 Good evening friends of the Inner Sanctum. This is your host Raymond Braddy as always to provide you with your weekly ration of screams, gurgles and blood. All in the spirit of gentle fun, I have no other object in mind. Except to reduce you to sniveling racks of nerves and shutters. If you got a white sheet handy you might wrap it around yourself in case a ghost shows up. You'll think you're in the business and pass right on through you. Now Mr. Raymond don't be so silly. You know there are no such things as ghosts. Who said that? Oh hello Mary Bennett. So you don't believe in ghosts huh? And uh what's that standing behind you huh? Oh you shouldn't have done that. Frightening me that way. Shame on you. Oh I'm sorry Mary can I make a man's? Well you might you might tell the folks how much you enjoy Lipton Tea. Oh gladly gladly friends. Just the other day a ghost and I were having a conversation about Lipton Tea. Now here here here enough of that. Nobody is interested in what you and the ghost said about Lipton Tea. No. Let's talk about real people and the solid pleasure they get from Lipton. They drink it at meal times. They serve it when friends drop in for a visit and of course they often brew themselves a cup of Lipton's during the day. Just because it's so nice to relax and enjoy that famous brisk flavor. By the way that word brisk B-R-I-S-K is one that tea experts use. Brisk means that Lipton's always taste tangy and bracing. It's never flatter, wishy-washy. Yes you just don't know how good tea can be until you know how good Lipton's is. Okay Mary suppose you go fry me a cup of tea but keep the kitchen door open because you're about to hear the story of the bog oak necklace. It's an original radio play by David Driscoll and our heroine tonight is that beautiful star of stage and screen is Miriam Hopkins who play the role of Emily. I'll be calm, be calm. There's nobody standing behind you. At least nobody you can see. At the edge of a lake in a small New England town two men are busy digging an excavation. It's been like a cave around here once. Yeah old Miss Bristow used to own this property before she sold it to this here city man's building. It used to be a fine apple orchard right up there and was all fine trees once. Let's dig, that's what we're getting paid for. What's the matter with you Paulie? Look down there what I just hit with my shovel. Oh bone. Cow. That ain't no cow bone Jerry. Hey Paulie, look look at this with the bone. Yeah I see it and you call it a cow bone now? No I don't. This here must have been a graveyard once. This here was never no graveyard. The river used to come right up to here almost before the big flood before they built the dam. Hey what are you doing? Get you going ahead. You're bringing that with you? Of course I am. There must be a scull here too. Of course there must be. We don't have to look for that Paulie. But in our job. Come on. Jerry and me was digging away there Mr. Warren down towards the river and all of a sudden Jerry kind of yelled and when I asked him what's the matter he shows me this leg bone so I looked and there is a skeleton right at his feet. I see. So I figure you being the county attorney here you're the man who ought to know first. Oh yes and now this place by the river that you're talking about it's the man that city man bought to build a home on. Yeah that's right he bought it from Ole Miss family Bristol and then we found this too around the well I guess you'd call it the neck that is where the neck would be. Is there anything wrong Mr. Warren? Where did you see a found this bone and this necklace? Well Jerry and me is making a trench for a water pipe and we're digging where the old river bank used to be right near the river edge. I leave the necklace with me. If I need any more help I'll get in touch with you that's all. Yeah yes. Forty years. Emily. Emily. Bristol. What do you want with me after forty years Andrew? Look Emily. Where? These are old woman's eyes. Look closer. Take that away. Take it away. The barcoked neck assembly. Do you remember? Presented the Miss Emily Bristol on a twenty fourth birthday by Andrew Warren. Where did you get it Andrew? It was found at the river edge and the property you've just sold. Daisy. Daisy. It's come back to us Emily. After all these years. It's come back to us. The barcoked necklace. Necklace that meant the death of your sister. Daisy. Oh Andrew. Oh Andrew. Daisy there aren't two people anywhere as happy as we are. Good night. May I tell Emily? Yes. Yes I suppose so. If all she's your sister she should know. Good night darling. Look at that moon. Smiling at you. I'm going to close my eyes and I won't open them until you're down the road out of sight. Good night sweetheart. Good night. Good night sweetheart. Good night moon. Oh young lady shouldn't stand staring at the moon that way. Oh Emily. You frightened me so I did it. You had a nice drive with Andrew in the moonlight. I hope. Am I. Andrew. Andrew. Yes. Andrew and I. We're. Oh darling. How I ever felt my heart beating so I can't let you say it for you. You're engaged. And there you are. It was easy wasn't it. For you. You have no idea how easy it was for me. Emily. I wanted to see you so badly. She's already told me Andrew. Emily I want you to understand about this. I know how this must hurt you. You've got to break it off. You've got to. You can't marry