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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Ah, so good of you to join me again, My dear,
what's that?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Well, I'm positively jovial. How are you good? Good?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Well?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Regardless, we're going to have a fine time to night
as we get a little bit of a chill going
during the hot summer months. I hear the sun is
absolutely blazing as of late. Of course I wouldn't know,
but that's not here nor there.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Street Theater Presents come in. Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall.

(01:33):
Welcome to another hour of mystery and suspense, to a
terrifying battle of wits. Our play poses a dilemma you
have never faced or are likely to face in your lifetime,
whether to commit the murder in your heart when your
mind tells you to restrain yourself. Listen to what happened

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to one man, Thomas Drake, who did face that dilemma,
and what he did about it. Professor Bowery, if you're
a pand of memories, you've got to tell him to
stay away from my wife. Really now, Drake, I don't
like to interfere in the personal life of faculty. You

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must you must tell him, or I won't be responsible.
I don't want to kill him, but I don't trust myself.
Come now, Drake, Sensible people don't solve their marital problems
like that with murder. Our mystery drama Under Grave Suspicion

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Speaker 3 (05:20):
Have you ever.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Returned home late one night and listened in the still darkness,
tense and trembling, hoping and praying that you would not
hear the whispered passions of your wife and the stranger,
fearful that you could not would not control a blinding

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fury to kill that man getting out of the car
on that dark, dead end road on the windswept bluff,
overlooking the desolate Long Island Sound Beach. Hurrying by cloud
veiled moonlight down the winding footpath through the scrub pines
that brushed to his isolated cottage is Thomas Drake, despondent, depressed.

Speaker 10 (06:10):
I should have telephoned, given her some warning that i'd
be home a night earlier, But deep down I had
the feeling that I still couldn't trust her, and I
had to find out. I hurried towards the cottage one
rig whire there were no lights on, wondering whether she
was asleep alone.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Or with.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
I walked around from the back of the house across.

Speaker 10 (06:35):
The gravel mound toward the waterside portsteps, not caring whether
the crunch of my footsteps could be heard inside. The
only other sound was my pounding heart and the surf
washing the loose gravel off the burns. The half moon
slipped behind the bank of black clouds, and in the darkness,

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I shut over the shovel, lept lying on the gravel.
I kicked it away. I went up the point steps
to the front door. I trotted it was not locked,
and I stepped inside and listened.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
I called out Marianne. The bedroom door was closed. I
opened the door.

Speaker 10 (07:27):
I stared at the walls, which the ceilings flooded, an empty,
made up bed.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
I went to the kitchen, turned on. The knife was
swept and tidy.

Speaker 10 (07:43):
The count of the sink, the stowtop bare and dry,
not a trace of food particles, no lingering, cooking odors,
the dishmak dish, tongue bone dry. I needed to drink.
Calmed down, and I reached for the bottle of bourbon
in the kitchen. Cabiny poured myself a stiff one, wondering

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where she was. The drink only added fuel to my
slow burn. I flushed with waves of anger. I had
to get out in the air to think. I put
out the house lights, carry the bottle in the grass
of the porch, and settled down to wait. The cool

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onshore wind on my face, the moon playing hide and
seek with the dark clouds, the lights of Connecticut blinking
across ten miles of black water, the old field light,
alternating beams of green and red. It was RESTful, but
as I nursed the bourbon, I couldn't altogether get her

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out of my mind, my thoughts wandering back in time,
wondering if she'd left me or would once.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Again like the first time before we were married.

Speaker 10 (09:12):
We're living together in my apartment on Manhattan's swinging east Side.
Two modern sensible singles, willing to give it a try.
I had a job, and good job. I was a
vice president with Electronics Engineering. I got home at night.

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It was Friday night, about eight o'clock as I let
myself in.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yes, yes, I heard her talking on the phone.

Speaker 11 (09:44):
Come on after, Oh, ask the doorman to hold a cat.
He just got home?

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Or who was that Jack Harrison?

Speaker 11 (09:54):
Of course?

Speaker 4 (09:55):
What else you know?

Speaker 10 (09:57):
I'm getting tired of his hanging around. Why did you
tell him to stop calling you?

Speaker 4 (10:02):
He didn't.

Speaker 11 (10:03):
I called him. You look so surprised, Thomas.

Speaker 12 (10:08):
You don't have the time anymore for anything but dear
old Electronics Engineering.

Speaker 11 (10:13):
We didn't phone me. You wouldn't be home for dinner,
so I called him. There's a movie I want.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
That's the third time this week.

Speaker 12 (10:20):
Oh, I didn't know you were counting, Darling.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
I waited that night watching television, dozing fitfully.

Speaker 10 (10:36):
My mind going back to the smiles and looks they
had exchanges they left. I could see them after the
movies going to the Purple Comedy for nightcaps and the
wild rock of the patting cougars, and then sense of
stimulated bodies pulsating with savage beats to spend the night

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with him. I was awakened from my sleep in the
chair by the buzzing TV set.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
It was four o'clock.

Speaker 10 (11:14):
I fought off the idea of phoning her at Harrison's apartment.
I had no one but myself to blame. We had agreed,
like two sensible moderns, if there'd be no strings, that
we'd be free to live our own lives, and for
the first time, I admitted to myself I didn't want
that freedom. By ten o'clock that morning, I couldn't stand it.

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I phoned Harrison's apartment. There was no answer. I went
down to the lobby reception desk to get the mail.
It hadn't arrived yet, but the clerk handed me an
unstamped envelope my name an apartment number on it in
Mary Anne's handwriting.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
I tore it open.

Speaker 11 (12:00):
Dear, I'm sorry.

Speaker 13 (12:02):
I think it would be best for both of.

Speaker 11 (12:04):
Us to cod quits.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
I'm going away.

Speaker 10 (12:07):
There was no date on the plain white notepaper, no
imprint of name and address, no forwarding address, just signed
Mary Anne. I refuse to believe in. I hurried right
back up to the apartment to have bedroom closets. Her
clothes were gone. I got through the day somehow in

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a daze. But the next day, when I went out
to get the sunlit paper and returned to the apartment,
there she was unpacking.

Speaker 11 (12:41):
I changed my mind.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Let's have a drink. Want to tell me?

Speaker 11 (12:52):
There's not much to tell. He told me, as a
wife three children in Connecticut that she won't let him go.
We couldn't marry me.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Marry you?

Speaker 4 (13:04):
You want to get married? Is that all you want
to get married?

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Will you marry me?

Speaker 11 (13:22):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (13:25):
Yeah, now here I am waiting once again, like two
sensible moderns.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
We adjusted the marriage.

Speaker 10 (13:45):
We seem to be making a go of it until
I lost my job and the cutbacks and government contracts.
We subleased the apartment, moved to the cottage to make
the rounds of electronic firms on more. And I sat
there on the porch waiting, once again, looking up and

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down the beach, and suddenly I saw a flashlight about
one hundred yards down. The beach had moved around, but
it did not advance, and then it went out.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
I listened.

Speaker 10 (14:21):
The crunch of footsteps on gravel carried by the wind
grew louder. I could make out the silhouettes of a
man and a fishing rod on his shoulder. He was alone,
hugging the waterline. As he came abreast, I called out
a lock. Was Professor Mawory of the State University Marine

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Laboratory at nearby flags Pond.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
Oh, not a thing. I was hoping to pick up
a striper. The line got snarled in the reel, too
tangled to bother with. Tonight, I'm just having a nightcap.
It's you, Johnny, professor. Yeah, I could stand one short
one getting a bit nippy. We talked. He sipt this whiskey.

(15:07):
I don't know how many I had.

Speaker 10 (15:10):
He talked about projects at the Marine lab, the need
for more state funds for research on wetlands water pollution, erosion.
He knew I was trying to get relocated. Had given
me a letter to an executive at the Grumming Planet.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Hear anything from Grumming, No another thing. I'm about exhausted
the job possibilities on Long Island. I spent yesterday and
today in New England. Well, thanks for the drink. I'm
sure the job market will open up.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Guys.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
Say hello to missus Drake. Thanks Dr Mawory. Yes, would
you do me a favor? Favor be you're a friend
of Emory Richard Emery. I know you know him, but
are you a friend of his? Well, he's one of
several new young chaps doing post doctor at work at

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the Marine Lab.

Speaker 10 (16:04):
It's a small group and we're all more or less friendly.
I mean, will he listen to you as a friend?

Speaker 4 (16:11):
Listen?

Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (16:14):
Tell him to stay away from my wife? Well, Emory,
your wife, that's right. Don't ask me how I know
little things.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
I know.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
I come home tonight, she's not home. I know. Well
it's rather personal matter. I don't feel I have the
right to meddle in the personal affairs of a faculty member.
He doesn't, I'll kill him now, Drake, don't talk like that.
Sensible people don't solve such problems like that. That's what

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I always thought. But now look, Greg, if you don't
mind my giving you some advice, why don't you just
get a divorce or separation? You just tell Emory to
stay away from her. You must tell him Mary, you
must I don't want to kill him, but I'm afraid.

