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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hello, my dear. So good of you to join me again.
You know, I don't get a lot of visitors, and
of course I really never do the visiting myself, but
I am so happy to have you here. Sometimes the
space can feel a bit more like a well, like

(00:32):
a tomb, than what it actually is, although what it
actually is I'm not entirely sure about. Well, no matter,
get comfortable. Please please, let's relax and enjoy ourselves tonight.

(00:54):
So often in the dark I can't help but feel
when I'm all alone, like I am the thing in
the case.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Come in.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Welcome to the world of unbridled imagination. You know, man
is a curious creature. Most of us settle for routine
and habits. Eight hours on the job, another seven or
eight invent, and the other eight on some hobby that
is neither too physically demanding nor asks for too many
mental gymnastics.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
A few of us.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Stretch ourselves beyond a reasonable limit. We coast through life
our metal never really.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Tried, but some of us, through.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Harrowing experience, are stretched to the full capacity.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Of our beings.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
It's then we find out what fiber we are made of.

Speaker 6 (02:20):
D't worth it?

Speaker 7 (02:21):
What is she?

Speaker 6 (02:25):
The last life?

Speaker 8 (02:26):
I can't you wish you find me?

Speaker 7 (02:29):
We got to get her?

Speaker 9 (02:30):
What is it?

Speaker 5 (02:34):
Call her? Young?

Speaker 7 (02:35):
Who issue?

Speaker 10 (02:41):
She's gone?

Speaker 11 (02:43):
Queen?

Speaker 7 (02:44):
We dried your under the arch there?

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Did you see anything?

Speaker 9 (02:48):
No?

Speaker 7 (02:48):
But you heard Eve. It's true.

Speaker 12 (02:51):
There is a thing that lives in.

Speaker 13 (02:53):
These caves, and we dropped dropped here, and it's worthy.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
Our mystery drama.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
The Thing in the Cave was written especially for the
Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Terry Keene and
Marion Selda's. I don't suppose many of us have ever

(03:33):
planned to grow up to be speleologists, since most of
us are subject to claustrophobia to at least some degree.
For the very few of you who don't recognize the
Latin terms, let me add that a spileiologist, of course,
is someone who studies and explores caves, and claustrophobia is

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that suffocating, pervasive dread of being shut in. This tale
concerns itself with four young spe lunkers. Those are cave
explorers who do it only for fun and their gruesome
experience of being cave bound literally buried alive.

Speaker 12 (04:16):
It's shelter on the next stand in the trail home.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
It's funny being born and bred in these mountains, and
yet I've never been inside chalk dark cave.

Speaker 12 (04:23):
Well, I'm not sure I want to myself.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
You get claustrophobia.

Speaker 6 (04:27):
To Barbara David, I never even dare close the door
in the phone boost sy.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yes, we can.

Speaker 6 (04:33):
Forget all this. You know I don't have to have
my childhood revisited.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
No thanks, right on. If I refuse you this little
memory trip, I'd hear about it for the rest of
our marriage. If you ever decide to go through with.

Speaker 14 (04:45):
The wedding, just you try to leave me at the
Al David Towers.

Speaker 9 (04:50):
Well here we are?

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Are we here? Yes, said Delacosta cavalry this No, Well,
I don't see any caves.

Speaker 9 (05:01):
It's right behind that scrub out. Listen, what do we
do about the horses?

Speaker 15 (05:05):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (05:05):
Here, I'll hitch us all to the aspen here, my
old baldy. All I gotta do is let the rains trail.
He won't budge more than twenty feet till I get
back here. You know, kind of clouding up over in
the Northwest. Maybe we ought to be getting.

Speaker 16 (05:19):
Back down the mountain.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
I come on, give you her cakes? What say, just
my old faithful knapsack with some of the remains of
lunch and a flashlight. Meet an old boy scout, be prepared.
I brought a water bottle to hey, come to think
of it, if he wants to get up to the ledge,
which he says goes to the back cavern, we ought
to bring along a rope.

Speaker 9 (05:42):
Fetch my warria too. While you're at it. We'll do so,
are you, fellows? Come on, Bobby and I have found
the entrance to the cave.

Speaker 17 (05:55):
Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 9 (05:58):
It don't seem a lot big.

Speaker 18 (06:00):
When I was a kid.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Barbara and I can make it all right, drawling, but
it comes in the giant size.

Speaker 9 (06:08):
Hey, can you make it just a lot.

Speaker 17 (06:10):
Of tight as a cork in a bottle.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
If I get stuck, you can be sorry.

Speaker 7 (06:15):
If this is the only way in and out.

Speaker 9 (06:18):
Which just a moment, we can all stand up.

Speaker 18 (06:20):
You'll see maybe we should all forget it.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
You scared, I know, but I'm not.

Speaker 19 (06:26):
Exactly happy either. I don't know.

Speaker 18 (06:29):
If thanks and we're here in.

Speaker 9 (06:32):
The case, I can stand up. Oh you're not. Everyone.
It's beautiful and just as I remembered it.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
You're right easy.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
It's breath taking.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Seed grow buried at the bottom of the sea.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
Oh green like Sensha parent.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
Parent or the marvelous tap on her now tredame with
all stained glass windows that make you.

Speaker 12 (06:58):
Feel as if you're suba diving and looking at that
threw water.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Okay, I can hear water too. Somewhere.

Speaker 9 (07:04):
Come on, I'll show you where they can look out
for the year.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
What do you call them scallops? Tight if they hang
from the roof and.

Speaker 9 (07:12):
The ones from the floor are stellic. Mike right here
he is, here's the waterfall?

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh wow?

Speaker 7 (07:19):
That oh type of feud.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
But what are the whole dreams?

Speaker 9 (07:25):
But nobody knows. But some say it's bottomless me because
right to the air.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
But where does the river that makes the waterfall come down?

Speaker 7 (07:32):
Up there?

Speaker 6 (07:33):
With the kid I used to know, blind out to
the leg there and then run him through the crest.

Speaker 9 (07:39):
They say it comes from another chain behind this there,
it comes from before that. I guess nobody.

Speaker 20 (07:44):
Knows what's happen.

Speaker 6 (07:49):
Maybe a Kim kim where I got I'm crazy?

Speaker 7 (07:57):
Oh, but it's such thunder.

Speaker 9 (07:58):
Remember how we kids used to come together and talked
about the thing that thing.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
But what was the thing?

Speaker 9 (08:07):
It was just something you laid up some country legends.

Speaker 6 (08:11):
Someone had heard about this, this creature, this monster that
lived in an underground river, whatever it is.

Speaker 9 (08:17):
What kind of monster you know?

Speaker 10 (08:20):
I medium, let's three and all of Bob.

Speaker 9 (08:23):
It was one great red rimmed eye.

Speaker 7 (08:26):
And long you tend to go to Pepton Fall along the.

Speaker 9 (08:30):
Rock until suddenly they pump.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
What was this sounded like thunder?

Speaker 16 (08:36):
I bet that storm broke outside.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Come on, well, we better get going.

Speaker 9 (08:40):
Oh I just wanted to get into the cave behind it.
Well we are just once again. Oh no, count me out.

Speaker 7 (08:46):
This place is giving me the heavy dB.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
I'm getting a little tight, and I felt myself.

Speaker 19 (08:50):
Come on, darling, you are right.

Speaker 9 (08:52):
It must have been a little crazy. I don't know
what it would. Something seemed to draw me Olmstad's It
was something calling.

Speaker 19 (09:05):
Evening.

Speaker 21 (09:06):
What yes.

Speaker 7 (09:11):
Again, Barbara, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 6 (09:31):
Hang it Mary, Now we mustn't lose our heads so dark.

Speaker 15 (09:35):
Pitch stop.

Speaker 9 (09:37):
We don't happened to hang Javis.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
They've gone to see about clearing the entrance. We only
had some light. The boys had the only flashlight.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Wait a minute, what.

Speaker 9 (09:49):
Is it.

Speaker 22 (09:51):
Is?

Speaker 5 (09:51):
There is not no cold cold, just had a dead
coming back with the light and.

Speaker 7 (09:56):
He must.

Speaker 9 (09:58):
We'll make it how these I'm okay, David, Can we
go now?

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Well, it isn't going to be that easy.

Speaker 7 (10:06):
What can't we help to clear?

Speaker 21 (10:08):
Eve?

Speaker 4 (10:09):
The Barbara? I don't know the landslide we heard it
may have covered over the cave entrance outside.

Speaker 9 (10:16):
You mean that even if people.

Speaker 23 (10:17):
Came looking forward, they might not be able to find
the entrance to the cave.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
That's why we have to start clearing.

Speaker 9 (10:22):
Out from inside here, Eve, Well, what is it? I mean,
at least we know where the way out he is.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
We can crawl back through the tunnel, and then we
don't know where the way out is anymore? What do
you mean where we passed along the stalet types or
the stalt mics colladed And even if we could guess
where the tunnel going out again, the rocks blocking it
as a ludge.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
It would take a bulldozer to move them.

Speaker 9 (10:50):
Oh good lord, then we're trapped. He lived like a
tomb and it's all.

Speaker 16 (10:57):
Don't come on, take it easy, Barbara, Now east.

Speaker 10 (11:04):
Touch You've got to get hold of it down.

Speaker 11 (11:09):
Here, you will.

Speaker 21 (11:11):
Tank.

Speaker 9 (11:12):
Have you any ideas of what we can do well.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
I guess the first thing to do is not the panic.
Now we've got water, I've got some chocolate bars and
a couple of sandwiches left over from lunch in my saddlebags.
We've got life as long as the batteries last. Which
reminds me, do we have to be in the dog?
There's no sense in using up the batteries when we
don't need it. Get it right here, eve tank.

Speaker 12 (11:37):
What are our chances of.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
Being fund It's hard to answer, Barbara. Of course they'll
miss us back at the ranch by tonight. Didn't say
where we were going.

Speaker 9 (11:45):
When they found out what this hitch right outside.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Was always supposing they weren't buried in the landslide. Is
there any other way out of the cave you know
of ease?

Speaker 9 (11:56):
No, not really. Like I told you, some kids got
up on the ledge at the off of the waterfall.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
And they went into some kind of a chamber behind there.
But they claimed that what these tleas, we've all got
to keep our heads pullet. It's just that the scene
came rising out of the water hissing.

Speaker 7 (12:17):
And snarling, so they just took up and ran well.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
I told guests four of us grown ups, as long
as we stick together, are going to dream up any
boogeyman out of the shadows.

Speaker 5 (12:29):
It's got to turn the light on for.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
A minute twenty after four.

Speaker 10 (12:35):
They won't miss us till dinner time.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
By the time they started any kind of search, it'll
be dark.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Yeah, and with a thunderstorm and the Patta River running
high as it does at the ford, they may figured
we hold up at halfway house. That's the side of
the river.

Speaker 9 (12:48):
Yes, and there's no phones.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
Hey, that's right. Look, it's only about twenty feet up
to that ledge. The easy to climb. David me could
go in through that cleft and have a look around.
Maybe there's a way out that way.

Speaker 6 (13:03):
You girls wait here, Oh no way, I'm not sitting
around in the dark.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
We'll all go hank Well, okay, you climb first, then
David right behind you, then Barb and I'll come up last.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
Thingo.

Speaker 16 (13:23):
We're in the second cabin.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
How big is that?

Speaker 9 (13:26):
It must be where the waterfall comes from, you know.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
Anyway, I'll hold it. Everyone hold it.

Speaker 19 (13:31):
Let's see.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
Let's start to the left.

Speaker 7 (13:34):
Here. Woo's so smooth.

Speaker 9 (13:36):
I'd been polished once upon a time.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
I guess the whole floor is underwater.

Speaker 18 (13:41):
It's China light higher hanks so we can let's.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
See very any class or passage ways a ground level first.

Speaker 6 (13:49):
It's so small it'll be halfway around and nothing.

Speaker 9 (13:52):
Maybe where the water comes in, we'll be there in
a minute.

Speaker 16 (13:58):
Nope.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
Try along the right hand wall. The water runs along
against it and back through a hole on the floor,
down to where we came from.

Speaker 9 (14:08):
Shine the light back again where the water comes in.
Why the batteries are getting dim so that I saw something?

Speaker 5 (14:17):
Wait a minute.

Speaker 24 (14:18):
You may be right.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
The water doesn't come quite to the top of the archway.

Speaker 9 (14:22):
It isn't that, it's something else. It's tolling me the same.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
Wait a minute up, thanks boy, you are damn.

Speaker 9 (14:34):
I turn my ankle, David, the black line on.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
I'm I'm looking for it.

Speaker 25 (14:43):
Where are you stas the damn light right?

Speaker 7 (14:49):
Holding me?

Speaker 5 (14:50):
Here's this.

Speaker 6 (14:55):
Where da.

Speaker 17 (15:00):
He dragged her under the yard stair.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
I no, I can't swim, I can't.

Speaker 7 (15:05):
Look out all the leg stay doing the yards. I'm
going after her. She didn't need anything.

Speaker 10 (15:15):
No, the water's only a couple of inches under the roof.

Speaker 7 (15:19):
Thanks god he did. It's the thing again, and he's.

Speaker 9 (15:25):
Give me back for all of us.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
From gholies and ghosties and long leggedy beasties and things
that go bump in the night.

Speaker 26 (15:38):
Good Lord deliver us.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
The quote is from an old friend, Anon, or to
give him his full name, Anonymous. But will he deliver
our four young spe lunkers or any of them from
this thing that haunts the cave? I'll return in a
moment with that too. There's a creepy crawley ceiling about

(16:16):
the very thought of being shut in anywhere with outdoors
or windows. Confinement of any kind is as fallen to
the human animal as it is to his fellow beasts.
And as for caves, I know I wouldn't be found
dead in one. I hope that figure of speech isn't

(16:38):
a prophetic one for one of our four young friends
who are cave bound. What was that column of water?

Speaker 6 (16:47):
I don't know, but didn't you see something inside it
with great arms reaching out like a tree?

Speaker 4 (16:53):
It was just a guy that a waterspout from freaking nature.

Speaker 11 (16:59):
There was a thing.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
What didn't matter. He's gone, she's dead, drowned, and it's
my fault. And Hank Kasain come back from the David,
you can't help it.

Speaker 17 (17:08):
If you can't swim.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
Hasn't helped Hank that he could? He disappeared. She was
my girl. If anyone die with her, it should have
been me.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
Maybe they've gotten to another cave. If they hadn't, their
bodies would have come up through.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
The s boy takes their barber with a spot or
whatever it is, came from just before the octuator.

Speaker 6 (17:30):
Ben's like a whirlpool. It could have sucked them boosts
down to the bowls of the earth.

Speaker 7 (17:36):
Oh, David, what are we going to do?

Speaker 4 (17:39):
I don't care anymore?

Speaker 9 (17:40):
Well, I do give me that flashlight.

Speaker 7 (17:45):
It's giving dinner.

Speaker 9 (17:46):
Maybe there's a whole or passage higher up that must
what's that back?

Speaker 4 (17:53):
They're like said, I put it out.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
Still I can't.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
I can't.

Speaker 18 (17:55):
I don't want to be in the dark with cant
them all over.

Speaker 9 (17:59):
I'm bussed against Please please.

Speaker 7 (18:12):
Help me, help me, help me.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Take you're you'll be alright to the.

Speaker 6 (18:22):
Thing, the thing you told me on the water.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
You're on the water now where I.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Don't know.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
Dry land anyway?

Speaker 9 (18:35):
How did you get here?

Speaker 11 (18:37):
I went into the water.

Speaker 9 (18:39):
Try to save me.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
On the Eagle Scouts, you know, trustworthy, loyal, helpful?

Speaker 5 (18:47):
What about David? He can't swim?

Speaker 10 (18:51):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (18:53):
But what did you?

Speaker 10 (18:54):
How did you?

Speaker 5 (18:55):
I don't think I could explained?

Speaker 7 (18:57):
What do you mean?

Speaker 5 (18:58):
It just doesn't make sense.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
The stream was flowing out of the arch, so I
was swimming against it. But suddenly something, something just told
me along against the turns.

Speaker 19 (19:13):
What about you?

Speaker 4 (19:14):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (19:14):
Don't you see it was him?

Speaker 7 (19:17):
The thing?

Speaker 15 (19:18):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (19:18):
If it was, why did he save you and me?

Speaker 16 (19:22):
You thought he wanted to drown you?

Speaker 5 (19:24):
And I did it first?

Speaker 6 (19:27):
And then it seemed so kind, so kind.

Speaker 9 (19:32):
It didn't wanted to help, But.

Speaker 7 (19:36):
Brian did.

Speaker 9 (19:41):
Dot time dot back?

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Could it easy?

Speaker 19 (19:46):
Two times?

Speaker 5 (19:46):
Oh? Some lightn't we kicking? And nothing but matches choking?

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Way?

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Maybe dry out?

Speaker 27 (19:57):
He sa, I even see the time, David, dear father?

Speaker 5 (20:11):
Would the light disturbs the bats again? They make my
flesh crawl. But anything's better than the dark.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
It must be night outside by now. I have a
hunt stick taken off of the outside cavern. They interest
the prize when they find there's no exit anymore. Maybe
they no want out of here.

Speaker 28 (20:28):
Let's try.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
So far, so good, getting so dim.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
Isn't all that heil?

Speaker 10 (20:37):
Let's see well can you see anything?

Speaker 5 (20:42):
No, it's like the inside of an egg.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
Oh David, what are we gonna do? Get that? Get
back near the arch, the rock flat. Maybe if the
water goes down with something, we can figure battery is gone.

Speaker 9 (20:56):
Oh no, you know.

Speaker 5 (20:57):
There's got to be like David, I can't catch you.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
I'm joky, borrow, I'm joking a minute. Oh God, only
a lighter. It won't last long. Now we've got to
say to sit down.

Speaker 6 (21:12):
Just don't turn it off.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
I have to just keep saf he gets rare.

Speaker 7 (21:16):
If it's needed, it's if it's needed.

Speaker 29 (21:20):
Well, David, me free.

Speaker 17 (21:23):
Okay, okay, I got you, all of you into this.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Believe Eve, have won't help. What we need to do
is move around and try to get warm.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
At least we're dry.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
If try those matches again, Oh no, no.

Speaker 18 (21:52):
God, if only we could see to what is it?

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Look up?

Speaker 11 (21:57):
Eve?

Speaker 4 (21:58):
What way way up there?

Speaker 16 (22:00):
What do you see?

Speaker 4 (22:02):
It's it's a shaft to light sunlight that's coming from outside.

Speaker 5 (22:08):
It means there's a way out.

Speaker 9 (22:10):
But it's so high up, it's so little.

Speaker 16 (22:13):
With any luck, as the sunrises, it'll give.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Us more light than we can explore.

Speaker 24 (22:27):
How far up to?

Speaker 5 (22:28):
Where that light's coming in.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Oh, it must be a good sixty.

Speaker 19 (22:32):
Feet hard to tell in this light.

Speaker 9 (22:36):
Could we climb up there?

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (22:38):
Lord, No, We've got to think about Bob and David's first.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
Anywhere I've been thinking about this trouble is. I was
groggy when I fetched ashore.

Speaker 14 (22:47):
Here.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
I have no idea how long you're underwater swimming, but
with the current going with you, there's a good chance
I could make it through.

Speaker 16 (22:55):
But making advance and.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
Other problems, especially since David doesn't swim, and we can't
count on mister Singh to be around to help us
out again.

Speaker 6 (23:06):
But here we have a chance, and there they don't.

Speaker 7 (23:09):
There's got to be some way.

Speaker 16 (23:12):
I've got a notion, Eve, you got anything to write with?

Speaker 17 (23:16):
You know, I haven't got a pocket.

Speaker 9 (23:17):
Food, any kind of pick, Wait a minute.

Speaker 6 (23:20):
Tucking my jeans, lipstick, any good famers?

Speaker 4 (23:24):
Now, look, I'm gonna take my canteen and empty it.
Have The one sure thing we have is plenty of water.
You think we could write a message with lipstick.

Speaker 6 (23:36):
On that say no so good in that canvas cover.
But if we could strip it, we could write on
the metal.

Speaker 5 (23:43):
You don't think water would wash it off?

Speaker 4 (23:45):
I don't suppose you've done much dishwashing or even a bachelor.
Does you share?

Speaker 6 (23:49):
Well, then you know how tough it is to get
lipstick off of glass?

Speaker 16 (23:54):
I sure do.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
But how do we get this messy.

Speaker 16 (23:57):
Look with the stopper in this canteen?

Speaker 4 (23:59):
It won't think I'm going to tie it to the
end of the rope and let it float on down
far as I can. Supposing the rope isn't long enolcohol,
there's thirty to thirty five feet of rope here.

Speaker 9 (24:10):
It's better be long enough.

Speaker 11 (24:12):
Now, let's put our.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
Heads together and figure how much of a message we
can get on this canteen. Jazie it boss?

Speaker 19 (24:26):
He's it me?

Speaker 6 (24:28):
Or is it getting hard.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
To breathe in here?

Speaker 4 (24:31):
It's all in the mind, you know, it's funny, boss.

Speaker 6 (24:36):
I used to be kind of jealous of all the
big brain.

Speaker 9 (24:41):
Me. I was just you know, fun and dames and
the action girl.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
No ties, strictly let it all hang out, Ruth.

Speaker 7 (24:51):
I wish I had a.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
Chance to find.

Speaker 6 (24:52):
Just just one self.

Speaker 16 (24:57):
Oh, Davids, Barbie, you're not kidding.

Speaker 9 (25:00):
The air is getting heavier and heavier. Can't we have
a little light?

Speaker 4 (25:05):
There's not much light if you?

Speaker 3 (25:08):
But is it?

Speaker 4 (25:10):
There's something floating in the streams.

Speaker 19 (25:14):
Here follows up for me?

Speaker 9 (25:17):
Can you read there?

Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (25:18):
I have a what is it?

Speaker 4 (25:20):
It's it's canteen.

Speaker 9 (25:22):
It's tied to a rope.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Looks like Hank's canteen. It's the water bottle he wrote
in without the cover there.

Speaker 9 (25:29):
Oh look he's writing on it.

Speaker 6 (25:31):
Oh god, I'm blind without my glasses.

Speaker 9 (25:37):
Here? Can you read it?

Speaker 6 (25:38):
All?

Speaker 4 (25:38):
The flame steady eves Hanks safe a rope three times?
A found way out? If writing materials reply, send all
in flash?

Speaker 9 (25:56):
How much do you measure?

Speaker 16 (25:57):
About twenty feet?

Speaker 30 (25:58):
It's how fat?

Speaker 16 (26:00):
One?

Speaker 7 (26:01):
Two?

Speaker 19 (26:02):
Three?

Speaker 9 (26:03):
They've got it now.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
All we have to do is wait for one tug
and we can bring back the message.

Speaker 5 (26:13):
Takes so much more.

Speaker 7 (26:14):
We should have told them all the time.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
The lighter is almost out of fluish. Thank got my
watch has an illuminated dial. We missed their return instructions.
But we can't actual the lighter. I've got to be
sure this bottle type of cantler.

Speaker 5 (26:29):
Okay, there goes.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
One tugging said, you're automall to the light.

Speaker 6 (26:37):
Who If I ever get out of here, I'll write
the special dispensation during the energy crosses. I never want
to spend another moment in the dark again.

Speaker 9 (26:48):
What is it say?

Speaker 4 (26:49):
We could use a better reading life.

Speaker 9 (26:51):
What's it written?

Speaker 29 (26:52):
On?

