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Good Evening,ladies and gentlemen

and if that sounds pre-emptive or defiant

it's because,well story telling isn't my line

And heck who hasn't got a story anyway

But the truth is perverted and impish humour

leads me to while away an idle hour or so before I catch my plane back

My story,the eternal triangle

It could have panned out that way but it didn't

So I just take it at at the not so eternal quartet

Well,here it is,Picadilly Circus,I'm against philosophical introductions

but here slap bang in the middle of the hub you can help yourself

not even if it is just one percent taking over

Here success and failure,richess and poverty,open despair

I know you've heard it all before and seen it all too

but yeah quite close to us

perhaps walking by now or gazing at these lights

or riding in one of these buses or cars

Perhaps there is someone who is headed for a calamitous climatic night,

someone who went on brakes, is haunted and hunted

someone whose wax and image is destined to graze or disgrace,the chamber of horror

Such are the perils of destiny

The Teneriffe,my hang out

where I pick up the friends of my story and put the gigs all together

Of course only the invisible man

could tell you the exact how, why and where of it all

But I guess I can fill in the missing pieces,let's go in

You see,just an ordinary club,no worse than hundred others,no better

Just cosy and gay

That's Larry the best cocktail elbow in Soho according to Larry

Oh,I nearly forgot there is a two piece band piano and drums

And always a vacant stool for Grena

A girl dated as a piece of Dresdenchina with all the sauce of Worcester

Grena is conceit to dazzle with wealth

A couple of Larry's specials in the sapphire and the eyes and the pearls of her teeth

the rich is enough,so did Helen launch a thousand keels,so did little Grena

trad in this crimson robe captivate Steve

An author,moderately successful

but in the plodding little round of daily life,a sad failure

He maintains a punctuality

as the thief of time,that's way he is going to step out of now

He is two hours late to take Jan to dinner

Jan is his wife of course so he wouldn't be this late

Poor,Jan,her wings of love have been sourly clipped

And in the flat below,Matthew, a pompous indolent lover of luxury

When he entertains,his friends whisper

they are listening to the mumblings of a distorted brain

in the throes of hallucinations

Thus on drinking a bottle of whisky

he explains that he's taken pity on the government

by helping an impoverished exchequer

Well,there is the quartet complete

Matthew,Grena,Stephen and Jan

Two blacks,two whites

Shake them together and see what comes out

So back to Stephen's flat where it all begun

Shut up,you're driving me nuts

How dare you speak to me like that

I refuse to quarrel and I won't say another word

-Not me,bargain -Good

Don't think you hurt my pride

you could,beat something long enough, hard enough it toughens

No bargains,eh

You talk it up as one that didn't cheat

Jan,darling you're behaving like a jealous little school kid

You bring the worst in me

You're making something out of nothing, you always were good at that

Gail Arnold,nothing

Not a thing

If I were good enough for you

you wouldn't bother with such a sick and raking treat,but apparently I'm not

-Very well it didn't pan out,so that's that -Where are you going?

I'm leaving

Don't be so damned silly

I'm not being silly,anything but

Melodramatic

Not melodramatic,I'm going to have freedom

-From me? -An all these imitations,I'll be free of it

This fake household

All right,march your superior hobby horse

gallop away to your precious freedom I hope we both make out together

-We will -Jan,look

If we don't watch out this is going to develop into a childish bickering match

What's the sum of it?

You find a few letters,quite innocent ones

if they weren't you would never have found them

Put this down to the ones I didn't find

You believe it

I can't believe anything more

Think I used to worry myself and love you

Used to watch your face and ask myself,what's going on back there?

Were you angry with me or I annoyed you?

Why are you so on edge?

You didn't think of asking me

I was too scared

I loved you then

Too much imagination,that the mill stone on your pretty neck

And as for being moody what right isn't

Your wretched little prose

You haven't wrtten one in years

I got one in mind now,a romantic one

It ought to be suppressed

-Brilliant wit -Forget about your date

I perk it,I told you

You used to make dates with me

And break them

You married me

Idiotic first love

Jan.I'm sorry,Gail Arnold means nothing to me I was just kidding around

While I was twiddle my toes

Can't you understand,won't you even try?

I'm sick of trying

You are just a self centred weakling

I suppose Gordon Winter isn't, why don't you go to him?

Say that again?

