1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,599 Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. 2 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 2: Come in, welcome. I'm E. G. 3 00:00:25,719 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 3: Marshall. 4 00:00:27,359 --> 00:00:30,559 Speaker 1: I invite you now to join your imagination with that 5 00:00:30,679 --> 00:00:35,000 of Edgar Allan Poe, so that together you can create. 6 00:00:34,679 --> 00:00:38,399 Speaker 3: A tale of intense horror, to say nothing of mystery. 7 00:00:39,359 --> 00:00:42,359 Speaker 4: You would have no better companion for such a joint venture, surely, 8 00:00:42,399 --> 00:00:44,840 because in all the world there has never been a 9 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:50,560 more accomplished master of the macabre, the terrifying, the grizzly master. 10 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:56,640 Did I say, correction, genius in proof of which listen. 11 00:00:58,119 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 5: Comeover, Let's go to our cabin again, a good night's 12 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:01,799 restaurant change. 13 00:01:02,079 --> 00:01:04,439 Speaker 2: I'm tired of walking this deck in the fox, should 14 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:05,200 in the bone. 15 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 6: I don't want to go. 16 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 7: To our cabin, but well there's no place else. 17 00:01:09,599 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 5: I suppose, my dearest, you must get over your fear 18 00:01:13,359 --> 00:01:17,519 of that oblong box in Kunda's Whatt's cabin. This this 19 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,120 wild fancy of yours, and it's a coffin. 20 00:01:20,519 --> 00:01:23,359 Speaker 7: Well, whether it is or not, I don't like our 21 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,920 cabin being directly across from Wyatt's, and I. 22 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:29,799 Speaker 2: What is it? Prayer? 23 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 7: The rail Wyatt and a woman, and the woman is 24 00:01:35,159 --> 00:01:36,079 not his bride. 25 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:41,079 Speaker 2: Rachel oh, I can see that issue. 26 00:01:41,159 --> 00:01:47,879 Speaker 7: Then, unless I'm mistaken, Will, unless I'm very mistaken, She's 27 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,719 the woman in the Oblong Box. 28 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:05,239 Speaker 4: Our mystery drama The Oblong Box was adapted especially for 29 00:02:05,319 --> 00:02:08,439 the mystery theater from the Edgar Allan Poe classic by 30 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,759 George Lowther and stars Richard Mulligan. 31 00:02:12,719 --> 00:02:14,319 Speaker 8: It is sponsored in part by. 32 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: Buick Motor Division and sign off the Sinus Medicines. I'll 33 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:34,199 be back shortly with Act one. I've brought you in 34 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,319 the course of our association many a strange and terror 35 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,960 ridden tale, but believe me, none that. 36 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 3: Can surpass that which you're about to hear. 37 00:02:45,319 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: It begins aboard the sailing ship Independence, in the harbor 38 00:02:48,719 --> 00:02:52,680 of Charleston, South Carolina, in June of eighteen ninety seven. 39 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:58,759 William Hopkins, an attorney of some importance, and his wife Elvirah, 40 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,039 are standing by the ship's rail near the gang plank, 41 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:07,159 watching the arrival of passengers with more than ordinary interest. 42 00:03:07,479 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 6: Will it's close on departure time. 43 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,759 Speaker 7: Are you sure Cornelia is white and Ride would be born? 44 00:03:12,159 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 2: Or it says so in the Charleston Herald yesterday. 45 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 5: And I checked the passenger list, which plainly states mister 46 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,039 and missus Cornelia's white cabin C and D. 47 00:03:20,319 --> 00:03:22,039 Speaker 6: The cabin's directed across from us. 48 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 5: But why too one for Knulus and his wife from 49 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:27,319 the other forum. 50 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 2: Well, very likely they'll have a servant with him. 51 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 5: Oh, Cornelis has gone far since our college stays together 52 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,800 twenty years ago. Who's a world famous artist? 53 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 9: Now do you think he'll remember you? 54 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 2: Oh, my dear old Vira. 55 00:03:39,479 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 5: We were the closest of friends. I must have been, 56 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,280 of course if we didn't keep the friendship up through 57 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,080 the years. But oh yes, he'll remember me and well, 58 00:03:47,719 --> 00:03:51,280 and by heaven, there he comes where where the character 59 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,599 just came onto the dock? The man in it is white, 60 00:03:53,639 --> 00:03:55,199 and the woman at his side must be as a 61 00:03:55,199 --> 00:03:56,400 lovely new bride Rachel. 62 00:03:56,719 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 6: But what in the world isn't that wagon behind him real? 63 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:02,039 Speaker 7: It's a question? 64 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 5: No, well, para, No, that oblong box doesn't contain a corpse. 65 00:04:07,599 --> 00:04:10,719 It contains a priceless painting, a copy of Leonardo da 66 00:04:10,759 --> 00:04:13,360 Vinci's Last Supper, done by a student Rubini. 67 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:14,199 Speaker 2: It's priceless. 68 00:04:14,439 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 7: How do you know all this? 69 00:04:15,639 --> 00:04:17,199 Speaker 2: The newspapers there. 70 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 5: Were several stories about why at buying the painting and 71 00:04:19,199 --> 00:04:21,279 having a carefully box for the voyage in New York. 72 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 7: Well it certainly looks real, well like a call to me. 73 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 5: You must remember, DearS, the painting is six feet long 74 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,600 and two feet wide and requires a box of that side. 75 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,560 Why it is pride coming up the gang planking. I 76 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,360 can't wait to see his face when he discovers his 77 00:04:36,399 --> 00:04:36,800 old friend. 78 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 2: Will happen? Lord? 79 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:42,639 Speaker 6: All right, minda hang laos we can go any with there. 80 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:44,639 Speaker 10: I'm thank you to see the pace of his bry. 81 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 9: That's a pretty heavy there. 82 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 5: She's beautiful, absolutely ravishing. Oh no, hell no, but I 83 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:53,560 know Corneitas White. 84 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:55,439 Speaker 2: He could never stand an ugly woman, not even a 85 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,600 plain one. Oh no, nothing but the most beautiful of 86 00:04:58,680 --> 00:04:59,319 the female sex. 87 00:04:59,439 --> 00:05:03,879 Speaker 8: For good old right, you pulls cat will, I said, 88 00:05:05,639 --> 00:05:09,959 incompetent idiots, I'll speak to Captain Hardy about this, And 89 00:05:10,319 --> 00:05:12,759 you you said, where can I buy Captain Hardy? 90 00:05:13,399 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 2: I'm afraid I don't know. Cornelius. 91 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 8: Cornelius you addressed me with a familiarity, sir that I 92 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:21,560 don't hold him moment. 93 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:26,519 Speaker 5: Sure you're Will Hopkins, your all college friend, Will Hopkins. 94 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:31,439 Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, so you lies. No, you certainly don't 95 00:05:31,439 --> 00:05:33,680 seem very happy to see me again. After all these years. 96 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 8: No, no, most happy, great pleasure. But I'm a bit upset. 97 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 2: At the moment. 98 00:05:39,959 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 8: Good lord, So why are you being the tailor's doing 99 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:43,759 with that box? 100 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:44,319 Speaker 7: Damn it? 101 00:05:45,079 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 8: I think take it on an even taylor. 