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housekeeper who has been patsy's governess and who had found happiness in serving her with years of devotion none of them really knew the others all of them were a little blind that is until it happened it started the night patsy was helping Lorna with her hair that's finished Froy line can help you with the rest now what Gregory he's waiting in the living room do keep him company like a good girl patsy really long it's a bit tiresome playing substitute besides he doesn't want to see me of course he does be an angel and try to keep him consoled till I get dressed Greg playing the phonograph Sally Sarah made lovely isn't it is it Greg once said it was a musical description of me can you imagine he can say that nice things look patsy I'm not nearly ready to run down and pay the poor man a little attention like a good girl you're pretty sure of yourself you're about what patsy don't get up Greg Lorna still dressing in the meantime I'm supposed to entertain you always have thanks you're leaving for New York yeah in a few days mother wants me to handle some of her affairs I'll be back after a while of course we expect to be married and mother's home you know after that the honeymoon some place in the north woods some place where we can be together far away from everybody what a picture how beautifully sentimental do you know my dear you're beginning to tire me dreadful suspected that before what's the matter with us patsy we used to get along together so well lately we we don't seem to understand each other at all shall we talk about something else no something's come between us ever since I became engaged to law that has nothing to do of course not but what is it pats what's going on anything nothing I tell you I I haven't stopped that thing take that sick thing record off well sure sure pats I always thought you like I want you to do something for me sure anything I want you to go back to New York but I am pats I'm leaving toward the end of the month I mean now today today yes well what's the matter patsy don't you even like me anymore like you why are you full I love you my first day we met haven't you seen it incredible you can't mean I never met anything more in my life I know I'm shameless Greg but I can't help it Craig what about Lorna Lorna will never make you happy never she's good and sweet and kind but goodness and sweetness can be tiresome yes and kindness too I know Lorna Greg and I know you in a year you'd go to hate please pats please you mustn't say these things but it's true I've got to say these things don't you see my darling I'm I'm thinking of your happiness yes and Lorna's too and you and of mine I have the right to think of mine haven't I Greg we needn't hurt Lorna too much you'd go away go back to New York and after a while of six months I'd come to you and Lorna she would have forgiven me when she saw we were happy what else could she do patsy I'm trying hard to believe that you can't mean all this but I do I do I love you Greg I love you so much that you must know it feel it then I'm sorry for you I can't tell you how sorry it's Lorna there can't be anyone else then never will but you don't love her you can't love her you love me you do I know you do oh Greg my darling do you think for a minute I'd give up Lorna for you great she doesn't deserve this kind of deal from your patsy she's taking you into our home for years she's cared for you like a sister oh it's cheap don't please put your arms around me Greg I'm right I know I'm right yes so now listen patsy you listen to me yes this is important remember it yes you'll never marry Lorna do you understand no if I can't have you she'll not have you will you please tell your cousin I'm waiting for remember that Gregory conundrums we've all played the old game in which someone describes a thing and you guess what it is for example someone says it's round it's black and it has big yellow letters on it spelling something that helps your car go farther well of course you whistler fans know that signals yellow and black circle sign which identifies the friendly signal gasoline dealers who bring you this program and friends in today's game of trying to make ration gasoline go farther remembering that signal sign is your surest way to win most miles per gas stamp you see in keeping with its 14-year tradition of quality signal oil company is still bringing you the very finest gasoline that can be marketed under wartime conditions and the famous signal formula still places the emphasis on mileage so to stretch those gas stamps cry signal in your car prove for yourself that it's not just a slogan it's a fact you do go farther with signal gasoline and now back to the whistler it would be difficult that he would reject your love did you you were sure that he would fall just as all the other men in your life had fallen but that's the way things go patsy the one you really want is always the one who doesn't respond and now as you lie in your lonely room your thoughts aren't very pleasant are they you are sleeping miss Patricia no for a line come in if you wish I've come to see what it is that's making my little girl unhappy there is something isn't there yes unhappy why do you think that for a line for a line can always tell what is it my baby nothing you're imagining things so you are so much like your mother one minute laughing at gay her eyes shining the next poof when she becomes sad was she really very pretty pretty and clever sometimes unhappy like you often she thought your papa didn't love her she only knew really knew when it was almost too late when she was dying yes then your papa almost went crazy he hadn't paid attention to her headache he thought she was pretending them to get sympathy but later on when she became blind poor mother brain tumor must be a horrible thing she didn't suffer too greatly headaches yes and her eyes became so