1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:22,360 Roma wines, presents, suspense. 2 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:27,160 Roma wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 3 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:28,160 Salud. 4 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:29,960 Salud, senor. 5 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:31,880 Roma wines toast the world. 6 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:37,560 The wine for your table is Roma wine, made in California for enjoyment throughout the 7 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:40,680 world. 8 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:45,360 The Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California welcomes you again to this weekly half hour 9 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:46,360 of suspense. 10 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:53,120 Tonight from Hollywood, Roma wines bring you as stars, Miss Ida Lupino, currently being 11 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:56,120 seen in Warner Brothers, In Our Time. 12 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:01,520 And Mr. Vincent Price of 20th Century Fox, soon to be seen in the derelict Xanax production, 13 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:02,520 Wilson. 14 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,280 For the appearance of these two distinguished screen personalities, Lucille Fletcher has 15 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:13,440 written a suspense play that deals with brooding anxiety and sharpening suspicion, played against 16 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,800 the severe and forbidding background of the late Victorian era. 17 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:23,200 And so with Fugue in C minor, and with the performances of Ida Lupino and Vincent Price, 18 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,840 we again hope to keep you in suspense. 19 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,960 April 1st, 1900. 20 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:02,840 Dear Bessie, this is just to let you know that I arrived in pilot skill. 21 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,480 Lizzie met me at the station. 22 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,400 She's heartbroken about Papa's bankruptcy, and for some reason feels that it's up to 23 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,000 me to remedy the family situation. 24 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,200 I told her I'd been offered a job, but she swept away that idea in horror. 25 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,800 A girl with your looks, Amanda Peabody, doesn't have to get a job. 26 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,920 There are too many rich husbands floating around for that. 27 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:27,080 Furthermore, she says she has a rich husband already picked up for me right here in Pilotsville. 28 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:28,760 Don't you remember? 29 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:30,840 I told you about him at Christmas time. 30 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:38,160 He's a Mr. Evans, richest, creasest, charming, cultured, a lonely widower with two dear little 31 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:39,160 children. 32 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,880 And besides that, he's just your type, a real intellectual. 33 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:44,920 You should hear him play the pipe organ. 34 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:48,080 And you know, Bessie, I've met so few interesting men lately. 35 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:55,080 And all you'd have to do is lift your little finger. 36 00:02:55,080 --> 00:03:00,000 Mr. Evans. 37 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:05,840 Oh, good evening, Mrs. Chumley. 38 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:07,440 How delightful to see you here. 39 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:11,480 I'd like you to meet my sister, Mr. Evans, my sister, Amanda Peabody. 40 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:12,480 Delighted, I'm sure. 41 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,200 It's a lovely party, Mr. Evans. 42 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:15,200 Thank you, Miss Peabody. 43 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:16,680 Have you just come to Pilotsville? 44 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:17,680 Yes. 45 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,320 I'm from New York, visiting me after the whirl of the hectic social season. 46 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:22,320 Oh, indeed? 47 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,560 Well, I'm afraid our Pilotsville society must seem a bit dull to you, Miss Peabody. 48 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:26,960 Oh, no, not at all. 49 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:27,960 It's charming. 50 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,040 I've enjoyed everything so much tonight. 51 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:32,320 Your beautiful house, the music. 52 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,200 I hear you're going to play for us, Mr. Evans. 53 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:35,200 Oh, a bit. 54 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:36,800 Do you care for organ music, Miss Peabody? 55 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:37,800 Very much. 56 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,080 I never miss a church recital. 57 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:43,200 But what a luxury it must be to have your own pipe organ right here in the house. 58 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:44,760 I'm afraid I couldn't do without it. 59 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:45,760 It's my hobby, you know. 60 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:49,080 Bach, Buxtehude, César Franck. 61 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:50,080 Don't you adore their work? 62 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,280 Oh, Amanda's very musical. 63 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,680 You should hear her render the burning of Rome. 64 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:55,680 Yes. 65 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,840 And the delightful thing, of course, about having a pipe organ in the house is that it's 66 00:03:58,840 --> 00:03:59,840 everywhere. 67 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:05,440 Just sit at a keyboard and hear the walls, the ceilings, the floors vibrate. 68 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,960 You see, Miss Peabody, I've had the pipes installed all over the house. 69 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,920 Under this floor, for example, are all the choir stops. 70 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,000 Up in the bedroom walls are the stops for the swell manual. 71 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:21,280 And the great 32 foot pedal stops, the giant diapasons are underneath the staircase. 72 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:24,080 My children sleep next door to the echo chamber. 73 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:29,040 So, you see, we live like angels here in a paradise of music. 74 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,040 How thrilling. 75 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,880 Now, ladies, come upstairs to the second floor landing, won't you? 76 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:33,880 And I'll show you the console. 77 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:34,880 It was made for me in Vienna. 78 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:49,720 April 7th, 1900. 