1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 Suspense. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:43,360 The thrill of the night time, the hushed voice and the prowling step, the stir of nerves 3 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:50,000 at the ticking of the clock, the rescue that might be too late, the crime that is almost 4 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:55,680 committed, mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventures. 5 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:06,040 We invite you to enjoy stories that keep you in suspense. 6 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:10,640 Can a man stake his life against $25,000? 7 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:15,440 Can another and clever man track him down like a hunter, stalking his prey and kill 8 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,040 him within five hours? 9 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,960 Can you make a bet with death and win? 10 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:38,640 For Suspense, tonight we present Will You Make a Bet with Death by John Dixon Carr. 11 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:44,680 On the island on a summer day, there's the beach bright colored with bathing suits. 12 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,440 There's the boardwalk, all straw hats and summer dressings. 13 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,440 There's the Ferris wheel and the rollercoaster. 14 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:59,000 There is all humanity, eating hot dogs and having a good time. 15 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,640 And over there beyond that souvenir shop is the haunted mill. 16 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,280 You get into a little boat. 17 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:10,040 You float through a narrow tunnel into the dark while witches scream. 18 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:14,800 But that fools nobody, does it? 19 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:16,720 There couldn't be any real terror. 20 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:17,720 Could there? 21 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:22,480 While the bands are playing and the crowd goes by and... 22 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,480 Ladies and gentlemen, a unique attraction. 23 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,520 It hurts me to see you stand there and miss this. 24 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:35,200 Only ten cents, one dime, the tenth part of a dollar to go through the old haunted mill 25 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,200 and get the thrill of your life. 26 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,120 An overstatement if you ask me. 27 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:40,120 One ticket please. 28 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:41,120 Did you say one ticket, lady? 29 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:42,120 That's right, one ticket. 30 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:43,120 What's the thrill? 31 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:44,120 A big point, lady. 32 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:45,120 I said what's the thrill? 33 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,120 The girls who come here with their boyfriends don't have to ask that. 34 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,120 Ten cents please, this way and mine the gate. 35 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,120 Step right up, ladies and gentlemen. 36 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:59,120 Get your ticket for the old haunted mill where ghosts will walk and... 37 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:00,120 Give me some tickets. 38 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,120 Hurry. 39 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:02,120 Just a minute, young fellow. 40 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,120 I know you want to get into the old haunted mill, but there's plenty of time. 41 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:06,120 How many tickets? 42 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:07,120 I don't know. 43 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:08,120 You better give me ten. 44 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:09,120 Ten tickets? 45 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:10,120 Do you hear that, ladies and gentlemen? 46 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:13,120 Here's a young fellow who likes the old haunted mill so much. 47 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,120 He buys ten tickets. 48 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:17,120 Don't call everybody's attention. 49 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,120 Listen, I've got a better idea. 50 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:21,120 Whatever boat comes after mine... 51 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:22,120 Yeah? 52 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,120 I'll give you an extra dollar to send that boat through empty. 53 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:25,120 What's the matter, son? 54 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:26,120 The cops ain't happy, are they? 55 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:27,120 No, no, no, no. 56 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:28,120 It's nothing like that. 57 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:29,120 Will you do it? 58 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:30,120 Well, money talks, young fellow. 59 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:31,120 Okay, go ahead. 60 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,120 Isn't there an empty boat here? 61 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:35,120 Well, really? 62 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:41,120 You've got such a great objection to riding in the same boat with me. 63 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:42,120 Oh, I... 64 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:43,120 I'm sorry. 65 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:44,120 I didn't mean that at all. 66 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:45,120 Don't misunderstand. 67 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,120 Then you'd better get in if you want to go. 68 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,120 This boat's starting to move. 69 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:50,120 Yeah, I... 70 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,120 I better sit down. 71 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,120 You certainly had. 72 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:55,120 Look, here I... 73 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:56,120 I want to apologize. 74 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:57,120 That's quite unnecessary. 75 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,120 This place is rather childish anyway, isn't it? 76 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,120 Yes, isn't it? 77 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,120 But I've seen everything else, so I may as well see this. 78 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,120 Here we go in the dark. 79 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,120 What was that? 80 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,120 One of the ghosts, I imagine, from a machine. 