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But they're breaking point. You tell him, Mary, tell him.
If you don't, you'll share the responsibility. Tom, you're overwrought.
You feel better in the morning, all right, I'll talk
to him, Marie. Thanks, good night. Tom.

Speaker 10 (17:39):
I picked at the bottle. It still had about one
drink in it. I walked down to the waterline. I
swallowed what was left in the bottle, and with swelling anger,
I flung it into the waves. I turned back towards
some cottage who stopped. I saw a flash light down

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the beach. I can make out two persons walking towards me,
and then the light was outs and silhouetted against the
night sky, two forms embraced as one, and then carried
by the wind rising out of the northeast. I heard

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the teasing laughter of Mary Anne.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
Well, there may be laughter in the wind, but for
poor Tom, this is no time for levity. Wonder whether
he knows that it's an ill wind and will blow
him no good. I'll be back shortly with that too.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Making the lords and jealous jealous and on the lan.

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Speaker 16 (20:00):
Wednesday, ten o'clock, I'm back at the office. Working on
the case. When my secretary brings me the mail, Thanks kid,
the usual stuff. Then I see it. It's addressed to
me resident inside a fake rabbit's foot, A pitch a
two dollars donation or send back the rabbit's foot.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
My problem, what to do about it?

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Speaker 3 (20:32):
Oh yeah, spill it.

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Speaker 4 (21:03):
Now what's a fella to do? Poor Tom Drake is
in the dark and all at sea, wondering where he
ought to be or not to be. But let's not
blow the man down. Just lend me your ears and
we'll listen.

Speaker 10 (21:25):
Their embrace in the dark was brief, and they started
walking towards the cottage without using the flash light first
foot second. I thought of walking towards them for a showdown,
but Maloris promised to talk to Emory made me put
aside the impulse. A duck behind the line of boulders
had formed a breakwater above a high water line. They

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stopped in front of the cottage from behind the boulders.
I watched and listened.

Speaker 11 (21:53):
Ah, that was a good hike.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
Let's go inside.

Speaker 11 (21:58):
Let's sit out here for a while. It's such a
beautiful night. I'd like a cigarette.

Speaker 10 (22:06):
He sat down beside her, struck a match, cupped it
in his hands, and held it to the cigarette in
her lips. In the glow from the match flame, her
face flushed, her eyes dreamy with desire.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
I knew I would never give her a I'm going
out to Montalk next week. It's a long Monday holiday weekend.
How about coming with me. I'd love to, but.

Speaker 11 (22:34):
I have to figure out some excuse to be away.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
Figure that should be any problem. Pretty clever about such things,
I'll think of something. I couldn't help thinking.

Speaker 10 (22:46):
She was pretty clever about such things, Like the night
she went with that very clever Harrison leading around. I'll
never forget that Friday night, and now another Friday nights.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
Come on, let's go inside. You said he won't be
back tonight.

Speaker 11 (23:08):
Oh relax, Richie, you mean to tell me.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
You prefer this cold gravel to a nice comfortable couch.
Come on, very and oh.

Speaker 11 (23:19):
What's wrong with staying out? Here, oh Mark, I was
content with a hat, jack wine and loaded for the
bread beneath the ball.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Not bad off.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
The laughter broke off suddenly.

Speaker 10 (23:35):
I saw the glowing tips of two flipped cigarettes and
then kiss me Richie, crazy about it?

Speaker 17 (23:42):
Stop it, Stop it, cam you.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Marian, and go inside.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Go inside.

Speaker 11 (23:48):
Why if you have anything to say, you can say
it here in front of Richard.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
Go inside alone. He broke my grip on a arm
and pushed me away. The sharp made me slip to
my knee.

Speaker 10 (24:02):
I came up, swinging at first and missed it in
my arms from behind her.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
Listen, what's the matter with you? Are you crazy? I
broke out of his whip, stepped back from him, and
fell across the shovel. I grabbed the handle, jumped up no,
and swung at Emory, too late for me to stop
the swing. As she rushed in between us, the sharp
edge of the shovel hit her in the back of

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the head.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
I stood there holding the shovel, unable to move, my
eyes fixed on her face. As Emory knelt down over
her with a flashlight.

Speaker 10 (24:46):
I watched her face and prayed, prayed she wouldn't die.
I trembled with fear and anguish, telling myself this couldn't be.
It was a nightmare. Hemory turned the flashlight on me.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
I studied my trembling lips, my glazed eyes fixed on
Mary Anne. She's she's dead. I heard him, but didn't answer.
I couldn't take my eyes off Drake, because you knew
what I said. She's dead. You killed her. You better

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go in the house and call the police.

Speaker 10 (25:24):
I looked at him, puzzled, my mind, my eyes, my
memory playing tricks on me, wondering.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
Who he was.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
Harrison, Jack Harrison, mocking me the night he took her
to the movie, telling me we'll be back. What's the
matter with you, Drake, don't you hear me? Call the police.
I'll tell them. I'll say it was an accident.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
She tried to stick. I don't think you've heard of
what I said.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
I'll call the police myself, worry drawing Harrison.

Speaker 18 (26:01):
Call up, who's Harrison, I'm Memory, Richard Emory, Drake.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
I'll be right back. Don't turn your back on me.
Look back. As I swung the shovel, his mouth open,
his eyes unbeleeving, he went down. I hit him again.
He was still lying on his face.

Speaker 10 (26:29):
I staggered, gasping for air, my head pounding, thousands of
pinpoints of light exploding inside my head. I sank down
on the steps of the porch, holding my head in
my hands, trying to clear my head, groping to recall
understand what had happened to me, to them. Slowly the

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horror of it all returned. Mary Anne was dead. I
turned the other body face up. It was not Harrison,
it was Emory. I don't know how long I sat

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there on the porch steps. Finally I faced it. I
decided to try to get rid of the bodies, bury
them temporarily, and the gravel burn. I'd have to get
a small boat, that rowboat in the woods just above
the flock waterline, stored by one of these summer residents.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
I'd drow the bodies out to the channel, wait them
drop them overboard.

Speaker 10 (27:42):
On an outgoing tide, the strong current on the bottom
of the channel would move them out to the sea.
The loose scravel was only about three feet deep. It
would be deep enough to hide them. I dragged the
bodies over, laid them in, and then covered them, building

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up the gravel mound the same height as the burn
that ran parallel to the water level. I inspected the shovel.
The metal glistened clean, no sign of blood or hair.
I studded against the porch rail went inside. I sprawled
out on the bed, exhausted and fell into a heavy,

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dreamless sleep. I woke up the next morning about an
hour after sunrise, my mind clear, instantly aware of what
had happened, what I had done. I jumped off the bed,

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went to the porch door, looked at the gravel graves
on the burn. It looked natural, peaceful, like a cemetery.
I knew what I had to do. I put on
the coffee, showered, changed my clothes, became aware that her
clothes were still hanging in the closet. I got the

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old note she had left me on that weekend, but
Harrison read it over and over. As I had my
coffee on the kitchen counter, I turned on the radio
for the weather.

Speaker 19 (29:20):
The Bureau report Hurricane Gilda moving past Cape Patters, leaving
a devastation.

Speaker 10 (29:25):
I placed the note on the counter, carefully spilled a
spoonful of coffee on the counter, wetting a large corner
of the paper, and then blotted it with a paper towel.
I knew I'd have to keep checking the weather, but
first get rid of her clothes. I put them in
a large plastic garbage bag. I knew i'd have to
stay close to the cottage until I got rid of

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the bodies, lay in a supply of food, so I
drove to the supermarket. Put the clothes into the collection
bin of the Salvation Army on the parking lot. I
did my shopping, was back in less than an hour.
I went up to where the rowboat was on the
bank of trees. It looked all right. Aluminum light enough

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to drag the oars were in it, and burlap fishbags
strong enough to hold the rocks i'd use for weights.
I'd have to wait until dark to move the bodies.
In the meantime, I could move the boat. It was
a couple of hundred yards. I placed the boat on top.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Of the grave.

Speaker 10 (30:36):
By nightfall, the coast Guard was sending out small craft warnings,
and all through the nights I was moved to the
radio for weather hicks. Feeling trapped, helpless to do what
I had planned, I finally fell asleep on the couch.

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I was awakened by the Sunday morning, church music and
a loud knocking on the porch door. Okay you No,
I didn't recognize the voice, and I hesitated me. The
knocking stops. I heard him walk down the porch steps.
I put on my shoes, went to the door. He

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was sitting on the edge of the transfer of the
boat and his back to me, smoking a cigarette, fishing
pole across his knees.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
It was malory.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
He turned.

Speaker 20 (31:28):
Didn't wake you?

Speaker 4 (31:29):
Did I? I heard the radio and I thought i'd
stop by and if you're all right? Okay now, but
yesterday went ahead? Oh Dave, how about some coffee?

Speaker 21 (31:43):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Thanks, But I've got to get back to the lab.
I didn't know you had a boat, but it's not mine.
Along as the Johnson's. I saw a couple of kids
dragging it out of the patch of trees up there.
They ran When I started towards him, thought I'd keep
it here for them. Yes, it's safe enough here unless
we get that hurricane. I pull it up on higher ground.

