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And now, Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations present...

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Suspense!

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Tonight, Auto Light brings you James Mason and Pamela Colino in Agatha Christie's, Where

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There's a Will, a suspense play produced and directed by Anton M. Leader.

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Friends, have you ever been in a dilemma, I mean in a fix, like having to get started

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in a hurry and your motor won't turn over?

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can definitely depend on.

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Why by Cornelius an Auto Light, stay full battery needs water only three times a year

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in normal car use?

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You can say bravura for that aqua pura, plenty of extra liquid reserve, yes siree, and it

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has extra plates in every cell, that means longer life and stronger life.

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liquid reserve than Hollywood has stars.

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Remember, you're right with Auto Light.

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And now, Auto Light presents James Mason and Pamela Collino in, a tale well calculated

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to keep you in suspense.

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And now Mr. Jepson, you really must let me make you a whiskey and soda, I have some excellent

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scotch.

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Never mind that Ridgeway, I've come to find out when you can raise 10,000 pounds.

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I see, yes I see, well Mr. Jepson, 10,000 pounds is a great deal of money.

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That's what's needed to cover your notes.

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Yes, that's right.

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But you know Mr. Jepson, you might just let me write you one more IOU and try again.

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Your luck's run out, Ridgeway.

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Well, I wasn't much of a gambler anyhow, was I?

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Perhaps it's just as well I've learned my lesson.

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How long, Mr. Jepson, would you say I have to raise the money?

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Four weeks.

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I see, four weeks.

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And if I should fail to raise the money?

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Hmm?

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I see.

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Well, you make yourself very clear, Mr. Jepson.

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But then perhaps all's not lost.

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Mrs. Harter, my aunt, has had the foresight to draw up a new will, making me her heir.

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The money was to go to a niece, my cousin Miriam, but now a new will's been drawn up.

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Aunt Mary finds me much more satisfactory than poor Miriam.

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The very spirit of solicitude I am, forever inquiring about her health, about her poor

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weak heart.

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Four weeks.

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Is that right, Mr. Jepson?

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That's right, Ridgeway.

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Or else.

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I see.

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Or else.

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That's when it began.

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That, plus the fortunate circumstance of the new will in my favor, decided me on my plan.

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Now murder wouldn't look right.

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Nobody else living in the house but Aunt Mary and I, and Elizabeth the maid.

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And since I would benefit by 40,000 pounds, no, murder would not look right.

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Besides, I was fond of Aunt Mary.

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Well, a day or so after Mr. Jepson's visit, there occurred to me a rather whimsical idea

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for a practical joke.

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The first thing was to determine the degree of weakness of Aunt Mary's weak heart.

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And so I arranged an appointment for her with Dr. Menell, the heart specialist in Harley

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Street.

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Just have a chair, Mr. Ridgeway.

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Thank you, Dr. Menell.

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Now, Mr. Ridgeway, as you requested, I have gone over your Aunt Mrs. Heart thoroughly.

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Yes.

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And there is a heart weakness.

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How dreadful.

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But not terribly serious, Charles, Dr. Menell says.

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But my poor dear Aunt Mary.

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Dear Charles.

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Naturally, you're shocked, Mr. Ridgeway.

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But with the least care, she'll live to be 90, I should think.

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However, her mind must be kept well distracted.

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Mind distracted?

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Yes.

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Distraction for the mind and no sudden shocks.

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That's most important.

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No sudden shocks.

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I see.

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Well, thank you, Doctor.

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Not at all.

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Out this way, my private exit.

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No use going through the waiting room again, eh?

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Well, good day, Mrs. Heart.

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Good day, Doctor.

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Goodbye, Doctor.

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Oh, I'd say, Ridgeway.

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Yes?

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I minimized your aunt's condition just a bit.

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Didn't want to alarm her.

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You understand.

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Yes, of course.

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But what I said about no shocks, no frights, most important, a good fright might very well

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carry her off.

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I see.

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I see.

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Well, thank you, Doctor.

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The next step was the radio.

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Aunt Mary must have a radio.

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But Charles, you know I don't care for new fangled things.

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We've got on quite well without a wireless.

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I don't see why.

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We should have one now.

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But don't you remember what Dr. Menell said, Aunt Mary?

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The mind distracted, well distracted.

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Those were his very words.

