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Speaker 1: And now Mystery Theater. Come in. We're welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.

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I have a question to ask you. What is hell?

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Where is it?

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Speaker 2: Some say it's a place that the soul goes to

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after death to be purified. Others believe that hell is

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right here on earth, that indeed, life is a synonym

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for hell. Which is right? Are both right? Perhaps they'll

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know one thing sure though. If life on Earth isn't

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hell for everyone, it's certainly candy for some.

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Speaker 1: Henry and Matilda Smith to mention only two.

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Speaker 3: Henry, I don't believe you.

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Speaker 4: You couldn't have done such a thing, not.

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Speaker 1: You, miss Matilda me I did it?

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Speaker 4: You only imagine you did. I've had when you were starving.

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They imagine all kinds of things, horrifying things, they hallucinate.

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I don't believe, believe.

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Speaker 1: Me, believe me. Look, I'll tike off my coat, look and.

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Speaker 5: Believe this s blood soaked in blood, Driving with it,

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Driving with blood.

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Speaker 2: Our mystery drama The Diamond Necklace was adapted especially for

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the Mystery Theater from the classic story of Mopisson by

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George Lowther and stars Mandel Kramer and Marion Sells.

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Speaker 1: I have asked Where is Hell? What is it?

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Speaker 2: I have often pondered the question and came to no resolution.

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But surely one thing is true, that if life on

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earth is not itself hell, it is often a very

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convincing imitation.

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Speaker 1: The statement you're about to hear proves that.

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Speaker 2: A statement an account written by a man named Henry

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Smith in New York City in the year eighteen ninety seven,

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A memoir, if you will, of a special kind of horror.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I am going to kill myself.

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Speaker 5: With this gun, put a bullet through my head, and

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end once and for all the mortal terror, the hideous

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misery of these past ten years. Believe me, it is

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not the horror as I've been through because of the

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diamond necklace, not the ten frightful years of grinding poverty

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and unremitting torment. Not the murder nor the suicide, not

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the utter misery, not these that make me take my life.

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Speaker 6: But the shock, the awful shock of what I heard today,

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the shock which may, for all I know, have unhinged

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my mind, but in any case has destroyed all desire

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to go on living.

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Speaker 1: Where to begin my story? Anywhere will do? I suppose?

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Speaker 5: So I'll begin with that moment when in sudden frustration,

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I flung the glass of wine against the wall.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, Darling, my don.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, until I'm sorry. Sometimes I just don't think

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I can bear anymore. It's too much, Dear.

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Speaker 4: The world hasn't come to an end, all right. You've

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had bad luck for a number of years.

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Speaker 1: Bad luck abominable, that's what it's been. Has anyone worked

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harder than I have to be a success?

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Speaker 5: Has anyone tried more than I have try and tried?

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What happens every time the glove shop? All our savings

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in the glove shop and it burns to the ground

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on opening day, all of our savings gone.

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Speaker 1: And then the job.

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Speaker 5: At Mountjoy's for three years, three solid years, I break

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my back as a clerk, and then I'm promoted to

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four walker.

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Speaker 3: And what happened isn't your fault. You came down with

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the flea.

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Speaker 1: You never my fault, Matilda. That's the point.

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Speaker 7: I try, and I try, and I get nowhere.

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Speaker 5: This morning I go back to Mountjoye two weeks ill.

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When I go back to the floor walker job, I think,

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now you go out by steak a bottle of wine

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and we'll splurge a little to celebrate. Sorry Smith, Klia,

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says Cardia the great Kyyer head floor walker. Sorry Smith,

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we had to give the job to Plateau. It's just

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too much more tool. I can't take it an hour.

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Speaker 8: Please look here another glass of wine. Drink this one.

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It will relax you. Things won't look so black. You'll

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see the brighter side.

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Speaker 1: What brighter side?

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Speaker 4: Well? A love for one thing?

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Speaker 9: How can you love a failure? I don't love a failure.

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I love you and you're not a failure. Damn, my dearest.

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We're young, we're healthy, we're in love together. We can

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face anything, overcome anything.

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Speaker 4: Oh darling. It reminds me. Something came for you in

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a mail today. It looks important.

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Speaker 1: What is it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, expensive envelope, it's addressed to me.

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Speaker 1: And find out what it is. Beautiful paper. We sell

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this kind of heavy development, Henry, what is it? I

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don't understand this. What is it? Do you see for yourself? Here?

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Speaker 3: Mister and missus Roger and Wick mountjoy the third request

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the pleasure of your company at the dinner party, the

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evening request, the pleasure of our company. That's impossible. He

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owns about Joyce and you're just another clerk?

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Speaker 1: Is that what you were going to say. Oh no,

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it's not as impossible as you may think. An invitation

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like this.

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Speaker 3: But they take a floor walker job away because.

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Speaker 5: You've been able to read, Because maybe, just maybe Mountjoy

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is something better for me.

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Speaker 1: He's noticed how hard I've worked these.

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Speaker 5: Past three years, the long hours I've put in, the

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overtime without pay.

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Speaker 4: Henry, do you think so?

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Speaker 5: How else do you explain the invitation? I don't tell

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the dearest this is it. My luck has changed dinner

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with the Mountjoy. So it can mean only one thing,

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not just a promotion, but a big promotion. I'll have

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to rinse some dinner clothes. I don't have any dying.

