him do it. 542 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,000 He was bareheaded when he came to the door. 543 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:17,000 So I lifted the revolver and shot him through the head. 544 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Then I dropped the gun back in my knitting bag and went back into the library with your drink. 545 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Isabel. 546 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,000 Don't talk back to the thing, man. 547 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,000 It'll drive me crazy. 548 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,000 There was something else in my knitting bag, too. 549 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,000 I had to use it. 550 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:38,000 It was a duplicate of Jerry's army cap with a powder-burned hole already fired through it in the place I wanted. 551 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Very clever of you, Isabel. 552 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 So I've been the goat for 25 years. 553 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:47,000 I waited for some time and then slipped out to find the body. 554 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:52,000 I fitted the new cap over Jerry's head in place where it ought to go. 555 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,000 I put the old cap in my knitting bag. 556 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,000 I took his revolver out of the holster and kept it. 557 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,000 The gun that I'd used, I dropped on the floor beside him. 558 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000 So I proved it was suicide. 559 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,000 You see? 560 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000 You proved it to me. 561 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,000 Joe. 562 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,000 Joe, listen. 563 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,000 I'm very sick. 564 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000 They tell me I'm going to die. 565 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000 You are dead. 566 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,000 Joe, I'm afraid. 567 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,000 I'm going out in the dark and I don't know what's there. 568 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,000 Don't go away, Isabel. Come out. 569 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,000 Just for a minute. 570 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 Okay, I've had just about enough of this. 571 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Joe, I want you to tell everybody about it. 572 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:34,000 I want you to tell them how a poor, crazy woman couldn't stand that man any longer and how... 573 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,000 Ah, it's cut off and it's going to stay cut off. 574 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000 Thank you. 575 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 I've had about enough too. 576 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,000 But you can't arrest her now, my friend. 577 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000 You can't arrest her now. 578 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000 After hearing that, I'm not going to arrest anybody. 579 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000 Tell me, Captain. 580 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,000 Did you know what was on the record? 581 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,000 No. That's why I had to hear it. 582 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,000 I knew about it, but I wasn't sure what it had to say. 583 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,000 What so helped me, I never guessed how hard it would hit you. 584 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000 Man. 585 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Don't you get it even yet? 586 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000 Yes, I get it. 587 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Oh, no, you don't. 588 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,000 You don't see anything. 589 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,000 That was how the fake suicide was managed, yes. 590 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:19,000 That's just how it was all done, bar one or two little things. 591 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,000 Only... 592 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,000 Only what? 593 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:25,000 Only it wasn't Isabel Kenyon who committed the murder. 594 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,000 Did I hear you correctly? 595 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,000 You did? 596 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,000 This is another one of your little jokes, I imagine. 597 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Can't you let me alone? 598 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,000 Have you some kind of personal spite against me? 599 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,000 What did I ever do? 600 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:43,000 You're going to hear the real truth now if I have to hold you down in that chair. 601 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:48,000 I know Mrs. Kenyon didn't kill her husband because I've just come from talking to the real murderer up the river. 602 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,000 But they're all dead. 603 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000 Oh, no, they're not. 604 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,000 And I haven't got much time either. That clock's just going to strike eight. 605 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,000 What's the time got to do with it? 606 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,000 Good deal if you will follow me. 607 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000 Mrs. Kenyon died less than a year after her husband, didn't she? 608 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,000 Yes. 609 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,000 But it wasn't Mrs. Kenyon's voice you just heard on that record. 610 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,000 What? 611 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,000 I'm telling you, the real murderer hated her. 612 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,000 Hated her like poison and wanted her blamed for the crime. 613 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,000 When Mrs. Kenyon died, the real murderer wrote a letter. 614 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,000 Well? 615 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,000 But she never mailed that letter. 616 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,000 She made a lying record of Isabel Kenyon's voice as evidence. 617 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,000 Now you figure it out for yourself. 618 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Who was pretty enough to take Major Kenyon's eye and strike back like fury when she got thrown over? 619 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,000 Who wanted to go on the stage and do impersonations? 620 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,000 Kitty, the maid. 621 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,000 Ah, you're talking sense. 622 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000 She shot Jerry from the dining room window. 623 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:40,000 When she couldn't borrow Mrs. Kenyon's knitting bag, she went out to the summer house with a gun and the fake cap wrapped in napkin and a coffee tray. 624 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,000 She did go out, I remember. 625 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,000 Actually, she got there before Mrs. Kenyon did. 626 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:48,000 But the summer house was dark inside and Mrs. Kenyon never noticed her. 627 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:53,000 The next day, Kitty wrote that letter, but she couldn't bring herself to send it. 628 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,000 So she kept that letter till the day before yesterday. 629 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Then one of the boys at Sing Sing... 630 00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,000 Wait a minute. 631 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,000 ...thinking he was doing her a kind action, put a stamp on it and mailed it. 632 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,000 Did you say Sing Sing? 633 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,000 Yes. 634 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:09,000 They're electrocuting her tonight for the murder of an Italian down at Collier's Hook. 635 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,000 I found out about the record all right. 636 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:18,000 But the one thing I wasn't sure of was that she had done the job alone. 637 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:24,000 Now, frankly, the way you acted, I thought that you might have been in on it, too. 638 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,000 Now, that's why I had to hear it through. 639 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,000 And it was anything but a joke. 640 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,000 And now, here it goes to Blazes forever. 641 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,000 Poof! 642 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,000 8 o'clock. 643 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,000 Now she's dead. 644 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:45,000 8 o'clock. Now she's dead. 645 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,000 And so ends The Devil in the Summer House. 646 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,000 Tonight's story of... 647 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,000 Suspense. 648 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:29,000 The part of Mr. Parker was played by Martin Gable. 649 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:34,000 Again next Tuesday at 9.30 p.m. Eastern wartime. 650 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,000 A story dedicated to the thrill of the nighttime. 651 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,000 The hushed voice and the prowling step. 652 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,000 Another adventure in suspense. 653 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:48,000 William Spear, the producer, John Dietz, the director, and John Dixon Carr, the author, 654 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,000 are collaborators on Suspense. 655 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. 656 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:59,000 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.