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The magic detective starring the world's greatest magician, Blackstone,

he tells you the inside story of the ghost that wasn't.

And right after the story, Blackstone will explain quicks that you yourself can perform,

reveal the guarded secrets of the world's greatest living magician.

And now stand by for Blackstone, the magic detective.

Well, Rhoda, I thought you weren't going to get here.

Me, I'm never late.

Then you're the only girl in the world who isn't.

I'm exceptional. I am.

But your boss is late. Where's he?

Sorry to be held up, but even magicians get caught in traffic jam.

Well, it's only a couple of minutes.

A couple of minutes, you shouldn't say that.

Remember, Rhoda?

Oh, I certainly do.

Hey, this sounds like double talk. Remember what?

I guess we've never told you the story of what two minutes meant to Mortimer Weldon.

It meant a great deal to him, his life.

If it hadn't been for those two minutes, we might still believe in his grandfather's ghost.

Okay, okay. What's the story?

Well, it all started out of the old mansion that was owned by Mortimer Weldon.

There was a funny old place with tellets, and cubulas, and great winding stairways.

Rhoda and I got there about nine o'clock on a dark windy.

What do we all want to see you about Blackstone?

Did he see?

No, he didn't.

But I think that Mr. Blackstone?

Yes. Good evening.

Your Mortimer Weldon wants to come in.

Thank you.

Well, this is an interesting place you have here, Mr. Olden.

Yes, I've always liked it, until recently.

I've tried to keep it just as it was in my father's time.

I've never put in electricity.

Won't you come into my study?

Oh, certainly.

I'll go ahead if I may, with the candy.

Yes, too.

George, Blackstone, it's kind of spooky.

Won't you sit down?

It's funny you said that, Mr.

Oh, I am, sorry.

Mr. Weldon, my assistant, Rhoda Brent.

How do you do?

How do you do?

Funny, I said what?

About this place being spooky.

It is, you know.

It's haunted.

Oh, wonderful.

I've always wanted to meet a ghost.

Mr. Weldon, you can't be serious.

Oh, but I am.

Oh, I know it sounds fantastic, but

well, I want to give you the whole story, if I may.

Please, but no one has ever shown me a haunted house or a ghost

that I couldn't explain.

That's why I called you, Mr. Blackstone.

I wondered if perhaps you couldn't explain your ghost.

Well, how try.

Tell me all about it.

We've always known that the house was supposed to be haunted,

especially the tower.

But none of us ever gave much thought to it.

It was just a nice family tradition

until last week.

Well, what happened last week?

I was having a house party for my brother, Clarence.

We started talking about the ghost.

Clarence was dead to spend the night in the tower room.

Don't tell me he saw the ghost, Mr. Weldon.

We will never know.

The next time we saw Clarence, he was dead.

What happened?

Late that night.

After all of us had been asleep for hours,

I was awakened by a scream as were my guests.

It seemed to come from the tower room.

Your brother, Clarence.

The sound lying in the courtyard with his neck broken.

The door to the tower room was locked from the inside.

Well, Mr. Weldon, what do you want me to do?

I want you to see if you can find an explanation for all this.

May I see the room?

I'm afraid you won't find anything there.

It's been searched again and again.

Nevertheless, I would like to see it.

Very well.

I'll leave the bay.

Oh, the wall room seemed to be solid enough.

Yeah, there doesn't seem to be a secret door.

Yes, that was my first thought,

but I couldn't find a trace of one.

Well, the next thing for us to do is measure the place.

Sometimes there's a difference in measurement

that will show up a secret door where tapping won't.

Oh, dinner clock.

Is that clock right, Mr. Weldon?

Oh, yes.

It has always kept excellent times.

So many of those old grandfather clocks do.

This is a very beautiful example.

Yes, yes, I've always been very fond of it.

Yes, it's the right time to the second,

according to my watch.

Shall we go down and get a yardstick?

We want to get on with this very unpleasant business.

I've got a tape in the car.

I'll get it.

Oh, I ought to go with him.

These old corridors are tricky sometimes.

He may get lost.

Coming this way.

Nothing.

I'll wait here and see if it goes to come out and talk to me.

Hello, go.

Hello, ghost.

Come out and talk to me.

I'd like that, like an idiot.

You know, a road in my girl if you weren't

known from coast to coast is the very spirit of bravery.

I'd say you were a teeny tiny,

lengthy bit scared.

Oh, and I keep hearing things.

Oh.

The clock stopped.

And the candle's going on.

I don't like it here.

Oh, get away!

Roda, Roda, what's the matter?

I heard a scream.

Roda's voice.

And now the door is locked.

Why did you leave it alone?

I went out to you to see if you didn't get lost.

Open a door.

Very well.

Roda, Roda, are you all right?

