WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.080 --> 00:00:05.440 The Adventures of Christopher Wells program, formerly scheduled at this time, 2 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:08.119 is now broadcast at a new time on Tuesday evening. 3 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:11.400 Tune in for the Adventures of Christopher Wells next Tuesday 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:14.880 and every Tuesday at six thirty pm Pacific Standard time. 5 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:32.600 You are alone in Paris, unable to speak the language, 6 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:36.520 unable to cope with a gigantic conspiracy which seeks to 7 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:39.679 convince you that you are mad. You are the victim 8 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:46.840 of a plot from which there is no escape. 9 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:58.280 Escape produced, directed and tonight, written by William N. Robeson, 10 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:01.439 and carefully contrived to free you from the four walls 11 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:04.079 of today for a half hour of high adventure. 12 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:12.480 Tonight we escaped to Paris at the time of the 13 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:16.400 Great Exposition and one of the recurring legends of our time, 14 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:30.640 and Alexander Wilkett's version of the Story of the Vanishing Lady. 15 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:35.879 Another cup of tea brewce. 16 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:38.280 No, thank you, my dear. I just light up my 17 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:40.239 pipe now and have a look at the evening standard 18 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:42.079 I like another? 19 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:48.519 Please, mother, all right, Alice, only one sugar deer. We 20 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:49.760 must watch our figures. 21 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:51.719 You are what nonsense? 22 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:54.040 A growing girl like Alice needs plenty of sugar. 23 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:59.719 See mother, Daddy approves perhaps, but mother is still boss. Yes, Mother, 24 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:00.920 there's a dear. 25 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:03.359 Mother. 26 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:08.680 Yes, dear, I've been thinking, Yes, dear. 27 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:11.120 I've been thinking about my grandparents. 28 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:12.560 Oh. 29 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:17.199 I know all about Daddy's parents. How grandfather Stanley commanded 30 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:18.639 a dreadnought at the Battle of Jutlin. 31 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:21.199 It was not a dreadnought, Alice, it was a heavy cruiser. 32 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:24.960 Oh, yes, heavy cruiser and he got the VC. And 33 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:27.840 how grandmother Stanley was a volunteer nurse Western Larch when 34 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:31.080 the Zeppelins came over. And I know about your father Toun, 35 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:34.120 how he died Nindy from his wounds, and how gallant 36 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:38.719 he was, the kuype of pass But mother, yes, dear, 37 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:42.039 you've never never told me anything about grandmother. 38 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:44.680 Winship, haven't I? 39 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:44.960 No? 40 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:46.919 And i'd i'd like to know. 41 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:51.879 Some Bruce the child sixteen. I think it's time she knew. 42 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:54.639 But Bruce, and you'd probably feel better to get it 43 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:55.360 off your chest. 44 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:58.840 What mother, what is it? 45 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:04.479 Well, my dear, I've never talked about your grandmother because 46 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:09.719 I I've always half believed that some day, somehow she 47 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:13.879 would come down our garden walk. And I know it 48 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:18.039 sounds silly and explain where she's been for the last 49 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:23.000 twenty years. Why what happened to her? I don't know, 50 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:25.400 and I don't suppose I ever. 51 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:26.120 Will, Cynthia Darling. 52 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:30.199 Sir Bruce, You're quite right, it would be best to 53 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:34.520 get it off my chest, as you put it. As 54 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:37.879 you know, Alice, I was born and brought up in India, 55 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:40.840 and I was about your age when my father was 56 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:44.800 killed in the Cabal campaign. Mother decided to leave India 57 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:49.439 for good and returned to her old home in Warwickshire. However, 58 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:51.400 since it was necessary for her to go to Paris 59 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:54.439 to attend to some details of my father's estate, she 60 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:56.919 decided that we should leave the Piano bode in Marseilles 61 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:01.360 and proceed by train. You men, imagine the timidity with 62 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:05.439 which we two unescorted ladies traveled across France, without the 63 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:08.560 slightest knowledge of the language, and without indeed assurance that 64 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:11.039 we could find a hotel room in Paris, though we 65 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:16.279 had telegraphed for reservations from Marseilles. You see, the Great 66 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:19.920 Paris Exposition had just opened and the city was jammed 67 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:23.720 with visitors from all over the world. You may imagine 68 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:26.920 our relief when we arrived at the Grand Hotel Universal 69 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.879 and heard the clerk speak in quite understandable. 