1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,880 A new program, a great program. The Moore Durante Show is coming to CBS. Tune in 2 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:11,440 every Friday at 10 p.m. Eastern wartime beginning tomorrow night for laughs with 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:15,720 Jimmy Durante and Gary Moore and music with Georgia Gibbs and Roy Bargay's 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:30,640 Orchestra over most of these same stations. 5 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:42,640 Suspense. 6 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:47,400 This is the man in black here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 7 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:52,800 With us again a star is Mr. Orson Welles in the third of four successive 8 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:57,640 appearances for the Suspense audience. And sharing honors with Mr. Welles this 9 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,640 evening is a lovely and distinguished Hollywood leading lady, Miss Geraldine 10 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:07,760 Fitzgerald. Our play tonight is from a short story by Agatha Christie and so 11 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,400 with Philomel Cottage and with the performances of Geraldine Fitzgerald as 12 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:18,600 Alex Martin and of Orson Welles as her devoted husband Gerald. We again hope to 13 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:39,400 keep you in Suspense. 14 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:45,560 Philomel Cottage. What's that Alex? I was just reading the sign over the gate. What does 15 00:01:45,560 --> 00:02:05,400 Philomel mean? Are you joking? No really. Why you little cockney. You've been here for three weeks and you still don't know. Philomel is another name for the bird that's supposed to sing only for lovers. You've been hearing it every twilight. Oh Nightingale. Of course. That sign Philomel Cottage is the main reason I wanted this place for us. 16 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:35,360 Mad you bought it. Gerald this was a fifty-fifty investment and you know it. Fifty-fifty. A thousand pounds from me and two from you. What else could we do? You couldn't touch any more of your capital at the time and well when you find a country cottage that combines old world charm with new world plumbing you want to grab it. And we did have to have the place didn't we? Yes we did. I've often wondered if you went a bit lonely. Lonely? With you? I mean well after living the city all your life. Pretty much to our 17 00:02:35,360 --> 00:03:04,360 selves you know. Two miles from the nearest neighbor. From the nearest eavesdropper you mean. What an utterly hopeless romantic I met. Well you can't get out of it now. No. Oh Gerald you know what day today is? Today it's the thirteenth. It's our anniversary darling. We've known each other exactly a month. No exactly thirty days. Oh Gerald really now. No really. What is it dear? You have the painting eh? No. 18 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,360 Just a little indigestion I think. 19 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:16,360 Dear. Do you want me to get you your pillow? No no no. 20 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:46,360 Well dear it's eleven twenty five. Better get on to the village. How to get that camera equipment. And the human time table walks through the garden gate. My dear there's nothing wrong with system even on a honeymoon. Sooner I go sooner I get back. Oh come on Gerald forget your old photography. Why don't you stand and do some gardening. To be good for you. Better for old George he gets paid for it. He's not due again until Saturday the place will go to rack and ruin. Oh my dead body. Goodbye dear. Don't walk away. 21 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:50,360 Too fast dear remember the last time. Be careful darling. 22 00:03:50,360 --> 00:04:18,360 Be careful. It had just slipped out. Be careful. Alex Martin swinging there on the garden gate. Smiling out her happiness across a part of England that was as remote and placid as any you'd care to find. Wondered why she'd said such a ridiculous thing. If this were London say that would have. London. Slowly the smile fell away. 23 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:48,360 She knew then that the memory of that last week in London had never really been far from my mind. That and that last talk with Dick. On the top deck of the bus crossing the square. She'd never seen him like that before. Gerald Martin. I tell you Alex the man's a perfect stranger to him. You know nothing about him. I know that I love him. How can you know in a week. You've only met him. It doesn't take everyone seven years to find out they're in love with a girl. It's meant for me isn't it. Alex. It's no use. Alex don't you know that. 24 00:04:48,360 --> 00:05:18,360 You know what it's been for me not being able to tell you. I couldn't not with the income I had. And I decided I couldn't wait anymore and I was going to tell you anyway. And you know what happened. No I'm afraid I don't. Oh yes you do. That money you inherited. That money from your cousin or uncle or whoever. I don't see what that. You didn't think I could ask you to marry me then did you. You don't think I could live off your money. I'm sorry Dick. Believe me I am but. But it really doesn't matter now one way or the other. Doesn't matter does it. You can bet it matters to that Martin chap. That's what he's after. You mark my words. 25 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:27,960 He's after your mind. My interest you know that you're going to have money to be there and far more than I have and more than I have maybe that's the difference I've had enough of this I'm getting off at the next stop Alex please. 26 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:38,280 All right but let me tell you something if you think I'm going to let you know cut me out not do anything about it you're very much mistaken I'll catch up with you here I'll catch up with him if it's the last thing I do. 27 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:48,440 To Alex that thread of just one month ago was merely a piece of the moment outburst of her pride and yet as she leaned on the gate of Philomel Cottage kept echoing her mind. 28 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:55,880 What swept it away what brought her back to the rustic idyllic happiness of her life with Gerald Martin was the ring of the telephone inside the cottage. 