The Vampire's Desire | Author of Murder - The Hermit's Cave

[00:00:00] The mummers in the little theater of the air.

[00:00:13] Now the hermit is ready to help you spend an entertaining half hour.

[00:00:26] Go Stores!

[00:00:30] And murder's too.

[00:00:34] The hermit knows of them all.

[00:00:37] Turn out you're late.

[00:00:39] Turn them out?

[00:00:43] Have you heard the story?

[00:00:46] The vampire's design?

[00:00:50] Then listen while the hermit tells you the story!

[00:01:01] The hermit is ready to help you spend an entertaining half hour.

[00:01:07] For pitying looking place Mr. Winnie?

[00:01:09] It is at that we can't go any farther in this downpour.

[00:01:12] We should most likely have to stay in this doorway then.

[00:01:15] The house looks unteneted.

[00:01:16] Does it that?

[00:01:17] However there may be someone in.

[00:01:25] There's no one living in this tomb of a place Mr. Winnie?

[00:01:29] I think you're right John.

[00:01:31] I wonder where we are.

[00:01:32] I haven't had the slightest idea where we are since the beginning of the storm and we lost our way.

[00:01:38] I think you're right about the place being unteneted.

[00:01:41] Try the door, maybe we can break in anything to get out of this storm. Try the door.

[00:01:45] Yes sir.

[00:01:47] It's opening.

[00:01:48] Good.

[00:01:49] Well?

[00:01:50] Good evening.

[00:01:51] We've lost our way but in cottonists' storms were drenched to the skin.

[00:01:54] More fool you for being out on a nightlife.

[00:01:57] Very incredible.

[00:01:58] So maybe we can get right out of this storm.

[00:02:00] You're not welcome.

[00:02:01] Surely you're not going to turn us away on a nightlife like this?

[00:02:04] I don't care what kind of a night it is.

[00:02:06] You're not welcome.

[00:02:07] Well all right may we come in whether we're welcome or not.

[00:02:10] No, good night.

[00:02:12] She's slamming the door on your face.

[00:02:16] Kindly so.

[00:02:17] And the old woman tried to slam the door.

[00:02:19] I stuck my foot in the way and she hasn't tried to close it anymore.

[00:02:22] Good.

[00:02:23] Let's take a chance on going in then whether we're welcome or not.

[00:02:26] Right, sir?

[00:02:33] Now which way Mr. Winton?

[00:02:34] Who can tell in this pitch darkness?

[00:02:39] Listen.

[00:02:41] The old woman.

[00:02:42] Yes.

[00:02:44] Mr. Winton.

[00:02:45] We're in the house of a mad woman.

[00:02:47] It isn't a very pleasant sound is it?

[00:02:50] It doesn't seem to be a light in the whole place.

[00:02:53] What shall we do?

[00:02:54] We'll go to the right, feel along the wall for a light switch or a door.

[00:02:57] All right.

[00:02:58] Come along then.

[00:02:59] Follow me.

[00:03:02] Here's a door.

[00:03:05] Come along, Sam.

[00:03:06] Stay close to finding.

[00:03:07] Yes, sir.

[00:03:11] Oh good lord, sir.

[00:03:12] Is she going to keep that up all night?

[00:03:15] Well if she is I wish she'd tell what the joke is so we can live with her.

[00:03:20] Find the light switch?

[00:03:21] No.

[00:03:22] It doesn't seem to be one.

[00:03:23] All right then we'll continue in the dark.

[00:03:25] If you go to the left I'll go to the right.

[00:03:27] Maybe we can find something to sit on.

[00:03:29] Yes, sir.

[00:03:34] What's this?

[00:03:36] I found something.

[00:03:37] What is it?

[00:03:38] Well it might be a bookcase built into the wall.

[00:03:40] All right there may be at least something in it that we can sit on.

[00:03:43] Even books will be better than the cold floor.

[00:03:45] Yes, sir.

[00:03:46] Although I can't feel anything yet.

[00:03:48] Keep talking, Sam so I can find my way over here.

[00:03:50] Yes, sir.

[00:03:51] Why don't you strike a match?

[00:03:53] Find Shan's either of us have a doing that.

[00:03:55] I'll be soaking wet.

[00:03:57] Where are you?

[00:03:58] Right here, sir.

[00:03:59] You're almost up to me.

[00:04:01] Now where's the bookcase?

[00:04:03] Right here.

[00:04:04] Let me have your hand.

[00:04:05] Yes.

[00:04:08] Now let's feel all through it.

[00:04:10] Maybe something of use in it you never can tell.

[00:04:13] What was that?

[00:04:14] Sounds like someone at the door.

[00:04:17] What are you doing?

[00:04:19] I'm just trying to lay a match.

[00:04:21] Any luck?

[00:04:22] No, sir.

[00:04:23] Just like you said, there's something wet.

[00:04:25] Quite now, let's listen.

[00:04:28] It must have been imagining things.

[00:04:31] I've been imagining things ever since we first heard that old woman laugh like that.

[00:04:35] It's fairly makes my hair stand on end.

[00:04:39] There it is again, sir.

[00:04:41] A rustling near the door.

[00:04:43] Who is that?

[00:04:44] Who's there?

[00:04:46] Away from that bookcase.

[00:04:49] Away.

[00:04:51] Who is it? Who are you?

[00:04:53] Away from that bookcase.

[00:04:56] We wouldn't be near the blessed bookcase.

[00:04:58] It'd be gracious enough to conduct us to a room with some furniture in it so that we might rest and get dry.

[00:05:03] Away from the bookcase.

[00:05:06] He's leaving, sir.

[00:05:07] Oh, this is a fine. How do you do, isn't it?

[00:05:10] Oh, I've had about enough, sir.

[00:05:12] I'd sooner we were on our way.

[00:05:14] And in nonsense, however we leave the bookcase alone if that's what we're at to do.

[00:05:19] You still hear about it?

[00:05:21] Yes, I heard him.

[00:05:23] So you playing some game with it, if so, we're not in the mood for it.

[00:05:27] No answer.

[00:05:28] Oh, there she is again.

[00:05:32] Yes.

[00:05:34] That's enough. That's enough.

[00:05:37] What are you going to do, sir?

[00:05:39] There's a some fool game there playing with this. I'm going to find out about it and put a stop to it.

[00:05:42] There's a man and woman living in this house. It must be some furniture in at least one of the rooms.

[00:05:46] Some heat, sir. I'm chilled to the bone.

[00:05:48] Yes, some heat.

[00:05:49] There isn't, and there's something going on here that we should investigate and put a stop to.

[00:05:53] Come along, John.

[00:05:54] All right, sir. A few sayings. Where to first?

[00:05:56] You start right where we are.

[00:05:58] Search the whole house.

[00:06:00] From this floor up to the roof.

[00:06:12] Look, Mr. Winton. Look!

[00:06:17] Where?

[00:06:18] Down to the end of this hall.

[00:06:20] There's the old man who was talking to us in the room downstairs telling us to keep away from the bookcase.

[00:06:25] I think you're right.

[00:06:26] Getting a shaded lantern.

[00:06:28] Yes, sir.

[00:06:29] John, we'll follow him.

