1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:25,520 Suspense. 2 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:32,520 Tonight Columbia brings you as a guest our Peter Lorre, one of the screen's past masters 3 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:35,960 of the art of suspense. 4 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:41,020 Suspense is compounded of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure. 5 00:00:41,020 --> 00:00:46,600 In this series, our story is calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer 6 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:53,080 you a precarious situation, and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. 7 00:00:53,080 --> 00:01:00,360 Tonight, for instance, Mr. Lorre plays for us a doctor, a husband, with something dark 8 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,280 and terrible on his mind. 9 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,120 Was it murder? 10 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:11,360 And if so, can this at last be the really perfect crime? 11 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:20,440 We trust that while you are wondering, we shall keep you in suspense. 12 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:27,760 For Suspense tonight, CBS presents Till Death Do Us Part by John Dixon Carr, starring Peter 13 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:39,800 Lorre. 14 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:46,600 Late one night in December of 1941, a man and his wife sat beside the fire in their 15 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,360 country cottage. 16 00:01:49,360 --> 00:02:01,200 This man, look at him, a professor of mathematics, stout, middle-aged, guileless as a child. 17 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:06,880 In the remote corner of England where he lives with his pretty English wife, they say of him, 18 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,320 jolly decent fellow, you know, for a foreigner. 19 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:10,320 Isn't he? 20 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,160 Always a smile for everybody and so polite. 21 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:17,200 That's why it's such a shame about his wife and that young American. 22 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,760 There hasn't been anything between them yet, I'm almost sure. 23 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:23,120 But if the American stays here much longer... 24 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:38,680 I tell you. 25 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,200 A happy man, this professor Kraft. 26 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:48,600 His cottage in the country is rather isolated, three miles from the nearest house, no electricity 27 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,000 or central heating or telephone. 28 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,840 And on December nights like this, a great wind comes rushing off the Sussex Downs. 29 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:06,640 It rattles at the windows, growls in the chimney, and makes unsteady the oil lamp on the table. 30 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:13,600 But Irwin Kraft sits before the fire in a snug book-lined room, and across from him, 31 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:17,360 sewing, sits his young wife, Cynthia. 32 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:22,080 A domestic scene, a very domestic scene. 33 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:27,520 Oh, my pet, this is wonderful, isn't it? 34 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:32,120 Oh, so nice and cozy. 35 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,680 How I enjoy our little home. 36 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,320 It's a pleasure to be indoors on a night like this, isn't it? 37 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:40,320 Yes. 38 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,440 Did my darling have a good day? 39 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:43,960 Just about as usual. 40 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:45,440 No adventures, huh? 41 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:46,440 Not exactly. 42 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:47,920 I walked into the village. 43 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:48,920 Walked? 44 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,600 Oh, I really blame myself for burying you out here. 45 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:54,240 I ought to get you a car. 46 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:55,960 That's not necessary, thanks. 47 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:56,960 Come now, come. 48 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,960 Did something happen to upset my little pet today? 49 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:01,920 No, no, no. 50 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,160 You know, darling, I look at you and I marvel. 51 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:07,720 You marvel at what? 52 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:17,520 At a wife who can actually blush, yes, with a skin so fair, and a conscience so transparent 53 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:19,680 that she can actually blush. 54 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,320 I wasn't blushing about... 55 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:22,320 About what? 56 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:26,440 About anything you might be thinking. 57 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,960 It's your horrible habit of putting everybody else in the wrong. 58 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:33,480 Oh, but the neighbors don't think that about Poppercroft. 59 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:34,960 Neighbors don't have to live with you. 60 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:36,120 I do. 61 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,340 And you mustn't scratch either. 62 00:04:38,340 --> 00:04:43,960 Not when we are so snug here, so cozy, in a kettle on a fire's nearly boiling, and no 63 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,600 rum is ready, and the lemon juice and the sugar for her medicine. 64 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,240 Oh, and must I drink that stuff? 65 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:52,660 I don't like rum. 66 00:04:52,660 --> 00:04:54,160 But you have a cold, darling. 67 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:55,520 I haven't got a cold. 68 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:56,520 Really, I haven't. 69 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,720 Darling, twice today I heard you cough. 70 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:05,520 You are going to take your medicine, Cynthia, and take it here and now, and not offend your 71 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,160 clumsy old husband by refusing. 72 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,320 Why do you keep on treating me like a girl of 16? 73 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:18,280 I love to treat you like that, Cynthia, because... because I cannot fathom your thoughts. 74 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:20,280 You lock up your thoughts. 