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Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Miss Joan Loring as star of The Great Whorrell, a suspense

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Suspense.

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Yes, right now, a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma Wines bring you Joan Loring

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in a remarkable tale of suspense.

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The court will come to order.

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Is counsel prepared to proceed?

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For the prosecution we are, Your Honor.

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The defense?

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Yes, Your Honor.

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Very well.

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The district attorney may call his witnesses.

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Your Honor, my first witness is a document.

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This document duly entered as evidence in this court and marked exhibit A is the diary

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of Alma Whorrell.

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I should like the court's permission to read from this diary certain entries beginning

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with May the 14th, which I consider to be relevant to this case.

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Granted.

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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this is the diary of the defendant, Alma Whorrell.

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May the 14th, we open tonight in St. Louis.

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It is a shock to realize that today marks the fifth anniversary of my association with

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the great Whorrell and that for all but a few months of that time I have been married

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to him.

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The great Whorrell, the marked mentalist, that's the masked mentalist, jury.

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It is doubly shocking as I look back to realize how profoundly I have been affected by those

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five years as the wife and assistant of the world's greatest mind reader.

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For there is no doubt that he is that.

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As I write these lines I am sitting in a quiet corner of the wings where I can watch Paul's

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nimble feet out on the stage, the way he charms his audience.

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But such sounds as these with their familiar and well-remembered ring from five years of

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vaudeville and heart-truquing scarcely register upon my mind tonight.

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For today I have finally faced the terrible fear that has been haunting me through the

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gathering nightmare of these past months.

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If I have not faced it sooner it is because my mind quailed before the thought and all

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its implications.

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The evidence has always been there in a thousand little acts and instances almost from the

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Perhaps meeting Paul has forced the decision.

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Certainly I can wait no longer and avoid decision.

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Tonight I must put it to the test.

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What the result will be I already know.

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What steps for my salvation will lie ahead thereafter I have not dared to contemplate.

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Thank you all.

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Now ladies and gentlemen the final demonstration.

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I'll ask a member of the audience to step up here on the stage and blindfold me.

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You sir, the great Harrell, thank you.

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Do you have a handkerchief on?

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Yes, yes sir.

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Good.

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Take the handkerchief.

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You will fold your handkerchief and tie it over my eyes.

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Yes, right over the mask.

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That's it.

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Knotted in the back of my head.

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Good and tight.

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Splendid.

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Now tell me, you're certain that I can see nothing through this blindfold?

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Well, if you can you must have x-ray eyes.

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Very well.

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Now I shall ask my assistant to select some member of the audience who will give us some

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personal object, anything at all.

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I shall attempt to identify that object entirely by the transmission of thought waves by reading

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the mind of my assistant.

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Are you ready, I'm up.

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Yes, I am.

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Now my assistant has selected the victim.

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It is, yes it is a gentleman.

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My assistant now has in her right hand, thank you.

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Hold it up for the audience and see it, I'm up.

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Yes, I'm holding it.

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The object appears, very difficult, difficult, the object appears to be a picture.

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Yes, it is a picture, a picture of a middle-aged man.

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He has a beard.

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It is a picture of Abraham Lincoln on a five dollar bill.

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Please, please, please.

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Now I will ask my assistant to concentrate all the faculties on the serial number of

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that five dollar bill.

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Do you have the number well in mind, Alma?

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Yes, I have.

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Will the gentleman take the bill back again then please?

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Does the gentleman now have the bill in his possession again?

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The gentleman has?

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Concentrate please, Alma.

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No, no, no, no, I'm not getting it.

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Now that's better.

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Yes, yes the serial number of the five dollar bill the gentleman has in his hand is B42533197D.

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Is that correct?

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That's right.

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I thank you all very much.

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Ah, there you are my dear.

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Congratulations, you were practically perfect tonight.

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Martin, I want to talk to you.

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By all means.

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No, turn around, look at me Martin.

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This is terribly important.

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It also happens to be quite important for me to get this grease paint off.

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Go ahead, Alma, I'm listening.

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Martin, you just said I was practically perfect tonight.

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You were indeed my dear.

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Your signals came through with unusual clarity.

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But Martin, what I'm...

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Good heavens, Alma, you've been doing this long enough to know what I mean.

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Martin, I didn't give you any signals tonight.

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What?

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I didn't give you any signals.

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Very well.

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The word then is not perfect.

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You are miraculous.

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Does that suit you better?

