WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.120 Now, Roma Wines present... 00:04.120 --> 00:07.120 Suspense! 00:07.120 --> 00:25.480 Tonight, The Man Who Knew How, starring Charles Lawton. 00:25.480 --> 00:32.240 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 00:32.240 --> 00:37.200 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:37.200 --> 00:42.240 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:42.240 --> 00:49.080 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you... 00:49.080 --> 00:50.080 Suspense! 00:50.080 --> 01:00.320 This is The Man in Black, here for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California, 01:00.320 --> 01:03.600 to introduce this weekly half hour of... 01:03.600 --> 01:04.600 Suspense! 01:04.600 --> 01:10.360 Tonight from Hollywood, Roma Wines bring you a star, Mr. Charles Lawton. 01:10.360 --> 01:15.840 And so with Dorothy L. Sayers' intriguing story of The Man Who Knew How, 01:15.840 --> 01:18.200 and with the performance of Charles Lawton as Mr. Pender, 01:18.200 --> 01:23.760 a law-abiding citizen of suburban London, we again hope to keep you in... 01:23.760 --> 01:24.760 Suspense! 01:24.760 --> 01:29.760 Hello, is this seat taken? 01:29.760 --> 01:37.760 Oh, no. You're perfectly welcome, I'm sure. 01:37.760 --> 01:38.760 Thank you. 01:38.760 --> 01:43.760 I'm glad to see some of you. 01:43.760 --> 01:50.760 Night journeys are always a bit tedious, don't you think? 01:50.760 --> 01:57.760 Well, I suppose it depends upon one's destination. 01:57.760 --> 02:01.760 Oh, yes. Would you like a book to read? 02:01.760 --> 02:05.880 I have a copy of Hangman's Holiday here. I found it extremely... 02:05.880 --> 02:08.360 Thank you very much. I never read detective stories. 02:08.360 --> 02:10.960 They're so inadequate, don't you think, sir? 02:10.960 --> 02:14.760 Well, most of them are rather lacking in characterisation and human interest, 02:14.760 --> 02:16.760 but on a railway journey one really has to... 02:16.760 --> 02:18.760 Well, I wasn't speaking of the character so much. 02:18.760 --> 02:20.760 I meant the crimes. Bungle, you know. 02:20.760 --> 02:22.480 Oh, but I don't agree with you there. 02:22.480 --> 02:26.040 All these penitent, dreadful murderers are so incompetent, they bore me. 02:26.040 --> 02:29.360 Oh, I say, I think you're quite wrong. 02:29.360 --> 02:32.920 The criminals in books are usually a good deal more imaginative and ingenious 02:32.920 --> 02:34.840 than murderers in real life. 02:34.840 --> 02:38.160 Than the murderers who are found out in real life, yes. 02:38.160 --> 02:41.160 Well, even some of those did pretty well before they got pinched. 02:41.160 --> 02:44.160 Crippen, for instance. Don't you remember Dr Crippen? 02:44.160 --> 02:46.160 Oh, yes, of course. 02:46.160 --> 02:50.160 Crippen need never have been caught if he hadn't lost his head and run off to America. 02:50.160 --> 02:53.160 Well, that's the point, you see. He did lose his head. 02:53.160 --> 02:55.160 Very good. Yes. 02:55.160 --> 02:58.160 He bungled the whole business. It could be so simple. 02:58.160 --> 03:02.160 Now, just for argument, if you were going to commit a murder, 03:02.160 --> 03:04.160 what weapon or means would you choose? 03:04.160 --> 03:06.160 Me? 03:06.160 --> 03:09.160 Oh, let's see, I've... 03:09.160 --> 03:13.160 I've never really given it much thought to actually... 03:13.160 --> 03:16.160 I know. 03:16.160 --> 03:18.160 Yes. 03:18.160 --> 03:21.160 I should use a sandbag. 03:21.160 --> 03:23.160 A sandbag? 03:23.160 --> 03:28.160 Yes, it's worked very successfully in two stories I've read recently. 03:28.160 --> 03:31.160 A sandbag! Oh, yes! 03:31.160 --> 03:33.160 Pardon me, I didn't mean to be rude. 03:33.160 --> 03:38.160 The clumsiness of it all, the elaboration, the lies, the paraphernalia, the alibis... 03:38.160 --> 03:40.160 Absolutely unncessary. 03:40.160 --> 03:42.160 Come, come, come. You can't expect committing a murder 03:42.160 --> 03:46.160 and getting away with it to be as simple as shelling peas. 03:46.160 --> 03:48.160 Oh, you think that, do you? 03:48.160 --> 03:51.160 Well, your mistake, sir, it can be quite simple. 