WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.400 We are delaying the start of our regularly scheduled program. 00:04.400 --> 00:07.600 We have delayed the start of our regularly scheduled program to bring you this bulletin 00:07.600 --> 00:09.600 from CBS News. 00:09.600 --> 00:10.840 Washington. 00:10.840 --> 00:14.800 Federal Judge Matthew McGuire in Washington has signed a temporary injunction against 00:14.800 --> 00:19.100 both the coal mine operators and the miners in the soft coal dispute. 00:19.100 --> 00:23.320 The injunction orders the coal miners to go back to work at once. 00:23.320 --> 00:27.040 This bulletin has come to you from CBS News. 00:27.040 --> 00:34.040 We now resume our scheduled program. 00:34.040 --> 00:37.040 Suspense! 00:37.040 --> 01:00.640 Radio's outstanding theater of thrills brings you an hour, a full 60 minutes of suspense. 01:00.640 --> 01:07.760 Tonight the noted stage actor Sam Jaffe is our star in Suspicion by Dorothy Sayers, a 01:07.760 --> 01:16.200 suspense play produced and directed by Anton M. Lieder. 01:16.200 --> 01:21.440 It is very quiet in Hammersmith, the western metropolitan borough of London. 01:21.440 --> 01:25.240 Orderly homes line orderly residential streets. 01:25.240 --> 01:28.880 And inside these homes quiet people live quiet lives. 01:28.880 --> 01:33.960 An outsider might notice the changeless security of Hammersmith while the natives regard it 01:33.960 --> 01:38.360 without comment as part of their peaceful pattern of living. 01:38.360 --> 01:42.920 It is a point of pride that St. Paul's School, located within the borough's limits, dates 01:42.920 --> 01:47.560 back to the 12th century, the Godolphin School to the 16th century and the Edward Latimer 01:47.560 --> 01:50.220 Foundation to the 17th. 01:50.220 --> 01:54.840 And it's a matter of record that the last disruptive influence exerted itself over the 01:54.840 --> 02:01.240 town and its people in the year 879 when the Danish invaders occupied it as their winter 02:01.240 --> 02:02.880 camp. 02:02.880 --> 02:07.360 It isn't Hammersmith, our story is laid. 02:07.360 --> 02:12.200 And now with the performance of Sam Jaffe as Edward Mumrey, Laureen Tautel as his wife 02:12.200 --> 02:18.720 Ethel, Alan Reed as Brooks, and with Suspicion by Dorothy Sayers, we again hope to keep you 02:18.720 --> 02:35.400 in suspense. 02:35.400 --> 02:37.760 My name is Edward Mumrey of Hammersmith. 02:37.760 --> 02:44.720 I'm 48 years of age, fair of complexion, agreeable, I believe, as to disposition. 02:44.720 --> 02:49.680 I have my business, Reed Estate, in the city, which I run together with my partner, Mr. 02:49.680 --> 02:51.280 Harold Brooks. 02:51.280 --> 02:57.200 I have my own home, I occupy my leisure hours with gardening, and I've just been married, 02:57.200 --> 03:01.840 that is, practically just, six years to be exact. 03:01.840 --> 03:06.280 My wife Ethel is the most brilliant thing that ever happened to me. 03:06.280 --> 03:08.040 These are the outward facts. 03:08.040 --> 03:14.840 I recognize that I'm a very ordinary person, and yet, can a person be considered ordinary 03:14.840 --> 03:19.400 when into his life there suddenly explodes the extraordinary? 03:19.400 --> 03:21.440 For this is what happened to me. 03:21.440 --> 03:28.560 On one single day, like any other day in a quiet, carefully-planned life, I smelled the 03:28.560 --> 03:37.240 odor of the grave, and I saw with my own eyes the supreme horror of all existence. 03:37.240 --> 03:40.400 It began in the railway carriage going to London to my office. 03:40.400 --> 03:44.240 Perhaps it was the thick pall of tobacco smoke in the carriage that first made me aware of 03:44.240 --> 03:45.640 my nausea. 03:45.640 --> 03:47.760 I slipped a digestive tablet into my mouth. 03:47.760 --> 03:52.720 Lately, I'd taken to the habit of carrying them about with me, and I leaned back my head 03:52.720 --> 03:55.560 and closed my eyes. 03:55.560 --> 03:59.600 De Vries, who traveled with me every morning, was giving me the benefit of his morning edition. 03:59.600 --> 04:03.360 Ah, here's something, smack on the front page. 04:03.360 --> 04:07.560 The question has been asked in the House about government typewriters. 04:07.560 --> 04:09.160 Now there's the press for you. 04:09.160 --> 04:12.680 The world going to the devil so fast it makes my head spin, and all they can print in their 04:12.680 --> 04:13.680 precious newspapers. 04:13.680 --> 04:18.200 I say, old chevy, you're looking terribly pale this morning. 04:18.200 --> 04:22.040 Could you just open the window a bit? 04:22.040 --> 04:24.320 I don't feel very well. 04:24.320 --> 04:25.320 Why, certainly. 04:25.320 --> 04:28.320 There you are. 04:28.320 --> 04:29.320 Just lean your head into it. 04:29.320 --> 04:30.320 Get some fresh air. 04:30.320 --> 04:31.320 Yeah, better? 04:31.320 --> 04:32.320 Yes. 04:32.320 --> 04:33.320 Thank you. 04:33.320 --> 04:35.080 Must have been something you had for breakfast. 04:35.080 --> 04:37.080 I suppose so. 04:37.080 --> 04:39.040 Sorry to be such a fool about it. 04:39.040 --> 04:41.320 Not at all, old man, not at all. 04:41.320 --> 04:42.320 Go ahead. 04:42.320 --> 04:45.760 Read me some more of this earth-shaking news. 04:45.760 --> 04:48.760 All right, if you'd like. 04:48.760 --> 04:51.440 Further split has occurred in the Labor Party. 04:51.440 --> 04:54.480 Well, let's skip over politics for today. 04:54.480 --> 04:57.200 Two girls trapped in Burning Factory. 04:57.200 --> 04:59.680 I can do without the morbid, too. 04:59.680 --> 05:08.840 The police are still looking for the woman who poisoned a family in Lincoln. 05:08.840 --> 05:13.640 I took a tram to my office, gritting my teeth against this snorcia that had me dizzy and 05:13.640 --> 05:14.640 trembling. 05:14.640 --> 05:17.720 How I got up the stairs I'll never remember. 05:17.720 --> 05:20.120 The world swam black before my eyes. 05:20.120 --> 05:27.240 Then I was seated at my desk, breathing a bit hard, but once more in control of myself, 05:27.240 --> 05:29.920 my heart no longer pounding. 05:29.920 --> 05:32.000 Morning, Mamrie. 05:32.000 --> 05:33.000 Cold enough for you? 05:33.000 --> 05:34.000 Yes, broke quite. 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 And pleasantly raw, in fact. 05:36.000 --> 05:37.000 Beastly, beastly. 05:37.000 --> 05:39.440 You're truly bulbs all in? 05:39.440 --> 05:40.440 Not quite all. 05:40.440 --> 05:43.480 As a matter of fact, I haven't been too well lately. 05:43.480 --> 05:44.480 Oh, too bad. 05:44.480 --> 05:45.480 Bulbs ought to go in early. 05:45.480 --> 05:49.480 You're lucky, you know, living in the country, you want to take advantage of it. 05:49.480 --> 05:50.880 How's the missus? 05:50.880 --> 05:51.880 Thank you. 05:51.880 --> 05:52.880 She's very much better. 05:52.880 --> 05:53.880 Glad to hear that. 05:53.880 --> 05:54.880 Very glad. 05:54.880 --> 05:57.640 I hope we shall have her about again this winter, as usual. 05:57.640 --> 05:59.120 Can't do without her in the drama society. 05:59.120 --> 06:00.800 I'm sure you're very kind. 06:00.800 --> 06:01.800 I mean it. 06:01.800 --> 06:05.080 By Joe, I shan't forget her acting last year in Romance. 06:05.080 --> 06:07.280 She and young Welbeck positively brought down the house. 06:07.280 --> 06:09.000 Yes, she was good, wasn't she? 06:09.000 --> 06:11.840 Yeah, Welbeck's were asking after her only yesterday. 06:11.840 --> 06:13.440 She'll be up and around again soon. 06:13.440 --> 06:15.520 The doctor says she mustn't overdo it. 06:15.520 --> 06:17.480 No worry, he says. 06:17.480 --> 06:18.480 That's the important thing. 06:18.480 --> 06:22.400 She used to go easy and not rush about or undertake too much. 06:22.400 --> 06:23.400 Quite right. 06:23.400 --> 06:24.400 Worry is the devil in all. 06:24.400 --> 06:25.880 I cut out worrying years ago. 06:25.880 --> 06:26.880 Look at me. 06:26.880 --> 06:29.080 Fit as a fiddle, but all I shan't see fifty again. 06:29.080 --> 06:33.040 You're not looking altogether the thing, by the way. 06:33.040 --> 06:34.480 What touch of dispepture? 06:34.480 --> 06:35.480 Nothing much. 06:35.480 --> 06:37.480 A chill on the liver, I suppose. 06:37.480 --> 06:39.200 That's what it is. 06:39.200 --> 06:40.200 Is life worth living? 06:40.200 --> 06:41.600 Depends on the liver. 06:41.600 --> 06:42.600 Yes. 06:42.600 --> 06:44.880 Well, we'd better be getting to that lease of herobies. 06:44.880 --> 06:45.880 I have a good idea. 06:45.880 --> 06:49.600 By the way, I suppose your wife doesn't know of a good cook, does she? 06:49.600 --> 06:50.600 I doubt it. 06:50.600 --> 06:53.320 They aren't so easy to find nowadays. 06:53.320 --> 06:55.760 In fact, we've only just got suited ourselves. 06:55.760 --> 06:58.400 Well, I promised the Philipsons I'd look around. 06:58.400 --> 07:00.560 They're girls getting married. 