Speaker 1: Come in welcome.
Speaker 2: I'm E. G.
Speaker 3: Marshall, Dean of this College of Macabre Knowledge. We are
told that we should forgive our enemies, but nowhere are
we told that we should forgive our friends. How easily
we recognize those who would destroy us through evil motive,
how difficult to perceive those who will ruin us for love?
Speaker 2: But why is this so surprising?
Speaker 3: Isn't the road to hell paved with good intentions?
Speaker 2: So dear, we're talking about at least three million dollars.
Speaker 4: And that's why you hired me so I could cheat, mister.
Speaker 2: Gillaspiorne cheat It a harsh word, but it's true.
Speaker 4: And what will you do with me afterwards?
Speaker 2: Why you should give you your share?
Speaker 4: Won't you just kill me the way you killed everybody else?
Speaker 2: We killed the others because they forced our hands. Give
us no motive and we'll let you live.
Speaker 4: Aren't you afraid I'll go to the police.
Speaker 2: No, because we will have evidence to show that you
are the one who poisoned missus dame.
Speaker 4: But that's a lie. Oh I don't want any parton.
Speaker 2: Oh my dearness, watsn't what are we proposing? Only to
make you fabulously wealthy? Why are you being so difficult
about it?
Speaker 3: Our mystery drama The Person to Be Notified was written
especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars
Mercedes the Cambridge.
Speaker 1: What is love?
Speaker 3: That's the oldest question in the world, then why? Because
no one has ever been able to answer it to
the universal satisfaction. Therefore we keep asking and asking. There
is a young man named James Morton. There is a
young lady named Sarah Watson. They have nothing in common.
They meet by chance, and if they will fall in
love in our story, they will be completely unaware of
it until Well, we're still almost an hour away from
the answer, So let us begin at the beginning. James
Morton is the manager of an employment agency.
Speaker 1: Please sit down. Have you filled out the applications?
Speaker 4: Miss Watson? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Sarah Watson.
Speaker 1: You were previously a secretary for stare at Valentine Or
why'd you leave?
Speaker 4: The company went bankrupt?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's oh two years of college, that's all over?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 1: Well, I unfortunately there's very little stirring at this particular time.
Speaker 4: Are you saying that you had nothing for me?
Speaker 1: Well not at the moment. Perhaps you know how things
are job wise. We'll hold your application on file, and
I thank you goodbye.
Speaker 2: One moment.
Speaker 1: You didn't fill out the application completely, I'm sure I did. Well, No,
you see the last line. Well, it's as person to
be know. Yes, yeah, you left that blank.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: We have a rule that this agency all forms must
be fully filled in, fully.
Speaker 4: Filled in almost sounds like a song.
Speaker 1: There's a state regulation to that effect. So would you
mind putting down the name of someone I can't?
Speaker 4: Why not because I don't have anybody.
Speaker 1: Oh well, that's that's what it's. Well, everybody has somebody
to notify.
Speaker 4: Well I don't.
Speaker 1: Are you saying you have no family, no friends.
Speaker 4: I'm saying there's no one I would care to notify
in the event that something happened to me.
Speaker 1: I find that difficult to believe.
Speaker 4: I am all alone in the world.
Speaker 1: Well, no one is that alone.
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 1: Goodbye, But you must fill out the form. All right?
Speaker 4: What is your name?
Speaker 2: James Morton?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: James? What there you are?
Speaker 2: You can't put my name down?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 2: Well, because it has to be someone who knows you.
Speaker 4: Right now, you know more about me than anybody else.
You know my name, my age, my address.
Speaker 2: It has to be someone you know.
Speaker 4: I know you as well as I know anywhere.
Speaker 2: Miss Miss.
Speaker 1: It has to be someone who means something to you.
Speaker 4: No one means more to me than you.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 4: Well, uh, I really need a job, mister Morton. I'll
take anything. I'll go anywhere. So if anything at all
comes up, please call me. Huh, goodbye, miss miss Watson.
Speaker 2: Uh just a minute, did you say you'd go anywhere?
Speaker 4: Anywhere?
Speaker 2: Else?