81 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,120 It sounded like him laughing. 82 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,120 There isn't anybody in the boat behind us, is there? 83 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:19,120 I can't see. 84 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:20,120 It's pitch dark. 85 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,120 Listen, Miss... 86 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:23,120 Miss... 87 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,120 My name is Andrews, Betty Andrews, 88 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,120 if it's customary to exchange names in a place like this. 89 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,120 Mine's Penderel, Bob Penderel. 90 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,120 Did you say Penderel? 91 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:34,120 Yes. 92 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:35,120 Do you know it? 93 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:36,120 Oh, no, no, not exactly. 94 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,120 It's an unusual name, that's all. 95 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,120 I... I don't want you to think I'm out of my mind, 96 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,120 though I very nearly am. 97 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,120 But I've got five hours to go. 98 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,120 Just five hours. 99 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:51,120 At the end of that time, either I'll have won $25,000 or... 100 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:52,120 or else... 101 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:53,120 Or else? 102 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:56,120 Or else I'll be dead. 103 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:00,120 You know, I wish I'd kept you away from this boat. 104 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,120 There's nothing to get alarmed about. 105 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:03,120 For you. 106 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,120 I can't tell you much, but I had to tell somebody that 107 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,120 or I'd have started yelling. 108 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:09,120 There's just one other thing. 109 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:10,120 Is there? 110 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:14,120 In these places, they've usually got little dim-lighted rooms along the way. 111 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:15,120 Yes, ghosts and things. 112 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:16,120 Exhibits. Yes. 113 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,120 Well, when we come to one, 114 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,120 I'm going to get out of this boat and hide there. 115 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,120 Just don't get alarmed, 116 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,120 and don't tell anybody when you go out. 117 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:25,120 Why should you do that? 118 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:27,120 I think I see a light ahead. 119 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:28,120 There is a light, but... 120 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:29,120 Dim, too. 121 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:30,120 That's all but the good. 122 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:31,120 It's... 123 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:32,120 Yes? 124 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,120 We're coming around the corner. 125 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,120 Look, I'm going to have company when I get off. 126 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,120 A waxed dead man on a pile of straw. 127 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,120 I hope I can stand these noises. 128 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:46,120 Goodbye, Betty Andrews. 129 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,120 I wish we'd met at a different time. 130 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:49,120 Mine, the boat! 131 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,120 Here! What are you doing? 132 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:51,120 Getting off, too! 133 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,120 Don't be an idiot. What's the idea? 134 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,120 You'll need looking after Mr. Penderel. 135 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,120 And if we must hide, I suppose this is as good a place as any. 136 00:05:58,120 --> 00:05:59,120 I won't have it. 137 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,120 Quick, quick! There'll be more boats along. 138 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,120 Over behind that dead man on the straw. He'll hide us. Hurry! 139 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,120 Well... 140 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,120 Now, Mr. Penderel, in the queerest place I ever get into, 141 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,120 please tell me what this is all about. 142 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:13,120 I can't tell you. 143 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:14,120 You said it yourself. 144 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,120 If you don't tell somebody, you'll go crazy. 145 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:18,120 Maybe you're right. 146 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,120 It's against the strict terms of the bet. 147 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,120 But this is the last day, 148 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,120 and I tell you I can't hold out any longer. 149 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:31,120 You'd better slow your voice, or the boat will come. 150 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:32,120 I wonder... 151 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:36,120 I wonder if you ever heard of my stepfather, John Destry. 152 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:37,120 Yes? 153 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,120 I imagine everybody has. 154 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,120 He's a millionaire, and I'm not. 155 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:47,120 I'm just a chemist, an analytical chemist. 156 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,120 Not very successful. 157 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,120 If I'd had time, if I'd had money, 158 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,120 I might have worked out a process that would have... 159 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,120 Well, I think it would have helped him in the war. 160 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:57,120 But he's got money. 161 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:59,120 Yes, he's got money. 162 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,120 Well, my mother died years ago. 163 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:06,120 This Destry's a big, white-haired, fine-looking fella. 