WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:10.000 --> 00:13.000 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Mr. Edward G. Robinson 00:13.000 --> 00:18.000 in A Case of Nerves, a suspense play produced and edited by William Spear. 00:22.000 --> 00:24.000 Say, Hap, where'd you get that medal? 00:24.000 --> 00:26.000 Won it at the carnival last night, Harlow. 00:26.000 --> 00:29.000 Shot tin clay pigeons out of tin. 00:29.000 --> 00:33.000 Well, that's real firing, Hap. Sure is an Auto Light spark plug. 00:33.000 --> 00:36.000 Guess I qualify as an expert, eh, Wilcox? 00:36.000 --> 00:39.000 Well, Hap, the clay pigeon field is a bit limited. 00:39.000 --> 00:43.000 But take Auto Light engineers. 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Robinson, 01:30.000 --> 01:34.000 Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 01:42.000 --> 01:46.000 I got off the train in Toledo and walked through the station to the street. 01:46.000 --> 01:49.000 I passed up the waiting taxi and swung aboard a bus. 01:49.000 --> 01:53.000 Taxi drivers are likely to remember you and I couldn't take a chance on that. 01:53.000 --> 01:56.000 I hadn't paid any attention to the bus. 01:56.000 --> 01:58.000 I didn't know what the line was or where it was going. 01:58.000 --> 02:01.000 It didn't make any difference. I didn't know Toledo very well anyway. 02:01.000 --> 02:06.000 I watched out the window and when I came to a likely neighborhood, I got off. 02:06.000 --> 02:08.000 Strange, unfamiliar quarter of the city, 02:08.000 --> 02:12.000 yet familiar because every city has neighborhoods like it. 02:12.000 --> 02:15.000 Grabbed faceless houses looking almost alike. 02:15.000 --> 02:20.000 And then most of them grabbed men and women anxious to make a dollar by renting a room. 02:20.000 --> 02:23.000 Now this here is a nice room. 02:23.000 --> 02:25.000 The best one I got. 02:25.000 --> 02:27.000 Two windows on two sides. 02:27.000 --> 02:29.000 There's a nice soft bed. 02:29.000 --> 02:30.000 I'll take it. 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 How long you figure on staying? 02:32.000 --> 02:34.000 Oh, just overnight. 02:34.000 --> 02:35.000 I'll pay you now. 02:35.000 --> 02:37.000 Oh, well that's two dollars please. 02:37.000 --> 02:39.000 Yeah. Oh. 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 What's the matter, mister? 02:41.000 --> 02:42.000 Are you sick? 02:42.000 --> 02:44.000 Yes, I'm very sick. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 Is there a doctor near here? 02:46.000 --> 02:49.000 Hey, you are sick. 02:49.000 --> 02:52.000 Yeah, I think I'll go to bed. 02:52.000 --> 02:53.000 That doctor... 02:53.000 --> 02:56.000 Oh, yeah, yeah. There's Dr. Martin just around the corner. 02:56.000 --> 02:57.000 He's young, but he's good. 02:57.000 --> 02:59.000 Well, would you call him for me, please? 02:59.000 --> 03:01.000 Ask him to come right up. Oh. 03:01.000 --> 03:03.000 Yeah, sure. Right away. 03:11.000 --> 03:13.000 Come in. 03:13.000 --> 03:15.000 I'm Dr. Martin. You're Mr. 03:15.000 --> 03:18.000 My name is Wentworth, doctor. James Wentworth. 03:18.000 --> 03:19.000 Oh, yes. 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 I just got into town. I'm afraid I'm in for my old trouble again. 03:22.000 --> 03:23.000 Oh, what's that, Mr. Wentworth? 03:23.000 --> 03:25.000 Trigeminal neuralgia. 03:25.000 --> 03:26.000 Ah. 03:26.000 --> 03:27.000 I had bad attacks before. 03:27.000 --> 03:28.000 Just where is the pain? 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 Here and here. 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 Oh, yes. Now if you'll... 03:32.000 --> 03:33.000 No, no, no, no, no. Don't touch it. 03:33.000 --> 03:36.000 It's like a red-hot iron. Even the tractor bear. 03:36.000 --> 03:37.000 I know. 03:37.000 --> 03:39.000 Really, you should have that nerve operated. 03:39.000 --> 03:41.000 Yes, I am going to have it down when I get home. 03:41.000 --> 03:42.000 Oh, where's that? 03:42.000 --> 03:43.000 Cleveland. 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 Cleveland. I know a lot of men there. Who's your doctor? 03:45.000 --> 03:47.000 Uh, Dr. Fletcher. 03:47.000 --> 03:48.000 Lawrence Fletcher. 