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Of course, one had to get away with it, and that was where the excitement lay because in those days, my friends, there was the awful specter of the hangman to contend with with his hempen noose and his wooden trapdoor by the very thought is enough to curdle a gentleman's blood. There was the choice of method to mull over a gun, a knife, a length of cord, perhaps, or poison. And there was the really quite arduous selection of a suitable victim because just any passerby plainly wouldn't do at all. Also, of course, it all had to be neat and tidy and quiet and unobtrusive. And it had to remain forever a ghastly secret. Oh, George, please don't slam the door like that. I have a cake in the oven. Oh, I'm sorry, darling. You make it sound as though there might be some connection between the cake in the oven and the kitchen door. I've told you before a dozen times. If you slam the door, the cake will go flat. You've quite possibly ruined it for me. Yeah, well, I really am sorry, darling. You really should know that by now. I can't for the life of me think why you never pay the slightest attention to what I tell you. Yes, darling. Married for 22 years, only the first of which was a happy one. And George, oh, the dear man, has decided to join that very exclusive club we spoke of. The crucial problem is finding a suitable victim. I have a feeling that George Havery has already found her very close at hand. And that's only the beginning of our story. A new adventure in radio listening. Five nights of exceptional entertainment every week brought to you in Elliott Lewis' production of The Sears Radio Theatre. Our story, Mushrooms Darling by Alan Kayu. Our star, Ben Wright. The Sears Radio Theatre is brought to you by Sears Roblox & Company, where value is your byword. Sears, where America shops for value. What's the best way to save on new clothes? Sew them. 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And poor George fell head over heels in love with her the first time they met quite a while ago now. But then George is the kind of man who'll fall into anything. But I'm getting ahead of myself. First of all, let's find out just how it goes between George and Bella these days. Darling, don't trample mud all over my nice clean kitchen. Please. How often do I have to tell you that? Darling, I am wiping my feet. For heaven's sake, shut the door. It's freezing this evening. Well, it's not really freezing, darling. It's just brisk and invigorating. And the wood pile is getting terribly low. If you'd spend more time cutting up logs instead of pottering around in the forest all day. Well, the forest is full of the most marvelous things this time of the year. And look what I brought you. Mushrooms, darling, a whole basket full of them all gathered within the last hour and they should be cooked and eaten within the next. Oh, not again. Let me see. Those are not mushrooms. They're toadstools. You're supposed to be an expert in these matters. I am an expert and this is a particularly delicious species of mushroom. It's absolutely delicious. And it's called honey agarit. Well, don't sound so hurt about it. All right, I accept it. They're edible, even if they don't look it. And if it'll make you happy, we'll have them for dinner tomorrow. No, no. Tonight. The honey agarits lose their flavor in just a few hours and really, they must be eaten very soon after they're picked. Now, if the stove's really hot, I'll cook them for you now before the bloom is off them. Darling, it's Thursday. Thursday. And you know very well. Every Thursday evening, I play wist with the North Downs Ladies Club. And tonight, it's Mrs. Wellington's turn to host us and she lives all the way over in Hayward's Heath. I'll be home very late, probably not till 1 or 2 in the morning. But your dinner's in the oven. I warmed up the leftovers for you. Thursday. Yes, yes. I should have noticed you've done your hair. So put those disgusting toads tools down and come and start the car for me. Yes, darling. George, so don't wait up for me. All right, darling. I drive carefully. I always drive carefully, George. You know that very well. Yes, darling. And remember what I always have to tell you. Make sure the fire is not flaring up when you go to bed. Yes, darling. And don't forget to put the cat out. No, darling. 192, please. Thank you. It's longer tonight. She's gone all the way to Hayward's. Five or six whole hours together. I can't wait to hold you in my arms again. We'll be alone, undisturbed, safe together. Just the two of us in the silence of the night. Oh, George. Yes, oh, yes. Yes, as soon as you can, my love. I'll be waiting. I've already put the bed warmer in between the sheets. My love. It's dressing me up in pretty things from the Sunny Bunch collection. It's feminine in these dresses and separates. 