WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:18.000 Roma wines present Suspense. 00:18.000 --> 00:22.840 Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:22.840 --> 00:23.840 Salud. 00:23.840 --> 00:25.280 Your health, senor. 00:25.280 --> 00:27.500 Roma wines toast the world. 00:27.500 --> 00:33.040 The wine for your table is Roma wine made in California for enjoyment throughout the 00:33.040 --> 00:34.040 world. 00:34.040 --> 00:40.000 This is the man in black here for the Roma wine company of Fresno, California to introduce 00:40.000 --> 00:42.920 this weekly half hour of Suspense. 00:42.920 --> 00:49.040 Tonight from Hollywood, Roma wines bring you Mr. Laird Krieger in a suspense play dealing 00:49.040 --> 00:53.720 with a maniacal hatred and with a mental drug of hypnotics. 00:53.720 --> 00:58.920 And so with Narrative About Clarence and with the performance of Laird Krieger supported 00:58.920 --> 01:13.920 by Hans Conrad as Bill from whom we hear the narrative, we again hope to keep you in Suspense. 01:13.920 --> 01:18.320 I never wanted to kill anyone, not until he came along. 01:18.320 --> 01:19.880 I didn't even want to kill him at first. 01:19.880 --> 01:22.280 I kept thinking there must be some other way. 01:22.280 --> 01:26.000 If anybody had told me six months ago that I was capable of murder, I would have thought 01:26.000 --> 01:27.000 he was crazy. 01:27.000 --> 01:29.720 What I'm getting at is this. 01:29.720 --> 01:34.040 There are circumstances, people, that can make anybody want to commit murder. 01:34.040 --> 01:36.500 And he, he was one of those people. 01:36.500 --> 01:38.680 He brought the circumstances with him, a whole set of them. 01:38.680 --> 01:41.120 I never heard of the guy at all one day last summer. 01:41.120 --> 01:42.920 We were having breakfast. 01:42.920 --> 01:44.760 My wife was looking over the morning mail. 01:44.760 --> 01:46.920 Bill, look at this. 01:46.920 --> 01:47.920 Postmark Calcutta. 01:47.920 --> 01:50.400 It must be from Clarence. 01:50.400 --> 01:51.400 Who's Clarence? 01:51.400 --> 01:52.400 He's my brother. 01:52.400 --> 01:54.440 You never told me you had a brother. 01:54.440 --> 01:55.440 Didn't I? 01:55.440 --> 01:57.480 Well, it's not so surprising. 01:57.480 --> 02:01.320 He's only my half brother and I haven't seen him since I was a child. 02:01.320 --> 02:03.360 He's never even written to me before. 02:03.360 --> 02:04.360 That's funny. 02:04.360 --> 02:06.240 I wonder why he decided to write now. 02:06.240 --> 02:09.240 I can't imagine. 02:09.240 --> 02:12.640 What does he say? 02:12.640 --> 02:14.480 He's coming to America. 02:14.480 --> 02:15.480 What for? 02:15.480 --> 02:17.280 Now, Bill, don't be like that. 02:17.280 --> 02:19.240 Well, you're not going to ask him to stay with us, are you? 02:19.240 --> 02:20.240 Well, what else can I do? 02:20.240 --> 02:21.760 He says he's coming straight here from the boat. 02:21.760 --> 02:22.760 Well, so what? 02:22.760 --> 02:24.720 There are several first class hotels in this town. 02:24.720 --> 02:29.560 Well, I'll just ask him kind of half-heartedly so he can refuse if he wants to. 02:29.560 --> 02:30.560 Good girl. 02:30.560 --> 02:33.280 There's just one thing that worries me. 02:33.280 --> 02:34.880 What's that? 02:34.880 --> 02:39.920 He says at the end of the letter, I'm most anxious to meet your daughter, who it has 02:39.920 --> 02:42.880 been revealed to me closely resembles her grandmother. 02:42.880 --> 02:46.300 Well, Jeannie does look like the pictures of your mother at that. 02:46.300 --> 02:48.040 But how does he know? 02:48.040 --> 02:50.440 He couldn't even know we have a child. 02:50.440 --> 02:51.440 Unless... 02:51.440 --> 02:52.440 Unless what? 02:52.440 --> 03:04.800 Well, unless someone told him or unless it was revealed to him in some mysterious way. 03:04.800 --> 03:05.800 I didn't like that. 03:05.800 --> 03:06.800 I didn't like it at all. 03:06.800 --> 03:08.800 There's everything I hate that's a fake. 03:08.800 --> 03:13.000 And if that guy with his winged collar and his high-toned accent didn't look like a fake, 03:13.000 --> 03:14.000 then nobody ever did. 03:14.000 --> 03:16.800 But he wasn't a fake. 03:16.800 --> 03:18.360 He didn't arrive at our house. 