Where did he live? Highgate, isn't it,very invigorating

You'd let me go

Sure

All right

I shall

Go on then,go

I warn you that smug face is not going to be that smug tomorrow morning

That's started it

A bit more give and take

and instead of thinking treble whisky is faster than an express train

she'd been nestling in his arms

More often or not

this kind of facts are pieces quicken the damn squib but it can lead to plenty

Stephen had no sudden change of heart

some men might rush after their wives and plead forgiveness,not Stephen

A perfectly peaceful guy who spoke the right way

when opposed an obstinate mule,hence runs out on him,right now it is OK by Stephen

he'll just go some place and get good high,good and quick

Hello,Stephen,were are you off to?

Nowhere

Such indecent haste and go nowhere, come on I'll break your drive me

Purple club,why not?

Sweetie,what are you doing here?

Being respectable

Oh and my friend,my esteemed tenant at the moment,none other than Stephen Hault

Any interest?

The authors are ignorant bushmen

Stephen,this is Grena

Grena,who loves to revel me for bone and sleep in society

You,that,powerful

Grena has some weakness for vulgar transatlantic jargon

but being our near neighbours we must bear with that

Mind you my dear,I agree with you entirely that a positive epidemic plague

-Who -Authors

Why bring him?

To celebrate

Look like a sober for anything

Oh,yes he is grass widow,you should now

Very long?

-Is he all waxwork? -A waxwork?

Stephen,a waxwork? I've no doubt , my dear,that one day he might be

Madame Tussauds,maybe the hall of liberty ,maybe the chamber of horrors

Nice fellow

I must fly

Stephen,I shall not be in until the small hours

Witty gambler

Two,Bernard

And Stephen melted into the arms of Grena

Jan throes from the height of heights

The setting couldn't be more perfect

The moon is out,the stars are out

the scents of dew clings temptingly in the still night air

And what a night?A beautiful night for romance,any old romance

What is a physiotherapist anyway

Still we might held Jan to forget Stephen, if she wants to forget him

But Gordon Winter is very understanding

A little star to this face,a dead pan

but here is a challenge she is going to see through

Or is she?

A guy doesn't keep trying to date a girl unless something is on his mind

If she must play with fire,ring the bell

But she is still as cold as ice

And suddenly that taxi sounds warm and inviting

and infinitely preferable of being understood by old man Winter

I may get that little quack to make up for Stephen

Of course she won't go back to Stephen at once

you know cry because of civilisation

And so while Jan wanders away from her physiotherapist

back at the Tenerife the cocktails are taking their effect

Tell me about yourself,Grena?

I never think about myself

Think now

I think,I think I have an unfortunate heritage

You?

It's funny

-I'd known him so long -Who?

This guy

Can we talk to him about you?

Come,come

Stuck me on a pedestal

That's how every man does for the woman he loves

Couldn't patch it up

No

The pedestal was too high

I broke in little pieces

How about you?

Me?

Poor heritage too

All my life I met successful people,talented people, stuffed shirts,

Only dish up for transparent hoax

How is that?

She saw through ,it took time,but she saw

Head is so troubled?

She married not me but an ideal

Cut it out

I'll cut it out

You're magnificent

I wouldn't tell lies with my magnificence

-I am a failure -What at 22?

If you are not a success by then when will you be?

You know the way you are going,straight ahead

-No merry-go-rounds? -No merry-go-rounds

No ties,no regrets

-Some not many -Live your own life do what you want to do

It's a good code

It's the only code

-Let's drink to it -Bless

-You know something? -What?

How unsuited we are

-Totally -Nothing in common

Nothing

Should be a thrilling union,come on

Oh,thanks,Good Night Steve, give me a ring sometime?

Where are you going?

He is going to meet Andrew, he is waiting for me,I'm late

I can give you a lift,my car is just outside the door

No,I pick up a cab

Thank you

Who is Andrew?

Why the phoney brush off?

Max

The little fat guy with the sideboards,he owns the joint

So he owns it

And he likes to keep it respectable

Does it fool him?

This it?

What's the matter,hurt yourself?

No,just having fun

Here you are,use this

Crazy cook

Come on lady,your home

Let's have a look

Just a little scratch,you'll survive

The keys in there

Bringing back alive, Steve

Put the light on honey,it's on the left

I didn't know you lived so close

I'm just round the corner

So I know,that's must be your car

Come on

Thanks

Beauty in distress

How do you feel now?

Fine

No more bulletins

Get yourself a drink while I repair the damage

Fix me one,will you?

