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uh...
bring you the remarkable young actors whose performance you have admired in the
water brothers production
the call is green
this don't know what i had
are all the man in the house
a suspense play produced edited and directed for all the lines
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the orange on the debate and he'll
right now a glass full with the very pleasant
as robert line bring you john lauring
and a remarkable fail of
and
and i think
they called me that pretty little better
i never imagined then five years later i'd be working in the public library
day after day
one of the mousy type mild librarians who frown and wrap a pencil when the
adolescent
i never dreamed that pretty little bad girl would become premise that not at my
mother would
well one evening my father came home from the office looking a little more
tired than usual
he barely touched his dinner
and said he thought he'd lie down on the sofa for a nap
three hours later he was dead
from that day mother with a change
and i have to change
she became suspicious and bitter and solitary
after time people stopped coming to visit
and ted roper and not to call
i suppose i should have rebelled but i was never a rebellious
i knew that would have expected me to stand by her
and so in a year or two things have completely changed for me
i was working at the library stamping cards and checking books
and rapping on the desk and the gigling became too loud in the corner
ted roper went away to school studying to be a doctor
and by the time he came home to set up his own practice
he was called up for the medical corps
i get postcards from him from time to time
and meanwhile i worked at the library and came home and cared for mother
because her health had grown progressively worse
now she was in a wheelchair and always in pain although she'd never consented to be a doctor
i was thinking of all these things that night as i walked home from my evening
session at the library
maybe it was because ted was back in town
he had his medical discharge and he set practice up again
he'd come to the house once
and i knew he wouldn't want to come back again
and so i walked home alone in the dark
thinking how once they had said
there goes that pretty little barrett girl
but now they said
what emily barrett and her mother need is a man in the house
i looked up at our house
it was shabby and rundown
and the vacant lots on either side of it and across the street were wild with unkempt weeds and grass
a single light was burning in mother's room
the rest of the house was dark
i opened the gate
and then i stumbled a little
something soft and yet unyielding was at my feet
and somehow my blood went cold as i reached down and my hand touched something still and lifeless
it was my little wirehead terry
he was dead
mother poor rubies
mother what is it
close the door
who are you? i'm not a sound out of you
close the door
who are you?
what are you doing here? don't turn on the light just stay where you are
mother are you all right? i haven't harmed her yet
i won't harm you if you do what i tell you
but if you annoy me as rover annoyed me outside
you did call him rover didn't you miss barrett?
what are you doing in our house? i'm your guest miss barrett
i trust your hospitality we'll measure up to the standards i set for you
may i turn on the light? now don't move
well you find my hand cold on your arm
i didn't expect it
the light switch is to your left isn't it?
i misjudged a little
that's why i touched you
it uh...
might have been better to have stayed in the dark you see
he was ugly
his face was horribly scarred the entire left side of it was drawn out of shape by the
rigid livid skin
the scar tissue seemed to distort his features into something evil and unclean
i'm not the most handsome guest you've ever had am i?
don't cry i'm here now don't cry
you only work yourself up by crying try not to be advisable for her to stop whining
it annoys me
please mother please dear rover annoyed me
what are we going to do?
why did you come here? i'm your guest madam if it's money you have we don't have
i'm your guest i seek food and shelter as befits a guest
and you mustn't make one feel welcome
he's mad emily he's a mad man you mustn't say that madam he killed the dog and then he sneaked into the house
he's been through every room
he has your father's revolver and he wouldn't turn on the lights except the one in my room
he made me wait here in the dark for you
oh emily
emily i feel sick
stop that whining it annoys me don't you hurt me don't you dare mother please
please dear annoy me madam
i suggest you retire for the night emily no i couldn't
i couldn't you'd be good enough to take your mother into her bedroom miss barrett
what are you going to do i've told you
i'm your guest
well miss barrett
come along mother let me wheel you into your room
i don't want to
your conveyance needs oiling madam
don't speak to me don't talk to me oh by the way miss barrett
yes
won't trouble to close the door
and uh... don't attempt to talk secretly with one another
i don't know
and maddening
and what i've ever done it should happen to me try to become
let me help
like on the bed why don't you get right in the back
couldn't i could but if you could get some rest you feel so much better i'm not
getting out of it
three if you could let yourself sleep no i don't know i can't and emily if you
just take your pill it was that
you say
answering
when other ordinarily take sleeping pills for insomnia
not tonight
i won't take them tonight i couldn't i think you will matter no i don't you
can't make me is uh...
