Unknown Broadcast | Walking Corpses, Midnight Murders, and Other Chilling Horror Stories

My dear, there are nights when the air feels heavier… when the darkness clings to you like damp earth. On such nights, the dead may walk, killers may strike unseen, and strange lights may beckon you to your doom.

This evening, we have five stories steeped in shadow and dread:where corpses refuse to rest, reptiles hiss in the dark, and midnight becomes the hour when all debts are paid.

🪦 The Walking Corpse
Some graves are sealed with more than dirt. When the dead man’s shadow stretches further than it should… you may already be too late.

🐍 Serenade for a Cobra
A melody can soothe—or it can strike. And this one has fangs.

🕛 Murder at Midnight
In the silence of the witching hour, even a whisper can kill.

🔥 Fire in the Sky
Strange lights. A heat you can feel in your bones. And the moment you realize it isn’t coming from this world.

💔 Can’t We Be Friends
Some friendships should never begin… and some endings are worse than death.

So stay close, my dear. The night is long, and the stories are waiting.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Ah, welcome back, my dear. I must admit time as
surprised as I am thrilled to see you. What's that? Well,
perhaps I suppose I wasn't certain you would want to return,
after all, spending a late night listening with creepy old me. Well,

(00:38):
I'm very self aware, and well, I'm grateful that you
want to spend your time with me. After all, you
only get so much if you're lucky. While some days
I do feel like I'm somewhat ironically lively, other days

(01:03):
I'm simply the walking corpse.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
And come in. Welcome. I'm a g marshall. Welcome to
the world of terrifying imagination. To the fear you can
hear tonight, I hope you have strong stomachs. Who We're

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sailing on the way, So if you are easily seasick.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Have no fears.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Save them all for your landing on the twin island
of Militia and sandor Wind, for it is the home
of voodoo and the living dead, the soulless legions of
men who are called zombies. Does eight compadres, there's the

(02:15):
coffin we seek.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Scrap away the earth so we can get the lead open.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Soon we can steal another corpse for the witch doctor.
That's it, now, break open the lead. Swing it back
by way now China. Lad must have been strong as

(02:46):
an ox. He'll make a fine zombie brother for El
Henry Alissimo's lead guard. Stab say your gun. Here is
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(03:12):
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Speaker 8 (05:03):
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Speaker 5 (05:08):
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Speaker 9 (05:12):
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Speaker 4 (05:15):
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Speaker 3 (05:19):
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Speaker 2 (05:32):
The body of a dead person given the semblance of life,
usually for some evil purpose. That is a zombie. The
very name itself is calculated to make the flesh creep
and the blood run chill. But on a plane headed
for Miami, taking them to their honeymoon, nothing could be

(05:55):
further from the thoughts of Steve Ramsey and his new
wife pat.

Speaker 10 (06:01):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (06:01):
I can't believe I have you to myself for these.

Speaker 11 (06:03):
Few hours, Steve let alone of glorious two we.

Speaker 12 (06:07):
I don't know what the other associate professors go through,
but my first two and a half years teaching parapsychology
have laid me out. I can't wait for those hot
sands and warm water.

Speaker 10 (06:17):
Can I save you a drink?

Speaker 13 (06:19):
So?

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh no, that's what I call perfect timing.

Speaker 14 (06:21):
Why not one more and I can fly solo to
Miami without the play, Then.

Speaker 10 (06:26):
I'll join you.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
I can't have your orbiting alone, maggot.

Speaker 15 (06:30):
Bye, please, students, I'm sorry, sir, Just let me move
the car.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
Oh, thank you, Chris, it is Christopher.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
He's all right, students. I'll join my friend here for
a moment. Hey, Steve Man, good to see you here.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Here here, I'll move over.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Sit down, Chris, you look something else. It's great to
run into you, only just for a moment there. I
thought you were thinking of giving me the brush. You
can never I'll explain a minute. Oh, bat, this is
Christopher Leclair.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
I want to well. I want you to meet my
brand new bride.

Speaker 5 (07:02):
This is a pleasure, missus Ramsey.

Speaker 12 (07:04):
Let me congratulate you on your impeccable tasty and both
of you on your marriage. I'd like to buy some champagne,
but you already have your.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
No more sampagne.

Speaker 16 (07:15):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
We've had enough in the last few weeks to flow
to battles.

Speaker 12 (07:19):
At least let me get a drink for myself to
talk to bride and groom.

Speaker 17 (07:24):
He's your old football buddy, right, yeah, greatest running back
I ever saw, all around athlete.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
He could have made it big in the pros any sport.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
Isn't he a prince or something?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
And his father is the king of my wisher. I
wonder what's bugging him? Oh this is better a toast
from my country. To be a good man is first
to have a good wife.

Speaker 18 (07:46):
I was Sonday.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
Thank you, Chris, and to yours yours too?

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Oh yes, drink to my good health. Please? What is it, Chris?
You want to talk about it?

Speaker 12 (07:57):
I wish I still had you calling the place for me.
But this is a different ballgame. You know, A boy
my father? No what he's dead? Oh no?

Speaker 3 (08:10):
What can I say? Hang in there, man?

Speaker 16 (08:14):
Oh, I will be tough, all right?

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Was it recent the day before yesterday?

Speaker 5 (08:20):
I didn't see anything about it on the paper.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
It wasn't in the papers.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
He didn't die, he was assassinated.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Any idea who did it?

Speaker 12 (08:32):
There is no proof, but I know ohhh, maybe not
by his own hand, but at least on his orders.
Hernandro thru Hedel, the generalissimo. But I thought he was
your father's best friend and my godfather. His gift to
me on my twenty first birthday, his own good luck charm.

(08:55):
The bracelet of the Sacred serpent, the head, the voodoo
symbol of life, the tale, the symbol of death. You see,
they are woven together. But then why should he Because
missus Ramsey, my father gave our people freedom, a freedom
they send door Indian cannot share. Why not because if

(09:19):
they had it, they would tear the man who rules
them by terror to pieces. So he's planning to move
in on my wishier and an axis the moment my
father's assassination is revealed. They could it ow while the
people are in confusion with no leadership. That's why I've
given up any dream of becoming a doctor and them

(09:40):
going home.

Speaker 16 (09:42):
The private plane will meet me in Miami to fly
me to Moitia.

Speaker 12 (09:46):
To save time, I took this commercial flight under an
assumed name.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
You think true, Heteromya. I was worn just in time.

Speaker 12 (09:54):
Less than an hour after I left my apartment, A
bomb got it it.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
I'm a dangerous man to know these days.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
So before I do cause anything.

Speaker 6 (10:06):
Oh my god, see what is it?

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Two hundred machine guns? Looks like they are Where.

Speaker 10 (10:13):
Is a gentleman?

Speaker 3 (10:14):
My god, I am your attendon.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
Plays it's one Gucia tor hadoes hatchet man.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
What can we do?

Speaker 10 (10:22):
Nothing?

Speaker 18 (10:22):
It's every one wiet.

Speaker 19 (10:25):
If you don't, I say, no, one will be hurt.

Speaker 20 (10:30):
We are commandering this blight, quiet, fiet, there.

Speaker 19 (10:36):
Is nothing more here.

Speaker 13 (10:37):
You two.

Speaker 19 (10:39):
The plane will land at Miami and our path and
yours will.

Speaker 21 (10:42):
Be discharged except for the flight crew and four hostages.
I repeat, there is no cause or alarms. If all
of you gave you a seat, and you'll be all stale.

Speaker 20 (11:05):
Everybody just follow orders and they want to go will
be shot. Okay, all right, you three, oh, wind into
first class.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
No wrong moves. My orders had to bring you.

Speaker 22 (11:23):
Dad or alive.

Speaker 16 (11:24):
I was only going to ask that.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Your friends can identify you. We don't want that for
a few days. They will only be killed as costage
till we are ready. If they do what they are
told them, they will be released on card. I'm join
the other custage. As you were saying, waiting first class.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Steve, I'm so sorry. It's not your fault.

Speaker 23 (11:48):
Okay, Patricia, ready, unwilling able, that's my gun.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Let's go. Guys walk ahead of me.

Speaker 20 (11:56):
Nice sons, steady, Amen, Mysonagos tanker, roban, Oh, nobody, they
most they'll like come back.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Okay inside, that's it.

Speaker 21 (12:10):
We'll sit by k Kato.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Don't let them molt they like come back.

Speaker 16 (12:14):
I'm sorry I.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Got you into this we'll make out. Are you okay?

Speaker 6 (12:18):
A few butterflies in the stomach?

Speaker 3 (12:21):
What does he want to move in and sit down?

Speaker 12 (12:23):
I think better keep him happy. He's a surly character
at best. Why don't we sit in these four together?
Our friends a little deaf.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
If we keep far enough away, we can talk safely,
if we keep our voices down.

Speaker 18 (12:36):
Why are you being held hostage?

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Any number of reasons. I'm a US government I know
who you are. They took a dim view of me
for carrying a gun, and they have a pretty good
idea who I am too?

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Who are you? Hawkins? Will do still, Hawkins?

Speaker 5 (12:49):
What branch of the government?

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Well, I think I won't reveal that I was assigned
to see that you cleared the country safely.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Here I mean us.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Someone slipped me and knockout dropping the coffee. That's when
I lost consciousness and my gun.

Speaker 12 (13:02):
You were asleep when I came back. Oh this is me, missus,
Steve Ramsay, Steve man High Howkins?

Speaker 6 (13:09):
How do you do? Mister Hawkins?

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Any idea? What their plans are? Refuel clear the rest
of the passengers out, then.

Speaker 16 (13:16):
Then we head straight for San Dorinde.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
That's the motion.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
So the moment they get our friend Christoph here to Sandornda.
He's a gone goes. He'll just drop out of sight suddenly,
and for good. My guess is they'll set up one
of these goons is a four guy, have a big
show trial, and in the meanwhile return the plane with
us aboard. Only somewhere on the way we'll all disappear
in a puff of plastic bomb smoke. We're just as

(13:41):
long gone as the king here?

Speaker 3 (13:43):
What's the alternative? Distract? Ugly?

Speaker 13 (13:45):
There?

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Long enough for one of us to disarm him? Can
I see you?

Speaker 2 (13:48):
And as other boys can only get at us through
the narrow passageway between tourist class and here. I can
keep them pinned down, or you get out the emergency exit.
He's a big guy, but that let me Okay, no
time to argue. How do we distract him?

Speaker 6 (14:01):
That's my job.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Please stay out of this.

Speaker 23 (14:03):
I'm in it just as much as all of you
watch this. Hey, mister, come here a second, Okay, then
I'll come to you.

Speaker 16 (14:13):
Take it easy.

Speaker 6 (14:14):
I just want to ask something. If you can hear me,
I can't speak any louder. Oh, please come closer.

Speaker 16 (14:24):
That's it.

Speaker 6 (14:25):
I just want to ask where.

Speaker 11 (14:31):
A my arm?

Speaker 4 (14:33):
He's all right, I have begun. Hey where you are?

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Don't let him near you?

Speaker 10 (14:38):
What are you waiting for?

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Let's stay like that, all right, kiddo? Bet if John gun.

Speaker 10 (14:52):
You shot him?

Speaker 20 (14:53):
Guy, see you have chilled him? They talking, They are alive.
It makes no difference.

Speaker 6 (14:59):
But they're other than that.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
I saw him try point blanket.

Speaker 20 (15:02):
Should have killed him, kay though, h oh no, Lord,
you know you can kill a zombie.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
They're coming into the landing.

Speaker 13 (15:23):
Now.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
How's Chris?

Speaker 6 (15:25):
He's alive, but just barely.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
He can just hang on.

Speaker 5 (15:28):
Maybe when we land a doctor can help you to
live for me.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Don't give up, Chris.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
Gate, Hey, snake, what the snake bracelet? He wants you
to here there Steve has it? Chris good Lisa, you
go slog she hide you save you give her a bracelet?

(16:03):
But where do we find her? Whoever? Dolls gel rue
gel plus.

Speaker 16 (16:13):
Bose oo.

Speaker 6 (16:15):
Have we needed?

Speaker 16 (16:17):
Have we needed?

Speaker 11 (16:19):
The last.

Speaker 6 (16:23):
Avenue of the dolls is what number? Oh ben oh
ben a gay shop? Take me home, left me home.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
To loch to loche hair.

Speaker 10 (16:44):
This shine shine of the black.

Speaker 16 (16:49):
Black boo.

Speaker 20 (16:52):
Boo, Where about the land pretty short runway at a
fastening seat belts.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
I'll get yours for you.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Not the most promising way to begin a honeymoon, particularly
when it seems there is more than a little chance
of ending it even before it's begun. Who knows what
kind of reception is ahead for the newlyweds. I'll be
back shortly with that too.

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Speaker 2 (18:58):
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(19:19):
and the commuter trains are running.

Speaker 22 (19:20):
Bob Harris is.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
In Wor's weather center every morning with all that very
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We cover sports completely with Don Crickey in the news department.
Peter Roberts, Henry Gladstone and Harry Hennessy end up in
the helicopter, George Mead or Fred Feldman keeping an eye
on the traffic scene. So all together we do try

(19:42):
to take any mystery out of the morning and just
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Speaker 3 (19:54):
Now back to the mystery.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Under other circumstances, Pat and Steve would have no complaints
about their accommodations on the island. Drained and exhausted, the
silk sheeted bed in an expensive suite is an alluring
invitation to sleep, except even if you are dead to
the world. Who wants to become part of the world

(20:29):
of the dead people?

Speaker 11 (20:32):
Steve?

Speaker 6 (20:35):
Is it possible? Could there really be such a thing
as it?

Speaker 11 (20:41):
Some?

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Of course not, it's just a superstition.

Speaker 6 (20:45):
But you saw Chris fire too, But let's right.

Speaker 12 (20:48):
Into his body. Yes, he didn't even flinch. How Gito,
here goes some what I think. Therefore, I am pat looked.
Under any of the circumstances, I'd be fascinated.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
I mean, this is my field, and you do believe
that there are.

Speaker 6 (21:12):
Walking dead?

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Do I believe that a man can be exsumed from
the grave and life breathed back into his corpse?

Speaker 26 (21:20):
No?

Speaker 3 (21:21):
No, I can't accept that. That's beyond my credulity.

Speaker 12 (21:24):
But I've seen things in parapsychological experiments and in psychic research.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
That, Honey, the power of supernatural belief is beyond belief.
The right subject, particularly one of low mentality under hypnosis,
is capable of incredible feats, superhuman strength, no sensation of pain,
no shock reaction.

Speaker 27 (21:47):
Oh lord, No, what the knock?

Speaker 6 (21:51):
Wasn't it the door we came in? Is that one
over there?

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Wait a minute, say where you are at?

Speaker 20 (21:57):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (21:58):
Who is it? Bill?

Speaker 3 (22:00):
I'm in an adjoining room.

Speaker 9 (22:02):
They're a boat on your side.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (22:05):
Half a second, Hi, Bill, listen, we've got to talk.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
What's the sense in talking? Hello?

Speaker 26 (22:14):
Ben?

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Hello?

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Bill?

Speaker 6 (22:17):
How's your arm?

Speaker 20 (22:17):
It feels fine. They did a real good job of
patching it up. I just wondered before we all turned in,
if you had a radio.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
In here there's one right over there. Good mind if
I turn.

Speaker 9 (22:28):
It on and see if I can catch some news?

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Oh only one band? Well, let's see what it's got.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Hey, I see they provided you with a meal too,
because I never even noticed.

Speaker 9 (22:40):
Pretty good grub.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
You should try it.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
I wouldn't touch it, nor right, I don't see how well?

Speaker 10 (22:46):
Right?

Speaker 3 (22:46):
We can cut the comedy.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
Now this place has budged the radio or to block
us out.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Now we've got to plan some kind of escape.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
I may have that lined up.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
It's where to hold out after we bust from here.
That's got me stopped. I've got a possible answer to that.

Speaker 10 (23:00):
What not?

Speaker 6 (23:01):
So long?

Speaker 5 (23:02):
Oh, Chris's aunt, she lives here where the avenue of
the Dolls.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
It's a long winding street. Any idea where you know it?
I spent six months on secret service here before we
closed down our embassy. For you to give you a
cross streams or a number.

Speaker 23 (23:18):
He was pretty incoherent before he died. When I asked him,
he just sort of rambled on about the great Serpent
and then the black bull or something.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
The serpent is the basic symbol of the Voodoo religion.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Black bull I never heard of in this liturgy. Way
a minute.

Speaker 12 (23:36):
The chicken in the obia coat is a sacrificial animal
considered to.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Maybe it was the black pull he was trying to say,
black pullet.

Speaker 16 (23:47):
Does that mean anything to you, Bill?

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, well, anymost it's a sort of a souvenir shop,
you know, a typical tourist, rapid straw.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Handsome dolls and voodoo drums.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
You mean to say, well, could you find this park?

