WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 Now, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... 00:11.500 --> 00:13.000 Suspense. 00:17.700 --> 00:22.700 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. Lee Jacob as star of The Bet, 00:22.700 --> 00:30.200 a suspense play produced, edited and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 00:32.200 --> 00:39.200 Suspense. Radio's outstanding theater of thrills is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:39.200 --> 00:46.200 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:46.200 --> 00:50.700 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:50.700 --> 00:58.700 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma Wines bring you Mr. Lee Jacob in a remarkable tale of... 00:58.700 --> 01:00.700 Suspense. 01:07.700 --> 01:17.700 Haunted? Yes, I'm haunted. It's a year now and I can't erase the memory of that precipice I very nearly stepped from. 01:17.700 --> 01:25.200 That darkness into which I almost plunged. Or maybe I took the plunge and I'm in it now, in the dark. 01:25.200 --> 01:32.200 It doesn't usually happen in my business, but what's the use of talking about it? You'd only say I'm too susceptible. 01:32.200 --> 01:42.200 And I'd say, you're right, I am susceptible. To faces and places, to women's faces. One woman's face. 01:42.200 --> 01:54.200 And to lost, dark places on what I call the rim of the world. Places like Sierra Leone, Saigon, Balsau. Places like Trinidad. 01:59.200 --> 02:07.700 But you won't get it from reading atlases and maps. If you read, for instance, that the seasons of Trinidad are regular, wet from May to January, 02:07.700 --> 02:19.200 dry from the end of January to May, the average annual rainfall 63 inches, you won't understand how I saw it when I landed at Port of Spain in April, the dry season. 02:19.200 --> 02:35.200 I remember it was a day so clear and bright that it was a world under glass. And I liked it. I liked the harbour, cathedrals, the old streets, the dry, spiced air. 02:35.200 --> 02:46.200 And that little shop I wandered into to get away from the blaze of the sun. I'd heard she went there. Siam Brahmachari shop of Hindu antiquities. 02:49.200 --> 02:50.700 Hello? Anybody here? 02:50.700 --> 02:54.200 Certainly. Good afternoon. I am Siam Brahmachari. 02:54.200 --> 02:56.200 Oh, it's dark. I didn't see. 02:56.200 --> 03:03.200 Yes, I live here like a mole. And when the clock rings, it brings me customers. Every time. What can I show you? 03:03.200 --> 03:04.700 Well, I thought I'd look around. 03:04.700 --> 03:09.200 It's a pleasure. Look as you wish. You're a stranger in Port of Spain. 03:09.200 --> 03:10.200 I landed today. 03:10.200 --> 03:11.200 And you're an artist. 03:11.200 --> 03:12.200 Well, how did you? 03:12.200 --> 03:14.200 That's a sketch pad you carry. 03:14.200 --> 03:16.200 Oh, yes. Yes, I paint. 03:16.200 --> 03:20.200 You'll find Trinidad charming to paint until the rains come, Mr. 03:20.200 --> 03:21.700 Scott Turner. 03:21.700 --> 03:30.200 Mr. Scott Turner, yes. It's lovely until next month, then the green rain until the first of the year. 03:30.200 --> 03:33.200 Well, that sounds paintable. The rain. 03:33.200 --> 03:34.700 By the way, I believe you know a Mrs. 03:34.700 --> 03:37.700 The rain? Oh, no. It comes down so there's no... 03:37.700 --> 03:42.200 Pardon, please. Mrs. Barton. Good afternoon. 