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Speaker 1: Or another edition of the CBS Mystery Theater. Come in, Welcome,

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Welcome to the Mystery Theater. I'm hymen browse.

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Speaker 2: The belief in ghosts and apparitions is as ancient as

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man himself, and a ghost, as we all know, can

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take many forms and shapes. Most of these spirits return

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from an unhappy grave and haunt the living. But occasionally

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a ghost will turn up who is kindly, good natured.

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Speaker 1: And rather nice to have around. Our story involves just

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such a ghost.

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Speaker 3: Cousin Amy, come greatly greatly Russo is a strange man

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in this room, Cousin Amy, Or was.

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Speaker 1: Just a moment ago here?

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Speaker 3: Where did you see standing.

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Speaker 4: There right in the middle of the room, in front

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of my dressing glass, staring at.

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Speaker 3: Me in my nightgol and wrapper? I was terrified?

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Speaker 4: Did he look like his clothes were the strangest fashion?

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Speaker 3: And his neck, Yes, his neck was twisted.

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Speaker 4: The head was tilted over to one side, as though

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the head were just fairly.

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Speaker 3: Attached to the rest of the body. You've got to

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stay the night with me right here in my bedroom.

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Of course, I wouldn't think of leaving you.

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Speaker 4: We are not alone in this house, Believe me. There

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is a third person here somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Our mystery drama The Third Person is based on the

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Henry James classic and was especially adapted for the mystery

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theater by Stella and Arnold Moss. Its stars Marion Seldy's

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Do You Know? The Year is nineteen hundred. In a

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neat little village on the sea coast of New England,

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Miss Susan Frush is a rather shy lady in her

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early forties. In her well fastened hat, her white gloves,

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her sturdy walking shoes, she is what might be called

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a typical old maid. She has the appearance of once

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having been pretty, but this is now somewhat obscured by

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eyeglasses and teeth.

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Speaker 1: Her kinswoman, Miss Amy.

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Speaker 2: Frosh, ten years Miss Susan's junior, is brisk, eager, comparatively bold,

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and equally unhusbanded. Until this morning, these second cousins have

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never before met. Now they sit rather primly and a

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little terrorized in the parlor of a roomy mansion to

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which they have been summoned by a mister Willoughby, attorney

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at law.

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Speaker 1: Miss Susan Frush, Yes you are Susan Frush.

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Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes, I'm Susan Frush.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, and you are miss A Mayfrash.

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Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, I certainly am thank you.

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Speaker 1: Ladies.

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Speaker 2: You are both aware of why you are here. As

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the sole remaining heirs of your great aunt, the late

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Miss Abigail Frush, recently deceased at the age of ninety four,

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you two are the rightful legaties and equal shares of

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her entire properties.

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Speaker 3: Do you mean that all?

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Speaker 2: I mean, madden that, as executor of the late Miss

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Abigail's worldly estate, I hereby declare you, Miss Susan Frush,

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and you, miss A Mayfrash, the sole beneficiaries the largest

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single item of her benevolentce says, of course this.

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Speaker 4: House you mean, this house now belongs to the two

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of us, to me and to cousin.

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Speaker 2: Amy well, after a few legal documents properly sign if you,

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ladies will permit me to say so. Miss Abigail's generosity

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has been most remarkable, particularly in view of the fact

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that you are both unprotected without the care of solicitude

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of husbands.

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Speaker 4: Aunt Abigail has indeed been generous well.

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Speaker 2: Since, as I understand, you're both almost strangers to each other,

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you may not wish to share this house between you.

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The will directs that the house may be sold to

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your joint advantage.

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Speaker 1: Are there any questions?

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Speaker 3: No, I don't think so, m miss Susan. You've made

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everything quite clear. Thank you well.

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Speaker 2: In that case, I shall take the liberty of escorting

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you about the house and indicating some of its features,

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the high points, we might say of this old mansion.

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It consists, as you shall see, of thirty seven rooms,

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twelve of which are bedrooms.

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Speaker 5: Twelve bedroom or just the two of us on the

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second floor shared by the two largest of these bedrooms,

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installed some fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 1: Is the marvel of this modern age in which we live.

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Speaker 3: And that mister Willoughby is there.

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Speaker 2: With all the latest paraphernalia and conveniences of indoor plumbing.

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Speaker 1: Is the bathroom?

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Speaker 2: Imagine, ladies, the luxury of an indoor bathroom with running water?

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Speaker 3: What's that?

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Speaker 1: What is? What?

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Speaker 3: Do you hear anything, Cousin Amy, Yes, I do.

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Speaker 4: It sounds as if someone were running a bath in

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our luxurious indoor bathroom.

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Speaker 2: Hello, that you've seen the principal features of the house.

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I remind you again that the will permit you to

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sell it, should you be so minded.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I wouldn't think of it, mister Willoughby. This dear

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old house is exactly everything I ever dreamed of, and

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you cousin Amy, Oh.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't part with it for all the money in

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the world. It's beautiful.

