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Suspense.

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Radio's outstanding Theatre of Thrills brings you an hour, a full 60 minutes of suspense.

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Tonight, our star, Mr. Edmund O'Brien.

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Our story, The Blind Spot, by Louis Eby and John C. Flebbing.

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A suspense play produced and directed by Anton M. Lieder.

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It sometimes happens with men and institutions who deal only in facts, formulae, and the

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cold logic of scientific deduction.

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They often underestimate or overlook the unpredictability of the human element.

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They may covet reason and disregard instinct and emotion.

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Tonight, against the background of Rogers International Research Institute, pulse of

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the nation's opinions, we meet Eric Strange, Leland Rogers, Mona Bartlett, and Gregory

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Rohn in a dramatic combination of logic and fear.

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And now, with the performance of Edmund O'Brien as Eric, and with The Blind Spot, we again

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hope to keep you in suspense.

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Each of us has a blind spot, some of many.

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Blank walls in our minds or memory or opinion.

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Walls which we cannot penetrate and so we're held back.

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Or because we can't or won't understand, we try to draw away from the world.

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Run from it.

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Because the blind spot has made us afraid.

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I started writing books about this during the war.

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Maybe you've read or heard about them.

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Blind Spots by Eric Strange.

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Well, whether you have or haven't, there's little bearing on what I'm about to tell you.

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I mention it simply by way of introduction.

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Not to myself, but to fear.

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Yes, it was The Blind Spot of Fear and the mind and heart of Leland Rogers that led to

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... Well, I'm getting ahead of myself.

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Perhaps it's best that you meet Leland Rogers and see him as I did that day when I went

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to his suite in the Park Central Hotel to settle a business matter.

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It wasn't our first meeting, but in a way it seemed to be.

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For as I pressed the buzzer and the door opened, I found myself looking at a different Leland

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Rogers.

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A man completely changed for me by his look of sheer terror.

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Strange.

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Eric Strange.

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How do you know where... Your secretary, Mr. Rogers.

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She said... Mona, she had no right to tell you where I...

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This Bartlett is worried about you.

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So is your partner, the whole staff.

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You know, Rogers, when you first approached me as a possible client, I was invited into

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your office, offered cigars, a drink.

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I'm sorry, Strange.

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Come in.

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Thank you.

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I did like to hold a conference in a hotel hallway.

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But there's to be no conference, understand, Strange.

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I thought I made it clear we can't handle the survey for you.

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Now, I suppose if I suggested that Rogers International Research could be sued for breach

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of contract, I might not be offered a chair.

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You have grounds for a suit, of course.

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Sit down.

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Thanks.

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Ah, much better.

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Now, Rogers, what's it all about?

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Why did you really call things off?

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It's exactly like I told you on the phone, Eric.

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No mystery about it.

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Albert LeBlanc, our European supervisor, was killed yesterday in a crash at Le Bourget Airport.

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Hmm.

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Too bad for the supervisor.

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His organization of our overseas officers was a one-man miracle.

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That was a mistake, of course.

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Won't happen again.

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But in the meantime... The survey on my book is impossible.

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Quite.

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Well, your partner, Jim Carr, now... Yes, he doesn't agree.

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I know, but Carr isn't running that end of the business strange.

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He shouldn't have even been talking to you.

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He just happened into the office while I was with your secretary.

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He seemed quite upset.

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Yes, he's always upset, but whatever he had to say means nothing.

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I suppose not.

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But he was enthused over the plans you people had.

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He's always enthused.

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However, in this case, I was myself.

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You know that?

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Yes.

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That's what confuses me, Rogers.

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You seem so anxious to establish the validity of the book's premise.

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I believe in that premise, Mr. Strange.

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I believe every word of your book, Blindspots.

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I agree that the American has the highest natural demand for freedom and guards that

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freedom with unequal personal responsibility for national welfare.

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The survey could have proved that belief.

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I know, I know.

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Or proved it to be wrong.

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You know, in that event, had we discovered my premise to be arrogant assumption, I intended

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that this would be the last edition of Blindspots.

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I understood your intention.

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People without freedom are happier without facts.

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Yes, yes.

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However, Mr. Strange, under the circumstances, with my organization powerless to conduct

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an immediate survey, I don't see what news there is.

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Sit down, Mr. Rogers.

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What?

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I said sit down.

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Or better still, fix us both a drink.

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Because I'm not leaving.

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Now, see here, Strange, you're wasting your time.

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I've told you it's all off.

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I've given you a good reason.

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You can take your business to universal surveys or sue me for breach of contract.

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I don't care.

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I don't care, Rogers.

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I want to know who threatened you.

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Threatened?

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I should have warned you months ago.

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Threats would be a nuisance item.

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You'd have to figure on with my survey.

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There have been no threats.

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Not at all.

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I think there have.

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I've been threatened regularly since the first edition of Blindspots.

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First by radicals who call the book reactionary, then by reactionaries who suggest I'm proposing

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revolution.

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There have been no threats.

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No threats, Strange.

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Simply that my key man LeBlanc in our foreign office is at this very moment as alive as

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either one of us.

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What?

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What are you saying?

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What you've been saying is more important.

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A call came in while I was at your office.

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Miss Bartlett took it.

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It was from LeBlanc.

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You, you let me lie, Strange.

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Yes, because it made you feel easier.

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It might make it easier for me to discover what kind of fear you're living with.

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This doesn't change anything.

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We're not handling the survey with or without a reason.

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Nothing helps your kind of fear but action, Rogers.

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If it's free for all, I'd like to get in.

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Would you care to fix those drinks?

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Tell me about it.

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Strange.

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Were you ever so afraid?

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It was like leprosy.

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You felt your mind, your body rotting away.

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Sometimes sitting on the ground during a war that sometimes seems like it didn't happen.

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There was a length of barbed wire in front of me, day after day, night after night.

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One day I tried to walk through the wire.

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They pulled me off and I tried again and again.

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After that I had some kind of fever.

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Now it's your turn.

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I'll get the drinks.

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I'll need one telling you this.

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You might need one listening.

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Very interesting, Rogers.

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All of it.

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And where is this little black book?

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Right here.

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Looks harmless enough.

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Lots of people carry them.

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You just use it for memoranda?

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That's right.

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Dates, places, stray ideas I want to jot down.

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Certainly nothing unusual about that.

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But the last four pages of the book.

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Take a look, strange.

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Read those last four pages.

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Just one line to a page.

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That's right.

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And not one of them.

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Seems to make any sense.

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Now you know why my partner, my doctor, even my secretary are beginning to guess.

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I don't understand.

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Why did you write these things?

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Would you say that I did write them?

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Handwriting is the same.

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Or a very clever imitation.

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Exactly.

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I wrote all the previous pages.

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Those last four I didn't.

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Perhaps you will not...

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Oh, no, no.

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I didn't write them and forget them.

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After the first two entries, I mentioned this to Dr. Whitehouse.

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He explained it.

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Said I'd had the book on my bed table and wrote it in my sleep.

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That would be my guess too.

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And quite possible.

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Except that after that I left the book at the office.

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The other two messages I found on different afternoons during the last few days.

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I didn't write them.

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Perhaps it's the work of a practical joker.

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Someone...

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Oh, no, strange.

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They have other aberrations too.

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They began soon after the first message in the book.

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Such as?

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I hear the telephone ring.

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Well?

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There's no one on the wire.

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I answered doorbells.

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There's no one at the door.

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One night I woke with a spotlight in my face.

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No one was in the room.

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You...

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You found the third message yesterday?

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Yes.

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And called you that our deal was off.

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You're lucky, actually, how would it be for your survey to have it come out later that

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the head of the research organization was off his rocker?

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Not good.

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But I...

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Not good.

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Let's leave it at that, strange.

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Wait a minute.

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This weather report clipped to the last page.

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You found it this way?

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This way.

