Speaker 1: Mystery.
Speaker 2: Come in welcome.
Speaker 1: I'm E. G.
Speaker 2: Marshall. I have an unusual story for you about two
young people kept in seclusion from the world. Their minds stunted.
They're thinking what their fantasies soaring into the supernatural. What
is real and what is unreal seemed to be melting
into each other in a weird and frightening dream.
Speaker 3: When Mary began.
Speaker 2: To ask questions, Frieda Kurtz, the housekeeper, told her.
Speaker 4: It's to test you, to tease you. And they did
that to Carol when she first came. She got to
love them. We were all sad when she left on
a Friday, unlucky Friday. How did you know? I've heard
all the gossips. I've heard about Garris too. They told
you about him. Why are you trembling theaeda you have
seen him? No, he used to work here, I understand.
But you asked me if i'd seen him. I thought
you and I were the only employees in this house.
Why did I I don't know what I meant by that.
I I must go, I must take care of the children.
Don't ask me any more.
Speaker 2: Our mystery drama Circle of Evil was written especially for
mystery theater by Sidney Sloan and stars Marion Seldy's and
Christopher Tabori. When the rickety old taxi had deposited her
in front of Greystone Manor that dark, cold, rainy day
in late autumn, Mary Richards almost changed her mind and
called a taxi back to return her to the station.
There was something ominous about the big.
Speaker 3: Ugly Victorian house.
Speaker 2: It was too much like the illustrations she remembered from
the gruesome fairy tales of her childhood. When she had
dragged her heavy suitcases to the top of the stone steps,
she stopped. She was suddenly gripped by a nameless fear,
the crippling fear of the unknown.
Speaker 1: However, after a.
Speaker 2: Moment, she made her way to the large oak door
and rang the bell.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm Marry Richard. Oh yes, yes, of course you
must be the new governess. I'm Frieda Frieda Kurtz. I'm
the housekeeper. Oh come in, come in out of the ring.
Let me take your case so I can manage follow me.
Your room is back here down this hall. See, the
children's quarters were on the second floor. All the help
have their quarters down here. Oh are there many servants? Oh,
It's funny the way I said that help. You and
I are the only help in this old house. Really,
for the house is so large, we only use the
small part of it. The rest is closed off. You
used to be a big family living here, big ten
people all the time, sometimes as many as fifteen and sixteen.
Oh they're all away. They're all dead, at least most
of them. What all the grown ups except mister Dykeman,
William Dykman. Then they're the two children, Andrea and Alex.
You're to take care of them. Oh, yes, mister Dakman
interviewed me at the agency in New York for the job.
He's Andrea and Alex's guardian, he's their uncle. Didn't he
say anything about this place, what you were to do? No,
just that I was to look after the children, supervise
their education until they would be ready for something more formal,
until they'd be old enough to go away to school.
Old enough. How old did he say they were, Andrea
and Alex? He didn't say. I gather they must be
quite young. Five six, Oh, dear, you're in for a
surprise surprise. Andrea's eighteen, Alex is twenty.
Speaker 3: So you, then, nanny, are you. I wonder if you're
gonna like it here.
Speaker 4: Oh, I say, shut up, Alex.
Speaker 5: You mustn't mind him, Miss Richards.
Speaker 4: He's always like this. At first.
Speaker 6: I like to play things, don't you, Mammy? Hide and
seek that's my favorite. This house does so many good
places to hide. He'd never be found till it was
too late.
Speaker 4: I'lex stop it, stop it, please, I'll stop. I'll stop
it for good.
Speaker 6: I don't make you happy, by Andrea.
Speaker 5: Bye, Mammy, Please forgive him. He's not always rude, Miss Richards.
You'll get to like him in time. In time, well,
Carol Wicker did. At first she hated Wicker. Well, she
was the governess before you.
Speaker 4: She left.
Speaker 5: You might say that, Miss Richards.
Speaker 4: Look, may I call you Mary? Sounds so formal to
call you miss Richard? Of course, now it this Miss Wicker.
How long did she stay?
