WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.160 --> 00:00:06.960 Worried about income tax, wonder if spring will ever come? 2 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:09.240 Want to get away from it all? 3 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:23.600 We offer you Escape. 4 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:27.600 You were alone in your book line study, listening to 5 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:32.640 the idiot gibberings of a parrot, and beside you caressing 6 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:37.119 you is an invisible thing, a loathsome thing from which 7 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:45.799 you must escape. 8 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:54.880 Escape produced and directed by William N. Robeson, and carefully 9 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:57.000 contrived to free you from the four walls of to 10 00:00:57.079 --> 00:00:59.359 day for a half hour of high adventure. 11 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:08.079 Ah to night we escaped to the West end of London, 12 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:12.239 to a little house just off Hyde Park, where lived 13 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:16.439 a man who didn't like people. Tonight we escape In 14 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:20.439 the remarkable tale of Robert Hitchins, Our love came to 15 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:22.439 Professor guilia. 16 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:34.239 It has been said that no knight ever passes over 17 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:37.959 London town that sees not some strange and curious event, 18 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:41.799 some occurrence too incredible to bear repeating in the light 19 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:52.120 of day. How horribly true are those words. It's been 20 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:54.519 over a year now since the night I first met 21 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:58.239 the amazing Professor Gilia. I had delivered a sermon at 22 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:00.760 the Rectory of Saint Swithin in the East End, and 23 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:03.719 was passing through the foyer and departure when I was 24 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:08.120 accosted brusquely by an odd little man, remarkably sharp featured, 25 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:10.879 his face adorned by a pointed black Goateee. 26 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:14.719 Please I believe your father Murchison. Yes, that's right, but 27 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:16.800 I don't think i've had the pleasure. Perhaps you've heard 28 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:20.400 of me. My name's Guildia, Professor Guildia, Guildia Way. Yes, 29 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:24.680 you're the famous psychologist. Yes, a psychologist, biologist, anthropologist, philosopher, 30 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:27.639 and that takes care of that, Sir. I never attend 31 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:28.639 religious services. 32 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:31.120 It appears you've done so tonight. 33 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:34.080 It came for one reason to hear you find out 34 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:37.120 why anotherwise normal colleague of mine thinks you're the most 35 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:39.000 convincing speaker he's ever listened to. 36 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:40.360 And did you find out? 37 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:45.159 No, your talk was intelligent, logical, therefore could never convince 38 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:46.159 anybody of anything. 39 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:48.240 Thank you. 40 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:50.520 You're a direct man, Professor Guildier, your time to be 41 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:52.840 anything else. I'd like to have you dine with me, 42 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:55.639 Father Murchison, say a week from tonight seven o'clock. I 43 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:57.680 live at one hundred Hyde Park in the West End. 44 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:00.639 Can't we make it two weeks? I'm reaching at Saint 45 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:03.039 Saviour's that night, just round the corner. 46 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:05.159 From the park, and I am afraid it'll have to 47 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:06.719 be nearer eight thirty than seven. 48 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:09.400 The service isn't over so well, we can't even agree 49 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:11.919 on a time for dinner. Very well, eight thirty two 50 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:12.960 weeks Good night, sir. 51 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:22.639 Perhaps if I had known then what, But no matter, 52 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:27.400 I kept the appointment. Of course, that's an excellent dinner. 53 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:31.280 We climbed the stairs to Gilda's study, a large, book 54 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:34.159 lined room running the width of the house, with windows 55 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:37.120 at the end, overlooking the park. In front of those 56 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.879 windows stood the one incongress thing in the room, a 57 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:48.840 cage holding a large gray parrot. In fact, as I recall, 58 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:51.719 it was the parrot that was responsible for my first 59 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:55.000 becoming aware of what exact opposites Guildia and I really were, 60 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:58.800 the same parrot that was responsible for so many other 61 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:00.639 things that happened later. 