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The reports is generally clear with rising temperature and the entry, it will still be

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gloomy when you go home.

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Funny.

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The combination mean anything to you?

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Yes, it means something to me.

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It means I'm going to die tonight.

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That's ridiculous.

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Is it?

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The writer of these notes would be a superstitious person, strange.

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Today is the 13th.

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I don't make sense, do I?

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No you don't.

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Delusions.

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Good night.

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You...

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You have no idea who the writer of the messages might be.

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I know who it is.

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He's in my office and he has every reason to kill me.

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But if...

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But I don't know how to identify him.

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If I did, I might not be afraid.

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Blind spots again.

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Yeah.

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They're with us all.

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Yes, I suppose so.

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Look strange, I've told you more than I intended to.

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Now get out of here, will you?

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You've got a lot at stake in that poll of yours and...

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You know, maybe I figure there are things even more important than four nation polls.

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People.

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They're troubles.

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People like you, Leland Rogers, a man who was once strong enough to build a great organization

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from nothing.

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Will you get out?

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You've got to fight, Leland, and I'll help you.

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There's nothing I like better.

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Good Lord strange, didn't you hear me?

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I said get out.

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Why?

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If I wanted a bodyguard, I'd hire one.

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You've done it.

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And for free.

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This is my own mess.

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Why do you want to get yourself into it?

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I don't.

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Never do.

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Look, look, this is strictly business.

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Tonight I bodyguard for you.

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Tomorrow you throw away that little black book in the ash cannon.

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Go on with my survey.

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I don't know what to say.

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You're sure you can't identify this man?

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The Burnham Detective Agency in New York is working on it for me.

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If I can break through this fog, maybe I can give them more to go on.

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Blind spot in your memory?

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Something like that.

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Maybe if you told me the whole story, it might show up.

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It might.

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Only I...

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Well, it...

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Embarrassing, huh?

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It's a long story.

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Well, we have a long evening on our hands.

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It's only 7.30.

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7.30.

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You had to be somewhere?

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Oh, no, no.

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Look, strange.

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Eric.

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That's better.

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I've decided that I can trust you.

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Thanks.

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I'm going to go.

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I'm going to go.

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I'm going to go.

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I'm going to go.

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I'm going to go.

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I'm going to go.

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I'm going to...

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Thanks.

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I think I'll take a shower, climb into a robe.

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Then I'll tell you...

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The works?

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Everything, yes.

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Go ahead with your shower.

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I'll wait.

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He went into the other room to change.

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I could hear him moving around.

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Then a few minutes later he turned on the water in the shower.

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I couldn't help feeling sorry for him the way he seemed to be dodging shadows

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He'd been in there about ten minutes from the phone rang on the desk

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Shall I get it Leland?

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He didn't seem to hear me. I wasn't sure if he'd want me taking his calls, but I took a chance

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Hello

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Yes

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Me

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Asked me to tell you he was called out on an appointment, but mr. Rogers is right here he

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Finished that story. Mr. Strange meantime sir. He wants you to turn off the shower

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The shower all right clerk. I'll I'll take care of it

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Leland Rogers had given me the slip I didn't know how long he'd be but curiosity and an unusual interest in this

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unusual man

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held me right there in his hotel suite I

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Turned off one shower turned on another with the seltzer water in the liquor cabinet

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That together with a few magazines and some interesting pen sketches on the wall

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Kept me occupied for some two and a half hours

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Then I thought I heard Rogers at the door. It wasn't locked and I sat back waiting for him to come in

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He didn't but

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Someone else did a very expensive looking young lady with ash blonde hair the right amount of jewelry and from the average male

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viewpoint the right dress

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She entered the room slowly then acted almost as frightened as Rogers had when she caught sight of me. Oh

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Good evening

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Who are you? Oh, let's just say a friend Leland Rogers

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You're Eric Strange I've seen your picture in the papers. All right. I'm Eric strange and you're

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Well, I

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Have a friend Leland Rogers

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Yeah

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He isn't here I'm expecting him any minute. Oh

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Well, I'd better not wait perhaps I'd better not no no really

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Mr. Rogers didn't even know I was coming. I'm sure he'd be furious if I've interrupted him

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He'd be furious if I've interrupted anything

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You see he wasn't I I'm taking calls tonight. Excuse me

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Yes, speaking

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Yes, lieutenant

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The desk clerk tells me you've been with mr. Rogers part of the evening. Yes. I have stepped out a while ago

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I expect him back soon

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He won't be oh

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Calling from his office. Mr. Strange

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Leland Rogers is dead

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Roger dead. Oh, no

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When did it happen lieutenant how but an hour ago watchman found her making his rounds single shot did the jump

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Will you come over I'll leave right away?

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What is it

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Mutual friend Leland Rogers was shot to death

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Happened in his office. I'm going over there. You'd better come with me. No, no, no, I can't do that

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Why not? Well, I I I can't get mixed up in anything like this. Maybe you already are miss Milner

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Gerald Milner

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Listen, mr. Strange, you must believe me. I I only met mr. Rogers once before how do I know that wasn't an hour ago in his office?

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Well, I haven't been out of the hotel. We live here too. We have the suite on the floor above we

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my

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my husband and I oh

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I see and he

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Well, he wouldn't like this. He wouldn't understand. I guess not have

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Have you been up there with him for the past few hours? No

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No, I was alone. Well, then how do I know that you oh, it's easy to prove that I didn't go out

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Just check room service. I've sent down for things all evening. I I

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Was bored that I believe oh, please mr. Strange now you won't implicate me. I'll

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Check with room service. Oh

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Police Lieutenant John Mannix was a very efficient gentleman

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When I pulled up at the downtown office of Rogers International Research

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Alone police car was parked at the curb

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I learned that the others including an ambulance and Roger's own car had already been driven off

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My cab rolled in behind the police car. I

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Got out paid the driver and entered the building. They were expecting me my

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Elevator boy on the trip up was a heavyset sergeant. He took me straight to Leland Rogers office

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Mannix had made a few other calls Rogers partner Jim Carr was there together with an older man who Mannix immediately introduced strange

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Mr. Fogarty you've met Jim Carr. Oh, yes. Yes, we met. Mr. Fogarty is more or less a silent partner in the firm

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But under the circumstance I'm only silent so I can listen better lieutenant. I know what's going on

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Know all about strange his survey how Leland felt about it. Did you know he wanted to call it off?

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What that's the way it was. Mr. Fogarty changed his mind all of a sudden

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I tried to talk him out of it, but he wouldn't listen. No, he was very determined. I

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I don't understand. I don't understand at all

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Either of you know any reason why he would have come down here the night if you're impulsiveness

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Maybe he's the worker lieutenant lived for this office this business. We all do. Mr. Fogarty

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Hmm, I suppose

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He had been actually usually lately worried like he had things in his mind and always had things on his mind

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But he did behave oddly lieutenant. We've been worried about him. Yeah, and the rest have I haven't

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What are you getting out lieutenant suicide, right?

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Unless one of you might be able to suggest an enemy and had no enemies

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Everybody loved the boy. I wouldn't go that far here now Carl. The man's dead. Don't you say anything gentlemen?

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I believe there's something I should tell you

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Go ahead strange unless I mistaken you were the last person to see Rogers alive. You are mistaken lieutenant

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There was a hotel clerk and if this wasn't a suicide, there was also his murder. I stand corrected. Thank you

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Now I'll tell my little story or rather

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Leland Rogers story

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That's all there is to it strange isn't that enough lieutenant? The man was terrified poppycock. Mr. Strange

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Leland was never terrified by anything. That isn't quite true. Mr. Fogarty. I told you he'd been acting odd

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He was carrying no little black book when we found it naturally a murderer wouldn't leave it to the mercies of a handwriting

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He was a very good man. He was a very good man. He was a very good man

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But you saw this boy I saw it they could be the simple explanation that Rogers had some sort of a lopsided idea

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That he didn't want his death to look like suicide. Good day. You don't think I don't think so

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I've been in the business a long time strange. I've been writing about people for a long time lieutenant

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I think I know when a man shows genuine fear and of course you have the added advantage of being the last brand of salmon

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Me yes and the hotel clerk lieutenant. Yes, mr. Kyle. I I saw that book myself many times

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But Rogers always carried it his idea book jotted down ideas

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He got at odd times strange. Can you recall the wording of those unusual messages?

