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Last one I'll get like that for a while. 01:48.700 --> 01:49.500 Thank you, sir. 01:49.500 --> 01:53.000 Have you really got to go tonight, Ted? Can't you take another day or so? 01:53.000 --> 01:56.300 Ah, not very well. Got my plane reservations and everything. 01:56.300 --> 02:00.300 Anyway, I told them I'd be back this week, and tonight's just about the deadline if I'm going to make it. 02:00.300 --> 02:01.500 Well, what time's your plane? 02:01.500 --> 02:02.700 3 a.m. 02:02.700 --> 02:05.800 Say, that reminds me, I can't go aboard in this thing. 02:05.800 --> 02:10.400 Well, you probably will. I think you're both kind of stuck on yourselves in those cowboy outfits. 02:10.400 --> 02:11.900 Worse than a couple of kids. 02:11.900 --> 02:14.300 Sure, I'm going to wear mine to the hospital tomorrow. 02:14.300 --> 02:16.700 No kidding, O.P. People will think I'm nuts. 02:16.700 --> 02:20.000 All right, spoil sport. I'll call the hotel later. They'll bring your bags over. 02:20.000 --> 02:24.300 You can change here. Although, I should think a cowboy suit would be a sensation in Ecuador. 02:24.300 --> 02:28.200 Are you really going to Ecuador, Ted? At first, I thought it must be a joke. 02:28.200 --> 02:31.000 No, well, you heard me talk about the work Ted's doing down there. 02:31.000 --> 02:32.700 No, but Ecuador. 02:32.700 --> 02:36.200 They've got to have medical care out on those plantations some way. And I like it. 02:36.200 --> 02:37.700 I don't see how you stand it. 02:37.700 --> 02:41.300 Living like a hermit, cut off from civilization and not making... 02:41.300 --> 02:43.300 Well, I mean they can't possibly pay you... 02:43.300 --> 02:44.500 No, no, no, no, Gwen. 02:44.500 --> 02:46.500 Oh, what time is it? 02:46.500 --> 02:47.800 Oh, goodness, I've got to run. 02:47.800 --> 02:48.800 Oh, are you leaving us, Gwen? 02:48.800 --> 02:51.100 Yes, I promised Mother I'd come out to the country tonight. 02:51.100 --> 02:54.100 Anyway, I know you two would much rather talk over old times by yourselves. 02:54.100 --> 02:58.100 I'm sorry. Well, in case I don't see you again, thanks for everything. It's been swell. 02:58.100 --> 03:00.100 Well, you're coming back sometime, aren't you? 03:00.100 --> 03:02.800 Maybe five years, maybe ten, maybe never. 03:02.800 --> 03:05.600 Oh, silly. You come back next year and plan to stay for a while. 03:05.600 --> 03:08.400 I am sorry I have to go, but you two have a nice evening. 03:08.400 --> 03:10.500 Are there eggs in the icebox, Phil? 03:10.500 --> 03:14.100 Did he always have to have fried eggs at night when he was in college, Ted? 03:14.100 --> 03:15.800 That's Phil all right. 03:15.800 --> 03:17.100 Well, goodbye, darling. 03:17.100 --> 03:20.300 Now, don't even get up to come to the door. Now, I'll phone you tomorrow night. 03:20.300 --> 03:21.300 Goodbye, Gwen. 03:21.300 --> 03:22.700 Have a good trip, Ted. 03:22.700 --> 03:23.700 Goodbye. 03:23.700 --> 03:24.700 Goodbye. 03:25.700 --> 03:28.200 Ah, you're a lucky man, Phil. 03:28.200 --> 03:29.700 Am I? 03:29.700 --> 03:33.200 I suppose you know that the main reason I came to this shindig at all was to see you. 03:33.200 --> 03:37.700 Why me? It's been a long time since you and I had the same dreams, Ted. 03:37.700 --> 03:40.500 You haven't lost them, though. You're still in there pitching. 03:40.500 --> 03:43.200 Oh, yes, yes. 03:43.200 --> 03:45.000 Private practice. 03:45.000 --> 03:48.300 Two cars in the garage, two chickens in the pot. 03:48.300 --> 03:51.200 That's the kind of ball I've been pitching the past ten years. 03:51.200 --> 03:55.300 And it's the kind I'll keep on pitching until some other doc says, 03:55.300 --> 03:58.000 coronary thrombosis, and they carry me out. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.700 Oh, you can't kid me, Phil. You're happy. 