-Whiskey? -Anything goes

There is no ice,I'm afraid, I lied about scotch,you like it?

I was weaned on it

The flat I mean

Very quaint

A pal I used to know decorated it for me

Went to Onslow twice a week

Twice a week too much

Don't you get the scary living here alone?

I don't live here alone, I share it with Millie,thanks

-Millie,who is Millie? -A girl friend

That's her bed next door

What are those?

My nerves

-You want to be careful -So I am

Better now,doctor's order

Cause I take it,they are sticky

Coming away like anything just now

Shocks aren't good

These for your nerves too,you silly little fool

-Here yo -Oh,no don't you rea..

I'll look after these

Don't be mad at me,Steve,come on,loosen up

I just can't get at you

-I'm here -Sure

It is not even any waxwork any more

At least you could not wax

What am I now

Steve,why was I ever going to that beastly little club,then I'd never met you

I didn't mean that

I'm glad I went and you went

It's going to be worth it,yes,isn't it?

What about Millie?

She won't be back yet

We have our own friends,Millie and me

Sometimes we make it a party and sometimes we don't

It's big enough

I'm sorry Grena

-Sorry? -I can't stay

Why not?

I don't like crowds beside I had a sick night.I'm old enough,I push off

Steve,what do you want me to do with your sugar candy

Why don't you

Don't make any sense if that's what you are driving at

There is so much you don't see

You are still in love,aren't you?

-Who? -Your wife

Grena,haven't I told you to go to bed

Go on,go on

You want this back don't you? Your cigarette case

Thank you very much

Come on,let me in

I can open my own front door

-Upside down -Upside down

Don't be so noisy

It's all right

There is nobody in,nobody at all

It's that door up there, come on give me the keys

You'll find them on the down this time

There we are,look,see

Very forward

Just what my mother used to say

I am glad I came

Are you?

Do you think you should have done?

Must be long past your bed time

-This is nice -You say

Tedious,bizarre

Yes

Just like Matthew himself, he owns all this junk

Hideous,revolting

But not sordid

You play better on home ground

Come on,you are going face me?

So I am prayed of old age ,Grena

I'll never grow old

The moment men stop lighting me ,I hand in my chips

No need to jump in the bay just yet

-You know what? -What

What we need is champagne makes you feel good

I'm not good,Steve,not good at all

Why try to be something you are not?

Going overdo do you?

Well,this is a bedroom

No Matthew charge here

Dressing table

Being so tidy

Still if I had a bedroom like this I'll keep it tidy too

Would you?

Perfect

No,not quite should be ice

I'm sorry I shouldn't have come here

You didn't want me to,disturb you

Disturbs me?

She does all the time,doesn't she

Rubbish

That was the way of it

Sure this happened before a billion times,the young lovers quarrel

She stocks off to an admirer and ducks out

and he gets caught in the rebound and he can't

And then,then she goes on nursing her pride

or if she is a sensible kid,she gets wise to herself and Jan is a sensible kid

The irony is that she hadn't wise that quite so quickly

Hello

Jan

Got my what?

Your pyjama top,I swept it by mistake, I'll post it to you tomorrow

Where are you?

The Kinnerston's,just round the corner

But I thought

You'll find another pair in the linen cupboard

Damned my pyjamas

Steve,you're drunk

Yes

What was that?

Are you alone?

Steven?

Jan,listen

Stay put I'll fetch you

Don't bother I'll come round

No,don't do that I'll get the car

I'll be there in a few minutes

Hello,this is room 77 I'm checking out

Yes,now

So she's coming back to you

and all she has to do to have you running in fifty circles

is just to drop two pennies in the slot and I'm out,it's all off just like that

Just like that

-I'll ring for a cab -Don't bother

Grena,for heavens sake be sensible

Sensible

I can't argue with you ,go on home

I beg you pardon

Silly of me

I should have guessed

That this would change your life

So you think that's all I am

Think you can buy me I throw it you need to undo your cheque book

Isn't it enough?

No

Since you reduced it to that level it isn't enough

I'm sorry I can't afford anymore you'd better go back to your club

Are you going?

Get out

Go on,get out of here

And you're going,you're not doing a cabaret act now,let down,you're ridiculous

Do I? You'll see

Stop then and behave yourself again

You leave me alone

Grena

Stand up

Matthew,I thought

I check my house

You want many things above all the stuff that's confined in memory

That's why you came up?

