WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.000 Suspense. 00:11.000 --> 00:16.000 This is the man in black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 00:16.000 --> 00:23.000 Tonight in one of her rare radio appearances, we bring you a star who has occupied a unique place in the affections of moviegoers 00:23.000 --> 00:28.000 ever since the screen first became of age, Miss Lily and Gish. 00:28.000 --> 00:37.000 Appearing with Miss Gish are two distinguished players, Mr. Ray Collins of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mare fold, whose current release is Thousand's Cheer, 00:37.000 --> 00:42.000 and Mr. Bramwell Fletcher, who has ornamented many a stage in film success. 00:42.000 --> 00:48.000 There are only three players in Marry for Murder, which is tonight's tale of Suspense. 00:48.000 --> 00:55.000 Only three characters in this story, whose beginning and end are shrouded in a dense, down-east fog. 00:55.000 --> 01:00.000 A story of slow terror and swift death, planned by a brilliant murderer. 01:00.000 --> 01:08.000 And so were the performances of Lily and Gish as Letty Hawthorne, a frightened neurotic creature who seemed destined to be a perfect victim. 01:08.000 --> 01:12.000 Of Bramwell Fletcher as Mark Taylor, so handsome and attentive. 01:12.000 --> 01:16.000 And of Ray Collins as the lawyer, Philip Alden, who relates these events to us. 01:16.000 --> 01:19.000 We again hope to keep you in. 01:19.000 --> 01:28.000 Suspense. 01:28.000 --> 01:35.000 I used to love the sound of foghorns on the bay, especially at night when I sat before the fire. 01:35.000 --> 01:42.000 Let their lonely wail weave a contrast between my snug comfort and the gray immensity outside. 01:42.000 --> 01:56.000 But I've lost my taste for them now. Lost it on the night I heard them moan a dirge of death. 01:56.000 --> 02:04.000 It's hard enough to lose a friend. But to lose one as I lost Letty Hawthorne is the kind of blow you'll never quite forget. 02:04.000 --> 02:10.000 I remember the first time I met her. It had fogged up all of a sudden, as it does here on the Cape. 02:10.000 --> 02:14.000 But Anne Wentworth held her Sunday night supper as usual. 02:14.000 --> 02:18.000 Letty was the only stranger there, a newcomer to the Cape. 02:18.000 --> 02:24.000 I looked at her and thought she'd be an attractive woman if she only didn't flutter so much. 02:24.000 --> 02:31.000 She was a trim, pretty woman of about my own age, which is faulty. 02:31.000 --> 02:37.000 You're Philip Alden, the lawyer, aren't you? Oh, what a pleasure to meet so many nice people. 02:37.000 --> 02:41.000 There go those foghorns again. Yes. Does one really get used to them in time? 02:41.000 --> 02:49.000 Well, I... I love the Cape, but I can hardly bear that sound. So depressing, isn't it? So morbid. 02:49.000 --> 02:54.000 Well, to your first question, yes, I'm Alden, an attorney. 02:54.000 --> 03:01.000 As for the foghorns, well, if you stay with us for a few years, you won't be able to live without them, Mrs. Hawthorne. 03:01.000 --> 03:07.000 It is Mrs. Hawthorne, isn't it? Anne never gets around to introducing people. It's her only fault. 03:07.000 --> 03:11.000 Oh, I never stand on ceremony. That's my fault, if you consider it one. 03:11.000 --> 03:16.000 Besides, I knew you at once, you see, and you knew me. Don't you think that's a promising beginning? 03:16.000 --> 03:21.000 I never thought of it that way. Oh, dear me, there it goes again. 03:21.000 --> 03:28.000 It makes me think of ghosts walking over my grave. How can you bear it? 03:28.000 --> 03:34.000 They do serve a very important purpose, you know. I suppose they do, but they give me the shudders. 03:34.000 --> 03:37.000 As a matter of fact, I find them comforting. 03:37.000 --> 03:43.000 I made Jane Hart promise to stay with me tonight if the fog doesn't lift. I daren't be alone. 03:43.000 --> 03:50.000 You see, I'm still a bit nervous. I've been ill, you know, and the doctor prescribed complete rest and quiet. 03:50.000 --> 03:54.000 That's why I came up here. Well, you'll find what you're looking for here, I'm sure. 03:54.000 --> 03:59.000 Do you think so? I do hope I will. My nerves are simply shattered. 03:59.000 --> 04:04.000 Mr. Hawthorne's dead, you see. Such a tragedy. I'm terribly sorry. 04:04.000 --> 04:09.000 You see, it happened so suddenly. I can't quite believe that. 04:09.000 --> 04:13.000 Can I get you some of Anne's cider cup? That's one of our Sunday night features. 