Speaker 6 (24:01):
And how do we get out?

Speaker 3 (24:02):
You got slack sons. It's good.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
You got a dark scarf to cover that blonde hair, right,
he right, Come with me, walk soft, keep your voices low.
Turn up that radiol Roger.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Can quick the doing.

Speaker 13 (24:21):
Good?

Speaker 5 (24:22):
Come on, leave it open. I'm over here to my
window to keep off to the sides.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
I look down.

Speaker 6 (24:31):
It's one of those those zombies down there.

Speaker 12 (24:33):
But you see there's a balcony steps that lead to
the street with something subhuman or maybe I should say superhuman.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Armed with a gun right at the bottom of them.
If he's cold, cocky, he isn't going to do him
any good.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
I fill you have a lot of guts, but you know,
Muhammad Ali and the only strength I have is in
my brain.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
We'll out your hands. I'm going to give you the equalizers.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Steve, with his fist wrapped around a roll of nickels
or quarters, a thirteen year old boy could deck Joe
Frasier given the chance to blindside him. Yeah, but we
haven't got your hands out. This is a salt cellar,
same difference. I'm spilling the saw to your left hand,
wrap the other around this heavy crystal. I'm doing the
same with the pepper. Are you pat We're going to

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cover us by making a diversion. Pick up that glass
water pitcher there, too heavy for you to throw. No,
we turn off the lights, turn off the radio, make
like we're turning in. Then we sneak out the French
windows onto the balcony. You go off to the right
opposite end from the steps. When that zombie reacts to

(25:39):
the crash of that picture on the flagstones on your side,
Steve and I go down the steps and take him out.
Then we go look for toss Solange.

Speaker 6 (25:48):
Now, but he'd see you, of.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
Course, so we wait until dark and that won't be long.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Now, now you take him, Steve, he's still not out.
I'm flowing the pepper. Throw the salt in his eyes.

Speaker 28 (26:08):
They watch it.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
I think, I think I killed alone. Stop to find
out the light's going on. Come on, pat, we'll have
to run for it. Hold, we'll have the chance of life.
Which which way ahead to the right, build the next
block the right on our heels. Give me that flashlight.

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You get out of here, both of you. What about
you don't be a fool.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
Somebody's got to be a decoy and you have a
wife to think of.

Speaker 6 (26:40):
My hurry, Come on, pack run.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
Hold they went to that light, yes times to sell hush.

Speaker 10 (27:01):
Who won't, sir?

Speaker 12 (27:02):
I am Christopher's friend with my wife. We are running
from to Hado. The Generalissimo. Christopher told me to seek
refuge here.

Speaker 15 (27:11):
And to bring you this the Great Serpent a moment,
and to my children quickly quickly, so turn out your lights.

Speaker 10 (27:25):
Also we must.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Hide my cats in the dark.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
So they have killed her Christophe, first my brother, then
his son.

Speaker 10 (27:42):
Well he will be made to pay, and.

Speaker 5 (27:45):
Aye for an eye, a heart for bleeding heart.

Speaker 15 (27:51):
Now shall the tire and bleed. Now at last my
curse shall enter his vitals. Now well the great serpent
and coil and strike her. Nando Treedo dead.

Speaker 6 (28:04):
It wasn't the Generalisimo who shot Chris.

Speaker 12 (28:07):
It was a man named Garciacia, that jack of puppet,
dangled by the strings, that less than nothing.

Speaker 5 (28:14):
But no mind or will of his own?

Speaker 6 (28:16):
Is he a zombie too?

Speaker 10 (28:18):
What do you know of zombie's, my child?

Speaker 6 (28:21):
Nothing except what I saw on the plane and what
my husband tried to tell me.

Speaker 20 (28:25):
Oh, you are a teacher in college, Monsieur RAMSEYO, yes,
and much of my studies are in the supernatural.

Speaker 10 (28:31):
You believe in zombie?

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Well no, not altogether. Very well, we shall put.

Speaker 10 (28:37):
Our beliefs to the test.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
It's a dog like the ones you sell in the
store here.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Not quite the same.

Speaker 15 (28:46):
This one is like the souvenirs of el Generalissimo, with
this difference.

Speaker 10 (28:53):
I have been a long time making him.

Speaker 5 (28:57):
You see the stories for his favorite horses stall.

Speaker 10 (29:02):
The beard is made from the combings of his hair brush.

Speaker 15 (29:06):
The eyes ja chips from a dress coat button, the
boots from the fingers of an old glove.

Speaker 10 (29:14):
This is a voodoo doll.

Speaker 15 (29:18):
All of him is made with it that once belonged
to Treedo. The one last thing I needed to make
the spell work, the weapon. Now what last I have
in my hand, The instrument of destruction. I straighten out
the circle, turn the head to the sky and death

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the tail towards the ground and strike. What have I done,
mister Ramsey?

Speaker 17 (29:54):
You he drove the bracelet like a knife, straight through
the doll's head from temple to temple.

Speaker 5 (30:02):
Ernando Tredo will be dead by midnight and we.

Speaker 10 (30:06):
Will all be free. You still do not believe.

Speaker 15 (30:13):
Let us find how strong your science holds against my faith.
Trado's men the doll. They must not find the doll.
Help me pin it under my skirt.

Speaker 6 (30:25):
My hands are shaking something.

Speaker 13 (30:28):
Time so.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Beat again? Say your Ramsey, how did you find us?
No frying Hawkins. He gave us away. Hey, you're Ramsey.
Every man will give anything away with the right persuasion.
Say your coggins look longer than most. It was very foolish.

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What do you mean scenes in the end? Keep all?
Why was it worth lying for? Almost must not keep
the canarvy.

Speaker 21 (31:02):
On my wedding.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Please let me assure you that you have nothing to
hurry about. I ask you all to relax now. The
tower is set for a let's suffer. I am sure
you must all be famished after a long and difficult day,
won't you be my guests prisoners. You mean so sado, yes,

(31:32):
Laban trancess, so lunge. I come, honord. I have no
idea you have come to live among us.

Speaker 9 (31:39):
I have been here.

Speaker 10 (31:40):
Longer than you know.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yes, I haven't speak to my secret police about that.
Had I even told you were honoring our country with
the visit, I would have arranged a more suitable welcome.

Speaker 10 (31:52):
I am sure you would. By disposing of me as
you did my brother and.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
My nephew Christo, I suppose it would be impossible for
me to convince you that I had no hand in
the death of King Francois.

Speaker 5 (32:07):
This truth is that his heart failed him. His death
was a natural one.

Speaker 15 (32:14):
Lie upon lie, but one truth you cannot twist the
death of my nephew.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Did you see him die?

Speaker 5 (32:22):
There are two witnesses before your.

Speaker 10 (32:24):
Deathk go din Ah.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
He excoose me in a moment, Garcia, Are you ready
see now we must wait for a moment from what
you we see, Senora Ramsey, let me ask you a question.
What did you see Christophe Leclaire die? Yes, I'm choosing you. Yes,

(32:54):
you are quite sure, of course. Yes, Look what are
you trying to prove?

Speaker 11 (32:58):
Not I.

Speaker 20 (33:00):
I will let him show you that for himself. You'll
see Chris is shippy, Steve, He's alive. It's Chris, Chris?

Speaker 9 (33:16):
Is it really you?

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (33:20):
Man?

Speaker 13 (33:21):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (33:22):
Don't you know me?

Speaker 2 (33:28):
There is no mistaking the tall, live figure, the regal bearing,
the proud, handsome face, All those belonged to Christophe Leclair.
He might easily have remarked as Mark Twain once telegraphed
the reports of my death are an exaggeration. We'll return

(33:48):
shortly with Act three. Some research experts say you can't
taste the difference between beers.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Well, if they're right, then Anheuser.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Bush wastes a barrel of time beechwood aging Budweiser.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
Only they don't think so.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Brewing beer right does make a difference, and they're betting
a bundle that you can taste the difference in bud.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
When it comes to brewing.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Budweiser, the Anheuser Bush choice is to go all the
way because they still care about quality.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Look at it this way.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
If the bud people have a choice between what some
experts say and what beer drinkers say, well you'd better
believe they'll go with you.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Beer drinkers every.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Time when you say Budweiser, you said it all Anheuser
Busch Saint Louis.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Tomorrow Monday.

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They and us snapped up a very I shall purchase
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(35:33):
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(35:53):
store except Garden City.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Come early.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
At the shock of the reincarnation of a dead man
appearing from the grave, it is not surprising that his
friends and relative are literally frozen in their tracks. Under
the circumstances, it is only decent courtesy for the returned
corpse to break the ice dansonage. Guess have you no

(36:28):
greeting for me?

Speaker 10 (36:30):
Mompoor? Fuck you too? Anl Patu? Forgive me? I thought
never to see you again.

Speaker 5 (36:37):
But here I am ah most shell, but be most she.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Quell.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Now Here is a reunion warf celebrating. That was a
pretty rough wound you had, Chris, worse.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Than it looked.

Speaker 12 (36:52):
Thank god it was mostly flesh damaged. The doctors tell
me the bullet bounced off my sternum and never entered
the chest. But should you be on your feet long
enough to ease your minds about me?

Speaker 3 (37:05):
I'm still a bit woozy.

Speaker 12 (37:07):
It's the scond time you took the XB too slant
off tackle against Ohio State and that big linebacker sought
a kitchen head something something like that, I tell them
the good news, Generisimo, set my aunt's mind.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
At rest when I know you hold out my motives
even crestof did I can hardly blame him, since I
took such extreme measures to bring him here to San
Dolindi before his planned driver at the motia.

Speaker 10 (37:39):
What was your reason for that?

Speaker 2 (37:41):
We walked it tidle upon the sheer island of owls.
Two cultures, two languages, two forms of government, perhaps precariously
on a heavery increasing population in a far more ancient
and primitive culture than hither of ours. Your brother and I,
he ching his own way, preserved that delicate balance.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
With his unexpected death, steps had to be taken.

Speaker 5 (38:10):
Why you know, his plan was to return the government
to the people that.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Would not have hoard, not even for them. We would
have ended both of us in anarchy. Fortunately, my godson
was perceptive enough to realize that we have worked out
between us a.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Better plan, a compromise.

Speaker 20 (38:32):
I would prefer to call it and nott, But tell
them Christo, it's quite simple.

Speaker 12 (38:38):
Tomorrow, together my godfather and I shall proclaim a union
between Malitia and Sentorindi, a pri lingual state.

Speaker 9 (38:48):
With one government.

Speaker 12 (38:50):
Ruled by whom by the Generalissimo and myself I as
president and my godfather as Prime minister.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
So he does second place weird as grow the younger sorage,
someone must take our place.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
I am happy to yield to the future.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
What better hands could this hire and be in than
increase staff's. So now I think, mister Presidente, you should rest.
Doctors can do all this so much. Nature handles the rest.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
Yes, I would like to.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Lie down.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
I am sure you will be excused. I beg you
not to wait for me to enjoy your supper. The
President and myself have a few matters to settle about
the announcement tomorrow before he goes to speak.

Speaker 12 (39:43):
Forgive me please, I'm tired, and tomorrow's say big day,
good night, good night, Prace, good night at.

Speaker 10 (39:54):
Your mom bebby, goodbye.

Speaker 21 (40:00):
Forever.

Speaker 10 (40:01):
What is it?

Speaker 6 (40:03):
What's the matter with you two?

Speaker 13 (40:06):
You saw?

Speaker 17 (40:08):
You know?

Speaker 10 (40:10):
Do you now believe in zombies?

Speaker 3 (40:12):
Are you trying to say that wasn't Chris who was
here just now?

Speaker 6 (40:17):
I don't understand.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
You don't know him? Zaidu.

Speaker 12 (40:19):
Firsty, he never would accept this deal. The guy is
too decent to want us to be part of it.
But there are other things what well. First off, our
school never played Ohio State. Second Sawchuck was no linebacker
but a running back who murdered us, and the only
loss we had together. Third XB two wasn't a run
play but a deep pass play that had nothing to
do with Chris except as a decoy.

Speaker 15 (40:40):
I don't understand the things your husband says. But I
tell you that was not Christoph Leclear who just left,
not my nephew. They have stolen his soul and that
I cannot allow.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
For what can we do about it?

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Tantasselage, It is a very few minutes to twelve. I
told you Ernando Truhedo would be dead by then. Remember, yes,
here is a conjured doll which will make his death.
I placed it on his desk so he can see it,

(41:17):
for it is by.

Speaker 10 (41:18):
His own guilt.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
He must die before the end of this day. But
if he doesn't return, he will return.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
It is written in the dust.

Speaker 29 (41:31):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Nobody feels like he.

Speaker 9 (41:35):
Word.

Speaker 20 (41:36):
I don't suppose I can altogether blame you, shall I
have you shown through your quarters for the night?

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Instead? Where is christof I.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Should never really cover out him to overtalks himself after
being wounded.

Speaker 5 (41:51):
He was absolutely exhausted.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
I saw him to.

Speaker 5 (41:55):
Bed, and you return to suggest the same to us.

Speaker 9 (42:00):
I think we.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
Share all time.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Whatever discussion that may be between us can wait for tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
For you, there is no tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (42:10):
What do you mean, liar, cheek, thief, murderer.

Speaker 15 (42:17):
Look on your desk, the conjural, your image made peace
by peace, from your belongings, fashioned in your likeness, christened
in your name, with the blood of the black pullet,

(42:38):
your own bracelet of the sacred serpent driven through its brain.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Do you think I could buy such childish superstition? Kamo savage?
What a man thinks is what he is? This primitive
mumbo jumbo.

Speaker 9 (42:53):
We'll have no effect on me.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
Are you sure?

Speaker 10 (42:56):
How large is a bag of guilt you carry?

Speaker 9 (42:58):
Hull?

Speaker 5 (42:59):
Nothing convince you woman, Your nephew, my.

Speaker 15 (43:02):
Nephew Resta Christoph is dead?

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Can you say that you have just seen him?

Speaker 2 (43:07):
I saw walking prp nor idio superstition.

Speaker 10 (43:10):
Like my hundred dollars horse. Don't believe in it? No,
And you believe in zombies?

Speaker 15 (43:18):
You know the power voodoo can create them, You know
the power voodoo can kill?

Speaker 10 (43:24):
What is it you want? Too late?

Speaker 20 (43:27):
I would give you anything I offer you and these
two safe transport now no streams attached?

Speaker 10 (43:33):
How can you guarantee it?

Speaker 9 (43:35):
Hang?

Speaker 10 (43:35):
Come head, hover? Reasonable?

Speaker 19 (43:37):
My power is in it?

Speaker 10 (43:38):
Not anymore.

Speaker 15 (43:40):
The clock is ticking your life away, twelve o'clock, only
a few second left held me. I cannot help the diet,
can't you cannot even help your.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Hand if you money, use anything?

Speaker 9 (43:57):
Name?

Speaker 6 (43:58):
What do you want?

Speaker 5 (44:00):
Cannot give me what.

Speaker 10 (44:02):
You stole from? I left you his soul.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
I want yours in return, and die.

Speaker 15 (44:12):
By the power granted me as an opiate woman, vested
in my hands by the uncoiling sacred serpents, to take
the place of the rud doll, as it should to
all tyrants. So comes a violent death to you. I

(44:35):
condemn you to have a lasting fire and death by
the serpent writhing in your.

Speaker 21 (44:45):
I cannot die, try sam kind of aw No one
can't touch me, do you hear?

Speaker 10 (44:54):
No?

Speaker 4 (44:54):
One?

Speaker 10 (44:57):
You und me?

Speaker 19 (45:00):
What I have to do?

Speaker 4 (45:01):
His eyes, this pistol.

Speaker 29 (45:09):
What happened?

Speaker 3 (45:11):
I wouldn't like to guess.

Speaker 9 (45:13):
Does it matter?

Speaker 16 (45:15):
He's dead?

Speaker 5 (45:16):
Are you sure he's dead?

Speaker 4 (45:18):
All right?

Speaker 3 (45:20):
Now?

Speaker 6 (45:20):
What gotta get away? Escape?

Speaker 30 (45:23):
Somehow?

Speaker 17 (45:23):
Only how do we get through the palace guard. At
least I have his gun. We better try and make a.

Speaker 3 (45:28):
Run for it. We have to rescue my nephew first,
but count us Solage. He's our enemy now.

Speaker 10 (45:35):
I still must rescue him.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
That's for Bill Hawkins. Pat time will run for it.

Speaker 9 (45:47):
I'll try to hold him off.

Speaker 15 (45:49):
You can't kill dead men with that, Ghasia, Yes, but
not a zombie. Hand me that salt seller here, But
what good salt is the only thing that we'll kill
A zombie.

Speaker 6 (46:08):
Chris ing on the.

Speaker 23 (46:10):
Bed is he?

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Oh no, he's still breathing. He's just asleep.

