Speaker 1: And now Mystery Theater. Come in. We're welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
I have a question to ask you. What is hell?
Where is it?
Speaker 2: Some say it's a place that the soul goes to
after death to be purified. Others believe that hell is
right here on earth, that indeed, life is a synonym
for hell. Which is right? Are both right? Perhaps they'll
know one thing sure though. If life on Earth isn't
hell for everyone, it's certainly candy for some.
Speaker 1: Henry and Matilda Smith to mention only two.
Speaker 3: Henry, I don't believe you.
Speaker 4: You couldn't have done such a thing, not.
Speaker 1: You, miss Matilda me I did it?
Speaker 4: You only imagine you did. I've had when you were starving.
They imagine all kinds of things, horrifying things, they hallucinate.
I don't believe, believe.
Speaker 1: Me, believe me. Look, I'll tike off my coat, look and.
Speaker 5: Believe this s blood soaked in blood, Driving with it,
Driving with blood.
Speaker 2: Our mystery drama The Diamond Necklace was adapted especially for
the Mystery Theater from the classic story of Mopisson by
George Lowther and stars Mandel Kramer and Marion Sells.
Speaker 1: I have asked Where is Hell? What is it?
Speaker 2: I have often pondered the question and came to no resolution.
But surely one thing is true, that if life on
earth is not itself hell, it is often a very
convincing imitation.
Speaker 1: The statement you're about to hear proves that.
Speaker 2: A statement an account written by a man named Henry
Smith in New York City in the year eighteen ninety seven,
A memoir, if you will, of a special kind of horror.
Speaker 1: Yes, I am going to kill myself.
Speaker 5: With this gun, put a bullet through my head, and
end once and for all the mortal terror, the hideous
misery of these past ten years. Believe me, it is
not the horror as I've been through because of the
diamond necklace, not the ten frightful years of grinding poverty
and unremitting torment. Not the murder nor the suicide, not
the utter misery, not these that make me take my life.
Speaker 6: But the shock, the awful shock of what I heard today,
the shock which may, for all I know, have unhinged
my mind, but in any case has destroyed all desire
to go on living.
Speaker 1: Where to begin my story? Anywhere will do? I suppose?
Speaker 5: So I'll begin with that moment when in sudden frustration,
I flung the glass of wine against the wall.
Speaker 4: Sorry, Darling, my don.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, until I'm sorry. Sometimes I just don't think
I can bear anymore. It's too much, Dear.
Speaker 4: The world hasn't come to an end, all right. You've
had bad luck for a number of years.
Speaker 1: Bad luck abominable, that's what it's been. Has anyone worked
harder than I have to be a success?
Speaker 5: Has anyone tried more than I have try and tried?
What happens every time the glove shop? All our savings
in the glove shop and it burns to the ground
on opening day, all of our savings gone.
Speaker 1: And then the job.
Speaker 5: At Mountjoy's for three years, three solid years, I break
my back as a clerk, and then I'm promoted to
four walker.
Speaker 3: And what happened isn't your fault. You came down with
the flea.
Speaker 1: You never my fault, Matilda. That's the point.
Speaker 7: I try, and I try, and I get nowhere.
Speaker 5: This morning I go back to Mountjoye two weeks ill.
When I go back to the floor walker job, I think,
now you go out by steak a bottle of wine
and we'll splurge a little to celebrate. Sorry Smith, Klia,
says Cardia the great Kyyer head floor walker. Sorry Smith,
we had to give the job to Plateau. It's just
too much more tool. I can't take it an hour.
Speaker 8: Please look here another glass of wine. Drink this one.
It will relax you. Things won't look so black. You'll
see the brighter side.
Speaker 1: What brighter side?
Speaker 4: Well? A love for one thing?
Speaker 9: How can you love a failure? I don't love a failure.
I love you and you're not a failure. Damn, my dearest.
We're young, we're healthy, we're in love together. We can
face anything, overcome anything.
Speaker 4: Oh darling. It reminds me. Something came for you in
a mail today. It looks important.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, expensive envelope, it's addressed to me.
Speaker 1: And find out what it is. Beautiful paper. We sell
this kind of heavy development, Henry, what is it? I
don't understand this. What is it? Do you see for yourself? Here?
Speaker 3: Mister and missus Roger and Wick mountjoy the third request
the pleasure of your company at the dinner party, the
evening request, the pleasure of our company. That's impossible. He
owns about Joyce and you're just another clerk?