Speaker 1: There may be a job. Okay, But the reason I
didn't think you mentioned it before is you you appear,
you know, to be a very attractive young lady.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: Yes, and so therefore I naturally assume that you'd be
unwilling to I guess the word is bury yourself on
a small private island off the coast of northern Maine.
Speaker 4: And why did you make that assumption?
Speaker 1: I Well, looking at you, I would assume that you
would have a very active, busy social life here in
the city.
Speaker 4: I could leave today.
Speaker 1: One of the qualifications for this job is that the
lady must have no ties of connections. I'm qualifying as
I understand that an elderly gentleman is writing a book
he requires as secretariat. It would be rather dull those
childs are, and he wouldn't want a young lady who
would be bored after a while and quit.
Speaker 4: Well, I couldn't afford to quit.
Speaker 1: Well, aren't you going to ask how much the job
would pay?
Speaker 4: I would expect it to pay as much as my
last one.
Speaker 1: The gentleman's attorney is here in town interviewing applicants. I
must say he's having difficulty finding someone. His name is
mister Carberry.
Speaker 2: May I ask if your hair is naturally red, miss Watson.
Speaker 4: And may I ask what business it is of yours,
mister Carbery.
Speaker 2: Well, your prospective employer, mister Gleespie, is a rather conservative
gentlemen who becomes upset. That changes well, and you young
ladies of today, you're constantly altering your appearance, and mister
Gillespie would find that disconcerting.
Speaker 4: So I shall do nothing to disconcert mister Gillespie.
Speaker 2: I notice you're wearing a dress that, yes, I believe it's.
Speaker 4: The prescribed female attire, and only at dinner the evening.
Speaker 2: In the daytime at Rotherwood, young ladies are expected to
wear the other young ladies. Oh no, no, you'll be
the young lady. And mister Gillespie is accustomed to seeing
young ladies attired in shirtwaists and skirts. Shirt waist, well,
I believe you would call them blouse.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I don't think I have any.
Speaker 2: Well, then you'll be surprised with some you see, miss Watson.
Mister Gleespie lives in the past. He chooses to isolate
himself on his estate and create an ambience of a
bygone era.
Speaker 4: When young ladies wore a shirtwaist precisely.
Speaker 2: Now, if you're afraid that might prove.
Speaker 4: Dull Oh no, no, no, really, I have no objection.
I'm not looking for excitement.
Speaker 2: One other question. I asked the agency, of course to
screen out of applicants, but one should always double check
for oneself. Have you any relatives? No, they're alone in
the world completely. The salary you will admit is rather generous.
We will pay you fifteen thousand a year, plus room
board and expenses. I will require you to sign a
two year contract to the object.
Speaker 4: Not at all.
Speaker 2: Well, then settled. Can you leave on the fifteen?
Speaker 4: I can leave sooner.
Speaker 2: No, you'll need the time. Now here's a check for
one thousand dollars. You'll have to purchase a suitable wardroom.
Speaker 4: Where are all those papers?
Speaker 2: Oh, this is a list of the clothes you should buy,
the guide you on color and style. And here are
some photographs.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't think any of this is my taste.
Speaker 2: But then again, none of it is to be bought
with your money.
Speaker 4: I see.
Speaker 2: Well, we shall all get along just splendidly. Now, nine
o'clock in the morning of the fifteenth, you'll go to
the airport to get one sixteen. Mister Glaspie's private plane
will be waiting for you.
Speaker 4: How does that square with his old fashioned attitude?
Speaker 2: It's the only concession he makes, the reality.
Speaker 1: You do not like the aroscoon for yours your orton. Oh, oh, yes,
it's fine, but you have not eaten a bie. I
have been watching you. You seem to be a thinker tonight. Yes,
young lady came into my office looking for a job today,
and she filled out the usual four in an usual
way until she came to the last line. You know
what The last line requires the state. No, it asks
her to enlist the person to be notified in case of, well,
you know, in case of I know. Well, she said
she had no one to notify. I couldn't believe it.
Why is it so difficult to believe? Well, because because
everybody has someone a relative or close friends everyone, of
course everyone. Do you, Senor Morton, do you? How do
you ask such a question?