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Martin, look at me.

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Don't you see what that means?

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What's the matter with you, Alma?

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You can read my mind.

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Can I?

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You can read my mind, Martin.

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Very well, Alma, if you wish to believe that, I'm sure it can only have the excellent effect

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of making the act even more believable to the audience.

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Martin, I can't go on this way.

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This is all a lot of nonsense, you know.

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No, it isn't.

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You haven't even denied it.

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I've seen it coming for months.

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Little things at first, Martin, at home, on the street, until my most intimate thoughts

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weren't my own, until my mind wasn't my own, until I have no mind.

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Just what is this little scene leading up to, Alma?

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Martin, you've got to let me go.

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You've got to set me free.

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Let you go?

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Yes, give me a divorce.

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Go, Alma, you're being hysterical.

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Martin, please.

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Alma, I have devoted five years to my association with you.

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I have trained you until, yes, until you were perfect.

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I'm sorry, Martin, I'm sorry for all that, but I've got to have my freedom.

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Are you thinking of Paul Wilson?

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You know what I'm thinking.

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I see.

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And you do understand, Martin?

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I understand that you'll be of very little use to me in your present condition.

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Never, I can never go on again.

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Very well.

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It just so happens I received only this afternoon a very lucrative offer from Austrade.

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They'll even supply a partner, apparently not fully appreciating your importance in the scheme of things.

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I shall accept.

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Oh, thank you, Martin.

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I shall accept, but I shall return in about three months.

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Meanwhile, we shall forget Paul Wilson, won't we?

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I shall expect you to be fully rested when I return, and in a reasonable frame of mind.

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Rested?

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And as for your freedom, Alma, understand this.

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You'll never, never be free from me.

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Set your mind to that.

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My mind?

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My mind.

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Between the acts of suspense, this is Ken Niles for Roma Wines.

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And now, Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood Soundstage, Joan Loring as Alma in the great Horel,

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a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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May 16th. I am free. At last, after all these months and years of haunting fear, I am free.

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Even the terrible revelation of two days ago, the final certainty that my husband could read my mind,

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now seems almost like the fading shadow of a bad dream compared to that wonderful fact.

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He is leaving and I am free.

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What does it matter now that he says he is coming back or even that half-failed threat that he will never give me my freedom?

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I am prepared for that. For now, I shall make the decisions.

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For the first time in five long years, my mind is my own, released at last from that constant crushing insidious influence of his.

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And I will do the planning. Tomorrow, Paul and I are going to see a lawyer.

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For by the time Martin Horel does come back, I will no longer be his wife.

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I will be Mrs. Paul Wilson.

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Can I help you?

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This is Martin Horel to see Mr. Banning. Do you have an appointment?

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Yes, for two o'clock.

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Have a seat, please.

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Thank you.

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Mrs. Horel to see Mr. Banning. Thank you. Mr. Banning will see you in just a moment, Mrs. Horel.

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Thank you. Oh, Paul, darling, I can hardly believe it.

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I know. How long will it take?

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Six weeks if I go to Reno. Can we manage that, darling?

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Sure, we'll manage it somehow. How do you think Horel is going to take it?

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I don't care how he takes it, do you?

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Maybe I'm a cat in a home wrecker, but I don't.

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Silly. I only wish you'd wrecked it years ago, what there was of it.

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After all, Paul, what can he say? He left me, didn't he?

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In spite of all his high-flown speeches about coming back after me and never giving me my freedom, he did leave me.

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Sure, although I'll never know why you didn't leave him long before this.

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Because, Paul, I'm not sure that I could have.

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Not sure that you could have?

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I'm not sure he'd have let me.

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Yes? Yes, Mr. Banning.

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Mr. Banning, we'll see you now, Mrs. Horel.

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Thank you.

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Let's go right in.

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Come with me, Paul. No. No, Paul, you wait here.

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Ah, Mrs. Horel?

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Yes.

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Sit down, please.

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Thank you.

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Now, what can we do for you?

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Well, you see, Mr. Banning, I'm married to a vaudeville artist, Mr. Martin Horel.

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Hm?

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He... We've had an act together for the past five years, a mind-reading act, the great Horel, it's called.

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Oh, yes, yes, I believe I've heard of it.

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Yesterday, my husband left me. He's gone to Australia.

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I see.

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And so I want to...

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Yes?

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And... And so I... I want...

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You want legal counsel, Mrs. Horel, hm?