102 00:05:46,879 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 3: Right side out? 103 00:05:47,759 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 5: Oh come now, why there's no damage done on? 104 00:05:50,319 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 2: Certainly a few bumps from harm the painting if. 105 00:05:52,399 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 5: You practice a coulee, that is the painting, the copy 106 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:55,399 of them. 107 00:05:55,399 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 2: And she's lost up. You bought your brother as a 108 00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:59,519 wedding gift. It is what's in the box, isn't it. 109 00:06:00,439 --> 00:06:04,240 It's certainly not a corpse, right, No, no, of course not. 110 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:05,959 And speaking of your bride, why don't you going to 111 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,040 introduce me? Oh? Good, heaven's ever got my manners? My wife? Alvira, dear, 112 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:11,959 this is my old friend Cornelius wife. 113 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:12,399 Speaker 7: How do you do? 114 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 8: How do you do? 115 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 11: Uh? 116 00:06:14,519 --> 00:06:16,319 Speaker 2: My wife, Rachel, how do you do? 117 00:06:17,199 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 8: And now you will excuse us. I'm sure we've we've 118 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:20,800 got to go at once to rock cabin. 119 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 7: You mean your cabins, don't you as to wiret you 120 00:06:23,959 --> 00:06:24,720 have engaged too. 121 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:26,519 Speaker 6: We'd expected you to have. 122 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 8: A seventh loan. No, no, seven luggage, our luggage. We're 123 00:06:30,079 --> 00:06:31,079 going to the second cabin. 124 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,199 Speaker 6: Which we don't have an luggage. But oh see our 125 00:06:34,319 --> 00:06:37,720 long goss. Of course you will need the extra cabin 126 00:06:37,759 --> 00:06:38,000 to that. 127 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 8: Come along, Rachel. 128 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:41,879 Speaker 2: No, no, but wait now, why wait wait a moment. 129 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,959 Speaker 5: Surely we're going to have the pleasure of seeing your bride, 130 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,959 I mean, won't raise a veil so we can look 131 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:49,519 at this beauty you've married? 132 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 2: Why? 133 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:50,720 Speaker 7: Uh? 134 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:51,879 Speaker 2: Why? 135 00:06:51,959 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 8: Yes, yes, I've Rachel, my dear, When you're not the 136 00:06:59,319 --> 00:07:00,680 beauty expect if it Hawkins? 137 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 5: No, no, that is yes, yes, most attractive you are. 138 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,680 Indeed most attractiveness is why or Rachel? 139 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 2: If I mean, of course you may now you must 140 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:13,480 excuse us. 141 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 8: You men with a box follow me, will you, and 142 00:07:17,519 --> 00:07:22,680 please be careful take care of it? Will you take care. 143 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 3: Take care of that square? 144 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 2: Well, it's right, she's ugly. 145 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:32,439 Speaker 6: Say they're not beautiful? 146 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,079 Speaker 2: Will yes? 147 00:07:37,399 --> 00:07:40,199 Speaker 7: Don't you send something peculiar. 148 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 5: About all this? 149 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 2: And will something wrong with her? 150 00:07:53,199 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 6: The along box? 151 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 5: It's in their cabins, in the same cabin, the wise occupy. 152 00:07:59,279 --> 00:08:00,959 How do you know to me why it's going out 153 00:08:00,959 --> 00:08:02,519 of his way to keep their door closed. 154 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 2: At all time? 155 00:08:02,759 --> 00:08:04,519 Speaker 7: Well, just as I was coming down from my show 156 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,680 on deck, the door opened and I saw Rachel go 157 00:08:07,759 --> 00:08:10,600 into the other cabin to get something from their luggage, 158 00:08:10,639 --> 00:08:13,360 I suppose, And before mister White could close the door, 159 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,279 I saw it the box. 160 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:20,519 Speaker 5: But that makes no sense. These cabins are anything but spacious. 161 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:24,319 In fact, they're downright tiny. That box must occupy practically 162 00:08:24,399 --> 00:08:25,920 the entire cabin. Well it does. 163 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,879 Speaker 6: That's why I took mister Watt some moments to close 164 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:29,680 the door. He nearly fell over the box. 165 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 2: Well, this is the. 166 00:08:31,079 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 5: Damnest thing I've ever heard. They engaged two cabins and 167 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:37,240 use the extra one for only a couple of pieces 168 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:41,360 of luggage and keep the box in their cabin full. 169 00:08:41,519 --> 00:08:45,720 It's it's idiocy unless his that must be it the painting. 170 00:08:45,799 --> 00:08:49,279 It's so valuable, in the fact, it's beyond price, why 171 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:50,840 it would even run the risk of letting it out 172 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:51,200 of his sight? 173 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:53,159 Speaker 2: Which reminds me, what do he said, we have a 174 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:53,559 look at it? 175 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 6: You mean asks to see it? 176 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:00,159 Speaker 5: Of course I am not much on art masterpieces, but well, 177 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:01,879 a copy of the Last Supper done by one of 178 00:09:01,919 --> 00:09:04,120 the bench's own pupils something to see. 179 00:09:04,159 --> 00:09:07,399 Speaker 2: Oliverer, come along, well, will are you sure? 180 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 7: I mean? 181 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 8: Yes, I had a door seeing it but well, your 182 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:11,080 friend mister. 183 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 6: White wasn't exactly friendly, you know. 184 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,279 Speaker 5: Oh nonsense, Come along, old Why it wasn't a bit 185 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:18,320 of a stew that's all. 186 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 2: What is it your old friends, Will Hopkins? Wire? What 187 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:26,000 do you want? 188 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 5: Well, well, nothing wired, nothing at all. But if you're 189 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:31,519 going to continue to be so stand up. 190 00:09:32,279 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 8: I didn't mean to I'm sorry, Hopkins, really I am. 191 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 2: It's just that. 192 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 8: Well, I've had a good many problems these past few 193 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,320 weeks and my nerves are a bit wrong. I am, 194 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:44,519 my friend. I'm truly sorry. 195 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 2: No, no, no, I am sorry. I said what I did. 196 00:09:48,759 --> 00:09:50,639 After all, I had to know you better. 197 00:09:51,039 --> 00:09:53,519 Speaker 8: I would ask you and your wife in. But as 198 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,039 you can see, there's scarcely room to move about because 199 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:56,519 of the box. 200 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:00,919 Speaker 7: That's what we came about, mister Wyatt, meaning missus Hopkins. 201 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:03,440 Why Will thought you wouldn't mind if we had a 202 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:04,279 look at the painting. 203 00:10:04,399 --> 00:10:09,279 Speaker 8: Oh, I see, and I know. I'm sorry. It's out 204 00:10:09,279 --> 00:10:12,559 of the question. You see. I had to adopt extreme 205 00:10:12,799 --> 00:10:16,600 precautions in creating it, especially to guard against the dampness 206 00:10:16,639 --> 00:10:18,120 of a six day voyaged in New York. 207 00:10:19,039 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 2: The box is sealed. If I remove the lid, the seal. 208 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:26,879 Speaker 8: Will be broken sealed, we don't say with melted wax. 209 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,679 Believe me, I'd be more than glad to share the painting, 210 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:30,200 old friend. 211 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 2: But it's it simply can't be done. Oh, I understand. 212 00:10:35,799 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 8: I'm sorry it must be that way, Hawkins. 213 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:39,279 Speaker 2: But that's the size of it. 214 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 8: Would you excuse me? 215 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 7: Now? 216 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:47,799 Speaker 2: I have matters to attend to. I'm sorry, Olvera that 217 00:10:47,879 --> 00:10:54,159 we couldn't. What's wrong? Strange? Very strange? 