1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents Conduct. 2 00:00:19,679 --> 00:00:25,359 Speaker 2: Come in. Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall. 3 00:00:26,399 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to the realm of your imagination and that of 4 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,479 the greatest horror story writer the world. 5 00:00:33,359 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 2: Is known, Edgar Allan Poe. 6 00:00:36,039 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 1: Yes, I said the greatest horror story writer, because although 7 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,640 others may have written stories equally macabre and terror written, 8 00:00:44,439 --> 00:00:48,280 no one has written as many. Moreover, when it comes 9 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:54,399 to sheer mystery puzzlement, Poe is unsurpassed as witness. 10 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,759 Speaker 3: But Monsieur duperre, the door was locked from the inside, 11 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:02,719 the windows were from the inside. The murder scene, the 12 00:01:02,799 --> 00:01:05,120 Lesperoney apartment is on the fourth floor. 13 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 2: The murderer could not have escaped, and yet he did, 14 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,840 my friend, But how campire? You know as well as 15 00:01:11,879 --> 00:01:17,000 I do? How I know you do? Your trouble is 16 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,719 you don't know you know riddles, Monsieur dupin. You speak 17 00:01:20,719 --> 00:01:24,040 in riddle, not at all, my friend, You create riddles 18 00:01:24,719 --> 00:01:27,079 where riddles do not exist. 19 00:01:36,439 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 1: Our mystery drama, The Murders in the Room Morgue, was 20 00:01:40,439 --> 00:01:43,719 adapted especially for the Mystery Theater from the Edgar Allan 21 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:48,719 Poe classic by George Lowther and stars Paul Hecht is 22 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,879 sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser 23 00:01:53,200 --> 00:02:09,560 and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with that one. Well, now, 24 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:15,199 my friends, make yourselves comfortable, turn down the lights and 25 00:02:15,319 --> 00:02:19,120 listen to one of the most horrifying and mystifying of stories. 26 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,199 Edgar Allan pose the murders in the Room Orgue. 27 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,039 Speaker 2: The year is eighteen forty. The place Paris, France. 28 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: At about seven o'clock in the evening, a young off 29 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,680 duty gendarme, Pierre Misset, and his sweetheart e Vet are 30 00:02:35,719 --> 00:02:38,159 returning to her apartment in the Room Orgue after an 31 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,840 evening at the Moulin Rouge. 32 00:02:42,039 --> 00:02:44,879 Speaker 4: But when when my darlings will be married? 33 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:47,439 Speaker 3: Well, just as soon as I am promoted to gendarmes 34 00:02:47,439 --> 00:02:51,960 first class Yvette, when will that be when? Indeed, my 35 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:56,039 sergeant Duchaw is one of the most indifferent, ruthless of sergeants, 36 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:57,080 who takes pleasure in. 37 00:02:57,039 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 2: Holding his men back, doing all he can to prevent 38 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,599 emotion rather than vette. Look as a crowd in front 39 00:03:04,599 --> 00:03:05,240 of your house. 40 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 4: Something's wrong. Come here quickly, alight, all right. 41 00:03:10,319 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 2: Let me through. I'm a gendarmes. Are you are you there. 42 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:15,199 What's what's happened? 43 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 5: We do not know? 44 00:03:16,319 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 3: It happened less than a minute ago, streams officers, the 45 00:03:19,879 --> 00:03:22,800 most awful screams from Madame Lesbonet's apartment. 46 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,719 Speaker 4: Madame little nanny cave. This is you? 47 00:03:27,439 --> 00:03:31,759 Speaker 3: Yes, camill to both of them, streaming so horribly and soogony? 48 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 2: Where is the Lesbane apartment? 49 00:03:34,199 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 4: What floor next to mine? 50 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,879 Speaker 2: For it's not do you that you stay here? I'll 51 00:03:37,879 --> 00:03:40,120 see what happened. No, I can we stay here? I 52 00:03:40,199 --> 00:03:42,759 tell you, God knows what I'll find out there? 53 00:03:42,759 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 4: No year they were my friends. 54 00:03:45,039 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 2: Oh well, all right, all right, come on? Then is 55 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:56,680 this the apartment? 56 00:03:56,919 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 5: Yes? 57 00:03:58,199 --> 00:04:04,199 Speaker 2: All is quiet, too quiet? The door is locked. 58 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:06,439 Speaker 4: Break it in, all. 59 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:13,159 Speaker 2: Right, So now let's have a look. 60 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:20,759 Speaker 6: Yeah, oh my god, No, no. 61 00:04:21,879 --> 00:04:26,160 Speaker 4: I won't faint. I'll be all right. But oh Heaven 62 00:04:26,199 --> 00:04:26,759 help us. 63 00:04:27,439 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 2: What has happened here? Look the woman on the floor, 64 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,839 her throat cut? Is that Madame miss Benet? 65 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:34,319 Speaker 5: Yes? 66 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 2: But her daughter? Come here? Where is she? 67 00:04:37,639 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 4: The bathroom door, it's closed for her. 68 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:45,639 Speaker 2: I'll go and see. No, it's empty. 69 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:51,959 Speaker 4: The kitchen then it's the only other room. 70 00:04:52,199 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 2: Now there's no one in the kitchen. 71 00:04:54,519 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 4: But where can she be? The door was bolted on 72 00:04:57,319 --> 00:04:58,040 the inside. 73 00:04:58,439 --> 00:05:06,399 Speaker 2: The windows closed, Yes, but on this one's lock. Okay, 74 00:05:06,399 --> 00:05:08,920 it's a nail shut, you see see the nail. 75 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,959 Speaker 4: The window next to it is nailed shut, too, And 76 00:05:12,079 --> 00:05:14,879 anyhow is a sheer four story fall to the yard below. 77 00:05:15,319 --> 00:05:16,879 And Neil couldn't have left that way. 78 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 2: Oh, Pier, come that we must both be calm in 79 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:23,360 the face of this. 80 00:05:24,319 --> 00:05:27,199 Speaker 4: Oh poor madam, her throat cut. 81 00:05:27,639 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 2: Look here, this is strange. A bag of gold pieces 82 00:05:31,319 --> 00:05:33,319 Napoleon strewed all over the floor. 83 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 5: Perhaps first the. 84 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,319 Speaker 4: Murderer heard us coming and hurried to make his. 85 00:05:38,439 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 2: Escape before one escape. How could he escape? The door 86 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,680 is bolted on the inside, The two windows, the only 87 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:48,360 windows in this apartment nailed shut. How could he leave? 88 00:05:48,879 --> 00:05:49,959 How could come in leave? 89 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:52,519 Speaker 4: Impossible? It's just impossible. 