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Speaker 1: Atune Faisterly Theater.

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Speaker 2: Come in.

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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: I'm e. G. Marshall.

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Speaker 1: The setting on your dial is the passport to a

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shadow land of mystery and terror, and you can travel

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as far and as long as your imagination will permit.

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In ancient times, evil was usually the work of people

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who were monstrous grow TETs and psychoticry. Today's perpetrators, for

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the most part, are quite banal. Many of them lead

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what can only be described as normal lives. Some of

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them have achieved such heights of respectability that their deeds

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are no longer considered evil. The girl days when villains

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were villains and performed with style and flair, Today's faceless

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scoundrels don't even get any fun out of their own evil.

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Our mystery drama Killer of the Year was written especially

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for the Mystery theater by Sam Van and stars Norman Rose.

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It is sponsored in part by Uncle Ben's Long Grain

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and Wild Rice and imported Vigna Rose Wine. I'll be

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back shortly with that one evil.

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Speaker 2: What's evil?

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Speaker 1: Since the beginning of the human race, men have speculated

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on the nature of evil. Saints, philosophers, psychologists all have deliberated,

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and still the answer elluses us. In this enlightened century,

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will science finally.

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Speaker 2: Solve the problem?

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Speaker 1: Shall we discover that evil is actually a virus, a

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disease that infects its victims at random. Impossible, you say, perhaps,

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But how do you account for the fact that so

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many people are suddenly stricken, so many of the most

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unlikely people, people like Harry Johnson?

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Speaker 3: Turn around, Harry, let me look at you. Oh no, dear,

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to go a coupling.

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Speaker 2: It's too formal.

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Speaker 3: It's a formal occasion.

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Speaker 2: Mine. Who rang the bell before? Oh?

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Speaker 3: It was a telegram the president of your own company,

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mister G. G. Gresham himself. Well, what do you think

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of that?

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Speaker 2: I don't know what am I supposed to think of it?

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Speaker 3: Don't you even want to read it?

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Speaker 2: You read it all right?

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Speaker 3: Congratulations you are a credit to the corporation, signed GG Gresham.

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Speaker 2: Ah, Well, well.

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Speaker 3: What do you realize what this means? Mister Gresham himself

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all the way out in Chicago. Mister Gresham, who personally

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run the half billion dollar corporation, knows about you, knows

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about the award.

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Speaker 2: And its Frisham has a PR department which handles this

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kind of nonsense.

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Speaker 3: Oh, why do you call it nonsense.

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Speaker 2: Because he couldn't care less I beg.

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Speaker 3: To do for Harry when one of his executives.

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Speaker 2: To him, I'm an employee.

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Speaker 3: Wins the Man of a Year award in.

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Speaker 2: A tank town like Danvers Corners.

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Speaker 3: This happens to be the county seat and it's the

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third largest city in the state.

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Speaker 2: Let's hear it for Danvers Corner.

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Speaker 3: Oh, don't pretend to be cynical.

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Speaker 2: Is because you're not, my dear. I never set out

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to win this award. I mean, but it wasn't deliberate.

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I didn't plan it. It wasn't part of a campaign

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to do myself some good.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's recognition of the facts, and you.

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Speaker 2: Have to recognition. I like to work on community projects.

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I think it's the best investment of time I can

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make it done.

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Speaker 3: When you took me home from our very first date,

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mother came upstairs to my room for a chat.

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Speaker 2: That was another world in those days, wasn't it.

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I certainly was. And mother said, tell me all about him, dear,

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And I did, and she said, you know, he sounds

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too good to be true. And Harry, she was right,

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and she still is, you are too good to be true.

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Speaker 2: Come on, I'm the same as everyone.

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Speaker 3: No, dear, You're not like everyone else. You have a

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conscience and you have ideals, and those things are in

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short supply today.

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Speaker 2: You know, Jenny, I think I have a headache.

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Speaker 3: Headache? Why should you have a headache all of a sudden, I.

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Speaker 2: Think my halo is on two types? Oh, come on,

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we'll be late for the bash. A man of the year, buddy,

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This is the first chance I've had off of my congratulations.

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Thank you, Pete, great dinner, great speech. Listen, why didn't

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you run for Congress? Now? Why should I run for congres?

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Why else have you been knocking yourself up playing four

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nights a week because I like it. You know it's

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all going to wait it, it's not gonna wind up

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doing you any good. Well, it makes me feel good.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Coming from anyone else, it would sound like a line,

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But you I believe. Hello, Py, Jenny, Congratulations.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Kelly. Have you met Will maclown.

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Speaker 2: Will m'cla No, I don't think so. Oh, are you

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in for a tree? Although we though what, you're so

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thoroughly married you probably couldn't enjoy the sight of another

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beautiful woman. I'll introduce you to John for then Jenny,

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who is she?

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Speaker 3: She's the new librarian, and she'll be very happy to

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meet you.

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Speaker 2: Oh, why, she.

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Speaker 3: Can thank you for her job. After all, you're the

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one who raised the funds for the library campaign.

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Speaker 2: I'm why do you make it sounds if I did

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it single handed?

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Speaker 3: Wilma. I'd like you to meet my husband, Harry Johnson.