I'd like to candle weld him.

Roda.

Oh.

Oh, thank heavens you's alive.

What happened, Roda?

Something dark and clammy hit me, then.

Took me to add me to the window.

The window that my brother was thrown in from.

It was the ghost backstone.

I swear it was.

Where were you standing, Roda?

When you were a grad.

Over there, right near the clock.

That's funny.

According to my wife's, that clock is two minutes slow.

And yet the last time we checked it, it was exactly right.

Blackstone, just before the ghost grabbed me,

the clock stopped.

I remember it.

You're sure?

Perfectly, I could swear to it.

Mr. Weldon, you and I have a little trip to make

to the police.

Blackstone, have you lost your mind?

I'm afraid not.

The police will want to ask you a few questions

about your brother's death.

But was he really guilty?

Did Weldon kill his own brother and grab Roda?

And was Weldon the ghost?

Yes, to all those questions.

But how did you know?

It was very simple, really.

Once Roda pointed away,

I knew that there had to be some accident entrance to that room.

There had to be.

And there was only one place in that room that we hadn't searched.

The clock?

Right.

We found later that there was a secret door

built in the back of the clock.

There was only one mistake that Weldon made.

You had to take the pendulum off in order to get in and out.

And that stopped the clock.

Weldon was in too much of a hurry to reset the clock,

after he got through a slugging maze.

From the point of his lug, you, Roda?

Well, that puzzled me for a little while, too.

But we finally figured that it was to bury out his story as a ghost.

The same reason, really, that he called Blackstone in.

Oh, he had heard that I had never found the ghost I couldn't explain.

And he was so confident of himself on his scheme

that he felt if I failed to discover the secret, no one could.

Lucky you know so much about a escaped Blackstone.

We might never have discovered how Clarence Weldon was killed.

And so another mystery was solved by an knowledge of magic.

Well, Blackstone, you got new trick for us today?

Yes, I have a very daffling one, but I'll have to borrow some money.

It seems to me that all of the tricks start that way when I'm around.

What do you want this time? Another quarter?

No, no.

It's time we were playing with bigger money.

I need a dollar this time.

Well, there you are.

Thank you.

Where are we going on this?

You see those two bottles, Roda?

These?

Yes.

And those glasses?

Right.

OK.

Just pour the contents of the bottles into the glass.

That sounds interesting.

Let's see, didn't you do a trick of glasses one time before?

Yes, but this time we aren't using the glasses, we're using the bottles.

That's why Roda's emptying.

Oh, there they are.

Now take Don's bottle bill and set one end of it on top of a bottle.

Hold it there.

There you are. What do I do next?

Just keep it there.

Well, I set the other bottle upside down on top of it.

Oh, I see.

Oh, I see.

You're going to trap my dollar bill right between the tops of the two bottles.

You mean he's going to try to?

It is easy to balance one bottle on top of another.

Why? It's very easy, Roda.

See?

Presumably.

And there's my dollar bill sticking out from between the two bottles.

Well, is the trick over?

Well, the trick is just again.

What I want you to do is to remove the dollar bill from between the bottles

without disturbing either one.

You expect us to leave the bottle balanced as they are?

That's right.

That's impossible.

Do you think it over, Roda, and maybe you will find a way to do it?

If you don't, I'll be back in a few minutes next plane it, Roda.

Well, Roda, how are you making out with the bottle trick?

Well, I've upset the top bottle three times already.

I think I've learned how to put it back.

Well, let's move in the right direction.

I've got them balanced for you with the dollar bill between them.

Now, you show me.

All right, here we go.

But first, Roda, how did you try to remove the dollar bill?

Well, I just grabbed the long end and tried to pull it out from between the bottles.

But the top bottle always came with it.

Yes, that was a trouble.

No, the trouble was that you didn't use the right system.

Now, watch carefully and I'll show you.

First, you take the long end of the dollar bill and draw it tightly, but carefully.

Well, I was trying to pull it from between the bottles.

That's right.

Just hold it extended with one hand.

And then what?

Raise the other hand above the dollar bill and hold the hand sideways like this.

I see, but now what?

I'm going to drive my hand straight downward when I say three.

So, you'll strike the center of the dollar bill, huh?

Correct.

Now, watch.

One, two, and three.

Well, how you snap the bill right from between the bottles?

The bottles are standing exactly the way Roda affects them.

The top bottle didn't even move.

And that's how the trick is done.

Just draw the dollar bill tight, hit it in the middle, and out it top.

I hope, ladies and gentlemen, you enjoy that trick.

And now, until next week, this is Blackstone wishing you good magic and goodbye.

Be with us next time when the world's greatest living magician, Blackstone,

tells us the story of the icy touch.

And explains more tricks that you yourself can perform.

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