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I...

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You can speak frankly with me, Mrs. Horel. Is it something about a divorce?

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No.

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Then what is it?

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I... I don't know.

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You don't know?

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No.

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Well, there's not much we can do for you if you don't know what it is you want us to do for you.

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How is that?

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No.

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Well, then, I suppose you'll come in at some later time when your mind is really made up.

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Yes, sir. All right. I'm very sorry.

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That's all right, Mrs. Horel. I quite understand. Good day.

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Good day.

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Oh, well, that was quick.

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I don't know what's the matter.

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It's nothing, Paul.

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Why is the sheet? What happened?

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We were going to have to wait a little while for the divorce.

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Wait? Why?

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Paulie, it's a lot more complicated than I thought.

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How could I tell him?

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We'd been so sure of happiness.

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And then this.

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I knew what it was, of course. I knew it the moment I tried to say that one...

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Divorce.

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And now the incredible, the terrifying fact stares me in the face

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that Martin Horel still reads my thoughts.

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Separated by thousands of miles, he still has the power when he wishes to invade

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the innermost recesses of my mind as easily as he would walk into a drawing room.

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I know because I felt his presence there.

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And so I shut off my thoughts, emptied my mind as I have always done to guard my slightest secret.

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But what am I to do now?

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I must think. I must plan very carefully.

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I dare not tell Paul if I possibly can avoid it.

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An even more horrifying thought.

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If Martin Horel's mind exerts such power over me as this, how much further can he go?

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How much further can he go?

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June the 22nd.

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For weeks I have moved in a nightmare of conflicting, panicky thoughts and indecision.

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And today something happened, trivial in itself, but having a significance that has left me shaken and appalled.

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This afternoon I was to meet Paul early and we were to go to the beach.

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But I was late. I was terribly late.

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It was nearly dark before I got to his hotel.

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Come in.

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Oh, so there you are.

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Oh, Paul.

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Where have you been? What have you been doing? I've been waiting here for nearly three hours.

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Paul, you'll never believe this.

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Sure, I'll believe it, but it better be good.

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I've been feeding the swans.

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Feeding the swans?

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Yes, in Central Park.

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Oh, but, Alma, we had a date. If you've held up somehow or got lost or put in jail, but feeding the swans...

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Oh, listen, I've got to tell you something.

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I'm listening.

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First, about the lawyer.

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I didn't ask for a divorce.

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What do you mean?

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I couldn't.

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You couldn't?

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Paul, he's reading my mind again. He's reading my mind.

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Alma.

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It's true, Paul.

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But he's in Australia.

292
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No, I know, but when I began to talk to the lawyer, he was in my mind.

293
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It doesn't seem possible.

294
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I know it doesn't seem possible, but it is.

295
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It was the same thing about the swans only worse.

296
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The swans?

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I didn't even know what I was doing, Paul. The date I had with you, everything just went out of my mind.

298
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And there I was feeding the swans until it was as though I suddenly woke up.

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And then I knew.

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Knew what?

301
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Why I was there.

302
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Paul, today is the anniversary of my marriage to Martin Harrell.

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Well?

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That was what we did, Martin and I, the day we were married.

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Paul.

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He made me do it, Paul.

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He reached out across all those miles and made me do it again today.

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He made me forget everything and just remember that.

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Remember him, Paul.

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How could he?

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He did.

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Paul, if he can do that, he can do anything, can't he?

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I don't know.

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He could even make me commit murder.

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July 7th.

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Yesterday I bought a gun. I don't know why, but something told me that I must.

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And today I found my opportunity to use it.

318
00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:10,320
It was early in the afternoon. I was in Brooklyn. I did not know why.

319
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And then I was going into a theater.

320
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They were playing a combined bill of a current motion picture in vaudeville.

321
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Again, I did not know particularly why I was there, but it seemed quite natural.

322
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I found a seat near the back of the house. A new act was just beginning.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the masked marvel of mentalism, the great Harrell.

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For a moment I sat stunned, unable to believe that I was not dreaming.

325
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But it was.

326
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He seemed to have changed a little, the voice perhaps, something about his hair, but it was.

327
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And so I knew. I knew why I was there.

328
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I knew that he had drawn me there, told me to come there, as surely as though he had summoned me with his voice.

329
00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:56,320
But I knew something else. I knew why I had bought the gun.

330
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I knew at last the terrible price I was prepared to pay to win my freedom.

