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Through. 01:13.000 --> 01:15.000 Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I couldn't help but overhear. 01:15.000 --> 01:17.000 What's the difference now? 01:17.000 --> 01:19.000 I hope you haven't quarreled seriously with your brother. 01:19.000 --> 01:22.000 Quarrels? What else have I ever done with him at quarrels? 01:22.000 --> 01:26.000 Oh, I realize he's a bit difficult at times, sir, but I'm sure he has your best interest at heart. 01:26.000 --> 01:30.000 Yeah, well, from now on he can stop worrying about my best interest, 01:30.000 --> 01:33.000 because I'm getting out of his life tonight for good. 01:38.000 --> 01:42.000 I grabbed my hat and cotton, rushed out of the house, looking wild-eyed and distracted. 01:42.000 --> 01:47.000 I caught a taxi right in front of the door and told him to go to the 23rd Street Ferry. 01:47.000 --> 01:50.000 On the ferry I stood by the stern rail. 01:50.000 --> 01:55.000 I walked up and down puffing hot on a cigarette, looking out into the fog and acting nervous and jumpy. 01:55.000 --> 01:59.000 I leaned against the rail and bowed my head down on my arms. 01:59.000 --> 02:02.000 Two or three people standing around out there began to look at me. 02:02.000 --> 02:07.000 Then, when we were about a third of the way out in the stream, 02:07.000 --> 02:13.000 I took off my coat, had my name and address written with indelible ink on the label, 02:13.000 --> 02:17.000 and my hat that had my initials stamped in gold on the sweatband, 02:17.000 --> 02:23.000 and laid them down on the deck, and climbed up on the rail and jumped. 02:23.000 --> 02:25.000 We're here! Hey, look! 02:35.000 --> 02:37.000 It was as easy as that. 02:37.000 --> 02:42.000 A fight with my brother that was loud enough so the house man couldn't help but hear it. 02:42.000 --> 02:47.000 A jump off the 23rd Street Ferry leaving plenty of identification behind. 02:47.000 --> 02:51.000 An easy swim back to shore where I had planted my dry clothes. 02:51.000 --> 02:55.000 And a phone call to the news to report my own suicide. 02:55.000 --> 02:58.000 It was just as easy as that. 02:58.000 --> 03:05.000 On Friday afternoon, I waited across the street until I saw Williams, the house man, leaving for his usual weekend. 03:05.000 --> 03:10.000 And then I let myself in the front door and walked back to the study. 03:12.000 --> 03:15.000 Come in, Williams. I thought you'd gone. 03:17.000 --> 03:19.000 Hello, Walter. 03:19.000 --> 03:21.000 Jack. 03:21.000 --> 03:25.000 What's the matter, Walter? You look as though you'd seen a ghost. 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 Jack, I... 03:28.000 --> 03:31.000 Well, haven't you seen the papers? I thought you were dead. 03:31.000 --> 03:34.000 Yeah, I changed my mind. 03:34.000 --> 03:39.000 Jack, how could you? How could you have done such a thing? 03:39.000 --> 03:42.000 I didn't. I just went swimming, that's all. 03:42.000 --> 03:44.000 Don't tell anyone I'm here. 03:44.000 --> 03:47.000 Yes? This is Mr. Parcell. 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 Yes, I told you once it was broken. 03:50.000 --> 03:54.000 I'm sure I don't know. I know certainly I didn't break it. 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 Yes, it's still in the box. 03:56.000 --> 03:59.000 I'll send you the pieces if you like. 03:59.000 --> 04:02.000 Well, that's a little late, I'm afraid. 04:02.000 --> 04:06.000 Oh, well, it doesn't matter anyway. It's the principle of the thing. 04:06.000 --> 04:08.000 Besides, I'm going out of town. 04:08.000 --> 04:14.000 Yes? Yes? I suppose there'll be someone here to receive it. 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 All right. All right. 04:16.000 --> 04:19.000 Silly. Goldfish Bowl. 