29 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:11,240 Who could be called. Gerald Gerald had time to get beyond the turn in the road except if something had happened to him he'd had another attack maybe one of the villagers was trying to call to say that he was she hurried then and her hand shook a trifle. 30 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:28,080 Hello Alex this is Dick what who did you say. 31 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:42,040 What. Who did you say. Dick. Well where are you. 32 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,040 The right. Or aren't you. 33 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:46,760 You mean you're here. 34 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:50,000 And the objection to my. 35 00:06:50,000 --> 00:07:04,960 Looking up to. Know no no no you mustn't. I'm sorry I only meant to be away this afternoon won't you come to see me. 36 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,360 And one other. 37 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:29,880 One. One moment Alex stood quite still the memory of Dick's threat flooding her mind she walked across the spacious old bean living room by the time she reached the side for she made up 38 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:40,120 a mind but she hated to see she would say nothing to Gerald Dicks. She stepped out into the garden and for the second time that morning got a surprise there because life was 39 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:48,240 a gardener. George I thought we agreed that Saturday was your day here. 40 00:07:48,240 --> 00:08:03,200 I thought it would be surprised Mrs Martin. It will be a fair over the squares on Saturday and he says to me so he says Mr Mrs Martin they won't take it on this if I come for once on a Wednesday instead of a Saturday. 41 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:12,120 No of course not George. Then I thought too as I might as well see before he goes away so as to learn your wishes with the borders. 42 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,120 Before I go away. To London tomorrow. 43 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:27,880 Going to London tomorrow. Where did you hear that Mr Martin down the village yesterday he told me you were both going away to London tomorrow and it was uncertain when you'd be back again. 44 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:28,880 I didn't. 45 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:34,880 Now don't tell me you and the master is disagreeing already. 46 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:35,880 Hmm. 47 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:41,880 Oh no naturally not. Just slipped my mind. Get on with your work George. 48 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:54,880 Yes. Never could understand why anybody would want to go up to London though. Like Mr Raines what used to have this house. He went up there. Not that he would mind you. Yes. 49 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:59,880 And after fixing up this place like he did with taps all over everywhere. 50 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:14,880 You're going to take a loss I says to him when I sees the place up for sale. Didn't everyone as well you were fed for washing themselves in every room in this house and the men were speaking. 51 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:22,880 But George he says to me. I'll get every penny of two thousand pounds for this house. And sure enough he did. 52 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:23,880 He got three thousand. 53 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:31,880 Two thousand. Something was asking was taught job at the time. And very early I figured it was thought to be. 54 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:38,880 No George you see I gave two and that. Well it really was three thousand. 55 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:46,880 Yeah you don't tell me that Mr Raines had the face to stand up to say three thousand. Like in a loud voice. 56 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,880 He didn't say it to me he said it to. My husband. 57 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:54,880 I guess I'll do some speed now. 58 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,880 The price was two thousand. 59 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:11,880 As Alex strolled on across the garden she was conscious of a thin big force struggling to make itself heard. 60 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:18,880 Then abruptly it was gone. Her eye had fallen upon a small dark green object lying in the furrow beside one of the flower beds. 61 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:28,880 She picked it up and opened it scanning the entries for some amusement once again reminded of Gerald's enslavement to time and. 62 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:35,880 It was the entry on page twenty one that brought the smile. April. 63 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,880 Mary Alex St. Peter's church. 64 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:49,880 And it was the entry on page thirty that took that smile away she stared at the date on the page Wednesday May. 65 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:54,880 Why. Only one thing was written in red. 66 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:57,880 P.M. 67 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,880 What was. 68 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:11,880 Happened at six p.m. as she stood there that small big thought struggle to be heard once more it was yes it was something Dick Winderfeld said not the threat not that 69 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:17,880 while silly promise of vengeance but something else and then it came. 70 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:21,880 Stranger. Nothing about. 71 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:26,880 True what did she know about. 72 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:35,880 I love him I. Then she thought once again that cryptic entry. 73 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:40,880 Six p.m. 74 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:49,880 It was just three o'clock when Gerald his arms laden with packages walked up the garden path and came onto the side. 75 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:56,880 The door into the living room he noticed the rather odd kind of excitement about him. 76 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:03,880 Miss me darling why wouldn't I you had time to buy the whole. 77 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:14,880 Camera stuff. I don't have the best equipped dark room this side of London it won't be my fault if you're not careful that dark room of yours going to overflow the whole. 