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I think so. There were four of them one to a page

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The first was at dawn the first was at dawn the second was at dawn the third was at dawn the fourth was at dawn

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At dawn the sun casts long shadows

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Huh? Go on the other three the horse lost a shoe while our bells were still ringing and the third was

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Turned down the blind spots pole and the last

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It will still be gloomy when you go home. There was a weather report attached to that nonsense

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Not as a fruitcake. Hey, you know lieutenant. We all tried to get Leland to take a vacation

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The secretary dr. Weiser's didn't have any idea. It was this bad car. Why didn't he know he was cracking up?

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Sell out before before he made the rest of us go broke lieutenant

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There won't be a lot of fuss made over this will there research group can't stand a lot of notoriety

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You know if you would see your way clear to keep things as quiet as possible and let the police get the notoriety

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I didn't mean that I'm afraid we'll have to face the fact that the lieutenant isn't hired to keep things quiet gentlemen

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He's here to try and discover why Leland Rogers is dead tonight instead of alive check

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Maybe I can even pull a murder out of this and get myself a raise one more thing

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Where do I get hold of rogers relatives? He has none that I know of i'll give you his secretary's address

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She was the closest to him. Oh lord all the organization needs now is some relative popping in and trying to take over

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Uh you through with us lieutenant for the present mr. Fudd then i'll say good evening coming car. All right with you if I may

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Yeah, they seem more upset over themselves than their partner they do have a lot to lose lieutenant

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That story rogers told you what do you think now? No known enemies no relatives

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Car and rogers had very opposite views on how to run the business. What do you mean car?

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Just thinking how do you figure this foggily?

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Oh seems like a nice old gent. Yeah, not a blue beard

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Well fine time of night to be waking up a young lady from her beauty sleep, but i'm gonna talk to that secretary

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Uh, do you want to come along strange?

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So you can keep an eye on me. I didn't say that

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No matter of fact i'm bursting to go if you hadn't asked I might have been over there so fast

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I'd have answered her door for you

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Yeah, that sounds like a man almost fast enough to be here tonight and back at that hotel

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and time to answer my phone call

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Why don't you check with room service? I might

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What's so funny? Oh nothing lieutenant nothing at all. Let's go call on miss mona botland

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Mannex was all right. I found that out as we drove across town

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He was just a hard-working fellow anxious to do his job and do it. Well, I liked him

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But I didn't share his growing theory that this was a simple case of suicide

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We reached mona botland's apartment after climbing a steep flight of terracotta steps to a

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handkerchief sized landing

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Almost immediately we heard the soft slap of moccasins coming in response to our ring

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I almost didn't remember her when she opened the door

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Remember in white robe and slippers her hair hanging to her shoulders

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She was slight

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Childlike a totally different creature from the formidable efficient office guardian of the late leiland rogers

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Come in, please

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Jim car called me told me what happened

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Oh, i'm sorry do sit down. Thank you. Sorry to disturb you disturb me

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Me here here miss botland you sit down

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I'm sorry, but

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When jim called I

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Well, I felt like I was in the middle of a bad dream

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I kept thinking it but now you're coming here. Jim must have told you lieutenant mannex wants to contact the next of kin

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He thought that you

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I really can't help you much there

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Mr. Rogers wrote to no relatives

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Mentioned under my knowledge. Yeah

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Yeah

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He was a long wolf

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Maybe in his room or in a safety deposit box. There'll be something oh, well one more thing

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Do you know of any business appointment he had tonight? No, I don't

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Could have been meeting any one of the 80 people in the office

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Do you know of any man in the office that?

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He might have been afraid of meeting

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No

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Then there were the hundreds of past and present clients of the concern

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And look i'll give you the key to my desk lieutenant. You can check our appointment books. Thanks

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Don't think i'll find anything but you never know. Wasn't there a doctor you wanted to talk to mannex? Dr. Whitehurst. Yeah

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That's the name. It's hildale seven seven five seven. I'll try. Well, that's about all miss Bartlett

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Unless of course, you know of any enemies he had no you had no idea. He was contemplating suicide

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What is it miss Bartlett I

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Should have known that what?

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Well, there was an assignment paper he dictated it to me about a week ago said it was confidential

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What was it all about?

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His voting shares of stock in the company

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He assigned them to Jim Carr. Oh

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I remember he said this would be until a certain situation was cleared up. You had no idea what that situation was

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No, can't know about the assignment. He still doesn't it's in. Mr. Rogers safety deposit box

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He said that no one not even mr. Carr must know well, he'll know now all right. Yes, he will say

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How did those two get along they had different ideas, but they complemented one another

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Both knew it the company meant everything to both of them. Okay. Thanks for spotting

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See you tomorrow. Oh

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Are are you all right?

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I will be

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Would you?

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Could you stay for a few minutes?

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Of course

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Go ahead Manix. I'll get in touch with you. You won't have to strange

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We're always around

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You'll find the liquor in the cupboard above the sink

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And and Jim Carr wanted you to call him back

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After Manix left if possible

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Nobody wants I can guess

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Never approved of calling off the survey on your book. That's my guess too. I'll sleep on it call him in the morning

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Whatever you say

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I feel like a fool going to pieces like this

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Really? I'm not a goofy stenog in love with her boss. You should have been he seemed like a lot of man

491
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Oh, he was a powerhouse

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He was the

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The heart and soul of that business

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It'll all be lost without him

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I'll be lost. Oh

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I've only told someone about that assignment. Oh now please please take it easy

497
00:27:35,140 --> 00:27:39,380
That's the bad part about a thing like this. Everybody thinks about what they might have done

498
00:27:39,860 --> 00:27:42,740
chances are miss Bartlett there there wasn't any way you or

499
00:27:43,380 --> 00:27:45,380
Anyone could have stopped him

500
00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:46,980
Do you?

501
00:27:46,980 --> 00:27:48,580
believe that

502
00:27:48,580 --> 00:27:50,580
Yes

503
00:27:51,620 --> 00:27:53,620
She buried her face on my shoulder

504
00:27:54,900 --> 00:27:56,980
I could smell the fragrance of her skin

505
00:27:56,980 --> 00:28:01,220
And feel the convulsive movement as she cried it out

506
00:28:02,660 --> 00:28:05,300
She stayed there until her breath grew even again

507
00:28:05,940 --> 00:28:07,220
peaceful

508
00:28:07,220 --> 00:28:08,900
her taut body

509
00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:11,060
relaxed

510
00:28:11,060 --> 00:28:16,980
Then abruptly she pulled away from me stood up. I must I want to call Greg Greg Greg Rome

511
00:28:17,460 --> 00:28:19,460
He's one of our research workers

512
00:28:19,460 --> 00:28:22,340
Mr. Rogers thought a lot of him. Oh, of course

513
00:28:23,220 --> 00:28:24,340
Thank you

514
00:28:24,340 --> 00:28:30,260
Very much. Mr. Strange not at all. Do you want me to call a taxi for you? No, I won't

515
00:28:31,860 --> 00:28:33,300
Good night

516
00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:34,500
Mona

517
00:28:34,500 --> 00:28:35,780
Good night

518
00:28:35,780 --> 00:28:37,620
eric

519
00:28:37,620 --> 00:28:43,060
Operator I want to put in a call to san francisco for greg rome at the wilkins hotel

520
00:28:44,260 --> 00:28:45,540
That's right

521
00:28:45,540 --> 00:28:47,540
Greg rome

522
00:28:47,540 --> 00:28:53,620
I went down the stairs wondering if I wasn't being a little foolish about the whole matter

