1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 Suspense. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:29,200 This is the Man in Black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 3 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:34,040 From Hollywood tonight we bring you the noted British actor, Mr. Edmund Gwen, the star of 4 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,800 an unusual murder study by his distinguished compatriot, Miss Dorothy Sayers. 5 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:44,040 The story called The Fountain Plays is tonight's tale of suspense. 6 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:49,080 Currently appearing in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer technical production, Lassie Come Home, following 7 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:54,720 such successes as foreign correspondent in the stage plays The Wookie and the Three Sisters, 8 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:59,680 it is Mr. Gwen's particular pleasure to embody on the stage and the screen the eternal middle 9 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:04,340 class Englishman, the common man of Britain, and proud of it. 10 00:01:04,340 --> 00:01:09,040 The character Mr. Gwen portrays in our play tonight, Mr. Archibald Spiller, conservative 11 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:13,000 John Bull that he may be, has lately had a bit of luck. 12 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:18,600 Mr. Spiller lives on a little country estate with a cook and a manservant, and in the garden, 13 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:20,600 yes, a fountain. 14 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:25,200 Of all these little luxuries, it is the fountain which pleases him the most. 15 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:30,800 An interesting sort of hobby for such a man, a fountain, perhaps more interesting than 16 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:35,800 even Mr. Spiller himself realized at the beginning of that memorable evening. 17 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,600 These events were really quite unusual, and with their publication, and with the performance 18 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:44,640 of Mr. Edmund Gwen as Archie Spiller, we again hope to keep you in. 19 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:49,280 Suspense. 20 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,040 The Fountain Plays. 21 00:01:51,040 --> 00:02:08,480 Now then, Mr. Spiller, what about it? 22 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:09,840 Have a cab of the fountain, Sam. 23 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:10,840 Get wet if you stand too close. 24 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:11,840 Fountain? 25 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,840 You and your plastic fountain wasting your money on a do-dead. 26 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:16,840 It's not expensive, Sam. 27 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:19,260 It's very ingenious, really. 28 00:02:19,260 --> 00:02:21,400 You use the same water over and over again, you see? 29 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:22,400 Don't try and put me off. 30 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:23,400 What about it? 31 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,400 Well, I told you I'd talk to you about it later, the scene later. 32 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:27,400 Later? 33 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,480 Well, I want to talk about it now. 34 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:31,120 I want a straight answer to my question. 35 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:32,120 I've given you an answer. 36 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,120 Mr. Spiller, you've given me nothing but bluff and bluster. 37 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,200 Do I get it or don't I? 38 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,160 That's what I want to know, and if I don't... 39 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,160 Now, now, butch, please, please, my guests are arriving. 40 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:43,160 I'll talk to you tonight. 41 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,160 You'd better talk straight, too. 42 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,160 It'll be your last chance, Miller. 43 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:48,160 Hello! 44 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:49,160 Hello, everybody! 45 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:50,160 They're just in time for a cocktail. 46 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:51,160 Come in, come in. 47 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,360 Master Seb would find you here, Daddy. 48 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:54,360 I hope we're not interrupting. 49 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:55,360 Certainly not. 50 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:56,360 Certainly not. 51 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,360 You know Mr. Gooch, don't you, my dear? 52 00:02:58,360 --> 00:02:59,360 Of course. 53 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,360 And this, sir, this is my neighbor, Mrs. Digby, Mr. Gooch. 54 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:02,360 How do you do, Mr. Gooch? 55 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:03,360 Uh... 56 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:04,360 I'm Ronald Prowford, my daughter's fiance. 57 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:05,360 How do you do, sir? 58 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:06,360 How do you do? 59 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:07,360 Do help yourselves, everybody. 60 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,360 You'll find all the fixings right there on the stone setting. 61 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:11,360 Oh, yes. 62 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:13,360 Betty, you play hostess, will you, dear? 63 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:14,360 All right, Dad. 64 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:15,360 I'll take mine neat. 65 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,360 I'm just showing Mr. Gooch the wonders of my little fountain. 66 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,360 Oh, Daddy, you do make such a fuss over that fountain. 67 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,360 Oh, well, even so, I always say that there's nothing quite like a bit of ornamental water 68 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:25,360 to set a place up. 69 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,360 Sort of like the Versailles Gardens, what? 70 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,360 Oh, it's really lovely, Mr. Stiller. 71 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,360 And so secluded with the rhododendrons and the lilac hedge all around. 72 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:34,360 Ah, you like that, eh? 73 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,360 Oh, you know, I was thinking of cutting out some of these lilacs. 74 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:38,360 Oh, I wouldn't. 75 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,360 Well, to make a vista, so to speak. 76 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:44,360 You can't even see it from the house with these bushes on all four sides. 77 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,360 Well, now, perhaps that might add something. 