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Could I see your driving license, please, Madam? My driving license? Dear me, I don't have it. In fact, I don't even know where it might be. I haven't seen it for positively years. But I'm Mrs. George Havery from Valcom Forest. Well, Mrs. Havery, you'd best turn around and go right back home again. And hope that you get there before your left hand rear wheel falls off. You've got a terrible rear-end wobble, Mrs. Havery. Oh, that. I've had a rear-end wobble for quite some time now. My husband was going to get it fixed, but he's terribly forgetful. And I assure you, I've been driving around with a wheel like that for three months now, and nothing's ever happened, and the wheels never fallen off. Well, if you're sure, Mrs. Havery, and you know you've only got one headlamp. Oh, no, not again. I thought it was all rather dim. Would you kindly thump it for me, Constable? Ah, well, there it is. No, that should be all right now. Oh, yes, so much better. Thank you, Constable. Shall I put another log on the fire? Oh, yes, yes. Oh, I love to lie beside you and stare into the flames. I love you so dearly, George. Yes, I know it. And you know how much I love you. You know, the French have a way of putting it. Je t'aime à la folie. I love you to the point of foolishness. Foolishness? No, George, it's not the right word. Well, an old man and a young girl, yes. Foolish is only possible word. George, are you trying to tell me something? Yes. Did you tell your wife about us? No. Oh, George, you promised me you would. You promised me we'd be married soon. And all I want out of life is to be with you for... forever. Oh, George. Well, now, there, there, there. Now, you mustn't cry, man. I'm sorry. It's just... I decided that Bella would never give me a divorce, even if I were to tell her. And if we were to just run off and live together, she'd haunt us for the rest of her life. You know, that's the kind of woman she is. Then it's all over between us. No. The idea occurs to you so readily. Can you doubt that it occurred to me quite a long time ago? My only problem always was that her first thought is for me, not for her, we'll say, death from natural causes. Animals are not, not poisonous. I eat them all the time. Well, there's wolfbane, which some people call monk's hood, and it looks like horseradish, but it's deadly poisonous. And castor seeds just as bad. The leaves of tomatoes, well, they're nearly always fatal if ingested, but, you see, nearly always isn't certain enough. The little yellow seeds that potato plants sometimes throw will kill you very, very quickly, but it's painful. Wanted to suffer. But there's one plant that's perfect. It's a kind of mushroom that looks somewhat like the ordinary field mushrooms that you buy at the greengrocers or collect in the woods. Its technical name is amanita falloides. Poison is so strong. Well, they handle an amanita falloides and then lick your fingers, and you're very liable to drop dead on the spot instantly. And will you be able to find one of these... Amanitas? When you need it? You see, that's exactly the crux of the whole matter. What a bright young girl you are to hit on it. No. One could never be sure of finding one at just the right time. See, they spring up overnight, the rain comes, and then they're gone. But I was very, very clever. I found three of them a while back out in the forest under the oak trees, and I dug them up very carefully and transplanted them into pots and hid them in the cellar where conditions are absolutely ideal for their long and healthy life. I collected some manure from the road, put a little in the bottom of each pot, and that will keep them snug and warm and well-fed against the time they need it. You've never seen my cellar, have you? No, I haven't. This cottage was built in the 15th century. They really knew how to build cellars in those days. It's arched in stone, and it's a feeling to it, a feeling of, you know, it's spooky or good word. Here, come, I'll show you. Mind the steps, they're very worn. Wait, let me light the lamp. There. So down to my arm. Can you see? It's behind the bench. No one but me ever comes down here, but still. Okay, hold the lamp for me. I've got it. Three of them growing happily in the darkness, in the silence. My darling. Hold me tight. Yes, tighter, tighter. Or respect for someone about three little parts of poison. Right beside them. And after this message from your local station. Sensation at the back of your neck. You're listening to CBS Radio Mystery Fair. I'm E.G. Marshall, your host for these hour-long dramas of suspense, adventure, and the macabre. Heard seven times a week on most of these stations. Here's a sample of what we mean. What is happening? Crazy, you do hear a drum? Yes. We've got to get out of this house. I don't know what it is, but we've got to get out. Something about that picture. Come on, Georgia, hurry. Listen here for CBS Radio Mystery Theatre seven times a week on most of these CBS radio network stations. Business as usual. I was leaning against a phone booth on the Lower East Side waiting for a call that would guarantee my next