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00:02:02¡Oh, she's hiding out!
00:02:10Have you seen Gene in Clift?
00:02:12No, not lately.
00:02:13Look under the beds and in the closet and if they're not there we'll go to the basement garage.
00:02:17You'd think the host that would be in the middle of things.
00:02:20When we're on mass instead of playing hide-and-go-seek.
00:02:23Well, you better hurry her, they'll find out we're gone and come after us.
00:02:30¿Qué pasa?
00:02:42¿Qué pasa?
00:02:43Just let me in.
00:02:45¿Qué pasa?
00:02:48¿Qué pasa?
00:02:48¿Qué pasa?
00:02:50¿Qué pasa?
00:02:51¡Vamos a la vaca!
00:02:56¿Qué pasa?
00:03:00¡Gracias!
00:03:30¡Gracias!
00:03:31Let's go.
00:03:44Hello.
00:03:45Hello, is that you, chief?
00:03:47Yes, it's it.
00:03:48Steven Kester's been murdered.
00:03:50What?
00:03:52Take that piece of cabbage out of your mouth and talk, so I can understand you.
00:03:56i said steven kester's been murdered i don't know the phone wires were cut
00:04:03servants went over to neighbor's house to phone yeah his granddaughter beat it away with a guest
00:04:10right after it happened yes yes we did send out a broadcast to be picked up any minute now
00:04:16this might be them coming out get your gun ready in case they get told
00:04:20so
00:04:28so
00:04:32so
00:04:34so
00:04:40so
00:04:48¡Gracias!
00:05:18¡Gracias!
00:05:48No, no, no, no.
00:06:18No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:06:48He lives to be about 70 and then decides he wants to be a Chinaman.
00:06:52Who are you?
00:06:53Well, I paid $10 this morning to be a yodeler.
00:06:56What's your name?
00:06:58Tracy.
00:06:58Which Tracy?
00:06:59Michael Tracy.
00:07:00The novelist?
00:07:01Well, I'm not exactly a novelist.
00:07:03I write detective stories.
00:07:04¡Gracias!
00:07:34Well, we don't want anybody gumming things up, so don't figure to help us out.
00:07:38Well, I know a few things you might like to hear, but I'll try to keep him quiet.
00:07:41You'll get a chance to spill it when the time comes.
00:07:50He's been dead about three or four hours.
00:07:53Three wounds in the back from a double-edged knife.
00:07:55We've looked everywhere for that knife, but it just ain't here.
00:07:58Well, maybe the guy that did it's a sword swallow.
00:08:02I'm going to start throwing some questions.
00:08:04You stay here and let me know what the fingerprint men find.
00:08:11What's your connection here?
00:08:12Well, I'm... or rather, I was Mr. Kester's private secretary.
00:08:19Say, a guy who thinks up mystery stories could have thought up this one, too.
00:08:24Probably.
00:08:25However, the victim was suffering from Angina Pectoris.
00:08:28He would have died anyway before long if he hadn't been killed.
00:08:31Sure.
00:08:32I guess somebody got tired of waiting.
00:08:35Or maybe he was mixed up with a...
00:08:37Nah, he's too old for that.
00:08:39Where's the girl?
00:08:45Miss Kester was very upset.
00:08:46But with hearing about her grandfather and being hauled around like a common murderess,
00:08:49she went to her room with her maid.
00:08:50Meyer's watching her.
00:08:52All right.
00:08:53Sit down, everybody.
00:08:54Take it easy.
00:08:58Supposing you tell me about the last time you saw Mr. Kester alive.
00:09:01I know all about how he was found.
00:09:03Well, Mr. Kester was having difficulty putting on the papier-mâché head, so I helped him.
00:09:07Then I came downstairs.
00:09:09Miss Kester had asked me to have the orchestra give her all of the drums at the end of the third dance as a signal for everyone to unmask.
00:09:14Did he come down and join the guests?
00:09:16Yes, sir.
00:09:17Where were you during the third dance?
00:09:19I was standing at the foot of the stairs, talking to Mr. Hall.
00:09:24Did you see Mr. Kester?
00:09:27Yes, I did.
00:09:28He went up the stairs about the beginning of the third dance.
00:09:32Was this gentleman with you?
00:09:34No, no.
00:09:35He joined me a minute or so later.
00:09:38And you were there all during the last dance?
00:09:40No.
00:09:41No, we watched the dancers for a few minutes, and then I went upstairs.
00:09:45You followed Kester?
00:09:46No.
00:09:47I just went upstairs.
00:09:49And then what?
00:09:50I went to my room.
00:09:52What were you doing there?
00:09:54I, uh...
00:09:54I was smoking.
00:09:57Couldn't you smoke downstairs?
00:09:59Yes, I could, but it was noisy, and I preferred the choir.
00:10:03How long did you remain in your room?
00:10:06Until I heard the scream.
00:10:08That was a funny remark you made when you walked into the bedroom and saw Mr. Kester had been murdered.
00:10:13What did he say?
00:10:14Well, I'll be doggone.
00:10:17I don't know what Emily Post would have said, but...
00:10:19didn't sound like the proper remark to make on seeing a body.
00:10:23What did you mean by that?
00:10:26I don't exactly know.
00:10:28Just surprised, I guess.
00:10:30Were you a friend of Mr. Kester's?
00:10:33I knew him years ago in Mexico.
00:10:35He owned some mines and came to see them.
00:10:38How did you happen to be here tonight?
00:10:40I came to see him on business a few days ago, and he asked me to stay over the weekend.
00:10:46Where were you during the third dance?
00:10:49Sorry, I don't remember a thing.
00:10:51Oh, you don't, huh?
00:10:52No, I was practically unconscious all the time.
00:10:55Drunk?
00:10:55But not the way you think.
00:10:57I was intoxicated with a beautiful gypsy girl.
00:11:00Hempest idea who she was, but we were getting a long swell until some French marquee cut in on us.
00:11:06Then I wandered around looking for another partner.
00:11:08Young man, I suppose you know that your actions tonight have been mighty suspicious.
00:11:22Are you accusing me of murder?
00:11:23I'm not accusing anybody.
00:11:25I'm simply trying to find out who had the motive and the opportunity to do it.
00:11:28Now you come right down off your high horse and answer my question civilly.
00:11:32Now where were you when it happened?
00:11:34I can't very well say because I don't know when it happened.
00:11:36Where were you during the third dance?
00:11:38I was out on the ground smoking.
00:11:39By yourself?
00:11:40Yes, until I grew tired of smoking.
00:11:42Then I walked back to the veranda and met Miss Kester.
00:11:45She told me she had a headache and asked me to take her for a ride.
00:11:48Then we both got in her car.
00:11:49Did you have any trouble starting it?
00:11:51Yes.
00:11:52Someone had cut the distributor wires.
00:11:54I put them together again and we left just as they were unmasking.
00:11:57You and the young lady you're engaged to don't seem to care much for dancing, do you?
00:12:01Oh, I don't know what you're talking about.
00:12:03I'm not engaged.
00:12:04I'm talking about Miss Kester and you know it.
00:12:06Oh, I know.
00:12:08Everyone seems to...
00:12:09Well, that's all I'm going to ask you tonight.
00:12:12I want to see all of you in the morning.
00:12:23Oh, Mr. Crofton.
00:12:26I don't think you'll find Miss Kester and Mr. Miller are murderers.
00:12:29There's something much worse.
00:12:31What do you mean, worse than murderers?
00:12:32They're neckers.
00:12:33Really, young people nowadays are something terrible.
00:12:36Young man, if you have anything valuable to offer to this investigation, I shall be glad
00:12:39to get it.
00:12:40Otherwise, don't butt in.
00:12:42Oh, but it is valuable.
00:12:44I suspect them of being in love.
00:12:47According to my own private computation, I've discovered them together 14 times lately.
00:12:51Seven times embracing, seven times fighting like cats and dogs.
00:12:55Therefore, they must be in love.
00:12:57Maybe they were trying to elope.
00:13:01I'll bet that's just what they were doing.
00:13:03Now, how did you happen to figure that out?
00:13:05Well, I got an inkling yesterday when I asked Jean to marry me.
00:13:08And she said she couldn't because she already had a date to elope with Mr. Miller this evening.
00:13:12Well, he'd better not ask me because I won't tell him anything.
00:13:23Richard, Mr. Coughlin, how do you do?
00:13:25How do you do?
00:13:25Just what is it that you're not going to tell?
00:13:28Nothing that would interest you.
00:13:29Everything interests me.
00:13:31Mr. Kester was seen going up the stairs at the beginning of the third dance.
00:13:34After it was over, he was found murdered.