07:00.560 --> 07:03.400 That's the worst of bringing young girls into work for you. 07:03.400 --> 07:05.840 I said to Philipson, you mind what you're doing, I said. 07:05.840 --> 07:07.200 Get somebody you know something about. 07:07.200 --> 07:10.160 You may find yourself landed with this poisoning woman. 07:10.160 --> 07:11.160 What's her name? 07:11.160 --> 07:12.160 Edrills. 07:12.160 --> 07:16.160 Don't want to be sending wreaths to your funeral yet, I said. 07:16.160 --> 07:18.600 He laughed, but it's no laughing matter. 07:18.600 --> 07:21.240 What we pay the police for, I simply don't know. 07:21.240 --> 07:24.720 Nearly a month now, they can't seem to lay hands on the woman. 07:24.720 --> 07:29.160 All they say is, they think she's hanging about the neighbourhood and may seek a situation 07:29.160 --> 07:30.160 as cook. 07:30.160 --> 07:33.160 As cook, now, I ask you. 07:33.160 --> 07:35.360 There was a theory in the papers that she'd committed suicide. 07:35.360 --> 07:37.560 Don't you believe it, my boy? 07:37.560 --> 07:39.360 That code found in the river was all eyewash. 07:39.360 --> 07:40.920 They don't commit suicide. 07:40.920 --> 07:41.920 That sort don't. 07:41.920 --> 07:42.920 That sort? 07:42.920 --> 07:45.200 She's poison maniacs, cutting his weasels. 07:45.200 --> 07:46.200 That's what they are. 07:46.200 --> 07:49.120 I only hope they catch her before she tries to handle anybody else. 07:49.120 --> 07:50.120 As I told Philipson... 07:50.120 --> 07:53.360 Can you think this Mrs Andrews did it? 07:53.360 --> 07:55.000 Of course she did it. 07:55.000 --> 07:57.440 You've been following the case, haven't you? 07:57.440 --> 07:59.560 Looked after her old father and he died suddenly. 07:59.560 --> 08:01.840 Left her a bit of money, too. 08:01.840 --> 08:05.640 Then she keeps house for an elderly gentleman and he dies suddenly. 08:05.640 --> 08:07.360 Now there's this husband and wife. 08:07.360 --> 08:09.440 Man dies, woman taken very ill. 08:09.440 --> 08:11.600 Of arsenic poisoning. 08:11.600 --> 08:12.600 Cook runs away. 08:12.600 --> 08:14.640 Then you ask, did she do it? 08:14.640 --> 08:16.840 I only thought it might be a coincidence. 08:16.840 --> 08:19.840 I don't mind betting that they dig up the father and the other old bird. 08:19.840 --> 08:22.240 They'll find them bug full of poison, too. 08:22.240 --> 08:25.960 Once that sort gets started, they don't stop. 08:25.960 --> 08:26.960 What is the matter, Mamory? 08:26.960 --> 08:27.960 I... 08:27.960 --> 08:29.960 Mamory, let me call you a doctor. 08:29.960 --> 08:31.960 No, just some water. 08:31.960 --> 08:32.960 It's all right. 08:32.960 --> 08:33.960 Give me a minute. 08:33.960 --> 08:34.960 There you go. 08:34.960 --> 08:35.960 Slowly now. 08:35.960 --> 08:36.960 That's all right. 08:36.960 --> 08:37.960 Now hold your head. 08:37.960 --> 08:38.960 Thank you. 08:38.960 --> 08:39.960 Thank you, Brooks. 08:39.960 --> 08:40.960 You sure you're all right? 08:40.960 --> 08:41.960 Yes. 08:41.960 --> 08:42.960 All right. 08:42.960 --> 08:43.960 My dear fellow. 08:43.960 --> 08:51.720 Don't mind telling you, you gave me a start. 08:51.720 --> 08:53.880 I thought I was losing you here and now. 08:53.880 --> 08:54.880 It's only my stomach. 08:54.880 --> 08:55.880 Nothing serious. 08:55.880 --> 08:56.880 Hold on a moment. 08:56.880 --> 08:57.880 What did you have for breakfast? 08:57.880 --> 08:58.880 I don't know. 08:58.880 --> 08:59.880 The usual. 08:59.880 --> 09:00.880 Oh, no, no. 09:00.880 --> 09:01.880 Now tell me. 09:01.880 --> 09:02.880 We'll get to the bottom of this. 09:02.880 --> 09:09.880 Well, then, brown bread, bacon, eggs, just the nicely said kind. 09:09.880 --> 09:12.560 Coffee made as only Mrs. Sutton can. 09:12.560 --> 09:13.560 Mrs. Sutton? 09:13.560 --> 09:14.560 Oh, that's your new cook. 09:14.560 --> 09:16.160 She's a real find. 09:16.160 --> 09:17.840 I'm terribly thankful for her. 09:17.840 --> 09:18.840 Yes, I can imagine. 09:18.840 --> 09:22.560 Your wife down with a nervous breakdown must be a blessing to have someone capable running 09:22.560 --> 09:23.560 the house. 09:23.560 --> 09:24.560 That's right. 09:24.560 --> 09:27.080 Ethel hasn't been at all fit, poor child. 09:27.080 --> 09:29.280 I don't want you to mention it to her, Brooks. 09:29.280 --> 09:31.360 She gets upset so easily. 09:31.360 --> 09:33.200 I don't want her worrying about me. 09:33.200 --> 09:36.200 Of course not, my dear. 09:36.200 --> 09:38.200 Isn't it odd, Brooks? 09:38.200 --> 09:39.680 What's that? 09:39.680 --> 09:42.160 This photograph of that Mrs. Andrews. 09:42.160 --> 09:44.400 Oh, you mean the newspaper? 09:44.400 --> 09:50.480 She looks like such a sweet, motherly looking woman. 09:50.480 --> 09:51.480 Take care, Mamary. 09:51.480 --> 09:55.720 From the way your stomach's acting up, I'd say this poison and your precious Mrs. Sutton 09:55.720 --> 09:57.120 are one and the same. 09:57.120 --> 09:58.600 That's hardly a joke, Brooks. 09:58.600 --> 10:03.880 As a matter of fact, if they were the slightest resemblance, I'd be terrified. 10:03.880 --> 10:06.080 But this Mrs. Andrews looks so... 10:06.080 --> 10:07.640 Oh, so angelic. 10:07.640 --> 10:09.360 She's got a bad mouth. 10:09.360 --> 10:12.800 Look to the mouth, Mamary, before you trust your fellow man. 10:12.800 --> 10:22.800 That's where the true story is written. 10:22.800 --> 10:29.680 Death by poison, fiends and murderers, the darkness of the pit, the unholy face of evil. 10:29.680 --> 10:32.300 These are things we read about. 10:32.300 --> 10:36.080 These are horrors we get at second hand through fiction and films. 10:36.080 --> 10:44.440 But they do not really happen to people like me, a suburban gardener, a real estate broker. 10:44.440 --> 10:46.240 And that was a comfort. 10:46.240 --> 10:53.400 If I were to go through life without any great distinction, at least I should avoid any great 10:53.400 --> 10:54.680 terror. 10:54.680 --> 10:58.320 So I told myself as I left the office for lunch. 10:58.320 --> 11:03.560 I was a little nervous to begin with, so I had some boiled fish and a custard pudding. 11:03.560 --> 11:09.000 The wrenching pain seemed gone entirely and I became positively lightheaded as the bogey 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 of illness and doctors' bills ceased to haunt me. 11:12.000 --> 11:17.080 I bought a bunch of bronze chrysanthemums for Ethel just by way of celebration. 11:17.080 --> 11:21.960 And I got home at the usual time, seven ten. 11:21.960 --> 11:28.840 I was a little dashed by not finding Ethel in the sitting room, still holding the flowers. 11:28.840 --> 11:33.920 I went down the passage, tore the kitchen door and opened it. 11:33.920 --> 11:35.200 No, sir. 11:35.200 --> 11:37.440 I seem to have startled you, Mrs. Sutton. 11:37.440 --> 11:39.080 Yes, yes, you did. 11:39.080 --> 11:40.800 I didn't hear the front door go. 11:40.800 --> 11:42.400 Where's Mrs. Bummery? 11:42.400 --> 11:44.200 Not feeling bad again, is she? 11:44.200 --> 11:47.160 Well sir, she's got a bit of a headache, poor lamb. 11:47.160 --> 11:52.280 I made her lay down and took her up a nice cup of tea at half past four. 11:52.280 --> 11:54.240 I think she's dozing nicely now. 11:54.240 --> 11:56.560 That was very considerate, Mrs. Sutton. 11:56.560 --> 12:00.200 Oh, it was turning out the dining room that done it, I think. 12:00.200 --> 12:03.880 I asked her not to overdo, but you know how she is, sir. 12:03.880 --> 12:05.360 She gets so restless. 12:05.360 --> 12:07.800 Can't seem to bear to be doing nothing. 12:07.800 --> 12:09.080 Yes, I know. 12:09.080 --> 12:10.760 She's such an active little person. 12:10.760 --> 12:12.480 This illness is very hard on her. 12:12.480 --> 12:14.760 Well, I'll just run up and have a peep. 12:14.760 --> 12:16.840 Shan't disturb her if she's asleep. 12:16.840 --> 12:18.400 Want me to put the flowers in a vase? 12:18.400 --> 12:20.720 No, I'll take them up to her first. 12:20.720 --> 12:23.000 By the way, what are we having for dinner? 12:23.000 --> 12:26.640 Well, I had made a nice steak and kidney pie. 12:26.640 --> 12:29.440 Oh, pastry. 12:29.440 --> 12:31.760 I don't know. 12:31.760 --> 12:32.280 You see, I... 12:32.280 --> 12:35.120 Oh, you'll find it beautiful and light. 12:35.120 --> 12:37.880 And it's made with butter, sir. 12:37.880 --> 12:40.720 You haven't said you found lard indigestible. 12:40.720 --> 12:42.680 I'm sure it'll be most excellent. 12:42.680 --> 12:43.720 It's just... 12:43.720 --> 12:47.160 Well, you see, Mrs. Sutton, I haven't been too well lately. 12:47.160 --> 12:48.720 Something of a stomach upset. 12:48.720 --> 12:49.760 Is that so? 12:49.760 --> 12:51.440 Yes. 12:51.440 --> 12:54.840 Do you have any idea what it might be? 12:54.840 --> 12:58.440 Oh, I'm sure it's nothing out of my kitchen, Mr. Mammoni. 