WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 Now, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... 00:11.000 --> 00:13.000 Suspense! 00:16.000 --> 00:20.000 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you the suspenseful play called 00:20.000 --> 00:23.000 My Own Murderer, starring Mr. Herbert Marshall. 00:23.000 --> 00:28.000 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:28.000 --> 00:31.000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 00:31.000 --> 00:34.000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much 00:34.000 --> 00:37.000 pleasantness to the way you live, to your happiness and 00:37.000 --> 00:40.000 entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:40.000 --> 00:44.000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, 00:44.000 --> 00:48.000 as Roma Wines bring you a remarkable tale of suspense. 00:48.000 --> 00:51.000 And with the drama called My Own Murderer, 00:51.000 --> 00:53.000 and with the performance of Mr. Herbert Marshall, 00:53.000 --> 00:56.000 Roma Wines hope indeed to keep you in... 00:56.000 --> 00:58.000 Suspense! 01:02.000 --> 01:06.000 I was never really much attracted by Alan Renick, 01:06.000 --> 01:09.000 even before he murdered Baines. 01:10.000 --> 01:13.000 It had been a raw March day, and I returned home at about 01:13.000 --> 01:16.000 half past eleven in the evening to find Alan Renick 01:16.000 --> 01:18.000 waiting at my doorstep. 01:18.000 --> 01:21.000 Hello, Dick. 01:21.000 --> 01:23.000 Alan, what on earth are you doing here? 01:23.000 --> 01:25.000 It's a long story, old boy. 01:25.000 --> 01:28.000 Aren't you going to ask me, you know, is it your habit 01:28.000 --> 01:30.000 to keep people waiting on your threshold? 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 Well, give me a chance. 01:33.000 --> 01:35.000 After you. 01:36.000 --> 01:39.000 I say, this is cozy. 01:39.000 --> 01:43.000 Yeah, just about right for a bachelor who never entertains. 01:43.000 --> 01:45.000 I dare say it wouldn't do for you at all. 01:45.000 --> 01:48.000 I wouldn't be too sure of that. 01:48.000 --> 01:49.000 Just one bedroom. 01:49.000 --> 01:51.000 There's a spare, but I've never used it. 01:51.000 --> 01:53.000 Not very hospitable, are you, old trout? 01:53.000 --> 01:54.000 I've never had it in the occasion to be. 01:54.000 --> 01:56.000 Well, you have now. 01:56.000 --> 01:57.000 What's on your mind, Alan? 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 I'm coming to that. 01:59.000 --> 02:02.000 Remember Baines, my butler and valet? 02:02.000 --> 02:03.000 Wage there? 02:03.000 --> 02:05.000 Well, Baines turned out a bad penny, 02:05.000 --> 02:07.000 tried to blackmail me, as a matter of fact. 02:07.000 --> 02:08.000 Blackmail? 02:08.000 --> 02:11.000 Yes, he got hold of some letters written to me by a lady. 02:11.000 --> 02:12.000 A married lady. 02:12.000 --> 02:14.000 You dig? 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 You guessed it. 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 Since you're my legal advisor, 02:18.000 --> 02:20.000 you may as well know the whole story. 02:20.000 --> 02:22.000 They were from Anita Kilner. 02:22.000 --> 02:25.000 So you bolted, warned her, and put the police on him. 02:25.000 --> 02:27.000 The police? 02:27.000 --> 02:29.000 No, I couldn't afford to do that. 02:29.000 --> 02:32.000 One couldn't very well produce Anita's letter. 02:32.000 --> 02:34.000 And you paid Baines the blackmail he wanted? 02:34.000 --> 02:35.000 Certainly not. 02:35.000 --> 02:36.000 Then what? 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 I'm afraid I lost my temper. 02:38.000 --> 02:41.000 Oh, good Lord, you don't mean to say there was violence? 02:41.000 --> 02:42.000 Of course there was. 02:42.000 --> 02:45.000 You don't think I could let a reptile like that go on living? 02:45.000 --> 02:47.000 Let me get this straight. 02:47.000 --> 02:49.000 You're trying to tell me that you... 02:49.000 --> 02:52.000 I beat his brains out with a poker. 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 You murdered him? 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 I suppose that's what the police will call it. 02:57.000 --> 03:01.000 It happened this afternoon around 3 o'clock, I think. 03:01.000 --> 03:03.000 If I'd only known sooner. 