164 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,120 You'd think butter wouldn't melt in his mouth. 165 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,120 He's got an apartment in the East 60s, secretary, 166 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:15,120 I never met her, ballot, cook, that kind of thing. 167 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:19,120 Well, he used to invite me there. I wouldn't go. 168 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,120 Then he got hold of a book I had to have, 169 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,120 a German work on chemicals. 170 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,120 So I went. 171 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,120 After dinner, and that study of his, over the brandy. 172 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,120 Oh, my dear Robert, you're quite welcome to the book. 173 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,120 Don't mention it. 174 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,120 Oh, what do you think of this brandy, by the way? 175 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:56,120 It's excellent, thanks. 176 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,120 Yes, yes, I thought you'd like it. 177 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,120 And now that we're all relaxed, comfortable after dinner, 178 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,120 tell me something. 179 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:05,120 Yes, Mr. Destry? 180 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,120 You hate me, don't you? 181 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,120 Frankly, I do. And I always have. 182 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,120 Good, good. 183 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:17,120 Then you'll be relieved to hear I've always felt the same about you. 184 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,120 But tell me something else. 185 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,120 Did you ever know me to break my word? 186 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,120 No, I never did. I'll give you that. 187 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,120 I asked you, Robert, because I want to make a little bet with you. 188 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:33,120 That is, if you have the nerve, which I doubt. 189 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,120 Well, I'm afraid I can't afford to make bets. 190 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,120 You were always careless with money, Robert. 191 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,120 Well, I've been thrifty. 192 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,120 I saw that when your mother was alive. 193 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:47,120 But you can afford to make this bet. 194 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,120 Look here, in my desk. 195 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:52,120 Well? 196 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,120 Twenty-five thousand dollars, Robert. 197 00:08:55,120 --> 00:09:00,120 Twenty-five thousand dollars in five one hundred dollar bills. 198 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,120 And what would I have to bet against that? 199 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,120 Your life. 200 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:06,120 My life? 201 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,120 There's the money in the drawer. Look at it. 202 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,120 What wouldn't you give for that money? 203 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:15,120 What wouldn't you give to have it for this precious work of yours 204 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:20,120 that you're so fond of and that you've failed in miserably? 205 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,120 So far I've failed, yes. 206 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,120 Oh, I've had a fairly good life as lives go. 207 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:29,120 My heart isn't as good as it might be, but the doctors say I've... 208 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,120 I'll last a little while yet. 209 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,120 But before I go, there's one pleasure, 210 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:39,120 one little exquisite thrill for me to experience. 211 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,120 I want to commit a murder. 212 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:45,120 Yes, I said a murder. 213 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:49,120 My bet is that I can kill you within six months 214 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:53,120 and that you can't stop me. 215 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:56,120 And that I'll never be punished for it. 216 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,120 What do you say? 217 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,120 Yes or no? 218 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:03,120 I believe you mean that. 219 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,120 Of course I mean it. 220 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:09,120 And just how would you propose to kill me? 221 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,120 Ah, that would be telling. 222 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,120 You know, if I had time to think this thing over... 223 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,120 There's no thinking it over. 224 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:21,120 Now, yes or no? 225 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,120 Yes. 226 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,120 You must need the money badly, Robert. 227 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,120 I do need it. 228 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,120 But oddly enough, Mr. Destry, that isn't why I'm doing this. 229 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:32,120 No? 230 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:33,120 No. 231 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,120 I want to show you you can't play the Lord Almighty and get away with it. 232 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:37,120 Are you challenging me? 233 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:38,120 Yes. 234 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:39,120 You don't think I can do it? 235 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,120 I know you can't. 236 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,120 We mustn't get excited, Robert. 237 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:49,120 There will be conditions to the bet, you understand? 238 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:50,120 What conditions? 239 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,120 First of all, you'll never mention this matter to anyone. 240 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,120 All right. That seems fair enough. 241 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:00,120 You'll remain within the city limits of New York for six months. 242 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:06,120 You'll spend at least one hour of every day walking the open streets alone. 243 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,120 All right. 244 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:13,120 You'll spend at least one hour every evening in your own room, alone. 