04:13.000 --> 04:20.000 Oh, thank you. That would be so nice. It's such a comfort to have a man take care of one again. 04:20.000 --> 04:27.000 You make me feel so, so protected. I know we're going to be great friends, aren't we? 04:32.000 --> 04:36.000 I can tell you I worried a bit for a while after that first party. 04:36.000 --> 04:42.000 Letty Hawthorne was a charming woman, a bit fluttery as I said, but still attractive and rather pathetic. 04:42.000 --> 04:48.000 I was afraid she was setting her cap for me. You see, I'm a crusty old bachelor. 04:48.000 --> 04:51.000 But even my friends were beginning to wonder. 04:51.000 --> 05:01.000 So it was with mingled relief and regret that I learned one day that Letty Hawthorne had transferred her attentions to another newcomer to the Cape, Mark Taylor. 05:01.000 --> 05:07.000 He was eight or ten years younger than she, a handsome fellow, but somewhat dissolute looking. 05:07.000 --> 05:10.000 I didn't like him. I may as well admit that from the start. 05:10.000 --> 05:14.000 But short of marrying her myself, there wasn't much I could do. 05:14.000 --> 05:18.000 Anyway, they seemed happy enough at first. 05:18.000 --> 05:22.000 One day after the wedding, Letty called me on a matter of business. 05:22.000 --> 05:28.000 I went down there after sundown. The three of us sat out on the beach in front of her cottage. 05:31.000 --> 05:36.000 I'm so glad you were able to come, Philip. You see, Mark and I were counting on you. 05:36.000 --> 05:37.000 Always glad to oblige you, Letty. 05:37.000 --> 05:40.000 As a matter of fact, Alden, we want you to attend to a legal matter for us. 05:40.000 --> 05:41.000 Yes? 05:41.000 --> 05:48.000 Yes, Philip. Mark wants to make a will. I told him I don't like wills. There's something so, what's so unhealthy about them. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 But Mark simply insists upon it. 05:50.000 --> 05:52.000 Very sensible, I'm sure. 05:52.000 --> 05:54.000 Oh, you men. You're all alive. 05:54.000 --> 05:59.000 It needn't be a very elaborate affair, Alden. Just a simple document stating that I leave all my property to Letty. 05:59.000 --> 06:02.000 Well, if he does that, Philip, I want you to make out a will for me, too. 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 Leaving everything I have to Mark. 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 But Letty, that's, there's no need. 06:06.000 --> 06:07.000 No, I insist. 06:07.000 --> 06:11.000 Oh, well. Alden here is going to think I married you for your money. 06:11.000 --> 06:17.000 Money? Oh, why, I really don't know anything at all about my affairs. Really, I don't. 06:17.000 --> 06:23.000 Frank, Mr. Hawthorne always used to say, Letty, I really think you know less about business than a child. 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 I left the management of his estate entirely to his secretary. 06:26.000 --> 06:32.000 Well, just some simple document that makes my intention clear. You know the form, Alden. And of course, if Letty insists, then... 06:32.000 --> 06:37.000 But I do. We'll have to win wills. It doesn't sound so frightening that way. 06:37.000 --> 06:41.000 The way Letty talks about wills, you can tell she has a secret vice, can't you? 06:41.000 --> 06:42.000 A secret vice? 06:42.000 --> 06:47.000 My wife's a murder mystery fan, Alden. I didn't find out until it was too late. 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 Oh, Mark, you silly. 06:49.000 --> 06:53.000 When you say that, Taylor, smile. I'm a detective fan myself. 06:54.000 --> 06:58.000 It's a busman's holiday, of course, but I always read the latest whodunits. 06:58.000 --> 07:03.000 If my father hadn't insisted that I follow in his footsteps, I'd have been a detective instead of a lawyer. 07:03.000 --> 07:07.000 Really? How interesting. Tell us, Philip, do you ever get any cases like the ones we read about? 07:07.000 --> 07:12.000 Well, if you want my opinion, the chief difference between fact and fiction is that the author of a novel... 07:12.000 --> 07:16.000 wants you to see the pattern and the author of a murder tries to hide it. 07:16.000 --> 07:18.000 Well, what do you mean by that? 07:18.000 --> 07:22.000 Well, take your case, for example. You and Letty are making out your wills. 07:22.000 --> 07:25.000 I heard her say that she wanted to leave her money to you. 07:25.000 --> 07:29.000 But how do I know the idea just sprang into her head of its own accord? 