75 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:22,880 And that is a dangerous English habit. 76 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:30,760 You see, thoughts accumulate and won't be stifled, and sooner or later, when you least 77 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:31,760 expect it... 78 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,960 Well, look out, the kettle's boiling over. 79 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:34,960 So it is. 80 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:36,840 Oh, and please, lift it down from there. 81 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:37,840 Of course, of course. 82 00:05:37,840 --> 00:05:38,840 I apologize. 83 00:05:38,840 --> 00:05:41,840 I apologize, my darling. 84 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:42,840 There. 85 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:48,960 For a second, you know, you almost frightened me. 86 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:49,960 I frightened you? 87 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:51,960 I suppose it's foolish. 88 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,680 Well, here we are, my dear. 89 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:55,680 Here we are. 90 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:00,600 Now, see, I put two tumblers on the coffee table. 91 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:06,200 And now, a spoon in each, so that the heat doesn't crack them. 92 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,760 My dear, must you give me so much rum? 93 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,160 Can't I have the small one? 94 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:16,600 But we have to cure that cold of yours, Cynthia. 95 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,200 Now comes the lemon juice. 96 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:20,200 Yes. 97 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:24,480 And now comes hot water to the top. 98 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,160 Here we are. 99 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,800 And two lumps of sugar for each of us. 100 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,080 There you are, darling. 101 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,080 Now let's drink up, huh? 102 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:38,080 Owen, listen. 103 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,560 I didn't hear anything. 104 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:42,560 I did. 105 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,680 It came from that cupboard over there. 106 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:46,280 It sounded like your accordion. 107 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:48,560 Oh, that's nonsense, darling. 108 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:49,560 That's nonsense. 109 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:50,560 There. 110 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:51,560 There it is again. 111 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,800 Well, that's only the wind. 112 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,280 Or perhaps a rat that got into the cupboard. 113 00:06:57,280 --> 00:06:59,000 Owen, I'm terrified of rats. 114 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,680 Go and kill it, would you mind? 115 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:06,400 Oh, you really sit very heavy, labors my sweet, for one of my weight. 116 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,400 Well, if you insist. 117 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,400 All right, all right. 118 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:16,200 Well, I'll take a good heavy poker from the fireplace. 119 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,520 And of course, it means a little trip through the cupboard. 120 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:20,520 Owen, never mind. 121 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:23,480 You haven't changed your mind, have you? 122 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,440 It had probably run out across the floor. 123 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:26,440 Come back. 124 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,440 It wouldn't run very far, I'm sure. 125 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:33,120 Well, again, if you insist. 126 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:37,040 I can't think what's the matter with me tonight. 127 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:38,040 No? 128 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:39,040 No. 129 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,160 You're sure nothing upset you in the village today, huh? 130 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:42,160 Certainly not. 131 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:47,640 How about this young American, that fledgling doctor? 132 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:48,640 What's his name? 133 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:49,640 You mean Dr. Craig? 134 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,640 That's it, Dr. Craig. 135 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:54,720 Dr. Craig. 136 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:59,080 Didn't someone say he was leaving today for London and then back to the States? 137 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:00,080 I believe so. 138 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,520 That's what Lady Randolph told me. 139 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:04,440 And you didn't say goodbye to him? 140 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:05,440 Certainly not. 141 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,800 Well, that wasn't kind of you, darling. 142 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:09,800 That wasn't friendly. 143 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:11,480 What's the matter? 144 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:13,920 Don't you like my nice hot rum drink? 145 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:14,920 No. 146 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,520 But you would give me no peace till I do drink it. 147 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:20,840 That's right, darling, that's right. 148 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,160 Now take it down like a good girl. 149 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:25,160 I'm keeping you company. 150 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:26,160 See? 151 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:35,040 Oh, how pretty she looks with her yellow hair in the firelight and her red mouth and her 152 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,080 light little hands. 153 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:38,880 Very pretty. 154 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:41,920 Oh, there is just one other thing, Cynthia. 155 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,320 I gave you a letter to post this afternoon. 156 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:45,320 Did you post it? 157 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:46,320 Yes. 158 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:47,320 Registered? 