Speaker 1: Come in.
Speaker 2: Welcome. I'm E. G.
Speaker 1: Marshall in a strange state. At the moment. Here in
my bookline library, I've been browsing and coming across a
welcomed copy of John Don, the great English poet. My
mind leaped instantly to his most famous lines, any man's
death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and
therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls.
It tolls for thee. And suddenly I would remind her
of a story which half relates to that duer prophecy,
and half well judge for yourself. Our mystery drama, When
the Death Bell Tolls was written especially for the Mystery
Theater by Ian Martin and stars Mary Jane Higbee and
Rosemary Rice. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor
Division and sin Off the Sinus Medicines. I'll be back
shortly with that one. There is no terror greater than
the terror of the unknown. That's a cliche. Almost all
of us except without question, and yet so few of
us ever really face it, except vicariously. But the shakiness
of the simple matter of living through each day and
reaching for tomorrow touches all of our lives. At one
time or another. This is a story that begins with
the most common and ultimate terror most of us in
our mechanized world can face the automobile out of control
and headed for unavoidable destruction. All right, everyone in college,
doctor Jolie, Yes, have they all days? Get the man
into emergency and get.
Speaker 2: Me a rundown on him right away.
Speaker 1: A woman is dad, nurse, take her the morgue.
Speaker 2: Okay, chargon. How did it happen?
Speaker 1: Well, I was on patrol with my buddy doctor, and
we just called it our two am check and we
had this crash. Now, from the found of it, I
knew it had to be Slave's Corner. Why and if
you don't mind, tell me as we walk into emergency now,
I don't know if you know that. Yes, very very
right right where it takes that almost forty five degree
turn with old manuschleats private brick wall facing. If you
don't make it, and that's what they hit up.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's about head on.
Speaker 1: He'd started to make a left hard so the passenger
side took the worst part of the collision.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure the woman is dead. That was far
too damn car.
Speaker 3: Went up like a rocket.
Speaker 1: That the guy managed to roll out and get away
from the flames. But the woman, well you saw her, Yes,
she was lucky at that her neck was broken at
the moment of impact or I never even felt a flame.
Speaker 4: There wouldn't be none of her.
Speaker 1: Left if we hadn't been able to hook her out
of there. The car was still burning when we left
with the ambulance.
Speaker 2: You know who they are.
Speaker 1: He got some identification off the guy, Guiver's license contder Dana.
Trent's his name? Okay, Oh, you give the admitting office
all the information you got while I checked mister Trent
out with doctor and yeah, I'll take care of it.
Speaker 2: Oh how does it look, dumb?
Speaker 1: You can shock after I've got whole blood on the way,
four quarts. He don't knows how much he's lost. The
where you want to stuck his hand through the windshield,
both the radius and the ool and a green stick
fractors and the radio lottery was cut. I futuring it now.
Oh that's finess, Gus. Bring the tree around of us
right side and get me a canola. You gotta make
the cut down fast and get some blood into this baby.
Speaker 2: Biggess who got you have to move fast swab. Yeah,
that's it. Pains shot to hell. My turious sclerotic.
Speaker 1: I's have the needle. Can't get through that, counk, give
me a smaller one. It's too young hardening like that
must been a high little Yah, that's better.
Speaker 2: It's a blood movie.
Speaker 1: Yes, doctors starting to feed in.
Speaker 2: Okay, how are you coming down? I got the.
Speaker 1: Facier suit you day? You want me to do the
fancy work? No, I trust you. Embroidery, Yeah, it's funny.
If it's funny, tell me I could use a lad.
Speaker 2: Oh, not funny that way.
Speaker 1: When I was starting with the sergeant from his report,
he must have gotten to the accident within a couple
of minutes. They had a tornic ut on mister Trent
here as soon as they had him on the ambulance,
and the police must have done something to send him
the bleeding until it had got there. So how color
he's lost so much blood? Search me, you can see
what deep shock he's in.