Speaker 10 (46:16):
Leave me alone with him. Go if you want to,
but leave me with Christoph. Will you belong as long
as it must take?

Speaker 3 (46:26):
Go or we can't find a way out of here
without you? We'll wait.

Speaker 31 (46:30):
Oh, great serpent who coils about the sky and holds
all world together, help me now, Help me to break
the black magic that change my baby to a living debt.

Speaker 10 (46:47):
Help me to bring his soul home to you, Christophe, Christoph,
listen to me. It is Tanta sologe who speaks. You
know me as an opium magician.

Speaker 15 (47:09):
My magic is greater than the magic of the hougan
who made you.

Speaker 32 (47:14):
What you are.

Speaker 10 (47:16):
He summoned you from the grave and stole away your soul.

Speaker 15 (47:22):
Now I must summon you back.

Speaker 28 (47:24):
To the grave, back to the dead, the everlasting dead,
so that your immortal soul may live.

Speaker 10 (47:41):
But only you can break the bonds. Rise sumb me
who ride and cross to the window. Open the shutters.

Speaker 33 (48:04):
Now.

Speaker 15 (48:07):
Now open your eyes and look at the sea. No, no,
the name of the Great Serpent. I command you open
your eyes.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
Mm hmmm, hunt Dunte, I'm going Oh.

Speaker 19 (48:39):
My baby, my baby, all.

Speaker 6 (48:48):
Right, what happened to see?

Speaker 10 (48:50):
His body may be dead, but he's solely safe. Christoph
his home.

Speaker 5 (49:02):
At large.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
The death of the dictator set a people free, and
a mad orgy of festival and delight in the wild
celebration that lit up the city. No one had time
to pay any attention to the three somber people who
found their way back to the hotel. For Pat Steve
and Tanta Solange. There was sadness, but solace too. The

(49:33):
king was dead, but so was the zombie who might
have held him prisoner for eternity. I'll returned shortly.

Speaker 6 (49:42):
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Speaker 24 (49:45):
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Speaker 6 (49:49):
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Speaker 6 (49:54):
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Speaker 24 (50:00):
Sugar Free Diets seven up tastes so good that I've
tast tested one hundreds of times and each time I've.

Speaker 6 (50:06):
Given it my seal of approval.

Speaker 24 (50:08):
Yes, this one's just right.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
United Airlines Steward jack Nester talks about friendship service to California.

Speaker 35 (50:19):
Our seven forty seven LA we have from a movie.
We have stereo and choice of three different hot meals
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Speaker 2 (50:28):
United's Californians another reason more people choose the Friendly.

Speaker 5 (50:32):
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Speaker 35 (50:36):
Yeah, we have people that come up to us and say,
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It seems like on a six hour flight you can
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Speaker 11 (50:48):
You know.

Speaker 16 (50:48):
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Speaker 7 (51:02):
United has seven daily non stops to California, including wide
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Speaker 36 (51:11):
This is Patricia McCann, and we'd like to tell you
what the McCann program is all about this coming week. Monday,
Dora McCann gives some good ideas on how to prepare
the best food buys of the week. Tuesday, we begin
a two part series on nutrition against arthritis, diabetes, heart disease.
Our guest Nathan Pritticken will discuss research that shows diet
can prevent and sometimes reverse some of these degenerative diseases

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so common in this country. Thursday, Dora McCann interviews Bob
Brian Hart and Dick Woods on how to prepare elegant
meals in very cramp quarters. And Friday, the program will
be in praise of mothers and housewives when Arianna Stassinopoulos,
author of The Female Woman, gives her argument against the
women's liberation movement.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Power of suggestion, hypnosis, superstitious fear, overpowering, guilt complexes, terror
of the unknown? Do any or all of these explain
the events of the tale I've just told? Or are
there really such terrifying things as a walking corpse? Are

(52:26):
there really zombies? Well, let's hope you and I I
never have to find out. Our cast included Tony Roberts,
Suzanne Grossman, Vinette Carroll, Bob Caliban, Jackson Beck, and Ian Martin.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
My dear, have you ever found yourself trying to appease
someone who is simply not on the level. Perhaps their
reasoning is devious there, maybe not the best actor per se.

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I've always found it fascinated to hear them talk their
way out of whatever web they find themselves weaving in
a way as you say goodbye to those people, it
sounds like a serene for a cobra.

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Speaker 37 (54:26):
Tonight we escape to India in the story of an
ex army pilot caught up in murderous intrigue. As Joel
Murcott tells it in his exciting tale Serenade for a Cobra.

Speaker 22 (54:44):
He's got to keep playing. He's got to keep playing
that music, and I've got to listen. He keeps it
up long enough, I'll have a chance. But if he stops,
I'm going to die. And he may stop, he may
stop any minute, because that's what he wants.

Speaker 13 (54:57):
He wants me to die.

Speaker 22 (55:04):
My name's Monks Slavin. I'm a flyer. I don't know
whatever brought me to Calcutter, but something about the name
had the smell of gold, sounded like the kind of
place where a good pilot who didn't ask questions might
make a deal, a big deal, in a fast one.
But nothing seemed to be drifting my way, Nothing but
the intense hot wind of the monsoon and the fog
from the Ganges, and the sea rolling over the city

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from all sides and strangling it. There's nothing to do
but drink gin and quinine water at the airport bar
and pray that you didn't get malaria.

Speaker 21 (55:33):
Oh, hello Slavin, Hello, grant you back again. Just flew
in with a small cargo, a very small one.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Mind.

Speaker 22 (55:40):
If I sit down, help yourself. You go and get
out of calcut at night. Another five minutes of that
fog and there'll be in better ceiling in here than
there is out there. It sound like the monsoon is
getting on your nerves. What you need is a job
doing what flying stinking hides down here from Katmandu. You
know'll call it a job, do you?

Speaker 21 (55:57):
It's the best work I can get at the moment. Now,
if I had a chap like you.

Speaker 22 (56:01):
To handle the flights, I'd have time to dig up
some new business. You don't have to dig it up,
granted it's waiting for you. Used to ferry a lot
of stuff in and out of China, yes, but that
was before the prison situation. You could still make a
buck out of China, a good fat profit anytime you
want it. I don't fly contraband, oh ethics, sir, if
you care to call it that. Yeh, that's why you're
starving with a lousy one ship freight line.

Speaker 21 (56:22):
I could take offense at that, but I won't. You
don't even have a ship, slavin And I'll wager you
have very little cash.

Speaker 22 (56:28):
Well, that's a safe wager you'd win. Why not be practical, boy?

Speaker 21 (56:33):
I can offer you one hundred pounds a month and
meals and quarters at the base at Katmandu.

Speaker 22 (56:37):
You know, I don't know how I can resist this
chance to become a millionaire, but I'll try. It's better
than nothing. Cushy enough.

Speaker 21 (56:44):
Four hundred and twenty miles down, four twenty back and
no flying over the hump.

Speaker 22 (56:50):
No thanks, pardon, Oh, here's my mechanic.

Speaker 16 (56:54):
I have completed your errands are That's fine, Jeffa.

Speaker 21 (56:58):
I'll be right with you if you change your mind. Slavin,
you know where to find me.

Speaker 22 (57:02):
Yea'll leave a light burning in the window, but don't
wait up for me. That's all I got two bit
offers from men like Grant, a beggar just like the
reform beggar that followed him around his native man Ja'afar,
a Hindu street faker who learned about planes at an
RAF base during the war. Now Grant had him for

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a grease monkey and a radio operator at the base.
You couldn't beat the British. They found a way to
hang on. I reached for my half empty glass. There's
another drink beside her, a food, A drink I had, Lord, is.

Speaker 34 (57:36):
It permissible for a lady to buy the drinks permissible.

Speaker 22 (57:39):
That's a big, happy, new custom. And thank the lady
for me if you ever see it.

Speaker 39 (57:43):
The American flyer speaks sharply like the eagle, but the
poor eagle has no wings.

Speaker 22 (57:49):
You were going to fix that for me, baby. Remember
you had big connections. While I'm still sitting here waiting.

Speaker 34 (57:53):
My friends can use a flyer, but only if he
has a plane.

Speaker 22 (57:57):
Well, just wait here, I'll go out and buy one,
Come your hot shot. Connections. Can't afford a plane is not.

Speaker 39 (58:02):
The case of affording planes are difficult to get the license.
The questions the authorities are forever asking questions. But my friends,
they never asked questions. If you had a plane, for instance,
they would not ask.

Speaker 5 (58:18):
Who owned it.

Speaker 22 (58:19):
Yeah, I see what you mean.

Speaker 39 (58:21):
I heard Grant offer you a job. If you worked
for him, there would be days when you would be
waiting here for cargo, enough time to make a little
extra flight, a flight nat on mister Grant's schedule.

Speaker 34 (58:34):
And remember my friends pay.

Speaker 22 (58:36):
Well, yeah, yeah, maybe Grant's going to get himself a
pilot after all. So I took Grant's job, and the
next morning, when the weather cleared, we drove to the
field through the teeming streets with hot, oppressive, suffocating wind
carrying the stench of assault marshes across the city seemed
like an eternity before we were off the ground of

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feeling the cool mercy of being airport.

Speaker 40 (59:02):
Well, oh boy, what do you think about I see
handles all right, I just don't like the havilins.

Speaker 11 (59:06):
What is it?

Speaker 40 (59:07):
War surplus, yes, but completely reconditioned pressurized cabin heating and
air condition existed.

Speaker 22 (59:13):
I've changed everything for comfort. Yeah, even the radio.

Speaker 40 (59:16):
Why the open speaker instead of the headphones picked up
a fungus infection. In my years in Bama during the war,
headphones were painful, so I put in a speaker. I
thought the British philosophy about pain was Grin and Barrett
only when we can't do anything about it. Oh boy, yeah,
I see what's our eta hour and a half. That's
your landing strip. We call the bas black Cat. Your

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plane identification is red kitten. The field's a bit like
a like a Wafflon. So send it out as gently
as you can.

Speaker 22 (59:47):
I'll treat her like she was my own grant, just
like she was my very own well cut Mandu was
no improvement. On Calcutter see it from the air as
we came in the ancient wooden buildings and the temples,
thousands of them, but outnumbered by the throngs of humanity
in the dirty streets. We barely hit the strip before

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the rain started again, brought in from nowhere by the wind.
We were withered down again at the stinking base outside
the town. And that's when ja'afar the mechanics started with
the punji, a kind of a native flute.

Speaker 21 (01:00:26):
I say, Slavin, do sit down wearing me out.

Speaker 22 (01:00:29):
I'm wearing you out. Listen to that thing. Don't he
ever stop just amusing himself? Sit down, man ah about
a hand of cod. I'm gonna concentrate on carts while
he's playing that thing. Can't you make him stop?

Speaker 21 (01:00:41):
He can't make him do anything. He's in his own
hot and well, frankly, he's not bothering me.

Speaker 22 (01:00:46):
And he's bothering me. Why the slicker, Where are you
going to turn that thing off? Before it drives me nuts?

Speaker 9 (01:00:52):
Slavin?

Speaker 21 (01:00:53):
These Hindus are strange people. They resist pressure. I'd advise
you to save it.

Speaker 22 (01:00:58):
Grease Monkey's handle the same way in India as they
do anywhere else.

Speaker 13 (01:01:02):
Be careful of that.

Speaker 29 (01:01:12):
Far, that far?

Speaker 9 (01:01:14):
Do you hear me? That far far?

Speaker 13 (01:01:17):
Stop that thing.

Speaker 22 (01:01:22):
I don't know why I stopped inside the door, but
I did. There was something eerie about the room, something
in jaffars burning black eyes that held me. I watched
the flute moving slowly as he played. When I saw
it in the dim light, the weaving puffed head of
a cobra. The snake was dancing in front of him. Oh,
I've seen cobras before, and the bazaars and in the streets.

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No matter how many times I saw them, the sight
of that deadly, slowly moving puffed head was enough to
turn my blood dice. I back slowly out of the room,
closed the door. He played it every night after that,
every waking hour of the night, until I could hear
it even in my sleep, the strange, whining dirge, bringing

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with it the memory of a weaving head of a snake,
and clear whether I could get away from it for
a while and it would be waiting for me when
I get back. And at Jeffar's eyes there was a challenge.
I could feel his hot stare burning into me as
we worked on the plane. What's on your mind? Jeffar,
what do he keeps staring at me for?

Speaker 9 (01:02:25):
Why did you change your mind? Sar?

Speaker 41 (01:02:28):
Why do you now work for mister gran what's it
to you, Jeffar? Mister grand is good to Jaffar. Mister
Grant is too quick to trust people.

Speaker 27 (01:02:38):
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 10 (01:02:40):
Yes you do, Sar.

Speaker 22 (01:02:42):
You know get out of here, Jeffar.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
Did you hear me?

Speaker 22 (01:02:47):
I said, get out of here.

Speaker 41 (01:02:48):
I must work on mister Grand Planet.

Speaker 9 (01:02:52):
Out what's going on?

Speaker 19 (01:02:54):
Get out?

Speaker 22 (01:02:57):
Stop it, stop it, get him out of here before
I kill it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
Go Geffer?

Speaker 21 (01:03:01):
Please all right if you say so, mister Gane Slavin.
I don't know what started this, but I do know
that I don't want to happen again and keep him
out of my hair. I don't like any of these people,
and he rates number one on my list.

Speaker 22 (01:03:17):
You made that pain enough. I'll try to keep him
away from you. I only hope he will stay away
from you. What do you mean by that?

Speaker 21 (01:03:25):
You've hurt him and his pride slaving You don't understand
these hindus. You won't come back at you with force,
but he will come back.

Speaker 22 (01:03:32):
Oh Willie, Well, he knows who's boss now I'll be
in Calcutta with this load to night. Tell him to
get that fruit out of his system while I'm gone.
If he plays it when I get back, I'll ram
it down his throat.

Speaker 34 (01:03:51):
Aren't you going to buy me a drink?

Speaker 22 (01:03:53):
You don't make me any money, baby, so don't cost
me anything.

Speaker 34 (01:03:55):
But I am going to make you money, a lot
of money.

Speaker 22 (01:03:58):
You better come up with it fast. My job looks temporary.

Speaker 34 (01:04:01):
Is tomorrow fast enough?

Speaker 22 (01:04:03):
Tomorrow and bringing another load of hides down from Katmandu.
I'm going back there tonight.

Speaker 34 (01:04:07):
Oh, that will fit in nicely.

Speaker 39 (01:04:08):
When you leave Katmandu tomorrow you will make a short
sight trip one start in China, then come back here
to Calcutta, China.

Speaker 22 (01:04:17):
Huh, well, now you're beginning to interest me.

Speaker 9 (01:04:19):
Baby.

Speaker 22 (01:04:20):
Where in China?

Speaker 34 (01:04:21):
My friend knows? His name is Karkhanov.

Speaker 39 (01:04:25):
He will be waiting for you tonight when you return
to Katmandu, meet him at midnight at the rear of
Great Temple of Vishnu.

Speaker 34 (01:04:32):
At edge of town.

Speaker 22 (01:04:33):
How big is the job?

Speaker 19 (01:04:34):
Big?

Speaker 34 (01:04:35):
But very little trouble? That is, if you are not squeenish.

Speaker 22 (01:04:40):
When I say how big, I mean how much for you?

Speaker 34 (01:04:44):
Ten thousand American dollars ten thousand.

Speaker 22 (01:04:49):
How much of that do you expect?

Speaker 39 (01:04:50):
Oh, KARKANAV pays me. The ten thousand is all yours.
Now will you buy me a drink?

Speaker 13 (01:04:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (01:04:59):
Now, buy both of us a drink.

Speaker 38 (01:05:11):
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(01:05:36):
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(01:05:58):
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Get the gasoline that contains one of the highest antidoc components.
No one do science get richfield gasoline with xilen. And
now we return you to escape.

Speaker 22 (01:06:23):
Ten thousand dollars enough to get out of the trap.
I can go back to the States on that by
my own plane, pick up my own spots for a
smart deal. I thought of it all the way back
to Katmandu. This would be my last night in that bowl,
my last night. Black cat calling black cat. This red
kitten calling black cat over.

Speaker 19 (01:06:44):
Red kitten pieces black cat, go.

Speaker 22 (01:06:46):
Ahead, ETA fifteen minutes. Visibility poor, How is it there?

Speaker 26 (01:06:51):
Poor?

Speaker 22 (01:06:51):
But all right for landing suh light landing fields on
on all corners of the field, flares you hear me,
mister Brant has already have to do that song good?

Speaker 19 (01:07:02):
Would you like some music, sar?

Speaker 22 (01:07:06):
What do you mean music?

Speaker 9 (01:07:08):
My music? Sar?