[00:06:31] Yes.

[00:06:32] When we lead us somewhere, we can't wander in this house all night in the dark.

[00:06:35] At any rate, he has a light.

[00:06:37] I don't think he's noticed this.

[00:06:39] You have to get close to him before he turns that corner down at the end of the hall.

[00:06:42] Yes.

[00:06:46] He's almost at the corner.

[00:06:48] Hey, he turned.

[00:06:50] Hurry. He might duck into some room close by and we're losing.

[00:06:55] Easy now while I peek around the corner.

[00:06:58] You see him, sir?

[00:07:00] Yes.

[00:07:02] Going into the first room on the left.

[00:07:04] Quiet.

[00:07:06] The air is still and must be here.

[00:07:09] Yes. Never mind about that just now.

[00:07:11] Makes me gasp for breath.

[00:07:16] He's the room he went into.

[00:07:18] Quiet now while I have a look.

[00:07:20] He's in there, sir.

[00:07:22] Strange?

[00:07:23] I'm sure he went in there.

[00:07:25] He might be hiding behind the door waiting to bounce on us.

[00:07:28] Oh, man, like that couldn't do much bouncing.

[00:07:30] He might be armed.

[00:07:32] We'll take that chance.

[00:07:34] The air is still and mustier.

[00:07:38] I can hardly get my breath.

[00:07:41] The foul started air coming from that room.

[00:07:44] The old man went into it.

[00:07:46] If he can stand it, we can't.

[00:07:48] Oh, man, sir.

[00:07:49] Be careful.

[00:07:55] He's not in here.

[00:07:58] For his, he's turned out the lantern.

[00:08:00] Hello?

[00:08:02] Hello?

[00:08:04] There's no one in here.

[00:08:07] The door, John.

[00:08:09] The door just lay him shut.

[00:08:12] There's no door here.

[00:08:14] I ran right into a blank wall.

[00:08:16] Where the door was?

[00:08:17] Right here.

[00:08:18] Yes.

[00:08:19] John, we're trapped.

[00:08:21] Some devil men underfoot in this house.

[00:08:23] We're right in the middle of it.

[00:08:24] Hello room with no way out.

[00:08:27] And no way.

[00:08:29] No way out.

[00:08:30] Don't start whimpering.

[00:08:31] We're in it and we'll have to see what we can do to get out.

[00:08:34] What could they want from us?

[00:08:35] How should I know?

[00:08:36] What should we do?

[00:08:37] Just sit and wait.

[00:08:38] No, we'll start looking for a way out of this room right now.

[00:08:42] We only had a light.

[00:08:44] Maybe we can find some other way out of this room.

[00:08:47] We can try.

[00:08:48] You go to your right, I'll go to the left.

[00:08:50] We follow the wall around, too, we meet.

[00:08:52] All right.

[00:08:53] And tap the wall as you go along.

[00:08:55] Listen for hollows, fat.

[00:08:58] No!

[00:08:59] Now what?

[00:09:00] I stumbled over something on the floor, sir.

[00:09:03] What is it?

[00:09:04] I don't know.

[00:09:05] I shall have to feed you.

[00:09:06] What is it, John?

[00:09:07] A body, sir.

[00:09:08] I'm not sure.

[00:09:09] Yes, sir.

[00:09:10] It's the body of a man.

[00:09:12] What is it?

[00:09:13] No, don't touch it, sir.

[00:09:14] Don't touch it.

[00:09:15] Well, I did.

[00:09:16] And a part of it crumbled a bit.

[00:09:18] Good heaven.

[00:09:19] Yes, sir.

[00:09:20] It crumbled under my touch.

[00:09:22] Where is it?

[00:09:23] Right at my feet.

[00:09:25] I'm afraid to move another step.

[00:09:27] We'll see what this is.

[00:09:28] Yes.

[00:09:29] You're right.

[00:09:30] I just touched it and part of the clothing crumbled away.

[00:09:35] And John, I felt bone.

[00:09:37] Oh, sir.

[00:09:38] That's what's going to happen to us if we don't get out of this place.

[00:09:42] I just know it is.

[00:09:43] Oh, no.

[00:09:44] Well, I must have been dead for years.

[00:09:46] The clothing just crumbled away in my finger.

[00:09:49] Yes, John.

[00:09:50] We must get out of this place as quickly as possible.

[00:09:53] We're in great danger.

[00:09:54] I'm sure of it.

[00:09:55] In danger of our life.

[00:09:56] We've got the same thing.

[00:09:57] I'm sure of it.

[00:09:58] In danger of our life.

[00:09:59] We've got to find a way out of this room before we stop a game.

[00:10:02] Why don't we try to find the place where the door was?

[00:10:06] Back to the door, John.

[00:10:09] We haven't time to look for any other exit.

[00:10:11] We'll have to find out how to open the door we came in.

[00:10:14] It's over this way, sir.

[00:10:16] Right along this wall.

[00:10:18] Who was that?

[00:10:20] There's the hideous cacole of the old woman again.

[00:10:23] Never mind about that, John.

[00:10:25] We've only a few minutes to find a way out of here.

[00:10:28] When that door closes, it hermetically seals this room.

[00:10:31] We don't get out of the suffocate.

[00:10:33] Watch what I do, sir.

[00:10:34] Feel along the floor while I search along the walls here.

[00:10:37] Feel for any loose boards or any part of the floor that might move?

[00:10:40] Yes, sir.

[00:10:42] Have you found anything yet?

[00:10:44] No, sir.

[00:10:45] Keep working.

[00:10:46] Where haven't they keep working?

[00:10:48] I can't do anymore, sir.

[00:10:50] I'm through.

[00:10:51] Keep searching, John.

[00:10:52] Keep searching.

[00:10:53] There must be a secret spring somewhere in here that will open this door.

[00:10:57] No, you find anything yet, John.

[00:11:00] John, answer me.

[00:11:02] John!

[00:11:04] Don't let go, man.

[00:11:06] Keep on hanging on.

[00:11:08] We're not done for yet.

[00:11:24] Mr. Winterman is a man, John.

[00:11:27] Trapped in a house of mystery.

[00:11:30] Suffocating in a hermetical sealed room.

[00:11:33] Where is the old man with a lantern?

[00:11:36] The hermet will tell you before the night is done.

[00:11:41] No!

[00:11:44] Winterman is a man, John.

[00:11:46] Trapped in a hermetical sealed room.

[00:11:49] A house of mystery.

[00:11:52] The hermet will tell you before the night is done.

[00:11:55] No!

[00:11:58] No!

[00:12:00] No!

[00:12:03] No!

[00:12:06] Winterman is a man, John.

[00:12:09] Trapped in a hermetical sealed room.

[00:12:12] Mr.

[00:12:13] Yes, John.

[00:12:15] Let's do the unconsciousness.

[00:12:17] But just as Winterman is about to drop off, something happens.

[00:12:22] Listen.

[00:12:30] John.

[00:12:32] John, we made it.

[00:12:34] I've found a hidden spring just in time.

[00:12:37] Now get's one of you.

[00:12:43] Here.

[00:12:45] You'll be alright in no time.

[00:12:48] Oh, it's you, sir.

[00:12:50] Yes.

