WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:05.960 Suspense, which is usually heard at this hour on Thursday Nights, 2 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:10.240 is taking its customary summer holiday. Suspense returns to the 3 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:12.880 air next week on Thursday September. 4 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:26.960 First, you are groping through the midnight darkness of a 5 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:30.879 gigantic department store. One hundred eyes are staring at you, 6 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:34.600 one hundred hands are reaching for you, and your most 7 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:46.960 urgent desire is to escape. 8 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:51.079 We offer you Escape, designed to free you from the 9 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:59.560 four walls of today, for a half hour of high adventure. Tonight, 10 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:02.759 we escape to a fantastic world of night dwellers, as 11 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:07.920 John Collier imagines it in his Eerie story Evening, Primrose. 12 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:40.799 M Sadie Saidie, what's the matter? 13 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:41.239 It's me. 14 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:43.319 You nearly scared me to death. 15 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:45.239 What do you mean coming in so quiet? 16 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:47.719 I don't mean a sca. I thought you'd be asleep. 17 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:48.799 I didn't want to wake you. 18 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:50.760 Sam. I'm glad you're home. 19 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:52.040 What's the matter. 20 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:53.519 Oh, it's terrible. 21 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:56.480 You gotta do something, Sam, what's terrible? 22 00:01:56.879 --> 00:01:58.359 It's this? Just look at this. 23 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.239 It's terrible about that looks like an ordinary pair of 24 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:02.760 paper to me. 25 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:05.760 That's just it. That's what I thought too. But it's 26 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:07.439 got writing in it. It's awful. 27 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:09.800 Now wait a minute, maybe you better tell me what 28 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:10.800 this is all about. 29 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:14.680 Well, today I went shopping at Bracey's department story. I 30 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:16.680 needed some writing paper, so I picked this up. It 31 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:18.479 was on top of the pile and I bought it 32 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:20.680 and I brought it home so but tonight when I 33 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:22.919 opened it, I found it's got writing in it. 34 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:25.960 What's nothing so terrible? Just take it back tomorrow and 35 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:27.199 make them give you a no one. 36 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:30.159 No, you don't understand. It's what's written in it that's 37 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:30.879 so terrible. 38 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:32.520 What do you mean what's written in it? 39 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:35.639 Here? You gotta read it, sa, No, right now? No, 40 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:36.240 read it? 41 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:39.319 Look sadie. I'm tired. I've been bowling all evening. 42 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:43.000 Please Sam, please just read it all right? 43 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:45.039 Half a Pete's sake. 44 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:49.319 Dam October nineteenth. 45 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:51.919 Today I made my decision. 46 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:57.680 I decided to say goodbye to the world, to get out, leave, 47 00:02:57.960 --> 00:02:59.520 break away, and. 48 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:01.360 I have I say this. 49 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:07.280 I am and now I am free, really free, Yes, 50 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:08.919 I am free at last. 51 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:12.840 The world is an intolerable place for a poet. I 52 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:16.280 was broke, starving at my wits end, and then I 53 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:19.879 had the brilliant idea I'd escaped to a place where 54 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:22.240 I had no need to earn a living, where I 55 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:25.039 could write to my heart's content in peace and security, 56 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:30.159 and where everything was free. And where is this place 57 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:34.479 right under your nose, so close you never think of it. 58 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:44.080 I am now living in Brace's department store. I arrived 59 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:47.639 this afternoon. I had spent three days looking over all 60 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:51.199 of the department stores in town. I decided on Brace's 61 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:55.400 because of the completeness of their food department. Therefore, this 62 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:58.439 afternoon I entered the store and went immediately to the 63 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:01.759 fourth floor to the rugged department, and hid myself in 64 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.400 this dusty out of the way corner behind a pile 65 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:08.360 of carpets. After the store closed, I took toad as 66 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.680 far as the station recounter and got this paper, the 67 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:18.160 writer's primary need. Now, after making my first entry, I'll 68 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:22.600 stroll around the store and get food, wine, the pillows 69 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:27.839 for my bed, perhaps a fancy dressing guy. Oh this 70 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:41.360 is perfect. Here I'll be able to write Dawn, October fourteen. 