Speaker 1: Is that what you were going to say. Oh no,
it's not as impossible as you may think. An invitation
like this.
Speaker 3: But they take a floor walker job away because.
Speaker 5: You've been able to read, Because maybe, just maybe Mountjoy
is something better for me.
Speaker 1: He's noticed how hard I've worked these.
Speaker 5: Past three years, the long hours I've put in, the
overtime without pay.
Speaker 4: Henry, do you think so?
Speaker 5: How else do you explain the invitation? I don't tell
the dearest this is it. My luck has changed dinner
with the Mountjoy. So it can mean only one thing,
not just a promotion, but a big promotion. I'll have
to rinse some dinner clothes. I don't have any dying.
Speaker 4: I can't rent a gown.
Speaker 1: You'll buy one with what we've got forty three dollars.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to touch our saying it got.
Speaker 1: To darling, this is important. Take what you need to
take it all by the best gown. You can find
something that will be worthy of your beauty.
Speaker 4: But guding, you don't understand. I'll need more than a gown,
shoes to match, a handburg of other things. Oh, I'll
need jewelry of some sort of pin, or a necklace
of string of pearls.
Speaker 3: Where would I get that?
Speaker 10: That is a problem.
Speaker 5: Must wait a minute. How about your friend, Missus Forrester.
You mean borrow something from her?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 4: Oh no, I couldn't.
Speaker 7: She's loaded with jewelry of all kinds, isn't she?
Speaker 5: Every time you talk about the days when you were
you were governess to her kids, you always have a.
Speaker 4: Lot of jewelry. But I'd feel awfully orkard. I'd be embarrassed.
Speaker 7: Why, mat Tella, your friends you go to a house
for tea once a year.
Speaker 1: Well, even so you are friends, she likes you.
Speaker 4: Well, if you think it would be all right.
Speaker 5: Why shouldn't it be? Look this invitation from Mountjoy himself.
It's my big chance, mantel of the chance I've been
waiting for, working for. We can't pass it up. We
have got to go to that dinner party. So sweetheart,
you go buy.
Speaker 7: That gown and you borrow that jewelry.
Speaker 11: Of course, Matilda, certainly it's awfully good of you.
Speaker 3: Missus Forester, I hesitated to.
Speaker 11: Ask home nonsense. Dear, well, come along into the boudoir.
We'll go through all my jewelry and you shall.
Speaker 4: Have your pick.
Speaker 3: Tell me how is that handsome husband of yours.
Speaker 4: Oh he's fine, fine, and about to get his big
chance at Mountjoy's.
Speaker 11: Too an opportunity I'm sure he deserves well. Now my
jewelry is in these boxes. Now you start looking while
I go. Tell Hortense to make tea forest. Thank you,
missus Forster, thank you nothing well. But surely, Matuda, surely
there must be something that will go with your new gown.
These pearls, this, this emerald pin one or another of
these diamond brooches. Oh, surely there's ah, sir, that's it.
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 11: Oh, there is something, but you're too shy to ask
for it. Well, now come coming. What piece has caught
your eye? That one the diamond necklace? Oh I can't ask.
Of course you can, and you're right as always, your
taste is impeccable.
Speaker 4: I don't know how to thank you, who ask for thanks?
Speaker 11: I will ask one thing, though, Matuda, dear anything, be
sure to have the necklace back to me by Saturday.
See I'm going to a dinner party at night.
Speaker 4: Oh, but I'll return it on Thursday, the day after
the Mountjoy party.
Speaker 11: Any time at all, my dear, but no later than Saturday.
And Matilda tell your husband. I couldn't be more delighted
over his good fortune. He deserves it, and so do you?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Driver? No, no, no, that's that's all right.
Keep the change, but tell her wait wait, wait, let
me help you out, Henry.
Speaker 4: Look, have you ever seen anything so beautiful?
Speaker 12: It's a mansion, Oh little blazing with those new electric lights.
Speaker 5: It is a sight, isn't it. Look at the front
doors are wide open. You can see people dancing to
the ballroom.
Speaker 3: Oh those gowns the women are wearing, Henry, do I
look all right?
Speaker 5: You look like a fairy princess. The gown, the diamond necklace.
You are a fairy princess. Come, come, princess. Let's knock
them dead.
Speaker 3: Butler is someone that can give the invitation to you.