Speaker 5: How do you answer it? You come in here almost
every knife or dinner. Also on many a Sunday afternoon,
you come alone, so you do not look with your family.
Speaker 1: You are not married. It is obvious you are.
Speaker 5: Not keeping company with a young lady. So who is
there for you to notify?
Speaker 2: Well, my partner?
Speaker 1: Why do you say? Well? Did you say my partner?
Because outside of the business, we don't know each other.
We don't see each other. He's a much older man.
We have nothing in common except the fact we seemed
to be able to run a profitable business.
Speaker 5: If, and I pray shall never come to Pus, you
should meet with a misfortune.
Speaker 1: Who would grief for you? Who would missed you? And,
now that I think of it, Senor Spinana, if if
I had to fill out that for him, I would
put down your name. Tell me about the young lady
whose name? The she finally put down, Well, she insisted
she didn't know anyone. I said, we had to have someone,
So she wrote down my name. Ah, and she fell
in love with you.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Why yes, would she write your name down?
Speaker 2: Because because she had to write down something and I was.
Speaker 5: Sitting there, no senor more tona. She looked at you,
and certainly her heart was lost. Aw, come on, she
may not know this yet, but that is why she
wrote your name.
Speaker 4: Easy to be your quarters? Oh oh my, it's lovely. Well,
thank you, missus Dingley. I'm sure I'll be very happy here.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course I expected a room, but this is
the whole suite.
Speaker 4: Don't let it go to your head. Well I did?
Speaker 6: Did they say you were to have dinner in the
main hold tonight? Well, frankly, I don't be frank with me.
Speaker 1: Because I'm not going to be frank with you.
Speaker 4: Well, what do you I don't understand.
Speaker 6: I'm telling you right off. I'm not on your side side.
I don't know anything about sides.
Speaker 1: I just got here.
Speaker 6: When you've got big eyes and they can get very round.
But I don't think it'll help you any more than
it helped all the other girls.
Speaker 4: What other girls?
Speaker 6: He's coming here now, and here's steps in the car.
Who's coming conscious pilot?
Speaker 2: Ah, welcome to Rotherwood. Miss Watson, I see you've met
our Missus Damer, probably the best housekeeper in the entire state. Now,
will you excuse us missus Damon?
Speaker 4: Is she going to eat in the great hole tonight?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: No ah, I can see why.
Speaker 1: She isn't ready yet.
Speaker 2: I believe that will be all Missus Deamon. I give
her a You are excused, Missus Damon.
Speaker 4: She'll get wise to you.
Speaker 2: The old man will get Missus Deamer.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, I'm leaving.
Speaker 2: Well, did you have a pleasant flight?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Find your quarter satisfactory? Oh? Very, We want you to
be comfortable.
Speaker 4: Oh will you answer a question, mister carper Ollo good?
Would you tell me just what is going on around here? Anyhow? What?
Speaker 3: Indeed, now you must admit we've given you several basic
facts to chew on. For instance, why would they want
a girl who has no ties at all? Why are
they offering such an attractive salary? Who is missus Damler,
who's the old man? What sides are there in conflict here? Well,
in the first act you present. In the second you unfold,
and I shall take you into my confidence after your
announcer takes you into his Why would a girl, an attractive,
desirable girl, cut herself off from all social opportunities and
take a job in a mansion on an island off
the coast of Maine. Why would her employer insist on
a girl whose absence would in effect cause no concern
to anyone. Well, that's how jobs are filled, No, by
employers and employees who fill each other's needs.
Speaker 4: Mister Calbery, tell me what is going on around here?
Why did missus Damler say I wasn't ready ready for
a quie?
Speaker 2: Oh you must listen to what missus Damer says.
Speaker 4: Missus Damler implied that there was a whole series of
girls hired before me.
Speaker 2: Ah, yes, unfortunately none of them proved satisfactory. Why the
job will require infinite delicacy and texts?
Speaker 4: Describe the job.
Speaker 2: You're to help mister Glasbie with his book.
Speaker 4: When do I meet mister Gillespie?
Speaker 2: Ah, Miss Watson, mister Gillespie must be humored at all times.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not sure I'm willing to.
Speaker 2: It's part of your job.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: When you were introduced to him, he will call you Regina.
