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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Ah, my dear, so good to see you. Why, yes,
I am a bit jovial still as the witching season
continues to be in full swing as it were? Or
what's that? Well, Well, of course, of course you shouldn't
worry one bit about that. There's nothing of your concern.

(00:32):
In fact, all you should worry about, besides avoiding a
dangerous stomach ache from too much sweet goods and cider
is getting cozy. Now, sit down, relax, put your feet up.
The tea is steeping as we speak, my dear, and well,
I'm excited to share something chilling with you before we

(00:56):
warm back up. It's times like these and company like
yours that keeps me from feeling like a very old man.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Come in, Welcome, I'm e. G.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Marshall.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Welcome to the sound of suspense, to the fear you
can hear. Welcome to the world of terrifying imagination. Our
story is about a very old man living just outside
a tiny village, a very old man whose long life

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has been lived close to the soil and close to
the people he loved, people still living and people long dead.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
High skill, high still girl, is it very bad? I
don't know, She's very dear to me if I should
lose his trying to raise her head. She knows I
want to help. Do you think you can?

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Young men?

Speaker 5 (02:22):
I never said I was a duct, but I thought
I mean the William Just an old man, A very
old man.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Our mystery drama A Very Old Man was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Elsbeth Eric and stars Santos Ortega.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
I'll be back shortly with that one.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Look long and carefully at the face of a tiny baby,
Look carefully and long into the face of someone who
is very old. Do you see the wisdom in both
the very young and they're very old? Have wisdom in between?

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There is only accumulated information.

Speaker 6 (03:31):
Oh your home, good, he's done it again.

Speaker 7 (03:35):
Who's done?

Speaker 8 (03:35):
What are you talking about? My father?

Speaker 6 (03:38):
You know I am.

Speaker 9 (03:39):
I warned him, I said, Stephan, if it ever gets around,
you'll ruin my medical practice.

Speaker 6 (03:44):
People won't believe in me.

Speaker 8 (03:45):
The only Manfred comes it down. Now, what's he done?

Speaker 10 (03:51):
The same thing?

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Where is he?

Speaker 6 (03:53):
Isn't he home yet?

Speaker 8 (03:55):
He went to the cemetery as usual. But you still
haven't told me what happened.

Speaker 9 (04:00):
Anna Brandt came to see me about a month ago.
Severe attacks of pain in the upper abdomen. All the
symptoms indicated appendicitis. I sent her a car wise for
the operation. Of course, he examined her too, and he
agreed with me, no doubt about it. Inflamed appendix had
to come out for the operator the next day, and
that night.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
That same night, she had another attack.

Speaker 9 (04:20):
So it wasn't how could she have had another appendicitis
attack when he'd just taken her appendix out.

Speaker 6 (04:25):
But he was as flabbergasted as I was.

Speaker 8 (04:28):
But what's it all got to do with my father?

Speaker 6 (04:30):
Stephan happened to be in my office the day Anna
Brandt first came to see me. You know how he
loves to hang around the office.

Speaker 9 (04:36):
Anna Brandt wasn't ten feet out of the office when
he told me there's nothing wrong with her appendix.

Speaker 8 (04:41):
Oh not again.

Speaker 9 (04:42):
I can't have my father in law, who's been a
farmer all his life, telling me a doctor with a
reputation that I don't know what's wrong with my own patient.

Speaker 8 (04:49):
Source.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
You can't.

Speaker 6 (04:51):
For a minute, I did think back to that boy,
the one with the asthma what seemed to be asthma anyway.

Speaker 8 (04:57):
The rothbird boy. I was right about him.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
I know, I know he made a lucky guess.

Speaker 8 (05:03):
Father went to see him every day, talked to him,
rubbed his chest, his throat.

Speaker 9 (05:09):
In two weeks, boy was all right. The boy was hysterical,
over aspirated. Nothing more but this business with Anna Brandt.
The day she came to see me, Stephan was asleep
in the waiting room. I was explaining to Anna that
I couldn't perform the operation, simple as it is, because
of my hands, my arthritis. But I would send her
to car Wise. But she accepted that everybody knows about

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my arthritis, and she said something pleasant to Stephan. That
was the first I knew that he wasn't asleep. But
he didn't answer. He just stared at her as though
he'd never seen her before. I reached for the phone
to call Carl Wise. Stephan got up, came over to
the desk and took the receiver out of my hand
and Fred, Stephan, don't.

Speaker 6 (05:52):
It's not so, not so. Have you had a bad dream,
old man.

Speaker 11 (05:56):
It's not so what you said to Hannah brand Nothing
wrong with Anna Brand's appendix.

Speaker 6 (06:01):
Stephan, don't start diagnosing again. You're not a doctor.

Speaker 11 (06:04):
There's nothing wrong.

Speaker 6 (06:05):
We had enough trouble after you diagnosed the Rothburg boy.

Speaker 11 (06:08):
The Rothburg boy never had asthma.

Speaker 6 (06:10):
All right. It turned out that he didn't.

Speaker 9 (06:12):
But that was a lucky guess, and it didn't do
my reputation any good when word went around that you'd
been right.

Speaker 11 (06:18):
I never told anybody that's what.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
The boy did and his mother did. People started coming
to the house, coming here, all of them, wanting to
see you. But I told them to go away. It's
not always that I can help. I keep hoping, expecting
God knows what miracles. Now are you going to start
the whole thing up again with Anna Brandt? There are
three of them, Come on, now, get your coat, Stephan.

Speaker 11 (06:41):
Heir dark brown or black and hard heart's getting laid.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
They're the size of olive pits. Are you talking about,
Anna Brandt? I saw them close together. Who were hiring?

Speaker 11 (06:57):
No body about here? Three of them?

Speaker 5 (07:01):
You saw them, three of them, the size of olive pits,
lying here above the stomach.

Speaker 11 (07:12):
About here?

Speaker 6 (07:13):
Have you got X ray eyes?

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Stephan?

Speaker 12 (07:15):
Is that it?

Speaker 13 (07:16):
No?

Speaker 11 (07:17):
No, My eyes are like everybody's.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
Well, then, what do you mean you saw them?

Speaker 5 (07:23):
Her body was transparent. I could see right through it,
as though the skin had been removed. I could see everything.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
Carl Wise was as confident as I was before the operation,
and he was as confused as I was after. I swear,
I don't know what made me say it, but I
said it. I said, Carlwise, could it be a stone?
A gallstone? Perhaps he was taken aback a little, but
he couldn't deny a possibility, maybe a remote one, but

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a possible. I felt like a fool, but I told
him I thought he should go ahead, and he did
this morning, and he found golfstones, three of them, the
size of olive pits.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
I still, is it very bad? I don't know. She's
very dear to me.

Speaker 11 (08:31):
She turned to raise her head.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
She's trying to tell you something she knows. I want
to help. Do you think you can, doctor, young man?

Speaker 5 (08:41):
I never said I was a doctor, but the way
you I'm just an old man, the very old man.
Why I took it for granted, the way you SPA
son in law's a doctor, Manfred Godlib I live with
him and my daughter birth.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Then you know something you've you've learned from him.

Speaker 11 (09:00):
No, I know nothing, only what I.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
See, what I feel. When I passed you by the cemetery.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
What were you doing?

Speaker 4 (09:10):
My wife is bury there? Did I hum?

Speaker 14 (09:15):
No?

Speaker 4 (09:16):
No, I even think she said a little better. Her
eyes they look brighter, not so full of pain. You
did nothing but touch her, struggle a little, and talked
to her. Let me look at your hands now, they're
just hands.

Speaker 11 (09:38):
What should they be?

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Now?

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Let me.

Speaker 12 (09:42):
Well?

Speaker 5 (09:42):
Your hands are warm on a night like this, more
than warm, hot, very hot, as though they were burning,
burning from inside.

Speaker 15 (10:05):
If it should get around about Anna, Brad, you don't
think i'd tell anyone now?

Speaker 6 (10:09):
These things have a way of leaking out.

Speaker 8 (10:12):
Look, you're not going to tell father, are you that
Carl Weis found the three stories?

Speaker 6 (10:17):
You think I shouldn't.

Speaker 9 (10:18):
He wouldn't tell anym He didn't tell anyone about the
Rothberg boy. It was the boy's mother who shouted it
from the housetops.

Speaker 8 (10:24):
And look what happened, people showing up here.

Speaker 15 (10:27):
When he saw them, he hid in his room, And
when they left, he went to the cemetery, sat by
my mother's grave.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Do you think that he's there now?

Speaker 8 (10:37):
I suppose sometimes he stays for hours. I wish he'd
get home before the rain starts.

Speaker 11 (10:50):
Emily, my dear, come to Emily, my precious.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
I need you.

Speaker 11 (10:58):
You are my strength. I can do nothing without you.
Come to me, my darling, Come to me, my darling.

Speaker 15 (11:18):
And I don't want him to start thinking that any
of this is real. He mustn't think that he has
some magical power. List If you treat him as though
he were possessed.

Speaker 8 (11:29):
In some way, he might begin to believe it, and
then his mind. Who knows what might happen.

Speaker 6 (11:35):
Bertha, have you thought that, well, perhaps it's already happened,
that he is derayed.

Speaker 8 (11:40):
I won't believe that he's my father.

Speaker 15 (11:42):
I love him, He's He's old and childish, and sometimes
I'm impatient. I am too often, but only the way
i'd be with a child. In many ways, he is
my child, the only child I have, My.

Speaker 6 (11:57):
Dear, I thought you'd stop brute about that.

Speaker 16 (12:00):
Oh I have, I have.

Speaker 15 (12:01):
I I stopped last year when I turned forty. But
that's why, Because I have no child. He's he's twice
as precious to me.

Speaker 17 (12:10):
I understand, I do understand.

Speaker 6 (12:13):
You know that I'm fond of him.

Speaker 8 (12:14):
Then let's leave.

Speaker 7 (12:15):
Him as he is.

Speaker 15 (12:17):
Don't don't let him think he's different from other people.
Whatever you say, you know the widow holder has been
asking for him. Widow holder, why they keep telling me
in the.

Speaker 8 (12:28):
Village that she has this great swelling on her head,
big as an age.

Speaker 6 (12:32):
Yes, I've heard about it.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
She's afraid of doctors, Berthie.

Speaker 6 (12:36):
You don't suppose.

Speaker 8 (12:38):
The rain started.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
It's coming down. I'm crazy, Oh.

Speaker 8 (12:45):
Father, Oh, thank goodness, I made it just in time.
You shouldn't take such chances. Why weren't you home for dinner?

Speaker 6 (12:55):
Where have you been?

Speaker 8 (12:56):
I kept something hot for you?

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Thank you? Thank you me your coat, I said, Now,
where were you all this time?

Speaker 11 (13:05):
I didn't birtha tell you at the cemetery.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
You didn't go to see anybody?

Speaker 11 (13:11):
No, I didn't go to see anybody.

Speaker 8 (13:13):
Here's a place for your father, nice pot roasting to take.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (13:18):
I'm sorry. I wasn't here for dinner, and asked track.
At the time, I ran into somebody. We talked a
little man.

Speaker 8 (13:26):
Let's go up to bed, father, you'll be.

Speaker 5 (13:29):
All right, good, she'll be all right, Go to bed.
Good night, good night, daughter. Oh memory, How is Anna brand?

Speaker 6 (13:41):
Anna brand?

Speaker 11 (13:42):
I thought about it tonight in the cemetery. Is she
all right?

Speaker 6 (13:47):
Yes, she's fine.

Speaker 11 (13:49):
I thought you was. I had a feeling.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
Good night, enjoy your dinner.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
Good night.

Speaker 6 (13:57):
He is asking about Anna Brandt. He hasn't even mentioned
her since that day in the office, Bertha. Could he
have heard about Carl Weiss finding the gallstones?

Speaker 8 (14:07):
Oh, he'd have said, so. He always says precisely what's
on his mind.

Speaker 6 (14:11):
There are times when I wish he didn't.

Speaker 18 (14:17):
Listen.

Speaker 6 (14:17):
He's talking to himself in the kitchen.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Sounds as though he's calling someone Nenver.

Speaker 8 (14:23):
He's an old man leaving me, Please close the door,
come to bed.

Speaker 6 (14:29):
It sounds like Emily.

Speaker 8 (14:31):
What did you say, Emily?

Speaker 6 (14:37):
Wasn't that your mother's name?

Speaker 8 (14:38):
No? No, it was my sister's.

Speaker 6 (14:41):
Oh, Bertha, I never knew you had a sister.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
You never told me.

Speaker 15 (14:44):
It was so long ago before I was born, their
first child. She only lived an hour. My mother told
me they just agreed on a name. Father leaned over
the crypt to kiss her.

Speaker 8 (15:00):
She was dead.

Speaker 15 (15:03):
But that was forty five years ago. All these years
he's never mentioned her. What was that The door opened
downstairs before he's gone on. There's only one place he's gone,
to the cemetery.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
When those around us cannot understand, where do we turn
when the world is dark. Where do we go to
the unknown or to the once familiar, the once well known,
the once well loved, to those who have left the

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dark earth and moved into light. I'll be back shortly
with that too. Now come back with me to the
story of a very old man and the people who

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loved him and could not comprehend him, or could not
comprehend him because they loved him, or because they tried.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
Too hide.

Speaker 8 (16:21):
Breakfast on the table, Manfred, Well, did you talk to him?

Speaker 6 (16:27):
He's still asleep.

Speaker 8 (16:28):
Oh, let him sleep after last night.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
Yes, we're lucky if he doesn't come down with pneumonia.
He was drenched birth a soaked clear through, lying across
your mother's grave with a rain beating down on him,
crying Emily, Emily, as though his heart was broken.

Speaker 8 (16:48):
Emily is buried next to mother Bertha.

Speaker 6 (16:52):
Are you going to ask him about her?

Speaker 8 (16:54):
Oh? It's been so long, forty five years, you know,
in all that time, I've never heard him say her name. Naturally,
I never mentioned it. She died years before.

Speaker 19 (17:04):
I was born.

Speaker 6 (17:05):
Your mother never talked about her, just at.

Speaker 15 (17:08):
Once when she told me she wanted to be buried
near her, and how she died. Manford she was only
one hour old.

Speaker 6 (17:17):
Yes, crib deaths, they happened.

Speaker 8 (17:19):
We don't know why they thought of naming me Emily.
At first my mother said, it's a pretty name. Who's
that so early in the morning?

Speaker 6 (17:30):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (17:31):
Is this the Gobleeb house? Yes it is, and you're
Manfred Godlieb, doctor Godlieb.

Speaker 6 (17:36):
Yes, I am, but I don't see patients at home.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
My office is Oh no, no, no, no, I'm not
a patient the patients outside.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
Well, bring the patient to my office and about it.

Speaker 11 (17:44):
No, no, there's no need.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
She's quite well, completely cured. Well, what's the point I
hoped I could see the old man? Your father in law?

Speaker 6 (17:52):
Is he Stephan?

Speaker 8 (17:53):
What's this about my father?

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Madam? Good morning, beautiful morning, isn't it after last night
all that rain?

Speaker 8 (17:59):
You he wanted to see my father if I may, Well,
what about he's asleep?

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Oh oh, I'm sorry. Well, when he does wake up,
would you tell him? The patient recovered and is better
than ever, lively, frisky, enjoying life to the full, romping
in the fields.

Speaker 8 (18:17):
What patient is this?

Speaker 11 (18:18):
You said?

Speaker 4 (18:19):
She's outside? Yes, right there, Look look the picture of health.

Speaker 5 (18:25):
You don't mean, well, not the horse. Yes, my prize mayor,
my favorite. I thought I might have to have her
put away. But your father, madam, Oh, yes, it's all
due to him.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
Or when was this? When did you meet Stephan last night,
just before the rain started?

Speaker 8 (18:40):
Didn't he tell you, oh, come inside, have some coffee
with us?

Speaker 4 (18:43):
Oh, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 8 (18:46):
Sit down, a man, forget another copy?

Speaker 4 (18:49):
May I introduce myself Otto.

Speaker 8 (18:51):
Krauss, Well, I'm Bertha Guttlieb. This is my husband. But
then my father must have told you he lives with us.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
Your father is quite a man. Yep, coffee, Oh, thank you,
thank you. M Yes, you see. I was returning to
the village and I was passing the cemetery. Suddenly the
mayor sank to her knees. Her legs seemed to give
way completely, and there she lay on her side in
the middle of the road.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
I I was frantic. I thought perhaps a stone bruise.
But I looked at all four hoofs nothing And there
I was half a mile from home, my precious horse
stretched out on the road, and a storm coming up.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
And then I heard a sound coming from the cemetery,
someone calling a name. Was it Emily, Emily, Yes, yes, yes,
something like that. I shouted for help. In a minute,
an old man appeared. Yes, I asked him to help me,
but I wasn't sure he even heard. He he seemed

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very distraught. He went straight to the mayor, knelt down
and took her fore leg in his hands and started
rubbing it very gently. He knew which one was hurting her,
and after a while the pain went out of her eyes.
Couldn't understand it. It was something about the way he

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he touched her. I I asked to see his hands,
and he held them out, and even before I touched them,
I could feel the heat spreading out from them.

Speaker 20 (20:27):
Heat.

Speaker 18 (20:27):
What heat?

Speaker 4 (20:29):
Haven't you ever noticed the extraordinary heat from his hands? I?
I can't say that I have. Oh, but it's true
his hands give off all warmth. I I can't believe
you've never noticed it.

Speaker 8 (20:41):
But it could have been on such a wet, cold night.
It only seemed that way to you. You imagined it.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
I suppose that's possible, But I didn't imagine it. When
the Mayor got to her feet were she was all right.
I walked her home. I couldn't quite believe it all.
I bedded her down, and this morning all I could
think was I must tell the old man about it.

Speaker 6 (21:03):
There are stories going around about him in the village.
Perhaps you've heard some of them.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Well, I'm only here on a visit to see my aunt.
I don't live here.

Speaker 8 (21:12):
Well, he doesn't really do anything. He's just around and
people love him.

Speaker 15 (21:18):
They like to think because he's such a sweet old
man that he can do things doctors can't do.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
And because he's such a very old man. We wouldn't
want him to start thinking that there was anything miraculous
about well, about anything that happened quite naturally.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Well, you think it might might affect him, might affect
his mind in some way.

Speaker 8 (21:37):
He's a very old man. It could happen.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Well, I suppose it's possible. She wasn't really lame, of course,
it's possible. Only ask him, will you about his hands,
those amazing hands?

Speaker 6 (21:52):
Yes, yes, we'll ask him.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
I mean giving off that heat. I felt it, you know. Well,
i'll be getting long, my aunts expected.

Speaker 8 (22:01):
Well, will tell him you stop by?

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Yes, yes, I wish you would tell him, and please
tell him.

Speaker 8 (22:08):
Thanks, we'll tell him. Do you think we should wake up?

Speaker 6 (22:11):
Come on, it's time. Yes, we have to tell him
about the young man and the horse. But we won't
make anything out of nothing at all, Just to say that.
He dropped by to say thanks, yes, father, Stephan, are
you awake.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
What time is it?

Speaker 6 (22:29):
Oh, it's almost nine o'clock.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
Aren't you your office?

Speaker 6 (22:34):
Well it uh, it seems that a young man stopped
by to see us, Stephan.

Speaker 15 (22:40):
Actually, father, he wanted to see you, but we told
him you were sleeping. Why me, Well, it seems he
met you on the road last night.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Mary.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
It was.

Speaker 11 (22:51):
That's right, the horse that is swelling.

Speaker 8 (22:54):
Do you feel well enough to get up now?

Speaker 14 (22:56):
Father?

Speaker 4 (22:57):
I think so, you're sure after last night? I'm all right, all.

Speaker 6 (23:02):
Right now, just let me help you out of bed.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Steffan, give your hand, Come on, that's it.

Speaker 8 (23:09):
Yeah, curious slippers. Yeah, I will splash some water on
my fish and then you'll have breakfast.

Speaker 6 (23:17):
Birtha, birtha. His hands are as cold as mine.

Speaker 8 (23:21):
Cold that young man did imagine it about his hands?

Speaker 9 (23:26):
It is if your hands are cold any once, feel warmer,
even if they're only a little warmer than you're all.

Speaker 8 (23:31):
And he'd been riding back from the village on horseback.

Speaker 6 (23:34):
So of course his hands were very cold.

Speaker 21 (23:36):
Of course, of course it is clearing, how good I'll
go down and have some coffee ready for you and
two eggs for mean.

Speaker 8 (23:44):
Your clothes are on the bed, father, thank you Bertha. Father.

Speaker 15 (23:50):
Last night when Manfred and I came up to bed
and you were eating your supper. Anyway, that's what we
thought you were doing.

Speaker 11 (23:56):
It's what I was doing.

Speaker 8 (23:57):
Well, we heard you talking?

Speaker 4 (24:01):
Was I talking?

Speaker 7 (24:02):
Well?

Speaker 8 (24:02):
You kept saying. We heard you say Emily.

Speaker 6 (24:07):
I said what, over and over?

Speaker 8 (24:11):
Father?

Speaker 15 (24:12):
Were you talking to Emily? But do you know about
Emily only what mother told me? What did your mother
tell her that Emily died, That she only lived an hour.
She was her first child, forty five years ago.

Speaker 11 (24:27):
Father, she died in the crib. I remember her so well.

Speaker 8 (24:32):
Why do you talk to her now?

Speaker 4 (24:33):
Father?

Speaker 8 (24:33):
Why do you call her?

Speaker 11 (24:34):
Because because she comes back to me when I call her.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
Father, you don't mean that she comes back to me,
to me, not to anyone else, only to me when
I call her.

Speaker 8 (24:46):
You don't believe in ghosts.

Speaker 11 (24:47):
Emily is not a ghost. Her spirit comes back to
me when I call her.

Speaker 8 (24:52):
Father, you can't believe I'm the.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
Only person left on earth. She remembers, her mother is dead,
the midwife is dead. When I am dead it will
be no one for her to come back to, no
reason to come back.

Speaker 11 (25:05):
You can't believe what I don't have to believe, will
not believe.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
I know.

Speaker 19 (25:10):
I won't let you.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
You have nothing to say about it. Nothing.

Speaker 5 (25:16):
We're not stay in this house and listen to you
tell me that my Emily will not come when I call.
I'm going to her now.

Speaker 6 (25:23):
Father, Wait, father, come back, Steven.

Speaker 7 (25:26):
What's the matter my way?

Speaker 6 (25:28):
Steven?

Speaker 8 (25:30):
F Oh fuck?

Speaker 6 (25:33):
He came tearing down the stairs. He brushed right past me.
What's what's the matter with him?

Speaker 8 (25:37):
I talked to him about Emily. I made him angry.

Speaker 6 (25:39):
Where's he gone?

Speaker 7 (25:40):
Do you know.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Her?

Speaker 8 (25:43):
To Emily?

Speaker 11 (25:54):
Emily? I need you, darling with me and my darling
your father needs I need you, my sweet Emily.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
Old man, oh my moly, Stefan. No, no, you remember me,
don't you? From last night?

Speaker 11 (26:20):
The man young man with the mayor who's lame.

