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even knowing what it is.

I knew .. so I'm one of the lucky ones.

But .. Paul ..

All sorts of people before me have

tried to live outside their time.

Quite futile.

There is a time to be

born .. and a time to die.

So please don't spoil the

exit I have chosen for myself.

You ought to know .. I always

had a liking for dramatic effects.

Goodbye Paul.

Au revoir Venetia.

Bring up Paul Mangin.

Paul Mangin, you are charged that on

the night of September 3rd 1938 ..

You willfully murdered Caroline Hart.

Under this indictment,

what do you plead?

Guilty my Lord.

Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes.

My Lords the King's Justices do strictly

charge and command all persons ..

To keep silence while sentence of death

is passed on the prisoner at the bar ..

On pain of imprisonment.

God save the King.

The sentence of the court is that you

be taken from here to a lawful prison.

And hence to a place of execution .. to

be hanged by the neck until you be dead.

And your body be buried within

the precincts of the prison.

In which you have been

confined before your execution.

May the Lord have mercy

upon your soul .. Amen.

Paul Mangin .. the

masked-ball murderer.

Strangled Caroline Hart with her

own hair. Executed October ..

Oh yes, I remember reading about

that in the News Of The World.

Good afternoon Miss.

Mortimer!

Not quite as we knew him, is it?

So it was you who sent the telegram?

Yes, Miss .. uh Madam.

You see, I discovered Veronica had found

your address and was writing those ..

Threatening letters

you've been getting.

Veronica?

Madam, do you believe he did it?

No .. not always.

Mortimer .. why should Veronica

now wish to blackmail me?

That is why I sent for you.

Veronica's always been

a little queer, Madam.

She was like that when I found

her and brought her home.

From Italy?

Oh no. That was her story.

He realized that she was mad and it

wasn't safe for her to be out alone.

But lately she's got worse .. she

is mad .. dangerously mad.

I sent you the telegram as I was afraid

you might take action against Veronica.

The poor Master's name would be

dragged through the mud again.

Oh Madam .. I wanted to

implore you not to do that.

Because I am .. having

Veronica put away.

Yes, I'm having her put away.

He never wished that but ..

Every evening, just as it's

getting dark she disappears.

A few days ago, I followed her

here .. always at the same time.

Just as this place is going to close.

She wants to have a

few words with him alone.

"Come along ladies and gentlemen."

There she is now.

"Hurry along ladies and gentlemen.

we're closing down."

"Hurry along, please."

I'm late Paul .. we haven't much time.

That old fool, he will keep spying on

me .. he pretends she's not in the house.

But I know she is there.

I hear her every night. Laughing

and dancing in the corridor.

I hear the music-box playing.

Last night ..

I went after her .. but she fled

and hid in the guest-room.

She knows I'm frightened of going there.

But one night .. I won't be.

I couldn't see the last

time .. it was too dark.

I couldn't see if she had red hair.

It was the one with the

black hair I wanted.

She's here Paul.

The one with the black hair.

She still uses the same scent.

Why did you let him die Veronica?

So that you couldn't have him.

Where are you?

You won't find me Veronica .. you won't

be writing any more letters to me.

Yes, get to know those faces Veronica.

Soon, yours will be one of them.

Look at your own handiwork.

You say you loved him, but you've turned

him into an effigy of horror and wax.

No good running away Veronica

.. no good running away.

Ahhh!

Ahhh!

Don't look Miss .. turn away ..

Go now, Miss. I'll see to everything.

Mortimer I .. Please Miss.

The Master would wish it.

Alright Mortimer.

"Come on ladies and

gentlemen .. all out please."

Thank you Mortimer.

Hello mummy! Mummy!

What have you got for us? Hello.

What have you got in that box?

Hello darlings. I've got lots of

presents for you .. of course I have.

Well, how did you get on?

I had a very busy time darling.

I spent more than I ought to. I bought

you a new dressing-gown to match mine.

Thank you.

How have the children been? Good?

How's the garden? Tulips out yet?

Well, darling, you haven't

been away a year you know.

I went into Madame Tussauds.

Really?

You know .. they've

got Paul Mangin there.

The man who strangled

a woman with her hair.

Funny you say that. There's something

about him in the paper this morning.

He didn't do it at all. His housekeeper

confessed just before she died.

She'd thrown herself under

a lorry or something.

You're lucky to have seen him. I expect

they'll take him out of Tussauds now.

They will?

He must have been a

very attractive person.

Didn't you think so, Mifanwy?

T-G. 2015.

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