07:29.000 --> 07:32.000 How do I know that you didn't plant it there? 07:32.000 --> 07:36.000 Plant it? What do you mean? Why, what possible reason could I have? 07:36.000 --> 07:41.000 Well, as things stand now, there's no reason for me to ask if you planted the idea in her head. 07:41.000 --> 07:44.000 But, if Letty were found dead... 07:44.000 --> 07:47.000 Dead? Oh, Philip, how dreadful. How can you even think such thoughts? 07:47.000 --> 07:52.000 Mark, darling, how terrible for you. Philip, you're to apologize this minute. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 No, no, no, Letty. Philip was just trying to explain. 07:54.000 --> 07:56.000 Well, I won't have him talking about such horrible things. 07:56.000 --> 07:59.000 Of course, I didn't mean you to. I was just using you as an example. 07:59.000 --> 08:02.000 Well, I didn't mean to be rude, Philip, but... 08:02.000 --> 08:06.000 Well, you know my nerves and it's getting dark and... 08:06.000 --> 08:10.000 Oh, the bay is beautiful at night, of course, but... 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 I've always been afraid of the water. 08:12.000 --> 08:16.000 That's why I've had such a time persuading her to come out for a sail. 08:16.000 --> 08:19.000 The Artemis has been tied up all summer waiting. 08:19.000 --> 08:23.000 It's just silly, I know. And I will go with you, Mark. 08:23.000 --> 08:26.000 But let's do wait for a calm day. 08:26.000 --> 08:31.000 You know, Letty's idea of a sail is to sit becalmed half a mile offshore. 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 My wife has perfect confidence in me, you see. 08:33.000 --> 08:37.000 Oh, Mark, it isn't that? You're making fun of me, aren't you? 08:37.000 --> 08:41.000 Of course, I trust you completely, but I'm not very athletic. 08:41.000 --> 08:43.000 You're missing one of the treats of the Cape if you don't sail. 08:43.000 --> 08:46.000 But I shall. Of course I shall, and soon. 08:46.000 --> 08:50.000 And what's more, I'm going to get Mark to teach me to handle the Artemis. 08:50.000 --> 08:53.000 Well, I'll be looking forward to seeing your sails on the bay, then. 08:53.000 --> 08:56.000 Oh, Mark, a storm. 08:56.000 --> 08:58.000 I'd better be getting home before it breaks. 08:58.000 --> 09:00.000 Are you sure you'll be all right? 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 I'm simply terrified of thunder. 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 Wouldn't you rather stop with us? 09:04.000 --> 09:05.000 Oh, I can make it to town. 09:05.000 --> 09:09.000 Stop by tomorrow, won't you, Aldon? Or as soon as you have those papers. 09:09.000 --> 09:10.000 Right. 09:10.000 --> 09:15.000 Now, you won't be nervous after our talk of wills and murders. 09:15.000 --> 09:16.000 But of course you won't. 09:16.000 --> 09:20.000 I'm such a coward myself that I can never understand how other people can be so brave. 09:20.000 --> 09:24.000 You know, Philip, Lettie's helplessness is one of her chief charms. 09:24.000 --> 09:28.000 Sometimes I suspect she exaggerates it just to make me feel important. 09:28.000 --> 09:32.000 Oh, Mark, you mustn't. Giving all my secrets away. 09:32.000 --> 09:36.000 Well, don't worry about me or the wills, Lettie. 09:36.000 --> 09:52.000 Someday you will frighten yourself to death. 09:52.000 --> 09:55.000 There was little enough for me to go by. 09:55.000 --> 10:00.000 But gradually I found myself worrying about Lettie and Mark. 10:00.000 --> 10:03.000 They didn't seem to be hitting it off. 10:03.000 --> 10:06.000 Oh, on the surface everything was smooth. 10:06.000 --> 10:12.000 But I was haunted by a premonition of what I didn't know. 10:12.000 --> 10:18.000 It was only a nameless dread of something, some undercurrent of feeling. 10:18.000 --> 10:21.000 Lettie's nerves were getting no better. 10:21.000 --> 10:24.000 In fact, she seemed more tense, more frightened than ever. 10:24.000 --> 10:29.000 Yet she was making an effort to meet Mark halfway. 10:29.000 --> 10:32.000 Many times I saw them out sailing. 10:32.000 --> 10:38.000 Only when Lettie returned after a day on the water, she seemed pinched and white. 10:38.000 --> 10:46.000 While Mark appeared to be glowing with vitality, Lettie grew paler and more distracted. 10:46.000 --> 10:50.000 I realized suddenly that she was a middle-aged woman. 10:50.000 --> 10:53.000 One day in town I met them in the general store. 10:53.000 --> 10:56.000 They'd been quarreling. 