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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00:00Lips and tea and Lips and soup present Inner Sanctum Mysteries.
00:13Good evening, friends of the Inner Sanctum.
00:32This is your host to welcome you through the squeaking door for another half hour of lovely chills and shudders.
00:39Oh, before we begin tonight, I'd like to give you a word of advice.
00:43If you should ever walk through a cemetery at midnight and come face to face with a transparent personality floating above a tombstone, don't be frightened.
00:53After all, you can see right through him.
00:56Good gracious, why do we have to talk about cemeteries?
01:00Because, Mary, our story tonight is about a vampire.
01:03Where else would you expect to find one if not in a cemetery?
01:07In the vampire state building?
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02:08That's fine, Mary, but quietly, my dear.
02:10Why the whisper, Mr. Hush?
02:12Don't make too much noise or you'll wake the dead.
02:16And we don't want to do that because tonight's story is called The Undead.
02:21It's an original radio play by Milton Lewis.
02:25Yes, and our star tonight is Anne Seymour, who plays the role of Diana.
02:31I was alone here in the penthouse sleeping.
02:35The doors leading to the terrace were open.
02:37Suddenly, I was awakened by a queer, whirring noise that sounded like the flapping of wings.
02:45I opened my eyes.
02:48Moonlight filled the room.
02:50It was one of those clear, cloudless nights.
02:54But the winds moaned and howled like weeping women.
02:59Somewhere, a dog howled.
03:02I sat up, peered into the green light of the moon, could see nothing at first.
03:09I lay down again.
03:11My eyes were half closed.
03:14And I heard it again.
03:16The sound of wings beating on the air.
03:19I told myself it was nothing.
03:21Until out of the queer, green shadows that surrounded me like a mist,
03:25I saw a pair of blood-red eyes close to my face.
03:28No, they weren't human eyes.
03:30They were rimmed with green.
03:33And they glittered like glass in the dark.
03:35I looked closer.
03:37Too frightened of the moon.
03:39Too terrified to cry out.
03:41The thing that seemed to be flying down my head looked like a bat.
03:45Yet it wasn't a bat.
03:47Suddenly, it floated down.
03:49I felt soft fur on my neck.
03:51Then my throat was pierced with a sharp, terrible pain.
03:55I started screaming.
03:56Let me go.
03:57Let me go.
03:58Richard.
03:59Where are you?
03:59Richard.
04:00Richard.
04:04Go on, Diana.
04:05When I felt your arms around me, I knew I was safe, Richard.
04:08But it was the most horrible dream I ever had.
04:10Yes, I know.
04:11I know, darling.
04:11You were hysterical.
04:12What do you think it meant?
04:13Well, nothing.
04:14Nothing of course, dear.
04:16Everyone has nightmares like that sometimes, rather.
04:18But it was so vivid.
04:19I could almost swear it happened just as I told it to you.
04:22Now, Diana, do you really believe you've encountered a vampire?
04:25I know it sounds ridiculous, darling.
04:28Listen, baby.
04:28You're living in New York City on top of an 18-story building.
04:32This is 1945, not the Middle Ages.
04:35Well, the whole notion is just rubbish.
04:37I tried to tell myself it was nonsense, too.
04:40But somehow...
04:41Oh, Richard.
04:42I want to get out of this place.
04:44But why?
04:44I don't like this apartment.
04:46There's something evil, sinister here.
04:48I've always felt it.
04:49Now, listen.
04:50Now, listen to that wind.
04:51The wind howl around here all the time.
04:53Well, naturally.
04:53It's a penthouse, and it catches the winds from the river.
04:56You hear that?
04:57Something slapping on the terrace.
04:58That's just the awning.
04:58There are always queer noises around here all the time,
05:01and I can't bear it being alone here at night.
05:03Richard, please, please don't let me stay here alone tonight.
05:05I can't stay with you, darling.
05:06I've got to go to the theater.
05:07I don't want you to go there, please.
05:09Let your understanding take the part tonight.
05:10Take me away from here, far away when it's warm in the sunlight.
05:13Diana, you don't know what you're saying, dear.
05:14I can't give up my part in the show.
05:16Of course.
05:18Of course.
05:20Darling, forgive me, please.
05:21I'm sorry I haven't mentioned it.
