WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.160 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Herbert Marshall in tonight's presentation 00:12.160 --> 00:15.160 of Suspense. 00:15.160 --> 00:25.160 Tonight, Auto Light presents part two of one of the most famous of all literary puzzles, 00:25.160 --> 00:33.520 Charles Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Groove, our star, Mr. Herbert Marshall. 00:33.520 --> 00:38.800 Hello, Senator. 00:38.800 --> 00:40.400 How's our legislative leader? 00:40.400 --> 00:44.400 Harlow, what's this I hear about you being up for assault and battery? 00:44.400 --> 00:46.840 Now, that's a stay full battery, Senator. 00:46.840 --> 00:48.760 The Auto Light stay full. 00:48.760 --> 00:53.600 That fit, fine, and famous battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car 00:53.600 --> 00:54.600 use. 00:54.600 --> 00:55.600 You're not in trouble. 00:55.600 --> 00:58.520 Ah, not with an Auto Light stay full, Senator. 00:58.520 --> 01:03.240 Fiberglass mats protect every positive plate against shedding and flaking to give the Auto 01:03.240 --> 01:08.360 Light stay full battery longer life, as proved by tests conducted according to accepted life 01:08.360 --> 01:09.360 cycle standards. 01:09.360 --> 01:13.640 Then my Auto Light battery dealer will substantiate that story, Harlow? 01:13.640 --> 01:18.840 He sure will, Senator, and he's the expert who services all makes of batteries. 01:18.840 --> 01:23.360 Friends, to quickly locate your nearest Auto Light battery dealer, call Western Union by 01:23.360 --> 01:25.320 number and ask for operator 25. 01:25.320 --> 01:29.600 I'd gladly tell you the name of your nearest Auto Light battery dealer where you can get 01:29.600 --> 01:30.960 an Auto Light stay full. 01:30.960 --> 01:35.520 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 01:35.520 --> 01:40.720 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:40.720 --> 01:48.640 And now, Auto Light presents Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Groove, starring Mr. Herbert 01:48.640 --> 02:05.360 Marshall, hoping once again to keep you in suspense. 02:05.360 --> 02:10.360 When the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, he shall save his soul alive. 02:10.360 --> 02:15.200 So it has been said, so it has been written. 02:15.200 --> 02:22.600 What of him who strives to turn away in torment and desperation and finds that he cannot? 02:22.600 --> 02:24.800 What is it that will happen to him? 02:24.800 --> 02:30.960 What is it that will happen to me? 02:30.960 --> 02:42.560 It was on a gray Christmas morn that I, John Gaspar, instructor in music at Cloister and 02:42.560 --> 02:46.960 College, sought the answers to those questions. 02:46.960 --> 02:53.480 I sought them within myself, within my music, within the paling stars seen dimly through 02:53.480 --> 02:56.200 the organ locked windows. 02:56.200 --> 03:02.200 But no answers came, only a memory or a dream. 03:02.200 --> 03:08.760 I seem to see a man walking alone through the deserted night-blackened streets of Cloisterum, 03:08.760 --> 03:37.240 the deserted streets which were suddenly no longer deserted. 03:37.240 --> 03:42.800 When the memory was gone, the dream was over, and I was at my gatehouse lodgings looking 03:42.800 --> 03:46.040 for him who should have been there, looking for the man I suddenly knew would never be 03:46.040 --> 03:49.040 there again. 03:49.040 --> 03:52.320 Edwin! 03:52.320 --> 03:55.440 Edwin! 03:55.440 --> 04:09.000 Chris Parkle! 04:09.000 --> 04:11.200 Dean Chris Parkle, open up! 04:11.200 --> 04:12.200 It's John Gaspar. 04:12.200 --> 04:15.200 Open up, I say! 04:15.200 --> 04:16.520 Gaspar? 04:16.520 --> 04:20.520 What is it, man? 04:20.520 --> 04:22.640 My nephew, Edwin Rue, where is he? 04:22.640 --> 04:23.640 Edwin? 04:23.640 --> 04:26.880 Yes, he went to the river last night to look at the storm with Neville Landless. 04:26.880 --> 04:27.880 With Neville? 04:27.880 --> 04:29.160 Yes, and he never came back. 04:29.160 --> 04:30.160 Where is he? 04:30.160 --> 04:31.160 Ask Landless where he is. 04:31.160 --> 04:32.160 Neville's not home either. 