00:13:36Now, just what were you doing during that time?
00:13:38I was dancing.
00:13:40All the time?
00:13:41Come on, you might as well tell me.
00:13:42I'll find out sooner or later.
00:13:44Well, no, I wasn't.
00:13:46I mean...
00:13:46Well, what do you mean?
00:13:48I mean that once during the dance, I did go upstairs for a minute.
00:13:51What for?
00:13:51It's too bad a lady can't go to her own room.
00:14:01Mrs. Pritchard, how long were you in your room?
00:14:04Only two or three minutes.
00:14:05Anyone upstairs at that time?
00:14:08I didn't see anyone.
00:14:10Notice anyone in Kester's room?
00:14:12No, the door was closed, I think.
00:14:14You're sure you didn't see anyone?
00:14:16I tell you, I didn't see anyone upstairs.
00:14:17I don't believe you.
00:14:18Do you mean to tell me I'm lying?
00:14:19Yes.
00:14:20You saw someone upstairs and you're going to tell me who it was.
00:14:23But I tell you, I didn't.
00:14:24I didn't.
00:14:24Don't lie.
00:14:25Because it'll only be all the harder for you.
00:14:26But I tell you...
00:14:27Who was it?
00:14:30All right.
00:14:31I'll tell.
00:14:32And you did see someone upstairs.
00:14:34What were they doing?
00:14:36Well, I opened the door to our room and started out.
00:14:39Then I remembered I'd forgotten to turn out the light in the bathroom, so I went back.
00:14:43And just as I stepped into the hall,
00:14:45I saw someone coming out of Mr. Kester's room.
00:14:48And who was it?
00:14:49Come on.
00:14:50It was Gene Kester.
00:15:03During the last dance, before the unmasking, where were you?
00:15:07I was in my room.
00:15:09Why?
00:15:11I was tired and wanted to rest.
00:15:14How long did you remain in your room?
00:15:15Oh, during that dance, I had a little headache.
00:15:21I felt some fresh air would do me some good.
00:15:23So I went downstairs and asked one of the guests to take me for a ride.
00:15:26Mr. Miller's a pretty good friend of yours, isn't he?
00:15:30Oh, good enough.
00:15:31I understand you were engaged.
00:15:35Oh, yes.
00:15:36That's what everyone thinks.
00:15:37But there's not any truth in it.
00:15:39How come you took a notion to take a ride when you did?
00:15:42I should think, being hostess, that you would have stayed, just out of politeness.
00:15:45Should you?
00:15:46That's not answering my question.
00:15:47Well, then don't ask such absurd ones.
00:15:49If I felt like going for a ride instead of being polite, that's my affair.
00:15:52Maybe it was your affair, but it's mine now.
00:15:56Your grandfather was murdered, and it's my business to find out who did it.
00:16:00What were you doing in his room before you took the ride?
00:16:02I wasn't in his room tonight.
00:16:04You would swear to that?
00:16:05Of course I'd swear to it.
00:16:08You don't think that I killed him?
00:16:09No.
00:16:10But I think you know who did.
00:16:13Well, I don't.
00:16:22Can I go to her now?
00:16:35I want to ask you a few questions first.
00:16:37Where were you during most of the evening?
00:16:39I went upstairs when the dancing begun.
00:16:42Having gotten things started satisfactorily in the kitchen,
00:16:45and having toured Lennox, he's the butler,
00:16:48to look after the guests.
00:16:49That was my privilege to tell him.
00:16:52You know, I haven't been with the Kestis for 27 years,
00:16:56and him only 20.
00:16:58I went straight to Gene's room,
00:17:00started picking up,
00:17:01and I've been there ever since.
00:17:03Were you alone all that time?
00:17:04No, sir.
00:17:05Who was with you?
00:17:06Gene, for a short time.
00:17:08How long?
00:17:10Well, they'd been two dancers.
00:17:12I could tell by the music.
00:17:15Gene came upstairs and said she was tired
00:17:17and wanted to rest a while.
00:17:18I said maybe a little fresh air would do her good.
00:17:21She said she'd hunt up Mr. Miller
00:17:22and ask him to take her for a ride.
00:17:24She went downstairs,
00:17:26and I went on with my sword.
00:17:27When did Miss Kester leave her room?
00:17:29A few minutes before all the screaming
00:17:31and running around out there
00:17:33when they found the body.
00:17:34And then she went directly downstairs?
00:17:36Yes, sir.
00:17:36How do you know?
00:17:37I watched her.
00:17:38You mean your door was open?
00:17:40No, sir.
00:17:41You don't catch me sitting around
00:17:43in no room with the door open.
00:17:45It's bad luck.
00:17:45But when she left,
00:17:47I went to the door with her
00:17:48and watched her go downstairs.
00:17:50Just one more question.
00:17:52Is Miss Kester engaged to Mr. Miller?
00:17:55For land sakes, no.
00:17:56A lot of people think so.
00:17:58But there's nothing to it.
00:17:59They're just good friends.
00:18:01Thank you.
00:18:02That'll be all for now.
00:18:03I wonder if you were struck
00:18:10with the same thing I watched.
00:18:11What was that?
00:18:13The similarity of Miss Kester's,
00:18:14Miller's, and Dora's story.
00:18:16Yes, I got that.
00:18:17They seem to check all right.
00:18:18Well, just a bit too all right,
00:18:19don't you think?
00:18:20What do you mean?
00:18:22Well, they answered that engagement question
00:18:24the same way.
00:18:25Statistics prove that you can't get
00:18:27three honest observers
00:18:28to tell the same story.
00:18:30It's psychology.
00:18:31Proving that psychology can go wrong.
00:18:33No proving prearranged agreement.
00:18:35I don't think Miss Kester
00:18:36was in that old guy's bedroom at all.
00:18:38Neither do I.
00:18:43You think Mrs. Pritchett was lying?
00:18:45Sure.
00:18:46She pretended she didn't want to tell,
00:18:47but she overdid it.
00:18:49Santa.
00:18:50Captain, Mrs. Pritchett wasn't lying.
00:18:53Jane was.
00:18:53How did you get smart enough
00:18:54to figure that out?
00:18:55Well, I saw myself.
00:18:56Were you upstairs doing that dance?
00:18:58Yes, I happened to go up to my room.
00:18:59Well, you see, I needed a safety pin
00:19:01to retain my decency.
00:19:02And while I was there,
00:19:03I saw Jean come out
00:19:04of her grandfather's room.
00:19:05What else?
00:19:06Well, she seemed upset
00:19:07and in a hurry.
00:19:09I didn't see Dora,
00:19:10but that proves they're lying,
00:19:11doesn't it?
00:19:12Did you see Mrs. Pritchett?
00:19:13No, but I don't see
00:19:14how she missed seeing me.
00:19:16If she did,
00:19:16I'll have to thank her
00:19:18for keeping her mouth shut.
00:19:19Why are you so interested
00:19:20in pinning the murder
00:19:21on her all of a sudden?
00:19:23Well,
00:19:24I'm the disappointed lover.
00:19:26In any good old
00:19:27Victorian novel,
00:19:28that's more of enough
00:19:29committing a murder,
00:19:29isn't it?
00:19:30No, not in this case.
00:19:31That's no reason
00:19:32for croaking the old gent.
00:19:33Could be.
00:19:34He might have favored Miller
00:19:35and disapproved of me.
00:19:36Well, did he?
00:19:37Yes.
00:19:39You're the biggest fool
00:19:40I have ever seen.
00:19:43Well,
00:19:44when it comes to a choice
00:19:45between my neck
00:19:46and the lady's,
00:19:46it's just
00:19:47too bad for the lady.
00:19:49You couldn't be mixing up
00:19:50in this case
00:19:51just to get material
00:19:52for a novel,
00:19:53could you?
00:19:54I might be.
00:19:55Well, watch out
00:19:56you don't get into trouble.
00:19:58You're not above suspicion,
00:19:59you know.
00:20:09I'd like to talk to you.
00:20:18Where were you this evening
00:20:19during the dancing?
00:20:20After the music started,
00:20:21I went upstairs
00:20:22to pick up Mr. Kester's things
00:20:24and turn down the bed.
00:20:25Then I went down
00:20:26the back stairs
00:20:27and was busy in the kitchen
00:20:28until I heard the scream.
00:20:29Did you see anyone
00:20:30in the hall?
00:20:31No, sir.
00:20:32What kind of a man
00:20:33was Mr. Kester's work for?
00:20:35He was a Simon Legree, sir.
00:20:37It's been most difficult
00:20:38to put up with him
00:20:39these past 20 years.