245 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:19,120 I may come to see you, or I may not. 246 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,120 Trying to scare me already, are you? 247 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:25,120 Finally, you'll write out a little note and give it to me. 248 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:28,120 There's pen and paper on the desk in front of you. 249 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:29,120 Write it now. 250 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,120 Let's hear what I have to write before I do anything like that. 251 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,120 You will write? 252 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,120 I am a failure. 253 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:37,120 You can't stop harping on that, can you? 254 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:41,120 I am a failure, and this was the only way out. 255 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,120 I wouldn't have done it otherwise. 256 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,120 A suicide note? 257 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:51,120 Yes. I intend to use it when I, uh, operate. 258 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:53,120 And if I won't write it? 259 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:56,120 Then there's no bet. 260 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,120 All right. I'll do it. 261 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:04,120 It's now, uh, let's see, nine o'clock on the night of January the 10th. 262 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,120 If you're alive and not in a madhouse... 263 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,120 Does that go into the bargain, too? 264 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:13,120 Yes. At nine o'clock on the night of June 10th, given those conditions, 265 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:17,120 you will receive $25,000. 266 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:21,120 Can't you hear the dice rattle, Robert? 267 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,120 You're playing with death now. 268 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,120 I know it. 269 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,120 Aren't you going to finish your brandy? 270 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:31,120 No, thank you. 271 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:35,120 Oh, then pour it back into the decanter. 272 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,120 You heard me. 273 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,120 Pour it back into the decanter. 274 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:46,120 If you were as careful as I am, you, uh, you wouldn't be where you are now. 275 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:50,120 That's right. 276 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,120 Always be thrifty. 277 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:55,120 I can promise you, by the way, that you'll always be perfectly safe, 278 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,120 as long as you're in this apartment. 279 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,120 But that's the only concession I make. 280 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:05,120 Oh, I notice your hands are steady at the moment. 281 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:10,120 I wonder what they'll be like a month from now. 282 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,120 Ha ha ha ha ha. 283 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:34,120 So you were fool enough to make a bet with John Destry. 284 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:38,120 Listen, Betty, I want to tell you what else happened the same night. 285 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:43,120 I got on a Fifth Avenue bus and started to look through that book that Destry gave me. 286 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,120 It was a book that I wanted about poisons. 287 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:50,120 Well, just as I opened it, I felt something sharp prick my fingers. 288 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:54,120 I looked down and my hands were covered with blood. 289 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:59,120 He had sewn safety razor blades in a line down the inside into the cover. 290 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:00,120 Oh, no. 291 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,120 A little white card fell out of the book, and I read it. 292 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:08,120 It said, see how easy it is to take you off guard. 293 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:12,120 Those razor blades aren't poisoned, but they might have been. 294 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,120 Take warning. 295 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,120 Betty, that was six months ago. 296 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:23,120 Six months less, five hours of careful, refined torture. 297 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,120 And now I've got only five hours to go. 298 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:27,120 What's he done in the meantime? 299 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:28,120 Nothing. 300 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,120 Nothing? I don't understand. 301 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,120 Nothing at all. That's the cleverness of it. 302 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:34,120 He's left me waiting, waiting, waiting. 303 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:35,120 Expecting something. 304 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:39,120 Expecting it every hour of the day or night. 305 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:45,120 Once at the laboratory where I work, I opened a box that I thought was full of chemical supply house. 306 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:51,120 And a Mexican tarantula, one of those furry spiders about as big as your fist, ran out across my hand. 307 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:54,120 It was a toy tarantula. 308 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:58,120 He enclosed a card asking whether I didn't admire it. 309 00:14:58,120 --> 00:14:59,120 Bob, this can't go on. 310 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,120 I used to think I didn't have a nerve in my body. 311 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:06,120 I could hold a test tube at arm's length absolutely steady for minutes at a time. 312 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:07,120 Now look at me. 313 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:08,120 Don't, please, don't. 314 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,120 But the waiting's almost over now. 315 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:13,120 Walking the streets, wondering who's behind you. 316 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:18,120 Sitting alone at night, listening for every step on the stair. 317 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:22,120 He's got very little time left now, and he's got to do something. 