78 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:20,880 Oh incidentally here's something you've been watering the flowers with. 79 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:22,880 Diary. 80 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:25,880 Dropped it in the garden. 81 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:28,880 I know all your secrets now. 82 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:37,880 Not guilty I'm not so sure what about your resignation at six p.m. today. 83 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:45,880 Oh that's where you caught me at last it's an assignation with a very handsome young woman quite remarkably like you and. 84 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:47,880 You're evading the issue. 85 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:53,880 Not at all simply a reminder that I want you to help me develop some negatives this evening. 86 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:57,880 Six o'clock that's all the peculiar time isn't it. 87 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:12,880 I'm usually preparing dinner at that hour well no harm in delaying it a bit we might have a sandwich or two and some coffee out on the porch before we walk on the negatives you mean yes I'll be pleasant wanted you know something Alex. 88 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:18,880 I don't found anybody yet who could touch your coffee really that covers Australia and Canada. 89 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,880 You and your mysterious past. 90 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:23,880 Why do you say that. 91 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:29,880 I. Oh Joe I do wish I didn't know about you. 92 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:31,880 Alex. 93 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:33,880 I know it's silly but I. 94 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:42,880 I've told you all about me my boyhood in Sydney my life in Canada. 95 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:44,880 Yes. 96 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:46,880 I see. 97 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:50,880 You mean love affairs you women are all alike. 98 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:56,880 Well but there must have been there must have been other women I mean the family I. 99 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,880 Do you think it was Alex. 100 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:05,880 This blue beards chamber business. 101 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:09,880 Put your mind on such a subject anyway. 102 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,880 I mentioned it before I don't know Joe does. 103 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:17,880 I've been on the set all day I imagine I can thank old George for that. 104 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:22,880 God I mean he had some ridiculous idea we were going away to London. 105 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:24,880 Where did you see him. 106 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:26,880 He came to work today and said. 107 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:32,880 Right. 108 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:34,880 I didn't get to. 109 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:40,880 Go down lie down look lie down here. 110 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:45,880 Here's some water here darling I'm all right. 111 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,880 Oh I'm sorry darling getting you all upset. 112 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,880 Stupid old gardener I made some. 113 00:14:52,880 --> 00:15:01,880 Weak joke to him about being off to London the morning he must have taken it seriously I didn't hear. 114 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:03,880 You. 115 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:11,880 Straightened him out I suppose hardly you know what a gossip is I didn't want the whole village to think my husband is leading me in the dark about his plans. 116 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:13,880 Are you all right. 117 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,880 You. 118 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:18,880 You told him we were going then. 119 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:23,880 Naturally. 120 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:25,880 Yes. 121 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,880 Sorry you were placed in that kind of situation darling. 122 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:31,880 I don't suppose you. 123 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:35,880 Ran into anybody else today. 124 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,880 This far from the world. 125 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:40,880 It isn't very likely is it. 126 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:41,880 No. 127 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:43,880 Not another word. 128 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,880 No not another word you aren't yourself now it's quite plain. 129 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,880 I want you to have a little rest. 130 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:53,880 You'll be right as rain by six o'clock. 131 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:55,880 Must you do those photographs tonight. 132 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:56,880 After all you've done things so well. 133 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:00,880 Dear if one wants to set the time to do something one should stick to it. 134 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,880 The only way to get through one's work. 135 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,880 All right up with you upstairs to bed now. 136 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:08,880 Very well dear. 137 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:11,880 I'll be getting things arranged in the dark room. 138 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:18,880 The. 139 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:34,880 Alex rest was more like a nightmare upstairs in her room she told herself that there was no basis no basis whatever for her state of mind still the turmoil the doubt the odd unaccountable sense of dread persisted in grew grew until. 