04:32.160 --> 04:33.160 Not home? 04:33.160 --> 04:34.160 I'll be down directly. 04:34.160 --> 04:48.240 As he joined me, the great realization of what might have transpired was clearly writ 04:48.240 --> 04:50.240 upon Dean Chris Parkle's face. 04:50.240 --> 04:54.680 Hardly he roused a number of cottage servants from their holiday beds, and a search was 04:54.680 --> 04:55.680 begun. 04:55.680 --> 05:01.240 A search for my missing nephew, Edwin Rue, and for the Dean's missing protégé, Neville 05:01.240 --> 05:02.240 Landless. 05:02.240 --> 05:11.760 There it is. 05:11.760 --> 05:12.760 The river. 05:12.760 --> 05:15.960 The river they went to see at the height of the storm last night. 05:15.960 --> 05:18.640 You never saw them again, Gaspar? 05:18.640 --> 05:20.520 No, neither one returned. 05:20.520 --> 05:22.440 Was there any quarrel between them? 05:22.440 --> 05:25.880 Any hint of the disagreements they'd had upon other occasions? 05:25.880 --> 05:26.880 None. 05:26.880 --> 05:28.800 But Christmas Eve dinner had gone exactly as I'd planned. 05:28.800 --> 05:29.800 They'd shaken hands. 05:29.800 --> 05:34.800 Apparently it resolved their differences, and when they left, they went arm in arm. 05:34.800 --> 05:39.000 Tell me, Gaspar, whose idea was it to visit the river? 05:39.000 --> 05:40.000 Was it Neville's? 05:40.000 --> 05:43.280 I have not cast doubt, but it may be undeserved. 05:43.280 --> 05:47.000 It could have been anyone's suggestion, mine, Edwin's. 05:47.000 --> 05:49.640 I don't like this, Gaspar. 05:49.640 --> 05:53.760 There's a feeling about it all that strikes still to my bones. 05:53.760 --> 05:56.280 Park, one of the searching parties. 05:56.280 --> 05:58.000 They've found someone, Gaspar. 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 They've found... 05:59.000 --> 06:03.280 Edwin Rue is still among them, I think. 06:03.280 --> 06:04.280 Easy does it now, sir. 06:04.280 --> 06:05.280 Take them off! 06:05.280 --> 06:06.280 Easy, if you please, Mr. Landless. 06:06.280 --> 06:07.280 Take your hands off me. 06:07.280 --> 06:08.280 What right have you to seize my person like this? 06:08.280 --> 06:09.280 Will you take them off me? 06:09.280 --> 06:10.280 In a moment, sir, in a moment. 06:10.280 --> 06:11.280 There you be, Dean Chris Barker. 06:11.280 --> 06:12.280 We've found your man, as you can see. 06:12.280 --> 06:17.280 Yes, Joe, I see you may release him. 06:17.280 --> 06:21.640 Aye, sir, but it's belligerent he is. 06:21.640 --> 06:23.520 I'd beware of him if I was you. 06:23.520 --> 06:25.800 Didn't want to return without a toll, he didn't. 06:25.800 --> 06:27.240 What is all this, sir? 06:27.240 --> 06:28.240 What is the meaning? 06:28.240 --> 06:31.800 I was out for an early morning walk when these laggards seized me bodily. 06:31.800 --> 06:34.760 They forced me to return here and said it was by your orders. 06:34.760 --> 06:35.760 As it was, Neville. 06:35.760 --> 06:36.760 But why, sir? 06:36.760 --> 06:37.760 Surely there's some explanation. 06:37.760 --> 06:38.760 Why? 06:38.760 --> 06:39.760 Where is my nephew, Landless? 06:39.760 --> 06:40.760 Your nephew? 06:40.760 --> 06:43.760 Yes, Edwin Drude, where is he? 06:43.760 --> 06:45.480 Why ask me why should I know of Drude's whereabouts? 06:45.480 --> 06:48.600 Because he was the last person in his company and he's not to be found. 06:48.600 --> 06:49.600 Speak, sir, where is he? 06:49.600 --> 06:50.600 Stay, stay, Jasper. 06:50.600 --> 06:52.600 Permit me to question him. 06:52.600 --> 06:57.800 Neville, you left Mr. Jasper's residence last night with Edwin Drude? 06:57.800 --> 07:00.360 Aye, aye, yes, sir. 07:00.360 --> 07:02.400 You went down to the river together? 07:02.400 --> 07:05.280 Yes, to see the reaction of the storm upon it. 07:05.280 --> 07:06.840 How long did you stay there? 