00:20:41You'll pardon my saying it, sir,
00:20:42but there's no one
00:20:43who won't be glad
00:20:44that he's gone.
00:20:46Did you have any quarrel
00:20:47with him lately?
00:20:48No, sir.
00:20:48I never argued.
00:20:50I just kept my feelings
00:20:52to myself, sir.
00:20:53Do you know of anyone
00:20:54that did have a quarrel
00:20:55with Mr. Kester?
00:20:57Yes, sir.
00:20:58Who?
00:20:58Mr. Hall, sir.
00:21:00What kind of a quarrel?
00:21:02Well, Mr. Tracy
00:21:02was there at the time.
00:21:03Perhaps he could tell you
00:21:04more about it than I could.
00:21:05All right.
00:21:09Now is the chance
00:21:10for you to say
00:21:11something important.
00:21:13He happened to be
00:21:14downstairs the day
00:21:15he arrived.
00:21:17He refused to give
00:21:18his name to Lennox
00:21:19or state his business.
00:21:20Kester asked him
00:21:21to come in.
00:21:22His hall started
00:21:23toward the study.
00:21:24Gene came downstairs.
00:21:26When they both
00:21:26saw each other,
00:21:27they stopped cold.
00:21:28That right, Lennox?
00:21:29They did, sir.
00:21:31He stepped closer to her
00:21:32as though he intended
00:21:33speaking to her.
00:21:34But she just stared.
00:21:37Then he turned away
00:21:37and I let him
00:21:38in the study.
00:21:39As I closed the door
00:21:40after him,
00:21:41I heard them
00:21:42almost immediately
00:21:43going into an argument.
00:21:45What about?
00:21:46I don't know, sir.
00:21:47I never eavesdropped.
00:21:50Did you happen to hear
00:21:50what they were
00:21:51arguing about?
00:21:52No, but they were
00:21:53both caught under the collar.
00:21:54I asked Gene
00:21:55if she knew him.
00:21:56She said she'd never
00:21:56seen him before in her life.
00:21:58Then Kester came out
00:21:59with Hall
00:21:59and introduced him.
00:22:00Said he was an old friend
00:22:01and was going to stay
00:22:02here a few days.
00:22:04Hmm.
00:22:06Any other quarrels
00:22:07that you know about?
00:22:08Yes, sir.
00:22:09The one he had
00:22:10with his granddaughter, sir.
00:22:11What was that about?
00:22:12I wasn't there, sir.
00:22:14But Mr. Pritchard was.
00:22:16You tell Pritchard
00:22:16I want to see him.
00:22:18Yes, sir.
00:22:22Did you notice
00:22:23that he never dropped
00:22:24the, did you ring, sir,
00:22:25attitude all through
00:22:26the hubbub?
00:22:27Well, what other?
00:22:28Well, I'm never satisfied
00:22:29with the murder
00:22:29unless it involves
00:22:30an old family retainer.
00:22:31They always knew
00:22:33about the household skeleton.
00:22:34Well, I'm not interested
00:22:35in your theories.
00:22:36This is no book murder.
00:22:41Well, what did your men
00:22:42find out?
00:22:43The ignition wires
00:22:44and the distributor wires
00:22:45are cut on all the cars
00:22:46except the one Miller
00:22:47drove away in.
00:22:47And the ignition wires
00:22:48are cut on that.
00:22:49And the telephone wires
00:22:50are cut twice.
00:22:51Meaning what?
00:22:52Well, I'm trying
00:22:52to figure it out.
00:22:54In the meantime,
00:22:54we're looking for shoes.
00:22:55Shoes?
00:22:56Yeah, where the wires
00:22:57were cut on the Kester's
00:22:58bedroom,
00:22:58there's an impression
00:22:59of a heel.
00:22:59We've made a cast of that.
00:23:01Do you want to see me?
00:23:03Oh, yes.
00:23:04I understand that
00:23:05Miss Kester
00:23:06and her grandfather
00:23:07had a quarrel yesterday.
00:23:09What do you know about it?
00:23:10Well, Mr. Kester
00:23:11rang for me.
00:23:12As I was going down the hall,
00:23:13I heard the sound
00:23:14of their voices.
00:23:25Come in.
00:23:25You gave Lennox orders
00:23:29to prepare the room
00:23:30so they could stay,
00:23:31didn't you?
00:23:32Certainly I didn't.
00:23:33I'd do it again.
00:23:34I'm the one
00:23:35to give orders to the house.
00:23:36Well, they're my friends
00:23:37and if they want to stay,
00:23:38they'll stay
00:23:39or I leave with them.
00:23:41All right.
00:23:43As long as they're here,
00:23:44they can stay.
00:23:45But they'll not
00:23:46come here again.
00:23:47And why not?
00:23:49Because I won't have trash
00:23:50like they are
00:23:51mollycoddling around you.
00:23:53They play up to you,
00:23:54make love to you,
00:23:55and you let them.
00:23:56Of course I do.
00:23:58I'm human.
00:23:59They've asked you
00:24:00to marry them,
00:24:00both of them,
00:24:01haven't they?
00:24:01And why?
00:24:02Because they want
00:24:03to get their fingers
00:24:04on your money.
00:24:05Well, they'll not
00:24:06get one cent.
00:24:08You'll not marry
00:24:09either one of them.
00:24:10I'll marry whom I please.
00:24:13When the time comes
00:24:14for you to marry,
00:24:15I have a list
00:24:16of eligible men
00:24:17that will call on you.
00:24:18I suppose you think
00:24:19you can tell me
00:24:20when and whom
00:24:20I should marry
00:24:21and that I'm to have a boy
00:24:22and need to be named
00:24:22after you.
00:24:23Oh, rot.
00:24:24Do you think
00:24:25you can arrange
00:24:25my life for me?
00:24:27Have you forgotten
00:24:28what you did
00:24:28to my mother?
00:24:29You leave her name
00:24:30out of this.
00:24:31Oh, you're ashamed
00:24:32to talk about that.
00:24:33You ruined her
00:24:34married life
00:24:35and you killed her
00:24:36just as sure
00:24:36as if you stuck
00:24:37a knife in her heart.
00:24:38But you can't
00:24:39do that to me.
00:24:40We'll talk no more
00:24:41about that now.
00:24:43I'll see these men,
00:24:44both of them,
00:24:45after the party
00:24:45and I'll buy them off.
00:24:48That's all they're after.
00:24:50Richard?
00:24:51Yes, sir?
00:24:53You are to pay up
00:24:54all charge accounts
00:24:55of Miss Kester's
00:24:56and close them up.
00:24:58I'll not be responsible
00:24:59for any more of her debts.
00:25:00Yes, sir.
00:25:02Do you think
00:25:03you can bully me
00:25:04by stopping my money?
00:25:05You forget
00:25:06I have some jewels left.
00:25:07You've pawned
00:25:08some of them already,
00:25:09haven't you?
00:25:10Why, of course I have.
00:25:11You stopped my allowance
00:25:12about six weeks ago.
00:25:13How do you think
00:25:14I got my spending money?
00:25:15When you come
00:25:16to your senses,
00:25:17your allowance
00:25:18will be waiting for you.
00:25:25Two hundred.
00:25:27Four hundred.
00:25:29Six hundred.
00:25:31Eight hundred.
00:25:32Ten hundred.
00:25:34Twelve hundred.
00:25:35One hundred.
00:25:58Richard?
00:26:00You will ask
00:26:01Mr. Rayner
00:26:02to bring my will out tomorrow.
00:26:03I want to make
00:26:03some changes.
00:26:04Yes, sir.
00:26:05Also, take all the
00:26:06Arco mining stocks
00:26:07I have and sell them.
00:26:09I might have known
00:26:10you'd want to cut me
00:26:10out of your will.
00:26:13Well, go ahead
00:26:13and try it.
00:26:26Then I left.
00:26:27I sent the checks
00:26:27to close the charge account
00:26:28and delivered his message
00:26:30to Mr. Rayner.
00:26:31You know what the reference
00:26:32to her mother was about?
00:26:32Well, not exactly.
00:26:34Miss Jean's mother died
00:26:35when she was two or three.
00:26:36Her father also.
00:26:38I think they lived in Mexico.
00:26:39Then Mr. Kester
00:26:40brought her here.
00:26:41Since then,
00:26:42she's been at one school
00:26:43and another.
00:26:44For the last few years
00:26:45have been in Europe.
00:26:46Well,
00:26:47I guess we all
00:26:48better get a little sleep.
00:26:50Oh, uh,
00:26:51you get hold of that lawyer
00:26:52and the will
00:26:53the first thing in the morning.
00:26:53Yes, sir.