Speaker 5: Oh? Nearly two years one year in eleven months. She
left on a Friday. I always feel Fridays are unlucky,
don't you Mary?
Speaker 4: Oh? Not necessarily Carol hated her.
Speaker 5: She would weep in her room on Friday's what oh
not for the first few months, but later she would
weep in her room.
Speaker 4: She was in love and even Andrea. I wonder if
you would mind her changing the subject.
Speaker 5: Oh, oh, of course, Mary, I I didn't know. I
didn't think it, didn't think what but you had met him.
Speaker 4: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5: Gareth Gareth Norway. He's very handsome and she was.
Speaker 4: Very much in love with him. He has away with
the lady Andrea. I do not wish to continue this. I. Oh,
so you've met him too. No, I haven't met him,
and I don't wish to discuss this further. You'll meet him, Mary,
you'll meet him. Yes, we're having supper up in the playroom.
Wouldn't you like to come up and to eat with
the children? Come in, missus Kurtz, I want to talk
to you. Oh, you have an unpacked yet you want
me to help you? And No. As a matter of fact,
I've decided that this job isn't exactly what i'd contracted for.
You're leaving. Yes, I'm afraid this is more than I
can handle. Mister Dykeman gave me to understand that i'd
be working with children. Know they are two young people
who need attention, who seem to need psychiatric help. And
I am not qualified for the job I've placed to
call to mister Dykman in New York years. Yes, I know,
it's that crazy act they're putting on for you. A sure,
it's to test you, to please you. It's only a joke.
They did that to Carol when she first came. She
got to love them. We were all sad when she
left on a Friday, unlucky Friday. But yes, how did
you know? I've had all the gossips I've heard about
Gareth too. I told you about him. Yes, why are
you trembling? Have you seen him? No? Does he work here?
He used to, He was the chauffeur used to work here.
But you asked me if i'd seen him. Oh, I
don't know what I meant by that. I must go
and have my supper. Now they're weak. Wait, no, mister Diakman.
Please Mary Richard's calling. But when will he be back? Well,
how can he be reached? I'm the governess. I mean
he hired me recently to take care of his niece
and his nephew. And no, no, no, it's nothing to
do with a salary. That's quite satisfactory. Just ada, When
may I expect to hear from him. Well, if he
doesn't call, I shall leave grace o manner on the
thirty first. That's two weeks and three days. Who's there,
is Alex Burrow? Yes, Alex, may I come in? Come in?
Speaker 6: You've locked yourself away from us room. We haven't seen
you for the last two days. Yes, haven't you been well?
Speaker 4: Nothing wrong with my health?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 6: I hate to bring this up, aren't you our governess.
Shouldn't you be teaching us something, something useful?
Speaker 3: That's what you've been paid for, Alex.
Speaker 4: If we're going to speak to each other at all,
you'll have to drop this snide manner.
Speaker 3: Snide whatever do you mean?
Speaker 4: You're not a child, neither is your sister, So stop
this childish teasing. I shall only be here till the
end of the month.
Speaker 3: You're you're leaving us.
Speaker 4: I accepted this job as a governess to take care
of and teach young children. That's what I'm qualified to do.
I'm not qualified say it. Go on there, I say it.
Speaker 3: You think I'm mad, don't you you? Si Gandre is too,
don't you.
Speaker 4: I think my uncle goes too.
Speaker 6: That's why he keeps us here away from the world,
why he hires governesses for us to take care of us.
Why does he because he can't let the story come
out to unsettling impossible scandals.
Speaker 3: He's ashamed of us.
Speaker 4: I don't understand.
Speaker 3: Perhaps it's better that you don't tell it.
Speaker 4: Alli. Where are you?
Speaker 1: That's freedom?
Speaker 3: She's looking for me.
Speaker 4: We'll open the door and tell her where you are. No, No, well,
I will then, missus. Kurtsey's here and here with me.
Oh there you are, you naughty boy hiding from Freida.
Now come, we're having tea upstairs in the nursery, and
I baked your favorite apple coolkin. Nor.
Speaker 6: I don't want to me. I want us to talk
with Mary. I've got things to explain to her.
