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Act one of Alias Miss Sherlock by
Arthur Lewis Tupps. This is a LibriVox

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Volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Alias Miss Sherlock. Cast of characters

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as they are first heard to speak. Lily Anne Help at the Farm read

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by Devorah Allen, Aaron Flint,
The hired Man read by Ala Mapstone.

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Missus Brewster from New York read by
t. J. Burns Helen Brewster,

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her Daughter read by Jan Broder.
Leonard Fillmore, A young country Lawyer read

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by Jeff Butterfield. Sarah Newcombe,
sister of Missus Brewster, read by Abba

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Ye. Dick Brewster read by David
Purdy, Henson a Butler read by Adrian

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Stephens, Ralph Deering read by Matthew
Rees, Henry Markham A Detective read by

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Todd ARTHA Through Higgins read by Wayne
Cook, Delphine read by Jay Green Veo

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Stage directions read by Michael Max Synopsis. Act one Yard of Miss Newcombe's fog,

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Brookville, New York, on an
afternoon late in August. Act two

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The Home of Missus Brewster, New
York City two weeks later. Act three

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an apartment uptown, New York.
Two more days have elapsed. Act four

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same as Act two, three weeks
later, time of playing two hours and

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a half. Costumes and characteristics.
Lilian Plain rather severe looking and bossy countrywoman

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of about forty, a likable character
in spite of her brusqueness. In first

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act she wears calico or gingham dress
with apron regular farm hired girl get up,

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not untidy nor too neat. In
fourth act somewhat exaggerated going away costume

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of a country bride, but by
no means grotesque airum flint middle aged farmhand.

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Quaint and comical, but not a
caricature. In first act baggy old

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trousers, dark shirt and suspenders,
dusty boots or shoes, and large straw

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hat. Act four rather conspicuous new
suit, hat, etc. With brightly

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polished new shoes. Missus brusnerome haughty
woman of the society, climber type about

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fifty or fifty five, stately with
gray hair and attractive face. Elegant summer

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costume in first act. Afterwards appropriate
costumes, rich and attractive with jewels.

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All a bit extravagant, but still
in good taste. Hallam Brewster, a

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girl of about twenty five, citified
and of beauty and charm, reflecting to

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a degree her mother's pompous manner,
but still capable of inspiring admiration and eventually

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confidence and sympathy. Dainty dress was
hat and parasol in Act one. Later

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elegant house dresses. Leonard Fillmore about
thirty, tall, well built, good

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looking, of a rather free,
offhand manner, but gen and ingratiating,

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just a slight trace of ruralism,
but still a man of refinement and culture.

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Plain suits. Sarah Newcombe a neat
prim but attractive woman of forty five

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or thereabouts, an old maid,
but of the sweet mother and home variety.

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Not green, though ingenuous, and
just a bit countrified. In last

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three acts on occasion assumes a bit
more of greenness than is really natural to

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her. Act one plain summer dress, Acts two, three and four a

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little more dressy, but plain and
appropriate. Dick Brewster, a handsome,

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boyish young man of about twenty two, shows some evidence of fast living,

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but should inspire sympathy, pity,
and belief in his innocence. One suit

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in good city style, but with
some signs of rough usage. Acts two

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and three say more similar but nater
Henson conventional type of English butler, straight,

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stiff, pompous black suit, not
necessarily livery or evening clothes, but

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appropriate to his position in city house
of some social distinction. Ralf Deering about

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fifty five, wealthy man of the
world of rue type stout florid for near

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of Polish, but showing his true
nature on provocation. Very well dressed with

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stylish topcoat, stick et cetera.
Henry Markham Stern, keen eyed man of

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thirty five or so in plain business
suit, Officer Higgins police uniform or plain

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dar suit. Delphine young woman of
Stern forbidding aspect, pale, light eyes,

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very black hair somewhat incongruous with her
natural coloring. Speaks with assumed but

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excellent French accent. Acts free,
plain black costume not that of the conventional

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stage made hair plainly combed with no
cap. Act four plain street dress with

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wraps, hat and veil alias Miss
Sherlock. Act one scene the yard of

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a comfortable farm residence in the northeastern
part of New York State. The house

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right is an ancient, but fine
and well preserved structure of the old homestead

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type. There is a porch,
windows with vines, plants, etc.

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A cross back of stage, a
fence with open gate center at left,

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a small arbor or summer house on
the edge of an orchard at back,

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a road leading to right and left
beyond fence, and on flat the glimpse

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of rolling fields, a church spire, and the roofs of a few houses

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scattered in the distance. It is
the afternoon of a day in the latter

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part of August. At rise,
Eron Flint is heard whistling off left upper

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entrance. Missus Brewster is discovered in
hammock or chair in arbors, left asleep,

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a book fallen to the ground.
Enter Aaron Flint left upper entrance,

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beyond fence to gate center. Almost
at the same moment, Lilian appears on

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porch of house. Eron carries several
letters sealed, addressed and stumped, a

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newspaper or two, and a good
sized puzzles post package of books addressed.

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Lilian comes down to write center that
the mail Aaron. Let's see quite a

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lot, ain't they. She takes
letters from him, should say they was

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most all for Missus Brewster, though
and a letter for her daughter. Seems

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to me it tain't nothing but them
around here one way another. I wonder

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how much longer they're going to stay
land. I don't know. Looks like

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we got them saddled on to us
for life. Been here since June,

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and here tis most September. She
is closely inspecting the letters. Tis wonder

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to me, Miss Newcomb, don't
get tired aborting them for nothing and having

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them putting on such airs and all, even if they are our own sister

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and niece. All fired, cheeky
I call it, well, you know

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her, easy as all get out. Guess I'm the one to do most

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of the kicking when you come right
down to it. All the extra work

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they make with coffee, took up
to their rooms at night in the morning

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luncheon as they call it, about
half past one, and dinner full meal.

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Mind you, it's seven at night, when it's most time for sensible

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folks to be going to bed.
Keeps me up all hours. I must

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say, I'm getting pretty tired of
it. I guess you'd be. And

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no wonder, but as she's saying, Miss newcome's that easy. She wouldn't

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say a word even if they stay
till Kingdom come. If there ever was

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a saint on earth, she's one. Well, even saints get imposed on,

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but I suppose being saints, it's
up to them not to find any

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fault, even when it's rubbed in. For my part, I think even

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a saint ought to have a little
gumption. That's more books for her,

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Yep, some more of them,
Sherlock Holmes detective stories she's always reading.

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I reckon must be four or five
here from the Heath the Bundle. Well,

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it beats all the amount of that
trash she does. Read them,

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terrible yarns, all about murders and
mysteries land. I should think she'd be

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so full of murder clues in everything, and she couldn't sleep nights. They'd

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give me the creeps if I was
to read them the way she does.

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Oh, I don't know. I
sort of like them myself. Miss Newcombe

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lent me a few, and they
certainly are hummers. I sure would like

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to be one of them detectives they
tell about, with all the excitement they

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have tracing up murderers and such.
Yeah, it's a pretty detective you'd make.

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You'd better be getting along detecting a
few chores instead of standing here talking

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murder clues here, I'll take that
bundle in the house with these letters.

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She takes package. They do not
notice missus Brewster, who's still asleep.

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Aaron gets closer to Lilian making up
to her. She seems unconscious of his

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intention. About to go to Paul. He detains her. Say Lilianne,

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what you gonna do after supper?
Wash your dishes? I suppose as usual

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dinner. I guess you mean,
though, and a pile of dishes it

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makes too makes me sick, I
say, Lilianne, if if I wipe

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em, then we all go and
take a walk walk land. I feel

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more like walk in a bed than
anywhere as else. Once I get through,

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what do I want to take a
walk for? Why? I thought?

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Maybe you and me just go for
a little straw if you like.

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Seeing as it's moonlight all anywhere,
ain't looks like it's going to be an

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nice evening. I declare, Aaron
Flint, you're old enough to have more

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sense getting sent a middle at your
age. How many times have I told

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you? Mmmm, well, you
know the old saying them that loves last,

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loves best, So I guess it
ain't too late for you and me.

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He attempts to kiss her. She
gives them a playful slap and starts

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to go upsteps. Missus Brewster wakes
up and sees them. They pause,

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turning as she speaks. Missus Brewster
rising, coming towards center. Perhaps when

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you have finished your most unbecoming behavior, you will inform me whether any of

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those letters are for me. Aaron
with an awkward bow of apology. Yes,

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ma'am, several of them. Lilian
looking over letters quite unperturbed, I

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guess some of these are for you. If your name's Miss Brewster, hold

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type letters exean, left uprexit.
Missus Brewster as she takes letters thanks,

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they look mostly like Beale's name.
Seems to me you are entirely too familiar

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for a servant. I shall speak
to my sister about it, huh.

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I ain't afraid of anything you'll say. It, Miss newcome about me.

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I guess I ain't lived with her
the past fourteen years without her knowing me

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well enough to not let anything you
could say count, even if you are

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her own sister and from the city. I should think the way you've been

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staying here all summer, you and
your daughter and been waited on and everything

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without paying a cent for it,
that you wouldn't have so very much to

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say. That's my opinion, if
I was to express it. Lilian is

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on porch in a huff. Missus
Brewster has crossed back to left near seat,

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almost overcome by her indignation. Ah, this is more than I can

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be expected to stand. Well,
then you can set down to it.

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There's a seat right behind you.
Missus Brewster sinks into chair, apparently about

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to faint. Lilian disdains her enter
write upper entrance, Helen Brewster and Leonard

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Fillmore. She carries a parasol and
a bunch of wild flowers. Leonard stays

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up by gate. Helen coming down, Why mother, what's the matter are

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you ill? Goes to missus Brewster. I have been insulted by that person

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there, indicating Lilian. Leonard looks
at Lilian with a knowing smile. Leon

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I ain't hurt her any just saying
a few things to ease my mind.

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I guess she'll live through it.
Excell Lilian to house with a tuss of

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her head and an indignant sniff.
Leonard Filwell coming down to write center.

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You mustn't take Lilian too. Seriously, missus Brewster, she's a privileged character

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around here again, now I should
say she is. It's insufferable the way

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my sister permits that woman to domineer
and make yourself so offensive. I shall

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have her dismissed. Well, I'm
inclined to think even you couldn't have that

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done, Missus Brewster. I'm sorry
if she's has been rude, and I'll

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speak to Miss Newcombe about it.
But well, I imagine it would be

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about as easy to dismiss the pump
or the barn as Lily Anne. The

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farm wouldn't be complete without her,
Missus Prewsta. Changing the subject, Helen,

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I should like to know where you
have been all this time? We

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have been for a stroll, mister
Fillmore, and I are any of those

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letters for me? One gives Helen
Lettle. I am afraid it was largely

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my fault. I believe I inveigled
Miss Brewster into walking rather farther than she

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otherwise would have done. Indeed,
the persuasive powers of a promising young legal

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light. How interesting, Helen,
smiling mother, promising he has already quite

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arrived. You know, he was
telling me of one of his cases.

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What was it, mister Fillmore,
defending a yokel whose cow is accused of

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infringe gene upon another man's property in
destroying some cabbages. Yes, quite as

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important as that. I think I
shall win my case too, after a

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hard judicial struggle. And when I
do, I shall come and claim your

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congratulations. That steps now, if
you will excuse me, I will look

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for miss Newcomb. I have a
little business to transact, and at the

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same time I will speak to her
about the offending Lilianne. Exit Leonard Tis

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with a show of good natured dignity, Helen. I believe he was half

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laughing at us Helen, who is
reading her letter, No doubt, Missus

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Brista again seated left, And I
should like to know what you mean by

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such a show of intimacy with him, a mere country lawyer taking a stroll

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with him. And oh well,
one has to have a little amusement in

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this forsaken place. Do let me
entertain myself in some way? Besides?

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Look what a ward I reaped.
This beautiful bouquet puts flowers and Missus Brewster's

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lap, Missus Brewster throwing flowers to
ground, And what of me? I

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hope. You don't think I stay
here from choice. Surely it is better

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than shutting ourselves up in the city
or going to some cheap boarding house,

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as we would have had to do. You know, Bar Harbor and Newport

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were quite out of the question.
Look at these bills, bills, bills,

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threats, lawsuits. We dare not
go back to New York for fear

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of our creditors. I don't know
what is to become of us. We

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can't stay and live on Aunt Sarah
much longer, that's certain. It is

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becoming unbearable. If only we could
have kept up appearances one more season,

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you might well, something might have
turned up. Helen, she has gone

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up by gate comes down. I
suppose you mean I might have sold myself

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or you might have sold me.
Why not say it? I am in

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the market for the highest bidder,
even you were not beyond possibilities, Helen,

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How can you say such things to
me, your own mother. I'm

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sure I have enough to bear without
that. I guess I am about as

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desperate as you are, for it
seems to be up to me. I

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don't know why you need to put
it in that vulgar way, but as

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you say, we cannot stay here
much longer. Look at these showing bills.

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If we go back to New York, there's Dick. If only he

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could do something. Dick, you
know how much good he is to me.

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I did hope when he secured that
position in the bank at forty dollars

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a week, then he might at
least cease to be a worry to me.

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But no, nevertheless, he is
still your son and my brother much

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good. Such a son as to
me, I have practically disowned him.

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You know, it is nearly a
year since we have even seen him.

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No, we must think of something
more reliable than Dick. My dear.

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Now there was mister Deering, Yes, one of the likely bidders. Well,

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if it will be any satisfaction to
you, this letter is from him,

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Helen, And does he Yes,
Mother, I believe you really have

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a chance to sell me at a
very good price. Helen, I refuse

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to listen to such talk. You
know, he is a gentleman. He's

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worth millions. You should consider yourself
a very lucky girl. I suppose I

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am, so far as your idea
of luck is concerned. But that man,

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old gross, The very thought of
him repels me. Why mister Deering,

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is not more than forty five,
well, or eight or nine?

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Perhaps, I think of all you
could command as his wife. But the

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question is at present, how are
we to manage to get back to New

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York, pay our bills, and
keep up appearances until it can be brought

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about. I know of just one
way, my sister, What aunt Sarah,

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that simple, countrified old maid.
Pray? What could she do?

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She could help us out of our
difficulties if she would. You may not

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know it, my dear, but
Sarah now come is rich. At least

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she must have a great deal of
money. When our father died, Sarah

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and I came in for everything he
had. He had run this farm for

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many years, and his father had
before him and had made money, which

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he invested and increased. When he
made his will, I chose cash,

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and in time received ten thousand dollars. Sarah kept the farm as her share

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and has rusticated here ever since.
While I well, I went to the

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city, met your father, married
him, and entered upon the life that

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appealed to me. Your father's death
left me well provided for, but oh

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well, it has vanished. While
Sarah her money must have accumulated and increased,

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So you see, my dear,
she is rich. Well, I

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must say, it is the last
thing I ever would have thought of.

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But even so, do you think
you could manage it or her? It

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would have to be carefully done.
Of course. By the way, that

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mister Fillmore is her legal adviser,
I believe he has charge of all her

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affairs. He'd know just how much
she is worth, and she would accept

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his advice. Hm. Perhaps,
after all you'd better be a bit nice

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to him. You want me to
pump him, to exert an insidious influence

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as it were, Oh very well, leave it to me. He's rather

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too nice a fellow to be made
a fool of, even if I can

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do it. But as you say, something must be done. Anything is

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better than the poor house and oblivion. And in the meantime, don't forget

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that it would be good policy to
keep on the right side of all these

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people, to make as good an
impression as possible. Oh yes, we

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may as well begin to do the
thing upright, even if it is rather

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late in the day. Helen,
Sometimes you shock me by your absolute hull

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garrity. Please do not use such
expressions. We shall do nothing dishonorable I

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hope not, but I must say
the very idea is repellent to me.

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I wish it were well over.
Lilian, from house to porch, her

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hands rolled up an apron, say, Miss Newcombe wants to know what you

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think you'd like to have for supper
or dinner. I suppose you'd call it.

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It's very kind of you to consult
us, isn't it, Helen.

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Can you think of anything you should
like to have? Dear? Well,

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of course, this ain't no first
class hotel. We ain't got everything.

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I'm sure anything Aunt Sarah is kind
enough to provide will be most acceptable.

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Yes, of course, Land you're
getting mighty in particular. All of a

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sudden seems to me, well,
how a good boiled dinner? Do you?

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I'm afraid I don't know just what
you mean, huh. I guess

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you know what a boiled dinner is, all right. You used to live

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here on the farm yourself till you
went away to boarding school and got in

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with city folks in their high notions. I guess you've at boiled dinners before

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now, indeed, but I never
lived on the farm, you know,

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Lilian. So perhaps you will inform
me just what a boiled dinner is something

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boiled, of course, sure,
cabbage, turnips, potatoes and so forth,

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boiled in with a nice hunk of
salt pork part lean. It just

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touches a spot with us. But
well, miss Nugam, ain't let me

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have one all summer, thinking it
wouldn't be stylish enough for you. But

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I guess you'd managed to eat it. I am sure it sounds quite alluring.

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Well, it sounds good and filling. Anyhow, squash Pie goes fine

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with it. And as I said
to Miss Newcomb, if they don't like

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it, let him go without tenny
rate. It's what we're going to have,

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because I got it over. Missus
Brewster, as if unable to control

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herself, has gone up by gate, is looking off left. Helen shrugs

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her shoulders good naturedly. Lilian goes
to the door, meeting Leonard, who

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enters from house. He passes her
and comes down to write center exit Lilian

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to house. Leonard looking back at
Lilian, I hope she hasn't been letting

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out again. I tried to get
here in time to ward her off,

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but was talking to Miss Newcomb.
We have been ordering our dinner, that's

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all it's to be a boiled one. Quite a feast, I believe,

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yes, indeed you have a treat
in store, one of Lilianne's boiled dinners

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and squash pie for dessert. I
hope, yes, I believe that is

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to be a part of the banquet
going part way up center? Mother,

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aren't you going to take a little
nap in preparation for such a gastronomical smiling

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to Leonard? Is that a good
word feast? No? I napped quite

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sufficiently this afternoon while you and mister
Filmore were taking a stroll and picking wild

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flowers. I believe Leonard has crossed
the left. Notice is the flowers on

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ground now? Glance is rather ruefully
at them. I wish to go in

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and see Miss Newcombe, if you
can spare me for a few moments.

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Oh yes, certainly, perhaps we
will go in the orchard for a little

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while. I just love those early
red apples. Missus Brewster on steps about

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to go in house. But my
dear, just before dinner, and such

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a dinner, don't worry, only
a nibble you know very well. Then

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I will leave her in your care. Mister Fillmore. Thanks trust me,

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Helen. Going left, will you
come ask me. I do, but

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beware I might tempt you with an
apple? You know. Oh what a

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willing adam am I They are about
to go out left. He surrenders to

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her mood. But poor Adam had
only an apple to tempt him. While

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I I see a page. Oh, mister Fillmore, is that worthy of

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you? A lawyer too? Missus
Brewster has stood on steps or porch,

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watching them with a crafty smile.
As they excellent left. She turns and

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is about to go into house,
but meets Sarah and comes back to Center

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and to Sarah and you come from
house down steps to write center. Oh

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here you are, em, I
was looking for you. Lilian tells me

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you have ordered a boiled dinner.
I hope your headache is better or I

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am afraid it is. Thank you, But I ordered nothing. It was

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entirely the main suggestion, I assure
you. I simply thought it best to

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submit. She has pretty much her
own way. It strikes me, well,

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I suppose she has. I guess
I've let her have it so long

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there is no breaking her of it. Now. Then Fillmore has just been

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telling me. She said something little
India at you. You mustn't mind her,

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Am, I really couldn't get along
without her. You know, I'm

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willing to overlook a great deal,
Sarah. But she actually had the presumption

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to insinuate that Helen and I are
imposing upon you by remaining here as if

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you my own dear sister, wiping
eyes, pretending to be near. Tis

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the idea why you're welcome to stay
here as long as you please. You

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know that I feel honored to think
it's good enough for you, after all

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your city grandeur and everything. Lilian
just blurts things out. You mustn't pay

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any attention to her. M Well, I'll try not to do so hereafter.

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But please don't call me m Sarah. It quite annoys me, does

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it. Land. It never occurred
to me. I can't seem to think

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of Emmeline somehow, you see.
It sort of seems just the same to

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me as it did when we was
girls here together, and we used to

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always call you m in those days. My. But it's a long time

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since then, isn't it, m
Madeline? Quite too long to mention or

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even think about. I should say, I don't see why tain't no disgrace

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to be getting old, as I
can see all the best people are doing

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it, you know. Besides,
you ain't more than Sarah. Please,

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oh well, then I won't.
But think how long it is since you

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were here that other time, when
Helen was about four years old and your

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boy was only a baby. Oh
what a cute little thing he was,

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your Dickie, Emmeline. Why he
must be almost a man now and a

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real joy to you, A joy, my son. Little you know him,

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or what he is to me A
trial tribulation, I might even say

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a disgrace. Sometimes I think it
would have been better had he never been

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born. Why, Emmeline, what
do you mean? I've wondered why you

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never said much about him? Why
you never seem to want to tell me.

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But Emmeline, your boy, little
dick, your own son, How

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can you say such a thing?
Because it is true? Little has he

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ever considered me? He spends what
he earns on right, is living in

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the company of persons who are called
fast and who tempt him to misdeeds and

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forgetfulness of what is honest and upright. That is the kind of son I

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have, Sarah, My little Dick, as you call him, Dick,

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the baby boy I used to hold
in these arms and cuddle up to me

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and wish was mine. And then
that summer you let him come here and

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stay with me when he was ten
years old because he wasn't very well.

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The sun that was like heaven to
me, because I had him just like

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he was mine, my very own. Oh how I loved him, and

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he learned to love me too,
And then I had to give him up,

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let him go back to you.
Who can say such things about him

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that he's a trial and a tribulation. Oh, Emmeline, Emmeline Brewster,

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What kind of mother have you been
if you have let him grow up to

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be that kind of man? I
dare say you think I am to blame?

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Little you know of such matters of
the world of life. Maybe I

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know more about some things than you
think I do. At any rate,

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I know enough about the world and
life to know what a real mother ought

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to be, and that the right
kind never would talk that way about her

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own son, no matter what he
was or what he had done. Mother,

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you, you never was fit to
be one. It wasn't in you.

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Forgive me, em, but I'm
going to speak the truth if it

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does hurt. When you was a
girl, it was all for dressing up

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and looking pretty, with you going
away to boarding school and getting educated,

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as you called it, well you
did. They're in the real world you

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talk about, and that you say
I don't know or understand. Then I

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thank Heaven I don't, and I
wish you didn't. A world that makes

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a woman so hard that she calls
her own son a tribulation and a disgrace

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instead of the blessing he ought to
be to her. I refuse to listen

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to any more of your abuse if
my own sister has no right to say

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such things to me. She crosses
to exit left, but Sarah bars away.

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She pauses. I guess you'll have
to listen, Emmeline, for I'm

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going to say what I've got to
say. I've had it on my mind

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for some time, and I might
as well let it out right now.

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I thought it was bad enough the
way you've let your girl grow up to

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be proud and vain. I can
see she has her soft side and might

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make a good woman if she had
a chance. But when you talk that

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way about your boy, about Dick, who was so sweet and cunning when

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he was a baby, and such
a manly little fellow when he was only

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ten, years old. Why that's
more than I can listen to and not

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say something, Oh, Emmeline,
why wasn't he my boy? Why was

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he given to you that doesn't care
for him instead of to me who has

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wanted him and could have been a
real mother to him and loved and protected

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him and helped him to be a
good, true man instead of what you

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say he is. It's me that
has had the mother feeling in me all

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these years, instead of you,
though I'm nothing but a poor little old

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maid with a soul that has starved
toward you have neglected and thrown away.

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Missus. Brewster has listened, at
first disdainfully, even angrily, then in

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a gradually some way softened mood,
she now shows some tenderness for her sister,

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though still obviously thinking of herself and
her own advantage. I am sorry,

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Sarah if you have missed what you
think would have been your happiness,

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But my life has been one that
you could not understand. You have no

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right to upbraid me. Perhaps you
have fared better than I have. After

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all, you at least have a
home to shelter you enough to live in

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comfort, even luxury, if you
wished the remainder of your life, while

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I am at the end of my
resources. Unless you help me, I

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see nothing but ruined despair ahead.
Why, Emmeline, what do you mean?

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I thought you had a grand home. Everything we have been trying to

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keep up appearances. Helen and I
she has prospects of marrying a very rich

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man if we can manage to go
back and resume our accustomed way of living

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for another season at least. But
unless you can help me, everything I

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have must go. House furniture all
a few thousand dollars, which I feel

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sure you can spare a few thousand
dollars. And I never saw more than

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a twenty dollar bill all at one
time in my life as I know of.

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It was you had the money after
father died. If you used it

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up and got in debt, why
it seems to me that's your fault,

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not mine. Oh, Sarah,
I didn't think you could be so hard,

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so you refuse to help me.
You would let me starve your own

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sister. Well, I guess you
won't need to do that as long as

405
00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:53.320
I have a home and plenty for
you too. But of course, if

406
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:59.079
you're so poor and I'm what you
call rich, why, well, I'll

407
00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:02.400
speak to Lynd more about it.
He knows how much I've got and everything.