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 But I tell you, Mark, you're just imagining it. 10:58.000 --> 11:01.000 I hate to have that stuff around, as you very well know. 11:01.000 --> 11:05.000 You read all kinds of stories about the way it gets mixed up in food. 11:05.000 --> 11:06.000 Oh, nonsense. 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 Well, I'm sure there aren't any rats around the boathouse. 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 I'd know if there were. I'm simply terrified of them. 11:12.000 --> 11:16.000 But I... well, I can't bear a thinking of having poison around. 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 Why be worried all the time? 11:18.000 --> 11:22.000 Oh, Lettie, for heaven's sake, stop being childish. 11:22.000 --> 11:25.000 I didn't put traps around because you didn't want them. 11:25.000 --> 11:28.000 Now that I'm trying to get rid of them in another way, you make a scene. 11:28.000 --> 11:31.000 I don't see why we have to go into a three-act tragedy 11:31.000 --> 11:33.000 just because I want to buy some rat poison. 11:33.000 --> 11:35.000 Hello. Hello, you two. 11:35.000 --> 11:36.000 Oh, hello, Aldon. 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 Why, Philip, how nice to see you. 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 Mark and I were just doing a little shopping. 11:40.000 --> 11:42.000 Philip, will you do me a favor? 11:42.000 --> 11:46.000 Will you please reason with Lettie and try to get some sense into her head? 11:46.000 --> 11:48.000 Say, wait a minute. This sounds serious. 11:48.000 --> 11:49.000 Well, it isn't really. 11:49.000 --> 11:53.000 But, Philip, you know my nerves and the way things upset me, 11:53.000 --> 11:54.000 and Mark just doesn't understand. 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 Oh, I know I'm just a silly woman, 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 but the doctor says I have to be humored. 11:58.000 --> 12:01.000 And now Mark is so unreasonable, and it's such a little thing. 12:01.000 --> 12:02.000 Of course it's a little thing, 12:02.000 --> 12:04.000 and that's why I can't understand your attitude. 12:04.000 --> 12:08.000 Now look here, Philip. The boathouse is infested with rats. 12:08.000 --> 12:11.000 Wouldn't you say the obvious course of action would be to get rid of them? 12:11.000 --> 12:12.000 Why, of course. 12:12.000 --> 12:14.000 But poison, rat poison. 12:14.000 --> 12:17.000 Oh, Philip, don't you see how horrible it is? 12:17.000 --> 12:19.000 I mean, accidents do happen. 12:19.000 --> 12:22.000 I've always hated to have anything like that around just in case. 12:22.000 --> 12:24.000 I've heard of children eating this stuff by accident. 12:24.000 --> 12:27.000 But you two people can take care of yourselves. 12:27.000 --> 12:30.000 Frankly, lady, I think you're making a fuss over nothing. 12:30.000 --> 12:33.000 Yes, yes, that's right, Philip. That's just what I told her. 12:33.000 --> 12:35.000 Well, very well then. 12:35.000 --> 12:36.000 But if I'm found dead, 12:36.000 --> 12:39.000 I hope you realize you'll both be under suspicion. 12:39.000 --> 12:42.000 It seemed a foolish quarrel at the time. 12:42.000 --> 12:46.000 Yet when I left them, I kept hearing Lettie's voice. 12:46.000 --> 12:50.000 Very well then. But if I'm found dead. 12:50.000 --> 12:54.000 Very well then. But if I'm found dead. 12:54.000 --> 12:56.000 Very well then. 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 Very well then. 12:58.000 --> 13:00.000 Very well then. 13:00.000 --> 13:02.000 Very well then. 13:02.000 --> 13:04.000 Very well then. 13:04.000 --> 13:06.000 Very well then. 13:06.000 --> 13:10.000 Very well then. But if I'm found dead. 13:10.000 --> 13:15.000 Suddenly a monstrous idea occurred to me. 13:15.000 --> 13:19.000 I wondered if Lettie had been trying to warn me. 13:19.000 --> 13:22.000 And then the horrible suspicion broke. 13:22.000 --> 13:26.000 All the trifling things began to add up. 13:26.000 --> 13:28.000 Lettie's nervousness. 13:28.000 --> 13:31.000 Her fear of sailing with Mark. 13:31.000 --> 13:35.000 Her terror of having the poison in the house. 13:35.000 --> 13:38.000 But why? 13:38.000 --> 13:41.000 Why should she be afraid of Mark? 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 What motive had he? 13:43.000 --> 13:46.000 And then I knew. 13:46.000 --> 13:51.000 I had helped to give him the motive when I drew up Lettie's will. 13:51.000 --> 13:55.000 Yet my whole case was founded on thin air. 13:55.000 --> 13:58.000 Figment of a nervous imagination. 