03:03.000 --> 03:05.000 Probably too late now to fix up an alibi for you. 03:05.000 --> 03:07.000 You'll think up something, won't you, Dick? 03:07.000 --> 03:10.000 You always do when I'm in a jam. 03:10.000 --> 03:13.000 And in the meantime, I can hide out here, can't I? 03:13.000 --> 03:15.000 What possible good will that do? 03:15.000 --> 03:18.000 They'll track you down here sooner or later, and then we'll both be in the soup. 03:18.000 --> 03:21.000 No, Alan, you'd better get yourself up. 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 Then I'll see what can be done about getting you off. 03:23.000 --> 03:25.000 First we can mess you up a bit and plead self-defense. 03:25.000 --> 03:28.000 Is that the best your devious legal mind can dream up? 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 At the moment, yes, I'm a little tired. 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 Well, I'm not going to cooperate. 03:32.000 --> 03:36.000 I'm going to stay right here till you figure out a way to get me clear of this. 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 Alan, be reasonable. For your own good, give yourself up. 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 Is it my own good you're thinking of? 03:40.000 --> 03:43.000 Or is it because you're afraid you'll be caught harboring a criminal 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 and lose your filthy law practice? 03:45.000 --> 03:47.000 Yes, I will, Dick. 03:49.000 --> 03:50.000 What are you doing? 03:50.000 --> 03:51.000 Telephoning the police. 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 Put that phone down. 03:53.000 --> 03:55.000 It's best this way. Believe me, Alan. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 I've already committed one murder this evening. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 I've nothing to lose by committing another. 03:59.000 --> 04:01.000 Aye. 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 Sorry, wrong number. 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 You're really afraid of me, aren't you? 04:06.000 --> 04:10.000 Now, perhaps. Tomorrow I could turn you in with no risk whatsoever. 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 But I don't think I will. 04:12.000 --> 04:13.000 There's a good fellow. 04:13.000 --> 04:15.000 I'll let you stay here, Alan. 04:15.000 --> 04:18.000 I'll save your neck for you, too. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 Why, this sudden change of heart. 04:20.000 --> 04:23.000 You've always thought me rather a worm, haven't you, Alan? 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 Oh, I say, Dicko. 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 You were the dashing man about town. 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 Your estepades and your law of the extravagance 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 and your women running after you. 04:31.000 --> 04:34.000 I was just a dull fellow trapped in a musty law office. 04:34.000 --> 04:37.000 Now your very life depends on me. 04:37.000 --> 04:40.000 I suppose that's why the situation appeals to me. 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 It's an adventure, if you like. 04:42.000 --> 04:43.000 Well, I don't. 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 I dare say not. 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 It won't be pleasant for you cooped up in this little flat 04:48.000 --> 04:50.000 with no one but me to talk to. 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 Well, after all, it's only temporary. 04:52.000 --> 04:56.000 You may not like some aspects of it, even for a little while. 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 You'll have to do your own laundry, of course. 04:58.000 --> 04:59.000 I say. 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 Checking laundry is a favorite police trick. 05:01.000 --> 05:04.000 And no lights will be turned on in the flat when I'm not at home. 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 You mean I've got to sit here in the dark? 05:06.000 --> 05:09.000 You can go into the kitchen or the bathroom. 05:09.000 --> 05:11.000 There are no outside windows in those rooms. 05:11.000 --> 05:13.000 Oh, and, um, talking of the kitchen, 05:13.000 --> 05:16.000 I think you ought to have your meals there, even when I'm in. 05:16.000 --> 05:18.000 You will serve me in the dining room. 