WEBVTT 1 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:17.039 Started your Christmas shopping at worried about where the money 2 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:20.160 is coming from. I want to get away from it. 3 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:35.600 We offer you escape. He was seated around a green 4 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:39.320 felt table with a dozen desperate men waiting for the 5 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:42.640 turn of a card. If it's the Ace of Spades, 6 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:48.880 you will be next, and you desperately desire the impossible escape. 7 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:55.719 Escape produced and directed by William N. Robeson and carefully 8 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:58.600 plotted to free you from the four walls of today 9 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:01.280 for a half hour of high adventure. 10 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:09.719 Tonight we escaped to London of the last century, a 11 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:13.280 London of gas lights and handsome cabs, A London where 12 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:16.359 a gentleman still valued his word of honor above his life. 13 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:20.280 A London of which one terrifying incident is recorded by 14 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:25.120 Robert Louis Stevenson and his unforgettable story The young man 15 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:26.480 with a cream tarts? 16 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:46.519 Oh Lord, or rather city seems to awful little amusement tonight, Well, 17 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:50.159 bottom's up, let's be on our way right o. Your 18 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:51.439 health and yours. 19 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:55.719 Please have a green car Parliment. 20 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:01.599 Well, now, what's this you with a tray of cream turts? 21 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:02.640 He's giving them away? 22 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:06.000 Perhaps one of the turns on the bill perhaps shall 23 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:06.280 we go? 24 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:06.760 Yes? 25 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:09.199 Lets I pray you accept this confection, for if you 26 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:11.280 do not, I am bound to eat it myself. You 27 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:14.280 must be crazy. It was never more seen I do. 28 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:18.840 Then there's nothing for it but my twenty seventh tart 29 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:23.360 since five o'clock. Now there are but two left you, sir? 30 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:23.800 Yes? 31 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:27.560 Will you so far? Under an entire stranger truly excellent pastry. 32 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:29.560 I should know, I've eaten off of them. 33 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:31.879 It is not the nature of a gift that is important, 34 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:33.840 but the spirit in which it is offered. 35 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:35.039 The spirits hair is one of. 36 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:39.439 Mockray mockery, and whom do you mark myself? 37 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:42.199 However, my purpose at the moment is not confession, but 38 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:44.599 rather distribution of these cream tarts. Won't you and your 39 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:45.599 friend dispose to the laughter? 40 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:48.560 Yes, hees on one condition. 41 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:51.199 If my friend and I eat your last two cakes, 42 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:53.360 we shall expect you to join us at supper. 43 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:56.479 Supper. It's a horrible thought. I've already eaten two dozen 44 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:57.360 of these pastries. 45 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:00.800 Very well, then we shall omit supper. I'm better acquainted 46 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:02.199 over a bottle of wine. 47 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:05.159 I'm uncertain whether my repugnance for these two remaining parts 48 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:07.240 of the attraction of your invitation compels me. 49 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:09.000 But I accept excellent. 50 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:11.199 Then let us finish off your pastry and seek a 51 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:14.360 more quiet place. How about Michelle's and soho splendid? 52 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:15.840 Shall we go. 53 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:25.639 An excellent restaurant, an excellent wine, and two excellent friends. 54 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:26.879 I drink to your health. 55 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:27.800 And we drink to yours. 56 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:32.319 I'm sure you will understand my curiosity, but you are 57 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:36.240 curious naturally. Although I suspect that your story is probably 58 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:39.560 a silly one, Indeed you may rest assured that we 59 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:42.280 are two of the silliest men in England. My name 60 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:45.520 is Godall, theophilis Goodall, and my friend here is Major 61 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:46.479 Alfred Hammersmith. 62 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:49.479 I like you, mister Godall, Andrew Major Hammersmith. Though I 63 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:51.479 suspect there's not your right name. It is of no 64 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.639 importance exactly, nor is my name, so I will not 65 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:56.199 divulge it. Although I see no reason why I should 66 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:59.400 deny you my story. It's brief and foolish. Pray tell us, 67 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:03.199 then off toall tale a modest fortune which I squandered 68 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:05.840 in the usual ways at cards the horse races in Paris. 