00:26:56Say,
00:26:57do you suppose
00:26:58Hall being from Mexico
00:26:59fits into that story
00:27:00about Jean's mother?
00:27:01Oh, any fool
00:27:02could figure that out.
00:27:03Put that in your book.
00:27:06Rayner,
00:27:07have you a copy
00:27:08of the new will?
00:27:09Yes, sir.
00:27:10But it was never signed.
00:27:12In just what way
00:27:13does it differ
00:27:13from the old one?
00:27:14The residue of the estate,
00:27:16instead of going directly
00:27:17to his granddaughter,
00:27:18was to be held in trust
00:27:19by Mr. Hall
00:27:20and then go to Miss Kester
00:27:21or her heirs
00:27:22on his death.
00:27:29Do you think
00:27:30the new will
00:27:31would hold up in court?
00:27:33I think it would
00:27:34if I were to swear
00:27:35that it was his wish
00:27:36and intention
00:27:36to sign it
00:27:37as soon as it was made up.
00:27:38Do you know why
00:27:39he wanted to sell
00:27:40those mining stocks?
00:27:42I didn't bother
00:27:43about those things much.
00:27:44Mr. Kester
00:27:45dabbled in stocks,
00:27:46but, uh,
00:27:46Pritchard took care
00:27:47of the details.
00:27:48Thank you.
00:27:53Mr. Kester
00:27:53disinherited
00:27:54his granddaughter
00:27:55and was murdered
00:27:55before he had a chance
00:27:56to sign the new will.
00:28:01Do you know
00:28:02anything about
00:28:03the Arco mining stocks
00:28:04that he wanted to sell?
00:28:05Not much.
00:28:06The mine is somewhere
00:28:07in Mexico.
00:28:08Do you have a list
00:28:08of those stocks?
00:28:09Yes, sir.
00:28:10Where did he keep them?
00:28:11In the little black book.
00:28:12He generally kept that
00:28:13in the wall safe
00:28:13in his bedroom.
00:28:14Do you know
00:28:14the combination
00:28:15of that safe?
00:28:16No, sir.
00:28:16Who did?
00:28:17Mr. Rayner.
00:28:19And Miss Kester.
00:28:20She sometimes
00:28:21kept her jewels there.
00:28:23I'd like to have a look
00:28:24at the contents
00:28:25of that safe,
00:28:26Mr. Rayner.
00:28:27Yes, sir.
00:28:35Caught this bird
00:28:35sneaking down
00:28:36the back stairs
00:28:37with these shoes
00:28:37under his arm.
00:28:39Where were you going?
00:28:40I was going to ask
00:28:40one of the servants
00:28:41to have the heels
00:28:42straightened.
00:28:45Looks like the same
00:28:45round hole
00:28:46that were in the mold.
00:28:47Yes, Chief.
00:28:48Same round hole.
00:28:49I'm not the only one
00:28:49that wears rubber heels.
00:28:52You sit down
00:28:57over there
00:28:58and keep cool.
00:28:58I'll attend to you later.
00:28:59Have you got a key
00:29:15to this box?
00:29:16No, sir.
00:29:16Mr. Kester usually
00:29:17kept it in his pocket.
00:29:18Now, take a look
00:29:19among his things.
00:29:20Never mind.
00:29:22The lid's been jimmy.
00:29:22I suppose this goes
00:29:32to Hall according
00:29:33to that will.
00:29:34You'd better take care
00:29:34of it.
00:29:35What I've got to do
00:29:36is to find the $1,200.
00:29:37Say, Regan,
00:29:38you go and search
00:29:39Miss Kester's room
00:29:40and while you're about it
00:29:41look for that
00:29:41double-edged knife.
00:29:42Yes, sir.
00:29:42Is this what you're
00:29:51looking for?
00:29:52What are you doing
00:29:53with that?
00:29:54Cutting open
00:29:54some of the pages
00:29:55in this book.
00:29:56May I have it?
00:29:56Sure.
00:29:57I detest knives.
00:29:58Ever since my uncle's,
00:29:59he was a banker,
00:30:00stabbed himself
00:30:01from the vestibule.
00:30:02We can do without
00:30:02your comedy.
00:30:03Okay.
00:30:05Where did you get this?
00:30:09On the roof
00:30:09outside Mr. Kester's
00:30:10bedroom.
00:30:11I found it this morning.
00:30:12Did either of you
00:30:16ever see this knife
00:30:17before?
00:30:22Did you ever see it
00:30:23before?
00:30:24Yes, sir.
00:30:24Where?
00:30:25In a scabbard
00:30:26on Mr. Hall's dresser.
00:30:31Miss Kester,
00:30:32there are still some
00:30:33things that puzzled me
00:30:33about last night.
00:30:35You're sure that
00:30:35you were at no time
00:30:36during the evening
00:30:37in your grandfather's room?
00:30:39Oh, excuse me,
00:30:41but for some unknown
00:30:41reason,
00:30:41I wasn't able to sleep
00:30:42very well last night.
00:30:44You and your grandfather
00:30:44had an argument
00:30:45the day before yesterday,
00:30:46didn't you?
00:30:46Well, I didn't keep
00:30:47a carbon copy
00:30:48of my actions.
00:30:49But you don't have
00:30:49to strain your memory
00:30:50to know that he cut off
00:30:51your allowance
00:30:51for the last six weeks
00:30:52and that he put
00:30:53the whole $1,200
00:30:53in the safe.
00:30:54Yes, I remember that.
00:30:56Grandfather was very much
00:30:57annoyed at my extravagance.
00:30:58He was trying to cure me.
00:30:59Any other arguments
00:31:00between you lately?
00:31:02No.
00:31:03Then why did you
00:31:04deliberately go to that safe
00:31:05and take out the $1,200?
00:31:06Well, how dare you
00:31:07accuse me of that?
00:31:08Your fingerprints
00:31:09were found on the knob.
00:31:15Why did you take
00:31:15that money?
00:31:16But I didn't.
00:31:17I'll tell you
00:31:17I didn't touch the safe.
00:31:18Lying won't get you anywhere.
00:31:20What were you doing
00:31:20in your grandfather's room
00:31:21last night
00:31:21during that last dance?
00:31:22I won't have you
00:31:23badgering her like this.
00:31:24No, you won't.
00:31:25Well, who's asking you
00:31:25what you'll have
00:31:26or what you want?
00:31:26You have no business
00:31:27torturing a defenseless girl
00:31:28who can't strike back.
00:31:29Poor young girl.
00:31:30She wasn't so defenseless
00:31:31last night
00:31:31that she could go
00:31:32to her grandfather's room
00:31:33and come next...
00:31:33Don't hurt her!
00:31:34Keep your shirt on, youngster.
00:31:35That won't get you anywhere.
00:31:37Go on.
00:31:38Sit down.
00:31:40Now listen,
00:31:41both of you,
00:31:41head out to the metal down.
00:31:43Can't get away
00:31:44with it in the murder investigation.
00:31:45Now suppose you both
00:31:46come clean and tell me
00:31:47what you were doing
00:31:47in your grandfather's room
00:31:48last night.
00:31:49Gene, remember what I said.
00:31:52Mr. Crofton,
00:31:53I apologize
00:31:54for what I did just now.
00:31:55You have every right
00:31:56to ask whatever you see fit.
00:31:58On the other hand,
00:31:59Miss Kester has an equal right
00:32:00to refuse to answer
00:32:01until she's before a grand jury.
00:32:02You know that I can hold her
00:32:03as a material witness
00:32:04and detain her
00:32:04in the county jail?
00:32:05Yes, and I'm also aware
00:32:06that she can be released
00:32:07under a writ of habeas corpus.
00:32:08Oh, so you know your law.
00:32:10Yes, I've been studying law.
00:32:11Yet you're hardly
00:32:12the one to speak for.
00:32:14Supposing we let
00:32:14Miss Kester speak for herself.
00:32:17I have nothing to say.
00:32:18Then there's only one thing
00:32:19left for me to do.
00:32:25Chance.
00:32:26Place Miss Kester under guard
00:32:31until I can take her
00:32:32down to Mineola.
00:32:35Come on.
00:32:40Not you.
00:32:41I want to ask you
00:32:42some questions.
00:32:42You'll find it useless.
00:32:43I refuse to answer anything
00:32:44you may ask me.
00:32:45Even before you know
00:32:46what it is?
00:32:47Even before I know
00:32:48what it is.
00:32:51Found it, Chief.
00:32:52Is Miss Kester's room?
00:32:53No, I couldn't find
00:32:54a thing there.
00:32:54Her maid was acting suspicious,
00:32:56so I locked up
00:32:56and searched the room.
