Girl, mister the Theater present, come in welcome, I mean g Marshall.
The Civil War, more than any other, has been fought and re
fought by armchair strategists for over a hundred years. But there is one skirmish
that till now has been kept quiet. It has been kept dark, in
hidden, you know, fall with secrecy and the mists of mystery. It
concerns a battle of wits and twenty five priceless blue white diamonds. While aller,
what are you doing alone in the room with a female corpse? I
don't know. The lady inspector I arranged to meet, came up to her
apartment and found her dead. He just founded inspect that. You know,
shooting people is in my life. There's always a first time. And if
the Modi Lemus our mystery drama The Gettysburg Address, based on an adventure of
the rascally Arsene Lupin, has been written especially for the Mystery Theater by Gerald
Keynes and stars Robert Gryden. It is sponsored in part by Fine Off the
Sinus Medicines. I'll be back shortly with that one. Andrew Wolfe is not
yet fifty years old, yet he has enjoyed a matchless professional career of chicanery,
larceny and robbery for some forty years. Yes, Andrew got a very
early start. This very year, however, when at the peak of his
profession, Andrew Wolfe decided to retire, it was a strange Swan song,
regarded with much suspicion by Inspector Harold James. Why are you so suspicious?
Inspect there? I tell you I'm through. I've had it. I've thrown
in response, quick shucked it. It's your move, Andrew. From now
on, every move I mate will be for the benefit of man. I
meant, it's your move on the checkerboard. No, yes, I know.
Now I'm just looking at my options. Ah, how do you like
this move? Inspect there? Jump, jump, and I'll take both of
your man. Thank help? What was that? Someone upstairs has just fired
off a musket that hasn't been used since the Civil War. Well, how
on earth did you know that? Well? I never used them myself,
but I know the sound of them. Excuse me for bristee in the room,
but we just heard a gun being fired. I'm terribly sorry. I
just bought this rightful one and went off. My name is Andrew Wolf I
live below you. This is Inspector James of the Washington Police. Oh,
well, I didn't do anything wrong, Inspector. I wasn't shooting it anyone
that you'll manage to go clean through your window. Ult your name Jeffrey Knox.
But it's nothing really, just an accident. You see. I collect
memorabilia from the Civil War. I was just cleaning this old gun. And
have a look, Inspector. It's an old flintlock, very similar, i'd
say to the one old John Burns is a Gettysburg fear you interested in the
Civil War? And I said, manam, mister Lodge, do you have
a license for that gun? No, Inspector, don't be stuffy. A
is his nantique and bees could hardly call a five foot much to the concealed
weapon. Yes, yes, but firing that thing is a disturbance of the
piece. Well it won't happen again, I promise you. I didn't know
it was loathed. No, come on, a Knox, I've got reading.
Oh it's that you've got a painting. Remember me, the day before
yesterday, I shot off that old musket and you came upstairs with the inspector.
Yes, of course, I read me A Knox the Civil Wall buff.
I want you to look at this painting I just found. Wow,
I know, expert on odd value jewel and gems, Yes, paintings,
No we no, I thought because of your interest in the Civil War,
you think it's not much of a picture. As you see, it's a
garden surrounded by a stone wall. There's a well and a sun dial.
I see something else to the left. There isn't that a cannon? Why
so it is a cannon? I didn't notice that. Let me see the
back. Yes, this place could be Gettysburg, you're sure? Well,
how do you know? Right here on the back of date four seventh,
eighteen sixty three when I saw that, But that's April seventh, eighteen sixty
three, and the Battle of Jettickburg was in July. I know, But
in other days the number of the month followed the number of the day.