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Speaker 2: How do you do, Wilma, Wilma Sloane. No, that isn't

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your name. You're not Wilma Sloane. I know you, that

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is well. I know your face. How could I ever

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forget your face? I stared at it for hours in

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that courtroom. I know your face from every ankle. There

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are times on your eyes would wander among the rows

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of spectators, and sometimes sometimes we would meet mine and

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we would look at each other for a brief moments.

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Do you recognize me? Do you know my face? How

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long was it? Four? No? Five years ago? The company

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had sent me way way up and out to the northwest,

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to a place called Centerville. Centerville. It makes Denver's Corners

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seem like Paris Centerville.

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Speaker 1: I gotta be with us a spell, mister Johnson. Oh,

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ten days, two weeks, I suppose you from the Gresham Company.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I have to run some sales training sessions, but

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albeit night. Tell me what's there to do around here

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in the day time? Well, to tell the.

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Speaker 1: Truth, there ain't nothing to do around here daytimes outside

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of hunting season. But you're in luck.

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Speaker 2: Why we got some murder trial going a murdered child.

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Speaker 1: Yep, in all the papers?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: What hell? The papers around here?

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Speaker 2: I guess where's the trial being held?

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Speaker 1: Wait in the courthouse?

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Speaker 2: Where else?

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Speaker 1: I'm fixing goal myself. I get the wife to take

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over the front. I'll drive you down there.

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Speaker 2: That's her, she's the defendant.

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Speaker 1: That's her, Tessie Bonner. She works in the library, and

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maybe I should say she worked in the library.

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Speaker 2: She's a very beautiful woman.

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Speaker 1: Hey, she's good looking.

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Speaker 2: But she's a killer. Isn't that what the jury's supposed

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to decide her?

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Speaker 1: The jury has already decided. I know every one of

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them made box, I can tell.

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Speaker 2: But that's not right.

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Speaker 1: You just listen to the testimony. You'll see it'll prove

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she's guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt.

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Speaker 2: That's your full name? Please?

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Speaker 3: Well, I guess my full name would be Edna Amabilla's coin,

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and you.

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Speaker 2: Rented an apartment to the defendant. Miss Teresa Bonner said,

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the three unies and the deceased. Was he a regular visitor? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, he'd show up there, two, three, sometimes four

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times a week.

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Speaker 2: I said to my oldest girl.

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Speaker 3: Looks like we have a little love less up there

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in three g And she said, oh my, get with it.

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This is a new morality. I mean, so, what do

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you approve if you have a document? Well, I was gonna.

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Speaker 2: Tell her, did you ever hear signs of an altercation

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of what arguments fight? Oh?

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Speaker 3: No, no, I can't say that I did. I didn't

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hear a word until that night.

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Speaker 2: I suppose you tell us just exactly what you heard.

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Speaker 3: Well, I was surprised, Surpi.

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Speaker 2: Why Well, you know, they.

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Speaker 3: Were very quiet usually, and all of a sudden, on

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this particular night, they start yelling at each other, yelling,

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well maybe not yelling, but you can hear them all.

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And he was saying it's over, it has come to

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an end, and she kept saying, no, it's not over,

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it's just begun. She said, I can't. I won't let

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you walk out on me. And he said, we both

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knew it would have to end sometime, and she said

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it can only end when one of us is dead.

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And he said, don't be stupid. And she said, I

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won't let you go. I can't let you go. And

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he said, you knew from this gard I was married.

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And she said yes, and so did you, and and

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and does this clime? Well, she said, if I can't

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have you, she can't have you either.

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Speaker 2: And what did he say to that?

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Speaker 3: He said, be sensible? And she said, how can a

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woman in love be sensible? And then the next thing

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I heard him say was you're crazy. You've gone mad.

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Put down that night.

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Speaker 2: You heard him say those exact words, put down that night, yes, sir.

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Speaker 3: And then I, uh, well I heard him yell and

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then and then I didn't hear anything. Well, I was scared,

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you know, I mean I I didn't know what to think.

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Speaker 2: What did you do?

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Speaker 3: Well? I thought for a minute. Then I walked up

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the stairs and I went to her door. MM and

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I I just stood there listening. Finally I knocked on

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the door and I said, ms mona at mcmonna, are

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you okay?

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Speaker 2: There was no answer.

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Speaker 3: Well, I I I tried to turn the handle, and

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the door wasn't locked, so I opened it and I

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walked right into the apartment, and there I saw.

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Speaker 2: Would you tell us what you saw?

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Speaker 3: I I saw him lying on the floor.

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Speaker 2: He was dead. You're sure he was dead?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yes, his chest was covered with blood.

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Speaker 2: And where was the defender?

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Speaker 3: She was standing there near him, right in the middle

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of the room, and she was holding a big knife

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in her hand, and you could see blood on the blade.

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Speaker 2: Would that be that large knife lying on the table

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marked exhibit be.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yester, that's the knife. And and she was

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holding that that that knife in her hand, and she

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was mumbling, no one else can ever have you, No

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one else can ever have you.

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Speaker 2: Mm And what you've told us just now is exactly

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what you saw.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, exactly.