523
00:28:54,500 --> 00:29:01,700
I tried to tell myself that I ought to tab that story of rogers for what it probably was and accept mannix's ideas about the case

524
00:29:02,900 --> 00:29:07,300
I guess I just about decided that way as I came out of the building and stepped off the curb

525
00:29:08,260 --> 00:29:11,060
That's when I heard the car come roaring around the corner behind me

526
00:29:11,060 --> 00:29:16,660
Look out what are you doing? You'll run me down

527
00:29:26,020 --> 00:29:33,940
In tonight's full hour of suspense edmund o'brien stars as eric in the blind spot adapted for radio by joel mallone

528
00:29:34,420 --> 00:29:36,320
tonight study in

529
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:42,180
suspense

530
00:29:42,180 --> 00:29:45,380
In just a moment, we will return with act two of suspense

531
00:29:46,340 --> 00:29:49,060
This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system

532
00:29:50,020 --> 00:29:56,660
And now back to our hollywood sound stage and act two of the blind spot starring edmund o'brien

533
00:29:58,020 --> 00:30:00,020
Eric strange has known fear

534
00:30:00,820 --> 00:30:04,980
And this night he has seen the brilliant mind of leiland rogers overpowered by fear

535
00:30:04,980 --> 00:30:06,980
A fear that has cost his life

536
00:30:07,620 --> 00:30:09,620
Now it is eric's life that is in danger

537
00:30:10,260 --> 00:30:13,060
This man whose business it is to deal in facts

538
00:30:13,620 --> 00:30:20,820
Has been driven by instinct and intuition to dismiss the verdict of suicide against his friend leiland rogers in favor of murder

539
00:30:21,620 --> 00:30:24,980
And this course has led him into the path of a swerving automobile

540
00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:27,380
And now

541
00:30:27,380 --> 00:30:31,700
With edmund o'brien as eric and with act two of the blind spot

542
00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:34,760
We again hope to keep you in suspense

543
00:30:37,940 --> 00:30:43,640
Time was irrelevant seconds minutes hours

544
00:30:45,780 --> 00:30:51,400
But when the first bright thread of consciousness broke through the pattern of darkness

545
00:30:52,580 --> 00:30:55,540
I had the feeling that I hadn't been knocked out for long

546
00:30:55,540 --> 00:30:58,980
The damp night air chilled me as I lay sprawled on the sidewalk

547
00:31:00,980 --> 00:31:02,980
I got up slowly

548
00:31:04,260 --> 00:31:06,740
Wondering why I was still alive

549
00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:10,580
I discovered one thing for sure

550
00:31:11,540 --> 00:31:18,420
Someone had wanted me out of the way badly enough to risk his own neck in jumping his car over an 18 inch curbing

551
00:31:18,420 --> 00:31:24,100
Around the corner where the car must have been parked waiting for me. I found something else

552
00:31:24,820 --> 00:31:26,820
Three cigarette stubs

553
00:31:26,900 --> 00:31:32,020
One was still warm. I jumped like a jackrabbit at what I thought was my friend coming back

554
00:31:33,380 --> 00:31:35,380
It was just a cruising cab

555
00:31:36,180 --> 00:31:38,180
I must have looked pretty frightened

556
00:31:39,380 --> 00:31:41,380
I was a little scared

557
00:31:42,260 --> 00:31:44,260
I was a little scared

558
00:31:44,260 --> 00:31:51,140
Just a cruising cab. I must have looked pretty frightening to the driver. You're you're all right, buddy. Yes

559
00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:53,620
Yeah, great

560
00:31:53,620 --> 00:32:00,020
Take me to the park central hotel the park central. Hey look when I see guys picking up cigarette butts, I don't here here

561
00:32:00,580 --> 00:32:02,580
I i've got plenty of money here

562
00:32:03,300 --> 00:32:05,300
Get going. Yeah get going

563
00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:15,300
I'm going all right going nuts

564
00:32:15,460 --> 00:32:19,300
Mr. Strange, what why you've been hurt you ought to see the other car

565
00:32:20,100 --> 00:32:22,980
Look, I was going to stay here with Leland Rogers. Oh, yes, sir

566
00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:29,460
We'll give you the room next to his suite. The police are up there now. Oh, uh lieutenant manix is he's having mr

567
00:32:29,460 --> 00:32:31,300
Roger's rooms locked up

568
00:32:31,300 --> 00:32:35,940
Uh, the boy will take you up. Mr. Strange and if you want anything just bring yes

569
00:32:44,020 --> 00:32:46,100
What happened strange try to kiss her

570
00:32:46,980 --> 00:32:48,260
Yes

571
00:32:48,260 --> 00:32:50,180
Yes, the angel of death

572
00:32:50,180 --> 00:32:52,180
And I don't mean miss Bartlett

573
00:32:52,260 --> 00:32:55,220
Lieutenant when I came out of the building somebody tried to run me down

574
00:32:55,220 --> 00:33:00,660
I'm gonna hit and run drivers. Yeah, they're bad out here. You're too logical lieutenant. I could grow to hate you

575
00:33:01,780 --> 00:33:06,100
I tell you the man was waiting for me. I found cigarette stubs one was still warm

576
00:33:06,340 --> 00:33:09,300
It'll be called before you can get into court as evidence

577
00:33:09,940 --> 00:33:11,940
Let's say a hit and run driver, huh?

578
00:33:12,740 --> 00:33:14,740
I'm not talking to you anymore

579
00:33:16,180 --> 00:33:21,860
Find anything next door another thing and mac just called from headquarters only fingerprints on rogers gun were his own

580
00:33:21,860 --> 00:33:24,900
Uh want to say something pretty walk gloves

581
00:33:26,020 --> 00:33:33,320
Okay, i'm too knocked out to argue. I'll run along eric. You better get yourself some sleep and uh, maybe tomorrow

582
00:33:34,020 --> 00:33:39,780
Yes, you'll decide that I know what i'm talking about. Maybe i've already decided. I doubt it. You're the stubborn type. Think so

583
00:33:40,260 --> 00:33:42,900
Definite i'm forgetting all about the cases of right now

584
00:33:44,900 --> 00:33:46,900
Oh

585
00:33:46,980 --> 00:33:49,380
That must have been a Cadillac a big one

586
00:33:49,380 --> 00:33:54,500
Um, sorry, I accused you of playing post office. It's all right night

587
00:33:59,620 --> 00:34:02,420
Post office post office, maybe that's it

588
00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:06,500
Come on come on

589
00:34:08,260 --> 00:34:11,540
Switch board get me the post office. I want to speak to the post master

590
00:34:12,020 --> 00:34:13,220
Huh?

591
00:34:13,220 --> 00:34:16,660
Are you kidding? It's two o'clock in the morning. Huh? Oh

592
00:34:17,300 --> 00:34:18,340
Oh

593
00:34:18,340 --> 00:34:20,100
Sorry

594
00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:22,840
Sense of time never was too good. I'll try them a little later

595
00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:35,800
The post office hunch was a wild one, but I followed it through I was there bright and early talking to the supervisor

596
00:34:36,820 --> 00:34:38,820
Would you repeat that request mr? Strange?

597
00:34:38,900 --> 00:34:43,860
Certainly now I want to want a list of people who've applied for post box rentals in the last two weeks, right?

598
00:34:43,860 --> 00:34:49,060
I hate to turn you down. Mr. Strange. I know about your work for the state department, but uh

599
00:34:49,780 --> 00:34:51,380
What the devil do you want for those names?

600
00:34:51,380 --> 00:34:54,740
Well, a friend of mine was corresponding with a burnham detective agency in new york

601
00:34:54,900 --> 00:34:57,700
I don't think he would have wanted his correspondence to go through his office

602
00:34:58,580 --> 00:35:03,540
We couldn't open any letters, you know, I know I know but there probably aren't any I just want to know if he rented a box

603
00:35:04,580 --> 00:35:08,580
Look, I checked with henley upstairs. Oh, well, that's different. Why didn't you say so?