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Pencil on a handkerchief, dearest Eve's hank light only for
one more.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
Message from you?

Speaker 4 (27:01):
Air supply failing trapped here, give instructions, expect answer five minutes,
pencil and clothed. Can you imagine the twentieth century a
little less than twenty feet away and we communicate like
a stoney never.

Speaker 5 (27:18):
Mind, at least to communicate.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
Let's just get them here so we can communicate face
to face.

Speaker 9 (27:28):
It's silly day.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
You know you can't swim.

Speaker 9 (27:30):
If anything goes wrong and you panic, I'll at least.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
Be here, nobody of you here in the dark alone
Earth now looked like me. Switch the rope around your
shoulders like han't constructed.

Speaker 5 (27:39):
I know how to handle astling like this.

Speaker 9 (27:41):
Will you remember?

Speaker 31 (27:42):
Yes, go on, let's just.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Get in and tug. Let's get out of here before
my lighter gives out.

Speaker 6 (27:53):
It's nothing I could have swum it, alonge.

Speaker 7 (27:56):
I didn't know my present in half a minute.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Body again, Let's get that swing off and floated back
on the bottom of David.

Speaker 19 (28:03):
Hurry, Harry, I.

Speaker 9 (28:04):
Think he'll be able to man host you. I think, yeah, you're.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
A hate I just hope your boyfriend isn't jealous.

Speaker 7 (28:12):
You mean the thing.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
I shouldn't have said that.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
It's seventeen eighteen, nineteen, twenty twenty one and she'd be right.

Speaker 16 (28:26):
On the mark.

Speaker 12 (28:27):
Now, what's the matter?

Speaker 9 (28:31):
Hasn't he tug yet?

Speaker 7 (28:32):
Give him a chance?

Speaker 9 (28:33):
I hope the lighter hasn't run out of field. But
if he can't see it, how can it?

Speaker 5 (28:39):
There's a togue talk, but poor fast.

Speaker 9 (28:44):
It should be come as easy as that.

Speaker 7 (28:46):
Something's wrong.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
He's lost the rope, he's lost the home way.

Speaker 7 (28:52):
But if something works for that, you work and right
the back.

Speaker 4 (29:02):
Once again, some malign influence interferes in the tantalizing possibility
of escape for the four young people whose metal has
already been tested unbearably, and for the lovers, the tables
are bitterly turned. It seems that it is Eve's turn

(29:22):
to mourn David. We'll return shortly with Act three. Instead
of David fearing from the tunnel, secure on the rope,

(29:44):
there is an empty slain tied to the canteen for afloat,
and behind it a boiling spout of frothing water spewing
from the narrow opening of the channel like a huge
fire hose, reversing the normal current till the opposing forces
drive a seizing lake over the floor of the cavern.

Speaker 9 (30:07):
Hey, I think what happened?

Speaker 7 (30:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (30:10):
It's that that thing David and I thought after you
went in to say the.

Speaker 9 (30:16):
David said it was some.

Speaker 6 (30:16):
Sort of a water spot, a guyser fluck floating in.

Speaker 7 (30:24):
David, help me, help me, bright with Edie.

Speaker 9 (30:29):
Let me get him, don't let him go. It's all right.

Speaker 16 (30:33):
The water is washing him shore.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
He swore a lot of swam.

Speaker 8 (30:39):
Wing iron I know, life for a handle this and
get him on his back.

Speaker 9 (30:43):
Hand him that's right now, help me pull his jaw forward.
What's that for? Free his tongue so he didn't drink.

Speaker 6 (30:51):
Okay, now let's get the water out of his stomach
and then we'll set lost up.

Speaker 12 (31:03):
But what happened, David?

Speaker 4 (31:05):
The lighter gave up till I sent the light there
in the dark, feeling with my hands for the bottle
to come through. It's something I felt it, but it
slipped out of my hands. And I fell in the
water grabbing at the rope.

Speaker 11 (31:18):
So that must have been the tug I show.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
And I don't know. I lost the rope and I
was floundering and sent me the water began to literally
boil all around me.

Speaker 9 (31:27):
The water.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
Yeah, it lifted me half out of the water and
flung me against the arches, and he could knock me up.

Speaker 9 (31:34):
You've got quite a bruise on your forehead.

Speaker 16 (31:36):
It's what happened to us?

Speaker 9 (31:38):
What do you mean?

Speaker 19 (31:39):
There's some faults.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
Right below this and everyone and you know enough cold
water hits the Morten level way down and you're the professor, Dave.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
What happened?

Speaker 4 (31:51):
No, I suppose it forms a steam explosion that blow
the whole column of water back up into the small
cabin in part of the tunnel. Creates, yeah, sort of
a whirlpool. It it's momentarily strong enough to hit the
normal cart like a whip tide and drive it back.
That I can do.

Speaker 9 (32:08):
I can do better than that.

Speaker 17 (32:10):
It's a thing that wants to help us.

Speaker 9 (32:13):
It saves three of our lives already, I.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
Or at least part of my, thanks to Barbara and
mean Hank. And if it hadn't been for David, I'd
have ended up a raving maniac in the dark.

Speaker 6 (32:24):
I guess we all have turned up a little short
one way or another, except Hank.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
I'll say one thing. There's only one best man in
the group. So only at your wedding, mister, because Hank
is about to exhibit his private white feather.

Speaker 9 (32:41):
What do you mean, Hank?

Speaker 4 (32:42):
Well, if we're going forward, there are only two ways
to go even and I have looked at the other
end of the river here where it comes in, and
there's no way out there. How about the plaster there
where the light comes from? Ohans to be the best
bed only davy old man. That's Shakespeare. Seventy feet up there,

(33:05):
and I want to tell you, heights turn my belly
to water.

Speaker 9 (33:08):
Even at first twenty foot.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
Time we made I'd like to die. I didn't dare
look down after we got there. So what do we
do now? We climb? Just let me look it over now.
It shouldn't be too tough.

Speaker 10 (33:24):
Are you sure you're up to this?

Speaker 9 (33:25):
Darling?

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Eva?

Speaker 4 (33:27):
Tim Me be an egghead, no muscle boy, and I
can't swim. But one thing I do know how to
do is climb mountains. This one's my baby. Now just
let me go over a few points once again, I lead,
He follows Bob and then hangs. Oh what if I fall?

(33:50):
You're on a fling. The rest of us can hold you.
And if you don't yet trying to relax, and if
you swing back to the wall, grab hold again. But
you're not going to fall. To climb, the main thing
is don't look down. Just keep your eyes up, and
each one follow whatever toe holds or hand holds the
one before I used. I'll test each one of them first.

(34:12):
Most of the climb. We can follow ledges which I feel.
Now face the wall and move sideways. Don't look down,
and no hurry, don't anyone try to play hero. If
you're tired, let me know and we'll rest. Okay, I'm
not worry, darling.

Speaker 9 (34:27):
I trust your day.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
So if we don't get started, I may never move.

Speaker 19 (34:31):
Here we go.

Speaker 29 (34:40):
Half way up.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
Anybody want to take a rest.

Speaker 9 (34:45):
I'm all right, let's just keep going.

Speaker 5 (34:48):
I'm afraid to stop.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
Next start, it's going to be a little tougher. Hang
in and keep your eyes up. Yeah, hold on, anyone,
what is it?

Speaker 25 (35:00):
Hank here tars for me?

Speaker 5 (35:06):
It's damn it appear me.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
Now that's better. Now you listen, we only have about
sixteen more feet to go. There's a nice wide ledge
we can settle on while I spore the chest we're
heading for.

Speaker 7 (35:18):
You'll lose your head.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
You can take all of us with you.

Speaker 7 (35:21):
Just tell me long to let me. Don't be hank.

Speaker 9 (35:26):
We're a few feet from getting back in the world.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Come on, don't let us hold down.

Speaker 7 (35:30):
A ride up? Why easy?

Speaker 5 (35:39):
And just hook your weight forward over the ledge.

Speaker 10 (35:43):
I can't.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
I'm stuff now when I do.

Speaker 7 (35:47):
Get your up there? All right?

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Now slide yourself back.

Speaker 18 (35:52):
Against high again.

Speaker 4 (35:59):
I'm over the cannet or it's as flat as a percy.

Speaker 16 (36:05):
What are you doing?

Speaker 4 (36:05):
I'm trying the rope. I need it.

Speaker 5 (36:07):
So it was awful so nothing, wasn't it, darling?

Speaker 3 (36:12):
What do you mean?

Speaker 6 (36:14):
That place where the light's coming from is behind that
big rock in the ceiling.

Speaker 9 (36:20):
We can't climb up there.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
If it take a fly, I can get there doing. Oh,
I just need some knots to miss one lariat. Then
you see that spur that sticks out, and I toss
the noose of the lariat over that, and then I
can hiney up the rope and over on top.

Speaker 7 (36:35):
Of the lock.

Speaker 9 (36:36):
But you'd swing like a pendulum.

Speaker 4 (36:38):
If I took off from here without any break. But
I'll tie the other rope to this one for a
trip line, and the rest of you can let me
swing over slowly and steady me as I climb.

Speaker 9 (36:50):
But how do we get across there to join?

Speaker 4 (36:52):
You see that other spur higher up between us and
the rock I'm going for. Yes, After I get across,
I'll sling a line over that and secure it. My mind,
an you can all swing across like we used to
do when we were kids in plate Tarzanna. It's only
about ten feet.

Speaker 7 (37:07):
I don't think I could do it.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
You've got to, Darling. It's the only chance we have left.

Speaker 7 (37:17):
Four, Thank you Heaven. I never make it.

Speaker 9 (37:22):
Did you find the rip? Yes?

Speaker 7 (37:25):
Does it lead out five? Eventually?

Speaker 9 (37:28):
It's a sort of wrong timney. Can we climb it?

Speaker 19 (37:32):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (37:33):
If we were gone when it's wide enough all right
one way, but the other it's not over six or
seven inches. None of us could get through.

Speaker 9 (37:42):
Oh no that What can we do, David?

Speaker 7 (37:46):
There's nothing to do except find don again?

Speaker 21 (37:49):
Not me, fire my gut.

Speaker 9 (37:52):
I don't think I have the strength you have a
new alias hands Captain. I couldn't make that climb down
again either.

Speaker 4 (38:01):
Okay, we'll do what I told you before. Swing all
of you over here.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
There's plenty of rooms, all of us.

Speaker 18 (38:17):
I got jeve back on good old terror for just
like writing down to Eiva.

Speaker 19 (38:24):
So we all got down easy.

Speaker 9 (38:26):
How did he's got away?

Speaker 6 (38:28):
He sort of takes a hitch around himself and he
lowered himself down here he comes.

Speaker 19 (38:33):
Man, oh man, some kind of guy.

Speaker 27 (38:35):
You're married?

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Everybody all right, we are a few rope fines.

Speaker 21 (38:41):
That's all.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
Sary. I put you through all that for nothing. I
wasn't much help, but it was worth our last chance.

Speaker 19 (38:49):
You have to harp on it.

Speaker 9 (38:50):
I'm not giving up yet.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
What else is there to try?

Speaker 9 (38:53):
Darling faith trapped in God. I don't think he'd put
us through all this and not planning to save us.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
He sent me, tried to see what we were made of.

Speaker 5 (39:04):
Yes, and look at us.

Speaker 9 (39:05):
We all came through, and none of us is whimpering anymore.

Speaker 6 (39:08):
Thinking of himself, I still think there's something there, maybe
not a childhood picture of the.

Speaker 16 (39:17):
Thing.

Speaker 7 (39:19):
What good Lord, what's it coming.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
Out of the other kind of It's hard to see
in his murky life.

Speaker 9 (39:26):
But it's the thing I knew all along. He didn't
mean us time. It's the thing.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
Wrecking our musters, throwing quite a scare into you, folks.
Jim Tremble here deep sea Diving and Ocean bed Recovery Incorporated,
ex frogman in the Navy.

Speaker 19 (39:49):
You get a mess of folks mighty.

Speaker 5 (39:51):
Worry about you on the outside.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
There's going to be some relief once my boys bring
in scuba tanks and gear to get you to the
outside there. So let me get him to go ahead. Hellot,
Prence tourist, is Jim all four missing persons alive? And
well proceeds playing his outline.

Speaker 19 (40:16):
But how did you find us?

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Well, sir, My daddy was quite a diver in his
day three diving that was not with gear like today,
And he always had a notion there was a back
way into chalked Off Cave through the underground river, and
he found it one day off kipt Off Lake here
and I was about sixteen, and he went down and
they never came back.

Speaker 9 (40:40):
I wonder if he ever made it to the cave.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Oh, no doubt about that, ma'am. After I get out
of the Navy, I went down myself with scuba gear
and a motor. I fit just like now, and I
found my daddy or skeleton. I figure he got down,
just holding his breath but trying to make it up again.
At that angle, the current was just too strong, and
after it got him, it brought him back the rest here.

Speaker 9 (41:05):
You know.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
I brung him out and buried him proper, besides him
no need. He died doing what he wanted to do.

Speaker 16 (41:14):
But how did you find us?

Speaker 4 (41:17):
Well, Hanks, old horse ball. They were smart enough to
outstep that landslide, and when he turned up down, hell, oh,
folks got alerted, but it wasn't the hope of digging
you out, and they sent for me, and I got
flown in from San Diego. And that's how I come
to scare you. And they're thinking I was that old
legend I guess my father started.

Speaker 9 (41:37):
But the thing it isn't a legend, Jim, your father
never really died. He was the one that saved him.

Speaker 4 (41:52):
Deep in the Chunk Talk King, The fountains of hot
waters still spout little vortexas swirl. The long double lariat still.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
Hangs swinging from that high spur, but no living creature
will ever enter them again.

Speaker 4 (42:11):
For even the bats are gone smothered in the first
two caverns, where air forever was shut off. Perhaps all
that is left is one thing with a small tea now,
for it has become the pleasant ghost of a simple,
kindly man.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
So for this time a happy ending, And.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
Let's write the epitaph to this tale of suspense in
Milton's words, hence loathed, melancholy of Cerebrus and blackest midnight
born in Stygian cave forlorn. For myself, I equate cave
with a Latin word spelled the same way, c ave,

(43:06):
but pronounced cave.

Speaker 7 (43:09):
It means beware.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
Our cast included Marion Zelda's Terry Keane, Michael Wager, Bob Caliban.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
Well, mydea, I feel like we've started the evening quite well.
That one. It shook up a bit inside me. Not
sure how else to put it. Well, allow me to
get more t going in the kettle. I have a
feeling tonight's going to be long and dark, but never alone.

(43:51):
Oh no, the idea of being alone is a bit absurd,
don't you think. No, No, we'll relax now and focus
very much on a kind thought.

Speaker 32 (44:09):
And now stay tuned for a program that has rated
tops in popularity for a longer period of time than
any other West Coast program in radio history, The Signal
Oil Program, the Whistler Signal, the famous Go Farther Gasoline.

(44:36):
Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story by.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
The Whistler.

Speaker 26 (45:00):
And the Whistler. And I know many things, for I
walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden in
the hearts of men and women who have stepped into
the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which
they dare not speak.

Speaker 32 (45:18):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler, strange story,
kind thought.

Speaker 26 (45:33):
Grant Adamson leaned back in the heavy leather chair behind
the broad mahogany desk set diagonally across the corner of
his office, and tried to appear relaxed as he reached
for a cigarette, praced it carefully between his lips, and
flicked a flame from his cigarette lighter. Inside, he was trembling,
his stomach full of sick fear, and he knew the

(45:53):
man sitting across the desk from him could see it.
This was no time to let down the bars. Though
he looked past Dave Matthew's shoulder out the window, gazed
fondly at the stacks and chimneys that now covered more
than an acre of ground Adamson Chemicals in Corporate and
all of it, right down to the last paper clip
in that shiny mahogany desk at stake, hanging on Dave

(46:17):
Matthew's decision.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
I've got to admit I hardly recognized the old place grant.

Speaker 21 (46:22):
Yes, Dave, there's been quite a change.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
Oh, that's putting it by Ala.

Speaker 33 (46:28):
Nineteen forty six, Adamson Matthews, sixteen employees are one story
building on twenty third Street, making ink eradicating. I go
off to Japan with the occupation forces, come back five
years later, and quite a corporation.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Quite a change, is right.

Speaker 21 (46:46):
Well, I've tried to keep the ball rolling.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Yes, it seems at this point that I am a
very wealthy man. And now I listened, Dave.

Speaker 21 (46:54):
I tried to make it clear.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
It didn't make anything clear.

Speaker 26 (46:58):
Well, I'm referring to the settlement I offered you. I've
given a lot of thought, Dave, and I think it's
only fair that I let.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
You buy me out. No, you can't buy me out. Grand,
I'm an equal partner and that's the way I want.

Speaker 26 (47:12):
It's not good sense. Look, Dave, be honest with yourself.
You're a small operator. You're all right in a small
incorradicated business.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
But why this is too.

Speaker 7 (47:21):
Big for you?

Speaker 3 (47:23):
It was too big for you too, wasn't it?

Speaker 21 (47:25):
Grant meaning what?

Speaker 33 (47:27):
But you're not really a success a business builder at all.
All true, you've preparently come a long way in five years,
but you did it because you were able to get
to a few opportunities.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
As unscrupulous as you.

Speaker 21 (47:40):
Are, I'm afraid I don't understand you.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
You know you're lucky you've got a partner Grant.

Speaker 33 (47:46):
After all, someone's going to have to put this business
on an honest basis while you're gone.

Speaker 21 (47:51):
Wow, I'm not going anywhere.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
You're going to prison. Grand, No, you wait a minute.
I didn't just come back.

Speaker 33 (48:00):
You know, I've been around for five months now putting
the pieces together. They make a very interesting picture. Graft, bribery,
phony government contracts out now, theft. No business built on
dishonesty can have it.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
The last graft.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
I'm not through.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
While you're away.

Speaker 33 (48:18):
I'm going to try and rectify every dishonest deal you've pulled. Oh,
don't look so horrified. You're a graft more than that,
a plane crook. I've got your signature and a dozen
pieces of paper to prove it.

Speaker 21 (48:30):
Oh, now, look, Dave, you wouldn't do anything to.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Me a favor, would you please? For the sake of
our old partnership. Don't be appointing hypocrite. What do you mean, Dave?

Speaker 21 (48:42):
What proof?

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Oh?

Speaker 33 (48:44):
The usual stuff, letters, signed memorandums, A couple of affidavits,
a set of canceled checks on that highly profitable post
gene contract.

Speaker 21 (48:54):
I see, well, Dave, you will give me time to
think this over.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Nothing to think over it all, but a partnership. Just
forget it. I'm not for sale.

Speaker 33 (49:07):
I've got the proof of your crooked operations in my
little brown briefcase. The items I just mentioned will be
in the hands of the investigation board in Washington Wednesday morning.
I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon on the five o'clock plane.

Speaker 21 (49:30):
So that's it, Grinned.

Speaker 26 (49:32):
You build it from nothing, from a small ground floor
operation with sixteen employees. You put it together like a
magic chemical formula without too much regard for the ingredients
and discover that a nation on a semi war footing
doesn't always take time to ask questions. And now it's
about to explode in your face, isn't it. Ground You

(49:53):
know that Dave Matthews can't be bought, and that it'll
be all over the moment he walks into that boardrome
in Washington, d C.

Speaker 21 (50:05):
You wish you knew some way to stop him. Don't
you grant anyway, anyway, any way to stop him?

Speaker 12 (50:14):
What did you say, mister Adamson.

Speaker 21 (50:16):
Oh, oh, nothink, Miss Williams. I've just got a lot
on my mind.

Speaker 12 (50:21):
I think you need a vacation.

Speaker 34 (50:22):
More than I do.

Speaker 21 (50:23):
Oh yes, that's right. You are going away tomorrow, aren't you.

Speaker 10 (50:27):
I feel a little guilty about it.

Speaker 12 (50:29):
There's so much to be done.

Speaker 21 (50:30):
Oh no, no, no, you rounded, miss Williams.

Speaker 12 (50:32):
I hope. So, mister Adamson, there's something I wanted to
tell you about before I go.

Speaker 23 (50:37):
Yes, it sounds a little petty, I know, but well,
there was a little misunderstanding about who was to take.

Speaker 12 (50:43):
My place while I was gone.

Speaker 21 (50:44):
Well I left that entirely empty as well, I know.

Speaker 23 (50:46):
But you see, I suggested Miss Dickens. Oh, she's quite capable,
good typist and stenographer. But I forgot all about Miss Preston.
Clarence Preston. She's been with us so much longer, and
she was a little put out when I didn't suggest her.

Speaker 21 (50:59):
Well, it doesn't matter the way, Miss Williams. I'm sure
she'll get over.

Speaker 12 (51:02):
She's really very nice.

Speaker 23 (51:03):
I thought perhaps you would say something to her, I mean,
about how important she is in the job she's doing.

Speaker 12 (51:09):
She'd feel a lot better.

Speaker 21 (51:10):
All right, I'll take care of it now if you don't.

Speaker 23 (51:13):
I'm sorry to have bothered you, mister Adamson, but I'll
enjoy the trip much more knowing that you'll sort of
smooth things over.

Speaker 21 (51:18):
Yes, Oh, oh, just a minute, Miss Williams. Where did
you tell me you were going?

Speaker 12 (51:24):
Baltimore?

Speaker 21 (51:25):
Baltimore, that's near Washington, and you're leaving tomorrow.

Speaker 12 (51:30):
Yes, I'm awfully thrilled, mister Adamson.

Speaker 23 (51:33):
It'll be the first time I've seen my family in
five years, going by train.

Speaker 21 (51:37):
Miss Williams. Yes, sir, I won't give you much time
with him, will it.

Speaker 12 (51:42):
Not a lot, but a few days will still be wonderful.

Speaker 21 (51:46):
Now, how would you like to fly.

Speaker 12 (51:47):
Why I couldn't afford that, mister Adams.

Speaker 21 (51:50):
Is that the only thing that's stopping you? The expense? Well, yes,
miss Williams, I've felt for a long time I should
do something for you. You've been very capable, very loyal.
Not another word.

Speaker 26 (52:03):
I want you to run right down the railroad office
and turn in those train tickets. You're going to fly
to Washington, Miss Williams, at our expense, and from there
it's just the step to Baltimore.

Speaker 12 (52:12):
Why, mister Adamson, it's a very kind thought.

Speaker 21 (52:15):
But don't thank me. You've earned it and you better
hurry now.

Speaker 16 (52:19):
But what about say that to me?

Speaker 26 (52:22):
Oh, by the way, you'll be leaving tomorrow afternoon on
the five o'clock Washington plane. Hello reservation clerk please hello,
this is Grant Adamson speaking Adamson Chemical Company. I want

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to reserve a seat on the five o'clock flight to
Washington tomorrow afternoon.

Speaker 21 (52:48):
Mm hmm, that's right. Yes, it's for my secretary. Her
name is Williams, Margaret L. Williams. Your kind thought, as
Miss Williams expressed, it is something else, isn't it, Grant?

Speaker 26 (53:06):
It has to do with the fact that Miss Williams
vacation trip coincides exactly with the trip Dave Matthews is
taking to Washington, d C.

Speaker 21 (53:14):
That you've managed to arrange for them to be on
the same plane.

Speaker 26 (53:17):
And above all, you know now that everything depends on
your making sure Dave Matthews never gets there. It's quite
late in the afternoon when you stroll into one of
the company's chemical laboratories.

Speaker 34 (53:30):
Well, mister Adamson, glad to see you done here in
the plant, Ahi, Donald.