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 What? 04:21.000 --> 04:25.000 Oh, you know, I ordered a larger one and it arrived this morning all smashed up 04:25.000 --> 04:28.000 and they were arguing about sending me a new one. 04:28.000 --> 04:32.000 There it is in that big square box you can see for yourself it smashed. 04:34.000 --> 04:37.000 I'd certainly like you, Walter. 04:37.000 --> 04:42.000 At the last minute you're worrying about a two dollar goldfish bowl. 04:42.000 --> 04:46.000 What do you mean, the last minute? 04:46.000 --> 04:50.000 Well, you just said over the phone you were going out of town. 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 Yes. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 What's the idea? 04:54.000 --> 05:02.000 Well, well, Jack, I was terribly upset when I heard that, well, I thought... 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 Albert, where are you going? 05:04.000 --> 05:09.000 Well, I haven't quite made up my mind. I just wanted to get away. 05:09.000 --> 05:13.000 Taking quite a lot of luggage for just a little trip out of town, aren't you, Walter? 05:13.000 --> 05:16.000 Clearing the papers out of your desk, too, huh? 05:16.000 --> 05:22.000 Well, I simply thought I could get a little work done while I was away. 05:22.000 --> 05:26.000 Or were you thinking of staying away for a while because somebody might ask questions 05:26.000 --> 05:31.000 about why I jumped in the river and the answers might make you look like a heel? 05:31.000 --> 05:33.000 Of course not. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 Such an idea never entered my head. 05:35.000 --> 05:37.000 You always were, Yeller. 05:37.000 --> 05:39.000 You'd run away from anything. 05:39.000 --> 05:41.000 Jack, that's quite enough. 05:41.000 --> 05:43.000 That's right. 05:43.000 --> 05:46.000 Those are the truest words you ever spoke. 05:46.000 --> 05:50.000 And I wouldn't bother about packing luggage anymore if I were you. 05:50.000 --> 05:53.000 But why not? 05:53.000 --> 05:58.000 Because where you're going, you won't need any luggage. 05:58.000 --> 06:01.000 What? What do you mean? 06:01.000 --> 06:04.000 This is what I mean. 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 Jack! 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 Jack! 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 Don't! 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 You're choking! 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 You're choking! 06:20.000 --> 06:25.000 You won't need any luggage anymore, brother. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 You're choking! 06:34.000 --> 06:37.000 It's like Cain felt about Abel, I suppose. 06:37.000 --> 06:41.000 There he was, lying on the floor, looking as though it was me lying there. 06:41.000 --> 06:45.000 Only it wasn't. It was him, and I was glad. 06:45.000 --> 06:48.000 The funny thing about twins, being one yourself, 06:48.000 --> 06:51.000 you notice them more than most people would. 06:51.000 --> 06:54.000 And all the twins I'd ever known had got along good. 06:54.000 --> 06:57.000 Extra good. But not me and Walter. 06:57.000 --> 06:59.000 I hated him ever since I could remember. 06:59.000 --> 07:03.000 I hated him because the old man was about the only one who could tell us apart. 07:03.000 --> 07:06.000 And it was Walter he always called to him, not me. 07:06.000 --> 07:10.000 I hated him for what he got and what I didn't. 07:10.000 --> 07:15.000 I hated him because he was always good and I was bad. 07:15.000 --> 07:19.000 I hated him because the old man left everything he had to him, 07:19.000 --> 07:21.000 and it wasn't hay either. 07:21.000 --> 07:25.000 I couldn't do anything about it on account of that forgery rap I'd taken. 07:25.000 --> 07:29.000 And I hated him for the way he'd taken care of me 07:29.000 --> 07:33.000 since I got out of jail and thrown at my face every chance he got. 07:33.000 --> 07:36.000 I hated him for all those things and a lot more. 07:36.000 --> 07:42.000 And I was dead. And I'd killed him. And I was glad. 07:42.000 --> 07:47.000 You don't believe me? Brother, I felt great. 