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Speaker 2: I have no further questions. And threw it all. She

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sat quietly at her table next to her attorney. It

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was as if someone else were on trial. She hardly

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seemed to listen to anything that was being said. Occasionally

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she would glance at the spectators. Her eyes would slowly

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sweep the room. From time to time they would meet mine,

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and she would look at me. Oh, what a what

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at my imagination? But the trial came to an end. Finally.

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The jury left the room at eleven forty five and

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returned promptly at two. They had lunch between twelve and

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one thirty, so you can imagine how long they deliberated.

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But of course the verdict was obvious on the very obside, guilty,

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guilty of murder in the first degree, guilty, with no

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recommendation for mercy. So so now what is she doing

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here less than five years later? Because this is Tessie Bonner.

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She may call herself Wilma Sloane, but her name is

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Tessie Bonner Perry.

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Speaker 3: They did wild flow?

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Speaker 2: How do you do?

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Speaker 3: Congratulations to gentlemen?

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Speaker 2: Where were you? I said I could have the next dance?

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How are you keeping promises? Yet? Now? If you good

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people will excuse us?

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Speaker 3: They make a handsome couple, don't say, Harry? Oh well,

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I said, Peter and willmas Low make a good looking couple?

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Speaker 2: Thing? Oh yes, Oh she's such.

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Speaker 3: A beautiful girl, isn't he?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Jednie lovely, lovely if you.

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Speaker 1: Like a girl who knows how to use a knife.

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But is she the same one? Harry is absolutely certain.

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But if she's the same one. What indeed is she

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doing here? The state where she was tried still has

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the death penalty. At the very least, she should be

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in jail for a long long time. Well, you will

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only have to wait a short short time till I

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return with some answers in act too. Although Harry Johnson

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has raised considerable funds for the town library, he rarely

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goes there himself. However, this afternoon, on an impulse, one

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that he can explain, or can he, he.

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Speaker 2: Has stopped at the library.

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Speaker 1: From the doorway, he regards the librarian, a rather beautiful

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young woman named Wilma Sloane. She's talking to several children.

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It's hard to believe that she is a woman who,

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in a fit of passion or as a result of

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a cold blooded resolve, stabbed her lover to death. But

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she did some five years ago in a state a

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thousand miles away, and she has been tried and convicted

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for murder. And the question is what is she doing here?

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Harry Johnson wants to know the answer, but evidently not now,

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and so he turns away and walks down the library steps.

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Speaker 2: Sure thing, Thanks, Pete. You know, if anybody would ask

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me where they could find Harry Johnson. I'd answer to

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try the library. Just what that's the book to meet? Pete.

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Don't have an affair with her, Harry who you've heard

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me more? Don't have an affair with whom? Was Wilma Slow? Come, Pete?

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What's gotten into you? The problem is not what's gotten

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into me, but what's gotten into you. Pete, you're either

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crazy or what? I don't know? Look what are you

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driving at? What I'm driving at is that man is

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not naturally monogamous? Or let's not start this, nuns and

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that gay I never got married. You may be deeply

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in love with a woman, but suddenly someone happens along,

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and why are you're gone? I think that's ridiculous. It

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probably is, but unfortunately it happens, and it happened to

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you last night. Pete. I wish you would tell me

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what you're talking about talking about Wilma Slow? What about

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Wilma Sloan? Let's do it the step, sir. I thought

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you were introduced to her. One look at your face

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convinced me. Convince you of what convinced me? I'd better

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ask her to dance so I could get her away

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from you and have her for yourself. Oh, or get

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me wrong. I'd take her if I could get her,

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But she's not for me. I know. See, I'm an

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expert in these affairs. Oh so bothered. Look, you made

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disapprove of my attitude toward life and love. But I

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do have both experience and expertise. So I took her

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away from where you and Jenny were standing before before

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what before? What you were thinking? Before? That look on

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your face could become obvious to everyone else, including my

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poor dear sister. You know I think that you are crazy. Yeah,

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and so now it's the afternoon of the next day,

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the late afternoon. I'm downtown. I stopped for a traffic light.

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Idly I glanced toward the library steps, thinking, of course,

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of that delectable new librarian. When who do I see

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walking up the steps by my most faithful brother in law, Harry,

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A man who's wrecked it to you would have just

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earned him the Man of a Year award here in

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Danver's corner. So I can explain, man, but I can

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explain it better. You walked up the steps, you paused,

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you knew it. This business you don't quite know how

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to go about it, so at the last minute you

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lost your nerves and beat a hasty retreat for Pete.

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Not one word of what you say is try you'll

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come back again. There always has to be a first time, Harry,

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and your first time is waiting in the wings, or

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I should say, behind the desk, Harry, don't do it.

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I have no intention of you to think. You don't

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teak if you don't mind, I insistently changed the supplies.

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It's so painful. No, it's ridiculous. And why are you

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becoming so excited? I'm not excited? But what are you, Pete?

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But I'm very much in love with my wife. Your

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kind of guy needs watching? Or don't toudge everybody's morality

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by your own? Are you're doing it? The library? I

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thought I needed a certain book and then well then

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I remember that I had it in the hut. Sure

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it's true. Do you know what Nero said about truth?