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 Look here, do you think I'm your servant or what? 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 As a matter of fact, it's only fair you should be, 05:22.000 --> 05:25.000 since I can't hire any help so long as you're here. 05:25.000 --> 05:28.000 Wouldn't it be simpler and more matey if we both did? 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 I'm not used to dining in the kitchen. 05:30.000 --> 05:31.000 Neither am I. 05:31.000 --> 05:33.000 Then the sooner you practice, the better. 05:33.000 --> 05:37.000 The future's not going to be so simple for you as the past has been, Alan. 05:37.000 --> 05:41.000 But after all, you're very lucky to have a future at all. 05:41.000 --> 05:42.000 Eh? 05:42.000 --> 05:48.000 Well, Dick, whatever it is, one thing is certain. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 I'll have you to thank for it. 05:50.000 --> 05:54.000 But I warn you, Dick, if I do hang, 05:54.000 --> 06:00.000 it won't be only for Bane's murder, but for yours as well. 06:11.000 --> 06:15.000 For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you as star Mr. Herbert Marshall, 06:15.000 --> 06:19.000 as Richard Sampson, with Norman Lloyd as Alan Reinick, 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 in My Own Murderer by Richard Hull, 06:21.000 --> 06:25.000 which is Roma Wines presentation tonight of Suspense. 06:32.000 --> 06:37.000 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 06:37.000 --> 06:41.000 Mention the name Elsa Maxwell, and you picture a famous hostess. 06:41.000 --> 06:46.000 Mention a meal featuring fish or fowl, and Elsa Maxwell pictures, 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 but let's hear it in her own words. 06:48.000 --> 06:53.000 The thought of a piping hot fish or chicken dinner naturally calls up for me 06:53.000 --> 06:58.000 the picture of glasses of chilled Roma California sauternes at each place. 06:58.000 --> 07:03.000 Roma sauternes is delicate, pale gold in color, delightful in bouquet, 07:03.000 --> 07:06.000 and even more important, exquisite in taste. 07:06.000 --> 07:11.000 However, you need not wait for a chicken or fish dinner to serve good Roma sauternes. 07:11.000 --> 07:13.000 It goes perfectly with any food. 07:13.000 --> 07:17.000 The one important thing to remember is the name, Roma. 07:17.000 --> 07:22.000 Each glass full of golden Roma sauternes reflects the heritage of all Roma wines. 07:22.000 --> 07:27.000 Flavorful grapes from California's choicest vineyards, gently pressed, 07:27.000 --> 07:31.000 then carefully guided with all the ancient skill of Roma wineries 07:31.000 --> 07:35.000 to the full goodness you enjoy in every Roma wine. 07:35.000 --> 07:42.000 Roma wines do not vary, are always high in quality, yet they cost only pennies a glass. 07:42.000 --> 07:47.000 No wonder more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 07:47.000 --> 07:50.000 R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 07:50.000 --> 07:54.000 And now it is with pleasure that we welcome back to our Hollywood sound stage 07:54.000 --> 07:58.000 Mr. Herbert Marshall, who as Richard Sampson in My Own Murderer 07:58.000 --> 08:14.000 continues a narrative well calculated to keep you in suspense. 08:14.000 --> 08:19.000 Should Alan Winnick prove to be my own murderer, as well as Baines's, 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 this document will serve as his death warrant. 08:22.000 --> 08:27.000 If not, then I should make good use of it anyhow. 08:27.000 --> 08:30.000 This then is what I decided to do. 08:30.000 --> 08:33.000 I was to keep Alan Winnick and hide him where he was, in my flat. 08:33.000 --> 08:36.000 I had a plan for effecting his escape, 08:36.000 --> 08:40.000 but it was more than a month before I had an opportunity to start it in motion. 08:40.000 --> 08:45.000 He came quite unexpectedly on the course of my almost daily visits to the Old Bailey. 08:45.000 --> 08:48.000 An insurance case preceded mine on the court docket, 08:48.000 --> 08:53.000 and I was forced to wait while a revolting red-headed doctor rambled on with his testimony. 