604
00:35:08,580 --> 00:35:12,740
Oh, let's have a look here last two weeks, huh?

605
00:35:16,020 --> 00:35:18,020
Only one name

606
00:35:18,180 --> 00:35:22,980
lance martin box 208 lance martin

607
00:35:24,100 --> 00:35:25,940
perhaps he

608
00:35:25,940 --> 00:35:31,060
Look, i'll be back. You've been a big help. Uh, thanks a lot. Hey, where do you think you're going?

609
00:35:31,060 --> 00:35:38,920
I'm i'm terribly sorry. I'm in a hurry. Certainly. Yes. I have to make a new york call

610
00:35:43,540 --> 00:35:47,540
The call was to pete star my agent the man who'd do anything for me for 10

611
00:35:48,340 --> 00:35:54,260
I asked him to check somehow with the burnham detective agency see if they were working for a lance martin in bevelie hills post office box

612
00:35:54,260 --> 00:35:57,220
Number 208 all I could do was wait on that

613
00:35:57,220 --> 00:36:03,300
Yeah, so I made another call then headed down to the research office to keep an appointment with jim car

614
00:36:04,580 --> 00:36:06,340
He'd taken over but good

615
00:36:06,340 --> 00:36:12,500
He was sitting in roger's chair dictating furiously when I walked in and if this emergency division of authority

616
00:36:13,060 --> 00:36:18,900
Between the board members and myself results in a more balanced and scientific control of rir

617
00:36:19,540 --> 00:36:23,300
I see no reason why the system should not be made perfect. I

618
00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:29,700
I oh didn't hear you come in strange. Sorry if I interrupted miss bartlett said it's all right. Sit down

619
00:36:30,340 --> 00:36:32,340
Tight that much up right away miss adkins. Yes, sir

620
00:36:32,980 --> 00:36:38,580
I caught that last paragraph about your dividing control. It's a method. I've always advocated

621
00:36:38,580 --> 00:36:43,540
It's an excellent time to install it after that assignment of roger stark. Oh, yes. Yes

622
00:36:44,660 --> 00:36:50,340
Strange you don't suppose that assignment might cause anybody to wonder have they any cause to

623
00:36:50,340 --> 00:36:58,100
I shouldn't have mentioned it strange. I hope you never know what it feels like to kill a man what?

624
00:36:59,460 --> 00:37:04,340
These pills I have to feed myself for ulcers nerves everything in the book

625
00:37:05,060 --> 00:37:09,700
I'm killing myself strange slowly, but surely. Oh, oh this business

626
00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:15,140
Mr. Carr, I'd better ease one of your worries right now. We'll go ahead with my survey. When when can you start?

627
00:37:15,140 --> 00:37:22,900
Well, why right away strange immediately i'll start things humming there'll be 700 men out asking questions about your book within 24 hours

628
00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:26,500
Fine, i'll be at the hotel if you have to check on anything. I'm expecting a long-distance call

629
00:37:26,580 --> 00:37:32,580
Very good. And thank you. Mr. Strange. Thank you very much be assured that I that will do a job for you

630
00:37:39,060 --> 00:37:43,060
Crossing the hotel lobby toward the desk I happened to glance into the cocktail room

631
00:37:43,060 --> 00:37:46,740
I saw a familiar reflection in one of the big mirrors and back of the bar. In fact

632
00:37:47,380 --> 00:37:51,540
Two familiar reflections. I went in sat down beside mona bartlett

633
00:37:52,180 --> 00:37:57,060
Mr. Strange. Hello. Hi. Eric strange. Gregory rosa. Yes

634
00:37:57,060 --> 00:38:01,060
Hello. Greg just got in from san francisco about 20 minutes ago. Really?

635
00:38:01,700 --> 00:38:06,740
Well, he must do it with mirrors. What we ran into each other in the post office this morning

636
00:38:07,220 --> 00:38:09,700
The post office. Oh, you must be mistaken. I

637
00:38:09,700 --> 00:38:11,700
Must be

638
00:38:12,180 --> 00:38:14,180
You're a lucky girl mona

639
00:38:14,260 --> 00:38:19,940
If anything should happen to this boyfriend, you've got his exact twin to turn to all you have to do is find him just to mix up

640
00:38:19,940 --> 00:38:26,180
Strange chances are the fellow was doesn't even look like you're sure probably smokes a different brand of cigarettes, too

641
00:38:26,180 --> 00:38:28,660
Just what are you getting at strange? Sorry. I'm uh

642
00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:31,700
I'm always suffering from uh

643
00:38:32,020 --> 00:38:34,020
blind spots

644
00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:36,420
Have to dash mona expecting a call but eric

645
00:38:36,420 --> 00:38:38,420
I

646
00:38:45,940 --> 00:38:52,980
Rode up in the elevator wondering vaguely where greg rohm fitted into the picture and just what time he had arrived from san francisco

647
00:38:53,540 --> 00:38:55,540
But I didn't have long to think about it

648
00:38:55,540 --> 00:38:57,860
They'd given me the room next to leiland rogers suite

649
00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:03,380
It was supposed to be locked up on police order, but I could hear someone moving around in there

650
00:39:03,380 --> 00:39:07,060
I went out on the balcony found that it connected with his

651
00:39:07,860 --> 00:39:11,380
A few moments later. I was looking through a pair of french doors

652
00:39:12,340 --> 00:39:14,180
at a pair of legs

653
00:39:14,180 --> 00:39:20,500
They belonged to cheryl milner. She saw me almost passed out and changed her mind and came over to let me in

654
00:39:21,700 --> 00:39:27,300
Eric, what are you doing here? That's a funny question cheryl, but I haven't time to lie. What's the idea the idea?

655
00:39:28,180 --> 00:39:29,940
oh

656
00:39:29,940 --> 00:39:34,420
Well, I I lost a ring when I was here with you and I thought I'd better get it back

657
00:39:35,220 --> 00:39:39,540
My husband wouldn't understand. I know where's the ring? Uh

658
00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:44,980
Right here, then you're through looking around better get out the way you got in. Uh, just how did you get in?

659
00:39:45,620 --> 00:39:47,460
the bell captain

660
00:39:47,460 --> 00:39:49,460
I bribed him. Yes

661
00:39:50,740 --> 00:39:56,900
They're so obliging here so understanding when a lady's in distress so's room service

662
00:39:57,300 --> 00:39:58,340
I

663
00:39:58,340 --> 00:40:00,340
Don't know what you mean eric

664
00:40:00,660 --> 00:40:06,420
Oh really darling don't you see what this can do to your alibi? Oh, I never thought i'm not so sure that

665
00:40:07,380 --> 00:40:10,020
My call look you better get out of here. I'll talk to you later

666
00:40:10,660 --> 00:40:12,660
Please do go on go on

667
00:40:15,780 --> 00:40:24,340
Hello hello eric this is pete pete did you get what I wanted? Yeah, I think so burnham detective agency has been corresponding with a lance martin in beveley hills

668
00:40:24,340 --> 00:40:29,300
I uh got a girlfriend in their file room. Uh-huh the power of a woman. Here's the dope now

669
00:40:29,620 --> 00:40:34,500
Martin's been after them to trace his ex-wife aline martin in the agency's first report

670
00:40:34,500 --> 00:40:39,860
They found that she died in an asylum for the insane 10 years ago brought there by the police. I see

671
00:40:40,740 --> 00:40:42,740
I wonder if rogers was ever married. What?

