Speaker 1: Come in.
Speaker 2: Welcome.
Speaker 1: I'm a g.
Speaker 2: Marshall.
Speaker 1: In his Immortal Comedy of Manners, William Congreve wrote, Heaven
hath no rage like love to hate returned, nor hell
a fury like a woman scorned. That was over two
hundred years ago. Have matters changed in the intervening centuries?
Judge for yourself in this story which happens today.
Speaker 3: Mark, who is it? Dear?
Speaker 2: I got to a sound asleep, all those pills.
Speaker 3: Something woke me for the moment. I don't know why
came alive. So suddenly some along man in me which.
Speaker 2: Will never ring. You're not going to be alive?
Speaker 3: How are you doing with that?
Speaker 2: Playing a fellow to your deestimony of my love?
Speaker 3: No, Marty, you can't be serious.
Speaker 2: It's all.
Speaker 1: I'll not shake you up blood, nor scar that whiter
skin of yours than snow.
Speaker 3: Yet you must die.
Speaker 2: Put out the light, and then put out the light.
Speaker 1: If I can quench.
Speaker 4: Seem no more moving?
Speaker 2: Still is the grave?
Speaker 4: My wife, My Wife.
Speaker 1: Our mystery drama, Hell Hath no Fury was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars William Redfield,
Mark Stanton, and Emily Lawrence. The wedding of a decade,
the first a shining light of the classical theater, the
second a new, fresh and lovely star of the screen
who transcended any picture she illuminated, A public romance shared
avidly by the fans that ranks with Romeo and Juliet,
Elouise and Avalarde, Desdemona and Othello, and which is destined
to end as tragically.
Speaker 3: But the starter.
Speaker 1: A story, one must have a beginning, not an ending.
So let's go back a few days before Emily Lawrence's
sudden and tragical debts, back to a meeting between Emily's
half sister Elsbeth Whitmore and Mark Stanton.
Speaker 2: Who the devil? All right, Dodd, you better get your
clothes on and be ready to scoot. I'll give you
the high sign. Hand me my down, will you? Whoever
it is they aren't going to quit thanks to me.
Oh it's you. Where did you get a key, Elsabeth?
Speaker 3: One of the privileges of the family, even a half sister.
Speaker 2: Well, come in by ring the bell when you have
a key.
Speaker 3: I wanted to give you time to put your robe on.
Speaker 2: Oh I was just trying to snatch forty winks.
Speaker 3: Oh do I know her, didn't you used to go
unto the name of Tiger Tilly the jungle cat.
Speaker 2: Funny, very funny, not.
Speaker 3: To me, or would it be to my sister? I
get rid of remark. I want to talk to you.
I will be in the living room on the phone,
my back to the door, pretending your matinee curtain isn't
coming down early. But don't think I won't speak A
look at what's your style? This month's brother in law
be Elsis anything stirring?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: How much? No? No, it's too low. They've got to
come up with seven hundred. Well let them ste on it.
I'll be back in the office soon. Hush or wait
a second, No, no, I was just looking at it
would be rising star. Listen if there's anything urgent. I'm
at my sister's apartment. It's listed under Mark Stanton on
the Rolodex, but it's still my sister's apartment.
Speaker 2: Bye, well Elsebeth. So what do I owe this rather
surprising early afternoon visit? I thought agents were always busied
lunch hours.
Speaker 3: Sorry to disappoint you. We take a breather now and then,
don't you ever?
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: We didn't I surprise you hard at work?
Speaker 2: Now, look, Eleanor brought me a new treatment she wanted
me to see. I'll bet she did a screen treatment,
a script.
Speaker 3: Okay, Casanober, it's enough. Better. Are we alone in this joint? Now?
Speaker 1: Oh, don't tell me you want to open old books
between us.
Speaker 3: No, this is a new one. We close the other
when you married.
Speaker 2: My sister half sister?