218 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 4: Oh? 219 00:10:54,919 --> 00:10:55,919 Speaker 2: Will you stop? 220 00:10:56,039 --> 00:10:58,799 Speaker 5: There's nothing strange about not wanting to open a boxes, 221 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,639 going to infinite pain to seal with melted wax. 222 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 7: But it isn't sealed with melted wax or anything else. 223 00:11:05,879 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 6: What do you mean you didn't smell it? 224 00:11:10,159 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 2: Well, now you mentioned it. There there was an odor 225 00:11:14,799 --> 00:11:15,639 of some sort. 226 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:20,159 Speaker 6: Yes, an odor of some sort. 227 00:11:26,039 --> 00:11:29,919 Speaker 5: Come to bed, don't know, Elvira thought I might take 228 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:31,559 a stroll on deck before turning in. 229 00:11:31,759 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 6: Oh no, do you think that's wise? 230 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,039 Speaker 2: Is a gale blowing, Elvira? 231 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 5: When it comes to exaggeration, no one can match you. 232 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:40,559 I'd hardly call that a gale out there. 233 00:11:40,639 --> 00:11:42,159 Speaker 2: A stiff wind perhaps. 234 00:11:41,919 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 7: But not again when it comes to splitting hairs, what's 235 00:11:45,159 --> 00:11:47,279 the difference between a gale and a stiff wind. 236 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 3: I wouldn't know. 237 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,519 Speaker 6: Now you here any more about that leak in the hole. 238 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:53,879 Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, I talked to Captain Hardy. No problem. 239 00:11:53,919 --> 00:11:55,159 They caked it without much trouble. 240 00:11:56,039 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 7: Strange though, that ap right, I'm sorry, but it is 241 00:12:01,159 --> 00:12:03,960 strange that this ship was in dried off for three 242 00:12:04,159 --> 00:12:06,440 weeks being recocked before we sailed. 243 00:12:06,879 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 2: That's the kind of world we live in, Elvira. 244 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,399 Speaker 5: Nobody cares about doing a good workmanlike job anymore. 245 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,519 Speaker 2: I'm going on deck for ten fifteen minutes. 246 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:17,639 Speaker 6: Oh, do be careful, Will don't get blown overboard. 247 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,799 Speaker 2: By that, Steve Will, don't worry? 248 00:12:21,799 --> 00:12:23,399 Speaker 7: What what will? 249 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 2: But what is it? 250 00:12:27,759 --> 00:12:27,919 Speaker 7: Well? 251 00:12:28,039 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 3: This is the damnedest thing, the damnedest thing. 252 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 2: What Wait a minute, wait, well, I'll be. 253 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:40,639 Speaker 6: Will Hopkins if you don't tell me what. 254 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 5: Rachel Wyatt, she just came out of the cabin, looked 255 00:12:44,799 --> 00:12:47,240 up and down the passage to be sure she wasn't seen, 256 00:12:47,399 --> 00:12:51,159 and then Elvirah, she went into the cabin where they 257 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:51,960 keep the luggage. 258 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:54,399 Speaker 7: Well, maybe she needs something else. 259 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 2: Then why did she locked the door? Locked it? 260 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,039 Speaker 5: And why did she look up and down the passage 261 00:13:02,039 --> 00:13:05,639 as if well as if she were doing something secretive. 262 00:13:06,039 --> 00:13:08,399 Speaker 7: Well, since I'm no longer permitted to say, I think 263 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:09,399 something is strange? 264 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:13,919 Speaker 4: What is that? 265 00:13:15,039 --> 00:13:17,159 Speaker 2: It's coming from the live cabinet. It sounds to me 266 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:21,480 as if y's prying off the lid of that oblong box. 267 00:13:21,759 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 6: Right, that's exactly what it sounds like, exactly. 268 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:26,799 Speaker 2: What it Then it couldn't have been seen. 269 00:13:26,919 --> 00:13:27,679 Speaker 3: I told you that. 270 00:13:28,879 --> 00:13:32,279 Speaker 2: But why would he lie, especially to an old friend? 271 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:33,399 Speaker 6: Now, Will? 272 00:13:33,639 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 7: I may be given to exaggeration, but you are naive, Cornel. 273 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,840 Is whyat no longer considers you an old friend or 274 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:42,720 even a friend. 275 00:13:43,759 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 6: He doesn't want anything to do with you as to 276 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:46,759 why he lied. 277 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:48,919 Speaker 7: He lied because he doesn't want you, or me or 278 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:50,919 anyone else to know what's in that box? 279 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,639 Speaker 6: What's really in the listen? 280 00:13:59,120 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 2: What's that? 281 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 3: What's he says? 282 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 2: He's crying? Crying? Is it his heart would break? 283 00:14:06,519 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 5: Who? 284 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 2: Terrible? Poor? If he's an anthony a viral? 285 00:14:13,279 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 6: Yes, if I can hear him, or man will what 286 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:18,279 is he crying over? 287 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 5: It can't be the painting, even if it had been 288 00:14:20,519 --> 00:14:23,320 damaging on those sailors bumped the box and lern It 289 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:23,919 can't be that. 290 00:14:24,159 --> 00:14:27,679 Speaker 7: It isn't isn't I told you, I've had this feeling 291 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:33,000 all along, this sense of something, you know, and now 292 00:14:33,039 --> 00:14:35,679 I'm sure it isn't a painting that's. 293 00:14:35,519 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 6: In that box. Will, It's a corpse. 294 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:40,639 Speaker 2: A corpse. 295 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:42,399 Speaker 6: And the question that. 296 00:14:42,519 --> 00:14:44,919 Speaker 7: I've been asking myself all along is. 297 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,879 Speaker 6: Who's whose copse? 298 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 1: Do you wonder if Alvira is right? Surely it seems so. 299 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,240 For how else explain the Hopkins? 300 00:15:04,279 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 4: Will forgive my use of the word, I trust strange 301 00:15:07,679 --> 00:15:08,480 goings on in. 302 00:15:08,519 --> 00:15:12,639 Speaker 1: The Wyatt cabin as it happened. I know the answer 303 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:17,200 since I read the Edgar Allan Poe's story. If you haven't, 304 00:15:17,919 --> 00:15:32,360 you must wait till I returned shortly with that two. Well, 305 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:34,200 now where were we? 306 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 11: Oh? 307 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 4: Yes, the Hopkins, Elvira and Will are totally baffled and 308 00:15:40,639 --> 00:15:44,600 just a bit uneasy about the curious actions of Cornelius 309 00:15:44,679 --> 00:15:49,000 Wyatt and his bride Rachel. As the Sailorship Independence makes 310 00:15:49,039 --> 00:15:52,799 its way from Charleston, South Carolina, to New York. Will 311 00:15:52,919 --> 00:15:56,320 and Elvira burn with curiosity and know the contents of 312 00:15:56,399 --> 00:15:58,120 the coffin like outlong box? 313 00:15:58,279 --> 00:16:02,679 Speaker 7: Whyatt brought board Rachel has spent the entire night in 314 00:16:02,759 --> 00:16:03,519 the other cabin. 315 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 6: Now, what kind of way is that for a newly 316 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:07,159 married couple to act her in. 317 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 7: One cabin, him and another solving and crying his heart 318 00:16:10,159 --> 00:16:11,200 out all night long. 319 00:16:11,559 --> 00:16:14,799 Speaker 2: Maybe they had an argument a lover's call. 320 00:16:15,039 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 5: Will you don't believe that? 321 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:16,919 Speaker 8: Neither do worry. 322 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,039 Speaker 6: She didn't act as if they'd call when she came 323 00:16:19,039 --> 00:16:20,759 out of the cabin, did she No? 324 00:16:21,519 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 5: No, acted in secretive, as if she didn't want anyone 325 00:16:24,399 --> 00:16:26,399 to see her going from one cabin to the other. 