1 00:00:26,690 --> 00:00:30,060 Good evening, devotees of television. 2 00:00:30,090 --> 00:00:34,460 Recognizing the popularity of medical drama on TV, 3 00:00:34,500 --> 00:00:37,130 we are preparing one of our own. 4 00:00:37,170 --> 00:00:38,830 In this series, 5 00:00:38,870 --> 00:00:41,840 I play the part of a wise, fatherly head, 6 00:00:41,870 --> 00:00:46,140 of the largest dog and cat hospital in Los Angeles. 7 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:51,350 This lad plays the part of young Dr. O’Hara. 8 00:00:51,380 --> 00:00:56,580 A very promising and dedicated young veterinarian. 9 00:00:56,620 --> 00:01:02,320 Here you see him as he will appear during the most of our first story. 10 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,460 In this story, he wrestled with the problem 11 00:01:05,490 --> 00:01:11,770 of whether he should remain with me treating the pets of motion picture stars and millionaires 12 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,900 and the animals who themselves may be stars. 13 00:01:15,940 --> 00:01:19,110 Or whether he should go back to a small town, 14 00:01:19,140 --> 00:01:23,950 where he can treat the ordinary, un-pedigreed poodles. 15 00:01:23,980 --> 00:01:25,550 Fortunately, 16 00:01:25,580 --> 00:01:28,720 I convinced him that integrity isn’t everything. 17 00:01:28,750 --> 00:01:31,620 Now for an episode from another series, 18 00:01:31,650 --> 00:01:34,290 Alfred Hitchcock Presents. 19 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:36,990 After this one minute special. 20 00:02:12,430 --> 00:02:14,330 [man] Whoa! 21 00:02:29,710 --> 00:02:31,280 John? 22 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,230 Mrs. Wright? 23 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,370 Cold out tonight. 24 00:02:59,340 --> 00:03:01,710 It’s cold in here too. 25 00:03:03,750 --> 00:03:06,310 You need some fuel in that fire. 26 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,420 I just dropped by on my way home to 27 00:03:11,450 --> 00:03:15,390 see if John had changed his mind about going in on my party line. 28 00:03:18,630 --> 00:03:20,130 Party line? 29 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:21,860 Yeah. 30 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:25,200 It’d be big savings for me and you’d have a telephone too. 31 00:03:25,230 --> 00:03:27,500 It wouldn’t cost much. 32 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,550 Well, I don’t see anything to laugh at. 33 00:03:37,580 --> 00:03:40,620 Not funny, a telephone’s a real good thing to have. 34 00:03:40,650 --> 00:03:43,550 Especially, when you’re so far out from town. 35 00:03:43,590 --> 00:03:45,650 Why? 36 00:03:45,690 --> 00:03:48,760 Well, in case you get sick or something. 37 00:03:48,790 --> 00:03:50,560 Need help. 38 00:03:50,590 --> 00:03:52,690 I see. 39 00:03:52,730 --> 00:03:55,160 Only... 40 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,500 who would I call? 41 00:03:57,530 --> 00:04:00,700 Now, you got neighbors ain’t ya? 42 00:04:00,740 --> 00:04:03,300 Even though they are a mite far away. 43 00:04:03,340 --> 00:04:06,070 You’ve got neighbors, they’re yours. 44 00:04:07,180 --> 00:04:09,440 I suppose they are. 45 00:04:11,780 --> 00:04:15,450 Keep forgetting. 46 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,820 So long since I’ve seen any of them. 47 00:04:18,850 --> 00:04:21,320 Yeah, well... 48 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:23,260 maybe I best come back and 49 00:04:23,290 --> 00:04:26,390 talk to John when he’s home, huh. 50 00:04:26,430 --> 00:04:28,060 Oh, he’s home. 51 00:04:28,060 --> 00:04:30,270 He’s upstairs. 52 00:04:31,630 --> 00:04:33,770 Well, what if he’s sleeping? 53 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:35,770 He’s not sleeping. 54 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:37,140 I can see him, then? 55 00:04:37,170 --> 00:04:38,370 Sure. 56 00:04:38,410 --> 00:04:41,240 -Go on up. -Thanks. 57 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:09,740 What happened? 58 00:05:11,740 --> 00:05:13,040 I don’t know. 59 00:05:15,180 --> 00:05:17,150 You don’t know? 60 00:05:19,050 --> 00:05:20,950 But he’s dead. 61 00:05:21,050 --> 00:05:22,480 Appears like he’s been strangled. 