70 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:34.759 Sheep, welcome, welcome, you will please to sign your register? 71 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:38.600 Eh, and a you have our reservation poin indeed. 72 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:41.920 Yes, most fortunate madames, that you telegraph for I have 73 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:44.639 I reserved for you the last room in the house. 74 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:46.079 Oh I'm so relieved. 75 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:49.600 Yes, Canthia, you may as well learn how to sign 76 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:50.600 a register for yourself. 77 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:54.560 Oh yes, mamma. Where do I ride there? In that line? Oh? 78 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:58.800 Yes, I see, weller you were that you gave from 79 00:04:58.839 --> 00:04:59.360 your journey. 80 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:01.600 Uh no, I should let the boys show you to 81 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:02.399 your rooms at once. 82 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:08.199 Shassa, shassamoiselle, madame gunship. 83 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:11.759 This is your baggage, madame. 84 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:16.839 Yes, the six. You'd best carry the little one with 85 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:18.399 a medicine in it. 86 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:22.680 Yes, mama, thank you. I'll take that one, the little 87 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:23.319 red one. 88 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:28.519 This way, ladies, keep her eye at poor to Cynthia. 89 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:33.399 I don't trust this frenchman, Mama. I don't think he'll 90 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:35.959 make off with our things. Here's the lift. 91 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:43.120 I do wish we could have gone straight on to Southampton. 92 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:44.279 But you'd only have had to come back across the 93 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:47.279 channel to see the solicitor. Mamma, we really saved time this. 94 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:49.759 Way, I suppose. I mean I wish we hadn't come 95 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:52.920 to Paris at all, such a sinister place. 96 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:58.600 Well look this way, ladies, do the right. 97 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:06.480 Yeah, twas. 98 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:11.079 Trois aunt it is, thank you. 99 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:16.639 Oh what a lovely big room. And look, mama, French 100 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:26.240 windows hand the park out there, and those beautiful, beautiful bridges. 101 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:29.240 Oh mother, it's something out of a book. 102 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:35.199 Yes, my dear, that's the trouble with Paris. So attractive, 103 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:37.680 but underneath it's evil. 104 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:41.279 And look at the village, the guilt clock and this 105 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:46.399 lovely marble table. Oh, mamma, everything is so so French. 106 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:48.279 I would be very glad to be on my way away. 107 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:49.600 Everything's English by this time. 108 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:49.920 To matter. 109 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:52.959 Now, come away from that window and help me get 110 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:58.160 into something comfortable. Nurse, Yes, Mars, I don't know when 111 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:02.240 I've been so tired. Hm, I just. 112 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:10.160 Can't seem to catch mam Mama, Mama, what's the matter, mamma, mamma, 113 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:13.360 speak to me here. I'll get you up into the 114 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:19.680 bed there. Now, let me loosen your closet. Here here, mamma, 115 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:24.439 I here are the smelling salts pretty deeply darling, Mamma 116 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:35.920 the telephone. I've got to get a doctor. Hello, operator, 117 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:37.959 Will you please send a doctor up to room number 118 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:42.839 Let me see number three four two. Will you please 119 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:47.519 send a doctor to room number three four two, A doctor, 120 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:54.240 A doctor. Women. While I waited for the doctor, I 121 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:56.160 did everything I could think of to bring my mother 122 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:59.000 back to consciousness, and massaged her fingers and toes. I 123 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:01.920 put wet claws on a forehead, I waved the smelling 124 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:05.839 salts under her nose. But she lay silent and white 125 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:09.319 and unmoving, like one dead. Only the quick, shallow movement 126 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:12.079 of her breast assured me she was not. And all 127 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:15.519 the time another anxiety possessed me, What if this doctor 128 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:17.480 could not speak English? How should I tell in the 129 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:20.600 circumstances of mother's unexpected fainting, how should I understand his 130 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:24.160 instructions for treatment? I'm sure it was not long, although 131 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:27.279 it seemed like an eternity before he arrived, accompanied by 132 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:30.319 the manager of the hotel, and to my great relief, 133 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:33.720 they both spoke English. The doctor felt mother's pulse, took 134 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:36.440 her temperature, and did the usual things that doctors do. 135 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.399 Then he turned to the tail coaded hotel. 