1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:18,000 Roma wines present Suspense. 2 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,840 Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 3 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:23,840 Salud. 4 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:25,280 Your health, senor. 5 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:27,500 Roma wines toast the world. 6 00:00:27,500 --> 00:00:33,040 The wine for your table is Roma wine made in California for enjoyment throughout the 7 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:34,040 world. 8 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:40,000 This is the man in black here for the Roma wine company of Fresno, California to introduce 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,920 this weekly half hour of Suspense. 10 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:49,040 Tonight from Hollywood, Roma wines bring you Mr. Laird Krieger in a suspense play dealing 11 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:53,720 with a maniacal hatred and with a mental drug of hypnotics. 12 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:58,920 And so with Narrative About Clarence and with the performance of Laird Krieger supported 13 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:13,920 by Hans Conrad as Bill from whom we hear the narrative, we again hope to keep you in Suspense. 14 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:18,320 I never wanted to kill anyone, not until he came along. 15 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:19,880 I didn't even want to kill him at first. 16 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,280 I kept thinking there must be some other way. 17 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:26,000 If anybody had told me six months ago that I was capable of murder, I would have thought 18 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,000 he was crazy. 19 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,720 What I'm getting at is this. 20 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:34,040 There are circumstances, people, that can make anybody want to commit murder. 21 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,500 And he, he was one of those people. 22 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:38,680 He brought the circumstances with him, a whole set of them. 23 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,120 I never heard of the guy at all one day last summer. 24 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:42,920 We were having breakfast. 25 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:44,760 My wife was looking over the morning mail. 26 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:46,920 Bill, look at this. 27 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:47,920 Postmark Calcutta. 28 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,400 It must be from Clarence. 29 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:51,400 Who's Clarence? 30 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:52,400 He's my brother. 31 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,440 You never told me you had a brother. 32 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:55,440 Didn't I? 33 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,480 Well, it's not so surprising. 34 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,320 He's only my half brother and I haven't seen him since I was a child. 35 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,360 He's never even written to me before. 36 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:04,360 That's funny. 37 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,240 I wonder why he decided to write now. 38 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,240 I can't imagine. 39 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,640 What does he say? 40 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:14,480 He's coming to America. 41 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:15,480 What for? 42 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:17,280 Now, Bill, don't be like that. 43 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,240 Well, you're not going to ask him to stay with us, are you? 44 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:20,240 Well, what else can I do? 45 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:21,760 He says he's coming straight here from the boat. 46 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:22,760 Well, so what? 47 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:24,720 There are several first class hotels in this town. 48 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:29,560 Well, I'll just ask him kind of half-heartedly so he can refuse if he wants to. 49 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:30,560 Good girl. 50 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,280 There's just one thing that worries me. 51 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:34,880 What's that? 52 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:39,920 He says at the end of the letter, I'm most anxious to meet your daughter, who it has 53 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:42,880 been revealed to me closely resembles her grandmother. 54 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,300 Well, Jeannie does look like the pictures of your mother at that. 55 00:02:46,300 --> 00:02:48,040 But how does he know? 56 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:50,440 He couldn't even know we have a child. 57 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:51,440 Unless... 58 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:52,440 Unless what? 59 00:02:52,440 --> 00:03:04,800 Well, unless someone told him or unless it was revealed to him in some mysterious way. 60 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:05,800 I didn't like that. 61 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:06,800 I didn't like it at all. 62 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:08,800 There's everything I hate that's a fake. 63 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:13,000 And if that guy with his winged collar and his high-toned accent didn't look like a fake, 64 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,000 then nobody ever did. 65 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,800 But he wasn't a fake. 66 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:18,360 He didn't arrive at our house. 67 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:22,520 He seemed to materialize in the middle of the living room. 68 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:27,720 Well, Lillian, don't you recognize me? 69 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:28,720 Why... 70 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,120 Why, yes, Clarence. 71 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:32,960 How are you, Clarence? 72 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:33,960 This is Bill, my husband. 73 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:35,640 I know. 74 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,320 I hope you'll forgive my rather unconventional entrance. 75 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:42,080 As your doorbell is out of order, I didn't bother to push the button. 76 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:44,120 Well, hello. 77 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,080 I didn't know the doorbell was out of order, Lillian. 78 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,280 Neither did I. 79 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,960 Well, won't you sit down, Clarence? 