Speaker 2: Did you powpad him a toe?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: It's too busy thicking of his arm.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's some movie's on the arm. Out of my way.
Speaker 1: But make sure that blood keeps feeding. Yes, yeah, there's
no sign from the outside hit that hard when he
took most of the force of the shock on his.
Speaker 2: Arm and had him on this play which it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm like the feel of his louver. I
I can't locate the screen. Nurse, yes a lot or
our possible emergency operation hepatography, see if Gentry's free to assist.
Speaker 4: Yet, Doctor, Uh, what about anesthesia.
Speaker 1: I'll get doctor Schultz for the anesthesia general in hilation.
But uh, tell him the spleen is involved. Yes, it's
amo a dom, it's supper stitch. I know, sir that
maybe I speak is a poor old twenty seven year
old resident internist. But is an operational leading necessary If
there's looper damage, can't we control itth metically? It could
be fatal enough to go in and stop the bleeding.
I'm sure as there it could be just as fatal
to operate while he's in deep shock. It's a tass up,
but we don't have to argue about it yet. Let's
get him an act ray and patch up his other troubles.
You will hand a lot while I go out and
see the sergeant and find out a little bit more
about just who this carcass is, but.
Speaker 2: We're arguing about.
Speaker 1: How's the patient?
Speaker 4: Doc?
Speaker 1: There's touch and goes argent, did you get an identification?
Speaker 3: Did I?
Speaker 1: And have we bought ourselves alive? One? See this guy
Trent Now. Reason I guess none of us reacted to
muck to his name is he's been out of the
picture a long time.
Speaker 4: I thought they got divorced.
Speaker 1: Who Lara Stanton than him? Laura Stanton the Philadelphia Stanton's
multi millionaire family. She married this actor who turned out
to be a real bad actor maybe twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: It'd be out of my circle.
Speaker 1: Some of them kind of people are outside of my
circle in one way and in another way they ain't.
I just talked to little Lieutenant and he wants to
keep this under wraps until we get the starry strange
not first of all, is this guy gonna live? I
can't answer that charge. She's the next ray now, and
where we go from there's an open book. One thing
I do know. But now he's identified, we've got to
get his family or his nearest dravative here fast. I
get that'd be a doctor, and I mean have her
phone numbers so I can bring her in. My guess
is that an emergency operation is indicated. Technically, i'd need
permission to go ahead with the risk involved. But you're busy, Doc,
Why won't you let me handle that for you. I'll
get her down here right away.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll be right with you.
Speaker 1: Dom. He's got some wet blates may tell the story
better than we know yet, but I have a hunch
I have to operate and more you tell me, I'd
feel a lot safer if I had the family's permission.
Speaker 3: I won't let you down, Doc.
Speaker 1: Now, they're still wet, a little hard to read what
you see on the scanner. No booken libs. Maybe the
sixth seventh cracked a little, but no real factory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: No evidence of fracture or that the liver was damaged externally.
Damn it, this is it's a gut reaction. I know
it's bleeding there door ruhematoma, pelvic chema, tod aurism.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think we gotta go in.
Speaker 1: Only two things against that old buddy. What now, First,
we've got to build him up so he can take
the operation.
Speaker 2: Okay, no argument there, But what's number two?
Speaker 1: Two? You've gotta keep your own skirts clean. Someone in
the family's gotta sign a relief. There's no problem in
that his daughter has been contacted and she's on her
way to the hospital right now. It's how's that retiring
doctor Hobby? Oh, missus Harcourt Stamton, she did no, no,
I I'm expecting of missus Olivia tran.
Speaker 2: Oh wait will wait a minute, wait a minute?
Speaker 1: That must be the grandmother has, of course hand her
right in. See is this the uh legendary sus Stanton,
the one who wore sneakers at the inauguration ball? And
I know nothing about the ladies of dear sincrasism. I
guess with her background she can afford to do it.
You're about to learn some of her idiosyncrasies.