79 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:54,000 And Bessie, dear, to tell you the truth, I really find him fascinating. 80 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000 I wish you could hear him play. 81 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 It sweeps you off your feet. 82 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:01,000 There is such wildness to it and at the same time, such dignity. 83 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:06,200 And to hear the sound all through that marvelous house, rolling through those gorgeous rooms 84 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,360 with their beautiful tapestries and potted palms. 85 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:13,240 I could sit and listen to him all night. 86 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,520 You have the most amazing eyes, Miss Peabody. 87 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:16,520 What are you thinking about? 88 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:17,520 The music. 89 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:18,520 Oh, please don't stop. 90 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:19,520 It's so beautiful. 91 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,880 Well, you seem to be as mad about music as I am. 92 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:24,240 Your sister says you play too. 93 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:25,800 Oh, no, only a little. 94 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,200 My appreciation of it is all inside, I'm afraid. 95 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:29,200 That's plenty. 96 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,120 If you can play, it's better just to enjoy the music of others. 97 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,840 I can't bear this sentimental drumming, can you? 98 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:36,200 I shouldn't think you would enjoy it. 99 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,800 The idiotic tunes people play nowadays. 100 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:40,480 Give me the old stern classics. 101 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,640 They have strength and power. 102 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:43,640 Give me something with light to it. 103 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:44,640 Something that will flood the whole house with sound. 104 00:05:44,640 --> 00:06:04,480 Oh, that's marvelous. 105 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:06,400 You're a very unusual girl, Miss Peabody. 106 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,160 Quite unlike the run of girls here down here at Pilotsville. 107 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:10,760 Yes, in what way? 108 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,760 Oh, it's rather hard to explain. 109 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,200 Oh, some more tea, Amanda. 110 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:17,600 No, thank you. 111 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:18,600 A muffin? 112 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:20,520 No, thank you. 113 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:22,120 You have an excellent cook, Mr. Evans. 114 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:23,600 Please, please call me Theodore. 115 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:24,600 You know you promised. 116 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:25,600 Theodore. 117 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:26,600 Amanda. 118 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:30,160 And your house is beautifully run, too. 119 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,400 You must have an excellent housekeeper. 120 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,080 Everything always looks so charming and quiet. 121 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,160 I haven't even heard a peep out of your children. 122 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:38,160 My children? 123 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,480 Oh, yes, the children have been away at school. 124 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:41,760 You have two, haven't you? 125 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:43,200 Yes, Daphne and David. 126 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:44,200 What sweet names. 127 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,760 Well, nearly I don't approve of schools for young children, but you see they were rather 128 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,280 overwrought after Mrs. Evans passed on. 129 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:52,280 I can well understand. 130 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:56,400 They were almost morbidly devoted to their mother, and then of course the unfortunate 131 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:58,200 circumstances of her death. 132 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,720 But I suppose your sister, Mrs. Chumley, has told you all about that. 133 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:06,400 No, not very much, except your wife was killed in a street accident, wasn't she? 134 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:07,400 Yes, in Philadelphia. 135 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,480 A brewery wagon and four horses ran her down. 136 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,000 Oh, how terrible. 137 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,080 It's something I don't like to think about very often. 138 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:16,080 Poor beautiful Margaret. 139 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:20,480 Well, it's like a nightmare, Amanda, and I still can't feel reconciled. 140 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,520 But what I was driving at was the children. 141 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,960 They were in school when she died and by some malicious stroke of fate. 142 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,060 There was an epidemic of scarlet fever raging out there. 143 00:07:30,060 --> 00:07:33,200 The authorities wouldn't lift the quarantine and let them out for her funeral. 144 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:34,200 Oh, poor little things. 145 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:35,680 Yes, it upset them dreadfully. 146 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:40,480 In fact, I sometimes fear it's left a mark on them, which may endure all their lives. 147 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:41,940 Why, what do you mean? 148 00:07:41,940 --> 00:07:45,600 They suffer from delusions, delusions about her. 149 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:51,440 They think that in some way she is linked, her soul is imprisoned in the organ pipes. 150 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:52,440 Oh, horrible. 151 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,200 I wish I could do something about it. 152 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,400 It's a frightful notion, but they won't, they don't let me play when they're at home. 153 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,120 That echo chamber in particular next door to their bedroom. 154 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:02,120 Yes. 155 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,480 You know, it's nothing but an empty sealed room with a few wires. 156 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:08,000 Of course, it's all because they never saw her dead. 157 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,280 But they have a notion that she's, well, somehow hidden there. 158 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:14,400 Oh, ghastly. 