WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.000 Suspense. 00:30.000 --> 00:35.000 Now let's see. 00:35.000 --> 00:40.000 Suspect, suspectant, suspend. 00:40.000 --> 00:42.000 Ah, here we are. 00:42.000 --> 00:44.000 Suspense. 00:44.000 --> 00:47.000 The condition of mental uncertainty, 00:47.000 --> 00:51.000 usually accompanied by apprehension or anxiety. 00:51.000 --> 00:55.000 Fear of something which is about to occur as 00:55.000 --> 01:05.000 do not keep me any longer in suspense. 01:05.000 --> 01:08.000 For our story of suspense tonight, we invite you to enjoy 01:08.000 --> 01:24.000 The Devil in the Summer House by John Dixon Carr. 01:24.000 --> 01:27.000 Somewhere along the Hudson, perhaps not far from 01:27.000 --> 01:32.000 Terrytown, there is a modest house in its own grounds. 01:32.000 --> 01:36.000 Behind it, in the spacious garden, stands a summer house of 01:36.000 --> 01:38.000 evil memory. 01:38.000 --> 01:42.000 More than 25 years ago, a man shot himself, or at least 01:42.000 --> 01:46.000 died in that summer house. 01:46.000 --> 01:50.000 They found Major Kenyon with a scorched bullet hole in his 01:50.000 --> 01:53.000 head and the weapon beside him. 01:53.000 --> 01:56.000 But we are in the present now. 01:56.000 --> 02:00.000 The lattice summer house has grown heavy with vines, and 02:00.000 --> 02:03.000 only the other evening two men came into that garden at 02:03.000 --> 02:08.000 twilight, over the shaggy grass, as a storm was brewing 02:08.000 --> 02:13.000 along the Hudson. 02:13.000 --> 02:16.000 Two men, the lawyer from New York. 02:16.000 --> 02:17.000 Who's there? 02:17.000 --> 02:20.000 And Captain Burke of the Homicide Squad. 02:20.000 --> 02:24.000 Easy, my friend, easy. I was just going to ask you the same thing. 02:24.000 --> 02:28.000 My name is Parker. I'm an attorney. 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 You're not Captain Burke. 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 Yeah, the very same and no other. 02:32.000 --> 02:34.000 I thought I recognized you, Mr. Parker. 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 Must be something important to bring you so far from New 02:36.000 --> 02:37.000 York at this time of night. 02:37.000 --> 02:39.000 I was in Terrytown anyway. 02:39.000 --> 02:44.000 I thought there'd be a housekeeper here, but I don't see any lights. 02:44.000 --> 02:45.000 You've got business here? 02:45.000 --> 02:48.000 Yes, in a way. Have you? 02:48.000 --> 02:51.000 I don't know. I'll tell you better after you tell me what 02:51.000 --> 02:53.000 brought you to a place that no one has lived in for ten years. 02:53.000 --> 03:01.000 Tell me, Captain, did you ever get an anonymous letter from a dead man? 03:01.000 --> 03:02.000 Did you? 03:02.000 --> 03:04.000 No, I can't say I did. 03:04.000 --> 03:06.000 The letter's anonymous, how do you know the man's dead? 03:06.000 --> 03:09.000 Because they're all dead. 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 Every last one of them. 03:11.000 --> 03:16.000 Dead and under the ground, where they can't be hurt any longer. 03:16.000 --> 03:22.000 Look, there's the summer house where Jerry Kenyon used to work. 03:22.000 --> 03:27.000 There are the windows of the library and the dining room. 03:27.000 --> 03:31.000 Looking toward it, can't find this lightning. 03:31.000 --> 03:33.000 Makes the windows blaze, don't it? 03:33.000 --> 03:39.000 Jerry Kenyon hadn't a care in the world, yet he shot himself. 03:39.000 --> 03:41.000 I'll show you the letter. 03:41.000 --> 03:44.000 Now, look, Mr. Parker, I couldn't read anything in this light, 03:44.000 --> 03:46.000 but if we can get inside the house now... 03:46.000 --> 03:49.000 Certainly we can get into the house. 03:49.000 --> 03:53.000 I was the family attorney, I've got the keys. 03:53.000 --> 04:16.000 Why should a dead person send me a letter? 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 No lights working, eh? 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 But you got a flashlight, I see. 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 Came here prepared for anything, eh? 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 The library. 04:24.000 --> 04:28.000 There were always candles on the mantel. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 Yes, there they are. 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 Have you a match, Captain? 04:32.000 --> 04:36.000 Yes, I like them. 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 That's better. 04:38.000 --> 04:41.000 Same old heavy furniture. 04:41.000 --> 04:45.000 Same old thick carpet, same old globe map. 04:45.000 --> 04:49.000 Mr. Parker, this letter that you were talking about. 04:49.000 --> 04:52.000 Read it. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 Hey, wait a minute. 04:54.000 --> 04:58.000 This thing is dated November 2, 1918. 04:58.000 --> 05:01.000 That's right, and be careful of that paper. 05:01.000 --> 05:04.000 You see how old it is? 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 That it was mailed yesterday. 05:06.000 --> 05:07.000 From where? 05:07.000 --> 05:10.000 I don't remember, I didn't keep the envelope. 05:10.000 --> 05:11.000 Read it. 05:11.000 --> 05:12.000 Dear Joe. 