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You know, I'm only thinking of your heart.

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I know you are, dear Charles.

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That's better, Aunt Mary.

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That's more like yourself.

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You are a comfort to me, Charles.

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Thank you, Aunt Mary.

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Now about the radio.

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But really, Charles.

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Now, now, now, you really ought to trust my judgment.

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I'm a bit of an expert on radio, you know.

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Before the war, I even had a small sender station of my own.

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Some of the equipment's still in one of my boxes somewhere about.

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So you see, I know.

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But the waves, Charles, the electric waves, they might affect me.

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There's no more electricity about it than there is about an electric light.

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Radio waves aren't electric.

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But Charles, I...

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Well, I must say, it makes a frightful noise.

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Oh, we'll have it tuned in a minute.

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Here we are.

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What is it?

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It's Spanish, Aunt Mary.

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Madrid, propaganda.

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There's France.

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What do you think of that?

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You can tune in the whole world, the whole world.

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You see, Aunt Mary, radio waves converging from all over the world on this little box.

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From Madrid, Paris, New York, and beyond.

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Beyond!

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Who knows how far beyond?

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Well, I must say, Charles, you're quite poetic about it.

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Am I?

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Yes.

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Yes, I suppose I am.

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That was the first inkling I had that my little practical joke was going to be fun.

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The acting and coaxing poor dear Aunt Mary along bit by bit.

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Every evening, she'd sit by the radio, listening to the news on the BBC home service and the

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classical music on the third program.

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Then one morning, I attached a wire into the radio while she was still in bed, ran it along

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under the carpet into the small empty room of the sitting room where the radio stood,

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took the hand microphone left over from my amateur sending gaze and hooked it to the

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other end of the wire.

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And everything was all ready.

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That evening, I backed the car out of the garage and started off my regular Wednesday

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evening of bridge.

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But I drove only a short way, then parked behind a hedge and walked back to the house.

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I let myself in the side door and went into the small room of the sitting room where Aunt

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Mary sat alone listening to the radio.

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It was the third program, a program of Beethoven.

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I opened the door the slightest crack.

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The moment had come.

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And I felt my heart beating with strange emotion.

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I saw in my mind's eye Aunt Mary and the dimly lit sitting room.

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And I almost felt the mood she must be feeling as she sat dreamily immersed in the shifting

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strains of music.

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I picked up the microphone and.

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Mary, can you hear me, Mary?

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This is Patrick.

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What?

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This is Patrick, your husband speaking from the other side.

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I am coming for you soon.

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Will you be ready, Mary?

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Patrick.

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For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you James Mason and Pamela Colino in radio's outstanding

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theater of thrills, Suspense.

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Say, Hap, I spent Washington's birthday telling my young nephew the story of George Washington.

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What a great man he was, how he always told the truth.

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Well, it was nice to see, Harlow.

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This younger generation should know about George Washington.

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And to illustrate, I told him how I always tell the truth about Auto Light's day full

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batteries.

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Those marvelous, wonderful get up and get batteries with the extra reserve of water.

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My son, I told him, a camel is practically dehydrated compared to an Auto Light stay

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full battery because an Auto Light stay full battery needs water only three times a year

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in normal car use.

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But Harlow, you were telling your nephew.

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Always tell the truth, I told him.

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Like I tell the people about the punchy power for peppy performance packed in an Auto Light

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stay full battery because of that ample sample of H2O.

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Yes, by Cornelius, I told him an Auto Light stay full battery needs water only three times

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a year in normal car use.

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That extra liquid reserve means longer life and stronger life.

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I told him about the fiberglass insulation between plates that adds months to the life

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of an Auto Light stay full battery.

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Well, I'm sure the kid learned a lot about George Washington.

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But wait, here's suspense.

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And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, James Mason, who will be joined

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by his wife, Pamela Colino in Where There's a Will, a tale well calculated to keep you

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in.

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After I'd spoken with the voice of Aunt Mary's dead husband, I waited a moment.

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Then very cautiously, I looked into the sitting room.

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Aunt Mary was sitting bolt upright, transfixed.

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Then a sob broke from her as she looked toward the radio, which was now innocently transmitting

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the BBC third program again.

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I had to bite my lips to keep from laughing.

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But Aunt Mary said nothing about her experience.