159 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,000 They really think that, do they? 160 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:33,720 Children can think up such very strange things in their little minds, can't they? 161 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:38,920 The night for suspense, Roma wines are bringing you as stars, Miss Ida Lupino and Mr. Vincent 162 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:43,800 Price, whom you have heard in the prologue to, Hugh in C minor. 163 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:55,160 Tonight's tale of suspense. 164 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:57,360 Let us look in on another scene for a moment. 165 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:02,840 A smart dinner party at the internationally famous Hotel de Nacional de Cuba in Havana. 166 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:06,960 One of the guests, a world traveled American, sets down his wine glass and remarks that 167 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:12,240 a truly fine wine always carries the unmistakable flavor of the particular vineyards from which 168 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:13,240 it comes. 169 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:17,880 Well, when laughs his Cuban host, you must be homesick for California right now. 170 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:22,440 For the wine you are enjoying so much is from America, from California. 171 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,320 It is Roma wine. 172 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:26,320 Yes, it's true. 173 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:31,400 Our own wonderful vineyard country in California produces in Roma wines that discriminating 174 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:35,320 people in other lands esteem as an imported delicacy. 175 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:41,380 Yet you here at home can enjoy these distinguished Roma wines for mere pennies a glass full. 176 00:09:41,380 --> 00:09:45,360 You pay none of the expensive overseas shipping charges and duties. 177 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:50,080 Daily with your meals or when entertaining or any time, you can delight yourself with 178 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:55,680 the wonderful flavor that comes from age old winemaking traditions perfected by modern 179 00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:57,880 quality controls and tests. 180 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:03,200 Yes, only pennies a glass full for a treat you are certain to enjoy. 181 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:08,400 For remember, Roma wines are America's largest selling wines. 182 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:14,480 Roma, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 183 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,960 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage Ida Lupino as Amanda 184 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:24,120 Peabody and Vincent Price as Theodore Evans in Fugue in C Minor. 185 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:43,120 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 186 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:44,120 April 18th. 187 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,400 I met the children today Bessie for the first time. 188 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,400 It was a shock. 189 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:53,840 They're strange little creatures utterly unlike their father. 190 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,040 The girl is about 11 and the boy eight. 191 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:59,280 They were both dressed in deep mourning. 192 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,680 Their large gray eyes seemed strained with terror. 193 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:05,800 They listened and trembled at every sound. 194 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:07,080 This is Miss Peabody children. 195 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,520 She's a very good friend of mine. 196 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,600 Now I want you both to shake hands with her. 197 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:13,800 Oh come now Daphne. 198 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,080 You can at least tell Miss Peabody how old you are. 199 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,640 Oh no, please don't press her. 200 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,880 I know when I was a little girl I hated people to talk about my age. 201 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,800 I'd much rather hear about, well about school. 202 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:28,600 We're not going back there no matter what anybody said. 203 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:29,600 David. 204 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:30,600 That's all right. 205 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:31,840 Then you didn't like school. 206 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:32,840 No. 207 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:34,560 And mommy didn't like it either. 208 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:36,480 She cried when we went away. 209 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,100 Oh but your mama wanted you to be educated didn't she? 210 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:43,680 She wanted you to grow up and be intelligent people didn't she? 211 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:46,640 Well didn't she Daphne? 212 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:48,040 Who are you? 213 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:49,320 You may call me Aunt Amanda. 214 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,120 I'm a friend of your papa's. 215 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:53,360 Do you know where my mama is? 216 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:54,360 Your mama? 217 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,640 Well your mama's in heaven dear. 218 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:57,640 No she's not. 219 00:11:57,640 --> 00:11:59,640 Then where is she dear? 220 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:01,360 Please don't start the morphomand. 221 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:02,360 It's too upsetting. 222 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:03,360 Come along children. 223 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,520 Now we're going to have a little music like old times. 224 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,760 You remember when your mother was alive? 225 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:10,360 We all used to play together. 226 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:16,480 David, you with your cornet and Daphne at the violin and mama at the piano. 227 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:19,120 Well Miss Peabody plays the piano too. 228 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:23,040 Mama's promised to play Narcissus, mama's favorite piece. 229 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:24,040 Well? 230 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:28,400 Well perhaps some other time Theodore when they don't feel so strange. 231 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,080 I tell you I've humored them to death. 232 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:31,080 Now come David. 233 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:32,520 There's your cornet on the mantelpiece. 234 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:33,520 Daphne. 235 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:34,520 No. 236 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:35,520 I insist. 237 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:37,560 Look now I'll start the melody on the organ. 