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Speaker 1: Come in.

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Speaker 2: Welcome.

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Speaker 1: I'm e. G. Marshall.

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Speaker 2: A tryptich is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary as a

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picture or carving in three parts side by side, especially

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an altarpiece consisting of a central panel and two flanking

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panels that fold over it. Thus, by definition, it represents

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the sacred figure and usually three aspects of that figure.

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This story concerns a tryptich that represents a holy, profane,

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and baleful figure in all its different aspects. Our mystery

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drama Cryptic for a Witch was written especially for the

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Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Margaret Hamilton. It

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is sponsored in part by Listering Lozenges and Buick Motor Division.

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I'll be back shortly with that one. In many cultures,

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the aged had a function and were treated with reverence

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and respect less and less. This is true of the

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accidental cultures. I enter no discussion of whether this is

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right or wrong. Frequently the elderly would prefer to be

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left alone to pursue their own destinies. And yet when

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the moment comes and some very ancient relative is left alone,

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particularly a woman, some atavistic instinct or is it just

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plain guilt drives many of us to open at least

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our homes, if not wholly our hearts to them. This

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is the story of to such people. But may Heaven

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protect you from the strange and awful experience they unwillingly

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laid themselves open to.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Well Jones, as the governor of North Carolina said to

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that other guy, this is just about it.

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Speaker 4: Did I know my great grandfather was going to get

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married again just before he died?

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Speaker 1: And now I thought I was marrying an orphan? No,

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I find out your tricked me.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I just forgot about Charlie.

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Speaker 4: He's sixty years older than me.

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Speaker 3: I didn't even know he was at live.

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Speaker 4: But she wrote such a sweet matters. There isn't anyone

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else's family to at least I can do to help

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out pull old Charlie's widow till she finds out what

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she's going to do.

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Speaker 2: Okay, nowhere, how old is Old Charlie's widow?

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Speaker 1: Anyway?

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Speaker 3: Search me?

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Speaker 4: Just before our wedding, when mother died, she mentioned out

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of the blue that my great grandfather had suddenly married.

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Speaker 3: At the age of eighty two.

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Speaker 4: Then you came into my mind, and they had thought

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I ever had went out the wintu.

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Speaker 2: And that's why I'm so jealous of anyone horning in.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Charlie had a real eye for the ladies.

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Speaker 4: The first few times he married, only one of them

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wasn't young enough to be his daughter. This one might

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turn out to be young enough to be as gred.

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess we're about to find out.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, this is.

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Speaker 2: It for better or for worse? The times you looked

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back and would like to have fit in.

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Speaker 3: Your tongue for some crazy thing you.

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Speaker 2: Blurt out, Not that I knew right away. Matter of fact,

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when we first smothered her, Oh, Galvin, it looks so bad. Oh,

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she was no spring chicken. She was old, all right,

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a little round faced like a withered apple that's still,

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had red cheeks and sharp blue eyes that glittered like agates,

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and didn't miss a trick. Darting out from the shadows

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of a wide brimmed hat with a conical crown.

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Speaker 1: It looked a little like it might have been left.

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Speaker 2: Over from the Halloween before.

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Speaker 1: All gray.

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Speaker 2: She was surprised, skipping along like a sandpiper with a

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pet carrier in one hand.

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Speaker 1: And a carpet bag in the other.

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Speaker 3: John I'm your your great grandfather's ester, and this must

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be Walker. Hello, dear, how did you know? You know

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you're anywhere spending image?

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Speaker 1: You Charlie only prettier.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let me take those everythings from member.

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Speaker 3: Band takes no problem.

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Speaker 1: You can have the bag.

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Speaker 3: I'll hang on a smoky He likes to stay real

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close smoking. My cat s you're on your tone again.

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Just want to get Captain jack ont of my pocket

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before he stirs up a reader some.

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Speaker 5: Of the words cat and gavation.

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Speaker 2: You talk.

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Speaker 3: It's cause he talk. He's a parrot, well, a kind

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of parrot. Haf moon they're called. You don't mind about smoking,

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Captain Jackson won't be any trouble, of course.

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Speaker 1: We don't mind.

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Speaker 3: Gets a little surprise.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't that bird me a cage.

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Speaker 3: Can't abide them. He sits on my shoulder or a

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perch I had for an uncoffee. Then he won't hie away.

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Cat Flight said as I could not that he would anyways.

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Speaker 2: You mean you've brought that bird all the way from

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Minnesota in your coat pocket.

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Speaker 3: Of course he sleeps there. Oh, I take him out.

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Let me change planes. He was complaining, he.

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Speaker 2: Does really like to fly, Oh that's a switch. Well,

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shall we get this show on the road. It was

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a kind of comical to the I mean, you know,

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I was twenty three, a rookie cop, just off probation

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after a hitching the Navy, and already I was married,

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had a kid, and now I just inherited an aged

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great grandmother, plus a cat and a talking parrot.

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Speaker 1: Who needs it?

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Speaker 2: I started off easy, play it cool, just like Joan

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and me agreed no ties except for getting married, but

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it's outside of that. Just hang loose, enjoy being young,

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and keep all the options open, and before you know it,

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we're trapped.

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Speaker 3: Who are Will you climb off the ceiling hand? Wouldn't

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one of It's crazy?