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So I was obliged the fourth morning after that at breakfast to say casually, Oh, I say

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Aunt Mary.

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Yes, Charles.

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I was just wondering, last evening.

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Yes, Charles.

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Aunt Mary, who's that funny old boy up in the spare room?

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The picture, that is.

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You know, the picture over the mantelpiece, the old boy with the beaver and the side whiskers.

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Well, really, Charles, your tone is most disrespectful.

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I'm sorry.

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It's your uncle, Patrick Charles, my late husband.

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Oh, I say I'm sorry.

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I had no idea.

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After all, I never did know him, Aunt Mary.

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Very well, Charles.

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You see, I wondered.

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It was queer.

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Queer?

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What's queer?

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Are you trying to say something, Charles?

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Oh, no, no, no, not really.

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It's nothing.

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Nothing that makes any sense.

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I mean, I wish you would tell me what it was that made you ask me about the picture of

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your uncle.

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Well, if you will have it, I fancied I saw him.

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Saw him?

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The man in the picture, I mean, looking out of the end window when I was coming up the

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drive last night.

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What?

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Yeah.

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And later on, I happened to drift into the spare room and there was the picture up over

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the mantelpiece, the same man.

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It's all quite easy to explain, really, I expect, subconscious and all that.

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I must have noticed the picture before without realizing it and then just fancied the face

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in the window.

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Aunt Mary, is something the matter?

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Oh, my husband's face.

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Did you see it in the end window?

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Why, yes.

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Why?

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Only that that was Patrick's, your late uncle's dressing room, Charles.

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The very absurdity of the story I made poor Aunt Mary believe was the fun, the clever

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roundabout way I played my role.

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The following Wednesday night, I pretended to play off, to go and play bridge again.

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I concealed myself in the room off the sitting room just as before, took up the microphone

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and spoke from the other world in the same sepulchral tones.

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Mary, on Friday, I shall come for you.

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Friday at half past nine.

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At half past nine.

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Do not be afraid.

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There will be no pain.

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Be ready, Mary.

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When I came into her bedroom the next morning, Aunt Mary was speaking to Elizabeth in a most

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businesslike manner.

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Now here you are, Elizabeth.

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I want you to take this letter I've written.

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Yes, ma'am.

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I wrote it last evening.

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If anything should happen Friday evening, you understand me?

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Yes, ma'am.

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Friday evening?

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But that's my night out.

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So it is, and you go right ahead.

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However, if anything shall have happened by the time you get back on Saturday, I want

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this letter delivered to Dr. Mayham.

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Yes, ma'am.

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Now, the top left-hand drawer of my bureau, it's locked.

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The long key with the white label.

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Everything in the drawer is ready.

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Ready, ma'am.

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For my burial.

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Oh, ma'am.

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Oh, what are you saying?

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I thought you was in a site better health.

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Oh, ma'am.

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Never mind that, Elizabeth.

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Don't be maudlin'.

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Oh, ma'am.

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Elizabeth, did I ever tell you how much I've left you in my will?

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Oh, no, ma'am.

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Well, I can't seem to remember it was 50 pounds in the old will, but did I raise it

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to 100?

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Well, at any rate, I want you to have 100 pounds.

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I'll have to look into it.

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But if anything should happen before I do, then Mr. Charles will see to it.

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Did I hear my name mentioned, dear Aunt Mary?

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Oh, good morning, Charles.

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Yes, I was just saying to Elizabeth, I don't know if I've left her 50 or 100 pounds, but

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if anything should happen to me, it's to be 100 pounds.

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Well, I must say, that's a gloomy thing to be thinking about.

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Oh, Mr. Charles, sir, she's been carrying our most awful just now.

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What's this?

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That's enough, Elizabeth.

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You may go now.

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Yes, ma'am.

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Yes, ma'am.

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Well, now, just what in the world is all this about?

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Would you tell me just what's going to happen to dear Aunt Mary?

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Charles, what do you plan to be doing Friday evening?

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Friday evening?

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Well, as a matter of fact, the Ewing's asked me to go in and play bridge.

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But if you'd rather I stayed at home...

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No, no, Charles, actually, I'd prefer to be alone.

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Well, just as you wish.

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You know, I think I'll have Mr. Hopkinson send me the will.

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I want to find out about the bequest to Elizabeth.