[00:12:51] Come on.

[00:12:53] Put yourself to get.

[00:12:54] Where are we?

[00:12:55] I don't know.

[00:12:57] But at least we're out of that depth trap.

[00:12:59] How did we do it, sir?

[00:13:01] Just before I went under, I...

[00:13:03] I happened on that hidden spring that works the door.

[00:13:06] What about the old man with a lantern?

[00:13:08] The cackling old woman.

[00:13:10] What's the old man's body of the man?

[00:13:12] We're going to see about those things immediately.

[00:13:15] I'm going to get to the bottom of this thing.

[00:13:17] Come on.

[00:13:18] Get suffocated all over again.

[00:13:20] I don't think we will.

[00:13:22] Besides, I know where the release for the door is now.

[00:13:24] Come along.

[00:13:25] Be careful.

[00:13:26] Take an extra long step when you enter the room.

[00:13:29] I think we trip some kind of mechanism when we first entered.

[00:13:32] Yes, sir.

[00:13:33] Old man with a lantern went into this room and disappeared.

[00:13:36] The man can he have got to.

[00:13:38] He must have suffocated.

[00:13:39] He didn't stay in the room.

[00:13:41] I'm positive at that.

[00:13:43] Keep your ears open.

[00:13:45] Listen for any hollow sounds.

[00:13:57] There's one, sir.

[00:13:58] Yes, I heard it.

[00:14:00] Listen.

[00:14:04] Don't you hear someone talking?

[00:14:06] What do you hear to the wall?

[00:14:08] I'm not doing it anymore.

[00:14:10] I said no, I said no.

[00:14:12] You hear it now?

[00:14:14] Yes, sir.

[00:14:15] Two people talking.

[00:14:16] Yes.

[00:14:17] I knew that old man couldn't have vanished into this room.

[00:14:21] There's another door hidden here somewhere.

[00:14:23] We're going to find it.

[00:14:24] Feel for anything movable around the Wayne's coating.

[00:14:27] How we're going up the sides here.

[00:14:32] Can you hear what they're saying?

[00:14:34] There's too far away to catch any of the words.

[00:14:37] Whoever from his toe, night's ae was threatening her.

[00:14:41] You found it, sir?

[00:14:43] Yes, there's little foot on the decoration here.

[00:14:45] Look, sir.

[00:14:46] A flight to stay.

[00:14:47] Yes, and leading down.

[00:14:48] Come on.

[00:14:49] Oh, haven't we had enough for one night, sir,

[00:14:51] without sticking our noses in any further?

[00:14:53] We've gone this far and had an attempt made on our lives.

[00:14:56] We're going to clear up this business before we leave.

[00:14:58] No telling what might be down there, sir.

[00:15:00] That's what I'm going to find out.

[00:15:03] Are you coming with me, or shall I go alone?

[00:15:05] Oh, no, sir. I'm coming.

[00:15:15] You can hear them talking a little more clearly now.

[00:15:23] Close enough, I make up their conversation.

[00:15:26] Now there are two more of there with great rage.

[00:15:30] Yes.

[00:15:33] Man, we saw with a lantern.

[00:15:35] It's talking about us, John.

[00:15:37] Yes, sir.

[00:15:38] He thinks we're dead upstairs when that body could fall.

[00:15:41] If you do not continue to obey me,

[00:15:44] that's what will happen to you.

[00:15:46] Oh, no!

[00:15:47] No!

[00:15:50] Cridge.

[00:15:52] Cridge!

[00:15:53] That's what I want you to do.

[00:15:56] Come on, John.

[00:15:58] We'll see the week and do about this.

[00:16:00] I'm going to think all the money will be yours.

[00:16:04] I don't know what you're talking about.

[00:16:06] Oh, yes, you do.

[00:16:08] Yes, you do.

[00:16:14] As it turned into passage just ahead,

[00:16:16] I can see a light shining.

[00:16:18] Quite now, we'll be able to see into the room in the moment or so.

[00:16:21] Hello?

[00:16:23] You bring me another young animal to feed up on.

[00:16:27] Yes, brother Donut.

[00:16:29] It's her brother that's talking.

[00:16:31] Yes.

[00:16:32] Easy now while I look around the corner.

[00:16:36] What do you see, sir?

[00:16:38] Come here.

[00:16:40] Great heavens!

[00:16:41] A coffin.

[00:16:42] Yes, a coffin.

[00:16:43] What a huge, lighted candle and at each corner.

[00:16:46] And looking at the coffin.

[00:16:48] A man.

[00:16:49] And one we heard talking.

[00:16:51] When you get back here of Cutty Beach morning,

[00:16:54] you wonder where you've been the night before.

[00:16:57] Donut you.

[00:17:04] You are John.

[00:17:05] But his lips don't know.

[00:17:07] No, but that's where the voice is coming from.

[00:17:09] You go know that I have you under my power.

[00:17:18] What shall we do, sir?

[00:17:19] We've dashed in there and let matters take their course.

[00:17:22] Are you ready?

[00:17:23] Yes, sir.

[00:17:24] Come on then.

[00:17:26] Idiot!

[00:17:27] The candle's up!

[00:17:28] Out with them!

[00:17:29] John!

[00:17:30] John quickly that cover over there!

[00:17:32] Let him on the property!

[00:17:41] The lady.

[00:17:42] Look at her.

[00:17:43] Look at the change that's coming over.

[00:17:48] Where am I?

[00:17:50] A coffin.

[00:17:52] You too.

[00:17:53] Where am I?

[00:17:55] You should know better than us.

[00:17:57] But I don't.

[00:17:58] Are you sure?

[00:18:00] Oh yes, yes!

[00:18:01] Oh please believe me.

[00:18:03] Why are I begin to understand now?

[00:18:06] I think I do too.

[00:18:08] It's been this all the time.

[00:18:11] While I thought it was just a terrible nightmare.

[00:18:14] Would you like to make yourself clear?

[00:18:16] The coffin.

[00:18:17] Tell me who is in it.

[00:18:18] Who is in the coffin?

[00:18:20] You mean to say that you don't know?

[00:18:22] Oh no, I swear I don't.

[00:18:23] You call them brother just a few moments ago?

[00:18:25] Brother.

[00:18:26] Your own brother garnered it in that coffin.

[00:18:28] No!

[00:18:29] No, how can that be?

[00:18:31] We buried my brother gone at over eight years ago.

[00:18:35] Oh, I see.

[00:18:37] Yes.

[00:18:38] You are.

[00:18:39] I'm Lydia Cremton.

[00:18:42] Miss Cremton.

[00:18:44] I would advise you to start at the beginning so that we might not be able to see you.

[00:18:49] I'll try.

[00:18:51] But not here, please.

[00:18:53] Yes, here.

[00:18:55] If my deductions are correct,

[00:18:57] it would be better for everyone concerned to get the truth right here and now.

[00:19:01] All right.

[00:19:03] There's very little I can tell you that I know definitely.

[00:19:07] Brother garnered died about eight years ago.

[00:19:10] I hate to say it, but he was horrible.

[00:19:14] He was a devil.

[00:19:16] As soon as father died and he came into the money, he started making my life miserable.

[00:19:21] Why?

