316 - September 11, 1967

[bunniefuu]

[Victoria narrating] - The night is long

and casts the shadow of doom over Collinwood.

One who is close to us,

a little boy, is still missing.

We do not know yet that the boy has been trapped in a mausoleum

in the old Eagle Hill cemetery.

[scraping]

Now he has found his way out,

unaware that a new and greater danger is about to fall on him.

- Come on, Sarah.

I'll help you up.

Now where did you go?

Come on, Sarah, this is no time to start playing games.

Sarah, I don't know where you are but I can't wait.

I've got to go home.

[hinges squeaking]

- Hello, David...

I've been looking everywhere for you.

But now I've found you, haven't I?

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- But Barnabas, what are you doing here?

- Looking for you, dear boy.

You've had us all very worried, you know.

- I guess I have.

I'm sorry.

- Well, it's all right as long as you are safe and sound.

Where have you been all of this time, David?

- I was lost, in the woods.

- What were you doing in the mausoleum just now?

- Oh... well, I was on my way home.

Honest.

- I asked you what you were doing in the mausoleum just now.

- Nothing.

- Come now, there must have been some reason for going in there.

- Well... Oh, well, I got cold,

so I went in there and I tried to get warm.

- But it's colder in there than it is out here.

- Well, I know, that's why I came out again.

- Is there something inside the mausoleum that fascinates you?

- Well, that's a place for dead people.

What could be fascinating a-a-about that?

- That's what I want you to tell me.

- Well, I don't know.

I mean nothing.

- You know it isn't right for little boys to tell lies,

don't you?

- Yes.

- You know what happens to little boys who lie

to their elders?

- But Barnabas, I'm telling you the truth.

Honest!

- I think not, David.

I think you are keeping something from me.

- No. I'm not.

- David, you're acting as though you are afraid of me.

You mustn't be.

I'm not going to hurt you.

- You-you said that the people at Collinwood

were worried about me.

I'd better start walking there.

- I'm afraid I can't let you do that.

- Why not?

- Well, because, at the moment, everyone at Collinwood

is out looking for you.

- Well...

Well, I still think I'd better go back there.

- I have a better idea.

You come along with me to my house

and wait there until someone comes back to Collinwood?

- Well, I can wait for someone there, at Collinwood.

- Well, I'm afraid I can't let you do that.

You see, I found you,

and now I'm responsible for getting you back there.

Now, if I were to let you out of my sight,

I would never forgive myself if anything should happen to you.

- Well, nothing's going to happen to me.

- Come... You come to my house

and you can tell me all about your little friend Sarah.

- What about Sarah?

- Well, she was the one who brought you

out to the mausoleum, isn't she?

- No.

Nobody brought me out here.

I came by myself.

- You do have a little friend named Sarah, don't you?

- Yes.

- Well, wasn't it her idea to go into the mausoleum?

Didn't she have a little secret she wanted to share with you?

- I don't know anything about a secret.

- I know better, David.

Miss Winters told me that you went out to meet Sarah

in a secret place.

- Well, I guess she's wrong.

- Well now, Miss Winters wouldn't lie

about a thing like that.

- Well, I'd better get going to my house.

- How old is your little friend, Sarah?

- Well, she's ten.

- Are you sure that she's not almost ten?

- Well, I-- I don't really know.

- David, I'm sure she's told you that she has a family.

- Well, no, she doesn't even talk about them.

- Oh, come now, she must've told you that she had a-

a little sister or a brother.

- No. Honest!

- Very well, David.

You come along with me to my house and perhaps your memory

will be a little clearer there.

- But no, Barnabas.

I want to go to my own house.

Barnabas, let go.

[Burke] - David? David! Is that you?

- It's Burke!

Over here, Burke!

Let's go and meet him, David.

- No, no, let's wait here.

Here he comes!

- David. - Oh, Burke!

- Thank God you're all right.

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- I found him here at the mausoleum, Burke.

He's been behaving rather strangely,

but I'm sure it's because the ordeal has left him terrified.

- It's strange how you succeeded where a sheriff

and a dozen deputies failed.

- Well, it's not so strange, really.

You've been covering the same area.

If I hadn't found him, I'm sure you would have.

- Yes.

Yes, I guess you're right.

David, how do you feel?

- I'm okay.