08:53.000 --> 08:57.000 That red hair of his really fascinated me, 08:57.000 --> 09:01.000 but not as much as his medical bag which lay on the bench before me. 09:01.000 --> 09:07.000 But when he stepped down from the box, I was already on my way out of the courtroom. 09:07.000 --> 09:11.000 Hey, hey, stop that man. He's stolen my bag. 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 What's this? What's this? What's the trouble, doctor? 09:13.000 --> 09:18.000 That man, the one with the tallish-out glasses, he's made off with my kit. 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 What did you say he took? 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 A black leather bag, you know the type, with my name on it. 09:23.000 --> 09:26.000 I'm afraid he's lost in the crowd by this time, sir. 09:26.000 --> 09:29.000 But if your name's on it, could you identify him if you saw him again? 09:29.000 --> 09:31.000 Well, of course I could. 09:31.000 --> 09:36.000 He had on tallish-out glasses, and he had a bad mastoid scar just under his right ear. 09:36.000 --> 09:40.000 All the time he was talking to the policeman, I was standing not more than five paces away, 09:40.000 --> 09:44.000 lost among the curious crowd that had collected about them. 09:44.000 --> 09:47.000 I left the room with the crowd and held a cab. 09:47.000 --> 09:54.000 When I'd taken what I needed from his bag, I threw it with its remaining contents into the ever-useful Regents' canal. 09:54.000 --> 09:59.000 Its owner's name stamped on the outer side of it was as revolting as his red hair. 09:59.000 --> 10:02.000 Jeremiah Bloggins. 10:02.000 --> 10:05.000 Jeremiah Bloggins. 10:09.000 --> 10:12.000 Now my plans for Alan's escape swung into motion. 10:12.000 --> 10:19.000 Our chief accomplice was a woman friend of Alan's named Margaret Farley, whom I knew to be the most intelligent of his acquaintances. 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 Hello, Dick. Where's Alan? 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 All right, Alan, you can come out now. 10:23.000 --> 10:25.000 Well, it's high time. 10:25.000 --> 10:26.000 Hello, Margaret. 10:26.000 --> 10:29.000 Alan. Oh, Alan, my poor, poor darling. 10:29.000 --> 10:34.000 Long time no see. But you're still the prettiest girl in the world. 10:34.000 --> 10:37.000 Look, I'm sorry to interrupt this touching little scene, but there's not too much time. 10:37.000 --> 10:39.000 Shall we discuss our plan? 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 Yes, of course. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 Well, in essence, this is it. 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 Alan's going to die. 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 What do you mean by that? 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 I say, isn't that rather extreme? 10:48.000 --> 10:52.000 Not literally, of course. The point is to arrange a bogus death of some sort. 10:52.000 --> 10:56.000 To get you declared legally dead, and then you'll assume another identity. 10:56.000 --> 10:59.000 That has possibilities. Well, what about the body? 10:59.000 --> 11:04.000 Well, I'm afraid I'm crossed back on the old expedient of the suicide note. 11:04.000 --> 11:07.000 The clothes left on the riverbank and the body that's never recovered. 11:07.000 --> 11:11.000 Later, you're declared legally dead. It's a very old plan. 11:11.000 --> 11:15.000 And rather unlikely to deceive the police for that reason, don't you think, old boy? 11:15.000 --> 11:18.000 Or we'll admit later on, if necessary, that it was a put-up job. 11:18.000 --> 11:19.000 What's the good of that? 11:19.000 --> 11:25.000 Don't you see? If the police ask too many questions, Miss Farley here will admit being a party to a bogus suicide. 11:25.000 --> 11:30.000 But stick to her story that you were really drowned by misadventure while trying to carry out your plan. 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 I think it has possibilities, Alan. 11:32.000 --> 11:34.000 Where is this hellish swamp that I'm supposed to swim? 11:34.000 --> 11:37.000 Well, I've been studying maps of the English coastline. 11:37.000 --> 11:43.000 We should choose the mouth of a river, but the tidal currents are strong enough to sweep the body out to sea. 11:43.000 --> 11:47.000 Not too broad a channel, so that it can be easily swum when the tide's at low ebb. 11:47.000 --> 11:52.000 And not too near to town or village, so there'll be no unwanted witnesses. 