her. And listen to me please please marry me. I beg you. Emily we must be sensible. I beg you. If you love me Emily you must let me do what I feel is right. I can't let you marry Daisy. You're mine. I must have you. If not me and you know what no one else at all. Too late now. Forgive me. I'll never forgive you. And I'll never let you go. Emily never never never. Go to bed Daisy. Oh Emily don't because I can't sleep. You can't sleep. No I'm so excited. Well Emily you're still dressed too. So I am. What's mad at you don't you feel well. I feel very well. Thank you Daisy. Emily what's the matter what do you use that tone with me darling you're not feeling well are you I can tell by the look on your face. Come on come on out into the night the moon is falling and let's walk up to the apple orchid. After all Emily even though we're going to be separated it won't be forever. Aren't you afraid to be out here at night. Pray afraid of what we are at the end of the apple orchid is the little patch that goes down the river. I think you'd better go back now I'll go back. Well you do I'm going to stay here I wouldn't dream of going back to the house alone I thought you weren't afraid all alone. Of course I'd be afraid all alone. Daisy. I don't want you to marry Andrew. Emma you know what you've just said certainly. Oh Emily I'm surprised at you. Well you're jealous. That's right. I want you to write to Andrew and tell him that you thought it over and you've decided you don't love him and you're not going to marry him. How dare you speak to me that way. Now get out of my way I never talked to you again as long as I live. Have you thought that you may and have very long to live. Emily I scream no you won't scream you won't scream at all and do you know by down in that little pigeon heart of yours you're fighting. You're hurting me you're out of your mind and let you go when you promised to write that letter I promise I promise and when I let go of me as soon as we get back and don't you dare breathe away of this anyone ever as long as you live. No I think we understand who loves Andrew. I'll let you go you don't know how close you came. Come back here Daisy you'd run away would you. Emily I wasn't running away please let me go. I knew I couldn't trust you. I knew I never should have told you. You're joking me. We'll be girls I suppose. That's kind of pity about a little Emily though. Just think what a wonderful hangman she'd have made if she'd been born a girl. Thank you to be taken for a little swing that girl. What a terrible woman she is Mr Raymond. Now listen I like Emily she's so inventive most women will do anything for a necklace but only Emily knows what to do with a necklace. Now please you know very well that the only thing you can do with a necklace is wear it. Oh yeah well the only thing you can do with Lipton T. Well what's wrong with that and Mr Raymond maybe you don't realize how often folks do drink Lipton T. Why is the perfect beverage for so many occasions and that's why it makes sense to have a good supply on hand to buy the larger more economical size packages and it is more economical that way too. Oh yes it's wise to have a large size package of Lipton T on your shelf because that well known brisk flavor that bracing full bodied taste makes Lipton always welcome. That gives me an idea maybe we should have had Emily and little Daisy talk out that quarrel over a cup of Lipton T. Oh man that'd be chummy but it's too late now Daisy is stretched out on the ground with a bog oak necklace twisted tight around her neck. She's not sleeping now she's just dead to the world. So let's get back to our star Miss Miriam Hopkins plays the role of Emily. Daisy get up get up this minute stop teasing me you're not hurt that bad and you know you're not. Please get up Daisy you're frightening me. Daisy you're. You're acting. Just as though you were you were. Say it with a bog oak necklace. You see you see you wouldn't be talking to me if you were dead. You've killed your own sister because you were jealous. Daisy's voice. But your lips are not moving. How can you be speaking to me Daisy when your lips are not moving. They'll find me with your neck around my neck and they'll know you did it and they'll punish you. You'll never be allowed to marry and. I will marry you. I will. Who am I talking to? Somebody speaking to me with Daisy's voice. And all because you murdered me a bog oak necklace. Let me do something. Get some help. Somewhere. Can't be dead. I just pulled the neck a little bit not tightly at all. You pulled it very tightly Emily. Look at my neck. How tightly you twisted. Stop it. Stop talking to me. I'll never leave you Emily. Never as long as you. You are dead aren't you. I murdered you. Something dreadful will happen to me. I've got to do something. What can I do? A river. A nether river. Stone. Yes. With twine. Strong twine. Round around the stones and tie the stone stone I could throw her into the water from the crag on the hill and the stones would make her sink to the bottom and then she'd never come back. Never. Who would know. Maybe when I get back to her she'll be moving and I'll talk to her. No. She is dead. She is. I'm running in the wrong direction. It was over there that I killed her. We couldn't have been because because she's not there. She was right here. The day is gone. She's got to walk away somewhere. She's