I'm just a little cold and hungry.

- Well, I should think you would be.

Did you say you found him in the mausoleum?

- Yes.

- Well, David, you couldn't have been in there very long.

Your father and Joe looked in there early in today

and it was empty.

- Well, I wasn't in there.

I...

I was playing in the woods and I got lost.

I think I wandered away too far.

- You also gave everybody a pretty good scare,

you know that, don't you?

- Yes.

I'm very sorry.

Is anybody at Collinwood now?

- Yes.

Vicki and your father are there.

What's the matter, David?

- Apparently, I must have confused David.

You see, I stopped by Collinwood on my way back

from Bangor and...

there was no one there when I knocked,

so I assumed that they had all left the house

to join the search.

I told David that there was no one there

and suggested that he come to my house and wait.

- I see.

Well, that won't be necessary.

We're taking David back to Collinwood right away.

- Let's do that, by all means.

[door opening]

- No news?

- Not a trace of him.

- They haven't given up the search, have they?

- No.

The Sheriff says they'll go on through tonight

and all day tomorrow.

But if they haven't found him by nightfall tomorrow,

the Sheriff thinks there may not be much hope.

- Oh, no!

- I can't understand it.

He couldn't have traveled very fast or very far in these woods.

The Sheriff has combed every square foot of this area

and they haven't found him.

Now, a child just doesn't vanish like that.

[door opening]

[David] - Vicki! - David!

Oh, David, I'm so glad you're safe.

- Oh, Father! - David!

- Are you all right? - Yes, I'm okay.

I'm just so hungry and tired.

- Where on earth did you find him?

- Well, actually, it was Barnabas who found him.

I happened along after he did.

- Barnabas, I can't thank you enough.

Where was he?

- By the mausoleum in Eagle Hill Cemetery.

- The mausoleum?

- He was just coming out of it.

- But we looked in there earlier this afternoon

and you weren't there then, David.

- Father, I told Barnabas, I was on my way home

and I got so cold that I went in there,

hoping I could warm up.

- Well, whether it was just luck or not,

I can't thank you enough, Barnabas.

- Well, David, we had better get some food for you

and then up to bed.

Come along.

- What's the matter, David?

- Nothing, Father.

Nothing.

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- Well, I agree with Roger.

Luck or no luck, we owe you a great debt of gratitude.

- Nonsense.

I deserve no special praise for carrying out

what was clearly my family responsibility.

- I'm curious to know how you happened

to be roaming around the mausoleum.

- I wasn't roaming around, Burke.

I happened to be on my way to the woods

on the far side of the cemetery.

There was a chance that David might be there.

- I see.

- I could ask you the same question, couldn't I?

You were in the area of the mausoleum yourself.

- Well, I was in the woods this side of the cemetery,

I had no plans to go near the mausoleum,

but then I heard David's voice...

- What does it matter who was-- who was where?

David is home and safe now.

And that's all that matters.

- Yes, quite right.

- Well, David is not likely to...

to go wandering out at night by himself anymore.

- Well, let's hope not.

- Well, I must be getting on.

I have some things to attend to at home.

Good night, Vicki. Good night, Burke.

- Good night. - Good night, Barnabas.

And thank you again.

- You're welcome.

And I'm sure what David needs most right now

is a good night's sleep,

but, if someone should have the opportunity to question him,

I'll be most anxious to find out how and where he got lost.

- All right. I'll be sure to let you know.

- Thank you.

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- Now, David...

I think we should have a little man-to-man talk

before you go to bed.

- But Father, can't we wait 'til morning?

I'm so tired.

- I can understand your being tired, David,

but surely it won't take much effort

for you to tell me where you have been.

- Well, I just went out to look for Sarah

and I couldn't find her so...

I kept walking deeper and deeper into the woods,

hoping that I could find her.

- Well, out in the heart of the woods is a very strange place

to go looking for a little girl, isn't it?

- Well, I guess so, but...

Sarah has a way of just showing up

in some strange places.

- And you didn't find her, did you?

- No. - Well, then what happened?

- Well, when I turned around to come back,

it started getting dark quickly and I got lost.

I was so tired of trying to find my way out,

I just finally fell asleep in the woods.

- Now, David, that just doesn't make sense.

The Sheriff and deputies were out looking for you

in those woods.

