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I was a child mother let me use knives and forks with bone handles and I still use them I'm certainly glad that the papers didn't find out about that or about grace they almost found out about great grace once and printed large headlines police question wealthy woman you probably don't remember it because they never did learn why she was questioned that was some time ago grace had just returned from shopping Emily I'm home in here grace did you bring my book yes here you are I brought another one I thought you'd like I'm tired sit down we'll have Anna bring some tea let's have a look at your loot what do you mean by that by the things you bought of course I guess I'm so tired I'm jumpy come there's two gentlemen to see you mom oh bring some hot tea please Anna do you like something to eat grace not till dinner just tea then Anna and show the gentleman in yes mom why don't we let her go and get someone who doesn't answer yes mom to everything we know we couldn't replace Anna she knows is too well why do you say that you are jumpy only meant that she knows our likes and dislikes and humors I suppose you're right but I don't like the way she watches oh that's just Anna's way she doesn't mean anything by miss Haven yes I am Henry Lane I'm assistant store manager at Bradlocks oh yes Mr. Lane one of our store detectives observed your sisters are unusual actions today and reported them to Sergeant Cole oh pardon me this is Sergeant Cole how do you do I didn't want to turn it until I talked to Lane here yes yes Sergeant Cole wisely came to me and we are here to rectify the error I'm afraid I don't follow you Mr. Lane I'm sure there's a satisfactory explanation to your sister's behavior we'll get to the point what he's trying to say is that I took some things from the store without paying for them grace that's what was reported to me you admit that you took these things I just admitted it why grace impulse I guess but you have plenty of money I know I think that's what starts the impulse you mean you've had the impulse before that an official or a social question don't be flippin I'm not the whole thing is a force I've always gotten everything we want by signing a check and we'll continue to do so you think if I were anyone else we'd be sitting here like this Miss Haven no I'd be sitting in jail waiting to be questioned I must have lost I've taken things before and probably will again mostly I don't even want the things the thrill of taking them you've said enough grace are you going to arrest me now sergeant arrest you why grace grace will you see if Anna's made tea and bring two extra cups and a checkbook grace I'm sorry this comes as a shock to me it's anything I ever believe me I regret having to trouble you like this you've been very considerate I I'm sure we can rectify the entire matter if you'd care to estimate the amount sounds like a bribe no not at all let us say retribution I don't know I feel that it's only right that you should receive something for your time and regard sergeant I don't know lady I I don't want to press charges and in the future Mr Lane if you will assign someone to watch my sister when she's shopping in your store you may send the bill for the unpaid items to me yes there may be a slight fee oh yes yes I understand now if you'll hand me my pen and checkbook oh thank you there you are I think I hear Anna coming with the tea with a dreary tea there were little frosted cakes sergeant cold rock crumbs all over the rug and Mr Lane said between noisy sips grace seem to enjoy it though she sat and watched one and then the other she has an unusual sense of humor that was the way Mr Lane started coming to our house I don't know how it happened but eventually we were calling him Henry he was pleasant enough and I think we might have been friends if he hadn't learned about me too entirely by accident he'd been bringing up presents from the store and although I suspected that he'd gotten them in the same manner that Grace did it was a nice thoughtful thing to do one night when he came he was feeling playful how are the two lovely ladies tonight oh very well thank you Henry isn't he gallant tonight it isn't difficult to be a gallant with you now put your heels together and kiss our head oh great what is he would I brought for you yes uncle Henry uncle oh you have such a charming way of jesting yes we do have our little jokes don't tease Henry show us what you brought you should be surprised first how nice and I will put it on you now turn around with your back to me no don't look there a necklace a silver necklace just what I want very attractive on you Grace thank you Henry and now for Emily oh don't ask me to turn my back no no no just hold out your hand close your eyes and hold out your hand that seems so childish Henry play the game oh very well are you ready there is the matter it's only a silver it's a metal I can't stand the feeling of metal sounds silly it may be silly but I do think my phobia saved my life as you know we have a large amount of silver in the house and although I have an aversion to touching it I like to see it around Grace is always bringing home some peace reminds me I wonder if she no matter why do you excuse me a moment I I think I'll just have to lie down for a moment yes for suspense Roma wines are bringing you evil a galleon in phobia Roma wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense presented by Roma R. 