So four seven sixty three is the fourth day of the seventh month. In
other words, July fourth, eighteen sixty three, the last day of the
battle. Then, miss, is it? This is really it? This
is what? Oh? Nothing? Nothing? Well do you see any other
clues in that painting? Mister Wolf, I mean, can you tell me
more about what it represents. It's a garden. The shadows of the sun
dial and the well and the trees are deeper on the left, which might
mean the time the painter wish to represent is about four o'clock in the afternoon,
four or five. The cannon faces south, so it could be a
Union Army encampment. And mister nods, why can you tell me? Well,
only that I happen to find it in an antique store and I was
told it's the key to a great unsolved mystery. Really unsolved mysteries are a
hobby of mine. You've been so helpful. There's something else i'd like your
advice on. I wonder if you'd come upstairs for a minute. You notice
this apartment of mine faces the house across the street, and I'm leanis painting
on a chair by the window. If you'll just take these binoculars and have
a look, mister Wolf, straight ahead at the window, directly in your
line of sight. What do you see inside that room on the wall.
Well, I'll be it seems like the identical painting pretty close, I say,
very close. The sun die Well Stonewall Garden, Who lives in that
apartment. I don't know, but you're curious that someone else seems to have
a representation of what may be a garden and get his bird just like yours.
Well, a man who sold me this painting this morning said, you
have just bought yourself a map of great value. He said, a map.
Well, maybe not in those words, but the impression I got was,
well, you know, I like the map of Bury Treasure in Treasure
Island, the exes that marked the spot. And that's all he tells you.
He said, that was all he knew. July fourth, eighteen sixty
three. What could be the connection, or mister Wolf, I've lived here
almost three years. On July fourth last year, and July the fourth year
before, the woman who lives in that apartment where the painting is would pack
up a picnic bask it can go out for the day, not come home
till evening. That's so strange. On the fourth of July seems like a
perfect day of picnic alone, and never any other day in the year.
You seem to have kept pretty close watch on her. But in any case,
I don't see any connection between her picnic and the painting except July the
fourth. That's the mystery. Go to the lady and ask her what mysterious
Aaron takes her away from here every July fourth, Lugo's here. Andrew Wolf
himself, inspector. I didn't expect to see you. I'll bet you didn't.
Where's the body in the next room? Well let's have a look.
Why ah, why tell me? What's your lady friend's name? I don't
know. I never met her alive. All right, Andrew, do you
want to tell me about it? I don't know her. A neighbor of
mine, though you met him, and lives upstairs. Jeffrey Knox. He
and I had an appointment with this woman to ask her about a painting she
has. At the last minute, he called me and said he couldn't make
it, but would I go and talk to her. So I came up.
The door was open, and there she was. There. There's a
herring. So I called the station house. What was the reason you were
visiting a lady that you didn't know? Now, look, don't pretend you
didn't hear me. Because she had a painting I wanted to ask her about.
See where is it? See that rectangular mark on the wall Inspector,
that's where it hung. The painting is gone. Oh isn't that too bad?
Yes? It is, Inspector, in fact, very bad. Ah.
Would you mind if I followed my own hunches in this case? None.
You've done it before, Andrew, sometimes with pretty good results. Your
neighbor mat who was good to each here. Did he know the lady?
And he told me they'd never met, but he watched her for three years
from his window. Interesting. Yes, I agree that I was going to
drop around to see him. In fact, I was going to tell him
that my suspicions were unfounded. What did you suspect that the antique flint Luckey
fired off was stolen? You don't know people, Inspector, You really don't.
Jeffrey Knox is loaded. You saw his apartments, Well, anybody can
steal. I had the dealers checked if I found the man who sold it
to him, Inspector, I love you. You saved me hours of pursuit.
I want to talk to that dealer before you go. Give me his
name. Hello, anybody here, mister Kowers, Hello, anyone in the
bark mister Crows, you're there? Can you help me? Yes? Yes,
I hear you. Where are you the cellar door? Crap door?
Uh no, no, I don't see it. You're well sure, I
get you out, But where's the trap door? Right of the counter,
right side of the counter, yes, right, or the wall? Push
it towards the wall, all right, Yes, I'm pushing. I see
the trap door. I'll have it open in a second. Oh yeah,
let me give your hand. I thought I had done. They are failable.
How long ware you there? What day? Used? Today? My
day? Monday? Old man? Today? You said Saturday? Thank you,
thank you? I may close this thing. That's a clever place to
hide the trapdoor under the counter where I keep my valuable teachs down man,
You see how stupid I am. I tell everybody everything. That's how these
things happen. As mister Klus, I'm Andrew Wolf wherever whoever you are.