238 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:41,560 David, you come in with your cornet obligato in the third measure. 239 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:44,560 Daphne, you can follow me. 240 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:49,560 What's that? 241 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:54,560 Come along children. 242 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:59,560 What's that note? 243 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:04,200 That note making that funny noise. 244 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:05,200 What note? 245 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:06,200 Oh you mean that. 246 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:07,200 Oh that's just a cipher. 247 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,400 A wire must have stuck somewhere. 248 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:10,400 One of the pipe valves. 249 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:11,400 It's mama. 250 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:12,400 That's where mama is. 251 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:13,400 She's calling for us. 252 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:14,400 Don't be silly. 253 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,400 I'll just hit the key a few times and it'll stop. 254 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,360 You've heard these ciphers before haven't you Miss Peabody? 255 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,160 Well I don't know much about pipe organs. 256 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,760 It's a common technical occurrence but very annoying of course. 257 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:24,760 What is she doing in there? 258 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:25,760 Why doesn't it stop? 259 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:26,760 That's where she is. 260 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,360 She's in the pipe and she can't get out. 261 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:30,360 Daphne stop that nonsense. 262 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:32,240 Oh hush dear your papa will fix it. 263 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:33,240 No he won't he can't. 264 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:38,240 She won't let him because he killed her. 265 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:39,240 Daphne. 266 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:41,720 Daphne what did you say? 267 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:42,720 She didn't. 268 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:44,240 Oh the poor little thing is hysterical. 269 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:46,040 We should never have tried to persuade them. 270 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:50,200 Oh Amanda just because they never looked upon her face because they never saw her lying 271 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:51,200 there in the coffin. 272 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:52,200 Hush hush. 273 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,280 My own children believe that I am a murderer. 274 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:56,160 Theodore you're making them both sick. 275 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:00,520 And so I, I who loved their mother so much who was so devoted for twelve years. 276 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,400 Do I look like a murderer Amanda? 277 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:04,400 Do I? 278 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:05,400 No. 279 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:06,400 There it is again. 280 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:07,400 It's mama. 281 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:08,400 It's mama. 282 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:09,400 Shh dear. 283 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:24,040 I'll take them upstairs for you Theodore while you try and fix it. 284 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:25,040 April 24th. 285 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:26,040 Oh Bessie. 286 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:27,040 Those poor little children. 287 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:32,640 We took them out to the cemetery today to show them her grave. 288 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:34,160 A marble angel guarded it. 289 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,240 It was planted with pure white tulips. 290 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,920 How final it was and peaceful. 291 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:44,480 And yet they began to tremble again the moment we set foot inside the house. 292 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:45,480 Poor Theodore. 293 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,080 The man is nearly out of his mind. 294 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:49,080 What can he do? 295 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:53,580 I keep asking myself that question. 296 00:14:53,580 --> 00:14:55,280 She died in Philadelphia you say? 297 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:56,280 Yes on May 15th. 298 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:58,660 Just a little less than a year ago. 299 00:14:58,660 --> 00:14:59,660 You weren't with her? 300 00:14:59,660 --> 00:15:01,480 No she went there to take a piano lesson. 301 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,900 There was a new teacher she'd heard about. 302 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:06,840 She was always so self-conscious about her technique. 303 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:08,880 She never reached his studio. 304 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,480 They notified me at midnight from the city morgue. 305 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,000 And no one in Philadelphia saw her? 306 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,760 No one except the attendants at the morgue. 307 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,760 Of course and the people who picked her up after the collision. 308 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:20,040 It was such a brutal accident. 309 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:24,160 There had been no one from among them who could speak to the children, explain to them. 310 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:25,160 Oh no. 311 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,800 Oh it's so horrible, so sordid. 312 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,240 I know my dear. 313 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,280 I hate to make you suffer. 314 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:35,280 But if we could find some way, if they could just believe. 315 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:39,120 When you brought her back here to Pilotsville, there was a funeral. 316 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:40,120 Yes. 317 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,040 And was there anybody then who saw her? 318 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,200 Oh no I couldn't bear it, Amanda. 319 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,760 I didn't think at the time she'd been so beautiful. 320 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:50,080 Her lovely sweet gentle face and her eyes. 321 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,320 The horses had completely trembled. 322 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:53,320 Oh. 323 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:56,440 Even if the children had been able to come home I wouldn't have let them look. 324 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,360 The coffin was sealed when I left Philadelphia. 325 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,000 I didn't want to see her again myself. 