Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents Conduct.
Speaker 2: Come in. Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the realm of your imagination and that of
the greatest horror story writer the world.
Speaker 2: Is known, Edgar Allan Poe.
Speaker 1: Yes, I said the greatest horror story writer, because although
others may have written stories equally macabre and terror written,
no one has written as many. Moreover, when it comes
to sheer mystery puzzlement, Poe is unsurpassed as witness.
Speaker 3: But Monsieur duperre, the door was locked from the inside,
the windows were from the inside. The murder scene, the
Lesperoney apartment is on the fourth floor.
Speaker 2: The murderer could not have escaped, and yet he did,
my friend, But how campire? You know as well as
I do? How I know you do? Your trouble is
you don't know you know riddles, Monsieur dupin. You speak
in riddle, not at all, my friend, You create riddles
where riddles do not exist.
Speaker 1: Our mystery drama, The Murders in the Room Morgue, was
adapted especially for the Mystery Theater from the Edgar Allan
Poe classic by George Lowther and stars Paul Hecht is
sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser
and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with that one. Well, now,
my friends, make yourselves comfortable, turn down the lights and
listen to one of the most horrifying and mystifying of stories.
Edgar Allan pose the murders in the Room Orgue.
Speaker 2: The year is eighteen forty. The place Paris, France.
Speaker 1: At about seven o'clock in the evening, a young off
duty gendarme, Pierre Misset, and his sweetheart e Vet are
returning to her apartment in the Room Orgue after an
evening at the Moulin Rouge.
Speaker 4: But when when my darlings will be married?
Speaker 3: Well, just as soon as I am promoted to gendarmes
first class Yvette, when will that be when? Indeed, my
sergeant Duchaw is one of the most indifferent, ruthless of sergeants,
who takes pleasure in.
Speaker 2: Holding his men back, doing all he can to prevent
emotion rather than vette. Look as a crowd in front
of your house.
Speaker 4: Something's wrong. Come here quickly, alight, all right.
Speaker 2: Let me through. I'm a gendarmes. Are you are you there.
What's what's happened?
Speaker 5: We do not know?
Speaker 3: It happened less than a minute ago, streams officers, the
most awful screams from Madame Lesbonet's apartment.
Speaker 4: Madame little nanny cave. This is you?
Speaker 3: Yes, camill to both of them, streaming so horribly and soogony?
Speaker 2: Where is the Lesbane apartment?
Speaker 4: What floor next to mine?
Speaker 2: For it's not do you that you stay here? I'll
see what happened. No, I can we stay here? I
tell you, God knows what I'll find out there?
Speaker 4: No year they were my friends.
Speaker 2: Oh well, all right, all right, come on? Then is
this the apartment?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: All is quiet, too quiet? The door is locked.
Speaker 4: Break it in, all.
Speaker 2: Right, So now let's have a look.
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh my god, No, no.
Speaker 4: I won't faint. I'll be all right. But oh Heaven
help us.
Speaker 2: What has happened here? Look the woman on the floor,
her throat cut? Is that Madame miss Benet?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: But her daughter? Come here? Where is she?
Speaker 4: The bathroom door, it's closed for her.
Speaker 2: I'll go and see. No, it's empty.
Speaker 4: The kitchen then it's the only other room.
Speaker 2: Now there's no one in the kitchen.
Speaker 4: But where can she be? The door was bolted on
the inside.
Speaker 2: The windows closed, Yes, but on this one's lock. Okay,
it's a nail shut, you see see the nail.
Speaker 4: The window next to it is nailed shut, too, And
anyhow is a sheer four story fall to the yard below.
And Neil couldn't have left that way.
Speaker 2: Oh, Pier, come that we must both be calm in
the face of this.
Speaker 4: Oh poor madam, her throat cut.
Speaker 2: Look here, this is strange. A bag of gold pieces
Napoleon strewed all over the floor.
Speaker 5: Perhaps first the.
Speaker 4: Murderer heard us coming and hurried to make his.
Speaker 2: Escape before one escape. How could he escape? The door
is bolted on the inside, The two windows, the only
windows in this apartment nailed shut. How could he leave?
How could come in leave?
Speaker 4: Impossible? It's just impossible.
