WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:25.520 Suspense. 00:25.520 --> 00:32.520 Tonight Columbia brings you as a guest our Peter Lorre, one of the screen's past masters 00:32.520 --> 00:35.960 of the art of suspense. 00:35.960 --> 00:41.020 Suspense is compounded of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure. 00:41.020 --> 00:46.600 In this series, our story is calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer 00:46.600 --> 00:53.080 you a precarious situation, and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. 00:53.080 --> 01:00.360 Tonight, for instance, Mr. Lorre plays for us a doctor, a husband, with something dark 01:00.360 --> 01:03.280 and terrible on his mind. 01:03.280 --> 01:06.120 Was it murder? 01:06.120 --> 01:11.360 And if so, can this at last be the really perfect crime? 01:11.360 --> 01:20.440 We trust that while you are wondering, we shall keep you in suspense. 01:20.440 --> 01:27.760 For Suspense tonight, CBS presents Till Death Do Us Part by John Dixon Carr, starring Peter 01:27.760 --> 01:39.800 Lorre. 01:39.800 --> 01:46.600 Late one night in December of 1941, a man and his wife sat beside the fire in their 01:46.600 --> 01:49.360 country cottage. 01:49.360 --> 02:01.200 This man, look at him, a professor of mathematics, stout, middle-aged, guileless as a child. 02:01.200 --> 02:06.880 In the remote corner of England where he lives with his pretty English wife, they say of him, 02:06.880 --> 02:09.320 jolly decent fellow, you know, for a foreigner. 02:09.320 --> 02:10.320 Isn't he? 02:10.320 --> 02:13.160 Always a smile for everybody and so polite. 02:13.160 --> 02:17.200 That's why it's such a shame about his wife and that young American. 02:17.200 --> 02:20.760 There hasn't been anything between them yet, I'm almost sure. 02:20.760 --> 02:23.120 But if the American stays here much longer... 02:23.120 --> 02:38.680 I tell you. 02:38.680 --> 02:42.200 A happy man, this professor Kraft. 02:42.200 --> 02:48.600 His cottage in the country is rather isolated, three miles from the nearest house, no electricity 02:48.600 --> 02:52.000 or central heating or telephone. 02:52.000 --> 02:57.840 And on December nights like this, a great wind comes rushing off the Sussex Downs. 02:57.840 --> 03:06.640 It rattles at the windows, growls in the chimney, and makes unsteady the oil lamp on the table. 03:06.640 --> 03:13.600 But Irwin Kraft sits before the fire in a snug book-lined room, and across from him, 03:13.600 --> 03:17.360 sewing, sits his young wife, Cynthia. 03:17.360 --> 03:22.080 A domestic scene, a very domestic scene. 03:22.080 --> 03:27.520 Oh, my pet, this is wonderful, isn't it? 03:27.520 --> 03:32.120 Oh, so nice and cozy. 03:32.120 --> 03:35.680 How I enjoy our little home. 03:35.680 --> 03:39.320 It's a pleasure to be indoors on a night like this, isn't it? 03:39.320 --> 03:40.320 Yes. 03:40.320 --> 03:42.440 Did my darling have a good day? 03:42.440 --> 03:43.960 Just about as usual. 03:43.960 --> 03:45.440 No adventures, huh? 03:45.440 --> 03:46.440 Not exactly. 03:46.440 --> 03:47.920 I walked into the village. 03:47.920 --> 03:48.920 Walked? 03:48.920 --> 03:52.600 Oh, I really blame myself for burying you out here. 03:52.600 --> 03:54.240 I ought to get you a car. 03:54.240 --> 03:55.960 That's not necessary, thanks. 03:55.960 --> 03:56.960 Come now, come. 03:56.960 --> 03:59.960 Did something happen to upset my little pet today? 03:59.960 --> 04:01.920 No, no, no. 04:01.920 --> 04:06.160 You know, darling, I look at you and I marvel. 04:06.160 --> 04:07.720 You marvel at what? 04:07.720 --> 04:17.520 At a wife who can actually blush, yes, with a skin so fair, and a conscience so transparent 04:17.520 --> 04:19.680 that she can actually blush. 04:19.680 --> 04:21.320 I wasn't blushing about... 04:21.320 --> 04:22.320 About what? 04:22.320 --> 04:26.440 About anything you might be thinking. 04:26.440 --> 04:28.960 It's your horrible habit of putting everybody else in the wrong. 04:28.960 --> 04:33.480 Oh, but the neighbors don't think that about Poppercroft. 04:33.480 --> 04:34.960 Neighbors don't have to live with you. 04:34.960 --> 04:36.120 I do. 04:36.120 --> 04:38.340 And you mustn't scratch either. 