62 00:05:24,350 --> 00:05:27,660 Yes, I saw that on... 63 00:05:27,690 --> 00:05:30,260 I don’t know what happened. 64 00:05:30,290 --> 00:05:33,730 But you must know, you were here. 65 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:35,560 No. 66 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,170 I found him like that when I came back 67 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,070 from feeding the chickens this morning. 68 00:05:45,570 --> 00:05:48,440 You’ve been sitting here all day 69 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,750 while he’s been lying up there? 70 00:05:50,780 --> 00:05:53,680 Didn’t seem like there was anything else for me to do seeing... 71 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:55,320 he was dead. 72 00:05:57,990 --> 00:06:00,220 I better get the sheriff. 73 00:06:00,260 --> 00:06:03,020 I’ll telephone him from my place. 74 00:06:05,530 --> 00:06:08,660 It doesn’t seem right to leave you here all alone. 75 00:06:08,700 --> 00:06:10,300 Why don’t you come home with me? 76 00:06:10,330 --> 00:06:13,300 Sarah’ll be glad to see ya. 77 00:06:13,340 --> 00:06:16,600 Oh, that would be nice. 78 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:20,210 It’s been so long since I’ve visited anyone. 79 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:22,780 Yeah. Come on, come on. 80 00:06:24,810 --> 00:06:27,420 No, that’s all right, Sheriff, I can meet you there. 81 00:06:27,450 --> 00:06:29,150 Dear, 82 00:06:29,180 --> 00:06:31,290 Sheriff wants me to meet him over at the Wright place. 83 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:33,150 Now, do you mind if she stays here with you? 84 00:06:33,190 --> 00:06:35,360 Oh, don’t talk nonsense, Jim. 85 00:06:35,390 --> 00:06:37,690 I’ve known Milly since we were children together. 86 00:06:37,730 --> 00:06:39,190 Of course I don’t mind, you go right ahead. 87 00:06:39,230 --> 00:06:41,360 I’ll be right over, Sheriff. 88 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,470 It won’t take long. 89 00:06:52,470 --> 00:06:54,810 You must be half frozen. 90 00:06:54,840 --> 00:06:57,810 Trust a man to drive you all this way and never think of that. 91 00:06:57,850 --> 00:07:00,020 I’ll go put on some coffee. 92 00:07:00,050 --> 00:07:01,680 Please don’t bother. 93 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,520 I don’t want any. 94 00:07:04,550 --> 00:07:06,620 Oh, Milly... 95 00:07:06,650 --> 00:07:10,230 I wish I could think of something to say. 96 00:07:10,260 --> 00:07:13,600 What’s there to say that would make anything different? 97 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:19,200 Will they take him away tonight? 98 00:07:19,230 --> 00:07:21,870 Well, I... I should think so. 99 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,440 He won’t like that. 100 00:07:26,470 --> 00:07:29,640 Going away from the farm. 101 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,550 It’s the only thing he ever really cared about. 102 00:07:33,580 --> 00:07:35,280 Milly... 103 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,420 why did you marry him? 104 00:07:39,290 --> 00:07:41,220 I don’t know. 105 00:07:43,090 --> 00:07:45,660 I guess I thought I was in love with him. 106 00:07:45,690 --> 00:07:48,560 But you could’ve had your pick of anyone. 107 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,630 You were such a pretty little thing. 108 00:07:51,670 --> 00:07:53,740 Oh, my, 109 00:07:53,770 --> 00:07:58,640 was I ever jealous of you in those days. 110 00:07:58,670 --> 00:08:02,340 I bet you haven’t been jealous of me since. 111 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,620 I tell you, she’s putting on an act. 112 00:08:11,650 --> 00:08:13,820 Working up to an insanity plea. 113 00:08:13,860 --> 00:08:16,260 Oh, now, what would she know about pleas? 114 00:08:16,290 --> 00:08:17,560 She hasn’t been off that farm 115 00:08:17,590 --> 00:08:20,300 more than a couple of times in the past 20 years. 116 00:08:20,330 --> 00:08:23,100 It’s an act just the same. 117 00:08:23,130 --> 00:08:25,630 Well, you lawyers know more about these things than I do, 118 00:08:25,670 --> 00:08:27,100 but doesn’t seem like it to me. 119 00:08:28,670 --> 00:08:30,110 I mean, why would she do it now? 120 00:08:30,140 --> 00:08:32,670 After putting up with him for all these years. 