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Inner Sanctum Mystery, also known as Inner Sanctum, is a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941, to October 5, 1952.
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00:00Lipton Tea and Lipton Soup present Inner Sanctum Mysteries.
00:30Good evening, friends.
00:35This is your host of the Inner Sanctum, inviting you in through the creaking door.
00:40Come on in and enter into the spirit of things.
00:46Oh, don't pay any attention to those gurgling sounds you hear.
00:51They're the unfortunate ones.
00:52The midnight spirits who were caught haunting before midnight.
00:57Poor things.
00:59Yes, all they can do now is gurgle, because they've evaporated into distilled spirits.
01:07What a horrifying thought, Mr. Host.
01:10Can't we ever talk about the brighter side of life?
01:13Well, don't forget, Mary, murder is my business.
01:16Well, thank goodness it isn't mine.
01:18And right now, I'd much prefer to talk with our Lipton listeners about something more conducive to happy spirits.
01:25I mean, a cup of hearty, piping hot Lipton tea.
01:29You know, it's really wonderful, the extra delight you get from this superb tea, friends.
01:34And the reason is simply this.
01:36Lipton's grand, brisk flavor.
01:39Brisk, you know, is the tea expert's own word for the fresh, full-bodied, lively flavor of Lipton tea.
01:45Because unlike ordinary teas, Lipton's is never flat-tasting or lifeless.
01:51Lipton tea is always spirited, full-flavored, truly satisfying.
01:55Why, I'd even go so far as to say that once you've tried it, I think you'll enjoy Lipton tea more than any other tea you've ever tasted.
02:03And I'll go even further, Mary, and introduce our listeners to tonight's story.
02:08It's an original radio play written especially for Inner Sanctum by Emil Tepperman and starring Richard Widmark in the role of Alex Gregory.
02:18It's about a man who became master of a secret so fearful that it could never be revealed to any mortal, living or dead.
02:26But let him tell you the story himself, how he learned the most terrible secret in all the universe, and what he did with it.
02:40It was an evening in September, the 15th to be exact, when I first learned of the existence of Elixir No. 4.
02:48It happened at Professor Jarman's house just off the college campus.
02:52You've heard of Jarman, of course. He was to chemistry what Einstein is to physics.
02:56But it was his daughter Elaine that I was interested in that evening in September when I rang their bell.
03:06Oh, hello, Alex. Oh, gosh, is it that late? I'm not even dressed.
03:10Hi, sweet. Snap it up, will you? The last show starts at 8.30.
03:13Oh, it won't take me long. Wait for me in the library. I'll be ready in the jiffy.
03:17I knew my way around the house.
03:19I went into the library, and the first thing I noticed was that the door to Professor Jarman's private study was ajar.
03:26It had never happened before.
03:29The private study and the laboratory beyond were forbidden territory in the Jarman home.
03:34Not even a lane was allowed in there.
03:37And now the door was open.
03:39I'd heard stories of Jarman's experiments with new and secret formulae.
03:45So here was a chance, a possible chance to find out what the old Kaja was working on.
03:52I couldn't resist.
03:53I pushed open the door, and I stepped into the private study.
03:57I could hear Jarman in the lab talking to himself.
04:01Elaine had told me once that he always talked to himself in the lab.
04:04I stood quietly in the study, but I couldn't make out what he was saying in there.
04:12I looked around.
04:14The study was just a small cubbyhole with a chair, a bookcase, and a desk.
04:19And on the desk, I saw the open diary.
04:26A single sentence was written on the open page.
04:30I stepped closer.
04:32And then, I got the first shock.
04:37For that sentence was written in Latin.
04:41My Latin was rusty, but I was able to decipher the words,
04:47We tie secretum in elixir quartum perpatus habeo.
04:52In elixir number four, I have the secret of perpatus.
05:00Life.
05:03Perpatus.
05:05That was the one word I couldn't seem to place.
05:08In elixir number four, I have the secret of something.
05:14Life.
05:16I was puzzling over that word perpatus,
05:19when suddenly the laboratory door was flung open.