04:38.340 --> 04:43.960 Not when we are so snug here, so cozy, in a kettle on a fire's nearly boiling, and no 04:43.960 --> 04:48.600 rum is ready, and the lemon juice and the sugar for her medicine. 04:48.600 --> 04:51.240 Oh, and must I drink that stuff? 04:51.240 --> 04:52.660 I don't like rum. 04:52.660 --> 04:54.160 But you have a cold, darling. 04:54.160 --> 04:55.520 I haven't got a cold. 04:55.520 --> 04:56.520 Really, I haven't. 04:56.520 --> 04:59.720 Darling, twice today I heard you cough. 04:59.720 --> 05:05.520 You are going to take your medicine, Cynthia, and take it here and now, and not offend your 05:05.520 --> 05:08.160 clumsy old husband by refusing. 05:08.160 --> 05:11.320 Why do you keep on treating me like a girl of 16? 05:11.320 --> 05:18.280 I love to treat you like that, Cynthia, because... because I cannot fathom your thoughts. 05:18.280 --> 05:20.280 You lock up your thoughts. 05:20.280 --> 05:22.880 And that is a dangerous English habit. 05:22.880 --> 05:30.760 You see, thoughts accumulate and won't be stifled, and sooner or later, when you least 05:30.760 --> 05:31.760 expect it... 05:31.760 --> 05:33.960 Well, look out, the kettle's boiling over. 05:33.960 --> 05:34.960 So it is. 05:34.960 --> 05:36.840 Oh, and please, lift it down from there. 05:36.840 --> 05:37.840 Of course, of course. 05:37.840 --> 05:38.840 I apologize. 05:38.840 --> 05:41.840 I apologize, my darling. 05:41.840 --> 05:42.840 There. 05:42.840 --> 05:48.960 For a second, you know, you almost frightened me. 05:48.960 --> 05:49.960 I frightened you? 05:49.960 --> 05:51.960 I suppose it's foolish. 05:51.960 --> 05:54.680 Well, here we are, my dear. 05:54.680 --> 05:55.680 Here we are. 05:55.680 --> 06:00.600 Now, see, I put two tumblers on the coffee table. 06:00.600 --> 06:06.200 And now, a spoon in each, so that the heat doesn't crack them. 06:06.200 --> 06:09.760 My dear, must you give me so much rum? 06:09.760 --> 06:12.160 Can't I have the small one? 06:12.160 --> 06:16.600 But we have to cure that cold of yours, Cynthia. 06:16.600 --> 06:19.200 Now comes the lemon juice. 06:19.200 --> 06:20.200 Yes. 06:20.200 --> 06:24.480 And now comes hot water to the top. 06:24.480 --> 06:28.160 Here we are. 06:28.160 --> 06:31.800 And two lumps of sugar for each of us. 06:31.800 --> 06:35.080 There you are, darling. 06:35.080 --> 06:37.080 Now let's drink up, huh? 06:37.080 --> 06:38.080 Owen, listen. 06:38.080 --> 06:41.560 I didn't hear anything. 06:41.560 --> 06:42.560 I did. 06:42.560 --> 06:44.680 It came from that cupboard over there. 06:44.680 --> 06:46.280 It sounded like your accordion. 06:46.280 --> 06:48.560 Oh, that's nonsense, darling. 06:48.560 --> 06:49.560 That's nonsense. 06:49.560 --> 06:50.560 There. 06:50.560 --> 06:51.560 There it is again. 06:51.560 --> 06:53.800 Well, that's only the wind. 06:53.800 --> 06:57.280 Or perhaps a rat that got into the cupboard. 06:57.280 --> 06:59.000 Owen, I'm terrified of rats. 06:59.000 --> 07:00.680 Go and kill it, would you mind? 07:00.680 --> 07:06.400 Oh, you really sit very heavy, labors my sweet, for one of my weight. 07:06.400 --> 07:09.400 Well, if you insist. 07:09.400 --> 07:11.400 All right, all right. 07:11.400 --> 07:16.200 Well, I'll take a good heavy poker from the fireplace. 07:16.200 --> 07:19.520 And of course, it means a little trip through the cupboard. 07:19.520 --> 07:20.520 Owen, never mind. 07:20.520 --> 07:23.480 You haven't changed your mind, have you? 07:23.480 --> 07:25.440 It had probably run out across the floor. 07:25.440 --> 07:26.440 Come back. 07:26.440 --> 07:29.440 It wouldn't run very far, I'm sure. 07:29.440 --> 07:33.120 Well, again, if you insist. 07:33.120 --> 07:37.040 I can't think what's the matter with me tonight. 07:37.040 --> 07:38.040 No? 07:38.040 --> 07:39.040 No. 07:39.040 --> 07:41.160 You're sure nothing upset you in the village today, huh? 07:41.160 --> 07:42.160 Certainly not. 07:42.160 --> 07:47.640 How about this young American, that fledgling doctor? 07:47.640 --> 07:48.640 What's his name? 07:48.640 --> 07:49.640 You mean Dr. Craig? 