69 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:08.960 Then two months ago I met a young lady exactly 70 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:11.000 suited to my taste in mind and body. 71 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:12.439 My heart melted. 72 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:16.279 I was in love too Late yesterday my solicitor warned 73 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:18.079 me that I had but a hundred pounds left in 74 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:20.360 the world. Forty of these I used last night for 75 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:23.800 a spatial purpose, and I have agreeably spent the day 76 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:26.279 disposing of the remaining sixty pounds in as foolish a 77 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:27.240 manner as I could devise. 78 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:28.680 And the future, the. 79 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:31.319 Future, has been taken care of by the forty pounds. 80 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:35.040 Is it not odd that we three should have met 81 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:38.120 by the merest accident in so large a wilderness as London, 82 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:41.040 and be so nearly in the same condition. 83 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:45.480 Yes, Major Hammersmith, I was thinking the very same thing. 84 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:46.120 What's this? 85 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:50.240 Are you too also ruined? Is this bottle of excellent wine? 86 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:52.800 The last folly? Like my cream pots? 87 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:56.319 Very nearly, sir, I'm perhaps a week behind you. I 88 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:58.360 still have a few bank notes in my wallet. However, 89 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:00.959 here now this bill take care of the bottle of 90 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:03.279 wine and the others I throw into the fire. 91 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:06.319 Oh no, you shouldn't have burned all of them. You 92 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:10.199 should have kept forty pounds. Forty pounds, why why not 93 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:13.199 fifty or seventy? For to my certain knowledge, there were 94 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:15.120 more than a hundred in his wallet. It was only 95 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:18.079 just forty pounds he needed. But without them, there is 96 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:21.040 no admission. The rule is strict. What do you mean 97 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:24.199 I have not yet completely emptied my pocket book. You 98 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:29.720 are not fooling me. You are indeed ruined men like me. Oh, indeed, 99 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:32.399 could you muster eighty pounds between you? 100 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:36.360 Well, let me look in my wallet. Yes, eighteen, a little. 101 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:39.680 Over than you are, indeed most fortunate. Forty pounds each 102 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:42.560 is the initiation fee of the suicide Club. 103 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:46.120 The suicide Club. What the devil is that? 104 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:51.319 The suicide club is death's private door. It's the ultimate 105 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:56.759 convenience in our modern world. It exists for unfortunates like costs, 106 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:00.120 those to whom the painful agony of corrosive poison, and 107 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:03.279 is distasteful for those whose courage fails them when the 108 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:06.480 cold muzzle chills the forehead, for those whose fear of 109 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:10.079 drowning is greater than their compulsion to die. For these 110 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:15.399 sensitive misfits, the suicide Club ranges every detail. If you 111 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:17.600 are truly tired of life, I will introduce you to night, 112 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:20.560 to a meeting, and I can assure you that within 113 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:23.759 the week you will be relieved of the burden of living. 114 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:28.279 What do you say it's more serious than a cream tart? 115 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:30.240 And I suspect more palatable. 116 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:34.040 More serious certainly, so I I wonder if you would 117 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:36.839 give mister Goodall and me five minutes alone to discuss it. 118 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:44.519 Certainly I shall wait outside your highness. This adventure must 119 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:48.759 stop here. Nonsense, Colonel d'erldin, I propose to see this through, 120 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:53.000 see you through to what death? You forget your obligations, 121 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:56.240 not only to yourself but to your country. Prince Floriesail 122 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.600 of Bohemia cannot risk to night. I am plain, mister Godall, 123 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:03.920 and so I proposed to remain. And please remember, Colonel Geraldine, 124 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:07.399 under no circumstances are you to betray my incognito what 125 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:10.639 your height. We have survived graver adventures than this one 126 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:14.839 promises to be. And now, Colonel Geraldine, let us pay 127 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:18.879 our bill and accompany our young wastrel two Death's private door. 128 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:26.439 We will. 129 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:37.839 Here your gunner Fox Court. 130 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:40.040 Gentlemen, we have a rig. 131 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:45.879 Here. You are cabby. Keep the change. 