672
00:40:43,620 --> 00:40:50,660
Nothing keep talking a letter in her purse asked that she be treated right it was signed by her son darrell martin

673
00:40:51,140 --> 00:40:53,140
There's no trace of the boy before or since

674
00:40:53,140 --> 00:40:56,260
I think we've hit it her son rogers son

675
00:40:56,980 --> 00:40:59,780
He'd be grown up now. It's the man he was afraid of

676
00:41:00,340 --> 00:41:06,260
The name's martin eric not rogers. It's all right. That that could have been a maiden name. Don't you see no I don't what's it all about eric

677
00:41:06,260 --> 00:41:08,260
Haven't time write your book about it later

678
00:41:09,380 --> 00:41:12,740
If he deserted them left them what a motor

679
00:41:13,780 --> 00:41:16,580
Huh? Oh coming coming

680
00:41:20,020 --> 00:41:22,020
Mona

681
00:41:22,020 --> 00:41:23,460
I

682
00:41:23,460 --> 00:41:26,100
I thought you would have to see you eric. I made an excuse

683
00:41:26,820 --> 00:41:28,820
Sure, come on in

684
00:41:29,380 --> 00:41:35,860
I haven't long but I had to know what you were driving at downstairs about greg. I mean meeting him in the post office this morning

685
00:41:36,020 --> 00:41:37,700
You didn't of course

686
00:41:37,700 --> 00:41:39,700
I met his plane eric

687
00:41:40,420 --> 00:41:42,420
Why are you protecting him?

688
00:41:43,220 --> 00:41:45,220
In love with the guy I

689
00:41:46,260 --> 00:41:48,260
I don't know

690
00:41:48,260 --> 00:41:50,260
I've known him ever since college

691
00:41:50,260 --> 00:41:53,780
I guess he's well. He's always sort of dependent on me

692
00:41:56,020 --> 00:41:57,860
Big fella like that

693
00:41:57,860 --> 00:42:02,260
I should think you don't know him eric. He's been hurt inside. I mean by

694
00:42:02,980 --> 00:42:05,140
By things that have happened what kind of things?

695
00:42:06,180 --> 00:42:07,540
eric

696
00:42:07,540 --> 00:42:08,980
he

697
00:42:08,980 --> 00:42:14,260
Greg once killed a man killed a man. It wasn't his fault. It was an accident

698
00:42:14,820 --> 00:42:17,060
But please I didn't come here to tell you about that

699
00:42:17,860 --> 00:42:19,860
And why did you come here?

700
00:42:19,860 --> 00:42:21,860
eric I

701
00:42:21,940 --> 00:42:23,940
I like you very much

702
00:42:25,300 --> 00:42:29,940
I wish you'd give this up except lieutenant mannix's theory before

703
00:42:31,460 --> 00:42:33,460
Before what mona?

704
00:42:33,540 --> 00:42:35,380
Oh, I don't know

705
00:42:35,380 --> 00:42:37,380
I have a feeling that something might happen

706
00:42:38,100 --> 00:42:41,700
It almost did I tangled with a hit-and-run driver when I left your place. What?

707
00:42:41,940 --> 00:42:45,460
It's all right. Manic says pedestrians are on their own in this town, but mona. Yes

708
00:42:45,460 --> 00:42:52,500
Won't you tell me when greg really got back in town? I've told you all i'm going to how old is greg

709
00:42:53,380 --> 00:42:57,860
About 26, but where are his folks? Have you ever met them? No

710
00:42:58,740 --> 00:43:00,740
No, I never have

711
00:43:01,140 --> 00:43:03,620
You won't tell me any more about his accident

712
00:43:05,220 --> 00:43:08,180
Where'd you two go to school san carlos college

713
00:43:09,620 --> 00:43:12,020
Oh, that seems like such a long time ago

714
00:43:12,020 --> 00:43:16,420
No, stop it. Will you how do you think you make me feel i'm 35?

715
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,040
positively ancient

716
00:43:19,460 --> 00:43:21,140
eric

717
00:43:21,140 --> 00:43:23,140
You will get out of this

718
00:43:23,140 --> 00:43:25,220
Leave greg alone. I'm sorry mona

719
00:43:26,260 --> 00:43:30,020
I want to be very sure about the guy you marry. I didn't say I no

720
00:43:30,660 --> 00:43:33,380
No, but he's a habit and i'll bet he said it. Yes

721
00:43:35,140 --> 00:43:39,780
He wants me to marry him right away don't please mona just give me a couple of days maybe less

722
00:43:39,780 --> 00:43:42,420
I have to get back down. He'll wonder what you won't promise

723
00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:45,700
I can't eric

724
00:43:45,860 --> 00:43:47,860
I'm too mixed up

725
00:43:47,940 --> 00:43:49,940
Come here what?

726
00:43:53,540 --> 00:43:55,860
That makes you up a little more eric

727
00:43:57,220 --> 00:44:03,380
eric why maybe maybe to confuse you enough to wait maybe a lot of other reasons mona

728
00:44:04,660 --> 00:44:06,660
We'll talk about it when I get back

729
00:44:06,660 --> 00:44:10,360
Where are you going right now? To college?

730
00:44:20,260 --> 00:44:26,100
Dean spear at san carlos college was a man who lived by a routine it didn't include sudden unannounced visitors

731
00:44:26,420 --> 00:44:30,100
And after my long flight up there it appeared that I might not get to see him

732
00:44:30,820 --> 00:44:32,900
A lady came to my rescue again

733
00:44:33,460 --> 00:44:35,460
the dean's housekeeper

734
00:44:35,460 --> 00:44:40,980
She's uh read my books didn't like them but thought all writers were romantic figures

735
00:44:41,380 --> 00:44:46,820
She said she had a plan she disappeared a few minutes later the dean came ambling out of his study

736
00:44:48,180 --> 00:44:50,180
Hey, Mr. Strange

737
00:44:50,340 --> 00:44:55,620
You're the author of blind spots. That's right, sir. Have a chair. Thank you. May I commend you young man?

738
00:44:56,180 --> 00:44:59,240
You have the rare gift of making facts plausible

739
00:45:00,020 --> 00:45:02,020
Even our freshman radio

740
00:45:02,020 --> 00:45:09,480
Uh, thank you dean my housekeeper mrs. Wilkins tells me you're considering a post in our economic department

741
00:45:09,860 --> 00:45:10,900
oh

742
00:45:10,900 --> 00:45:12,260
hmm

743
00:45:12,260 --> 00:45:14,260
That woman always does things the hard way

744
00:45:14,900 --> 00:45:21,220
Didn't she think I'd talk to the author of blind spots? She doesn't like the book, sir. Yeah, she's stupid kind and harmless though

745
00:45:22,100 --> 00:45:25,940
So what did you have in mind? Mr. Strange an ex-student of yours?

746
00:45:27,140 --> 00:45:29,140
Gregory rome

747
00:45:29,380 --> 00:45:31,380
What about rome?

748
00:45:31,380 --> 00:45:33,140
I uh

749
00:45:33,140 --> 00:45:38,980
Well, i'm going to greece you see for the state department. I'm picking up two assistants. Uh rome's name was suggested now

750
00:45:39,940 --> 00:45:41,940
If you could add your recommendation

751
00:45:42,100 --> 00:45:43,380
I can't

752
00:45:43,380 --> 00:45:48,180
I suggest you contact rogers international research. He works for them. Well, naturally I had leelin rogers on my list

753
00:45:48,180 --> 00:45:50,420
But since his violent death violent death

754
00:45:51,620 --> 00:45:54,660
Well, I thought suicide came under that category

755
00:45:55,860 --> 00:45:57,540
In any case since I can't ask him

756
00:45:57,540 --> 00:46:01,700
I thought perhaps the man who must have suggested rome for the job in the first place. I didn't suggest him

757
00:46:02,260 --> 00:46:04,980
If anyone did it was our honor student here muna bartlett

758
00:46:05,620 --> 00:46:06,580
then

759
00:46:06,580 --> 00:46:09,940
You refused to put in a word for rome. I resent your asking it