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Speaker 6: Having drunk deep of the cup of singleness, which I

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confess is a rather bitter cup, this house represents a quiet,

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peaceful harbor.

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Speaker 3: Our solitude will come to an.

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Speaker 1: End, and of course, with an assured roof over your heads.

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Speaker 4: I adore every inch of it. I am sure the

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two of us will get along splendidly, as am I.

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Speaker 1: Ah.

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Speaker 4: But you must understand, of course, that I take on

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nap after dinner. Really, I could never rest then that's

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when I'm most wide awake and keen us for talk.

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I take minnt just before dinner. But I'm sure we

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can arrange our time suitably, and there'll be so many

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things to talk about, so many things we can do together.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well, I take it then that you ladies are

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fully prepared to share the house.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, so be it.

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Speaker 2: I am delighted that this charming house will remain where

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it's been for almost two hundred years, in the hands

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of the Fresh family.

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Speaker 1: Well, now, if we may continue.

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Speaker 2: With the inspection, I have saved this main entry hall

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for the last of our little tour.

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Speaker 1: Impressive.

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Speaker 4: Just look at all those full length portraits.

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Speaker 3: But those paintings must be. Are they are who we

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think they are?

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Speaker 1: Frushes, every single one of them.

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Speaker 3: They are all of them are ancestors.

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Speaker 1: Cousin Susan, Yes, indeed they are.

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Speaker 4: Oh that fat one with powdered wig in the big

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pot belly, funny, who is he?

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Speaker 2: That is Josiah Frush, the man who built this house

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in the year seventeen thirty one, a prince among merchants.

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Speaker 3: And that one, the one in the colorful uniform.

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Speaker 2: Colonel Benjamin Frush served with the greatest distinction under Sir

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William pepperwellf in King George's War seventeen forty five.

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Speaker 3: I remember reading about him. Isn't that perfectly screaming a

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great here? I'm so romantic.

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Speaker 6: Oh who's that stern looking one, the one with the frown.

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Speaker 2: That is Elbridge Rush, lawyer, tourist, educator, political leader, one

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of the founding fathers of this Commonwealth, first president of

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fresh University.

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Speaker 4: And that one cousin Susan Jeff. Look at him, which one,

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the one to the right of the door, dressed in

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the clothes of the American Revolution? Oh, isn't he just

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the handsomest man you have ever seen in your entire life?

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Speaker 3: And so young? He is beautiful.

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Speaker 4: Those piercing blue eyes seem to penetrate.

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Speaker 3: Right into York, do they not? But those eyes are

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so sad. Which one of the fush did he? Mister Willoughby?

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Speaker 2: And that lady is young Cuthbert fresh Cuthbert.

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Speaker 3: I don't seem to remember hearing about him. When did he.

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Speaker 1: Live in the seventeen seventies?

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Speaker 3: What did he do? What was he favous for?

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Speaker 2: You must pardon me, ladies, This is one subject I

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do not care to discuss.

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Speaker 4: Another cup of tea, Cousin Amy, if you don't mind.

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Speaker 3: Cousin Susan, what a wonderful day. This is the first thing.

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Speaker 4: Tomorrow morning I shall start delving into the complete history

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of all of our ancestors, find out everything I can

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about each of them.

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Speaker 3: Cousin Susan.

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Speaker 4: Yes, the portrait to the right of the main entry,

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Cousin Cuthbert. There's something strange and fascinating about the expression

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on his handsome face. Mister Willoughby knows more, I think

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than he was willing to say. I must agree with you.

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Let's me perfectly, frank, Cousin Susan. Doesn't that look in

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Cuthbert's eyes do something to you? Really, Cousin Amy, I

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haven't a s life start, you know how, dear cousin,

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you said.

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Speaker 3: Yourself that his eyes seemed to look right into you.

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Speaker 6: I suppose I did, didn't I But they are sad

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and so melancholy looking. They seem to be saying, help me, please,

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I need you desperately.

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Speaker 4: Exactly the feeling they gave me. Have you any idea

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why mister Willoughby was so reluctant to discuss Cousin constant?

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Speaker 3: Do you hear anything? Music of some somebody's whistling?

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Speaker 4: It's a Yankee doodle seems to be coming from that window.

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Come let's see. Please be very careful, Cousin Amy, open

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the drapes slowly, Cousin Susan, quickly, quickly, come here with

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what is it?

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Speaker 3: What's wrong? Look out there in the dark. Do you

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see what I see?

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Speaker 4: Where up there among the branches of that huge tree?

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Speaker 3: It can't be Do you suppose it is?

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Speaker 4: The faith and head of Cuthbert rush fut it over

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to one side, loating in the air.

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Speaker 3: We'ved in a kind of eerie blue light, just his

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head and face, nothing more, with.

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Speaker 4: Out a body I can't believe, and his eyes seemed

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to be pleading for something, just exactly the way it

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is in the portrait.

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Speaker 3: I will not look at it. It's terrifying. Driven. Why

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don't we go to our bedroom.

