WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:21.420 END 00:21.420 --> 00:23.420 此 moment31 00:51.420 --> 01:16.340 For you men and women in the armed forces of the United Nations, we present one of America's 01:16.340 --> 01:24.940 top spine tinglers, a radio rebroadcast of a program dedicated to the mysterious, the 01:24.940 --> 01:29.700 unusual, and sometimes the supernatural. 01:29.700 --> 01:40.540 A program of suspense. 01:40.540 --> 01:41.540 This is the truth. 01:41.540 --> 01:43.580 Do you understand? 01:43.580 --> 01:45.300 The truth. 01:45.300 --> 01:47.060 It must be the truth. 01:47.060 --> 01:56.860 It has to be. 01:56.860 --> 02:01.140 I Robert Winsley Graham, a doctor and psychiatrist by profession, do hereby of my own free will 02:01.140 --> 02:05.980 and volition, albeit with deepest regret, make the following full and complete statement 02:05.980 --> 02:11.100 relative to that all but unbelievable series of events which has brought such disaster and 02:11.100 --> 02:15.540 misfortune to my house, particularly to my poor wife, Isabelle. 02:15.540 --> 02:19.500 It had its beginning, properly speaking, some two months ago to be exact on the evening 02:19.500 --> 02:20.500 of July 25th. 02:20.500 --> 02:26.380 We were in the drawing room, Isabelle at the piano, practicing, as she said, around Jane 02:26.380 --> 02:30.340 and I on the opposite sides of the room. 02:30.340 --> 02:36.060 Isabelle, what's the matter? 02:36.060 --> 02:37.860 I don't know. 02:37.860 --> 02:41.500 I can't seem to keep my mind on anything anymore, even my music. 02:41.500 --> 02:42.500 Nerves. 02:42.500 --> 02:43.500 Nerves. 02:43.500 --> 02:44.500 Isabelle. 02:44.500 --> 02:45.500 Yes, Robert. 02:45.500 --> 02:49.500 I don't wish to distress you, but it's been going on for quite a little while now. 02:49.500 --> 02:50.780 It's not getting any better. 02:50.780 --> 02:51.780 I know. 02:51.780 --> 02:53.900 Let's not discuss it, shall we? 02:53.900 --> 02:55.780 We should let me prescribe treatment for you. 02:55.780 --> 02:58.220 I could prescribe something for her. 02:58.220 --> 03:03.380 You do remarkable things now with just the common old drugs under proper control. 03:03.380 --> 03:04.460 Drugs. 03:04.460 --> 03:05.860 It's not drugs that she needs. 03:05.860 --> 03:07.980 It's to get out of this house for a while. 03:07.980 --> 03:10.740 It's to get back to the concert stage where she belongs. 03:10.740 --> 03:11.740 It's work. 03:11.740 --> 03:12.740 Aunt Jane, please. 03:12.740 --> 03:13.740 I'm sorry. 03:13.740 --> 03:14.740 I don't believe in beating around the bush. 03:14.740 --> 03:15.740 You're an artist. 03:15.740 --> 03:16.740 You've got talent. 03:16.740 --> 03:19.980 There's no sense in you trying to subordinate yourself to somebody else. 03:19.980 --> 03:21.660 Aunt Jane, that's enough. 03:21.660 --> 03:23.580 I'm not subordinating myself to anyone. 03:23.580 --> 03:24.580 Really, Aunt Jane? 03:24.580 --> 03:25.580 You mustn't interfere, you know. 03:25.580 --> 03:27.500 Robert doesn't want me to go back on the stage. 03:27.500 --> 03:29.660 Darling, it isn't that I don't want you to go back. 03:29.660 --> 03:30.660 I'm proud of you. 03:30.660 --> 03:31.660 You know that. 03:31.660 --> 03:37.340 Only because I think, because I know that going back to a professional career in your 03:37.340 --> 03:39.940 present mental condition would be terribly harmful. 03:39.940 --> 03:40.940 I know, Robert. 03:40.940 --> 03:41.940 I know. 03:41.940 --> 03:42.940 You're right. 03:42.940 --> 03:43.940 After all, I'm a doctor. 03:43.940 --> 03:45.740 It's my business to know these things. 03:45.740 --> 03:46.740 I get it. 03:46.740 --> 03:47.740 Probably the hospital. 03:47.740 --> 03:48.740 Hello? 03:48.740 --> 03:49.740 Hello? 03:49.740 --> 03:52.740 Yes, it's Dr. Graham. 03:52.740 --> 03:54.740 Oh, yes. 03:54.740 --> 03:55.740 Who? 03:55.740 --> 04:03.860 When would you like to see me? 04:03.860 --> 04:05.860 All right. 04:05.860 --> 04:06.860 Fine. 04:06.860 --> 04:09.860 No, no, no trouble at all. 04:09.860 --> 04:12.700 Very well, I'll be expecting you. 04:12.700 --> 04:13.700 Goodbye. 04:13.700 --> 04:16.860 Who do you suppose that was? 04:16.860 --> 04:17.860 Who? 04:17.860 --> 04:18.860 Roger Holcomb. 04:18.860 --> 04:19.860 Do you remember the case? 04:19.860 --> 04:20.860 Roger Holcomb? 04:20.860 --> 04:21.860 I remember it. 04:21.860 --> 04:22.860 Of course you do. 04:22.860 --> 04:25.660 The fellow was brought back from the dead, as the newspapers put it, about a year ago. 04:25.660 --> 04:26.660 Oh, yes. 04:26.660 --> 04:31.460 Well, he really was dead for four full minutes, as far as medical science was concerned. 