Speaker 2: How do you know so much about her?
Speaker 1: I was born and bred and poli just outside of Philly.
I'm a treasure house of knowledge about it and rittenhouse
square and then people like the Stamtons.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: You want me to let her in before she breaks
it down?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I'm never get better.
Speaker 4: About time. I did test being kept waiting so very
young for surgeon doctor RB.
Speaker 1: I'm doctor Rinzulie. I'm the resident. All I do is
make guesses the mistakes. I leave up the doctor Hobb,
won't you, saddam? Missus Stanton, so you know who I am?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, the nurse warned me, I mean alerted me. I uh,
I was expecting your granddaughter. As terms, Olivia seldom leaves
the house. She is a recluse.
Speaker 4: She is extremely delicate, easily upset. Besides, she would have
been of no legal use to you. She hasn't reached
her eighteenth birthday yet. I'm still her legal guardian. I see, uh,
I understand you want permission to operate on my son
in law.
Speaker 1: Well, we would merely like authorization in case that you've
become necessary.
Speaker 3: Well, he's it.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid it doesn't quite that simple, Missus Stanton.
Speaker 1: Why not you know what happened early this morning?
Speaker 4: I know that my daughter Laura left our house with
her husband, and that he smashed the car into a
stone wall.
Speaker 1: He smashed himself into the same wall.
Speaker 4: Only my daughter is dead and he is still alive,
but very seriously injured.
Speaker 1: There's damage to the liver, probably the spleen is affected,
and there's hematomon severe internal bleeding.
Speaker 4: At this moment, what would you estimate his chances of
recovery from his surgical procedure might be.
Speaker 2: I can be too hopeful, perhaps fifty to fifty.
Speaker 4: And if the operation is not performed, a doctor ansuri
well it is condition doesn't improve in the next twelve
to twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong. The operation would become mandatory, but
if we.
Speaker 4: Wait in the meantime he might bleed to death.
Speaker 2: We'd never let it go that far her.
Speaker 4: But in your opinion, without the operation, his chances of
survival would be lessened.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, yes, thank you, gentlemen.
Speaker 4: That's all I wanted to know.
Speaker 1: I have a consent form for the operation here, Missus Stanton,
if you just sign it now.
Speaker 4: I haven't the slightest intention of signing it. I hope
you're right, doctor Hobbs, and that Trent bleeds to death
as you anticipate. It would be a small return for
the way he has bled my family. I absolutely forbid
any operation, But Vicius Stanton, I'm gambling that you are right,
Doctor Hobbs, and doctor Renzuley is wrong. The best this
man deserves is to die, and I would be happy
to think he did it the same way he did
it to my daughter. Slowly adversibly, just to bleat to death.
Speaker 1: There are drives and forces without the supernatural, just as
terrifying as the fires of hell the curses of witches.
Here now today, an old woman, embittered by who knows
what passed depredations against her and her family, seems to
hold the fate of a man quite literally in her hands.
Is she right or wrong to deny Dana Trent his
chance for life? I'll return shortly with that too. Doctor
Mitchell Hobbes, Assistant Chief of Surgery at Temple Hospital, had
been on duty for nearly twenty four hours. After leaving
instructions about his patient, he allowed himself the necessary luxury
of some sleep.
Speaker 3: But when his.
Speaker 1: Alarm woke him at seven am, and after examining Dana Trent,
this quiet and controlled man became a raging tiger. Nurse nurse, yes, stopt,
where is doctor rigulation?
Speaker 4: He wout less than an hour ago?
Speaker 3: He left this for you?
Speaker 1: What is it with the note of the letter?
Speaker 2: How come he was waking before me?
Speaker 4: Well, he only had the duty since eight last night.
He told us to wake him instead of you is
next day?
Speaker 1: Is this a hospital or a fraternity house? Why should
he take it upon himself.
Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid you're right about Trent, but I don't want
you sticking your neck out. I've gone to the old
witch to try to change your mind. Wait till you're
here from me, Damn, young fool. There isn't any time
to wait. Michael's a patient, all right, Not get on
the pipe. I want Trent in five sixteen pep right away,
alert O ar the same orders as earlier this morning.
If doctor Zuli doesn't get back within half an hour,
I'm going ahead. Permission or no permission. I'll need an
assistant than the full abdominal team. I'm the best anesthesiologist
you can dig up. Maybe you can still get me gentry.
You only lose a couple of blocks away. But I'm
servingly noticed. This is emergency capital ef you.
Speaker 4: Do you have a clearance I can follow with surgery cup.
Speaker 2: No, I don't.
Speaker 1: If I lose the patient, minex on the block, and
if anyone wants uscalpel to cut it loose, he can
have mine.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm doctor Dominic Rinzuoli from Temple Hospital. I've
been trying to reach you by phone, but it seems
to be out of order.
Speaker 4: Oh my grandmother ordered it. Taking off the hook. I'm Lily,
I mean, Olivia Trent. Is something wrong?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna level with you, Miss Trent. There's
a whole lot wrong. Could could I see your grandmother?
I I hate to rush you, but time is of
the essence, is it?
Speaker 4: At my father?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Please, thank you.
Speaker 4: I'm to say I can't disturb grandma. She but when
she got back from the hospital earlier this morning, I
was afraid she was going to collapse. So I gave
her a senators and got her to bed.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, I can't put it anyway, but right on
the line, Miss Trent, it's your father's life now. My chief,
a guy I think is the greatest surgeon in the world,
is gonna operate on your father without consent, and your
grandmother is powerful enough to end his career if anything
goes wrong. I don't wanna take that chance.
Speaker 4: I see, did you bring the consent with you?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: Uh, sure, and give it to me and I'll sign it.
Speaker 1: Uh. I I appreciate that, Miss Trent, but you're not
of age, I mean legal age.
Speaker 4: I am eighteen.
Speaker 2: But your grandmother said what.
Speaker 4: Look, grandmother does and says a lot of things to
protect me. It's her way of life. I guess the
person would only have to look at me to see
how overprotected I am. Well, at about time, I did
something on my own, So please let me sign the paper.
It'll be quite legal. Well, wh would you like to
see a copy of my birthday? Says it.
Speaker 1: No, No, it isn't that it.
Speaker 4: Are you scared about what Grandma's attitude will be.
Speaker 1: I I just don't wanna get you or anyone in trouble.
And your grandmother has already refused permission for the operation.
Speaker 4: Because she wants my father to die.
Speaker 1: But naturally you don't.
Speaker 4: I guess this will sound terrible to you, but I
don't care. He's made a pretty good job of wrecking
all of our lives. But mother asked me last night,
well that's beside the point. What it is, I suppose,
is whatever else he is, he is a being, isn't he?
So where do I sign?
Speaker 1: If you're sure that you know what you're doing. I'm
sure you gotta read it first.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter, she said. To save a little love
for him. If that makes her happy, that's what I want.
Speaker 1: Okay, he's said sir, a table somewhere.
Speaker 4: Oh the phone, give me depends.
Speaker 1: Where the hell are you and don't keep me a mile.
Speaker 2: I'm on my way to operate.
Speaker 1: That's what I wanted to talk to you about, but
I don't.
Speaker 2: If you can see the butt out of the rest
of his finals, you.
Speaker 4: More dumb man.
Speaker 1: I just wanted you know you have my blessings and
the family's signature. You mean you got that couple name
to sign a release. I didn't have to kill that windmill.
I have Miss Trent's signature, but she's under ear not.
I am sitting here gazing at a legal document I
haven't seen since I did my tour of duty as
an intern on the ob floor. A birth certificate. Olivia
pears In Trent is a dattering old crown of practically nineteen,
and she signed to consent for which I'm about to
bring back.
Speaker 2: To the hospital.