Speaker 4: No, you come, I won't trump. Don't force him if
he doesn't want you, stay out of this. Miss When
I tell him to do something, he must do it.
But I mean, you are nothing here. I know all
about your calling mister Dykman wanting to quit your job here.
I know I told you I was going to call.
I wasn't concealing him. But he didn't speak with you,
did he? Mister Dykman called me, told me what to do.
But why didn't he answer my call to him? Because
he wanted to talk to you in person. He's coming
here to talk, and you will stay here until he comes.
Speaker 5: The house doesn't look so gloomy when the sun is shining.
Speaker 4: Does Andrea? I thought I was alone out here.
Speaker 5: You're very unhappy here, aren't you?
Speaker 4: Oh? Uncomfortable? It's closer to it, just that everything is
so strange, so uncertain, like living in a dream. Yes, yes,
like a dream, but not a very pleasant one. You'll
be going soon ten days. I'm sorry you can't help
us help you. Alex knows that too. We want you
to stay. That's very flattering, Andrea, but I can't possibly
help you. I don't even know what kind of help
you mean. We can tell you, show you.
Speaker 5: We need your strength. Please say you'll stay.
Speaker 4: I'm only staying till the end of the month.
Speaker 5: End of the month, well then that'll have to do.
That'll be long enough. Tonight we will show you what
we mean.
Speaker 4: Hello, Yes, did I wake you?
Speaker 7: Mary?
Speaker 4: No? I was reading. I wasn't asleep. Please come to
the barge drawing room on the third floor as soon
as you can. What is it? I can't tell you
over the house phone. Please very well. It'll take me
a few minutes to dress.
Speaker 5: Just put on your roll.
Speaker 4: Come now, please, I'll come right up, Andrea, Andrea, this
is the room, Andrea, Perhaps she meant the room at
the end of the hall. O, Mary met this one?
Who are you am? I can't see you in the dark.
Don't be frightened, Mary, You know me.
Speaker 1: They are too about you.
Speaker 5: You're beautiful, Marry Mary.
Speaker 4: Where are you here? Andrea? I was just said, you're
gone to the royal place. No. Aren't there any lights
in this room?
Speaker 5: Or there used to be, But the mice nibbled the wires,
Alex says, and they don't work.
Speaker 4: I have a flashlight. Light hit there. That's very strange.
What a moment ago? I spoke to a man in
the dark, A man whose name you mentioned to me, Gareth,
Gareth Norway. He was here? Where is he left? Very
suddenly you told me about him a chauffeur. Wasn't him
many years ago? Wait a minute? Wait a minute? Flash
of light here on the floor. There no footprints? No,
but DUTs is heavy on the floor, and your footprints
are plainly marked as our mind. But none for Garrett. None.
Speaker 5: The dead do not leave food, Prince Mary.
Speaker 4: I want an answer I must have an answer. Just
accept what you see what You're here dead.
Speaker 3: He's been dead for nearly fifteen years, dead and.
Speaker 5: Yet not dead.
Speaker 4: But what sort of nonsense is this?
Speaker 3: Is not nonsense?
Speaker 4: You spoke with him. What are you trying to do
to me? I don't believe in spirits and ghosts and
the supernatural. It was some sort of trick, wasn't it?
Tell me the truth?
Speaker 5: Believe this Garrett is here, possibly right in this room.
Speaker 4: No, I don't believe you. It's all in your mind.
It's some morbid story that somebody told you when you
were children. If this house frightens you and depresses you,
why don't you run away from it? You don't have
to say, but we do what.
Speaker 3: We cannot leave.
Speaker 6: He won't let us leave. He holds us, He keeps
us here. This part of is revenge.
Speaker 4: Revenge. Do you expect me to believe venge for his murder?
Speaker 5: He said he was murdered, and he will not stop
until all of us, all of our blood, are dead.
Speaker 2: Already Mary Richards had fallen under.
Speaker 1: The spell of the old House.
Speaker 3: She was beginning to believe the unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Had she really.