04:31.460 --> 04:32.860 Then Bates brought him around. 04:32.860 --> 04:34.420 It was nine days' wonder at the time. 04:34.420 --> 04:35.420 What did he want to see you about? 04:35.420 --> 04:36.420 I don't know. 04:36.420 --> 04:37.420 Something to do with his experience, obviously. 04:37.420 --> 04:38.980 He was in a terribly agitated state. 04:38.980 --> 04:41.780 The fellow had been walking up and down in front of the house for an hour, trying to 04:41.780 --> 04:43.780 get up courage to ring the bell. 04:43.780 --> 04:44.780 Finally phoned from the corner drugstore. 04:44.780 --> 04:45.780 Why, the poor man. 04:45.780 --> 04:47.260 Why in the world should he do that? 04:47.260 --> 04:48.260 Anxiety and neurosis. 04:48.260 --> 04:50.860 They hounded him, you know, in the most shocking way. 04:50.860 --> 04:52.860 He got out of the hospital. 04:52.860 --> 04:56.420 Preachers and spiritualists and movie agents, just plain fakers. 04:56.420 --> 04:59.940 People trying to find out if he remembered anything of the four minutes he was supposed 04:59.940 --> 05:01.220 to be dead. 05:01.220 --> 05:02.700 People just trying to exploit him. 05:02.700 --> 05:05.740 Oh, it must be Holcomb now. 05:05.740 --> 05:09.700 Take him into the office. 05:09.700 --> 05:12.500 Dr. Graham? 05:12.500 --> 05:15.740 Yes, you're Roger Holcomb? 05:15.740 --> 05:16.740 Yes. 05:16.740 --> 05:17.740 Come in. 05:17.740 --> 05:18.740 Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Holcomb. 05:18.740 --> 05:19.740 Yes, sir. 05:19.740 --> 05:22.740 You come this way, please, to my office. 05:22.740 --> 05:25.740 Now, just sit down anywhere. 05:25.740 --> 05:26.740 Lie down on the couch if you like. 05:26.740 --> 05:27.740 You look tired. 05:27.740 --> 05:28.740 I am tired. 05:28.740 --> 05:29.740 Tired of the dead. 05:29.740 --> 05:30.740 Give me your hand, please. 05:30.740 --> 05:32.740 For heaven's sake, there's nothing wrong with my pulse. 05:32.740 --> 05:35.260 If that's all you think it is, I'll go. 05:35.260 --> 05:37.340 Why did you come to me, Mr. Holcomb? 05:37.340 --> 05:39.140 You know my history. 05:39.140 --> 05:40.780 Yes, most medical men do. 05:40.780 --> 05:43.140 Up until your disappearance. 05:43.140 --> 05:46.060 Yeah, most medical men do, all right. 05:46.060 --> 05:47.860 Then they tell me I'm crazy. 05:47.860 --> 05:49.740 Do you think you are, Mr. Holcomb? 05:49.740 --> 05:50.740 Oh, I see. 05:50.740 --> 05:51.740 You're like all the rest. 05:51.740 --> 05:52.740 Yes, I am. 05:52.740 --> 05:53.740 Just a minute, Mr. Holcomb. 05:53.740 --> 05:57.500 You came to me for advice or treatment. 05:57.500 --> 06:00.420 I suggest you tell me your story. 06:00.420 --> 06:07.260 Well, I was told you specialized in a strange case, things that other men can't explain. 06:07.260 --> 06:09.000 That's true in a way. 06:09.000 --> 06:11.100 You know what happened when I got out of the hospital. 06:11.100 --> 06:12.100 Yes. 06:12.100 --> 06:15.620 Followed me, questioned me, hounded me, day and night, trying to find out if I remember 06:15.620 --> 06:19.620 anything, had experienced anything beyond the grave. 06:19.620 --> 06:21.620 Yes, I remember that. 06:21.620 --> 06:24.620 Well, then you remember that my answer was always the same. 06:24.620 --> 06:27.620 That I remembered nothing. But I knew nothing. 06:28.620 --> 06:30.620 Well, I was wrong. 06:30.620 --> 06:34.620 Oh? What did you experience during those four minutes? 06:35.620 --> 06:38.620 I don't know. But it must have been something. 06:38.620 --> 06:41.620 Something I don't even dare to think about. 06:41.620 --> 06:43.620 How do you know this? 06:43.620 --> 06:46.620 Well, it happened the first time on a boat trip, 06:46.620 --> 06:48.620 which I'd taken to recover my health. 06:48.620 --> 06:52.620 I found myself chatting with a woman who was seated at my table in the dining salon. 06:52.620 --> 06:55.620 She found occasion, as such women often will, to mention her age. 06:55.620 --> 06:58.620 She said, after all, I'm not yet 40. 06:58.620 --> 07:00.620 And then it happened. 07:00.620 --> 07:01.620 What happened? 07:01.620 --> 07:04.620 Well, from somewhere came crashing into my mind 07:04.620 --> 07:08.620 a certain knowledge of the exact day and year of that woman's birth. 07:08.620 --> 07:11.620 And with it, a compulsion to speak out. 07:11.620 --> 07:15.620 A compulsion which I could no more have resisted than I could have resisted breathing. 07:15.620 --> 07:20.620 I said, Madam, you were born in May, weren't you? May 30th. 07:20.620 --> 07:23.620 She looked at me in utter astonishment. 