136 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:41.360 Man del fancy mop was on it. 137 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:45.120 A laugh from Papalia morns as as he said to 138 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:50.320 yours Nipalia allowed melscs us of Gan said, fam do 139 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:53.519 la peste sula peste in like un avivo Nipapa's wanted. 140 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:56.720 While they talked in this language, I couldn't understand. I 141 00:08:56.799 --> 00:08:58.600 looked from one face to the other, trying to read 142 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:03.399 from their expressions how syl Yes, there is casual is 143 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:06.399 that they were ordering dinner. Finally I could stand it 144 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:10.120 no longer. They must. You must tell me what is 145 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:10.720 the matter. 146 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:11.519 With her, mademoiselle. 147 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:15.039 Your mother is ill, Yes, seriously ill. It is a 148 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:19.399 collapse due perhaps to this train of traveling. However, a 149 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:23.519 week or two of absolute ris we were to go 150 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:26.120 on to England tomorrow, that would be out of the question. 151 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:29.039 She cannot be moved for at least several days. Right 152 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:32.240 now she must have a complete rest. The next twenty 153 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:38.480 four hours will be critical. No, mademoiselle, you must not 154 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:39.000 break down. 155 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:43.399 Do I need your help? Yes, doctor, immediately, I need 156 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:47.000 some medicine. Will you fetch it for me? Yes? 157 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:49.320 I must not leave your mother for a moment during 158 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:53.039 these critical hours. Here I will write down this address 159 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:58.519 and a little message to my wife. Yes, I have 160 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:01.200 the mid scene already prepared my home. It will be 161 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:03.279 faster to go there for it than to a pharmacy. 162 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:05.840 There are a few chemists who have the ingredients. 163 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:09.440 Couldn't you telephone a last I have no telephone. 164 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:13.399 Well, then a messenger, Oh, mademoiselle, you do not know 165 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:17.279 Paris or are fair with the exposition opening? Nowhere can 166 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:23.120 you find a reliable messenger? They are all selling a souvenir. No, Mademoiselle, 167 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:26.159 you will accomplish ther and more rapidly yourself. 168 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:27.519 Vassil address. 169 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:30.559 Here's the address, twenty four bis Rival de Grace, and 170 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:32.799 here is the message to give to my wife. 171 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:36.000 But I don't know Paris at all. I'm a total 172 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:36.679 stranger here. 173 00:10:36.879 --> 00:10:41.600 I'm sure the manager here will give the necessary instructions 174 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:42.279 to the cabin. 175 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:45.879 Indeed I will if Madmoiselle is ready. 176 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:49.080 Before I quite knew what was happening, I was seated 177 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:52.240 in a wickedy taxicab outside the hotel, but the doctor's 178 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:56.440 message clutched in my hand. The hotel manager gave a valuable. 179 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:57.480 Direction or to the cabins. 180 00:10:57.919 --> 00:10:58.480 Where's he gone? 181 00:10:58.480 --> 00:10:58.519 To? 182 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:03.399 Autos Baniel and Little Ranida pistas. 183 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:07.039 He's sure to the swaper the desert, HA told. 184 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:09.360 You, told you, it is arranged. 185 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:12.919 Mademoiselle Jacques here is one of our most trusted cabbies. 186 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:15.600 He will get you to the doctor's outside back in safety. 187 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:18.320 Oh, thank you so much, sir. And you will look 188 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:19.200 after mother, won't you? 189 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:19.639 Oh? 190 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:23.080 Indeed I will of that, you may be sure. 191 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:36.879 When we left the hotel, we crossed a huge square 192 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:39.840 with statues around it, and turned into a wide avenue 193 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:41.960 which led up a gentle incline, at the top of 194 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:45.159 which was a huge arch. But before long we turned 195 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:48.120 off to the ride into narrower streets. It must have 196 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:50.879 been twenty minutes later when we turned into another wide 197 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:54.960 boulevard and I saw another huge arch up ahead, or 198 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:01.159 was it the same arch driver passed that arch before? 