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Speaker 1 (00:08):
My dear, so good to see you back. I know
last week got a little interesting. Well now, of course
I'm back in my home of source and always happy

(00:28):
to have your visited so late at night. Oh what's that?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
I suppose some other time I'll fill you in on
all the goings on, but let's just say I made
the most of a glimmer of life. Now, please get comfortable.
The tea is brewing. This November night is very cold,

(01:01):
and I'm starting to feel shadows from the gray come in.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Welcome, Welcome to mystery Theater. I am Hymen Brown. Those
of you who have attended performances in the mystery theater
know that there are certain tales that particularly entrance and
intrigue me. They deal with the unusual, the unfamiliar, the unexplainable.

(01:40):
So I have turned today to that master of mystery,
Wilkie Collins, who has a habit of coming up with
a story that's always making me say, why that's not possible?

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Or is it? Say?

Speaker 5 (01:58):
Say? Can you hear me?

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yes? I can, Uncle, it's me Xavier. Are you a ghost?

Speaker 5 (02:10):
Why didn't Father Daily bless my coffin?

Speaker 4 (02:15):
I wanted him to Uncle, but he refused absolutely refused.

Speaker 6 (02:20):
Why because he said, you didn't die and natural death.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
You must make him bless the grave. I cannot rest
until he does.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Our mystery drama Shadows from the Grave, adapted from a
story by Rookie Collins, was written especially for the Mystery
Theater by James Agate Junior and stars Christopher Tabori and
Fred Gwynn. I'll be back in a moment. With Act
one one invariably associates mysterious with lonely old houses, strange,

(03:21):
small inbred towns, peculiar characters, and I have to admit
this story follows that pattern. The man who told it
to me is one ex y Zenith. You can imagine
the comments this poor guy has gone through life with. Nevertheless,
he didn't seem to mind when I said, XYZ, would

(03:43):
you tell us about your extraordinary adventure yourself?

Speaker 6 (03:53):
Having been christened Xavier Yardley Zenith and suffered with those
initials all through school in California, I decided that when
I got to the job age and became very good
in photography, to open up a studio of my own.
Call it Zenith of Hollywood, not an unusual word in Hollywood,

(04:16):
where everything is the top. The best, the ultimate, the Zenith.
Two things occurred in April of this year which totally
changed my life.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
One I planned to marry.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
And two I got a note from my uncle George,
who lived in Fresno, come see him on what he
called a matter of some importance.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
Hello, up there, uncle George, it's me Xavier. What are
you doing up in that tree?

Speaker 7 (04:45):
Xavier, Welcome, my boy. I've just about sealed up this
hole in the tree. Eh here, give me a hand, steady,
A pretty sprite A man in my age. Don't you
think you've never been up this way before?

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Have you saved you since I was a child, Uncle George,
What happened to this big old oak? Struck by lightning?

Speaker 7 (05:10):
No, it's the woodpeckers and squirrels that make all these holes.
I've just had it with the noisy beggars. They jump
from this tree to the top of the porch, and
then they run along my bedroom window, making the most
infernal racket you can imagine. So I've just been sealing
up a few of their nesting places.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
Let them find apartments elsewhere, I say, what about that
big hole on the other side of the tree.

Speaker 8 (05:37):
Maybe tomorrow and mix up some more cement.

Speaker 7 (05:40):
Say boy, you always go around with two cameras hanging
around your neck.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Photography is my business, so I'm always prepared just in case.

Speaker 8 (05:48):
Is there a living in it? You sell your pictures.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
I used to do better, took shots of movie stars
on location, did a lot of newspaper and magazine work.

Speaker 7 (05:59):
But work is thin that I have a proposition to
make you, since I gather that picture taking business isn't
too profitable these days, I think you may be interested.

Speaker 8 (06:09):
Are you married?

Speaker 4 (06:11):
I'm just about to be this coming Saturday, matter of fact?

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Good?

Speaker 7 (06:15):
Then what I have in mind might make an excellent
wedding present. I'm not a rich man, Xavier, but comfortably
off fifty nine acres orchards, gardens, this house, and a
private family vault.

Speaker 6 (06:32):
On the premises you're joking, you're a mausoleum.

Speaker 8 (06:37):
Death is not a joke, Xavier. I am going to
die in a week.

Speaker 7 (06:44):
You know you're not. You look fit as a fiddle,
an ill tuned fiddle. Now death is only a few
days off of me. Would come to this for some time,
so it's no surprise. I'd like to show you where
I'm going to be buried. Here we are that's gerarra

(07:08):
marble and but mon granite. Those two locks on the
bronze door are an invention of mine.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
Mind if I take a picture of it, not at all.
There's no one in your private mausoleum, now, is there?

Speaker 2 (07:23):
No?

Speaker 7 (07:25):
There was no no one now, Xavier, I want you
to pay particular attention. Two keyholes and two separate brass keys.
There is a very good reason for the two locks.
When I am laid to rest inside this wal Xavier,

(07:46):
I don't expect I shall be trying to get out,
but I do not wish anyone else to get in.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
But why would a person want to?

Speaker 7 (07:55):
It's not necessary for me to explain all that to
you now, my boy, I turned the handle and so
not spacious, but not crowded. My final home.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
Uncle, If you don't mind, could we go back to
the house now. I'm not at my best in mausoleums.

Speaker 8 (08:18):
All right, I've shown you everything.

Speaker 7 (08:21):
We'll sit ourselves on the porch and I'll tell you
what's on my mind. Have you ever sat in a
porch swing?

Speaker 8 (08:29):
Xavier? Comfortable?

Speaker 4 (08:38):
I love these old swings, Xavier.

Speaker 8 (08:43):
I have no choice. You are my only living kin.

Speaker 7 (08:47):
There is no one else I'm leaving all my worldly
possessions in this house, the contents, the grounds, everything to you.

Speaker 8 (08:58):
On one condition.

Speaker 7 (09:00):
You must live here and every day, every single day,
mind you, you must go to that mausoleum and make
certain there's been no one tampering with the locks.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
And that's the only condition.

Speaker 8 (09:13):
Uncle, the only one.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
I certainly appreciate your generosity. Can I think it over
and let you know I'd like to talk it up
with Catherine.

Speaker 8 (09:24):
Absolutely not, you're going to agree right now. But but what.

Speaker 7 (09:31):
You can have your zenith of Hollywood office right here.
This place is plenty big enough. You can turn this
hilarium into a studio if you like. I don't care,
I won't be here it's all decided, then good. I'll
have Henley take you to the top of the hill,
a good view and you can see most of the property.
Have a tug at that bellpull with Isavia. My dear boy,

(09:55):
you don't know what a relief this is. My fate
lies in your hand just a moment.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Uncle. I haven't agreed to this inheritance yet, But if
I do and I find someone's been at the locks
of that mausoleum, what should I do.

Speaker 7 (10:11):
In my desk in the library bottom right hand drawer
is a letter of instructions.

Speaker 8 (10:17):
The envelope has one word on it.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Joshua, did you say, Joshua?

Speaker 7 (10:23):
But unless someone has been trying to break in, that
letter must never be read. You rang, sir, Yes, Henley,
this is my nephew, Xavier Yardley Zenith. He's going to
be living here. I want you to acquaint him with
the property. Very well, sir, goodbye, Xavier. I shall not

(10:44):
be seeing you again. Have a good walk. Well, my
dear Joshua, your old friend George Zenith has found a
way to outwit you.

Speaker 8 (10:59):
Do you hear me, Joshua?

Speaker 6 (11:07):
That's exactly what he said, Catherine. He stood looking out
of the window at the tree he'd been cementing, talking
to someone called Joshua.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
Of course wasn't in the tree. It was most uncanny.
And then I left the room with handling the butler.

Speaker 9 (11:25):
How well do you know your uncle George?

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Only slightly, I'd.

Speaker 9 (11:28):
Say, so, then you have no idea what he meant
by Joshua. I'm going to outwit you now, not the vegust.

Speaker 6 (11:35):
But the important thing is, Catherine, do we want to
spend the rest of our lives in a Victorian white
elephant with a.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
Cook and a butler.

Speaker 9 (11:42):
Our lives.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Well, that's the deal.

Speaker 6 (11:44):
If I accept, I have to guard that mausoleum every
single day.

Speaker 9 (11:51):
Darling. Let's forget about this crazy uncle George of yours.
We're getting married Saturday. That's enough to think about for now.
If your uncle won to leave us his big old
house in Fresno, fine, I love old houses, especially when
it's a free gift. You didn't promise anything, did you?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
No?

Speaker 4 (12:10):
I didn't.

Speaker 6 (12:15):
Saturday, Catherine and I tied the Knot nothing fancy, just
a few friends at the Registrar's office in Hollywood Boulevard.
About a dozen of us drove out to Laguna Beach
for a wedding breakfast, and we just got around to
toasting one another in California Champagne when my service tracked
me down and left a message that Uncle George had

(12:36):
died and would I come back to Fresno.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
I'm father daily, mister Zenith.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Your uncle came occasionally to our church, father daily. This
is my wife, Catherine.

Speaker 8 (12:46):
How do you do?

Speaker 10 (12:48):
I'm sorry this sad occasion has brought us together. Not
a very auspicious first married week.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Is it.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
It's hard to believe.

Speaker 6 (12:57):
He seems so healthy and when he talked about being
dead the week or did he?

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (13:03):
I thought it was his macomber sense of humor. How
do you suppose he.

Speaker 10 (13:07):
Knew or if he intended to take his own life,
and quite naturally.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
He would know.

Speaker 6 (13:14):
Well, surely no one think of my son. No one
knows when is the funeral service. There isn't going to
be one in the strict sense of the word, no funeral.

Speaker 9 (13:26):
But why not? Father?

Speaker 10 (13:27):
I'm afraid mister Zeena's uncle may not have died a
natural death. The medical examiner said, an overdose of sleeping pills.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
Oh, but couldn't that have been an accident? I mean
he told me he had a lot of trouble sleeping.

Speaker 10 (13:41):
Well, of course it could have, which is what the
coroner decided, death by accident. But so long as there's
the slightest suspicion, which you have rather confirmed just now,
for me, I cannot bless the grave.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
I could bite my tongue for telling you what he said,
that he'd be dead in a few days.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Had you kept your uncle's intentions secret, that indeed would
have been immortal sin.

Speaker 6 (14:13):
Yes, Henley you wish to see me, I do, sir, cook,
and I want to leave.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
You wish to leave this house?

Speaker 11 (14:20):
But why will? Your uncle was alive.

Speaker 10 (14:22):
There were some very peculiar things going on, but out
of loyalty.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
We just couldn't go. Peculiar things that frightened you.

Speaker 10 (14:29):
Oh yes, indeed, sir, Strange voices and goings on, and
awful shrieks like someone being attacked, terrifying.

Speaker 6 (14:38):
If you ask me, I quite agree with you. Have
you heard such noises since my uncle passed a win?

Speaker 12 (14:43):
No?

Speaker 4 (14:44):
Well, then I suggest to you the noises died with him.
Now I'll w salary cooks also, and I don't want
to hear any more about your leaving.

Speaker 10 (14:53):
You put it that way, sir, we'll be happy to
stay on.

Speaker 6 (15:02):
Every day I go out and check the locks on
the family vault. Catherine and I started making over the
solarium into a studio, and I ordered equipment for a
dark room. But then one night I had a strange dream.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
Savior, Savior yardly seen.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
It is that you, Uncle George.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
Why didn't Father Daily bless my coffin?

Speaker 4 (15:31):
I wanted him to uncle, but he wouldn't. He said.

Speaker 6 (15:34):
There was some question as to how you died.

Speaker 7 (15:38):
You must insist he bless the coffin. I cannot rest
until he does.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
Uncle George, Am I really talking to you? Or am
I imagining things in my sleep?

Speaker 7 (15:50):
Promise me you will make father daily bless my remains,
Otherwise I have lost.

Speaker 13 (16:01):
I am to sleep, says Hamlet, for chance to dream.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death,
what dreams may come?

Speaker 2 (16:20):
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil?

Speaker 4 (16:23):
Must give us pause.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Our friend Xavier Yardley Zenas has surely been given pause.
His uncle dies mysteriously, then appears in a dream, giving orders,
exacting promises.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Where will it lead? Where will it end? Mystery?

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Theater will return shortly with Act two. It has been
an enigma for thousands of years. Our ghosts an illusion,

(17:04):
a projection of what one wishes to see. Or do
they represent some ephemeral link between the world of the
dead and the world of the living. The problem that
faces Xavier is to persuade a member of the ministry
to bless the remains of a man who may have
committed murder, For that is indeed how the Church regards suicide.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Catherine, I tell you, Uncle George's ghosts set it as
clearly as I say this to you, Father daily must
give me his blessing. I cannot rest until he does.

Speaker 9 (17:39):
Honey, can I say something? I appreciate this inheritance, the house,
the grounds, money to run it and have a butler
and a cook. I never, in my wildest dreams did
I ever think I'd have that. But on the minor side,
there's all this infatuation with death at mausoleum, which has
to be guarded as though it were two time commons too,

(18:00):
And now you having nightmares about your uncle Savior. It's
not healthy.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
What am I to do? I gave my word.

Speaker 9 (18:06):
What about your career? You're a little young to retire
to a gingerbread house in Fresno and play nursemaid to
goolies and ghosty.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
Oh, we're going to make a great studio out of
the solarium and then that enormous closet, turning it into
a dark room.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
It'll be great.

Speaker 9 (18:20):
You don't understand me, do you. You've got to get
out into the world and take pictures, mister Zenith of Hollywood,
but having always to be one night away from this
place so you can check the locks on a dead
man's tomb is going to hold you back.

Speaker 6 (18:35):
I told you all this before we married, so don't
throw it in my face.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Now.

Speaker 9 (18:38):
What's the matter with you, Xavier? Have you no will
of your own? Wey a month ago? If I told
you that a ghost came to me in my sleep,
you would have laughed right out loud.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
I'm not laughing now.

Speaker 9 (18:49):
You really believe you saw him, don't you?

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Of course I do. I was there, he was there,
I heard him.

Speaker 9 (18:54):
And you've decided to stick it out here for the
rest of your life.

Speaker 14 (18:56):
Is that it?

Speaker 4 (18:57):
If I have to, I will.

Speaker 9 (18:59):
I think i'd better leave you alone until you cool off.
I'm not letting any dead uncle get in the way
of my life. And I mean it.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Catherine did mean it. Next thing, I knew, she'd lit
out and went back to LA I knew where to
find her, all right, and her mother's, but I was
darned if I go running.

Speaker 10 (19:21):
After her, My dear mister Zenith, my hands are tied.
The church simply cannot acknowledge any untoward debt.