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 In case you didn't know it, I am Joe. 05:15.000 --> 05:18.000 Dear Joe, if you want to know how Major Kenyon really died... 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 But we know how he died. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 It was suicide. 05:22.000 --> 05:23.000 Are you sure it was? 05:23.000 --> 05:26.000 Whoever wrote this letter doesn't seem to think so. 05:26.000 --> 05:28.000 If you want to know how Major Kenyon really died, 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 look in the third drawer of the desk in the library. 05:30.000 --> 05:33.000 Press hard at the back of the drawer, yours very truly. 05:33.000 --> 05:34.000 That's not signed. 05:34.000 --> 05:35.000 That's right. 05:35.000 --> 05:38.000 Are you sure you don't know who wrote that letter? 05:38.000 --> 05:42.000 This is the first time I've been back in this room, Captain. 05:42.000 --> 05:46.000 It was almost home to me once. 05:46.000 --> 05:51.000 There's the chair where Isabelle sat on the afternoon it happened. 05:51.000 --> 05:56.000 Isabelle was Jerry Kenyon's wife, beautiful woman. 05:56.000 --> 06:01.000 There's the door that the maid let me in by that afternoon. 06:01.000 --> 06:06.000 You know, Captain, seems to me they're all here tonight. 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 Who? 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 We stand... 06:12.000 --> 06:15.000 ...neath the sounding rafter... 06:15.000 --> 06:19.000 ...and the walls around us are bare... 06:19.000 --> 06:24.000 ...as they echo our peals of laughter. 06:24.000 --> 06:28.000 It seems that the dead are there. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 Yet we stand to our glasses steady. 06:30.000 --> 06:31.000 You know it? 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 I was in my school reader. 06:33.000 --> 06:34.000 How does the rest of it go? 06:34.000 --> 06:39.000 Yet we stand to our glasses steady... 06:39.000 --> 06:43.000 ...and drink to our comrades' eyes. 06:43.000 --> 06:47.000 Here's a glass to the dead already. 06:47.000 --> 06:50.000 Hurrah for the next that dies. 06:51.000 --> 06:53.000 Excuse me, Captain. 06:53.000 --> 06:56.000 I don't know what's come over me talking that way. 06:56.000 --> 06:58.000 I was very fond of these people. 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 Are you going to look in the desk room? 07:00.000 --> 07:01.000 This is a lot of nonsense. 07:01.000 --> 07:03.000 Then why are you here, Mr. Barker? 07:03.000 --> 07:06.000 Jerry Kenyon was always a happy man. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 At least that's what I always thought. 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 Big, boisterous fellow. 07:10.000 --> 07:11.000 I am? 07:11.000 --> 07:14.000 He had a good position with Visitone. 07:14.000 --> 07:15.000 You know, the phonograph company. 07:15.000 --> 07:16.000 Yeah, sure I know. 07:16.000 --> 07:20.000 But he'd just been made a major in the Army. 07:20.000 --> 07:24.000 1917. 07:24.000 --> 07:26.000 There was a war on then, too, if you remember. 07:26.000 --> 07:28.000 I remember. 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 To make the world safe for democracy. 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 Old days. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 Old heartaches. 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 Old memories. 07:36.000 --> 07:40.000 I remember that blazing hot day in August. 07:40.000 --> 07:43.000 When all the windows were up. 07:43.000 --> 07:46.000 I remember this room. 07:46.000 --> 07:51.000 And Isabel, that was Jerry's wife, sitting in that chair. 07:51.000 --> 07:53.000 Knitting. 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 I remember. 07:55.000 --> 07:58.000 Oh, yes, Kitty. 07:58.000 --> 07:59.000 What is it? 07:59.000 --> 08:00.000 There's a man to see you, Miss Kenyon. 08:00.000 --> 08:02.000 He says his name's Parker. 08:02.000 --> 08:03.000 Yes, I'm expecting him. 08:03.000 --> 08:04.000 Show him in, please. 08:04.000 --> 08:05.000 All right, ma'am. 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 Shall I take your knitting and your knitting bag? 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 Why should you take my knitting? 08:09.000 --> 08:10.000 I don't know, Miss Kenyon. 08:10.000 --> 08:11.000 I just wondered. 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 You can come in now. 08:13.000 --> 08:14.000 I'll be right back. 08:14.000 --> 08:16.000 I'll be right back. 08:16.000 --> 08:17.000 I'll be right back. 08:17.000 --> 08:18.000 I'll be right back. 08:18.000 --> 08:19.000 I'll be right back. 08:19.000 --> 08:20.000 I'll be right back. 08:20.000 --> 08:21.000 I'll be right back. 08:21.000 --> 08:22.000 I'll be right back. 08:22.000 --> 08:23.000 I'll be right back. 08:23.000 --> 08:24.000 I'll be right back. 08:24.000 --> 08:25.000 I'll be right back. 08:25.000 --> 08:26.000 I'll be right back. 08:26.000 --> 08:27.000 You can come in now. 08:27.000 --> 08:28.000 Thank you. 08:28.000 --> 08:29.000 Hello, Joe. 08:29.000 --> 08:30.000 Hello, Isabel. 