90 00:05:52,639 --> 00:05:56,519 Speaker 2: It makes no sense. Here, give me a hand, get 91 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,040 this poor old lady off the floor onto the bed. Yes, 92 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,240 you take her by the feet, I'll lift her by 93 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:06,120 the shoulders. Ready, yes, all right? Now live? 94 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,519 Speaker 5: Oh, good Lord. 95 00:06:11,199 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 2: Pierre, her head it fell off. That don't faint. 96 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 3: Oh no, look, I must get a message to headquarters 97 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:21,519 at once. 98 00:06:21,759 --> 00:06:25,879 Speaker 2: You take it while I remain here and wait, what 99 00:06:26,439 --> 00:06:30,680 Pierre the fireplace. See there a lot of sood has 100 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,600 been dislodged, fallen down from inside the chimney. 101 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 4: What would that mean? 102 00:06:35,439 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 2: There's only one way to find out, and that is 103 00:06:38,199 --> 00:06:40,920 to get down on my hands and knees and look 104 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,839 up into the chimney. 105 00:06:43,079 --> 00:06:46,879 Speaker 5: Oh what is it? 106 00:06:47,959 --> 00:06:54,959 Speaker 2: I am looking into a woman's face, a dead woman's face. Hum, 107 00:06:56,399 --> 00:07:01,279 it must become you. She's been stuck up the chimney. 108 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 4: Head down here. What I'm sorry, I can't help it. 109 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:12,879 Speaker 2: I'm going to faint. 110 00:07:21,439 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 4: Jure another glass of wine. 111 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 2: I'll tell you. After what happened next door to you 112 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,560 last night, I could use another bottle of wine. 113 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 4: You sailors all alike, you can never get enough of wine. 114 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,399 Speaker 2: Love, Come here to me? 115 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 5: Sure not now? 116 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:41,319 Speaker 4: I'm engaged ye to. 117 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 2: A gendarme and second class yet first class someday yes, 118 00:07:47,319 --> 00:07:48,839 and a sergeant someday too. 119 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:58,319 Speaker 4: Sure ense of the door, Yeah, darling, I. 120 00:07:58,319 --> 00:08:01,079 Speaker 2: Wasn't expecting you, so I see. 121 00:08:01,319 --> 00:08:04,519 Speaker 4: Oh, don't get any ideas, Pierre. This is Jules Dubourg. 122 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,360 He's a sailor and sickly sure this is Pierre. Youuce 123 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:09,959 my fiance, Mello. 124 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 2: How long have you two known each other? 125 00:08:12,319 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 4: Without my knowing a few days. Julee only came to 126 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:16,920 live here a few days ago. 127 00:08:17,399 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 2: Live here. 128 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 4: He has two rooms in the basement, and he is quite. 129 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:25,879 Speaker 2: Sick, something I picked up on my last voyage in Borneo, Borneo. 130 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 4: Eh, Juleette, then all around the world, and more than once, 131 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,480 thank you for the line of it. 132 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 2: It is warm my stomach. 133 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 3: Goodbye for now, goodbye. 134 00:08:40,399 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 2: I hope that is all you warned his stomach. 135 00:08:43,759 --> 00:08:46,559 Speaker 4: Pierre, what a thing to say. There's new cars to 136 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:47,120 be jealous. 137 00:08:47,159 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 2: I'd better not have. I have enough troubles as it is. 138 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 4: Tell me, my darling, what happened when you talk to 139 00:08:52,879 --> 00:08:53,879 Sergeant Duchamp. 140 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 3: Exactly what I expected would happen. I said, Sergeant Duchamp, 141 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:00,720 I would like to be assigned to this case, to 142 00:09:00,759 --> 00:09:02,240 the murders that happened in the room. 143 00:09:02,279 --> 00:09:03,519 Speaker 4: More and what did he say? 144 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,639 Speaker 2: He said, you you solve a mystery like that one, 145 00:09:06,879 --> 00:09:09,639 You'll leave such things for your better than a detective bureau. 146 00:09:09,879 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 4: Of course, you stood up to him. 147 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 2: Oh yes, I'm not afraid of him, not like the others. 148 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:15,120 I argued with him. 149 00:09:15,159 --> 00:09:17,159 Speaker 3: I explained that I am in love with the most 150 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:18,840 beautiful girl in the world. 151 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 2: And that I cannot wait to make her my wife. 152 00:09:21,639 --> 00:09:23,600 But I cannot make her my wife until I am 153 00:09:23,639 --> 00:09:26,879 promoted to Gendarmes first class. And one way to get 154 00:09:26,919 --> 00:09:29,639 promoted to Gendarmes first class would be for me to 155 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:30,679 solve the murders in. 156 00:09:30,639 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 4: The room more And what did he say to that? 157 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,639 Speaker 2: He laughed, you are a nuts, He said, you are 158 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:37,879 as much of a nut as see your goods? Dupin? 159 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:42,320 Good Dupin? Who is the monsieur Dupin, the fellow who 160 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,480 solved the Marrie Rose case. He is not a policeman. 161 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,360 He's only a private citizen with a gift for solving 162 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,120 mysteries that others can't solve anyhow, That's what I think, 163 00:09:52,159 --> 00:09:54,240 even if everybody else at headquarters doesn't. 164 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,879 Speaker 4: But if he solved in the re Rose case. 165 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:01,039 Speaker 2: They say it was an accident, that case, it was 166 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:04,600 as much of a mystifying puzzle and unsolvable riddle as 167 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,480 this one. And he explained it so simply you wouldn't 168 00:10:07,519 --> 00:10:07,960 believe it. 169 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 4: He'll never be able to explain what happened in the 170 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,960 Lestana place next door last night, No one could. 171 00:10:14,519 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 3: You may be right, and especially now that we know 172 00:10:17,279 --> 00:10:19,120 there were two murderers. 173 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 2: Not one two murderers. Then you don't know, no, Evette. 174 00:10:24,159 --> 00:10:27,399 I talked last night with some people in the crowd downstairs. 175 00:10:27,759 --> 00:10:28,759 They said that. 176 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,639 Speaker 3: While Madame and her daughter were screaming, they heard the 177 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,639 voices of two men yelling and cursing at them. 178 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 2: One murderer or two. How did they get out of 179 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:38,159 that apartment? 180 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 4: Perhaps your friend Monsieur Dupert could tell you. Go to 181 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:43,039 him ask for his help. 182 00:10:43,159 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 3: You forget My sergeant has ordered me to leave everything 183 00:10:46,519 --> 00:10:47,840 to the detective bureau. 