Speaker 6 (19:29):
Father daily for three nights running. Uncle George disappeared to
me at night, saying, help me lie in rest. I
cannot until Father Daily blesses my coffin Xavier mayor Cory Xavier.
I wish you would, Why, boy, you and I are
both modern men at the edge of the twenty first century.

(19:52):
For you to tell me that you're being visited by
your uncle's ghost. While I won't discount it as a
part ability, it's much more likely to be your own
conscience worrying you to such an extent that you can
convince yourself that you've seen him. You tell me it
happens when you're asleep. I say to you, yes, it could,

(20:15):
but that still doesn't make it any more than a dream.
Last night he said I should read some of the
books in his library, and I would understand.

Speaker 10 (20:25):
Go read your uncle's books, and if this brings you
peace of mind, then you know whether his appearances are
fact or fancy.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
That's just what I aim to do.

Speaker 6 (20:36):
Father, you rang for me, sir, Yes, I did Henry
come into the library and shut the door behind you.
Did you know my uncle was greatly interested in black magic.

Speaker 10 (20:55):
I did tell you I was awhere. Something strange was
going on. He and missus Tree they did some kind
of I don't know what you'd call it mister Tree
a friend of your uncle's. They spent a lot of
time together, and then a year ago mister Tree went away.

Speaker 6 (21:14):
Can you be more specific than something strange?

Speaker 10 (21:18):
Well, sir, there be a lot of candles, hundreds in fact,
that have them all burning, and that be incense and
chanting right here in the library.

Speaker 6 (21:31):
Mister Zenith, I'd been reading these books, and what amazed
me was how many of them deal with the power
of black magic.

Speaker 10 (21:40):
I remember him asking me to bring home a cup
of holy water from the church, and I said to him,
I said, well, sir, you're supposed to go to church
in person and bless yourself with holy water, not bring
the holy water here. And your uncle said, getting the
holy water is the easy to I have to get

(22:02):
the blood of a child to mix with the water.

Speaker 6 (22:07):
Henley, did you ever find out what it was for?

Speaker 2 (22:09):
No?

Speaker 10 (22:11):
I didn't. I didn't ask, and I didn't steal the
holy water from the church either.

Speaker 6 (22:16):
Henry, you strike me as a sensible man. Will you
do me a favor tonight? I generally take a walk
in the garden after dark. Perhaps you'd walk with me.

Speaker 11 (22:27):
Certainly, sir. I see you brought your camera. Mister zenith.
Can you take pictures with orly moonlight?

Speaker 6 (22:40):
Yes, films so fast nowadays I could get a picture
of you at twenty feet by the light of one match.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
Now this part here where we're walking, is this also
part of my uncle's property.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
I should say, your property, sir? This is all part
of it.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
And that brook took. Let let's walk to the other
side across this footbridge. The path seems to continue downstream
over there.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
Over there?

Speaker 6 (23:09):
What's that little stone building? That's the mausoleum, sir?

Speaker 4 (23:14):
So it is by move I'm afraid I'm a little discombobulated. Wait,
that's a good shot from this side of the brook,
mausoleum reflected in the water.

Speaker 15 (23:27):
Yeah, I think I got it, any heny.

Speaker 16 (23:33):
What's that?

Speaker 4 (23:34):
What's what's sir? The figure of a man? I just
saw him in my viewfinder. Then he disappeared. Where's her
there there again? Can't you see it? Yes? Yes, there
was someone. He's moving away from the mausoleum. You see him.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
He's wearing a long cape almost to the ground.

Speaker 11 (23:54):
Can you see how long cape?

Speaker 5 (23:57):
Hold?

Speaker 11 (23:57):
No cakes, excuse me.

Speaker 10 (24:00):
Mister Snath, for TI must go then lit which just
a minute, sir, will you please let go off my arm.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
I will when you tell me.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
Now.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
Do you know that man?

Speaker 11 (24:10):
He's come back?

Speaker 9 (24:13):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (24:14):
I never thought we'd see him again.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
Kenley ran off. I followed the man in the cape,
keeping my distance across the brook.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
He seemed to glide over the earth. I ran across
the footbridge towards him, and then he disappeared. I turned
back to the house and suddenly there he was, standing
against the big oak tree, and then.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
He seemed to melt right into it.

Speaker 10 (24:46):
I do apologize, mister Zenith for my behavior last night,
leaving you like that.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yes, sounds rather puzzled.

Speaker 10 (24:53):
You're a photographer, sir, so I have something to show
you this snapshot.

Speaker 11 (25:02):
Do you see that man?

Speaker 6 (25:04):
Yes, it's very like the thing I saw last night.
I hunched of a man with a long cake. It
looks like he's talking to someone, someone out of camera range.

Speaker 10 (25:15):
Possibly, if that's the peculiar part of it, he was
talking to someone. I took a picture of the two
of them, but the other man's not in the picture.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
Are you saying this person we can't see was there
but didn't register on the film. I don't think I understand.

Speaker 10 (25:33):
Perhaps it's better that you don't, mister Zedith. What about
the man whose picture you got?

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Do you know him?

Speaker 10 (25:40):
It's mister Joshua Tree, sir. When he used to live
here and now he's come back. That's why I must
pick you for your understanding and indulgence, Missus Henley, and
I simply cannot stay for a moment longer, even.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
If it is mister Tree who's come back. Why must
you leave? Henley?

Speaker 10 (26:00):
I can't say anymore, I really can't. But if you
want my advice, mister Savior, if you value your life,
you'll leave here.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
Also, when I developed the shots I took of the
cape figure, they were identical to Henley's snapshot.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
That night from the darkened library.

Speaker 6 (26:27):
I watched the oak tree at midnight, the figure in
the cape appeared. I crept out of the house, following
me to the door of the mausoleum.

Speaker 16 (26:37):
This is what Uncle.

Speaker 6 (26:38):
George must have meant. I reached forward to stop the man.
Something hit me on the head from behind.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
I blacked out, A.

Speaker 9 (26:51):
Savior, Savior, you're right, oh, Catherine, what are you doing
here dreaming? Don't ask so many questions. That's quite a
bump on your head here. Let me help you out.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
I can't make it all right.

Speaker 17 (27:08):
Oh, whoever hit me wasn't kidding.

Speaker 9 (27:12):
Just stop talking and lean on me and we'll walk
slowly back to the house.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
Catherine, This gets more mysterious every minute. But the biggest
mystery is how you just happened to show up.

Speaker 9 (27:24):
I'm your wife. Remember, I decided I was being stupid,
so I came back.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
No, darling, you don't have to hold me up. I
can make it all right.

Speaker 9 (27:32):
Ah, You're not gonna trip and fall again while I'm.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
Around, Catherine. I didn't fall. Somebody hit me.

Speaker 9 (27:40):
Navier, what are you talking about? I saw you at
the mausoleum when I came out of the house. I
saw you step back and fall over. There wasn't a
soul in sight.

Speaker 6 (27:50):
You didn't see anyone near me. It's after two in
the morning.

Speaker 9 (27:54):
When we get back to the house to bed, you
go and not a peep out of you.

Speaker 6 (27:58):
You don't believe that I was hit from behind.

Speaker 9 (28:01):
I believe my eyes and they didn't see a thing.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Father, DELI, who is Joshua Tree? Where did you hear
that name? Henley told me, but not much else.

Speaker 10 (28:20):
Joshua Tree he was a man who to the bottom
of his heart, if he had one, was basically evil?
How did my uncle come to know him?

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Where? He just turned up? About two years ago?

Speaker 10 (28:35):
Your uncle took a fancy to him and saw a
good deal of him, which I am afraid was the
most unfortunate thing he ever did in his life.

Speaker 9 (28:43):
Why do you say that, father.

Speaker 10 (28:45):
Joshua Tree was the very spirit of the devil himself.

Speaker 6 (28:49):
I show you a photograph I took near my uncle's
vault the day before yesterday.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
Is that Joshua Tree?

Speaker 10 (28:56):
M the count really make out the face, but the
cape and the angle of the head very similar, I'd say,
But of course, how could it be?

Speaker 4 (29:10):
He disappeared a year ago?

Speaker 16 (29:12):
Father?

Speaker 6 (29:13):
Here's another picture? Is that the man? Yes, that's him.
You didn't take this picture, did you?

Speaker 17 (29:20):
No?

Speaker 4 (29:21):
It was given to me by Henley, he took it.
If that's Joshua Tree, you notice he appears to be
talking to someone, but there's no one there.

Speaker 10 (29:31):
Oh, yes there is. But the camera can't record an apparition.

Speaker 9 (29:36):
You mean, Joshua Tree was talking to someone, but we
can't see him.

Speaker 10 (29:39):
Because, my dear young lady, that invisible thing is a familiar.

Speaker 9 (29:45):
What's that?

Speaker 4 (29:47):
A familiar?

Speaker 10 (29:48):
Is an evil? Spirit visible to very few. The devil
can see him, as can a sorcerer's apprentice.

Speaker 6 (29:56):
So you were saying, Joshua Tree was such an apprentice, savior.

Speaker 18 (30:10):
Are you in here?

Speaker 4 (30:12):
There's nothing here? Try this drawer?

Speaker 18 (30:15):
What are you doing?

Speaker 4 (30:16):
I said nothing? Nothing?

Speaker 9 (30:18):
What do you mean nothing?

Speaker 4 (30:20):
I mean there's nothing in any of my uncle's desk drawers.
He told me there was.

Speaker 9 (30:24):
Say, dear, why don't you answer me.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
Because I don't have any answers.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Let me see if I can get under this desk.
Knock the wood.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
Maybe there's a secret drawer.

Speaker 6 (30:35):
Ah, yes, it's hollow.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Here.

Speaker 6 (30:38):
Listen, one of these drawers is short behind it.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
That there must be. I'll pull this drawer, I'll put
it on the floor. Then I reached back in suck. Yes,
I feel something, novel. Well, here's she be?

Speaker 9 (31:00):
How did you know it was back there.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
Before he died?

Speaker 6 (31:03):
Last time I saw him alive, Uncle George told me
that if somebody was tampering with his mausoleum, I find
my instructions in a letter that the word Joshua written
on it, to whom it may concern.

Speaker 17 (31:17):
So oh no, oh, no, murdered he killed him?

Speaker 4 (31:27):
Lord in Heaven, what are we to do now?

Speaker 3 (31:35):
The ghost in the play Hamlet says, I am thy
father's spirit, doomed for a certain term to walk the
night till the foul crimes done in my days of
nature are burned and purged away?

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Is it so with Uncle George?

Speaker 3 (31:53):
Is he also doomed to eternal unrest until his sins
are purged and burnt her way?

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Mystery theater will return shortly.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
It's all very well to pooh pooh the occult ghostly apparitions,
phantoms that haunt the deceased, who cannot find peace until
they find love or forgiven their earthly sins, etc.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Etc.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
But the fact remains that time and again psychic researchers
have agreed there are manifestations that defy and disobey nature's laws,
and whether we like it or not, the unexplained does exist.

Speaker 6 (32:53):
I shall never forget that evening, For even as I
stood there the letter of confession in my hand, Catherine
waiting for me to read on, we were both suddenly
so overcome by the cold.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
I handle light of fire, and this was late July,
mind you, We needed a fire. We lit candles.

Speaker 6 (33:12):
Something compelled us to like dozens and dozens of candles.

Speaker 9 (33:17):
Warmer. Now it's seeing the flames. I think. Go on, Xavier,
read your uncle's letter.

Speaker 6 (33:23):
To whom it may concern, especially you, my dear nephew, Xavier,
I fear they have come to get me. They've appeared
at the door of my mausoleum, or else.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
You would not be reading star Uncle George. Catherine to
see him.

Speaker 9 (33:43):
Yes, is he is that?

Speaker 8 (33:45):
You don't be alarm, my dear young lady.

Speaker 7 (33:49):
I'm sorry we did not meet before, but only your
husband can help me.

Speaker 19 (33:56):
Is this true?

Speaker 18 (33:57):
Am I really hearing this?

Speaker 7 (34:00):
You must find Joshua's body and destroy it, burn it.
You see, I had to kill him. I put his
body in the crypt, and then it disappeared.

Speaker 9 (34:14):
How horrible, Catherine.

Speaker 7 (34:17):
Joshua Tree's death was not half so horrible as his life.
I was a fool, a lonely old fool. I submitted
to his black magic. I subordinated my will to his
and became a crawling, a craven creature. My mind, I

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my mind. I lost control of my mind. It was
all the doing of the hellish creature he conjured up
from the world of the damned, his familiar.

Speaker 6 (34:49):
Uncle if Joshua tree's body is hidden somewhere. How can
I find it?

Speaker 9 (34:55):
We will try anything to help you.

Speaker 7 (34:57):
Uncle, persuade father to bless my grave, Help me, savey,
help me.

Speaker 6 (35:11):
I'm glad you finally saw them two castles, all those
heavy summer storms. You better check the library windows. I'll
do the ones on the side castine. You make sure
the one's facing the front of trade.

Speaker 9 (35:21):
Look the fire in the fireplace.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
It's going out. The s must see the downdraft blowing
down the chimney. Now the fire's gone out.

Speaker 15 (35:28):
Oh, the candles are going out.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Must be some stranger circulating in this room. Let me
get the electric lights.

Speaker 9 (35:33):
The switch is by the door.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
That's funny, nothing's happened.

Speaker 9 (35:39):
Can't you turn the lights on?

Speaker 2 (35:42):
No? What what?

Speaker 4 (35:45):
That happens? Often in the country get a big storm
and the electricity just shuts off.

Speaker 9 (35:49):
I'll look out the front library windows and see if
there are lights in the other houses down the road. Savior,
come here, there's someone out there. Look pressed against the
big old man in the cape and next to him
a tall kind of man.

Speaker 15 (36:07):
They're both huddling against the trunk of.

Speaker 9 (36:08):
The tree, trying to keep out of the ring.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
Catherine the tall one. It's tuning around from the tree,
just looking right this way. Can it see us?

Speaker 18 (36:20):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (36:20):
Hidious face my death? The eyes do you see those eyes?

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Not's beckoning to the man in the cape.

Speaker 9 (36:27):
I see him? Is that Joshua Tree in spirit?

Speaker 6 (36:32):
For I am sure now where his body is in
that tree. That's why Uncle George was so haunted.

Speaker 4 (36:38):
Oh it's all clear to me now. The time I
followed Joshua Tree to the mausoleum, they were trying to
get at the corpse of Uncle George. It was the
familiar who knocked me down.

Speaker 9 (36:49):
Am I imagining it? But both of them have come
much closer to our picture window.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Who, Father, DELI is that you? This is Xavior. You've
got to come over to my uncle's house. You've simply
got to Father, I employ you come now. Catherine and
I are here alone. Only you can save us.