03:48.000 --> 03:51.000 No, no, Andrew. Andrew Fletcher. 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 Hmm. I don't recall him. 03:53.000 --> 03:55.000 He's waiting to clear up a heart condition before he operates. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 Oh, yes. Very sound. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 Now, how did this attack come on? 03:59.000 --> 04:01.000 Oh, the way they always do. 04:01.000 --> 04:04.000 I was shaving and I touched a nerve with the razor. 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 Oh, yes. The trigger point is very typical. 04:06.000 --> 04:10.000 Now, that doesn't help me when that nerve starts jumping. 04:10.000 --> 04:11.000 When will you be back in Cleveland? 04:11.000 --> 04:12.000 About three days. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 I'll give you a prescription. 04:14.000 --> 04:17.000 This is morphine, quarter grain. 04:17.000 --> 04:18.000 You've taken it before? 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 Yes, that's the only thing that gives me any relief. 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 Well, then I don't have to tell you about it. 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 I'll drop this off at the drug store and have them send it up. 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 Well, thank you, doctor. Tell them to hurry. 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 Then I'd better give you a shot right now. 04:28.000 --> 04:29.000 Hmm? Oh, uh... 04:29.000 --> 04:30.000 Huh? 04:30.000 --> 04:33.000 You know, doctor, I think the pain isn't so bad now. 04:33.000 --> 04:35.000 I don't like to take more than I have to. 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 Oh, well, if you're sure you can get along... 04:38.000 --> 04:41.000 Well, yes, yes. I can make out all right. 04:41.000 --> 04:44.000 I'll hold the tablets, and till later. 04:50.000 --> 04:54.000 I paid Dr. Martin, young Dr. Martin of Toledo, and he left. 04:54.000 --> 04:57.000 I waited for the package to arrive from the drug store. 04:57.000 --> 05:01.000 Then I stayed the night so the landlady wouldn't think it was peculiar. 05:01.000 --> 05:04.000 In the morning, I got on the train and went back to Cleveland 05:04.000 --> 05:08.000 to the hospital with the little white tablets in my pocket, 05:08.000 --> 05:12.000 the little white tablets with which I would kill Louise. 05:19.000 --> 05:23.000 It had been so simple to deceive the young, impressionable doctor, 05:23.000 --> 05:27.000 so simple to counterfeit the symptoms that I'd seen Louise react to 05:27.000 --> 05:29.000 for four years now, 05:29.000 --> 05:31.000 I would keep her in bed for four years more. 05:31.000 --> 05:33.000 Great. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 But 20. 05:35.000 --> 05:39.000 I live with a tick doler-er, a painful nerve so long. 05:39.000 --> 05:42.000 Too long. Too long indeed. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 Dr. Van Tue had come every day now. 05:44.000 --> 05:47.000 The nurse had to be on hand day and night to combat Louise's attacks, 05:47.000 --> 05:50.000 to quiet the raging nerve with morphine. 05:50.000 --> 05:53.000 But not for long. 05:53.000 --> 05:57.000 In my pocket were the little white tablets that would bring her peace. 05:57.000 --> 06:00.000 I went into the hospital kitchen. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 Oh, hello, Mr. B. 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 Oh, hello, Nellie. I'd like to bring Mrs. Baker a milk. 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 Of course. 06:06.000 --> 06:09.000 And just give it a touch of the fire to take the chill out. 06:09.000 --> 06:11.000 I've missed you. 06:11.000 --> 06:12.000 Been away, I hear, Mr. Baker. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 Yes, I had to go out of town. 06:14.000 --> 06:17.000 And you ask me, it's a good thing. For you, I mean. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 You needed a change. 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 The hospital day after day was telling on you. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Oh, I don't think so. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 Yes, it was. I could see. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 You're a good man, Mr. Baker. 06:27.000 --> 06:29.000 Believe me, it's like a saint you're burying your trials. 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 Not like some others I could mention. 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 Well, isn't the milk ready, Nellie? 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 There we are. 06:35.000 --> 06:37.000 Spoonful of sugar. 06:37.000 --> 06:38.000 Just the way Mrs. Baker likes it. 06:38.000 --> 06:39.000 Thank you, Nellie. 06:39.000 --> 06:40.000 And give Mrs. Baker my regards. 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 Yes, I'll do that, Nellie. 06:42.000 --> 06:48.000 Now, it was just a matter of stepping into an alcove on the way to Louise's room. 06:48.000 --> 06:51.000 Dropping the white tablets into the warm milk. 06:51.000 --> 06:54.000 Sugar would mask the bitter taste. 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 Oh, here. 06:56.000 --> 06:58.000 An ideal spot. 06:58.000 --> 06:59.000 Mr. Baker. 06:59.000 --> 07:00.000 Huh? 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 Oh, nurse. 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 Did I startle you? I didn't mean to. 07:04.000 --> 07:05.000 No, no, of course not. 07:05.000 --> 07:07.000 Oh, bringing Mrs. Baker her milk, I see. 07:07.000 --> 07:09.000 Well, I'm going up there myself. May I keep you company? 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 Yes, of course, of course. 07:14.000 --> 07:18.000 Nurse White walked beside me to Louise's room. 07:18.000 --> 07:21.000 The chance with the night was gone. 07:21.000 --> 07:24.000 Another night of pain for Louise. 07:24.000 --> 07:27.000 I felt the sudden anger of the nurse. 07:27.000 --> 07:30.000 And a moment later I realized how unreasonable it was. 07:30.000 --> 07:36.000 It was hard to be angry with anyone so pert, so alive, so beautiful. 07:36.000 --> 07:40.000 Even in her severe uniform she managed to remain feminine. 07:40.000 --> 07:42.000 Provocative. 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 It was always a flower at her shoulder. 07:44.000 --> 07:48.000 Today it was a sprig of flowering dogwood. 07:48.000 --> 07:54.000 And her quiet, unprofessional perfume was an exciting tingle in my nostrils. 07:54.000 --> 07:57.000 Then we were in front of Louise's door. 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 Hello, Mrs. Baker. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Look what I brought you. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 Albert, dear. 08:03.000 --> 08:04.000 Hello, darling. 08:04.000 --> 08:08.000 Oh, I'm so glad you're back, darling. I missed you. 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 I missed you too. 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 Here's your milk. 08:12.000 --> 08:14.000 You never forget, do you, Albert? 08:14.000 --> 08:15.000 How was your day? 08:15.000 --> 08:18.000 Just fine. Wasn't it, Miss White? 08:18.000 --> 08:22.000 Oh, yes, Mrs. Baker. A very good day, all things considered. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 Well, I'm glad. 08:24.000 --> 08:26.000 I brought you something else, Louise. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 Oh, the locket. 08:28.000 --> 08:31.000 Oh, thank you, Albert, for remembering. 08:31.000 --> 08:34.000 Look, Maris, isn't it beautiful? 08:34.000 --> 08:38.000 Oh, oh, it is. It's an old piece, isn't it? 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 It belonged to my mother. 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 I had to hunt all over the house for it. 08:42.000 --> 08:45.000 Whatever gave you the sudden notion you wanted it anyway? 08:45.000 --> 08:47.000 I don't know. 08:47.000 --> 08:52.000 I've had a feeling I'll be joining Mother soon. 08:52.000 --> 08:55.000 Oh, Louise, please don't talk that way. 08:55.000 --> 08:59.000 Now, Mrs. Baker, you're going to be up on your feet before you know it. 08:59.000 --> 09:02.000 And that's almost enough talking tonight, Mr. Baker. 09:02.000 --> 09:03.000 No. 09:03.000 --> 09:06.000 Mrs. Baker, do you want me to leave a tablet for you? 