Speaker 2: Spoken to the spirit of Gareth Nordway, Or was this
just a frightening thought conjured up by the strange young
people who inhabit Greystone matters. Perhaps we will find some
of the answers and act too. Mary Richards searched for
an explanation of the events which it occurred, but which she,
with her logical mind, could not accept. She waited impatiently
for the arrival of William Dykman, hoping that he could
answer the questions to which she could find no answers.
His first words were very reassuring.
Speaker 7: I've come out here for one reason, Miss Richards, and
one reason only, and that is to put these stupid
superstitions to rest once and for all.
Speaker 4: You don't believe them, mister.
Speaker 7: Dyachar, product of idle minds. Child is nonsense.
Speaker 4: But I have seen him, seen Gareth Nordway.
Speaker 7: You have been made to believe that you have seen him,
Miss Riches. It must have occurred to you that Andrey
and Alex are well, how shall I say, not quite normal?
Speaker 4: Well, their behavior is somewhat bizarre.
Speaker 7: Strange cranks, childish pranks, nothing serious.
Speaker 1: However, wouldn't you say.
Speaker 4: That I'm not competent to judge. I'd say that it
was more than childish prank. Frieda told me that almost
the entire family died in a rather the serious fashion,
almost all. At the same time, she seemed to hint
there was something supernatural behind it all.
Speaker 7: All that, well, one can hardly call a serious epidemic
of food supernatural. We lost eight, no nine members of
our family. It was a terrible tragedy altogether in this house.
We must have passed the virus to each other. Terrible
thing happened to a family. Alex and Andrea were little
more than infants at the time. It very definitely affected them.
I see by your tone, I I can see you
don't believe me.
Speaker 4: If the two children were affected by this tragedy, if
indeed it twisted their minds, why wasn't something more constructive
done for them?
Speaker 7: I'm ass Richard.
Speaker 4: Why weren't they given a psychiatric help? Why were they
kept here virtually prisoners instead of being taken to a
more healthful place.
Speaker 7: I I find it difficult to answer that.
Speaker 4: Why because you are responsible for keeping them here in
a way, yes, but what do you have to gain
from all of them?
Speaker 7: Really? As rich as I cannot tolerate this interrogation from.
Speaker 4: Us high observant. Don't let that disturb you, mister Dykeman.
I'm quitting this job as of the thirty first. There
is nothing that could induce me to stay on any longer.
Good day. Wait, I have nothing more to say to
you with mister Dykeman.
Speaker 7: But you do intend to speak to to others?
Speaker 4: Yes, there's something hidden here that's festering, like an infected wound,
something that needs the light of day.
Speaker 7: If you mean that you intend to go to the
police or for some sort of.
Speaker 4: Inviss you, should we do something of that sort.
Speaker 3: Well, then let me warn you.
Speaker 7: You can be stopped very effectively.
Speaker 4: Are you threatening me?
Speaker 1: Threatening?
Speaker 7: I wouldn't think of it, but I must, in your
own interests, prevent you from causing yourself fundship, Yes, and
perhaps even.
Speaker 1: Injury.
Speaker 5: It's Andrea, May I come in.
Speaker 4: I don't want to bother you. Come in, Come in.
I was just reading there's something troubling you. You look upsetts.
Speaker 5: I am My uncle called earlier and spoke to Freeda.
Speaker 4: He hired another governor. That was to be expected since
I am leaving at the end of the month.
Speaker 5: No, you are leaving Friday. You haven't been told yet.
Speaker 4: That's the day. She is a think if only Alex
and I could go with you? Oh, why can't you?
You know why? No? I don't, Andrea, who does all
this belong to? You?
Speaker 2: Mean?
Speaker 4: This house, all the house, the grounds, the money, the
entire estate to Alex and me and your uncle.
Speaker 5: He's our guardian.
Speaker 4: Oh, he manages the estate until we're of age twenty one.
Speaker 5: Specifically, Alex will be twenty one and seven months and
I've got nearly two and a half years to go.
Speaker 4: And when that time comes, when you and Alex finally
come into your money, I'm going to find himself in
somewhat reduced circumstances.
Speaker 5: But it never worth his money.