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If the weather gets worse and Guilder doesn't move out sea.
Well glad to see. Feeling bad, doctor Murray, did did
you get a chance to talk to Emery no matter
of fact. I haven't seen him and I stopped by
his room Friday night after I left you. It wasn't in.

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I left a note to call me. I didn't hear
from him all day Saturday. Wasn't in Saturday night, not
in his room this morning either. It's not like him
to go off without a word. I've been thinking over
doctor Mury. It's it's not yours talking memory. I can't

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keep it tired to me. She's left me? Oh did she?
I'm sorry? Perhaps the best? Well, she didn't get home
Friday night. Let me know the suddenly kitchen saturdy morny.
Is she leaving you for memory? She didn't say, I

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see m h. Well, I'm sorry, Drake, I really am.

Speaker 10 (33:24):
Sunday nights, I was still trapped by the weather got
worse through the night, but the weather report said that
still was a fifty to fifty chance of the hurricane
would bypass Long Island. About noon the next day, the
wind died down, and I stood there by the rowboat,

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wondering whether I should take the chance. In broad daylight,
long Avan Sand was still calm as a lake. I
heard a helicopter coming across crane neck routine patrol of
the shore. I could read the suffer police and then

(34:11):
Dr Maury coming on the beach towards me. I stood
there waiting for him.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
I'm glad I find you home, Drake. Oh, I've just
been answering more job ads. Have you heard from missus
Drake and let her perhaps phone call?

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Why?

Speaker 4 (34:27):
No, I haven't. Well, I'm getting really concerned about Emory.
No one at the lab has seen him or heard
from him for three days. This morning I looked through
his room, his clothes, his suitcases were there. I can't understand.
I I was hoping if you'd heard from missus Drake,

(34:49):
knew where she was, I'd ask her if she had
any idea about where Emory might be.

Speaker 10 (34:53):
Well, I do have her mother's phone number in Ohio
and her sister's in Connecticut.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
You don't mind, do you want to call him here? Thanks?
But I'm on my way to the village hall to
see police Chief Raymond.

Speaker 10 (35:12):
I stood there watching him make his way along the
beach to the village Hall at the Old Field Lighthouse,
wondering just what he'd tell Chief Raymond.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Well, you know what they say, the path of gory
murder leads but to the grave. What do you suppose
will happen to Tom Drake? Will he be like that
comedian who murdered people with stolen jokes and was hanged
by his wits end. I'll be back shortly with a three.

Speaker 11 (35:48):
Hi goldilocks here.

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tastes so good that I've taste tested one hundreds of times,

(36:13):
and each time I've given it my seal of approval.

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Speaker 4 (37:47):
Help us help people just like you. In the lot
of most policemen is not a happy one. Wonder how

(38:07):
Police Chief Raymond will receive Professor Mallory. Will he use
the right bait and make a haul or lose hook
line and singer, Let's follow our troubled professor and find
out what's it all about? Emma said to tell me
it was urgent. Well, I mean, it's not a matter

(38:28):
of life.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Or death, is it?

Speaker 4 (38:29):
And I hope not? Wo Will you sound like you're
not so sure? I'm not, but I am getting worried.
Somebody been stealing typewriters and lab equipment. Again no, no, no, Chief.
I Well this may sound odd, but a member of
the lab faculty is seems to be missing. Oh that's so.

(38:55):
What do you mean missing? No one's seen him since
Friday day afternoon? Wow, this is only Monday. Yes, yes,
he was not in his room Friday night, Saturday night,
Sunday night. He didn't show up in the lab today.
What about his weekends? Did he have them free?

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Well?

Speaker 4 (39:13):
Sometimes when scheduled. He was not scheduled to be off
this weekend. Chape rooms with Garrison says he saw Emory
Friday noon. Garrison was off this past weekend. He got
back Sunday night. I saw Garrison this morning. He wasn't
surprised or upset over the fact that Emory hadn't spent

(39:34):
the night in his room. It wasn't the first time.
Do you know that cottage the Drake's rented, Yes, I do,
Blongza Howards, that was the one. What about it? Last
Friday night, I was out casting along the beach.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
On my way back to the lab.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
Drake invited me to stop for a nightcap on the porch.
He'd already had quite a few. I had one drink
with him, and he asked me. Was I a friend
of Emory's? And he asked me the way he put it,
would I do him a favor? Mm hmm, gone, go on.

(40:17):
What he wanted me to do was for me to
tell Emory to stay away from his wife.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Ah.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
Now did he explain that. Did he mean Emory was
annoying his wife or did he mean they were having
an affair? Well, my first impression was that it was
more or less a dalliance. Well, that's kind of par
for the course in this university town, you know, Yes, perhaps,
But I told him I prefer not to get involved

(40:48):
in personal affairs of faculty members. What do you say?
He said, if Emory didn't stay away, he'd kill him
his exact words. Of course, he was very drunk when
he said it. I told Drake to calm him down,
that I had talked to Ambry. Yes to see. Well, now,
what about missus Drake? Was there anything said to indicate

(41:10):
whether she was inside the cottage while Drake was blowing
his top this way to youton. No, no, there were
no lights on inside. Matter of fact, Drake made it
clear that she was not home, He implied, without mentioning
Hemory my name, that she was out somewhere with him. Well,
in that case she could have some idea about where

(41:30):
he might be. That occurred to me. I went back
there yesterday morning with that in mind, and did she
She wasn't there. Drake told me she left him. He
said she didn't come home at all Friday night. He
said he found a note from her in the kitchen

(41:51):
Saturday morning. Well, it's quite a coincidence to say, at
least did the note say she'd going away with Emory? Well,
Drake didn't show me the note, but as much as said,
there was no mention in the memory. Have you been
to the cottage since yesterday? And I stopped there on
my way here. Drake says he hasn't heard a word
from a no mail, no phone call. But I asked him,

(42:15):
would she perhaps have gone to her parents' home, to
a relative. He gave me these phone numbers, Ohio in Connecticut.
Do you think we ought to call him? No? No,
I'll drop in on Drake. Rather he made the call.

(42:36):
Is he We can't locate missus, Drake, and you don't
hear from memory? That leaves us with two missing persons.
We'll put out on all points teletype, alarmful descriptions and
the photos. I'll keep you posted. Mallory, I'll come to

(42:57):
the point, Drake Mallory. Professor Mallory up at the Marine Lab,
you know, came to see me and he's a bit
worried about the absence of a faculty member, one Richard Emory.
The no use being delicate about this, Drake. From what
he told me, it does look like Emory and your
wife ran off together, doesn't it. Yes, sure looks like it.

(43:19):
Do you mind if I see that note she left you?

Speaker 10 (43:23):
Oh no, not at all. It's on the kitchen condo
where I found it. We went into the kitchen. He
picked up the note, studied it carefully, but to the
back of the paper felt the coffee.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
Staindh, When did you discover this note Saturday morning?

Speaker 3 (43:43):
Well?

Speaker 4 (43:44):
That stained?

Speaker 10 (43:44):
Some coffee spilled from my cup as I was reading it. Oh,
I see, I see you You might if I look around.

Speaker 4 (43:51):
Oh, go right.

Speaker 10 (43:53):
I followed him into the bedroom. He looked through her dresser,
in the closet, the night table.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
Well, her clothes are going all right. I was looking
for a letter she might have received from a friend
or relative, you know, inviting her for a visit for
a few days or a week. I mean, did she
mention such an invitation to you?

Speaker 26 (44:12):
No?

Speaker 4 (44:12):
Well, if she did get such a letter, she could
have taken it with her. I mean, have you called
her parents or her sister?

Speaker 10 (44:20):
Well, frankly no, I was hoping I wouldn't have to
do that when she come back, or write her phone.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
Well, if they don't turn up in a week or two,
we might perhaps go on the assumption that they're dead,
you see, and start a search for their bodies. You
don't think, well, look, if I was drunk when I
don't know, No, I don't think you killed them, of

(44:48):
course not. What would you do with the bodies? Bury
them out there? Let's not get morbid about this. You
don't think I'm going to call out the tractors to
scrape down the gravel.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
Oh, by the way, how long are you planning to
stay on here? A couple of weeks before? Well, I'll
keep in touch. I'll call you if anything develops. Phone
me if you get a letter or a call from
your wife. I followed him out. He looked at the rowboat,

(45:21):
studied the sky, you know, I'd pull my little boot
up higher beyond that low ground back of the house.
I wouldn't be surprised if we get some of the
hurricane gilded before night's over.

Speaker 13 (45:31):
Better keep the radio set on, the coast Guard reports.

Speaker 10 (45:34):
I watched him down the footpath across the low ground
behind the cottage, and then uphill to where his car
was parked on the top of the bluff. It was
not until he was out of sight that I stopped
sweating anywhere. It stayed calm, windless, an oppressive silence hanging

(45:55):
over the water.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
In the land. The sky was sunless, gray, not a
cloud in sight. I'd heard of the calm before the storm,
but I had never seen it. I filled the kerosene
lanterns that candles.