Speaker 13: That doesn't seem to me. Oh it doesn't matter. Oh
look what the man coming towards. That's Rondo Mountjoy himself, Matilda.
He's going to greet us personally. Ah, can I help you.
We're here for your party, your dinner party. Mister Mountjoy,
you were you know me? Of course we've met.
Speaker 1: Have we?
Speaker 5: Well not, actually I've seen you, of course any number
of times at the department store but we've never really met.
Speaker 14: Then, I'm afraid I'm rather at a loss to understand
what you're.
Speaker 5: Doing here, mister Mountjoy. I'm Henry Smith. Oh, I'm employed
by you at the department store, a clerk in sporting goods.
You invited me and my wife to your party tonight,
so you're the mistake. You are the mistake that was made.
Speaker 1: Mistake.
Speaker 14: Let me see the invitation, certainly, yes, yes, addressed to
Henry Smith spelled SMI thh that full secretary of mine.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Well, it is simple enough, Smith.
Speaker 14: I have a friend, a close friend named Henry smile
spelled smy thch. My secretary simply sent the invitation to.
Speaker 1: You instead of him.
Speaker 14: A mistake, a ridiculous mistake.
Speaker 1: Ridiculous, But what else would you call it?
Speaker 14: Fortunately, embarrassing, unfortunate, embarrassing, ridiculous, whatever you call it. I
am not in the habit of inviting my clerks to
my home. Now, I'll say good night to you and
to your decidedly attractive wife. I'm very sorry, my dear,
very sorry.
Speaker 1: Sorry doesn't help matters much. Mister Monteux.
Speaker 5: Your secretary makes a mistake, and we make all sorts
of preparations for your parting clothes that we can hardly afford.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, good night.
Speaker 5: No, you can't just put us out like this. Not
put us out like that, beggars. I don't mind for myself,
but my wife has looked forward to this.
Speaker 1: She's bought a new gown, you shoes, successories.
Speaker 7: Look forward with greatness as a patient.
Speaker 1: Please God through you, heartless.
Speaker 4: Good night, mister Mountjoy.
Speaker 1: Perhaps we'll meet again, missus Smith.
Speaker 4: I don't think so, mister Mountjoy, Come henry him. It
was a mistake, an unfortunate.
Speaker 5: Mistake, wrong Matila, a ridiculous mistake. You heard him, you
heard a great Roger ben with Montjoy. The third ridiculous
mistake Smith, Yes, ridiculous. All right, clerk spends the savings
of nearly two years.
Speaker 4: Maybe I could take the gown and the shoes back cab.
Speaker 1: They're all across town, They're and back into him. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: He might refund it.
Speaker 1: They munster him in the nose is what I should
have done. Punched him in the nose.
Speaker 4: And found yourself out of a job in the morning.
If you still have a job at Mount June, I.
Speaker 7: Don't give a damn if I've got a job there
or not.
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn.
Speaker 7: If I ever sit inside of Montrose a gown, I.
Speaker 4: Don't give a dam.
Speaker 3: Henry, what's wrong? Why are you staring at me like that?
Speaker 1: Where's the necklace?
Speaker 4: The necklace?
Speaker 7: Yes, the necklace, the diamond necklace, Matilda?
Speaker 1: Where is it.
Speaker 4: Gone? Ah, Henry, Henry, I've lost the diamond necklace.
Speaker 2: If you're a man listening to my voice, butt yourself
in Henry Smith's shoes, And if a woman in Matilda's
and tell me that hell doesn't exist on earth, go on,
tell me. I'll return shortly for Act two. To the
thoughtful person, the emotion of terror need not be activated
only by the horrendous. There are many forms of terror.
The quick and sudden terror which makes the soul scream
out in agony, the slow and eroding kind, which makes
the soul moan in mounting fear. Is the terror of
a man going to his death any greater than say,
a baby wailing with hunger and in fear? There may
not be another meal? Henry Smith can give you the answer.
I can hardly write these words.
Speaker 5: My hand's a numb, and not only with the bitter
cold of the sateless room, the chill of the winter
wind seeping through the broken window, but also the horror,
the true horror.
Speaker 1: Memory brings back to me.
Speaker 4: Words, gone, Henry, I've lost the diamond necklace.
Speaker 1: How could you have lost it?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but it's good.
Speaker 5: Off your rap? Maybe maybe what I don't know. Maybe
when it's slipped from your neck you've got caught inside
the ram. I doubt if you could walk anyhow.