Speaker 4: He controlled it, he used it for us. I wonder, Mary, very.
Speaker 8: Listen to me.
Speaker 5: I must speak to you.
Speaker 3: Marry Mary, listen to me.
Speaker 6: Who is it?
Speaker 9: Don't be right now?
Speaker 1: I said, don't scream, you alarm your I will.
Speaker 3: Let you speak of your prompts not to scream again.
Speaker 9: Promise good.
Speaker 5: Who are you?
Speaker 3: We have met before, spoken before?
Speaker 4: I remember Garres, Garres Nordway.
Speaker 3: I have seen you so many times and you didn't.
Speaker 1: Know I was there.
Speaker 4: What do you want?
Speaker 9: I'm going to tell you something and I want your help.
Speaker 4: So how can I help you right a wrong?
Speaker 9: A wrong done me many years ago?
Speaker 4: H this is our dream.
Speaker 9: I was a servant, deer shuman, lonely, no family all
Cynthia Sainte, beautiful.
Speaker 10: Member of the riches, snobbish Damon clan.
Speaker 9: That she didn't see me as the dirty stable boy.
Speaker 10: That's what Uncle William called me when he found that
she loved me.
Speaker 9: And I loved her. Well, we ran away and we were.
Speaker 3: Married for one acstatic month.
Speaker 9: We hid while they searched for us, and they found us,
since there was dragged back here and no one was planned.
Speaker 3: Then I came back.
Speaker 9: Broke in one night to find my bride.
Speaker 7: And take her away.
Speaker 9: It was then Uncle.
Speaker 3: William stobbed us, shut me down like a strained dog.
Speaker 10: The last memory I have a life et from my
body and my blood red, the white dress of my
beloved was, Sir screen.
Speaker 9: Percy hopeless.
Speaker 4: Yep you aren't.
Speaker 9: Yes, I am dead and yet not dead. Only what
you will? My white heart hatred sustains me, the only
one mission found.
Speaker 4: Oh will you are who said if you expected I
would help you?
Speaker 9: You already forgotten that William fars you in a radio search.
Speaker 3: Until you brought that truth out.
Speaker 4: I suspected that something was being concealed.
Speaker 3: You are searching out now, you not?
Speaker 4: You will No, No, this is a dream. It's a dream.
It's not happening.
Speaker 1: I must sleep.
Speaker 8: It's only a dream.
Speaker 3: Going sickly and get married.
Speaker 4: Oh Ohlex, what are you doing in the garage? I
hope you don't mind if I use your bike.
Speaker 6: None at all, since it's not mine. I've got another bike.
Why if I come along?
Speaker 4: Well, I wasn't exactly going just for a ride.
Speaker 3: Going into the village.
Speaker 4: Then, Alex, I had a strange dream last night.
Speaker 3: It was Gareth, wasn't it.
Speaker 4: However, did you know?
Speaker 3: It's his way? He's working on you. He told you
a story, didn't he.
Speaker 6: Yes, tragic and are most wept for him. It's won
you over, marry the way he carolover. He wants your help.
He'll try to use you. Listen to me, Mary, Gareth
can be very persuasive when he wants to be.
Speaker 3: He can make you believe the most ridiculous thing.
Speaker 4: I don't want to hear any more about Gareth.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you the true story, or at least
the official version of the tragedy.
Speaker 4: I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 6: You better listen. Cynthia was attracted to Gareth Norway. Everyone
knows that she flirted with him. Some say whatever it was,
it wasn't love on on her part. Gareth kept after her,
and finally.
Speaker 4: They ran away together. They married.
Speaker 3: All He tried to get her to go away with him.
She refused.
Speaker 6: He got angry, wild, he kidnapped her. Uncle William chased them,
found them.
Speaker 3: Gareth threw his knife.
Speaker 6: Uncle William shot him. How it was, That's the way
the police got the story. It was called self defense.
Chase was dismissed and Cynthia he killed her. Whereas the
story goes, the first shot wounded him, but he was
able to stab her with his knife.
Speaker 3: Uncle William fired at him again.