03:51.160 --> 03:55.160 Oh, well, if it's so easy, how would you set about committing a murder? 03:55.160 --> 03:57.160 I? Oh, well, that's different. 03:57.160 --> 04:00.160 I shouldn't have to think twice about it, you see. 04:00.160 --> 04:02.160 I know how. 04:02.160 --> 04:04.160 Er... 04:04.160 --> 04:06.160 Ha-ha-ha! 04:06.160 --> 04:08.160 You haven't tried, have you? 04:08.160 --> 04:10.160 Oh, my dear fellow, it isn't a case of trying. 04:10.160 --> 04:13.160 There's nothing tentative about my method. 04:13.160 --> 04:16.160 Well, what is this wonderful method? 04:16.160 --> 04:19.160 Oh, you don't expect me to tell you, do you? 04:19.160 --> 04:23.160 Well, I'd never think of merging anybody. 04:23.160 --> 04:26.160 Oh, yes, you would if you really believed me saying. 04:26.160 --> 04:29.160 We've all of us got a nice little murder locked up inside 04:29.160 --> 04:32.160 just waiting for a chance to come out. 04:32.160 --> 04:36.160 Why are all these tremendous artificial barriers built up around murder 04:36.160 --> 04:38.160 by the Church and by the law? 04:38.160 --> 04:41.160 Just because it's anybody's crime, that's why. 04:41.160 --> 04:43.160 It's as natural as breathing. 04:43.160 --> 04:45.160 That's ridiculous. 04:45.160 --> 04:48.160 Yes, that's what most people would say, but I wouldn't trust them. 04:48.160 --> 04:53.160 Not with sulphate of Thanatol to be bought for tuppence at any chemist. 04:53.160 --> 04:56.160 S...sul...sulphate... 04:56.160 --> 04:58.160 of what? 04:58.160 --> 05:01.160 You think I'm giving something away? Well, I'm not. 05:01.160 --> 05:04.160 It's a mixture of that and one or two other things. 05:04.160 --> 05:07.160 You see, all equally ordinary and cheap. 05:07.160 --> 05:10.160 For ninepence, you couldn't make up enough to poison the entire cabinet. 05:10.160 --> 05:12.160 Tell me. 05:12.160 --> 05:15.160 Of course it wouldn't do to polish off so many at one time. 05:15.160 --> 05:19.160 It might look weird if they all died simultaneously in their baths. 05:19.160 --> 05:23.160 In their...why in their baths? 05:23.160 --> 05:25.160 Well, that's the way it would take them. 05:25.160 --> 05:27.160 It's not the mixture alone that does the trick. 05:27.160 --> 05:30.160 You see, it needs hot water to make the stuff take effect. 05:30.160 --> 05:34.160 Just a hot bath, any time from a few hours to a few days after administration. 05:34.160 --> 05:36.160 It's quite a simple chemical reaction. 05:36.160 --> 05:39.160 It couldn't possibly be detected by analysis. 05:39.160 --> 05:41.160 It would just look like heart failure. 05:41.160 --> 05:45.160 I...I...I...I...I...I've never heard of such a thing. 05:45.160 --> 05:50.160 You know, it's very odd how often one seems to read 05:50.160 --> 05:53.160 of people being found dead in the bath tub. 05:53.160 --> 05:55.160 Have you noticed? 05:55.160 --> 05:57.160 No. 05:57.160 --> 05:59.160 No? 05:59.160 --> 06:01.160 But look here. 06:01.160 --> 06:07.160 If...if...if...if nobody is fit to be trusted with this potent formula... 06:07.160 --> 06:09.160 I'm not to be trusted either. 06:09.160 --> 06:11.160 Exactly. 06:11.160 --> 06:14.160 Well, that's true, but it's past praying for now. 06:14.160 --> 06:17.160 I know the thing and I can't unknow it. 06:17.160 --> 06:20.160 Unfortunate, perhaps, but there it is. 06:20.160 --> 06:23.160 Huh. Are we flowing down? 06:23.160 --> 06:25.160 Yes, this is Rugby. 06:25.160 --> 06:28.160 Rugby already, dear me. I must get out here. 06:28.160 --> 06:31.160 I have a little business to do with Rugby. 06:31.160 --> 06:33.160 I most indebted to you, sir. 06:33.160 --> 06:37.160 I've been quite entertained with your secret formula. 06:37.160 --> 06:39.160 Thank you. 06:39.160 --> 06:43.160 Just a moment. What did you say was the name of that stuff? 06:43.160 --> 06:45.160 Sulfate of... 06:45.160 --> 06:47.160 Oh, no, look here. 06:47.160 --> 06:50.160 If I were you, my dear sir, I'd just put it out of my head and forget it. 06:50.160 --> 06:52.160 There's a good fellow. 