03:18.360 --> 03:22.520 He seemed to materialize in the middle of the living room. 03:22.520 --> 03:27.720 Well, Lillian, don't you recognize me? 03:27.720 --> 03:28.720 Why... 03:28.720 --> 03:31.120 Why, yes, Clarence. 03:31.120 --> 03:32.960 How are you, Clarence? 03:32.960 --> 03:33.960 This is Bill, my husband. 03:33.960 --> 03:35.640 I know. 03:35.640 --> 03:38.320 I hope you'll forgive my rather unconventional entrance. 03:38.320 --> 03:42.080 As your doorbell is out of order, I didn't bother to push the button. 03:42.080 --> 03:44.120 Well, hello. 03:44.120 --> 03:46.080 I didn't know the doorbell was out of order, Lillian. 03:46.080 --> 03:48.280 Neither did I. 03:48.280 --> 03:50.960 Well, won't you sit down, Clarence? 03:50.960 --> 03:53.560 Oh, yes, thank you. 03:53.560 --> 03:54.560 Have a good trip. 03:54.560 --> 03:55.560 Excellent. 03:55.560 --> 03:57.920 But let's not dwell on the past. 03:57.920 --> 03:59.880 I have plans, Lillian. 03:59.880 --> 04:04.120 First of all, I intend to settle here in this town permanently. 04:04.120 --> 04:05.120 How nice. 04:05.120 --> 04:09.600 I intend to resume my career in America where it left off 15 years ago. 04:09.600 --> 04:14.400 Your wife's look of distress, William, is owing to an unfortunate incident that occurred 04:14.400 --> 04:20.880 15 years ago and made it expedient for me to leave the country for a while. 04:20.880 --> 04:23.040 It was all a misunderstanding, Bill. 04:23.040 --> 04:24.800 I don't quite know what you're talking about. 04:24.800 --> 04:26.360 She's told you nothing about me. 04:26.360 --> 04:27.360 How strange. 04:27.360 --> 04:30.440 Well, only that you're a doctor and... 04:30.440 --> 04:31.640 Doctor? 04:31.640 --> 04:34.080 What an inadequate word. 04:34.080 --> 04:39.160 It suggests a little man you call in when the baby gets whooping cough, doesn't it? 04:39.160 --> 04:42.400 What's the matter with the little man I call in when the baby gets whooping cough? 04:42.400 --> 04:44.840 Well, he is, shall we say, limited. 04:44.840 --> 04:47.880 Yes, yes, that's the kindly word for it. 04:47.880 --> 04:56.120 The mind, William, the human mind, with all its strange powers for good and evil. 04:56.120 --> 04:57.440 That is my province. 04:57.440 --> 04:59.600 Clarence was a mental scientist. 04:59.600 --> 05:01.960 He had a small private hospital and... 05:01.960 --> 05:03.280 Oh, how drab. 05:03.280 --> 05:07.080 How unendurably drab you make it sound, Lillian. 05:07.080 --> 05:10.800 I penetrated deep into the mysteries of the human mind. 05:10.800 --> 05:16.000 And then I discovered a psychic power transcending the mere grey matter of the human brain. 05:16.000 --> 05:18.160 Clarence became interested in the occult. 05:18.160 --> 05:21.920 You mean that Indian faker stuff, going into trances and stuff like that? 05:21.920 --> 05:23.520 How crudely you put it, William. 05:23.520 --> 05:24.520 I'm sorry. 05:24.520 --> 05:25.520 Go on with your story. 05:25.520 --> 05:27.680 I'll go on with it for you. 05:27.680 --> 05:33.200 You started using this mysterious East hocus pocus and your mental patients and their relatives 05:33.200 --> 05:35.680 got sore, right? 05:35.680 --> 05:38.400 Your husband, Lillian, is a man of rare perception. 05:38.400 --> 05:39.400 Yeah. 05:39.400 --> 05:42.360 So now you're back from India with a new bag of tricks and you're going to set up shop 05:42.360 --> 05:43.360 again. 05:43.360 --> 05:44.360 Precisely, William. 05:44.360 --> 05:48.520 There's only one thing wrong with your statement, the tone of it. 05:48.520 --> 05:52.920 I intend to establish a small private sanitarium dedicated to the treatment of the mentally 05:52.920 --> 05:54.440 ill. 05:54.440 --> 06:00.360 And I shall continue my investigations into what your wife chooses to call the occult. 06:00.360 --> 06:01.360 Is that clear? 06:01.360 --> 06:02.360 Quite clear. 06:02.360 --> 06:07.460 Now then, Lillian, you will prepare the little room off William's study for me, the one 06:07.460 --> 06:09.120 with the dark green walls. 06:09.120 --> 06:13.800 Well, of course, you're welcome to stay with us if you want to, Clarence, but the house 06:13.800 --> 06:15.120 is rather small and... 06:15.120 --> 06:16.680 Yes, yes, yes. 06:16.680 --> 06:18.480 It's fortunate that the house is small. 