08:30.000 --> 08:31.000 You sent for me? 08:31.000 --> 08:32.000 Joe, I must apologize for Kitty. 08:32.000 --> 08:33.000 Servants are getting to be a problem nowadays. 08:33.000 --> 08:35.000 She looks pretty enough to get along. 08:35.000 --> 08:37.000 Oh, Kitty's got large ideas. 08:37.000 --> 08:42.000 She wants to go on the stage, if you please, and do imitations, like Miss Draper. 08:42.000 --> 08:46.000 She only knew how hard it was acting all your life. 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 Isabel, you've been crying. 08:48.000 --> 08:49.000 I have not. 08:49.000 --> 08:50.000 At least... 08:50.000 --> 08:52.000 Is that why you sent for me? 08:52.000 --> 08:53.000 I've missed you. 08:53.000 --> 08:56.000 You haven't been here in over a week, Joe. 08:56.000 --> 09:00.000 I had an idea Jerry was getting a little tired of having me around this house. 09:00.000 --> 09:01.000 Oh, no, Joe. 09:01.000 --> 09:02.000 Why, Jerry... 09:02.000 --> 09:03.000 Yes? 09:03.000 --> 09:04.000 What about Jerry? 09:04.000 --> 09:07.000 I wish I knew, Joe. 09:07.000 --> 09:09.000 That's why I wanted you here. 09:09.000 --> 09:10.000 Where is he, by the way? 09:10.000 --> 09:13.000 I want to say goodbye to him before he leaves. 09:13.000 --> 09:16.000 He's probably out in the summer house where he works with all those papers. 09:16.000 --> 09:19.000 He's got a lot of work to catch up with. 09:19.000 --> 09:21.000 He's going overseas tomorrow. 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 Yes, I know. 09:23.000 --> 09:24.000 He's out there. 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 He's been out there all day. 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 His last day here. 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 I've been alone. 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 That sounded like a shot. 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 Yes, it was a shot, Joe. 09:34.000 --> 09:35.000 In the house? 09:35.000 --> 09:36.000 It doesn't seem to worry you. 09:36.000 --> 09:39.000 It's only Paul, Jerry's brother, Paul. 09:39.000 --> 09:42.000 Oh, I thought you'd gotten him off your hands for good. 09:42.000 --> 09:43.000 Jerry asked him out. 09:43.000 --> 09:45.000 He got here two nights ago. 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 That doesn't make it any easier for you, does it? 09:47.000 --> 09:48.000 No, I don't mind. 09:48.000 --> 09:51.000 Jerry's fixed him up with a pistol range in the cellar. 09:51.000 --> 09:53.000 Paul's a terribly bad shot. 09:53.000 --> 09:55.000 Not like the rest of us. 09:57.000 --> 09:59.000 You don't seem to like it, Joe. 09:59.000 --> 10:01.000 Shall I have Kitty go down and tell him? 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 No, no, no, it's bearable. 10:02.000 --> 10:05.000 As long as he keeps away. 10:05.000 --> 10:06.000 Poor Joe. 10:06.000 --> 10:12.000 But, uh, about Jerry, who is it this time? 10:12.000 --> 10:16.000 Joe, Jerry's been home five days on leave from camp. 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 Well, never mind what camp. 10:18.000 --> 10:21.000 But he spent four evenings of those five with... 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 with that Fisk woman. 10:23.000 --> 10:25.000 Diane Fisk? 10:25.000 --> 10:27.000 The redhead with all the money? 10:27.000 --> 10:29.000 Oh, she got money? 10:29.000 --> 10:30.000 Well... 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 She must have some attraction then. 10:32.000 --> 10:33.000 Please understand me, Joe. 10:33.000 --> 10:35.000 It's not that I'm jealous any longer. 10:35.000 --> 10:37.000 No, no, of course not. 10:37.000 --> 10:40.000 Jerry goes his way and I go mine. 10:40.000 --> 10:45.000 I may not be without admirers myself if it comes to that. 10:45.000 --> 10:48.000 You have no idea how true that is, Isabel. 10:48.000 --> 10:51.000 No, uh, I was thinking about Jerry. 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 He may not always be lucky. 10:53.000 --> 10:56.000 He may meet some girl who's not as broad-minded as I am. 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 And then when he gives her the go-bob... 10:58.000 --> 11:02.000 Paul must be getting really furious down in that cell. 11:02.000 --> 11:03.000 He's not hitting anything. 11:03.000 --> 11:05.000 He must be using a lot of ammunition. 11:05.000 --> 11:10.000 Now, your trouble, Joe, is that you're too much of a gentleman. 11:10.000 --> 11:15.000 And if you really want to see Jerry, there he is now. 11:15.000 --> 11:16.000 Where? 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 Just standing in the door of the summer house. 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 Look out the window. 11:20.000 --> 11:22.000 Infinitely bright out there. 11:22.000 --> 11:25.000 Doesn't he look noble in his new uniform? 11:25.000 --> 11:28.000 Sam Brown belt and revolver and everything. 11:28.000 --> 11:31.000 Look how he turns around and waves his cap at us. 11:31.000 --> 11:33.000 Like a real soldier. 11:33.000 --> 11:35.000 Real soldiers don't exactly wave their caps, do they? 11:35.000 --> 11:36.000 He does. 11:36.000 --> 11:39.000 Jerry! Jerry! 11:39.000 --> 11:40.000 Hello there! 