408
00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:07.760
I always take his advice. I
should think you need not conform to

409
00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:12.760
the opinions of a mere country lawyer. Well, Len maybe a country lawyer,

410
00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:15.119
but he's a good one, and
I reckon that's a few city ones

411
00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:19.719
you could give a few pointers to
when it comes to that. You know,

412
00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:22.559
all the smart folks don't live in
the city. I guess maybe it's

413
00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:25.079
so full it's run over, and
a few of them have to stay in

414
00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:29.760
the country at any rate. It's
lend filmer. I'll have a talk with

415
00:36:30.079 --> 00:36:34.039
and maybe we can fix things up
for you. Do you know I've sort

416
00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:37.280
of thought I'd like to go to
the city for a spell myself and see

417
00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:40.880
real life, as you call it. If Len thinks I can afford it,

418
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:44.519
I might go home with you,
set you on your feet, and

419
00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:47.440
see a little style myself. Got
a room you could spare me in that

420
00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:54.000
grant mention of yours. Why I
hadn't thought of that. I hardly think

421
00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:58.960
you would care for our method of
living, Sarah, Dear, it is

422
00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:06.000
so front, you know, so
you needn't get fidgety about it yet a

423
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:09.000
while. I ain't begun to pack
my trunk yet. Now I'll have to

424
00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:13.840
go in the house and see how
Lily Ann's getting along with that supper or

425
00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:19.119
dinner as you call it. Going
to write. If you see Lenn Fillmore,

426
00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:21.599
you might tell him I want to
see him before he goes home,

427
00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:28.639
very well, Sarah on porch,
about to enter house. And by the

428
00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:31.159
way, if you want that rich
man you spoke about to have a chance,

429
00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:35.679
it's my opinion you'd better keep an
eye on that daughter or yours.

430
00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:39.159
And that plain country lawyer going to
court sort of in his line, you

431
00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:45.000
know, and they do say he's
pretty good at pleading a case. Exit

432
00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:50.880
Sarah at a house. Missus Brewster
looks slightly alarmed, starts left as if

433
00:37:50.960 --> 00:37:57.079
to go and seek Helen and Leonard
enter. Aaron left upper entrance with milking

434
00:37:57.159 --> 00:38:02.079
pails. Aaron coming and through gate. Why is she looking for anybody,

435
00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:07.920
Miss Brewster? No? Oh,
thought maybe you was. And I was

436
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:13.880
gonna say if twas your daughter and
Lynn Fillmore. I've seen him out in

437
00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:19.440
the orchard there eating enough apples to
give him the stomach ache, sitting pretty

438
00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:23.159
close to each other too. On
the sun wall, I beg if you

439
00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:30.559
spare me your plebeian observations. Gosh, I didn't know I had any such

440
00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:35.920
high faluting fixings. Ain't in my
line. He crosses to write, puts

441
00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:40.320
pails on porch, comes back to
write something. Say, man, if

442
00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:45.119
you don't mind, I wish you'd
tell me something. I'm getting kind of

443
00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:49.800
tired of this country life. I
like to go to the city and do

444
00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:58.079
something I think made any chance for
a fellow like me down there scarcely your

445
00:38:58.199 --> 00:39:02.920
place evidently is where you are.
Wow, I don't know. Sometimes we

446
00:39:04.159 --> 00:39:08.000
country fellas fool you. Would you
think it now to look at me that

447
00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:13.199
I got the makings of a first
class detective in me? Would you?

448
00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:19.079
No? It is the last thing
I should be willing to believe. That's

449
00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:23.920
what I thought. But there is
yes, siree, ma'am Miss Newcomb.

450
00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:30.360
She gets all them books about crimes
and such, you know, detective stories,

451
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:36.119
Sherlock Holmes, Ashton Kirk and all
them, and sometimes she lets me

452
00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:40.119
read them. They certainly do give
a fella an insight into the way things

453
00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:45.880
are among you city folk. Must
be a pretty hard luck come right down

454
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:52.159
to it, missus presta about to
go out left. I have no desire

455
00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:57.880
to listen to your opinions. I
understand that miss Newcomb is in the habit

456
00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:01.760
of reading those lurid romances, and
I am much surprised that she should burden

457
00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:07.679
her mind with such sensational trash.
Oh, she just don't, Sileum says,

458
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:13.960
the biggest men read them, even
Len Fillmore. He says they help

459
00:40:14.039 --> 00:40:19.880
him in his law business. Indeed, I must say that is about the

460
00:40:20.039 --> 00:40:25.239
opinion I had of him and his
legal ability, calling as she goes off

461
00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:32.519
left, Helen, Helen, where
are you exit? Missus Brewster? Left,

462
00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:38.480
second exit, Aaron going to left, calling after her better tell her

463
00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:44.039
and Len to stop eating them apples
because Lily Anne says we're gonna have a

464
00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:49.239
board dinner and they won't have room
for it. Aaron goes to right,

465
00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:53.599
takes pails, and is about to
enter house when he turns, glances off

466
00:40:53.920 --> 00:41:00.840
left upper exit, stops, looks, then sets down pails and goes up

467
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:06.159
to gate, looking off left with
a show of interest. Harry's off left

468
00:41:06.239 --> 00:41:12.239
upper exit and after a pause,
re enters, leading Dick Brewster by the

469
00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:19.000
arm. Dick is dusty, pale, and almost exhausted, o be What

470
00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:25.760
do you want? Leads Dick left
to seat Dick sinkstone. Aaron regards him

471
00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:34.519
suspiciously. Why don't you speak?
You're sick, no, only tired about

472
00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:38.079
played out. I I've walked a
long distance and I haven't had anything to

473
00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:45.559
eat since since last night. Ye
ain't gosh actually think you would be weak?

474
00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:52.239
Mmm? You don't look just like
a tramp Dick with some spirit?

475
00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:57.679
I'm not. You needn't think I'm
anything like that. I is this where

476
00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:02.039
miss Newcombe lives? Why? Yes? This is her place? You don't

477
00:42:02.119 --> 00:42:06.679
want to see her, do you? I want to know if missus Brewster

478
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:13.599
is here, Missus Brewster and and
miss Brewster. Oh you know them,

479
00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:19.920
do you? Yes? They're right
here. I should say they be happening,

480
00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:22.440
since I don't know when, and
it looks like they're going to keep

481
00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:29.960
right on being. I want to
see missus Brewster right away. Will you

482
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:36.400
tell her please? M Why?
Yes? I guess so looks off left.

483
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:39.880
She's out in the orchard there with
her daughter and them. Fillmore.

484
00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:46.719
I'll see him coming now, Dick
rising, almost tottering, starting to go

485
00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:52.480
right. I don't want to see
anybody else, just my just missus Brewster

486
00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:59.039
or Helen. While then you just
come up here and wait a minute,

487
00:42:59.079 --> 00:43:04.960
and I'll see if I can fix
it. Aaron assists stick or fright beyond

488
00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:10.320
house, then returns stay right there
till I tell you, and to Helen,

489
00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:17.599
and Leonard left second entrance, Helen
laughing evidently forgetting herself at the moment

490
00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:23.039
and acting with a natural manner of
good humor. I'm afraid we're in for

491
00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:28.760
it. At least I am for
a good scolding. I must have eaten

492
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:32.199
at least half a dozen of those
apples. It's all your fault. Oh

493
00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:37.599
say, come now, that's reversing
scripture, and we'll never do The woman

494
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:42.440
did tempt me, you know nothing
of the sort. It was the man

495
00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:46.280
who did the tempting. This time
all the better since you yielded. I

496
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:51.199
didn't know I had the power.
Thanks for the compliment. You might be

497
00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:55.000
welcome had I intended to pay you
one, but I didn't. Alas,

498
00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:59.760
poor Adam, he's bound to get
the worst of it. Thus does he

499
00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:05.199
have another fall from the heights of
expectation to the deaths of despair. My

500
00:44:05.480 --> 00:44:09.480
what an ancient joke. Going back
to the first pair and the first apple,

501
00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:15.599
Oh, worse and worse, And
to missus Brewster left second entrance,

502
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:21.400
crossing to write, Helen, I'm
going to my room, and you'd better

503
00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:27.199
come to after your walk and such
a feast of apples, I should think

504
00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:30.440
you would need a little rest and
quiet before dinner. Very well, mother,

505
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:36.679
I'll come right in. Helen crosses
to write. Leonard goes up center,

506
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:40.960
and I think i'll say good afternoon. By the way, mister Fillmore,

507
00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:45.719
Miss Newcombe wished me to inform you
that she would like to see you

508
00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:50.679
again for a moment before you leave. Thanks. Then i'll wait. Exit

509
00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:55.119
missus Brewster to house. Yes,
you'd better you might get invited to stay

510
00:44:55.239 --> 00:45:00.239
and have some of that biled dinner. You know that, So I guess

511
00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:07.159
I had squash pie too. Garden
of Eden was nothing like this. Exit

512
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:13.639
Helen to house, followed by Leonard
and to Aaron right looks about. Then

513
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:19.400
someone's Dick, who enters and stands
by fence right center. You stay right

514
00:45:19.559 --> 00:45:23.480
here. I'm gott see if I
can get her. Dick stands leaning on

515
00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:30.880
fence week and showing some agitation.
Aaron goes over by porch, looks in

516
00:45:30.039 --> 00:45:37.039
house, making motions. She sees
me she's coming. Aaron goes and helps

517
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:43.920
Dick to center, partially concealing him
as Helen enters. Did you want me

518
00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:50.000
Aaron? MM, yes, Miss
Brewster. There is somebody here wants to

519
00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:57.199
see you. It's Dick, disclosing
himself Helen, Dick, Dick, what

520
00:45:57.320 --> 00:46:02.000
are you doing here? Where's mother? I want to see her? He

521
00:46:02.280 --> 00:46:07.119
totters. Helen goes and supports him. But Dick, how did you happen

522
00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:12.239
to come here? We didn't expect
you. You are ill? Is anything

523
00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:16.079
the matter? Yes? Lots is
the matter. I I'm in trouble,

524
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:22.239
Helen. I. He looks about
as if not wishing to speak before Aaron.

525
00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:29.119
Helen motions to Aaron, who nods
and exits right beyond house, taking

526
00:46:29.280 --> 00:46:34.239
pales. There we are alone.
Now tell me, Dick, what is

527
00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:38.039
it? What is the trouble?
She has assisted him to seat left.

528
00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:45.400
He sits. She stands by him, showing more surprise than tenderness, but

529
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:52.639
is not wholly without sympathy. I've
run away, run away, but why

530
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:57.440
from what? I can't tell you
now. I've got to have money,

531
00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:01.960
that's all, plenty of it to
get away out of the country. Where's

532
00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:07.000
Mother? She couldn't help you any
more than I can. What do you

533
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:12.320
mean? What have you done?
Never mind that there isn't time. I'm

534
00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:15.559
your brother, that's all, and
her son, and you've got to help

535
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:19.199
me. It's for your sake as
well as for mine. I guess if

536
00:47:19.239 --> 00:47:22.239
you don't want, oh, Dick, will you never learn to behave yourself

537
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:28.920
to be a man? Mother is
almost desperate already, with ruin staring her

538
00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:31.239
in the face, and now to
have you come here in this condition,

539
00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:37.800
you who ought to help her instead
of bringing disgrace upon her. You ought

540
00:47:37.880 --> 00:47:40.920
to be ashamed of yourself, And
so would you be if you were any

541
00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:45.119
kind of a sister. Instead of
turning on me. Now when I'm facing

542
00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:51.159
and to Sarah from house to porch, Dick Caesa and shrinkstone, as if

543
00:47:51.239 --> 00:47:57.639
to hide who's that? I don't
want to see Helen disclosing him? Aunt,

544
00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:02.039
Sarah, this is my brother,
Sarah coming down, looking at Dick,

545
00:48:02.559 --> 00:48:10.159
at first uncomprehendingly and then with gradual
recognition and dawning tenderness. You don't

546
00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:17.760
mean that that it is, Dick, Little Dick, Why you if you

547
00:48:17.880 --> 00:48:22.079
haven't grown up into a man The
last time I saw you you were just

548
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:27.480
a little fellow. That was it
was twelve years ago, and you are

549
00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:32.320
only ten years old. And now
why you're sick? Something is the matter?

550
00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:38.280
Dick breaking down. Oh, I
can't stand any more. I'm played

551
00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:43.960
out. I can't go any further. He has tried to rise, but

552
00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:49.679
sinks back on to seat. Sarah
goes to him, sits puts arm about

553
00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:55.360
him affectionately. Why of course you
can't, you needn't. You've got home,

554
00:48:55.519 --> 00:49:00.519
Dick. You've come right here where
we've been waiting for you, and

555
00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:04.679
are glad to see you. Oh, you don't know, you don't know.

556
00:49:05.719 --> 00:49:08.320
I hope a mother doesn't come.
You go in the house and see

557
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:12.599
that she doesn't. I'll talk to
Dick and see if I can find out

558
00:49:12.679 --> 00:49:17.760
what's the matter. Helen goes left
to steps. Dick starts up, but

559
00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:23.079
sinks back as Sarah gently draws him
down beside her. But I must see

560
00:49:23.159 --> 00:49:28.000
her. I want to tell her. Maybe it would be just as well

561
00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:31.679
if you told me I'm your aunt, Sarah. Though you've sort of forgotten

562
00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:37.199
me, haven't you. But I
haven't forgotten you, and I guess maybe

563
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:42.199
it would be bitter if you told
me about it first. Then we'll see.

564
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:46.920
You'll help me to get away.
Sarah to Helen, who still stands

565
00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:52.480
left you go, Helen, he
will be all right. Exit Helen left

566
00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:58.400
the house. Now, Dick,
tell me, oh, I can't.

567
00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:01.559
I can't. I don't know what
to do. They may be after me

568
00:50:01.679 --> 00:50:07.119
by this time. Who who is
after you? The police? They may

569
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:10.639
have found out by this time I
didn't do it. I didn't, but

570
00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:14.880
they will think I did. They'll
find out I was there some way,

571
00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:19.840
and then unless I can get away
where they can't find me. But tell

572
00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:22.440
me about it? What was it? How did you happen to come here?

573
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:27.320
Why I had hurt? Mother and
Helen speak of you, and I

574
00:50:27.440 --> 00:50:30.800
remembered you too, about the summer
I stayed here so long ago, and

575
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:36.440
how good you were to me,
And then I thought they were you could

576
00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:39.280
help me in some way. I
didn't know where else to go. I've

577
00:50:39.320 --> 00:50:43.480
got to have money. She's my
mother. If I haven't done just right,

578
00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:46.760
and she's got to help me.
Where is she? I must see

579
00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:52.679
her pretty soon maybe, But tell
me first, what do they think you

580
00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:57.440
have done? It's murder, that's
what they'll say. But I didn't do

581
00:50:57.559 --> 00:51:00.039
it. No, No, I
didn't. It was somebody else. But

582
00:51:00.199 --> 00:51:04.679
they'll have it on me if they
find out I was there, I was

583
00:51:04.760 --> 00:51:07.480
found with the gun. I'm innocent, but they never believe it. I'll

584
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:13.679
have to go away. He starts
up as if to go. Sarah again

585
00:51:13.800 --> 00:51:20.840
detains him. But how where was
it when? Never mind? Let me

586
00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:23.880
go. It may be too late. They may have followed me. Where

587
00:51:23.960 --> 00:51:29.719
can I go? You can't go
anywhere. You're in no condition. You'll

588
00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:32.000
have to stay right here till we
can fix you up and decide what to

589
00:51:32.119 --> 00:51:37.639
do. What I want now is
for you to tell me all about it,

590
00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:42.599
just what happened, what you had
to do with it and everything,

591
00:51:43.320 --> 00:51:47.840
and if it's possible, I'll help
you. You will. You'll give me

592
00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:52.679
money to get away. I don't
know about that, but I'll do justipust

593
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:58.000
I can. You can trust me, Dick, Trust me with your very

594
00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:01.960
life. It's worth a life just
to hear somebody talk like that, to

595
00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:07.360
know somebody believes in me a little
bit and wants to help me. It's

596
00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:09.280
an old story, the way I've
been made a fool of by a woman.

597
00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:14.679
But I loved her, trusted her. I thought she was as good

598
00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:17.719
as she was beautiful. She thought
I was a rich man's son. That

599
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:22.840
was all she cared. And then
when she found out I was spending every

600
00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:27.559
cent I had just to buy her
flowers and suppers. And then she tried

601
00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:31.159
to throw me over. That made
me desperate, And one night, three

602
00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:36.440
nights ago, I insisted on going
home with her. She tried to get

603
00:52:36.559 --> 00:52:39.599
rid of me, but I went, and when we got there, she

604
00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:43.880
told me she had no more use
for me, that I wasn't worth bothering

605
00:52:43.960 --> 00:52:47.239
with. Then I threatened her,
I'll admit that, though I didn't really

606
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:51.440
mean it, I only thought perhaps
I could make her change her mind.

607
00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:55.440
Then another man came, a really
rich one, I suppose, and she

608
00:52:55.599 --> 00:53:00.159
told me to get out. I
wouldn't, so she made me go in

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00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:05.440
another room behind some curtains. She
was afraid he'd be jealous too, And

610
00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:08.519
when he came in, he suspected
there was somebody else there, and they

611
00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:13.880
had a row. I stood looking
through the curtains, watching them, and

612
00:53:14.239 --> 00:53:19.840
all of a sudden, yes,
then all of a sudden there was a

613
00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:27.360
shot, and Laura, miss Navarre, fell dead dead. She was killed?

614
00:53:28.280 --> 00:53:32.800
But who who did it? Dick? Not? No, you needn't

615
00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:37.159
think I did it. I didn't. I don't know who did. All

616
00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:42.159
I know is that I was alone
there in that room behind those curtains,

617
00:53:42.519 --> 00:53:45.079
and that it was dark in there
so that I couldn't see, and I

618
00:53:45.199 --> 00:53:50.199
didn't hear anyone. But a hand
reached over my shoulder there in the dark

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00:53:50.559 --> 00:53:57.400
and fired that shot. Did you
see the hand, No, but I

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00:53:57.599 --> 00:54:01.639
felt something for an instant. It
just seemed to touch my shoulder. That

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00:54:01.880 --> 00:54:07.039
was all. But there must have
been somebody else there in that room,

622
00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:10.800
yes, when I went in,
but I didn't see any one, as

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00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:14.960
there was no light in there.
They must have been waiting there all the

624
00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:21.960
time for her, And after after
that shot was fired, What did you

625
00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:25.679
do? Why? At first I
just stood there for a minute. I

626
00:54:25.840 --> 00:54:30.039
was so frightened and dazed. But
that other man that was there with her,

627
00:54:30.760 --> 00:54:35.800
what did he do? I just
caught a glimpse of him kneeling down

628
00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:39.559
by her. He held her up
a little, and just then Miss Navarre's

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00:54:39.599 --> 00:54:44.320
maid rushed in from the hall,
came across and threw apart the curtains where

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00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:46.760
I was, and there on the
floor, just by my feet was the

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00:54:46.920 --> 00:54:52.480
gun. She picked it up,
stared at me and cried you have killed

632
00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:58.519
her and the man I didn't notice. I don't remember. All I know

633
00:54:58.800 --> 00:55:01.079
is that the maid went to the
telephone to call up the police, I

634
00:55:01.159 --> 00:55:05.400
suppose, and before they could stop
me, I rushed out and got away.

635
00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:09.039
Then I came here. It was
all I could do. And oh,

636
00:55:09.159 --> 00:55:12.760
you don't think I did it.
You don't believe I'm a murderer.

637
00:55:13.320 --> 00:55:15.880
You're my aunt, my mother's own
sister. You won't let them hang me.

638
00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:22.159
No, no, Dick, I
want to believe you. I want

639
00:55:22.199 --> 00:55:25.920
to help you if you are innocent, and I can you are the same

640
00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:30.840
as my own boy. I want
to save you. Look at me,

641
00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:35.920
Dick, look me straight in the
face, and tell me God, seeing

642
00:55:36.039 --> 00:55:39.960
you and hearing every word you say
that you didn't kill that woman. You

643
00:55:40.159 --> 00:55:45.800
don't know who did. Can you
do that? Dick? Yes? I

644
00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:51.599
can I do. He straightens up
and with a clear, candid expression,

645
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:59.119
finding sudden courage and determination, looks
her squarely in the eyes, and in

646
00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:05.400
slightly way favering but honest, convincing
tones, speaks, I swear to you,

647
00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:09.480
I didn't kill that woman. I
don't know who did. As I

648
00:56:09.559 --> 00:56:16.840
hope her eternal salvation. So help
me God, I am innocent. Sarah

649
00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:22.679
stands motionless for a moment, one
hand on each of Dick's shoulders, looking

650
00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:30.400
searchingly into his eyes, her face
showing infinite tenderness and pity. His gaze

651
00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:37.199
never falters. After an eloquent pause, she suddenly clasps him in her arms,

652
00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:45.440
holding him closely. He buries his
face against her shoulder, sobbing gently.

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Curtain end of Act one, Act
two of Alias Miss Sherlock by Arthur

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00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:09.760
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00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:17.920
Act two scene parlor or reception room
in the New York residence of Missus

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00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:27.440
Brewster, handsomely furnished. An alcove
or hallway across left. Upper entrance shows

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00:57:27.559 --> 00:57:31.599
staircase and leads to front door off
left. There is a hall rack in

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00:57:31.679 --> 00:57:39.320
alcove door left second entrance, another
in flat right center, and one right

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00:57:40.360 --> 00:57:47.400
table down right center with few books, etc. Smaller table or stand up

661
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:54.239
right center with telephone. Also button
of electric call bell, davenport, left

662
00:57:54.639 --> 00:58:06.159
chairs, etc. At rise doorbell
ringing off left apprentrance enter Hanson Wright crosses

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00:58:06.760 --> 00:58:14.679
exits left upper exit. As he
exits enter, Missus Brewster downstairs comes down

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00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:20.039
to write Center, just in time
to receive Ralph Dearing, who is shown

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00:58:20.119 --> 00:58:24.800
in by Hanson. He hands light, top coat, hat and cane to

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00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:30.760
Hanson, who leaves them on rack
and exits right. Daring comes down to

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00:58:30.920 --> 00:58:37.199
center. Mister Dearing, how good
have you to call so soon? I

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00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:42.079
am delighted to see you, delighted
to be here, I assure you.

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00:58:42.840 --> 00:58:45.960
Miss Brewster was kind enough to write
me when you were to return. And

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00:58:46.679 --> 00:58:52.920
you see I have lost little time
in coming, and you are a welcome

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00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:57.320
visitor, the first we have had. We returned much earlier than usual.

672
00:58:57.440 --> 00:59:00.280
You know, I had some business
to attend to, and well we were

673
00:59:00.360 --> 00:59:05.760
saturated with rural felicity, for we
were quite in the country, you know,

674
00:59:06.440 --> 00:59:09.760
and a farm in fact, quite
a change, I should imagine from

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00:59:09.880 --> 00:59:16.679
former seasons. They all seated decidedly, but just what we required after a

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00:59:16.760 --> 00:59:22.880
strenuous social season, and very beneficial
to both Helen and myself. Neither of

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00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:27.320
us felt equal to bar Harbor or
Newport. And they have become such an

678
00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:31.199
old story summer after summer, so
I thought it an excellent opportunity to visit

679
00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:37.079
my sister back at our old home. Oh, yes, a decided change.

680
00:59:37.639 --> 00:59:42.880
Quite the thing, however, you
know, for tired nerves and all

681
00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:47.559
that, but rather irksome, no
doubt, after a while, terribly so.

682
00:59:49.800 --> 00:59:52.079
But then it was years since I
had seen my sister, and I

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00:59:52.199 --> 00:59:58.760
felt guilty having so long neglected her. So I summoned courage to go and

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00:59:58.880 --> 01:00:01.800
make her a little visit. It
did her so much good, dear soul,

685
01:00:02.519 --> 01:00:07.960
I felt fully rewarded. I have
brought her home with me, ah

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01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:13.159
for a little glimpse of city life. I suppose, yes, her first.

687
01:00:13.800 --> 01:00:16.440
I had quite a task persuading her
to come. She has always been

688
01:00:16.440 --> 01:00:22.000
such a home body, formally resisted
all my importunities to come and stay with

689
01:00:22.159 --> 01:00:25.800
me. Of course, she is
quite out of her element here, not

690
01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:31.280
that she is not a dear but
such a little country mouse, so shy.

691
01:00:32.320 --> 01:00:37.480
I am sure you understand. She
rises, He does the same.

692
01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:42.920
I will call Helen. She will
be delighted to see you. Goes up

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01:00:43.159 --> 01:00:47.639
presses button, you think so,
I am sure of it. And to

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01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:54.039
Hansome, write Hanson inform miss Brewster
that mister Dearian is here. You will

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01:00:54.079 --> 01:01:00.559
find her in her room. Exit
Hansome left up her exit up the stairs.

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01:01:00.559 --> 01:01:05.239
I think you understand what my feelings
are towards your daughter, missus Brewster.

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01:01:06.039 --> 01:01:08.719
At least I hope you will not
be displeased if I tell you that

698
01:01:08.840 --> 01:01:14.360
it is my desire to make her
my wife. Nothing could give me greater

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01:01:14.519 --> 01:01:19.880
happiness, Ah to be sure of
my dear child's future in your care.

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01:01:20.639 --> 01:01:24.239
It would indeed be a blessing.
The greater share would be bestowed upon me.

701
01:01:24.440 --> 01:01:31.840
I am sure. But may I
hope that Miss Brewster Helen you will

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01:01:31.880 --> 01:01:37.400
meet with no discouragement in that direction? I am sure? She pauses as

703
01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:44.159
she sees Helen, who comes downstairs, daring all say sees her, goes

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01:01:44.280 --> 01:01:49.119
part way up center to meet her. Helen comes down, greets him with

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01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:53.320
politeness, but little show of wolmth
Miss Brewster, it has been a long

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01:01:53.440 --> 01:02:00.199
time. Henson comes downstairs, exits
right. How do you do, mister

707
01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:04.199
Deering? It is very kind of
you to call so soon after our return.