760
00:46:10,580 --> 00:46:13,380
I resent your forcing me to blight a man's career

761
00:46:14,100 --> 00:46:17,220
rome may have fought his way successfully out of a bad beginning but

762
00:46:17,860 --> 00:46:23,060
Confounded stranger after our experience with him. He was an accident of some sort that I don't mean that

763
00:46:23,060 --> 00:46:27,140
That was during a wrestling match rome killed his opponent. The athletic board dismissed it

764
00:46:27,700 --> 00:46:33,300
Blamed it on inexperience the result of imperfect wrestling technique. I'm sure he was blameless in that instance

765
00:46:33,780 --> 00:46:40,100
Might have happened to anybody there was something else there was indeed a shocking premeditated act of violence

766
00:46:40,500 --> 00:46:43,940
That's why you reacted so to leelin rogers suicide. It is

767
00:46:44,580 --> 00:46:46,420
To be explicit strange

768
00:46:46,420 --> 00:46:49,860
We expelled rome for something just short of murder

769
00:46:49,860 --> 00:46:53,540
And go on on a certain spring evening during his junior year

770
00:46:54,020 --> 00:47:00,980
Rome waylaid and brutally beat his professor of public opinion measurement left the man a mass of bruises lacerations and a concussion

771
00:47:01,540 --> 00:47:04,660
We found him only just in time. What motive did he have?

772
00:47:04,900 --> 00:47:07,700
That's exactly the point he had none whatsoever

773
00:47:08,260 --> 00:47:15,700
He told a preposterous story of the professor making improper advances toward rome's fiancee a charge described as ridiculous by the girl

774
00:47:16,020 --> 00:47:18,020
as well as by the professor I see

775
00:47:18,020 --> 00:47:23,780
Well, why didn't the professor prefer charges? He had no wish to bring notoriety on either the school or his family

776
00:47:23,940 --> 00:47:29,060
What about rome's parents couldn't they shed any light on his actions as I recall the boy was an orphan

777
00:47:29,460 --> 00:47:31,060
I see

778
00:47:31,060 --> 00:47:36,180
Say he didn't have any grandparents. Did he name of martin? I see no reason to pursue the matter further. Mr

779
00:47:36,180 --> 00:47:38,340
Strange, I I do not recall names

780
00:47:38,980 --> 00:47:44,340
And I have no intention of doing anything at all that might help gregory rome into a position of trust

781
00:47:44,340 --> 00:47:48,340
Good night, sir

782
00:47:53,620 --> 00:47:55,140
And that was that

783
00:47:55,140 --> 00:47:58,020
The dean went back to his routine and I headed back to the airport

784
00:47:58,580 --> 00:48:02,100
I'd had to lie, but i'd learned plenty about the past of gregory rome

785
00:48:02,820 --> 00:48:04,820
And it wasn't pretty

786
00:48:04,820 --> 00:48:14,420
So flying down the coast I felt as if I was trying to push that plane to greater speed

787
00:48:15,140 --> 00:48:21,220
my mind my heart my body were all tensed and driving it forward with the the terrible realization that

788
00:48:21,860 --> 00:48:27,460
Mona Bartlett might at that moment be with this madman might even be deciding to marry him

789
00:48:29,060 --> 00:48:32,740
It was all clear now rogers knowing there was a son somewhere a boy

790
00:48:32,740 --> 00:48:37,300
He'd never seen hadn't even known about when he left the mother to be committed to an asylum

791
00:48:37,940 --> 00:48:41,940
When he learned it realized from those notes that it was someone in his own office

792
00:48:42,500 --> 00:48:44,260
The fear had hit him

793
00:48:44,260 --> 00:48:46,260
I didn't blame him for being afraid. I

794
00:48:47,300 --> 00:48:49,300
But I shuddered thinking about mona

795
00:48:49,940 --> 00:48:56,020
The way she'd somehow believed in greg all these years championed him remained faithful in spite of everything

796
00:48:56,020 --> 00:49:02,660
I had to get back. I had to get back

797
00:49:07,700 --> 00:49:12,740
Look mister, we're in town if you want this hack to go any faster drive it yourself. It's all right

798
00:49:12,740 --> 00:49:17,060
It's deserted. I don't care. Well, look turn left at the end of the block or apart was right around the corner

799
00:49:17,060 --> 00:49:24,660
Uh, see the car in front stop right behind it. Okay

800
00:49:25,940 --> 00:49:27,220
He's here

801
00:49:27,220 --> 00:49:33,780
Hey, that's the car. That's the car that hit me. Say, what are you talking about? Never mind. Look driver. Here's

802
00:49:34,420 --> 00:49:36,420
Ten dollars for you now pick up

803
00:49:36,820 --> 00:49:40,200
lieutenant manix homicide division police headquarters

804
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:46,680
Bring him here on the double. Oh mister take it from me. Don't go mixing with the police. Tell him look

805
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:53,880
Go up there and talk it over with a peaceable and then just say blind spots. He'll come now go on. Okay

806
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,480
I turned towards the apartment started inside

807
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,560
It wasn't easy, but I had to realizing mona was up there with him

808
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:09,480
Um as I went up the steps my head kept spinning with a jumble of things. I'd heard about the man I

809
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:12,040
I was about to face

810
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,880
A madman an ex-wrestler who'd killed one of his opponents

811
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,800
I wondered how his next opponent would make out

812
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:23,800
So

813
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,760
Hello greg hello, I want to see mona

814
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,400
You want to see mona?

815
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:39,880
Sure you do you post office johnny all the men i'd like to see mona

816
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:46,120
Glad you're here strange glad you went to san carlos

817
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:52,520
Yes, now, you know what's coming. He's a good greg not here if if we go over the stair rail

818
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:55,480
Try to drag her into it. Huh?

819
00:50:55,480 --> 00:51:00,440
Just because she had a date with him that night you won't I won't let greg stop it. Stop it. Leave him alone

820
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:03,160
I can stop

821
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:12,620
Oh mona mona you shot me

822
00:51:12,620 --> 00:51:20,620
Me

823
00:51:26,620 --> 00:51:28,620
Mona i'm right here eric

824
00:51:29,740 --> 00:51:33,500
Eric i'm sorry. I was trying to I know

825
00:51:34,780 --> 00:51:41,100
Where's he's still out. He struck his head on the stairs when you hit him. Did you did you call the police? No

826
00:51:41,100 --> 00:51:42,060
No

827
00:51:42,060 --> 00:51:43,980
Eric, please

828
00:51:43,980 --> 00:51:48,300
He suffered enough. You know, you know who he is. He told me tonight

829
00:51:48,860 --> 00:51:50,860
That horrible childhood

830
00:51:51,260 --> 00:51:55,020
Can't you see why he had to make rogers suffer as he'd seen his mother suffer?

831
00:51:55,100 --> 00:51:59,820
I'm sorry for him mona, but we've got to turn him in he's a homicidal maniac

832
00:52:01,180 --> 00:52:03,660
Come on help me to the phone. No eric. No

833
00:52:04,300 --> 00:52:05,260
Listen

834
00:52:05,260 --> 00:52:08,080
We'll have to put him away ourselves quietly

835
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:14,160
Finally, this is no time to drag this thing through the courts. Why why isn't it the time your survey darling?

836
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:18,560
A murder trial now with everything everything coming out

837
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:20,800
eric

838
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:22,800
You've got to think of yourself

839
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,040
You have to go on being a success

840
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:27,680
like

841
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:29,040
rogers

842
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,040
Greg was right

843
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,200
I'm very fond of you eric

844
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:35,520
please

845
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:37,520
Please for my sake

846
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:44,320
Don't call the police mona mona. Don't you realize what you're saying? We can't decide this thing you're talking crazy

847
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:50,960
That's when it hit me gregg's words suddenly came bouncing back words that changed everything

848
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:53,520
Wiped away the last blind spot

849
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:58,480
Try to drag her into it just because she had a date with him that night

850
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,440
mona you

851
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,280
darrell martin

852
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:05,040
a girl's name

853
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:06,560
your name

854
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:08,560
I gave you a chance eric

855
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:14,800
I could have fired again. It wasn't an accident you you meant to hit me then you lost your nerve. I love you eric

856
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:17,040
I really do

857
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:17,920
No

858
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:20,000
I'm asking you to play this my way

859
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,200
Will you no?