I thank providence you came along. How did you get down there? I
was attacked in rob so terrible in this day, and you didn't since I
deal invaluable hand teaches, especially irreplaceable things from the Civil War period? To
do you know what was taken? Wing? And I haven't looked around here.
Well, mister Kraus, you ought to go to the police. Tell
them what happened here? You kept a prisoner in your seller for two days.
Can you describe the man? But I am not sure he is one
of your clients. The young man called Jeffrey not no, no, no,
I never heard of him. You did sell him an old sintlock Gune
recently, didn't you? Oh? Yes, yeah, always at the man's
name, Yes I did. Did this man also buy from your valuable painting?
I set a valuable American paintings? This one was dated July fourth,
eighteen sixty three, on the back and on the face seen in the garden.
Oh, yes, yes, I had a painting like that. There
only two this man did he say where where he got it? Now?
He didn't tell me the name of the dealer? Not from you? Oh
no, So you recognize it? That a painting with a sundial and the
well. Yes, yes, it dated July falls, eighteen sixty three.
I'd know it very well. It has a long history. If you'd lived
in Washington one hundred years ago, you would know the story. Today very
few know about it. What could you tell me, mister Krause in confidence?
I suppose I owe my life to you getting me out of the cellar.
You promise it will go no further than these fall walls. I promise
well. On July fourth, eighteen sixty three, a man was about to
be hanged. Now he had hidden enough wells to have purchased the entire city
of Washington. Now, since that day, many many people have looked for
it, and some have died. But it has not yet been found.
But that fortune exists somewhere near Washington. So far, it's hard to tell
who is on what side, Who's lying, who's telling the truth. What's
the score? So far? A man called Knox has fired a front lock.
An antique dealer has been locked in a cellar. A woman has been
murdered. A fortune and death seemed to be fighting for the upper hand.
Who loses? Who wins? Checked the players with me when I returned shortly
with that two. What a strange pair they make, these two. Andrew
Wolf, the rogue rascal turned Robin Hood, and straight laced police inspector Harold
James, who wouldn't trust Andrew as far as he could throw his badge.
Just the same, their friendship is cemented by one sole motive to track down
crime. Now one of them Andrew Wolfe has been stopped in his tracks by
the words of an antique deal. Mister Krauss, Where did this fortune come
from? Will Own? July fourth, eighteen sixty three, a wealthy Southern
plantation owner was traveling north behind the Confederate army, hoping to lose himself in
Washington. Denied his money now he seeing the handwriting on the wall, the
Confederacy was doomed. Now. Unfortunately, he hid in a farmhouse near Cemetery
Ridge. It was discovered and arrested. In a last minute effort to escape,
he killed the Union soldier guarding him. Now he was brought to Washington,
tried, and sentenced to hang. Now, while in prison, he
painted two identical pictures which will bequeath this family, But his wealth was never
found. Are you sure you don't remember who it was who came in here
and stole at painting and managed to push you into the cellar, possibly to
die. No, no, no, no, I do not remember anything.
Would you agree with me that the paintings must have been a clue to
where this escaped Southerner had hidden his wealth years and by the way, what
was the name of the escaping Southerner? Harlan Knox. Is that also confidential,
mister Kross? Oh no, no, no, so he is an
old history book. Andrew this cockamami story of buried treasure somewhere near Washington.
How can a grown man believe that? In fact? Are you going to
talk or play checkers? Oh? Well, it's your move was always no?
Yes, yes, so it is all right? How about this?
You always do that to me. I didn't see it. Well, don't
you think I'm right about the Confederate hidden treasure? No? I can't agree.
It's an illusion. I've seen evidence that the hiding place may be somewhere
in Gettysburg, in the battlefield in one hundred and twenty five years. Don't
you suppose the park Service would have dug it up if it's in the ground.
I suppose it's under a rock or a tree. I know what you're
going to say. The painting and the painting missing from that woman's apartment,
And as I know all about it, did I tell you that she'd swallowed
poison? No, for a time before she'd been examined. I thought it
might have been your upstairs neighbor with his dog on Civil War blunter pus.