80 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,560 Oh, yes, thank you. 81 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:54,560 Have a good trip. 82 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:55,560 Excellent. 83 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:57,920 But let's not dwell on the past. 84 00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:59,880 I have plans, Lillian. 85 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:04,120 First of all, I intend to settle here in this town permanently. 86 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:05,120 How nice. 87 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:09,600 I intend to resume my career in America where it left off 15 years ago. 88 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:14,400 Your wife's look of distress, William, is owing to an unfortunate incident that occurred 89 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:20,880 15 years ago and made it expedient for me to leave the country for a while. 90 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,040 It was all a misunderstanding, Bill. 91 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,800 I don't quite know what you're talking about. 92 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,360 She's told you nothing about me. 93 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:27,360 How strange. 94 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,440 Well, only that you're a doctor and... 95 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:31,640 Doctor? 96 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,080 What an inadequate word. 97 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:39,160 It suggests a little man you call in when the baby gets whooping cough, doesn't it? 98 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,400 What's the matter with the little man I call in when the baby gets whooping cough? 99 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:44,840 Well, he is, shall we say, limited. 100 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:47,880 Yes, yes, that's the kindly word for it. 101 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:56,120 The mind, William, the human mind, with all its strange powers for good and evil. 102 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:57,440 That is my province. 103 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,600 Clarence was a mental scientist. 104 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:01,960 He had a small private hospital and... 105 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:03,280 Oh, how drab. 106 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:07,080 How unendurably drab you make it sound, Lillian. 107 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,800 I penetrated deep into the mysteries of the human mind. 108 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:16,000 And then I discovered a psychic power transcending the mere grey matter of the human brain. 109 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,160 Clarence became interested in the occult. 110 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,920 You mean that Indian faker stuff, going into trances and stuff like that? 111 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:23,520 How crudely you put it, William. 112 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:24,520 I'm sorry. 113 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:25,520 Go on with your story. 114 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:27,680 I'll go on with it for you. 115 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:33,200 You started using this mysterious East hocus pocus and your mental patients and their relatives 116 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,680 got sore, right? 117 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,400 Your husband, Lillian, is a man of rare perception. 118 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:39,400 Yeah. 119 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,360 So now you're back from India with a new bag of tricks and you're going to set up shop 120 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:43,360 again. 121 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:44,360 Precisely, William. 122 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,520 There's only one thing wrong with your statement, the tone of it. 123 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:52,920 I intend to establish a small private sanitarium dedicated to the treatment of the mentally 124 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:54,440 ill. 125 00:05:54,440 --> 00:06:00,360 And I shall continue my investigations into what your wife chooses to call the occult. 126 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:01,360 Is that clear? 127 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:02,360 Quite clear. 128 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:07,460 Now then, Lillian, you will prepare the little room off William's study for me, the one 129 00:06:07,460 --> 00:06:09,120 with the dark green walls. 130 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:13,800 Well, of course, you're welcome to stay with us if you want to, Clarence, but the house 131 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:15,120 is rather small and... 132 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:16,680 Yes, yes, yes. 133 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,480 It's fortunate that the house is small. 134 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:19,480 I'd counted on that. 135 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,000 You seemed to have counted on a great deal, Clarence. 136 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,760 By the way, how'd you know that the room has green walls? 137 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:26,040 Yes, and how did you know? 138 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:32,560 My dear, engaging kinsmen, all things are revealed to him who can survive the ordeal 139 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:34,840 of true enlightenment. 140 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:38,280 That is as much as I'm permitted to tell you at the present time. 141 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:40,800 And now, will you be so good as to open the outside door? 142 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,680 Your daughter is about to ring the doorbell, and it's out of order. 143 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:45,680 Remember? 144 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:46,680 But how did you... 145 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:47,680 You didn't... 146 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,040 Go and let her in, Lillian. 147 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,040 I'm eager to meet Jeannie. 148 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,080 Mama, guess what happened today? 149 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:59,040 Sally Bates fell off the seesaw and Miss Thompson had to drive her home and then... 150 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,640 Oh, I didn't know we had company. 151 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,280 This is your Uncle Clarence from India, dear. 152 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:05,280 Oh. 153 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:06,280 Yes. 154 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:10,520 She is the very image of her grandmother. 155 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:12,000 Was that Mother's mother? 156 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Yes, dear. 157 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,880 Mama and Uncle Clarence had the same mother, but different fathers. 