Speaker 4: No, it's not here.
Speaker 11: It's gone, Henry, A fortune in Diamond's law.
Speaker 1: Don't pannick. We mustn't panic now, we we'll just keep calming.
Just think, Try to remember when did you last have
the necklace? When did you last notice it?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I can't remember. You must.
Speaker 1: How did you have it in the cab going to Mountjoy's.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I had it then, and I remembered, Yes
I had it when we got out and walked up
the steps to the door.
Speaker 3: You sure of that, Oh, yes, I remember putting my
hand on it, patting it.
Speaker 1: Did you have it in the cab on the way
home from Mountjoy's?
Speaker 4: Oh? I don't remember.
Speaker 7: Try to remember, Please try did you didn't.
Speaker 4: You we don't know. I was too upset to notice.
Speaker 1: Well, you've got to find that necklace.
Speaker 4: Where are you going?
Speaker 5: Going out to find it? I'll try and find the cab,
but we hired on the way back. I'll go to
Mountjoy's house and look around outside.
Speaker 1: Have we any money?
Speaker 4: Money?
Speaker 1: Or I can't walk to Mountjoy's It's too far. I'll
have to take a care.
Speaker 4: Let's see. We have two dollars and some change left.
Speaker 1: Right, give it to me.
Speaker 4: Oh, Henry, wait, there's no food in the house for tomorrow.
You don't get paid till Saturday. No, I don't, Henry.
Speaker 1: Oh that scares you, doesn't it.
Speaker 5: Two dollars and change, no food in the house, no
pat till saturday.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's right now. I think I'm going to be sicken.
Speaker 4: Oh, my darling, Henry, all right, I'm all.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm all right.
Speaker 5: Expect me to see me, Henry. Forgive me, darling, Darling,
it isn't your father. Get that thought out of your head.
Speaker 1: It isn't your fault.
Speaker 4: It's my fault. It thank you, Henry.
Speaker 3: Yes, what I must have followed this sleep stay they done?
You didn't find it?
Speaker 4: No, I could kill myself till.
Speaker 5: The Matilda Police. Sweetheart, you mustn't feel guilty about this.
We've got to do an now is figure out what
to do?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 5: Have you any idea how expensive it was the necklace?
Speaker 4: It came in a Carteret box.
Speaker 5: Carteret, the most expensive jewelers in town must have cost
a fortune. Well, I guess there's no way out but
for you to tell Missus Forrest.
Speaker 15: Oh.
Speaker 4: I couldn't do that. I couldn't.
Speaker 1: Possibly you have to. There's nothing else we can do.
Speaker 4: Oh, there's got to be something I'd rather die than
go to Missus Forrester until her. I lost the necklace.
I can't do it, Henry.
Speaker 1: I don't know what else.
Speaker 4: We'll replace it. We'll have to replace it places. How well,
I'll go to Carteret's and describe the necklace. They just
might have a duplicate.
Speaker 3: Well they might.
Speaker 1: And if they do, what then.
Speaker 5: You hand them this dollar and thirty nine cents I've
got left and take the necklace to Missus Forrester.
Speaker 1: You're going out of your mind.
Speaker 5: If I haven't done close to it, go to Missus
Forster tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Hen We don't.
Speaker 4: Please, don't make me go.
Speaker 5: When have I ever made you do anything? All right,
we'll find a way out of this.
Speaker 1: All right. Look, you go to Carterriittz tomorrow.
Speaker 5: And see what you come up with, and we'll just
we'll just have to take it from there. But what
if they don't have a duplicate? That is what worries me.
What worries me is what if they do.
Speaker 16: If I am madam, I would say this necklace is
quite nearly a perfect match to the one you described.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes it is. How much is it here?
Speaker 5: Six thousand, five hundred dollars, madam?
Speaker 1: I all right, yes, quite all right.
Speaker 11: I suppose that it must be paid for all at once,
all at once.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a new way of paying for things.
Speaker 16: These do mean the installment by madam, our customers have
no need of it.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, now I'll let.
Speaker 4: You know meajuwish six thousand, five hundred dollars you said.
Speaker 16: Yeah, six thousand, five hundred, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 14: Come in, mister Smith, Yes, mister brock Henry Smith. Frankie
Matthews sent you to me.
Speaker 1: Yes, he works in the department next to mine.
Speaker 14: In hats, I got more than one client from Mountjoyce.
What I'm saying, you're in good hands, missus Smith.