is that her bottle on the bedside table
how many did she take
who
on given to her
and then no
no
and made me what will you do if she sleeps
address
weighed under the shelter
promise i'll be at her side when she wakes in the morning
yes i promise
i give it a go
very well
take them now mother
mother swallowed the sleeping tablets with difficulty her eyes wide with fear
unable to look away from that scarred awful face
any walk away into the living room like to buy a wheelchair holding her hand
after eternities are eyelids drooped and closed over the frightened eyes
her face relax
i made it comfortable possible in the wheelchair put a blanket over and out the
light and come out here
do you hear me
sit down
yes that
how do you spend your evenings miss barrett you uh...
no i don't think i get enough of books work
why do you know
and what do you do for a lively
and library
why did you do that usually
they are like that
no i don't
that case then we'll turn off the light
rather isolated this end of the street but someone might wonder why lights are
burning in the barrett house
why sit down comfortably miss barrett
on lean back bd's why don't you leave us in peace
we want to address
safety arrest and solitude but why are house why
got to have a few visitors
mothers blame it on my mother we selfish complaining
not the most delightful of companions
you're alive very necessary
how long do you intend to stay here curiosity and
noise me
stay as long as i please for a very long time need make you can't you be found
out
and out that very much
if i could report for work on you
i don't understand you will go to work at the library
and leave my mother here with you
as uh...
hostage
shouts
she'll be my guarantee you won't betray me
you're not going to please miss barrett
you will not make any indiscreet disclosures to anyone
who work at your job all day and then come back here
and if i don't need
you ask that question
is it really necessary to ask me that
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johan lawy
as emily barrett
with joseph karen
as the man in the house
in our radio play well calculated to keep you in
the rest of the night
he didn't speak to me
yet i knew he was staring at me
except for the single time
to bring the dog into the house
i was still frightened so frightened
but it was the morning i thought of
morning when i would have to be mother alone with him
we ate breakfast together
three of us island at the table
space was ugly than ever in the morning light
he'd watch me prepare breakfast with wary eyes
now he will just food and as though he hadn't eaten sometime
not under
and you madame
i'm not hungry
and started here
is it time for you to leave miss barrett
and i think that he means that i have a job mrs barrett you would want to leave
it would have been no you can't leave me here you can't you'll be all right mother
really you will feel like that i can do and you know you better go miss barrett
remember your responsibility
yes i remember
my day was a nightmare
i performed my duties automatically
and you know that i'm i'm i'm great with speculation
what was he doing
was mother alright how could i possibly get him out of the house
i couldn't tell anybody
killer in a minute
mother said i had to
i had to i had to
and meanwhile
and
what do you think i'm not
another
in our own locked in the
well you know i think that i thought that uh...
and i told you she was alright
it
that evening i didn't have to go back to the library
again he watched me prepare our meal and again he walked
food down
i'm not an i left up a time
i want to drive the dishes after dinner
and all three of us have been living
and this is an ugly house
and then i was
well after and i'm not interested in what you think about how
uh... you should be
muster young
your life is being ruined by this
selfish woman out there you know
and take time not to wear
and wicked if you don't come into my house this way and pay that thing
he even let me
and the dog in the
and you're evil to madam
uh... selfish parasite
the world would be better interview and i'm going to your own
i don't care what you're doing
and i'm not even anything you've got one
and i don't know how i'm going to spare it for you
and i'm not the only
i think that you will make things any easier this way and she's left
don't know
and i don't know
and
that and we can use this here
blood-sucking parasite give up a little bit of time she slept
uh...
mother
the realtor again
that's where they're taking
and i think
honestly part of the living
he said in the care where he could watch the door and windows
one side of it
they put it in the next ticket control
you know committed your mother to run your life that isn't true i was just
true i know
i've seen it happen before
now all about it
i've been trapped at the top that now by your mom i don't stand for you talking
like that all about women domineering women
i was one
you know about it
you'll kill
that's why you're hiding
did you kill someone
uh...
not sure
maybe someone
annoyed me
how kill
don't know
tell your mother not to
that night went by
crawled by the first night
at ten thirty he switched off the light
and we were sitting in the back again in silence
our after our
when morning came i was wretched and had it
but i knew i had to do with him
leave the house again i had no other choice
i had to leave mother with him
i have to go about my duties usual
for a moment i thought of going to help
but i knew what he did or someone even approach
and then i came down the front steps my heart almost up
but that's what was coming up the front path morning and i
hello i heard your mother wasn't too well i thought i'd drop in a minute
fear no no i i don't think you've got to keep you sleep or too bad
which i'd stopped in last night i was in the neighborhood not just on the verge of
knocking on your door and i noticed your life for a police
we retired early
there's something wrong with them
don't know another
look worn out
getting funny sleep yes yes i am
and if you could get sharing on about my mother and my health
i could be the curtain living room
he was watching it
he could probably hear every word that was being said
and we are not listening
are you well of course i'm well we leave me alone
course that's what you feel
i'm sorry but i have a headache i'd appreciate it if you go on
and it could be a good time
that can look into the window
he was standing at the back of the curtain
i don't know how i managed to get through that afternoon but i did
and then i went home again and they were there
when i think that mother was all right i cooked dinner and he tried to keep up a
conversation
we uh...