Speaker 2: It makes no sense. Here, give me a hand, get
this poor old lady off the floor onto the bed. Yes,
you take her by the feet, I'll lift her by
the shoulders. Ready, yes, all right? Now live?
Speaker 5: Oh, good Lord.
Speaker 2: Pierre, her head it fell off. That don't faint.
Speaker 3: Oh no, look, I must get a message to headquarters
at once.
Speaker 2: You take it while I remain here and wait, what
Pierre the fireplace. See there a lot of sood has
been dislodged, fallen down from inside the chimney.
Speaker 4: What would that mean?
Speaker 2: There's only one way to find out, and that is
to get down on my hands and knees and look
up into the chimney.
Speaker 5: Oh what is it?
Speaker 2: I am looking into a woman's face, a dead woman's face. Hum,
it must become you. She's been stuck up the chimney.
Speaker 4: Head down here. What I'm sorry, I can't help it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to faint.
Speaker 4: Jure another glass of wine.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you. After what happened next door to you
last night, I could use another bottle of wine.
Speaker 4: You sailors all alike, you can never get enough of wine.
Speaker 2: Love, Come here to me?
Speaker 5: Sure not now?
Speaker 4: I'm engaged ye to.
Speaker 2: A gendarme and second class yet first class someday yes,
and a sergeant someday too.
Speaker 4: Sure ense of the door, Yeah, darling, I.
Speaker 2: Wasn't expecting you, so I see.
Speaker 4: Oh, don't get any ideas, Pierre. This is Jules Dubourg.
He's a sailor and sickly sure this is Pierre. Youuce
my fiance, Mello.
Speaker 2: How long have you two known each other?
Speaker 4: Without my knowing a few days. Julee only came to
live here a few days ago.
Speaker 2: Live here.
Speaker 4: He has two rooms in the basement, and he is quite.
Speaker 2: Sick, something I picked up on my last voyage in Borneo, Borneo.
Speaker 4: Eh, Juleette, then all around the world, and more than once,
thank you for the line of it.
Speaker 2: It is warm my stomach.
Speaker 3: Goodbye for now, goodbye.
Speaker 2: I hope that is all you warned his stomach.
Speaker 4: Pierre, what a thing to say. There's new cars to
be jealous.
Speaker 2: I'd better not have. I have enough troubles as it is.
Speaker 4: Tell me, my darling, what happened when you talk to
Sergeant Duchamp.
Speaker 3: Exactly what I expected would happen. I said, Sergeant Duchamp,
I would like to be assigned to this case, to
the murders that happened in the room.
Speaker 4: More and what did he say?
Speaker 2: He said, you you solve a mystery like that one,
You'll leave such things for your better than a detective bureau.
Speaker 4: Of course, you stood up to him.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I'm not afraid of him, not like the others.
I argued with him.
Speaker 3: I explained that I am in love with the most
beautiful girl in the world.
Speaker 2: And that I cannot wait to make her my wife.
But I cannot make her my wife until I am
promoted to Gendarmes first class. And one way to get
promoted to Gendarmes first class would be for me to
solve the murders in.
Speaker 4: The room more And what did he say to that?
Speaker 2: He laughed, you are a nuts, He said, you are
as much of a nut as see your goods? Dupin?
Good Dupin? Who is the monsieur Dupin, the fellow who
solved the Marrie Rose case. He is not a policeman.
He's only a private citizen with a gift for solving
mysteries that others can't solve anyhow, That's what I think,
even if everybody else at headquarters doesn't.
Speaker 4: But if he solved in the re Rose case.
Speaker 2: They say it was an accident, that case, it was
as much of a mystifying puzzle and unsolvable riddle as
this one. And he explained it so simply you wouldn't
believe it.
Speaker 4: He'll never be able to explain what happened in the
Lestana place next door last night, No one could.
Speaker 3: You may be right, and especially now that we know
there were two murderers.
Speaker 2: Not one two murderers. Then you don't know, no, Evette.
I talked last night with some people in the crowd downstairs.
They said that.
Speaker 3: While Madame and her daughter were screaming, they heard the
voices of two men yelling and cursing at them.
Speaker 2: One murderer or two. How did they get out of
that apartment?