199 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:08.639 Where I don't want a sight seeing tour. I want 200 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:11.320 to go to this address directly, don't you understand? Please 201 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:12.360 not take me there at once? 202 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:13.240 Of it? 203 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:18.840 So bu la passrs, mademoiselle PERI said you off here 204 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:19.200 were you? 205 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:25.399 At last? 206 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:28.320 We turned into a narrow street and pulled up before 207 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.759 a grim gray horse. The blue and amorsan on the 208 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:35.120 wall read number twenty four piece. I jumped out of 209 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:37.279 the cab almost before it stopped, rushed up the three 210 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:42.360 stone steps and pulled at the brass bell knob. Oh hurry, hurry, hurry, 211 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:51.000 please we the doctor sent me for some medicine. Here. 212 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:53.799 Please read this what de. 213 00:12:53.919 --> 00:13:02.879 Nie said, John famous the parry Emmam de la France, 214 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:07.240 Oh all tree MANI was in thank you. 215 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:12.960 The doctor's wife stood there, reading and rereading the note 216 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.519 as though she didn't understand it, and until I thought 217 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:19.360 I would scream, oh, please, please hurry, get the medicine. 218 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:21.559 It's my mother. She may be dying. I must get 219 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:24.159 back to her. Please hurry, I see you. She pointed 220 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.759 to a chair that's adds it and slowly walked down 221 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:29.639 the hall and closed the door behind her. I waited 222 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:35.080 and waited, and I wondered, wondered about the time, the 223 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:38.000 text he had taken to get here, about that arch 224 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:41.159 that looked so familiar, And I was torn by the 225 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.919 hundred nameless anxieties that taught to you when you're nearest 226 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.960 and dearest desire. And then I heard something that froze 227 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:51.519 my blood. Her telephone, a telephone clearly ringing somewhere in 228 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:54.639 the house, but the doctor had said he had no telephone. 229 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:55.879 That was the reason I must come all the way 230 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:59.480 for the medicine. Now it could be in this hospital, 231 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:02.600 it must be next door across the street. Of course, 232 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:11.960 that's where the sound was coming from. But no, it 233 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:14.000 was a voice of the doctor's wife answering the phone. 234 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:18.639 Oh no, no, what monstrous plot was this? I felt 235 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:21.480 my scap crawled with terror. Rain pounded, my head felt 236 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:23.039 as though would burst. I wanted to scream, to run 237 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:25.039 out of this awful house, to run all the way 238 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:28.639 across Paris to the bedside of my mother, while am mademoiselle, Oh, 239 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:36.399 thank you, thank you, Oh wow, mademoiselle. Now, driver, please please, 240 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:38.120 in the name of your own mother, hurried back to 241 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:39.720 the hotel as fast as possible. 242 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:44.720 Please, Oh A afraid the song mademoiselle. 243 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:54.840 We are. But my pleading was of no use. Either 244 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:59.000 it was misunderstood or ignored. We crawled across Paris just 245 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:01.799 as slowly as we had, and I was certain I 246 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:05.399 saw that same white arch three times. But at last 247 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:07.399 we crossed the great Square with the statues in it, 248 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:10.159 and I knew we were close to the hotel. Please 249 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:11.039 please hurry. 250 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:12.840 I filled the solve. 251 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:16.960 Just beyond the Great Square, we turned up a narrow 252 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:19.519 street which shortly ended a wide circle, in the middle 253 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:22.440 of which was a tall, slender monument. The driver swung 254 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:24.759 around the monument and pulled up before the entrance of 255 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:30.080 the hotel, reached back and opened the door. I jumped 256 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:33.159 out of the cab, and then I saw the sign 257 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:38.519 over the entrance. It said Hotel Ritz. Driver, you've taken 258 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:41.039 me to the wrong hotel. I'm staying at the Grand 259 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:42.399 Hotel Universal. 260 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:46.720 Cycle. 261 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:50.200 I don't understand what you're saying, but will you please 262 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:51.639 take me to the Grand Hotel. 