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Speaker 2: The whole thing is christ ant hester a Catholic bites

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and I'm not giving you any line, but I think

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about half fake pellet is on something?

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Speaker 3: You know that funny? You know you you really object

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to have been here, don't you?

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Speaker 2: Or what about our vacation on the cake or we're

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gonna have to lugger there?

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Speaker 3: Not on a bet.

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Speaker 2: It's just us alone.

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Speaker 4: Thank your sister Rosie, who's gonna take our child in

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heir off her hands for two weeks is he tellators

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can be is some mu in time of dire distress,

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wells anything happened to Rosie and hester could come well.

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We decided that was the best name for her. Everything

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else is sort of clumsy. Anyway, As I was saying,

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Ancestor could always still in this babysitter.

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Speaker 2: Now, I wouldn't leave Kip alone here in the apartment

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with an old.

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Speaker 3: Witch like that fell color a witch. He's a sweet

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old lady.

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Speaker 4: Oh you have something special against Ancestor?

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Speaker 1: No baby, Now what could I have against well?

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Speaker 2: Like you said, a nice, sweet old lady. But for once,

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and I guess the first time, I wasn't telling the wife.

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Speaker 1: I loved the truth.

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Speaker 2: On the surface, everything's nice about antstiny, even that spite

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folk Chatama tuckingming me burned.

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Speaker 1: But the bite we are wrong somewhere. Maybe it's the

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reason I became a cup.

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Speaker 2: I got this special thing about people. All I gotta

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do is meet.

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Speaker 1: Someone when a minute some buzzer goes off. Wrong guy,

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right guy.

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Speaker 3: It's never failed me yet, of course, Rosie, I understand.

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Speaker 4: Uh No, we couldn't take a chance at Kit's age.

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Oh please, don't worry.

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Speaker 3: We're working out.

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Speaker 1: There.

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Speaker 6: Is something wrong, Joan, dear?

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Speaker 3: Oh, well, nothing earthshaking.

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Speaker 4: I guess it's just that a vacations messed up. Oh

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what's the matter, Oh Rosie's oldest child. They just come

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down with me.

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Speaker 3: So that changes all our plans, doesn't it?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Not yours, hussy? You asked after delude the end of

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the week.

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Speaker 3: I'd be happy to put things off and stay here

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until you've heard your vacation. I couldn't do there, Kip

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would be.

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Speaker 4: Too much for you.

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Speaker 3: And and there's unless you wanted to come along with

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that to the cave.

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Speaker 4: It's lovely then, and Wat and I could have our cake.

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Speaker 3: And eat it too, if you're sure Walt wouldn't mind,

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I'd be happy to.

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Speaker 2: How could I object or complain?

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Speaker 1: It seemed that perfect solution?

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Speaker 2: And why was I ridden with doubts and fears that

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I concealed from Joan? They only began to take shape

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when we finally did.

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Speaker 1: Go to the cake.

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Speaker 2: The cabin was right on the beach, up on a

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sandy facing the Atlantic.

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Speaker 1: Joan and I had lots of time to swim and surf,

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while ant Hester kept an eye on Kip.

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Speaker 2: Every so often, Joan would.

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Speaker 1: Have mother's guilt feelings.

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Speaker 2: And decided that this particular morning would be just for

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kipping her. And on one of these mornings, I had

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gone beachcombing, and on the way back had stopped for

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a rest covered by sea grapes, and.

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Speaker 1: Had fallen asleep.

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Speaker 2: All of a sudden some evening time, clock woke me and I.

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Speaker 1: Was looking towards the beach, where I saw smoking.

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Speaker 2: The cat prowling and pawing in the receiving tide, as

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if you were harvesting. Not to my feet, my eyes,

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even after sleep, were still partially sunblinded, and headed down

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to the water. As I came near, that cat looked

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around and seeing me, suddenly fiddled out to ant hester's plumpness,

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barefoot and bear legged, her skirts piped up to her knees. Panhster,

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Why hell, no, law, What am i You're doing here?

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Speaker 3: Me? Oh, the gathering completely by.

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Speaker 1: Prettiest thing from a distance.

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Speaker 2: I not seem silly to say it.

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Speaker 1: But you look like smoky my cat.

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Speaker 3: For Land's sake, how would a cat go near seawater?

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You look pretty sunburned. Maybe you've got a little too

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much dumb You feel all right?

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Speaker 1: Yes, I guess so do you? Want to see me before.

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Speaker 2: On my little seacret.

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Speaker 3: Tell you better get back up to the house and

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let you and you're pretty Joe and go Dickenson, why

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you got the chance?

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Speaker 1: The chance?

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Speaker 3: Whom you know what I mean? Summer is growing short,

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not much time left.

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Speaker 2: And innocent enough remark surely it was growing short and

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soon you'd have to get back to the city.

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Speaker 1: But why did it have.

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Speaker 2: Some sort of eerie significance to me?

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Speaker 1: Why did I feel a long.

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Speaker 2: Run of cold fingers down my back? H needs a

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queasy feeling a cop gets every time he has to

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draw a gun to protect himself.

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Speaker 1: The weather turns down as Jones and going back to Shorefoards.

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Speaker 4: Walks, Oh, I don't care about the weare there, they've

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gotten back before that.

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Speaker 1: Light and fun. You want to get home to me? Sure?

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Speaker 3: How about you?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well her else?