06:18.480 --> 06:19.480 I'd counted on that. 06:19.480 --> 06:22.000 You seemed to have counted on a great deal, Clarence. 06:22.000 --> 06:24.760 By the way, how'd you know that the room has green walls? 06:24.760 --> 06:26.040 Yes, and how did you know? 06:26.040 --> 06:32.560 My dear, engaging kinsmen, all things are revealed to him who can survive the ordeal 06:32.560 --> 06:34.840 of true enlightenment. 06:34.840 --> 06:38.280 That is as much as I'm permitted to tell you at the present time. 06:38.280 --> 06:40.800 And now, will you be so good as to open the outside door? 06:40.800 --> 06:44.680 Your daughter is about to ring the doorbell, and it's out of order. 06:44.680 --> 06:45.680 Remember? 06:45.680 --> 06:46.680 But how did you... 06:46.680 --> 06:47.680 You didn't... 06:47.680 --> 06:50.040 Go and let her in, Lillian. 06:50.040 --> 06:52.040 I'm eager to meet Jeannie. 06:52.040 --> 06:55.080 Mama, guess what happened today? 06:55.080 --> 06:59.040 Sally Bates fell off the seesaw and Miss Thompson had to drive her home and then... 06:59.040 --> 07:01.640 Oh, I didn't know we had company. 07:01.640 --> 07:04.280 This is your Uncle Clarence from India, dear. 07:04.280 --> 07:05.280 Oh. 07:05.280 --> 07:06.280 Yes. 07:06.280 --> 07:10.520 She is the very image of her grandmother. 07:10.520 --> 07:12.000 Was that Mother's mother? 07:12.000 --> 07:13.000 Yes, dear. 07:13.000 --> 07:15.880 Mama and Uncle Clarence had the same mother, but different fathers. 07:15.880 --> 07:18.000 Oh, then he's not really my uncle. 07:18.000 --> 07:19.240 He's only my half-uncle. 07:19.240 --> 07:24.480 I think, little Jeannie, that you will find we have a great deal in common, nevertheless. 07:24.480 --> 07:27.040 You will be very close to your Uncle Clarence. 07:27.040 --> 07:28.040 Very close. 07:28.040 --> 07:29.760 What do you do, those funny things with your eyes? 07:29.760 --> 07:30.760 Never mind, dear. 07:30.760 --> 07:33.520 Uncle Clarence is tired from his long journey. 07:33.520 --> 07:34.520 You come on upstairs. 07:34.520 --> 07:35.520 Mom will help you change for dinner. 07:35.520 --> 07:36.520 All right. 07:36.520 --> 07:39.440 See you later, Uncle Clarence. 07:39.440 --> 07:41.240 What's so funny, Doctor? 07:41.240 --> 07:46.480 Oh, William, I do hope that my stay here won't be complicated by your rudeness. 07:46.480 --> 07:48.360 Why did you try to frighten Jeannie just now? 07:48.360 --> 07:53.520 My dear fellow, it's the very furthest thing from my wish is to frighten your child. 07:53.520 --> 07:56.920 It is essential to my plan for her that she have confidence in me. 07:56.920 --> 07:59.560 Now, look, get this straight, Clarence. 07:59.560 --> 08:02.980 Your welcome in this house is a guess because you're my wife's brother. 08:02.980 --> 08:06.800 Your yogi ideas, or whatever they are, are welcome only so long as you keep them to yourself. 08:06.800 --> 08:09.320 I quite intend to, William. 08:09.320 --> 08:12.120 That too is part of my plan. 08:12.120 --> 08:14.960 What is this plan you keep talking about? 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11:11.760 --> 11:12.760 Hello Jeannie. 11:12.760 --> 11:13.760 Hello Uncle Clarence. 11:13.760 --> 11:14.760 Did you see Mama? 11:14.760 --> 11:19.960 Your mother's gone out for a while, but well, there's some good in everything, isn't there, 11:19.960 --> 11:20.960 Jeannie? 11:20.960 --> 11:22.520 This gives us a chance to get acquainted. 11:22.520 --> 11:25.160 Well, I'll be late for school. 11:25.160 --> 11:26.880 I'll bother the school. 11:26.880 --> 11:31.240 I bet Sally Bates wouldn't worry about school if she had an uncle visiting her who'd come 11:31.240 --> 11:32.880 all the way from India. 11:32.880 --> 11:37.560 Do they really lie on beds of nails and all those things? 11:37.560 --> 11:38.560 No. 11:38.560 --> 11:40.360 Those are just the fakirs. 11:40.360 --> 11:43.600 They do those stunts for money, like your circus performers over here. 11:43.600 --> 11:46.520 I never saw anything like that at a circus. 11:46.520 --> 11:50.200 Did you ever see anything like this, Jeannie? 11:50.200 --> 11:51.200 Just a ring, isn't it? 11:51.200 --> 11:52.200 Like a cat's eye. 11:52.200 --> 11:56.280 Oh, it makes me dizzy to look at it. 11:56.280 --> 12:01.400 If you look at it long enough, you'll see all the mysterious secrets of the East. 12:01.400 --> 12:03.840 I'm afraid to look again, Uncle Clarence. 