Speaker 4: Perhaps your friend Monsieur Dupert could tell you. Go to
him ask for his help.
Speaker 3: You forget My sergeant has ordered me to leave everything
to the detective bureau.
Speaker 4: You forget that unless you are promoted to Gendarme first class.
We cannot marry one day.
Speaker 2: I shall because one day.
Speaker 4: What one day when gul de Burgh would marry me.
Speaker 2: Like that, that's Taylor, that's six sailor you would marry him.
Speaker 4: It would be better than not marrying you or that.
Speaker 2: Please you do it.
Speaker 5: I see here.
Speaker 4: Either you go or here take back your ring.
Speaker 2: Keep the ring. I'll go. Yes, yeah, what are you
doing here, momma?
Speaker 4: I had to see you. This couldn't wait here. I
found this shut under the door of my apartment.
Speaker 2: Hum looks like a note.
Speaker 4: It is a note.
Speaker 5: Read it.
Speaker 2: Be warned.
Speaker 3: Tell your boyfriend to forget about the rue Morgue murders,
or you will die the way Madame Lespernet did Vette,
I thought.
Speaker 4: You'd better see this and take it to Missie Jebai
at once. He will know what to do. Ah, yes, yes,
he would take it to him as soon as you're
all duty and Pierre, yes, you did go to see
Monsieur Jupan, didn't you?
Speaker 3: Well well no, no, I couldn't bring myself to do it.
Speaker 2: I didn't have the nerve. But now, well, now that.
Speaker 3: Your life is threatened, I'll go to see him and
ask his help.
Speaker 2: I promise you with that, I promise, yes, Monsieur Dupin,
Sie Auguste Dupin. Yes, I I am Pierre Mousse, Gendarmes
second class, Pierre Mouset. I, yes, you wish my help
in starving the murders in the Louis mug Is it not?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: You know why I'm here, of course? But how oh
you were the first police to reach the scene of
a crime. You are a second class gendarme and helping
to solve the murders would result in the promotion. And
inasmuch as you yearned to marry a very beautiful young
woman named Yvette, that's amazing that you should know all
this without our ever having met. Amazing. It's anything but amazing,
my friend. It's simplicity itself. Everything I've just told you
was fully reported in the newspapers. Now, then, won't you
come in?
Speaker 1: And so, what was to Pierre an amazing deduction turns
out to be no deduction at all. Nor does Ceo
Bush Dupat turn out to be the formidable man Pierre
thought he would be. As to whether Dupat can bring
our two lovers happily together in marriage by solving the
apparently insoluble mystery of the murders in the Room Rgue,
we shall see when I returned shortly for act two. Well, then,
the Gendarmes second class Pierre Missell has sought the help
of Sieougust Dupin in solving the murders in the Room Orgue,
murders so baffling that any chance of solving the mystery
seems impossible. Still in all, as you know, Jupa solved
the mystery equally as puzzling that of Marie Rouget. So
let's join Pierre now as he sits across from Monsieur
Dupin in the latter's modest apartment.
Speaker 2: My dear fellow, I have little, if any interest in
solving crimes. I wish only to be left alone to
read my books and pursue one or two hobbies. And
after all, crime is the business of the police. I know,
I know well, thank you for seeing me at least,
sorry of taking your time. Good day, Monsieur du pain
good day. No wait, monsieur, I am a fool, but
I'm also French. I have no interest at all in
solving crimes. But let me face it, I cannot remain
untouched by the plight of young lovers. Then you will
help me to solve this mystery, or more precisely, if
I solve it for you and let you take the credit,
and assuredly you'll be raised to jendarme first class and
able to marry your beloved. Event now, can you gain
access to the Lisabean apartment. Of course, In that case,
my dear fellow, let us go at once to the
re remogue. The door is unlocked here.
Speaker 3: Yes, as you can see, Monsieur du pant was bolted
on the inside. When I broke the door, the vault
was torn out of the wood.
Speaker 2: Small wonder you're a big fellow. Ah there that large
bloodstain on the rug.
Speaker 3: And that's where she lay, Madame Lesparnet with her head
cut off.
Speaker 2: Now the bag of gold pieces lay right here on
the rug.