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Speaker 4: I can't rent a gown.

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Speaker 1: You'll buy one with what we've got forty three dollars.

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to touch our saying it got.

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Speaker 1: To darling, this is important. Take what you need to

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take it all by the best gown. You can find

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something that will be worthy of your beauty.

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Speaker 4: But guding, you don't understand. I'll need more than a gown,

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shoes to match, a handburg of other things. Oh, I'll

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need jewelry of some sort of pin, or a necklace

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of string of pearls.

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Speaker 3: Where would I get that?

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Speaker 10: That is a problem.

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Speaker 5: Must wait a minute. How about your friend, Missus Forrester.

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You mean borrow something from her?

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Speaker 2: Why not?

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Speaker 4: Oh no, I couldn't.

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Speaker 7: She's loaded with jewelry of all kinds, isn't she?

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Speaker 5: Every time you talk about the days when you were

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you were governess to her kids, you always have a.

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Speaker 4: Lot of jewelry. But I'd feel awfully orkard. I'd be embarrassed.

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Speaker 7: Why, mat Tella, your friends you go to a house

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for tea once a year.

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Speaker 1: Well, even so you are friends, she likes you.

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Speaker 4: Well, if you think it would be all right.

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Speaker 5: Why shouldn't it be? Look this invitation from Mountjoy himself.

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It's my big chance, mantel of the chance I've been

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waiting for, working for. We can't pass it up. We

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have got to go to that dinner party. So sweetheart,

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you go buy.

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Speaker 7: That gown and you borrow that jewelry.

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Speaker 11: Of course, Matilda, certainly it's awfully good of you.

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Speaker 3: Missus Forester, I hesitated to.

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Speaker 11: Ask home nonsense. Dear, well, come along into the boudoir.

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We'll go through all my jewelry and you shall.

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Speaker 4: Have your pick.

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Speaker 3: Tell me how is that handsome husband of yours.

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Speaker 4: Oh he's fine, fine, and about to get his big

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chance at Mountjoy's.

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Speaker 11: Too an opportunity I'm sure he deserves well. Now my

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jewelry is in these boxes. Now you start looking while

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I go. Tell Hortense to make tea forest. Thank you,

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missus Forster, thank you nothing well. But surely, Matuda, surely

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there must be something that will go with your new gown.

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These pearls, this, this emerald pin one or another of

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these diamond brooches. Oh, surely there's ah, sir, that's it.

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Speaker 4: What?

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Speaker 11: Oh, there is something, but you're too shy to ask

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for it. Well, now come coming. What piece has caught

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your eye? That one the diamond necklace? Oh I can't ask.

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Of course you can, and you're right as always, your

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taste is impeccable.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how to thank you, who ask for thanks?

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Speaker 11: I will ask one thing, though, Matuda, dear anything, be

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sure to have the necklace back to me by Saturday.

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See I'm going to a dinner party at night.

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Speaker 4: Oh, but I'll return it on Thursday, the day after

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the Mountjoy party.

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Speaker 11: Any time at all, my dear, but no later than Saturday.

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And Matilda tell your husband. I couldn't be more delighted

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over his good fortune. He deserves it, and so do you?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? Driver? No, no, no, that's that's all right.

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Keep the change, but tell her wait wait, wait, let

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me help you out, Henry.

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Speaker 4: Look, have you ever seen anything so beautiful?

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Speaker 12: It's a mansion, Oh little blazing with those new electric lights.

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Speaker 5: It is a sight, isn't it. Look at the front

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doors are wide open. You can see people dancing to

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Speaker 3: Oh those gowns the women are wearing, Henry, do I

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look all right?

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Speaker 5: You look like a fairy princess. The gown, the diamond necklace.

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You are a fairy princess. Come, come, princess. Let's knock

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them dead.

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Speaker 3: Butler is someone that can give the invitation to you.

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Speaker 13: That doesn't seem to me. Oh it doesn't matter. Oh

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look what the man coming towards. That's Rondo Mountjoy himself, Matilda.

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He's going to greet us personally. Ah, can I help you.

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We're here for your party, your dinner party. Mister Mountjoy,

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you were you know me? Of course we've met.

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Speaker 1: Have we?

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Speaker 5: Well not, actually I've seen you, of course any number

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of times at the department store but we've never really met.

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Speaker 14: Then, I'm afraid I'm rather at a loss to understand

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what you're.

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Speaker 5: Doing here, mister Mountjoy. I'm Henry Smith. Oh, I'm employed

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by you at the department store, a clerk in sporting goods.

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You invited me and my wife to your party tonight,

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so you're the mistake. You are the mistake that was made.

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Speaker 1: Mistake.

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Speaker 14: Let me see the invitation, certainly, yes, yes, addressed to

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Henry Smith spelled SMI thh that full secretary of mine.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand. Well, it is simple enough, Smith.

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Speaker 14: I have a friend, a close friend named Henry smile

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spelled smy thch. My secretary simply sent the invitation to.

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Speaker 1: You instead of him.

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Speaker 14: A mistake, a ridiculous mistake.

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Speaker 1: Ridiculous, But what else would you call it?

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Speaker 14: Fortunately, embarrassing, unfortunate, embarrassing, ridiculous, whatever you call it. I

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am not in the habit of inviting my clerks to

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my home. Now, I'll say good night to you and

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to your decidedly attractive wife. I'm very sorry, my dear,

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very sorry.

