WEBVTT 1 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:16.920 You are lost in a London fog, uncertain whether the 2 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:20.679 figures looming around you are real or creatures of your imagination, 3 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:25.640 And somewhere in the wet grayness lurks a murderer from 4 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:26.960 whom you must escape. 5 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:41.600 Escape, produced and directed by William N. Robson, and carefully 6 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:44.240 contrived to free you from the four walls of today 7 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:52.439 for a half hour of high adventure. Good Night, We 8 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:55.679 escape to a fog shrouded city and the terror of 9 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:59.359 a shell shocked mine. As Algin and Blackwood describes them 10 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:02.679 in his ghost story Confession. 11 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:13.280 There was no doubt about it. 12 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:16.560 The woman was dead. Her cheek was cold to my touch. 13 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:19.680 The head of the long sharp hatpin protruded from her 14 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:24.040 breast above the heart. She was dead, murdered, and I 15 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:27.359 stood there by the bed, my brain whirling crazily. I 16 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:30.200 was alone in an empty house with a murdered woman. 17 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:38.079 And then suddenly fear flashed across my brain and cleared it. 18 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.760 I heard the door below open and close footsteps. Someone 19 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:47.120 was coming across the downstairs hall onto the stairs. 20 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:50.680 Coming up up here. In a moment, I would be discovered. 21 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:52.879 In a moment, someone would walk into this room and 22 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:55.799 see me standing over the body. In a moment, my 23 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:59.359 escape would be cut off. Quickly, I slipped across the 24 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:02.319 hall and into an of the empty bedrooms. I leaned 25 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:06.599 against the closed door, breathing heavily, listening to those steps 26 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:09.560 come closer. Would he look into any of the other 27 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:18.159 bedrooms first? Would I be discovered here? He passed my 28 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:22.319 door and went into the room straight in, closed the 29 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:27.400 door behind him. Then he knew where to come. I 30 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:30.280 waited a moment, waited for some sound, some gasp of discovery. 31 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:35.240 There was none. Then he knew what to expect. I 32 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:37.719 must escape quickly before he came out of that room. 33 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:41.960 I started down the stairs, carefully to avoid any sound, 34 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:49.280 And suddenly the door of that room opened, the beam 35 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:51.560 of a flashlight setched down the hall. I took the 36 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:54.080 stairs three at a time, burst up on the front door, 37 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:57.280 and fled into the street. Fled under the sanctuary of 38 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:06.599 the fork. How long and how far I ran? I 39 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.240 do not know. I could see nothing, feel nothing but 40 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:12.199 the clammy dampness of the fog. I don't know whether 41 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:14.039 he was still following me or not. I ran out 42 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:17.280 of sheer terror, up one street, down another, with no 43 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:19.159 idea of where I was, or where I was going. 44 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:22.879 Perhaps I was running in circles. Perhaps I would run 45 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:27.400 right back to the house. Well I stopped. I leaned 46 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.319 heavily against the wall. My hands were shaking as I 47 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:33.759 raised them to my perspiring face. I held them there 48 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:39.039 to steady them. Ran them through my wet hair. My 49 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:42.719 hat I didn't have it. I'd left my hat back 50 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:45.759 there in that room, on the bed, beside that dead woman, 51 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:56.960 and it had my initials in it. Nearby a street 52 00:03:57.039 --> 00:04:00.120 lamp formed a fuzzy ball of yellow in the enveloping murk. 53 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:04.039 And now a figure loomed suddenly beneath it, just as 54 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:06.800 she had materialized so short a time ago under another 55 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:10.680 street light. Or was it the same one? Was it 56 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:13.680 she again? Was it he the one who was following me? 57 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:17.120 Was it real at all? Perhaps it was only a 58 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:22.600 creature of my madness. I guess, sir, you're ill? Hi? 59 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:26.160 Oh here, old, let me help you. Why you're almost 60 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:31.279 ready to fall? Yes, sir, thank you? Yeah, just lean 61 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:37.079 on my arm. Yes, you are real, aren't you real? 62 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:42.439 I don't understand. I say, you're very near collapse, you know. 63 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:46.079 And I happen to be a doctor luckily too. You're 64 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:48.600 just outside my very house, coming for a moment, won't 65 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:54.240 you why? You're very kind, Yes I will if it's 66 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:56.920 not too much trouble for you, none at all, My 67 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:58.040 dear Chap, please do. 68 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:07.839 Within five minutes, I was seated in a comfortable chair 69 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:12.319 before a toasting fire, sipping a hot cup of tea. 70 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:16.680 I could feel my nerves relaxing, but the traces of 71 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:19.639 my illness must have been clear on my face, because 72 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:20.680 my host observed. 