07:23.620 --> 07:25.620 We'd never even seen each other before in our lives. 07:25.620 --> 07:29.620 And said, yes. And then I added the date. The year 1900. 07:29.620 --> 07:32.620 You see, she was well over 40. She'd lied to me. 07:32.620 --> 07:35.620 Innocent enough thing. But I had known the truth. 07:35.620 --> 07:38.620 And I can force to speak. 07:38.620 --> 07:40.620 And I have been ever since. 07:40.620 --> 07:44.620 This phenomenon has occurred often? 07:44.620 --> 07:46.620 More times than I can remember. 07:46.620 --> 07:49.620 Every time a direct lie, no matter how trivial it is, 07:49.620 --> 07:53.620 part of it, in my presence, I suddenly know the answer to that lie. 07:53.620 --> 07:57.620 I know the truth. And I'm compelled to speak it. 07:57.620 --> 08:00.620 And this condition has existed only since your... 08:00.620 --> 08:03.620 Since my four minutes beyond the grave. 08:03.620 --> 08:05.620 Quite. 08:05.620 --> 08:09.620 It's as though in that brief time I glimpsed eternity. 08:09.620 --> 08:13.620 If I'd seen reveal all truth of all the ages, 08:13.620 --> 08:17.620 I could never tell you how horrible that seemed. 08:17.620 --> 08:21.620 I found that men, even the most honest of men, 08:21.620 --> 08:23.620 live by lies. 08:23.620 --> 08:26.620 Tell me, you have a family, friends, who are understanding? 08:26.620 --> 08:29.620 Oh, for heaven's sake, doctor, don't you understand what this has done to me? 08:29.620 --> 08:33.620 Yes, I had a family and friends. A girl I was going to marry. 08:33.620 --> 08:36.620 Today I'm an outcast. Pariah. 08:36.620 --> 08:40.620 I'm shunned, feared. I'm hated. Yes, hated. 08:40.620 --> 08:44.620 Miss Dawkins, I believe that this condition is very real to you. 08:44.620 --> 08:48.620 It causes you very real anguish. I want to help you. 08:48.620 --> 08:51.620 Do you think you can? I'm confident that I can. 08:51.620 --> 08:55.620 Suppose you could arrange to stay with me here at my home for a matter of weeks or months, if necessary. 08:55.620 --> 08:59.620 Well, I'll do anything. Anything in the world to be a normal man again, but... 08:59.620 --> 09:01.620 But what? 09:01.620 --> 09:04.620 Dr. Graham, I can see that you still don't believe in what... 09:04.620 --> 09:06.620 No. I beg of you. 09:06.620 --> 09:09.620 You don't know the terrible responsibility I'd be to you. 09:09.620 --> 09:13.620 I'd be like a spy, like some inexorable prosecutor from another world. 09:13.620 --> 09:16.620 Sir Holcomb, let me worry about that. 09:16.620 --> 09:18.620 All right. 09:18.620 --> 09:21.620 Is there anyone else in your household who might object? 09:21.620 --> 09:23.620 Oh, no. There's only my wife and her aunt. 09:23.620 --> 09:26.620 I have your own quarters. It'd be quite comfortable, I assure you. 09:26.620 --> 09:28.620 I'm sure I'd be... It's a lovely house, but I've seen a bit... 09:28.620 --> 09:31.620 Yes, I'm rather lucky. I'm interested in research primarily. 09:31.620 --> 09:33.620 Not much money in that, you know, but... 09:33.620 --> 09:35.620 A couple of years ago I came into quite a nice inheritance. 09:35.620 --> 09:37.620 The house went with it. 09:37.620 --> 09:39.620 What is it? 09:39.620 --> 09:41.620 What's the matter? 09:41.620 --> 09:44.620 The inheritance was not yours. 09:44.620 --> 09:46.620 It was your wife's. 09:46.620 --> 09:48.620 The house is your wife's. 09:48.620 --> 09:51.620 You were penniless. 09:56.620 --> 09:58.620 That's true. 09:58.620 --> 10:01.620 I don't know why I lied to you. 10:01.620 --> 10:03.620 Pride, I suppose. 10:03.620 --> 10:05.620 I'm sorry. I told you I couldn't help it. 10:05.620 --> 10:07.620 I'll go now. 10:07.620 --> 10:09.620 Please. 10:09.620 --> 10:11.620 Mr. Holcomb, my fault is the small matter. 10:11.620 --> 10:13.620 But you see, now that I... 10:13.620 --> 10:15.620 I want to help you. 10:15.620 --> 10:17.620 Do you believe me now? 10:17.620 --> 10:21.620 I believe, Mr. Holcomb, either that you are far more ill than I realized 10:21.620 --> 10:24.620 or that did months come, 10:24.620 --> 10:27.620 you and I must venture into a realm 10:27.620 --> 10:35.620 more explored by mortal man. 10:37.620 --> 10:39.620 It was utterly fantastic. 10:39.620 --> 10:41.620 And yet it was true. 10:41.620 --> 10:44.620 I checked the facts again and again. 10:44.620 --> 10:48.620 He could not possibly have known, and yet he knew. 10:48.620 --> 10:52.620 Could you imagine what this meant to a man of science? 10:52.620 --> 10:56.620 If I could fathom the depths of Roger Holcomb's mind, 10:56.620 --> 10:59.620 I could make a contribution to the body of scientific knowledge 10:59.620 --> 11:03.620 absolutely without parallel in modern times. 