Speaker 26 (53:35):
I guess I'm just the old fireman running to the
fire say you know, Donald, Yes, ite, I'm sick of
being a businessman. I get the edge once in a while,
you get my hands on a test tube. Smell of
Bunson brand. I don't wonder, sir. I think i'd get
a little tired of sitting behind a desk too.

Speaker 21 (53:51):
Yes, hey, Donald, why don't you take the evening off?

Speaker 19 (53:54):
Ritchie?

Speaker 3 (53:55):
Wait? Quiet, enjoy it.

Speaker 21 (53:57):
Sir, Yas I'd like to put her around for a
few hours. I got a couple of ideas is I
want to work out? There's no use in both of
us being here.

Speaker 16 (54:03):
That's nice of you, mister Adamson.

Speaker 21 (54:04):
Oh, you're sure that your cabinet's all unlocked.

Speaker 34 (54:06):
Yes, sir, and your equipment's all out. You're sure you don't.

Speaker 21 (54:10):
Mind being here alone? Oh no, I don't mind.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
But go to it and help yourself.

Speaker 21 (54:13):
It's your laboratory after all, Thank you, Donald. I will.

Speaker 26 (54:25):
The minute Donald leaves, you locked the door and set
to work, praying that you haven't lost the skill you
used to have as a laboratory chemist.

Speaker 21 (54:33):
Three hours later, you're getting close. Now the distillant, No,
that's it, one hundred CC's.

Speaker 29 (54:49):
Good.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
Now, the gentatin in a cool little.

Speaker 18 (54:57):
Now, I think that ought.

Speaker 4 (55:06):
To do it.

Speaker 26 (55:13):
You'll stop for a minute now, waiting for the gelatine
to cool in a thick insulating layer above the yellowish
liquid in the bottle, a bottle that you picked from
the shelf, about the size of a cologne bottle. Yes, Grant,
you were never more sincere in your life when you
told yourself that you'd do anything to prevent David Matthews
from getting to Washington on that plane. Nothing else matters

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to you so long as you stop him, not even
the lives of Matthews, this, William, the other passengers on
the plane, nothing so long as you stop it. The
gelatin's cool. Now, grant just the acid on top of it,
and your personally constructed time bomb will be ready. That

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got it, Yes, mister Dave Matthews, this will dissolve our partnership.

Speaker 21 (56:07):
In a big way.

Speaker 32 (56:29):
In spring, when milady's spirits need perking up. You know
how quickly a new spring bonnet can do the trick, Well,
just that quickly. There's a way you can perk up
your car spirits this spring. How Why simply by changing
its diet to signal ethyl, the premium grade of signals
famous go farther gasoline. Yes, with the very first hankful

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of signal ethyl, even tired, grumpy motors sound as sweet
as the Robins first song. When you step on the accelerator,
you feel signal ethyl whisk you forward like a sudden
spring zephyr. And when you see how effortlessly signal Ethyl's smooth,
ping free power takes you over those steep hills in
high Mark, my word, you'll get the urge to head

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your car for the open highway and enjoy spring. Gosh, friend,
when it's that easy to get more fun out of
every mile you drive, why put it off this week?

Speaker 1 (57:19):
For sure?

Speaker 32 (57:19):
Drive into a signal station, fill up with a super
fuel that's scientifically engineered to bring out the best in
any car of any age signal ethol that is.

Speaker 21 (57:47):
Well grant.

Speaker 26 (57:48):
It's the biggest deal you ever tackled in your life.
Isn't it your plan to kill Dave Matthews to prevent
him from exposing your crooked deals in Washington, deals that
can send you to prison. As you lie in bed
that night thinking it through again, you tell yourself that
it's a gamble. A bomb in an airplane is a
fantastic idea, and unless everything goes off exactly on schedule,

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it might fail. But the moral aspects surrounding the wholesale
murder of the other passengers on the plane with a time.

Speaker 21 (58:16):
Bomb doesn't stop you for a second, because that's just.

Speaker 26 (58:21):
The kind of a mind you have, isn't it grand
You've never been concerned with rightness or wrongness, only with
the surest, quickest way of getting what you want. And
you've made up your mind now that Dave Matthews will
never reach Washington with that briefcase and the incriminating evidence
against you. It's earlier than usual when you arrive at

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your office the next.

Speaker 21 (58:42):
Morning, good morning, mister Adamson. Oh hello, miss Sir Dickens. Sir, Oh, yes,
Miss Dickens.

Speaker 26 (58:48):
Miss Williams told me about your taking her place yesterday afternoon.

Speaker 12 (58:51):
She's awfully thrilled over your sending her by plane. We
had a party last night. She told us all about it.

Speaker 21 (58:57):
I'm glad she's pleased.

Speaker 7 (58:59):
All.

Speaker 26 (58:59):
Let's see now we don't on any disappointments. Did the
airline people confirm the reservation?

Speaker 23 (59:03):
Yes, sir, they called a half hour ago, the five
o'clock flight this afternoon.

Speaker 26 (59:08):
I wonder who's singer off a caller for me, william Yes, sir, Hello,
Miss Williams, this is mister Adamson. Well, I'm very happy
I called to tell you your reservation is made on
the five o'clock plane.

Speaker 3 (59:29):
That's right.

Speaker 26 (59:30):
How are you getting down to the airport the taxi?
Oh that's nonsense. No, no, no, I'll take you down myself.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
No trouble at all.

Speaker 21 (59:43):
Now that's enough, Miss Williams.

Speaker 29 (59:44):
I won't hear of it.

Speaker 21 (59:46):
I'll pick you up at four this afternoon.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
That's right.

Speaker 21 (59:51):
Goodbye, Miss Williams.

Speaker 16 (01:00:01):
There you are, sir.

Speaker 12 (01:00:02):
We can get either the colone or the perfume.

Speaker 21 (01:00:05):
I'll take the cologne. You sure this is the largest
bottle you have.

Speaker 12 (01:00:08):
Yes, sir, I'm sure she'd be quite happy with it.

Speaker 26 (01:00:11):
Yes, I suppose you will, all right, and I'd like
it gift wrapped. You know, lots of ribbons, fancy stuff.
Do you have a wrapping department here?

Speaker 12 (01:00:20):
Yes, sir, you can take it over yourself, counter nine.

Speaker 21 (01:00:22):
Thank you, I will.

Speaker 26 (01:00:29):
But before you get to counter nine, you step into
a telephone booth, take off the tissue paper wrapping in
the bottle of cologne, wrap it around the other bottle
you've been carrying in your overcoat pocket. The wrapping clerk
doesn't give it a second glance, and five minutes later
it's done up in fancy ribbons and colored paper, A
going away present for Peggy Williams, an extra thoughtful little

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touch from a kind and generous employer. You glance at
your watch. Quarter to four.

Speaker 21 (01:00:57):
In a half hour you'll be on your way to
the airport.

Speaker 12 (01:01:01):
I'm awfully sorry to be taking you from your work,
mister Adamson. I know how busy you are.

Speaker 21 (01:01:05):
I get it, Miss Williams.

Speaker 26 (01:01:07):
Oh, by the way, here's a little something I picked
up this afternoon. It's quite an occasion, you know.

Speaker 12 (01:01:14):
Oh, mister Adamson, cologne a little.

Speaker 9 (01:01:21):
Oh, mister Adamson, this is too much.

Speaker 12 (01:01:23):
It isn't right, all.

Speaker 29 (01:01:24):
Right, Miss Williams. So it isn't right.

Speaker 21 (01:01:25):
I just think it is. Shall we let it go.

Speaker 9 (01:01:28):
At that, mister Adamson.

Speaker 12 (01:01:30):
I don't deserve all of this, of course.

Speaker 26 (01:01:33):
Now you just enjoy your trip, have fun, and don't
you dare open that pretty package to your parents?

Speaker 29 (01:01:40):
See? Oh I won't.

Speaker 24 (01:01:40):
I wouldn't think of it.

Speaker 12 (01:01:42):
But you've been so perfect, mister Adamson that I.

Speaker 21 (01:01:46):
Well, Miss Peggy, really I had no idea.

Speaker 23 (01:01:51):
Please don't be angry with me, mister Adamson. I shouldn't
have kissed you, I know, but well I'm awfully sanimental.

Speaker 21 (01:01:57):
Oh that's quite all right, Peggy.

Speaker 26 (01:02:00):
In fact, I er, I'm awfully sorry that you're going
away for such a long time.

Speaker 12 (01:02:06):
It's such a beautiful package. What kind of coloone is it?

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
Well?

Speaker 21 (01:02:10):
I don't know, I forget what it's called. But uh,
don't you open it till you get home.

Speaker 16 (01:02:14):
I won't.

Speaker 12 (01:02:15):
That's a promise, Yes.

Speaker 26 (01:02:25):
Grant you're seeing Peggy Williams off on a long trip,
a very long trip with your old partner, Dave Matthews.
As the two of you walk into the terminal, you
see that Dave has already arrived, sitting with his back
toward you reading the paper. Seeing him removes the last
twinge of conscience you have regarding Peggy Williams and the
other passengers. You glance again at the ribbon package in

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Peggy William's right hand, knowing that it won't be much
longer before the insulating layer of gelatine dissolves, results in
a stunning explosion two hours if your calculations were correct,
somewhere between six point fifteen and six thirty. As the
plane passes into Arizona, you walk up to the ticket
counter to check.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
For the clerk.

Speaker 21 (01:03:09):
Five o'clock. He's down.

Speaker 34 (01:03:10):
Yes, I'm sorry, sir, that flight's going to be a
little late getting off. What'd you say, The five o'clock
flight will be late? Well, Holly, it well, we're trying
to arrange a six o'clock takeoff.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
I'm not sure yet.

Speaker 12 (01:03:22):
It's all right, mister Adamson. You don't have to wait
with yes, but I do.

Speaker 21 (01:03:26):
Peggy.

Speaker 26 (01:03:26):
You see, I want to be sure that you'll get
off all right. Uh, clerk, you said, six o'clock, I
hope so, sir, Yes.

Speaker 29 (01:03:35):
So do I.

Speaker 26 (01:03:42):
You spend almost an hour with Peggy and the terminal
cocktail lounge, running out to the lobby every five minutes
to make certain Dave Matthews is waiting for the takeoff,
and the check with the clerk.

Speaker 21 (01:03:52):
About takeoff time.

Speaker 26 (01:03:54):
Knowing that now the time is getting close, that perhaps
the thing to do is to grab the package from
Peggy's lap and rush out with it, throw it in
a vacant field somewhere. But there's still a chance, Grant,
you've still a better part of a half an hour,
and you're still a gambler. Then at five minutes to six,
you check with a clerk and find the plane is
taking off in a few minutes. On your way back

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to the lounge, you decide that despite what the clerk said,
there might be further delay, a dangerous delay, that you've
got to get the package back from Peggy. When you
return to your table, Peggy isn't there now.

Speaker 21 (01:04:28):
Hersh waiter waiter, where did the lady go to?

Speaker 26 (01:04:32):
One?

Speaker 21 (01:04:33):
I was sitting.

Speaker 26 (01:04:33):
She'd be right back, So she she went out to
the checkstand, wanted to check the packages that she was carrying,
said she.

Speaker 21 (01:04:38):
Didn't know how long she'd have to wait, and she
was tired of carrying. She checked her packages. Some madager,
something wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
Like twenty one he's found nowloading at eight three.

Speaker 33 (01:04:49):
Wait a minute, flight twenty one east found now loading
at eight three?

Speaker 21 (01:04:55):
Wrong with her?

Speaker 23 (01:04:56):
No, no, nothing wrong at all, mister Adamson. Oh, oh
you guess what, mister Adamson. There's an old friend of
yours making the trip.

Speaker 21 (01:05:13):
No friends to Matthews.

Speaker 12 (01:05:14):
I didn't remember him, but he knew me.

Speaker 21 (01:05:16):
Oh oh yes, I forgot to mention it too.

Speaker 12 (01:05:19):
He was your partner when you first died out, wasn't
he Dave Matthews?

Speaker 16 (01:05:23):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (01:05:23):
Yes, Oh did you? Did you tell him I was here?

Speaker 23 (01:05:27):
He said, he's sorry you won't be able to see you.
There isn't much time, and he went on board to
get his seats together.

Speaker 19 (01:05:31):
Oh I see what.

Speaker 21 (01:05:32):
That's nice of Dave to do that. But if they're
leaving soon, hadn't you better get on the plane.

Speaker 23 (01:05:36):
Yes, I just wanted to thank you again, mister Adamson.
No one's ever done so many.

Speaker 10 (01:05:41):
Nice things for me.

Speaker 26 (01:05:43):
Beggar, you mustn't hold him up. Oh, wait a minute,
where's the bottle of Colone I gave you.

Speaker 21 (01:05:48):
You didn't forget it.

Speaker 12 (01:05:49):
You didn't leave it at the checks down, No, mister Adamson.
Mister Matthews took it aboard for me.

Speaker 21 (01:05:54):
Oh, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
He's bound like.

Speaker 16 (01:06:01):
Peggy.

Speaker 21 (01:06:01):
You're houlding them up. You better get out there.

Speaker 12 (01:06:03):
I'll hurry goodbye, mister Adamson.

Speaker 21 (01:06:05):
All right, you do that, of course, run.

Speaker 23 (01:06:08):
Mister Adamson. You won't be angry at me for anything.
I know you enjoy doing nice things for people. And
when a girl talking about pay, oh.

Speaker 21 (01:06:16):
You mean about kissing me? Of course I won't be out.

Speaker 14 (01:06:19):
It isn't just that.

Speaker 21 (01:06:20):
Please, Now you're making me nervous. Will you get on
that plane and let them take?

Speaker 7 (01:06:24):
All right?

Speaker 12 (01:06:24):
And don't forget to tell Florence Preston I'm sorry. I
didn't suggest that the fill in for me while I'm awake.

Speaker 21 (01:06:29):
Of course pay I will now, Yes, I'll go.

Speaker 12 (01:06:33):
Goodbye, mister Adamson. I'll think of you all the way
you're You're the kind of sweetest man I've ever known.

Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
Spring or nose.

Speaker 32 (01:07:01):
Spring, You wouldn't feel nearly as peppy, would you if
you had to keep right on wearing heavy winter clothes. Well,
that's just how your car feels about running on tired,
old winter motor oil and gear loob. Now that spring
is here, so if you want to put spring into
your driving, it's high time you were treating your car
to a spring changeover at a signal service station. First
step is to drain your motor and refill with Signal Premium,

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the new heavy duty type oil that reduces engine were
due to lubrication fifty percent. Next step is fresh signal
gear loob for transmission and differential, and a signal double
checked lubrication for the chassis. At the same time, your
signal dealer will be glad to check those other points
that need attention every five or ten thousand miles, such
as front wheel bearings, oil filter or air cleaner. Say,

(01:07:47):
a car just can't help feeling peppier after a spring
tonic like this, So for extra driving pleasure all summer,
see your signal dealer this week for a signal spring changeover.

Speaker 26 (01:08:05):
Well granted long last, Peggy's on the plane happily seated
next to Dave Matthews. That's interesting, isn't it grand Like
a chemistry equation, each element balancing the other Dave on
one side with an important briefcase, Peggy on the other
with an even more important bottle. The tension is worse
than ever now as you stand at the edge of
the parking lot watching the plane taxing to the runway.

Speaker 21 (01:08:28):
You'll feel a lot better after the plane gets into
the air.

Speaker 26 (01:08:31):
When you're sure the unexplained explosion will take place somewhere
above five thousand feet and not on the ground where
prying investigators might uncover the answer, you glance at your watch.
Six fifteen. It should only be a matter of fifteen
or twenty minutes now. The plane finally turns around in

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a half circle into the wind. The pilot guns the
engines for a few seconds, and then the plane rushes
down the runway.

Speaker 16 (01:08:59):
Toy.

Speaker 35 (01:09:10):
They're off grant and you are certain you've won, Yes, sir,
or the blue Cadillac on the second line.

Speaker 28 (01:09:22):
Here's my ticket, Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
Sir, I'll bring it around for you.

Speaker 26 (01:09:30):
As you drive out of the parking lot, you find
yourself wondering how far away you'll be when the explosion occurs,
and then realize that by now the plane carrying Dave
Matthews and his evidence against.

Speaker 21 (01:09:42):
You probably been blown The bits. It won't hurt to
take the long way home. You have all the time
in the world.

Speaker 26 (01:09:49):
Now you turn off the busy highway and onto a
quiet country road.

Speaker 21 (01:09:57):
Too bad about Peggy.

Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
Wasn't it.

Speaker 21 (01:10:00):
You'll have to think of something nice to say about
her when the news breaks.

Speaker 26 (01:10:03):
She was so thoughtful, so innocent as she sat there
beside you this afternoon when you gave her the cologne bottle.
You drive idly along the open road for about ten minutes,
and then glance over at the empty seat where something
catches your eye.

Speaker 21 (01:10:18):
A note into the seat.

Speaker 17 (01:10:22):
Wow.

Speaker 26 (01:10:24):
Listen, dear mister Adams. I didn't want to ask you
about this because I thought it might hurt your feelings.
I know you enjoy giving things and want people who
receive them to enjoy them too. Please don't be angry,
but I am still worried about having hurt Florence Preston's feelings.
When you speak to her, would you give her the
bottle of cologne? I fibbed a little when I said,

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mister Matthews took it aboard the plane because I wanted
Florence to have it.

Speaker 21 (01:10:49):
I put the bottle in the glove compartment of your car,
or wait a.

Speaker 32 (01:10:53):
Minute, no, no, Let that whistle be your signal for

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the Signal Oil program the Whistler each Sunday night at
the same time. Signal Oil Company has asked me to
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The Whistler was produced and directed by George w Allen,
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names or resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
Well, it certainly feels more chilling than I would have expected,
especially at this time of year, even at this late
of an hour. Don't worry, the fire will not be
going out. I'll keep it burning hot. So hot. It

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almost feels dangerous. Oh no, no, no, don't worry about
that your concern at all. I wouldn't let anything happen
to you. I wouldn't let anything bad happen, not in
my own.

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
Home.

Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
No, no, no, unacceptable. After all, what do you think?
I am?

Speaker 28 (01:13:18):
The brute?

Speaker 36 (01:13:22):
Getting impatient for baseball diseasing to start, have a touch
of spring fever. I want to get away from it all.

Speaker 29 (01:13:28):
We offer you escape. You are a mid ocean I
bought a drink ship. Already nine men have died. And

(01:13:50):
do you know that some malignant forces aimed at you
from which you cannot escape.

Speaker 36 (01:14:05):
Escape designed to free you from the four walls of
today for a half hour of high adventure.

Speaker 29 (01:14:17):
Tonight we escaped on the North Atlantic in the year
nineteen hundred and to a sailing ship whose very name
struck dread in sailor's hearts. As Joseph Conrad told her
in his famous story The Brute, you could never tell

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it just by looking at her, proud and strong and
beautiful on the outside, you couldn't see the black heart
inside of her, and you'd never know she'd killed at
least a dozen men and maybe more. But I knew,
he knewer for the murdering she devil she was other
day she killed her first one, and I was there
too when she finally made her big mistake and killed

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the wrong person. But that was a long time later.

Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
Well.

Speaker 29 (01:15:10):
She had a name, all right, but after that first day,
her first killing, nobody with the family ever used it again.
Everyone else from that day on would look at her
half afraid and half snarling, and they called her the brute.

Speaker 26 (01:15:26):
Wow.

Speaker 29 (01:15:34):
I remember I was fourteen the day my father took
me down to the South Thames Boatyard to watch the
launching of the ship. My brother Charlie was there, of course,
eight years older than me, and very proud of his
one gold stripe now that he'd be made enough sir.
On the app's line, Charlie and father were talking. I
just stood and listened to the moon. Didn't say much
of anything myself. Look at her, Dad, ever seen a

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ship in your life with lines like that? I'll bet
you all out to any clip on the China trade.
Oh that remained to be seen. Charlie, how soon are
they going to launcher any minute? Now? I give a
lot to be saitting on her instead of on the
Malcolm Aps.

Speaker 20 (01:16:07):
Oh, the Malcolm's a good chip soun as good as
ship as into the Apps family owned.

Speaker 29 (01:16:11):
So I'm not kicking bet enough to be through apprenticeship
and get my commission. But even at that, I'd almost
rather be a boson on this ship than play had
made on the Malcolm. I stand at Colchesters to be
her captain. Yes, that's right, I always commanded with the
absent sun's lime. Look at the size of her dad,
she's a full two thousand tons less.

Speaker 37 (01:16:30):
Half a time, Charlade, Well, good morning, mister Jermy and
mister Wilmot hello, need how do you do sir?

Speaker 29 (01:16:36):
No child Lee.

Speaker 37 (01:16:37):
She came to one thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine
and a half when we measured the room.

Speaker 29 (01:16:41):
Now two thousand tons or not, mister Jermy, you never
build a better ship than this one.

Speaker 37 (01:16:45):
I don't know, Charlde, I built it the way mister
Opps was dead.

Speaker 29 (01:16:49):
She's big and she's stout, but.

Speaker 4 (01:16:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 29 (01:16:53):
And what's your reason for saying that?

Speaker 37 (01:16:55):
So no reason that makes any sense by the devil's
own time with her, Kevin do gemming when they shouldn't
edge covers that wouldn't fit after they'd been measured up
blocks fell in for no reason at all. I don't know,
mister Willimits, but if she were a human being, I'd
say that maybe she's insane.

Speaker 29 (01:17:14):
Oh come now, you've been working too hard, mister Germany.
Better take a vacation now that she's finished. Well could certainly,
I say, let's make a contest up there the captain's niece.
Is she going to do the christening? That's right, Telly,
And I'd better get down below. Now my own men
are going to knock the stays loose and let her
slide down.

Speaker 21 (01:17:31):
Into the water.

Speaker 29 (01:17:32):
Mister Germans, come on board with the celebration.

Speaker 21 (01:17:36):
Office is launched.

Speaker 29 (01:17:37):
Bring the boy, why and thank you? We should be
there and let it go any minute now, Dad, I'm
going to sail on that ship someday. Oh you probably
sail on a lot of Apps Line ships before you
through Charley. Look, look they give them back the champagne.
Now she's going to Chris.

Speaker 16 (01:17:52):
Listen the family.

Speaker 38 (01:17:56):
Yep, so nay, what plaids she started to do?

Speaker 21 (01:18:06):
There?

Speaker 29 (01:18:07):
She goes, So look at that speed. I never saw it,
damn it. Look out, good lord, if he ready for
the ways and he she went over him.

Speaker 7 (01:18:16):
He didn't fall.

Speaker 29 (01:18:16):
A timber rolled off the deck and knocked him under.
She said, right over him, mister Jermyn, the man who
built her.

Speaker 16 (01:18:21):
She was lunched in blood.

Speaker 29 (01:18:23):
If that means anything, she's a brute and the murders.

Speaker 27 (01:18:26):
Now, Charley, still.

Speaker 29 (01:18:27):
Think you'd like to sail Honna. There's an accident that
doesn't mean anything. Perhaps not. I'll sail on her some day,
sooner or later, I will sail Honor. Well, the way
things worked out, I was the one to say on
her first, instead of Charlie. He'd gone out to the

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orient of all the Malcolm. And six months later, when
I started my apprenticeship, I found the company had assigned
me to report to Captain Colchester on the Apps Family
or the Brute, as everybody was calling up privately.

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
There some kind of mix up of the sailing orders, and.

Speaker 29 (01:19:06):
By the time I came on board, the tug already
had a line on the big sailing ship and was
starting to ease her stern first out into the channel.