meal. Little did I know, my next job would arrive on foot. I'm Sam Hart. A few minutes later, some guy staggers up to me. Hey, mister, can you give me a hand? Feels like my chest is about to cave in. He was sweating, breathing heavily, and clutching his chest. I reached for the phone. I knew I'd come face-to-face with a big one again. I need an ambulance here on the double. Another day, another job. Another round with the big ones. Seems like they're trying to knock off every other guy I see. Do you know the signals of a heart attack? If not, remember this. Sweating, nausea, shortness of breath, a pain in the center of your chest that may last two minutes or more. If you have any of these signals, call the emergency medical service immediately. Contact your American Heart Association for more information. They're fighting for your life. Now how a mushroom can look lonely, but they do. Angels of death. You see the spores on the top? The annulus on the stem? They're trying to tell you, stay away. Don't even touch. And once in a while, people still pick them and eat them. And, well, the guy? This is the fungus that gave the field mushroom its bad name. It's the fungus that's going to bring happiness to both of us forever more. It's because, well, it's not always easy to find a way out of that trap one can so easily fall into when one says those trite little words I do. I've always said, have you ever noticed, with great enthusiasm, usually accompanied by a rather sickly sort of smile. But George is not the kind of man to let the weeds grow under his feet. Oh, no, indeed he is not. Having decided on a certain course of action, he is losing no time at all in getting it done. And what we have now is your average couple in your average little country cottage settling down to your not quite average dinner. George, darling, you're not eating anything. No, I know, darling. My tummy is playing up dreadfully tonight. Then why don't you take a spoonful of baking soda and half a glass of water? No, I just did. All I'm going to have dinner is a stalk or two of celery and perhaps some of the lettuce. Oh, but you really must have some of the mushrooms. They're absolutely delicious, as they should indeed. I fried them in lots, simply lots of margarine with just a smidgen of lemon juice. You cooked my mushrooms in margarine? Well, of course. Butters so terribly expensive these days. A 10 pound block of butter is 12 shillings now. And I simply will not sit still for that kind of highway robbery. That's exactly what I told the dairymen. And I always meant to ask you, are mushrooms fattening? Oh, no, no, absolutely not. Well, I don't really mind if they are anyway. I bought a new dress in the village this morning. The stripes run horizontally, and I honestly don't care anymore. No, I noticed that. I found a new kind of corset in the village, a great deal of whale bone in it. And it's really quite marvellous. It holds everything in place. Oh, what a relief when I go to bed. And everything can just fall out again. Yes, yes, I noticed that too. What a delicious aroma there is to your mushrooms. What a shame, I can't enjoy them tonight. Yes, isn't it? Well, next time. There's one very special species there that I'm particularly proud of. Yes, and I never saw so many different varieties all at once. George Darling, you really have excelled yourself this time. Yes, well, it's a mixture of mochellas and leptiotras and the marvellous Lactarius deliciosis and a few others. You know George Darling, I'm absolutely sure you won't mind in the least if I tell you. As a husband, you're no great shakes. But as a gardener, there's no one to equal you. Oh, what a nice thing to say. The other night, Mrs. Wellington said, pottering around in the forest looking for wild plants to eat is the first sign of approaching senility. But I defended you, George. I just wouldn't listen to her. Yes, yes, of course. The mushrooms, Darling. Oh yes, they smell marvellous. Yes, and they taste even better. There's one particular species there to the left of your plate right beside the Brussels sprouts. The one with the pretty little spots on top and the annulus on the stem. That one has to be speared with your fork and popped into your mouth and eaten whole. You mean this one? That one. You know, it looks rather poisonous. Darling, how can anything look poisonous? What's it called? Well, it's called a bointen wonder. And I have to pop it into my mouth whole? Yes. Like this? 9-2, please. Thank you. Yes, thank you. Yes, 1-9-2. Thank you. Two days. Let's be wise now. Get me the county hospital. It's an emergency. People who carry so much of what a poirin with them. Medical science is now beginning to postulate that overweight has a very definite influence on the heart. It's really quite possible, ridiculous, though it may seem. Did you have a history of heart trouble? Oh, no, no, Dr. Wilson. In fact, she was examined only two or three years ago when the life insurance came up for renewal. No, they said her heart