73 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:25.279 Your trouble is shell shock, isn't it. Why? Yes, how 74 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:27.759 did you know? I've been in the service and I'm 75 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:28.240 a doctor. 76 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:31.839 Of course I I only meant to I'm supposed to 77 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:36.079 be recovered or almost. But I got lost in the fog, 78 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:38.439 felt ill, suddenly terrified. 79 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:41.480 John, I know you should never have been out in 80 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:44.360 a night like this. If you've got far Togo, you'd 81 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:47.199 better let me put you up. You're very kind, very kind, indeed. 82 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:50.160 But I don't want to be any trouble, no trouble 83 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:52.560 at all. I'd like to be of help the least 84 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:56.279 we Drean can do for each other. Ah, the blasted war, 85 00:05:56.360 --> 00:05:57.399 Thank goodness, it's over. 86 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:03.639 Not Evenijai, no Canadian. I haven't been demobilized. Yet I'm 87 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:05.639 still in the Army Hospital at Regent's Park under the 88 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:07.079 care of doctor Henry. 89 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:10.720 Ah. Yes, he's very good man. I'd say he's done 90 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.839 well by you up till to night. I mean, yes, 91 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:16.720 of course we had no idea there would be a fog. 92 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:21.120 I still get in a panic when I feel all alone. Well, 93 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:24.240 that's usual. But then there was something more than that 94 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:28.360 to night, wasn't there. What do you mean simply that 95 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:32.279 you've had rather a severe shock quite recently, haven't you? Huh? 96 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:35.959 How did you know that? My dear chap, I'm a doctor, 97 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:39.120 My business to know you were in much to agitate 98 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:41.160 the state when I found you. For me to suppose 99 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:44.000 it could have been done simply by the fog, And 100 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:47.920 if I may hazard another guess, I should say it 101 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.399 would be a relief to you and and wise as 102 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:53.519 well if you could unburden yourself to someone who would understand, 103 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:55.240 Am I not right? 104 00:06:56.040 --> 00:07:00.160 Someone who would understand that's just it. I don't if 105 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:03.720 there is anyone like that. It's so incredible. 106 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:07.199 Oh, the more incredible, the greater your need to tell it. 107 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:10.879 Repression in cases like yours can be dangerous, as you 108 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:14.439 must know you think you've hidden it, but it bides 109 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:16.839 its time and it comes up later, causing a lot 110 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:23.040 of trouble. Confession, you know, confession is good for the soul. Yes, 111 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:26.279 I suppose you are right, but it is so wild 112 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:29.600 und since where strangers, my belief or disbelief can make 113 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:32.560 no difference. And I think I can promise you in 114 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:35.759 advance that I shall believe all you have to say. 115 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:41.240 Well, but I've got to tell somebody about it soon anyway, 116 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:53.360 so cigarette to help with telling, thank you, thank you, Well, 117 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:55.480 i'd better start back at the very beginning of the adventure. 118 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:59.480 Then it started today at the sanitarium. I've been there 119 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:02.000 for some month, and today when doctor Henry called to 120 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:02.680 check on me. 121 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.120 Well, a young man, you're as fitt a surprize here 122 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:07.600 for him, twice as frisky. The diet here must agree 123 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:07.879 with you. 124 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:10.000 I have no complaints, doctor, but if I'm well again, 125 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:11.639 then i'd like to get back into circulation. 126 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.199 Will you listen to him nurse rushing things as usual? 127 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:15.600 You'd think he didn't like. 128 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.240 Us here, the way he bothers us to let him 129 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:18.920 go into town. 130 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:20.279 I'm sure a bit doctor. 