121 00:08:32,710 --> 00:08:34,640 That’s what we gotta find out. 122 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:36,640 How? 123 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:39,310 You just let me worry about that, Henry. 124 00:08:39,350 --> 00:08:41,280 By the time I stand before a jury, 125 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,320 I promise you I’ll have everything I need for a conviction. 126 00:08:44,350 --> 00:08:47,120 Maybe. But I’d still like to know how. 127 00:08:48,420 --> 00:08:50,530 There must be something out in that farmhouse. 128 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:52,760 Something that’ll tell us. 129 00:08:52,790 --> 00:08:54,860 Mr. Henderson, I searched that farm last night 130 00:08:54,900 --> 00:08:57,870 and I didn’t even find one little thing out of the ordinary. 131 00:08:57,900 --> 00:08:59,900 That’s why we’re going to search again, my friend. 132 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,870 -And right now. -Suit yourself. 133 00:09:03,910 --> 00:09:05,910 Can I go home now? 134 00:09:06,010 --> 00:09:08,080 Well, I’m afraid not right this minute. 135 00:09:08,110 --> 00:09:11,350 You just relax and sit here and uh, 136 00:09:11,380 --> 00:09:14,020 wait for a few minutes, Mrs. Wright. 137 00:09:16,420 --> 00:09:18,120 There you are. 138 00:09:20,260 --> 00:09:22,760 Mary, I’d like you to come to the Wright place with us 139 00:09:22,790 --> 00:09:25,390 and bring back whatever Mrs. Wright needs. 140 00:09:25,430 --> 00:09:26,800 You’d better ask her. 141 00:09:26,830 --> 00:09:28,530 All right. 142 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:31,270 I wish I didn’t have to go out there after what’s happened. 143 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:32,870 Mary, would you like me to go with you? 144 00:09:32,900 --> 00:09:35,570 Yes, I would. 145 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,570 I know it’s silly of me, but I would like company. 146 00:09:39,610 --> 00:09:42,140 You see how we rate don’t you, Sheriff? 147 00:09:42,180 --> 00:09:44,810 My wife thinks going out there with us is the same as going alone. 148 00:09:44,850 --> 00:09:48,180 -Oh, it’s not that. -I know, I know. 149 00:09:48,220 --> 00:09:49,920 Ladies like to be together. 150 00:09:58,490 --> 00:10:01,130 Yes, here it is. 151 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:02,800 A shawl. 152 00:10:09,470 --> 00:10:12,070 Sarah, do you think she did it? 153 00:10:12,110 --> 00:10:14,880 No, I don’t. 154 00:10:14,910 --> 00:10:17,610 If she had, do you suppose she would be worrying about... 155 00:10:17,650 --> 00:10:21,150 silly little things like an apron and a shawl? 156 00:10:21,180 --> 00:10:23,390 Looks awful bad for her. 157 00:10:23,420 --> 00:10:26,590 Mr. Henderson said all he needed was a motive. 158 00:10:26,620 --> 00:10:29,560 A motive to show that she hated him. 159 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,770 I wonder if they’re finding anything up there. 160 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:43,840 Oh, it’s-it’s wrong for them to come here like this and... 161 00:10:43,870 --> 00:10:47,440 and try to get her own house to turn against her. 162 00:10:51,580 --> 00:10:53,210 Mary, you better loosen your things. 163 00:10:53,250 --> 00:10:55,650 You won’t feel the good of them when you go out. 164 00:10:57,220 --> 00:10:59,490 Oh. 165 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:01,660 She was piecing a quilt. 166 00:11:01,690 --> 00:11:04,190 Yes, I was just looking at it. 167 00:11:04,230 --> 00:11:06,590 This must be the piece she was working on. 168 00:11:06,630 --> 00:11:08,860 Oh, Mary. 169 00:11:08,900 --> 00:11:10,770 Look at that sewing. 170 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,300 All the rest is sewn nice and even. 171 00:11:13,340 --> 00:11:14,800 This is all over the place. 172 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,440 Why, it looks like she didn’t know what she was doing! 173 00:11:32,550 --> 00:11:35,320 Sa-Sarah, what are you doing? 174 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,230 Nothing. 