[00:19:22] I never could find out why.

[00:19:25] Then garnered died and was buried.

[00:19:28] And with him was buried the secret of father's will.

[00:19:30] I know that the estate was supposed to pass on to me after garnered dead.

[00:19:34] But I can't find any sign of the will.

[00:19:36] What have you done?

[00:19:38] I have a small income from my mother.

[00:19:40] I've been living in a little cottage not far from here.

[00:19:44] I'm now comes the pot.

[00:19:46] It's like a terrible dream.

[00:19:48] But I'm beginning to see it now.

[00:19:51] I'm positive that I'm right when I say that garnered somehow was able to exercise his will upon me after death.

[00:19:59] What makes you say that?

[00:20:00] What I've been thinking were horrible nightmares.

[00:20:03] I now see were actual occurrences.

[00:20:07] He made me come here every night to wait upon him.

[00:20:10] He told me that Gregory, his butler, had placed him here in this coffin and buried a dummy in his place.

[00:20:17] Then he killed Gregory.

[00:20:19] The body and the room upstairs?

[00:20:21] Yes.

[00:20:22] When he had me under his cell, I used to pass through that room and laugh at the remains of Gregory.

[00:20:29] Call him lazy for always sleeping on the floor to think that I would do a thing like that.

[00:20:35] Go ahead, Miss Cranford.

[00:20:37] He made me bring him a young animal every day or two.

[00:20:41] What was that for?

[00:20:42] He fed upon them.

[00:20:44] Ah, I thought so.

[00:20:46] He feeds upon the blood of animals.

[00:20:48] Yes.

[00:20:49] He fucked the blood from them.

[00:20:51] And when he had said he had the strength to get out of his coffin for a while.

[00:20:54] This is horrible stopper!

[00:20:55] No, quiet, John.

[00:20:56] Then that's how we saw him in the hall upstairs.

[00:20:59] Go ahead, Miss Cranford.

[00:21:00] That is about all.

[00:21:02] He used to talk me by the hour.

[00:21:05] Telling me I'd never come into my inheritance.

[00:21:07] I see.

[00:21:08] When we slammed the lid on the coffin, we broke his spell over you.

[00:21:11] Yes, you must have done it.

[00:21:13] Tell me, Miss Cranford, where in this room are we in connection with the rest of the house?

[00:21:19] I don't know.

[00:21:21] It must be on the ground floor, I suppose.

[00:21:24] That's what I was thinking.

[00:21:27] I have an idea.

[00:21:29] What is it, sir?

[00:21:31] I have an idea.

[00:21:32] What is it, sir?

[00:21:37] Hear that?

[00:21:38] Another hollow spot.

[00:21:39] Exactly.

[00:21:40] Now what's this point right here?

[00:21:41] Yes, sir.

[00:21:42] We'll press it and...

[00:21:44] It's opening!

[00:21:47] What?

[00:21:48] Why is the bookcase in the front room?

[00:21:51] Look at this in the back of the bookcase.

[00:21:53] A small secret compartment.

[00:21:56] I don't know.

[00:21:58] I don't know.

[00:22:00] It's the bookcase.

[00:22:02] The dead body is talking, talking even with the coffin lid on.

[00:22:07] All right, John.

[00:22:08] We're ready to put a stop to his talking.

[00:22:10] Here, Miss Cranford, packaged from the compartment in the back of the bookcase.

[00:22:13] I think you'll find us, your father's will.

[00:22:15] Father's will?

[00:22:16] Yes. Now, John, take those candles out of the candlesticks and the candles of Miss Cranford.

[00:22:20] Now hand me one candle, stick and use the other of the hammer.

[00:22:22] What are we going to do, sir?

[00:22:24] We're going to put an end to the garden at Cranford.

[00:22:26] But how, sir?

[00:22:27] What are we going to do with the candle stick?

[00:22:29] Now I'll show you.

[00:22:30] Are you the ornamental pointed end of this candle stick as a spear?

[00:22:33] You, you, your candle stick at the hammer.

[00:22:35] We'll drive this one through the heart of that monster in the coffin.

[00:22:37] No, no!

[00:22:38] But that would be murdered.

[00:22:39] We're not. He only lives during the night.

[00:22:41] Go on, strike.

[00:22:45] We'll relieve this snow so there's never trouble anyone on Earth again.

[00:22:49] Pass it down.

[00:22:50] I'm working as fast as I can, sir.

[00:22:52] When Miss Cranford told me of his feeding on young animals...

[00:22:54] ...shucking the blood?

[00:22:55] Yes. I knew then that we had a vampire to deal with.

[00:22:57] What are you doing?

[00:22:58] For heaven's sake, what are you doing?

[00:23:00] We're ridding the faith of the Earth of a vampire!

[00:23:02] Ah!

[00:23:04] I'm going to die, I'm going to die!

[00:23:06] It's done.

[00:23:10] We've driven the point of this candle stick through the coffin and through the heart of Garnet Cranford.

[00:23:15] Who's long been dead but whose soul has been held in bondage by the result of his evil practices in life?

[00:23:46] With a heavy candle stick used as a spear...

[00:23:47] ...Witamin is man-john put an end to the vampire's desire.

[00:23:51] Yes.

[00:23:52] Release these souls so it will never again return to the Earth.

[00:23:57] Turn on your life.

[00:23:59] Turn them on.

[00:24:01] I'll be back.

[00:24:03] Pleasant dreams.

[00:24:05] I'll be back.

[00:24:07] I'll be back.

[00:24:08] I'll be back.

[00:24:10] I'll be back.

[00:24:11] I'll be back.

[00:24:14] Pleasant dreams.

[00:24:27] All characters, places and occurrence is mentioned in the Hermits Cave or Fictitious and similarity to persons, places all occurrences is purely accidental.

[00:24:44] The Mummers in the Little Theater of the Air.

[00:24:50] The Dead.

[00:25:06] Go stories.

[00:25:09] Weet stories and murder still.

[00:25:13] The Hermit knows of them all.

[00:25:16] Ten out you may, ten them out.

[00:25:20] Ah!

[00:25:21] Have you heard the story?

[00:25:25] The author of murder, eh?

[00:25:29] They'd listen while the Hermit tells you the story?

[00:25:34] Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe.

[00:25:41] Hazel Clinton, well I'm glad to see you.

[00:25:44] Come here and sit down.

[00:25:45] Let me look at you.

[00:25:47] Ah!

[00:25:48] It's good to see you again.

[00:25:49] It's good to see you again too.

[00:25:51] Holy sin, you once in your marriage.

[00:25:53] Where do you and Limeon hide out?

[00:25:55] Now is that author husband of yours anyway?

[00:25:57] Well, it's your fault you haven't seen us.

[00:25:59] Been invited three times, you know.

[00:26:01] And couldn't get away.

[00:26:03] Besides, why do you live way out in the wilderness?

[00:26:06] Hazel's not ill or are you?

[00:26:09] No, Dr. Arthur.

[00:26:11] It isn't I.

[00:26:12] Bob, not Dr. Russell to you, my dear.

[00:26:15] It's easier to call your Dr. Russell and call like this.

[00:26:18] What can I do for you, Hazel?

