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Jeremy isn't

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you Jeremy why don't you

speak Jeremy in God's name

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speak don't be alarmed the woman who

just screamed is perfectly quiet now as

sure as my name is Boris kov you see

she's been dead for nearly a hundred

years her bed is empty and whatever it

was that frightened so seems to be

gone seems to be but I can tell you this

much that bed won't be empty much longer

and another screams will soon be heard

whose perhaps yours or those who will

join us

here Mr

riptor miss Patricia

Barry

Mr Richard

Anderson

and well seems the rest of our cast

cannot be raised they're dead you know

but spend a night with us in the purple

room if you

dare let me assure you my friends this

is a

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thriller

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in willing the house to you dear brother

I am hopeful that you will fall under

the spell of it as I did when first I

saw it and knew why must possess

it well I'm sorry I'll have to

disappoint him there my only interest in

that property is to dispose of it as

soon as possible for a profit you

haven't heard the

terms should you decide after one night

under the roof of Black Oak that you do

not choose to take up residence there

the estate will pass to our beloved

cousin Rachel Judson and her husband

Oliver who have been my guest guests

confidence and faithful companions

during these years of my life at Black

Oak and who cherish it as I do just a

minute does that mean I can't sell the

house after a period of one year's

residence you will be free to dispose of

the estate in any manner you see fit but

I believe that by that time only death

would part you from

it as it has finally parted me from

Black Oak you recognize your brother's

signature of

course yes but um I don't

understand you say that I have to live

in the house for one year before I can

sell it right mhm but you also say I

have to decide if I will live in it

after only one night your brother felt

that one night would be sufficient to

make your decision he wanted you to feel

as he felt about the place you see he

felt fell in love with Black Oak at

First Sight but uh some people are

repelled by their first impressions of

it well it'll take a lot to repel me I

happen to know that that property is in

the middle of an area to be developed by

Morland

Enterprises I'll sit it out a year if I

have to then uh I take it you'll be

leaving for Baton Rouge within a week or

so well I'll leave tonight there's

nothing to keep me

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here

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well do you like it

Duncan well I'm sorry to disappoint you

cousin Rachel but uh yes I like it very

much then it's all that you expected eh

exactly I must admit that uh you two

come as a pleasant surprise I don't know

why I was expecting something out of

Charles Adams I

guess

well we'll accept that as a compliment

but wherever did you get that impression

well when uh Everett bought the house he

uh described it to me in a letter and

then later uh he wrote me that you two

were staying here and I suppose I simply

extended the uh description of a house

to include you well we're not quite that

old I'll get the

bags unless of course you'll change your

mind and spend oh no I'm here I might as

well get it over

with

you make it sound as if you think it's

going to be an ordeal well now let's be

honest cousin Rachel you know those

stories you were telling me down from

the station weren't exactly meant to

reassure me oh come now Duncan well look

all of that is part of the fun of having

an old house it's history it's it's

Secrets all those ghosts you inherit

those with the house I know I mean of

course neither one of you would have any

idea of attempting to uh scare me out

before the morning well now why would we

do a thing like

that well uh Oliver I just happen to

have a nasty mind and I can't help

remembering that if I decide not to stay

here that the place will belong to

you you think it means that much to us

well it mean that much to me to hold on

to it you know this uh place is going to

be worth a lot of money in the next

couple of years as you both

know

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if you had given us a bit more notice we

would have had the electricity turned

on uh-huh oh you don't believe us I

suppose you think we arranged it this

way to make things a little more

difficult for you well Oliver I'm

certain I'd do the same thing if I were

in your position oh my you do have a

nasty mind thank you

Rachel well doesn't matter I can explore

this place in the morning uh all I need

now is a room this way we closed the

house after Everett's death I'm afraid

the only bed that's made up is in

the purple room of course you wouldn't

like that one oh is that a challenge the

purple room by all means there's nothing

that you have to prove here it's very

easy to change the bedding from one room

to the The Other Well Le I don't want to

put you to any trouble and I'm I'm

certain it'd be much more difficult for

you if I didn't stay in the purple

room here it

is

welcome

home after

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you oh a nice place to visit but you