175 00:11:37,260 --> 00:11:39,290 I’m just pulling out a stitch or two that 176 00:11:39,330 --> 00:11:40,960 isn’t sewn very good. 177 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,830 You have no right to do that. No right at all. 178 00:11:44,870 --> 00:11:48,200 Sarah, I’ll have to tell the sheriff. I’ll just have to. 179 00:11:50,810 --> 00:11:52,640 Nothing to tell him, Mary. 180 00:11:52,670 --> 00:11:54,880 About sewing that isn’t there. 181 00:11:57,550 --> 00:11:59,010 You shouldn’t touch that. 182 00:11:59,110 --> 00:12:01,520 Why not? 183 00:12:01,550 --> 00:12:03,390 Doesn’t mean anything. 184 00:12:03,420 --> 00:12:04,750 Meant she was awful nervous 185 00:12:04,790 --> 00:12:07,260 when she was doing that end part. 186 00:12:07,290 --> 00:12:08,890 There must’ve been a reason why. 187 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,430 Oh, nonsense. 188 00:12:11,460 --> 00:12:15,230 I sometimes sew all wrong when I’m just tired. 189 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:22,270 Hadn’t you better get those things wrapped up? 190 00:12:23,870 --> 00:12:26,270 Yes, I... 191 00:12:26,310 --> 00:12:28,840 suppose I’d better. 192 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:30,810 I need some paper and string. 193 00:12:30,850 --> 00:12:33,780 I expect you’d find some in that cupboard there. 194 00:12:41,290 --> 00:12:43,290 What’s the matter? 195 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:44,890 Nothing. 196 00:12:44,930 --> 00:12:47,600 Just, there’s a bird cage here. Did she have a bird? 197 00:12:47,630 --> 00:12:49,760 Why, I don’t know. 198 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,270 Haven’t been out here for so long. 199 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:55,500 There was a man around last year selling canaries cheap. 200 00:12:55,540 --> 00:12:58,310 I don’t know if she got one, but maybe she did. 201 00:12:58,340 --> 00:13:01,340 She used to sing real pretty herself. 202 00:13:01,380 --> 00:13:04,550 Seems funny to think of a bird in this gloomy place. 203 00:13:04,580 --> 00:13:07,180 I wonder what happened to it. 204 00:13:07,220 --> 00:13:08,680 Well, maybe it got out. 205 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:10,150 Door’s broken. 206 00:13:10,190 --> 00:13:12,190 So it is, it’s right off its hinge. 207 00:13:12,220 --> 00:13:14,590 Somebody must’ve been real rough with it. 208 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,070 Oh, I do wish they’d hurry. 209 00:13:26,230 --> 00:13:28,300 [inhales] 210 00:13:28,340 --> 00:13:32,240 Imagine what it must’ve been like for her out here. 211 00:13:32,270 --> 00:13:34,140 All alone with a man like, 212 00:13:34,180 --> 00:13:35,480 like John Wright. 213 00:13:37,810 --> 00:13:39,480 Tell you what, Sarah... 214 00:13:39,510 --> 00:13:42,150 why don’t we take her quilt to her? 215 00:13:42,180 --> 00:13:43,890 Might take up her mind. 216 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,260 Oh, now that’s a good idea. They can’t object to that. 217 00:13:47,290 --> 00:13:49,190 Here’s a box. 218 00:13:49,220 --> 00:13:51,860 Probably has her sewing things in it. 219 00:13:51,890 --> 00:13:55,960 Well, she has something wrapped up in a piece of silk. 220 00:14:01,270 --> 00:14:04,140 -Oh, Mary. It-- -It’s 221 00:14:04,170 --> 00:14:05,940 her canary. 222 00:14:08,380 --> 00:14:11,450 But look at it. 223 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:13,750 Its neck. 224 00:14:13,780 --> 00:14:15,150 Look at its 225 00:14:15,180 --> 00:14:17,320 poor little neck. 226 00:14:17,350 --> 00:14:18,790 Somebody 227 00:14:18,820 --> 00:14:20,460 wrung its neck. 228 00:14:38,140 --> 00:14:39,870 [Mr. Henderson] Now see... 229 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,710 once she had this around his neck... 230 00:14:43,750 --> 00:14:45,880 all she had to do was... 231 00:14:47,750 --> 00:14:51,220 No, no, no. Wait a minute, that’s no good. 232 00:14:51,250 --> 00:14:54,420 Why wouldn’t he wake up when she was slipping it over his head? 233 00:14:54,460 --> 00:14:56,890 Oh, comes to that, Henderson. He slept like the dead. 234 00:14:59,330 --> 00:15:02,430 I, uh, mean he slept very heavy. 235 00:15:02,460 --> 00:15:04,700 Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. 