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 I had to be sure. 14:00.000 --> 14:03.000 I had to keep an eye on them. 14:03.000 --> 14:06.000 I found myself making excuses. 14:06.000 --> 14:10.000 Excuses to drop by at their cottage. 14:10.000 --> 14:13.000 Where is it Lettie? Who's there? 14:13.000 --> 14:15.000 It's Philip. 14:15.000 --> 14:18.000 Oh Philip. Well, well, well. 14:18.000 --> 14:21.000 You're almost getting to be a member of the family. 14:21.000 --> 14:25.000 Well I just thought I'd ask you to help me eat the first bluefish of the season. 14:25.000 --> 14:28.000 There's too much here for an old bachelor like me. 14:28.000 --> 14:31.000 Why Philip Alden if you aren't the most thoughtful person. 14:31.000 --> 14:34.000 How perfectly sweet of you. Of course you'll stay to dinner. 14:34.000 --> 14:36.000 We'll have a real feast. 14:36.000 --> 14:38.000 Yes, yes. You might as well stay as long as you're here. 14:38.000 --> 14:40.000 Thank you. If you're sure I won't be intruding. 14:40.000 --> 14:42.000 Intruding? Why of course not. 14:42.000 --> 14:44.000 And you can help me get the dinner ready. 14:44.000 --> 14:47.000 I'd be glad to but won't I be in Anna's way? 14:47.000 --> 14:49.000 Anna's gone. 14:49.000 --> 14:52.000 Gone? Why I thought you were well satisfied with her. 14:52.000 --> 14:56.000 So we were Philip. But Anna didn't seem to be satisfied with us. 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 In fact they've all gone. 14:58.000 --> 14:59.000 All? 14:59.000 --> 15:01.000 Anna and Elsie and Otto the handyman. 15:01.000 --> 15:03.000 They just walked out and left us. 15:03.000 --> 15:04.000 Well for heaven's sake. 15:04.000 --> 15:08.000 Since the ship and engine place opened on the heights nobody can keep a servant. 15:08.000 --> 15:09.000 Can't blame them myself. 15:09.000 --> 15:13.000 I wonder. I don't believe Anna'd take a job at the ship and engine. 15:13.000 --> 15:17.000 Anyhow it does seem strange they all went at once doesn't it? 15:17.000 --> 15:20.000 Letty I do wish you'd stop dramatizing everything. 15:20.000 --> 15:23.000 Ship and engine just opened and the call went out for help. 15:23.000 --> 15:26.000 I don't see any mystery in the servants answering. 15:26.000 --> 15:31.000 In fact it's their patriotic duty and it's our patriotic duty to get along without them. 15:31.000 --> 15:34.000 But it's so lonely here. Especially at night. 15:34.000 --> 15:37.000 Now Letty you're not living here by yourself you know. 15:37.000 --> 15:42.000 No of course not. But all the same we are isolated. 15:42.000 --> 15:45.000 Just the two of us. And you know how tricky my nerves are. 15:45.000 --> 15:48.000 I always feel so much better if the servants are around. 15:48.000 --> 15:52.000 After all if anything were to happen and anything might happen... 15:52.000 --> 15:55.000 Letty this isn't getting us any closer to our dinner. 15:55.000 --> 15:58.000 Oh of course. 15:58.000 --> 16:01.000 Now you boys wear these aprons. 16:01.000 --> 16:04.000 Philip since it's your fish you may have the honor of cooking it. 16:04.000 --> 16:07.000 All right you asked for it. It'll be your funeral. 16:07.000 --> 16:12.000 Now Philip oh Mark you hull the berries for the dessert. 16:12.000 --> 16:30.000 I'll do the vegetables and set the table. 16:30.000 --> 16:34.000 Well for a seasoned bachelor this dinner's a rare treat Letty. 16:34.000 --> 16:36.000 Oh I'm so glad you enjoyed it Philip. 16:36.000 --> 16:38.000 Oh I don't deserve the credit. 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 That blue fish was simply delicious. 16:40.000 --> 16:43.000 How did you manage to catch it all by yourself? 16:43.000 --> 16:46.000 I always think men are so wonderful. 16:46.000 --> 16:48.000 I'll be glad to take you both the next time I go fishing. 16:48.000 --> 16:51.000 It's good fun. Fresh air would be good for you Letty. 16:51.000 --> 16:52.000 Oh no I couldn't. 16:52.000 --> 16:56.000 Well I'm still just a wee bit nervous about the water. 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 Though I tried terribly hard haven't I Mark? 16:58.000 --> 16:59.000 Yes yes. 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 I've been good about the sailing. 17:01.000 --> 17:03.000 And you know I'm learning to manage the Artemis all by myself. 17:03.000 --> 17:04.000 Aren't I Mark? 17:04.000 --> 17:07.000 I don't write my name in the wake anymore do I? 17:07.000 --> 17:10.000 Yes Letty's a real hand at the tiller. 