78 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:50,360 But if you like the lilacs, Mrs. Digby, the lilacs shall stay. 79 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:52,360 Oh, Mr. Stiller. 80 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,360 I'm no authority, I'm sure. 81 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,360 Well, if you want an authority, I'd say it's a mess. 82 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:59,360 Plus the backstop and all. 83 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:00,360 A mess, see? 84 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:01,360 A mess? 85 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,360 Yes, a mess. 86 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:07,360 Oh, maybe Mr. Gooch means the way the backstop arches up above the stray. 87 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,360 It rather overshadows it, you know. 88 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:10,360 Oh, I have to have that, you know, my dear. 89 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,360 Prevailing winds from the south. 90 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,360 Loads of the jet of water right out onto the grass. 91 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:19,360 If it weren't for that backstop, I'd have a regular swamp over there, wasteful, too. 92 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:20,360 Well, I'm glad I know that. 93 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:25,360 You always were a fool, aren't you, squandering money on a fountain? 94 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,360 Oh, no, no, no, indeed. 95 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:31,360 It uses the same water over and over again. 96 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,360 Like the ones in Trafalgar Square, you know. 97 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,360 Most ingenious, really. 98 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,360 Why, isn't that a wonderful idea? 99 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,360 Well, I have to be careful, of course, even so. 100 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:43,360 Turn it off every night to save leakage and waste and so on. 101 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,360 Same old Spiller. 102 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,360 A proper miser, if ever there was one. 103 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:48,360 Oh, I see now. 104 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:49,360 Mr. Spiller, sir. 105 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:50,360 Yeah? 106 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:51,360 The dinner is, sir. 107 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,360 What? Oh, thank you, master, thank you. 108 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:54,360 Well, what do you say? 109 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:55,360 Everybody ready for a bit of dinner? 110 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,360 Hey, are you going then, chubby? 111 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:58,360 Come on, let's go in there. 112 00:04:58,360 --> 00:04:59,360 I got it, I got it. 113 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,360 You'll get some later. 114 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,360 Why, Mr. Spiller, your modest little fountain. 115 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,360 When you're past the bushes, by all at once you can scarcely hear it at all. 116 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,360 Yes, quite impossible to hear it from the house. 117 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,360 Can't hear it at all. 118 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:30,360 Another glass of wine. 119 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:31,360 Won't you have one here? 120 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,360 What is it, masters? 121 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:34,360 Will that be all then, sir? 122 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:35,360 Yes, thank you, masters, yes. 123 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:36,360 Excellent dinner. 124 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,360 My compliments to the cook, please. 125 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:39,360 Yes, sir. 126 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:40,360 And coffee in the drawing room. 127 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:41,360 Very good, sir. 128 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:42,360 Well, shall we adjourn? 129 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:43,360 Shall we what? 130 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:44,360 Ajourn. 131 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,360 Going to the drawing room, what? 132 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,360 Quite a tough you've become, eh, Archie? 133 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,360 Big change from the old days. 134 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,360 Ajourn to the drawing room. 135 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:56,360 Yes, yes. 136 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,360 Well, we'll all have a spot of coffee now, eh? 137 00:05:58,360 --> 00:05:59,360 Coffee? 138 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,360 Is that the best you've got to offer? 139 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:03,360 Oh, no, by no means. 140 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:04,360 Have anything you like, old man. 141 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,360 That's better. 142 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,360 What would you think, Mr. Spiller, 143 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:10,360 about a rubber or two of bridge? 144 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,360 Oh, excellent suggestion. Splendid. 145 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,360 Good thing I don't play, eh, Archie? 146 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,360 I see I'm counted out before we start. 147 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,360 Oh, Mr. Gooch, I'm so sorry. 148 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:21,360 Do take my place. 149 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:22,360 I'm really very tired. 150 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,360 No, thanks. 151 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,360 We didn't play bridge where I come from, 152 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:28,360 and neither did Archie. 153 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,360 Although I see he picked it up quick enough once he got... 154 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,360 Well, it's never too late to learn, you know. 155 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,360 I've got better ways than that to spend my time 156 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,360 when I visit an old pal. 157 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:40,360 Where's that fellow Masters? 158 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:42,360 Was there something you wished, sir? 159 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,360 Oh, well, take the whiskey and soda down by that fountain. 160 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:50,360 Whiskey and moonlight and jolly old fountain. 161 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,360 That's the proper way to spend an evening, eh, my lad? 162 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:55,360 Uh, quite, sir. 163 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,360 Mind you bring the full decanter. 