860
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:25,040
Then I

861
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,760
I'm glad I won't have to shoot you again eric

862
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:31,840
You're bleeding badly

863
00:53:32,240 --> 00:53:34,160
very badly

864
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:36,160
That should do it

865
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,160
I won't have to

866
00:53:38,720 --> 00:53:39,760
Greg

867
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:43,040
Greg he was just a foil someone to help me

868
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:45,440
Yes

869
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:47,440
and at fool rogers

870
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:52,320
Greg was an orphan the right age and after his wrestling accident. He was shaken

871
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:57,600
I kept him that way. Oh, it's crazy rotten that professor

872
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,160
I goaded him into that

873
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,720
He was so jealous of me eric

874
00:54:02,720 --> 00:54:06,800
That poor fool he didn't have a chance. What about me?

875
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:13,040
My mother did we have a chance but mona mona to destroy the lives of others to get to leiland rogers

876
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:20,080
I'd do it all over again every step those entries in his book effective too. Weren't they eric?

877
00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:22,080
you know

878
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,720
They almost drove him out of his mind, but

879
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:27,920
Why me you wouldn't stop?

880
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:31,040
I begged you to

881
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:33,300
remember

882
00:54:33,300 --> 00:54:36,980
And this was to look like greg's doings still can

883
00:54:38,020 --> 00:54:39,780
It's his gun

884
00:54:39,780 --> 00:54:43,700
And if you're not alive to challenge me, oh lord

885
00:54:44,820 --> 00:54:46,820
Lord mona, please

886
00:54:46,820 --> 00:54:50,740
Get compresses stop the blood. I know eric

887
00:54:51,860 --> 00:54:53,860
I won't have to shoot you again

888
00:54:53,860 --> 00:54:59,880
Then i'm so glad so fair

889
00:55:08,260 --> 00:55:14,020
He's coming around now lieutenant. Yeah, thank heaven the guy can't go out on me. I owe him too many apologies can

890
00:55:14,900 --> 00:55:17,540
Can I talk to him? Dr. Whitehurst now take it easy all of you

891
00:55:18,260 --> 00:55:21,940
Mr. Strange, this is dr. Whitehurst. You're in a hospital. Hmm

892
00:55:21,940 --> 00:55:23,140
No

893
00:55:23,140 --> 00:55:25,140
Hospital where?

894
00:55:26,180 --> 00:55:30,980
Mona, what about she's dead eric shot herself when we pulled up in front

895
00:55:32,260 --> 00:55:33,140
Oh

896
00:55:33,140 --> 00:55:36,340
Did a funny thing though. She called the emergency hospital for you

897
00:55:37,300 --> 00:55:38,420
No

898
00:55:38,420 --> 00:55:39,780
something

899
00:55:39,780 --> 00:55:42,660
Talks young greg here into a jealous rage and

900
00:55:43,380 --> 00:55:45,780
Gets him to try to run you down and shoot you

901
00:55:46,580 --> 00:55:47,620
self

902
00:55:47,620 --> 00:55:49,380
Changes the mind

903
00:55:49,380 --> 00:55:56,660
Saves your life. I guess it's a woman's privilege to change her mind. Yeah, by the way, eric, uh, what about young greg here?

904
00:55:57,380 --> 00:55:59,380
What do you want us to do? Hmm

905
00:56:00,180 --> 00:56:01,540
Oh

906
00:56:01,540 --> 00:56:03,060
Hello greg

907
00:56:03,060 --> 00:56:08,020
Mr. Stranger she she had quite a hole on you, didn't she? Yes

908
00:56:08,500 --> 00:56:12,020
I I didn't know what I was doing. I I was so much in love with you

909
00:56:12,740 --> 00:56:15,620
You'll get over it and don't feel too bad. I

910
00:56:15,620 --> 00:56:21,140
I had the same blind spot. Oh, thanks. Mr. Strange. Hey, dr. Whitehurst

911
00:56:21,220 --> 00:56:26,260
Could the patient possibly take a phone call and say it's urgent? I don't know. How do you feel strange? All right

912
00:56:26,740 --> 00:56:29,860
I'll plug in right here. Hold the receiver for you. Thanks

913
00:56:31,060 --> 00:56:32,500
Hello

914
00:56:32,500 --> 00:56:34,500
Mr. Strange. Yes

915
00:56:35,140 --> 00:56:37,140
Cheryl millner

916
00:56:37,620 --> 00:56:38,580
Hi

917
00:56:38,580 --> 00:56:40,580
Hi yourself

918
00:56:40,580 --> 00:56:47,300
Oh goodness darling. What have they done to you? How long i'm gonna be in that horrible old hospital. I'm just dying to see you again

919
00:56:48,740 --> 00:56:51,940
I'm bored darling. Yeah, i'll bet

920
00:56:53,060 --> 00:56:56,180
And i'm tired honey too tired

921
00:56:57,140 --> 00:56:59,140
i'm afraid you

922
00:56:59,140 --> 00:57:11,140
You better call room service

923
00:57:11,140 --> 00:57:20,100
Oh

924
00:57:20,980 --> 00:57:29,060
Thank you edmund o'brien for a magnificent performance as eric and to jeff corey bruce cammon francis cheney paul mcvay

925
00:57:29,300 --> 00:57:34,660
Ralph moody bud widom martha shore and bill lolly our thanks for your fine support

926
00:57:35,620 --> 00:57:40,360
Next week for suspense the lives of three persons cross in an atmosphere

927
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:43,080
fear fraught with the fears of a doting mother

928
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:50,200
The story title holds the premise of our play. It is aptly called life ends at midnight

929
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:57,340
So join us next week then when with life ends at midnight. We again hope to keep you in suspense

930
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:03,640
Mr. O'brien may soon be seen in the universal international production another part of the forest

931
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:12,040
The blind spot by lois eeby and john c fleming was adapted for radio by joel malone and was produced and directed by anton m leader

932
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:19,320
Ludgluskin is our musical director and conductor lucien morrowak and renee garagank composed the original scores

933
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:25,240
Listen again next week for life ends at midnight on radio's outstanding theater of thrills

934
00:58:25,860 --> 00:58:27,860
suspense

935
00:58:27,860 --> 00:58:35,540
In this weather most of us have a yen to get out into the country well this year

936
00:58:35,940 --> 00:58:40,900
Enjoy it don't destroy it forest fires do destroy miles of countryside every year

937
00:58:41,540 --> 00:58:45,720
And nine out of ten forest fires are man set started through carelessness

938
00:58:46,500 --> 00:58:50,500
That's another way of saying that nine out of ten forest fires could have been prevented

939
00:58:51,380 --> 00:58:55,060
When you go into the country this spring and summer take a few simple precautions

940
00:58:55,060 --> 00:58:59,620
Crush out cigars cigarette and pipe embers snap matches in half after using

941
00:59:00,100 --> 00:59:03,140
Drown campfire stir the ashes and then drown them again

942
00:59:03,940 --> 00:59:10,100
And before you start a fire anywhere for any purpose find out what the law about fires is in that locality

943
00:59:10,900 --> 00:59:18,020
Don't you be one of the guilty ones to turn the destructive rampage of fire loose in our forests this spring

944
00:59:18,740 --> 00:59:21,860
Be careful and help avoid forest fires

945
00:59:21,860 --> 00:59:23,860
Forest fires

946
00:59:24,340 --> 00:59:29,640
This is cbs where 99 million people gather every week the columbia broadcasting system

947
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:43,640
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