07:06.840 --> 07:10.000 Well, it was ten minutes, more or less. 07:10.000 --> 07:11.000 And then? 07:11.000 --> 07:12.000 What Drude took leave of me. 07:12.000 --> 07:13.600 Did he say where he was going then? 07:13.600 --> 07:15.800 Why, yes, to return to Mr. Jasper's. 07:15.800 --> 07:18.080 That was the last you saw of him? 07:18.080 --> 07:19.080 The very last. 07:19.080 --> 07:23.120 If something's happened to Drude, I most certainly had nothing to do with it. 07:23.120 --> 07:26.360 What are those stains upon your jacket, Mr. Landless? 07:26.360 --> 07:27.360 Ha! 07:27.360 --> 07:28.360 The stains? 07:28.360 --> 07:30.320 And that walking stick you're carrying, Joe. 07:30.320 --> 07:32.120 The same stains are upon it. 07:32.120 --> 07:34.240 Aye, so they are. 07:34.240 --> 07:35.840 Blood stains they be, Mr. Jasper. 07:35.840 --> 07:37.800 And the stick, to whom does that belong? 07:37.800 --> 07:39.960 Why, to Mr. Landless, sir. 07:39.960 --> 07:40.960 He took it off him. 07:40.960 --> 07:42.400 Had to, the fuss and all he was putting up. 07:42.400 --> 07:44.240 Well, of course they're blood stains. 07:44.240 --> 07:47.840 I fought with these men thinking they were footpads. 07:47.840 --> 07:51.920 If their blood has been spilled, it must be theirs or mine. 07:51.920 --> 07:58.240 Neville, I think you'd best accompany us to the authorities. 07:58.240 --> 08:08.480 At my suggestion, we repair to the residence of Cloystrum's Lord High Mayor, Mr. Thomas 08:08.480 --> 08:13.440 Sapsey, and as we stood there in his parlour, the rendering of authority was as I knew it 08:13.440 --> 08:14.880 would be. 08:14.880 --> 08:17.760 Not unlike the person, the Mr. Sapsey himself. 08:17.760 --> 08:21.360 Unimaginative, dull, stupid. 08:21.360 --> 08:28.480 Well, gentlemen, this all seems quite clear to me. 08:28.480 --> 08:29.960 Quite clear. 08:29.960 --> 08:33.840 And I am one who has spared little pain, little pain, gentlemen, in training myself to see 08:33.840 --> 08:34.840 things clearly. 08:34.840 --> 08:37.200 They may be clear to you, sir, but they are far from being so to me. 08:37.200 --> 08:38.680 Patience, young man, patience. 08:38.680 --> 08:41.400 Justice will be done here, of that you may rest well assured. 08:41.400 --> 08:43.080 Yes, well assured. 08:43.080 --> 08:46.400 And now, allow me to enumerate the situation. 08:46.400 --> 08:50.560 Point number one, there have been several witnessed quarrels between the two young men 08:50.560 --> 08:51.560 in question. 08:51.560 --> 08:54.160 The missing Edwin Drew to the here present Neville Landless. 08:54.160 --> 08:56.200 The quarrels have been repaired, sir. 08:56.200 --> 08:58.320 Mr. Jasper himself bears witness to that. 08:58.320 --> 09:02.760 I have stated there was no quarrel or apparent difference at your last meeting, Mr. Landless. 09:02.760 --> 09:03.800 Quite so, quite so. 09:03.800 --> 09:05.760 One meeting without quarrel, several with. 09:05.760 --> 09:08.720 The scales are unbalanced, I quote. 09:08.720 --> 09:13.240 Particularly one might say as the subject or object of those quarrels was the fiance 09:13.240 --> 09:14.240 of Mr. Drew. 09:14.240 --> 09:18.240 Surely, Mr. Sapsey, it is not necessary to bring a young lady's name into this. 09:18.240 --> 09:21.840 I apologize for the necessity, Mr. Jasper, but it would seem to me that the charming 09:21.840 --> 09:26.160 and delightful Miss Rosa is truly at the heart of the matter confronting us. 09:26.160 --> 09:27.480 At his heart, yes. 09:27.480 --> 09:29.440 In one respect, I am forced to agree with you. 09:29.440 --> 09:33.320 There is no doubt that Landless was extremely envious of Edwin's good fortune in being 09:33.320 --> 09:34.320 betrothed of Rosa. 09:34.320 --> 09:38.920 Yes, as I say, the heart. 09:38.920 --> 09:40.680 Now point number two. 09:40.680 --> 09:43.720 The two gentlemen disappeared together into the night. 09:43.720 --> 09:45.320 Point number three. 09:45.320 --> 09:47.480 Mr. Drew never appears again. 09:47.480 --> 09:48.480 Point four. 09:48.480 --> 09:53.080 Mr. Landless is apprehended upon the heath, obviously fleeing cloisterum, and is returned 09:53.080 --> 09:54.680 only by force. 09:54.680 --> 09:55.680 Point five. 09:55.680 --> 09:59.840 Unexplained blood stains are found upon his person and upon the stick he was carrying. 