03:42.200 --> 03:44.700 Good afternoon, Siam. Did my Shiva get here? 03:44.700 --> 03:53.700 Yesterday, Mrs. Barton, I took him out of his straw nest yesterday. A beautiful white jade Shiva. I'll bring him in. 03:53.700 --> 03:54.200 Thank you. 03:54.200 --> 03:59.700 Oh, but first, first, this is Mr. Turner, a newcomer and an artist. 03:59.700 --> 04:01.200 Oh, how do you do? 04:01.200 --> 04:01.700 How do you do? 04:01.700 --> 04:07.200 I can talk to him till I return, Mrs. Barton. I want him to see our Shiva, too. 04:07.200 --> 04:10.700 Well, we have our orders, Mr. Turner. 04:10.700 --> 04:13.200 Yes. What is it, a statue? 04:13.200 --> 04:16.700 A small one. It's my hobby. I collect Hindu gods. Do you know about them? 04:16.700 --> 04:18.700 Oh, little. I've been to India. 04:18.700 --> 04:25.200 This is one I've wanted a long time. A statuette of Shiva from the dead city of Angkor Wat. It was buried for 3,000 years. 04:25.200 --> 04:33.700 Ah, you see? He's small, Mrs. Barton, but he's perfect. Look, not a blemish. 04:33.700 --> 04:38.200 Siam, he's beautiful. Isn't he beautiful, Mr. Turner? 04:38.200 --> 04:53.200 A great god, Shiva. Yes, he's quite the boy. Two hundred million people believe he controls lightning, thunder, their very lives. Shiva, beloved of women. 04:53.200 --> 04:57.200 Yes, he is, isn't he? And beloved by you, Mrs. Barton. 04:57.200 --> 05:01.700 Oh, no. No. I have my own reason for being attracted to Shiva. 05:01.700 --> 05:03.200 Yeah? What's your reason? 05:03.200 --> 05:12.700 Don't you remember what Shiva is, first of all? He's the god of destruction, Mr. Turner. And I like that. Destruction. That's the kind of woman I am. 05:12.700 --> 05:28.700 She liked destruction. Of course, I knew that already about Ada Barton. 05:28.700 --> 05:35.700 She must have loved Trinidad, a place where a casual conversation turns suddenly intense, suddenly dangerous. 05:35.700 --> 05:45.700 Where you never know the whirlpool under your feet until you're in it. I was in that whirlpool in a second, and I'm still where. But I'm getting ahead of myself. 05:45.700 --> 06:04.700 I had no difficulty meeting Ada Barton again. You know how colonial cities are. The teeming population that belongs, and the handful of English, American, French, administrators, speculators, painters, planters, who huddle together socially because, well, they're afraid. 06:04.700 --> 06:15.700 And even so, ungrigary as the man as Paul Barton wasn't above inviting a visiting American to his home. But no matter how we'd met, he and I were bound to disagree. 06:15.700 --> 06:21.700 So you're an artist, Mr. Turner. Well, I envy you. It must be pleasant not to have to work for your living. 06:21.700 --> 06:23.700 Well, naturally, I don't look at it that way. 06:23.700 --> 06:24.700 Paul, for heaven's sake. 06:24.700 --> 06:29.700 Oh, but Ada, my dear, surely neither you nor Mr. Turner contend painting is labor, not productive labor. 06:29.700 --> 06:31.700 But that's not the point. 06:31.700 --> 06:40.700 I think it's a point, and I think painting is productive, although I must confess that painting seldom produces for the painter comfort such as you have here. I wish it did. 06:40.700 --> 06:41.700 More coffee, Scott. 06:41.700 --> 06:42.700 Please, Miss Barton. 06:42.700 --> 06:46.700 Well, naturally, millions buy my sugar because it's a necessity. A picture on the wall isn't. 06:46.700 --> 06:48.700 It is for me, Paul. 06:48.700 --> 06:56.700 It is for the millions who buy your sugar, Mr. Barton. At least it's necessary for me to believe it's a necessity to them, a necessity for which they're starved. 06:56.700 --> 07:01.700 But I think your difference with me is more personal, Mr. Barton. 