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House By The River 1950
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00:02:31Back and forth.
00:02:32Back and forth.
00:02:33Oh, I tell you, I hate this river.
00:02:35It's people who should be blamed for the filth, not the river.
00:02:40The mail just arrived, Mr. Byrne.
00:02:42Oh, put it on the table, please.
00:02:49Hmm.
00:02:50Looks like a manuscript.
00:02:52My manuscripts are like the tide out there.
00:02:55They always come back.
00:02:57Maybe they wouldn't if you took my advice.
00:03:00Spice them up.
00:03:01Make them racy.
00:03:02That's what the public wants.
00:03:04Oh.
00:03:09What is it, Emily?
00:03:10Well, it's just that it's getting awfully late, Mr. Byrne, and the plumber hasn't arrived to fix the downstairs tub.
00:03:15Well, if he hasn't come by now, he probably isn't coming at all today.
00:03:18Use the upstairs one, if you like.
00:03:20Oh, thank you, sir.
00:03:22How does your wife like the new maid, Stephen?
00:03:33Uh, what?
00:03:34Oh, uh, very well, I think.
00:03:36Good.
00:03:37Oh, where is Marjorie, by the way?
00:03:39I haven't seen her all day.
00:03:40She's spending the day with the Lawlers in the country.
00:03:42Oh, that's nice.
00:03:43Did she say when she'd be back?
00:03:44Only in time to dress for Miss Whittaker's party.
00:03:45Oh, good heavens.
00:03:46Why, I'd better go and finish my gardening, so that I can start to get ready.
00:03:50I've still millions of things to do out here.
00:04:20Yes, that's fine.
00:04:21I'll just do it.
00:04:22I just do that.
00:04:23What do you see?
00:04:24I'm going to be a little girl, but I know the person says,
00:04:25I've been listening to her.
00:04:26Oh, I've been listening to her.
00:04:27Oh, hi.
00:04:31Oh, hi.
00:04:32Oh, hi.
00:04:37Oh, hi.
00:04:38Oh, hi.
00:04:39Oh, hi.
00:04:40Oh, hi.
00:04:41Oh, hi.
00:04:43Oh, hi.
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00:04:48Oh, hi.
00:04:49I don't know.
00:05:19I don't know.
00:05:49I don't know.
00:06:19I don't know.
00:06:49I don't know.
00:07:19I don't know.
00:07:49I don't know.
00:08:19I don't know.
00:08:49I don't know.
00:08:50I don't know.
00:08:51I don't know.
00:08:53I thought you were still in the garden.
00:08:59Did you?
00:09:00I left everything nice and tidy for Mrs. Byrne.
00:09:09Did you?
00:09:10Mr. Byrne, please let me buy.
00:09:21Mr. Byrne, please let me buy.
00:09:30I don't know.
00:09:31I don't know.
00:09:32Nice perfume.
00:09:33Nice perfume you use, Emily.
00:09:34Nice perfume you use, Emily.
00:09:37Don't know.
00:09:38Oh, Mr. Byrne, you're hurting me.
00:09:46Emily.
00:09:47You've been drinking.
00:09:48Let me go.
00:09:49You've been drinking.
00:09:50Let me go.
00:09:51Would you like me to tell my wife that you've been giving into her perfume?
00:09:54I don't care.
00:09:55Let me go.
00:09:56Let me go.
00:09:57Emily.
00:09:58Let me go.
00:09:59Let me go.
00:10:00Help.
00:10:01Help.
00:10:02Stop it.
00:10:03Do you want the whole neighborhood to hear you?
00:10:05Pull yourself together and I'll let you go.
00:10:15Help.
00:10:16Let me go.
00:10:30That's better.
00:10:31All we needed was to have that old Gotham hear us.
00:10:45Emily.
00:10:46Emily.
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00:11:26Emily.
00:12:37Hello, Stephen.
00:12:39I tried the front door.
00:12:41Thank heaven, it's you.
00:12:45What's happened?
00:12:47Well, there's been an accident.
00:12:49Marjorie?
00:12:50Oh, the new maid, Emily.
00:12:52She fell.
00:12:54Look, no, I...
00:12:56Stephen, what's the matter with you?
00:13:00Have you sent for a doctor?
00:13:02No, there's nothing anybody can do.
00:13:04You're right down the stairs.
00:13:05She hit her head.
00:13:06They'll blame me.
00:13:07Well, why should anybody blame you?
00:13:10Well, uh...
00:13:11Because I was playing the fool pretending I was gonna kiss her.
00:13:14She got frightened and something happened.
00:13:15I don't know what exactly, but of course they'll blame me.
00:13:17Stephen, stop it.
00:13:19Let me look at her.
00:13:29This girl didn't fall.
00:13:30She did. I saw her.
00:13:33She was strangled.
00:13:34It was an accident, I tell you. I scarcely touched her.
00:13:36I hardly put my hands to her to prevent her screaming.
00:13:38You don't know how quickly it happened, John. You don't know.
00:13:45Where are you going?
00:13:46For the police.
00:13:47You can't. You're my brother.
00:13:49I've gotten you out of a lot of nasty scrapes, Stephen.
00:13:52But this is murder.
00:13:54John, don't let me down.
00:13:55You've always helped me.
00:13:56You can't do that to your own brother.
00:13:58Please, you have to help me. Please, John. Please.
00:14:12All right, Stephen.
00:14:19You're my son.
00:14:20I got your father.
00:14:21You need to, you know, me.
00:14:22I'll get down.
00:14:23I'm a clown.
00:14:24I'm a clown.
00:14:26You're my mother.
00:14:27Come on, Father.
00:14:28Come on.
00:14:29I'll get down and I'll show you the next day and I'll show you what I want.
00:14:30You know, then you'll see me.
00:14:31You know, you're my brother.
00:14:34I'm a woman.
00:14:35You're my brother.
00:14:36You're married.
00:14:37Let's go.
00:15:07Stephen, I can't go through with this.
00:15:13You promised to stay up there.
00:15:15Listen to me.
00:15:16The only thing to do is to go to the police and tell them exactly how it happened.
00:15:20It was an accident.
00:15:21But they'll never believe me.
00:15:22Even you don't believe me.
00:15:25Do you?
00:15:27I don't know what to believe.
00:15:29I only know that I'm not going to help you.
00:15:31For once, you're going to get out of this thing by yourself.
00:15:33John, if you won't do this for me, do it for Marjorie, for her sake.
00:15:37Did you know that Marjorie went into town today to see the doctor?
00:15:41Is she ill?
00:15:44She's going to have a baby.
00:15:48Now can you understand why I must get out of this?
00:15:50Why you must help me?
00:15:52Yes.
00:15:54I suppose I must.
00:15:57Good.
00:15:57Now go back and warn me if anyone comes.
00:15:59John.
00:16:27John.
00:16:28Wait a minute.
00:16:58It'll soon be over, John.
00:17:00She'll soon be in the river, and it'll all be forgotten.
00:17:02Forgotten?
00:17:03Yes, yes.
00:17:04I mean, for the time being.