140 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:49,880 The door. Step down the upstairs hallway quite clearly she knew what she must do you must find some testimony to our husband's past something to reassure her something to kill that agonizing dread mounting within her. 141 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:54,880 Strangely she remembered that single lock drawer in your. 142 00:16:54,880 --> 00:17:11,880 She just told the door to the head of the stairs opened it and entered her husband's room. Yes the key if only she could find the key that locked the drawer but there was none in sight she moved to the wardrobe went to his coat pockets and then they're the feet they're on the floor she saw it. 143 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,880 She stepped to the bureau inserted the key and it was. 144 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:24,880 Alex Martin opened the drawer look down upon a small packet of letters tied with a light blue ribbon. 145 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:28,880 When she saw the upper most end of her face reddened with shade. 146 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:36,880 Why they my life they were her own letters love letters written to Gerald before they were married. 147 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,880 And there was nothing else in the door save a roll of ancient faded newspaper clinic. 148 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,880 Alex side with relief she glanced at the top clipping. 149 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:50,880 It was from an American paper and it featured the trial of one Charles Lemaître. 150 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:58,880 A notorious swindler and bigamist a skeleton had been found beneath the floor of his house and most of the women he'd married had never been heard of again. 151 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:08,880 Another of the clippings described the method behavior in court his interest in the cameras of the news photographers is sensational escape from prison another displayed his picture a lot of the pictures. 152 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:13,880 Another displayed his picture long bearded scholarly looking fun. 153 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:16,880 Reminded her of someone. 154 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:21,880 Who she couldn't tell she glanced at the caption beneath the picture. 155 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:23,880 Modern blue beard. 156 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:25,880 Modern blue beard. 157 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:32,880 Yes that's what she read her eyes went back to the picture and in a flash they saw the resemblance. 158 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:44,880 The other. Dates have been found in the man's pocket diary dates it was contended when he had done away with the victims he was an amateur photographer he was from Sydney from Canada you were subject to heart attacks he was he was. 159 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:59,880 The room around. He could try to warn her they could be near her that morning she turned him away she. 160 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:09,880 Was then that she noticed. She turned toward the bright new pipe in the corner running up through the room from below near its base something was striking that pipe as though someone were. 161 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:11,880 That was it. 162 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:16,880 So someone were digging the major was preparing the dark room for the latest one of his victims. 163 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:22,880 That was the day six o'clock less than an hour from now. 164 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:31,880 Suddenly all the pieces shot into place the money paid for the house her money her money only the bond she didn't trust him for his keeping. 165 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:35,880 The. Diggings stopped. 166 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,880 The. 167 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:43,880 The. 168 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,880 The. 169 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,880 The. 170 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,880 The. 171 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,880 The. 172 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,880 I was just trying to find the nail file. 173 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:03,880 Where you. 174 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:07,880 Well it's not going to look so guilty about now is it. 175 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:09,880 Come on down. 176 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:11,880 Getting late you know. 177 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:13,880 I. 178 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,880 Just have time to make a coffee and sandwiches. 179 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:18,880 Before we do the pictures that. 180 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:23,880 I'd like to and I'll do it we really mustn't delay must we. 181 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:27,880 Coming Alex. 182 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:29,880 They will. 183 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:31,880 Now that's better. 184 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:32,880 Yeah let me give you a hand. 185 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:33,880 Never mind. 186 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:34,880 I had an X. 187 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:36,880 I called you. 188 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:38,880 Cold. 189 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:39,880 Yes I am. 190 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,880 I'll let them soon pass away I'm sure. 191 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,880 I don't want to. 192 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,880 I don't want to get into the kitchen. 193 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:48,880 Alex what is the matter. 194 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,880 Nothing. 195 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:52,880 I'll be all right. 196 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:53,880 The kitchen. 197 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:56,880 Yes I'll fix it something in a second. 198 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:58,880 You just sit here in the living room and. 199 00:20:58,880 --> 00:20:59,880 No the porch. 