Why because that's who he will think you are?
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 2: Why because you look like Regina Regina. Who a Miss
Regina Trumble?
Speaker 4: Tell me, mister Carbery, is that why I was hired?
Speaker 1: Yes, well I think.
Speaker 4: I should like to leave it.
Speaker 2: Once you've signed a contract, I can't be.
Speaker 4: Held in that contract. I wasn't aware of all the facts.
Speaker 2: You signed the contract to be mister Gillespie's secretary. That's
the only fact.
Speaker 4: Then why must I pose as Miss Regina Trumble to
make it possible to perform your duties? You see, mister
Gillespie could only feel comfortable with Miss Regina Trumbull. Then
why not hire miss Trumble?
Speaker 2: She many years ago?
Speaker 4: Then how can you make mister.
Speaker 2: Gillespie Gillespie has never been able to accept the fact
of her death.
Speaker 4: You're not You're not up to anything illegal here?
Speaker 2: Oh, I assure you everything is completely above board.
Speaker 1: You got a minute, Frank, Yeah, sure, you remember that
girl we sent up the Maine.
Speaker 2: Hmhm oh yeah, that was a good commissioner out.
Speaker 1: Of door for just the secretary. That's what bothers. Why
should it bother Why should they want to pay so high? Well,
there is way up at the end of nowhere. Even
so throw in room board expensive it's worth another fivey
twenty thousand for a secretary.
Speaker 2: Why is that our business?
Speaker 1: And why did they insist on a girl who's all
alone in the world.
Speaker 2: The man's got a right to set up the requirements
if he's willing to pay the prices.
Speaker 1: Frank, if that girl would have disappeared about why would
she disapree?
Speaker 2: I'm woman speculating. Well, quiet, the girl's gone, isn't she.
Speaker 1: We're through with her. That's hardly the way to put it.
Speaker 2: No, what other way is there but you and me.
We've been part as close to ten years and we
went pretty successful. Why we have nothing to do with
each other outside of the office. But for the first time,
I'm going to say something personal to you. Get married.
Get married.
Speaker 4: You don't have.
Speaker 2: Anything against women, do you know who? Well, then get married.
It's economical, it's practical, and you won't have to make
up fantasy stories about every good looking dame who walks
in here. Oh, good balling, miss Watson.
Speaker 4: Good morning.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you slept well. The ocean air here is
so invigorating.
Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, I slept poorly.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Why this morning before breakfast I went for a walk.
Speaker 2: Oh no, that's an excellent practice.
Speaker 4: We're on an island completely out side of the coastal.
Speaker 2: Of course, privacy is essential for mister Glass and the only.
Speaker 4: Way off is by boat. There are several boats tied
up to a dock and a man is there and
he has a gun.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, that's mister Spencer.
Speaker 4: And I told him that I wanted to take a
boat out for a while. Why did he refuse me?
Speaker 2: Those are his orders? Why you'll understand them? And time?
Speaker 4: And then when I returned to the house, I picked
up the telephone to do Yes. I wanted to call
the sheriff and tell him that I'm being held here,
but I couldn't get him outside line.
Speaker 2: I know there's only one outside line and it's locked.
Speaker 4: Am I Am I a prisoner?
Speaker 1: Of course not?
Speaker 4: Then why do you refuse to let me leave?
Speaker 2: You will leave at the proper time, and when will
that be when the job is finished?
Speaker 4: Then how can you say I'm not.
Speaker 2: A prisoner a young lady? The job has certain conditions.
Speaker 4: Why weren't they explained to you?
Speaker 2: They were stated in the contract. It's no one's fault
but yours if you didn't read it.
Speaker 4: And suppose I refuse to perform any service.
Speaker 2: That would not be in your best interests. I would
advise you to do as you're told or else. Why
do you insist on proposing all these hypothetical conditions? Well,
if we're finished with breakfast, would you care to meet
mister Gillespie.
Speaker 1: It says here on your application that you worked for
Stair at Valentine is common.
Speaker 6: Till they went busted. I should have seen the handwriting
on the wall. But they offer this profit share intension plan.
Speaker 4: What's the difference? Stole down the drain? Now?