Speaker 3: Do you have to rub it in? I'm play flat
chested and no hardhat ever whistled at my legs. But
I still have brains.
Speaker 2: Who needs them?
Speaker 1: When you have Emily's thirty six twenty four thirty six
and even the members of the Union League Club look
up from the Wall Street Journal when she moves by.
Speaker 3: Mark, sit down, I'm about to kick your feet from
under you.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: It's a pity you met me before Emily, isn't it? Mark?
Speaker 2: And needed me?
Speaker 3: I beg you so without an agent and one who cared,
you were nothing but a stud. If I hadn't nursed
and supported you through speech lessons, singing lesson small parts
than nothing out of town than you.
Speaker 1: I may not have had much education, but I always
had talent.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'll grant you that, But you're lazy. And once
you met Emily and knew she had all the looks
and all the money, it was time to drop me.
But don't forget Emily's money comes from being a film star,
and I made her that.
Speaker 2: Let's forget past history, Mark.
Speaker 3: Since I came back from Europe, I've been going over
Emily's financial position.
Speaker 2: What right of youtae?
Speaker 3: I happened to be her manager as well as her agent,
and I don't like what I see. Emily has never
made more in her life. You have never spent more.
Speaker 1: We have a frog to keep up as two reigning stars.
Speaker 3: Hogwash. You're a successful ham who draught suburban ladies with
delusions of culture and dream of vicarious god knows what
to the theater. You make peanuts compared to Emily, and
send the kind of money she makes.
Speaker 2: A temporary loan or two. I have some pictures in
the world.
Speaker 3: Come on, Mark, you couldn't draw flies to a movie theater,
even in an exploitation film.
Speaker 2: So I have.
Speaker 3: Talked it over with Emily, And as the Parry's woman
used to say, the buck stops here.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: I'm putting Emily on an allowance? Enough to take care
of her needs. You can handle the apartment in the rest,
but no more play money, little boy. And that's only
the beginning. The next thing I'm going after is her will,
the one that leaves everything to you. If anything she's
ever happened to my sister, I can think of better
causes for her estate to serve than Mark Stanton, the
heel of ham in the elevator. All my efforts to
stay calm and unruffled meeting Mark again dissipated into thin air.
Thank Heaven, I was alone. My knees turned to water,
thinking and dreaming of him as once it had been
between us. By the time I reached the ground floor,
I knew I needed another session with Madam Erexa.
Speaker 6: Why do you imagine you can ever fail? You are
one of us, I have always thought, one of the
strongest in the Kovn.
Speaker 3: I never have doubts, except except in one area.
Speaker 6: Every Achilles has his vulnerable hume, every witch her own weakness.
We must fight always against the world to hold the
true faith. Come, daughter, let us pray together, draw the
drapes while I light the candles. Now step within the
magic circle with me.
Speaker 3: Yes or greater reck Though Mother office, all who crouched
in the black shadow of your wings.
Speaker 6: I conjure the form of the instrument by Lucifer, Prince
of darkness, by all the stars which roll, by the
four elements that we may obtain, by the the perfect
issue of all our desires, which also receded through.
Speaker 3: Perform without easier, without deception. We are answered, I know
what I'm doing is right, whether it turn out that way.
Will you read the tower cards for me?
Speaker 6: I am your sister, in said, I am at your command.
Sit down while I shuffled the cards. You know what
that means without asking.
Speaker 3: The king of coins A.
Speaker 6: Sign of ill omen was the question asked for yourself.
Speaker 3: No, I will ask one for myself now.
Speaker 2: Then cut.
Speaker 6: The ace of cups. That is a promise of beauty
and fertility for me.
Speaker 3: Eh, why not? You are young, ah, scarcely beautiful. Oh?
One more question one only I am acting it in
my mind. Cut the card of death, the nine of swords. No,
not my sister, Not my sister.
Speaker 2: I love you, Emily, I love you Mark.