One reason

Another to return this book you lent me

May I see if I can find something more solemn

Upon my soul,what have you been doing

Doing nothing,what?

You look like dead

You know,getting quite upturned just now

I did?

Yes,and there wasn't an answer the door

I was quite prepared to find you dangling somewhere

Why?

I heard a scream

Scream?

The kind of scream a woman gave us

when she finds her lover dangling in the wardrobe

I could have sworn that it came up here

No,I did not hear anything

Extraordinary,isn't it?

Matthew I don't want to turn you out but

Surely I'm not going to do that not before I've chosen my book

No,but I've got to go out

All right,you pop along and let me select a book at my leisure

That is if you can trust me alone in your flat? Can you?

Of course

Pleasant evening with Grena?

I heard you come in

Must be an hour

No

My imagination must have played me tricks tonight

It was a friend

A friend?

Yes I asked her in but she wouldn't

So you decided to drain your sorrows alone

The sight of this solitary debauched fills me with sad memories

Sad,because they are no more

Champagne the drink for the madly gay

I'll have a whisky

Matthew,I'll have some business to do

My dear Stephen there is no business which can prevent you getting me a drink?

Or is it?

It'll have to be a quick one

Business at this time of night?

It will excite my curiosity

Say when

I'll never say when

I doubt whether all the scotch in Scotland could console me tonight,Stephen

I feel sad

Anniversaries are sad,don't you think?

Your birthday?

No,your anniversary too

Four years ago tonight you came to live here

And I changed from being a well to do gentleman

with a west end residence to a landlord by necessity I call myself

This house is far too big for one person

Not for me,Stephen

No,I liked to wander through its corridors

Lurch about its rooms

To sit alone in the dark and think

This room has a strong fascination for me

It was my father's study

A place of awe and terror and fear

My father understood the meaning of fear

And I never came in here without experiencing an acute sense of it

Furniture

It was perfection

A large square table in the centre

Solitary chair at the head

Up there

Just where that mirror is

You were saying Matthew?

That dagger thing

It's gone

Gone?

Don't tell me my eyesight is playing tricks?

No,I

Here it is

What have you been doing?

Practising for a circus act?

Now,Matthew please

Oh,yes you want to get rid of me

Jasmine

Jasmine?

I notice it when I came in

Jasmine is a scent,yes it is stronger here

Come on here,Stephen,by this ottoman

You can smell it quite distinctly can't you?

No,I can't

I'm afraid,Matthew,you're in a strange mood tonight

What strange,Stephen,merely observant

And I observe,if one can observe a smell,I observe a smell of scent

Your imagination again

My sense of hearing maybe at fault surely not my sense of smell

And nearly half from this because you insist that there is no smell of scent

I insist that there is

All right,I've been disinfecting the whole place with it

My dear,Stephen,what is the matter?

I'm sorry I'm a bit on edge, Jan is coming back

How women do chop and change

Why didn't you tell me?

I could have brought daffodils or something

When did you know?

A few minutes ago

You were lucky about the girlfriend

it would have been awkward if she had turned up

How careless of you

My finger I

I cut myself

My eyesight is playing with tricks tonight

Blood and rouge,what an odd mixture

Nonsense

Very well,Stephen,a substance I've just transferred

from your handkerchief to my hand is not rouge

but shall we say a figment of my imagination

Good Night,Stephen

Now,what

I came up for a book,didn't I?

Well,I shall pick up and read the first book that I see

And that merely shows that I read all kinds of literature

Matthew

Yes,Stephen

Really,Matthew,there are some things

Of course,don't think I feel like reading tonight

Somehow I don't feel I would be able to concentrate

Good Night,Stephen

Good night,Matthew

And now another crisis

Steve's gloves and Grena's flat

He'd better get it back or

well all I say it was a clue big enough to put a rope around his neck

Steve certainly skates on the margin of eternity

Hello,is that you Stephen?

Why don't you answer?

Who is that?

Stephen,Stephen

Stephen

-Stephen -Jan

Jan,my darling

Why didn't you fetch me I waited

The car I couldn't start her up

Jan

-If only you'd never gone -It was horrid

-So we ought to get it good -I know,I know

I was a fool

Me too

-Never again -No

Never again

Darling,you looked terribly hit up when you came in

Stupid of me,I thought for a moment, someone was in here

Someone else I mean

The lights blazing

You must have them left on when you went out

No

They were on when I came back

Are you sure?

Were you here when I phoned?