Speaker 3: The gold pieces were strewn all over the floor. You know,
I keep asking myself why didn't the two murderers take
the gold? But there is no answer because you're asking
yourself the wrong.
Speaker 2: Question, the wrong question. Well, the answer to why they
didn't take the gold is simple, they didn't want it.
The question you should be asking is why didn't they
want it? Oh? Yes, yes, I see. Now this is
the fireplace where you found the body of the daughter Camille.
Speaker 3: Yes, stuffed up the chimney, feet first, the head down. Again,
I keep asking how powerful must these men have been
to be able to do it? Stuff a body up
a chimney with such force that I don't know how
many bones were broken?
Speaker 2: My friend, you have a positive genius for asking the
wrong questions. Again, it's not how they do it, but
why did they do it? What reason would they have
for doing it? I can't answer that. Maybe there was
no reason. There's always a reason. Pm Now what else
was there? S? The windows? You say, these are the
only two windows in the apartment. The only two none
in the bathroom and the kitchen nune, and these appear
to be kept lucked with a nail in each and
at sea. I pulled a nail out of this one
and open the window.
Speaker 5: Hm.
Speaker 3: Well, the murderers couldn't have escaped this way, even if
the windows had been open. It's a sheer drop four
stories to the ground.
Speaker 2: So I see. I also see a drain pipe. But
if the windows were locked, they could not have been locked.
But they were, My friend, God also gave you a brain,
as with your eyes, use it. You know. The murderers
did not escape by way of the door. It was
bolted on the inside and you broke it in. True enough,
they could not have escaped by way of the chimney.
It follows that they had to escape via the windows,
using the drainpipe to reach the ground. That I tell you.
Speaker 3: The windows were locked, just as they are locked now,
each with a long nail. All the windows in this
house are the same. A hole is bored through the
window and into the sill. To lock the window, you
push a nail through it into the sill.
Speaker 2: You just pulled that nail out of this one, not
the other. You do that, my friend, you pulled the
nail out of the second window or four to answer
the question of how the murderers escape? Now, who, as
I say, pull it out? What in the world do
you see? A broken nail? As simple as that, a
broken nail, ab But it's not simple. The window only
appeared to be locked. Well, I have seen enough. Let's go.
You have the answer, then, as you do, pat part
of the answer, only part, But give me time to think.
And uh, look who's coming up the stairs? I hope. Yeah?
What are you doing out here? Why don't you stand
in your cellars? You that is not your business? You
vet is my business, and you're up here to see her?
What if I want you to stay away from her?
You bet is my fiance? Take a reef in yourself. Yeah,
you don't own a how you listen to me? You
take your hands off me? Take a lawful her man, gentleman?
What is all this?
Speaker 4: What's going on here?
Speaker 2: I want you to burk, to stay away from you
and you from him?
Speaker 5: Oh you do.
Speaker 2: Yes, I do it. You are my fiance, but not
your wife.
Speaker 4: And even if I were, I have a right to
see anyone.
Speaker 2: I please not while you are engaged to me.
Speaker 5: Oh is that so well?
Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. I will see anyone I
wish whenever I wish.
Speaker 2: Now, now, mademoiselle, you don't mean that you're speaking out
of anger?
Speaker 4: Who are you? And what right if you tend to hear?
Speaker 2: My name is dupin Ogese, dupan.
Speaker 4: Monster jupin Pierre. You went to him?
Speaker 2: He did int need, Mademoiselle, And believe me, your fiance
is not only a man of determination, but brilliance, momoiselle,
brilliance might, dear fellow. The way you solve the puzzle
of that luck window, brilliant, positively brilliant. You will be
in the detective bureau before.
Speaker 4: You know it. Oh, Pier, that's wonderful, wonderful, jul I
think it would be better if you do not come
to see me anymore, pleasual, no more, have it your way.
Speaker 2: There are other ports of call.
Speaker 4: Oh so there, monsieur, mister, can I offer you a
glass of wine?
Speaker 2: Thank you? But another time you you could tell me
what perfume that is you're wearing.
Speaker 4: We need to test you.
Speaker 2: Dassionate night. It's well named, mademoiselle, and a pleasure meeting you, mademoiselle, Pierre,
if you would see me down to the streets.