07:49.640 --> 07:52.640 That's it, Dr. Craig. 07:52.640 --> 07:54.720 Dr. Craig. 07:54.720 --> 07:59.080 Didn't someone say he was leaving today for London and then back to the States? 07:59.080 --> 08:00.080 I believe so. 08:00.080 --> 08:02.520 That's what Lady Randolph told me. 08:02.520 --> 08:04.440 And you didn't say goodbye to him? 08:04.440 --> 08:05.440 Certainly not. 08:05.440 --> 08:08.800 Well, that wasn't kind of you, darling. 08:08.800 --> 08:09.800 That wasn't friendly. 08:09.800 --> 08:11.480 What's the matter? 08:11.480 --> 08:13.920 Don't you like my nice hot rum drink? 08:13.920 --> 08:14.920 No. 08:14.920 --> 08:18.520 But you would give me no peace till I do drink it. 08:18.520 --> 08:20.840 That's right, darling, that's right. 08:20.840 --> 08:23.160 Now take it down like a good girl. 08:23.160 --> 08:25.160 I'm keeping you company. 08:25.160 --> 08:26.160 See? 08:26.160 --> 08:35.040 Oh, how pretty she looks with her yellow hair in the firelight and her red mouth and her 08:35.040 --> 08:37.080 light little hands. 08:37.080 --> 08:38.880 Very pretty. 08:38.880 --> 08:41.920 Oh, there is just one other thing, Cynthia. 08:41.920 --> 08:44.320 I gave you a letter to post this afternoon. 08:44.320 --> 08:45.320 Did you post it? 08:45.320 --> 08:46.320 Yes. 08:46.320 --> 08:47.320 Registered? 08:47.320 --> 08:48.320 Yes. 08:48.320 --> 08:51.560 And did you notice till the letter was addressed? 08:51.560 --> 08:53.400 Everybody notices the address on an envelope. 08:53.400 --> 08:56.600 It was to Sir Mr. Hatherby at Market Shepherd. 08:56.600 --> 08:57.600 That's right. 08:57.600 --> 08:59.560 But I don't know who he is, if that's what you mean. 08:59.560 --> 09:03.400 Oh, Mr. Hatherby is the coroner of this district. 09:03.400 --> 09:04.400 The coroner? 09:04.400 --> 09:07.000 That's right, that's right. 09:07.000 --> 09:11.000 But is there any reason why you should be writing letters to the coroner? 09:11.000 --> 09:13.840 Well, there will be. 09:13.840 --> 09:19.640 Tomorrow morning, we have been just drinking poison, my love. 09:19.640 --> 09:25.480 Why did you drop your glass, darling? 09:25.480 --> 09:27.680 I don't believe you. 09:27.680 --> 09:28.680 No? 09:28.680 --> 09:32.000 This will interest you, Cynthia. 09:32.000 --> 09:34.920 You were a trained nurse and weren't you a... 09:34.920 --> 09:38.840 You see, the poison was aconite, monk shoot. 09:38.840 --> 09:39.840 No. 09:39.840 --> 09:40.840 Yes. 09:40.840 --> 09:43.360 Homegrown in our own little garden. 09:43.360 --> 09:47.000 Even a one-sixteenth of a grain has been a fatal dose. 09:47.000 --> 09:50.880 There's no telephone here, no car, not even a neighbor. 09:50.880 --> 09:51.880 Exactly, my angel. 09:51.880 --> 09:52.880 Take your hands off me. 09:52.880 --> 09:53.880 Let me get out. 09:53.880 --> 09:54.880 No, my pet. 09:54.880 --> 10:02.920 In about five minutes, you see, the first symptoms will come on. 10:02.920 --> 10:03.920 Symptoms? 10:03.920 --> 10:04.920 Yes. 10:04.920 --> 10:09.320 Our throats will grow dry. 10:09.320 --> 10:11.360 Our eyes that will turn dim. 10:11.360 --> 10:12.360 No. 10:12.360 --> 10:14.640 We'll lose the use of our limbs. 10:14.640 --> 10:19.760 Well, there are convulsions before the end, I believe, but we won't feel them. 10:19.760 --> 10:20.760 Let me up. 10:20.760 --> 10:26.000 If you try to hit at me, angel, you'll upset that lamp. 10:26.000 --> 10:31.120 And, well, if you upset the lamp, this cottage would go up like tinder. 10:31.120 --> 10:34.160 We don't want to burn to death, do we? 10:34.160 --> 10:36.560 Irwin, why are you doing this? 10:36.560 --> 10:38.560 Why are you doing it? 10:38.560 --> 10:39.560 Why? 10:39.560 --> 10:43.600 Do you think all Papa Craft is blind, my pet? 10:43.600 --> 10:48.840 If I can't have you, Cynthia, nobody else is going to have you. 10:48.840 --> 10:49.840 You mean Jim Craig? 10:49.840 --> 10:50.840 So it is Jim Craig. 10:50.840 --> 10:51.840 That was nothing. 10:51.840 --> 10:52.840 My tongue slipped. 10:52.840 --> 10:57.360 A cynic would say, my dear, that your foot slipped. 10:57.360 --> 11:00.880 Do you think I don't know what happened the other night at the schoolhouse? 