00:17:05We'll wait it, and take it way out.
00:17:06We'll stay sunk.
00:17:07See you.
00:17:08Marjorie?
00:17:09Marjorie, is that you out there?
00:17:10No, it's me, Mrs. Ambrose.
00:17:11Oh, it's you, Steve.
00:17:13Stay down.
00:17:14I'll get rid of them.
00:17:15Marjorie, back there.
00:17:16Bye.
00:17:17Marjorie.
00:17:18Marjorie.
00:17:19Marjorie, is that you out there?
00:17:21No, it's me, Mrs. Ambrose.
00:17:23Oh, it's you, Steve.
00:17:25Stay down.
00:17:26I'll get rid of them.
00:17:27Marjorie, back there.
00:17:28No, not yet, Mrs. Ambrose.
00:17:29I wanted to ask her what she was going to wear tonight.
00:17:32I thought of my best black.
00:17:34But still, in all, it's never very dressy at the Whitaker's.
00:17:36Well, she'll be home before long, Mrs. Ambrose.
00:17:38My, she stayed late, didn't she?
00:17:40Well, of course, the lawless are always hard to get away from.
00:17:43Maybe she missed her train.
00:17:44I'm not worried.
00:17:45She'll be here soon.
00:17:46Well, ask her to drop in for a moment if she has time, will you, Steve?
00:17:49Yes, I'll do that.
00:17:50I must go in now.
00:17:51I have to get ready myself.
00:17:52Well, I'll see you at the party, then.
00:17:53Until later.
00:17:58I thought the old hag would never leave.
00:17:59I thought you said Marjorie went to the doctor's for them.
00:18:00She did?
00:18:01Mrs. Ambrose said she went to the lawless.
00:18:02She went to both places.
00:18:03But the lawless is not in the country.
00:18:04If she went there, that means she's spend the day in the...
00:18:05I knew she went to the doctor's!
00:18:05Now, stop quibbling and help, the scandal would ruin all of us.
00:18:07I thought the old hag would never leave.
00:18:17I thought you said Marjorie went to the doctor's for them.
00:18:19She did?
00:18:20Mrs. Ambrose said she went to the lawless.
00:18:22She went both places.
00:18:24The lawless live in the country.
00:18:25If she went there, it means she spent the day...
00:18:26I bet she went to the doctor's.
00:18:28Now stop quibbling and help.
00:18:29A scandal would ruin all of us.
00:18:31Are there more people to be considered than this dead servant girl?
00:18:33You used to refer to her as Emily.
00:18:36Don't be like that.
00:18:37Can't you understand how I feel?
00:18:38If I could undo what's happened, if I could go back.
00:18:41But I can't.
00:18:42I've got to think of Marjorie and my child.
00:18:44This has been a lesson to me.
00:18:46I know I've been foolish, but I'll change.
00:18:47I swear I will.
00:18:51John, Marjorie will be back any minute.
00:18:55All right, Stephen.
00:18:57All right.
00:18:58Talk me into this, too.
00:19:00Since you have a thousand times before.
00:19:02That's a filthy moon.
00:19:27Don't you think we're going to tie the anchor to the sack?
00:19:33Yes.
00:19:36Others should do it.
00:19:38Push the anchor.
00:19:45All right.
00:19:46Lift up.
00:19:47Did you see that?
00:19:58What?
00:19:58Something bright.
00:19:59Something flashed out there in the water.
00:20:05Let's get away from here.
00:20:07I'll drop you off at Weeds Point so Marjorie doesn't see you.
00:20:09Take care.
00:20:22No.
00:20:24No.
00:20:30No.
00:20:31No.
00:20:34No.
00:21:13Stephen?
00:21:15Marjorie.
00:21:18Is that you, Stephen?
00:21:23Yes, Marjorie.
00:21:25You frighten me.
00:21:27Sorry, dear. I couldn't seem to find the light.
00:21:30Where have you been, dear?
00:21:31I, uh, took the boat out.
00:21:33Well, do you know where Emily is?
00:21:37Yes. She's not in the house and she promised they'd help me dress for the party.
00:21:40Oh, she said something about going for a walk.
00:21:42Oh, not like her. She knows his crook's eh off and I'm alone.
00:21:45She probably went off with a young man someplace and forgot the time.
00:21:49I can help you if you like.
00:21:52I could say that you're all farmers today, but I won't.
00:21:56I'm not only doing my best, but I'm enjoying it.
00:21:58Oh, you're very sweet.
00:22:00Did you do much writing today?
00:22:02No.
00:22:03Why not?
00:22:04Oh, another script came back.
00:22:06I'm sorry, darling.
00:22:09Is that why you went boating?
00:22:12Yes, I suppose so.
00:22:18I should have been with you.
00:22:20Did you miss me?
00:22:24Very much.
00:22:25I wish you hadn't gone out today.
00:22:46Come on.
00:22:47Darling, what is it? What's happened?
00:22:56Oh, what is it? What is it?
00:22:58It's nothing. I have a terrible headache, that's all.
00:23:03Oh, then we'd better stay home tonight.
00:23:05No, no. I'll be all right. Don't worry.
00:23:07Don't worry.
00:23:08Oh, darling.
00:23:15Grab the lady by the hand.
00:23:17Round the lady over there.
00:23:23Into the center with a one, two, three, and round that gem from Tennessee.
00:23:26Oh, I can't anymore, Stephen. I'm sorry.
00:23:28Go on. You're the liveness of the bunch.
00:23:30Part of a party, Mr. Whitaker.
00:23:31I'm not here, boy.
00:23:33I'm not here, boy.
00:23:34Circle in. Eight hands around.
00:23:36Do up your toe and you'll fall down at last, my favorite shot.
00:23:39How many times have you said that this evening?
00:23:40Four. First time I've met it.
00:23:41Circle in. Eight hands around.
00:23:43Oh, Stephen, you're wonderful.
00:23:44You inspire me.
00:23:45Stephen, you're right.
00:23:47It's really nice to sing.
00:23:49Alamat left. Grab Alamat left.
00:23:52First you're right, and then you're left.
00:23:56To meet your partner, give it a swing and throw it a huddle around the ring.
00:24:04Oh, that brother of yours, a real devil. A real devil.
00:24:18Oh, Stephen, do you know what'll happen to me if I drink that?
00:24:21Why do you think I'm giving it to you?
00:24:23Stephen, you're the limit.
00:24:27Thanks.
00:24:29Well, John, aren't you going to try the punch?
00:24:33No. I don't feel like drinking tonight.
00:24:39What's the matter with him?
00:24:40What?
00:24:41He seems depressed.
00:24:43Have you ever seen him when he wasn't?
00:24:45Oh, that's not nice, Stephen.
00:24:46It must be very hard to love music very much and not to be able to dance and to be a part of things.
00:24:51He could have been part of things tonight.
00:24:53Why didn't he call the dancers as I suggested?
00:24:55He's just naturally a wet blanket, I thought.
00:24:57That's very cruel, Stephen. You wouldn't have said such a thing if you hadn't had...
00:25:01Well, if you hadn't had, say, about four or too many...