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Speaker 4: We're both very tired, which maybe why we're seeing things

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that cannot be here that you say, after a good

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night's rest, we'll both of us laugh at what we

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think we've just seen. Yes, but we did see it.

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Imagination plays strange tricks sometimes.

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Speaker 3: Oh, let's admit it.

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Speaker 4: We've had cousin Cuthbert on our minds ever since mister

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Willoughby showed us the portrait.

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Speaker 3: It naturally follows that we should see his head and

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face floating in the air outside in the among the

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branches of that old tree. Talk about it in the morning.

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Speaker 4: Tell me just take your lamp and follow me up

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to our bedrooms.

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Speaker 3: Huh. I'm sure you know best.

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Speaker 4: And all these wonderful portraits. Good night, Colonel Benjamin Frush.

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I'm sure, General Pepperwell was very proud of you. And

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good night to you, Cousin Elbridge, president of Fresh University.

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And sleep well, cousin Josiah.

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Speaker 3: And you.

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Speaker 4: There's that whistling again, Cousin Susan, hold your lamp a

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little higher. Yes, under the portrait of Cuthbert Frush, what

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is it?

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Speaker 3: What's wrong?

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Speaker 4: But I can't tell whether it's the lamplight throwing strange

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shadows up?

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Speaker 3: Do you see what I see?

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Speaker 4: Tell me what you see the same portrait of Custard

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Frush we saw this afternoon.

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Speaker 7: But with one horrible differences. Body is there but poor

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Cuspert head.

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Speaker 1: No head, just whiz or whahs cusput Fresh?

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Speaker 2: Is it possible that in some way his spirit still

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lingers on in the old Fresh Mansion? Can we say,

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with the poet Longfellow, all houses wherein men have lived

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and died are haunted houses? Through the open doors, the

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harmless phantoms on their errands glide with feet that make

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no sound upon the floor.

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Speaker 1: We will learn.

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Speaker 2: More when Mystery Theater returns shortly with Act two. The

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cellars of the Fresh Mansion are sound, cool and dry,

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like the crypts of ancient churches. Several mornings after taking

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possession of the old house, Susan and Amy Brush decide

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to explore the vaults of these underground labyrinths. A recess

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in the thickness of one of the walls has yielded

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a small chest bound with hoops of iron. Slowly and carefully,

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the two ladies are doing their best to pry it.

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Speaker 3: Open, careful, covening me, we don't want to break it.

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Speaker 4: I think I have it. It's coming God.

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Speaker 6: Good, Ah, wish this chest hasn't been open, I'm sure

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in almost a hundred years oh more.

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Speaker 4: Since this exciting Let's see what we have. Newspapers and pancier.

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Careful how you handle them, they'll fall apart in your hands,

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and two, no three packets of letters yellow with time.

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Look at that little package tied into a small bundle

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with a sprig of tale blue ribbon. Oh sweet, anything else?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 4: I had hoped it might be filled with old golden

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guineas ordered by some.

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Speaker 3: Ancient miser of a frush.

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Speaker 4: I find not, or even a handful of duckets, the

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bloom pieces of air stored by an unknown pirate ancestor

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of ours or some evil panton of a privateer. Captain Brush,

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who roamed the Seven Seas and preyed upon his helpless victim.

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Speaker 3: You are an incurable ROMANTNI a lot of old papers

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and letters.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: You can't wait to read them any more than I

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can trough.

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Speaker 3: Only I dare not handle them myself. They're so delicate.

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This is a job for the minister.

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Speaker 4: Not only does the reverend mister Patton preach an excellent sermon,

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but he's also president of the town's historical society. If

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anybody can help us with these, mister Patten, can, I'm sure?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 6: They should provide many interesting evenings before the fireplace. Cousin Amy,

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has it occurred to you that we might find things

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in these letters that we might not want to learn about?

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Speaker 3: Well, like what? I'm not quite sure.

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Speaker 4: But if we should discover something bad about an ancestor

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of ours, anyone, I don't think.

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Speaker 3: I would want to know.

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Speaker 4: Well, suppose it was something about our mysterious cousin Cuthbert.

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Speaker 3: Something really naughty. Wouldn't you want to know about? Sho

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I'd have to think about.

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Speaker 4: Oh, No, you wouldn't, and neither would I. If anything

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human happened with Cuthbert or any other fresh with all

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those dignified pill of society in the entry hall.

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Speaker 3: I would be delighted. What cousins, anything really?

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Speaker 4: And the only thing I do in the morning is

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to get in touch with the reverend mister Amos Pettingill Patton.

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Speaker 3: We'll need his help with these letters. Come quickly, quickly,

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coming in, and what's wrong? What's the matter?

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Speaker 4: Keep your voice steady alone, coming in. I just heard

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you scream. I know, I know. There there is a

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man in this room here in your bedroom. Oh how

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was that poss No, but just a moment ago there

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was someone in this room who I told you a

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man were under the bed just standing here.

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Speaker 3: Oh, please hold me, cousin. I'm shaking up a leaf over.

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Speaker 4: There there, and I'm just trying to be calm. Why

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don't we both just sit here.