Speaker 4: Of course, but can that, Pierre? If you off duty?
Speaker 2: That is, I am off duty of vet and I
shall be back this hellow Yeah, this Hildebourg. He's a sailor,
isn't he?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: What's he doing here? Why isn't he at C? I
don't know.
Speaker 3: He's ill, some sort of rare tropical disease he picked
up in Borneo.
Speaker 2: In Borneo, Hm, interesting? What so interesting about it? You know,
my friend, I told you a fiance you were brilliant
enough to be a detective.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that, Monsieur dupet You did me such a.
Speaker 2: Favor, building me up in her eyes. Well, but it's true.
You know you could be a detective. You wanted to
learn how to use your head and all your senses,
my senses, all five of them. You see, everyone's senses taste, smell, sight, down, touch,
All these tell things, but few people listening. For example,
I noticed the scent of your fiance's perfume, have you.
Speaker 3: Well, I've always known she smelled exciting mm.
Speaker 2: But beyond that, you did not go Now you asked
me why the fact that our sailor man Vildebourg contracted.
The disease in borneo.
Speaker 5: Is interesting to me.
Speaker 3: Yes, I do, I do, but you don't need to ask.
It's as I said before.
Speaker 2: You know, but you don't know. You know very will.
Then I'll give you a lesson. Your first lesson is
now to be a detective. Now first look, then see
what you look at. Then put two and two together
and make sure they add up to four for instance.
But should you burg together with drain pipes and see
where it.
Speaker 3: Leads you sue and brain pipes. I don't understand you
will you will.
Speaker 2: If only you think, my friend think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, mm hmmm.
Speaker 4: You must cool now it's three in the morning.
Speaker 2: Let me stay a little while longer, just a little, no.
Speaker 4: My darling, I must go to work in the morning.
Speaker 5: Oh I need my sleep.
Speaker 4: And I was certainly not getting any review. It must
be that perfume you were, Oh, my perfume, not me,
of course, it's you, well within my perfumer.
Speaker 2: Me off with you, all right? All right?
Speaker 4: Who will you be saying, monsieur jupe.
Speaker 2: Again, I don't know, he said.
Speaker 3: He wanted time to think that he would leave a
message for me at the headquarters.
Speaker 2: But do you know. If that, I'm beginning to wonder
if I if I need dupain, if there was any
need to go to him in the first place.
Speaker 3: What do you mean, after all, I salve the mystery
of how the murderers escaped. One of those two windows
wasn't locked at all.
Speaker 2: The nail was broken, brilliant.
Speaker 4: The murderers must have got to the ground by the
drain pie.
Speaker 2: The drain pie. Oh, yes, yes, the drain pipe.
Speaker 4: But even so, I've been thinking, no ordinary man could
manage to slide down a drain pipe. You would have
to be very strong, yes, and an agile. But you've
thought of that, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: Oh, of course, of course.
Speaker 3: Well it's only a question of what kind of man
would that be?
Speaker 4: Oh, I could think of any number you can, But
of course, a chimney sweep for one, a house painter
for another, a circus performer, you know, an aeriel artiste,
a sailor like Jule de Bourgh. Say they're used to
cribing things.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that is a possibility, Jule de Bourg, a
definite possibility.
Speaker 4: Now now now you let jealousy blind you. Jule's a
sick man, for one thing, and doesn't have the strength
anywhere near the strength to do with what was done
in that apartment. Whoever committed those horrible murders was more
than a strong She was powerful, unbelievably powerful.
Speaker 2: All but come now, you Moscow, you must I'm going.
I'm going lock yourself in.
Speaker 4: Don't worry, I will. I'm not taking any chances, not
after getting that note.
Speaker 2: That's you have nothing to fear. Jupah and I are
working on this case, and trust us to solve it
in short order.
Speaker 5: I do trust you, my darling. Oh I do.
Speaker 4: Good Night, my sweet good night, good night.
Speaker 2: Good night, my lovely wife to be.
Speaker 5: Good night.
Speaker 2: Bolt the door.
Speaker 5: I was about to.
Speaker 4: There, it's bolted.
Speaker 7: Good night, Yeah, I was inside.
Speaker 2: Help me.