04:00.700 --> 04:04.300 And I'd just about given up the idea that there was such a thing as a happy man. 04:04.300 --> 04:05.700 And now you think you've found one. 04:05.700 --> 04:08.300 I know I have. I knew it the minute I came into this room. 04:08.300 --> 04:09.800 I knew it the minute I saw her. 04:09.800 --> 04:10.400 Gwen? 04:10.400 --> 04:11.400 Yes, Gwen. 04:11.400 --> 04:13.500 I hate Gwen. 04:13.500 --> 04:14.000 You what? 04:14.000 --> 04:15.400 And what's more, she hates me. 04:15.400 --> 04:17.300 Oh, it's nothing that shows on the surface. 04:17.300 --> 04:21.900 We get along because we have to, because my reputation would suffer if we didn't. 04:21.900 --> 04:23.600 Phil, you can't be serious. 04:23.600 --> 04:25.100 No? 04:25.100 --> 04:27.800 Why do you think I've given up every dream I've ever had? 04:27.800 --> 04:32.800 Why do you think I spend my life treating the imaginary ills of a lot of wealthy hypochondriacs 04:32.800 --> 04:35.500 so Gwen can have this and Gwen can do that, 04:35.500 --> 04:40.900 so Gwen can satisfy every greedy instinct and every petty rotten ambition any woman ever had? 04:40.900 --> 04:44.100 Good Lord. I never realized. 04:44.100 --> 04:45.700 You've got to do something about it, Phil. 04:45.700 --> 04:47.200 You've got to get out. 04:47.200 --> 04:48.300 Go to another city. 04:48.300 --> 04:49.100 Go to another country. 04:49.100 --> 04:52.300 Yeah, she'd be after me like a hawk. 04:52.300 --> 04:54.200 She'd have me up before the Medical Association. 04:54.200 --> 04:57.800 Oh, there are a thousand and one things she'd do and would do. 04:57.800 --> 04:59.500 I've thought every way there is. 04:59.500 --> 05:01.100 There's no use. 05:01.100 --> 05:05.700 Well, well, now I've got that off my chest. 05:05.700 --> 05:08.000 Now you know. 05:08.000 --> 05:12.400 I'm sorry I disillusioned. 05:12.400 --> 05:14.300 Dr. Martin. 05:14.300 --> 05:15.700 Oh. 05:15.700 --> 05:18.500 Yes, well, well, now? 05:18.500 --> 05:20.900 Oh, right. I'll be right down. 05:20.900 --> 05:22.800 Hey, you're not going out now. I want to talk to you. 05:22.800 --> 05:26.200 No, I'm still a doctor. Even Gwen can't stop that. 05:26.200 --> 05:27.300 I'll be back before you leave, though. 05:27.300 --> 05:29.900 If you want to stick around, I'd sort of like to ride out the airport with you. 05:29.900 --> 05:32.000 Is it really important, Phil? 05:32.000 --> 05:33.900 Oh, yeah. Now, just make yourself at home. 05:33.900 --> 05:37.100 You can fix anything you want out in the kitchen, but look out for that oven, though. 05:37.100 --> 05:39.600 It leaks when you turn it off wrong. 05:39.600 --> 05:41.200 I won't be long. 05:41.200 --> 05:43.400 Okay. 05:43.400 --> 05:45.100 I'll wait, doctor. 05:45.100 --> 05:46.700 Thanks, doctor. 05:46.700 --> 05:48.700 Kind of hoped you would, Ted. 05:55.100 --> 05:57.100 That was the second thing. 05:57.100 --> 05:59.000 Ted's deciding to stay. 05:59.000 --> 06:00.500 But I didn't know it then. 06:00.500 --> 06:04.700 All I knew was that Joe had called from the office and she was upset. 06:04.700 --> 06:09.100 Still, I... I decided to walk. I was upset, too. 06:09.100 --> 06:12.700 When I got there, she was going over the accounts. 06:12.700 --> 06:15.400 Hello, darling. Hello. 06:17.600 --> 06:19.000 That was nice. 06:19.000 --> 06:20.800 Well, isn't that always? 06:20.800 --> 06:23.100 Always. Terribly. 06:23.100 --> 06:24.400 Well, what are you doing? 06:24.400 --> 06:26.300 Isn't all that rush to get the bills out? 06:26.300 --> 06:29.000 There is, though. For me. For you? 06:29.000 --> 06:30.300 Well, what is it, Joe? What's the matter? 06:30.300 --> 06:33.000 Phil, I had a talk with Father this evening. 06:33.000 --> 06:34.600 What? Something about us? 06:34.600 --> 06:35.600 All about us. 06:35.600 --> 06:38.700 Well, he doesn't know anything. He couldn't. Nobody does, unless you told him. 06:38.700 --> 06:39.700 You know I wouldn't do that, Phil. 06:39.700 --> 06:42.300 I'm sorry. I'm sorry, darling. I know. 06:42.300 --> 06:44.900 Anyway, it isn't what he knows. It's what he thinks. 06:44.900 --> 06:47.300 We had an awful row. He said he'd go to the trustees of the hospital. 