Speaker 1: Lady killers, my father used in a.
Speaker 4: See you at the shop all.
Speaker 1: By the time you do, it'll all.
Speaker 4: Be over one way or the other.
Speaker 1: I'm on my way to the operating room right now.
Speaker 3: May I ask what you're doing in my house? Doctor?
Speaker 4: Doctor Glenzilly grandmother and he came here to get permission
to operate on.
Speaker 3: Daddy, and you gave it.
Speaker 4: Yes, no matter what he's done, no amount of wrongs
make a right. Well, I suppose there's no way. I
rarely could have stopped it. But before you leave, doctor Lenzuli,
I want you doctors to know what kind of man
you're trying to save.
Speaker 1: Missus Stemmon, Oh no, you forced.
Speaker 3: Yourself into this.
Speaker 4: You stay until I shame the devil enough to tar
you with the same brush shit grandmother.
Speaker 3: Please, when one.
Speaker 4: Is as prominent socially as the Stantons are, and as
well say, one needs constant protect you grandmother's guiet, especially girls.
I tried to protect Laura as carefully as I protect Olivia.
Speaker 3: But I think I can't.
Speaker 4: Live other people's lives for than they had to live
their own. Would you want me to have let you
free to lead the life your mother land. Maybe if
she'd had more freedom of choice, she mightn't have vented
up as she did. You're making me responsible for that.
Speaker 1: No U, Missus Stanton, I I really I'm not.
Speaker 3: Finished yet, young man.
Speaker 4: I had a very difficult time having Olivia's mother. I
lost three children before she came, and I never could
have any more after her.
Speaker 3: I was also doct as.
Speaker 4: Young as I should have been, and she was premature.
It was a very difficult time for me, particularly since
within a year after I brought Laurie home, my husband
died very suddenly.
Speaker 3: See Laurie never knew a father.
Speaker 4: I had to bring her up and protect her grandmother.
H hush, I want to get this said. There there
was a young man in my husband's organization named Nana Trent.
Speaker 3: He was my husband's secretary. He was a great deal
of help through the years. I thought then because.
Speaker 4: Of his regard for my husband, I would have advanced
him in the business, but he lacked ambition and I
needed him for other things. He was a suitable escort
for a widow, and Laura was crazy about him from
the time she could walk and talk. I could never
marry again after Court died, and I felt that he
served rather well as a sort of surrogate.
Speaker 3: Father for Laura home. He was a charmer with.
Speaker 4: Very winning ways and handsome and I thought that he
had every luxury. I'm a very tough, smart woman, but
about some things we can all be blind. And when
Laura was sixteen, mister Dana Trent made his first re
payment of my kindness and indulgence.
Speaker 1: What Laurie is going to have my child? It seemed
appropriate for me to request.
Speaker 2: Her hand in marriage.
Speaker 4: She unspeakable, Laurah, is this true?
Speaker 3: Yes, Mama?
Speaker 1: How long in her fourth Mom too late to do
anything about it. I assure you that's what you think.
Speaker 4: I'm going to have you arrested for statutory rape. You do, mother,
and I'll kill myself. I love Dana. I've always loved him,
and I want to marry him. I want to have
his child, just as I've always loved Laura. You know that.
Speaker 3: Leave the room, Laura.
Speaker 2: It's no use, all right, honey, go ahead, Just leave.
Speaker 3: This up to me.
Speaker 4: Everything is up to you from now on and for always.
Speaker 3: Dana, I love you.
Speaker 4: If I had a gun, Dana, i'd kid No.
Speaker 2: No, you wouldn't.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Laura's future depends on me, her happiness. You wouldn't do
anything to destroy that. So we shall be married, go
to Europe, drop out of sight for a year or so,
and then bring you back your grandchild. Oh then maybe
a little talk, but that blows off soon enough. Now
shall we discuss income?
Speaker 2: I warn you I shall expect it to be a
rather large one.