184 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 4: You forget that unless you are promoted to Gendarme first class. 185 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:53,679 We cannot marry one day. 186 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 2: I shall because one day. 187 00:10:55,639 --> 00:10:59,039 Speaker 4: What one day when gul de Burgh would marry me. 188 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,399 Speaker 2: Like that, that's Taylor, that's six sailor you would marry him. 189 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 4: It would be better than not marrying you or that. 190 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 2: Please you do it. 191 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,039 Speaker 5: I see here. 192 00:11:10,399 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 4: Either you go or here take back your ring. 193 00:11:15,279 --> 00:11:27,279 Speaker 2: Keep the ring. I'll go. Yes, yeah, what are you 194 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:28,120 doing here, momma? 195 00:11:29,039 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 4: I had to see you. This couldn't wait here. I 196 00:11:33,399 --> 00:11:35,440 found this shut under the door of my apartment. 197 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:38,159 Speaker 2: Hum looks like a note. 198 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:38,919 Speaker 4: It is a note. 199 00:11:39,399 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 5: Read it. 200 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 2: Be warned. 201 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,519 Speaker 3: Tell your boyfriend to forget about the rue Morgue murders, 202 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:51,759 or you will die the way Madame Lespernet did Vette, 203 00:11:51,919 --> 00:11:52,440 I thought. 204 00:11:52,279 --> 00:11:54,399 Speaker 4: You'd better see this and take it to Missie Jebai 205 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:58,720 at once. He will know what to do. Ah, yes, yes, 206 00:11:59,039 --> 00:12:01,559 he would take it to him as soon as you're 207 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:06,080 all duty and Pierre, yes, you did go to see 208 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:07,360 Monsieur Jupan, didn't you? 209 00:12:07,639 --> 00:12:12,759 Speaker 3: Well well no, no, I couldn't bring myself to do it. 210 00:12:12,919 --> 00:12:16,919 Speaker 2: I didn't have the nerve. But now, well, now that. 211 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 3: Your life is threatened, I'll go to see him and 212 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:20,720 ask his help. 213 00:12:21,039 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 2: I promise you with that, I promise, yes, Monsieur Dupin, 214 00:12:38,639 --> 00:12:46,279 Sie Auguste Dupin. Yes, I I am Pierre Mousse, Gendarmes 215 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:51,080 second class, Pierre Mouset. I, yes, you wish my help 216 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,720 in starving the murders in the Louis mug Is it not? 217 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:53,919 Speaker 4: So? 218 00:12:55,039 --> 00:12:58,879 Speaker 2: You know why I'm here, of course? But how oh 219 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,200 you were the first police to reach the scene of 220 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:05,279 a crime. You are a second class gendarme and helping 221 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:08,440 to solve the murders would result in the promotion. And 222 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,879 inasmuch as you yearned to marry a very beautiful young 223 00:13:11,919 --> 00:13:15,840 woman named Yvette, that's amazing that you should know all 224 00:13:15,919 --> 00:13:21,399 this without our ever having met. Amazing. It's anything but amazing, 225 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:25,840 my friend. It's simplicity itself. Everything I've just told you 226 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,759 was fully reported in the newspapers. Now, then, won't you 227 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:31,120 come in? 228 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:40,279 Speaker 1: And so, what was to Pierre an amazing deduction turns 229 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:43,600 out to be no deduction at all. Nor does Ceo 230 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,480 Bush Dupat turn out to be the formidable man Pierre 231 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,720 thought he would be. As to whether Dupat can bring 232 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:53,039 our two lovers happily together in marriage by solving the 233 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:57,039 apparently insoluble mystery of the murders in the Room Rgue, 234 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:12,360 we shall see when I returned shortly for act two. Well, then, 235 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,200 the Gendarmes second class Pierre Missell has sought the help 236 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,799 of Sieougust Dupin in solving the murders in the Room Orgue, 237 00:14:20,559 --> 00:14:24,159 murders so baffling that any chance of solving the mystery 238 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:28,399 seems impossible. Still in all, as you know, Jupa solved 239 00:14:28,399 --> 00:14:32,080 the mystery equally as puzzling that of Marie Rouget. So 240 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,879 let's join Pierre now as he sits across from Monsieur 241 00:14:34,919 --> 00:14:37,080 Dupin in the latter's modest apartment. 242 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 2: My dear fellow, I have little, if any interest in 243 00:14:40,559 --> 00:14:44,159 solving crimes. I wish only to be left alone to 244 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:48,399 read my books and pursue one or two hobbies. And 245 00:14:48,559 --> 00:14:51,519 after all, crime is the business of the police. I know, 246 00:14:51,799 --> 00:14:55,519 I know well, thank you for seeing me at least, 247 00:14:56,279 --> 00:14:59,799 sorry of taking your time. Good day, Monsieur du pain 248 00:15:00,159 --> 00:15:06,960 good day. No wait, monsieur, I am a fool, but 249 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,519 I'm also French. I have no interest at all in 250 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:15,039 solving crimes. But let me face it, I cannot remain 251 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,360 untouched by the plight of young lovers. Then you will 252 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:22,360 help me to solve this mystery, or more precisely, if 253 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,840 I solve it for you and let you take the credit, 254 00:15:25,399 --> 00:15:29,159 and assuredly you'll be raised to jendarme first class and 255 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:34,600 able to marry your beloved. Event now, can you gain 256 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:38,240 access to the Lisabean apartment. Of course, In that case, 257 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:41,600 my dear fellow, let us go at once to the 258 00:15:41,639 --> 00:15:52,559 re remogue. The door is unlocked here. 259 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 3: Yes, as you can see, Monsieur du pant was bolted 260 00:15:55,759 --> 00:15:58,480 on the inside. When I broke the door, the vault 261 00:15:58,600 --> 00:15:59,639 was torn out of the wood. 262 00:16:00,279 --> 00:16:05,879 Speaker 2: Small wonder you're a big fellow. Ah there that large 263 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:07,080 bloodstain on the rug. 264 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,799 Speaker 3: And that's where she lay, Madame Lesparnet with her head 265 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:11,320 cut off. 266 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 2: Now the bag of gold pieces lay right here on 267 00:16:17,639 --> 00:16:18,039 the rug. 268 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,919 Speaker 3: The gold pieces were strewn all over the floor. You know, 269 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,600 I keep asking myself why didn't the two murderers take 270 00:16:25,639 --> 00:16:30,080 the gold? But there is no answer because you're asking 271 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:31,440 yourself the wrong. 272 00:16:31,279 --> 00:16:35,159 Speaker 2: Question, the wrong question. Well, the answer to why they 273 00:16:35,159 --> 00:16:38,360 didn't take the gold is simple, they didn't want it. 274 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:43,000 The question you should be asking is why didn't they 275 00:16:43,039 --> 00:16:47,039 want it? Oh? Yes, yes, I see. Now this is 276 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,559 the fireplace where you found the body of the daughter Camille. 