WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.000 Suspense. 00:30.000 --> 00:37.000 This is the man in black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 00:37.000 --> 00:44.000 Our star tonight is Peter Lorre, playing the part of the Hungarian count Stefan Kahari, 00:44.000 --> 00:47.000 a gentleman of sinister aspect. 00:47.000 --> 00:53.000 The story is by John Dixon Carr, who calls it, The Devil's Saint. 00:53.000 --> 00:59.000 If you've been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that Suspense is a 00:59.000 --> 01:04.000 compounded mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. 01:04.000 --> 01:09.000 In this series, our tales calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, 01:09.000 --> 01:17.000 to offer you a precarious situation, and then withhold the solution till the last possible moment. 01:17.000 --> 01:23.000 And so, it is with The Devil's Saint and Mr. Peter Lorre's performance, 01:23.000 --> 01:25.000 we again hope to keep you in... 01:25.000 --> 01:28.000 Suspense. 01:28.000 --> 01:32.000 The Devil's Saint. 01:32.000 --> 01:37.000 Paris, fifteen years ago. 01:37.000 --> 01:45.000 Paris as it used to be, when lights twinkled from the old trocadero to the hill of Sacre-Cœur, 01:45.000 --> 01:52.000 when taxi cabs honked and the beat of tangos swayed, and Chinese lanterns gleamed above the lake in the bois, 01:52.000 --> 01:56.000 when, in short, you and I were young. 01:56.000 --> 02:05.000 Come then to the President's Ball at the Opera, St. Catherine's Day, 1927. 02:05.000 --> 02:11.000 A fancy dress ball at the Opera filling these marble halls with a multitude of masks and a multitude of dreams. 02:11.000 --> 02:15.000 The mosaic decorations are no less bright than the colors that weave here, 02:15.000 --> 02:19.000 halloweins and columbine, Cleopatra and musketeers. 02:19.000 --> 02:23.000 In the great marble foyer, remember it? 02:23.000 --> 02:29.000 They have set out little tables and lines of palms behind which you may sit and scream. 02:29.000 --> 02:31.000 Look at one such table. 02:31.000 --> 02:37.000 A young man wearing the scarlet and gold uniform of an English guards officer in Wellington's Day. 02:37.000 --> 02:41.000 A dark haired young girl in the costume of a Baconte. 02:41.000 --> 02:43.000 And as we approach... 02:43.000 --> 02:45.000 Ned, don't please, you mustn't. 02:45.000 --> 02:47.000 Why not? You really don't mind, do you? 02:47.000 --> 02:50.000 No, of course I don't mind, only you mustn't. 02:50.000 --> 02:53.000 Oh, Ned. 02:53.000 --> 02:55.000 Look here, Alona, we've got to settle this thing. 02:55.000 --> 02:57.000 You have enjoyed being here tonight, haven't you? 02:57.000 --> 02:59.000 Ned, I've loved it. 02:59.000 --> 03:02.000 After being cooped up at my uncle's place in the country, it's like heaven. 03:02.000 --> 03:06.000 All right. When I take you back to the hotel, I'm going to face this uncle of yours tonight. 03:06.000 --> 03:08.000 No. No, please don't. 03:08.000 --> 03:11.000 I'm going to say that you and I intend to get married and that's that. 03:11.000 --> 03:14.000 I can't marry you, Ned. I've told you that. 03:14.000 --> 03:17.000 But why not? Just give me one good reason. 03:17.000 --> 03:20.000 Because I can't. 03:20.000 --> 03:24.000 My uncle, he would never allow it. Never. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 And that seems to you a good reason enough? 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 Yes, Ned. 03:28.000 --> 03:31.000 This uncle of yours, what's his name? 03:31.000 --> 03:33.000 Count Stefan Kohari. 03:33.000 --> 03:35.000 He's a Hungarian, I think you said. 03:35.000 --> 03:38.000 Yes, so am I. My mother was an American. 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 What's he like, actually? 03:40.000 --> 03:43.000 Oh, he's a little eccentric. 03:43.000 --> 03:47.000 Oh, please don't misunderstand. He's a great scholar and a historian, only... 03:47.000 --> 03:51.000 he's a little strange. He... 03:51.000 --> 03:52.000 Ned. 03:52.000 --> 03:53.000 What is it? 03:53.000 --> 03:54.000 There he is now. 03:54.000 --> 03:55.000 Your uncle? 03:55.000 --> 03:59.000 Yes, that elegant man in plain evening clothes, with the odor of the golden fleas across his chest. 03:59.000 --> 04:03.000 Oh, I see him. He looks as black as a thundercloud. 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 He's throwing those two dressed as devils aside as though they didn't exist. 04:06.000 --> 04:08.000 Give me my mask quick before he sees us. 04:08.000 --> 04:09.000 No, Elona. 04:09.000 --> 04:10.000 Why not? 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 We'd better face this out now. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 Still. 