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He said, the truth is whatever you wanted to be.

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I must say you choose a strange model. But that's

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where you are right now, Harry. And don't say I

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didn't warn you.

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Speaker 4: Hello sent the mill Motel.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this is mister Harry Johnson. You wouldn't remember me.

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I was out there five years a day.

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Speaker 4: I remember you, find mister Johnson. You were with the

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Gresham Corporation. You spent fifteen days here teaching sales seminars.

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He was in Room one twelve, face in the lake.

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Speaker 2: Yes, bro, I may have to take a trip out there,

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and I wanted to know if the well, if the

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motel was still around.

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Speaker 4: Oh well, bigger and better than ever. Want me to

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make you a reservation.

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Speaker 2: Well, my plans aren't firm yet.

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Speaker 4: Sure, just give us a little notice. We always got

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room for.

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Speaker 2: You, mister Johnson. I remember when I was out there.

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You had some excitement.

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Speaker 4: Excitement.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you were having a tire weren't you tile?

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Speaker 4: Oh oh yeah, Tessey Bother.

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Speaker 2: That's who it was. Yes, I remember I was in

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the courtroom when the jewelry brought in a guilty birthday.

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Speaker 4: Oh yes they did.

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Speaker 2: No, I wasn't there when the judge sentenced to tell

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me what did she get the rope?

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Speaker 4: But then the governor said, oh, come on, you can't

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hang a woman, so he gave her life instead.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, I guess she's still in jail. No, no,

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she's dead, dead, I.

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Speaker 4: Say dead, that's the only way to figure you. See,

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they have a breakout from the women's penitentiary. A couple

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of years ago, Wilma and a couple of others escaped.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, then why do you say that she's dead.

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Speaker 4: Well, they made it up to the mountains, but they

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got caught in a snowstorm, and I guarantee you nobody

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could live through that one. You will. I have been

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nice talking to you, mister Johnson.

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Speaker 2: You come up and see this real, so yes, thank you. Hey, oh, hello, dear.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I thought I heard someone come in the back door.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to make sure it was you. I saw

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a whole line of cars parking from of a house,

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and then I remember, it's your women's club afternoon.

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Speaker 3: We're just breaking up now.

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Speaker 2: I didn't want it to cereb anyone, so I just

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sneaked up the rear staircase.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's altay, a word you're use in your own house.

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Speaker 2: Sneaked.

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Speaker 3: Incidentally, Well, I wasn't doing home so early.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Well, I, Jenny, I have a problem. I just want to,

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you know, sit and think it out. Oh sounds grim,

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that probably is. What's it about. Well, it's concerned with

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the duties of a citizen.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh, Well let me know how it works out. Oh, darling,

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would you mind doing something for me? You name it

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Willmas Sloane is here and she doesn't have a car,

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and nobody else is doing her way. Will slo You

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remember you met her the other night at your award dinner, Darling,

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would you mind giving her in this tone? Well, I

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do it myself, except I've got to get dinner started.

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This is very kind of you, mister Johnson.

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Speaker 2: I uh, I bother you called me Harry.

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Speaker 3: I will on one condition. You must call me Wilma.

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Speaker 2: Well I'll do better than that. I'll call you Tessy. Tessy,

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Oh Teresa, how miss Bonner, which do you prefer?

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Speaker 3: I see, Well, what do we do?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 2: I know what I should do?

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Speaker 5: And what's that?

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Speaker 2: Head for the police station and turn you over to

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the authorities. Why because you're an escaped convict.

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Speaker 3: I know, I know I'm an escaped convict. But why

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should you turn me over to the police.

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Speaker 2: Why because it's my duty as a citizen.

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Speaker 3: Oh, and do you always do your duty by jargon?

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Speaker 2: At least to the best of my ability?

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Speaker 3: And as you see it, it's your duty to return

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me to the penitentiary. Yes, why I never did you

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any harm? I killed a man who needed You can't.

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Speaker 2: Kill another human cause you want.

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Speaker 3: To What else was I to do? He used me

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and then he tossed me asided if I were an

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object of no consequence.

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Speaker 2: What kind of society would we have if people were

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free to kill at their own pleasure?

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Speaker 3: You haven't answered my question, which is what do we

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do now?

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Speaker 2: I I should turn you over to the police.

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Speaker 3: I know you said that. Is this the road to

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the police station?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: Why haven't we headed that way?

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Speaker 3: Because yes, it's clear, it's very clear to me.

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Speaker 2: You mean it's very clear to you. How could it

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be very clear when it isn't clear to me? I

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don't even know what I'm doing or why?

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Speaker 3: In the interests of clarity, why do you hesitate to

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do your duty? Would you hesitate for a moment if

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I were a man? I don't think so. Again, would

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you have to potato?

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Speaker 2: If I were a old, ugly old stress that? That's what?

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Speaker 3: Why do you hesitate? I heard you speak at the

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bank with the other night. The fabric of society is

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woven by each single individual, and so forth I recognized you.

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I remembered you from the carbone.

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Speaker 2: You you did? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yes, And I said to myself, Oh, if he remembers me,

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I'm gone. There's the mister pillar of the community himself

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in the flesh.