Speaker 22 (01:07:15):
Why that dirty little swine just trying to needle me.
But I wouldn't let him. I couldn't afford it. Now,
just this one night, I could forget anything thinking about that.
I spotted the oil fires the four corners of the field,
bringing a clear spot through the ground Haze. I turned
on my landing lights and set her down like an
old lady's rocking chair. I'd never land on this field again.
I'd use it for one more takeoff tomorrow, but I'd

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never land on it again. I've done not feel fleshlight
MISTI slavery carcana.

Speaker 33 (01:07:51):
Where are you on the steps of the temple? No, no, no,
don't flesh the light? Keep it off? Please, ah, you
you are very prompt.

Speaker 27 (01:08:03):
Mister Slavin ten thousand dollars worth.

Speaker 33 (01:08:06):
What time do you expect to take off tomorrow?

Speaker 42 (01:08:08):
I'm scheduled to leave for Calcutta and non excellent as
you have been told, I want you to go into China.

Speaker 27 (01:08:15):
That's vague.

Speaker 42 (01:08:16):
It's a big country, inner Mongolia. It's just south of
the city of Sucho.

Speaker 27 (01:08:22):
That's about a thousand miles in twelve hundred.

Speaker 33 (01:08:26):
Here is a map.

Speaker 42 (01:08:28):
What's the dale on the map is the location of
a field, not a regular airbase, but good enough for
a landing. You will time your landing for just before sundown.
You will take off again almost immediate and return by.

Speaker 27 (01:08:44):
Night, back over the Humber night. That makes it interesting.

Speaker 42 (01:08:49):
It will be dull, really, that's all well planned. Thing
should be dull but profitable. A countryman of mine named
Leontovich will meet you when you land at Sucho with
him will be an old Chinese. They will return with
you too hot format there. The old Chinese is a
wealthy merchant. He will bring his wealth out with him

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through connections. We have arranged this escape for him.

Speaker 22 (01:09:15):
Like there's something else you'll have to arrange. I don't
care enough fuel. Get me the suit you own back
to Calcutta.

Speaker 33 (01:09:20):
You will be refueled. Nothing has been overlooked.

Speaker 27 (01:09:23):
Where do I contact you when I get back.

Speaker 42 (01:09:25):
When you landed Calcutta, taxi to the north end of
the field, I will be there with automobile to pick
up your passenger and his cargo passenger.

Speaker 22 (01:09:36):
You mean passengers, don't you? You said that be two,
your man Leontovich and the old Chinese.

Speaker 33 (01:09:42):
A trifle I forgot to mention.

Speaker 42 (01:09:45):
They will both start back with you, of course, but
the old Chinese will not completely trip you.

Speaker 27 (01:09:52):
Understand, Yeah, I understand.

Speaker 22 (01:09:57):
He disappeared into the darkness, and I started back to
the field. The night was full of sound. Even the
damp heat had a sound of its own, like nothing
else in the world.

Speaker 6 (01:10:05):
But that.

Speaker 22 (01:10:07):
There was something else. Jaffar, Where are you? Jaffar? Jaffar.

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Where are you, Jeaffar?

Speaker 13 (01:10:30):
Where are you?

Speaker 9 (01:10:31):
Answer me?

Speaker 22 (01:10:33):
I'll find you.

Speaker 16 (01:10:34):
I'll got you what I've got you.

Speaker 22 (01:10:36):
You dog.

Speaker 13 (01:10:38):
No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, devil.

Speaker 22 (01:10:42):
He's riding me. I can't afford to think about him now.
I gotta think about tomorrow. Just get back to the
field and think about tomorrow. He was on the field
in the morning, checking the planes, though nothing had happened.
But I could see the glitter in his black eyes,

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like the glitter of his snake's I wanted to smash
his face with my fist, but I couldn't. I had
to fly out as though nothing was wrong. The motors
caught sweetly, and I lifted off the strip like a feather,
and then headed south for Calcutta until I was out
of side of the field. Then I met a half
circle to the north and headed for the hump.

Speaker 13 (01:11:25):
Ah.

Speaker 22 (01:11:25):
She took it like a swallow, past the white peak
of Mount Everest, the top of the world, and out
over the great plateau of Tibet. Then the northern rim
of the Himalayas did beneath my wings, and I was
over the hill country of Mongolia. I hit it right
on the nose the field outside the town of Suchao,
and made my landing just as the bottom edge of
the sun was kissing the horizon.

Speaker 32 (01:11:47):
I am Leantovitch.

Speaker 22 (01:11:49):
The Chinese have a truck with the fuel quickly. Why
so many of them, Karkarof said, there'd be one Chinese.

Speaker 32 (01:11:53):
They are the old man's friends. They come to see
him more safely. That is why we must go to
the bother of taking him along for away. All right,
But what and I'm gonna carter, we've come over to
the here as we already to dig off.

Speaker 13 (01:12:03):
Do not be a lot.

Speaker 22 (01:12:04):
I thought you had everything fixed here.

Speaker 13 (01:12:05):
Quiet.

Speaker 22 (01:12:06):
They will not be after us.

Speaker 32 (01:12:07):
They will take out of the Chinese we leave behind.

Speaker 22 (01:12:09):
It be any slip ups. Let's get out of here fast.
Give me that hose up here there were five of
the Chinese, and deep in their impressive eyes was quiet terror.
One was an old man clutching a wicker basket, but
the terror in his eyes was tempered with a glint
of hope. The others just stared at the plane with
a terrible yearning. The last of the gas trickled into

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the tanks. We took the hose down, the truck backed off.
Are you ready, yeah, boost them in calm old one.
They lifted the old man into the plane and Leontovich
climbed in after him, closing the hatch. The motors caught
and I nosed we're into the wind, just as the
four Chinese on the ground made a dash for the plane.
The reason was clear, coming across the hill at the
end of the field and armored car. Hey, what is this?

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They're shooting us.

Speaker 19 (01:12:55):
But Holly, I'll worry. Here we go.

Speaker 32 (01:13:00):
Our friends on the ground seemed to be dead. That
was nicely arranged. Now they won't be able to talk
about the old man in the cabin.

Speaker 22 (01:13:07):
He saw nothing. It is almost dark. We can persuade
him to leave us at any time. Now, wait someplace
over Tibet. As you say, Karkanorf's man hadn't flown the floor.
Could see it in his face. And I was thinking,
thinking about the wicker basket. That was the cargo I
could carry alone, all alone. I didn't have to land

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at Calcutta. I could go on the Bombay and be
out of India on the ship to Africa. Before morning.
The moon was bright over Tibet and it looked like
a ghost land. The old Chinese seemed to be sleeping.
When I glanced back, his head bent down over the
precious basket in his lap. I nodded to Leantovitch. He
moved slowly, methodically. He slipped an arm under the old
man's head, jerked an elbow tight against his throat. He

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saw the old man's eyes, the terror and the hope
mixed with surprise, then realization, then resignation. He slumped in
the basket, slit to the flo are his feet. I
set the ship on the automatic pilot and went back
into the cabin. He is ready to leave us all
over the hatch.

Speaker 32 (01:14:06):
You carry him over and dump him out such a shape,
But at least we shall keep the basket full remembrance.

Speaker 22 (01:14:12):
He picked the old man up. I opened the hatch.
As Lantovitch came to the door. He felt the vacuum
pull of the rushing air sliding past the plane. He
tried to draw back, but I caught him with my
foot and humped him both. I was alone in the
cabin with a basket. When I opened it, I didn't
even mind the stink of the hides American dollars, British

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pounds and jewelry in a few hours, I'd be sailing
from Bombay, A millionaire sailing from Bombay. Something goes wrong,
I felt as I started back over the hump. He
was pumpy, and the ship slithered and kicked, and there

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was a wall of darkness outside. There was something inside,
to something or somebody in the cabin of the ship.
I turned on the cabin lights and looked back and
there was nothing but a load of hides. But the
feeling wouldn't go away. I tried to shake it off,
and a half an hour be passing over Catmando, just
a sound and a night. I had to have a

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look through the cabin. I set the ship in the
automatic pilot and slid from the sea, but she bucked
me and I had to grab the controls. Aunt Everest
was someplace nearby in the dark. I was sweating. I
couldn't leave the controls now. I had to stay with them.
I kept looking back into the cabin with that same feeling,
and I saw it. I saw something long and thin

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slithering across the hides, A loose rope. I tried to
tell myself it was a loose rope, but a rope
doesn't move like that, and the head lifted the hooded
the hooded head of a cobra, A cobra in the plane.
Playing in the nearest base was Cotmand, who still twenty
minutes away. I couldn't take my hands off the control.

Speaker 13 (01:15:58):
I flicked the radio switch.

Speaker 22 (01:16:00):
Black cat, This is red kitten calling black cat. Come in,
black cat, Red kitten calling, Come in, black cat.

Speaker 19 (01:16:05):
Over black cat to red kit. It is a surprise
to hear from you, Sar. You should be in Calcutta, Sah.

Speaker 22 (01:16:14):
You know where I am, You devil, you felt. The
little devil has my pet awakened.

Speaker 19 (01:16:19):
He wants to be fed, Sar. The cobra is very
mean when he is not fed.

Speaker 22 (01:16:24):
You put him in the plane.

Speaker 19 (01:16:26):
The sting of the cobra killed swiftly.

Speaker 22 (01:16:28):
Mister Sabin, What what can I do, Jeffar, I'm begging you.

Speaker 17 (01:16:35):
What can I do?

Speaker 19 (01:16:37):
Nothing, Sar, there's nothing you can do. I could help you.

Speaker 22 (01:16:42):
Getting closer? Please, he's getting closer, please please.

Speaker 19 (01:16:47):
You do not like my music, Sar.

Speaker 21 (01:16:51):
Music a sanad on the flute might distract him, but
you do not care for the flue.

Speaker 22 (01:16:58):
For heaven's sake, man play it. He's only six feet
away from me.

Speaker 19 (01:17:02):
I will play what will you land the cut mountain?

Speaker 41 (01:17:06):
Yes, yes, only playing play.

Speaker 22 (01:17:15):
The snake came closer, that ugly hooded head, spreading and
raising and weaving in time with the music coming over
the radio. It was only two feet away. Death, only
two feet away. And if Jaffar stopped playing, he'd strike
an ugly, ill tempered, hungry cobra. Deadly to anybody but Jaffar,
who knew when he wanted to be fed. He knew

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the only thing in the world that could hold him
was that flute. That flute. As long as Jaffar kept playing.
I was over the hump. I saw the oil fires
being lit on the strip of black Cat. That meant
that Grant knew I was coming in. The flat was

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driving me mad. And the cobrat I never knew when
he'd strike it. Some move into my hands and the controls,
and yet I had to move into land. Grant, Grant,
where are you?

Speaker 19 (01:18:05):
I'm here slaving.

Speaker 22 (01:18:08):
Please give me landing instructions.

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
Please please Grant.

Speaker 21 (01:18:11):
When you hit the strip, taxi over to the operation
shack as close as you can get. Jeff far can
keep the flute going. You'll open the hatch and try
and distract the snake. Maybe we can get you out.

Speaker 22 (01:18:22):
Make him keep playing, grand make him keep playing.

Speaker 19 (01:18:24):
We're coming out to want you're landing. I have the
police with the slam in.

Speaker 21 (01:18:30):
Your friends in Calcutta have already been arrested on Jeff
Farre's information.

Speaker 22 (01:18:34):
I made my approach to the strip. The head of
the snake never stopped weaving. I could see, granted the
police in the light of the oil fires. I'll cut
the motors dropped down at the edge of the field
another minute, because Jeff Arker just keep playing another minute.
I was ready to set her down. The ground was
right under the wings.

Speaker 19 (01:18:52):
And then the flute stopped.

Speaker 22 (01:19:15):
Well, what do you think, officer? Will you live bad
crash for? Not too bad about your plane? Oh it's
in short. I'll get another.

Speaker 32 (01:19:23):
You might possibly get the money in the jewels too.
Nobody claims them. I doubt if anybody will.

Speaker 3 (01:19:28):
No matter.

Speaker 22 (01:19:29):
I only want what is my own well to fire.

Speaker 38 (01:19:32):
I'm affair.

Speaker 19 (01:19:32):
I shall have to arrest you.

Speaker 41 (01:19:34):
Why, Sar, there is no law that says I must
play my flute.

Speaker 32 (01:19:39):
No, but you deliberately put the snake in the plane.

Speaker 41 (01:19:43):
The snake lies there dead, Sar. Have you examined it.
It is not poisonous. The poison sack and the fanes
I removed long ago.

Speaker 32 (01:19:54):
You mean the snake couldn't have hurt him.

Speaker 21 (01:19:57):
He couldn't have been killed by that snake anymore than
he would have been shot by an unloaded gun.

Speaker 41 (01:20:02):
I did not harm him, sir.

Speaker 10 (01:20:05):
My people do not use violence. It is against our belief.

Speaker 32 (01:20:12):
I say, there's a strange one. No matter how long
I'm out here, I'll never understand him.

Speaker 22 (01:20:20):
Now I will slavin I'm afraid I better cover him.

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

Speaker 38 (01:20:38):
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Featured in the cast where Charles mc graw has Slavin,
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were Lucille Meredith, Joseph Kerns and Paul Freese. Special music
arranged and played by Ivan Detmein.

Speaker 1 (01:22:05):
When it comes to interpersonal dealings, I don't know that
I'm an expert expert, but perhaps I am experienced enough.

Speaker 13 (01:22:18):
Or what's that? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
No reason, no reason at all, my dear, Please get comfortable. Please,
we have so much more to explore and I can't
wait to do it. All I was getting at is that,
in a way, when you go tett tet with someone,

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it's like a card game. You're playing exactly the cards
you're dealt, and hopefully you know how to play them,
and hopefully you're carrying the ace of death.

Speaker 12 (01:23:06):
Murder, Ah Midnight, your card, mister Thompson, the King of Heart,
Colonel Moore, the Fire Clubs was President Countrie.

Speaker 16 (01:23:21):
Come count we are waiting.

Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
What is your card?

Speaker 16 (01:23:24):
Blass this father? I beg your pardon? The Ace of Death. Midnight,
the witching hour, when the night is darkest.

Speaker 43 (01:23:44):
Our fear is the strongest, and our strength at its
lowest end, midnight, when the graves gape open and death strikes.
How you'll learn the answer in just a minute. And
the Ace of Death and now murdered at midnight Tales

(01:24:19):
of Mystery and Terror by radio's.

Speaker 16 (01:24:21):
Masters of the Macaque.

Speaker 43 (01:24:23):
Our story based on Robert Lewis Stevenson's Immortal Suicide Club
is by Max Elick.

Speaker 16 (01:24:28):
Its title The Ace of Death.

Speaker 12 (01:24:40):
I stood there on the bridge and stared down into
the swirling fog. It hid the river like a white shroud.
I shivered to be cold down there, freezing cold. I
would go down down, deep into the black watery depths,
my ears bursting and my lungs fighting for breath. And
then finally there would be silence, silence and eternal peace.

Speaker 10 (01:25:08):
Mhm.

Speaker 12 (01:25:09):
Somewhere a clock began to chime eleven, the last hour,
the last hour of a man's life. My life, I
John Evans ill and broke without family or friends. Sick
and weary of the constant struggle among earth bound mortals.

Speaker 16 (01:25:29):
Looked forward to my new future.

Speaker 3 (01:25:32):
Death.

Speaker 12 (01:25:34):
I put one foot over the bridge rail. My heart pounded,
my head throbbed, and then someone came out of the
mist and seized me from behind.

Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
Me let me go.

Speaker 16 (01:25:48):
Well, I still got what I've got to say.

Speaker 6 (01:25:51):
Why did you stop me?

Speaker 19 (01:25:53):
Why I wanted to die?

Speaker 12 (01:25:54):
I wanted to sympathize with you, young man. You see,
I too, am tired of life and seek death. You
you want to die, yes, but not by drowning. No,
my boy, I've made other arrangements. The river is not
only a dull way to die, it's positively sordid. The
very idea makes me shudder with distaste.

Speaker 16 (01:26:13):
Wait, I don't understand.

Speaker 12 (01:26:14):
That's very simple, young man. Most of us are too
commonplace about the about the hereafter. We entered with morbid
fear and without imagination. Actually, death can be glorious, glorious, yes,
a great new change from our ordinary lifetime routine, a
journey into an uncharted world. A man should meet death
on the wings of adventure. It should be an exciting

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and delightful experience.

Speaker 16 (01:26:38):
Death exciting and delightful.

Speaker 12 (01:26:41):
Not I've already arranged my decease along these lines. And
since you and I have an interest in common, why
not join me? Ah, we'll seek death's private door together. Come,
young man, come along with me? Where to my club?
I'll be glad to recommend you for membership. Your club, Yes,
it caters to a clear and tell of gentlemen like ourself.
We call it the Hereafter Club. The whole thing was mad, insane,

(01:27:10):
and yet yet it was intriguing too. I looked hard
at the elderly gentleman who'd come out of the fog
to pull me from the brink of death, only to
offer me a pleasanter and more delightful variety. Later, he
repeated his invitation to join him, and I.