Speaker 3: Oh, now I feel relaxed and homely.
Speaker 1: Good good Elspeth was around this afternoon, yea oh, being
the big business manager saying we were spending too much money.
Speaker 3: She's smarter than we are about things like that.
Speaker 2: Yes, but is she really putting you on a strict allowance?
Speaker 6: Well, I guess I'll have to go along with her.
She says, I'm starting to spend more than I make. Now,
how is that awesoble?
Speaker 1: Maybe you need a new business manager.
Speaker 3: Oh, nobody would be better than else. Besides, she's started
to make a living too, and who would I get?
Speaker 2: Well, how about me?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Telling you you have no idea of the value of money?
Speaker 2: Oh, when I'm old and penniless.
Speaker 1: And if, in his infinite mercy the man upstairs saves
you from looking at me anymore and snatches.
Speaker 2: You upstairs for himself. Else, that tells me she'll be
my guardian.
Speaker 3: Well, she does want me to make a new will,
and it wouldn't be a bad idea. We're both so
stupid about how to handle what we've got and if
anything ever should happen to me, Oh.
Speaker 2: Darling, please, I was only kidding.
Speaker 4: Let's get off this.
Speaker 3: No, as long as we got on it, I think
Elsberoth has the right idea. She'd see you didn't throw
it all away, So I agreed I'm going to remake
my will on Monday. Now I've got to wash up,
and you go tell the cook to get that dinner
on the table. I am banished.
Speaker 2: Well, that tears it Elsbeth, Emily. One of you has
got to go. Now, let's see which shall it be?
Which can I get away with.
Speaker 5: A charming fellow?
Speaker 1: Mark Stanton matinee Idol for a limited audience of aging women.
His main role Romeo, although he has been seen with
varying success critically as Orlando, Bassanio, Lysander.
Speaker 5: All Shakespearean lovers.
Speaker 1: Interesting casting when you think of it, or as we
learn about him, he might have made a better Claudius,
of whom his nephew Hamlet said that one may smile
and smile again and.
Speaker 2: Be a villain.
Speaker 1: I'll be back shortly with that too. A famous epitaph
on a child's grave reads, it is so soon that
I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for.
That might apply to this story of Emily Stanton, or
at least a plan that is forming in the mind
of her husband Mark. The problem with murder is not
to want to commit it, but how how to commit
it not be caught.
Speaker 2: One thing I.
Speaker 1: Knew it would have to be out of the city,
and fortunately we have a place up the Hudson Valley,
suitably isolated. Also by sheer luck, Emily's.
Speaker 2: Picture was not shooting that weekend.
Speaker 3: Ooh, what time is it? Mark? Mark?
Speaker 5: Did you call my lady?
Speaker 3: What on earth are you doing up at five dirty
in the morning?
Speaker 1: Bringing the woman I adore beyond reason? Her orange juice
and coffee is on the way.
Speaker 3: Oh you angel, Thanks welcome. I'm so tired. I don't
know how I'm going to make it to the studio today.
Speaker 2: I'll call them and tell them you're not well.
Speaker 6: No, No, two more days, and I have a whole
long on three day weekend off.
Speaker 3: I'll bounce back then.
Speaker 1: Speaking about the weekend, how about going up to the country.
Speaker 3: No thanks, I want to just slump down here in
bed and sleep and rest and hold in like a
bear for his winter sleep.
Speaker 2: Oh but darling, it isn't winter. It's spring, and I
want to get up to the house that long drive.
Speaker 3: You see.
Speaker 2: I'm worried.
Speaker 1: You know, I've got the whole dog in the fall.
I've got to get that sump pump into the cellar
before the spring waters floods again.
Speaker 2: You can rest up there just as.
Speaker 3: Well I can rest here, and we can get some
men to do the job.
Speaker 2: Where were they last fall when we needed them?
Speaker 3: Can't we make it next weekend?