326 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,080 But there was a funeral. 327 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:04,080 People came. 328 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:05,400 Flowers an undertaker. 329 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:06,400 Yes. 330 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,440 Well if they could believe that, if there was one witness. 331 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,920 Perhaps my own sister Lily. 332 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:14,920 Funeral Amanda? 333 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:21,240 Of course there was a funeral. 334 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,200 The finest funeral in town. 335 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,600 A snow white hearse and 25 coaches. 336 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:27,600 Everybody sent flowers. 337 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:32,080 The casket wasn't open but I've been to lots of funerals where they don't open the casket. 338 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,320 And for what I understand she was pretty badly mangled. 339 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:37,120 But it was a beautiful funeral. 340 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:40,640 Mr Evans played the organ himself for the finest selections. 341 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,120 All the sweet old pieces his wife liked. 342 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:48,840 There was Narcissus and Mighty Like a Rose and Goodbye Forever. 343 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:54,360 That's the way it was. 344 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,360 So you see David, my sister Mrs Chomley was there. 345 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:58,360 Yes. 346 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,200 But how did she know it was Mama? 347 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:01,200 Oh David. 348 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:04,480 She didn't see Mama, did she? 349 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,000 Well, nobody saw your poor Mama dear. 350 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,960 She wouldn't have wanted anyone to see her. 351 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:10,840 Mama wasn't there. 352 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:12,840 She talks to us every night. 353 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:14,880 She tells us to look for her. 354 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:15,880 Where dear? 355 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:16,880 In the pipes. 356 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:19,120 But David, your Mama's dead. 357 00:17:19,120 --> 00:17:20,760 She's been dead for nearly a year. 358 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,520 Now you saw her grave out in the cemetery. 359 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:25,240 She's happy and at rest. 360 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,040 Why doesn't Papa give us the key? 361 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:31,440 If he'd only let us have it we could look for her. 362 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:32,440 What key dear? 363 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:33,440 The keys to the pipes. 364 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:38,240 There's a little door just underneath the stairs. 365 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,680 That's where they, that's where the big pipes are. 366 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,680 And inside it's all dark. 367 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:47,400 But where are the, but there are, there are tunnels. 368 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,400 There's a little room. 369 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:54,960 Go on dear. 370 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:58,440 That's where she's hiding. 371 00:17:58,440 --> 00:17:59,440 That's where Mama is. 372 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:00,920 That's where Mama is. 373 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,520 Oh David darling, now look, come here. 374 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:05,640 No, I hate you. 375 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:06,760 But why do you hate me? 376 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:08,160 Why don't you let me help you? 377 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:09,160 Because. 378 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:10,160 Because what? 379 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,680 Because you, you like him. 380 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:13,680 Him? 381 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,560 Papa, you're going to marry him, aren't you? 382 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:19,120 Yes you are. 383 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:21,600 Tavina says you are. 384 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:23,520 You're going to marry him. 385 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:25,960 Then you'll send us back to school. 386 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:28,600 And there'll be no one left to help Mama. 387 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,920 Poor Mama will never be left out. 388 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:33,440 Oh I hate you, I hate you. 389 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,560 David, what are you doing here? 390 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:37,480 David, did you strike Miss Peabody? 391 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:39,160 He's sick Theodore, I'm sure he's very sick. 392 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,200 Now go to your room at once. 393 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,920 Oh those dreadful children. 394 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:47,360 I tell you Amanda, they'll ruin whatever happiness we might have. 395 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:50,560 Theodore, I love you very much. 396 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:52,280 But I couldn't marry you. 397 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:54,360 What with that child's cry ringing in my head? 398 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:56,200 We've got to help them. 399 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:57,200 Give them that key. 400 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,960 Let them go and look in the room where the pipes are. 401 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:01,720 Then they'll see for themselves that there's no ghost. 402 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:02,720 Key? 403 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:03,960 Who told you about a key to that room? 404 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:04,960 The children. 405 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:05,960 The children? 406 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,080 Amanda, I'm going to tell you something. 407 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,720 Something I've never told a living soul. 408 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:13,160 It may frighten you. 409 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:14,160 Yes. 410 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,960 Margaret was going mad when she died. 411 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:17,960 No one knew it but me. 412 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:18,960 It ran in her family. 413 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:20,780 I discovered it long after we were married. 