07:01.700 --> 07:02.700 Oh, now, now, now, wait a minute. 07:02.700 --> 07:04.700 You see, I think you envy me. 07:04.700 --> 07:06.700 Ha ha! I envy you? 07:06.700 --> 07:12.700 Because you're a romantic who never found whatever you came here for. This is a beautiful island, Mr. Barton. 07:12.700 --> 07:14.700 In the dry season, yes. 07:14.700 --> 07:19.700 You've built a beautiful house, and you're married to an extraordinarily beautiful woman. 07:19.700 --> 07:21.700 Thank you, Mr. Turner. 07:21.700 --> 07:27.700 But because you've pegged your dream to what the morning stock market has to say on the price of sugar, it's all ashes to you. 07:27.700 --> 07:32.700 So you resent me, the itinerant artist, symbol of the freedom you lost. 07:32.700 --> 07:38.700 Ashes? I love it. I'm a man who likes organization utility, and there's plenty of romance in sugar. 07:38.700 --> 07:50.700 As much as there is in a Portuguese sloop, Java-bound, or in the ruined streets of Palmyra, gulls flashing in the sun over Sicily, or in the port of Spain tonight. 07:50.700 --> 07:57.700 With its smell of fast-growing things, to a man like me who can claim the whole world because no part of it claims him. 07:57.700 --> 07:59.700 You are very persuasive, Mr. Turner. 07:59.700 --> 08:04.700 You know what I think? I think you're irresponsible, Mr. Turner, because you haven't the necessary courage to take responsibility. 08:04.700 --> 08:05.700 Paul, you're insulting. 08:05.700 --> 08:08.700 Maybe, but I put years of hard work into developing this business. 08:08.700 --> 08:09.700 And you don't think I've worked? 08:09.700 --> 08:12.700 No. No, I don't think you have, and I don't think you can. 08:12.700 --> 08:17.700 Why, I'd bet $30,000 that you couldn't stick to a useful routine job for two years. 08:17.700 --> 08:19.700 What you call a useful routine job? 08:19.700 --> 08:27.700 Yes, yes. I'll put up $50,000 that you couldn't stick it out to, say, here. Here, where you think it's so beautiful, working for me. 08:27.700 --> 08:33.700 Paul, don't be ridiculous. You can't buy everything with your money. I have an idea that Mr. Turner isn't the sort of man... 08:33.700 --> 08:38.700 I don't know. Maybe he can. What kind of work, Mr. Barton? 08:38.700 --> 08:39.700 You can't be serious, Scott. 08:39.700 --> 08:48.700 Oh, it would be work that you can do, say, in my laboratory. I've got some things going on, tropical diseases, in addition to the necessary laboratory work for the sugar, soil tests, things like that. 08:48.700 --> 08:49.700 Well, I'm not a technician. 08:49.700 --> 08:58.700 Oh, I'd make it easy for you. I am the technician. All you'd have to do is keep routine records for two years. 08:58.700 --> 08:59.700 For $50,000? 08:59.700 --> 09:04.700 That's right, $50,000. Or if you quit, nothing. 09:04.700 --> 09:07.700 It's a bet, Mr. Barton. It's a bet. 09:07.700 --> 09:09.700 What's that? 09:09.700 --> 09:10.700 What? 09:10.700 --> 09:11.700 That. 09:11.700 --> 09:22.700 Rain, Mr. Turner. Rain for nine months. Endless, remorseless oceans of romantic rain. 09:22.700 --> 09:47.700 It'll make it easier for you to stay indoors. Endless, remorseless rain. I liked it at first because it blurred the passage of time. 09:47.700 --> 10:08.700 And somehow my job wasn't easy. In the fields around the laboratory, the cane grew up, was cut, grew and was cut. But inside the laboratory where I lived, day and night, all sound and life came wrapped in the silk and deadly, hypnotic drumming and hissing of rain. 10:08.700 --> 10:22.700 The first two months, only one thing bothered me. The petty needling of poor Barton. We spent our mornings together, he making his tests while I wrote them up for the files. Scarcely a day went by when he didn't say something sharp or bitter. 