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. You don't seem to like her,

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how much as my aunt has to came around?

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Speaker 2: Okay, the one way, the cards on the table, I.

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Speaker 7: Don't you are not I don't know how to telligence.

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Speaker 1: I used to read.

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Speaker 2: Books about the hackles rising on someone's neck. I never

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knew exactly what it meant, I do know, well, how.

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Speaker 4: Good he you have to have feathers like a bird

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or hair like an animal.

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Speaker 2: I feel as if I do I smoke, you're captain

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Jack the I'm holy three. And now when she puts

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that add on, she looks just like a witch.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, howl.

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Speaker 4: How can you say something like that about somebody's sweet

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and helpful.

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Speaker 3: As a he has? I don't know, it just doesn't

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make any sense.

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Speaker 2: Its like this afternoon the cans I mean, uh, she

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I'm I mean, well, what w amp has to be

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doing together?

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Speaker 1: I see we Well, maybe you.

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Speaker 4: Haven't noticed that the laso has happened inspite of bite.

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Speaker 3: Him in helcoth everything we take. I been hating a

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crowd at hen because you have an old paston entity fire.

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He the apartment and he knew.

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Speaker 2: Joe, why don't you promise me something? Don't take any

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of that tea me guy, I.

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Speaker 1: Want to promise on your love for me.

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Speaker 2: Don't touch that tea.

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Speaker 4: You don't ride, don't go your school.

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Speaker 3: I'm with you. You're the man that calls the jury.

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Speaker 2: If Joan was puzzled at me, so was I at myself.

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Speaker 1: What was it?

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Speaker 2: This subconscious fear that slowly was invading me.

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Speaker 1: What was I afraid of?

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Speaker 2: A little old lady and a cat and a bird.

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She tended it carefully as our child, But some wild

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alarm bell was ringing deep in the pit of.

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Speaker 1: My stomach, and my.

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Speaker 2: Police training reacted instinctively that night through the precinct station,

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I put some queries on the wires, and I picked

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up a sample of the seaweed and airmailed it to

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the police lab. Police confirmed Charles Herold he'd be died

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when his house burned down on date named.

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Speaker 1: Also killed in fire was his.

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Speaker 2: Wife less than twelve months Hester Combs Higbne Channing. Both

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buried Sunnyside Garden Cemetery. No known relatives, funeral expenses covered

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by a state, no residue. My esp working again, this

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time when I least wanted it. If Jones ant Hester

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was dead, Oh what was this stranger in our home?

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Speaker 3: What you want?

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Speaker 2: And then not cling shot? Hello?

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Speaker 1: Oh it's g hi Jake.

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Speaker 7: What you got on this chunk you mailed me for analysis?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? The seaweed, That's what it.

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Speaker 2: Is, all right, seaweed?

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Speaker 7: Nothing but a simple hun.

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Speaker 2: I's a poisonous absolutely not.

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Speaker 7: What harmifly and.

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Speaker 2: Unless, of course unless what of course.

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Speaker 7: It's kind of nutty, you know, but it's a special

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fungus in a way, and.

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Speaker 1: A come on, Jake, let me have it.

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Speaker 2: I feel kind of silly, walk I mean, it's only

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because there since more diet, I'm kind of a well,

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like Dickens, an old antiquarian, and I read up on

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offbeat subjects like what, well, there's particular seaweed in the

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Middle Ages and all like that. It was like, you know,

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frog's eyes and bats fur and all the jump that

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got boiled up in a cauldron when someone wanted to

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mess around.

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Speaker 7: With black magic.

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Speaker 1: I mean, kind of crazy even to mention it.

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Speaker 7: But since it worries you so much, there's no chance

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you kind of witch somewhere at your house? Is there?

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Speaker 2: The first side panel of the cryptic Hester Higbee, from

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Waltz's point of view, a hazy picture not yet formed,

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but an icy fear gripping at his vitals. Truth or

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fancy that will have to wait Jones evaluation at least,

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and events beyond that. I'll return shortly for that too.

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Of course, nobody believes in witches anymore, and yet it's

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a little like superstitions nobody believes in them, and yet

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do many of us like to have a black cat

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cross our path. If you're like most people, do you

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try to avoid walking under a ladder Except for sheer bravado.

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On the other hand, there are people who are so

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healthy in mind and body, so open hearted and so generous,

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and who, without being Pollyanna do look by habit on

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the best side of everything, people like Joan Madden.

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Speaker 4: I should have known not to give into my old

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fashioned sentimentality ever since I should walk.

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Speaker 3: I've been a sucker for every stray dog and lost kitten.

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It wasn't through the world. I knew he didn't want

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to take on any extra burdens, and it was.

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Speaker 4: Stupid not to remember that he was just really only

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getting his nerves back.

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Speaker 3: In shape after that sweeked out war. He got stuck in.

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But great Grandpa's letter was so sweet and so sad.

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Speaker 4: I just didn't have the heart to refuse his dying request.

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So I had to tell aunt has to to come.

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Speaker 3: And stay with us. I just never figured that what

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would get hurt.

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Speaker 2: Just give me a straight answer, Joan, have you laid

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off that seaweed dunk?

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Speaker 1: She's been trying to feed you.

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Speaker 4: Of course I have. It's it's yeah, Well anyway, I

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don't eat anything without researching it first.