Speaker 1: Let's see your.
Speaker 5: Full name, Henry James Smith, address to two seven East
ninth Street to seventy.
Speaker 1: Okay, how much you want.
Speaker 5: To buy six thousand, five hundred dollars in collateral?
Speaker 1: If I had collateral, I have gone to the bank,
mister Brock. Somebody twisted you on to come to me. No, no,
of course, not so why.
Speaker 14: Selp me, mister Smith? I don't need you. You'll need
me right, Yes. The way I operate I I make
you a straight loaned interest. You pay back the principle
when and as you can. Long as you pay the
interest each month, we got no problem.
Speaker 1: How much interest? One percent?
Speaker 5: One percent, one percent of six thousand, five hundred dollars.
That's uh sixty dollars and fifty cents right right, Well there,
that isn't too bad. I guess I can manage sixty
dollars and fifty cents a year.
Speaker 14: I guess a month's mister Smith? What one percent a month?
Sixty dollars and fifty cents a month?
Speaker 1: A month? But well, that's usually ay.
Speaker 14: You know something, Smith, is a good thing. I don't
charge for insults. You'd be in the real mess of well,
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to insult you. It's just
a good lord, I couldn't possibly afford all that. Not
a mysel.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to hear it. You wasted my time. Oh wait,
wait now i'm waiting.
Speaker 5: Well I'm all right, all right, I'll take it in
and don't worry.
Speaker 1: I'll find a way to pay the interest. Don't worry,
I won't.
Speaker 14: I never worry, mister Smith. I let my clients do
it all.
Speaker 11: Why no, no, Matilda, dear, I wasn't in the least concern. Well,
I did say i'd return the necklace Thursday. Here it
is Saturday. I'll not be wearing it till tonight. And well,
it certainly wasn't your fault. The class broke. Oh but
the class isn't quite the same as the old one.
Look i'll show you a no, no, don't bother. Just
just toss the box over there, missus Forrester. I was wondering, yes, dear, wondering,
would you know of anyone who might need a governess?
Speaker 4: You?
Speaker 3: Yes, you're in need of employment. Well, Henry doesn't make
much under I thought I might.
Speaker 4: Help out a little.
Speaker 11: I see with see, now I'm afraid I don't know
of anyone who needs a governess.
Speaker 3: No, but I yes, Oh no, that wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Be for you. I'm not proud, Missus Forster.
Speaker 11: If it's honest work, honest enough, my dear, but exhausting.
You see, a friend of mine, a very large family
needs someone to do washing, a washerwoman.
Speaker 4: I told you it wouldn't be for you.
Speaker 11: Well, I'll ask around among my friends and let you
know if I come up with anything.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 11: Now, just let me be sure I have your address correct?
Speaker 4: Oh we're moving, are you? Oh? Do you know where?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 11: One one Delahunty Street, Della handy. But my dear, isn't
that well? Isn't that thought to be something about slum
area that dad Matilda child.
Speaker 3: Has something gone wrong?
Speaker 11: Are you and Henry in some sort of trouble you're
not telling me about?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Well then, and why are you willing to take a
job as a washerwoman? Why are you moving to Delahunty Street.
Speaker 11: Very well, I won't press you, but please do keep
one thing in mind. I'm always willing and ready to
help you in any way.
Speaker 3: You will keep that in mind, won't you, dear?
Speaker 11: Thank you missus Forrest, Goodbye, goodbye, my dear, and thank
you for returning the necklace. If you ever want to
borrow it again, thank you. I don't think I will
not ever again.
Speaker 14: We made a deal Smith a month ago of the day.
Now you come in and tell me you can't pay
the well, not all of it, mister Brock. But what
I've got thirty four dollars of the.
Speaker 1: Sixty, sixty and fifty. Said yes, and.
Speaker 14: If you'll just accept that, sure, sure, let's have it.
You'll bring the rest tomorrow at the same time, six o'clock.
Speaker 5: But that's impossible, impossible.
Speaker 1: It's taken me a month to get thirty four dollars together.
Speaker 5: How am I going to get practically.
Speaker 1: As much again?
Speaker 5: And just today that's your problem. Well, no, that's a
problem I can't solve. Look, i'll pay you. I'll pay
you every cent I owe you, but you've got to
give me time.
Speaker 14: Time is money, mister Smith, and you haven't gotten much
of either.
Speaker 1: Let me show you something. You see this, Yes, what
is it? A switchblade? Knife?