708
01:02:05.199 --> 01:02:08.119
I was only too glad to have
the opportunity. In fact, I

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01:02:08.320 --> 01:02:13.000
came up from my country place expressly
for the purpose of being the first to

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01:02:13.079 --> 01:02:17.360
welcome you. How very very kind
of you, was it not, Helen?

711
01:02:19.360 --> 01:02:23.440
Most kind? I am sure,
missus Brewster, who has gone upright?

712
01:02:24.159 --> 01:02:28.280
I hope you will stay to dinner, mister deering, and take such

713
01:02:28.320 --> 01:02:31.039
as we can offer you. Things
are not wholly in running order yet,

714
01:02:31.159 --> 01:02:36.599
but thank you. But I scarcely
think I shall be able to do so

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01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:42.400
today. May I not hope to
come again soon? Indeed? Yes,

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01:02:43.280 --> 01:02:46.599
only let us know, And now, if you will excuse me, he

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01:02:46.800 --> 01:02:52.599
assents, She exits. Right,
I hear you had a very quiet summer,

718
01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:59.000
miss Brewster, quite in the midst
of rural felicity. Oh that is

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01:02:59.039 --> 01:03:01.400
what mother calls it? Is it? I am afraid she would speak in

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01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:07.880
less poetic terms if she were to
express her real opinion. We were unutterably

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01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:13.679
bored. I thought it would never
end. I think I understand you were

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01:03:13.760 --> 01:03:16.519
not in the right setting there,
you who were made for big places,

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01:03:16.719 --> 01:03:22.519
for brilliant crowds, regal surroundings,
where you can reign as queen. Helen,

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01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:28.719
smiling with a lift of her eyebrows, dear me, who is getting

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01:03:28.800 --> 01:03:34.079
poetic? Now? You honor me
too much? No, no, I

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01:03:34.239 --> 01:03:38.159
could not do that. He gets
close to her, speaking with a warmth

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01:03:38.280 --> 01:03:44.599
of feeling, which repels her,
though she means to encourage him in spite

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01:03:44.639 --> 01:03:49.800
of herself, however, slightly drawing
away. You know my feelings for you.

729
01:03:50.559 --> 01:03:53.199
This is not the first time I
have tried to express them, Miss

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01:03:53.280 --> 01:04:00.280
Brewster, Helen, tell me,
I don't hope in vain that I make

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01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:03.719
you the happiest woman in the world. Ah, that is a pretty big

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01:04:03.960 --> 01:04:08.840
order. Do you think you could
fill it? Only? Let me try.

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01:04:09.840 --> 01:04:13.119
I can give you all that a
woman can wish. A beautiful home,

734
01:04:13.639 --> 01:04:16.840
gorgeous clothes, jewels. You shall
have everything that money can buy.

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01:04:17.559 --> 01:04:21.480
You shall lead them all have what
you will do, what you choose.

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01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:26.639
I am afraid it takes more than
all that to make a woman happy,

737
01:04:26.719 --> 01:04:33.360
mister Deering. Some women but devotion. Love all my heart? And isn't

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01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:39.000
that what you would expect in return? Love? Devotion? And if I

739
01:04:39.159 --> 01:04:44.360
could not give them, you could
give yourself, your radiant, beautiful self.

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01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:49.320
That is what I want you you. He is about to take her

741
01:04:49.400 --> 01:04:55.559
in his arms. She shows at
first some shrinking, but makes an effort

742
01:04:55.639 --> 01:05:00.320
to yield. Is about to do
so when the doorbell rings. This gives

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01:05:00.360 --> 01:05:04.840
her the opportunity to turn from him. He is compelled to release her with

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01:05:05.079 --> 01:05:14.079
some annoyance. Enter Hanson write,
crosses, exits left upper exit. Will

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01:05:14.199 --> 01:05:18.960
you go in the library. I
will join you there. Dearing again approaching

746
01:05:19.000 --> 01:05:24.480
her, but she goes part way
up center. He desists, goes right

747
01:05:25.559 --> 01:05:30.239
very well, I will wait for
you there anxiously. Don't belong no,

748
01:05:30.840 --> 01:05:39.239
I will come to you at once
exit Dearing Wright. Helen shudders slightly with

749
01:05:39.519 --> 01:05:46.159
evident repulsion and relief in his absence. She is right center enter Henson left

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01:05:46.199 --> 01:05:57.079
apprentrance, mister Fillmore. Helen's attitude
changes. Her expression brightens, denoting pleasure

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01:05:57.400 --> 01:06:03.079
which she is unable to conceal.
You may show him in Henson exit Henson

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01:06:03.519 --> 01:06:12.639
left a prexit. Helen stands looking
up left appreentrance expectantly for the moment she

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01:06:12.760 --> 01:06:18.880
becomes her natural self, greeting Leonard
Fillmore cordially when he appears, and to

754
01:06:19.079 --> 01:06:27.840
Leonard Fillmore left appreentrance, followed by
Hanson, who exits right. Mister Fillmore,

755
01:06:28.239 --> 01:06:32.280
this is quite a surprise. How
do you do fine? Thanks and

756
01:06:33.000 --> 01:06:40.079
feeling better still now needn't ask how
you are? You are looking scrumptious my

757
01:06:40.760 --> 01:06:45.199
all of that m while Apples agree
with me, you know, and biled

758
01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:51.320
dinners squash by say the farm lost
all its charm after you left. Excuse

759
01:06:51.400 --> 01:06:56.199
me, I guess there's no law
against paying a few compliments. I'm a

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01:06:56.280 --> 01:07:00.039
lawyer, and I know you see
if a fellow means him with you and

761
01:07:00.119 --> 01:07:02.400
Miss Newke can both gone. Well, it was too much for me.

762
01:07:03.360 --> 01:07:08.920
One cannot imagine the farm without Aunt
Sarah. How glad she will be to

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01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:13.559
see you? I suppose she will. How is she? She's well,

764
01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:17.519
a bit homesick, though I fear, but brave as I also try to

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01:07:17.679 --> 01:07:21.920
be. But it's hard with all
we have on our minds, and trying

766
01:07:21.960 --> 01:07:27.840
to keep it from mother so she
doesn't know yet. No, I want

767
01:07:27.880 --> 01:07:30.679
to keep it from her as long
as possible. She has enough to bear.

768
01:07:31.119 --> 01:07:34.519
Oh, mister Fillmore, what is
going to happen? Do you think

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01:07:34.599 --> 01:07:40.079
they will find my brother convict him. I cannot think of it. I

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01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:45.079
dare not. We're going to do
everything there is to be done for him,

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01:07:45.199 --> 01:07:49.400
and I feel it in my bones
everything will come out all right.

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01:07:49.599 --> 01:07:54.079
Why, I don't see how fate
itself could defeat such a spirit as your

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01:07:54.119 --> 01:07:58.320
Aunt Sarah shows. She's just bound
to save her boy as she calls him,

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01:07:58.519 --> 01:08:00.679
and in spite of all obstacles,
I feel that she'll do it,

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01:08:00.840 --> 01:08:04.440
and I mean to help. Just
you leave it to us and try to

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01:08:04.519 --> 01:08:09.440
look on the bright side. I
can't bear to see you worry. You

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01:08:09.559 --> 01:08:14.320
are very kind. You do help
me. You make me feel better,

778
01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:20.520
do I That's great? If I
well, I'd like to feel better too,

779
01:08:21.039 --> 01:08:25.520
if you just say the word.
I know I haven't the right to

780
01:08:25.640 --> 01:08:29.520
ask it, just a plain country
law. You're like me, But you're

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01:08:29.560 --> 01:08:33.199
not mad? Are you mad?
Why? Of course not? How could

782
01:08:33.279 --> 01:08:40.159
I be? Besides being poor is
no disgrace. And as for playing well,

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01:08:40.239 --> 01:08:47.319
there might be two opinions about that. Leonard impulsively forgetting himself miss er

784
01:08:48.359 --> 01:08:56.239
Helen, Helen suddenly realizing that she
is encouraging him too much, changing her

785
01:08:56.319 --> 01:09:01.680
mood repulsing him, although not too
pronounced. But Dick, you haven't told

786
01:09:01.760 --> 01:09:06.079
me what about him? Where is
he? That's right, we have no

787
01:09:06.279 --> 01:09:10.880
right to think of other things now, But you see us sort of for

788
01:09:11.039 --> 01:09:15.079
God and why he's here. I
brought him with me here. Yes,

789
01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:18.199
we stayed there in Brookville nearly a
week, you know, after you all

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01:09:18.319 --> 01:09:21.640
left, And then I decided the
only thing to do was to bring him

791
01:09:21.760 --> 01:09:26.960
here, have him give himself up
and stand the chances. Miss Newcombe thought

792
01:09:27.000 --> 01:09:30.239
so too. But if they convict
him, well, there doesn't seem to

793
01:09:30.279 --> 01:09:34.279
be much use running away he wants
to. Thinks they'd never find him,

794
01:09:34.680 --> 01:09:39.439
but they always do, and it
would be all the worse when they did.

795
01:09:39.640 --> 01:09:44.079
They'd hold it against him that he
was afraid. Afraid. Of course

796
01:09:44.159 --> 01:09:48.119
he's afraid. So am I afraid
of the horror, the disgrace. Oh,

797
01:09:48.239 --> 01:09:53.079
it seems too terrible to be true. How can I ever bear it?

798
01:09:54.000 --> 01:09:57.079
Oh? Say now, don't give
way like that. I can't bear

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01:09:57.199 --> 01:10:03.199
to see you, know I Ellen
looking left Upprensions. Is he there?

800
01:10:04.359 --> 01:10:10.359
Yes? Your man remembered him,
it seems Henson. Yes, he has

801
01:10:10.399 --> 01:10:14.760
been with us for years and he's
keeping him out there for the present.

802
01:10:14.840 --> 01:10:17.720
Do you want to see him?
No, not yet, I can't.

803
01:10:18.199 --> 01:10:23.079
I have a caller. He is
waiting for me in the library. M

804
01:10:24.359 --> 01:10:30.560
Oh he caller, yes, and
a very important he. So I ask

805
01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:34.680
you to excuse me. I will
have Henson tell Aunt Sarah you are here.

806
01:10:35.720 --> 01:10:41.000
Goes Up is about to press button? Oh all right, and then

807
01:10:41.119 --> 01:10:45.640
after a while, will you er
have him inform you that I am still

808
01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:51.319
here, perhaps if I can get
rid of that other he She smiles,

809
01:10:51.840 --> 01:10:58.159
not wholly able to conceal her real
feelings for him. He looks relieved.

810
01:10:58.920 --> 01:11:05.680
Thanks Then to handsome left apprehenchance,
Hanson tell Miss Newcombe that mister Fillmore is

811
01:11:05.760 --> 01:11:10.479
here. You will find her in
her room. I think the blue room,

812
01:11:11.760 --> 01:11:16.520
exit Hanson, upstairs, blue room, pretty appropriate, seems to me,

813
01:11:17.119 --> 01:11:21.520
and of in that state myself,
and less you change it. Helen

814
01:11:21.680 --> 01:11:27.199
ignores this remark, though she looks
back with a faint smile as she exits.

815
01:11:27.319 --> 01:11:32.920
Right. Leonard looks after her adoringly, goes upright, then comes back,

816
01:11:33.359 --> 01:11:40.399
shaking his head doubtfully, but with
an expression of determination. Then to

817
01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:45.880
Hanson, coming downstairs, partly to
center, Miss Newcombe will be right down,

818
01:11:46.279 --> 01:11:56.159
sir, about to go lingus beg
pardon, sir bunch master Dick.

819
01:11:56.479 --> 01:12:00.880
He looks very down and sick like. Is anything the matter, may I

820
01:12:01.039 --> 01:12:06.319
ask, sir? I I guess
he just isn't feeling his best. No,

821
01:12:06.800 --> 01:12:12.119
sir, that's how it struck me, Sir. I hope you will

822
01:12:12.239 --> 01:12:17.399
pardon me if I seem too familiar. But Master Dick always was a favorite

823
01:12:17.439 --> 01:12:23.760
of mine. And I've wondered often
without daring to mention it, what had

824
01:12:23.880 --> 01:12:28.840
become of him, so to speak, and how he was He's been absent

825
01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:32.520
for the greater part of a year, if I remember rightly, Yes,

826
01:12:32.760 --> 01:12:36.720
he's been away. I believe you
say, Miss Newcombe, will be right

827
01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:42.199
down, Yes, sir, to
be sure, sir, I beg pardon

828
01:12:43.319 --> 01:12:49.520
exit Hanson left uprexit. Leonard stands
down, writes by table, not seeing

829
01:12:49.680 --> 01:12:57.880
Sarah as she comes downstairs, enters
left apprensiance. Sarah seize him with a

830
01:12:58.039 --> 01:13:02.800
pleased expression, hums down, stands
close to him a moment before she speaks

831
01:13:03.840 --> 01:13:11.880
well. Leonard starts, slightly,
turns, sees her speaks in an assumed

832
01:13:12.239 --> 01:13:16.159
matter of fact Manna fair middlin,
ma'am. And I hope I see you

833
01:13:16.399 --> 01:13:21.159
the same first class. I mean, how are you, Sarah? As

834
01:13:21.199 --> 01:13:26.880
they shake hands warmly. Oh Len, It's good for sore eyes to see

835
01:13:26.960 --> 01:13:31.199
you. I've been waiting and hoping
and praying, expecting you every minute,

836
01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:38.079
and now you're here, I declare
I could almost hug you. Why almost

837
01:13:38.399 --> 01:13:42.600
make it a real one, oh
Len, I've almost died here this last

838
01:13:42.640 --> 01:13:46.800
week, with six or eight months
in it it's been terrible. Pshaw.

839
01:13:47.079 --> 01:13:50.560
That'll never do. I thought you
were the brave one. It won't do

840
01:13:50.720 --> 01:13:55.279
for you to give up, no, of course, and I don't mean

841
01:13:55.399 --> 01:14:00.720
to, but well, it's the
lonesomeness of it. I'm like a cat

842
01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:04.960
in a strange garret and as homesick
as anything. At least I suppose that's

843
01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:10.960
what the feeling is. I've got
here and here and oh all over me.

844
01:14:11.600 --> 01:14:16.840
But sit down, lenn and tell
me everything they said, Lennard,

845
01:14:17.079 --> 01:14:21.600
pretending to misunderstand her. Well,
when I left, the brindle cow was

846
01:14:21.680 --> 01:14:26.359
beginning to wan her calf. The
pegs were fatter and never and just fit

847
01:14:26.479 --> 01:14:29.680
to kill. Aaron Flint seemed to
be getting along a little better in a

848
01:14:29.760 --> 01:14:33.239
certain direction. I guess they're being
left there alone sort of softens the obdurate

849
01:14:33.359 --> 01:14:40.199
lady and anything else. Lennard feel
more. You know, it isn't all

850
01:14:40.279 --> 01:14:44.640
that I want to know. Of
course, it's that too, And I'm

851
01:14:44.680 --> 01:14:47.680
glad if Lilyanne has begun to give
in a little though, goodness knows it's

852
01:14:47.760 --> 01:14:54.199
time. But it's my boy len
Dick. How is he? Where is

853
01:14:54.279 --> 01:14:59.000
he? And oh he's well and
safe and not far off. But first

854
01:14:59.279 --> 01:15:01.600
I want to hear about you.
How do you like it here? Oh?

855
01:15:01.720 --> 01:15:06.720
As well as could be expected,
I suppose me in this high falutint

856
01:15:06.800 --> 01:15:13.119
place, but I've wished I was
back home every minute. Such foolishness,

857
01:15:13.840 --> 01:15:18.039
such extravagance. Well it was your
own doings, you would do it,

858
01:15:18.159 --> 01:15:21.560
you know, Yes, I know, and I'm not sorry, as I

859
01:15:21.680 --> 01:15:27.239
know of. But it's something terrible
the way m has lived and got into

860
01:15:27.399 --> 01:15:31.840
debt, trying to keep up appearances, as she calls it. It's simply

861
01:15:31.960 --> 01:15:38.520
scandalous. A butler and everything land. He's the stiffest thing in the shape

862
01:15:38.560 --> 01:15:42.079
of a man I ever did see. I was fairly afraid of him at

863
01:15:42.119 --> 01:15:45.920
first, the way he puffed himself
up and said yes, Madam, no,

864
01:15:46.319 --> 01:15:53.199
madam, and Madam this and Madam
that, till I up and told

865
01:15:53.279 --> 01:15:56.640
him I want them madam, and
had no desire to be And wouldn't he

866
01:15:56.720 --> 01:16:01.560
please just call me mis Newcomb.
I'm beginning to get a little bit used

867
01:16:01.600 --> 01:16:05.159
to him now, and to a
few other things. But I declare,

868
01:16:06.119 --> 01:16:11.800
I guess the farm's the place for
me. Nonsense, I trust you with

869
01:16:11.920 --> 01:16:15.560
the best of them. They can't
make a fool of you too late maybe,

870
01:16:16.640 --> 01:16:19.960
But maybe it'd be just as well
to let some folks think they can

871
01:16:20.840 --> 01:16:27.640
who Why, Well, some of
the city folks kind of think us from

872
01:16:27.680 --> 01:16:31.479
the country are all as green as
grass. Maybe I can get the best

873
01:16:31.560 --> 01:16:35.479
of some of them and find out
a few things all the easier if I

874
01:16:35.640 --> 01:16:40.640
let him think I don't know a
street car from a steamboat. Not,

875
01:16:40.920 --> 01:16:44.319
but what I do. And I
guess I can see through a barn door

876
01:16:44.399 --> 01:16:48.960
when it's wide open. Well,
I should say you can. But if

877
01:16:49.039 --> 01:16:54.399
some of the big bug detectives and
all that are trying to find Dick and

878
01:16:54.600 --> 01:17:00.000
prove he's what they'll say he is. Think i'mper to poor simple, little

879
01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:04.680
old maid from the country, Why, I guess it'll make the way all

880
01:17:04.720 --> 01:17:08.399
the clearer for me when I try
to show him a thing or two.

881
01:17:09.119 --> 01:17:12.640
Well, now, I don't know, but there's something in that. I'm

882
01:17:12.760 --> 01:17:16.079
here to save my boy, and
it's any means to that end. Do

883
01:17:16.159 --> 01:17:21.199
you know how crazy I've always been
about reading those detective stories, lynn murder

884
01:17:21.319 --> 01:17:28.119
mysteries and such trash. You call
him my Yes, I guess you've bread

885
01:17:28.159 --> 01:17:31.720
a hundred, say seven hundred,
and you'll be nearer to it. Well,

886
01:17:32.000 --> 01:17:36.159
I'm glad I have. They've sort
of given me an insight into things,

887
01:17:36.560 --> 01:17:41.399
clues and such. I feel as
if I could beat the best detective

888
01:17:41.439 --> 01:17:45.760
in New York City at his own
game. I'd like the chance, and

889
01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:48.760
maybe I'll have it before we get
through. I guess you'll find it a

890
01:17:48.840 --> 01:17:53.680
hard job, Miss Newcomb. They're
a slick lot, and I'm afraid in

891
01:17:53.800 --> 01:17:57.600
this instance they'll have it pretty much
their own way. To tell the truth.

892
01:17:57.680 --> 01:18:00.159
I don't see a loophole as yet, but there must be one,

893
01:18:00.359 --> 01:18:06.800
Lend. There's got to be there, always is in all those detective stories,

894
01:18:06.960 --> 01:18:13.000
the one you assure did it and
that everything's against never did. It's

895
01:18:13.039 --> 01:18:16.279
when they come up against a blank
wall and you think there's no way around,

896
01:18:16.640 --> 01:18:21.920
through or over that A way opens
up after all, and there will

897
01:18:23.039 --> 01:18:27.640
this time, Lend, there must, I hope. So, but don't

898
01:18:27.680 --> 01:18:30.520
you think you need a bigger man
than I am to help you, Miss

899
01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:32.920
Newcombe. I'm only a country lawyer, after all, you know, without

900
01:18:33.039 --> 01:18:39.039
much experience. Now see here,
Len Fillmore, don't you begin that all

901
01:18:39.079 --> 01:18:43.319
over again? You know my opinion, and that ends it. If you're

902
01:18:43.359 --> 01:18:46.720
not what they call a big man
yet, you're going to be and maybe

903
01:18:46.760 --> 01:18:50.279
this is your chance to prove it. I want you to show him what

904
01:18:50.439 --> 01:18:55.760
you can do. You and meet
together in spite of the best of them.

905
01:18:56.359 --> 01:19:00.520
They may think we are too greenies
from the country and as easy as

906
01:19:00.640 --> 01:19:04.680
pie. Well let them think so
till we open their eyes and show them

907
01:19:04.760 --> 01:19:11.119
a thing or two. Leonard giving
her his hand, we will put it

908
01:19:11.239 --> 01:19:15.079
there. That's the way to talk. Go ahead, don't leave a stone

909
01:19:15.159 --> 01:19:20.079
unturned till we've overthrown that stonewall we're
up against. I'm back of you with

910
01:19:20.199 --> 01:19:26.920
all I've got to my last scent. All I can bake porrow or I

911
01:19:27.079 --> 01:19:30.800
was going to say steal and I
don't know, but I do even that

912
01:19:30.159 --> 01:19:35.039
to save Dick. But where is
he? Can't I see him? Sure

913
01:19:35.359 --> 01:19:41.439
he's right here here in this house, and you haven't told me all this

914
01:19:41.680 --> 01:19:46.000
time, going up looking off left, apprehensions excited. Where is he?

915
01:19:46.520 --> 01:19:50.520
I want to see him, and
so you shall. But I want to

916
01:19:50.600 --> 01:19:56.640
be sure his mother doesn't know he
is here. Helen, Miss Brewster thinks

917
01:19:56.720 --> 01:20:00.720
it best for her not to know
about it. Yet there is no danger.

918
01:20:00.279 --> 01:20:03.920
She's gone to her room and won't
come down till dinner's ready. Probably

919
01:20:04.840 --> 01:20:09.680
where's Helen? Have you seen her? Mm? Why? She just went

920
01:20:09.800 --> 01:20:14.800
in what they call the library to
see a caller he won. Oh,

921
01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:18.159
I suppose it's that rich mister deering
her mother's trying to catch for her.

922
01:20:18.920 --> 01:20:24.359
She can't endure him, and I
know it since she saw a certain other

923
01:20:24.720 --> 01:20:29.720
he I could mention, miss Newcom, you're on the wrong scent. There

924
01:20:29.960 --> 01:20:33.560
isn't a chance in the world for
me. Ah, who said anything about

925
01:20:33.680 --> 01:20:39.720
you? I guess there's more than
two he's in the world at any rate.

926
01:20:39.840 --> 01:20:43.840
She ain't good enough for you,
vain stuck up thing. No,

927
01:20:44.560 --> 01:20:48.640
she isn't that you wrong her?
Oh? Sticking up for her? Are

928
01:20:48.760 --> 01:20:54.880
you sure a sign? I guess
you can't fool me. I've read too

929
01:20:54.920 --> 01:20:59.199
many detective stories, you know,
not to see a clue when it's laying

930
01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:02.079
around loose. And I've found a
pretty good one some time ago in that

931
01:21:02.279 --> 01:21:08.520
direction. But don't you think you're
up against another stone wall? Well?

932
01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:12.439
If I am, I'm pretty good
at climbing over, and I might give

933
01:21:12.479 --> 01:21:17.000
you a boost if necessary. Thanks, I guess i'll need it. He

934
01:21:17.279 --> 01:21:21.239
has gone up to left upper exit. She is close to him, and

935
01:21:21.439 --> 01:21:29.680
now I'll get deck exit Leonard left
laprexit. Sarah stands looks off anxiously.

936
01:21:30.680 --> 01:21:35.720
There is a short pause than Dick
enters left apprentance, cautiously, looking about

937
01:21:35.800 --> 01:21:41.760
as if afraid. He looks much
neater than him first act, but is

938
01:21:41.840 --> 01:21:47.199
still pale, showing signs of his
fear and worry. Sarah welcomes him,

939
01:21:47.319 --> 01:21:54.399
joyously, taking him in her arms
in silence. He brightens a bit as

940
01:21:54.439 --> 01:22:00.760
he sees her. Sarah. After
a moment's pause, Dick, my boy,

941
01:22:00.119 --> 01:22:06.680
my poor boy. Is nobody else
here? Mother, Helen? Not

942
01:22:06.920 --> 01:22:12.000
now? You can see Helen in
a few minutes. Maybe I don't know

943
01:22:12.119 --> 01:22:16.159
about your mother. She doesn't know
yet, and but we'll see. Just

944
01:22:16.439 --> 01:22:19.920
now. I want you to talk
to me a little. She has led

945
01:22:20.000 --> 01:22:26.279
him to Davenport left sits by his
side. How are you, Dick?

946
01:22:27.000 --> 01:22:31.439
Keeping up bravely? I'm trying to
aunt Sarah, but it's hard. It's

947
01:22:31.439 --> 01:22:35.359
been almost more than I could stand. If it wasn't for you and mister

948
01:22:35.479 --> 01:22:40.520
Fillmore, I guess i'd end it
all. I couldn't face it alone.