12:58.440 --> 13:01.800 No, no, I'm sure it isn't. 13:01.800 --> 13:04.520 Well, I believe I'll live through it. 13:04.520 --> 13:07.040 Steak and kidney is just fine. 13:07.040 --> 13:10.760 Now I'll run up and look at my wife. 13:10.760 --> 13:13.720 I tiptoed up and opened the door carefully. 13:13.720 --> 13:16.000 At first, I thought Ethel was asleep. 13:16.000 --> 13:17.920 She lay snuggled under the eiderdon 13:17.920 --> 13:21.800 and looked very small and fragile in the big double bed. 13:21.800 --> 13:24.600 And she didn't look at all well. 13:24.600 --> 13:28.360 It drenched my heart to see her face so pale and wasted. 13:28.360 --> 13:31.600 And the doctors couldn't seem to find her ailment at all. 13:31.600 --> 13:34.080 What could be the insidious disease 13:34.080 --> 13:36.120 that had done this to her? 13:36.120 --> 13:38.640 Nervous breakdown, they called it. 13:38.640 --> 13:40.920 But I wasn't satisfied with that. 13:40.920 --> 13:42.880 It must be something more. 13:42.880 --> 13:48.200 I came closer and she stared on the bed and smiled at me. 13:48.200 --> 13:49.200 Hello, darling. 13:49.200 --> 13:51.040 Hello, sweet. 13:51.040 --> 13:51.880 How are you? 13:51.880 --> 13:53.520 I got tired and headachy. 13:53.520 --> 13:56.160 And Mrs. Sutton packed me off to bed. 13:56.160 --> 13:58.360 You've been doing too much. 13:58.360 --> 14:00.400 You know what the doctor said about resting. 14:00.400 --> 14:01.160 Yes, I know. 14:01.160 --> 14:04.080 It was foolish of me. 14:04.080 --> 14:06.440 Oh, Edward, such lovely flowers. 14:06.440 --> 14:09.240 I thought it would cheer you up, Ethel. 14:09.240 --> 14:10.520 A little spot of color. 14:10.520 --> 14:12.520 Darling, you are good to me. 14:12.520 --> 14:15.400 And I can't have been much fun for you lately. 14:15.400 --> 14:16.400 Really, I could cry. 14:16.400 --> 14:17.080 Ethel. 14:17.080 --> 14:19.480 Don't tire of me, Edward. 14:19.480 --> 14:21.040 I'll get well, I promise you. 14:21.040 --> 14:23.600 Of course you will. 14:23.600 --> 14:25.280 Oh, that's funny. 14:25.280 --> 14:27.320 Me tire of you. 14:27.320 --> 14:29.200 Then hand me my robe and I'll come down with you. 14:29.200 --> 14:30.520 Much better stay in bed, dear. 14:30.520 --> 14:32.360 And let Mrs. Sutton send your dinner up. 14:32.360 --> 14:34.000 Oh, but I want to be with you tonight. 14:34.000 --> 14:36.480 I've got to be firm with you, Ethel. 14:36.480 --> 14:37.840 If you don't take care of yourself, 14:37.840 --> 14:40.560 you won't be able to go to the Dharma Society meetings. 14:40.560 --> 14:44.200 You've no idea how anxious everyone is to have you back. 14:44.200 --> 14:46.080 The Welbecks have been asking after you 14:46.080 --> 14:48.680 and saying that they really couldn't go on without you. 14:48.680 --> 14:50.000 Did they? 14:50.000 --> 14:51.640 Very sweet of them to want me. 14:51.640 --> 14:53.080 Not at all. 14:53.080 --> 14:55.000 You're the best of the lot. 14:55.000 --> 14:56.240 They need you. 14:56.240 --> 14:58.640 Well, perhaps I'll stay in bed after all. 14:58.640 --> 15:00.280 Good. 15:00.280 --> 15:01.640 Now have you been all day, dear? 15:01.640 --> 15:03.160 Not too bad, not too bad. 15:03.160 --> 15:04.680 No more bothersome tummies? 15:04.680 --> 15:07.520 Well, perhaps, just a little one. 15:07.520 --> 15:09.240 But it's quite gone now. 15:09.240 --> 15:10.680 Absolutely nothing to worry about. 15:10.680 --> 15:12.560 Darling, you're sure? 15:12.560 --> 15:15.800 Quite sure, sweet. 15:15.800 --> 15:17.760 All gone and forgotten. 15:25.360 --> 15:27.560 I experienced no more distressing symptoms 15:27.560 --> 15:29.720 that night or the next day. 15:29.720 --> 15:32.680 Following the advice of a newspaper expert on the subject, 15:32.680 --> 15:35.160 I took to drinking a great deal of orange juice. 15:35.160 --> 15:37.040 The results were wonderful. 15:37.040 --> 15:41.040 It was as though I had never known pain in my life. 15:41.040 --> 15:44.280 The next night, we were retired early. 15:44.280 --> 15:48.720 I fell asleep almost at once and slept the deep and dreamless 15:48.720 --> 15:53.040 sleep of a child until about 3 in the morning. 15:53.040 --> 15:57.440 Then I was awake, for it had come back. 15:57.440 --> 16:01.200 Ethel, Ethel, wake up. 16:01.200 --> 16:03.240 Please wake up. 16:03.240 --> 16:05.320 Ethel, help me. 16:05.320 --> 16:07.280 What was that? 16:07.280 --> 16:08.680 Edward, darling, what's the matter? 16:08.680 --> 16:09.920 What is it? 16:09.920 --> 16:13.720 I think I'm dying. 16:19.360 --> 16:24.160 I suppose it is different for every man when his time comes. 16:24.160 --> 16:28.680 For myself, I can only say that it was like sinking, 16:28.680 --> 16:32.800 as though my body were in an insupportably heavy weight, 16:32.800 --> 16:36.080 plummeting down into the soft, icy ground, 16:36.080 --> 16:42.080 sinking deep, deep, deep into the black regions of the earth. 16:42.080 --> 16:43.880 Here's some hot water to go with it. 16:43.880 --> 16:45.920 Now, just swallow this pill. 16:45.920 --> 16:48.400 Come along now. I know it's hard. 16:48.400 --> 16:50.880 But you can swallow just once. 16:50.880 --> 16:51.960 There you are. 16:51.960 --> 16:53.920 Goes to work in a jiffy. 16:53.920 --> 16:56.000 I dare say you're feeling better already. 16:56.000 --> 16:57.640 Thank you, Doctor. 16:57.640 --> 17:00.080 Now then, Mrs. Mumray, just a few questions, please. 17:00.080 --> 17:01.280 What did you have for dinner? 17:01.280 --> 17:02.920 That's what's so baffling. 17:02.920 --> 17:04.680 It couldn't have been the dinner. 17:04.680 --> 17:07.120 I had the same things to eat, and so did Mrs. Sutton. 17:07.120 --> 17:10.280 Nonetheless, we have to be thorough about this, if you will. 17:10.280 --> 17:15.600 Well, then, um, pig's trotters and a milk pudding. 17:15.600 --> 17:16.600 Oh, yes, brown bears. 17:16.600 --> 17:17.760 You're sure about that? 17:17.760 --> 17:20.480 And before we went to bed, Edward had a large glass of orange juice, 17:20.480 --> 17:21.440 according to his new regime. 17:21.440 --> 17:22.440 Aha. 17:22.440 --> 17:24.160 Seems to have been helping him so much. 17:24.160 --> 17:25.120 Now, there's your trouble. 17:25.120 --> 17:27.520 Orange juice is an excellent thing, and so are trotters, 17:27.520 --> 17:29.200 but not in combination. 17:29.200 --> 17:32.120 Pigs and oranges together are extraordinarily bad for the liver. 17:32.120 --> 17:33.120 Oh, dear. 17:33.120 --> 17:34.640 Don't know why they should be, but there's no doubt that they are. 17:34.640 --> 17:35.640 I see. 17:35.640 --> 17:36.920 Feeling better, Mumray? 17:36.920 --> 17:37.920 Yes. 17:37.920 --> 17:39.720 It's much easier. 17:39.720 --> 17:41.440 I'll send you round a prescription. 17:41.440 --> 17:45.280 You stick to slops for a day or two and keep off pork. 17:45.280 --> 17:46.800 Don't you worry about him, Mrs. Mumray. 17:46.800 --> 17:48.200 He's as sound as a trout. 17:48.200 --> 17:49.600 You're the one we've got to look after. 17:49.600 --> 17:52.880 I was so frightened, I believe my own trouble has been shocked right out. 17:52.880 --> 17:55.200 Oh, no, not yet, it hasn't. 17:55.200 --> 17:57.640 Don't want to see those black rings under your eyes. 17:57.640 --> 18:01.000 Of course, tonight was disturbed, but you make up for it now. 18:01.000 --> 18:02.000 Get plenty of sleep. 18:02.000 --> 18:03.440 Been taking your tonic regularly? 18:03.440 --> 18:04.440 Oh, oh, yes. 18:04.440 --> 18:05.440 That's right. 18:05.440 --> 18:09.040 Well, don't be alarmed about this hulking brute here. 18:09.040 --> 18:10.840 We'll soon have him out and about again. 18:10.840 --> 18:12.920 Now, good night to you. 18:12.920 --> 18:13.920 Doctor. 18:13.920 --> 18:14.920 Yes, Mumray? 18:14.920 --> 18:19.400 I'm sorry I had to pull you out in the middle of the night. 18:19.400 --> 18:21.160 That's why we're about, old man. 18:21.160 --> 18:22.160 It's nothing. 18:22.160 --> 18:24.480 It means a great deal to me. 18:24.480 --> 18:39.360 You see, if you hadn't been able to come, I'm sure that tonight I should have died. 18:39.360 --> 18:46.400 My diet was bread, milk and beef tea for the next three days. 18:46.400 --> 18:52.000 On Saturday afternoon, though I still felt seedy, I managed to stagger downstairs. 18:52.000 --> 18:55.200 Brooks had sent a few papers down from the office for my signature. 18:55.200 --> 19:00.000 And afterwards, Ethel sat down with me and we ran over the household accounts together. 19:00.000 --> 19:02.360 Then we have the butcher's settles. 19:02.360 --> 19:03.360 That's right. 19:03.360 --> 19:04.360 The baker. 19:04.360 --> 19:05.360 Right. 19:05.360 --> 19:06.360 The dairy. 19:06.360 --> 19:07.360 Right. 19:07.360 --> 19:08.360 Coal merchant. 19:08.360 --> 19:09.360 And the coal merchant. 19:09.360 --> 19:10.360 All finished. 19:10.360 --> 19:11.360 Then there's Mrs. Sutton. 19:11.360 --> 19:13.360 Oh, I'd almost forgotten. 19:13.360 --> 19:15.400 This is the end of a month, you know. 19:15.400 --> 19:16.400 So it is. 19:16.400 --> 19:20.720 Well, you're quite satisfied with her, aren't you, darling? 