05:25You do forgive me.
05:27Don't you, Richard?
05:29Say you do.
05:30Why, of course.
05:32You're just upset over the silly dreams.
05:34I know, I know.
05:35I won't mention it again.
05:37You're okay, baby.
05:40Well, let's send the wait.
05:41I'd better get going.
05:42Want to come with me?
05:43Yes.
05:44No.
05:45I'm going to stay here.
05:47But if this place frightens you...
05:48That's just why I'm going to stay.
05:50And alone.
05:51I'm going to beat this thing.
05:53Somehow.
05:54That's better, darling.
05:55Much better.
05:56Here's your coat.
05:57Right.
05:57And you'd better take your scarf.
05:58It feels chilly.
06:01Richard.
06:02Hmm?
06:03I said I won't mention it again, but there's one thing more I have to tell you.
06:06That the face of that thing in my dream, it was your face.
06:13Diana, in the name of heaven.
06:14I won't talk of it anymore.
06:15I promise you, darling.
06:16I didn't mean to upset you just before you went to the theater.
06:18Just kiss me, dear.
06:19I'll be all right.
06:21I'll be all right.
06:21Diana.
06:24Good night, dear.
06:25I'll be waiting when you get back.
06:35It was just midnight.
06:37Two nights later.
06:39I was waiting for Richard to come home from the theater.
06:41I was going through his desk looking for a postage stamp.
06:46And I found something that turned my blood to ice.
06:51It was a newspaper clipping dated ten years ago.
06:55The picture of a man, and under it the caption,
06:59Prominent real estate operator Richard Barker.
07:03Found dead of a sudden stroke.
07:06I looked at the picture again.
07:09There could be no doubt of it.
07:10It was Richard.
07:11I read further.
07:13The deceased will be buried at Woodlawn Greenlawn Cemetery
07:17after services in the Westland Funeral Chapel.
07:21Good evening, Diana.
07:22Richard.
07:23Why, what's the matter?
07:24You seem startled.
07:25I...
07:25I didn't hear you come in.
07:28Have you been brooding again?
07:29No, Richard.
07:30Of course not.
07:32How do you feel tonight?
07:33Not...
07:33Not very well.
07:36Weak?
07:37Weak.
07:38Sleepy.
07:39Ill.
07:39Well, no wonder.
07:40You've hardly been eating a thing.
07:42And I know that you never catch a wink of sleep.
07:44I told you I can't sleep in the daytime as you do.
07:47As you do.
07:49Why are you staring at me like that?
07:51Why?
07:52Why do you sleep in the daytime?
07:54I've been doing it for years.
07:55Years?
07:56What's so terrible about that?
07:57Most theatrical people do.
07:59We live and work at night.
08:00Yes.
08:01Yes, I know.
08:02Really, Diana?
08:04What is the matter with you?
08:06Nothing.
08:07You...
08:07You think I'm losing my mind?
08:09Well, I don't know what to think.
08:11Why are you pretending?
08:12Pretending what?
08:13That you're something other than what you are.
08:15Because I know what you are, Richard.
08:16Really?
08:16I found out.
08:17This clipping I found on your desk, it...
08:19It tells how you died.
08:20That clipping.
08:21Oh, that.
08:23Why are you laughing?
08:24Well, you see, it's a joke.
08:26The gag.
08:27One of my pictures was sent to the papers.
08:29Publicity for a new play, you know.
08:30And a drunken typester put it in the obituary column.
08:34It's quite an amusing story.
08:35I don't believe you.
08:36You're lying.
08:37Listen, you can't go on like this.
08:39No, don't touch me.
08:40You're not well done.
08:41Take hands away from me.
08:42Because I just want to kiss you.
08:43No, no, don't touch me.
08:45Diana, where are you going?
08:46Out of here.
08:46Diana, come back.
08:47I'll come back when I've proved something to myself.
08:49Is there anyone there?
09:05What do you want, ma'am?
09:06I'm sorry to wake you up.
09:07Are you the caretaker here at Greenlawn?
09:11Many years, ma'am.
09:12I want to see the grave of Richard Barker.
09:16Who are you?
09:17Diana Barker.
09:18His wife.
09:19But it's one of the morning, Mrs. Barker.
09:21I know what time it is.
09:22I want to see the grave.