164 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:01,360 One drink's only a starter for a chap like yours truly. 165 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:02,360 Very good, sir. 166 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,360 While I'm at it, 167 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,360 I'd better take a few of these here coronas. 168 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:11,360 Only the best for your old pals, eh, Archie? 169 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:13,360 Yes, yes. 170 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,360 See you folks later. 171 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,360 See you later on. 172 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:19,360 Oh, Mr. Digby, 173 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,360 shall it be you and me against the youngsters? 174 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,360 Daddy. 175 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:23,360 Yes, dear? 176 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,360 Will you tell me why you put up with that man? 177 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:26,360 Gooch? Oh, come. 178 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:28,360 He's not a bad sort, really. 179 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,360 Had a drop too much this evening, perhaps. 180 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:31,360 He always has a drop too much. 181 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:32,360 And he is a bad sort. 182 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,360 He's a rude, unpleasant, terrible man. 183 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:38,360 Well, old friend, you know, not much a chap can do. 184 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,360 Oh, Daddy, you're so soft-hearted. 185 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,360 But if you can't do anything, I can. 186 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,360 Now, please, dear, please, he'll be gone in a day or two. 187 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:45,360 Right time. 188 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,360 What does he mean, talking to you that way in your own home? 189 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:49,360 Uh, shall we, uh, cut for deal? 190 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:50,360 Yes, shall I, uh... 191 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:51,360 Well, I don't care. 192 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,360 Beshant put me off. 193 00:07:53,360 --> 00:08:05,360 This is the last time that man is going to come into this house. 194 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,360 There you are. 195 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:10,360 Game and rubber. 196 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,360 I guess you folks aren't so slow after all, eh, partner? 197 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,360 Now, don't get Daddy all puffed up. 198 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:16,360 You did have all the cards. 199 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:17,360 Oh, not a bit of this. 200 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:18,360 Jolly well played, sir. 201 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:19,360 Say one more. 202 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:20,360 Oh, I'm afraid not. 203 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,360 I don't want to put a damper on the party, but it's 10.30. 204 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:26,360 My word so it tears. 205 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,360 Last hour or so passed in no time. 206 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:30,360 Oh, that's probably Mr. Gooch. 207 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:31,360 Wonder where he is. 208 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:32,360 I could guess. 209 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:34,360 He said he was going out by the fountain. 210 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:36,360 Dead to the world, that's what he is. 211 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:37,360 Why, Betty. 212 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:38,360 Oh, from drinks, silly. 213 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:39,360 Oh, of course. 214 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,360 Well, I'm not superstitious, you know, but... 215 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,360 Oh, Gooch will take care of himself, I dare say. 216 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,360 Why, Mrs. Digby, if you really must? 217 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,360 I'm afraid I really must. 218 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,360 Well, then perhaps I can see you home. 219 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,360 Well, if it wouldn't be inconvenient. 220 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:53,360 Oh, not a bit of it. 221 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,360 It's a pleasure I've been looking forward to all the evening. 222 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:07,360 Well, here we are. 223 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:08,360 Yes. 224 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:10,360 It's been such a lovely evening, Mr. Spiller. 225 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,360 Yeah, you know, I've been thinking... 226 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,360 I'm awfully lucky to have found a neighbour like you... 227 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,360 at my time of life, I mean. 228 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:19,360 Maybe it's not luck at all. 229 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,360 It's fate, you mean, eh, Mrs. Digby? 230 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:23,360 Hmm? 231 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:27,360 Or may I... may I call you Rosalind? 232 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:28,360 Of course. 233 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,360 And you call me Archibald, eh? 234 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,360 Silly name, but it's the only one I've got there. 235 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:35,360 All right. 236 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,360 You know, it was true what I said tonight... 237 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,360 that the place will be needing a new hostess soon. 238 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,360 With Betty getting married, you mean? 239 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:44,360 You must be very happy for her. 240 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,360 I am, I am, but what I mean is... 241 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:52,360 I mean that, well, we're both alone in the world now and... 242 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:53,360 Yes? 243 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:59,360 Rosalind, there's something I want to talk to you about soon. 244 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,360 I can't just now. 245 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,360 There are arrangements I have to make, but... 246 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,360 but I do want to talk to you really seriously. 