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Speaker 3: You know, you talk as though she might try to

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poison me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what she's up to.

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Speaker 3: Well, why should she be up to anything.

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Speaker 2: Because she isn't who she's supposed to be. We don't

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know that. Bill Cox got on the telics to the

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Duluth Police Department and sent me a copy of the

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teletype he got in reply, your great grandfather's wife got

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incinerated with him when his house burned down. No, she didn't, Joan,

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Let's not get around. I got this through police channel.

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Speaker 4: Who even the police can make a mistake, just like you.

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Speaker 1: What's that supposed to mean?

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Speaker 4: Oh, you haven't given aunt Hester a chance to tell

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her side of this story.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's do that little thing right now.

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Speaker 1: Now, let me get this straight.

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Speaker 2: Aunt Hester or whoever you are. You weren't in the

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house when it burned down.

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Speaker 3: Then sakes water, of course not. How could I be

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here if I haven't been? Oh dear, what's the matter?

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I think I'd dropped the stitch.

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Speaker 2: Let me see now, look, if you weren't in the house, where.

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Speaker 1: Were you.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I want to say, why not? It's

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sort of important. I suppose it could be made to be.

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Dear me, he was such a good man. I'm kind,

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but we week and terribly careless. Oh oh, it's beginning

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to get dark, isn't it. I'll turn on the lights.

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Oh no, No, first, the windows, the rates and the

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shutters are siah for God. There say see you like that?

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Got ever so much? The night must always be shut out,

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especially here. You can put the lights down now as

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you want.

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Speaker 2: I'm still waiting for an answer for me.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, about the house burning down. Oh, dear, I

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hoped I wouldn't have to go into this. But now, Walter,

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don't look so grim. It's all perfectly logical. It's it's

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terribly unpleasant. I'm afraid when Charlie wrote that note about me,

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he wasn't quite telling the truth. He did say he

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had lucas erstenotosis. This snanatus, didn't he Yes, Uh, we

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didn't know what it was. That's the bad kind terminal.

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Only it wasn't true. He was just trying to cover up.

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Speaker 1: Cover up what or that?

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Speaker 3: Even though I loved him, I'd had to take smoky

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in captain Jack and leave him. Why, Oh my, I

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guess I can't pull any punctures.

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Speaker 2: You see, Charlie was a chaser, a chaser.

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Speaker 4: He was woman crazy and had gotten so bad I

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I'd had to move out little bit. I realized how

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lucky I'd had, or I would have been burned up

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in that house.

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Speaker 2: Are you trying to tell me that a man of

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eighty two was still t I well, and I mean

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were still.

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Speaker 1: Messing around with other women.

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Speaker 3: You better believe it, son, and he had another woman

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with him when the house burned down. I'm sorry to

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blacken his name for you, Jonie, but that's about the

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size of it. All the times I used to warn

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him about smoking the cigars in bed.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute.

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Speaker 2: You don't actually expect me to believe all this stuff?

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Speaker 3: Why not when it's the truth.

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Speaker 2: Because the in her water, I mean, what.

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Speaker 3: About this other woman.

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Speaker 2: She must have friends or relatives or something. You can't

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just leave them wondering what's happened to him?

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Speaker 3: What good would it do them to know that she'd

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been burned to a Chris. Besides Darling and with the

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drifter and the dead beat, she was.

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Speaker 4: Also a professional nobody will miss her. But I'd asked

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her what about the estate, and yeah, there wasn't the estate.

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Speaker 3: What money we had was mine.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but the house the insurance.

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Speaker 3: Didn't own it. Charlie had no insurance.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but you've thrown away your identity.

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Speaker 2: You can't even get Social Security or.

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Speaker 3: I won't be needing any of it. You see, I'm

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the one who hasn't much longer to live the pains

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of the gun already. I'll be all right, though. The

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doctor said it would be quick if if you'll just

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keep a roof over my head till till the dark

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angel comes to pull me in his way. And he's

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facial to study.

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Speaker 4: He felt almost a sorry for him, as I did,

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poor and after, but I managed to get him out

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of the room and out of the house for a

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long walk on the beach just as well, because we

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had amounted to her first corner and the way he

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carried her really scared me.

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Speaker 2: And I'm telling you she's up faith, she's lying through

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her teeth, and I want her out of this house.

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Speaker 3: Darling, please coming down.

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Speaker 4: You know I can't just tell my pearl Andrews, you

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don't have a listen to what I'm trying to tell

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you she's not your poor all loud, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, you're a rafe. Don't get yourself good sick.

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Speaker 4: And even if she isn't, she's the three old lady

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was nowhere to go.

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Speaker 2: I know where she can go as far as I'm concerned,

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and as far as I'm concerned, it's right where she

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belongs to.

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Speaker 3: The old witch walk at Billy didn't. If it's things

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a rich, yes there is.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you something about that sweet old

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lady of yours. I think she burned the house down,

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and by me, the only reason she took a plane

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here was to make things look good. She could just

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as easily admit it on a broomstick to have him.

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Speaker 3: Please. Now look, I want you to return and relax.

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It's just like it was after who came back from overseas.

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Maybe they had to call doctor Paul Ateman. How don't you.

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Speaker 1: Doctor dam mean?

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Speaker 2: All I need is the evidence of mine own eyes

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and ears and my police.