09:59.840 --> 10:03.760 I was not fleeing cloisterum and the blood stains are not unexplained. 10:03.760 --> 10:06.160 Circumstances indicate otherwise, Mr. Landless. 10:06.160 --> 10:07.920 Yes, otherwise. 10:07.920 --> 10:11.360 And the taking of a fellow creature's life is to take something that don't belong to 10:11.360 --> 10:12.560 you, you know. 10:12.560 --> 10:14.160 Taking of a fellow creature? 10:14.160 --> 10:16.520 What madness is this? 10:16.520 --> 10:18.840 Oh, Mr. Jasper, surely you don't believe that- 10:18.840 --> 10:22.160 My interest lies only in the return of my nephew. 10:22.160 --> 10:25.280 And if he is never to return in seeing that justice is rightly done. 10:25.280 --> 10:28.280 Yes, precisely what I had in mind, Mr. Jasper. 10:28.280 --> 10:29.280 Precisely. 10:29.280 --> 10:39.640 My further suggestions to Mr. Sapsee were immediately carried out. 10:39.640 --> 10:45.040 Black cards were posted, the river dragged, a feverish search began, days went by, then 10:45.040 --> 10:46.040 weeks. 10:46.040 --> 10:47.760 And the end result was nothing. 10:47.760 --> 10:57.400 No trace of Edwin Drew was ever found. 10:57.400 --> 11:01.040 Only when all hope was abandoned, Mr. Sapsee delivered his final resolution. 11:01.040 --> 11:07.440 It would appear, gentlemen, that the mystery of Edwin Drew has not as yet been solved. 11:07.440 --> 11:09.240 No, not solved. 11:09.240 --> 11:13.080 However, certain horrible suspicions as yet remain. 11:13.080 --> 11:18.880 In the interests of all concerned, therefore, I make the following suggestion. 11:18.880 --> 11:24.080 It is that Mr. Neville Landless remove his presence from the city of cloisterum, and 11:24.080 --> 11:29.560 unless there comes a time when certain horrible suspicions no longer exist, that he remain 11:29.560 --> 11:39.640 away from here forever. 11:39.640 --> 11:42.520 Late afternoon of that same day I went to see Rosa. 11:42.520 --> 11:44.560 We met in the garden of the seminary house. 11:44.560 --> 11:48.280 You wish to see me, Mr. Jasper? 11:48.280 --> 11:51.920 That is a desire which has lived with me for a long while, Rosa. 11:51.920 --> 11:56.000 However, the unhappy circumstances of the past few weeks have prevented its fulfillment. 11:56.000 --> 12:00.640 And you feel that Mayor Sapsee's announcement has now cleared the way for you? 12:00.640 --> 12:01.640 Not for me. 12:01.640 --> 12:02.640 For us. 12:02.640 --> 12:06.880 Grief does not come to an end with an official pronouncement, Mr. Jasper. 12:06.880 --> 12:10.960 Surely even the natural sadness you feel must be tinged with relief. 12:10.960 --> 12:11.960 Relief? 12:11.960 --> 12:16.640 You no longer are faced with the prospect of a forced, distasteful marriage to Edwin. 12:16.640 --> 12:19.800 You're free of your promise to your parents. 12:19.800 --> 12:24.480 Now that Edwin's gone, there's nothing to prevent our getting married at once. 12:24.480 --> 12:25.480 Our getting married? 12:25.480 --> 12:29.120 I'm sorry I put it so bluntly, my dear, but we waited so long, kept our love for each 12:29.120 --> 12:31.640 other buried so deeply. 12:31.640 --> 12:34.240 Sure you can't blame me for speaking so frankly now. 12:34.240 --> 12:38.680 No, and with Edwin gone, there's no need for me to be silent. 12:38.680 --> 12:43.760 You have my solemn word for it, Mr. Jasper, that there is not one drop of love in my heart 12:43.760 --> 12:46.880 for you, rather only loathing and hatred. 12:46.880 --> 12:47.880 Rosa! 12:47.880 --> 12:51.920 I have always despised you, though I tried to hide it for Edwin's sake. 12:51.920 --> 12:55.720 Despised you because you pursued me with your eyes, with your thoughts, whispering to me 12:55.720 --> 13:00.320 in your mind of your obscene love, even though I was engaged to Edwin. 13:00.320 --> 13:05.120 Edwin, the nephew you so falsely pretended was the dearest thing on earth to you. 13:05.120 --> 13:06.120 Rosa, you're overwrought. 13:06.120 --> 13:07.720 The strain of these past weeks. 13:07.720 --> 13:09.080 You refuse to believe. 