19:20.720 --> 19:22.560 Yes, Father, aren't you? 19:22.560 --> 19:25.880 She's a good cook and a warm, motherly old thing, too. 19:25.880 --> 19:30.080 Don't you think it was a real brainwave of mine engaging her like that on the spot? 19:30.080 --> 19:31.080 I do indeed. 19:31.080 --> 19:35.200 It was a perfect providence, her turning up like that, just after that wretched Jane had 19:35.200 --> 19:36.840 gone off without even giving notice. 19:36.840 --> 19:38.880 I was in absolute despair. 19:38.880 --> 19:43.840 It was a little bit of a gamble, of course, taking her without any reference. 19:43.840 --> 19:44.840 I suppose it was. 19:44.840 --> 19:50.280 But if she'd been looking after a widowed mother, you couldn't expect her to give references. 19:50.280 --> 19:51.280 Mmm, no. 19:51.280 --> 19:52.280 What is it, darling? 19:52.280 --> 19:55.280 Why do you say, mmm, no, like that? 19:55.280 --> 20:01.760 Well, the truth is, I felt a bit uneasy about it at the time. 20:01.760 --> 20:04.360 I didn't like to say anything because we simply had to have somebody. 20:04.360 --> 20:08.160 Well, I didn't much like it either, but after all, it has worked out so well. 20:08.160 --> 20:10.160 We're perfectly happy with her now, aren't we? 20:10.160 --> 20:11.160 Yes, dear. 20:11.160 --> 20:14.960 But just for the record, it occurs to me that we might write to the clergyman back 20:14.960 --> 20:15.960 in the parish. 20:15.960 --> 20:18.720 You should be able to give her a reference. 20:18.720 --> 20:23.360 I'm sure he's an excellent clergyman, but he couldn't tell us anything about her cooking. 20:23.360 --> 20:25.880 And cooking, after all, is the chief body. 20:25.880 --> 20:27.040 Oh, right. 20:27.040 --> 20:28.760 And we are satisfied with her cooking. 20:28.760 --> 20:31.440 Then here's a month's wages for our Mrs. Sutton. 20:31.440 --> 20:33.840 I'll tell her she's passed with flying colours. 20:33.840 --> 20:39.000 And by the way, dear, you might just mention to Mrs. Sutton that if she must read the morning 20:39.000 --> 20:44.000 paper before I come down, I should be obliged if she would fold it neatly afterwards. 20:44.000 --> 20:45.000 Oh, darling, darling. 20:45.000 --> 20:48.600 What an old fussbuck you are. 20:48.600 --> 20:51.200 But she does fuss it up pretty thoroughly. 20:51.200 --> 20:58.000 And by the way, the pages that she folds back, and by the way she folds it back, I can tell 20:58.000 --> 21:11.720 that Mrs. Sutton is following this poison case as avidly as I am. 21:11.720 --> 21:14.040 On Sunday, I felt very much better. 21:14.040 --> 21:16.720 Quite my old self, in fact. 21:16.720 --> 21:24.360 I had roast sirloin for luncheon with the potatoes under the meat, in Yorkshire, putting 21:24.360 --> 21:28.660 a delicious lightness, and an apple tart to follow. 21:28.660 --> 21:34.480 After the three days of my invalid diet, it was a real pleasure to savour the crisp fat 21:34.480 --> 21:36.640 and the underdone lean. 21:36.640 --> 21:42.460 I ate carefully, moderately, but with an almost sensuous enjoyment. 21:42.460 --> 21:47.920 And then, over coffee, while Ethel was still toying with the food, I took up the newspaper 21:47.920 --> 21:50.560 and turned to the account of the woman poisoner. 21:50.560 --> 21:53.560 Are you still following those horrible murders? 21:53.560 --> 21:54.560 Yes, my dear. 21:54.560 --> 21:56.880 Whatever makes you so morbid, Edward? 21:56.880 --> 22:01.400 I find it very interesting, Ethel, to see what human beings are capable of doing. 22:01.400 --> 22:03.000 I suppose it is interesting. 22:03.000 --> 22:08.400 Thrilling, too, because it's so far into the kind of lives we lead here in Hammersmith. 22:08.400 --> 22:09.400 Yes. 22:09.400 --> 22:13.880 Just like a fascinating fairy tale. 22:13.880 --> 22:14.880 I say... 22:14.880 --> 22:15.880 What is it? 22:15.880 --> 22:16.880 Why, Brooks was right. 22:16.880 --> 22:17.880 Right about what? 22:17.880 --> 22:22.840 They've gone and dug up Mrs. Andrews' father and her former employer. 22:22.840 --> 22:24.560 Oh, Edward, please. 22:24.560 --> 22:28.800 And sure enough, they were both found full of it. 22:28.800 --> 22:38.560 Bung full of poison. 22:38.560 --> 22:43.200 My head was full of conjecture about this sweet motherly murderess, this middle-aged 22:43.200 --> 22:49.000 cook who mixed arsenic into her delicious luncheons and dinners, this Mrs. Andrews for 22:49.000 --> 22:51.240 whom the police were looking so desperately. 22:51.240 --> 22:57.160 At three o'clock, with the roast beef settling properly, I went out into the garden to put 22:57.160 --> 22:59.040 the tulip bulbs in. 22:59.040 --> 23:03.880 I got my bag of tulips and a trowel, and then, remembering I still had on my good trousers, 23:03.880 --> 23:07.440 I decided it would be wise to take a mat to kneel on. 23:07.440 --> 23:11.520 The mat had been left last in the corner under the potting shelf. 23:11.520 --> 23:16.320 I stooped down and felt about in the dark among the flower pots. 23:16.320 --> 23:19.040 Yes, it was there. 23:19.040 --> 23:22.960 But there was something else. 23:22.960 --> 23:24.600 Something in the way. 23:24.600 --> 23:27.280 It looked like a tin. 23:27.280 --> 23:29.360 I lifted it out carefully. 23:29.360 --> 23:31.560 Yes, of course. 23:31.560 --> 23:33.280 It was a tin. 23:33.280 --> 23:37.560 What remains of the weed killer I had used the summer before. 23:37.560 --> 23:44.480 I looked at the pink label printed in staring letters with the legend, arsenic weed killer. 23:44.480 --> 23:45.480 Poison. 23:45.480 --> 23:49.400 The blood suddenly began to pound in my temples. 23:49.400 --> 23:54.520 I'd been thinking of Mrs. Andrews so long that it came to me with a nasty shock that 23:54.520 --> 24:01.440 I was holding in my hands the very same brand of stuff she used to destroy so many poor 24:01.440 --> 24:02.440 souls. 24:02.440 --> 24:09.160 It gave me the distinctly unpleasant impression that by owning some poison myself, I was directly 24:09.160 --> 24:13.640 in touch with important and costly events. 24:13.640 --> 24:17.600 I smiled a little at myself for being so foolish. 24:17.600 --> 24:23.560 And then I noticed that the stopper had been put in very loosely. 24:23.560 --> 24:29.360 Now how did I ever come to do a thing like that? 24:29.360 --> 24:32.000 What a stupid fool. 24:32.000 --> 24:35.760 It would just serve me right if all the goodness had gone off it. 24:35.760 --> 24:40.680 Besides, it was so very dangerous to leave it loose like that. 24:40.680 --> 24:43.640 I took out the stopper and squinted it into the can. 24:43.640 --> 24:45.960 It seemed to be about half full. 24:45.960 --> 24:51.400 Then I rammed the thing home again and gave it a sharp thump with the handle of the towel 24:51.400 --> 24:53.680 for better security. 24:53.680 --> 24:59.080 After that, I washed my hands carefully at the scullery. 24:59.080 --> 25:02.720 I am a man who does not believe in taking risks. 25:02.720 --> 25:10.760 Oh, Edward, look who just dropped in. 25:10.760 --> 25:12.920 My son and I were just in the neighborhood, Mr. Mummery. 25:12.920 --> 25:14.720 We thought we'd have a cup of tea with you. 25:14.720 --> 25:16.680 Happy to see you again, Mrs. Weldon. 25:16.680 --> 25:17.680 Oh, hello, John. 25:17.680 --> 25:18.680 How are you, Mr. Mummery? 25:18.680 --> 25:21.640 We were talking about the Lincoln poisoning case, Mr. Mummery. 25:21.640 --> 25:24.360 That is, I seem to have been doing all the talking. 25:24.360 --> 25:25.880 Oh, tea's ready, ma'am. 25:25.880 --> 25:26.880 Thank you, Mrs. Sutton. 25:26.880 --> 25:28.280 Just put it by me, I'll pour. 25:28.280 --> 25:29.280 Very good, ma'am. 25:29.280 --> 25:30.280 Will that be all? 25:30.280 --> 25:31.280 That'll be all, Mrs. Sutton. 25:31.280 --> 25:32.280 Thank you. 25:32.280 --> 25:33.280 Oh, not at all, ma'am. 25:33.280 --> 25:34.280 Milk and sugar, Mrs. Welbeck? 25:34.280 --> 25:35.280 Only some lemon, please. 25:35.280 --> 25:36.280 You'll have milk and sugar, John. 25:36.280 --> 25:37.280 Oh, thank you. 25:37.280 --> 25:38.280 I say you've remembered. 25:38.280 --> 25:39.280 Edward. 25:39.280 --> 25:40.280 Thank you, my dear. 25:40.280 --> 25:47.280 I can't help prattling on about it, but there's been nothing else in my head ever since the 25:47.280 --> 25:48.280 first of these murders. 25:48.280 --> 25:49.280 I mean, now just take me. 25:49.280 --> 25:50.280 You, Mrs. Welbeck? 25:50.280 --> 25:51.280 Yes, I'm about her age, this Mrs. Andrews. 25:51.280 --> 25:52.280 Oh, I see. 25:52.280 --> 25:53.280 And you, Mr. Wilbeck. 25:53.280 --> 25:54.280 Oh, I'm sorry. 25:54.280 --> 25:58.280 I'm about her age, this Mrs. Andrews. 25:58.280 --> 26:02.800 And yet, when I look into my own heart and ask myself whether I could take a human life 26:02.800 --> 26:06.880 in cold blood, oh, well, as a matter of fact, I suppose I could. 