wouldn't want to die

here

uh will you hold that just a moment yeah

sure I still don't have any matches oh

perhaps you'd like to borrow my lighter

oh no the candle will be fine until I go

to bed and then uh well I uh I never

smoke before breakfast and uh I never

sleep with the lights on you mean you're

actually going to sleep here well if you

don't keep me awake well we told you we

can't spend the night oh yes that's

right you did tell me that didn't

you uh you excuse me just a moment

please m you know they uh say that these

old Victorian Mansions are just riddled

with secret passageways but uh in case

anyone uh thinks of popping out of some

panel during the night I'll welcome them

with this now look that's going entirely

too far put that thing away well I think

it's only fair that any ghost uh within

sound of my voice should be advised in

my

intention my good fellow if what is

haunting this house is something human

you'll be doing a favor to everyone in

the district if you put a few bullets in

it if not if not what Oliver if not

you've done everything you can to

announce your

antagonism your lack of

sympathy to

them the outset you've been smug and

provocative I don't I'm not afraid of

dying if they're not would you please

stop waving that thing around oh I'm

sorry I just didn't want you to be

concerned over me and will you please

tell any ghosts you happen to meet on

the way out ghosts only appear to those

who are fool enough to believe in

them and those who are fo enough not

to any other words of comfort and

parting well it at least Lets All part

as

friends let's have a drink I would love

a drink so what I

we can drink to the success of the

living over the

dead

Duncan cheers uh just a moment uh um if

you don't mind let's exchange

classes you think we're trying to drug

you well I just can't help judging

others by myself and uh I'm sure if I

were you that uh I slip something in the

drink to slow the reflexes and stimulate

the

imagination come on aliver humor

in now

uh so this is where it's happened huh

nearly 100 years ago if you believe

it it started right in that

bed what's your version

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Oliver that was their bed Captain Jeremy

Ransom and his wife Caroline his bride

of only seven days they were alone in

the house as people on a honeymoon

prefer to be but in the middle of the

night Carolina woke hearing the sound of

footsteps on the floor below Caroline

was terrified but Jeremy hardened by

years of war didn't know the meaning of

fear if a Prowler had gotten in he'd

throw him out

bodily he started for the door Caroline

begged him not to leave her there alone

so Jeremy stopped then he went to the

mantle and took down his pistol loaded

it and put it into her

hands if the fellow should slip past him

penetrate the

bedroom Jeremy told to shoot and shoot

to

kill then he went out out to the

stairs he took no light to warn the

prowler and started down the stairs

slowly

searching there in the bed Caroline

waited clutching the gun she waited

waited till she wanted to scream instead

she hardly breathed she heard nothing

nothing at all she just waited she began

to

pray and then she heard it the footsteps

again coming up the

stairs but they weren't his footsteps

not her husband's not Jeremy's they

shuffled dragged groped

fumbled coming

Closer

Closer reaching the door

they started

in she couldn't see who or what it was

moving toward her out of the

dark her fingers tightened on the

gun she cried out Jeremy is it

you there was no answer so she fired

Point Blank again and again at the shape

she heard a moan then a

fall and she lit the

candle and then she began to

scream and

scream and

scream is at the punch

line when the servants found

them Caroline was raving

mad Jeremy was lying in a pool of blood

at the foot of the

bed a knife buried in his

chest he had been stabbed by the

prowler and then he forced his way up

those

stairs step by

step unable to

speak more dead than

alive to get help from

Caroline instead his bride had shot him

de she never never regained her

sanity well it's no joke to lose a

husband like that especially one you

like it's all of the old newspaper files

and Baton Rouge perhaps you'd like to

check on in the morning oh why wait to

morning won't I be able to check it out

tonight with old Captain Jeremy himself

or uh or do you think maybe he's going

to take the night off you know after all

he's been through maybe he's going to be

a bit guny Duncan I have had enough of

your smirky superiority and Bad Manners

you can believe what you like this place

is all

yours and everything it

contains let's go

Rachel and uh you'd uh better lock this

uh keeps out the

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draft

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all back so

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soon well make yourselves at home dear