But up to Nolo. No one has turned up to claim the body.
We can't find out anything about her. Why don't you go and ask Jeffrey
Knox. Go find Jeffrey Knox. He's disappeared. He's not upstairs anymore.
No, it's cleaned out empty. Your landlord says he paid up the rest
of the year, left no forwarding address and departed, inspector. Why don't
you take the day off tomorrow? Why? What's tomorrow? The fourth of
July. Let's take a picnic lunch and head out for Gettysburg for a nice
our fresco meal. Bring our own food, oh, white bother. They've
got snack bars out there where we can get hot dogs and drink hot and
SODA's you uncivilized peasant. I wouldn't insult my stomach. Well, I'll pack
the food, you bring the beer. You've worked hard enough. You deserve
a day off, Andrew, you are not usually so concerned with my well
being. What's up now? It bes a suspicious friend. I enjoy the
pleasure of your company. Okay, you're run tomorrow morning, then meet me
here at my apartment at seven o'clock. Seven in the morning. I thought
it was a day off, and and r who are you? I'm up
here, Inspector. One flight up the stairs. And then Jeffrey Knox's apartment.
Your door was open, but I didn't see you. What are you
doing in this man's apartments? Nothing? Getting off to an earlier start?
You feel okay this morning? As what? As anybody can't expect to a
sixty five? I am? Then I asked you what you were doing up
here, Andrew, Well, I thought i'd have a look around Knox's apartment
for myself. I found these binoculars. They belonged to Knox. Now,
before you send them downtown for fingerprints, hold them in this handkerchief like I
have, and point them straight out this window, the one with a hole
through the glass. Now, what do you see? What room is that
across the street. That's where we both discovered the dead lady? I see
someone moving in there. Yeah, I said to die. It's a woman.
She's putting things in a basket, firm us. And now she's heading
for the door. And I'll listen, I've got stopping. No no,
no, no, no no wait wait, don't head her off, Inspector.
She might lead us to something. Let's follow her. But he just
got out of the street ahead of her. There she comes out the front
door carrying that basket. There she's she said it for the bus stop at
the corner. Now I'll slag a cab and have it ready in case,
in case, what in case? She hops on a bus, so we
wouldn't like the devil and catch the same bus. Now it's too chancy.
We're on this side of the street, the buses on the other. Taxi
I can tell you're not a police showy. Don't you rate an expensive count?
Yes? An inspector. Ah, yeah, she is waiting at the
bus stop. Taxi driver, we're following someone. Here's a woman on the
other side of the street. She may get on a bus. If she
does, we want you to make a U turn and when the bus passes,
follow it. My partner is Inspector Harold James, Washington Police. I
say, here comes to bus our Dallas getting a lot. She's getting gone.
Great, Scott Andrew, you were right. I tried to make it
a habit. That bus is Mark Gettysburg Battlefield's climbing inspector. Okay, driver,
that's the bus. Follow it. Oh my glad, we're finally here.
This battlefield never looked so good to me. It did take a little
longer than I planned. Holder an inspector, What is it? Hello?
Most of the visitors the battlefield are turning left. See along that path there
they've goes to the parks. There is station where you can get your tickets.
Yes, but all woman is taking that path to the right. Yeah,
and she's not the only one. Those two other women right behind her,
and here comes another one carrying a baby. They're all turning right and
going past those trees. Let's go inspect that. Would you look at first?
You can't teach the public anything right along the path here, these signs
say private, no trespassing. Nobody pays any attention where look past those trees
an old farmers. Let's get closer, Andrew, Andrew, there's a whole
bunch of female picnickers behind us, walking single file. It didn't help out
a dozen't okay, we'll duck off the path and pretend we're looking over towards
cemetery ridge until they pass us. Andrew. That woman, the one we
were following, she went right up to the front door of the farmhouse and
went inside. Some of the rest of them look at them all going in
that door. Maybe it's a private party. Wouldn't I look foolish if it
was all the way out here in a cab for that? There's something fishy
about all this? Have you noticed? Inspect the how intent their faces are
and no one talks to anyone else. And look, almost all of them
are going into the farmhouse. Another few minutes, just to make sure they're
all inside. And then what why then we follow? No one in here?
