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Speaker 1: Come in.

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Speaker 2: Welcome. I'm g Marshall. Could you suppose that suddenly one

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of the most simple functions in the world was denied you,

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that you couldn't, uh, let's say, open a door, or

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get out of bed, or strike a match, or swallow

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the food in front of you, even if all the

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other mundane actions of life continued. Would any normal process

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of living be feasible if in one area you were

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completely bewitched? Our mystery drama The Unbearable Reflection was written

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especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars

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Patricia Elliott and and Dell Claimer. It is sponsored in

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part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated brewers

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a Budweiser. I'll be back shortly with that one. We

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are a nation that looks for idols to worship, and

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one of our fetishes is beauty. Along with that goes

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another success by any measure. Deborah Denton qualifies Miss America

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in a not too distant year. Sometime movie star and

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now wife of one of our biggest states governors. A

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man who is a presidential timber. That's Debbie. She is

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everything to hold up to America, man and woman as

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an example, a strict religious upbringing, beauty success in many fields,

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a press agent's dream, except for one thing. What we

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see on the surface is exactly the opposite of the real.

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Deborah Dentum.

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Speaker 3: Zip me up, will you, darling?

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Speaker 2: I hate to it makes it so fine, a nick.

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Speaker 3: I'm already late. I'm gonna have to burn up the

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parkway to get back in time for dinner.

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Speaker 2: You could have it with me.

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Speaker 3: Zip first, talk later, ah soon, Nicholas, my love. First,

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I have to get rid of my husband divorce h

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not while he's still a possible candidate. You don't want

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to be named as a correspondent in a divorce suit

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that hits every headline. Do you let me.

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Speaker 2: Buy your husband? Author?

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, that is the one thing you can't do.

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Speaker 2: I worship at your feet. How can I own you?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: You are a marvelous lover, darling, not only poetic, ah,

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but so rich. And I must run.

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Speaker 2: I'll see you to thes oar. Better not.

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Speaker 3: Let's not take any chance of being seen together. Since

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the day I took my first step, I've known just

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where I wanted to go. From the beginning. Men have

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been the central influence in my life. The First, my

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father hard, bigoted, blindly devoted to a barren, demanding religious

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fervor that he tried to force on everyone. My only

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way out was to run, which I did with the

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first man I could persuade. I was old enough to

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take me across the state line. Fortunately, my father was

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drowned in a flood shortly after, so my little mouth

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of a mother came to stay with me and eventually

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provided me with enough wholesomness to run for my first

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beauty contest. The rest of my story has been told

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in every newspaper across the country and around the world,

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but the true story will only be told here as

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my last concession. As soon as I returned to the

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Governor's mentioned immediately crossed the halls of the private entrance

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of my husband's office.

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Speaker 2: John, I'm that, come in the doors up.

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Speaker 3: What what are you doing here?

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Speaker 1: Lewis looking for a miracle?

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Speaker 3: What sort of a miracle do you expect to find

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in my husband's.

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Speaker 2: Filed something anything to use against the Lieutenant.

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Speaker 3: Governor against Frank? Now? Why would you John's campaign manager

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want to attack or head his running mate Debruh?

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Speaker 1: Where have you been all afternoon?

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Speaker 3: I think shopping what business is that of yours?

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Speaker 2: Dear missus Denton. There's no need to look guilty. Why

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should I be interested in your whatever pursuits brought you

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home so glowing and the live and happy, even though

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empty handed? I merely asked, because obviously you haven't heard

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the news? What news?

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Speaker 1: At a party lunch and our esteem?

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Speaker 2: Senior Senator Water Price announced that he was withdrawing his

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support for your husband in the coming campaign.

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Speaker 3: Why.

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Speaker 1: The stated reason.

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Speaker 2: Was a disagreement over fundamental fiscal policies and governors them

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lack of a firm stand on law and order. Your

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husband is no better than an also ran after Price

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of speech? Today? Where is John with Sam the party board?

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Speaker 3: Sam Waters won't desert him.

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Speaker 2: Sam Waters would cut his mother's throat without batting an eyelid.

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And your husband has been standing in his way for

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one term that's more than another.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean standing in his way? John has

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been a wonderful governor and everyone knows if this is

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only a stepping stone.

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Speaker 1: To the presidency. That was your dream, wasn't it.