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Speaker 2: Turn you when I should that you walked? How do

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you know? Because you want me? Oh come on, that's

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what it is.

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Speaker 3: But you want me, And you're saying yourself, here's the

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most attractive woman I ever met.

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Speaker 2: You have an extremely high opinion of yourself.

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Speaker 3: I must be the most attractive woman you ever met.

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You know why because I'm making you go against the

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habit of a lifetime.

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Speaker 2: I haven't done anything yet. Oh yes you have.

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Speaker 3: You're thinking what a waste it would be to send

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her back to prison. You're not interrupting me, now, are you.

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You're forty years old. You never stepped out of line

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in your life. Aren't you bored with Jenny?

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Speaker 2: I'm afraid you don't know everything, or I admit I

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was tempted for a moment.

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Speaker 3: You should be. I made you quite an offer offer.

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Speaker 2: What offer myself? Why you would sell yourself to buy

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my silence?

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Speaker 3: Most women sell themselves for something, but the truly sell

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themselves with security for advancement for the illusion of romanic

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for me right now, there is nothing more than a

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little in all the world than your silence.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's not for sale? Why not? That's the I

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could engage in a in a tawdry affair.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I see, it's not that you're opposed to an affair,

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just a tawdry affair? Would else be tawdry? A because

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it's not how these things begin, it's what they've become.

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Speaker 2: Both of us are attractive, I'm intelligent.

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Speaker 3: In a week, a month, we would love each other.

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Speaker 2: I love my wife.

471
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,279
Speaker 3: Then why aren't we headed toward the police station?

472
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 2: We are?

473
00:25:38,519 --> 00:25:41,759
Speaker 1: It's about three miles to the station house, and that

474
00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:45,079
you take four or five minutes to get there. An

475
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,079
awful lot can take place in four or five minutes.

476
00:25:49,039 --> 00:25:52,599
Will she simply submit quietly and return to a sentence

477
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,799
of life in prison? After all, she got in there

478
00:25:57,319 --> 00:26:00,759
because she killed one man? Would she kill another man

479
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:05,680
to stay out? From a different perspective, how solid is

480
00:26:05,759 --> 00:26:07,160
Harry's resolved.

481
00:26:06,799 --> 00:26:08,279
Speaker 2: To turn her over to the police.

482
00:26:09,279 --> 00:26:14,880
Speaker 1: Questions, possibilities, We shall weigh them all when I return

483
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:27,039
shortly with Act three? How does it begin? Where does

484
00:26:27,079 --> 00:26:31,160
it begin? Why does it begin. A man spends his

485
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,200
years walking what we are pleased to call the straight

486
00:26:34,279 --> 00:26:38,160
and narrow, and suddenly he finds himself sorely tempted to

487
00:26:38,319 --> 00:26:40,920
break out of the social and religious mold he has

488
00:26:41,039 --> 00:26:44,640
formed for himself over the course of a lifetime. There

489
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,200
are those who say man is naturally evil, and there

490
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,559
are those who say that man is intrinsically good. Well,

491
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,359
Harry Johnson can be a test case for either.

492
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:55,799
Speaker 2: Point of view.

493
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:05,039
Speaker 3: Here we are, yes, here we are at the police station.

494
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,440
Do your do you hear, mister high Johnson? Do your

495
00:27:09,519 --> 00:27:12,599
duty of an upright dedicated concerns?

496
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 2: I will let's go.

497
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:26,839
Speaker 1: Oh well sure, send him in, mister Johnson at miss Loane.

498
00:27:27,599 --> 00:27:28,279
Speaker 2: Well what you will?

499
00:27:28,279 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: Sit down?

500
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 2: Well, what can I do for you? Lieutenant Craven.

501
00:27:33,279 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: By the way, I was gonna go to that banquet

502
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,839
the other night, mister Johnson, But I was on the desks.

503
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,799
Somebody asked to my misstore. Oh yeah, that's right. Congratulations,

504
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,160
everybody says, for once, the Matter of the Year committee

505
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:46,000
picked the right guy.

506
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:46,599
Speaker 2: I'll thank you.

507
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,160
Speaker 1: Well, Now, what can your police department do for you?

508
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 2: Folks? A lieutenant? I am here to report, Yes, sir,

509
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,920
I I wished to report that, uh that missus Wilmas Sloan.

510
00:27:58,079 --> 00:28:00,039
Speaker 1: Well, hold it just a second. I didn't think I

511
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,480
have to write anything down. Let me get my pad here.

512
00:28:03,839 --> 00:28:07,519
Speaker 2: Okay, shoot, I have to report that miss Wilma Sloan.

513
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,039
Speaker 1: That's Sloan spelled with an E at the end.

514
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 2: Right, that's right.

515
00:28:11,519 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: We had some Sloans over the nose gap, but they

516
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,519
don't have the e, or he wouldn't be related.

517
00:28:15,559 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 2: I suppose. I don't suppose you were saying.

518
00:28:18,039 --> 00:28:22,759
Speaker 1: Mister Johnson about miss Slow, I wish to report that that. I. Hey,

519
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:25,319
this s how I get funding say.