17:10.000 --> 17:13.000 She'll be a better sailor than I am soon you see. 17:13.000 --> 17:15.000 You'd have seen her take the Artemis into harbor the other day. 17:15.000 --> 17:16.000 You did all by yourself? 17:16.000 --> 17:19.000 Yes she came through that channel with a breeze against her. 17:19.000 --> 17:22.000 I wanted to take it over afraid she'd run into the mud flats. 17:22.000 --> 17:25.000 But no she coaxed it all the way and we came in under sail. 17:25.000 --> 17:28.000 Yes and I wanted to do it all by myself even though I was terrified. 17:28.000 --> 17:31.000 Good for you why that's really a splendid accomplishment. 17:31.000 --> 17:36.000 I've been negotiating the harbor for years but I confess that I have trouble every now and then. 17:36.000 --> 17:41.000 Well since nobody wants any more berries I guess it's time to do the dishes. 17:41.000 --> 17:44.000 Now I'll show you what a good hand I am as a dishwasher. 17:44.000 --> 17:46.000 Wait a minute wait a minute that's my job. 17:46.000 --> 17:48.000 No I clean and wash. 17:48.000 --> 17:52.000 You two can dry and you can dry. 17:53.000 --> 17:54.000 Letty what is it? 17:54.000 --> 17:56.000 Well you shouldn't have tried to carry that tray. 17:56.000 --> 17:58.000 No it's not that. 17:58.000 --> 18:00.000 Why Letty what happened to you? You look ghastly. 18:00.000 --> 18:05.000 I'm afraid I... something I ate. 18:05.000 --> 18:07.000 Here here you better lie down. 18:07.000 --> 18:10.000 I'll carry her upstairs get a doctor will you. 18:10.000 --> 18:38.000 I'm afraid Mark I'm afraid I've been poisoned. 18:38.000 --> 18:41.000 But great heavens Philip I just can't believe it. 18:41.000 --> 18:44.000 Arsenic poisoning? 18:44.000 --> 18:47.000 Do you think Dr. Potter knows what he's talking about? 18:47.000 --> 18:48.000 I'm sure he does. 18:48.000 --> 18:52.000 Of course we can't be sure till the tests are made but I don't see I don't understand. 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 Not very hard to understand. 18:54.000 --> 18:57.000 Letty ate arsenic. 18:57.000 --> 19:00.000 However where she got it we don't know but it's not difficult to guess. 19:00.000 --> 19:04.000 But we all ate the same meal you and I and she. 19:04.000 --> 19:07.000 Why? Good Lord Philip. 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 Do you think we are poisoned too? 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 I feel perfectly all right. 19:11.000 --> 19:13.000 You appear to be comfortable. 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 I think we'd feel it by now. 19:15.000 --> 19:16.000 But then how on earth... 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 Let's be perfectly logical about it. 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 We all ate the bluefish. 19:20.000 --> 19:21.000 Yes. 19:21.000 --> 19:22.000 I prepared it. 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 We all had potatoes and string beans. 19:24.000 --> 19:26.000 Letty cooked those. 19:26.000 --> 19:27.000 Yes yes. 19:27.000 --> 19:29.000 Then we all ate strawberries. 19:29.000 --> 19:31.000 You prepared them. 19:31.000 --> 19:32.000 Why? 19:32.000 --> 19:35.000 Now the fish and the vegetables were all served in large platters 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 and each one of us helped ourselves. 19:37.000 --> 19:41.000 Therefore if any poison were in the food we'd all be sick. 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 But the strawberries Mark... 19:43.000 --> 19:45.000 See here Alden are you suggesting... 19:45.000 --> 19:46.000 Wait a minute wait a minute. 19:46.000 --> 19:49.000 We're just following this through logically. 19:49.000 --> 19:52.000 The strawberries were put on the table in separate dishes. 19:52.000 --> 19:56.000 The poison could have been slipped into Letty's plate in the kitchen. 19:56.000 --> 19:59.000 Alden you have no right to accuse me of this. 19:59.000 --> 20:01.000 Why you're fixing up a case against me. 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 I'm doing nothing of the sort. 20:03.000 --> 20:07.000 In any event I think you might worry less about your own skin and more about Letty. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 Thanks I think I can take care of my own wife. 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 Nevertheless I suggest you get someone to help you. 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 I'm perfectly well able to nurse her myself. 