62 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.840 Quiet, Napoleon, Quiet, one day, that infernal squawking of yours 63 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:08.120 will drive me to wring your neck. 64 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:11.759 Somehow, it surprises me, Guildia, I mean you're keeping a pet. 65 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.039 I possess a parrot for the murchison. That's all made 66 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.959 a study of the imitative faculties of animals some months ago, 67 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:21.319 bought the bird, then never got rid of it. I see, 68 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:24.879 started the bad habit of scratching the fool thing's head 69 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:31.040 and loves it. You see, m five minutes he'll be 70 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:34.959 screaming for more of it. Why would it surprise you 71 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:36.240 so much if I kept a pet? 72 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:39.800 Because I believe you're the most self sufficient man I 73 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:40.240 ever met. 74 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:45.279 More than that. Actually, I detest affection, any display of sentimentality. 75 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:48.439 But you do feel the need of close human sympathy 76 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:52.879 in your life, none whatsoever reasonable amount of companionship, naturally, 77 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:55.079 But that's all, mother Murchison. 78 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:57.519 I'm one person who does not love his fellow men. 79 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:00.839 Nonetheless, some of your discoveries have been of great benefit 80 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:01.519 to mankind. 81 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:03.199 Oh, entirely accidental. 82 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:05.120 I thought you'd be liking your coffee. 83 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:05.120 Now, sir. 84 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:07.120 Oh, yes, Pitting put it there on the table, please, 85 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:09.800 thank you, sir. Will there be anything else? No, that's 86 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:13.800 all Pitting, Yes, sir, an excellent servant. 87 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:14.040 There. 88 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:17.279 I know nothing of Pitting's thoughts of feelings, nor he 89 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:21.439 of mine. Perfect relationship, and if a crisis occurred, if 90 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:24.519 you needed to call on him as a friend, it 91 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:26.199 would take a considerable crisis. 92 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:28.920 But what about the parrot? Surely you must regard it 93 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.199 with some affection, otherwise you'd get rid of it. 94 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:36.240 Napoleon merely a specimen. The birds is devoid of sentimentality, 95 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:39.480 as I am can only imitate whatever he season hears. 96 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:43.199 Gildea, have you ever been in love? 97 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:47.439 Neither with anyone in particular, nor with love itself? Being 98 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:49.560 in love, as you put it, or having someone in 99 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:52.800 love with me would be the most monstrous and horrible 100 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:54.839 situation I can possibly imagine. 101 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:59.360 All of a sudden, I feel a very great sense 102 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:01.600 of pity for whom for you. 103 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:02.279 Ah. 104 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:09.920 Yet as different as we were, my life dedicated to 105 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:15.040 all humanity, Guildia's life stripped of its own humanity. I 106 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:17.879 called again at the house at Hyde Park many times, 107 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:19.839 and we became friends. 108 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:21.720 We talked away. 109 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:24.920 Many evening hours and the months that followed, sitting by 110 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:28.160 the book covered table in the long study, the gray 111 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:32.160 parrot chattering away in the background, with the lamplight barely 112 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:40.160 reaching the farther corners. It was on such a night, 113 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:44.279 not long ago, that the thing began. Guildia had seemed 114 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.399 uncommonly nervous since dinner, and had spent much of the 115 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.000 time pacing in front of the windows that faced. 116 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:53.199 The park confounded much, and I can't seem to relax tonight. 117 00:06:53.360 --> 00:07:00.439 I ever feel a completely unaccountable presentiment, since that something 118 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:02.279 remarkable was about to happen. 119 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:06.040 And usually it never did. Turned out to be the 120 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:07.240 effect of too much coffee. 121 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:10.319 Oh, it's note, coffee doesn't bother me. Nothing does. 122 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:13.360 But then suppose you stop pacing the floor and sit down. 123 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:15.360 You're wearing me out. 124 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.240 Have you noticed how well Napoleon's learned to imitate your voice? 125 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:21.279 Yes, and it's almost insulting at times. 126 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:25.240 The worst thing is feeling such a strong compulsion to 127 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:27.519 do something which I know to be ridiculous. 128 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:29.800 Exactly what is it you're talking about? 