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calculated to keep you in suspense oh yes where was I oh well one night Grace was out for the evening and Anna had gone to bed I was sitting here in my chair reading suddenly I thought I heard someone moving in the hall I called out but no one answered so I thought it was my imagination and then I heard it again I sat very still listening and watching the whole door as I watched the nods began to turn someone was slowly pulling the door open Anna Grace Anna is that you answer me well for you why do you have your face covered I will not keep quiet what you have in that case I said keep quiet silver that's our silver I want no trouble you you put that silver back or you'll have trouble I'll film the police I'll call for help this says you won't don't point that gun at me you can't scare me with that I haven't long to live anywhere you ain't gonna have long to live you don't stop that gap okay where you are do you hear me stay away look here sister I ain't kidding now you look here you ought to be ashamed the great big man with a gun robbing a helpless lady in a wheelchair I want to decide that you're very rude take your hat off in the house hey what is this if you want to come into my house you learn some manners and then knock on the door now set that silver down leave the room looks like I'm gonna have to tie something over your face don't you touch me don't touch it was man what did he do the gun the metal he touched my neck he excited and called the police heaven knows why the man was gone and he had left the silver I put her in a place by having her wash all the silverware and put it away Sergeant Cole was furious when he came it seems that he wanted to check for fingerprints it was mollified however when he found fingerprints on the silver cabinet I hadn't thought of that so Anna had to wash that too Sergeant Cole came back to tell us that the fingerprints belong to a man by the name of Mr. Scorchy Hood he was wanted by the police because he'd escaped from some penitentiary and was what Sergeant Cole called a killer Mr. Hood was called Scorchy because he always shot people from close range and usually in the next Sergeant Cole thought it was very amusing when I said if he was going to kill me he would have to stand back I wouldn't have him touch me with a gun did you read those uncouth headlines in the papers wealthy woman match for murderer Haven defeats hood they made me sound like a pugilist the papers are so unkind to people's money one morning Anna came into the room without knocking so I said Anna I didn't bring I've got to talk to you mom very well Anna what is it it's about my brooch the one my mother gave me what about your bro it's gone mom you mean you lost it no I didn't lose it it was in my room and now it's gone well you probably misleaded no no I didn't mom I always keep it pinned to my Sunday dress and it's not there I don't see how I can help you I thought maybe you'd like to replace it oh what kind of pin was it it was a cameo but this time I thought I'd I'd like to have one with some diamonds and little pearls I don't understand I've been cleaning this Grace's room and she's got a lot of strange stuff there that nobody knows how she come by she's even got a gun you've been snooping and I'm just cleaning mom I did kind of look for my brooch I see do you want your pen miss Emily oh yes Anna hand me my pen thank you there you are you think that will replace the brooch oh yes thank you mom well today in the middle of the month yes I mean no just a little token miss great token of what let's call it pin money that will be all Anna thank you mom now mom you tell me what this is all about it's nothing Grace really when you sign a check it can't be classified as nothing it was a pin for Anna that isn't very funny Emily pin money for a pin what about a pin she lost it lost it I see now let's not talk about it anymore Grace but I want to talk about it for dear anyone can get money from you can't please I may have my impulse I've never taken anything from the servants yet Grace where are you going what are you going to do deliver you just purchase the pins and I'm going to find it and where Grace is so impulsive she's always been good to me she brings me nice surprises sometimes I get a bill for them and when I don't I enjoy them even more Grace is really very silly as minded and she worries about trifles like leaving me alone with Henry Henry never was dull always full of new ideas I've never told her that he proposed to me came in the complete surprise we were sitting before the fire Emily I need more money I gave you a check last week Henry for your relief funds isn't very clear in my mind what relief fund that was for let us matter now the point is that I need a great deal more money what is it for this time for me Emily oh Henry you disappoint me so much more fun when you try to fool me I'm tired of that I think I'd like to marry into the family that's out of the question I'm sure Grace would never consider it Grace well good heavens you you don't mean oh yes you Emily now why would you want to marry a woman in a wheelchair you just gave the reason you haven't long to live there will be after you're gone as your husband I didn't have it I think you'd better go Henry go until I've had my answer what kind of proposal is that will you and your money marry me oh no you have to do better than that perhaps I can Henry what are you doing with that candle stick I'm going to persuade you oh you can beat me to death I won't change my mind you misunderstand me I'm not going to beat you I'm going to caress you with it Henry you want your arms your throat your back no listen to me let's talk I don't want to talk I want to correct I will put the candle stick down hey well I don't like to excite you like this it isn't good for you how how soon do you want to be married Henry immediately how about tomorrow so soon when you make up your mind to do something why wait suppose you're right oh I would like some tea Henry would you can I ring for Anna well she's asleep by now why don't you get it yes leave it to me just leave everything to me I was annoyed at Henry for his crassness it was very tiresome of me so cruel I wheeled my chair about the room I have a habit of doing that when I'm disturbed presently I heard Henry returning with the tea door opened a little there was that deafening explosion of a gun the house was filled with echoes the doors stood motionless for a moment then slammed shut I was too stunned to move I just sat looked at the door I tried once to open it but it wouldn't budge I was still sitting there when the police came wasn't Sergeant Cole was a new man called Inspector Wells I think it was a man with him but I'm a little confused about that night Henry