Speaker 7 (26:24):
Ah.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
You should see her now. They told me she's better,
better than better. Come come have a look, please, please come.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
Look there. Look look at her.

Speaker 11 (26:40):
And a sign of lame.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
I came to your house a little while ago. You
were sleeping, and.

Speaker 11 (26:43):
They told me you were there to say thanks, there
was no need for them.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
Oh, I'd like to do more than just leave my thanks.
I'd like to invite you to my aunt's place. Oh no, no,
I couldn't. No, no, I'd like you to meet my aunt.

Speaker 11 (26:54):
Please your end won no, not a bit.

Speaker 4 (26:58):
Come on, we'll both ride mayor here. I'll give you
a leg up.

Speaker 11 (27:03):
You're sure about your aunt now, Oh.

Speaker 8 (27:06):
She'll be delighted.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
She doesn't get out much these days.

Speaker 6 (27:10):
Is she.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Very old?

Speaker 4 (27:12):
Well, she's not young, but that's not why she stays home.
She has this disfiguring growth on her head. It makes
her shy. You should see your doctor. No, no, she won't,
absolutely refuses, won't hear of it, hates them all.

Speaker 11 (27:26):
Oh it's there.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
Oh yes, yes, all the money in the world and
won't go to a doctor. So she sits in her
parlor and reads her bible.

Speaker 22 (27:34):
Ah.

Speaker 5 (27:34):
There there's the house, Yes, the big stone eyes. You
know the house I've admired since I was a boy.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
My aunt bought it with my uncle died. My uncle
was Fritz Holder. You've heard of him, the manufacturer.

Speaker 11 (27:49):
I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
Around here, I understand my aunt is known as the
widow Holder.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
Some folks are afraid of one thing, some are afraid
of another. Everyone who's afraid wants to run and hide.
That's natural, most natural thing in the world. But what
may be hiding in the hiding place, that's the question.
It could be something else to be afraid of. I'll

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be back shortly. With Act three. A very old man
is mounting the steps of a big stone house in
the company of a very young man whose aunt is

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known to the village as the widow Holder.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
Listen now, my aunt is in Uh huh, there you are,
just where I knew you'd be.

Speaker 7 (29:00):
Come in, Come in, stuff.

Speaker 8 (29:03):
Where have you been all morning?

Speaker 12 (29:04):
Otto?

Speaker 8 (29:05):
I missed you at breakfast? Oh you brought someone with you.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yes, this is the very wonderful man I met here
the cemetery last night when my mayor went lame Stefan.
This is my aunt, missus Holden.

Speaker 8 (29:18):
How good of you to come by, Madam.

Speaker 15 (29:22):
I don't have many visitors, not anymore, and I seldom
go out because of this.

Speaker 8 (29:30):
On my head. I don't like to be seen. I
hope it doesn't offend you.

Speaker 11 (29:36):
No, doesn't offend me at all.

Speaker 15 (29:41):
Well, it offends me. Perhaps I'm too sensitive, but that's
the way I am. So I sit here and read
my Bible.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
And that bible's too heavy for you'd hold in your
lap all day.

Speaker 8 (29:55):
But it's the family Bible. It's the one i'm used to.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
All right, all right, sit down, Stephan, I'm all right her.

Speaker 11 (30:04):
Stand both of you.

Speaker 15 (30:05):
Sit down, and otto you tell me where you've been
all morning and why you weren't at breakfast.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
I told you last night how the mayor went lame,
and how I met Stephan near the cemetery.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
Well, this morning I let her out of her stall
and she was dancing on her toes. I couldn't believe it.
Stephan hadn't done a thing.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
But rub her pastern a bit.

Speaker 8 (30:28):
Is that really all you did?

Speaker 11 (30:31):
I did nothing.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
Well, he talked to her, rubbed her fore leg and talked.

Speaker 15 (30:35):
To her, how remarkable you're a remarkable man.

Speaker 8 (30:40):
No, no, you're staring at me.

Speaker 11 (30:46):
I apologize this awful growth.

Speaker 8 (30:48):
To fetch me my shoulder, I'll cover my head.

Speaker 11 (30:50):
No, no, please please hit in my bed program. I
am not offended. I give you my word. I do
don't go.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
No, it's all right, I'll be right now, miss Older.
I am not offended. I am sorry. I stared, So
I will not stare again. Please forgive me, It's.

Speaker 8 (31:09):
Quite all right. Please be calm, sit down.

Speaker 15 (31:13):
I can't Arto mentioned that you live with your daughter
ste right, my daughter Bertha, and your son in law Manfred.

Speaker 8 (31:24):
They have children, no children. Oh sad, here comes otto
with my.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Forgive me, but I.

Speaker 11 (31:32):
Must take the Bible from you.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Forgive me. I could not help my sonds. Are you
all right?

Speaker 8 (31:41):
I think so.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
I saw him take the Bible off your life.

Speaker 8 (31:46):
He hit me with it, he brought it down on
my head with all his strength.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Forgive me.

Speaker 11 (31:53):
I didn't know what I was doing.

Speaker 5 (31:55):
I wouldn't hurt you, missus Older, I wouldn't hurt anybody.
When I feel this way, I see things, I feel things.
The Bible seemed to put itself in my hands. I
didn't think what I was doing. I could not think.
The feeling was so great that I must smash this
this thing on your head. That's all I wanted to do,

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missus Holder, to get rid of it.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
And it looks to me as though you've done that stuff.
And I and go look in the mirror.

Speaker 5 (32:25):
I know I am not always in control of myself.
I do things I don't know why. I see things.
I don't know why, but I would never hurt anyone.

Speaker 15 (32:37):
It's unbelievable that growth is gone.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
Will you forgive me?

Speaker 8 (32:45):
There's no blood, no blood at too.

Speaker 11 (32:48):
All the same.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
I'm going to get you to a doctor. No doctor's
no blow on the head like that.

Speaker 8 (32:54):
I'm all right.

Speaker 15 (32:54):
My head is clearing now. It was just a shock,
and that awful, ugly thing is gone.

Speaker 8 (33:06):
I don't need a doctor.

Speaker 5 (33:07):
Let me take you to my son in law. He's
a fine doctor, a nice man. Maybe you've heard of him.
Manfred Gottlieb.

Speaker 15 (33:16):
Gottlieb, Gottlieb, you like him. Manfred Gottlieb is your son
in law.

Speaker 11 (33:22):
A wonderful man, good doctor.

Speaker 15 (33:25):
But you must be Bertha Gottlieb's father. You you cure
the roughbird boy, and i've heard talk about Anna Brand.
Look what you did for Otto's mayor, Look what you've
done for me. Why you're the man I've been trying
to find.

Speaker 8 (33:46):
I've been asking for you. It was God's hand.

Speaker 23 (33:49):
Let you hear.

Speaker 11 (33:50):
Let me take you to Manfred's office.

Speaker 8 (33:52):
I don't need him. I only need you.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
If I've hurt your aunt in any way, we'll soon
know oh, I don't want these spellrows that I have.
I don't ask for them. Only Sometimes a pain gets
so great, what pain, with the pain of living?

Speaker 11 (34:27):
It seems more than I can bear.

Speaker 5 (34:28):
I go to the grave of my wife and my
baby daughter, my family, and I called to her, my
little one who only had one hour of life, and
she comes to me and gives me comfort and courage
and believe.

Speaker 11 (34:44):
I believe that even though I can do.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
Nothing about the great pain of living, there are other pains,
and I can do something about them. I know I'm
not quite myself when I'm like that. I know I'm
not really strong courageous. Doing the spell is on me.
The people in pain, they become transparent. You you mean

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you can see through them? I do see through them.
How do you explain your hands? Hey, it's just hands.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Oh no, no, no. The night you massaged them there,
I took hold of your hands, and they gave off
a glow, a sort of radiating warmth. I know I
felt it. They burned like a steady flame.

Speaker 11 (35:34):
Perhaps they grow feverish when Emily is with me.

Speaker 6 (35:39):
Now you go home and rest.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
This is older.

Speaker 6 (35:41):
Come back in a few days and I'll change the bandage,
or you can do it yourself.

Speaker 8 (35:44):
I'll do it myself.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
She's all right, doctor, Well what was it? I mean
the growth on her head?

Speaker 9 (35:50):
It was a when a common ordinary win a hard insist.
If you'd come to see meanness is older, I might
have recommended that you have it removed by surgery.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Oh.

Speaker 9 (36:00):
On the other hand, I might have done precisely what
my father in law did, broken it with some heavy object,
probably not the Bible.

Speaker 8 (36:07):
Come at, I'll take you home and thank you, doctor gotire.

Speaker 6 (36:12):
You may get more of these growths, these winds on
your head, missus holder, or someplace else on your body.
Now if you do call me and I oh, no, no,
thank you.

Speaker 15 (36:23):
I know whom to call, and you'll come, won't you. Stefan,
Of course you will. No offense doctor, But I put
my faith in Stefan.

Speaker 8 (36:36):
Goodbye, goodbye, Thank you, goodbye Stefan.

Speaker 9 (36:42):
No offense, doctor, but I put my faith in Stephan.
Why did I bother to become a doctor at all?
Why all those years at school?

Speaker 6 (36:50):
Why did I take examinations get my license? What good
is it?

Speaker 21 (36:53):
If everyone would rather put their faith in a farmer Manfred,
I'll never do it again.

Speaker 9 (36:58):
Come in the door's open. Oh you again, a doctor.
Those pains are back. Well, of course those pains are
back because you've been drunk day and night.

Speaker 6 (37:07):
What do you expect.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
Can't you do something, doctor, No, I can't.

Speaker 6 (37:11):
Only you can stop drinking.

Speaker 9 (37:13):
You've been drinking steadily for thirty years and you have
cirrhosis of a liver.

Speaker 24 (37:17):
But the paines are off.

Speaker 9 (37:19):
Stop drinking for a month and then come back and
see me, and don't come back before. Silly old fool
hasn't been sober for ten minutes since he was sixteen.

Speaker 6 (37:28):
I can't help him anymore.

Speaker 5 (37:30):
Then he has an obstruction of some kind. He has
a diseased liver, but he has an obstruction in the intestine.
You're not starting all over again.

Speaker 7 (37:39):
I saw.

Speaker 6 (37:40):
I could see it's getting to be more than I
can take, Steph, And you're interfering.

Speaker 5 (37:44):
I saw he was standing in the doorway, and I
saw his body was transparent. I could see everything in
his intestine. There is an obstruction and that's what gives
him pain.

Speaker 25 (37:57):
But Stephan, I'm warning you saw so clear. I'm not
going to stop it if I have to take the
hurt of my thought.

Speaker 9 (38:12):
Stephan, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do. Stepan, really well,
let me loosen your shirt. Oh Stephen, I don't know
what possessed me. I lost control, all right, Stephan, Stephan,

(38:36):
Look look at my hands. Look how they move? My fingers.
No pain from the arthritis. What does it mean? It means, well,
it must mean the arthritis is better. It's gone. Perhaps
dreads away.

Speaker 6 (38:55):
I unbuttoned your shirt so fast, no trouble, no pain
as it passed.

Speaker 8 (39:02):
It's true.

Speaker 6 (39:03):
Look look how I can move them, Stephan?

Speaker 11 (39:06):
Who were you used to Stefan?

Speaker 6 (39:09):
Stephan? I I felt the warmth. Otto was talking about
the heat from your hands when you were trying to
tear my hands from your throat. I felt it a
warm glow you really felt? Yes, a glow, a radiance, Stefan,

(39:36):
give me your hands. Yes, there it is. It's a fire, a.

Speaker 11 (39:45):
Fire burther burther please, I think you're wrong.

Speaker 9 (39:57):
How can I be wrong? Look at these fingers, Look
how they move? Watch me on button my coat? Oh Stephan,
I had to lose my temper try to choke you
in order to touch you. I might have killed you,
or you wouldn't care. Birtha birtha Manfred I'm delirious.

Speaker 21 (40:12):
I can go back to surgery. We'll be rich again.
Our lives will change. I don't want my life change, Manpread.
It means my daughter thinks me mad.

Speaker 6 (40:22):
She won't.

Speaker 21 (40:23):
It's only when my Emily is with me, my little one,
that I seem Termily, who gives me the path.

Speaker 6 (40:29):
Bertha, Whether where are you are you upsets.

Speaker 11 (40:31):
Nothing without Emily.

Speaker 8 (40:33):
It's her innocent soul that enters into me. What are
you doing?

Speaker 4 (40:38):
Birth?

Speaker 6 (40:38):
Where were you?

Speaker 8 (40:39):
I was taking a.

Speaker 26 (40:40):
Nap, Bertha. Look my hands, Look, Look how my fingers move.
What hack you with your father? Your father happened his
wonderful hands.

Speaker 6 (40:54):
Bertha. You remember the young man with the mayor. How
Stephan put his hands on the Mayor's foreleg and the
mare got up.

Speaker 8 (40:59):
And we don't know that it's true.

Speaker 7 (41:02):
It's true.

Speaker 8 (41:02):
You haven't seen the mayor.

Speaker 6 (41:03):
It happened to me.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
To me, believe me, I can't.

Speaker 6 (41:06):
I didn't believe it either. But then Missus Holder came
to the office.

Speaker 8 (41:10):
Missus Hard.

Speaker 6 (41:11):
Yes, she's the aunt of the young man with the mayor.
Stefan went to see Missus Holder. He didn't her nephew
took him there. Bertha and Stephan broke the when on
her head with a big bible. Oh no, you did right, Bertha. Right,
it was only a win, and he was right. He
didn't know what he was doing, and he was right.
You mussa stop this this talk, Berth.

Speaker 9 (41:31):
But after missus Halder left, an old patient of mine
came in. The man has been a drunk for years.
I was sure his liver was enlarged, diseased. But I
send him away. And then your father said, Manfred, you
are wrong. The man has an obstruction. His intestines are blocked.
You believed him, though I didn't believe him. I was

(41:53):
out of my mind with rage that he would dare
to tell me that I was wrong. And I but, Bertha,
I took him by the throat. He tried to tear
my hands away. And it was then, Bertha, it was
it was then that I felt the heat, the blessed
heat from his.

Speaker 6 (42:08):
Hands, entering into mind.

Speaker 5 (42:11):
And now look, look, Bertha, if he can use his hands,
be happy, father.

Speaker 8 (42:21):
How long will it last?

Speaker 11 (42:23):
How can I know your moods, your your spells?

Speaker 8 (42:28):
They bewitched us all.

Speaker 11 (42:29):
I never meant harm.

Speaker 8 (42:31):
But I've got to stop. I want you to stay
away from the cemetery.

Speaker 11 (42:36):
I'm stay away.

Speaker 15 (42:37):
I've watched you every minute. If you know, I won't
let you out of my sight. I'll treat you like
a child.

Speaker 11 (42:43):
As you were, because you are a child. I am
a very old man.

Speaker 8 (42:50):
You're my child.

Speaker 11 (42:51):
No, from now on, you will have your own child,
a real child, not me.

Speaker 5 (43:02):
What I can see. The child is growing inside you.
Soon you'll know it yourself. Next spring you will bear
your child, and it will be beautiful, a little girl,
and you will I hope you will give her the

(43:24):
beautiful name.

Speaker 11 (43:26):
Of Emily.

Speaker 20 (43:28):
Father.

Speaker 11 (43:29):
Then my family can rest. I won't have to call
her anymore.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
She can rest. Did you believe our story? For that matter,
did I now? Really?

Speaker 3 (43:54):
What difference does it make if you believe it? If
I do, For the truth is that none of us
knows what transpires in the mind and heart of a
very old man. I'll be back shortly. Ever, happened to

(44:19):
look up the word murder in a dictionary? No, then
I'll tell you how. The dictionary defines it to kill
with premeditated malice, the wrongful, intentional slaying of one human
being by another. But don't let a wee bit of
murder upsets you friends. The people on Mystery Theater don't

(44:42):
mind being killed, not a bit, because every one of
them is a dead head. Our cast included Santas Otega,
Norman Rose, Briana Rayburn and Billy Redfield. The entire production
was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Well, my dear, I feel like we've started things off
on the right foot, as it were. What's that, Well,
I'm not entirely sure. I haven't considered wearing a costumes.
Perhaps I should. I mean, there's no law against it,

(45:26):
at least not.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Man's law.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
That is something to chew on, of course, no matter
how I dress. Sowyn will be, of course, a wonderful
time for me, truly, a joyous, fun and terrible night.

Speaker 27 (46:05):
The weird Circle, in this cave with the restless sea,
we are meant to call from out of the past.

Speaker 24 (46:14):
Stories, strange and weird.

Speaker 27 (46:17):
Bell keeper told the bell so that all may know
we are gathered again in the weird Circle, out of

(47:03):
the past.

Speaker 28 (47:04):
Sentence of a world gone by, Speak again, the immortal tale.

Speaker 24 (47:10):
A terrible night.

Speaker 29 (47:14):
Mm hmmmmm.

Speaker 30 (47:26):
Silence in the cough.

Speaker 4 (47:28):
Next witness, please.

Speaker 7 (47:30):
If you're on a please.

Speaker 31 (47:32):
The next witness is Charles Gastar, the defendant in this case,
Will mister Gasta please take a stamp.

Speaker 30 (47:40):
Silence in the cour.

Speaker 7 (47:43):
Place your left hand on the Bible. Do you swear
to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.

Speaker 31 (47:50):
I do suppose, mister Gastar, you tell this court your
story and your.

Speaker 7 (47:54):
Own words from the the very beginning.

Speaker 6 (47:58):
And don't be afraid from the very beginning.

Speaker 32 (48:01):
Well, I I don't know where to start, to be honest,
I feel like a man that's drowning. I guess it
started the night my wife Bertha and her brother Dick
Linton were helping me to pack my suitcase. Dick and
I were preparing to go on a hunting trip in
Canada in the Northwest section.

Speaker 7 (48:22):
When don't forget to put the conference in Charlie, hunting
man needs a conference? Sure he does.

Speaker 8 (48:28):
Keeps him from getting lost.

Speaker 7 (48:30):
See how bright my wife is, Dick, he knows all.

Speaker 8 (48:32):
Yeah, I didn't mean it that way.

Speaker 7 (48:34):
I know, Bertha.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
I know.

Speaker 29 (48:36):
It's just that when a gal's brother and husband go
galavanding off on a hunting trip to the north Woods,
a gal wants to know they're coming back.

Speaker 7 (48:42):
Say do you worry about Charles Berth. You know me,
I never get lost. Remember the camping trips we used
to take when we were kids. You were a boy, Scott,
He's no boys. God. Now kay, Well let's see, darling.
Have I got everything packed in here?

Speaker 4 (48:55):
Yes?

Speaker 20 (48:56):
They're everything.

Speaker 7 (48:56):
Well an underwear, lucky man. I have a wife for
both guns.

Speaker 29 (49:00):
The cottages for the hunting gun are in the rear
pocket of the suitcase, and for the thirty eight they're
in your homestack.

Speaker 8 (49:06):
Oh, good girl, where's your suitcase stick?

Speaker 7 (49:08):
Or it's checked at the station? Hey, what time is it?
Well it's almost ten pm. Oh we better be going along, Darling.
I like to catch my trains with ease.

Speaker 8 (49:14):
I'll have to close the suitcase.

Speaker 7 (49:16):
Chuv the best suitcase sitter, honner in the world. Yeah,
see what you mean? There?

Speaker 18 (49:22):
That does it.

Speaker 7 (49:22):
You can get off.

Speaker 8 (49:23):
Now, have a nice trip. Both of you bring back
at least two deer.

Speaker 7 (49:27):
Or at least says by any bye.

Speaker 8 (49:30):
Oh, don't forget your muffla, Darling.

Speaker 7 (49:32):
It's in the closet downstairs.

Speaker 8 (49:34):
And please please be careful when little boys play with guns.

Speaker 7 (49:38):
Well, you know how dangerous guns can be.

Speaker 32 (49:42):
So we left Dick and I we took the Express
to Montreal and then traveled by train west of the
Hudson Bay to the Northwest Territory, specifically to a small
town known as Fort Ray. What equipment we hadn't already purchased,
we purchased there, mostly foo visions, some plenty of coffee. Then,
on the morning of September third, Dick and I started

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out on foot. It was a clear, brisk morning and
the air was alive with sounds, birds chirping, a constant
crunch of leaves underfoot. We were both in high spirits,
as Dick said, Ah, this is the life.

Speaker 7 (50:19):
Oh boy, this is what a man needs. Get away
from civilization and breathe again, back to nature, Back to
Nature's right. You know, there's something the matter with modern civilization.
You get all jogged up inside, begin to think all
sorts of strange things. Strange, Dick, in what way, Oh,
morbid thoughts, Hating yourself, hating everybody else, hating the world.

(50:43):
You know that's bad for a ride in his work
becomes bitter and he pours the gall out in words,
paints the world he sees in gray overtone. You mean,
like that last story you sold. Yeah, it was a
depressing story, but that was my mood. Both you and
Bertha have morbid emotional streaks. Well, Sis and I very
much like in many ways. Funny am I marrying brother?

(51:05):
What's so funny about it? You know I engineered it?
You did?

Speaker 26 (51:09):
Why?

Speaker 7 (51:10):
Well, Bertha and I've always been pretty close, you know,
much closer than ordinary brother and sister. I didn't want
to see a marry some clark. Well, thanks, Dick, you'll
be my roommate at college. I got to know you
pretty well. Yes, Sis and I have the same likes
and dislikes, and I just knew you were right for her.
You mean to tell me I didn't have anything at
all to say about it? Sort of sort of. Well,

(51:33):
birth is beauty, her chemistry, if you like, and youth
took care of the rest. You sound like an old
old man airing philosophy. I told you I've been civilized
too long.

Speaker 32 (51:43):
You've been a bachelor too long. I think I'll dig
up a nice young girl for you. Marriage is a sensation, Dick,
well worth a trial.

Speaker 7 (51:50):
Well, I don't quite like the idea of digging up
a girl for me. Sounds like she's been buried already.
And here we turned this way to the north. Now,
are you sure? Of course, I'm sure. I know these
north Woods like a like a book, Yes, like a book.
You'll never get lost with me, would be at the
next fort by six this evening. I still think we
ought to have taken a guide along. All nonsense, nothing

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to worry about, nothing to worry about, it all. Just
stick to Dick Letton and you can't go. Nothing to
worry about.

Speaker 32 (52:21):
That's the way writers are so sure of themselves, except
they ought to stick a paper and pencil not to
their memories of north Woods. At six o'clock in the evening,
there wasn't a fourt in sight, and by ten o'clock
that night, even die hard Dick had to admit.

Speaker 7 (52:38):
Well, we're lost. No, yeah, we're lost. I'm sorry, Charles.
You're being pretty monosyllabic about the whole thing. Normal under
the circumstances. Hey, that wasn't the wind, was it, Dick?

Speaker 32 (52:53):
No?

Speaker 7 (52:54):
Wolves, wolves, I'm not afraid of them, are you?

Speaker 12 (52:59):
No?

Speaker 7 (52:59):
I love them, especially at night when I'm cold and
hungry and they are too. Well, we'll have to sleep
in the tree. You'll have to sleep in the trees.
I wasn't built that way. You can't sleep on the ground,
You'll never live through the night.