Speaker 19 (46:09):
Ready gale warning cave made to block island. I tied
through to four feet above normal. Was flooding along.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
Lowlands by late afternoon, brought up and down the sound.

Speaker 10 (46:22):
White caps galloped should from as far as the eye
could see. Treetops swayed and twisted in the whistling wind.
The waves crashed higher on the shore and started to
rain hard, and windswept sheets of water lashed the roof
shingled side of.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
The lights went off. I lit the lanterns and candles.

Speaker 19 (46:47):
Winds fifteen to sixteen Knox residents alerted to evacuate the
low lying shore areas.

Speaker 10 (46:53):
The door banged open and the wind picked up the
rowboat scented rolling side over side of the little ground
behind the house. I stood with the lantern on the
gravel burn, watching the waves inching crosser lapping the foot
of the gravel mound, loosening gravel in the backwash.

Speaker 4 (47:13):
And then I heard the phone ring.

Speaker 10 (47:16):
I went to it, picked it up, still watching through
the open door the waves breaking over the gravel.

Speaker 4 (47:23):
Hello, Hello, I'll break this police jee Raymond? What the
hell are you're still doing out there? Didn't you hear
the evacuation alert? Or the.

Speaker 10 (47:31):
Phone fell out of my hand? I saw waves crashing
over the grave and ran out, draculous to be carefully.

Speaker 13 (47:37):
There's been a breach in the shore about a quarter
mile down the beach.

Speaker 20 (47:40):
Get the hell out of there. You'll be cut off,
you hear me be there? Hello? Hello, Well bet you
get going with the water.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
I know.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
I had to keep shoveling on the gravel and sand
as fast as the waves washed it off.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
He put.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
For every shovelful I throw in the grave, the waves
washed off to a last track of time. I know
I had to keep at it to keep the grave covered.
Heading coast to the house gallery. Now, kay, ray, all right,

(48:34):
let's go ashore. Notes it into the bank. You better
bring your player. What what the hell is he doing?

Speaker 3 (48:50):
You can't come back?

Speaker 4 (48:52):
Never mercan savery? Better get him over there? Riverhead present
hospital title.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
Be going out in a little while.

Speaker 20 (49:03):
Let's put this ropeer on the aidles and secure to
the porch.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
Holor you stay here, you'll work the police. I'm the carrier.

Speaker 20 (49:12):
Get here, chief, I'm at the morgue at Riverhead.

Speaker 6 (49:24):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
Doctor Henderson of the police slab gave me an envelope
to get to you. He said you wanted an analysis.

Speaker 20 (49:31):
Report and hurry.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (49:32):
What's you say?

Speaker 3 (49:32):
Read it to me.

Speaker 20 (49:34):
It says the coffee steam is less than a week old,
the ink.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
Is at least a year old.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
But thanks Mallory.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
By the way, do me a favor. Will you leave
a note to Highway Superintendent Murphy in a state office building.
Tell him I said I won't be needing those tractors. Well,
imagine what do you think of that police chief? Isn't

(50:13):
he the fishy character? Anyhow, we didn't have to scrape bottom.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
I'll be back shortly.

Speaker 7 (50:23):
Hello, this is Goldilocks.

Speaker 22 (50:25):
It seems like only yesterday that I was a little
girl tasting porridge. You know, this one's too hot, this
one's too cold. And now I conduct taste tests on
diet drinks. And there's one I must tell you about.
Sugar free diet seven up. It has a fresh, natural,
delicious taste. It drives my taste to meter crazy. Sugar

(50:48):
free diet seven up hot.

Speaker 23 (50:50):
This one's just right.

Speaker 4 (50:54):
Answer on. I'm building a kite out of tissue paper
and it's beginning to rain.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
What do I need or plastic kites?

Speaker 17 (51:02):
Answeram?

Speaker 23 (51:03):
How many children are born with birth defects two.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Undred fifty down in a year in the United States?

Speaker 17 (51:08):
What's being done?

Speaker 18 (51:09):
The March of Dimes supports research, medical service and public
education programs.

Speaker 11 (51:14):
How can I help? Answeram?

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Like me?

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The March of Dimes needs money for answers.

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Give to the March of Dimes.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
Still in a dilemma, we hope you never have to
face it. We can offer some advice, though, when you
are uptight about any matter. Nothing like settling down at
your radio and letting the cares of the days slip
away as your mind and ears carry you off on

(51:55):
a relaxing journey of mystery adventure. Our casting included Ralph Bell,
Patricia Wheel, Robert Dryden and William Redfield. The entire production
was under the direction of Hymond Brown.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
Well.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
I think we're starting the evening off quite well. Watch
that well. It's hard to explain exactly how I ended
up so focused on the nocturnal, but perhaps another time
I can go into that more in depth. It's always

(52:39):
been a part of me. I think it's always been
a part of everyone. My dear to be a little
bit light and a little bit dark. I suppose in
a way, I've always felt like I was kind of
a well.

Speaker 21 (52:57):
A Nightmam starring Miss Marcia Hunt, a tale well calculated
to keep you in suspense.

Speaker 27 (53:18):
But Miss Rhodes, it's impossible. This is a maximum security prison.
We haven't had an escape in years. No, you have one, now,
Warden Tom Nixon, how can you be sure?

Speaker 11 (53:27):
I saw him in New York City two days ago.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
Did you know him well well enough?

Speaker 11 (53:32):
He was my mother's star boarder for years.

Speaker 17 (53:35):
Why I sat.

Speaker 12 (53:36):
Opposite him at the dinner table from the time I
was a girl of fifteen until he murdered her.

Speaker 11 (53:41):
And now somehow he's escaped from here.

Speaker 17 (53:44):
And he's after me this roads.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
It's impossible, I say.

Speaker 11 (53:47):
Wooden Graves.

Speaker 12 (53:48):
Ten years ago, when mother was found murdered, I knew
it couldn't have been anyone but Tom. I testified against him.
I was the chief, were practically the only witness.

Speaker 17 (53:57):
At the trial.

Speaker 11 (53:58):
And when they sentenced him here for life, he swore.

Speaker 17 (54:01):
To kill me.

Speaker 12 (54:02):
He swore in the open court to get even with me.
For ten years, I've lived in deadly fear of him,
and now he's free.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
And where exactly did you see the prison on this road?

Speaker 11 (54:13):
That's just the point. That's why I know he's after me.
I saw him in the building.

Speaker 17 (54:18):
Where I live.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Well, I don't he has a job there.

Speaker 12 (54:21):
Running the elevator at night. I live all alone in
a small three room penthouse on the eighteenth floor of
an office building. The other night, about a week ago,
I came home alone from the movies after midnight.

Speaker 11 (54:34):
I was already in the elevator before I noticed that
there was a new nightmare it was Tom.

Speaker 12 (54:40):
His hair had turned white, and there was a stoop
to his shoulders, but everything about him, the crook of
his head, his high, thin nose, hollowed cheek bones that
were all the same. And then he turned and stared
at me. I could see those deadly, pale, cold eyes,
those heavy eyebrows, and that familiar, quiet, sarcastic mind.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
What flaw miss?

Speaker 11 (55:03):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Uh?

Speaker 17 (55:04):
My floor? Yes, the penthouse, please, the penthouse.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Where is that on the roof?

Speaker 17 (55:10):
Yes, on the roof, please, eighteenth floor.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
Okay.

Speaker 12 (55:15):
It was like being in a cage with a wild beast.
He kept watching me, tearing at me furtively. As the
elevator moved upward with agonizing slowness, I shrank back to
hide my face. The light in the car was dim.
My only hope was that he didn't recognize me.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
Is your floor, miss?

Speaker 11 (55:35):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (55:36):
Good night?

Speaker 17 (55:36):
Good night, good night.

Speaker 11 (55:42):
You can go back down.

Speaker 17 (55:44):
I don't need anything, thank you.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Forget your dark key?

Speaker 12 (55:48):
No, no, no, it's just it's right here in my bag.

Speaker 17 (55:52):
I find it.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Oh no, no, I got past keys to all the doors.
It's no trouble, no.

Speaker 17 (55:59):
Thank you, but I no, oh here, I have it
right here.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Good night, and that was the first time you saw him.

Speaker 17 (56:08):
Yes, wouldn't and that.

Speaker 3 (56:10):
Was all he did?

Speaker 12 (56:12):
Her said, well, yes, but it wasn't so much what
he said is the awful feeling that he was only
playing with me, the torturing me until he was ready
to kill me, wouldn't, Grace. I don't even have a phone.
I've always been afraid to be listed in the phone book.
The only way up to that tenth house was by.

Speaker 11 (56:29):
That one elevator. I was tracked up there at his mercy.

Speaker 23 (56:33):
What did you do?

Speaker 12 (56:35):
I spent the night crouched against the wall with a
flat iron in my hand, just waiting for that key
to click in my lock.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
But it didn't.

Speaker 17 (56:43):
No, it didn't.