158 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,000 Oh, then he's not really my uncle. 159 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,240 He's only my half-uncle. 160 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:24,480 I think, little Jeannie, that you will find we have a great deal in common, nevertheless. 161 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,040 You will be very close to your Uncle Clarence. 162 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:28,040 Very close. 163 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:29,760 What do you do, those funny things with your eyes? 164 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:30,760 Never mind, dear. 165 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,520 Uncle Clarence is tired from his long journey. 166 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:34,520 You come on upstairs. 167 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:35,520 Mom will help you change for dinner. 168 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:36,520 All right. 169 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,440 See you later, Uncle Clarence. 170 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,240 What's so funny, Doctor? 171 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:46,480 Oh, William, I do hope that my stay here won't be complicated by your rudeness. 172 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:48,360 Why did you try to frighten Jeannie just now? 173 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:53,520 My dear fellow, it's the very furthest thing from my wish is to frighten your child. 174 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,920 It is essential to my plan for her that she have confidence in me. 175 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,560 Now, look, get this straight, Clarence. 176 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,980 Your welcome in this house is a guess because you're my wife's brother. 177 00:08:02,980 --> 00:08:06,800 Your yogi ideas, or whatever they are, are welcome only so long as you keep them to yourself. 178 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,320 I quite intend to, William. 179 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,120 That too is part of my plan. 180 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,960 What is this plan you keep talking about? 181 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:24,440 For the time being, William, I will take your advice and keep that to myself. 182 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:34,720 Tonight for Suspense, Roma Wines bring you as star Mr. Laird Cregar, whom you have heard 183 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:39,280 in the prologue to Narrative About Clarence by Dwight Hauser and Robert Tallman. 184 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:50,200 Tonight's adventure in Suspense. 185 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,160 Let's leave the scene of our play for a moment and take a little journey. 186 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:56,360 Let a bottle of Roma wine serve as Aladdin's lamp. 187 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:02,360 I touch the label and presto, we're all transported to that capital of Geity, Havana, Cuba. 188 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,120 And now we find ourselves in the charming Pan American Club. 189 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:09,680 At a table nearby, an American has just voiced his delight at the uncommon beauty of the 190 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:10,680 scene. 191 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:15,160 Then his Cuban companion responds, you in America also have much that is uncommon to 192 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:19,980 boast of, such as this marvelous tasting wine we are enjoying this minute. 193 00:09:19,980 --> 00:09:25,980 To enjoy uncommon fine quality, Cuba imports this wine from your own distant California. 194 00:09:25,980 --> 00:09:28,780 It is your superb Roma wine. 195 00:09:28,780 --> 00:09:32,960 Now just realize what it means when other countries import Roma wines from such great 196 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:34,140 distances. 197 00:09:34,140 --> 00:09:39,680 Such international esteem must mean that Roma wines are truly magnificent in quality. 198 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:45,200 And then consider this, you here in America need pay no high import duty, no expensive 199 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:46,200 shipping charges. 200 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:51,480 For these fine Roma wines come from Roma's own wineries in the heart of the rich California 201 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,760 wine grape districts. 202 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:58,960 Because so many Americans do realize this good fortune, Roma wines are America's largest 203 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:00,640 selling wines. 204 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,320 So why deny yourself this taste delight? 205 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:08,640 Try an inexpensive bottle of tangy, appetizing Roma sherry, or the hearty Roma burgundy, 206 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,960 or any of the marvelously enjoyable Roma wines. 207 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:16,880 But remember, these days your favorite dealer may be temporarily out of the type you prefer. 208 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:18,080 Then please try again. 209 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:27,960 Ask for R-O-M-A, Roma wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 210 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:33,680 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage, our star, Laird Cregar, 211 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:53,160 with Hans Conrad in Narrative About Clarence, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 212 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:57,200 Well you see now how I was beginning to feel about my dear half-brother-in-law Clarence. 213 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:01,160 At first it was nothing but just pure hatred. 214 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,600 I didn't have any cause yet for fear. 215 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:05,960 And then came that day with little Jeannie. 216 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:09,680 It doesn't take much imagination to know what happened before I got home. 217 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:11,760 Mama, I'm already for school, huh? 218 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:12,760 Hello Jeannie. 219 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:13,760 Hello Uncle Clarence. 220 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:14,760 Did you see Mama? 221 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:19,960 Your mother's gone out for a while, but well, there's some good in everything, isn't there, 222 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:20,960 Jeannie? 223 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:22,520 This gives us a chance to get acquainted. 224 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,160 Well, I'll be late for school. 225 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:26,880 I'll bother the school. 226 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:31,240 I bet Sally Bates wouldn't worry about school if she had an uncle visiting her who'd come 227 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:32,880 all the way from India. 