The second time

No

Someone answered it,lifted the receiver and then hung up

Somebody else has been in here

Why,probably got on to a wrong number

That doesn't explain the lights

You've must be mistaken about switching them off

-Have a drink? -Please

Gin?

Thanks

By the way Jan,where did you "Kill the argument"

In my deed box

Do you want it now?

Yes,I've got some papers there, rather private,you know Sara

I say is it a very good idea to mix gin and brandy?

I think it's a revolting idea

You've been drinking brandy,haven't you?

Darling,you know,I never touch it

-Here you are -Thanks

Jan,since you came in

have you taken a book off the shelf and put this one in its place?

What are you talking about?

That brandy

And the lights,I know I switched them off

Nothing of bird less can waste time reading books and switching on lights

How long have you been back?

A few minutes

And this flat has been empty for quite a time

Hardly time to someone to break into the house

Maybe he didn't have to break in

What,surely you don't think Matthew

Yes,it's me again

I've all strange fears tonight and I'm afraid of my own company

Jan,my dear you must bear with me, I feel so lonely tonight so restless

Why,something happened to you?

No,no,it's just that evil thoughts fill within me

-You'd better have a drink -I need it

-Brandy? -Brandy?

You do drink brandy,don't you?

Yes,I do drink brandy

Is that any reason I should do so now?

Give me a whisky,Stephen,please

What it is to rely on a drink for true companionship

Don't you think so,Jan?

Why don't you get married?

I have toyed with the idea but there it is,my charm is waning

And my bank balance too

There was a girl once

Where is she now?

Married,mother of six

Thank you

May I abuse your hospitality still further and relieve you of a cigarette

Yes

If you want to excuse me, Matthew,I'm rather tired

Jan

Charming

If I were ten, no five years younger I'd take her off you

No chance? Is my degradation so complete

Foolish of you Stephen

I didn't put it there

You won't mind if I take it

And then one night

when I am overcome with self pity I'll pop it beneath my pillow

Matthew after I'd gone out tonight did you hear anything up here?

Before Jan came in,I mean

No,should I've heard something?

I've seemed to have heard a number of things tonight

that I shouldn't have heard, I'm quite prepared to believe

that I didn't hear something I was supposed to hear

Tell me,should I've heard something?

I thought, perhaps,somebody might have got in

A burglar?

Why don't you telephone for the police

Wonderful people the police

They look in all the most unlikely places

It's probably my imagination

I can't think of a more worse disease than imagination

Except perhaps conscience

I've some letters to write

You are not at all your genial health tonight,Stephen

You spend all your time thinking of a little rouses to get rid of me

I've never been made to feel so depressingly unwelcome as I have tonight

But bear with me a little longer

I might be rather rather useful to you

I met a friend tonight

Moving into a new house in Golders Green

You know Golders Green all crematorium and not a pub for miles

Well,he has a alcove and I suggested something quite simple for it

What?

An Ottoman,Stephen,this Ottoman

No,it's locked

Yes,I got some papers in there

Tolstoy explains why you do things,such a bore

What about it

I'm afraid not

Why? You always considered it a nice swell and I agree with you

What a ghastly thought

to think when we are all turned to dust this monstrosity will still be standing

He'll pay you quite handsomely for it

-It's not mine -Not yours?

No,it belongs to Jan

Jan?

As far as I'm concerned you could take the wretched thing out tonight

Can I?

Yes

Crime and its consequences

What a pedantic title

But it is interesting, Stephen,listen to this

"No murderer can boast that he has committed the perfect murder

if the body of his victim is discovered as the body itself is proof

the murder has been committed thus the murder is immediately deemed imperfect"

Doesn't murder fascinates you,Stephen?

Of course it does but it is no one believing that the murder could ever touch them

You,Stephen,you can never believe that murder could touch you?

But think,Stephen, by some street of chance

you may become a hunted terrified creature

whose only possible consolation is

that one day he may find him immortality in the chamber of horrors

Beware of chance,Stephen

Beware of chance

Now I must thank you

For what?

For banishing my melancholia

Now I shall not go to bed but instead to a night club

Any suggestions?

Somewhere where my credit is still good

Hello,will you please send a cab to 22 Branston Square

They are rather limited things, so it'll have to be the Tenerife

-The Tenerife? -Yes,the Tenerife

And Grena

And so the seeds were sowed

There is no turning back for Steve, not now,the corpse has to be disposed of

Whatever Matthew might suspect,he can't prove anything without a corpse

All right driver,stop around the corner

First lamppost

I do this every evening

a method which ensures I get my daily exercise,keep the change

Good Night

Stephen,what's the matter?