07:47.000 --> 07:51.000 I went over to the mirror and combed my hair over to the left side like his. 07:51.000 --> 07:54.000 And I locked the study door and went upstairs to the bathroom 07:54.000 --> 07:57.000 and shaved off my mustache. He was clean shaven. 07:57.000 --> 08:01.000 Went back in the bedroom and put on one of his suits. 08:01.000 --> 08:06.000 And when I got through and stood in front of the big full length bedroom mirror, 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 I looked a spitting image of him. 08:08.000 --> 08:12.000 No one in the world could have told that I wasn't Walter Parcell. 08:12.000 --> 08:15.000 In fact, I was Walter Parcell. 08:15.000 --> 08:21.000 Went back to the study. All I had to do now was dispose of the evidence. 08:21.000 --> 08:25.000 But first, I couldn't resist looking around. 08:25.000 --> 08:29.000 It was mine now. All mine. 08:29.000 --> 08:32.000 Those stupid fish he had all over the place in glass tanks, 08:32.000 --> 08:35.000 the books he never read and all the rest of it. 08:35.000 --> 08:38.000 In his desk was a list of all the bonds and securities 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 and the number of his safe deposit. 08:40.000 --> 08:45.000 The combination to the safe and the bank book all nice and neat. 08:45.000 --> 08:51.000 On the desk was a picture of Helen Winters, the little vexen he was engaged to. 08:51.000 --> 08:55.000 I made a mental note that I'd at least have to call her before I left town. 08:55.000 --> 08:58.000 It'd look funny if I didn't. 08:58.000 --> 09:02.000 I might even do more than call her. 09:02.000 --> 09:06.000 Well, there's no use stalling any more. 09:06.000 --> 09:10.000 It had to be done. 09:10.000 --> 09:15.000 I got the body over my shoulder and carried it upstairs and put it in the bathtub. 09:15.000 --> 09:19.000 I locked the bathroom door from the inside. 09:19.000 --> 09:36.000 Then I got to work. 09:36.000 --> 09:40.000 For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you a star, Joseph Cotton, 09:40.000 --> 09:43.000 in the Pasteboard Box by Joe Grenzabock. 09:43.000 --> 09:48.000 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 09:48.000 --> 09:58.000 Suspense. 09:58.000 --> 10:03.000 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 10:03.000 --> 10:09.000 Here's a simple secret about entertaining that has won compliments for many a hostess. 10:09.000 --> 10:13.000 The next time you have dinner guests, keep them pleasantly occupied during that hour 10:13.000 --> 10:18.000 before the meal by serving Roma California Sherry. 10:18.000 --> 10:23.000 Serving Roma Sherry before dinner has become a friendly American custom. 10:23.000 --> 10:29.000 Yes, glorious, golden amber Roma Sherry with tempting fragrance and intriguing 10:29.000 --> 10:34.000 nut-like taste is the perfect first call for dinner. 10:34.000 --> 10:38.000 And you'll find Roma Sherry equally pleasing with a tasty evening snack, 10:38.000 --> 10:41.000 a delightful wine to serve anytime. 10:41.000 --> 10:46.000 Roma Sherry, like all Roma wine, is a true natural wine, 10:46.000 --> 10:51.000 crushed from choicest grapes, grown in California's finest vineyards, 10:51.000 --> 10:58.000 then unhurriedly guided to taste perfection by Roma's ancient winemaking skill. 10:58.000 --> 11:01.000 Bottle at the winery for unburying goodness. 11:01.000 --> 11:06.000 Delight your family, your guests, with delicious Roma Sherry, 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 now selling at the lowest prices in years. 11:09.000 --> 11:16.000 Insist on Roma, R-O-M-A, for uniformly high quality at low cost. 11:16.000 --> 11:22.000 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wines. 11:22.000 --> 11:27.000 And now Roma wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Joseph Cotton, 11:27.000 --> 11:34.000 as star of the Pasteboard Box, a play well calculated to keep you in suspense. 