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 Good evening, Elona. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 Good evening, Uncle Stefan. 04:20.000 --> 04:23.000 Uncle, may I present Edward Whiteford? 04:23.000 --> 04:24.000 How do you do, sir? 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 How do you do? 04:25.000 --> 04:29.000 Elona, do you think that costume is quite the thing to wear in public? 04:29.000 --> 04:30.000 Why not? 04:30.000 --> 04:33.000 Well, an older generation might call it immodest. It looks like... 04:33.000 --> 04:34.000 Like what? 04:34.000 --> 04:38.000 Nothing. Will you go and get your cloak or your domino or whatever you wore here? 04:38.000 --> 04:41.000 Uncle, please don't make me go home so soon. 04:41.000 --> 04:42.000 It's hardly eleven o'clock. 04:42.000 --> 04:45.000 I was not asking you to go home, my dear. 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 I was merely asking you to put on a wrap. 04:48.000 --> 04:51.000 All right, I'll get it. You stay and talk to Ned. 04:51.000 --> 04:54.000 I shall be delighted. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 Will you sit down, sir? 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 Thank you. 04:58.000 --> 05:01.000 You seem to have quite a gathering at this table. 05:01.000 --> 05:05.000 Yes. Some friends of mine from the embassy. They're upstairs dancing now. 05:05.000 --> 05:11.000 Well, look, glasses, glasses, and still more glasses. 05:11.000 --> 05:15.000 You know, I was quite an addict once at music glasses. 05:15.000 --> 05:18.000 Have you ever tried it, young man? 05:18.000 --> 05:22.000 Well, it's very easy. You take a spoon like this, you see, and... 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 Like it? 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 Forgive me, sir, but there's something I'd like to ask you. 05:26.000 --> 05:27.000 Yes? 05:27.000 --> 05:31.000 I don't know exactly how to say this, so I'd better say it in the shortest way. 05:31.000 --> 05:33.000 I want to marry your niece. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 Look out, sir, you'll smash one of the glasses. 05:35.000 --> 05:37.000 A few francs will pay for that. 05:37.000 --> 05:42.000 But there are other things of higher value, at least to me. 05:42.000 --> 05:46.000 Oh, maybe I ought to mention first that my full name is Lord Edward Whiteford. 05:46.000 --> 05:48.000 My father's the Earl of Grey. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 Indeed. 05:50.000 --> 05:53.000 Why, I only mention that to show we're, well, respectable enough. 05:53.000 --> 05:56.000 Or the British ambassador will vouch for me, sir, if you'd like to ring him up. 05:56.000 --> 06:02.000 And perhaps I ought to mention that I've always kept Ilona carefully guarded from the world. 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 Almost too carefully guarded, don't you think? 06:04.000 --> 06:07.000 That Lord Edward depends on my reasons. 06:07.000 --> 06:08.000 Sorry, sir. 06:08.000 --> 06:11.000 You have known Ilona about how long? 06:11.000 --> 06:12.000 Four days. 06:12.000 --> 06:17.000 Four days. You wouldn't even choose a business partner in four days. 06:17.000 --> 06:22.000 Yet to want to marry my Ilona after four days. 06:22.000 --> 06:23.000 But we know our own minds, sir. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 You do, huh? 06:25.000 --> 06:28.000 Then you know more than the wisest man in this world. 06:28.000 --> 06:33.000 However, as one whose dearest wish is Ilona's happiness... 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 I hope it is, Count Cahary. 06:35.000 --> 06:36.000 Do you doubt what I say? 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 Oh, no, sir. 06:38.000 --> 06:42.000 Well, I will make you a proposition. 06:42.000 --> 06:46.000 I own an estate in Touraine, not far from Paris, sir. 06:46.000 --> 06:49.000 Little chateau, a few hundred acres, fishing. 06:49.000 --> 06:51.000 Very good stable of horses. 06:51.000 --> 06:52.000 I know. Ilona told me. 06:52.000 --> 06:53.000 Oh, she did? 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 Well, then here is my suggestion. 06:55.000 --> 06:58.000 Why not come down and visit us for a week or two? 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 That's very decent of you, sir. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 Oh, not at all, not at all. 07:02.000 --> 07:07.000 And if at the end of that time you are not cured of this infatuation... 07:07.000 --> 07:10.000 It's not an infatuation, I swear it's not. 07:10.000 --> 07:11.000 No? 07:11.000 --> 07:16.000 Well, if at the end of that time you are not cured permanently of this feeling... 07:16.000 --> 07:18.000 you may take Ilona. 