Speaker 32 (53:10):
I'm not sleeping on the ground, Dick. I am walking
until we find someplace.

Speaker 7 (53:15):
We might not find the fort till tomorrow morning.

Speaker 32 (53:17):
Or tomorrow evening, but whenever it is, I'm going to
find it as soon as possible, even sooner than that.

Speaker 7 (53:22):
If that keeps up, you're coming with me? Sure, I'm
with you, boy, I'm hungry. Say, wouldn't a nice, thick,
luscious steak taste good? You know, one of the charcoal
broiled variety, dripping with butter and fried on your stop it?
Or want of Breatha's lamb stews with mashed potatoes, rich tomato, grape.
If you want to die, just keep on talking. It's

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the thought of food, and I'm a murdering maniac. Oh,
how about a real English roast beef with Yorkshire pudding.
You're asking for it? H I wonder just how hungry
that wolf is. Maybe he won't mind if his meat
isn't cooked. Huh, I'm sure he won't. They can never eye,
which means in carnivorous or man eater. Hey, Charlie, look

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straight ahead of you. You got a light over there. Well, yeah,
I think so. Maybe it's the fort. No, it's not
the fort here when miles off the beating tray, Oh
what is it then? No, looks like a cabin from here.

Speaker 32 (54:17):
I'm not particular. Let's find out. Oh no, you led
the way so far. But this time, dick, my boy,
I'm leading, Follow Charlie and see some food.

Speaker 16 (54:26):
Food food.

Speaker 7 (54:27):
Whoever lives there must eat. Maybe it's not steak, but
it's something. It is a cabin, all right? Shall I
knock on the door. You can't get in any other way?
Who can't?

Speaker 32 (54:42):
This rickety old shack could be blown down by a good,
strong breath. Fine looking place, isn't I'm not amused. Knock
on the door, such a timid knock.

Speaker 7 (54:53):
My hands numb. Yeah, we'll try it again. I hope
this guy's friendly h friends are sniffing about again, and
I don't look at all. Well and tomato sauce, Oh.

Speaker 10 (55:08):
Good evening.

Speaker 17 (55:10):
Something I can do for you, gentlemen?

Speaker 7 (55:15):
Uh we managed to We hope to find some place
to stay for the nights, or we're completely off the
beaten track.

Speaker 17 (55:25):
You don't say come in, Come in, gentlemen. Yes, I'd
be delighted.

Speaker 10 (55:35):
To put you up this evening if you don't mind
sleeping on the floor in the attic.

Speaker 7 (55:40):
Well, at this point, we don't mind anything, don't you.
My name is Charles Costarser and my friend is Dick Linton.

Speaker 10 (55:48):
How do you do My name is Joel, just Joel?
At least they used to call me Joel. Have you
eaten yet this evening?

Speaker 7 (56:04):
No, as a matter of fact, and we're starving.

Speaker 10 (56:06):
I mean, and sit down and I'll fix you some dinner,
that is, if you don't mind my meager rations.

Speaker 7 (56:13):
Oh, we don't mind anything at this point, do we dig?

Speaker 11 (56:16):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (56:16):
No, no, definitely not. There's an whole American saying, you know,
food is food. Let's eat.

Speaker 17 (56:22):
I'll fry some deer steak for you, and I have
some wine.

Speaker 7 (56:25):
Oh wonderful. Tell me, mister Joel, do you live here
all alone?

Speaker 17 (56:31):
Unfortunately?

Speaker 10 (56:32):
Yes, you see, I'm an outcast from your society. But
a man be different and automatically becomes an outcast.

Speaker 7 (56:41):
Yeah, there's something in what you say.

Speaker 10 (56:44):
Look a little different, or think a little different, or
speak a little different.

Speaker 17 (56:49):
It becomes a marked man.

Speaker 10 (56:51):
The individual is not allowed the privilege of individuality. Mankind
doesn't permit it. Oh, why I don't think so. Really, Tue,
I'll just set the table and you can sit down
over here and eat. Come along, chance I can prove
my point. Look at me, I'm different, larger than most men.

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I unfortunately grew too tall. I'm too ugly for the
average man.

Speaker 7 (57:23):
To the stomach. I was hated, he is hated by
your civilization and feared too.

Speaker 10 (57:31):
Not because I was cruel, of vindictive or dishonest, but
because I was different. Yes, yes, I'm a giant and stature. Well,
I don't feel badly for me. I've had my revenge
on society, and I'll have even more revenge on little

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people like yourselves.

Speaker 7 (57:57):
Yes, it's quite understandable that you feel that way.

Speaker 10 (58:02):
Gentlemen, before you sit down to dinner, allow me to
hang your hunting guns up here. They will bother you
if you carry them around.

Speaker 7 (58:12):
Oh, well, we really don't mind.

Speaker 10 (58:16):
Your hunting gun, sir. And your hunting gun, yeah, now
I both have Just hang them up here.

Speaker 7 (58:26):
You say you live alone, Joel, Yes, that shoe in
the corner that was never your shoe. It's too small
for you.

Speaker 10 (58:36):
You're very observant, mister Linton. No, that wasn't my shoe.
I found it in the forest one day and brought
it home for the purpose of remaking it like that
coat hanging over there.

Speaker 7 (58:47):
Found a coat and a shoe lying in this outlandish district.

Speaker 17 (58:51):
Yes, it's a coat and a shoe. Of course they
were not a man. But he was dead.

Speaker 10 (58:59):
He died of h I don't quite know what he
died of. His legs had been gnawed off by some
prowling beasts.

Speaker 7 (59:09):
Oh he he must have become a lost out here
like ourselves.

Speaker 10 (59:15):
Exactly like yourselves, gentlemen, exactly like yourselves.

Speaker 4 (59:23):
Dinner is ready.

Speaker 30 (59:41):
Yeah, Silence in the car, Silence in the car.

Speaker 31 (59:52):
Go ahead with your testimony, mister Gastar.

Speaker 32 (59:55):
Well you can see what a spot Dick and I
were in. We we didn't truy that man for a second.
Believe me, he was well, donnod anyway, The man was unbalanced.
It was well after we finished eating dinner that joe
a litle good, warm, roaring fire in the fireplace.

Speaker 10 (01:00:11):
And then, well, gentlemen, it's time to retire. I'm sleepy here,
and I'm sure you two are.

Speaker 24 (01:00:20):
Yes, very sleepy here.

Speaker 7 (01:00:22):
But if we take our guns upstairs, I'd like to
clean you.

Speaker 10 (01:00:25):
Don't need them this evening. You can clean them in
the morning. Come along, please, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:00:32):
Come on, Charlie.

Speaker 7 (01:00:33):
Right behind you, Dick the.

Speaker 10 (01:00:34):
Cable of this step ladder. It's rickety, to say the least,
so I notice. I'll go first and get the blankets
out as Fortunately I have two blankets up here, although
they're musty enough.

Speaker 7 (01:00:48):
Don't worry about us, all right, I'm up now, right away.
I'd feel a lot better if I had those hunting guns.
And I don't blame you.

Speaker 17 (01:00:57):
You can see for yourself.

Speaker 10 (01:00:58):
Mister Linton Attic is not accustomed the guests musty and
the spiders are troublesome to strangers. Spiders, they are my friends,
my only friends, they say. He who shares a roof
with you automatically becomes your friend. They have shared this

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roof with me for many years. Good night, gentlemen, sleep well, Good.

Speaker 7 (01:01:28):
Night, great Scott. What kind of a mess have we
gotten ourselves into? I don't know. He's got a cognoose
in his mind somewhere, that's very certain.

Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
What do we do?

Speaker 7 (01:01:39):
I'll tell you one sleeps in the other stands guard.

Speaker 32 (01:01:41):
That won't do us any good. Dick, he's ten times
our size, And besides, we're unarmed. I've got your thirty
eight in my pocket. You forget about it?

Speaker 7 (01:01:48):
Huh, yeah, I did look through these boards in the attic.
You can watch you all very easily. If by a
place throws a nice light on him. How will we
arrange the watch? Well, you've got to sleep for an
hour and i'll wake you up, give you the gun,
and I'll go to sleep for an hour and you
stand guard. Okay, yeah, what time is it now? One am?
What's he doing down there? Curling up on the floor

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near the fireplace? About to go to sleep?

Speaker 6 (01:02:13):
I hope he sleeps well, too well to wake.

Speaker 7 (01:02:17):
Up a see, doesn't. I hope your gun works, that's all.
I'm so sleepy, and I.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
Mistakes down.

Speaker 32 (01:02:27):
Yes, I put my head on the floor and slept,
But I slept a troubled sleep, a restless sleep, and
my hands kept clawing the floor, a floor that was
alive with insect life. Then no sooner had I put
my head on the floor than it seemed. Dick nudged me,
wake up, wake up? It's two am?

Speaker 24 (01:02:48):
Hum?

Speaker 7 (01:02:50):
Oh, okay, okay, what happened? Nothing? It's your turn now.
Oh I'm really licked really licked so much walking in
all this, he was quite right.

Speaker 32 (01:03:05):
All this, He lay down on the floor, and soon
he was sound asleep, sleeping like he was drugged.

Speaker 4 (01:03:13):
Poor Dick was all in.

Speaker 32 (01:03:16):
I sat upright, concentrating on sitting upright to keep my
eyes from closing. I was so tired, and my blood
ran cold as I kept my eyes glued to the
still figure which lay beneath us. The hut was so
quiet that my wrist watch sounded like the beating of
Tom Tom's in that silence tick, beating off the seconds,

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perhaps slicing off the seconds left of our lives. And
I waited and watched, waited and watched. Then suddenly, the
huge thigure beneath me stretched his huge form in front
of the fireplace and yawned. His large, expressionless eyes sought
mine through the planks of the floor, and I thought
for a.

Speaker 7 (01:03:55):
Moment he saw me sitting there.

Speaker 32 (01:03:59):
Perhaps my crouched figure in the attic somehow threw a
shadow down on the floor of the hot below. Then
he rose, keptlike that huge farmer rose gracefully and quietly.
He eased himself up and walked to the door, as
if listening for someone or something.

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
Then just as quietly, he opened the door and.

Speaker 10 (01:04:21):
Yes, yes, yes, come back shortly, shortly, he.

Speaker 7 (01:04:28):
Said, come back shortly. Who was he talking to? And
what was he talking about? Come back? Come back to
murder us.

Speaker 32 (01:04:39):
He shut the door just as gently as he opened it,
and then, returning to the place before the fire, he
again curled up near the warmth of the blaze. I
glanced down at my watch. It was three o'clock.

Speaker 7 (01:04:51):
I nudged Dick gently at first, and then harder. Hey, Dick,
your turn, Dick, Dick?

Speaker 24 (01:04:58):
Wake up?

Speaker 33 (01:04:59):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:05:00):
Oh up so soon? Yes?

Speaker 32 (01:05:02):
Here, here's the gun. Okay, I'm awake. Anything happened? Listener,
he's got an accomplished that. Somebody was standing outside the door.
While back, he told him to come back shortly and
explains this small shoe.

Speaker 7 (01:05:15):
Maybe maybe I'm so tired. I don't think I can sleep.

Speaker 4 (01:05:19):
I don't think I can sleep.

Speaker 7 (01:05:22):
You'll sleep, just relax, I don't think so. Really, I.

Speaker 10 (01:05:34):
Come in, come in?

Speaker 31 (01:05:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:05:38):
Are they sleep now?

Speaker 20 (01:05:40):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (01:05:41):
Fast asleep? The poor fools. One of them thought he
could stay awake. I could see them taking turns staying awake.
But I put enough dope in their wine and knock
them out completely.

Speaker 8 (01:05:52):
Have they much money with them?

Speaker 17 (01:05:55):
Who knows? But whatever they have we need.

Speaker 6 (01:05:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:06:00):
Give me that log you brought in here you are no,
I'll splinter it and light one end of us. Nothing
like this wood burning to dope them completely?

Speaker 7 (01:06:14):
What should we do with them?

Speaker 16 (01:06:15):
Later?

Speaker 17 (01:06:17):
Put them outside for the animals.

Speaker 7 (01:06:20):
I'll wait down here for you. You go upstairs.

Speaker 17 (01:06:24):
I won't be long. These things never take very long.

Speaker 7 (01:06:30):
Dick, Dick, give me the gun. Give me the gun, Dick, Dick.
Have you fallen asleep, Dick, Wake up, Dick, of your
doped Dick. He's coming at us. Give me the gun.
Give me the gun, please, Dick, give me the gun.
There there, I've got the gun. Now come laughing at me, laughing.
Time to wake up now for the last time. Take this.

Speaker 34 (01:06:55):
There.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
That's got you, that's got you, that's got you.

Speaker 7 (01:06:58):
Where's your friend? Where's the little man? Dick?

Speaker 30 (01:06:59):
Help we find the little man?

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:07:01):
Help me help me, Dick, Dick.

Speaker 32 (01:07:11):
I was stunned, completely stunned. The room looked strange to me.
The smoking gun in my hand looked strange to me.
The whole world seemed to blot out in front of
my eyes, and suddenly I looked down at the dark
mass lying at my feet, and then I looked up.

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My eyes were absolutely level with Joel's eyes as he climbed.

Speaker 4 (01:07:34):
Up into the attic.

Speaker 7 (01:07:36):
Then, in a voice filled with horror, he said, great.

Speaker 10 (01:07:39):
Lord, sir, what have you done? You've killed him and
he was just about to wake you.

Speaker 32 (01:07:49):
Yes, I killed Dick Linton, my best friend, when he
was just about to wake me.

Speaker 7 (01:07:58):
I'd been dreaming and I killed him.

Speaker 31 (01:08:02):
Thank you, mister Gastar. My next witness is doctor Harding. Now,
Doctor Harding, will you please take the stand? Yes, sir,
place your left.

Speaker 7 (01:08:11):
Hand on the bible. Do you swear to tell the truth,
the whole truth, nothing.

Speaker 33 (01:08:15):
But the truth?

Speaker 4 (01:08:16):
I do.

Speaker 31 (01:08:17):
You heard the testimony of the defendant, doctor Harding.

Speaker 10 (01:08:20):
I did, sir.

Speaker 31 (01:08:22):
Is it possible for a man, a man asleep as
he was, to fire the gunload at his best friend
because of a nightmare?

Speaker 4 (01:08:29):
It was more than a nightmare.

Speaker 28 (01:08:31):
It was sound lencia sleep, drunkenness overtired as mister Costair was.
Its nerves were over text, and its fears and suspicions
had been aroused. This result is perfectly natural and certainly
medically sound. The defendant was not in his right mind
at the time of the murder.

Speaker 31 (01:08:52):
Thank you doctor Harding, gentlemen of the jury to sum
up this case. Joel the Giant had told his guests
the truth about the shoe. At the time he opened
the door, he was just talking to his dog, who
had been scratching outside. But to a man mentally exhausted
and filled with fear, Joe's actions were certainly those which

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would arouse us vision. Gentlemen, in behalf of my client,
I beg leniency, leniency.

Speaker 32 (01:09:27):
Bertha, Bertha, please, Darling. It was all explained court. This
doesn't change anything between us, nothing at all.

Speaker 8 (01:09:33):
Doesn't it.

Speaker 20 (01:09:34):
I love my brother more than you can understand, Charles.
I know the court has ruled you innocent, but a
court of law has very little.

Speaker 14 (01:09:43):
To do with a woman's heart.

Speaker 29 (01:09:44):
If you love me, Bertha, I'll always love you, but
I'll never be able to trust you again.

Speaker 35 (01:09:51):
There are seven days in a week, Charles. Some of
those days I love you and forget this whole horrible affair.
But more days my brother's face will loom up in
front of me.

Speaker 7 (01:10:05):
But Dick would understand.

Speaker 29 (01:10:06):
I wouldn't see you because his face would stand between us.
I'd spend those days hating you.

Speaker 8 (01:10:15):
So I'm leaving you. Charles, take good care of yourself.

Speaker 14 (01:10:21):
I I can't help it.

Speaker 7 (01:10:26):
I hope you understand, Bertha. Please goodbye, Charles Brother.

Speaker 10 (01:10:34):
I told you, Charles Gustar, I hate civilized society. Don't
feel badly for me. I'll have my revenge on society.
I'll have even more revenge than little people like you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
M hm hm.

Speaker 12 (01:11:02):
H m hmmmm.

Speaker 28 (01:11:12):
From the time worn pages of the past, we have
brought to you the story A terrible night, Bellkeeper all
the bell.

Speaker 6 (01:11:30):
M mm hmmm.

Speaker 20 (01:11:37):
Mmm.

Speaker 27 (01:11:48):
From the time when pages of the past, we have
heard another immortal tale in the weird circle down Keeper
told the bell.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
Well, I would say, a terrible night. Indeed, what's that? Well,
of course, don't you worry, your pretty little head. I'm
so glad you can join me in these long dark nights.
It brings a bit of light to an otherwise shadowy existence.

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I've tried very hard to make this place a home,
not just the walls and the building, but the reality
of it all. And a guest like you certainly makes
a difference. So thank you, my dear, very very much.

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To make a house a hole even if it's a
house of murder.

Speaker 36 (01:12:59):
Mummurder, the little theater of the air, and all the hermit.

Speaker 37 (01:13:28):
Who stories weird stories and murders till.

Speaker 38 (01:13:37):
The hermit knows of them.

Speaker 37 (01:13:39):
All turn out your left, turn them out. Have you
heard the story the house of Murder scene? Then listen
while the hermit tells you the story.

Speaker 13 (01:14:05):
Yes, mister Burton, I'd like my wages if you please.

Speaker 5 (01:14:14):
What's that, yes, mister Burton.

Speaker 39 (01:14:16):
Familiar you're dressed to go out. My breakfast hasn't been served.

Speaker 8 (01:14:20):
That's right, mister Burton.

Speaker 13 (01:14:22):
I'm leaving right now, and i'd like my wages if
you please.

Speaker 39 (01:14:26):
This is preposterous.

Speaker 24 (01:14:27):
Well, it's something.

Speaker 7 (01:14:28):
Bad or right.

Speaker 39 (01:14:29):
You can't go without giving me more notice than this.

Speaker 8 (01:14:33):
I'm sorry, but I can't stay. What's it all about
this house, mister Burton. It's this house.

Speaker 37 (01:14:40):
It's truly haunted.

Speaker 39 (01:14:42):
Nonsense, it's just because we've only been in the.

Speaker 24 (01:14:44):
House for a few days. It's strange to you.

Speaker 13 (01:14:46):
Yet don't get over being strange. It gets worse every night.

Speaker 24 (01:14:51):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 13 (01:14:52):
Well, you can see all you want to, mister Burton,
but I'm leaving. I'll work for you in the city.
I've been faithful to you for a good many years,
and I'll go right out being faithful if you've moved
back to the city again.

Speaker 39 (01:15:06):
Mellie, I can't run my life to suit those who
work for me. I purchased this house in the country
in order that I might have peace and quiet for
my work.

Speaker 13 (01:15:14):
There's a little peace here every night. The sounds last
night last night, I I don't wanna talk about it. Please,
mister Burton, have gotta be leaving this morning.

Speaker 39 (01:15:29):
How are you gonna get into town?

Speaker 13 (01:15:31):
I took the liberty of calling one of the stores,
and the owners sending his son out.

Speaker 7 (01:15:35):
To the car.

Speaker 24 (01:15:37):
All right, Milly, won't you give me my wages?

Speaker 13 (01:15:40):
I'll wait outside. I'm afraid to stay inside any longer.

Speaker 24 (01:15:45):
Why of all, you miss your value, your life.

Speaker 40 (01:15:48):
You'll get out too.

Speaker 41 (01:15:59):
Ah, no wind to open that door.

Speaker 39 (01:16:22):
I must have left it unlatched. It was just as
if someone was in the room here with me. Oh now,
much as if something brushed past me.

Speaker 24 (01:16:34):
I could swear I felt to touch my shoulder. Oh ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
Page is turning.

Speaker 39 (01:16:48):
The pages of my ledge are turning, just as if
a hand moved the pages. Wind couldn't cause it. There
isn't any wind in here. Oh, I'm dreaming things. It's
utter nonsense, Mammy.

Speaker 41 (01:17:06):
It's got me all upset.

Speaker 39 (01:17:10):
Now my test tubes, my experiment, the test tubes not
to the floor. I'm not dreaming this, this is too real.
I need Karmer yourself this Hello, I want to put
in a long distance call. I'd like to speak to
Lyman Karmer in New Cotton. Yes, yes, you got it right,

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Lyman Karmer and New Cotton. The telephone number is.

Speaker 24 (01:17:47):
Much farther.

Speaker 7 (01:17:47):
Do we have to drive into the.

Speaker 30 (01:17:48):
Wilds young man?

Speaker 24 (01:17:49):
We're almost there now, life me.

Speaker 10 (01:17:51):
I can't figure why you wants to hide himself away
Biles some siphization.

Speaker 24 (01:17:56):
This new man ain't been out there but a few days.
A few days too many, if you ask me. I
drove out here yesterday.

Speaker 27 (01:18:02):
I picked up a woman who'd been working out there, wanted.

Speaker 24 (01:18:05):
To go back to city. Not Millie, seems like that
was the name she give.

Speaker 39 (01:18:10):
Well, what's up?

Speaker 24 (01:18:13):
I couldn't rightly tell you, mister, just couldn't tell you.

Speaker 7 (01:18:16):
She didn't seem to be strangely urgent about something last night.

Speaker 24 (01:18:20):
Look, mister, you can see the lights of the house.
Now see you about eight ten right away through the tree.

Speaker 30 (01:18:25):
Oh yeah, sort of a place, is it.

Speaker 39 (01:18:29):
It's quite a place, mister, Really something in this day
old house. M yes, sir, I guess no one's lived
in it for years. Old man Chimmer knows it. He's
lived in town as long as I can remember. And
this is the drive leading up to the house, lying
with trees on both sides. House never gets no real
daylight into it here, sir, I'll get your beg.

Speaker 10 (01:18:54):
Oh, never mind, I can take it. You're young men.

Speaker 24 (01:18:58):
Thank you, mister. It's moon. It's worth that's all right.

Speaker 39 (01:19:04):
Anything I can do for you, just call the general
store and ask for mark. Thanks, I'll do that, Bliman Jim,
Hello Jim. I began to think you didn't make The
train was forty minutes late. Come on in. Nice of

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you to come, the old recluse.

Speaker 24 (01:19:27):
The idea of picking a spot no man ever heard of.

Speaker 39 (01:19:30):
Bring your things into the sitting room. We'll go upstairs
later where nice huh sit down?

Speaker 7 (01:19:41):
Thanks?

Speaker 39 (01:19:42):
Yes, Millie got it fixed up pretty well before she
went back to the city. My laboratory is right off
this room. Everything handy. You had dinner, lemon, here's Jim
on the train.

Speaker 6 (01:19:53):
Good.

Speaker 39 (01:19:54):
I'm not much at fixing meals.

Speaker 10 (01:19:55):
The young man marked from the general store said that
Milly had left her.

Speaker 6 (01:20:01):
What's the idea?

Speaker 39 (01:20:03):
I'll tell you all about it. That's why I called him.

Speaker 10 (01:20:05):
Well, it's nice here, Jim, but I can't see why
you chose a place so far away from everywhere.