big so staring the pupil so dilated father he went all two pieces cry just like a little boy your mama died happy for torturing she knew how much he really loved her he really did love it till the day he died I've upset you talking about your mama no for a line I'm glad I'm glad you told me what's in your mind now Patsy why do you leave your bed go to the dressing table and stare deeply searchingly into its mirror your eyes slowly widen and you shudder a little bit after a while you return to your bed in your eyes hold a curious furtive expression as though Patsy you were hiding a guilty secret and in the days that follow I've kept you waiting haven't I Greg I'm sorry really forget it anything the matter nothing serious I've been upstairs comforting Patsy Patsy poor girl she's having such a headache I know Greg that's why I called you I counted on seeing you too but Patsy has a splitting headache we'll make it tomorrow shall we Patsy again Greg I'm sorry I'll call you later with Patsy Greg I'm sure of it these pains these spells of dizziness they worry me I can see that but don't you think you're inclined to exaggerate her condition after all everybody has headaches you know I know but not like Patsy's they're doing something terrible to her she looks badly Greg her eyes seem so strange I I don't like it this is something new then her eyes yes but her headaches well she told me she's been having them for weeks she said nothing because she didn't want to worry me I see these attacks when she has one she's practically helpless so dependent on me Greg yes and always at a time when I want to take it a dinner out of the theater that's not fair Greg perhaps not but are you being fair with me I don't understand I'm leaving for New York in a day or two but that seems to make very little difference to you that's not true let's not quarrel Greg I'm not quarrelling all this nonsense is getting too much for me if anything was seriously wrong with a girl don't think there is not as bad as she pretends frankly I think she's putting on an act of some kind what's that come to me what is it boy line what's miss Patsy she can't see oh my lord no she's blind to blind to agree you're ashamed and remorseful aren't you you'd give anything to recall yesterday's words spoken so bitterly to Lorna those scornful phrases doubting the sincerity of Patsy's illness you thought Patsy's headaches were a game the sort of willful woman might play for sympathy or attention didn't you Gregory now as you look down at her white face and into her tragic unseeing eyes a deep wave of sympathy comes over you you feel helpless in the shocking tragedy before you don't you Gregory there's no fever Greg at least that's one thing to be thankful for she slept a little last night didn't you dear toward morning I did pain seemed to go away then do I look terrible great terrible oh no you could never look that bad a little pale perhaps your eyes here they paint you they seem so big the pupil so dilated tell me what did the doctor say she won't have a doctor for a line and I are almost crazy I won't have one I won't he'll operate I know it will please learn I but we must find out what this condition is to be reasonable dear is there anyone in town a good eye doctor would know about this kind of thing no there isn't there's no one now Patsy there is one and you know it is considered very fine I won't have him his old and see Greg what do you want us to do Patsy I don't know we must do something yes the best eye doctor specialists aren't they in the big cities I thought I I could go to one of them where Patsy isn't New York a kind of medical center New York that's impossible you couldn't leave your job here in town and I couldn't go alone what do you think Greg is that what you want Patsy job she lose it that mattered there are the job plenty of them even if there's no necessity for your taking a lot of I'm leaving for New York anyway Patsy can come right along with me with you Greg can I of course I'll put you up at mother's place then we'll have the best men in the city come to look at you I'd feel better if I went with her I don't know I had nothing you could do Lorna don't you see suppose so you could keep me in touch couldn't you Greg let me know everything by long distance every day you just sit tight and let me handle this and you get Patsy ready of course for a line will help it'll take two or three days to make the necessary arrangements haven't you both forgotten something have I you and Lorna your marriage our marriage you mustn't worry about that Patsy that'll keep to your well again we can wait for Greg natural I am a nuisance aren't I oh my eyes it's starting to hurt again I'll do get me some ice tears I'm sure there's some downstairs I shan't be long yes you did forget to forget about you and Lorna getting married did I did you know you did suppose I get well Greg of course you're going to get well after we arrive in New York everything's going to be all right do you know I think so too perhaps you're being a little blind too you've forgotten Patsy's warning haven't you and her helplessness is a rebuke to your conscience isn't it Gregory for you remember in spite of Lorna's warnings you're in difference to Patsy's repeated headings and you know that if this girl dies nothing can ever be quite the same for you and Lorna it's imperative that Patsy regain her health not only for her own sake but for the sake of your marriage as well and now after a day spent in making traveling arrangements you return to the house with Lorna we're home early Lorna yes I know it's nearly seven Patsy doesn't expect us back for a couple of hours yet must be very quiet thanks she's sleeping I hope so she promised me she tried after a while I'll go up and begin at her oh dear I would forget I'm meant to bring for a line something from the corner drug store want me to go for you no I'll go I know what she wants you