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Speaker 3: I don't intend to discuss that with you. What do

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you mean about John standing in Sam waters way?

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Speaker 2: Patronage? My dear lady, the name of the political game.

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There's been precious little of it since John took over

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the State House.

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Speaker 3: Because my husband happens to prize his honesty.

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Speaker 2: We've hitched our wagon to the wrong star. We'd both

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better begin to break out the parachutes and start looking

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for a nice soft landing.

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Speaker 3: Oh so you're going to run out on John.

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Speaker 2: No that I have, and maybe many of the things

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you say, but don't ever make the mistake of thinking

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me ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: I despise you, Lewis Stock. You are contemptible, conniving, evil,

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and totally dishonest. And when I tell my husband what

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you say behind his back, wouldn't dare to tell him

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to his faith.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell him when I'm ready.

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Speaker 3: We won't have to wait. I'll take care of that.

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Speaker 2: I doubt it, unless, of course, you want me to

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tell him where you really were this afternoon?

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Speaker 3: What are you having me followed?

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Speaker 1: In a sense?

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Speaker 2: You were at the Woodmere Motel from approximately two until

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five this afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Quite a bit out of town.

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Speaker 2: You know you joined him, mister Joseph Martin and his

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private bungalow. Of course, we both know that that name

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is only a cover his real name. That is enough.

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Speaker 3: What are you trying to find out?

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Speaker 1: Nothing?

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Speaker 2: Yet? Patience is the one virtue I lay claimed to him.

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That sounds like the governor. Now, I guess you better

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leave us alone to put our together and see what

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we can pull out of the fire. Oh.

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Speaker 3: I went up to my room seething. From the first

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moment I had laid eyes on that beady eyed, sardonic

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little toad, I had hated him. I took a tranquilizer

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in some aspron and I sat down before my mirror

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to try to smooth out the worry lines. I opened

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my makeup drawer to make some repairs, and there, staring

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me in the face, was the ultimate irony, a birthday

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gift that Lewis had presented me with a gun to

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quote a forward protection while my husband was out campaigning.

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Knowing now what he knew about me, Oh, I would

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have liked to use it on this man who had

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given it to me, if oh I could get away

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with it, I pushed the gun back out of sight.

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I knew that John disapproved of firearms. It was fortunate

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that I had pushed it back, because, without his usual

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polite no.

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Speaker 2: John was suddenly in my room.

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Speaker 3: Why, John darling, Y you surprised me.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, I've just had some pretty bad news.

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What it? Uh hah, looks as though you're not going

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to be the governor's lady much longer.

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Speaker 3: Oh you mean you've decided not to run again.

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Speaker 2: I mean the party has decided not to support me.

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If I try to.

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Speaker 3: Run, then run independency not a chance.

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Speaker 2: First of all, I haven't the money. I have no

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personal wealth, no sources to draw them.

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Speaker 3: Did it have to cough so much? If you go

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to the people, you know you have their support.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I had til I cut the budget, raised taxes,

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tried to make the states solvent.

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Speaker 3: Well you know that Sam and Lewis felt that you

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could have waited.

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Speaker 2: Oh sure, Sam and Lewis aren't interested in principles on

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the public good, only votes. Everything I've tried to do

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to help the little guy. I mean the kind of

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man I consider myself and be twisted into a mistake.

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If your code of honor is politics first.

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Speaker 3: Well, perhaps it was a mistake to beat her the

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death penalty when you knew everyone was up in arms

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of the appalling crime rate.

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Speaker 2: I would always beat those that in my opinion is

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against the morality of both man and God.

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Speaker 3: All right, my darling, we won't argue about it. Oh here,

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let me sit with you for a minute.

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Speaker 2: Oh, debby, darling, I I really don't care for myself.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact.

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Speaker 2: In a way, I'm relieved, relieved. Yes, we can live

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our own lives now, start having the first of those

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children we should have had already, enjoy and get the

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most out of life for ourselves.

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Speaker 3: What will you be doing for a living?

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Speaker 2: Oh, go back to the law.

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Speaker 3: Oh not that same poky little firm.

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Speaker 2: I imagine they'd be glad to have me back, and

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and I suppose reflected glory could get me in with

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some of the bigger firms.

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Speaker 3: Come on, darling, we'd uh better get dressed for the

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Chamber of Commerce dinner tonight.