11:52.000 --> 12:01.000 So I grow a beard, swim the river, put on different clothes, and become Jeremiah Bloggins or somebody for the rest of my life. 12:01.000 --> 12:04.000 Huh? How did you happen to mention that name? 12:04.000 --> 12:09.000 Jeremiah Bloggins. Why not? Good a name as any. Don't you think so, Margaret? 12:09.000 --> 12:12.000 I don't think this is quite the time for facetiousness, Alan. 12:12.000 --> 12:18.000 Well, all right. So I become Jeremiah Bloggins. That's better than hanging. 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 But what will Jeremiah Bloggins do for money? 12:20.000 --> 12:24.000 Well, you could make out a will in favor of Margaret here or whomever you have in mind. 12:24.000 --> 12:27.000 Oh, I suppose I could have been on you to make things stick legally. 12:27.000 --> 12:31.000 Well, I'm putting myself in a position where you could easily blackmail me if I didn't. 12:31.000 --> 12:33.000 He has a point there, Alan. 12:33.000 --> 12:38.000 Now, we'll need another Confederate. Somebody to look after you when you get to the other shore. 12:38.000 --> 12:42.000 You could leave a car there, of course, but the effect of the cold water... 12:42.000 --> 12:45.000 Well, I think it's safer to have somebody waiting for you on the other side. 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 Who will it be? 12:47.000 --> 12:50.000 That actress friend of Alan's, Anita Kilmer. 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 That woman? Well, how can you suggest such a thing? 12:53.000 --> 12:57.000 Now, Margaret, it's true that Anita's a fool and rather a tiresome one. 12:57.000 --> 13:00.000 I don't know whether Dick told you, but her letters got me into this mess. 13:00.000 --> 13:03.000 Baines was trying to blackmail me for them, and that's why I killed him. 13:03.000 --> 13:08.000 But it's right. I need someone, and I can trust Anita because of those letters, if for no other reason. 13:08.000 --> 13:12.000 Heavens, what a scheme. Everybody's in a position to blackmail everybody else. 13:12.000 --> 13:15.000 Yes, that had already occurred to me. 13:15.000 --> 13:23.000 That's exactly why this plan can't possibly fail. 13:27.000 --> 13:30.000 The river mouth we finally hit upon was near Muteford. 13:30.000 --> 13:33.000 It was Margaret Fowley's choice, and it was a good one. 13:33.000 --> 13:36.000 Still, I was afraid to trust everything to her. 13:36.000 --> 13:41.000 So I decided to drive Alan down there and to leave him as soon as I saw him safely in the water. 13:41.000 --> 13:47.000 Margaret Fowley was to meet us there, and Anita would be waiting on the other bank. 13:47.000 --> 13:52.000 It was at times a revolting journey down to Muteford that night. 13:52.000 --> 13:56.000 The trouble with you, Dick, is that you like managing people. 13:56.000 --> 14:03.000 Mark my words, one day I shall be a free man again, and then I shall try and repay you for some of the things you've made me put up with. 14:03.000 --> 14:10.000 Cleaning up after you, making me say yes, Dick. Certainly, Dick. Of course. Dick. 14:10.000 --> 14:16.000 I was quite used to point out to you that what I did was not only for your own good, but absolutely necessary. 14:16.000 --> 14:20.000 Incidentally, I shouldn't be smoking quite so much if I were you. 14:20.000 --> 14:23.000 I'd like to do some swimming tonight, remember? You're hopelessly out of condition. 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 How I should like to give you just one on the job? 14:25.000 --> 14:31.000 Just one? Seven is your usual number, isn't it? Isn't that what it took to kill Baines? 14:31.000 --> 14:37.000 You are an utterable swine. If you weren't driving the car, I'd give you something to remember me by. 14:37.000 --> 14:40.000 I shan't forget you easily as it is. 14:40.000 --> 14:46.000 Oh, forget what I said. I'm all on edge. It's a devil of a cold night, too. 14:46.000 --> 14:50.000 Did you bring that black coffee I asked you to? Where's the thermos? 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 There on the back seat. Help yourself. 14:52.000 --> 14:54.000 Thanks. 15:00.000 --> 15:03.000 Filthy coffee. I should have made it myself. 15:03.000 --> 15:06.000 Better save a little for just before you go into the water. 