cousins we have a long night ahead of

us

now what would Brave Captain Jeremy have

done

huh oh yeah started down the stairs to

inv

investigate well not me I I've had a

long trip I'm going to get some sleep

I'm

sorry you hear

me Len why don't you just uh give it up

and forget it I'm I'm going to be here

for the

night oh come on knock it off that sort

of thing went I with bustles and buggy

whips oh the old creaking stare it's uh

truly A Creative

Touch uh don't you have a squeaking door

surely you must have a good old

squeaking door around the

place thank you you never disappo

me all right if you have nothing further

to offer me I'm about to get me some

sleep I'm sorry I can't say the same for

you

first one little more night

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cap sure you won't join

me

no

P oh we have the rapping noises the

wrapping sounds all f fine fine have

your fun I want the whole familiar

routine I want rapping sounds sudden

gust of wind musty odors you haven't

forgotten the musty odors have

you

hey you did you did put something in

that drink didn't

you I won't do you any

good barbituates have no effect on

me no effect at

all

there there you see I'm

better I told you it wouldn't work even

novocaine doesn't do the job on

me L I let

it it is

simply a matter of

willpower now either you let it or you

don't let

it

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sir

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I know

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you oh that was a cheap trick you could

at least let me get my cigarette

lit oh

head where the devil you put in the

drink

h i warn

you too many people know where I

am too many

people anything happens to me you'll be

the

first you'll be the

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first

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Lord

oh what a

h all right I came out of it just in

time all right

you you didn't have to pick the luck you

know I would have let you in why didn't

you knock

huh

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all right you hear

me I'm all right again I'm on my feet

and I've got the

gun all right that's

enough that's

enough you hear

me all right I know you're

there but I want to tell tell you I have

stopped thinking this is funny I'm not

very

amused

Oliver all right

Rachel all right whatever you are a

Jeremy Caroline all right look at this

gun you see

it

yeah you can see

it and don't you think I won't use

it Oliver Jeremy uh Rachel Caroline I'm

going to shoot the first thing that

moves animal vegetable mineral or what

have

you all

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right

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all

right that does it from now on I take no

responsibility for what

happens

all right I hear

you I hear you over

there H

look hey I don't want to shoot you but

you you're pushing us too

far ah I see you now I see you look

don't make me do

it

all right come on get

it oh give me credit I figured you right

didn't I Oliver but it is uh cousin

Oliver isn't it well of course course it

has to be I mean Rachel wouldn't be

caught dead in that night count what is

that that a knife in your

chest

huh that's very clever that's very

clever idea for a tie pin I might

merchandise

that all right Oliver let's just knock

it off the party is over I'm not going

to scare all right let's just take off

the mask and and we'll have our little

laugh all right that's close enough

Oliver I mean it stay

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back Rachel call him off listen if

you're here I listen use your head I'm

not afraid of your comic Opera ghost but

I am afraid I'm going to have to kill it

I'll kill

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him all right

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I

Oliver

Jeremy no I stop it I mean what I say

look if you think I'm going to let you

put those hands on me you just all right

what are anyway what you got there some

kind of glove oh stop it please stop

it all right stop

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it

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ah

Rachel Rachel come come here

quick he's

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dead his cigarettes I'll bet you forgot

his cigarettes I did not I put them in

his pocket he never give me credit for

anything there's one thing I'll give you

credit for the whole idea such an

obvious childish transparent stunt well

even Duncan saw straight through it

before it even got off the ground oh yes

well if he was so smart why did he have

a heart attack why didn't you tell us

you had a weak heart he didn't know

don't talk to him like that need the

creep no don't put him in the luggage I

want him in the front seat if you think

I'm going to sit in the front seat with

him sitting between us it's not

necessary for you to come along at all

you know if you think I intend to stay

in that house alone after what's

happened would you stop this debate I'm

holding the heavy

end

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might as well get out no need to get

your feet

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wet and please be careful I don't want