414 00:19:20,780 --> 00:19:22,480 After the children were born. 415 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:23,480 Otherwise I'd never have... 416 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:24,480 And now you think the children? 417 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:25,960 I'm afraid so. 418 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:29,080 It was peopling of sound she had. 419 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:30,080 Just like them. 420 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:31,960 A fear of the dead's returning. 421 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:32,960 She used to play... 422 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:33,960 What's that? 423 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:37,440 It sounds like the organ. 424 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:38,960 But the motor isn't on. 425 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:41,880 The console was locked when I left. 426 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:42,940 Someone's trying to play. 427 00:19:42,940 --> 00:19:44,800 No one but me can touch that instrument. 428 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,080 It's forbidden in this house and the servants are out. 429 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:48,560 Unless those children. 430 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:52,200 Come upstairs, Amanda. 431 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:53,200 Theodore. 432 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:57,560 Why there's no one here? 433 00:19:57,560 --> 00:19:59,400 No one of the keyboard. 434 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:00,400 The organ's playing itself. 435 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:01,400 That's impossible. 436 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:02,400 The motor's not going. 437 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:03,400 The motor? 438 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:04,400 Yes, it says the bellows going. 439 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:05,400 There's no air in the pipes unless it's on. 440 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:06,800 No air to make the pipes speak. 441 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:07,800 It's impossible, I tell you. 442 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,000 Perhaps the children found the key and got in. 443 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Key? 444 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,000 No, no, no. 445 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,000 The key's here in my pocket. 446 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:14,000 There's no other way in. 447 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:15,000 No. 448 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,000 Theodore, open that door. 449 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Go in there and see what's happening, please. 450 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,000 No. 451 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Theodore. 452 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,000 I won't give in. 453 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,480 I won't be afraid to it. 454 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:23,480 Do you hear? 455 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,480 I won't, I won't, I won't. 456 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:27,480 Here. 457 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:28,480 It stopped now. 458 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:29,480 Yes. 459 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:33,760 It was probably, Billy, nothing but the wind. 460 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:36,240 Theodore, give me the key. 461 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:37,560 I'm not afraid. 462 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,800 Are you saying that I am? 463 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:40,800 I don't know. 464 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,320 But I'll be fair with you, Theodore. 465 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,560 I couldn't marry you and live here with that any more than your children can. 466 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:47,560 What do you mean? 467 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:48,560 Rip out those pipes. 468 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:49,560 Rip out the whole pipe organ. 469 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:50,920 Give it to a church, but don't keep it here. 470 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:51,920 Get rid of the pipe organ. 471 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:52,920 It's not worth it. 472 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:53,920 Yes. 473 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:54,920 But I couldn't. 474 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:55,920 The whole house was built around it. 475 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:57,720 It's been the very soul and spirit of this home. 476 00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:59,440 It's been the curse, you mean. 477 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:04,000 Theodore, I know I'd go mad, too, if I had to listen to it night and day. 478 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,000 It's so hollow. 479 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,720 To think of those pipes, so huge, down there in the darkness. 480 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:09,720 I'd begin to hear things, too. 481 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:10,720 Oh, it! 482 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:11,720 Be quiet. 483 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:12,720 Be quiet. 484 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:13,720 Come outside. 485 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:14,720 We'll take a walk. 486 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:15,720 No. 487 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:16,720 No, give me the key. 488 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:17,720 Give me the key. 489 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:18,720 You're hysterical, Amanda. 490 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:19,720 I'm sorry I've overburdened you. 491 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:20,720 Why don't you want to go in there? 492 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:21,720 Is it because you know something? 493 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:22,720 You did something. 494 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:23,720 What do you mean? 495 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:24,720 Did you kill her? 496 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:25,720 Amanda. 497 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:26,720 Very well, Amanda. 498 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:27,720 Here's the key. 499 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:34,720 If that's the way you trust me, we'll go down and look around together. 500 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:35,720 Come now, Amanda. 501 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:36,720 I'm sorry, Theodore. 502 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:37,720 I'm sorry, Theodore. 503 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:38,720 I'm sorry. 504 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:39,720 I'm sorry. 505 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:40,720 I'm sorry. 506 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:41,720 I'm sorry. 507 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:42,720 I'm sorry. 508 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:43,720 I'm sorry. 509 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:45,720 I'm sorry, Theodore. 