228 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:37,560 Do they really lie on beds of nails and all those things? 229 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:38,560 No. 230 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:40,360 Those are just the fakirs. 231 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,600 They do those stunts for money, like your circus performers over here. 232 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,520 I never saw anything like that at a circus. 233 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:50,200 Did you ever see anything like this, Jeannie? 234 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:51,200 Just a ring, isn't it? 235 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:52,200 Like a cat's eye. 236 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:56,280 Oh, it makes me dizzy to look at it. 237 00:11:56,280 --> 00:12:01,400 If you look at it long enough, you'll see all the mysterious secrets of the East. 238 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,840 I'm afraid to look again, Uncle Clarence. 239 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,800 That light in it, like a cat's eye, scares me. 240 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:07,800 Oh, come now. 241 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,920 A big girl like you afraid in the broad daylight. 242 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:14,240 Why do you do those funny things with your eyes? 243 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:18,320 Perhaps because my eyes see so many wonderful things. 244 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,840 Just as yours will if you will only look at the ring. 245 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,840 Is it magic? 246 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:25,840 Perhaps. 247 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,360 Look and see if it isn't. 248 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:34,040 Look right in the center of the cat's eye. 249 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,040 That's it. 250 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:40,640 It... it makes me feel sleepy. 251 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:42,640 That's the way it works. 252 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:49,000 First you feel terribly, terribly sleepy. 253 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,040 And then you see the most wonderful things. 254 00:12:53,040 --> 00:13:00,440 First you feel sleepy and... and then... 255 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:03,440 What's the matter with her? 256 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,440 She's coming around now. 257 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,440 Oh, Bill. 258 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,440 She's coming around. 259 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:13,440 Jeannie. 260 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,440 Jeannie, what's happened to you? 261 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:24,440 You needn't shout, Mother. 262 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:26,440 I can hear you quite well. 263 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,960 Oh, thank heaven you're all right. 264 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:30,960 She is all right, isn't she, Bill? 265 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:31,960 Huh? 266 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:32,960 Oh, sure, sure. 267 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,600 Do you feel well enough to go to school, dear? 268 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,280 I shan't be going back to that school, Mother. 269 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,280 Miss Thompson bores me. 270 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:41,280 What kind of talk is that? 271 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,720 I think we'll get a doctor for you, young lady. 272 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:44,720 Please, Father. 273 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:48,040 I will let you know when I'm in need of medical assistance. 274 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,040 Bill, she's not all right. 275 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:51,040 She's... 276 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:52,040 Just come outside with me, Mother. 277 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,040 You've got to sleep again now, Jeannie. 278 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,360 Bill, her whole personality has changed. 279 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,000 She speaks with that strange accent and a vocabulary like... 280 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,480 Tell me, where was Clarence? 281 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:04,200 Why were you getting that car out? 282 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,280 Why, in his room, I suppose. 283 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:08,720 Have you ever noticed that ring he wears? 284 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:09,720 Yes. 285 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,600 It's a cat's eye, isn't it? 286 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:12,800 Very well-defined cat's eye. 287 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,240 The kind of ring you always see on professional hypnotists. 288 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:18,120 It's dead easy to hypnotise a child, you know. 289 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:19,720 But why would he want to hypnotise Jeannie? 290 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:20,720 I don't know. 291 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,920 All I'm interested in is getting him out of this house as soon as possible. 292 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,920 I'm going in there and give him his walking papers right now. 293 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:30,920 That won't be necessary, William. 294 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:33,320 Clarence, we didn't hear you come in. 295 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:34,800 Obviously not. 296 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:39,120 William, I believe I remarked to you on a previous occasion that I hoped my stay here 297 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,040 would not be complicated by your rudeness. 298 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:43,240 It won't be, Clarence. 299 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:44,640 Your stay here is at an end. 300 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:46,320 Lillian, I want to talk with you alone. 301 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,920 You can say anything you have to say to me in front of my husband, Clarence. 302 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:54,320 I dare say it is my wish, however, to speak with you alone. 303 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:55,400 I've had enough. 304 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:56,400 I'm sorry, Lillian. 305 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:57,800 I don't care whether he's your brother or not. 306 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:00,240 I'm telling him to get out of here and get out now. 307 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:02,000 I'll call a taxi while you're packing, Clarence. 