Speaker 2: Would you?
Speaker 1: Did you know a miss Sarah Watson?
Speaker 4: Sarah? Oh? Sure?
Speaker 2: What type of person was she?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean she worked the next best to mine for
five years, but I never got to know her.
Speaker 2: Why not.
Speaker 4: The rest of the girls and I we figured it
out finally.
Speaker 1: She was a loaner, a loner.
Speaker 4: Well, if there are some people in this world they're
just loaners, they won't or they can't make friends.
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4: Well I had to bring.
Speaker 6: Her form over the personnel and you know that place
where it says person to be notified.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she left a blank. So I reminded her and
she said she had no family.
Speaker 2: Was it true?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess she had no friends that anybody knew.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Some people just can't seem to.
Speaker 6: Reach out and connect with other people, maybe if they
ready were brought up or what brought up?
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
Speaker 2: Now, miss Watson, you are to agree with everything, mister
Gillespie says, do you understand?
Speaker 4: How?
Speaker 2: Good morning, sir, Good morning. Look who's here? Regina?
Speaker 1: You always say you found Regina? Always wrong? Oh?
Speaker 2: I know this time it is Regina, mister Gillespie. Look
you see she's come back?
Speaker 1: Is it finally?
Speaker 2: Richina?
Speaker 1: Heck glass?
Speaker 2: Can there be any doubt of it? If you mistake
that brilliant red Regina?
Speaker 1: Regina speak to me, Oh, sir, you mustn't call me sir,
Sir Lucia. I realize you're angry with me, and you
had reason to be.
Speaker 4: Something is going on here and I don't know what it.
Speaker 1: Is, Regina.
Speaker 2: No, you mustn't make mister gilespie angry.
Speaker 4: I'm not Regina, sir. This man here is trying to
do something to you which I know must be illegal.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that's my Regina right, A pretty head fill
with all kinds of romantic nolgence, dig sick. We'll talk
for a moment, but don't you understand I understand everything.
Now you will not leave me again. Promise, even if
I should be mean to you, Promise. Now you must promise.
We'll go ahead, Reginna promise, Regina. I shall be very
much displeased, and bra I shall not let you have
the diamond draft all. Now you must promish. Well, you
shall sit here until you promise.
Speaker 4: I I'll stay here until you finish the book.
Speaker 1: The book, Oh, the book.
Speaker 2: Well, I know you.
Speaker 1: You know I'll never write that book. I delude myself.
Well I caught you. If you stay here till I
finish the book, then you'll stay here forever.
Speaker 4: Where is everybody this evening? Missus? Damon? Do you miss them?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: Mister Cowbery has got some business depend on the old
Man's hired, So we aren't going to have a big
formal dinner. Listen, I was wrong about you. Oh I
heard how you spoke to the old man this afternoon.
Speaker 4: I didn't know. Oh, I get to hear everything.
Speaker 6: You're all right, you aren't in on it, in on
what whatever it is Carberry's got in mind, and the
other girls who came here, they must have been willing
to go along?
Speaker 4: What do you mean by going along?
Speaker 6: Look, I've been working here thirty years now, maybe well
ten years ago. Mister Carberry gets to be the old
man's lawyer. Suddenly the old man goes crazy. You see him,
he's off the deep end.
Speaker 4: Well he's senile, isn't he? He must be well over eighty.
Speaker 1: He was a young man the day I came to
work here.
Speaker 4: He was no older than me. He can't even be
sixty yet. Oh but that's hard to go. I figured
it out. Carburry's got him on some kind of a drug.
Oh well, what are we going to do? Have to
get out of here?
Speaker 1: And how the boats are locked up?
Speaker 4: I have a key here here you take.
Speaker 1: What are they going to do?
Speaker 4: And we'll go to town.
Speaker 1: Try to talk to the sheriff.
Speaker 4: Will he believe us?
Speaker 1: I got a bottle of the drugs that Cowbery's been using.
Speaker 4: He'll have to believe us.
Speaker 6: Why did you wait so arm? I wasn't sure until
just now. And look, we'll wait till for about midnight.