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Speaker 1: Sorry doesn't help matters much. Mister Monteux.

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Speaker 5: Your secretary makes a mistake, and we make all sorts

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of preparations for your parting clothes that we can hardly afford.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, good night.

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Speaker 5: No, you can't just put us out like this. Not

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put us out like that, beggars. I don't mind for myself,

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but my wife has looked forward to this.

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Speaker 1: She's bought a new gown, you shoes, successories.

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Speaker 7: Look forward with greatness as a patient.

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Speaker 1: Please God through you, heartless.

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Speaker 4: Good night, mister Mountjoy.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps we'll meet again, missus Smith.

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Speaker 4: I don't think so, mister Mountjoy, Come henry him. It

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was a mistake, an unfortunate.

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Speaker 5: Mistake, wrong Matila, a ridiculous mistake. You heard him, you

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heard a great Roger ben with Montjoy. The third ridiculous

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mistake Smith, Yes, ridiculous. All right, clerk spends the savings

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of nearly two years.

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Speaker 4: Maybe I could take the gown and the shoes back cab.

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Speaker 1: They're all across town, They're and back into him. It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: He might refund it.

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Speaker 1: They munster him in the nose is what I should

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have done. Punched him in the nose.

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Speaker 4: And found yourself out of a job in the morning.

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If you still have a job at Mount June, I.

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Speaker 7: Don't give a damn if I've got a job there

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or not.

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Speaker 1: I don't give a damn.

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Speaker 7: If I ever sit inside of Montrose a gown, I.

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Speaker 4: Don't give a dam.

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Speaker 3: Henry, what's wrong? Why are you staring at me like that?

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Speaker 1: Where's the necklace?

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Speaker 4: The necklace?

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Speaker 7: Yes, the necklace, the diamond necklace, Matilda?

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Speaker 1: Where is it.

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Speaker 4: Gone? Ah, Henry, Henry, I've lost the diamond necklace.

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Speaker 2: If you're a man listening to my voice, butt yourself

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in Henry Smith's shoes, And if a woman in Matilda's

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and tell me that hell doesn't exist on earth, go on,

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tell me. I'll return shortly for Act two. To the

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thoughtful person, the emotion of terror need not be activated

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only by the horrendous. There are many forms of terror.

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The quick and sudden terror which makes the soul scream

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out in agony, the slow and eroding kind, which makes

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the soul moan in mounting fear. Is the terror of

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a man going to his death any greater than say,

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a baby wailing with hunger and in fear? There may

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not be another meal? Henry Smith can give you the answer.

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I can hardly write these words.

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Speaker 5: My hand's a numb, and not only with the bitter

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cold of the sateless room, the chill of the winter

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wind seeping through the broken window, but also the horror,

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the true horror.

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Speaker 1: Memory brings back to me.

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Speaker 4: Words, gone, Henry, I've lost the diamond necklace.

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Speaker 1: How could you have lost it?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but it's good.

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Speaker 5: Off your rap? Maybe maybe what I don't know. Maybe

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when it's slipped from your neck you've got caught inside

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the ram. I doubt if you could walk anyhow.

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Speaker 4: No, it's not here.

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Speaker 11: It's gone, Henry, A fortune in Diamond's law.

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Speaker 1: Don't pannick. We mustn't panic now, we we'll just keep calming.

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Just think, Try to remember when did you last have

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the necklace? When did you last notice it?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I can't remember. You must.

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Speaker 1: How did you have it in the cab going to Mountjoy's.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I had it then, and I remembered, Yes

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I had it when we got out and walked up

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the steps to the door.

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Speaker 3: You sure of that, Oh, yes, I remember putting my

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hand on it, patting it.

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Speaker 1: Did you have it in the cab on the way

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home from Mountjoy's?

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Speaker 4: Oh? I don't remember.

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Speaker 7: Try to remember, Please try did you didn't.

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Speaker 4: You we don't know. I was too upset to notice.

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Speaker 1: Well, you've got to find that necklace.

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Speaker 4: Where are you going?

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Speaker 5: Going out to find it? I'll try and find the cab,

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but we hired on the way back. I'll go to

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Mountjoy's house and look around outside.

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Speaker 1: Have we any money?

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Speaker 4: Money?

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Speaker 1: Or I can't walk to Mountjoy's It's too far. I'll

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have to take a care.

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Speaker 4: Let's see. We have two dollars and some change left.

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Speaker 1: Right, give it to me.

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Speaker 4: Oh, Henry, wait, there's no food in the house for tomorrow.

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You don't get paid till Saturday. No, I don't, Henry.

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Speaker 1: Oh that scares you, doesn't it.

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Speaker 5: Two dollars and change, no food in the house, no

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pat till saturday.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's right now. I think I'm going to be sicken.

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Speaker 4: Oh, my darling, Henry, all right, I'm all.

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Speaker 1: Right, I'm all right.

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Speaker 5: Expect me to see me, Henry. Forgive me, darling, Darling,

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it isn't your father. Get that thought out of your head.

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Speaker 1: It isn't your fault.

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Speaker 4: It's my fault. It thank you, Henry.

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Speaker 3: Yes, what I must have followed this sleep stay they done?

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You didn't find it?

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Speaker 4: No, I could kill myself till.

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Speaker 5: The Matilda Police. Sweetheart, you mustn't feel guilty about this.