10:22.700 --> 10:31.700 Well, how's the romantic, Mr. Turner, today? Can you read any poetry into the smell of aniline dyes? 10:31.700 --> 10:45.700 Two years, Scott, two years. You see what you're heading for? A laboratory stoop. And this rain will grow mole in your curly otter slob. I guarantee it. 10:45.700 --> 11:00.700 Yes, my wife Ada fancies art too, Scott. She buys little things, paintings, statues. But she buys them with money from sugar cane, Scott. Or had you forgotten that? 11:00.700 --> 11:11.700 I hadn't forgotten that. I hadn't forgotten Ada, a dangerous woman. And I knew how dangerous. I knew things about her he didn't know. 11:11.700 --> 11:25.700 That she liked destruction. And every time he lashed out at me, I knew more. That for her own destructive purposes, she was feeding him this hate of me, nurturing it with intention and care. 11:25.700 --> 11:41.700 Well, in the tropics, things grow fast. And Ada Barton's purposes grew fast. Through full flower. In the afternoons, when Paul was out in the cane fields, she began to visit me in the laboratory. 11:41.700 --> 11:45.700 He's right. You are getting a squint. 11:45.700 --> 11:47.700 Close the door. 11:47.700 --> 11:52.700 And a squint. It definitely doesn't become you, Scott. 11:52.700 --> 11:58.700 I thought you were going into Port of Spain today. Did I say that? Oh, I heard something to that effect. And so did Paul. 11:58.700 --> 12:02.700 The road's a swamp. And besides, something's wrong with the car. One of the wires. 12:02.700 --> 12:08.700 You wouldn't know which wire. I don't know what it's for. But if it's broken, the car won't run. I know that. 12:08.700 --> 12:15.700 Must you keep working? It isn't very polite of you. This isn't a salon, Ada. And these sculptures have to be put away. 12:15.700 --> 12:20.700 You know, Scott, this whole business of your bet with Paul shocks me a little. I'm sorry. 12:20.700 --> 12:24.700 I mean, it shocks me to see what he's doing to you. I'm shocked to see what you're doing to him, Ada. 12:24.700 --> 12:30.700 Don't change the subjects. Why did you put up with it? Why do you stay here? 12:30.700 --> 12:37.700 Isn't $50,000 an understandable motive to you? Not for a man like you. You must have another motive. 12:37.700 --> 12:44.700 Believe me, I haven't. I'm just that crass. Not even me, Scott. 12:44.700 --> 12:52.700 You might have been a motive at first. Now I don't compete with Java, the gulls of Sicily. 12:52.700 --> 13:00.700 Look, Ada, why don't you give him a break? You don't mind taking his money. Why don't you take his terms, too? He doesn't ask much. 13:00.700 --> 13:06.700 Why don't you kiss me, Scott? 13:06.700 --> 13:16.700 Ada. Yes? Whose destruction, Ada? Destruction. 13:16.700 --> 13:22.700 Yes. Which of us have you marked to destroy? Paul or me? 13:22.700 --> 13:38.700 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you as star Mr. Lee J. Cobb, In the Bet, by Donald S. Ryerson. 13:38.700 --> 13:52.700 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:52.700 --> 13:56.700 Between the acts of Suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 13:56.700 --> 14:04.700 Have you invited friends or family to dinner tomorrow night? 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R-O-M-A. Roma Wines. 