26:06.880 --> 26:10.520 When it comes down to that, I suppose we all could. 26:10.520 --> 26:15.520 Why, if you live long enough, you're bound to run across a few people you'd love to see 26:15.520 --> 26:17.400 dead and underground. 26:17.400 --> 26:22.000 And if you're pushed far enough, I suppose you simply up and do it. 26:22.000 --> 26:27.200 But that I shouldn't use poison, I'd be up to find some more forthright way of dealing 26:27.200 --> 26:28.200 with it. 26:28.200 --> 26:30.200 Mother, you're letting your tea get cold. 26:30.200 --> 26:31.200 Oh, so I am, darling. 26:31.200 --> 26:32.200 Thank you. 26:32.200 --> 26:37.200 You know, I tell myself that I'm a strong-nerd person. 26:37.200 --> 26:40.200 In fact, my husband tells me the same thing all the time. 26:40.200 --> 26:45.000 And still, the thought that this poisoner is running around loose in our neighborhood 26:45.000 --> 26:46.000 gives me a chill. 26:46.000 --> 26:51.000 I confess it's a rather delicious chill, but nonetheless, I'm an easy-to-all-right-man. 26:51.000 --> 26:55.700 Oh, we've seen her picture, of course, but it's not much of a help. 26:55.700 --> 26:57.200 It could be almost anyone. 26:57.200 --> 26:59.200 Oh, hello, when you stop to think about it... 26:59.200 --> 27:01.200 Those Thorcyth cuttings, Mrs. Welbeck. 27:01.200 --> 27:02.200 I beg your pardon? 27:02.200 --> 27:03.200 I remember you wanted some cuttings. 27:03.200 --> 27:07.200 If you care to come down to the garden, I'll get them for you right now. 27:07.200 --> 27:09.200 Oh, I'd adore to have some. 27:09.200 --> 27:11.200 They'll fill out my garden so beautifully. 27:11.200 --> 27:13.200 Do let's go. 27:13.200 --> 27:18.200 Ethel had been getting more and white and tremulous as this horrible woman ran on with 27:18.200 --> 27:19.200 her cheerful horrors. 27:19.200 --> 27:25.200 As we rose to go, I noticed a relieved glance pass between Ethel and young Welbeck. 27:25.200 --> 27:30.200 Evidently, the boy understood the situation and was chafing at his mother's tactlessness. 27:30.200 --> 27:34.200 Mrs. Welbeck and I went outside together, and I selected and trimmed the cuttings for 27:34.200 --> 27:35.200 her. 27:35.200 --> 27:40.200 Oh, Mr. Mammery, if I only had your skill and patience, why, you've made for yourself 27:40.200 --> 27:42.200 a true garden of Eden Hill. 27:42.200 --> 27:44.200 It's so nice of you to say so. 27:44.200 --> 27:47.200 And your gravel paths, they're so thoroughly immaculate. 27:47.200 --> 27:49.200 I simply cannot keep my weeds down. 27:49.200 --> 27:51.200 You need a good weed killer, that's all. 27:51.200 --> 27:55.200 There's an arsenic preparation on the market that does wonders. 27:55.200 --> 27:56.200 That stuff? 27:56.200 --> 27:57.200 No, thank you, Mr. Mammery. 27:57.200 --> 28:00.200 I wouldn't have it in my place for a thousand pounds. 28:00.200 --> 28:03.200 I'm afraid there's no other way to rid yourself of weeds. 28:03.200 --> 28:07.200 Oh, but it's so foolhardy, so dangerous to have poison around. 28:07.200 --> 28:11.200 It seems to me you're simply opening your doors and inviting trouble. 28:11.200 --> 28:14.200 It's not as bad as all that. 28:14.200 --> 28:16.200 We keep it well away from the house. 28:16.200 --> 28:18.200 But the slightest carelessness... 28:18.200 --> 28:20.200 We are not careless people. 28:20.200 --> 28:21.200 Except that... 28:21.200 --> 28:23.200 Except that what? 28:23.200 --> 28:24.200 I just remembered. 28:24.200 --> 28:27.200 I have been a bit careless. 28:27.200 --> 28:30.200 I found the stopper to the can loose just this afternoon. 28:30.200 --> 28:32.200 It was unforgivable of me. 28:32.200 --> 28:34.200 There, you see? 28:34.200 --> 28:38.200 That's how accidents begin, from something as simple as that. 28:38.200 --> 28:41.200 You're fortunate you don't have any little children poking around. 28:41.200 --> 28:44.200 I suppose we are, Mrs. Welbeck. 28:44.200 --> 28:46.200 I suppose we are. 28:53.200 --> 28:57.200 When we got back to the house, young Welbeck was already on his feet 28:57.200 --> 29:00.200 and holding Ethel's hand in the act of saying goodbye. 29:00.200 --> 29:06.200 He was a good boy, anxious to get his mother out of the house with tactful promptness. 29:06.200 --> 29:09.200 I went into the kitchen to clear up the newspapers I'd fished out 29:09.200 --> 29:12.200 in order to wrap Mrs. Welbeck's cuttings. 29:12.200 --> 29:18.200 And as I picked them up, something odd struck me about them. 29:18.200 --> 29:22.200 Something I had to verify. 29:22.200 --> 29:27.200 I turned the papers over carefully, sheet by sheet. 29:27.200 --> 29:30.200 Yes, I had been right. 29:30.200 --> 29:34.200 Every portrait of Mrs. Andrews, every paragraph, 29:34.200 --> 29:40.200 every line about the Lincoln poisoning case had been carefully cut out. 29:40.200 --> 29:46.200 Someone in my own house had gone to all this trouble. 29:46.200 --> 29:48.200 Why? 30:02.200 --> 30:07.200 In tonight's full hour of suspense, Sam Jaffe stars as Edward Murmury 30:07.200 --> 30:10.200 in Suspicion by Dorothy Sayers. 30:10.200 --> 30:13.200 Tonight's study in Suspense. 30:19.200 --> 30:22.200 In just a moment we will return with Act Two of Suspense. 30:22.200 --> 30:26.200 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. 30:28.200 --> 30:33.200 And now, back to our Hollywood soundstage in Act Two of Suspicion, 30:33.200 --> 30:37.200 starring Sam Jaffe with Laureen Tuttle and Alan Reed 30:37.200 --> 30:41.200 in a narrative well calculated to keep you in Suspense. 30:55.200 --> 30:58.200 It hasn't been too long ago in Edward Murmury's consciousness 30:58.200 --> 31:00.200 that Arsenic was only a weed killer 31:00.200 --> 31:03.200 and Mrs. Andrews, the motherly murder suspect, 31:03.200 --> 31:05.200 was simply a name in the newspapers, 31:05.200 --> 31:10.200 a fear far removed from him and his quiet home in Hammersmith. 31:10.200 --> 31:12.200 But a sudden terror grips him now, 31:12.200 --> 31:16.200 a terror that certainly includes deadly poison 31:16.200 --> 31:21.200 and seems also to include the motherly woman who cooks his meals. 31:24.200 --> 31:28.200 Now the thing that had been only a vague and uncomfortable gnawing 31:28.200 --> 31:32.200 at the back of my brain came boiling up and gulping me. 31:32.200 --> 31:35.200 The blood hammered in my head and made me giddy. 31:35.200 --> 31:38.200 There was a curious cold lump in my stomach, 31:38.200 --> 31:42.200 someone in my own household. 31:43.200 --> 31:46.200 That night I couldn't close my eyes. 31:46.200 --> 31:49.200 I had to tell someone about this awful suspicion, 31:49.200 --> 31:54.200 but there was no one to tell, not Ethel certainly in her condition. 31:54.200 --> 31:58.200 So I kept it within myself until I reached town next day 31:58.200 --> 32:00.200 and could talk to Brooks. 32:00.200 --> 32:02.200 Now take hold of yourself, Murmury. 32:02.200 --> 32:04.200 Let's not jump to any conclusions. 32:04.200 --> 32:09.200 I'm not Brooks. I'm only asking questions that must be asked. 32:09.200 --> 32:12.200 Very well. Let's examine the facts once again. 32:12.200 --> 32:14.200 If only I had a picture of Mrs. Andrews. 32:14.200 --> 32:16.200 You're publishing plenty of them only last week. 32:16.200 --> 32:19.200 I know. I've tried to recall those pictures. 32:19.200 --> 32:21.200 I've tried so hard. 32:21.200 --> 32:24.200 I don't seem to have a very good visual memory. 32:24.200 --> 32:26.200 I suppose we could get hold of one at the library. 32:26.200 --> 32:28.200 They keep files, you know. 32:28.200 --> 32:31.200 You remember you showed me her picture here at the office one day last week. 32:31.200 --> 32:33.200 Yes, that's right. 32:33.200 --> 32:36.200 And how was it I described her? 32:36.200 --> 32:38.200 Motherly, wasn't it? 32:38.200 --> 32:40.200 Yes, yes, motherly. 32:40.200 --> 32:42.200 That seemed to be about all you could say of her. 32:42.200 --> 32:48.200 I've been counting up the time since that poisoner Mrs. Andrews disappeared. 32:48.200 --> 32:52.200 It comes to just a little more than a month. 32:52.200 --> 32:54.200 Yes, that would be my count. 32:54.200 --> 32:56.200 Very well. A month. 32:56.200 --> 33:02.200 And I've just paid our Mrs. Sutton a month's wages. 33:02.200 --> 33:03.200 Mrs. Sutton? 33:03.200 --> 33:05.200 How can I spare her from any shock or anxiety? 33:05.200 --> 33:08.200 That's the thing that keeps eating away at me. 33:08.200 --> 33:10.200 You know how ill she is. 33:10.200 --> 33:13.200 Then you simply must do it on your own, Murmury. 33:13.200 --> 33:16.200 You must cope with this monstrous suspicion by yourself. 33:16.200 --> 33:19.200 And I must be sure of my ground. 33:19.200 --> 33:24.200 Simply to dismiss the only decent cook we've ever had out of sheer blind panic. 33:24.200 --> 33:28.200 Why, it would be wanton cruelty to both women. 