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Speaker 2: Debbie. You know, sometimes I wonder if you really love me.

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Always it just the glamour and all the expectations for

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the future.

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Speaker 3: Oh be careful, my darling, I don't mustna please.

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Speaker 1: I'm just rubbing against your head.

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Speaker 2: How beautiful you are, and look at your reflection in

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the mirror.

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Speaker 1: Was there ever a more beautiful woman?

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Speaker 2: You know, Debbie? Sometimes I think for all my beliefs

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and my hatred for violence. If I ever found out

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there was anyone who wanted to steal you from me,

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if I ever suspected for a moment that some other

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man dared or you permitted him intimacies which are hours alone,

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I I think I would revert to the animal that

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lives in.

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Speaker 1: All of us.

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Speaker 2: And just's all three you, me and oh forgive me, Darling.

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I I don't know what came over me, dogging nonsense

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like that. It's just that I love you, soul.

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Speaker 3: The Chamber of Commerce dinner was long and tedious. I

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was sent home early with the Lieutenant Governor's wife, but

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not before Lewis had informed me that John, contrary to

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his normal habits, been drinking quite a bit. But he

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assured me that it would be all right, and that

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he would make sure he got safely home. I was

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sitting at my dressing table taking off my makeup, when suddenly, impossibly,

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Lewis had decided me visibly shaken and fantic, Deborah, how

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the devil did you get in here?

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter for the moment he had to tell

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you to lock your door when I leave, and whatever

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you do, don't Let John come in and remember the

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pistol I gave.

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Speaker 3: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 1: He's found out about you and Nicholas.

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Speaker 2: Never mind how when I left him he was loading

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his hunting rifle. For Heaven's sake, when I leave, lock

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your door you?

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Speaker 3: Why should be afraid of CHOHn the most, Debbie?

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Speaker 2: He has not himself, he's out of his mind. Good Lord,

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here he comes. Defend yourself, Deborrah, get your gun. He's

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out for blood.

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Speaker 3: Debby.

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Speaker 2: Tell me it isn't true, God says, not now not

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you deserting me?

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Speaker 3: John? Jump put on that, get done?

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Speaker 2: What done? Tell me it isn't true about you and

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Nicholas I and Joglu world By, haven't I? Oh?

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Speaker 1: John, It's all right, Debrah, he's dead, quite dead.

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Speaker 3: How do you know, Colla, don't you get someone here?

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How do you know?

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Speaker 2: Because this is exactly how I arranged it, arranged it certainly,

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what better.

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Speaker 1: Way to get you in my power?

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Speaker 2: You feel there's something strangely out of kilter in this

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sudden event, something that does not ring quite true, or

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perhaps a better phrase is something unnatural, For we have

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just passed the boundaries of a finite world to the

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supernatural the unexplained, the terror of something beyond a human

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being's ability to have foreseen, or now that it has happened,

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to cope with. I'll return shortly for that too, very

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very seldom in life, as Deborah Denton committed an act

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not motivated by her own volition. But on this one

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a very few times she has done what would have

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seemed impossible to her. She has lost her head completely

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and committed homicide. Not only that, but in front of

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a witness, the last witness in the world she would

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have wanted to be there. Instinct tells her that she

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is caught in a trap. But more than that, some

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unfathomable Prussians sounds a knell within her that the trap

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is worse than could humanly be possible. What do you

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mean in your power? You just murdered your husband in

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front of me.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't murder self defense, which you saw he was

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going to kill me, kill you with? What with the

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hunting rifle?

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Speaker 2: What rifle?

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Speaker 3: The one he had in his hands.

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Speaker 2: I don't see any gum in his hands or anywhere

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near him. But you said that you die. I don't

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think I remember that, but you must.

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Speaker 3: Now you burst in here and you said that John

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had been drinking at the dinner and that he was

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loading his rifle, and that he knew about Nickols.

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Speaker 2: Dear Debraah, John stants and drunk and loading a rifle

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when you knew his a version of the guns of

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any kind. I wouldn't believe he would.

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Speaker 1: Could even use a gun. And how could he have

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found out about you and Nicholas?

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Speaker 2: I don't know from you, I suppose now, Really, why

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should I make trouble between you and John? And I

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didn't burst in here.

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Speaker 3: At least that's the truth. How did you get in here?

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That's another matter which I don't care about for the moment.