277 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:55,279 Speaker 3: Yes, stuffed up the chimney, feet first, the head down. Again, 278 00:16:55,399 --> 00:16:58,480 I keep asking how powerful must these men have been 279 00:16:58,519 --> 00:17:01,320 to be able to do it? Stuff a body up 280 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,400 a chimney with such force that I don't know how 281 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:05,400 many bones were broken? 282 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 2: My friend, you have a positive genius for asking the 283 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,920 wrong questions. Again, it's not how they do it, but 284 00:17:13,279 --> 00:17:16,240 why did they do it? What reason would they have 285 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:20,160 for doing it? I can't answer that. Maybe there was 286 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:25,119 no reason. There's always a reason. Pm Now what else 287 00:17:25,279 --> 00:17:31,960 was there? S? The windows? You say, these are the 288 00:17:32,039 --> 00:17:35,799 only two windows in the apartment. The only two none 289 00:17:35,799 --> 00:17:40,359 in the bathroom and the kitchen nune, and these appear 290 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,319 to be kept lucked with a nail in each and 291 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:48,079 at sea. I pulled a nail out of this one 292 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:52,240 and open the window. 293 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:53,039 Speaker 5: Hm. 294 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,599 Speaker 3: Well, the murderers couldn't have escaped this way, even if 295 00:17:56,599 --> 00:17:59,119 the windows had been open. It's a sheer drop four 296 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:00,000 stories to the ground. 297 00:18:00,559 --> 00:18:04,279 Speaker 2: So I see. I also see a drain pipe. But 298 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:07,920 if the windows were locked, they could not have been locked. 299 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:12,319 But they were, My friend, God also gave you a brain, 300 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:16,480 as with your eyes, use it. You know. The murderers 301 00:18:16,519 --> 00:18:18,319 did not escape by way of the door. It was 302 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:20,920 bolted on the inside and you broke it in. True enough, 303 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,160 they could not have escaped by way of the chimney. 304 00:18:23,839 --> 00:18:27,119 It follows that they had to escape via the windows, 305 00:18:27,759 --> 00:18:30,839 using the drainpipe to reach the ground. That I tell you. 306 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 3: The windows were locked, just as they are locked now, 307 00:18:33,799 --> 00:18:36,440 each with a long nail. All the windows in this 308 00:18:36,519 --> 00:18:39,000 house are the same. A hole is bored through the 309 00:18:39,039 --> 00:18:41,920 window and into the sill. To lock the window, you 310 00:18:42,079 --> 00:18:44,640 push a nail through it into the sill. 311 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 2: You just pulled that nail out of this one, not 312 00:18:47,519 --> 00:18:51,240 the other. You do that, my friend, you pulled the 313 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:55,680 nail out of the second window or four to answer 314 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:59,359 the question of how the murderers escape? Now, who, as 315 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:04,359 I say, pull it out? What in the world do 316 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:09,720 you see? A broken nail? As simple as that, a 317 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:14,000 broken nail, ab But it's not simple. The window only 318 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,839 appeared to be locked. Well, I have seen enough. Let's go. 319 00:19:20,319 --> 00:19:23,640 You have the answer, then, as you do, pat part 320 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:27,599 of the answer, only part, But give me time to think. 321 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:32,480 And uh, look who's coming up the stairs? I hope. Yeah? 322 00:19:32,559 --> 00:19:34,079 What are you doing out here? Why don't you stand 323 00:19:34,079 --> 00:19:37,119 in your cellars? You that is not your business? You 324 00:19:37,319 --> 00:19:40,039 vet is my business, and you're up here to see her? 325 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:42,440 What if I want you to stay away from her? 326 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:46,480 You bet is my fiance? Take a reef in yourself. Yeah, 327 00:19:46,519 --> 00:19:48,880 you don't own a how you listen to me? You 328 00:19:49,079 --> 00:19:53,200 take your hands off me? Take a lawful her man, gentleman? 329 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:54,279 What is all this? 330 00:19:54,759 --> 00:19:55,759 Speaker 4: What's going on here? 331 00:19:55,839 --> 00:19:57,599 Speaker 2: I want you to burk, to stay away from you 332 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:58,440 and you from him? 333 00:19:58,519 --> 00:19:59,519 Speaker 5: Oh you do. 334 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 2: Yes, I do it. You are my fiance, but not 335 00:20:02,079 --> 00:20:02,640 your wife. 336 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 4: And even if I were, I have a right to 337 00:20:04,759 --> 00:20:05,400 see anyone. 338 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:07,759 Speaker 2: I please not while you are engaged to me. 339 00:20:08,079 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 5: Oh is that so well? 340 00:20:10,279 --> 00:20:13,160 Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. I will see anyone I 341 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:14,960 wish whenever I wish. 342 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 2: Now, now, mademoiselle, you don't mean that you're speaking out 343 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:18,759 of anger? 344 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,319 Speaker 4: Who are you? And what right if you tend to hear? 345 00:20:21,839 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 2: My name is dupin Ogese, dupan. 346 00:20:25,839 --> 00:20:30,160 Speaker 4: Monster jupin Pierre. You went to him? 347 00:20:30,279 --> 00:20:33,839 Speaker 2: He did int need, Mademoiselle, And believe me, your fiance 348 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:39,200 is not only a man of determination, but brilliance, momoiselle, 349 00:20:39,599 --> 00:20:42,720 brilliance might, dear fellow. The way you solve the puzzle 350 00:20:42,759 --> 00:20:47,079 of that luck window, brilliant, positively brilliant. You will be 351 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:48,839 in the detective bureau before. 352 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 4: You know it. Oh, Pier, that's wonderful, wonderful, jul I 353 00:20:56,519 --> 00:20:58,319 think it would be better if you do not come 354 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:04,640 to see me anymore, pleasual, no more, have it your way. 355 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 2: There are other ports of call. 356 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 4: Oh so there, monsieur, mister, can I offer you a 357 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:13,960 glass of wine? 358 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 2: Thank you? But another time you you could tell me 359 00:21:20,799 --> 00:21:23,000 what perfume that is you're wearing. 360 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 4: We need to test you. 361 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 2: Dassionate night. It's well named, mademoiselle, and a pleasure meeting you, mademoiselle, Pierre, 362 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,640 if you would see me down to the streets. 363 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,119 Speaker 4: Of course, but can that, Pierre? If you off duty? 364 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,079 Speaker 2: That is, I am off duty of vet and I 365 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:48,880 shall be back this hellow Yeah, this Hildebourg. He's a sailor, 366 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:49,240 isn't he? 367 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:49,640 Speaker 5: Yes? 368 00:21:50,799 --> 00:21:53,319 Speaker 2: What's he doing here? Why isn't he at C? I 369 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:53,680 don't know. 370 00:21:53,759 --> 00:21:57,079 Speaker 3: He's ill, some sort of rare tropical disease he picked 371 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:58,000 up in Borneo. 