Speaker 15 (01:19:13):
All right, now, keys a heaven, pack up the slap.

Speaker 29 (01:19:17):
Captain Colchester was at the taffrel shouting orders to the tug.
Captain and the mates were forward somewhere handling the check line.

Speaker 15 (01:19:23):
You've got the slap now all away.

Speaker 29 (01:19:25):
I stood to the waist, waiting for a chance to
report in, and watching a young fellow about my own
age was doing something or another upper loft on the
mismast above me. The tug had drawn the line out, taught,
but the ship hadn't started to move yet. You have
not no way yet.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
While I engine up to four speed.

Speaker 29 (01:19:41):
The tug was churning the water to fourth and the
houser was tight as a bowstone, but we still didn't
move up. Then suddenly the ship gave a lurch and
started back like a bucking horse. The men foreted no
chance to ease the kit check tack table, and a
second later had snapped the ship t don beck and
then sheered off to bring on the smash against the

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pier head that knocked me sprawling on the deck. End
of that moment, the lad who's been working aloft on
the mouse crashed down onto the deck not ten feet
away from me, and he lay there without moving.

Speaker 20 (01:20:14):
Give a hand up here on my wais straight. Young
Hawkins just fell out of the tops.

Speaker 3 (01:20:18):
Hey, that's too bad.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
See is he dead?

Speaker 29 (01:20:23):
Captain?

Speaker 1 (01:20:23):
Colchester.

Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
He's dead.

Speaker 29 (01:20:24):
Boy, you get a hold of yourself. Don't stand at trembling.

Speaker 20 (01:20:28):
You never seen anybody die before, Yes, sir, on the
day they launched this ship, Jeremy and Eh, you're a
young ned woman, I suppose the new apprentice. Yes, sir,
no doubt you may have heard this ship called by
an unpleasant name once in a while, Yes, the Brute. Well,
you'll be kind enough to remember why you are born.
That her name is the Apse family, and she's had

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her share of accidents, the same as any other ship.

Speaker 29 (01:20:52):
Is that quite clear?

Speaker 20 (01:20:53):
Yes, sir, I get along forward with you and stow
your gear away on the folks who you'll take over,
young Hawkins dude for the tiv Yes, sir.

Speaker 29 (01:21:09):
I sailed aboard the Brute for the next four years
and watched her kill nine men during the time. We
got so we tried to outguess her, try to figure
out how she'd do it the next time. But no
matter what we think, we never were right. And it
wasn't only the killing, it was everything. Most ships have
little ways all their own, and.

Speaker 21 (01:21:29):
You'll learn about him and allow for him.

Speaker 3 (01:21:32):
Ah, but not her.

Speaker 29 (01:21:34):
She was like a crazy woman. You never knew what
she'd do next. I remember once off the Gold Coast,
she ran before a gale for two days as pretty
as you please, and then broached to twice the same afternoon,
flung the helms and clean over the wheel the first time,
and the second time swamped herself fore and aft and
split out every stitch of canvas. And after we got

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the decks cleaned up, we found one seaman overboard. He
was her fifth I guess it was, or maybe the sixth.

Speaker 6 (01:22:07):
Oh.

Speaker 29 (01:22:08):
She was beautiful. The Apps family was big and proud
and beautiful, and along with it a killer, a black
hearted sea going brute. My brother Charlie was on the
China run all that time, first on the Malcolm and

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later on the Lucy Apps, but we never happened to
hit pot on the same time. Finally, the time of
my apprenticeship was up. We boomed into London. At the
end of the trip. I went before the board of
my papers.

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
I guess they.

Speaker 29 (01:22:44):
Figured anybody who could stay alive for four years on
the Brute must be a seaman. Anyway, I passed, and
mister Apps handed me my sailing orders along with the commission.
I was assigned as third mate to Captain Colchester on
the Apps family. Well, congratulations, and I'm glad you've got

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to stay with us. Thanks Captain Colchester.

Speaker 20 (01:23:08):
You've had a hard work and apprentice, and I have
no doubt what you'll be a good officer. In fact,
we have a man on board who'll make sure of that.
Why but what do you mean, Kepner got a new
first mate in this trip? Come in, Charlie, Charlie.

Speaker 29 (01:23:22):
Well, hello, they youngster. I say you've been doing a
bit of growing the last five years. Charlie. I didn't
even know you were in port In for a week
down country there, I hear you fool the board. Careful man,
you're talking about your own third mate, so they tell me,
and you'll be jumping lively on this trip. Meybor, easy, easy,
don't forget.

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
I know this ship and you.

Speaker 29 (01:23:41):
Don't, and I'll learn it quick enough. Been wanting the
chance for a long time. And between us, I think
we can even break this jinx.

Speaker 20 (01:23:48):
Lad, So we don't talk of a jinx in this trip,
at least not in the cabin as long as Maggie's
going along.

Speaker 21 (01:23:55):
Maggie, who's Meggie?

Speaker 20 (01:23:56):
Ask your brother? I think he's the one who talked
her into the trip r She claims it's for her healthy.
I'll leave you two to get acquainted. Will be about
ten days loading if you've got any plans.

Speaker 3 (01:24:09):
What's he talking about, Charlie. Who's Maggie?

Speaker 29 (01:24:11):
His niece, Maggie Colchester. You remember her, the girl of
christened the ship? Oh course, Holy well, he's not dead.
I told you where I've been spending short leaves for
the last year and a half. No, Charlie, I didn't
know anything about it. Well, and let me show you something.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 29 (01:24:26):
Now, if I have my way, Maggie be wearing this
before the trip's over. Yeah, take a look by me.
That's all right. Yes, I bought it in Cape Town.
It's a blue white diamond set in platinum.

Speaker 3 (01:24:37):
Is it big enough to go on her finger?

Speaker 29 (01:24:39):
Oh? It's big enough, all right. That's where it's going
if I can talk her into it.

Speaker 12 (01:24:43):
And who's going to talk who into Charlie?

Speaker 29 (01:24:45):
Uh, Maggie. I was saying that I hoped I could
talk you into going ashore for dinner with me.

Speaker 10 (01:24:53):
Ohwere you now, you big liar?

Speaker 29 (01:24:57):
Oh, Maggie, this is my brother Ned Ned this is Maggie.
And are you into the officers too. I'm the new
third mate, realized, lead me help you all more truthful
than your brother.

Speaker 23 (01:25:07):
Maggie's invitation to dinner, I am accepting with a pleasure.

Speaker 10 (01:25:12):
See you vote later.

Speaker 29 (01:25:14):
But now, Charlie, she's lovely and she's more than that, Ned,
she's everything as far as I'm concerned. In that case,
good luck. I hope you get her and we'll see
about that anyway. With Maggie board, we've got to make
sure this jink ship stays on good behavior for once.
It'll be the first time if she does, when it's

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the first time we've had both the Wilmot's on board
together her. We'll tame her down. Ned, we'll make a
calm and peaceful as an old ware cars. Just you
wait and see if we don't.

Speaker 4 (01:25:44):
Ah.

Speaker 29 (01:25:52):
And the strange part of it was he was right.
We stood out past Gravesend and made the passage to
the China coast in one hundred and twenty one days
of her finest weather you could ever hope to meet,
and for the first time in her bloody life, the
old ship settled down and sailed herself as meat as
you please. Charlie and I have talked about it. Sometimes

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when Maggie wasn't around, he'd always laugh and say, the
brute knew when she'd met her match, but she didn't
dare try to buck the two of us.

Speaker 15 (01:26:22):
Well.

Speaker 29 (01:26:22):
I was more ready to give the credit to Maggie
to think maybe she'd charmed the old murderers away. She
charmed all the rest of us. From the second day out,
Maggie was the secret darling of every man on board.
She was all over the ship, here, there, and everywhere,
with red tam and her bright blue eyes, never still
a minute, and having the time of her life. If

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she'd come along for her health, she'd found it. Before
we passed Gravesend, we raised the storm on the passage
back and ran four days in a heavy gale. I
stood by and held my ready for anything, and nothing happened.
The old lady EPP's family held up her head and

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sailed along like a sea gull. Any time before she'd
have buried her gunnelle in the quartering seas, But now
all the water she shipped you could put in a teacup.
One hundred and nine days from Hong Kong, we raised
the dungness light, and early the next morning picked up
a tug off sheered us from the long tow up
river to London. The ship followed along on the toe

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line like a puppy on a leash, and we moved
slowly up the river past Graves End. All of us
were glad to be home, but Maggie most of all,
I think, because she'd never been at sea so long before.
I had to smile at the way she danced around
on the bows, picking out one landmark after another as
we came to them, sometimes standing up on the spare
anchor we'd taken in on the fore deck in order

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to get a better look at the river banks ahead.
She wasn't wearing the ring yet, but I knew she
was going to. It was only teasing Charlie as long
as possible.

Speaker 5 (01:28:04):
What's wrong?

Speaker 29 (01:28:05):
Ned A tug stopped her engines, so lesien up ahead
in the channel. Charlie, looks like a yawl and a
schooner fol together. Yes, Oh, looks like they're cutting it
up now. Guess we can move again a couple of minutes. Maggie,
why don't you go on the after deck. You're on
the way upward there.

Speaker 9 (01:28:22):
I'm all right, Charlie, stop worrying.

Speaker 29 (01:28:25):
We're almost better. Save your orders for the crude Charlie.
She ranks you take orders from her any day. Yes,
we are almost town ned, we've had a lucky voyage.
Who's the first halfway peaceful trip I've ever made in
the old brute. I told you we'd tam her down.
She's turned over a new leaf. Ned, it won't last

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long if she keeps on shearing off there and drifting
back down the channel. Yes, we're heading strength for those
fishing smacks.

Speaker 3 (01:28:54):
Better have the tug.

Speaker 29 (01:28:55):
Start up and held a todd line on her. I've
seen her do this before. A Hi the tug, take
up the slack and get us straight in the channel,
hold it against the current. Any other ship would have
held s teddy for the two or three minutes we
stopped budding mouthed the old Rapp's family. And now when

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the tug tightened up in the halls are pulling at
an angle across her bows, she wouldn't respond, wouldn't budge.
The old girl wanted her own way. She was just
as stubborn as ever. Oh, hoiler tag, we're still drifting
up and up to full speed. Come fonder. When I
saw a ship back like this. The heavy howser was

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pulled so tight it was humming and tugs pedals with
her engines full, whipped up the water like a mill race.
And then it happened. The heavy towing chok tore loose
from the deck. The hauser began sliding across the bow,
ripping out rails touches like magsticks. And my heart was
going to sleep under the tips of the spare anchor,
the anchor that Maggie was standing on. Maggie, get off

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the ancle, look at. She tried to jump clear, but
she was too late. The great anchor had tipped up
in its side, cast her about the waist like a
monster's arm of steel. It had carried her with it
and swung down and over and smashed against the side
of the ship.

Speaker 16 (01:30:13):
She went into the water.

Speaker 29 (01:30:14):
Take charge of the deck net. I'm going after ned,
was that Maggie. Yes, so she's she's overboard, Captain courtester, Maggie. Oh,
the dirty, murdering brute. Now it's woman she's killing. Let
go the port all the say yes, I cut the
bottle her. I hadn't told Charlie, and I didn't say
anything about it to Captain Colchester. But I stood there

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and I knew it wasn't any use, because I'd seen
the way the heavy anchor had carried her over and
then swung in to smash her against the bow before
it dropped her into the water, and I'd seen the
way that water beneath the bow was.

Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
All colored red. They found her at.

Speaker 29 (01:31:01):
Late afternoon, and the tide turned and she floated clear
of one of the mooring boys, and the next morning
we tied up in the London docks. The men had
been happy at coming into their home pot, but now
they remembered how she'd been happy to their own darling.
I'd never before seen a cruel leavership so quietly, and

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some of them, when they reached the wharf, turned back
and cursed her under the breath. Finally, it was only
Charlie and I alone on the quarter deck, and Captain
Colchester was below somewhere in the cabin.

Speaker 3 (01:31:39):
She never wored mid.

Speaker 29 (01:31:42):
Ring, She never wore she would have, Charlie. I know
she meant too. She was just having a little fun
with you, that's all. But all of a sudden board,
Why did the brute have to go over, Maggie? Why
I guess there's not much answer for that. She was
everything I wanted everything. Yes, Charlie, I talked to him

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making the voyage. It's my idea. It's no good, Charlie,
this kind of thinking. I guess you know that I
don't know. She's everything I wanted.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
Charlie.

Speaker 20 (01:32:15):
Over here, Captain, I'm going ashore. The ship keepers come
aboard now. The two of you were free to go
whenever you're like. Thank you, Sir Charlie, I am nothing.
I'm resigning command in the morning. I'll never sit foot
on board her again as long as I live.

Speaker 29 (01:32:32):
I feel the same way, sir.

Speaker 20 (01:32:34):
Well come into the company office in a day or
two and sign out for the log.

Speaker 29 (01:32:39):
Good day, gentlemen. Charlie, we better go ashore too. We're
down here. Yes, I suppose we are learrange to have
our gear picked up later. There's no use of the captain,

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miss Tim but good yarda'm off.

Speaker 16 (01:33:02):
The mainmast fell right behind him.

Speaker 7 (01:33:04):
I have met me a veteran room, and that was
your last time.

Speaker 29 (01:33:10):
That yard was made fast at Dunkenness and now falls
out of the top. So with the ship lying still
at the wall, Yes, Charlie, come on, let's go ashore.
I wasn't the devil satisfied for one trip? So now
way of stopping her? How many waters you want to kill? Charlie, mad,
bake me home?

Speaker 18 (01:33:29):
Oh.

Speaker 29 (01:33:37):
Charlie was ten years older by the time we reached home,
and it was two weeks before he'd do anything more
than sit in his room and stare at the wall
saying nothing. Captain courch Haester carried out his threat and
resigned from the company the morning after we docked, and
I filed my application for a transfer. The App's family

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was reloaded and ready to sail, but she stayed on
lying at the wharf. There's nobody to take her out.
And that's the way things stood for two weeks until
one morning a bombshell dropped, Ned, Sharlie. I wondered where

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you went this morning, and I left the house hearder,
how do you feel fine? Ned? Mister Apps tells me
you replied for the chansfer another ship. Well, ye, yes,
I did. As a matter of fact, you saw Man
Apps as I stopped in the office this morning. Ned.

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It's up to you, of course, but I hope you'll
change your mind another chance. The ship says tomorrow morning Oh,
so they finally found somebody crazy enough to take her out.

Speaker 3 (01:34:52):
Yes, they did.

Speaker 16 (01:34:55):
Me.

Speaker 29 (01:34:55):
You you're going to skip of the brute, that's right, Ned,
But I it's a short voyage north Atlantic run. You're
awfully glad to have you along, somebody I can depend on.
If she like signing on again, Charlie, of course, it's
up tune, all right, Charlie, I'll sign on again.

Speaker 3 (01:35:16):
Be glad.

Speaker 29 (01:35:25):
We boomed out past the Sheerness light and headed off,
hugging a.

Speaker 3 (01:35:29):
Lee shore in a stiff breeze.

Speaker 29 (01:35:31):
The ship drove herhead as steady as a barge, with
scarcely a roller or quiver. But in spite of the
smooth and easy way she handled, I couldn't help feeling uneasy.
I could sense the black spirit of her brooding somewhere
down inside, mocking and taunting us with her bloody memories
and waiting for a new chance. By nightfall we were

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running hard in along the Kettening coast, where those rocky
headlands break at intervals out of the shelving sandy beaches.
The onshore wind hells steady in our quarter, and the
sun sank down behind the land some three miles away.

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It wasn't quite full dark yet. When Charlie sent for me,
I came up to where he was standing alone near
the wheel. Is that you need a right Charlie?

Speaker 16 (01:36:23):
Person said you wanted to see me?

Speaker 29 (01:36:24):
Yes, I did send for your nd. I said, here
shoguards close to the wind. I've been standing here thinking
about Maggie Ned, and she scrambled around over the decks,
making friends with everybody, having the time.

Speaker 3 (01:36:42):
Of her life.

Speaker 29 (01:36:42):
Charlie, you've got to stop it. I'm all right. I
like to think about her. It's this ship and all
the memories around it. It's what I was afraid owner.
It's all right, Ned. I want you to take charge
of the crew and give an order. Of course you'll
question them, but you'll carry it out anyway. Do you

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understand what's what's the order?

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
Charlie?

Speaker 29 (01:37:06):
Have all hands prepared to abandoned ship? Why? There's nothing wrong,
mister Wilmot. It is not an officer's place to question
an order by the captain. You'll lose your tourne. Yes,
you can give me order now, mister Wilmot. Charlie, I
can't let you very well.

Speaker 21 (01:37:26):
Captain.

Speaker 22 (01:37:28):
All hands on deck stand by, boats repair abandoned ship.

Speaker 29 (01:37:37):
All right, the helmsman, find your place in the boats.
I'll take over the wheel.

Speaker 3 (01:37:40):
Sir.

Speaker 29 (01:37:41):
You don't know what you're doing, Charlie.

Speaker 11 (01:37:42):
We are in no danger.

Speaker 16 (01:37:43):
There's no reason to abandon ship.

Speaker 29 (01:37:45):
You're always in danger about this black hearted brute. I
put on the quarter now you can get the boats
in the water once you yield. Sorry, on steady, going
on the quarter, busy on all right? Now we shouldn't

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have any trouble running ashore of that beach there at
the side.

Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
Hey, what about you.

Speaker 29 (01:38:10):
I'll hold a steady until everybody's clear. You better go
over the side your boat standing there. Oh no, not
until you do. I'm staying with you, Charlie. You'll be
a full ned. I'm doing this alone, No, Charlie, number,
I'm here. Mister Wilmot. You will abandon the ship and
take charge of the boats in the water. And that's
an order, Charlie, I can't, mister Wilmot, very well, Captain,

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then suspirit lad and who by orders and step lively.
You'll be a seaman yet, good luck name, Thanks Charlie.
Stand by for you in the boats.

Speaker 3 (01:38:47):
Ran Bang.

Speaker 29 (01:38:51):
I slipped over the gunal and dropped down into the
boat that trailed along the side on a line from
the rail.

Speaker 21 (01:38:56):
I'd hardly hit the bottom of the line.

Speaker 29 (01:38:57):
Second I knew Charlie had cut us loose in the ship.
He was alone on her now alone in the night
sea with a black brute.

Speaker 16 (01:39:10):
Look sir, look he's laid it over away from the wind.

Speaker 29 (01:39:12):
Charlie put the helm over hard, with a terrible shudder
of her dark sails and a smother of white foam
from her bows. The great ship heeled about in a
sharp turn, and then began to drive ahead like some
mad thing before the wind, straight before the wind, and
straight toward the shore.

Speaker 16 (01:39:25):
Look, sir, the rocks on the headland.

Speaker 9 (01:39:26):
She's going to smash herself.

Speaker 29 (01:39:28):
Faster and faster. She plunged her head through the weltering seas,
faster and faster, on the back of the gale, while
the black hearted spirit of her screamed in the rat line.

Speaker 7 (01:39:35):
Look, what are the name of heavenything I go to do?

Speaker 29 (01:39:37):
And now for one long instant she hung poised at
the top of a plunge, and then drove, smashing downward
onto the We stood by as close as we dared

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for three hours while the killers ship pounded us up
to bits in the surge in the sea. But we
didn't find my brother Charlie. And from the first minute
I knew we wouldn't because just before I'd left the ship,
there by the home, in the light of the binnacle lamp,

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I'd seen the thing he was holding, clenched tight in
his hard brown fist. It was a tiny platinum ring
set with a blue diamond.

Speaker 36 (01:41:18):
Escape is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald and Tonight
Brought You The Brute by Joseph Conrad, adapted for radio
by Les Crutchfield, featuring Dan O'hurleahey as Ned Wilmot and
Eric Rolf as Charlie Wilmot, with Nina Cowden as Maggie,
Jeff Corey as Captain Colchester Wilms, Herbert as German, and

(01:41:40):
Parley Bear as the Father. Music is conceived and conducted
by Wilbur Hatch.

Speaker 3 (01:41:47):
Next week.

Speaker 29 (01:41:51):
You will find the remote hill country of Afghan Pot
in an ambush by the fierce Patroon tribes, in a
hopeless fight from which there seems no escape.

Speaker 1 (01:42:16):
You like the team. It's my favorite blend. It's soothing
and worn, but there's something cold about it. I'm not
sure how else to describe it, but I've never been
very good with words at all, although obviously I do

(01:42:41):
appreciate thing very much. As I take another sip, I
can't help but attempt to wrap my mind around what
is this sensation that I get when I when I
sip at this elixir of comfort. I suppose it's a

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wave of terror.

Speaker 3 (01:43:11):
And now mystery come in. Welcome. I'm E. G. Marshall.

Speaker 4 (01:43:38):
She is an incredibly imposing figure, Queen Liliolani, last of
a pure line of Polynesian royalty. Save for the handsome sun,
she faces nearly eye level to eye level, although Danny Makahini.

Speaker 3 (01:43:53):
Is well over six feet.

Speaker 4 (01:43:56):
Always a woman of Amazonian proportions, middle age has blown
her to gargantuan size and girth, and her anger and
emotion is as monumental as.

Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
The rest of her.

Speaker 10 (01:44:08):
Marry A Howley, I'd as soon see you.

Speaker 5 (01:44:11):
Dot Come on, mother.

Speaker 22 (01:44:12):
It's the twentieth century and Hawaii is a state, not
a monarchy.

Speaker 14 (01:44:16):
The Polynesian and the American Indian are two of a kind,
two civilizations pirated, their lands, raped and stolen, their countries plundered,
and their people sold into virtual slavery.

Speaker 3 (01:44:29):
You should be running for the Senate.

Speaker 14 (01:44:31):
I should be making powder and cleaning my gun. For
of all the howlies on this island, the most repressive
imperialist surrogate king is Carter Bradley and my son who
married his daughter only over my dead body.

Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
Mother, I've never seen you like this. You're always so reasonable.

Speaker 10 (01:44:51):
Are betrothed through Turnina.

Speaker 22 (01:44:53):
We haven't really seen each other for over seven years.
She's more like a little sister to me.

Speaker 14 (01:44:57):
I know more than you do, my son, For all
your doctor's knowledge, I beg you not to tempt fate.
The gods have been angry enough for years, and my
inner senses tell me what you plan will bring a
great auru wife down upon us. I see a raging
disaster already set in being that no human being can stop.

Speaker 4 (01:45:28):
Our mystery drama Wave of Terror was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Paul Hect
and Carmen Matthews. When she mentioned disaster, Queen Liliolani could
not have sensed the extent of the Holocaust, which was

(01:45:49):
to change so many lives, for at the moment she
spoke out of some alluvial fault in the Great Alaskan Ridge.
The earth billed from its guts like a volcano, throwing
up great mountains of lava, displacing trillions of tons of
water that formed a great tidal wave traveling unnoticed beneath

(01:46:13):
the surface, rushing southward at a speed of up to
five hundred miles an hour, towards the first land mass
in its.

Speaker 3 (01:46:22):
Way, the Islands of Hawaii.

Speaker 4 (01:46:31):
Two days earlier, Danny Makahemi and Liz Bradley had gotten
off the plane from the States at Hilo Airport. Danny
tall nut brown, Liz a blue eyed sun bronze, typical
California girls. God and goddess with a special shine, the

(01:46:51):
shine of love. But despite the message of their eyes
and their faith and assurance, the homeland has brought them
a cloud of uncertainty.