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 Yes, thank you, dear. 09:08.000 --> 09:11.000 Here you are. I hope you don't need to take it. 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 Well, good night. 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 Good night, Miss White. 09:17.000 --> 09:20.000 The tablet. 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 You've been taking it every night? 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 Well, I try not to. 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 But lately the pain... 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 Yes, I know, I know. 09:30.000 --> 09:33.000 Oh, Albert, dear, you deserve something better than this. 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 Oh, please, please, dear. 09:35.000 --> 09:39.000 Enough, your nose to the grindstone to pay for the doctors and nurses. 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 Oh, don't worry. 09:41.000 --> 09:44.000 A little handball at the club and then in this room. 09:44.000 --> 09:48.000 Yes, but you're going to get better, dear. You must believe the doctor. 09:48.000 --> 09:50.000 That's what Pauline says. 09:50.000 --> 09:51.000 Pauline? 09:51.000 --> 09:52.000 The nurse. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 Oh, yes, yes, yes, of course. 09:54.000 --> 09:57.000 Is she looking out for you all right? 09:57.000 --> 09:59.000 She's a dear. 09:59.000 --> 10:01.000 And very pretty, don't you think? 10:01.000 --> 10:04.000 Pretty? Yes, I suppose so. I have noticed. 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 I used to be pretty. 10:06.000 --> 10:10.000 You used to embarrass me sometimes the way you looked at me. 10:10.000 --> 10:13.000 But you're still beautiful, Louise. 10:13.000 --> 10:14.000 You'll always be. 10:14.000 --> 10:16.000 I'm sorry, dear. 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 I won't talk like that again. 10:18.000 --> 10:22.000 You'd better go now, Albert. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 I'll try to sleep. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 Yes. Well, good night, dear. 10:26.000 --> 10:28.000 I'll see you tomorrow. 10:34.000 --> 10:35.000 Mr. Baker. 10:35.000 --> 10:37.000 Oh, Miss White. 10:37.000 --> 10:38.000 I thought you'd gone. 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 I wanted to talk to you, Mr. Baker. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 It's about Mrs. Baker. 10:42.000 --> 10:45.000 She worries me. Her mental state is very low. 10:45.000 --> 10:48.000 You heard how she talked about her mother, the locket. 10:48.000 --> 10:49.000 Yes, I heard. 10:49.000 --> 10:50.000 She needs something. 10:50.000 --> 10:53.000 I don't know what to snap her out of this mood. 10:53.000 --> 10:56.000 I just thought I'd mention it to you. 10:56.000 --> 10:57.000 Here's the eggs. 10:57.000 --> 11:00.000 Oh, uh, where are you going? 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 To put the morphine away. 11:02.000 --> 11:06.000 You know, I don't see why Dr. Van Tue doesn't give her more of that stuff. 11:06.000 --> 11:07.000 She needs it. 11:07.000 --> 11:10.000 Yet you ration it out as though it were poison. 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 Well, it is poison, Mr. Baker. 11:12.000 --> 11:15.000 I was particularly careful about Mrs. Baker. 11:15.000 --> 11:17.000 But you don't think she'd actually... 11:17.000 --> 11:22.000 Well, usually the ones who talk about it don't do it, Mr. Baker, so I wouldn't worry. 11:22.000 --> 11:23.000 Good night. 11:23.000 --> 11:24.000 Wait a minute. 11:24.000 --> 11:25.000 Yes? 11:25.000 --> 11:27.000 Miss White. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 Pauline, isn't it? 11:29.000 --> 11:33.000 Why, yes. I didn't think you knew. 11:33.000 --> 11:39.000 Well, would you mind, uh, when we were alone, if I called you Pauline? 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 I'd like it. 11:41.000 --> 11:46.000 Thanks. Well, you know, this is an awful thing to ask, but... 11:46.000 --> 11:49.000 Well, you know, it's been pretty lonely for me. 11:49.000 --> 11:52.000 Oh, yes, I know. That is, I can guess. 11:52.000 --> 11:56.000 Well, would you... would you let me take you to dinner this evening? 