05:22What are you doing at my desk?
05:24Oh, uh, hello, Professor Jarman.
05:25I asked you, what are you doing at my desk?
05:27Well, the study door was open.
05:29I thought I'd see if you were in here.
05:31You were reading my diary.
05:32Oh, no, no, Professor.
05:33You saw the entry in my diary.
05:35Oh, really, Professor, I assure you, I...
05:36You read Latin.
05:37Latin?
05:38Latin?
05:39Well, I...
05:40I don't understand.
05:41You're sure you don't understand Latin?
05:42No, no, I don't.
05:44Here I am, Alex.
05:44Ready and...
05:45What?
05:46What?
05:47Is anything wrong?
05:47Elaine, I've told you time and again,
05:49no one is to be admitted to my study.
05:51Oh, I'm sorry, Dad.
05:53You must have left the door open.
05:55Oh, Alex, you're shutting the...
05:56I'm terribly sorry, Elaine.
05:58I found the door open,
05:59and I thought Professor Jarman was in here.
06:01I just wanted to say hello.
06:02All right, all right.
06:03No harm done, as long as you can't read Latin.
06:05Now, get along, you two.
06:06I'm busy, but keep out of my study hereafter.
06:10I took Elaine to the movies,
06:11but I haven't the faintest recollection
06:13of what the picture was about.
06:15Through my mind kept running that Latin sentence,
06:18When I said goodnight to Elaine at her door after the show,
06:27I hurried home to my room,
06:29and I got out an old Latin dictionary.
06:31I looked up the word...
06:34Perpetus.
06:36And then...
06:38I got a strange, cold feeling down my spine.
06:42For the word Perpetus meant perpetual.
06:48The Latin sentence which Jarman had written in his diary meant,
06:52In elixir number four,
06:54I have the secret of perpetual life.
06:59Professor Jarman had discovered the secret of immortality.
07:03All the next day,
07:07I conducted my chemistry classes purely by instinct.
07:10I couldn't take my thoughts from elixir number four.
07:14Every voice in the classroom seemed to sing the same refrain.
07:17Accomplished by adding to a dilute solution of H2SO4,
07:23a quantitative...
07:23Immortality.
07:25Never to know the fear of death.
07:28To live on serenely.
07:31To watch the world change through the centuries.
07:34Never to die.
07:37It grew on me like a festering tumor,
07:39this terrific dream of immortality.
07:41Everlasting life.
07:44I had to have elixir number four.
07:53In the afternoon,
07:54the first free period I had,
07:56I went down the hall to Jarman's office.
07:59Come in.
08:01May I come in for a moment, Professor?
08:03Oh, it's you.
08:04Yes, come in.
08:05But I haven't much time.
08:07Professor,
08:08I want to apologize for last night.
08:10Let's forget about it.
08:12No harm done.
08:12Well, whatever it was you had written in your diary,
08:15it must have been pretty important.
08:17Oh, no, no.
08:18Not at all.
08:19Only some chemistry notes.
08:20Nothing of any importance.
08:21Just something I've been experimenting with.
08:23Well, I'd be very glad to assist you, Professor.
08:25Anything I could do, I'd be...
08:26That's very kind of a young man,
08:28but I don't need any assistance, thank you.
08:30As a matter of fact,
08:31the experiment is completed.
08:33You mean you're all finished?
08:35All, but the practical application.
08:37Oh.
08:38Well, couldn't I help you on that?
08:40It won't be necessary.
08:42Tonight, I'm taking the last step.
08:45Tonight?
08:45I knew what that meant.
08:51Tonight, he was going to use elixir number four.
08:55He was going to administer it to himself.
09:00I had to act tonight or never.
09:04Jarman's keys were on his desk.
09:06I distracted his attention,
09:07and I managed to pick them up without his noticing.
09:09Then I hurried across town to a locksmith,
09:11and had him make duplicates of Jarman's house key,
09:14his study key,
09:14and his laboratory key.
09:17Then I returned to the college,
09:19and I managed to replace the keys on Jarman's desk
09:22while he was out.