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Speaker 3: At the foot of the bed. Now, would you like

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a glass of water?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 3: Tell me quietly. This man that you saw he was

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standing you say, where, right in the middle of the room.

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Speaker 4: He was standing before my dressing glass with the lights

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still on, and I lowered them.

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Speaker 3: I had not yet gone to bed.

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Speaker 4: Why do you suppose he was standing before your dressing

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glass to look at himself, to admire himself.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I see, you don't believe me. Of course I believe.

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He had his back to the glass. He was standing

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there staring looking at me.

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Speaker 4: My light garland wrapper.

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Speaker 3: Oh, so terrified. I couldn't move. I'm so ashamed. I'm selfish. Now,

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please try to remain cold. What did he look like? Oh?

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Speaker 4: His clothes were stangeous fashion from another age, knee breeches,

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long stockings, a lace, ruffle about his neck, cocktail, that

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sort of thing like the period.

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Speaker 3: His face, what did he look like? All the light

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wasn't right enough for me to make up the features.

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Speaker 4: I was too frightened to notice, But I do remember

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that the neck was dense sort of. The head was

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tilted way over to the one side, to one hour.

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It was awful, as though the head were just barely

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attached to the rest of the body. Oh, you've got

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to stay.

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Speaker 3: Here with me. I will not say in this room alone.

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Of course. Of course, I wouldn't think of leaving you.

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Speaker 4: Cousin Amy, We're not alone in this house. Lisa, food

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person here somewhere.

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Speaker 3: Just lie down now and close your eyes. I know

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what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 4: It may well be that all I talk about those

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old letters we discovered.

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Speaker 3: I did not imagine anything. I saw him.

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Speaker 4: The walls we touch in this old house, the floors

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we walk on, all have secrets, all secrets, some remembered,

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some forgotten. We'll both get used to it, I'm sure

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after a while. Now close your eyes and try to

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get some rest. Well, good night, cousin names, and thank

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you not at all until you fall asleep. I'll sit

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here in this old rocking chair.

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Speaker 3: Miserable. Heavens, what's wrong?

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Speaker 4: There is a man sitting in this rocking chair, and

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I'm sitting in his lad.

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Speaker 3: No, and he's whispering in my ear. What's he's saying?

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Did he saying?

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Speaker 4: I beg your pardon, cousin Amy, but you're sitting on

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my lap?

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Speaker 3: That was lords clamshot. It isn't a bit of wind

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tonight from the rocking chair. Look at it. It's rocking

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in four oh by itsel. Let's get out of here,

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quick break. We'll lock ourselves in my room tonight. Wait

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wait for me. I'm coming right with you a bit more, bacer,

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mister Patton. Another egg.

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Speaker 2: No, thank you, my dear, thank you so much, Oh

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bless my soul. Perfectly delightful breakfast, miss Amy.

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Speaker 3: I'm Susan.

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Speaker 2: Mister Patton, I am a Oh yes, of course, of course,

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so you are. You've already told me twice now, haven't you?

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Hey one of my words faily.

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Speaker 4: About the letters and papers we found in the chest,

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mister Patton.

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Speaker 2: Uh, yes, indeed, I've gone through almost half of them.

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Should complete the first reading of all of them by tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: More coffee, Oh, I thank you, Miss Susan.

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Speaker 3: Have you found.

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Speaker 4: Anything at all thus far that might be of any

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interest to us?

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Speaker 2: We know that depends a bit on what you ladies

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would consider interesting, he doesn't it?

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Speaker 4: Well, we were just curious as to whether you might

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have come across anything that might show one.

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Speaker 3: Or two of them to be a little.

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Speaker 2: Less, a little less proper, a little more human, shall

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we say, little chinks in their armor.

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Speaker 4: Exactly, Nothing really shocking, just something that might possibly explain

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certain things.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's nothing like that in the letters as yet.

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Speaker 1: What certain things? May I ask?

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Speaker 3: Any means? Have you found anything in the letters that

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might tell something.

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Speaker 4: About well, Puss Rush, who cousin Cuthbert Frush?

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Speaker 3: That rascal rascal? Why do you call him a rascal?

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Speaker 1: Everybody knew it it's practically town.

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Speaker 4: Can we asked mister Willoughby about Cuthbert, He did not seem.

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Speaker 3: Eager to provide us with any information.

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Speaker 2: Well, now, Thomas Willoughby is a bit of a stick

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in the muney, isn't he, Mister Patten?

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Speaker 3: Certain strange things have been happening here in his house.

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Speaker 6: Things that we do not understand, Things that we are

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convinced may possibly stem from whatever may have happened to

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the man that you call a rascal.

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Speaker 1: Exactly what has been happening for.

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Speaker 4: The time being, that must remain our little secret, my

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cousins and mine. In the meantime, it is of the

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utmost urgency that we know everything there is to know

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about cousin Cuthbert. Why did he die so young? And

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how did he?

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Speaker 1: Well? My dear dear ladies.