Speaker 16 (01:27:25):
Could see that he was perfectly sincere.

Speaker 12 (01:27:28):
I decided to go with him, even though I secretly
considered him some kind of a madman. After all, what
could I lose?

Speaker 22 (01:27:37):
Now?

Speaker 12 (01:27:40):
We took a cab and stopped at a grim looking
building in the Silk Stocking district on the east side.
My elderly friend, whom I now knew as Frederic Whitney,
took me into a luxurious reception room and asked me
to wait there until he saw the president of the club. Finally,
the president himself came out to greet me. He was

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a man of about fifty, with a bold spot on
his head, piercing gray eyes, and a thin mouth. He
smiled and extended his hand to me. Welcome to the
Hereafter Club, mister Evans, Thank you, mister president. Mister Whitney
has recommended you very highly, and I am delighted to
count you among our members. I am pretty vague as

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too what all this is about, but mister Whitney mentioned
something about a four hundred dollars initiation fee.

Speaker 16 (01:28:28):
In Well, I'm afraid I, my boy.

Speaker 12 (01:28:32):
Mister Whitney knew you were in delicate financial straits and
took your initiation fee upon himself. Oh, you were fortunate, indeed,
mister Evans, that he happened along and rescued you from
the river. Such a morbid way of entering the Hereafter
would have been tragic. Indeed, isn't death in any form
a tragic by no means, mister Evans, death can be
a triumph, a fine heady wine when so designed by

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a connoisseur.

Speaker 16 (01:28:56):
Come, mister Evans, follow me, you were about to embark.

Speaker 12 (01:29:00):
I'm an exciting and unforgettable experience, like a man in
a dream. I followed the President into a large room.
There was a green baized table in the center of it,
and several men in evening dress lounged around the room,
drinking champagne. They seemed a nervous and distraught, and when

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they laughed, it was high pitched and too loud.

Speaker 16 (01:29:28):
They seemed to be waiting for something to happen, some
event to begin. As the President and I stood at
the door, he turned to me and smiled. These men,
mister Evans.

Speaker 12 (01:29:38):
Are charter members of the Hereafter Club. They come from
all walks of life, but they have one common desire.
I see and what happens now? Our procedure is very simple.
We all play a game of cards, a game of guy,
A simple but fascinating game of cards. That is, these

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gentlemen play as president of the Hereafter Club.

Speaker 16 (01:30:02):
I am the dealer, and what is the.

Speaker 12 (01:30:04):
Game, Each man draws a card and turns it face up.
The man who is fortunate enough to draw the Ace
of spades dies, for this is the card of death.
And how does he die? By the hand of the
man who draws the Ace of clubs?

Speaker 16 (01:30:21):
Oh, I see the.

Speaker 12 (01:30:22):
Ace of clubs eliminate the Ace of spades precisely.

Speaker 16 (01:30:29):
How many of these games you play?

Speaker 3 (01:30:30):
Night? Just one?

Speaker 12 (01:30:32):
But as you can see, mister Evans, during its course,
a man can live a lifetime of adventure. Or this
makes of death an exciting game of chance, a game
to whip the blood and make the pulses race. You see,
one ever knows whether he will draw the fatal ace
of spades tonight, or whether he will survive for weeks
or even months. A question, mister President, Yes, how much

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of this can a man stand?

Speaker 16 (01:30:54):
I can only answer in this way, mister Evans.

Speaker 12 (01:30:56):
Our members always come back to the hereafter club, night
after night, until they draw the Ace of spades.

Speaker 16 (01:31:03):
Once a devotee of the game, it's impossible to resist. Robert.

Speaker 12 (01:31:07):
Come, We're ready to begin. In a kind of hypnotic trance.

Speaker 3 (01:31:14):
I followed.

Speaker 12 (01:31:14):
The President entered the room, for when the members saw him,
their conversation stopped. Suddenly, they put down their champagne glasses, straightened,
their faces grew pale and tense, their eyes brilliant with
a mixture of fear and anticipation. The President took a
fresh pack of cards from his pocket, and, like a

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magnet attracting iron filings, the men drew close to the
bay's covered table. I found myself standing next to Frederick
Whitney as the President spoked, gentlemen of the Hereafter Club,
the game is about to begin. Someone here tonight will
draw the ace of spades, whoever he is. Let me

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assure him that we will arrange his death so that
it will appeared to be an accident, with no breath
of scandal, and with no unnecessary anguish to his family.

Speaker 22 (01:32:06):
We all know that life is.

Speaker 12 (01:32:07):
Only a stage to play the fool upon as long
as the part amuses us. Now, we are wearied of
our daily performance and have chosen a civilized and exciting
way to quit that stage.

Speaker 16 (01:32:18):
Gentlemen, Bladdy, it was a.

Speaker 12 (01:32:23):
Fantastic, weird, monstrous experience the Green Bay's table, the President
puffing on his cigar and dealing a car to each man,
face down, each man his face like a graven image.

Speaker 6 (01:32:35):
Turning his card up.

Speaker 12 (01:32:36):
I could feel the sweat pouring down my forehead. My
heart pounded like a hammer, and next to me, Frederick
Quitney stood rigid, his eyes shining as the President's voice
drawn down. Mister Thompson, your card here for three times,
Colonel Moore, the sixth hurts, Mister Dennison, It's it's the

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Jacob Spades, Count Rizzine, the eighth of Clubs, mister Evans,
our new member, the Queen of Heart, mister Whitney, mister Whitney,
what is your card? The eight of Clubs. Well, mister Whitney, congratulations,

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you shall be the official agent for tonight. Now let
us see whom you will guide into the hereafter Frederick
Whitney left the game and went directly in the President's
private office, there was only one card to be drawn, now,
the ace of death. The tension was almost unbearable. I
felt like running away from that table, streaming at the

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top of my voice, but I didn't. I only stood there, riveted,
staring at those cards, listening to the President's hypnotic voice.
Mister Benedict Jay of s page, mister Wallace, nine of Diamonds,
mister Thompson, the King of Heart, Colonel Moore, five Clubs,

(01:34:03):
Count Rizzini, Count Razzini, we are waiting.

Speaker 16 (01:34:07):
What is your card?

Speaker 12 (01:34:09):
Asody's father, I beg your pardon the ace of death. Oh,
I stumbled from that horrible place into the cold night air.
I went directly to my room, shaken to the core
at what I had seen in the cold gray light
of the morning. It took on the aspect of a

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bad dream, a macabre nightmare. I resolved to shrug it off,
forget the whole thing. So when I bought a newspaper,
the headline struck me like the blow of a hammer. Quickly,
my heart beating wildly, I rest a laid paragraph. Count
Pietro Rizzini, prominent Italian nobleman, was hit and instantly killed

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at midnight when he stepped off the curb into the
path of a speeding taxicab. The Count, who had recently
lost his fortune, was with a friend, mister Frederick Whitney,
when the unfortunate accident occurred.

Speaker 43 (01:35:10):
And so, in the darkness of the night, a man
who has played a grim game and lost goes to
his death as the clock strikes twelve for murder. Me,

(01:35:39):
and now here is John Evans again to continue his story. Yes,
the Hereafter Club was really a murder club, a racket
conceived and created by the polished gentleman who called himself
the President. He made a game of death and grew
rich on it. For each night, although he a member,

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he made four hundred dollars the members initiation fee, and
as the members dropped out. According to Hoyle, there were
always plenty of disillusioned neophytes like myself ready to replace them.
My first impulse after reading that grizzly newspaper announcement was
to run to the police. But I had pledged my
word to secrecy, and besides, besides, I wanted to go back.

Speaker 12 (01:36:24):
I had to go back. The thrill of the game
was in my blood. I fought to resist it, but
it was like a hypnotic drug. Time after time, I
went back to the Green Bay's table. And then one night,
your card, mister Whitney, Come sir, what is your card?

Speaker 16 (01:36:44):
The Ace of Spades.

Speaker 12 (01:36:48):
Now, my friend Frederick Whitney, the man who'd introduced me
into the here Attic Club, had drawn the ace of death.

Speaker 16 (01:36:54):
His string had run out.

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
He's true.

Speaker 12 (01:36:56):
I stared at him. He was calm, and there was
a half smile on his face. He seemed almost glad
that for him the game was ever The President kept
on a deal. Mister Thompson, your car, the Jacob Hart,
Colonel Moore, the full of speech, mister Denison, the the
Ace of Diamonds, mister Benedict Kenneth, clud mister Evans.

Speaker 13 (01:37:21):
They were waiting for me.

Speaker 12 (01:37:23):
Come, Come, mister Evans, your card, the Ace of Clubs. Congratulations,
mister Evans, only your sixth evening at our club, and
you draw a winning card. Now, if you'll join mister
Whitney and myself in my private office, we'll arrange ready tails.

Speaker 16 (01:37:43):
All the instructions were simple.

Speaker 12 (01:37:51):
I was to drive mister Whitney into the garage of
his home, leave him in the car with the motor running.
That was all, and so with a word, I got
behind the wheel and drove my elderly benefactor to the
appointed place.

Speaker 16 (01:38:06):
We looked at each other there in the garage, and
then he said, gone, if anyone had to draw the
Ace of Clubs, I'm glad it was.

Speaker 12 (01:38:12):
You now, mister Whitney, Look here, I don't want to
kill you. I you know, I don't let's end this farcet.
Let's go to the police and end this monstrous thing.

Speaker 16 (01:38:21):
No, John, you forget I am a murderer. I have
already killed.

Speaker 12 (01:38:26):
I'd rather die a carbon monoxide gas in this comparatively
painless way and in the electric chair.

Speaker 16 (01:38:32):
But the police will never know that you were responsible
for Ratzini's death.

Speaker 12 (01:38:36):
If we expose it hereafter club, the president would be
sure to tell him.

Speaker 16 (01:38:41):
There must be away somehow. Oh, my boy, I have
chosen death. My time has come. No way, I'm glad
everything is resolved.

Speaker 10 (01:38:50):
There is no more waiting.

Speaker 16 (01:38:52):
Waiting for the fatal card. It's over.

Speaker 3 (01:38:54):
Now, go, my boy, leave the garage so I'm the No.

Speaker 12 (01:39:00):
No, mister Whitney, for God's sake, turn off the motor
before go go down the forest to late hurry.

Speaker 16 (01:39:06):
Don't worry about me. I have sought death for weeks.
Now I welcome it, meet it gladly. And I staggered
to the garage door, went out and slammed it shut.
I heard the motor still going. Five minutes, ten minutes.

Speaker 33 (01:39:25):
I knew that it was the end.

Speaker 12 (01:39:27):
Now for Frederick Whitney. I looked at my luminescent watch.
It was just midnight. I walked the streets for hours
after that.

Speaker 16 (01:39:45):
Now I was a murderer. True, I had killed with
my victim's consent, but I had killed.

Speaker 43 (01:39:51):
Now.

Speaker 12 (01:39:51):
As the dawn came, I began to shake with a
cold rage against the connoisseur of death who called himself
the president. Men killed, men died, and he profited without risk.
He always dealt the game and never participated. He was
a prince of ruin, and unfortunate men like myself could
not resist what he had to offer.

Speaker 16 (01:40:12):
And so, like a smiling satan.

Speaker 12 (01:40:14):
Informal clothes, exerting a demoniac's spell upon the fools who
played his game, he watched them destroy each other. That night,
I went to the Hereafter Club, and just before the game,
confronted him. Ah, good evening, mister Evans. I see you
are back again to night. Yes, mister President, I am
back again, and I want to congratulate you. Indeed on

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what on your financial vision in starting this club, By
simple mathematics, it nets you a handsome prophet. We play
five evenings a week, and each evening you make four
hundred dollars. That, mister President, adds up to two thousand dollars.

Speaker 13 (01:40:52):
A week.

Speaker 12 (01:40:53):
Yes, it's a tidy sum, mister Evans, to be sure.
But to tell you the truth, to night we play
our last game, our last game. Yes, to be frank
with you, mister Evans, the sport of the game is
beginning to pall on me. I've decided to retire to
the country and pursue the delights of horticulture.

Speaker 16 (01:41:07):
Flowers are my hobby, you know.

Speaker 12 (01:41:09):
Oh, I see even you can tire of sending men
to their debts.

Speaker 16 (01:41:14):
And just what do you mean by that, mister Evans.
I mean that you are a coward.

Speaker 12 (01:41:18):
Mister President, You have created a monstrous game, and yet
you haven't the courage to play it yourself.

Speaker 16 (01:41:23):
You question my courage, then, mister Evans, I do, and.

Speaker 12 (01:41:26):
I question your honor too. It seems to me that
if you profit by your clients, you should take the
same risk they do. H you are a very impertinent
young man. But I cannot let your accusations go without
rebuttal indeed, it might be an interesting experience to play
this last game myself, a kind of fitting climax to
a successful career. Of course, mister Evans, I'll demand a

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hensome apology when it's over.

Speaker 16 (01:41:50):
You don't mean that you are actually going to take
a chance.

Speaker 3 (01:41:53):
Yes, why not.

Speaker 12 (01:41:55):
I've often been intrigued by the excitement of my clients.
Now I might as well say that excite myself before
I close the Hereafter club. The news that the President
was going to play created a sensation among the members.
He dealt around, and then another, and the third time around,

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for the second night in a row. I drew the
murder card, the ace of clubs. The President smiled his
congratulations of what he called my phenomenal luck, and continued,
mister Thompson, your card there to spade, Colonel Moore, the
King of Hearts, mister Dennison, seven of clubs, mister Benedict,

(01:42:40):
Queen of Diamond, and now, gentlemen, I'll turn over my
own God congratulations, mister President, you have drawn the Ace
of Spades. The President's face was immobile, not an eye
lad flickered. We went into his private office, and his

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words were calm as he explained the evening's arrangements. I
had drawn the murdered card, and he had drawn the
death card. Yet, judging by his unworried attitude and serene bearing,
it might have been the other way.

Speaker 27 (01:43:15):
Around.

Speaker 12 (01:43:16):
I couldn't help a flicker of admiration for him. As
for me, I was eager to do my part to
kill this man who had been caught at the last
moment in his own net. He had sent many a
man to his death, and now he had to meet
it himself. Where is a railroad bridge on the outskirts
of town, mister Evans. It has a low railing, and

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below it an express train passes exactly at midnight. You
will push me over that rail, into the path of
the locomotive. And now, if you are ready, let us go.
We didn't speak on the trip out to the bridge.
It was a cold night. We stood there shivering and waiting. Finally,

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in the distance, that was it, the midnight train. I
could see its bright headlight flickering as it approached. Then
the President spoke, mister Evans, of course we are not
going through with this.

Speaker 16 (01:44:21):
Of course we are, mister President.

Speaker 12 (01:44:24):
Look here, my dear boy. As you know, the Hereafter
Club is disbanded. Unlike my clients, I have no desire
to die.

Speaker 16 (01:44:30):
There's no point in doing so.

Speaker 12 (01:44:32):
You are going to die, mister President, just as you
have sent others. I'll say to it myself. Be reasonable,
mister Evans. I have everything to live for, and so
can you have. Now then, I'm a very wealthy man,
and I'm quite sure you could use a ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 16 (01:44:46):
Get close to rail, mister president, I suggest you listen
to reason. Mister Evans.

Speaker 12 (01:44:50):
The others died without a whimper. You sent them into
the hereafter. Now you're going yourself as you deserve. You're
a very stubborn young man, mister Evans.

Speaker 10 (01:44:57):
Don't drop that.

Speaker 16 (01:44:59):
Don't try to kill me when you Oh, you.

Speaker 10 (01:45:02):
Got me in the arm.

Speaker 3 (01:45:03):
I saw it now, and you're going over that rail.

Speaker 19 (01:45:06):
Don't. I'll give you anything, anything over you.

Speaker 12 (01:45:34):
When the train had passed, I saw what was left
of his body on the tracks. Slowly, with dragging footsteps,
I walked down the street toward the twin green lights
of the police station. Now look like the others, I'm
ready for the end.

Speaker 43 (01:45:57):
The doors of the police station open and close on
the man who trumped the ace of death, the man
who now seeks his own dark destiny.

Speaker 16 (01:46:09):
As the clock strike twelve.

Speaker 19 (01:46:12):
Or murder.

Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
At MENA.

Speaker 1 (01:46:35):
Well, my dear, I can't help but feel like maybe
I've been I don't know a little too intense tonight,
so forgive me for that. But I suppose that's just
how the mind works. But you know, as negative as

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I can be about the interpersonals, I suppose the truth
is when you have a good friend, a dear friend,
someone who spends their time with you and understands you,
enjoys themselves with you, Well, that my dear is a

(01:47:25):
whole other thing like Fire in the Sky.