09:24Now,
09:25I was ready for an adventure
09:28into immortality.
09:41At 8.30 that evening,
09:42I let myself into Jarman's house,
09:45opened the study door,
09:47and stepped quietly over to the laboratory.
09:51I knew Elaine was at a sorority meeting.
09:53The professor and I
09:56were the only ones in the house.
10:01Jarman was standing at the lab table
10:03with his back to me,
10:04talking away to himself.
10:07There was a small vial on the table,
10:09and a hypodermic syringe alongside it.
10:12The full quantity administered yesterday
10:14will be sufficient.
10:16At my age,
10:18since my blood is too thin,
10:20I require the additional dose.
10:22But a younger man
10:23would need only one injection
10:25to cause the necessary type change
10:28in his blood.
10:30Who's that?
10:31Good evening,
10:32Professor Jarman.
10:34I hope I'm not interrupting.
10:35What are you doing here?
10:36How did you get in?
10:38So,
10:38elixir number four
10:39changes the bloodstream.
10:41What do you want in here?
10:42Quit stalling,
10:43Professor.
10:44I know what elixir number four is.
10:46Ah.
10:46So this is it.
10:50Elixir number four.
10:52Careful.
10:53Don't spill it.
10:54How much of this stuff have you got?
10:55That's all there is.
10:57Five cc's.
10:57You mean you haven't got any more?
10:59It took me five years
11:00to distill ten cc's.
11:02Before that,
11:03I experimented for ten years.
11:05I failed three times.
11:07And this is your fourth try,
11:09huh?
11:09Elixir number four.
11:14And there isn't any more of it?
11:15It will take me five years more
11:17to make up another bat.
11:19Please be careful.
11:20Don't drop it.
11:21Oh, don't worry.
11:22I won't.
11:24You, uh,
11:25you said this is enough
11:27to make the average man immortal.
11:31Me, for instance?
11:32Not for you.
11:32You hear me?
11:33Not for you.
11:33Oh, yes, it is, Professor.
11:35It's for me.
11:35I won't let you...
11:36What are you doing
11:38with that mallet?
11:40What do you think?
11:41No.
11:42I'm so sorry, Professor.
11:43Wait, I'll let you have it.
11:45Don't kill me.
11:45I've got to kill you.
11:47When I take this dose
11:48of Elixir number four,
11:50I'll be immortal.
11:52And I don't want anyone
11:53to know it.
11:54Away, you fool.
11:56You'll never enjoy
11:57your immortality.
11:58You'll wish you were dead
11:59a thousand times.
12:00I'll come back to remind you,
12:01back to remind you.
12:07I didn't hit him hard enough
12:08to kill him.
12:09That wasn't part of my plan.
12:10But when he lay unconscious
12:11on the floor,
12:12I searched among the chemicals
12:13until I found what I wanted.
12:15I mixed some chemicals
12:16in a test tube
12:17and I watched the fumes forming.
12:20Then I held the test tube
12:21against Jarman's mouth,
12:23forcing the deadly gas
12:25into his lungs.
12:29When I was sure he was dead,
12:31I wiped the tube
12:32clean of my fingerprints
12:34and put it back in the rack.
12:36Then I picked up the vial
12:38of Elixir number four
12:39and the hypodermic syringe
12:42and I hurried away,
12:44locking all the doors
12:45behind me.
12:49As soon as I got home,
12:51I filled the hypo
12:52with Elixir number four
12:53and I gave myself
12:56the injection.
13:01Almost immediately,
13:03I felt a strange radiance
13:05pervading my body.
13:07A new strength
13:08was flowing in my blood.
13:11I was immortal.
13:13I couldn't die.
13:14I would go on living
13:17and living
13:18and living
13:20forever.
13:32Hey, what's going on here?
13:35What's all this about
13:36living forever?
13:38If you ask me,
13:39it would be more of a curse
13:40than a blessing.
13:42Now, just suppose
13:43we all took a shot
13:44of this Elixir number four.