308 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:03,960 The irate brother-in-law. 309 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,120 What a tiresome exhibition. 310 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:10,160 I'm surprised at a woman of your intelligence becoming involved with such a bore, Lillian. 311 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:11,640 All right, you asked for it. 312 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:13,240 Don't do it, Bill. 313 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:14,600 Clarence just doesn't understand. 314 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:16,200 He's been away for so long. 315 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:18,000 I'm sick of hearing your excuses for him. 316 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,400 The time's come for a showdown. 317 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:20,520 No, William. 318 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,600 The time has not come for a showdown. 319 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:25,280 Not for a while yet. 320 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,120 I will let you know when that time comes. 321 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:29,120 You'll let me know? 322 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:30,120 Bill, please. 323 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,080 Let me explain to Clarence alone if he likes. 324 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:34,240 I won't leave you alone, William. 325 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,160 Oh, don't be melodramatic, William. 326 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:37,840 I'll kill you, so help me. 327 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:39,840 Bill, please, please. 328 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:40,840 All right. 329 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:41,840 I'm sorry. 330 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,080 I'll give you 10 minutes, Clarence. 331 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:44,080 No more. 332 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:45,600 10 minutes will be ample. 333 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:53,920 I think Lillian and I can come to an excellent understanding in 10 minutes. 334 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,440 Those 10 minutes seemed like an eternity. 335 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:01,200 I could hear Lillian's voice speaking very quietly as if reasoning with him and his hateful, 336 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:02,800 velvety accents replying. 337 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:06,680 And then, quite suddenly, there seemed to be only one voice, Clarence's. 338 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:08,640 I looked at my watch. 339 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,080 The 10 minutes were up. 340 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:13,080 The door opened. 341 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,520 Clarence stood there in the doorway and he was laughing. 342 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:19,840 What have you done to her? 343 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:24,040 What have you done? 344 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,200 Lillian was lying on the sofa, unconscious. 345 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,560 Her eyes were rolled back hideously so that only the whites of them showed. 346 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:33,480 She's not dead, William, only thinking over our conversation. 347 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:35,040 Bring her out of it, do you hear me? 348 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:36,040 Bring her out of it or I'll... 349 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,440 What will you do, William? 350 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:39,440 I'll kill you! 351 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:43,160 You're not hurting me, William. 352 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:44,640 You're hurting her. 353 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:45,640 I... 354 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:46,640 What? 355 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:48,640 Look at her. 356 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:51,200 See how she rise in agony. 357 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,240 See how she clutches her throat. 358 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,240 You win, Clarence. 359 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,880 Of course. 360 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:04,520 How could you hope with your poor, undeveloped, occidental mind to match wits against me, 361 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,840 who have penetrated the deepest mysteries of the occult? 362 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:10,880 You're nothing but a cheap hypnotist. 363 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,720 Any vaudeville mind reader could do the things you do if he was sufficiently lacking in human 364 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:15,720 decency. 365 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:16,720 Be careful, William. 366 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,720 I shouldn't like to have to punish you for your rudeness. 367 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:20,720 What do you want of us? 368 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:24,680 I'll give you anything I own if you'll just take it and go away. 369 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,880 It's not so easy as all that, William. 370 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:32,920 Because you see, I want the lives of your wife and child. 371 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:44,600 I knew then that he was insane, and that realization filled me with hope. 372 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:50,040 It'd be quite simple to call in an alienist and have him committed to an asylum. 373 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:54,040 When Lillian regained consciousness, she insisted on his staying, as I expected. 374 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:58,280 I humoured her along, knowing she was acting on his hypnotic suggestions. 375 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:02,360 I was reasonably certain he would do nothing violent that night. 376 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:05,400 His was the slow, sadistic way of murder. 377 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,680 When daylight came, I stole quietly out of the house. 378 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:13,280 I did not risk calling the asylum on our telephone for fear of being overheard. 379 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:17,000 My wife and daughter were still peacefully sleeping when I returned. 380 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:23,520 And now I slept, too. 381 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:27,400 Good morning. 382 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,600 I'm Dr. Millow, the state institute. 383 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:30,600 Yes, yes, I know. 384 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:31,600 Come in, please, doctor. 385 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,960 Are you the person who put in the call about... 