Speaker 17 (01:47:44):
The Mature Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced
and directed by Robert A. Eifer and David Cogan, and
starring free of radio's foremost actors, Brett Morrison, Joyce Gordon.

Speaker 22 (01:47:56):
And Leon Jenny and Fire in the Sky.

Speaker 8 (01:48:14):
This is a Mysterious Traveler inviting you to join me
on another journey of the realm, of the strange and
the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that
it will free you a little and chill you a little.
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves,
and be comfortable if you can, as we'll join two

(01:48:37):
young people who find themselves in the strangest situation human
beings ever encountered.

Speaker 13 (01:48:44):
It's the story I call Fire in the sky.

Speaker 8 (01:48:57):
It's late evening and a convertible with the top down
is driving along a lonely road in the Shenandoagh Aveley.

Speaker 13 (01:49:05):
The driver is yawning in his twenties, so is the
girl beside him.

Speaker 8 (01:49:11):
They're mister and missus Nicholas Ramsey of New York City,
married less than twenty four hours and honeymooning Blick. Ramsey
is driving slowly for both he and Salie are watching
the great golden disk which is rising in the sky
above the hills to the west.

Speaker 13 (01:49:31):
Not the moon, but the new comet, which the.

Speaker 8 (01:49:34):
Whole world is talking about with excited interest and some apprehension.

Speaker 11 (01:49:42):
Nick, it's so bright. It's so much brighter since last night.

Speaker 13 (01:49:46):
It's I know, things today, about half as big as
the moon. Now you can almost see it grow.

Speaker 11 (01:49:52):
Looks as if it were coming right at it.

Speaker 13 (01:49:54):
Nice just an illusion. It will pass about fifteen million
miles away.

Speaker 11 (01:49:58):
The radio said, fifteen million sounds like a lot, but
I wish it were more.

Speaker 17 (01:50:04):
Oh, they said it wouldn't do much damage even if
it hit has head on collets are mostly gash.

Speaker 13 (01:50:09):
You know, well, it.

Speaker 11 (01:50:10):
Certainly looks solid. It is beautiful, though, isn't it. I'm
glad we decided to drive tonight so we could watch it.

Speaker 13 (01:50:17):
But turn the news and see what the radio says
about it.

Speaker 17 (01:50:19):
I'll try Washington. Danny Dunn has been giving a blow
bible account.

Speaker 21 (01:50:23):
Of its approach, So everybody everywhere, this is your future
reporter than it done speaking from Washington. Well, the big
news tonight is still comed X, as it's been nicknamed Tonight.

Speaker 9 (01:50:36):
It seems it's going to.

Speaker 21 (01:50:37):
Pass a little older, a bit closer than the start,
maybe inside ten million miles. But it's nothing to worry about.
Can't hurt us any A comt is just gash, you know,
like some congressmen here in Washington who were speaking of Washington.
The President and his cabinet quietly left town today with
their families. We're told they're going to a special government

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observe where they can all see Comet X through telescopes.
And that just shows you how interested everybody is. The
rest of the world is standing outdoors and keeping an
eye on the sky. After all, this is a spectacle
mankind sees only once in a thousand years, and nobody
wants to miss it. Where folks, the government has asked
me to pass along the following to you, don't be

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alarmed if comet X seems to be getting awfully close.

Speaker 13 (01:51:26):
An optical illusion.

Speaker 11 (01:51:29):
Nick, look up ahead, somebody signaling us with a flashlight.

Speaker 13 (01:51:33):
Yeah, it looks like an old Kajur, one of the
local natives.

Speaker 11 (01:51:36):
I guess do you think we ought to stop? It's
a lonely road.

Speaker 13 (01:51:39):
He probably just wants to lift anyway. He's so old
he couldn't hurt us any.

Speaker 21 (01:51:49):
Oh you want to lift?

Speaker 9 (01:51:50):
Oh you've been folks, might be glad you come along.

Speaker 29 (01:51:54):
I need some help, bad help. It's my partner. Rock
slide fell on him, crushed his chest in. He's down
in the mine. I need help to get him out.

Speaker 11 (01:52:03):
You're a miner, that's right, ma'am.

Speaker 17 (01:52:05):
Names Jones, Jerry Jones. We got us a mine up
this road, by a quarter of mine. Of course, Sam
hurt yourself hour ago. Been waiting ever since for somebody
to come along. Well, Sally, I guess it's up to us.
We can't leave some poor fella dying and not help.
But Nikki is Sue, I'm sure it's all right. Okay,
hop in, mister Jones. We'll have your partner out just

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as quick as we can.

Speaker 9 (01:52:43):
Y here, folks, it will share covers of mind Jack.

Speaker 17 (01:52:49):
Come along, Sally. I'm sorry we haven't any first aid
equipment in Jones.

Speaker 9 (01:52:53):
I've got something down below you'll share you mister amser
you have to go down.

Speaker 33 (01:52:58):
On the lift.

Speaker 11 (01:53:00):
Nick, Look how bright it is. Come it seems to
be growing big.

Speaker 29 (01:53:03):
About a minute, Hey here we are, Uh, step in,
say hooks, I got the flesh lift.

Speaker 13 (01:53:12):
Huh. You've got a regular mind lift in here, machine,
ley and everything. What kind of mine is this?

Speaker 9 (01:53:19):
It used to be a coal mine got abandoned. Me
and Sam. We've found a little vain of diamonds down
in the coal.

Speaker 17 (01:53:26):
Diamond Now, wait a minute, there aren't any diamond mines
in this country.

Speaker 29 (01:53:30):
Sure there is got some down below A prove it
to you after we fix up Sam. Please step on lift, mister.

Speaker 13 (01:53:37):
M Nick, I think this is a trick, So do
I a diamond mine? Listen, Jones.

Speaker 17 (01:53:44):
Coal and diamonds don't go together, even though they're both carbon.

Speaker 13 (01:53:48):
So we're not getting on that lift.

Speaker 29 (01:53:50):
I'm afraid you have to, mister ms Believe me, I'll
shoot if you'll try to get away.

Speaker 13 (01:53:55):
Nick a gun now listen, put away that revolver.

Speaker 17 (01:53:59):
I don't know what of crazy scheme this is. It's
not crazy. I'm trying to save your lives, save our lives.
See that comet in the sky. Yes, they're calling it
Comet X. They should be calling it doomsday. You are
treat That's enough talk. Fourteen hours, this earth and that
comet are going to meet, and time is precious. Get

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on that rift, mister, missus Ramsey, or I'll shoot. Believe me,
no harm will come to you if you do just
as I say. I guess we'd better do it, Sally,
there's no use in arguing with a madman who has
a gun.

Speaker 29 (01:54:35):
You say so, Nick, Now that's better. Well, then tightly,
don't do anything foolish. You don't know how to operate
this lift. And we have a thousand foot drop, delaris.

Speaker 11 (01:55:00):
Quick. We've been going down for so long.

Speaker 9 (01:55:02):
Now almost at the button. Missus Vensey, please don't be frightened.
I'm doing this for your own good.

Speaker 13 (01:55:09):
See who are you? You're not a native? You lost
your hillbilly acc head long ago.

Speaker 9 (01:55:13):
I'm not.

Speaker 29 (01:55:14):
It was just a crude disguise. My name is Jeremiah Jones,
formerly Professor Jones. We've reached butter. The surface of the
earth is one thousand feet above us. Now, mister Emsey,
if you and your wife try to attack me, you
might succeed. You'll be very foolish. You need me to

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get you out.

Speaker 3 (01:55:36):
Of here again.

Speaker 29 (01:55:37):
Yes, I suppose that's right, verywere. Please walk quietly ahead
of me. These old mind shafts are quite level. And
shine my flash light ahead and you won't have any difficulty.

Speaker 13 (01:55:47):
I suppose we have to humor you. But why are
you doing this?

Speaker 11 (01:55:51):
What are you up to?

Speaker 29 (01:55:54):
You won't believe me if I tell you, mister and
missus Vensey, But you too are the most important people
in the world tonight. So just walk ahead of me
and we'll have the explanations.

Speaker 13 (01:56:05):
Leader.

Speaker 11 (01:56:19):
How much further is it only tonnels whinding and twisting? Nick,
I'm completely locked.

Speaker 17 (01:56:26):
Listen, Jones, if that's your name, come to your sensive,
take us back to the surface, and we'll forget this happening.

Speaker 9 (01:56:33):
Therefore, the door ahead of Yes, push it open and
go in.

Speaker 10 (01:56:43):
Well.

Speaker 13 (01:56:43):
Shine your flash light inside.

Speaker 9 (01:56:45):
We can't see a thing. Find the light switch beside
the door. Turn it on.

Speaker 11 (01:56:50):
Nick, he's closed the door.

Speaker 13 (01:56:52):
He's locking us in, Jones.

Speaker 9 (01:56:55):
Jones, turn I'm alive, and just wait coming. I'll be back.

Speaker 29 (01:57:01):
I have to go to the surface now to see
if I can rescue anyone else Jones Jones, he's.

Speaker 11 (01:57:08):
Gone, Nick, Nick, I'm frightened.

Speaker 13 (01:57:11):
It'll be all right, Sally, I'm sure it will. Said.

Speaker 17 (01:57:15):
There was a light switched to me. If you can
find it, it should be here beside the door, and
maybe you tire.

Speaker 13 (01:57:23):
I've got it. Good lord.

Speaker 25 (01:57:29):
We're in a room completely furnished, chairs, tables, electric right,
there's even a radio those archways.

Speaker 17 (01:57:38):
I can see a kitchen another room. But this place
is like a furnished apartment.

Speaker 11 (01:57:45):
A thousand feet underground with walls of solid rock.

Speaker 6 (01:57:48):
And he's locked as in me.

Speaker 10 (01:57:51):
Why? Nick? Why?

Speaker 13 (01:57:52):
I don't know, Sally, I don't know. I guess we'll
just have to wait and see.

Speaker 11 (01:58:10):
Nick.

Speaker 6 (01:58:10):
What time is it?

Speaker 11 (01:58:12):
How long have we been down here?

Speaker 13 (01:58:13):
Two? I am I've been locked in here nearly four hours.

Speaker 11 (01:58:18):
He gets crazy. He's a madman. He must be.

Speaker 17 (01:58:21):
I wonder if he's mad. There's certainly a method in
his madness. Look around you, this furniture, a radio, a kitchen.
There must be a generator something to supply these lights.

Speaker 11 (01:58:34):
That's what I mean only a madman which picks up
an older band in mind like this.

Speaker 13 (01:58:38):
You know I've just placed his name, Professor Jeremiah Jones.

Speaker 11 (01:58:42):
Who is he?

Speaker 17 (01:58:44):
He's an obscure astronomer who ten years ago claimed to
have discovered a comet no one else could see, and
he dropped out of sight.

Speaker 25 (01:58:50):
He seems to have an obsession about comic He said
comic ex should be called Doomsday.

Speaker 17 (01:58:55):
Yes, and I can't help wondering on that radio again,
I have a hunch you will be getting some news,
So real news, all right.

Speaker 11 (01:59:06):
How can a radio work way down here underground?

Speaker 13 (01:59:08):
You must have a wire running above to the surface.
It's just a movie, So let's leave it on. Maybe
a bulletin.

Speaker 21 (01:59:21):
Hello, everybody, this is your special reporter Danny Dunn back
with a very important bullet nick. I have just come
from a meeting at the Smithsonian Institute, and I have
some last minute news about our mysterious visitor comed X. Now, folks,
I don't want to alarm you. Panic won't help anybody.
It looks as if there may be some danger after all,
and it's only common sense to be prepared for it.

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Seems comed X is not holding to the course predicted
for it. It's all but now intersects theories. About ten
hours the Earth will pass through the glowing.

Speaker 13 (01:59:52):
Heart of the comics.

Speaker 9 (01:59:54):
There is no cause for undual arm.

Speaker 21 (01:59:57):
I have mister Andrew Weatherby, head of the Scientist Bureau,
here at the microphone to tell you.

Speaker 9 (02:00:02):
In person what to expect.

Speaker 11 (02:00:05):
Give me your hand.

Speaker 17 (02:00:08):
Yes, this is big if they've got Weatherby himself on
their good evening everyone.

Speaker 21 (02:00:13):
As you all know, a comet is composed largely of
glowing gases. Just what effect these gases may have when
the Earth.

Speaker 20 (02:00:20):
Passes through them, we do not know, but we anticipate
they will be so tenuous they will.

Speaker 9 (02:00:26):
Hardly be noticeable.

Speaker 21 (02:00:28):
However, accompanying the comet is a core of tiny particles
of rock and iron that is entering our atmosphere. Will
cause a spectacular display of shooting stars and may do
some damage. Accordingly, the government is asking everyone to take
the following precautions within the next eight hours.

Speaker 20 (02:00:47):
Take shelter on the ground if possible, otherwise in cellars
or in area shelters. Take with you all the food
and water you can manage. Take bidding warm clothes, and
be prepared. I have to stay on the show over
at least forty eight hours. Begin your preparations. Now you
will receive further instructions.

Speaker 5 (02:01:08):
By radio, but above all, remain calm.

Speaker 21 (02:01:13):
Well, folks, is just standing down again. I'll be standing
by all night long to bring you the ladies. Keep
tune in and don't worry. This will be a great
story to tell your grandchildren.

Speaker 11 (02:01:23):
So long for now, Nick, it's something they're not telling us.
I'm sure of it.

Speaker 10 (02:01:28):
He suppose at the cup.

Speaker 13 (02:01:30):
I said, Joe's back.

Speaker 25 (02:01:32):
Why, professor NICKI has two little children with him, one
of them just a baby, a little girl here and
give it to me.

Speaker 6 (02:01:43):
Yeah, it's all right.

Speaker 25 (02:01:45):
She must cry everything all night.

Speaker 9 (02:01:48):
Thank you.

Speaker 29 (02:01:50):
Here, mister MS can take this little bray. Fortunately he's
still sleepy.

Speaker 13 (02:01:54):
Let me hea you okay, now you sit down. You're
all in and and there's blood on your coat.

Speaker 9 (02:02:01):
I'm afraid i've been shot.

Speaker 13 (02:02:04):
Oh, I'll put the boy on the couch there. Yeah,
he's still sleeping soundly. Now let me look at you.

Speaker 17 (02:02:11):
Let me get this coat off. I'm sorry, it's got
to come off there. Oh, you've lost a lot of blood.

Speaker 9 (02:02:20):
You say, right, too much.

Speaker 33 (02:02:23):
I'm afraid you have to cut.

Speaker 13 (02:02:24):
Your shirt loose and ticks a bandage. Sally, can you
help me?

Speaker 11 (02:02:27):
Oh yeah, baby's gone back. I'll put her down on
the couch too.

Speaker 9 (02:02:33):
What shall I do next?

Speaker 17 (02:02:34):
I'm going to cut away the shirt. You pull it
loose as I cut. How did you get shot, professor?
And where did you get those children?

Speaker 9 (02:02:41):
I went out to bring back more people to this shirt.
There are no cars on the road.

Speaker 29 (02:02:50):
I went to a house. My rassoo away family and
some visitors out in the lawn watching the comet.

Speaker 13 (02:02:57):
That's fine selling. Now give me something to wipe away
the blood.

Speaker 11 (02:03:00):
Oh thanks, car.

Speaker 29 (02:03:01):
I knew if I tried to persuade them they think
I was crazy. And I saw the children, boy and
the girl asleep in the back room. I stole them.

Speaker 9 (02:03:14):
Baby woke up and cried. Somebody shot at me.

Speaker 17 (02:03:18):
I got away in the darkness, hut the easy into
his chair.

Speaker 13 (02:03:26):
He's passed out from loss of blood. And here we are,
stuck down in an old mine, a thousand feet underground,
with two children that he's taken from their families. It's here,

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I am, so you're awake? How are you feeling?

Speaker 9 (02:03:55):
Very weak?

Speaker 10 (02:03:56):
Kind of feet?

Speaker 9 (02:03:58):
How the children?

Speaker 13 (02:03:59):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (02:03:59):
If I and luckily they're too young to be scared.
Sally's got in the kitchen feeding them. Now look here, professor.
It's one thing to ure us down here, it's another
thing to steal two babies.

Speaker 9 (02:04:10):
And face the facts.

Speaker 29 (02:04:13):
Having't I convinced you the entire world is engrave danger.

Speaker 17 (02:04:17):
Danger from what a few chunks of stone that may
be part of a comet. The radio last night admitted
some damage might be.

Speaker 9 (02:04:25):
Done some day, But to the broadcasts, they now, I
don't know.

Speaker 13 (02:04:29):
We haven't listened.

Speaker 17 (02:04:31):
If we got you in the bed last night, took
care of the children, Sally and I just fell asleep.

Speaker 13 (02:04:35):
If we woke up, we've been so busy we haven't
had a chance to listen.

Speaker 9 (02:04:38):
Turn on the radio. Now, let's listen.