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Speaker 4: And thinks, what do you mean evidence of your eyes

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and ears?

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Speaker 2: I told you right then about there on those rocks,

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that's where I saw the cat pouring.

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Speaker 3: About in the water, and then all of a.

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Speaker 2: Sudden, the cat changed into antestor.

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Speaker 3: Why you've been sleep? That?

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Speaker 2: Would you the.

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Speaker 3: Hallucination?

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Speaker 2: I don't hallucinate it, but not anymore anyways.

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Speaker 1: And it isn't only that.

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Speaker 2: But she talks of that bird, the Captain Jack, all

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the time, and sometimes there's a third voice like the cat,

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and he talks back.

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Speaker 1: I hear them, don't you know?

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Speaker 2: So now you think I'm hearing things too.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Captain Jack says that, you little word. But

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how could a cat.

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Speaker 2: Talk because they're not just a cat and a bird

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anymore than she's your ant pastor or even human. I

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tell you she's a witch and the other two are

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her familiars.

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Speaker 1: Well what I went to the library and read up

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on it.

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Speaker 2: There were two kinds of minor spirits that witch has had,

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or have called familiars.

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Speaker 1: One was a dibinding familiar.

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Speaker 2: And the other was a domestic one.

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Speaker 4: Oh honey, look at me, now, you can't honestly believe

475
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:23,200
all their.

476
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 3: Spilgy suppose I do? And I think she's hit and

477
00:23:28,759 --> 00:23:29,920
you ought to see a doctor.

478
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 1: Listen.

479
00:23:31,039 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 2: I just want that woman out of the house and out.

480
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 3: Of our lives, So don't ask me to do that.

481
00:23:34,519 --> 00:23:37,680
To the poor old thing. Look where could she work

482
00:23:37,759 --> 00:23:40,440
from me? Huh? How could she hurt me?

483
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:42,400
Speaker 1: I don't know.

484
00:23:42,839 --> 00:23:44,319
Speaker 4: You can see from the way she keeps kid, how

485
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:45,640
highness and well meaning she is.

486
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 2: Oh, good lord, maybe that's what she's after.

487
00:23:49,319 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: The baby. And we left her alone with him.

488
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 2: Oh, you light.

489
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,079
Speaker 3: You scared me to death, the two of you running

490
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,359
like that and bursting to the house. I thought you'd

491
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,359
wake up poor little kid.

492
00:24:03,319 --> 00:24:06,039
Speaker 4: Look at him having at le afternoon Nap was smoking

493
00:24:06,039 --> 00:24:08,279
in his arms, and Captain Jack perched on the edge

494
00:24:08,319 --> 00:24:13,920
of the crib, keeping for the old and all, Oh dear.

495
00:24:14,519 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 3: When the sun goes down, my old bones have an ache.

496
00:24:17,799 --> 00:24:20,640
And I look at you, Joan Darley, and think to myself,

497
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,440
what a wonderful thing it is to have a young,

498
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:29,920
healthy body at one's command. How much you make me

499
00:24:30,039 --> 00:24:32,079
long to be just as you are.

500
00:24:32,319 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 4: Now, Look where are you going from?

501
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 2: I'm going into town to nail this thing down once

502
00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:42,440
and for all.

503
00:24:42,759 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 1: Huh.

504
00:24:43,559 --> 00:24:45,759
Speaker 2: I can use the police teletype and I'm gonna get

505
00:24:45,759 --> 00:24:48,240
a court order from the Duluth Police Department to exhume

506
00:24:48,279 --> 00:24:50,960
the remains of whoever died in that fire once and

507
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,119
for all. I mean to find out just who and

508
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,640
what it is we have living in our house, and

509
00:24:55,759 --> 00:24:58,240
darling on when it comes from you? What don't you

510
00:24:58,319 --> 00:25:00,359
leave Kip alone for one minute while I'm gone?

511
00:25:01,039 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 3: Why you're not really serious?

512
00:25:02,559 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 1: A hut?

513
00:25:03,279 --> 00:25:06,079
Speaker 2: I was never more serious in my life, because if

514
00:25:06,079 --> 00:25:08,680
that woman represents a threat to you or our future,

515
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,160
I wouldn't hesitate for a moment to wipe her off

516
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,160
the face of the earth.

517
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 4: Or and that's the reason, just to things what was gone?

518
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:23,079
I called doctor Damon because the way I thought what

519
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,160
was wrong around our house was my poor husband. He

520
00:25:26,279 --> 00:25:28,400
was back in a Tilston, just like after the war.

521
00:25:29,079 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 3: He was round the bend. Somehow I had to find

522
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:33,559
a way to bring him back or.

523
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:44,839
Speaker 2: The second panel of the triptych is Joan right? Has

524
00:25:44,839 --> 00:25:47,960
she reason to be worried about Walt? Or is she

525
00:25:48,039 --> 00:25:51,680
perhaps worrying about the wrong person, shutting.

526
00:25:51,319 --> 00:25:53,039
Speaker 1: Her eyes to the real danger?

527
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,039
Speaker 2: Is aunt Hester what she seems to Joan or what

528
00:25:57,079 --> 00:26:01,599
Walt is convinced she is? And if wild, as it seems,

529
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,640
she were a witch, what is it she's after? I'll

530
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:23,319
return shortly without three And now at last, for the

531
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:28,559
central panel, the sum and substance of the two side portraits.