11:40.000 --> 11:42.000 Jerry, Joe Parker's here! 11:42.000 --> 11:43.000 Who? 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 Joe Parker. He wants to see you. 11:45.000 --> 11:47.000 Well, maybe they're bringing you something. 11:47.000 --> 11:50.000 I'll be up in a minute. 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 Into the summer house again. 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 Not a care in the world, has he? 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 Now, listen, Isabelle, you've got to slow down. 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 You'll be crying again in a minute. 11:58.000 --> 12:00.000 Come on over here and sit down. 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 The light hurts my eyes, that's all. 12:02.000 --> 12:04.000 Well, then we'll just pull these blinds. 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 We'll still be able to see. 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 There, how's that? 12:08.000 --> 12:09.000 It's better, thanks. 12:09.000 --> 12:10.000 Now, can I get you anything? 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 Oh, no, you heard the great white chief's orders. 12:12.000 --> 12:14.000 I'm to get you something. 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 What do you have, Joe? A highball? 12:16.000 --> 12:17.000 Don't bother with that. 12:17.000 --> 12:18.000 Oh, it's no bother. 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 Everything's out in the dining room here. 12:20.000 --> 12:23.000 The ice man didn't deliver today of all days, 12:23.000 --> 12:26.000 so I'm afraid I can't give you any ice. 12:26.000 --> 12:29.000 I read in the paper yesterday that we're likely to have 12:29.000 --> 12:31.000 automatic ice boxes any day now. 12:31.000 --> 12:35.000 You know, things that freeze ice by electricity or something. 12:35.000 --> 12:36.000 Do you believe that, Joe? 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 I doubt it. Listen, Isabella. 12:38.000 --> 12:39.000 Here you are. 12:39.000 --> 12:41.000 It's not cold at all. It's the best I could do. 12:41.000 --> 12:42.000 Thanks very much. 12:42.000 --> 12:44.000 What I wanted to say was, 12:44.000 --> 12:47.000 couldn't you get that brother of yours to give up practicing now? 12:47.000 --> 12:49.000 Hasn't he done his good deed for the day? 12:49.000 --> 12:50.000 Yes, maybe he has. 12:50.000 --> 12:52.000 I'll ring for Kitty. 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 You don't have to call me, Miss Kenyon. I'm here. 12:54.000 --> 12:55.000 Oh, yes, Kitty. What is it? 12:55.000 --> 12:57.000 It's only to tell you there's another visitor. 12:57.000 --> 12:59.000 This time it's a woman. 12:59.000 --> 13:02.000 Lady Kitty. Call her a lady, please. 13:02.000 --> 13:04.000 Oh, maybe. 13:04.000 --> 13:06.000 She says her name's Diane Fisk. 13:06.000 --> 13:08.000 Diane Fisk? That's Jerry. 13:08.000 --> 13:11.000 Kitty, tell the lady I'm not in. 13:11.000 --> 13:13.000 Lady. 13:13.000 --> 13:15.000 She's a fine lady. 13:15.000 --> 13:18.000 I don't want to intrude, my dear. I don't want to intrude. 13:18.000 --> 13:21.000 Anyway, it's too late, Miss Kenyon. She's coming down the hall now. 13:21.000 --> 13:23.000 My dear Mrs. Kenyon. 13:23.000 --> 13:25.000 How do you do, Diane? 13:25.000 --> 13:28.000 This is a friend of ours, Miss Fisk. Mr. Parker. 13:28.000 --> 13:30.000 Now, I don't want to intrude, really. I don't. 13:30.000 --> 13:33.000 I wouldn't have intruded for words, especially on a day like this, 13:33.000 --> 13:37.000 isn't it awful? But your husband simply insisted, my dear Mrs. Kenyon, 13:37.000 --> 13:39.000 he simply wouldn't take no for an answer. 13:39.000 --> 13:41.000 I'm sure he wouldn't. 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 Do you know what he's brought from his office as a surprise? 13:43.000 --> 13:45.000 No. 13:45.000 --> 13:48.000 A phonograph recording machine. He's going to let us use it. 13:48.000 --> 13:52.000 So that we can all hear ourselves talk twice. How nice. 13:52.000 --> 13:55.000 Kenny's name. Can't somebody stop that firing? 13:55.000 --> 13:58.000 Don't fly off the handle. Take it easy now. 13:58.000 --> 13:59.000 Kitty. Yes, ma'am. 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 Would you please go down the cellar and tell Mr. Kenyon's brother 14:01.000 --> 14:03.000 he's driving us all crazy. Tell him to stop. 14:03.000 --> 14:05.000 Yes, ma'am. 14:05.000 --> 14:08.000 My dear Mrs. Kenyon, I do hope I haven't offended you in any way. 14:08.000 --> 14:10.000 I know I'm a silly little chatterbox. 14:10.000 --> 14:13.000 They say people who have red hair often are. 14:13.000 --> 14:17.000 Because at your age, you must find the heat very dry. 14:17.000 --> 14:19.000 Don't you think we'd all better sit down? 14:19.000 --> 14:22.000 I think... I was very much interested in what Miss Fisk said about 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 our phonograph recording machine. 14:24.000 --> 14:28.000 Mrs. Kenyon was just talking about a machine to make ice. 14:28.000 --> 14:31.000 Yes, yes. Isn't science wonderful? 14:31.000 --> 14:34.000 But I do think it was me to make you Kenyon to invite me out here 14:34.000 --> 14:37.000 and then go and fall asleep in the summer house. 