Speaker 1: The horror that struck Madame l'aspannet and her daughter now
strikes Yvette, and once again, Pierre faces the barrier of
a door bolted on the inside.
Speaker 2: You like me, can imagine the terror of this young.
Speaker 1: Policeman as he steps back before flinging all his weight
at that locked door, wondering what frightful sight will meet
his gaze when he breaks it down. I'll return shortly
for Act three. What frightful monster haunts the roue Morgue.
What kind of fiend committed the butcheries on Madame Laspagnet
and her daughter Camille. These are the questions young John
Darme Pierre Mersell has been seeking to answer. Now it
seems he's about to find those answers in the most
horrible way imaginable. For behind the bolted door of her apartment,
in the room Orgue, his fiancee, Yvette, is herself in
the grip of the fiend.
Speaker 2: Oh, Lord, Lord help me. That's dark, dark, laugh, where's
the lamb.
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 4: Wait a.
Speaker 2: Oh, my stomach, there's.
Speaker 5: The lamp like that?
Speaker 2: Laugh there, Yvette? Heaven help us all, my friend, compose yourself,
monsieur and I and tell me all about it.
Speaker 3: Well, as I said, I broke the door, and it
was dark, but I could make out a shape. It
was a huge, a monstrous man against the moonlit window.
Speaker 2: I saw him only for.
Speaker 3: A second because he flung himself at me with such speed.
Speaker 2: It was such amazing speed. He took me off balance.
He struck me. It's a powerful blow in the stomach.
Oh heaven, I'm not yet recovered from it. Some wine man,
No no thanks, Let me go on now, as I
went down, I grabbed at him and here, look, I
must have grabbed him by the hair on his head,
because I pulled these hairs out hmm, black of course.
And I think I don't know. I lit a lamp, yes,
and I saw a vet. Oh my poor evet, blood
streaming down her cheek. Us is already beginning to blacken
her face. You took her to the hospital, he said, yes,
I did. What is her conditions? Well it's not fatal,
thank god, not even very serious. Badly Bruce to cut
over her right eye. But she's going to be all right.
The monster failed to make good his threat to kill her.
We may indeed thank God for that. Well, at least
we know more than we did before, Monsieur dupain.
Speaker 3: We know that the murderer is a big man, a
huge man of unbelievable strength, and that he has black hair.
Speaker 2: We know a great deal more than that. Yeah, we do, well,
I do, and so do you. Only, as I've said before,
you don't know, you know, or monsieur monsieur, I do
not have your brilliant brain. It doesn't matter. All that
matters is that you can solve this awful mystery, that
you can save Yvette. The murderer failed this time, but
he'll try again. It's my hope that he will, is
your hope? Surely you as much as I want to
save Yvette's life all of a certainty, my friends, I'm
afraid I can save it only by risking it. You
that you're sure you're comfortable on the couch, yes, Pierre,
thank you, mademoiselle. Are you strong enough to help me
in a plan I have in mind? No, wake, what
kind of a plan? A plan to trap the murderer?
Speaker 4: And I can help you trap him.
Speaker 2: You can be the bait now now, now you just
hold on a moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me explain nothing, to explain whatever you have
in mind.
Speaker 2: I refuse to let you vet risk her life.
Speaker 4: Nonsense, Pierre. My life is in danger anyway.
Speaker 2: Precisely. The killer will strike again. But not for the
reason you think.
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: In the note he sent Yvette, he swore he would
kill her if I did not stop trying to unmass
on it. That is not the reason the Yvette was attacked.
In fact, if I'm not mistaken, she was not deliberately
attacked at all. How can you say such a thing.
I look at the bruises on her face, her arms
to gash over her arms. Your ears, my friend, no
more than your eyes. I did not say Yvette was
not attacked. I said she was not deliberately attacked, nor
was she attacked by the person who wrote the note.
Speaker 4: Monsieur dupet, you amaze me. How do you know all this?
Speaker 2: Because two plus two equal four if you put them
together properly. I'll help you by showing you the facts
once again, but you must add them up first. We
know that the killer entered the Lispany apartment by the
window and lift by the window because it was not locked,
though it appeared to be. Hal was broken.
Speaker 4: Yes, as you discovered, Pierre, Yes.