532
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,440
We have examined the real truth about Hester Madden. But first,

533
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,759
a harried phone call from Joan to Dtor Damon, monitored

534
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,880
unaware by either of the principles, by that sweet old

535
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,880
lady hester On a convenient extension.

536
00:26:45,759 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 4: I'm sorry about you, doctor, but I am frantic.

537
00:26:48,759 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 7: I don't blame you. I had hoped that Walter had

538
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,640
found himself. Can you get him back to town to

539
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,920
see me? Hi, Daddy, Well, I have a free week.

540
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,720
I might take advantage of this opportunity to run down

541
00:27:03,759 --> 00:27:04,359
to the cable.

542
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 3: I don't know if we can put you on.

543
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:06,880
Speaker 1: No need.

544
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 7: I have a little summer cabin in Orleans. I could

545
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,759
just gop in on you work casually and check out.

546
00:27:13,799 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 4: What if you only cut ow? You know me, PI

547
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,759
don't easily. But well, this whole thing has got me

548
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:22,920
really strung out.

549
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,680
Speaker 5: Okay, I'll be there, count on me.

550
00:27:26,759 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 7: Just give me directions.

551
00:27:28,039 --> 00:27:32,319
Speaker 3: Huh No, you roast in hell forever, doctor Damon. If

552
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:36,079
you try to cross my path, the psychiatrists.

553
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,400
Speaker 5: Rost them in the hall, rost them in a hart.

554
00:27:39,039 --> 00:27:41,759
Speaker 2: How much time do I still have? Not much?

555
00:27:42,319 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: The morn is full.

556
00:27:43,519 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 3: As we had as well. Bend and young jam die

557
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:56,359
to make the change. She's not prepared. Give me the

558
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:57,279
dried seaweed.

559
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 5: I don't make sure it's ducked in the salad she

560
00:28:00,839 --> 00:28:01,759
makes us for dinner.

561
00:28:01,799 --> 00:28:02,839
Speaker 3: I'd better handle down.

562
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,839
Speaker 5: No, no good. He wouldn't let you near her, even

563
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,279
if she would them.

564
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 3: And double down him made the torch of hecatey tinge

565
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,319
his eyes, her spear ripped through his vitals, and her

566
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,319
hands run him down and tear him to pieces. If

567
00:28:18,319 --> 00:28:21,799
it weren't for him, it all would have been so easy.

568
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,319
Maybe it would be better to move as soon as possible,

569
00:28:24,799 --> 00:28:29,119
even right now, while he isn't here. Yeah, a lad

570
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,720
would be taking to work of a change for all

571
00:28:32,759 --> 00:28:32,960
of that.

572
00:28:33,519 --> 00:28:34,039
Speaker 2: She's right.

573
00:28:35,559 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 3: We exist only as life you do.

574
00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:40,559
Speaker 2: Why should I care about you?

575
00:28:40,559 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 3: You're only projections of me that I can slip off

576
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:43,839
like a candle if.

577
00:28:43,759 --> 00:28:49,119
Speaker 6: I want to and be all alone without your familia

578
00:28:49,119 --> 00:28:52,079
eyes do unders down and there.

579
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 3: Hard If you did.

580
00:28:55,079 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 4: Send bestill E had on nothing nice life out to.

581
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 3: Tell them the truth. Let you need not die. If

582
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,000
you want them to say me, what come back?

583
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,119
Speaker 1: Do we claim me? All boy?

584
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 3: No, you wouldn't do that to me. Long and you

585
00:29:16,119 --> 00:29:23,759
don't do anything do on. My true name is maher Geist,

586
00:29:24,319 --> 00:29:27,359
and I'm the oldest order of the Witches, the witches

587
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,519
of the Seas. I was born before the world again,

588
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:35,319
and my stand of alloted years were seven thousand and seven.

589
00:29:36,119 --> 00:29:39,240
But when at last my time came to return and

590
00:29:39,359 --> 00:29:42,839
mingle the nameless droplets among the uncounter of the great oceans,

591
00:29:43,519 --> 00:29:45,960
I could not bring myself in the way the law.

592
00:29:46,839 --> 00:29:50,480
To escape my avenging sisters of the sea, I had

593
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,000
to find an earthly body to house thy spirit.

594
00:29:53,839 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: I called them.

595
00:29:54,519 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 3: All the ancient arts, magic, divinations, astrology, enchantments to find

596
00:30:01,279 --> 00:30:05,759
a young girl whose sign was my sign, whose birth

597
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,880
date reflected the conjunction of our houses, the ascendancy of

598
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:15,000
whose planets and stars matched my old Every two generations,

599
00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:18,720
says the body I have possessed begins to disintegrate with age.

600
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:24,160
I have found cocless s tymes, a new one to possess.

601
00:30:25,039 --> 00:30:30,279
The alternative is too hideous to contemplate. I need the body.

602
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 2: Of Joe Madda, and.

603
00:30:31,839 --> 00:30:35,599
Speaker 3: Nothing shall stop me from invading it and making it

604
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:47,079
my old And nothing shall stop fiel me. You're gude,

605
00:30:47,559 --> 00:30:51,400
don't call me by that name. Why give me yes?

606
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:53,640
What can I afford to wait?