a liar. Emily. I found her Emily. Strangle her death. I know nothing about it. What are you doing then with that twine in your hand? You wanted to tie stones to it, didn't you? Throw her in the river. I killed her because I was jealous. You're as guilty as I am because you should have married me. Yes, I am as guilty as you are. What will become of me now? All my hopes, my ambitions. If we can get rid of the body then we can get married after all. It'll only take a little while for people to forget and then we can go away somewhere. I never want to look at you again as long as I live. I hate you. I came back here to speak to you again. I wanted to tell you I'd done a wrong thing. But I ought to marry you. I wanted to arrange with you about Daisy. How we could tell her without hurting her too much. I was heading toward your window when I saw Strangle with a bog oak necklace. What have you done with it? Exactly what you planned to do. Because no woman would have the strength to do it. I had roped my robot. I tied stones to the body. Brought a bit into the river with it. Dropped it overboard. The plan works you're safe. If it doesn't, you'll die. And I'll go to prison. I'm going now. The moon is down already. Soon it will be dawn. The necklace. What did you do with the necklace? I left it where it was. Around her neck. Sound. The sound the necklace makes. I have heard it every night for 40 years. 40 years. Now she's come back to it. To me. Tell me Andrew. Where was it found? It's been there. At the bottom of the river all this time. During the flood last year the skeleton must have been swept into that old sewer. The twine probably rotted away long time ago. That's the only explanation I can... Watching! Down there at the bottom of the river watching. I'm going now Emily. Probably the last time we'd ever see each other. I'll leave the necklace with you. Still I gave it. Forty years ago. What's that? The voice? The voice? I'm going. Don't leave me Andrew. Don't leave me. You leave Apple Orchard. No. No. Come. No. I've not been near that orchard in 40 years. Come Emily. But I'm old. No. You're young. As young as I am. Come with me. We'll tell each other little secrets. Won't we Emily? Just as we used to. Yes. The blankets will be chirping in the moon coming up. All as it used to be. And you'll be wearing your necklace. The bark oak necklace that Andrew gave you when he thought he loved you instead of me. You'll wear it the way you used to when you'd steal up there to the orchard to meet him. Remember when he used to roll to the bottom of the hill and wait for you. And you could stand in the orchard until you heard him whistle. Oh God. Run it faster then. Come Emily. Come. You must run so much faster. Oh Lord. Where is he? Apple tree. The branches. They're in my way. I can't bend over. My voice sounded one night long ago. Tell me your answer, true. Who gets choked first? Me, a lovely you. If you'd be the first to strangle, I'd appreciate your angle. And when I learn that it's now my turn, I'll gargle as nice as you. What awful words to sing to such a nice song. Oh, but listen, I sing so well and I can recite too. Shall I recite you something suitable? Say a mother goose rhyme. Mr. Raymond, you don't know any mother goose. Is that so? I know one that you'll lovely. Polly, put the kettle on. Polly, put the kettle on. Polly, put the kettle on and we'll all have tea. Well that's fine. Only I hope Polly makes sure that it's Lipton tea. That's it. But I suppose there's little doubt that she'll use Lipton. Because after all more people drink Lipton tea than any other brand. The reason for that is Lipton's famous brisk flavor. Yes, Lipton tea is never flat or insipid. It always tastes full-bodied and vigorous. And well, I guess it's all summed up by that word brisk. Yes folks, brisk is the word that the tea experts use when they talk about Lipton tea. So try it real soon, won't you? Say, of course I just tell you what the gossip is and the morgues I visit. They say that Daisy and Emily can be seen almost any moonlit night. Skull gently touching skull, closing through the old apple orchard as of yours. If you like them in your home you could use their ration coupon. Outside of rattling a bit when the wind blows they're very nice and companionable. Especially on dark nights. And in the summer you can always use them for scarecrows in your victory garden. By the way, this month's inner sanctum mystery novel is The Outsiders by A.E. Martin. And now it's really time to close that there squeaking door until next week at the same time when Lipton tea and Lipton soup will once again bring you another inner sanctum mystery produced under the direction of Hyman Brown. So until then, good night. Pleasant dream. I wonder what our grandmothers would have said if they had heard about Lipton's noodle soup. I'll bet they wouldn't have believed it possible that a delicious chicken noodle soup could come ready to make in an envelope. But if they'd tasted Lipton, they would have agreed that it has an old-fashioned, homemade flavor. That it tastes just like the kind of chicken soup they used to make themselves. And Lipton is economical too. It costs less and makes more than canned soups. So folks, be sure to try Lipton's noodle soup. And be sure to tune in next Tuesday night for another inner sanctum mystery. This is CBS Columbia Broadcasting System.