was very strong. Then perhaps something she ate? How could that be? We were eating a very simple country dinner. It was boiled beef with Brussels sprouts, potatoes, mushrooms and an ordinary garden salad. Ah-ha! Horse radish? And a kitty who lived at Mont Report Chestnut Avenue just down the lane from here. She picked some wild horse radish for her salad. Only it wasn't horse radish at all. It was Wolfbane. They look almost exactly alike. Only Wolfbane is deadly poisonous. Poor thing she was still in the prime of life. Only 80 years old and fit to the fiddle. No, no, no horse radish. She was a poor, poor... I'd never like to be on autopsy, I'm afraid. Yes, yes, I suppose so. It means we have to carve her up. Essential, don't you know, that we find out just what it was she died of? Yes, yes, of course. Oh, dear Lord. Well, it's not a nice thought, I will admit. But we can sole ourselves with a thought, the very essential thought. We don't feel it, you know. No, I don't suppose they do. Um... Doctor, would I be informed, do you think of the result of the autopsy? I mean, could I perhaps, um, get a copy of the coroner's report? Oh, the simplest thing in the world, my dear Mr. Havera. I'm quite sure you'll be the first to know. But in any case, it will be filed away with the clerk of the court, and it's available to anyone who wants to see it. Anyone at all. Nice it is to see ladies filling these oh-so-important posts nowadays. Ah, no, sir, I'm... I'm secretary to the clerk of the court. Can I help you? Well, then perhaps I should see the clerk himself. Well, I'm afraid he's having his tea now, sir. But if I can be of any assistance. Oh, there was an inquest this morning on a certain Mrs. George Havera. George Havera? Oh, yes. I wonder if you would be good enough to tell me what the verdict was? Well, I think it was, sir... Now, let me see. Ah, yes. A verdict of accidental death. Yes, accidental death. It seemed that she gathered some mushrooms in the woods and ate them, and they were poisonous. Oh, how sad. Ah, yes, it is indeed, Mr. Ralph. Uh, Tobias. How do you do, Mr. Tobias? My name is Miss Woods, Nadine Woods. My home is really in London, but I have digs down the road here. Just a bed-sit with Mrs. Fruitt. In London? I'm from London? All in nicest people come from London, don't they? They do indeed. And Mrs. Bella Havera, it is, I presume, what one might call, final? Oh, yes, of course. Accidental death. Excuse me. The Honourable Justice wants us typed up immediately, Nadine. And he's in a terrible mood today. You better get it finished off an hour ago. Oh, he's always in a terrible mood. Well, you've been most kind, my dear young lady. I thank you, and I bid you good afternoon. Carja? Oh, what a nice old man. His name's Mr. Tobias. How long do your pantyhose last? Do you want the answer in minutes or hours? You should try Sears Endurables, the pantyhose that lasted an average of 18 days of normal wear in a test with 400 women. The women in our test wore Endurables day after day after day and as a group averaged 18 days. A patented process makes them strong so they last and sheer so they look great. No pantyhose lasts forever. 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In their stores or through the catalog Sears is where America shops. Price again and here's the concluding act of mushrooms down. What a nice old man. His name is Mr Tobias. Mr Tobias a nice old man? Well, I'll say this for him. Once an idea came to Mr Tobias and he followed it all the way down the garden path. That night he broke into George's cottage stealthily, quietly and really quite skillfully though I'm sure that wasn't a very nice thing to do. George, George, wake up. Oh, excuse my lover. George, please downstairs. Oh no. Yes. No my love, we don't have burglars in Borkham only in places like London. It's something, a plate or something full. No, the cat, past your prime and getting to be quite short-sighted you know, always knocking plates after dressing. Oh, she likes to sleep there, my precious. Right beside the bread bin. Smell of the bread is a great comfort. Now go back to sleep my love. No burglars I assure you. Why in heaven's name? Who would want to break into a peaceful little cottage like this in Borkham? Oh, sweetheart, no. It's just not done. I thought it'd been really most satisfying and yet George's perfect crime was beginning to show lamentable signs of coming apart at the seams. Delightful, just delightful. A whole new future ahead of us. You miss me then. Well, you see the house is quite warm after all. Give me your coat, my love. How long I might have to wait? Would you mind telling me, sir, what the devil you were doing in my house? I don't think I like the idea of strangers bringing in uninvited and making themselves at home. My name is Tobias and I'm not a stranger, sir, but a neighbor. A neighbor? Yes, I live in the little cottage on the top of the knoll, the one with the green shutters that overlooks both the edge of the forest and your own