159 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:48,320 Yes. 160 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,560 And did you notice till the letter was addressed? 161 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:53,400 Everybody notices the address on an envelope. 162 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,600 It was to Sir Mr. Hatherby at Market Shepherd. 163 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:57,600 That's right. 164 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:59,560 But I don't know who he is, if that's what you mean. 165 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:03,400 Oh, Mr. Hatherby is the coroner of this district. 166 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:04,400 The coroner? 167 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,000 That's right, that's right. 168 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,000 But is there any reason why you should be writing letters to the coroner? 169 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,840 Well, there will be. 170 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:19,640 Tomorrow morning, we have been just drinking poison, my love. 171 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:25,480 Why did you drop your glass, darling? 172 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,680 I don't believe you. 173 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:28,680 No? 174 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:32,000 This will interest you, Cynthia. 175 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,920 You were a trained nurse and weren't you a... 176 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,840 You see, the poison was aconite, monk shoot. 177 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:39,840 No. 178 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:40,840 Yes. 179 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:43,360 Homegrown in our own little garden. 180 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:47,000 Even a one-sixteenth of a grain has been a fatal dose. 181 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,880 There's no telephone here, no car, not even a neighbor. 182 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:51,880 Exactly, my angel. 183 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:52,880 Take your hands off me. 184 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:53,880 Let me get out. 185 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:54,880 No, my pet. 186 00:09:54,880 --> 00:10:02,920 In about five minutes, you see, the first symptoms will come on. 187 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:03,920 Symptoms? 188 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:04,920 Yes. 189 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:09,320 Our throats will grow dry. 190 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,360 Our eyes that will turn dim. 191 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:12,360 No. 192 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:14,640 We'll lose the use of our limbs. 193 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:19,760 Well, there are convulsions before the end, I believe, but we won't feel them. 194 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:20,760 Let me up. 195 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:26,000 If you try to hit at me, angel, you'll upset that lamp. 196 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:31,120 And, well, if you upset the lamp, this cottage would go up like tinder. 197 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,160 We don't want to burn to death, do we? 198 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,560 Irwin, why are you doing this? 199 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:38,560 Why are you doing it? 200 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:39,560 Why? 201 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:43,600 Do you think all Papa Craft is blind, my pet? 202 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:48,840 If I can't have you, Cynthia, nobody else is going to have you. 203 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:49,840 You mean Jim Craig? 204 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:50,840 So it is Jim Craig. 205 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:51,840 That was nothing. 206 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:52,840 My tongue slipped. 207 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:57,360 A cynic would say, my dear, that your foot slipped. 208 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,880 Do you think I don't know what happened the other night at the schoolhouse? 209 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:01,880 Schoolhouse? 210 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:07,240 Yes, the Market Shepherd Schoolhouse at Lady Randolph's little concert in aid of the war 211 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:08,240 relief. 212 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:09,240 Nothing happened, I swear it didn't. 213 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:10,240 No? 214 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:11,240 No. 215 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:16,080 Oh, then it was coincidence, I suppose, that you and that Dr. Craig didn't arrive until 216 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:17,680 the concert was nearly over. 217 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:19,640 Yes, yes it was. 218 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,200 We didn't go there together. 219 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:22,200 No? 220 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,840 We met in the little hall outside the auditorium. 221 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:36,920 It was just as you were finishing your number on the accordion. 222 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:37,920 I beg your pardon. 223 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:38,920 Oh. 224 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:39,920 I'm sorry. 225 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:40,920 I almost bumped into you. 226 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:42,920 Isn't that Mrs. Craig? 227 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:43,920 Yes. 228 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,040 Good evening, Dr. Craig. 229 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,240 We seem to be late. 230 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,640 Very late, I'm afraid. 231 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,960 I was detained on a case. 232 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,120 I didn't feel like coming here at all. 233 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:00,200 Just a moment before I open that door for you. 234 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,920 Won't it look a little funny, our arriving here together? 235 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:03,920 Funny? 236 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:04,920 Why should it? 237 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:10,440 There's no reason at all, only Cynthia listened to me. 238 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:17,640 Do you know, Dr. Craig, that's the first time you ever called me by my first name? 239 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:21,160 I did want to have a word with you somehow. 