Something is on your mind

Won't you tell me?

I suppose it's to do with the woman you brought back here

This is hers,isn't it?

Stephen I am not going to make a scene

Wish

No one you know

Jan,I don't know how I'm going to tell you

After you'd gone tonight I

I went out with Matthew to a club

I met her there

Nothing seemed to matter then

I went back to her flat

Then I became to loathe it all before I could shake her off

What's the use,you can't explain these things

But it's not such a terrible thing you've done

Go away,Jan,go away from here

Go away from here

Darling,please tell me

I want to help you

You can't

I've killed her

Stephen

Now you know

But

How?

How? I don't know how

It's all a ghastly jumble,nothing is clear,not even now

I was drunk

So was she,crazy and mad

It was horrible

I lost my head,panicked,if I'd only had time to think to sober up

There is time to think now

There must be some way out

Yes

There is

The cottage,it's quite deserted, no one will ever find

I can drive down tonight and be back in the morning

-Stephen,no -No one need ever know

-They must about you and her -No,she left me at the club

She went alone people saw her leave by herself

-But Matthew? -No.Matthew was already gone

Stephen,you can't get through with this

Leaving you was a terrible mistake, you got to go to the police

I'll come with you,it's your only chance

No,Jan,this is my only chance

While Matthew is out of the way

But don't you see Jan everything is against me,everything

There is no alternative

They'll find out,they'll always do

No,not always

I know what I'm doing,Jan

The worst possible that you can do is to hide this thing up

If I give myself up they'd hang me

No,but you might if you don't

Stephen,tell the truth

Tell me it was an accident

An accident? Do you think they'll believe that?

For the best is manslaughter, I'd rather take the risk

It's not a risk,share madness

-If anything goes wrong just a few of these -Stephen

Jan,go away from me,go away,go right away

Let me work this out my way

They must give him..

Jan

There is one last thing you could do for me

Jan,I've

I've lost one of my gloves

It's in her flat

If it's found there,it's Cranfields Mews

Yes,just round the corner,number 5

This is her key

Is she?

No, she is not there

Then where?

-What the devil are you doing here -My dear Stephen

Get out before I throw you out

You are possibly angry

Cool down, and don't be so hot headed

That's better

You don't let me explain

sort of behaving like a school boy just been caught stealing the jam

Well,I was having a little nap downstairs

and I heard a sound of a thing being dragged across the floor up here

I thought I heard you and Jan go out so I concluded we had an intruder in our midst

You see,I came adequately prepared

Believe me this is the first occasion

on which I've ever abused my honourable position as a landlord

I thought you've gone to the club

I came back

Now I have some work to do,will you please go

What is work? I know you are going to fill up your football coupons

Matthew I'm ordering you to leave my flat

You intrigue me,you've must have been interrupted in the previous situation

There you stand determined I should go and here I sit determined I shall stay

You are up to something,Stephen

And I want to know what

All right Mr Sherlock Holmes what am I up to

First I must find the clue

And I have found the clue

So large that it completely escaped my notice

-The proverbial trunk -I'm going away

Yes,I've no doubt of that

How grim it looks already to receive the mangled remains

Don't be a damned fool

Made for bodies,Stephen,while the tight squeeze might even accommodate two bodies

Or that might certain thoughts into your head

which might prove rather unhealthy for me

Really Matthew you really go and sleep it off

Yes,Stephen,perhaps you are a murderer

and perhaps I have popped up just in time

to prevent you removing the body of a girl

from the present place of concealment and putting into this trunk

Yes in another two minutes you will be caught me red handed

It is a girl,isn't it? Always is

You still insist that Grena didn't come up tonight?

As a matter of fact,she did

But with Jan coming back I thought it was not a safe zone

In case you bird it something out

She was still here when Jan phoned?

Yes

And she departed,amicably without any fuss?

Yes

Shall I tell you how I knew Grena was up here tonight?

Shall I Stephen?

-How? -By her scent

Or rather the amount she uses

You should been a detective

I flatter myself I should be a good one

Now if you quite finished applauding me may I see inside this Ottoman?

What?

I'm asking you,Stephen,to see the inside this Ottoman

Why?