Speaker 41 (01:20:10):
I like it here.

Speaker 10 (01:20:11):
It's the reason enough, I guess, Billy coming back.

Speaker 36 (01:20:15):
To take care of you.

Speaker 39 (01:20:17):
No, No, I'm afraid not, Lyman. Milly left because she
was certain that this house is haunted. Oh, Jim, I
called you last night because I remember a story you
once told, story of a haunted house. You told it

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as if you gave credence to the tale. Is that
all I remember? Well, that's why I wanted you here, Jim.

Speaker 10 (01:20:45):
You don't think, by any chance that this house is haunted.

Speaker 39 (01:20:47):
To you, I'm not so sure. But what I do
absurd You think it impossible? Naturally, you didn't talk that
way when you were telling us that evening of a
place off the coast.

Speaker 10 (01:20:58):
You knew that was the That was a fireside tail,
quite different from reality.

Speaker 39 (01:21:04):
Lyman. It's only a short time until midnight. Will you
come into the laboratory with me. Do you sit in
there with me for a little while and see if
the same things had happened last night?

Speaker 24 (01:21:14):
curR again.

Speaker 39 (01:21:15):
Of course, if the same things do occur again, I
shall be convinced that Billie was right. I shall be
quite sure that something does happen, does.

Speaker 24 (01:21:28):
Haunt the hub?

Speaker 17 (01:21:39):
Nearly midnight?

Speaker 6 (01:21:40):
Jim, did you.

Speaker 39 (01:21:42):
Check the door into the laboratory to see if it's
closed tightly? I checked it and convinced it securely fastened, dear,
just specking midnight?

Speaker 6 (01:21:57):
Yes, this was the hour last night.

Speaker 4 (01:22:04):
What are we to watch for.

Speaker 24 (01:22:07):
The door?

Speaker 39 (01:22:08):
First, the door into this laboratory. Okay, listen, it sounded
as if someone has his hand on the door.

Speaker 12 (01:22:20):
Knob fucker.

Speaker 7 (01:22:24):
But wait, it's opening, yes.

Speaker 39 (01:22:30):
Just as it did before.

Speaker 24 (01:22:34):
Well, there's no wind night, no last night.

Speaker 4 (01:22:39):
I'm a.

Speaker 39 (01:22:41):
You feel the presence of someone in this room, someone
besides us.

Speaker 18 (01:22:46):
No, I don't I do?

Speaker 4 (01:22:52):
What is it?

Speaker 39 (01:22:53):
Once again, it was as if something brushed past me,
touched my shoulder.

Speaker 42 (01:22:58):
For what that is?

Speaker 39 (01:23:05):
Look look over on the table, watch my ledger. You
see pages of my ledger are turning if a hand.

Speaker 7 (01:23:22):
Is on.

Speaker 18 (01:23:24):
JEEMI, I can't believe my eyes.

Speaker 24 (01:23:28):
It's incredible.

Speaker 39 (01:23:30):
Now look on the workbench. See something is moving those
test tubes. I'm gonna stop this before all my experimental
walks through.

Speaker 37 (01:23:42):
What are you going to do.

Speaker 39 (01:23:43):
I'm gonna walk over there, put my hands on the rack, Biman.
Something touched my hand. Something I felt like chop nails
digging into the flesh.

Speaker 24 (01:23:57):
Oh, it's your nerves, burden lyman.

Speaker 39 (01:23:59):
Is something in this room, something that moves about in here,
some unseen thing that enters the door moves in this room.

Speaker 7 (01:24:07):
I'd let your imagination run away with you.

Speaker 30 (01:24:09):
Jim.

Speaker 39 (01:24:09):
There is a thing in the house beyond scientific explanation.

Speaker 7 (01:24:12):
You know it.

Speaker 39 (01:24:13):
It's something vital and alive, thing of power and locomotion,
and it's up to us to find out.

Speaker 43 (01:24:19):
What it is.

Speaker 36 (01:24:28):
Well, we might as well look through this room.

Speaker 39 (01:24:30):
No use overlooking anything seems silly, doesn't it. I'm not
going to find anybody in these rooms.

Speaker 24 (01:24:37):
Didn't you say that Milly heard things upstairs? So she said, She.

Speaker 39 (01:24:41):
Complained the very first night we were here that someone
entered the room.

Speaker 10 (01:24:45):
She didn't see anyone.

Speaker 39 (01:24:46):
No, she didn't see any more than we did just
a while ago downstairs. Now that the incident of downstairs
has past.

Speaker 10 (01:24:54):
Seems to me that it never happened. Perhaps it was
your power of suggestion that made us both think we
saw a movement. Well, nothing out of the ordinary in
this room. No, what do you say we forget it
and get some sleeping.

Speaker 39 (01:25:09):
All right, I'm not going to discover anything tonight.

Speaker 41 (01:25:12):
I guess.

Speaker 10 (01:25:16):
Did you talk to the man who sold you the house, Jim, Jim, Yes, sure.

Speaker 39 (01:25:20):
He brought me out here after I chanced upon the place.
We went off through it together.

Speaker 10 (01:25:24):
Of course, he didn't say why the house had stood
unoccupied for a long time.

Speaker 4 (01:25:28):
Yes, he did.

Speaker 39 (01:25:30):
Said that after his wife died, he wanted to live
in town, but he was getting too old to keep
up a place like this.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
Uh huh.

Speaker 39 (01:25:37):
Said that up to this time he couldn't find anyone
who could afford to buy him. Oh, well, we'll go
downstairs and get your things and bring him up to
your room. Fimon, How was that something downstairs? It came
from the laboratory, I know it did. It's the only
place where there's.

Speaker 24 (01:25:57):
So much class.

Speaker 7 (01:25:58):
Don't get up ToxT, Jim.

Speaker 24 (01:26:02):
Great, heaven's look the whole thing.

Speaker 39 (01:26:04):
Everything in the room smashed, the equipment that's taken me
months to build everything ruined?

Speaker 7 (01:26:09):
Jim.

Speaker 39 (01:26:09):
Some human has been in here, someone who's trying to
stop your experiment by destroying your equipment.

Speaker 18 (01:26:14):
Wipe out your work.

Speaker 39 (01:26:15):
Oh, ruin, He'll take months to arrive at this point
in my experiment. Again, someone has been hiding downstairs here, Jim.

Speaker 7 (01:26:22):
We've got to find out where and who it is.

Speaker 38 (01:26:40):
Is it a human being who hides in the house
intent upon destroying all the Jim?

Speaker 14 (01:26:45):
But who creates in his laboratory?

Speaker 8 (01:26:48):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (01:26:48):
Is it an unseen force.

Speaker 38 (01:26:50):
As Jim said earlier evening, an unseen force with power
and locomotion that lives.

Speaker 37 (01:26:55):
In the old house. The hermit will tell you before
the night is dumb.

Speaker 38 (01:27:15):
It is the following night Jim Benton and his friend Lyman.

Speaker 14 (01:27:19):
Commas in the laboratory.

Speaker 38 (01:27:22):
Just a few minutes ago the clock struck midnight.

Speaker 37 (01:27:26):
Right now, Button is Disley engaged.

Speaker 38 (01:27:28):
Building up, step by step the experiment which has been
ruined the night before.

Speaker 14 (01:27:34):
Lyman Commas is watching him.

Speaker 10 (01:27:53):
Jim, don't you think you ought to knock off for
the night.

Speaker 24 (01:27:56):
He works steadily all day.

Speaker 39 (01:27:58):
There's so much time lost that I have to make
up Liman.

Speaker 10 (01:28:01):
Certainly we aren't going to have any visitor tonight.

Speaker 39 (01:28:03):
There's nothing left for them to destroy.

Speaker 10 (01:28:05):
Now, tomorrow I'll go into town and inquire around. I
think I should go to see old man Chimlin, ask
him to tell me something about the place, or maybe
he can put us on the right track. I would
have gone to day, but I wanted to make sure.
I wanted to see if we'd have the same experience
of last night. You uh gonna work much longer leased.

Speaker 41 (01:28:31):
An hour, and that's the way he passed midnight.

Speaker 4 (01:28:36):
Guess I'll go upstairs.

Speaker 39 (01:28:38):
I'm kay. If you want anything, call me all right lyman,
thanks a lot for staying over.

Speaker 41 (01:28:45):
It's a great help.

Speaker 39 (01:28:46):
Yes, if we can find out what it is or
who it is is causing this trouble, we'll find on
good night, good night. Let's see. Next step is to
your night. The two chemicals perform Step B. Where is

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that ledger? I asked, And the next step I performed was, oh, wait,
pages and the ledger page five six. The page is
missing from here.

Speaker 24 (01:29:30):
Every step I'd.

Speaker 39 (01:29:30):
Worked out and put down is thrown out of this book.

Speaker 30 (01:29:34):
Ah, oh, what is it?

Speaker 44 (01:29:39):
What is it that dogs might.

Speaker 39 (01:29:41):
Trail and won't let me do this?

Speaker 24 (01:29:42):
Work.

Speaker 39 (01:29:44):
Uh, step by step. I'd have to work it all
over again. What someone at the door again?

Speaker 7 (01:29:59):
Is that?

Speaker 14 (01:30:00):
Jie lyman?

Speaker 41 (01:30:04):
Oh no, I know it isn't.

Speaker 39 (01:30:09):
Just as before, I feel the presence of some person
in this room, if they were standing over me. What
do you want?

Speaker 24 (01:30:22):
Where is it?

Speaker 7 (01:30:23):
Your brother?

Speaker 24 (01:30:25):
Something around my neck?

Speaker 14 (01:30:27):
Something joking man, choking man?

Speaker 24 (01:30:32):
Jim, Jim, help me?

Speaker 16 (01:30:39):
Hell?

Speaker 36 (01:30:52):
What happened?

Speaker 7 (01:30:54):
Fall on to the floor, Jim.

Speaker 45 (01:30:57):
Great, Heaven's face has burned by the stuff he was
working with. Hello, Oh, for Heaven's sake, hurry, hello, operator,
Send the doctor to the old old Chimlin place right away. Hurry,
there's been a terrible accident. Man's face has almost burned away.

Speaker 24 (01:31:23):
Well, doctor, I'm afraid it's quite hopeless. He lives. His
sight would be gone, his face horribly scarred.

Speaker 10 (01:31:31):
Where Jim, we'd only gotten out of this place last night.

Speaker 24 (01:31:35):
Did you call? He said, Chimmelin, as I asked you
to do.

Speaker 10 (01:31:37):
Yes, he should be here any minute.

Speaker 24 (01:31:39):
I'll late then sit down, Docter.

Speaker 46 (01:31:43):
After the story you told me about the experience you've had,
I think it's up to Chimlin to tell his story.

Speaker 10 (01:31:50):
He sound as if it was something very mysterious something
that Jim should have been told before he bought this
place from Chimlin. If it had been told, it would
have saved in the agones he's going through right now.

Speaker 46 (01:32:02):
Mister Karma, what I know has given me in professional confidence.
What others in the town might have told you would
have been gossip. And no one tells gossip about Asa Chimelin.
How so dufty Well, he's the owner of many mortgages,
many notes, a man of wealth and power.

Speaker 24 (01:32:20):
In our community.

Speaker 18 (01:32:21):
I see, Oh, there's a car.

Speaker 46 (01:32:23):
Turning in the drive. Mister Karma, must be Chimlin. I'll
go up to mister Burton again.

Speaker 33 (01:32:28):
Call me.

Speaker 39 (01:32:28):
If Chimmelin refuses to speak, I thank you, Hello, sir, Hello,
may where's mister Chimlin. He didn't come, sir. He called
at our house and got me to drive out and
bring you this note.

Speaker 17 (01:32:43):
O come in, hy, I reckon.

Speaker 24 (01:32:45):
I better not, sir, I reckon, I just as leave
stay outside of this house.

Speaker 10 (01:32:50):
If you don't mind, well, come on in just a
moment while I read this note.

Speaker 6 (01:32:54):
Nothing can harm you in the.

Speaker 10 (01:32:55):
Daytime, all right, Just till you read the note. Come
in here, sit down. I wanna read the note.

Speaker 24 (01:33:08):
Yes.

Speaker 10 (01:33:11):
H hm, well, mart what made you say you'd rather
not come inside this house so.

Speaker 24 (01:33:22):
I can't see?

Speaker 12 (01:33:23):
Sir?

Speaker 39 (01:33:23):
Really, I can't mister Chimlin to get even with my dad.
If I said any more, you see, he about owns
our store.

Speaker 10 (01:33:29):
I wouldn't tell Chimlin come now.

Speaker 39 (01:33:32):
Huh, Well, sir, h you see the Chimlin's the daughter
she wasn't quite right and she died out here, and
Missus Chimlin she hanged herself.

Speaker 7 (01:33:43):
Folks have always been scared of this house cause of that.
I see.

Speaker 24 (01:33:48):
Why did Missus Chimlin hang herself?

Speaker 39 (01:33:50):
I don't write lyneul, Perhaps the doctor can tell us,
Oh my hello, Jock.

Speaker 10 (01:33:55):
Chimmelin didn't come sent this note saying he would refund
mister Burton's money and take thee back again. Says nothing more.
But Marty Hears volunteered to tell me that there were
two deaths in this old house. One hanging, that's right,
Missus Chimlin, yes, and the girl.

Speaker 24 (01:34:15):
Her case was hopeless eighteen. She had a mind of
a child of four. They took her everywhere, but to
no avail.

Speaker 46 (01:34:22):
Time after time, Missus Chimlin pleaded with me to put
the girl to sleep.

Speaker 24 (01:34:26):
In her misery, I couldn't do that. She hated me
for it.

Speaker 46 (01:34:31):
Her hate grew until her mind was unsettled. One day
she took it upon herself to when.

Speaker 24 (01:34:36):
The girl's life.

Speaker 46 (01:34:38):
Then, realizing what she'd done, she hanged herself in the
room mister Burton has been using for his laboratory. If
mister Chimin knew, we'd told us, no, that's all right, Matt.
There is any truth in the fact that an unseen
force lives in this house, and you will see how
hard it is for me to believe that.

Speaker 24 (01:34:56):
Then why did it seek vengeance on mister Burton.

Speaker 10 (01:35:00):
I have never believed in supernatural force any more than you,
But remember I've seen it at work in this house.
And as for seeking vengeance on Jim doctor, he was
working on an experiment to prolonged life, a discovery which
might have added untold years to the life of a

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human being. And this is something that the spirit of
the woman who hanged herself did not want. That's why
it destroyed the experiments.

Speaker 46 (01:35:29):
And that's why it destroyed Jim Burton. He died just
before I came downstairs.

Speaker 38 (01:36:04):
The hermits that in the old house, the unseen force
was the spirit of a woman who took her own life,
the woman who could not rest in her grave, the
woman who returned to destroy anything that might prolonged life. Yes,
she kills him. Britain, by the power of supernatural force.

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Stayed on your lege, Turn them on all they pleasant dreams.

Speaker 1 (01:36:44):
Well, well, it is getting late, isn't it. But I
suppose it's a special time of year. So what the heck?

Speaker 18 (01:36:54):
What's that?

Speaker 1 (01:36:55):
Oh well, I try not to say the other thing. Well,
it's unwise in my situation. Well let's move on, shall
we something more fun and fearful to give you an

(01:37:20):
earful Oh well, I suppose I just don't want to
run the risk of somehow crossing paths with well the ghostmaker.

Speaker 47 (01:37:45):
The Seal Book. Once again, the Keeper of the Book

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has opened the ponderous door to the secret vault, wherein
has kept the Great Sealed Book, in which has recorded
all the secrets and mysteries of mankind.

Speaker 44 (01:38:23):
Through the ages.

Speaker 47 (01:38:25):
Here are tales of every kind, tales of murder, of madness,
of dark deeds, strange and terrible. Beyond all belief. Keeper
of the Book, I would know what tale we tell
this time? Open the Great Book and let us read.

Speaker 44 (01:38:46):
Slowly.

Speaker 47 (01:38:47):
The great book opens.

Speaker 19 (01:38:55):
One by one.

Speaker 47 (01:38:57):
The keeper of the book turns the page and stops
ah the strange story of two scoundrels who would stop
at nothing for money, a tale called the Ghostmakers. Here

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is the Tale the Ghostmakers, as it is written in
the pages of the sealed Book. It is an autumn
afternoon in the ancient New England village of Wilton. In
an old stone house a mile from the town, Agatha
Wainwright is serving tea to her nephew Ned, and a
little man. Ned is introduced as Professor Piedmont, a friend

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who has come to spend a few weeks with them
while he works on a book to be called Old
Graveyards of New England.

Speaker 40 (01:40:40):
So this is your graveyard, friend, Ned looks like a
man who'd be happy staring at tombstones.

Speaker 16 (01:40:46):
They may professionally didn't steady, miss Waynwright.

Speaker 40 (01:40:49):
Now I'll take your word for it, Professor Piedmont. Myself,
I'd rather read about them in a book.

Speaker 44 (01:40:54):
The Professor not only writes books any but he's also
an expert on psychic phenomena.

Speaker 40 (01:40:58):
Psychic phenomena, Oh you mean ghosts? Hmm, foolish fiddle faddle
dreamed up by silly people without the brains to know better.

Speaker 16 (01:41:07):
Nor But miss Wingwright, I assure you you are wrong, nonsense.

Speaker 40 (01:41:10):
When a person's dead, he's dead, and I see anything
I'm willing to call a ghost, I'll know I'm crazy,
and I'll admit it.

Speaker 44 (01:41:18):
Why, Addie, this very house is supposed to be hearted,
You know that rubbish.

Speaker 40 (01:41:22):
This is a perfectly normal house. I've lived here a
month and i haven't heard so much as a board
squeak her.

Speaker 16 (01:41:27):
But miss Wingwright, it may be only because you're new
to the house and not yet since itized. It takes
time to become aware of occult influences.

Speaker 40 (01:41:36):
Stuff and nonsense. Who started all this talk about ghosts? Anyway? Here? Now,
let's have some tea and no more talk about ghosts.

Speaker 16 (01:41:57):
Well need, Now that we're alone, suppose you tell me
a little more than you put in your letter. I'm
still not sure where you sent for me.

Speaker 44 (01:42:05):
All right, professor, this is the gist of it. Three
months ago, aunt Agatha's brother died, leaving her in estate
of four hundred thousand dollars, and I'm Aunt's only living relative.

Speaker 16 (01:42:17):
I see, yes, light begins to do.

Speaker 44 (01:42:21):
No wait, my uncle arranged his will so that aunt
Agatha gets only the interest about twenty thousand a year,
and this house to live in. On her death, the
entire estate goes to charity. I'm cut off about a penny.

Speaker 16 (01:42:35):
I see your uncle didn't like you, nid shrewd men,
very shrewd.

Speaker 44 (01:42:40):
Yes, she was making sure I couldn't get my hands
on any of it. But that's where you come in.
If aunt Agatha were to become shall we say ill,
mentally ill.

Speaker 16 (01:42:53):
So that she was incompetent to administer the estate.

Speaker 44 (01:42:56):
You mean exactly. If at Agatha were to lose her
mind through shock or fright, who but me her only
relative would be the logical one to administer the estate
for you would.

Speaker 16 (01:43:08):
Then then you'd have the whole income for as long
as she lived.

Speaker 44 (01:43:12):
As part of the principle too, and no ways to
manage it. But I've got to get my hands on
some of it before the end of the year. I'm sunk.
I owe a little money about twenty five thousand. If
I don't get it quickly, well, the people I owe
it to are rather short tempered.

Speaker 16 (01:43:26):
I understand, yes, Nate, I remember when I knew you
in Chicago. You liked to gamble, didn't you. But that's
your affair. Personally, I prefer to stick to my own
profession creating ghosts.

Speaker 44 (01:43:39):
Yes, I've heard of some of your jobs, Professor, and
some of the ghosts you've created to order.

Speaker 16 (01:43:45):
Yes, I pride myself on having a unique occupation.

Speaker 18 (01:43:48):
Ned.

Speaker 16 (01:43:49):
I believe I'm the only ghost maker there is, and
the ghost I've created have been effective too.

Speaker 44 (01:43:55):
So I understand now. What I want you to do
is this. I want a frightened to the point.

Speaker 16 (01:44:01):
Where she sa I understand well, Ned, It's going to
be difficult. She's a tough minded woman, hard to scare,
hard to drive, insane.

Speaker 44 (01:44:12):
That's got to be done. Got to get my hands
on the estate. If you succeed, Professor, there's five thousand
dollars in it for you, all right, Ned, I'll try.

Speaker 16 (01:44:23):
It won't be easy, But she made Greig suddenly when
the time comes that type, does you know?

Speaker 44 (01:44:29):
Good settled in? You brought everything you are apt to need.

Speaker 16 (01:44:34):
All my apparatus and gadgets are in my trunk to
be here tomorrow. I'm not altogether sure I like this job, Ned.

Speaker 44 (01:44:42):
I hope you're not going to turn moral on my professor.

Speaker 16 (01:44:44):
No, no, no, no, there's something about this place that
disturbs me. Though you know, I am psychic at times,
not altogether a faker.

Speaker 44 (01:44:53):
Neks to be scaring yourself with your own stories.

Speaker 16 (01:44:56):
As we were driving past that old cemetery this afternoon,
s only filled the premonition, a chill, kind of chill
you're supposed to feel when you go near the place
you'll suddenly be buried.

Speaker 44 (01:45:07):
Hot was just the wind. We'll have to get you
some red flannels. Yeah, there's something that will give you
your courage back. Drink it down.

Speaker 16 (01:45:20):
A hey, that's me good. All the different kinds of spirits.
I prefer those in bottles.

Speaker 44 (01:45:29):
I thought you'd like it. Now let's go downstairs again.
We won't talk about ghosts anymore tonight, but tomorrow night,
who knows what may come knocking it?

Speaker 12 (01:45:40):
And I get this door, SA.

Speaker 47 (01:47:29):
And now to continue the story as it is written
in the Sealed book. The following evening ned and the
Professor joined Dantagatha by the fireplace, where she sat knitting outside.
A cold winter wind blew.

Speaker 44 (01:47:47):
O listen to that wind. We may be in for
a storm.

Speaker 40 (01:47:50):
We're in for an early winter that's what her Snow
will fall any day.

Speaker 39 (01:47:54):
Now.

Speaker 16 (01:47:55):
It's good to have a fireplace to sit by when
the wind blows like that.

Speaker 33 (01:48:00):
Here's the cider and donuts, ma'am.

Speaker 40 (01:48:02):
Very well, emmy, bring it right in.

Speaker 44 (01:48:04):
Yeah, cider and donuts just what we need in a
night like this.

Speaker 48 (01:48:07):
Will you have a glass, mister ned Yes, thank you?

Speaker 40 (01:48:10):
I mean, will you have some cider? Professor Peede, ma'am.

Speaker 44 (01:48:17):
Professor, and he's trying to give you some cider.

Speaker 24 (01:48:19):
Yah.

Speaker 16 (01:48:20):
Oh, excuse me. I was listening. I thought they heard
someone knocking on the front door.

Speaker 44 (01:48:25):
Someone king, well, there is someone there.