240 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:22,520 Of course, you've heard the news. 241 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:23,520 What news? 242 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,120 We're on the radio for the past couple of days. 243 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:31,080 We're too far out to get much news, and my husband isn't interested. 244 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:32,080 He isn't interested? 245 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,120 He isn't interested in anything but himself. 246 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,040 Rather, you didn't talk that way about my husband. 247 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:39,040 I'm sorry. 248 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,240 Would you push the door open a little? 249 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:47,000 And in conclusion, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure we've all enjoyed our friend Professor 250 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:52,160 Craft's musical numbers on the accordion. 251 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,720 And the vicar's conjuring tricks. 252 00:12:54,720 --> 00:13:01,520 And little Miss Linshaw's spirited recitations. 253 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:05,360 It only remains for me to tell you that the collection for this little entertainment will 254 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:06,360 amount to this. 255 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:08,640 But yes, Colonel Thompson, what is it? 256 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,920 Colonel Thompson's going across the platform in rather a hurry. 257 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:14,920 Looks like an announcement of some kind. 258 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:18,200 Ladies and gentlemen, your attention. 259 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,160 We have just received some late news by the nine o'clock bulletin. 260 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:22,960 I think I can guess what it is. 261 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:28,240 Following yesterday's declaration against Japan, the Congress of the United States today 262 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:32,960 declared war against Germany and Italy. 263 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:34,620 No applause, please. 264 00:13:34,620 --> 00:13:38,640 I think I can say that these things go too deep for applause. 265 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:42,300 We entered a war lightly and we have learned. 266 00:13:42,300 --> 00:13:47,120 But before the vicar ends this meeting, I shall ask the orchestra to play us the song 267 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,480 numbered 83 in the book. 268 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,520 A song we know is dear to the hearts of all Americans. 269 00:13:53,520 --> 00:14:00,520 Close the door, Symphony. 270 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:09,520 Jim, this doesn't affect you. 271 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,520 Naturally it does. 272 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,680 You won't be leaving England? 273 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:17,320 Probably in a very short time. 274 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:19,120 You'll be needing doctors. 275 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,880 But does a formal declaration of war make any difference? 276 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:23,880 What does it mean to you? 277 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,280 What does it mean? 278 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,840 I can't explain it, Cynthia. 279 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:30,840 It's all in that song. 280 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,760 If they're going to need me, I'll go back. 281 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,360 But can't you do just as much good here in England? 282 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,000 I don't know. 283 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:40,680 That depends on what the Army says. 284 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:44,680 And doesn't anything depend on what I say? 285 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,360 We haven't got much time, Cynthia. 286 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:48,360 That crowd will be out in a minute. 287 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:49,360 Yes. 288 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,040 And we won't admit it, will we? 289 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:53,840 Admit what? 290 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,560 Admit how we feel about each other. 291 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:57,560 I haven't said... 292 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:58,560 Nor I. 293 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,840 I was only talking about what we were thinking. 294 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:02,840 No. 295 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,600 We won't admit it. 296 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,320 You say you can't explain about the war. 297 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,720 I can't explain about this. 298 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:10,920 Don't try. 299 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:11,920 It's better this way. 300 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:14,640 Erwin's been very good to me. 301 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,040 He's such a childlike person. 302 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:18,040 Yes. 303 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:19,040 Everybody likes him. 304 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:20,480 Oh, he has his tempers. 305 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,120 And he's not easy to live with sometimes, in spite of what they think. 306 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:29,480 But I can't do anything to hurt him, because he'd never do anything to hurt me. 307 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:30,480 Never. 308 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:31,480 Never. 309 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:32,480 Never in the world. 310 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:48,960 A very fair estimate of my character, too. 311 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:50,640 That's exactly what I said about you. 312 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,280 So you are in love with that fellow? 313 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:53,280 I admit it now. 314 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:54,280 Yes. 315 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:59,280 Tell me, darling, do you feel anything yet? 316 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:00,280 Feel anything? 317 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:04,760 I mean, dryness, muscular contraction of the throat. 318 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:05,760 Yes. 319 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,600 Oh, I thought so. 320 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:09,600 I won't die. 321 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:10,600 I won't. 322 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,960 And how do you propose to stop yourself? 