331
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I have a little piece of paper.

332
00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,320
And a little piece of paper.

333
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It is, yes, it's the gentleman's driver's license. Is that correct? Yes, that's correct.

334
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Thank you. Thank you.

335
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I knew what was coming next.

336
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I knew that out of all that audience I would be selected.

337
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I knew this was the chance he had been waiting for.

338
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But now I also knew it was the chance I had been waiting for.

339
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I was on my feet and making my way towards the aisle.

340
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My handbag was open, my fingers around the grip of the automatic.

341
00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:35,320
Now, ladies and gentlemen, perhaps there are some of you who believe that there's some trick to this.

342
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That it's all done with mirrors.

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But before we go any further, I'm going to ask some feminine member of the audience to step up here on the stage and blindfold me.

344
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Are there any volunteers?

345
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I see a young lady standing in back of the house.

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Will the young lady come up on the stage, please?

347
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No.

348
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Don't be bashful. Step right up.

349
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You're not afraid of me, are you?

350
00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:07,320
Oh, perhaps the young lady is afraid I'll read her mind.

351
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Perhaps she's harboring some guilty secret.

352
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that is the last entry in the diary of Alma Harrell.

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You may judge for yourselves the significance of her words.

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I should like now to put into evidence the words of another witness, Paul Wilson.

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This is a statement by Paul Wilson placed in my hands only a short time ago and with the permission of the court.

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I will read it to you.

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Permission granted.

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These are the words of Paul Wilson.

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I am writing this hoping that it will never see the light of day.

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But if it ever does, I can only hope that it will be used wisely and unjustly and not as an instrument of vengeance or retaliation.

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00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,320
I have been in love with Alma Harrell.

362
00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,320
The first day I met her, I am still in love with her.

363
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:10,320
By the greatest of good fortune, it was not too difficult to hush up the affair in the Brooklyn theater.

364
00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,320
After she fired the second shot, someone grabbed her and they took her to the manager's office.

365
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She had the good sense to say nothing and to contact me at once.

366
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:22,320
The theater manager didn't want trouble and after I'd spoken to Harrell's agent, a fellow I'd never seen before,

367
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,320
it became apparent that he didn't want to press charges either.

368
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,320
Of course, it was impossible to explain why she'd done it.

369
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,320
No one knew that except Alma herself.

370
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,320
And me.

371
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,320
And I knew that it was up to me to help her somehow and as quickly as I could.

372
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I got hold of the best psychiatrist in town, a Dr. Emil Hokeman.

373
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He came to see Alma the very next day at her apartment.

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This feeling you have, Mrs. Harrell, that your husband has control over your mind, it has been growing stronger?

375
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,320
It is not a feeling, Dr. Hokeman. It's a certainty.

376
00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,320
Oh, I see.

377
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,320
There really isn't any other way to explain what's happened, is there?

378
00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,320
Well, it's very unusual, yes.

379
00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,320
Perhaps you would care to discuss it with me further at my office.

380
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:06,320
If you think there is anything that can be done, yes, I'd like to very much.

381
00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,320
Good, good. Shall we say tomorrow at two then?

382
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Yes, tomorrow at two.

383
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Until then, Mrs. Holy. I'll show you to the door, doctor.

384
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,320
Oh, thank you. Please.

385
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:15,320
Goodbye, doctor.

386
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,320
Goodbye.

387
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:23,320
I'm almost frantic, doctor. I thought of going to Harrell himself. I thought of almost everything.

388
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:24,320
Do you think something can be done?

389
00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:29,320
You see, Mr. Wilson, when two people live so closely together over a number of years as Mr. and Mrs. Harrell,

390
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:35,320
it's not unusual that they may, well, occasionally, shall we say, anticipate each other's thoughts.

391
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,320
Yes, I suppose so.

392
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,320
The matter of the anniversary, a subconscious recollection.

393
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:47,320
Of the theatre? Well, she must, of course, notice somewhere, perhaps forgotten it, that Mr. Harrell was back in the United States.

394
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:49,320
Yes.

395
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:58,320
But his reading her mind, projecting thoughts into her mind, there's no scientific proof whatsoever that such a thing is even remotely possible.

396
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,320
And that's what makes it so terrible.

397
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:07,320
I don't wish to alarm you, Mr. Wilson, but, well, we shall perhaps find out more tomorrow.

398
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:08,320
Good day, sir.