11:00.880 --> 11:01.880 Schoolhouse? 11:01.880 --> 11:07.240 Yes, the Market Shepherd Schoolhouse at Lady Randolph's little concert in aid of the war 11:07.240 --> 11:08.240 relief. 11:08.240 --> 11:09.240 Nothing happened, I swear it didn't. 11:09.240 --> 11:10.240 No? 11:10.240 --> 11:11.240 No. 11:11.240 --> 11:16.080 Oh, then it was coincidence, I suppose, that you and that Dr. Craig didn't arrive until 11:16.080 --> 11:17.680 the concert was nearly over. 11:17.680 --> 11:19.640 Yes, yes it was. 11:19.640 --> 11:21.200 We didn't go there together. 11:21.200 --> 11:22.200 No? 11:22.200 --> 11:24.840 We met in the little hall outside the auditorium. 11:24.840 --> 11:36.920 It was just as you were finishing your number on the accordion. 11:36.920 --> 11:37.920 I beg your pardon. 11:37.920 --> 11:38.920 Oh. 11:38.920 --> 11:39.920 I'm sorry. 11:39.920 --> 11:40.920 I almost bumped into you. 11:40.920 --> 11:42.920 Isn't that Mrs. Craig? 11:42.920 --> 11:43.920 Yes. 11:43.920 --> 11:46.040 Good evening, Dr. Craig. 11:46.040 --> 11:49.240 We seem to be late. 11:49.240 --> 11:51.640 Very late, I'm afraid. 11:51.640 --> 11:53.960 I was detained on a case. 11:53.960 --> 11:56.120 I didn't feel like coming here at all. 11:56.120 --> 12:00.200 Just a moment before I open that door for you. 12:00.200 --> 12:02.920 Won't it look a little funny, our arriving here together? 12:02.920 --> 12:03.920 Funny? 12:03.920 --> 12:04.920 Why should it? 12:04.920 --> 12:10.440 There's no reason at all, only Cynthia listened to me. 12:10.440 --> 12:17.640 Do you know, Dr. Craig, that's the first time you ever called me by my first name? 12:17.640 --> 12:21.160 I did want to have a word with you somehow. 12:21.160 --> 12:22.520 Of course, you've heard the news. 12:22.520 --> 12:23.520 What news? 12:23.520 --> 12:26.120 We're on the radio for the past couple of days. 12:26.120 --> 12:31.080 We're too far out to get much news, and my husband isn't interested. 12:31.080 --> 12:32.080 He isn't interested? 12:32.080 --> 12:35.120 He isn't interested in anything but himself. 12:35.120 --> 12:38.040 Rather, you didn't talk that way about my husband. 12:38.040 --> 12:39.040 I'm sorry. 12:39.040 --> 12:42.240 Would you push the door open a little? 12:42.240 --> 12:47.000 And in conclusion, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure we've all enjoyed our friend Professor 12:47.000 --> 12:52.160 Craft's musical numbers on the accordion. 12:52.160 --> 12:54.720 And the vicar's conjuring tricks. 12:54.720 --> 13:01.520 And little Miss Linshaw's spirited recitations. 13:01.520 --> 13:05.360 It only remains for me to tell you that the collection for this little entertainment will 13:05.360 --> 13:06.360 amount to this. 13:06.360 --> 13:08.640 But yes, Colonel Thompson, what is it? 13:08.640 --> 13:11.920 Colonel Thompson's going across the platform in rather a hurry. 13:11.920 --> 13:14.920 Looks like an announcement of some kind. 13:14.920 --> 13:18.200 Ladies and gentlemen, your attention. 13:18.200 --> 13:21.160 We have just received some late news by the nine o'clock bulletin. 13:21.160 --> 13:22.960 I think I can guess what it is. 13:22.960 --> 13:28.240 Following yesterday's declaration against Japan, the Congress of the United States today 13:28.240 --> 13:32.960 declared war against Germany and Italy. 13:32.960 --> 13:34.620 No applause, please. 13:34.620 --> 13:38.640 I think I can say that these things go too deep for applause. 13:38.640 --> 13:42.300 We entered a war lightly and we have learned. 13:42.300 --> 13:47.120 But before the vicar ends this meeting, I shall ask the orchestra to play us the song 13:47.120 --> 13:49.480 numbered 83 in the book. 13:49.480 --> 13:53.520 A song we know is dear to the hearts of all Americans. 13:53.520 --> 14:00.520 Close the door, Symphony. 14:00.520 --> 14:09.520 Jim, this doesn't affect you. 14:09.520 --> 14:12.520 Naturally it does. 14:12.520 --> 14:15.680 You won't be leaving England? 14:15.680 --> 14:17.320 Probably in a very short time. 14:17.320 --> 14:19.120 You'll be needing doctors. 14:19.120 --> 14:22.880 But does a formal declaration of war make any difference? 