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We've got to do an now is figure out what

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to do?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 5: Have you any idea how expensive it was the necklace?

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Speaker 4: It came in a Carteret box.

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Speaker 5: Carteret, the most expensive jewelers in town must have cost

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a fortune. Well, I guess there's no way out but

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for you to tell Missus Forrest.

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Speaker 15: Oh.

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Speaker 4: I couldn't do that. I couldn't.

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Speaker 1: Possibly you have to. There's nothing else we can do.

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Speaker 4: Oh, there's got to be something I'd rather die than

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go to Missus Forrester until her. I lost the necklace.

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I can't do it, Henry.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what else.

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Speaker 4: We'll replace it. We'll have to replace it places. How well,

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I'll go to Carteret's and describe the necklace. They just

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might have a duplicate.

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Speaker 3: Well they might.

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Speaker 1: And if they do, what then.

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Speaker 5: You hand them this dollar and thirty nine cents I've

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got left and take the necklace to Missus Forrester.

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Speaker 1: You're going out of your mind.

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Speaker 5: If I haven't done close to it, go to Missus

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Forster tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Hen We don't.

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Speaker 4: Please, don't make me go.

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Speaker 5: When have I ever made you do anything? All right,

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we'll find a way out of this.

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Speaker 1: All right. Look, you go to Carterriittz tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: And see what you come up with, and we'll just

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we'll just have to take it from there. But what

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if they don't have a duplicate? That is what worries me.

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What worries me is what if they do.

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Speaker 16: If I am madam, I would say this necklace is

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quite nearly a perfect match to the one you described.

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Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes it is. How much is it here?

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Speaker 5: Six thousand, five hundred dollars, madam?

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Speaker 1: I all right, yes, quite all right.

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Speaker 11: I suppose that it must be paid for all at once,

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all at once.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's a new way of paying for things.

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Speaker 16: These do mean the installment by madam, our customers have

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no need of it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, well, now I'll let.

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Speaker 4: You know meajuwish six thousand, five hundred dollars you said.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, six thousand, five hundred, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 14: Come in, mister Smith, Yes, mister brock Henry Smith. Frankie

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Matthews sent you to me.

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Speaker 1: Yes, he works in the department next to mine.

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Speaker 14: In hats, I got more than one client from Mountjoyce.

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What I'm saying, you're in good hands, missus Smith.

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Speaker 1: Let's see your.

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Speaker 5: Full name, Henry James Smith, address to two seven East

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ninth Street to seventy.

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Speaker 1: Okay, how much you want.

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Speaker 5: To buy six thousand, five hundred dollars in collateral?

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Speaker 1: If I had collateral, I have gone to the bank,

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mister Brock. Somebody twisted you on to come to me. No, no,

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of course, not so why.

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Speaker 14: Selp me, mister Smith? I don't need you. You'll need

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me right, Yes. The way I operate I I make

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you a straight loaned interest. You pay back the principle

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when and as you can. Long as you pay the

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interest each month, we got no problem.

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Speaker 1: How much interest? One percent?

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Speaker 5: One percent, one percent of six thousand, five hundred dollars.

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That's uh sixty dollars and fifty cents right right, Well there,

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that isn't too bad. I guess I can manage sixty

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dollars and fifty cents a year.

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Speaker 14: I guess a month's mister Smith? What one percent a month?

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Sixty dollars and fifty cents a month?

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Speaker 1: A month? But well, that's usually ay.

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Speaker 14: You know something, Smith, is a good thing. I don't

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charge for insults. You'd be in the real mess of well,

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I'm sorry. I didn't mean to insult you. It's just

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a good lord, I couldn't possibly afford all that. Not

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a mysel.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry to hear it. You wasted my time. Oh wait,

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wait now i'm waiting.

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Speaker 5: Well I'm all right, all right, I'll take it in

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and don't worry.

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Speaker 1: I'll find a way to pay the interest. Don't worry,

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I won't.

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Speaker 14: I never worry, mister Smith. I let my clients do

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it all.

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Speaker 11: Why no, no, Matilda, dear, I wasn't in the least concern. Well,

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I did say i'd return the necklace Thursday. Here it

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is Saturday. I'll not be wearing it till tonight. And well,

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it certainly wasn't your fault. The class broke. Oh but

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the class isn't quite the same as the old one.

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Look i'll show you a no, no, don't bother. Just

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just toss the box over there, missus Forrester. I was wondering, yes, dear, wondering,

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would you know of anyone who might need a governess?

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Speaker 4: You?

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Speaker 3: Yes, you're in need of employment. Well, Henry doesn't make

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much under I thought I might.

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Speaker 4: Help out a little.

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Speaker 11: I see with see, now I'm afraid I don't know

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of anyone who needs a governess.

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Speaker 3: No, but I yes, Oh no, that wouldn't.

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Speaker 4: Be for you. I'm not proud, Missus Forster.

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Speaker 11: If it's honest work, honest enough, my dear, but exhausting.

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You see, a friend of mine, a very large family

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needs someone to do washing, a washerwoman.

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Speaker 4: I told you it wouldn't be for you.

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Speaker 11: Well, I'll ask around among my friends and let you

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know if I come up with anything.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 11: Now, just let me be sure I have your address correct?