326 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,879 Speaker 7: And then we'd heard him prying the lid off the box, 327 00:16:29,559 --> 00:16:32,519 the box he claimed was sealed, and we've heard him 328 00:16:32,639 --> 00:16:34,000 sobbing all through the night. 329 00:16:34,799 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 8: I've said it before, will and. 330 00:16:36,279 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 6: I say it again. He is not carrying any valuable 331 00:16:39,519 --> 00:16:42,480 painting in that box. He's carrying a corpse. 332 00:16:42,759 --> 00:16:46,279 Speaker 2: But that's impossible. The captain would never allow it. A 333 00:16:46,399 --> 00:16:48,840 corpse on board a ship is thought to be a jinx. 334 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,080 If the crew even suspected there. 335 00:16:51,039 --> 00:16:52,519 Speaker 6: Was a corpse in that box, they don't. 336 00:16:53,519 --> 00:16:57,159 Speaker 7: Wyatt has cleverly hoodwinked them and everyone else with the 337 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,960 story that the box contains that painting copy of Da. 338 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 6: Vinci's Last Supper. No, will I tell you listen, he's nearing. 339 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 8: The lid back on. 340 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:12,759 Speaker 2: What time is it? Six am? 341 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:17,839 Speaker 7: And for seven straight hours since eleven last night, he's 342 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,400 been crying over whatever's in that box? 343 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 11: Sh wait, wait, wait, wait, I think I think I heard, 344 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:29,920 but what Just let me just open our door? Crack there, Elvira, 345 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,319 just as I thought, Rachel has just come out of 346 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:37,480 their joining cabin. Yes, looking up and down the passage, 347 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,920 and I'm sure she isn't discovered, And there she goes 348 00:17:41,079 --> 00:17:42,359 back into White's cabin. 349 00:17:43,759 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 2: I'll be damned. 350 00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 7: I'm frightened right down to my toes, frightened to death. 351 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,799 Speaker 6: Will how can you eat? And so rounously. 352 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 5: Because I'm hungry? What did we come up with the 353 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Donny sloon for? About to have a good breakfast? 354 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 7: I can't touch a thing after the goings on last night, 355 00:18:10,319 --> 00:18:12,759 and now hearing that that form ass split and where 356 00:18:13,319 --> 00:18:14,000 what do they call it? 357 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:14,759 Speaker 6: Hold too? 358 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 2: Only for a few hours, probably shouldn't take longer than 359 00:18:17,559 --> 00:18:20,359 I to repair it. Say these eggs are tasty? You 360 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:21,119 want to try them? 361 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 7: I don't know how you can. 362 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 5: Eat because I'm not letting this oblong box business get 363 00:18:26,559 --> 00:18:27,759 me down the way you are? 364 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 2: Oh aren't you? 365 00:18:29,079 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 5: You can see I'm not and you know why because 366 00:18:32,039 --> 00:18:34,559 I've decided to take the bull by the horns and find. 367 00:18:34,319 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 2: Out what is in that box before this day is out, 368 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:37,559 That's why. 369 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,559 Speaker 6: And how exactly have you propose. 370 00:18:40,279 --> 00:18:43,279 Speaker 2: To do that? H don't know yet, got to figure 371 00:18:43,279 --> 00:18:46,000 it out. In fact, I think I just have What 372 00:18:46,079 --> 00:18:48,160 do you mean? Why? And his bride have just come 373 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:49,400 into the saloon, See. 374 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:51,640 Speaker 6: Yes, and they've seen us. 375 00:18:51,839 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 7: They've changed direction and headed for that table way over 376 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:56,799 in the corner. 377 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 2: Instead. 378 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 5: Listen, I'm going down to their cabin while they're having breakfas, 379 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:01,799 and I'm going to find out. 380 00:19:01,839 --> 00:19:02,920 Speaker 2: What's in the box. 381 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:05,759 Speaker 6: Oh no, you can't do that, Will? What if they discovery? 382 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 2: That's where you commit? 383 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:09,160 Speaker 5: You're going to see to it that they stay right 384 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,240 here in the dunny saloon till I get back. 385 00:19:11,319 --> 00:19:12,599 Speaker 7: Well, how can I possibly just. 386 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,559 Speaker 2: Over the table and start a conversation and keep it 387 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:16,720 going until her return? 388 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:17,039 Speaker 4: Will? 389 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 6: I can't? 390 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:18,880 Speaker 4: And you can. 391 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:22,799 Speaker 5: They're just ordering breakfast, all right, All right, back in 392 00:19:22,839 --> 00:19:23,599 twenty minutes or so. 393 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:34,279 Speaker 6: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning, missus Hopkins. Do you 394 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:35,680 mind if I join you? 395 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:36,400 Speaker 2: Why? 396 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,119 Speaker 7: Well, we'll gone for a walk on deck. 397 00:19:39,039 --> 00:19:41,640 Speaker 6: And I couldn't possibly face that gale out there. 398 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:44,839 Speaker 7: I suppose you heard about the foremast spitting during the night? 399 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:45,559 Speaker 6: Oh did it? 400 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:45,839 Speaker 2: Well? 401 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:48,279 Speaker 6: No, we hadn't heard. It was nothing to worry about. 402 00:19:48,319 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 7: Will says, says, they'll have it repaired in a matter 403 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:54,880 of hours. And mister Riatt, you're not leaving, Yes, excuse me, 404 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:56,039 but you haven't. 405 00:19:55,799 --> 00:19:57,039 Speaker 6: Even started your breaks. 406 00:19:57,039 --> 00:19:58,839 Speaker 2: Not hungry, anything but hungry. 407 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:00,119 Speaker 6: But mister ryat. 408 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:02,319 Speaker 4: Oh dear. 409 00:20:07,839 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 10: Talked team that Holkins. 410 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,279 Speaker 2: What the devil are you doing in my cat yet? 411 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:13,119 I hear? 412 00:20:13,319 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 8: What are you doing with that knife in your hand? 413 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,039 You see you're going to find the lead off this box? 414 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:20,359 Weren't you off my box? 415 00:20:20,559 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 2: My personal property? 416 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,759 Speaker 8: Ever since you set eyes on this box when I 417 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,279 brought it aboard yesterday, you've been happening to find out. 418 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,279 Speaker 2: What's any nonsense? That's nonsense. I know what's in it. 419 00:20:33,759 --> 00:20:36,640 Speaker 5: You yourself told me a priceless copy of Lenard. 420 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,279 Speaker 2: Did She's Last Supper. But you don't believe it, No, 421 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:40,359 of course I do. 422 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,079 Speaker 8: Why shouldn't You don't know why you shouldn't file it? 423 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:47,079 Or you don't Why else would you sneak into my 424 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:48,000 cabin and try. 425 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 2: To file up in the box in my handswer I 426 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:55,200 didn't try to, all right? White I did. I'm sorry. 427 00:20:55,279 --> 00:20:57,759 Speaker 5: I apologize it was the wrong thing to do, but well, 428 00:20:58,559 --> 00:21:00,519 well damn it, man, I would. 429 00:21:00,319 --> 00:21:02,319 Speaker 2: Like to have a look at a painting bit o 430 00:21:02,839 --> 00:21:04,279 my cabbiness. 431 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:05,599 Speaker 8: P how fish instrument? 432 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 2: And why you're about it? 433 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 6: Get out of my life? 434 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 2: Right? You don't mean that. 435 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 5: Surely you wouldn't dissolve a friendship such as ours because 436 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:16,480 of that friendship. 