386 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:39,080 Yes, yes, it would be better not to speak too loudly, Dr. Millow. 387 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:42,240 We might be overheard, and that might cause difficulties. 388 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:45,800 Oh, yes, yes, I see. 389 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:49,720 Well, tell me about the patient. 390 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,080 I told him the whole story, word for word, as it had happened. 391 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:54,680 It was unknown better. 392 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,200 When I'd finished, there was disbelief written all over his face. 393 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:02,800 Mr. Gilchrist, I don't for a moment doubt that you have an unwelcome relative on your 394 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:07,480 hands who is probably emotionally highly unstable as well. 395 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:12,440 But isn't it possible that you're exaggerating certain aspects of the matter? 396 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:13,440 I mean... 397 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,080 If Dr. Millow asks you to examine the man and draw your own conclusions as to his sanity... 398 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,040 I'd be glad to. 399 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:20,880 Where is he now? 400 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:25,400 I think William has probably been talking to you about me, doctor. 401 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,720 Sit down, won't you? 402 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:30,160 Thank you. 403 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:34,760 Really, I must apologize for your being inconvenienced this way, doctor. 404 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:40,000 I try to keep an eye on William, but one must sleep, you know, and, well, occasionally 405 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,520 he lewds me and gets out of the house. 406 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:47,680 I suppose he's told you that I'm a hypnotist and that I wish to murder his wife and child. 407 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:49,000 Why do you think he told me that? 408 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Well, it's always the same story. 409 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,640 Why should I believe your story rather than Mr. Gilchrist's? 410 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,880 Mine is a little easier to believe, I should think. 411 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:58,720 But if you wish further proof... 412 00:19:58,720 --> 00:19:59,720 Oh, Lillian! 413 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:00,720 Yes, Clarence? 414 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:02,560 Come down here, will you? 415 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:04,560 William's got out again and told that story. 416 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,800 I'll be right down. 417 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:08,200 And bring Jeannie with you. 418 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,120 You dare bring my daughter into this? 419 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:11,120 His daughter doesn't know. 420 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:13,120 You'll be tactful, won't you, doctor? 421 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:14,720 Yes, of course. 422 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,480 Bill, what is the meaning of this? 423 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:22,880 Haven't we warned you time and again what might happen if you go out like that? 424 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:24,960 Oh, Lillian, you don't know what you're saying. 425 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,560 This man is your husband, madam? 426 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,080 Yes. 427 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,960 He's been under the care of a psychiatrist for several years now. 428 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:34,800 He seemed to be getting better. 429 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,840 I'm sure he's getting better. 430 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,920 The doctor said we must expect little lapses. 431 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,200 Oh, she doesn't know what she's saying, doctor. 432 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,000 She's acting under his hypnotic suggestion. 433 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,640 And this young lady? 434 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:49,160 He hypnotised her, too. 435 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:50,160 Is that true? 436 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,280 I don't know what that means, hypnotised. 437 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,040 Daddy's always saying it, but he never says what it means. 438 00:20:56,040 --> 00:21:00,080 Well, this seems to clear up the situation pretty thoroughly. 439 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:04,400 If you have any further trouble, Mr. Gilchrist, let me know. 440 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:05,400 You think I'm crazy? 441 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,600 No, I don't. 442 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:11,600 I'm sure that your wife is quite right, Mr. Gilchrist. 443 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:25,120 You're getting better every day. 444 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:28,800 He was insane and diabolically insane. 445 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:30,440 I had to face the unalterable fact. 446 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:36,840 There was only one way to cope with him, and that was to kill him. 447 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,200 But I had to do it while my wife and daughter were out of the house. 448 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,280 I couldn't risk facing with a gun. 449 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,600 I didn't trust myself not to fall under his hypnotic spell. 450 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,040 The way I decided on it was the best way I could think of. 451 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:53,320 When I'd finished my preparations, I waited for Clarence. 452 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:57,040 Good evening, William. 453 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:58,880 Clarence, for the last time... 454 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,880 Oh, William, I'm very tired and I have a very busy day ahead of me tomorrow. 455 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:07,520 I have no wish to repeat that very tiresome conversation with which you invariably begin, 456 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,360 Clarence, for the last time. 457 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:11,120 This is the last time, Clarence. 458 00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:12,800 Tonight, nothing will stop me. 459 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,840 Tonight, I am going to kill you. 460 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:18,240 Please, don't make another unnecessary scene, William. 461 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,800 You know that trying to hurt me only hurts your wife. 462 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:23,260 She's no longer hypnotized, Clarence. 