Speaker 2: Quite so, quite so. Now this apartment is next door
to the Lispandi apartment. Outside that window, it's a four
story dropped to the backyard, unless the murderer escaping slid
down the drained pipe attached to the wall between these apartments.
You follow, Yes, a sailor, Monsieur du A sailor, maybe
like a jews do bo, there you go again, letting
your jolly No, no, mademoiselle, he's altogether right. A sailor
could climb the drain pipe so much for that fact.
Now here's another, and a most revealing one. Why was
the bag of gold pieces worth, as we have learned,
more than four thousand dollars? Why was that bag of
gold not taken?
Speaker 4: Perhaps the murderer was in such a.
Speaker 2: Hurry to escape. There was no hurry. The door was bolted.
There was plenty of time to escape. You said the
gold wasn't taken because it wasn't wanted. But what were
the Lespanees killed for? If not the money revenge?
Speaker 4: It couldn't be that they stay to themselves, they knew
no one.
Speaker 2: Well, if not for money or revenge, what then? Nothing?
Speaker 4: Nothing, monsieur jupis that makes no sense, no sense at all.
Speaker 2: Precisely, that's the answer. The Lispani murders were senseless.
Speaker 4: But that is impossible. The murderer must have killed for
a reason.
Speaker 2: No, he did not. And why do you keep saying
murderer when they were two? You're forgetting one of the
most important facts of all the fact that two voices
were heard in the Lispani apartment. One was definitely that
of a Frenchman, but the other, well, you shall see
the nights. If Mademoiselle will indeed act as the fate.
Of course, what do you want me to do? Do
not lock your windows and do not bolt your doors.
That is all, that is enough. I'll be calm, my friend.
Your fiance will not be alone. We shall be with her,
both of us arms with pistols. Oh, and one thing more, mademoiselle, monsieur,
that perfume of yours passionate night, and be sure to
use it, Use a lot of it, if you say so. Yes,
why the murderer, I think finds it enticing. If it
comes to that, so do I. Two o'clock. No sign
yet of the murderer. He'll come, that, I'm sure, especially
since mademoiselle did indeed use a sufficiency of a passionate
night perfume. It makes waiting a pleasure, mademoiselle, thank you,
monsieur jere. It won't make you. That's death a pleasure.
She will not be harmed. I promise you a pistol,
and so of you. I'll be sure to use it
when I give the word and the gear, Yes, shoot
to kill, depend on it. I shall search, listen.
Speaker 5: Come back, come back to you.
Speaker 2: Let me get to the window. Yes, it's coming, it's
climbing the rain pipe. Eat have your bed, and someone
climbing the pipe behind and trying.
Speaker 8: To reach it, trying to stop it, and keep saying
what do you mean? You'll see in a moment, get back,
well back human was head. You'll say that the gear, Yes,
the instant it appears to the window.
Speaker 5: I'll give you order to shoot.
Speaker 2: Remember we don't worry about that.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 4: Shoot it's alive.
Speaker 5: Shoot again.
Speaker 2: Light the lamps while I get to the window, and
you boo, shoot your ball. Come up. I haven't try
to escape, you poor. I was right. It is Ju Dubou.
Who else? My friend? He's the only sailor living in
the sound. His mouth, Come in, bog, come in. Please.
It was not my fault. It was not my fault.
I'm well aware of that. You have nothing to fear,
although you thought you had on the floor.
Speaker 4: My god, what is it?
Speaker 2: It's the Russian, the German, the Italian? Of foreign voice.
It was no language at all. I'm not as familiar
as I might be with the eight family Reburg. But
is it gorilla? Baboon? What hell orango tang?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: What hell orango? Tang? A large a found in the
jungles of Borneo, and this, this is the monster that
killed Madame le'spaney and her daughter. Yes, yes, yes, and
Heaven help me. I am responsible. There was nothing I
could do, monsieur. Nothing You could have notified the police.
You should have. They would have handled matters for you,
patch But you didn't do that because you still hoped
to sell the ape, didn't you? Can you blame me?
I'm a poor man and sick. I need money.
Speaker 3: I brought the Orango Tang back from Borneo in the
hoop of Sillygate. I paid to have the ship's carp
and to build a special box with air holes to
hold it. Paid money I could de lefore, and God
helped me when I engaged those rooms in the cellar.