Because I believe there is a body in there

the body of a girl you've murdered, the body of Grena

You're raving

Then you won't mind convincing me of my own sanity?

-No -Why not?

For one thing Jan has the key

Has she Stephen?

-What's that? -The key,Stephen

Thank you

Now you answer

Who else to rest your strength against mine again?

Now confess that you are concealing the body of Grena in this Ottoman

-It is full of bodies -I'm not concerned with the number of bodies

But merely of Grena's,is that included?

Yes,if you like,yes

So you admit that murder has been done?

It's my duty to see that justice is done

And what speedier method than to phone the police

In cases of emergencies dial 999

I take it that the discovery of an Ottoman full of bodies is an emergency

What makes you so sure that?

Because I myself came up here tonight

You looked

Yes I looked and now I must come to terms of my conscience

You wouldn't kill me,Matthew

I want?

No I pay taxes to provide amongst other amenities the public hangman

What do you want?

Many things,but one thing above all

to deliver over to the Law the man who has violated the Law

in the most vicious way that it can be violated

Matthew,please

Don't cringe and whine for your miserable act

think of Grena,was she given the chance to beg for her life

You don't understand how it was

Oh,yes I do

When she refused your advances you attacked her mercilessly

Matthew,that's not true,I swear

I'm not conducting a prosecution,Stephen,

You will be given ample opportunities stating your case

before of 12 of your fellow men

and it's on the plausibility on that occasion hat your future will rest

Wait,wait

Think of Jan

I invariably do

Once you said you'd do anything for her

Hasn't it ever occurred to you that Jan might find consolation in my arms

Believe me,I am an expert in consoling a woman in distress

Matthew give me a chance

No,Stephen

it's my satisfaction,my pleasure if you like,to hand you over to the Justice

You put me so inhuman

Inhuman? To expose a murderer

You must have some feeling

I shan't for her either

-You say that now but afterwards -No,Stephen

Don't confuse your emotions with mine

I've analysed my emotions very carefully

My mind,the greatest emotion of all,is fear

I'm quite immune to other persons sufferings

But you,Stephen,you're experiencing something much greater than I've ever done

Because you are experiencing fear and envy you for that Stephen

I envy you

Don't Matthew,please ,have some mercy

Mercy? Could you dare to look in this Ottoman and ask for mercy,Stephen?

Could you?

Could you Stephen?

No,no,no,no

Listen to me Stephen,you are going to die, you hear,you are going to die

You go to hang,you'll go to hang,hanging

Yes,I'm still here

-Feeling better,Stephen? -What happened?

I'm afraid the excitement proved too much for you

Have I been out long?

I didn't time you my stop watch is pawned

-Have you -Phoned the police?

Oh,no,why should I stab a man in the back?

Now Stephen please write me a cheque my rent is due,don't you remember?

Do you want it now?

Don't be tedious,Sephen,I shouldn't asked for it now,if I didn't want it now

Afraid that you might lose you money

Under the circumstances I should like certain of it

Can you blame me?

Thank you

Now you will be writing another cheque

This time for 1500 pounds

What hellish game are you playing now?

No game at all,Stephen

while waiting for you to recover I'll be doing a little thinking

And I've come to conclusion that my honesty can be bought at a price

Since any sum that I should have required for hushing up a murder,

Would be far in excess of you could provide

I'm faced with two alternatives

One,to hand you over to justice, and the other to let you go free

I've decided on the latter course

Don't you think one good term deserves another?

Go on,Matthew

For some time now

I've been trying to let my flat downstairs, but I shall let it to you Stephen

At a rental of 1500 £ payable in advance,in fact payable now

Have I explained everything for you,Stephen?

Yes

You are blackmailing

Blackmail?

Why so hurry to assume?

I'm only offering my flat

admittedly at a high rental but still within bounds of reasonability

Good Gracious man,I just had the bathroom repainted blue

You like blue bathrooms,Stephen?

I don't want your flat maybe

Don't be too hasty

It has advantages

A basement where a man can work undisturbed

And a furnace, a large furnace, one of the good old fashioned type

1500£ ?

Is that going to break you Stephen?

That will do you good to be broken

Yes,Stephen

It is not a pleasant feeling, as I learnt my cost only too well

-I'm sorry -Don't pity me

After all I could work

Thank you

Well,Matthew

Just like more drinking than I tootle off

I'm sorry I can't stop to lend a hand but I suffer from a weak constitution

I wonder,Stephen

Will you get away with it?