131 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:23.040 He's getting so healthy, he's bursting at the. 132 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:26.120 Scene you see. How about it? Doctor? Can I just 133 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:27.639 have a day or an evening in town? 134 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:30.160 What's the great attraction in that dirty place? 135 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:30.879 Some girl? 136 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:31.360 No doubt? 137 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:35.559 Well, yes that is in a way. I met her 138 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:38.159 in France. She's a Red Cross girl. She's invited me 139 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:39.799 to stop in for tea if I'm up in London. 140 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:42.639 And well, it's just that i'd feel. 141 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:46.759 Human again seeing a girl having tea a cigarette chatting. 142 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:49.639 That's all, young man. I not only approve of your 143 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:51.279 day in town, I'm prescribing it. 144 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:52.159 It will do you good. 145 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:56.159 You've got to start getting used to society again anyway. 146 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:58.039 And you think I can manage it alone. 147 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:00.279 Why not you get around the neighborhood by your self? 148 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.480 Well enough, don't you? Nothing so very different about London? 149 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:06.360 Certainly nothing to be afraid of. No, of course, not 150 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:09.159 call the young lady and find out the directions where 151 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.320 to get off the underground, what terms to take and 152 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.519 so on. Ago in the daytime, returned before dark. No 153 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:17.879 danger of getting lost should be simple. I mean, do it? 154 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:21.639 Do you good? Then this means I'm getting better. I'll 155 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:22.440 be able to go home. 156 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:25.480 So there you go, rushing things again. But yes, I 157 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:28.559 think perhaps we're on the last leg. Well, that'll be. 158 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:30.120 All nurse, Yes, doctor Henry. 159 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:35.639 Now tell me, young man, what about your friends? 160 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:40.159 No, doctor, I think they've deserted me. I don't see 161 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:44.879 them anymore. No more ghosts, no more dead comrade stepping 162 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:45.679 in for a chat. 163 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:47.679 Good for how long now? 164 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:48.000 Oh? 165 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.200 Several weeks at least. I can hardly remember when I 166 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:51.720 last so and thought you so? 167 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:57.159 Yes? That, of course, in the dark room at night, 168 00:09:57.240 --> 00:09:58.799 sometimes the shadow. 169 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.559 It's quite the same thing. Lots of will people fancy 170 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:04.600 they see the shadows move at night, especially after they've 171 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:06.600 been reading some BENI dretful. 172 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:07.879 First. 173 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:11.159 At any rate, you can distinguish between the real people 174 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:14.120 and the unreal now, and that's a big step considering 175 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:15.840 how you were a few months ago. 176 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:19.679 Well, it's only when I feel completely alone, cut off 177 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:21.720 that the old panic begins a little, but not as 178 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:22.480 much as before. 179 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:25.840 Many people don't like to feel alone and cut off. 180 00:10:25.879 --> 00:10:28.720 That they can fight down that panicky feeling. Nip it 181 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:31.960 in the bud, So will you in time? But I 182 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:35.720 must warn you a severe shock could undo all our work. 183 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:39.159 By all means, avoid. 184 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:46.919 Shock, avoid shark, he said. 185 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:51.759 Very funny, isn't it? But Who could have known then? 186 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:54.960 What would happen? How could I have suspected? As I 187 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:58.679 went about planning my day in town, my holiday, I 188 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:00.679 called the girl who arranged out tea party. 189 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:02.480 I was to be at her little house in Marley 190 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:03.159 Place at. 191 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:08.519 Four the first time, the old Canadian backwoods instinct. She'll 192 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:10.720 probably manage it better than any London. 193 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:14.159 Yes, I'm sure I will. It's near South Kensington Station, 194 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:15.879 Then exactly, you. 195 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:21.279 Change at Piccadilly's Surface without leaving the underground station and 196 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:24.960 come to South Kent. There's three streets left from there, 197 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:28.360 then two right, one more left and right again. In 198 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:29.879 the Morley case, it's really not fun. 199 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:32.240 I'll find it all right now. Don't go to any 200 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:33.200 great bother you. 201 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:34.039 Just leave that to me. 202 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:38.320 This is a special occasion in a till fall. 203 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:46.039 Then until fourth Yes, thanks. 