33:28.200 --> 33:31.200 If it's to be done at all, it must be done quickly and arbitrarily. 33:31.200 --> 33:34.200 Without suggesting any of these horrors to Ethel. 33:34.200 --> 33:37.200 And then, don't you see, there's something else. 33:37.200 --> 33:40.200 If there's anything at all to these terrible suspicions, 33:40.200 --> 33:44.200 it means Ethel is being exposed every minute that the woman is in the house. 33:44.200 --> 33:45.200 Good Lord. 33:45.200 --> 33:47.200 Think of that family in Lincoln. 33:47.200 --> 33:49.200 Think of the husband dead. 33:49.200 --> 33:51.200 And the old father dead. 33:51.200 --> 33:53.200 You must move fast, old boy. 33:53.200 --> 33:55.200 She's been here so long for, darling. 33:55.200 --> 33:58.200 I've seen her wasting away before my eyes. 33:58.200 --> 34:01.200 Why, Brooks, why? 34:01.200 --> 34:04.200 A nervous breakdown? 34:04.200 --> 34:08.200 Why should Ethel be having a nervous breakdown? 34:08.200 --> 34:11.200 Or is it something else? 34:11.200 --> 34:15.200 Is this woman doing it to Ethel? 34:15.200 --> 34:18.200 Slowly, day by day. 34:18.200 --> 34:21.200 Is that what it means? 34:21.200 --> 34:23.200 Perhaps you should see the police. 34:23.200 --> 34:26.200 But it's nothing but the wildest of suspicions. 34:26.200 --> 34:31.200 And besides, I feel so very lonely. 34:31.200 --> 34:34.200 And so tired. 34:34.200 --> 34:40.200 It's almost as if I didn't care what happened anymore. 34:40.200 --> 34:42.200 Your illness has taken it out of you. 34:42.200 --> 34:43.200 Yes. 34:43.200 --> 34:45.200 Too bad you can't discuss it with Ethel. 34:45.200 --> 34:47.200 I don't want her to be afraid. 34:47.200 --> 34:49.200 But perhaps I will. 34:49.200 --> 34:50.200 Perhaps she should know. 34:50.200 --> 34:52.200 I say, Mamrie. 34:52.200 --> 34:53.200 What? 34:53.200 --> 34:56.200 These illnesses of yours, when do they begin? 34:56.200 --> 34:58.200 I don't know. 34:58.200 --> 35:01.200 I think I've always been subject to business attacks, as long as I can remember. 35:01.200 --> 35:03.200 No, no, no, I mean the other ones. 35:03.200 --> 35:04.200 The severe attacks. 35:04.200 --> 35:09.200 Well, they began about three weeks ago. 35:09.200 --> 35:13.200 Three weeks ago, Mamrie? 35:13.200 --> 35:15.200 That's right. 35:15.200 --> 35:19.200 About three weeks ago. 35:25.200 --> 35:28.200 The train seemed forever getting home that night. 35:28.200 --> 35:33.200 I came softly into the house, listening to the sound of my own footsteps. 35:33.200 --> 35:37.200 It was dusk, and yet none of the lights in the house were on. 35:37.200 --> 35:41.200 I moved through heavy, enveloping shadows into the sitting room. 35:41.200 --> 35:47.200 Ethel was tucked up in a corner of the Chesterfield, leaning back wearily against the cushions. 35:47.200 --> 35:49.200 Good evening, darling. 35:49.200 --> 35:50.200 Hello, Edward. 35:50.200 --> 35:52.200 You look tired, my dear. 35:52.200 --> 35:54.200 I am tired, Edward. 35:54.200 --> 35:56.200 I seem to be drained and empty. 35:56.200 --> 35:59.200 I noticed you didn't sleep well last night. 35:59.200 --> 36:02.200 It was probably that woman yesterday with the talking. 36:02.200 --> 36:04.200 Really, Mrs. Welbeck talks altogether too much. 36:04.200 --> 36:06.200 All about that horrible case. 36:06.200 --> 36:08.200 I don't like hearing about such things. 36:08.200 --> 36:10.200 Of course not, dear. 36:10.200 --> 36:12.200 And yet... 36:12.200 --> 36:13.200 And yet what, Edward? 36:13.200 --> 36:18.200 When a thing like this happens in the neighborhood, people will gossip and talk. 36:18.200 --> 36:21.200 It would be a relief if they caught the woman. 36:21.200 --> 36:22.200 One doesn't like to think... 36:22.200 --> 36:24.200 I don't want to think about it at all. 36:24.200 --> 36:26.200 It's so hateful. 36:26.200 --> 36:29.200 She must be a horrible, perverted creature, this Mrs. Andrews. 36:29.200 --> 36:32.200 Yes, yes, quite so. 36:32.200 --> 36:35.200 Do you know, I was talking to Brooks about it only today, and he said... 36:35.200 --> 36:37.200 I don't want to hear what he said. 36:37.200 --> 36:39.200 I don't want to hear about it at all. 36:39.200 --> 36:42.200 Of course not, darling. 36:42.200 --> 36:43.200 I'm sorry. 36:43.200 --> 36:46.200 Oh, Edward, I just want to be quiet. 36:46.200 --> 36:49.200 I do so want to be quiet. 36:49.200 --> 36:52.200 And so you shall, Ethel. 36:52.200 --> 36:54.200 It's all my fault. 36:54.200 --> 36:56.200 The doctor warned me not to disturb you like this. 36:56.200 --> 36:58.200 Oh, Edward. 36:58.200 --> 36:59.200 Edward, darling. 36:59.200 --> 37:01.200 There, there, my dear. 37:01.200 --> 37:03.200 Everything's all right. 37:03.200 --> 37:05.200 No need for tears. 37:05.200 --> 37:08.200 It doesn't concern us anyway. 37:20.200 --> 37:22.200 I helped her upstairs and into bed. 37:22.200 --> 37:26.200 And then, when she had stopped sobbing, and was at last asleep, 37:26.200 --> 37:30.200 I came down again very quietly. 37:30.200 --> 37:37.200 I was aware of a reluctance to face Mrs. Sutton, but I had to. 37:37.200 --> 37:45.200 A plump face to a man, her eyes obscured by thick, corn-rimmed spectacles. 37:45.200 --> 37:48.200 And what was there about her mouth? 37:48.200 --> 37:52.200 The tight lips, the hard chin. 37:52.200 --> 37:56.200 What was it Brooks had said about looking first to the mouth? 37:56.200 --> 38:00.200 Would you be requiring anything, sir, before I go up? 38:00.200 --> 38:02.200 No. Thank you, Mrs. Sutton. 38:02.200 --> 38:04.200 I hope you're feeling better, sir. 38:04.200 --> 38:06.200 No more of that trouble. 38:06.200 --> 38:08.200 Quite better. Thank you, Mrs. Sutton. 38:08.200 --> 38:11.200 Mrs. Mummer is not indisposed, is she? 38:11.200 --> 38:13.200 Why, no. She's asleep. 38:13.200 --> 38:17.200 Do you think I ought to wake her, to bring her a hot glass of milk? 38:17.200 --> 38:19.200 No, no, thank you, Mrs. Sutton. 38:19.200 --> 38:22.200 I believe we'll just let her be. 38:22.200 --> 38:24.200 And you, sir? 38:24.200 --> 38:26.200 Would you care for anything? 38:26.200 --> 38:28.200 Not a thing, Mrs. Sutton. 38:28.200 --> 38:30.200 Oh, it wouldn't be no bother. Only take a minute. 38:30.200 --> 38:32.200 Not tonight. 38:32.200 --> 38:34.200 All right, then. 38:34.200 --> 38:35.200 Mrs. Sutton? 38:35.200 --> 38:37.200 Yes, sir? 38:37.200 --> 38:44.200 Were you aware that my can of arsenic out in the shed had a loose stopper? 38:44.200 --> 38:47.200 The garden isn't my department, is it, sir? 38:47.200 --> 38:49.200 No, no it isn't. 38:49.200 --> 38:52.200 I didn't know about the arsenic. 38:52.200 --> 38:54.200 Very well. 38:54.200 --> 38:56.200 I'll be saying good night, then. 38:56.200 --> 38:58.200 Oh, Mrs. Sutton. 38:58.200 --> 38:59.200 Yes? 38:59.200 --> 39:00.200 One more thing. 39:00.200 --> 39:03.200 Certainly, sir. 39:03.200 --> 39:06.200 Nothing, Mrs. Sutton. Nothing. 39:06.200 --> 39:16.200 The next few days were the most agonising of my life. 39:16.200 --> 39:21.200 I began the habit of coming down early in the morning and prowling about the kitchen. 39:21.200 --> 39:24.200 This only served to make Ethel more nervous. 39:24.200 --> 39:27.200 But Mrs. Sutton offered no remark. 39:27.200 --> 39:32.200 She watched me silently and with good humour, almost with amusement. 39:32.200 --> 39:35.200 And after all, it was ridiculous. 39:35.200 --> 39:46.200 What was the use of supervising the breakfast when I had to be out of the house every day between half past nine in the morning and seven in the evening? 39:46.200 --> 39:53.200 On Thursday night, Brooks persuaded me to go to a little bachelor dinner for a friend who was being married. 39:53.200 --> 39:57.200 It was in my district and we weren't out of there until after midnight. 39:57.200 --> 40:08.200 By then it was too late for Brooks to catch a train back to town, so I invited him to come over and spend the night at my place, a household that had long since gone to bed. 40:08.200 --> 40:09.200 Shh. 40:09.200 --> 40:10.200 Yes? 40:10.200 --> 40:14.200 Careful, Brooks. I don't want to disturb Ethel. 40:14.200 --> 40:15.200 Sorry, old man. 40:15.200 --> 40:18.200 Your room is just off here. 40:18.200 --> 40:21.200 I think you need a fresh pillow, sir. 40:21.200 --> 40:22.200 That'll be fine. 40:22.200 --> 40:23.200 Hello. 40:23.200 --> 40:24.200 What's this? 40:24.200 --> 40:26.200 Oh, somebody writing your notes. 40:26.200 --> 40:31.200 Dear Mr. Mamory, there's some fresh cocoa in the kitchen. 40:31.200 --> 40:33.200 It only needs some hutting up. 40:33.200 --> 40:34.200 Mrs. Sutton. 40:34.200 --> 40:36.200 Well, you should just hit the spot. 40:36.200 --> 40:37.200 Yes, indeed. 40:37.200 --> 40:40.200 Come along. 40:40.200 --> 40:43.200 Let me just get the switch. 40:43.200 --> 40:44.200 There we are. 40:44.200 --> 40:47.200 I'd better get the cocoa ready. It'll only be a minute. 40:47.200 --> 40:53.200 It was quite a show we threw for young Farzbuth, wasn't it? Sent him off, married and styled. 