Speaker 4: It was a very large one. And they did bring
my granddaughter back to me and abandoned her with me.
I know it broke Laura's hard to leave her baby,
but Dana had her still bound. She was his, his
his to do it is he wanted. I'd wanted love
for my daughter, but not a sick love like this.
The next ten years, he dragged her all over Europe's
scandal after scandal, women drinking, gambling, Heaven knows what other
filth he dragged her through. When I finally rushed to
Paris to answer her cry for help, I could scarcely
recognize the ghost that opened the door to let me
hear LOA, Oh good lord, my poor baby, what happened
to you? I lost my baby, Mammy, you know, honey,
Libby is alive and well. I almost brought her with me.
Libby Olivia your daughter? Oh, I lost my baby?
Speaker 1: This other one.
Speaker 4: Oh you were pregnant and the game. Yes, pregnant, And
I didn't order it.
Speaker 2: He made me.
Speaker 4: I went to a doctor. There isn't anymore baby. I
did it for him.
Speaker 3: Where is danger? He left me.
Speaker 4: Because I had the these things that happened. I'm I'm
not myself a lot of the time. Who is Laura?
I I don't remember if I kind out dangna, I
want my mom, I wanna came home.
Speaker 3: That's the man you want to save.
Speaker 1: Your daughter never got a divorce, No.
Speaker 4: Because incredibly, even if to the last, she was in
love with him. And besides, my mother was in hospitals
and sanitarians until the beginning of this year. She came
home for my eighteenth birthday, and so did Dana Trent
what was left of him?
Speaker 3: Do you know why, doctor m No?
Speaker 1: But uh, really, missus Stanton, I must get back.
Speaker 4: I'm almost finished. Before my husband died, he'd settled a
large trust fund on Libby. It came to you on
her eighteenth birthday.
Speaker 3: You gave the.
Speaker 4: Money to your mother, didn't you, Libby? Yes, it was mine,
and mother wanted to pay you back for supporting her
all these years. I thought it would make her see
what she really wanted it for was to run away
with your father again. It was found in the trunk
of the car after the smash up. You still want
to say that that's come that?
Speaker 1: Sil Uh missus Stanton, I look, I I'm sympathetic and
and I'm appalled, But doctor are not judges. Our only
function is to save lives, good or bad.
Speaker 3: Very well. I hope you'll fail, young man, because.
Speaker 4: If you don't, I will not have my granddaughter put
through the agony her mother has suffered. I'll find a
way to take care of Dana Trent myself.
Speaker 1: Both doctor Dominic, renzuli and Libby look at this indomitable
and tough old woman with some consternation in their eyes.
She is just formidable enough to carry out her threat.
Will she have the opportunity and will she actually go
through with it? I'll answer those questions when I return
shortly with a three. There's an old piece of dogg
girrel which runs the rain. It raineth on the just
and also on the unjust, fella, but chiefly on the just,
because the unjust steals the just's umbrella. A truism that
is altogether too apt as in our story here, but
unfair as the ways of the world may be, no
one of us can set himself up as God and
decide on the right of another to live or die.
After closing the door on Doctor Renzulie, a weary and
unhappy Libby crosses the hall towards the stairs, but is
stopped by the imperative voice of her grandmother, Olivia.
Speaker 4: Yes, grandmother, where are you going upstairs to lie down?
I I don't feel very well.
Speaker 3: I I want to talk to you for just a moment.
Pleaded here.
Speaker 4: Ugh, all right, but not too long.
Speaker 3: This is enough talk. I know.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry I dragged up the awful past. It made
me sick to my stomach too, But I thought, I
I hope you know you could never convince any doctor
to allow a man to die when it's any possibility
of saying oh, I know it consciously, but deep in
my subconscious is buried such a hate, a terrible, consuming,
driving hate against that man. I won't say his name
that I am willing him to die. And if God
doesn't answer my player, then well that's my business, no
one else's. Libby dear, Yes, time, what is it I need?