13:09.080 --> 13:10.080 I can't believe it, my dear. 13:10.080 --> 13:11.080 I love you, Lone-old-man. 13:11.080 --> 13:16.000 The man I love, the man I still love, is Neville Landless. 13:16.000 --> 13:17.000 Landless? 13:17.000 --> 13:19.800 Yes, Neville, the man I was going to marry. 13:19.800 --> 13:21.280 What do you mean, Rosa? 13:21.280 --> 13:22.800 You were going to marry Edwin? 13:22.800 --> 13:23.800 No, Mr. Jasper. 13:23.800 --> 13:24.800 You told me you were. 13:24.800 --> 13:30.400 That was before Edwin and I released each other from our vows, Mr. Jasper. 13:30.400 --> 13:31.400 Released? 13:31.400 --> 13:36.280 Then Edwin didn't have to die. 13:36.280 --> 13:38.480 No, Mr. Jasper. 13:38.480 --> 13:59.680 Whether Edwin was alive or dead, I was free to marry the man of my choice. 13:59.680 --> 14:04.800 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Herbert Marshall in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 14:04.800 --> 14:13.160 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 14:13.160 --> 14:23.600 Hello, our committee is investigating. 14:23.600 --> 14:25.160 And what have you found, Senator? 14:25.160 --> 14:30.720 That the Auto Light staple battery needs water only three times a year. 14:30.720 --> 14:32.200 In normal car, you? 14:32.200 --> 14:36.960 Now, that's not all, Senator, because the Auto Light staple battery gives longer life, 14:36.960 --> 14:40.920 as proved by tests conducted according to accepted life cycle standards. 14:40.920 --> 14:44.400 Yes, Harlow, and you know what's responsible. 14:44.400 --> 14:49.160 Why those fiberglass retaining mats that surround every positive plate to reduce shedding and 14:49.160 --> 14:52.840 flaking and hold the power producing materials in place. 14:52.840 --> 14:58.620 And we've found the Auto Light staple battery is a favorite of millions of car owners from 14:58.620 --> 14:59.920 coast to coast. 14:59.920 --> 15:00.920 Thank you, Senator. 15:00.920 --> 15:03.160 Friends, see your Auto Light battery dealer. 15:03.160 --> 15:08.320 He services all makes of batteries, and he has an Auto Light staple for your car if a 15:08.320 --> 15:09.960 replacement is needed. 15:09.960 --> 15:14.560 To quickly locate him, phone Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 15:14.560 --> 15:18.800 I'll tell you the name of your nearest Auto Light battery dealer, where you can get an 15:18.800 --> 15:24.120 Auto Light staple, the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car 15:24.120 --> 15:25.120 use. 15:25.120 --> 15:30.720 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 15:30.720 --> 15:38.120 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Herbert Marshall, in Elliot 15:38.120 --> 15:44.320 Lewis's production of the mystery of Edwin Drood, a tale well calculated to keep you 15:44.320 --> 16:01.360 in suspense. 16:01.360 --> 16:06.640 How does one relate the ending of a world, the stunning collapse of all that has meaning, 16:06.640 --> 16:08.680 of all that is life? 16:08.680 --> 16:11.880 I will not attempt to do so. 16:11.880 --> 16:14.800 Everything that can be said was said on that fateful afternoon. 16:14.800 --> 16:18.680 And so the story of Edwin Drood was over. 16:18.680 --> 16:21.680 Or so I thought. 16:21.680 --> 16:28.640 Good day to you, Mr. Jasper. 16:28.640 --> 16:29.640 Huh? 16:29.640 --> 16:31.640 Oh, it's you, Donald. 16:31.640 --> 16:35.840 Eh, him what he's known as old Donald should be. 16:35.840 --> 16:40.360 Come to pay another visit to the western place of the Orleans, Mr. Jasper. 16:40.360 --> 16:42.040 Why, no, no, no, Donald. 16:42.040 --> 16:45.240 As a matter of fact, I hadn't even noticed that I was walking past the crypt. 16:45.240 --> 16:47.040 My mind was elsewhere, I imagine. 16:47.040 --> 16:52.880 I thought perhaps you might be coming round for another lesson in burying dead bodies, 16:52.880 --> 16:53.880 Mr. Jasper. 16:53.880 --> 16:55.880 What's meant by that about, Donald? 16:55.880 --> 17:03.360 Well, now I recall one night old Donald gave you a lesson about finding bodies of the Orleans, 17:03.360 --> 17:08.920 up here and there with his hammer, he did, pointing out the hollow walls. 