Speaker 2: Well it be too late by then.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid, all right, darling, I never can refuse you anything.
Everything I do is for you, have is yours.
Speaker 2: Except for letting your sister in our lives.
Speaker 3: Oh that's just money, because neither of us know how
to handle. What's it for?
Speaker 2: Except things? Mmmm? Well we can enjoy them.
Speaker 1: I mean I feel like a fool having to run
to Elspeth for the rent or something.
Speaker 3: Are you trying to get rid of me?
Speaker 2: Well, of course not, darling. How could you think a
thing like that?
Speaker 3: I don't, so stop talking about it. You don't have
to do that. If I was dead, and I don't
intend to be.
Speaker 2: I should hope not.
Speaker 3: Look at the time, I've got his shower and dress
and get out of here.
Speaker 2: How about lunch?
Speaker 3: I can't, sweetie, I have a business appointment in this shower,
I'm moan or two later, I wondered why I hadn't
told Mark my lunch was with elsp Then I decided
it was better than I hadn't, and I wished I
hadn't agreed to dragging up to the country house. But
he's really so beautiful and so sexy and so persuasive.
It's awfully hard to refuse Mark anything. If I'd only know,
and I'd picked the wrongs to ever refuse, I'd never
let else with talk me into what she called having
more backbone. Emily, you can't get into everything Mark wants
or asks.
Speaker 2: He's a selfish child.
Speaker 3: That isn't true. Else Look, honey, take it from me.
I found out the hard way. I'm sorry. I didn't
mean to bring all that up again. I'd forget it.
I've forgotten Mark that way plat us two side by side,
mask any man to choose which way would it go? Well.
I never have come back from the coast a year
ago if I'd known I was going to bust up
a romance between Emily. We've been over this ground before.
You didn't bust up the romance. There wasn't any to
bust up except on my side. Mark needed a good agent,
and he got me in more ways than one. So
beneath period, I'm still sorry. It hurts. I wish I
could make up for it. Well, you can two ways
draw that will making me executricks of your estate and
let me budget your dope. It seems unfair to Mark. Listen, Emily,
I don't want you to get your back up, but
I get the word he has damn deaths, and if
he thinks he has backing, you could go sky high. Now,
just let me put the brakes on. Okay. I suppose
it's too much to hope that your love for that
muscle bound Greek statue you're married isn't letting up any Mark.
What would make you think a thing like that? Oh,
I don't know, just uh an irrational hope. I guess
you still love, don't you. That isn't the point. I
love you, and I'm very concerned about you. What do
you mean? I don't know. You'd only laugh at me
if I told you. It's really funny, isn't it. I
mean the genes. We both come from the same mother,
but our fathers were so different. You blonde, blue eyed, open, uncomplicated, trusting,
and me dark, brooding, sharp tongued much of this world
and yet not Now what does that mean? I could
never explain that to you in a millennium but I
am a psychicist. You mean like there's funny cards you
used to read and for telling what's going to happen,
and things like that. Yes, things like that, Emily listened
to me. This is a dangerous time for you. Be careful,
Just be very careful. But I don't know what you mean.
I can only see so far. I can only warn you.
Just be very careful. Now. You are scary, I mean
to well, it's known to you. It's just that I
have the weekend off and Mirk and I have under
the country. Ella, I really don't want to. I'm scared
of the drive. You mean because of mom and your father. Yes, Emily,
how many times have I told you it wasn't your fault.
Speaker 2: It was in the cards.
Speaker 3: I was driving when they were killed, and a drunken
madman by fatal chance, jumped the road to to enforced
you off the road. What else could you have done?
It was not your fault, I know, but I still
have nightmares about it. You're not going to drive, are you.