11:34.000 --> 11:48.000 It was early morning before I was able to leave the house. 11:48.000 --> 11:52.000 I walked to the nearest subway, but a suitcase, a heavy suitcase, 11:52.000 --> 11:58.000 because it was also weighted down inside with old furnace scrapes and sash weights. 11:58.000 --> 12:02.000 I got off the subway at Dyckman Street and took the Dyckman Street ferry to Jersey. 12:02.000 --> 12:06.000 About halfway across, the suitcase that I had on the rail, 12:06.000 --> 12:12.000 as though it was something to lean on, just sort of slipped out of my hands into the river. 12:12.000 --> 12:19.000 I looked mad and then foolish, and the people that saw it snuck it behind their hands. 12:19.000 --> 12:24.000 Well, that was that. 12:24.000 --> 12:28.000 About an hour later the same thing happened on a 42nd Street ferry, 12:28.000 --> 12:36.000 and the mortal remains of Walter Parcell were gone, all but his head. 12:36.000 --> 12:39.000 At first I had no one what to do with that head. 12:39.000 --> 12:44.000 It wouldn't fit into either of the suitcases no matter what I did. 12:44.000 --> 12:52.000 And then I thought of that box, that big Pasteboard Box that the goldfish bowl had come in. 12:52.000 --> 12:56.000 It was still sitting there in the corner of the deck. 12:56.000 --> 13:03.000 I took it and wrapped up the outside in the paper it had come in and started out again, the 14th Street ferry this time. 13:03.000 --> 13:07.000 I had it balanced up there on the rail just like I'd had the others and then... 13:07.000 --> 13:09.000 Hey, hey, look out! 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 Hey, oh, it's all right, mister, I got it. 13:11.000 --> 13:12.000 I let go. 13:12.000 --> 13:14.000 Oh, I've got it. What? What's the matter? 13:14.000 --> 13:16.000 Oh, I thought you dropped it. 13:16.000 --> 13:19.000 Oh, no, here it is. Hey, that was close all right. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 Another second and it would have been gone for good. 13:21.000 --> 13:27.000 Yeah, it's been gone for good all right. 13:27.000 --> 13:34.000 Walking across 14th Street on the way back from the ferry, people were pushing behind me and the next thing I knew I was in a department store. 13:34.000 --> 13:41.000 I was walking down one of the aisles just to keep moving and not to attract attention when it hit me right between the eyes. 13:41.000 --> 13:45.000 There was another box, a box just like mine. 13:45.000 --> 13:50.000 It was sitting up there on one of the counters and next to it was an old guy looking at the bow ties. 13:50.000 --> 13:58.000 I walked over and put my box on the counter next to his and I pretended I was waiting for a clerk and after a couple of minutes I pretended to change my mind. 13:58.000 --> 14:01.000 I picked up the box, his box of course, and started for the door. 14:01.000 --> 14:06.000 Hey, I say there, I say sir, you've taken my box. 14:06.000 --> 14:08.000 Oh, what do you mean your box? Let go of me. 14:08.000 --> 14:11.000 But it is, it's my box. You left yours there on the counter. 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 Oh, are you crazy? Let go, I tell you. 14:13.000 --> 14:15.000 What's the trouble here? 14:15.000 --> 14:17.000 Well, this man's got my package. He won't give it back. 14:17.000 --> 14:19.000 Oh, chocolate, right? 14:19.000 --> 14:25.000 No, no, no, it's not that. He left a package of his own there, but he insists that mine is his. 14:25.000 --> 14:26.000 What's in it? 14:26.000 --> 14:32.000 A parchment lampshade. I bought it in your furniture department just now. The girl would confirm that. 14:32.000 --> 14:33.000 All right, what's in yours? 14:33.000 --> 14:34.000 Mine? 14:34.000 --> 14:35.000 Yes, what's in your box? 14:35.000 --> 14:36.000 Why, well it's... 14:36.000 --> 14:38.000 Well, we'll open it up and see. 14:38.000 --> 14:39.000 No, no, you can't. 14:39.000 --> 14:42.000 The only way to tell, open them both up. You think this is your package? 