71 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:45.920 I am almost too unnerved to write this. The whole 72 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:51.279 thing is unbelievable. After the store was dark and completely quiet, 73 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:55.639 I crept hard and started for the food department. One 74 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:58.879 steps echo hollowly in an empty department store at night, 75 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:03.000 and I found myself gliding along the floor on tiptoe, 76 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:08.600 moving as silently as possible. But the sound of footsteps persisted, 77 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:12.399 and suddenly I realized they were not my own, the 78 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:15.800 night watchman. I was in the salon my day, and 79 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:18.800 quickly I seized a make coat from my hangar, raped 80 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:27.959 it about my shoulders, and stood stock still. I could 81 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.279 have reached out and touched him, but he passed without 82 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:33.759 so much as a glance. I started the smile, but 83 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:44.959 the smile frozen lips. I was looking straight into a 84 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:50.600 pair of eyes, large, flat, luminous in human. 85 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.800 Eyes a dozen feet away. 86 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:56.959 They belonged to a creature dressed as a man, but 87 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:00.399 he was as pale as something found underneath the stone. 88 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:04.480 His hands, hanging motionless at his sides, looked more likely 89 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:07.879 fins on a fish than human hands. 90 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:10.319 Not bad, huh for a beginner. 91 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:15.000 Oh I am, I'm sorry. I didn't know anybody else there. 92 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:16.519 I lived here. 93 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:25.120 Oh, yes, we live here. It's still life, we yes, 94 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:29.160 all of us, don't you see? Look around you? 95 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:38.399 I looked around and saw on nothing. I looked again 96 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:42.160 and saw an old one come clambering out from behind 97 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:47.800 a clock. There were three elderly angelos, incredibly emaciated, pale 98 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:52.360 is lace, almost transparent, simpering before a perfume cornor hey 99 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:55.040 chintzy ladies swam out from the curtains and drapes. And 100 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:59.600 they they came, swarming thick around me, pale, thin, wispy, moving, 101 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:03.519 silent and fluttering like gauze in the wind, whispering. 102 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:06.120 A detective sin for the dark man. 103 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:08.720 They were pressing around me, clawing and holding me, their 104 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:13.120 pale faces contorted with venomous in human hatred eye. I 105 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:16.319 was paralyzed. All I could do was repeat over and 106 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:22.319 over again. I'm not a detective. I'm not I'm not 107 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:25.759 a detective or a burglar. I'm a poet. 108 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:27.959 Then what are you doing here? 109 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:32.720 I've pronounced the world. I came here to live where 110 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:36.439 I could be a helone away from the world. 111 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:38.120 Why then he's come over to us. 112 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:42.519 He's just like us. He must meet missus. 113 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:50.560 Dunder miss I followed their eyes toward the balcony, and 114 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:53.879 the hair on my neck rose again. There, coming down 115 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:57.160 the wall like an ancient spider, clambered an old lady 116 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:00.800 wrinkled and cracked and emaciated. She must have been at 117 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:06.480 least eighty shadowy matriarch, and the things around me bowed 118 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:09.519 and scraped as she reached the floor and floated towards us. 119 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:14.120 That's going on here? Where is that stupid girl? 120 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:15.560 What's keeping her? 121 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:16.240 Oh? 122 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:18.319 Missus vander Well, what is it? 123 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:19.920 Who's this? 124 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:26.000 Mister Rosco, Missus vander Pant, May I present mister ah Snell. 125 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:27.639 H Charles Snell. 126 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.959 Yes, Missus Snell is a poet. He has come here 127 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:31.399 to live. 128 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.039 Oh he has health. 129 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:37.120 He that's what he says, and I believe him. Well 130 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:41.639 he avoided the night watchman quite neatly for a beginning. 131 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:42.879 Thank you. 132 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:45.200 Very well. 133 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:46.159 We shall see. 134 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:50.600 A poet should find inspiration. 