318 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,120 The question is, what's he going to do? 319 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,120 Well, maybe he doesn't mean it. 320 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,120 Maybe he's only doing it to scare you. 321 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,120 Lose all that money? 322 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,120 Oh, you don't know my stepfather. 323 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:35,120 Listen. 324 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,120 Huh? 325 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,120 I, I don't hear anything. 326 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:41,120 That's just it. 327 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,120 There's no sound of running water. 328 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,120 The boats have stopped. 329 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,120 Then we're all by ourselves in here. 330 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:50,120 Or with him. 331 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,120 Yes. 332 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,120 Oh, Lord, how I wish I hadn't gotten you into this. 333 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,120 Oh, I'm all right. 334 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:00,120 Or at least I think I am. 335 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:05,120 I thought I saw him in the crowd outside, but I couldn't be sure. 336 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:06,120 I'm seeing him everywhere. 337 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:07,120 Now, Bob, just a minute. 338 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,120 Just tell me one more thing. 339 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:13,120 Did you ever see Mr. Destry, I mean, face to face, after that first night? 340 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:14,120 Oh, many times. 341 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:15,120 He came to see you? 342 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:19,120 He came to my laboratory once, yes, but mostly I went to see him. 343 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:20,120 And why? 344 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:23,120 Because it was the only place in the world I could feel safe. 345 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,120 He's promised that nothing should happen to you while you were in his apartment. 346 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,120 Don't you see it was part of a torture? 347 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:34,120 Night after night he'd invite me, and I'd go right up until last night. 348 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,120 Last night. 349 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:41,120 We were in that study of his with the devil masks on the walls. 350 00:16:41,120 --> 00:17:00,120 And he was sitting behind the big mahogany desk. 351 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:11,120 My dear Robert, I am pleased and even touched to have you here on the last night before you... 352 00:17:11,120 --> 00:17:13,120 Why don't you say die and get it over with? 353 00:17:13,120 --> 00:17:15,120 Oh, well, let's not say die. 354 00:17:15,120 --> 00:17:16,120 No. 355 00:17:16,120 --> 00:17:19,120 The clergy contend that we never die. 356 00:17:19,120 --> 00:17:20,120 We only change. 357 00:17:20,120 --> 00:17:23,120 Now let that be a consolation for you. 358 00:17:23,120 --> 00:17:25,120 Must you be going so early? 359 00:17:25,120 --> 00:17:29,120 There's that one hour at home rule to our bet, if you remember. 360 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:32,120 I remember. You're keeping to the rules. 361 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:35,120 Yes, and I mean to beat you at this if it's the last thing I ever do. 362 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:38,120 The last thing I ever do. 363 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:43,120 That's an unfortunate choice of phrase, Robert. 364 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:46,120 My boy, you haven't a chance. 365 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:51,120 Something's going to happen to you within the next 24 hours when you least expect it. 366 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:55,120 Will you answer me one question? 367 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:57,120 If I choose. 368 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:01,120 Have you decided how you mean to kill me? 369 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:03,120 I decided that six months ago. 370 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:05,120 And you still think you can get away with it? 371 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:09,120 It's a method which has never been known to fail. 372 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:12,120 I give you my word of honor on that. 373 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:15,120 Is it... is it sudden? 374 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:20,120 Yes, and no. 375 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:23,120 Wouldn't you like to know what it is? 376 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:26,120 Good night, Mr. Destry. I think I'd better be leaving. 377 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:29,120 No, no, my dear boy, you mustn't go yet. 378 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:32,120 Sit down. Pour yourself a glass of brandy. 379 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:33,120 No, thanks. 380 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:36,120 Then perhaps you wouldn't mind pouring me a little. 381 00:18:36,120 --> 00:18:42,120 My doctor allows brandy, though I'm forbidden spirits. 382 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:47,120 I notice your hands are shaking quite a good deal. 383 00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:50,120 They weren't like that six months ago, were they? 384 00:18:50,120 --> 00:18:53,120 No, no. You were full of confidence then. 385 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:57,120 Oh, and it grieves me to see you waste tobacco 386 00:18:57,120 --> 00:19:00,120 by lighting a cigarette and putting it out immediately. 387 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:02,120 Oh, it's no use lying to you. 388 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:04,120 But I'm going to beat you just the same. 389 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:06,120 You wouldn't like to back out now? 390 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:08,120 After what I've been through. 391 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:10,120 You'd still have your life. 392 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:12,120 I'll keep it, thanks. 393 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:15,120 That's very unwise of you, Robert. 394 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:17,120 Still, you must decide. 395 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:20,120 I was expecting my secretary a little later 396 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:22,120 to dictate some letters. 397 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:26,120 But now I think I'll leave her a message 398 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:29,120 that I've gone to bed and turn in myself. 399 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:34,120 Tomorrow is likely to prove an interesting day for both of us. 400 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:37,120 Here's your hat, here's your briefcase, 401 00:19:37,120 --> 00:20:05,120 and let me wish you a fun, peaceful and happy good night. 