12:03.840 --> 12:06.800 That light in it, like a cat's eye, scares me. 12:06.800 --> 12:07.800 Oh, come now. 12:07.800 --> 12:10.920 A big girl like you afraid in the broad daylight. 12:10.920 --> 12:14.240 Why do you do those funny things with your eyes? 12:14.240 --> 12:18.320 Perhaps because my eyes see so many wonderful things. 12:18.320 --> 12:21.840 Just as yours will if you will only look at the ring. 12:21.840 --> 12:24.840 Is it magic? 12:24.840 --> 12:25.840 Perhaps. 12:25.840 --> 12:29.360 Look and see if it isn't. 12:29.360 --> 12:34.040 Look right in the center of the cat's eye. 12:34.040 --> 12:36.040 That's it. 12:36.040 --> 12:40.640 It... it makes me feel sleepy. 12:40.640 --> 12:42.640 That's the way it works. 12:42.640 --> 12:49.000 First you feel terribly, terribly sleepy. 12:49.000 --> 12:53.040 And then you see the most wonderful things. 12:53.040 --> 13:00.440 First you feel sleepy and... and then... 13:00.440 --> 13:03.440 What's the matter with her? 13:03.440 --> 13:06.440 She's coming around now. 13:06.440 --> 13:09.440 Oh, Bill. 13:09.440 --> 13:12.440 She's coming around. 13:12.440 --> 13:13.440 Jeannie. 13:13.440 --> 13:16.440 Jeannie, what's happened to you? 13:16.440 --> 13:24.440 You needn't shout, Mother. 13:24.440 --> 13:26.440 I can hear you quite well. 13:26.440 --> 13:28.960 Oh, thank heaven you're all right. 13:28.960 --> 13:30.960 She is all right, isn't she, Bill? 13:30.960 --> 13:31.960 Huh? 13:31.960 --> 13:32.960 Oh, sure, sure. 13:32.960 --> 13:35.600 Do you feel well enough to go to school, dear? 13:35.600 --> 13:38.280 I shan't be going back to that school, Mother. 13:38.280 --> 13:40.280 Miss Thompson bores me. 13:40.280 --> 13:41.280 What kind of talk is that? 13:41.280 --> 13:43.720 I think we'll get a doctor for you, young lady. 13:43.720 --> 13:44.720 Please, Father. 13:44.720 --> 13:48.040 I will let you know when I'm in need of medical assistance. 13:48.040 --> 13:50.040 Bill, she's not all right. 13:50.040 --> 13:51.040 She's... 13:51.040 --> 13:52.040 Just come outside with me, Mother. 13:52.040 --> 13:55.040 You've got to sleep again now, Jeannie. 13:55.040 --> 13:58.360 Bill, her whole personality has changed. 13:58.360 --> 14:01.000 She speaks with that strange accent and a vocabulary like... 14:01.000 --> 14:02.480 Tell me, where was Clarence? 14:02.480 --> 14:04.200 Why were you getting that car out? 14:04.200 --> 14:06.280 Why, in his room, I suppose. 14:06.280 --> 14:08.720 Have you ever noticed that ring he wears? 14:08.720 --> 14:09.720 Yes. 14:09.720 --> 14:11.600 It's a cat's eye, isn't it? 14:11.600 --> 14:12.800 Very well-defined cat's eye. 14:12.800 --> 14:15.240 The kind of ring you always see on professional hypnotists. 14:15.240 --> 14:18.120 It's dead easy to hypnotise a child, you know. 14:18.120 --> 14:19.720 But why would he want to hypnotise Jeannie? 14:19.720 --> 14:20.720 I don't know. 14:20.720 --> 14:24.920 All I'm interested in is getting him out of this house as soon as possible. 14:24.920 --> 14:28.920 I'm going in there and give him his walking papers right now. 14:28.920 --> 14:30.920 That won't be necessary, William. 14:30.920 --> 14:33.320 Clarence, we didn't hear you come in. 14:33.320 --> 14:34.800 Obviously not. 14:34.800 --> 14:39.120 William, I believe I remarked to you on a previous occasion that I hoped my stay here 14:39.120 --> 14:42.040 would not be complicated by your rudeness. 14:42.040 --> 14:43.240 It won't be, Clarence. 14:43.240 --> 14:44.640 Your stay here is at an end. 14:44.640 --> 14:46.320 Lillian, I want to talk with you alone. 14:46.320 --> 14:48.920 You can say anything you have to say to me in front of my husband, Clarence. 14:48.920 --> 14:54.320 I dare say it is my wish, however, to speak with you alone. 14:54.320 --> 14:55.400 I've had enough. 14:55.400 --> 14:56.400 I'm sorry, Lillian. 14:56.400 --> 14:57.800 I don't care whether he's your brother or not. 14:57.800 --> 15:00.240 I'm telling him to get out of here and get out now. 15:00.240 --> 15:02.000 I'll call a taxi while you're packing, Clarence. 15:02.000 --> 15:03.960 The irate brother-in-law. 15:03.960 --> 15:06.120 What a tiresome exhibition. 15:06.120 --> 15:10.160 I'm surprised at a woman of your intelligence becoming involved with such a bore, Lillian. 