949
01:22:41.520 --> 01:22:44.880
I don't know as I can anyway. There doesn't seem to be a chance

950
01:22:44.960 --> 01:22:48.159
for me. Not a chance.
Why, yes, there is Dick,

951
01:22:48.720 --> 01:22:55.199
there's always a chance. I believe
in you, so does he, and

952
01:22:55.319 --> 01:22:59.680
there's sure to be some way of
proving your innocence. We're going to find

953
01:22:59.760 --> 01:23:04.439
it too and save you, aren't
we. Len Leonard has been standing right,

954
01:23:04.760 --> 01:23:10.680
not listening to them. He has
looked off right in a manner that

955
01:23:10.840 --> 01:23:15.439
shows he is thinking of Helen and
her companion. He now turns comes to

956
01:23:15.560 --> 01:23:20.600
center. Sure, of course we
are you say that, but if you

957
01:23:20.760 --> 01:23:25.119
meant it, if you really wanted
to save me, you'd let me get

958
01:23:25.159 --> 01:23:29.000
away. You wouldn't ask me to
stay here and face it. No,

959
01:23:29.279 --> 01:23:33.159
nor you either, Aunt Sarah.
I tell you I can't. He springs

960
01:23:33.279 --> 01:23:38.600
up as if to go. Sarah
detains him. Dick, my boy,

961
01:23:39.439 --> 01:23:44.560
there there, you'll be all right. You must listen to reason, reason,

962
01:23:45.199 --> 01:23:47.560
reason, you call it, reason
for me to stay here and give

963
01:23:47.640 --> 01:23:51.359
myself up without a chance in the
world. I tell you they've got it

964
01:23:51.479 --> 01:23:55.680
on me. But if I don't
give myself up, they'll never find me.

965
01:23:56.119 --> 01:24:00.359
They can't. They don't know my
name or anything. I'll be safe

966
01:24:00.840 --> 01:24:04.520
if you'll only let me go away. Are you sure they don't any of

967
01:24:04.640 --> 01:24:09.960
him? No, No, of
course they don't. Miss Navarre was the

968
01:24:10.079 --> 01:24:14.159
only one. The maid never saw
me before, nor that man. I

969
01:24:14.279 --> 01:24:16.800
got away before anybody else came.
I tell you, they haven't got a

970
01:24:16.880 --> 01:24:20.680
chance in the world. Let me
go, you will, you must.

971
01:24:21.319 --> 01:24:25.520
You don't want me to stay here
and get hanged for what I never did.

972
01:24:26.399 --> 01:24:29.880
You can't make me do that,
You can't. He breaks down,

973
01:24:30.439 --> 01:24:35.359
sinking on couch and covering face with
hands. Sarah sits by him, striving

974
01:24:35.439 --> 01:24:42.199
to comfort him. You're sure nobody
knows that it was you in that woman's

975
01:24:42.319 --> 01:24:46.239
room when she was killed, Not
the man nor the maid. No neither

976
01:24:46.279 --> 01:24:49.640
of them ever saw me before.
I used to meet miss Navarre at the

977
01:24:49.720 --> 01:24:54.079
stage adoor and take her out to
supper. But that night was the first

978
01:24:54.159 --> 01:24:57.439
time she ever let me go home
with her. She didn't want to then,

979
01:24:57.880 --> 01:25:00.640
but I went, so, you
see, her maid never had seen

980
01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:03.800
me. And as for that man
who was there, he was a perfect

981
01:25:03.840 --> 01:25:09.399
stranger to me. If that's so, why the police haven't a thing to

982
01:25:09.560 --> 01:25:13.560
go by, no name, no
picture, so long as neither of those

983
01:25:13.600 --> 01:25:17.560
two sees you. But would you
want him to run away if we believe

984
01:25:17.640 --> 01:25:21.439
him innocent? And that is his
only chance, as it seems to be.

985
01:25:23.119 --> 01:25:25.960
I don't know, but it would
be the best thing for him to

986
01:25:26.079 --> 01:25:30.479
do. Yes, Yes, of
course it is. That's what I've been

987
01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:33.319
trying to tell you all along,
only you wouldn't listen to me. If

988
01:25:33.359 --> 01:25:38.279
I go away somewhere, it'll be
all right. But if they find out

989
01:25:38.319 --> 01:25:42.079
who I am and catch me,
I tell you everything is dead against me.

990
01:25:42.199 --> 01:25:46.199
Unless you let me go away,
you will, won't you, don't

991
01:25:46.199 --> 01:25:50.479
you see, Aunt Sarah. It's
my only chance. I must be some

992
01:25:50.600 --> 01:25:56.199
way of finding out the truth.
You're innocent, Dick. I believe that,

993
01:25:56.880 --> 01:26:00.439
and I mean to go to work
and prove it. But if you

994
01:26:00.520 --> 01:26:04.640
couldn't, if you failed, Yes, Miss Newcombe, We've got to think

995
01:26:04.720 --> 01:26:09.359
of that, if you failed,
and I'm afraid the chances are that you

996
01:26:09.520 --> 01:26:13.640
would. I've been looking into the
matter thoroughly, trying to see what defense

997
01:26:13.760 --> 01:26:17.079
we could put up, and I
must confess it looks pretty dubious. The

998
01:26:17.159 --> 01:26:20.640
police say all they have to do
is find their man. They've put their

999
01:26:20.720 --> 01:26:25.760
machine to work to find them,
and it's more than likely they'll succeed if

1000
01:26:25.960 --> 01:26:30.600
Dick stays here. When can I
go tonight? Now? Oh, not

1001
01:26:30.800 --> 01:26:35.239
tonight. You can't go tonight,
Dick. You must stay here till tomorrow

1002
01:26:35.319 --> 01:26:40.800
morning. Then mister Fillmore can see
that you get away. If that's what's

1003
01:26:40.880 --> 01:26:45.239
best. And I don't know what
it is. You must be saved Dick

1004
01:26:45.920 --> 01:26:50.640
some way, But I can't wait. I'm afraid he's right. He must

1005
01:26:50.800 --> 01:26:55.079
go tonight. You keep him here
for an hour or so, Miss Newcomb,

1006
01:26:55.119 --> 01:26:58.000
and in the meantime, I'll go
and get some things ready, buy

1007
01:26:58.039 --> 01:27:00.680
a ticket, and then come back
for him. But where two? Where

1008
01:27:00.720 --> 01:27:05.079
shall we go? Why not to
the farm? Lillian and Aaron would look

1009
01:27:05.119 --> 01:27:09.479
after him. No, not yet. They might trace him there through his

1010
01:27:09.600 --> 01:27:12.920
mother. They do all sorts of
unlikely things. You know, he'll have

1011
01:27:13.079 --> 01:27:15.359
to go farther away, say to
the west. I'll buy a ticket.

1012
01:27:15.439 --> 01:27:19.960
He can leave late tonight. Yes, I know I can do it.

1013
01:27:20.720 --> 01:27:27.640
He braces up, looking more hopeful. Rising, Leonard starts up left.

1014
01:27:28.399 --> 01:27:30.840
All right, just as you say, Lynn, you go and make the

1015
01:27:31.000 --> 01:27:35.319
arrangements. I'll take Dick up to
my room. Nobody will see him there,

1016
01:27:36.199 --> 01:27:41.079
but I suppose we'd better tell Helen. Yes, it would be best

1017
01:27:41.119 --> 01:27:44.880
to let her now. We can
still keep it from his mother. Leonard

1018
01:27:45.000 --> 01:27:49.520
goes up about to exit, but
pauses, looks off right they are coming,

1019
01:27:49.560 --> 01:27:55.760
Miss Brewster, and Dick starts to
go. Sarah holds him, then

1020
01:27:56.119 --> 01:28:00.600
leads him to left second exit.
Here coming here till he goes. Then

1021
01:28:00.640 --> 01:28:08.319
I'll get you upstairs. Excellent.
Sarah and Dick left second exit. Leonard

1022
01:28:08.439 --> 01:28:13.960
Glance is right, then goes up, gets hut and coat exits left up

1023
01:28:14.039 --> 01:28:21.279
exit and to Helen and Dearing right. She seems somewhat disturbed. He shows

1024
01:28:21.359 --> 01:28:26.880
evidence of anger and chakra. Do
you mean to say that this is your

1025
01:28:26.920 --> 01:28:31.199
final answer? You refuse me?
Yes, I cannot be your wife,

1026
01:28:31.279 --> 01:28:36.319
mister Dearing. I don't love you, but if I am willing to wait,

1027
01:28:36.880 --> 01:28:41.680
to run the chance of being able
to win your love, love does

1028
01:28:41.760 --> 01:28:47.680
not come like that. I hesitates
meaningly. I see you don't think I

1029
01:28:47.800 --> 01:28:51.880
am fit. It is sufficient that
I say I do not care to be

1030
01:28:53.079 --> 01:28:57.920
your wife. It was not so
long ago, not many weeks or days

1031
01:28:58.479 --> 01:29:02.600
since you seemed rather inclined to consider
the transaction. Perhaps you have met the

1032
01:29:02.680 --> 01:29:09.319
man whom you can regard. I
think I understand. I cannot help what

1033
01:29:09.479 --> 01:29:13.840
you think. There is no more
to be said, starts right about to

1034
01:29:13.920 --> 01:29:17.640
go out. You may change your
mind. A woman does sometimes, You

1035
01:29:17.720 --> 01:29:27.039
know if so you may find the
proposition still open. No, please,

1036
01:29:27.439 --> 01:29:31.279
you will excuse me. She turns
from him, rings bell and goes up

1037
01:29:31.399 --> 01:29:39.640
right, after slight pause, and
to Hanson left apprehensions the gentleman's hat and

1038
01:29:39.800 --> 01:29:46.439
coat. Please Hanson, She bows
coolly and exits right. Daring stands looking

1039
01:29:46.520 --> 01:29:54.159
after her resentments, then anger with
a mean, vindictive expression dawning upon his

1040
01:29:54.319 --> 01:30:00.199
face. Then he smiles derisively,
stops, listens, and goes and looks

1041
01:30:00.239 --> 01:30:08.439
off left. Second Exit stands looking
off with growing interest. Hanson has gone

1042
01:30:08.479 --> 01:30:14.279
out left up. Exit now returns
with Deering's hat and coat. Stands up

1043
01:30:14.439 --> 01:30:20.000
left waiting. Look who is that
in there? Hanson coming down looking off

1044
01:30:20.119 --> 01:30:28.199
left. You mean, sir,
there the young man talking to miss Newcombe

1045
01:30:28.199 --> 01:30:33.359
and the others. That sir,
Why that's mister Richard. You mean missus

1046
01:30:33.439 --> 01:30:40.760
Brewster's son, Miss Helen's brother.
Why, yes, sir, I see

1047
01:30:41.800 --> 01:30:46.279
that will do. Thank you.
You needn't wait very well, sir,

1048
01:30:48.079 --> 01:30:55.239
Exit Hanson right. Deering is still
looking off left with renewed interest, which

1049
01:30:55.359 --> 01:31:01.479
becomes repressed excitement with something of exultation. He pauses a moment, then,

1050
01:31:01.840 --> 01:31:08.640
with a gloating smile, goes up
and takes the telephone receiver. Hello,

1051
01:31:09.560 --> 01:31:15.479
Hello, give me police headquarters.
Yes, the Bureau of Police, the

1052
01:31:15.680 --> 01:31:23.880
Chief of Police at once, please
waits feverishly. There is an appreciable pause.

1053
01:31:24.479 --> 01:31:30.800
Then he speaks again, with tones
that thrill with tense impatience. Yes,

1054
01:31:31.039 --> 01:31:36.479
Yes, is this police headquarters?
Yes, the chief. It is

1055
01:31:36.560 --> 01:31:43.119
most important. There is another pause, during which, holding the receiver to

1056
01:31:43.279 --> 01:31:49.079
his ear, daring glances towards left
with a look of vengeful triumph. Hello,

1057
01:31:49.680 --> 01:31:56.000
is this the chief of police?
All right? Never mind who this

1058
01:31:56.239 --> 01:32:00.520
is. You are looking for the
man who killed miss navarre La Navarre,

1059
01:32:00.640 --> 01:32:05.319
the actress, about two weeks ago. Well, his name is Brewster,

1060
01:32:05.760 --> 01:32:11.920
Richard Brewster. You will find him
at his home one seven six Ellington Avenue.

1061
01:32:13.039 --> 01:32:18.399
Yes, Ellington one seven six.
He is there now, But lose

1062
01:32:18.479 --> 01:32:23.760
no time. Send at once,
or it will be too late. He

1063
01:32:24.079 --> 01:32:29.880
hangs up receiver, takes coat and
hat, glances once more towards left,

1064
01:32:29.920 --> 01:32:36.520
second exit, with a smile of
wicked satisfaction, tosses his head slightly knowingly,

1065
01:32:38.239 --> 01:32:50.560
and exits quickly left upper exit curtain. End of Act two, Act

1066
01:32:50.720 --> 01:32:58.399
three of Alias Miss Sherlock by Arthur
Lewis Tubbs. This is a LibriVox recording.

1067
01:32:58.880 --> 01:33:02.000
All LibriVox record rings are in the
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1068
01:33:02.199 --> 01:33:10.920
volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Act three scene parlor of a small

1069
01:33:10.960 --> 01:33:16.039
apartment uptown, New York, well
but not elaborately furnished. There is a

1070
01:33:16.119 --> 01:33:23.079
doll right leading to a small entry, with another door beyond to hall door

1071
01:33:23.399 --> 01:33:28.960
or narrow archway left with thick draperies
parted in center, telephone, etc.

1072
01:33:30.640 --> 01:33:38.039
Discover Dick Brewster sitting center. He
is ghastly pale, looking exhausted, his

1073
01:33:38.239 --> 01:33:45.119
head drooping, eyes nearly closed,
hands hanging limply oversides of chair. He

1074
01:33:45.359 --> 01:33:50.279
has just been put through the third
degree and is almost a mental and physical

1075
01:33:50.479 --> 01:33:57.399
wreck. He is muttering in a
final gasp of denial to the demands that

1076
01:33:57.520 --> 01:34:03.800
he confess. Henry Markham, the
detective, stands at his left, looking

1077
01:34:04.000 --> 01:34:11.520
sternly down at him. Higgins,
an officer in uniform right center, somewhat

1078
01:34:11.560 --> 01:34:18.840
back Dick, shaking heads slowly and
speaking in wavering tones. No, No,

1079
01:34:19.279 --> 01:34:25.800
I didn't, I didn't do it, Markham, sternly seizing his shoulder,

1080
01:34:26.119 --> 01:34:31.079
shaking him roughly. Come now,
stop that faking. You've got life

1081
01:34:31.239 --> 01:34:34.800
enough in you if you wanted to
show it. You can't fool me.

1082
01:34:35.840 --> 01:34:40.319
The sooner you make a clean breast
of this thing, the better it'll be

1083
01:34:40.479 --> 01:34:45.119
for you. No, no,
I can't. You stood behind those curtains

1084
01:34:45.279 --> 01:34:49.800
and fired the shot that killed that
woman, the woman that threw you over.

1085
01:34:50.359 --> 01:34:55.680
And we can prove it if you
own up to it and tell us

1086
01:34:55.760 --> 01:35:00.520
all about it, so we know
what your provocation was. Why then your

1087
01:35:00.600 --> 01:35:06.239
gets a mercy. But if you
don't, Dick still shakes his head weakly,

1088
01:35:08.159 --> 01:35:13.600
murmuring a refusal. Pluggy, little
guy, adybas you're not lucky as

1089
01:35:13.640 --> 01:35:17.760
if the doorbell rings right, that'll
do for you, Nor remarks from the

1090
01:35:17.880 --> 01:35:23.279
gallery. See who that is,
and whoever it is, tell them they

1091
01:35:23.319 --> 01:35:29.399
can't come in and to left.
Delphine the French maid, without looking to

1092
01:35:29.560 --> 01:35:32.600
right or left, she goes to
right to open the door, but Higgins

1093
01:35:32.760 --> 01:35:39.359
is ahead of her. He open
store, goes into entry. Delphine goes

1094
01:35:39.399 --> 01:35:45.479
back to left, exits that stands
behind curtains, peering through listening. Markam

1095
01:35:45.560 --> 01:35:51.039
sees her glances in her direction,
and she disappears, pulling curtains together.

1096
01:35:53.319 --> 01:35:59.720
Higgins enters right, cautiously, holding
the door slightly open. It's that young,

1097
01:36:00.000 --> 01:36:04.039
are your fellow fillmore? Don't know
what right he has here? Tell

1098
01:36:04.119 --> 01:36:09.560
me can't come in. Higgins is
about to go out right when the door

1099
01:36:09.760 --> 01:36:15.439
is pushed open and Leonard enters,
thrusting him aside. He is followed by

1100
01:36:15.560 --> 01:36:19.520
Sarah, who at once sees Dick
and goes to him, kneeling by his

1101
01:36:19.680 --> 01:36:26.399
side in spite of Markham, who
is too surprised to prevent her. Dick,

1102
01:36:26.640 --> 01:36:30.640
Oh, Dick, what have they
been doing to you? Dick?

1103
01:36:30.760 --> 01:36:33.279
I am here, your aunt,
Sarah, look at me, Dick,

1104
01:36:33.880 --> 01:36:42.319
Dick. Dick falls over lifelessly into
her arms. She fondles him. What's

1105
01:36:42.319 --> 01:36:45.840
all this? Where did this woman
come from? She has no right here,

1106
01:36:46.800 --> 01:36:53.279
addressing Leonard nor you either. I
don't know no law against coming in.

1107
01:36:53.479 --> 01:36:57.560
I guess seeing we rang the bell
and somebody opened the door. Anyhow,

1108
01:36:57.960 --> 01:37:00.760
we're here, so I see,
and I'd like to know what it

1109
01:37:00.920 --> 01:37:05.880
means. How'd you find out?
It wasn't given out down at headquarters?

1110
01:37:05.920 --> 01:37:11.319
Are reckon? I found out though. It seems I heard you were going

1111
01:37:11.359 --> 01:37:15.319
to put this boy through your villainous
third degree, and I would have managed

1112
01:37:15.359 --> 01:37:18.359
to prevent it some way if i'd
known it in time. Oh, you

1113
01:37:18.560 --> 01:37:24.479
would think you've got a lot of
influence, don't you. Well maybe you

1114
01:37:24.640 --> 01:37:28.840
have back in that jay Berg where
you come from. But I guess you

1115
01:37:28.960 --> 01:37:32.159
can't very well upset the whole New
York Police Department and the Detective Force.

1116
01:37:33.000 --> 01:37:36.359
We haven't got through with this young
fellow yet, and you won't find it

1117
01:37:36.479 --> 01:37:43.960
wise to interfere, Sarah placing Dick's
head against back of chair and springing up

1118
01:37:44.359 --> 01:37:49.399
facing Malkham boldly, Well, I'll
interfere. I won't let you torture this

1119
01:37:49.520 --> 01:37:55.359
poor boy anymore. Look at him, what sheep he is in. It's

1120
01:37:55.479 --> 01:38:00.279
wicked, shameful. How can you
do it? It's truel, It isn't

1121
01:38:00.520 --> 01:38:05.920
fair. Excuse me, madam,
but I guess we know our business and

1122
01:38:06.039 --> 01:38:12.119
what's right and fair. Without any
advice from anybody, we brought this young

1123
01:38:12.199 --> 01:38:15.439
fellow here where he committed that crime, to make him confess, and if

1124
01:38:15.479 --> 01:38:21.600
he knows what's best for him,
he'll do it. Confess confess to something

1125
01:38:21.640 --> 01:38:27.560
he never did. No, never, He shan't do that. You can't

1126
01:38:27.680 --> 01:38:30.640
make him do it. I wouldn't
interfere, Miss Newcomb if I were you

1127
01:38:31.680 --> 01:38:38.680
to welcome. I don't believe you
want to do anything unjust inadvisable. I

1128
01:38:38.760 --> 01:38:43.439
mean, you must see that my
client is in no condition to stand anymore.

1129
01:38:44.159 --> 01:38:46.439
It looks like you'd put him through
a pretty severe ordeal. Already.

1130
01:38:46.720 --> 01:38:50.600
Give it. The poor boy a
chance. Huh. Yes, he had

1131
01:38:50.640 --> 01:38:55.079
a chance, all right, a
chance to skip with your help. It

1132
01:38:55.199 --> 01:38:58.560
seems if we hadn't gotten a tip, had been a little too quick for

1133
01:38:58.640 --> 01:39:01.560
you. We got there just in
time. It seems to catch the bird

1134
01:39:01.640 --> 01:39:05.840
almost on the wing. What kind
of business you call that? For a

1135
01:39:06.000 --> 01:39:12.079
lawyer helping a murderer to escape.
We believe the boy to be innocent.

1136
01:39:12.640 --> 01:39:15.520
I am his attorney. I wanted
time to look up evidence, to prepare

1137
01:39:15.640 --> 01:39:19.880
a defense, to get him away. You mean, because you know there

1138
01:39:19.920 --> 01:39:24.760
ain't a chance for him. Well, you see you didn't do it,

1139
01:39:25.800 --> 01:39:30.239
seize his hold of stick, trying
to make him rise. Come come along.

1140
01:39:30.760 --> 01:39:33.039
You needn't try any more of that, pretending I know all about that?

1141
01:39:34.039 --> 01:39:39.279
What What are you going to do
with him? Going to finish our

1142
01:39:39.399 --> 01:39:42.920
job? Of course? You don't
think we ever give up, do you?

1143
01:39:43.920 --> 01:39:46.800
Yes not. We got just a
little more to say to this chap.

1144
01:39:47.199 --> 01:39:51.439
Just as soon as you'll be so
obliging as to leave. Beg pardon

1145
01:39:51.560 --> 01:39:58.359
madam for seeming impolite. But business
is business and duty's duty. But can't

1146
01:39:58.399 --> 01:40:02.399
you see he isn't able to and
anymore? Look at him. He's nothing

1147
01:40:02.479 --> 01:40:08.199
but a poor, weak, scared
boy. I guess I know what he

1148
01:40:08.399 --> 01:40:12.880
is. All right, you'll have
to stand aside, Madam. Sarah has

1149
01:40:13.000 --> 01:40:16.159
sunk down by chair, holding Dick
in her arms as if to shield him.

1150
01:40:17.439 --> 01:40:23.239
Markham starts to take hold of him. Leonard, who stands right center,

1151
01:40:23.359 --> 01:40:29.000
looks on as if doubtful just what
to do. Higgins comes down,

1152
01:40:29.600 --> 01:40:32.880
stands near Markham left center. Come, you might as well get up.

1153
01:40:33.239 --> 01:40:36.479
I've got a few things to say
to you. Yet. See here,

1154
01:40:36.640 --> 01:40:41.199
mister Markham, don't you think you
can call it off for the present.

1155
01:40:42.000 --> 01:40:45.560
I know when it's time to call
things off. What I want you to

1156
01:40:45.640 --> 01:40:48.800
do is take this lady and get
out. This is serious business and we're

1157
01:40:48.880 --> 01:40:55.800
losing time. Very well, I
suppose we must submit, patting Dick on

1158
01:40:55.920 --> 01:40:59.600
back, Brace up, my boy, don't give in. We will have

1159
01:40:59.760 --> 01:41:03.960
to go now, but we shan't
forget you a minute. Remember that Dick

1160
01:41:04.479 --> 01:41:11.960
reaching up his hand, which Leonard
grasps. Thanks. I know I'll try

1161
01:41:13.239 --> 01:41:17.239
Leonard, dropping Dick's hand, taking
Sarah by arm, assisting her to rise.

1162
01:41:18.159 --> 01:41:20.760
Come, Miss Newcomb, we'll have
to go now. I'm sorry,

1163
01:41:20.840 --> 01:41:27.680
but we'll have to. I guess
Sarah wants more appealing to Markham. Oh,

1164
01:41:27.920 --> 01:41:30.000
sir, won't you stop trying to
make him say what he never means

1165
01:41:30.119 --> 01:41:33.720
to say unless you drive him to
the point where he doesn't know it.

1166
01:41:34.680 --> 01:41:40.399
He's not a murderer, that boy. Look at him, can't you tell

1167
01:41:40.520 --> 01:41:45.079
he Isn't that kind? Promise me
if we go, you'll let him alone

1168
01:41:45.319 --> 01:41:48.600
for tonight anyway, and take him
back and let him have some sleep.

1169
01:41:49.479 --> 01:41:54.680
Why he's all played out? Just
a rag. I know what to do,

1170
01:41:54.880 --> 01:41:59.239
madam. You leave it to me. I'm not madam, I'm just

1171
01:41:59.439 --> 01:42:02.399
Miss new Come from the country where
folks have hearts, and give them that

1172
01:42:02.560 --> 01:42:08.000
I'm in trouble a chance instead of
kicking him and grinding him down and never

1173
01:42:08.119 --> 01:42:12.479
giving him a fair show. I'm
this boy's aunt, his mother's sister,

1174
01:42:13.000 --> 01:42:16.479
and I love him as much as
his own mother ever did I guess more?

1175
01:42:16.960 --> 01:42:20.159
And I want to help him.
Won't you do what I ask?

1176
01:42:20.680 --> 01:42:26.640
Let him? Excuse me? Tain't
no use your talking, madam or miss

1177
01:42:27.319 --> 01:42:30.279
because I got orders and I'm going
to carry him out. We came here

1178
01:42:30.319 --> 01:42:33.600
for a purpose and we're going to
stick to it. So the sooner you

1179
01:42:33.680 --> 01:42:39.159
get out of the way, the
better it'll be for all concerned. Sarah

1180
01:42:39.840 --> 01:42:44.239
standing over Dick, her hand on
his shoulder. Then you'll have to carry

1181
01:42:44.319 --> 01:42:48.000
me away, for I am here
and I won't budge a step Miss Newcombe.

1182
01:42:48.640 --> 01:42:54.159
See here, ma'am, this won't
do. It's all foolishness, us

1183
01:42:54.279 --> 01:42:58.159
losing time this way. Used that
aside, and let us do our duty.