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 White. 11:58.000 --> 12:01.000 Thank you, Mr. Baker. I'd love it. 12:01.000 --> 12:03.000 I'm off duty at eight. 12:03.000 --> 12:04.000 Well, I'll pick you up then. 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 And, uh, Pauline... 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 Yes, Mr. Baker? 12:08.000 --> 12:11.000 My name... my name's Albert. 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 At eight then. Albert. 12:19.000 --> 12:22.000 My heart sang. 12:22.000 --> 12:25.000 She was perfect. Everything was perfect. 12:25.000 --> 12:28.000 I had my poison. I had my witnesses. 12:28.000 --> 12:33.000 Louise had said just the right things in their presence, talking about her locket, making her veiled hints at suicide. 12:33.000 --> 12:36.000 How beautifully everything fell into place. 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 I started to open the lobby door when I heard my name. 12:38.000 --> 12:40.000 Oh, Baker. I say, Baker. 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 Oh, Dr. Van Ture. How are you? 12:42.000 --> 12:46.000 Fine, fine. Say, I want you to meet someone. This is Dr. Martin of Toledo. 12:48.000 --> 12:50.000 I looked at him. 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 I had a man who stepped forward to shake hands with me. 12:53.000 --> 12:55.000 And my mouth went dry. 12:55.000 --> 12:59.000 This was Dr. Martin of Toledo who had given me my murder prescription. 12:59.000 --> 13:03.000 The eager, bumptious young man who stood there now looking straight into my eyes and saying... 13:03.000 --> 13:06.000 Hello. How's that bad nerve of yours? 13:15.000 --> 13:19.000 Autolite is bringing you Edward G. Robinson in a case of nerves. 13:19.000 --> 13:25.000 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:25.000 --> 13:28.780 The 13:32.000 --> 13:36.000 Say, Harlow. I had my fortune told at the carnival, too. 13:36.000 --> 13:39.000 Oh, that's so. 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Couldn't even turn and hide. 15:04.000 --> 15:09.000 Dr. Martin stared at me a minute, unbelievably, and his jaw hardened. 15:09.000 --> 15:14.000 After a long time, he put out his hand. Because there was nothing else to do, I took it. 15:14.000 --> 15:18.000 Oh, this is Mr. Baker, doctor. It's his wife who has this trigeminal condition. 15:18.000 --> 15:19.000 His wife, eh? 15:19.000 --> 15:23.000 Yes, of course. You didn't think I meant Mr. Baker, did you? He's as strong as an ox. 15:23.000 --> 15:25.000 Yes, I can see that now. 15:25.000 --> 15:30.000 I ran into Dr. Martin in the doctor's lounge, Baker. He was telling me about a case he just saw on Toledo. 15:30.000 --> 15:35.000 It was Toledo, wasn't it, Martin? Symptoms were remarkably similar to Mrs. Baker's, remarkably. 15:35.000 --> 15:39.000 I thought he might like to look in on Mrs. Baker. You don't mind? 15:39.000 --> 15:41.000 She's sleeping, I think. 15:41.000 --> 15:43.000 Oh, it's too bad. Well, another time perhaps, eh, doctor? 15:43.000 --> 15:44.000 Oh, yes, certainly, doctor. 15:44.000 --> 15:48.000 Well, I've got to run. Glad I ran into you, Martin. Have lunch sometime, eh? 15:48.000 --> 15:49.000 Yes, glad to. 15:49.000 --> 15:50.000 I'll see you later, Baker. 15:50.000 --> 15:51.000 Yes, sure, doctor, sure. 15:51.000 --> 15:53.000 I'll have to be going myself now, Mr. Baker. 15:53.000 --> 15:57.000 Oh, wait. Wait, doctor. I want to talk to you. 15:57.000 --> 15:59.000 Don't see that there's anything to talk about? 15:59.000 --> 16:05.000 Yes, but there is. I want you to know that I, eh, what happened in Toledo yesterday. 16:05.000 --> 16:07.000 You don't have to explain. I understand. 16:07.000 --> 16:12.000 You understand? But you didn't say anything to Dr. Van Ture? 16:12.000 --> 16:14.000 Well, why should I? It's none of my business. 16:14.000 --> 16:17.000 None of my... none of your business? 16:17.000 --> 16:20.000 Of course. I admit I didn't have you tagged as an addict. 16:20.000 --> 16:21.000 Addict? 16:21.000 --> 16:27.000 Yes. You don't look like one, and that trick of refusing an immediate shot, well, I've got to hand it to you. 16:27.000 --> 16:32.000 You fooled me completely, and using your wife's symptoms. Very clever. 