15:06.000 --> 15:10.000 Well, Margaret's bouncer brought some, too. I'll just finish this off. 15:12.000 --> 15:16.000 Oh, bad as it tastes, it's making me feel a lot better. 15:23.000 --> 15:28.000 I thought you'd never come. Oh, Alan, you poor boy. We would pick the coldest night in the year. 15:28.000 --> 15:30.000 Nonsense. I feel marvelous, marvelous. 15:30.000 --> 15:33.000 Well, I brought you some hot coffee. It's here in this thermos. 15:33.000 --> 15:37.000 I'll just put it in before I dive in. Will, come along. Let's get going. 15:37.000 --> 15:41.000 I wish he wouldn't rush things so. He'll wear himself out before he gets in the water. 15:41.000 --> 15:47.000 If I know Alan, he's whistling past the cemetery. Hope he doesn't lose his nerve at the last moment. 15:47.000 --> 15:48.000 If he does... 15:48.000 --> 15:53.000 You mustn't imply things like that about Alan. Besides, I don't know that I could bring myself actually to push him. 15:53.000 --> 15:57.000 You must. You know what he is, and tonight he's especially difficult. 15:57.000 --> 16:00.000 All right. I'll do whatever seems necessary. 16:00.000 --> 16:03.000 I don't know what's come over me. I feel positively numb. 16:03.000 --> 16:06.000 Really, it's much too cold. Haven't we better try another night? 16:06.000 --> 16:07.000 Now, Alan... 16:07.000 --> 16:10.000 I can't, Margaret. I'm afraid it's too cold. 16:10.000 --> 16:12.000 Here. Here's the thermos. 16:12.000 --> 16:15.000 Here, drink this, darling. It'll warm you up. 16:17.000 --> 16:18.000 Oh, filthy stuff. 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 Go on. Drink it up. 16:22.000 --> 16:27.000 There. I feel terrible. I've never been so cold in my life. 16:27.000 --> 16:30.000 Now, go on, Alan. Be brave. You were always that. 16:30.000 --> 16:35.000 No. Now, look, darling. Really. No, don't. I... No, don't. Please, don't. 16:35.000 --> 16:36.000 No. 16:51.000 --> 16:52.000 Yes? 16:52.000 --> 16:53.000 Mr. Sampson? 16:53.000 --> 16:54.000 Yes? 16:54.000 --> 16:55.000 It's Anita. 16:55.000 --> 16:56.000 Oh, yes? 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 I'm calling from the inn near Muteford. 16:58.000 --> 17:00.000 I waited all night, but Alan never showed up. 17:00.000 --> 17:02.000 Are you sure you waited at the right spot? 17:02.000 --> 17:06.000 Of course I did. Do you think he didn't get a cross? 17:06.000 --> 17:09.000 I don't see why not. It was even narrower than I expected. 17:09.000 --> 17:11.000 I could have swum it myself. 17:11.000 --> 17:15.000 Now, look, you'd better go on home and act as if you hadn't been away. 17:15.000 --> 17:27.000 And don't telephone me again. I'll let you know the moment I hear from him. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 Day followed day with no word from Alan. 17:31.000 --> 17:36.000 I had no alternative but to assume that he had drowned there in the estuary that night. 17:36.000 --> 17:39.000 The body had not been found, but then we had deliberately chosen a place 17:39.000 --> 17:43.000 where the tides could be alleged to have carried it out to sea. 17:43.000 --> 17:46.000 The uncertainty was a little distressing. 17:46.000 --> 17:51.000 I had not forgotten his threat to come back and even score with me once he'd got free. 17:51.000 --> 17:55.000 And tonight came an unpleasant little scene which is not to help my frame of mind. 17:55.000 --> 17:58.000 It began with Anita. 17:58.000 --> 18:01.000 I know you're angry at me for coming here, Mr. Sampson, 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 but I've simply got to talk to someone. 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 You ought not to have come down here. It isn't safe. 18:05.000 --> 18:09.000 Safe? You're a nice one to talk about safety. 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 You think Alan's safe now? 18:11.000 --> 18:12.000 I don't know. 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 I don't believe you care. 18:14.000 --> 18:17.000 He trusted you, and you've let him down. 18:17.000 --> 18:20.000 How widely he ever trusts himself to a brute like you. 18:20.000 --> 18:22.000 You and your plans and your cleverness. 18:22.000 --> 18:24.000 Where are they all now? 18:24.000 --> 18:27.000 And you sit back and tend it with what you've done. 18:27.000 --> 18:30.000 Why don't you interrupt your panegerec for a moment, Anita? I'd better answer that. 18:30.000 --> 18:31.000 You listen to me first. 