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You are a witness and hostile or not. Any good

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lawyer will catch you in your lies and your tricks

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as soon as he gets you on a stand.

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Speaker 2: Only he won't. Why not because I'm not here. The

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servants have heard the shops and sent for the police.

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When they come, they'll find you and the dead man alone.

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Speaker 3: You can't get out of this house without being seen.

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Speaker 1: Can't I watch?

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Speaker 3: Goois Lewis?

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Speaker 2: Who's where are you here?

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Speaker 1: I am debe.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what's happening here. I'm must be going crazy.

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Speaker 2: That's all a dream. Oh no, it isn't, not at all,

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but it can be. I'm quite aware how you feel

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about me, But have you ever wondered how I feel

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about you?

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Speaker 1: Of course you haven't.

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Speaker 2: I'm dead under your feet. I warn you not to

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underestimate me. Now I might be able to help.

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Speaker 3: You if who are you?

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Speaker 2: Sure you're a human? I think perhaps that's a fair statement.

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It was really amusing when you first saw me in

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your room that you should have chosen to say, what

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the devil are you doing here? Is that who you are?

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Speaker 1: Satan himself?

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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, my dear, nothing quite so grandiose. Just

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a minor demon, a faithful henchman of the Anpti faith

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has a dream. There can be no changing the fact

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that John is dead. That's a fate of complete But

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the manner of his death is the place where it happened.

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And the time can be arranged to suit our convenience,

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or rather yours, in such a way that you will

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appear to have had nothing to do with it.

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Speaker 3: And in return, I sign a paper in blood selling

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you my soul.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, really, dever, surely you don't subscribe to that

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old fashioned medieval nonsense.

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Speaker 1: This is the twentieth century. Why would I want your soul?

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Speaker 3: I I don't know. I I mean, isn't that what

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is always required when you.

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Speaker 1: pressIt with the devil? I wouldn't know.

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Speaker 2: I told you I'm only a minor league. Besides, your

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soul is committed to hell already, my dear, Then what

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do you ask in exchange your body, my beautiful one?

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Your soul has no interest for me.

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Speaker 3: You must be mad. All right, we'll play it your way.

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We'll pretend this farce is real. Now, what could you

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do about John?

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Speaker 1: Set the clock back?

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Speaker 2: John did have a couple of drinks. He left the

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hotel alone in his car. On the way home, he

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lost control and smashed into a wall. The car was totaled,

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and he was instantly killed. And me, you were already

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at home. You were having a long talk with the

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housekeeper when it happened about getting a new maid. Could

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you know that I put the idea in your head

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for reasons of my own, which you will discover later.

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You can arrange all this in exchange for you.

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Speaker 1: No, I was afraid of that.

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Speaker 3: You are loathsome and disgusting to me. I don't need

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your help and I can get through this by myself.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't put it past You'd be hard to find

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a jury to convict you, or at least condemn you

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to death.

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Speaker 3: John does have a rifle. It'll be beside him by

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the time the police get here, and then you'd better hurry.

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No hah, I might as well be dead or in hell.

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Speaker 2: If I belong to you, very well, I'll make you

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one last offer. What if I can't have you yourself,

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I'll settle to the vicarious. Tell me your reflection, my

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reflection that other self looks back at you from the

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mirror horror.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it's almost too late.

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Speaker 2: Quickly, yeah, quickly, sign here, and the pact is made.

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Speaker 3: There was a shuddering flash and a wild feeling as

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though the world had stopped spinning on its axis. I

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was conscious that the police siren had cut off, as

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though by a switch being thrown, and that John's body

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Aunt Louis had disappeared. The last thing I remember in

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my half consciousness was the fantastic sight of the glass

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fragments from the broken vanity mirror which one of my

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shops had flattered, lifting and gathering in the air and

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coming together into the mirror again, and then I must

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have fainted. I was awakened by a soft but insisting

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knocking at my doors. Just admit, who is it? It's else,

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that's missus Benson man who mister Lewis Stark said you'd

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be needing me?

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Speaker 4: It's dark.

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Speaker 3: I d just a moment. I I I'll unlock the

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door and let you in.

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Speaker 2: Oh that won't be necessary.

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Speaker 3: Here, let me help you out.

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Speaker 2: No, no, don't don't touch me.