11:03.620 --> 11:06.620 I'd be more famous and pasturer, Ehrlich. 11:06.620 --> 11:08.620 It remained the problem of Isabelle. 11:08.620 --> 11:10.620 I was aware of the danger, of course. 11:10.620 --> 11:14.620 I was acutely aware of the peculiarly delicate balance of her mind at that time. 11:14.620 --> 11:17.620 The fact that the presence of a man like Roger Holcomb 11:17.620 --> 11:22.620 might be seriously detrimental to my rather well-conceived plans for Isabelle. 11:22.620 --> 11:25.620 I believed I could control the situation. 11:25.620 --> 11:27.620 I had one moment to proceed. 11:27.620 --> 11:31.620 Actually, Holcomb's presence made itself felt almost immediately. 11:31.620 --> 11:34.620 The first incident came after he'd been with her. 11:40.620 --> 11:43.620 Isabelle, please stop that playing and listen to me. 11:43.620 --> 11:46.620 Aunt Jane, you know Robert has said I mustn't talk about it, 11:46.620 --> 11:47.620 that it's bad for me. 11:47.620 --> 11:49.620 I don't care what Robert said. 11:49.620 --> 11:51.620 But he's my doctor and my husband. 11:51.620 --> 11:53.620 And I'm not sure that he should be either. 11:53.620 --> 11:56.620 Aunt Jane, I don't know much about psychiatry, 11:56.620 --> 11:59.620 but I do know that making trouble between a husband and a wife... 11:59.620 --> 12:02.620 I'm not making anything that isn't there already, and you know it. 12:02.620 --> 12:05.620 Good heavens, girl. Look at yourself. 12:05.620 --> 12:07.620 Look what's happened to you since your marriage. 12:07.620 --> 12:08.620 I've been sick. 12:08.620 --> 12:09.620 He's made you sick. 12:09.620 --> 12:10.620 That's ridiculous. 12:10.620 --> 12:12.620 Maybe it's just that he's afraid of losing you. 12:12.620 --> 12:14.620 Maybe he's even afraid of losing your money. 12:14.620 --> 12:17.620 But I'm absolutely convinced that whether he's meant to or not, 12:17.620 --> 12:20.620 he's made you believe there's something the matter with you that isn't. 12:20.620 --> 12:22.620 Aunt Jane, I simply forbid you to talk this way. 12:22.620 --> 12:24.620 I saw he brings this psychopath into the house. 12:24.620 --> 12:26.620 And don't bring Roger into it. 12:26.620 --> 12:27.620 He's Robert's patient. 12:27.620 --> 12:29.620 It's Robert's work and it's none of our business. 12:29.620 --> 12:30.620 What about your own work? 12:30.620 --> 12:31.620 It doesn't matter. 12:31.620 --> 12:32.620 It doesn't matter? 12:32.620 --> 12:35.620 Aunt Jane, you simply don't understand. 12:35.620 --> 12:37.620 Robert is my husband. 12:37.620 --> 12:39.620 I trust him and I love him. 12:39.620 --> 12:41.620 Nothing can ever come between us. 12:41.620 --> 12:44.620 I'd destroy anything. 12:44.620 --> 12:45.620 I'd kill anyone who tried. 12:45.620 --> 12:48.620 Isabel. Isabel, do something before it's too late. 12:48.620 --> 12:49.620 Do what? 12:49.620 --> 12:50.620 Get away. 12:50.620 --> 12:51.620 Leave him. 12:51.620 --> 12:52.620 Divorce him. Anything. 12:52.620 --> 12:54.620 Oh, I hope we're not interrupting. 12:54.620 --> 12:56.620 Of course not, darling. 12:56.620 --> 12:57.620 Hello, Roger. 12:57.620 --> 12:58.620 Hello, Isabel. 12:58.620 --> 12:59.620 Good afternoon. 12:59.620 --> 13:01.620 How are you feeling, Roger? 13:01.620 --> 13:02.620 I'm better, I think. 13:02.620 --> 13:07.620 I think it would be better if we didn't discuss our states of mind, Isabel. 13:07.620 --> 13:09.620 Oh, of course. I'm sorry. 13:09.620 --> 13:12.620 Well, would you like me to play something for you? 13:12.620 --> 13:15.620 You know, I think I'm beginning to get the feel of it again. 13:15.620 --> 13:16.620 Really, I do. 13:16.620 --> 13:18.620 You're sure we haven't interrupted some conversation? 13:18.620 --> 13:19.620 Of course not. 13:19.620 --> 13:25.620 We were just discussing how helpful you've been in getting Isabel back to her work again. 13:25.620 --> 13:26.620 Roger. 13:26.620 --> 13:29.620 No. No, you were not. 13:29.620 --> 13:33.620 You were telling Isabel to divorce her husband. 13:36.620 --> 13:37.620 Isabel. 13:37.620 --> 13:38.620 I'm sorry. 13:38.620 --> 13:39.620 I'm sorry. 13:39.620 --> 13:40.620 Roger, come back. 13:40.620 --> 13:42.620 Isabel, is that true? 13:42.620 --> 13:43.620 You brought him in here deliberately. 13:43.620 --> 13:44.620 Is that true? 13:44.620 --> 13:45.620 It doesn't matter, I suppose. 13:45.620 --> 13:47.620 You've known how I felt for a long time. 13:47.620 --> 13:48.620 Yes, I'm afraid I have. 13:48.620 --> 13:50.620 But Robert, it was all so silly. She didn't mean it. 13:50.620 --> 13:51.620 I did mean it. 13:51.620 --> 13:52.620 But I did mean it. 13:52.620 --> 13:53.620 I'm sorry, Isabel. 