247 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,360 Well, I'll always be here, you know. 248 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:11,360 But it's late now. 249 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,360 Yes, yes, it is. 250 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:17,360 Good night, Rosalind. It has been a lovely evening. 251 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,360 Good night, Archibald. 252 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,360 Hello, Masters. Tell me, where's everybody? 253 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,360 Mr. Ronald left five or ten minutes since, sir... 254 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,360 and Miss Elizabeth has retired. 255 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:46,360 Oh. 256 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,360 Well, has Mr. Gooch come in yet? 257 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,360 I couldn't say, sir. Shall I go to see? 258 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:53,360 No, no, no, never mind. You can cut along to bed now. 259 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:54,360 I'll lock up. 260 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:56,360 Very good, sir. 261 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,360 Over the way, Masters. Is the fountain turned off? 262 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:03,360 Yes, sir. I turned it off myself at half past ten... 263 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:04,360 seeing you were engaged. 264 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,360 Oh, fine, fine. Well, good night, Masters. 265 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,360 Good night, sir. 266 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,360 Oh, hello there. 267 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,360 Just coming out to look for you, Gooch. 268 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:22,360 Hello. 269 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:23,360 Have a nice evening? 270 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:25,360 A nice evening. 271 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:29,360 Not as nice an evening as you had with the obliging little widow, eh? 272 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:30,360 No, no, that's enough of that now, sir. 273 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:33,360 Oh, it is, is it? That's enough, is it? 274 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:34,360 That's a good one. 275 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,360 Would you think I am talking to me like that? One of your ruddy servants? 276 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:42,360 Well, I'm not. I'm the boss here. Get that into your head. 277 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:44,360 I'm the boss, and you know it. 278 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,360 All right, all right. 279 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,360 But buzz off to bed now, like a good fellow. 280 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,360 It's getting late, and I'm tired. 281 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:53,360 Oh, you don't. 282 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:55,360 You think I'm drunk, don't you? 283 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,360 Well, I'm not drunk enough so I don't remember the little business I've got with you. 284 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:00,360 Well, can't we talk about it in the morning? 285 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,360 No. We'll talk about it right now. 286 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:07,360 I'm short of cash. It's high time you kicked in with some more. 287 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:09,360 Now, look here, Sam. I pay you your allowance as we agreed, 288 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,360 and you stay here whenever you like, but that's all. 289 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:14,360 Oh, it is, is it? 290 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:18,360 Getting pretty iron mighty, aren't you, number 4132? 291 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,360 Sam, quiet, for heaven's sake. 292 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:24,360 You're in a fine spot to tell me what you're going to do, aren't you? 293 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:31,360 Quiet the servants, my dear. Quiet Betty, my dear, or Ronald Fatdoodle, whatever his name is. 294 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,360 Sam, you're drunk. Sure I'm drunk. 295 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,360 I'm not an escaped jailbird, am I? 296 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:41,360 I'm not liable to be all back to work out ten years' odd labor for forgery, am I? 297 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,360 Listen, Sam, listen, I'll give you a little extra, just this once. 298 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:50,360 When I think a man like me that was only in for the short stretch anyway, 299 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:56,360 worked it out all good and proper, depended on the charity, mind you, of a pal what's rolling in wealth. 300 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,360 I'm not rolling in wealth, and you know it. 301 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,360 But if you'll promise me faithfully that this is the last time... 302 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:07,360 Sure I'll promise. For an old pal I'll promise anything. 303 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,360 You just give me 5,000 down. 304 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:10,360 Five thousand? 305 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:15,360 That's right. I've got a great opportunity. All I need is a little ready cash. 306 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:20,360 Now, don't be an idiot, Sam. What do you think I'm going to lay hands on that much, just like that? 307 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:21,360 I'll give you a check for 500. 308 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:26,360 Oh, trying to rend it on your old pal, eh? I said 5,000 and 5,000 it is, 309 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,360 or you'll find yourself back on the rock pile, see? 310 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:29,360 I tell you, I haven't got it. 311 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:33,360 Haven't got it? You've got enough to go buying fancy fountains, playing around with a widow next door. 312 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:34,360 Now you leave Mr. Digby out of this. 313 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,360 I'll leave around a bit, all right? I'll leave the old pastry to you. 314 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:38,360 What? 315 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:47,360 I told you that was enough of that, and I meant it. 316 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,360 Now pull yourself together and go to bed. 317 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,360 Go on. I'll talk to you in the morning. 318 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,360 You hear me, Sam? 319 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:59,360 Sam. Yeah, come on. Come on. 320 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,360 I didn't hit you that hard, you know. 321 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,360 Go on. Get up on your feet now, Sam. Go on. 322 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:07,360 Sam. Sam. 323 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:12,360 Sam. 324 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:22,360 It is head on the corner of the table. 