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It's either 50 or 100 pounds.

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The rest, dear Charles, of course, goes to you.

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Yes, dear Aunt Mary, whatever you say.

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Friday evening, I'd picked that night because I knew it was Elizabeth's night off and I

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wanted to be sure there was no one about.

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Friday evening, at eight o'clock, I drove away, waited for an hour to elapse, then slipped

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back into the house.

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I looked through the crack in the door and saw Aunt Mary sitting in the high-backed chair

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beside the radio.

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As I listened, the nine o'clock news ended and a program of music was about to begin.

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It was a quarter past nine, 15 minutes till the appointed time for the arrival of the

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dead Patrick.

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This time I did not touch the microphone.

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I went upstairs, opened a camphor chest of old clothes in the spare room, took a tube

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of spirit gum from my pocket and bent forward intently in front of a mirror.

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Sharp on the instant of half past nine, there was a fumbling at the outer door of the house

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and the front door slowly opened.

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And then there were slow, halting footsteps along the short hall to the sitting room where

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an old woman waited.

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And then the sitting room door opened.

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The time has come, Mary.

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Patrick, I'm ready.

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My practical joke had worked to perfection.

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Aunt Mary's poor old heart couldn't stand the strain of seeing her dead husband Patrick

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arrive in person to carry her off into the spirit world.

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I stepped over the body, which had fallen dangerously near the burning fire in the grate.

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I took the poker and thrust some folds of paper that were lying in the ash into the

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fire to bring up a blaze, and in the blaze burned the false beard and side whiskers.

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I detached the wire, fixed into the radio, and took wire and microphone upstairs.

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I undressed and replaced Uncle Patrick's old-fashioned suit of clothes in the camphor

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chest in the spare room where I'd found it.

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Then I dressed again and went off to play bridge at the Ewing's.

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Two days later.

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This is Mrs. Hart.

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I mean, this was Mrs. Hart's residence.

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Oh, just a moment.

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It's Mr. Jepson, sir.

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All right, I'll take it.

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You may go, Elizabeth.

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Yes, sir.

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Ridgeway here.

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Anything wrong?

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Not yet.

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I just wanted you to know that I read about it in the Daily Standard, Ridgeway.

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A pity about poor dear Aunt Mary, don't you think, Mr. Jepson?

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A pity?

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And let me remind you, you have one week left.

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I haven't forgotten.

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Once the newspapers announce my inheritance of 40,000 pounds, I'll have no difficulty

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borrowing.

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And then I'll pay up.

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Good.

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Only remember this, Ridgeway.

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You don't pay up and I send you to the same place you sent to your Aunt Mary.

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You understand?

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00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:19,320
Or maybe it wouldn't be quite the same place, Ridgeway, now that you've got murder on your

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soul.

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Understand?

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I understand, Mr. Jepson.

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00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:34,000
And then, that evening, Dr. Mannell came to the house.

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I really did think you'd want to see this.

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You say Elizabeth brought it to you?

370
00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:39,400
Yes.

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00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,320
She said it was one of Mrs. Harter's last requests that she do so.

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As a matter of fact, I do seem to remember.

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Yes, and I do recall seeing her give Elizabeth some such envelope as that.

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You've read the contents?

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That's what's queer.

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Here, suppose you have a look for yourself.

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All right.

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Tonight, Wednesday, at 9.15, I have distinctly heard the voice of my dead husband.

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He told me that he would come for me on Friday night at 9.30.

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If I should die on that day and at that hour, I should like the facts made known so as to

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prove beyond question the possibility of communicating with the spirit world, Mary Harter.

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What do you make of it?

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I hardly know.

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It's a coincidence, to say the least.

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She did die at nearly that very hour, 9.30 Friday night.

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But I don't understand.

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In the circumstances, an autopsy is desirable, you understand, purely as a metal form.

388
00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:46,160
Yes.

389
00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:47,160
Yes, of course.

390
00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,960
Why not?

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00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:57,640
Of course, everything must be done according to form.

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What's the matter with you, Charles?

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Have you lost your sense of humor?

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Finally, five days later.

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Mr. Hopkinson is here to see you, sir.

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00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:11,640
Thank you, Elizabeth.

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That'll be all.

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Yes, sir.

399
00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:14,640
Good morning, Mr. Ridgeway.