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Speaker 2: The fact is that Cuthbert Frush, born in seventeen forty seven,

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as I recall, came to his end in seventeen seventy

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five at the age of twenty eight, hanged by the

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neck until he was quite dead, on that old oak

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tree there outside the window.

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Speaker 3: I am not a going to take your customary after

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dinner nap comes I couldn't get any unto nervous.

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Speaker 4: The first of this dreadful storm, and then the Reverend

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patents expected almost.

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Speaker 3: Any moment with the rest of the letters. He did

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say he'd be here at eight he did. I can

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hardly wait.

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Speaker 4: I am so excited, though my any I cannot get

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used to the idea that darling cousin Cuthbert was among

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a stout limb of that old old tree out there

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where we saw his head the other night. That's why

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it was so dreadfully twisted all the way over to

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one side, because hanging breaks the natro But don't say,

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but it's a most peculiarly sect. And that also explains

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that look of pitiful sadness in those young, hauntingly beautiful eyes. Indeed, Ah,

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mister Patten's usually so prompt cousin Susan had him the

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slightest suspicion, the faintest inkling of what our damned young

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cousin might possibly have done to deserve the fate of

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dangling from the end of a stout rope, none whatsoever.

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Let us hope we shall now find.

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Speaker 6: Out the poor poor boys.

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Speaker 1: My heavenly soul, which quite a night, quite a knight,

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isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Miss Amye?

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Speaker 1: No, yeah, of course, of course.

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Speaker 3: May I take your raincoat and hoarse?

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, thank you indeed, miss Amy?

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Speaker 4: Correct, correct the paper, the letters you brought them, of course.

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Speaker 2: Right here, wrapped in this oiled skin, here we are,

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and I have good news for you both, the most

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splendid news.

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Speaker 3: Shall we sit here close to the fire?

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Speaker 1: Thank you?

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Speaker 2: Now, if I may, I should like to begin with

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a question, truthfully, why are you, too, dear ladies, so

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anxious to find out whatever you can about an ancestor

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of yours who's been dead for over hundred and twenty

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five years.

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Speaker 1: Since seventeen seventy.

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Speaker 2: Five, particularly since you think there may have been something,

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shall we say, a try for naughty in his background.

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Speaker 4: We've always he told you, mister Patton, we want to

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know everything there is to know about all our.

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Speaker 1: Answer and uh, I think I understand, mister Patton.

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Speaker 4: What would you say if we were to tell you that,

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although Cuthbert may have been hanged, that in some strange

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way we cannot explain, Cuthbert.

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Speaker 2: Is still with us in spirit, of course, as are

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all the freshers.

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Speaker 4: Cuthbert is still here living with us in this very house.

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Speaker 3: We've seen it.

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Speaker 4: And he's trying to tell us something wants something from us.

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Speaker 1: Will bless myself.

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Speaker 3: You don't believe us.

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Speaker 1: Do you?

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Speaker 2: Well, you must admit the idea does stretch one's powers

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of belief just a trifle.

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Speaker 3: Then come with us to the Alter haolway.

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Speaker 2: Right this minute, as you wish, missir Amy. We want

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you to see something delighted. Delighted, my dear.

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Speaker 3: Now is the light good enough for you to see?

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Speaker 1: Or certainly? All right?

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Speaker 4: Then cast your eyes up as that oil painting of

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Cuthbert Frush.

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Speaker 2: I know it well, I've seen it so many times.

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Oh no, no, I will not believe it.

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Speaker 1: The painting is an absolute blank. There's absolutely nothing on

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the canvas.

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Speaker 3: First the head was gone, Now it's the whole body. Oh,

471
00:29:33,599 --> 00:29:36,279
mister Patten, will you please come back with that into

472
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the parlor and be good enough to tell.

473
00:29:38,079 --> 00:29:40,799
Speaker 4: Us what you found in the paper and why cousin

474
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,720
Cuthbert was put to there. It might help us to

475
00:29:43,799 --> 00:29:48,400
understand why this fIF third person is still hanging about

476
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:49,000
the house.

477
00:29:53,559 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 2: It's said that even the most welcome guest gets to

478
00:29:57,039 --> 00:29:59,960
be a bit of a nuisance after the first three

479
00:30:01,119 --> 00:30:04,640
and that applies, in some measure even to the engaging

480
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:09,480
spirit of cousin Cuspert. The longer he stays, the more

481
00:30:09,519 --> 00:30:14,400
demanding his presence seems to become. For he has presented

482
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,920
a dark and challenging mystery to his two spinster cousins,

483
00:30:19,519 --> 00:30:23,240
and they are determined to unravel Cusperts one hundred and

484
00:30:23,279 --> 00:30:25,440
twenty five year old secret.

485
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:27,519
Speaker 1: And so am I.

486
00:30:27,599 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 2: We'll learn more about that when Mystery Theater returns shortly

487
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:32,799
with Act three.

488
00:30:33,039 --> 00:30:36,079
Speaker 3: Ooh, my kids love chocolate milk. This isn't just ordinary

489
00:30:36,119 --> 00:30:36,799
chocolate milk.