325 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,360 Phew. No blood. 326 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,360 Now there it is, just over the temple. 327 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,360 Soft, spongy. 328 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:34,360 Mr. Gooch's fall had made quite a racket, too. 329 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,360 Somebody must have heard it. 330 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:38,360 They'd be calling out in a moment. 331 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,360 Footsteps coming down to find out what's the matter. 332 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,360 Have to think fast. 333 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,360 What was that? 334 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,360 Oh, just the old clock. 335 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:52,360 Nobody on this side of the house, anyway. 336 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:54,360 Nobody could have heard. 337 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:56,360 Steady now and face the facts. 338 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:59,360 He's dead. Murdered. 339 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,360 Oh, it didn't feel like murder, 340 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:03,360 but the police won't care about that. 341 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,360 First off, they'll take fingerprints, and then... 342 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:10,360 If I could make them suspect somebody else, 343 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,360 confuse them. 344 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,360 An alibi. Yes, that's what's needed. 345 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:17,360 An alibi. 346 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,360 Make it seem he was alive 347 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,360 when he was already dead. 348 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:25,360 Yes. 349 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,360 How do they do it in the stories? 350 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,360 Dress up like the dead man and impersonate him. 351 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:35,360 No, no, no, you imitate him, 352 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,360 speaking over the phone, or... 353 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:40,360 No, you make a gramophone record of his voice, 354 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:42,360 or you forge a letter. 355 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:45,360 Oh, no, no, no, forgery. 356 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,360 No, I don't want to get mixed up in that old game again. 357 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:50,360 No, no, no, no, no. 358 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:54,360 Oh, wait a minute, though. 359 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,360 The time. 360 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:59,360 The time. Earlier, not later. 361 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,360 Say 10.30, while everyone was playing bridge. 362 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,360 If he could have died some time before that. 363 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:07,360 But how to prove it? 364 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,360 What happened at 10.30? 365 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,360 10.30. 366 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,360 Think. Think. 367 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:16,360 The fountain. 368 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,360 Yes, the fountain. 369 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,360 Mr. Spiver went out to the French windows to the garden, 370 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,360 then turned on the fountain, 371 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,360 then down the garden path. 372 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,360 Stopped and called a name. 373 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:32,360 A name. 374 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:34,360 Sam! 375 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,360 Gooch! 376 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,360 Gooch! 377 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,360 Doing...careful with the flashlight. 378 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:43,360 They can't hear the fountain from the house, 379 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,360 but they can see that. 380 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,360 Ah, there's the whiskey. 381 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:49,360 Still half full. 382 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,360 Pour most of it out, 383 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:55,360 so that it will look as though we had even more to drink. 384 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:03,360 Now back to the house. 385 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,360 That'll do. 386 00:17:06,360 --> 00:17:10,360 Now back into the house. 387 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:13,360 Looked for him and didn't find him. 388 00:17:13,360 --> 00:17:15,360 It was dark. The moon had gone down. 389 00:17:15,360 --> 00:17:18,360 But from now on, quiet. 390 00:17:18,360 --> 00:17:21,360 Quiet as he is, lying over there. 391 00:17:21,360 --> 00:17:23,360 The wheelchair. 392 00:17:23,360 --> 00:17:25,360 The whole closet. 393 00:17:25,360 --> 00:17:27,360 The wheelchair used to be Mrs. Spillers. 394 00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:29,360 Remember how she... 395 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:31,360 No, no, not time to think of that now. 396 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:33,360 Just left him into it. 397 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:37,360 Who would have ever thought old Sam was so heavy? 398 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:40,360 Now out the other door. 399 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:43,360 But quietly this time. 400 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:49,360 Down the back path. 401 00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:52,360 Carefully. 402 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:55,360 Feel like running. 403 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:57,360 Feel as though every window in the house 404 00:17:57,360 --> 00:18:00,360 were thronged with white staring faces. 405 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:03,360 Watching, watching. 406 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:07,360 The manufacture of an alibi. 407 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:12,360 Here we are. 408 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:14,360 Now to lift him up again. 409 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:16,360 There. 410 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:18,360 Laying down on the edge of it. 411 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:20,360 One hand in the water. 412 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:24,360 The bruise on his head right up against the stone corner of the basin. 413 00:18:24,360 --> 00:18:26,360 There. 414 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:32,360 What's that? 415 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:34,360 He's alive. 