00:32:57Found it tucked in
00:32:58her knitting arm.
00:32:59All right, keep your eyes
00:33:00on these two.
00:33:00They're under arrest.
00:33:01For murder?
00:33:02No, it's suspects.
00:33:03Oh, come on, you two.
00:33:12Nervy, you fools.
00:33:14Oh, I think they're just
00:33:15scared.
00:33:16Do you think?
00:33:18Well, I think I've got
00:33:19this case about sewed up.
00:33:20But I've got to get them
00:33:21before the grand jury
00:33:22before I can get anything
00:33:22more out of them.
00:33:23Well, before you make
00:33:24the arrest stick,
00:33:25you better investigate that.
00:33:26Mr. Hall seems to be
00:33:36in a hurry.
00:33:42Regan!
00:33:43Chance!
00:33:44That Hall guy's trying
00:33:44to make a getaway
00:33:45over the fence.
00:33:46You get hold on
00:33:47and bring him right back.
00:33:50You understood my orders
00:33:51that no one was
00:33:51to leave this place,
00:33:52didn't you?
00:33:53Yes.
00:33:54Then when did you try
00:33:54to make a getaway?
00:33:56I can hardly approve
00:33:57your choice of words.
00:33:59Answer my question.
00:34:00I was merely trying
00:34:01to catch the 227
00:34:03for New York.
00:34:04What for?
00:34:05I had an engagement.
00:34:06Who with what for
00:34:07and where?
00:34:08I had an engagement
00:34:09with my lawyer,
00:34:11Mr. Bertram F. Howe.
00:34:12When?
00:34:13Tonight, at six,
00:34:15for dinner at his apartment.
00:34:17What for?
00:34:18The nature of my business
00:34:20is purely personal.
00:34:22Oh, in other words,
00:34:23it's none of my business,
00:34:24I suppose.
00:34:25If you prefer
00:34:26to put it that way.
00:34:27Well, I've had enough
00:34:27of that kind of talk today
00:34:28and I'm tired of it.
00:34:38This yours?
00:34:40Yes.
00:34:41Then you admit it.
00:34:42Perhaps you'll admit
00:34:43throwing it on the roof
00:34:44outside of Kester's room.
00:34:46No, I didn't.
00:34:47It's been missing
00:34:48from my dresser
00:34:49for two days.
00:34:50Did you report that
00:34:50to anybody?
00:34:52No.
00:34:53Well, that's all now.
00:34:55Well, I'd check up
00:34:55with that lawyer of yours.
00:34:57Don't you try
00:34:57to make a getaway again.
00:35:04Look.
00:35:07Oh, Mr. Hall.
00:35:10Where did you get
00:35:10such an unusual knife
00:35:12as this?
00:35:13In Mexico.
00:35:20I want to speak
00:35:20to Mr. Bertram F. Howell.
00:35:23Never mind who it is,
00:35:24I want to talk to him.
00:35:27Oh, you know
00:35:28where he can be reached?
00:35:30Thank you.
00:35:33Hall's lying, too.
00:35:34Howell's been up
00:35:34in Maine for a week.
00:35:36He's not expected
00:35:36back until tomorrow.
00:35:37Well, I think Hall
00:35:38took a long chance
00:35:39and missed.
00:35:39Oh, you thinking again?
00:35:40It's mighty smart of him.
00:35:42Well, I suppose
00:35:42you know who killed Kester.
00:35:43Certainly I do,
00:35:44but I've got to prove it.
00:35:45Where's that lawyer
00:35:46and the secretary?
00:35:47Up in Kester's room
00:35:47looking over his stuff.
00:35:57Anything missing?
00:35:59Can't find anything
00:36:00out of the way
00:36:00regarding his investments.
00:36:02Of course,
00:36:02I can't be sure
00:36:03until I get back to town
00:36:04and check his deposit box.
00:36:05You fellas were
00:36:06pretty close to Kester.
00:36:07Ever hear him mention Hall?
00:36:08I've never heard
00:36:08his name mentioned
00:36:09in the ten years
00:36:09I was associated
00:36:10with Mr. Kester.
00:36:11Just an idea
00:36:12of my own, of course,
00:36:13but on one or two occasions
00:36:14I heard Mr. Hall
00:36:15mention the Arco Mining Company
00:36:16and Mr. Kester
00:36:17seemed well uncomfortable.
00:36:19Kester owned
00:36:20some of that stock,
00:36:21didn't he?
00:36:21He did until
00:36:22the day before yesterday.
00:36:23I sold the last of it
00:36:23for him.
00:36:24A $14,000 worth.
00:36:26It's ended here
00:36:27in this little black book.
00:36:33Did Hall have any visitors
00:36:34since he's been here?
00:36:35No, sir.
00:36:35Make any phone calls?
00:36:37Not that I know of.
00:36:37Did he write any letters?
00:36:39Yes, sir, he did.
00:36:40A few days ago
00:36:41he rang for me,
00:36:42handed me a letter
00:36:43and asked me
00:36:43to have it sent
00:36:44registered special delivery.
00:36:46Did you notice who to?
00:36:47I did, sir.
00:36:48Seeing as how
00:36:49he wanted it registered
00:36:49to a Mr. Hall, sir.
00:36:52Did he say anything else?
00:36:53Well, he asked me
00:36:54if Miss Kester was up yet.
00:36:56I said no.
00:36:57Then he asked me
00:36:57to send Dora to him.
00:36:59And did you?
00:36:59Yes, sir.
00:37:01First she lies for the girl,
00:37:02then she hides the money.
00:37:03And now she's in cahoots
00:37:04for this fellow Hall.
00:37:18When did Miss Kester
00:37:19give you that $1,200
00:37:19to hide for?
00:37:21What $1,200?
00:37:22The $1,200
00:37:23was found
00:37:23in your knitting ball.
00:37:24Come on.
00:37:25You know what I mean.
00:37:26I swear with the
00:37:27holy mother of...
00:37:28I haven't any idea
00:37:29how that $1,200
00:37:30got in my knitting ball.
00:37:32I must say
00:37:32it's risky business
00:37:33to be playing tricks
00:37:34and hiding $1,200
00:37:35in my knitting ball.
00:37:37Stop saying $1,200
00:37:38in your knitting ball.
00:37:39Yes, sir.
00:37:40Do you know anything
00:37:40about this fellow Hall?
00:37:41He's a very fine gentleman.
00:37:43And very generous, too.
00:37:45Annie, the second maid,
00:37:46was telling me
00:37:47he gave her a dollar.
00:37:48He said just because
00:37:49she was so pretty.
00:37:50But never a bit familiar.
00:37:52Just kind and generous.
00:37:54Ever hear Kester
00:37:54talk about him?
00:37:55Never a word.
00:37:56Did you ever see him before?
00:37:59Never set eyes on him.
00:38:01Then what did he want
00:38:02with you in his room
00:38:02yesterday?
00:38:03Lennox was allowing
00:38:04his room to be neglected.
00:38:06Only one washcloth
00:38:07and a broken curtain sash
00:38:09and the dust
00:38:09was three inches thick.
00:38:11You should have seen it.
00:38:12Why did you tell me
00:38:13Miss Kester went
00:38:13directly downstairs
00:38:14when you knew
00:38:15she went to
00:38:15her grandfather's room?
00:38:16She didn't.
00:38:17I saw her go downstairs.
00:38:19Mrs. Pritchard told me
00:38:20she saw her
00:38:20come out of that room.
00:38:21If you want to believe her,
00:38:23go ahead.
00:38:24Five years I've known
00:38:25her, never a word of trust
00:38:27could I put in her.
00:38:29Thank you.
00:38:31She's grand.
00:38:32Tremendous.
00:38:33I'd take my hat off
00:38:34too if I had a hat on.
00:38:35She's a marvelous liar,
00:38:36if that's what you mean.
00:38:37It looks to me
00:38:38like a murder syndicate.
00:38:39Miss Kester,
00:38:40Miller Hall,
00:38:40and Dora.
00:38:41All of them know
00:38:42something they're not telling.
00:38:43And their lies
00:38:44don't hang together.
00:38:45There's something I should
00:38:50have told you about
00:38:51a while ago,
00:38:52but he was such
00:38:52a decent fellow
00:38:53that I hated
00:38:54to believe it of him.
00:38:54What is it?
00:38:55This.
00:38:56I saw it fall out
00:38:57of Hall's pocket
00:38:58right after lunch.
00:39:00Thank you.
00:39:02Thank you very much.
00:39:05Blood?
00:39:06Of course it is.
00:39:07Oh, you'll find
00:39:08it's his own.