Speaker 14: Very sharp, missus Smith, Raise this sharp and I'll tell
you how it's going to be. You come here tomorrow
at six o'clock and you have the money or I'll
take a piece out of your right.
Speaker 1: Ear with his knife. You'll come back tomorrow at six o'clock.
Speaker 14: And if you still haven't got the money, I take
a piece out of your left ear.
Speaker 1: You're I know what I am? You better know what
you are.
Speaker 14: You're a loser Smith, And you're a loser because you're
a sucking damar Smith. Same time, Oh and bring your wife,
my wife?
Speaker 1: What for? Who knows?
Speaker 14: Maybe secret even maybe save you from losing your life?
Who knows? Smith?
Speaker 2: If ever terror, cold, chilling terror struck through a man's soul,
it strikes through Henry Smith's.
Speaker 1: Snared by circumstances he did not create.
Speaker 2: He is now like an animal caught in a trap,
quivering with terror, shaking with horror, and all because of
a diamond necklace, that diamond necklace borrowed and lost. I'll
return shortly for at three, missus. Who knows for the
us what bitter, cruel, insupportable tragedy can smash a human
life because of one mischance. Henry and Matilda Smith have
discovered this, to their sorrow. Had Henry or Matilda thought
for a moment, they might have realized that the party
invitation from Roger Mountjoy had to be a mistake in
any case, had they realized this, certainly Matilda would never
have borrowed that diamond necklace for Missus Forrester and lose it.
And had Matilda not lost it, well, let Henry tell us.
Speaker 5: The wind outside, the strengthening, getting colder, snow was beginning
to fall, the last snow I should ever seen.
Speaker 1: It would that I've never seen the light of day,
never been born.
Speaker 5: When I remember what took place in Brock's office the
next day, going to his office filled me with.
Speaker 1: Fear, but not going would have made me more fearful. Still.
Speaker 5: I entered his office in a cold sweat and found
myself trembling with nerves.
Speaker 14: As he said, I thought you'd find the money somehow,
I was sure of it.
Speaker 5: I haven't found it, mister Brocker, haven't got it.
Speaker 14: You didn't bring your wife, so I yet I figured
you had the money. No, maybe you don't hear too good?
Even with ears. You remember this, I see you do.
But also you remember maybe that I said bring your wife.
Speaker 1: Well, I remember, mister Brockert look me in just a little.
Speaker 4: Time, all not time.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm gonna get.
Speaker 4: Yeah, saw.
Speaker 1: It looks.
Speaker 14: You see this, This is a little piece of pink
stuff on the tip of the knife. That's you, Smith's
just a little, very little piece of your ears. But
don't you worry about it.
Speaker 1: It's bleeding a lot, but it'll heal. Now you'll be shot.
Speaker 14: Go and get your wife, Smith, Bring her here. She's working, Yeah, yeah,
I know, doing the Washington of some rich dame, rowing
in her hands, rowing in her looks, her body, especially
her looks, and everybody you don't want.
Speaker 1: That's the box. He's helping me get the money to
pay you. There's easier ways. I will not bring my
wife here. You think I don't know what you mean
by easier ways?
Speaker 14: Oh, you know all right, you're smart, real smart. Look,
let me lay it out for you. You're into me
for six five hundred bucks. Like I tell you you,
I don't care about you're paying off the principle. I
got ways of getting that in time. What I want
now is the interest. Now your wife could make more
than that in one Now you do rot old? Are
you miserable that unless you want me to do more?
Wouldn't wait me back a knife? Then you'll give advice
stailing for me I warn you stay away. Why you
use the knife on me? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Smith.
Speaker 14: You're gonna go and get that sexy wife of yours
and you're gonna bring I.
Speaker 5: Hear you, Matilda your home?
Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am, my back was.
Speaker 11: I was working over the tubs today and it began
to paint again. So him your why is a sheet
and trembling? Henry, what happened?
Speaker 7: I killed a man, Matilda, I killed a man.
Speaker 1: Oh block the money lender.
Speaker 4: No, Henry, I don't believe you. You couldn't have done
such a thing, not you.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Matilda, I did it.
Speaker 4: No, you just imagine that you did. I've heard that
when people are starving, they imagine all kinds of things,
horrifying things. They are hallucinating.
Speaker 3: I don't believe, I believe me.
Speaker 5: Look, I'll take off my coat, look and believe you
shit in blood, dripping with blood.