15:07.700 --> 15:14.700 And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood sound stage, Lee J. Cobb as Scott Turner in The Bet. 15:14.700 --> 15:19.700 A play well calculated to keep you in suspense. 15:19.700 --> 15:24.700 The Bet 15:29.700 --> 15:35.700 I knew, if I wouldn't face it then, I knew who she'd marked for destruction. 15:35.700 --> 15:38.700 Because I knew a lot about what kind of woman she was. 15:38.700 --> 15:42.700 And it wasn't more than six months before she'd laid her cards on the table. 15:42.700 --> 15:47.700 Five hundred thousand dollars, Scott. Half a million. And I'm his beneficiary. 15:47.700 --> 15:50.700 But if you'll wait, Ada, let me finish the two years. 15:50.700 --> 15:52.700 More than eighteen months to go. I won't wait. 15:52.700 --> 15:53.700 But we'll have our money then. 15:53.700 --> 15:55.700 What? Fifty thousand dollars. 15:55.700 --> 15:58.700 Anyway, it can't be done. We wouldn't get away with it. 15:58.700 --> 16:00.700 You haven't even let me tell you how we can. 16:00.700 --> 16:04.700 When a man's insured for so much, his death is sure to be investigated. I know. 16:04.700 --> 16:05.700 I know too. 16:05.700 --> 16:10.700 And an insurance investigator is thorough. He won't accept your brief, no matter how well you can act. 16:10.700 --> 16:13.700 And he won't accept my being here. He'll find out who and why. 16:13.700 --> 16:16.700 He'll find out nothing that isn't on the death certificate. Listen to me. 16:16.700 --> 16:18.700 Darling, don't force me into this. 16:18.700 --> 16:24.700 Listen. Besides malaria, there are two diseases in Trinidad that kill hundreds every year. 16:24.700 --> 16:26.700 Typhoid and amoeba histolytica. 16:26.700 --> 16:29.700 My dear, please, all our lives we... 16:29.700 --> 16:33.700 Calls healthy, so he might recover from either one alone. 16:33.700 --> 16:35.700 But if he has both, together... 16:35.700 --> 16:38.700 No, Ada. No matter how simple you make it, I won't... 16:38.700 --> 16:42.700 Now, you go to the hospital at least once a week for laboratory supplies? 16:42.700 --> 16:45.700 You must have seen where they keep specimens, typhoid, microbes, amoebas? 16:45.700 --> 16:47.700 No, Lady. The risk... 16:47.700 --> 16:52.700 You won't gamble for these stakes. You'll be rich. You'll be with me. 16:52.700 --> 16:54.700 Scott, do you know where they keep the specimens? 16:54.700 --> 16:57.700 Ada, you remind me of something. 16:57.700 --> 16:59.700 Why don't you answer me? 16:59.700 --> 17:00.700 A spider spins a web. 17:00.700 --> 17:01.700 Scott! 17:01.700 --> 17:10.700 A male spider comes courting her. But before she'll have him, he has to catch a blue fly and bring it to her, wrapped in his cell, so that she can eat it alive. 17:10.700 --> 17:11.700 Scott! 17:11.700 --> 17:13.700 Then she accepts her mate. 17:13.700 --> 17:17.700 But the next day, she eats him alive. 17:17.700 --> 17:22.700 That's a horrible story. You don't really think that I'm... 17:22.700 --> 17:26.700 No. I don't suppose I do. 17:26.700 --> 17:30.700 You'll get the microbes then, won't you? Won't you, Scott? 17:30.700 --> 17:51.700 Ada, let me think about it a little while. Let me at least pretend I'm a man with a conscience. 17:51.700 --> 17:52.700 Scott? 17:52.700 --> 17:55.700 Oh, Paul, I wasn't expecting you this afternoon. 17:55.700 --> 17:58.700 Yes, I know. I know. You weren't expecting Ada. 17:58.700 --> 18:00.700 Well, she's here too. 18:00.700 --> 18:01.700 Hello, Scott. 