129 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:33.439 Guilion fully sh even to mention it, But I wonder 130 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:35.519 if you'd pardon me for a few minutes. Of course, 131 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:38.759 I heard yourself to more coffee, bye, come by. 132 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:42.120 I walked over and stood stroking the feathers of the 133 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:45.240 parrot through the bars of his cage. I'd grown rather 134 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:48.519 fond of the ugly bird, but it always startled me 135 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:53.920 to hear him mimic some phrase of mine or Gilia's. Napoleon, 136 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:59.519 you're a true creature of the devil. I happened to 137 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.839 glance out the window toward the park across the street. 138 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:02.879 Ah. 139 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.560 The arc lamp at the corner threw a dim gleam 140 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:09.839 across a bench set just inside the paling, and I 141 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:13.000 was surprised to see Professor Gildea moving about the bench, 142 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:17.240 peering under it, behind it, staring into the shadows near by. 143 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:21.040 He kept this up for some minutes, then crossed the 144 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:24.199 street and came back toward the house. In a moment 145 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:25.800 I heard him ascending the stairs. 146 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:29.759 Ah, the merchison. Has anyone entered this room since I 147 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:30.120 went out? 148 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.120 Why? No, you mean pitting, of course, but he hasn't 149 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:33.960 been in Huh. 150 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:36.240 Strange, very strange. 151 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:38.919 I saw you across the street in the park. 152 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:42.600 What were you doing? I thought I saw something? Wondered 153 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:43.080 what it was? 154 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:43.519 That's all? 155 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:44.480 Did you find out? 156 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:45.200 Now? 157 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:48.200 What's wrong with that? Parroty never made a sound like 158 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:48.679 that before? 159 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:51.559 What you mean? He seems all right? Napoleon stopped that. 160 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:53.240 What was it? 161 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:54.559 You thought you saw thing? 162 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:57.840 As you said it most likely it was the coffee. 163 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:03.799 Only I'm very much afraid that now, in this daily age, 164 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:05.559 it's impossible. 165 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:19.559 It was nearly a week later that I received a 166 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:23.600 phone call in my quarters at the rectory, Father Murchison here. 167 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:24.679 This is Pitting, sir. 168 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:26.840 Professor Gilder's man, Oh, yes, Pitting. 169 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:28.240 How are you very well? 170 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:31.200 Thank you, sir. The Master would greatly appreciate your calling 171 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:32.799 at the house receivening if it's. 172 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:34.600 Convenient, sir, Oh, anything wrong? 173 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:36.840 I couldn't say, sir. 174 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:39.200 But why didn't he phone himself? He isn't ill. 175 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:40.399 I think not. 176 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:42.399 He suggested eight o'clock. 177 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:42.679 Sir? 178 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:43.840 May I tell him you come? 179 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:47.960 Yes? Yes, by all means, tell him I'll be there 180 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:49.679 at eight A. 181 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:02.360 No use beating about the bush, rather mechs and I 182 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:04.840 am nervous, of course, I am plenty of reason for it. 183 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:07.879 And you're working too hard now I'm working too hard. 184 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:10.639 The other night it was coffee. As a matter of fact, 185 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:14.159 it's neither one. Quiet Napoleon. 186 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:17.279 Maybe you'd better tell me what is the matter, Guildia. 187 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:22.799 Do do you feel the presence in this room of 188 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:24.279 anyone beside the two of us? 189 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:26.559 Well, there's Napoleon of course. 190 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:31.799 Now now I don't mean the parrot. He senses it too, though, 191 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:35.000 senses what when you were here last week? I left 192 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.480 the house for a few minutes. You remember, I'd been 193 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.879 watching someone sitting on that bench across in the park, 194 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:43.360 a shadowy sort of figure. I had to find out. 195 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:45.440 What it was, but you found nothing. You told me 196 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:46.080 when you came back. 197 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:49.440 That's right. But I'd left the front door open, and 198 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:52.440 when I came back in, I felt suddenly that someone 199 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:55.639 or something had entered ahead of me. Oh now, really, Gil, 200 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:58.759 I knew also that they'd found their way to this room. 201 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:01.360 But I was here all the time. No one came in. 202 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:05.279 Father Murchison. Whoever whatever came into the house that night 203 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:07.919 came into this room is still here right. 