520
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 2: Well, look, you see miss Sloan here is well, she's

521
00:28:30,759 --> 00:28:36,279
a yeah, she's a she's a very shy and timid person.

522
00:28:36,319 --> 00:28:38,240
And well, she happened to be talking to my wife

523
00:28:38,279 --> 00:28:40,200
and she she said she couldn't be sure, but she

524
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,200
thought she might have noticed some uh, some prowlers about

525
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,240
the vicinity of her home. Well, I said, why don't

526
00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:47,519
you notify the police, And she said she didn't want

527
00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:48,319
to bother anyway.

528
00:28:48,359 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: Oh, now, miss Sloan, bother us, please bother us. That's

529
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,839
why we're here to be bothered.

530
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 2: And so I said, nonsense, I'll take it up with

531
00:28:57,759 --> 00:28:59,119
my friend Lieutenant Craig.

532
00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: Absolutely right, mister Johnson, that's all. Any time you have

533
00:29:03,119 --> 00:29:06,599
the slightest, the vaguest suspicion, you get on that phone,

534
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,319
you understand, Yes, lieutenant mister Johnson, and there were more

535
00:29:10,359 --> 00:29:13,480
people like you, how much easier our job.

536
00:29:13,319 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 2: Would be.

537
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:22,039
Speaker 3: Thanks to the left.

538
00:29:23,559 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 2: What's you mean?

539
00:29:26,319 --> 00:29:28,039
Speaker 3: You know you hadn't said a word since we left

540
00:29:28,079 --> 00:29:28,720
the police test.

541
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 2: I know, good night, good night, just like that? No,

542
00:29:34,839 --> 00:29:38,839
not just like that. I suppose I suppose you should

543
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,839
know why I did it, But I do know it's

544
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,799
not at all what you're thinking. It isn't I thought

545
00:29:44,799 --> 00:29:47,000
about it. I kept thinking about what you had done.

546
00:29:47,759 --> 00:29:51,039
You killed a man who well, who had behaved badly

547
00:29:51,079 --> 00:29:54,039
towards you. After all, he was married and he but

548
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,799
he had no right what. You were sentenced to prison,

549
00:29:56,839 --> 00:29:59,640
you had already served two years. It isn't as that

550
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,599
you were a a professional killer. You won't do it again.

551
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,119
You've been fighting enough, punished enough in jail. You'd be

552
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,519
a burden on society here, your or your assets up

553
00:30:09,559 --> 00:30:14,720
the community, your productive you can kiss me. I'm doing

554
00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:18,440
this because because I think no useful purpose would be

555
00:30:18,519 --> 00:30:19,359
served why why.

556
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 3: Don't you kiss me? You wanted to kiss me since

557
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,559
you first saw me in that corp I.

558
00:30:26,319 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 2: Kiss him? Will? Hello, Jenny, where were you? Hey?

559
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: You?

560
00:30:39,799 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 2: Of course I'm home.

561
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,559
Speaker 3: Well, I figured the PPA committee meeting you should be

562
00:30:43,559 --> 00:30:45,559
over by ten thirty, so I thought i'd surprised you

563
00:30:45,599 --> 00:30:47,440
and stop by. But would you go somewhere and have

564
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:47,920
a sandwich?

565
00:30:48,039 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 2: The whole was I hungry? I'm sorry, but the school

566
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:51,319
was dark.

567
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,079
Speaker 3: I guess the meeting ended early.

568
00:30:53,319 --> 00:30:55,519
Speaker 2: Well, no, as a matter of fact, that uh, it

569
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,720
never began. Oh what do you mean there was no

570
00:30:58,839 --> 00:30:59,359
meeting it was?

571
00:30:59,519 --> 00:31:02,799
Speaker 3: That was Oh well, buddyd you do oh?

572
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,599
Speaker 2: I figured since I was out anyway, i'd uh oh

573
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,559
I pay old Jerry sal in the visit Jerry Sayling.

574
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,000
Yes you remember Jerry. He ran the new stand near

575
00:31:11,039 --> 00:31:13,200
the railroad station. Since I guess it must be the

576
00:31:13,279 --> 00:31:15,640
Civil War or something like that. Well you see now

577
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,279
he's laid up sick. Everybody's forgotten him, and well he

578
00:31:18,359 --> 00:31:19,200
lives near the school.

579
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: Darling.

580
00:31:19,759 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 3: That was very thoughtful and very sweet. Incidently, dear, are

581
00:31:24,759 --> 00:31:26,079
you free Wednesday night?

582
00:31:26,359 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 2: Well? Well sure, why do you ask when you do

583
00:31:29,079 --> 00:31:32,200
have a great many demands on your time, do I well, yes,

584
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,240
I spoke, I do, but uh, I ain't the way

585
00:31:35,279 --> 00:31:37,440
you asked that question. What do you mean are you

586
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,640
free Wednesday night? A woman shouldn't have to talk that

587
00:31:40,759 --> 00:31:41,720
way to her own husband.

588
00:31:41,799 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 3: Oh, helly, you're the kind of a man who has

589
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,799
to keep active, working for the community. And well, I

590
00:31:46,839 --> 00:31:50,359
don't mind at all. You don't know, because Darling, it's

591
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,880
the thing you need. You have to do it, you

592
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,279
need fulfillment. It makes you a better man and the

593
00:31:56,319 --> 00:31:56,960
better husband.