40:53.200 --> 41:01.200 Glad to see him getting settled. People ought to marry young. All the more years to enjoy the only real blessing life gives you. 41:01.200 --> 41:03.200 How many years has it been for you and Ethel? 41:03.200 --> 41:04.200 Just six. 41:04.200 --> 41:05.200 Good years, eh? 41:05.200 --> 41:10.200 And they get better all the time. That's the wonder of it. 41:10.200 --> 41:14.200 Tell me, Brooks, how did you happen to miss getting married? 41:14.200 --> 41:18.200 Didn't miss it at all, chap. I've been getting along very well without it. 41:18.200 --> 41:20.200 Hello. Our cocoa's ready. 41:20.200 --> 41:24.200 And here's my cup. 41:24.200 --> 41:29.200 Mmm. It's just hot enough. 41:29.200 --> 41:30.200 Brooks. 41:30.200 --> 41:32.200 Yes, old man? 41:32.200 --> 41:39.200 Is it just my fancy or is there something queer about the taste? 41:39.200 --> 41:42.200 The taste? 41:42.200 --> 41:45.200 It seemed to me... 41:45.200 --> 41:48.200 Take another sip, Brooks. 41:48.200 --> 41:52.200 Go on. Roll it round on your tongue. 41:52.200 --> 41:57.200 You taste it? The faint tang, like metal? 41:57.200 --> 41:59.200 Spit it out, Brooks! Spit it out! 42:04.200 --> 42:06.200 Mamory. 42:06.200 --> 42:12.200 I don't know. I don't know. 42:12.200 --> 42:15.200 Mamory, what are you going to do? 42:15.200 --> 42:19.200 I've never been in a situation like this before. 42:19.200 --> 42:24.200 You ought to take a specimen to the chemist. Have it analysed? 42:24.200 --> 42:33.200 Yes. Yes, I will. First thing in the morning. But first, Brooks, I want you to come with me. 42:33.200 --> 42:34.200 Where to? 42:34.200 --> 42:41.200 Just outside, in the garden. I want to see something in the potting shed. 42:50.200 --> 42:52.200 Mamory, I can't see a thing. 42:52.200 --> 42:57.200 Just hold on to me. We're almost there. 42:57.200 --> 43:05.200 All right. This is the shed. Now, just about four steps inside. 43:08.200 --> 43:10.200 Here we are. 43:10.200 --> 43:12.200 Mamory, where are you? 43:12.200 --> 43:16.200 Just at your feet, old man. I'm stooping down. 43:16.200 --> 43:19.200 Would you be good enough to strike a match for me? 43:19.200 --> 43:23.200 All right. Just a moment. Here we are. 43:23.200 --> 43:32.200 That's fine. Hold it closer. It should be behind these pots here. Yes, it's here. 43:32.200 --> 43:35.200 Oh, devil, these things don't burn long. 43:35.200 --> 43:38.200 Can you strike another? 43:38.200 --> 43:40.200 What is it, Mamory? 43:40.200 --> 43:43.200 It's a tin of weed killer. 43:43.200 --> 43:46.200 You mean arsenic? 43:46.200 --> 43:49.200 Yes, arsenic. 43:49.200 --> 43:53.200 And just look, Mamory, the stopper is loose. 43:53.200 --> 43:59.200 I know, Brooks. I know. 43:59.200 --> 44:02.200 Want another match? 44:02.200 --> 44:07.200 No. It isn't necessary. 44:07.200 --> 44:12.200 Why should it be loose, Mamory? That's the question. 44:12.200 --> 44:19.200 It is, especially since I took the trouble to ram it in as tight as it would go only last week. 44:19.200 --> 44:26.200 Mamory, old man, I don't like to frighten you, but you see what this means. 44:26.200 --> 44:31.200 It simply means there's a murderer in my house. 44:31.200 --> 44:47.200 It was there, in that shed that smelled of earth, in my dress with an overcoat, holding the tin in my hand and facing Brooks in the darkness, 44:47.200 --> 44:52.200 that the beast's panic seized me in its claws and held me so tight that I could hardly breathe. 44:52.200 --> 45:00.200 I felt a sudden impulse to run out into the dark streets of Hammersmith and scream out to the sleeping village the terrible thing I had discovered. 45:00.200 --> 45:14.200 Instead, I replaced the tin exactly where it had been, and Brooks and I went back into the garden and told the house. 45:14.200 --> 45:18.200 Look, Brooks, see that light? 45:18.200 --> 45:20.200 Whose window is it? 45:20.200 --> 45:26.200 Mrs. Sutton's. It's terrifying. Is she watching us? 45:26.200 --> 45:31.200 I can't tell from here. Where does Ethel sleep? 45:31.200 --> 45:36.200 Our bedroom is right up there. It's dark, thank heaven. 45:36.200 --> 45:41.200 If she'd drunk anything deadly, there'd be lights everywhere. She'd call out, just as I did the night I was attacked. 45:41.200 --> 45:45.200 Yes, yes, of course. Well, what's your plan? 45:45.200 --> 45:53.200 Plan? Yes, yes, plan. I'll get you off to bed. 45:53.200 --> 45:54.200 Yes. 45:54.200 --> 46:00.200 Then I'll go into the kitchen, wash out the saucepan, and make another brew of cocoa. 46:00.200 --> 46:05.200 I let it stand in the saucepan overnight. Just to erase suspicions, don't you see? 46:05.200 --> 46:08.200 Yes, yes, yes, excellent. Then in the morning, off to the chemist's. 46:08.200 --> 46:10.200 That's right. 46:10.200 --> 46:18.200 Remember, you told me last week to move fast. Well, my time's run out. 46:18.200 --> 46:26.200 I'm not a man of action, Brooks. But when my life is threatened, when the life of the person I love most is in danger, then I can do it, Brooks. 46:26.200 --> 46:38.200 Then I can. 46:38.200 --> 46:44.200 When I'd finished in the kitchen, I turned out all the lights and started softly up the stairs. 46:44.200 --> 46:51.200 I hadn't meant to wake Anethel. I meant to keep all this from her until it was over and finished. 46:51.200 --> 46:55.200 But she must have heard me as I came into the room. 46:55.200 --> 46:56.200 Edward? 46:56.200 --> 46:57.200 Yes, my dear? 46:57.200 --> 47:01.200 How late you are, you naughty boy. Have a good time at your party? 47:01.200 --> 47:04.200 Not bad, not bad at all. 47:04.200 --> 47:07.200 So tonight was young Farnsworth last as a bachelor. 47:07.200 --> 47:13.200 His last. He seemed like a lamb, all ready for the sacrifice. 47:13.200 --> 47:15.200 You all right? 47:15.200 --> 47:16.200 Quite all right. 47:16.200 --> 47:17.200 Good. 47:17.200 --> 47:20.200 Did Mrs. Sutton leave something hot for you? She said she would. 47:20.200 --> 47:24.200 Yes, but I wasn't thirsty. 47:24.200 --> 47:29.200 Oh, it was that sort of party, was it? 47:29.200 --> 47:36.200 I sat down on the bed beside her. She was asleep again in a moment. 47:36.200 --> 47:44.200 I took her hand and I clutched it tight, so defying death in hell to take her from me. 47:44.200 --> 48:00.200 Next morning I would act. I thanked God it was not too late. 48:00.200 --> 48:06.200 At eight o'clock in the morning I stood outside the little untidy shop on Springbank, 48:06.200 --> 48:17.200 where a weather-beaten sign informed the world that this place of business belonged to B.A. Dimthorpe, chemist. 48:17.200 --> 48:26.200 Dimthorpe himself was an aged little fellow, as untidy himself as the shop in which he potted about day and night. 48:26.200 --> 48:30.200 I paused a moment before entering. 48:30.200 --> 48:37.200 How many times had we sat together in the room at the back, our chairs tilted against the wall, 48:37.200 --> 48:42.200 exchanging views on green-fly and club-root? 48:42.200 --> 48:51.200 How many lazy evenings we had passed together discussing the passion of our lives, the art of gardening? 48:51.200 --> 48:59.200 This morning I had to see him on another matter, on the new passion in my life. 48:59.200 --> 49:07.200 This morning we should be concerned with the art of murder. 49:07.200 --> 49:10.200 Good morning, my I.B. of Assists, Mamma Ray. 49:10.200 --> 49:12.200 Good morning, Dimthorpe. 49:12.200 --> 49:15.200 What brings you so hurly in the dye? Another prescription for Hethel? 49:15.200 --> 49:21.200 No, no. Hethel's much better these days. It's quite another matter. 49:21.200 --> 49:28.200 You'll be light for work, won't you? This is oddly the time to continue the battle of Lilacs versus Poppies. 49:28.200 --> 49:29.200 Dimthorpe. 49:29.200 --> 49:30.200 Yes? 49:30.200 --> 49:34.200 I wonder if you could do a little job for me. 49:34.200 --> 49:37.200 Happy to, if it's within me power. 49:37.200 --> 49:39.200 Well, this is very much in your line of work. 49:39.200 --> 49:40.200 Well, then certainly. 49:40.200 --> 49:44.200 I have here a bottle. It contains a cup of ordinary cocoa. 49:44.200 --> 49:46.200 Cocoa, Mamma Ray? 49:46.200 --> 49:49.200 Yes. I was wondering if you'd be good enough to analyze it for me. 49:49.200 --> 49:53.200 And just what is it you want me to look for, I? 49:53.200 --> 49:58.200 I should... I should like you to look for traces of arsenic, if you would. 49:58.200 --> 50:01.200 Very well, Mamma Ray. Arsenic. 50:01.200 --> 50:10.200 This cocoa was left in a saucepan for me at home last night. I found that it tasted very odd, unpleasant, and metallic. 50:10.200 --> 50:12.200 I know, but that's oddly enough. 50:12.200 --> 50:20.200 You see, Dimthorpe, I have reason to believe that we have living with us at present the Lincoln Poisoner. I dare say you know the case. 50:20.200 --> 50:25.200 The Lincoln Poisoner? Correct. Oh, but Mamma Ray, how dreadful. 