- Roger Crosby: I have come to read the will of Cyrus West. Have any of the heirs arrived yet?
- Mammy Pleasant: No, Mr. Crosby.
- Roger Crosby: You must have been lonely here these twenty years, Mammy Pleasant.
- Mammy Pleasant: I don't need the living ones.
- Aunt Susan Sillsby: I'd like to see anybody get out of here.
- Aunt Susan Sillsby: I always look under the bed but I've never found anything yet.
- Cecily Young: You're not what Aunt Susan expected, but come out anyway.
- Paul Jones: I came in here to protect you from the ghost!
- Aunt Susan Sillsby: All men are alike, only some are worse. Now you get out!
- Paul Jones: Have you ever seen anything that looked like a ghost in this house?
- Mammy Pleasant: There may be one standing behind you now!
- Aunt Susan Sillsby: [to Annabelle] You've had twenty years to get ready for this meeting. It's a wonder you couldn't be here on time.
- Annabelle West: What's this all about, Paul?
- Paul Jones: Don't interrupt me... I think I'm thinking!
- Paul Jones: The solution of this mystery is in the envelope in Crosby's pocket.
- Paul Jones: The person named in that envelope is the one who murdered Crosby.
- Harry Blythe: Haven't you found anybody to put in your straightjacket yet?
- The Guard: No - but I will before I leave.
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- Narrator: On a lonely pine-clad hill overlooking the Hudson, stood the grotesque mansion of an eccentric millionaire...