132 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:49.879 Well, mister Godar Mantor Hammersmith. There is still time to 133 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:51.040 change your minds. 134 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.279 Lead on, sir, my mind's made up and mine. 135 00:07:54.000 --> 00:08:03.000 Follow me then dark as a tomb an aptain concise similar. 136 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:13.160 Here we are gentlemen, have death's private door. Shall we enter? 137 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:13.879 Pray? 138 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:26.199 Let's you may hang your things in here, shall be 139 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:26.879 good enough to wait. 140 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:31.839 I shall call the President of all our foies. This 141 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:34.480 is the wildest and most dangerous. I am beginning to 142 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:36.639 believe you are right. Let me beseech your Highness to 143 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:39.399 not forget you are my aide. Decombe, not your father 144 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:42.000 yet I am responsible to the King for your will. 145 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:46.519 Colonel Geraldine, you are not afraid, certainly, not for myself, 146 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:49.120 but for your Highness. 147 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:52.120 The President will see you in his office. I have 148 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:54.600 vouched for you, but you must give him honest answers. 149 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:57.600 The indiscretion of a single member might lead to the 150 00:08:57.639 --> 00:09:01.360 dispersion of the society forever. He can't afford to take 151 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:01.960 that risk. 152 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:13.120 Follow me in here. He's waiting for you. Good evening. 153 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:17.120 I am told that you wish to speak to me. 154 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:22.080 We have a desire, sir, to join the suicide Club. 155 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:25.639 Sir, you've made a mistake. This is a private house. 156 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:28.000 You must leave it instantly. We have come here upon 157 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:31.120 the invitation of a friend of yours. He's already told 158 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:34.399 you of our desires. Believe me, sir, when one has 159 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:36.519 come this far along the path, one is not likely 160 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:40.559 to be turned away, and certainly will tolerate little rudeness. 161 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:44.039 Permit me to assure you either you will oblige us 162 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:46.879 in the matter, or you'll regret ever having admitted us 163 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:51.519 to the premises. Well, now that's more like it. This 164 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:55.440 is no place for men not yet desperate. I believe you, sir, 165 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:58.759 But what of your friend? My reasons are even more 166 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:02.559 cogent than mister Goodarll's. I er, I was cashiered out 167 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:06.200 of my regiment last week. Why cheating at cards? 168 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:07.159 I see? 169 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:11.720 And you, sir, what is your reason for being tired 170 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:15.919 of life unadulterated laziness? Don't trifle with me, sir. You 171 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:18.120 must have a better reason than that. I have no 172 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:20.559 more money and I'm much too lazy to come by 173 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:25.320 any hum. If I did not have a great deal 174 00:10:25.320 --> 00:10:27.600 of experience in these matters, I would turn you down. 175 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:31.080 But I have learned that the most frivolous excuses for 176 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:34.600 a suicide often cover a deep and life long desire 177 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:37.879 for self destruction. Thank you for your understanding. Sir, very 178 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.679 well to business. I shall read you the oath of membership, 179 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:45.440 to which you will each subscribe. I swear to obey 180 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.320 without question the instructions of the President of this Association 181 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:53.480 or any of his appointed deputies. Realizing that desirable death 182 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:57.159 could scarcely be a penalty for violating this oath, I 183 00:10:57.159 --> 00:10:59.240 am aware that any violation will be met at the 184 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:02.360 discretion of the Resident by those means deemed suitable by him, 185 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:08.320 namely excommunication from the church, loss of whatever honor still 186 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:12.879 attaches to my name, and or, when necessary, violent reprisals 187 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:17.360 against my bereaved family. In full knowledge of the sacredness 188 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:22.480 of this earth, I subscribe my name. Well, gentlemen, you 189 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:24.679 are in a position to enforce those penalties. 190 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:26.440 I am. 191 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:34.600 Hand me the pen, my friend, the pen please, Major Hammersmith, 192 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:40.919 thank you. That will be forty palms a peace. 193 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:41.279 Please. 194 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:45.080 Here you are, thank you, And now would you like 195 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:47.039 to join the members in the smoking room? Indeed we 196 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:52.759 would this way. Please just make yourself at home. Every 197 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:55.679 one's quite informal here, If your pardon me, I have 198 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:58.440 some other matters to attend. Come along, Major, let's mingle 199 00:11:58.440 --> 00:11:59.279 with the company. 