00:25:04Don't start anything, Largerie.
00:25:09I'll go see what's wrong with it.
00:25:15John!
00:25:16Why are you leaving?
00:25:19Just what is the purpose of all this dancing, this drinking?
00:25:23Don't you understand?
00:25:24Can't you see what I'm trying to do?
00:25:25No.
00:25:26Well, if anything should ever come out, everyone will remember that we were here at the party acting in a normal manner.
00:25:31Well, I think it's repulsive.
00:25:32Do you think I'm enjoying myself?
00:25:34Frankly, I do.
00:25:35I'll beware for the fact that I'm protecting both of us.
00:25:37Us?
00:25:38Yes, us.
00:25:39You helped me get rid of it, didn't you?
00:25:41Whatever I've done, you're in it with me.
00:25:43So I advise you to keep your mouth shut.
00:25:47I thought I had to remind you of that.
00:25:49Well, I'm going to join the party.
00:26:15Is that you, Mrs. Burns?
00:26:17Yes, Mrs. Beach.
00:26:18Oh, you shouldn't have bothered to stay up for us.
00:26:20Oh, Mrs. Burns.
00:26:22What is it?
00:26:24It's Emily.
00:26:26She's not home yet.
00:26:27She's not?
00:26:28No.
00:26:29When I first got here, I thought maybe you'd send her on an errand or something.
00:26:33She still isn't home.
00:26:34I'm afraid something's happened.
00:26:36She's probably with her parents.
00:26:37No, Mr. Burns.
00:26:38You don't get on with them.
00:26:39Well, she would have told us if she was going to spend a night with them.
00:26:41The thing that puzzles me is that none of her dresses are missing.
00:26:47How do you know that, Mrs. Beach?
00:26:50She showed me her things when she first came to us, Mr. Burns.
00:26:53She didn't have very much.
00:26:54Well, if none of her dresses are missing, she can't have gone far, naked.
00:26:57Steve!
00:26:58I'm not going to sit up and worry about a promiscuous servant girl who wants to make a night of it someplace.
00:27:02I'm going to bed.
00:27:12Wouldn't waste my time reading such trash if I were you, Mr. Burns.
00:27:16Since one is the disappearance of a human being considered trash, in your estimation, Miss Bantam.
00:27:21Since I found out with a bad name that Emily Gaunt has given young women like myself, in service.
00:27:27Bad name?
00:27:28Yes.
00:27:29That Emily was a proper hussy.
00:27:31Gadding about night after night.
00:27:33Young men followers and heaven knows what all.
00:27:36There's no doubt but that she was out with one of her many sweethearts the night she disappeared.
00:27:40And she went further than she meant.
00:27:43But, you make your own bet, you must lie on it.
00:27:48Would you like your eggs now?
00:27:51No, I don't care for any this morning.
00:27:53No, Mr. Burns.
00:27:54You haven't eaten proper all week.
00:27:57Miss Bantam, did you know Emily Gaunt?
00:27:59No.
00:28:01But I know them that did.
00:28:03Seems to me you speak with great authority about a person you never knew.
00:28:06Well, Miss Beach knew her, didn't she?
00:28:09I happened to be present the day after Emily disappeared, when the cook was questioned.
00:28:13She didn't give the impression she believed Emily wasn't a decent girl.
00:28:16Yes, but Miss Beach just happened to overhear Mr. Steven when Emily's parents came worrying around the other day.
00:28:23Wouldn't you like just one egg?
00:28:26Emily's parents came to see my brother?
00:28:28Yes, and he let him have it, he did.
00:28:30Said he never should have let her work in an honest house in the first place.
00:28:33That she was a thief and a good-for-nothing troll.
00:28:36That's a lie!
00:28:37Good gracious, Mr. Burns!
00:28:39Don't shout at me!
00:28:41It wasn't me that said it!
00:28:43It was your brother!
00:28:44It's the truth, John.
00:28:45At first I didn't believe it either.
00:28:46But Steven kept after me to go through my thing.
00:28:47Oh, it was Steven then who was first suspicious.
00:28:50Yes.
00:28:51Our whole outfit was missing.
00:28:52Hat, dress, shoes, everything.
00:28:53And only yesterday I discovered that the opal earrings that Steven had given me for my birthday were missing too.
00:28:57Oh, but let's not talk about Emily anymore.
00:28:59I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:29:00I'm sorry.
00:29:01I'm sorry.
00:29:02I'm sorry.
00:29:03I'm sorry.
00:29:04I'm sorry.
00:29:05I'm sorry.
00:29:06I'm sorry.
00:29:07I'm sorry.
00:29:08I'm sorry.
00:29:09I'm sorry.
00:29:10I'm sorry.
00:29:11I'm sorry.
00:29:12I'm sorry.
00:29:13I'm sorry.
00:29:14I'm sorry.
00:29:15I'm sorry.
00:29:16Oh, but let's not talk about Emily anymore.
00:29:23It's Steven that I'm concerned about.
00:29:26I don't know exactly how to say it.
00:29:29There's such a...
00:29:31Such a peculiar look that comes over his face when he's talking about Emily.
00:29:36It almost seems as though we were actually enjoying it.
00:29:40As though he...
00:29:41Delighted in her disappearance.
00:29:43He goes on and on about it.
00:29:46Well, Marjorie, I...
00:29:48I wouldn't worry about him if I were you.
00:29:50After all, he's a...
00:29:52He's a writer.
00:29:53The...
00:29:54The mystery of her disappearance probably intrigued him.
00:29:57Oh, probably you're right.
00:29:59And he fancies the whole thing as a great big melodrama with himself in the leading role.
00:30:04He'd like that.
00:30:06Like the article in this morning's paper?
00:30:08I didn't see it.
00:30:09Steven took it with him.
00:30:10He left early this morning.
00:30:12He's just...
00:30:13He just left.
00:30:14He's just...
00:30:16He just left.
00:30:17I didn't see it.
00:30:18I don't see it.
00:30:19It's...
00:30:21Haven't they promised to keep our name out of it?
00:30:22Well, you can't blame them.
00:30:23It makes a better story.
00:30:25I don't understand why they kept their promise for a whole week and...
00:30:27Then suddenly today even a picture of Steven.
00:30:30I wonder how they got hold of it.
00:30:32I don't know...
00:30:34It's...
00:30:36Why, there's only one print of that picture that I know of.
00:30:50Now, isn't he like a child?
00:30:52He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:05How do you do, Mr. Byrne?
00:31:15Mr. Miller?
00:31:16What do you think of the display?
00:31:18Very attractive.
00:31:20But, uh, it wasn't up when I saw it.
00:31:23I saw it.
00:31:26How do you do, Mr. Byrne?
00:31:28Mr. Miller?
00:31:29What do you think of the display?
00:31:31Very attractive.
00:31:33But, uh, it wasn't up when I passed yesterday.
00:31:36No, your brother called me last night and told me of the publicity he was expecting in the papers.
00:31:40And he wanted me to cash in on it.
00:31:45Thank you, dear boy.
00:31:46Oh, gee, I'd love to be a writer, too.