I'll never drive a car again. It's just I'm afraid
even to get into one. Now. Excuse me for changing
the subject, but you have to get back to the
set soon. I want you to take a quick run
up to my office. What Harry is there now? I
had him drow up and you will for you and
I think we ought to get it signed right away. Well,
I don't know. Mark has sort of hurt Emily. If
anything ever happens to you, I will take care of
him the way he should be. You know you can
trust me.
Speaker 2: For that, Emily. Yes, oh, you had your eyes closed.
I thought you were asleep.
Speaker 3: That's not why my eyes were closed.
Speaker 2: Ah, darling, come on, you've got to put things behind us.
Speaker 3: I drive, it's just here in the first lane.
Speaker 2: I want to get us home.
Speaker 3: Move over, never travel in this bob, all right, all right,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'll cut right into the next night as soon as
the car behind me passes. Now, please, sweetheart, I want
you to relax, Just forget everything this weekend.
Speaker 2: Just play possible, possible?
Speaker 1: Would I have the nerve to do it? And beyond that,
could I really find the howl? As the hum of
the car soothed both of us, and Emily appeared really
to drop off to sleep.
Speaker 2: Other things came to my mind. That damn cellar flooding
every spring when the surface water on frozen coming down
the hill defeated.
Speaker 5: Every trick we'd tried to keep it out.
Speaker 1: The sump pump was the only answer, And suddenly, at
that moment, although it turned my stomach, there was the
answer to my bigger problem.
Speaker 2: Else best you are very early.
Speaker 3: I know the Covin does not meet until midnight.
Speaker 2: I had to come.
Speaker 3: I need a special reading. I have intimations of disaster.
Speaker 6: You remember all that one of my gifts is total recall.
Speaker 3: The last question I asked turned up the Nine of Swords.
I asked about my sister. Oh, now I want to
know how soon when.
Speaker 6: That is not always divulged. But let us tell the
gods and find out if we can, if you want,
if I want, Remember, there is no way of stopping
what has been decreed.
Speaker 2: Has it been a good weekend, darling? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, arrested so relaxed.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's just as well I came. Did you get
everything down in the celling you want?
Speaker 1: Well? Yes, I had to do some more digging and
make the whole larger. But I have plenty of cement
to finish up tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow, well that's Monday, right.
Speaker 1: I thought you could drive down tonight.
Speaker 3: You know I won't think of ever driving again.
Speaker 2: All right, darling, all right, I'll drive you in the
morning and then drive back up.
Speaker 1: Now, come on, sweetie, I've taken off the phone so
we won't be disturbed, and I'm going to carry you
up to bed and tuck you in for the best
sleep you've ever had in your life.
Speaker 3: I was so tired I could hardly keep my eyes open,
but some inner alarm, some nonsense voice, kept jogging at
me to stay awake, until I thought, it's so many tension,
foolish to be afraid. I am in my beloved husband's arms.
And how safe can I be? Is she still in danger?
Benign of swords?
Speaker 2: Still cluttons?
Speaker 3: But when? How soon?
Speaker 6: I cannot tell her from the cards.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe I should call the country.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I use your phone, of course? What danger can
she be in with her husband?
Speaker 3: It's a very long drive. I know what those roads
are like. Oh damn, what does the signal? At least
it means they got there safely. Still wait for the
mass tonight.
Speaker 6: Within this circle more questions are answered than through the cards.
Speaker 3: Be patient, I'll try, but I can feel deaf in
my bones.
Speaker 2: Yes, you, I must die.
Speaker 1: Put out the light, and then put out the light
if I can quench me, no.
Speaker 2: No more moving Still there's the grave.
Speaker 4: My wife, My wife.
Speaker 1: I must have been mad, Emily to have killed you,
because I do love you, only that.
Speaker 2: I love myself more for money, for the need of it.
What have I done? How do I cover it? Of course?
Speaker 1: The car an accident, an accident with a car into
the river at the devil's elbow.
Speaker 2: But the body must never be recovered. Then who could
prove anything? A greeve is already made.
Speaker 3: Can I get away with it?