204 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:50.879 And so it all started out as a cheerful adventure 205 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:52.440 and everything went well. 206 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:53.120 Unto the city. 207 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:56.000 I made my change underground at Piccadilly, took the local 208 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.320 to South Kensington station, and there I came up at 209 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:03.799 surface again. And when I walked out, I stepped into 210 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:07.799 a solid, opaque blanket of white fog. 211 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:15.759 I could hear the traffic, the rumble of the city 212 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:19.399 around me. I could hear footsteps, an occasional muffled voice, 213 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:23.039 but I could see almost nothing. This is how a 214 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:27.080 blind man feels. Then. The only objects of relief from 215 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:30.320 that dreadful, enveloping gray wall were an occasional blur of 216 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.519 yellow from a street lamp or a motor car headlight, 217 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:37.360 a glimmering patch from some big lighted shop window here 218 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:41.720 and there. And the figures the figures of other people 219 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:49.159 passing by, dark and floating and indistinct. Or were they people? 220 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:50.960 Might they not be? 221 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:54.440 Those phantom figures again, just like the ones that haunted 222 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.840 me before I went into the sanitarium, ghostly blurred figures 223 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:03.360 of dead comrades from Dunkirk and Abbeville and the mud 224 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:08.679 of Belgium. Huh, here comes another one. I can hear 225 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:17.080 his cane tapping. Look closely, now, make sure there he 226 00:13:17.159 --> 00:13:20.039 looked real enough, didn't he? They are real. I'm positive 227 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:22.519 of it, and I'm not alone. They're all around me. 228 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:26.720 But even as I told myself this, the old panic 229 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:29.960 was growing inside here. Now, old fellow, you've got to 230 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:32.639 get hold of yourself. Next one comes along. Speak up, 231 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:34.840 Speak up to him, Ask him the way to Molly Place? 232 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:37.320 Ask can you put me on the trail to Molly Place? 233 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:42.200 Just like that? She'll see you. No, here he comes, 234 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:46.120 ask the way, beg pardon? Can you put me on? 235 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:46.559 Say? 236 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:47.960 Is this right for the tube station? 237 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:48.360 You know? 238 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:52.440 I'm utterly lost? I wanelf kind why why? Yes? I 239 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:54.399 have just come from there straight along? I think, oh, 240 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:56.720 thanks all? Oh, but I say, can you put me 241 00:13:56.759 --> 00:14:05.399 on the trail to Molly Place? He's gone? Well, no matter, 242 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:07.879 he was real enough, he spoke up like a real person. 243 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:11.120 All right, Maybe the next one, Oh, I say, I 244 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:11.759 beg your pardon. 245 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:15.639 Oh, I'm frightfully sorry. I didn't see you and you 246 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:16.679 standing still. 247 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:19.759 I'm afraid I must be lost. Can you direct me 248 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:20.480 to Morley Place? 249 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:23.919 Oh, dear, I think you've missed your turning you you'll 250 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:27.799 have to double back street and maybe two and take 251 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:31.279 the first turn to the right and go one street 252 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:34.639 and then double back too, and then left. 253 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:42.559 I say, thanks, that was first right, And then she's 254 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:57.240 gone disappeared like a ghost. The panic was rising in me. 255 00:14:57.879 --> 00:14:59.799 They were real people, yes, but they appeared in this 256 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:03.840 fears so disconcertingly quickly. And when I turned off down 257 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:06.679 the main street. There there were fewer of them. I 258 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:11.799 turned again and again, but I couldn't remember the directions. 259 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:16.120 Suddenly I knew I was lost. And now I was 260 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:19.720 in some little backwater where passers by were rare, where 261 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:28.879 no one came, where I was alone. Now the panic 262 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:32.120 swept over me. I stumbled on a curb. My cane 263 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:35.840 swept empty air. I fell to the icy patment. I 264 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:37.879 was shaking so that I couldn't rise to my feet. 265 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:40.519 I crawled across the open space of the street on 266 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:43.519 my hands and knees. Only when I crossed the curb 267 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:45.559 and felt a warm wall could I stand up again. 