135 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:56.240 Here, mister Snell. Missus vander Pant is our grand old lady. 136 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:01.639 I am quite the oldest in Heppy didn't here, mister Snell. 137 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:07.799 Three mergers and a complete rebuilding, but they didn't get 138 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:08.519 rid of me. 139 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:12.320 Where is Ella? Where is my broth? 140 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:14.039 She is bringing it, Missus Vanderpant. 141 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:16.480 It will come, terrible little creature. 142 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:22.320 She's our foundling, mister Snell. She's not quite our sort, sir. 143 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:27.279 I have been here, mister Snell, ever since the terrible 144 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:28.679 times of the eighties. 145 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:33.440 I was a younger then a beauty, they said, and 146 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:37.759 poor Papa lost his money. Bracis meant a lot to 147 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:41.879 a younger in those days. So when I wasn't able 148 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:45.519 to have a charge account, I came here to live. 149 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:51.000 That's better than a charge account. I was quite alarmed 150 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:55.440 when others began to come after the crash of nineteen seven. 151 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:57.120 But it was the. 152 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:05.960 Dear judge, missus Bilbie, How you do, missus Bilbie rights place? 153 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:12.240 Oh and comes of an old Philadelphia family. Oh you 154 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:15.120 will finders quite nice here, mister. 155 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:17.519 Snap, I am sure I will. 156 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:21.240 And of course all our dear young people came in 157 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:27.639 nineteen twenty nine. Their poor papa's jumped from skyscrapers. They 158 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.559 couldn't bear to be without charge accounts either. 159 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:36.039 All these nice people live here, oh, in many more. 160 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:40.360 Oh, here comes and with my broth, come here, stupid thing. 161 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:43.639 Yes, come, I'm coming as fast as I can. 162 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:48.279 And the table over there, and a big hareful goose pile. 163 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:51.519 But she is young, well, of course she is a 164 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:53.919 little younger than most of us. 165 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:55.480 She's different, she's. 166 00:10:56.320 --> 00:11:00.720 Beautiful, that's right, She's really not our soul's. 167 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:02.480 Well, you shouldn't say such things. She can hear you. 168 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:05.559 Oh missus Bilby. 169 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:09.759 Please, you'll understand these things better after you've been here 170 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:11.399 a while, mister Snell. 171 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:15.519 But it seems to me, mister Snell, we have certain 172 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:16.519 rules here. 173 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:21.440 They are necessary for our survival. I'm sure you won't 174 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:25.919 find it hard to observe it, yes, but I would advise. 175 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:27.519 That you try. 176 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:32.720 If you do not, it would be most unfortunate, mister Sneill, 177 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.039 most unfortunate. 178 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:52.240 In just a moment, we will return to the second 179 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:56.440 act of escape. But first, if you want lots of stars, 180 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:58.559 you won't have to look through a telescope or be 181 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:00.879 hit over the head. All you have to do is 182 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:03.799 tune in over most of these same CBS network stations 183 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:06.720 next Monday night and every Monday night thereafter, and you 184 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:09.440 will find all the stars. They'll be on the Lux 185 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.759 Radio Theater, playing in radio adaptations of your favorite motion pictures. 186 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:17.000 Don't forget the Lux Radio Theater, one of five great 187 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:22.080 shows on CBS every Monday night. Now we return to 188 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:24.600 the second act of Escape and to Night's story. 189 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:39.879 Evening, Primrose, October fifteenth, I plan to quit my hiding place, 190 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:42.320 mingle with the crowds and leave braces forever. 191 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:46.120 But just at dawn, mister Ruscoe brought me a cup 192 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:48.720 of coffee, which must have been drugged, for I fell asleep, 193 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:53.320 and when I awoke, night was closing over the store. 194 00:12:53.399 --> 00:13:04.799 Once more. I have spent my second night here. I 195 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:10.320 saw Ella again, Ella, the pearl of this remote, fantastic cave. 196 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:14.320 She is not like the others, try for pale, but 197 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:21.039 otherwise normal than human, and beautiful. A child of perhaps eighteen, 198 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:25.200 she is the only thing that makes this nightmare barbable. 