09:25No one comes at a time like this.
09:26Please, will you tell me?
09:28Perhaps this will help.
09:31Diana.
09:31For disturbing you.
09:33All right.
09:34You take the path in the back of my house.
09:36Stand to the right.
09:37Have you flashed my...
09:38I brought one from the car.
09:39It's only a short way, but it isn't a grave, ma'am.
09:42It's sort of a tomb.
09:44I'll find it.
09:45You want me to come with you?
09:47No, I've troubled you enough.
09:49Good night.
09:50Good night.
09:55Somewhere, an owl was howling, as though warning me not to go on with this insane adventure.
10:02But I knew I had to continue.
10:05I had to be certain.
10:07I followed his directions along the path of the cemetery.
10:11The moon poked yellow fingers through scudding clouds, as though showing me the way.
10:17I was frightened.
10:20Terrified.
10:22There's nothing to fear from the dead.
10:23I kept telling myself I had to keep up my courage.
10:28The dead.
10:29Perhaps they were right.
10:31There was nothing to fear from them.
10:34But the undead.
10:38There it was.
10:39A tomb.
10:41The inscription was clear.
10:43Here lies Richard Barker.
10:45Born May 7th, 1890.
10:47Died September 4th, 1935.
10:54There was a lock on the door.
10:55It was old and rusty.
10:57I'd come this far.
10:59I made up my mind.
11:00I picked up a stone.
11:05Smashed the lock.
11:06I opened the door.
11:12Blackness.
11:14Inky blackness.
11:15Such as one imagines one would see at the end of the world.
11:19Turned on the flashlight I took from the car.
11:23Coffin was lying in the center of the tomb.
11:25On an altar.
11:27I felt my heart beating wildly.
11:30Like a throbbing drum inside me.
11:32With a trembling hand.
11:34I opened the coffin.
11:38I looked down.
11:40On a ghastly white satin lining.
11:44That was all there was in the coffin.
11:47There was nothing else.
11:49It was empty.
11:52I looked up.
11:54There was a face staring at me in the shadows of the tomb.
11:59It was Richard.
12:01Diana.
12:02I knew you'd come here.
12:12Well, friends.
12:14That just goes to show that an empty coffin makes the most noise.
12:19You know, this is the kind of nice domestic story I like.
12:23The intimate family chronicle of a vampire.
12:26My goodness.
12:27Is that what you call intimate family life?
12:29Why, of course, Mary.
12:30It looks like our lovebirds will even share the same coffin.
12:34I'm afraid you're drawing a very strange picture of family life, Mr. Hobson.
12:38Right, Mary.
12:39And now let's go back to our horrors.
12:42Let me see.
12:43What dire predicament are we in tonight?
12:45Oh, yes.
12:47Diana has just discovered that her husband was wandering around his tomb.
12:51What would you do in a situation like that?
12:54Here's what Diana did.
12:56Listen.
12:58I ran blindly, stumbling, tearing my clothes.
13:01Somehow I managed to reach the car, start the night.
13:04In the car, I knew it wasn't all some dream.
13:07People didn't come back from the dead.
13:10Did they?
13:11Could they?
13:12I drove to the city.
13:14I wanted to see the lights, people, hear music.
13:16I wanted to be sure this was the world I'd always known.
13:26I tried to think.
13:28I tried to reason.
13:31I tried to understand what had happened to me.
13:34Because I knew something was happening to me.
13:40Something that I dreaded.
13:42I was becoming like, like them.
13:49Like Richard.
13:51I felt strange cravings.
13:55Desires that I didn't dare think of.
13:58Excuse me, Mrs. Barker.
14:00Oh.
14:00May I sit with you?
14:02I, I don't believe I know you.
14:05But perhaps not.
14:07Does it make any difference?
14:09No.
14:10No, it doesn't.
14:12Please, sit down.
14:14I'm glad you came over.
14:15I'm, I'm glad to be able to talk to anyone tonight.
14:18I've been watching you for the last ten minutes.
14:21Have you?
14:22You look very strange tonight.
14:26How do you know me?
14:28We all know each other.
14:31We?
14:32Yes.
14:33You realize you'll be dead soon.
14:35Dead?
14:36At least, what they call dead.
14:38You, you know what's happened.
14:41Oh, yes, of course.
