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Men Inner Sanctum Mysteries ask you to shave with Pommelie Brushless and Pommelie Wilder Shaving Cream. Either pomade brushless or pomade blather shaving cream gives you the cleanest most comfortable shave you ever had free from razor burn or mail the carton top to us and we'll refund your money Have you a little gypsy in your home one with a gold ring in his ear in a magic violin in his hand Well, if he's anything like a fellow named on wreak, don't let him play an encore of the melody of death Like a spider web floating in mid-air Death hangs over the room where Anne is talking to her beloved David Gastly white she summons the last ounce of ebbing strength to speak to him Great. Just hold me your arms. In a few minutes, it's all the David. What's that on your hand? Blood. How did you get? Oh, yes, I remember now. The cat. The cat with the yellow eye. It was the music that started the whole thing, wasn't it? I remember now that even in Lubeau's taffani I'll reach the gypsy violinist came over to our table Señorita's very happy this evening, no? You don't need your gypsy magic to tell you that, do you, Anne-Rita? Maybe, Señorita's going to be married, no? You got it? Play for us, Anne-Rita. You know that you and I like so much. Lot of infelicities? Yes, that's the one. Oh, I'm sorry, Señorita. I cannot play that melody for you. Not this evening. Why not? You will say it is foolish gypsy superstition to have, but in my tribe it is believed that for a girl newly betrothed to hear this music is bad luck. Very bad. What kind of bad luck? Because if she hears this music at such a time, she will never stop hearing it. It will haunt her from that time forward and her heart will follow the music and she will do what the music tells her to do, even kill her lover if the music tells her to. Well, I'll take a chance on that, Anne-Rita. Very well, then. I will play, but I never say Anne-Rita did not warn you. What is it? That cat watching from the doorway. Look at its eyes. Yellow eyes. Darling, you're so strange this evening. Something wrong? Something terribly wrong, David. The music and that cat watching from the doorway like, like death. Hey! Take me out of here quickly, David. I'm afraid. Well, of course, darling. I'm sorry, David. I couldn't help myself. I felt I had to get out of there. You'd what, darling? And what happened to you? Why do you look at me so strangely? I don't know. I keep thinking of what Ulrich said about that melody. There was bad luck for me. I would never stop hearing it. It would haunt me and I would do its bidding. Even kill. And stop it. Get hold of yourself. I'm tired, I guess. You'd better take me. I was walked away from the cafe that evening. I was like a person in a hypnotic trance. I kept hearing that melody in my head. You do? No. No, I won't listen to it. Even kill your lover if the music kills you. No. I love David. He'll help me to forget. No one can help you now and the yellow eyes. Like this. I fought it with all my strength, but it was no use. The music called me irresistibly back to that dingy little cafe. To Ulrich. And to the cat with the yellow eyes. The cat that belonged to Lugos, a man I'd never seen. He has something. I knew you would. It was the music, Ulrich. The music told you to come. How did you know? You did not tell you it would be so. The other night, when you told the legend about that melody, something happened inside my head. And when you played it, it sounded so strange to me. And after that... You hear it all the time. Yes. I thought if I could hear the melody played again, maybe it would lift the spell. I'd do anything, anything to stop this thing that's torturing me. What do you know about torture? You hear music in your head. What do you know what it means to hate him and to your stomach turns inside out from hatred? And to work for that man and having watched you every minute and when he's not here, that cat of his, that devil of a black cat watching me with those yellow eyes. Why do you hate Lugos so much? Why do you hear music in your head? Who can tell about these things? There are devils in both of us. I will help you kill your devil. If you will help me kill Lugos. You're mad. You don't know what you're saying. He lives in Lundau's. The address is 117 Green Street. Take the cat with you and tell the druggist you want chloroform to get rid of the cat. Where are they? The janitor will let you in. Stop it! Stop it! I won't listen any more of this. The music will tell you when it is done. Remember. Remember. No, no. I won't listen to it. I won't. I won't. Well, you are least able to wait hours. You can't help yourself. And you will do what the music tells you to do. Won't you? No. No, I won't. What is the music telling you to do? To kill Lugos. And you will do it. What can I do for you? A bottle of chloroform, please. No, that's a handsome catch. You've got there, Miss. The shame you're putting him out of the way. It has to be done. He has a stomach infection, quite incurable. Well, those things will happen. Here you are, Miss. That will be 38 cents plus tax. Put the chloroform. Are you alone now? Yes, because. Over there. I'm looking for Senior Lugos. I've brought his cat home. I live next door to the cafe and... All right, all right. He's the first door at the top of the landing. Don't make no more noise on the stairs than you can help. Oh, come on and help her. I'll be close by swinging on my squeaky door. You know, I just love to swing on their door. It makes such a nice sound. Listen. Why do I like the sound? Because it reminds me of painful scratchy razor burn. Man, when you talk to your face with razor burn, don't just blame your razor blade. 