00:39:09I was walking around
00:39:09the house with Hall
00:39:10this morning
00:39:11and he got a nosebleed.
00:39:12That guy hasn't got
00:39:13blood enough
00:39:13to get a nosebleed.
00:39:35Thank you very much.
00:40:05Thank you very much.
00:40:35Thank you very much.
00:41:05Thank you very much.
00:41:35Thank you very much.
00:42:05Thank you.
00:42:16I'm awfully sorry.
00:42:18Oh, you frighten me.
00:42:19I was on my way to the kitchen, saw the door open, and thought it rather unusual.
00:42:23Yes, yes, two minds with but a single thought.
00:42:26You know, I too was hunting the icebox, and I lost my way.
00:42:30It can't be down here. I suppose we'll look together.
00:42:36It's right over here.
00:42:48Hello, Glutton.
00:42:53Save some rice pudding for me.
00:43:04I was so famous I couldn't sleep.
00:43:07Cold nutten. I've been thinking of this all evening.
00:43:11It's one dish I couldn't relish in a house of murder.
00:43:18Oh, this is what I like.
00:43:20Informality.
00:43:22Wouldn't the papers like to get a picture of us sitting around in our sleepers?
00:43:25Goodness knows what my husband would think.
00:43:27Please don't mention our meeting tonight.
00:43:30Even though it was accidental.
00:43:32Don't worry on my account, madam.
00:43:35Well, you speak for yourself.
00:43:38Don't worry, I won't tell you.
00:43:42Human nature is a funny thing, isn't it?
00:43:44Here we are, all in the suspicion for murder,
00:43:46and sitting around eating.
00:43:50We must have clear consciences, or none at all.
00:43:53Your insinuation is unjustified, Mr. Tracy.
00:43:56My conscience is clear enough to resent that remark.
00:44:08Just exactly what do you know about this murder, Mr. Hall?
00:44:12Just as much as you do, Mr. Tracy.
00:44:14How do we know you didn't do it?
00:44:23Well, for one thing, I wasn't mentioned in his will.
00:44:25Come on.
00:44:28He never did me any dirt.
00:44:30I didn't want his money, and he hadn't anything on me.
00:44:35The only reason I might have had for killing him was that I didn't like him.
00:44:38He was a snob.
00:44:41That's a swell reason.
00:44:43Certainly, it's always a good reason for making away with anyone.
00:44:46Then I'm six feet tall, weigh 185 pounds, and belong to the Bombay Bicycle Club.
00:44:52Say, you're not throwing me off with a lot of that fresh gab.
00:44:56I was just thinking.
00:44:59What?
00:45:00I was just thinking somebody's liable to be bumped off any time now.
00:45:04How do you figure that?
00:45:05Well, when anybody starts suspecting the real murder, they're generally quietly bumped off.
00:45:12Well, that gives me an idea.
00:45:14Maybe my life won't be so peaceful now.
00:45:18What do you know?
00:45:21Did it ever strike you that it was Mrs. Pritchard who opened the closet door and found Kester?
00:45:26Yet her fingerprints were not on that doorknob.
00:45:29Say, boy, you got something there.
00:45:31And another thing.
00:45:33Mrs. Pritchard was on that second floor during the last dance.
00:45:37Yeah, and so were you.
00:45:40I've got another idea.
00:45:43Hmm?
00:45:45Yep.
00:45:47You know, that little black book might tell a big story if it could only talk.
00:45:52Ah, you're a pain.
00:45:54You're always going in for little black books.
00:45:59Well, I told you somebody was going to get bumped off.
00:46:09What was that?
00:46:10Don't know yet.
00:46:11Keep quiet.
00:46:11Where was it?
00:46:12Shut up, everybody.
00:46:13That was a shot.
00:46:14Sounded like it came from over there.
00:46:26Pritchard!
00:46:27Wake up!
00:46:28Wake up, Pritchard!
00:46:29Come on, wake up!
00:46:32What's the matter?
00:46:33We heard a shot, and it sounded like it came from this room.
00:46:42Anyone been in here?
00:46:43Where's my wife?
00:46:44How do I know?
00:46:46Who sleeps next door?
00:46:48Mr. Hall.
00:46:49Oh!
00:47:13Oh!
00:47:14Oh!
00:47:14Oh!
00:47:15No, no, no, no.
00:47:45We were closing in on him and took the easiest way out.
00:47:47I've had a grudge against Kester for years.
00:47:50Oh, uh, pardon the interruption.
00:47:52But I don't think Hall killed Kester.
00:47:55And I don't think he committed suicide.
00:47:57All right, Smarty.
00:47:59Spill your theory.
00:48:00Well, I was just wondering.
00:48:02Why wasn't Pritchard awakened by that shot?
00:48:04And why wasn't his wife in the room with him?
00:48:06Maybe he was doped.
00:48:07Right.
00:48:08That's why I've been hanging on to these.
00:48:11And I think your chemist will find that someone's been hitting the junk.
00:48:15Tell the butler I want to see him and get me Pritchard.
00:48:20Right.
00:48:20Go on.
00:48:45Funny, I don't seem to be able to keep awake.
00:48:52You had a glass of wine last night, didn't you?
00:48:54Two glasses.
00:48:56The wine doesn't usually affect me like this.
00:48:58Two glasses?
00:48:59Yes, my wife didn't want hers, so I drank them both.
00:49:02When Lennox brought the wine up to the room, who took it?
00:49:05Let me see.
00:49:06I think my wife did.
00:49:07What's that got to do with what happened last night?
00:49:11Oh, nothing, nothing.
00:49:12Just clearing up a few odds and ends.
00:49:14This suicide sort of settles things.
00:49:19That'll be all just now.
00:49:25Where was Mrs. Pritchard last night?
00:49:27Well, let me think.
00:49:29I don't know.
00:49:30I didn't take any no's hurt until after everything was over, Tal.
00:49:38Odora.
00:49:39Yes, sir?
00:49:41You heard that shot, I presume?
00:49:43I did that.
00:49:44And I was never so scared in my whole life.
00:49:46Do you remember seeing Mrs. Pritchard come out into the hall?
00:49:49No, sir, I didn't.
00:49:50When I left my room, she was still there.
00:49:53I don't remember when she left.
00:49:54Your room?
00:49:55Yes, sir.
00:49:56What was she doing there?
00:49:58She was sleeping.
00:49:59She came in and walked me out of a sound sleep,
00:50:02saying as how nervous and scared she was
00:50:04and wanted to sleep on the day couch.
00:50:05Is she in the habit of doing that?
00:50:07Not in the five years that I've known her,
00:50:10which, if you ask me, is five years too long.
00:50:12Thank you.
00:50:26Oh, Captain, I realize you want me to stick around here
00:50:30until this business is over,
00:50:31but I'd like to go to town today, if you don't mind.
00:50:34Oh, I promise I'll be back this afternoon,
00:50:37and I couldn't get away if I wanted to.
00:50:39You all know me.
00:50:40You know where he was last night when the shot was fired?
00:50:42Yeah, he was with me.
00:50:44All right, then, you can go.
00:50:45Thanks.
00:50:46But listen, no funny business.
00:50:48Put a tail on that guy.
00:50:55I sure would like to pin something on him.
00:50:59Now, don't tell me you've saved enough money
00:51:01to buy Arco Mining stuff.
00:51:03No, no.
00:51:04Tell me what you know about this company.
00:51:06Well, the Arco Mine is in Mexico.
00:51:08It was developed under a partnership
00:51:10between Stephen Kester and a fellow named Roger Hall.
00:51:13And back in 1914, Kester froze the other fellow out,
00:51:17unloaded his stock,
00:51:18washed the prices down,
00:51:19and left Hall holding the sack.
00:51:22Since that time,
00:51:23he's bought a lot of that stock back,
00:51:25and now it's one of the most valuable stocks on the market.
00:51:28How much stock did Kester hold?
00:51:30Well, you'll have to see the bank he did business with
00:51:32to find that out.
00:51:33All right, all right.
00:51:34Suppose you use your influence with that banker
00:51:35and call him up and have him have all the information
00:51:37when I get there.
00:51:38I'm in a hurry.
00:51:38He had $111,000 worth
00:51:49two days before he was murdered.
00:51:50$111,000?
00:51:52Mm-hmm.
00:52:04Thanks.
00:52:05In my opinion,
00:52:12the original figure was $111,000.
00:52:15The first one has been incorporated into a dollar sign,
00:52:19and the cross on the four
00:52:20has been added with an ink of a different chemical basis.
00:52:28Could have been very easy, couldn't it?
00:52:32Thanks.
00:52:32Well, here I am again.