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 I don't doubt you can get a supply whenever you need it with that routine. 16:34.000 --> 16:36.000 Oh, no, no, no, no, I assure you. 16:36.000 --> 16:38.000 Oh, please, don't bother to lie to me. 16:39.000 --> 16:42.000 I guess I ought to thank you for teaching me that trick. 16:42.000 --> 16:45.000 It won't work again on this baby, believe me. 16:45.000 --> 16:51.000 And now if you'll excuse me, Mr. Baker, or Mr. Wentworth, I'm heading for a spot of handball. 16:51.000 --> 16:53.000 Oh, wait, eh... 16:53.000 --> 16:54.000 Yes? 16:54.000 --> 16:57.000 No hard feelings? 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 No, no, of course not. 17:00.000 --> 17:06.000 Look, Doctor, if you really mean that about no hard feelings, and if you haven't got a partner, 17:06.000 --> 17:09.000 well, I... I play a pretty good game. 17:11.000 --> 17:14.000 Now, that's what I call a switch, anyway. 17:14.000 --> 17:24.000 All right, hop in. 17:28.000 --> 17:31.000 An addict. He took me for an addict. 17:31.000 --> 17:35.000 Working on any dodge I could to get a supply of dope. 17:35.000 --> 17:42.000 Yes, but later when he heard of Louisa's death, he'd remember. 17:42.000 --> 17:47.000 I had no idea what I was going to do. I only knew that I couldn't let him go. 17:47.000 --> 17:52.000 He drove me over to the athletic club. He wasn't a member, but he held a courtesy card from the Toledo club, 17:52.000 --> 17:56.000 and he signed me in as his guest, laughing as James Wentworth. 17:56.000 --> 17:59.000 He was a fast man on the court, younger too. 17:59.000 --> 18:05.000 I'd have had a hard time keeping up with him in any circumstances, but as it was, he beat me easily. 18:05.000 --> 18:09.000 I could think of only one thing. That he was dangerous. 18:09.000 --> 18:14.000 Dangerous, and I had to get rid of him somehow. 18:14.000 --> 18:17.000 That's a nice backhand you've got there, Baker. 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 Wish I could handle those tough ones half as well. 18:19.000 --> 18:24.000 Never mind the compliments, Doc. They'll just remember the final score and be satisfied. 18:24.000 --> 18:27.000 Hey, how about a sweat out? They've got a good steam room here. 18:27.000 --> 18:28.000 Sounds good to me. 18:28.000 --> 18:32.000 Here, this way then. Oh, take your towel. 18:34.000 --> 18:38.000 Boy! Oh boy, this is hot. 18:38.000 --> 18:39.000 Sit on your towel. 18:39.000 --> 18:40.000 Good idea. 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 You know, it was lucky for me you came along. 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 Place is dead today, not a soul here. 18:46.000 --> 18:47.000 I enjoyed it. 18:48.000 --> 18:49.000 Oh, hot, isn't it? 18:51.000 --> 18:54.000 Say, Baker, you know, I misjudged you. 18:54.000 --> 18:55.000 Sorry. 18:55.000 --> 18:56.000 Oh, that's all right. Forget it. 18:56.000 --> 19:00.000 You know, you really could do something for your...trouble. 19:00.000 --> 19:01.000 Yeah? 19:01.000 --> 19:04.000 We've got a sanitarium in Toledo that's been having pretty good luck with addiction lately. 19:04.000 --> 19:05.000 I scarcely heard him. 19:05.000 --> 19:09.000 I only realized that we were alone, cloudy and steamy. 19:09.000 --> 19:13.000 Not even visible to any casually curious person looking through the glass square in the door. 19:13.000 --> 19:16.000 This was my chance. I'd never get another like it. 19:16.000 --> 19:17.000 I picked up my towel. 19:17.000 --> 19:18.000 What are you doing? 19:18.000 --> 19:21.000 I'm sorry, Martin, but there's no other way. 19:25.000 --> 19:30.000 I whipped my towel over his head and got behind him where his flailing arms couldn't reach. 19:30.000 --> 19:34.000 I didn't want to leave any marks on him. 19:34.000 --> 19:37.000 With my free hand, I covered his mouth and pinched his nostrils shut through the towel. 19:37.000 --> 19:38.000 He fought hard. 19:38.000 --> 19:43.000 But in a few minutes, he hung limp in my arms. 19:43.000 --> 19:47.000 And after a few minutes more, I knew he was dead. 19:47.000 --> 19:50.000 I left him there, hidden in the steam. 