15:10.160 --> 15:11.640 All right, you asked for it. 15:11.640 --> 15:13.240 Don't do it, Bill. 15:13.240 --> 15:14.600 Clarence just doesn't understand. 15:14.600 --> 15:16.200 He's been away for so long. 15:16.200 --> 15:18.000 I'm sick of hearing your excuses for him. 15:18.000 --> 15:19.400 The time's come for a showdown. 15:19.400 --> 15:20.520 No, William. 15:20.520 --> 15:23.600 The time has not come for a showdown. 15:23.600 --> 15:25.280 Not for a while yet. 15:25.280 --> 15:28.120 I will let you know when that time comes. 15:28.120 --> 15:29.120 You'll let me know? 15:29.120 --> 15:30.120 Bill, please. 15:30.120 --> 15:33.080 Let me explain to Clarence alone if he likes. 15:33.080 --> 15:34.240 I won't leave you alone, William. 15:34.240 --> 15:36.160 Oh, don't be melodramatic, William. 15:36.160 --> 15:37.840 I'll kill you, so help me. 15:37.840 --> 15:39.840 Bill, please, please. 15:39.840 --> 15:40.840 All right. 15:40.840 --> 15:41.840 I'm sorry. 15:41.840 --> 15:43.080 I'll give you 10 minutes, Clarence. 15:43.080 --> 15:44.080 No more. 15:44.080 --> 15:45.600 10 minutes will be ample. 15:45.600 --> 15:53.920 I think Lillian and I can come to an excellent understanding in 10 minutes. 15:53.920 --> 15:56.440 Those 10 minutes seemed like an eternity. 15:56.440 --> 16:01.200 I could hear Lillian's voice speaking very quietly as if reasoning with him and his hateful, 16:01.200 --> 16:02.800 velvety accents replying. 16:02.800 --> 16:06.680 And then, quite suddenly, there seemed to be only one voice, Clarence's. 16:06.680 --> 16:08.640 I looked at my watch. 16:08.640 --> 16:11.080 The 10 minutes were up. 16:11.080 --> 16:13.080 The door opened. 16:13.080 --> 16:16.520 Clarence stood there in the doorway and he was laughing. 16:16.520 --> 16:19.840 What have you done to her? 16:19.840 --> 16:24.040 What have you done? 16:24.040 --> 16:26.200 Lillian was lying on the sofa, unconscious. 16:26.200 --> 16:29.560 Her eyes were rolled back hideously so that only the whites of them showed. 16:29.560 --> 16:33.480 She's not dead, William, only thinking over our conversation. 16:33.480 --> 16:35.040 Bring her out of it, do you hear me? 16:35.040 --> 16:36.040 Bring her out of it or I'll... 16:36.040 --> 16:38.440 What will you do, William? 16:38.440 --> 16:39.440 I'll kill you! 16:39.440 --> 16:43.160 You're not hurting me, William. 16:43.160 --> 16:44.640 You're hurting her. 16:44.640 --> 16:45.640 I... 16:45.640 --> 16:46.640 What? 16:46.640 --> 16:48.640 Look at her. 16:48.640 --> 16:51.200 See how she rise in agony. 16:51.200 --> 16:54.240 See how she clutches her throat. 16:54.240 --> 16:56.240 You win, Clarence. 16:56.240 --> 16:58.880 Of course. 16:58.880 --> 17:04.520 How could you hope with your poor, undeveloped, occidental mind to match wits against me, 17:04.520 --> 17:07.840 who have penetrated the deepest mysteries of the occult? 17:07.840 --> 17:10.880 You're nothing but a cheap hypnotist. 17:10.880 --> 17:14.720 Any vaudeville mind reader could do the things you do if he was sufficiently lacking in human 17:14.720 --> 17:15.720 decency. 17:15.720 --> 17:16.720 Be careful, William. 17:16.720 --> 17:19.720 I shouldn't like to have to punish you for your rudeness. 17:19.720 --> 17:20.720 What do you want of us? 17:20.720 --> 17:24.680 I'll give you anything I own if you'll just take it and go away. 17:24.680 --> 17:27.880 It's not so easy as all that, William. 17:27.880 --> 17:32.920 Because you see, I want the lives of your wife and child. 17:32.920 --> 17:44.600 I knew then that he was insane, and that realization filled me with hope. 17:44.600 --> 17:50.040 It'd be quite simple to call in an alienist and have him committed to an asylum. 17:50.040 --> 17:54.040 When Lillian regained consciousness, she insisted on his staying, as I expected. 17:54.040 --> 17:58.280 I humoured her along, knowing she was acting on his hypnotic suggestions. 17:58.280 --> 18:02.360 I was reasonably certain he would do nothing violent that night. 18:02.360 --> 18:05.400 His was the slow, sadistic way of murder. 18:05.400 --> 18:08.680 When daylight came, I stole quietly out of the house. 18:08.680 --> 18:13.280 I did not risk calling the asylum on our telephone for fear of being overheard. 18:13.280 --> 18:17.000 My wife and daughter were still peacefully sleeping when I returned. 