416 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:36,360 Gooch is alive. 417 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:38,360 After all that trouble. 418 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:40,360 After committing practically the perfect crime. 419 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:42,360 He's alive. 420 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:46,360 Sam! 421 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:48,360 What? 422 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:50,360 Bring him to life again? 423 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:53,360 More black bail for the rest of her life? 424 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:55,360 What about Mrs. Digby? 425 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:57,360 Rosalind? 426 00:18:57,360 --> 00:18:59,360 What about Betty? 427 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:01,360 She at least deserves something better. 428 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:03,360 Murder? 429 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:05,360 All right, murder. 430 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:08,360 He's dead already as far as the rest of the world is concerned. 431 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:10,360 Now! 432 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:13,360 What are you saying? 433 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:15,360 Now or never. 434 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:17,360 His face is right by the water's edge. 435 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:18,360 Push him under. 436 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:20,360 Now! 437 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:22,360 Now! 438 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:34,360 And so it's done. 439 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:36,360 Remorse? 440 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:38,360 Why remorse? 441 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:41,360 Does the mouse feel remorse that the cat is killed? 442 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:45,360 Does the prisoner feel remorse when he leaves his prison? 443 00:19:45,360 --> 00:19:47,360 No. 444 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:48,360 No, it's done. 445 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:49,360 And well done. 446 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:52,360 Nothing left but the finishing touches now. 447 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:54,360 Take back the wheelchair. 448 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:56,360 Let the fountain run another hour. 449 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:58,360 And then to bed. 450 00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:00,360 And when the police come in the morning, 451 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:02,360 the perfect crime. 452 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:04,360 Remorse? 453 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:05,360 Nonsense. 454 00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:07,360 Congratulations would be more like it. 455 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:20,360 Yes, congratulations, Mr. Spiller. 456 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:22,360 Inspector Frampton, sir. 457 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:24,360 Oh, yes, come in, Inspector. Come in. 458 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:26,360 I hate to trouble you, Mr. Spiller. 459 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:27,360 Regulations, you know. 460 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:29,360 Of course, of course. 461 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:31,360 Everyone here who was present the night of the... 462 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:33,360 that is, last night. 463 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:34,360 Yes, Inspector, yes. 464 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:36,360 Mrs. Digby, my neighbor, my daughter Elizabeth, 465 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:38,360 her fiance, Mr. Ronald Prowfoot, 466 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:40,360 and the servants, of course. 467 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:41,360 Excellent. 468 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:44,360 Well, now if you'll all bear with me, 469 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:46,360 I have to ask you all a few questions, you know. 470 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:47,360 But, Inspector, it was... 471 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:49,360 That's what we have to find out. 472 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:51,360 You know, there was a blow on the head. 473 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:52,360 Oh. 474 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:54,360 Now, as I understand it, 475 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:58,360 the deceased was last seen alive at about 8.30, 476 00:20:58,360 --> 00:20:59,360 just after dinner. 477 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:01,360 Let me see you. 478 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:03,360 You were the last to see him, amen, amen? 479 00:21:03,360 --> 00:21:04,360 Yes, sir. 480 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:06,360 I believe so, sir. 481 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:09,360 You took the whiskey and soda down to the fountain in the garden 482 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:11,360 and left it there with Mr. Gooch. 483 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:15,360 And that was the last time he was seen alive by any of you, eh? 484 00:21:15,360 --> 00:21:16,360 Yes, yes. 485 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:18,360 The four of you then played cards, I believe. 486 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:19,360 Yes. 487 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:20,360 Until what time? 488 00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:22,360 Oh, about 10.30. 489 00:21:22,360 --> 00:21:25,360 And no one left the room during those two hours? 490 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:26,360 No, no, no. 491 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:28,360 And, Mr. Spiller, 492 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:30,360 you accompanied Mrs. Digby to her home. 493 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:31,360 Yes. 494 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:32,360 Is that correct, Mrs. Digby? 495 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:33,360 Yes, Inspector. 496 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:35,360 Now, when you returned, 497 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:37,360 you were met in the hall by Masters. 498 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:38,360 Yes. 499 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:39,360 What time was that, Masters? 500 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:41,360 About 10.45, sir. 501 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:45,360 And Mr. Spiller at that time inquired after Mr. Gooch? 502 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:46,360 Yes, sir. 503 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:48,360 He asked if I had seen him, 504 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:51,360 and as I had not, he suggested a nitric tire, 505 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:53,360 that he himself would lock the house. 