Speaker 9 (37:14):
Give me that phone, Father Daily, this is Catherine Zenus.
There are two creatures outside the library window right now.

Speaker 15 (37:23):
They're not real people.

Speaker 9 (37:24):
Father, I have a very strong feeling they're not human.

Speaker 15 (37:30):
At this moment.

Speaker 9 (37:31):
They are pressing their faces against the glass of the
library window. The hands are clawing at the glasses. If
they wanted to break through it. Yes, yes, it is, father,
Come quickly, help us, help us. They're raising their hands
now and pounding at the glass.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
We ran out the back door into the raging, storming night,
lashed by rain, not knowing which way to escape. The
only path through the garden led right to the mausoleum,
and before we could stop us, we were practically on
top of it.

Speaker 9 (38:02):
It's there.

Speaker 15 (38:03):
It's standing at the door of the ball.

Speaker 20 (38:05):
Wrab my hand chasing.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
Hold on, We'll run.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
For the brook.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
Where are we going into the water? Come on, it's
not deeve, Catherine, we can walk it. Stay in the
middle of the brook with me. You see, these evil
spirits cannot follow humans into water. If we just keep moving,
it'll give up. I'm sure of it.

Speaker 18 (38:21):
Oh, I hope you're right.

Speaker 15 (38:23):
It's got to give up before I do.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
I was right. The thing gave up finally, and by
the time we'd climbed to shore, it had gone.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
There.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
We stood the rain beating down on us from above,
and our legs and clothes soaked from the brook. Somehow
we found the main road to town and ran towards it.

Speaker 9 (38:50):
There's a car coming, let's see headlights.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
Let's stand at the wast side of the road. I
have to staying alive this long. I don't want to
be hit by a car.

Speaker 11 (38:59):
Serve you, Catherine, What are you doing out here?

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (39:03):
Father, Daily, don't answer me.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
Just get in. We've got to get back to the house.

Speaker 10 (39:07):
All right, all right, all right, close the door, les
go Now tell me you two, what are you doing
standing in the road?

Speaker 4 (39:13):
Went from head to toe.

Speaker 9 (39:15):
We ran from the house to get away from they
actually broke through a plate glass window.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
It's smoothed, peculiar, peculiar.

Speaker 9 (39:24):
It was horrifying.

Speaker 10 (39:25):
Why do you say that, father, because the spirit of
Joshua Tree and his familiar are not after either of you.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
While they certainly gave a good imitation.

Speaker 10 (39:36):
Now you don't seem to understand these creatures, the dead
and the spirit they've called up. There's satanic twin. In fact,
they're not after living persons. They're on the constant lookout for.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
The newly dead.

Speaker 4 (39:50):
Well you see the broken library window, and then tell
me if there aren't exceptions.

Speaker 10 (39:55):
Where are they?

Speaker 4 (39:56):
Now?

Speaker 2 (39:57):
It's time my wrestle with the devil.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
What will you do?

Speaker 10 (40:01):
I shall quiet the demons with my crucifix. There's only
one way to drive out Satan, and the Church has
been doing it for centuries. Oh, Father, look, the vault
door's open.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Someone's coming out God, someone for some fiends carrying out
your uncle's coffin.

Speaker 19 (40:27):
Stop.

Speaker 21 (40:28):
I charge you, d fiends of hades. Tha has entertained
familiarity with Satan, the grand enemy of God. I charge you.
Put down that body and begind.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Father Daily advanced upon the two creatures holding his crucifix
in front of him, the familiar and the spirit of
the murdered Joshua Tree halted, released the coffin and ran
Father Daily, and I carried Uncle George back inside the
vault and closed the doors. It came to me in
a flash, the oak tree. It was there we would

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find the source of the evil.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
You were right, Savior. I can see her shadows. I'll
hold them back with my crucifix.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
Somewhere inside this oak are the remains of the man
my uncle killed.

Speaker 10 (41:19):
When we find that, I suspect he'll be wrapped in
that long kp war.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
There's a sizeable hole on the far side. When I
first came here last April, my uncle was up there,
cementing up some holes, since he knew Joshua Tree's body
had been taken from the mausoleum by the Familiar. Your
uncle might have suspected it was in this tree. I
don't look forward to finding a pile of decomposed bones.

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What do we do with them? Father? Bone them?

Speaker 6 (41:48):
I'm glad Catherine's in the house. Then the how she
would react to a funeral pyre?

Speaker 2 (41:53):
We have no choice, the.

Speaker 10 (41:57):
Father, the Familiar, It's still the Yeah, It's minutes on
earth are numbered. Once we have destroyed the body of
Joshua Tree. What held it here no longer exists, and
the Familiar must return to.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
The black beyond.

Speaker 6 (42:14):
And Uncle George must have known that his body could
be invaded after death, and he would have had to
walk the earth forever with this Familiar.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
When I find the remains, I shall light the fire
to them and hold high the cross.

Speaker 4 (42:32):
But what about Uncle George.

Speaker 10 (42:34):
I shall go back into the mausoleum and bless the coffin,
requiescat in pache.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
I'll be back shortly. With a final thought.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
The flames consumed phantoms from the grave, and the Good
Father returned to the tomb and blessed the coffin. Will
there be deliverance for the uncle released from wandering the earth?

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Oh? Yes, But in the dimension of the beyond, will.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
The spirit of the murdered sorcerer allow his murderer to
exist in peace? Or will Uncle George discover his eternal
torture is just beginning. Our cast included Christopher Tabori, Fred
Gwynn Court Benson, and Betsy Beard.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Associate director Marlon Swing.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
This is Hymen Brown, producer director, inviting you to return
to our mystery theater for another adventure in the Macarbre.
Until next time, then pleasant dream.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Well, my dear, it does seem a bit colder than
I would expect for this time of year. I suppose
winter is almost here, a time to reflect and of
course drink something warm. But I can't help but think

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how odd it must be for those people were their
how swarming? Why I can't imagine any other way to
keep the chill out than to curl up in the
funeral fires.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
You finding life rather dull, dreaming again of exotic places,
wishing you were somewhere else.

Speaker 22 (45:06):
We offer you escape.

Speaker 23 (45:26):
Escape with us now to Malea, where a young doctor
and a beautiful girl are faced with the horrors of
plague and the bloody holocaust of a native revolt, As
Charles Israel tells.

Speaker 24 (45:37):
It, in funeral fires, they were burning the dead.

Speaker 8 (45:59):
The column of flame sucked up against the night sky
of the river town leaned against it, held, and from
far away the dirge and Melee is mourning They're dead,
then drifting down to the landing where I stood. Somehow
the word always the word in Melee and Chinese and English, plague.

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Plague had come to Lapour, plague. That's why I was here,
all the way from Delhi. I'd come my plague CEREMONI
The police lieutenant who met me at the rickety little
wharf had been there for five days already. He was
very young, and he didn't like his job.

Speaker 25 (46:51):
Read the awful showvice, don't you think so, sir?

Speaker 8 (46:55):
And it's going to get worse.

Speaker 25 (46:56):
You've brought serum, so that should do the trick.

Speaker 8 (46:59):
It should, But it's not that easy. Every time a
native season needle, he takes off for the hills, thinks
it's something. They kill him quicker, and not these natives, sir.

Speaker 26 (47:06):
There was a plague epidemic here about fifteen years ago,
Sarah and wiped it out The natives call it foreign
devil medicine, but they respect him.

Speaker 8 (47:15):
That's good, and we'll save us some time.

Speaker 26 (47:17):
There'll be a boy here in a minute for your luggage.
I'm glad you've finally arrived, sir. It's good to have
a doctor here.

Speaker 8 (47:25):
I told me there was a doctor here, a doctor Grimes,
it says, doctor and his son, Sir, fine, need his help.

Speaker 25 (47:32):
I wouldn't count on it, sir.

Speaker 8 (47:35):
Why not?

Speaker 25 (47:36):
You will see, sir?

Speaker 8 (47:37):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 25 (47:39):
Wait till you meet doctor Grimes.

Speaker 26 (47:41):
If you want a bit of free advice, sir, I'd
rely more on miss Randall.

Speaker 8 (47:46):
Miss Randall, who's she an American?

Speaker 2 (47:50):
Sir?

Speaker 8 (47:50):
An American? Or what's she doing here?

Speaker 25 (47:53):
I don't know, sir.

Speaker 26 (47:54):
But she walked in and took over the whole ruddy show,
converted an old warehouse into a hospital. Been slaving day night.

Speaker 25 (48:02):
Wonderful, sir.

Speaker 8 (48:05):
Yeah, someone's calling you, Lieutenant.

Speaker 26 (48:08):
He'll find me who competriot of yours?

Speaker 27 (48:13):
Oh there you are the tenant. I've looked all over
town for you. Now, I'd like to know who's allowed
all this. You're responsible for this, lieutenant, responsible for what?

Speaker 25 (48:23):
Mister Ford for this?

Speaker 28 (48:25):
Here?

Speaker 25 (48:25):
Funeral business.

Speaker 20 (48:26):
Every native in Lapa down there by that fire.

Speaker 25 (48:29):
Is there anything wrong with that? Mister Ford.

Speaker 27 (48:31):
I'll tell the world there's something wrong my whole night.
Every last man down there singing and carrying on.

Speaker 25 (48:39):
I'm afraid I can't stop them.

Speaker 27 (48:41):
Mister Ford, you'd better stop the lieutenant get down there
and send them back on the job.

Speaker 8 (48:46):
You can't stop them for it. Eh, who are you?
My name is Donovan, Doctor Mark Donovan.

Speaker 27 (48:52):
So your name is Donovan, So that don't give you
a right Hey, wait a minute, Holy smokeman, you're an American.

Speaker 8 (49:00):
That's right.

Speaker 27 (49:01):
Well, now that's different stake heads, Doc, Holy smoke.

Speaker 8 (49:06):
Why didn't you say so?

Speaker 15 (49:08):
Ford?

Speaker 20 (49:08):
Is my mom the cake?

Speaker 27 (49:10):
That name is American as the hole in the life
saver oscar our Ford, Cleveland, Ohio.

Speaker 16 (49:15):
Ever been to Cleveland?

Speaker 29 (49:16):
Doc?

Speaker 8 (49:17):
What are you doing in lapour Ford?

Speaker 27 (49:18):
Rubber on a rubber plantation in near Air. That's outfit
and the whole shbang. And you know why, Doc, because
it's run by an American. That's why efficient table say, say, Doc,
you'll get my man back to work.

Speaker 5 (49:31):
Quotch it.

Speaker 8 (49:32):
I'm here to wipe out plague and lapour for it?
Oh shure, Doc, that's what I mean.

Speaker 19 (49:36):
Wipe out the plague.

Speaker 27 (49:38):
We'll show them, Doc, and if you need help, you
can count on Oscar our Ford.

Speaker 25 (49:42):
Remember that, Doc.

Speaker 8 (49:43):
Yeah, I'll call you when I need you, Lieutenant. Yes, sir,
I'll be going over to the hospital right.

Speaker 25 (49:51):
Straight down this road, so accomplish it.

Speaker 8 (49:53):
Thanks. I'll let you know when we're ready to set
up our serum station, right to ourselve. I left him
standing there with Ford and walked through the town. Everywhere
I turned, I brushed against death, got into my nostrils,
crept into the landing of my clothes. The deserted streets

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shrieked of it, so that a ravaged face seeing through
the door of a straw hot plague, and only the
Sarah had brought with me could stop it. I walked
into the warehouse that had been converted into a hospital,
rows of people lying on the wooden floor, hundreds of
them dying and the dead. And I saw her, a

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lieutenants girl on her knees beside a dying man.

Speaker 12 (50:46):
She looked up at me, hand me that cloth, please,
this one, No, not that one there in the basin.

Speaker 14 (50:56):
Bring out the water first, Miss Randal. Yes, what do
you want.

Speaker 8 (51:04):
My name is Mark Donovan. I'm just coming from Deli.

Speaker 14 (51:08):
That's fine, I'm busy.

Speaker 8 (51:10):
I'm a doctor.

Speaker 14 (51:11):
Did you bring the serum with you? Yes, well get
it and.

Speaker 8 (51:14):
Get to work, Miss Randal. I'm in charge here now.

Speaker 14 (51:21):
I'm sorry. It's just that I'm tired.

Speaker 8 (51:25):
I know I need your help. We're going to set
up a serum station.

Speaker 14 (51:32):
It's about time. When do we start?

Speaker 8 (51:34):
As soon as we can get organized. Oh, by the way,
miss Randall, is doctor Grimes, Iran the rum pot, the
resident medical officer.

Speaker 14 (51:44):
Look, if you.

Speaker 12 (51:45):
Want to find Grimes, there's only one gin parlor lapour.

Speaker 14 (51:49):
I call it the Nine Dragons.

Speaker 8 (51:50):
He'll be there, thanks, Miss Randall. Yes, get yourself from
sleep a doctor.

Speaker 30 (52:01):
As soon as they stopped dying.

Speaker 8 (52:19):
Hey there, boy, you seen doctor Grimes.

Speaker 26 (52:21):
Doctor Grimes.

Speaker 19 (52:23):
You will find him the sort at the corner table.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
Thank you, your doctor Grimes.

Speaker 25 (52:38):
What im who wants to know?

Speaker 8 (52:42):
I'm doctor Mark Donovan, World Health Organization. I just got
in from Delhi.

Speaker 29 (52:48):
Okay, well now that's a fancy introduction.

Speaker 31 (52:51):
Laddy, it's worth the drink, dear lady, god drink at
No thanks, didn't be the laddy, No thanks, take.

Speaker 25 (53:01):
The glass laddie, take it. We'll have a wee toast. Hi,
that'll be the ticket we toose.

Speaker 29 (53:08):
I said, no, you didn't have drink from my lane.

Speaker 8 (53:15):
But the Grimes, how soon can you be ready to
give plague injections?

Speaker 29 (53:18):
There's no blasted plague here, young man's drunk. I say,
there's no.

Speaker 31 (53:24):
Plague here, No plague here here.

Speaker 25 (53:27):
That's what I say, and that's what I mean.

Speaker 8 (53:29):
On Grimes, or get some coffee, ah.

Speaker 29 (53:32):
Riselin, young man, I'm in charge here.

Speaker 8 (53:35):
Let's go, Grimes.

Speaker 29 (53:38):
Come this in the battle.

Speaker 25 (53:39):
Report on me?

Speaker 28 (53:40):
Have you not?

Speaker 19 (53:41):
Hey?

Speaker 29 (53:42):
Well, ye'll no do it?

Speaker 21 (53:44):
I said, come on, hey, I'm coming, young man, I
ain't coming.