14:43I've seen it happening for weeks.
14:46Your face became paler and paler.
14:51It will not be long now.
14:53You will become one of us.
14:54I don't want to.
14:55It's not in your hands.
14:57It, it isn't true.
14:58It, it can't be true.
14:59It's quite true.
15:01Many of us have gone on for hundreds of years.
15:04Those whose things become like us.
15:08And I...
15:09There is no escape.
15:10No.
15:11I don't believe it.
15:12Don't you feel it?
15:14Blood.
15:16That strange desire.
15:19Yes.
15:19There.
15:21You see?
15:22I don't want to.
15:23I once tried to fight him, too.
15:26It's no use.
15:26I'm going away.
15:27Far away.
15:28But he can't reach me.
15:29I'm going now.
15:30I know him.
15:30He can reach me.
15:32Waiter.
15:33Waiter.
15:34Will you help me here?
15:36There's been an accident.
15:43Everything is going to be all right, Diana.
15:45Just lie here and rest quietly.
15:48You're in your own home.
15:49I opened my eyes and saw Claudia, my older sister.
15:53Never was so glad to see anyone in all my life.
15:57Claudia had always helped me.
15:59Always advised me.
16:00She'd know what to do.
16:01You want something to eat?
16:02No.
16:03I'm not hungry.
16:04But the doctor said you'd have to eat.
16:06How did I get here?
16:07You collapsed in the cocktail lounge.
16:09They brought you home.
16:10When?
16:11Last night.
16:13It's dark out.
16:14You've been sleeping almost 24 hours.
16:17Where's Richard?
16:18At the theater.
16:19Poor boy.
16:20He was so worried about you.
16:21Was he?
16:22He sent for me.
16:24I've been with you since last night.
16:26Diana?
16:26What happened?
16:28It's terribly difficult to explain.
16:30I sometimes think I'm leaving my mind.
16:33I'd be sure that's what it is if I hadn't found out differently.
16:36Tell me about it.
16:36I found out Richard is dead.
16:40He's been dead for 10 years.
16:42What are you talking about?
16:43Sue, Claudia.
16:43I went to Greenlaw and I saw his tomb.
16:45I opened it and the coffin was empty.
16:46Diana.
16:46I know what you're thinking, but I'm not insane.
16:48He never sleeps at night.
16:49Now I feel this strange craving.
16:51Claudia, don't stare.
16:52You know what you're saying.
16:53Yes, I know it sounds wild, fantastic, but I haven't told this to anyone, but it's true.
16:57There are things in this world you only think of primitive superstitions, but...
17:00Claudia, you must believe me.
17:02Yes.
17:02Yes, of course.
17:03I believe you, dear.
17:04We must destroy Richard.
17:05I've read about those things.
17:07We must destroy him by driving a wooden stake through his heart.
17:09That's the only way I can escape from him.
17:10That's the only way I can become a human being.
17:12Diana.
17:12Diana.
17:13You'll help me, Claudia?
17:14Of course, dear.
17:16Haven't I always helped you?
17:17Where are you going?
17:17Just to fix you something to eat.
17:19No.
17:19No, you're going to leave me.
17:20Leave me here alone with him.
17:22I won't let you do that, Claudia.
17:24That gun.
17:25Where did you get that gun?
17:26We've always had one here.
17:27Ever since I first told Richard I was afraid of this place.
17:29You're not going to leave me alone now, Claudia.
17:30I'm not going to let you.
17:31Of course not.
17:32Get away from that door.
17:33That's what you want.
17:33Claudia, come back.
17:34No.
17:35I got it.
17:36Oh.
17:39Gone.
17:40Insane.
17:40She was so sure I was insane.
17:43She didn't even give me a chance to explain.
17:46I was alone in the house.
17:48I felt terribly weak.
17:50I wanted to sleep.
17:52I wanted to sleep forever and ever.
17:55But I knew if I lay down and closed my eyes, I might never open them again.
18:00Never open them and see the world as you or I used to.
18:06I'd be something else.
18:08I looked at the clock.
18:11Almost midnight.
18:13Richard would be coming back in a minute.
18:15I ran to the door, locked it from the inside of the safety boat.
18:19What to do?
18:21What to do?
18:23Police.
18:23I ran to the telephone.