Speaker 40 (01:48:30):
Well, they can't be very anxious to get in. That's
all the noise they can make. Shall I go see
who it is, miss Agatha? Yes, yes, girl, go see,
though I can't imagine who'd be calling at this hour
of the night.

Speaker 44 (01:48:42):
Sounded like someone who didn't expect to get in anyway,
a timid child who may be a ghost.

Speaker 40 (01:48:49):
Yes, yes, who is it?

Speaker 7 (01:48:52):
Why? Why? Miss?

Speaker 23 (01:48:55):
Well?

Speaker 40 (01:48:56):
There wasn't anyone there, No one there? Of course there
was someone, didn't they? But I opened the door and
there wasn't anyone there, And who was knocking? Answer me
that I don't know, but that wasn't anyone anyone you
can see emmy, I'll stand for no foolishness now.

Speaker 7 (01:49:12):
No, ma'am.

Speaker 40 (01:49:13):
But just the same, there's nobody at the door. Someone's
playing tricks on us, and I'm going to see who
it is.

Speaker 44 (01:49:19):
I'll come with you.

Speaker 40 (01:49:20):
You won't find anybody there. Well, we'll see.

Speaker 33 (01:49:25):
Well what is it?

Speaker 44 (01:49:27):
What do you There isn't anyone here?

Speaker 40 (01:49:29):
Oh but there was. They slipped away into the bushes,
that's what they did.

Speaker 44 (01:49:33):
Yes, yes, of course, some small boys playing tricks.

Speaker 40 (01:49:35):
I suppose if I catch them, I'll tan their hides.

Speaker 16 (01:49:39):
Who was it, miss Wayne Wreck?

Speaker 44 (01:49:40):
And there's some boys playing tricks, professor, That's all it
could have been. Come on, professor, drink your side here.

Speaker 40 (01:49:46):
Well oh yes, yes, of course, professor. You look like
a man who was listening to something.

Speaker 49 (01:49:52):
Then what was it?

Speaker 33 (01:49:53):
Oh no, no, sir, I'm.

Speaker 40 (01:49:55):
Too old not to know when a man is lying.
Professor Piedmont, What were you listening to?

Speaker 16 (01:50:01):
To the truth? I thought I heard voices, what kind
of voices? Far away voices crying something I couldn't make up. Oh,
but it was just the flames in the fireplace.

Speaker 44 (01:50:11):
I'm sure it was of course, that's all it was. Well,
what do you say we all turn in this new
England are makes me sleepy?

Speaker 12 (01:50:20):
Hmmm?

Speaker 40 (01:50:21):
Knocks at the door when there's nobody there, and voices, Yes,
it's high time we were all in bed instead of
sitting around here imagining such nonsensical things.

Speaker 47 (01:50:40):
Highly Pleased with their first effort in creating ghosts that
didn't exist, Ned and Professor Piedmont went to bed, but
before they retired, they held a brief, low voiced conference
in Ned's room.

Speaker 44 (01:50:54):
Professor that door knocking act was all right. He did
it very nicely.

Speaker 16 (01:50:58):
He snead length of blake thread runs through a crack
in the window station and it takes the doorknocker. Can
create a very setispectory ghost.

Speaker 44 (01:51:07):
Indeed, now tell me what comes next on the program.

Speaker 16 (01:51:10):
Well, we can't work too fast. Tomorrow the hired girl
Emil spread the story of tonight's happens. The whole town
will start talking about it good and then and tomorrow
night nothing happens. Aunt Amy is reassured. But tomorrow I'll
be busy. I notice today there's an old, hollowed tree
in the woods about one hundred feet from the house.

Speaker 4 (01:51:31):
And what about it.

Speaker 16 (01:51:33):
I'll run wise to it, hiding them under the leaves,
and install a small loudspeaker in it. I'll conceal the
microphone and batteries behind the drapes in the living room.

Speaker 17 (01:51:41):
I see.

Speaker 44 (01:51:42):
So two nights from now we'll hear ghostly voices, eh.

Speaker 16 (01:51:45):
Exactly, they'll accompany the ghostly knocks on the door. But
that won't be all. There will be other surprises on
the program.

Speaker 44 (01:51:53):
Professor, remind me to tell you sometime that you're about
as unpleasant an old rascal as I've ever met.

Speaker 47 (01:52:08):
The next evening, Agatha Wainwright listened nervously for a repetition
of the ghostly knocks, but nothing happened, and she regained
her composure the evening following that, however, as she and
Ned and the Professor sat in the living room around
the fire, nine o'clock.

Speaker 44 (01:52:29):
The evening may just be starting in New York. Here
and Wilton, it's bedtime. Hmm. Seems to be someone at.

Speaker 17 (01:52:36):
The door, so there is Shall I go?

Speaker 4 (01:52:40):
No?

Speaker 40 (01:52:40):
Emmy can answer the door. She does little enough to
earn her money. Emmy, Emmy, there's someone at the door.
See who it is?

Speaker 33 (01:52:49):
Please must ime Asagatha.

Speaker 40 (01:52:52):
Must you indeed answer the door, Emmy, I'd rather not, ma'am. Emmy,
see who is at the door.

Speaker 8 (01:53:00):
Yes, miss Agatha, I'm going.

Speaker 12 (01:53:04):
Who is it?

Speaker 48 (01:53:06):
There's no one there.

Speaker 40 (01:53:07):
There's no one there. Again, Amy, get control of your
but I tell you there's no one there, and it's
someone playing tricks. That's all you hear, Emmy, Yes, yes,
miss Agatha, I hear, but I don't believe it. Go
to your room, yes, ma'am.

Speaker 33 (01:53:20):
I'm sorry, miss Agatha, but there wasn't anyone there.

Speaker 24 (01:53:24):
I hope.

Speaker 40 (01:53:25):
I'm not going to have to discharge that girl.

Speaker 44 (01:53:28):
Shall I go this time?

Speaker 1 (01:53:29):
Auntie?

Speaker 20 (01:53:30):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:53:30):
Ned?

Speaker 40 (01:53:31):
If the rascals play their tricks, whoever they are, they'll
soon stop when they see we pay no attention.

Speaker 44 (01:53:36):
I wonder if I could see them from the window,
maybe we could trap them, if we were to go
quietly out the back door and step around of the front.

Speaker 2 (01:53:46):
What was that.

Speaker 16 (01:53:54):
Someone calling?

Speaker 44 (01:53:56):
Really, I don't hear anyone.

Speaker 16 (01:53:58):
It's someone calling to us to let him in.

Speaker 44 (01:54:00):
Strange.

Speaker 12 (01:54:01):
I can't hear it.

Speaker 40 (01:54:02):
You must have heard it, Ned, It was perfectly plain.

Speaker 16 (01:54:04):
There's some voices certain people can hear and others can't.
If there's someone calling we better take a look.

Speaker 44 (01:54:15):
Come on, addie, we'll see what goes on. Who's there?
Show yourself, whoever you are.

Speaker 40 (01:54:21):
Yeah, it's perfectly empty.

Speaker 44 (01:54:24):
There's no soul in sight.

Speaker 16 (01:54:25):
Booths and looking, and the voices seem too stoked.

Speaker 44 (01:54:28):
Perhaps we ought to search the yard and Agatha, look
down at the edge of the trees.

Speaker 40 (01:54:33):
Lights, three balls of light moving around just above the ground.

Speaker 16 (01:54:38):
Three spheres of light, and give me luminous spheres of
common manifestations of spiritual presences.

Speaker 40 (01:54:44):
Nonsense, they're just too will of the wisps, that's all.

Speaker 44 (01:54:47):
Whatever they are, we're going to see. Come on, professor,
it's a trick. Will soon know.

Speaker 40 (01:54:50):
Yes, Ned, wait for me, don't scare them away.

Speaker 30 (01:54:52):
I want to see what they look like.

Speaker 40 (01:54:54):
Ned, Ned, they're rising, they're floating away, but the trees.

Speaker 44 (01:54:58):
And all right, so I get a doctor for you.

Speaker 7 (01:55:01):
What do we want with a doctor?

Speaker 40 (01:55:04):
I'm all right, an old fool carrying on like that
just because of some will of the whists of whatever
it was. I shan't do it again. I promise you you.

Speaker 16 (01:55:13):
Need not be ashamed of Wainwright, unless I'm much mistaken.
We've witnessed a psychic visitation of a kind unsuppressed in
my suspirit.

Speaker 40 (01:55:21):
Oh stuff and nonsense. Professor, you may believe in spirits,
but I don't. I never have believed in ghosts, and
I'm not going to start now. It was just that
it was well unexpected.

Speaker 47 (01:55:45):
In the days that followed, Ned Wainwright and Professor Piedmont
found it impossible to shake Agatha Wainwright's iron nerves. Emmy,
the hired girl, resigned in terror, but Agatha remained seemingly unmoved. Resolutely,
she ignored the ghostly knocks, voices, and footsteps that Professor
Piedmont's ingenuity devised. The whole town buzzed with tales of

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her haunted house, but she refused to pay any attention
to them. After a month had gone by, Ned was
ready to admit defeat.

Speaker 44 (01:56:19):
Well, Professor, you're a washout, and Agata hasn't turned a
hair at your ghost now, Ned, I.

Speaker 16 (01:56:24):
Told you it might take a long time. She's a
very strong minded woman. Believe me, anyone else would have
cracked by now.

Speaker 44 (01:56:31):
Well, she hasn't, and she's not going to.

Speaker 16 (01:56:33):
I still say it may happen all at once. She's
nervous and distruged. She doesn't sleep well. Every evening she
sits listening for ghostly voices. She won't admit it, but
she's made up her mind not to believe in ghosts,
and I'm afraid she never will.

Speaker 44 (01:56:46):
Well, what do you suggest. It's the middle of December.
I've got to get my hands on her money by
the end of the year and sunk.

Speaker 16 (01:56:51):
We must play our last card, you me. Do you
mean she's fond of you? You're her only relative?

Speaker 44 (01:56:59):
What are you getting at?

Speaker 16 (01:57:00):
How would she feel if you, her only relative, would
die and come back here as a ghost?

Speaker 44 (01:57:06):
I don't follow you.

Speaker 16 (01:57:07):
My plan is simple. We'll say good bye to your
aunt and drive off as if we were going away. Then,
secretly in the night, we will return to the house. Yes,
and then what we'll see to it that she receives
a phone call from a friend of mine in Boston.
He'll announce to your aunt that you and I have
been in an automobile accident, that we've been killed.

Speaker 44 (01:57:28):
I see, yes, I begin to understand.

Speaker 16 (01:57:31):
Immediately after the phone call, we'll knock. She'll come to
the door and see us standing.

Speaker 44 (01:57:37):
There and having just heard that we're both dead exactly.

Speaker 16 (01:57:41):
And if that doesn't work, ned we are defeated. But
it'll be a strong mind indeed that can withstand such
a shock. A strong mind, indeed, ye.

Speaker 47 (01:59:38):
And now to continue the story as it is written
in the sealed book. Two days later, Naden Professor Piedmont
said good bye to Agatha and drove away. It was
starting to snow as they left, so they made their
way by a roundabout route to an isolated road house,
and there they spent the day waiting. After darkness had fallen,

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they started back towards Antiagatha's house. By now there was
snow feet deep on the road, and the cold blast
of the north wind made even the heated interior of
the car uncomfortable.

Speaker 16 (02:00:15):
Boo, I'll be dead when this is OpenD.

Speaker 40 (02:00:19):
That's the moment.

Speaker 44 (02:00:20):
You must be down to zero ns at least, well
almost there. We'll drive up to within one hundred yards
of the house and wait in the car with a
heater on What time did you arrange to have that
phone call made from Boston at nine o'clock exactly?

Speaker 16 (02:00:33):
We want to knock the instant after she gets it right.

Speaker 44 (02:00:37):
Isn't that our turn?

Speaker 2 (02:00:38):
There?

Speaker 1 (02:00:38):
I think so?

Speaker 44 (02:00:40):
This snow makes it so hard to see that Professor
look up. We're going up the road.

Speaker 2 (02:00:50):
Head.

Speaker 16 (02:00:51):
D Are you hurt my ankle?

Speaker 7 (02:00:55):
I'll be out of here.

Speaker 16 (02:00:58):
Come on, hurry, Ned, I smelled gasoline. Call me catch
on fire, all right.

Speaker 44 (02:01:05):
Help me out of the road.

Speaker 16 (02:01:06):
Yes, yes, what happened. We skidded down a ten foot
bank and turn completely over.

Speaker 44 (02:01:12):
If you'd watched where you were going, it wouldn't have happened.

Speaker 16 (02:01:14):
I couldn't tell who was ice under the snow. I
would never mind that. We've got to get the shelter.

Speaker 44 (02:01:20):
And I think my ankle's broken. Yes, I can't step
on it.

Speaker 16 (02:01:25):
You can lean on me.

Speaker 44 (02:01:28):
Where are we a quarter of a mile from aunt Agathus?
There'sn't another house within a mile.

Speaker 16 (02:01:33):
And then come on, we've got to get there quick.
Lean on me. Help while you can. We don't get
there soon, we'll freeze to death.

Speaker 47 (02:01:50):
Half an hour later, numb with cold and scarcely able
to struggle, on, Ned and Professor Piedmont staggered up to
Agatha Wainwright's house. The windows all had heavy wooden shutters
over them, shutters they themselves had helped Tagata put in
place to keep out anything that might come knocking at
the door, and the night, but through the small pane

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of glass in the front door, light showed as they
stumbled thankfully up the steps.

Speaker 44 (02:02:20):
Keaven, we're here. We couldn't have gone another hundred George,
I'm almost frozen.

Speaker 16 (02:02:27):
You've got to get inside, ye help me.

Speaker 24 (02:02:32):
All right?

Speaker 16 (02:02:34):
One worship there? Ned? The phone call from Boston? What
time is it?

Speaker 28 (02:02:43):
Now?

Speaker 44 (02:02:44):
Time like it's nine nine o'clock exactly, and not quickly.

Speaker 16 (02:02:48):
We've got to get inside before.

Speaker 33 (02:02:50):
That phone call comes.

Speaker 4 (02:03:02):
Inside.

Speaker 47 (02:03:02):
Agatha Wainwright heard the knocking, but before she could go
to the door, the telephone rang and she answered it first.

Speaker 40 (02:03:10):
Hello, Yes, this is Wilton three one seven Boston calling
long distance. Yes, I'll hold on just a minute. Hello, Yes,
this is miss Wainwright speaking the Boston General Hospital. My
nephew Ned.

Speaker 1 (02:03:29):
What is it?

Speaker 40 (02:03:29):
What's happened to him?

Speaker 16 (02:03:32):
Dead?

Speaker 40 (02:03:33):
An nomobile accident? Both of them killed?

Speaker 12 (02:03:37):
No?

Speaker 40 (02:03:38):
Oh no, yes, yes, I'm all right. Thank you for
letting me know. I'll come in the morning. Ned killed.

Speaker 6 (02:03:47):
Oh no, no, no, it can't be.

Speaker 15 (02:03:52):
Ned.

Speaker 19 (02:03:53):
Let me here, Let me here, Ned.

Speaker 40 (02:03:56):
Ned's dead. He's been killed.

Speaker 16 (02:04:00):
Thee No, it's dead, it's dead.

Speaker 40 (02:04:05):
No, you can't be Ned.

Speaker 37 (02:04:07):
Ned was killed.

Speaker 40 (02:04:08):
He's dead.

Speaker 12 (02:04:10):
It must be ghost.

Speaker 16 (02:04:12):
The professor was right, there are her ghosts.

Speaker 40 (02:04:15):
It's Ned's ghosts out there.

Speaker 8 (02:04:21):
No, no, you can't come in.

Speaker 40 (02:04:24):
You're a ghost, your nets ghost. You can't come in.

Speaker 2 (02:04:27):
I won't let a ghost in.

Speaker 24 (02:04:28):
Here, I won't.

Speaker 47 (02:04:39):
The next morning, Ned and Professor Piedmont were found frozen
to death beside the house. But they made a vain
effort to pry open the heavy wooden shutters that covered
the windows. You see, Agatha never did let them in.
She knew better than to open the door to ghosts.

Speaker 2 (02:05:26):
It is.

Speaker 47 (02:05:54):
And now, keeper of the book, before you close the
great book, show us the tale we tell next time?

Speaker 18 (02:06:15):
This one.

Speaker 47 (02:06:16):
Ah, yes, why this is amazing. It's a tale of murder.
We're unexpected, fiendish murder, murder of a very different and
unusual kind, a tale such as you've never heard before.

Speaker 12 (02:06:57):
My my mind.

Speaker 1 (02:07:00):
The weather sure has gotten chilly, very quickly, you know,
during this brutal summer of yours. I was surprised how
warm it could get, how hot and sticky it would
be at times, and at night, sometimes there wasn't even

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a respite from it. The heat would remain even as
the sun was hiding. I would be lying if I
said it hadn't made me feel a bit peaked, a
bit less than perfect, less than ideal. Whenever I feel
a little under the weather, I'm always glad I can

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head straight to the Snake Doctor.

Speaker 43 (02:07:50):
Suspense, which is usually heard at this hour on Thursday nights,
is taking its customary summer holiday suspense returns to the
air two weeks from to night. On Thursday September.

Speaker 50 (02:08:01):
One, you were standing at the doorway of a cabin
on Cashier Creek.

Speaker 19 (02:08:18):
Upon the ridge.

Speaker 49 (02:08:19):
The bloodhounds have caught your scent, and between you and
the fortune, between you and escape you on the white
jaws of the deadly Cottonmouth.

Speaker 43 (02:08:38):
We offer you escape designed to free you from the
four walls of today, for a half hour of high adventure.
Tonight we escape to the worn out acres of a
poor farm somewhere in the Southern Mountains, with Irvin S.

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COB's great tale of vengeance Snake Doctor.

Speaker 42 (02:09:11):
Far back in the Southern Mountains, it's quiet and hot
and lonely. One pine Scott Hill is very much like
the next, and one winding Creek differs little from another.
The area through which Cashier Creek twisted was the same
as all the rest, except for the snakes, deadly, venomous,

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cotton mouths, moccasins. They have probably more snakes along Cashier
Creek and anywhere else. Most people lived in constant, deadly
fear of these snakes. But there was one man who
even seemed to like them, a man they called snake Doctor.
His cabin was near the creek bottom where the cotton
moles were the commonist, and he earned his megal living

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by rendering down their soft fetch bottle of the oil
and selling it. Snake Doctor seemed harmless enough. There was
one man who believed he was a colleague of the devil,
who hated him because he wasn't afraid of the snakes.
This man was Jaf Mourner, the snake Doctor's nearest neighbor.

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Jaff was that dangerous kind of man who suspected, feared,
and hated anything he didn't understand, And he understood neither
cotton MOUs nor the snake doctor. Jaf was ornerary, ignorant, shiftless.
He'd rather shoot squirrels in chop cotton. He'd rather fish
and whole corn. And that's what he's doing now, fishing
down at the big hole with his son and heir Finney,

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who's old enough but not quite bright enough to handle
the gun, missed him.

Speaker 33 (02:10:43):
Dogg any, you blame fool.

Speaker 19 (02:10:45):
I told you not to touch my gun.

Speaker 33 (02:10:47):
Tromp on him five for he gets in the creed.
Huh the cotton MoU tromp on front of you.

Speaker 19 (02:10:55):
Varmit.

Speaker 33 (02:10:56):
Honestly you got him. He could put on him with.

Speaker 7 (02:11:02):
You.

Speaker 30 (02:11:02):
Don't eat to son.

Speaker 24 (02:11:04):
He's dead.

Speaker 49 (02:11:07):
Now come here, Paul.

Speaker 23 (02:11:11):
How'd he hit anything with that rifle? I had a
beat drawer right on him, and I dan folk that
for Paul.

Speaker 49 (02:11:17):
Turn about, filthy snake. Whilst I'm a fishing.

Speaker 33 (02:11:20):
Becky was sunning himself not more two feet from you.
He was just two feet.

Speaker 49 (02:11:24):
Never mind, I kind of talk. There'll be no fish
around little Federation after all that racket. Well, come on,
let's go home and get.

Speaker 50 (02:11:35):
Us some victuals.

Speaker 42 (02:11:39):
Jaf Morner tossed his bait can into the creek and
threw a stick after him. He stood there, watching the
stick drift slowly toward the big hole, where the creek
widened behind a jam at drift boarding. Jaff watched as
the eddie caught the stick and sucked it beneath the dawn.

Speaker 17 (02:11:56):
Jaff was curious.

Speaker 42 (02:11:58):
He moved downstream eroda to and waited, watching the water
boil up from under the drift wood.

Speaker 4 (02:12:04):
But the stick didn't come up.

Speaker 17 (02:12:07):
That was strange.

Speaker 42 (02:12:08):
It must have caught under there and a tangle of
water soaked and sunken logs. Probably it did stayed there
for months. Perhaps stay there always.

Speaker 33 (02:12:17):
Let's get some bills, Paul.

Speaker 42 (02:12:19):
They thought about this, and an idea began to form
in his slow mind as he and Finnish started for home.

Speaker 33 (02:12:26):
How much are your reckons in this? And Paul, Daddy,
what you john about this old cotton man? How much
all your wrecks?

Speaker 19 (02:12:36):
Ow it down?

Speaker 33 (02:12:37):
Throw it down?

Speaker 7 (02:12:38):
Why far?

Speaker 19 (02:12:38):
I'm throw it down, like I say.

Speaker 23 (02:12:41):
Oh, I was aiming on rendering the old cotton mouth's
fat like the snake doctor does.

Speaker 33 (02:12:47):
I was in the selling make myself some money.

Speaker 49 (02:12:49):
I don't like a squirm of things around me.

Speaker 33 (02:12:51):
But it's dead. Leave it word dropped?

Speaker 49 (02:12:56):
You scared on cotton mouths, Paul, I know better get
myself bit by him?

Speaker 33 (02:13:01):
Hip Bailey. Know the fella got hisself bit one. We're
in a draft of liquor from mines.

Speaker 23 (02:13:07):
He goes to work, and he cuts open a life chicken,
and he put on his leg where the butte was.

Speaker 33 (02:13:12):
Bella lived too.

Speaker 23 (02:13:14):
Reckon Mister Rives ever gets herself bit, I mean handling
cotton maths.

Speaker 2 (02:13:19):
Like he does.

Speaker 23 (02:13:20):
Who mister Rives. Who mister Rives. That's old snake Doctor's
real name. Ma says, I out and call him snake doctor.

Speaker 49 (02:13:28):
Never mind what your mos says. Nobody in my family's
calling those snake loving scum. Mister Rives.

Speaker 23 (02:13:34):
Heck, that's what I say, all right, So made myself
some money renting the cotton mouth fat down in the oil.

Speaker 33 (02:13:44):
How at your wreckon old snake Doctor makes out and
all he sells.

Speaker 23 (02:13:47):
I don't know, Hip Bailey says, Old snake doctors got
more than thousand dollars hit away.

Speaker 49 (02:13:52):
Somewhere is in his cabin more than that, most likely
cussing old miser. Don't spend nothing, ain't got nothing. They've
that rack of bones mass.