Speaker 17 (02:04:41):
Of course, while you were gone, Andrew Weatherby urged everyone
to take shelter for a few days.

Speaker 21 (02:04:47):
Everybody, this is tanned, done, sleepy, but still on the job. Well,
I guess you won't find anything else on the radio
this morning except the comment it's so bright you can
see it. Please away in the morning sky like a
baby's son, about four hours before its path intersects hours.
I repeat again the official advice take shelter, stay undercovered

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for the next few days. But don't panic. Pannik is
more dangerous than the comet.

Speaker 2 (02:05:16):
Believe me.

Speaker 21 (02:05:18):
I have to admit that a lot of people have
unfortunately lost their heads the last few hours. Roads leading
out of every city are clogged with refugees.

Speaker 19 (02:05:26):
Trying to get away.

Speaker 21 (02:05:27):
A good many people have been killed in the crush
of crowds fleeing the cities. Every ports of hundreds of
auto accidents, some looting fires are burning unchecked in the
number of places. Firemen are fleeing with the others. Washington
this morning is a deserted city. So many people here
have ordos. You know they were able to get away.
All the air raid shelters are full. People in them

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are being very calm upout it. Unus from other places
a bit scanty. Some lines are down. I'll keep bringing
you all the bulletins as they coming. Right now, I've
got to get little yes. So this is then done,
signing off temporarily.

Speaker 9 (02:06:03):
Folks, Well, are you convinced now, mister.

Speaker 17 (02:06:07):
H People are losing their heads because they're scared. But
that still doesn't say the comet is actually dangerous to
the earth. I know it wouldn't be if it was
just an ordinary comet.

Speaker 3 (02:06:17):
But it isn't.

Speaker 9 (02:06:18):
But what is it? Then?

Speaker 29 (02:06:19):
Ems the fiery head of Comet X is radioactive, radioactive.
It will envelop the world in a searing bath of
atomic fire. In a dozen hours, civilization would have come.

Speaker 33 (02:06:33):
To an end.

Speaker 17 (02:06:46):
How's the prophetic unconscious? His fever is high and he's
in a delirium. Pulse is very weak.

Speaker 11 (02:06:52):
Only we could do something for him.

Speaker 13 (02:06:54):
I've done what I could from the medicine chest.

Speaker 17 (02:06:57):
In his mind now he's reliving the time ten years
when he first discovered Comet X and predicted that it
was radioactive.

Speaker 13 (02:07:04):
He predicted that, yeah, as.

Speaker 17 (02:07:06):
We had quite a talk while you were busy with
the two kids. He was an obscure professor of astronomy
in a little college. He found a speck of light
wandering around in the sky, identified it as a comet,
analyzed it as being radioactive, and predicted that on its
next visit it was strike the earth.

Speaker 11 (02:07:22):
And nobody believed him.

Speaker 17 (02:07:23):
Well, the comet had vanished by then. Everybody thought he'd
imagined it. And when he claimed it was radioactive and
with destroy civilization, that was too much.

Speaker 13 (02:07:32):
He was fired. He had a breakdown and was an
institution for years.

Speaker 25 (02:07:36):
Oh yes, now I remember I read something about it
years ago, but the war was on it and people.

Speaker 17 (02:07:42):
Had other things to think about. Everybody forgot Professor Jones
in the comet. You see, the atomic bomb hadn't been
developed then, so the idea of an atomic comet was considered.

Speaker 13 (02:07:52):
Playing crazy.

Speaker 11 (02:07:53):
Now it's come true.

Speaker 13 (02:07:55):
Oh Nick, it's turn the radio one again. See if
Danny and is still broadcasting?

Speaker 11 (02:08:01):
All right, what time is it?

Speaker 13 (02:08:04):
Well, I watched this eid. Must be a tonight. No
way to be sure. A way down here underground.

Speaker 21 (02:08:11):
I don't guess there's much more. I can see broadcasting
from the south basement of the building. It's about six
of us locked in here. I know how much longer
we can hold out. They haven't had any communication from
outside Washington for the last hour.

Speaker 13 (02:08:27):
All wires are dead.

Speaker 21 (02:08:29):
Can't pick up any other radio broadcasts.

Speaker 9 (02:08:32):
Washington's a dead city.

Speaker 2 (02:08:33):
Now.

Speaker 21 (02:08:34):
It's a weird sight. They have a television camera hooked
up on the roof show us all of the big
government buildings outlined by a ghastly greenish light, luminous gas
surrounding the head of comedys right in the middle of
the comet. Now be about six hours before it starts
to withdraw. Anybody who can hear. Stay underground as long

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as you possibly can. Don't come out. Radioactivity will be
deadly for a long time. Yet instrument's mare one this
was all right, will be poisoned for twenty years to come.
That a ah, it seems to be painting. I guess

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we'll have to sign up now.

Speaker 26 (02:09:22):
So long everybody, she's gonna appear, Nick, Nick, think of
the whole world.

Speaker 13 (02:09:32):
Dad, Now, I don't know.

Speaker 17 (02:09:33):
Wait a minute, darling, it's bound to be millions of
people in safe places like we are, daves, tunnels, old minds.

Speaker 25 (02:09:39):
But did you hear what he said? The earth may
be poisoned by radioactivity for years.

Speaker 13 (02:09:58):
Y I'd like some water, of course, I'll bring it.

Speaker 9 (02:10:06):
Here.

Speaker 11 (02:10:06):
You are, professor John, Thank you.

Speaker 13 (02:10:10):
How are you feeling?

Speaker 17 (02:10:13):
My head is clear, but I'm very weak. How long
was I unconscious?

Speaker 11 (02:10:20):
Almost two days?

Speaker 9 (02:10:22):
Two days?

Speaker 17 (02:10:23):
And the comment has come and gone, and the world
the radio is dead. We can't pick up anything. The
last report from Washington said it was a dead city.

Speaker 9 (02:10:35):
Only they listened to me ten years ago.

Speaker 17 (02:10:37):
Now you mustn't upset yourself, Professor, you did everything one
man could.

Speaker 9 (02:10:41):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (02:10:42):
Yes.

Speaker 29 (02:10:44):
When I was released from that institution last year, I
said about fixing up this refuge, how about the old man? Well,
by myself, I brought down furnishings, machinery, food. When I
try to get a few people to join me here,

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thought I was insane.

Speaker 17 (02:11:05):
Again, We understand me, and I had to resort to
desperate trickery which got you here.

Speaker 13 (02:11:12):
And we're very grateful for it.

Speaker 9 (02:11:13):
Sir, I store two children, the boy and the girl,
out of the whole world. You horrible, are saved.

Speaker 11 (02:11:24):
But there must be other people alive somewhay.

Speaker 9 (02:11:27):
Yes, yes, of course. Now by the time the surface
of the Earth is livable again.

Speaker 11 (02:11:33):
Will it really be twenty years?

Speaker 17 (02:11:37):
Yes, missus ms between fifteen and twenty years before the
human race can once again live on the Earth's surface.

Speaker 13 (02:11:46):
But in even fifteen years, the people who are still alive.

Speaker 29 (02:11:49):
Now exactly some will live. Human race is very tough,
but they may be terribly changed. To re establish civilization,
we can only be sure of you for Oh no,
I dear, you mustn't be dismayed. I've planned carefully. Is

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everything you'll need for twenty years down in this cabin medicine, food, building, books, gasoline.
You must not go above ground until it is absolutely safe.
Then you will find the world changed, animal life, planned life.

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It may have been altered greatly by the radioactivity, but
it will be safe.

Speaker 13 (02:12:44):
Because you're too weak to talk.

Speaker 9 (02:12:46):
I must, I must talk now. I haven't much more time.

Speaker 6 (02:12:50):
Of course, you have.

Speaker 36 (02:12:51):
You going to get well?

Speaker 13 (02:12:52):
For that we need you.

Speaker 29 (02:12:54):
I wish I could, but I won't. And now listen,
build for a better world. Who seemed to have gotten.

Speaker 9 (02:13:04):
Off the track somehow.

Speaker 29 (02:13:07):
Maybe maybe nature simply decided to be done with us
when she sent that coming.

Speaker 9 (02:13:14):
I don't know, but this is a chance to start
over again and do better. M m mm hmm.

Speaker 13 (02:13:27):
Professor Professor Jones Nick Nick, he's not perfait, he is.

Speaker 33 (02:13:36):
He's dead, darling.

Speaker 25 (02:13:40):
We're left you and me down here, a thousand feet underground.
We have to live here twenty years or more.

Speaker 17 (02:13:52):
That you can't give way, Sally, it got too much
to do. Listen, the baby got to go to That's
what I mean. We have to take good care of
those kids.

Speaker 11 (02:14:06):
Yeah, court me, of course we do.

Speaker 13 (02:14:09):
And we'll have to give them names.

Speaker 17 (02:14:12):
We could call them Adam and Eve, but let's not
suppose we just call them Johnny and Susie.

Speaker 13 (02:14:21):
Yet Nick.

Speaker 11 (02:14:26):
Uncoming, I'm cooming.

Speaker 8 (02:14:48):
This is the Mysterious Traveler again. I wonder if you'd
help me check up on something we do. Just step
outside and never look at the sky. The suspect of
light up there just to the right of the north farm.
It wasn't there last night, and I was just wondering

(02:15:09):
if you. Oh, but it couldn't be a comment, of
course not. And even if it is, I'm sure we're
in no danger. Of course, if you'd like to know
the location of a nice deep cave. Oh, you have
to get off here. I'm sorry, but I'm sure you'll

(02:15:31):
meet again. I take this same train every meet.

Speaker 13 (02:15:35):
At this same time.

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(02:17:19):
Can't We be Friends?

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(02:18:19):
a remarkable tale.

Speaker 3 (02:18:20):
Of suspend I suppose you want to know how it happened. Yes,
I'd like very much to know. Then, will you tell
me how you got here?

Speaker 16 (02:18:33):
I'm doctor Mayor.

Speaker 3 (02:18:36):
Did you look at her?

Speaker 2 (02:18:36):
She?

Speaker 3 (02:18:36):
Did? You tell me your story first?

Speaker 10 (02:18:40):
Who's he?

Speaker 3 (02:18:41):
This gentleman lives in the next apartment? Yeah, yes, go on,
go on, let's hear your story.

Speaker 4 (02:18:46):
Well.

Speaker 3 (02:18:47):
Her name was is Francis Murphy. I've known her for
about six months. I met her at a party. We
went out together a few times, liked each other, and
started going together. Fascinating. I guess I fell in love
with her, and I think she was in love with
me for a while. Anyway, what's your name, Michael Gordon? Yeah,

(02:19:11):
we'll go on. Well, she wasn't well for a while,
and then she told me she had to go to
the hospital some minor surgery minus surgery. Why that girl,
and that's what she told you?

Speaker 10 (02:19:22):
Eh?

Speaker 3 (02:19:23):
Yeah, Well, anyway, I got sort of busy and I
didn't get a chance to see her why she was sick.
And when I saw again, she wouldn't talk to me.
So I started seeing another girl, I know, but this
afternoon I got to thinking about fran I kept seeing
her when I was with the other girl. It bothered me,
so I decided i'd come over and see her. I

(02:19:44):
got here at six o'clock. This apartment, in case you
don't know, it's very easy to get up to. The
desk clerk sits around the corner from me elevator, and
you don't have to see him if you don't want to.
I didn't want to call and tell Fran I was
coming up, so I went over to the elevator without

(02:20:06):
talking to him and came directly up to the fourth floor,
knocked on her door. Helloll, Fran nice, Oh I you Fran?

Speaker 13 (02:20:17):
Can I come in?

Speaker 44 (02:20:19):
What do you want?

Speaker 2 (02:20:19):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:20:20):
I was just passing by. I thought i'd stop in
and see how you were feeling.

Speaker 44 (02:20:23):
You're a little late, an't you feeling better for three weeks?

Speaker 12 (02:20:27):
Ah?

Speaker 3 (02:20:28):
And I don't be like that, honey. I was busy.
That's why I didn't see you. You're not You're gonna
ask me in?

Speaker 44 (02:20:34):
Oh, I come in, but you can't stay long. I've
got an engagement with a very good friend to night.

Speaker 3 (02:20:39):
Oh thanks, Yeah, well the apartment looks very nice to
down if you like.

Speaker 20 (02:20:47):
Oh thanks.

Speaker 3 (02:20:51):
Care for cigarette?

Speaker 4 (02:20:53):
No?

Speaker 6 (02:20:53):
Thanks?

Speaker 3 (02:20:55):
Ah? You look well.

Speaker 44 (02:20:57):
Not your fault, I do.

Speaker 3 (02:20:59):
Oh no, I don't like that, Frand. I feel awful
about not seeing when you were sick, I had to
see a fellow from out of town.

Speaker 44 (02:21:05):
Did it take you ten days to see him?

Speaker 3 (02:21:07):
Well, honey, you know those things are was business. You
just can't make any other plans.

Speaker 14 (02:21:11):
You really don't have to explain it to me, not
the least little bit interested in what you do, Fran,
look at me.

Speaker 3 (02:21:18):
I'm sorry, Fran. I don't blame you for being mad
at me. I'm no good I guess I'm just a
no good bum. I never deserved having a girl like
you anyway. How true, But let's let by guns be
by guns and at least part good friends.

Speaker 2 (02:21:35):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (02:21:35):
That's really why I came by today. I wanted to
ask you, can't we be friends?

Speaker 11 (02:21:40):
Well?

Speaker 3 (02:21:41):
Because I loved you, Fran. You know that I did.
I still do, But of course I realized that's beside
the point I still do.

Speaker 17 (02:21:51):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:21:53):
Whatever do you mean? I've been thinking about your lot, Frand,
about how you walk, a fingernail, polish you use, the
perfume you wear.

Speaker 6 (02:22:02):
You gave me for my birthday, did I?

Speaker 3 (02:22:07):
Yeah, no, that's right, I remember that you sure were surprised.

Speaker 6 (02:22:12):
Very nice of you.

Speaker 3 (02:22:13):
It was nothing, honey, nothing at all. I wish I
could have gotten your mink coat. Two mink coats, one
for afternoon, one for night time. Really mind if I
sit here next to you?

Speaker 17 (02:22:24):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:22:29):
You were in a perfume now, aren't you? Huh? Yeah?
Perfume has a better smell when you wear it, you know?
Or will you forgive me Frian for being such a heel?

Speaker 44 (02:22:39):
I really didn't.

Speaker 3 (02:22:40):
No, I don't answer that, honey. It wasn't nice for
me to ask you that. There's no reason why a
girl like you should get stuck with a bum like me.
You're better off going out with other people. Who's this
friend you have the engagement with tonight?

Speaker 44 (02:22:52):
Are you really sorry you didn't see me, Mike?

Speaker 10 (02:22:55):
I told you I was.

Speaker 5 (02:22:57):
I could have killed myself.

Speaker 3 (02:22:58):
I felt so bad.

Speaker 6 (02:23:01):
Give me a kid.

Speaker 3 (02:23:03):
Shure, honey.

Speaker 6 (02:23:07):
Yeah, I missed you night, and.

Speaker 44 (02:23:10):
I haven't got an engagement with anyone tonight. I haven't
been out of the house.

Speaker 5 (02:23:15):
Go to merit and I should take it easy.

Speaker 3 (02:23:17):
No, that's good, honey. We'll go out tonight, huh? Or
would you rather I stayed here with you for dinner
and then we could listen to some music tonight. I
haven't heard your records in a long time, you know.

Speaker 44 (02:23:25):
No, no, you'll have to go my guy's I'm packing
to do it. I have to go away and rest.
Will I guess I was pretty sick.

Speaker 3 (02:23:32):
Oh, it's all the more reason for me to stay,
and I'll help your pack. We'll have a little farewell party.

Speaker 44 (02:23:36):
No, no, I'm sorry, Mike. I have to go to
sleep as soon as I finished packing, so i'll be
fresh for the trip tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (02:23:42):
Oh that's ridiculous. I'm just gonna sit here. I won't
bother you. Who are you trying? A kid?

Speaker 6 (02:23:48):
What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (02:23:49):
What are you trying to pull? You've got a date
with another guy? Tell me, I don't care who you
go out with.

Speaker 44 (02:23:53):
I told you I didn't have a date.

Speaker 3 (02:23:54):
Do you think I believe that? Who's sick to see me? Huh?
That's a laugh. You certainly look well enough to me.
That's one of the reasons I didn't go to see
in the hospital. I knew you were a kidding.

Speaker 44 (02:24:05):
What's the matter with you? I had an operation?

Speaker 3 (02:24:07):
You want to tell me about your operation? Please go,
I'm going I'm good and ready.

Speaker 44 (02:24:13):
You go right now, right when I tell you to?
Who do you think you are?

Speaker 16 (02:24:16):
You think you want?

Speaker 44 (02:24:17):
You get out of here before I call him manager.