abode, Mr. Hamery. And your purpose in coming here so, uh, to offer you my condolences on the death of your wife? What else? George, not quite without reason. A death is so much a part of my own life that I thought it would be only courtesy of me to call and pay my respects. Oh, well, uh, uh, it's kind of you, I'm sure. I, uh, I thank you and, uh, bid you goodnight. Why don't you sit down, both of you, and make yourselves comfortable? We have so much to talk about. No, this is my house, Mr. Tobias. I will sit down when I choose to do so and not before. Would you mind telling me how you got in here? I'm quite sure both doors were locked. Indeed they were. I found a window open as I did last night. Oh, my dear young lady, not a burglar, burgly steal. I'm not a thief. I was merely browsing. I think the time has come, Mr. Tobias, for me to insist that you leave this house at once. You're not welcome here. No, I didn't really think I would be ashamed, such ashamed, particularly since we have so much in common. I find it hard to think of anything we might have in common. Two things. One, an interest. The other, what shall I call it? Yes, an obsession. That's the word, exactly. I also find it hard to put up with you any longer. The interest we share is in the study of fungi, or of, shall we say... Of course, my knowledge of the subject is not nearly as comprehensive as your own, although I can distinguish quite easily between a field mushroom and, say, an amanita fallowides. I quite fail to see the purpose of your chatter, and frankly, it doesn't interest me. Good night, Mr. Tobias. It was amanita poisoning your wife died of. That was established at the colonist inquest. An accident. Did you pick the wrong mushroom? From your cellar, perhaps. That's where I was browsing last night. I found three pots of amanita there, being carefully nurtured with me. I say commendable expertise, and I know how they got there. I watched you through my spyglass, digging them up from under the oak trees where the forest begins, and I thought to myself, good heavens, that's George Havery. He must know how deadly they are. He's a long-established expert in this field. He wouldn't make a terrible mistake like that, and I began to wonder about it, and then your wife died of. And your very young and beautiful mistress hurries to your bed only hours after the corpse is disposed of and to add up. Has it ever occurred to you it so often happens that the police can't solve a murder simply because they don't have the necessary evidence? And that, in turn, is because it so often happens that nobody bothers to tell them where the... Buy him off. No, let me handle this. All right, Mr. Tobias, you don't exactly look like a policeman. How kind of you to say so. But if you are one, then make your charges in the proper quarter and when the time comes, I will dispose of them. And by the time that time comes you will also have found the time to dispose of the evidence down there. No, no, I'm afraid I cannot permit that, Mr. Havery. Well, we'll see about that. Stop. In my house. A revolver is a very necessary adjunct to my profession. I'm quite expert with it, I assure you, and I'm quite prepared to use it. Oh, not to kill you, of course. Under the circumstances, that would be a very foolish thing to do. Now, just to incapacitate you, so close the door and sit down. Then I don't understand what it might be that you can possibly want. Well, we can't have you grouping about in obfuscation, can we? Will you answer me a question? Perhaps. Why did you not destroy that terribly incriminating evidence down in your cellar the moment it had served its purpose? It's a question that's worried me for a long time. No comment, and you can quote me. You left those amanitas down in the cellar growing so handily and so well because it occurred to you that you might want to use them again. Oh, what errant nonsense. No, no, no. Here we are. I beg of you. Mission of the ultimate majesty. The taking of life for its own sake. Oh, there's a tremendous feeling of triumph, is there not? An almost narcotic sense of gratification. I felt it myself after I killed my first victim and it stays with you, you know. It really does. Seeking more and still more fuel for the fire of the most stimulating sensation in the whole gamut of man's emotions. Oh, he's mad. You can hit him over the head and steal his pocketbook. You can seduce his wife away from him. You can ruin him in the stock market. And all these things are a sense of power. And we are... Mr Tobias, you said after you killed your first victim. Yes, yes, my first. Oh, that was a lot. I've killed 11 people. And each time that ultimate majesty gets stronger and stronger, it's become an obsession. It's very frustrating. May I use your phone? My brother, please don't move, Mr. Haveri. Sit just where you are. Remember, my revolver, enough to get me the police station. I believe the number is... Balcom 3. This is Mr. Tobias. 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