490
00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 2: A footstep, a loath robbing in the walls, a noise

491
00:30:52,039 --> 00:30:57,279
of falling weights that never fell, weird whispers, bells that

492
00:30:57,519 --> 00:31:02,079
ring without a hand, door handles that turn when no

493
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,599
one was at the door, and bolted doors that open

494
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,839
by themselves. So did the poet Tennyson describe some of

495
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,960
the possible goings on in a house shared by a ghost.

496
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Amy and Susan Frush believe in what they see and hear.

497
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Their present task is to convince the Reverend pattern if

498
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they can.

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Speaker 4: Now do you believe us, mister Patton? Do you believe that?

500
00:31:30,599 --> 00:31:32,880
In some inexplicable way?

501
00:31:34,119 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 3: But has left that thing to frame and is wandering

502
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,880
about the house. Cousin Amy and I have actually seen.

503
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 2: Him, and you think he's staying on because he wants

504
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:45,759
you to do something.

505
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,559
Speaker 4: And it would help tremendously if we could know why

506
00:31:49,599 --> 00:31:50,359
he was hanging.

507
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Speaker 3: Have you come across anything in the letters?

508
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Speaker 4: Were there an unhappy love affair that ended in his

509
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:55,720
committee murder?

510
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,759
Speaker 3: Did he kill someone a jealous husband? Or what he

511
00:31:58,839 --> 00:32:01,720
had dashing hired to was captured by the King's navy

512
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,559
after a bloody battle?

513
00:32:03,559 --> 00:32:07,319
Speaker 4: On I see what speakable things did he do to

514
00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:08,480
deserve to be hanged?

515
00:32:08,519 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 3: Oh? Please tell her?

516
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 2: I will, I will, if you'll give me a chance.

517
00:32:13,759 --> 00:32:16,799
Was nothing quite as ramatic as you suggest?

518
00:32:17,319 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 3: H What did mister Paton?

519
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,079
Speaker 1: Now you both read your early American history? Think back?

520
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,599
Speaker 2: What was one of the weightiest things on the minds

521
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,279
of the American colonist's one of the things, in fact,

522
00:32:30,279 --> 00:32:32,519
that led to the American Revolution?

523
00:32:33,039 --> 00:32:39,079
Speaker 4: Paying taxes they considered unfair? Huh, taxation without representation?

524
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:45,279
Speaker 2: Right on ahead, miss Amy, and the only way a

525
00:32:45,359 --> 00:32:49,599
patriotic colonist could show his defiance of what he considered

526
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,480
inequitable taxes put.

527
00:32:51,359 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: Upon him by the British.

528
00:32:54,039 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 2: Was to smuggle articles like tea, brandy rum molasses into

529
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the country without paying the taxes.

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00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:08,079
Speaker 3: You mean, cousin Cuthbert was a smuggler, a.

531
00:33:08,079 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 2: Good many of the townspeople here, being so near the sea.

532
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: Made a very bold living out of smuggling.

533
00:33:14,599 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 3: Is that why they hanged him?

534
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 2: If they lived by smuggling, sad it is to say

535
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:24,319
that some of them proudly and defiantly died for it.

536
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,079
Speaker 3: Like cousin cut.

537
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,319
Speaker 2: Several of these letters speak of his smuggling activities. He

538
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,240
was admired here as one of the best until he

539
00:33:34,319 --> 00:33:36,599
was unlucky enough to be caught and hanged for what

540
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,559
was then considered a capital crime.

541
00:33:41,279 --> 00:33:44,279
Speaker 3: Hanged for a little thing like smuggling.

542
00:33:44,799 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 2: In the eyes of King George the Third's offices, it

543
00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:49,920
was not such a little thing.

544
00:33:50,759 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: Cuthbert did commit an error, a human error. But as

545
00:33:54,799 --> 00:34:01,559
we know to er, he is human, to forgere give divine.

546
00:34:02,319 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 4: Of course, that's it exactly.

547
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,079
Speaker 3: What's what, exactly?

548
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 4: I know what's bothering Cusat you do? The first thing

549
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,679
we must do is to visit his grave in the

550
00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:18,480
old churchyard. The way I look at it, the only

551
00:34:18,559 --> 00:34:23,000
crime Cuspert was really guilty of what's the crime of

552
00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:41,559
being caught? Ooh oo, kind of food it good boy.

553
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,320
The entrance to the churchyard must be through that gate,

554
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,519
so it is Cristin Susan.

555
00:34:48,159 --> 00:34:50,599
Speaker 3: Here's the fresh section of the burying ground.

556
00:34:51,079 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 4: Oh just look at all those beautiful headstones and monuments.

557
00:34:56,599 --> 00:35:00,400
You know, it's hard to make out some of the names.

558
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:05,039
Speaker 3: Who's that? That's Benjamin Frush the soldier.

559
00:35:06,039 --> 00:35:12,159
Speaker 4: Here is the grave of dear dear Cuthbard o cousin Susan.