236 00:15:04,730 --> 00:15:06,630 That’s explains it then. 237 00:15:06,670 --> 00:15:09,240 Sure, sure, sure. When... 238 00:15:09,270 --> 00:15:12,210 when she was slipping it over his head he was all... 239 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:18,050 And just a little pull and he’d lose consciousness. 240 00:15:19,550 --> 00:15:22,080 And all she had to do was tighten it, huh? 241 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,050 -Hey! -What? 242 00:15:24,090 --> 00:15:26,650 Hmm. 243 00:15:26,690 --> 00:15:28,720 You’d also wonder if she’d have the strength... 244 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:30,630 a little woman like that. 245 00:15:30,660 --> 00:15:33,630 Anger can make a person a lot stronger than they really are. 246 00:15:33,660 --> 00:15:36,400 Yes, we haven’t found any signs of anger around here. 247 00:15:36,430 --> 00:15:37,730 I know. 248 00:15:38,970 --> 00:15:40,440 But we will! 249 00:15:40,470 --> 00:15:43,240 It’s almost as if she was trying to give it a burial. 250 00:15:45,510 --> 00:15:49,080 It must have meant so much to her, if she couldn’t bear to part with it. 251 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,680 It’s a real pretty pattern, don’t you think so, Mary? 252 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:57,390 I wonder if she was just going to quilt it or just knot it. 253 00:15:58,890 --> 00:16:01,620 They wonder if she’s going to quilt it or knot it. 254 00:16:01,660 --> 00:16:04,690 Let’s go out to the barn and see if we can find anything out there. 255 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:10,670 Sarah! I’ve got to tell him. 256 00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:12,530 No! 257 00:16:16,170 --> 00:16:18,370 You know what they say, don’t you? 258 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:22,610 I know... 259 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:26,050 that he killed her bird... 260 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:27,580 that’s what made her angry. 261 00:16:27,620 --> 00:16:30,820 That’s the motive they’re looking for. 262 00:16:32,620 --> 00:16:35,060 And you’re going to give it to them? 263 00:16:35,090 --> 00:16:36,830 What else can we do? 264 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:42,160 We can hide it. 265 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,570 I’ll just put it in my bag and they need never know a thing about it. 266 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:47,500 Sarah, that’s wrong! 267 00:16:47,540 --> 00:16:48,740 Terribly wrong! 268 00:16:48,770 --> 00:16:51,670 Was it right for him to kill her bird? 269 00:16:51,710 --> 00:16:53,840 Just because it gave her a little pleasure? 270 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,280 We don’t know that’s why, you don’t even know that he did it. 271 00:16:56,310 --> 00:16:58,180 No, I don’t! 272 00:16:58,210 --> 00:17:01,050 Not any more than we know that she did anything either. 273 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,420 So we don’t need to say a thing about it. 274 00:17:04,450 --> 00:17:07,160 Well, it’s not for us to judge how important it is. 275 00:17:07,190 --> 00:17:09,220 Are they? 276 00:17:09,260 --> 00:17:12,230 Well, it’s their job, they know about these things. 277 00:17:12,260 --> 00:17:16,600 I can tell you a lot of things they don’t know anything about. 278 00:17:16,630 --> 00:17:19,270 How it must have been for her here. 279 00:17:19,300 --> 00:17:22,300 All alone with a man like that. 280 00:17:23,770 --> 00:17:27,080 I’m not saying it wasn’t a real cruel thing to do. 281 00:17:27,110 --> 00:17:29,780 But it, it was a bird. 282 00:17:29,810 --> 00:17:32,350 Not a human being. 283 00:17:32,380 --> 00:17:36,280 Maybe it meant more than any other human being to Milly. 284 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:37,950 That’s what’s so wrong, you don’t... 285 00:17:38,050 --> 00:17:39,720 kill somebody for a bird! 286 00:17:39,750 --> 00:17:42,620 Oh, that wasn’t why! 287 00:17:42,660 --> 00:17:45,060 If she did it... 288 00:17:45,090 --> 00:17:50,400 it was because of all the things he’s been doing to her for the past 20 years. 289 00:17:50,430 --> 00:17:53,130 You never knew her when she was a girl. 290 00:17:53,170 --> 00:17:56,770 She was the sweetest, prettiest little thing. 