Speaker 3 (02:24:19):
You wouldn't dare call him manager?

Speaker 44 (02:24:20):
Oh wouldn't I listen? You cheap new good buck. You
get out of here.

Speaker 3 (02:24:24):
I'll have your or shut up?

Speaker 14 (02:24:26):
Okay, Oh right, jostful, give me that fall your dirty
hands off of me.

Speaker 29 (02:24:33):
You go away.

Speaker 3 (02:24:34):
I told you to shut out.

Speaker 19 (02:24:35):
What do you want?

Speaker 30 (02:24:36):
Way to leave me alone?

Speaker 3 (02:24:37):
I want to see you uncomfortable. I want you to
be unhappy the way you make me unhappy. I want
to make sure you remember me. I used to fall
for that crying routine, but not anymore. Now I just
make you cry a little hard. You might like to
know I wasn't seeing anybody about business while you were

(02:24:58):
in the hospital. I went out every night. I've been
seeing your friend Trudy.

Speaker 17 (02:25:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:25:03):
Truth. But then I had to come back up here
today and see you because I kept seeing you, and
I kissed Trudy.

Speaker 44 (02:25:10):
To do with me, You get out of here to
stop that.

Speaker 3 (02:25:14):
I don't love you anymore, but I keep remembering you.
That's no good.

Speaker 14 (02:25:18):
You can stop remembering me anytime you like well, I
hardly recognize you when you came.

Speaker 6 (02:25:23):
And that's how easy I forgot that.

Speaker 3 (02:25:24):
Don't work with me.

Speaker 34 (02:25:25):
Listen to me, you listen to me.

Speaker 5 (02:25:28):
I'm tired of your a little problem.

Speaker 14 (02:25:30):
I don't like you, and I wouldn't even like you
if you have any money, which Goodness knows you haven't.

Speaker 44 (02:25:36):
I want you to go away and leave me alone.
I don't want you to come back to you anymore.

Speaker 14 (02:25:41):
Tell me to day because you want to, Okay, even
no more. I'm going into the dule and I'm gonna
lost the door, and I don't care.

Speaker 44 (02:25:48):
Whether you stay here forever, but I'm not coming out
until you leave here. But if you haven't left, you
a little while in the scream.

Speaker 14 (02:25:54):
And I'm gonna keep screaming until somebody comes up here
pros you out here.

Speaker 3 (02:26:06):
I just stood there for a while and looked at
the door, and I thought, I don't love her. I
don't love her at all. I hate her. That's when
I decided to do it, because I figured that if
there was no Fran that I could see Trudy or
anybody else I wanted to and not have to worry
about being lonesome for Fran or feeling sorry for Fran

(02:26:31):
or needing Fran and I figured you don't remember dead
people very well. But I know I had to do it.
That night before she left on her trip. I worked
it out like this. I'd leave right then and leave
her front door on the latch and talk to everybody
in the building and go to my boarding house and
tell everyone there how tired I was, and go up
to my room. That would be my alibi. Everyone would

(02:26:52):
have seen me go to sleep. Then I'd wait until everybody.

Speaker 5 (02:26:55):
Was in bed, and I'd take my gun and come
back here without any Are you seeing me?

Speaker 3 (02:27:02):
And kill fran Or Suspense?

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Can't We Be Friends? A tale well calculated to keep
you in suspends.

Speaker 9 (02:29:22):
A friend.

Speaker 3 (02:29:25):
Well, I'm gone now, I'm sorry. We couldn't at least
be friends. I went to the front door of her apartment,
snapped the lock open and left, making a little noise
closing the door. So she's no. I gone in the
elevator going down, I saw a guy I didn't know,
but I wanted to be seen leaving. So, uh, probly

(02:29:46):
do you have the time quarter to seven? Thanks? Awful tired?
You've been working on oh yeah, early jobs every morning.
Matter of this is almost my bedtime. Huh so after
you all right, I'll say her? Uh, pardon me, yes,

(02:30:16):
I have for you.

Speaker 13 (02:30:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:30:17):
Miss Murphy and four eleven asked me to tell you
she doesn't want to be disturbed. Yes, you got that
straight now, Miss Murphy four eleven. She doesn't want to
be disturbed. Not there feeding bad again?

Speaker 9 (02:30:28):
Is she?

Speaker 11 (02:30:29):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:30:29):
No, no, no, just a little tired.

Speaker 16 (02:30:31):
It's taking a nap or thank you?

Speaker 13 (02:30:34):
She that she's not bothered.

Speaker 3 (02:30:35):
Yeah, because she doesn't want to be disturbed.

Speaker 20 (02:30:38):
I got the time.

Speaker 16 (02:30:41):
Ten minutes to seven, minutes to seven.

Speaker 3 (02:30:45):
I better get my dinner and get some sleep. Got
an early call in the morning. I left the building
and took a cab. Although I didn't have too much stuff.
I talked to the cab I asked him about his family.
I got real chumming with him because he was a
Red Sox man, so I was a Red Sox man
at the boarding house. I gave everybody a big r
and I allowed it around how tired I was. Even

(02:31:07):
had the landlady feeling sorry for me, and she usually
hates me. Everybody patted me on the Backup to my room,
I made a lot of noise dropping my shoes. When
I got there, I jumped up and down in the
bed a couple of times. Then I went over to
the window and I looked out at the street and
I waited. The traffic gradually disappeared. As I watched through

(02:31:33):
the early night. One by one, I could hear the
other boarders yell good night to somebody in the living
room and bang up the stairs and close their door.
Pretty soon I knew they had to be asleep. About
one o'clock in the morning, a last pair of footsteps
came upstairs without saying good night to anyone. I knew
they'd all turned in. I waited a little longer to
make sure everyone was sleeping, and I put my shoes
back on. I got my gun out of the bureau drawer.

(02:31:54):
I opened the door to my room. Old man Epstein
was sawing away down the hall making his usual racket,
so I felt easier about going past this door to
get to the stairs. But I was very careful and
quiet and grumbled once when I got in front of
his door, but I held still. Pretty soon he started

(02:32:17):
sawing again and I got down the stairs. It was
pretty dark in the living room, and I was afraid
i'd trip on some furniture, but I made it all right.
Finally felt the front door knock in my hand. I
opened the door as quietly as I could.

Speaker 19 (02:32:37):
Then, what I don't I sat to him.

Speaker 22 (02:32:38):
In that case, go boy with a long body, you
rightly what tomorrow?

Speaker 19 (02:32:45):
Same? I got an eighty ape, man. I want you
to hear solid solids.

Speaker 9 (02:32:49):
See it.

Speaker 4 (02:32:59):
That you will be.

Speaker 16 (02:33:02):
No.

Speaker 3 (02:33:02):
Oh a man, good evening. Doors open if you're going in. Oh,
thanks for saving me the key move man.

Speaker 5 (02:33:09):
Hey you're still working days, fellow border rooney?

Speaker 3 (02:33:12):
Yeah? Yeah, ain't this a little past your bedtime?

Speaker 12 (02:33:14):
Man?

Speaker 3 (02:33:15):
Or yeah it's late. But the reason I said, why
do you go out at three or vouts? I wasn't
going out. I couldn't sleep. I was just gonna get
some fresh air. Come right in again. You better leave
the door unlocked for me.

Speaker 10 (02:33:24):
Oh, boy on beef.

Speaker 3 (02:33:25):
Yeah, you better get to bed.

Speaker 2 (02:33:29):
Oh it's a fine night for singing. Yeah, well, don't
get too much of that fresh air by blood.

Speaker 3 (02:33:35):
Choke in a death. Yeah, well, good night.

Speaker 5 (02:33:37):
Oh hey, hey, we had that joint.

Speaker 3 (02:33:39):
Really jumping a night. Hatchet Face come by, sat in
with us for a while. Really, Oh he's Mella. That
boy plays fine, so I hear yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:33:54):
That good.

Speaker 3 (02:33:55):
Yeah sounds great, eh Georgia Company pops sure fee good night.

Speaker 22 (02:34:03):
Yeah, I'm gonna fall in hit that Pand.

Speaker 3 (02:34:17):
I was frightened for a minute. I was awful frightened.
If Jack remembered seeing me, my carefully planned alibi was shot,
I thought, better or not, not tonight. But then Jack
wasn't like most people. He wouldn't remember in the morning.
You'd be too busy trying to recall a hatchet Faces lick.
Now I was still all right, but I had to
be careful. I couldn't take any chances to be safe.

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I had to have the alibi that I'd gone to
bed early. I walked quietly to the street and started
a friend's apartment house. I was very careful all the way.
A couple of times cars came by, and always I
ducked into the shadows and waited for them to pass
before I continued walking. I got to hear it about
four o'clock, I guess. I went up to the front
door and tried to open it, but the big door
was locked.

Speaker 16 (02:34:56):
I couldn't get in.

Speaker 3 (02:34:58):
I took my keys out of my pocket and tried them,
but none of them fitted it. Bet I heard someone
coming up the walk. I moved back from the door
and squeezed against the mailboxes and waited. I was almost
afraid to breathe, except that I know I get in now.
I just wait until the people went in, and then
get my foot in the door to keep it from
completely closing again.

Speaker 30 (02:35:20):
Good Night, Honey, good night darling. I'll call you in
the morning, Betty Jane.

Speaker 11 (02:35:25):
Call me when you get home so I know you're
all right.

Speaker 4 (02:35:28):
Oh, won't I wake anyone?

Speaker 6 (02:35:29):
Oh, I'll be at the phone up. I'll answer as
soon as rings.

Speaker 5 (02:35:33):
Okay, give me another kiss?

Speaker 4 (02:35:39):
Do you love me?

Speaker 5 (02:35:40):
Ah?

Speaker 30 (02:35:41):
How much I'm midian?

Speaker 16 (02:35:43):
Oh that's not enough?

Speaker 6 (02:35:46):
Good night, good.

Speaker 12 (02:35:48):
Night, Betty Jane's seven million?

Speaker 16 (02:35:56):
Who laughs?

Speaker 6 (02:35:57):
Better? Don't forget to call.

Speaker 30 (02:36:00):
I won't, honey, Yes, darling, good night.

Speaker 44 (02:36:12):
Good night, Darling, you call now, I will.

Speaker 3 (02:36:24):
I was sweating. She had been close, but they hadn't
seen me, and my foot was holding the door open.
So I just waited there until I was sure she'd
got upstairs, and then I opened the door and quietly
guided it closed, and walked on tiptoe across the lobby
to the elevator. I needn't have wondered about avoiding the
desk clerk. There was no one at the desk. The

(02:36:44):
elevator was upstairs somewhere with the girl had just taken it,
and I rang the buzzer for us. I love self
service elevators that make you feel like you could go
to the moon, and elevators and subway trains. I always
wanted to drive ever since I was a kid. I
got back in the dark just in time.

Speaker 18 (02:37:04):
The guy didn't see me. Please don't turn around, Please.

Speaker 3 (02:37:14):
Don't turn around. My mouth was so dry. I wandered
for a few seconds how that guy had been able
to whistle.

Speaker 22 (02:37:27):
You know, the way you do.

Speaker 3 (02:37:29):
And I opened the elevated door and got in and
pushed the button for the fourth floor. I got a
little panicky because I thought that if someone was waiting
on the fourth floor. They'd see me when they opened
the elevated door. I almost convinced myself that someone would
be there waiting for me. I put my hand in
my coat pocket and felt the gun there and grabbed
it hard. It was cold, so I took it out

(02:37:50):
and pressed it against my forehead. That made me feel
a little better, but there was no one waiting for
the elevator. I stepped out into the dark hallway. I
took a pencil out of my pocket and jammed it

(02:38:10):
against the door so that it couldn't close. You know
the way those things are, they won't run when the
door is open, and I wanted it to be there
waiting for me when I finished the shooting. That was
the only way I figured to get out of the
apartment before everybody woke up and started doing something about
hunting for me. There's a basement exit, you know, when
the elevator goes down in the basement. I had all
that figured too. Pencil seemed to work, but to make sure,
I stepped back into the elevator and pushed a button,

(02:38:35):
and the motor clicked in the door strain, but stayed open.
The elevator did and't go anywhere. Then I stepped out
into the hall and listened. It was awful quiet, not
even anyone snoring, which you usually hear at night in
a big apartment house like this. I tried to remember
if there was a squeaky board in the floor anywhere
down the hall, but couldn't, so I just crossed my
fingers and tiptoed down the long, dark hallway. The only

(02:38:58):
light was the red exit sign that shows you where
the fire escaped. This Seeing from that is like working
at a dock room developing pictures, which I did for
a while two doors from friends apartment. That's the most
frightened I ever was in my life when the kids
started a yell, because in the first place, I didn't

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know what it was right away. In the second place,
I thought they'll wake up everybody in an apartment and
they'll be up and on their feet when I start shooting.
I guess I held my bread for a couple of
minutes because when I started to try and relax, my
bread came out in a low whistle, so that scared
me too. I thought it'd be great if I get
a heart attack right here in the hall of a
strange apartment housing the little hours of the morning with
the gun in my pocket, It's like being afraid of

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a fire at night, because you don't want to go
out in the street in your pajamas where it's worse.
I guess, anyhow, that they be finally quieted down. I
waited a while because I didn't know whether his mother
had gotten up to quiet him, or whether he'd just
gone back to sleep again. I wasn't taking any chances now.

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It was too close to the finish. I waited. I
figured it was safe a few minutes later, and continued
snailing down the hall. I stopped at Fran's door and listened.
It was quiet inside. I put my hand into my
pocket and grabbed hold of a gun. Then I slowly

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turned the doorknob slid the door open. It didn't creak
her anything, which was lucky. I got into the room
quietly closed the door again. I took the gun out
of my pocket and released the safety and went to
the bedroom door. It was already a little bit open.
S threw the crack. I could see her figure lying
on the bed. I pushed the door enough for Joss
as I could move into the room and looked closer.

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The chop so we signed across the street was flashing
on and off, and as I got used to the
pattern it made on the walls, I saw Francis lying
on the bed, dressed as she had been when I'd
seen her early in the evening. She was lying on
the stomach with her face turned toward the fire side
of the room, towards the shadow. My nose started a tickle.
I thought I was going to sneeze, but when I
pressed the cold and against my overlifted desire left me.
I moved slowly and quietly toward the bed. I got

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in a few feet. I pointed the gun right at
her head. The gun was weight weaving around, so I
held out with both hands.

Speaker 18 (02:41:14):
That took very careful aim.

Speaker 3 (02:41:29):
It was done. I threw the gun down on the bed,
right next to frank and started from the door. Iknew
I didn't have much time to get out of there.
I tripped over one of her pack stowchases in the
living room, but didn't fall off. It reminded me that I.

Speaker 22 (02:41:38):
Got in there in time.

Speaker 3 (02:41:39):
She hadn't had a chance to go on her trip.
I got to the front door of the apop and
jerked it over much to hurry.

Speaker 16 (02:41:44):
Get back in there, get out of my way.

Speaker 3 (02:41:47):
I told you to get back in there, and that's all.
I know what happens? I see, did you with me?

Speaker 9 (02:42:10):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (02:42:11):
I was helped by this gentleman here.

Speaker 16 (02:42:13):
I used that book What are you doing here?

Speaker 3 (02:42:16):
The young lady had called me and asked me to
stop by at four o'clock in the morning. Oh look here,
I'm her doctor. It must have got pretty clubby with
her while she was in the hospital. I was right
about her. That's swell now, I don't feel badly about
having shot her. The police will be here soon.

Speaker 11 (02:42:31):
I'm gonna wait for wa.

Speaker 3 (02:42:42):
Wow, m h. It's just as well. Aren't you going
to call the ambulance?

Speaker 45 (02:42:51):
I already had? Yeah, I called the ambulance for the
young lady. The stake she was in when she talked
to me on the phone night. I knew we'd have
to take them back to the hospital tonight.

Speaker 3 (02:43:02):
There's not much they.

Speaker 41 (02:43:03):
Can do for now.

Speaker 45 (02:43:04):
There wasn't much they could have done for her before
an embolism, blood clot the result of her surgery.

Speaker 5 (02:43:10):
And the excitement she must have had earlier in the evening.

Speaker 3 (02:43:13):
Then he didn't kill her.

Speaker 5 (02:43:16):
She was dead three hours before he got here.

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Speaker 1 (02:44:51):
Well, my dear, thank you for another fun and fearful leavening.
I'm so glad to have you joined me. But now, well,
the sun will be coming up soon, so I suppose
you should go to your home, and I should go
to well, wherever it is I come from as well.

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So please be safe as you venture home, as you
go through the river, over the woods, past grandmother's house,
as you head through the threshold of your beautiful home,
as your eyelids are so heavy, and you rest your

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head on that soft, cool pillow as you begin to
drift off to the land of nod, do me this
one favor. Well, let's make it too. Come back and
see me again. And of course, if just for a

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moment be thankful for what you have, I'll see Sue