14:42.000 --> 14:45.000 No, wait, I made a mistake. It isn't. Here, now give me mine. 14:45.000 --> 14:46.000 Just a minute. 14:46.000 --> 14:47.000 Give it to me. 14:47.000 --> 14:50.000 Oh, give it to him. It's his. I saw him put it there. 14:50.000 --> 14:51.000 Very well, thank you. 14:51.000 --> 14:55.000 Why, oh, he acted like a madman. 14:58.000 --> 15:03.000 Maybe I did act like a madman. I guess I did because I was pretty close to panic when I got out of that store. 15:03.000 --> 15:09.000 I started walking. I just walked. I don't know how, or for how long, or what, but all I could think of was, what will I do now? 15:09.000 --> 15:11.000 What will I do with it? What will I do with it? 15:11.000 --> 15:19.000 I didn't snap out of it until I found myself a half block from home and not knowing how I got there, all I knew was I still had that box and I had to get rid of it. 15:20.000 --> 15:31.000 Then I saw the sewer. A corner sewer with a big wide opening. I crossed over to it as though I were going to step on the curb, stumble, and give it a good kick. 15:32.000 --> 15:34.000 Slid in and I heard it fall. 15:34.000 --> 15:41.000 I got home. A half hour later I was just beginning to relax and the doorbell rang. 15:41.000 --> 15:48.000 I went out in the hall, switched on the vestibule lights and opened the door. I asked for the cup for kids. 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 Yes, this is yours, ain't it, mister? 15:50.000 --> 15:51.000 What? 15:51.000 --> 15:56.000 We were standing across the street when you dropped it. Then we saw you come into this house. That's how we know. 15:56.000 --> 15:58.000 We got some string of a fish hook and pulled it out. 15:58.000 --> 15:59.000 It is yours, ain't it? 15:59.000 --> 16:04.000 No. 16:04.000 --> 16:05.000 You mean it ain't yours? 16:05.000 --> 16:07.000 No, I never saw it before in my life. Now beat it. 16:07.000 --> 16:09.000 Oh, then we can open it, huh, Johnny? 16:09.000 --> 16:10.000 Oh, wait, no. 16:10.000 --> 16:13.000 I don't know. Maybe we ought to take it to the cop. 16:13.000 --> 16:15.000 Here, you give that to me. Give it to me. 16:15.000 --> 16:16.000 But you said... 16:16.000 --> 16:19.000 I made a mistake. I didn't recognize it. I give it to me. Beat it. 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 Well, aren't you glad to get it back? 16:21.000 --> 16:24.000 Oh, sure. Here. 16:24.000 --> 16:27.000 Thanks. Geez. 16:27.000 --> 16:32.000 Five bucks. There must be diamonds in that box. 16:32.000 --> 16:37.000 It was back. 16:37.000 --> 16:42.000 The kids were hardly down this just before I was out the house without a hat, a coat, or anything running toward 2nd Avenue. 16:42.000 --> 16:45.000 I didn't care who saw me now. Didn't care to stop for a taxi. 16:45.000 --> 16:48.000 I had to keep running. I couldn't stop for a second. 16:48.000 --> 16:52.000 I kept on running up 2nd Avenue to 59th Street, going out onto the bridge. 16:52.000 --> 16:55.000 I was still running, and I didn't stop until I got nearly to the middle of the street. 16:55.000 --> 16:57.000 And then... 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 Then I threw it. 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 Out over the railing as far as I could. 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 I watched it arc down and saw the page splash in the darkness. 17:04.000 --> 17:08.000 It was a piece of water a couple of hundred feet below. 17:08.000 --> 17:10.000 It was gone. 17:10.000 --> 17:13.000 No matter what, it was gone. 17:13.000 --> 17:16.000 Somehow I got home. 17:16.000 --> 17:28.000 But it was daylight before I could get myself to sleep. 17:28.000 --> 17:30.000 One day morning I felt better. 17:30.000 --> 17:34.000 Got up fairly early and went down to study at St. McPlants. 