13:53.620 --> 13:55.620 But I've been under this roof too long, as it is. 13:55.620 --> 13:56.620 Oh, Jane, you're not leaving us. 13:56.620 --> 13:58.620 It's best, Isabel. 13:58.620 --> 14:00.620 Yes? 14:00.620 --> 14:03.620 Yes, I think it's unquestionably best. 14:03.620 --> 14:05.620 Best that you go at once. 14:10.620 --> 14:12.620 She left us, of course. 14:12.620 --> 14:16.620 I'd always believed that Jane exercised an unfortunate influence over Isabel. 14:16.620 --> 14:19.620 I did not dream it had reached such a point as this. 14:19.620 --> 14:23.620 Yet this incident gave me my first insight into the relationship 14:23.620 --> 14:27.620 which was destined to develop between Isabel, Roger and myself. 14:28.620 --> 14:32.620 The first and most obvious result was that within a matter of weeks, 14:32.620 --> 14:35.620 Isabel was to lose every friend she had. 14:35.620 --> 14:39.620 We became further estranged as each day passed. 14:39.620 --> 14:43.620 It was difficult to speak of even the most casual things with this 14:43.620 --> 14:48.620 strangely terrifying spectre of truth always at our elbow. 14:49.620 --> 14:52.620 The situation reached its inevitable climax the evening that 14:52.620 --> 14:55.620 Leopold Sirinsky, the famous conductor of the Los Angeles Symphony, 14:55.620 --> 14:58.620 was to call on Isabel with a view to resumption of her professional career 14:58.620 --> 15:00.620 under his auspices. 15:00.620 --> 15:02.620 I gave a great deal of thought to that evening. 15:02.620 --> 15:04.620 It had to be handled with a great... 15:06.620 --> 15:08.620 Robert, you will help me, won't you? 15:08.620 --> 15:09.620 Of course I will, darling. 15:09.620 --> 15:12.620 I don't know whether you realize how important it is to me. 15:12.620 --> 15:14.620 I have nothing but the music now. 15:14.620 --> 15:18.620 I've been working so hard, playing sometimes half the night while you were asleep. 15:18.620 --> 15:20.620 Yes, I've heard you. 15:20.620 --> 15:25.620 Sometimes it seems that the piano is all that's helping me to keep my sanity. 15:25.620 --> 15:29.620 My darling, I want you to let me prescribe something for you. 15:29.620 --> 15:31.620 By the time we face this thing, you're trouble, I mean. 15:31.620 --> 15:35.620 Robert, does he have to have dinner with us tonight? 15:35.620 --> 15:38.620 Roger, Isabel, you know how I stand on that. 15:38.620 --> 15:39.620 Oh, yes, but just once... 15:39.620 --> 15:45.620 Even once, Isabel, to keep him in his room like a spoiled child when we have guests. 15:46.620 --> 15:49.620 It might undo everything I've accomplished in weeks. 15:49.620 --> 15:51.620 Of course, you're right. 15:51.620 --> 15:53.620 Roger, come in. 15:53.620 --> 15:57.620 Robert, I was wondering if I might be excused just for a night. 15:57.620 --> 15:59.620 You're having dinner with us, Roger. 15:59.620 --> 16:00.620 Must I? 16:00.620 --> 16:02.620 You know you must, Roger, and you know why. 16:02.620 --> 16:05.620 Why, Roger, don't you want to meet the great Leopold Sirinsky? 16:05.620 --> 16:06.620 He's really a wonderful person. 16:06.620 --> 16:08.620 Yes, indeed I would very much. 16:08.620 --> 16:11.620 You know, I made my debut with him in 1934. 16:11.620 --> 16:14.620 I did a concert with him every year until my... 16:14.620 --> 16:15.620 until I... 16:15.620 --> 16:18.620 Isabel, who was very talented, you know. 16:18.620 --> 16:20.620 I was? I am. 16:20.620 --> 16:22.620 Oh, Roger, I'm going to play with him again. 16:22.620 --> 16:24.620 He wants me to open the seasons in November. 16:24.620 --> 16:26.620 Can you imagine what that means to me? 16:26.620 --> 16:28.620 I'm so glad, Isabel. 16:28.620 --> 16:32.620 And Robert has finally given his consent, haven't you, dear? 16:32.620 --> 16:34.620 I'm sorry, what was it you said, Isabel? 16:34.620 --> 16:37.620 I said you'd given your consent to my playing with Sirinsky. 16:37.620 --> 16:39.620 Isabel, you... 16:39.620 --> 16:42.620 you know I don't want you to think that... 16:42.620 --> 16:44.620 I'd ever stand in your way. 16:44.620 --> 16:45.620 I know, dear. 16:45.620 --> 16:48.620 Roger, I'll do the Emperor concerto, 16:48.620 --> 16:50.620 and you will come to hear me. 16:50.620 --> 16:52.620 You do want to, don't you, Roger? 16:52.620 --> 16:54.620 Please, Isabel, don't ask things of me that can't... 16:54.620 --> 16:55.620 What's the matter? 16:55.620 --> 16:57.620 What's the matter with both of you? 16:57.620 --> 17:00.620 You act as though you thought I wouldn't be able to appear. 