06:47.300 --> 06:48.400 He said he'd go to Gwen. 06:48.400 --> 06:49.000 He said that? 06:49.000 --> 06:52.500 That's why I'm getting the bills out for you now, because I'm... 06:52.500 --> 06:53.800 I'm going away. 06:53.800 --> 06:54.800 Where? How long? 06:54.800 --> 06:57.700 No, darling, it's not going to be like that. 06:57.700 --> 06:58.400 It's for good. 06:58.400 --> 06:59.000 Well, Joe... 06:59.000 --> 07:00.400 It's for good, Phil. 07:00.400 --> 07:02.200 Joe, I can't let you go. 07:02.200 --> 07:06.100 I know it hasn't been perfect. I know it's been infinitely worse for you than for me. 07:06.100 --> 07:08.500 But at least we've had something. 07:08.500 --> 07:11.700 At least I've always known you were here on the other side of the door, 07:11.700 --> 07:14.000 and I could see you and talk to you. 07:14.000 --> 07:16.400 I can't live with a door between us anymore. 07:16.400 --> 07:18.000 Well, maybe you just don't love me enough to... 07:18.000 --> 07:20.800 No, darling, I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. 07:20.800 --> 07:24.100 Phil, I'm not playing noble, and I'm not trying to put you on the spot, 07:24.100 --> 07:28.000 because it isn't as though there was some decision you could make. There isn't. 07:28.000 --> 07:31.200 This had to happen someday, and it has. That's all. 07:31.200 --> 07:32.200 I could go with you. 07:32.200 --> 07:33.200 You couldn't do that, Phil. 07:33.200 --> 07:38.000 Well, why not? I could change my name, I could go to another city, even another country. 07:38.000 --> 07:39.400 I could get back into research. I could... 07:39.400 --> 07:43.900 Oh, darling. It's no go, Phil. 07:43.900 --> 07:47.900 Oh, I... I know. I... 07:47.900 --> 07:51.000 I asked her for a divorce again this morning. 07:51.000 --> 07:53.500 You don't have to tell me the answer. 07:53.500 --> 07:55.700 There is no answer for us, Phil. 07:55.700 --> 07:58.700 Not one that we can take. 07:58.700 --> 08:00.200 There we are. 08:00.200 --> 08:03.700 Yeah. Yeah, there we are. 08:03.700 --> 08:07.000 Well, you... you better go now. I've got all this to do. 08:07.000 --> 08:07.600 Well, let me help you. 08:07.600 --> 08:08.200 No. 08:08.200 --> 08:08.800 Why not? 08:08.800 --> 08:11.400 I could weaken. And then where would we be? 08:11.400 --> 08:12.500 Oh, Joe, please. 08:12.500 --> 08:16.600 Oh, Phil, please go. Please. Please. Please. 08:16.600 --> 08:20.200 All right. All right. I'll go. 08:20.200 --> 08:24.200 I don't know how long I walked that night or where. 08:24.200 --> 08:28.200 Perhaps most men are weak and never know it. 08:28.200 --> 08:34.200 But when you're losing the woman you think you love, that's when you'll find it out. 08:34.200 --> 08:42.700 That's when you'll see yourself at last in the pitiless glare of all your poor, frightened, shylish helplessness. 08:42.700 --> 08:45.200 And so I walked that night. 08:45.200 --> 08:51.200 Poor, frightened, shylish helplessness. And so I walked. 08:51.200 --> 08:58.700 And I was sick to the depths of my soul. And I walked some more. 08:58.700 --> 09:02.200 And somewhere in the distance I heard a siren. 09:02.200 --> 09:06.200 There was a glow against the sky. A fire. 09:06.200 --> 09:08.700 And then I realized I was near my home. 09:08.700 --> 09:12.200 And then it wasn't just a glow against the sky of any fire. 09:12.200 --> 09:14.200 It was my own house. 09:14.200 --> 09:16.200 It burned almost to the ground. 09:16.200 --> 09:19.200 How did it happen? I don't know. Somebody said they think it was the gas stove. 09:19.200 --> 09:22.200 Stunned and confused, I think, again edging through the crowd. 09:22.200 --> 09:25.200 And then there was a sudden stillness. 09:25.200 --> 09:28.200 And a few men took off their hats. 09:28.200 --> 09:31.200 And I saw it. The stretcher. 09:31.200 --> 09:34.200 And the blanket thrown over the shapeless form. 09:34.200 --> 09:38.200 And the blackened, shriveled cowboy boot. 09:38.200 --> 09:41.200 And I remembered. Ted. 09:41.200 --> 09:43.200 Ted had been in that house. 