06:52.160 --> 06:56.160 Yes, yes, yes, that would be better. 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Morning, Charles. 09:17.160 --> 09:20.160 I have an egg for your breakfast, sir. Oh, thank you. 09:20.160 --> 09:23.160 They're quite scarce now, you know. Yes, I know. 09:23.160 --> 09:26.160 Will you have your tea now, sir? Yes, please. 09:26.160 --> 09:29.160 Ending in the post, Charles. Only a note from your tailor, sir. 09:29.160 --> 09:33.160 He'd be pleased to have you come in for a fitting at one on Tuesday next. 09:33.160 --> 09:35.160 Oh, very well. 09:35.160 --> 09:40.160 Charles, what's the back-stairs gossip in the neighbourhood? 09:40.160 --> 09:42.160 Nothing much, sir. 09:42.160 --> 09:44.160 Mr. Skimmings, the old gentleman in number 11, 09:44.160 --> 09:48.160 had a falling out with his nephew and has drawn up a new will, they say. 09:48.160 --> 09:50.160 Oh, really? 09:50.160 --> 09:53.160 He's left everything to his housekeeper, Mrs. Digby. 09:53.160 --> 09:55.160 Well, well, well, she's been with him nearly 20 years. 09:55.160 --> 09:57.160 That reminds me, Charles, 09:57.160 --> 10:01.160 I should draw up my will, you know, one of these days. 10:01.160 --> 10:04.160 Charles, I shan't forget you. 10:04.160 --> 10:07.160 You've been more than loyal to me, Charles. 10:07.160 --> 10:10.160 Oh, well, thank you, sir. 10:10.160 --> 10:12.160 Charles? Yes, sir? 10:12.160 --> 10:14.160 Charles, has it ever occurred to you 10:14.160 --> 10:19.160 that an unusually large number of people die in bathtubs? 10:19.160 --> 10:21.160 In bathtubs, sir? 10:21.160 --> 10:23.160 Yes, yes. You know, they seem to have a heart attack 10:23.160 --> 10:25.160 while in their bath and they never come out of it. 10:25.160 --> 10:27.160 It's a common occurrence, I dare say, sir. 10:27.160 --> 10:29.160 There was one in the paper like that this morning. 10:29.160 --> 10:31.160 There was? Yes, sir. 10:31.160 --> 10:33.160 Right on the front page it was. 10:33.160 --> 10:35.160 That's how I happened to notice. 10:35.160 --> 10:37.160 Here, it's this account, sir. 10:37.160 --> 10:39.160 Oh, it was... 10:39.160 --> 10:41.160 Wealthy manufacturer dies in bath. 10:41.160 --> 10:43.160 Mr. Brittlesea, it was, sir, 10:43.160 --> 10:46.160 of the Brittlesea's engineering works at Rugby. 10:46.160 --> 10:49.160 Rugby? Did you know him, sir? 10:49.160 --> 10:51.160 No, no, I didn't know him. 10:51.160 --> 10:54.160 I believe the paper says his wife found the poor man. 10:54.160 --> 10:56.160 Heart failure. 10:56.160 --> 10:59.160 That's a very peculiar coincidence. 10:59.160 --> 11:01.160 What, sir? 11:01.160 --> 11:03.160 I was just thinking, Charles. 11:03.160 --> 11:06.160 I met a man on the train down from Carlisle last night. 11:06.160 --> 11:08.160 He got off at Rugby. 11:08.160 --> 11:10.160 He said he had a bit of business there. 11:10.160 --> 11:22.160 I wonder what his business was. 11:22.160 --> 11:26.160 Oh, Charles. Charles. Charles. 11:26.160 --> 11:29.160 Charles, there's someone at the door. 11:29.160 --> 11:32.160 Oh, dear, I mean, the bell must be out of order. 11:32.160 --> 11:36.160 Charles! Where is that other slipper, damn you? 11:36.160 --> 11:38.160 Charles! 11:38.160 --> 11:42.160 All right, all right, just a moment, just a moment. 11:42.160 --> 11:44.160 Is anybody there? 11:44.160 --> 11:46.160 I'm coming, I'm coming. 11:46.160 --> 11:49.160 Oh, Mrs. Digby. 11:49.160 --> 11:52.160 Oh, I didn't mean to rouse you, sir. 11:52.160 --> 11:55.160 But Mr. Skimming's never kept the phone in the house, sir. 11:55.160 --> 11:58.160 And also, perhaps you could tell me who to call. 11:58.160 --> 12:00.160 Step inside, Mrs. Digby. 12:00.160 --> 12:04.160 Now, what precisely seems to be the trouble? 12:04.160 --> 12:07.160 Well, I thought he was a long time in the bath, sir. 12:07.160 --> 12:09.160 But I never dreamed. 12:09.160 --> 12:12.160 Oh, dear me, has Mrs. Skimming been taken in? Is that what the matter? 