Speaker 10 (01:47:04):
I'll manage somehow, Danny.

Speaker 8 (01:47:06):
God's tough, but I can usually break them down.

Speaker 5 (01:47:09):
So is Mother.

Speaker 3 (01:47:10):
I wish I felt as sure of her. She has
a genius for getting her own way.

Speaker 8 (01:47:16):
It's a habit of royalty, and we're both children of royalty.

Speaker 22 (01:47:19):
Only yours is for real, so is yours? Mine is
just tradition, But yours is forced mageur. Mother is a
queen my birth. Your father wears his crown by only
half of Hawaii. What makes me unhappy is that I
can't bring you the kind of world you're used to,
which is only one of the strikes against me as
far as your father is concerned.

Speaker 10 (01:47:38):
Now, don't start that bit again. So you are cannot come.
I'm a holy So.

Speaker 3 (01:47:44):
What in this day and a it's nothing stateside here
in the Hawaii.

Speaker 10 (01:47:48):
What's the difference where.

Speaker 8 (01:47:49):
The ones getting married? Supposing they don't give us their blessing?

Speaker 3 (01:47:53):
It's up to you and me, isn't it, Oh, honey,
of course, except.

Speaker 22 (01:47:58):
Maybe I'm still part heathen for all without my mother
and your father's blessing.

Speaker 6 (01:48:03):
I have a.

Speaker 22 (01:48:05):
Now, for all my liberal arts education in medical school,
I still can't explain it with.

Speaker 3 (01:48:09):
Anything but a Hawaiian Polynesian word.

Speaker 21 (01:48:11):
I have a mayor, mayor.

Speaker 10 (01:48:13):
That's just plain superstition.

Speaker 22 (01:48:15):
No, it's it's an uneasy feeling. But if it has
an explanation, it goes away. Big difference.

Speaker 3 (01:48:23):
Welcome home, darling.

Speaker 8 (01:48:25):
We're borrowing trouble. Let's just go home and face up
to our parents, and maybe there won't be either.

Speaker 3 (01:48:31):
I only want to make it as easy for them
as it is for us. I love you, and I
love you.

Speaker 8 (01:48:37):
It's as simple as that, So just kiss me a
short goodbye, your big worry word complain?

Speaker 3 (01:48:42):
Did I have to be asked? What is it? First
rift in the loop?

Speaker 26 (01:48:51):
Your ex rival, doctor Peter Hughes is heading.

Speaker 19 (01:48:53):
Straight for us.

Speaker 3 (01:48:54):
How do you get through customs?

Speaker 8 (01:48:56):
The Bradley name the key that opens all doors?

Speaker 3 (01:49:00):
Money?

Speaker 10 (01:49:00):
Dad, isn't he will?

Speaker 3 (01:49:01):
He's probably too busy reigning. Isn't that what a king
does all day? Elizabeth? Danny, Hello, what's the matter with Dad?
Not a thing?

Speaker 4 (01:49:13):
Then?

Speaker 10 (01:49:13):
Why isn't here to me?

Speaker 4 (01:49:15):
He got tied up in some business? Am I such
a bad substitute?

Speaker 3 (01:49:19):
Of course, not the feeling.

Speaker 4 (01:49:21):
I was something of a letdown, by the way, Danny,
Queen Lily Alani, and that exquisite intended of you as
tallamina waiting for you outside?

Speaker 3 (01:49:28):
Oh, I'd better make tracks.

Speaker 4 (01:49:30):
Mother doesn't like to be kept waiting, and I better
get Elizabeth into the helicopter. Mister Bradley is a little
impatient himself.

Speaker 3 (01:49:38):
Will I be hearing from you tomorrow, Liz?

Speaker 10 (01:49:41):
I hope tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:49:52):
I didn't particularly know you knew Danny mcaheoney.

Speaker 8 (01:49:55):
Ohly since I went to college on the Mainland.

Speaker 3 (01:49:57):
You seem to have made up for lost time.

Speaker 19 (01:50:00):
What does that mean? I'm not blind.

Speaker 4 (01:50:02):
I saw that I was going to say farewell kiss,
but I don't think that quite characterizes it.

Speaker 8 (01:50:09):
However, I don't want to talk about Danny right now.
I want to talk about what you're avoiding.

Speaker 19 (01:50:17):
What is it about Dan?

Speaker 4 (01:50:19):
You're quite right, it's a subject I wish I could avoid.

Speaker 10 (01:50:22):
He's sick. What's the matter? Is it is hot?

Speaker 4 (01:50:24):
No, it isn't anything necessarily fatal for a long time.

Speaker 7 (01:50:28):
But but what well?

Speaker 4 (01:50:32):
I would give anything not to be a doctor, or
I have been one these past few months because I
have known that that magnificent body was letting him down.

Speaker 3 (01:50:42):
It's only a shell.

Speaker 4 (01:50:43):
Now what do you mean don't let him know? I
told you, But it can't be hidden much longer. Your
father has Parkinson's disease?

Speaker 10 (01:50:52):
Oh my god?

Speaker 16 (01:50:54):
Does that mean he's going to die with care?

Speaker 4 (01:50:57):
What medication we know has some results in the normal conditions. No,
but there are plenty of symptoms, none of which your
father is going to be able to bear. What symptoms
in your father's case, mostly muscular trembling of the hands,
dropping things unconsciously, a rigidity which will inevitably cut down
on his normally superactive lifestyle. A mock decrease in his

(01:51:21):
muscular control.

Speaker 10 (01:51:22):
Oh no, oh, that can't happen to dad. What can
we do to help?

Speaker 3 (01:51:29):
Some drugs, a fortunate remission, and the disease.

Speaker 4 (01:51:32):
Sometimes most of all, trying to avoid emotional excitement and fatigue.

Speaker 10 (01:51:39):
Welcome home.

Speaker 3 (01:51:40):
I had to tell you, especially since.

Speaker 29 (01:51:45):
Do I stop now?

Speaker 3 (01:51:47):
I love you, Elizabeth.

Speaker 4 (01:51:48):
I'm too old for you, but just the same, I
know you're in love with Danny mcehemy if you want
to tell your father so, I'm trying very hard to
be as objective as a doctor ought to be. I
don't know what any of our futures are destined to be,
but I do know that your father's life not necessarily death,

(01:52:09):
but his life is probably in your hands at this moment.
And from your audience, what's the matter?

Speaker 10 (01:52:22):
Don't like me anymore?

Speaker 3 (01:52:23):
I love you Tew as a little sister.

Speaker 22 (01:52:28):
I always have and I always will, but to no
meaning of blue out Yes, Tower Mina, and I am ashamed.

Speaker 10 (01:52:37):
Please, I know you want to marry the only girl.

Speaker 3 (01:52:41):
I can't help myself, little sister.

Speaker 21 (01:52:44):
I love her.

Speaker 10 (01:52:46):
The queen will never alive.

Speaker 22 (01:52:48):
I need Carter Bradley's consent more than I do my
own mother's. And if you do not get it, and
to hell with the past, we will buy our own.

Speaker 3 (01:52:56):
Future and nothing and no one can stop us.

Speaker 26 (01:53:04):
Blisbel Daddy. You can't know how good it is to
see you find Damn you more beautiful than ever, and
you look just.

Speaker 3 (01:53:14):
Like your mother.

Speaker 10 (01:53:16):
What do you do?

Speaker 26 (01:53:17):
I'm stealing a patron peacebook, but I think I deserve
it because it looks like Beth did when I married her.
I'm going to carry you over the threshold back home again.

Speaker 10 (01:53:26):
Dad, You shouldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:53:27):
Why not.

Speaker 10 (01:53:29):
I'm not such a little girl anymore.

Speaker 26 (01:53:31):
Oh nonsense, Light as a feather, which is just what
you are, the proudest feather I wear in my cap. Damn,
I'm sorry, Lizabeth, did I spill? No, Dad, I came
a cropper of a new Stori and I've been breaking

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in my arms a bit stiffer.

Speaker 29 (01:53:53):
You're right, Oh, now you're home.

Speaker 34 (01:53:57):
Oh.

Speaker 26 (01:53:58):
I have a few bruises here and there, but I
can shake him off the moment I see you and
Pete happily married. Now you're graduated, Let's make it soon.

Speaker 3 (01:54:07):
I'll give the girl a chance to catch her breath.

Speaker 4 (01:54:09):
Why were you I wouldn't grab a while again, only
when Liz wants me.

Speaker 3 (01:54:13):
Now, don't tell me I.

Speaker 26 (01:54:15):
Said something out of line, typical of me. Tried a
rush thing, and this damn hand is bothering me. Tonight
we can talk it all out tomorrow. I can't tell
you how good it is to have you home and
wire again, sweetheart.

Speaker 10 (01:54:32):
I've been waiting to get back myself.

Speaker 26 (01:54:34):
It's a cold old house without your mother.

Speaker 3 (01:54:38):
You are my one hope.

Speaker 26 (01:54:38):
For a while it was future And how boy, is
a lot of responsibility to put on a daughter's shoulders.

Speaker 3 (01:54:46):
Not since I have no son left, I know you
won't fail me.

Speaker 10 (01:54:57):
So this is where you've been hiding. No to young lovers, Danny.
You should not have stolen Tower men away from the feast.
I was the one to need to speak to Danny alone.

Speaker 3 (01:55:09):
Thanks Talbot. I can't speak for.

Speaker 26 (01:55:10):
Myself, and there are too many words in the world.

Speaker 14 (01:55:14):
Let us just thank the gods for what little we have.
We are a dying race, Lisson, but still a proud one.
You and Town can keep us alive. And I thank
all and and ta Aura that the moment is almost.

Speaker 3 (01:55:30):
He almost here.

Speaker 10 (01:55:31):
You're a doctor now.

Speaker 14 (01:55:33):
Now the wedding ceremony need wait no longer. I have
said it for the full moon the night after to month.

Speaker 29 (01:55:43):
Mother, Mother, Tower Mina, and I will not be wet tongue.

Speaker 11 (01:55:50):
Is this your week?

Speaker 10 (01:55:51):
I no, but don't stumm a girl and sommy I.

Speaker 3 (01:55:55):
Will answer you. Mother. I love Tao as a little
si to. But I will marry Elizabeth Bradley.

Speaker 10 (01:56:05):
The daughter of Carter Bradley, the Holy Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:56:09):
Mother, never, I'm sorry, I must. We are in love.

Speaker 28 (01:56:14):
He won't let you.

Speaker 3 (01:56:15):
How can he stop us?

Speaker 10 (01:56:17):
Then I will if I have to call on all
the ancient gods.

Speaker 22 (01:56:21):
Please, Mother, I no longer believe in magic a Louis
or any superstitious curse that could harm me or Liz.

Speaker 14 (01:56:28):
No curse or any magic to harm the girl. I
have no power for that or second sight. But I
tell you this, if you marry this holy girl, if
you tie your life to Carter Bradley's daughter, you end
my LuFe.

Speaker 10 (01:56:44):
My death will be on your head and hers I
can smell it in the wind.

Speaker 14 (01:56:49):
If you insist in the words of the missionary, you
will reap the whirlwind.

Speaker 4 (01:57:01):
Queen Liliolani could have had no specific foreknowledge of the
holocaust in store.

Speaker 3 (01:57:08):
Carter Bradley, absolute.

Speaker 4 (01:57:10):
Monarch, whose magnificent physique is betraying him, and whose weakness
will lead him back to old sins.

Speaker 3 (01:57:19):
None of our.

Speaker 4 (01:57:20):
Characters can yet know the cataclysm of nature which is
to affect their lives. I shall return shortly with that two.
The great shelf of sub ocean land that lies off

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the Aleutian chain of islands is still intact. It is
some forty eight hours still before the Titanic undersea explosion
will render asunder and.

Speaker 3 (01:57:53):
Create a wave that will rise towering to.

Speaker 4 (01:57:56):
Ninety feet twenty to thirty feet above the great Mansion
at Wailua, which spreads.

Speaker 3 (01:58:03):
Along the coral cliffs, looking northward to the.

Speaker 4 (01:58:05):
Vast Pacific and the coming terror an a La Nai,
facing away from the ocean. Carter is just finishing breakfast,
as Liz joins him, Well now it seems more like
home again.

Speaker 3 (01:58:20):
Morning, doesn't Dear morning, Dad?

Speaker 26 (01:58:23):
You know I've been sitting here snorting as impatient as
the old war horse I am, but I couldn't wait
I've finished breakfast.

Speaker 3 (01:58:32):
I'm waiting for yours.

Speaker 10 (01:58:34):
No, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (01:58:35):
Please, it's a matter of princess. You don't feel well.

Speaker 10 (01:58:40):
I wish you wouldn't call me back. Princess.

Speaker 21 (01:58:43):
It's my old name for you, what I always called you.

Speaker 3 (01:58:47):
You you don't feel well.

Speaker 8 (01:58:51):
I'm tired, Dad, long trip, changing time.

Speaker 3 (01:58:54):
Well you should have slept longer. How about some copy?

Speaker 10 (01:58:57):
No, no, thanks, nothing for the moment. We have things
to talk about, Well, of course.

Speaker 26 (01:59:03):
We have, but I sort of thought we'd keep that
for lunch, and Pete will be here. And don't you
think he ought to be part of it?

Speaker 3 (01:59:12):
No, Dad, I don't.

Speaker 26 (01:59:14):
I only that's so fair, Princess, all right if you
prefer it Elizabeth. Oh why I can't use the old name.

Speaker 10 (01:59:22):
It doesn't fit me.

Speaker 19 (01:59:23):
Dad.

Speaker 10 (01:59:24):
It's not what I am.

Speaker 26 (01:59:28):
On these islands, and particularly this one's what you are
at the very least. If we were to ride the
monarch here way up to the top, you could turn
and look north, east, west, and south, and every bit
of land you saw would.

Speaker 3 (01:59:43):
Be yours, or we'll be some day. Are you so
sure that I own it?

Speaker 26 (01:59:49):
It's mine, along with a few other things. When I'm
gone who else would it be except yours and Pete's.

Speaker 10 (01:59:58):
I don't really know.

Speaker 8 (02:00:00):
I'm not sure it's that important to me. What would
happen if I didn't marry Pete didn't?

Speaker 3 (02:00:10):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 10 (02:00:12):
Would the Bradley Ranch still be mine and all that
goes with it? If I didn't?

Speaker 3 (02:00:18):
Who else would you marry?

Speaker 10 (02:00:28):
I didn't expect you off so early, my son. After
the long trip and.

Speaker 3 (02:00:32):
The lure, it was a perfect morning for surfing.

Speaker 22 (02:00:35):
When the sun rose, I saw those easy rolling four foots,
and I grabbed my board and.

Speaker 10 (02:00:39):
Took off, happy to be home again in your own lane.

Speaker 22 (02:00:43):
Yes, in a sense, heading across those waves out there
gave me back not only my sense of balance, but
just my own plain, good sense.

Speaker 10 (02:00:54):
I'm happy to hear that. Then today we don't follow.

Speaker 3 (02:00:59):
That's up to you you. My doubts are all gone.

Speaker 14 (02:01:02):
I would hope that you tell me you are talking
about Tauarmina.

Speaker 10 (02:01:06):
Yes in part, yes, you will marry her.

Speaker 3 (02:01:10):
Mother listened to me.

Speaker 22 (02:01:11):
I know your pride in race, in bloodline, your struggle
to make sure.

Speaker 3 (02:01:16):
That it won't die.

Speaker 22 (02:01:18):
But when I left Hawaii to go to UCLA, I
was eighteen. Tao was ten eleven years old. We made
the promises, we took.

Speaker 3 (02:01:27):
The vows, but Tao was too young to know what
was involved. I believe then, as you do still, that
our heritage and our race must be preserved. But I
don't any longer.

Speaker 10 (02:01:38):
You are a Polynesian prince.

Speaker 22 (02:01:39):
No, I am a citizen of the world, mother, a doctor, race, creed, color, nationalism.

Speaker 3 (02:01:46):
Nothing matters to me but that the human body is
one and the same thing.

Speaker 22 (02:01:50):
The body made strong or weak by exercise and usage,
the brain the same by education or lack of it.

Speaker 10 (02:01:58):
So you will not marry? How are Mima?

Speaker 14 (02:02:01):
No you think Carter Bradley will share your views accept
you as his son in law.

Speaker 3 (02:02:07):
I don't know. I'll find that out today.

Speaker 16 (02:02:10):
But if he doesn't.

Speaker 3 (02:02:11):
We are both of age. Mother, he can't stop us.

Speaker 10 (02:02:13):
I wouldn't be too sure of that. And what about me?

Speaker 3 (02:02:17):
I want you to meet miss Mother. I think you'll
change your mind.

Speaker 10 (02:02:21):
I will meet her, but I shall not change my mind.

Speaker 28 (02:02:26):
And what will you do?

Speaker 35 (02:02:27):
Then?

Speaker 3 (02:02:28):
Meeta? First, before we come to that decision, when I'll
take the jeep into town and call her. Then I'll
drive to waya Lua, get her and bring her back.

Speaker 10 (02:02:38):
You're wasting your time.

Speaker 22 (02:02:40):
I hope not, because I love you and I want
you to love her too. I'll be back by mid afternoon.

Speaker 14 (02:02:50):
Great, honey, help me, help me make my son see
that our race shamed and despoiled and buying out, does
that new life ready into it? Only Makaheemi and power
Mina can do it. She's a princess in her own right.
Help me, Connee, help me or the smell of doom

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that comes to me on the wind from the north
will come.

Speaker 10 (02:03:17):
Keep him?

Speaker 26 (02:03:26):
Hey, why stable king here and rub them down good?

Speaker 3 (02:03:31):
I wrote him hard this.

Speaker 39 (02:03:32):
Money a hey pebe mony TV.

Speaker 3 (02:03:36):
I'm hungry as a bull.

Speaker 4 (02:03:38):
Lunch ready, Yes, there's a nice breeze off the water.

Speaker 3 (02:03:41):
So John Lee sat the two of us up on
the front lane.

Speaker 26 (02:03:43):
I two of us. Lizabeth still sink. Oh, cor Let's
go through the house.

Speaker 3 (02:03:49):
I have to wash up anyway. Where's she upstairs?

Speaker 4 (02:03:54):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:03:54):
She she left quite a bit before I got here.
What do you mean sick?

Speaker 18 (02:04:00):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (02:04:00):
She was feeling it alof her feet at breakfast.

Speaker 3 (02:04:04):
Left to go wor Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:04:05):
Danny Mkaheiny came by and picked her up. Liz said
she'd be back in the late afternoon.

Speaker 26 (02:04:12):
Queen Luliolani son. Yes, oh, I thought he was at
medical school on the mainland.

Speaker 3 (02:04:18):
He was, He's graduated. He came back on the same
plane with Liz yesterday.

Speaker 26 (02:04:22):
I didn't even though she knew him. But I don't
like this about Elizabeth.

Speaker 10 (02:04:27):
It is a.

Speaker 3 (02:04:27):
Serious in its own way.

Speaker 4 (02:04:30):
I was going to let her tell you herself that
maybe as your doctor, it's better if I do it instead.

Speaker 3 (02:04:35):
Come on, man, come on, come on, get it out.
What is it? Well, let's sit down for a minute.

Speaker 4 (02:04:39):
I want to remind you of your condition and that
flying off the handle and losing your temper is the
worst thing you can do.

Speaker 26 (02:04:44):
Oh, you pill peddlers, you're all profits of doom.

Speaker 4 (02:04:47):
If you take the pills I provide, you might put
yours off.

Speaker 3 (02:04:50):
A good deal off.

Speaker 26 (02:04:50):
And I sit down, all right, but don't try to
change the subject. I want to know why Elizabeth went
chasing off with makaheiney.

Speaker 3 (02:04:58):
Did they go surfing? Exact brows? You're a common off
lover of Pete.

Speaker 26 (02:05:03):
Your fiancee goes hairing off with another man her first
day back home, even if he is just a canaker
beach boy, and you just.

Speaker 4 (02:05:10):
Let her go First, she left before I got here. Second,
he is not a Canaka beach boy. He's a colleague
of mine, a doctor of medicine. And lastly, Elizabeth is
not my fiance anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:05:25):
What how do you know? Where did you find that out?

Speaker 5 (02:05:30):
Yesterday?

Speaker 3 (02:05:31):
When I brought her home? You turned my daughter down?

Speaker 4 (02:05:34):
No, I should have really in the first place. I'm
far too old for all rubbish. I'm not marrying her, CIB,
and you are not.

Speaker 3 (02:05:42):
Fooling me one bit, Pete. You're still as much.

Speaker 26 (02:05:45):
In love with Elizabeth as you've always been. I smell
a rat, and I'll bet it's Makahey is at it
is at it where they go to see the Queen.

Speaker 3 (02:05:54):
I imagine to ask her blessing to get married my
daughter at a beach.

Speaker 4 (02:06:00):
I stop talking about Danny like that, and don't get
all worked up.

Speaker 3 (02:06:03):
It's bad for you.

Speaker 26 (02:06:05):
I won't get worked up, first of all, because it's
just not going to happen. There'll be no marriage between them,
because if she doesn't stop it, I will, by God
if he as much as theirs.

Speaker 3 (02:06:18):
Trouble is all CD. Now just take it easy.

Speaker 4 (02:06:25):
It's only a temporary attack, Cy, But this time you
are going to take one of my pills.

Speaker 10 (02:06:35):
I'm sorry, my dear.

Speaker 14 (02:06:37):
You're a lovely girl, and I can hardly blame Danny,
but marriage between you is quite impossible. Mother, I haven't finished.
There are reasons beyond reasons why it can never be.
Your blood is not our blood. Danny is already the
true to Princess tawer Mina. The gods are already angered

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and cannot be angered anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:06:59):
God's mother.

Speaker 22 (02:07:00):
It's the twentieth century, and you are as intelligent and
well read and educated as any woman.

Speaker 3 (02:07:05):
I now stop acting like some old, ignorant witch.

Speaker 14 (02:07:08):
I am acting as I must because within me are
ancient chords which sing a death and certain doom for
two people.

Speaker 8 (02:07:17):
Queen Lily Olani, I respect your point of view.

Speaker 10 (02:07:21):
Do you respect your fathers?

Speaker 3 (02:07:23):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (02:07:24):
But I will give you the same answer as I
would give him. I love Danny. I'm over twenty, Danny
is twenty five. There is no way either of you
can stop us. I'd rather it wouldn't be like that,
but Danny and I have agreed.

Speaker 3 (02:07:39):
She's quite right.

Speaker 4 (02:07:40):
Mother.

Speaker 3 (02:07:40):
We'd give anything to have both you and mister Bradley
with us.

Speaker 14 (02:07:44):
But if you are not, I cannot give my consent.
I can only warn you if you persist, it will
end in death and disaster. I have nothing more to say.
I am going to pray for all.

Speaker 22 (02:07:57):
Of us, well Liz, almost all the way home, and
we still haven't decided just how we're going to go
about it.

Speaker 10 (02:08:10):
I know, Danny, it's just I don't think we can
rush it, not right now because of Dad.

Speaker 3 (02:08:16):
If you want to back out, I'm not holding you
to anything, Oh.

Speaker 10 (02:08:21):
Darling, dolt, honey.

Speaker 22 (02:08:22):
I hate to get long winded or go chucking my
medical knowledge around, but Parkinson's, I mean it can it
almost always is a long, long process.

Speaker 10 (02:08:32):
He's going to need me, I mean really need me
for the first time.

Speaker 4 (02:08:37):
In his life.