204 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:10.159 Now, you Guilia a scientist. 205 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:12.799 Yes, ridiculous, isn't it? 206 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:14.159 But it's true. 207 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:18.399 I'm only able to feel its presence. Napoleon can see it. 208 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:21.840 Look at him now, wouldn't you say he was watching 209 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:24.120 something over there in that far corner of the room. 210 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.320 No, I'd say he was just being as foolish as 211 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:27.120 a parrot usually. 212 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:30.960 Is you skeptic about this? Yes, you've been working too hard. 213 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:33.440 You need a vacation. I haven't told you the worst 214 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:37.799 part of it. Would you say that I'm an attractive man? 215 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:39.159 Frankly? 216 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:39.679 No? 217 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:43.039 Oh, I suppose to a certain type of society woman. 218 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:45.399 No, no, no, no, that's not what I'm talking about. 219 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:47.240 Well, then what are you talking about? 220 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:52.120 I don't know whether this intruder is a woman, man, child, animal, 221 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:56.639 Whatever it is, it holds a vast affection for me. 222 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:03.039 What you imagine anything so utterly mon horrible Mutchison, The 223 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:04.080 thing is in. 224 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:05.080 Love with me. 225 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:05.639 Am. 226 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:20.080 I could not would not accept Guildia's belief, and yet 227 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:23.840 the alternative was even more frightful, for I could only 228 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:26.279 decide that the long hours of study and lecturing had 229 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:29.200 affected his mind and brought him, in fact, to the 230 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:33.039 verge of insanity. I persuaded him finally to get away 231 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:35.200 for a while, to leave the house and forget his 232 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:39.039 professional problems, take a short trip. I accompanied him to 233 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:42.320 Victoria's station, saw him off on the boat train, and 234 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:45.399 then caught up in my duties. I had little time 235 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:54.639 to consider the strange affair for nearly ten days. Father Murchison, here, 236 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:57.519 I hope I haven't disturbed John Professor Guildia. Then you're 237 00:12:57.559 --> 00:12:58.240 back in London. 238 00:12:58.399 --> 00:12:59.960 Yes, I've been back for three days. 239 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:01.080 You should have called me. 240 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:03.799 I was the trip quite pleasant. I took passage on 241 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:06.080 a channel coaster. See, I was wonderful. 242 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:09.879 You weren't troubled on the trip, not at all. 243 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:14.799 It waited here for me. What will you come over 244 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:15.440 here tonight? 245 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:16.600 Do you mean now? 246 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:19.360 Yes? If you could, you see I can prove. 247 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:23.279 It to you now very well, I'll come right over. 248 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:29.279 I stood there with the phone and shivered. The thing 249 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:33.000 had become so real to him now that he felt 250 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:35.840 he could go away and leave it, then come back 251 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:43.320 and find it waiting for him. 252 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:45.639 That's why I didn't call you when I first came back. 253 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.039 I wanted to be sure. So I've waited three days, 254 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:49.919 and every day has been worse than the one before. 255 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:50.600 In what way? 256 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:51.159 What do you mean? 257 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:54.519 I mean? The thing was waiting for me here, glad 258 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:58.879 I was back farmed or over me came more insistently 259 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:00.200 obnoxious all the time. 260 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:02.240 You mean you've seen this thing? 261 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:03.039 Oh? 262 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:05.200 No, I haven't seen it, haven't heard it. But I 263 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:09.120 know it's here. I can feel it, sense it. Try 264 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:11.240 to put it in words, it becomes absurd. 