463 00:22:23,260 --> 00:22:24,800 You stayed away too long. 464 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,960 She and Jeannie are safely out of your reach now. 465 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,840 What makes you so sure of that? 466 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,520 Are you sure of anything anymore? 467 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,720 Dr. Miller thought you were insane. 468 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,920 Are you quite sure you're not? 469 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,160 I'm crazy enough to know that I've got to kill you. 470 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:40,160 Well, do it quietly, William. 471 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,720 I'm going straight to bed and to sleep and I don't want to be disturbed. 472 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:43,720 Good night. 473 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,480 Just a minute, Clarence. 474 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:46,480 Maybe you'll win again. 475 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:47,480 I don't know. 476 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,000 But just in case you don't... 477 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Yes? 478 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:56,680 Tell me, why do you say you want to kill my wife and child? 479 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:01,920 Because my mother meant more to me than anything in the world. 480 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:07,800 She died in giving birth to this silly, shallow person you call your wife. 481 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,360 I have hated her since the day she was born. 482 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:16,320 And I hate the child because having no right to life, she commits the sacrilege of inheriting 483 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,240 my mother's beauty. 484 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:22,860 They must both be destroyed, the murderer and the imposter. 485 00:23:22,860 --> 00:23:24,640 You are mad. 486 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,640 Madder than I ever dreamed you were. 487 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,920 Am I? 488 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:34,760 Did I really say what you think you just heard me say? 489 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:39,000 Or is it only part of your insanity? 490 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Take it over, William. 491 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,000 Good night. 492 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,000 I had everything ready. 493 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:51,280 The heavy boards to nail across the door, the cotton waste and a gallon of benzene. 494 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,200 The shutters over the window of his room I'd already nailed shut and barred. 495 00:23:55,200 --> 00:24:00,200 As I nailed the boards across the door, I felt as if I were driving nails into his cup. 496 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:01,200 William! 497 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:02,200 William, stop it! 498 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:03,200 You don't know what you're doing! 499 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,200 Lillian and Jeannie are upstairs. 500 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,200 They came in the back way. 501 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:10,200 William! 502 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,200 Where are your great powers now, Clarence? 503 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:13,200 Where are you, fool? 504 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,200 Can the secrets of the East help you now? 505 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:17,200 You're trapped, Clarence. 506 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,200 Get out of your mind, William. 507 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,200 In a moment, the whole house will be in flames. 508 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:22,200 You'll be burned alive. 509 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:23,200 You don't know what you're doing, William. 510 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:24,200 Listen, Clarence. 511 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,200 Listen, I'm striking the match now. 512 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,200 You smell the smoke, Clarence? 513 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,200 Never mind. You will in a moment. 514 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,200 Oh, I wish you could see the flames now, Clarence. 515 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,200 They're roaring up the stairwell. 516 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:39,200 You don't know what you're doing, William. 517 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:40,200 It's beautiful. 518 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:41,200 You fool! 519 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,200 I'll have to leave you now, Clarence. 520 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,200 It's getting too warm in here for me. 521 00:24:46,200 --> 00:25:11,200 But you should be used to being, though, after all those years in India. 522 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:12,200 And I laughed. 523 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,200 I laughed. 524 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:18,200 I guess the relief from all that tension. 525 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:23,200 Well, that's the story, Doctor. 526 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,200 Then I must have fainted or something from the smoke. 527 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,200 I don't remember anything after that till I woke up in this place. 528 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,200 And what about your wife and daughter? 529 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,200 Oh, that's just it. 530 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,200 I haven't seen them since that afternoon. 531 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:36,200 That's why I've got to get out of here. 532 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:37,200 I've got to find them. 533 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:38,200 Can't you understand, Clarence? 534 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:39,200 Yes, yes, yes. 535 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:40,200 I can understand that very well. 536 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:44,200 Will you talk to someone the head of this place and tell him that and let me out? 537 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,200 I shouldn't be locked up here in an institution. 538 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,200 Yes, yes. 539 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:48,200 I'll talk to him, Bill. 540 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:49,200 That's a promise. 541 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:50,200 I'll do it right now. 542 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,200 Goodbye. 543 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:52,200 Goodbye, Doctor. 