20:13.000 --> 20:16.000 If I were you I'd have someone else as well. 20:16.000 --> 20:18.000 I'll send Mrs. Halstead over from town. 20:18.000 --> 20:20.000 She's an experienced practical nurse. 20:20.000 --> 20:26.000 What I've always appreciated about you Philip is the way you mind your own business. 20:26.000 --> 20:28.000 I'll be going now. 20:28.000 --> 20:33.000 Mrs. Halstead will be along as soon as I can get her. 20:46.000 --> 20:51.000 When the doctor's analysis came it was arsenic poisoning all right. 20:51.000 --> 20:55.000 There were traces of arsenic in the sugar on Letty's dish. 20:55.000 --> 21:00.000 Letty was recovering the dose wasn't large enough to kill her. 21:00.000 --> 21:04.000 Mrs. Halstead was installed as nurse and housekeeper. 21:04.000 --> 21:07.000 Just then business called me to New York. 21:07.000 --> 21:10.000 Where I found myself worrying about Letty. 21:10.000 --> 21:14.000 I couldn't get her out of my mind. 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 She will then. 21:16.000 --> 21:18.000 But if I'm found dead. 21:18.000 --> 21:22.000 I was bothered by a few loose ends of Letty's problem. 21:22.000 --> 21:26.000 The sort of questions that would occur to a legal mind. 21:26.000 --> 21:31.000 So I decided to spend an evening in the reference room of the law library among the files where. 21:31.000 --> 21:36.000 I found out enough about Mark and Letty Taylor to send me racing back to the Cape. 21:36.000 --> 21:41.000 I knew I had to hurry if I was to prevent a devilish murder. 21:45.000 --> 21:50.000 It was one of those dull gray afternoons when I arrived at the station. 21:50.000 --> 21:55.000 Fog was so thick over the bay that it seemed to cloud the whole town. 21:55.000 --> 21:58.000 Cold fear gripped me. 21:58.000 --> 22:02.000 Letty and Mark I learned had left at dawn for a weekend sale. 22:02.000 --> 22:04.000 I could picture them. 22:04.000 --> 22:07.000 Murderer and victim. 22:07.000 --> 22:10.000 Shrouded in the gray veils of the fog. 22:10.000 --> 22:12.000 Drifting. 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 Waiting. 22:14.000 --> 22:17.000 While the foghorns called a horse warning. 22:17.000 --> 22:20.000 Of murder. 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 So. 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 I was too late. 22:26.000 --> 22:29.000 The trap was sprung. 22:29.000 --> 22:35.000 My newly gained insight into the affairs of Letty and Mark I could have averted the tragedy but. 22:35.000 --> 22:37.000 I was too late or. 22:37.000 --> 22:39.000 Or was I. 22:39.000 --> 22:43.000 If only they hadn't really left for that sale. 22:43.000 --> 22:45.000 I took the chance. 22:45.000 --> 22:48.000 Feeling my way along the Cape Road. 22:48.000 --> 22:51.000 I reached the Taylor cottage. 22:51.000 --> 22:53.000 Nobody was there. 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 Then I. 22:55.000 --> 22:57.000 I heard noises in the boathouse. 22:57.000 --> 23:00.000 I crept down the slope. 23:00.000 --> 23:02.000 Listen. 23:09.000 --> 23:12.000 Oh Mark you fool. 23:12.000 --> 23:16.000 Philip Alden will be sure you plan to murder me for my money. 23:16.000 --> 23:20.000 I saw the suspicion dawn in his mind that day we made out our twin wills. 23:20.000 --> 23:24.000 I saw it grow when our scene in the general store. 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 And you brought the rat poison. 23:26.000 --> 23:29.000 And that night when I was taken ill he was sure. 23:29.000 --> 23:32.000 Do you hear me? Sure. 23:32.000 --> 23:37.000 You wanted to teach me to sail the Artemis. 23:37.000 --> 23:40.000 Thought I was afraid of the water. 23:40.000 --> 23:43.000 Well Mark Taylor when your body drifts to shore. 23:43.000 --> 23:48.000 Philip Alden will swear that only an accident prevented you from murdering me. 23:48.000 --> 23:53.000 What fools you men are. 23:53.000 --> 23:54.000 Aren't you. 23:54.000 --> 23:56.000 Aren't you. 23:59.000 --> 24:02.000 Well wouldn't you like to answer me Mark. 24:02.000 --> 24:05.000 Don't you wish you could talk to me again. 24:05.000 --> 24:08.000 To your helpless little message. 24:08.000 --> 24:11.000 But you can't. Can you? 24:11.000 --> 24:15.000 Dead men can't talk can they. 24:15.000 --> 24:22.000 But they say that in the instant of dying a man can understand many things. 