I I want some.
Speaker 3: Some reassurance from you.
Speaker 4: N What can I offer about your mother? I? Oh,
they be Was it all my fault? Did I overprotect
her shield her too much from life? Some mothers a
driver to run away from all my love to someone else. No,
you mustn't blame yourself, mother, made her own choices. But
it is hard for grandmother to be oh had in,
not to have freedom to move where you want, decide
what you want. Then I suppose you planned to fly
the nest too a name. Guys, are need to start
finding out for myself what I'm all about.
Speaker 3: So you do blame me for your mother?
Speaker 4: That isn't true.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, even for her death.
Speaker 4: That certainly isn't true. And I could well sort of
prove that how because of what happened last night?
Speaker 3: Oh did you have a bad dream?
Speaker 4: I thought I heard you call Lord?
Speaker 3: What happened? Right? I?
Speaker 4: I woke up suddenly and and he felt this cool,
cold chill. And you know how warm last night wasn't I? I
had my window wide open, and then what a sudden? What?
Oh damn that Lushut, it's.
Speaker 1: All right to be.
Speaker 3: Don't bother about the window.
Speaker 4: Mother. His jee came back.
Speaker 5: Only for a moment, my dolling, just to say good bye?
Speaker 4: What's that at the video at the w.
Speaker 5: But I wanna ask you, now that I finally see
him for what he really is, save a little mourning
for him.
Speaker 3: He gotta help himself.
Speaker 4: Any more than I can. What I can, I can
see you like, do you well? The the wall, the pictures,
even the pattern of the paper. That's because I've already
did this.
Speaker 3: I love you. I neither of us deserve to live.
You see.
Speaker 5: I had to grab at the wheel and kill us.
So because when you were poisoning your life.
Speaker 4: And then suddenly the chill was gone, and the wind disappeared,
and the shutters stopped clattering, and it was warm again.
But I know it wasn't a dream. Oh it because
because I looked at the clock and it was exactly
ten minutes after two. When did the police sergeant tell
us he heard the crash?
Speaker 3: That's right, ten minutes after the two.
Speaker 4: So Laura came to her senses at glass and tried
to kill him. She she asks me to mourn a
little for him, only as usually he gets away with it.
He doesn't have to be mourned because he escaped.
Speaker 3: While Laura had to die.
Speaker 4: Pretty pretty please don't oh, oh right up when I
when it's over. Oh, I'm very tired of myself, and
stick to my heart.
Speaker 3: Pray.
Speaker 4: Let's both go light down. I I'll help you upstairs.
Oh maybe I've lived enough years.
Speaker 3: It's time to rest.
Speaker 4: Should I get a doctor. No, no, liddy, I have
no need of doctors. Well, just peace of mind. The
documentally doctor. Oh boy, it's true.
Speaker 1: What what is it? Ookay?
Speaker 3: I've got to talk.
Speaker 4: Uh quickly, quickly s somewhere, w plea.
Speaker 1: Come on, I'll take you to the doctor Hobb's office.
Speaker 2: What's wrong?
Speaker 4: It's my grandmother. Have you seen her here? I mean no?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 4: Well, shortly after you left this morning, we both went
to lie down. I couldn't sleep. I kept worrying because
I I remembered about the gun. What gun? Well, the
one we kept in the chest of drawers in the
upstairs hall. Grandmother always kept one there loaded. Well, you know,
three women alone in a house with nothing but women
servants should have protection. She said, Well the gun is gone.
Speaker 1: Oh and you think your grandmother took it?
Speaker 4: You heard what she said about taking things into her
own hand.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Look, Uh, this is doctor Hobb's office. I'll put you
in here, will I?
Speaker 4: Libby?
Speaker 3: What are you doing here?
Speaker 4: Looking for you? Why? Why are you here? I came
to see doctor Hubbs. His nurse told me that I'm
too late. The operation has already begun. So I'm waiting.
Why I have a vested interest in the result. Obviously
my future depends on it.