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Fightful morning.

401
00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:22,040
Listen, about Mrs. Harter's, my aunt's will...

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I did not quite understand your insistent messages to me, Mr. Ridgeway.

403
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:30,280
You seem to be under the impression the late Mrs. Harter's will was in our keeping.

404
00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:31,280
Why, yes.

405
00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,160
I've often heard my aunt say as much.

406
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:34,160
Oh, quite so.

407
00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,160
It was in our keeping.

408
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:37,160
Was?

409
00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:38,160
That is what I said.

410
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:42,080
Mrs. Harter wrote to us, however, asking that it be forwarded to her.

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00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:43,480
There seemed to be some haste to the matter.

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00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,440
At any rate, we got it out to her at once.

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00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,440
She would have received it on Friday, the day of her death.

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00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,440
I do seem to remember her making mention of it.

415
00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,200
Something about the bequest to Elizabeth.

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00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,040
She wanted to check the amount.

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00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,480
It must be about the house somewhere then.

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00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,160
Elizabeth has been through Mrs. Harter's personal effects, I believe.

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00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:03,160
Yes, just a moment.

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00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:04,160
I'll call her.

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00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:05,160
Elizabeth!

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00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:06,160
Yes, Mr. Charles?

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00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,160
Elizabeth, come here a moment, please.

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00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:09,160
Yes, sir.

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00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:13,440
Elizabeth, when you went through Mrs. Harter's things, was her will among them?

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00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:14,440
No, sir.

427
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:15,440
You're sure, Elizabeth?

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00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:16,440
Yes, sir.

429
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,440
You see, I know what it looked like.

430
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,920
The poor mistress had it in her hand the very evening of her death when she sent me out.

431
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,400
You're sure of that?

432
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:26,760
Oh, yes, sir.

433
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,000
She pointed out that about the £50 to me, sir.

434
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,000
She said as she told you to give me the other £50.

435
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,440
Not that I mentioned it to press you, sir.

436
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:35,440
No, no, no, no, of course not.

437
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,480
The will was in a long blue envelope, sir.

438
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:39,480
Quite right.

439
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:44,240
The same blue envelope, Mr. Charles, sir, was lying on the radio table by her chair

440
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the morning after, but empty, sir.

441
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:53,440
It was the envelope in which I dispatched the will to your aunt, Mr. Ridgeway.

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00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:57,680
Mr. Ridgeway, was there a fire in the Great on Friday evening?

443
00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,160
Yes, of course.

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00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:00,160
I see.

445
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,560
What are you driving at, Hopkinson?

446
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,680
I'm afraid, Mr. Ridgeway, only one conclusion is possible.

447
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,320
Your aunt sent for her will in order to destroy it.

448
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:09,320
What?

449
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:10,320
I'm sorry, Mr. Ridgeway.

450
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,320
But why?

451
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:12,320
Why?

452
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:17,280
You, uh, you had no disagreement with your aunt, Mr. Ridgeway?

453
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:18,280
Not at all.

454
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,800
We were on the most affectionate terms right up to the end.

455
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,800
Of course, quite.

456
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,560
Mr. Ridgeway, you will understand.

457
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,200
Under the circumstances, we were obliged to investigate.

458
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:29,200
Investigate?

459
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:30,200
What do you mean?

460
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,640
It happens that there is a former will of Mrs. Harter still extant.

461
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:38,360
By it, Mrs. Harter leaves everything to her niece, to your cousin, Miriam.

462
00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:39,360
To Miriam?

463
00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:41,360
Yes, but...

464
00:23:41,360 --> 00:23:46,360
As for the more recent will sent by me before her death to Mrs. Harter, it must have been

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burned in the Great.

466
00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:49,360
Burned?

467
00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:51,360
The will was burned.

468
00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:54,360
Mr. Charles, can I get you something?

469
00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:56,920
No, no, I'll be all right.

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00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:58,360
You may go on, Elizabeth.

471
00:23:58,360 --> 00:23:59,360
Yes.

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00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:02,640
I'll run along too, Mr. Ridgeway, if there is nothing further.

473
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,200
No, I'll, um, I'll telephone.

474
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:06,200
Quite.

475
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,760
Yet there would seem to be little use for that.

476
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,400
We've notified your cousin, Miriam, of her inheritance.