I've no doubt through avoiding meeting the public hangman

But will you be able to square it with your conscience

Nerve yourself,prepare yourself

Don't imagine and above all don't dream

Because I'm propping up a bar for the next six months

Far better to see pink elephants coming over your bed rail

than watch young girls rising sylphlike from ancient Ottomans

Yes

Yes,it needs a callous man to go through with a thing like this

Someone like you,Matthew

Who can laugh and talk in the same room as

I beg you pardon

I suppose I shouldn't be sitting on the coffin

Now,that won't do it all,will it?

Dear,dear,extremely sacrilegious

Indifference, Stephen,acquire it,study it

This drink is it full of deadly nightshade?

Brimming over

You know,Stephen,you should indulge more in the hobby of thinking

A fascinating hobby

Thinking

Think,Stephen,of Jan, truly shining right amongst us

but if only she had possessed the priceless gift of tolerance

and not left you this evening

Think,Stephen,if you have possessed the equally priceless gift of strength

think of this last glass of champagne, perhaps that did the trick

Transplanting you from a world where all soft and free

to a hell where coherent thought was impossible

and life became short and brutal action

Poor Stephen

Face a certainly truth in you to enact in one of her tragedies

Stark remorseless tragedy,I wonder,Stephen, I wonder,if I can visualize your final fate

Can anyone visualize his final fate?

To fate

Stephen I've enjoyed myself more this last hour or so

that I've ever enjoyed myself before

But now the time has come to explain my devilish persecution

Sit down,Stephen,sit down, you look so tall standing there

What's on your mind.Mattehw?

Hatred,Stephen

Bitter and unquenchable hatred

I've never shown my hatred,why should I?

After all to me you represented a certain sum of money but I hated you,Stephen

Hated you and with every day I've hated you

too many nights I watched you dress up and boast by your conquest of women

the might of champagne and caviare

you stuffed into your self

but it was downright unbearable when one's them is hungry

You are not that hard up

Yes,I've been slowly starving downstairs for years

starving for the things that are my life

Good food,rare wines,beautiful women

I'm hungry for them,and I've been hungry for them for too long

If you,weak cowardly you,you only had to rise your weak cowardly finger to Jan

Jan?

I'll do anything for her

I love her

You love her

I loved her for years

I still love her

You've poisoned me

No,Mattew,no

You poisoned yourself

That was made for me,you hear,me

But you changed the glasses,didn't you

You would do it out of that glass,wouldn't you

Wouldn't you? Well that's fate,Mattew, do you hear,fate,you drank to it you fool

Distress Grena is not dead,do you hear me Stephen,she is not dead

-What? -Look in the Ottoman

Grena,she is still alive

Look for yourself,and see if she is there,still alive

Do you believe me? What have you done with her?

Matthew where is she? Where is she?

Nice Stephen,you only stunt her, when I found her unconscious

I took her downstairs, she was all right,I took her home

when I realized you thought she was dead and still up here

It was all a joke,Stephen,a terrible joke

Stephen,you are not a murderer,but if I die

Stephen it's Jan,listen.darling Grena is alive

You speak to him

Hello,Steve

Yes,it's Grena,no Steve you didn't kill anyone,let me speak to Matthew

Stephen,I want to speak to Matthew

She wants to speak to you Matthew

You hear she wants to speak to you,it's Grena

Go on,Matthew, speak to her, tell her,tell her

tell her about your joke,Matthew ,go on tell her how it ended

Tell her how clever you've been,you, Matthew,tell her how clever you've been

Stephen,what's the matter

Stephen,Stephen,Stephen

Stephen

And that's how they found him

an overdraft at the bank

and a list of creditors as long my IOU and a stomach full of poison

Suicide the coroner said

Suicide? While the balance of his mind was disturbed,the Tenerife?

It looks just the same but it is not, Grena doesn't come here anymore

There you are I may exaggerate things a little that's our way I guess

Oh Stephen,yes Stephen made the grade on his own little racket

romantic novels,treacly sentimental stuff all sugar no spice

And he and Jan are going feature postcard

with farm,a couple of kids and roses around the door.I shouldn't wonder

The door seem very far from Tenerife and Larry's cocktails

So many peeks,so many stories,some curious all true

and most infinitely trivial

black and white shake them all together and see what comes out

toss the coins,spin the wheel take off the lid slit off when a pipe burst

well time is out I must go and catch my plane

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