560
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,480
Put the little raise of flowers at the foot of

561
00:35:14,519 --> 00:35:18,880
the grave. They are lovely, they should please him. Do

562
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:24,320
you mind if I begin? No, not at all, dear

563
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:30,599
Cuthbert Frush cousin Susan, and I know why they hang you.

564
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,199
We would like you to know that not only do

565
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,679
we not look down upon you for what you did,

566
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,920
but that we do not in any way disapprove of

567
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:42,679
your actions.

568
00:35:43,159 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 3: We are sorry, of course, that you were.

569
00:35:45,199 --> 00:35:48,280
Speaker 4: Caught and hanged on the oak behind the parlor at

570
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:53,760
the tender age of only twenty eight. We also sense

571
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,360
that you are unhappy and restless in this grave.

572
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,159
Speaker 3: You want to be forgiven, don't you?

573
00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:05,639
Speaker 4: You want peace and rest and that pleading look in

574
00:36:05,679 --> 00:36:09,079
your eyes tells us you're trying to say something that

575
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,199
possibly you want our help. What is it you want

576
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:17,079
us to do? The vase of flowers stuggled over and

577
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:22,000
brooke cousin cord Is this your way of telling us

578
00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:22,840
you hear us?

579
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 3: Who answer us? Cuthbert, talk to us for your cousin, Susan.

580
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 4: Dear, Oh well, that was sweet of you, Thank you, Cuthbert.

581
00:36:36,199 --> 00:36:41,880
What was that? Cousin Cuthber just kissed me ever so

582
00:36:42,199 --> 00:36:49,079
gently he did on the forehead. Oh yes, Cousin Custy

583
00:36:49,159 --> 00:36:52,519
is saying some fish.

584
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 3: O course, dear Cuthbert.

585
00:36:56,079 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 4: Now I know exactly the kind of thing you want.

586
00:36:59,280 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 3: Us to do.

587
00:37:00,079 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: What is it?

588
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 3: What did he say?

589
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: Susan?

590
00:37:04,199 --> 00:37:07,519
Speaker 4: I hope you won't mind staying alone for the next

591
00:37:07,519 --> 00:37:08,159
few days.

592
00:37:08,599 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 3: I'm leaving in the morning.

593
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,119
Speaker 4: Where too, Why what are you planning to do just

594
00:37:13,119 --> 00:37:14,159
for a few days?

595
00:37:14,599 --> 00:37:16,199
Speaker 3: A very important.

596
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,559
Speaker 4: Errand ah, but we have the fourth of July celebration

597
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,360
coming up. We've invited mister Willoughby and mister pat Oh.

598
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,519
I have no intention of disappointing them. Oh, don't worry,

599
00:37:25,519 --> 00:37:35,280
I'll be back by the fourth of July. I am ma'am,

600
00:37:35,679 --> 00:37:39,360
You're sure you've packed them well, I have a long trip.

601
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:40,639
Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am, I have.

602
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:47,119
Speaker 2: Indeed, just be sure to keep the package dry away

603
00:37:47,159 --> 00:37:47,840
from any.

604
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:48,679
Speaker 1: Heat, of course.

605
00:37:49,119 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 3: Oh, you're sure I'll be able to manage them myself.

606
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: Just take usual precautions.

607
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 3: I adure the red, white and blue ribbon you've tied

608
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,480
it with I'm so appropriate for this time of the year.

609
00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:03,159
Speaker 1: Fourth of salan Oh, we try to please, ma'am.

610
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 4: On the day we commemorate the birsty of our country's independence.

611
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 3: It is my.

612
00:38:08,039 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 4: Hope that a certain person will be celebrating his independence too,

613
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,800
that his spirit will become as free as our countries

614
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,719
were in seventeen seventy six.

615
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, that'll be three dollars and a half ma'am.

616
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,519
Thank you, and come back soon.

617
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:35,119
Speaker 4: Have another marshmallow, mister parton you, mister Willoughby.

618
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 2: Ah, what a wonderful way of celebrating the fourth don't

619
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:39,960
you agree, mister Patton.

620
00:38:40,119 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 1: I certainly do, mister willelmy fine dinner.

621
00:38:43,039 --> 00:38:47,079
Speaker 2: Now, this bonfire keeps reminding me of the famous words

622
00:38:47,119 --> 00:38:49,800
of John Adams. On the eve of July fourth, seventeen

623
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:54,159
seventy six, he said that the anniversary of independence should

624
00:38:54,239 --> 00:39:00,599
always be remembered with pump and parade, with shows, games, sports, bells,

625
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,480
bonfires and fireworks.

626
00:39:03,679 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 4: Cousin Susan, Yes, gentlemen, I would like to contribute one

627
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,199
of those items to our celebration.

628
00:39:11,599 --> 00:39:14,760
Speaker 3: These what's in that for the package?

629
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,679
Speaker 4: Chinese are crackers, and these.

630
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 3: Are Roman candles.

631
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 4: And here are thin wheels, and these are called salut.