323 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:20,120 Your only chance would be to reach the village infirmary, and I'll see to it that you don't 324 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:21,120 get there. 325 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:23,840 But what if the poison takes you before it takes me? 326 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:24,840 Then you can't stop me. 327 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:26,520 But it won't, darling. 328 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:28,320 You seem terribly sure of that. 329 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:34,200 You see, the amount I gave you, as you perhaps noticed, was more than I gave myself. 330 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:41,640 I'm going to follow you, my little pet, into the dark, where there are no Dr. Jim Craig's. 331 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,280 But not too quickly. 332 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:52,160 I shall still have most of my faculties, Cynthia, when your convulsions are already beginning. 333 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:53,720 I wonder if you will. 334 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:55,720 Why do you say that? 335 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:57,560 Your legs don't seem any too steady. 336 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:59,120 I don't know. 337 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:07,200 It must be the heat of the fire, perhaps, or it's very hot in this room. 338 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:11,120 Cynthia, Cynthia, darling, listen to me. 339 00:17:11,120 --> 00:17:12,120 Yes, Irwin? 340 00:17:12,120 --> 00:17:22,240 There is a copy of Taylor's medical jurisprudence over on the shelf there. 341 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,240 Please, please get it for me. 342 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:27,760 I'm afraid you'll have to get it for yourself, my dear. 343 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,240 And is it if you can. 344 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:31,240 I'll get it. 345 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,400 Mind the lamp, Irwin. 346 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,320 We don't want the house on fire, just as you said yourself. 347 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,400 I'll mind the lamp. 348 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:41,940 Listen to me. 349 00:17:41,940 --> 00:17:46,880 You know, some people's systems are intolerant to poisons. 350 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:51,400 They experience in minutes what ought to take hours. 351 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,400 Does it hurt, Irwin? 352 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,400 Does it hurt? 353 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:56,400 Yes. 354 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:07,880 But you'll find out soon enough, my pet, because you'll never make three miles to the village. 355 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:08,880 Never. 356 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:09,880 You think not? 357 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:10,880 I know it. 358 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:20,240 And just remember, I shall be waiting. 359 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:21,240 Waiting? 360 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:32,320 Out in the dark and cold, where there is neither marriage nor giving in in marriage. 361 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:39,960 I'll be waiting for my little pet to come and join me. 362 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:44,640 I shall be waiting. 363 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:45,960 Irwin. 364 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:47,360 Irwin. 365 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:53,720 Oh, I hate you. 366 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,880 I loathe you. 367 00:18:57,880 --> 00:18:59,240 I'm afraid of you. 368 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:04,520 But I don't want you to die because of me. 369 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:09,080 And yet you are dead, Irwin. 370 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:14,480 But I'm not going to join you. 371 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:18,200 I've never prayed much, Irwin, but I'm praying now. 372 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:23,480 Whatever comes over my wits and makes my senses weak, give me strength enough to get to the 373 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:24,480 village. 374 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:28,480 Just give me strength enough to get to the village. 375 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:46,160 An empty room now, except for the motionless figure by the fire. 376 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:50,920 The great wind enters through an open front door and makes the lamp shake dangerously on 377 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:51,920 the tables. 378 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:55,880 The whole house creaks. 379 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:59,680 Otherwise it is very quiet. 380 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:03,960 Suddenly the corpse sits up. 381 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,160 Professor Kraft looks pleased, doesn't he? 382 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:15,520 Very pleased, very alert, as he moves over to a certain cupboard door. 383 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:22,880 Well, and now I think the real fun can begin. 384 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:30,680 Patience, patience, patience, my friend, while I open the cupboard door. 385 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:35,120 Well, there we are. 386 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:40,480 I hope you haven't been too uncomfortable, Dr. James Craig. 387 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,880 I'm all right, thanks. 388 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,280 So you managed to get the gag out of your mouth, huh? 389 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,080 I managed it, yes, just now. 390 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,440 I'm too late. 391 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:54,000 Well, you are still securely tied up, I'm glad to see. 392 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:00,160 You know, you gave me several very, very unpleasant moments, young man, when you got your foot 393 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,160 on that accordion. 394 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,160 Did I? 395 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:07,920 Well, Cynthia thought you were a rat and wanted me to kill you. 396 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,840 You know, she shows very good sense sometimes. 397 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,440 I could hear both of you talking, thanks very much. 398 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,640 Of course you could, of course. 