Speaker 8 (53:49):
Put coming to get up here.

Speaker 29 (54:01):
You send a bad report on you know?

Speaker 8 (54:05):
He tell me you won't get up?

Speaker 29 (54:12):
No, what is it you want from?

Speaker 8 (54:15):
Already? Meet me at the hospital in one hour we're
gonna begin shooting seum.

Speaker 25 (54:20):
I anything you see have you wanted? If you please,
no body report, just be there. I'll be there.

Speaker 8 (54:32):
I looked back at him. He was standing propped up
against the table, staring at me, and he was grinning
like a great evil cat, grinning. I walked through the
swinging doors into the street, outside was silence, the cool

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silence just before dawn. I stood there, letting it surround me.

Speaker 32 (55:01):
Don't be rude, mister Wull.

Speaker 8 (55:04):
He stood barring my way. On his shoulder was perched
a tiny black monkey. The Chinese laned his face close
to mine.

Speaker 32 (55:13):
Please to talk with me, and if you are kind,
also with mister Woo.

Speaker 8 (55:18):
Another time, I'm in a big hurry.

Speaker 32 (55:21):
Mister Wu is my greatest friend, the ruler of king
Post pet shop.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
I am cool.

Speaker 32 (55:27):
I'm sorry, No, Doctor Donavan. It is to save your
life that I desire to enter into conversation.

Speaker 8 (55:35):
How do you know my name?

Speaker 32 (55:36):
I know many things. Please to talk with me, all right,
make it quick. To waste time is not Countess wish.
The old time is his greatest ambition.

Speaker 16 (55:49):
This is not mister Wu.

Speaker 8 (55:52):
I had, mister Khan.

Speaker 32 (55:53):
My father was Chinese. My mother maybe what did Chinese
in love poor choose not to tell? I learned from
the family of my mother. Look, mister Kung, if you
value your life, leave lapour live at once.

Speaker 8 (56:11):
What are you talking about? Why should I leave?

Speaker 32 (56:14):
Mister says is tied.

Speaker 8 (56:17):
Just a minute, mister Kung, we haven't finished talking yet.

Speaker 32 (56:19):
Another time, mother, doctor mister w says he must go. Now,
say goodbye, mister Wool.

Speaker 8 (56:28):
He backed away from me, nodding and bowing, the monkey
on his shoulder doing the same. I turned and started
for the hotel. Dawn was coming, The funeral fires were spent,
the dirges finished, the meleas gone back to their huts
to sleep. It was almost daylight when I climbed the

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stairs and walked down the hall to my room.

Speaker 14 (57:01):
I've been waiting for you. Where have you been?

Speaker 8 (57:04):
What are you doing here? Miss Randall?

Speaker 14 (57:06):
I'm here. That's enough.

Speaker 8 (57:08):
I asked you why you're here to.

Speaker 14 (57:09):
Help with the serum. You're going to need help, aren't you.

Speaker 8 (57:14):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (57:14):
Good, Well, do we get the serum.

Speaker 8 (57:19):
Remind me to ask you a question, miss Randal, like
what like what brought you to Lapoort.

Speaker 14 (57:25):
I'll remind you the serum doctor all.

Speaker 8 (57:28):
Right, he's here in this closet.

Speaker 14 (57:32):
Ah, Yes, doctor, what's the matter? Doctor? H I said,
what's the matter with you?

Speaker 8 (57:44):
The serum?

Speaker 14 (57:45):
What about it?

Speaker 8 (57:47):
It's been stolen?

Speaker 23 (58:02):
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(58:24):
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Speaker 8 (58:49):
When they sent me from Delhi to Lapoor, they said
it was plague, and they said it was bad. Now
I was here and it was the way they said
it would be plague and bad. Only from here on
it was going to be worse because the serum I
had brought with me was gone. Someone had stolen it
from the closet where I'd locked it, someone who wanted

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to keep the plague in Lapour. I stood there in
my hotel room, staring into the empty closet.

Speaker 14 (59:17):
How long are you going to stand there? Doctor?

Speaker 8 (59:20):
I can't believe it.

Speaker 14 (59:22):
Face it, there's no serrum.

Speaker 8 (59:23):
Well it was there. I put it there myself, right
next to that Bromo.

Speaker 12 (59:26):
Quite nine cold tablets won't stop a plague, doctor, I said,
I put it there.

Speaker 14 (59:29):
I heard you, but I don't have to believe you.

Speaker 8 (59:32):
I don't care what you believe.

Speaker 14 (59:34):
Maybe you sold the serum before you ever came to Lapour.
Maybe you're trying to cover yourself sold it.

Speaker 8 (59:38):
Why would I want to do that?

Speaker 14 (59:39):
How do I know why you'd sell it? You would
have an angle?

Speaker 8 (59:42):
All right? You said what you wanted to say. Get out,
all right, I'm going quite a minute. I'll ask you
a question and I'll.

Speaker 12 (59:50):
Give you an answer. The police lift tenant. That's where
I'm going.

Speaker 8 (59:55):
How long were you in my room before I got here?

Speaker 14 (59:57):
I'm going to the police. Doctor.

Speaker 8 (59:58):
How long were you here?

Speaker 14 (01:00:00):
You won't get out of it.

Speaker 20 (01:00:00):
How long?

Speaker 14 (01:00:01):
I don't know. Fifteen minutes, maybe twenty, not.

Speaker 8 (01:00:05):
Very long long enough to take the serum yourself.

Speaker 14 (01:00:09):
Sure I was here that long, long enough.

Speaker 8 (01:00:11):
To hide it and then come back here.

Speaker 14 (01:00:13):
You're forgetting something like what I had no reason to
take it.

Speaker 8 (01:00:18):
You've got a reason, like what what are you doing
in Lapore?

Speaker 14 (01:00:23):
Maybe I write books?

Speaker 8 (01:00:24):
Maybe a steal serum.

Speaker 12 (01:00:27):
You'd better get that serum back, doctor. There are people dying.
It's your fault.

Speaker 14 (01:00:33):
Get it back. Goodbye? Doctor.

Speaker 8 (01:00:39):
And I had a couple of things to do. Ask
the lieutenant to organize a search, patrol, cable DELI for
more serum. Four days it would take to get here,
four days of raging death. Because I had no serum.
People would die before the sun went down. People didn't
have to die. And miss Randall had said it it

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was my fault. All right, Just a minute, Master, you
new move you listen? Who are you?

Speaker 32 (01:01:15):
Number one boy? In chapter one?

Speaker 8 (01:01:17):
Conte Conte, oh the old man with a monkey?

Speaker 32 (01:01:20):
That same Conte?

Speaker 8 (01:01:22):
All right? Got a message?

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Was it?

Speaker 32 (01:01:25):
CONTI say, Master, fire, pay five dollars here message?

Speaker 8 (01:01:31):
Yeah, Now what's the message?

Speaker 32 (01:01:34):
CONTI say you, no, Master, have trouble. CONTI say, Master,
come see him?

Speaker 16 (01:01:38):
Chops up?

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
No cup chops up? Too late?

Speaker 32 (01:01:41):
Him say him, tops up, chop up Master.

Speaker 8 (01:01:47):
Anything was worth a try. I found Conte's pet shop
and a narrow, musty street just off the marketplace. It
wasn't difficult to pick out because there was a crowd
jammed around the door holding them backward. Two melee police.
I pushed through the crowd and up to the open.

Speaker 25 (01:02:00):
Oh, good morning.

Speaker 8 (01:02:01):
I didn't expect to see you. That's always a bad lieutenant.

Speaker 25 (01:02:04):
You haven't heard south. What about the unpleasantness?

Speaker 8 (01:02:08):
What unpleasantness? What are you trying to tell me?

Speaker 25 (01:02:10):
You'd better come inside.

Speaker 16 (01:02:11):
With me, sir.

Speaker 8 (01:02:15):
Ah, that's this unpleasantness you're talking about.

Speaker 16 (01:02:19):
I'd have her there, sir in the corner.

Speaker 8 (01:02:25):
Conte. What happened, Lieutenant.

Speaker 26 (01:02:29):
Murder a large caliber bullet? I'd say, probably are forty five?

Speaker 25 (01:02:36):
You want to examine himself?

Speaker 8 (01:02:37):
That won't be necessary, so.

Speaker 26 (01:02:41):
You know, I can't understand it what you see beside yourself.
There are only three foreigners in the pool standle, mister
Ford and doctor Gray.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Well, well that's it, sir.

Speaker 26 (01:02:56):
I should one of them want to kill the old man?

Speaker 16 (01:02:59):
I know?

Speaker 8 (01:03:00):
Is one of them weapon?

Speaker 26 (01:03:02):
Native skill with a knife for a rope, a steel rope.

Speaker 8 (01:03:06):
Never with a gun. Yes, that's interesting, lieutenant. And there's
something else I don't think natives do, if their steel serum.

Speaker 26 (01:03:14):
I meant to ask you about the serum, sir. Miss
Randal mentioned it to me. There's going to be trouble, sir,
with Miss Randall, with the native Sir. I told you
they were waiting for medicine. Somehow it's gotten out of them.
They know you don't have the syrum.

Speaker 8 (01:03:30):
Are right, Lieutenant, it's been stolen. Look, I want all
the figners in the poor at your office an hour
from now.

Speaker 26 (01:03:38):
You arrange it, Yes, sir, you will think there's some connection.

Speaker 8 (01:03:43):
Between the murder and the serum maybe, and you have
them there.

Speaker 26 (01:03:47):
If you don't mind my saying so this sounds like
a police matter.

Speaker 8 (01:03:50):
You're wrong, Lieutenant. It's medical, strictly medical under the stancer.
You will just get those people to your office.

Speaker 26 (01:03:57):
And yes, sir, little mister Ford and doctor.

Speaker 8 (01:04:01):
Grimes, you forgot somebody left in it?

Speaker 5 (01:04:05):
Who, sir?

Speaker 8 (01:04:06):
You Lisa? I right, I forgot, sir. I turned and
walked out of the shop into the street. I had
trouble getting through the crowd. Didn't mean much. When somebody
poked an elbow in my face, I could have been
an accident, but not The man who jumped out in
front of me and spat on the ground in my.

Speaker 29 (01:04:26):
Feet was bizarre.

Speaker 8 (01:04:31):
This was no accident. This was meant for me. All
at once. They were silent, watching me, and from the
hills outside the town the sound of a drum, slow, ominous,
and from somewhere in Lapour itself the answer urgent, threatening.
Finally I understood it had gotten out to the natives. Somehow,
the people had found out that I had lost the serum,

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and in their minds, I was the medicine man who
had failed, the man who was making them die. My
plan for getting the serum back had to work. I
picked up my medical bag from the hotel, hurried to
the Lieutenant's office, one room wooden shack near the edge
of town. I had things almost set up from the
first person arrived. It was miss Randall.

Speaker 14 (01:05:12):
What's all this about? What are you trying to do?

Speaker 8 (01:05:14):
It'll take a little while, miss Randall, sit down.

Speaker 14 (01:05:17):
I don't want to sit down.

Speaker 8 (01:05:21):
She stood and watched me take things out of my
bag and placed them on the table. The hypodermic syringes, needles, alcohol,
and finally the little vial of colorless liquid. Then doctor
Grimes came in, cold, sober. He walked across the room,
sat down where he could look at me.

Speaker 31 (01:05:40):
The need to you is no something a lottie, something
you didn't want them to know. They are heading this way.

Speaker 29 (01:05:47):
Kay, take off.

Speaker 8 (01:05:51):
With this one, sir, and you're gonna have more. So
help sit down for it. Why you brittle too, bit quack,
I said, sit.

Speaker 31 (01:05:59):
Down, Well, that's Betty well, letty, you've got us all
here now, perhaps you'll tell us why.

Speaker 8 (01:06:08):
There is an epidemic on. I'm going to inoculate all
of you with plague serum.

Speaker 14 (01:06:12):
What are you talking about? You haven't got any.

Speaker 8 (01:06:14):
Serum, just this one vial from my bag, missus Randall.
The rest was stolen, all right for your first roll
up your sleep. That's right.

Speaker 13 (01:06:24):
Now.

Speaker 8 (01:06:29):
I wasn't that bad for it. I know you're miss Randall.

Speaker 14 (01:06:37):
Gentle Doctor.

Speaker 8 (01:06:40):
Grimes, get to do.

Speaker 27 (01:06:46):
Yeah, okay, doc, now we've had the shots.

Speaker 8 (01:06:53):
How's it going now? Just a minute. Nobody leaves here,
I said, nobody leaves here. I don't stand by the door.

Speaker 28 (01:07:01):
Yes, sir, what's the big idea.

Speaker 8 (01:07:07):
This morning? Somebody stole plague serum from my room. I
want that serum back.

Speaker 14 (01:07:14):
That's your worry, doctor, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:07:16):
My worry and yours now, all of you. Because one
of you took that serum, you're off your rocket dock.
Maybe you took it forward. You got a rubber plantation,
you could shoot your workers full of serum.

Speaker 25 (01:07:28):
What would I want to do that for?

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:07:30):
Efficiency?

Speaker 18 (01:07:30):
For it?

Speaker 8 (01:07:31):
The workers on the other plantations would die and you'd
have the field yourself. Are you grimes. You're afraid i'd
tell you I had office about you. I know you're wrong, Laddy,
You've had a pretty good till now. I have to
know work plenty of gin. You're afraid i'd spoil it.
It's all you thought you'd make it look bad for
me too.

Speaker 29 (01:07:50):
No, no, only you've got it wrong.

Speaker 28 (01:07:53):
All right, Doc, you've got us here. Now what are
you going to do?

Speaker 8 (01:08:01):
I've already done it.

Speaker 14 (01:08:02):
You've done what That injection.

Speaker 8 (01:08:05):
I gave all of you It wasn't serum. That was plague, bacteria,
straight plague. So what does that mean? Doc? That means
I have to get that serum within an hour otherwise

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every one of you is going to get plague. That's right,
and think about it. Plague pain a human can't stand.
Then when you get used to it, you die, each
one of you.

Speaker 14 (01:08:47):
This is ridiculous.

Speaker 8 (01:08:48):
You've gotta die, all of you because there's no serum.
Serum would save you. Serum. I haven't got.

Speaker 12 (01:08:58):
Look, doctor, those sick people at the hospital they need me.

Speaker 14 (01:09:04):
Let me go there.

Speaker 8 (01:09:05):
You forget, Miss Randall. You're sick too. You've got plague.
You're gonna die.

Speaker 14 (01:09:09):
I'm not forgetting. Let me go, to the hospital.

Speaker 8 (01:09:12):
Doctor, please, what could you do there? Put cold towels
on their heads doesn't help.