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Speaker 3: Who are you why? Mister Stark told me you and

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your housekeeper had been discussing your needing a lady's maid,

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so I came to apply ah at this time of night.

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He said it might be sort of urgent, and that

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you might be needing someone with my special sort of references?

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And what are those? You should sit down man here

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here by your vanity table. Thank you. I I I

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am a bit shaky. It's why mister Stark thought of me.

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Speaker 2: What are you a nurse?

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Speaker 3: Nothing like that? Just what I am?

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Speaker 2: Just what you need?

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Speaker 3: Well, if I do, it's not tonight. I don't want

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you here tonight. Are you sure, ma'am? Of course?

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Speaker 2: I what do you mean?

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Speaker 3: Look in the mirror, missus Denton. I don't want to

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look in the mirror. I can imagine after the nightmares,

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I've been having one look in the mirror. Oh anything

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for a little piecea ah, now do you see why

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you need someone like me?

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Speaker 2: Or and what else? Show me?

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Speaker 3: In the mirror was sing reflected in the background for

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all the normal things I expected to see, the Austrian

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curtains strapped by the window sampler which my mother had

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needle pointed for me, the great canopy bad to my left,

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to the right, the H's lodge, and part of the

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closet door in the center of the wall in the central

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more where I should have been. Nothing. I don't mean

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a blank or the outline of a shape, just nothing

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at all, as though the mirror reflected only an empty room.

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Speaker 2: You see, but has it can't be? How give me

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my hand glass.

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Speaker 3: Year, madam?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 3: Nothing the same? Oh my, what am I going to do?

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That's why mister Lewis Stark thought you might have need

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of me.

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Speaker 2: How can you help? Can you bring my likeness back? No?

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But I can protect you?

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Speaker 3: How this by keeping people away from you are more

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important you away from them. But if John is dead,

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I I I can't just tie. But you could have

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need for a nurse someone to take care of you.

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We can establish the shock of this passing has brought

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down a skin disease you wish to cloak from anyone's eyes,

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particularly from your own.

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Speaker 2: How will that help?

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Speaker 3: A logical reason for getting rid of all the mirrors

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in the house, for guarding against the surprise photographer, for

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concealing the truth, as long as you must be in

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the public eye, Shall I get it for you? N No, No,

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I'll get it at least I'm safe. On the phone.

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It's er Hello maybe, Oh it's you. Can you talk

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just a moment?

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Speaker 2: Would you mind leaving me alone?

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Speaker 3: Please to talk to me close? Or should I use

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the cover name you? Since we are sisters under the skin,

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I shall quietly disappear now Hello, all right? No, I

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A A but but but we can talk now. Nikki

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w What is it?

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Speaker 2: I just heard the news news.

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Speaker 5: About John am I caring?

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Speaker 2: Is it true?

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Speaker 3: What did they say?

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Speaker 5: Just that he apparently lost control of his car on

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the parkway and smashed into the wall of underpass and

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that he must have been killed instantly?

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Speaker 3: Oh, thanks, Peter, what did you say? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Oh, Debby, you know don't you.

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Speaker 3: I mean I, I yes, I I it's it's all right,

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I I I I know.

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Speaker 6: Oh, for a moment there, I thought i'd made well.

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I I don't mean to be goolish, but uh, I

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have a wonderful idea for us.

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Speaker 5: What you are a grieving widow. What is more natural

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that you just want to get away? You go to

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Europe on a trip and steal away to my island. Oh,

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I have such a room for us, all glass. What

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is not windows to the sun and see is mirrors.

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I can't see you there, my darling, not just the

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magic of you alone, but.

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Speaker 3: For reflection after a fleab.

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Speaker 2: Oh, oh, I'm sorry. I can't carry it away. You'll

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forgive me.

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Speaker 5: But I I I want you so, I I need

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you so, and I want you to be my bride.

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Once you are, I.

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Speaker 2: Will buy you the worst m m.

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Speaker 3: M, my darling, I I want that too. I don't

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give me time to to think. I'll call you tomorrow.

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What am I going to do? You see what I meant?

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Speaker 2: Especially what, especially.

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Speaker 3: If you have a lover or wish to take another husband,

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how do you explain you have no reflection in a mirror.

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I'm a still palm, or a a store window passing by,

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or even no shadow in the brightest sunlight. You don't

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have to keep reminding me. I know how I've been cheated,

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not cheated, man, just outmaneuvered. How good you expect to win?