Speaker 23 (02:14:02):
Tip Bailey says, whenever Old snake Doctor sets foot out
in his place, he's got the granddaddy of all cotton mouths.
And he leaves out in the cabin to stand God
over his money. Tip Bailey says he'd seet old snake
doctor put him in his pocket.

Speaker 33 (02:14:15):
Live ones too.

Speaker 49 (02:14:17):
Snake doctor ain't fitting to be live hisself.

Speaker 33 (02:14:19):
Ma says he ain't so bad, says he don't mean
nobody harm.

Speaker 49 (02:14:23):
Yr Mar better be careful who she's associating with.

Speaker 23 (02:14:25):
She says he just don't have good sands had the
fever too much. Baddy, you ever been in snake Doctor's place.

Speaker 49 (02:14:35):
I don't have nothing more and I have to to
do with that snake loving hohodoo.

Speaker 33 (02:14:39):
Dip Bailey says he better.

Speaker 23 (02:14:40):
It wouldn't be no task at all for some no
good to poke around the snake doctors shack and maybe
find all the money and make off with it. Blame
the son's during there, rendering me doing look my head
full of sweat, Look daddy, see full of sweat?

Speaker 33 (02:15:02):
During near God full of sweat? Come on, why turning
down that way? Paul coming on noon dinner? Be most ready.

Speaker 49 (02:15:11):
I'm gonna tell the snake loving hoodoo that there's some
of them cotton males on the quick side of it,
doesn't it. Yeah, he knows that I'm gonna tell him.
He's got my leave to catch him. You don't need
to come.

Speaker 33 (02:15:21):
Along if you're going over there his place, I'd kind
of like to see it for my own.

Speaker 48 (02:15:26):
Saying, go on there, Paul, he ain't a home else.

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Why is he to show himself by?

Speaker 33 (02:15:49):
Now?

Speaker 4 (02:15:50):
I reckon?

Speaker 48 (02:15:51):
Can you see any sneaks?

Speaker 23 (02:15:53):
I told you to keep an eye out for I
bet it's in one of them chinks, Paul, Paul, bet
the money's in one of the.

Speaker 49 (02:16:00):
Honey must be a dang snake itself living in a
place like it.

Speaker 23 (02:16:08):
I know you ain't looking for any money, Paul, But
ifing you was, wouldn't you look at at the chink
right up there?

Speaker 19 (02:16:14):
Where right there?

Speaker 33 (02:16:15):
Second log brother fireplace on the right. You see that
the hole?

Speaker 49 (02:16:20):
Yeah, I reckon, I would look up there.

Speaker 23 (02:16:23):
Since we're here, I might as well see for myself, Paul,
I wouldn't be my surprise if old snake doctor had him.

Speaker 49 (02:16:32):
Huh, pau Bo, Was you looking for something, Jake mana
snake doctor?

Speaker 7 (02:16:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (02:16:42):
Huh, I was looking for you.

Speaker 49 (02:16:45):
I won't here, Yeah, yeah, uh, look here your hudo?
What's side here? Sneaking up on?

Speaker 17 (02:16:51):
Folks?

Speaker 19 (02:16:52):
Who's tooking trouble to come all the way down here
to do you a favor?

Speaker 7 (02:16:54):
Huh?

Speaker 19 (02:16:56):
Eh, Come on Finny, we're getting out of here, yes,
like as not.

Speaker 23 (02:17:16):
They had a dang old marcus in scratching around in
his pocket whilse he was talking.

Speaker 33 (02:17:21):
To you, daddy. Do you mind how his eyes was
when he come in?

Speaker 23 (02:17:29):
Do you mind how I kept looking up at the
wall where I said, I bet he had the money
between the chinks.

Speaker 49 (02:17:33):
Nny, what don't you say nothing to you more about
us being at the snake doctors? Please you understand why
I should just don't? And don't you go night again?
Cuss old vomits. You thought we was proud as way active?

Speaker 33 (02:17:48):
Yeah, prowleus Ma said about already your Paul with your time.

Speaker 30 (02:17:55):
Yeah, I got time up for dinner.

Speaker 24 (02:17:58):
And go down the spring.

Speaker 40 (02:17:59):
And if you tell you stumps you can.

Speaker 49 (02:18:07):
Catch innoc and Jeff, how you think I can catch
fish with fetty fine off my gun and cut miles
all the time. Hint his heat on.

Speaker 51 (02:18:15):
The buddy can bear in a corner of the creek.
Uh had poured on Miss Rives, come buy here, spell
of gold? My knight shook the pieces.

Speaker 49 (02:18:27):
With a chill.

Speaker 19 (02:18:29):
Uh Uh he come by?

Speaker 6 (02:18:31):
Did he?

Speaker 49 (02:18:33):
What did he come in just for men? Just for
a minute? What do he want he.

Speaker 51 (02:18:39):
Wanted to, could have given some furze ailment, jezbu. I
could drag one sorr fort for the other many could
make it up here from his place. I'll give him
my dost out now butler's egga drops water, give him
a little smidge and liquor on him. You would, please don't, Jeff,
don't walk me, don't Jeff, don't want me just poured

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on mister?

Speaker 49 (02:19:05):
Mister, mister, how many times I gotta tell you that
Hudo's name is snake doctor.

Speaker 8 (02:19:14):
You don't mean nobody know.

Speaker 49 (02:19:17):
He made his skin of last? What's hide?

Speaker 19 (02:19:19):
And tell her you call her him mister Rives.

Speaker 49 (02:19:23):
Mmhmm, you'll be calling him honey and sugar next with that.

Speaker 19 (02:19:30):
Lot you call please Jeff, please bad names?

Speaker 16 (02:19:35):
Eh?

Speaker 49 (02:19:36):
Why I aimed? What's his name?

Speaker 35 (02:19:46):
Now?

Speaker 49 (02:19:49):
Well, what's your poor mister Rives name?

Speaker 30 (02:19:56):
Now?

Speaker 51 (02:19:58):
Snee God.

Speaker 17 (02:20:06):
Kiss him.

Speaker 42 (02:20:07):
Morna rubbed the ugly red weld on her scrony arm
and gave the frying pan full of sizzling side meat
a hopeless nudge. She prayed that time and food might
take the edge off Jae's temper. Phinneys slouched in from
the spring, saw the mark on her arm.

Speaker 33 (02:20:23):
Hab been wamping you again, mau. What'd you do this time?

Speaker 42 (02:20:28):
She silently dished up the hog back and corn bread
for her two men. While they sat at the table,
She ate on her feet, serving them between bites, as
was the custom in the morning household. After dinner, Finny
stretched out under the chinabered tree. Kissy sat on the porch,

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fanning herself and dipping snuff with a peach twig, scourring
it back and forth on her gums. Jave took his
ease on the floor of the back room, but he
didn't sleep. This was stirring in him and his hatred
of the man. He couldn't understand, the man who'd got
rich off a cotton mosk. His mind was working on
something he'd seen that day and another thing he'd heard.

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He was adding them together. That stick could have disappeared
under the log jam and the snake doctor's money. It
was four o'clock before any of moved, and then Jave
spoke to his wife for the first time since noon.

Speaker 4 (02:21:27):
It where is that the violet drinking liquor by the window?

Speaker 40 (02:21:32):
He took it out in your pocket before you lead down.

Speaker 33 (02:21:35):
I ought to carry a bottle of liquor with me,
I might get bit by a moccasin.

Speaker 51 (02:21:39):
Suis Paul Wood better, none of them may kitch you
find a day.

Speaker 49 (02:21:45):
I just remembered, I won't be needing to told no
special along with me while I'm going.

Speaker 51 (02:21:50):
I wouldn't take no chance. Dave just one cotton married
by gott mouse.

Speaker 49 (02:21:54):
Doll down the slashers. Else along a creek where I'll
be all this evening's up along Bailey's Ridge and a
high ground. You're xing the ghost sugar and the gummy
chancey young square switch non Dutch time red and bucking
al Rami this morning, reckon, I come along.

Speaker 23 (02:22:09):
You staying here, son, Oh dang it, you'll be steaming
in the place when the rain comes down, or you.

Speaker 16 (02:22:16):
Might be neathing me.

Speaker 49 (02:22:17):
You stay here, dang killy, You set me up a
snacker col sep on the chef right laire. We'll get
back to this plumb duck.

Speaker 43 (02:22:41):
In just a moment. We'll return to the second act
of escape. But first, that wonderful variety show with a
Purpose CBS is one hour long program. This is Broadway
will be round again tomorrow night on most of these
same stations, comedian a Boroughs Broadway play right, George S. Kaufman,
Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fatiman, will all be here playing
host to the top stars of show business. Here are

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these top stars and their top acts. Then listen closely
as the expert showman on this has Broadway helped them
with show business problems. And now we returned to the
second act of Escape and tonight's story. Snake doctor.

Speaker 42 (02:23:22):
Jaf Mourner turned north to his struggling corn rolls, and
in a minute he was lost from sight. He kept
on for nearly a mile till he came to a
wild red mulberry tree. Where there are mulberry's, there are
bound toby squirrels. Very neatly, he shot two young graves

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right through the head. Jaffe was a master marksman and
unsuspected by any who knew him. Jave had another quality,
one that made him more dangerous than the rest of
his kindness. Jave had an imagination day. It was an
excellent working order. He tied the brain squirrels together and
swung them over his shoulder. If needed, they'd be his alibi.

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And then he sat down under a tree for a
while got plenty of time.

Speaker 49 (02:24:17):
Don't need to get down the snake doctor's place will
about dust and when he comes out to feed that
sway back mare, hisn't.

Speaker 4 (02:24:26):
Misty ride.

Speaker 42 (02:24:30):
He sat out two brisk thundershowers and the influence between them.
Then he set off in a wide arc down Bailey's Branch,
along the skirts a little cypress slash down to the
sunken flats.

Speaker 6 (02:24:41):
Edge in Cashier Creek.

Speaker 42 (02:24:43):
It took more than an hour a careful traveling before
he came to his destination, a screen of how bushes
less than fifty yards behind the snake Doctor's cabin.

Speaker 49 (02:24:55):
No matter how healen he is, you get up and
come out to feed that rackaboons man mysteries, we'll I
learned him to go call. He get around another man's.

Speaker 42 (02:25:06):
Woman jaff morning lady's jealousy heat him the white hatred.
At this moment he was a vengeaneer's honor. Didn't admit
even to himself, but the real reason he was here
was a snake doctor's money. Hitt him behind the line
by the fireplace.

Speaker 49 (02:25:20):
Home wrecking snake loving varment round ten minutes from now,
I'll chunk him down a big hole in a creek.
Like I did that stick this morning, and he'd go
down and never come up, and nobody will miss him. Nobody,
you know. He's gone for leastwise a week, maybe a month,
and maybe if I can get around to it, might

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come back this way someday. Look around that cabin at
hisn' just to see if it's true he's having all
that money hid away.

Speaker 42 (02:25:53):
Jaff Morning's speculations were cut short. The cabin door opened
and a figure stepped out into the growing dusk and
walked toward the stable. He saw the snake Doctor's loppy,
old straw hat and his dog coat drawn over a pit.
At this distance he couldn't miss, and he didn't. The
figure jerked backward and then one face forward. Jae started
for him. Then he stopped. His eyes bugged, his mouth

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formed a scream that he couldn't utter. His rifle dropped
to the ground.

Speaker 6 (02:26:18):
He had just killed a snake doctor, killed him.

Speaker 42 (02:26:20):
Dead with a thirty two caliber slug through the head.
And there on his door still stood snake doctor hole
and sound staring at him.

Speaker 33 (02:26:27):
Jee MANA, what have you done?

Speaker 42 (02:26:36):
The scream came at last for Jaf Morner had seen
the devil. The snake doctor who arose alive from his
bullet riddled body. Jeaff whirled and ran into the deep
dock in the woods, whimpering like a whip puppy as
he tore through the brush.

Speaker 4 (02:26:53):
Escape.

Speaker 42 (02:26:53):
He must escape this thing. He must get under the
shutter of a sound roof. He must have the protection
of four walls around him. He ran and ran for hours.
It was close to midnight when he came out on
a dirt road a short distance southeast of his own land.

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Beyond the next bend, they'd be in sight of home.

Speaker 6 (02:27:17):
And then he stopped.

Speaker 42 (02:27:18):
Around the bend. Coming toward him was a joggling lighter
landing hanging on a buggy. Jake flatted himself in a
clump of brush to hide until the traveler passed, and then,
just as the rig was opposite him, he heard a
call coming from the other direction.

Speaker 52 (02:27:31):
Oh joy, oh there, oh Stity boy me, Davis, ware
that you tip Bailey?

Speaker 30 (02:27:39):
Yeah, get that from the junction. Carrible tide?

Speaker 4 (02:27:44):
What brings you out this time of night?

Speaker 33 (02:27:46):
Davis?

Speaker 14 (02:27:47):
Somebody's sick, sick.

Speaker 30 (02:27:48):
Nothing.

Speaker 52 (02:27:49):
It's been a postl of trouble of popping in these
bottoms tonight, Stity or.

Speaker 34 (02:27:55):
What do you mean a killing? That's what I mean.

Speaker 48 (02:27:58):
You don't see who got killed?

Speaker 34 (02:28:01):
My fixing to tell you it happened just around dusk
time at down an old snake doctor's place.

Speaker 11 (02:28:08):
Yeah was it?

Speaker 37 (02:28:09):
He was killed?

Speaker 34 (02:28:10):
Give me a time tip. It seems like snake doctor
has been a chilling lately.

Speaker 52 (02:28:15):
It was pretty bad off today, so miss Kissing Morna
she footed it down from her place to his, and
fetching some physic with her and a plate of hot bittles.

Speaker 24 (02:28:24):
Am I have thought it?

Speaker 34 (02:28:25):
Miss morning Mighty, you want to hear this?

Speaker 52 (02:28:27):
He go out, Oh boy, Well, pretty soon after she
got there, it seemed like he was tired, and he
tried to get up out of his bed to go
and feed that old crowbait nagotism. It started in again
by then, pouring down hide. So she made him stay
where he was, and she put on his old hat

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and throwed his old coat around her, and she wanted
to keep out of the wet and no more. And
she got outside and a shot came from the age
of the woods, and down she went with a bullet,
though brains killed it.

Speaker 7 (02:29:01):
This is a dog. It was.

Speaker 34 (02:29:05):
That low flung husband or hers done it.

Speaker 49 (02:29:07):
That's who they shot him.

Speaker 34 (02:29:09):
Sure thing, Oh boy, sure thing, that's certain.

Speaker 53 (02:29:13):
Snake Doctor jumped up when he heard the shot, and
he catched a quick look at Chafe.

Speaker 7 (02:29:17):
Over the fence.

Speaker 34 (02:29:18):
There wasn't no long streak and kiss his arm where
he must have whopped her during the day.

Speaker 40 (02:29:23):
Why hanging just shot you?

Speaker 34 (02:29:25):
Good?

Speaker 40 (02:29:26):
Did they kitch him?

Speaker 14 (02:29:27):
No?

Speaker 4 (02:29:27):
But they're going to shef get they gig.

Speaker 34 (02:29:30):
But he's due any minute with his pack of hound dogs.

Speaker 53 (02:29:35):
A lot of lay good ground being damp the way
it is, share, old snake doctor.

Speaker 52 (02:29:40):
He's just saying, the lord's going to strike the murder
down in his track. But Nia, I'm gonna put my
main dependence on their bloodhound.

Speaker 30 (02:29:48):
Poor miss Mona.

Speaker 40 (02:29:50):
She always was a good hearted, heart working woman.

Speaker 4 (02:29:53):
Kissing might.

Speaker 49 (02:29:56):
Stuck shut kissy, j Did you hear something just there?

Speaker 4 (02:30:02):
See I did?

Speaker 40 (02:30:04):
Oh, probably a rabbit breaking through the breash And listen.

Speaker 34 (02:30:07):
And sheriffs are coming.

Speaker 12 (02:30:11):
You can hear them.

Speaker 34 (02:30:11):
Hounds are Hisn't I gotta hurry?

Speaker 14 (02:30:15):
Yeah, I'll see you back in the marner.

Speaker 30 (02:30:18):
You're sure real.

Speaker 42 (02:30:24):
Jeff didn't waste no time more than his dead wife.
He had a chance against a pack of bloodhounds if
he started right away, But Jake's imagination went to work again,
as if backtracked along the creek, but him in the
spotty MOONLIGHTE.

Speaker 49 (02:30:38):
Gotta throw those dogs off the trail. He got a
way to creak, even if it is full of cotton.
Mountains must be all around me. Now, folks say, don't
strike no water hoping folks is right. I've gotta get
back to the snake ductors his money while he's still

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up at my place. Who kisses remains, get his money
and the rest will be easy. Make for the deep
timber cross country to the river. Make it for tomorrow sundown.
I mean a shanty boarder to ferry me to the
arkansaus side, will get me your haircut and catch me
a train for someone's else. I got to get snake

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Doctor's money first.

Speaker 42 (02:31:26):
Snake Doctor's cabin was dark and empty when Jay reached it,
only a few dull embers in the fireplace. But he
knew where the chinkhoss.

Speaker 33 (02:31:32):
He'd find it.

Speaker 42 (02:31:33):
In the dark, he scrabbled the logs, felt some bark,
He felt the clay more to crumble under his fingernails.
There it was a hole big enough for a man's arm.
He plunged his hand into it, touched something slick and smooth,
and then something sharp plunged into his thumb. At that moment,
the fire flickered to life. Jay yanked his hand out
of the hole, saw two tiny bleating punctures in his thumb.

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At the mouth of the hole stretched the wide open
jaws of a cotton mouse.

Speaker 4 (02:31:58):
It worked fast.

Speaker 42 (02:31:59):
He felt the pain leaping from his thumb to his hand,
seeping up his arm. If only he had some liquor,
if he had a fresh kilt chicken to slap on
the wound, but he had nothing. Then a sharp, horrible
pain wrenched his heart, and in a second, and there,
in the firelight, the huge cotton mouth poised in its crevice.
Jay fleaped out of the shack, started blindly for the temper.

Speaker 6 (02:32:21):
His stagger tumbled.

Speaker 42 (02:32:23):
Then he pitched forward on his face, his open mouth
full of weeds and muddy grass stems. The cramping fingers
of his outstretched right hand almost touched a reddish black
smear on the wet, trampled grass.

Speaker 7 (02:32:45):
Written by Gravy.

Speaker 4 (02:32:47):
I'd call it that one't you, doc? I reckon.

Speaker 54 (02:32:49):
There's a sort of rough justice in the way he died.
Look his hand reaching out just about touching the blood
where his woman fell. Read In all my life, I
I've never known but two or three people actually was
bitten by water moccasins, And until the night, I've never
had personal knowledge of anybody dying from the bite of
any kind of snake.

Speaker 6 (02:33:10):
Is a fact.

Speaker 8 (02:33:14):
I'm working it right for off.

Speaker 54 (02:33:16):
I'm gonna kill the dang repertilent, kill my mourner's boy
kicking up the first yeap, no good like his paw,
Call me, boss man, what's the trouble?

Speaker 23 (02:33:26):
Tip Finny Hears went out and he's Hey, I'm to
kill a snake that bitten my paw. Then I'm nigging
that snake doctor humping for keeping a repertile.

Speaker 20 (02:33:36):
In this place.

Speaker 34 (02:33:37):
Your paw, God, what was his do?

Speaker 4 (02:33:38):
Finney?

Speaker 34 (02:33:39):
Snake doctor ain't to blink.

Speaker 54 (02:33:40):
He's a who double Look here, Barr, mister Rives, give
me all his savings, nearly one hundred dollars to pay
for billing your mother decent.

Speaker 19 (02:33:48):
That's how much he thought about.

Speaker 30 (02:33:49):
Now go on home, behave yourself.

Speaker 4 (02:33:51):
I'm in ther on, Finny.

Speaker 49 (02:33:54):
There ain't no reason for your hanging around here.

Speaker 25 (02:33:57):
Some of the hoard to killer reptile.

Speaker 53 (02:34:00):
Doc, just a minute ago, you started to say something
about snake bite, not killing, about them two marks on
his thumb, then snake's gashes like some I've seen.

Speaker 54 (02:34:11):
Oh, that dude explains, it's finny morning.

Speaker 4 (02:34:16):
He's in the cabin, a fool kid.

Speaker 19 (02:34:18):
Come on, doc, he's probably shot.

Speaker 16 (02:34:19):
There were too far.

Speaker 40 (02:34:24):
Let's go get me like you got my what said.

Speaker 4 (02:34:26):
He shot at something in the cabin.

Speaker 19 (02:34:28):
Come on, doc, let's go see. All right, I don't
see anything.

Speaker 53 (02:34:36):
And he's had enough happened to him yesterday and today
to upset even a bright boy, so we can't.

Speaker 4 (02:34:43):
Oh there it is what that cotton mouth up there
in that hole in the log.

Speaker 54 (02:34:50):
Sneak doctor told me about that vombit look at him close,
Sir David, No, sir, not me, Go ahead, it's.

Speaker 19 (02:34:57):
Just a stuffed sneak stuff.

Speaker 54 (02:35:00):
Snake Doctor believes in precautions because that holes where he
hides his money.

Speaker 19 (02:35:04):
That snake would scare away anybody who didn't know it
was stirred.

Speaker 54 (02:35:07):
But just to be sure, old snake Doctor lined the
hole with coils of barbed wire.

Speaker 33 (02:35:13):
I see you mean them marks and Jeff's thumb.

Speaker 4 (02:35:16):
Was got off to barbed wire.

Speaker 54 (02:35:18):
That's right, sir, lots strong our hearts and Jeff mourners
would stop beating at a scare like that.

Speaker 6 (02:35:26):
I'll be switched.

Speaker 4 (02:35:29):
Old. Snake Doctor is a cute one any.

Speaker 7 (02:35:47):
Escape.

Speaker 43 (02:35:47):
Produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Tonight brought You Snake
Doctor by Irvin s. Carb adapted for radio by Fred Howard,
starring Bill Conrad as jaf with Paul Freeze's Finney featured
in the cast, where Ira Grossell is a narrator, Bill Lally,
Ruth Parrot, Wilms Herbert, and Edgar Barrier. Music is conducted
by Wilbur Hatch.

Speaker 49 (02:36:09):
Next week, you are groping through the midnight dimness of
a gigantic department store, and suddenly you realize that a
hundred eyes are staring at you from the shadows, and
a hundred hands are reaching for your throat, and your
most urgent desire is to escape.

Speaker 1 (02:36:39):
This time of year often makes me consider some unfinished business,
if you will. I try not to lurk in the
realm of the past, but it's often easier said than done,
my dear, But I certainly do try and try and try,

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But sometimes it's hard to let go. It's hard to
let by guys be by guys, especially when the trespass
is not up to debate or interpretation. No, no, when
you've been wronged clearly and deliberately, and it's all written

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in blood red ink.

Speaker 8 (02:37:48):
In they are they agreed, driving on the collar.

Speaker 55 (02:38:00):
And interestine philosophers and psychologists have told us that the
one desire that remains with us after everything else is
burned to ashes, it is the need for recognition.

Speaker 8 (02:38:12):
It is the compulsion to make the world recognize our work.