anything to happen to my car now that's

the quality I fell in love with

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tenderness

you forgot to turn off the

lights my dear girl if a man has a heart

attack while driving to Baton Rouge and

runs off the road in a dead condition

he'd hardly consider turning off the

lights just to keep your battery from

running

down hurry it up can't you I'm getting a

chill well I'll be getting double

pneumonia if I don't get my feet Dr

Oliver

what do we have to go back to that house

tonight certainly that's the whole idea

now we picked Duncan up at the station

drove him out to Black Rock he took a

look around decided he wanted to stay at

the hotel we were tired gave him the car

and we stayed

on I dare say we are committed to that

story now right it wouldn't do for us to

be anywhere close to him when it

happened it might arouse

suspicion suspicion

no but you yourself said that that we

haven't committed any crime yes but we

profit by what's

happened if anybody would think that

perhaps we might have deliberately

scared him to death don't say such a

thing don't even suggest it I'm sorry

darling I realize how delicate you are

now come on if we go this way we'll be

home in 10

minutes

oh Oliver

what I'd give up the whole thing right

now the property The Profit all of it if

only I didn't have to spend another

night in that house what after sticking

with Everett all these years I mean it

Oliver I'm afraid to go back there

darling you are so wonderfully

impractical next thing you know you'll

be believing it's haunted

too it

is

now come on before someone finds us

here

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now will you stop all this

nonsense we know this house inside out

there any ghosts knocking about I'm sure

we' have stirred one up before tonight

before tonight we never did anything to

stir one up well that's a fine

enlightened statement Oliver what H

please

I I know I'm being foolish and female

but please humor

me we've always felt the same about

things

before don't you feel

something something different tonight of

course I do we've been through a

harrowing

experience it went far beyond anything

we intended but it's over and it's

finished and that's the end of it

no no

I I never gave any more Credence to that

story about Jeremy Ransom and and what's

her name Carolyn any more than you

did not until

tonight but when I was waiting

downstairs watching Duncan

and you in that silly

outfit I swear I was almost as

frightened as he was I always knew that

I should have been on the stage no

Oliver no it wasn't

you or

him as if somebody else was in that

room some other

presence didn't you feel it at all of

course scared stiff but not of the

bullets I knew IID switched them to

Blanks after he passed out what I was

really afraid of was that he'd figure

that out and come after me with a

fireplace poker or

something then you didn't feel

it as if Jeremy Ransom and Caroline were

in that

room backing you up egging you on the

man had a stroke a heart attack there's

no way in the world that we can be

blamed for this there no signs of

violence in the body no stab wounds no

bullet wounds you sound so

coldblooded well you're making my blood

cold with this infernal Oliver

please please let's not

quarrel not

tonight not tonight of all

nights I'm sorry

we're all on

edge everything will look different in

daylight

yes I guess there isn't anything to do

now but but

wait wait for the

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daylight

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Oliver Oliver wake up what what huh wake

up oh Rachel what

now

L there's somebody

downstairs where some

thing oh you be a fool

Rachel what are you going to do I'm

going downstairs to find out who's

sulking

about don't you know what do you

mean it's Jeremy oh snap out of it

rich

Oliver please don't leave me alone here

please no no

Oliver now you hold on to this and

remember they're not blanks this

time

Oliver Oliver please don't go down there

please please don't

out who's

there what do you

want who are you

now I know there's someone in

here if you'll just tell me what you

want perhaps I can arrange for you to

have

it I mean

there's there's no need for any mystery

about

this I'm uh well I'm perfectly willing

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to

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Oliver

Oliver Oliver is that you

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oh

Oliver it is

you it is you isn't it I I I couldn't

see

you

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I

Oliver

Oliver Oliver say

something I can't see you I can't see

you

Oliver

oh

Oliver

Oliver Oliver

Oliver Oliver Oliver are you all right

are you all

right yes

yes I'm all right oh thank oh thank you

I got you killed

you he didn't even touch

me I had to shoot him

Oliver I had to he's dead I killed him I

killed

him Jon that you Mr

Json ma'am are you all

right

where did you come from well we heard

the

shots how did you get here so soon you

found your wagon ma'am down by the bio

with some stranger in fell said his name

was Ransom Jeremy Ransom was out of his

head said someone was trying to kill him

and his wife so he run off and we're

looking for him he come this

way no no no no no he he's not here

no we just swore them shots come

upstairs there you were

mistaken maybe so but I think we better

have a look to see just a say no no no

there's nothing to see up there there's

nobody there's nothing to see it's no

use

Rachel he's here and they'll find

him nobody will ever believe that it was

all all a

mistake a mistake yes yes you you see we

thought he was a Prowler a trespasser

you see his name isn't Ransom he's our

cousin cousin our cousin Duncan but you

see now hold on man I think you made a

mighty big mistake man I mean if ever

left him the house like you meant to I

don't see how you could take him for a

trespasser I mean it wasn't your house

now

wasn't

no no it wasn't

but it is

now all of

it this

house everything in

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it it's

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ours

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