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When the devil held the nice.

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Speaker 2: All that Deborah Denton schemed to gain well beyond imagining.

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As Nikosa and Juglo's wife seems now denied her. Can

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she out with the devil?

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Speaker 1: Or is she already doomed?

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Speaker 2: A haunted figure who casts neither shadow nor reflection, set

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apart forever from everyone else. I shall return shortly with

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Act three. The next three days with the most difficult

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of Deborah Denton's life, heavily veiled, even though it was summer,

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constantly on the lookout for a revealing mirror or the

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flash of a camera before she had a chance to

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hide behind someone. She was physically exhausted by the time

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the body was at last entered, and of all the interviews,

482
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the most unsettling and frightening to her was a stolen

483
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a few minutes with Nicholas. My deepest condolences, Missus Denton.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Nicholas.

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00:27:13,039 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 2: I waited till the end of the line. Can't we

486
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be alone for a moment?

487
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Speaker 3: So kind of you to send those lovely flowers.

488
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,279
Speaker 2: I can't Nick not here. I had nothing but admiration

489
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for the governor said it's important. It was a fine man,

490
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and the state will mourn his laws.

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Speaker 3: We all will you can walk me to the hall.

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Speaker 2: I pretend to be a faint Missus Denton. Are you

493
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all right?

494
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Speaker 3: Oh, just a little faint. Ah, I'm all right, ladies

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and gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: I just need to rest.

497
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Speaker 3: Nicholas. If you will be good enough to give me

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your arm to the stairs, please please forgive me. I'll

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try to join you again later.

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Speaker 2: Just lean on me, Missus Denton. Let me get the door.

501
00:27:54,839 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 3: Oh thank you. Who is that young woman you brought

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with you.

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Speaker 4: That is my niece. It is why I have to

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talk to you. I have to get her back to

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Grease very small.

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Speaker 3: No, wait, wait for me.

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Speaker 2: I can meet you there as we planned, or come back.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, don't leave me now. I need you.

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Speaker 2: Oh you're not well, baby, not yourself.

510
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Speaker 4: Maybe we should wait until you know what till well, till.

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Speaker 2: The rash or whatever it is that makes you wear

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that way, that is nothing.

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Speaker 3: I oh, can't I see you tonight, my darling?

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Speaker 2: Well, why don't you phone me after? What is it?

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Speaker 4: I don't know, crazy, but I happen to be looking

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at that mirror as we passed, and I could swear

517
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mirror that one hanging over the chest.

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Speaker 2: To put that back?

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00:28:51,079 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it was so strange. I could swear,

520
00:28:55,519 --> 00:28:58,400
looking in it that I was all alone.

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Speaker 3: Don't be silly. No, the moment I have got to

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lie down.

523
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Speaker 2: Are you trying to change the subject.

524
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Speaker 3: No, I'm not about tonight.

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Speaker 2: Call me later and trick you know where.

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Speaker 3: I doubt many men could appreciate, but I'm sure every

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woman can. The agonizing frustration of being deprived of the

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use of a mirror or anything in which one can

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view oneself, the terror of feeling that you are alive

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no longer, that you only exist for yourself. Certainly, I

531
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found a small mirror from an old pocketbook and checked.

532
00:29:40,319 --> 00:29:41,359
Speaker 4: Ah.

533
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Speaker 3: No matter what the angle, there was still no answering

534
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:51,160
image of my face, and I could not rid myself

535
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,599
at the sight of the beautiful young woman that Nicholas

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00:29:53,599 --> 00:29:57,240
called his niece. I doubted her, hated her, was sick

537
00:29:57,319 --> 00:30:01,079
with jealousy for her. Not for Nick himself, but for

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00:30:01,119 --> 00:30:04,759
the wealth and power he meant to me. Now that

539
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:09,559
John was gone, I was ready to crawl, to beg,

540
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to plead for any small chance from the vile thing

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that had become my master. You wanted to see me, Deborah, Yes,

542
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,440
Lewis someone hung a mirror in the hall?

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Speaker 2: Do you know about it?

544
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:23,079
Speaker 1: Why?

545
00:30:23,119 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 2: Yes, I had it replaced by hundreds of people have

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come to pay their respects to the late governor, half

547
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of them women. Mirror may not be a necessity, but

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the total absence of any is.