607
00:30:53,839 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: M to buy me.

608
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:55,799
Speaker 3: Now a leb?

609
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 5: Come?

610
00:30:56,839 --> 00:30:58,559
Speaker 3: What is the man Walter Madden doing?

611
00:30:59,000 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 2: Ky?

612
00:30:59,599 --> 00:31:02,599
Speaker 5: Is there changing for an order to exhume the body,

613
00:31:03,359 --> 00:31:05,519
to examine the one of the women who died in

614
00:31:05,599 --> 00:31:08,440
the fire. He don't want me to see any further.

615
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 3: As far as you can.

616
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 5: The skull was not destroyed.

617
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 4: They will find where you struck her and killed her,

618
00:31:17,599 --> 00:31:19,440
and by the teeth they.

619
00:31:19,359 --> 00:31:21,759
Speaker 2: Will know her as someone other than you.

620
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 5: They will look further and find the fire was set

621
00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:29,960
by someone, and they will start to look for you.

622
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:34,079
Speaker 3: I knew it, Magris. What is the girl doing now?

623
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,759
Speaker 6: Garding her child.

624
00:31:37,119 --> 00:31:37,839
Speaker 3: To be taught?

625
00:31:38,039 --> 00:31:43,319
Speaker 6: Her husband told her to. He is most afraid you

626
00:31:43,559 --> 00:31:44,640
mean the boy.

627
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,839
Speaker 3: Hind does she still trusts me? He is not even

628
00:31:49,039 --> 00:31:54,160
thinking of you. She worries about her husband.

629
00:31:54,359 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 6: That he is losing control of his mind as he

630
00:31:58,839 --> 00:32:00,000
did one's before.

631
00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:02,319
Speaker 3: He does not think that I am a witch.

632
00:32:02,599 --> 00:32:05,279
Speaker 6: He doesn't believe I'm saying.

633
00:32:08,519 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 3: Let us do everything to make her think he.

634
00:32:11,039 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 2: Has gone mad.

635
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:26,519
Speaker 6: Odia it am hester, dear, Oh just a minute, anything wrong?

636
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 3: Why no, dear, That's what I was going to ask you.

637
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:34,720
Sh She gets asleep. Everything all right, of course. Why

638
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,160
shouldn't it be no reason except it isn't like you

639
00:32:38,359 --> 00:32:39,559
to shut yourself away.

640
00:32:40,119 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 2: I thought maybe you.

641
00:32:41,039 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 3: R Kip might not be feeling Oh no, no, it's

642
00:32:44,039 --> 00:32:45,039
just it's cold.

643
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm just not used to feeling at sic.

644
00:32:48,279 --> 00:32:50,079
Speaker 3: And if you have a cold, you shouldn't be sitting

645
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:51,799
locked up in the same room with a boy.

646
00:32:52,319 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: You'll give it to him.

647
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 3: Oh, I never said of that. I've just made a

648
00:32:55,799 --> 00:32:58,599
nice cup of tea. Why don't you come and join me?

649
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,559
Following her downstairs, I could feel the saliva thicken in

650
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,599
my mouth with envy. I was never more conscious of

651
00:33:10,759 --> 00:33:14,680
arthritic joints, the sagging flesh, the muffles that barely had

652
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,240
vitality enough to respond to the message of the brain.

653
00:33:18,079 --> 00:33:20,559
There in front of me was that shining hair with

654
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:24,839
a natural curl, the live muscles rippling just under the skin,

655
00:33:25,519 --> 00:33:28,200
the easy, jaggy step that had no fear of the

656
00:33:28,319 --> 00:33:32,440
treachery steps to the old and feeble. Just as we

657
00:33:32,559 --> 00:33:35,160
reached the bottom of the stairs, the fat door was

658
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,880
thrown open hurriedly, and Walt came in junior all right,

659
00:33:39,279 --> 00:33:41,799
of course, and Hester and I just about to have

660
00:33:41,799 --> 00:33:44,480
a cup of tea when you join it. I left

661
00:33:44,559 --> 00:33:45,680
them upstairs. You asleep.

662
00:33:46,519 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 4: Maybe since it won't be too long till dinner, you've

663
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:49,200
gotta have a drinker.

664
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. I I wanna talk to you.

665
00:33:52,039 --> 00:33:53,759
Speaker 3: Why don't you let me attend it inner?

666
00:33:53,839 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 7: Dear?

667
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 2: Why don't you just go in the back end has

668
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,079
to stay in your room?

669
00:33:57,319 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: What? Just let me handle things?

670
00:33:59,359 --> 00:34:01,119
Speaker 3: Of course I'll go right now.

671
00:34:01,519 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to be in a way.

672
00:34:03,799 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 3: All right, smoky, you'll get your dinner, but we're all

673
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,960
gonna have to wait. Walter just isn't feeling himself tonight.

674
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,079
Speaker 5: Put him in second eg what him a second eight?

675
00:34:15,079 --> 00:34:15,559
Speaker 1: He saying?

676
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 2: What section eight service linger for the nut hoouse?

677
00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: The looney bin? Do you still think I'm a candidate?

678
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:23,599
Speaker 3: Walk? Don't talk like that?

679
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,519
Speaker 1: Not just leave me alone. By this weekend, we should

680
00:34:27,599 --> 00:34:29,239
know the truth about who that woman is.