09:43.200 --> 09:46.200 Yeah, which levy said you wouldn't hardly know it was a man. 09:46.200 --> 09:49.200 Frantically I started forward and then I stopped because I thought somebody had spoken to me. 09:49.200 --> 09:51.200 Dr. Mark. Dr. Philip Mark. I know it's you. 09:51.200 --> 09:56.200 They weren't looking at me. They were looking at the ground and the stretcher and that thing that lay there on it. 09:56.200 --> 09:59.200 Dr. Philip Mark. Yeah, I knew him. Oh, he was a good doctor. 09:59.200 --> 10:03.200 Oh, Dr. Mark. Oh, what an awful way to die. 10:04.200 --> 10:07.200 Suddenly I was shaking with excitement. 10:07.200 --> 10:10.200 I pulled my hat over my eyes. I turned up my collar. 10:10.200 --> 10:14.200 I edged back through the crowd out into the street and I turned the corner and then I ran. 10:18.200 --> 10:21.200 Joe. Joe. I'm going with you. 10:21.200 --> 10:24.200 Phil. What did you do? You haven't. 10:24.200 --> 10:27.200 No, no, it's all right. I'll tell you about it later. We're free. 10:27.200 --> 10:30.200 Joe. Joe, we're free. 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Dr. Theodore Wolf. 13:10.200 --> 13:11.200 Thank you. 13:11.200 --> 13:19.200 I'm sorry, sir. Dr. Wolf doesn't answer. 13:19.200 --> 13:24.200 Oh, well, say, what's the number of his room again? I'd like to drop him a note. 13:24.200 --> 13:26.200 Dr. Wolf is in 502. 13:26.200 --> 13:28.200 502. Thank you. 13:28.200 --> 13:37.200 I knew in a big hotel like that the chances of anyone remembering exactly what Ted looked like were pretty slim, 13:37.200 --> 13:44.200 and I figured that they'd give me the key all right as long as I didn't stumble around asking for the number. 13:44.200 --> 13:49.200 I let myself into 502 and I snapped on the light. 13:49.200 --> 13:54.200 I found the plane ticket on the bureau and then I pried open his luggage and changed into one of his suits. 13:54.200 --> 13:59.200 I put on his hat and his overcoat just in case. I packed my own things away. 13:59.200 --> 14:04.200 There were a pair of dark glasses on the bureau too when I put them on. 14:04.200 --> 14:07.200 Then I went down, checked out, paid cash. 14:07.200 --> 14:14.200 I knew he'd bought the plane ticket at the airport, so the travel clerk at the hotel, why, he wouldn't know Ted Wolf from Adam. 14:14.200 --> 14:15.200 Yes, sir? 14:15.200 --> 14:18.200 I'm Dr. Wolf. I've been staying here at the hotel. 14:18.200 --> 14:20.200 Oh, yes, doctor. 14:20.200 --> 14:26.200 I have a through plane ticket here to Ecuador, Pan American, for tonight. I'd like to turn it in. 14:26.200 --> 14:29.200 One moment, doctor. Oh, that's Dr.... 14:29.200 --> 14:30.200 Dr. Theodore Wolf. 14:30.200 --> 14:38.200 Thank you. Hello, Pan American, Rutan Hotel. Say I got a through ticket to Ecuador. Dr. Theodore Wolf. Will you take it? 14:38.200 --> 14:41.200 All right. That'll be quite all right, doctor. 14:41.200 --> 14:44.200 While you're at it, you might as well get me a couple of train tickets. 14:44.200 --> 14:45.200 Yes, sir. Where to, sir? 14:45.200 --> 14:46.200 Why? 14:46.200 --> 14:47.200 I said where to, sir. 14:47.200 --> 14:50.200 Oh, Los Angeles. 14:56.200 --> 14:58.200 We'd taken care of everything. 14:58.200 --> 15:05.200 A note to my bank, supposedly from Ted, enclosing Philip Martin's check for $5,000, and a letter in my own handwriting, 15:05.200 --> 15:11.200 explaining that I'd agreed to lend him that amount, and asking the bank to forward the money to my account in Los Angeles. 15:11.200 --> 15:22.200 My account is Ted Wolf, and we drafted a letter to the people in Ecuador, and in Los Angeles, Joe became Mrs. Ted Wolf. 15:22.200 --> 15:28.200 At first, everything clicked. I got the kind of a job a doctor would dream about, 15:28.200 --> 15:33.200 where I could write my own ticket and spend at least half my time entirely on research. 15:33.200 --> 15:39.200 And Joe started taking courses in a medical degree. Well, after all, she was only 24. 15:39.200 --> 15:51.200 And then, and then, right here, right here in broad daylight, in the hospital, it happened. 15:54.200 --> 15:55.200 Hello. 