17:08.920 --> 17:10.560 You remember, don't you? 17:10.560 --> 17:12.960 Oh, yes, yes, I believe I recall something like that. 17:12.960 --> 17:15.560 An evening without anything to do, I don't curiosity. 17:15.560 --> 17:18.080 It could have been, Mr. Jasper. 17:18.080 --> 17:22.960 Though it didn't seem as such on last Christmas Eve, it didn't. 17:22.960 --> 17:24.440 What about last Christmas Eve? 17:24.440 --> 17:28.160 Why, you was down here again, Mr. Jasper. 17:28.160 --> 17:32.480 Topping the walls with a total hammer yourself, you were. 17:32.480 --> 17:33.480 You're mistaken. 17:33.480 --> 17:35.480 I was nowhere near the crypt on Christmas Eve. 17:35.480 --> 17:36.480 Perhaps. 17:36.480 --> 17:37.480 Perhaps. 17:37.480 --> 17:40.080 I would have wagered you had a bottle or two of holiday cheer beneath your belt at the 17:40.080 --> 17:41.080 time. 17:41.080 --> 17:42.080 Perhaps. 17:42.080 --> 17:52.040 Though I would have swore it were you. 17:52.040 --> 17:57.040 Hello. 17:57.040 --> 18:06.640 Come in, Mr. Jasper. 18:06.640 --> 18:08.360 Come in. 18:08.360 --> 18:10.520 And who may you be, sir? 18:10.520 --> 18:12.960 Thatcher is the name, Dick Thatchery. 18:12.960 --> 18:16.720 Came calling, found you out, made himself at home. 18:16.720 --> 18:17.720 So I note. 18:17.720 --> 18:18.720 This? 18:18.720 --> 18:21.720 Favorite of mine, mulled wine. 18:21.720 --> 18:25.320 Thought I'd prepare, honor the occasion of all. 18:25.320 --> 18:29.480 The occasion of an absolute stranger making himself at home in my lodgings. 18:29.480 --> 18:31.800 Not ordinary circumstances, hmm? 18:31.800 --> 18:33.240 Quite agree. 18:33.240 --> 18:35.560 Nevertheless, honorable occasion. 18:35.560 --> 18:38.000 Perhaps you care to explain, Mr. Thatchery. 18:38.000 --> 18:39.000 Gladly. 18:39.000 --> 18:40.000 Gladly. 18:40.000 --> 18:41.000 Perfect, sir. 18:41.000 --> 18:45.880 Won't you join me? 18:45.880 --> 18:48.480 I'm awaiting that explanation, sir. 18:48.480 --> 18:50.640 I bring your greetings, sir. 18:50.640 --> 18:51.640 Greetings from whom? 18:51.640 --> 18:55.520 Your dear boy, Mr. Jasper. 18:55.520 --> 18:58.200 Greetings from Edwin Root. 18:58.200 --> 19:00.000 Greetings from Edwin? 19:00.000 --> 19:01.000 Aye. 19:01.000 --> 19:02.000 Send you the best. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 Apologize for not writing. 19:04.000 --> 19:05.760 Trust you're not worried. 19:05.760 --> 19:07.240 Told you didn't die. 19:07.240 --> 19:08.240 Honorable occasion. 19:08.240 --> 19:10.880 Indeed, this is an occasion, Mr. Thatchery. 19:10.880 --> 19:13.280 I've been worried sick about the dear boy. 19:13.280 --> 19:14.280 You found him well? 19:14.280 --> 19:15.280 Blooming, best of health. 19:15.280 --> 19:16.280 Where is he? 19:16.280 --> 19:17.760 Where did you meet with him? 19:17.760 --> 19:19.480 London, some lodging house. 19:19.480 --> 19:21.160 Kept meeting on stairs, natural thing. 19:21.160 --> 19:22.960 Of course, quite natural. 19:22.960 --> 19:24.400 Business took me to Cloisterham. 19:24.400 --> 19:25.800 Told Edwin. 19:25.800 --> 19:26.800 Made me promise a greeting. 19:26.800 --> 19:27.800 Here I am. 19:27.800 --> 19:30.800 Care to try the wine? 19:30.800 --> 19:31.800 Quite good. 19:31.800 --> 19:33.800 My apologies, Mr. Thatchery. 19:33.800 --> 19:35.880 Certainly I would. 19:35.880 --> 19:36.880 Toast to Edwin? 19:36.880 --> 19:37.880 To Edwin. 19:37.880 --> 19:38.880 Ah. 19:38.880 --> 19:39.880 Perfect. 19:39.880 --> 19:44.880 Well, you're on your way now. 19:44.880 --> 19:45.880 You're over. 19:45.880 --> 19:46.880 One moment, Mr. Thatchery. 19:46.880 --> 19:49.920 I must write Edwin and tell him how happy you've made me. 19:49.920 --> 19:51.480 What's the dear boy's address? 19:51.480 --> 19:52.960 He hasn't got it. 19:52.960 --> 19:53.960 He moved. 19:53.960 --> 19:54.960 Didn't say where. 19:54.960 --> 19:58.320 Then there's no more you can tell me about him, where he can be reached. 19:58.320 --> 19:59.320 Nothing. 19:59.320 --> 20:00.320 I see. 20:00.320 --> 20:03.760 Wondering if it's a tall tale, Mr. Jasper? 