268 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:50.200 And then I stood there, shaken and frantic. Molly place 269 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.519 must be very close, the little red Cross girl waiting 270 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:57.360 with her warm fire and hard team. But where where? 271 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:06.559 Suddenly in the yellow blur of the nearest street lamp, 272 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:09.840 of faint darkening of the fog caught my eye. There's 273 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:13.120 not a figure this time, only the shadow of the pole, 274 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:14.600 grotesquely magnified. 275 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:19.480 No, no, it moved. It came toward me. It was 276 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:21.879 a figure, a woman. It came right up to me. 277 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:24.720 Fear gripped me, and then I remembered the doctor's advice. 278 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:28.120 Don't ignore them, treat them as real, speak to them 279 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:31.960 and go with them. You will soon prove their unreality then, 280 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:32.960 and they. 281 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:35.480 Will leave you. And so I gripped the wall behind 282 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:37.799 me and spoke to her. Lost your way like myself, 283 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:40.200 haven't you, ma'am? Do you know where we are? Tall 284 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:41.879 Morley Place? I'm looking for? 285 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:43.000 Where am I call? 286 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:45.519 I say, you're more frightened than I am. May I 287 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:45.879 help you? 288 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:51.320 I'm lost, I've lost myself. I can't find my. 289 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:54.759 Way back same here. I'm terrified of being alone too. 290 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:58.639 I've had show shaking a Let's go together. We'll find 291 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:02.799 our way together. Eh. Who are names? Al? Riley? Canadian? 292 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:04.960 I'm going to have tea with a friend in Morley's Place? 293 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:07.480 What's your address? Do you know the name of the 294 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:07.920 street here? 295 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:11.720 I came out suddenly, unexpectedly. 296 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:16.079 I can't find my way home again. Just when I was. 297 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:19.640 Expecting him to say, steady, ma'am, may be there now 298 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.720 waiting for me this very moment, and. 299 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:23.799 I can't get back. 300 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:26.119 Have you any idea of the direction, ma'aminee at all? 301 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:33.359 We'll go together, Colly, I remember, Wait, ma'am, wait, don't 302 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:37.079 leave me here alone I'm going with you. Wait. She 303 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:38.799 was running fast through the fog. It was all I 304 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:40.640 could do to keep up with her, but I felt 305 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:42.599 I must not lose her on my own nerves would 306 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:44.559 go to pieces. How she found a way in the fog, 307 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:46.519 running so quickly, I didn't know, but I kept cross 308 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:49.359 on my heels, running hard. I could smell a faint 309 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:52.799 perfume in the air trailing behind her, a faintly familiar odor, 310 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:55.440 but not pleasant. And then suddenly she stopped and turned 311 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:58.200 into the gate, so suddenly that I almost bumped into way. 312 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:03.759 Oh you found it? Then? May I come in with 313 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:07.720 you for a moment. Perhaps you let me telephone my doctor. Doctor, Yes, 314 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:09.680 doctor Henry at the Army hospital. I'm in his care. 315 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:12.960 You know. My home is somewhere here. 316 00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:14.559 I'm near it. 317 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:17.759 I must get back in time for him. 318 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:19.000 I must. 319 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:20.400 He's coming to me. 320 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:21.559 I say, ma'am. 321 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:26.599 But she turned and walked out the house. For a moment, 322 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.279 I hesitated. This woman was acting very strangely, but no 323 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:32.519 matter that she was at least real and I needed help. 324 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:35.000 Quickly I followed her up the steps across the porch. 325 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:38.240 The door was ajar. She slipped through and I followed 326 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:40.799 him the dark house. It was so dark inside I 327 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:43.799 couldn't see anything. At first I stopped groping, but she 328 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:45.880 went on quickly, easily, as if she knew the way. 329 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:47.920 She was ignoring me completely. 330 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:51.160 I heard her steps across the hall, go up the 331 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:55.519 stairs quickly. I waited and listened. She walked along the 332 00:18:55.559 --> 00:19:02.200 hall upstairs, where where I must find? And now the 333 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:03.920 hair on my neck felt as if it were rising. 334 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:09.119 Was she after all another of my figures? Was she? Unreal? Too? 335 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:13.960 A last, I've found it home again. 