199 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:40.000 October twenty Escape is impossible because of the dark men. 200 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:44.279 Who are the dark men? I don't know, but the 201 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:49.080 inhabitants threaten any transgressor with these dark men. Speaking to 202 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:52.840 the night Watchmen would be suicide. I'm convinced that neither 203 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:55.519 Ellen nor I could get out of here alive. She 204 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:58.039 and the night Watchmen are the only real people here. 205 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:01.399 And how are the others? I hate the night. 206 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:05.879 Watchmen, odious, vulgar creature. He reeks of the coarse sun. 207 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:09.799 Oh come now, missus Belby. He's really a personable young man. 208 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.919 He's very young for a night watchman's snell. 209 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:16.840 Sometimes I wonder about your taste. 210 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:20.159 You must not stay so much to yourself. You must 211 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.080 become better acquainted with our way. 212 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:25.120 That's quite true. You must come to the play tonight. 213 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:28.320 We're going to be entertained with one of Missus Bilby's 214 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:34.440 tragic comedies, Love in Shadowland. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. 215 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:35.879 I'm sure I will. 216 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:40.600 It's really a festive occasion. You know, Wanamakers is coming. 217 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:42.080 Over Wana Makers. 218 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:45.840 Yes, the entire colony over at Wanamakers is coming here 219 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:47.519 a mass to attend the play. 220 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.759 You mean there are people living in other stories? 221 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:54.320 Oh dear, yes, didn't you know? 222 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:55.840 Of course? 223 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:58.679 The best people live in Braces and Wanamakers. 224 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:02.320 Oh come now, Bill b there are some very nice 225 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:03.559 people at Otman's. 226 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:05.559 I beg your pardon, Missus Bilbey. 227 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:07.679 Oh hello Ella, good. 228 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:08.399 Evening, mister Snell. 229 00:15:08.600 --> 00:15:09.639 Well what is it ella? 230 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:12.759 Please, ma'ama, I'd so love to see you play tonight. 231 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:14.440 Ma may I have your permission? 232 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:17.559 You know better than that, your stupid creature. You know 233 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:19.840 where you belong, in the basement by the garbage cat. 234 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:22.080 But Missus Bilby, Missus. 235 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:27.240 Stell Ella, you're becoming entirely too forward of late, I'd 236 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:29.519 advise you to watch your step. 237 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:32.879 Remember the dark Man. 238 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:37.440 No, please, mister Roscoe, I'm sorry, missus Bilby, Excuse me? 239 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:40.279 How can you treat it like that? Why do you 240 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:44.240 always frighten her? And what is all this about the darkness? 241 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:50.840 Well you she please, mister Roscoe. Not now, you'll spoil 242 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.879 our whole evening. I do so want mister Snell to 243 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:56.799 enjoy my play. 244 00:15:57.200 --> 00:16:01.559 Very well, Missus Bilby, Late, mister Snell, but. 245 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:05.840 I want to know about the dark Man lady. Later 246 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:18.960 October twenty one, I found an opportunity to speak to 247 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:22.159 Ella alone last night at the play. I induced a 248 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:26.000 fit of hiccups as I anticipated, I was sternly reprimanded 249 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:28.200 and told to go and secrete myself on the basement 250 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:31.639 where the night watchman wouldn't hear me. This was exactly 251 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:35.159 what I had planned. I went to the basement. I'm 252 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:38.080 bearing the darkness among the garbage cans and the rats. 253 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:49.679 I heard sobbing, Ellen, Ellen, Ellen said to you, Yes, 254 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:53.519 why are you crying? What is it? 255 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:57.559 They wouldn't even let me see the play. 256 00:16:57.879 --> 00:16:59.879 Oh is that a snow? 257 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:02.240 I'm so happy. 258 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:04.920 No, you mustn't cry. 259 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:07.599 You're the only one, the only one who's. 260 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:12.000 Kind, Ella, Ella, Why do they treat you so differently. 261 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:17.279 Because I'm not like them. I didn't choose to come here. 262 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:19.559 You mean you're hell prisoner. 263 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:24.079 Yes, you see, I was only six. I came here 264 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:28.519 on a shopping tour with my mother. I got lost 265 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:31.400 and fell asleep behind the counter. It was dark, and 266 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:34.720 when I awoke, they found me. Some of them wanted 267 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:37.000 to send for the dark Man because they were afraid 268 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:39.720 I would tell on them. But missus vander pet said no, 269 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:44.839 I could stay and be her maid. Been here ever since. 