Speaker 55 (02:38:16):
Socrates, Galileo, Einstein have left their increase on the pages
of our history, and.

Speaker 14 (02:38:22):
The world is better for their having been here.

Speaker 55 (02:38:25):
On the natuive side of the ledger and blood red ink,
we find the same driving ambition in the names of
our Tilever, hun Jack, the Ripper, Adolf Hipper. This is
a tale of ambition. It is for you to judge
on what side of the ledger it is to be recorded. Huh,

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of course, is wye a drink your mind? Hey, look, mister,
I came in here of ance quiet.

Speaker 14 (02:38:54):
Harry Blash is my name?

Speaker 18 (02:38:57):
Blas, That's right, you know me?

Speaker 12 (02:39:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:39:01):
He take your free drink and.

Speaker 18 (02:39:03):
Squat, mister, get your grubby pays off me cover.

Speaker 14 (02:39:06):
I only thought you could use a little running.

Speaker 4 (02:39:09):
He beat it pump.

Speaker 18 (02:39:11):
You'll becoming the Maiberg begging for my help. Maybe then
I won't want to listen, mister Dramma.

Speaker 55 (02:39:27):
The Black Red Ink was written especially for mystery theater
by Sydney Lane and stars Fred Green. It is sponsored
in fact by Katspa here.

Speaker 8 (02:39:37):
And so I'll be back shortly with act one. Mick
Gilbert wasn't.

Speaker 55 (02:39:51):
In a very good mood that evening when he came
home to supper. It had been a long and tiring
day full of dull police routine. The meeting with Harry
Glaus upset him. Glass was a small time rocketeer mixed
up in a dozen of more dirty beer, but thought
later that perhaps he should have played along with him,
found out what how his angle was. But he was

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too worried to play corp. There was something else in
the back of his mind that bothered him. He had
recently taken the examination for detective. As yet he had
received no.

Speaker 4 (02:40:22):
Word on it.

Speaker 8 (02:40:23):
I'll have the food on the table in a minute
for don't get.

Speaker 18 (02:40:27):
Himpatient, okay, okay, No hurry.

Speaker 8 (02:40:30):
To what another beer? Were you waiting?

Speaker 12 (02:40:33):
Uh?

Speaker 18 (02:40:34):
No, thanks, might drop me off at the pub when
we finished our tour.

Speaker 8 (02:40:38):
A wondered why you were late.

Speaker 18 (02:40:40):
I was only twenty minutes later coming on the door.
I mean, and I got a right to relax after
a day driving around in a squad car.

Speaker 56 (02:40:49):
A super I'm sorry. I didn't mean to criticize you.
Here's the beef stew your favorite, eh, beef stew.

Speaker 24 (02:41:00):
Eh.

Speaker 18 (02:41:01):
Thanks, Helen, That's just what I needed. Get past me
your plate. I'm I'm sorry I yelled at you.

Speaker 14 (02:41:08):
Forget it. You feel better out to dinner?

Speaker 18 (02:41:11):
Yeah, I've got to be a better couldn't be a
worse thinking about that exam.

Speaker 4 (02:41:18):
Why have I heard?

Speaker 2 (02:41:20):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (02:41:21):
Oh, I just remember you have a letter from the board.
Came this morning.

Speaker 7 (02:41:25):
What where is it?

Speaker 8 (02:41:26):
Is it right where you are? I'll get it?

Speaker 49 (02:41:29):
Uh?

Speaker 14 (02:41:30):
Yeah, here it is.

Speaker 8 (02:41:32):
There you are, Brady.

Speaker 14 (02:41:37):
So what does it say?

Speaker 4 (02:41:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (02:41:41):
You read it?

Speaker 14 (02:41:44):
Ah, urch what don't be discouraged?

Speaker 18 (02:41:51):
Discouraged? I gotta jump up and down with joy. Huh
open the windows and tell the whole neighborhood.

Speaker 14 (02:41:56):
Right next year, you can take it again.

Speaker 18 (02:41:58):
I'm thirty five. I've been in the four seven years.
I haven't moved one inch of the latter since I
graduated from the Academy. Thirty five isn't Oh yeah, it's
when you're not moving ahead. Come on, eat your dinner.
It's getting cold. You'll be in a better mood after
you've eaten.

Speaker 7 (02:42:15):
Yeah, I'll get it.

Speaker 56 (02:42:16):
Sure wants me to play bridge with the girl Wednesday
our club day.

Speaker 30 (02:42:22):
Hello, myrna, Helen.

Speaker 8 (02:42:24):
Oh, I'm sorry, Mike.

Speaker 14 (02:42:27):
I thought you're there.

Speaker 4 (02:42:29):
Yeah, he's here.

Speaker 14 (02:42:31):
Bert, it's Mike.

Speaker 4 (02:42:32):
Okay, Okay, I'm coming, Yeah, I might.

Speaker 18 (02:42:37):
What's up for me?

Speaker 31 (02:42:39):
I'm up. I've got it.

Speaker 14 (02:42:41):
You're talking to Mike Cullagan, Detective third Class.

Speaker 18 (02:42:44):
Hey, Mike, congratulations you deserve it.

Speaker 7 (02:42:48):
And congratulations to you, old buddy.

Speaker 18 (02:42:50):
Bert Gilbert and Mike Cullagan together Defenders of the bab
Spoilers of Crooks. Mike, I didn't get it, what I
washed out.

Speaker 7 (02:43:01):
What you couldn't have You coached me. You were the
one who knew all the answers. You think you should
have been on top of the list.

Speaker 18 (02:43:08):
There should have been here. I'm still flat for Mike.

Speaker 30 (02:43:12):
Come on, you can't let it get you down.

Speaker 50 (02:43:15):
Look, why don't you and Helen come out with Gretchen
and me.

Speaker 4 (02:43:17):
And we'll celebrate.

Speaker 18 (02:43:19):
Thanks, Mike, but I don't think tonight i'd be good company.

Speaker 7 (02:43:35):
Hello.

Speaker 18 (02:43:36):
Yeah, there's patrol in thirty four twenty ninety seven book, Gail.
But I'm calling Captain Sullivan. Yeah right, I'll hold what No,
it's a personal matter. No, no, no, I'd like to
tell it to Captain Sullivan Himselfie, okay, okay, I'll put
it in writing to him. Thanks, he talked to you, No, Mike.

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His secretary says for me to put it in writing
to him. Yeah, well but sure, sure, he's a busy man.
Yeah right, busy man, Mike, all right, put it in
writing here.

Speaker 4 (02:44:14):
Well why not?

Speaker 18 (02:44:15):
I'll tell you why not? Because I wanted to see
him face to face and ask him why I got
passed over Seven years, Mike, seven years out of my
life and I can't get in to see the boss
and ask a simple question. Come on, you're making too
much out of this, Bert, you're a fine one to talk.
In seven eight days, you'll be out of this dull
rat race. No more writing around the squad car for you,

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no more dull routine. You'll be wearing playing clothes, getting detectives.

Speaker 14 (02:44:42):
Look, come on, get back in the car. You're making
your scene out here on the street.

Speaker 18 (02:44:45):
So what do I care?

Speaker 4 (02:44:47):
You get back in the car and leave me alone.

Speaker 14 (02:44:50):
I can't leave you, hear me. We haven't completed a
tour of duty.

Speaker 18 (02:44:54):
To a duty.

Speaker 4 (02:44:55):
I hate that coppling of.

Speaker 7 (02:44:58):
This.

Speaker 18 (02:44:58):
Nobody you complete our tour of duty?

Speaker 4 (02:45:02):
Huh? I need a drink?

Speaker 24 (02:45:12):
Fairy?

Speaker 4 (02:45:13):
You a sleep?

Speaker 7 (02:45:14):
No?

Speaker 8 (02:45:16):
Can I get you something in a glass of warm milk?

Speaker 20 (02:45:19):
No?

Speaker 4 (02:45:19):
No, no, Helen?

Speaker 14 (02:45:20):
Thanks, you keep tossing and turning. You've got to get
your rest.

Speaker 7 (02:45:25):
What for?

Speaker 8 (02:45:26):
You won't be sick for work tomorrow if you don't
get some sleep.

Speaker 18 (02:45:29):
Helen, I've been suspended? What suspended? You know what the
word means?

Speaker 4 (02:45:37):
How long?

Speaker 18 (02:45:38):
Five days?

Speaker 20 (02:45:40):
What for?

Speaker 18 (02:45:42):
I quit work a little early last Tuesday?

Speaker 7 (02:45:45):
So what?

Speaker 18 (02:45:47):
I just felt like I couldn't work a minute more
so early thirty five minutes.

Speaker 14 (02:45:54):
I don't understand.

Speaker 4 (02:45:56):
Yeah I do.

Speaker 18 (02:45:58):
I'm tired and I'm fed up.

Speaker 56 (02:46:00):
But you could have applied for a leave if you
weren't feeling well. I'm sure they'd have given you time
to get yourself together.

Speaker 18 (02:46:05):
Yeah, well I got the time. Five days suspended without pay? Oh, Helen,
don't get upset. It got me what I wanted, what
I wanted to see Captain Sullivan. Ask him why I
got passed over when the commissions were being handed out.
He finally saw me and I had a chance to
tell him what I thought of the whole business.

Speaker 8 (02:46:26):
You didn't see anything in selting, No, no, no no.

Speaker 18 (02:46:29):
I didn't insult them, but I got a little hat up.

Speaker 41 (02:46:34):
Well.

Speaker 18 (02:46:34):
He listened to everything, and he sat down his desk
and said he thought I needed a vacation without pay.

Speaker 8 (02:46:41):
Oh, birch, it's going to be on your record.

Speaker 4 (02:46:45):
So what up to now? Towing the line hasn't got
me much, Helen, What if I got to lose?

Speaker 18 (02:46:58):
Huh?

Speaker 4 (02:46:59):
What's the idea I didn't know?

Speaker 18 (02:47:00):
Another buying you a drink? Copper, Listen, I told you
the last time what you could do with your drink.

Speaker 14 (02:47:05):
Mister Blash is the name Copper Harry to my friends?

Speaker 22 (02:47:09):
Why do I always find you calling up my battle Copper.
I'm not gonna stop calling me Copper, But you are
a cop a you're ashamed of you get lost. I
know a lot about you. I had my eyes on
you for a long time.

Speaker 18 (02:47:24):
I'm beginning to lose my patience.

Speaker 14 (02:47:26):
Now wait a minute. I can help you.

Speaker 18 (02:47:30):
And you watch something from me in return. Huh, listen,
come to the wrong guy. I have just spent suspended.

Speaker 2 (02:47:39):
I know.

Speaker 4 (02:47:41):
How do you know that?

Speaker 57 (02:47:42):
I got friends in the right places. I'm getting you
back to work and the suspension wiped.

Speaker 14 (02:47:48):
Off your record?

Speaker 4 (02:47:50):
Big time operator.

Speaker 11 (02:47:51):
Uh yeah, I just.

Speaker 14 (02:47:55):
Like to do your favor. What one hand washes the other?

Speaker 18 (02:48:01):
Who writes your material? Many writes my wife together.

Speaker 14 (02:48:05):
Look, I'm serious. You want to shake on it?

Speaker 18 (02:48:07):
Look, Harry, if I shake hands with you, I count
my fingers afterwards.

Speaker 57 (02:48:14):
You gotta sentire you where I like dad, or we're
going to get along. I'm gonna make you glad. I'm
your friend. I got great plans for you.

Speaker 18 (02:48:30):
Cut up, yeah where I'll be there in ten minutes.

Speaker 24 (02:48:37):
Who is that Bert?

Speaker 2 (02:48:39):
Uh?

Speaker 18 (02:48:40):
Friend wants me to come up with a bowling alley
for an hour or so. You don't mind?

Speaker 14 (02:48:45):
You you never bowl?

Speaker 18 (02:48:49):
I just took it up. Uh say a pool there
to it? If we get tired of bowling, we can
show a little pool.

Speaker 8 (02:48:57):
He didn't like you.

Speaker 56 (02:49:00):
Do you realize this is the third time this week
you've had some reason to go out after dinner.

Speaker 18 (02:49:05):
Third time. Huh, I really wasn't counting, Helen. How many
weeks have I just sat here reading the paper or
looking at the boottoo? How many times?

Speaker 39 (02:49:13):
All right?

Speaker 8 (02:49:14):
All right, I don't mean to argue, so go out.
It don't be too late. Got to be out of
here tomorrow morning at seven.

Speaker 18 (02:49:21):
Remember, Look, it just occurred to me that you might
have something on your mind. You don't think I'm running
around with another woman, dear bird.

Speaker 8 (02:49:33):
That never entered my mind.

Speaker 18 (02:49:35):
Yeah, well good, I'm not chasing around Helen. You're still
my girl after eight years. Don't you forget it?

Speaker 8 (02:49:42):
I know, Darling, I know that.

Speaker 2 (02:49:46):
Now.

Speaker 4 (02:49:46):
Who can that be?

Speaker 18 (02:49:50):
High stranger? Hey, Mike, where in the well have you been?
I haven't heard from you or seen it over two weeks.
That's why I came over.

Speaker 4 (02:50:00):
You know, there's you, big shot.

Speaker 18 (02:50:02):
The Tectives don't cross our paths too often. You're too
busy with important assignments.

Speaker 4 (02:50:07):
Come on, hold by, are you putting me on?

Speaker 18 (02:50:09):
Aren't you gonna ask me in?

Speaker 24 (02:50:10):
Mike?

Speaker 14 (02:50:11):
Come in, please come in. Bert's only kidding, but I'm
not kidding. Look.

Speaker 18 (02:50:17):
The reason I came over was to ask you guys
to go to the movies with us. Gretchen's waiting in
the car and we might. I've got another another engagement,
but maybe Helen would like to go. But I've got
a run right now. I'm teminously. Can't you break that
other engagement? I wanted to see you, talk to you.
Can't gotta go? Bye, see leader, Helen.

Speaker 4 (02:50:38):
Mike.

Speaker 18 (02:50:41):
Oh, well, that's what I call kind of abrupt.

Speaker 8 (02:50:46):
I'm sorry, Mike. I'm sure Bert didn't mean to be rude.

Speaker 4 (02:50:49):
I was a good invitation.

Speaker 18 (02:50:52):
Well, hu, what about it?

Speaker 4 (02:50:54):
Do you want to go to the movies with us?

Speaker 7 (02:50:56):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (02:50:57):
No, thank you, Mike. Good. Please forgive Bert. He's upset
because he didn't make Detective with you.

Speaker 4 (02:51:04):
Yeah, yeah, I know, and I'm worried.

Speaker 18 (02:51:07):
Well, he'll get over It isn't what I'm worried about, Helen.
I'm going to tell you something I shouldn't. Bert is
my best friend, and well, look, Helen, he's in trouble,
or he will be if he continues as he's going.
I don't understand he's hanging around being palsy Wolsey with

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a slimy character by the name of Blast.

Speaker 4 (02:51:31):
Mike.

Speaker 14 (02:51:32):
I'm sure you're wrong.

Speaker 18 (02:51:33):
Hey, I wish I was This Harry Blast guy's mixed
up with a thousand crooked deals, and he manages to
slip out and around the law every single time the
police catch up with him.

Speaker 8 (02:51:44):
And you think Bert is involved with this man, I know.

Speaker 7 (02:51:47):
He is.

Speaker 18 (02:51:49):
As a friend. I'm asking you to get him to
stop seeing blasts immediately. Oh good lord, Please remember I
know ever said a word to you. He mustn't know
that I talked to you.

Speaker 8 (02:52:06):
Okay, Mike, your friend, a real friend.

Speaker 55 (02:52:14):
Bert Gilbert has taken a dangerous stake. His association with
Harry Blast can only lead to dishonor in prison. He
seems to believe that he can beat the law by
jumping in, getting what he wants and then quickly getting out.
In his frustration and disappointment, he is forgetting the irreparable
damage he will be doing to himself and his wife,

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who will be back shortly with that too. When Helen
Gilbert heard that her husband was associating with Underworld characters,
she couldn't believe it. Bert had been an honest, hardworking
police officer until he met with a big disappointment. He

(02:53:01):
had junk his e domination for detective despite the fact
that he had worked hard and knew all the answers
well enough to coach his friends and fellow officer Mike Tulligan,
who passed.

Speaker 8 (02:53:12):
He's out, cheated, angry and reckless.

Speaker 14 (02:53:16):
I tell you it's a piece of cake.

Speaker 18 (02:53:18):
I got it all laid out, only one hit you
gentle minute, Hold, I'm blessed. Aren't you making a big
mistake spelling all this to me? I'm a cop?

Speaker 14 (02:53:26):
So what you wouldn't like to grab off your pension
money with one little job?

Speaker 4 (02:53:31):
Pension money?

Speaker 14 (02:53:32):
Look, you gotta wait thirteen more years before you begin.

Speaker 18 (02:53:34):
To collect, right, How do you know how long?

Speaker 17 (02:53:37):
I know?

Speaker 14 (02:53:39):
So you wait thirteen years and you get your dough.

Speaker 57 (02:53:41):
They dribble it out through you and crumbs a little
piece of bread each month. Eh, and you're away big
pieces of bread now three or four times, and you're rich.

Speaker 14 (02:53:53):
In six months or last. You'll retire from the force.
You can forget the pension.

Speaker 4 (02:53:58):
Yeah, you got more.

Speaker 57 (02:53:59):
Money than yet ever thought you would have in your dreams,
and you got it nice and safe when.

Speaker 14 (02:54:05):
No one can touch it in a private Swiss bank
of town.

Speaker 4 (02:54:09):
You make it sound easy, it is, and it pays big.

Speaker 18 (02:54:13):
That you said there was a hitch, A little one, little,
a little someone has got to walk out with the
stuff in his pocket. Stuff diamonds burnt a bag form, uncut,
big expensive diamonds, impossible to trace.

Speaker 14 (02:54:32):
Look, uh, you know forty seven Street between fifty six.

Speaker 18 (02:54:36):
Right, she's the biggest diamond center in the world.

Speaker 14 (02:54:38):
Maybe Amps Damps the biggest. But here's the layout. You
will be in the neighborhood in your squad car.

Speaker 4 (02:54:45):
How come I explain my being there.

Speaker 14 (02:54:47):
Well, it's in the general area. You're patrol, right, it's
in the area. Well, you will get a call on
your car radio sending you to the scene of the crime.

Speaker 18 (02:54:57):
Call, a phony call.

Speaker 14 (02:54:59):
It'll be on our own own short wave transmitter, right
in the neighborhood. No one will be hearing it but you.
It'll sound official. We got it all set up and
we've tested it. It can't be heard in the next block.

Speaker 18 (02:55:12):
Yeah, it'll be hard to explain.

Speaker 2 (02:55:13):
Later.

Speaker 14 (02:55:13):
That's where your partner comes in.

Speaker 4 (02:55:16):
You're not gold include him in the deal, of.

Speaker 14 (02:55:18):
Course not, but he becomes your alibi.

Speaker 38 (02:55:23):
You get it.

Speaker 14 (02:55:24):
You'll swear the call came from the official police dispatcher.
He will think it's the real thing.

Speaker 4 (02:55:30):
So how do I get the loot?

Speaker 57 (02:55:32):
You go in, you catch the thief, arrest him. He
slips the diamonds into your pocket. You get him outside
and push him into the police car and call in
and tell him you made an arrest.

Speaker 4 (02:55:43):
What about the thief?

Speaker 14 (02:55:44):
He's clean as the snow.

Speaker 7 (02:55:45):
They got nothing on.

Speaker 57 (02:55:46):
Him, can't be identified, fake wig eyeglasses, He won't have
the loot on him, no evidence. The wigging glasses get
dumped into the garbage before you hit the street with
him in cuffs. He's got the record. He spends the
night in the slammer. Next day his lawyer springs him
and you turn the.

Speaker 14 (02:56:03):
Diamonds over to me.

Speaker 18 (02:56:05):
Oh, there'll be a hot dog stand in front of
the precinct station. You slip it to him as you pass.
We'll take care of your cut as soon as we
dispose of the diamonds. How do I know that I
won't be the fall guy? Do all the dirty work
and then get the blunt end of the stick.

Speaker 14 (02:56:23):
For You've gotta trust me. We're a big organization. We
do business in a legitimate way. We got help in
the right place in case of trouble.

Speaker 18 (02:56:35):
Okay, but listen, blast, yeah, don't try to pull a
fast one on me. Hello, Helen, I won't be able

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to make it home for supper. I'm I'm gonna be
a little late. Don't ask me any questions. I'm with
a friend. We're talking business.

Speaker 7 (02:57:07):
But do you want me to hold supper till you come?

Speaker 8 (02:57:09):
No?

Speaker 18 (02:57:09):
No, I said no. Don't you understand me? Yes?

Speaker 7 (02:57:13):
Bert?

Speaker 8 (02:57:15):
So when will you get home?

Speaker 18 (02:57:19):
When you see me come in the front door, Helen.
Are you still on the line, Yes, you crying. I'm
all right, Helen.

Speaker 4 (02:57:32):
I'm sorry. I short with you.

Speaker 18 (02:57:33):
I'm a little tired.

Speaker 40 (02:57:34):
It's okay, I understand.

Speaker 4 (02:57:36):
Yeah, okay, I'll see you later.

Speaker 54 (02:57:39):
Bert.

Speaker 8 (02:57:41):
Yeah, Mike was here about twenty minutes ago.

Speaker 7 (02:57:44):
He called twice before to talk to you.

Speaker 8 (02:57:47):
He said for you to call him and meet him someplace.

Speaker 18 (02:57:49):
He said it was urgent, good old Mike. Huh So
what's he doing playing Sherlock Holmes.

Speaker 8 (02:57:56):
He's your friend, you said it yourself, your best friend.

Speaker 18 (02:58:00):
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure, I'll call him, Helen by see
you later.

Speaker 14 (02:58:09):
Hey, bird, I thought you were just going to call
your wife.

Speaker 4 (02:58:12):
That's what I did.

Speaker 14 (02:58:13):
Took you an awfully long time.

Speaker 18 (02:58:17):
You checking up on me, Because if you are the
whole deal's off. How do you trust me?

Speaker 7 (02:58:22):
You might?

Speaker 14 (02:58:23):
You got a short fuse, Take it easy.

Speaker 4 (02:58:26):
We'll stop reading down my back. Uh.

Speaker 18 (02:58:28):
I said we had a deal, and I meant.

Speaker 14 (02:58:29):
It just naturally. Careful bird, sit down. You know you
do look a little wearied.

Speaker 18 (02:58:38):
Maybe my old partner Mike Callaghan. Yeah, he's caught on that.
You and I seen a lot of each other.

Speaker 11 (02:58:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (02:58:48):
So now he's a new detective, So you want to
look like one. You talked to him?

Speaker 4 (02:58:54):
Why not? Oh? Nothing about our business?

Speaker 14 (02:58:58):
You sure, because if you did, he wouldn't like it.

Speaker 7 (02:59:03):
He who is?

Speaker 14 (02:59:05):
He never murdered?

Speaker 18 (02:59:08):
Look bless If you want me in on this thing,
don't hold out of me. Eh, I got to know
who's involved. I thought I was working with you.

Speaker 4 (02:59:17):
Now you let me know.