15:55.200 --> 16:00.200 Joe, Joe, pack a bag as quick as you can. Just enough for two or three days in the mountains, as fast as you can. 16:00.200 --> 16:01.200 Bill. 16:01.200 --> 16:04.200 It's Gwen. I saw her just now upstairs in the reception room. 16:04.200 --> 16:05.200 Gwen, are you sure? 16:05.200 --> 16:06.200 Absolutely sure. 16:06.200 --> 16:11.200 Oh, no, it, it, it, couldn't, couldn't it be a coincidence, Phil? I, I mean, couldn't Gwen maybe just have happened to be... 16:11.200 --> 16:15.200 Maybe, maybe, maybe. Now listen, Joe, I've been thinking... 16:15.200 --> 16:17.200 She mustn't know where we go. 16:17.200 --> 16:23.200 That's just what I was thinking. Maybe it would be better if she did know where we were going. 16:23.200 --> 16:24.200 If she did? 16:24.200 --> 16:32.200 I don't know, I don't know. Maybe just a coincidence. But if it is a showdown, the mountains would be a better place than here. 16:32.200 --> 16:33.200 All right. 16:33.200 --> 16:35.200 I'll phone the landlady. 16:35.200 --> 16:37.200 Oh, Phil, is that safe? 16:37.200 --> 16:39.200 Gwen won't talk, not until she's sure. 16:41.200 --> 16:43.200 Carlton Apartments, Mrs. Burton. 16:43.200 --> 16:48.200 Hello, Mrs. Burton, this is Dr. Wolf. I wonder if you'd do me a favor. 16:48.200 --> 16:50.200 Oh, I'd be glad to, Dr. Wolf. 16:50.200 --> 16:55.200 We're going out of town for a couple of days and I just remembered that some friends said they might stop by. 16:55.200 --> 16:59.200 We thought they might like to join us, so I wanted them to know where we were. 16:59.200 --> 17:00.200 All right. 17:00.200 --> 17:06.200 Maybe you could just stick a note on our door where they could see it. We're going to Caribou Lake. 17:06.200 --> 17:11.200 And we'll be in the cottage at the very top of the mountain. It's straight up a dirt road from the lake. They can't miss it. 17:11.200 --> 17:15.200 Caribou Lake, the cottage at the top of the mountain, up the dirt road from the lake. Is that all? 17:15.200 --> 17:17.200 Yes, thank you, Mrs. Burton, that's all. 17:22.200 --> 17:28.200 Caribou Lake is nothing much more than just a general store where you can buy bake, hire boats and cottages. 17:28.200 --> 17:32.200 At that time of year, there's hardly anybody there except the people around the store. 17:32.200 --> 17:38.200 Our cottage was good three miles away up a twist and dirt road running above the lake. 17:38.200 --> 17:42.200 But you could see it good and plain even at night when the lights were on. 17:42.200 --> 17:49.200 We stopped at the store and both went in to buy the things we needed, you know, food and kerosene, matches and stuff like that. 17:49.200 --> 17:51.200 Then we went on up the mountain. 17:51.200 --> 17:55.200 By that time it was almost dark and Joe fixed something for us to eat. 17:55.200 --> 17:58.200 Neither one of us could touch it. 17:58.200 --> 18:04.200 We were watching the road for lights of a car. 18:04.200 --> 18:07.200 It was about half past eight when we saw them. 18:07.200 --> 18:12.200 They went right past the store without stopping and they came on up the mountain. 18:12.200 --> 18:15.200 They couldn't have been anyone else but Gwen. 18:15.200 --> 18:17.200 Well? 18:17.200 --> 18:19.200 Well, she didn't waste any time. 18:19.200 --> 18:21.200 Phil, what if the car is rented? 18:21.200 --> 18:23.200 Oh, she'd bring her own. She loves to drive. 18:23.200 --> 18:25.200 Phil, you're not afraid, are you? 18:25.200 --> 18:28.200 No, not anymore. 18:30.200 --> 18:32.200 I'll go. 18:36.200 --> 18:39.200 Well, well this is a surprise. 18:39.200 --> 18:40.200 Hello, Gwen. 18:40.200 --> 18:44.200 Dr. Martin. Always poised. Nothing surprises you, does it? 18:44.200 --> 18:46.200 I suppose it was the check. 18:46.200 --> 18:47.200 Partly. 18:47.200 --> 18:53.200 Then I happened to notice that a Dr. Theodore Wolfe had married a Miss Josephine Reynolds in Los Angeles. 18:53.200 --> 18:58.200 It did occur to me that your idealistic friend must have been an awfully fast worker. 18:58.200 --> 19:02.200 Well, aren't you and your, uh, bride going to ask me in? 19:02.200 --> 19:04.200 Come in, Mrs. Martin. 