200 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:01,880 That'll be more comfortable. 201 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:03,880 And I'll be right with you. 202 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,880 Splendid Alex I'll just. 203 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:08,880 No of course not. 204 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:10,880 What Gerald. 205 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:14,880 How rotten of me not to have suggested it. 206 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:19,880 Since you're feeling a bit under power you can probably do with some help. 207 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:27,880 I'll come with you. 208 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:32,880 You know then that some way somehow she must get word to take wind of. 209 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:37,880 The fact that he might be gone by now the memory of him telling her so she resolutely put out of her mind. 210 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,880 No more panic. 211 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,880 She must be in utter control of herself. 212 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,880 Alex carrying the coffee out of the porch glanced the clock from the mantle. 213 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:47,880 Ten minutes till six. 214 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:50,880 Her very life hung by those next ten minutes. 215 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:57,880 Why her ability to think coolly and swiftly because standing beside her was a man as determined as he was insane. 216 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,880 A pity you're so abstracted my dear. 217 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:02,880 What. 218 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:03,880 Why do you say that. 219 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:04,880 Well. 220 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:11,880 Because you are missing the loveliest sight you'll ever like to see again. 221 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:13,880 I can't be on the garden. 222 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:19,880 First soft shades of twilight. 223 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,880 Twilight. 224 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,880 Over fill of the old cottage. 225 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,880 Now I say Alex you are below par. 226 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:28,880 What do you mean. 227 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,880 First time you've ever slipped on the coffee. 228 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:33,880 Must have talked in the entire canister. 229 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,880 I'll be more careful after this. 230 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:37,880 Oh dear. 231 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:38,880 That's. 232 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:39,880 Alex where are you going. 233 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:41,880 Nothing to get excited about. 234 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,880 I forgot to order meat for tomorrow I'm going to find the butcher. 235 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,880 Butcher this time of evening. 236 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:48,880 He generally. 237 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,880 He generally stays late on Wednesdays I'll be right back darling. 238 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:53,880 Don't shut the door Alex. 239 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,880 It keeps the insects out of the living room. 240 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:04,880 You're not afraid I'm going to make love to the butcher are you. 241 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:06,880 Operator. 242 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:11,880 Get me the travelers arms please hurry. 243 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:12,880 Hello. 244 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:14,880 Travels on Mr. 245 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,880 Winterford please. 246 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,880 What you don't know if he's still there. 247 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:25,880 We'll see once you it's most important. 248 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:26,880 Don't let me disturb you. 249 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,880 Well darling you do. 250 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,880 I hate anyone listening when I telephone. 251 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:33,880 But I do get out truly. 252 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,880 You're quite sure you're really calling the butcher. 253 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,880 Well. 254 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:44,880 As a matter of fact I'm not sure what. 255 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:46,880 What I mean is talking about. 256 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,880 I'm afraid I've got the wrong person. 257 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:52,880 A perfect stranger. 258 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,880 Don't understand. 259 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,880 Someone I know nothing about you know nothing about and why don't you hang up. 260 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,880 It was the end of that while it Hello. 261 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,880 Hello. 262 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,880 Did. 263 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,880 All right my girl I'll get started with a great now. 264 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:11,880 Three minutes past six. 265 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:17,880 I don't go by that really I go by my own. 266 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:18,880 Listen. 267 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:29,880 I don't feel up to tonight I'm upset I'm tired I promise you you won't be a bit tired after it's over. 268 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,880 I'm not going to wait one minute longer. 269 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:32,880 I want to. 270 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:33,880 Come along. 