17:00.620 --> 17:03.620 As though the whole idea were hopeless or something. 17:03.620 --> 17:04.620 Isabel, please. 17:04.620 --> 17:05.620 I am going to play. 17:05.620 --> 17:06.620 I'll be better than I ever was. 17:06.620 --> 17:08.620 You know I will, don't you? Don't you? 17:08.620 --> 17:11.620 Of course, Isabel, you play wonderfully. 17:12.620 --> 17:13.620 Roger. 17:13.620 --> 17:15.620 No, Robert, you're... 17:15.620 --> 17:20.620 you're very certain that Isabel will be prevented from ever playing again 17:20.620 --> 17:23.620 by death. 17:24.620 --> 17:25.620 Death? 17:25.620 --> 17:29.620 Oh, Isabel, forgive me, forgive me, please. 17:29.620 --> 17:31.620 By death? No. 17:31.620 --> 17:33.620 Oh, no. 17:33.620 --> 17:35.620 Please, Roger, it's not true. 17:35.620 --> 17:37.620 Tell me it isn't. 17:37.620 --> 17:39.620 Roger, answer me. 17:39.620 --> 17:41.620 Answer me. 17:41.620 --> 17:43.620 Roger, do you hear me? Answer me. 17:44.620 --> 17:46.620 Answer me! 17:55.620 --> 17:57.620 When Sirenski arrived, I told him it would be quite impossible 17:57.620 --> 17:59.620 for Isabel to leave her room. 17:59.620 --> 18:01.620 The concert was cancelled, and indeed, to my knowledge, 18:01.620 --> 18:03.620 she's never touched the piano since that day. 18:03.620 --> 18:05.620 By now, to even the most casual observer, 18:05.620 --> 18:08.620 it must appear only natural that Isabel had every motive 18:08.620 --> 18:11.620 for a desperate, almost paranoid hatred of Roger Holcomb. 18:11.620 --> 18:13.620 This much was clear to me. 18:13.620 --> 18:15.620 The rest, not yet. 18:15.620 --> 18:17.620 But one thing from any point of view was certain. 18:17.620 --> 18:20.620 I had to keep Roger and Isabel apart. 18:20.620 --> 18:23.620 Perhaps what I feared was indeed inevitable. 18:23.620 --> 18:26.620 I honestly did not think it so at the time. 18:26.620 --> 18:29.620 As a precautionary measure, however, I prescribed a drug for Isabel, 18:29.620 --> 18:31.620 which she had last consented to take. 18:31.620 --> 18:34.620 I gave her her own supply, she administered it to herself, 18:34.620 --> 18:36.620 as I had directed. 18:41.620 --> 18:43.620 Roger? Roger? 18:43.620 --> 18:44.620 Yes? 18:44.620 --> 18:45.620 It's Isabel. 18:45.620 --> 18:47.620 What do you want? 18:47.620 --> 18:48.620 Let me in, please. 18:48.620 --> 18:49.620 No. 18:49.620 --> 18:50.620 Please, it's terribly important. 18:50.620 --> 18:51.620 Well, I was thinking... 18:51.620 --> 18:52.620 I know. 18:52.620 --> 18:55.620 But he said it would be all right this time. 18:55.620 --> 18:56.620 Are you sure? 18:56.620 --> 18:58.620 Yes. Yes, please. 18:58.620 --> 19:00.620 All right. 19:00.620 --> 19:02.620 Now, what do you want? 19:02.620 --> 19:05.620 I want to talk to you, that's all. 19:05.620 --> 19:08.620 What about if it's so important? 19:08.620 --> 19:11.620 Roger, why don't you ever leave your room anymore? 19:11.620 --> 19:13.620 Aren't you gay? 19:13.620 --> 19:15.620 Do you think I hate you? 19:15.620 --> 19:18.620 Isabel, I don't know what to think anymore. 19:18.620 --> 19:19.620 You do, don't you? 19:19.620 --> 19:22.620 I warned him. I told him it would happen. 19:22.620 --> 19:23.620 Now I'm going mad up here. 19:23.620 --> 19:25.620 I think he'll be anguished I've caused you. 19:25.620 --> 19:27.620 But Roger, I don't. You must believe me. 19:27.620 --> 19:29.620 I know what it's been like for you having me here. 19:29.620 --> 19:33.620 Roger, you see, for the first time in my life, 19:33.620 --> 19:36.620 I think my husband is wrong about something. 19:36.620 --> 19:37.620 Wrong? 19:37.620 --> 19:39.620 Yes. Don't you see? 19:39.620 --> 19:41.620 He's been worried about both of us. 19:41.620 --> 19:44.620 And so this distrust has grown up between us. 19:44.620 --> 19:46.620 Well, I don't distrust you. 19:46.620 --> 19:48.620 You've been more wonderful to me than I've been to you. 19:48.620 --> 19:50.620 But you're afraid of me. 19:50.620 --> 19:52.620 And that amounts to the same thing. 19:52.620 --> 19:54.620 And it's bad for the both of us. 19:54.620 --> 19:56.620 It's hurting both of us. 19:56.620 --> 19:58.620 I've often felt I wanted to talk to you, 19:58.620 --> 19:59.620 beg your pardon. 19:59.620 --> 20:01.620 Oh, you don't have to do that. 20:01.620 --> 20:03.620 We're both sick. 20:03.620 --> 20:05.620 But I think if we saw each other sometimes, 20:05.620 --> 20:07.620 if we talked the whole thing out, 20:07.620 --> 20:09.620 it would help us both. 20:09.620 --> 20:11.620 Does Robert think so, too? 20:11.620 --> 20:13.620 No. 20:13.620 --> 20:16.620 Then he didn't tell you it was all right to see me? 20:16.620 --> 20:19.620 No. I lied to you. 20:19.620 --> 20:20.620 You what? 20:20.620 --> 20:22.620 I lied to you. 20:22.620 --> 20:25.620 You lied to me. And it didn't happen. 