19:04.200 --> 19:06.200 Thank you. 19:06.200 --> 19:08.200 Quite cozy, aren't you? 19:08.200 --> 19:09.200 We have been. 19:09.200 --> 19:11.200 Well, I'm sorry to break up your little idea. 19:11.200 --> 19:13.200 Cut it out, Gwen. What do you want? 19:13.200 --> 19:15.200 Why, my dear man, what do you think I want? 19:15.200 --> 19:19.200 The way things are now, you've got $200,000 worth of life insurance coming to you. 19:19.200 --> 19:21.200 Why don't you let us alone? 19:21.200 --> 19:24.200 Philip, I don't know whether you realize how much worry and anguish you've caused me. 19:24.200 --> 19:27.200 Sure, I know. I know just exactly how much. 19:27.200 --> 19:31.200 Then perhaps you also know exactly how you stand with the law in this matter. 19:31.200 --> 19:36.200 I don't know about all this impersonation business, except that it would permanently ruin your career. 19:36.200 --> 19:40.200 But I do know that the laws covering bigamy are quite drastic. 19:40.200 --> 19:43.200 I used to think that money meant everything to you, Gwen. 19:43.200 --> 19:44.200 I guess it doesn't. 19:44.200 --> 19:49.200 I don't feel called upon to accept rebukes from you, Philip, for anything, not after what you've done. 19:49.200 --> 19:52.200 I feel that I'm being most generous to both of you. 19:52.200 --> 19:54.200 What is it exactly you want, Gwen? 19:54.200 --> 19:59.200 Either you come back and we'll explain the whole thing as amnesia or something, or you both go to jail. 19:59.200 --> 20:00.200 How could you? 20:00.200 --> 20:01.200 You shut up. 20:01.200 --> 20:04.200 Listen, does anybody else know about this? 20:04.200 --> 20:05.200 Of course not. 20:05.200 --> 20:07.200 Nobody knows you came out here, or why? 20:07.200 --> 20:09.200 After all, Philip, I do have some pride left. 20:09.200 --> 20:13.200 I just said I was taking a little trip to New York to, uh, to forget. 20:13.200 --> 20:15.200 All right, all right. 20:15.200 --> 20:18.200 Now just give us a couple of minutes to talk things over, will you? 20:18.200 --> 20:19.200 Alone. 20:19.200 --> 20:20.200 Very well. 20:20.200 --> 20:22.200 Although I don't see that there's very much to talk about. 20:22.200 --> 20:24.200 Will you go outside, or shall we? 20:24.200 --> 20:25.200 I'll go. 20:25.200 --> 20:27.200 I'll wait in the car. 20:29.200 --> 20:30.200 Oh, Phil. 20:30.200 --> 20:32.200 It's all right, Joe. 20:32.200 --> 20:34.200 I don't mind now. 20:34.200 --> 20:36.200 Neither do I. 20:36.200 --> 20:38.200 Do you think you can do it? 20:38.200 --> 20:39.200 Me? 20:39.200 --> 20:42.200 Yes, I, I'll have to have an alibi. 20:42.200 --> 20:44.200 Have you thought about how... 20:44.200 --> 20:46.200 Yeah, yeah, all day, I guess. 20:46.200 --> 20:48.200 But it's all right, it's good. 20:50.200 --> 20:53.200 She'll disappear the same way I did. 20:53.200 --> 20:55.200 Uh, fire? 20:55.200 --> 20:56.200 Yeah, yeah. 20:56.200 --> 20:59.200 Only I'll have to be down at the store when it happens. 20:59.200 --> 21:01.200 This place will go up like kindling. 21:01.200 --> 21:03.200 And when they pull her out, they'll think it's you. 21:03.200 --> 21:05.200 Nobody knows she's here. 21:05.200 --> 21:07.200 And I'll be there to say it is you. 21:07.200 --> 21:09.200 How are you going to start... 21:09.200 --> 21:11.200 I got that all fixed, I got that all fixed. 21:11.200 --> 21:13.200 I'll be sitting down in the cellar. 21:13.200 --> 21:15.200 All you have to do is... 21:17.200 --> 21:19.200 Here. 21:19.200 --> 21:21.200 Use this hatchet. 21:22.200 --> 21:24.200 Can you? 21:24.200 --> 21:26.200 Yes, I will. 21:26.200 --> 21:29.200 And then go out to the car and get on the floor in the back seat, 21:29.200 --> 21:31.200 under a blanket, lock it from the inside. 21:31.200 --> 21:33.200 I can probably get away right afterwards. 21:33.200 --> 21:35.200 All right, Phil. 21:35.200 --> 21:36.200 I'll see you in the car. 21:36.200 --> 21:38.200 The whole thing shouldn't take more than a couple of hours. 21:38.200 --> 21:39.200 Phil, you're not afraid. 21:39.200 --> 21:40.200 Are you? 21:40.200 --> 21:41.200 No. 21:41.200 --> 21:43.200 I'm glad. 21:45.200 --> 21:46.200 Gwen? 21:46.200 --> 21:47.200 Yes? 21:47.200 --> 21:49.200 Come on in. 21:49.200 --> 21:51.200 Well, have you decided? 