I'll shut the door. How do you see that sign outside Meads Farm?
This could have been General Meads headquarters during the battle. Well, the
stick of lachers just at long table. Come see look through the back window
and I'll be turned. Look at them all sitting on the ground. And
then garden leaning on the stone wall around it. There's about twenty. It
strikes me as most extraordinary is where we are as Meats headquarters. You said
you see that old well. The three girls are looking at you. Well
see the sun dial. Well, what I'm saying is that garden. We
see the sun dial on the well. This is the garden and those two
paintings, no kidding, this must be the house. So where Harley Knox
was captured on the fourth of July. And that garden is the one he
painted before he was hanged. And you figure that some of these people must
know that, and they come here to find the buried treasure maybe a hundred
years ago knock his children looked. But I don't think these people are doing
any more than hoping. Oh, and you figure that those women are all
his descendants. Who else that women we were following, she's still here.
Yes, I see her with her back to the sundial. I just don't
get what they're waiting for. Let's get out of this house. I'd like
to know what they're up to. If we walk around the back and up
that little hill on the other side of the stone fence, we can't be
seen, but we can sit down and watch them. Andrew, I have
a feeling we've come out to get his bird for nothing. We're not going
to find another thing. So if we do, the day won't be wasted.
We'll enjoy the sun and eat good food. And who knows, maybe
no, my poor stomach, No, what's it you the picnic basket I
made for the two of us, all that gourmet food, I left it
in the apartment. I shall have to insult you with hot dogs and sodas
and ice cream. Shut up and let's go find the snack bar. It
is entirely possible something of value, of great value, that lies hidden in
that garden. And if indeed these pilgrims are the descendants of Harley Knocks,
why do they only come here on July the fourth? What is so special
about that day to them? Stay with us for the conclusion of BacT three.
There's more truth than poetry in that old maxim. It takes a thief
to catch a thief. And that is why a certain feeling is cooking in
the perceptions of Andrew Wolf, the stew before him does not smell quite right.
We will stand aside now and see what transpires as Andrew and Inspector James
watch the goings on in the garden at that Gettysburg address. Inspector, you've
been standing on that rock for fifteen minutes taking pictures of those women with your
telephone or lens, taking pictures of my Harvey. Do you really want to
know what I think? I think? We're keeping watching the outing of inmates
of a mental home the whole morning that they've sat there, and most of
them staring off in the space, and now half the afternoon's gone and nothing's
at it. Good lord, Look those two women under the tree, they're
on their knees. They're crying. Now look look look at the whole group.
It's like they say their prayers. Some things upset them a great deal.
Something these women expected would happen, but it hasn't, o course,
so stupid of me. Come on, inspector, let's make a run for
it before it's two eight? Are you crazy? Andrew running two hundred two
hundred yards to the gatehouse, and then suddenly came to me. I've got
an old friend who works here, is a box supervisor. You'll know what
all this means. Why the rush? That's four o'clock closing time. Let's
go ahead and hunt. Introduce you Jack? Let up, Jack? Why
are you? This is where they sell guide books and admissions. Inspector Joy
is probably gone for the day. Card sign it? Hey, who's that?
Come on? Come on out, come out? Oh my lord,
just my luck our eyes. What were you doing hiding back? There been
a whole show for guide books. Tell on, Pinky Pinky livel Andrew,
Oh thanky, where did you get out? Well? I've been out of
year, Andrew. But I'm clean, honest, clean as a whistle.
Oh, Pinky, I didn't mean to be rude. I'd like to to
meet Inspector Harold James h Thank he. I'm glad to see you've got a
mama's job. You two know each other well. The inspector sent me up
twice. Oh that's why I hid when I saw him come in. Well,
there goes the ball game. Bye bye job, Pinky. We just
came in to get some information. No one's after you, I swear.
Are you sure I came in to see your father? Is he around?
I was, Oh, Jack, Well, dad's retired. That's how I
got this job. He recommended me. This is what we need to know,
Pinky. What is with that gathering in the garden in the back of
the Mead Farmhouse. What they're waiting for and why the fourth of July.