Speaker 4: Take it off, quickly, take it off, and I'll wash it.
Speaker 1: And can't wash it.
Speaker 7: Nobody must know, and you'd have to wash it in
the kitchen or the bathroom down the.
Speaker 4: Hall, now running water in this room to take it
off and hide. I just can't believe you're always so gentle.
Speaker 7: He was threatening me with a life. He cut my ear,
and he was threatening me again.
Speaker 5: If I didn't, if I didn't didn't bring you to
him me, what would he want with me?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but he must have a reason. He
wouldn't threaten you with a knife.
Speaker 1: And unless.
Speaker 7: Oh, what's so funny?
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking, just thinking, what a surprise he'd have
in store?
Speaker 1: Surprise Rock.
Speaker 3: He must have heard how I looked a month ago.
He doesn't know what that month has done to me.
Why didn't you tell him?
Speaker 4: Why didn't you tell him it? Since the night I
lost the necklace, since the night of the note Joy's body,
the body that looked so exciting, it's going to be
so thrilling.
Speaker 2: My.
Speaker 3: Ridiculous snake, ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It was all.
Speaker 4: Horrible. I lost the necklace. I'm the one who couldn't
face missus. Farry, Please, why couldn't I I'm the one
who made you barrel that money. I made you a man.
God forgive me for what you did.
Speaker 5: Nothing, darling, you lost the diamond necklace to anyone.
Speaker 7: And it's over now, All the misery is over. Yes,
Brock is dead.
Speaker 5: I killed him, but I did it in self defense.
Speaker 1: I'm not excusing myself.
Speaker 5: Don't think that you kill a man, You take a
life for whatever the reason.
Speaker 1: You must pay somehow or other. You must pay, and
I will.
Speaker 5: But in the meantime we're out from under the burden,
the awful burden of paying that monthly interest. Even alone,
we can forget it. Who knows about it? It was
between Brock and me. Who else would know. All I'm
saying is what's happened. Gives us a break, gives us
time to recover and make a fresh start. No more
twelve hour washing days for you, no more extra jobs
for me. We can get some rest, we can eat better,
we can store our help.
Speaker 1: So who can that be?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 1: I don't see how one way to find her?
Speaker 4: Yes, hi, may I come in?
Speaker 1: Who are you well?
Speaker 4: I'm afraid we never had the pleasure of meeting face
to face, mister Smithford.
Speaker 3: Arnie told me about you, and maybe he told you
about me.
Speaker 7: Arnie Ernie Brock.
Speaker 11: I'm his wife, Doris or I guess I should say
he's widow.
Speaker 1: No, you won't do this. I won't let you do it.
Speaker 4: What else is there to do?
Speaker 1: Something? We'll find a way. You go behind my back.
You go to that brock woman.
Speaker 3: And I agree to do what she wants, what her
husband wanted.
Speaker 4: There's no other way. If I don't do this, we'll
both sickond and die this way once the.
Speaker 5: Loan is paid, but it will never be paid, Matilda,
the interest alone, the monthly interest, no.
Speaker 4: Interest, not anymore. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Well, I agreed to become a.
Speaker 4: Hostess on one condition. I would pay off the loan
with my earnings, but no more interest. And she agreed, Well,
there seems to be a shortage of girls, of compliant
girls here.
Speaker 1: What's this?
Speaker 4: It's the agreement I made her sign, no interest in
wy Would you please hug me up in the back low, Henry,
please in that dress, in the very gown you bought
for the Montjoy party. It's brand new, Henry. I never
got to wear it very long, never got chance to
dance in it as I thought I would. Oh, that
music was so lovely.
Speaker 3: Remember when we came through the open front doors.
Speaker 12: All those gay people dancing and drinking and.
Speaker 4: Chatting, so many lovely gowns, all those gorgeous colors, and
the electric lights. I've never seen them before, so bright,
so glowing, The music, the music. Oh, if we'd only
danced together Henry one dances. We had that to remember
to dream.
Speaker 12: Want dance with me, It danced with me.
Speaker 4: Take me in your arms and dance with me. Don't
you hear the music.
Speaker 12: It's the walls, it's the walls, saying, the walls and
divine walls, and diving her arms, floating in her arms,
turning and turning.
Speaker 9: My beets gas were cutting his arms of himself, standing
and dining east the.
Speaker 4: Look out to be the window. No lo.
Speaker 11: Hell.