Speaker 12 (56:46):
The next day I began to wonder if I wasn't
imagining the whole thing. Then that night, just as I
was going to bed, who is it?

Speaker 20 (57:02):
Who's there?

Speaker 23 (57:07):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Excuse me, miss Rhodes, There wasn't any answer.

Speaker 4 (57:10):
To my ring.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
What do you want?

Speaker 11 (57:12):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 3 (57:14):
Just your laundry?

Speaker 13 (57:16):
It told me to put it inside in case you
weren't home.

Speaker 11 (57:20):
You might have given me time to answer the door.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
I'm sorry, miss Rose, I'm very sorry.

Speaker 11 (57:25):
Don't let it happen again. Good night.

Speaker 27 (57:28):
I'm just thinking you got no way to get up here,
or to get down accepting my elevator.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
No, even the service elevator doesn't get up this far,
does it.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
No?

Speaker 2 (57:43):
You're really alone up here, aren't you?

Speaker 11 (57:46):
Yes, Tom, Tom, have you come any closer?

Speaker 23 (57:51):
I'll kill you?

Speaker 7 (57:52):
Do you hear it?

Speaker 12 (57:53):
I'll kill you.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
I understand what you're talking about me.

Speaker 26 (58:01):
Yes, my pus, I'd.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
Better answer it.

Speaker 11 (58:19):
I haven't seen him since won.

Speaker 12 (58:28):
I barricaded myself in again that night, and next morning
I got down to the public phone and put through
the call to you.

Speaker 11 (58:36):
But it wasn't any use.

Speaker 3 (58:37):
That was the day I was out of town.

Speaker 12 (58:39):
Yes, but I still don't see why they couldn't have
told me. After all, I was giving them information.

Speaker 27 (58:45):
It's one of our strictest regulations that us were part
of my state penitentiary en.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
They were to discuss any of our prisoners.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
Over the telephone.

Speaker 11 (58:52):
That's what they said.

Speaker 27 (58:53):
So you came all the way out here in person? Yes,
Now you wish me to send someone to apprehend this man.

Speaker 12 (59:02):
I want you to bring him back. That's all back,
re belong, Miss Rhodes.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
I can't bring Tom Nixon back, he's here.

Speaker 17 (59:11):
Oh no, Warden Graves.

Speaker 12 (59:13):
Please, I've seen him with my own eyes. I talked
to him face to face. Maybe there's someone here calling
himself Tom Nixon. But he's escaped, he's free, I know it.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
Will you just step this way with me, Miss Rhodes.

Speaker 12 (59:27):
No, no, I don't want to.

Speaker 23 (59:28):
I don't want to see a cellar, talk to anybody
or anything else.

Speaker 27 (59:31):
Tom Nixon's dead, Miss Rhodes. He's buried in the prison cemetery.
I'd like you to see his grave.

Speaker 11 (59:46):
Now.

Speaker 27 (59:46):
This is a photograph taken of him just a week
before he died. See, he wasted away quite a bit.
He was in the infirmary all last year. Came very
religious too, toward the end, a deal of his time praying, praying,
Yes all The fight seemed to go out of him
as soon as he knew he was seriously ill.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
But you'd say this was his picture, wouldn't you, Miss.

Speaker 17 (01:00:11):
Rhodes, Yes, he said, Tom, all right, And these.

Speaker 28 (01:00:16):
Little personal belongings.

Speaker 27 (01:00:19):
Ordinarily we turned these over to the family, but Tom's case,
will we couldn't trace any family.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
You'd recognize these as his?

Speaker 12 (01:00:30):
Yes, I don't know them all, but with that gold watch.
He used to wear it every Sunday at Mothers.

Speaker 27 (01:00:36):
He wrote a couple of notes before he died to
a fellow prisoner and to the prison chaplain.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
You recognize this handwriting.

Speaker 11 (01:00:46):
Yes, it seems to be Tom's.

Speaker 27 (01:00:50):
Well, Miss Rhodes, feel a little better about your elevator operator.

Speaker 17 (01:00:56):
Now you must think me a fool, an awful.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
Fool, not at all.

Speaker 12 (01:01:02):
But the lightness was so extraordinary. He was almost like
seeing a ghost.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
A ghost.

Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
Oh, come, come, miss Roads.

Speaker 27 (01:01:14):
Now that you've gotten all this off your chest, isn't
it perfectly obvious that poor night man's done nothing or
said nothing to you at all out of the ordinary.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
It's only the well. You seem to be the victim
of some kind of guilt complex.

Speaker 11 (01:01:30):
Guilt complex, why not guilty of anything?

Speaker 27 (01:01:33):
What I mean is Tom has been on your mind
now for ten years. You testified against him, he threatened you.
Gradually you came to see him everywhere.

Speaker 11 (01:01:44):
No, no, only this one's only these last few nights.

Speaker 27 (01:01:49):
All right, But now you know the truth that should
clear your fears forever. Tom's dead and buried. Go back
and take a look at this nightmn again. Now that
you know Tom's dead, I'll lay out of the whole resemblance.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Will vanish I hope.

Speaker 27 (01:02:05):
So my advice to you, Miss Rhodes, would be to
go straight home, use that elevator as much as possible,
get acquainted with his knife man for your own sake,
try to get the better of these hallucinations.

Speaker 13 (01:02:20):
Well that's all they are, just hallucinations.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Oh, good evening, miss.

Speaker 11 (01:02:55):
Could you help me with these bags please?

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
Okay?

Speaker 20 (01:03:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
Oh miss?

Speaker 11 (01:03:04):
Yes, thank you?

Speaker 17 (01:03:05):
Oh this is for you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
No, thank you, Miss.

Speaker 12 (01:03:09):
I never take tips, it's all right, but i'd like
you to have it. I'm sure the superintendent wouldn't mind.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Contenda hasn't got anything to do with it.

Speaker 11 (01:03:18):
Oh well, aren't we going to start?

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
Yeah all right? Been out of town, Well, yes, yes
I have. I haven't seen you for a couple of nights.

Speaker 12 (01:03:38):
I was in the country visiting a friend. Oh it's
beautiful weather.

Speaker 17 (01:03:48):
Out in the country this time of year.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
I wouldn't know.

Speaker 11 (01:03:58):
Well, this is my floor already.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
No, no, it's not.

Speaker 17 (01:04:02):
Then why we're stopping elevators?

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
Stuck?

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Powers, cut off.

Speaker 17 (01:04:07):
Cut off?

Speaker 12 (01:04:10):
But how could that happen? Which never happened before as
long as I've lived here.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Well, sooner or later. I guess it had to happen.

Speaker 12 (01:04:18):
Isn't there some way we can get it back on
with some buzzer for the cellar or something?

Speaker 27 (01:04:23):
If the power is off, the buzzer isn't working, so
one of the lights is still on.

Speaker 17 (01:04:28):
The lights.

Speaker 27 (01:04:29):
Yeah, they'll probably go out in a minute, though, and
then it'll be black in here, black.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
As the gray.

Speaker 11 (01:04:38):
But let's get out of here.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
Open the door, can't won't budge.

Speaker 11 (01:04:43):
But you haven't even tried.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
I don't have to try.

Speaker 27 (01:04:46):
We're stuck between floors, the doors flush with solid wall,
solid wool.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Yeah, kind of like being bricked up in a cell.

Speaker 17 (01:04:56):
But there must be some way out of here.

Speaker 12 (01:05:00):
Is there a little door in the roof, something you
can pry open, something you can climb up out of.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Into the chaf I don't see any.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
But what are we going to do?

Speaker 4 (01:05:09):
What are we going to do?

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Wait?

Speaker 27 (01:05:11):
Wait, wait until somebody comes along downstairs and finds the
elevator stuck and then rings up the superintendent.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
But that might be ours might be.

Speaker 17 (01:05:26):
No sting your breath.

Speaker 27 (01:05:34):
Everybody's left the building, I know, because they've all signed out.
Nobody's down in the basement, and there won't be any
passengers ringing for an elevator this time of night.

Speaker 17 (01:05:46):
You you most be sure about that, all that jumpy,
ain't you?

Speaker 12 (01:05:51):
No? No, I suppose there's nothing to be afraid of.
Sooner or later they'll come.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Oh, sure, sooner.

Speaker 11 (01:06:01):
It's just that we're being stuck up here between.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
You're not jumpy on accon of me.

Speaker 29 (01:06:07):
You No, no, because not.

Speaker 27 (01:06:11):
But you were kind of jumpy with me the other night.
Weren't you the other night when I brought the laundry
into your apartment unexpectedly?

Speaker 17 (01:06:23):
Oh that that was a mistake.

Speaker 12 (01:06:26):
Yes, I just thought you was someone else, a friend
of mine, someone i'd always been afraid of. But now
I've learned it couldn't be you, because this friend's dead,
dead and buried dead?

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
And what was his name? Maybe I know him? The
lights rout, I know they go sooner or later.

Speaker 12 (01:06:49):
No, no, they can't.

Speaker 11 (01:06:52):
I can't stay here alone in the dark with you.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
Oh you are jumpy with me?