200 00:11:59.039 --> 00:11:59.559 Your highness. 201 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:02.240 Quiet Oh, there you are, got in all right, I see, 202 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:04.159 naturally you'll never regret it. 203 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:05.919 I'm sure we Shan't you care for. 204 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:07.840 A game of belliards and perhaps some whists? 205 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:10.559 No, not immediately, thank you. I'd like just to wander 206 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:11.840 around and listen to the conversation. 207 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:15.159 You'll find it most revealing understanding. She had always stood 208 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:17.240 in the way of anything I wanted to do, and 209 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:18.559 I don't care if she was my mother. 210 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:20.519 She crossed me one time to offer. 211 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:23.559 I would never have joined this wretched club. If I 212 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:26.039 had not read the Origin of the Species by Darwin. 213 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:28.600 I could not bear to be descended from an ape. 214 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:33.559 Certainly some men who cannot abide the restrictions of the monastery. 215 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:36.879 And after the abbot discovered me, there was nothing I 216 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:37.240 could do. 217 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:40.639 It seemed comprehensible to me. What is by this talk, 218 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:44.120 this boasting the self justification. If a man has made 219 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:45.799 up his mind to kill himself, let him do it 220 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:47.600 like a gentleman. Be done with the matter. 221 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.039 As I told you, there are some of us more 222 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:51.799 frightened of the act than. 223 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:52.360 Of the result. 224 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:54.519 There's only one man in this room who does not 225 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:56.559 seem to be in a state of hystery. Who is 226 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:59.120 that mister Godan by the gentleman sitting under the van. 227 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:02.600 Oh? Yes, yes, mister Marthas, would you like to meet him? 228 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:05.840 Yes? Please? These others are too obvious. There's nothing very 229 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:09.200 subtle about mister Maltas. He looks like death himself, wearing 230 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:10.080 thick eye glasses. 231 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:12.879 Let us discover for ourselves the reason for his relaxation. 232 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:16.519 Mister Marcus, Eh, I should like to present two new members, 233 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:19.000 mister Goodall and Major Hammersmith. 234 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:22.039 Are you do, gentlemen? How do you do? It's a pleasure, sir. 235 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:27.200 Won't use it down new comers, You comers, I envy 236 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:31.240 you the novelty of your first visit. You will learn 237 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:32.879 to relish it if you're spared. 238 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:36.320 Why, my dear sir, this club. 239 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:39.840 Gentlemen, is the temple of intoxication. If my health would 240 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:42.240 permit it, you may be sure I would be here 241 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:46.120 more often, for this is my last disivation. 242 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:49.759 Believe me, sir, I've tried them all. 243 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:51.639 All the vicests. 244 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:56.320 Yes, people trifle with love and ignorantly call it man's 245 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:01.759 most powerful passion. Nonsense, nonsense, fear. Fear is the strongest passion. 246 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:04.200 It is fair that you must trifle with if you 247 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:07.279 wish to taste the intense joys of living. 248 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:12.120 Envy me, sir, envy me. I am a poward er. 249 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:15.720 How, sir, is the excitement so artfully prolonged? 250 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:16.240 Oh? 251 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:18.960 Of course, of course I must tell you how the 252 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:22.519 victim for every evening is selected, as well as the 253 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:25.240 member who is to be death, Sir, High Priest, for 254 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:26.559 the occasion. 255 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:28.480 Great heavens, you mean they kill each other. 256 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:32.039 The guilt of suicide is removed in that way, then I, 257 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:35.360 or my friend or you, any of us might be 258 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:38.679 selected this evening to murder another man exactly. 259 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:40.960 But have they escaped the attentions of the law. 260 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:45.200 Ah, The ingenuity of our president knows no limits. 261 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:49.080 The debarchers always appear to be accidental. 262 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:53.720 It's monstrous. On the contrary, my dear Major, it is godlike. 263 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:55.720 Oh yes, yes, of course. 