372 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:04,759 Speaker 2: In Borneo, Hm, interesting? What so interesting about it? You know, 373 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,400 my friend, I told you a fiance you were brilliant 374 00:22:08,519 --> 00:22:09,680 enough to be a detective. 375 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 3: I appreciate that, Monsieur dupet You did me such a. 376 00:22:13,079 --> 00:22:16,160 Speaker 2: Favor, building me up in her eyes. Well, but it's true. 377 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,279 You know you could be a detective. You wanted to 378 00:22:19,319 --> 00:22:21,799 learn how to use your head and all your senses, 379 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:29,920 my senses, all five of them. You see, everyone's senses taste, smell, sight, down, touch, 380 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:35,880 All these tell things, but few people listening. For example, 381 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,880 I noticed the scent of your fiance's perfume, have you. 382 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 3: Well, I've always known she smelled exciting mm. 383 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,839 Speaker 2: But beyond that, you did not go Now you asked 384 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:55,799 me why the fact that our sailor man Vildebourg contracted. 385 00:22:55,839 --> 00:22:57,640 The disease in borneo. 386 00:22:57,319 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 5: Is interesting to me. 387 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,519 Speaker 3: Yes, I do, I do, but you don't need to ask. 388 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:03,440 It's as I said before. 389 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,599 Speaker 2: You know, but you don't know. You know very will. 390 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:10,319 Then I'll give you a lesson. Your first lesson is 391 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:16,880 now to be a detective. Now first look, then see 392 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,680 what you look at. Then put two and two together 393 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,680 and make sure they add up to four for instance. 394 00:23:24,559 --> 00:23:29,319 But should you burg together with drain pipes and see 395 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:29,720 where it. 396 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 3: Leads you sue and brain pipes. I don't understand you 397 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,240 will you will. 398 00:23:37,039 --> 00:23:41,400 Speaker 2: If only you think, my friend think. 399 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,039 Speaker 5: Yeah, mm hmmm. 400 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 4: You must cool now it's three in the morning. 401 00:23:57,319 --> 00:24:00,640 Speaker 2: Let me stay a little while longer, just a little, no. 402 00:24:00,799 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 4: My darling, I must go to work in the morning. 403 00:24:04,559 --> 00:24:05,799 Speaker 5: Oh I need my sleep. 404 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,920 Speaker 4: And I was certainly not getting any review. It must 405 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,440 be that perfume you were, Oh, my perfume, not me, 406 00:24:13,839 --> 00:24:17,480 of course, it's you, well within my perfumer. 407 00:24:17,599 --> 00:24:21,880 Speaker 2: Me off with you, all right? All right? 408 00:24:23,039 --> 00:24:24,839 Speaker 4: Who will you be saying, monsieur jupe. 409 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:26,559 Speaker 2: Again, I don't know, he said. 410 00:24:26,559 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 3: He wanted time to think that he would leave a 411 00:24:28,759 --> 00:24:30,759 message for me at the headquarters. 412 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,599 Speaker 2: But do you know. If that, I'm beginning to wonder 413 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,720 if I if I need dupain, if there was any 414 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,519 need to go to him in the first place. 415 00:24:38,599 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 3: What do you mean, after all, I salve the mystery 416 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,519 of how the murderers escaped. One of those two windows 417 00:24:45,599 --> 00:24:46,480 wasn't locked at all. 418 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,279 Speaker 2: The nail was broken, brilliant. 419 00:24:50,079 --> 00:24:51,880 Speaker 4: The murderers must have got to the ground by the 420 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:52,559 drain pie. 421 00:24:52,759 --> 00:24:55,839 Speaker 2: The drain pie. Oh, yes, yes, the drain pipe. 422 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:00,279 Speaker 4: But even so, I've been thinking, no ordinary man could 423 00:25:00,319 --> 00:25:03,160 manage to slide down a drain pipe. You would have 424 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:08,039 to be very strong, yes, and an agile. But you've 425 00:25:08,039 --> 00:25:09,039 thought of that, I'm sure. 426 00:25:10,559 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 2: Oh, of course, of course. 427 00:25:12,839 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 3: Well it's only a question of what kind of man 428 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:17,119 would that be? 429 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 4: Oh, I could think of any number you can, But 430 00:25:20,039 --> 00:25:23,559 of course, a chimney sweep for one, a house painter 431 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:28,119 for another, a circus performer, you know, an aeriel artiste, 432 00:25:28,519 --> 00:25:31,839 a sailor like Jule de Bourgh. Say they're used to 433 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:32,559 cribing things. 434 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:37,039 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that is a possibility, Jule de Bourg, a 435 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:38,319 definite possibility. 436 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,559 Speaker 4: Now now now you let jealousy blind you. Jule's a 437 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,920 sick man, for one thing, and doesn't have the strength 438 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,599 anywhere near the strength to do with what was done 439 00:25:47,599 --> 00:25:52,720 in that apartment. Whoever committed those horrible murders was more 440 00:25:52,799 --> 00:25:57,039 than a strong She was powerful, unbelievably powerful. 441 00:25:58,279 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 2: All but come now, you Moscow, you must I'm going. 442 00:26:02,039 --> 00:26:04,000 I'm going lock yourself in. 443 00:26:04,279 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 4: Don't worry, I will. I'm not taking any chances, not 444 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,200 after getting that note. 445 00:26:10,279 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 2: That's you have nothing to fear. Jupah and I are 446 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,799 working on this case, and trust us to solve it 447 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:17,680 in short order. 448 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,839 Speaker 5: I do trust you, my darling. Oh I do. 449 00:26:24,079 --> 00:26:26,839 Speaker 4: Good Night, my sweet good night, good night. 450 00:26:27,079 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 2: Good night, my lovely wife to be. 451 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:30,519 Speaker 5: Good night. 452 00:26:32,319 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 2: Bolt the door. 453 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:34,279 Speaker 5: I was about to. 454 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:37,519 Speaker 4: There, it's bolted. 455 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:48,680 Speaker 7: Good night, Yeah, I was inside. 456 00:26:50,279 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 2: Help me. 457 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,160 Speaker 1: The horror that struck Madame l'aspannet and her daughter now 458 00:27:07,279 --> 00:27:11,119 strikes Yvette, and once again, Pierre faces the barrier of 459 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,240 a door bolted on the inside. 