21:51.200 --> 21:52.200 Yes. 21:52.200 --> 21:54.200 Uh, you might as well eat with us. 21:54.200 --> 21:57.200 There'll be a few details to talk over. 21:57.200 --> 22:00.200 I'm not sure I feel much like eating in this house, Philip. 22:00.200 --> 22:02.200 Well, I'm not going to start back hungry. 22:02.200 --> 22:04.200 Uh, give me the keys to your car, will you? 22:04.200 --> 22:05.200 It's blocking mine. 22:05.200 --> 22:07.200 I've got to go down to the store and get something for dinner. 22:07.200 --> 22:08.200 Really, Philip? 22:08.200 --> 22:09.200 Oh, stop griping, you've won. 22:09.200 --> 22:10.200 Give me the keys. 22:10.200 --> 22:11.200 Very well. 22:11.200 --> 22:14.200 But I wouldn't try any mad dashes if I were you. 22:14.200 --> 22:16.200 Now, don't be a fool, Gwen. 22:16.200 --> 22:19.200 No, I don't suppose you would. 22:19.200 --> 22:21.200 Alone. 22:23.200 --> 22:26.200 She went in, I took the keys. 22:26.200 --> 22:29.200 First I went around back and down cellar. 22:29.200 --> 22:32.200 I put a lot of old newspapers around the wood pile 22:32.200 --> 22:34.200 and doused the whole thing with kerosene. 22:34.200 --> 22:37.200 Then I cut a stub of a plumber's candle 22:37.200 --> 22:40.200 and set it on the papers and lit it. 22:40.200 --> 22:43.200 I knew just about how long it would take the candle to burn down, 22:43.200 --> 22:46.200 about 45 minutes, something like that. 22:46.200 --> 22:48.200 Then I went out and got in Gwen's car 22:48.200 --> 22:50.200 and started down the mountain without lights. 22:50.200 --> 22:52.200 At the drop above the lake, I put it in the low, 22:52.200 --> 22:55.200 crammed on the wheels and jumped out. 23:03.200 --> 23:06.200 It bounced once and then went over where there's about 40 feet of water. 23:06.200 --> 23:10.200 Unless somebody told them where to look, they'd never find it. 23:10.200 --> 23:13.200 All that had taken about 15 minutes. 23:13.200 --> 23:16.200 The walk down to the store took about 20 more. 23:17.200 --> 23:20.200 Gwen, you forget something, Dr. Wolfe? 23:20.200 --> 23:23.200 Yep, I like a fool to back. 23:23.200 --> 23:25.200 I can't get through the night without a pipe. 23:25.200 --> 23:27.200 No, just how it is. 23:27.200 --> 23:28.200 You walk now? 23:28.200 --> 23:31.200 Yep, yeah, working up an appetite. 23:31.200 --> 23:32.200 Here you are. 23:32.200 --> 23:34.200 You folks have collars tonight? 23:34.200 --> 23:36.200 No, why? 23:36.200 --> 23:38.200 I thought I saw a car go up your way a while back. 23:38.200 --> 23:41.200 Oh, I saw the lights. They didn't come up. 23:41.200 --> 23:43.200 Somebody must have made the wrong turn. 23:43.200 --> 23:44.200 Didn't they come back? 23:44.200 --> 23:46.200 I don't know. I was out back for a spell. 23:46.200 --> 23:49.200 You see that car come back by, Daisy? 23:49.200 --> 23:51.200 You must have seen it all right about an hour ago. 23:51.200 --> 23:53.200 Seems like I did hear a car about there. 23:53.200 --> 23:54.200 Sure, sure, that was it. 23:54.200 --> 23:56.200 Yep, pretty sure it is. 23:56.200 --> 23:58.200 She's duly don't always see so good, but she hears pretty. 23:58.200 --> 23:59.200 Am I? 23:59.200 --> 24:02.200 Look at here, Ed. Look at up there. 24:02.200 --> 24:04.200 Looks like a fire. 24:04.200 --> 24:07.200 Hey, it is, it is a fire. 24:07.200 --> 24:10.200 Why golly, Doc, that looks like your place. 24:10.200 --> 24:12.200 Oh, it couldn't be. But it must be. 24:12.200 --> 24:15.200 It's big too. We better get up there, Doc. 24:15.200 --> 24:16.200 What, do you have your car? 24:16.200 --> 24:18.200 We'll go in the truck. It's right outside. 24:18.200 --> 24:19.200 The boys can bring Ma along in the car. 24:19.200 --> 24:20.200 Did you hear that, Ma? 24:20.200 --> 24:22.200 Yep, Lenny, Johnny, get off the car. 24:22.200 --> 24:24.200 All right, come on, Doc. 24:24.200 --> 24:26.200 Oh, man, I sure hope everything's all right. 