Then you'll come by my room and we'll head for
the duck.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you're a regina, I'm sure of it. Do
you remember what I said about the diamonds?
Speaker 4: The diamonds?
Speaker 1: You don't remember the diamonds. How could you forget the diamonds?
Speaker 2: Eh?
Speaker 1: After all, they are your diamonds.
Speaker 4: Oh uh, the diamonds. Yes, yes, mister Gillespie.
Speaker 1: Ooh, it isn't right for you to call me mister
Gilleshpie after what we've been to each other.
Speaker 2: I should think Edmund would be Robert.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Edmund I was wrong about the diamonds. He said a
million dollars invested in diamonds to be dead money put
it in the market world. As it happened, the diamonds
have crippled in value, just the times, I suppose.
Speaker 4: The tina.
Speaker 1: I when your breakfast with me tomorrow and and I'll
explain more about the.
Speaker 2: Diamonds.
Speaker 1: I'm so tired now, just want to get to sleep.
Speaker 7: Missus Teimler, Missus Taylor, are you ready? Missus day Lar,
missus oh.
Speaker 4: Missus Dayler, are you all right?
Speaker 1: Obviously she is not right?
Speaker 4: What are you doing here?
Speaker 2: I think poor missus Damler is dead. I think poor
Missus Damler is dead.
Speaker 3: Notice how mister Carberry phrases these things. Well, obviously she's dead,
The question is how and by whose hand? Well, you
can expect the unusual to happen on remote islands. Other
things are also scheduled to happen. When I returned to
you in just a few moments with Act three, when
our miss Sarah Watson finds herself virtually alone on a
small island off the lonely coast of Northern Man and
the truth she feels like an island, isolated and alone.
But wait, isn't it written that no man is an island,
that there is a tie that binds all of us together.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's written.
Speaker 1: However, how about those people like Sarah Watson.
Speaker 3: Who have no ties at all, no bonds to anyone.
Well that's what she thinks, but you never know.
Speaker 4: She's dead. Missus Damer is dead. I was talking to
her earlier this evening.
Speaker 2: How could it must have been the heart attack?
Speaker 4: How could a woman with a party at condition perform
all her duties as a housekeeper?
Speaker 1: Then she didn't die of a heart attack, Oh what
did she die of?
Speaker 2: Well, perhaps she died of a very dangerous disease, which
I hope is not contagious. What disease indiscretion.
Speaker 4: Well, if it was murder, I'm sure that you killed her,
are you? And you're going to have to call a doctor?
Speaker 1: Why to sign the death certificate?
Speaker 2: Who died?
Speaker 4: Who died? Missus Daimler, Oh, my.
Speaker 2: Dear, she didn't. She left here last week to live
with relatives in the far West. But the three days
I can prove it. Here's the copy of the local
paper dated last week. You've seen this social note writer,
you read it.
Speaker 4: Missus Aucust Daimler, for many years, housekeeper to mister Edmund
Gillespie on Rodwood Island, has announced her retirement. She is
leaving to live with relatives in Oregon.
Speaker 2: But there it had become obvious a little while ago
that Missus Damner might become a problem. So last week
we took the precaution of what should we say? Being prepared?
Speaker 1: Oh, you won't get away with it? Get away with what?
Speaker 2: Why don't you get some breast? Miss Watson, you have
a busy day tomorrow. And oh yes, but by may
I am they have a key?
Speaker 4: What key.
Speaker 2: To the book chain? Let me see, I think I'll
have what do you suggest this evening?
Speaker 1: Nothing?
Speaker 2: Nothing?
Speaker 1: It is They seem to waste good food. Well, if
plus weeks you order, I serve you do not touch.
You are in love. I have a feeling that she's
in danger. If you have a feeling, then it is true.
But I don't even know what to do with You
have no choice. You must save her.
Speaker 5: You have grounds for suspicion, yes, And you sit here
while your loved one is imperial?
Speaker 1: Who says she's my loved one? Why do you keep
thinking about her?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I shall feed you enough to arm you for your john.
But she she's two thousand miles from here. I love
love a distance. And see you are smiling already.
Speaker 4: Go to her.
Speaker 1: She wrote your name, she calls you.
Speaker 2: She needs you. A dazzling morning, isn't business?