399
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,320
Goodbye, doctor, and thank you.

400
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,320
Is that the paper, pa?

401
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:14,320
Oh, yes, it was outside the door.

402
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,320
Is there anything in it about her?

403
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,320
I'll see.

404
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,320
Mm-hmm. There's a little something here on the theatrical page.

405
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:26,320
I guess he couldn't resist the publicity, but it just says, unidentified young woman.

406
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:27,320
Oh.

407
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,320
It's funny he never tried to get in touch with you, isn't it?

408
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,320
But he did, Paul, didn't he?

409
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:32,320
Alma.

410
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:33,320
What?

411
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,320
It wasn't Harrell at all. Look here.

412
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:36,320
What?

413
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,320
He'd sold the act in Australia, the name and everything.

414
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,320
What, Paul?

415
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:45,320
Alma, he was hurt shortly after he arrived. That's why he sold the act.

416
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,320
And he died out there.

417
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:48,320
Died?

418
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,320
Martin Harrell has been dead for almost a month.

419
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,320
Oh. I see.

420
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:57,320
What?

421
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,320
I really should have known, I suppose.

422
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:00,320
Known what, Alma?

423
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:05,320
That it was someone much closer to me than Martin Harrell who was reading my mind.

424
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:06,320
Listen, Alma, the doctor says...

425
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,320
You knew all the facts.

426
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,320
It's you who's been reading my mind, isn't it, Paul?

427
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,320
Alma, the doctor says that's impossible. He says there's no...

428
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:20,320
But you should have realized, Paul, that if I was willing to kill Martin Harrell for my freedom, I would be willing to kill you too.

429
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:21,320
Alma, the...

430
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,320
Yes, Paul. I still have a gun.

431
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,320
It's no use locking yourself in there, Paul.

432
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,320
Because, you see, I'm going to wait.

433
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,320
I've locked myself in.

434
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,320
But the room in which I'm writing this is a sheer drop of fifteen stories to the street.

435
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,320
And there's no telephone.

436
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,320
Not that it matters.

437
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,320
I wouldn't escape even if I could.

438
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,320
I must try to save her.

439
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:58,320
Because either this is some ghastly misunderstanding, or Alma is hopelessly insane.

440
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,320
What I have written here I shall hide somewhere in this room.

441
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:07,320
I shall hide it in such a way that it can never be discovered except by the painstaking search of someone looking for evidence.

442
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:11,320
Evidence of murder.

443
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:15,320
And now I'm going to unlock the door.

444
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:22,320
Alma?

445
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,320
Yes, Paul?

446
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,320
Alma, I'm coming out.

447
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,320
I want to talk to you.

448
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,320
Yes, Paul?

449
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,320
Alma, I know what you're thinking.

450
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,320
Yes, Paul.

451
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,320
I'm sure you know what I'm thinking.

452
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,320
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, have you reached the verdict?

453
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:02,320
We have.

454
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,320
How do you find the defendant?

455
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,320
Guilty or not guilty?

456
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:13,320
We find the defendant, Alma Harrell, did deliberately shoot and kill Paul Wilson.

457
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:21,320
We further recommend that she be confined for the rest of her natural life to an institution for the criminally insane.

458
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,320
They said I was insane.

459
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:36,320
What do they know of the tortured depths that lie beneath the surface of the human mind?

460
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:41,320
I know because it is beginning again.

461
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,320
It is Dr. Hockman.

462
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,320
He has been coming nearly every day to visit me.

463
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:51,320
He thinks he too can see into my brain and know my thoughts.

464
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,320
But I have made my mind a blank.

465
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,320
There's nothing there for anyone to read.

466
00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,320
And so he won't know.

467
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:06,320
He doesn't know that I have hidden a table knife and sharpened it all night against the stone.

468
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,320
When he comes tomorrow, I shall be ready.

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no matter what the occasion the host who possesses all five grand estate

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california wines is sure to please all tastes at all times

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for smart entertaining delight your guests with grand estate medium sherry

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ruby port or golden muscat l

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for gracious dining serve grand estate burgundy or sort uran

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each a triumph in taste luxury

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rely on grand estate wines by a role

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crowning achievement of the first deal

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john lawring will soon be seen in the water brothers production the verdict

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there is a same time roma wines will bring you a message on cronin as star of

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suspense

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radio dot standing

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produced by williams fear for the role of wine company of fresno california

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this is cbs

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the columbia broadcasting system