had been shot was lying against the door that was why the door wouldn't open the gun was on the floor beside him the inspector asked a lot of questions and everyone talked at once I'll tell you like I told him after the shot I don't remember hearing footsteps or the door outside close it may have happened but I was too excited to remember Anna tried to make the inspector believe that Grace had killed Henry she told him about the gun and I have spells of being difficult I think it's because of the pin she doesn't like Grace to wear it they took Henry away and we went to bed the hall was a mess we had to have the carpet clean and there are still some tea chains on the wall the next morning I made a discovery that I thought would interest the inspector so I phoned him he came right out morning Miss Avan come in inspector you say you found a brooch in the hall yes this one under a chair inspector you know who belongs to our made Anna kind of fancy for a maid isn't it diamonds and small pearls Emily bought it for her that's quite a gift we like to keep our help satisfied I'd like to talk to her I'll call her who killed Henry inspector don't know yet we're having the gun check fingerprints that all the police do check fingerprints you ring mom yes and I come in inspector wants to ask you some questions yes mom did you see a Henry Lane last night you mean while he was alive yes did you see him before he was shot only for a minute when was that I heard a noise in the kitchen and I looked in to see who it was that was when he went for the tea trust Anna to look in did you speak to him maybe a few words did you like mr. Lane like him I did not he was no gentleman why do you say that and he used to say unkind things to me is this your pin why yes where'd you get it was found under a chair in the hall it couldn't have been I didn't have it you mean you weren't wearing it when you shot him shot him oh my goodness you don't think I shot him right now we suspect everyone I didn't kill him honest I didn't oh please tell him I didn't mom you tell him oh inspectors just occurred to me I've made a horrible mistake I remember now that I saw Anna wearing that pin when she served breakfast this morning so she couldn't have dropped it last night oh thank you mom thank you I don't think the inspector was convinced when he left he didn't say he wasn't he looked unconvinced was kind of a fib but it was worth it Anna has been an angel ever since she cleans Grace's room and never sees a thing she even returned some things that Grace didn't know were missing I gave Anna the pin and she put it back on her Sunday dress the inspector phoned around noon he was very excited he said the blurred fingerprints on the gun belonged to Mr. Scorchy Hood and that we should be very careful and he hadn't been caught and he was dangerous I asked him how we should go about being careful he said to lock the door the windows and they would send a man to watch the house I didn't think we needed to worry for somehow I couldn't believe Mr. Scorchy Hood wanted to hear me scream again but about 10 o'clock Grace and I were sitting here discussing Humphrey Bogart when the whole hall door opened I've no intention of moving what do you want shut up sister don't call me sister my name is Emily and this is my sister Grace how do you do this ain't no social call I'm glad to see you've uncovered your face I don't know why you should cover it it really isn't an unpleasant face at all I won't do you no good did you come to kill us you'll guess that sister Grace Grace hey what are you doing to me trying to confuse me why should you want to kill us Mr. Hood because you made people laugh the papers made fun of me I can't stand that it seems to me you brought it on yourself you came uninvited in the first place what kind of talk is that sure I didn't I come the same way this time if you're going to kill me you'll have to stand away from me you see I have a phobia a what a phobia it's something I can't help why don't you stand over there why on account of my phobia it'd be better if you stood there no no a little farther now yes I think that's better oh Grace sir will you straighten the rug never mind it worked I guess he's unconscious I'll call the man across the street oh Grace look what you've done when he hit his head on the table he spilled the flowers now that water will make white spots on the varnish that's the way it happened you know the rest how Mr. Hood was wanted for several murders so they executed him I'm rather sorry it's all over seems dull around here now and I did so want to enjoy my last days the doctor says I've only six months at the most I haven't told Grace my time is so short it would cause her to fret Grace worries so that's why I didn't tell her that I took the gun and shot Henry as he opened the door and then tossed the gun into the hall before he slumped against the door and pushed it shut I hadn't even told her that Mr. Scorchy Hood dropped his gun that time when I screamed you see I didn't handle the gun with my shawl to save his fingerprints it's just that I I can't stand the fear of metal I've been so kind everybody here I mean in the prison hospital oh you must excuse me I I'm so drowsy I they've let me have my own bed even from home I couldn't lie on the prison cot they have you know with the metal and all Suspense tonight Roma wines have brought you miss evil a galleon in phobia a suspense play written by Joel Hunt next thursday same time you will hear Mr. Alan Baxter as star of suspense produced for Shanley by William Spear in the coming weeks suspense will present such stars as Alan Baxter glorious onesome and others make it a point to listen each thursday to suspense radio's outstanding theater of thrills wherever discriminating people dying you'll find yes famous Cresta Blanca wines are served on America's finest ships trains and planes in its most distinguished hotels restaurants and homes make your dining and entertaining outstanding with a famous Cresta Blanca California sherry or port now most attractively price the preceding program was transcribed this is cbs the columbia broadcasting system