14:37.000 --> 14:41.000 Oh. Did you say fall asleep? 14:41.000 --> 14:43.000 Yes, of course. 14:43.000 --> 14:44.000 How did you know? 14:44.000 --> 14:47.000 Well, I came up the back way and I saw him in the summer house 14:47.000 --> 14:50.000 with his head forward on the table. 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 Taking a nice little snooze. 14:52.000 --> 14:53.000 That's very queer. 14:53.000 --> 14:56.000 Of course, you couldn't see much except in the bright light of the door. 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 I think I saw him there. 14:58.000 --> 15:00.000 I didn't disturb him naturally. 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 But I think I'd better disturb him. 15:02.000 --> 15:04.000 Oh, now please don't trouble on my account. 15:04.000 --> 15:09.000 The fact is, my dear, I don't altogether trust myself in this room. 15:09.000 --> 15:13.000 A woman of my age has to conserve her strength, you know. 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 So if you'll just excuse me. 15:15.000 --> 15:18.000 Well, of course if you'll... 15:18.000 --> 15:21.000 Oh dear, I just can't think what I'm always saying 15:21.000 --> 15:24.000 because I have the best intentions in the world, Mr. Barker. 15:24.000 --> 15:25.000 Parker. 15:25.000 --> 15:30.000 But I do somehow manage to offend people being so dependent and everything. 15:30.000 --> 15:31.000 Except the men, of course. 15:31.000 --> 15:34.000 I couldn't defend you, Mr. Barker, of Parker. 15:34.000 --> 15:36.000 Now could I? 15:36.000 --> 15:37.000 Madam, I'm not sure. 15:37.000 --> 15:41.000 Of course, the person I really came to see was Paul, Mr. Kenyon's brother. 15:41.000 --> 15:44.000 He's a little young, of course, but he's joining up next month 15:44.000 --> 15:47.000 and I think we should all do our bit, don't you? 15:47.000 --> 15:49.000 He has such a pleasant personality. 15:49.000 --> 15:51.000 I think he likes me. 15:51.000 --> 15:53.000 Why, if he walked in at that door this minute... 15:53.000 --> 15:55.000 Now how am I ever going to get anyplace? 15:55.000 --> 15:57.000 Someone's always interrupting my revolver practice 15:57.000 --> 16:00.000 just when I'm getting to the point where I can... 16:00.000 --> 16:01.000 Oh. 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 What, Paul? 16:03.000 --> 16:05.000 Good Lord, are you here again? 16:05.000 --> 16:08.000 You're a very untidy object, Paul. 16:08.000 --> 16:11.000 Well, that's pretty untidy in the cellar. And dirty. 16:11.000 --> 16:13.000 I've got cockroaches on me, so keep away. 16:13.000 --> 16:15.000 Did you have a good day shooting? 16:15.000 --> 16:17.000 Swell. One of the best. 16:17.000 --> 16:18.000 Hit the target? 16:18.000 --> 16:23.000 On the only shot that mattered, I hit the target dead center. 16:23.000 --> 16:24.000 That sounded like Isabel. 16:24.000 --> 16:27.000 I think it was Isabel. 16:27.000 --> 16:33.000 Why have you got those blinds down? Get them up. 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 What is it? What's wrong with you? 16:35.000 --> 16:54.000 What are you looking at through that window? 16:54.000 --> 16:59.000 That was 25 years ago, Captain Burke. 16:59.000 --> 17:04.000 We found Jerry Kenyon lying across the table in the summer house. 17:04.000 --> 17:08.000 He'd shot himself through the head with his own revolver 17:08.000 --> 17:10.000 and the holster. 17:10.000 --> 17:12.000 It was lying on the floor beside him. 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 Shut up, Sarver. I see. 17:14.000 --> 17:17.000 When Isabel found him, he'd been dead about half an hour. 17:17.000 --> 17:18.000 The doctors proved that to them? 17:18.000 --> 17:22.000 Yes. That shot had been fired against his head. 17:22.000 --> 17:25.000 The front of his uniform cap was powder-burned 17:25.000 --> 17:26.000 where the bullet entered. 17:26.000 --> 17:27.000 There's no doubt about that. 17:27.000 --> 17:29.000 None at all. 17:29.000 --> 17:32.000 We never noticed the real shot because... 17:32.000 --> 17:35.000 that young lad was shooting off guns like a maniac in the cellar. 17:35.000 --> 17:37.000 Precisely. 17:37.000 --> 17:39.000 Now they're all dead. 17:39.000 --> 17:44.000 By accident, illness, they're all gone. 17:44.000 --> 17:48.000 Isabel Kenyon died less than a year afterwards. 17:48.000 --> 17:53.000 I think she died just because she was so fond of Jerry. 17:53.000 --> 17:58.000 I suppose you've guessed my little secret. 17:58.000 --> 18:01.000 I think I can sort of read between the lines. 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 You were in love with Isabel Kenyon, weren't you? 18:03.000 --> 18:04.000 Yes. 18:04.000 --> 18:06.000 Well, these things happen. 18:06.000 --> 18:08.000 I never let her see it, you understand. 18:08.000 --> 18:09.000 Women know pretty generally. 18:09.000 --> 18:13.000 So? They're gone. 18:13.000 --> 18:15.000 The youngest of them. 18:15.000 --> 18:20.000 And I'm left alone with old tunes, old ghosts, 18:20.000 --> 18:24.000 wondering why the fellow ever killed himself. 