07:18.000 --> 07:22.000 And with my blessing, that's fair, isn't it? 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 Oh, it's more than fair, Count Cahary. 07:24.000 --> 07:26.000 I don't know how to thank you. 07:26.000 --> 07:28.000 Oh, well, please, don't even try. 07:28.000 --> 07:33.000 And at least I can promise you a very interesting experience. 07:33.000 --> 07:36.000 You see, at the Chateau d'Azay... 07:36.000 --> 07:40.000 there is one certain bedroom we call it the tapestry room. 07:40.000 --> 07:41.000 It is? 07:41.000 --> 07:46.000 Well, I assure you, it will be very interesting for you to sleep in that room. 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 Why? Is it haunted or something? 07:48.000 --> 07:52.000 No, no, no, not haunted. 07:52.000 --> 07:55.000 Well, now if you don't mind, I shall say good night... 07:55.000 --> 07:59.000 and I hope I can trust you to bring Ilona safely to the hotel. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Au revoir. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 Look over there. 08:03.000 --> 08:04.000 What is it, sir? 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 Just look. 08:06.000 --> 08:10.000 Streams of our fellow guests pouring down the main staircase. 08:10.000 --> 08:14.000 Shapes of nightmare, shapes of delirium. 08:14.000 --> 08:16.000 Insane, dead masks. 08:16.000 --> 08:19.000 Only the eyes move. 08:19.000 --> 08:21.000 Wouldn't we be terrified, perhaps... 08:21.000 --> 08:24.000 if he would look behind those gargoyle faces? 08:24.000 --> 08:26.000 Oh, no, I don't think so. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 They're only ordinary people like ourselves. 08:28.000 --> 08:31.000 That sure is where you make your mistake. 08:31.000 --> 08:34.000 Well, I shall expect you for the weekend... 08:34.000 --> 08:38.000 and encore un fois au revoir. 08:41.000 --> 08:43.000 Ned? Ned? 08:43.000 --> 08:46.000 It's all right, Ilona. You can come out from behind those palms. 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 What was he saying? I couldn't hear. 08:48.000 --> 08:49.000 Ilona, it couldn't be better. 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 He's a very decent old boy, actually. 08:51.000 --> 08:54.000 And he's invited me to the Chateau d'Azay. 08:54.000 --> 08:56.000 Did he say anything about the tapestry room? 08:56.000 --> 08:59.000 Yes. He invited me to sleep there. 08:59.000 --> 09:00.000 And you said? 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 I said I would, naturally. 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 You mustn't do it, Ned. I won't let you do it. 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 Why the devil not? 09:06.000 --> 09:10.000 Because everybody who sleeps in that room dies. 09:10.000 --> 09:12.000 Dies? Are you serious? 09:12.000 --> 09:14.000 Oh, Ned, please don't do it. 09:14.000 --> 09:15.000 Oh, nonsense. 09:15.000 --> 09:18.000 There are a lot of superstitions about every old house. 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 This isn't a superstition, Ned. 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 It happened once when I was a little girl. 09:23.000 --> 09:26.000 A man insisted on sleeping there. 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 They found him dead in the morning. 09:28.000 --> 09:32.000 So? How did he die? 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 They don't know. 09:33.000 --> 09:36.000 There wasn't a mark on his body. 09:36.000 --> 09:39.000 He wasn't shot or stabbed or strangled... 09:39.000 --> 09:42.000 or poisoned or hurt in any way. 09:42.000 --> 09:55.000 He was just dead. 09:55.000 --> 10:00.000 Two nights later, in the province of France now known as under Eloway, 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 but once called to reign, 10:02.000 --> 10:06.000 the ancient land beloved of Rabelais and Balzac. 10:06.000 --> 10:09.000 But now, as the wind moans down the valleys 10:09.000 --> 10:15.000 and rain flickers across the apple trees and thunder stirs in those haunted hills, 10:15.000 --> 10:19.000 it can bring little comfort to a young man driven in an ancient carriage 10:19.000 --> 10:23.000 from the railway station along snake-like roads. 10:23.000 --> 10:27.000 To what destination? 10:27.000 --> 10:30.000 Ahead, a lift of lightning shows the gray walls 10:30.000 --> 10:34.000 and conical slate-roofed towers of a chateau 10:34.000 --> 10:37.000 set some distance back from the road. 10:37.000 --> 10:42.000 Light shines from its narrow windows dimly seen through the rain-erring. 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 Driver! Coachman! 10:44.000 --> 10:45.000 Oui, monsieur. 10:45.000 --> 10:47.000 Is that the Chateau d'Azay of ahead? 