00:31:50Well, why don't you try, Effie?
00:31:52Your mother says you're very good at making things up.
00:31:54But some of your excuses are masterpieces of imagination.
00:31:59Don't you listen to this scoundrel.
00:32:01Imagination's not enough.
00:32:02Just the other day, I read in a magazine that a writer must write only about things he knows.
00:32:07If he puts down truthfully the things he's actually experienced, if they're exciting enough,
00:32:12he's bound to be very successful.
00:32:15It's very interesting, Mrs. Hampton.
00:32:17It's very interesting, Mrs. Hampton.
00:32:45It's very interesting, Mrs. Hampton.
00:32:46Don't touch that!
00:32:47Did you read it?
00:32:48No.
00:32:49I only picked it up.
00:32:50What's the matter, Stephen?
00:32:51Nothing.
00:32:52It's not ready to be read, that's all.
00:32:54You never minded my reading your things before.
00:32:55I've changed my ideas about a lot of things.
00:32:56I know.
00:32:57Just the other night when you went out by yourself.
00:32:58Don't nag.
00:32:59The writer needs to be alone to gather experiences.
00:33:00Can't you understand that?
00:33:01I wasn't nagging, Stephen.
00:33:02What I started out to say was simply that when I was alone the other night and John dropped
00:33:03in...
00:33:04What did he want?
00:33:05Nothing.
00:33:06Nothing is...
00:33:07It's not ready to be read, that's all.
00:33:08You never minded my reading your things before.
00:33:10I've changed my ideas about a lot of things.
00:33:12I know.
00:33:13Just the other night when you went out by yourself...
00:33:16Don't nag!
00:33:17The writer needs to be alone to gather experiences.
00:33:19Can't you understand that?
00:33:20I wasn't nagging, Stephen.
00:33:21What I started out to say was simply that when I was alone the other night and John dropped
00:33:25in...
00:33:26What did he want?
00:33:27Nothing special.
00:33:28It seems so forlorn lately.
00:33:30We reminisced about those evenings when you used to read your stuff aloud to us.
00:33:36I wish you and John wouldn't disgust me behind my back.
00:33:42I'm not interested in what my brother has to say.
00:33:44He's a bookkeeper and will always be one.
00:33:46He'll never understand the problems of an artist.
00:33:48I was a fool to let you pick on me and criticize my writing.
00:33:50No one picked on you, Stephen.
00:33:52You asked us for our honest opinion and we gave it to you.
00:33:54Never mind.
00:33:55I didn't need anyone then and I don't need anyone now.
00:33:57I'm doing very well on my own.
00:33:59You mean Mrs. Emily.
00:34:05Go on.
00:34:10Go on.
00:34:11You can say it.
00:34:12I didn't mean it that way, Stephen.
00:34:14The success of my books and Mrs. Emily thing proves that they were good in the first place.
00:34:18All I needed was a little publicity.
00:34:20In the future they'll not only be good, but they'll be great.
00:34:22Because they'll be about things I know.
00:34:24Like what you're writing now?
00:34:25Yes.
00:34:26Well, what's it about?
00:34:27Will you stop crying?
00:34:34Let's have our tea.
00:34:36I wasn't crying, Stephen.
00:34:38I was only interested.
00:34:39I don't care for any tea.
00:34:41John Burns accounting office.
00:34:42Walter Herbert office boy speaking.
00:34:56One moment, please.
00:34:57Uh, it's your housekeeper.
00:34:58She'd like a word with you, Mr. Burns.
00:34:59Thank you, Walter.
00:35:03Check these over, Elmer.
00:35:04What is it, Miss Badham?
00:35:05Mr. Burns.
00:35:06With the cold weather coming on, I told the neighborhood boys to gather some driftwood.
00:35:10Save you catching coal like last year.
00:35:11But when I went to get the wood sack, I found that your brother hadn't returned it.
00:35:25I wonder, would you mind stopping there on your way home this evening?
00:35:26When did my brother borrow it, Miss Badham?
00:35:27Several weeks ago, when he was doing the gardening.
00:35:28He sent Emily for it.
00:35:29All right, I'll...
00:35:30When did you say he borrowed it?
00:35:31Several weeks ago.
00:35:32And even though that Emily isn't with him anymore, you'd think they'd return the sack.
00:35:34After all, your name's on it.
00:35:35My...
00:35:36What?
00:35:37What?
00:35:38What?
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00:35:58What?
00:35:59What?
00:36:00What?
00:36:01What?
00:36:02What?
00:36:03What?
00:36:04What?
00:36:05What?
00:36:06My name is on it?
00:36:07Yes.
00:36:08I've stenciled everything you own, with India ink.
00:36:10I'll go for it if you're busy.
00:36:13No, no.
00:36:14I'll stop by for it, Miss Badham.
00:36:20I hate this river.
00:36:26We neighbors really should get a petition to Stephen.
00:36:34What's the trouble today, Mrs. Ambrose?
00:36:37That horrible thing floated by again.
00:36:39That dead animal.
00:36:43Couldn't be. Must have sunk long ago.
00:36:47No.
00:36:48No, it isn't.
00:36:50Why, it's a sack.
00:36:52Yes, that's what it is. A sack of some kind.
00:36:54Probably filled with rubbish.
00:36:58You see it?
00:37:06What I've other things to do besides standing out here.
00:37:08But I tell you, Stephen, you should write up a petition for it.
00:37:12Yes. Yes, Mrs. Ambrose.
00:37:18This. The way some people use this river is it is great.
00:37:24But I don't know what you're facing.
00:37:32Look at that!
00:37:32Where are you from?
00:37:34I can't believe it.
00:37:34But I can't believe in you.
00:37:35Maybe I can.
00:37:36Give a little nap of milk.
00:37:38Would ever listen for those things to happen?
00:37:38This way?
00:37:39This way.
00:37:39We'll look at it.
00:37:3950.
00:37:40This way.
00:37:41Keep up.
00:37:41This place you are tempted to have.
00:37:42Take of it in fresh water.
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00:38:53to talk to you very badly when i feel like this there doesn't seem to be anyone else in the world
00:38:57like you do you mind you know that i don't you're nice john very very nice yes like mint tea when
00:39:04you have a cold oh no john like a like a friend more than that steven
00:39:17i think you know john that i tried to make a success of my marriage it hasn't always been
00:39:29well exactly perfect maybe it was my fault girls have foolish ideas and when they marry
00:39:36they think they snared prince charming himself and he is charming john very charming but a woman
00:39:45sees deeper i see things now in steven that i never let myself see before don't get bitter marjorie
00:39:53oh i know the countless things you've done for him and we couldn't live like this if you hadn't
00:39:57given up most of your share of the inheritance so that he could continue right you wanted a career
00:40:01for him didn't you yes but i didn't want to freak success like this emily's disappearance is brought
00:40:06on at first i thought it was simply childish the way he capitalized on it there's a limit and it's
00:40:13become ghoulish you should have heard him today did you quarrel yes i hadn't wanted to tell you that
00:40:25i'm beginning to wonder why he ever married me at all perhaps it was because he needed you
00:40:31he told me today that he's never needed anyone i was just told everybody needs someone believe me
00:40:51uh
00:40:59is
00:41:09but i thought it was getting dark here thank you
00:41:10Thank you, Miss Beat.