20:25.620 --> 20:27.620 Isabel, don't you see? 20:27.620 --> 20:29.620 I am getting well. It didn't happen. 20:29.620 --> 20:30.620 I know. 20:30.620 --> 20:33.620 I don't think it does happen anymore. 20:33.620 --> 20:35.620 Except with Robert. 20:35.620 --> 20:37.620 What makes you think they don't? 20:37.620 --> 20:38.620 I don't know. 20:38.620 --> 20:41.620 Something about the way he acts. 20:41.620 --> 20:42.620 The way he is. 20:42.620 --> 20:44.620 But if he is curing me, 20:44.620 --> 20:46.620 then perhaps you shouldn't have come up with me. 20:46.620 --> 20:47.620 No, no. Don't you understand? 20:47.620 --> 20:49.620 We must see each other. We must talk. 20:49.620 --> 20:51.620 No, listen. 20:51.620 --> 20:52.620 Isabel. 20:52.620 --> 20:54.620 Robert, something's happened that I must tell you about. 20:54.620 --> 20:55.620 Please, you're completely overwrought. 20:55.620 --> 20:56.620 Oh, but Robert, if you want to... 20:56.620 --> 20:57.620 Isabel, why did you do this? 20:57.620 --> 20:58.620 I'm sorry. 20:58.620 --> 20:59.620 You have to have a sedative right away. 20:59.620 --> 21:00.620 Isabel, get the bottle from your room. 21:00.620 --> 21:01.620 Mine? 21:01.620 --> 21:02.620 Yes, yes. Please, hurry. 21:02.620 --> 21:04.620 Robert, she lied to me. 21:04.620 --> 21:05.620 Yes, yes, I know. 21:05.620 --> 21:07.620 But, Roger, I must absolutely forbid you to talk now. 21:07.620 --> 21:08.620 You must trust me. 21:08.620 --> 21:09.620 All right. 21:09.620 --> 21:10.620 But later I won't have a long talk with you. 21:10.620 --> 21:11.620 Of course we shall. 21:11.620 --> 21:12.620 Here it is. 21:12.620 --> 21:14.620 I brought my hypodermic too. 21:14.620 --> 21:15.620 I'm glad you did. 21:15.620 --> 21:16.620 The other one's mislaid, Summer. 21:16.620 --> 21:17.620 Will you give it to him, please? 21:17.620 --> 21:18.620 I? 21:18.620 --> 21:20.620 Yes, I'm sorry, but this is upsetting me rather badly. 21:20.620 --> 21:21.620 My hands are shaking. 21:21.620 --> 21:22.620 Robert, I'm terribly sorry. 21:22.620 --> 21:23.620 No matter. 21:23.620 --> 21:24.620 Now give him the hypodermic. 21:24.620 --> 21:26.620 That's right. 21:26.620 --> 21:27.620 Thank you. 21:27.620 --> 21:29.620 Leave us now, please, Isabel. 21:29.620 --> 21:31.620 All right. 21:31.620 --> 21:33.620 How are you feeling now, Roger? 21:33.620 --> 21:35.620 Well, I'm fine, Robert. 21:35.620 --> 21:37.620 I think I'm better than I've been in months. 21:37.620 --> 21:38.620 I know you're better. 21:38.620 --> 21:40.620 That's why I was so upset to see you. 21:40.620 --> 21:41.620 Why, Robert? 21:41.620 --> 21:43.620 I can't tell you all my reasons now, 21:43.620 --> 21:45.620 but you must trust me and believe in me. 21:45.620 --> 21:46.620 Oh, I do, but... 21:46.620 --> 21:50.620 Only that I'm afraid of your health. 21:50.620 --> 21:51.620 Roger. 21:51.620 --> 21:56.620 No, you're afraid of murder. 21:56.620 --> 21:57.620 What? 21:57.620 --> 21:58.620 Murder. 21:58.620 --> 22:00.620 Roger, listen to me. 22:00.620 --> 22:01.620 Roger. 22:01.620 --> 22:02.620 Murder. 22:02.620 --> 22:06.620 Roger, what are you talking about? 22:06.620 --> 22:08.620 Roger. 22:08.620 --> 22:10.620 Roger! 22:17.620 --> 22:19.620 It was clear to me now. 22:19.620 --> 22:21.620 I knew I must take immediate action. 22:21.620 --> 22:23.620 I knew that the most terrible consequences might result 22:23.620 --> 22:27.620 if Isabel were alone with Roger, even for a moment. 22:27.620 --> 22:30.620 But he knew that he'd said so with no other explanation. 22:30.620 --> 22:32.620 I thought it through most carefully, 22:32.620 --> 22:35.620 and yet no plans are perfect. 22:35.620 --> 22:37.620 No man is infallible. 22:45.620 --> 22:46.620 Isabel! 22:46.620 --> 22:47.620 Robert. 22:47.620 --> 22:48.620 What are you doing? 22:48.620 --> 22:49.620 Nothing. 22:49.620 --> 22:50.620 Don't lie to me, Isabel. 22:50.620 --> 22:51.620 I'm not. 22:51.620 --> 22:52.620 You were coming from Roger's room. 22:52.620 --> 22:53.620 No. 22:53.620 --> 22:54.620 No, I swear I wasn't. 22:54.620 --> 22:56.620 Isabel, don't you understand that you're sick? 22:56.620 --> 22:59.620 I've insisted on these things for your own good and his. 22:59.620 --> 23:00.620 All right. 23:00.620 --> 23:02.620 I was going to torture him, but I had to. 23:02.620 --> 23:03.620 Oh, Isabel. 23:03.620 --> 23:05.620 Why do you try to tell me that? 23:05.620 --> 23:07.620 But it's true, Robert, really true. 23:07.620 --> 23:09.620 Is it? 23:09.620 --> 23:12.620 Roger? 