18:01.700 --> 18:05.700 Hello. I just stopped by for a moment to tell you I have to go to Tobago. 18:05.700 --> 18:06.700 Tobago? 18:06.700 --> 18:09.700 Yes. I have a grinding plant there and we're installing a new engine. I'll be gone in about two days. 18:09.700 --> 18:11.700 I told Paul that Tobago in this weather... 18:11.700 --> 18:13.700 Oh, yes, you're taking chances, Paul. 18:13.700 --> 18:16.700 I take enough adibrin to keep one the right side of malaria. Don't worry, I'll be all right. 18:16.700 --> 18:18.700 Yes, but there are other things, typhoid... 18:18.700 --> 18:21.700 I've never known you to be so concerned before, Ada. 18:21.700 --> 18:22.700 Oh, Paul. 18:22.700 --> 18:27.700 Oh, if it weren't for certain other factors, my dear, I'd be touched, believe me. 18:27.700 --> 18:29.700 What other factors? 18:29.700 --> 18:34.700 I don't want to be sordid, Ada. Surely I don't have to describe a situation you and Scott know better? 18:34.700 --> 18:36.700 What do you mean? 18:36.700 --> 18:41.700 All right. All right, we'll maintain the cultivated surface if you wish. 18:41.700 --> 18:44.700 By the way, Scott, how do you feel now about our bet? 18:44.700 --> 18:46.700 The same as before, that I'll win it. 18:46.700 --> 18:51.700 Yeah? Well, perhaps. Lately I thought the whole thing was a mistake, at least on my part. 18:51.700 --> 18:52.700 Want to call it off? 18:52.700 --> 18:54.700 I didn't say that exactly. 18:54.700 --> 18:57.700 I'll tell you, we'll talk about it when I get back, the three of us. 18:57.700 --> 18:59.700 I may have a counter proposal. 18:59.700 --> 19:00.700 Paul, you wouldn't dare... 19:00.700 --> 19:05.700 All right, we'll talk about it. Fine, fine. I'll be looking forward to it. 19:05.700 --> 19:07.700 Well, Ada? 19:07.700 --> 19:12.700 I think I'll sit here a while, Paul. It's so peaceful now that the rain stopped. 19:12.700 --> 19:16.700 Oh, it has stopped. I didn't notice. I choose. 19:16.700 --> 19:19.700 A false peace. It'll begin soon again. 19:19.700 --> 19:21.700 Well, goodbye then. 19:21.700 --> 19:24.700 Goodbye, Paul. Take care. 19:24.700 --> 19:27.700 You heard? You heard what he said? 19:27.700 --> 19:29.700 He's a little excited, Ada. It didn't mean anything. 19:29.700 --> 19:31.700 Don't be a fool. It means you haven't any choice now. 19:31.700 --> 19:32.700 There's always a choice. 19:32.700 --> 19:36.700 Well, yes, yes. Now you can choose me with half a million dollars or nothing. 19:36.700 --> 19:37.700 Not one red cent. 19:37.700 --> 19:38.700 But he didn't say he wouldn't pay. 19:38.700 --> 19:42.700 That's what he means. He hates us, both of us. 19:42.700 --> 19:44.700 His only weapon is his money. 19:44.700 --> 19:48.700 What a triumph for him to hoax you into slaving here for eight months and then throw you out. 19:48.700 --> 19:50.700 Oh, no, he wouldn't dare. 19:50.700 --> 19:56.700 Don't you think I know him? You have to do what I say. 19:56.700 --> 20:00.700 How will you give it to him? The microbes? 20:00.700 --> 20:03.700 In his food. It'll only take a drop. 20:03.700 --> 20:08.700 Say in caviar. He's a pig for it, like he is about everything else. 20:08.700 --> 20:10.700 Caviar highly seasoned with sauce. 20:10.700 --> 20:12.700 You've really planned this? 20:12.700 --> 20:15.700 Somebody has to plan. Do you want to? 20:15.700 --> 20:18.700 No, no. 20:18.700 --> 20:22.700 He'll be home day after tomorrow. He'll ask you to come to the house for tea. 20:22.700 --> 20:25.700 I'll give it to him then, so it will look like he caught them in Tobago. 