Speaker 2: Of course I can. I can get away with anything.
Speaker 3: What is it when you interrupt the mess? But death
has occurred? But death you prophise that I must leave?
Give me a permission to leave the magic circle?
Speaker 6: If the death is accomplished, what can you do but go?
Speaker 3: If you must, well try it again, operator or get
me someone who can make the connection. If it's out
of order. This is a matter of life and death.
Speaker 1: Shame to waste a car I love on such a
night troilis climbed the Athenian walls.
Speaker 2: Madness, The whole thing is madness. There has to be
a reason for Emily's death.
Speaker 1: The car smashing through the guard rail five hundred feet
to the river below. The car recovered the body never
I will bury that five fathoms deep.
Speaker 2: And why should anyone question that Emily's.
Speaker 1: Body lie cemented in the well of a new sump
pump planned over a year ago. So goodbye, my favorite car.
Speaker 2: The dye is cast.
Speaker 5: The adversaries established. A murderer and a witch.
Speaker 2: By whom is justice best served?
Speaker 1: Which will prevail if a woman has loved not wisely
but too well? Who can best revenge her the majesty
and justice of the law or a kangaroo court beyond
and outside the law. I'll return shortly with Act three.
Mark Stanton has deliberately murdered his wife, and he has
had what seems to him a very practical means of
disposing of body and suspicion, which may work for normal authority,
but possibly not for his sister in law, since he
has no idea that she is a modern witch. For
the moment, he is involved with simple but furiously necessary occupations.
That looks pretty good pomp in its well, cellar fla placed.
Who'dever find Emily or think to look for here?
Speaker 2: What a devil you am? In the morning. Who damn
lights thrown upstairs? I had better answer a gotta change first.
Speaker 3: Well about time? I always seem to be surprising you
in on dissabinu.
Speaker 2: What do you expect at this time of night?
Speaker 3: All right, come in, that's about the first polite thing
you've said to me.
Speaker 2: Oh, let's cut the funny talk. What are you doing
up here in the middle of the morning?
Speaker 3: An interesting phrase? Shouldn't it be the middle of the night?
Speaker 2: All right? All right, let's bury the New York smart talk.
What do you want to see my sister? She isn't here?
Speaker 3: Oh why not?
Speaker 1: She had a five o'clock call on location for sunrise shots,
so she decided to drive back last night and had
the limousine taker on location this morning. What made you
take a two hour drive out here at this time
of night?
Speaker 3: I'll tell you half of it. I was scared. If
that means anything to you.
Speaker 2: Girl, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: What's the other half?
Speaker 3: I won't tell you that yet, although some day you
just might have to learn.
Speaker 2: I won't even pretend to understand that.
Speaker 1: Oh excuse me, yes, yes, that's right, I'm I'm Mark Stanton.
Speaker 2: What where?
Speaker 1: No, No, never mind all that?
Speaker 2: How is she No, I'll be right down there. What
was that, Emily? Her car went out of control at
at Devil's El No, she went through the guard rail,
plunged five.
Speaker 3: Hundred feet down into the river. The car is a
total red Never mind the car? What about Emily?
Speaker 2: Whether I haven't found her yet? The car windows were opening.
If she got swept down the river and into the lake,
they may never find her.
Speaker 3: You will.
Speaker 2: She's dead.
Speaker 1: You don't have.
Speaker 3: What else? A plunge like that?
Speaker 2: The car totaled?
Speaker 3: What else is it? Think? Nothing? Emily is dead?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: That's a strange way to oh else? But I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: This must be terrible for you too. It is terrible
for me, but not too Huh What does that mean?
I mean you killed her? How could you.
Speaker 2: Think a thing like that?
Speaker 3: I don't think I know, But it isn't going to
do you any good? Hit worth all for nothing?
Speaker 2: I don't know what you mean?