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Speaker 4: Oh we're moving, are you? Oh? Do you know where?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 11: One one Delahunty Street, Della handy. But my dear, isn't

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that well? Isn't that thought to be something about slum

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area that dad Matilda child.

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Speaker 3: Has something gone wrong?

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Speaker 11: Are you and Henry in some sort of trouble you're

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not telling me about?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: Well then, and why are you willing to take a

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job as a washerwoman? Why are you moving to Delahunty Street.

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Speaker 11: Very well, I won't press you, but please do keep

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one thing in mind. I'm always willing and ready to

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help you in any way.

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Speaker 3: You will keep that in mind, won't you, dear?

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Speaker 11: Thank you missus Forrest, Goodbye, goodbye, my dear, and thank

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you for returning the necklace. If you ever want to

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borrow it again, thank you. I don't think I will

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not ever again.

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Speaker 14: We made a deal Smith a month ago of the day.

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Now you come in and tell me you can't pay

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the well, not all of it, mister Brock. But what

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I've got thirty four dollars of the.

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Speaker 1: Sixty, sixty and fifty. Said yes, and.

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Speaker 14: If you'll just accept that, sure, sure, let's have it.

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You'll bring the rest tomorrow at the same time, six o'clock.

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Speaker 5: But that's impossible, impossible.

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Speaker 1: It's taken me a month to get thirty four dollars together.

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Speaker 5: How am I going to get practically.

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Speaker 1: As much again?

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Speaker 5: And just today that's your problem. Well, no, that's a

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problem I can't solve. Look, i'll pay you. I'll pay

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you every cent I owe you, but you've got to

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give me time.

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Speaker 14: Time is money, mister Smith, and you haven't gotten much

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of either.

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Speaker 1: Let me show you something. You see this, Yes, what

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is it? A switchblade? Knife?

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Speaker 14: Very sharp, missus Smith, Raise this sharp and I'll tell

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you how it's going to be. You come here tomorrow

465
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,119
at six o'clock and you have the money or I'll

466
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,519
take a piece out of your right.

467
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,559
Speaker 1: Ear with his knife. You'll come back tomorrow at six o'clock.

468
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,640
Speaker 14: And if you still haven't got the money, I take

469
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:54,880
a piece out of your left ear.

470
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,839
Speaker 1: You're I know what I am? You better know what

471
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:00,720
you are.

472
00:28:01,599 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 14: You're a loser Smith, And you're a loser because you're

473
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:15,680
a sucking damar Smith. Same time, Oh and bring your wife,

474
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:17,440
my wife?

475
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,799
Speaker 1: What for? Who knows?

476
00:28:22,279 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 14: Maybe secret even maybe save you from losing your life?

477
00:28:29,599 --> 00:28:30,799
Who knows? Smith?

478
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 2: If ever terror, cold, chilling terror struck through a man's soul,

479
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,440
it strikes through Henry Smith's.

480
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,319
Speaker 1: Snared by circumstances he did not create.

481
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,759
Speaker 2: He is now like an animal caught in a trap,

482
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,799
quivering with terror, shaking with horror, and all because of

483
00:28:57,839 --> 00:29:04,519
a diamond necklace, that diamond necklace borrowed and lost. I'll

484
00:29:04,559 --> 00:29:08,759
return shortly for at three, missus. Who knows for the

485
00:29:08,839 --> 00:29:24,480
us what bitter, cruel, insupportable tragedy can smash a human

486
00:29:24,559 --> 00:29:30,039
life because of one mischance. Henry and Matilda Smith have

487
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:35,000
discovered this, to their sorrow. Had Henry or Matilda thought

488
00:29:35,079 --> 00:29:38,240
for a moment, they might have realized that the party

489
00:29:38,319 --> 00:29:43,119
invitation from Roger Mountjoy had to be a mistake in

490
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:47,240
any case, had they realized this, certainly Matilda would never

491
00:29:47,359 --> 00:29:52,000
have borrowed that diamond necklace for Missus Forrester and lose it.

492
00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:58,599
And had Matilda not lost it, well, let Henry tell us.

493
00:30:04,599 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 5: The wind outside, the strengthening, getting colder, snow was beginning

494
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,279
to fall, the last snow I should ever seen.

495
00:30:12,319 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: It would that I've never seen the light of day,

496
00:30:15,759 --> 00:30:16,440
never been born.

497
00:30:18,079 --> 00:30:20,319
Speaker 5: When I remember what took place in Brock's office the

498
00:30:20,359 --> 00:30:24,000
next day, going to his office filled me with.

499
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:28,079
Speaker 1: Fear, but not going would have made me more fearful. Still.

500
00:30:29,799 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 5: I entered his office in a cold sweat and found

501
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,160
myself trembling with nerves.

502
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,279
Speaker 14: As he said, I thought you'd find the money somehow,

503
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:37,480
I was sure of it.

504
00:30:37,519 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 5: I haven't found it, mister Brocker, haven't got it.

505
00:30:39,799 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 14: You didn't bring your wife, so I yet I figured

506
00:30:43,519 --> 00:30:47,799
you had the money. No, maybe you don't hear too good?

507
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:53,359
Even with ears. You remember this, I see you do.

508
00:30:54,599 --> 00:30:57,720
But also you remember maybe that I said bring your wife.

509
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: Well, I remember, mister Brockert look me in just a little.

510
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 4: Time, all not time.

511
00:31:02,519 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: This is what I'm gonna get.