399 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,440 Excuse me, please, I forgot. 400 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,800 It's like I could see you, too, through a crack in the door. 401 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,160 Well, you were intended to see us. 402 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,600 But now, come on, first of all, I'll drag you out of here. 403 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:34,360 Yes, let me take you. 404 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:39,520 Now we can sit down and have a nice, cozy little chat. 405 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,520 How much aconite did you give Cynthia? 406 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:42,520 How much? 407 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,520 Oh, about two grains. 408 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:45,520 Two grains? 409 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,680 Well, then she can't possibly... 410 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,520 No, she can't possibly live until morning. 411 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:56,120 But she can live long enough to testify that she saw me die. 412 00:21:56,120 --> 00:21:58,120 And how much poison did you take yourself? 413 00:21:58,120 --> 00:21:59,120 I? 414 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:00,120 None. 415 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:01,120 None at all? 416 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:03,640 No, none at all. 417 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,480 But you mixed those drinks out of the same materials I saw you do it. 418 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,880 Well, but there wasn't any poison in the rum, young man. 419 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:15,520 You see, two lumps of sugar steeped in aconite were dropped into Cynthia's gas. 420 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:21,360 I marked them, and I didn't make a mistake. 421 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:24,280 Can you see the beginnings of Papa Croft's plan? 422 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:25,280 Why, you... 423 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:32,640 You see, Cynthia left the door open, my friend, and there is a very strong wind blowing tonight. 424 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:33,640 Well? 425 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:39,800 Just observe how it lifts the table covers, flutters the magazines, makes the lamp tremble. 426 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:46,560 I shouldn't be surprised, you know, if one of those lamps blew over. 427 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:52,560 A fine crash in a sheet of flame. 428 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:59,680 And when they come here tomorrow morning, after Cynthia's testimony in my letter to the coroner, 429 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:04,920 they'll expect to find at least a few charred bones among the ruins. 430 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,600 And of course, they must find some remains. 431 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:09,600 Whose remains? 432 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:10,600 Yours. 433 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:14,960 Yes, you've got me tied up pretty well, haven't you? 434 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,960 And now you see... 435 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,120 Now comes the best. 436 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:27,040 You were last seen going towards the railway station, to London, and then to America. 437 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:31,400 Nobody, nobody will inquire after you. 438 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:32,400 Except Cynthia. 439 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,760 That's right, except Cynthia, who will be dead. 440 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:41,720 That I waylaid you and brought you here while Cynthia was in the village will not be known 441 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:43,520 to our good coroner. 442 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:44,520 And I shall disappear. 443 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,280 What do you think of it, young man? 444 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,560 I think it's rather good, huh? 445 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,000 You're going to let me burn to death? 446 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,960 Yes, and I shall enjoy the necessity. 447 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:00,960 By the way, too bad you missed my performance at Lady Randolph's concert. 448 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,120 It was very nice. 449 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:06,720 But then I think you were otherwise occupied. 450 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:07,720 You could call it that. 451 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,920 Occupied, I think, in making love to my wife. 452 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,640 You hurt my vanity, young man, and you are going to suffer for it. 453 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,400 I never made love to your wife. 454 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:17,400 No? 455 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:18,400 No. 456 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,280 But I don't suppose you could possibly believe that. 457 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,240 Are you already begging for mercy? 458 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,160 Now come on, now come on. 459 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:25,640 Are you begging for mercy? 460 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:26,920 No, I think not. 461 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,240 Dr. Craig, I don't like the way you are taking this. 462 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:31,360 I really don't. 463 00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:32,360 Don't you? 464 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:33,360 No. 465 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:35,040 You ought to be afraid. 466 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:40,080 All decent men should be afraid, and no man is heroic when he sees death coming. 467 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:44,520 But you are as white as a plate. 468 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,520 Can't eat your rice off me. 469 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,200 And you seem to be expecting something. 470 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,320 Maybe I am expecting something. 471 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:53,600 You are? 472 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:59,640 Well, I think I can persuade you to tell me what's on your mind, my friend. 473 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:04,080 If I use the poker out of the fire? 474 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,840 You see, you see, I am a mathematician. 475 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,440 I leave nothing to chance. 476 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,480 Do you hear that, Professor Craft? 