10:47.000 --> 10:48.000 Oui, monsieur. 10:48.000 --> 10:51.000 I will take you to the very door, if... 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 If what? Why do you cross yourself? 10:53.000 --> 10:55.000 If I am permitted. 10:55.000 --> 10:56.000 What should stop you? 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 Only fear, monsieur. 10:58.000 --> 11:01.000 And I am not much afraid. 11:01.000 --> 11:03.000 Just... 11:03.000 --> 11:04.000 What was that? 11:04.000 --> 11:07.000 Only the dogs, monsieur. 11:07.000 --> 11:11.000 They keep many dogs, large dogs, at the Chateau d'Azay. 11:11.000 --> 11:15.000 Well, here we are. 11:15.000 --> 11:17.000 Bonsoir, monsieur. 11:17.000 --> 11:22.000 And if I may be permitted a word of advice? 11:22.000 --> 11:24.000 Well? 11:24.000 --> 11:36.000 Beware of the tapestry room. 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 There isn't a bell on this door. 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 There might at least be a knocker. 11:40.000 --> 11:50.000 Ah, got it. 11:50.000 --> 11:54.000 Et alors, monsieur, vous cherchez... 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 Je cherche le Chateau d'Azay, et je... 11:56.000 --> 11:59.000 Perhaps it would be better if you spoke English, yes? 11:59.000 --> 12:02.000 You are Lord Edward Whiteford. 12:02.000 --> 12:03.000 Yes. 12:03.000 --> 12:09.000 Monsieur is expected. Please to enter. 12:09.000 --> 12:11.000 Monsieur is at and cold. 12:11.000 --> 12:12.000 Thank you. 12:12.000 --> 12:13.000 Ned! 12:13.000 --> 12:15.000 Hello, Elona. 12:15.000 --> 12:18.000 I brought the pie, ma petite, for the uncle. 12:18.000 --> 12:22.000 You'd better not kiss me, Ned. Madam Flay says to look out for my uncle. 12:22.000 --> 12:24.000 Madam Flay is our housekeeper. 12:24.000 --> 12:25.000 Oh, well where's your uncle now? 12:25.000 --> 12:28.000 In the drawing room. He's playing the piano. 12:28.000 --> 12:29.000 Come along. 12:29.000 --> 12:30.000 Elona, is anything wrong? 12:30.000 --> 12:32.000 Oh, everything's wrong. 12:32.000 --> 12:35.000 Two of my dogs were in horrible pain this afternoon. 12:35.000 --> 12:38.000 Dr. Solomon had to put them out with chloroform. 12:38.000 --> 12:39.000 You don't think... 12:39.000 --> 12:44.000 I hope nobody's practicing, that's all. 12:44.000 --> 12:45.000 Well, here we are. 12:45.000 --> 12:48.000 Oh, nice tiger skins on the floor. 12:48.000 --> 12:51.000 I say, who's the little old man with the gray beard sitting over there by the fire? 12:51.000 --> 12:53.000 That's Dr. Solomon. 12:53.000 --> 12:55.000 Oh, hasn't he funny-looking eyes? 12:55.000 --> 12:59.000 He watches and watches and watches. 12:59.000 --> 13:02.000 He's an old friend of the family. 13:02.000 --> 13:11.000 Shh, come along. Let's get this over with. 13:11.000 --> 13:13.000 Ah, Lord Edward. 13:13.000 --> 13:15.000 Well, I see my niece has anticipated me. 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 Welcome to the Chateau d'Azay. 13:17.000 --> 13:18.000 Thank you, Count Harry. 13:18.000 --> 13:21.000 Oh, you must be very wet after your long drive. 13:21.000 --> 13:23.000 Go up to the fire and warm yourself. 13:23.000 --> 13:24.000 Madam Flay. 13:24.000 --> 13:25.000 Yes, monsieur. 13:25.000 --> 13:29.000 Please tell Antoine to take our guest's luggage up to the tapestry room. 13:29.000 --> 13:32.000 The tapestry room, monsieur? 13:32.000 --> 13:33.000 That is what I said, Madame Flay. 13:33.000 --> 13:35.000 Yes, monsieur. 13:35.000 --> 13:43.000 Now, not coincidence, Lord Edward. Dr. Solomon and I were just discussing the fate of the last person who slept in a tapestry room. 13:43.000 --> 13:48.000 This is not good, my friend. This is against my advice. 13:48.000 --> 13:50.000 It's against his advice. 13:50.000 --> 13:53.000 Oh, here Dr. Solomon croaks. 13:53.000 --> 13:58.000 This is not good, I tell you. It is the wrong season of the moon. 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 The wrong moon. 14:00.000 --> 14:04.000 But there is no moon tonight. It's raining cats and dogs. 14:04.000 --> 14:05.000 Don't talk about dogs. 14:05.000 --> 14:11.000 Nevertheless, it is the wrong season of the moon. I say no more. 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 Cheerful blunder, that doctor. 14:13.000 --> 14:16.000 Don't do it, Ned. I won't be responsible if they make you do it. 14:16.000 --> 14:21.000 But look here, Count Cohery. What did happen to the last bloke who slept in the tapestry room? 14:21.000 --> 14:26.000 You mustn't call him a bloke, sir. He was a very saintly gentleman, the bishop of Tours. 14:26.000 --> 14:33.000 That was some time ago when Delona was only fifteen years old, but surely she must remember it. 