510 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:46,720 It slipped out. 511 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,720 It was a dreadful thing to say. 512 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:49,720 It's all right. 513 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:50,720 I understand. 514 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,320 Yet it hurts a little. 515 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,720 I've trusted you so completely, Amanda. 516 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:55,720 Theodore. 517 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:56,720 Yes, Amanda. 518 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,280 Let's not go in there. 519 00:21:58,280 --> 00:21:59,280 I do trust you, darling. 520 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,280 I believe everything you've told me. 521 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:02,280 No. 522 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,040 This little key. 523 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,720 To think it should mean so much. 524 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:07,720 Oh. 525 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,720 How black it is. 526 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,720 Yes, pitch black. 527 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:13,720 And cold. 528 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:14,720 Where are the pipes? 529 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:15,720 I can't see them. 530 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:16,720 Come in further, Amanda. 531 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:17,720 You'll see them as soon as your eyes grow accustomed to the darkness. 532 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:18,720 The biggest pipes packed this well under the great staircase like giants. 533 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:19,720 Oh, yes. 534 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:20,720 I'm beginning to see them now. 535 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:21,720 Shouldn't we go and get a candle? 536 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:22,720 Oh, no, no. 537 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:23,720 Go in a little further. 538 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:24,720 Be careful. 539 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:25,720 The floor is a maze of wires. 540 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:26,720 Now stand there for a second. 541 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:27,720 Theodore, don't leave me. 542 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:28,720 I won't be long. 543 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:29,720 I thought you said you weren't afraid. 544 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:30,720 No, I'm not only afraid. 545 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:31,720 I'm afraid of you. 546 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:32,720 I'm afraid of you. 547 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:33,720 I'm afraid of you. 548 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:34,720 I'm afraid of you. 549 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:35,720 I'm afraid of you. 550 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:36,720 I'm afraid of you. 551 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:50,720 I'm afraid of you. 552 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:51,720 Where are you going? 553 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:52,720 Just upstairs to play for you. 554 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:53,720 Theodore. 555 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:54,720 I'd like you to hear how the music sounds in the darkness. 556 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:55,720 It's quite an experience being so close to the pipes. 557 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,720 You know, narrow, suffocating, especially when I play the great Passacaglia and Fugue of 558 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:00,720 Bach. 559 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:01,720 Oh, Theodore, please. 560 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:02,720 I don't want to stay here. 561 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,500 of the Rheinberger symphonies or the great chorales of César Frank. 562 00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:09,500 Margaret, of course, preferred narcissus. 563 00:23:09,500 --> 00:23:10,500 Margaret! 564 00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:12,500 You're very gullible, Amanda. 565 00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:14,500 Then you did kill her. 566 00:23:14,500 --> 00:23:16,500 You killed her in this room. 567 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:18,500 And you're going to kill me! 568 00:23:18,500 --> 00:23:19,500 Yes, simple, isn't it? 569 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:20,500 But why? 570 00:23:20,500 --> 00:23:21,500 I don't know. 571 00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:24,500 One gets tired every now and then of mere music. 572 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:26,500 Sometimes the classics demand competition. 573 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:31,000 A scream, for example, there's something so exciting about pulling out all the stops and 574 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,760 drowning out all human sound. 575 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:39,580 Have you ever tried to match your voice, Miss Peabody, against the thunderous voice of Bach? 576 00:23:39,580 --> 00:23:41,040 It's most effective. 577 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,240 And then when the struggle gets weaker, when the air is almost gone and you choke and gasp 578 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,720 for breath, to bring the music down softer, softer. 579 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,720 You're mad, you're mad! 580 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:51,720 Come, Amanda. 581 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,120 Would you deny me that pleasure? 582 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:54,120 No. 583 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:55,120 Help! 584 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:56,120 I promise you the concert will be too long. 585 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:58,740 It takes about eight hours before the air gives out. 586 00:23:58,740 --> 00:24:02,040 Would you know, I could play for days, and don't worry about the children. 587 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,440 I think you've convinced them about the ghosts. 588 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:05,440 But that... 589 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:06,440 Theodore! 590 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,240 Someone shut the door. 591 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:10,240 It's locked and the key's outside. 592 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:11,240 Who's there? 593 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:12,240 Let me out! 594 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:13,240 Let me out! 595 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:14,240 Theodore! 596 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:15,240 Get away from me! 597 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:16,240 Let me out of here! 598 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:17,240 Let me out! 599 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:18,240 Let me out! 600 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:19,240 I can't breathe! 601 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:20,240 I'm suffocating! 602 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:21,240 It's so dark! 603 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:22,240 I can't breathe! 