336 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:17.000 I heard her open the door upstairs, go in and 337 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:21.279 close it after him. Then there was silence, profound silence, 338 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:25.720 and I was alone in the dark, unoccupied house. The 339 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:29.440 white covered furniture in the hallway loomed like ghosts, and 340 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:34.480 there was no sound. I felt my panic coming back. 341 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:38.960 But she was upstairs, and at least she was companionship. 342 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:53.039 I groped my way up the stairs along the upstairs hall. 343 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:57.160 There was no sign of life. 344 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:01.400 Where are you? I want to help you? Which room 345 00:20:01.400 --> 00:20:01.880 are you in? 346 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:07.759 There was no answer. But as I put my hand 347 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.359 on a table to steady myself, I felt something. It 348 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:14.279 was a candle stump. With a gasp, of relief. I 349 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:20.240 took it up and lighted it. Ah, now I could 350 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:23.680 see a little. One by one, I tried the bedrooms. 351 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:28.000 They were dusty and unused, the furniture covered, the mattresses 352 00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:32.799 rolled upon the beds. They were all alike until I 353 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:36.599 opened the last door. Instantly I knew this was it. 354 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:41.480 I smelled the perfume. Only now I recognized and understood 355 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:44.279 why it was unpleasant to me. It was the smell 356 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:48.519 of a hospital, of chloroform. And there was the woman, 357 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:52.039 her dark fur coat wrapped around her, her jewels just 358 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:55.039 showing at the neck, and she was stretched out on 359 00:20:55.079 --> 00:21:02.240 the bed, motionless. Instantly I I knew she was dead. 360 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:06.799 In the next instant, I thought I would go mad. 361 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:12.440 The blood on her face was congealing, her skin was cold. 362 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:15.279 I knew then that she'd been dead for an hour 363 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:18.400 at least, and that what I saw in the street 364 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:19.880 was not real. 365 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:23.319 This was the shock that doctor Henry had warned me 366 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:25.680 to avoid. And what happened then? 367 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:30.440 Why I heard the door open up downstairs? Some one 368 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:34.680 came in the one she'd been expecting, no doubt, and 369 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:38.160 suddenly I realized the the danger of my being found 370 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:41.279 there beside a woman who had obviously been murdered. I 371 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:43.559 slipped into another bedroom, and when he went into that 372 00:21:43.640 --> 00:21:46.880 room with her, I slipped out and crept downstairs. I stumbled, 373 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:49.200 and he heard me, and I came out. I ran 374 00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:49.599 down and. 375 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:52.839 Out under the fog, into the street and away. How 376 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:56.319 long I ran or where I don't know. When I 377 00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:07.279 was exhausted, I stopped, and then you came and found me. Well, 378 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:12.440 what do you think tall talesn't it? Yes? Strange, but 379 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:15.640 not incredible. I see no reason to disbelieve anything you've 380 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:19.519 told me. Things equally remarkable, equally incredible, happen every day 381 00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:24.119 in a big city. I know from personal experience. I 382 00:22:24.119 --> 00:22:26.640 could give you many instances. But the woman I saw her, 383 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:29.720 and yet she was already dead. Such things are hard 384 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:34.160 to explain, perhaps cannot be explained, except, of course, your mind, 385 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:36.839 in its present state, may still play tricks on you. 386 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:40.359 Perhaps you saw a woman in the fog and followed her. 387 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:42.720 You may have missed her and only thought you saw 388 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:45.240 a going to that house. But what about the dead woman? 389 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:49.359 She was real enough, perhaps perhaps not, She too may 390 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:54.799 have been this fantasy. You may never have left the street. No, no, 391 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:57.440 I'm sure of that. At least I must believe it. 392 00:22:57.839 --> 00:22:59.359 She was real and the man who came up the 393 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:01.920 stairs was real. If I didn't believe that, I think 394 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:06.480 I should go mad. Yes, perhaps that is important. Then 395 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:10.240 let me see. Have you any proof of what you saw? 396 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:15.960 Something perhaps that you carry it away with you? None? 397 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:22.839 But wait, I left something there, my hat. I left 398 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:25.720 it on the bed beside her body. My initials were 399 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:30.480 in it. And so if it was all real, I 400 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:32.759 shall be getting a visit from the police one day 401 00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:37.920