402 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:08,120 That was last night, Betty. 403 00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:10,120 I saw I had five hours to go. 404 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:12,120 It's less than four hours now. 405 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:14,120 If I can keep away from the old devil until nine o'clock. 406 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:16,120 I wish those boats would start running again. 407 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:17,120 Why? 408 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:20,120 Because it's almost as spooky in here as a real old mill. 409 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:21,120 I know. 410 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:23,120 Even that wax dummy on the straw. 411 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:24,120 Any minute now I'll... 412 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:26,120 You're expecting to see him move? So am I. 413 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:27,120 Now don't stand up. 414 00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:28,120 It doesn't matter. 415 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:29,120 If the boats aren't running, 416 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:31,120 we can hear anybody who comes along. 417 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:32,120 I hope so. 418 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:34,120 Do you think Destry's got in? 419 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:36,120 Bobby can't have got in. He can't even be here. 420 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:37,120 Why not? 421 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:38,120 Because Mr. Destry told me. 422 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:40,120 Mr. Destry told you? 423 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:42,120 I'm his secretary. 424 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:48,120 You know, Betty Andrews, 425 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:50,120 I'm sorry it was you who did this. 426 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:51,120 Did what? 427 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:52,120 You can't guess, can you? 428 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:54,120 Oh, Bob, I didn't come here to trap you or spy on you. 429 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:56,120 If that's what you're thinking, I swear I didn't. 430 00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:57,120 No. 431 00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:59,120 You only got me to tell you the whole story and lose my bet. 432 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:02,120 I haven't heard a single word you said. 433 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:03,120 Bob, please believe that. 434 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:04,120 He didn't send you here, of course. 435 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:05,120 No, no. 436 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:07,120 And of course you never saw me at his apartment last night. 437 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:08,120 No, I swear I didn't. 438 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:10,120 I got there late. He'd gone to bed. 439 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:13,120 I didn't even take off my hat or gloves before I left again. 440 00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:15,120 Don't you understand, Bob? I hate him too. 441 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:18,120 I want to see you beat him. You've got to beat him. 442 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:19,120 You mean that? 443 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:22,120 Look at me and see if I mean it. 444 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:27,120 Betty, I almost believe you. 445 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:29,120 You must believe me. 446 00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:30,120 And? 447 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:32,120 Anything else? 448 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:35,120 We'd better hide behind that dead man, hurry. 449 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:37,120 Those boats have started up again. 450 00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:39,120 I wish I could tell you, Betty, what that means to me. 451 00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:40,120 Come on, come on, hurry. 452 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:42,120 Wait a minute, you two. 453 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:44,120 Stay just where you are. 454 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:45,120 Where's that voice coming from? 455 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:47,120 Along the tunnel, I think. 456 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:48,120 But it's not Destry's voice. 457 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:49,120 No, it's a man standing up in a boat. 458 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:51,120 He's coming around the corner. I can see him now. 459 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:52,120 Hurry. 460 00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:55,120 The old haunted mill, eh? 461 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:59,120 My golly, if this ain't some place to make a pinch, I never heard of one. 462 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:01,120 What do you mean, make a pinch? 463 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:02,120 Just what I said. 464 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:04,120 Your name Robert Penderel? 465 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:05,120 Yes. 466 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:07,120 Who are you and what do you want? 467 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:08,120 Police headquarters. 468 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:10,120 You know, you ought to come along with me. 469 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:12,120 I want to see you over in New York. 470 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:13,120 About what? 471 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:17,120 I wouldn't know, lady, but it might be about the murder of John Destry. 472 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:18,120 Oh, no! 473 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:22,120 Did you say the murder of John Destry? 474 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:23,120 That's right. 475 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:26,120 Somebody poisoned him last night with mercury cyanide. 476 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:29,120 I wouldn't have got you at all, maybe, if the balker outside there 477 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:32,120 hadn't thought the cops were after you to start with. 478 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:33,120 Betty. 479 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:35,120 Yes, Bob? 480 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:36,120 He's beaten me. 481 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:37,120 He hasn't beaten you. 482 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:39,120 Oh, yes, he has. 483 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:42,120 And I know now the weapon Destry was going to use in killing me. 484 00:22:42,120 --> 00:22:43,120 What weapon? 