20:03.760 --> 20:05.560 No real greetings. 20:05.560 --> 20:06.560 No real Edwin. 20:06.560 --> 20:09.320 Surely that's a possibility, Mr. Thatchery. 20:09.320 --> 20:11.360 Ordinarily, not now. 20:11.360 --> 20:12.360 Mementos. 20:12.360 --> 20:14.600 Wanted you to have them. 20:14.600 --> 20:15.600 Remember him. 20:15.600 --> 20:16.600 Oh, duty fully discharged. 20:16.600 --> 20:17.600 I'll be leaving. 20:17.600 --> 20:18.600 Good day, Mr. Jasper. 20:18.600 --> 20:19.600 Excellent, boy. 20:19.600 --> 20:20.600 I scarcely have the time to say goodbye. 20:20.600 --> 20:21.600 I'm going to go. 20:21.600 --> 20:22.600 I'm going to go. 20:22.600 --> 20:23.600 I'm going to go. 20:23.600 --> 20:24.600 I'm going to go. 20:24.600 --> 20:25.600 I'm going to go. 20:25.600 --> 20:26.600 I'm going to go. 20:26.600 --> 20:27.600 I'm going to go. 20:27.600 --> 20:28.600 I'm going to go. 20:28.600 --> 20:29.600 I'm going to go. 20:29.600 --> 20:30.600 I'm going to go. 20:30.600 --> 20:31.600 I'm going to go. 20:31.600 --> 20:32.600 I'm going to go. 20:32.600 --> 20:33.600 I'm going to go. 20:33.600 --> 20:36.360 We really heard him leave, this Mr. Thatchery. 20:36.360 --> 20:39.240 I was staring at the object he placed upon the table. 20:39.240 --> 20:41.560 A watch and chain. 20:41.560 --> 20:43.200 Edwin's watch and chain. 20:43.200 --> 20:46.240 He'd been wearing them the night of the big storm. 20:46.240 --> 20:50.720 The last night he'd been seen alive. 20:50.720 --> 20:53.240 Mr. Thatchery. 20:53.240 --> 20:57.520 Mr. Jasper, one moment, please. 20:57.520 --> 20:58.520 Good afternoon, Rosa. 20:58.520 --> 21:00.900 Have you heard the news, Mr. Jasper? 21:00.900 --> 21:01.900 What news, Rosa? 21:01.900 --> 21:02.960 It concerns Edwin Brood. 21:02.960 --> 21:03.960 Edwin? 21:03.960 --> 21:05.960 Yes, he's alive Mr. Jasper. 21:05.960 --> 21:06.960 Edwin's alive. 21:06.960 --> 21:08.960 Did you hear me Mr. Jasper? 21:08.960 --> 21:10.960 Did you hear what I said about Edwin? 21:10.960 --> 21:11.960 He's alive. 21:11.960 --> 21:13.960 That's a rather astounding statement for us to... 21:13.960 --> 21:17.960 I know, I could scarcely believe it myself, but here. 21:17.960 --> 21:20.960 This came to me in the post today from London. 21:20.960 --> 21:22.960 It's a letter from Edwin. 21:22.960 --> 21:24.960 Oh isn't it wonderful Mr. Jasper. 21:24.960 --> 21:29.960 We were all so certain that he was dead that someone had killed him on the night of the storm. 21:29.960 --> 21:33.960 And there, there in your very hand is the proof that he's alive. 21:43.960 --> 21:49.960 No greater horror can visit the mind of man than a certain knowledge he has suddenly become mad. 21:49.960 --> 21:53.960 And such was the horror which dwelt within me that fateful day. 21:53.960 --> 21:56.960 For it was the only explanation that was left. 21:56.960 --> 21:58.960 Edwin was dead, he had to be. 21:58.960 --> 22:05.960 The memory or dream that had lived with me since Christmas morn was too clear, too sharply etched for there to be any doubt. 22:05.960 --> 22:07.960 Edwin was dead. 22:07.960 --> 22:12.960 And yet within a single afternoon two people had brought me proof that Edwin was alive. 22:12.960 --> 22:17.960 Proof as clear, as sharply etched as that memory. 22:17.960 --> 22:21.960 A sane mind does not exist in a world of such paradox. 22:21.960 --> 22:28.960 I've gone mad. 22:30.960 --> 22:34.960 Time finds no haven within the dread confines of madness. 22:34.960 --> 22:37.960 Nor was that day an exception. 22:37.960 --> 22:40.960 Somehow without my knowing of it the day was gone. 22:40.960 --> 22:46.960 In what had been a sunlit sky a night-darkened storm lay muttering ominously. 22:46.960 --> 22:51.960 My mud-spattered gaiters, bone-weary legs, spoke mutely of hours of aimless wandering, 22:51.960 --> 22:58.960 hours of doing fruitless battle with that thing of horrible wonder apart, which was now my mind. 22:58.960 --> 23:01.960 And then I was where I'd been destined to be all along. 23:01.960 --> 23:04.960 The one place where the truth could be found. 