17:34.000 --> 17:38.000 Seeing the picture of Helen Winders on the disk reminded me I ought to call her. 17:38.000 --> 17:51.000 If Walter left town without even calling the girl he was supposed to marry, it wouldn't look so good. 17:51.000 --> 17:55.000 There was no answer. So I hung up. 17:55.000 --> 17:59.000 Then I rang for Williams, the house man. 17:59.000 --> 18:00.000 Yes, sir? 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 Oh, Williams. 18:02.000 --> 18:10.000 I'm sorry to tell you this, but I'm going to have to let you go. 18:10.000 --> 18:13.000 Oh, I'm sorry to hear it, sir. If it's anything I've done... 18:13.000 --> 18:22.000 Quite the contrary. I've found our association most pleasant, but the death of my brother has been quite a shock, of course. 18:22.000 --> 18:23.000 Of course, sir. 18:23.000 --> 18:29.000 I'm going away. I don't know how long I shall be gone or when I shall be back or if I shall come back here at all. 18:29.000 --> 18:32.000 So I thought it was best this way. 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 Yes, sir. When will you be leaving, sir? 18:34.000 --> 18:38.000 In a few days. No hurry, but I wanted you to be able to make your own plans. 18:38.000 --> 18:43.000 I'm making arrangements this afternoon to sell the house and the furniture. 18:43.000 --> 18:48.000 The associations here are painful, you understand? 18:48.000 --> 18:49.000 I understand, sir. 18:49.000 --> 18:53.000 My brother Jack had his faults, of course. We all do. 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 I know how you feel, sir. 18:55.000 --> 18:59.000 After all, Williams, he was my brother. 18:59.000 --> 19:02.000 Yes, sir. Blood is thicker than water. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 You're so right, Williams. 19:10.000 --> 19:14.000 That first performance left me feeling pretty satisfied. The next one wasn't so easy. 19:14.000 --> 19:21.000 But for things to look right, it had to be done. So after breakfast, I went down to police headquarters. 19:21.000 --> 19:24.000 Well, what can we do for you, Mr. Parcell? 19:24.000 --> 19:31.000 I'm going away for a while, and I wondered if you had recovered my poor brother's... 19:31.000 --> 19:32.000 His body? 19:32.000 --> 19:33.000 Yes. 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 No, I'm sorry. We haven't, Mr. Parcell. 19:35.000 --> 19:36.000 Oh, I see. 19:36.000 --> 19:39.000 While you're here, though, there is something you might look at for us. 19:39.000 --> 19:45.000 This way, please. It's just a routine matter of identification, but we like to have these things on the record. 19:45.000 --> 19:48.000 Of course, of course. Something you... 19:48.000 --> 19:51.000 Found? That's right. Mished it out of the East River this morning. 19:51.000 --> 19:52.000 The East River? 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 That's right. The East River. 19:54.000 --> 19:57.000 Wait a minute. I just stopped breathing. 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 Because it wasn't in the East River that I jumped off the ferry. 20:00.000 --> 20:06.000 That was on the other side of the island. The East River was where I'd thrown it. 20:09.000 --> 20:14.000 And then I was all right again because I saw what he had. A pair of trousers. Mine. 20:14.000 --> 20:16.000 You recognize these, Mr. Parcell? 20:16.000 --> 20:21.000 Oh, yes. Those were the trousers my brother wore the night he died. 20:21.000 --> 20:24.000 Uh-huh. Probably kicked them off and tried to swim to shore. 20:24.000 --> 20:27.000 Well, thanks, Mr. Parcell. That's all we need. 20:27.000 --> 20:33.000 Very well. But you said the East River and it was the North River where poor Jack... 20:33.000 --> 20:38.000 Oh, carried down by the current and around by the tide. Caught in the propeller of a ship, maybe. 20:38.000 --> 20:42.000 Funny things happen in the waters around this island, Mr. Parcell. 20:42.000 --> 20:45.000 Yes. Yes, I imagine they do. 20:45.000 --> 20:50.000 So that was all right, too. 20:50.000 --> 20:56.000 When I got out of headquarters, I went across the street to a pay station and phoned Helen Winters again. 