549
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Speaker 1: Miss.

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Speaker 3: I don't believe you you had it hung to torture me,

551
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or just to remind you. I want my reflection back.

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00:30:41,799 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: Are you sure?

553
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 3: Sure? I am sure of nothing thanks to you.

554
00:30:47,079 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 2: Oh.

555
00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:49,839
Speaker 3: I know I made some kind of pact with you,

556
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and I don't expect any mercy.

557
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 2: But I hope I beg that there.

558
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Speaker 3: Is some life left for me. If if I am

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to be dragged at last into a hell that is

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a tote and is as devastatingly destructive as the last days,

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00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:04,839
and then I am asking you for some last fling

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00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:10,200
at life before you and yours swallow me up forever.

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00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 2: You're worried about Nicholas and his niece. Yes, and quite right.

564
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,279
The relationship is close, but not familial, do you mean it?

565
00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:24,880
Of course she's not his niece, But then, in spite

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of her desires, she's not yet been able to capture

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00:31:27,839 --> 00:31:28,720
his entirely.

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00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,559
Speaker 3: You are a master at this, aren't you? To turn

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a person slowly on the spit, never burning, only scorching.

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00:31:38,319 --> 00:31:40,559
Speaker 2: We're two of the kind. How many men have you

571
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,960
turned on a spit, hopelessly bound and tied by your beauty,

572
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,359
and promise only to abandon them after their purpose had

573
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:47,079
served yours?

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00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,759
Speaker 3: Supposing I admit it, will that gain me any comradeship

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00:31:50,799 --> 00:31:51,160
with you?

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00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: What is it you want?

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00:31:53,079 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 2: So little? My mirror image back again?

578
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: You're sure?

579
00:31:57,799 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 2: That's all?

580
00:31:58,359 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 3: That is all I dare to ask it?

581
00:32:00,359 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 2: And how will it serve you?

582
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 3: Even at the simplest level. A woman cannot live without

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a reflection. She needs it to begin live, end her day, and.

584
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,519
Speaker 2: For your sort of woman, to reaffirm your strength. For

585
00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:15,000
what are you without beauty? Oh?

586
00:32:15,079 --> 00:32:18,119
Speaker 3: You knew so well when you took it from me,

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I would be back on my knees to beg for it.

588
00:32:21,319 --> 00:32:25,240
I was damned the day I agreed I can't live

589
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as ordinary people do. I need Nikki's money.

590
00:32:28,359 --> 00:32:32,079
Speaker 2: Position power. Neither can the rest of us. The rest

591
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of us we the powers of darkness, the strength of

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the world, which will ultimately.

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Speaker 1: Make it our own.

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Speaker 3: I don't mean to align myself with you.

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Speaker 1: How can you help it anymore? Just let me warn you, Deborah.

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Speaker 2: If I return your image, it may not be what

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you expect to see.

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Speaker 3: It will be what I want the world to see.

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Speaker 1: Can you be so sure.

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Speaker 2: It will be me?

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Speaker 3: Won't it? Of course I'll sign anything more for that chance.

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00:33:02,599 --> 00:33:03,519
Speaker 1: There's no need for that.

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Speaker 2: Call your lover, win him back from his niece if

604
00:33:07,599 --> 00:33:09,640
you can. By the time you two can meet, your

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00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,400
mirror image will have returned. I want it now. Some

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things are possible, but not all. You must wait until

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you meet him again.

608
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Speaker 5: Maybe maybe we shouldn't rush things.

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Speaker 2: There is still time too.

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Speaker 3: Are a fantastically attractive man, my darling, but I don't

611
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,319
quite trust that niece of yours. Oh, come to me,

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00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,960
make it ten o'clock. It'll be nice and dark by then,

613
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and Elspeth will be waiting. Do I expect you?

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00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 2: You know? All you have to do is ask. I'll

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be there.

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00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,839
Speaker 3: I hung up the phone and sat for a long time,

617
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thinking I couldn't rest, so I called Elf this and

618
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made arrangements for Nicholas to be admitted to the house.

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If you're sure you won me too? Are you talking

620
00:34:02,039 --> 00:34:04,759
about Elspas? I told you I did. Why wouldn't I

621
00:34:04,759 --> 00:34:07,400
want you to? And I'm sure it's none of my business?