Speaker 12 (01:06:56):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
No, I thought you said this guy was dead and.

Speaker 23 (01:07:00):
He is hed.

Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
I like that.

Speaker 11 (01:07:05):
I'm not screaming. Only it's so dark in here, it's
so close and creepy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
What did you do to this friend that makes you
so jumpy do to.

Speaker 17 (01:07:16):
Him Nothing, I didn't do a thing. No, it was he.

Speaker 12 (01:07:20):
He threatened me.

Speaker 11 (01:07:21):
He was a murderer. He killed my mother in cold
blood ten years ago.

Speaker 17 (01:07:27):
He was our border for ten years.

Speaker 12 (01:07:30):
And then one afternoon I came home and there was
mother lying on the floor with a truth.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
No where are you gone?

Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:07:42):
No, I can't stand it.

Speaker 11 (01:07:45):
I can't, Tom.

Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
It is you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
I thought you said your friend was dead and buried.

Speaker 23 (01:07:54):
Stop torturing me.

Speaker 4 (01:07:56):
Tell me the truth.

Speaker 12 (01:07:57):
You escaped, didn't you. You didn't die, and it was
someone else, someone else as grave judge, as I thought
you escaped to Tom me here, answer me, Tom, where
are you?

Speaker 17 (01:08:08):
I can't see you?

Speaker 12 (01:08:12):
No, Tom, No, Tom, I didn't mean it.

Speaker 11 (01:08:16):
I didn't.

Speaker 23 (01:08:17):
I didn't mean to send you there.

Speaker 12 (01:08:20):
It was only because I loved your job, and I
hated mother and hated.

Speaker 23 (01:08:24):
You, but loving her.

Speaker 11 (01:08:26):
It's only to get revenge on your pull that I
killed her and framed you. Thought it was so cruel
to meet Tom.

Speaker 12 (01:08:35):
She dream me like a slave, and all the time
thoughting you in my face.

Speaker 11 (01:08:41):
If you've spoken one kind word to meet.

Speaker 12 (01:08:43):
Tom at the trial, just one word to let me
know you love me, You're going to kill me, aren't you?

Speaker 22 (01:08:54):
Tom?

Speaker 3 (01:08:57):
No?

Speaker 12 (01:08:58):
No, Tom, I don't want to die.

Speaker 23 (01:09:00):
I don't want to die.

Speaker 11 (01:09:06):
Why are we going down?

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
There's a passenger ringing in the lobby.

Speaker 11 (01:09:12):
Then you're not Tom.

Speaker 20 (01:09:15):
No, Miss.

Speaker 23 (01:09:18):
You're not going to kill me, not me.

Speaker 30 (01:09:22):
It was all just a crazy hallucination, just because the
power went off, and and look so much like Tom Mixon. Oh, oh,
forgive me, Please forgive me for.

Speaker 17 (01:09:36):
Himself up saved has nothing to forgive. And you'll forget
all about these silly things I said, won't you.

Speaker 11 (01:09:42):
I didn't mean them. It was just because I was
beside myself.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
What silly things?

Speaker 17 (01:09:48):
Silly he thinks about about my mother?

Speaker 12 (01:09:51):
And Tom?

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
Here?

Speaker 11 (01:09:53):
Yeah, this is for you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
No, No, I insist this time.

Speaker 12 (01:09:55):
I am.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
I'm sorry, but I'm afraid.

Speaker 27 (01:09:57):
I never accept tips, but I want, particularly from a
dame who framed my twin brother.

Speaker 13 (01:10:07):
Evening, good evening, Lieutenant Nixon.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
She confessed, I thought she would.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
Lieutenant No no.

Speaker 21 (01:10:36):
Suspence, in which Miss Marshall Hunts starred in William and
Robeson's production of Nightmare, written by Lucille Fletcher. Supporting Miss
Marsha Hunting, Tonight's story were Laurence Stobkin and Charles Seal.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
When it comes to the past, are you good at
letting it be just that the past inherently behind you?
As it were? Sometimes I find that I struggle. Sometimes
I wonder if I'm actually a part of the past,

(01:11:16):
not the way that we all are, but in a
more active way. I yearn for the days when I
felt I was purposeful and jubilant, when I felt like
I mattered to the grand scheme of things far better,
far more. But as I've learned, the truth really is

(01:11:41):
the good.

Speaker 3 (01:11:42):
Die Young, a mysterious traveler.

Speaker 26 (01:12:09):
This is the mysterious traveler inviting you to join him
on another journey into the realm of the strange and terrifying.
I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will
trill you a little and chill you a little. So
settle back, get a good grip on your nerves. I

(01:12:31):
hope it's not making you nervous. Being alone with me
here in the dark. Darkness stirs strange tellors in some minds,
particularly those of children. But children live in a world
of their own, a world.

Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
Far removed from that of adults.

Speaker 26 (01:12:51):
Among us knows the psychology of the child mind with
its devious.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
Thoughts and actions.

Speaker 26 (01:12:58):
As in the Tale of.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
The Good Dye.

Speaker 26 (01:13:03):
Young years ago, when I was practicing medicine, I brought
a child into the world, a girl who was named Sandra.
In the years that followed, she grew into an extremely
beautiful and the clever child. My story begins the day

(01:13:27):
that Martha, the housekeeper, was finishing her duties for the
last time.

Speaker 11 (01:13:34):
Sundra, come in here. I want to see you, Sundra.

Speaker 23 (01:13:38):
Were you calling me, Martha?

Speaker 11 (01:13:40):
Yes, I told you to come right home after school.
Where have you been?

Speaker 23 (01:13:45):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (01:13:45):
I'm sorry, Martha.

Speaker 23 (01:13:47):
I didn't hear you tell me to come home night
after school.

Speaker 11 (01:13:50):
I'm sorry, truly, I am save. You're acting for your father,
young lady. It hasn't fooled me for a long time, Saunder,
since your mother died, to becoming more and more of
a pro every day. Well, at least after the night,
I won't have to put up with your lives and
your thousand and one little tricks. What do you mean, Martha,
your father won't be meeting a housekeeper any more. I'm

(01:14:10):
leaving tonight. But why well, I'm not supposed to tell you.
You may as well know now as later. Your father
is bringing home a new mother for you tonight, a
new mother. Yes, he's just married again.

Speaker 23 (01:14:24):
But I don't want a new mother. Daddy and I
don't need anyone else. We're happy the.

Speaker 17 (01:14:27):
Way we are. Andra, stop screaming.

Speaker 23 (01:14:29):
I won't have it, do you hear?

Speaker 17 (01:14:31):
I won't have it.

Speaker 11 (01:14:32):
Your new mother's a very fine woman. I met her
last time.

Speaker 23 (01:14:35):
I hate her.

Speaker 17 (01:14:36):
I hate her.

Speaker 23 (01:14:37):
Daddy's mine and no one else that she hasn't any
right to it.

Speaker 11 (01:14:39):
If you don't stop that screaming, I'll tell your father
when he comes home to night.

Speaker 12 (01:14:43):
Oh no, no, no, don't do that.

Speaker 23 (01:14:44):
I'll be good, but I hate her and I always will.
Never stap.

Speaker 11 (01:14:50):
That's a fine way to talk. Perhaps ought to warn
the poor woman about Sandra. And it's not of my business. Besides,
she'll find out about it soon enough. And it's ridiculous

(01:15:14):
you're carrying me across the thresholder nodding.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
It's tradition in my family to carry the bride over
the threshold.

Speaker 11 (01:15:19):
There you are, Oh, Stephen, what a lovely.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
You haven't seen the best part of it yet, Sandra.

Speaker 11 (01:15:28):
Do you think she'll like me? Stephen?

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
I do so want or too, of course you will.

Speaker 11 (01:15:32):
Perhaps you should have told her about us instead of
breaking it to her so.

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
Unexpectedly, like, Oh, nonsense, Helen. I know my daughter. She's
a wonderful child, and she'll fall madly in love with
you at the first sight. This as her father did. Sandra,
Where are you, daddy, Yeddy Merily.

Speaker 23 (01:15:48):
I'm so glad?

Speaker 3 (01:15:49):
Are you dudding dead? I have a surprise for you,
A surprise, Sandra. This is Helen, Helen. I want you
to meet my daughter, Sandra. Hello, Sandra, Hello darling. Yeah, surprise.
I just mentioned is Helen. We were married this afternoon.

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That means that Helen is now your mother.

Speaker 23 (01:16:12):
Oh, daddy, that's wonderful. No, I'll have a mother just
like all the other girls do.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Oh.

Speaker 11 (01:16:17):
I'm so glad, so am I Sandra, And I'm sure
we're all going to be very happy to get that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
Of course we are.

Speaker 26 (01:16:33):
That night, after the family had said goodbye to Martha
and seen her off, Sandra was sent to bed. She
lay quietly in the darkness, thinking occasionally she would speak
softly to her door Barbara.

Speaker 31 (01:16:49):
She hasn't any right being here, Barbara. Daddy and I
were perfectly happy until she came along tonight. He didn't
even notice me, just kept looking at her. Well, she
shan't have him.