270 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:47.480 Since you were six. But haven't you ever tried to 271 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:48.000 get away? 272 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:52.839 No, I don't know anything about out there. I wouldn't 273 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:56.400 know what to do. Besides, I'm afraid to take the chance. 274 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:59.440 If anyone tries to get out there, they send for 275 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:00.319 the dark men. 276 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:05.839 Who are the dark men? It's horrible. 277 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:11.240 You know how people live in all the stores at 278 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:16.559 Gimbals and Bloomingdales. Well, the dark men live at the 279 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:22.440 the undertakers. And whenever someone dies or breaks the rules, 280 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:24.720 or when a burglar gets in and sees these people 281 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:27.880 and might tell them, they send for the dark Man. 282 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:31.920 They put the body in the butcher's shop and the 283 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:36.720 food department, and then the dark men come I saw 284 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:37.279 them once. 285 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:39.400 It was terrible. 286 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:41.920 What what do they do? 287 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:46.640 They go in what the dead person is? They have 288 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:49.880 wax with them and all sorts of things, And when 289 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:53.480 they're gone, there's just a wax model left on the counter. 290 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:56.559 Then our people put a frock on it or a 291 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:59.039 bathing suit and mix it up with the other wax 292 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:01.640 models in the window. Nobody ever knows. 293 00:19:01.799 --> 00:19:05.519 Ella, you mean all these dummies around us, not all 294 00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:06.279 of them. 295 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:10.640 If you displease these people, the same thing will happened 296 00:19:10.680 --> 00:19:11.039 to you. 297 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:23.720 October thirty Once more, I'm frozen with terror, not for 298 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:28.000 myself now, but for Ellen. They hate her. Any time 299 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:30.680 they might turn against her and send for the dark men. 300 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:34.359 My mind is filled with her. I dream of her 301 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:37.880 every day. I live to see her at night. They've 302 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.000 managed it several times. They trust me now and let 303 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:45.359 me roam about without interference. Finally, tonight I met her 304 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:51.920 again and said it, Ella, I love you, Charles, I 305 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:55.160 love you Ellen. Let's get married or whatever they do here, 306 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:56.759 and then we can live together in my home in 307 00:19:56.799 --> 00:20:00.160 the carpet department. They wouldn't dare hurt you again. No, 308 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:03.359 don't look so dismayed. If you like, we'll go away 309 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:05.920 from here. Maybe maybe we can get transferred to Bergdorf 310 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:07.480 Goodmanes overlooking Central Park. 311 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:09.319 Don't, Charles, don't you? You mustn't. 312 00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:13.680 But I love you. You're not in love with someone. 313 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:17.640 Else, Charles, Yes, yes I am. 314 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:22.599 But who I thought you hated them all? It must 315 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:25.160 be Roscoe. He's the only one that's young. 316 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:29.400 And no, Charles, not Rascal, especially not him. I do 317 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:31.480 hate them ally. They make me shudder. 318 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:32.480 Well who is it? Then? 319 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:36.119 It's he who the night watchman? 320 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:38.680 No, no, that's impossible. I love him. 321 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:42.079 He smells of the sun. Oh, it was wonderful the 322 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:45.319 way it happened. Don't tell me, Charles, are there punishment? 323 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:49.480 I was careless and there he was, coming around the 324 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:52.799 corner in the ladies lungury department. I was caught. There 325 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:55.200 were only some wax models in there under things, and 326 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:57.480 there was nothing else to do. I slipped off my 327 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:01.440 dress and stood still. I see he stopped near me. 328 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:06.240 He looked at me, and oh, Charles, he spoke to me. 329 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:11.039 He said, say, honey, I wish they had made him 330 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:15.319 like you on the eighth Avenue. Charles, wasn't that a 331 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:16.599 lovely thing to say? 332 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:19.319 Personally? I should have said Park Avenue. 333 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:23.400 Charles, don't get like these people hearing. It doesn't matter 334 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:25.880 what avenue. It was a lovely thing to say. 335 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:29.200 What can you do about him? Ella? He belongs to another. 