264 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:59.039 But mister Malthus, I am still in the darkest to 265 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:01.399 how the members are select did for the evening's work. 266 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:04.879 Oh of course I've got to explain. But I see 267 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:07.279 that the others are filing into the card room now 268 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:09.799 and the play is about to begin. You shall see 269 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:10.399 for yourself. 270 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:13.639 Will you lend me the help of your arm I'm 271 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:15.120 quite paralyzed, you. 272 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:19.879 Know, Oh, of course, eh, thank you, eh ah. 273 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:24.320 This is the moment for which I live, the quindescence 274 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:29.879 of poignancy, the cultimate of fashion, coming here as infrequently 275 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:33.039 as I do. I've savored this better taste to fear 276 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:34.240 longer than the others. 277 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:37.120 But my turn will come. Who knows? 278 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:41.399 That's night? But how is it done? Tell us what 279 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.240 to expect? Oh, it's so simple. 280 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:46.840 The President deals from an ordinary deck playing cards, and 281 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:49.480 each man turns up his guard as he receives it. 282 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:53.399 The ace of spades, the card of death. Ace of 283 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:57.000 clubs designates the official of the Knight, the murderer. 284 00:15:57.080 --> 00:15:57.679 If you like. 285 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:03.720 Ah, here three chairs together, happy, happy young men. You 286 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:06.960 have good eyes and you can follow the cards. I 287 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:09.039 can only make out the faces. 288 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:11.320 Is everyone here, my friend? 289 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.039 We still have a fighting chance to escape the quiet? 290 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:15.120 Let us play the game. 291 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:29.879 Attention, gentlemen. Three clubs, Jack of hearts, ten of diamonds. 292 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:41.039 King of clubs, Queen of hearts, three of spades, nine 293 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:41.919 of clubs. 294 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:50.200 Six spades. All the host that's are young men of 295 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:52.240 the cream. Tw He's drown the Ace of clubs. 296 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:55.080 I came here to be killed, not to kill I 297 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:56.600 want a gentleman, not murder. 298 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:00.360 I want to harshen the members against such unsanemly odverst. 299 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:04.079 The ace of spades has not yet turned up. 300 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:05.400 I will continue the deal. 301 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:18.319 Of half seven of clubs, King of diamonds, Jack of spade, 302 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:25.799 Ace o spades. 303 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:32.440 Mister, that concludes the play for the knight. Gentlemen, Will 304 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:34.400 the member who drew the ace of clubs come to 305 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:36.039 my office for his instructions? 306 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:55.960 Did you have this dream? Yes? 307 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:00.480 Good morning, Roderick. I shall have my breaks in bed 308 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:00.960 this morning. 309 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:05.480 And Colonel Geraldine has been waiting for you to awaken him. 310 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:16.480 Oh, very well show him, can you now? Good morning Geraldine? 311 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:20.599 Sleep well, not too well? Did I dream it? Or 312 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:23.559 were we initiated into the suicide club last night? 313 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:27.880 Hm? Seems like a nightmare. It was a nightmare, but 314 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:32.000 you didn't dream it. Here look at this the morning paper. 315 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:41.400 Well melancholy accident this morning about two o'clock, mister Bartholomew 316 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:46.480 Mouthless of sixteen Chepstow Place, Westbourne Grove, on his way 317 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:49.680 home from a party at a friend's house, fell off 318 00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:57.279 the upper parapet in Trafalgar Square, fracturing his skull. Death 319 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:03.160 was instantaneous. Mister Malthus, accompanied by a friend, was engaged 320 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:05.799 in looking for a cab at the time. If Heather 321 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:09.839 a soul went straight to Helen, was that poor paralytic? Yes, 322 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:12.559 at least he is dead and out of it. But 323 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.720 think of our young man of the cream tarts last night. 324 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:19.160 That lad was as innocent as you and I. This 325 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:20.759 morning he is a murderer. 326 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:25.480 And thank heavens, we're safely out of it, are we. No, 327 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:29.960 you are not going to return. I must you are 328 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.640 infected with a passion of fear, just as poor Malthus was. 329 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:38.039 Perhaps whatever it is to night once more, we take 330 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:50.880 our places at the table of the Suicide Club. Good evening, 331 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:55.240 Good evening, mister goodall back again to try your luck. Yes, indeed, 332 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:59.359 and Major Hammersmith, good evening you were. You are to 333 00:19:59.400 --> 00:20:02.680 be congratulate late sir on the matter of mister Malthus, 334 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:04.480 very neatly handled. 