Speaker 23 (01:17:02):
He's always been mine and he always will be.

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
Fish.

Speaker 11 (01:17:21):
That's enough of that.

Speaker 23 (01:17:23):
Now, let me see.

Speaker 11 (01:17:36):
This is the second time this afternoon I've lost your
not to found the keys that way. That's no way
to play unsigned, mother. It's not only the piano, dear.
There are many other little things, and you pay no
attention when I speak to you about them.

Speaker 23 (01:17:49):
I don't mean to do them, mother, I just forget.

Speaker 11 (01:17:52):
Well, please try to remember, dear. Now, I want you
to play the piano which you did last night for Daddy.

Speaker 4 (01:17:58):
He was very please.

Speaker 31 (01:17:59):
Yes, yes, mother, I thought I asked you to stop
pawning the piano like that. But mother, I was just
composing a new piece for Daddy.

Speaker 11 (01:18:19):
That wasn't music, Sondra, but just noise. That'll be enough
for to day.

Speaker 17 (01:18:36):
Hello, beet phone, how are you darling?

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
Well, I wasn't sender the door to meet me. She's
all right, didn't she?

Speaker 11 (01:18:44):
Of course? Dear?

Speaker 7 (01:18:46):
Uh Stephen.

Speaker 11 (01:18:49):
I was a bit angry with Sondra this afternoon, angry
with Hi, what do you do? Well? Several times this
afternoon I had to speak to her about pawning the
piano being loud and.

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
Discordant, and that isn't like Sandra. You know how well
she plays.

Speaker 11 (01:19:06):
Yes, of course that wasn't the way she played today.

Speaker 3 (01:19:10):
Oh, I'll go up and see her all right.

Speaker 11 (01:19:13):
Supper was through. What's oh daddy, Daddy, what's wrong?

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
You'll never cry.

Speaker 23 (01:19:39):
I was only trying to compose a new piece for
your birthday next month.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
A new piece for my birthday.

Speaker 23 (01:19:45):
Yes, I wanted to surprise you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
You mustn't pay. I'm sure, mother, I understand. You didn't
mean to be bad. Now here, let me wipe your tears.

Speaker 23 (01:19:58):
Oh daddy, I love you. So I just wanted to
compose something wonderful for you.

Speaker 3 (01:20:04):
I understand, Darlie.

Speaker 23 (01:20:06):
Oh Eddy, you always understand.

Speaker 17 (01:20:20):
It's up a right down m for Sondra.

Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
She'll be down in a minute. Helen, Yes, Stephen, she
really didn't mean to pound on the piano and get
on your nerves. It's just she was trying to compose
a new piece for me.

Speaker 11 (01:20:34):
But Stephen, it wasn't music. It was just noise.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
Well, it mustn't be harsh. Whether you know what children
are like in their enthusiasm, They forget what they're told.

Speaker 11 (01:20:44):
But Stephen, I don't know exactly what to say.

Speaker 3 (01:20:49):
It's just a question of being patient with her winning
her love, all.

Speaker 11 (01:20:53):
Right, Stephen. Perhaps I was a bit impatient with her.
You know, I want nothing more than for the three
of us to be happy together.

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
I know that Darling and the three of us will
be happy together.

Speaker 26 (01:21:11):
In the weeks that followed, Helen tried to overlook Sandra's
slamming of doors and constant droppings of objects and other
nerve racking incidents. In time, she felt Sandra would come
to accept her love and guidance.

Speaker 3 (01:21:27):
It was just a matter of patience.

Speaker 23 (01:21:31):
Sondra, is that you yet, mother?

Speaker 11 (01:21:34):
Please sit down there. I want to talk to you,
all right, but do her.

Speaker 23 (01:21:37):
Daddy'll be home soon, Sandra.

Speaker 11 (01:21:40):
Every day I've been giving you milk money for school.
Why haven't you been buying milk with that money? But
I have been, mother, not Please, Sandra, I won't punish you.
I just want to know what you've been doing with
that money.

Speaker 23 (01:21:51):
I've been buying milk with.

Speaker 11 (01:21:53):
It, please missus. Gordon, your teacher told me you haven't
bought and looked for almost a month now, but I have.
She just Gondre, I won't have you lying to me.
Now that's your father. We'll see what he has to
say about this.

Speaker 23 (01:22:08):
You don't understand.

Speaker 7 (01:22:10):
You just don't understand, Stephen.

Speaker 3 (01:22:16):
What are you about?

Speaker 11 (01:22:18):
I'm sorry, Stephen, but I think you better speak to her.

Speaker 23 (01:22:23):
You just do it, juststand.

Speaker 11 (01:22:26):
Missus Gordon. Her teacher told me to day that for
the past month Sonder hasn't been buying milk? What enough money?

Speaker 3 (01:22:31):
Is that true?

Speaker 11 (01:22:33):
And what's worse? Stephen? When I asked Sandra about it,
she lies and said that she had been buying milk.

Speaker 3 (01:22:40):
Isn't like you to lie about things.

Speaker 23 (01:22:42):
I didn't mean to lie about it. I just wanted
to give it a surprise your birthday present. I saved
my milk money so that I can buy you a pike.

Speaker 11 (01:22:59):
It's hearing this for you, Sondra. Did you know I'd
have given you money to buy a birthday present for Daddy.

Speaker 23 (01:23:05):
It isn't the same thing. I wanted to buy my
present with my own money.

Speaker 11 (01:23:11):
I'm sorry so well. You might have told me about
it when I asked you, and.

Speaker 23 (01:23:15):
Then it wouldn't have been a real surprise. I didn't
want a surprise.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
Daddy, so would you have that this is a beautiful pipe.

Speaker 23 (01:23:23):
No surprise is spoiled. Your brisday isn't till tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:23:29):
It means I'll be able to smoke this pipe tonight.
Stop trying. You go upstairs and wash your face and
hair man.

Speaker 23 (01:23:37):
All right, daddy.

Speaker 11 (01:23:40):
I'm sorry, Stephen, but I had no idea what she'd
done with the money, and she did lie when I
asked her about it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
If you don't have a little more faith in heaven,
I know it's difficult to understand her times, but that's
because as a child she looks at things differently.

Speaker 11 (01:23:56):
I'm sorry, Stephen if you think I'll fail.

Speaker 3 (01:23:59):
With her what happened to Helen. I'm sure that in
times she'll come to love you as much as she
loves me.

Speaker 11 (01:24:05):
I don't know, Stephen. I often wonder about that.

Speaker 26 (01:24:14):
Because the weeks went by, Helen found herself coming no
closer to winning Sandra's confidence. It wasn't that Sandra was unfriendly,
but there was an air of reserve about her which
vanished only in her father's presence. Helen felt Stephen watching
her anxiously when Sandra was about and start to reassure him.

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Her one thought was to preserve their happiness. Hello Helen, Hello, dear,
what happened to that phase?

Speaker 11 (01:24:46):
Dear Sandra broke it?

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
No accidents will happen, Stephen.

Speaker 11 (01:24:51):
This is the fourth piece he's broken in two weeks,
and each of them were pieces of treasured and had
for years.

Speaker 3 (01:24:57):
Hens though Sandra deliberately broken those vases because they were yours.

Speaker 11 (01:25:00):
Well, why is it the morning my things are broken?

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
Surely you don't believe she's deliberately breaking your things?

Speaker 11 (01:25:05):
I don't want to believe. The first few times I
thought it was an accident. But no, oh, Priest, that's not.
Perhaps I'm wrong, I admit I have any proof. It's
it's just all the little things adding up.

Speaker 3 (01:25:18):
Allen, what are you talking about?

Speaker 11 (01:25:20):
Oh, you wouldn't understand even if I told you.

Speaker 3 (01:25:25):
Sandra in a room.

Speaker 11 (01:25:26):
I suppose.

Speaker 3 (01:25:27):
Well I'll go up and see what she's doing. Now,
all right, Sandra, it's daddy. You in your room. M
it's funny, shouldn't hear? Well? What's this? Don't interested me?

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Dear Daddy. I'm sorry about the broken vein. Tried my
best to be a good girl, but everything I do
seems wrong and make mother very unhappy. So I'm running away.
I love you very much and always worth your daughter, Sandra.

Speaker 26 (01:26:16):
After searching vainly for an hour in the dark and cold,
Stephen returned and notified the police. All through the long
hours of the night, I and Helen said up, not
saying a word, each afraid to speak a fear of
what might be said. As the first rays of dawn showed,
the doorbell rang, Stephen rushed to answer it.

Speaker 11 (01:26:42):
Mister Hamilton from the fifty fifth Street station. Mister Hamilton,
one of the officers on the force.

Speaker 3 (01:26:51):
Just founder, thank you, thank you very much for bringing
her home.

Speaker 11 (01:26:54):
Oh that's all right, mister Hamilton. This is a job.

Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
Goodbye, goodbye. Head there, dear, don't cry, Oh.

Speaker 23 (01:27:02):
Daddy, it was so dark out there, and I thought
I'd never see you again.