265 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:15.240 If you'd like some unsolicited advice, call in a doctor, 266 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:18.000 have him look you over. And what doctor in London 267 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.039 knows any more about the human mind than I do? 268 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:20.639 I know? 269 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:21.639 But when it's your own. 270 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:24.279 Now, I know you're thinking of hysteria. Have you seen Nation? 271 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.120 I know all the symptoms. It's not that simple anywhere 272 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:31.080 I told you, I prove it to you. You'll notice 273 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:33.399 I've thrown a cover over Napoleon's cage years I've been 274 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:36.440 wondering about it. Is part of my proof. He's been here, 275 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:38.120 you know, all the time I was gone here in 276 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:40.159 this room. Yes, but I still I want you to 277 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:43.120 get behind those curtains with me. Then I'll reach out 278 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.600 and pull the cloth off his cage. I don't want 279 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:48.200 him to see us. I don't know what you're hoping 280 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:57.120 to prove, but all right, come on ready, I'll uncover him. 281 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:01.519 Ah. 282 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:05.080 We crouched there behind the curtains, watching the parrot. He 283 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:08.159 protested a while, being so rudely disturbed. 284 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:11.080 By some unseen agency, then climbed about the cage with 285 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:12.279 claws and beak. 286 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:19.360 Pecked at crumbs and appeared entirely normal. After time, he 287 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:22.799 began to fix his attention on a spot across the room. 288 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:24.799 There was nothing there watch him. 289 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:25.919 Look at him. 290 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:26.159 Now. 291 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:28.960 In the parrot's mind, at least some one or some 292 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:32.759 thing was approaching the cage and yet the room was empty. 293 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:41.480 Whatever it was apparently had reached the cage now, and 294 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:46.720 Napoleon welcomed with friendly chalkling. The hair rose on the 295 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:49.919 back of my neck, for the bird was cooling and 296 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:52.519 gurgling as he did of an eye or Guildia scratched 297 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:55.759 the feathers on his head. I could almost fancy that 298 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:59.159 I saw long, white, gristly fingers reaching through the bars. 299 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:02.559 Of the cage. And listen to him. He's talking to 300 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:09.279 the thing, imitating. It's see what you'll think. 301 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:17.559 The bird was moving about in the cage now, nodding 302 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.519 his head in a very peculiar manner, uttering the most 303 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:26.120 extraordinary sounds. I began to realize he was imitating the 304 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:29.759 thing he saw standing by his cage, and then the 305 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:32.679 full horror of it came over me. I tried to 306 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:35.879 hide the thought from Guildea, but he'd already seen it 307 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:36.519 in my eye. 308 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:38.799 So you see it too. That's all I wanted to 309 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:43.159 know that I wasn't imagining it, No quite in hiding 310 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:46.120 there any longer. That was my proof. But perhaps someone 311 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:48.600 was here while you were gone. I have questioned Pitting 312 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:50.679 and the cook. No one has been here, but it 313 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:53.720 can't be such a thing, can't be. It is? But 314 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:54.600 where where is it? 315 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:55.840 Now? Can you tell me where it is? 316 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:55.960 Not? 317 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:58.799 Exactly somewhere here in the room, not too far away. 318 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:01.919 I can feel that. Napoleon, of course can see it. 319 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:04.640 There is some rational explanation. 320 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:06.680 There has to be. Oh whistling in the dark. Father, 321 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:08.480 you recognize the same thing I did. 322 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:10.200 I know what you mean. 323 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:12.039 Of course, Well, I can't stand much more of it. 324 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:14.680 If it were only something I could fight, strike out head. 325 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:17.720 I'm not a coward, but I can't see it, hear it. 326 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:20.880 I can only feel it trying to touch me somehow, 327 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:23.799 trying to get close to me, drooling with desire and affection, 328 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:26.640 fondness for me, And I can't given away. It gets 329 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:27.440 closer all the time. 330 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:29.200 Eli, You've got to get hold of yourself. 