20:25.700 --> 20:30.700 Ada, I'm not sure that I can... I'm not... 20:30.700 --> 20:35.700 I am sure. It's the only thing we can do. 20:35.700 --> 20:43.700 If you love me, Scott, will you get the specimens from the hospital? Will you? 20:43.700 --> 20:46.700 If anyone had told me that I... that I could do... 20:46.700 --> 20:51.700 Will you get the specimen, Scott? 20:51.700 --> 20:55.700 All right. I'll get them this afternoon. 21:04.700 --> 21:08.700 That afternoon, the rains had stopped. It was no false peace. 21:08.700 --> 21:11.700 The season was over, two weeks early. 21:11.700 --> 21:16.700 I drove into Port of Spain through a crawling chalk white mist, 21:16.700 --> 21:20.700 through the strong, heady smell of decaying jungle. 21:20.700 --> 21:23.700 And the cessation of sound was enormous in my ears. 21:23.700 --> 21:26.700 It was as though the rain had stopped on a shout. 21:26.700 --> 21:31.700 I got the specimens, two tiny tubes of dynamically living death. 21:31.700 --> 21:34.700 When I stored them away in the laboratory refrigerator, 21:34.700 --> 21:41.700 I riveted my mind on Ada's face and her incomparable voice. 21:41.700 --> 21:46.700 We can do so much together, Scott. You're as savage like me. 21:46.700 --> 21:49.700 Remember how you looked at Shiva that first day? 21:49.700 --> 21:53.700 I could tell we're alike. No little stifling moralities. 21:53.700 --> 21:57.700 We're beyond such things, you and me, beyond pity or shame. 21:57.700 --> 22:04.700 Yes, quite beyond shame... or pity. 22:04.700 --> 22:06.700 Be very careful, my darling. 22:06.700 --> 22:08.700 Eat only the caviar without the sauce. 22:08.700 --> 22:11.700 We'll leave all the rest for him. 22:20.700 --> 22:22.700 The afternoon Paul Barton came back, 22:22.700 --> 22:25.700 I walked to the house he was so proud of. 22:25.700 --> 22:29.700 There was a mist, still on the ground, but thinning fast. 22:29.700 --> 22:31.700 The dry season had begun. 22:31.700 --> 22:34.700 The only sound beside my footsteps was the last rainfall 22:34.700 --> 22:36.700 dripping from the giant trees, 22:36.700 --> 22:41.700 and the hushed, mysterious voice of the jungle itself. 22:41.700 --> 22:43.700 Ada met me at the door. 22:43.700 --> 22:47.700 You can't possibly understand about her face. 22:47.700 --> 22:50.700 Vitality isn't the word, there is no word. 22:50.700 --> 22:55.700 Her face was the indestructible essence of life. 22:55.700 --> 22:58.700 When I saw her, there were no more doubts. 22:58.700 --> 23:02.700 She took me into the room where she kept the Hindu gods, 23:02.700 --> 23:04.700 where Paul was already sitting over his tea. 23:04.700 --> 23:06.700 Oh, hello, Scott. Come in. 23:06.700 --> 23:10.700 Well, you did invite me, of course, but you surprised me again. 23:10.700 --> 23:12.700 You're punctual as well as tenacious. 23:12.700 --> 23:15.700 Help yourself to tea, Scott. I'll get the caviar. 23:15.700 --> 23:17.700 Thanks, Ada. 23:17.700 --> 23:20.700 I'm sorry I disappoint you so often, Paul. 23:20.700 --> 23:21.700 Disappoint me? 23:21.700 --> 23:25.700 By not conforming to your preconceived portrait of an artist. 23:25.700 --> 23:27.700 Oh, that's not where I misjudged. 23:27.700 --> 23:33.700 I had a preconceived portrait of the kind of man my wife thinks she wants. 23:33.700 --> 23:35.700 She wants a fool and a weakling. 23:35.700 --> 23:37.700 Well, I won't sit here and discuss... 23:37.700 --> 23:39.700 Here's the caviar, with sauce and without, 23:39.700 --> 23:41.700 and some new crackers over from England. 23:41.700 --> 23:43.700 Native pastry for you, Scott. You like sweets. 