512
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:04,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, saw.

513
00:31:06,079 --> 00:31:06,559
Speaker 1: It looks.

514
00:31:07,079 --> 00:31:09,519
Speaker 14: You see this, This is a little piece of pink

515
00:31:09,519 --> 00:31:11,400
stuff on the tip of the knife. That's you, Smith's

516
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,920
just a little, very little piece of your ears. But

517
00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:15,119
don't you worry about it.

518
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: It's bleeding a lot, but it'll heal. Now you'll be shot.

519
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 14: Go and get your wife, Smith, Bring her here. She's working, Yeah, yeah,

520
00:31:22,039 --> 00:31:24,640
I know, doing the Washington of some rich dame, rowing

521
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,599
in her hands, rowing in her looks, her body, especially

522
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,240
her looks, and everybody you don't want.

523
00:31:32,359 --> 00:31:34,799
Speaker 1: That's the box. He's helping me get the money to

524
00:31:34,839 --> 00:31:38,079
pay you. There's easier ways. I will not bring my

525
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,720
wife here. You think I don't know what you mean

526
00:31:40,799 --> 00:31:42,000
by easier ways?

527
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 14: Oh, you know all right, you're smart, real smart. Look,

528
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,359
let me lay it out for you. You're into me

529
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,519
for six five hundred bucks. Like I tell you you,

530
00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:55,000
I don't care about you're paying off the principle. I

531
00:31:55,039 --> 00:31:58,519
got ways of getting that in time. What I want

532
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:02,359
now is the interest. Now your wife could make more

533
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,279
than that in one Now you do rot old? Are

534
00:32:06,319 --> 00:32:09,160
you miserable that unless you want me to do more?

535
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:14,480
Wouldn't wait me back a knife? Then you'll give advice

536
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,920
stailing for me I warn you stay away. Why you

537
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,759
use the knife on me? I don't think so.

538
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:22,319
Speaker 1: Smith.

539
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,839
Speaker 14: You're gonna go and get that sexy wife of yours

540
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:25,759
and you're gonna bring I.

541
00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:38,119
Speaker 5: Hear you, Matilda your home?

542
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,039
Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am, my back was.

543
00:32:42,119 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 11: I was working over the tubs today and it began

544
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:50,160
to paint again. So him your why is a sheet

545
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,359
and trembling? Henry, what happened?

546
00:32:54,079 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 7: I killed a man, Matilda, I killed a man.

547
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,799
Speaker 1: Oh block the money lender.

548
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,799
Speaker 4: No, Henry, I don't believe you. You couldn't have done

549
00:33:05,799 --> 00:33:06,759
such a thing, not you.

550
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Matilda, I did it.

551
00:33:09,119 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 4: No, you just imagine that you did. I've heard that

552
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,359
when people are starving, they imagine all kinds of things,

553
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,440
horrifying things. They are hallucinating.

554
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 3: I don't believe, I believe me.

555
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 5: Look, I'll take off my coat, look and believe you

556
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,599
shit in blood, dripping with blood.

557
00:33:27,759 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 4: Take it off, quickly, take it off, and I'll wash it.

558
00:33:31,079 --> 00:33:32,039
Speaker 1: And can't wash it.

559
00:33:32,079 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 7: Nobody must know, and you'd have to wash it in

560
00:33:34,039 --> 00:33:35,319
the kitchen or the bathroom down the.

561
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 4: Hall, now running water in this room to take it

562
00:33:37,519 --> 00:33:45,480
off and hide. I just can't believe you're always so gentle.

563
00:33:45,559 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 7: He was threatening me with a life. He cut my ear,

564
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:49,839
and he was threatening me again.

565
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 5: If I didn't, if I didn't didn't bring you to

566
00:33:54,599 --> 00:33:56,160
him me, what would he want with me?

567
00:33:57,279 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 3: I don't know, but he must have a reason. He

568
00:34:00,759 --> 00:34:02,039
wouldn't threaten you with a knife.

569
00:34:02,039 --> 00:34:04,319
Speaker 1: And unless.

570
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 7: Oh, what's so funny?

571
00:34:11,519 --> 00:34:18,599
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking, just thinking, what a surprise he'd have

572
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:19,360
in store?

573
00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 1: Surprise Rock.

574
00:34:21,519 --> 00:34:24,079
Speaker 3: He must have heard how I looked a month ago.

575
00:34:24,559 --> 00:34:26,960
He doesn't know what that month has done to me.

576
00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:30,800
Why didn't you tell him?

577
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,199
Speaker 4: Why didn't you tell him it? Since the night I

578
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:38,039
lost the necklace, since the night of the note Joy's body,

579
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,039
the body that looked so exciting, it's going to be

580
00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:43,400
so thrilling.

581
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:43,519
Speaker 2: My.

582
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 3: Ridiculous snake, ridiculous.

583
00:34:52,559 --> 00:34:53,679
Speaker 1: It was all.

584
00:34:59,519 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 4: Horrible. I lost the necklace. I'm the one who couldn't

585
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,719
face missus. Farry, Please, why couldn't I I'm the one

586
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:11,559
who made you barrel that money. I made you a man.

587
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,840
God forgive me for what you did.

588
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 5: Nothing, darling, you lost the diamond necklace to anyone.

589
00:35:19,199 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 7: And it's over now, All the misery is over. Yes,

590
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:24,199
Brock is dead.