00:41:25Sorry I said so much, John.
00:41:28It's unfair to talk about Stephen behind his back.
00:41:31But when you're worried, darkness does something to you.
00:41:35I understand, Marjorie.
00:41:38Perhaps you're not prepared to tell me yet,
00:41:39but since you are troubled, I'd like to tell you
00:41:42that I honestly think things are going to be better for you.
00:41:44Stephen's bound to change when the baby comes.
00:41:48The baby?
00:41:49Stephen told me.
00:41:52Stephen told you that I was going to have a baby?
00:41:57Yes.
00:41:58But it's not true.
00:42:00I wish that it were.
00:42:03Now, why on earth would make him want to tell you a thing like that?
00:42:08Maybe I misunderstood.
00:42:09Oh, don't go protecting him again, John.
00:42:11You must know why he lied to you.
00:42:23I can't discuss it now, Marjorie.
00:42:25Tell him to come to my place when he gets home.
00:42:28I'll talk to him.
00:42:29Don't go, Marjorie.
00:42:32No problem.
00:42:34I would suggest that if it's to be all over the place.
00:42:43Yes.
00:42:53Yes.
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00:46:44Well, I'm leaving you, Mr. Byrne.
00:46:47I'm leaving tonight.
00:46:48And you can get somebody else to take your insults.
00:46:51And I hope you get a steving hussy like that Emily Caunt.
00:46:54That's what you deserve.
00:46:55Not a decent girl like myself.
00:49:32It's come up, John.
00:49:51It's come up.
00:49:52What are you talking about?
00:49:53Emily's come back.
00:49:54What?
00:49:54The wood sack.
00:49:55It's come up out of the river.
00:49:59I've been up all night.
00:50:00I chased it for six miles, but the tide was too fast,
00:50:03and I couldn't find it.
00:50:05I almost had her once, but she got away.
00:50:07It's your fault.
00:50:08Why didn't you tie it securely?
00:50:10I was a fool to trust you.
00:50:11Wyatt.
00:50:15It'll be passing up and down the river until they find it.
00:50:17Up and down the river.
00:50:18It'll go on for weeks.
00:50:21The police will find it soon enough.
00:50:23Yes, but they won't know we did it.
00:50:25I mean, there are hundreds of sacks like it.
00:50:28They won't trace it to us, will they?
00:50:30No.
00:50:32Not to us.
00:50:35They'll trace it to me.
00:50:38To you?
00:50:39My name is on it.
00:50:40There's a gentleman to see you, Mr. Byrd.
00:50:59You know, I don't wish to be disturbed.
00:51:01He's from the police, sir.
00:51:03Please.
00:51:04Is that a man?
00:51:08Yes, sir.
00:51:23I am in just a moment, please.
00:51:24Sorry, I wanted to get my thoughts down before they went away.
00:51:41I'm Lieutenant Sarton, sir.
00:51:43How do you do?
00:51:43What can I do for you?
00:51:44Well, it's, um...
00:51:49It's about, um...
00:51:53This sack.
00:51:55Have you ever seen it before?
00:51:56I don't know.
00:52:00The sacks look pretty much alike.
00:52:02Well...
00:52:03Looks like the wood sack that was stolen from here.
00:52:07Stolen?
00:52:08It belonged to my brother.
00:52:09Oh, yes.
00:52:10His name is stenciled in there.
00:52:12Is it?
00:52:12I didn't know that.
00:52:13You say that, uh, it was stolen from here?
00:52:16Yes, we borrowed it from him, and when I went to return it, it was gone.
00:52:19Hmm.
00:52:20About how long ago was that?
00:52:22About three or four weeks ago.
00:52:24But if you know it belongs to him, why do you return it to me?
00:52:27Well, we try to contact them all day, but they have no success.
00:52:31You see, this sack contained the body of Emily Gaunt.
00:52:37Clad only in this inexpensive dressing gown.
00:52:41And according to the medical experts who testified at this inquest,
00:52:47strangled, and afterwards thrown into the river.
00:52:53Now, when did you first discover that this dressing gown was missing?
00:52:58It was, um, when we were getting our things together to send back to our parents.
00:53:03And, um, when and how did you discover that your own things were missing, Mrs. Byrne?
00:53:08The morning after, Emily failed to return.
00:53:11It was my husband who suggested that I go through my wardrobe.
00:53:15He insisted that inasmuch as none of Emily's dresses were missing,
00:53:18she might have gone out on some of my own things.
00:53:21And then we discovered that not only was my lace dress gone,
00:53:25but some of my best lingerie, an evening wrap, and a pair of silver slippers.
00:53:29Was there any other thing of value of God?
00:53:35Yes.
00:53:36Several days later, I found that
00:53:38that a pair of Opal earrings that my husband had given me for my birthday were missing, too.
00:53:44Then you're under the impression that it was Emily Gaunt who took these things.
00:53:54It was hard for me to believe,
00:53:56for in the short time that Emily worked for us, I found her most dependable.
00:54:00But I, I was forced to this conclusion.
00:54:05What is your occupation, Miss Bantam?
00:54:08I was a housekeeper, in the home of Mr. John Byrne, sir.
00:54:12But I'm unemployed at present.
00:54:14How long were you employed there?
00:54:16It would have been five years. It's coming Christmas.
00:54:19Uh, why are you no longer employed by Mr. Byrne?
00:54:24Because he became too impossible to get along with
00:54:26from the time that Emily Gaunt disappeared.
00:54:29Please explain yourself, Miss Bantam.
00:54:39Well, Mr. Byrne became so irritable,
00:54:41I could scarcely speak to him and get a civil answer.
00:54:44In what manner would you say that he had changed?
00:54:47Well, Mr. Coroner,
00:54:49he was in the habit of eating a very hearty breakfast
00:54:51after all years I worked for him.
00:54:53But after that, Emily Gaunt disappeared.
00:54:55In fact, the very morning the story appeared
00:55:00in the newspapers, he scarcely touched a thing.
00:55:04And several times, when I even indicated
00:55:06that the hussy might have got what she deserved,
00:55:08he practically snapped my head off.
00:55:09Miss Bantam,
00:55:36tell us what you know about this sack.
00:55:38It's Mr. John Byrne's all right.
00:55:44I stenciled his name in it.
00:55:46The one that was borrowed by Mr. Stephen Byrne?
00:55:49Yes.
00:55:49Mr. Stephen was doing some gardening
00:55:51and needed an extra sack.
00:55:53Emily came for it.
00:55:54And to your knowledge,
00:55:55the sack was never returned?
00:55:59No, sir.
00:56:01But of course,
00:56:02it might have been returned without my knowledge.
00:56:05What do you mean by that, Miss Bantam?
00:56:13I mean simply that it's peculiar to me
00:56:15that Mr. John Byrne would have allowed the sack
00:56:17to remain at his brother's for any length of time at all.