Speaker 3 (02:08:38):
It's a life that could last another twenty years. Are
you asking me to wait that long?

Speaker 9 (02:08:43):
No?

Speaker 10 (02:08:45):
No, because there are.

Speaker 8 (02:08:50):
Oh Danny, I'm so tired, and I just ken't think
we'll give me children, Laura at least.

Speaker 3 (02:09:00):
Of course, Darling.

Speaker 22 (02:09:04):
I'm under some pressures of my own, and if I
can't have you, well, I won't break my mother's heart
or towels.

Speaker 3 (02:09:11):
And tomorrow night is there night.

Speaker 8 (02:09:14):
I'll talk to Dad tonight. If I can't convince him.
We'll be on our own.

Speaker 3 (02:09:20):
Why not let me do it.

Speaker 22 (02:09:22):
I'm the one seeking your hand, if not your fortune.
I mean, it's up to me, all right, if you
what is it? He looks as Danny Elizabeth inside.

Speaker 4 (02:09:38):
But then, Liz, if either of you want to talk
to him about you as a doctor, I'd say, now
isn't the time?

Speaker 3 (02:09:46):
What happened?

Speaker 4 (02:09:47):
I made a judgment. I thought maybe i'd better tell him.

Speaker 3 (02:09:50):
About you too.

Speaker 5 (02:09:52):
Did Liz tell you about it?

Speaker 28 (02:09:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:09:53):
Did anything serious happen? No, Danny m D to m D.
You know how it can go.

Speaker 4 (02:09:58):
He got a bit emotional and suffered some speech impairments.
He's all right now, but I wouldn't advise anything I can't.

Speaker 3 (02:10:06):
Better duck out fast before he seized me. I'll be
in touch tomorrow morning, Liz, keep your chin out me.
No real warriors about your dad, right, doctor? Right?

Speaker 16 (02:10:15):
Just us?

Speaker 3 (02:10:16):
This too shall pass. I love you till tomorrow and
forever back too. Helloha.

Speaker 10 (02:10:30):
You sure dad's all right?

Speaker 3 (02:10:32):
If we can keep off a certain subject.

Speaker 5 (02:10:34):
Sure, I don't want.

Speaker 8 (02:10:37):
I can't do any more talking about Oh be yelp
me quick.

Speaker 4 (02:10:42):
What is it?

Speaker 8 (02:10:44):
Just something that nobody but me knows about? Yes, I
wonder if anyone else.

Speaker 3 (02:10:52):
Will ever.

Speaker 4 (02:11:03):
What new factor could enter a hoped for marriage which
already appears to have everything against it. And what is
the meaning of Liz's cryptic statement expressing a knowledge that
only she has and no one else may ever know.
Is it the same knowledge that Queen Lili Ornanni talks of.

Speaker 3 (02:11:24):
As buried in the past.

Speaker 4 (02:11:27):
And if she too knows that ancient gods are to
extract penance for buried sins, who are the two that
are doomed or are more to die in the dreadful
natural phenomenon that is at last about to be unleashed
three thousand miles away.

Speaker 3 (02:11:48):
I'll return shortly with Act three.

Speaker 4 (02:12:01):
At exactly eight forty two the following morning, on the
island of Hawaii, two final ultimatums were issued by two
irate parents, one of them by Queen Lily o'lani to
her son.

Speaker 10 (02:12:14):
The gods have been angry enough for years.

Speaker 14 (02:12:17):
My inner voices tell me what you plan will bring
a great our way upon us.

Speaker 10 (02:12:23):
I see your raging disaster will.

Speaker 14 (02:12:25):
Be set in being that no human being can stop.

Speaker 3 (02:12:29):
And cut her.

Speaker 4 (02:12:30):
Bradley to his daughter the next morning, completely recovered through
rest and medication for the moment. Let's get one thing straight, princess,
and don't interrupt me. I use the old name deliberately
on this island. You OUI or the royalty, and I'm
warning you one thing right now. Go near that makaheeny

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kannaka again or let him come.

Speaker 3 (02:12:53):
Near you and I'll shut him down like a dog.

Speaker 26 (02:12:57):
I mean not, Princesses. God is my witness. No one
or nothing can stop me from doing as I want
on this island.

Speaker 4 (02:13:05):
Whether it was sheer coincidence or whether gods ancient or
contemporary took offense, this was the moment the Titanic explosion occurred,
hurling trillions upon trillions of tons of water at breakneck
speed above the ocean bed. Within six hours, it would
hit the north shore the island of Hawaii head on.

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Whether guided by sheer accident or supernatural design, the devastation
it would leave in its wake would be, to say,
the least supernatural.

Speaker 8 (02:13:43):
Dad, you can't be serious or what I am?

Speaker 3 (02:13:47):
You couldn't do this to me doing it for you,
but romance. If you don't marry Pete, I leave everything
to him.

Speaker 10 (02:13:54):
I don't need anything.

Speaker 18 (02:13:55):
Daddy can support me.

Speaker 7 (02:13:56):
I can work.

Speaker 3 (02:13:57):
You'll never marry him.

Speaker 10 (02:13:58):
Why are you so set again?

Speaker 3 (02:14:00):
It should be obvious enough.

Speaker 8 (02:14:02):
Nobody could be that prejudiced.

Speaker 10 (02:14:04):
That bigoted.

Speaker 3 (02:14:06):
To make sure if he comes near here or you again,
I will shoot him on such doctor hughes, Pete.

Speaker 10 (02:14:23):
It's dad. He's had some sort of attack or something.

Speaker 4 (02:14:26):
All right, Liz, just slow down and tell me what happened,
and don't worry. There's no danger.

Speaker 3 (02:14:31):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 10 (02:14:32):
I don't mean to be incoherent, but it's just awful
to see him. Listen to him just spluttering and talking
all sorts of nonsense.

Speaker 3 (02:14:40):
I gave him some medication. Did he take it?

Speaker 7 (02:14:42):
Yes, he's gone upstairs to take it.

Speaker 18 (02:14:45):
What is it, Pete?

Speaker 4 (02:14:46):
It's part of his illness. The speech impairment is one
of the symptoms. Excitement aggravates them. I'll be right out
and let's see if we can figure what to do.
I've given him a sedative that'll keep him quiet.

Speaker 3 (02:15:03):
For a couple of hours.

Speaker 4 (02:15:04):
Problem one out of the way temporarily, not for problem two.

Speaker 8 (02:15:10):
You there isn't any problem about me. I've got to
tell Danny where through I can't marry Danny.

Speaker 3 (02:15:19):
And what about the child?

Speaker 5 (02:15:23):
The child.

Speaker 10 (02:15:25):
You know yes, but ho, I'm not even sure myself.

Speaker 3 (02:15:32):
When I gave you the sedative yesterday, I took some blood.
There's no doubt about it. Liz, you're pregnant.

Speaker 10 (02:15:39):
Oh lord, Now what am I going to do?

Speaker 4 (02:15:42):
You're going to get in the car with me and
drive to Tupapahu. If anything can change Queen Miliolani's mind,
it's the child.

Speaker 10 (02:15:54):
So you are already carrying Danny's child. I do think
that will alter things.

Speaker 3 (02:16:00):
I'm the one who hoped it would.

Speaker 10 (02:16:01):
I won't give up Danny's baby. That's one part of that.
No one can take from me. You have courage, little Lauli,
more courage than I had.

Speaker 4 (02:16:10):
I wouldn't say that. You know what a difference there is.
Danny would want his child, call him, get him here
and ask him.

Speaker 10 (02:16:19):
I can't.

Speaker 3 (02:16:20):
Why not?

Speaker 14 (02:16:21):
He left an hour ago for WAYI Lua, I'm surprised
you didn't pass him.

Speaker 3 (02:16:25):
You must have taken the jeep over the back road.

Speaker 21 (02:16:27):
That's too rough for a car for Whylua Pete.

Speaker 8 (02:16:30):
We've got to stop him somehow, catch up with him.

Speaker 10 (02:16:32):
It's too late for that.

Speaker 14 (02:16:33):
But if he's gone to Wielua, and if father sees him,
you'll kill him.

Speaker 10 (02:16:36):
What is all this?

Speaker 8 (02:16:37):
My father, Queen Deliu Lani, He's promised to shoot Danny
on side.

Speaker 10 (02:16:42):
Oh please, please, can't you help us somehow? Why should I?

Speaker 14 (02:16:46):
It could be your son's life and now aye, and
made responsible again for another life, another son? How history
repeats it so but it won't again. It's past time
for retribution and the gods are coming to claim it.
What do you mean the may may hies upon us.

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I can feel the ripples of it in my soul,
the lift of it like a wave. I will call Brad, Brad,
your father once he meant everything to me that Danny
means to you.

Speaker 3 (02:17:34):
At the moment, the Queen lifted the foam.

Speaker 4 (02:17:37):
A tanker bowing across the North Pacific, lifted ever so
slightly on a five inch surface swell that was the
only sign of the gargantuan tsunami, the dreadful tidal wave,
which swept by at the speed of sound, hurtling toward
the north shore of Hawaii. There, its monstrous energy would

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pie up the waters to a height of over eighty feet,
driving inland till its force was spent to be sucked
back with such diabolic speed that it would carry away
everything in its path.

Speaker 10 (02:18:18):
Yes, Brad, it's little.

Speaker 19 (02:18:23):
Low for a bit sake?

Speaker 10 (02:18:28):
How many years twelve thirteen?

Speaker 3 (02:18:31):
You sound just the same.

Speaker 10 (02:18:33):
I don't look it. How are you brand?

Speaker 3 (02:18:38):
I don't know, Little, I'm not the man I once will.

Speaker 14 (02:18:42):
You'll never change, certainly not for me. I want to
ask you one favor. Have I ever asked one.

Speaker 10 (02:18:55):
From you before?

Speaker 7 (02:18:57):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (02:18:57):
Lord knows you haven't.

Speaker 10 (02:18:59):
It's a matter of life or death. Will you meet
me at the grotto?

Speaker 28 (02:19:04):
If you ask me?

Speaker 3 (02:19:06):
How could I refuse?

Speaker 14 (02:19:08):
If we both leave this minute, we should arrive in
about an hour and a half.

Speaker 3 (02:19:12):
All right, there it.

Speaker 32 (02:19:16):
It'll be good to see you again.

Speaker 14 (02:19:19):
If you shut your eyes to what I have become.
At least it's dark. I'll see you at the grotto.
After your mother died, Elizabeth, we were lovers, your father
and I. I carried a child of his in my womb.
But we were ridden with pride of race, each for

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his own, and it drove us apart. We could never
be married, and the child, well, I thought it was
not meant for me to bear a child of mixed race.
I said good bye to your father and bear in
that grotto in our Temple of love. I aborted and
dis royd our child. I offended the gods. Listen to me,

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little hourly princess. You will have your father's blessing.

Speaker 10 (02:20:10):
As you have mine. Remember that love my boy, take
care of him, bear his child. Then Pa will be
with us again. Say goodbye to Danny for me. I

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cannot urge any longer. Brad.

Speaker 14 (02:20:39):
I thought that I at last was willing to accept
commingle blood and a child of our families.

Speaker 3 (02:20:45):
I can't help myself. Little I am as I am.

Speaker 26 (02:20:51):
I cannot accept any child of my daughters with mixed blood.

Speaker 10 (02:20:55):
And so you want to kill my boy.

Speaker 3 (02:21:00):
The child, well, that can be taken care of.

Speaker 14 (02:21:02):
You will stop the children, make history repeat a terrible
mistake us all over again.

Speaker 3 (02:21:09):
Will I cannot change you.

Speaker 14 (02:21:11):
Are changed already. Look at your hands shaking now, white
leaves in the wind.

Speaker 26 (02:21:16):
That's a different matter. I have Parkinson's disease. I told
you you'd find.

Speaker 10 (02:21:22):
A different man, not the difference I would have wanted.

Speaker 3 (02:21:27):
Quiet, come out a little quick.

Speaker 7 (02:21:31):
What is it?

Speaker 10 (02:21:31):
Bad kind?

Speaker 9 (02:21:34):
My god?

Speaker 5 (02:21:35):
Look he it.

Speaker 26 (02:21:36):
It's half a mileble on all the fish left gasping
on the rocks.

Speaker 3 (02:21:40):
A tidal boar is on the way, and a big one.

Speaker 5 (02:21:43):
I know ta.

Speaker 14 (02:21:45):
Aora has been telling me all morning. I could smell
the anger of the gods. It's why I called you
here to die dead. We cannot stay in the children's way.
They're yes, grow sould woman. Even at your best, you
couldn't hoist me on his back, even with you alone

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on his back.

Speaker 10 (02:22:05):
It's too late, But I have no right. Try bad,
try if you can hold. You're not going, boy, You're staying.

Speaker 3 (02:22:19):
We've both been legends and our time. We wouldn't want
to outlive our glory.

Speaker 10 (02:22:26):
I shouldn't have done this too.

Speaker 26 (02:22:27):
No, I'm burned out, little thanks for making me realize
that I hadn't much further to go. I only wish
i'd been able to tell Princess, I mean Elizabeth. But
at the last she had my blessing and I love

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she knows she has ruled my love.

Speaker 3 (02:22:50):
Yes, But the other How could she ever know?

Speaker 10 (02:22:52):
I told her so before I left her?

Speaker 5 (02:22:56):
Oh could you?

Speaker 10 (02:22:57):
Because I knew what I was going to do.

Speaker 21 (02:22:59):
And I know you bad?

Speaker 10 (02:23:00):
Oh, I know you did ever any woman knew the man?

Speaker 3 (02:23:06):
Oh what a fool I was with both? And how
good have you back at life.

Speaker 10 (02:23:17):
So Nami, it's coming at last. I'm going home, back
to where my roots.

Speaker 14 (02:23:26):
Are in the sea, to the south, power, the sea, gods,
the guide.

Speaker 10 (02:23:33):
ME safe and you.

Speaker 16 (02:23:37):
I always you, as I said all those years ago.

Speaker 8 (02:23:40):
But you, you're shaking us from the way we're free.

Speaker 26 (02:23:44):
It wrong, the same of being less than a man.

Speaker 3 (02:23:48):
It's all right, It's as it should be.

Speaker 16 (02:23:52):
We couldn't have each other in life.

Speaker 26 (02:23:55):
We'll stand together forever in death.

Speaker 4 (02:24:00):
Oh. The inexorable incoming march of the water did little

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damage compared to the outgoing surge, which sucked everything into
and away with it like some colossal, unimaginable vacuum cleaner.
It left the beach and the inlet stripped clean and
swept Wailua away like so many matchsticks. As far as

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the eye could see across that northern shore of Hawaii
where the wave struck, and as far as the wave penetrated,
not a living thing was left.

Speaker 3 (02:24:53):
I'll be back shortly.

Speaker 4 (02:25:05):
Danny and Liz were married very quietly. There was no
formal funeral either for Queen Liliolani or Carter Bradley, only
a memorial service. Two dynasties were finished, ended and melded
in the two young people who never took their loving

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eyes from each other during the simple wedding service. The
close was an exchange between bride and groom.

Speaker 3 (02:25:33):
In Hawaiian Aloha.

Speaker 4 (02:25:36):
Aloha means hello, Aloha means goodbye, But most of all,
it means I love you for this.

Speaker 3 (02:25:47):
After all the.

Speaker 4 (02:25:48):
Terror and Holocaust turns out to be just that a
love story. Our cast included Paul hect Carmen Matthews, Suzanne Grossman,
Gordon Gould, Ian Martin.

Speaker 3 (02:26:01):
The entire production was under the direction of him and Brown.

Speaker 1 (02:26:09):
What's that well? It has gotten quite lately. I can't
say you're wrong there, it's getting later by the moment.
Time has a way of doing that. I suppose. Oh
what's that well? I don't know, but I hope I

(02:26:32):
find out. Just try to relax, my dear. Everything is
going to be better than fine. You have nothing to
worry about. You're just in my humble stone abode underground.
It's not like you're somewhere dangerous. It's not like you're

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in a well, a murder castle.

Speaker 4 (02:27:00):
Yeah, I'll tell you, captain, it don't makes sense. We
picked her up walking down the street saying the same
thing over and over again. Oh Jesus, goofy is they come?

Speaker 18 (02:27:14):
I tell you.

Speaker 5 (02:27:16):
Listen to her yourself. Revenge, revenge, revenge, revenge, revenge.

Speaker 18 (02:27:23):
Yeah, listen to her captain or heard over again, Such
a young and pretty girl. What could have driven around her.

Speaker 28 (02:27:30):
Mind like that?

Speaker 3 (02:27:31):
I asked you?

Speaker 6 (02:27:32):
Revenge, revenge, revenge, revenge, revenge, revenge, redemns revenge.

Speaker 40 (02:27:53):
Yes, yes, what is it I'm looking for, mister Henry Stewart,
if you please?

Speaker 5 (02:27:58):
Oh oh, you mean about the advertisement.

Speaker 10 (02:28:00):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 5 (02:28:02):
I got here as soon as I could.

Speaker 4 (02:28:03):
Right, that's all right. As long as you got here,
that's all it matters. Come in, come in, Oh, thank you.
Just put your suitcase down there. It's be all right,
thank you.

Speaker 5 (02:28:15):
Now you will come out this way, thank you.

Speaker 10 (02:28:21):
Just step in here, Miss Malone, Ellen Malone, Yes, of course.

Speaker 4 (02:28:25):
Miss Malone. Now then you'll have a chair, please, thank you.
There we are now, then, Miss Malone. To be perfectly
frank with you, I wasn't quite expecting you today.

Speaker 10 (02:28:39):
Oh I'm truly sorry.

Speaker 5 (02:28:41):
Mister Stewart.

Speaker 40 (02:28:42):
But you see, I took the wrong train and a well,
I had the hardest time finding the house.

Speaker 5 (02:28:47):
I do hope you'll pardi.

Speaker 4 (02:28:49):
Of course, of course, don't give it another thought. Promptness
may be a virtue, but we all can't be virtuous,
now can we. Now, then you're shared an answer to
my advertisement.

Speaker 18 (02:29:00):
Yes, sir, you wrote no wysh as it was.

Speaker 5 (02:29:02):
You're the young lady from Queensville. Who is Queeneville? You
have my letter with you? Oh yes, sir, right yestair?
Oh yes, Now then your friends know you came here.
Of course, there's no one very much interested in this stewing.
Oh oh come now, a pretty young girl like you,

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No young bulls and so on so on, So there's
no one, I mean, So you can depend on me
to give all my attention to my work. Very commendable,
very commendable.

Speaker 4 (02:29:34):
Indeed, my work, as I wrote you, as entirely confidential.
My philanthropies are to a great extent.

Speaker 5 (02:29:40):
Entirely sub rosa. No first, no fellows, you understand what
I mean?

Speaker 4 (02:29:43):
Oh yes, sir, as my secretary, my affairs will be
entirely in your hands, my checking the card, my financis
and charts.

Speaker 5 (02:29:50):
On, entirely in your care. I understand, sir.

Speaker 18 (02:29:53):
It's quite a responsibility, and you're quite a young woman.

Speaker 5 (02:29:58):
And as I wrote you the bank. Oh yes, so
I understand the bond. I brought the money for it,
three hundred dollars.

Speaker 4 (02:30:04):
I've got it right here too. Oh fine, fine, that's
very business right this indeed, I'll give you a receipt
and that we will be mister Steward, yes my pen
Oh oh yes, here we are my money.

Speaker 41 (02:30:17):
Will I get it back from the bank anytime I
leave you.

Speaker 6 (02:30:19):
I.

Speaker 5 (02:30:21):
Mean when you want me to. Oh, yes, of course,
of course. Now then we are received of miss Nelle Malone.

Speaker 16 (02:30:30):
Ella.

Speaker 4 (02:30:32):
Yes, of course, Ella. Memory isn't quite what it used
to be. That's why I need a good secretary.

Speaker 5 (02:30:37):
I'm very good at remembering things. Oh you are well.

Speaker 4 (02:30:41):
Now then we are gues This received is in good order,
received of miss Ella Malone, three hundred dollars to be
deposited with the Merchants Bank as shouldn't be bonded, and
to be returned.

Speaker 5 (02:30:54):
To said Ellen Malone upon request.

Speaker 41 (02:30:56):
That's my signature, adds I'm sure that'll do very well.

Speaker 18 (02:31:01):
Now then you have got my receipt.

Speaker 5 (02:31:05):
But I oh, I thank your pardon. Not at all,
not at all.

Speaker 4 (02:31:11):
Here I am oh well, I understand the excitement of
your trip, missus Stewart.

Speaker 5 (02:31:17):
You see I had it already in an envelope. Now
if you're all, oh no, no, not.

Speaker 4 (02:31:20):
At all, not at all.

Speaker 5 (02:31:21):
Men can do that when I send it to them
in the morning.

Speaker 18 (02:31:23):
Now, just put your first down there, and I'll show
you through your new home. Yes, we'll go right up
these stairs.

Speaker 4 (02:31:35):
Oh yes, you find I have quite a place here,
three stories high, and every inch of it is my
own design. Rather careful, now, careful all, mustn't hurt yourself hardly.

Speaker 18 (02:31:49):
The way to start a new job. Now, then here
we are got a nice room for you, very nice. Actually,
matter is, you can choose any.

Speaker 3 (02:32:01):
Room on this floor.

Speaker 5 (02:32:02):
But mister Stewart, your.

Speaker 41 (02:32:04):
Daughter's daughters, yes, won't they object?

Speaker 18 (02:32:07):
You said, Oh, yes, yes.

Speaker 5 (02:32:09):
My daughters. I did write to you about them, didn't I? Yes,
you did. Well, never mind about them.

Speaker 18 (02:32:15):
They're upstairs studying. Now right here, I should take.

Speaker 5 (02:32:20):
This room at least for then.

Speaker 18 (02:32:22):
Whatever you're saying, it's the Stewart.

Speaker 5 (02:32:25):
Yeah, nice, isn't it.

Speaker 40 (02:32:28):
I've never had such a large room if you've got
one a little small.

Speaker 4 (02:32:32):
On the contrary, my dear miss Malone, you'll find this
one small enough. That's a little too small, Yes, indeed
entirely too small.

Speaker 5 (02:32:38):
But mister Stewart, locking door, mister Stewart, why did you?
Why didn't you lock the door?

Speaker 7 (02:32:49):
Missus Stewart?

Speaker 18 (02:32:50):
This, why don't you shut me in here?

Speaker 10 (02:32:53):
This is your pree?

Speaker 7 (02:32:54):
Please answer me, but the ud please let.

Speaker 5 (02:32:57):
Me out of here?

Speaker 18 (02:32:58):
What did you? Yes, yes, miss Nord, there's no doubt
in my mind at all if you're the very person

(02:33:18):
I want to employ.

Speaker 5 (02:33:19):
As my housekeeper, and they glad to hear it.

Speaker 18 (02:33:22):
Of course, the matter of being housekeeper of places art
is mine calls for definite qualities. You want to step cross, well,
one certainly can't ask.

Speaker 5 (02:33:31):
More than that. Indeed, your wife, maybe she'd like to
talk to me my wife?

Speaker 4 (02:33:36):
Oh yes, of course I wrote you about my wife,
didn't I? Well, my wife is out shopping. As soon
as she returns, you will meet her. I'm sure she'll
find your recommendations as satisfactors as I did.

Speaker 5 (02:33:48):
Make them very happy. I've always wanted to work in
a fine hard Now about money or any telling. You
want to pinion that it's all right.

Speaker 10 (02:33:58):
I don't want a chance to show.