1184
01:42:58.920 --> 01:43:01.039
Is it your dude, she to
crush the very life out of this

1185
01:43:01.199 --> 01:43:06.880
poor boy. Well then it's my
duty to stand between him and you and

1186
01:43:08.159 --> 01:43:11.640
protect him. And I mean to
do it as long as there's a mite

1187
01:43:11.640 --> 01:43:16.239
of strength left in my body.
Markham seizing hold of her arm. See

1188
01:43:16.359 --> 01:43:19.920
here, I've had enough of this. Either used epp aside, or I'll

1189
01:43:19.960 --> 01:43:26.199
place you under arrest, mister Markham. That's what I said. What do

1190
01:43:26.279 --> 01:43:30.760
you think I am? She's interfering
with the law. Sarah wrenches herself free

1191
01:43:30.880 --> 01:43:36.359
from his grasp, facing him defiantly. For a moment, he seems too

1192
01:43:36.479 --> 01:43:42.079
taken aback to interrupt her. You
talk about the law that the likes of

1193
01:43:42.159 --> 01:43:47.359
you are chosen to enforce you,
You who are not men but great ravenous

1194
01:43:47.560 --> 01:43:53.760
beasts looking for something to tear to
pieces and devour. You want a victim,

1195
01:43:54.359 --> 01:43:57.560
What do you care if it is
a poor, weak boy who hasn't

1196
01:43:57.600 --> 01:44:01.239
the strength to defend himself. It's
all the better for you, all the

1197
01:44:01.399 --> 01:44:06.479
easier. It's somebody for you to
shake and choke and grind under your heel

1198
01:44:06.560 --> 01:44:12.000
till they haven't life enough left to
do anything but give up. What if

1199
01:44:12.079 --> 01:44:15.039
he is innocent? You don't think
of that. All you want is to

1200
01:44:15.159 --> 01:44:19.600
show that you represent the law and
to hold your jobs and prove what great

1201
01:44:19.640 --> 01:44:28.039
detectives you are, Madam, you'd
better. He approaches her menacingly. Leonard

1202
01:44:28.239 --> 01:44:31.880
also makes an attempt to silence her, but she thrusts them both aside,

1203
01:44:32.359 --> 01:44:39.119
still a sailing Markham law. Don't
you know there's a law of pity and

1204
01:44:39.600 --> 01:44:44.279
mercy and justice as well as one
of might and terror, the kind that

1205
01:44:44.399 --> 01:44:48.039
puts folks behind prison bars and hangs
them, maybe for something they never did.

1206
01:44:49.279 --> 01:44:54.520
Is it justice to trying to prove
a person committed a crime and never

1207
01:44:54.640 --> 01:44:58.760
trying to prove they didn't. Why
don't you look for something that might help

1208
01:44:58.880 --> 01:45:03.039
this poor boy insta of saying he's
guilty and letting it go with that proofs.

1209
01:45:03.760 --> 01:45:08.319
You say you have proofs, but
you don't mean to let him prove

1210
01:45:08.439 --> 01:45:12.880
that you are wrong. You don't
want him to. You're afraid he will.

1211
01:45:13.319 --> 01:45:15.479
Even if you saw a chance to
save him, you wouldn't take it,

1212
01:45:15.960 --> 01:45:19.520
because then you'd have to go to
work all over again. All you

1213
01:45:19.720 --> 01:45:25.279
want is a victim, someone to
hang. Well, you shan't have,

1214
01:45:25.520 --> 01:45:31.720
my boy, You shan't, You
shan't. She finally gives up, partly

1215
01:45:31.840 --> 01:45:39.600
exhausted again, sinks down on floor
by Dick shielding him, still looking up

1216
01:45:39.640 --> 01:45:45.199
at Markham defiantly, though with wavering
strength he has stood, looking at her,

1217
01:45:45.760 --> 01:45:54.039
at first angrily, then dumbfounded,
finally with a half good natured expression.

1218
01:45:54.840 --> 01:46:00.680
He now shakes his head murmurs,
well, oh be Leonard to Markham.

1219
01:46:01.319 --> 01:46:04.079
She'll be all right, mister Markham, if you'll just let me,

1220
01:46:04.760 --> 01:46:10.079
Oh, all right, go ahead. I guess we won't bother any more

1221
01:46:10.119 --> 01:46:14.640
to day. You mean you'll call
it off, Yes, I guess so

1222
01:46:14.920 --> 01:46:19.720
for the present, Leonard to Sarah, helping her to rise, Miss Newcomb,

1223
01:46:19.800 --> 01:46:24.479
it'll be all right now, mister
Markham says they won't carry it any

1224
01:46:24.600 --> 01:46:30.279
further today. Sarah in a sort
of days to Markham, you mean you

1225
01:46:30.520 --> 01:46:36.840
let him rest sleep? Yes,
I guess we can fix it. It's

1226
01:46:36.880 --> 01:46:41.880
getting late. And see here,
Higgins, we'll take him back now and

1227
01:46:42.079 --> 01:46:47.000
postpone this business till tomorrow. Markham
and officer are right center, somewhat back

1228
01:46:47.760 --> 01:46:54.960
Leonard right Sarah and Dick senta she
with arm about him. Do you hear,

1229
01:46:55.119 --> 01:46:59.399
Dick, They're going to let you
have some rest now, It'll be

1230
01:46:59.520 --> 01:47:03.159
all right. You try to be
brave and don't forget. I'm not giving

1231
01:47:03.239 --> 01:47:09.359
up for a minute. Dick,
with a show of better courage, I

1232
01:47:09.520 --> 01:47:12.880
will Answerah, I'm going to brace
up and make the best of it.

1233
01:47:13.880 --> 01:47:16.039
I didn't mean to give way like
that, but I couldn't help it.

1234
01:47:16.760 --> 01:47:21.279
They drove me to it. I
know, Dick boy, I know.

1235
01:47:23.720 --> 01:47:28.039
Come now, you'll have to go, but keep up your courage and we'll

1236
01:47:28.119 --> 01:47:31.920
save you yet. You see,
if we don't, she leads him up,

1237
01:47:32.680 --> 01:47:38.720
he goes with the officer with an
attempt at braveness, smiling faintly at

1238
01:47:38.800 --> 01:47:44.239
Sarah as she kisses him with a
pat on the shoulder. The officer takes

1239
01:47:44.319 --> 01:47:48.279
him out right, followed by Markham, who shakes his head slightly, as

1240
01:47:48.319 --> 01:47:55.159
if it were all too much for
him. Leonard lingers, well, I

1241
01:47:55.399 --> 01:48:00.800
must say no, you mustn't.
You needn't say a word. I know

1242
01:48:00.960 --> 01:48:03.039
what you think. But I ain't
crazy, and I wouldn't care if I

1243
01:48:03.279 --> 01:48:06.640
was. I got the best of
that detective and gave him a piece of

1244
01:48:06.720 --> 01:48:11.199
my mind that I hope he won't
forget. Well, I should say you

1245
01:48:11.399 --> 01:48:15.279
did a pretty generous piece, but
I'm afraid you have a wrong idea as

1246
01:48:15.359 --> 01:48:19.760
to what you did to him.
But I made him give up. You

1247
01:48:19.960 --> 01:48:24.520
think he'll keep his word, don't
you? Oh? Yes, so far

1248
01:48:24.600 --> 01:48:28.279
as that goes. But I don't
see as we've gained much except a brief

1249
01:48:28.359 --> 01:48:31.399
respite for Dick. Of course that's
something, but we might as well face

1250
01:48:31.520 --> 01:48:35.840
the facts. We haven't found a
clue yet, not a thing to refute

1251
01:48:35.880 --> 01:48:40.720
their evidence, not even who gave
them that tip, which upset all our

1252
01:48:40.880 --> 01:48:45.800
plans. That certainly was a blow. Yes, I almost gave up for

1253
01:48:45.920 --> 01:48:50.720
a while. It certainly is a
mystery. Somebody knows, somebody who has

1254
01:48:50.760 --> 01:48:58.000
an object in causing Dick's arrest.
But who who? He declares. Nobody

1255
01:48:58.079 --> 01:49:01.800
knew his name, but miss Navarre. Nobody else saw him there except those

1256
01:49:01.880 --> 01:49:08.520
two, the man and this French
maid del whatever her name is. Then

1257
01:49:08.600 --> 01:49:12.520
it was one of them that notified
the police. But how did they know.

1258
01:49:13.520 --> 01:49:15.960
You haven't found out who the man
was. No, there seems to

1259
01:49:16.039 --> 01:49:19.119
have been a lot of them.
My, she must have been one of

1260
01:49:19.199 --> 01:49:25.119
them vampire things it tells about in
some of those detective stories, the kind

1261
01:49:25.199 --> 01:49:29.880
they have in the movies. Poor
thing. Maybe her fate was no more

1262
01:49:29.920 --> 01:49:35.239
than she deserved. But to say
that, Dick, Len, something's got

1263
01:49:35.319 --> 01:49:39.800
to be done for one thing.
I'm going to stay here and talk to

1264
01:49:39.880 --> 01:49:44.279
that frenchwoman. I may be able
to get something out of her. I

1265
01:49:44.479 --> 01:49:46.800
doubt it. She seems to have
told all she knows. The police say

1266
01:49:46.880 --> 01:49:50.840
her story hangs together. Oh,
we can't get away from it. Everything

1267
01:49:50.960 --> 01:49:57.760
points to young Brewster, but points
wrong. I know it. There's something

1268
01:49:57.920 --> 01:50:01.680
strange about all this. I mean
something. We haven't even got an inkling

1269
01:50:01.800 --> 01:50:05.600
off yet, Len, I want
you to go away and leave me.

1270
01:50:06.319 --> 01:50:11.399
I want to look around a little
and talk to that woman. I don't

1271
01:50:11.439 --> 01:50:15.640
see the use The police have examined
everything here so have. I. Yes,

1272
01:50:15.840 --> 01:50:21.640
I know the police have and you
have, but I haven't. I

1273
01:50:21.800 --> 01:50:26.199
may think I'm too smart, Len, but it won't do any hurt for

1274
01:50:26.319 --> 01:50:30.680
me to try. Something's got to
be done. We are right up against

1275
01:50:30.760 --> 01:50:33.159
that blank wall, and I'm going
to make a desperate effort to find a

1276
01:50:33.239 --> 01:50:38.800
loose stone in it. There must
be a hole in it somewhere, if

1277
01:50:38.840 --> 01:50:43.039
it's only a chink, and I
shan't give up till I see at least

1278
01:50:43.079 --> 01:50:47.119
a speck of light shining through.
Well, I suppose, being a woman,

1279
01:50:47.239 --> 01:50:50.840
you'll have to have your own way. You ought to know that by

1280
01:50:50.920 --> 01:50:55.359
this time. So I want you
to go and leave me here for a

1281
01:50:55.439 --> 01:50:59.760
while. M I don't know about
that. I'm not so sure it would

1282
01:50:59.800 --> 01:51:04.000
be safe. Pshaw. I guess
I can take care of myself. Of

1283
01:51:04.159 --> 01:51:08.840
course, you can wait downstairs for
me if you want to. You might

1284
01:51:08.960 --> 01:51:12.680
come up, say in fifteen minutes
or so, and see if I'm still

1285
01:51:12.720 --> 01:51:17.279
alive or need any help. Well, I suppose if you say so,

1286
01:51:18.399 --> 01:51:24.479
I do so. Supposing you vanish, I want a chance to look around

1287
01:51:24.520 --> 01:51:28.680
and take things in. There may
be a clue here somewhere, just waiting

1288
01:51:28.760 --> 01:51:30.840
for me to pick it up.
And maybe I can beat the great mark

1289
01:51:30.880 --> 01:51:35.520
him at his own game. Tenny
rate. I'll feel bitter satisfied to try,

1290
01:51:36.520 --> 01:51:41.840
Leonard. That all right, very
well, there's a telephone. I'll

1291
01:51:41.880 --> 01:51:45.279
be down in the office. If
you need me, phone down and I'll

1292
01:51:45.319 --> 01:51:49.319
come right up. Otherwise I'll wait
fifteen minutes, watch twenty. You needn't

1293
01:51:49.319 --> 01:51:53.960
be in such an awful hurry.
Oh all right, take your time.

1294
01:51:54.279 --> 01:52:00.359
Only remember there's the telephone, and
be careful. Oh go on, I

1295
01:52:00.520 --> 01:52:04.800
know what to do. Exit Leonard
right. Sarah goes and close his door

1296
01:52:04.920 --> 01:52:10.399
after him, stands for a moment, nob in hand, looking about,

1297
01:52:11.199 --> 01:52:15.760
then comes to center, stands gazing
around to right to left, up,

1298
01:52:15.920 --> 01:52:23.239
down, who's about examining everything closely? She does not appear to notice the

1299
01:52:23.399 --> 01:52:30.239
curtains across door left, but gradually
working her way in that direction, suddenly

1300
01:52:30.439 --> 01:52:35.199
flings them apart, disclosing Delphine,
who has been watching her, come right

1301
01:52:35.319 --> 01:52:41.319
in. I was just going to
call you, Delphine, entering a bit

1302
01:52:41.439 --> 01:52:47.000
confused but still self possessed, we
madame. I was about to inquire if

1303
01:52:47.039 --> 01:52:53.640
I could be of assistance. That's
very kind of you. Seem real anxious,

1304
01:52:53.720 --> 01:53:00.239
don't you anxious? Oh, we
such a more, Madame. You've

1305
01:53:00.279 --> 01:53:02.720
cut it a little different from the
rest of them, haven't you. I

1306
01:53:02.840 --> 01:53:10.399
suppose that's French Madame meaning the same
is just plain madam in New York language.

1307
01:53:11.079 --> 01:53:15.920
Well, I ain't either of them. I'm just miss plain, miss

1308
01:53:15.079 --> 01:53:25.039
Newcombe. I see mademoiselle dumb zell
Land. Sounds like swearing, don't it.

1309
01:53:25.760 --> 01:53:29.319
I always heard you French woman.
Won't very particular how you talked?

1310
01:53:29.920 --> 01:53:33.159
Come all the way from France,
did you? OHI a very long time

1311
01:53:33.239 --> 01:53:39.840
ago, since I am quite petite, so must feel quite at home here

1312
01:53:39.880 --> 01:53:44.800
by this time. Kind of strange
you still jabber French talk, seems so

1313
01:53:44.960 --> 01:53:49.399
you might know all United States by
this time. Oh, But always I

1314
01:53:49.479 --> 01:53:54.680
am of my own language, so
fond I do not so much seek to

1315
01:53:54.800 --> 01:54:00.439
speak the anglaise I see to memory, dear, as the old song says.

1316
01:54:00.479 --> 01:54:04.159
Well, anyway, supposing we sit
down for a while and have a

1317
01:54:04.239 --> 01:54:08.800
little talk, I'd kind of like
to ask you a few things, if

1318
01:54:08.840 --> 01:54:14.960
you don't mind, so sotement if
Madame wish, but I will stand to

1319
01:54:15.199 --> 01:54:20.239
sit also with Madame would not be
what you say. The thing, so

1320
01:54:21.479 --> 01:54:27.239
I suppose maybe it wouldn't if that's
the way you look at it. Still

1321
01:54:27.319 --> 01:54:31.840
working here are you? I stay
for a time. Oh, my poor

1322
01:54:32.079 --> 01:54:40.039
mistress, Mademoiselle NEvAr, wiping her
eyes, appearing grief stricken. A pardon,

1323
01:54:40.640 --> 01:54:45.439
but it is so terrible, such
shock as you say, I have

1324
01:54:45.600 --> 01:54:49.920
not yet of myself to control.
She was so kind, I am of

1325
01:54:50.079 --> 01:54:55.359
her, so fond. How long
had you worked for her? Oh?

1326
01:54:55.600 --> 01:55:00.399
Not for so long a time,
A three month maybefore with her? I

1327
01:55:00.560 --> 01:55:05.600
cannot now just remember. Also she
treats me as a friend, My poor

1328
01:55:05.720 --> 01:55:13.840
poor mistress, who have been so
cruelly murdered by that mister Brewster. Stop

1329
01:55:14.119 --> 01:55:19.039
don't say that he's my nephew and
no murderer. Oh I know they say

1330
01:55:19.119 --> 01:55:24.199
he is. You may think he
did it, but I don't. And

1331
01:55:24.399 --> 01:55:28.840
all the detectives in New York and
the whole police department to boot couldn't make

1332
01:55:28.920 --> 01:55:32.439
me believe it. I beg of
Madame de pardon. I mean not to

1333
01:55:32.560 --> 01:55:38.560
offend, but it is so plain. There can be no doubt what I

1334
01:55:38.760 --> 01:55:43.760
see, I see, what I
know, I know. Well, sometimes

1335
01:55:43.880 --> 01:55:46.920
folks think they see more, and
they do and don't know quite so much

1336
01:55:46.960 --> 01:55:53.039
as they think they do. Rising
looking about, do you mind, sort

1337
01:55:53.079 --> 01:55:57.760
of pointing out just what you did
see what happened here that day that your

1338
01:55:57.840 --> 01:56:02.720
mistress was killed. You didn't see
it done, did you? Ah?

1339
01:56:02.960 --> 01:56:09.520
But yes, almost it was the
same I heard. I saw her,

1340
01:56:09.960 --> 01:56:15.439
poor miss Navar, lying there,
oh, so cruelly murdered, lying in

1341
01:56:15.520 --> 01:56:23.359
a little pool of blood, her
blood. And then then she pauses,

1342
01:56:23.680 --> 01:56:28.439
shuddering. But ain't you getting a
little ahead of your story? First?

1343
01:56:28.520 --> 01:56:35.920
You say you heard heard what a
pistol go off? Go off? Oh

1344
01:56:36.119 --> 01:56:40.880
we eat make the bank noise?
So just as I come up in the

1345
01:56:41.000 --> 01:56:45.960
elevator and get off here at this
floor. So you didn't come on home

1346
01:56:45.039 --> 01:56:51.079
with miss Navarre that day? No, seldom I would do that. Always

1347
01:56:51.159 --> 01:56:56.840
you would have some friend, some
gentleman, who would take her out to

1348
01:56:57.039 --> 01:57:01.720
suppare, escort her home. I
am to stay at the theater in a

1349
01:57:01.840 --> 01:57:05.720
dressing room, to put away her
costumes, to arrange everything. You know,

1350
01:57:06.560 --> 01:57:11.920
I come later by and by when
I am true, that is how.

1351
01:57:12.680 --> 01:57:15.199
But seldom it is that I come
with her. She had quite a

1352
01:57:15.279 --> 01:57:20.800
lot of gentlemen friends, didn't she. Oh Oi, it was Minnie.

1353
01:57:21.439 --> 01:57:26.720
She was so popular that day.
It seems it was the young man mister

1354
01:57:27.279 --> 01:57:32.600
brewsteraire as you say, you're how
is it my nephew? OUI but I

1355
01:57:32.720 --> 01:57:36.520
did not know him. Never would
she tell me the names. It is

1356
01:57:36.560 --> 01:57:42.119
sometimes the one, sometimes it is
another. I ask no questions. I

1357
01:57:42.279 --> 01:57:46.279
know my place. You had never
seen my nephew, mister Brewster before that

1358
01:57:46.520 --> 01:57:51.359
day, No, never had I
seen him until I enter after the shot,

1359
01:57:51.760 --> 01:57:57.359
find my mistress dead. Run here
to this door, Put aside these

1360
01:57:57.439 --> 01:58:02.359
curtains. So and there stand the
young man, your mister Brustre, his

1361
01:58:02.520 --> 01:58:08.119
eyes bulge, his faces of the
crazy look. And there they're on the

1362
01:58:08.199 --> 01:58:12.920
floor. Right by him. I
see the pistol with which he had just

1363
01:58:13.239 --> 01:58:17.840
fired the shot that killed my mistress. Delphine is holding back the curtains,

1364
01:58:18.359 --> 01:58:24.840
looking within the room. Off left. Sarah stands near her, looking at

1365
01:58:24.880 --> 01:58:30.119
same spot. The pistol laid right
there. We I pick it up.

1366
01:58:30.880 --> 01:58:36.199
Oh, he picked it up and
looked at it. Oh. We then

1367
01:58:36.319 --> 01:58:42.760
I think it is too horrible.
I drop it in the same spot.

1368
01:58:43.560 --> 01:58:46.760
We in the same spot, right
there? You see? Yes, I

1369
01:58:46.960 --> 01:58:54.159
see hmm. And in the meantime, what else happened? Where was Dick?

1370
01:58:54.800 --> 01:58:59.640
Oh? But he escape? I
am so excited. He go quick

1371
01:59:00.119 --> 01:59:05.640
there points right and disappear. I
am at the telephone when again I look,

1372
01:59:05.760 --> 01:59:11.600
he is gone. But about that
other man that was here? What

1373
01:59:11.800 --> 01:59:16.399
became of him then? Why he
also? He has gone? Oh he

1374
01:59:16.600 --> 01:59:21.279
skipped too. Where did he go? I do not see. When I

1375
01:59:21.439 --> 01:59:27.159
have called the police, I am
alone, alone with her, my mistress

1376
01:59:28.039 --> 01:59:32.399
dead. But it seems that man
showed up. Afterwards they have his testimony,

1377
01:59:33.039 --> 01:59:36.560
but then it is too late.
The murderer, he is gone.

1378
01:59:38.640 --> 01:59:43.520
Yes, whoever, it was not
the one you think, But we won't

1379
01:59:43.640 --> 01:59:46.600
argue that question. Now, I
want to look around a little. I'll

1380
01:59:46.640 --> 01:59:53.119
see what this room looks like.
Exit Sarah left. Delphine holds back curtain,

1381
01:59:53.399 --> 01:59:58.279
looking in at her. Sarah calls
from within, where does this door

1382
01:59:58.399 --> 02:00:02.399
go to? The Oh? That
door? It leads to the dining room.

1383
02:00:03.079 --> 02:00:08.439
Then it is the kitchen. It
as they say, there is a

1384
02:00:08.560 --> 02:00:14.319
slight pause. Delphine drops curtain,
comes to center, looking towards left,

1385
02:00:14.720 --> 02:00:23.279
showing some annoyance, scowls with a
vindictive expression. Sarah enters, holding curtain

1386
02:00:23.359 --> 02:00:28.640
aside, looking back off left.
There's just that one door, you say.

1387
02:00:28.680 --> 02:00:31.800
It leads into the dining room and
on into the kitchen. So the

1388
02:00:31.960 --> 02:00:35.960
kitchen, we seldom use when we
have the meals here, it is the

1389
02:00:36.119 --> 02:00:41.520
kettleer that would come in. Oh, that was the way you never did

1390
02:00:41.560 --> 02:00:46.399
the cooking. I cook, but
no, never, I am not the

1391
02:00:46.520 --> 02:00:51.039
cook. Mon dieu. No,
I don't see what you're staying here all

1392
02:00:51.119 --> 02:00:56.960
this time for anyway? No work
for you to do. Not getting any

1393
02:00:57.039 --> 02:01:01.560
pay, are you? But my
mistress already she have paid me in advance,

1394
02:01:02.119 --> 02:01:08.279
and the apartment also for some time
it is paid the police, They

1395
02:01:08.359 --> 02:01:12.520
say, I shall stay for the
prisons till they have been here. Sometimes

1396
02:01:13.279 --> 02:01:16.439
yes, and brought that poor boy
to torture him. But don't you get

1397
02:01:16.560 --> 02:01:24.680
lonesome here? Feel kind of sort
of creepy like creepy like I do not

1398
02:01:24.840 --> 02:01:30.840
know it is the strange word,
but I need not to creep Well,

1399
02:01:30.039 --> 02:01:36.039
never mind, only I wondered.
Now, let me see, couldn't somebody

1400
02:01:36.119 --> 02:01:42.600
have come in through that door in
there and done it? But it is

1401
02:01:42.640 --> 02:01:48.039
not possible. The door always it
is locked, locked, that door between

1402
02:01:48.119 --> 02:01:55.199
that room and the dining room.
That's funny. Why no the other door

1403
02:01:55.319 --> 02:01:59.920
beyond the one that opens to the
her the other entrants, you see,

1404
02:02:00.680 --> 02:02:05.039
always that is locked. Nobody could
come in besides mister Brustaire. He was

1405
02:02:05.119 --> 02:02:10.520
there in this room, he see
nobody. It is he that says so,

1406
02:02:11.279 --> 02:02:15.960
he was alone. Quite When I
come the door beyond, I find

1407
02:02:15.039 --> 02:02:25.319
it still locked. Sarah puzzled,
looking about, thinking deeply. And that

1408
02:02:25.640 --> 02:02:30.119
other man who was here, the
one who's skipped out two, you don't

1409
02:02:30.159 --> 02:02:33.399
know who he was. But no, as I have told, Madame,

1410
02:02:33.840 --> 02:02:38.760
I believe some friend of miss Navarre
who also come that day for the first

1411
02:02:38.840 --> 02:02:43.840
time here she know him as so
jealous, is afraid. She tell mister

1412
02:02:43.920 --> 02:02:48.319
Brusteraire to hide there, and then
when he suspects the quarrel, perhaps and

1413
02:02:48.560 --> 02:02:54.760
in from there behind the curtain.
Mister Brustaire wild, jealous too of the

1414
02:02:54.840 --> 02:03:00.199
other one, crazy with the anger. He oh, that's how you Feeligure

1415
02:03:00.239 --> 02:03:03.399
it out? Is it? Well? There may have been somebody in there,

1416
02:03:03.800 --> 02:03:09.119
crazy and wild with the an gere. But you needn't tell me.