[00:26:19] Here.

[00:26:20] Want a smoke?

[00:26:21] Have a cigarette.

[00:26:22] Thank you.

[00:26:25] There you are.

[00:26:29] I came to talk to you about Limeon.

[00:26:31] Yes.

[00:26:32] You, Hazel?

[00:26:33] It's worth the man.

[00:26:35] I don't know what it is, but it's something dreadful.

[00:26:38] Terrible, I know.

[00:26:40] You tell me the best you can.

[00:26:42] Well, at first when he moved out in the country,

[00:26:45] he seemed so happy.

[00:26:46] He was busy writing a new novel.

[00:26:48] And he had you there with him?

[00:26:49] Yes.

[00:26:50] I thought that should make him happy.

[00:26:52] He'd made me rush the marriage so.

[00:26:54] Married two months before he planned to be, won't you?

[00:26:56] Yes.

[00:26:58] But then several months after we'd been out in the country,

[00:27:00] Limeon began to act very strange.

[00:27:03] Very strange.

[00:27:04] What do you mean?

[00:27:05] Well, at first I thought it was fear of something.

[00:27:09] I don't know what.

[00:27:11] And then he began to sit in the library all night long.

[00:27:15] Writing, you mean?

[00:27:16] Some perhaps.

[00:27:18] But when he came upstairs early in the morning,

[00:27:21] he'd look like someone who had undergone a terrible struggle

[00:27:25] and ordeal.

[00:27:27] His face would be white and chalky.

[00:27:29] His eyes would jerk and his lips tremble.

[00:27:32] How long has this been going on for a month now?

[00:27:35] Oh, it's terrible.

[00:27:37] Something's driving in mad.

[00:27:38] Whatever it is, it'll kill him.

[00:27:40] He's a lad, I don't know what to say.

[00:27:42] I can't say anything right off hand.

[00:27:45] But you know my dear writers.

[00:27:47] Well anyway, Limeon has always been rather a peculiar chap.

[00:27:51] Normal of course, normal as any of them.

[00:27:54] He's not normal now.

[00:27:56] He's changed.

[00:27:57] He's not the same.

[00:27:59] Oh, he's got to do something.

[00:28:00] Can you get him to come and see me?

[00:28:02] No, that's the trouble I can't.

[00:28:05] He won't leave the house for a day.

[00:28:06] I begged him to get out, but he won't.

[00:28:09] Tell him you were coming to see me?

[00:28:10] Mercy, no, just in town shopping.

[00:28:12] And you want me to come to him?

[00:28:14] Is that it?

[00:28:15] Exactly.

[00:28:16] Without his knowing, I'm making a professional call.

[00:28:19] Yes.

[00:28:20] I wanted to come for the weekend and while there

[00:28:22] see if you can do anything for him.

[00:28:24] I'm not a psychiatrist, honey.

[00:28:26] I may advise pills when he needs a change of air.

[00:28:29] Oh, I know you.

[00:28:30] You're the right thing.

[00:28:32] When can you come?

[00:28:34] Want me this weekend tomorrow?

[00:28:36] Indeed, I do.

[00:28:37] I think I can get away this weekend.

[00:28:40] I will.

[00:28:40] I'll be there.

[00:28:42] Fine.

[00:28:43] I feel better already about life.

[00:28:46] And I mean, I know you can help in anyone can.

[00:28:48] Don't put too much faith in a daughtering old surgeon,

[00:28:51] my dear.

[00:28:52] You're the best physician in the world.

[00:28:54] Because I have faith in you.

[00:28:56] I'll be expecting you for dinner tomorrow.

[00:29:01] Hey, so this is Renners' manager dinner.

[00:29:03] I really eat more than I are.

[00:29:04] Oh, it's nice to see a man relish in me.

[00:29:07] Lime and rarely.

[00:29:09] It's good to tell you, Bob, that I have no appetite,

[00:29:12] but it isn't true.

[00:29:13] Lime and you know it is.

[00:29:14] Why not after night he leaves the table scarcely,

[00:29:17] touching his plate?

[00:29:18] It isn't true.

[00:29:19] I tell you.

[00:29:20] Well, perhaps Lime and is more sensible than I am.

[00:29:23] Now I know too hard your meal isn't good for me, particularly

[00:29:26] at night.

[00:29:27] I don't recommend it to my patients,

[00:29:29] but like all who preach, I don't practice my own teachings.

[00:29:33] Like the shoemaker's children who go without shoes.

[00:29:36] Something like that.

[00:29:38] Oh, if you finish your coffee, shall we go to the dry room?

[00:29:42] Fine.

[00:29:43] Now Lime and how about telling me about your new novel?

[00:29:46] What's the scene?

[00:29:47] I haven't been writing lately.

[00:29:48] But he has to soon.

[00:29:50] He's probably to publish it at a be ready in a month.

[00:29:52] Don't remind me what I have to do.

[00:29:54] I'll have it ready.

[00:29:55] I assure you, Will, with Hazel here for inspiration

[00:29:58] at Artigo Fast.

[00:30:00] Shall we go to the drawing room then?

[00:30:02] Yes.

[00:30:03] This way, but...

[00:30:04] Beautiful here.

[00:30:05] Beautiful here.

[00:30:06] Hazel, this is a lovely home you'll have out here in the country.

[00:30:09] I'm glad you like it.

[00:30:10] Quiet and peaceful too.

[00:30:12] What'll be your writers' paradise?

[00:30:14] I'll be here about sitting there.

[00:30:16] I'm sure you'll find it comfortable.

[00:30:17] Thank you.

[00:30:20] Where are you going to sit, Lime?

[00:30:21] If you'll excuse me, I think I'll go to the library.

[00:30:25] I have some work to do.

[00:30:27] Don't let me in, or you'll lie, or keep you from work.

[00:30:29] But I thought you'd like to visit with Bob.

[00:30:31] I tell you, I have work to do.

[00:30:33] All right, of course we'll excuse you.

[00:30:35] Yes, I have work to do.

[00:30:37] Will you join us later?

[00:30:39] Perhaps.

[00:30:40] No, no, don't wait for me.

[00:30:42] Getting late, I'm sure Bob will want to retire soon.

[00:30:44] But it's early at night.

[00:30:46] All the same, don't wait for me.

[00:30:51] Well...

[00:30:52] What do you think?

[00:30:53] I don't know what to think.

[00:30:55] He does that strange, doesn't he?

[00:30:57] Yes.

[00:30:58] Isn't it the same?

[00:30:59] No, he isn't.

[00:31:00] He's changed.

[00:31:02] I'm so author-worried.

[00:31:04] Notice how he glances everywhere.

[00:31:07] And looks nowhere?

[00:31:09] I did.

[00:31:10] What can be the trouble?

[00:31:12] Seems to be listening for something.

[00:31:14] Waiting for something.

[00:31:16] Yes, that's it.

[00:31:17] Of course, Lime has never been very little.

[00:31:19] Quishes.

[00:31:19] No, that's right.

[00:31:20] He dislikes maltode.

[00:31:22] There's something almost rude about his test eternity,

[00:31:25] this evening.

[00:31:25] I know.

[00:31:27] Bob, as a doctor, not as a friend.