485 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:46,120 It never fails. 486 00:22:46,120 --> 00:22:47,120 The electric chair. 487 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:52,120 You mustn't talk like that. 488 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:53,120 Don't you see? 489 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:56,120 He never once intended to kill me in the way I thought. 490 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:58,120 Are you coming quietly, Mr. Penderel? 491 00:22:58,120 --> 00:22:59,120 Just a minute. 492 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:00,120 He's poisoned himself. 493 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:03,120 But he's left evidence to show I did it. 494 00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:06,120 He's killing me the worst way possible. 495 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:08,120 He's won the bet. 496 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:10,120 The money doesn't matter now. 497 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:12,120 If I'm in the death house for murder, 498 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:34,120 what use have I got for all the money in the world? 499 00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:36,120 Mr. Penderel, let me introduce myself. 500 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:39,120 My name's Mullen, Inspector Mullen. 501 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:41,120 It's a pleasure to meet you, Inspector. 502 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:44,120 It's a pleasure to be safe again. 503 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:47,120 I've had you brought here to my office for a little quiet talk. 504 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:49,120 You're in a jam, son. 505 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:51,120 And I want you to realize how bad it is. 506 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:53,120 You think I don't realize it? 507 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:55,120 John Destry was poisoned with mercury cyanide 508 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:57,120 administered in a glass of brandy. 509 00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:00,120 And only my fingerprints were on the glass besides his own. 510 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:02,120 I can guess. 511 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:03,120 Mr. Destry's body was found this morning 512 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:05,120 lying behind the desk in the study. 513 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:09,120 There was an empty glass with traces of brandy and cyanide. 514 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:11,120 Now, we haven't had the full autopsy report, 515 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:14,120 but the smell of that stuff is pretty distinctive. 516 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:17,120 They tell me you're a chemist, Mr. Penderel. 517 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:19,120 That's right. 518 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:22,120 The boys find that eight grains of mercury cyanide 519 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:24,120 are missing from your laboratory. 520 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:25,120 Where he visited me a month ago. 521 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:26,120 And in your briefcase, 522 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:28,120 which you took away from his apartment last night... 523 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:30,120 He handed it to me. I remember. 524 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:33,120 ...we found over a thousand dollars in cash. 525 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:35,120 Now, take a look at this note. 526 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:37,120 You ever see it before? 527 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:39,120 No. 528 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:41,120 Yes. 529 00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:42,120 I wrote it. 530 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:43,120 You admit that? 531 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:44,120 Yes, yes, yes. 532 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:45,120 It says, 533 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:48,120 I was a failure and this was the only way out. 534 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:50,120 I wouldn't have done it otherwise. 535 00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:51,120 Where did you find it? 536 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:53,120 Torn up in little bits. 537 00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:55,120 You started to write a confession, 538 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:57,120 and then you couldn't face the consequences. 539 00:24:57,120 --> 00:25:00,120 But you shouldn't have left the pieces behind. 540 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:01,120 You're infamate, my boy. 541 00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:03,120 Unless... 542 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:05,120 Unless what? 543 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:07,120 I had to confess here and now, 544 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:10,120 and maybe we did a little deal about second-degree murder. 545 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:12,120 Oh, Inspector, why bother to string me along? 546 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:14,120 What do you mean, string you along? 547 00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:16,120 There's no second-degree murder on a poison charge. 548 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:18,120 It's the death house or nothing. 549 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:19,120 He saw to that. 550 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:22,120 It's too bad you had to go and kill him, son. 551 00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:25,120 Didn't you know he had an aneurysm? 552 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:26,120 A what? 553 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:28,120 Fatal heart disease. 554 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:30,120 He said that he had heart trouble, but... 555 00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:31,120 Heart trouble? 556 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:34,120 His doctor says he couldn't have lived eight or ten months anyway. 557 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:37,120 And you might have got something in the will. 558 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:39,120 So that's why he did it. 559 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:40,120 Did what? 560 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:40,120 Killed himself. 561 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:43,120 You still stick to that crazy story you told the boy? 562 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:45,120 He's going to kill me, isn't he? 563 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:47,120 With 3,000 volts of electricity. 564 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:50,120 Inspector Mullen. 