Speaker 4: Believed him. I believed Gareth.
Speaker 3: Carol Ricker believed him.
Speaker 4: And committed suicide. No, but I heard. She did not
chill herself. She was murdered.
Speaker 2: Deeper and deeper, Mary Richard's plunges into the morash of
claims and counterclaims. The circle of evil that surrounds the
Old Gray House is being drawn tighter and tighter around
the lives of all who dwell there as though fighting
up to the surface of a stagnant pool that threatens
to suffocate her with its vile and rotting weeds. Mary
reaches out for help. I'll be back in a moment,
with Act three. Mary Richard's sleep that night was filled
with frightening dreams, dreams of frustration in which she could
not fight or defend herself from unknown and unnamed forces.
She found herself slipping into a deep abyss, the sides
of which afforded not the slightest foothold. Her fingers, clutching
at the slimy walls, could grasp nothing. The next morning,
clear and sunny, brought with it the resolution to take
positive action, to reach out to the sane world outside
for help.
Speaker 4: Hello, County Colonel's Office, Miss Alaskam, my name is Mary Richard.
I'm inquiring about the late Carol Wicker. Oh, no, I'm
not a relative. Let's say that I'm a friend, was
a friend. Yes, Now I've read your report on her death.
I got the transcript from the Bureau of Records. Well,
I'm just a bit confused. Your original opinion was that
she might have been struck with a club or some
other blunt instrument, But your final opinion was that her
death was caused by an overdose of sleeping pills. Well,
I was just wondering why you changed your mind. New evidence,
what new evidence? That she had been upset, melancholy, despondent?
But who gave you that evidence? Oh? I see? Well,
the reason for this call is to ask how does
one go about getting permission to exhume a body.
Speaker 3: I'm not so sure you're doing the right thing, Mary.
Speaker 4: After all, Carol wasn't a bad day of mind.
Speaker 5: I'm happy the prayers.
Speaker 4: And she knew something, something which might prove embarrassing. It
was your uncle William who supplied the information that changed
the coliner's opinions. Don't you find that interesting? I do.
Speaker 3: You're jumping to conclusions, malam.
Speaker 4: I all you know has been told to you, and
you believe what you've been told.
Speaker 5: Mary, We don't know what we believe anymore.
Speaker 4: Where did you get your version of what happened to Carol? Wicker?
Speaker 3: Frida told us?
Speaker 4: And who does Frieda work for Frieda works for me?
Speaker 7: Miss Richards?
Speaker 4: Mister d well?
Speaker 7: Well, well, children, now are you going to greet uncle William?
Speaker 8: William?
Speaker 1: Uncle William? That's nice.
Speaker 7: Now, would you mind leaving the room. I should like
to speak to Miss Richards in private.
Speaker 4: Anything you have to say better be said in the
presence of witnesses.
Speaker 7: Witnesses the children, and.
Speaker 4: I think you'd better stop referring to them as children.
Speaker 7: Well, very well, they may stay. Now. May I ask
the purpose of a call to the county coroner.
Speaker 4: I see the news of my call will relate to
you very quickly.
Speaker 7: You think it's strange that mister Vaskin would call me.
Speaker 4: No, not strange at all. I rather expected that he would.
Speaker 7: I I would like to dissuade you from your purpose.
I think nothing will be gained by digging up the
remains of poor Carol Wicker.
Speaker 4: This can't change my mind. I had the exhumation order
and I have only ordered the men from the cemetery.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, yes, I know, and I see you're not
going to listen to me. So I'm going to make
matters easier for you. I have ordered the men, the
grave diggers, to be there tomorrow night at nine good
The remains will be delivered to the coroner for re examination.
Speaker 4: I would prefer that the examination be made by a
doctor of my choosing of course, but until you have
engaged a man, the body will be sent to the
County Moor.
Speaker 1: That is a state law.
Speaker 3: I have no control of the Thank you, you've been
very helpful.
Speaker 7: I don't mention it, Miss Richards, anything to keep you
and the children entertained?
Speaker 4: Is that you? Alex?
Speaker 3: Yes, Andrea?