506 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:55,360 And the others had all left? 507 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:56,360 Yes, sir. 508 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:59,360 That is to say, Mr. Ronald had left. 509 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:01,360 I heard him drive off in his car, 510 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:03,360 and Miss Elizabeth had retired. 511 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:06,360 Then you were alone in the downstairs part of the house. 512 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:07,360 Is that so, Mr. Spiller? 513 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:08,360 Yes. 514 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:10,360 You tell me, please, what you did then. 515 00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:12,360 Well, I was worried about Gooch. 516 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:13,360 He'd been drinking quite a lot, 517 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:15,360 and so I went to look for him. 518 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:17,360 Went down to the end of the garden by the fountain. 519 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:19,360 You didn't go through the lilac hedge to the fountain? 520 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:22,360 No, no. It was dark by then. I couldn't see. 521 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:24,360 I called Gooch several times. 522 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:27,360 Did anyone here, here, Mr. Spiller, call? 523 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:29,360 Oh, I did, sir. 524 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:32,360 I was half asleep, as you might say. 525 00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:35,360 But I did hear Mr. Spiller call out. 526 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:37,360 And then what did you do, Mr. Spiller? 527 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:38,360 I came back into the house, 528 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:40,360 sat up in the library, read for a while, 529 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:43,360 and about one o'clock I went to bed. 530 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:46,360 Now, now this is very important. 531 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:48,360 Who turned off the fountain? 532 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:49,360 I did, sir. 533 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:51,360 At what time? 534 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:53,360 At ten-thirty, sir. 535 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:54,360 You're quite sure of that? 536 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:56,360 Yes, sir. It was the usual time. 537 00:22:56,360 --> 00:23:00,360 I see. And no one would have turned it on again, of course. 538 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:02,360 I can't think why, sir. 539 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:06,360 Ah. Well, I think that makes everything very clear, Mr. Spiller. 540 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:07,360 Yes, yes. 541 00:23:07,360 --> 00:23:08,360 When the body was found, 542 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:11,360 it was still wet from the spray of the fountain. 543 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:13,360 Therefore, death must have occurred 544 00:23:13,360 --> 00:23:16,360 some time before the fountain was turned off at ten-thirty. 545 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:20,360 And as all of you here were occupied till then, 546 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:23,360 from the time the deceased was last seen alive... 547 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:26,360 Accident, of course. I said so from the beginning. 548 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:28,360 Well, it might have been either, you know. 549 00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:32,360 There had been a blow and there was water in the lungs. 550 00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:35,360 And when the man apparently fell due to his intoxicated condition, 551 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:37,360 struck his head, falling into the water, 552 00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:39,360 from which he was unable to rest himself. 553 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:42,360 Well, seems to be the obvious conclusion, doesn't it? 554 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:43,360 Poor fellow. 555 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:45,360 Well, thanks, everyone. 556 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:47,360 I don't think we shall have to trouble you again, Mr. Spiller. 557 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:53,360 Well, I hope not. And thank you, Inspector. 558 00:23:57,360 --> 00:24:00,360 It is the verdict of the coroner, township of Alton, 559 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:01,360 county of Hampshire, 560 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:04,360 that in the case of the deceased Samuel Gutch, 561 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:17,360 death was due solely to accidental causes. 562 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:20,360 Oh, Daddy, I'm so glad. I was afraid for a while. 563 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:23,360 Oh, there was nothing to be afraid of there. 564 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:26,360 Poor old Gutch just lost his footing and fell, that's all. 565 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:28,360 I know. I was afraid of him. 566 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:29,360 Of him? 567 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:32,360 I know it was silly, but he was so strange. 568 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:34,360 I thought he had some sort of hold over you. 569 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:38,360 Oh, nonsense, darling. Just an old friend. 570 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:41,360 And I am a sentimental old fool. 571 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:43,360 You are an old dear. But I've got to run now. 572 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:44,360 What, off at Ronald? 573 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:45,360 Uh-huh. 574 00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:47,360 Daddy, are you going to be off here lonely when I've gone? 575 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:49,360 Oh, you know I'll miss you. 576 00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:51,360 Maybe Mrs. Digby. 577 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:53,360 Now, now, now, my darling. 578 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:55,360 Oh, she's such a darling. 579 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:58,360 Oh, she is rather nice, isn't she? In fact, I, 580 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:01,360 I thought I might pop over to see her this afternoon, 581 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:02,360 as long as you're going to be out. 582 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:05,360 Daddy, I knew it. I won't keep you another second. 583 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:06,360 I'll ask her over to dinner. 584 00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:09,360 Well, perhaps I shall. You be on time, though. 