271 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:34,880 I'm going to. 272 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,880 You will you will. 273 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:43,880 I've got something to tell you something to confess. 274 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:44,880 Confess. 275 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,880 Yes to confess. 276 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:50,880 Something something I want to tell you before. 277 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,880 I've had. 278 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,880 I've had my secret past to. 279 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:57,880 Form a love eyes. 280 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:05,880 In a way but but something else you'd call it yes I expect you'd call it a crime. 281 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,880 You. 282 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,880 Yes I don't believe it yes. 283 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,880 You better you better sit down. 284 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,880 I. 285 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:23,880 I told you I'd never been married before that wasn't entirely true. 286 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,880 There was a marriage. 287 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,880 When I was twenty two. 288 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,880 He was an elderly man with a little property. 289 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:39,880 I used to ensure his life in my favor at one time I was a nurse with. 290 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:45,880 The access to a number of poison there's one poison like powder it. 291 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:50,880 You know something about poison perhaps you know I know very little about them. 292 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:57,880 This one is very much like it's absolutely untraceable any doctor would give a certificate of heart failure and that. 293 00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:59,880 And that. 294 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:01,880 No. 295 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:07,880 No I can't tell you no no another time there's another time now I want to hear. 296 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,880 How did you get him to take it. 297 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,880 How did I get him to take it out. 298 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,880 Well. 299 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,880 I always made his coffee for you. 300 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:20,880 Yes. 301 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,880 One night I put a pinch of this of this poison in his cup. 302 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,880 I remember that even have very much like this it was how peaceful. 303 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:35,880 He gasped a little side to move in this care but he couldn't presently he died. 304 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,880 How much. 305 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:48,880 How much is the insurance on about two thousand pounds I speculate I lost it it was over two years before I before I married again he was a much younger man quite well off. 306 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:55,880 There was a will in my favor he liked me to make his coffee to just as my first husband had done I make very good coffee. 307 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,880 It was the same along about twilight. 308 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:03,880 I remember it perfectly I'm nervous and upset I've been all day wondering if it would turn out all right. 309 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:11,880 But it did it was the same as the other he just sat there in his chair and he died I believe doctor pronounced it heart failure. 310 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:16,880 My husband did have a weak heart you see and that that helped a great deal. 311 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:21,880 Listen that's not of me I'm a four thousand pounds I didn't speculate. 312 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:26,880 That's why I tasted that way you didn't you poison me. 313 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:31,880 You. 314 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,880 And already the poison is working. 315 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:38,880 From your chair. 316 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,880 I. 317 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:50,880 You can't move your head. 318 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,880 Yeah. 319 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:58,880 Yeah. 320 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:03,880 Yeah. 321 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:10,880 I'm. 322 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:15,880 I'm. 323 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,880 Excuse me. 324 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,880 Yeah. 325 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:36,880 We'll see if they. 326 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:41,880 He was just. 327 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:56,880 Presently. 328 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:06,880 And so closes Philomel cottage Agatha Christie's story of love from a stranger starring Geraldine Fitzgerald and Orson Welles tonight's tale of. 329 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:28,880 Suspense this is your narrator the man in black who conveys to you Columbia's invitation to spend this half hour in suspense with us on October 19 one week from Tuesday when Orson Welles will again be our star our next broadcast in the series will be Tuesday October 19 at 10 o'clock Eastern War time seven o'clock Pacific War time. 330 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:44,880 The producer of suspense is William Spear who tonight also directed the broadcast and who with Wilbur Hatch and Lucian Malawick conductor and composer and Harold Medford the radio author collaborated on tonight's. 331 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:50,880 Suspense. 332 00:29:50,880 --> 00:30:02,880 This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System.