00:56:20Please clarify that statement.
00:56:21Well, it was his habit to go out and collect firewood off the river.
00:56:26I should say it's what might be called a hobby.
00:56:30The only sort of hobby possible for a man with his affliction.
00:56:33Oh, I'm so sorry I shouldn't have said that.
00:56:35Please continue, Miss Bantam.
00:56:37Well, recently I called in some of the neighborhood boys
00:56:42to gather firewood.
00:56:43But when I went for the sack,
00:56:44I found that Mr. Stephen hadn't returned it yet.
00:56:47So I phoned Mr. John and he agreed to pick it up.
00:56:50But when he got home,
00:56:52I reminded him that he hadn't.
00:56:53He was quite rude to me.
00:56:55Said he was perfectly capable of running his own household.
00:57:00He raised his voice to such an extent
00:57:02that I was quite nervous and upset.
00:57:05Then he dismissed me.
00:57:07And when did the scene occur between you, Miss Bantam?
00:57:11It was the night before Emily's body was found in the river.
00:57:19You've heard testimony that you borrowed the sack
00:57:21some time ago from your brother.
00:57:23Is that correct?
00:57:24It is.
00:57:24And to your knowledge,
00:57:25it was never returned to your brother.
00:57:27That is correct.
00:57:28Before I could return it,
00:57:28I found that someone had stolen it.
00:57:30And has your brother access to your home?
00:57:35He has.
00:57:36You mean he has a key to your home?
00:57:39No, Mr. Coroner.
00:57:41The back door is always open.
00:57:43Then there was nothing to prevent his coming to your home
00:57:45at a time when you were not there
00:57:46and taking what was rightfully his.
00:57:49No, nothing to prevent it.
00:57:50But in this case, I don't think it's probable.
00:57:55By the way, Mr. Byrne,
00:57:56it may have helped this case
00:57:57if you'd reported that this sack had been stolen from your home.
00:58:00I didn't think the loss of an old sack
00:58:02worth troubling the police about.
00:58:03But why didn't you report the theft
00:58:04to the more valuable things either?
00:58:07The opal earrings, for example.
00:58:10Opal earrings?
00:58:11Because I didn't wish to cause
00:58:13Emily's parents
00:58:14further concern.
00:58:16Besides, my wife and I felt that eventually
00:58:20poor Emily would return
00:58:22and the articles would be recovered.
00:58:26Now tell me, Mr. Byrne,
00:58:29when was the last time
00:58:31you used this sack
00:58:33for gathering wood?
00:58:35Some weeks ago.
00:58:36It's hard to say.
00:58:38Oh, could it have been about
00:58:40three weeks ago?
00:58:41What you mean is
00:58:47about the time
00:58:48that Emily Gaunt disappeared?
00:58:49I must ask you not to mind
00:58:51what I mean, Mr. Byrne.
00:58:53Would you say it was
00:58:55four, perhaps?
00:58:56I couldn't be sure.
00:58:58Then, would you say
00:58:59it was near the time
00:59:00that Emily Gaunt disappeared?
00:59:02I couldn't be sure.
00:59:06The collection of firewood,
00:59:08unlike a marriage or a birthday,
00:59:10is not a festive moment
00:59:12in my life.
00:59:14I don't remember.
00:59:16But you do remember
00:59:18the testimony
00:59:18that the sack was stolen
00:59:20from your brother?
00:59:24Will you kindly
00:59:25give an oral answer
00:59:27to the questions
00:59:28asked at this inquest?
00:59:31I do.
00:59:33Does it not strike you
00:59:35as being rather odd
00:59:37that a thief would bother
00:59:39to take an object
00:59:40of such little value?
00:59:43I wouldn't know.
00:59:45Or that a girl,
00:59:47if we concede for a moment
00:59:49that Emily Gaunt took it,
00:59:52do you think she would have
00:59:53taken such a sack with her
00:59:54to some mysterious rendezvous?
00:59:57I am not here
01:00:00to answer riddles.
01:00:02No, I shouldn't think
01:00:04you were.
01:00:06Mr. Byrne,
01:00:07I will be more direct then.
01:00:10Did you know
01:00:11the deceased
01:00:12Emily Gaunt
01:00:13intimately?
01:00:20Mr. Byrne,
01:00:21I asked you...
01:00:21She was employed
01:00:22by my brother.
01:00:23I knew Emily Gaunt
01:00:25by sight.
01:00:26Is it usual
01:00:26for you to zealously
01:00:27defend persons
01:00:28whom you're known
01:00:28by sight
01:00:29to the extent
01:00:30that you snap
01:00:31off the head
01:00:32of a woman
01:00:32who has served you
01:00:33faithfully
01:00:33for five years?
01:00:34I would defend anyone
01:00:35who was being
01:00:36maliciously slandered.
01:00:37Very admirable indeed.
01:00:39Especially when they
01:00:39were being slandered
01:00:40by people whose bitterness.
01:00:41That is all,
01:00:41Mr. Byrne.
01:00:46For one who was not here
01:00:47to answer riddles,
01:00:48I must say
01:00:49you've done
01:00:49very well.
01:00:55Mr. Coroner,
01:00:56Mr. John Byrne
01:00:57was the last
01:00:58of the witnesses
01:00:58for this inquest.
01:01:02I have a few things
01:01:03I'd like to say
01:01:04if anyone will let me.
01:01:05If they pertain
01:01:06to this inquest
01:01:07by all means,
01:01:08Mrs. Ambrose.
01:01:09I can't sit here
01:01:10any longer
01:01:10listening to all
01:01:11these insinuations
01:01:12against a boy
01:01:13who couldn't possibly
01:01:13harm a fly.
01:01:14It's ridiculous.
01:01:16Preposterous.
01:01:16It's downright silly,
01:01:18that's what it is.
01:01:19Mrs. Ambrose,
01:01:21will you kindly
01:01:22control your temper
01:01:23and give us
01:01:24a more coherent
01:01:25reason for your
01:01:26impatience with
01:01:26this inquest?
01:01:28Now, Harry,
01:01:29I'm not trying
01:01:29to take advantage
01:01:30of our friendship,
01:01:31but I've known
01:01:32these Byrne boys
01:01:32since they were lads.
01:01:34And John's only fault
01:01:35is that he works
01:01:36too hard
01:01:36and never thinks
01:01:36evil of anyone.
01:01:38And as for this
01:01:38silly old maid,
01:01:40it's plain as
01:01:40the nose on your face
01:01:41she's in love with him
01:01:42and imagined
01:01:42heaven knows what
01:01:43about him.
01:01:44And when an old maid's
01:01:45in love,
01:01:45heaven protect the object
01:01:47of her affections
01:01:47if that love
01:01:48goes unrecorded.
01:01:49All the devils
01:01:50and all the fiords.
01:01:51Oh!
01:01:59And if there's
01:01:59anyone else
01:02:00who wants to know
01:02:01anything about himself,
01:02:02just let me know.
01:02:08Was there anything else
01:02:09you wished to know,
01:02:11Harry?