I should have kept it in the box, but I felt.
Speaker 2: Sorry for it.
Speaker 3: It looked so human, It was so human that I
let it out and kept it in one of the rooms.
Speaker 2: How did this beast come to kill Madame Lespanney and
her daughter? He'd escaped from the room I kept it in.
I wasn't there when it happened. I discovered it when
I came home that night. I opened the door and
I could not believe it.
Speaker 3: The ape was seated in front of a mirror, shaving
himself with my straight.
Speaker 2: Razor, shaving himself.
Speaker 3: Who were trying to they are great imity, because you
know I went to take the raiser from him. I
was not afraid of him.
Speaker 2: He was really harmless. But he ran from me, out
through the door and into the backyard. You chased him,
of course.
Speaker 3: I was afraid he might cut himself with a razor. Well,
his eye caught the window of the Espanat apartment because
the light was on up the drain pipe.
Speaker 2: He went, and I after him. He told the window
open and went in, and the streaming began. You wrote
that note to event, didn't you? That note that threatened
her life?
Speaker 3: Yes, but only to frighten you of the case. I
was afraid if you found out what had happened, I
would be sent to the guillote.
Speaker 2: I believe you. But why did you let the ape
attack Evet? I didn't. I couldn't control it. And it
was drawn to her by that perfume.
Speaker 4: She was my perfume.
Speaker 3: And when we were kissing and holding each other close,
the ape smelled her perfume on me. Her twart, I
brought the scent of your perfume back to my cellar rooms.
Speaker 2: It was on my clothes.
Speaker 3: The eph couldn't get enough of smelling my jacket. He
liked the perfume enjoyed, and so when he escaped last
night and tonight, he followed the scent here. But he
didn't mean to harm you anymore than he meant to
harm the espanase. It was your streams and theirs that
frightened him and made him do the horrible things he did. Sure,
de Bourg, I hereby place you under arrest as the
party responsible for the murders in the room Marque.
Speaker 2: We will go at once to headquarters. Come along, Oh
and event yes, Sherry, after the board has been booked,
I shall return and we will discuss the kissing and
the holding each other close that left such a strong
smell of passionate night on his jacket. All right, you
do booked yet alone he's very angry with yo fiance.
Speaker 4: He will cool off.
Speaker 2: You will have no doubt satisfactory explanation for him.
Speaker 4: No, but there are other ways, Monsieur Jupa, There are
other ways.
Speaker 2: There are, indeed, Memoiselle, there are, indeed so ends the
murders in the room Orgue.
Speaker 1: If not happily, at least on an easier note. I
may tell you that that did cool Pierre's anger, and
that they wound up eventually with nine children, very handsome
and healthy children who became the pride and joy of
Sergeant Pierre Missey.
Speaker 2: I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1: I cannot close without an expression of gratitude to Edgar
Allan Poe, a sensitive man whose life was an almost
incessant and unrelenting torment, such torture for him that he.
Speaker 2: Sought release in alcohol and drugs.
Speaker 1: He yet gave the world immeasurable pleasure with his stories
of the macabre, the horrible, the arcane. He may even
have given to the world one of the greatest fictional
detectives literature has ever known, Sherlock Holmes. I don't know
about others, but I must ask, had it not been
for Seo gush Chupan, would there have been a Sherlock Holmes.
Our cast included Paul Guy, Sorel, Corren Orr and Dan Aco.
The entire production was under the direction of Hymond Brown.
Speaker 2: And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 6: Listen, what's that what she's saying? He's crying? It was
heart would break O terrible cool.
Speaker 2: What if he's an agony yellow box? Yes, I guess
I can hear him? Or man?
Speaker 6: Will?
Speaker 4: What is he crying over?
Speaker 6: Can't be the painting, even if it had been damage
from those syllas bumped the box of laryn.
Speaker 1: It can't be that.
Speaker 2: It isn't isn't.
Speaker 4: I told you I've had this feeling all along, this
point of something you know, And now I'm sure it
isn't a painting that's in that box.
Speaker 5: Will.
Speaker 2: It's a corpse, a corpse.
Speaker 4: And the question that I've been asking myself all along is.
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