21:06.000 --> 21:09.000 There was no answer. I hung up. 21:09.000 --> 21:12.000 Then I went uptown to the bank, Walter's Bank. 21:12.000 --> 21:17.000 I'd never been in it before in my life and I'd been wondering how I'd know who to be chummy to, 21:17.000 --> 21:20.000 but I needn't have worried about that. 21:20.000 --> 21:22.000 Well, good morning, Mr. Parcell. 21:22.000 --> 21:23.000 Good morning. 21:23.000 --> 21:27.000 We were all terribly sorry to hear of your bereavement, Mr. Parcell. 21:27.000 --> 21:31.000 Yes, yes, thank you. As a matter of fact, that's what brings me here. 21:31.000 --> 21:33.000 I see. Something about the... 21:33.000 --> 21:37.000 Oh, no, no, no. But I shall want to get into my safe deposit box. 21:37.000 --> 21:38.000 Why, certainly, Mr. Parcell. 21:38.000 --> 21:39.000 Thank you. 21:39.000 --> 21:43.000 Oh, by the way, do you have any idea what my cash balance is? Just roughly. 21:43.000 --> 21:46.000 Roughly between 32 and 33,000. 21:46.000 --> 21:49.000 I'll want 5,000 in cash. I'll make an account and check. 21:49.000 --> 21:52.000 You can forward the rest when I've made banking connections in Mexico. 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 Oh, Mexico. 21:53.000 --> 21:55.000 What, do you expect to be in Mexico for any length of time? 21:55.000 --> 21:57.000 Oh, yes, for quite a length of time. 21:57.000 --> 21:59.000 Shall we go down to the vault, sir? 21:59.000 --> 22:09.000 Oh, yes, by all means. 22:09.000 --> 22:15.000 When I got out of the bank, it was raining, but I didn't care. I liked it. 22:15.000 --> 22:19.000 I was walking on air anywhere and I decided to walk home that way. 22:19.000 --> 22:22.000 Nearly 30 blocks that I was soaking wet when I got there, 22:22.000 --> 22:25.000 but what's a little rain to a guy with $100,000 in his pocket? 22:25.000 --> 22:28.000 Front door door, front door, front door, front door, front door. 22:28.000 --> 22:30.000 I had to walk in the back of the pocket. 22:30.000 --> 22:31.000 Front door wasn't locked. 22:31.000 --> 22:33.000 And I went and hung up my hat and coats in the hall 22:33.000 --> 22:38.000 and was wondering whether to have a nice hot bath before calling hell in winter. 22:38.000 --> 22:50.000 And when I saw it, it, a box, that horrible pasteboard box that had come back. 22:50.000 --> 22:52.000 For a second, I thought my mind had gone. 22:52.000 --> 22:55.000 But there it was, sitting on the desk, 22:55.000 --> 23:00.000 and the limping paper peeling off as though it had been fished out of the river just that minute. 23:00.000 --> 23:03.000 And then I remembered I hadn't seen it sink, 23:03.000 --> 23:06.000 and what the cop had said about tides and currents. 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 Then the doorbell rang. I rushed through the window. 23:08.000 --> 23:09.000 There was a police car outside. 23:09.000 --> 23:13.000 For the moment, I thought of grabbing up the box and running, escaping out of the back somehow. 23:13.000 --> 23:16.000 And then I knew that wasn't any use. It didn't matter. 23:16.000 --> 23:19.000 It was some sort of a police plan. It didn't matter anyway. 23:19.000 --> 23:24.000 And if it wasn't, if it was just another one of those terrible coincidences, 23:24.000 --> 23:25.000 it was still time. 23:25.000 --> 23:30.000 Whatever they wanted, I could bluff it through, and there'd still be time. 23:30.000 --> 23:39.000 I pulled myself together and went out and opened the door. 23:39.000 --> 23:40.000 Yes? 23:40.000 --> 23:42.000 We're from headquarters. 23:42.000 --> 23:45.000 Yes. You're Walter Parcell? 23:45.000 --> 23:51.000 Walter Parcell? They thought I was Walter Parcell. They didn't even know he was dead. 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 That was all right. 23:53.000 --> 23:54.000 It was still time. 23:54.000 --> 23:57.000 I said, are you Walter Parcell? 