604 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:23,240 Let me out! 605 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:24,240 Please! 606 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:25,240 Please! 607 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:26,240 I can't breathe! 608 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:27,240 I can't... 609 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:28,240 No! 610 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:29,240 No, don't! 611 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:30,240 I can't! 612 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:31,240 I can't... 613 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:32,240 Let me out! 614 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:33,240 I can't breathe! 615 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:34,240 Theodore! 616 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:35,240 Theodore! 617 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:36,240 Let me out! 618 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:37,240 Let me out! 619 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:38,240 He's dead! 620 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,240 He's dead! 621 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:40,240 Daphne! 622 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:41,240 David! 623 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:42,240 Where are you? 624 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:43,240 Open the door! 625 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:44,240 Open the door! 626 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:45,240 Oh, you're back! 627 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:46,240 I'm so sorry. 628 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:47,240 Oh, I'm so sorry. 629 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:48,240 I'm so sorry. 630 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:54,880 No! Let me out! Let me out! He's dead! He's dead! 631 00:24:54,880 --> 00:25:01,880 F.D. David, where are you? Open the door! Help me! Help me! 632 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:06,880 Oh, no! No! Help! Help! 633 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,880 May 1st, 1900. 634 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,880 I shall be coming home in a few days, Bessie. 635 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,880 I still can't sleep at night. 636 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,880 I still hear that laughter. 637 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,880 Still hear that cornet playing its unearthly music. 638 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,880 And Theodore Evans once more lies dead at my feet. 639 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,880 It was his heart, Bessie. He died of fright. 640 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:41,880 In those few moments he anticipated the hideous fate he had meted out to so many. 641 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,880 And I might have died there if he had not gone so quickly. 642 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,880 But the children hated me. They wanted to kill us both. 643 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,880 Those terrible, pathetic children. 644 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,880 What horrors they must have sensed in that charnel house. 645 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,880 There were other women beside his wife. 646 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:05,880 The police found them all buried and stuffed away into unused parts of the pipe organ. 647 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:11,880 Bessie, I was in that pipe room alone with him for four hours before that door creaked open. 648 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,880 There they stood. 649 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,880 And I shall never forget their faces or the things they said. 650 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:23,880 All right, Miss Peabody. You can come out now if you're really sorry. 651 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:25,880 I'm sorry. 652 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:27,880 Are you sure he's quite dead? 653 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,880 Yes, he's dead. 654 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,880 We were right all the time, weren't we, Miss Peabody? 655 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,880 Yes, you were right. 656 00:26:35,880 --> 00:27:03,880 Now, will you come and help us find Mama? 657 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:13,880 And so closes Fugue in C Minor, starring Miss Ida Lupino and Vincent Price. 658 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:19,880 Tonight's tale of suspense. 659 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,880 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 660 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,880 Of all the rich treasures man gets from the earth and mother nature, 661 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,880 none has been more highly esteemed than wine, good, delicious wine. 662 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:36,880 And if you are one who does not yet know how much and how delightfully Roma wines add to your meals, 663 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,880 well, let me urge you not to miss out any longer on such a treat as this. 664 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,880 There's nothing complicated about it. 665 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:48,880 Just get and serve Roma wine with any meal or any time in any kind of glass you wish. 666 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,880 Serve it chilled. 667 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:55,880 Try the many different kinds of Roma wine until you find those you like best of all. 668 00:27:55,880 --> 00:28:00,880 Try Roma California Sherry with its wonderful nut-like flavor as an appetizer, 669 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:06,880 or Ruby Red Roma Burgundy, or the deliciously delicate flavored Roma Sauternes. 670 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,880 These superb wines cost you only pennies a glass full. 671 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,880 Yet, they make even the simplest meal taste like a million dollars. 672 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:14,880 Get some today. 673 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,880 And if your dealer is temporarily out of Roma, please try again soon. 674 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:27,880 You owe it to yourself to have and regularly enjoy R-O-M-A, Roma wines, America's largest selling wines, 675 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:32,880 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 676 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:33,880 This is Ida Lupino. 677 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,880 Mr. Spear has just been telling me a little about next week's suspense show. 678 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,880 The star will be Thomas Mitchell in the story about a man who had headaches, 679 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:46,880 tried everything to cure them, finally went to a psychiatrist, and found out that he was a murderer. 680 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,880 That certainly sounds like a broadcast we listeners won't want to miss. 681 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,880 One more word. Don't forget to buy that war bond this week. 682 00:28:54,880 --> 00:29:02,880 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Thomas Mitchell and Donald Crisp in Suspense. 683 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:11,880 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 684 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:16,880 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.