[00:31:31] What would you say is the matter?

[00:31:32] My dear, I can't answer you yet.

[00:31:34] Is it I?

[00:31:36] Is he tired of me?

[00:31:37] No, no, I don't think so.

[00:31:39] But I must know.

[00:31:41] Notice how white and thrown it is.

[00:31:44] He's under some strain, all right.

[00:31:46] What do you propose to do?

[00:31:48] Soon as your gruff says to bed,

[00:31:49] I'm going to the librarian's sit with him.

[00:31:51] Oh, but he won't let you.

[00:31:52] I'm accustomed to giving orders, not taking...

[00:31:54] I know, but you don't know how...

[00:31:55] You don't let me stay.

[00:31:57] But you notice how he kept looking towards the library

[00:32:00] and yet tried to hide it from us?

[00:32:02] Right.

[00:32:03] Yeah.

[00:32:05] Now that you mention it, I do.

[00:32:07] I have a feeling that whatever it is that's bothering Lime

[00:32:10] and the library has something to do with it.

[00:32:13] I'll do my best tonight to find out what it is.

[00:32:25] Who is it?

[00:32:26] It's I, Bob.

[00:32:28] What do you want?

[00:32:29] Let me in, won't you?

[00:32:31] Sorry, I'm busy.

[00:32:33] Why lock the door, Lime?

[00:32:35] It'll be in two ways.

[00:32:37] Lime and I'll call one of the servants who open it for me.

[00:32:39] I'll rouse the whole house.

[00:32:40] You can't come in.

[00:32:44] All right, go away.

[00:32:51] Well...

[00:32:51] Come on, let her fell away.

[00:32:53] It came in a snoop.

[00:32:54] I know it.

[00:32:55] Hazel brought you here to watch me.

[00:32:57] And you admit that there is something wrong, Lime?

[00:32:59] I admit nothing.

[00:33:01] Uh...

[00:33:03] What time is it?

[00:33:03] Chimes just struck as I came down the hall.

[00:33:05] Let's see.

[00:33:07] Let them forty-five.

[00:33:08] Then you must go.

[00:33:09] Get out of here.

[00:33:10] Why don't understand?

[00:33:11] The door. I must lock the door.

[00:33:13] Come on, Lime.

[00:33:14] Tell me what it is that's bothering you.

[00:33:15] Go, leave me alone.

[00:33:17] No, I'm here to stay.

[00:33:19] I have a gun here, Dr. Russell.

[00:33:21] But you won't use it.

[00:33:22] Not on me.

[00:33:23] She'll be coming in a moment.

[00:33:25] She'll try to get out of this room, rattled the door now.

[00:33:28] Try to get out of this library to kill my wife.

[00:33:31] I confess I don't know what you're talking about.

[00:33:34] Who will come, Lime?

[00:33:35] You'll hear her in a minute.

[00:33:37] Moving out of those bookshelves.

[00:33:39] Moving towards me.

[00:33:40] Towards the door.

[00:33:41] Who do you mean?

[00:33:42] At first you'll smell the perfume she always wore.

[00:33:45] Lime, who are you talking about?

[00:33:48] Shirley Gray.

[00:33:50] Ghost of Shirley Gray.

[00:33:51] Shirley Gray?

[00:33:52] Ghost of Shirley Gray.

[00:33:54] She lives in this room.

[00:33:56] That night, midnight, she tries to get out and kill Hazel.

[00:34:01] Oh, now come, Lime.

[00:34:03] You've been working too hard.

[00:34:04] Your mind is weary.

[00:34:06] Your imagination is working overtime.

[00:34:08] Better go up and get some sleep.

[00:34:09] I knew this would be the way.

[00:34:11] I knew what you'd say.

[00:34:12] You think I'm out of my mind?

[00:34:13] Think I'm crazy.

[00:34:15] Well, I'm not.

[00:34:17] It doctors are fools.

[00:34:19] Can't see.

[00:34:20] Only measles, smallpox.

[00:34:23] You only can see something that bats you in the face.

[00:34:25] It's only because I can see.

[00:34:27] And I'm asking you to go upstairs and get some rest.

[00:34:31] No one can go on sleepless for weeks and remain sane.

[00:34:35] I'm sailor, right?

[00:34:36] More than you are.

[00:34:39] Listen, the clock, it's midnight.

[00:34:42] You'll be here in a moment.

[00:34:43] Listen.

[00:34:46] Listen, you hear?

[00:34:50] Listen if you dare.

[00:34:52] You hear her?

[00:34:53] I hear nothing, Lime.

[00:34:56] She's coming nearer.

[00:34:58] I can almost see her tonight.

[00:35:01] She's dressed in a soft, flowing gown.

[00:35:04] She's coming closer towards me.

[00:35:07] Nearer.

[00:35:08] Nearer.

[00:35:10] She's coming nearer.

[00:35:11] Surely.

[00:35:13] I didn't kill you.

[00:35:14] I didn't mean to kill you.

[00:35:15] Lime, what on earth is the matter?

[00:35:17] Dr. Russell, don't grab my arm.

[00:35:18] Let me go.

[00:35:19] Let me go.

[00:35:19] I tell you.

[00:35:20] Can't you see?

[00:35:21] She's moving towards the door.

[00:35:23] She wants to get out.

[00:35:24] No.

[00:35:25] No, you can't get out of here.

[00:35:26] I'll stop you.

[00:35:27] No.

[00:35:28] No.

[00:35:28] You can't get out that door.

[00:35:30] Get back.

[00:35:32] Back into the shells.

[00:35:34] I didn't mean to kill your sherry.

[00:35:35] Get back into the shells.

[00:35:37] Back, back.

[00:35:39] I'm pushing her back.

[00:35:41] I'm winning, winning back, back into the shells.

[00:35:46] Back.

[00:35:47] There, there.

[00:35:50] There.

[00:35:51] Lime.

[00:35:52] Lime, what is it?

[00:35:53] It's all over now.

[00:35:56] I won.

[00:35:58] She didn't get out.

[00:36:00] She's gone back.

[00:36:02] Now I can go upstairs and sleep.

[00:36:06] Sleep.

[00:36:09] I've won the battle for another night.

[00:36:12] No, I can sleep.

[00:36:16] Lime.

[00:36:19] Lime.

[00:36:23] Lime.

[00:36:25] Who is sherry who comes out of the bookies at midnight?

[00:36:30] Is it someone l'm unkilled?

[00:36:33] Lime.

[00:36:36] The helmet will tell you before the night is done.

[00:36:39] Whee!

[00:36:43] There are people in most countries who would like to live in the Republic of the United

[00:36:48] States or the Dominion of Canada, where that good, olgo coal is sold.

[00:36:52] The citizens of our feet countries are the envy of many people elsewhere because of

[00:36:57] the personal freedom which we have enjoyed.

[00:37:00] Why then doesn't every country adopt a form of free government?

[00:37:04] One answer is that unfortunately there are people and parties in many nations who

[00:37:08] are so greedy for power that they will sacrifice the freedom of their fellow countrymen

[00:37:13] to obtain power for themselves.

[00:37:15] History, even recent history, is replete with such instances.