13:47I think of all the people
13:48who'd lose their jobs.
13:50Grave diggers
13:51and stone cutters
13:52and shroud makers
13:54and hearse drivers
13:55and...
13:56Oh, I go on.
13:57You see what I mean.
13:57Why, everybody
13:58would be out of a job.
13:59We'd all practically
14:00starve to death.
14:01Well then, Mr. Host,
14:02maybe we can be glad
14:03that nobody has ever
14:04found the fountain of youth.
14:06You know,
14:07I think it's not a matter
14:08of trying to live forever.
14:09The important thing
14:10is to get more enjoyment
14:11out of every day.
14:12Mm-hmm.
14:13For instance, Mary.
14:14Well, for instance,
14:16one splendid way
14:17to get more enjoyment
14:18out of an otherwise dull day
14:19is to invite your friends
14:21in for tea.
14:22It's a delightful
14:23neighborly custom,
14:24made even more delightful
14:26when the tea you serve
14:26is Lipton's,
14:27because there's so much
14:28extra pleasure
14:29in Lipton tea.
14:31The party will seem
14:32more of a party,
14:33the conversation
14:34will be more sparkling,
14:35and your reputation
14:36as a thoughtful hostess
14:37will soar to the skies
14:39the moment your guests
14:40take their first sip
14:41of Lipton tea.
14:43For Lipton's wonderful,
14:44brisk flavor
14:45makes it a favorite
14:46with everybody.
14:48So when friends
14:48drop in for tea,
14:50or the family gathers
14:51around the dinner table,
14:52serve them Lipton's.
14:54Tea at its delicious best.
14:56And now let's get back
15:00to our story.
15:01We're all anxious
15:02to see what this fellow Alex
15:04does with his secret
15:05of perpetual life.
15:07Just imagine,
15:09a man with all that time
15:10on his hands,
15:12time to kill,
15:14and kill,
15:16and kill.
15:21Immortality.
15:22I had it in my blood.
15:24I could feel it pulsing
15:26in my veins.
15:27The vitality,
15:28the power.
15:31I had to establish
15:32an alibi.
15:33Not that I expected
15:34to need an alibi.
15:35Jarman's death
15:36would surely look like
15:37an accident
15:38or suicide
15:39when his body
15:40was found
15:40in the laboratory
15:41in the morning.
15:43But I wasn't taking
15:44any chances
15:44on a murder charge.
15:46I had so much more
15:47to lose now.
15:48Wouldn't it be ironic
15:49if they were to execute
15:51me for murder?
15:52Me, an immortal.
16:02Next morning,
16:03I stopped at Jarman's house
16:04and rang the bell.
16:06I knew Elaine
16:06must have gone right to bed
16:07when she returned
16:08from the sorority meeting
16:09last night
16:10because she never
16:10disturbed her father
16:11when he was in the lab.
16:13But now,
16:15when she discovered
16:16that he hadn't been
16:16to bed all night,
16:18she'd want to investigate.
16:19And I wanted to be there
16:22when the body was found.
16:28Oh, good morning, Alex.
16:30Hello, sweet.
16:32What's wrong?
16:33You look worried.
16:34Come on in.
16:36Alex, I am worried.
16:37Dad's still in the lab.
16:39He didn't go to bed
16:40last night.
16:40Well, what of it?
16:41He must be working
16:42on something big.
16:43No, no,
16:43I'm afraid something's happened.
16:44I knocked at the door
16:46just now
16:46and there was no answer.
16:47The door was locked?
16:50Yes, but I have
16:51a pass key.
16:52I wonder if I ought
16:54to use it.
16:54Well, of course you should.
16:56Well, please, Alex.
16:59You come with me.
17:00Of course, darling.
17:03Together, we opened
17:03the laboratory door.
17:05I was all set
17:06to act horrified
17:07when we discovered
17:08the body on the floor.
17:10But there was
17:11no need to act.
17:13I was horrified.
17:15For the...
17:17The lab was empty.
17:20There was nothing
17:21on the floor.