00:52:45Where's everybody?
00:52:46In there.
00:52:47Thanks.
00:52:51Then, uh, Mr. Hall didn't have a dinner engagement
00:52:54with you last night.
00:52:55No, he did not.
00:52:56You've heard from him lately, though.
00:52:58I received the letter which you have there.
00:53:01Dear Bert,
00:53:02and close find a letter which you will keep
00:53:05with the rest of my stuff
00:53:06for delivery after I'm dead.
00:53:08It won't be long now,
00:53:09which isn't such a joke as you might think.
00:53:12I won't be seeing you again soon.
00:53:15Roger.
00:53:16You knew Hall pretty well, didn't you?
00:53:25Yes, I've been his friend for a number of years.
00:53:27I'm the executor of his estate, whatever it is.
00:53:31Go and get Miss Kester for me.
00:53:33You can tell by the way they're acting.
00:53:44They don't think it's a suicide.
00:53:45Cliff, it's no use.
00:53:46We can't go on.
00:53:47We've got to tell them.
00:53:48Jean, now do as I say.
00:53:49You've got to keep your mouth shut.
00:53:50It's our only chance.
00:53:51You don't know the police like I do.
00:53:53Come on, Romeo and Juliet.
00:53:55The chief wants to see you.
00:53:56Come on.
00:54:11Mr. Howe brought me a letter
00:54:12to you from Mr. Hall.
00:54:15Well, I don't understand.
00:54:16Why should he write me a letter?
00:54:17It was to be delivered to you after his death.
00:54:20I'd like you to read it.
00:54:26Do you mind if I read it aloud?
00:54:33No, go ahead.
00:54:42Dear Jean,
00:54:44once upon a time many years ago,
00:54:46I amused you for hours by crawling on all fours back.
00:54:50Now you know the other afternoon was not our first meeting.
00:54:53Small wonder, then,
00:54:54I may have appeared to you
00:54:56like some strangely remembered ghost from the past.
00:54:59That past reaches back
00:55:00to when I was a mining engineer
00:55:01in a project with your grandfather.
00:55:03It was then I met your mother.
00:55:06I shall not try to tell you my feelings for her.
00:55:09I shall only tell you
00:55:10that I loved her more than all the world.
00:55:14Shall I go on?
00:55:16Yes.
00:55:17My case was quite hopeless from the start.
00:55:20She had already fallen in love with another man,
00:55:22your father,
00:55:23a charming, delightful man.
00:55:25Your grandfather forbade your mother to marry him.
00:55:28So straightway,
00:55:29she packed up her things,
00:55:31met Pete,
00:55:32married him,
00:55:33and went to live in the little college town
00:55:35where he was teaching.
00:55:36I was the only guest
00:55:37at their wedding in the city hall.
00:55:40Shortly after that,
00:55:41I went back to the mines,
00:55:43and for two years,
00:55:43I was up to my neck and work.
00:55:45And then,
00:55:46I got a letter from Sylvia
00:55:47announcing the birth of her daughter.
00:55:49Soon after that,
00:55:51a second letter came.
00:55:53Your father had died
00:55:54of incipient tuberculosis.
00:55:57What little money there was,
00:55:58was eaten up by doctor's bills.
00:56:00Was there any kind of a job she could do?
00:56:03I wired her the money,
00:56:05and immediately,
00:56:05she arrived with her baby.
00:56:07You were very red and squalling,
00:56:08and the first time I tried to kiss you,
00:56:11you socked me in the eye
00:56:12for the fresh guy that I was.
00:56:15Sylvia took a job in the mine office,
00:56:17helping with the bookkeeping,
00:56:18doing clerical work,
00:56:19and writing some letters for me.
00:56:21What a comedown from the luxury
00:56:23of your grandfather's home.
00:56:24She got up at six,
00:56:25prepared your bottles for the day,
00:56:27bathed you,
00:56:28and took you to your daily parking place.
00:56:31Then she worked in the office
00:56:32until six at night.
00:56:33I begged her to write her father.
00:56:35She refused.
00:56:36So I did,
00:56:38and told him how much she needed help.
00:56:40Soon after that,
00:56:41the Arco mine steadily declined.
00:56:43We were shorthanded,
00:56:45and the strain on Sylvia was ghastly.
00:56:47You alone thrived,
00:56:49grew fat,
00:56:50and then one night,
00:56:51your mother died.
00:56:54She was murdered.
00:56:55Murdered by her own father,
00:56:57just as surely as if he had shot her with a gun.
00:56:59He murdered her,
00:57:01and so help me,
00:57:02I'm going to murder him.
00:57:04But I'm getting ahead of myself.
00:57:08You were left behind,
00:57:09and what a puzzle you were.
00:57:11I thought for a while
00:57:12I would keep you for my own,
00:57:14but I soon realized the folly of that.
00:57:16So again,
00:57:17I wrote your grandfather.
00:57:19Then Dora arrived.
00:57:21I didn't feel so badly parting with you
00:57:23when I knew she was to be your nurse.
00:57:26I've had my hands full the last few days
00:57:28to keep her from telling who I am.
00:57:31After all these years,
00:57:33I found myself back in New York.
00:57:35I couldn't resist the temptation
00:57:36to take one more look at you
00:57:38before I die.
00:57:40I blackmailed your grandfather
00:57:41into inviting me to stay here for a week.
00:57:44So here I am,
00:57:46and I've seen many things.
00:57:48Jean in love with a poor young man,
00:57:50and Kester making their love affair
00:57:52bitter and furtive.
00:57:54But you, my dear,
00:57:56are not the woman your mother was.
00:57:58You couldn't stand up
00:57:59under the poverty and worry
00:58:00and work as she did.
00:58:02And so for the sake of Sylvia,
00:58:04whom I loved,
00:58:05and for charming Peter,
00:58:06and for the baby who socked me in the eye,
00:58:09I'm going to solve your problems for you.
00:58:12It's a very simple solution.
00:58:14Two bullets.
00:58:15One for Kester,
00:58:16and one for myself.
00:58:19Just when I shall do it,
00:58:20I haven't decided yet.
00:58:22I can see too plainly,
00:58:24the smoldering,
00:58:24maddening frustration
00:58:25that your Cliff
00:58:27is trying so hard
00:58:28to keep in check.
00:58:29I don't want him
00:58:30to beat me
00:58:31to the pleasure
00:58:32of murdering Stephen Kester.
00:58:36Lovingly,
00:58:37Roger Hawth.
00:58:37That isn't true,
00:58:38that part about Cliff.
00:58:39The rest of it
00:58:40is every word of it.
00:58:41He killed my mother
00:58:42and I hate him,
00:58:42but that isn't true about Cliff.
00:58:44No, I know what he meant
00:58:45when he looked at Kester
00:58:46and said,
00:58:46well, I'll be doggone.
00:58:48It was just pure surprise.
00:58:49No wonder he was surprised.
00:58:51Someone did beat him to it.
00:58:52Oh, why don't you let us alone?
00:58:54Why don't you stop
00:58:54digging into this?
00:58:56Hall admitted
00:58:56that he killed my grandfather
00:58:57and then committed suicide?
00:58:59Yes, he did.
00:59:00And that's just
00:59:01what we're going to do.
00:59:02Let it stand as it is.
00:59:03Oh, yes, the captain's been
00:59:19assuring the newspapers
00:59:20every day
00:59:20that they can expect
00:59:22an arrest at any moment.
00:59:23But you know the captain,
00:59:25he has to have his little joke.
00:59:27I can't understand
00:59:28all the movements
00:59:28of the detectives.
00:59:30Well, just at present,
00:59:31they're more concerned
00:59:32with certain aspects
00:59:33of his life
00:59:33than the actual manner
00:59:34of his death.
00:59:35Well, I'm sure they can find
00:59:37nothing but good in his life.
00:59:39Oh, thanks.
00:59:45You know,
00:59:46we've been going through
00:59:47his notebook.
00:59:50And we found some items
00:59:51that are rather puzzling.
00:59:54But I thought he kept
00:59:54everything in his private book
00:59:55quite clear.
00:59:56Yeah.
00:59:56What are those?
01:00:09Marbles.
01:00:11Or maybe glass eyes.
01:00:12I got them from Mr. Hall.
01:00:14He told me rather
01:00:15an interesting story
01:00:16about them.
01:00:18Did you ever see them before?
01:00:20Why, no.
01:00:21Frickett,
01:00:22just why was it necessary
01:00:24for you to change
01:00:24certain figures
01:00:25in Mr. Kester's notebook?
01:00:26I don't know
01:00:27what you're talking about.
01:00:28That's too bad,
01:00:29but the advantage is mine.