Those people have special permission from the Defense Department to get together at the Gettingsburg
Addressed once a year, just one day, the fourth of July. No
one else is allowed in there, only the relatives of a Southerner the Union
Army. Hang. They're supposed to be something. This guy hid with who
knows. The deal is, If anyone of them relatives find anything, they
all get to share. And Dad told me they used to come here with
shovels and metal detectors. Women. Yeah, but that's all died out.
If there was something there once, well it sure ain't there anymore. Thank
you, many thanks. Tell your dad that Gettysburger is in good hands.
Well, I hope I was helpful. Believe me, you don't know how
helpful you were. Inspect I'm going into that garden alone. Keep picking that
camera. You won't frighten them. Not if I go in. There's a
woman, you're going to disguise yourself. Watch me this scarf al my head
tied under my chin, the glasses on my nose to flatten Dixie cups here
and here, and that's all there is to it. A woman in pants
is not much different from a man. Okay, I can't wait to take
a picture of you and then get up. Tell me what are you gonna
do? And their misery. I'm going out this back door right to that
sun dial. Well, I can tell you what time it is. It's
five o'clock. That gives me a fast fifteen minutes oh, my friends,
you don't know me and Andrea Knox and I had just recently come to Washington.
We are all knox Is here, so we all one family. I
know that they before the July. We hope, we pray one of us
will find great Grandfather's treasure, which he hid here in this garden before the
Northern soldiers took him. And when one of us finds this, all of
us will shall. But I fitted out. Let me show you. I
take my little pen knife openness and cross the corner of this little old metal
sun dial on this marble column. Yes, yes, a might look all
of you here it is. I have just pulled it out from under the
sun dial where great grandfather hid it. This leather bag. See I'm opening
the string and oh my, oh my, my diamonds, beautiful, big
blue white diamonds, a handful diamonds for all of us doing me that.
Get away from me here everywhere. Don't just sit there happy with this crazy
person I have about the hall day. Oh well, we look at that,
hey, hair came clean off. It's a league. This prison is
not one of us, This is a man. I had to laugh,
I really had to laugh. Where you wore Andrew doing a superb piece of
acting a man with only a Scott tie on your head, making everyone believe
you're a woman. How do you get him a fight with another guy?
This guy so woman? And when you're right out of there with that bag
of diamonds? I there. I never saw such a picture of collective female
shock in all my life. Where did you see the pictures I did?
How is the prisoner every Knox? I can't keep him here much longer.
Impersonating a woman is still not a federal offense. But I am holding you
for questioning. Okay, let's have him in. He's still in a dress,
so I don't laugh. How are you show mister Knox in here where
you please? Thank you? But I won't be hill here alone. I'm
sorry we all meet again, and under these rather painful circumstances. Jeffrey,
I'm very disappointed in you. He told me he had bought that painting showing
the garden behind Need's farmhouse, and mister Kraus told me someone had stolen it
from him. Well, I don't know why Kraus lied to you. I
must have had his own reasons. I bought it from Kraus because I persuaded
him he couldn't pass up twenty five thousand dollars. He was reluctant because male
descendants, I understand, are prohibited to have the painting. But Money talked.
Why was it necessary to remove the identical painting from the apartment across the
street. Why did you need too? Well? Remember that morning, mister
Wolf, you and I were to meet her. Well, I'm afraid I
set you up. I went there two hours earlier. She was also an
ox old, desperate and unhappy, and, as I knew before I went,
convinced the painting had ruined her life, and she asked me to remove
it and burn it. You see, this meant I would be the only
one with an evidential positive claim. I did as she asked, moved away
to another part of town. And that night, well, I learned that
you've taken her own life. And the following day, the fourth, you
returned to her apart munch, put on her clothes, and, disguised as
a woman, went out to Gettysburg to meet's farm, which you helped identify
for me, mister Wolf. The irony of all this is my disguise didn't
help me. You, mister Wolf, not even related to our family.