594
00:31:57,599 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jerry, I I never realized what a remarkable woman

595
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,880
you are. Oh, thank you guying to Why don't we

596
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:05,440
go out now? I have a snack somewhere.

597
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 3: No, Harriet's too late Wednesday night.

598
00:32:15,039 --> 00:32:20,119
Speaker 2: I have to go soci's close to a letter.

599
00:32:21,359 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 3: I suppose all put out there tomorrow it's.

600
00:32:26,759 --> 00:32:30,839
Speaker 2: Oh, tomorrow's Wednesday. Then, well we we can't see each other.

601
00:32:31,799 --> 00:32:37,119
Why not? Oh? Because well, because Jenny has something planned. Jenny,

602
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,799
she's my wife, Wilma, and what am I? Wilma?

603
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,519
Speaker 3: Oh, poor Hallie, you can never face reality. You are

604
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,039
terrified by the facts.

605
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:52,079
Speaker 2: Wilma. M I have to go now to Jenny. Of course,

606
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,039
as we both know, she is my wife.

607
00:32:54,119 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 3: Because she has the document. That document that time, missus

608
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,079
Cohen expressed it at the trial. She has the document.

609
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:11,519
Speaker 2: Oh, Harry, who has your heart? Oh mama, how could

610
00:33:11,519 --> 00:33:12,920
you call the morrow for day?

611
00:33:13,119 --> 00:33:19,039
Speaker 3: I want you to answer the question. No, I guess not,

612
00:33:20,119 --> 00:33:22,119
because once you face up to that question, you'll have

613
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,920
to accept the next step. You'll have to divorce Jenny.

614
00:33:26,079 --> 00:33:30,559
Speaker 2: Divorce Jenny for a man in my position doesn't divorce,

615
00:33:31,119 --> 00:33:31,440
or I.

616
00:33:31,599 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 3: See your position doesn't divorce?

617
00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:38,359
Speaker 2: How about you? Well, I could never do it. I

618
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:38,960
could never be.

619
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 3: Going home to her now. But answer this, would you

620
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,039
rather be alone with her? Or would you rather be

621
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:51,960
alone with me? Oh?

622
00:33:53,799 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 2: Well? Peace about times of a dessert? And I always

623
00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:00,200
skip mine? So suppose we stop talking about sports in

624
00:34:00,359 --> 00:34:02,640
politics and you tell me why you wanted to buy

625
00:34:02,759 --> 00:34:07,000
my lunch. A couple of months ago, I warned you, Harry,

626
00:34:07,279 --> 00:34:10,639
about what I warned you not to have an affair

627
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:16,320
with Wilma Slum. Now pee, Harry, I uh, I spoke

628
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,960
with Lieutenant Craven as a police department a lieutenant Cravee.

629
00:34:19,039 --> 00:34:22,719
Rather he spoke with me. I will say he was embarrassed.

630
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,360
What does Lieutenant Craven have to do with some time

631
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,000
ago you brought Wilma in to see him. It seems

632
00:34:29,039 --> 00:34:33,360
that she she was too bashful to complain about prowlers

633
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:39,800
in her neighborhood. Yes, yes, so, Craven's had a squad

634
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:44,480
car cruising the area, and the patrolman noticed a man

635
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:52,679
who keeps coming and going, oh yeah, Oh well, Craven's

636
00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:55,239
a good friend of mine, and he's put two and

637
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,599
two together, right, does he have? Come on, Jerry, come on.

638
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,039
Craven worsh ships the ground you walk on. He thinks

639
00:35:02,079 --> 00:35:04,800
you should be president. He's afraid if this gets out,

640
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,480
and this kind of thing always does, you'll become a

641
00:35:07,559 --> 00:35:10,639
laughing stock. A guy like you, mister morality himself like,

642
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:17,920
people will eat this up. I pete, but I don't

643
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:22,400
know what to do. Okay, let's break it down. You

644
00:35:22,519 --> 00:35:26,119
in love with her? I don't know. Will you divorce

645
00:35:26,199 --> 00:35:32,360
Jenny out of what? Harry? Harry? Break it up now

646
00:35:33,199 --> 00:35:37,519
before it goes too far, walk away, because after a

647
00:35:37,599 --> 00:35:39,400
while she won't let you. Wh What do you mean?

648
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:43,960
It's in her eyes, those brilliant eyes. There's something sharp

649
00:35:44,159 --> 00:35:48,159
like steel. To get what she wants. She'll do anything.

650
00:35:49,079 --> 00:35:50,960
She's a kind who could kill you. Oh, let's you

651
00:35:51,119 --> 00:35:55,199
think you, Harry, haven't you been married fifteen years? I

652
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,159
I I don't say this because she's my sister, but

653
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,280
she's a girl and a million Jenny Is and you

654
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,880
know it. He seated light like an illness. I know,

655
00:36:02,079 --> 00:36:05,880
I know, I've been there before. But you can't end

656
00:36:06,119 --> 00:36:08,840
every illness by letting it run its course, because that

657
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:14,280
way you take the chance it'll kill you. Harry, cure it.