437 00:21:16,599 --> 00:21:18,519 Speaker 8: I haven't seen you in twenty yet. 438 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,559 Speaker 2: But we were such good friends in college. 439 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 6: Whatever we may have been, we no longer are now. 440 00:21:24,759 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 2: Get out, Upkins, Get out. 441 00:21:34,559 --> 00:21:36,920 Speaker 7: Oh missus rant How nice to find you here in 442 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,079 the loud mean Missus Hopkins reading Good. 443 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,079 Speaker 2: Day's Ladies book. 444 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,599 Speaker 4: I see, Yes, I don't. 445 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,519 Speaker 6: Know about you, but I don't in the least care 446 00:21:45,599 --> 00:21:46,559 for the latest styles? 447 00:21:46,599 --> 00:21:46,799 Speaker 9: Do you. 448 00:21:48,759 --> 00:21:50,759 Speaker 8: All right? I guess, my dear, with all. 449 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 7: Your money, I should think you'd be intensely interested in fashion. 450 00:21:54,599 --> 00:21:55,680 Though I did notice. 451 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,640 Speaker 6: You'll forgive my mentioning this, won't you. 452 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,440 Speaker 7: An older woman giving advice to a younger sisters. I 453 00:22:00,559 --> 00:22:04,119 did notice at that lovely expensive dress of yours could 454 00:22:04,279 --> 00:22:07,599 fit a little better. Proper fitting is so important, don't 455 00:22:07,599 --> 00:22:07,880 you think? 456 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:08,079 Speaker 2: Oh? 457 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,759 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I just didn't have time to get it 458 00:22:11,839 --> 00:22:16,519 filled proper, properly before we left Chanceton. You don't mind 459 00:22:16,599 --> 00:22:19,480 my mentioning it? Do you a little sound advice. 460 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:20,559 Speaker 6: From an old married woman? 461 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 7: No, you're not old mom, missus how I mean old married, 462 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,440 married many more years than you and mister Wyatt. 463 00:22:30,039 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 6: In fact, you're not married even a week? Are you 464 00:22:33,599 --> 00:22:34,440 a few days? 465 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 2: Or a happy days? 466 00:22:36,599 --> 00:22:44,799 Speaker 7: I'm sure? Oh? Yes and night, mister Warett Hopkins, your. 467 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 6: Dear wife and I were just as I would prefer. 468 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,160 Speaker 8: Missus Hopkins that my wife when you discussed nothing, either 469 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,680 now or at any other time. Mister, I have already 470 00:22:54,759 --> 00:22:58,000 made plain to your husband, as I'm sure he will 471 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,359 inform you, that I no longer consider him my friend 472 00:23:02,039 --> 00:23:03,960 and wish to have nothing whatever to do with him, 473 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,039 And that madam replies. 474 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,519 Speaker 2: To you as well, I'm Rachel. 475 00:23:08,519 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I mean Corneliust, not his wife. 476 00:23:18,039 --> 00:23:20,440 Speaker 5: You're telling me that the woman in that cabin across 477 00:23:20,519 --> 00:23:24,480 the passage, the woman White introduced as his wife, is not. 478 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 6: I don't think so will. In fact, I'm sure she's not. 479 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,880 Speaker 2: Whatever in the world put such a thought in your head. 480 00:23:31,039 --> 00:23:33,599 Speaker 7: The little chair I had with her before, mister Wyatt, 481 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,680 so rudely terminated a little chat I deliberately had with her, 482 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,880 because quite frankly, Will, my suspicions had been aroused. 483 00:23:41,599 --> 00:23:44,079 Speaker 5: Aroused by what And while you're telling me, I want 484 00:23:44,079 --> 00:23:45,960 to keep an eye out to see missus White, who 485 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:49,000 is not missus Wyatt changes cabins again tonight. 486 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 7: For one thing, Will you said mister Whatt was interested 487 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,599 only in the most beautiful of women. And Rachel Wyatt 488 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:57,839 is altogether plain. 489 00:23:58,279 --> 00:24:01,160 Speaker 2: She's still right ugly, but that's no reason to suspect. 490 00:24:01,319 --> 00:24:03,400 Speaker 6: Also, when I was talking to her, she slipped and 491 00:24:03,519 --> 00:24:06,000 called me mom, mom. 492 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 2: Only a serpent uses that word exactly. 493 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 6: Also she slipped again and called mister Wyatt sir. 494 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,599 Speaker 7: But over and beyond that, Will, what originally aroused my 495 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,680 suspicion was her hands. I noticed those when mister Wyatt 496 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,039 introduced us. They're not the hands of a lady, but 497 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,559 the hands of a servant, hands decided the work worn. 498 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 2: There's no sense to what you're saying, Elvira. 499 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 5: You're saying that Cornelius Wyat, a world famous painter, a 500 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,960 man of taste discrimination wealth, is married to a servant girl. 501 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 6: Ah, she's no gentlewoman. 502 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,839 Speaker 5: I can tell you that but good lord, Elvira, which 503 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,799 you say is true, it makes this mystery. 504 00:24:46,799 --> 00:24:51,839 Speaker 2: All the more. Wait wait, wait, is she again? Is she? Yes? 505 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 5: Yes, leaving the wired cabin and yes, yes, looking up 506 00:24:57,039 --> 00:25:01,119 and down the passage before slipping into the adjoining cabin. 507 00:25:04,559 --> 00:25:07,160 And now he's at it again, taking a little off 508 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,119 that oblong box. If what you say is true, Elvira, 509 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,119 what does all this mean? 510 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,079 Speaker 2: I mean, what can it mean? 511 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,039 Speaker 7: It can mean only one thing that there is a 512 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,519 corpse in that box box my foot. 513 00:25:20,559 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 3: It's a coffin. 514 00:25:21,839 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 6: And the corpse is that of the real missus, Cornelia's Wyatt. 515 00:25:32,559 --> 00:25:33,359 We'll come to there. 516 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:35,880 Speaker 2: There's no affair of us, maybe not of yours, but 517 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,000 it is of mine. 518 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,880 Speaker 5: If Wyatt's in some sort of trouble, if he needs help, 519 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,240 and for one reason or another is shy of asking 520 00:25:43,319 --> 00:25:46,240 for it, it devolves upon me, as his friend, to 521 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,039 assist him in any way I can, after what he 522 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,480 said to you and me. Oh, one must make allowances 523 00:25:52,519 --> 00:25:56,279 if if the trouble he's in his so serious, so unbearable. 524 00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,319 Speaker 2: So, Elvira, I'm going over there cabin. 525 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,079 Speaker 6: Oh will surely not. Well, it's three o'clock. 526 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:04,079 Speaker 2: Hear, what time it? 527 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 7: Is. 528 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,839 Speaker 2: It's the least I can do, the least you will list. 529 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,880 I'm going over there right now, all right. 530 00:26:10,279 --> 00:26:11,880 Speaker 6: I know you better than to try and stop. You 531 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,039 just let me get my robe. 532 00:26:13,279 --> 00:26:15,400 Speaker 7: You stay young, No, no, no, I'm not letting you 533 00:26:15,519 --> 00:26:17,160 go over there three in the morning alone. 534 00:26:17,799 --> 00:26:19,559 Speaker 3: You ask me that man is dangerous? 535 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:24,160 Speaker 2: Dangerous? Why don't be silly, don't you there? 536 00:26:24,559 --> 00:26:26,599 Speaker 6: I've got my robe on. If you still mean to go, 537 00:26:26,799 --> 00:26:27,839 then let's go. 538 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 5: All right, all right, come along, I'll knock it, Wyatt. 539 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:38,960 Why it's me? Will happins? 