18:17.000 --> 18:23.520 And now I slept, too. 18:23.520 --> 18:27.400 Good morning. 18:27.400 --> 18:29.600 I'm Dr. Millow, the state institute. 18:29.600 --> 18:30.600 Yes, yes, I know. 18:30.600 --> 18:31.600 Come in, please, doctor. 18:31.600 --> 18:34.960 Are you the person who put in the call about... 18:34.960 --> 18:39.080 Yes, yes, it would be better not to speak too loudly, Dr. Millow. 18:39.080 --> 18:42.240 We might be overheard, and that might cause difficulties. 18:42.240 --> 18:45.800 Oh, yes, yes, I see. 18:45.800 --> 18:49.720 Well, tell me about the patient. 18:49.720 --> 18:53.080 I told him the whole story, word for word, as it had happened. 18:53.080 --> 18:54.680 It was unknown better. 18:54.680 --> 18:58.200 When I'd finished, there was disbelief written all over his face. 18:58.200 --> 19:02.800 Mr. Gilchrist, I don't for a moment doubt that you have an unwelcome relative on your 19:02.800 --> 19:07.480 hands who is probably emotionally highly unstable as well. 19:07.480 --> 19:12.440 But isn't it possible that you're exaggerating certain aspects of the matter? 19:12.440 --> 19:13.440 I mean... 19:13.440 --> 19:17.080 If Dr. Millow asks you to examine the man and draw your own conclusions as to his sanity... 19:17.080 --> 19:19.040 I'd be glad to. 19:19.040 --> 19:20.880 Where is he now? 19:20.880 --> 19:25.400 I think William has probably been talking to you about me, doctor. 19:25.400 --> 19:28.720 Sit down, won't you? 19:28.720 --> 19:30.160 Thank you. 19:30.160 --> 19:34.760 Really, I must apologize for your being inconvenienced this way, doctor. 19:34.760 --> 19:40.000 I try to keep an eye on William, but one must sleep, you know, and, well, occasionally 19:40.000 --> 19:42.520 he lewds me and gets out of the house. 19:42.520 --> 19:47.680 I suppose he's told you that I'm a hypnotist and that I wish to murder his wife and child. 19:47.680 --> 19:49.000 Why do you think he told me that? 19:49.000 --> 19:51.000 Well, it's always the same story. 19:51.000 --> 19:53.640 Why should I believe your story rather than Mr. Gilchrist's? 19:53.640 --> 19:56.880 Mine is a little easier to believe, I should think. 19:56.880 --> 19:58.720 But if you wish further proof... 19:58.720 --> 19:59.720 Oh, Lillian! 19:59.720 --> 20:00.720 Yes, Clarence? 20:00.720 --> 20:02.560 Come down here, will you? 20:02.560 --> 20:04.560 William's got out again and told that story. 20:04.560 --> 20:06.800 I'll be right down. 20:06.800 --> 20:08.200 And bring Jeannie with you. 20:08.200 --> 20:10.120 You dare bring my daughter into this? 20:10.120 --> 20:11.120 His daughter doesn't know. 20:11.120 --> 20:13.120 You'll be tactful, won't you, doctor? 20:13.120 --> 20:14.720 Yes, of course. 20:14.720 --> 20:18.480 Bill, what is the meaning of this? 20:18.480 --> 20:22.880 Haven't we warned you time and again what might happen if you go out like that? 20:22.880 --> 20:24.960 Oh, Lillian, you don't know what you're saying. 20:24.960 --> 20:27.560 This man is your husband, madam? 20:27.560 --> 20:29.080 Yes. 20:29.080 --> 20:32.960 He's been under the care of a psychiatrist for several years now. 20:32.960 --> 20:34.800 He seemed to be getting better. 20:34.800 --> 20:37.840 I'm sure he's getting better. 20:37.840 --> 20:40.920 The doctor said we must expect little lapses. 20:40.920 --> 20:43.200 Oh, she doesn't know what she's saying, doctor. 20:43.200 --> 20:46.000 She's acting under his hypnotic suggestion. 20:46.000 --> 20:47.640 And this young lady? 20:47.640 --> 20:49.160 He hypnotised her, too. 20:49.160 --> 20:50.160 Is that true? 20:50.160 --> 20:53.280 I don't know what that means, hypnotised. 20:53.280 --> 20:56.040 Daddy's always saying it, but he never says what it means. 20:56.040 --> 21:00.080 Well, this seems to clear up the situation pretty thoroughly. 21:00.080 --> 21:04.400 If you have any further trouble, Mr. Gilchrist, let me know. 21:04.400 --> 21:05.400 You think I'm crazy? 21:05.400 --> 21:07.600 No, I don't. 21:07.600 --> 21:11.600 I'm sure that your wife is quite right, Mr. Gilchrist. 21:11.600 --> 21:25.120 You're getting better every day. 21:25.120 --> 21:28.800 He was insane and diabolically insane. 