477 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,000 A car has stopped out in front. 478 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,640 Well, they won't come in here. 479 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:15,760 But of course they will. 480 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,120 It's probably the Home Guard. 481 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:20,680 Look, you fool, you have left the front door standing wide open in a blackout. 482 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:21,680 Don't be childish. 483 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,720 Do you think to upset me with that? 484 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:24,760 Something has upset you. 485 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,560 Take a look at yourself in a mirror. 486 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:28,880 Nothing. 487 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,560 Nothing can upset my plans now. 488 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:32,560 Everything is ready. 489 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,160 My clothes and my money are in a stable. 490 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:40,320 This place, this pretty little cottage will be a furnace. 491 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:53,400 All I have to do is, all I have to do is pick up that lamp, you see, like this and something 492 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:54,960 is wrong with me. 493 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:56,880 You're not acting this time, are you? 494 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,880 You're not pretending now. 495 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,880 You, you swine. 496 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:02,880 What have you done to me? 497 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,880 I have done nothing to you. 498 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,680 You, you have done something to me. 499 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:09,680 I can feel it. 500 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,680 There, there is sweat all over me. 501 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,680 My, my throat is choking. 502 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,680 This way, Lady Dandel. 503 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:22,680 Through the gate and up the path. 504 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,680 That, that sounded like, like my wife's voice. 505 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:26,680 It was Cynthia's voice. 506 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:27,680 What is wrong with you? 507 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:28,680 A person would think you were drunk. 508 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:29,680 I'm sorry. 509 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:34,680 Lady Dandel, stopping me in the road and asking to be taken to the infirmary at 80 510 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,680 miles an hour and then finding there was nothing wrong with you. 511 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,680 But, but it can be. 512 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:41,680 It is impossible. 513 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,680 Oh, but it is. 514 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,680 You see, your plans didn't include the fact that Cynthia doesn't like rum. 515 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:52,320 Remember, you poured a very large drink for her and a small one for yourself and you filled 516 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:53,880 both glasses with hot water. 517 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:58,400 Oh, remember when she got, got you to leave her and come over to this cupboard? 518 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,360 She changed the glasses then. 519 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:03,480 You're the one who swallowed the poison, two grains of aconite. 520 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,480 No, no. 521 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,360 Help me, please help me. 522 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:10,760 Nothing on earth can save you. 523 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:11,760 Help me, please. 524 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:17,920 In the name of please, please help me. 525 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,920 Nothing on earth can save you. 526 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:21,920 Please. 527 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:22,920 No, you won't. 528 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:27,920 Then, then I'll show you. 529 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,240 I'll take you with me. 530 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,560 I'll take everybody with me. 531 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:35,560 Where are you going? 532 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,440 I'll, I'll get that lamp. 533 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,240 I'll take you with me. 534 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,680 I look at you. 535 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:43,680 You can't even see. 536 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:44,680 You're blind. 537 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,480 You're staggering straight into that cupboard. 538 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,720 I'll take you. 539 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:53,760 I'll take you with me. 540 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,840 I'll take you. 541 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:05,280 Jim, Jim, what are you doing here? 542 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,160 Come in, Cynthia. 543 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:32,920 Come in and take a look at the man who died twice. 544 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:37,560 And so ends Till Death Do Us Part, starring Peter Lorre. 545 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,840 That story of suspense. 546 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:45,520 Columbia presents these tales of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure for your relaxation 547 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:46,520 and enjoyment. 548 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:54,280 Next Tuesday, there'll be another in this series, same hour, 9.30 Eastern wartime. 549 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,360 Mr. Lorre was starred as Professor Kraft. 550 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:02,560 He was supported by Alice Frost as Cynthia, David Gothard as Dr. Craig, and Mercedes McCambridge 551 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,200 as Lady Randolph. 552 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,720 William Spear, the producer, John Dietz, the director, Bernard Herman, the composer, conductor, 553 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:15,040 and John Dixon Carr, the author, are collaborators on suspense. 554 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:34,600 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.