18:28Operator.
18:28Hello, operator.
18:29Get me the police and hurry, please.
18:30One moment, please.
18:31Hurry when you...
18:32This is a matter of life and death.
18:34Hello.
18:35Are you ringing them?
18:36Police department.
18:36Sergeant, he'll wait for you.
18:38Hello, police.
18:39You've got to help me.
18:40Yes, what is it, lady?
18:41My husband.
18:42He's going to do something to me tonight.
18:43He's going to make me what he is.
18:45What's that, lady?
18:46He's been dead for ten years.
18:47I saw his empty coffin.
18:48That's proof, isn't it?
18:49That's evidence.
18:50You always want evidence, and there it is.
18:51Now do you understand?
18:52Well, I'm not sure I do, lady.
18:54What's your name?
18:55Diana Barker.
18:55All right, all right, all right.
18:57Now, calm down.
18:58Tell me where you live.
18:59I live...
18:59Oh, you think I'm insane, too, don't you?
19:01I didn't say that.
19:02You think I'm crazy, just as Claudia does.
19:04If you'll just give me the address, lady.
19:05Oh, what's the use?
19:06Please, lady.
19:08Don't believe me.
19:10I know I'm not insane.
19:11I knew it, and yet...
19:13What's that?
19:17His key is in the lot.
19:19He can't open it.
19:20It's bolted from the inside.
19:22He's trying to get in.
19:23Well, he can't.
19:24Not with that bolt.
19:27I won't open it.
19:28I won't.
19:29I'll just pretend I don't hear it.
19:30I'll cover my ears with my hands, and I won't hear it.
19:32He can't get in here.
19:33If I can keep him out until daylight, I'll be safe.
19:36Safe.
19:42Suddenly, the doorbell stopped.
19:44I knew he hadn't got away.
19:45I could feel him near me.
19:47But he couldn't get in.
19:48No, he couldn't get into the penthouse.
19:50There was no way to get in unless he came through the terrace.
19:52And there was no way to get on the terrace unless he could fly.
19:55Fly.
19:57The wind was screaming.
19:58When I turned to look at the French doors leading to the terrace,
20:00it was impossible.
20:01He couldn't.
20:02And yet, the doors burst open.
20:04The wind blew through the house like a cyclone.
20:06The air-framed in the double doors.
20:08Mr. Richard.
20:09Why didn't you let me in?
20:11How?
20:11How did you get out of the terrace?
20:13Never mind.
20:14What are you doing with that gun?
20:16Don't come near me, Richard.
20:16Diana.
20:17Go away.
20:18Go away and leave me alone.
20:18Give me that gun.
20:19No.
20:20I'm warning you, Diana.
20:21You'd better give it to me.
20:22If you take another step toward me, I'll fire.
20:23Diana.
20:24You see?
20:27The bullets.
20:29They didn't harm you.
20:30No.
20:31But I didn't miss.
20:32No.
20:34Dempsey.
20:35You see?
20:37It didn't do any good.
20:40What are you going to do?
20:41I'm going to put an end to this once and for all, Diana.
20:44An end?
20:45And I've prepared for this.
20:46I have a knife.
20:48You see?
20:48Richard.
20:49Don't be afraid, Diana.
20:50You won't quite die.
20:52No.
20:52No.
20:52Don't.
20:52Come here, Diana.
20:53Richard, no.
20:54You're making too much trouble while you're alive.
20:56Help me, Thomas.
20:57Let go of me.
20:58Thomas.
21:00I saw the knife over my throat.
21:03I beat it in his chest with every pistol.
21:05Then, just before everything became black, I saw three flashes of lightning.
21:11Go on, Mrs. Barker.
21:19When I woke up in the hospital, Inspector, I couldn't believe that I was still alive.
21:24It seemed like a miracle.
21:27He would have been dead if it wasn't for your sister.
21:30Claudia.
21:31She came back with one of our men.
21:34He shot and killed your husband just as he was about to plunge the dagger into you.
21:37But how did he get in?
21:38He came over the adjoining terrace.
21:41From the penthouse next door, just as your husband did.
21:44No, Mrs. Barker.
21:45Your husband didn't fly.
21:47But the other things, the picture, the tomb, the empty coffin.
21:51All props for an elaborate scheme your husband worked out to murder you.