01:00:30I happen to know
01:00:31what I'm talking about
01:00:32and I know you know
01:00:32what I'm talking about.
01:00:33Why, you sit down.
01:00:35It was a difference
01:00:36of $97,000 worth of stock.
01:00:38I suppose you know
01:00:39nothing about that.
01:00:41I certainly not.
01:00:43Just how does it happen
01:00:44that you're able
01:00:44to afford an expensive apartment
01:00:46on the salary
01:00:46you receive here?
01:00:47And how were you able
01:00:48to buy a $3,000 car
01:00:50and store it in a garage?
01:00:51And how did you manage
01:00:52to send your wife
01:00:52on an expensive trip
01:00:53to Europe last year?
01:00:54And what about those losses
01:00:55in stock speculations?
01:00:57What I'm getting at
01:00:58is this.
01:01:00You took Kester's stock
01:01:01to cover yourself.
01:01:03You can't deny it,
01:01:04can you?
01:01:05No.
01:01:07Well,
01:01:08I guess you've caught me.
01:01:10It's a lucky thing
01:01:11for you Kester was killed
01:01:12before he found out
01:01:12what you were doing.
01:01:13But I didn't do that.
01:01:14I mean the murder.
01:01:15Oh, no?
01:01:16Of course not.
01:01:17How could I?
01:01:18I wasn't upstairs
01:01:19during that last dance.
01:01:20But your wife was.
01:01:21But she wasn't in that room.
01:01:22She told you that.
01:01:24It was Miss Kester.
01:01:25My wife saw Miss Kester
01:01:26come out of that room.
01:01:27Yes, but your wife
01:01:28didn't tell us what she did
01:01:28when Miss Kester
01:01:29came downstairs.
01:01:30It's just possible
01:01:31she might have gone in there
01:01:32and...
01:01:32You're lying.
01:01:33You're lying and you know it.
01:01:35You know I didn't
01:01:36go into that room.
01:01:37How should I now?
01:01:38Because I saw you
01:01:39up there in the hall.
01:01:40I saw you come out
01:01:41of your room
01:01:41and follow Miss Kester
01:01:42over to the top
01:01:42of the stairs.
01:01:43You were up there
01:01:44at the time he was murdered.
01:01:45Why didn't you tell
01:01:46the detective that?
01:01:48You got me there, sister.
01:01:49Maybe you won't be
01:01:51so ready to accuse
01:01:52other people now.
01:01:52Crawford.
01:02:12Crawford.
01:02:16Listen.
01:02:17You guys haven't
01:02:18discovered anything yet.
01:02:19You've been running around
01:02:19in circles.
01:02:21Do you want to hear
01:02:21some news?
01:02:22Do you think
01:02:22you can tell us
01:02:23anything we don't
01:02:23know already?
01:02:24Yes.
01:02:26There's going to be
01:02:26another murder around
01:02:27here pretty soon
01:02:28and I have a sneaking
01:02:29suspicion I'm slated
01:02:30to be the victim.
01:02:31Oh, and I suppose
01:02:32you want me to detail
01:02:33about 20 men
01:02:34to guard that
01:02:34pretty body of yours,
01:02:35huh?
01:02:35That's just what
01:02:36I don't want.
01:02:36But I want you
01:02:37to take all your
01:02:37men outside tonight.
01:02:41That's a good one.
01:02:42Do you know any more?
01:02:43Oh, you can throw
01:02:44a cordon to the
01:02:44whole department
01:02:45on the outside,
01:02:45but keep these halls
01:02:46clear and I'll promise
01:02:48to be responsible.
01:02:49For your own murder?
01:02:50Sure, I won't close
01:02:51my eyes all night.
01:02:53Go on, let him
01:02:54get bumped off.
01:02:55Give me one less guy
01:02:56to suspect.
01:02:57Well, it isn't going
01:02:57to do any harm
01:02:58to watch things
01:02:59from the outside.
01:02:59I don't know.
01:03:01What are you going
01:03:01to do?
01:03:04Well, I'm going
01:03:06to play marbles.
01:03:07There's one time
01:03:20when you won't be able
01:03:25to wipe those fingerprints
01:03:37off.
01:03:38What fingerprints?
01:03:40The ones on the gun
01:03:41that Hall was supposed
01:03:41to have used.
01:03:43It's just funny,
01:03:43but he couldn't wipe
01:03:44those fingerprints
01:03:44off after shooting
01:03:45himself.
01:03:45You can't pin that
01:03:46on me.
01:03:47Well, I'm not trying
01:03:47to.
01:03:48It's strange, Pridget,
01:03:49but there was no
01:03:50odor of white
01:03:50on your breath
01:03:51after you were
01:03:51so hard to wake up.
01:03:53Now, take a look
01:03:54over there.
01:04:02You made your
01:04:02first mistake
01:04:03when you bought
01:04:03two Chinese outfits
01:04:04from the same place.
01:04:05You made your
01:04:06second mistake
01:04:07when you threw
01:04:07one in the incinerator
01:04:08and tried to burn it.
01:04:10You forgot the eyes
01:04:12wouldn't burn,
01:04:12didn't you?
01:04:13Yes.
01:04:15Now I want to hear
01:04:16from your own lips.
01:04:17Just when you slipped
01:04:18that disguise off
01:04:19and showed up
01:04:19downstairs among
01:04:20the dancers.
01:04:20Come on, spill it!
01:04:23It was you down
01:04:24there among the guests,
01:04:24wasn't it?
01:04:25Yes!
01:04:26I thought so.
01:04:28I asked him a question
01:04:29and he rushed off
01:04:29without answering it.
01:04:30I thought it was
01:04:31funny at the time.
01:04:32Oh, come on, spill it!
01:04:33Just how did you do it?
01:04:35I went upstairs,
01:04:36just like Hall testified,
01:04:37only it was me
01:04:38instead of Kesty.
01:04:39Then I slipped
01:04:39out of the outfit
01:04:40and threw it down
01:04:41the chute of the
01:04:42incinerator.
01:04:42I threw in a light
01:04:43in matches of papers.
01:04:45Then I went down
01:04:46the servant's stairs
01:04:47and showed up
01:04:49in the hall.
01:04:50You killed Kester
01:04:51earlier in the evening
01:04:52and threw his body
01:04:53in the closet,
01:04:54didn't you?
01:04:56Yes.
01:04:56Yes, I did.
01:04:58Why?
01:04:59Do you know why?
01:05:00You told me why
01:05:00yourself this afternoon.
01:05:02You know what
01:05:02you'll get for it,
01:05:03don't you?
01:05:04Yes, I know.
01:05:05But I don't care.
01:05:07It's better than
01:05:07this suspense.
01:05:09My wife made me do it.
01:05:10She ain't nagged,
01:05:12nagged, nagged me
01:05:13until I got myself
01:05:14in the hole.
01:05:15I couldn't get out
01:05:15of any other way.
01:05:17I'm not to blame.
01:05:18She is.
01:05:24What are you going
01:05:24to do with me now?
01:05:26Nothing.
01:05:28Crofton and Regan
01:05:29will be here
01:05:29the first thing
01:05:30in the morning.
01:05:31You can go now.
01:05:32I said you could go now.
01:06:02Anything happen?
01:06:16Not a sound all night, sir.
01:06:17I might have known
01:06:17it was a lot of hot air.
01:06:32Oh, good morning,
01:06:36Captain.
01:06:38Nice morning.
01:06:40You look as though
01:06:41you were drawn
01:06:41through a knothole.
01:06:43What happened?
01:06:44Nothing.
01:06:49Except that.
01:06:54It sounded as though
01:06:55it came from
01:06:55Mr. and Mrs. Pritchard's room.
01:07:02Well, I'll be doggoned.
01:07:04Yeah, that's what
01:07:05Hall said.
01:07:17Listen, there's just
01:07:18one thing I want to know.
01:07:20You took that $1,200
01:07:21out of the safe
01:07:22to get married on,
01:07:22didn't you?
01:07:23Yes.
01:07:24Could you get married
01:07:25without it?
01:07:26Sure.
01:07:27Well, go ahead.
01:07:28Preachers get up early
01:07:29and I'll fix everything
01:07:30with Crofton.
01:07:30Go on.
01:07:32Go on.
01:07:33Quick.
01:07:56So long.
01:07:57Bye.
01:08:00Bye.
01:08:03Bye.
01:08:03Bye.
01:08:03Bye.
01:08:04Bye.
01:08:04Bye.
01:08:12Bye.
01:08:12Gracias.
01:08:42Gracias.
01:09:12Gracias.
01:09:42Gracias.
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