14:22.880 --> 14:23.880 What does it mean to you? 14:23.880 --> 14:27.280 What does it mean? 14:27.280 --> 14:29.840 I can't explain it, Cynthia. 14:29.840 --> 14:30.840 It's all in that song. 14:30.840 --> 14:33.760 If they're going to need me, I'll go back. 14:33.760 --> 14:37.360 But can't you do just as much good here in England? 14:37.360 --> 14:39.000 I don't know. 14:39.000 --> 14:40.680 That depends on what the Army says. 14:40.680 --> 14:44.680 And doesn't anything depend on what I say? 14:44.680 --> 14:46.360 We haven't got much time, Cynthia. 14:46.360 --> 14:48.360 That crowd will be out in a minute. 14:48.360 --> 14:49.360 Yes. 14:49.360 --> 14:52.040 And we won't admit it, will we? 14:52.040 --> 14:53.840 Admit what? 14:53.840 --> 14:56.560 Admit how we feel about each other. 14:56.560 --> 14:57.560 I haven't said... 14:57.560 --> 14:58.560 Nor I. 14:58.560 --> 15:01.840 I was only talking about what we were thinking. 15:01.840 --> 15:02.840 No. 15:02.840 --> 15:04.600 We won't admit it. 15:04.600 --> 15:07.320 You say you can't explain about the war. 15:07.320 --> 15:09.720 I can't explain about this. 15:09.720 --> 15:10.920 Don't try. 15:10.920 --> 15:11.920 It's better this way. 15:11.920 --> 15:14.640 Erwin's been very good to me. 15:14.640 --> 15:17.040 He's such a childlike person. 15:17.040 --> 15:18.040 Yes. 15:18.040 --> 15:19.040 Everybody likes him. 15:19.040 --> 15:20.480 Oh, he has his tempers. 15:20.480 --> 15:24.120 And he's not easy to live with sometimes, in spite of what they think. 15:24.120 --> 15:29.480 But I can't do anything to hurt him, because he'd never do anything to hurt me. 15:29.480 --> 15:30.480 Never. 15:30.480 --> 15:31.480 Never. 15:31.480 --> 15:32.480 Never in the world. 15:32.480 --> 15:48.960 A very fair estimate of my character, too. 15:48.960 --> 15:50.640 That's exactly what I said about you. 15:50.640 --> 15:52.280 So you are in love with that fellow? 15:52.280 --> 15:53.280 I admit it now. 15:53.280 --> 15:54.280 Yes. 15:54.280 --> 15:59.280 Tell me, darling, do you feel anything yet? 15:59.280 --> 16:00.280 Feel anything? 16:00.280 --> 16:04.760 I mean, dryness, muscular contraction of the throat. 16:04.760 --> 16:05.760 Yes. 16:05.760 --> 16:08.600 Oh, I thought so. 16:08.600 --> 16:09.600 I won't die. 16:09.600 --> 16:10.600 I won't. 16:10.600 --> 16:14.960 And how do you propose to stop yourself? 16:14.960 --> 16:20.120 Your only chance would be to reach the village infirmary, and I'll see to it that you don't 16:20.120 --> 16:21.120 get there. 16:21.120 --> 16:23.840 But what if the poison takes you before it takes me? 16:23.840 --> 16:24.840 Then you can't stop me. 16:24.840 --> 16:26.520 But it won't, darling. 16:26.520 --> 16:28.320 You seem terribly sure of that. 16:28.320 --> 16:34.200 You see, the amount I gave you, as you perhaps noticed, was more than I gave myself. 16:34.200 --> 16:41.640 I'm going to follow you, my little pet, into the dark, where there are no Dr. Jim Craig's. 16:41.640 --> 16:44.280 But not too quickly. 16:44.280 --> 16:52.160 I shall still have most of my faculties, Cynthia, when your convulsions are already beginning. 16:52.160 --> 16:53.720 I wonder if you will. 16:53.720 --> 16:55.720 Why do you say that? 16:55.720 --> 16:57.560 Your legs don't seem any too steady. 16:57.560 --> 16:59.120 I don't know. 16:59.120 --> 17:07.200 It must be the heat of the fire, perhaps, or it's very hot in this room. 17:07.200 --> 17:11.120 Cynthia, Cynthia, darling, listen to me. 17:11.120 --> 17:12.120 Yes, Irwin? 17:12.120 --> 17:22.240 There is a copy of Taylor's medical jurisprudence over on the shelf there. 17:22.240 --> 17:24.240 Please, please get it for me. 17:24.240 --> 17:27.760 I'm afraid you'll have to get it for yourself, my dear. 17:27.760 --> 17:29.240 And is it if you can. 17:29.240 --> 17:31.240 I'll get it. 17:31.240 --> 17:34.400 Mind the lamp, Irwin. 17:34.400 --> 17:37.320 We don't want the house on fire, just as you said yourself. 17:37.320 --> 17:40.400 I'll mind the lamp. 17:40.400 --> 17:41.940 Listen to me. 17:41.940 --> 17:46.880 You know, some people's systems are intolerant to poisons. 