21:55Richard Barker is not an uncommon name.
21:58He found a man with that name who died ten years ago.
22:00He removed the body.
22:02He got the whole idea from the dream you told him.
22:04But why?
22:06To establish that you were insane.
22:08He planned to murder you.
22:10And claim he did it in self-defense to protect himself against an insane woman.
22:13But the gun...
22:14Filled with blanks.
22:16He wanted to get your money, Mrs. Barker.
22:18But the way I felt those strange cravings...
22:22You're suffering from anemia.
22:23Your doctor told us that.
22:25It's not uncommon for anemia sufferers to feel the way you did.
22:28I still can't believe it.
22:30I...
22:30I still feel that he isn't quite dead.
22:34I'll relieve that fear right now.
22:36His body's in the other room.
22:38I think you should see it.
22:39Come this way, Mrs. Barker.
22:40There.
22:43Raise the lid of the coffin, Charlie.
22:44Yes, Inspector.
22:47What's the matter?
22:48He...
22:49He looks so lifelike.
22:51His lips are so reddy.
22:54He looks as though he could move.
22:57Get up at any minute.
22:59Nonsense.
23:00I assure you he's quite dead, Mrs. Barker.
23:02And I can further assure you that the police department has never encountered one authentic vampire in its history.
23:07You're...
23:08You're very reassuring, Inspector.
23:09I think I'd better leave now.
23:12Don't bother to see me at the door.
23:14Goodbye.
23:15Hold on, Charlie.
23:16Cover him up and have him buried.
23:18Okay, Inspector.
23:19I...
23:20What?
23:20What is it, Charlie?
23:22Inspector.
23:23Maybe I'm nuts, but I...
23:25I could swear that I saw him move.
23:27Oh, nonsense.
23:29Close the lid.
23:34It's getting dark, Charlie.
23:37Sun sure goes down quick these winter days.
23:39I'm going home.
23:43Good night, Charlie.
23:56Well, friend.
23:57Do you think Richard is really dead?
24:00That's something for you to sleep on when you go to bed tonight.
24:04Oh, and by the way, we have a moral for tonight's story.
24:08Yes, it's taken from a diary of Miss Delirium Tremans, who once said,
24:12Never marry a vampire.
24:14He may turn out to be 500 years old without a social security number to his name.
24:20And how can a girl have any fun going around with a guy like that?
24:23Well, Mr. Host, I don't think that's a serious problem.
24:26I'm positive that no girl will ever meet a vampire, much less marry one.
24:30Ah, but you can't be sure, Mary.
24:32The safest thing is to drive a wooden stake through your husband's heart.
24:36Yes, if he dies, then he must be a vampire.
24:39Oh, such foolishness.
24:41Let's forget all this talk about vampires,
24:43because I want to tell the folks about something wonderful that's going to happen next week.
24:47And next Tuesday's Christmas, you know.
24:49So instead of our usual mystery thriller,
24:52Inner Sanctum will bring you a tender and beautiful Christmas play called
24:55The Littlest Angel.
24:57And our star will be that great and beloved actress, Helen Hayes.
25:01So be sure to tune into this station at the regular Inner Sanctum time next week.
25:06I promise you, The Littlest Angel, starring Helen Hayes,
25:09and brought to you by the makers of Lipton Tea and Lipton Soup,
25:13will be the crowning pleasure of your Christmas day.
25:16That sounds great, Mary.
25:18You know, Christmas is really wonderful.
25:20There's something about it that gets even the most hardened characters.
25:24Oh, by the way, this month's Inner Sanctum mystery novel is The Fearful Passage,
25:28by H.C. Branson.
25:29And don't forget what Mary told you, friends.
25:33Next week, we'll bring you Inner Sanctum special Christmas program,
25:37directed by Hyman Brown and starring Helen Hayes,
25:40America's first lady of the theater.
25:43There'll be no gore, no chill.
25:45Not even one little murder, believe it or not.
25:48The holiday spirit is getting even us.
25:51So be sure to join us next Tuesday.
25:54Meanwhile, I'm going to do my Christmas shopping.
25:56You know where I can get a nice fur-lined coffin for a cold-blooded friend?
26:02Until next Tuesday, then.
26:05Good night.
26:07Pleasant dreams?
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