544 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:53,200 Pardon me. 545 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:54,200 The head's office, Doctor... 546 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,200 Doctor Crossman. 547 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,200 You'll find him right through there. 548 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:57,200 Thank you. 549 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:58,200 Oh, pardon me. 550 00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,200 Doctor Crossman? 551 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:00,200 Yes. 552 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:01,200 Oh. 553 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,200 Oh, how do you do, sir? 554 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:03,200 Have you found my little sanitarium interest? 555 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:10,200 Yes, indeed. 556 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,200 By the way, most unusual case. 557 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,200 I've just been talking to... 558 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,200 Yes, I know. 559 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,200 Oh, to poor William. 560 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,200 Bill, that is, number 27. 561 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:22,200 Yes, but... 562 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,200 I'm sorry that you had to be in convenience that way, sir. 563 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:31,200 We do our best to keep the garrulous patients well out of a visiting doctor's way, but accidents 564 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:32,200 will happen. 565 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:33,200 Oh, that. 566 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:34,200 I ran into him, Doctor Crossman. 567 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:35,200 His story interests me very much. 568 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,200 He doesn't strike me as a homicidal lunatic. 569 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:39,200 No, he's not. 570 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:43,200 This idea of his that he committed a murder is simply a fantasy. 571 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,200 Are you absolutely sure of that? 572 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:46,200 Of course. 573 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,200 Because... 574 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:52,200 Well, you see, I am Clarence, the wicked brother-in-law in his story. 575 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:53,200 You? 576 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:58,200 He began to develop these extraordinary symptoms during my stay at his home when I first returned 577 00:26:58,200 --> 00:26:59,200 from India. 578 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,200 Parts of his story, you see, are quite accurate. 579 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,200 I see. 580 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,200 It's a pity, of course. 581 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:09,200 He was doing quite nicely under treatment until his wife and child were burned to death 582 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,200 so tragically in the fire that destroyed their home. 583 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:18,200 I'm afraid that that event on top of his previous delusions unhinged him for good. 584 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,200 And where were you during the fire, Doctor Crossman? 585 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,200 Oh, I dined out that evening. 586 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,200 When I returned, it was all over. 587 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,200 Well, I certainly should write this case up. 588 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,200 It's one of the most interesting I've ever run across. 589 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,200 Oh, must you, Doctor? 590 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,200 I mean, poor chap, I feel he's entitled at least to some privacy. 591 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:40,200 Have you any personal reasons for wanting to keep this case quiet, sir? 592 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,200 Yes, I have. 593 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,200 Do you see this scar on my face? 594 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,200 That's a burn, wasn't it? 595 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:47,200 A very nasty burn, too. 596 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,200 Precisely, Doctor. 597 00:27:49,200 --> 00:28:03,200 And a very nasty coincidence. 598 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:07,200 And so closes narrative about Clarence starring Laird Cregar with Hans Conry, 599 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,200 tonight's tale of suspense. 600 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:15,200 Laird Cregar is currently being seen in the 20th Century Fox production, The Lodger. 601 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,200 We sincerely hope you enjoyed the performance of Mr. Cregar 602 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,200 and that of the whole cast tonight in our Roma suspense play. 603 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:21,200 And here's a thought. 604 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,200 To discover the enjoyment these suspense programs offer, 605 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,200 you first had to sample one. 606 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:30,200 And so you must first sample one of the many delicious Roma wines 607 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,200 to discover for yourself their wonderful taste and quality, 608 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:38,200 the excellence that makes Roma America's largest selling wines. 609 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,200 You'll discover, as of other millions before you, 610 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:44,200 that Roma wines are super quality, are super tasting, 611 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:49,200 and are super easy on your pocketbook, too, costing only pennies a glass. 612 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,200 Wipe it off this taste treat another day. 613 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:56,200 Be sure you get R-O-M-A, Roma wines, 614 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,200 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 615 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,200 This is Laird Cregar. 616 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,200 It is my very great pleasure to tell you that next week, 617 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:09,200 the star who will keep you in suspense will be Joseph Cotton. 618 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,200 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 619 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:16,200 Don't forget then next Monday, same time for Joseph Cotton in Suspense. 620 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,200 Presented by Roma wines, 621 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,200 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 622 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:50,200 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.