681
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 2: If she is your sweet old great grandmother, I'll apologize.

682
00:34:33,559 --> 00:34:35,440
But if she's what I think she is, if she

683
00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:38,519
means any harm to you or Kip, so help me,

684
00:34:39,039 --> 00:34:39,800
I'll murder her.

685
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:48,679
Speaker 3: What time is it now?

686
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,559
Speaker 5: Why have to eight thou midnight?

687
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 3: Hi died? Then we were back before then? How to

688
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,679
get Joan alone. How does sub do her so I

689
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,400
can have the power to take possessions?

690
00:35:01,639 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 6: Now along Walter.

691
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 3: Is answering, and Joan is in the kitchen alone. This

692
00:35:10,639 --> 00:35:11,480
may be our chance.

693
00:35:11,679 --> 00:35:13,760
Speaker 2: Sh I want to hear this?

694
00:35:14,679 --> 00:35:16,119
Speaker 3: Well, damon, what do you do?

695
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: But come in?

696
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 6: Come out of a terrible weather.

697
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:20,800
Speaker 7: Come in the living room.

698
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:23,039
Speaker 2: John's in the kitchen, should be right out.

699
00:35:23,519 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: What brings you here? Did Jon? Send Field? Never mind

700
00:35:26,519 --> 00:35:28,880
that now I command, don't try to sidestep.

701
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 2: I suppose she thinks I'm blacking out again. If you'd

702
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,840
shut up for a moment. No matter what brought me here,

703
00:35:35,119 --> 00:35:36,480
the weather is all that matters.

704
00:35:36,519 --> 00:35:36,679
Speaker 6: Now.

705
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,639
Speaker 2: I've been listening to the radio driving up Blackwater Dunes.

706
00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:42,079
Here is headed for the highest.

707
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:42,519
Speaker 1: Tide in history.

708
00:35:43,079 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 2: There's more danger to you and your family from the

709
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:49,320
elements outside than any foreign element you fear may be

710
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,760
loose inside. Watch, I'm close the door before we talk

711
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:53,199
any further.

712
00:35:54,079 --> 00:35:58,199
Speaker 3: You're in the living your place to change?

713
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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, here's that is who?

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Speaker 6: Hi?

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Speaker 3: Are you looking at me like that? In the name

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of the born, this one that discreates the knight and

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the day, In the name of the Abash, In the

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name of tar and cam I abjured enough to move.

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Oh my God, protect me?

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Speaker 2: What was right?

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Speaker 3: Why my way?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: My eyes?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I set her beat away until he don here dies. Yeah,

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while he is on Manabas may.

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Speaker 5: Come on to see your sunny body's come on her.

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Speaker 2: First, and I just wanted to travel quickly and so

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let her lips touch jos, he'll touch my wad.

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Speaker 1: What is it?

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Speaker 2: She and has to do his name? My had just

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fo seeks ab pets can run before the sea swamps

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us all for I never saw a tie like that,

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came in like a giant hand and swept everything away.

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Speaker 3: You were you are right, You're good, Okay, you came

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in time for even if it was for.

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Speaker 2: The wrong reason. Was let me Joan thought you needed

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psychiatric hill And I can't blame anyone who wanders the

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labyrinths of the mind has to be familiar with ghosts

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and witches and everything that haunts our dreams, waking ends sleeping.

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There is a phenomenon I know from all my reading

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that never ceases to haunt me, even me who has

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to deal with the fragmentation of personality, so much fragmentation.

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You mean, what happened when I tried to grab hester

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or whatever she was. I'll never forget that sight. A

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little black, rusty woman who broke up into countless numbers

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of other little rusty women in black dresses, all mirror

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images running in every direction at once. Protection of image

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or magic, secret of only one kind of witch to see,

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which old as her Celtic heritage and beyond, perhaps as

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old as time.

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Speaker 3: That's what Joan was saved from.

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Speaker 2: Becoming another of those faceless bodies she possessed and used up.

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You mean it was Joan she wanted, and that she's

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still in danger, not anymore?

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Speaker 1: What do you mean?

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Speaker 2: Look at where your house used to stand, wiped up

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by a cataclysmic tide that reached from the sea like

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a monstrous god hand. You and Joan are safe now

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the sea has reclaimed its hold. It was the great

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German poet Girter who wrote of a mystic goddess who

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came from the sea Margeist, which means simply sea ghost.

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The sea ebbs and surges, timeless and inexorable. But what

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it sucks away in the undertoe does not always return

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with this succeeding wave. Eventually it swallows up what it

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wills and no hand natural or supernatural can stay it.

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In the end, the sea always wins.

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Speaker 1: I'll be back shortly.

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Speaker 2: It was Malcolm in Macbeth who said, of the end

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of the Thane of Corridor, I saw him die. Nothing

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in his life became him like believing it. The context

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of the remark, of course, was somewhat different. He meant

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it as a tribute hester Or Meyergeist's death was a

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long delayed blessing for Joan Madden and all the world.

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No young girl listening to this story, born under the

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sign of Virgo, can help but sleep easier Tonight and

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other nights. Our cast included Margaret Hamilton, Christopher Tabori, E. V. Justter,

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and Gilbert Mack. The entire production was under the direction

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of Hyman Brown.

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Speaker 1: You know what you don't always d