Speaker 12 (01:09:17):
It doesn't help much. I know that they die just
the same, but at least they're comfortable.

Speaker 29 (01:09:24):
Don't do it, Doc, don't let it go.

Speaker 14 (01:09:25):
It ain't right if she goes.

Speaker 12 (01:09:27):
We all you keep out of this, doctor, please, I can't,
Miss Randall.

Speaker 8 (01:09:31):
Mister Ford says, it wouldn't be right to let you go.

Speaker 16 (01:09:34):
Keep your hair.

Speaker 29 (01:09:34):
Doc here with the rest of them.

Speaker 14 (01:09:36):
I told you to keep out of it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:37):
What a wheezel on me, don't you?

Speaker 14 (01:09:39):
You're a fool, fat and a fool.

Speaker 19 (01:09:41):
Yeah, I'd be a fool to let you get out
of here.

Speaker 14 (01:09:45):
Doctor.

Speaker 8 (01:09:45):
You'll stay here, Miss Randall, But.

Speaker 14 (01:09:47):
There's no point you're under.

Speaker 29 (01:09:49):
The doc says, stay here.

Speaker 12 (01:09:50):
This is your fault, for it's all your fault, the
whole thing I said.

Speaker 8 (01:09:53):
Sir, I'm trying to say something, Miss Randall.

Speaker 14 (01:09:58):
I've got nothing to say.

Speaker 8 (01:10:00):
Yeah, all right, you'll wait. We'll wait here as long and.

Speaker 29 (01:10:11):
They're throwing rocks.

Speaker 16 (01:10:13):
What do you want?

Speaker 8 (01:10:14):
How do you feel? I feel all right, that's funny,
it's sweating. But if you say you feel all right? Fine,
you guys in a little while you won't feel so
good and you won't feel anything. You'll be dead. Have
anything to tell me for it? All right? We'll wait doctor, Uh.

Speaker 19 (01:10:52):
Nothing, all right, you're going to die.

Speaker 8 (01:11:06):
Where's the serum?

Speaker 15 (01:11:08):
Make four till where it is?

Speaker 14 (01:11:10):
Tell them you paying me the stealer for it?

Speaker 18 (01:11:13):
You wanted the serum for your own workers.

Speaker 12 (01:11:15):
You killed cont because he found out you.

Speaker 29 (01:11:19):
Wow, more form covered time?

Speaker 11 (01:11:23):
All right?

Speaker 16 (01:11:23):
Ford?

Speaker 8 (01:11:23):
Where's that serum?

Speaker 29 (01:11:24):
Hard yellow?

Speaker 33 (01:11:25):
Like that?

Speaker 29 (01:11:27):
Trust this serum for where is it?

Speaker 27 (01:11:30):
It's in my house, the living room, the floor board.

Speaker 14 (01:11:34):
Get a doctor. I don't want to die. Please, please,
can't you speak my lane?

Speaker 8 (01:11:38):
Yes? Get out there and tell those people. I'll have seramon,
don't evenute pleasure and take these two with you.

Speaker 16 (01:11:50):
Hey, you're a hard one, lady.

Speaker 8 (01:11:54):
You're ready for work.

Speaker 28 (01:11:55):
Grimes Ley, you'll be taking care of me for were
you not?

Speaker 8 (01:12:01):
Oh you're taking care of grimes.

Speaker 29 (01:12:03):
Hi, I'm taking care of your film.

Speaker 20 (01:12:07):
You're full of plague.

Speaker 8 (01:12:09):
On that plague water? Yeah, water, don't worry. It was distilled.

Speaker 23 (01:12:32):
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Speaker 34 (01:12:53):
Next Week Escape with us to the barren waste of
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as Anthony Ellis tells it in his exciting story this
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Speaker 23 (01:13:18):
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Speaker 5 (01:13:25):
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Speaker 23 (01:13:41):
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Speaker 1 (01:14:04):
Don't worry, there's plenty more wood for the fire. Just relax,
The tea's almost ready. Another pot and another scare for
us to enjoy. Or what's that? Oh no, no, no, no,
these walls are so thick. I wouldn't worry about it

(01:14:26):
one bit. Of course, worry is a popular pastime of
the aware. What a blessing and a curse? Being aware is.
Knowing what's going on around oneself leads to many damning scenarios,

(01:14:50):
ones that are sure to make ready my.

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(01:15:28):
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the Association of Ghouls, Ghosts and Midnight Spirits. Oh may
I see your membership card as your enterprise, But oh no,

(01:15:49):
it's not a printed card. All you have to do
is show me your wrist. If there's any blood pulsing
in your arteries, then you don't belong here tonight. Better
come back and try some other time after you pass
your mortuary tests.

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Well, mister host, I'm afraid I don't qualify as a
member of your a g g MS Association of Ghules
or whatever it is. But I am a charter member
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Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
The il LB. What's that?

Speaker 17 (01:16:25):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
It's a new one on me.

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(01:16:50):
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Speaker 35 (01:17:21):
And now for Tonight's in a Sanctum Mystery. It's an
original radio play by Amiel Tepperman called make Ready My
Grave and stars two radio favorites, John Banks and Richard Widmar.
It's about a boy and a girl just been married,
a piece of colored string, an open grave, and a

(01:17:44):
Hangman's noose.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
That train is a southeast limity.

Speaker 35 (01:17:56):
See it long sleep and powerful, taking off the miles
and the humming raids. A masterpiece of twentieth century mechanical perfection.
Nothing about it to suggest lurking hate of fear or
superstition or death. Let's take a look into compartment A

(01:18:19):
car seventeen. John and Betty Loomis, just married, are going
to their honeymoon to John's ancestral estate.

Speaker 15 (01:18:27):
Joe, John, I'm so happy. How soon do we get
to Lewisville?

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
In about an hour? Betty?

Speaker 15 (01:18:35):
Just think I'm married into one of the oldest families
in the state.

Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
I hope you'll be very happy.

Speaker 6 (01:18:41):
Don I will?

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
I will?

Speaker 15 (01:18:44):
You do love me, don't you?

Speaker 4 (01:18:46):
John?

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
Of course I do.

Speaker 37 (01:18:47):
Baby, I'll always love you always, no matter what happens.

Speaker 15 (01:18:54):
What do you mean, no matter what happens?

Speaker 4 (01:18:57):
What could happen?

Speaker 2 (01:19:00):
On?

Speaker 15 (01:19:00):
Something's bothering?

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
No, No, it's nothing at all.

Speaker 15 (01:19:02):
You're hiding something. It's something you haven't told you.

Speaker 37 (01:19:04):
It's nothing that, it's nothing to worry about. You don't
want to you, No, not now, maybe later.

Speaker 15 (01:19:13):
Why are you playing with that piece of yellow stree
You've been playing with it ever since we came onto
the train.

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
Mm hmmm. M Gosha, I never noticed. I watched you.

Speaker 15 (01:19:27):
You've been dying and nothing it.

Speaker 8 (01:19:29):
Or not.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
Good Lord, I must have tied it without knowing what
I was doing.

Speaker 9 (01:19:37):
You.

Speaker 15 (01:19:39):
You've tied it into a noose, the hangman's noose.

Speaker 37 (01:19:44):
But I don't know how I came to make it
or where I picked it up. It's only a piece
of string, Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
It's only a piece of stree, Betty? Why did you
take this a gun?

Speaker 4 (01:20:00):
Take it?

Speaker 37 (01:20:02):
If I should ever try to if I should ever
try to strangle you, please listen to me. If I
should ever try to strangle you, promise me to use
that gun on me.

Speaker 15 (01:20:12):
What are you talking about this? John? What's this all about?
That piece of yellow string and now this gun?

Speaker 4 (01:20:20):
Put the way, Paddy, and remember what I said, don't
ever forget.

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
Why is it so dark here?

Speaker 37 (01:20:40):
This is just a way station. The train only stops
here to let us off. Otherwise it goes right through.

Speaker 9 (01:20:45):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 15 (01:20:47):
I thought lumis Bear was a big town.

Speaker 37 (01:20:49):
Well, it used to be one hundred years ago, but
now there's only the Lumisy State.

Speaker 15 (01:20:54):
Are we far from these street?

Speaker 37 (01:20:56):
About two miles old. Herman Golf should be here. Pick
us up in the station wagon, Herm and golf.

Speaker 2 (01:21:03):
He's a handyman.

Speaker 37 (01:21:04):
There's been a Gault working for the Luman's family for
the last one hundred and fifty years.

Speaker 15 (01:21:09):
John I don't like it here, dark wind.

Speaker 37 (01:21:14):
The devil can golf be? I wrote them what train
we would take? Oh, Golf, you frightened my wife.

Speaker 8 (01:21:21):
I'm sorry, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (01:21:22):
If I scared you, that's all right.

Speaker 15 (01:21:25):
It was just the way you spoke, so suddenly out
of the darkness.

Speaker 2 (01:21:30):
If you follow me, I've got the station.

Speaker 16 (01:21:32):
Wagon back here.

Speaker 15 (01:21:34):
Johnny doesn't like me golf.

Speaker 8 (01:21:36):
No, that's just his way.

Speaker 4 (01:21:37):
He's very devoted to the family. Where do you get
to know him.

Speaker 15 (01:21:41):
I don't think I cared too Johnny. He is driving
too fast. It's a dog.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
Don't worry, Betty.

Speaker 37 (01:21:58):
Galt knows this road like the back of his hand.
We'll be there in a few minutes.

Speaker 15 (01:22:02):
I'm frightened, Darning. Please tell me why you gave.

Speaker 9 (01:22:07):
Me the gun.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
No, I can't tell you now, Betty. Maybe after you
meet uncle eph John.

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
What's that in your hand?

Speaker 15 (01:22:21):
Another piece of string? The red one? This time.

Speaker 2 (01:22:26):
I must have picked it up in here off the seat.

Speaker 15 (01:22:29):
You've nodded it into another hangman's noose.

Speaker 28 (01:22:33):
Well, yes, mister John, this piece of red string.

Speaker 2 (01:22:36):
Did you put it here?

Speaker 18 (01:22:38):
Then?

Speaker 25 (01:22:38):
How did you get here?

Speaker 4 (01:22:40):
You ought to know?

Speaker 28 (01:22:43):
Yes, yes, I ought to know.

Speaker 15 (01:22:47):
God, why are you stopping here?

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
Well home, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (01:22:51):
This is the entrance to the loom of the state.
I've got to get out and open the gate.

Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
I'll be right, Betty. I've got to get out too.
I got to see for myself. See what you Stay here, Betty.

Speaker 5 (01:23:02):
Stay right where you are.

Speaker 14 (01:23:03):
Wait a minute.

Speaker 18 (01:23:04):
I'm coming to get back in the car.

Speaker 16 (01:23:06):
John is right.

Speaker 8 (01:23:07):
Man, you shouldn't go with him.

Speaker 25 (01:23:09):
Take care of her.

Speaker 15 (01:23:10):
God, where's he's going?

Speaker 4 (01:23:12):
That is the Lumis family cemetery.

Speaker 15 (01:23:16):
What does you want to see in there in the
middle of the night, you tell you himself, ma'am. No,
I'm going to find out right now, John, John, wait
for me. I'm going with you. I want to know
what there is and that your wife. Now I have
a right to know what this is all about. I'm
going with you.

Speaker 37 (01:23:35):
All right, if that's the way I feel it. But
hold on to that gun I gave you. Keep it
in your hand.

Speaker 4 (01:23:41):
All the time.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
John, Ply, you'll find out soon enough. This is the
gate of the family cemetery.

Speaker 37 (01:23:52):
All the Loomis says, and their wives are buried here.

Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
Care it's so shadowy.

Speaker 15 (01:24:02):
My tombstones look like ghosts.

Speaker 4 (01:24:04):
Hold my hand, John, Just hold out.

Speaker 15 (01:24:07):
Of that, John, John, whose great is this with a
high tombstone?

Speaker 37 (01:24:12):
My great grandfather's Stewart Loomis, he founded the Loomis Is State.
This is my grandfather's grave, his wife. There's my father,
my mother.

Speaker 6 (01:24:30):
And that's all that should be all?

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
Do you mean I'm over here? This is what I
came to see. This is what I've been afraid.

Speaker 15 (01:24:43):
Of, John, John hits an open grave freshly.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
Doug, Yes, it was just Doug tonight. But mhm, who
is it for? Very dying?

Speaker 37 (01:25:04):
I'm afraid it's for you?

Speaker 35 (01:25:20):
Well, what's poor Betty letting herself in for with a
fresh gray waiting for her on a honeymoon and a
husband who ties little strings into hangman's nooses. But you know,
I'll come to think of it, Betty's a lucky girl
at that. How many girls who get married nowadays can count?
I'm finding a nice snug place all ready for them

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to lie down and unrest in peace.

Speaker 36 (01:25:47):
Gracious mister host, Betty doesn't seem like a lucky bride
to me. Why most brides have things much easier because
there's so many things today to help them make their
marriage a success. For example, exam Lipton Tea with lipt
and Tea on the pantry shelf. A young bride today
has a much better chance of making her home a
happy one. Just the other day, I was talking to

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a friend who just got married. As we sat there
in her kitchen sipping our lipt and tea, me occupying
the only chair, and she perched on the kitchen stool.
She said, you know, Mary, it was silly of me
to worry about being able to cook the things Jack liked.
It's not nearly as difficult as I imagined. Take this
Lipton tea here. It answers the whole beverage problem. As

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far as Jack is concerned, he's happy as long as
he has Lipton's.

Speaker 14 (01:26:33):
Morning, noon, and night. Well.

Speaker 36 (01:26:36):
I told her I could understand then, because most husbands
I know about our partial to Lipton tea, and it's
because of the extra satisfaction it's in Lipton's wonderful brisk
flavor satisfaction.

Speaker 15 (01:26:48):
Did I say, mm?

Speaker 36 (01:26:50):
You Just try lipt and Tea and see if that
isn't an understatement.

Speaker 15 (01:26:54):
Try Lipton's tomorrow.

Speaker 35 (01:27:00):
And now let's hurry back to our days in a graveyard.
Remember with poor Betty whose husband has just told her
he's afraid of freshly dug grave is for her?

Speaker 15 (01:27:22):
John?

Speaker 16 (01:27:22):
What do you mean?

Speaker 15 (01:27:24):
Who dug this great for me? Who?

Speaker 2 (01:27:28):
If I told you you'd think I was crazy?

Speaker 15 (01:27:30):
No, You've got to tell me if I'm in danger,
I have a right to know. Was it God?

Speaker 4 (01:27:34):
You're a liver?

Speaker 6 (01:27:36):
At least I don't think his wife Christine?

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
Betty? Do you believe that a ghost could dig a grave? Ghost?