540 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,799 Speaker 2: Open up? Wyat? Whyat? Do you hear me? 541 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,680 Speaker 7: It's very quiet, and they're not like last night when 542 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,559 he spent a whole night crying and sobbing and carrying 543 00:26:49,599 --> 00:26:51,440 on like I don't know what, Wyatt. 544 00:26:53,279 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 2: Let's go. We know about it. 545 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 6: Well, the cabin's empty, and so is the box. 546 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 5: What Look, the box is open and there's nothing in it, 547 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,839 neither a painting nor a corpse. 548 00:27:19,279 --> 00:27:22,880 Speaker 2: Well, now, then where does that put us? 549 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: Nothing in the oblong box, neither the priceless copy of 550 00:27:29,079 --> 00:27:33,799 Leonardo dug and She's Last Supper, nor as Elvira Hopkins 551 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:41,920 seemed to suggest, the corpse of the real missus Quinnegius Wyatt, baffling, mystifying, 552 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,160 I should say, and I'll have more to say when 553 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,039 I returned shortly with Act three. 554 00:28:00,799 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 4: Surprise and no shock is the word to describe the 555 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,920 feelings of Alvira and Will Hopkins when they discover that 556 00:28:09,039 --> 00:28:13,880 the coffin, like oblong box, contains neither that priceless painting 557 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:19,720 nor a courpse. My bump of curiosity is as fully 558 00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:24,000 developed as anyone's, I'd say, and frankly, at that point 559 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:25,480 I'd have dropped. 560 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,160 Speaker 3: The whole business. But not Alvira and Will Hopkins. 561 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 4: Not only had their curiosity been sharpened to a keen edge. But, 562 00:28:34,839 --> 00:28:38,559 as Will said, why it's in trouble Ovira, serious trouble. 563 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 6: But there's nothing in the book. So why do you 564 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:41,279 think he's in trouble? 565 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,119 Speaker 5: Because there was something in it? And whatever it was 566 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:50,279 is he acted well damn strange. He said it contained 567 00:28:50,279 --> 00:28:53,039 a valuable copy of Da Vinci's Last Summer, and he 568 00:28:53,119 --> 00:28:55,400 couldn't open it because it had been sealed against the 569 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:56,799 sea air with melted wax. 570 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 6: But he's opened it each night since we left. 571 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,799 Speaker 2: Charles and his hot out all night long. 572 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 5: Whatever he was sobbing over was in this oblong box 573 00:29:05,519 --> 00:29:06,400 and it isn't here? 574 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,319 Speaker 4: Now where is it? 575 00:29:09,079 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 2: And where's Wyre? 576 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,559 Speaker 5: At this hour of the morning? Three a M. I 577 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,799 tell you he's in trouble. I feel at my bones. 578 00:29:15,559 --> 00:29:17,079 Speaker 6: Will someone's coming. 579 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,559 Speaker 2: Rachel, Missus Wyatt from the other cabin. 580 00:29:22,319 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 6: If she is Missus Wyatt, which I doubt. 581 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 10: What are you doing here, mister Watts and my husband's cabin? 582 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 7: It's the box? 583 00:29:31,759 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 2: What about the box, Missus Wyre? 584 00:29:34,279 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 6: Oh God, I knew it. I knew you was. 585 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,759 Speaker 7: He's gone Red. I knew he was. 586 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:43,559 Speaker 2: I saw, I knew it. I hadn't Why why why 587 00:29:43,599 --> 00:29:45,160 do you think that box? 588 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,599 Speaker 6: What about the empty box? 589 00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:50,119 Speaker 7: I can't bury it him? 590 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 5: I here Vietnam, Missus Wyatt, try to control yourself. 591 00:29:55,039 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 12: He's lad gun Red, He's gone. 592 00:29:59,559 --> 00:30:01,839 Speaker 5: I'm so, But you must put yourself together if you 593 00:30:01,839 --> 00:30:03,440 want us to help you help me. 594 00:30:04,319 --> 00:30:07,039 Speaker 12: You can't help me. You can't help him. It's too late, 595 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,680 it's too late. His mind is broken. 596 00:30:09,839 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 2: But why because of why? 597 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 7: Leave me alone? Leave alone? 598 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 12: Well? 599 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,039 Speaker 7: I think we'd better find Captain Hardy. 600 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 2: I think we better find White. 601 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 5: I'm going up on deck to see if I can 602 00:30:22,759 --> 00:30:25,119 look at it. I'm with you cold him deca and 603 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,559 maybe you better stay here right now, will. 604 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 6: I'm not staying alone anywhere. Oh you were right. 605 00:30:38,599 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 7: It's cold and windows that I saw him was here 606 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,839 here put no, no, no, will I as I tell 607 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:45,599 you for once? 608 00:30:46,519 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 2: Yes, will? 609 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:47,359 Speaker 8: Yes? 610 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:49,839 Speaker 6: Oh, thank you dear. 611 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,759 Speaker 2: That is better. No, come on, let's see if we 612 00:30:51,799 --> 00:30:52,839 can find him in there, will. 613 00:30:54,279 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 6: Well, there is standing at the rail, gazing off across 614 00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:58,039 the water. 615 00:30:58,279 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 5: This there's someone with him with them, a woman standing 616 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:05,759 beside him. Well the passengers maybe only if it is. 617 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 2: I've never seen her before, but I didn't get a 618 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:08,319 good look. 619 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 5: Well you will as soon as that light from the 620 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:12,799 port side of lamp falls across her face. 621 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:13,119 Speaker 2: Again. 622 00:31:14,799 --> 00:31:20,519 Speaker 7: Yes, oh, I see her clearly now. Well, I have 623 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,799 never never seen anyone so beautiful. She's ravishy, she's not 624 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:26,279 all right. 625 00:31:26,599 --> 00:31:31,039 Speaker 5: He absolutely lovely face, that long blonde hair blowing in 626 00:31:31,079 --> 00:31:31,559 the breeze. 627 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:37,519 Speaker 2: No wonder he's holding her close to him, harm unaways him. Oh, 628 00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:39,720 look kissing her now. 629 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 6: Well, that's one of the books. 630 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 7: Is the woman he came aboard with, the woman he 631 00:31:45,359 --> 00:31:48,519 claims is his wife. If she is his wife, then 632 00:31:48,599 --> 00:31:50,559 what is he doing up here on decklar her? You 633 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,319 got me and she isn't one of the passengers, or 634 00:31:55,039 --> 00:31:56,960 if she is, this is the first time I've seen her. 635 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 2: Who the don can she be? I? Oh oh, oh, 636 00:32:02,279 --> 00:32:03,359 good lord, el. 637 00:32:04,359 --> 00:32:06,759 Speaker 6: I think I'm going to say, take me below to 638 00:32:06,839 --> 00:32:07,240 our cabin. 639 00:32:07,319 --> 00:32:08,799 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, right. 640 00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 10: This terrible thought, horrible thought, horrible, what horrible thoughts? 641 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 7: Thought? That whoever she is, whatever she is, will will 642 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,119 she must have been in that box. 643 00:32:29,319 --> 00:32:35,319 Speaker 5: Madness, absolute madness, Elvira, to even think such a thing. Wait, 644 00:32:36,119 --> 00:32:38,559 you sound as insane as Rachel Wyat says he is. 645 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 6: The woman in that cabin is not Rachel. 646 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 2: Wall Come now, Elvira. 