23:43.700 --> 23:45.700 Pull out that little table. 23:45.700 --> 23:46.700 I'll do it. 23:46.700 --> 23:47.700 Thanks, dear. 23:47.700 --> 23:49.700 You're right, Scott. You're right. We won't discuss that. 23:49.700 --> 23:50.700 That's beside the point. 23:50.700 --> 23:53.700 We were going to discuss my counterproposal. 23:53.700 --> 23:56.700 Oh, Paul, let's not have unpleasantness right away. 23:56.700 --> 23:58.700 You assume it's unpleasant? Not for me. 23:58.700 --> 24:01.700 I just want to say I'm closing the laboratory. 24:01.700 --> 24:03.700 Push the crackers over, Ada. 24:03.700 --> 24:05.700 I'd like to hear your reason. 24:05.700 --> 24:10.700 The research is no longer necessary, and I want you to leave Trinidad. 24:10.700 --> 24:12.700 You're worried about Ada, aren't you? 24:12.700 --> 24:17.700 Oh, we're dropping the cultivated surface, aren't we? 24:17.700 --> 24:19.700 Well, yes. 24:19.700 --> 24:22.700 Ah, caviar and sauce. 24:22.700 --> 24:25.700 My wife prepares this very well, Scott. 24:25.700 --> 24:29.700 Yes. I wonder how well you know her. 24:29.700 --> 24:31.700 I know her pretty well. 24:31.700 --> 24:33.700 Now you're thinking of the 50,000, of course. 24:33.700 --> 24:36.700 Oh, really, Scott, try this. Ada puts everything in it. 24:36.700 --> 24:40.700 Did, uh... did I say something? 24:40.700 --> 24:43.700 Put it down. What? 24:43.700 --> 24:45.700 Put the caviar down, Paul. It's deadly. 24:45.700 --> 24:47.700 Scott, you fool. 24:47.700 --> 24:51.700 Yes, there's everything in it, including death, typhoid, amoebas. 24:51.700 --> 24:53.700 She prepared it very well. 24:53.700 --> 24:55.700 Ada. Ada, is this...? 24:55.700 --> 24:57.700 I'm going to kill you, Scott. 24:57.700 --> 24:59.700 I hadn't intended to just yet. 24:59.700 --> 25:03.700 I know. Oh, of course you'd have a gun. 25:03.700 --> 25:05.700 How many men have you killed, Ada? 25:05.700 --> 25:08.700 How many helpless, hypnotised men have helped you to kill 25:08.700 --> 25:10.700 and then have themselves died? 25:10.700 --> 25:12.700 How many husbands? Lovers? 25:12.700 --> 25:13.700 How did you know? 25:13.700 --> 25:15.700 I'm not such a romantic figurator. 25:15.700 --> 25:18.700 I came here with some previous knowledge of you. 25:18.700 --> 25:20.700 You see, I was sent here for a purpose. 25:20.700 --> 25:22.700 I didn't meet you by accident. 25:22.700 --> 25:25.700 But I didn't know what you'd be like. 25:25.700 --> 25:29.700 How much of a spell you and the rain could cast. 25:29.700 --> 25:33.700 But it's over. The rains and everything. 25:33.700 --> 25:37.700 Yes, I was sent to investigate because of all the insurance. 25:37.700 --> 25:40.700 And insurance, man, how dismal. 25:40.700 --> 25:42.700 You don't deserve even the... 25:46.700 --> 25:49.700 You... you killed her. 25:50.700 --> 25:52.700 You killed her. 25:52.700 --> 25:54.700 Yes. 25:54.700 --> 26:07.700 I killed her. 26:08.700 --> 26:10.700 Yes, I'm haunted. 26:10.700 --> 26:15.700 I keep away from rain because she flourishes if it rains too long. 26:15.700 --> 26:19.700 She comes back like a dank, strong jungle vine, 26:19.700 --> 26:21.700 flowered and perfumed. 26:21.700 --> 26:26.700 But tough to the core, she winds herself around me. 26:26.700 --> 26:31.700 She tries to drag me once more to that precipice above that darkness, 26:31.700 --> 26:57.700 an existence beyond shame or pity or morality. 26:57.700 --> 27:02.700 Roma wines have brought you Lee J. 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