565 00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:51,120 What are you doing here, Sergeant? 566 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:53,120 Didn't I say I wasn't to be disturbed? 567 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:56,120 All the same, Inspector. I thought I'd better do it. 568 00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:58,120 There's a young lady here, Miss Betty Andrews. 569 00:25:58,120 --> 00:25:59,120 I think you'd better see her. 570 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:01,120 I'll see her when I'm good and ready. 571 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:03,120 I think you'd better see her, Inspector. 572 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:05,120 We've just heard from Mr. Destry's lawyer. 573 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:06,120 Well? 574 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:08,120 He said that that young fellow there, Mr. Penderel, 575 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:12,120 inherits 25,000 bucks in Mr. Destry's new will. 576 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:13,120 Did you hear that, son? 577 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:16,120 Do you see what you'd have gotten if you hadn't gone and killed him? 578 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:19,120 He was keeping his promise, that's all. 579 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:21,120 The fine lot of good it'll do me now. 580 00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:24,120 But look, Inspector, I've just talked to the medical examiner 581 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:27,120 and he says there's no poison in Mr. Destry's body. 582 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:32,120 Say that again? 583 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:35,120 There's no poison in the old man's body. 584 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:37,120 Somebody's kidding you. 585 00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:40,120 An empty glass with the smell of mercury cyanide 586 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:43,120 and a dead man with a congested face behind the mask. 587 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:45,120 What did kill him then? 588 00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:47,120 Well, if you'd like to listen to Miss Andrews, Inspector, 589 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:48,120 she's right here now. 590 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:50,120 I think you'd better listen, Inspector. 591 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:52,120 I've been trying to tell you all afternoon. 592 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:53,120 Go ahead, Miss Andrews. 593 00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:55,120 I've been over and over it. 594 00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:57,120 But until they got the medical report, nobody would listen. 595 00:26:57,120 --> 00:26:59,120 Can you tell us what killed John Destry? 596 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:01,120 Yes. Poison killed him. 597 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:04,120 But the sergeant's just been saying there was no poison in the body. 598 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:06,120 Inspector, will you listen? 599 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:09,120 I was at Mr. Destry's apartment late last night. 600 00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:11,120 Well, so what? You didn't kill him, did you? 601 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:13,120 The servant said he'd gone to bed. 602 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:16,120 So I looked into the study to see if there were any instructions. 603 00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:18,120 Was Mr. Destry dead then? 604 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:19,120 I don't know. 605 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:23,120 I couldn't see his body because it was hidden behind the desk. 606 00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:26,120 I didn't even learn he was dead until late this afternoon. 607 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:29,120 But I did see a full glass of brandy. 608 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:31,120 A full glass, did you say? 609 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:35,120 Yes. So I picked up the glass and poured the brandy back into the decanter. 610 00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:37,120 That's what he always made us do. 611 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:41,120 And I didn't leave any fingerprints because I was still wearing my gloves. 612 00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:44,120 And that was the same glass you later found empty. 613 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:50,120 But you still are not telling us what was the poison that killed John Destry? 614 00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:52,120 It was the poison in his own system. 615 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:54,120 He worked out this plot to convict Bob Penderel. 616 00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:57,120 Only just as he stretched out his hand to drink the cyanide... 617 00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:59,120 Dr. I think I see it. 618 00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:01,120 It was his last great hour. 619 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:04,120 He couldn't resist such gloating as he'd never known before. 620 00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:06,120 That's it. His heart wouldn't stand it. 621 00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:08,120 And he fell dead behind the desk. 622 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:12,120 And I think if you study the expression on his face, 623 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:27,120 you'll find he died laughing. 624 00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:32,120 And so ends Will You Make a Bet with Death. 625 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:37,120 Tonight's story of suspense. 626 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:41,120 The part of Bob Penderel was played by Michael Fitzmorris. 627 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,120 The metty was played by Leslie Woods. 628 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,120 John Destry was played by Nicholas Joy. 629 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:51,120 And in supporting roles were Ted D'Corsia and Charles Slattery. 630 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:55,120 Again next Tuesday at 9.30 p.m. Eastern wartime. 631 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,120 A story dedicated to the thrill of the nighttime. 632 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,120 The hushed voice and the prowling step. 633 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,120 Another adventure in...suspense. 634 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,120 William Spear, the producer. 635 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,120 Mark Slobe, the director in the absence of John Deets. 636 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,120 And John Dixoncar, the author. 637 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:29,120 Our collaborators on...suspense. 638 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:46,120 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.