336 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:34.160 World, Yes, to eighth Avenue, And I want to go there, Charles, 337 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:35.920 Are you really my friend? 338 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:37.359 Yes, yes, of course I am. 339 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:40.799 Then I'll tell you I'm going to stand there again 340 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:45.119 in the Lagerie apartment so he'll see me. Then perhaps 341 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:46.200 he'll speak to me again. 342 00:21:46.680 --> 00:21:50.279 Ella, Ellie, you're only torturing yourself. You only think that 343 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:51.920 you love him because you think he'll take you out 344 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:54.680 of here. But you don't know that he will. And 345 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:56.599 I will, Ella, I've made up my mind. 346 00:21:56.759 --> 00:21:59.079 No, Chelter, I couldn't let you do it, even if 347 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:02.599 I loved you. You couldn't do it, Charles. Why not 348 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:08.839 because you really belong here? You've become one of them now? 349 00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:11.920 Well, Ella, you mustn't say that, true. 350 00:22:13.559 --> 00:22:14.160 Charles and I have. 351 00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:17.599 Got to go. There's someone watching us. I feel good 352 00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:18.079 bye Chile. 353 00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:23.039 No Ella, come back, Ella, please, mister Snell will arouse 354 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:29.279 the night watchman Roscale. Yes, love can be very upsetting, 355 00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:34.079 can't it you? You heard just at last moment or 356 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:42.799 so very touching. So she loves another, too bad? Who 357 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:45.799 could it be? Could it be that I am the 358 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:47.079 cause of your heart break? 359 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:49.160 Oh, you flutter yourself too much, Rascale. 360 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:52.240 And who your judge? 361 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:57.759 Certainly not the colonel, hardly, none of those, not one 362 00:22:57.799 --> 00:22:59.759 of the customers, Miss tire. 363 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:02.480 No, she loves the night watchman. Can you imagine that 364 00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:09.480 she loves the night? Oh, Rascal? Look, I shouldn't have 365 00:23:09.480 --> 00:23:15.680 said that. It's not true. You wouldn't do anything, tell anybody. 366 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:20.079 This is a secret between us, Rascal, between friends, isn't it. 367 00:23:20.160 --> 00:23:24.319 Of course as secret as the grave. 368 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:28.599 Look. Look, she's young. Perhaps he'll leave and she'll forget 369 00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:31.880 him in her time. Who knows, Perhaps she'll learn to 370 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:37.440 love you me, of course, in time, and we'll figure 371 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:39.160 a way to keep her safe. 372 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:47.960 Here, absolutely safe. Don't you worry about it? Mm hmmm's 373 00:23:48.079 --> 00:24:01.680 almost dawn. Time forbid. Good morning, mister snaw. 374 00:23:53.400 --> 00:24:08.160 Oh early evening, November four. I was a fool. I 375 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:10.799 should have known he couldn't be trusted. He must have 376 00:24:10.839 --> 00:24:15.480 gone straight to missus Vanderpant. This evening, the atmosphere has changed. 377 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:20.079 People flicker to and fro, smiling nervously horribly, with a 378 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:25.319 sort of frightened sadistic exultation. An informal dance in the 379 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:29.440 record department has been called off. I cannot find Mill. 380 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:36.680 I'm going on again now to look for her. Roscoe. 381 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:38.200 What have you done with her? 382 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:38.680 Quiet? 383 00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:41.400 Quiet, the night Watchman, I don't care. What have you done? 384 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:44.119 Whatever I did I did for your own good as 385 00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:45.240 well as the good of us all. 386 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:53.759 Wait a minute, what's that? What are those people carrying? 387 00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:02.559 Why it Tella? She's tied up carrying it. Ella, Ella, 388 00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:07.000 stop it, stop it, Let me stop, let me go. No, 389 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:16.119 stops the night Watchman, taking her into into the butcher shop. 390 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:45.359 Hell, yes, mister snare those are the dark Men. 391 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:45.160 Midnight. I am scribbling this last entry hurriedly there and 392 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:50.319 there in the butcher shop with Hell the dark Man. 393 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:54.119 There's only one thing to do. I'm going to find 394 00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:56.519 the night Watchman and tell him. He and I will 395 00:25:56.519 --> 00:26:00.319 say but if we can, and if we're overpowered, well 396 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:05.559 I I will leave this pad on the stationary contract tomorrow. 397 00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:11.000 If I live, I'll recover it. If I do not. 398 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:17.039 Whoever finds this and reads it, look in the windows. 399 00:26:17.960 --> 00:26:23.880 Look for three new wax dummies. Two men, one rather 400 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:28.599 sensitive looking and a girl. She has blonde hair and 401 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:34.880