18:31.000 --> 18:34.000 Oh, well, I shall see about that. 18:34.000 --> 18:37.000 Well, seems to be a gathering of the clan. 18:37.000 --> 18:41.000 Oh, it's you, Mrs. Farley. Well, I want to talk to you too. 18:41.000 --> 18:42.000 So you missed him. 18:42.000 --> 18:43.000 He didn't come. 18:43.000 --> 18:46.000 I did my part. Did you do yours? 18:46.000 --> 18:48.000 Well, I did my best, but I don't know. 18:48.000 --> 18:53.000 I ought never to have let him go, considering how cold and miserable he was. 18:53.000 --> 18:54.000 I ought to have stopped him. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 And why didn't you? 18:56.000 --> 19:00.000 Because you had a preconceived idea put into your head by this conniving group of an attorney. 19:00.000 --> 19:05.000 He planned it all, and now he isn't going to turn a hand to find Alan and help him if he needs it, 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 because it might jeopardize his filthy little law practice. 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 Well, I'm going to do something about it. 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 I'm going to the police and tell them the whole story. 19:11.000 --> 19:14.000 Has it occurred to you that the police can't possibly help anyone in this case 19:14.000 --> 19:17.000 and may possibly harm all three of us? 19:17.000 --> 19:20.000 And if Alan is alive, you will inevitably do him harm. 19:20.000 --> 19:26.000 Yes. Yes, he's right. I pushed him in. I pushed him in. 19:26.000 --> 19:31.000 Don't be morbid. You did what you could with excellent intentions. 19:31.000 --> 19:35.000 Are you going to clear your conscience by getting two other people into trouble? Are you, Anita? 19:35.000 --> 19:40.000 I confess I'm not too keen on helping Margaret to be a martyr for Alan. 19:40.000 --> 19:45.000 How dare you! It was you and your hysterical letters that got Alan into this mess. 19:45.000 --> 19:49.000 And wouldn't it be ironic if they ended up by being published anyway? 19:49.000 --> 19:54.000 That would be a fine tribute to Alan's sacrifice, especially if he is dead and gone. 19:54.000 --> 19:55.000 What are you driving at? 19:55.000 --> 20:01.000 I have those letters. I'm not going to demand a price for them like veins, but at the same time... 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 You dirty blackmailer. 20:03.000 --> 20:06.000 I am merely forcing you to do something for your own good. 20:06.000 --> 20:10.000 Just like giving a patient morphia to prevent him doing an injury to himself. 20:10.000 --> 20:11.000 Morphia? 20:11.000 --> 20:15.000 What figure of speech, but I think you understand what I mean. 20:15.000 --> 20:16.000 Morphia. 20:25.000 --> 20:30.000 After the women had gone, I thought over the conversation, particularly that part of it in which 20:30.000 --> 20:35.000 Margaret Farley repeated the word morphia. I think she knows. 20:35.000 --> 20:39.000 But even if Alan's body is recovered and they find what he really died of, 20:39.000 --> 20:45.000 they can never make an accusation. They have to prove possession of the morphia. 20:45.000 --> 20:48.000 And no one in the world can do that. 20:48.000 --> 20:55.000 I meant to call Anita Kilner and sound her out, but I find that I don't even know her married name. 20:55.000 --> 21:00.000 Not that it matters, considering what went on with Alan behind her husband's back. 21:00.000 --> 21:05.000 In any case, I can depend on her letters to keep her mouth shut. 21:05.000 --> 21:10.000 On reading this over, I find that in my marshalling of the facts in this case, 21:10.000 --> 21:17.000 I have omitted one possibility. Far-fetched it's true, but there is one person whom I should set about finding 21:17.000 --> 21:20.000 if I were acting for the crown in this case. 21:20.000 --> 21:26.000 I refer to that abominable, truculent, redheaded doctor with a ridiculous name. 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 Yes, Mr. Sampson. 21:40.000 --> 21:44.000 I'm leaving the office for the day, Chatsworth. Will you put these files in my briefcase? 21:44.000 --> 21:45.000 Oh, yes, sir. 21:45.000 --> 21:48.000 And will you please get out Renwick's file? His will goes into probate tomorrow, 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 and I want to study it at home tonight. 