21:28.800 --> 21:30.440 I had to face the unalterable fact. 21:30.440 --> 21:36.840 There was only one way to cope with him, and that was to kill him. 21:36.840 --> 21:40.200 But I had to do it while my wife and daughter were out of the house. 21:40.200 --> 21:42.280 I couldn't risk facing with a gun. 21:42.280 --> 21:45.600 I didn't trust myself not to fall under his hypnotic spell. 21:45.600 --> 21:49.040 The way I decided on it was the best way I could think of. 21:49.040 --> 21:53.320 When I'd finished my preparations, I waited for Clarence. 21:53.320 --> 21:57.040 Good evening, William. 21:57.040 --> 21:58.880 Clarence, for the last time... 21:58.880 --> 22:02.880 Oh, William, I'm very tired and I have a very busy day ahead of me tomorrow. 22:02.880 --> 22:07.520 I have no wish to repeat that very tiresome conversation with which you invariably begin, 22:07.520 --> 22:09.360 Clarence, for the last time. 22:09.360 --> 22:11.120 This is the last time, Clarence. 22:11.120 --> 22:12.800 Tonight, nothing will stop me. 22:12.800 --> 22:14.840 Tonight, I am going to kill you. 22:14.840 --> 22:18.240 Please, don't make another unnecessary scene, William. 22:18.240 --> 22:21.800 You know that trying to hurt me only hurts your wife. 22:21.800 --> 22:23.260 She's no longer hypnotized, Clarence. 22:23.260 --> 22:24.800 You stayed away too long. 22:24.800 --> 22:26.960 She and Jeannie are safely out of your reach now. 22:26.960 --> 22:28.840 What makes you so sure of that? 22:28.840 --> 22:31.520 Are you sure of anything anymore? 22:31.520 --> 22:34.720 Dr. Miller thought you were insane. 22:34.720 --> 22:36.920 Are you quite sure you're not? 22:36.920 --> 22:39.160 I'm crazy enough to know that I've got to kill you. 22:39.160 --> 22:40.160 Well, do it quietly, William. 22:40.160 --> 22:42.720 I'm going straight to bed and to sleep and I don't want to be disturbed. 22:42.720 --> 22:43.720 Good night. 22:43.720 --> 22:45.480 Just a minute, Clarence. 22:45.480 --> 22:46.480 Maybe you'll win again. 22:46.480 --> 22:47.480 I don't know. 22:47.480 --> 22:49.000 But just in case you don't... 22:49.000 --> 22:50.000 Yes? 22:50.000 --> 22:56.680 Tell me, why do you say you want to kill my wife and child? 22:56.680 --> 23:01.920 Because my mother meant more to me than anything in the world. 23:01.920 --> 23:07.800 She died in giving birth to this silly, shallow person you call your wife. 23:07.800 --> 23:11.360 I have hated her since the day she was born. 23:11.360 --> 23:16.320 And I hate the child because having no right to life, she commits the sacrilege of inheriting 23:16.320 --> 23:18.240 my mother's beauty. 23:18.240 --> 23:22.860 They must both be destroyed, the murderer and the imposter. 23:22.860 --> 23:24.640 You are mad. 23:24.640 --> 23:26.640 Madder than I ever dreamed you were. 23:26.640 --> 23:28.920 Am I? 23:28.920 --> 23:34.760 Did I really say what you think you just heard me say? 23:34.760 --> 23:39.000 Or is it only part of your insanity? 23:39.000 --> 23:40.000 Take it over, William. 23:40.000 --> 23:41.000 Good night. 23:41.000 --> 23:44.000 I had everything ready. 23:44.000 --> 23:51.280 The heavy boards to nail across the door, the cotton waste and a gallon of benzene. 23:51.280 --> 23:55.200 The shutters over the window of his room I'd already nailed shut and barred. 23:55.200 --> 24:00.200 As I nailed the boards across the door, I felt as if I were driving nails into his cup. 24:00.200 --> 24:01.200 William! 24:01.200 --> 24:02.200 William, stop it! 24:02.200 --> 24:03.200 You don't know what you're doing! 24:03.200 --> 24:06.200 Lillian and Jeannie are upstairs. 24:06.200 --> 24:09.200 They came in the back way. 24:09.200 --> 24:10.200 William! 24:10.200 --> 24:12.200 Where are your great powers now, Clarence? 24:12.200 --> 24:13.200 Where are you, fool? 24:13.200 --> 24:16.200 Can the secrets of the East help you now? 24:16.200 --> 24:17.200 You're trapped, Clarence. 24:17.200 --> 24:19.200 Get out of your mind, William. 24:19.200 --> 24:21.200 In a moment, the whole house will be in flames. 24:21.200 --> 24:22.200 You'll be burned alive. 24:22.200 --> 24:23.200 You don't know what you're doing, William. 24:23.200 --> 24:24.200 Listen, Clarence. 24:24.200 --> 24:27.200 Listen, I'm striking the match now. 24:27.200 --> 24:31.200 You smell the smoke, Clarence? 24:31.200 --> 24:33.200 Never mind. You will in a moment. 24:33.200 --> 24:36.200 Oh, I wish you could see the flames now, Clarence. 