263 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:55.480 Universe Seekers of Jose they set the seekers of you. 264 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:59.360 Stupid, stupid man. Can't you understand my mother is ill? 265 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:01.519 You've taken more than two hours to get me with 266 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:04.080 that doctor's house in back. Can't you understand my mother 267 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:05.559 is sick, perhaps dying. 268 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:09.159 You mademoiselle, I felt a lad Ba dorg. 269 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:13.679 A small group of passers by stopped and were listening 270 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:17.519 curiously to the argument. Then they joined in and started 271 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:22.240 taking sides. Everywhere I looked for foreign faces, strangers, enemies, 272 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:25.759 and then shouldering his way through the crowd, I saw 273 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:28.360 a bareheaded young man in treves with a pipe climbed 274 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:30.639 in his teeth, and before I had a chance to speak, 275 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:32.240 I knew help had come. 276 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:33.480 I'm having some trouble. 277 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:36.519 Oh, thank heavens, you're English, all right, and it seems 278 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:38.679 to be the matter. I told him rapidly as I could, 279 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:44.080 and he paid the Newlish Cabby popped me into another cab, 280 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:46.759 and five minutes later we walked into the lobby of 281 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:50.279 the Grand Hotel Universal. The marriager was behind the desk. 282 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:52.200 My mother, is she all right? 283 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:54.039 Hey, your big girl, pardon my mother? 284 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:56.399 Missus Winship in three four two? Is she all right? 285 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:00.679 Must be mistaken? There is no windship in four two. 286 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:05.519 Three four to two is occupied by mister august To Noah, 287 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:06.839 you're a permanent guests. 288 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:11.200 But don't you remember me. I'm Cynthia Winship. Two hours 289 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:12.680 ago you put me into a taxi to go to 290 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:14.319 the doctor's house for some medicine for my mother. 291 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:17.640 I am afraid that Mademoiselle is mistaken. I have never 292 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:19.599 seen her befoer in my life. 293 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:21.759 Well, okay, what is this, listen, I swear it to you. 294 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:24.799 It's just as I say. We signed a register less 295 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:27.160 than three hours ago. We got in on the train 296 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:27.759 from Marseilles. 297 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:29.200 Well, let's have a look at the register. 298 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:32.160 Yes, I'll show you. I'm in three four two. Where 299 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:32.759 is the register? 300 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:37.440 Deserve mademoiselle. You may see it for yourself. See today's date. 301 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:42.319 Fourteen guests registered. But I don't see any mademoiselle or 302 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:43.640 mad damouen sheep? 303 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:47.200 Do you no? 304 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:51.920 What have you done with my mother? What have you 305 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:52.640 done with my mother? 306 00:17:57.039 --> 00:17:57.720 We'll get to the part of. 307 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:01.480 This perhaps is mistaken. She is registered that some other 308 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:02.000 don't know. 309 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:07.359 This is the hotel, the Grand Universal. You you were 310 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:10.200 standing there when we arrived. You handed my mother for 311 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:12.359 pen with which she registered. You came to the room 312 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:13.559 with the doctor. You put me in the. 313 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:15.319 Taxi bert I assure you. 314 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:20.799 Mademoiselle, he carried our baggage. 315 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:25.960 She'll remembered bagage, Madame. 316 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:29.000 Enorm monsieur. 317 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:32.119 There were six pieces, don't you remember? You wanted to 318 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:34.480 take them all, and I insisted on carrying the jewel case. 319 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:36.240 It was a little red one. 320 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:38.200 No, Mademoiselle. 321 00:18:39.319 --> 00:18:42.640 Veuille, this is I never saw you in his life before, 322 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:45.640 but this is monster. 323 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:51.680 It's impossible. My mother is somewhere in this hotel. What 324 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:54.319 have you done with her. What have you done with her? 325 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:06.480 Now? Then? How do you feel, Miss Winship? 326 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:07.000 Better? 327 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:07.400 Thank you? 328 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:09.799 This soup was very nourishing. 329 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:12.200 Won't you have something else? Sad bit of road? 330 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:12.519 Thank you? 331 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:13.880 A cup of tea? 332 00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:17.240 Perhaps, certainly it would touch the poor Madmoiselle. 