632
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 2: We'll firecrackers and fireworks displays. Now where on earth did

633
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,039
you get it? Don't you know what's against the Lord

634
00:39:33,039 --> 00:39:34,559
to bring those things into the state.

635
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,519
Speaker 4: Shall we toss the fire crackers into the bonfire one

636
00:39:37,559 --> 00:39:41,000
at a time? Look, here's the package for you, Cousin Susan.

637
00:39:41,639 --> 00:39:45,079
Run for you, mister Patrick, and run for you, mister.

638
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:47,039
Speaker 2: Call them into the.

639
00:39:47,039 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: Fire, my soul, miss Amy, what have you done?

640
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:01,199
Speaker 3: You went away the budes?

641
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 4: How can anyone properly celebrate the fourth of July without

642
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:10,880
biocrackers or fireworld? You journey somewhere to another state where

643
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,480
you could buy them legally, and brought them into this

644
00:40:13,639 --> 00:40:15,280
state illegally.

645
00:40:15,519 --> 00:40:18,039
Speaker 3: Oh top, some more of them into the fire.

646
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,159
Speaker 1: The eyes of the lore.

647
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:28,079
Speaker 2: This crush, won't you if time would be considered smirking.

648
00:40:28,519 --> 00:40:29,320
Speaker 3: Wouldn't it.

649
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 4: It's nedly wonderful, Amy, you become a smuggler.

650
00:40:33,639 --> 00:40:34,519
Speaker 1: Why what is.

651
00:40:34,559 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 4: Your cousin Cuthbert, that we crushes are perfectly capable of

652
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:42,320
taking the same kind of receiving, capable of the same

653
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,000
kind of bowl.

654
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,559
Speaker 3: Being He's been puntful, you see.

655
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 4: He wanted us to perform a punishable act of whitey

656
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,599
danger as he wants did. I did what I did

657
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,239
to prove to him that we considered his act a

658
00:40:58,480 --> 00:40:59,280
human one.

659
00:41:00,199 --> 00:41:03,679
Speaker 3: As you said, mister pattens to Err, is human.

660
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:08,159
Speaker 1: To forgive if I but that was quite a risk

661
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:08,719
you took.

662
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,079
Speaker 4: If it works, it will have been worth it.

663
00:41:13,199 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 3: Comby fuck up to the old oakture.

664
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 4: It's cousin Cuthbert, the whole of him. And for the

665
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,840
first time, Cosbert since we've.

666
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 3: Known you, your eyes are not sad. In fact, you're

667
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:43,239
actually smiling. Cousin Cuspert, you are beauty.

668
00:41:43,599 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 6: If he's beginning to fade, I can see right through him.

669
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 3: He's getting fatter, in fainter, hope, Please stay, Cousin Cuspert.

670
00:41:54,639 --> 00:41:58,840
He's going away. He's God.

671
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 4: I I rather think I shall miss him. It was

672
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,960
comforting to have a handsome young man about the house.

673
00:42:11,159 --> 00:42:16,480
Wasn't it, even if he was a mister Willoughby.

674
00:42:16,639 --> 00:42:21,679
Speaker 2: Mister Patton, yes, miss Amy.

675
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 4: You must think our behavior a trifle a peculiar.

676
00:42:25,679 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 6: Well, if you saw or heard anything unusual, do forget

677
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:31,880
it please.

678
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:38,280
Speaker 2: I didn't see a thing, did you, mister Patton. Oh no, no, no,

679
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,599
not a thing. I didn't hear anything either.

680
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 4: It's getting a bit cool, isn't it. Shall we have

681
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,239
our coffee inside in the parlor.

682
00:42:55,039 --> 00:42:58,039
Speaker 3: The coffee will only take a moment, gentlemen.

683
00:42:58,519 --> 00:43:00,039
Speaker 1: Look what is it?

684
00:43:00,119 --> 00:43:06,039
Speaker 4: The portrait, the painting of Cuthbert Fresh.

685
00:43:05,039 --> 00:43:08,280
Speaker 1: Well, bless my soul.

686
00:43:08,519 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 3: It's all again.

687
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:15,519
Speaker 4: The four portrait is back on the canvas the way

688
00:43:15,559 --> 00:43:18,039
it was to begin with. Oh you're a bit harder,

689
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:24,760
and look closely. Do you notice any other difference? The eyes,

690
00:43:25,639 --> 00:43:29,639
of course, the eyes, where they were once rather sad

691
00:43:29,679 --> 00:43:33,519
and mournful, they now sing to have a twinkle in them.

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00:43:33,639 --> 00:43:35,320
Speaker 1: And so they do.

693
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:42,039
Speaker 3: Goud nay, yeah, did you see what I saw? Cousin

694
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:46,119
Cusper just wnted us.

695
00:43:53,199 --> 00:43:56,119
Speaker 1: I'll be back in a moment with a final thought.

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00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,199
Do you know what's in your credit files? You should?

697
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:09,079
Others do? No, you can if it's happening now, you're

698
00:44:09,159 --> 00:44:12,760
hearing it now on w m a Q. We are

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00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,599
all news, all day, every day,