331 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:31.640 A hold of myself. You saw the way that perativitated 332 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:36.160 this thing, those mannerisms, that gibberish. You know what it 333 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:37.279 means as well as I do. 334 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:39.160 I saw it. But it can't possibly. 335 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:41.039 Don't you feel how hideous. 336 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:41.240 It is for me? 337 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:45.200 I can't stop it. The thing makes love to me, 338 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:48.880 caresses me in whatever it is. It has no mind. 339 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:54.039 You saw that that thing is a slaverign idiot. 340 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:05.559 I walked home at a late hour, trying desperately to 341 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:08.640 think of some reasonable answer to the whole strange affair. 342 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:12.440 I could not accept Guildea's explanation of the actions of 343 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:16.559 the parrot, though the bird had produced an extraordinary illusion 344 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:20.640 of an invisible presence in that room. In a day 345 00:18:20.680 --> 00:18:23.440 gone by, perhaps I might have been called in to 346 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:28.920 deal with an evil spirit. I thought of retribution. Guildia 347 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:33.240 had always borne an unnatural distaste for human love? Was 348 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:37.000 he now being forced to endure the unnatural love of 349 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:41.960 a monstrous being as punishment? I cast such thoughts away 350 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:45.000 from me. Yet I could not quite accept the only 351 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:51.519 other reasonable solution, and my friend was insane. It was 352 00:18:51.680 --> 00:19:00.920 very late when I fell asleep. The following evening, I 353 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:03.799 preached at Warwick Chapel and returned to my quarters about nine. 354 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:07.160 I found the Pitting had called a short time before, 355 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.440 and left a rather puzzling message, implore that you come 356 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:14.160 to Hyde Park at once, otherwise I cannot answer for 357 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:24.319 the consequences. But what is it you're trying to say? 358 00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:24.640 Pitting? 359 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:27.119 He's not himself? In what way is he not himself? 360 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:30.039 I can only suggest sir that you talked to him. 361 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:34.440 Here we are, yes, I'll leave you. 362 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:37.319 Now, sir, Oh Maison, come in. 363 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:38.240 To tell you. 364 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:40.119 What did the name of Heaven is wrong? 365 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:42.920 Pitting said that you'd been a se in human machine. 366 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:43.680 What happened? 367 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:44.279 What did he do? 368 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:44.680 You think? 369 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:46.119 Just it nothing? 370 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:47.079 But I I don't know. 371 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:49.839 You warn me about it once said i'd meet a crisis, 372 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:52.920 need him as a friend and he wouldn't be there. Well, 373 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:53.480 it happened. 374 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:56.160 Ok here, I am going to call a doctor. I've 375 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:57.000 never seen you in a state. 376 00:19:57.079 --> 00:19:57.200 Man. 377 00:19:57.279 --> 00:19:59.359 Now Now I don't need a doctor. I'm all right 378 00:19:59.400 --> 00:20:03.000 now a little while anyway, at least I think I am. 379 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:04.839 Then what was it? What happened? 380 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:09.359 That thing touched me? Rarely touched me, I mean for 381 00:20:09.400 --> 00:20:12.559 the first time, it's only been trying to before. 382 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:15.920 The only way I can put it it it rubbed 383 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:18.240 itself against my soul. 384 00:20:19.240 --> 00:20:20.640 Oh, it was horrible. 385 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:22.160 Now, Gilia, you don't. 386 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:23.319 Tell me to get hold of myself. I know what 387 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:29.680 I'm saying. Yeah, I'm sorry, But if you'd felt it 388 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:31.119 for yourself, you. 389 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:31.720 Know what I mean. 390 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:37.240 It was disgusting, filthy. If it lasted one more minute, 391 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:39.359 I know I should have gone screaming mad. 392 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:43.519 But you don't. You don't feel it now, No, no, no, 393 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:44.039 not now. 394 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:48.119 I lost my head. I guess I struck out with 395 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:50.880 my fists. I tore at myself, screamed for help. Pitting 396 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:54.400 came and thought I was drunk. But I could feel 397 00:20:54.440 --> 00:20:55.319 it touching. 398 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:57.960 Me, sickening, soft and timber. 399 00:20:57.920 --> 00:20:59.200 Inside of me. 400 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:01.279 But it left you then you forced it away. 401 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:05.519