18:24.000 --> 18:27.000 Why? Why? 18:27.000 --> 18:30.000 And this morning out of a clear sky, 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 I get a letter saying, 18:32.000 --> 18:37.000 if you want to know how Major Kenyon really died, 18:37.000 --> 18:40.000 look in the third drawer of the desk in the library. 18:40.000 --> 18:42.000 But I tell you, we know how he died. 18:42.000 --> 18:43.000 Well, aren't you going to do it? 18:43.000 --> 18:45.000 Naturally. 18:45.000 --> 18:48.000 I've got a key somewhere here that fits the drawer. 18:48.000 --> 18:50.000 Now, listen, Mr. Parker. 18:50.000 --> 18:51.000 In my father's country, in Ireland, 18:51.000 --> 18:54.000 they got a saying that when a man's going to commit suicide... 18:54.000 --> 18:55.000 I thought of doing that too once. 18:55.000 --> 18:58.000 ...then the devil comes in and takes him by the hand and talks to him. 18:58.000 --> 19:01.000 They say you can see the devil as plain as I see you... 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 just before you pull the trigger. 19:03.000 --> 19:06.000 The devil must have been in the summer house that afternoon. 19:06.000 --> 19:08.000 Oh, no, he wasn't. 19:08.000 --> 19:09.000 What do you mean? 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 Major Kenyon didn't kill himself. 19:11.000 --> 19:13.000 He was murdered. 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 My dear Captain Burke, 19:15.000 --> 19:18.000 the police covered all that at the time. 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 Everybody had an alibi. 19:20.000 --> 19:21.000 They did, did they? 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 Well, think of what I've told you. 19:23.000 --> 19:26.000 Isabel and I were together all the time. 19:26.000 --> 19:30.000 Paul, her brother, was shooting off guns in the cellar. 19:30.000 --> 19:31.000 Diane Fisk? 19:31.000 --> 19:32.000 Yeah, what about her? 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 Her chauffeur who drove her there. 19:34.000 --> 19:38.000 He swore he saw her walk straight up to the place. 19:38.000 --> 19:41.000 She passed the summer house but didn't stop there. 19:41.000 --> 19:42.000 Well, that checks. 19:42.000 --> 19:46.000 Even Kitty the maid could prove she'd never stirred out of the house... 19:46.000 --> 19:50.000 until just a minute or so before Isabel went herself. 19:50.000 --> 19:52.000 Oh, and why did the maid have to leave the house at all? 19:52.000 --> 19:56.000 She was taking Jerry the black coffee he drank every afternoon. 19:56.000 --> 20:00.000 He'd already been dead half an hour then. 20:00.000 --> 20:03.000 And that, my dear Captain, disposes of everybody. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 Well, now listen, Mr. Parker. 20:05.000 --> 20:08.000 You're a good guy and I'm not going to hold out on you any longer. 20:08.000 --> 20:13.000 You see, I say Major Kenyon was murdered because I know he was murdered. 20:13.000 --> 20:14.000 By an outsider? 20:14.000 --> 20:15.000 By one of the people in the house. 20:15.000 --> 20:16.000 That's impossible. 20:16.000 --> 20:17.000 Is it? 20:17.000 --> 20:19.000 Why don't you open that desk drawer and see? 20:19.000 --> 20:20.000 What time is it? 20:20.000 --> 20:23.000 Uh, it's a quarter to eight. 20:23.000 --> 20:24.000 Quarter to eight? 20:24.000 --> 20:25.000 And I haven't got much time. 20:25.000 --> 20:26.000 For what? 20:26.000 --> 20:28.000 Holy St. Patrick, will you open that drawer? 20:28.000 --> 20:33.000 If it's waited 25 years, my friend, it can wait a minute more. 20:33.000 --> 20:38.000 I've got the keys somewhere in this bunch of keys. 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 Everything the same. 20:40.000 --> 20:43.000 For all never altered, all the inherited. 20:43.000 --> 20:47.000 Same old desk, same old phonograph. 20:47.000 --> 20:51.000 Same old... I think this is the key. 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 Yeah, it opens. 20:55.000 --> 21:01.000 There's nothing here except one or two old newspapers. 21:01.000 --> 21:04.000 Everything very dirty. 21:04.000 --> 21:05.000 The letter says to press hard at the back. 21:05.000 --> 21:06.000 Have you tried that? 21:06.000 --> 21:09.000 Doesn't seem to. 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 Yes, my George, it does work. 21:11.000 --> 21:12.000 Well? 21:12.000 --> 21:16.000 There seems to be a movable back on a hinge. 21:16.000 --> 21:18.000 Well, what's inside? 21:18.000 --> 21:26.000 Uh, some sort of flat, brown paper parcel, sealed with wax, 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 and about as dirty as it can get. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 Open it, man, open it. 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 I'm going to. 21:35.000 --> 21:38.000 It's a phonograph, I thought. 21:38.000 --> 21:45.000 There's a plain, white label, something on it written in pencil. 21:45.000 --> 21:48.000 I don't see too well nowadays without my glasses. 21:48.000 --> 21:49.000 Well, here, give it to me, I'll read it to you. 21:49.000 --> 21:51.000 Just go on. 21:51.000 --> 21:54.000 A record of how I killed Jerry Kenyon. 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 Say, don't you get it, Mr. Parker? 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 This is the real goods. 