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 Yes, I'm Walter Parcell. 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 You know a young woman named Helen Winters? 24:01.000 --> 24:03.000 Helen Winters, of course. She's my fiancée. 24:03.000 --> 24:06.000 Then I'm afraid you're going to have to come along with us, Mr. Parcell. 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 With you? Why? 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 Helen Winters has been murdered. 24:10.000 --> 24:13.000 And I might as well tell you now that anything you say will be used against you. 24:13.000 --> 24:15.000 The evidence is pretty conclusive. 24:15.000 --> 24:17.000 That, that I? 24:17.000 --> 24:18.000 That you murdered her. 24:18.000 --> 24:20.000 I didn't. I couldn't. 24:20.000 --> 24:23.000 We found her this morning in the commoner report. She was killed Friday night. 24:23.000 --> 24:26.000 You were seen entering the place that night, and you were seen leaving. 24:26.000 --> 24:31.000 A gun that we traced to you was found in an ash can a block away. 24:31.000 --> 24:34.000 Now what do you expect us to believe, Mr. Parcell? 24:34.000 --> 24:39.000 Wait a minute. There's a mistake? There's been a terrible mistake. 24:39.000 --> 24:43.000 I'm not Walter Parcell. I'm his brother. I'm his brother Jack. 24:43.000 --> 24:45.000 The one who committed suicide? 24:45.000 --> 24:50.000 Yes. Only I didn't. I changed my mind. I swam back to shore. 24:50.000 --> 24:55.000 I came back here and I found Walter. He was dead. He killed himself. 24:55.000 --> 24:58.000 And now I know why. Don't you see? Because he murdered the girl. 24:58.000 --> 25:00.000 You didn't report it. Where's the body? 25:00.000 --> 25:01.000 The body? 25:01.000 --> 25:02.000 Yes, yes, the body, the body. 25:02.000 --> 25:06.000 No, no, that's it. Now look. Look. Everyone knew I quarreled with Walter, 25:06.000 --> 25:09.000 and so I thought they'd pin it on me. I thought they'd say I killed him. 25:09.000 --> 25:12.000 So I disposed of the body. Then I took his place. 25:12.000 --> 25:14.000 We are with twins, don't you see? 25:14.000 --> 25:20.000 Mr. Parcell, I've been in this business a long time, and I've heard some beauties. 25:20.000 --> 25:23.000 But I never had a man ask me to believe one like that. 25:23.000 --> 25:25.000 It's true. I swear it's true. 25:25.000 --> 25:26.000 All right, then where's the body? 25:26.000 --> 25:27.000 I threw it in the river with the weight. 25:27.000 --> 25:28.000 I thought so. Come on. 25:28.000 --> 25:30.000 Now, wait a minute. 25:30.000 --> 25:31.000 Come on, come on. 25:31.000 --> 25:32.000 I can prove it. I can prove it. 25:32.000 --> 25:33.000 Yeah, how? 25:33.000 --> 25:37.000 Because I've still got his head. 25:37.000 --> 25:39.000 His head? 25:39.000 --> 25:42.000 That would prove it, wouldn't it? Or wouldn't it? 25:42.000 --> 25:44.000 It certainly would. 25:44.000 --> 25:47.000 Come on. I'll show you here in that box, see? 25:47.000 --> 25:48.000 I'd open it. 25:48.000 --> 25:51.000 Sure, sure. I threw it in the river, and it got back here somehow. 25:51.000 --> 25:55.000 It's still wet, see? 25:55.000 --> 25:59.000 That doesn't look like anybody's head to me, Mr. Parcell. 25:59.000 --> 26:00.000 It's... 26:00.000 --> 26:20.000 To me, it looks like just an ordinary goldfish bowl. 26:20.000 --> 26:22.000 That was it, of course. 26:22.000 --> 26:26.000 The goldfish bowl he'd been arguing about on the telephone when I came back 26:26.000 --> 26:31.000 and found him packing up, running away, because he'd murdered his girlfriend. 26:31.000 --> 26:37.000 So, I don't know where Walter is now in those swirling tides and currents, 26:37.000 --> 26:39.000 but I know one thing. 26:39.000 --> 26:58.000 Wherever he is, he must be laughing his head off. 26:58.000 --> 27:00.000 Suspense! 27:00.000 --> 27:02.000 Presented by Roma Wines. 27:02.000 --> 27:09.000 R-O-M-A. 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