23:12.620 --> 23:14.620 Roger? 23:14.620 --> 23:17.620 What's the matter? 23:17.620 --> 23:20.620 Look. 23:20.620 --> 23:22.620 Robert. 23:22.620 --> 23:24.620 No, it couldn't be. 23:24.620 --> 23:25.620 It is. 23:25.620 --> 23:26.620 He's dead. 23:26.620 --> 23:27.620 Dead? 23:27.620 --> 23:30.620 Hypodermic by his side, the drug, your drug, your hypodermic. 23:30.620 --> 23:32.620 But it's only a sedative. 23:32.620 --> 23:34.620 Except that in large enough quantity, it's fatal. 23:34.620 --> 23:35.620 You knew that. 23:35.620 --> 23:36.620 Oh, Robert, don't listen to me. 23:36.620 --> 23:37.620 Isabel, why? 23:37.620 --> 23:38.620 Why, I warned you. 23:38.620 --> 23:39.620 Robert, look at me. 23:39.620 --> 23:40.620 It's Isabel. 23:40.620 --> 23:41.620 It's your wife. 23:41.620 --> 23:42.620 You can't. 23:42.620 --> 23:43.620 Oh, no. 23:43.620 --> 23:44.620 Where are you going? 23:44.620 --> 23:45.620 Come back. 23:45.620 --> 23:47.620 I'm going to call the police. 23:47.620 --> 24:02.620 It was perhaps the most terrible decision a man ever had to make, even though it did come 24:02.620 --> 24:06.620 not as a shock to me, even from my point of view as a scientist. 24:06.620 --> 24:08.620 It was terrible enough. 24:08.620 --> 24:12.620 Yet it had to be done, and I had done it. 24:12.620 --> 24:16.620 I did not speak to her as we waited, and she made no further attempt to appeal to me. 24:16.620 --> 24:21.620 She seemed utterly stupefied, perhaps, as a result of the drugs she had herself been taking. 24:21.620 --> 24:25.620 Perhaps because she suddenly realized she was hopelessly trapped. 24:25.620 --> 24:28.620 When the police arrived, I told the story with a little emotion. 24:28.620 --> 24:34.620 Yes, yes, there are fingerprints all right on both the bottle and the hypodermic. 24:34.620 --> 24:35.620 Those would be my wife's, of course. 24:35.620 --> 24:36.620 They both belong to her. 24:36.620 --> 24:38.620 Is that true, Mrs. Graham? 24:38.620 --> 24:39.620 Yes. 24:39.620 --> 24:43.620 Dr. Graham, do I understand then that you are formally charging your wife with the murder 24:43.620 --> 24:44.620 of Roger Holcomb? 24:44.620 --> 24:46.620 Well, you could hardly expect me to do that, could you? 24:46.620 --> 24:47.620 I'm simply telling you the facts. 24:47.620 --> 24:49.620 You said she hated Holcomb, and you knew it. 24:49.620 --> 24:51.620 My wife has been mentally ill for some time. 24:51.620 --> 24:53.620 Now, many people can testify to that. 24:53.620 --> 24:55.620 You will plead insanity, of course. 24:55.620 --> 24:59.620 Dr. Graham, I can't tell you how sorry I am, but the things you have told me add up to 24:59.620 --> 25:02.620 only one thing that you yourself obviously recognize. 25:02.620 --> 25:03.620 Yes. 25:03.620 --> 25:09.620 Your wife, Isabel Graham, murdered Roger Holcomb. 25:09.620 --> 25:10.620 What did you say? 25:10.620 --> 25:15.620 I said your wife, Isabel Graham, murdered Roger Holcomb. 25:15.620 --> 25:17.620 No. 25:17.620 --> 25:20.620 I murdered him. 25:24.620 --> 25:26.620 What? 25:26.620 --> 25:36.620 I tried to make it appear that Isabel had done it, and I succeeded. 25:36.620 --> 25:39.620 But I killed him. 25:49.620 --> 25:53.620 No plans are perfect. 25:53.620 --> 25:57.620 No man is infallible. 25:57.620 --> 26:04.620 Yes, I killed Roger Holcomb, and he himself revealed the truth. 26:04.620 --> 26:08.620 I'd planned to dispose of Isabel for many months. 26:08.620 --> 26:10.620 I'd never loved her. 26:10.620 --> 26:12.620 I'd loved only science. 26:12.620 --> 26:15.620 I wanted her money, and Holcomb found it out. 26:15.620 --> 26:17.620 That was the risk I ran. 26:17.620 --> 26:24.620 That any chance lie in his presence, either by Isabel or myself, to bring out the truth, 26:24.620 --> 26:27.620 and it did. 26:27.620 --> 26:31.620 I had no alternative once he'd discovered that. 26:31.620 --> 26:37.620 But to kill him, it's easy enough to throw the blame on Isabel. 26:37.620 --> 26:43.620 I had not counted on that terrible compulsion for the truth, 26:43.620 --> 26:51.620 that strange affliction of Roger Holcomb's, to his power over me. 26:51.620 --> 27:02.620 Did it transfer itself at his death to me, or was it conscience? 27:02.620 --> 27:05.620 It's a pity that it had to end this way. 27:05.620 --> 27:13.620 He's a fascinating case. 27:23.620 --> 27:28.620 And so closes Lazarus Walks, starring Orson Welles. 27:28.620 --> 27:35.620 Tonight's tale of suspense. 27:58.620 --> 28:23.620 This rebroadcast is a presentation of the Armed Forces Radio Service. 28:28.620 --> 28:30.620 Thank you.