She unfolds them and starts looking for something significant, but uncle Charlie becomes a bit violent, tugging her arm. Young Charlie steals the cut outs from her uncle's coat pocket. He tells her that the worrying news story was not about him, but about somebody he used to know. She tells him that now she will know what his secret is, as she believes that he appeared in the newspaper. Later, young Charlie notices the hidden newspaper pages. They reassemble the paper without the pages used for the house, since the father hasn't seen the paper yet, and he hides the torn page in his coat pocket. He notices a story that has special significance, takes out the pages, and calls the younger kids, Ann and Roger, to see how he can fold the double sheet so it looks like a house, tearing out rectangular holes for a door and a window. Oakley picks up the newspaper and begins reading. One says that he would do it disguising the murder as a suicide. Two men, Herbert "Herbie" Hawkins (Hume Cronyn) and Joe, young Charlie's father, discuss what they would do if one of them would desire to kill somebody. Her father says it's clearly a waltz, Oakley says he thinks it's The Blue Danube, but when she starts to say the right title, The Merry Widow, uncle Charlie spills a glass of wine onto the mantel. At dinner, Charlotte keeps humming her tune and asks around whether anyone recognizes it. She notices some engraved initials inside the ring and asks her uncle about it, but Oakley claims no knowledge the initials were there, alleging that the jeweller lied to him, selling a second-hand ring instead of a brand new one. She makes a comment that he always keeps a secret side of himself, and he tells her that she shouldn't guess everything about him. Young Charlie says that her mother is right when she says that she and uncle Charlie are so similar, like twins. Charlotte gets a special ring with a large emerald. There is much joy as he arrives at the Newton house and gives presents all around. Emmy is not there, but the father, young Charlie, and her siblings nerdy Ann (Edna May Wonacott) and Roger (Charles Bates) are there waiting for uncle Charlie. However, as he sees the family coming, his walk becomes completely normal and he is effusively greeted. The train clerk (Clarence Muse) offers to help him, as do a doctor (Edward Fielding) and his wife (Sarah Edwards) but Oakley pretends to be a grumpy person and rejects everybody's help. As he gets off the train he walks looking downward and uses a cane as an old frail person might. Oakley, on the train towards Santa Rosa, has kept out of sight behind Pullman curtains. Neither she nor Charlotte are able to identify it. Her mother Emma "Emmy" Oakley-Norton (Patricia Collinge) is radiant with pleasure at the prospect of seeing her youngest brother. At the telegraph office she learns that he has just announced by telegram that he is on his way. At times she feels the charming man is the only one who understands her need to be extraordinary, that there is more to her than her small town allows. She not only shares a nickname with her mother's youngest brother, but a special bond. Charlotte decides to improve things by inviting her favorite Uncle Charlie to come for a visit. Charlotte "Charlie" Newton (Teresa Wright), is frustrated by boredom, complaining to her father, Joseph "Joe" Newton (Henry Travers) because nothing interesting ever happens in her life or that of her family. In Santa Rosa, a teen living in a two story house is lying in bed. Oakley is at a pay phone booth, sending a telegram to Santa Rosa, California, telling his sister that he is coming for a visit and will arrive in a couple of days. He walks quickly, turns corners, loses them as he goes up a building and watches them from the rooftop, making sure he has lost them. Spencer, whose real name is Oakley, gets off the bed, picks up the money, goes out past the men, who do not react, but begin to follow him at a distance. Spencer" (Joseph Cotten) that two men were asking for him but she had followed his instructions, told them he was out. The landlady, Mrs Martin (Constance Purdy) knocks, opens the door and tells "Mr. Money bills are on his dresser and tumbled on the floor. A man dressed in a suit is lying on a bed, deep in thought. Couples in costumes in a room with 1900 décor are dancing to the music of The Merry Widow waltz by Franz Lehar.
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