333 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:21.240 I don't know how to thank you, mister. Do you 334 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:22.640 realize I don't even know your name. 335 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:24.839 It's Bruce, Bruce Stanley. 336 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:26.599 I'm glad to meet you, mister Stanley. 337 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:27.960 It's a pleasure, Miss Winship. 338 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:31.720 Mister Stanley, you believe me, don't you? 339 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:32.640 Of course I don't. 340 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:34.720 We did register that hotel. We were in room three 341 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:37.640 forty two. I can even describe the furnishings. There was 342 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:39.519 a big window that went from the ceiling to the floor. 343 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:41.839 Well, every hotel room in Paris says windows like that, 344 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:45.480 Miss Winship, Oh they do, yes. Well. 345 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:48.680 In this room, the draperies were plum colored. There was 346 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:51.319 a marble table, a black marble it was, and a 347 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:53.640 gilt clock. It had run down, the hands had stopped. 348 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:56.640 I remember it twenty minutes past three. The walls were 349 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:59.559 covered in rose brocade, and the bedspread was a washed 350 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:02.079 out yellow. Oh, if I could only get into that room. 351 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:03.640 You'd see. I'm not making this up. I'm not. 352 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:06.200 I'm sure you won't. Perhaps I can find a way 353 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:07.240 to make them let you in the room. 354 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:08.200 Oh can you? 355 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:11.680 Yes, I I'm with the Embassy or now under secretary 356 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:12.240 sort of thing. 357 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:13.359 I er. 358 00:20:13.559 --> 00:20:16.359 I believe the British Empire has enough influence to change 359 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:18.039 the mind of an obstinate Paris in keeper. 360 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:19.519 Then let's do it right away. 361 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:21.039 Well, I I'm. 362 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:23.559 Afraid the might of Britain can't move that fast. It's 363 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:26.480 past dinner time. But tomorrow we'll see tomorrow. 364 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:29.759 But I must get into that room to night. I 365 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:32.480 have no money, no where to sleep. 366 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:34.279 We can do nothing with the people at the hotel. 367 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:36.920 You saw that. We'll just have to be patient until tomorrow. 368 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:39.000 I'm I'm sure I can find a room for it 369 00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:41.440 to night in a passy on near the embassy. You 370 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:42.519 are so very kind. 371 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:45.640 How can I ever thank you, mister Stanley. 372 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:51.519 Well you you might begin by calling me Bruce. Thank you, Bruce, 373 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:57.759 Thank you. Cynthia. Oh, oh, what is it? 374 00:20:57.880 --> 00:20:59.920 I just thought of something. The doctor. The doctor, yes, 375 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:02.000 the one the hotel manager brought in to look after mother. 376 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:05.000 I still have his address somewhere here in my purse. Yes, 377 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:07.359 here it is. Oh, we must go there immediately. He 378 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:08.400 can tell us about mother. 379 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:11.640 You see twenty four piece Rubardi grass. Well that's not fine. 380 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:13.480 It's just off the Boulevardraspine and the Luxembourg. 381 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:15.079 How long would it take to get there by taxi? 382 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:17.599 About ten minutes, but it. 383 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:22.160 It took over an hour this afternoon. 384 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:34.759 What I'm as sure that piece rouvaldo grass? 385 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:37.480 Here we are, Yes, this is the place I turned 386 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.000 them on via. The house is dark. 387 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:42.039 It's quite late. 388 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:51.079 Well, I don't care. We've got to find out tonight, Jela, 389 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:53.000 he said, where is here? 390 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:56.079 The upstairs window? And monsieur le doctor said, Mademoiselle Stanley 391 00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:58.920 el vevoure, and. 392 00:21:59.039 --> 00:22:00.720 Listen, goodie. Papa was instantly. 393 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:03.440 He says, he doesn't know you, but he must he must. 394 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:06.880 Doctor. Don't you remember this afternoon you sent me to 395 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:08.279 your house for medicine for my mother? 396 00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:11.559 He says he doesn't understand English. 397 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:15.680 Oh, the liar, the dreadful liar. He does. He speaks perfectly, 398 00:22:18.839 --> 00:22:21.200 coming for it was on any police. 399 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:24.559 I'm sorry, Cynthia. 400 00:22:24.839 --> 00:22:29.400 Oh Bruce, what am I going to do? What am 401 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:39.000