12:12.160 --> 12:14.160 Worse than ill, sir. All blue ears. 12:14.160 --> 12:16.160 Dear me. 12:16.160 --> 12:18.160 If only I'd looked in sooner, sir. 12:18.160 --> 12:20.160 But you know a gentleman in his bath how it is, sir. 12:20.160 --> 12:22.160 Oh, yes, of course. 12:22.160 --> 12:25.160 I must say, I've always been afraid something of this sort might happen. 12:25.160 --> 12:28.160 The old gentleman would take his bath, so very odd. 12:28.160 --> 12:30.160 Probably had a slight stroke, Mrs. Digby. 12:30.160 --> 12:32.160 I dare say the doctor will be able to bring him round. 12:32.160 --> 12:34.160 Not likely, sir. 12:34.160 --> 12:38.160 I've heard him. He's been dead for some time, sir. 12:45.160 --> 12:48.160 Stand back, stand back. 12:48.160 --> 12:53.160 Predicates won't be admitted until the coroner's completed his animation of the body. 12:53.160 --> 12:56.160 Hello. Would you have a look at this card, please, officer? 12:56.160 --> 12:58.160 Who did you want to see in there, sir? 12:58.160 --> 12:59.160 Mrs. Digby. 12:59.160 --> 13:02.160 You'll find her in the library, giving testimony, most likely. 13:02.160 --> 13:04.160 Yes, they've discovered the will, I imagine. 13:04.160 --> 13:06.160 I don't know nothing about that, sir. 13:06.160 --> 13:08.160 Well, I'll just run in and have a look around, eh? 13:08.160 --> 13:10.160 Sir. Officer! 13:10.160 --> 13:11.160 Yes, sir. 13:11.160 --> 13:13.160 Who was that man who just went into Mr. Skimming's house? 13:13.160 --> 13:15.160 Search me. Why did you let him in? 13:15.160 --> 13:17.160 He persuaded me like. 13:17.160 --> 13:19.160 Do you realize, officer, what you may have done? 13:19.160 --> 13:21.160 Of course, officer, I had no right to say it, 13:21.160 --> 13:24.160 but that man may have gone in there to destroy evidence. 13:24.160 --> 13:26.160 What evidence? 13:26.160 --> 13:28.160 Oh, I get it. 13:28.160 --> 13:31.160 You're one of them there's sensation seekers 13:31.160 --> 13:33.160 in the wrong team, my lord. 13:33.160 --> 13:35.160 There ain't no murder case here. 13:35.160 --> 13:37.160 The old bloke died of heart failure. 13:37.160 --> 13:39.160 Yes, I know. 13:39.160 --> 13:41.160 While taking a hot bath. 13:41.160 --> 13:43.160 Really, Danton's every day. 13:43.160 --> 13:45.160 Five or six cases right round this neighborhood 13:45.160 --> 13:47.160 in the past month for loans. 13:47.160 --> 13:49.160 I've been keeping track of them, officer. 13:49.160 --> 13:51.160 Did you know that in every single one of these cases 13:51.160 --> 13:53.160 the persons who died left quite a lot of money? 13:53.160 --> 13:55.160 I wouldn't be surprised, sir. This is a wealthy neighborhood. 13:55.160 --> 13:57.160 All right, then that's my number, Mrs. Digby. 13:57.160 --> 13:59.160 Give me a form of any unusual development, eh? 13:59.160 --> 14:01.160 I will, then, sir. 14:01.160 --> 14:03.160 There he is, officer. There he is. 14:03.160 --> 14:05.160 That's the man, all right. What man's debt, say? 14:05.160 --> 14:07.160 Well, well, well, hello. 14:07.160 --> 14:09.160 We meet again. 14:09.160 --> 14:11.160 Yes. 14:11.160 --> 14:13.160 I rather imagined we would. 14:13.160 --> 14:16.160 Did you know the old gentleman, Mr. Skimmings? 14:16.160 --> 14:18.160 Only to speak to on the street. 14:18.160 --> 14:20.160 Oh, then you live near here, eh? 14:20.160 --> 14:22.160 Oh, yes, fourth house down. 14:22.160 --> 14:24.160 I'm just going back. 14:24.160 --> 14:26.160 Mind if I walk along? 14:26.160 --> 14:28.160 Oh, no, no, of course not. 14:28.160 --> 14:30.160 It's a rather odd meeting again like this, isn't it? 14:30.160 --> 14:32.160 Most peculiar. 14:32.160 --> 14:36.160 Uh, do you live in these parts, too? 14:36.160 --> 14:40.160 Oh, no. I was only here on a little matter of business. 14:40.160 --> 14:42.160 Matter of, uh, yes. 14:42.160 --> 14:48.160 Last time we met you had a business at Rugby. 14:48.160 --> 14:50.160 Oh, yes, I had. 14:50.160 --> 14:52.160 Well, my business takes me all over the country. 14:52.160 --> 14:55.160 I never know where I may be wanted next. 14:55.160 --> 15:00.160 It was, uh, it was while you were at Rugby that, uh... 15:00.160 --> 15:04.160 silly, old Brittle say was found dead in his bath, wasn't it? 15:04.160 --> 15:06.160 Oh, yes. 15:06.160 --> 15:08.160 There's a funny thing, coincidence. 