17:22The body of Professor
17:24Jarman was gone.
17:29I don't know
17:30for how many hours
17:30after that
17:31that I walked the street
17:32confused and frightened
17:34and uncomprehending.
17:36I tried to reason it out.
17:38How Jarman's body
17:39had walked out
17:40of that lab.
17:42There was only
17:42one solution.
17:44Jarman had already
17:44taken one dose
17:45of Elixir No. 4.
17:46It must have
17:47counteracted the poison
17:48that I'd forced
17:49into him.
17:49He must have
17:50gotten up
17:50and then walked away.
17:52But where?
17:54And why?
17:56I recalled
17:57what he'd said
17:57before I hit him
17:58with the mallet.
18:00Yes, I could hear
18:01his voice
18:01faintly strumming
18:02at my brain.
18:04You'll never
18:04enjoy your immortality.
18:06You'll wish
18:06you were dead
18:07a thousand times.
18:08I'll come back
18:09to remind you.
18:10The next day
18:18I went to
18:19Elaine's house
18:19and I saw
18:20that she was
18:21taking her father's
18:22disappearance
18:22pretty hard.
18:23Oh, Alex,
18:24I don't know
18:25what to make of it.
18:27Do you think
18:27that...
18:28that Dad...
18:30that...
18:31that he's...
18:32No, no,
18:32take it easy, baby.
18:33Maybe he's just
18:34suffering from amnesia.
18:35Maybe he just
18:36walked out of the house.
18:37He might turn up
18:38tomorrow.
18:38I have a terrible
18:39feeling, Alex,
18:40that he's dead.
18:44What makes you
18:45think so?
18:46Oh, I don't know.
18:47Now, now, please,
18:48Elaine,
18:49that won't do you
18:49any good.
18:50But it's the uncertainty.
18:51If I only knew
18:52for sure.
18:54Alex,
18:55do you believe
18:56in mediums?
18:58Communicating
18:59with the dead?
19:00Do you believe
19:00a medium can put
19:01you in touch
19:02with the dead?
19:03Oh, is that
19:04what you're thinking
19:05of, darling?
19:06Going to a medium?
19:07Don't you see, Alex?
19:09If Dad...
19:11Oh, if Dad
19:12is dead,
19:13maybe...
19:15maybe...
19:16I was worried, too.
19:18I had to know
19:19if Jarman was
19:20dead or alive.
19:20I had to know
19:21before I could
19:22start enjoying life.
19:24Yes, yes,
19:24that might be
19:25a good idea, Elaine.
19:26Can't hurt to try.
19:27There's a medium
19:28in town.
19:28Oh, I...
19:29I don't know
19:30what I want to do.
19:33Let me think
19:34about it.
19:35Sure, sure, darling.
19:37In the days
19:43that followed,
19:44I began to doubt
19:45whether I really
19:46was immortal.
19:47Was elixir number
19:48four really
19:49the elixir of life?
19:51Was I really
19:52going to live forever?
19:54If there was
19:54only some way
19:55to prove it.
19:57Then I remembered
19:58what Jarman had said,
19:59that the elixir
20:00caused a change
20:01of blood type.
20:02Well,
20:03that'd be easy
20:04enough to check.
20:05Elaine was
20:05taking a medical
20:06course,
20:07so I asked her
20:07to test my blood
20:08on the pretext
20:09that I thought
20:09I had anemia.
20:11Won't hurt, Alex.
20:12Just the needle.
20:14Ouch.
20:15There, now I've got
20:16all the blood I need.
20:17Just sit here a minute
20:17while I make the test.
20:19Well, does it take long?
20:20Only a minute.
20:21Alex.
20:27She was excited.
20:29There was something
20:30different about my blood
20:32then.
20:32Alex.
20:33Alex, come here quick.
20:34What?
20:35Look.
20:36Oh, look, Alex.
20:37I can't be mistaken.
20:40Your blood.
20:42It's a new type.
20:45Elaine couldn't get
20:46over the discovery
20:47that my blood
20:48was a new type.