23:04.960 --> 23:06.960 Incontestable truth. 23:06.960 --> 23:20.960 I entered the venerable crypt of Troystrath. 23:20.960 --> 23:25.960 The flashes of lightning etched in weird relief the low inhabitants of the dead. 23:25.960 --> 23:29.960 Half-standing pillars of stone assumed the attitude of watchful guardians, 23:29.960 --> 23:32.960 grinning evilly from their sentry boxes of the night. 23:32.960 --> 23:36.960 And the broken wall for which I made my way was an ancient catapult, 23:36.960 --> 23:40.960 concealing within it the secret that only I knew was there. 23:40.960 --> 23:47.960 I climbed to its top and looked down upon the rubbish that almost filled the hollow space between its sides. 23:47.960 --> 23:49.960 A rusty spade lay nearby. 23:49.960 --> 24:07.960 I seized it and began to dig. 24:07.960 --> 24:09.960 Again time became meaningless. 24:09.960 --> 24:12.960 There was nothing but the feverish labor of uncovering the truth, 24:12.960 --> 24:17.960 of finding a rusted watch and chain that would not possibly lie bright and untarnished on my table, 24:17.960 --> 24:22.960 of uncovering a skeletonized human hand that was incapable of writing the letter I'd seen. 24:22.960 --> 24:26.960 And then the labor too became meaningless. 24:26.960 --> 24:30.960 There was no watch, no chain, no hand. 24:30.960 --> 24:33.960 There was nothing in there but rubble. 24:33.960 --> 24:34.960 Looking for something, Mr. Jasper? 24:34.960 --> 24:35.960 Landish! 24:35.960 --> 24:37.960 I asked you if you were looking for something, Mr. Jasper. 24:37.960 --> 24:39.960 What are you doing here? You were ordered to stay away from Christendom. 24:39.960 --> 24:41.960 I came back, Mr. Jasper. 24:41.960 --> 24:42.960 Why? What are you doing here? 24:42.960 --> 24:43.960 Same thing that you are, seeking the truth. 24:43.960 --> 24:44.960 The truth about what? 24:44.960 --> 24:45.960 The mystery of Edwin Drew. 24:45.960 --> 24:48.960 There is no mystery. Edwin Drew is alive. 24:48.960 --> 24:49.960 Is he? 24:49.960 --> 24:52.960 Ask Rosa, ask Mr. Datcher, and they'll tell you. They know he's alive. 24:52.960 --> 24:56.960 No, Mr. Jasper. You killed him last Christmas Eve. Edwin Drew is dead. 24:56.960 --> 24:58.960 He's not, I tell you. How could he be? 24:58.960 --> 25:03.960 If he were dead, why isn't he lying in this grave? The grave in which I... 25:03.960 --> 25:05.960 The grave in which you buried him? 25:05.960 --> 25:08.960 No. There was no grave. Only a dream. It was all a dream. 25:08.960 --> 25:09.960 What was a dream, Mr. Jasper? 25:09.960 --> 25:12.960 Everything. Following him back to the river, my hands around his throat, 25:12.960 --> 25:17.960 hiding his body here in this wall. It was all a dream. Can't you understand? 25:17.960 --> 25:20.960 I've been driven out of my mind by a dream. I didn't do it. 25:20.960 --> 25:21.960 But you did, Mr. Jasper. 25:21.960 --> 25:23.960 You are a fool, analyst. Look for yourself. 25:23.960 --> 25:26.960 This grave I prepared for him is empty. He isn't there. 25:26.960 --> 25:29.960 No, but he was here until two weeks ago. 25:29.960 --> 25:31.960 Two weeks ago? 25:31.960 --> 25:34.960 That was when a London detective and I found what was left of him. 25:34.960 --> 25:35.960 That jury? 25:35.960 --> 25:40.960 Yes. With the help of doodles and his invaluable hammer, we found Edwin Drew. 25:40.960 --> 25:44.960 We found the food, found the watch which identified him. 25:44.960 --> 25:47.960 You told me just now how you killed him. 25:47.960 --> 25:50.960 The watch? And Rose's letter? 25:50.960 --> 25:53.960 Written several years ago, reposted from London. 25:53.960 --> 25:55.960 Shall we go now, Mr. Jasper? 25:55.960 --> 25:56.960 Go? 25:56.960 --> 26:01.960 You took me before the authorities once. Now it's my time to take you. 26:01.960 --> 26:06.960 Prospect of the gallows make you happy, Jasper? 26:06.960 --> 26:13.960 In the way, Lenz. At least I'll go to it, knowing that I wasn't mad. 26:36.960 --> 26:40.960 Suspense. Presented by Auto Light. 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