Speaker 15 (01:27:51):
Do you mean I'm in danger from a ghost?

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
I told you you'd think I was crazy?

Speaker 20 (01:27:58):
John?

Speaker 15 (01:27:58):
What are you looking at me like that?

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
I don't know. But if you got that gun with you?

Speaker 15 (01:28:07):
No, I left it in the crew.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
What good would a gun be against a ghost? There's
the station wagon still waiting at the gate, But I
don't see Gold.

Speaker 15 (01:28:27):
Maybe he went up to the house.

Speaker 28 (01:28:29):
Gold, Where are you there?

Speaker 16 (01:28:30):
John?

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
Uncle Everard? What happened to Gold?

Speaker 37 (01:28:34):
They come up to the house, So you've gone into
the cemetery. So I thought i'd better come down. Is
it there? Yes, it's there, a freshly doug grave. Mm hmm,
Uncle Everard, this is my wife, Betty.

Speaker 2 (01:28:52):
Who are you?

Speaker 8 (01:28:54):
You saw the grave?

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
Do bidden?

Speaker 15 (01:28:56):
Yes? And John says he thinks it's me. I'm afraid
I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:29:02):
Understand he told her anything yet, John.

Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
Well, just just a little. I couldn't bring myself to it.
I think it's time you did well, do you? Betty?

Speaker 9 (01:29:22):
Thank you?

Speaker 15 (01:29:22):
And Oliver. I will have a little more.

Speaker 37 (01:29:25):
You John, love that too bad? Christina's aira. She's upstairs in.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
Our room, but I hope she'll be.

Speaker 37 (01:29:33):
Better about tomorrow. You can see her then. Maybe what
do you mean that grave out there? Maybe it'll be
filled tomorrow.

Speaker 15 (01:29:47):
John, don't you think it's time you kept your promise
to tell me what this is all about?

Speaker 37 (01:29:51):
You tell her, Uncle Everard, Betty, there's a ghost of
the Roman's family that said in a nut.

Speaker 15 (01:29:59):
Chair, always see And it was a ghost.

Speaker 4 (01:30:05):
Who does that grave?

Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
I know it sounds mad there.

Speaker 37 (01:30:10):
For one hundred and fifty years, three Lumases have come
to the conviction that it can't be anything but a ghost.

Speaker 15 (01:30:17):
One hundred and fifty years, you mean.

Speaker 37 (01:30:20):
John's great grandfather, Stuart Thomas, settled a strip of seacoast
under a pattern from the colonial governor. There's this picture
over the fireplace.

Speaker 15 (01:30:31):
Great, he doesn't look much like you, John.

Speaker 37 (01:30:35):
Stuart Loomas was a hard man. It was a French
privateer in these waters and made a lot of trouble
in those days. Cast In LaRue sailed the seas with
his wife Antoinette.

Speaker 15 (01:30:47):
What does a French pirate and his wife to do
with that grave?

Speaker 37 (01:30:51):
Stuart Loomas captured Laru and his wife, under the authority
conferred upon him by the governor, had the power.

Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
To hang him.

Speaker 15 (01:30:59):
You mean woman too.

Speaker 37 (01:31:02):
Yes, he hanged them both and the gibbet ware our
family cemetery in our stairs.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
How terrible.

Speaker 37 (01:31:11):
Before he died, cast In the Rue laid a curse
in the Loomis family.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
He swore that, just as his wife was saying, so
would all the loneless women die.

Speaker 37 (01:31:22):
He swore that he would come back and dig a
grave with the wife of a Loomas and every generation,
and furnished the noose by which a Loomis strangle his
own life.

Speaker 4 (01:31:34):
That's incredible.

Speaker 37 (01:31:35):
Short while afterward, the fresh grave was found beside the
Gibbet where the ruten hung. That night, Stuart Loomis's wife,
John's great grandmother was found.

Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
Hanging by the neck from the eaves of his very house.

Speaker 37 (01:31:52):
And Stuart Loomis I told you, Stuart Lumens was a
hard man, and it made many enemies.

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
There were many who hated him deeply and bitterly.

Speaker 37 (01:32:05):
He was arrested and tried for the murder of his wife,
convicted and executed.

Speaker 2 (01:32:12):
Now you know the secret of the Lumis family.

Speaker 15 (01:32:15):
But John, that still doesn't prove as a ghost.

Speaker 37 (01:32:18):
Know that one incident doesn't prove it. But it happened
again when the next looman Is married John's grandfather, and
to the next loom was John's father, sometimes a year
after marriage, sometimes five years.

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
The curse never fails.

Speaker 15 (01:32:37):
It's happened in every generation.

Speaker 37 (01:32:39):
Yes, and now John Loomis has brought a new wife home.
There's a freshly dug grave waiting in the family cemetery.

Speaker 15 (01:32:52):
Yes, then I'm next.

Speaker 4 (01:32:55):
I don't know body. Maybe that grave isn't for you,
what Maybe it's for Christine, my wife.

Speaker 15 (01:33:08):
This is all ridiculous. A ghost couldn't make a grave
make John strangle me to death? Uncle Everrod, you can't
believe such a legend. It can't be true.

Speaker 37 (01:33:19):
Maybe not, my dear, But the graves of the strangled
Loomis women are out there to prove it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
H This is your room, ready, and have God called
you there tomorrow morning?

Speaker 14 (01:33:43):
Good?

Speaker 15 (01:33:48):
This is such a big room.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
It's so gloomy.

Speaker 4 (01:33:54):
The whole house is like that, ries gloomy and sullen,
the Loomless curse.

Speaker 2 (01:34:03):
Oh, Betty, I love you so much. We'll beat the
curse together.

Speaker 4 (01:34:11):
Let me go down.

Speaker 15 (01:34:13):
I want to change my clothes.

Speaker 37 (01:34:14):
Marsh By, there's the best one over there.

Speaker 15 (01:34:19):
Not only be a minute, all right?

Speaker 4 (01:34:21):
Oh, it's a lovely Betty.

Speaker 15 (01:34:25):
Look hanging from the shower box.

Speaker 2 (01:34:31):
Hang much snooze.

Speaker 15 (01:34:34):
It's a real one, this time.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
A rope ready to hang someone who put it there?
It's the Lumos curse. We can't get away from it.

Speaker 15 (01:34:47):
No ghosts could have hung that rope there.

Speaker 2 (01:34:49):
Let let's call uncle Everet. Have you got the gun
with you?

Speaker 15 (01:34:53):
No, it's in my handbag, Jett, I say, all right,
John here.

Speaker 37 (01:35:00):
All right, I'll keep it with you all the time,
and don't be afraid to use it on me if necessary.

Speaker 15 (01:35:04):
All right, let's get your uncle.

Speaker 4 (01:35:06):
This is his rule.

Speaker 2 (01:35:08):
I wonder if I ought to waken it, might have said,
Aunt Christine.

Speaker 15 (01:35:10):
She's we've got to wake him.

Speaker 2 (01:35:15):
A naccarter, Oh it wasn't a lot. Call him a
glever Rod. A glever Rod doesn't answer. It doesn A
light in the room.

Speaker 9 (01:35:35):
Push the door further open.

Speaker 2 (01:35:40):
Mm hmmm, Well.

Speaker 11 (01:35:41):
There's nobody in the room.

Speaker 2 (01:35:42):
The bed's empty. A glover Ard and Christine m.

Speaker 15 (01:35:49):
Maybe in the bathroom.

Speaker 3 (01:35:52):
The door is open.

Speaker 15 (01:35:58):
Christine, she's hanging by the neck.

Speaker 2 (01:36:04):
She's dead.

Speaker 38 (01:36:10):
The same kind of a noose is in our Uncle
ever hang. It's the Loomi's curse catching up with well God,
and he traced the Buncle Everard.

Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
I sarched the whole house basement, duaddict, not as silent,
and he must have gone not come on.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
But it's right, we've got to find him. Then he
come on?

Speaker 15 (01:36:38):
So dark out here, how will we ever find?

Speaker 4 (01:36:40):
I have a flashlight, man, you look for fresh footprints
in the slush.

Speaker 2 (01:36:44):
They must be Uncle Everard's. They lead down toward the cemetery.
Come along ago.

Speaker 20 (01:36:51):
Here, mister John.

Speaker 4 (01:36:52):
You can see for yourself the footprints lead right to
this new grave.

Speaker 15 (01:36:56):
But why did he come here?

Speaker 2 (01:36:59):
There's the answer across at the head of the empty tray.

Speaker 37 (01:37:05):
Throw your flashlight on the call something written on it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:09):
It says Christine, looks, Betty, what is.

Speaker 32 (01:37:13):
Good?

Speaker 15 (01:37:15):
Over there?

Speaker 8 (01:37:17):
Another?

Speaker 2 (01:37:20):
He's dug another one.

Speaker 20 (01:37:22):
There's a cross on this one to the same.

Speaker 39 (01:37:25):
Yes, yes it does, it says Betty Loomis.

Speaker 15 (01:37:38):
John said close to me that portrait of Stuart Loomis
over the fireplace looks so really right.

Speaker 2 (01:37:45):
I remember, Betty.

Speaker 37 (01:37:46):
Whatever happens, hold onto that gun and don't be afraid to.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
Use it tonight.

Speaker 37 (01:37:50):
Whereas gold he ought to be his, so he went
to look for some weapons.

Speaker 15 (01:37:56):
God, you always frightened me coming in so quietly.

Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
I'm sorry, ma'am. Here, mister John, these are to be
pretty good weapons, size as I had them sharpened only
the other day. They could slice a man's head off
in one stroke. Take one, mister John. Well, i'd hate
to use it. And uncle, ever, if he shows up tonight,

(01:38:19):
you'd better use it.

Speaker 15 (01:38:21):
Maybe he's come back into the house through the back way.

Speaker 4 (01:38:23):
I'll go through the house again if you like this time,
I'll start with the attical. Be careful, God, I will.

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
John.

Speaker 15 (01:38:32):
I don't like him and I don't think he likes
me either. Probably what's fair.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
Must be God must have met Uncle Everett hiding up there.
Stay right here, Patty and hold on that.

Speaker 40 (01:38:44):
John.

Speaker 19 (01:38:45):
Be careful.

Speaker 9 (01:38:46):
John, come back and fright.

Speaker 18 (01:38:48):
I'm afraid to be alone.

Speaker 15 (01:38:53):
It's nothing to be afraid of. Have this gun. And
if anybody comes the light light's what alf who?

Speaker 11 (01:39:12):
Who's there?

Speaker 15 (01:39:15):
Who's in this room? Don't come any closer. I have
a gun and I'll shoot. I can't see you, but
i'll shoot at the south yeh.

Speaker 9 (01:39:26):
Rap my neck, my car.

Speaker 19 (01:39:32):
Shoot it's not clothed.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
I took the words out when you left it in
the car.

Speaker 9 (01:39:37):
Gold.

Speaker 2 (01:39:38):
Yes, ma'am, it's gold.

Speaker 4 (01:39:39):
Mister John is busy up there in the attic of
the body of mister Everald. I killed him too, And
when mister John comes downstairs, he'll find you and I'll
cut him down in the dark with my side. There
were others besides the pirate LaRue who hated Stuart Loomis.
Like my own great grandfather. He was in the service
of Stuart Loomis and he hated him. When the room

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lady the curse on the loomis Is, my great grandfather
decided to make it come true. It was he who
strangled the wife of Stuart Loomis. Through the years the gods,
from father to son have handed down there, your mad
I tightened the loose. And are you w's a dark and.

Speaker 15 (01:40:19):
Jopp John.

Speaker 9 (01:40:27):
John John.

Speaker 18 (01:40:30):
Mm hm, Oh, who is it?

Speaker 2 (01:40:52):
We finished forever with the Loomis?

Speaker 19 (01:40:59):
Mhm.

Speaker 35 (01:41:09):
Well that was a pretty rough honeymoon for Belly. But
you know there's a lesson in her story for forgetful wives.
If you keep tying little colored strings to your fingers
to remind you of things and you still can't remember them,
why not try a rope neatly tied around your neck.

Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
It's sure to help you forget.

Speaker 36 (01:41:34):
Oh, dear mister host, there you go telling our listeners
how to forget things. When I've got something for them
to remember.

Speaker 2 (01:41:41):
Oh, I didn't realize that, Mary. What is it you
want them to remember?

Speaker 36 (01:41:46):
It's lipped in tea, folks, and you don't need any
string tied on your finger or any such reminder to
make sure you get it.

Speaker 9 (01:41:53):
When you visit your grocers tomorrow.

Speaker 36 (01:41:55):
Just remember that Lipton's is the tea with the wonderful
brisk flavor, the fine quality tea that gives you all
the goodness nature meant you to have. I wish you'd
try a cup of Liptons soon, because it's so delicious.
Just ask your grocer for Lipton's. Remember Lipton's is the
tea with brisk flavor.

Speaker 35 (01:42:22):
And so our evenings over with the usual quota of
corpses to qualify for the Ghoul School, we're working on
a special matriculation for bachelor gools. In the case you
didn't know, a bachelor gul is one who believes that
two can die as cheaply as one.

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
Until then, good eye, pleasant dreams.

Speaker 1 (01:43:06):
Well, I suppose that was a bit intense, My dear.
I hope you are enjoying yourself as much as I am.
I do so enjoy these visits of yours. I've been
thinking a lot since our last meeting. Thank you so

(01:43:27):
much again for humoring me, allowing me to visit and
see the world that you existed. In a way I
see it, but in a way I do not. Even
at my age, I'm learning new things. I'm now certain

(01:43:49):
that no grave can hold me.

Speaker 40 (01:44:05):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents the Mysterious Traveler, written but
You Stand, directed by Robert Ay Arthur and David Cooker.
I'm figuring tonight, who are Radio's most distinguished personality is
Sato Sortega and Richard Cooker?

Speaker 28 (01:44:19):
In No Graves can hold Me? This is a mysterious traveler.

Speaker 4 (01:44:31):
Might you to join me on another journey that a
realm of the strange and the terrified.

Speaker 41 (01:44:37):
I hope you will enjoy the trip, and it will
thrill you a little and chill you a little as
we travel tonight, either the world of shadows, of which
no man may return, and we learn the story.

Speaker 4 (01:44:51):
Of one who does return. It's the story I call
No Grave can hold Me. My story starts in a
court of law where a man is on trial for
his life. The court room is tense, for the jury

(01:45:14):
is out deciding the prisoner's fate. But the prisoner himself,
a tall man with glossy black hair and piercing eyes,
sits calmly with his lawyer, his daughter Nora, and his
son in law Harry Wilson, waiting for the fateful verdict.

Speaker 18 (01:45:30):
Y father, I think the jury is coming in up.
They say it's a bad sign when the jury is
out for such a short while.