Speaker 6: Where have you been upstairs in the old part of
the house looking for him?
Speaker 3: I thought he would want to speak to us.
Speaker 5: Are you certain that he can that he?
Speaker 3: Are you beginning to have doubts?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Uncle William is going to have us committed.
Speaker 4: I heard him speaking with Freedom.
Speaker 5: They said he'd had enough trouble. He doesn't care if
the entire matter comes out.
Speaker 4: Who's going to be locked up? Jess, though we're insane?
Isn't it possible, Alex that we are? No?
Speaker 6: No, we're just frightened, afraid. Don't tell me that Gareth
is just something I imagined. You've seen him too.
Speaker 3: Spoke with them as I have. Yes, Alex, Carol for him,
spoke with him very too.
Speaker 5: Isn't it possible that we, you and I have conjured
him up? Perhaps he's nowhere, but in our.
Speaker 4: Mind, No, No, I'm not that bad.
Speaker 3: I'll not believe that you can't puck me up.
Speaker 4: What is this still art? Long past your bedtime? Now
go to your room. At once, children, I will punish
you both.
Speaker 3: He's Frida.
Speaker 6: We're going right now, Huntrey Andrea.
Speaker 4: You rang for me, mister Diakman.
Speaker 7: Oh, yes, missus Scots. I just wanted to tell you
what my plans are as they concern you and your
future future. We will be well taken care of. I'm
settling a substantial sum on you, a sort of an annuity.
Speaker 4: You're letting me go.
Speaker 7: Well, let us say that I'm retiring.
Speaker 4: But this is so unexpected, so sad Scots.
Speaker 7: As you know, the welfare of the children has been
my prime consideration for many years.
Speaker 4: But I can take care of the mic and watch it.
Speaker 7: I'm not criticizing you, It's just that I have decided
we can't do it any longer on this level. They
are grown people now, no longer children. When am I
to leave, Well, there's my car waiting in the driveway.
If you hurry, we we'll be able to have you
catch the eleven twenty train at the station.
Speaker 4: Yes, tonight, soon, Yes, I will go. I will be ready.
So at first I say goodbye to my children.
Speaker 7: No, under no circumstances are you to let them know
that you're going. It would be very bad for them.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, I will do as you say. What time
is it a little after nine? I say, let me afternone.
I checked my watch before we left. Andrea, do you
know the man drives?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: But Uncle William said he would send a car for us,
probably so mad from the village.
Speaker 4: I trying to speak to him.
Speaker 6: He didn't give me much of an answer, just mumbled
something about driving us to the cemetery.
Speaker 4: Is it very far from the house, But that's it?
Speaker 3: Just up ahead?
Speaker 4: Who oh, this is it? But we will have to
walk from here a driver. When you wait for us here,
follow me. I know where it is, Alex, don't run ahead,
wait for us. Come on, it isn't false. I don't
might be hear me. I n.
Speaker 5: I recognize the area. Now this is the diapmends family fly.
But Carol was very just just a.
Speaker 4: Bead, Andrea, very concretely five, Come on, stands frightened, we're coming.
Speaker 5: Alex, who's empty?
Speaker 4: Glen empty? Who's dug up?
Speaker 5: And the body removed?
Speaker 4: Your uncle William never intended to go through with the
re examination.
Speaker 5: And he never tried to block you, or at least
he said he never would.
Speaker 6: Why did he go through this whole business of sticking
up the body and bringing us here to see what
he had.
Speaker 3: Done the car?
Speaker 4: The car had brought us here. It's leaving. Stop wait
so your breath, Alex. He won't stop. How will you
get back? You might ask that question of your uncle
William By.
Speaker 7: Yes, that's an excellent suggestion, Miss Richards, But we must hurry.
There isn't too much time left. Why did you take
the body of Carol Wicker from her great I had
two reasons, dearest nephew. One, I didn't want the body
re examined for obvious reasons.
Speaker 5: It really was murder then, not suicide, as the coroner's reports.
Speaker 7: There, Oh my dear Nich you have an absolute genius
for the obvious. Yes, the report is in error.