622
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,079
But if I were you, I might talk it over

623
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with mister Stark. Why. Oh, he's the only one who

624
00:34:16,079 --> 00:34:23,440
could answer that, ma'am. Something about that long set, grim

625
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face troubled me. I realized suddenly that it was the

626
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almost imperceptibly twisted, evil smile breaking the tight line of

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her mouth. I could feel my heart dropped like a

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stone into a dark and bottomless pit. And suddenly Lewis Stark,

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whoever or whatever he was, was standing before me.

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Speaker 2: Lewis, it's nine o'clock.

631
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Speaker 1: I thought you should have time to think things over.

632
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Speaker 3: What are you doing here?

633
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 1: Don't worry?

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Speaker 2: I shall be gone along before your lover appears. If

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you are sure you want.

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00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 3: Him to, why don't you leave me alone?

637
00:34:58,480 --> 00:34:59,559
Speaker 2: Haven't you done enough to me?

638
00:35:00,199 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: I thought I would do a kindness. You wanted your.

639
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 2: Reflection back, you promised me as you are. I thought,

640
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,280
perhaps you'd better look at it before your lover comes. Look.

641
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I promise you it is a perfect mirror image of

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00:35:15,599 --> 00:35:21,360
your For some reason, I am afraid to look what

643
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,239
you see. Everyone else who will see remember it is

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your true reflection, and you live or die by it.

645
00:35:26,679 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 3: What does that mean?

646
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 2: See for yourself?

647
00:35:29,159 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 3: I will, but by myself this time. The gun is loaded.

648
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I want you out of here.

649
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Speaker 2: Look on yourself, Deborah.

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Speaker 3: I had no will of my own for that moment.

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Standing with the gun in my hand, I turned to

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the mirror which else had restored to the vanity, And

653
00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:03,880
there I saw, ah, some parody of myself, the hair

654
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:12,880
twisting and writhing about my face like black snakes, the iris.

655
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:19,079
But my eyes dull, muddy brown, with great dark bruises

656
00:36:19,159 --> 00:36:23,320
beneath them, my nose hooked as fiercely as an eagle,

657
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:29,159
my lips drawn in the snow, the purple color stretched

658
00:36:29,199 --> 00:36:33,840
to a death white over two great canine teeth leering

659
00:36:34,039 --> 00:36:38,280
back at me as lasciviously as any vampires.

660
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,639
Speaker 4: Is that what you want your lover to see?

661
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 3: You?

662
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 2: If you do, you kill yourself. God? No, John, Oh John,

663
00:36:55,039 --> 00:36:56,800
It's all right, Deborah.

664
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Speaker 1: He's dead.

665
00:36:58,599 --> 00:37:05,280
Speaker 2: Just as dead as always, only one difference what it

666
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:11,119
will take time, the trial, the headlines, jail, and then

667
00:37:11,159 --> 00:37:13,800
a long wait for the death sentence to be carried out.

668
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,199
Everything your husband fought again.

669
00:37:16,519 --> 00:37:19,519
Speaker 3: How do you know? How can you be so sure?

670
00:37:19,639 --> 00:37:23,679
Speaker 2: Because we are right back where we started. This is

671
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:29,719
exactly how I arranged it, arranged it. What better way

672
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:35,039
to get you in my power, Deborah, this time forever.

673
00:37:39,119 --> 00:37:42,440
No need to dwell on a sensational trial. And the

674
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most ironical of circumstance that a governor who was forced

675
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to sign a bill re establishing the death sentence in

676
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the estate made his wife the first victim, as he

677
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,760
himself was the first victimized. I'll be back in a moment.

678
00:38:06,639 --> 00:38:09,639
The most damaging witness at the trial of Missus Denton,

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00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:14,519
wife of the former governor, was Lewis Stark, who reluctantly

680
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:20,400
but devastatingly, under questioning, sealed her death want The audience

681
00:38:20,559 --> 00:38:25,079
was sorry for this seemingly sympathetic and unhappy man, But then,

682
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:31,400
as Elizabeth Barrett Browning said, the devil's most devilish when respectable.

683
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Our cast included Patricia Elliott, Mandel Kramer, Robert Dryden, and

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Carol Tytell. The entire production was under the direction of

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Hyman Brown Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by

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Anhuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser and Bwet Motor Division.

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This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to

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our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until

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next time, pleasant dreams. Tonight's wor Mystery Theater was also

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