Speaker 3: You will when I'm ready to tell you Right now,
Let's go to the scene of the what should we
call it? Mark, Let's just say the tragedy.
Speaker 5: Okay, Bolly, here's the crow viars Those doors open over
the inside. Check then issue keh.
Speaker 2: Oh, mister Stanton. Yes, yes, that's right.
Speaker 3: I'm missus Stanton's sister.
Speaker 5: Man, uh, I am sorry about this my wife, Hugh,
do you think she's dead? What can I say?
Speaker 2: Fall like that?
Speaker 5: And and and what?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 5: Man, this here shoe one of my men found its
mate washed ashore just before the river emptied into like
a hawkawa. Right down here with the car landed in
the river, we found your sister's pocket book. It don't
look good.
Speaker 3: Can her body be recovered from the night?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 5: Try? But that lake bottom is soft mud or whatever
you want to call it. From all of the leaves,
the trees have been dropping for millions of years. It's
like like a quicksand nobody you ever drowned in that
lake ever was seen again. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Look, once you go on home.
Speaker 5: Mister Stanton, and take miss take your sister in law
with you. As soon as I'm finished up here, I'll
drive up. There are some questions I'll have to.
Speaker 1: Ask, what do you mean was Emily exceptionally tall?
Speaker 5: Well for a woman I met.
Speaker 3: Actually, my sister was quite small, two inches shorter than
I am, and I'm only five four.
Speaker 1: Well, all right, yes, Emily was quite tiny. But what
difference does that make?
Speaker 5: The driver's seat was adjusted for somebody as tall as well, say.
Speaker 2: You, sir.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, it could have been knocked back in the crash,
couldn't it, Yes, sir, it could.
Speaker 5: Uh you're white wearing gloves when she left gloves? Why
drivers will had no fingerprints on it?
Speaker 1: I just wondering, Oh, yes, yes, now I remember, yes,
I think, yes, yes, she did have gloves.
Speaker 5: You drive with gloves, missus Stanley, Yes, yes.
Speaker 1: Usually in the car is on conant maintenance at the garage.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, all right, just one more question for now.
Were you all own the house and the accident happened?
Speaker 2: Well, I suppose I must have been. Well.
Speaker 5: I was just wondering if your sister in law was
also here.
Speaker 3: I arrived shortly before Emily left. I had planned a
driver into town this morning. We had some business to discuss,
but when she insisted on leaving last night, I was
just too tired to make the trip, and I had
brought Mark a new script. Since Emily was taking Mark's car,
I decided to stay, let him read the script and
we could drive in tomorrow discussing it and return it
one time.
Speaker 5: Well, I guess I've closest things up for me. Sorry'd
have taken so much time. My condolence is, mister Stan,
I hope we can find your wife.
Speaker 3: He is just as certain of it as I am.
You murdered Emily.
Speaker 2: What are you saying the truth? If you believe that,
why did you alibi?
Speaker 3: I wanted to spite the sergeant's suspicions, at least temporarily.
Speaker 2: What are you up to?
Speaker 3: Oh at the moment, not very much. I want to
sleep on all of this. Oh, by the way, don't
entertain any ideas of getting rid of me, you see,
brother in law. Dear, I happen to be exactly what
you think of me, a witch, only I am a
real one. And because I am what I am, I
can feel her presence in this house. If I told
the police what I know, they'd search it from.
Speaker 2: Top to bottom.
Speaker 1: Because of someone who claims to have ESP they'd write
you up as a nuts mark.
Speaker 3: You haven't a leg to stand on. On Wednesday, last Wednesday,
when we had lunch, I arranged for Emily to change
her will. It was finalized before you drove up here. Friday.
I an executrix and control every penny. Ah I'm too
tired to talk about it now. After I slept on
it out beside your future, I suggest you get some
rest to prepare for it.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't have better, plug nickel, I could get any
sleep out of what was left of the night, but
a bottle of brandy and sheer emotionally exhausted him from
fright put me to sleep.