591
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 5: I killed him, but I did it in self defense.

592
00:35:27,519 --> 00:35:28,679
Speaker 1: I'm not excusing myself.

593
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,199
Speaker 5: Don't think that you kill a man, You take a

594
00:35:31,199 --> 00:35:32,159
life for whatever the reason.

595
00:35:32,199 --> 00:35:35,159
Speaker 1: You must pay somehow or other. You must pay, and

596
00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:35,599
I will.

597
00:35:35,679 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 5: But in the meantime we're out from under the burden,

598
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,480
the awful burden of paying that monthly interest. Even alone,

599
00:35:41,559 --> 00:35:45,039
we can forget it. Who knows about it? It was

600
00:35:45,079 --> 00:35:48,559
between Brock and me. Who else would know. All I'm

601
00:35:48,599 --> 00:35:51,280
saying is what's happened. Gives us a break, gives us

602
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,440
time to recover and make a fresh start. No more

603
00:35:54,559 --> 00:35:57,440
twelve hour washing days for you, no more extra jobs

604
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,599
for me. We can get some rest, we can eat better,

605
00:35:59,639 --> 00:36:00,840
we can store our help.

606
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: So who can that be?

607
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:06,320
Speaker 4: Please?

608
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,679
Speaker 1: I don't see how one way to find her?

609
00:36:14,199 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 4: Yes, hi, may I come in?

610
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:19,679
Speaker 1: Who are you well?

611
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,079
Speaker 4: I'm afraid we never had the pleasure of meeting face

612
00:36:22,119 --> 00:36:23,320
to face, mister Smithford.

613
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,559
Speaker 3: Arnie told me about you, and maybe he told you

614
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:28,159
about me.

615
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,039
Speaker 7: Arnie Ernie Brock.

616
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 11: I'm his wife, Doris or I guess I should say

617
00:36:37,039 --> 00:36:38,440
he's widow.

618
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: No, you won't do this. I won't let you do it.

619
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,559
Speaker 4: What else is there to do?

620
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:52,119
Speaker 1: Something? We'll find a way. You go behind my back.

621
00:36:52,199 --> 00:36:53,559
You go to that brock woman.

622
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 3: And I agree to do what she wants, what her

623
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:58,159
husband wanted.

624
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:02,079
Speaker 4: There's no other way. If I don't do this, we'll

625
00:37:02,119 --> 00:37:06,440
both sickond and die this way once the.

626
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 5: Loan is paid, but it will never be paid, Matilda,

627
00:37:09,159 --> 00:37:11,280
the interest alone, the monthly interest, no.

628
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,280
Speaker 4: Interest, not anymore. What are you talking about?

629
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:19,159
Speaker 3: Well, I agreed to become a.

630
00:37:18,039 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 4: Hostess on one condition. I would pay off the loan

631
00:37:22,119 --> 00:37:26,400
with my earnings, but no more interest. And she agreed, Well,

632
00:37:27,159 --> 00:37:31,039
there seems to be a shortage of girls, of compliant

633
00:37:31,119 --> 00:37:32,840
girls here.

634
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:34,119
Speaker 1: What's this?

635
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 4: It's the agreement I made her sign, no interest in

636
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,480
wy Would you please hug me up in the back low, Henry,

637
00:37:41,599 --> 00:37:44,559
please in that dress, in the very gown you bought

638
00:37:44,559 --> 00:37:48,800
for the Montjoy party. It's brand new, Henry. I never

639
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:55,400
got to wear it very long, never got chance to

640
00:37:55,519 --> 00:37:59,480
dance in it as I thought I would. Oh, that

641
00:37:59,679 --> 00:38:01,119
music was so lovely.

642
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 3: Remember when we came through the open front doors.

643
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,559
Speaker 12: All those gay people dancing and drinking and.

644
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:19,280
Speaker 4: Chatting, so many lovely gowns, all those gorgeous colors, and

645
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:23,039
the electric lights. I've never seen them before, so bright,

646
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:32,559
so glowing, The music, the music. Oh, if we'd only

647
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:41,079
danced together Henry one dances. We had that to remember

648
00:38:41,159 --> 00:38:41,800
to dream.

649
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 12: Want dance with me, It danced with me.

650
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:53,039
Speaker 4: Take me in your arms and dance with me. Don't

651
00:38:53,039 --> 00:38:54,679
you hear the music.

652
00:38:55,719 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 12: It's the walls, it's the walls, saying, the walls and

653
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:04,679
divine walls, and diving her arms, floating in her arms,

654
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:06,719
turning and turning.

655
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,760
Speaker 9: My beets gas were cutting his arms of himself, standing

656
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,280
and dining east the.

657
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 4: Look out to be the window. No lo.

658
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 11: Hell.

659
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:38,079
Speaker 17: She was dead when I reached her, five stories below

660
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:43,920
in the courtyard, crumpled, broken, and.

661
00:39:46,519 --> 00:39:48,559
Speaker 5: We buried her in the gown that she loved someone,

662
00:39:49,519 --> 00:39:53,719
the only pretty gown she had ever hand. And I

663
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,199
saw the coffin lowered into the ground and heard the

664
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:57,400
first chopple pul and.

665
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:03,199
Speaker 1: Dirt fall on her face. Made her promise the promise

666
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,320
it took ten years to keep.