stay here I'll only be a few minutes mind turning out the lights just leave that small one on over by the phonograph that'll be enough I'm going to sit over here in the dark and relax all right fine hurry back lovely isn't it that's quite true a bit late to stop now yes gullible Greg simple trusting Gregory I didn't expect you to see me of course you didn't my dear it's all very obvious shall I leave you with your serenade this record I knew where it was I know where everything is I've lived here so long of course it's not what you think Greg I I don't have to see to find my way around that's a listen to me Greg you're not blind you never were well what are you going to do that's better now will you be good enough to tell me what it was all about you flattering I made up my mind to have you Greg and it didn't make the slightest difference to me how I did not even if it smashed things up for Lorna that didn't matter nothing mattered but you and what was I to get out of all this happiness I could have made you happy great I can still make you happy you try me give me a chance let's go back a bit shall we tell me how did you expect to fool a clever eye specialist you must have known he'd find you out I didn't expect no you see I had no intention of coming under his care the important thing was to get you away from Lorna to have you by myself for a while after that anything could happen anything and now I've lost we've all lost you Lorna and I oh you're wrong Patsy Lorna and I haven't lost you see tomorrow we'll be married tomorrow if she'll have me then no you can't it's beyond your control now Patsy it's beyond anything your selfish mind can trick up is it beyond death my love for you was a selfish thing but to me it was everything don't you understand Greg nothing will be gained by shooting me Patsy if I can't have you nobody else shall remember when I told you that don't for all our sakes you did it you've killed Greg the only man you ever really loved watch fascinated and horrified as Lorna drops to the floor beside him weeping and you want to tell her it's no use but now she'll never have him you're glad glad you hate Lorna Patsy you turn all your suppressed grief for yourself it's a hate for her get up you can't bring him back it doesn't matter now you've got to help me take the gun take it and hide it you hear the gun you want me to go to jail stop to think now you must hide it it must never be found you understand I do I heard a noise Mr. Gregory he's heard what is it Lorna what happened you can tell for all I I tell for all I know what is it but I don't know I you don't know how could I I was in my room I heard Lorna and Greg downstairs and their voices sounded strange sharp as though they were calling what are you saying it frightened me I've never heard them quarrel before after a while I got up and felt my way out of the room down the stairs I could hear Lorna more plainly now she was angry she sounded as though she hated him but that's not true Patsy you're not telling the truth tone of her voice was unbearable I I couldn't stand it I opened the door it was this horrible noise like an explosion I'm frightened for a line please take care of my didn't kill him it was pastly that he did it she did it oh this is terrible you'll believe me don't you for a line but why should Patsy do this horrible thing what reason could she have I don't know she's blind Lorna we both know that she couldn't have seen to do this then why have you a gun in your hand shouldn't we call the police proline whistler will return in just a moment with a strange ending of tonight's story meantime with reconversion beginning the time is drawing closer when you'll be able to buy those new things you've been wanting that new home or new car or new radio but with what why with savings of course and there's no better way to save today than in war bonds in war bonds your money is not only drawing good interest but it's telling those brave guys who are fighting and dying out in the Pacific that you're still back of them so stay in the fight stay on the job keep supporting all the homefront activities save waste fat save paper take care of your tires and right now let's help put over the seventh war loan drive by getting another bond remember you don't buy bonds you invest in them you get every penny back with interest and each bond that does its bit to get the war over is also helping you to better enjoy the day we're all fighting and praying for the day of final peace and now back to the whistler you won haven't you not only have you killed Greg but you're having your revenge on Lorna for taking him away from you she's going to jail for murder isn't she patsy the police are here now the detective is questioning Lorna looking at the body but there's something you didn't count on patsy you were blind to someone else's character Froy line she stood by you all these years but murder is something else and suddenly you see her come back into the room and walk over to the detective and she's holding something in her hand that freezes you with horror yes miss patsy I found it I saw it hidden in your dresser a few days ago I thought it was strange then but now I know what what is it for line yeah what is it you're talking about miss this I know wait a minute I thought you couldn't see so did we all but this little bottle proves how she fooled us it's Bella Donna to make her pupil stylate to make her look blind stop come back to me stop all line what she doing running running out there of eight miss Lorna the detective is after eating my daughter she didn't even see the car next Monday at nine o'clock the whistler will bring you another strange tale the whistler is broadcast for your entertainment by the marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories and by your neighborhood signal dealer this program directed by George W. 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