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Yes, I was a murderer. I had plunged a knife into a man's throat and stood there watching while he died in agony. Then went calmly home. You were waiting outside my door, David. And where have you been? Um... But, Anne, the dress in your glove. Well, David, it looks like... It looks like bloody. It is bloody. But I don't... Where did it come from? You mean you don't know? Oh, maybe it was on the seat of the taxi. Maybe somebody cut themselves in there before I... Maybe the driver had carried an accident case to the hospital. But why should you follow me into my flat in the middle of the night and cross-question me like this? What right have you... Maybe you forgot that this was our wedding day. I waited at City Hall until I was thrown out. Oh, wedding day. Oh, David. What happened, Anne? Well, I... I don't remember exactly. Don't remember? No, that tune has been running through my head. This morning it got suddenly worse. I was desperate about it. I thought maybe if I went back to our reek and heard it played again I might be able to get it out of my mind. Well, what happened? Yes? What is it, Anne? Music. That's melody. Don't you hear it? I don't hear anything. Rubos was murdered a little while ago. A woman wearing a navy blue suit and white gloves went up to his room on the pretext of taking his cap to it. He tried to chlorophen him and failing that she stabbed him in the throat with his own knife. No, no, I couldn't have done a thing like that, David. There it is again. Can't you hear it? Anne, there's nothing to hear. It's just in your mind. I don't know what happened tonight and I don't want to know. But one thing is certain, this man has you under a hypnotic spell. We've got to fight this thing somehow. This music you hear... Be quiet, David. It's time to tell me something. You make you remember that you killed Lubos. You'd better kill him later. Oh, no. Not even for the music. Not even the music can make me do that. Anne, what are you saying, Anne? Oh, it's all right. It's gone away now. It was trying to get me to kill you, David. Oh, Anne, darling, what has he done to you? David, it's the music. Then why did you say, I'll reek just now when you were talking to the music? I don't know. It's the music that talks, but it's always I'll reek's voice and... It's always voice tell you to kill, Lubos. Yes. I remember now, David. Yes, even buying the chloroform. But I don't feel guilty. You aren't guilty. Now, look, do as I tell you, Anne. Take off these clothes and burn them. I'm going to lock you in here. You hear the music again, fight it. Fight it with all your strength. I'll be back here in an hour. When you see me come in that door, you'll know that that music of yours has been silenced forever. Where are you going? To kill or reek. So you have come to kill me because I put hypnotic spares on your beloved. Excuse me, what a joke, senior. No joke, Henri. A man was murdered a while ago by you. I thought it was proven that Lubos was murdered by a woman. Besides, I was playing my violin in the café at the time of the murder. While Anne, under your hypnotic spell, was doing your dirty work. Nonsense. He was stepping the throat with a knife belonging to the woman with whom he had quarrelled. Do not worry, my friend. I've... I've composed a new melody for you to hear it, senior. Go ahead, Henri. I'm listening. You must look at me while I play. Look at my eyes. It makes me play better. Well, what's the idea? What do you want me to do? Kill her. Kill yourself. Kill your fiancee. Stop it! So... I am... under the spell of your music. All right. I'll show some music out of your soul. Help me, I will... You... You are making... a beautiful... mistake. Where is your... your music now, Henri? And now that Henri is dead, we can go back to what we were before. We can be married. That's what you're trying to say to me, isn't it, David? Why not, Anne? Why not? Because... when you opened the door and came back into this room a few moments ago, music was still playing. Not playing now, is it, Anne? No. Not now. Oh, David, take me in your arms, darling. Tell me it's all right. Tell me it's all right. Tell me again, so I'll really believe you. It was just a bad dream, wasn't it, David? They never really existed, did they? Henri can no longer send a cat with the yellow eyes. Of course not, darling. Of course it was just a dream. David! All right, darling. I hear you were the black cat. You followed me home. You see, it's really quite friendly. Go ahead, darling. All right, David. All right, David. You see, it's just an ordinary cat. Yes. Yes, of course. Take the letter opener, Anne. The letter opener of the day. Go and give it. Yes, of course. Anne, you're not hearing it again, are you? Anne, is that the music again? I know, David. It's just that I've been crying so much. I think I'd better fix my makeup. Be a darling and bring my tricks with you. It's in the bedroom in the top drawer of the bureau. Sure. I'll be back in a second. Now, take the letter opener and follow him. That's it. Here you come. You're rummaging in the bureau drawer. That poor fool. Put that knife away! No, David. It's no use. I can't find it any longer. Anne, don't ask! Oh, David! Anne, darling, speak to me. I didn't mean to do it. I tried to grab your arm. That's all the point of the letter opener turned into this. It is so hard to say. I'll give it up. No, David. Please don't leave me. It's better this way. If I lived, I'd have to kill you. The music would make you do it. There might be others as hesitate as it is. It's better this way. Oh, Anne. Anne. With the music, David. The music. A melody more beautiful than life itself. Listen to it. Melody of death. Speaking of melodies, I want that little number for our concert we're giving to David and I thank him. As a matter of fact, I want our rig to fiddle around. 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