21:50.000 --> 21:54.000 Very well, sir. By the way, that gentleman is still waiting in the outer office. 21:54.000 --> 21:55.000 What gentleman? 21:55.000 --> 22:01.000 Oh, I must have forgotten to tell you. He came in with a lady just a moment ago. Dr. Bloggins. 22:01.000 --> 22:02.000 Bloggins? 22:02.000 --> 22:04.000 Jeremiah Bloggins. 22:04.000 --> 22:09.000 Peculiar name, isn't it? Beg pardon if it's a friend of yours, sir. 22:09.000 --> 22:14.000 No, no, not especially. You see I was in? 22:14.000 --> 22:16.000 Yes, I'm afraid I did. 22:16.000 --> 22:22.000 Chatsworth, if you ever become a solicitor, be sure your office has two entrances. 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 Shall I send him away, sir? 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 Jeremiah Bloggins. 22:26.000 --> 22:31.000 I dare say he'd be unpleasantly persistent. Better let him come in. 22:31.000 --> 22:35.000 Yes, sir. Will you be needing me, Mr. Sampson? 22:35.000 --> 22:39.000 Yes, you'd better sit down. I want you to take down a statement. 22:39.000 --> 22:40.000 Yes, sir. 22:40.000 --> 22:44.000 Won't you come in, please? 22:44.000 --> 22:49.000 Thank you. Hello, Mr. Sampson. I want you to meet... 22:49.000 --> 22:52.000 Dr. Bloggins. Yes, we've met before. 22:52.000 --> 22:56.000 Oh, strange you should have been the one to bring this about, Anita. 22:56.000 --> 23:01.000 I always thought Margaret Farley the cleverer one. Or should I speak so frankly? 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 Dr. Bloggins knows everything, Mr. Sampson. 23:03.000 --> 23:10.000 Yes, I know. But just for the record, are you ready to take down that statement, Chatsworth? 23:10.000 --> 23:11.000 Yes, Mr. Sampson. 23:11.000 --> 23:15.000 Very well. I murdered Alan Rennick. 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 Well, just a moment, Mr. Sampson. 23:17.000 --> 23:23.000 Please don't interrupt. Yes, I murdered him. And why not? He was a killer. 23:23.000 --> 23:27.000 He forced himself on me and turned himself into my private property. 23:27.000 --> 23:31.000 He might indeed be called my own murderer. 23:31.000 --> 23:38.000 My motive? Well, perhaps one day the world will learn that the strongest compulsion to murder is hatred. 23:38.000 --> 23:43.000 I hated Alan Rennick. And I planned his murder brilliantly. 23:43.000 --> 23:48.000 I'd counted on the sea, holding Rennick long enough for the traces of Morpheus to have gone. 23:48.000 --> 23:52.000 I very can't be responsible for the treachery of the elements. 23:52.000 --> 23:55.000 Only one man had the evidence to convict me. 23:55.000 --> 24:00.000 And the odds against his being found and brought face to face with me were so slight that I'd risk it again. 24:00.000 --> 24:03.000 I'm not sorry I killed him. 24:03.000 --> 24:11.000 Even now I'm able to say that it's been a great adventure, requiring courage and daring beyond Rennick's wildest imagination. 24:11.000 --> 24:15.000 I have proved which of us was the better man. 24:15.000 --> 24:17.000 You have all that, Chatsworth? 24:17.000 --> 24:19.000 Yes, sir. 24:19.000 --> 24:21.000 Oh, add this note at the bottom. 24:21.000 --> 24:35.000 In view of the customary bumbling and obtusiveness of the Crown Prosecutor, it'll probably be necessary to state that his case will be greatly facilitated by calling as his first witness Dr. Jeremiah Bloggins. 24:35.000 --> 24:42.000 Oh, look here, perhaps I'm obtuse, but why on earth are you trying to involve me in your beastly murder? 24:42.000 --> 24:51.000 Huh? Ha ha. Ha ha. What do you say? Do you mean to say you don't recognize me? 24:51.000 --> 24:56.000 Why, no, why should I? Anita, why did you bring this man here? 24:56.000 --> 25:01.000 I thought you knew. He's my husband. 25:01.000 --> 25:08.000 After Alan's body was found, I decided to tell him everything. We simply came here to get the letters. 25:08.000 --> 25:17.000 And, and you don't even remember me? Ha ha ha. When your bag was stolen while you were testifying at the Old Bailey. 25:17.000 --> 25:25.000 Well, so you're the blighter who did that. Good heavens. That's where you got the morphia. Out of my bag. 25:25.000 --> 25:33.000 Yes. 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