17:46.880 --> 17:51.400 They experience in minutes what ought to take hours. 17:51.400 --> 17:53.400 Does it hurt, Irwin? 17:53.400 --> 17:55.400 Does it hurt? 17:55.400 --> 17:56.400 Yes. 17:56.400 --> 18:07.880 But you'll find out soon enough, my pet, because you'll never make three miles to the village. 18:07.880 --> 18:08.880 Never. 18:08.880 --> 18:09.880 You think not? 18:09.880 --> 18:10.880 I know it. 18:10.880 --> 18:20.240 And just remember, I shall be waiting. 18:20.240 --> 18:21.240 Waiting? 18:21.240 --> 18:32.320 Out in the dark and cold, where there is neither marriage nor giving in in marriage. 18:32.320 --> 18:39.960 I'll be waiting for my little pet to come and join me. 18:39.960 --> 18:44.640 I shall be waiting. 18:44.640 --> 18:45.960 Irwin. 18:45.960 --> 18:47.360 Irwin. 18:47.360 --> 18:53.720 Oh, I hate you. 18:53.720 --> 18:57.880 I loathe you. 18:57.880 --> 18:59.240 I'm afraid of you. 18:59.240 --> 19:04.520 But I don't want you to die because of me. 19:04.520 --> 19:09.080 And yet you are dead, Irwin. 19:09.080 --> 19:14.480 But I'm not going to join you. 19:14.480 --> 19:18.200 I've never prayed much, Irwin, but I'm praying now. 19:18.200 --> 19:23.480 Whatever comes over my wits and makes my senses weak, give me strength enough to get to the 19:23.480 --> 19:24.480 village. 19:24.480 --> 19:28.480 Just give me strength enough to get to the village. 19:28.480 --> 19:46.160 An empty room now, except for the motionless figure by the fire. 19:46.160 --> 19:50.920 The great wind enters through an open front door and makes the lamp shake dangerously on 19:50.920 --> 19:51.920 the tables. 19:51.920 --> 19:55.880 The whole house creaks. 19:55.880 --> 19:59.680 Otherwise it is very quiet. 19:59.680 --> 20:03.960 Suddenly the corpse sits up. 20:03.960 --> 20:08.160 Professor Kraft looks pleased, doesn't he? 20:08.160 --> 20:15.520 Very pleased, very alert, as he moves over to a certain cupboard door. 20:15.520 --> 20:22.880 Well, and now I think the real fun can begin. 20:22.880 --> 20:30.680 Patience, patience, patience, my friend, while I open the cupboard door. 20:30.680 --> 20:35.120 Well, there we are. 20:35.120 --> 20:40.480 I hope you haven't been too uncomfortable, Dr. James Craig. 20:40.480 --> 20:42.880 I'm all right, thanks. 20:42.880 --> 20:46.280 So you managed to get the gag out of your mouth, huh? 20:46.280 --> 20:48.080 I managed it, yes, just now. 20:48.080 --> 20:49.440 I'm too late. 20:49.440 --> 20:54.000 Well, you are still securely tied up, I'm glad to see. 20:54.000 --> 21:00.160 You know, you gave me several very, very unpleasant moments, young man, when you got your foot 21:00.160 --> 21:01.160 on that accordion. 21:01.160 --> 21:02.160 Did I? 21:02.160 --> 21:07.920 Well, Cynthia thought you were a rat and wanted me to kill you. 21:07.920 --> 21:10.840 You know, she shows very good sense sometimes. 21:10.840 --> 21:13.440 I could hear both of you talking, thanks very much. 21:13.440 --> 21:15.640 Of course you could, of course. 21:15.640 --> 21:17.440 Excuse me, please, I forgot. 21:17.440 --> 21:20.800 It's like I could see you, too, through a crack in the door. 21:20.800 --> 21:24.160 Well, you were intended to see us. 21:24.160 --> 21:27.600 But now, come on, first of all, I'll drag you out of here. 21:27.600 --> 21:34.360 Yes, let me take you. 21:34.360 --> 21:39.520 Now we can sit down and have a nice, cozy little chat. 21:39.520 --> 21:41.520 How much aconite did you give Cynthia? 21:41.520 --> 21:42.520 How much? 21:42.520 --> 21:44.520 Oh, about two grains. 21:44.520 --> 21:45.520 Two grains? 21:45.520 --> 21:47.680 Well, then she can't possibly... 21:47.680 --> 21:50.520 No, she can't possibly live until morning. 21:50.520 --> 21:56.120 But she can live long enough to testify that she saw me die. 21:56.120 --> 21:58.120 And how much poison did you take yourself? 21:58.120 --> 21:59.120 I? 21:59.120 --> 22:00.120 None. 22:00.120 --> 22:01.120 None at all? 22:01.120 --> 22:03.640 No, none at all. 22:03.640 --> 22:06.480 But you mixed those drinks out of the same materials I saw you do it. 22:06.480 --> 22:09.880 Well, but there wasn't any poison in the rum, young man. 22:09.880 --> 22:15.520 You see, two lumps of sugar steeped in aconite were dropped into Cynthia's gas. 22:15.520 --> 22:21.360 I marked them, and I didn't make a mistake. 22:21.360 --> 22:24.280 Can you see the beginnings of Papa Croft's plan? 22:24.280 --> 22:25.280 Why, you... 22:25.280 --> 22:32.640 You see, Cynthia left the door open, my friend, and there is a very strong wind blowing tonight. 22:32.640 --> 22:33.640 Well? 22:33.640 --> 22:39.800 Just observe how it lifts the table covers, flutters the magazines, makes the lamp tremble. 22:39.800 --> 22:46.560 I shouldn't be surprised, you know, if one of those lamps blew over. 22:46.560 --> 22:52.560 A fine crash in a sheet of flame. 22:52.560 --> 22:59.680 And when they come here tomorrow morning, after Cynthia's testimony in my letter to the coroner, 22:59.680 --> 23:04.920 they'll expect to find at least a few charred bones among the ruins. 23:04.920 --> 23:08.600 And of course, they must find some remains. 23:08.600 --> 23:09.600 Whose remains? 23:09.600 --> 23:10.600 Yours. 23:10.600 --> 23:14.960 Yes, you've got me tied up pretty well, haven't you? 23:14.960 --> 23:17.960 And now you see... 23:17.960 --> 23:20.120 Now comes the best. 23:20.120 --> 23:27.040 You were last seen going towards the railway station, to London, and then to America. 23:27.040 --> 23:31.400 Nobody, nobody will inquire after you. 23:31.400 --> 23:32.400 Except Cynthia. 23:32.400 --> 23:36.760 That's right, except Cynthia, who will be dead. 23:36.760 --> 23:41.720 That I waylaid you and brought you here while Cynthia was in the village will not be known 23:41.720 --> 23:43.520 to our good coroner. 23:43.520 --> 23:44.520 And I shall disappear. 23:44.520 --> 23:47.280 What do you think of it, young man? 23:47.280 --> 23:49.560 I think it's rather good, huh? 23:49.560 --> 23:52.000 You're going to let me burn to death? 23:52.000 --> 23:55.960 Yes, and I shall enjoy the necessity. 23:55.960 --> 24:00.960 By the way, too bad you missed my performance at Lady Randolph's concert. 24:00.960 --> 24:03.120 It was very nice. 24:03.120 --> 24:06.720 But then I think you were otherwise occupied. 24:06.720 --> 24:07.720 You could call it that. 24:07.720 --> 24:10.920 Occupied, I think, in making love to my wife. 24:10.920 --> 24:14.640 You hurt my vanity, young man, and you are going to suffer for it. 24:14.640 --> 24:16.400 I never made love to your wife. 24:16.400 --> 24:17.400 No? 24:17.400 --> 24:18.400 No. 24:18.400 --> 24:20.280 But I don't suppose you could possibly believe that. 24:20.280 --> 24:22.240 Are you already begging for mercy? 24:22.240 --> 24:24.160 Now come on, now come on. 24:24.160 --> 24:25.640 Are you begging for mercy? 24:25.640 --> 24:26.920 No, I think not. 24:26.920 --> 24:30.240 Dr. Craig, I don't like the way you are taking this. 24:30.240 --> 24:31.360 I really don't. 24:31.360 --> 24:32.360 Don't you? 24:32.360 --> 24:33.360 No. 24:33.360 --> 24:35.040 You ought to be afraid. 24:35.040 --> 24:40.080 All decent men should be afraid, and no man is heroic when he sees death coming. 24:40.080 --> 24:44.520 But you are as white as a plate. 24:44.520 --> 24:46.520 Can't eat your rice off me. 24:46.520 --> 24:50.200 And you seem to be expecting something. 24:50.200 --> 24:52.320 Maybe I am expecting something. 24:52.320 --> 24:53.600 You are? 24:53.600 --> 24:59.640 Well, I think I can persuade you to tell me what's on your mind, my friend. 24:59.640 --> 25:04.080 If I use the poker out of the fire? 25:04.080 --> 25:06.840 You see, you see, I am a mathematician. 25:06.840 --> 25:09.440 I leave nothing to chance. 25:09.440 --> 25:11.480 Do you hear that, Professor Craft? 25:11.480 --> 25:13.000 A car has stopped out in front. 25:13.000 --> 25:14.640 Well, they won't come in here. 25:14.640 --> 25:15.760 But of course they will. 25:15.760 --> 25:17.120 It's probably the Home Guard. 25:17.120 --> 25:20.680 Look, you fool, you have left the front door standing wide open in a blackout. 25:20.680 --> 25:21.680 Don't be childish. 25:21.680 --> 25:23.720 Do you think to upset me with that? 25:23.720 --> 25:24.760 Something has upset you. 25:24.760 --> 25:27.560 Take a look at yourself in a mirror. 25:27.560 --> 25:28.880 Nothing. 25:28.880 --> 25:31.560 Nothing can upset my plans now. 25:31.560 --> 25:32.560 Everything is ready. 25:32.560 --> 25:35.160 My clothes and my money are in a stable. 25:35.160 --> 25:40.320 This place, this pretty little cottage will be a furnace. 25:40.320 --> 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 25:53.400 --> 25:54.960 is wrong with me. 25:54.960 --> 25:56.880 You're not acting this time, are you? 25:56.880 --> 25:58.880 You're not pretending now. 25:58.880 --> 26:00.880 You, you swine. 26:00.880 --> 26:02.880 What have you done to me? 26:02.880 --> 26:04.880 I have done nothing to you. 26:04.880 --> 26:08.680 You, you have done something to me. 26:08.680 --> 26:09.680 I can feel it. 26:09.680 --> 26:12.680 There, there is sweat all over me. 26:12.680 --> 26:15.680 My, my throat is choking. 26:15.680 --> 26:17.680 This way, Lady Dandel. 26:17.680 --> 26:22.680 Through the gate and up the path. 26:22.680 --> 26:25.680 That, that sounded like, like my wife's voice. 26:25.680 --> 26:26.680 It was Cynthia's voice. 26:26.680 --> 26:27.680 What is wrong with you? 26:27.680 --> 26:28.680 A person would think you were drunk. 26:28.680 --> 26:29.680 I'm sorry. 26:29.680 --> 26:34.680 Lady Dandel, stopping me in the road and asking to be taken to the infirmary at 80 26:34.680 --> 26:38.680 miles an hour and then finding there was nothing wrong with you. 26:38.680 --> 26:40.680 But, but it can be. 26:40.680 --> 26:41.680 It is impossible. 26:41.680 --> 26:43.680 Oh, but it is. 26:43.680 --> 26:47.680 You see, your plans didn't include the fact that Cynthia doesn't like rum. 26:47.680 --> 26:52.320 Remember, you poured a very large drink for her and a small one for yourself and you filled 26:52.320 --> 26:53.880 both glasses with hot water. 26:53.880 --> 26:58.400 Oh, remember when she got, got you to leave her and come over to this cupboard? 26:58.400 --> 27:00.360 She changed the glasses then. 27:00.360 --> 27:03.480 You're the one who swallowed the poison, two grains of aconite. 27:03.480 --> 27:05.480 No, no. 27:05.480 --> 27:09.360 Help me, please help me. 27:09.360 --> 27:10.760 Nothing on earth can save you. 27:10.760 --> 27:11.760 Help me, please. 27:11.760 --> 27:17.920 In the name of please, please help me. 27:17.920 --> 27:20.920 Nothing on earth can save you. 27:20.920 --> 27:21.920 Please. 27:21.920 --> 27:22.920 No, you won't. 27:22.920 --> 27:27.920 Then, then I'll show you. 27:27.920 --> 27:31.240 I'll take you with me. 27:31.240 --> 27:34.560 I'll take everybody with me. 27:34.560 --> 27:35.560 Where are you going? 27:35.560 --> 27:39.440 I'll, I'll get that lamp. 27:39.440 --> 27:41.240 I'll take you with me. 27:41.240 --> 27:42.680 I look at you. 27:42.680 --> 27:43.680 You can't even see. 27:43.680 --> 27:44.680 You're blind. 27:44.680 --> 27:46.480 You're staggering straight into that cupboard. 27:46.480 --> 27:48.720 I'll take you. 27:48.720 --> 27:53.760 I'll take you with me. 27:53.760 --> 27:57.840 I'll take you. 27:57.840 --> 28:05.280 Jim, Jim, what are you doing here? 28:05.280 --> 28:08.160 Come in, Cynthia. 28:08.160 --> 28:32.920 Come in and take a look at the man who died twice. 28:32.920 --> 28:37.560 And so ends Till Death Do Us Part, starring Peter Lorre. 28:37.560 --> 28:40.840 That story of suspense. 28:40.840 --> 28:45.520 Columbia presents these tales of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure for your relaxation 28:45.520 --> 28:46.520 and enjoyment. 28:46.520 --> 28:54.280 Next Tuesday, there'll be another in this series, same hour, 9.30 Eastern wartime. 28:54.280 --> 28:56.360 Mr. Lorre was starred as Professor Kraft. 28:56.360 --> 29:02.560 He was supported by Alice Frost as Cynthia, David Gothard as Dr. Craig, and Mercedes McCambridge 29:02.560 --> 29:04.200 as Lady Randolph. 29:04.200 --> 29:08.720 William Spear, the producer, John Dietz, the director, Bernard Herman, the composer, conductor, 29:08.720 --> 29:15.040 and John Dixon Carr, the author, are collaborators on suspense. 29:15.040 --> 29:34.600 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.