24:22.000 --> 24:24.000 Did you understand Mark? 24:24.000 --> 24:26.000 But how could you? 24:26.000 --> 24:30.000 You are really a stupid man Mark. 24:30.000 --> 24:36.000 Didn't you ever wonder about my former husband and his tragic death. 24:36.000 --> 24:39.000 Did you ever want to know about Frank Hawthorne. 24:39.000 --> 24:45.000 He did. At the very end he wondered about his predecessor George Martin. 24:45.000 --> 24:51.000 Strange how both died in a yachting accident. Isn't it. 24:51.000 --> 24:54.000 Frank died off the coast of California. 24:54.000 --> 24:58.000 And George was drowned in the Gulf of Mexico. 24:58.000 --> 25:00.000 And now you Mark. 25:00.000 --> 25:05.000 Your body will be found some place along the Cape here I suppose. 25:05.000 --> 25:10.000 Oh what bad luck I've had with my husband. 25:10.000 --> 25:15.000 But how thoughtful all of you were to leave me your property. 25:15.000 --> 25:19.000 Too bad I'm such an extravagant widow isn't it. 25:19.000 --> 25:21.000 For I do run through money. 25:21.000 --> 25:24.000 I wasn't lying about that. 25:24.000 --> 25:28.000 Oh dear I wish I could. 25:28.000 --> 25:32.000 I wish you could help me get your body to the Artemis. 25:32.000 --> 25:37.000 If only you hadn't insisted on turning back when the fog rose. 25:37.000 --> 25:41.000 I could have killed you so much more neatly. 25:41.000 --> 25:45.000 A sudden gust of wind while I was at the wheel. 25:45.000 --> 25:47.000 And the Artemis jives. 25:47.000 --> 25:53.000 And the boom catches you and off you go to the bottom of the sea. 25:53.000 --> 26:00.000 But now I've got to lug you back on board. 26:00.000 --> 26:06.000 And pitch you overboard somewhere. 26:06.000 --> 26:10.000 It was really inconsiderate Mark. 26:10.000 --> 26:14.000 To make me kill you in the boathouse here. 26:14.000 --> 26:17.000 You will have to drag the body aboard Letty. 26:17.000 --> 26:20.000 Oh Philip I'm so glad you've come. 26:20.000 --> 26:21.000 Are you Letty? 26:21.000 --> 26:23.000 Something dreadful's happened to Mark. 26:23.000 --> 26:25.000 I'm so upset I hardly know how to tell you. 26:25.000 --> 26:26.000 Oh Philip I think I've. 26:26.000 --> 26:30.000 You needn't fool a fooling faint this time Letty. 26:30.000 --> 26:34.000 I fell for it before when you made me think that Mark had poisoned you. 26:34.000 --> 26:36.000 That is almost. 26:36.000 --> 26:38.000 What do you mean Philip? 26:38.000 --> 26:41.000 That was a little too smart Letty that poisonsy. 26:41.000 --> 26:44.000 Because when I left you I wondered about two things. 26:44.000 --> 26:48.000 Why anyone should be foolish enough to attempt that type of murder before an audience. 26:48.000 --> 26:53.000 And why having attempted it he should fail to make the dose large enough. 26:53.000 --> 26:55.000 I don't know what you're talking about. 26:55.000 --> 26:57.000 I think you do. 26:57.000 --> 27:02.000 You see while I was in New York I took the trouble to look up a few matters that were bothering me. 27:02.000 --> 27:06.000 And I found the newspaper clippings of your two previous. 27:06.000 --> 27:07.000 Shall we say accidents. 27:07.000 --> 27:09.000 Oh Philip isn't it dreadful. 27:09.000 --> 27:11.000 Still pretending. 27:11.000 --> 27:13.000 You're a clever woman Letty. 27:13.000 --> 27:15.000 But I overheard you just now. 27:15.000 --> 27:16.000 You'll never prove anything. 27:16.000 --> 27:17.000 I think I will. 27:17.000 --> 27:19.000 You see I found the motive too. 27:19.000 --> 27:21.000 It was marry for money. 27:21.000 --> 27:22.000 Marry for murder wasn't it? 27:22.000 --> 27:24.000 I wouldn't try to run away Letty I brought a gun. 27:24.000 --> 27:27.000 You're coming with me to the police station. 27:30.000 --> 27:34.000 Don't wonder that you hate the sound of fog horns Letty Taylor. 27:34.000 --> 28:00.000 You've spoiled them for me too. 28:00.000 --> 28:07.000 And so closes Marry for Murder starring Lillian Gish with Ray Collins and Bramwell Fletcher. 28:07.000 --> 28:32.000 Tonight's tale of suspense. 28:32.000 --> 28:41.000 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 week same time. 28:41.000 --> 28:49.000 When Virginia Bruce and John Loder will star in the Dorothy B Hughes suspense thriller The Cross-Eyed Bear. 28:49.000 --> 28:55.000 The producer of these broadcasts is William Spear who with Ted Bliss the director. 28:55.000 --> 29:13.000 Bernard Herman and Lucy and Marowick conductor and composer and Walker T Field the author collaborated on tonight's suspense. 29:13.000 --> 29:28.000 This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system.