15:08.160 --> 15:10.160 He left all his money to his wife, I believe. 15:10.160 --> 15:12.160 She's a rich woman now. 15:12.160 --> 15:14.160 Good-looking girl, a lot younger than he was. 15:14.160 --> 15:16.160 This is my gate. Oh, already? 15:16.160 --> 15:18.160 Will you, uh... 15:18.160 --> 15:21.160 Will you come in and have a drink? 15:21.160 --> 15:23.160 Why, yes, thanks. I should like to very much. 15:23.160 --> 15:26.160 I trust your wife won't object to this intrusion. 15:26.160 --> 15:28.160 I have no wife. 15:28.160 --> 15:30.160 Oh, bachelor's quarters. 15:30.160 --> 15:32.160 Yes. 15:32.160 --> 15:35.160 I do myself quite well under the circumstances. 15:35.160 --> 15:38.160 Oh, you're right. This is capital. 15:38.160 --> 15:40.160 Would you give me your hat? Oh, thank you. 15:40.160 --> 15:43.160 I think my man has gone after bed, but I dare say we can manage. 15:43.160 --> 15:45.160 This way, please. 15:45.160 --> 15:47.160 Oh, that fire looks good. 15:47.160 --> 15:49.160 Would you take soda? Yes, please. 15:49.160 --> 15:55.160 It is remarkable how many people have been found dead in their baths lately, isn't it? 15:55.160 --> 15:57.160 You think it's remarkable, huh? 15:57.160 --> 16:00.160 Well, I suppose... I don't know, perhaps it is. 16:00.160 --> 16:05.160 I suppose I've been taking more notice on account of that conversation we had on the train. 16:05.160 --> 16:10.160 You know, it is a curious thing how when once your attention is attracted 16:10.160 --> 16:12.160 to any particular set of circumstances, 16:12.160 --> 16:15.160 that that set of circumstances seems to haunt you. 16:15.160 --> 16:17.160 True. 16:17.160 --> 16:19.160 Let us say, for instance, that you get appendicitis. 16:19.160 --> 16:22.160 Now, immediately the newspapers are filled with paragraphs 16:22.160 --> 16:26.160 about people who have died of or recovered from appendicitis. 16:26.160 --> 16:28.160 True. 16:28.160 --> 16:30.160 You see, it mentioned in all the magazines, 16:30.160 --> 16:34.160 you discover that many of your friends and acquaintances have had appendicitis. 16:34.160 --> 16:36.160 The thing seems rather to pursue you. 16:36.160 --> 16:38.160 Yes, yes, that's exactly how it is. 16:38.160 --> 16:40.160 And all these baths have deaths. 16:40.160 --> 16:42.160 The sequence of events is the same in each case. 16:42.160 --> 16:46.160 The hot bath, the discovery of the body, the inquest, the death of the body. 16:46.160 --> 16:48.160 The inquest and the medical opinion, 16:48.160 --> 16:50.160 always the same, death due to heart failure, 16:50.160 --> 16:52.160 following immersion in hot water. 16:52.160 --> 16:54.160 Yes. 16:54.160 --> 16:58.160 It just makes me wonder, you know how one does, foolishly, 16:58.160 --> 17:05.160 whether anybody else had happened to hit on that drug you mentioned. 17:05.160 --> 17:09.160 What was the name of it? 17:09.160 --> 17:11.160 Oh, I shouldn't think so. 17:11.160 --> 17:14.160 I fancy I'm the only person who knows about that. 17:14.160 --> 17:16.160 Are you a chemist? 17:16.160 --> 17:20.160 Oh, I'm a bit of everything, sort of a general utility man. 17:20.160 --> 17:22.160 I do a good bit of studying on my own too. 17:22.160 --> 17:26.160 You see, well, I see you have some very interesting books here. 17:26.160 --> 17:28.160 Yes, I collect modern first edition. 17:28.160 --> 17:30.160 May I see that green volume now? 17:30.160 --> 17:32.160 Of course, certainly. 17:32.160 --> 17:34.160 I'll set you down. 17:34.160 --> 17:37.160 It's a Henry James. 17:37.160 --> 17:40.160 It's quite a bargain, really. 17:40.160 --> 17:42.160 Here we are. 17:42.160 --> 17:44.160 A very interesting book. 17:44.160 --> 17:46.160 Yes, yes, indeed. 17:46.160 --> 17:48.160 It's a very interesting hobby. 17:48.160 --> 17:50.160 E. Pender, is that your name, Pender? 17:50.160 --> 17:53.160 Yes, it's Everett Pender. 