667
00:40:10,039 --> 00:40:14,320
Speaker 5: Four hundred and ninety eight four hundred and ninety nine

668
00:40:14,599 --> 00:40:15,280
five hundred.

669
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 1: The debt is paid, missus Brock.

670
00:40:20,039 --> 00:40:24,119
Speaker 4: Look tell me something. After she died, your wife.

671
00:40:24,039 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 11: You could have taken off for the coup I've.

672
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 4: Never found you.

673
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 11: Instead, you worked yourself to death. The closet to in

674
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,119
anyways for ten years?

675
00:40:32,599 --> 00:40:35,559
Speaker 1: How come it's the way she would have wanted it.

676
00:40:44,559 --> 00:40:50,119
Speaker 11: Excuse me, I beg your pardon. Yes, are you by

677
00:40:50,199 --> 00:40:53,239
any chance? Are you Henry Smith?

678
00:40:53,639 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 1: Ye oh, why, missus Forrest Well of all things?

679
00:40:57,199 --> 00:40:59,079
Speaker 11: I saw you sitting here in the park, and I

680
00:40:59,119 --> 00:41:03,480
thought that that man reminds me of someone, and then

681
00:41:03,519 --> 00:41:08,800
I realized, Henry Smith, it's been a long.

682
00:41:08,679 --> 00:41:11,079
Speaker 1: Time, yes, a very long time.

683
00:41:11,159 --> 00:41:12,559
Speaker 3: And how is Mathilda.

684
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,159
Speaker 11: She stopped coming to see me quite a few years ago,

685
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:18,559
and I tried to get in touch.

686
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,039
Speaker 3: With her, but you'd moved and left no forwarding address.

687
00:41:21,079 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 5: He is dead, Missus Forrester, oh ten years now.

688
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:27,800
Speaker 3: I am so sorry.

689
00:41:29,599 --> 00:41:30,519
Speaker 4: She was such.

690
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 11: A delightful little person, so serious, so sincere.

691
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,079
Speaker 3: I remember lending her a diamond necklace to go to

692
00:41:40,119 --> 00:41:40,639
a party.

693
00:41:41,079 --> 00:41:44,599
Speaker 11: She accidentally broke the clasp, And really, I've never seen

694
00:41:44,639 --> 00:41:47,519
anyone so terribly upset over such a little thing.

695
00:41:47,679 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 5: A diamond necklace is not a little thing, Missus Farnster.

696
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,079
Speaker 11: Well I suppose not, but not if it were a

697
00:41:54,159 --> 00:41:59,840
real diamond necklace with genuine diamonds. Mine were paced fake

698
00:42:00,079 --> 00:42:06,000
diamond's worth no more than oh one hundred dollars. Oh,

699
00:42:06,039 --> 00:42:12,519
mister Smith, mister Smith, will oh, please please, someone, someone.

700
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 7: Help me this.

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Speaker 4: This man has fainted.

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Speaker 5: I cannot live with it, the shock, the horror of

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learning that the diamond necklace was a fake. It doesn't

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matter now. Nothing has mattered to me since Matilda diond.

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Speaker 1: If As.

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Speaker 5: I've heard there's a life after death. Miss Gunn will

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take me to Matilda in that other life. If not,

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I'll at least be out of this one.

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Speaker 2: In the words of Gui de Moopisson, how would life

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have been for these two if Matilda had not.

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Speaker 1: Lost the necklace?

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Speaker 18: Who knows how strange life is, how small a thing

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will ruin or save one.

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Speaker 1: I'll return shortly.

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Speaker 2: We owe our story to certainly one of the greatest

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of all short story writers, g Demopisson. I've suggested in

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the past that we give a thought, a brief moment

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of thanks to such men as Oscar Wilde and Edgar.

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Speaker 1: Allan Poe, to whom really we owe.

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Speaker 2: So much To that list, let's add Monsieur de Monbisson.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure will he be pleased.

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Speaker 2: Our cast included Mandel Kramer, Marion Seldas, Briana Rayburn, and

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Leon Johnny The entire production was under the direction of

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Hyman Brown.

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Speaker 1: Missus E. G.

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Speaker 2: Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for

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another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Green.

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This is News Radio w E L M L Myra

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serving the Twin Tiers in am stereo.

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Speaker 15: Urgent design changes on DC ten's and a busy day

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for Congress with mutual PM. I'm Carrie Moran in Los Angeles.

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Today's crash of a Korean Airlines jetliner in Libya is

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the second d C ten disaster in eight days. A

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United DC ten crashed in Sioux City, Iowa, on July nineteenth.

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The two deadly incidents are prompting a repeated call from

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the International Airline Pilots Association to have the FAA ground

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the planes for structural modifications. IAPA spokesman Daniel Smith.

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Speaker 19: DC ten has manifested vulnerability to major components that can

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cause while we're using a single in the event of

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a single side accident can cause catastrophic results in other systems,

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ultimately resulting.

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Speaker 1: In a crash.

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Speaker 15: But McDonald Douglas spokesman Don Hanson says a grounding order

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would be out of line.

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Speaker 10: It's to be remembered that the accident that happened in

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Iowa last week and the one today Tripoli, there's just

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no indication of any sort that there's any relationship between them.

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Speaker 15: The DC tens have a three point eight percent crash rate,

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compared to one and a half percent for Boeing seven

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twenty seven