19:50.000 --> 19:54.000 In the locker room, I desperately parted my hair on the wrong side 19:54.000 --> 19:57.000 and plastered it down and away I found him. 19:57.000 --> 20:01.000 A man at the reception desk barely glanced at me as I passed him. 20:01.000 --> 20:05.000 Later when they found Martin, they'd look for a man named Wentworth. 20:05.000 --> 20:08.000 They never find him because he didn't exist. 20:14.000 --> 20:16.000 It wasn't even that close. 20:16.000 --> 20:20.000 The papers reporting Martin's death put the cause down to heart failure 20:20.000 --> 20:23.000 brought on by the shock of exercise. 20:23.000 --> 20:27.000 They didn't mention a companion. It wasn't important. 20:27.000 --> 20:29.000 And I waited anyway. 20:29.000 --> 20:30.000 A week. 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 Waited and watched carefully. 20:32.000 --> 20:39.000 Because now not only Louisa's future was at stake, but my own and Pauline's. 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 There's the nurse's quarters, darling. 20:42.000 --> 20:43.000 Better not come any nearer. 20:43.000 --> 20:45.000 Oh, Pauline, dearest. 20:45.000 --> 20:47.000 I know, darling, I know. 20:47.000 --> 20:49.000 I'm sorry. 20:49.000 --> 20:53.000 You must let go now. I'm late already. 20:53.000 --> 20:54.000 Albert. 20:54.000 --> 20:55.000 Yes, dear. 20:55.000 --> 20:58.000 I'm leaving the hospital. I'm taking a job in Chicago. 20:58.000 --> 20:59.000 You're what? 20:59.000 --> 21:01.000 Yes. This is hopeless. I can't stand it. 21:01.000 --> 21:05.000 Taking care of your wife, smiling at her, seeing the two of you together. 21:05.000 --> 21:08.000 But you can't do it. I couldn't live without you. 21:08.000 --> 21:09.000 Now that I found you... 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 What do you think this is going to do to me? 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 But I can't. When are you going? 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 I'm giving notice tomorrow. 21:15.000 --> 21:19.000 Tomorrow? 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 Oh, my darling. 21:21.000 --> 21:23.000 Goodbye. 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 Pauline! 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 She was gone. 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 She said goodbye. 21:36.000 --> 21:38.000 Signed you what you meant. 21:38.000 --> 21:42.000 When I saw her again, with me in the hospital across Louisa's bed, 21:42.000 --> 21:45.000 she'd be Miss White and I'd be Mr. Baker. 21:45.000 --> 21:48.000 Oh, no, I couldn't stand that now. 21:48.000 --> 21:51.000 Yes, but there was one sure way to hold her. 21:51.000 --> 21:54.000 The little white tablets were still in my pocket. 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 Louise? 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 Albert, dear. 22:08.000 --> 22:10.000 I brought you your milk. 22:10.000 --> 22:13.000 Oh, thank you, dear. 22:13.000 --> 22:15.000 Hold this, will you, please? 22:15.000 --> 22:17.000 What's that? Oh, your locket. 22:17.000 --> 22:20.000 It's beautiful, isn't it? 22:20.000 --> 22:24.000 Who shall I leave it to, I wonder? 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 Miss White. 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 She's a sweet girl. 22:28.000 --> 22:30.000 Oh, Louise, now don't talk that way. 22:30.000 --> 22:31.000 Louise, you're not going to... 22:31.000 --> 22:34.000 I'd like her to have it. 22:34.000 --> 22:40.000 I'll take the milk now, Albert. 22:44.000 --> 22:46.000 She drank it. 22:46.000 --> 22:51.000 I had to clench my jaws to keep from crying out. 22:51.000 --> 22:56.000 She smiled and held out the empty glass to me. 22:56.000 --> 22:58.000 And it was over. 22:58.000 --> 23:02.000 I went home and talked sleeplessly, waiting... 23:02.000 --> 23:05.000 waiting for the inevitable. 23:07.000 --> 23:12.000 Hello? Yes? Yes? 23:12.000 --> 23:17.000 No. No, no, I'll be right over. 23:23.000 --> 23:26.000 Dr. Van Tue was outside Louise's room in a white-faced Pauline... 23:26.000 --> 23:29.000 and nearly from the kitchen as I hurried up the corridor. 23:29.000 --> 23:30.000 Oh, Baker. 23:30.000 --> 23:32.000 Oh, doctor. Doctor, can I go in? 23:32.000 --> 23:34.000 No. Baker, your wife is dead. 23:34.000 --> 23:37.000 What? Dead? 23:37.000 --> 23:39.000 Oh, but I don't understand. 