658
00:36:14,599 --> 00:36:16,639
I don't know how to do that if you don't

659
00:36:16,679 --> 00:36:20,159
know how to, or you don't want to. But look,

660
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,599
your life's in a mess right now. Go away for

661
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,519
a week? Go away? Oh, come on, A guy in

662
00:36:27,599 --> 00:36:29,800
your position can suddenly realize he has to make a

663
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,679
business trip. Get away from both of them and think

664
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,880
out your problem. Decide what's important, make up your mind.

665
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,039
What do you really want?

666
00:36:47,679 --> 00:36:48,679
Speaker 3: How he died?

667
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 2: Boy?

668
00:36:51,039 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 3: Hello? Is that all you can say? It's been here

669
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,000
for a week. Come on to town, dinnis ready, I'm

670
00:36:57,039 --> 00:36:57,800
just catting the rose.

671
00:36:58,039 --> 00:37:02,639
Speaker 2: Wilma, Wilma, it's time we had a serious talk.

672
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 3: I'm no, darling, we'll overdo now.

673
00:37:05,039 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 2: Wilma. You can trust me, trust you, of course, I

674
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,679
trust you? No, No, not really? What do you think

675
00:37:14,119 --> 00:37:17,679
you didn't want to go back to prison. Now that's true,

676
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:17,960
isn't it.

677
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: That's true?

678
00:37:20,119 --> 00:37:22,679
Speaker 2: But no, no, that prief listening. So you don't have

679
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:29,119
to pretend any longer. Pretend what pretend that you love me?

680
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 3: Hi, I'm not pretend.

681
00:37:32,559 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 2: God knight that person night you said to me that

682
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,239
my silence was the most important thing in the world,

683
00:37:39,519 --> 00:37:41,519
and that you were willing to buy it. Now you

684
00:37:41,599 --> 00:37:43,719
said that, yes, I said that, Well you don't have

685
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,480
to buy it any longer, not that you ever had

686
00:37:46,519 --> 00:37:48,400
to buy it in the first place. So you thought

687
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,760
I was buying you. You admitted it.

688
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,039
Speaker 3: Do you forget what else I told you that same night?

689
00:37:54,079 --> 00:37:55,920
I said, it's not how these things begin, but what

690
00:37:56,039 --> 00:37:59,159
they've become. And oh it has become love.

691
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,119
Speaker 2: I love my wife. Now, look, this is over. It's

692
00:38:02,119 --> 00:38:02,639
come to an end.

693
00:38:02,679 --> 00:38:06,599
Speaker 3: It's not over. It's just the gun. I won't let

694
00:38:06,639 --> 00:38:07,360
you walk out on you.

695
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 2: You would have to end sometime.

696
00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 3: It can only end when one about their death.

697
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 2: Wilma, don't be stupid.

698
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 3: My name isn't Wilma.

699
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:19,199
Speaker 2: Why do you call me Wilma? Because because, oh, good lie,

700
00:38:20,199 --> 00:38:24,079
this is the way it happened before the way.

701
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:28,519
Speaker 3: Yet It has happened before, hasn't it, Oh, hasn't it? Charlie?

702
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:30,199
Speaker 2: Please control yourself, Wilma.

703
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 3: You know my name isn't Wilma, It's Tessy. Was that

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her name?

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Speaker 1: Was that?

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Speaker 3: Her name?

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Speaker 5: Charlie.

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Speaker 2: I'm not Charlie Reynolds or Ryan.

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Speaker 1: I'm Harry Harry Johnson.

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Speaker 2: And you're safe. Your secret is safe with me.

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Speaker 5: If I can't have you, she can have you.

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Speaker 2: Sent woman in love is never. Don't be crazy.

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Speaker 3: If I can't have you, no one can have you.

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Speaker 2: Man put down that night.

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Speaker 3: I will tell you, Wilma, my name is.

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Speaker 2: I will tell you.

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Speaker 3: No one else can ever have you.

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Speaker 2: No one else can ever have you.

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Speaker 1: Wilma Sloane, Tessy Bonner, Charlie Reynolds, Harry Johnson. So many times,

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in so many places they act and reenact the same

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roles over and over again. And it's a mixture of love, deceit, madness,

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and evil. And to taste it is to risk the

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arrival of death. But you shall risk nothing if you

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wait for me to arrive after a few moments.

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Speaker 2: And so what is it? What is evil?

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Speaker 1: Need it be nurtured carefully before it springs forth from

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the human breast or can it be a s an

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alien Thing? Our cast included Norman Rose, Terry Keane, Joan Shay,

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Nap Poland, and Ken Harvey. The entire production was under

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the direction of Hyman Brown.

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Speaker 2: Radio.

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Speaker 1: Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division.

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Speaker 2: This is E. G.

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Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for

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another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dream.

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Speaker 5: The night's w R Mystery Theater was brought to you

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in part by shop boyd Supermarkets where you get a

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lot more for a little less. The preceding program was

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furnished by the Columbia Broadcasting System. This is w R

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New York and rk OLD General station at the time

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signal exactly eight o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Here's John Scott for the news

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Speaker 2: And