647 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,559 Speaker 7: Truth, the plain, simple truth staring us in the face, 648 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,680 is that the woman on the deck with him is 649 00:32:49,759 --> 00:32:52,640 the real missus Wyatt, h Low. 650 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 5: Don't tell me again, just please don't tell me again 651 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,400 what you think, Elvirah, it's it's too horrible. Someone at 652 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:04,960 the down three thirty in the morning, Oh, thank you? 653 00:33:06,039 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 2: What is it? 654 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:12,720 Speaker 5: One of the crew, Henedy, there's a note from Captain Hardy. 655 00:33:12,799 --> 00:33:16,359 He wants to see me in his cabinet once urgent sits. 656 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 6: At this hour of the morning, it must be what 657 00:33:19,079 --> 00:33:20,759 in the world do you want to see you about? 658 00:33:21,359 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 2: Only one way to find out. 659 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:31,599 Speaker 4: Sit down, mister Hopkins shot down, Thank you, Captain, mister Upkins. 660 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,599 As you know, we've had nothing but bad with her 661 00:33:35,319 --> 00:33:38,759 and bad lucks's leaving Charleston Harbor three days ago. 662 00:33:39,599 --> 00:33:42,559 Speaker 2: I guess all your passengers are aware of that cabin yesh. 663 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:48,079 Speaker 4: We've promising the former's developed a bad crack. There are 664 00:33:48,279 --> 00:33:51,960 other problems which frankly I've concealed from the passengers, so 665 00:33:52,039 --> 00:33:53,000 it's not gol on them. 666 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,319 Speaker 2: It's understandable. 667 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,319 Speaker 4: But I will till you in our confidence, mister Hopkins, 668 00:33:58,559 --> 00:34:03,680 in confidence that we couldn't manage to cook that seemed 669 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,160 properly in these heavy seas. 670 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,679 Speaker 2: It's getting worse, even worse. 671 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,719 Speaker 4: The repair to the foremast isn't holding, and if the 672 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,239 foremast goes we'll be in serious trouble. 673 00:34:16,519 --> 00:34:17,840 Speaker 2: There's a four to six. 674 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 4: Gale out there right now, mister hobnns and he's whipping up. 675 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,119 Speaker 2: But Captain, why are you telling meal? That's what can 676 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,960 What can I do? You can tell me something that 677 00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:31,639 I need to know that the crew needs to know. 678 00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:36,159 It's got him worried. I still don't know, mister Hopkins. 679 00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:40,679 Speaker 4: I'm given to understand that you are a very close 680 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:48,480 friend of mister Cornelius Wyatt's, mister Hopkins, What is mister 681 00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:51,519 Wyatt carrying in that all brown box. 682 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,840 Speaker 5: Or a copy of a priceless copy of the last 683 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,039 supper Bolin out of da Vinci are loosing it? 684 00:35:01,159 --> 00:35:05,440 Speaker 4: No, while the crew are beginning to think that it 685 00:35:05,639 --> 00:35:11,159 contains the body a corpse that because of which this 686 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:12,280 ship is jinxed. 687 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,039 Speaker 2: Yes I am, I'm aware of the superstition. 688 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,079 Speaker 4: I find myself in a position where I must assure 689 00:35:19,159 --> 00:35:21,639 the crew that their suspicions are unfounded. 690 00:35:23,119 --> 00:35:24,840 Speaker 3: Accordingly, I ask you. 691 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,039 Speaker 4: To go to your friend at once now and get 692 00:35:29,119 --> 00:35:31,599 from him the truth of what is in that or 693 00:35:31,679 --> 00:35:32,320 block box. 694 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,480 Speaker 3: If feats the painting where I'm good. 695 00:35:36,679 --> 00:35:39,719 Speaker 4: And if it's a course, well, then I shall be 696 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,360 well within my rights as kept end of this vessel 697 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:47,920 to take proper action that would be to conshine the 698 00:35:48,039 --> 00:35:55,960 body to the sea for god sakes, Elmirah, what senses there? 699 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,840 And asking why to show me what's in the box 700 00:35:58,079 --> 00:35:59,719 when he's there well going to refuse. 701 00:36:00,159 --> 00:36:01,800 Speaker 2: And when we've got a pretty good idea. 702 00:36:01,599 --> 00:36:04,360 Speaker 6: Of what is in the box and you agree with me, 703 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:05,800 findly you think. 704 00:36:05,679 --> 00:36:08,199 Speaker 2: It's a cop I don't I think it's the woman 705 00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:09,639 who's around deck with white. 706 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,239 Speaker 6: And you know the thought that crossed my mind about that, I. 707 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,559 Speaker 5: Thought, I'm too horrible to tool revolting, gruesome, even to 708 00:36:15,679 --> 00:36:18,360 contemplate who would take a corpse on deck? 709 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,920 Speaker 2: Who would make love to a copse? 710 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,480 Speaker 7: A madman would, a man who had gone out of 711 00:36:24,559 --> 00:36:25,000 his mind? 712 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,159 Speaker 5: If you ask me Captain Hardy's worst fears and realize 713 00:36:31,199 --> 00:36:32,239 the four mass is broken? 714 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:35,760 Speaker 2: Will be will? 715 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,360 Speaker 7: Isn't that the signal for the boat stations? 716 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:38,079 Speaker 2: God help us? 717 00:36:38,119 --> 00:36:38,280 Speaker 4: It is? 718 00:36:38,559 --> 00:36:40,199 Speaker 6: Oh will, will? What's going to happen? 719 00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,519 Speaker 2: What are we going to do for our boat station? 720 00:36:42,599 --> 00:36:42,800 That's what? 721 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:43,119 Speaker 7: Come on? 722 00:36:43,199 --> 00:36:45,440 Speaker 2: Come on wait, wait with my jewelry, Hell, with the 723 00:36:45,519 --> 00:36:47,519 jewelry woman? Come on now? 724 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:48,239 Speaker 7: Can that be. 725 00:36:50,159 --> 00:36:50,400 Speaker 8: Mister? 726 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:51,159 Speaker 6: How can you help me? 727 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:52,000 Speaker 4: Missus? 728 00:36:52,079 --> 00:36:52,440 Speaker 2: Wyatt? 729 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:53,079 Speaker 11: I'm not missus? 730 00:36:53,119 --> 00:36:56,039 Speaker 2: Whyant? I'm not as like I'm only a servant, Mary, servant? 731 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,639 Speaker 7: Oh? How you got shurt? 732 00:37:00,199 --> 00:37:03,039 Speaker 6: Rachel comas? Because she died within two days? 733 00:37:03,079 --> 00:37:05,639 Speaker 2: If a marriage died died within two. 734 00:37:05,639 --> 00:37:07,400 Speaker 8: Days, he went out of his mind with grief. 735 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,360 Speaker 6: And he didn't know what he was saying or doing. 736 00:37:09,679 --> 00:37:11,280 All he knew all he could think. 737 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,880 Speaker 12: I was in it, planned his voice for their honeymoon, 738 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,400 and there was no stopping him. He would take on 739 00:37:16,599 --> 00:37:19,199 the honeymoon, he promised, take her dead and alive. 740 00:37:20,119 --> 00:37:22,480 Speaker 6: He dead in heaven. 741 00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:25,719 Speaker 5: All right, I work hold never mind, I know we're 742 00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:26,559 wasting precious time. 743 00:37:26,599 --> 00:37:28,480 Speaker 2: Come on, we must get to the life. But why 744 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:29,239 about him? 745 00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,039 Speaker 6: Why he's in there now, sitting beside her car. 746 00:37:32,199 --> 00:37:34,559 Speaker 12: And I tried to tell him I'm danger, but he wouldn't. 747 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,480 Speaker 5: All right, all right, I'll see what I can do. Alvirah, 748 00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:40,360 you and Rachel Mary whatever, get to the boat. 749 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:41,719 Speaker 2: But you I'll join you. 750 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,400 Speaker 5: Well, I promise i'll, Junior. But I must try to 751 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,360 say why if I can go now the two of 752 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:47,159 you go, No. 753 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 8: No without you. 754 00:37:48,199 --> 00:37:52,039 Speaker 2: Remember I'm not going without you. Will whyet? 755 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:52,880 Speaker 4: Yes? 756 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,920 Speaker 5: Why if there shoots some danger? It may be foundering 757 00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,000 that value here, it's a call to all boat stations. 758 00:38:00,559 --> 00:38:00,960 Speaker 2: Wyatt. 