21:58.000 --> 22:01.000 The murderer's going to tell us his own story 25 years later. 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 Be careful, whatever you do, don't drop it. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 You seem to be interested enough now. 22:05.000 --> 22:08.000 I don't say I'm not interested, I say I can't believe it. 22:08.000 --> 22:10.000 You know, when you were talking about the dead coming back 22:10.000 --> 22:13.000 and that kind of thing, you sure started giving me goose pimples. 22:13.000 --> 22:15.000 But that's just what it is, a dead person. 22:15.000 --> 22:16.000 Now, there's the phonograph. 22:16.000 --> 22:18.000 Put that record on, let's hear what the ghost says. 22:18.000 --> 22:21.000 Any of them could have made the record, of course. 22:21.000 --> 22:22.000 The apparatus was all here. 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 Don't just stand there by the phonograph. 22:24.000 --> 22:25.000 Won't it work? 22:25.000 --> 22:26.000 Yes, it works. 22:26.000 --> 22:27.000 Is it wound up? 22:27.000 --> 22:29.000 Yes, it's wound up. 22:29.000 --> 22:30.000 Here goes. 22:30.000 --> 22:33.000 Now, look, Mr. Parker, whose voice do you think it's going to be? 22:33.000 --> 22:34.000 I don't know. 22:34.000 --> 22:36.000 Now, I want to warn you, the voice you're going to hear from there. 22:36.000 --> 22:40.000 Please, be quiet, listen. 22:40.000 --> 22:44.000 I've started it up. 22:44.000 --> 22:48.000 Well, speak up. 22:48.000 --> 22:52.000 Who killed Jerry Kenyon? 22:52.000 --> 22:55.000 I killed him, Joe, dear. 22:55.000 --> 22:56.000 Wasabel. 22:56.000 --> 23:01.000 I'm sorry about it, Joe, but I had to have you for an alibi. 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 And you were so terribly easy to fool. 23:03.000 --> 23:05.000 It's only a phonograph record, man. 23:05.000 --> 23:06.000 Don't look at it as if it was alive. 23:06.000 --> 23:09.000 You said you and I were always together, Joe. 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 But that wasn't quite true. 23:11.000 --> 23:15.000 I left you to go into the dining room and mix a highball, remember? 23:15.000 --> 23:16.000 Yes. 23:16.000 --> 23:18.000 And I was carrying my big knitting bag. 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 Remember that, too? 23:20.000 --> 23:23.000 And there was something else in it besides knitting. 23:23.000 --> 23:26.000 I'm an awfully good revolver shot, Joe. 23:26.000 --> 23:29.000 I told you we were all good except Paul. 23:29.000 --> 23:36.000 And the back windows of the dining room face the same way as the back windows of the library. 23:36.000 --> 23:37.000 Thank you, Isabel. 23:37.000 --> 23:38.000 Thank you very much. 23:38.000 --> 23:40.000 Jerry was in the summer house. 23:40.000 --> 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. 23:48.000 --> 23:49.000 Okay, Isabel. 23:49.000 --> 23:55.000 Joe, don't you know what August heat is in a wooden summer house? 23:55.000 --> 24:02.000 Didn't you, didn't anybody see that no man would be wearing a cap inside on a day like that? 24:02.000 --> 24:06.000 Jerry had taken his cap off before he went into the summer house. 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 We saw him do it. 24:08.000 --> 24:11.000 He was bareheaded when he came to the door. 24:11.000 --> 24:17.000 So I lifted the revolver and shot him through the head. 24:17.000 --> 24:23.000 Then I dropped the gun back in my knitting bag and went back into the library with your drink. 24:23.000 --> 24:24.000 Isabel. 24:24.000 --> 24:25.000 Don't talk back to the thing, man. 24:25.000 --> 24:26.000 It'll drive me crazy. 24:26.000 --> 24:28.000 There was something else in my knitting bag, too. 24:28.000 --> 24:30.000 I had to use it. 24:30.000 --> 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. 24:38.000 --> 24:40.000 Very clever of you, Isabel. 24:40.000 --> 24:42.000 So I've been the goat for 25 years. 24:42.000 --> 24:47.000 I waited for some time and then slipped out to find the body. 24:47.000 --> 24:52.000 I fitted the new cap over Jerry's head in place where it ought to go. 24:52.000 --> 24:55.000 I put the old cap in my knitting bag. 24:55.000 --> 24:58.000 I took his revolver out of the holster and kept it. 24:58.000 --> 25:01.000 The gun that I'd used, I dropped on the floor beside him. 25:01.000 --> 25:04.000 So I proved it was suicide. 25:04.000 --> 25:05.000 You see? 25:05.000 --> 25:07.000 You proved it to me. 25:07.000 --> 25:08.000 Joe. 25:08.000 --> 25:09.000 Joe, listen. 25:09.000 --> 25:11.000 I'm very sick. 25:11.000 --> 25:13.000 They tell me I'm going to die. 25:13.000 --> 25:15.000 You are dead. 25:15.000 --> 25:17.000 Joe, I'm afraid. 25:17.000 --> 25:21.000 I'm going out in the dark and I don't know what's there. 25:21.000 --> 25:23.000 Don't go away, Isabel. Come out. 25:23.000 --> 25:24.000 Just for a minute. 25:24.000 --> 25:26.000 Okay, I've had just about enough of this. 25:26.000 --> 25:28.000 Joe, I want you to tell everybody about it. 25:28.000 --> 25:34.000 I want you to tell them how a poor, crazy woman couldn't stand that man any longer and how... 25:34.000 --> 25:38.000 Ah, it's cut off and it's going to stay cut off. 25:38.000 --> 25:40.000 Thank you. 25:40.000 --> 25:42.000 I've had about enough too. 25:42.000 --> 25:45.000 But you can't arrest her now, my friend. 