Speaker 16 (01:45:38):
You need not worry either of you.

Speaker 28 (01:45:42):
I shall be free.

Speaker 16 (01:45:43):
I certainly hope so ran off. But oh, you know
you did have met your kill.

Speaker 4 (01:45:47):
Clements, because he insulted me. He called me a mount
to bank of Charlotte and a trickster. He called the
great Randolph a faker. So he died.

Speaker 18 (01:45:58):
There They come a father and frightened and.

Speaker 42 (01:46:03):
Taking any places in the jury backs now loosely grim
hir red pete, have no fear for me, Amon of
the jury.

Speaker 16 (01:46:16):
As the jury reached their verdicts and has her honner.
What is the verdict? Very current, independant, guilty as charis
a murder in the first grill. It finds your guilty.

Speaker 4 (01:46:31):
And fools, they too think that I'm an impostorate trickster.
They shall learn different if I die, so shall they.

Speaker 43 (01:46:44):
The prisoner will rise for me to stand up. The
prisoner will rise very well.

Speaker 4 (01:46:52):
I'll stand up, so that they will recognize my face
again when they see it.

Speaker 28 (01:46:57):
Suddenly in the night.

Speaker 20 (01:47:00):
And know that death has come to claim them.

Speaker 43 (01:47:06):
Maximilian Randolph, you have been found guilty of the crime
of murder in the first degree. It is the sentence
of this court that you shall suffer the punishment of death.
On the night of June sixth, at midnight, and may
God have mercy on your soul, resident of mister Randolph.

Speaker 4 (01:47:40):
Thank you God. Miller in Jim for only five minutes.
Yes all right, guard, Oh render good evening, Harry. I
see that my guard Miller managed to get you in
to see me. Yes he did.

Speaker 16 (01:47:58):
Thinness is a short well.

Speaker 4 (01:48:00):
I know it's almost midnight, and at midnight I die.
But God Miller has become a good friend. I knew
he'd arrange it.

Speaker 16 (01:48:15):
Now when I saw the governor this afternoony, you refuse
to do a thing.

Speaker 4 (01:48:18):
It does not matter. What is death but a new
garment for the soul to wear. Nor I was waiting outside.
You said you didn't want to see it tonight. That
is as I wished you were my assistant. You were
very close to you and die. And now there is
the last promise you must make to me.

Speaker 16 (01:48:40):
Anything ran off.

Speaker 4 (01:48:42):
When you receive my body the empty husk of the
Great Randolph. Bury it in a vault with a bronze
door which faces east about pacing. There's the curse.

Speaker 16 (01:48:59):
The door must be.

Speaker 4 (01:48:59):
Locked with a padlock of bronze, but it must be
possible to open it from the inside.

Speaker 28 (01:49:06):
But without using a key.

Speaker 4 (01:49:09):
And the coffin must be locked shut as well, but
I must be able to open it from the inside.

Speaker 16 (01:49:21):
Randal, I'll show you how serious.

Speaker 2 (01:49:22):
I never chose.

Speaker 8 (01:49:25):
All this. And one thing more.

Speaker 16 (01:49:30):
Promise, all right, I promise.

Speaker 4 (01:49:34):
When I am buried, beneath my head must rest a
notebook daring the names and addresses of the twelve jurymen
who found me guilty, of the prosecuting attorney, and of
the judge. But why Randall, that I'm in a way

(01:49:55):
to seek my vengeance upon them, the vengeance I have sworn,
which must be executed before my soul can sleep.

Speaker 44 (01:50:05):
Oh rand Or that's madness, you disbelieve, so do they.
But in my studies I have learned many things, and
one of them is how to reach back from behind
the dark curtain of death. Time is up to thank you, Mamma, goodbye, Harry.

(01:50:30):
Just tell me one more thing. Is the full moon
shining tonight? Yes, the full moon tonight?

Speaker 8 (01:50:41):
Good?

Speaker 4 (01:50:42):
And each time hereafter that it shines, one of my
enemies will join me in death. And so the Great
Randolph went to his execution and was buried according to

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his instructions. After a few days, his case was forgotten,
forgotten by all but Harry.

Speaker 16 (01:51:13):
Wilson, his son in law.

Speaker 14 (01:51:16):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:51:16):
As the first month passed and the full moon again
shone in the windows of his apartment.

Speaker 8 (01:51:21):
A strange restlessness possessed Harry.

Speaker 18 (01:51:26):
Harry, what's wrong with you?

Speaker 16 (01:51:28):
I'm sorry, norry, but tonight the night at the full moon,
and I'm nervous. I can't help it.

Speaker 18 (01:51:33):
Oh, darling, you're not worrying about father, are you about
his threat?

Speaker 16 (01:51:37):
Yes? I am.

Speaker 18 (01:51:38):
Oh, but that's absurd. Poor father. Toward the end, I'm
afraid he was suffering from delusions, and he was more
than just an ordinary man. He wasn't entirely saying.

Speaker 16 (01:51:48):
No, maybe not, but he was so sure of himself,
so certain, and most instructions for the way he was
to be buried. Oh, of course, I'm just being foolish.

Speaker 18 (01:51:57):
Why don't you go out and walk for a while, Harry.
It'll help, all right, all right?

Speaker 16 (01:52:01):
I will you want to come along? It's a nice night.

Speaker 18 (01:52:03):
No, I think I'll stay all right.

Speaker 16 (01:52:05):
I'll be back in an hour, So dear, nothing happens
to night. I'll know that Randolph is just putting on
a neck.

Speaker 4 (01:52:19):
A little later, another man was also walking in the
moonlight of a beautiful July evening. This one was short
and stout. He was throwing homeward from a small poker
party with his friends when in the dark shadow was
cast by the trees along the edge of the park,
A tall figure stepped directly into his pouch.

Speaker 16 (01:52:41):
Just a moment.

Speaker 4 (01:52:43):
Here, What do you want?

Speaker 16 (01:52:45):
Just to talk to you?

Speaker 20 (01:52:47):
I don't want to talk to you. Get my first,
my friend, look an say, what is.

Speaker 28 (01:52:54):
This a hold up?

Speaker 16 (01:52:55):
No, Adam, it is not the holder. And why he
threatening me with that guy?

Speaker 4 (01:53:00):
I've got the start coming in face because my face
has changed in the months since I was executed and
buried rather frightening.

Speaker 16 (01:53:08):
Now what you're saying, why are you anyway?

Speaker 20 (01:53:10):
You're beginning to recognize my voice signs you you know
who I am.

Speaker 4 (01:53:15):
You just don't want to admit it to yourself. But
great Randa, whom you was forming of a jury, caused
to the exit.

Speaker 16 (01:53:23):
No, no, it's not possible.

Speaker 20 (01:53:25):
No, I want to come back from the no ordinary man,
but the great Ramda. No, I don't believe it. A
check of some kind?

Speaker 16 (01:53:34):
Is this thick gadom?

Speaker 2 (01:53:37):
Is it? Is it? O?

Speaker 29 (01:53:56):
Hello?

Speaker 28 (01:53:57):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (01:53:57):
Naura?

Speaker 18 (01:53:59):
Is how there no he's out for a walk.

Speaker 16 (01:54:03):
Who is it?

Speaker 4 (01:54:04):
Don't you recognize my voice? Norah, surely you heard it
often enough.

Speaker 18 (01:54:09):
Father, Oh no, it can't be.

Speaker 4 (01:54:12):
Strange house skeptical. Everyone is of me, even my own daughter.

Speaker 14 (01:54:19):
Father.

Speaker 2 (01:54:19):
You you.

Speaker 18 (01:54:21):
Who do you want?

Speaker 16 (01:54:22):
I just wanted to tell.

Speaker 4 (01:54:23):
Harry that I claimed the first victim of my vengeance
exactly on the stroke of midnight, the same minute when
I die. And I wanted to warn him that he
must do nothing to interfere.

Speaker 16 (01:54:38):
With my plans.

Speaker 20 (01:54:41):
Oh, if he does, I shall have to add him
to my list and victims.

Speaker 4 (01:54:57):
No, no, are you He's tough on.

Speaker 16 (01:55:00):
If you want to speak to me.

Speaker 18 (01:55:01):
He is Harry. Just a little after twelve, he said
that he yes.

Speaker 2 (01:55:05):
I know.

Speaker 16 (01:55:05):
I heard the news.

Speaker 4 (01:55:06):
I was in the restaurant having coffee and came off
the radio. Adam's performan of the jury found strangle in
front of his home.

Speaker 18 (01:55:11):
But it's impossible, and yet it was his voice, Harry, father's.

Speaker 4 (01:55:17):
Roy always got to do something. I've got to warn
the others on that list. The other juror has bored
in the district attorney and Judge Dexter.

Speaker 18 (01:55:25):
He said, you try to I know that that doesn't matter.

Speaker 16 (01:55:27):
In the morning, I'm going to Attorney Bald and he'll
believe me.

Speaker 19 (01:55:31):
You have to.

Speaker 4 (01:55:38):
But mister Bob, you've got to listen to me. You've
got to warn the others. You've got to give them
protection or they'll die, just as Adams did. Whilst I'm
a busy man, I have not full my mind without
having to listen to wild eyed stories like the one
you just told.

Speaker 16 (01:55:52):
Oh, but it's true. Were also instructions about the way
you want to be buried the notebook that I.

Speaker 4 (01:55:57):
Put in the coffin with him, mere theatrical Mama. Sorry,
Adams was the victim of an ordinary street mugging. That's
all there is to it.

Speaker 28 (01:56:04):
I have to ask you to leave.

Speaker 16 (01:56:06):
I have more important things to tend to. Mister Lord,
you're a sensible man. You adit the biggest newspaper in
this city. If you'll only paid what I've told you,
the authorities will have to take some action. Onsn't my
job as to bend news fire reader, not ghost stories?
Why rang your story? I'd be fire tomorrow. Then you

(01:56:28):
don't believe me and tell her.

Speaker 28 (01:56:29):
What I will do.

Speaker 16 (01:56:31):
I'll make a story for the Sunday supplement out. Oh
that won't do any good.

Speaker 4 (01:56:34):
If it's in a Sunday supplement, people might just smile
at us when they see if they don't know.

Speaker 16 (01:56:38):
It's just a story.

Speaker 43 (01:56:38):
And I'm afraid there's no use in talking any further. Wilson,
all right, I'll go to other papers. One of them
will have to believe. I don't advise it.

Speaker 20 (01:56:45):
You run a shop, don't you telling tricks and magic?

Speaker 16 (01:56:47):
Got Rad?

Speaker 20 (01:56:47):
Yes, yes, that's right.

Speaker 16 (01:56:48):
Why just this?

Speaker 43 (01:56:50):
Those papers don't believe in getting free publicity, and that's
obviously what you're after.

Speaker 16 (01:56:53):
Good diama to us.

Speaker 18 (01:57:01):
I'm very sorry, mister Wilson. But Judge Dexter is unable
to see you.

Speaker 16 (01:57:05):
But mister Jew explained to him what it's about, how
important it is.

Speaker 18 (01:57:08):
The judge said, if you can't write him a letter,
he give the matter his consideration.

Speaker 16 (01:57:12):
Oh that's not good.

Speaker 4 (01:57:13):
I got to talk to him.

Speaker 18 (01:57:14):
I'm sorry. He's leaving today for his vacation, and he
woke me back for a month. I have he'll be
able to see you then, but he simply can't see
you now.

Speaker 43 (01:57:28):
None of them would listen to me, nor they I
thought I was crazy, but I wanted publicity.

Speaker 16 (01:57:32):
They all tell me to forget it.

Speaker 18 (01:57:34):
They're right, Harry, that's the only thing to do, to
forget it. But maybe we're wrong. Maybe Adam's death last
night was just a coincidence. I'm sure father had nothing
to do with it.

Speaker 16 (01:57:44):
Oh no, no, no, he telephoned you.

Speaker 9 (01:57:46):
You heard his boy?

Speaker 18 (01:57:47):
Well, I'm not sure now that I did. Maybe it
was a dream, Harry, Maybe I just imagined it. So
forget the whole thing. Please, Harry, for my sake, forget it. Oh,
Harry Darling, it's no good just pacing up and down.

(01:58:10):
Please sit down and try to.

Speaker 16 (01:58:12):
I can't, Norah, I can't. Tonight, the second full moon
since Randof was executed. He'll be leaving his grave tonight
and someone else we're gone. But Harry, there ought to
be a guard over the wolf.

Speaker 4 (01:58:23):
He's buried in it.

Speaker 16 (01:58:25):
I'm not that gon't doing good if he came back
to him, and I'm Daddy wouldn't be violied by a guard.

Speaker 18 (01:58:30):
Please, Harry, you've done the best you can. And if
it is true, when you go on like this, will
you be endangered?

Speaker 4 (01:58:36):
I don't care that list Nora. The names on him
were alphabetical and Adam's the foreman, was the first to die.

Speaker 18 (01:58:43):
What are you driving?

Speaker 4 (01:58:44):
The second name on the.

Speaker 16 (01:58:45):
List is Baldwin, the district attorneyed. Baldwin wouldn't listen to
me last time, but the night he's got to going
your home now while it's still time, mister Bodin, you
are in danger tonight, I'm sure of It's deadly danger.
Now you mean it. I'm sure we'll yet.

Speaker 4 (01:59:06):
I thought it was some kind of a gag before.
Now I can see you fully believe everything you've said.

Speaker 16 (01:59:11):
Oh, and you will take precautions, at least for tonight.
I've been an officer of the law for thirty years.

Speaker 4 (01:59:18):
I've been threatened by a lot of convicted murderers, but
not one of them has come back to get me yet.

Speaker 16 (01:59:23):
But you don't understand the great brand office different. He
had powers that we know nothing of.

Speaker 4 (01:59:28):
Power perhaps perhaps, but I doubt it now, And I
appreciate your warning, but I can't.

Speaker 16 (01:59:34):
Take it serious really, and you won't guide yourself no
more than usual. I lock the door presently.

Speaker 20 (01:59:40):
I'm sure that'll keep out any ghosts who may come
this way.

Speaker 16 (01:59:44):
Mister Baldon, please, it's almost midnight at least let me
stay with you for another hour. I'm sorry, but I'm
about ready to turn in. I expect to sleep well too.

Speaker 4 (01:59:54):
Now you go on home, do the same, because nobody's
going to be harmed tonight by the great brand law spook.

Speaker 28 (02:00:00):
I guarantee it.

Speaker 4 (02:00:01):
Oh no, I please, I wish you'd I couldn't think
of it. Now you can find your way out yourself,
can't you. I'm sure, yes, of course, all right, Just
and I won't bother any longer. Good night, Good listen.