01:02:11That will be all,
01:02:13Mrs. Ambrose.
01:02:16And so,
01:02:17in all probability,
01:02:18Emily Gaunt,
01:02:20dressed in her mistress's
01:02:21finery,
01:02:22went off to some
01:02:23secret tryst.
01:02:25Therefore,
01:02:26the conclusion
01:02:26of this inquest
01:02:27is that the girl
01:02:29was murdered
01:02:30by person
01:02:31or persons unknown.
01:02:37Inquest dismissed!
01:02:38with Emily,
01:02:44but he might
01:02:45end with me.
01:02:48Here he comes
01:02:49now.
01:03:01Oh, Mr. Byrne!
01:03:06Mr. Byrne.
01:03:12Yes?
01:03:12No, not you. Mr. Stephen Byrne.
01:03:15Me?
01:03:16Yes. They'd like to see you inside a moment.
01:03:19Certainly.
01:03:20You go on. I won't be long.
01:03:36Sorry to trouble you again, Mr. Byrne, but you probably realize the case is far from being closed.
01:03:45So?
01:03:46Are you certain you have nothing more you'd like to say to us?
01:03:49Nothing.
01:03:50I can understand your feeling, Mr. Byrne. After all, the man is your brother.
01:03:54But if there's any further light you can throw on this...
01:03:57There's nothing more I can say.
01:03:59Except that I'm fully convinced that my brother is innocent.
01:04:03Was that all?
01:04:06That was all.
01:04:17It was foolish to call him back.
01:04:36Yes?
01:04:42Stephen.
01:04:42What is it? You know I'm working.
01:04:44Why are you so irritable?
01:04:46What is it?
01:04:48I'm rather worried.
01:04:49Can't you wait and tell me about it later?
01:04:52All right. I'll be in my room.
01:04:54It's about Lieutenant Sarton.
01:04:55You.
01:05:01Well, looking.
01:05:04You.
01:05:05I'm sorry.
01:05:06I've got a knife, sir.
01:05:07You've got a knife.
01:05:08You've got a knife here.
01:05:09I'm sorry I snapped at you. I was trying to finish a chapter. What did you want to tell me?
01:05:29Well, it's that in these last weeks, since the inquest, I seem to run into that detective all the time. And just a little while ago at the market, too. And he always looks at me as though, as though he thinks I know something I haven't told about Emily.
01:05:53Has he ever asked you any questions? No, but last night, after you'd gone out, I decided to go over to Mrs. Ambrose's. And I saw someone across the street. It looked like him. And I almost had a feeling that he's been watching the house.
01:06:12How long was he there? I don't know. When I got back, he was gone.
01:06:23Well, if he has any snooping to do, I should think he'd do it in John's direction. What do you mean, Stephen?
01:06:31You were at the inquest. You know what I mean. No, I don't. Well, if you ask me, he acted so stupidly that he forced everyone to believe that he had something to do with it.
01:06:41Stephen! On top of everything else, he hasn't acted normal since the inquest. He shuns everybody. He won't even talk to me.
01:06:49Well, let's face it. John's a cripple. He knows he hasn't a chance with a girl of our class. It's not hard to believe that he carried on with a servant girl.
01:06:57Stop it. Aside from everything he's done for you, he's your brother.
01:07:03There's a limit to this business of being brothers, Marjorie. Stephen, you're insane.
01:07:10You're very fond of him, aren't you? You know that.
01:07:17Are you in love with him?
01:07:22How long has this been going on?
01:07:25I don't think I haven't been aware of it.
01:07:30You have a filthy mind.
01:07:40This isn't going to be very flattering, my dear.
01:07:46I haven't the slightest pang of jealousy.
01:07:48No, I shouldn't think you would.
01:07:50The husband who comes home drunk night after night and reeking of cheap perfume
01:07:54isn't exactly in a position to be jealous.
01:08:00Sometimes cheap perfume can be very exciting.
01:08:04You are a swine, Stephen.
01:08:10.
01:08:35Marjorie.
01:08:48Hello, John.
01:08:53Hello, Marjorie.
01:09:03I met your office boy on his way over here.
01:09:05I told him I'd bring these up for him.
01:09:09I've been here so many times, John.
01:09:11And to the office, too.
01:09:12But you were never in.
01:09:14I know.
01:09:21Why have you refused to see me or to answer my call?
01:09:23I don't know.
01:09:34Haven't you found a housekeeper yet?
01:09:38There seems to be an extreme shortage of domestic help at present.
01:09:41But that's not true.
01:09:42Only yesterday.
01:09:43Mrs. Beach was telling me...
01:09:44It's true in the case of Mr. John Byrne.
01:09:47Even the children know that I killed Emily Gaunt.
01:09:53I know, John.
01:09:55I've learned a lot about people myself lately.
01:09:59They can be very vicious.
01:10:02You think that because you've lived with them for years,
01:10:04they're fond of you.
01:10:07But it's not true.
01:10:11I'm going away, Marjorie.
01:10:13Oh, no, John.
01:10:16Oh, don't run away from them.
01:10:18I'm not running away from them.
01:10:20Is it that you think it would be better for all of us
01:10:24if you go away?
01:10:30I've got to be sensible.
01:10:36Ever since the inquest, my mail consists chiefly
01:10:38of anonymous letters, not too flattering suggestions.
01:10:42Most of my clients are closing out their accounts.
01:10:45John, maybe it wasn't wise, refusing to see people
01:10:47and not going anyplace.
01:10:49But you still have friends in this town.
01:10:51Let me give a party.
01:10:52We'll ask everyone you like.
01:10:53Our real friends.
01:10:55We'll show this town.
01:10:57Wouldn't do any good.
01:10:58This town likes its nasty little back stairs gossip.
01:11:00If I stay and you keep on seeing me, defending me,
01:11:04they'll think that we...
01:11:06I wouldn't put anything.
01:11:07I don't care what they say or think about you.
01:11:10Marjorie, my darling.
01:11:11I'd rather die than cause you any suffering.
01:11:12Oh, John, don't talk like that.
01:11:13There must be something I can do.
01:11:14No.
01:11:15The only thing to do is to go away.
01:11:18I thought it out very clearly.
01:11:19John.
01:11:20And promise me one thing to do is to go away.
01:11:21I thought it out very clearly.
01:11:22John.
01:11:23And promise me one thing.
01:11:24Before you do anything.
01:11:25Before you make any decision.
01:11:26I'd rather die than cause you any suffering.
01:11:29Oh, John, don't talk like that.
01:11:32There must be something I can do.
01:11:33No.
01:11:38The only thing to do is to go away.
01:11:43I thought it out very clearly.
01:11:45John.
01:11:46And promise me one thing.
01:11:48Before you do anything.
01:11:50Before you make any decision.
01:11:52Let me know.
01:11:57I promise.
01:12:14Won't you come in, John?
01:12:17I'd rather not, Marjorie.
01:12:19Good night, Ben.
01:12:20And thanks for seeing me home.
01:12:21Good night.
01:12:22Stephen.
01:12:23Stephen, it's about John.