[00:37:19] That is why the citizens of the Republic of the United States and the Dominion of Canada

[00:37:23] must be careful to recognize that it's very beginning, any movement to steal or limit

[00:37:28] their freedom.

[00:37:29] That is not always easy.

[00:37:31] The man who would enslave a free people doesn't begin by saying, now I'm going to be your

[00:37:36] dictator.

[00:37:37] Instead he probably will claim that he is a devoted supporter of personal freedom, but

[00:37:42] all the while he will support policies that weaken and undermine personal freedom.

[00:37:47] Such a man will deny any totalitarian aims, but free citizens must not be deceived by such

[00:37:52] denials.

[00:37:53] A parent laid as a cardinal principle of every sincere totalitarian that he is justified

[00:37:58] in lying.

[00:37:59] Such lies will advance his plans.

[00:38:01] In these times no public figure and no party or organization supporting such a person can

[00:38:06] be accepted without careful consideration.

[00:38:09] Every public figure and organization must be carefully scrutinized, and if their real aims

[00:38:13] are to limit or to destroy our freedom as individuals they must be opposed and defeated.

[00:38:20] Now they're hermit again.

[00:38:30] The next morning, Dr. Russell talks to Laman about the mysterious hairline.

[00:38:36] Is the doctor talking to a murderer?

[00:38:44] Listen.

[00:38:52] Laman I want to hear the story.

[00:38:54] In this clear, clean daylight I want you to tell me your story.

[00:38:58] It's nothing I can tell you.

[00:38:59] I'm your friend, Hazel's friend.

[00:39:02] I can't see your lives ruined, see your whole future shattered.

[00:39:05] Some strange thing that holds you that if it were brought out into daylight would vanish?

[00:39:10] You think it would?

[00:39:11] I'm sure it would.

[00:39:12] It's with me as much in the day as it is at night.

[00:39:15] I found out since last night that Shirley Gray was a character in your last novel.

[00:39:20] Now certainly Laman, you aren't going to sit there and tell me that you believe a character

[00:39:24] out of a storybook and return to haunted.

[00:39:27] Yes, yes she does.

[00:39:28] It's absurd.

[00:39:29] Besides from what I know of ghosts, doors wouldn't bother them that walk right through them.

[00:39:34] Not Shirley.

[00:39:35] She isn't strong enough yet.

[00:39:37] She hasn't been dead long enough.

[00:39:39] How should she kill Hazel?

[00:39:41] How do you know she wants to kill her?

[00:39:43] For revenge.

[00:39:44] I killed Shirley when she was still young, lovely.

[00:39:48] She didn't want to die.

[00:39:49] How do you know she wants to kill Hazel?

[00:39:51] Because night after night.

[00:39:53] She's come to me.

[00:39:55] Guided my hand while I write.

[00:39:57] Is written, I'll take your wife from you just as you've smatched my lover.

[00:40:03] Laman, listen to me.

[00:40:04] Character's from storybooks.

[00:40:05] I don't care how real they are to you.

[00:40:08] We're never flesh and blood.

[00:40:09] They can't inhabit a spirit world.

[00:40:11] But Shirley Gray was flesh and blood?

[00:40:14] I took her out of life and put her in a book.

[00:40:17] You mean you use some real girl as a type for your story?

[00:40:21] Yes, I did.

[00:40:22] Tell me about it, Laman.

[00:40:24] Perhaps I'll be able to aid you.

[00:40:26] It was several months before I was married.

[00:40:28] You remember I went up to that lake in the north to write?

[00:40:31] I remember.

[00:40:32] It was while I was there that I met Shirley Gray.

[00:40:37] She was the most strikingly beautiful girl I'd ever seen.

[00:40:43] Next, this is Mr. Clinton.

[00:40:45] Mr. Laman was here.

[00:40:47] How do you do, Mr. Clinton?

[00:40:48] Shirley tells me you're an author.

[00:40:50] I've been working on these frightfully keen on your stories.

[00:40:53] But I'm ashamed to say I don't believe I have ever read any of your work.

[00:40:56] Don't apologize, please.

[00:40:57] I'm the one who should do that.

[00:40:59] I've paid my right for money, not fame.

[00:41:01] I've been doing so much.

[00:41:02] We've had a grand time talking about it.

[00:41:04] From early French beginnings of the novel to modern.

[00:41:08] From Zola to John Depeche.

[00:41:10] It's nice of you to entertain Shirley, Mr. Clinton.

[00:41:13] I can only come out weekend.

[00:41:15] It gets pretty lonely here at the lake with only a folks for company.

[00:41:18] I'm sure you'll come on.

[00:41:20] We're wasting a glorious day, men, for swimming.

[00:41:22] I'll raise you to the second sand bar, Shirley.

[00:41:24] Right.

[00:41:25] What event? What event?

[00:41:30] And so I spent days at the lake with her walking through the woods,

[00:41:35] talking and falling in love with her.

[00:41:38] But this max, who was he?

[00:41:40] The boy she loved was engaged to.

[00:41:43] Yes, go on, Laman.

[00:41:45] In Shirley's company, I could feel myself grouping for new thoughts.

[00:41:49] Beginning to live more than I ever had before.

[00:41:52] She had a free and full imagination.

[00:41:55] Yeah.

[00:41:56] She wasn't muddled by life as most people are.

[00:41:58] She possessed a spiritual insight, clear, alive.

[00:42:03] I understand.

[00:42:04] And one night I told her how I felt about it.

[00:42:07] But Hazel?

[00:42:08] You were engaged to Hazel at the time.

[00:42:10] No, I'd forgotten about Hazel.

[00:42:11] She belonged in another world.

[00:42:13] And no existence in this one.

[00:42:15] So you told her, Shirley?

[00:42:17] Yes.

[00:42:18] We'd climbed one of the high sand dunes that afternoon, had returned.

[00:42:22] It was dusk.

[00:42:24] Shadows had begun to settle on the water.

[00:42:27] Stars were beginning to fill the sky.

[00:42:30] And we'd paused to watch their reflection.

[00:42:35] You will be returning home soon, Laman.

[00:42:38] And so will I.

[00:42:40] I shall never leave this spot.

[00:42:42] Nor you.

[00:42:43] Your mind rests.

[00:42:44] But an actuality.

[00:42:46] This lake, the beauty of it all,

[00:42:49] will be something to remember on cold winter nights.

[00:42:52] It's no use to disguise things from you, Shirley.

[00:42:55] You know I'm in love with you.

[00:42:57] I know that, Laman.

[00:43:00] I'll never let you leave me, never.

[00:43:02] I think you will.

[00:43:04] You understand me?

[00:43:06] And yet you don't.

[00:43:09] Meaning?

[00:43:10] That you've read many things into me that don't exist at all.

[00:43:13] And have all this is one thing, the name...

[00:43:18] What's yours?

[00:43:18] That I love Max. Love him very much.

[00:43:22] No place for me.

[00:43:23] Don't be big, I hate it.

[00:43:26] With Max's life as easy, unconfused,

[00:43:29] we're happy on a simple place.

[00:43:31] We'll run through life together and fight together.

[00:43:34] But not for too much, yet.

[00:43:36] The easy way?