20:49I'd asked her not
20:50to tell anyone
20:51about my new blood type,
20:52but I knew she
20:53wouldn't be able
20:53to keep the secret
20:54for long.
20:55And once it got out,
20:56people might begin
20:57to suspect
20:57what I already knew
20:59for sure,
21:00that I was immortal.
21:02Oh, I couldn't afford
21:03to have that known
21:04because then everybody
21:05in the world
21:06would be envious of me.
21:08They'd hate me, too,
21:09because they'd know
21:10I could go on living
21:11long after they were dead.
21:13Oh, no.
21:15No, it had to be
21:16a secret forever.
21:17No one in the whole world
21:19must know
21:20except myself.
21:24And the only person
21:25who could spill
21:26the secret now
21:27was Elaine.
21:31So,
21:32there was only
21:33one thing to do.
21:36Elaine furnished
21:37the opportunity herself
21:39the next day.
21:40Alex, I've been thinking
21:41about that medium.
21:42I've got to know
21:44if Dad is alive
21:46or dead.
21:48All right,
21:48whatever you say, darling,
21:49if it'll make you
21:50feel any better.
21:51I'll go with you,
21:51of course.
21:52Just the two of us, huh?
21:55We made a date
21:56to go to the séance
21:57that evening.
21:58And I made my plans
22:00accordingly.
22:02I didn't intend
22:03that Elaine should
22:04leave the séance
22:05alive.
22:07We arrived
22:12at the medium's
22:13house promptly
22:13at nine o'clock.
22:15The medium asked
22:16Elaine and me
22:17to sit close
22:17to each other.
22:19And then
22:20she put out
22:21the lights.
22:23Alex.
22:23It's all right,
22:24sweet.
22:25I'm right here.
22:26I'm right next to you.
22:27I'm frightened.
22:28There's nothing
22:28to be frightened
22:29about, darling.
22:30I'm right here
22:31with you.
22:31But it's so dark.
22:33I can't see anything.
22:34I don't hear anything.
22:39Where's the medium?
22:40She's still here.
22:41She's right across
22:42the table.
22:44She's gone
22:45into her trance.
22:46Do you think
22:46she'll contact
22:47Dad's spirit?
22:49I don't know, darling.
22:52Wait and see.
22:56I timed myself
22:57carefully,
22:59waiting for the moment
23:00when the medium
23:01should be well
23:02into her trance.
23:03Then I took
23:05out of my pocket
23:06the hypodermic syringe.
23:07I held the plunger
23:08in my left hand
23:09while I gripped
23:10Elaine's arm
23:11with my right,
23:12my thumb
23:13over the artery.
23:14Alex.
23:15My arm.
23:16Your fingers hit.
23:17It's all right, sweet.
23:20Slowly,
23:21I brought
23:21the hypodermic needle
23:23up close
23:23to the artery.
23:25One bite
23:26of the needle,
23:28a single
23:28plunge
23:29of the plunger,
23:30and death
23:32would come
23:33almost instantaneously.
23:35And no one
23:36in the world
23:37could say
23:37that it hadn't
23:38been heart failure.
23:40But suddenly,
23:41just as I had
23:42the plunger ready,
23:43I heard,
23:44I heard something
23:46strange.
23:48A sound.
23:51In the room
23:51where there should
23:52have been no sound.
23:54You'll never enjoy
23:55your immortality.
23:56You'll wish
23:57you were dead
23:57a thousand times.
23:59I'll come back
23:59to remind you.
24:00The dead.
24:01The voice of the dead.
24:03Jarman,
24:04where are you?
24:05Jarman,
24:05stop.
24:06You're dead.
24:06You're dead,
24:07Jarman.
24:07You can't be talking.
24:08You're dead.
24:09I saw your dead body.
24:11I killed you myself.
24:17Suddenly,
24:17the lights flashed up.
24:18The room was full
24:19of police.
24:20Arrest him,
24:20officer.
24:21He killed my father.
24:22You heard his confession.
24:24That voice.
24:25That was dad's voice,
24:26Alex.