Speaker 1: Boss?
Speaker 4: I watched you and mister Spencer and those other men,
and I saw you burry missus Damon.
Speaker 2: At the risk of telling an old joke at a
serious moment we had to dead.
Speaker 4: You know, now, what are your plans from me?
Speaker 2: Before? That depends on you?
Speaker 4: What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2: Just have, mister Gleslie go on thinking your Regina?
Speaker 4: And what about the diamonds?
Speaker 2: The diamonds, Well, you see, mister Glasbie was Regina Trumbull's guardian.
Her father had entrusted him with a million dollars worth
of diamonds to be held for her until her twenty
fifth birthday. He fell in love with her, but she
died in an accident. He went to pieces. After that,
he shut himself up on this island, and well, as
you can see, he lost his mind.
Speaker 4: Yes, and I'll tell you what else I see. I
see that After a while he started to get his
mind back. But then you came into the picture. You
are making sure that he doesn't recover his sanity.
Speaker 1: Why would I do that?
Speaker 4: Because if you could get him to believe that I
am Regina, you'll give me those diamonds and then you
can get you your hands on.
Speaker 2: I must say, miss Watson, you have an incisive mind.
Speaker 4: The diamonds are hidden here somewhere. He won't tell you
and you can't force it out of him. So that's
why you need me.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, you are vittles vitals meaning alive. How do
you know you can trust me?
Speaker 2: We would make it worth your while. We would give
you a considerable sum of money.
Speaker 4: Why should you do that? Why not just kill me?
Speaker 2: Miss Watson? I am not in the murder business. I
only will commit a crime when I have absolutely no alternative.
Speaker 4: And how do I know that I can trust you?
Speaker 2: You have no other route to travel, So you think.
Speaker 5: There's something going on over to Rutford Island.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what I think, Sheriff.
Speaker 5: I must say, you don't give much evidence.
Speaker 1: Not tall tell true, Sheriff, I traveled Almos two thousand miles.
Run a hunch. Well, what do you want me to do?
Find out if she's all right?
Speaker 5: We'll search the place, Sir, you've been watching too many movies.
You don't trespire us all over man's property and turn
his establishment inside out lest she got.
Speaker 1: A search one d a warrant.
Speaker 5: Tell you what I'll do, Agatha, connect me with Graduate Island.
Speaker 1: Please, thank you?
Speaker 2: What will you accomplished by that?
Speaker 1: We'll find out?
Speaker 5: Well we stand Hello, Yes, sir, this is Sheriff Tay
to whom I'm speaking.
Speaker 1: It's the caburry. Hesn't want to interview her in New York.
Speaker 5: Do you have a miss Sarah Watson working for you?
Speaker 1: Uh? Huh, yes, doesn't Denier see no.
Speaker 5: No, no, just a routine nothing tall how much blig
thank you?
Speaker 2: She ain't there. She has to be there.
Speaker 1: She left?
Speaker 4: How could you leave?
Speaker 1: She had a two year contract.
Speaker 5: She decided she didn't like the place too lonely. When
does he say she left two days after she arrived.
Now that's impossible. We would have known about it.
Speaker 1: Why she quit?
Speaker 5: She quit, that's all, and she designed to find another job.
I know this all ain't a yawn and your part?
Speaker 4: Why would I lie it?
Speaker 2: Just die today? How do I know you?
Speaker 1: Who you say? Here is my card and here's a
copy of the contract that she signed.
Speaker 5: Well, sir, you let me study this air document.
Speaker 1: But meanwhile she kill while it's doc.
Speaker 5: If I do decide to go to the island, I
can't do it till morning.
Speaker 1: But O king forget it, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Who is it? Sh don't down on the light?
Speaker 1: Who is It's me?
Speaker 2: James Morton?
Speaker 1: Jeez, more than the person who notified in case of trouble.
Speaker 2: Well you're in trouble, aren't you?
Speaker 4: Oh James Morton? Now, oh yes, yes, yes, I am
in trouble.
Speaker 1: Here I am. How did you know? I got a boat.
I waited till dark and I sneaked ashore made it
to the house. I want you through the window, and
I figured out which room was yours, and we are
going to get out of here.