Speaker 18 (02:59:18):
You got a boss.

Speaker 14 (02:59:19):
I can't tell you that Bert. He'll let you know
who he is when he feels the time is right.
As for your buddy, Mike, I'm leaving it up to
you to keep him out.

Speaker 18 (02:59:30):
He's my friend. You wouldn't spill it if he didn't know.

Speaker 14 (02:59:33):
You're sure of him.

Speaker 18 (02:59:35):
Absolutely? Have you settled on the date. There's a big
shipman coming in from South Africa on the twentieth. We'll
give him two days to check it out. The twenty second, Yeah, definitely.
So how's your man going to get into the place.
It is pretty tough in that business. We've been in.

Speaker 57 (02:59:53):
Touch from San Francisco. Phony set up from out there
with a fancy letterhead. I will be arriving in New
York on the night of the twenty first.

Speaker 18 (03:00:03):
The next morning, he will arrive at dead door with
all his forged credentials and go ride in.

Speaker 4 (03:00:10):
And so when do I come?

Speaker 14 (03:00:11):
When you answer the call from the police's.

Speaker 18 (03:00:13):
Dispatching, the one that you got set up? The fake right?
Like I told you the other day, I just want
to be sure.

Speaker 14 (03:00:23):
Keep checking. Then, Hey, keep an eye on your old buddy, Mike.

Speaker 8 (03:00:36):
Another cup of coffee, birth No, No, I've had all
the coffee I want.

Speaker 39 (03:00:40):
I got a run.

Speaker 4 (03:00:42):
What time is it? My watch slow?

Speaker 8 (03:00:44):
About four minutes to seven.

Speaker 18 (03:00:47):
That gives me four minutes to get down the stairs.
Another car.

Speaker 4 (03:00:50):
My new partner, Pete will be picking me up.

Speaker 8 (03:00:52):
Good Bye, Darling, I have a good day and try
to come home early.

Speaker 18 (03:00:57):
Okay, darling. If you say something hello, Bert, imagine meeting
you on the stairs. Mike what's up, detective.

Speaker 14 (03:01:11):
I don't know what you're up to, Bert, but I
can make a good guesser.

Speaker 18 (03:01:15):
Mike, you're my friend, my good friend, and I am
now going to ask you to butt out of something
that is no business of yours. Look, I think it
is my business. Number one, I'm a cop, a detective.
Look are you sor at me? Because I got it
you didn't, not at all. I'm your friend. Once you
said your best friend, Mike, I know you're mixed up
in some rotten business with Blast, and I swear to you,

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friend or not, I'll get you. You're even getting to
talk like a detective. Hey, you're terrific, good hunting Sherlock.

Speaker 14 (03:02:02):
All right, what I told you never to come here?

Speaker 18 (03:02:05):
You left the telephone message with my wife.

Speaker 14 (03:02:07):
I didn't want to meet you here at the bowling Alley,
I told her, Yeah, I.

Speaker 18 (03:02:10):
Know, but I wanted to see your place, see how
the better class lives. Hey, I'm joint you got here.
Blast a little flashy, but quite elegant, all in great tastes.

Speaker 57 (03:02:24):
Okay, Okay, you've seen and I'll get out. I'll meet
you in five minutes. I'll let you out through the cellar.
Door in the back.

Speaker 18 (03:02:30):
What's all this cloak and dagger stuff? Hey you jumpy here?

Speaker 57 (03:02:35):
Yeah, I'm jumpy, and you want to know why your
buddy Mike Culligan has got a tap on.

Speaker 18 (03:02:40):
My phone and yours a tap. You must be kidding.
It's hard to get permission for a tap.

Speaker 4 (03:02:46):
How do you how do you know?

Speaker 14 (03:02:47):
Never mind?

Speaker 32 (03:02:48):
I know?

Speaker 4 (03:02:49):
Oh that's right, you have connections.

Speaker 18 (03:02:52):
Still, it's hard to believe it's real.

Speaker 14 (03:02:54):
I got it from a source I can trust who
don't ask questions, and you'll live a lot longer.

Speaker 4 (03:03:01):
Funk. Are you threatening me?

Speaker 14 (03:03:03):
No, but I ain't threatening you. You're important. The scam
won't work without you. But don't ask me to tell
you things that I can't give out. I told you
that before. When it's the right time, you'll meet the
key man.

Speaker 18 (03:03:16):
Okay, that all you got to say that you think
our phones have been tapped?

Speaker 14 (03:03:21):
No, think it's for sure.

Speaker 57 (03:03:25):
Now there is one other little thing, recover what Detective Colorgance.

Speaker 4 (03:03:32):
Okay, I'll handle it.

Speaker 14 (03:03:34):
Be sure you want to take care of it.

Speaker 18 (03:03:38):
Wait a minute, what does that mean?

Speaker 14 (03:03:41):
Well, he's getting too close, But to blow the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (03:03:45):
I told you I'll take care of him.

Speaker 14 (03:03:47):
How talk to him, cut him into a small piece.
It won't work.

Speaker 18 (03:03:51):
He's straight, he won't pray, he's my friend, he won't
do anything. Yeah, he's got a bug on your phone.
I tell you it doesn't know other way. But listen,
blash Bert, we don't take chances. I'll get to him,
talk to him.

Speaker 14 (03:04:06):
Nor there's only one way to stop him.

Speaker 18 (03:04:09):
Okay, that's it. I'm through. You're asking me to be
party to a murder, the murder of a man I
have known. So let me tell that wasn't what I
agreed to.

Speaker 4 (03:04:20):
And I don't want it.

Speaker 18 (03:04:22):
Find somebody else, all right, all right, And look, personally,
I ain't so hot about that kind of business either.

Speaker 14 (03:04:29):
It could be trouble. The boss wanted it, I didn't.
You don't like we should take chances.

Speaker 57 (03:04:35):
Look, I respect your feelings, Bert, it's it's something that's
we're kind of hard to.

Speaker 14 (03:04:40):
Live with after you know what I mean.

Speaker 18 (03:04:42):
You talk about murder as though you were planning a
little fix on a horse race. I tell you it's
out or I.

Speaker 14 (03:04:48):
Am okay, okay, it's out.

Speaker 11 (03:04:51):
Bert?

Speaker 18 (03:04:52):
You sure my word?

Speaker 7 (03:04:53):
I give you my word, your word.

Speaker 14 (03:04:57):
I've been on the up and up with you.

Speaker 18 (03:04:59):
You know it, Harry, I'm gonna take your word and
I'm going to hold you to it. You and your
boss both, you know what I mean?

Speaker 14 (03:05:09):
Sure, Sure, no problem. All I got to do is
tell the boss.

Speaker 4 (03:05:14):
Tell him how you feel.

Speaker 14 (03:05:15):
You'll go along, Hey, Bert, he needs you.

Speaker 55 (03:05:25):
Despite the fact that everything was working out as he
had wanted it to, but it was nervous. He had
never in his life got involved in anything so upsetting.
Even though he'd been on the police force for seven
years and had faced dangers so regularly that it was
almost commonplace.

Speaker 14 (03:05:42):
This was different.

Speaker 11 (03:05:43):
He was mixed up in a dirty business.

Speaker 55 (03:05:46):
Something that all his moral values found repugnant. Nevertheless, he
seemed determined to see it through. I'll be back shortly
with Act three. It is the night before the day

(03:06:07):
set for the rubbery. Bert met Harry Blast on the
street corner, and he held a cap. Since Harry knew
that his phone and Bert's were tapped, he varied his
meeting place with Bert to make it impossible to set
up any kind of trap.

Speaker 20 (03:06:21):
They ride in silence for some minutes, and then Harry.

Speaker 14 (03:06:24):
Begins to give Bert his final instructions.

Speaker 57 (03:06:27):
Now burned at eighteen minutes before eleven tomorrow morning, you
will be turning off Fifth into forty seventh Street. I
understand you will get the call on your radio at
exactly sixteen minutes before eleven, the one were setting.

Speaker 4 (03:06:41):
Up the funny one.

Speaker 14 (03:06:43):
Yeah, it will come in maybe five minutes before the
official car will come in.

Speaker 18 (03:06:48):
Five minutes that it's not much time with traffic before
we answer it. Get up the elevator. It might might
take ten minutes or more. It's gotta be five minutes,
no more or the rest of them. The police will
be right in.

Speaker 7 (03:07:01):
There with us.

Speaker 4 (03:07:02):
Okay, I'll try to move.

Speaker 14 (03:07:03):
I want to warn you you'll have a different partner
in your car tomorrow.

Speaker 18 (03:07:07):
Wait a minute, what about Pete. He's been Mike's replacement.

Speaker 14 (03:07:10):
He's off on another assignment.

Speaker 4 (03:07:12):
Uh, I see you manage that.

Speaker 20 (03:07:16):
What for?

Speaker 14 (03:07:17):
I thought it might be better if you got a
temporary new partner just out of the academy. Just got
a badge and her revolver. We could go Friday her. Well,
you don't mind, do you? Oh A good look of
Dame twenty seven twenty eight?

Speaker 4 (03:07:30):
Uh huh? And we got her through your friend.

Speaker 14 (03:07:33):
Yeah, I told you I have connections in the right places,
and she.

Speaker 18 (03:07:38):
Knows what's going on.

Speaker 14 (03:07:39):
She ain't in on nothing. Oh yeah, yeah, something else.
Your friend Mike Culligan won't be around when all this happens.

Speaker 4 (03:07:48):
What do you mean, Relax?

Speaker 14 (03:07:49):
We got a good break. Culligan is in Arizona. Left
this afternoon extradition business. He was sent to pick up
a can out of Arizona State prisoner. Won't be back
till monday.

Speaker 18 (03:08:00):
That's good.

Speaker 4 (03:08:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (03:08:01):
Thanks, Hey, don't thank me. Just coincidence.

Speaker 10 (03:08:04):
Yeah, yeah, I bet.

Speaker 14 (03:08:06):
Okay, Yeah, give the Cabby your address and the word.

Speaker 18 (03:08:09):
No, no, no, no better drop me at the pub.
I'll have a beer and I'll have an excuse for
coming home late. Oh, Helen, I am sorry for being
so late.

Speaker 14 (03:08:26):
There, I'm all right.

Speaker 8 (03:08:28):
Bert, I'm getting used to.

Speaker 4 (03:08:29):
It, Helen, don't take that kind of tone.

Speaker 8 (03:08:32):
I waited dinner for you. Then Mike arrived.

Speaker 18 (03:08:37):
Mike, he came here, but he couldn't have He left
for Arizona. As a change of plans, Bert and Mike.
I called the warden in Arizona and told him I
was delayed. I hope my change of plans hasn't disturbed
you too much. Change of plans, uh, what plans drop it?

Speaker 4 (03:08:57):
Bert?

Speaker 14 (03:08:58):
You know I was scheduled to go to Arizona, and
you know why I was being sent out of town.

Speaker 18 (03:09:03):
No, no, why e book. I didn't invite you into
my home, Detective Collagan, but I'm inviting you out right.

Speaker 8 (03:09:14):
I don't say anything you're going to regret.

Speaker 18 (03:09:16):
Staarut of this, Helen, you Clagan out. Please pardon me, Detective.
I forgot to ask if you had a warrant to
enter my house, have you?

Speaker 14 (03:09:26):
Albert?

Speaker 18 (03:09:26):
You know I have no search warrant, no warrant for
my arrest.

Speaker 4 (03:09:30):
Bert, Then what are you doing here?

Speaker 18 (03:09:34):
The door is open, mister Cullaghan.

Speaker 4 (03:09:38):
Good night, Helen. Bert.

Speaker 14 (03:09:41):
You know you once said to me nothing worse than
a dirty cop. Well you were right, friend.

Speaker 18 (03:09:57):
Turn into forty seventh place again, But we just came
around the brock. Come on, come on, come on, turn
before the light changes out.

Speaker 8 (03:10:03):
Okay, that's what you want.

Speaker 20 (03:10:06):
Traffic so heavy you'll take us ten minutes to get
to sixth again.

Speaker 18 (03:10:11):
You're doing piece work, race or you work by the day.

Speaker 14 (03:10:15):
I'm working by the day.

Speaker 8 (03:10:17):
This is certainly a dull business.

Speaker 14 (03:10:19):
What time you got, Gracey and fifteen minutes to eleven
you're fast.

Speaker 18 (03:10:24):
I've got nineteen minutes.

Speaker 8 (03:10:26):
A little too early for lunch.

Speaker 7 (03:10:27):
Brot.

Speaker 14 (03:10:27):
Don't you say check?

Speaker 7 (03:10:28):
You're able twelve sect diorable twelve.

Speaker 4 (03:10:31):
You have a ten to thirty three?

Speaker 8 (03:10:33):
Hey, he do's it? Ten thirty three Robbery and property.

Speaker 18 (03:10:39):
You learned your lessons, good Officer Street twenty five eight.

Speaker 7 (03:10:44):
West tenth fall.

Speaker 18 (03:10:45):
Hey, hit the lights in the siren. That's just right ahead.
He hit the bricks. You stay in the car, Call
in and tell them where we spond.

Speaker 14 (03:11:00):
Hey, you'll keep her.

Speaker 18 (03:11:05):
Come on, come in, come in, come in only five minutes.

Speaker 14 (03:11:08):
You gotta do it. Okay, he went that way.

Speaker 7 (03:11:13):
Office up, he got a gun.

Speaker 18 (03:11:15):
Okay, okay, stay away, are stay out of the hall.

Speaker 24 (03:11:18):
Oh yeah, out of the hall.

Speaker 7 (03:11:20):
Hey, hey, hey, come here right here in the closet.
Oh yeah, money, come on, he shut the door. Okay,
put the cuffs on. Here, let's go.

Speaker 18 (03:11:29):
Hey, where'd you fetch the wicking glasses and garbage can?
Garbage will be picked up by the morning.

Speaker 7 (03:11:35):
Not to worry. Come on, let's go.

Speaker 18 (03:11:36):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, where's the loot? You're
supposed to give it to me and I Hey, you
the signals changed. The stuff is already mailed in four
pre stamped mental envelopes. Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Plass told me he got to change where's mind. He
didn't want to put you in any trouble. Look, if
you don't have the stuff and I don't have it,
we're in the clear. So so where was the mail

(03:11:56):
to where?

Speaker 4 (03:11:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 14 (03:11:58):
I didn't look at the address.

Speaker 18 (03:12:00):
Yes, I just filled the ambulose like I was told
to seal them, drop them in the mailbox at the
end of the hall, goes right out down on the
first floor. Three o'clock mail pickup. I see what are
we waiting for?

Speaker 4 (03:12:09):
Copper?

Speaker 14 (03:12:10):
Kick me out of here, Throw me in the slammer.
Come on, I'm your prisoner.

Speaker 18 (03:12:20):
Come in. Oh, come in, Bert, Yeah, come on in.
I'm on a long distance to San Francisco. I'll be
within a minute.

Speaker 14 (03:12:30):
Hello. Yeah, Yes, I was over here.

Speaker 4 (03:12:33):
You got them?

Speaker 18 (03:12:34):
How many six Good Jewels International Limited?

Speaker 4 (03:12:39):
Eh? Fancy name?

Speaker 18 (03:12:42):
And then now we want you to send us all
you've got on them, and we'll send you what we've.

Speaker 14 (03:12:46):
Got right now, by inspector.

Speaker 18 (03:12:50):
Yeah, sit down, sit down, Bert, Thank you, captain, And
I want to tell you I think you've done a
superb job. Thank you. Best kept secret in all the
years I've on the force. Had to let Lieutenant Mcinernie
in on it at the last minute, Mike Culligan's new boss,
you know, to get his cooperation on the Arizona thing.
But outside of that, leaving your wife didn't know thought

(03:13:14):
you were in trouble.

Speaker 4 (03:13:15):
She was about to divorce me.

Speaker 18 (03:13:17):
When I spoke to her just ten minutes ago, she
sort of broke down. Well, then she laughed and came
immediately to your defense and said she never believed you
were anything but good and decent.

Speaker 4 (03:13:28):
It sounds like I did give her a bad time, though,
And I think.

Speaker 18 (03:13:33):
We have the whole case wrapped up. You heard my
conversation with San Francisco. Your thief is going to get
a little surprise when his lawyer gets here. We found
the wagon glasses and there'll be no trouble getting absolute identification.
Postal authorities cooperated and found the envelopes containing the diamonds,

(03:13:54):
all seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth. Well I help.
You're proud of your efforts, yes, sir, But I still
have one worry, sir. Maybe we jump too quick and
the big shot. Blass's boss will be won and take off. No, no, no,
Your idea to flush him out worked. Sending out word

(03:14:16):
that Mike was going to Arizona trapped him. He immediately
got that information back to Blass. What he didn't know
is that we had suspicions he might be the leak
and put the arm on him right after he got
the word out.

Speaker 4 (03:14:32):
Who was it?

Speaker 18 (03:14:33):
A man but the name of Reach works for the
company who handles our electronic maintenance sear at headquarters. He
had access to all our information and he yielded to temptation.
Then he wasn't the big boss. No no, I'd say
a small but important cog in Blass's operations. Blass is

(03:14:56):
the big man, and we'll have him within the hour.
He doesn't know that he's in any trouble, not an inkling.
Everything was done so swiftly and without fuss that Blass
couldn't possibly know. Lieutenant mcinnern.

Speaker 14 (03:15:10):
He sent Mike Culligan to make the pinch.

Speaker 18 (03:15:13):
Mike, oh, any backup? Mag didn't think he needed any.
Blass would be taken by a surprise and no, no, no, no,
he's dangers captain. He just assumed kills someone has talked
to them.

Speaker 4 (03:15:36):
Who's there?

Speaker 18 (03:15:37):
Open up, Harry, it's me right, my y quick.

Speaker 14 (03:15:43):
Look I told you that we had to stay away
from each other.

Speaker 18 (03:15:46):
Hey, I see you got yourself all packed like you're
going away.

Speaker 4 (03:15:50):
Hmmm.

Speaker 18 (03:15:51):
Shame to leave this gorgeous appartment.

Speaker 14 (03:15:53):
Yeah, yeah, warriors from the boss.

Speaker 18 (03:15:56):
What's up, trouble.

Speaker 14 (03:15:57):
Look, don't be worried about your cuts. See you'll get
it as soon as they get the stuff in Frisco
and you dispose of it.

Speaker 4 (03:16:04):
I'm not worried.

Speaker 7 (03:16:05):
You know it went off perfect.

Speaker 14 (03:16:06):
Look, I know how you feel about the bread. I
can give you a kind of down payment on your share. Yeah,
I got some cash right here.

Speaker 18 (03:16:15):
Yeah, don't touch that drawer. Blast, turn around nice and
slow with your hands up.

Speaker 7 (03:16:22):
What's the matter with you?

Speaker 14 (03:16:23):
Bert?

Speaker 18 (03:16:24):
Mike Culligan came here, not more than ten fifteen minutes ago,
came here. Why don't give me up performance, Blast. He
came here to pick you up.

Speaker 4 (03:16:35):
What happened?

Speaker 14 (03:16:36):
Look, but you were me, we're partners.

Speaker 18 (03:16:40):
Whatever gave you that idea?

Speaker 4 (03:16:42):
Punk?

Speaker 18 (03:16:43):
You walked into a setup. We've got all of you,
including your plant. You're moral at headquarters. Now, where's my colleague?

Speaker 4 (03:16:53):
Mike?

Speaker 18 (03:16:53):
Colagan.

Speaker 7 (03:16:54):
How should I know?

Speaker 14 (03:16:56):
A little while ago somebody came to the door. He
banged on it, but I didn't answer. He went away.

Speaker 18 (03:17:01):
He would have never gone away. He is in this apartment.

Speaker 8 (03:17:04):
Oh yeah, well go ahead, look around here.

Speaker 4 (03:17:07):
He isn't here.

Speaker 18 (03:17:08):
What's in this other room?

Speaker 4 (03:17:09):
Nothing?

Speaker 12 (03:17:10):
Take him?

Speaker 18 (03:17:10):
Look, don't move. I'll open the door. Oh Berth, Brian hit,
I'm hitting Mike Blast. He's gonna get away. Get him,
birth Mike. I can't leave you like this, but I'll
call for him. You're a cop, vert, get him for me.

Speaker 7 (03:17:26):
I'll be all right.

Speaker 4 (03:17:27):
Okay, my.

Speaker 39 (03:17:31):
Blast, I say, yeah, down the stairwell stop or a shoot.

Speaker 7 (03:17:36):
Stop.

Speaker 18 (03:17:40):
Mh Mike, Come on in Bert, I'm awake, Doctor says
I can only stay a few minutes.

Speaker 4 (03:17:55):
Boy, you a big apology? Man, Was I wrong?

Speaker 18 (03:17:59):
Captain Sullivan, Well, he was in this morning. He told
me you made detective Yeah, the slow way. You got
a big citation too. Mayor is going to present it
in front of city Hall with everyone watching.

Speaker 4 (03:18:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (03:18:13):
That's something I tried to get out of, but Helen
said I got her. You know what the mayor is
going to say to you, nothing's worse than a dirty cop.

Speaker 4 (03:18:21):
No Bert.

Speaker 18 (03:18:22):
He was here today and I talked to him. He's
going to say, there's nothing better than a clean cop.

Speaker 55 (03:18:33):
Detective third Class brit Gilbert stood on the steps of
City Hall with his.

Speaker 8 (03:18:38):
Head slightly bowed while the.

Speaker 11 (03:18:40):
Mayor of reg the citation.

Speaker 55 (03:18:42):
He was embarrassed by all the ceremony. Then he danced
up and coffee look in Helen's eyes as she watched
her husband being honored, and he knew then that the
look was worth all the embarrassment in discomfort.

Speaker 20 (03:18:57):
I'll be back shortly, so ends that tale.

Speaker 8 (03:19:09):
The blood Red ink.

Speaker 55 (03:19:11):
Bert Gilbert and Mike Hullagan had the fire and ambition
in them to make something of their lives, to gain
recognition from their fellow men. Their names were not to
be found on the negative side, the blood red side
of the ledger. Their names, in great block letters could
be found.

Speaker 14 (03:19:27):
On the positive side.

Speaker 55 (03:19:29):
They had achieved what most men want, the knowledge that
they had received the recognition for a job bring down.

Speaker 14 (03:19:37):
Our cast included Fred.

Speaker 55 (03:19:38):
Grinn, Terry Keane, Rode Baptista, and Bob Caliban. The entire
production was under the direction of Heinen Brown.

Speaker 1 (03:19:47):
Well, my dear, another night has come and gone again again.
But I got to be here with you, so no loss,
only gave. And of course I'll be right here, waiting,
same place, same time, whenever you care to join me.

(03:20:11):
The witching season is now in full bloom. It's only
half way over, so please make sure I'm not the
only one having a special time. Enjoy yourself, find something
scary to love, and I'll be right here. But please,

(03:20:32):
if you could do me just one kindness, as you
make your way home, as you go through the threshold
of your front door, as you lay your head on
your soft yet cool pillow, take one moment and be
thankful for what you have, and I'll be seeing.

Speaker 18 (03:21:00):
Surrounding sundling mumbling private things of rage.

Speaker 30 (03:21:10):
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