23:39.000 --> 23:42.000 I thought she was imprudent with you, that you planned to operate. 23:42.000 --> 23:44.000 She died of an overdose of morphine. 23:44.000 --> 23:47.000 Oh, Mr. Baker, I'm terribly sorry. 23:47.000 --> 23:48.000 I am too, Mr. Baker. 23:48.000 --> 23:50.000 Yes, but how could she get it? 23:50.000 --> 23:52.000 That's what I intend to find out. 23:52.000 --> 23:55.000 She took it in this glass of milk. There are traces left. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 Nellie here says you brought it up to her. 23:57.000 --> 23:58.000 I didn't want to, Mr. Baker. 23:58.000 --> 24:00.000 Nellie. Well, of course I took it up. 24:00.000 --> 24:03.000 I did every night. Everybody in the hospital knows that. 24:03.000 --> 24:04.000 Yes, I knew it also. 24:04.000 --> 24:06.000 Was anybody in the room when you brought it? 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 No, no, no, just Louise. 24:08.000 --> 24:09.000 And you saw her drink the milk? 24:09.000 --> 24:13.000 No, no, doctor. She didn't drink it then, not until after I'd gone. 24:13.000 --> 24:14.000 She did that frequently. 24:14.000 --> 24:15.000 But that's right, doctor. 24:15.000 --> 24:17.000 Yes, I know that too. 24:17.000 --> 24:21.000 Only last night before she drank it, she managed to dissolve in it a lethal dose of morphine. 24:21.000 --> 24:24.000 I've checked the hospital supply. Every tablet is accounted for. 24:24.000 --> 24:27.000 We keep a very strict count, you know. 24:27.000 --> 24:28.000 Yes, I know that. 24:28.000 --> 24:30.000 Have you anything to say, Baker? 24:30.000 --> 24:34.000 Well, I... I hardly know. I... I'm stunned. 24:34.000 --> 24:38.000 Doctor, what do you mean? Surely you're not accusing Mr. Baker. 24:38.000 --> 24:41.000 I'm not accusing anyone. That will be up to the police. 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, doctor. You're making a mistake. 24:43.000 --> 24:44.000 It seems perfectly clear... 24:44.000 --> 24:45.000 Yes, but I didn't kill her. 24:45.000 --> 24:49.000 Oh, no? Then how did she die? 24:49.000 --> 24:52.000 Well, she... she took her own life. 24:52.000 --> 24:55.000 She'd hinted more than once. Miss White, you remember? 24:55.000 --> 24:57.000 Yes, doctor. I spoke to Mr. Baker about it myself. 24:57.000 --> 24:59.000 You know she was very depressed. 24:59.000 --> 25:02.000 That's true, nurse, but the morphine, it must have come from the outside. 25:02.000 --> 25:03.000 We'd have missed it. 25:03.000 --> 25:05.000 No, wait a minute. 25:05.000 --> 25:07.000 The tablet you left for her each night. 25:07.000 --> 25:08.000 Yes, I ordered that. 25:08.000 --> 25:11.000 What of it? Instead of taking it, she saved it. 25:11.000 --> 25:12.000 Oh, I... 25:12.000 --> 25:15.000 Well, she must have. It's the only way it could have happened. 25:15.000 --> 25:17.000 Well, that's it, doctor. It must be. 25:17.000 --> 25:21.000 For the past week, she's been exhausted and drawn in the morning, yet the tablets were always gone. 25:21.000 --> 25:24.000 Well, if that's the case, nurse, how does it happen that you failed to find them? 25:24.000 --> 25:27.000 She couldn't leave her bed. You bathed her and changed the linen every day. 25:27.000 --> 25:28.000 The locket. 25:28.000 --> 25:29.000 The locket? 25:29.000 --> 25:32.000 Yes. Yes, of course. 25:32.000 --> 25:36.000 You remember, Miss White, she made such a point of asking me to bring it to her, 25:36.000 --> 25:38.000 and then the way she talked about joining her mother. 25:38.000 --> 25:40.000 Yes, I do. I do remember. 25:40.000 --> 25:42.000 She wanted you to have the locket, Pauline. 25:42.000 --> 25:45.000 It was her last wish. Now, where is it? 25:45.000 --> 25:49.000 I, uh, I have it here. It was clutched in her hand. 25:49.000 --> 25:50.000 Let's... 25:50.000 --> 25:54.000 Hmm. 25:54.000 --> 25:58.000 Police headquarters, please. 25:58.000 --> 26:00.000 You... you have to notify them? 26:00.000 --> 26:02.000 Yes, I do. 26:02.000 --> 26:05.000 Police headquarters, give me homicide. 26:05.000 --> 26:06.000 Homicide? 26:06.000 --> 26:07.000 Yes, I'll wait. 26:07.000 --> 26:11.000 Are you out of your mind? 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