24:36.200 --> 24:38.200 They're roaring up the stairwell. 24:38.200 --> 24:39.200 You don't know what you're doing, William. 24:39.200 --> 24:40.200 It's beautiful. 24:40.200 --> 24:41.200 You fool! 24:41.200 --> 24:43.200 I'll have to leave you now, Clarence. 24:43.200 --> 24:46.200 It's getting too warm in here for me. 24:46.200 --> 25:11.200 But you should be used to being, though, after all those years in India. 25:11.200 --> 25:12.200 And I laughed. 25:12.200 --> 25:13.200 I laughed. 25:13.200 --> 25:18.200 I guess the relief from all that tension. 25:18.200 --> 25:23.200 Well, that's the story, Doctor. 25:23.200 --> 25:26.200 Then I must have fainted or something from the smoke. 25:26.200 --> 25:30.200 I don't remember anything after that till I woke up in this place. 25:30.200 --> 25:32.200 And what about your wife and daughter? 25:32.200 --> 25:33.200 Oh, that's just it. 25:33.200 --> 25:35.200 I haven't seen them since that afternoon. 25:35.200 --> 25:36.200 That's why I've got to get out of here. 25:36.200 --> 25:37.200 I've got to find them. 25:37.200 --> 25:38.200 Can't you understand, Clarence? 25:38.200 --> 25:39.200 Yes, yes, yes. 25:39.200 --> 25:40.200 I can understand that very well. 25:40.200 --> 25:44.200 Will you talk to someone the head of this place and tell him that and let me out? 25:44.200 --> 25:46.200 I shouldn't be locked up here in an institution. 25:46.200 --> 25:47.200 Yes, yes. 25:47.200 --> 25:48.200 I'll talk to him, Bill. 25:48.200 --> 25:49.200 That's a promise. 25:49.200 --> 25:50.200 I'll do it right now. 25:50.200 --> 25:51.200 Goodbye. 25:51.200 --> 25:52.200 Goodbye, Doctor. 25:52.200 --> 25:53.200 Pardon me. 25:53.200 --> 25:54.200 The head's office, Doctor... 25:54.200 --> 25:55.200 Doctor Crossman. 25:55.200 --> 25:56.200 You'll find him right through there. 25:56.200 --> 25:57.200 Thank you. 25:57.200 --> 25:58.200 Oh, pardon me. 25:58.200 --> 25:59.200 Doctor Crossman? 25:59.200 --> 26:00.200 Yes. 26:00.200 --> 26:01.200 Oh. 26:01.200 --> 26:02.200 Oh, how do you do, sir? 26:02.200 --> 26:03.200 Have you found my little sanitarium interest? 26:03.200 --> 26:10.200 Yes, indeed. 26:10.200 --> 26:13.200 By the way, most unusual case. 26:13.200 --> 26:15.200 I've just been talking to... 26:15.200 --> 26:16.200 Yes, I know. 26:16.200 --> 26:19.200 Oh, to poor William. 26:19.200 --> 26:21.200 Bill, that is, number 27. 26:21.200 --> 26:22.200 Yes, but... 26:22.200 --> 26:25.200 I'm sorry that you had to be in convenience that way, sir. 26:25.200 --> 26:31.200 We do our best to keep the garrulous patients well out of a visiting doctor's way, but accidents 26:31.200 --> 26:32.200 will happen. 26:32.200 --> 26:33.200 Oh, that. 26:33.200 --> 26:34.200 I ran into him, Doctor Crossman. 26:34.200 --> 26:35.200 His story interests me very much. 26:35.200 --> 26:38.200 He doesn't strike me as a homicidal lunatic. 26:38.200 --> 26:39.200 No, he's not. 26:39.200 --> 26:43.200 This idea of his that he committed a murder is simply a fantasy. 26:43.200 --> 26:45.200 Are you absolutely sure of that? 26:45.200 --> 26:46.200 Of course. 26:46.200 --> 26:47.200 Because... 26:47.200 --> 26:52.200 Well, you see, I am Clarence, the wicked brother-in-law in his story. 26:52.200 --> 26:53.200 You? 26:53.200 --> 26:58.200 He began to develop these extraordinary symptoms during my stay at his home when I first returned 26:58.200 --> 26:59.200 from India. 26:59.200 --> 27:01.200 Parts of his story, you see, are quite accurate. 27:01.200 --> 27:02.200 I see. 27:02.200 --> 27:04.200 It's a pity, of course. 27:04.200 --> 27:09.200 He was doing quite nicely under treatment until his wife and child were burned to death 27:09.200 --> 27:12.200 so tragically in the fire that destroyed their home. 27:12.200 --> 27:18.200 I'm afraid that that event on top of his previous delusions unhinged him for good. 27:18.200 --> 27:21.200 And where were you during the fire, Doctor Crossman? 27:21.200 --> 27:23.200 Oh, I dined out that evening. 27:23.200 --> 27:25.200 When I returned, it was all over. 27:25.200 --> 27:28.200 Well, I certainly should write this case up. 27:28.200 --> 27:30.200 It's one of the most interesting I've ever run across. 27:30.200 --> 27:31.200 Oh, must you, Doctor? 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