Speaker 18 (02:33:59):
You how good I can do work recommend indeed, very
commend but but we must agree.

Speaker 5 (02:34:04):
On a salary.

Speaker 4 (02:34:05):
I am the sort of man who has respect for
money and expect a similar respect in others.

Speaker 5 (02:34:10):
And speaking of money, you'll be want to open a
new bank account.

Speaker 18 (02:34:13):
I suppose, yes, It's my principle that everyone employed by
me should have a savings account. Bill's characteroun I open
an account for you.

Speaker 4 (02:34:21):
In the morning, you can transfer the other bank ACCOUNTSHO
have back in your hometown up.

Speaker 5 (02:34:25):
To my bank convenience. You know, oh knows, I haven't
got that. I haven't any money in the bank. Bake homework.
I took it all out.

Speaker 40 (02:34:32):
Oh it wasn't much anywhere that was left of farther
insurance money after my mother died.

Speaker 18 (02:34:38):
Oh yes, yes, Well, now, then suppose we leave all
your things here and we'll go look over the house.
Very nice.

Speaker 5 (02:34:46):
Yeah, that's through the start. I'd be glad to be
working in such a big.

Speaker 18 (02:34:51):
Hurry, I decide. Oh yes, yes, quite an establishment here.

Speaker 5 (02:34:56):
Designed it all myself.

Speaker 7 (02:34:57):
I work hard.

Speaker 4 (02:34:58):
Oh yes, yes, I'm certain you well down Then by
donning stairs, I'll show you everything downstairs.

Speaker 7 (02:35:07):
First, you have a rushing machine, Oh yes.

Speaker 18 (02:35:10):
Yes, yes, everything modern and everything convenient, high wide, basement. Hey,
I'll watch yourself. It's just a little dark down here
this time of day.

Speaker 5 (02:35:21):
Oh it is a big basement, all right, could hang
up plenty of.

Speaker 16 (02:35:24):
Rushing down here.

Speaker 5 (02:35:25):
Oh yes, yes indeed, Now if you'll.

Speaker 9 (02:35:27):
Just come this way, are you building something down here?

Speaker 35 (02:35:30):
Building?

Speaker 3 (02:35:31):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (02:35:31):
Yes, yes, indeed, always building, always changing, always removing, changing,
can change, my hardy, always changing things.

Speaker 5 (02:35:36):
It's hard to keep cleaned now, and I don't worry
about that.

Speaker 4 (02:35:39):
Everything will be cleaned up in short order. The bags
of sand, concrete, concrete mixer, everything will be out of
the way. Won't bother you at all, not at.

Speaker 5 (02:35:45):
All to say you're making more? Oh wish, Yes, indeed,
with nice clean concrete flowers. Yeah, look at this one
kind of dark.

Speaker 18 (02:36:00):
Come on, come on, get closer, all my own work.

Speaker 3 (02:36:03):
You see. The floor is still with.

Speaker 5 (02:36:07):
I like concrete, don't you.

Speaker 3 (02:36:10):
It?

Speaker 4 (02:36:11):
Yes, covers everything. You know how deep that concrete is?
Three feet deep? Yes, man, three feet deep, and.

Speaker 5 (02:36:19):
I just poured it an hour before you honored me
with your presence.

Speaker 4 (02:36:23):
Three feet that'll make a mighty thick slab of stone,
won't it missnowed?

Speaker 18 (02:36:28):
Thick enough to cover you?

Speaker 4 (02:36:34):
Yes, indeed, this to the point of the jaw is
still a most effective soporific. You're quite a light woman,
my dear, miss Nord. Up you go, and in you go,
face down?

Speaker 5 (02:36:51):
What an unusual bed you lie in?

Speaker 29 (02:36:53):
Miss not.

Speaker 18 (02:36:57):
Sinking down and down?

Speaker 3 (02:37:00):
Now?

Speaker 18 (02:37:01):
And the concrete will hotten, and I, I guess I
would have to get myself a new house keeper.

Speaker 39 (02:37:22):
Ladies and gentlemen, let's lean back now and relax for
a moment. Let's take time out from tonight. It's amazing
lights out story, the story of a strange, mysterious mansion,
the one woman who entered those doors and was never
seen alive again. Let's turn during this brief and emission
were much more every day situation, and a question is much.

Speaker 5 (02:37:43):
Easier to answer.

Speaker 39 (02:37:44):
An angry girl is storming out of her friend's house,
and her friend says, what's.

Speaker 40 (02:37:49):
Candy roun with Lucy these days?

Speaker 5 (02:37:52):
The cross is a barn. She's leaving so much way,
She looks terrible.

Speaker 10 (02:37:56):
She takes no friend anymore.

Speaker 26 (02:37:58):
Well, you know what that Roald knows.

Speaker 40 (02:38:00):
The Christian Authority says about how improper eating due to
wartime living may cause a person to become deficient in
vitamin B one and iron and how.

Speaker 5 (02:38:09):
You absolutely need enough of them to keep your right.

Speaker 18 (02:38:12):
Weight and energy.

Speaker 40 (02:38:13):
Time to think of it, that was Ruth's trouble when
she got her run down. So she took ironized E
tablets and you know how.

Speaker 5 (02:38:20):
Grand she looks and feels again.

Speaker 39 (02:38:21):
Now, Yes, friends, and a number of people who use
the vitamin B one and iron shortage, we're losing weight,
losing strength.

Speaker 18 (02:38:28):
And energy and interest in rights.

Speaker 39 (02:38:30):
Tell how ironized G tablets help them regain glorious pests
and strength and needed pounds.

Speaker 18 (02:38:37):
So if you're a short vitamin B one.

Speaker 4 (02:38:38):
And iron, don't wait, go.

Speaker 18 (02:38:40):
To your druggist this very night and say a bottle.

Speaker 5 (02:38:43):
Of ironized each tablets please.

Speaker 39 (02:38:46):
And now back to our life out story of Murder Castle.

Speaker 5 (02:39:02):
Hiah. Hello, Hello, Hello, is this the employment agency?

Speaker 7 (02:39:15):
This isn't it?

Speaker 5 (02:39:15):
The steward is the head of the steward.

Speaker 18 (02:39:18):
I'm interested in employing the nurse for.

Speaker 4 (02:39:19):
My child and uh, someone preferably unattached who can live
here with my wife myself.

Speaker 18 (02:39:26):
No, no, no, just send me their names, addresses and
references and so on. Uh, I'll send you a check
for the services. My address is four twenty four East seven.

Speaker 5 (02:39:36):
Yes, that's right, just their names and the dresses. And
I said, I'll send you a check. Says a good lie.
Oh yes, yes, I'll be there.

Speaker 4 (02:39:44):
I'll be there, I'll be there. Yes, yes, what is it?

Speaker 5 (02:39:52):
I is mister Stewarty, Oh yes, yes, yes. Won't you
come in?

Speaker 18 (02:39:58):
I mister Steward, thank you your answering in regard to work, You.

Speaker 5 (02:40:04):
Carry your position. You wrote your letters?

Speaker 4 (02:40:07):
Oh yes, yes, yes, indeed I wrote you step in here, please,
thank you. You sit there, I'll sit here, we'll get
better acquainted.

Speaker 5 (02:40:16):
Put your suetcase down and place now.

Speaker 18 (02:40:18):
And then I'm afraid I didn't quite get your name, Ray,
very Ray.

Speaker 10 (02:40:23):
You wrote me.

Speaker 5 (02:40:24):
Oh yes, of course I remember you distinct it now.

Speaker 18 (02:40:27):
Then you have my letter to you, just to sort
of refresh my.

Speaker 5 (02:40:30):
Memory on the circumstances, don't you know. Oh well, I'm
sorry I didn't bring it with me.

Speaker 18 (02:40:36):
Oh well, then suppose you tell me it's more about
yourself and it always happened.

Speaker 5 (02:40:42):
But then follow see you off the train. I suppose
it's the way I wrote you, mister Star.

Speaker 10 (02:40:46):
Right, I'm quite alone.

Speaker 18 (02:40:49):
Oh yes, well, but first there's the matter of the
surety bond I wrote.

Speaker 5 (02:40:54):
You up I didn't. I yes, yes you did. Ah, yes,
I quite certainly start.

Speaker 8 (02:41:00):
I was wondering, he is have you had no me?

Speaker 5 (02:41:04):
Secretary?

Speaker 21 (02:41:05):
Why you ask that?

Speaker 5 (02:41:05):
I want to know why you ask that? Cris What
happened to them after you hire them? Tell me what
happened to them? Young woman?

Speaker 18 (02:41:13):
That's who are you? My name is Let him alone, Malone?

Speaker 16 (02:41:17):
Let him alone.

Speaker 41 (02:41:19):
My sister Ella came here a month ago about a job,
and I don't know where she is.

Speaker 10 (02:41:22):
Do you hear me?

Speaker 18 (02:41:22):
I wanna know where she is. I don't think I
quite know what you're talking about.

Speaker 5 (02:41:27):
Why do you lie to me?

Speaker 18 (02:41:28):
Why do you lie to me?

Speaker 10 (02:41:29):
She was here?

Speaker 4 (02:41:29):
She was then?

Speaker 18 (02:41:30):
What makes you so sure a letter you wrote it?

Speaker 7 (02:41:32):
The first one?

Speaker 10 (02:41:33):
I waited a whole month, and.

Speaker 41 (02:41:35):
Then I came here, and as soon as I saw you,
I thought something was wrong.

Speaker 18 (02:41:38):
And now I know there is my sister Ella.

Speaker 7 (02:41:40):
Where is she?

Speaker 18 (02:41:41):
You've got to tell me? What if I tell you
a game that I don't know what you're talking about,
I'll go.

Speaker 10 (02:41:48):
To the police.

Speaker 5 (02:41:48):
They'll make you tell the truth. I know she came here,
I know she did.

Speaker 12 (02:41:53):
Why do you have why?

Speaker 18 (02:41:55):
Because you're being a very foolish young lady.

Speaker 3 (02:41:57):
Very foolish.

Speaker 5 (02:41:57):
Indeed, there's no need to get excited. Of course, your
sister's here.

Speaker 18 (02:42:01):
I'm very happy to she's.

Speaker 3 (02:42:04):
Yes, yes, I'm very happy too.

Speaker 5 (02:42:08):
I can take me to her. Please take me to her,
right all right.

Speaker 18 (02:42:11):
No need to get excited, of course, I'll take you
to her.

Speaker 5 (02:42:14):
I intend to do all along. I was just having
a little joke with you. She alright, of course. Now
then come right along with me, Come right along with
me alone, Yes, yes, set right up.

Speaker 18 (02:42:30):
Here's been with me for over a months.

Speaker 5 (02:42:32):
Why didn't she write? Why didn't she tell me? I
done this?

Speaker 34 (02:42:36):
Hall?

Speaker 18 (02:42:37):
And you can ask her that for yourself.

Speaker 5 (02:42:40):
This is the trick, my dear young lady, you have easy.

Speaker 18 (02:42:44):
The most suspicious mind of anyone I've ever met. Why
I'm why to helpless old man? And you always have
recourse as you put it to the police. Oh yeah,
I in this room.

Speaker 5 (02:42:54):
I'll go right to him, all right.

Speaker 16 (02:42:58):
Now, door, she'll.

Speaker 18 (02:43:00):
Open it for you.

Speaker 9 (02:43:02):
Ella.

Speaker 5 (02:43:03):
Tell her it's very letting him daring.

Speaker 18 (02:43:06):
It's very sell please, it's very very well. Now, certainly
is a tight.

Speaker 5 (02:43:15):
You can't be sleeping.

Speaker 10 (02:43:16):
Open the door.

Speaker 5 (02:43:16):
Please open the door, right all right?

Speaker 18 (02:43:18):
No reason to get excited quickly opened the door quickly. Now,
don't excite yourself needlessly. I'll go ahead. You open the door, Hella,
it's Betty.

Speaker 40 (02:43:31):
Hell what oh?

Speaker 5 (02:43:43):
Now, then, my dear Betty. We understand each other clearly,
don't we.

Speaker 18 (02:43:48):
Well, nothing like a complete.

Speaker 5 (02:43:51):
Understanding, now, is there? Oh, it wasn't so difficult.

Speaker 18 (02:43:57):
I shut the door, see it, and nature called the rest.

Speaker 4 (02:44:02):
Did?

Speaker 5 (02:44:03):
She died quite easily, much easier than others.

Speaker 18 (02:44:07):
Why, I mean, why do I do it? Well, it's
a very simple explanation, young woman, this is my business. Yeah,
here's my business. Some men make their fortunes in stock,
some bond, some in business, and this is my business.

Speaker 16 (02:44:21):
Why why?

Speaker 15 (02:44:22):
Why?

Speaker 5 (02:44:23):
Why is any business conducted profit?

Speaker 18 (02:44:25):
Mydea and I've made quite.

Speaker 5 (02:44:26):
A need for the profit older. I'm a very safe
one too.

Speaker 4 (02:44:31):
And you're the very first to come wandering about looking
for one of my customers, the first, and I assure
you the last.

Speaker 18 (02:44:39):
Only it's thirty women that have come in my front door.
Thirty one groone, you and Ella come on along now
to you or about them? You'll find it most instructive. Yes, indeed,
Now do hold my upside these color as they twist
and turn.

Speaker 5 (02:44:53):
Oh yes, it's best.

Speaker 3 (02:44:53):
I hold your arm.

Speaker 18 (02:44:54):
Get lost easier around this house, my most interesting house.

Speaker 5 (02:44:58):
You're taking me bad.

Speaker 4 (02:45:00):
Yes, there were thirty for you, most interesting array. I
used to read the wand heads in small town papers,
and then i'd write letters, Oh, most interesting letters. I
needed the secretary of housekeeper, nurse, excellent sarary and usual
accommodation of I knew this, it helps, indeed, and they
brought all their worldly bloggings with them, jenry and suitcase.
Little here?

Speaker 18 (02:45:18):
Who's there? Or why should it be most powerable?

Speaker 5 (02:45:21):
Now in this room? For example?

Speaker 18 (02:45:23):
No, don't, don't the maper. No, perhaps it would be
better not to the one in here came to be
my housekeeper?

Speaker 3 (02:45:30):
Or let me see how long it was it?

Speaker 4 (02:45:32):
Oh well, no matter. She came as a housekeeper, and
after she went into a retirement in that room I
found in her suitcase such interesting bond. While I tell you,
my eyes fairly pop right my head. Oh yes, it's
the uncertainty that makes my little.

Speaker 18 (02:45:47):
Business so very fascinating. Thirty will know it's good.

Speaker 5 (02:45:50):
Hands away now down here. Don't make me.

Speaker 4 (02:45:53):
Put you along.

Speaker 5 (02:45:54):
You're thirty weeks.

Speaker 18 (02:45:55):
It's not difficult.

Speaker 5 (02:45:56):
Fust women is such fools, anxious to believe what they
want to move here for life, and you give me death.

Speaker 4 (02:46:02):
You're the smart one. That's why I'm even.

Speaker 18 (02:46:04):
Borrowing, showing you my work I never did the others
and showing you around won't do harm.

Speaker 5 (02:46:10):
You won't be talking long. Will the women die?

Speaker 3 (02:46:13):
Now?

Speaker 7 (02:46:13):
In this room?

Speaker 18 (02:46:14):
Well let me show you.

Speaker 5 (02:46:15):
No, no, don't let me look.

Speaker 18 (02:46:17):
Can't please do now? You see there's no reason for exciting,
just an empty room. That's what she thought when she
went in here.

Speaker 5 (02:46:26):
Then I pressed this button so and the floor flopped
open as she stood.

Speaker 4 (02:46:33):
On it, and down she went, down, down, down in
the bottom a bit of rhyme. Oh yes, I tried
out so many different ways of killing them. Do you
wonder why they'll never find me out?

Speaker 18 (02:46:46):
I'll tell you why, Because I'm much too smart for
all of them. Oh. Not perfect crimes, no, nothing invandile,
but just cleverness and choosing the women I do my
business with, and then equal cleverness.

Speaker 5 (02:46:56):
And doing away with the worst.

Speaker 18 (02:46:58):
And now then because I tell you, oh oh yes, yes,
says why they'll.

Speaker 3 (02:47:03):
Never forget me.

Speaker 5 (02:47:03):
Yell a seen you it done?

Speaker 18 (02:47:05):
My head, No corpus dilecti. And if there is one
no evidence of violence.

Speaker 5 (02:47:09):
Ah, that's the secret.

Speaker 18 (02:47:11):
You're very frightened.

Speaker 3 (02:47:12):
Take a pair of quick time.

Speaker 18 (02:47:13):
There's no course dilective to that, I can tell you
not when you bury them in a sigh of concrete.
Are that's the secret? You can read you? And now
this room, let me show you.

Speaker 4 (02:47:22):
I I think this will be your room, my dear.
You see the door air tight, hair tightes Indeed, I'll
open it. The room amazing side, isn't it. No doors,
no windows could have helped you. Ellen. Now I'll shut
you up inside your room, and then I'll close the
door and press this button.

Speaker 3 (02:47:41):
Here like this.

Speaker 18 (02:47:46):
You hear that this one. You hear that coming, pumping coming,
And guess what is pumping out of my hair?

Speaker 5 (02:47:54):
You hear me pumping the air out.

Speaker 3 (02:47:55):
Of the room.

Speaker 5 (02:47:56):
Yes, that's clever, isn't it. You breathe and soon.

Speaker 18 (02:47:59):
There'll be nothing there to breathe, and then you'll die, and.

Speaker 5 (02:48:02):
The police do find your body.

Speaker 18 (02:48:03):
No mock of violence, nothing but a sixiation, the most mysterious.

Speaker 28 (02:48:07):
That they'll say.

Speaker 18 (02:48:08):
In time they decide it's all quite natural. Embolism, heart attack.
Oh they think a p Fant's name to clear their fires,
esgy they always do. It is night for him to
our first office, the pump. Now, my dear, I think
you better step.

Speaker 4 (02:48:20):
Inside quickly, now so I can close the door and
go about my other work quickly.

Speaker 18 (02:48:23):
I'll tell you no, wait, wait, wait for what. I
want to give you something, What you give me that
doesn't belong to me already? Gun, Get in there, get
in that room.

Speaker 4 (02:48:33):
Gun.

Speaker 18 (02:48:35):
You had a gun in your press all the time,
My Harvey, I got it for the man who get it.

Speaker 21 (02:48:40):
Get in there.

Speaker 10 (02:48:41):
No, no, no, what you get in there?

Speaker 5 (02:48:42):
Out press the pre get in there. No, don't get him.

Speaker 18 (02:48:44):
No, I'm an old harmless man who was only folly.

Speaker 7 (02:48:47):
I wouldn't hurt you for the world.

Speaker 5 (02:48:53):
It's like to revenge, he said.

Speaker 7 (02:48:59):
The press is r.

Speaker 18 (02:49:02):
Let me out.

Speaker 5 (02:49:05):
The purpose he's running yellow. Listen to it.

Speaker 18 (02:49:08):
It's killing him the way he kills you.

Speaker 41 (02:49:10):
Tried to revenge his night.

Speaker 40 (02:49:12):
You revenge, right to redange, right to revenge, right to revenge,
three things like three dames.

Speaker 21 (02:49:24):
Get here, it's going out.

Speaker 18 (02:49:27):
Yeah, shut off, bed move out there. You hear me,
Shut up bed, motor, Let me.

Speaker 5 (02:49:35):
Out the air thuwing it out.

Speaker 3 (02:49:38):
It's the pipe.

Speaker 18 (02:49:40):
You're going out. I can't reach the pipe. Shut it
off out there, shut it off. It'll kill me, kill me,
I getting it already, shut it off.

Speaker 7 (02:49:54):
Will you do anything anything you want?

Speaker 5 (02:49:57):
Shut up, bed bo.

Speaker 18 (02:50:00):
I can't die.

Speaker 5 (02:50:02):
I won't die. I get the walls down.

Speaker 18 (02:50:08):
Let me help you. That's got the way there, Let
me up, Let me on, Well fight, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:50:22):
Here.

Speaker 18 (02:50:23):
Comes breaking God my mom my eyes aware, bleeding. Yeah,
that's there. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:50:45):
Things things, three things, three things, three things. Revenge, revenge, revenge.

Speaker 18 (02:50:52):
He listened to a captain over and over again. Such
a young pirty girl. I could have driven her out
of her mind crazy like that.

Speaker 28 (02:51:04):
What I ask you, my dear?

Speaker 1 (02:51:19):
I know the night is gone very long, but how
about we stick around for just one more, just one
more taste of joy and fear rolled together, and then
we'll go our separate ways. For now, I try not

(02:51:41):
to ask much of you, so please forgive my greediness.
It's just when you live, if you want to call
it that, the way I do. If you spend your
time the way I do, it begins to leave a mark.

(02:52:02):
It begins to paint a picture, the Phantom Man picture.

Speaker 11 (02:52:29):
The Weird Circle in this cave with the restless.

Speaker 31 (02:52:34):
See, we are meant to call from out of the
past stories strange and weird. Bell keeper told the bell
so that all may know. We are gathered again in
the weird circle, out.

Speaker 42 (02:53:21):
Of the past, phantoms of a world gone by, Speak
again the immortal tale, the phantom picture.

Speaker 43 (02:53:37):
And gentlemen, as you know, here are the works of
our greatest Italian artists of today. You, the most renowned
art critics in the Kingdom, will choose tonight that work
which is to hang in the petty gallery beside Raphael
da Vinci, Michelangelo, the classic masterpieces of Italy. Where your
decision carefully, gentlemen, Thank you, Hello, you wanted to see me?

Speaker 26 (02:54:07):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (02:54:07):
Yes, doctor Donald, please close the door. Yes but what hourey?
Please see here? Stop pushing? What's wrong with you? Who's
out there? Someone following you?

Speaker 3 (02:54:14):
No?

Speaker 16 (02:54:15):
Well? No, well then why do you keep looking back
over your shoulder? Oh that I'd have a painting?

Speaker 43 (02:54:19):
Oh see here, now stop this foolishness. If you're hungry,
go to the kitchen. If it's money you want, here,
the something to buy your lodging. I must get back
to my gil. Wait, I haven't time. The whole kingdom
will waits the decision of those critics in there. The
choice of the painting which will hang in the gallery
beside the masters is.

Speaker 16 (02:54:34):
Being made by them, paintings masters. They call that art.
They don't know what real art is here? Look really, now,
this is no amateur competition. Amateur here?

Speaker 19 (02:54:46):
Who are you?

Speaker 16 (02:54:46):
And why do you keep looking out of that window?
He is this a stolen candae? No, no, it's mine.
You don't know me, do you? But maybe you will
when you see my painting? What's closely now there? Now
do you know me? Take a good look?

Speaker 3 (02:55:03):
What what is it?

Speaker 16 (02:55:04):
Study it?

Speaker 9 (02:55:05):
Tell it?

Speaker 3 (02:55:06):
Can it be it?

Speaker 24 (02:55:07):
It is a face, a human face. Yes, it's ghastly,
got the claw? See you can't take your eyes on it?
Now do you recognize me?

Speaker 7 (02:55:14):
No?

Speaker 16 (02:55:15):
No, look again, study the painting carefully. Such a subject,
it's vulgar. This is a painting worthy to hang in
the gallery. This is a really great work of art,
my greatest all painting with a subject like that can
be a great work of art.

Speaker 24 (02:55:28):
It is a masterpiece, I tell you, and you must
buy it.

Speaker 29 (02:55:30):
Buy that?