Burke, Barnabas, Joe Haskell and myself were helping them.

That's people altogether.

Now surely, if you were sleeping in those woods,

one of us would have found you.

- Father?

I don't think Barnabas was just walking past the mausoleum

when he saw me.

I think he was on his way inside it.

- Well, it's quite immaterial where he was going.

The main thing is that he found you.

- But he knew that you had already gone in there.

So why would he go in?

- Now don't try to change the subject, David.

- It's almost as though he knew I was in there.

- As a matter of fact, I would like to know

what you were doing in that mausoleum.

- I already told you.

- Well, now, David,

even that answer didn't make very much sense.

A mausoleum is hardly the place to go to get warm.

- I never thought about that.

Barnabas is mysterious, isn't he, Father?

- Now let's get back to what happened to you.

- You know, we don't know anything about him.

He just showed up one night.

- Now, you listen to me, young man.

I realize that you have been through an ordeal

and if you don't want to talk about it tonight,

very well, we shan't.

But be prepared to discuss it tomorrow.

I fully intend to find out what happened to you and why

and to see to it that it never happens again.

Now, get a good night's rest, son.

- Good night, Father.

♪♪

[Barnabas] - Willie!

- Well, hello Barnabas.

- Well, Willie, I see you finally decided to come back.

- What do you- What do you mean?

- I told you to be here at sundown to report to me.

Why weren't you here?

- I didn't have anything to report.

- Well, why didn't you come and tell me that?

- Well I-I was still out in the woods, looking around.

- You're lying, Willie.

- No, I swear.

I-I was still doing what you told me to do.

- When I give you an order, you usually carry it out

unless there is a reason you are afraid to.

You would have been here at sundown but you were afraid

to tell me something you learned today.

What was it, Willie?

What was it?

- I told you, nothing.

- Fortunately for you,

I have more urgent business to attend to.

- Like what?

- While you were out, cowering in fear somewhere,

I went out and found cousin David.

- You found him?

- Yes. - Where?

- Coming out of the mausoleum.

- The mausoleum?

Well, do you think he knows about the secret chamber?

- Of course he knows about it, you fool.

- Well, did he tell you that he did?

- He didn't have to tell me.

I knew it by the way he looked at me,

and by his lies in answering my question.

- Well, what'd did he say?

- He claimed he got lost in the woods and fell asleep.

I knew that was a lot of nonsense

and he was aware that I knew it and it frightened him.

- What did you do to him?

- I wasn't able to deal with him then and there.

Our friend, Mr. Devlin, happened to come along and...

so we took him back to Collinwood.

- Do you think he knows everything about you?

- I'm not sure how much he knows.

But the one thing I am certain of

is that he's lying to me about something.

We know that he went out to look for Sarah in a secret place.

That could be the secret chamber of the mausoleum.

If it was, then he probably knows everything,

and that means we will have to deal with him

as soon as possible!

- Barnabas, if, if you're not absolutely certain,

it would be wrong to do anything to him.

I mean, he's just a little boy.

Even if he got into the secret chamber,

he probably didn't understand what he saw.

- If he got in it, Sarah had to help him

and she probably explained everything to him.

- Maybe she didn't tell him anything.

- Maybe, maybe.

What assurance have I with maybe?

No, Willie.

At the very least, David's curiosity has been aroused

and curiosity in a child can be a very dangerous thing.

The sooner it's put to rest,

the better off the both of us will be.

♪♪

- David.

I would have thought you would have been fast asleep by now.

- I guess I wasn't as tired as I thought I was.

- Well, I should think you'd be exhausted.

Did you get enough to eat?

- Yes.

- You look very pale, David.

Maybe you're coming down with a cold or a fever.

Staying out all night in the woods

isn't very good for anyone.

- I don't feel sick or anything.

- But something's the matter-- What is it?

- Vicki, I'm scared! - Of what?

- I don't know.

- I guess if I had stayed alone in the woods all night,

I'd still be pretty scared, too.

- That's not what I'm afraid of.

I'm afraid of something right now.

- But, that's silly, David.

You're home and you are safe as can be in this house.

- I don't feel safe, Vicki.

I feel like somebody is watching me.

Somebody evil.

♪♪

- Good night, David.

Pleasant dreams.

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