25:45.000 --> 25:47.000 You can't arrest her now. 25:47.000 --> 25:49.000 After hearing that, I'm not going to arrest anybody. 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 Tell me, Captain. 25:51.000 --> 25:54.000 Did you know what was on the record? 25:54.000 --> 25:57.000 No. That's why I had to hear it. 25:57.000 --> 26:01.000 I knew about it, but I wasn't sure what it had to say. 26:01.000 --> 26:04.000 What so helped me, I never guessed how hard it would hit you. 26:04.000 --> 26:06.000 Man. 26:06.000 --> 26:07.000 Don't you get it even yet? 26:07.000 --> 26:09.000 Yes, I get it. 26:09.000 --> 26:10.000 Oh, no, you don't. 26:10.000 --> 26:12.000 You don't see anything. 26:12.000 --> 26:15.000 That was how the fake suicide was managed, yes. 26:15.000 --> 26:19.000 That's just how it was all done, bar one or two little things. 26:19.000 --> 26:20.000 Only... 26:20.000 --> 26:21.000 Only what? 26:21.000 --> 26:25.000 Only it wasn't Isabel Kenyon who committed the murder. 26:25.000 --> 26:27.000 Did I hear you correctly? 26:27.000 --> 26:28.000 You did? 26:28.000 --> 26:32.000 This is another one of your little jokes, I imagine. 26:32.000 --> 26:34.000 Can't you let me alone? 26:34.000 --> 26:37.000 Have you some kind of personal spite against me? 26:37.000 --> 26:38.000 What did I ever do? 26:38.000 --> 26:43.000 You're going to hear the real truth now if I have to hold you down in that chair. 26:43.000 --> 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. 26:48.000 --> 26:49.000 But they're all dead. 26:49.000 --> 26:51.000 Oh, no, they're not. 26:51.000 --> 26:54.000 And I haven't got much time either. That clock's just going to strike eight. 26:54.000 --> 26:55.000 What's the time got to do with it? 26:55.000 --> 26:57.000 Good deal if you will follow me. 26:57.000 --> 26:59.000 Mrs. Kenyon died less than a year after her husband, didn't she? 26:59.000 --> 27:00.000 Yes. 27:00.000 --> 27:02.000 But it wasn't Mrs. Kenyon's voice you just heard on that record. 27:02.000 --> 27:03.000 What? 27:03.000 --> 27:05.000 I'm telling you, the real murderer hated her. 27:05.000 --> 27:08.000 Hated her like poison and wanted her blamed for the crime. 27:08.000 --> 27:11.000 When Mrs. Kenyon died, the real murderer wrote a letter. 27:11.000 --> 27:12.000 Well? 27:12.000 --> 27:13.000 But she never mailed that letter. 27:13.000 --> 27:16.000 She made a lying record of Isabel Kenyon's voice as evidence. 27:16.000 --> 27:18.000 Now you figure it out for yourself. 27:18.000 --> 27:24.000 Who was pretty enough to take Major Kenyon's eye and strike back like fury when she got thrown over? 27:24.000 --> 27:27.000 Who wanted to go on the stage and do impersonations? 27:27.000 --> 27:29.000 Kitty, the maid. 27:29.000 --> 27:31.000 Ah, you're talking sense. 27:31.000 --> 27:34.000 She shot Jerry from the dining room window. 27:34.000 --> 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. 27:40.000 --> 27:42.000 She did go out, I remember. 27:42.000 --> 27:44.000 Actually, she got there before Mrs. Kenyon did. 27:44.000 --> 27:48.000 But the summer house was dark inside and Mrs. Kenyon never noticed her. 27:48.000 --> 27:53.000 The next day, Kitty wrote that letter, but she couldn't bring herself to send it. 27:53.000 --> 27:56.000 So she kept that letter till the day before yesterday. 27:56.000 --> 27:58.000 Then one of the boys at Sing Sing... 27:58.000 --> 27:59.000 Wait a minute. 27:59.000 --> 28:01.000 ...thinking he was doing her a kind action, put a stamp on it and mailed it. 28:01.000 --> 28:03.000 Did you say Sing Sing? 28:03.000 --> 28:04.000 Yes. 28:04.000 --> 28:09.000 They're electrocuting her tonight for the murder of an Italian down at Collier's Hook. 28:09.000 --> 28:12.000 I found out about the record all right. 28:12.000 --> 28:18.000 But the one thing I wasn't sure of was that she had done the job alone. 28:18.000 --> 28:24.000 Now, frankly, the way you acted, I thought that you might have been in on it, too. 28:24.000 --> 28:27.000 Now, that's why I had to hear it through. 28:27.000 --> 28:30.000 And it was anything but a joke. 28:30.000 --> 28:33.000 And now, here it goes to Blazes forever. 28:33.000 --> 28:34.000 Poof! 28:34.000 --> 28:37.000 8 o'clock. 28:37.000 --> 28:40.000 Now she's dead. 28:40.000 --> 28:45.000 8 o'clock. Now she's dead. 29:04.000 --> 29:08.000 And so ends The Devil in the Summer House. 29:08.000 --> 29:10.000 Tonight's story of... 29:12.000 --> 29:14.000 Suspense. 29:24.000 --> 29:29.000 The part of Mr. Parker was played by Martin Gable. 29:29.000 --> 29:34.000 Again next Tuesday at 9.30 p.m. Eastern wartime. 29:34.000 --> 29:38.000 A story dedicated to the thrill of the nighttime. 29:38.000 --> 29:41.000 The hushed voice and the prowling step. 29:41.000 --> 29:44.000 Another adventure in suspense. 29:44.000 --> 29:48.000 William Spear, the producer, John Dietz, the director, and John Dixon Carr, the author, 29:48.000 --> 29:51.000 are collaborators on Suspense. 29:51.000 --> 29:54.000 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. 29:54.000 --> 29:59.000 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.