460 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 2: You like me, can imagine the terror of this young. 461 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,799 Speaker 1: Policeman as he steps back before flinging all his weight 462 00:27:21,039 --> 00:27:25,119 at that locked door, wondering what frightful sight will meet 463 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:29,319 his gaze when he breaks it down. I'll return shortly 464 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:45,200 for Act three. What frightful monster haunts the roue Morgue. 465 00:27:46,319 --> 00:27:50,319 What kind of fiend committed the butcheries on Madame Laspagnet 466 00:27:50,839 --> 00:27:54,680 and her daughter Camille. These are the questions young John 467 00:27:54,799 --> 00:27:58,160 Darme Pierre Mersell has been seeking to answer. Now it 468 00:27:58,279 --> 00:28:01,400 seems he's about to find those answers in the most 469 00:28:01,519 --> 00:28:05,960 horrible way imaginable. For behind the bolted door of her apartment, 470 00:28:06,039 --> 00:28:09,880 in the room Orgue, his fiancee, Yvette, is herself in 471 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:11,000 the grip of the fiend. 472 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 2: Oh, Lord, Lord help me. That's dark, dark, laugh, where's 473 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:24,799 the lamb. 474 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 5: Here? 475 00:28:26,759 --> 00:28:27,319 Speaker 4: Wait a. 476 00:28:32,279 --> 00:28:36,839 Speaker 2: Oh, my stomach, there's. 477 00:28:36,599 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 5: The lamp like that? 478 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 2: Laugh there, Yvette? Heaven help us all, my friend, compose yourself, 479 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:04,400 monsieur and I and tell me all about it. 480 00:29:04,759 --> 00:29:09,359 Speaker 3: Well, as I said, I broke the door, and it 481 00:29:09,599 --> 00:29:12,279 was dark, but I could make out a shape. It 482 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:17,480 was a huge, a monstrous man against the moonlit window. 483 00:29:18,759 --> 00:29:19,839 Speaker 2: I saw him only for. 484 00:29:19,839 --> 00:29:22,839 Speaker 3: A second because he flung himself at me with such speed. 485 00:29:23,039 --> 00:29:26,960 Speaker 2: It was such amazing speed. He took me off balance. 486 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,839 He struck me. It's a powerful blow in the stomach. 487 00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:34,519 Oh heaven, I'm not yet recovered from it. Some wine man, 488 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,000 No no thanks, Let me go on now, as I 489 00:29:38,079 --> 00:29:41,920 went down, I grabbed at him and here, look, I 490 00:29:42,039 --> 00:29:43,880 must have grabbed him by the hair on his head, 491 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:49,960 because I pulled these hairs out hmm, black of course. 492 00:29:50,279 --> 00:29:54,279 And I think I don't know. I lit a lamp, yes, 493 00:29:54,359 --> 00:29:57,640 and I saw a vet. Oh my poor evet, blood 494 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,160 streaming down her cheek. Us is already beginning to blacken 495 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,759 her face. You took her to the hospital, he said, yes, 496 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,440 I did. What is her conditions? Well it's not fatal, 497 00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:13,680 thank god, not even very serious. Badly Bruce to cut 498 00:30:13,759 --> 00:30:15,799 over her right eye. But she's going to be all right. 499 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,680 The monster failed to make good his threat to kill her. 500 00:30:20,039 --> 00:30:24,440 We may indeed thank God for that. Well, at least 501 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,640 we know more than we did before, Monsieur dupain. 502 00:30:28,319 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 3: We know that the murderer is a big man, a 503 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:35,079 huge man of unbelievable strength, and that he has black hair. 504 00:30:36,079 --> 00:30:39,559 Speaker 2: We know a great deal more than that. Yeah, we do, well, 505 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:44,319 I do, and so do you. Only, as I've said before, 506 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,200 you don't know, you know, or monsieur monsieur, I do 507 00:30:48,319 --> 00:30:52,680 not have your brilliant brain. It doesn't matter. All that 508 00:30:52,799 --> 00:30:56,000 matters is that you can solve this awful mystery, that 509 00:30:56,079 --> 00:31:00,160 you can save Yvette. The murderer failed this time, but 510 00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:03,240 he'll try again. It's my hope that he will, is 511 00:31:04,119 --> 00:31:07,319 your hope? Surely you as much as I want to 512 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,480 save Yvette's life all of a certainty, my friends, I'm 513 00:31:11,519 --> 00:31:21,079 afraid I can save it only by risking it. You 514 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,680 that you're sure you're comfortable on the couch, yes, Pierre, 515 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,759 thank you, mademoiselle. Are you strong enough to help me 516 00:31:30,559 --> 00:31:32,799 in a plan I have in mind? No, wake, what 517 00:31:33,039 --> 00:31:36,440 kind of a plan? A plan to trap the murderer? 518 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 4: And I can help you trap him. 519 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,519 Speaker 2: You can be the bait now now, now you just 520 00:31:41,599 --> 00:31:42,319 hold on a moment. 521 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, let me explain nothing, to explain whatever you have 522 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:46,880 in mind. 523 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,279 Speaker 2: I refuse to let you vet risk her life. 524 00:31:49,599 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 4: Nonsense, Pierre. My life is in danger anyway. 525 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 2: Precisely. The killer will strike again. But not for the 526 00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:58,519 reason you think. 527 00:31:58,599 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: What do you mean? 528 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 2: In the note he sent Yvette, he swore he would 529 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,720 kill her if I did not stop trying to unmass 530 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,319 on it. That is not the reason the Yvette was attacked. 531 00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:10,720 In fact, if I'm not mistaken, she was not deliberately 532 00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:12,720 attacked at all. How can you say such a thing. 533 00:32:13,039 --> 00:32:15,079 I look at the bruises on her face, her arms 534 00:32:15,359 --> 00:32:18,759 to gash over her arms. Your ears, my friend, no 535 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:22,599 more than your eyes. I did not say Yvette was 536 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:26,759 not attacked. I said she was not deliberately attacked, nor 537 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,920 was she attacked by the person who wrote the note. 538 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,359 Speaker 4: Monsieur dupet, you amaze me. How do you know all this? 539 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:40,119 Speaker 2: Because two plus two equal four if you put them 540 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:45,400 together properly. I'll help you by showing you the facts 541 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:50,400 once again, but you must add them up first. We 542 00:32:50,599 --> 00:32:53,680 know that the killer entered the Lispany apartment by the 543 00:32:53,759 --> 00:32:58,279 window and lift by the window because it was not locked, 544 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,039 though it appeared to be. Hal was broken. 545 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,319 Speaker 4: Yes, as you discovered, Pierre, Yes. 546 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 2: Quite so, quite so. Now this apartment is next door 547 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:14,039 to the Lispandi apartment. Outside that window, it's a four 548 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:19,240 story dropped to the backyard, unless the murderer escaping slid 549 00:33:19,359 --> 00:33:23,160 down the drained pipe attached to the wall between these apartments. 