477
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,600
As a matter of fact, I'm surprised you didn't know all this yourself.

478
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,200
You see, we sent word round to the press yesterday.

479
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,200
Well, um, good day, Mr. Ridgeway.

480
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,360
Good day.

481
00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:30,640
I remembered some folds of paper that I thrust into the fire to make it blaze up and burn

482
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:36,320
the false beard and side whiskers with which I'd frightened an old lady to death.

483
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,880
And then I remembered something falling.

484
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,600
A paper.

485
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,360
A will.

486
00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:47,880
From an old woman's fingers as she stood frozen in terror too near the fire.

487
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,600
I saw the fire again consuming something.

488
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:52,600
Consuming the will.

489
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:53,600
Oh, my cleverness.

490
00:24:53,600 --> 00:25:00,600
Your maid said you went in, but I thought she was lying.

491
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,040
I don't like liars, Ridgeway.

492
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:04,040
Mr. Jepson.

493
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:05,920
I read the papers.

494
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,040
I read who's going to inherit your aunt's money.

495
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:10,880
I don't like liars.

496
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,720
But I did think I was going to inherit or, or, or why would I have killed her?

497
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:16,720
You killed her?

498
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:17,720
Of course.

499
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:19,600
Oh, so you did kill her.

500
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,120
How many times do you want me to say it?

501
00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:22,760
I believe that'll do.

502
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,280
All right, Inspector, that's what I wanted you to hear.

503
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:26,280
Come in.

504
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:27,280
What?

505
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:28,280
Bring in the maid, too.

506
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,720
That was very clever of you, Mr. Jepson.

507
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,560
I must confess, I had my doubts.

508
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,920
Now, Mr. Ridgeway, you'd better come along.

509
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,280
But I was only joking.

510
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Young woman.

511
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:40,360
Yes, sir?

512
00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:42,800
You heard Mr. Ridgeway say he killed his aunt?

513
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,120
I did, sir, but he must have been joking.

514
00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:46,120
He was...

515
00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:47,120
Never mind.

516
00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:48,120
That's enough.

517
00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:52,800
By the way, Mr. Ridgeway, you'll be interested to know, and I'm sure that we check with

518
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,200
Dr. Menell on the autopsy.

519
00:25:55,200 --> 00:26:00,280
According to his report, your aunt's heart was so weak, she could not have lived another

520
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:01,280
month.

521
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:06,000
What... what are you laughing at?

522
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,080
That's your joke, old man.

523
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,080
Oh, your joke.

524
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:12,080
Yes.

525
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:18,320
It's just funny, isn't it?

526
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:19,320
Very funny.

527
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:49,080
Thank you, James Mason and Pamela Colino for a splendid performance.

528
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,680
Now, Harlow Wilcox.

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542
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Now here again is James Mason and wife Pamela Colino.

543
00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:01,720
I hope you both enjoyed being on suspense tonight and especially you, Mrs. Mason, even

544
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,520
though the part of Elizabeth was small.

545
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,360
Oh yes, it was a lot of fun.

546
00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:09,080
You see, James and I learned a long time ago that it's not how loud the part is, but how

547
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:10,960
much fun you have playing it.

548
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:15,000
Besides, next time Tony Leader has promised to find a script for me in which James can

549
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,080
play a butler or a cat or something.

550
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:18,800
How about that, Mrs. Mason?

551
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,680
I'm looking forward to it.

552
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:27,800
And we're looking forward to, to next week when Joan Fontaine will star in The Lovebirds,

553
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:38,040
another gripping study in suspense.

554
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:43,680
James Mason and Pamela Colino have just completed the book, The Cats in Our Lives.

555
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:48,600
Tonight's suspense play was adapted from the Agatha Christie story by William Fifield.

556
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,560
Music was composed by Lucien Morrowek and conducted by Lud Gluskin.

557
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:56,920
The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Leader.

558
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,480
Now here is great news.

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00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:03,520
Beginning March 1st, Suspense on Television may be seen in many areas of the country,

560
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Tuesdays at 9.30 p.m. Eastern Time.

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00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:17,320
You can buy auto light electrical parts, auto light resistor spark plugs, auto light staple

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batteries at your neighborhood auto light dealer.

563
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Switch to auto light.

564
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,400
Good night.

565
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:40,040
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.