24:26.200 --> 24:34.200 Yeah, yeah, so do I. 24:34.200 --> 24:36.200 The cottage was all wood and dry, 24:36.200 --> 24:39.200 and it was completely gone by the time we got there. 24:39.200 --> 24:42.200 It was the boys who dragged her out of the embers. 24:42.200 --> 24:45.200 I wouldn't look if I was you, Doc. 24:45.200 --> 24:47.200 Oh, oh, oh, Joe. 24:47.200 --> 24:49.200 Must have been quick anyway. 24:49.200 --> 24:50.200 She's burnt almost to nothing. 24:50.200 --> 24:52.200 Hey, Ma, you better go on, Doc. 24:52.200 --> 24:53.200 We'll take care of everything. 24:53.200 --> 24:54.200 All right. 24:54.200 --> 24:55.200 Want one of the boys to go with you? 24:55.200 --> 24:58.200 No, no, I'll... 24:58.200 --> 25:00.200 I'll get in touch with you from town. 25:00.200 --> 25:02.200 I'll make the arrangements down there and send down for the... 25:02.200 --> 25:04.200 Yes, well, you just go on. 25:04.200 --> 25:05.200 We'll see to everything. 25:05.200 --> 25:06.200 All right. 25:06.200 --> 25:16.200 Come on, sorry, Dr. Wolf. 25:16.200 --> 25:19.200 I climbed into the car and started down the mountain. 25:19.200 --> 25:21.200 When I was around the first bend, 25:21.200 --> 25:22.200 I reached over with one hand 25:22.200 --> 25:26.200 and touched the blanket on the floor behind me. 25:26.200 --> 25:27.200 Are you all right? 25:27.200 --> 25:28.200 Yes, Philip. 25:28.200 --> 25:35.200 I'm quite all right. 25:35.200 --> 25:44.200 Gwen. 25:44.200 --> 25:48.200 Gwen has never told me how it happened, 25:48.200 --> 25:51.200 but of course she killed her. 25:51.200 --> 25:53.200 We both killed her. 25:53.200 --> 25:56.200 I know that I'm trapped. 25:56.200 --> 25:59.200 I'm hopelessly, irrevocably trapped 25:59.200 --> 26:04.200 by the terrible burden of guilt we share between us, as she is. 26:04.200 --> 26:06.200 I know now that two people held together 26:06.200 --> 26:10.200 by such a frightful bond cannot both go on living, 26:10.200 --> 26:13.200 for that bond can be broken in only one way. 26:13.200 --> 26:16.200 One of the two must die. 26:16.200 --> 26:20.200 And so I write this only to have the true facts brought to light 26:20.200 --> 26:23.200 in the event of such a death. 26:23.200 --> 26:26.200 For no matter how innocent it may appear, 26:26.200 --> 26:28.200 no matter how natural the cause, 26:28.200 --> 26:31.200 no matter how plausible the accident, 26:31.200 --> 26:33.200 it will be no accident. 26:33.200 --> 26:36.200 It will be murder, 26:36.200 --> 26:47.200 cold-blooded, calculated, deliberate murder. 26:47.200 --> 26:49.200 And now the local news. 26:49.200 --> 26:52.200 Dr. Philip Martin, who has been in ill health for the past three months 26:52.200 --> 26:54.200 while recovering from an attack of amnesia, 26:54.200 --> 26:58.200 died today in his home from an overdose of sleeping sedative. 26:58.200 --> 27:18.200 He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Gwendolyn Martin. 27:18.200 --> 27:20.200 Suspense! 27:20.200 --> 27:23.200 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A. 27:23.200 --> 27:27.200 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 27:27.200 --> 27:30.200 Before we hear again from James Stewart, the star of Consequence, 27:30.200 --> 27:34.200 tonight's suspense play, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 27:34.200 --> 27:38.200 Here's a suggestion that will make tomorrow night's fish dinner a meal to remember. 27:38.200 --> 27:44.200 Delight your family by serving delicious pale gold Roma California Sauternes. 27:44.200 --> 27:48.200 The delightful bouquet and delicate, tempting taste of Roma Sauternes 27:48.200 --> 27:53.200 bring out the flavorfulness, the real appetizing goodness of fish or fowl. 27:53.200 --> 27:56.200 Lend an air of friendly companionship to the meal. 27:56.200 --> 28:00.200 And best of all, you can enjoy Roma Sauternes often. 28:00.200 --> 28:01.200 It costs so little. 28:01.200 --> 28:04.200 Actually, only pennies a glass. 28:04.200 --> 28:08.200 Join the millions who have made Roma America's first choice. 28:08.200 --> 28:09.200 The reason? 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