01:12:24I'm not interested.
01:12:25Stephen, please.
01:12:26He's desperate.
01:12:27I'm afraid he's going to harm himself in some way.
01:12:28Don't be dramatic.
01:12:29He's as much as told me so tonight.
01:12:30He said he'd rather be dead than go on the way things have been going.
01:12:34He said he'd rather be dead than go on the way things have been going.
01:12:39You mean suicide?
01:12:40Yes, Stephen.
01:12:41Yes, Stephen.
01:12:42Please, Stephen.
01:12:43Try to stay with him as much as you can.
01:12:44If you're hurrying, you can catch up with him now.
01:12:45All right, Marjorie.
01:12:46Alright Marjorie.
01:12:47Come right.
01:12:49He said he'd rather be dead than go on the way things have been going.
01:12:56You mean... suicide?
01:12:58Yes, Stephen.
01:13:00Please, Stephen.
01:13:01Try to stay with him as much as you can.
01:13:03If you hurry, you can catch up with him now.
01:13:07All right, Marjorie.
01:13:09If you insist.
01:13:11Thank you, Stephen.
01:13:13I almost forgot. Mrs. Abras was over.
01:13:15She said as long as it's Cook's day off, you should let her know if you want to have supper with her.
01:13:19Ivan, don't move to her tonight. I'll have something here.
01:13:24Well, you better tell her now, before she goes to any trouble.
01:13:26I'm sorry.
01:13:27I'm sorry.
01:13:28I'm sorry.
01:13:29I'm sorry.
01:13:30You're sorry.
01:13:31I'm sorry.
01:13:32I'm sorry.
01:13:33I'm sorry.
01:13:34I'm sorry.
01:13:35I'm sorry.
01:13:36I'm sorry.
01:13:37I'm sorry.
01:13:38I'm sorry.
01:13:39I'm sorry.
01:13:40I'm sorry.
01:13:41Well, you better tell her now, before she goes to any trouble.
01:13:43You know how sensitive she is.
01:13:45Yes, I guess you're right.
01:14:11No, no, no, no, no.
01:14:13Yeah.
01:14:17And now she Carmina went to the desk for a while.
01:14:19You jumped in0's and jumped inate to him.
01:14:21Nobody told her.
01:14:23I'm sorry.
01:14:24He'll be the test going on.
01:14:26And it was the last note-to-me in charge.
01:14:28Which one she stopped doing in charge must final take, feel free of the life.
01:14:32Yeah.
01:14:34What kind of Unbelievable.
01:14:35It sounds like this woman.
01:14:37It has to look like the person slave by the parents.
01:16:49Steven!
01:16:50Yes, John?
01:16:52What are you doing here?
01:16:54Well, Marjorie was very worried.
01:16:57She sent me to look for you.
01:16:59Lucky I found you, isn't it?
01:17:00What do you mean?
01:17:03Well, you might have, uh...
01:17:11No.
01:17:12Suicide would only convince everyone that they'd been right.
01:17:16I'm glad you realized that.
01:17:19What were you thinking of as you stood there?
01:17:22Of another night on this river.
01:17:28You know, John...
01:17:30In spite of everything that's happened.
01:17:34And everything that's going to happen.
01:17:36I... I want you to know that I... I gained something.
01:17:40Gained something?
01:17:41Yes, I was always afraid as a child.
01:17:43I didn't have the courage to do things.
01:17:45I was afraid of people.
01:17:46What they might say or think.
01:17:48Maybe that's why my writing wasn't good.
01:17:50You were right in that.
01:17:51But I'm not afraid anymore, and...
01:17:53I've written something good.
01:17:55Because it's real.
01:17:57It took a murder to do that.
01:17:59Doesn't the end justify the mean?
01:18:04You must be very, very ill, Stephen.
01:18:06Ill?
01:18:07Yes, sick.
01:18:09Otherwise, you couldn't think as you do.
01:18:11What's happened to you?
01:18:12You know, John...
01:18:15I wish I could really trust you again.
01:18:17I can.
01:18:19Am I right?
01:18:25Suppose the policeman would have come up to us here, right now.
01:18:28Suppose you were to ask...
01:18:29Which of us killed him?
01:18:31What would you do?
01:18:32I know what you would do.
01:18:34You would point at me.
01:18:39Would I?
01:18:41You stepped right out of Emily's murder as though you were shedding your skin.
01:18:45You shifted the blame to me.
01:18:47Did I?
01:18:47Yes.
01:18:48John.
01:18:50John.
01:18:51Which one of us would the world miss the most?
01:18:55I mean, if there were a choice of one of us.
01:18:58Blast the world.
01:18:59I'm going to start thinking about myself.
01:19:01You're very much in love with Marjorie.
01:19:03I know that.
01:19:05You've always been.
01:19:06You had the opportunity that night of getting rid of him by going to the police.
01:19:10Why didn't you take it?
01:19:12There are things you would never understand, Stephen.
01:19:14You're right, John.
01:19:16I can't understand my own brother expecting to go on sharing my wife with me.
01:19:23I'm going to the police, Stephen.
01:19:25I'm going to tell them the whole story, including my partner.
01:19:29I should have a long time ago.
01:19:44I'm going to tell them the whole story, Stephen.
01:20:58Think about it.
01:20:59How can you ask me that?
01:21:03Well, don't you think it's good?
01:21:05Can't you appreciate its quality, quite apart from its content?
01:21:07Not when it says that my husband is a murderer.
01:21:10I thought I disguised it completely.
01:21:12But you read between the lines, didn't you?
01:21:14John must love you very much, letting everyone think he did it.
01:21:17Oh, no.
01:21:18He loved you very much.
01:21:20He was old-fashioned.
01:21:21He believed in chivalry.
01:21:22that's why he kept silent about it but you i i don't think i can expect you to keep silent about
01:21:30it can i you intend to go on forever letting people think he did it
01:21:36if john disappeared tonight if something should have happened to him let's say he drowned himself
01:21:46in the river that would solve everything wouldn't it steve everyone would know that he was driven
01:21:52to commit suicide by his guilt wouldn't they you're forgetting about me oh no i'm not forgetting
01:21:59about you john committed suicide tonight what i saw to it before i'm through with you they'll know
01:22:07that what john did once he did again steven you're insane am i
01:22:22don't you realize marjorie you're reading the manuscript to solve everything
01:22:33you know i met emily on the stairs she was coming down from her bath
01:22:39she juiced your perfume she looked rather pretty and i wanted to kiss her but she got frightened
01:22:45and screamed i had to stop her screaming i didn't mean to kill her i hardly touched her but i didn't
01:22:50realize how easy it would be so very easy
01:22:54you know
01:23:01you
01:23:07you
01:23:11you
01:23:13you
01:23:15you
01:23:17you
01:23:19you
01:23:21Emily, Emily, let me go, Emily, let me go, let me go.
01:23:51Let me go!
01:24:21Let me go!
01:24:23Let me go!
01:24:25Let me go!
01:24:29Let me go!
01:24:33Let me go!
01:24:35Let me go!
01:24:37Let me go!
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