Speaker 1: It may be rather a long wait, missus Stanton. May
I take your bag and put it somewhere now I
prefer to keep it myself. I just thought you looked uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: I am quite comfortable, thank you, doctor. I am accustomed to.
Speaker 3: Carrying a bag.
Speaker 4: I just look kind of uh heavy, it is, Rannie,
Let me have the bag.
Speaker 3: What is all this fuss about my bag?
Speaker 4: What for?
Speaker 3: I want the gun you have in it?
Speaker 2: What gun?
Speaker 4: The one from the chest and the upstairs hall, the
one that is missing. Oh so you noticed that too?
Speaker 3: Eh?
Speaker 4: What do you mean too?
Speaker 3: I did go for the gun.
Speaker 4: I had intended to use it, but it wasn't there
wasn't there. Try. Oh, don't look so disbelieving and scared. Yeah,
I take the bag and see for yourself. I'm quite
unarmed and reasonably sakes So then who took it? I
did a lot of thinking about that, and suddenly, remembering
back to your well, let's say, your dream, I suddenly
am quite sure it was Dana. Why because I don't
think your mother went with him willingly. I think that's why. Well,
we won't go into that in front of doctor Vensuli.
I think when we checked with the sergeant, the gun
will be found in the remains.
Speaker 2: Of the car.
Speaker 3: Funny.
Speaker 4: I'm a foolish, rigid woman who's made a lifetime of mistakes.
But suddenly they I realized how blind I've been, and
my eyes were opened by my granddaughter.
Speaker 3: Nay, yes, oh poor Laura.
Speaker 4: I sheltered her, over protected her, kept her from any
freedom of choice, just as you said. But I won't
make the same mistake again. Oh, Granny, do you have
your own money, Libby, Your future is your own. I
won't interfere anymore. I'll get out of your life.
Speaker 3: You'll be better off without.
Speaker 4: Me, Granny, Yes, cause this hope me. Oh, I'm not
letting you go. You see, I've paid my choice to
stay with you.
Speaker 2: Oh, but live you.
Speaker 4: I see everything so clearly now, Huh. I never had
a mother or a father, but I had you, and
I always have you.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 4: Sure, some day they'll be a man for me. It's
a man you'll help me pick and they'll be children.
And you're young enough to be here for once more
around the clock, and this time it'll be all happiness, you,
me and mother. Ever, that's for my father. Let him
come around and we'll kick him out the good Let's
go home and start building a new life. Those things
I did can hang out. But would you please excuse
this document to me?
Speaker 1: Of course? And uh, the best.
Speaker 3: Of luck, we don't need it, do me cover.
Speaker 1: So that's the whole story, Mitch, And that's the ever
loving character you plucked from the jaws of death. I
had no choice, domb, but as lucky you didn't decide
to take the law into her own hands. What do
you mean, Oh, the operation was a success as.
Speaker 2: Far as it went.
Speaker 1: I fixed up everything in the car crash caused at
what forty eight years of rough living have done the
Dana trentp no surgeon could fix. He has advanced the
roses of a liver and an extra quirk that nature
or maybe providence built in an enterrapadic billiary obstruction.
Speaker 2: Nonoperable, non operable.
Speaker 1: It's a safe bet he'll never leave this hospital alive.
The irony of fate, the justice of God, or just
the mathematical certainty that if you roll the dice long enough,
you've got to turn up snake eyes. If ever a
man deserved death, it was Vana Trent it's a pleasing
thought to know that in the end he made it
for himself. From the apocrypha in the Bible and most
probably the source of the piece of dogglele I quoted earlier,
he maketh his son to rise on the evil and
the good, and sendeth rein on the just and on
the This time the rain fell where I think we
all would have wanted it to, and at least for once,
evil found its own reward. Our cast included Mary Jane Higbee,
Rosemary Rice, Joan Lovejoy, Russell Horton, and Ian Martin. The
entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
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