1417
02:03:09.239 --> 02:03:14.319
You have named the right person.
I know better, Madam. Is it

1418
02:03:14.439 --> 02:03:16.960
that you would say, I do
not tell all that It is not true

1419
02:03:17.039 --> 02:03:24.159
what I have said, But it
is what you call coavide. The police

1420
02:03:24.520 --> 02:03:29.520
they believe, and of course they
do. They'll believe anything that suits their

1421
02:03:29.560 --> 02:03:32.039
aside. You won't catch them trying
to make it look any other way.

1422
02:03:32.920 --> 02:03:39.760
But what does Madam think? I
don't think. I know that it wasn't

1423
02:03:39.800 --> 02:03:43.680
Dick Bruce that had shot that woman, no matter if everybody else in the

1424
02:03:43.760 --> 02:03:47.520
world says he did. But to
prove I'm right, that's another thing.

1425
02:03:48.520 --> 02:03:55.039
You'd like to help me, wouldn't
you? But I cannot. It is

1426
02:03:55.159 --> 02:04:00.039
not that I would not, but
but what I know it is. Of

1427
02:04:00.119 --> 02:04:05.079
course I sympathize. Beginning to tire
of interview. Now, if Madame would

1428
02:04:05.119 --> 02:04:10.239
care to go, thanks, but
I'm in no hurry. I guess I'll

1429
02:04:10.279 --> 02:04:15.359
stay a while longer sits left center, but you needn't wait. I know

1430
02:04:15.520 --> 02:04:21.479
the way out. Delphine goes door
left, and if Madame should wish for

1431
02:04:21.640 --> 02:04:27.960
me, she will call yes,
but say, I wish you'd call me

1432
02:04:28.159 --> 02:04:34.920
miss. I hate that madame business. Oh, sir tomone niece. Thanks,

1433
02:04:35.119 --> 02:04:40.680
that's more like it, just Miss
Newcombe. It makes me feel like

1434
02:04:40.800 --> 02:04:45.640
a dressmaker or a woman that tells
fortunes or fixes fingernails to be called madam

1435
02:04:45.880 --> 02:04:51.920
all the time. She sits in
deep thought, seeming not to notice Delphine,

1436
02:04:53.199 --> 02:04:57.920
who is about to exit left.
She looks towards door right, and

1437
02:04:58.159 --> 02:05:03.560
speaks just as delph imparts curtains left
and is about to exit. Mm.

1438
02:05:04.439 --> 02:05:11.439
By the way, that door there, pointing to write, there's another one

1439
02:05:11.680 --> 02:05:16.439
and a little entry between, isn't
there, Delphine coming part way back to

1440
02:05:16.600 --> 02:05:24.800
left center? Try? Oh we
vestibule, Yes, if that's what you

1441
02:05:24.960 --> 02:05:30.079
call it. She goes right open's
door, looking out that door, the

1442
02:05:30.239 --> 02:05:36.640
one into the hall that's kept locked. I suppose we always it is locked.

1443
02:05:38.159 --> 02:05:42.199
It is the spring lock. Then
it was locked that day of the

1444
02:05:43.560 --> 02:05:48.279
that it happened. But you burst
right in after you heard that shot.

1445
02:05:49.159 --> 02:05:56.560
Had a key, I suppose why? Of course, miss NEvAr I both

1446
02:05:56.760 --> 02:06:00.319
we have the key, the same
one. No, no, each we

1447
02:06:00.479 --> 02:06:05.359
have one. Then when you got
off the elevator, just as you heard

1448
02:06:05.359 --> 02:06:11.520
the shot, you unlocked the door
and rushed right in. Delphine, makes

1449
02:06:11.560 --> 02:06:15.600
a sense, I see. And
when you came in, you saw miss

1450
02:06:15.720 --> 02:06:20.439
Navarre there on the floor. Yes, yes, as I have said,

1451
02:06:20.960 --> 02:06:29.159
my poor mistress, Yes, yes
you mean we we don't yer. Well,

1452
02:06:29.359 --> 02:06:32.680
anyway, you rushed right across this
room and pulled aside those curtains.

1453
02:06:34.119 --> 02:06:39.399
How did you know there was anybody
behind them? But I have held the

1454
02:06:39.520 --> 02:06:45.600
shot. I look I see a
hand a face there in the curtains.

1455
02:06:45.239 --> 02:06:50.720
I look it is he m,
it didn't take you long to unlock the

1456
02:06:50.800 --> 02:06:55.800
door and get in after you got
off the elevator. Did it had the

1457
02:06:55.920 --> 02:07:00.439
key already? I suppose? Why? Of course it is so easy.

1458
02:07:00.880 --> 02:07:04.119
It at take but a second.
Now, of course, that's just one

1459
02:07:04.159 --> 02:07:10.479
of my foolish questions. But I'd
like to see the key. The key.

1460
02:07:11.319 --> 02:07:15.039
It is nothing, just a key, I know, but I'm sort

1461
02:07:15.079 --> 02:07:18.840
of curious, just like to look
at it. If it ain't too much

1462
02:07:18.880 --> 02:07:25.000
trouble. It is strange, but
of course it is in my bag.

1463
02:07:25.239 --> 02:07:30.239
I will get it. Exit Delphine
left, Sarah has closed door, right,

1464
02:07:30.960 --> 02:07:36.800
comes to center, stands squinting her
eyes with a keen, suspicious look.

1465
02:07:36.880 --> 02:07:44.359
After Delphine seems to be putting two
and two together. After a slight

1466
02:07:44.479 --> 02:07:51.079
pause, enter Delphine left. Beat
it. Delphine indicating yale key one of

1467
02:07:51.159 --> 02:08:00.560
two tied together. This Sarah taking
keys, examining one indicated yes, and

1468
02:08:01.680 --> 02:08:05.039
what is this other one? The
other one? Oh? Why it is

1469
02:08:05.119 --> 02:08:09.800
that we have two? Sure?
And of course, so if you should

1470
02:08:09.880 --> 02:08:16.159
lose one, as one might so
easily you see, sure, easy as

1471
02:08:16.239 --> 02:08:22.840
anything I've lost things myself, lots
of times, keys too, but it

1472
02:08:22.000 --> 02:08:26.039
seems kind of funny to have him
tied together like this. If you lose

1473
02:08:26.119 --> 02:08:31.560
one, you lose both, then
how'd you get in? She has placed

1474
02:08:31.680 --> 02:08:37.840
one key on top of the other, comparing and examining them closely, feeling

1475
02:08:37.920 --> 02:08:43.319
of nixing them. It is not
that I keep them, so I have

1476
02:08:43.520 --> 02:08:48.439
just tied them since. Oh,
I see, of course, now you've

1477
02:08:48.479 --> 02:08:54.800
got the other one, the one
that she had. Delphine somewhat relieved.

1478
02:08:56.720 --> 02:09:01.279
We why, of course, if
you lose these, you have that one

1479
02:09:01.399 --> 02:09:05.479
now? All very plain? You
say? These are both to that door,

1480
02:09:05.119 --> 02:09:11.199
indicating door, right, we both. She holds out her hand to

1481
02:09:11.319 --> 02:09:16.399
take keys. Sarah is about to
give them to her when the doorbell rings,

1482
02:09:16.520 --> 02:09:20.239
right, and she keeps them there. That's Lynn Fillmore. He said

1483
02:09:20.239 --> 02:09:26.119
he'd come up after me. Starts
to door. I Delphine is about to

1484
02:09:26.239 --> 02:09:31.560
open door, right, but Sarah
intercepts her. Never mind, I'll let

1485
02:09:31.680 --> 02:09:35.720
him in. But Madame pot On, it is my place, land.

1486
02:09:35.840 --> 02:09:41.319
I guess I've been to doors.
She is too quick for Delphine open store

1487
02:09:41.560 --> 02:09:48.239
and quickly goes out, pulling door
shut behind her. Delphine seems annoyed.

1488
02:09:48.399 --> 02:09:56.520
After pause, open store, cautiously
peering out Sarah outside. All right,

1489
02:09:56.720 --> 02:10:01.880
Lynn go right in. Delphine closes
door, quickly goes to center just as

1490
02:10:03.039 --> 02:10:07.520
Leonard enters. Right. Oh you're
here, are you? Del Paene de

1491
02:10:07.680 --> 02:10:11.960
la fine? Monsieur? Oh,
yes, fen new one on me?

1492
02:10:13.119 --> 02:10:16.840
French, isn't it? Oh?
We nice name? All right? Suits

1493
02:10:16.880 --> 02:10:22.920
you Mercy? Mercy? Oh yes, that means much obliged. You're welcome.

1494
02:10:24.000 --> 02:10:28.319
Nice name, nice girl. You
were miss Navarre's maid. I understand

1495
02:10:30.239 --> 02:10:35.479
we I am her maid. Am
Oh, I see that's your way of

1496
02:10:35.600 --> 02:10:39.560
saying, was a sort of hired
girl you were? I suppose I know,

1497
02:10:39.760 --> 02:10:46.319
not that hired girl if it is
the seventh that you mean. No,

1498
02:10:46.640 --> 02:10:52.079
well you're a girl and you got
paid. I guess it's about the

1499
02:10:52.159 --> 02:10:56.439
same thing. But I suppose you
didn't do much housework. Monsieur would joke

1500
02:10:56.760 --> 02:11:03.319
with me. I beg to be
excuse use about to exit left. Sure

1501
02:11:03.560 --> 02:11:07.520
you needn't get mad about it.
You and miss Newcomb have been having quite

1502
02:11:07.560 --> 02:11:11.800
a chat here, haven't you.
Oh? Indeed, march it is that

1503
02:11:11.960 --> 02:11:18.199
she is so inquisitive you mustn't mind
her. She means all right, looking

1504
02:11:18.319 --> 02:11:22.359
right. I wonder if she's got
lost. I guess i'd better look Delphine

1505
02:11:22.479 --> 02:11:28.560
at door right, I will see
she is about to open door when Sarah

1506
02:11:28.800 --> 02:11:35.680
enters. Ready, Lenn, well, I should say you yes already now,

1507
02:11:35.760 --> 02:11:41.079
yes, you think it's about time? Looking about in search of something

1508
02:11:41.439 --> 02:11:46.279
in back, Then on floor,
I declare, I've lost my handkerchief.

1509
02:11:46.439 --> 02:11:50.640
Must have dropped it to Delphine.
Maybe it's in that room there? Would

1510
02:11:50.680 --> 02:11:58.399
you mind looking? No stam exit
Delphine left. The curtains are closed,

1511
02:11:58.600 --> 02:12:05.920
Sarah glancing left, then going and
looking through curtains, closing them, coming

1512
02:12:05.000 --> 02:12:13.399
back, speaking cautiously to Leonard,
Lenn Yes, glancing left. You know

1513
02:12:13.560 --> 02:12:18.880
that stone wall, the blind one. Yes, well there is a chink

1514
02:12:18.960 --> 02:12:26.319
in it, a hole. Ah, and it's a key hole. Going

1515
02:12:26.520 --> 02:12:33.760
right, about to exit. He
follows her curiously, Yes, Lenn,

1516
02:12:33.399 --> 02:12:39.119
a key hole, and I think
I've got the key that fits it.

1517
02:12:39.239 --> 02:12:45.600
Exit Sarah, door right. Leonard
at door, holding it part way open,

1518
02:12:46.039 --> 02:12:52.039
looks out after her with wrinkled brows, then smiles indulgently. Exit Leonard

1519
02:12:52.159 --> 02:12:58.760
right. That same instant entered Delphine
left. I did not find. She

1520
02:13:00.079 --> 02:13:05.399
looks surprised, puzzled, hastens to
door right just as Leonard closes it behind

1521
02:13:05.520 --> 02:13:13.560
him, she opens it, Madame. The key the outer door is heard

1522
02:13:13.600 --> 02:13:20.319
to slam. Delphine stands with knob
of inner door in her hand, looking

1523
02:13:20.399 --> 02:13:28.640
out a perplexed expression, then one
of apprehension. Fright dawns upon her face

1524
02:13:31.000 --> 02:13:43.000
curtain end of Act three, Act
four of Alias Miss Sherlock by Arthur Lewis

1525
02:13:43.079 --> 02:13:48.399
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1526
02:13:48.479 --> 02:13:54.359
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1527
02:13:56.439 --> 02:14:03.000
Act four scene the same as two. About three weeks later, discover Aaron

1528
02:14:03.159 --> 02:14:09.239
Flint standing up by left upper entrance, with cheap suitcase in one hand,

1529
02:14:09.640 --> 02:14:15.960
a rolled up umbrella in the other, his hat on pushed back. Lilian

1530
02:14:16.199 --> 02:14:20.600
is part way down center. She
wears hat coat, etc. Has handbag

1531
02:14:22.039 --> 02:14:26.840
and a good sized package of brown
paper well tied with string. They are

1532
02:14:26.960 --> 02:14:33.359
both looking at Hanson, who is
posed in left upper entrance in his most

1533
02:14:33.520 --> 02:14:37.640
pompous attitude. Wow, I guess
you can tell Miss Newcombe we're here,

1534
02:14:37.760 --> 02:14:43.600
can't You should think you might do
that much to Blige. She's staying here,

1535
02:14:43.680 --> 02:14:50.399
ain't she Hanson gives a stiff bow
in ascent. Well, and can't

1536
02:14:50.399 --> 02:14:54.840
you go and tell her? Aaron, you keep steel and take your head

1537
02:14:54.880 --> 02:15:00.640
off. Where's your manners? Aaron
removes his hat sheepishly memory, Oh,

1538
02:15:01.720 --> 02:15:03.680
I suppose see, and you let
us in that maybe you worked here.

1539
02:15:03.920 --> 02:15:07.479
But if I've made a mistake,
I beg your pardon. I am the

1540
02:15:07.680 --> 02:15:15.079
butler any relation to Sam Butler up
in Warren County Land. Aaron flint,

1541
02:15:15.119 --> 02:15:18.359
ain't you got a bit of sense? He means he's a waiter. Oh,

1542
02:15:18.840 --> 02:15:24.239
that's it. Then maybe he's waiting
for a tip, filling in pockets.

1543
02:15:24.920 --> 02:15:31.159
Hanson shows offended dignity. That's the
way they all be down this way.

1544
02:15:31.840 --> 02:15:35.239
Won't budge an inch unless you tip
them. If you will present me

1545
02:15:35.600 --> 02:15:41.359
with your cards. He has cab
tray, which he now holds out.

1546
02:15:41.199 --> 02:15:46.520
Aaron places a coin on it.
Hanson pays no attention to this, though,

1547
02:15:46.520 --> 02:15:52.720
assuming an even more pompous manner.
Man, we ain't got no cards.

1548
02:15:52.239 --> 02:15:56.760
We ain't that stylish. I guess
it'll be all right if you just

1549
02:15:56.880 --> 02:16:01.039
go and tell her some friends of
hers are here. What name, please

1550
02:16:01.079 --> 02:16:07.239
Newcombe? Sarah Newcomb? Pardon me? The names? I am to announce.

1551
02:16:07.159 --> 02:16:11.520
Oh you mean Aaron names? Never
mind, Just tell her what I

1552
02:16:11.600 --> 02:16:16.279
said, some friends of hers.
We want a surpriser and some turns,

1553
02:16:16.800 --> 02:16:22.399
And in a most dignified manner,
goes upstairs. Aaron going to foot up

1554
02:16:22.439 --> 02:16:28.079
stairs, looking up after him.
Well, now I'll be gum swizzled if

1555
02:16:28.119 --> 02:16:33.120
he ain't the darnedest I thought.
Maybe twas the King of Egypt or somebody

1556
02:16:33.239 --> 02:16:37.040
here making him a visit. Yes, of course you had to go and

1557
02:16:37.120 --> 02:16:41.319
show your greenness. Land. I
should think you'd know what a butler is,

1558
02:16:41.440 --> 02:16:45.520
after all them storybooks you've read.
It's only another name for hired man,

1559
02:16:45.680 --> 02:16:52.520
same as you me like law gosh, strangle me. Seems to me

1560
02:16:52.760 --> 02:16:54.879
you didn't know much more about it, and I did, though, when

1561
02:16:54.959 --> 02:17:00.879
it come to that. Guess if
I'm green, you're a good match for

1562
02:17:01.000 --> 02:17:05.159
me. They have come part way
down. Aaron has placed grip etc.

1563
02:17:05.520 --> 02:17:11.799
On one side. Both go about
examining furniture, pictures, etc. Guy,

1564
02:17:11.840 --> 02:17:16.159
it fixed up pretty swell here,
ain't me? Guess this is what

1565
02:17:16.360 --> 02:17:20.520
you'd call style? Yes, the
kind of style. Miss Brewster and her

1566
02:17:20.600 --> 02:17:24.760
daughter keep up and then come and
live on, Miss newcome all summer.

1567
02:17:24.479 --> 02:17:28.079
I guess if the truth was known. She's putting up for some of this

1568
02:17:28.280 --> 02:17:31.840
too, though she never lets on. I know her tis pretty grand,

1569
02:17:31.879 --> 02:17:37.159
though ain't nothing in Brookville like it, even at the hotel. Dang knows

1570
02:17:37.319 --> 02:17:43.319
we'll know how to act. They
can't scare me with their high falutin things

1571
02:17:43.399 --> 02:17:46.879
and stuck up ways. I'm as
good as they are when it comes to

1572
02:17:46.000 --> 02:17:50.079
that, and you needn't go to
apologize, Aaron Flint, hold your head

1573
02:17:50.200 --> 02:17:54.680
up and act as if you as
good as anybody. Gosh, I never

1574
02:17:54.879 --> 02:18:00.520
could act as if I was such
a big bug as that butler fella the

1575
02:18:00.799 --> 02:18:07.399
idea, hen sh here she comes. Sarah appears at top of stairs.

1576
02:18:07.120 --> 02:18:11.120
They see her and draw back to
one side so that she does not see

1577
02:18:11.200 --> 02:18:16.760
them. As she comes down,
enters and to center. They then approach

1578
02:18:16.840 --> 02:18:24.280
her, one on each side.
Henson comes downstairs, exits right. Sarah

1579
02:18:24.399 --> 02:18:31.440
turns, sees them in utter bewilderment, almost unable to speak. Why if

1580
02:18:31.479 --> 02:18:37.639
it isn't it can't be, But
it is, miss newcom it's us.

1581
02:18:37.280 --> 02:18:41.440
We've found you. At last thought, we never would talk about your needle

1582
02:18:41.479 --> 02:18:46.680
in a woodpile. Guess we wouldn't, ye if it ain't been from my

1583
02:18:46.879 --> 02:18:52.239
detecative instinct. But I don't understand. I can't believe it. You Lily

1584
02:18:52.319 --> 02:18:58.559
Anne and Aaron way down here in
New York and together? What does it

1585
02:18:58.680 --> 02:19:03.440
mean? Oh? We just thought
we'd take a little trip. I thought

1586
02:19:03.520 --> 02:19:09.040
maybe you'd be glad to see us. Why I am, of course,

1587
02:19:09.360 --> 02:19:15.559
But it don't seem respectable. What'll
folks say? Do they know about it?

1588
02:19:15.840 --> 02:19:22.479
There in Brookwell? Sure? Regular
crowd there see us off? Lily

1589
02:19:22.639 --> 02:19:26.520
Anne? What does it mean?
Are you crazy? I don't know,

1590
02:19:26.639 --> 02:19:30.120
but I am as Newcombe. I
guess you'll think so when I tell you

1591
02:19:30.920 --> 02:19:39.280
the truth is we're married, married, you and Aaron Flint good Lynn.

1592
02:19:39.399 --> 02:19:41.319
You don't suppose I'd be taking a
trip with him to New York if I

1593
02:19:41.520 --> 02:19:46.840
Wasn't you know me better than that, miss Newcombe. We've been married three

1594
02:19:46.920 --> 02:19:50.840
days, ain't it? Aaron?
Seems more like three weeks or months?

1595
02:19:50.920 --> 02:19:54.200
To me? Oh? It does? Does it? Much? Obliged?

1596
02:19:56.159 --> 02:20:00.360
But how did it ever happen?
After the way you always bow, Lily

1597
02:20:00.440 --> 02:20:03.200
Anne? But I declare, I'm
so upset I for God to be polite.

1598
02:20:03.879 --> 02:20:09.200
Set down Lily Anne, and you
too, Aaron Land's sakes lily Anne.

1599
02:20:09.440 --> 02:20:15.200
I suppose I ought to call you
missus flint mercy me, don't you

1600
02:20:15.360 --> 02:20:18.799
do it? I wouldn't know the
answer. Lilianne, I was Lilianne,

1601
02:20:18.840 --> 02:20:24.159
I Ane, and Lilianna always will
be. I guess you will be to

1602
02:20:24.319 --> 02:20:31.239
me anyway, but tell me,
oh well, Aaron. He kept pestering

1603
02:20:31.319 --> 02:20:33.239
me till I couldn't stand it any
longer. So all of a sudden I

1604
02:20:33.360 --> 02:20:37.120
open said yes. I had to
do it to get rid of them.

1605
02:20:37.639 --> 02:20:39.840
Made up my mind it'd be easier
to handle a husband than a feller wanted

1606
02:20:39.879 --> 02:20:45.200
to be. Besides, the inducements
was too much for me. I couldn't

1607
02:20:45.200 --> 02:20:46.840
hold out any longer when he said
we'd come to New York and see you

1608
02:20:48.200 --> 02:20:52.520
and all the sights I'd been saving
up for a considerable spell with this year

1609
02:20:52.639 --> 02:20:56.840
tripping view. And when I set
my mind to a thing, well,

1610
02:20:56.959 --> 02:21:01.920
I most generally get it. I
must say I admired your perseverance. Aaron.

1611
02:21:03.680 --> 02:21:07.079
Hm, I'm glad you took him, Lilianne. Only, I hope

1612
02:21:07.079 --> 02:21:11.360
it don't mean you're going to desert
me. No, indeed, Miss Newcomb,

1613
02:21:11.440 --> 02:21:15.719
not much ah kalaiate We'll stick closer, never just run away. For

1614
02:21:15.799 --> 02:21:18.799
a little weddin tower, so to
speak. Sal Bennett and Fidelia looking after

1615
02:21:18.920 --> 02:21:22.120
things at the farm. We attended
to that, all right, we're just

1616
02:21:22.280 --> 02:21:26.600
taking a week, yes, and
curtainly he' been to it, you bet

1617
02:21:28.360 --> 02:21:33.600
been stopping at the Astor house.
Sounds real flowery, don't it? Tis

1618
02:21:33.719 --> 02:21:39.399
too in expansive? Appropriate too for
a newly married Brighton couple. He asked

1619
02:21:39.440 --> 02:21:43.520
her, and she said she would. Aaron Flint, don't try to be

1620
02:21:43.680 --> 02:21:48.360
smart land Sakes, miss Newcomb.
I have my hands full with him,

1621
02:21:48.040 --> 02:21:52.639
honest, I didn't know anybody could
be so green? Why, Lily Anne?

1622
02:21:54.600 --> 02:21:56.799
Well, he is the man at
the hotel told us a good show

1623
02:21:56.879 --> 02:22:01.959
to go to would be the Hippodrome, And Aaron, he says, is

1624
02:22:01.000 --> 02:22:07.079
that where they have trained hippopotamuses,
as if they could. I guess you

1625
02:22:07.280 --> 02:22:13.639
needn't talk. When a policeman told
us that tall slim building was a flat

1626
02:22:13.760 --> 02:22:18.280
iron building, Lillianne, she says, right out, Oh, let's go

1627
02:22:18.440 --> 02:22:24.920
in and see them make some flat
irons. I was just joking. I

1628
02:22:24.040 --> 02:22:28.159
guess that wouldn't no worse than you
trying to blow out the electric light.

1629
02:22:28.200 --> 02:22:33.879
Say them't do? Don't you believe
her, Miss Newcombe, I guess I

1630
02:22:33.879 --> 02:22:39.920
ain't such an old hay seed as
all that weren't me at any rate.

1631
02:22:39.159 --> 02:22:43.799
When we was up in Central Park
and they pointed out that big statue they

1632
02:22:43.879 --> 02:22:50.959
called Cleopatra's Needle, it said needed
What are they call it a needed for?

1633
02:22:50.639 --> 02:22:54.840
They ain't no eye hole in it? They begin to show signs of

1634
02:22:54.959 --> 02:23:01.120
a real tiff. Sarah tries to
pacify them when it comes to that,

1635
02:23:01.479 --> 02:23:05.000
I guess we ain't no green and
the city folks are in the country.

1636
02:23:05.879 --> 02:23:09.840
Remember that girl from New York that
board it with Miss OrCAD last summer,

1637
02:23:09.440 --> 02:23:16.000
wanted to know which coward was gave
butter milk gosh? I remember her,

1638
02:23:16.959 --> 02:23:20.719
She just thought it was cute.
Pretend she didn't know nothing. Well,

1639
02:23:20.760 --> 02:23:24.680
there's plenty of em, don't have
to pretend. But my goodness, Miss

1640
02:23:24.799 --> 02:23:28.319
Newcombe, we ain't ask you how
you are? And how about that boy

1641
02:23:28.440 --> 02:23:33.639
your nephew, and all how's it
coming out? We're hoping for the best,

1642
02:23:33.760 --> 02:23:37.760
Lily Anne. I'll tell you all
about it later on. You must

1643
02:23:37.799 --> 02:23:41.479
be tired now and want to get
brushed up a little. I'll see about

1644
02:23:41.520 --> 02:23:45.360
a room now. You needn't bother
Miss Newcomb it might put you out some

1645
02:23:46.079 --> 02:23:48.879
sads. What miss Brewster think.
Oh I can fix it all right,

1646
02:23:50.200 --> 02:23:54.440
you leave it to me. She
starts up center, as if to show

1647
02:23:54.520 --> 02:24:01.520
them upstairs. Lilianne pauses center.
Aaron is left center. Well we might

1648
02:24:01.600 --> 02:24:05.239
stay one night. Looks real stylished
here, don't But I suppose you're getting

1649
02:24:05.319 --> 02:24:09.000
used to it. No, I
can't say, I am. I can't

1650
02:24:09.040 --> 02:24:13.520
hardly wait to get back to the
farm. But come on and we'll see

1651
02:24:13.559 --> 02:24:18.000
where you can sleep. I guess
in the room right next to mine.

1652
02:24:18.760 --> 02:24:22.799
Oh, that'll be fun, Aaron. Where's that bundle? Aaron taking package

1653
02:24:22.840 --> 02:24:28.840
from chair where she had placed it. Here it is, dearie. Lilian,

1654
02:24:30.280 --> 02:24:35.840
sniffing at his display of sentiment,
takes package. Here's a few things

1655
02:24:35.879 --> 02:24:39.120
I brought you, miss Newcomb.
Just two or three of my fried cakes,

1656
02:24:39.159 --> 02:24:43.079
a little bottle of that preserved watermelon
Ryan you're so fond of, and

1657
02:24:43.159 --> 02:24:48.000
two or three other little things.
Sarah taking package. Oh, lili Anne,

1658
02:24:48.159 --> 02:24:52.600
how good of you, my,
But they'll taste good. I'm so

1659
02:24:52.959 --> 02:24:58.680
tired of their fancy cooking. Here. Oh and some of your fried cakes,

1660
02:24:58.360 --> 02:25:01.959
of course, they maybe a little
dry. And I got a dozen

1661
02:25:03.079 --> 02:25:07.360
or so red apples for Lynn fillmore
in the grip, thought he might want

1662
02:25:07.399 --> 02:25:13.239
to treat Miss Brewster. Is he
still shining up to her, Aaron Flint,

1663
02:25:13.719 --> 02:25:16.959
as if she'd have him? Not? But what he's too good for

1664
02:25:16.079 --> 02:25:22.040
her? And how is Lynn,
Miss Newcombe? Oh, he's well about

1665
02:25:22.120 --> 02:25:26.200
played out though with the struggle to
save my boy. But we'll do it,

1666
02:25:26.680 --> 02:25:31.520
we will. I'd better show you
your room now. She is about

1667
02:25:31.600 --> 02:25:35.719
to lead the way upstairs when Helen
enters, right, she sees them show

1668
02:25:35.879 --> 02:25:45.159
surprise. Why if it isn't mister
and missus Aaron Flint, what married you

1669
02:25:45.360 --> 02:25:52.120
too? Sure ain't too enough?
Don't mind him, Miss Brewster, he

1670
02:25:52.239 --> 02:25:56.799
ain't responsible. Yes, we're married. On our trip. Just call to

1671
02:25:56.840 --> 02:26:00.239
see Miss Newcombe and she's kind enough
to want us to stay on that if

1672
02:26:00.239 --> 02:26:05.120
it won't put you out, Helen, with a display of cordiality, shaking

1673
02:26:05.159 --> 02:26:09.239
hands with them. Why no,
of course it won't. We have plenty

1674
02:26:09.319 --> 02:26:15.239
of room. Please accept my congratulations. Thank you. I am wishing you

1675
02:26:15.479 --> 02:26:18.680
the same. I was just going
to take him upstairs, Helen. I

1676
02:26:18.840 --> 02:26:22.959
thought i'd put them in the room
next to mine. I guess it'll be

1677
02:26:22.040 --> 02:26:26.440
all right, won't it? Of
course it will. But I'll call Hanson

1678
02:26:28.239 --> 02:26:33.600
press its button. I guess he
ain't much stuck. I'm waiting on us.

1679
02:26:33.760 --> 02:26:37.520
If we'd be a newly married,
brided couple on our wedding tower.

1680
02:26:37.399 --> 02:26:43.680
Helen smiles good naturedly. Lily Anne
frowns at Aaron with an admonishing shake of

1681
02:26:43.799 --> 02:26:48.639
the head. Oh well, that's
what we'd be, and I ain't ashamed

1682
02:26:48.680 --> 02:26:54.200
of it. By the way,
we brung something for you, miss Brewster,

1683
02:26:54.360 --> 02:27:01.319
something for me. Yep, right
from the farm of them red apples.

1684
02:27:01.879 --> 02:27:05.040
Leash one has our brun bim fillmoorsom, and I reckon he'll be willing

1685
02:27:05.120 --> 02:27:11.239
to divide him with you. Helen
looks somewhat confused. Enter Hanson, right,

1686
02:27:13.239 --> 02:27:16.520
Hanson, show mister and missus Flint
to the room. Next to Miss

1687
02:27:16.600 --> 02:27:20.920
Newcome's. Aaron has taken up grip, but now yields it to Hanson,

1688
02:27:22.360 --> 02:27:28.840
who handles it with extreme caution,
as if fearing contamination. You needn't be

1689
02:27:28.959 --> 02:27:33.440
afraid of it, mister Butler,
it won't bite. Hanson, in his

1690
02:27:33.639 --> 02:27:39.840
stiffest manner, goes up the stairs
carrying the suitcase. Aaron takes the umbrella

1691
02:27:39.000 --> 02:27:46.000
package, etc. He and Lilian
are following Hanson upstairs, she preceding him.

1692
02:27:48.200 --> 02:27:52.760
Part way up. Aaron turns and
speaks, I hope you'll like the

1693
02:27:52.840 --> 02:27:58.000
apples, miss Brewster. Thought maybe
they'd seem like old times, them red

1694
02:27:58.040 --> 02:28:03.360
ones. You know, thank you, you are very kind, Aaron Flant

1695
02:28:03.440 --> 02:28:05.680
you come up here. They ain't
the same apples at all, Miss Brewster.

1696
02:28:07.159 --> 02:28:11.120
They're all gone long ago then summer
ones. But these are red and

1697
02:28:11.360 --> 02:28:16.280
twice as sweet. Aaron at top
of stairs, as he is about to

1698
02:28:16.440 --> 02:28:20.959
follow Lilian, who has made her
exit, and that hals apt to give

1699
02:28:20.040 --> 02:28:26.040
you the stomach ache, extern Helen, paying no attention to his remark,

1700
02:28:26.239 --> 02:28:33.040
crosses to right center. Sarah comes
down to center. You mustn't mind them,

1701
02:28:33.120 --> 02:28:35.760
Helen. They mean all right.
I hope you don't mind their coming.

1702
02:28:37.239 --> 02:28:39.399
I was just as much surprised as
you were. They never let me

1703
02:28:39.479 --> 02:28:43.479
know a thing about it. Why
should I care? I am glad if

1704
02:28:43.520 --> 02:28:48.319
you are pleased to see them.
Well, I don't know what emials say.

1705
02:28:48.200 --> 02:28:54.440
Henson comes downstairs, exit right.
She has no right to object.

1706
02:28:54.040 --> 02:29:00.280
Isn't this practically your house now?
Surely, Helen? You know I don't

1707
02:29:00.319 --> 02:29:03.920
want you to feel that way,
don't you think with all we've got to

1708
02:29:03.040 --> 02:29:07.360
bear. We might be a little
closer together, you and me, Helen.

1709
02:29:09.200 --> 02:29:13.680
I'm your aunt. I want to
see you happy, if only I'm

1710
02:29:13.719 --> 02:29:16.799
afraid there's not much happiness in store
for me, Aunt, Sarah. Even

1711
02:29:16.840 --> 02:29:20.200
if you succeed in saving Dick,
as you seem to think you can,

1712
02:29:20.719 --> 02:29:26.719
you can't save me. Why,
Helen, girl, what do you mean?

1713
02:29:26.639 --> 02:29:31.520
You've given up that man? And
now isn't there another one? Someone?

1714
02:29:31.840 --> 02:29:37.000
You? Really? There is no
one else. I have sent for

1715
02:29:37.159 --> 02:29:41.479
him to ask his forgiveness for what
I said to him. He is coming

1716
02:29:41.559 --> 02:29:46.520
this afternoon. I am to be
his. But Helen, you can't marry

1717
02:29:46.639 --> 02:29:52.879
that man, even if he still
wants you. You mustn't. I can,

1718
02:29:52.559 --> 02:29:56.639
I must. It is the only
way I have made up my mind.

1719
02:29:58.479 --> 02:30:01.760
Well, I guess you're a woman
in have to change it to make

1720
02:30:01.799 --> 02:30:05.479
it up all over again. If
you knew what that man is, what

1721
02:30:05.680 --> 02:30:11.959
he has done, it would make
no difference. She kindly but firmly puts

1722
02:30:11.000 --> 02:30:16.079
Sarah aside and goes up. Right
there, she meets Missus Brewster, who

1723
02:30:16.360 --> 02:30:24.280
enters right upper entrance. Sarah goes
towards Missus Brewster speaks with vehemence. Helen

1724
02:30:24.520 --> 02:30:31.440
pauses m Brewster, What kind of
woman are you? What kind of mother?

1725
02:30:31.040 --> 02:30:35.120
A woman that thinks of nothing but
herself, of having a fine house

1726
02:30:35.239 --> 02:30:39.280
to live in, grand clothes to
put on her back, and jewelry to

1727
02:30:39.399 --> 02:30:43.680
hang around her neck and dangle in
her ears. A mother who would sell

1728
02:30:43.760 --> 02:30:48.680
her own daughter to get those things, sell her to a man who isn't

1729
02:30:48.680 --> 02:30:52.959
fit to wipe a decent girl's shoes? Is that what you are, my

1730
02:30:52.239 --> 02:30:56.600
sister? And I'm ashamed of you. Sorry, we had the same mother.

1731
02:30:58.440 --> 02:31:01.000
Look what's come to you? A
son? And now you want to

1732
02:31:01.079 --> 02:31:05.319
bring your daughter to something worse.
He's innocent, while you you want to

1733
02:31:05.399 --> 02:31:11.840
make this girl the property of a
man who has who But you shan't do

1734
02:31:11.000 --> 02:31:18.040
it. You shan't, Missus Brewster, who has stood apparently too dumbfounded to

1735
02:31:18.120 --> 02:31:22.879
speak, or as if trying in
vain to do so. How dare you

1736
02:31:24.159 --> 02:31:28.959
talk to me like this? How
dare you? Dear? Do you think

1737
02:31:30.000 --> 02:31:35.520
I'm afraid of you of anything when
it comes to this, No, what

1738
02:31:35.680 --> 02:31:39.520
I'm afraid of is to trust you
with your own child, And I'm going

1739
02:31:39.680 --> 02:31:46.559
to save her from you, from
her own mother. She has gone up

1740
02:31:46.680 --> 02:31:52.360
right now, exits missus Brewster,
and Helen seemed too surprised to speak.

1741
02:31:52.319 --> 02:31:58.600
Missus Brewster, quivering with anger,
standing center, Helen, who has gone

1742
02:31:58.639 --> 02:32:03.479
to left center, overcome with grief
and shame, sinks into chair, covering

1743
02:32:03.600 --> 02:32:07.799
her face with hands. I will
not put up with it. I shall

1744
02:32:09.159 --> 02:32:13.239
turn her out of the house.
Even if she is my sister. Perhaps

1745
02:32:13.319 --> 02:32:18.680
it is she who can turn us
out. Don't forget that she with her

1746
02:32:18.760 --> 02:32:22.879
palter and money. We'll see how
far she can go. She shall leave

1747
02:32:22.000 --> 02:32:28.000
this house. But wait soon as
she may have no further claim upon us,

1748
02:32:28.959 --> 02:32:35.719
Helen. What do you mean that
you've reconsidered? That is not too

1749
02:32:35.879 --> 02:32:41.920
late, Helen. She has risen
stuns Santa. It means that I have

1750
02:32:41.040 --> 02:32:46.280
sent for him, that he is
coming back, missus Brewster, as if

1751
02:32:46.360 --> 02:32:54.440
to caressa but desisting as Helen draws
away coldly. My daughter, my own

1752
02:32:54.760 --> 02:33:01.360
darling child. No, please,
let there be no false sentiment between us.

1753
02:33:01.879 --> 02:33:05.280
I'm going to sacrifice myself. He
is coming to gloat over me,

1754
02:33:05.879 --> 02:33:11.680
over the woman who, after all
humbles herself at his feet. Let us

1755
02:33:11.799 --> 02:33:16.600
understand each other. Mother, tell
the truth this once. Then I will

1756
02:33:16.719 --> 02:33:20.760
seal it up in my heart forever
and bear it all in silence. Helen.

1757
02:33:22.239 --> 02:33:26.639
No, if you feel that way
about it, I won't let you.

1758
02:33:28.680 --> 02:33:31.159
Oh, you needn't upbraid yourself.
I know what I am doing.

1759
02:33:31.799 --> 02:33:37.360
It may mean that we can free
Dick too, hide our disgrace. Money

1760
02:33:37.440 --> 02:33:43.000
can do anything like that. I
needn't count. It doesn't matter that I

1761
02:33:43.079 --> 02:33:46.719
shall be living a lie. I
shall not be the first woman that has

1762
02:33:46.760 --> 02:33:52.399
sold herself for money to a man. She loathes when she loves another.

1763
02:33:54.559 --> 02:34:01.319
Helen, you don't mean you can't
not that you love Helen turns to her

1764
02:34:01.680 --> 02:34:07.239
in a sudden, brief surrender to
her real feelings. Yes, let me

1765
02:34:07.360 --> 02:34:11.360
own it this once, though not
to him. He shall never know.

1766
02:34:13.079 --> 02:34:18.159
But I love him. I love
him, I have from the very first,

1767
02:34:18.440 --> 02:34:22.920
though I didn't realize it. Then
he is a man, a true

1768
02:34:22.079 --> 02:34:26.639
noble man, worthy of my love, of any woman's love. But I

1769
02:34:28.399 --> 02:34:33.520
I am not worthy of his.
She breaks down. Missus Bruceter looks at

1770
02:34:33.559 --> 02:34:39.440
her with some show of compassion,
but still evidently rejoicing that she has gained

1771
02:34:39.479 --> 02:34:48.440
her point. But that uncouth countryman
Helen, throwing off her real feelings with

1772
02:34:48.600 --> 02:34:54.120
a forced air of hardness and indifference, though still with a trace of deeper

1773
02:34:54.200 --> 02:35:00.920
emotion. We will not speak of
it anymore ever again. Remember, but

1774
02:35:01.120 --> 02:35:05.040
you needn't fear. I shall keep
my word. She is about to go

1775
02:35:05.239 --> 02:35:11.200
upright, but suddenly pauses. Oh, by the way, I forgot.

1776
02:35:11.639 --> 02:35:16.559
We have some guests. Guests,
yes, whom, no doubt you will

1777
02:35:16.559 --> 02:35:22.959
be overjoyed to see old friends of
yours, mister and missus Flint. Flint,

1778
02:35:24.120 --> 02:35:31.159
you cannot mean Aaron and his blushing
bride, Lilianne, from the fair

1779
02:35:31.319 --> 02:35:35.719
domain of the Newcomb Farm in Brookville. They are here on their wedding trip

1780
02:35:35.959 --> 02:35:41.120
and have honored us with their presence
for a brief sojourn. I must confess

1781
02:35:41.520 --> 02:35:46.600
I was quite pleased to see them. I shall not submit. How could

1782
02:35:46.680 --> 02:35:50.639
Sarah presume to invite them here?
She didn't. They took her by surprise

1783
02:35:50.719 --> 02:35:56.600
also, But I shouldn't worry.
Doubtless they will be sufficiently entertained without our

1784
02:35:56.639 --> 02:36:03.840
assistance. The dope rings Helen starts
with a suppressed shudder. That may be

1785
02:36:05.760 --> 02:36:09.920
I cannot see him just yet.
I will be in the library. Exit

1786
02:36:11.040 --> 02:36:16.719
Helen right, enter, Hanson right
goes out left up exit. Missus Brewster

1787
02:36:16.920 --> 02:36:24.760
stands right center with an expectant look
denoting triumph. After a pause, Hanson,

1788
02:36:24.959 --> 02:36:33.680
Chason, Leonard Fillmore exit Henson right, Missus Brewster suddenly assuming a cold,

1789
02:36:33.040 --> 02:36:39.639
distant manner, Good afternoon, mister
Fillmore, you will pardon me.

1790
02:36:39.559 --> 02:36:46.719
I was expecting a gentleman starts to
go upright, disdaining him. He has

1791
02:36:46.920 --> 02:36:52.799
entered expectantly with a cordial look.
But Wilt's half good naturedly at her attitude.

1792
02:36:54.639 --> 02:36:58.280
Oh, I see, sorry if
I don't fit the bell, Missus

1793
02:36:58.360 --> 02:37:05.000
Brewster, realizing her rudeness, speaking
a bit more cordially. Of course,

1794
02:37:05.079 --> 02:37:09.520
I meant another gentleman. Thanks.
I feel better, but I can't see

1795
02:37:09.559 --> 02:37:15.120
miss Newcombe. If I may,
who will have her informed that you are

1796
02:37:15.280 --> 02:37:22.040
here? Except missus Brewster. Wright. Leonard is down right center by table,

1797
02:37:22.719 --> 02:37:28.239
does not notice Aaron and Lilian who
appear at top of stairs. They

1798
02:37:28.319 --> 02:37:33.920
have TIEDI it up. Aaron with
hair shinily sleeked, et cetera, liliane

1799
02:37:33.280 --> 02:37:39.360
with change to brighter dress or shirt
waist or with an added gay ribbon or

1800
02:37:39.399 --> 02:37:45.000
something of the sort. They see
Leonard steal down close to him, one

1801
02:37:45.079 --> 02:37:50.280
on either side. How do you
do? Leonard turns, sees them,

1802
02:37:50.719 --> 02:37:58.479
almost overcome by surprise. What Aaron
Lilian, mister m missus, Aaron Flint,

1803
02:38:00.000 --> 02:38:07.719
if you please never you don't mean
sure thing, Ashma blushing bride,

1804
02:38:07.760 --> 02:38:13.200
Yes, Lynn, that's us.
Well, I'll be switched. You've put

1805
02:38:13.319 --> 02:38:18.879
one over on us this time,
and no mistake. Shake gives one hunt

1806
02:38:18.920 --> 02:38:24.440
to each say shake most cordially wonders
never sees. So you gave in at

1807
02:38:24.520 --> 02:38:28.879
last, Lily Anne Land Lynn.
I just had to. They weren't no

1808
02:38:28.959 --> 02:38:33.399
other ways I could see as ever
get into New York. I just had

1809
02:38:33.440 --> 02:38:35.840
to come and see you and Miss
Newcombe and find out everything if you're going

1810
02:38:35.920 --> 02:38:41.159
to save that boy in all just
couldn't stand it, and a little thing

1811
02:38:41.319 --> 02:38:46.120
like having Aaron here for a husband
didn't count. She's got me, though,

1812
02:38:46.760 --> 02:38:50.280
and I'll keep even after we get
back to the farm. Then my

1813
02:38:50.639 --> 02:38:56.559
part will come in. I ain't
worrying. Tell me, Lynn, how

1814
02:38:56.639 --> 02:39:00.360
are you? What's the prospects?
And everything? I can't I tell you

1815
02:39:00.520 --> 02:39:05.120
now. I'm almost too overcome and
so glad to see you that I can

1816
02:39:05.200 --> 02:39:07.280
hardly talk. Hope you'll stay long
enough for us to give you the best

1817
02:39:07.319 --> 02:39:11.799
time anybody ever had. But just
at present, I'm up to my neck

1818
02:39:11.920 --> 02:39:16.520
in the job of my life.
The trial comes off day after tomorrow,

1819
02:39:16.600 --> 02:39:20.680
and there's a lot to do before
then. Oh Lynn, you're going to

1820
02:39:20.719 --> 02:39:24.559
save him? Well, I can
tell you this much. If I do,

1821
02:39:24.280 --> 02:39:28.280
it will be owing to Miss Newcombe
to what she has done. That

1822
02:39:28.559 --> 02:39:33.840
woman's a wonder what she can't see
through and figure out? De check is

1823
02:39:33.879 --> 02:39:39.200
eve instinct just link mine. You
couldn't detect a clue as big as an

1824
02:39:39.239 --> 02:39:43.600
elephant unless it bit you. I
ain't surprised at Miss Newcombe though all the

1825
02:39:43.799 --> 02:39:48.959
mystery stories and such. I'm waiting
to see her. It's most important.

1826
02:39:50.040 --> 02:39:52.840
So if you don't mind, will
you just leave us alone for a few

1827
02:39:52.879 --> 02:39:58.920
minutes. I'm sorry, but you
understand. Sure we do. We'll just

1828
02:39:58.159 --> 02:40:03.760
snoop around little and see what we
can see. Come along, sweetie,

1829
02:40:05.959 --> 02:40:11.360
Lilian sniffing at his show of sentiment, she follows him to left second exit.

1830
02:40:11.959 --> 02:40:15.959
All right, Lean, maybe we'll
find the kitchen so that I can

1831
02:40:16.000 --> 02:40:18.239
see what kind of hired girl they
got. I might get a few pointers

1832
02:40:18.280 --> 02:40:22.120
on real style. So when you
and your city bride come to Brookville on

1833
02:40:22.200 --> 02:40:28.159
your wedding trip, Oh calm,
Lily, Bud, I bet he'd rather

1834
02:40:28.239 --> 02:40:33.239
have your cooking any day. Wouldn't
you, Lanne. You've said it,

1835
02:40:33.360 --> 02:40:37.559
Aaron, But I ain't objecting to
getting a sniff of what we're going to

1836
02:40:37.680 --> 02:40:41.360
get here for supper. I'm as
hungry as seven bears in a woodchuck.

1837
02:40:43.280 --> 02:40:46.479
Exit. Aaron left second, except
so am I to tell the truth.

1838
02:40:48.159 --> 02:40:50.920
I don't see as being married spoils
your appetite a bit, excepting for being

1839
02:40:52.000 --> 02:40:58.399
married. Exit Lilian left second.
Exit. Lennard smiles, turns and meet

1840
02:40:58.479 --> 02:41:01.879
Sarah, who enters right. Oh, Lynn, here you are at last.

1841
02:41:03.280 --> 02:41:07.799
I've been almost crazy waiting for you. Tell me? Did you fix

1842
02:41:07.920 --> 02:41:11.559
it? Will that woman be here? Yes? I had quite a time,

1843
02:41:11.719 --> 02:41:16.319
but at last convinced Markham that it
was of crucial importance. She has

1844
02:41:16.440 --> 02:41:20.200
left the apartment, and at first
he said we must come to headquarters where

1845
02:41:20.319 --> 02:41:26.159
she is detained as a material witness. But finally he consented to bring her

1846
02:41:26.360 --> 02:41:31.760
here. It looks like things we're
playing into our hands at last. Didn't

1847
02:41:31.840 --> 02:41:35.479
I tell you they would? They
are sure to come right in the end.

1848
02:41:35.280 --> 02:41:39.440
Well, it's a good thing to
hope anyway. And as for hope,

1849
02:41:41.000 --> 02:41:46.319
do you think there's any I mean, do you think sure there is?

1850
02:41:46.440 --> 02:41:50.079
Lynn? But you've got to fight
for that too. It's her mother.

1851
02:41:50.680 --> 02:41:54.639
If it wasn't for her, why
what has she done now? I

1852
02:41:54.920 --> 02:41:58.760
hate to tell you, Lynn,
but the truth is Helen has sent for

1853
02:41:58.840 --> 02:42:03.680
that man to come back to take
bank what she said to him, to

1854
02:42:03.840 --> 02:42:09.680
tell him she'll be his. But
how can she when she knows you mustn't

1855
02:42:09.760 --> 02:42:16.840
let her assert your rights. She
thinks she must sacrifice herself. But do

1856
02:42:16.959 --> 02:42:20.600
you mean to stand back and let
that man have her? Huh? I'd

1857
02:42:20.680 --> 02:42:26.079
grab her up and carry her off
by main force. First hum, cave

1858
02:42:26.200 --> 02:42:30.920
man stuff a good idea. Well, I don't know about any cave part,

1859
02:42:31.120 --> 02:42:33.239
but thank yous, you're just a
man that could do it once you

1860
02:42:33.399 --> 02:42:39.120
got your spunk up. But tell
me, I'm dying to know. How

1861
02:42:39.280 --> 02:42:43.799
is Dick bearing up like a man? He has new courage thanks to you.

1862
02:42:43.159 --> 02:42:46.840
We can't fail now, we mustn't, But I guess it's still up

1863
02:42:46.879 --> 02:42:50.600
to you, Miss Newcomb. The
woman sticks to her story, hasn't budged

1864
02:42:50.639 --> 02:42:54.479
an inch. The police believe her, and if you can't shake her,

1865
02:42:54.920 --> 02:43:00.200
I don't know who or what can. She's a pretty slick one. All

1866
02:43:00.280 --> 02:43:03.719
I want is one more chance at
her. What we've found out in the

1867
02:43:03.799 --> 02:43:07.840
past three weeks, maybe a little
surprise for her and a few others.