Speaker 17: She was dead when I reached her, five stories below
in the courtyard, crumpled, broken, and.
Speaker 5: We buried her in the gown that she loved someone,
the only pretty gown she had ever hand. And I
saw the coffin lowered into the ground and heard the
first chopple pul and.
Speaker 1: Dirt fall on her face. Made her promise the promise
it took ten years to keep.
Speaker 5: Four hundred and ninety eight four hundred and ninety nine
five hundred.
Speaker 1: The debt is paid, missus Brock.
Speaker 4: Look tell me something. After she died, your wife.
Speaker 11: You could have taken off for the coup I've.
Speaker 4: Never found you.
Speaker 11: Instead, you worked yourself to death. The closet to in
anyways for ten years?
Speaker 1: How come it's the way she would have wanted it.
Speaker 11: Excuse me, I beg your pardon. Yes, are you by
any chance? Are you Henry Smith?
Speaker 1: Ye oh, why, missus Forrest Well of all things?
Speaker 11: I saw you sitting here in the park, and I
thought that that man reminds me of someone, and then
I realized, Henry Smith, it's been a long.
Speaker 1: Time, yes, a very long time.
Speaker 3: And how is Mathilda.
Speaker 11: She stopped coming to see me quite a few years ago,
and I tried to get in touch.
Speaker 3: With her, but you'd moved and left no forwarding address.
Speaker 5: He is dead, Missus Forrester, oh ten years now.
Speaker 3: I am so sorry.
Speaker 4: She was such.
Speaker 11: A delightful little person, so serious, so sincere.
Speaker 3: I remember lending her a diamond necklace to go to
a party.
Speaker 11: She accidentally broke the clasp, And really, I've never seen
anyone so terribly upset over such a little thing.
Speaker 5: A diamond necklace is not a little thing, Missus Farnster.
Speaker 11: Well I suppose not, but not if it were a
real diamond necklace with genuine diamonds. Mine were paced fake
diamond's worth no more than oh one hundred dollars. Oh,
mister Smith, mister Smith, will oh, please please, someone, someone.
Speaker 7: Help me this.
Speaker 4: This man has fainted.
Speaker 5: I cannot live with it, the shock, the horror of
learning that the diamond necklace was a fake. It doesn't
matter now. Nothing has mattered to me since Matilda diond.
Speaker 1: If As.
Speaker 5: I've heard there's a life after death. Miss Gunn will
take me to Matilda in that other life. If not,
I'll at least be out of this one.
Speaker 2: In the words of Gui de Moopisson, how would life
have been for these two if Matilda had not.
Speaker 1: Lost the necklace?
Speaker 18: Who knows how strange life is, how small a thing
will ruin or save one.
Speaker 1: I'll return shortly.
Speaker 2: We owe our story to certainly one of the greatest
of all short story writers, g Demopisson. I've suggested in
the past that we give a thought, a brief moment
of thanks to such men as Oscar Wilde and Edgar.
Speaker 1: Allan Poe, to whom really we owe.
Speaker 2: So much To that list, let's add Monsieur de Monbisson.
Speaker 1: I'm sure will he be pleased.
Speaker 2: Our cast included Mandel Kramer, Marion Seldas, Briana Rayburn, and
Leon Johnny The entire production was under the direction of
Hyman Brown.
Speaker 1: Missus E. G.
Speaker 2: Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Green.
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Speaker 15: Urgent design changes on DC ten's and a busy day
for Congress with mutual PM. I'm Carrie Moran in Los Angeles.
Today's crash of a Korean Airlines jetliner in Libya is
the second d C ten disaster in eight days. A
United DC ten crashed in Sioux City, Iowa, on July nineteenth.
The two deadly incidents are prompting a repeated call from
the International Airline Pilots Association to have the FAA ground
the planes for structural modifications. IAPA spokesman Daniel Smith.
Speaker 19: DC ten has manifested vulnerability to major components that can
cause while we're using a single in the event of
a single side accident can cause catastrophic results in other systems,
ultimately resulting.
Speaker 1: In a crash.
Speaker 15: But McDonald Douglas spokesman Don Hanson says a grounding order
would be out of line.
Speaker 10: It's to be remembered that the accident that happened in
Iowa last week and the one today Tripoli, there's just
no indication of any sort that there's any relationship between them.
Speaker 15: The DC tens have a three point eight percent crash rate,
compared to one and a half percent for Boeing seven
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