759 00:38:01,159 --> 00:38:06,400 Speaker 5: Stop sitting there carrying out a corpse. Corpse, corpse, the corpse, 760 00:38:06,519 --> 00:38:07,719 the body of your wife. 761 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,440 Speaker 2: You're dead, wife, But she's. 762 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,159 Speaker 8: Not dead, Hopkins, That's what I said. 763 00:38:13,199 --> 00:38:13,840 Speaker 2: The doctors. 764 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:18,360 Speaker 10: But they're around only sleep if she's always sleeping, Hopkins. 765 00:38:18,679 --> 00:38:22,280 Speaker 2: And so she'll wake her very soon. Now it's quiet 766 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,360 should she beautiful? 767 00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,960 Speaker 8: Isn't she the loveliest creature you ever seen? 768 00:38:28,039 --> 00:38:29,199 Speaker 6: On this hocket? 769 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:33,119 Speaker 2: Will you listen to me? The ship is foundering. If 770 00:38:33,159 --> 00:38:36,559 we don't get to the boats, we'll drown. WoT wide 771 00:38:36,599 --> 00:38:37,239 will drown? 772 00:38:39,079 --> 00:38:39,920 Speaker 10: Did you she drown? 773 00:38:40,079 --> 00:38:40,239 Speaker 5: Yes? 774 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:41,159 Speaker 2: Sorry around? 775 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:42,320 Speaker 7: No, No, I'm good. 776 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:43,199 Speaker 6: You're not drowned. 777 00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,199 Speaker 2: Not my Rachel? Rachel, Rachel? 778 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,280 Speaker 8: Hear do you hear me? Why it is quiet? 779 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:49,119 Speaker 5: What are you doing? 780 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:50,199 Speaker 8: Come darling? 781 00:38:50,639 --> 00:38:53,920 Speaker 2: Time to wake up? Sweet hard in heaven his name? 782 00:38:54,079 --> 00:38:54,239 Speaker 4: Man? 783 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,159 Speaker 2: She's dead, rich lad? 784 00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:56,920 Speaker 4: Do you hear me? 785 00:38:57,159 --> 00:39:01,800 Speaker 10: I can't wake her deeper sleep, in the deep sleep, Hopkins, 786 00:39:02,159 --> 00:39:05,639 and help me and lend a hand. 787 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,519 Speaker 2: I've got to get her om deck into a lifeboat. 788 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:10,960 Speaker 8: Can't let her drown? 789 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:11,960 Speaker 6: You give me a. 790 00:39:12,079 --> 00:39:14,679 Speaker 8: Hand here, you're not you're not going to try to 791 00:39:15,119 --> 00:39:16,320 try to get the helse? 792 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:17,039 Speaker 2: Can I do? 793 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:19,000 Speaker 6: She's sound asleep? 794 00:39:19,119 --> 00:39:25,519 Speaker 10: She's dead, dead there sitting up boat. Good lord, No, 795 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:29,599 we'll just the hopkins. If you only just bruce help me. 796 00:39:29,639 --> 00:39:30,719 Speaker 8: To get her out of this part? 797 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,360 Speaker 2: Why at quiet? Come to your senses there? 798 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:38,000 Speaker 8: If she's on her feet, oh, my lord, in a 799 00:39:38,079 --> 00:39:41,639 deep sleep, but that's all right. How to walk her? 800 00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:42,360 Speaker 7: Oh? 801 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,800 Speaker 8: Well, walk her up to the boat's get get your 802 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,599 arm around her. Hopkins on the other side, all. 803 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,320 Speaker 4: Got, Hopkins. 804 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,360 Speaker 2: I can do this a lot, but it would help 805 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:55,199 with you. Oh damn Umkins. Way you me. 806 00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:04,960 Speaker 8: There? 807 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,800 Speaker 2: That's better over more comfortable? 808 00:40:09,199 --> 00:40:11,559 Speaker 7: How they all right? Will that lifeboat isn't expected to 809 00:40:11,599 --> 00:40:13,320 be the most comfortable place in the world. 810 00:40:13,639 --> 00:40:14,719 Speaker 3: Mary, thank you, sir. 811 00:40:15,159 --> 00:40:15,719 Speaker 6: I'm all right. 812 00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 2: She's going down. I think the ship getting lower in 813 00:40:21,119 --> 00:40:26,280 the water. Captain ishy hers farbring Look. 814 00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:29,360 Speaker 13: Look he hates him. 815 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,480 Speaker 2: Mister white though you'll see. 816 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,480 Speaker 7: No, no, he's not a card day. 817 00:40:36,599 --> 00:40:40,000 Speaker 12: Looky he's popping it against the rail, his arm around it. 818 00:40:40,159 --> 00:40:42,360 Speaker 2: Up Alway's kissing it. 819 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:54,480 Speaker 9: Will Low gruesome, beautiful, beautiful, thought away somehow beautiful beautiful? 820 00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:56,920 Speaker 8: How can you say that? 821 00:40:58,519 --> 00:41:04,320 Speaker 14: Because to him, she's still alive, and if there is 822 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:09,840 a life after death, she must know that few men 823 00:41:10,199 --> 00:41:11,880 have ever loved a woman as. 824 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:23,360 Speaker 2: As he loves her. She's going now, my ship going, 825 00:41:25,119 --> 00:41:33,119 and that's with her. Please God be with him. Please. 826 00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,760 Speaker 3: I hope you enjoyed the oblong box. 827 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,199 Speaker 2: And if you did, we'll think for. 828 00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:53,440 Speaker 5: A moment on the memory of Edgar Allan Poe, to 829 00:41:53,519 --> 00:41:55,760 whom we owe the macabre player. 830 00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:56,760 Speaker 2: Of the Last Hour. 831 00:41:58,639 --> 00:42:02,880 Speaker 4: Like Oscar Wilds, his was a life of torment that 832 00:42:03,039 --> 00:42:07,239 came to a tragic end. Yet out of the crucible 833 00:42:07,639 --> 00:42:11,599 of his torment and tragedy came infinite pleasure for others. 834 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:17,239 Something to ponder on, I think, don't you, I'll be 835 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:34,159 back shortly. I heard recently that. 836 00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,519 Speaker 1: A little cottage on the Grand Concourse in the Borough 837 00:42:37,599 --> 00:42:40,239 of the Bronx, New York City is. 838 00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:41,159 Speaker 2: To be torn down. 839 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:47,360 Speaker 4: Why because it is constantly vandalized and the city can 840 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:48,960 no longer afford to keep it up. 841 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,719 Speaker 1: When I was very young, I went to visit it 842 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:56,719 more than once and stood in the tiny room where 843 00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:00,800 a beloved young wife died and a grief written husband 844 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:05,880 drowned his grief and alcohol. But for he also wrote 845 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:11,039 the story you heard tonight, I say no more? What 846 00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:15,719 more is there to say? Our cast included Richard Mulligan, 847 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:20,639 Grace Matthews, Briana Raeburn and court Benson. The entire production 848 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,920 was under the direction of Hymon Brown. 849 00:43:26,159 --> 00:43:30,079 Speaker 4: And now a preview of our next tale go on. 850 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:31,239 Speaker 2: I don't know that I can. 851 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,440 Speaker 13: I have never understood what made these people what they were, 852 00:43:34,519 --> 00:43:37,960 but this I know. There are angels on this earth, 853 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,239 and there are devils, and you metam. I say to you, 854 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:44,960 even in your dying moments, you are a devil. I 855 00:43:45,079 --> 00:43:45,920 don't blame you for. 856 00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,400 Speaker 2: Looking at me like that. I spoke on impulse. I'm ashamed. 857 00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:50,960 Speaker 4: Ashamed. 858 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:57,440 Speaker 6: You're the first man who is a dare to ask very. 859 00:43:59,360 --> 00:43:59,840 Speaker 13: Stand back. 860 00:44:00,039 --> 00:44:03,599 Speaker 6: No, don't touch me, only listen. 861 00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,440 Speaker 7: You will be honted by the magnet that drew you 862 00:44:08,599 --> 00:44:12,400 to me, the weapon with which I ruined. 863 00:44:12,079 --> 00:44:14,039 Speaker 8: Your life, and will destroy you. 864 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:21,599 Speaker 6: My smile, earnest, my smile, No look at me. 865 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,480 Speaker 1: Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by sign Off 866 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,000 the Sinus Medicines and Buick Motor Division. 867 00:44:29,679 --> 00:44:30,239 Speaker 2: This is E. G. 868 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,679 Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for 869 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,039 another adventure in the macabre.