17:53.160 --> 17:56.160 You have the advantage of me now, sir. 17:56.160 --> 18:00.160 Oh, I'm one of the great Smith Clams, and work for my bread. 18:00.160 --> 18:02.160 Here's your drink. 18:02.160 --> 18:04.160 You're retired, I suppose. 18:04.160 --> 18:06.160 Yes, thank you. 18:06.160 --> 18:08.160 Yes, only recently. 18:08.160 --> 18:10.160 I was in a bank until I came into this bit of money. 18:10.160 --> 18:13.160 Lucky ones, not married, comfortably fixed. 18:13.160 --> 18:16.160 I dare say you won't be needing any self-paid euthanics. 18:16.160 --> 18:18.160 No, I didn't quite say that. 18:18.160 --> 18:21.160 Any useful drugs in the near future? 18:21.160 --> 18:23.160 No. 18:23.160 --> 18:28.160 I shan't be coming to you for assistance yet a while. 18:30.160 --> 18:32.160 Besides, how should I find you if I wanted you? 18:32.160 --> 18:35.160 Oh, you wouldn't need to find me. I should find you. 18:35.160 --> 18:37.160 There's never any difficulty about that. 18:37.160 --> 18:39.160 Well, I'd best be getting up. 18:39.160 --> 18:41.160 Don't get up. I'll find my hat. 18:41.160 --> 18:43.160 Thank you for your hospitality. 18:43.160 --> 18:46.160 I don't expect we should meet again, but we may, of course. 18:46.160 --> 18:49.160 Things work out so clearly sometimes, don't they? 18:49.160 --> 18:52.160 Yes. Don't they? 18:52.160 --> 18:54.160 Good night, Mr. Smith. 18:54.160 --> 18:56.160 Good night. 18:59.160 --> 19:01.160 I beg pardon, sir. 19:01.160 --> 19:03.160 Oh, hello, Charles. I thought you'd gone to bed. 19:03.160 --> 19:05.160 I heard voices and thought you might be wanting something. 19:05.160 --> 19:07.160 Oh, it was just an acquaintance, Charles. 19:07.160 --> 19:09.160 I'd like a drink. He's gone. 19:09.160 --> 19:11.160 Shall I take the glasses? Yes, thank you, Charles. 19:11.160 --> 19:13.160 Do you wish to finish yours, sir? 19:13.160 --> 19:15.160 Mr. Fender. What? 19:15.160 --> 19:17.160 Your drink, sir. Do you wish to finish it? 19:17.160 --> 19:19.160 Oh, yes, of course. I thought I had. 19:21.160 --> 19:23.160 There you are. 19:23.160 --> 19:25.160 I'll draw your bath when you're ready for it, sir. 19:25.160 --> 19:28.160 Oh, there's no hurry. Tell me, Charles, 19:28.160 --> 19:33.160 did you ever notice a tall, dark chap 19:33.160 --> 19:37.160 with very thick spectacles and curly hair calling on Mrs. Digby? 19:37.160 --> 19:42.160 Why, yes, sir. Come to think of it, I have, sir. 19:42.160 --> 19:45.160 But then he always seems to be about whenever there's a death in the neighborhood. 19:45.160 --> 19:47.160 Lately, that is. 19:47.160 --> 19:49.160 Did you ever talk with him, Charles? 19:49.160 --> 19:52.160 Why, if I not to mention it, sir? 19:52.160 --> 19:55.160 Oh, you did talk to him, Charles. 19:55.160 --> 19:58.160 Why are you so upset, Charles? 19:58.160 --> 20:01.160 Well, sir, it was about Mr. Skimming's changing his will 20:01.160 --> 20:03.160 in favor of Mrs. Digby. 20:03.160 --> 20:06.160 And the gray-haired gentleman, a smith, I believe his name is, 20:06.160 --> 20:09.160 asked whether you hadn't changed your will lately. 20:09.160 --> 20:12.160 Did you tell him I'd left everything to you? 20:12.160 --> 20:14.160 Well, not in so many words. 20:14.160 --> 20:16.160 But you gave it away. 20:16.160 --> 20:18.160 Ah. 20:18.160 --> 20:20.160 Ah. 20:20.160 --> 20:22.160 So that's his game. 20:22.160 --> 20:24.160 Ah. 20:24.160 --> 20:25.160 Oh! 20:25.160 --> 20:27.160 Good Lord in heaven, what is it, sir? 20:27.160 --> 20:30.160 That drink. He bought it. 20:30.160 --> 20:33.160 While I was getting a book down from the case. 20:33.160 --> 20:35.160 What is it, sir? 20:35.160 --> 20:37.160 Charles. Charles. 20:37.160 --> 20:41.160 Under no circumstances am I to have a hot bath 20:41.160 --> 20:43.160 for at least two weeks. 20:43.160 --> 20:45.160 Do you understand, Charles? 20:45.160 --> 20:47.160 No hot baths. 20:49.160 --> 20:51.160 Very well, sir. 20:51.160 --> 20:53.160 Oh, Charles. 20:53.160 --> 20:56.160 In the paper, has... 20:56.160 --> 20:59.160 Has anyone else died in his bath? 20:59.160 --> 21:01.160 Why, as it happens, yes, sir. 21:01.160 --> 21:03.160 Here it is, sir. 21:03.160 --> 21:05.160 The inquest will be held tomorrow at three. 