Speaker 28 (02:00:16):
Oh he's gone, said the poor fellow is his gosst
hm ran.

Speaker 16 (02:00:23):
Those ghosts, and I hope I never have anything worse to.

Speaker 8 (02:00:27):
Be afraid of?

Speaker 4 (02:00:27):
You?

Speaker 16 (02:00:29):
Who's there?

Speaker 2 (02:00:32):
Who came in?

Speaker 4 (02:00:33):
Just now?

Speaker 14 (02:00:35):
Whenson?

Speaker 18 (02:00:35):
Is that you again?

Speaker 16 (02:00:37):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:00:37):
My friend, it is not Wilson?

Speaker 28 (02:00:41):
Who are you?

Speaker 16 (02:00:42):
What the Devil's the meaning of this?

Speaker 20 (02:00:44):
You don't recognize me?

Speaker 8 (02:00:46):
Then?

Speaker 4 (02:00:47):
How can I cloak? With the collar pulled up over
your face? That is despair the world, a sight that
would remain for ever hidden within the darkness of I've
coughin but my voice.

Speaker 2 (02:00:59):
Sure you recognize that?

Speaker 16 (02:01:02):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 20 (02:01:03):
Get out at once.

Speaker 16 (02:01:04):
I'll call for the police.

Speaker 4 (02:01:05):
It would take their powers to arrest me. They have
no authority in the world, to which I no, No,
it can't be.

Speaker 20 (02:01:19):
I see you have recognized me.

Speaker 4 (02:01:22):
You should have taken Wilson's barn in Baldwin because I'm here,
the Great Randou at your services.

Speaker 16 (02:01:33):
It's impossible.

Speaker 20 (02:01:34):
That's been said of so many things as But I
think I can convince you no, stay away.

Speaker 4 (02:01:45):
That won't do you any good by the time anyone
comes who will have joined me in the world of God.

Speaker 20 (02:02:03):
Laurah, Laura, where are you, Laura?

Speaker 19 (02:02:07):
Harry?

Speaker 18 (02:02:07):
I can hear you calling all the way down the
hall where you've been. I just went out to get
the morning papers.

Speaker 16 (02:02:12):
Why, why it's happened again?

Speaker 4 (02:02:14):
District Attorney Bowen has been killed, but exactly the same
way mister Adams was killed.

Speaker 16 (02:02:19):
Strangled. Just admit now, Oh no, I think I know
the truth.

Speaker 18 (02:02:23):
Now what do you mean.

Speaker 16 (02:02:25):
I don't believe it was your father at all. I
think it was I that killed them. I chilled them both. Ill, No,

(02:02:46):
you got to do it. There's a full moon tonight.
You've got to lock me in this apartment.

Speaker 18 (02:02:50):
But hell, you couldn't possibly killed those two me.

Speaker 16 (02:02:53):
I could. I was near the scene at both times.

Speaker 15 (02:02:55):
In my mind.

Speaker 16 (02:02:57):
It wasn't cleared. I don't remember doing it, but don't
you see it? If i'd been hypnotized, I wouldn't remember, Darling.

Speaker 18 (02:03:02):
Father couldn't have hypnotized you into committing murder hit. A
law of hypnosis, the subject will do anything he knows
is wrong.

Speaker 4 (02:03:09):
I know that, but I can't be sure. I believe
that in most few minutes I was with him, somehow
Randolph impressed on my mind orders to carry out his
vengeance for him.

Speaker 18 (02:03:18):
Oh, Darling, I'm sure he didn't. But if you insist,
I'll lock you up.

Speaker 8 (02:03:23):
All right.

Speaker 16 (02:03:24):
I want you to go now. Might not be safe
for you to.

Speaker 18 (02:03:26):
Stay with me, all right, Harry, I'll go to a movie.

Speaker 16 (02:03:29):
Got to stay locked in until after midnight. Then, even
if I am hypnotized, I won't be able to do
any harm. You do understand, norry, don't you?

Speaker 26 (02:03:36):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (02:03:36):
Of course, Darling. I'm sure you're wrong, but I'll do
anything you say.

Speaker 16 (02:03:41):
All right, Now, lock me in and don't you come
back until after midnight.

Speaker 4 (02:04:01):
M R.

Speaker 20 (02:04:05):
Another hour and then i'll know.

Speaker 16 (02:04:08):
Will Maybe I'll try to get out and I won't
remember it, but.

Speaker 4 (02:04:15):
Teliphonna, Yes, Hello, Hello, Harry, Randolf. Yes, my boy, I'm
glad at least you don't say no, it's impossible.

Speaker 16 (02:04:34):
Where are you, Rando?

Speaker 20 (02:04:36):
That doesn't matter.

Speaker 16 (02:04:39):
I just wanted to on you.

Speaker 20 (02:04:42):
And don't try to interfere.

Speaker 16 (02:04:47):
With my plans for Randolf, I thought, hello, oh, yeah,
who who's the I'm not the.

Speaker 5 (02:05:01):
In that case.

Speaker 16 (02:05:03):
Yes, that's the only possible answer. I know now what
the truth is.

Speaker 4 (02:05:09):
I've got to get out of here.

Speaker 16 (02:05:12):
I come back. It down with an axe. There's no
fire escape and a sap floor. It down to the street.
I have it the superintendent.

Speaker 4 (02:05:20):
I can telephone the superintendent to tell him I locked in,
and then you'll come and.

Speaker 16 (02:05:23):
Let me ask. Oh, that's dexter. First Adams died. Then
their names were the first two on the Great Adam
Randaus list. Your name is third Adam. So you think
that tonight I will scheduled to die. Yes, yes, I'm sure.

(02:05:44):
And you'll say you want Baldwin last month, just before
he was murdered, I did, and he laughed at me.
But he died just the same.

Speaker 43 (02:05:50):
And you're seriously asking me to believe that a dead
man legally executed by the state. There's walking the streets
tonight seeking my life.

Speaker 4 (02:05:58):
I tell you, he telephoned me only half an hour ago.
I recognized his voice. You know, of course, that your
story sounds like the ravings of an insane mind.

Speaker 2 (02:06:07):
I know it.

Speaker 16 (02:06:08):
That's why I've kept quiet this last month. I did
try to convince the police, the district attorney, and all
I got was laughed at it, and then, yes, yet,
obviously you're you're in earnest. I don't think you're crazy.
I'm not. For a little while, I thought that I
was the killer. You how I thought I was under
post hypnotic control, that Randolf had planted in my mind

(02:06:30):
the impulse to kill his enemies. But that phone call
proved that I was wrong. And what do you propose
that we do?

Speaker 4 (02:06:37):
If we went to his tomb, perhaps then we'd learn
the truth. It was, what do you want to open
Randolph's tomb for?

Speaker 20 (02:06:42):
Don't you see?

Speaker 16 (02:06:43):
If we go there and we find Randolph is still
in his confident, I'll know that the real.

Speaker 32 (02:06:48):
Murder is my wife nor.

Speaker 16 (02:06:58):
I have the key here the head in a minute.
Can't hurry.

Speaker 43 (02:07:03):
The moon is bright. I'd hate to have anyone to
see us. Yes, a very strange story. A man in
my position flowling around the cemetery at midnight. But we
had to come, judge, we had to make sure. Yeah,
but we can up in the ball doing. I'm rather
sorry I paid any attention to you, Wilson. But we're
here now, so let skip this thing over it now.

(02:07:25):
I'm going in first, but don't forget I'm on.

Speaker 16 (02:07:28):
Oh, don't worry about me. Here shut the door. You
say to turn on a flash light now, eh see
there's the coffin.

Speaker 5 (02:07:37):
That's odd.

Speaker 2 (02:07:38):
Huhm, what is it?

Speaker 16 (02:07:40):
Judge? There and here's fresh. This vault has been opened,
and very recently. Then it must have been opened by
round the whole nonsense opened this coffin, and i'll prove
it here. How does it work? Let's catch I'm a sorry,
can be operated out from the inside eye.

Speaker 4 (02:07:55):
It's one little lift.

Speaker 16 (02:07:57):
The lid man lifted?

Speaker 18 (02:07:59):
What right, I'll do it.

Speaker 43 (02:08:01):
No, there there, see, there's your precious Randolph, safe and sound,
just as I expected.

Speaker 16 (02:08:10):
Quite did as he's supposed to be due. Yes, and
that pros that cost. Shine your flashlight down on the floor.

Speaker 20 (02:08:25):
I just touched the body lying here near the water.

Speaker 16 (02:08:30):
Buddy, Oh it's.

Speaker 19 (02:08:34):
She did.

Speaker 16 (02:08:35):
I don't think so. Here.

Speaker 2 (02:08:36):
Give me that.

Speaker 11 (02:08:38):
What happened?

Speaker 16 (02:08:39):
Why did you turn out the flashlight?

Speaker 4 (02:08:40):
Something knocked it out of my hands.

Speaker 16 (02:08:43):
I can find it because I have it, Harry.

Speaker 20 (02:08:46):
That's why you can't find it.

Speaker 16 (02:08:47):
It wasn't what they're saying. It's Randolph.

Speaker 19 (02:08:49):
He's not there.

Speaker 16 (02:08:50):
But I am, Harry.

Speaker 20 (02:08:52):
But don't bet that to stab you. I want to
thank you for bringing the judge here to me.

Speaker 16 (02:08:56):
Listen, where are you you tind to play a chick
on me?

Speaker 20 (02:08:59):
No, no, I swear he's bye Dennis and Judge Dexter.

Speaker 8 (02:09:02):
That's Binar.

Speaker 20 (02:09:03):
She merely came to make sure I was that.

Speaker 4 (02:09:06):
I'm supposed to be, just as you did. When I
spoke to her, she painted, Listen, get.

Speaker 32 (02:09:13):
The door open.

Speaker 43 (02:09:15):
We've got to have some light in here.

Speaker 16 (02:09:16):
It's no use.

Speaker 45 (02:09:19):
I can see in the dark like a cat, and
you can't know I have you. No, No, Judge, you're
going to die ext kilt as you are at me kilted.

Speaker 19 (02:09:38):
Let me go there.

Speaker 43 (02:09:39):
I warn your Randolph.

Speaker 5 (02:09:40):
I've got a gun.

Speaker 4 (02:09:42):
I'm trying to shoot your two lady.

Speaker 16 (02:09:46):
Yeah, yeah, are you all right?

Speaker 19 (02:09:51):
Yes, yes I am.

Speaker 43 (02:09:52):
I'll see if you can find the flesh list. I
think i've taken care of mister Randolphin.

Speaker 16 (02:09:56):
It was Randolph. I think I haven't. Yes, here it
is chat that's funny, it's still in the cart. I
rather thought it would be Harry.

Speaker 26 (02:10:06):
Harry, is that you?

Speaker 8 (02:10:08):
You're not hurt?

Speaker 18 (02:10:09):
No, just my head.

Speaker 16 (02:10:10):
I came here to see you father, You understand, missus
Wilson had then someone hitch.

Speaker 18 (02:10:14):
Yes, behind, there was someone here in the vault. I
just got a glimpse of him and then and then
he hit me.

Speaker 16 (02:10:19):
But that's what we're just about to find out. Now,
let me have the flashlight. Was yes, I think he
fell over here.

Speaker 4 (02:10:25):
Now, yes, here he is.

Speaker 15 (02:10:27):
But who is he?

Speaker 18 (02:10:28):
He was impersonating father? But but who is he?

Speaker 4 (02:10:31):
Here?

Speaker 17 (02:10:32):
Is?

Speaker 16 (02:10:32):
I gonna say a better? Turn away carefully now he's
still breathing.

Speaker 20 (02:10:36):
That's it, Ah, it's Muller.

Speaker 16 (02:10:39):
The guard from the penitentiary, the one Randolph said he
made a friend.

Speaker 18 (02:10:42):
Of Yes, the one who was guarding him just before
he was executed.

Speaker 20 (02:10:45):
Oh, that's it was Muller.

Speaker 10 (02:10:48):
Miller.

Speaker 16 (02:10:48):
Can you hear me? I'm afraid he's dying.

Speaker 18 (02:10:52):
Before father was executed, he must have hypnotized this man
and ordered him to carry out his fantastic scheme.

Speaker 19 (02:10:58):
Of Dingeer.

Speaker 16 (02:10:58):
It was a trick, very cunning trick, by means of hypnosis.
Randolph he was. This man is a tool. Even though
Randolph himself.

Speaker 18 (02:11:05):
Was dead, he must have recognized that Miller was unusually spectical.

Speaker 43 (02:11:09):
I think we'll find that Miller was a psychotic to
begin with. Otherwise Randolph's hypnosis would never have worked, for
no normal person can be influenced the way Miller was
under any circumstances.

Speaker 16 (02:11:21):
Isn't there anything we can do for you?

Speaker 14 (02:11:23):
No?

Speaker 16 (02:11:24):
No, he's gone, and with him, the Great Randolph has
died too, for good.

Speaker 28 (02:11:57):
This is a mysterious taver again. So the Great Randolph
is dead for good?

Speaker 2 (02:12:03):
Is he?

Speaker 8 (02:12:04):
I wondered?

Speaker 16 (02:12:06):
After all, Miller wasn't the only.

Speaker 4 (02:12:08):
God Randolph had a chance to talk through. Oh, but
he couldn't have hypnotized any of the others. I wouldn't
give it another shot if I were you, unless, of course,
you were on a jury that convicted Randolph. In that case, well,
you have to get off here. I'm sorry. I'm sure

(02:12:30):
you'll meet again. I take this same train every week.

Speaker 2 (02:12:35):
At the same time.

Speaker 40 (02:12:48):
You have just heard the Mysterious Traveler. A series of
dramas are the Strange and Terrified. The role of the
Mysterious Traveler is played by Maurice Tuckler in tonight's castas Ortega,
Richard Coogan, Shirley Blank, and Bill Smith. Original music composed
and played by Al Vanelli. All characters in this story

(02:13:09):
were fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons was purely coincidental.

Speaker 33 (02:13:14):
This is Bob Emeric speaking. This program came from New York.
This is the mutual Broadcasting system.

Speaker 3 (02:13:27):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (02:13:29):
Nothing better on a cold night than a hot cup
of tea and a record with a fair But I know,
I know the night is nearly over. It's grown late.
Soon the sun will rise, and I'll need to return
to wherever it is I come from, And you need

(02:13:55):
to go home. Home is where the heart is. So
please be careful as you make your way home through
the darkness, so much darkness. As your feet guide you
through the woods, the dark asshat, the covered bridge, as

(02:14:20):
you lay your head on your soft cool him out
and gnawed away, Take one moment and be thankful for
what you have. I'll be seeing you

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