50:25.200 --> 50:34.200 I have reason to believe that this woman is attempting to murder both my wife and myself. I think I have proof. Your analysis will be the final one. 50:34.200 --> 50:37.200 I shall put everything else aside, Mamma Ray. You may rely on me. 50:37.200 --> 50:39.200 I do, Dimthorpe. I do. 50:39.200 --> 50:44.200 And may I congratulate you on your prudence and on your intelligence in bringing me the specimen. 50:44.200 --> 50:45.200 Thank you. 50:45.200 --> 50:53.200 I'll have it ready for you by this evening. And if it's what you think it is, then we shall have a clear case on which to take action. 50:53.200 --> 50:55.200 Thank you, Dimthorpe. This evening, then... 50:55.200 --> 50:56.200 Righto. 50:56.200 --> 50:59.200 I see I'm to pass a very long day. 50:59.200 --> 51:06.200 I was a bit late in getting to the office. Brooks was already there, waiting for me with a white face and the hushed voice of a conspirator. 51:06.200 --> 51:07.200 Good morning. Good morning. 51:07.200 --> 51:09.200 You were already out of the house when I awoke this morning. 51:09.200 --> 51:14.200 Yes. I had my call to make. Sleep well last night? 51:14.200 --> 51:16.200 Like a lark. It's funny, considering. 51:16.200 --> 51:17.200 It is funny. 51:17.200 --> 51:18.200 You didn't, I gather. 51:18.200 --> 51:19.200 No. 51:19.200 --> 51:21.200 You've taken care of the matter? 51:21.200 --> 51:22.200 Yes. 51:22.200 --> 51:23.200 When shall we know? 51:23.200 --> 51:29.200 Yes. When shall we know? 51:29.200 --> 51:30.200 Late this afternoon. 51:30.200 --> 51:35.200 Everything seemed all right when I left the house, had breakfast with Ethel. She seemed very well, completely unsuspecting. 51:35.200 --> 51:37.200 Did you notice her? 51:37.200 --> 51:39.200 I did indeed, our dear Mrs Sutton. 51:39.200 --> 51:40.200 Well? 51:40.200 --> 51:41.200 Bad mouth. There's no doubt of it. 51:41.200 --> 51:42.200 Anything else? 51:42.200 --> 51:47.200 Otherwise perfectly normal. That's what gives them away, don't you see? More normal than normal folk. 51:47.200 --> 51:49.200 Do you feel like working today? 51:49.200 --> 51:54.200 Frankly, no. 51:54.200 --> 51:57.200 Neither do I. Shall we put out the sign? 51:57.200 --> 51:58.200 Good idea. 51:58.200 --> 52:05.200 We put out the sign saying that we were closed for the day because of illness, and we sat together in the office. 52:05.200 --> 52:16.200 The noon hour passed and neither of us moved. Four or five times we heard footsteps outside in the corridor, pausing before our door, and then turning and receding. 52:16.200 --> 52:28.200 Neither of us spoke, neither of us moved. I examined an expanse of wall just over Brooks's head, and he examined the blank space over mine, and the hours passed. 52:28.200 --> 52:40.200 Back on Springbank, Dimthorpe would be bending over his vials and bunsen burners, moving as methodically as only he could move, extracting the truth from a bottle of cocoa. 52:40.200 --> 52:46.200 As I told him, this was the longest day of my life. 52:46.200 --> 52:52.200 Well, Mamory? 52:52.200 --> 52:57.200 Yes. It was four o'clock. I couldn't wait any longer. 52:57.200 --> 52:58.200 Good luck, old man. 52:58.200 --> 53:06.200 Brooks shook hands with me, and I went outside into the afternoon sunlight. I was at Springbank in twenty minutes. 53:06.200 --> 53:09.200 Mamory, is that you? 53:09.200 --> 53:10.200 It is, Dimthorpe. 53:10.200 --> 53:16.200 I'm ready for you. Just come into the back in case we're disturbed. 53:16.200 --> 53:18.200 All right, Mamory, right over here. 53:18.200 --> 53:19.200 What does it mean? 53:19.200 --> 53:23.200 It means that there's no doubt about it. 53:23.200 --> 53:24.200 I see. 53:24.200 --> 53:35.200 I used Marsh's test. It was an heavy dose. No wonder you tasted it. There must have been four or five grains of pure heart stick in that bottle. Here, take this mirror. I want you to see it for yourself. 53:35.200 --> 53:36.200 All right. 53:36.200 --> 53:40.200 Now, just look closely at this little glass tube. 53:40.200 --> 53:45.200 It's a stain. A purple-black stain. 53:45.200 --> 53:49.200 That's the mark left by the horse-nick. Will you ring up the police from here? 53:49.200 --> 53:51.200 No, my wife. I've got to get home. 53:51.200 --> 54:06.200 All right, leave it to me. I'll ring the police up for you. Oh, go quickly, Mamory. 54:06.200 --> 54:22.200 Local train went so slowly and stopped so often. Ethel poison dying dead. Ethel poison dying dead. The wheels strummed harshly in my ears. I jumped from the train before it had stopped and ran out of the station and along the road. 54:22.200 --> 54:34.200 A strange car was standing at my door. I saw it from the end of the street and broke into a mad gallop. It had happened. The doctor was there. I was a fool. I was a murderer to have left it so long. 54:34.200 --> 54:50.200 Then, while I was still 150 yards away, I saw the front door open. A man came out, followed by Ethel herself. The visitor got into his car and drove away, and Ethel went back into the house. She was safe. She was safe. 54:50.200 --> 55:01.200 I could hardly control myself to hang up my hat and coat and go in looking reasonably calm. She had returned to the armchair by the fire, and she looked up at me in surprise. 55:01.200 --> 55:15.200 There were tea things on the table, and she was alive. Edward, you're back early, aren't you? Yes, dear. Business was slack. Somebody beat the tea? John Welbick came by. Oh, young Welbick? 55:15.200 --> 55:27.200 Yes, we've been talking over arrangements for the Drama Society. Darling, I'm so glad. By having a guest here, you were protected. You were saved. Edward, what are you talking about? You seem so strange. 55:27.200 --> 55:43.200 There's something I've got to tell you, Ethel. I should have done it long ago. My darling, it's going to be unpleasant, but you must hear it. Oh, excuse me, ma'am. Yes? Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. I didn't know you were in. What is it, Mrs. Sutton? Will you be taking tea, or can I clear away? 55:43.200 --> 56:00.200 Mr. Mummery will be wanting some. You'd better leave it. And, oh, Mum. What is it? There was a young man at the Fishmongers, and he's just come from Grimsby. Yes? And they've caught that dreadful woman at Mrs. Andrews. Oh. Isn't it a good thing? Oh, it worried me so to think she was going about like that. 56:00.200 --> 56:17.200 But they've caught her. Took her job as housekeeper, she had, to elderly ladies, and they found the wicked poison on her. Girl who's spotted her will get a reward. I've been keeping my eyes open for her myself. But it's at Grimsby she was all the time. 56:17.200 --> 56:38.200 Thank you for the news, Mrs. Sutton. That will be all. Oh, not at all, Mum. But that's wonderful. Then it's all be the mistake. A mad mistake. Darling, I don't know whether to shout or to cry. I certainly must apologize to Mrs. Sutton. 56:38.200 --> 56:58.200 We're safe, don't you see? We're safe! But what about the cocoa? Mr. Dimthorpe? And Marsha's test? And five grains of arsenic? What do they all mean? Who could have... 56:58.200 --> 57:00.200 Who could have what? 57:00.200 --> 57:03.200 Ethel. Ethel. Ethel. 57:03.200 --> 57:06.200 Yes, Ethel? 57:06.200 --> 57:11.200 To me. To do it to me. 57:11.200 --> 57:18.200 You fool! You fool! Don't you know that it's been well, Beck? That it's always been well, Beck? 57:18.200 --> 57:26.200 Yes. It's there in your eyes. Something I've never seen before. 57:26.200 --> 57:32.200 It's always been there. It's just that you've never looked. 57:32.200 --> 58:00.200 That would be the police, Ethel. They've come here for you. 58:00.200 --> 58:12.200 Our thanks to Sam Jaffe for a magnificent performance as Edward Mummery, and to Lorraine Tuttle, Alan Reed, and to the entire cast who aroused our suspicion with such effective suspense. 58:12.200 --> 58:23.200 Next week, Crossfire. Yes, Crossfire. Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Graham, and Sam Levine playing the roles they created for the RKO radio picture. 58:23.200 --> 58:43.200 A drama of present-day intolerance in an atmosphere of suspense. And with the performances of Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Graham, and Sam Levine, and with Crossfire, we'll again hope to keep you in suspense. 58:43.200 --> 58:58.200 Suspicion by Dorothy Sayers was adapted for suspense by Irving Ravitch and was produced and directed by Anton M. Leder. Lud Gluskin is our musical director and conductor, and Lucian Morrowek composes the original scores. 58:58.200 --> 59:13.200 Next week, here, Crossfire, starring Robert Young with Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Graham, and Sam Levine on radio's outstanding theater of thrills, one hour of suspense. 59:13.200 --> 59:29.200 This is CBS, where 99 million people gather every week, the Columbia Broadcasting System.