21:05.160 --> 21:08.160 The inquest? Yes, the inquest, Charles. 21:08.160 --> 21:10.160 I know what my duty is. 21:10.160 --> 21:13.160 I shall be at the inquest tomorrow. 21:21.160 --> 21:23.160 Good afternoon, sir. 21:23.160 --> 21:24.160 Hello, Charles. 21:24.160 --> 21:26.160 I was not expecting you home for a bit, sir. 21:26.160 --> 21:28.160 You didn't stay long at the inquest. 21:28.160 --> 21:30.160 I wasn't interested in the inquest, Charles. 21:30.160 --> 21:33.160 I went to the inquest only to see if a certain man would be there, 21:33.160 --> 21:35.160 and he was there, Charles. 21:35.160 --> 21:37.160 He was there as I expected. 21:37.160 --> 21:38.160 Yes, sir. 21:38.160 --> 21:40.160 The afternoon papers come. 21:40.160 --> 21:43.160 There is still another of those bath deaths. 21:43.160 --> 21:45.160 Another? 21:45.160 --> 21:47.160 Oh, yes. 21:47.160 --> 21:49.160 Yes. 21:49.160 --> 21:51.160 And they will go on and on 21:51.160 --> 21:54.160 unless somebody stops them. 21:54.160 --> 21:56.160 Charles, where was this one? 21:56.160 --> 21:58.160 In Launceton Place, sir. 21:58.160 --> 22:00.160 A young woman this time. 22:00.160 --> 22:01.160 It's the most... 22:01.160 --> 22:03.160 No, no, no, no, Charles, no. 22:03.160 --> 22:05.160 I'm going out again, Charles. 22:05.160 --> 22:07.160 I have some business to attend to. 22:07.160 --> 22:10.160 Over in Launceton Place, as a matter of fact. 22:10.160 --> 22:12.160 Goodbye, Charles. 22:19.160 --> 22:21.160 Yes, sir. 22:21.160 --> 22:23.160 And what can I do for you, sir? 22:23.160 --> 22:27.160 Do you have one of those old-fashioned sandbags? 22:27.160 --> 22:29.160 Sandbags, sir? 22:29.160 --> 22:32.160 The kind one uses to keep drafts from coming in under a door. 22:32.160 --> 22:35.160 Oh, yes. As a matter of fact, I think we may have one left. 22:35.160 --> 22:37.160 Oh, yes, here we are, sir. 22:37.160 --> 22:40.160 Not much demand for these nowadays. 22:40.160 --> 22:42.160 No, I suppose not. 22:42.160 --> 22:45.160 Careful if you use it on a stair landing, sir. 22:45.160 --> 22:48.160 One of these fell and hit a woman on the head, in case I know, 22:48.160 --> 22:50.160 knocked her out cold. 22:50.160 --> 22:52.160 You don't say. 22:52.160 --> 22:54.160 I'll be very careful. 22:54.160 --> 22:56.160 Yes, very careful. 23:10.160 --> 23:12.160 Hello. 23:12.160 --> 23:14.160 Bobby, have you got light there? 23:14.160 --> 23:16.160 Right, sir. 23:16.160 --> 23:18.160 Here you are. 23:18.160 --> 23:19.160 Thank you. 23:19.160 --> 23:22.160 Would you like a cigar to smoke later on? 23:22.160 --> 23:24.160 Thank you, sir. 23:24.160 --> 23:27.160 By the way, sir, there's a bloke following here. 23:27.160 --> 23:29.160 I don't know whether he knows... 23:29.160 --> 23:31.160 Yes, I know. Just let him alone, Bobby. 23:31.160 --> 23:33.160 I'm going to have some sport with him. 23:33.160 --> 23:35.160 Right, Charles, sir. 23:35.160 --> 23:51.160 Hello, Panda. 23:51.160 --> 23:53.160 Come on out from behind that post. 23:53.160 --> 23:55.160 I know you're following me. 23:55.160 --> 23:58.160 I've known it ever since I left Launceston Place. 23:58.160 --> 24:01.160 You should have told that Bobby to arrest me. 24:01.160 --> 24:05.160 Why should I? 24:05.160 --> 24:07.160 Because I'm going to kill you. 24:07.160 --> 24:09.160 Why ever do you want to do a thing like that? 24:09.160 --> 24:12.160 To put an end to one of the most fiendish careers 24:12.160 --> 24:14.160 and the annals of crime. 24:14.160 --> 24:18.160 You've committed your last murder, Mr. Smith. 24:18.160 --> 24:21.160 Come, come. Look here, old boy. 24:21.160 --> 24:24.160 My name's not Smith at all. I'm William Barkley. 24:24.160 --> 24:26.160 I didn't imagine it really was Smith. 24:26.160 --> 24:28.160 Do you actually believe that I'm responsible 24:28.160 --> 24:30.160 for all these baths of death? 24:30.160 --> 24:32.160 Do you deny that you are? 24:32.160 --> 24:34.160 Why should I? 24:34.160 --> 24:36.160 You told me yourself you're the only man 24:36.160 --> 24:38.160 who knows the formula for the poison. 