You found the treasure? No, now, I didn't find it. If
there really is a fortune hidden in that garden, it's still there. I
just just a minute, Andrew, I saw you with the diamond and all
you saw as a bag. I said it contained beautiful, large, blue,
white, perfect stones. But how do you know, Andrew? I
give you just twenty four hours to come up with those diamonds. I'll be
waiting for you here right at my desk. Yes, sir, what can
I do for you? My name's Andrew Knox. I've been given your name
by my mother, Missus Harley Knox. No doubt the name is familiar to
you, you did say, Missus Harley Knox. Certain is well? This
is an honor. What can I do for you, mister Knox? My
mother has been going through some old family papers and discovered in one of them
a great great grandfather. Right, he's hoping to bequeath assets which he has
turned into diamonds, bequeath them to his descendants. Is that really true?
Stand you believed it was? Well? For noble years, mister Knox,
I have been trying to assist those entitled to share the fortune. How have
you gone about it. I have sold them a painting which I believe was
done by hard the Knox in prison them showed the exact spot where the fortune
has didden. Know the years, how many of the Knox family have you
assisted in their search? Two dozen? Three dozen, mis soul, they're
thirty six identical painting or nonsen only two had circulate them. Well after a
year or soul or Knox relative has a very good general idea of where to
look, and once a year they all gather. Now, if the painting
is no longer needed, they return it to me and I give them their
money back. You do, how much do you charge for the paintings?
Well, I can't move here left, mister Knox, it will do embarrass
your relative. Missus Kraus. I show you photographs taken this fourth of July
and the garden behind Mead Farmhouse. Well, all these ladies your clients at
one time, well, I don't know, that's just they were. They've
each paid you at least ten thousand dollars. Why don't speak the truth,
Missus Kraus, There is no fortune hidden in that garden. You've taken advantage
of ancient hearsay and the good ability of unfortunate women. Well, I have
done nothing wrong. The police have given these photographs to the newspapers to publish.
You are in big trouble, Missus Kraus. Oh, I don't understand
that. Mister Knoss, how do you know about all this? Because miss
Krauss, I am not the son of Missus Harley Knox. I am the
same Andrew Wolf who am to see you? Not they lions? Though I
am very confused. I don't see what this has to do with me.
Oh you will, I assure you when you arrive at the police station.
Well, it's about time you showed up, Andrew. This place has been
a madhouse. All those women who were at Gettysburg, they saw their pictures,
and they've been here asking for their share of the diamonds you found.
I don't know whether you've met mister Krause, Inspector. Mister Krause has made
a great deal of money in this affair, A lot of money, inspector.
Or. But two hundred thousand taken from those women alone. While I
don't see it that way, Andrew, they ended up with a couple of
million dollars worth of diamonds. What diamonds or you're not going to pull that
again, are you? Did you see the diamonds yourself, Inspector, No,
I was in the farm. I was taking pictures through the window,
but they were there in that leather bag you found in the sun. Dial
this leather bag. Yes, yes, that's the one. I'll tip out
the contents on your desk, Inspector. What's that a jeweler's glass? It's
my own. I take it everywhere to detect flaws in arguments, like a
rabbit's foot. Where are the diamonds? There aren't any. They never wear
any, and mister Kraus knows it. I suggest, inspected, that you
obtain a full statement from him, and I shall bring suit on behalf of
all the injured ladies to recover the money they invested in this dreamed up scheme.
I imagine mister Krauss has sizeable assets. Oh, sir, there was
something you wish to say. If you're like me, you had to be
on your toes to follow every turn made by hand Rewolf, for he thinks
fast and moves even faster. A man of many resources, unrivaled cleverness,
and a veteran of disguises with the ability to be a lion or a sheep
in Andrew Wolfe's clothing. There are those who live by their wits, and
there are those who feed from others plates. It has been said that everyone
has the makings of a criminal in him. Latent, lying asleep, hopefully
never to be awakened. Think to yourself, how simple it would be to
cheat a friend, take advantage of a situation, or profit from other people's
mistakes. How easy? And then say to yourself, oh, that's much
too hard for me to do. Oecast included Robert Dryden, Earl Hammond and
Lloyd Batista. The entire our production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater
for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant three