1 00:00:01,159 --> 00:00:20,039 Speaker 1: Now, mister in theater, come in. 2 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 2: Welcome. 3 00:00:23,559 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 3: I'm a G. Marshall. What is a life of adventure? 4 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,399 Speaker 4: Some people seem to be forever caught up in a 5 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:35,799 mailstream of events, while others go along doing hum drum tasks. 6 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,439 Of course, what one person calls exciting is to another 7 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:44,679 just an everyday occurrence, And some people seem content with 8 00:00:44,719 --> 00:00:48,079 what Thorough called lives of quiet desperation. 9 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 2: But there is a difference. 10 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 4: Certain individuals create. 11 00:00:53,359 --> 00:00:54,359 Speaker 2: Their own excitement. 12 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 4: Perhaps we never find adventure unless we go looking for it, 13 00:00:59,079 --> 00:01:01,960 but when we do find it, the results may be 14 00:01:02,039 --> 00:01:03,119 quite unexpected. 15 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:05,400 Speaker 5: Are you sure, miss that you want to get off 16 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:06,400 at Foothill Junction? 17 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,359 Speaker 6: Of course, are we almost there. 18 00:01:09,359 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 2: We'll be in about five minutes. 19 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,799 Speaker 5: But it beats me why anyone should want to get 20 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:14,959 off at the end of nowhere. 21 00:01:15,599 --> 00:01:17,359 Speaker 6: The train doesn't it doesn't. 22 00:01:17,359 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 3: He Well, sometimes when there's a reason. 23 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 6: You mean, it's not a regular stuff on this line, 24 00:01:22,239 --> 00:01:22,680 that's right. 25 00:01:23,239 --> 00:01:27,239 Speaker 5: It's not a town, you know, just a crossroad, no stories, 26 00:01:27,599 --> 00:01:32,239 no phostos, nothing but the station. Well, I may be 27 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,879 living there for quite a while, but nobody lives in 28 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:36,840 Foothill Junction. 29 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:43,079 Speaker 6: My uncle John, your uncle, Yes, uncle, Caleb the station match. 30 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 4: You you're staying with him, Well. 31 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:49,159 Speaker 2: That's it's hard to believe. 32 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 4: Our mystery drama stair Way to Oblivion was written especially 33 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,920 for the Mystery Theater by Elizabeth Pennell and stars Anne Shephard. 34 00:02:19,319 --> 00:02:22,000 It is true that Julia had spent most of her 35 00:02:22,039 --> 00:02:25,199 life in the city, and at age thirty five, she 36 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,599 gave every appearance of being a sophisticated woman, quite. 37 00:02:28,479 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 2: Able to take care of herself. 38 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,879 Speaker 4: Yet to an outsider, it might seem odd that she 39 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,280 was stepping off a train at what looked like an 40 00:02:36,319 --> 00:02:38,280 abandoned station, but. 41 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 2: Julia had her reasons. 42 00:02:40,319 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 4: For the past three years, she had cared for her 43 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,479 ailing father. Now he was dead, and before taking up 44 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,560 a new life, she wanted to satisfy a long time 45 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:54,800 curiosity to visit her one remaining relative and uncle she 46 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,080 has never met, but with whom she has corresponded. 47 00:02:58,319 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 6: I always wondered my father was reluctant to talk about 48 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,879 his older brother. He never wanted to listen when I 49 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,639 tried to read him Excerpts from Uncle Caleb's letters. The 50 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:13,159 past few weeks had been difficult, disposing of family possessions 51 00:03:13,199 --> 00:03:17,840 and selling a big house. I was tired. I needed arrested. 52 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,159 The idea of spending a queer time on a remote 53 00:03:22,199 --> 00:03:24,280 mountain top was very appealing. 54 00:03:24,599 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 3: There we're here, Missy. 55 00:03:26,159 --> 00:03:27,159 Speaker 2: I'll help you with your bag. 56 00:03:27,319 --> 00:03:27,639 Speaker 6: Thank you. 57 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,319 Speaker 5: I don't see Caleb must be inside the station house. 58 00:03:34,159 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 6: What does his na for? Dated too? 59 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,479 Speaker 5: Yeah, should be corn down. All we need here is 60 00:03:38,479 --> 00:03:41,000 the switchbox. You wait, I'll see if I. 61 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:41,919 Speaker 3: Can find the old man. 62 00:03:42,199 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 5: Tail up, tail up? 63 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 2: Hey, why's the train stuff in? You're two minutes late, Caleb. 64 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:54,199 Speaker 5: We have a very special passenger. That's that, a passenger asked. 65 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,879 Brady says, she's your niece, Julia, But not today, it's 66 00:03:58,919 --> 00:03:59,400 next week. 67 00:03:59,479 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 2: She's coming next week. 68 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 5: She's waiting for you right now here on the platform. 69 00:04:03,719 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 2: Dear me, Julia, Julia, my. 70 00:04:08,439 --> 00:04:11,719 Speaker 5: Dear forgive me, but I thought it was next week 71 00:04:11,759 --> 00:04:12,280 you were coming. 72 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 6: Hello, uncle Kenna. When you sit in your. 73 00:04:15,039 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 3: Letters, are you sure you'll be all right? 74 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:16,959 Speaker 5: Now? 75 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 2: Of course she's all right. 76 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 5: Give me those bags and get going way. Five minutes late. 77 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 6: Oh, uncle Kenneth, it's good to me, he would last. 78 00:04:28,079 --> 00:04:30,199 I'm sorry if there's a mistake about the date of 79 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:30,920 my arrival. 80 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:32,199 Speaker 2: It's told my fault. 81 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 5: Months and days have a way of all blending together 82 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:37,360 up where I live. 83 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,399 Speaker 6: Afraid I've brought quite a bit of luggage. My clothes 84 00:04:41,439 --> 00:04:43,519 and some books for you are in that big one. 85 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:44,959 Do we have far to go? 86 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:45,480 Speaker 5: Yeah? 87 00:04:45,759 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 2: Straight up those stairs. 88 00:04:49,519 --> 00:04:51,959 Speaker 6: That's stair. It looks as though it goes on forever. 89 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 2: Just about I told you I'd lived on top of 90 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:56,600 the world. 91 00:04:59,639 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 1: Is now you? 92 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 2: Yours is mighty heavy? 93 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 6: Perhaps if we carried it together. 94 00:05:05,319 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 5: Well, I'm afraid we can't manage everything at once. I'll 95 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:11,920 just locked the big bag up in the station house. 96 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 6: But uncle Kenibot, my clothes are in there. 97 00:05:14,439 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 2: Don't worry about that. We'll get them tomorrow. 98 00:05:17,759 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 4: Take the little bag and start up the sairs very slowly. 99 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:32,759 Speaker 2: I'll catch up with him and plenty more to go. 100 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:35,639 Speaker 6: You can't be stairs every day. 101 00:05:35,959 --> 00:05:36,959 Speaker 5: You get used to him. 102 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,879 Speaker 2: Here's the one resting pace. 103 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 6: Can I see your pass sitting house? There? 104 00:05:42,879 --> 00:05:47,199 Speaker 2: Who's that just off in the woods? Take a look 105 00:05:47,199 --> 00:05:47,720 at the views? 106 00:05:50,639 --> 00:05:53,319 Speaker 6: So maybe it's just the climb that's taking my breath away. 107 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be there in a moment. Now, just keep going. 108 00:05:57,600 --> 00:05:59,839 See that's my house. 109 00:06:00,519 --> 00:06:03,639 Speaker 4: It soda comes at you all of a sudden, A 110 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,240 careful I should have warned you about that stone. 111 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 6: It looks like a marker. 112 00:06:10,399 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 2: Yeah that it is. Read what it says? 113 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 6: Oh, the air a bleillion. 114 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the name of my hataway. Very appropriate, don't 115 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:24,360 you think. 116 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:34,439 Speaker 6: Oh, I guess. Oh, it's try to frighten me. Why 117 00:06:35,399 --> 00:06:37,040 uncle cokat. 118 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 2: Hearted like it. 119 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 6: It's a book and a laboratory too. What are you 120 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,279 doing with those those bottles and things? 121 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:49,879 Speaker 2: Oh? 122 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,319 Speaker 5: I like to butter with my pots and potions, bugs 123 00:06:54,319 --> 00:06:55,720 and toads and those jars. 124 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,519 Speaker 4: But dear me, I know you'd like to freshen up. 125 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:01,839 And I haven't even got the towels ready. 126 00:07:01,959 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 6: Don't you worry about anything, uncle Caleb. I'm pretty good 127 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,600 at foraging for myself. Whatever there is to do. Please 128 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:09,319 let me help you. 129 00:07:09,759 --> 00:07:14,399 Speaker 4: The bedrooms are down that way, and oh, excuse me, 130 00:07:14,439 --> 00:07:18,800 I and I just remembered and a poor Crapeanger shut 131 00:07:18,879 --> 00:07:19,639 up in the basement. 132 00:07:23,199 --> 00:07:26,279 Speaker 6: I knew about Crapeanger. I was eager to see the 133 00:07:26,279 --> 00:07:29,879 rest of the house. A long hallway opened off the 134 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:33,519 living room, with uneven floorboards and many doors, all of 135 00:07:33,519 --> 00:07:38,800 them closed. I moved cautiously, and then at the very 136 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,480 end of the hall, one door was ajar I went 137 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:47,680 in expecting the worst, But my sagging spirit's sword. It 138 00:07:47,879 --> 00:07:51,160 was a bright, cheerful room with a window. 139 00:07:50,759 --> 00:07:51,319 Speaker 1: And a view. 140 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 6: I knew it wasn't Uncle Caleb's bedroom, even though a 141 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,439 pair of well worn jeans hung over the back of 142 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,319 a chair. But my uncle was calling me, and I 143 00:08:00,399 --> 00:08:02,240 hurried to tell him I'd found my room. 144 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:08,079 Speaker 2: Well, here she is, great hanger, this is Julia. 145 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,759 Speaker 6: What a beautiful, beautiful chat you see. 146 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,839 Speaker 5: She knows you're a member of the family. And now, 147 00:08:16,879 --> 00:08:18,279 my dear, I'm gonna show you. 148 00:08:18,279 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 2: To your room. 149 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 6: Oh I've already found it. 150 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 2: You found Julia's room, the one at the very end. 151 00:08:24,319 --> 00:08:25,879 Speaker 6: The door was open and o Indians. 152 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 4: No, my dear, that uh, that room is not for you. 153 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,919 Speaker 6: Oh but it looks so comfortable and it has such 154 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:33,720 a nice view. 155 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 4: You haven't seen your aunt Julia's room. That's the only 156 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:38,799 place for the woman of the house. 157 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,559 Speaker 6: That Julia never lived in this house. 158 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,039 Speaker 4: No, my dear, your aunt Julia has been dead for 159 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:49,120 twenty years, but she would have liked her room, and 160 00:08:49,159 --> 00:08:49,639 so will you. 161 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 2: Through this door here, it looks like. 162 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 6: My grandmother's bedroom when I was a child. 163 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:02,919 Speaker 4: Some of the same furniture I've been saving it for you. 164 00:09:02,919 --> 00:09:05,879 Speaker 2: You wanted of you. I look out here. 165 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,519 Speaker 6: You never wrote me about your garden, and. 166 00:09:11,759 --> 00:09:16,679 Speaker 4: It's said it's best just before sundown. And now at last, 167 00:09:17,639 --> 00:09:21,919 I bid you truly welcome. As you can see you 168 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:23,080 have come home. 169 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 6: I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The dresser 170 00:09:28,879 --> 00:09:32,600 reminded me of my mother, and feeling like a child, 171 00:09:32,639 --> 00:09:35,440 I stealthily opened the top drawer. 172 00:09:35,399 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 2: And Uncle Julie, what's the matter, Julia, what is it? 173 00:09:40,519 --> 00:09:42,600 I opened this drawer. 174 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 6: There's a whole nest of baby mice. 175 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, of course, and we mustn't disturb them. 176 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 6: Disturb them. I don't like mice. 177 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 5: Now now, Julia, the mice are happy here. It's the 178 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:00,519 perfect place for a nest. Pray Paya can't. 179 00:10:00,279 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 2: Get them, and they'll never bother you. 180 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 4: It's always a great comfort to have living creatures in 181 00:10:06,279 --> 00:10:06,720 the house. 182 00:10:10,759 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 6: Uncle Caleb took me into the rear of the garden. 183 00:10:13,919 --> 00:10:17,440 Dark trees rose in the background, but there was a light, 184 00:10:17,639 --> 00:10:22,399 clear space laid out in plots and pathways, and there 185 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:24,639 was a marvelous shragrance in the air. 186 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,799 Speaker 4: And I hope you'll spend a great deal of time 187 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:28,240 out here. 188 00:10:28,879 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 6: It's an herb garden. Oh it's sorry. Let's see at times, 189 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:36,120 and this is see who. 190 00:10:35,879 --> 00:10:36,919 Speaker 2: I'm a classicist. 191 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 5: There's Rosemary and Rule, and this is Comfrey, very good 192 00:10:45,039 --> 00:10:46,879 for healing cuts and bruises. 193 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 6: What an ray. 194 00:10:48,919 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 2: And here's what I call my poison plot. 195 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 6: But it doesn't look very similar to Lily of the Valley, Larkspur, 196 00:10:57,759 --> 00:11:06,679 Jack and the pulprit iron and buttercups, deadly poisonous everyone, Uncle, 197 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:12,679 you're joking. I noticed these from the window, but I'm 198 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,840 released to see if they're not graystones, just natural outcroppings 199 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,600 of rock. Forgive me, But from a distance, there's something 200 00:11:19,639 --> 00:11:22,639 about the way your gardens laid out made it look 201 00:11:22,759 --> 00:11:23,600 like a cemetery. 202 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 2: Ooh, I've planted it that way. 203 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 6: Oh Uncle Kayley, you're a good. 204 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:29,919 Speaker 2: I don't laugh. 205 00:11:30,879 --> 00:11:34,159 Speaker 4: This is a proper graveyard, all right. And some days 206 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,759 my Julia and I will be laid to rest here 207 00:11:38,879 --> 00:11:39,840 side by side. 208 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 6: His words were strange, And after I went to bed, 209 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,440 I tossed and turned for hours, ridden with horrible nightmares. 210 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:58,600 I woke late, dressed and hit it down the hallway morning, 211 00:11:58,639 --> 00:12:03,399 crepe hanger, Where is my uncle? I went into the 212 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:08,320 surprisingly modern kitchen effiicient like a hospital, except that the 213 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:12,600 many shelves were filled with herbs and spices. The makings 214 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,399 for a substantial breakfast were on the table, and there 215 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,720 was a note from Uncle Caleb which said I'll be 216 00:12:17,799 --> 00:12:21,240 back at eleven thirty. You know your way to the garden, 217 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:26,200 but please do not, in big capital letters, open any 218 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:31,039 other doors. I'll explain later. Well, he needn't worry. I 219 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,679 was not about to pry, but I didn't want to 220 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:36,399 get outside, and my clothes seemed all wrong for country. 221 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,600 Where then I remember the jeans in the front room. 222 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:42,879 If that door was still open, I wouldn't be breaking 223 00:12:42,919 --> 00:12:47,039 any rules. It was just as it had been the 224 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,799 day before, and I snatched up the jeans from the 225 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:53,159 back of that chair, just my size. If I rolled 226 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,399 up the bottoms, I didn't stop to wonder who they 227 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:01,159 might belong to, for now they were mine. When Uncle 228 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:03,960 Caleb came back, I was happily kneeling in the garden 229 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:10,919 trying to identify the herb Cuiajuia, I'm out in the garden. 230 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 2: Well I'm d to see curia. 231 00:13:16,039 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 6: Yes, Uncle Caleb, where. 232 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 5: Did you get those those those flaw that disgraceful pair 233 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:25,120 of pants. 234 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,559 Speaker 6: I saw them yesterday in that back room there. 235 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 2: I'll take them off at once. 236 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,759 Speaker 6: Well, really, if you've brought my suitcase, I have a 237 00:13:34,759 --> 00:13:35,840 couple of pairs of slash. 238 00:13:35,919 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 5: Sorry, my dear, but I could not bring your suitcase. 239 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,080 Freight train left the box of provisions and I had 240 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:44,039 too much to carry. 241 00:13:44,399 --> 00:13:46,639 Speaker 6: But I have no other clothes to wear. 242 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 2: We'll take care of that. 243 00:13:49,440 --> 00:14:00,279 Speaker 5: Come with me to your room. Over there in the trunk, Julia. 244 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:06,799 Speaker 6: Open it, But these are Aunt Julia's clothes. I can't 245 00:14:06,799 --> 00:14:08,039 wear anything like this. 246 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 2: Look down further. You can find something, Oh. 247 00:14:15,159 --> 00:14:19,799 Speaker 6: What, an elegant Cashma sweater, and these spirits, just the 248 00:14:19,879 --> 00:14:26,720 kind they're wearing today. Yes, there were plenty of things 249 00:14:26,759 --> 00:14:30,679 in that trunk I could wear, even a denim wrap 250 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:31,639 around for gartening. 251 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:35,879 Speaker 2: Then at the very. 252 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 6: Bottom I came upon a long sequin evening gown and 253 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:45,440 pinned to it with a note which read, this is 254 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,000 the dress I want to be buried in. 255 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 4: What has our Julia gotten herself into? Even her clothes are. 256 00:14:57,559 --> 00:14:59,399 Speaker 2: No longer her own. 257 00:15:00,279 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 4: Around Caleb and his house grows ever more ominous, as 258 00:15:03,759 --> 00:15:19,360 you discover when I returned shortly with Act two. As 259 00:15:19,399 --> 00:15:23,919 the days slipped by oblivion cast a strange spell. 260 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:25,039 Speaker 2: Of lethargy over Julia. 261 00:15:25,879 --> 00:15:28,279 Speaker 4: For a time, she offered to help her uncle carry 262 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,480 her suitcase up the stairs, and then forgot all about it. 263 00:15:32,159 --> 00:15:35,679 She even lost all curiosity about what was behind those 264 00:15:35,759 --> 00:15:36,639 closed doors. 265 00:15:37,519 --> 00:15:39,759 Speaker 2: Caleb, too, seemed far more relaxed. 266 00:15:40,519 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 4: They spent many happy hours together in the garden, and 267 00:15:43,559 --> 00:15:46,960 Julia became engrossed in the study of herbs. She had 268 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,639 grown fond of her uncle Caleb, but this false sense 269 00:15:50,679 --> 00:15:54,840 of peace was abruptly shattered early one afternoon, when Julia 270 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:56,279 was alone in the garden. 271 00:15:58,919 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 2: Lawer there, John. Of course he's not here. 272 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 6: It's Wednesday. 273 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:04,519 Speaker 2: Oh that's right. 274 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 3: Let's go around back and. 275 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 5: See what the old buzz has been up to in 276 00:16:07,399 --> 00:16:07,879 his garden. 277 00:16:08,639 --> 00:16:10,799 Speaker 6: But you look, somebody's there. 278 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:12,279 Speaker 3: It's a woman. 279 00:16:12,679 --> 00:16:13,679 Speaker 6: I don't frighten her. 280 00:16:14,919 --> 00:16:18,159 Speaker 3: Excuse me, I'm sorry. We came by to say hello 281 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:18,600 to Caleb. 282 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,519 Speaker 6: People. We're people, But you're looking at us as though 283 00:16:23,519 --> 00:16:24,200 we were ghost. 284 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,639 Speaker 5: How well, we're just the sum of folks from down 285 00:16:28,679 --> 00:16:29,840 the hill. 286 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:35,559 Speaker 6: Uncle Caleb never mentioned he's your uncle. Wait, he never 287 00:16:35,639 --> 00:16:39,200 mentioned you. I'm here on a visit, but I so 288 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,320 this was the only house around for miles from n. 289 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 3: It is, except for our cabin. 290 00:16:45,039 --> 00:16:49,519 Speaker 6: I haven't seen any cambin halfway down the stairs, Oh yes, 291 00:16:49,679 --> 00:16:50,399 I saw a pound. 292 00:16:50,639 --> 00:16:52,679 Speaker 5: You follow that way into the woods, and there we 293 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,399 are for three months of the year. 294 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,679 Speaker 6: Only this year Caleb's in't for a surprise. We told 295 00:16:57,720 --> 00:16:58,639 him we weren't coming. 296 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,399 Speaker 5: I see Caleb has put you to work in what 297 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,279 Emily and I call his cemetery. 298 00:17:03,799 --> 00:17:06,640 Speaker 6: I thought that at first. I guess it's because of 299 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,279 those two rocks that look so much like tombstones. 300 00:17:09,799 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 3: I have an idea they are tombstones. 301 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,599 Speaker 6: Let's go in, said, I show him til uncle Caleb 302 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:21,079 comes home. I don't think we should be snooping around 303 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,519 this way now. Aren't you afraid to stay in this 304 00:17:23,759 --> 00:17:27,519 spooky house? That that's skeleton be enough to turn me off. 305 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,160 Don't tell me there's a skeleton in one of the closet. 306 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,359 Not in the closet. He rolls it around on a 307 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,119 cook rat kind of thing. It must be one of 308 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:40,039 the surprises behind this closed door. How do you know 309 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:41,240 so much about this house? 310 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 5: When we first came here, Caleb showed us all over 311 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:44,319 the place. 312 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 6: I think he was trying to frighten this but we 313 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:48,680 don't scare very easily. Oh. 314 00:17:48,759 --> 00:17:51,559 Speaker 5: Man never talks about himself, but he's a good. 315 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,559 Speaker 6: Neighbor, except when he has visitors. Then he doesn't want 316 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:59,799 anyone else around. Why I don't understand, Well. 317 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:00,640 Speaker 3: Neither do we. 318 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:03,759 Speaker 5: I've been meaning to ask Caleb if I could paint 319 00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:06,079 that marvelous view from his guest room. 320 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:07,599 Speaker 3: But because now you're staying there. 321 00:18:08,079 --> 00:18:10,160 Speaker 6: Oh, I'm not in that room. Oh where are you 322 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:13,039 staying up the hall on the other side, looking into 323 00:18:13,039 --> 00:18:13,480 the garden. 324 00:18:13,759 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 5: Oh well, then maybe Caleb will let me paint in 325 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:17,240 the guest room this year. 326 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 6: I'm sure he will, But you keep calling it the 327 00:18:21,039 --> 00:18:24,680 guest room. My uncle never wrote about any visitors. Were 328 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:25,119 they many? 329 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:29,039 Speaker 3: Since we've been coming up? There were just that older 330 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:30,440 man and the boy. 331 00:18:30,839 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 6: When was this? 332 00:18:32,039 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 5: Oh the man was here about four or five years ago, 333 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:35,279 isn't that. 334 00:18:35,319 --> 00:18:39,079 Speaker 6: Right, Emily m I'd say so, And then he was gone, 335 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,039 and we saw the boy two years ago. 336 00:18:42,279 --> 00:18:45,039 Speaker 3: Nobody here last summer wondered who they were. 337 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 6: I thought maybe the boy was your brother or nephew. 338 00:18:49,559 --> 00:18:53,720 He called him uncle Caleb too. That's very puzzling. 339 00:18:54,039 --> 00:18:54,279 Speaker 2: Hmm. 340 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:56,599 Speaker 5: See, I'd like to go down the hall and look 341 00:18:56,599 --> 00:18:57,359 at that view again. 342 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 2: The lights should be just right. 343 00:18:59,279 --> 00:19:02,599 Speaker 6: Oh, I don't want Uncle Caleb to come back and 344 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:03,240 think that weird. 345 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:05,519 Speaker 5: But he won't be back until after three o'clock. And 346 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,160 we can hear the train when it goes by. 347 00:19:07,839 --> 00:19:11,400 Speaker 6: This must be win. So you've forgotten what day is too, 348 00:19:11,599 --> 00:19:15,359 They just all blend together. Your uncle Caleb has a 349 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,400 beauty in time clock, even though he doesn't remember days. 350 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:21,279 He's down at that station every morning when the freight 351 00:19:21,319 --> 00:19:23,799 train comes through, and then one day a week he 352 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:25,119 waits for the passenger train. 353 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 3: Go on, man, let's take a look at that view. 354 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:35,960 Look at those peaks. I know just the purple I'm 355 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:36,559 going to use. 356 00:19:36,759 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 6: Yeah, i'd forgotten how great it is this room, a 357 00:19:41,279 --> 00:19:45,279 man and a boy. I found a pair of jeans 358 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:45,759 in here. 359 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 5: Well, now you may be forbidden to open closed doors, 360 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,799 but I'm the nosy type, can't resist closets. 361 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 3: Let's see what's in time. 362 00:19:55,640 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 6: Look, he's filled with clothes, men's works. It's and this old, 363 00:20:02,559 --> 00:20:07,559 old jacket. But it's not Uncle Caleb's sign. None but 364 00:20:07,599 --> 00:20:09,039 a teenager could wear these. 365 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:10,160 Speaker 3: I'll be damned. 366 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,559 Speaker 6: He goes the train. Uncle Caleb will be back soon. 367 00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 5: Well, it'll take him a while to climb the stairs. 368 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 3: How do you feel about opening dresser drawers? 369 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,880 Speaker 6: Oh no, no, I'm afraid to after what I found 370 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:26,279 in the drawer in my room. Okay, it's my turn. 371 00:20:26,599 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 2: Here goes. 372 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:33,279 Speaker 6: Men's work gloves, stocks, here's a jackknife. 373 00:20:33,279 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 5: Wait a minute, here's something interesting. The wallet that's empty 374 00:20:39,519 --> 00:20:41,759 except for this sort of ID card. 375 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,519 Speaker 3: You see, name James J. Flanders. 376 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 5: Her dress has been crossed out. Date of birth it's 377 00:20:50,319 --> 00:20:54,440 almost illegible. Looks like nineteen hundred. 378 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 6: Well that has to be old gym. And isn't that 379 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:58,440 what he said? 380 00:20:58,440 --> 00:20:59,079 Speaker 3: He's saying with mum. 381 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,440 Speaker 2: And if he were alive today his age. 382 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,599 Speaker 6: Would be makes you think he's dead? What? 383 00:21:03,839 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 3: Because this is his wallet and then there all his clothes. 384 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,799 Speaker 6: But the boy's clothes are there too, wohy didn't he 385 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:12,599 take them with him? Look, we have to get out 386 00:21:12,599 --> 00:21:14,319 of here. Your uncle will be coming home, and I'm 387 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,440 sure you'll be angry to find us talking to you. 388 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,119 We were in the living room and they were about 389 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:26,039 to leave. John had already opened the front door, and 390 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:26,680 then we. 391 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 2: Heard Julia Cuia. 392 00:21:30,319 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 6: We hurried to the top of the stairs to find 393 00:21:32,519 --> 00:21:35,400 uncle Caleb bubbled over I should face some struggling to breathe. 394 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 2: It's been a bad day, trouble on the track. 395 00:21:41,039 --> 00:21:43,319 Speaker 5: Say, look, it's John and Emily. What can we do? 396 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:47,319 Just help me into the house. I'll be all right 397 00:21:47,839 --> 00:21:49,279 in a minute. 398 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,279 Speaker 6: John and I supported my uncle, walking him slowly to 399 00:21:54,319 --> 00:21:57,440 the house. When I suggested going straight to his bedroom, 400 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,680 he protested so vehemently. We eased him into a chair 401 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:01,680 near the fireplace. 402 00:22:02,519 --> 00:22:05,799 Speaker 5: Well, young fella, what are you doing here? We're back 403 00:22:05,839 --> 00:22:09,039 at the cabin for the summer. Eh, it happened here 404 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:10,000 trip to Europe. 405 00:22:10,079 --> 00:22:11,039 Speaker 6: I had to give it up. 406 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,599 Speaker 2: But you didn't come in on the three o'clock. No, no, 407 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,559 we got here yesterday, and not on the freight train. 408 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:18,079 Speaker 1: You didn't. 409 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,079 Speaker 2: Oh, we're back backed from where left the car at Bearsville. 410 00:22:22,839 --> 00:22:23,839 I see. 411 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,839 Speaker 6: Uncle Caleb's head brooped forward and he was seized with 412 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:34,119 a violent coughing. I'd already loosened his collar, and now 413 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,920 I tried to rub his chest. Uncle Caleb, you must 414 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:40,640 have some pretty talents. 415 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:46,079 Speaker 5: Where is it fox club? In that jar on my 416 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:51,599 big table in the little valley. Put it in some water, 417 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,599 and John and Emily you can help me in my room. 418 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 6: I must lie down, I put water on the stove 419 00:23:02,799 --> 00:23:06,079 and found the bottle labeled Lily of the Valley root. 420 00:23:07,079 --> 00:23:10,119 With shaking hands, I measured a very small portion into 421 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,559 a cup of hot water and took it down the 422 00:23:12,599 --> 00:23:14,119 hall to my uncle's bedroom. 423 00:23:15,559 --> 00:23:16,839 Speaker 2: Oh it's all right. 424 00:23:19,079 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 5: I did a spare you for a little while. But 425 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,799 you'd see it sooner or later. 426 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 6: I couldn't believe I was seeing it. 427 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 5: Then. 428 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,519 Speaker 6: The walls and floor were black, and so was the 429 00:23:37,519 --> 00:23:41,400 big bed with a prow like a Viking ship. My 430 00:23:41,559 --> 00:23:44,960 uncle looked like a ghost propped up against those white pillows. 431 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:50,160 And thank heaven John had warned me because there on 432 00:23:50,279 --> 00:23:52,559 one side of the bed was that coke wrack thing, 433 00:23:53,079 --> 00:23:55,799 from which dangled a full size skeleton. 434 00:23:56,759 --> 00:24:01,279 Speaker 5: Don't be frightened, my dear, you would soon get used 435 00:24:01,279 --> 00:24:03,880 to everything around here. 436 00:24:09,279 --> 00:24:11,559 Speaker 6: Uncle Caleb needs the doctor. How do I get one? 437 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 3: No way, not up here. 438 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 6: There's a telephone down at the station, yes, but no 439 00:24:15,519 --> 00:24:18,480 passenger train until next week. You have to tell the 440 00:24:18,519 --> 00:24:20,519 train company that Uncle Caleb won't be able. 441 00:24:20,599 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 2: Oh, you'd be surprised. 442 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,640 Speaker 5: He's a sturdy old man and he's had these attacks before. 443 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,039 I'll flag down the freight train tomorrow. 444 00:24:27,079 --> 00:24:30,400 Speaker 6: But Julia shouldn't be left alone with him. I think 445 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:31,160 we should stay here. 446 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 3: You're done right, We're going to stay well. 447 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,759 Speaker 6: I'm not helpless, really, I'm not. I've taken care of 448 00:24:35,759 --> 00:24:39,240 my father for the last three years. Frankly, I'm worried, Julia. Now, 449 00:24:39,319 --> 00:24:42,640 what if your uncle is he is only pretending to 450 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:47,160 be sick. How can you say that? You so for yourself. 451 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:52,720 I've seen other things too, like what's down in the basement. Look, 452 00:24:52,759 --> 00:24:56,160 you've both said that what is down in the basement? 453 00:24:57,279 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 5: There are two carved gravestones. 454 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:01,799 Speaker 6: That doesn't surprise me. 455 00:25:02,599 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 5: But one has the name Caleb, and the other name 456 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:07,599 is Julia. 457 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 6: Doesn't that tell you something? Yes, Uncle Caleb told me 458 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,720 that one day he would rest peacefully in the garden 459 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:24,039 behind this house, next to his junior. But but that's you. Oh, now, 460 00:25:24,079 --> 00:25:28,279 I see what's troubling you. He meet his wife, my 461 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:32,559 aunt Julia. I'm beginning to think her remains may already 462 00:25:32,559 --> 00:25:33,319 be in the garden. 463 00:25:34,599 --> 00:25:38,039 Speaker 3: I wonder, Julia, where's my Julia? 464 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:45,400 Speaker 6: I hurried to Uncle Caleb's room, feeling better. 465 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:51,839 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, my dear, Yes, do you remember that time 466 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,519 when you were feeling so very ill? And I asked 467 00:25:57,279 --> 00:25:58,680 what you'd like for supper. 468 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,880 Speaker 6: Oh, that must have been aunt, Julia. 469 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 5: Then you looked at me so sweetly. That's the way 470 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:07,880 you're looking now. 471 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 4: And I said, I'll do anything in the world for you, Julia, 472 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:15,000 anything to help you. 473 00:26:15,319 --> 00:26:16,599 Speaker 6: And I'm sure you did. 474 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:26,759 Speaker 4: Always tried to tried to help people like Jamie and Robin. 475 00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 6: Oh, John, let's go back in the house. 476 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,279 Speaker 2: All right, I'll leave the shovel here. 477 00:26:39,839 --> 00:26:41,920 Speaker 3: But that's all the proof I need. 478 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 6: It's horrible. But what are we going to tell Julia. 479 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 5: John all that third over here said the sit down, Julia, 480 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,799 there's a there's something we've got to talk about. 481 00:26:55,799 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 6: No, don't tell her. John, Annie, you have to get 482 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,759 away from this people placed. Oh stop it, both of you. 483 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,680 My uncle may be eccentric, but he's a kind, gentle 484 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:07,119 old man. 485 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,640 Speaker 2: I used to believe that, but no more. 486 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,039 Speaker 6: We're atting our imaginations run away with it. 487 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 2: But Julia, I have the proof. 488 00:27:14,599 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 6: Proof Ava. 489 00:27:15,559 --> 00:27:18,759 Speaker 5: I remembered that four years ago there was only one 490 00:27:18,799 --> 00:27:22,000 stone in the backyard. Then last year the smaller one 491 00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:26,119 had been added. So I took a shovel and went out. 492 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 6: Just now, you have no heart. 493 00:27:27,839 --> 00:27:31,680 Speaker 5: I didn't dig down very far, just far enough to 494 00:27:31,839 --> 00:27:34,039 establish that two wooden. 495 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,079 Speaker 3: Coffins are buried out there. 496 00:27:35,839 --> 00:27:38,279 Speaker 5: One of them is about six feet long, big enough 497 00:27:38,279 --> 00:27:42,480 for a man, and the other a smaller, just about 498 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:48,559 the right size to hold a boy. 499 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,799 Speaker 4: Now, what do you think of the kindly uncle, Caleb. 500 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,319 It's true that Julia was ready for adventure, but she 501 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:02,039 has no intention of taking her dead aunt's place. Eccentricity 502 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,039 is one thing, but the way things are shaping up, 503 00:28:05,319 --> 00:28:09,960 Caleb could be a scheming old man, or else something 504 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,839 has snapped in his brain and he has lost all 505 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:17,000 sense of reality. In either case, Julia appears to be 506 00:28:17,039 --> 00:28:18,640 in a dangerous predicament. 507 00:28:19,519 --> 00:28:20,519 Speaker 2: I'll be back shortly. 508 00:28:20,559 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 4: With Act three, Julia has been confronted with some highly 509 00:28:36,319 --> 00:28:41,000 incriminating evidence against her uncle. If there really are two 510 00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:45,599 bodies buried in his garden, shouldn't the police be summoned. John, 511 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,720 who made the discovery, is all for placing a telephone 512 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,119 call at the railroad station to give a report on 513 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,680 what he has found, but Julia is surprised at her 514 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:59,319 own reaction. She feels protective toward her uncle, and although 515 00:28:59,319 --> 00:29:02,240 one might think she'd be grateful to have friendly neighbors, 516 00:29:02,559 --> 00:29:05,079 she finds herself resenting their interference. 517 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 6: Don't you see, Julia, it's our duty to turn your 518 00:29:08,759 --> 00:29:11,240 uncle in here. Know what you're talking about. After what 519 00:29:11,279 --> 00:29:13,680 I've uncovered, you have found nothing. 520 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 3: You call two coffins nothing. 521 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 6: None of us knows what's in those coffins. 522 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 3: Well, I can certainly find out in a hurry. 523 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,599 Speaker 6: I forbid you to destroy my uncle Caleb's gardens. Julia, 524 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,440 you're beginning to sound as bad as Oh. I'm sorry. 525 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,880 I realize you've been through a lot and you're not 526 00:29:31,079 --> 00:29:33,799 thinking straight. I know my uncle better than you do. 527 00:29:35,319 --> 00:29:38,319 I'm thinking that the smaller coffin may contain the remains 528 00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:42,799 of my aunt Julia, and the other one, well, it's 529 00:29:43,039 --> 00:29:45,960 just like Uncle Caleb to be saving that one for himself. 530 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:47,839 Speaker 3: Well, there's another way to find out. 531 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,119 Speaker 6: You're right. Let's just ask Uncle Caleb. But if he's 532 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,839 really sick, I mean, when he gets stronger. In the meantime, 533 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,440 I suggest we have some supper and then you can 534 00:30:00,519 --> 00:30:03,720 go home. There's really no reason for you to spend 535 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,920 the night we're staying. 536 00:30:12,119 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 2: John. I want to thank you and Emily for what 537 00:30:15,519 --> 00:30:16,519 you've done to help me. 538 00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 3: And Julia, and now as lucky we were here. 539 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 5: Very lucky because I have another favorite ask my niece 540 00:30:24,039 --> 00:30:27,839 won't let me out of bed. The eleven o'clock freight 541 00:30:28,119 --> 00:30:31,599 will be going straight through. But if they should slow down, 542 00:30:32,079 --> 00:30:34,920 and I don't want them to think no one's minding 543 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:35,359 the stower. 544 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,359 Speaker 3: Oh, I plan to be there when the train comes through. 545 00:30:37,759 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 2: But they won't be stopping today. 546 00:30:39,759 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 5: I'm going to flag them down. You need to do that, Emily. 547 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,720 And I need groceries. I want to place an order. 548 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 4: Freight company won't like it. Plenty of groceries here. I'll 549 00:30:50,279 --> 00:30:51,720 place a big order later on. 550 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 3: I'd rather do it myself the way I. 551 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:54,039 Speaker 2: Used to do. 552 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:59,319 Speaker 4: Times have changed. But if the train does stop, tell 553 00:30:59,319 --> 00:31:01,079 them i'll be back on the job tomorrow. 554 00:31:01,119 --> 00:31:01,559 Speaker 1: I'll be off. 555 00:31:01,799 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 5: Oh. 556 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,359 Speaker 6: I'll go half way down the stairs with you. I 557 00:31:04,359 --> 00:31:05,559 want to check up on the cabin. 558 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,599 Speaker 2: It's good to have you here to look after Riscal. 559 00:31:20,039 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 6: I like being called that Uncle Caleb. 560 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 2: I uh, what did I call you? 561 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 6: A girl? 562 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 4: Of course, and that's what you'll always be. It's why 563 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,960 I don't like to burden you with my problems. 564 00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:37,119 Speaker 6: There's anything you want to tell me, Uncle Caleb, you 565 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,359 know I'll always listen. 566 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 4: It's just that, if anything should happen to me, I 567 00:31:45,319 --> 00:31:48,440 want you to make certain that my Julia and I 568 00:31:48,599 --> 00:31:52,319 lie side by side just as we always. 569 00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:54,599 Speaker 6: Do you mean in the garden. 570 00:31:54,799 --> 00:32:01,079 Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I've left instructions in my will, but I'll 571 00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:04,079 feel so much better know one a member of the 572 00:32:04,119 --> 00:32:06,839 family will take care of things personally. 573 00:32:07,319 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 6: Well, of course, Uncle Caleb, you can count on me. 574 00:32:12,039 --> 00:32:14,720 But you know you hadn't told me that Aunt Julia 575 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,359 is already buried in the garden. 576 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:22,279 Speaker 5: Oh she isn't, Julia, not by herself. We'll go together, 577 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:30,319 But where is she? She's there that handsome iron on 578 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:31,640 my bedside table. 579 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,599 Speaker 6: Mercifully, it was several hours before John and Emily returned. 580 00:32:41,599 --> 00:32:45,000 I'd calmed down and decided it was not your time 581 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,799 to give them this latest bit of information. John would 582 00:32:48,839 --> 00:32:51,960 be all too eager to rip the covers off of coffins, 583 00:32:52,519 --> 00:32:57,200 and there was no need to hurry. The bed could wait. Hi, Julia, 584 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:02,279 how's your uncle? First and comfortable? Thank you for Where 585 00:33:02,319 --> 00:33:05,079 do you get that cordy thing down at the cabin. 586 00:33:05,599 --> 00:33:08,480 It's an extra calendar. I thought you'd better start keeping 587 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,799 track of the days. I've circled today's date. Well, thanks 588 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:13,319 very much. 589 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 3: And here's a bag of oranges. The brakemen threw them. 590 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:16,279 Speaker 2: Off to me. 591 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 6: Then you did stop the trees, you. 592 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 3: Bet I did. Had to talk with the engineer. 593 00:33:20,839 --> 00:33:22,799 Speaker 5: He says, there's no reason to have a station at 594 00:33:22,799 --> 00:33:26,720 Foothill Junction, and before long any switching will be done 595 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:27,279 by automation. 596 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 6: That means Uncle Caleb will be out of a job. 597 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,319 Speaker 5: Oh okay, Julia, I didn't make any telephone calls. 598 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 3: Kept my part of the bargain. What about yours? 599 00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 6: Please give me just a few days more along with 600 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:48,880 my uncle. I'm sure there's an explanation. I put off 601 00:33:49,039 --> 00:33:53,680 asking Uncle Caleb any questions until one morning I found 602 00:33:53,759 --> 00:33:56,920 him in the guest room admiring for you, he said 603 00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,920 in a rocker stroking cliphanger, curled up in his lap, 604 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:05,759 Uncle Caleb, MM, who were a man named Flanders? 605 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:12,119 Speaker 2: Flandull? No, I can't say I know anyone by that name. 606 00:34:12,559 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 6: Try to remember James J. Flanders. 607 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,760 Speaker 2: Why you don't mean Jamie, do you? 608 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,599 Speaker 6: I don't know who's Jamie? 609 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 2: Poor Jamie. He's dead and very nice man. 610 00:34:27,599 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 6: He stayed in this room, didn't he. 611 00:34:29,519 --> 00:34:33,679 Speaker 2: H Jamie loved this room. But how did you know? 612 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:34,280 He was here. 613 00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:39,519 Speaker 6: We found a wallet in that dresser with his name 614 00:34:39,559 --> 00:34:39,920 on it. 615 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:42,519 Speaker 2: We Now, who do you mean by we? 616 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,199 Speaker 6: Well, I should say John found the wallet. But they 617 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:47,679 knew about mister Flanders. 618 00:34:48,159 --> 00:34:52,159 Speaker 4: I didn't just what did they know about him? 619 00:34:52,599 --> 00:34:56,599 Speaker 6: Only that he was staying with you one summer. How 620 00:34:56,639 --> 00:34:57,440 did you meet him? 621 00:34:58,119 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 2: Meet Jamie? 622 00:35:00,039 --> 00:35:04,119 Speaker 4: They rolled him off for freight one winter morning, about. 623 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:09,079 Speaker 2: Five years ago. Poor derelict man. Then is one of 624 00:35:09,079 --> 00:35:11,760 the rails he was riding and you brought him home. 625 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 4: Two gentlemen, if there ever was one. But the sickness 626 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:20,920 had gone too far. Jamie didn't have long to live. 627 00:35:21,599 --> 00:35:22,800 Speaker 6: You took care of him. 628 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,639 Speaker 4: Oh why, I gave him food and clothes. 629 00:35:26,519 --> 00:35:29,320 Speaker 2: His strength came back, and we thought he was going 630 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,280 to be well, but it came too late. 631 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,159 Speaker 4: He loved it him and he wanted to stay. 632 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:41,960 Speaker 6: I see. So you buried him in the garden. 633 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:44,159 Speaker 2: Well, it's where he wanted to. 634 00:35:44,119 --> 00:35:50,760 Speaker 6: Be, Uncle Caleb. There are two unmarked gray stones in 635 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:51,360 your garden. 636 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,320 Speaker 4: Oh so you know about Robin too. 637 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,519 Speaker 6: I know nothing about Robin. 638 00:35:57,639 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 2: Robin. 639 00:35:59,039 --> 00:36:01,400 Speaker 5: I found him in the wood, was nearly starved to death, 640 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,119 and it was October. 641 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 6: A boy way up here. Where did he come from 642 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:15,360 from Bearsville. No, you don't mean he escaped from that 643 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:16,280 middle institution. 644 00:36:16,599 --> 00:36:19,079 Speaker 2: That was no place for a bright boy like Robin. 645 00:36:19,159 --> 00:36:23,280 Speaker 6: Oh, Uncle Kalb, you can't just take him. A boy 646 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,119 who was a runaway, and why not? 647 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:26,880 Speaker 2: He needed a home? 648 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,239 Speaker 6: But didn't they look for you? 649 00:36:28,639 --> 00:36:31,239 Speaker 2: Oh? Worse, but I hit him in the basement. 650 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,199 Speaker 6: I don't know what to say. How long did this 651 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:36,000 boy live with you? 652 00:36:37,199 --> 00:36:38,000 Speaker 3: Nearly a year? 653 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:44,039 Speaker 4: I had tried so hard to help him, but it 654 00:36:44,159 --> 00:36:46,480 must have been sickly from the time he was born. 655 00:36:46,559 --> 00:36:50,119 It was too late to save a small soul who 656 00:36:50,159 --> 00:36:52,360 had been abandoned when he was a baby. 657 00:36:52,519 --> 00:36:56,320 Speaker 6: Uncle Caleb, When you say you helped him, do you 658 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:57,360 mean I mean? 659 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,480 Speaker 2: I gave him love and they only home he never know. 660 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:08,719 Speaker 4: That's why Robin must never be taken away. 661 00:37:12,079 --> 00:37:14,760 Speaker 6: I realized, if it were not for John and Emily, 662 00:37:15,599 --> 00:37:18,440 I too might think completely under the spell of this 663 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:24,400 place called oblivion. Reluctantly, I went halfway down the stairs 664 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,559 for the first time since I had climbed to the top, 665 00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:31,360 and followed the pathway to the artist's cabin. 666 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,079 Speaker 3: You believe everything he told you, don't you? 667 00:37:36,199 --> 00:37:38,480 Speaker 6: Julia had no reason to doubt anything, he said. 668 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,920 Speaker 3: I think it's the perversion of a demented mind. 669 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,400 Speaker 6: John, don't say that. There's no harm in trying to 670 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,239 help people. My uncle did nothing wrong. 671 00:37:48,119 --> 00:37:52,199 Speaker 5: Nothing wrong. He may have murdered two people, possibly more. 672 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,440 Speaker 6: My uncle could never commit a crime. 673 00:37:54,519 --> 00:37:58,199 Speaker 5: It's a criminal offense to harbor fugitives, and no same 674 00:37:58,360 --> 00:37:59,960 person buries bodies in the back. 675 00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:00,320 Speaker 2: Y'all. 676 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,679 Speaker 6: Now, what are we going to do. You're not going 677 00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:07,119 to do anything. I'm taking a trip to Bearsville. You 678 00:38:07,159 --> 00:38:08,480 mean you're. 679 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:09,199 Speaker 3: Turning your uncle e. 680 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,320 Speaker 6: No, I'm going to tell them about that poor boy, 681 00:38:14,199 --> 00:38:15,760 and if you had no family, I'm. 682 00:38:15,599 --> 00:38:17,960 Speaker 5: Sure they were about the man named Flanders. 683 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:22,639 Speaker 6: Well, I'll get legal advice. Take it easy, John, This 684 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,440 is Julia's problem, all. 685 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,000 Speaker 5: Right, all right, But if she doesn't come back with 686 00:38:27,119 --> 00:38:30,360 some straight answers, I'm going to the authorities and tell 687 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:31,960 them exactly what I think. 688 00:38:36,639 --> 00:38:39,679 Speaker 6: It was a week to the day since Uncle Caleb's 689 00:38:39,679 --> 00:38:42,320 heart attack. He had been doing a little work in 690 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:47,119 the garden and showing signs of restlessness. Emily had come over, 691 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,239 I suspect just to check up on us. It was 692 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:51,880 nearly eleven o'clock in the morning. 693 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,119 Speaker 2: Julia, what day is today. 694 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,800 Speaker 6: Well, let's see, where's the calendar I've brought you, Harry. 695 00:38:58,880 --> 00:38:59,920 Speaker 2: I have to know the. 696 00:39:00,119 --> 00:39:05,599 Speaker 6: Day you circled Emily with Saturday. So it's Monday, Tuesday. 697 00:39:06,159 --> 00:39:07,239 Today is Wednesday. 698 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:08,360 Speaker 2: I should have known. 699 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,360 Speaker 6: I have to get down to the Don't worry, Caleb, 700 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:12,119 John's there. 701 00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:13,639 Speaker 2: You don't understand. 702 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:14,440 Speaker 5: I have to go. 703 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:15,880 Speaker 2: I have to do it. 704 00:39:16,039 --> 00:39:19,679 Speaker 5: Do what the switch, have to throw the switch before 705 00:39:19,679 --> 00:39:21,000 the train passes the station. 706 00:39:22,039 --> 00:39:24,039 Speaker 2: My jacket? Where's my jacket? 707 00:39:24,079 --> 00:39:26,280 Speaker 6: After a minute, Uncle Caleb, you're not going anywhere. 708 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,840 Speaker 5: It should have been fixed long ago. I told them 709 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:29,519 the last time. 710 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,400 Speaker 6: I'll go down the stairs with a message. 711 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,039 Speaker 2: No one else knows what's wrong. I'm the only one. 712 00:39:34,199 --> 00:39:37,760 Speaker 6: You're not will enough, not down that long flight upstairs. 713 00:39:37,679 --> 00:39:39,519 Speaker 2: Last week, trouble with the switch. 714 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,199 Speaker 5: It cammed and I threw the emergency for the passenger track. 715 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,039 Speaker 6: The passenger train doesn't get here till three. That should 716 00:39:46,039 --> 00:39:46,800 be plenty here too. 717 00:39:47,639 --> 00:39:50,159 Speaker 5: No, the way it's said now that the freight will 718 00:39:50,199 --> 00:39:53,119 go through on the passenger tracks, and then about twenty 719 00:39:53,159 --> 00:39:55,639 miles from here there'll be a hit on collision. 720 00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,079 Speaker 6: There must be some way that you can fight. 721 00:39:58,199 --> 00:40:01,719 Speaker 5: Doesn't throw down on Wednesdays, and the only one knows 722 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:02,639 about that switch. 723 00:40:03,639 --> 00:40:04,320 Speaker 2: I must hurry. 724 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,639 Speaker 6: We'll write with you, call me. 725 00:40:06,679 --> 00:40:10,480 Speaker 2: I can't be late. Broken switch, my hand I missed 726 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,800 the last time. No one must be hurt. When I 727 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,039 see what I have to do. 728 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:29,079 Speaker 6: He mean, calm stop the train. I know he said 729 00:40:29,119 --> 00:40:33,000 he had to do it. John, John, Everything's all right now, 730 00:40:33,119 --> 00:40:33,559 isn't it? 731 00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,199 Speaker 3: Going back up the hill, both of you. There's nothing 732 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:36,840 you can do. 733 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,519 Speaker 6: So then we don't need to give you the message. 734 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,679 What message about the switch? The broken switch? 735 00:40:42,159 --> 00:40:45,320 Speaker 2: Switch? So that's why he did it. 736 00:40:45,559 --> 00:40:47,360 Speaker 6: That's exactly why. 737 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,000 Speaker 2: He should have told me last week. 738 00:40:49,159 --> 00:40:50,039 Speaker 6: Where is Caleb? 739 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,440 Speaker 5: I suppose there was no other way, no other way 740 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:58,559 to stop that freight train. Caleb threw himself across the track. 741 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:14,159 Speaker 4: Uncle Caleb's death, like his wife's, was dedicated. 742 00:41:13,599 --> 00:41:14,599 Speaker 2: To helping people. 743 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,199 Speaker 4: Perhaps on the evidence you believe that, or if you 744 00:41:19,199 --> 00:41:22,280 have a different kind of imagination, you may believe there 745 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,880 was a darker side to his nature. That's up to you. 746 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:30,159 As for Julia, I'll tell you about her. In just 747 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:47,719 a moment, Caleb left everything he possessed to Julia, and 748 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,599 she too, had fallen in love with that mountain top 749 00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:51,679 oh was. 750 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,599 Speaker 3: She reported the deaths of Jamie and Robin, but. 751 00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,079 Speaker 4: Since no one claimed them, they rested in peace beside 752 00:41:58,159 --> 00:41:59,800 Caleb and Aunt. 753 00:41:59,679 --> 00:42:02,559 Speaker 3: Julia in the garden where they all. 754 00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:08,079 Speaker 4: Wanted to be in oblivion. Our cast included Anne Shepherd, 755 00:42:08,199 --> 00:42:12,000 Guy Sorell, Mary Jane Higbee and Nat Poland. The entire 756 00:42:12,079 --> 00:42:14,360 production was under the direction of Hymon Brown. 757 00:42:16,119 --> 00:42:16,760 Speaker 3: This is E. G. 758 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,320 Speaker 4: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for 759 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:35,679 another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.