24:38.160 --> 24:40.160 Self-hate, if that at all? 24:40.160 --> 24:42.160 Well, yes, indeed. You have me there, Panda. 24:42.160 --> 24:45.160 And you stood to profit by every one of those deaths, 24:45.160 --> 24:47.160 didn't you, Mr. Buckley? 24:47.160 --> 24:49.160 You have me there, too. 24:49.160 --> 24:51.160 Look here, Panda, you're a great reader of crime stories. 24:51.160 --> 24:54.160 Haven't you ever wished someone would commit the perfect crime 24:54.160 --> 24:56.160 and get away with it just once? 24:56.160 --> 24:59.160 Yes, I have. God help me, but I don't anymore. 24:59.160 --> 25:02.160 I saw old Skimming dead in his bath. 25:02.160 --> 25:04.160 Blue and horrible. 25:04.160 --> 25:07.160 The man who committed that outrage must die. 25:07.160 --> 25:10.160 You, Buckley, you must die. 25:10.160 --> 25:13.160 You don't know what you're doing, Panda! 25:13.160 --> 25:15.160 Oh! Oh! 25:27.160 --> 25:30.160 Well, Mr. Pender, what will you have, sir? 25:30.160 --> 25:32.160 A double brandy, if you please, miss. 25:32.160 --> 25:34.160 You're warding off a cold, eh? Yes, yes, sir. 25:34.160 --> 25:37.160 You don't look at all well, if I may say so, sir. 25:37.160 --> 25:39.160 Or to be home in bed, you ask. I dare say yes. 25:39.160 --> 25:41.160 That's fine for the phone given. Right away, sir. 25:41.160 --> 25:43.160 Say, what's up, Tom? 25:43.160 --> 25:45.160 You promised not to beat me to the phone, and I'll tell you. 25:45.160 --> 25:47.160 Oh, if it's interesting like murder, my paper wouldn't print it anyway. 25:47.160 --> 25:49.160 What is it? Bill Buckley of all people. 25:49.160 --> 25:51.160 No. Gone to an inquest. 25:51.160 --> 25:53.160 Some woman died in her bath. Really? 25:53.160 --> 25:57.160 Buckley must have been on his way to interview the husband at his laboratory. 25:57.160 --> 25:59.160 It was a rough district close to the river. 25:59.160 --> 26:01.160 Somebody crept up on him and gave him such a blow, it broke his neck. 26:01.160 --> 26:03.160 Don't say it. 26:03.160 --> 26:05.160 So he says it must have been a sandbag. Who did it, do they know? 26:05.160 --> 26:07.160 The vaguest notion got cleaned away in the fog. 26:07.160 --> 26:09.160 Oh, dear, that's too bad. 26:09.160 --> 26:11.160 Bill Buckley was a great crime reporter. 26:11.160 --> 26:13.160 He was a decent sort, too. I worked with him for a time. 26:13.160 --> 26:15.160 Great sport, no end of a leg for it. 26:15.160 --> 26:17.160 I know. 26:17.160 --> 26:21.160 Did you ever hear about that sulfate of Thanatol stunt he used to work? 26:21.160 --> 26:23.160 No, what was that? 26:23.160 --> 26:25.160 Look at you, sober as a judge you would, 26:25.160 --> 26:27.160 and then tell you about this sulfate of Thanatol. 26:27.160 --> 26:29.160 Sulfate of Thanatol? 26:29.160 --> 26:33.160 Which mixed with a few other things he said would cause death if you swallowed it, 26:33.160 --> 26:35.160 and then took a hard bath. 26:35.160 --> 26:37.160 Nobody believed him, did they? 26:37.160 --> 26:41.160 Oh, yes. He used to work off that wheeze on all boobs and right-away carriages. 26:41.160 --> 26:43.160 See how they take it, really? 26:43.160 --> 26:45.160 Would you believe it? One chap actually accused him. 26:45.160 --> 26:47.160 Oh, Mr. Pender! 26:47.160 --> 26:49.160 What's happening? 26:49.160 --> 27:07.160 Oh, why, that bloke has fainted. 27:07.160 --> 27:09.160 How's the old boy feeling now, child? 27:09.160 --> 27:13.160 Much better, sir. He caught a bit of a chill out in the fog, I think. 27:13.160 --> 27:15.160 I put him to soak in a hot bath. 27:15.160 --> 27:17.160 That ought to do the trick. Well, if there's nothing more we can do. 27:17.160 --> 27:20.160 Mr. Pender wants me to thank you for bringing him home, gentlemen. 27:20.160 --> 27:22.160 Oh, nothing, we are, then. Well, good night. 27:22.160 --> 27:30.160 Good night, gentlemen. 27:30.160 --> 27:34.160 Is your bath hot enough, sir? 27:34.160 --> 27:38.160 Mr. Pender! 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