[00:43:37] I'm not afraid. But why take the difficult?

[00:43:41] I like life as fun.

[00:43:43] It may be drab and hard someday, but not now.

[00:43:48] I haven't misunderstood you, Shirley.

[00:43:50] Quite the contrary. And I love you.

[00:43:53] Please, Laman, let's not talk anymore.

[00:43:57] Look at the water.

[00:43:59] See the boat way off in the distance,

[00:44:02] covered with a thousand lights going somewhere.

[00:44:08] Let's just stay here.

[00:44:12] That night was the last time I saw Shirley Gray alive.

[00:44:15] Yes, what happened to him?

[00:44:17] He left the lake the next day.

[00:44:19] Two days after, I returned home.

[00:44:21] Nasced Hazel to hasten your marriage?

[00:44:23] Yes, because I wanted to forget this girl as soon as I couldn't.

[00:44:26] I understand, but I couldn't forget her.

[00:44:28] I couldn't.

[00:44:30] She was with me constantly.

[00:44:32] So I began to write a story about her.

[00:44:34] But drove me wild.

[00:44:36] Get you finished the boat? Published it in fact.

[00:44:38] Yes, I finished it.

[00:44:39] But do you know what I did?

[00:44:41] I think I know.

[00:44:42] I couldn't bear to think of Shirley living without me.

[00:44:45] So I killed her in the story.

[00:44:48] Then the very day that I killed her in the book,

[00:44:51] she was killed in life.

[00:44:52] Yes, killed in an automobile instantly.

[00:44:56] There'd be nothing to do with your story, you wonder, blade.

[00:44:58] I was. I was. I thought so hard.

[00:45:00] Wanted it so much. I brought it about.

[00:45:02] I killed her.

[00:45:04] She wasn't ready to die.

[00:45:05] She won't accept death.

[00:45:06] Now she comes back to hall me for retribution.

[00:45:10] Tell me, Doctor, what am I going to do?

[00:45:11] Help me if you can.

[00:45:12] Help me, please.

[00:45:13] I will, I'm a.

[00:45:14] Tonight we shall go to the library together.

[00:45:17] And I will help you.

[00:45:18] I have a plan.

[00:45:19] I killed her.

[00:45:20] I killed her.

[00:45:23] How do you do young man?

[00:45:24] Your max peers, aren't you?

[00:45:26] Yes, sir, I am.

[00:45:28] I'm Dr. Russell.

[00:45:29] Yes, Dr. Russell.

[00:45:31] I'm glad to meet you.

[00:45:33] But there's nothing you can do for me.

[00:45:36] I was in an automobile accident, smashed up.

[00:45:40] Always have to walk with crutches.

[00:45:41] I know what I'm going to ask of you

[00:45:43] will seem very strange and personal.

[00:45:46] But I have a very good reason.

[00:45:48] Will you hear me?

[00:45:49] Yes.

[00:45:50] What is it?

[00:45:51] You were engaged to Shirley Gray, weren't you?

[00:45:54] Yes, I was.

[00:45:55] And, uh, loved her.

[00:45:57] We were to have been married.

[00:45:59] I don't understand you, we're in a moment.

[00:46:02] And Shirley Gray died?

[00:46:04] Yes.

[00:46:05] And I had to live on.

[00:46:07] I don't want to.

[00:46:08] If you're able, your doctor told me I might take you with me

[00:46:11] tonight to help save another man's sanity.

[00:46:14] We have to drive in the country.

[00:46:16] I'll tell you the story on the way.

[00:46:18] This is all strange to me.

[00:46:19] Now don't be afraid.

[00:46:20] It's all right.

[00:46:21] You come?

[00:46:23] Yes, I'll come.

[00:46:24] To my car then.

[00:46:26] Now tell you the stories we drive to our destination.

[00:46:33] That's all there is to tell right now.

[00:46:36] It doesn't seem possible.

[00:46:37] I am sane and considered to be a level-headed man.

[00:46:40] I've never believed in ghosts.

[00:46:42] Never.

[00:46:43] You're right.

[00:46:44] But I'm compelled to believe this time.

[00:46:46] But why doesn't she come to me?

[00:46:48] Perhaps she will tonight.

[00:46:54] Here we are, 1130.

[00:46:56] We'll find him in the library waiting.

[00:46:59] We'll find him in the library waiting.

[00:47:26] Who is it?

[00:47:27] It's I.

[00:47:28] It's I.

[00:47:33] Who's this?

[00:47:35] Who have you brought with you?

[00:47:36] Max Peeh.

[00:47:37] Do you remember him?

[00:47:38] Why have you brought him here?

[00:47:39] Please, Mr. Clinton.

[00:47:40] I want to help you.

[00:47:42] And I want to see Shirley.

[00:47:43] Perhaps he can talk to her.

[00:47:44] You've made a mess of things.

[00:47:46] Seeing Max will craze her.

[00:47:48] She'll kill all of us.

[00:47:49] No, I think it will give her peace.

[00:47:51] She wants revenge not peace.

[00:47:52] But you need help.

[00:47:54] You can't go on this way.

[00:47:55] Sit down both of you.

[00:47:57] Be quiet.

[00:47:58] Listen.

[00:48:02] Listen, to hear that rustling sound,

[00:48:07] it's the wind in the water.

[00:48:10] She brings the sound with her.

[00:48:12] Listen.

[00:48:15] She's coming.

[00:48:16] Nira.

[00:48:17] Nira.

[00:48:20] I can see her tonight.

[00:48:22] Do you see her?

[00:48:24] Why?

[00:48:25] Oh yes.

[00:48:27] Yes, I do see her.

[00:48:30] Shirley, my darling, Shirley speak to me.

[00:48:35] Max.

[00:48:37] Max, you've come to me.

[00:48:39] Yes, Shirley.

[00:48:40] I'm here.

[00:48:42] My darling, I love you.

[00:48:43] Do you want to come with me now forever?

[00:48:47] I do.

[00:48:48] Yes.

[00:48:49] Shirley, I do.

[00:48:50] But your revenge upon me.

[00:48:52] I shall have my revenge.

[00:48:55] You shall go on living, suffering for killing others.

[00:49:00] Shirley.

[00:49:00] Don't be afraid to die.

[00:49:03] Death will be lovely when we are together.

[00:49:06] What have I done?

[00:49:08] I forgive you, Lyman Clinton.

[00:49:11] I leave you in peace.

[00:49:14] Come to me, Max.

[00:49:17] Follow me.

[00:49:19] Yes, Shirley.

[00:49:21] I'll follow you.

[00:49:24] I'll follow you.

[00:49:27] I'll follow you.

[00:49:54] Good Lyman's story actually caused the death of Shirley Grey.

[00:50:14] A spirit returned and took Max pierced to her, leaving Lyman to pondering.

[00:50:24] And suffered the rest of his life.

[00:50:27] Ten on your life.

[00:50:31] Ten a month.

[00:50:35] I'll be back.

[00:50:40] Listen, dream.

[00:50:49] All characters, places under currents, as mentioned in the Hermit's cave are fictitious

[00:50:53] and similarity to persons, places or occurrences is purely accidental.

[00:51:12] This has been Acryptic County Podcast.

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