24:27A recording.
24:28What?
24:29A recording.
24:30That's why he always
24:31talked to himself
24:32in the lab.
24:33He had a wire
24:34recording machine.
24:35He talked while he
24:36carried on his experiments
24:37so that there'd be
24:38a permanent record.
24:39The wire recorder
24:40picked up everything
24:41that was said in the lab
24:42the night you killed him.
24:43But we could never
24:44have proved it was
24:45your voice in court
24:45if you hadn't confessed
24:46just now.
24:47Yes, but the body.
24:49I found dad dead
24:51that night
24:52when I got back
24:53from the meeting.
24:54And I hid the body
24:55until I could find
24:56his murderer.
24:57And now, Alex,
24:59I found him.
25:08All through the trial,
25:10Elaine sat and watched me.
25:13All the time
25:14the jury was out,
25:16she sat and watched me.
25:18And she watched me
25:20while they read
25:21the verdict of guilty.
25:24Her eyes never left me
25:26when I stood up
25:27to be sentenced
25:27and heard the judge say,
25:30Alex Gregory,
25:32it is the judgment
25:33of this court
25:34that you be confined
25:36to the penitentiary
25:37for the rest
25:39of your natural life.
25:43Me.
25:45Me of all people.
25:47Me sentenced
25:48to imprisonment
25:49for life.
25:51Me in whose veins
25:53runs the precious
25:54elixir number four.
25:57Imprisonment
25:58for the rest
25:59of my natural life,
26:00which means forever.
26:14Oh.
26:15You know,
26:15I feel kind of sorry
26:17for Alex.
26:18He really got
26:19a tough break.
26:20Locked up in a cell
26:21for all eternity
26:23and no way out.
26:25Yes,
26:25looks like they'll have
26:26to build a new jail
26:27around him
26:27every thousand years
26:29or so.
26:31Of course,
26:31there's one way
26:32out for him.
26:33He could let his beard
26:34grow for a couple
26:36of centuries
26:36and when it gets
26:37long enough,
26:38he could hang himself.
26:40Imagine such a thing,
26:41Mr. Host.
26:42Yes,
26:42it would be sort of
26:43breathtaking,
26:45wouldn't it, Mary?
26:47Poor Alex.
26:48He probably had
26:49many good impulses
26:50in his lifetime.
26:52Yes,
26:52the trouble is
26:53he didn't follow them.
26:54Well,
26:54Mr. Host,
26:55I'm afraid that's
26:56something we all
26:56do every now and then.
26:58For instance,
26:59perhaps some of you
26:59Inner Sanctum fans
27:00have promised yourselves
27:01the pleasure
27:02of trying Lipton tea
27:03but somehow
27:04just haven't gotten
27:05around to it.
27:06Or maybe you've
27:07just forgotten it
27:07when you're writing
27:08out your grocery list.
27:09Well,
27:10this time,
27:10make sure.
27:12Add Lipton tea
27:13to your grocery list
27:14right now
27:14for until you do try it,
27:16you're missing
27:16a real treat.
27:18Why not start
27:19enjoying lively,
27:20full-bodied Lipton tea
27:22beginning tomorrow?
27:24And now,
27:31friends,
27:31before I say
27:32good night,
27:32here's a pleasant
27:33bit of philosophy.
27:35Biologists tell us
27:36that all life
27:37starts in a little cell
27:39and for convicted
27:41murderers,
27:42it ends there too.
27:47Oh,
27:47by the way,
27:48this month's
27:48Inner Sanctum
27:49mystery novel
27:49is Death
27:50in the Limelight
27:52by A.E. Martin.
27:54And next week's
27:55Inner Sanctum story
27:56brought to you
27:56by the makers
27:57of Lipton tea
27:58and Lipton soup
27:59and directed
28:00by Hyman Brown.
28:02Next week's story
28:03is called
28:04You'll Never Escape.
28:07So,
28:08if you feel
28:09in a capturing mood,
28:10join us
28:11next Tuesday.
28:13Until then,
28:15good night,
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