291 00:17:56,810 --> 00:17:58,440 But she didn’t have to marry him. 292 00:17:58,470 --> 00:18:00,580 She was 17 years old. 293 00:18:00,610 --> 00:18:02,010 What did she know about anything? 294 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:03,240 Well, that’s not excuse for-- 295 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,210 Who said anything about an excuse? 296 00:18:06,250 --> 00:18:10,050 I was just telling you about the way it was. 297 00:18:13,020 --> 00:18:15,220 I’m sorry, Sarah. 298 00:18:15,260 --> 00:18:18,390 But I can’t be a part of this, I just can’t. 299 00:18:18,430 --> 00:18:20,430 My husband is a sheriff and I... 300 00:18:26,430 --> 00:18:28,340 Please try to understand, Sarah. 301 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,240 Sure. 302 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,340 I understand. 303 00:18:39,650 --> 00:18:42,680 But I understand that you’re a woman too. 304 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,050 -Well, what’s that got to do with it? -Lots! 305 00:18:45,090 --> 00:18:47,160 If you weren’t new here, you’d understand that. 306 00:18:47,190 --> 00:18:48,560 I’ve been leaving in this town long enough-- 307 00:18:48,590 --> 00:18:50,590 -How long? -Five years. 308 00:18:50,630 --> 00:18:52,960 [laughing] 309 00:18:53,060 --> 00:18:55,860 Five years. 310 00:18:57,530 --> 00:19:01,000 Five years living right in the heart of town surrounded by people 311 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,070 with nothing to do but keep a house neat. 312 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,040 What would you know about living for 20 years 313 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,410 out in a farm like this? 314 00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:13,180 Miles from anywhere. 315 00:19:13,210 --> 00:19:15,150 Never seeing a living soul 316 00:19:15,180 --> 00:19:18,350 from one month’s end to the next. 317 00:19:18,390 --> 00:19:21,020 Getting into town maybe, oh... 318 00:19:21,060 --> 00:19:24,230 four of five times a year, if you’re lucky. 319 00:19:24,260 --> 00:19:26,860 And even then having to worry about how you’ll get caught up 320 00:19:26,900 --> 00:19:29,530 with the work when you came back 321 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,630 and never really catching up. 322 00:19:32,670 --> 00:19:35,240 Only thing that makes it bearable is, 323 00:19:35,270 --> 00:19:38,110 is having a decent man like my Jim 324 00:19:38,140 --> 00:19:39,470 who loves you. 325 00:19:42,310 --> 00:19:44,150 I never heard that-- 326 00:19:44,180 --> 00:19:46,610 Mr. Wright was really a bad man. 327 00:19:46,650 --> 00:19:49,150 Well... 328 00:19:49,180 --> 00:19:51,590 depends upon what you call bad. 329 00:19:51,620 --> 00:19:53,760 You never knew him, did you? 330 00:19:53,790 --> 00:19:57,790 Not to say no, I’d seen him in town. 331 00:19:59,790 --> 00:20:01,430 Well, he didn’t drink, 332 00:20:01,460 --> 00:20:05,970 kept his word as well as most, I guess, paid his debts. 333 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:10,070 But he was a cold, harsh man. 334 00:20:10,110 --> 00:20:13,310 Just passing the time of day with him was like a, 335 00:20:13,340 --> 00:20:16,810 a raw wind cutting clean to the bone. 336 00:20:18,510 --> 00:20:21,880 That’s the only human being Milly ever saw day in day out. 337 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,990 But if, if she lived here all her life 338 00:20:25,020 --> 00:20:26,790 she must’ve had friends who came to visit. 339 00:20:26,820 --> 00:20:29,660 Oh, her friends all tried in the beginning, 340 00:20:29,690 --> 00:20:32,830 only he never made any of them feel that they were welcome. 341 00:20:32,860 --> 00:20:35,360 Farm folk don’t have much time for visiting. 342 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,430 Maybe they were glad to have some excuse not to come. 343 00:20:39,470 --> 00:20:41,570 I should’ve come. 344 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,470 Because I knew. 345 00:20:44,510 --> 00:20:47,240 There’s a crime for you. 346 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,110 A real crime. 347 00:20:50,150 --> 00:20:53,310 Who’s going to punish me? 348 00:20:53,350 --> 00:20:56,280 I didn’t mean to reproach you, Sarah. 