550 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:27,119 You follow, Yes, a sailor, Monsieur du A sailor, maybe 551 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,720 like a jews do bo, there you go again, letting 552 00:33:29,759 --> 00:33:33,640 your jolly No, no, mademoiselle, he's altogether right. A sailor 553 00:33:33,759 --> 00:33:36,319 could climb the drain pipe so much for that fact. 554 00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:42,480 Now here's another, and a most revealing one. Why was 555 00:33:42,559 --> 00:33:45,720 the bag of gold pieces worth, as we have learned, 556 00:33:46,079 --> 00:33:49,640 more than four thousand dollars? Why was that bag of 557 00:33:49,799 --> 00:33:50,759 gold not taken? 558 00:33:51,319 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 4: Perhaps the murderer was in such a. 559 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 2: Hurry to escape. There was no hurry. The door was bolted. 560 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,519 There was plenty of time to escape. You said the 561 00:33:58,559 --> 00:34:01,720 gold wasn't taken because it wasn't wanted. But what were 562 00:34:01,759 --> 00:34:04,720 the Lespanees killed for? If not the money revenge? 563 00:34:05,279 --> 00:34:08,360 Speaker 4: It couldn't be that they stay to themselves, they knew 564 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:08,840 no one. 565 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,760 Speaker 2: Well, if not for money or revenge, what then? Nothing? 566 00:34:14,079 --> 00:34:18,880 Speaker 4: Nothing, monsieur jupis that makes no sense, no sense at all. 567 00:34:19,079 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 2: Precisely, that's the answer. The Lispani murders were senseless. 568 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,760 Speaker 4: But that is impossible. The murderer must have killed for 569 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:29,360 a reason. 570 00:34:29,599 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 2: No, he did not. And why do you keep saying 571 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,599 murderer when they were two? You're forgetting one of the 572 00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:39,199 most important facts of all the fact that two voices 573 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,519 were heard in the Lispani apartment. One was definitely that 574 00:34:43,639 --> 00:34:47,880 of a Frenchman, but the other, well, you shall see 575 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,519 the nights. If Mademoiselle will indeed act as the fate. 576 00:34:52,039 --> 00:34:55,039 Of course, what do you want me to do? Do 577 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:58,400 not lock your windows and do not bolt your doors. 578 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,960 That is all, that is enough. I'll be calm, my friend. 579 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,480 Your fiance will not be alone. We shall be with her, 580 00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:09,599 both of us arms with pistols. Oh, and one thing more, mademoiselle, monsieur, 581 00:35:10,679 --> 00:35:15,480 that perfume of yours passionate night, and be sure to 582 00:35:15,599 --> 00:35:18,719 use it, Use a lot of it, if you say so. Yes, 583 00:35:19,679 --> 00:35:26,000 why the murderer, I think finds it enticing. If it 584 00:35:26,119 --> 00:35:39,519 comes to that, so do I. Two o'clock. No sign 585 00:35:39,599 --> 00:35:43,559 yet of the murderer. He'll come, that, I'm sure, especially 586 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:48,159 since mademoiselle did indeed use a sufficiency of a passionate 587 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:53,800 night perfume. It makes waiting a pleasure, mademoiselle, thank you, 588 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,599 monsieur jere. It won't make you. That's death a pleasure. 589 00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,480 She will not be harmed. I promise you a pistol, 590 00:36:00,519 --> 00:36:03,079 and so of you. I'll be sure to use it 591 00:36:03,199 --> 00:36:07,559 when I give the word and the gear, Yes, shoot 592 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:12,440 to kill, depend on it. I shall search, listen. 593 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,079 Speaker 5: Come back, come back to you. 594 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:20,119 Speaker 2: Let me get to the window. Yes, it's coming, it's 595 00:36:20,199 --> 00:36:24,639 climbing the rain pipe. Eat have your bed, and someone 596 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,719 climbing the pipe behind and trying. 597 00:36:26,559 --> 00:36:28,840 Speaker 8: To reach it, trying to stop it, and keep saying 598 00:36:29,199 --> 00:36:31,800 what do you mean? You'll see in a moment, get back, 599 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:37,239 well back human was head. You'll say that the gear, Yes, 600 00:36:37,679 --> 00:36:39,320 the instant it appears to the window. 601 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:40,920 Speaker 5: I'll give you order to shoot. 602 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,880 Speaker 2: Remember we don't worry about that. 603 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 7: Now. 604 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,079 Speaker 4: Shoot it's alive. 605 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:50,039 Speaker 5: Shoot again. 606 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:55,719 Speaker 2: Light the lamps while I get to the window, and 607 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,760 you boo, shoot your ball. Come up. I haven't try 608 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,039 to escape, you poor. I was right. It is Ju Dubou. 609 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,000 Who else? My friend? He's the only sailor living in 610 00:37:07,079 --> 00:37:10,960 the sound. His mouth, Come in, bog, come in. Please. 611 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,800 It was not my fault. It was not my fault. 612 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,280 I'm well aware of that. You have nothing to fear, 613 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,440 although you thought you had on the floor. 614 00:37:19,119 --> 00:37:20,360 Speaker 4: My god, what is it? 615 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,760 Speaker 2: It's the Russian, the German, the Italian? Of foreign voice. 616 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:29,239 It was no language at all. I'm not as familiar 617 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,719 as I might be with the eight family Reburg. But 618 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:36,559 is it gorilla? Baboon? What hell orango tang? 619 00:37:37,119 --> 00:37:37,320 Speaker 4: Oh? 620 00:37:37,599 --> 00:37:41,320 Speaker 2: What hell orango? Tang? A large a found in the 621 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,639 jungles of Borneo, and this, this is the monster that 622 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,760 killed Madame le'spaney and her daughter. Yes, yes, yes, and 623 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,400 Heaven help me. I am responsible. There was nothing I 624 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,719 could do, monsieur. Nothing You could have notified the police. 625 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,679 You should have. They would have handled matters for you, 626 00:38:00,159 --> 00:38:03,480 patch But you didn't do that because you still hoped 627 00:38:03,519 --> 00:38:05,719 to sell the ape, didn't you? Can you blame me? 628 00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,760 I'm a poor man and sick. I need money. 629 00:38:09,519 --> 00:38:12,280 Speaker 3: I brought the Orango Tang back from Borneo in the 630 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,840 hoop of Sillygate. I paid to have the ship's carp 631 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,000 and to build a special box with air holes to 632 00:38:18,079 --> 00:38:21,679 hold it. Paid money I could de lefore, and God 633 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,280 helped me when I engaged those rooms in the cellar. 634 00:38:24,679 --> 00:38:28,039 I should have kept it in the box, but I felt. 635 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:28,480 Speaker 2: Sorry for it. 636 00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:32,079 Speaker 3: It looked so human, It was so human that I 637 00:38:32,199 --> 00:38:34,639 let it out and kept it in one of the rooms. 