Speaker 24 (02:55:31):
Yes, why you're positively mad? Why I can't buy it?
That is too fright, you must. I need the money,
doctor Ganno, now tonight You're the only one can help me.
But I don't wait before you answer. I must tell
you all this.

Speaker 16 (02:55:43):
It's driving me mad.

Speaker 24 (02:55:44):
I must tell someone I'm hunted, traveling by night, sleeping
in haystacks in the hills by day, foraging for food
up in the mountains, not daring to risk showing myself
in town, and all the time haunted by this this
face you see here, hours on end, waking up at
night to see it staring at me, seeing.

Speaker 16 (02:56:03):
It the food I eat. I tell you, it's driving
me insane, insane. I tell you long ago, when I
left Naples, it was midsummer.

Speaker 24 (02:56:12):
Then when I stored away on a bark in Naples Harbor,
did I realize then what the future hell for me?

Speaker 16 (02:56:20):
Yes, another new life which awaited me in general.

Speaker 19 (02:56:26):
Yeah, bravo. That is the exact likeness of the organ
grinder to the very last hair of his mustachia. Oh,
senor you have great talent.

Speaker 16 (02:56:35):
That yet, or I wouldn't be painting on sidewalks for
my bread and meat. But I shall be great someday.

Speaker 19 (02:56:40):
Someday you shall, if you receive the proper training.

Speaker 16 (02:56:44):
When I can afford it, I shall seek a great
artist to teach me.

Speaker 19 (02:56:48):
But why pay for your training? I will teach you
for nothing.

Speaker 16 (02:56:51):
You and who are you?

Speaker 29 (02:56:53):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (02:56:53):
Look closely, my boy. Don't you recognize me?

Speaker 16 (02:56:57):
Are you? Is it possible?

Speaker 24 (02:57:00):
You are Pascual, the celebrated portrait paint none other, And
you will teach me for nothing?

Speaker 16 (02:57:08):
How can I ever thank?

Speaker 9 (02:57:10):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (02:57:10):
Don't come along now well to my studio. Of course,
you are a pupil of mine. Come along. It's not far,
a simple but comfortable place on the edge of the city,
away from all the noise and confusion, away from colonnades
and mammoth terraces, where a man.

Speaker 16 (02:57:26):
Can really work. Oh, I still don't understand why you're
doing this.

Speaker 19 (02:57:29):
It's really very simple. I'm an old man, now old
and famous, and I have more orders of work than
I can possibly take care of. It's about Tieme, my
hair and assistant.

Speaker 16 (02:57:40):
You mean I am a lot of hard work.

Speaker 19 (02:57:43):
You see. My heart is not what it should be.
I can't work like I used to. Yes, you will
have to work hard.

Speaker 16 (02:57:50):
Oh, I can do that all right.

Speaker 19 (02:57:52):
Just think a chance to study under the great Ah.
Don't forget though, I shall use you to good end. Yes,
you look like a clean cut young fellow. Maybe you
will have a good influence on my son Villippo. He's
nineteen about your age, I would say, and the thoroughgoing
rascal your industry will set him a good example life.

Speaker 16 (02:58:13):
I shall do my best.

Speaker 19 (02:58:15):
And then two before long, you may meet my daughter
Bianca when she returns from the seminary. Oh, come along,
come along, and we shall be late for dinner. I
have you, Yes, come here for a moment.

Speaker 16 (02:58:31):
Oh, morn in Fascal. Oh, you're looking better this.

Speaker 19 (02:58:35):
Morning, and I feel better after that last attack.

Speaker 16 (02:58:37):
What did the doctor say?

Speaker 19 (02:58:39):
I must take it easy. That's our heart won stand excitement.
Oh how is that portrait for the depressed family coming home?

Speaker 16 (02:58:45):
It's almost finished another five hours.

Speaker 28 (02:58:48):
Perhaps we'll let it be for now.

Speaker 19 (02:58:50):
I have a rush port to do for Gatanhaus to
hang in the palace at the stud Balbe. You get
on it right away. Bianca will sit for you. Did
you Heather away? Where is she? Anyway?

Speaker 16 (02:59:00):
She's up picking flowers.

Speaker 28 (02:59:01):
I suppose that's.

Speaker 19 (02:59:03):
All she seems to do since she came back from
the seminary. That and read books.

Speaker 16 (02:59:08):
She has the soul of a poet. Besides, the walks
and the pressure are good for her.

Speaker 19 (02:59:13):
Oh so you like her, don't you? Well, sir, you'll
have to admit she is very beautiful. So I am
willing to say she is. After all, I am her father.
But it's good to have other people agree with me,
especially young handsome men.

Speaker 3 (02:59:30):
Ah.

Speaker 19 (02:59:30):
Yes, she is a good girl. I'm proud to be
her father. I wish her, dear, I wish I could
say the same about Philippo Pasqual.

Speaker 16 (02:59:40):
You mustn't say that, but it is the truth.

Speaker 19 (02:59:42):
Came home drunk again last night, lost some more money
at gambling. That just doesn't seem to be anything we
can do with him, does there?

Speaker 16 (02:59:49):
Oh, I'm sorry, sir.

Speaker 19 (02:59:50):
Oh that's all right. You've tried your best. You run
along now and find Bianca and be sure to keep
your mind on the painting.

Speaker 24 (03:00:01):
Yes, but you are already famous, Pascorna. Must you accept
another commission?

Speaker 3 (03:00:07):
No?

Speaker 19 (03:00:08):
One does not do neurals in the Vatican every day,
I taio, nor have pictures hun in Saint Peter's. And besides,
we are in sad financial straits at the moment.

Speaker 16 (03:00:18):
Squirrel, why didn't you tell me what?

Speaker 19 (03:00:20):
No, it's Philippo came home Doug again last night and
another spree. This time he sold all the paintings in
the studio.

Speaker 16 (03:00:28):
All of them.

Speaker 19 (03:00:29):
Yes, that's that's that's you have us all beggars with
his high life.

Speaker 9 (03:00:34):
Well, I.

Speaker 16 (03:00:36):
Pa squarrel.

Speaker 24 (03:00:37):
I have never told you, but I have been sending
some of my workout to Florence under an assumed name.
Of course, I took the name of Katyata. Oh, I
have a little something saved. You know how I feel
towards Bianca. If you no, no, no, no, I would
not think of it.

Speaker 19 (03:00:57):
I'll put a stop to this once for all, even
if I'm must have my own son jailed. And you're
sure you want me to make the track, Oh yes, yes, indeed,
you should complete the plans and estimates and be back
from Rome within two weeks, and then when it's all settled,
we'll tell the ancle. So what about Filippo, don't you think? No, no, no, no,
you get started. I can handle him myself. Yeah, there

(03:01:18):
he's coming up the walk now. Oh, I wish my
health permitted me to go with you. But remember the
painting for Saint Peter's should be similar to my Madonna,
which hangs in the Church of the Anciata here in Genoa.

Speaker 16 (03:01:30):
I won't forget say goodbye to Beancre for that.

Speaker 19 (03:01:34):
Yes, I shall goodbye to you. Now the safe journey
and hurry back. I tell you, Filipo, this is the
last straw. If you don't get the money back for
those paintings, I shall turn you over to the police.

Speaker 16 (03:01:47):
You wouldn't, Oh, yes I would, and I'm going to
know you won't. I would cause a scandal, and you're
too famous to want that.

Speaker 19 (03:01:52):
You have been using my good name all your life
to run up debts, leading a wild life. Haven't you
any sense of dignity? Why don't you earn your your
own way. You're a healthy young man. You're an old
fool to think I would do that, Philippo, I'm still
your father, still.

Speaker 16 (03:02:06):
An old fool. I don't mind the life I lead
so long as I don't have to work for a living.

Speaker 19 (03:02:09):
My own son, I could kill you with my own
bare hands for talking like that.

Speaker 16 (03:02:14):
Father, I'll stand back. What are you gonna do my own?

Speaker 29 (03:02:20):
Let me going and you.

Speaker 16 (03:02:24):
Try to attack me, Will you have to show you? Father?
Follock it up?

Speaker 25 (03:02:31):
Father, help me with these sagages Billipru prayer with father, Philippa.

Speaker 9 (03:02:44):
What's wrong with father?

Speaker 16 (03:02:46):
In there on the floor?

Speaker 15 (03:02:48):
His Who know who?

Speaker 6 (03:02:52):
Father?

Speaker 12 (03:02:52):
Speak to me?

Speaker 26 (03:02:54):
Who?

Speaker 7 (03:02:55):
What happened?

Speaker 42 (03:02:56):
I heard O tap your quarreling with my I hurried
in and found father lying there on the floor.

Speaker 12 (03:03:03):
No, no, no, we couldn't nothing my father.

Speaker 16 (03:03:17):
I have searched all over General for you.

Speaker 18 (03:03:19):
It's you.

Speaker 30 (03:03:20):
Go away, go away, please, but you heard her go away?
You killed my father killed? Have you lost your senses?
Your father dead?

Speaker 28 (03:03:32):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (03:03:33):
I don't believe it. Pelieve or say it's not true.
It's true enough. He died of a heart attack after.

Speaker 30 (03:03:38):
You quarreled with him, after I quarreled with Oh, don't
act so surprised.

Speaker 16 (03:03:42):
Go away now, can't you see? Bianca wants nothing more
to do with you, you uncle, Look at me. You
don't believe that I killed your father?

Speaker 7 (03:03:49):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (03:03:50):
I do, and my heart here it it's dead. No,
don't say that. It can't be true. You don't really believe.
I have nothing more to say to you now. You
leave nothing more to say. You, Philippo, you're responsible for
all this, you and your lies. Yes, you even told
me you knew nothing of Bianca's whereabouts when I met

(03:04:12):
you on the street. If I hadn't followed you here,
I might never have seen Bianca. No, I wouldn't have
seen her. You and your lies, your life. I'll save you. No, No,
but that night eyes, all of it. No, no, don't
how the hell that will close?

Speaker 7 (03:04:27):
Your lying mouse?

Speaker 16 (03:04:28):
Where show those lying words?

Speaker 13 (03:04:31):
Hot down that night and what you stunned?

Speaker 28 (03:04:40):
You'll kill him? Please get out of here. You've killed him.
If he's staring at you. Should you want to go quickly?

Speaker 4 (03:04:55):
No?

Speaker 28 (03:04:56):
Down the bay, run, keep running the police they'll be here, sir.
Down this allee no safe for a while, but it's
flee those eyes following you. Get away from them, get away,

(03:05:19):
get away.

Speaker 24 (03:05:36):
If they want a room for the night, all right, sir,
we have one left on the third floor. They face
the street, Yes, the corner room. Did you want one
facing the corner?

Speaker 6 (03:05:42):
No?

Speaker 24 (03:05:43):
No, no, I can't stand to be handed. Are there
any fire exits going past the windows?

Speaker 21 (03:05:47):
No?

Speaker 16 (03:05:47):
I'm sorry, never mind, so much the better someone else
in your body. No, no, no, no, show me the room.

Speaker 3 (03:05:51):
Please?

Speaker 16 (03:05:52):
Are you looking over your shoulder? Right for the room?

Speaker 35 (03:05:54):
Man?

Speaker 16 (03:05:55):
I want to sleep, yes, sir, Yes, sir, right there's way.

Speaker 4 (03:06:03):
Here.

Speaker 19 (03:06:03):
It is, thank you.

Speaker 16 (03:06:05):
It's a very comfortable room. If you want anything, just
ring No, all right, what is it, sir? What's wrong?
It's nothing? I thought I saw someone? Why do you
draw the curtains. I don't like to have people looking
in my windows. That you're on the third floor, and
across the street there those are business houses. You say.
There are no fire exits outside the window, none at all.

(03:06:27):
That will be all. Such a clear night. You really
need some air, and such a beautiful full moon.

Speaker 24 (03:06:31):
I look after my own health that you don't mind,
I said, that will be all, sally, good night, just
a minute.

Speaker 16 (03:06:39):
How far are we from the center of town?

Speaker 24 (03:06:41):
Six miles? The Epenines are that way to the west.
We're on the outskirts of Generay here.

Speaker 16 (03:06:46):
Thank you, good night. You want to be called in
the morning, No, no, no, I'll be up early.

Speaker 4 (03:06:51):
He was good night.

Speaker 24 (03:06:55):
Last alone in this room. I'm safe here. The police
will search. They will not know who killed Philippo. We
will not know unless.

Speaker 28 (03:07:08):
Unless the uncle will tell. Who didn't think of that?

Speaker 3 (03:07:14):
Have you?

Speaker 28 (03:07:16):
You must leave?

Speaker 44 (03:07:17):
You must get out of Genua now at once, yes, now,
at once. I must back to the mountains. I'll be
free in the mountains. The face that cannot follow me there, No,
I cannot follow me there.

Speaker 16 (03:07:38):
Six days, six days in this wilderness water a book
like tongues its parts. Now I can drink. Now, at last,
I can take a drink. Thank goodness for this book.

Speaker 28 (03:07:57):
Yes, is that scar on your face?

Speaker 40 (03:08:02):
No?

Speaker 16 (03:08:03):
No, I have no scar.

Speaker 28 (03:08:04):
The closer there on your right cheek.

Speaker 7 (03:08:08):
It is.

Speaker 16 (03:08:09):
It is a scar, but it can't be. I never
had one.

Speaker 28 (03:08:13):
No you didn't, did you? But remember he had one?
Yeah behind you?

Speaker 3 (03:08:20):
No you?

Speaker 16 (03:08:25):
Oh no, there's no one there.

Speaker 15 (03:08:29):
But the reflection in the book. But there's my face,
a scar my hair, blonde. Why my hair was always
dark that.

Speaker 3 (03:08:44):
His was light?

Speaker 28 (03:08:45):
Remember he had blond hair.

Speaker 16 (03:08:49):
A scar my hair curling. It wants me his face,
everything about him, even out here.

Speaker 5 (03:08:57):
Right.

Speaker 16 (03:08:58):
I must get out of these mountains before I go mad.

Speaker 9 (03:09:00):
Mad.

Speaker 16 (03:09:00):
I how a city in the distance, Campanella. It must
be flaid. You must risk going down. I can't bear
it up here any longer. I can't bear it. I can't.

Speaker 29 (03:09:13):
I can't.

Speaker 24 (03:09:20):
Yes, come in, here's a down No, no, no, thank you,
mind avice no, no, I doctor right now, now, don't
be nervous. I'm your friend, doctor, Look at me, Yes,
I am at my face? Look close, well, but do
you see refinement under a heavy beard?

Speaker 4 (03:09:42):
Of course?

Speaker 3 (03:09:42):
Is that all?

Speaker 7 (03:09:43):
No?

Speaker 16 (03:09:44):
No marks of any sorts such as a such as
a scar?

Speaker 3 (03:09:47):
No, no scar? Are you sure positive?

Speaker 16 (03:09:54):
Then?

Speaker 3 (03:09:54):
Doctor?

Speaker 16 (03:09:55):
Tell me you're a great doctor. Why do I see
scar on the right side of my face every time
I look at myself?

Speaker 3 (03:10:07):
How long have you seen this?

Speaker 28 (03:10:09):
This scar?

Speaker 24 (03:10:09):
Two weeks a month. I've lost track of the exact time.
It's horrible the way it keeps haunts. Yes, I begin
to understand as an unusual occurrence. Overtaken your family? Someone
clothes pass away? Oh no, what business is.

Speaker 16 (03:10:25):
That of yours? I came here to ask about the scar,
not to be cross examined like now.

Speaker 21 (03:10:29):
I only want to help you.

Speaker 24 (03:10:32):
I'm sorry, doctor, that's a way family. Oh yes, by
my cousin, he died last night.

Speaker 16 (03:10:43):
And did he have a scar similar to the one
you mentioned?

Speaker 24 (03:10:47):
I mean no, uh, yes he did. But perhaps our
minds are delicate mechanisms, sometimes hard to control. You want,
doubtedly were very attached to your cousin.

Speaker 3 (03:10:58):
Will you or not?

Speaker 16 (03:10:59):
In a way we saw a great deal of each other,
and no doubt you think of him often. Although why
you should imagine that you see it?

Speaker 3 (03:11:08):
How long since you've worked?

Speaker 24 (03:11:09):
I see by the form the nurse gave you to
fill out that you're an artist several months now. I
can't be sure, but that may explain this phenomenon in part.
You should keep yourself occupied. Suppose we start by recommending work,
lots of it. You really think it will help me?

Speaker 3 (03:11:29):
Doctor?

Speaker 16 (03:11:29):
Definitely, whatever you say, just a minute, I know of someone.
Do you do portraits?

Speaker 3 (03:11:37):
By the way?

Speaker 16 (03:11:38):
Portraits?

Speaker 28 (03:11:39):
Er?

Speaker 24 (03:11:40):
Yes, yes, I can help you. Then you can help me.
How what are you are to stop with this address
at eleven tomorrow? As for a signor fioro? He'll be
expecting you. He's had every artist in Florence to his
portrait and says his likeness will hang in the palace
before he dies.

Speaker 16 (03:11:57):
He's a very exacting sitter. Good luck, doctor. I I
don't see why you trust me this way.

Speaker 24 (03:12:04):
I am a doctor. I like to think of myself
as being one to help a fellow man. You need help,
otherwise you wouldn't be here. But what about your fee? I?
After all, I just can can take care of that
after you've proven yourself of Senior fiorro yes, after you've
satisfied the signor with your work.

Speaker 16 (03:12:26):
One moment more, Senor fiorro steady. Oh that'll be enough
for today. One last touch. No, I must rest.

Speaker 42 (03:12:40):
I have a dinner engagement now, I have time to
sten tomorrow and too. You know, I'll tell you you're
a gifted portraitist. The outline was very satisfactory, and let me.

Speaker 16 (03:12:51):
See how you progressed with the detail. Wouldn't you rather
wait to see the completed work? Oh no, nonsense, I'm
proud of it that far. Let me see it if
you insist. Oh no, no, that's not me. I tried
to What have you done with my pocket? You don't
do it. I don't know, I don't know. You're brilling it.

(03:13:12):
That's what you've done. You're brewing the only picture I've
ever considered buying. Look at it, just look at it now?

Speaker 3 (03:13:19):
Is that me?

Speaker 7 (03:13:20):
I asked you?

Speaker 29 (03:13:21):
Is that me?

Speaker 16 (03:13:22):
Are those my eyes?

Speaker 3 (03:13:23):
That my nose?

Speaker 15 (03:13:24):
My mouth?

Speaker 16 (03:13:25):
Do I have that scar?

Speaker 10 (03:13:26):
No?

Speaker 16 (03:13:27):
That picture is frightful. Take it out of here.

Speaker 42 (03:13:30):
I might have known doctor Pelli would send me one
of his crazy patients.

Speaker 16 (03:13:34):
Take that away from here. You hear me, get out.
Don't have me said, eyes at you again, get.

Speaker 7 (03:13:40):
Out, okay.

Speaker 24 (03:13:45):
I fled from the man's place, doctor Janu, into the
hills beyond Flanet.

Speaker 16 (03:13:51):
They're in a simple had.

Speaker 24 (03:13:52):
I set to work to a race forever from my mind,
the phantom face which haunted me constantly. I set to
work to reproduce on Signor Fioro's canvas all the ghastly
details of the face which stared up at me from
the flora, that Osteria and Genoa where my victim fell.
Protruding eyes, the jagged scar, the teeth glistening like fangs.

(03:14:15):
I poured all the skill of my art, all the
power of my emotion into this last desperate attempt to
free my soul. And here here is the finished work,
represents the hours of torture and agony. I've undergone, my atonement,
my penance for my crime. You can see it in
every brushstroke. You must help me, doctor john O. You

(03:14:39):
must buy it.

Speaker 2 (03:14:39):
You must one moment, one moment, third line, that distinctive brushstroke,
an excellency of detail.

Speaker 16 (03:14:50):
This resembles this is Cartio's word. You recognize it them.

Speaker 19 (03:14:54):
But of course then you you are the one who
sent those canvases from Geneva?

Speaker 16 (03:15:00):
You will caught to you doctor. Now will you help me?

Speaker 15 (03:15:03):
Now?

Speaker 24 (03:15:03):
Will you buy if we have some of your work
in there? Being John, they are of minor importance.

Speaker 16 (03:15:08):
I must have them. Run Wait wait now, listen to me,
listen closely.

Speaker 19 (03:15:13):
You are a famous man.

Speaker 16 (03:15:14):
No, no, no one but you knows my real identity.

Speaker 28 (03:15:16):
Ah, but I'm not the only one who knows your
real identity.

Speaker 16 (03:15:19):
Else I must not be seen here.

Speaker 2 (03:15:21):
Wait now, wait, don't run away. I know you're innocent.
I believe everything you've told me. I knew your story
even before you came here, but I didn't interrupt you
because I wanted you to corroborate who told you?

Speaker 16 (03:15:34):
Thenca? You know Bianca as.

Speaker 3 (03:15:38):
The connoisseur of art?

Speaker 16 (03:15:39):
Should I not know the daughter of the great Pascal?
Wait here, now, don't go away. I'll be right back.
Uh the ncor Then come here? No, no, come here,
my dear Bianca, he has come back.

Speaker 7 (03:15:54):
I tell you what tell you?

Speaker 9 (03:15:58):
Tell you?

Speaker 28 (03:15:58):
Don't I know all are facts?

Speaker 4 (03:16:00):
Now?

Speaker 7 (03:16:01):
I know, Philip.

Speaker 16 (03:16:02):
Then you will not turn me over to the police
for the murder.

Speaker 10 (03:16:07):
We must go to the police.

Speaker 8 (03:16:09):
We must go to them and tell them everything, and
I will stand by Now.

Speaker 2 (03:16:13):
That is wise, Bianca. A Tavio is a famous artist.
The people love his word. The police will be convinced
that he has done penance enough when they see the
painting he painted.

Speaker 25 (03:16:22):
By your face, I see that you've suffered much at Tavio,
come with me to the police and free yourself from
your pain.

Speaker 16 (03:16:29):
You be really free, a free man.

Speaker 10 (03:16:32):
I will stand by you. I know you will be free.

Speaker 24 (03:16:35):
I have regained my strength already, Bianca. Do I have
anything to fear if you will stand beside me.

Speaker 16 (03:16:42):
Oh, listen, listen. Don't you hear them?

Speaker 19 (03:16:49):
They've chosen your painting.

Speaker 16 (03:16:51):
Come a Tavio, walk with me into the gallery and
accept their acclaiming.

Speaker 28 (03:16:57):
Sile h.

Speaker 42 (03:17:13):
From the time one pages of the Past, we have
brought you the phantom picture Bellkeeper all.

Speaker 16 (03:17:24):
The bell.

Speaker 31 (03:17:32):
M from the time when pages of the Past we
have heard another immortal tale in the weird circle down
Keeper tool the bell.

Speaker 1 (03:17:59):
Well, my dear, it's very very late, and I'm very
grateful we would spend so much time with me. I
know tonight felt intense, but sometimes that's a good thing,
and I do so hope you'll come back and join
me again. I'll be right here, same place, same time,

(03:18:25):
with a smile on my face and a hot cup
of tea to warn as you get your chills. But
could you do me one more favor as you head home,
As you make your long dark march to your humble abode,

(03:18:47):
as you enter your bedroom and check the closet and
under the bed, of course, And as you lay your
head on that pillow of yours and begin to blink
away the dead as you begin to head off to
the land of nod. Before you do, before you drift off,

(03:19:09):
take one moment and be thankful for what you have,
and I'll be seen.

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