349 00:20:58,250 --> 00:21:00,220 You don’t have to. 350 00:21:00,260 --> 00:21:02,260 I do that myself. 351 00:21:06,260 --> 00:21:08,660 I can’t lie to Mr. Peters. 352 00:21:09,930 --> 00:21:11,830 You don’t have to lie. 353 00:21:11,870 --> 00:21:13,270 Just have to keep quiet. 354 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,370 I’m sorry, Sarah. 355 00:21:20,940 --> 00:21:23,950 Don’t blame me too much. 356 00:21:23,980 --> 00:21:26,110 I’m not blaming you. 357 00:21:26,150 --> 00:21:27,750 You have to do, 358 00:21:27,780 --> 00:21:30,620 what you have to do, I guess. 359 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:37,890 What are you looking for? 360 00:21:37,930 --> 00:21:41,730 Oh, I was just hoping that all the jars hadn’t burst. 361 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,870 No. 362 00:21:45,900 --> 00:21:48,170 Here’s one that didn’t. 363 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,210 Now, don’t you tell her her fruit was gone. 364 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,180 You tell her it was all right. 365 00:21:57,210 --> 00:21:59,450 And you take this one in to prove it to her. 366 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,420 Stop it! Stop doing this to me! 367 00:22:02,450 --> 00:22:04,450 I wasn’t even thinking about you. 368 00:22:04,490 --> 00:22:07,220 Well, start thinking about me a little. 369 00:22:07,260 --> 00:22:09,490 [Sheriff] Well, it’s not our fault we didn’t find anything. 370 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,360 I know it isn’t. I don’t understand it. 371 00:22:12,390 --> 00:22:14,930 I was so sure there’d be something. 372 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,200 Well, there ain’t. We might as well get back to town. 373 00:22:19,570 --> 00:22:21,270 Mary, you ready? 374 00:22:23,340 --> 00:22:25,710 Well... 375 00:22:25,740 --> 00:22:28,080 What do you mean "well"? 376 00:22:30,510 --> 00:22:33,080 Well, you haven’t even gotten those things packed yet. 377 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,480 [Sheriff] You women. Chattering long about nothing. 378 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:36,990 It’s a wonder you ever get anything done. 379 00:22:37,090 --> 00:22:40,820 Now, now, now, Sheriff. Is that any way to talk to the ladies? 380 00:22:40,860 --> 00:22:45,360 After all, they’ve been trying to make up their minds about a real important problem. 381 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,100 Well, ladies, what did you decide? 382 00:22:49,130 --> 00:22:51,800 Was she going to quilt it or knot it? 383 00:23:09,350 --> 00:23:11,790 We decided she was going to knot it. 384 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,300 The story you have just seen 385 00:23:27,340 --> 00:23:31,740 was intended to be the beginning of a series about Mrs. Wright. 386 00:23:31,770 --> 00:23:35,380 I’m afraid we blundered badly, however. 387 00:23:35,410 --> 00:23:39,810 For she was convicted along with Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale 388 00:23:39,850 --> 00:23:43,320 and her adventures were rather limited after that. 389 00:23:43,350 --> 00:23:46,090 As for our series about doctors, 390 00:23:46,090 --> 00:23:48,290 this too was abandoned. 391 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,730 The young man managed to hold up 392 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,800 but being kind and fatherly and folksy 393 00:23:53,830 --> 00:23:56,730 proved too much of a strain for me. 394 00:23:56,770 --> 00:24:00,340 Now for the last of a series of three commercials, 395 00:24:00,370 --> 00:24:04,840 after which I shall tell you more of our producing plans. 396 00:24:07,210 --> 00:24:09,040 During the coming months, 397 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,480 I hope you will look for our two newest projects. 398 00:24:12,510 --> 00:24:16,620 A series about gangsters in the clothing industry called 399 00:24:16,650 --> 00:24:18,620 The Unmentionables. 400 00:24:18,650 --> 00:24:21,320 And another, built around the adventures 401 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:24,830 of an itinerant strikebreaker in the old west entitled 402 00:24:24,860 --> 00:24:27,100 Frontier Fink. 403 00:24:27,130 --> 00:24:29,660 Until next week, goodnight.