Speaker 2: In the library chair.
Speaker 1: The last thing I remember was a whirling confusion of
surrealistic plots for disposing of elspets. I even finally believed
what I'd always thought of.
Speaker 2: Her, that she was a witch.
Speaker 3: I was sick with grace and desperately tired, but I
couldn't go to sleep. Every time my eyes closed, I
seemed to hear about I couldn't stand it any longer.
I got up, went downstairs. I saw Mark passed out
in the light eye, a branded bottle in her hand,
and the voice was closer. The voice flew me to
the cellar, and there beside the furnace, I knew it.
It least the fresh cement still drying, beautifully blended and
tapered into the old surface. Now I knew where my
sister was. Now I knew exactly what I had to do.
Speaker 5: I I'll pronounce you Elsemiss Garrick with more, and you
Bard Blade Stanton man and wife. You may kiss the bride.
Speaker 2: Ah home, sweet home, So you got me at last.
Speaker 1: I'll spiff.
Speaker 3: That's right, Mark, my dear husband, and no way out
for you. One word from me and Sergeant Harkness would
dig up that cellar and you'd spend the best part
of your life in jail for murder.
Speaker 1: I'm grateful to you, of course, but some things I
still don't understand.
Speaker 2: Oh you will, I'll be darling.
Speaker 3: Just give your bride a few minutes to slip into
something fetching and we'll start to begin our married life.
I promise you'll find me all I told you I
really am bewitchy.
Speaker 1: He damned her under my breath what she claimed to be.
I found a longing ache for Emily and what she'd
to me. I seized at being emasculated, at having to
act like a pet poodle, at the hopelessness of my situation.
I dreamed of the thousandth plot to get rid of Helspeth,
Oh an idle dream I'd gotten away with it once,
never again. And then she called me into the bedroom
come love boy.
Speaker 3: Oh God, No, you didn't really believe I was a witch,
did you?
Speaker 2: You're You're Emily.
Speaker 3: I borrowed her aspect.
Speaker 2: Does it please you?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: I I love you.
Speaker 3: I want you, not Emily, only her aspect, which you
will live with every moment we're at home. But you
will not touch me, either as myself or my sister
you killed. I don't understand. I want to be sure
you can't get away with it. A good lawyer, your
own natural charm, a long bitter trial, the possibility of escape,
and even if they found you guilty, there is no
death penalty, so my way's better. No money, no freedom,
and the remembrance every day of the crime you committed,
the girl you murdered, to haunt you fresh and lovely
while you grow old and forgotten. This is your cell mark,
plush lined perhaps, but more confining than anything state or
government could devise. And I am your jailor, watching you
die a little day.
Speaker 2: By day, year by year.
Speaker 3: I've read it in your cards, traced it in your horoscope.
You will have a long hell on earth before the
spirit I worship welcomes you to the real hell fraternity.
This is my revenge for my sister, and for.
Speaker 1: My As it was in the beginning, so it is
now and ever shall be Heaven. Hath no rage like
love to hate returned, nor hell, no fury like a
woman scorned. For this story, there is no ending. A
man bought only what he deserved.
Speaker 2: I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1: For a while, Mark Stanton's matinee ladies wondered about his
abrupt retirement, but the gorgon who guarded him fiercely, finally
discouraged their attentions. Not else Feth alone is good. His
looks began to fade strangely, until by the time he
was thirty five, his haunted, gaunt face and emaciated body
looked more like a man in his seventies. He eventually
was committed to a state institution for the insane, and
died there without even an obituary to mark his passing.
Mysteriously and suddenly, Elspeth died on the same day. Our
cast included William Redfield, Patricia Wheel, Terry Keane, and Ken Harvey.
The entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown.
Speaker 4: This is E. G.
Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure.
Speaker 8: In the macabre until next time. Pleasant dreams, but
Speaker 3: A way reything about