1868
02:43:07.600 --> 02:43:11.079
It takes a woman to see through
a woman, and I began to see

1869
02:43:11.159 --> 02:43:16.719
through that one in just about two
minutes. That French accent didn't sound quite

1870
02:43:16.799 --> 02:43:20.079
like the real thing to me,
little as I know about it. She

1871
02:43:20.200 --> 02:43:24.639
slipped back into plain American without noticing
it once or twice. And I noticed

1872
02:43:24.719 --> 02:43:28.159
what none of you men did.
That her eyes don't match that black hair,

1873
02:43:28.440 --> 02:43:33.200
and that that hair has been dyed. And she was a little too

1874
02:43:33.280 --> 02:43:37.760
ready to explain things like she'd thought
him out beforehand. And those two keys,

1875
02:43:39.559 --> 02:43:43.280
two keys that fit the same lock, don't have different nicks to him.

1876
02:43:43.760 --> 02:43:48.520
My fingers soon told me that the
doorbell rings. Ah, there's the

1877
02:43:48.600 --> 02:43:52.920
bell again. I guess that's about
the busiest little doorbell in New York lately.

1878
02:43:52.399 --> 02:43:56.840
Hanson is earning his wages for once, and I mean to see that

1879
02:43:56.959 --> 02:44:01.120
he gets him and a Hanson.
Write Henson, whoever that is, keep

1880
02:44:01.200 --> 02:44:03.600
him out there in the hall till
you'll let us know who it is.

1881
02:44:05.520 --> 02:44:11.280
Exit Henson, left up. Exit. There is a slight pause. Sarah

1882
02:44:11.440 --> 02:44:16.600
goes up and looks off left up
Exit. It's them, and I'll vanish

1883
02:44:16.639 --> 02:44:20.920
for the present. Now's your chance. Er. I sort of traded it

1884
02:44:22.040 --> 02:44:28.239
after all. Exit Leonard left second
exit. Sarah is going right center as

1885
02:44:28.399 --> 02:44:35.239
Markham enters left up exit. He
comes down looking somewhat puzzled and not altogether

1886
02:44:35.440 --> 02:44:41.959
pleased. Good afternoon, mister Markham. Well I've brought the woman. What

1887
02:44:43.120 --> 02:44:46.239
are you going to do about it? Talk to her a few minutes,

1888
02:44:46.280 --> 02:44:50.479
if you'll let me. I don't
see what for That woman's talked and Ben

1889
02:44:50.600 --> 02:44:56.120
talked to till there's nothing more to
be said. Don't you suppose we got

1890
02:44:56.200 --> 02:44:58.559
everything out of her? She's got
to tell all she's got to tell you,

1891
02:45:00.200 --> 02:45:05.120
maybe, but not all she's got
to tell if I can make her

1892
02:45:05.200 --> 02:45:11.040
tell it. Markham, snaring with
a sarcastic laugh. Qu are kind of

1893
02:45:11.120 --> 02:45:16.200
business this anyway? Sort of irregular? But Fillmore told me it was for

1894
02:45:16.319 --> 02:45:18.600
something that couldn't be done in any
other way, and I don't want to

1895
02:45:18.639 --> 02:45:24.559
be contrary. I suppose it's all
right. It's only fair to give you

1896
02:45:24.719 --> 02:45:28.159
your chance. I suppose, though
I must say, I don't see what

1897
02:45:28.280 --> 02:45:31.360
you think you're going to do.
What I'm going to do, first,

1898
02:45:31.440 --> 02:45:35.440
mister Markham, is to ask you
to leave me alone with her. I

1899
02:45:35.879 --> 02:45:39.840
don't see an objection to that,
but of course I'll have to stick around.

1900
02:45:39.760 --> 02:45:46.239
I want you to indicating left second
exit in that room. I want

1901
02:45:46.280 --> 02:45:52.040
you to hear every word that is
said and act accordingly. That satisfactory.

1902
02:45:52.719 --> 02:45:56.239
She's out in the hall there.
I told her to wait. Oh,

1903
02:45:56.639 --> 02:46:01.120
Higgins is outside. I told him
to trail along. Keep his eyes peeled

1904
02:46:01.040 --> 02:46:07.559
going to left second exit in here. Yes, you'll find mister Fillmore in

1905
02:46:07.639 --> 02:46:11.479
there. He understands. Well,
that's more than I do. But all

1906
02:46:11.600 --> 02:46:18.959
chatted. Exit Markham, left second
exit. Sarah stands a moment as if

1907
02:46:18.040 --> 02:46:24.319
to gain courage, then goes and
looks off left upper exit. She makes

1908
02:46:24.360 --> 02:46:30.479
a slight motion. Henson appears in
left upprentance. Bring the woman in here.

1909
02:46:30.639 --> 02:46:37.559
Henson exit Hanson. He reappears,
shows in Delphine and again exits.

1910
02:46:37.799 --> 02:46:46.000
Delphine appears in left apprentrance. Pauses, looks about curiously with a manner denoting

1911
02:46:46.159 --> 02:46:52.000
some suspicion. She wears a long
black veil over her hat, which she

1912
02:46:52.120 --> 02:46:58.159
now throws back. Sarah, having
withdrawn to right center, stands watching her.

1913
02:46:58.360 --> 02:47:05.520
Delphine comes down, turns see Sarah
starts. So it is you,

1914
02:47:05.680 --> 02:47:11.159
madame. Won't you sit down,
Delphine? She does not sit as yet.

1915
02:47:13.000 --> 02:47:18.280
But why am I brought here?
I do not understand. I was

1916
02:47:18.360 --> 02:47:22.319
not told that it was to see
you. What house is this? Why

1917
02:47:22.399 --> 02:47:26.440
do I come here? Well?
You see, I thought you must think

1918
02:47:26.479 --> 02:47:31.319
it kind of funny the way I
left you so suddenly that day. And

1919
02:47:31.479 --> 02:47:35.319
I haven't been feeling very well lately, so I thought it would be real

1920
02:47:35.479 --> 02:47:39.399
kind of you to come and see
me so I could apologize for carrying off

1921
02:47:39.479 --> 02:47:45.040
your keys the way I did.
You see, I was so excited after

1922
02:47:45.159 --> 02:47:48.799
what I'd been through that I really
didn't know what I was doing. I

1923
02:47:48.959 --> 02:47:54.200
guess you understand. Oh we satament, madame, But to come here it

1924
02:47:54.440 --> 02:48:01.559
is strange. However, I am
here, yes, and do sit down.

1925
02:48:01.040 --> 02:48:05.520
Might as well be comfortable. I
hear you not staying at that flat

1926
02:48:05.600 --> 02:48:11.520
anymore. No, it was so, as you said, gloomy, lonesome,

1927
02:48:13.399 --> 02:48:16.079
and a thought of poor miss Nevarre. Oh it is too much,

1928
02:48:16.920 --> 02:48:22.079
but I must not go away.
They detain me as a witness. Oh,

1929
02:48:22.559 --> 02:48:28.399
it is so terrible. I must
tell it all in court. I

1930
02:48:28.520 --> 02:48:33.639
don't wonder you dread it, but
think of me and my boy. It

1931
02:48:33.840 --> 02:48:39.000
is too bad. I sympathize,
but I must tell all, Yes,

1932
02:48:39.280 --> 02:48:45.319
you must tell all. Aren't there
a few things you haven't told yet?

1933
02:48:46.479 --> 02:48:52.000
I do not understand. Does Madame
intend to insinuate? No, that's a

1934
02:48:52.120 --> 02:48:58.920
good plain English word, insinuate,
And you didn't say it a bit frenchy.

1935
02:48:58.719 --> 02:49:03.479
But I wasn't insinuating. I'm just
asking, couldn't you tell a few

1936
02:49:03.520 --> 02:49:07.840
more things if you would? Madame? What is it that you mean?

1937
02:49:09.600 --> 02:49:13.639
Oh? I wish you wouldn't keep
calling me madame. What I meant was

1938
02:49:13.200 --> 02:49:18.000
maybe you could help me a little
as to why those two keys were different.

1939
02:49:18.280 --> 02:49:22.040
When you say they were for the
same lock, then I mistake.

1940
02:49:22.520 --> 02:49:26.920
It does not matter, or we
have many keys, but those two were

1941
02:49:26.079 --> 02:49:30.479
enough for me. They proved a
pretty good fit to what I was trying

1942
02:49:30.559 --> 02:49:35.079
to open. One fit to the
front door to your apartment, the other

1943
02:49:35.280 --> 02:49:39.360
the back door to the kitchen at
or whatever they call it. But of

1944
02:49:39.520 --> 02:49:45.559
course there must be a key to
that door also, of course, Or

1945
02:49:45.680 --> 02:49:48.840
how could you, after you came
up in the elevator that day have slipped

1946
02:49:48.840 --> 02:49:54.959
around first to that back door,
gone into the kitchen, through the dining

1947
02:49:54.079 --> 02:50:01.239
room, into that other room,
and then Delphine, becoming alarmed, but

1948
02:50:01.520 --> 02:50:07.319
making a good effort to conceal her
growing suspicion and fear. What do you

1949
02:50:07.399 --> 02:50:11.600
mean, I came in the front
door directly to the room where Miss Naval

1950
02:50:11.760 --> 02:50:15.440
lay dead, shot the boy,
your nephew, direct from the whole I

1951
02:50:15.600 --> 02:50:20.360
emptied after getting off the elevator,
so you said, But it happens,

1952
02:50:20.399 --> 02:50:24.959
I didn't quite see it that way, So I found out which elevator boy

1953
02:50:26.040 --> 02:50:30.399
brought you up. He remembers very
well. You say you got off the

1954
02:50:30.520 --> 02:50:35.040
elevator just as the shot was fired. You didn't. He let you off

1955
02:50:35.120 --> 02:50:39.520
at the fourth floor, went on
up to the tenth, and it was

1956
02:50:39.600 --> 02:50:43.959
when he got back to the fourth
floor that the gun was fired. He

1957
02:50:43.239 --> 02:50:48.319
heard it. You had been off
the elevator for five minutes or more,

1958
02:50:48.319 --> 02:50:54.319
Delphine, who has sprung up,
beginning to lose control of herself. It

1959
02:50:54.559 --> 02:50:58.280
is not true, He lies.
Lies. I say, you had plenty

1960
02:50:58.360 --> 02:51:03.159
of time to go around to the
other door, look in to see who

1961
02:51:03.360 --> 02:51:07.639
was there seeing you, a chance
of having your revenge with somebody else to

1962
02:51:07.719 --> 02:51:11.799
be suspected of your deed. Fire
the shot, go back, come in,

1963
02:51:13.520 --> 02:51:18.920
and Delphine, in a furious rage. How dare you say such things,

1964
02:51:20.440 --> 02:51:24.639
accuse me of such an infamous act? It is an outrage. So

1965
02:51:24.920 --> 02:51:28.879
that is why you have had me
brought here to insult me, to accuse

1966
02:51:28.000 --> 02:51:33.719
me of killing my dear mistress,
who was all kindness to me, whom

1967
02:51:33.760 --> 02:51:37.600
I loved. It is infamous.
You shall pay for this. You will

1968
02:51:37.639 --> 02:51:43.680
see. You will see. I
see that you talk United States much better

1969
02:51:43.799 --> 02:51:46.879
than you put on a French accent. For all, you are a very

1970
02:51:48.000 --> 02:51:54.600
clever actress, Miss Bateman. What
what do you mean? My name is

1971
02:51:54.440 --> 02:52:01.360
Eliza Bateman. Of course it is
your real name. Quite a well known

1972
02:52:01.399 --> 02:52:05.840
actress too, and a pretty good
one. French maids are quite a speciality

1973
02:52:05.959 --> 02:52:09.639
of yours, and so your impersonation
came in very handy when you went and

1974
02:52:09.879 --> 02:52:15.159
hired out to Miss Navarre. Even
she didn't see through your neat disguise in

1975
02:52:15.319 --> 02:52:20.360
your assumed accent. It happens,
I did, though I was sort of

1976
02:52:20.440 --> 02:52:24.840
looking too. That was the difference. Lies lies, I see you lie.

1977
02:52:26.319 --> 02:52:30.559
It is all lies, an infamous, vile plot. I will not

1978
02:52:30.799 --> 02:52:35.159
stay here. She is about to
leave, but Sarah bars her way so

1979
02:52:35.520 --> 02:52:41.920
determinedly that she is compelled to stay, though fuming with rage and illy disguised

1980
02:52:43.120 --> 02:52:48.680
fear. You see, I haven't
been losing any time. Me and that

1981
02:52:48.079 --> 02:52:52.799
plain country lawyer, the smart New
York lawyers and great detectives have made so

1982
02:52:52.920 --> 02:52:58.639
much fun of We have done a
little detective work on our own hooks and

1983
02:52:58.799 --> 02:53:03.799
found out a few things about you, Miss Bateman. I know not that

1984
02:53:03.040 --> 02:53:09.959
name. It is false. You
mean Delphine is about that pistol too.

1985
02:53:09.600 --> 02:53:13.920
It was Miss Navarre's. She kept
it there. You knew where it was

1986
02:53:15.479 --> 02:53:18.239
in that room. It was easy
enough for you to get in the way

1987
02:53:18.319 --> 02:53:24.040
you did shoot over Dick Brewster's shoulder. Slip out and be still, Be

1988
02:53:24.239 --> 02:53:28.600
still, I say, I will
not listen. It is false. I

1989
02:53:28.760 --> 02:53:33.280
did not do it. No,
no, you lie, you lie.

1990
02:53:35.440 --> 02:53:39.440
It is that truth. You say
I killed my mistress, Miss Navarre.

1991
02:53:41.120 --> 02:53:46.200
No, no, it was not
she. I she stopped, suddenly,

1992
02:53:46.680 --> 02:53:52.719
confused, trying to cover her mistake. I mean I could not she who

1993
02:53:52.840 --> 02:53:58.399
was so good to me? How
can you say Sarah going close to her,

1994
02:53:58.840 --> 02:54:05.440
looking straight to her face and speaking
very deliberately and distinctly. A woman

1995
02:54:05.559 --> 02:54:11.479
seldom hits what she aims at.
You didn't. What do you mean?

1996
02:54:11.879 --> 02:54:16.719
I there was a man in that
room also, I know, yes,

1997
02:54:16.280 --> 02:54:20.680
but to me he was a steinger. Maybe a woman has the right to

1998
02:54:20.840 --> 02:54:24.959
kill the man who has wronged her, the man who has promised to marry

1999
02:54:26.079 --> 02:54:31.360
her and then thrown her over for
another. Maybe she has a right to

2000
02:54:31.479 --> 02:54:35.559
put on a disguise so she can
follow him and prove just how false he

2001
02:54:35.799 --> 02:54:39.600
is to her. I don't know. Maybe there is some excuse for a

2002
02:54:39.680 --> 02:54:45.520
woman doing that. There may be
some for you. You didn't mean to

2003
02:54:45.680 --> 02:54:50.280
kill miss Navarre. I believe that, but you meant to kill him.

2004
02:54:50.920 --> 02:54:54.799
It was him you shot at and
you killed her. No, no,

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02:54:56.399 --> 02:55:00.079
you shall not say that. It
is not true. I did not know

2006
02:55:00.319 --> 02:55:05.559
him. I never saw him.
Before the doorbell rings, Sarah goes to

2007
02:55:05.680 --> 02:55:11.079
left up entrance, looks Solf.
After a slight pause, enter ralph daring.

2008
02:55:11.879 --> 02:55:16.760
He comes partway down center stops as
he sees Delphine, surprised but not

2009
02:55:16.959 --> 02:55:22.799
recognizing her. I beg, pardon, I did not know, mister deering.

2010
02:55:24.000 --> 02:55:28.639
Permit me to introduce miss Eliza Bateman. Daring too much taken aback to

2011
02:55:28.760 --> 02:55:37.360
conceal his amazement. Eliza, you, what does this mean? So you

2012
02:55:37.520 --> 02:55:43.920
recognize her? Why? Yes?
I do now, though she is not

2013
02:55:43.040 --> 02:55:48.600
the same. I never thought,
of course you didn't. How could you

2014
02:55:48.120 --> 02:55:54.760
have blonde turned into a brunette.
Deering looks dumbfounded, but recognizes Delphine,

2015
02:55:56.079 --> 02:56:03.680
who is unable longer to conceal her
identity. She still tries desperately to brazen

2016
02:56:03.799 --> 02:56:07.639
it out. However, this gentleman
is a stranger to me, you will

2017
02:56:07.719 --> 02:56:13.920
excuse. She starts to go left
up her exit, but Daring steps in

2018
02:56:13.000 --> 02:56:18.440
her way, so she is compelled
to remain. Wait. I begin to

2019
02:56:18.559 --> 02:56:24.159
understand a very clever disguise, my
girl. It's no wonder I didn't recognize

2020
02:56:24.200 --> 02:56:33.159
you, so you were tracking me
down seeking revenge? Eh? I see

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02:56:33.399 --> 02:56:39.120
it was you who fired that shot
at me. It is not true.

2022
02:56:39.719 --> 02:56:43.719
It's a lie, a lie,
I say, let me puss not so

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02:56:43.000 --> 02:56:48.479
fast. I guess your little game
is up, miss Bateman. It didn't

2024
02:56:48.520 --> 02:56:56.000
work, did it? And she
took my place? Delphine at first seeming

2025
02:56:56.079 --> 02:57:01.399
about to attempt to brazen it out, then as Daring continues looking steadily at

2026
02:57:01.440 --> 02:57:09.159
her, showing fright, which turns
to despair and desperation, it's no use.

2027
02:57:09.479 --> 02:57:16.680
I see now it's true. True. I can deny it no longer.

2028
02:57:18.200 --> 02:57:22.440
Yes, it was you, you
who made love to me, led

2029
02:57:22.520 --> 02:57:28.520
me on till I gave all all, and then deserted me for another.

2030
02:57:30.760 --> 02:57:37.440
It drove me mad. I was
alone, outcast, all because of you,

2031
02:57:37.000 --> 02:57:41.200
and I resolved to have revenge.
But it was not to kill you.

2032
02:57:43.440 --> 02:57:46.920
No, no, not that.
But that day when I saw you

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02:57:48.040 --> 02:57:54.159
with her, heard what you said, I was mad, mad, and

2034
02:57:54.319 --> 02:57:58.440
in that one moment of desperation,
I tried to end at all. The

2035
02:57:58.559 --> 02:58:03.680
pistol was there where she kept it, and he the boy, he was

2036
02:58:03.719 --> 02:58:09.520
there. I fired at you almost
before I knew what I was doing.

2037
02:58:09.479 --> 02:58:15.959
I didn't know I was mad,
insane, I say. But I fired

2038
02:58:16.239 --> 02:58:22.120
at you, I thought, but
I killed her, the one who had

2039
02:58:22.159 --> 02:58:28.920
been kind to me, whom I
loved. Oh it was terrible. Take

2040
02:58:28.000 --> 02:58:33.799
me away. I don't care now
what becomes of me. You are not

2041
02:58:33.000 --> 02:58:37.719
fit to live. But I didn't
mean to be a what you say,

2042
02:58:37.799 --> 02:58:50.280
I am No, no, She
breaks down, sobbing hysterically. Markham,

2043
02:58:50.399 --> 02:58:54.159
who has entered second left entrance,
goes to her, taking hold of her.

2044
02:58:54.559 --> 02:59:00.799
Not ungently, leave her to me, I'll look after her. Helen

2045
02:59:00.959 --> 02:59:05.760
has entered right in time to hear
part of the foregoing unnoticed by the others.

2046
02:59:05.959 --> 02:59:11.799
Markham supports Delphine and takes her up
left. He pauses as Sarah goes

2047
02:59:11.879 --> 02:59:16.159
up, speaking to him, what
will they do with her? Do you

2048
02:59:16.280 --> 02:59:22.680
think? No? Not so bad? Man's laughter? Temporary insanity? Perhaps?

2049
02:59:24.559 --> 02:59:31.239
Oh I'm glad, perhaps she had
some excuse. She turns, looks

2050
02:59:31.280 --> 02:59:37.520
accusingly scornfully at Dearing, who has
a defiant attitude, paying no attention to

2051
02:59:37.719 --> 02:59:41.840
her. And as to that other, your boy, ma'am, why this

2052
02:59:43.120 --> 02:59:50.040
changes things? You think now?
That that he that think? Well,

2053
02:59:50.479 --> 02:59:54.879
you and fillmore might come down to
headquarters soon. As again it'll be all

2054
02:59:54.000 --> 02:59:58.959
right for the boy now He goes
out left up her exit with Delphine,

2055
03:00:00.440 --> 03:00:07.159
who is still sobbing and moaning,
though more quietly than before. Deering follows

2056
03:00:07.200 --> 03:00:11.239
them. After one look at Helen, whom he has discovered standing upright.

2057
03:00:13.479 --> 03:00:20.719
She freezes him with a contemptuous glance. He shrugs his shoulders and exits left

2058
03:00:20.799 --> 03:00:26.639
up brexit. Sarah stands left center, looking after them, her hands clasped,

2059
03:00:28.159 --> 03:00:33.760
almost weeping, but with a rapt
joyful expression. After a slight pause,

2060
03:00:33.879 --> 03:00:41.520
she turns sees Helen, who is
still standing right, pale and motionless,

2061
03:00:41.360 --> 03:00:48.520
staring straight ahead as if dazed,
Sarah going to Helen, taking hold

2062
03:00:48.600 --> 03:00:54.440
of her gently. Helen, you
have heard, you understand. He is

2063
03:00:54.520 --> 03:01:00.719
the man who who, yes,
Helen, the one who was there that

2064
03:01:00.920 --> 03:01:05.120
night, the man who, for
revenge on you, told the police that

2065
03:01:05.280 --> 03:01:07.959
it was Dick. Oh, Helen, did you need this to show you

2066
03:01:09.079 --> 03:01:13.680
what he is? No? But
this ends it. It was ended before,

2067
03:01:13.879 --> 03:01:18.639
dear, Only you wouldn't believe it, aren't you? Glad? Thankful?

2068
03:01:20.360 --> 03:01:24.680
It means that Dick will be free, that you yes, and you

2069
03:01:24.840 --> 03:01:28.840
have saved him, saved me.
Oh, Aunt, Sarah, can you

2070
03:01:28.959 --> 03:01:33.200
ever forgive us? Forgive me?
There there, my dear, there's nothing

2071
03:01:33.280 --> 03:01:39.360
to forgive, not a thing.
Helen is weeping. Sarah, with an

2072
03:01:39.479 --> 03:01:46.399
arm about her, leads her upright, but pauses as leonardent as left second

2073
03:01:46.520 --> 03:01:52.520
entrance. He pauses left. Sarah
sees him, leaves Helen and goes to

2074
03:01:52.680 --> 03:01:58.520
him, holding out both hands,
which he takes. Oh, lenn isn't

2075
03:01:58.559 --> 03:02:03.840
it wonderful? Wonderful? Yes,
it is all wonderful, and you are

2076
03:02:03.920 --> 03:02:09.200
the most wonderful of all. I
declare you're a regular Miss Sherlock Holmes.

2077
03:02:09.040 --> 03:02:15.200
Helen, at Lennard's entrance, gives
him one glance, her face showing deep

2078
03:02:15.280 --> 03:02:20.040
emotion, indicating that she dare not
trust herself to speak to him. She

2079
03:02:20.239 --> 03:02:26.159
exits right, pshaw, I haven't
done anything at any rate. If I

2080
03:02:26.280 --> 03:02:30.920
have, I've had pretty good help. And now I'm going to him,

2081
03:02:31.520 --> 03:02:39.920
and you are going with me?
Yes, but looking right longingly Sarah looking

2082
03:02:39.000 --> 03:02:45.440
round. Oh, I see she's
run away. Wait, going right,

2083
03:02:46.239 --> 03:02:50.120
and don't forget what I told you
Lynne about Oh, I don't think that

2084
03:02:50.239 --> 03:02:54.920
will be necessary now that cave stuff. I have something better than that.

2085
03:02:56.159 --> 03:03:01.799
Look what Erin gave me. Takes
a red apple from his pocket, holds

2086
03:03:01.840 --> 03:03:07.959
it up. I don't think she'll
be able to resist that, do you?

2087
03:03:09.479 --> 03:03:13.399
No? Not? When you go
with it? Exits Sarah right,

2088
03:03:13.120 --> 03:03:18.399
looking back at him with an encouraging
smile. He goes over to left Center

2089
03:03:20.000 --> 03:03:24.440
stands there waiting, looking eagerly towards
right, the hand in which is the

2090
03:03:24.520 --> 03:03:31.600
apple behind him. After a slight
pause enters Sarah Wright, leading Helen,

2091
03:03:33.079 --> 03:03:39.479
who comes timidly looking down. Sarah
urges her on to center. Helen,

2092
03:03:39.280 --> 03:03:45.079
she looks up at him, then
her glance again falls, and she turns

2093
03:03:45.159 --> 03:03:50.520
as if to go, but Sarah
holds her, pushing her gently towards Leonard.

2094
03:03:50.440 --> 03:03:58.319
Helen yields slowly. Leonard advances a
step, holds out the apple,

2095
03:03:58.680 --> 03:04:05.479
smiling with an adoring look at her
look from the old orchard, our Eden.

2096
03:04:05.399 --> 03:04:11.639
Will you share it with me?
She falters, looking down, then

2097
03:04:11.760 --> 03:04:18.639
up again, meeting his gaze with
a tender smile, yields. He takes

2098
03:04:18.680 --> 03:04:24.159
her in his arms, puts apple
to her lips, kisses it where her

2099
03:04:24.239 --> 03:04:31.680
lips were, then kisses her Sarah. Her face radiant has gone upright,

2100
03:04:31.280 --> 03:04:39.399
and exits quietly just as the curtain
falls. Curtain end of Act four.

2101
03:04:41.479 --> 03:04:45.000
End of Alias Miss Sherlock by Arthur
Lewis Tubbs