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 I remember it. 14:35.000 --> 14:40.000 The church, said our bishop, has no use for superstitions. 14:40.000 --> 14:46.000 Well, he insisted on sleeping there. I made it as comfortable for him as possible, 14:46.000 --> 14:52.000 but he was found dead next morning with a crucifix still in his hand. 14:52.000 --> 14:54.000 Was it poison? 14:54.000 --> 14:56.000 There was no poison, monsieur. 14:56.000 --> 15:00.000 No. Here, Dr. Solomon. 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 It's true, Ned. 15:02.000 --> 15:08.000 Well, there were just two very curious things, you see, in connection with that death. 15:08.000 --> 15:12.000 On a mantelpiece there was found burning a stick of incense. 15:12.000 --> 15:15.000 Just an ordinary incense, nothing wrong with it. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 Yes, sir. 15:16.000 --> 15:21.000 And under the dressing table, the police found it with an empty jar of ointment now. 15:21.000 --> 15:28.000 Here's your wits. A dead man, some burning incense, and an empty jar of ointment. 15:28.000 --> 15:29.000 What do you make of that? 15:29.000 --> 15:32.000 I don't make anything of it. It's crazy. 15:32.000 --> 15:33.000 Please do not speak like that. 15:33.000 --> 15:34.000 I'm sorry? 15:34.000 --> 15:38.000 It is still the wrong season of the moon. 15:38.000 --> 15:42.000 What I really meant, sir, was this. Is there any reason for this story of death? 15:42.000 --> 15:43.000 Reason? 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 Any legend attached to the room or anything like that? 15:45.000 --> 15:46.000 Yes, there is. 15:46.000 --> 15:47.000 Well, sir? 15:47.000 --> 15:55.000 Well, we are a very old family, Lord Edward. Old and perhaps accursed. 15:55.000 --> 16:03.000 When my ancestors moved from Hungary to France in the 17th century, they brought certain beliefs with them. 16:03.000 --> 16:05.000 The old religion. 16:05.000 --> 16:06.000 The old religion? 16:06.000 --> 16:14.000 Yes, the cult of Diana, the cult of Janus, the cult of freedom and fertility. 16:14.000 --> 16:16.000 The witch cult, if you prefer. 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 Oh, now look, yes, I... 16:18.000 --> 16:19.000 Must we talk about this? 16:19.000 --> 16:28.000 Well, you smile, but when I say the word witch, you think of some humorous picture on a Halloween's card. 16:28.000 --> 16:31.000 It was very different in the Middle Ages, believe me. 16:31.000 --> 16:38.000 Then, my friend, there existed an organized religion which rivaled the church. 16:38.000 --> 16:42.000 There were many to worship unashamed at the grand sabbath. 16:42.000 --> 16:56.000 Many to receive all favors from Satan, their master, and to dance forever joyously in the red flaming quadriles of hell. 16:56.000 --> 17:10.000 Some 200 years ago, an ancestor of mine, Katharina Kohari, was tortured to death in a tapestry room for professing the old religion. 17:10.000 --> 17:14.000 Many persons have not thought it safe to sleep there since. 17:14.000 --> 17:16.000 Are you answer? 17:16.000 --> 17:19.000 Oh, come sir, this is some kind of elaborate joke. 17:19.000 --> 17:23.000 Joke? The bishop of Tua did not find it a joke? 17:23.000 --> 17:25.000 Not a mark on his body. 17:25.000 --> 17:31.000 I assure you as a physician, not a mark on his body. 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 No, not a mark on his body. 17:33.000 --> 17:35.000 Hear Dr. Solomon. 17:35.000 --> 17:37.000 Yes, I hear him. 17:37.000 --> 17:44.000 Well, understand me, Lord Edward, there is no compulsion in this if you do wish to sleep in that room, all right? 17:44.000 --> 17:46.000 Oh, ridiculous, I'm not afraid to sleep there, sir. 17:46.000 --> 17:49.000 Well, I thought perhaps you want to change your mind. 17:49.000 --> 17:52.000 Oh, never. Would you like me to make a wager on that? 17:52.000 --> 17:53.000 What sort of wager? 17:53.000 --> 17:59.000 Hell, if I spend the night in this famous room and come out of it alive, will you give your consent to the marriage immediately? 17:59.000 --> 18:00.000 Tomorrow morning? 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 Tomorrow morning? Why? 18:02.000 --> 18:05.000 Because I don't think the atmosphere of this house is good for a loner. 18:05.000 --> 18:07.000 What do you say? Would you do it? 18:13.000 --> 18:17.000 Very well, Lord Edward, I accept the terms of your wager. 18:17.000 --> 18:20.000 Don't do it, Ned. For the love of heaven, don't do it. 18:20.000 --> 18:31.000 High up in the north tower of the Chateau d'Azay, under the conical slate roof, is the circular room hung with faded tapestries. 18:31.000 --> 18:38.000 These tapestries move slightly with uneasy, mimic life to the clamor of the storm outside. 18:38.000 --> 18:51.000 Candles burn along the mantelpiece and beside the great four-poster bed. The flames of these candles waver too as the door opens. 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 This is the tapestry room, monsieur. 18:53.000 --> 18:54.000 Thank you, Madame Fleck. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 That is the mantelpiece. Who is it? 18:56.000 --> 18:57.000 The housekeeper. 18:57.000 --> 18:58.000 The housekeeper? 18:58.000 --> 18:59.000 Yes. 18:59.000 --> 19:00.000 The housekeeper. 19:00.000 --> 19:01.000 The housekeeper. 19:01.000 --> 19:02.000 And the housekeeper. 19:02.000 --> 19:03.000 And the housekeeper. 19:03.000 --> 19:04.000 And the housekeeper. 19:04.000 --> 19:05.000 And the housekeeper. 19:05.000 --> 19:06.000 And the housekeeper. 19:06.000 --> 19:08.000 The housekeeper. 19:08.000 --> 19:09.000 And the housekeeper. 19:09.000 --> 19:10.000 Yes, sir. 19:10.000 --> 19:11.000 Mirusew? 19:11.000 --> 19:12.000 Drugs and cigarettes. 19:12.000 --> 19:13.000 What different things? 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 No, there are things that we're not allowed to, Monsieurㅋ Look, look here. 19:15.000 --> 19:16.000 There are things that we're not allowed to, Monsieur. 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 Look here, which, Monsignor, good писье expectations. 19:18.000 --> 19:21.000 the incense despair that is a bed where Monsignor the Bishop died 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 that is a good bag very inviting isn't it 19:23.000 --> 19:29.000 but what's it going to be anything else Miss you require the painter will homeless 19:29.000 --> 19:28.000 but no thanks I had a drink with the presence of paper I came upstairs 19:28.000 --> 19:29.000 that feeling is good 19:29.000 --> 19:32.000 but your shaving water will be brought up in the morning 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 skill he requires 19:34.000 --> 19:35.000 good night 19:35.000 --> 19:40.000 I heard an old harpy trying to scare a fellow out of his wits just because... 19:40.000 --> 19:43.000 I hope they've built a good fire anyway. 19:43.000 --> 19:45.000 Didn't realize how cold it was. 19:45.000 --> 19:47.000 Temperature must have dropped. 19:47.000 --> 19:49.000 What's that? 19:49.000 --> 19:51.000 It's me, Elona. 19:51.000 --> 19:52.000 May I come in? 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 No, Elona. Get out of here. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 That's not very gallant of you. 19:56.000 --> 19:59.000 I mean, I don't want you exposed to whatever it is. 19:59.000 --> 20:00.000 Ned, listen. 20:00.000 --> 20:04.000 Are you going to bed or are you going to sit up all night? 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 I'm going to sit up all night, naturally. 20:06.000 --> 20:09.000 Then let me sit up with you. 20:09.000 --> 20:10.000 No. 20:10.000 --> 20:11.000 Why not? 20:11.000 --> 20:14.000 Well, it may be dangerous. 20:14.000 --> 20:17.000 Besides, I promised your uncle I'd go through with this alone. 20:17.000 --> 20:20.000 I wish you hadn't had that drink with him. 20:20.000 --> 20:23.000 Why? He couldn't have done anything to it. 20:23.000 --> 20:25.000 It was you who poured it. 20:25.000 --> 20:27.000 Yes, that's true. Only... 20:29.000 --> 20:30.000 Listen. 20:30.000 --> 20:31.000 What is that? 20:31.000 --> 20:34.000 It sounds like footsteps. 20:34.000 --> 20:36.000 Yes, but where is it coming from? 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 Seems to be right here in the room. 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 It seems to come from all directions. 20:40.000 --> 20:43.000 Doesn't it sound like somebody walking between the walls? 20:43.000 --> 20:46.000 By George, it is someone walking inside the wall. 20:46.000 --> 20:49.000 Get behind that tapestry, Elona. Quick. Hide there. 20:54.000 --> 20:57.000 Count Kohari. Where did you come from? 20:57.000 --> 21:01.000 Oh, forgive me, Lord Edward, for seeming to appear out of the wall 21:01.000 --> 21:04.000 and between the tapestries. 21:04.000 --> 21:07.000 Like Mephisto appearing too fast. 21:07.000 --> 21:11.000 And this red dressing gown perhaps adds to the effect too. 21:11.000 --> 21:14.000 How'd you get here? A passage between the walls? 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 Yes, exactly. 21:16.000 --> 21:19.000 I'll devise my ancestors for visiting this room. 21:19.000 --> 21:23.000 You know, they invented that when its occupant was so unmanly 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 as to bolt the door. 21:25.000 --> 21:27.000 If the door was not bolted, you could have walked straight in. 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 But I couldn't have done it unobserved. 21:29.000 --> 21:31.000 No. Maybe not. 21:31.000 --> 21:34.000 Have you had any other visitors, Lord Edward? 21:34.000 --> 21:35.000 No. 21:35.000 --> 21:36.000 Are you quite sure of that? 21:36.000 --> 21:37.000 Quite sure. 21:37.000 --> 21:40.000 Well, then, since nobody saw me come here, 21:40.000 --> 21:43.000 I'll just sit down by the fire. 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 Please sit opposite me. 21:45.000 --> 21:47.000 Is this the showdown, sir? 21:47.000 --> 21:49.000 Hmm? I don't understand. 21:49.000 --> 21:51.000 Well, there's got to be a showdown between us. 21:51.000 --> 21:52.000 Is that why you're here? 21:52.000 --> 21:56.000 Oh, I am here, young man, to explain certain things to you. 21:56.000 --> 21:57.000 Will you have a cigarette? 21:57.000 --> 21:59.000 Thank you. I... 21:59.000 --> 22:02.000 Oh. They're perfectly all right. 22:02.000 --> 22:04.000 That is what you're afraid of? 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 I'll have one, yes. 22:06.000 --> 22:07.000 A light? 22:07.000 --> 22:09.000 Thank you. 22:09.000 --> 22:14.000 Well, when I was discussing the witch cult a while ago, 22:14.000 --> 22:17.000 you didn't appear to think I meant what I said. 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 Do you want a perfectly frank answer to that? 22:19.000 --> 22:20.000 Yes. 22:20.000 --> 22:23.000 I think you're mad enough to mean anything. 22:23.000 --> 22:28.000 What you say in a sense is quite true. 22:28.000 --> 22:31.000 Seeing an old and inbred family like ours, 22:31.000 --> 22:34.000 the mind can crack in the fantasies of witchcraft, 22:34.000 --> 22:38.000 become as real, well, more real than the living world. 22:38.000 --> 22:40.000 Let me give you an example. 22:40.000 --> 22:41.000 Go on. 22:41.000 --> 22:45.000 The saucer on the table beside you is Ming Porcelain. 22:45.000 --> 22:49.000 It was once owned by Katharina Kohari, 22:49.000 --> 22:52.000 a martyr of the old religion. 22:52.000 --> 22:55.000 Yet you are using it as an ash tree. 22:55.000 --> 22:58.000 Oh, I beg your wish, ladies pardon. 22:58.000 --> 22:59.000 I'll blow off the ash. 22:59.000 --> 23:02.000 Well, that's a very dangerous remark, sir. 23:02.000 --> 23:04.000 Don't you understand that the worship of evil 23:04.000 --> 23:07.000 can be strong and compelling as the worship of good? 23:07.000 --> 23:10.000 That the devil can have his saints too, 23:10.000 --> 23:14.000 that the sick brain which knows but can't help itself, 23:14.000 --> 23:17.000 you have profaned this room merely by entering it, 23:17.000 --> 23:21.000 and therefore you deserve to die. 23:21.000 --> 23:22.000 Like the Bishop of Tuor? 23:22.000 --> 23:23.000 Exactly. 23:23.000 --> 23:25.000 You're not going to tell me the devil killed him. 23:25.000 --> 23:29.000 The devil's agent may be flesh and blood. 23:29.000 --> 23:30.000 Then it was murder. 23:30.000 --> 23:32.000 Oh, of course it was murder. 23:32.000 --> 23:38.000 Murder so cunningly contrived that no one ever saw through it. 23:38.000 --> 23:39.000 Go on. 23:39.000 --> 23:42.000 I asked you before to use your wits on this problem. 23:42.000 --> 23:46.000 Well, look, incense was burned in this room. 23:46.000 --> 23:48.000 You know why? 23:48.000 --> 23:49.000 Suppose you'll tell me. 23:49.000 --> 23:52.000 Well, obviously, I think to conceal something else, 23:52.000 --> 23:54.000 which would be too easily noticed. 23:54.000 --> 23:55.000 To conceal what? 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 For instance, the smell of chloroform. 23:57.000 --> 23:58.000 Chloroform? 23:58.000 --> 23:59.000 Yes. 23:59.000 --> 24:02.000 A drug not well understood by laymen. 24:02.000 --> 24:06.000 Dr. Solomon, by the way, was using chloroform this afternoon 24:06.000 --> 24:07.000 to dispose of some dogs. 24:07.000 --> 24:08.000 So I've heard. 24:08.000 --> 24:13.000 Well, Dr. Solomon is old and very forgetful. 24:13.000 --> 24:16.000 You mean chloroform could be stolen? 24:16.000 --> 24:18.000 Oh, yes, it could be easily now. 24:18.000 --> 24:23.000 Suppose, I mean, just suppose I take a pad saturated with chloroform. 24:23.000 --> 24:27.000 I place it over the mouth and nostrils of a man already sleeping 24:27.000 --> 24:30.000 or drugged so that he gets no air. 24:30.000 --> 24:31.000 Wait a minute. 24:31.000 --> 24:33.000 That, that won't do. 24:33.000 --> 24:34.000 Why not? 24:34.000 --> 24:37.000 Chloroform burns and blisters when it touches the skin. 24:37.000 --> 24:38.000 You'd leave marks. 24:38.000 --> 24:40.000 Oh, not at all, my friend, not at all. 24:40.000 --> 24:44.000 If I first covered the mouth and nostrils with some substance like... 24:44.000 --> 24:45.000 Wait a minute. 24:45.000 --> 24:46.000 Yes. 24:46.000 --> 24:47.000 Now you're waking up. 24:47.000 --> 24:48.000 Hi. 24:48.000 --> 24:50.000 Now observe what follows. 24:50.000 --> 24:53.000 In a few seconds, unconsciousness. 24:53.000 --> 24:56.000 In two minutes or three minutes, death. 24:56.000 --> 24:58.000 Certain death, yes. 24:58.000 --> 25:00.000 Oh, but chloroform, you see. 25:00.000 --> 25:02.000 It evaporates very quickly. 25:02.000 --> 25:06.000 There is no trace in the stomach since nothing has been swallowed. 25:06.000 --> 25:09.000 Well, delay your post-mortem for 24 hours 25:09.000 --> 25:12.000 for easy matter in these country districts, 25:12.000 --> 25:15.000 and no trace remains in the blood. 25:15.000 --> 25:18.000 Murder without a mark, Lord Edward. 25:18.000 --> 25:21.000 Murder without a mark. 25:21.000 --> 25:24.000 You can't do it, Count Kohani. 25:24.000 --> 25:26.000 There's one thing you're forgetting. 25:26.000 --> 25:27.000 What is that? 25:27.000 --> 25:29.000 I'm not sleeping and I'm not drugged. 25:29.000 --> 25:31.000 Oh, yes, you are. 25:31.000 --> 25:34.000 How? When? 25:34.000 --> 25:36.000 In the cigarette? 25:36.000 --> 25:39.000 No, in a drink you had with me. 25:39.000 --> 25:42.000 What was it? 25:42.000 --> 25:43.000 Morphine. 25:43.000 --> 25:46.000 And you've had enough to put three men to sleep. 25:46.000 --> 25:48.000 See, that's it. 25:48.000 --> 25:50.000 Well, try to get up. 25:50.000 --> 25:53.000 I'll do it. I'll do it. 25:53.000 --> 25:57.000 You see, you've knocked over the fire irons. 25:57.000 --> 25:59.000 You'd have been in the fire yourself if I hadn't caught you. 25:59.000 --> 26:00.000 Take your hands off me. 26:00.000 --> 26:01.000 Just as you please. 26:01.000 --> 26:03.000 If I could reach that bell pole. 26:03.000 --> 26:04.000 Well, but you can't. 26:04.000 --> 26:06.000 Well, I'd better sit down again. 26:06.000 --> 26:07.000 You're murdering Luditic. 26:07.000 --> 26:09.000 So that's how you killed the Bishop of Tours. 26:09.000 --> 26:11.000 And that's how you're going to kill me. 26:11.000 --> 26:12.000 Who, I? 26:12.000 --> 26:15.000 Well, you don't think I killed the Bishop of Tours. 26:15.000 --> 26:16.000 Didn't you? 26:16.000 --> 26:18.000 You fool. 26:18.000 --> 26:20.000 I'm not trying to kill you. 26:20.000 --> 26:22.000 I'm trying to save you. 26:22.000 --> 26:23.000 Dr. Solomon. 26:23.000 --> 26:24.000 Yes, Monsieur. 26:24.000 --> 26:26.000 Well, come out, come out, come in the room. 26:26.000 --> 26:28.000 Come out and be my witness. 26:28.000 --> 26:29.000 Yes, Monsieur. 26:29.000 --> 26:32.000 I shall always guard the family honor. 26:32.000 --> 26:35.000 Even when I guess how men die. 26:35.000 --> 26:39.000 This young man evidently thinks I've been talking about myself. 26:39.000 --> 26:42.000 Am I in a poplar parlance insane? 26:42.000 --> 26:43.000 Oh, Monsieur. 26:43.000 --> 26:45.000 Heaven forbid. 26:45.000 --> 26:48.000 I have never known a saner man. 26:48.000 --> 26:53.000 Have you any notion, Lord Edward, why I brought you to this house? 26:53.000 --> 26:58.000 You would never have believed me if I had merely told you. 26:58.000 --> 27:00.000 So I had to bring you here to show you. 27:00.000 --> 27:01.000 Show me what? 27:01.000 --> 27:03.000 What? 27:03.000 --> 27:05.000 Look, look at the tapestries. 27:05.000 --> 27:06.000 Come out of there. 27:06.000 --> 27:07.000 Behind you. 27:07.000 --> 27:08.000 Come out of there. 27:08.000 --> 27:09.000 Hey, come out. 27:09.000 --> 27:10.000 Elona. 27:10.000 --> 27:13.000 Yes, yes, Elona. 27:13.000 --> 27:17.000 Why do you think I've kept Elona so well guarded from the world? 27:17.000 --> 27:23.000 Why at a fancy dress ball, for instance, did I object to the costume of a medieval witch? 27:23.000 --> 27:27.000 Whose dogs were poisoned so that chloroform should be brought? 27:27.000 --> 27:31.000 Who poured the drink, drunk with morphine? 27:31.000 --> 27:34.000 In the devil's name, what are you trying to tell me? 27:34.000 --> 27:36.000 It was Elona. 27:36.000 --> 27:58.000 She's been helplessly, hopelessly insane for more than 10 years. 28:07.000 --> 28:19.000 And so closes The Devil's Saint, starring Peter Lorre, tonight's tale of suspense. 28:19.000 --> 28:34.000 This is your narrator, the man in black, who conveys to you Columbia's invitation to spend this half hour in suspense with us again next Tuesday. 28:34.000 --> 29:01.000 William Spear, the producer, John Dietz, the director, Bernard Herrmann, the composer-conductor, and John Dickson Carr, the author, are collaborators on The Devil's Saint. 29:01.000 --> 29:05.000 The author are collaborators on... 29:05.000 --> 29:33.000 Suspense. 29:33.000 --> 29:38.000 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.