335 00:20:05.240 --> 00:20:08.799 I go, but I shall miss for ol Marthe he 336 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:09.200 was a man. 337 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:09.920 I could talk to him. 338 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:12.519 Yes, your bereavement must weigh heavily upon you, and. 339 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:15.839 Did it does, sir, But then it's all in the game. 340 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:18.599 And now you will pardon me. We will sit down 341 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:19.799 to play directly. 342 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:23.720 The fiend, the foul fiend of hesteady, my friend, once more, 343 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:26.319 let me plead with you, leave this evil house before 344 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:28.079 it's too late. You're very tiresome to night. 345 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:31.720 Oh oh, here's a young friend of the cream Tarts, 346 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:33.160 grievening old chap. 347 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:37.839 Oh, mister goodar Mantor Hammersmith. Oh, I wish I'd never 348 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:41.119 brought you to this infamous place. Or leave, leave while 349 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:42.160 your hands are still clean. 350 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:45.480 But our oath we could not go back upon. Our oath, will. 351 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:50.000 Renounce it, forget everything, Let them do their worst, but leave, 352 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:55.160 Leave before it's too late. If if you could have 353 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:58.039 heard the old man scream as I pushed him from 354 00:20:58.039 --> 00:21:03.079 the parapet, crunch of his little bones as he fired 355 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:03.559 the pace. 356 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:06.680 I perceive the dealing is about to begin. Shall we 357 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:11.640 go in? Mister mister good, if you. 358 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:16.319 Have any kindness in your soul, wish the Ace of 359 00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:21.079 Spades for me tonight. There's nothing left for me but 360 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:22.920 to die. 361 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:59.160 Attention, gentlemen, three of hearts, Queen of Spades, Ace of diamonds. 362 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:51.519 Three times around, and neither black ace has come up. 363 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:57.440 We are just thirteen. They set the table, this force round, 364 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:01.519 this will this will tell thee and I am next 365 00:22:01.519 --> 00:22:02.000 to last. 366 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:26.519 Yes, of course, only four more gods. 367 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:29.559 King of Spades. 368 00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:36.200 Oh, pray for me, mister Godald, pray for me. I 369 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:38.240 have one chance in free. 370 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:40.839 Pray that I get the ash. 371 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:48.160 Six of diam And now I have one chance in two, 372 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:50.400 my friend, don't silence. 373 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:56.039 Piece of Spades very well. 374 00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:58.039 That concludes the night's play. 375 00:22:58.079 --> 00:23:04.079 Gentlemen, Oh, mister good Dal, I'd give a million if 376 00:23:04.119 --> 00:23:04.680 I had. 377 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:08.279 It for your luck. I would sell you this card 378 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:09.640 for much less if I could. 379 00:23:09.759 --> 00:23:13.400 Well, Well, mister, my congratulations. I am pleased to have 380 00:23:13.400 --> 00:23:15.480 met yourself and to have been in the position to 381 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.720 do you that trifling service. At least you can't complain 382 00:23:18.759 --> 00:23:22.160 of delay. Yes, yes, and now before I leave forever, 383 00:23:23.079 --> 00:23:26.480 I should like to ask a question, A purely hypothetical question, 384 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:29.039 of course, since I am not a man to go 385 00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:31.400 back upon my word. But you wonder what would happen 386 00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:34.160 if you did, if upon the turning of the card 387 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:39.680 you had changed your mind and now wish to live. Precisely, Suppose, 388 00:23:39.720 --> 00:23:42.799 my friend Major Hammersmith and I elected to ignore our oath. 389 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:53.640 Suppose we began by tearing this place apart. You wouldn't 390 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:57.000 even get started. The guests themselves are desperate men. But 391 00:23:57.039 --> 00:23:58.880 if they did not stop you, the servants, who were 392 00:23:58.920 --> 00:24:02.880 even more desperate, would you would never leave this house alive. 393 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:08.799 I see, well, it was purely an academic question. Naturally, 394 00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:13.720 very well, then, what are my instructions? You will proceed 395 00:24:13.759 --> 00:24:16.000 along the strand in the direction of the city and 396 00:24:16.039 --> 00:24:18.960 the left hand pavement until you come upon a black 397 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:22.400 carriage with drawn curtains. In this carriage will be the 398 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:24.880 member who has to night drawn the ace of Clubs, 399 00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:29.000 my executioner, your collaborator in suicide. You will enter the 400 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:33.000 carriage and he will continue your instructions. Please have the 401 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:36.640