585 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:10,360 I will. Bye. 586 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:11,360 Bye. 587 00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:23,360 Beg pardon, sir. 588 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:25,360 Huh? Oh, Master, yes? 589 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:28,360 If it's convenient to you, sir, 590 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:30,360 I should like to have my bedroom changed. 591 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:31,360 Hmm? 592 00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:34,360 I should like to sleep in doors in the main house. 593 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:35,360 Oh? 594 00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:36,360 Why that, Master? 595 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:41,360 I'm a very light sleeper, sir, and noises keep me awake. 596 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:42,360 Noises? 597 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:45,360 The weather vane, sir, above the garage. 598 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:48,360 When the wind changes, it creeps. 599 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:50,360 Well, a little oil perhaps would suit. 600 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:53,360 I hardly think that would do, sir. 601 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:57,360 Because when the wind changes, there are other noises. 602 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:00,360 They can be most disturbing, sir. 603 00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:03,360 What other noises? 604 00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:05,360 The fountain, sir. 605 00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:07,360 Fountain? 606 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:09,360 Yes, sir. 607 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:12,360 Ordinarily, I'm quite unable to hear it, 608 00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:15,360 any more than you can in the main house, sir. 609 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:17,360 But when the wind is from the west, 610 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:21,360 the faster back stop acts quite like a sounding board 611 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:23,360 in the direction of my room, sir. 612 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:27,360 In fact, I can hear not only the fountain itself, 613 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:31,360 but I can hear even the faintest noises in the grove, 614 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:34,360 around it, quite clearly. 615 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:37,360 I see. 616 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:39,360 Quite, sir. 617 00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:44,360 For instance, on the night Mr. Gooch sustained 618 00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,360 his unfortunate accident, 619 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:49,360 the wind changed a little after eleven. 620 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:53,360 The weather vane awakened me, and then I heard the fountain. 621 00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:58,360 I seem to hear other noises too, if I may say so, sir. 622 00:26:59,360 --> 00:27:01,360 You heard? 623 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:03,360 Yes, sir. 624 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:07,360 I might add that after hearing the police inspector's observations, 625 00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:11,360 I took the precaution of pressing your dinner jacket. 626 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:15,360 The sleeve seemed quite wet, sir. 627 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:17,360 Oh. 628 00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:19,360 Yes, yes, yes. 629 00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:23,360 I think, sir, all things taken into consideration, 630 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:28,360 you might find it worth your while to retain me permanently in your service, 631 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:33,360 at, shall we say, double my present wage, for now. 632 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:35,360 Eh? 633 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:37,360 Oh. 634 00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:40,360 Oh, yes, yes, of course. 635 00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:44,360 I'm very much obliged to you, sir. 636 00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:48,360 Is there anything else, sir? 637 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:50,360 No. 638 00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:52,360 No, nothing else. 639 00:27:52,360 --> 00:28:00,360 I'm, uh, going to sit here by the fountain. 640 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:05,360 Very ingenious. 641 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:07,360 The fountain? 642 00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:10,360 Yes. 643 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:16,360 Yes, most ingenious, my fountain. 644 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:29,360 Costs so little to run, because it uses the same water over and over again. 645 00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:35,360 Over and over again. 646 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:39,360 Over and over again. 647 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,360 And so closes the fountain play starring Edmund Gwen 648 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:02,360 and the Dorothy Sayers story, which was tonight's tale of 649 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,360 Suspense. 650 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:10,360 The producer of these broadgasses, William Spear, who with Ted Bliss director, 651 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,360 Bernard Herman and Lucy Ann Marroway, 652 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:16,360 conductor and composer, and Robin L. Richards, the radio author, 653 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:20,360 collaborated on tonight's Suspense. 654 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:24,360 And now CBS is pleased to announce that starting next week at the same time, 655 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:29,360 Mr. Robert Young will begin a brand new series entitled Passport for Adams. 656 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,360 Passport for Adams will bring you each week the adventures of an American 657 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:36,360 newspaper reporter among the people of the United Nations. 658 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:40,360 Next week's broadcast will be written and directed by Norman Colwin with music 659 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:46,360 by Bernard Herman and the stars, we've said, will be Robert Young. 660 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,360 This is your narrator, the man in black, who invites you to be with us for 661 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:57,360 Suspense one week from Saturday at 730 to 8 Eastern wartime and from 8 to 830 662 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:03,360 Pacific wartime when with Miss Agnes Moorhead and with a repeat performance by 663 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:08,360 popular request of the play called Sorry, Wrong Number. 664 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:14,360 We again hope to keep you in Suspense. 665 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:26,360 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.