Speaker 4: Carol Wicker was murdered by you, as.
Speaker 7: You have suspected for some time. Why did you kill
poor cal He snooped around and snooped around.
Speaker 6: She came up on the truth a story of how
Gareth died was alone.
Speaker 4: Yes, I shot him down.
Speaker 2: I killed him.
Speaker 7: I don't believe in giving a rabbit dog a chance
to bite.
Speaker 4: You brought us here to make a confession of your card.
Speaker 7: Right to here, Miss Richards, to tie up all the
loose ends neatly here. You're all going to die right here.
Speaker 5: No, no, you couldn't. Why why weren't we done to you?
Speaker 1: Stand in my way?
Speaker 3: The dugman money will be mine.
Speaker 4: You can't. You'll be discussed by whom.
Speaker 7: There be no witnesses, No one will investigate your disappearance.
Speaker 4: Help us, help us. Here is your murderer. He's here.
Speaker 7: Oh, keep calling if you think it will do you
any good. Gareth Nordway is dead and buried. He cannot
help you.
Speaker 4: You wanted revenge.
Speaker 3: Here he is the man who kills you.
Speaker 7: All right, line up now, line up, as I'm telling.
Speaker 4: You can come now.
Speaker 7: I don't have to shoot you then where you stand,
and drag your bodies into the pit.
Speaker 6: If you come face your enemy cares.
Speaker 7: Say James Richard's. They are stunted human beings, As I said,
wouldn't it be better to end at all and let
them find peace?
Speaker 4: Or mad creatures? You are the mad man.
Speaker 7: I can fold the situation and it shall be as
I want it.
Speaker 4: To be.
Speaker 7: You will all be dead and silent, and no one
will be the wiser.
Speaker 6: No, no, don't please, No, no, I'll stop you. I
must I go. Oh you you you, I'm I'm quick.
Speaker 4: It's all in his shots.
Speaker 3: Until I stop him.
Speaker 4: Yes, Al, he's dead.
Speaker 5: Dyes.
Speaker 4: Why didn't you help me?
Speaker 5: I didn't.
Speaker 4: I was able to do it.
Speaker 3: I had to let you become a man, Alex.
Speaker 4: And have I girth? Have I become a man? Why
doesn't the answer me? He doesn't have to. You're proving
yourself out. You know the answer. I just checked with
the ticket agent. The train's on time. I'm I'm sorry.
I hate to see you leaving. I must and you'll
be all right now, Andrew, are you sure you won't
reconsider and come back to the city with me?
Speaker 5: No, I've definitely decided to stay in the old.
Speaker 4: So many memories. Well, has you ever changed your mind?
You know where and how to reach me. I know.
Speaker 5: The old house will be different now. It feels different.
The gloom seems to have listed, and everything seems frighter's Alex.
Speaker 4: Stop you promise not to draw on that.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'll take my pro but I wanted to say
that I'm I'm so proud, Yes, that's the word.
Speaker 4: So proud of him.
Speaker 5: He worried that he was weak and ineffectual, that when
the time came to be strong, he met the test.
I have feeling, I know, but if I stay in graces,
I will see him again. He'll be there always.
Speaker 2: As the train began slowly pulling out of the station,
Mary Richards could see the lonely figure of a young
girl standing wistfully looking after the departing train. Then she
saw Andrea turn and make her way back to the
old station. TAXI get in and start to Graystone, Manor
empty now of all but its ghosts.
Speaker 4: I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 3: What is real and what is unreal?
Speaker 2: It's a question which is troubled man since he began
to reason. Some say the answer can be found in
our primeval fear of the dark, a carryover from our
early days on this earth.
Speaker 1: There are others who believe that there are four.
Speaker 2: Is beyond our comprehension, forces which control us, guide us
into good or evil. What do you think? Our cast
included Marion Selvi's, Christopher Tabori, Mary Jane Higbee, Rose, Murray, Rice,
and Ian Martin. The entire production was under the direction
of Hyman Brown.
Speaker 1: This is A. G.
Speaker 2: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystry Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant
Speaker 4: A