Speaker 4: Jesus, I don't know what to say.
Speaker 2: Don't say anything. AT's hurry.
Speaker 4: It's a miracle. It's a miracle. Never happened to me.
Speaker 1: Before, to me neither. Well, it's about time.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to interrupt, and don't fool and don't talk.
Su Spencer is an excellent shot, and i've this range out.
Can you miss?
Speaker 1: I think you're finished? Mister Carberry, that's the sheriff.
Speaker 2: Why would the sheriff come here because I spoke to
him earlier? Huh, Well, then he won't find you here.
Speaker 1: You'll find my boat.
Speaker 2: No, mister Spencer already has it. Well, hit and don't scream.
Miss Spencer would shoot you immediately. I'm a suspenser. Suppose
I see who was at the door. You have your instructions. Oh,
I know, Sheriff. I haven't seen the young man.
Speaker 1: Funny Chris warn he'd come out here for what reason?
I wouldn't know. You say this.
Speaker 5: Miss Watson left right after she got here.
Speaker 2: That's right. We were completely incompatible. How's mister Gillespie these days?
We never see him? Poor old man who completely seen now. Yeah, Well,
is there anything else I can do for you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can produce both the girl and mister Morton.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, JERVI tol them.
Speaker 5: Powers told me the young fellow rented a boat off
from him just a while back and took off headed
this way.
Speaker 2: I assure you he never got here.
Speaker 5: Oh he got here, and the girls here too. I
ain't no one here, ha, nake it up, now, break
it up, man.
Speaker 4: He tried to use me.
Speaker 1: Where.
Speaker 5: Looks like mister Spencer won't be able to say anything
for a while.
Speaker 4: I jumped at him. He fired.
Speaker 1: They were going to kill it.
Speaker 4: No, but it's all going to be fine.
Speaker 5: Mister Carberry heroborably as figure and he can make a
run for it, but he's got nowhere to go. I
left a deputy on the dock.
Speaker 1: Why did you What did you come here, sheriff?
Speaker 5: Where sounded like a while?
Speaker 1: Yawn?
Speaker 5: Then I read that contract you left me, the one
your agency signed with mister Carberry.
Speaker 1: The contract all that defined was what mister Carberry oedis
in the event we filled his job to standard agreement.
Speaker 5: According to the agreement, he had to pay you six
percent of fifteen thousand dollars. That's nine hundred. If for
any reason the applicant lasts less than a week, you
have to refund him two thirds of that amount. Now,
if miss Watson left what he played after a couple
of days, you'd devoted him six hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Well, that's right.
Speaker 5: You never mentioned he claimed the money, and since you didn't,
as soon she was still here. Now, I don't know
how it is down You're part of the country, but
there ain't one single solitary living sowing up in these
parts that let six hundred dollars sit there whistling. Well, uh,
clear things up downstairs and give you a chance to
talk to your girl, my girl, long steer, don't you?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: Of course I do. Why else would I have named
him as the person to be.
Speaker 3: Notified Department of Loose Ends. An autopsy was performed on
missus Damer. It was established that she was poisoned. Mister
Carbury and company will stand trial for that one. Gillespie
was placed in a hospital where, with good care and treatment.
Speaker 1: He has a chance to recover all his faculties.
Speaker 3: At this writing, he still cannot remember where the diamonds
are hidden. If I have to tell you what happened
is Sarah and James, then you don't have an ounce
of romance in your soul, and I give up, but
only for a few moments.
Speaker 2: Actually, what we were talking about was not jobs.
Speaker 3: Or intrigue or murder, even though they were prominently featured.
Our theme was loneliness and it was a tale of
so many people who really.
Speaker 2: Have no anchor to love and security in our world.
Speaker 3: And if you are one of the fortunates, if you
can fill the space that says person to be notified,
then you have the best of this world. If, on
the other hand, you really can't fill that space, then
go out and change that situation.
Speaker 1: Our cast included.
Speaker 3: Mercedes mc cambridge, Russell Horton, Briner Rayburn, Ian Martin and
Gilbert Mack.
Speaker 2: The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
This is E. G.
Speaker 3: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant
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