had visitors today didn't we mrs barrett
milkman mailman
no letters however just a magazine
and we had an interesting talk that we must have that
about mothers and daughters
i looked at mother across the table
panic in her eyes given away to another motion
one hard to name it
and then i realized it was recognition
but she was dying to appear
perfect
strangely serene
she looked more beautiful than i ever remember
after dinner we sat in the living room
that way
he looked at the circle and reside
and it's a quick voluntary
i thought i'm very happy i'd like to have a
that's better than
think you'd better go to bed
sleep no i i couldn't there's no excuse for not sleeping
cf easily a mother can do it
take some of the tablet no take them
but my mother if you take them to you know
and then i knew why he wanted me to take
needed
i have a spare
all at once i had no
i took the water from him he was leaning over me in the chair
and then i followed the tablet
sleep couldn't have come immediately
and yet somehow it was like a black
good frowning my mind
when when i walk he was still asleep in the cat facing the door in the window
but the moment i moved good morning
where's my mother
in our own car
mother was just leaving him
something was wrong
she looked up and something was radically wrong
she was there
but it's impossible
cry out to run to them and feed them to help me
but i knew that was useless
i turned around knowing that i shouldn't be very good i would probably help
it's late i i won't have time to make breakfast morning yes we seem to have
overslept
i'll have to go now
the key please unlock the door
mother still sleeping
please don't disturb
that uh...
that still depends on you miss barrett
have you forgot
i left the house desperate
but i had to have medical attention immediately and i didn't get caught in
one in
i didn't do anything that would endanger her life
i didn't know what to do
i walked blindly rapidly along the sidewalk almost running not knowing
where i was going
and then i thought that
or
better
uh... what's wrong what is it
and you've got to help you got to
uh...
here's my car
sit down
and then i told him the whole story
and when i finished
i'd better go to your house at once but you can't and i can't let you in the
house you won't have to
i'm not letting you go back there but i must i can't leave my way
all right
go back to the house
tell him you went for a doctor i couldn't tell him that emily
let me tell you mother with a little woke up
tell him you called a doctor and you said nothing about him being in the house
he won't believe me i know he would got the gambling will
i'll drive you back to the corner
give you time to walk to the house and explain things to him
and i'll make my call and then what can't put would you then
i don't know
but do with that
it's all we can do just now
when i think that in the house i knew i'd landed
i should never take a chance
i shouldn't have left my mother in the first place
what are you doing back here
why aren't you at the library
i didn't go to the library
i called for doctor
i thought for a doctor he'll be here soon
told him about me no no no i don't know
you're lying about your mother
you picked me
my mother's and i tell you
she was sick when i looked at it this morning you must believe that we'll find
out
come on in the bedroom away the doctor
he's coming up the walk
don't let him in
and away i can't do that not after calling him you know something's wrong
then you call the police want
that's exactly what i want to not to do with it
my mother's sick that's all that matters
all right all right let him in
how do you know mother in the living room
i'll be behind the curtains keep that in mind
you try any tricks i'll kill her i have your father's about you know i don't care
what happens to me i'll kill her first no
i'll be ready for him
hello i'm away
hello doctor i'm so glad you've come
where's our patient
in the living room
uh... let's look at it shall we
tissue doctor she didn't reading loudly now but you're reading so hard when i
left her let's just
i think it didn't want to get bent over
he was taking the curtain in the doorway
and behind those curtains
behind them
i think three print and wouldn't do anything to around
patients praying against hope and then
all right you and i have to give up
uh...
you
uh...
easy
you know
uh... i'd like to know if you want to listen to me it was the only thing i
could do with you know that you really didn't believe that
look at the spot look at what's in our lab almost half empty
and she's cold
cyanosis blue lips and skin
who she took an overdose of sleeping tablets
she was already dead
already
you know that when you put in give up yet
and you know i couldn't leave you in the house with him
he found out many of the playbook
i had to do it
i had to provoke him into shooting a dead woman
to give me time to shoot him
i didn't know where it was
he told me
ruin my life
he called her a parasite
you think it
i think so
she did it so you might live
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