638 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,320 Speaker 2: How did this beast come to kill Madame Lespanney and 639 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,119 her daughter? He'd escaped from the room I kept it in. 640 00:38:42,039 --> 00:38:45,480 I wasn't there when it happened. I discovered it when 641 00:38:45,519 --> 00:38:48,599 I came home that night. I opened the door and 642 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:50,199 I could not believe it. 643 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,039 Speaker 3: The ape was seated in front of a mirror, shaving 644 00:38:54,159 --> 00:38:55,960 himself with my straight. 645 00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,239 Speaker 2: Razor, shaving himself. 646 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,320 Speaker 3: Who were trying to they are great imity, because you 647 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,400 know I went to take the raiser from him. I 648 00:39:04,679 --> 00:39:05,840 was not afraid of him. 649 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,320 Speaker 2: He was really harmless. But he ran from me, out 650 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,360 through the door and into the backyard. You chased him, 651 00:39:13,519 --> 00:39:14,400 of course. 652 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,639 Speaker 3: I was afraid he might cut himself with a razor. Well, 653 00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:23,800 his eye caught the window of the Espanat apartment because 654 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,519 the light was on up the drain pipe. 655 00:39:26,599 --> 00:39:29,719 Speaker 2: He went, and I after him. He told the window 656 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,559 open and went in, and the streaming began. You wrote 657 00:39:33,599 --> 00:39:36,119 that note to event, didn't you? That note that threatened 658 00:39:36,119 --> 00:39:36,519 her life? 659 00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:40,440 Speaker 3: Yes, but only to frighten you of the case. I 660 00:39:40,679 --> 00:39:43,840 was afraid if you found out what had happened, I 661 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,280 would be sent to the guillote. 662 00:39:45,599 --> 00:39:49,360 Speaker 2: I believe you. But why did you let the ape 663 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:54,079 attack Evet? I didn't. I couldn't control it. And it 664 00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,679 was drawn to her by that perfume. 665 00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,320 Speaker 4: She was my perfume. 666 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,480 Speaker 3: And when we were kissing and holding each other close, 667 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:09,039 the ape smelled her perfume on me. Her twart, I 668 00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,760 brought the scent of your perfume back to my cellar rooms. 669 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,199 Speaker 2: It was on my clothes. 670 00:40:15,199 --> 00:40:18,280 Speaker 3: The eph couldn't get enough of smelling my jacket. He 671 00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:23,639 liked the perfume enjoyed, and so when he escaped last 672 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:29,440 night and tonight, he followed the scent here. But he 673 00:40:29,519 --> 00:40:32,199 didn't mean to harm you anymore than he meant to 674 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:36,239 harm the espanase. It was your streams and theirs that 675 00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:44,079 frightened him and made him do the horrible things he did. Sure, 676 00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:47,840 de Bourg, I hereby place you under arrest as the 677 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,599 party responsible for the murders in the room Marque. 678 00:40:51,119 --> 00:40:55,320 Speaker 2: We will go at once to headquarters. Come along, Oh 679 00:40:55,480 --> 00:41:00,440 and event yes, Sherry, after the board has been booked, 680 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,519 I shall return and we will discuss the kissing and 681 00:41:04,679 --> 00:41:07,960 the holding each other close that left such a strong 682 00:41:08,079 --> 00:41:12,159 smell of passionate night on his jacket. All right, you 683 00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:17,920 do booked yet alone he's very angry with yo fiance. 684 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:19,320 Speaker 4: He will cool off. 685 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,440 Speaker 2: You will have no doubt satisfactory explanation for him. 686 00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:28,880 Speaker 4: No, but there are other ways, Monsieur Jupa, There are 687 00:41:29,079 --> 00:41:29,960 other ways. 688 00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:43,000 Speaker 2: There are, indeed, Memoiselle, there are, indeed so ends the 689 00:41:43,079 --> 00:41:44,440 murders in the room Orgue. 690 00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:49,719 Speaker 1: If not happily, at least on an easier note. I 691 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,480 may tell you that that did cool Pierre's anger, and 692 00:41:53,639 --> 00:41:58,440 that they wound up eventually with nine children, very handsome 693 00:41:58,519 --> 00:42:01,039 and healthy children who became the pride and joy of 694 00:42:01,559 --> 00:42:03,039 Sergeant Pierre Missey. 695 00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:04,800 Speaker 2: I'll be back shortly. 696 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,519 Speaker 1: I cannot close without an expression of gratitude to Edgar 697 00:42:20,599 --> 00:42:24,599 Allan Poe, a sensitive man whose life was an almost 698 00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:30,079 incessant and unrelenting torment, such torture for him that he. 699 00:42:30,159 --> 00:42:32,280 Speaker 2: Sought release in alcohol and drugs. 700 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,400 Speaker 1: He yet gave the world immeasurable pleasure with his stories 701 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:40,599 of the macabre, the horrible, the arcane. He may even 702 00:42:40,639 --> 00:42:43,320 have given to the world one of the greatest fictional 703 00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:48,880 detectives literature has ever known, Sherlock Holmes. I don't know 704 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,840 about others, but I must ask, had it not been 705 00:42:53,039 --> 00:42:57,199 for Seo gush Chupan, would there have been a Sherlock Holmes. 706 00:42:58,559 --> 00:43:03,159 Our cast included Paul Guy, Sorel, Corren Orr and Dan Aco. 707 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:07,119 The entire production was under the direction of Hymond Brown. 708 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,000 Speaker 2: And now a preview of our next tale. 709 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:24,440 Speaker 6: Listen, what's that what she's saying? He's crying? It was 710 00:43:24,519 --> 00:43:31,320 heart would break O terrible cool. 711 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,000 Speaker 2: What if he's an agony yellow box? Yes, I guess 712 00:43:34,039 --> 00:43:35,679 I can hear him? Or man? 713 00:43:36,639 --> 00:43:36,840 Speaker 6: Will? 714 00:43:37,199 --> 00:43:38,360 Speaker 4: What is he crying over? 715 00:43:38,679 --> 00:43:40,960 Speaker 6: Can't be the painting, even if it had been damage 716 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:42,840 from those syllas bumped the box of laryn. 717 00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:44,039 Speaker 1: It can't be that. 718 00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,000 Speaker 2: It isn't isn't. 719 00:43:46,519 --> 00:43:48,920 Speaker 4: I told you I've had this feeling all along, this 720 00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:54,559 point of something you know, And now I'm sure it 721 00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,280 isn't a painting that's in that box. 722 00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:56,559 Speaker 5: Will. 723 00:43:57,679 --> 00:44:00,920 Speaker 2: It's a corpse, a corpse. 724 00:44:01,679 --> 00:44:05,199 Speaker 4: And the question that I've been asking myself all along is. 725 00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:10,719 Speaker 1: Whose radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Contact 726 00:44:11,199 --> 00:44:12,920 the twelve Hour Cold Capsule. 727 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:14,360 Speaker 2: This is E. G. 728 00:44:14,559 --> 00:44:17,760 Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for 729 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,159 another adventure in the macabre.