Speaker 3 (01:27:07):
What the thing to say?

Speaker 11 (01:27:08):
How do you feel so good? You want me to
take ste I'll do it, Hen, right, Stephen, just as
you say.

Speaker 3 (01:27:30):
Is she all right?

Speaker 7 (01:27:30):
Stephen?

Speaker 3 (01:27:32):
You just tet asleep. I hope her being out all
night won't have any after Stephen.

Speaker 11 (01:27:39):
You'll feel I'm to blame for her running away, don't you.

Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
Of course not, Helen. It's just that well, you don't
seem to understand there, Stephen.

Speaker 11 (01:27:48):
I've tried so hard. Oh, it's no use. She doesn't
walk me here, never has, Helen.

Speaker 3 (01:27:54):
How can you talk like that? Why she was delighted
the day I brought you here as my wife.

Speaker 11 (01:27:57):
Yes, I thought she was in the beginning, but now
I know she was just pretending, pretending. Yes, Stephen, from
the first moment she saw me, she resented me. She
feels I've come between you, taking her place and your affection.

Speaker 3 (01:28:09):
Helen, happy you say such a thing?

Speaker 11 (01:28:10):
True? I tell you she sees me as a.

Speaker 3 (01:28:12):
Rival for your love. You're just imagining all I know.
I tell you.

Speaker 11 (01:28:17):
It's no use.

Speaker 3 (01:28:18):
We can't go on this way. What do you mean?

Speaker 11 (01:28:20):
Don't you see we aren't happy anymore.

Speaker 12 (01:28:24):
Instead of things improving to get worse, Perhaps it would
be best if we were to separate.

Speaker 3 (01:28:30):
Helen, Helen, I won't hear of it. I love you, darling.
I wouldn't want to live without you. Whatever misunderstandings we
may have about Sandra, I'm sure it can straighten them out.

Speaker 11 (01:28:41):
I don't know, Stephen.

Speaker 3 (01:28:42):
If you love me, Helen, you won't give up so easily.
Please say you won't leave.

Speaker 11 (01:28:49):
Oh right, Stephen, I won't leave. Perhaps we will be
able to work this out.

Speaker 3 (01:28:56):
I hope so, Sandra. Sandra, you wait, darling. Yes, Daddy, Sandra,
Mother and I were very upset when you ran away

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last night. Mother seems to think you ran away because
you you couldn't get along with her. She felt so
badly about it. She wanted to go away. She did, yes,
but I told her how much we both loved and
needed her. So she's promised to stay. Oh, I see, Sandra.

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You will try to be a good girl and do
his mother wants, won't you? It would make Daddy very happy.

Speaker 23 (01:29:46):
Oh, Daddy, I do anything to make you happy.

Speaker 3 (01:29:48):
Anything that's a good girl, darling. Now you get up
and get dressed. I'll wait for you downstairs.

Speaker 23 (01:29:54):
All right.

Speaker 11 (01:29:54):
Daddy just doesn't understand he should have let her.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
But she's still here.

Speaker 11 (01:30:02):
She's going to stay.

Speaker 7 (01:30:03):
I won't have it.

Speaker 23 (01:30:05):
I won't have it. I hate her.

Speaker 26 (01:30:13):
A week past, a week in which Sandra's behavior pleased
Helen know, and at last it seemed they were going
to be the happy families she had always dreamed they would.

Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
Be, Helen. Yes, will you bring my coat with you
when you come downstairs? Sandra?

Speaker 23 (01:30:30):
And not going for a walk, Daddy, can we walk
down to the river.

Speaker 3 (01:30:36):
Oh, we won't have enough time for that.

Speaker 23 (01:30:39):
I have your coat, but I have fun to scar.

Speaker 3 (01:30:41):
Oh the scar's down here. Ellen, just bring the code.
H Helen, you all right? Don't speak to me, daddy.

Speaker 11 (01:30:55):
Is she dead?

Speaker 3 (01:30:57):
No, Sandra, don't talk like that. Quick phone, doctor Smith.
At once.

Speaker 26 (01:31:09):
I arrived at the Hamilton home to find Helen suffering
from shock, but otherwise unhurt. I was somewhat disturbed, however,
to find her very nervous and run down.

Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
She'll be all right, won't you? Doctor?

Speaker 26 (01:31:24):
Yes, of course. I'm going to leave you a prescription,
missus Hamilton. It's something that will have quiet your nerves.
Are You're to take it twice a day. Eh, here's
the prescription, mister Hamilton. Thank you doctor.

Speaker 3 (01:31:39):
I'll have it. Failed at once, Well, Sandra, how are you?
You've been so quiet? I hardly knew you were here.

Speaker 31 (01:31:45):
I'm fine, Thank you.

Speaker 26 (01:31:47):
You're growing up to be quite a young lady.

Speaker 3 (01:31:50):
Are you still traveled by nightmares?

Speaker 6 (01:31:53):
Yes?

Speaker 26 (01:31:54):
She still has them once in a while. No, it's
just her nerves. If she continues to have them, you
might give us some of the medicine. I've prescribed for
your wife.

Speaker 18 (01:32:03):
There.

Speaker 26 (01:32:03):
I must be leaving good bye missus Hamilton, and stay
in bed a few days. I will doctor goodbye goodbye.

Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
Like well, darling. It gave us quite a scare.

Speaker 11 (01:32:16):
Yes, I I slipped on something on the top step.

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
I must have slipped on the marble, dear. I found
seven or eight of them on the top step.

Speaker 31 (01:32:26):
Marble, Sondra, Were they your marbles? No, Mother, they belonged
to Margie. She must have left them on the stairs
when we were playing here.

Speaker 11 (01:32:35):
Oh, I see it wasn't my fault, truly it was.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
Of course it wasn't. Mother knows you wouldn't be marbles
lying around where she could slip on them, isn't that so, Ellen, Stephen.

Speaker 11 (01:32:48):
I'm sure Sondra wouldn't want anything to happen to me. Sondra,
will you come into mother's room and mamma please? Yes, Mother,
the medicine that doctor Smith prescribed for me is in
the bathroom. Will you get it for me? Please? All right, mother,

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you'll find it in the medicine chest. It's in a
blue bottle.

Speaker 23 (01:33:12):
Yes, I know what it looks like. Oh, here it is.

Speaker 11 (01:33:14):
That's fine, Solder, Just bring it to me. Here you are, mother,
Thank you. Dear, Oh Sondra, This isn't the medicine that
doctor Smith prescribed for me. Didn't you read the label?
This bottle has poison in it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
Poison?

Speaker 11 (01:33:26):
Why, Yes, it's right here in red letters on the label.

Speaker 23 (01:33:29):
I'm sorry, but this bottle is blue too. It looks
just like the one with your medicine.

Speaker 11 (01:33:33):
Yes, it doesn't that. Now I'll put this bottle of
poison back and get me my medicine. Yes, mother, I'll
have to get rid of that poison. It's too dangerous
to keep in the medicine chest.

Speaker 31 (01:33:42):
Would have been awful if you took the poison, wouldn't him, Mother, Well,
you might have died.

Speaker 11 (01:33:55):
No way, go away.

Speaker 28 (01:33:56):
I hate to hate you.

Speaker 23 (01:33:59):
He's mine, you said, Heaven.

Speaker 3 (01:34:04):
Wake up. You're heaving a nightmare.

Speaker 23 (01:34:07):
Daddy, don't leave me, don't.

Speaker 4 (01:34:13):
She's so frightened, Sling.

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
There's nothing to cry about now, I frighten, Pasey.

Speaker 23 (01:34:26):
Don't leave me.

Speaker 3 (01:34:27):
I'm not trying to leave you. I'm just trying to
see what mother wants.

Speaker 11 (01:34:34):
What is it, Stephen? Doctor Smith said she had a nightmare.
Some of the medicine he prescribed for me would help her.

Speaker 3 (01:34:41):
Sander doesn't like taking medicine.

Speaker 11 (01:34:43):
But this medicine is very easy to take, and I'll
have her asleep.

Speaker 3 (01:34:45):
In no time if you think it's best.

Speaker 11 (01:34:47):
Yes, I'm sure it is. Now you go back to
Sonda while I get the medicine and a glass.

Speaker 3 (01:34:57):
You must stop here crying. Daddy's here.

Speaker 23 (01:34:59):
Don't Oh wait, daddy, I want you to stay with me.

Speaker 3 (01:35:05):
What were you dreaming about dere No.

Speaker 7 (01:35:08):
No, it was also fixed up.

Speaker 23 (01:35:11):
Oh daddy, will you always love me more than anybody
else in the world?

Speaker 3 (01:35:15):
Of course?

Speaker 11 (01:35:17):
No, stop your cry, all right, I haven't Now I
can just have Sandra sit up.

Speaker 3 (01:35:22):
Come on, that's it.

Speaker 23 (01:35:26):
What's mother doing.

Speaker 3 (01:35:27):
She's buying you some medicine. It'll help you sleep downing medicine. Yes,
it's the same medicine mother takes for her own nurs.

Speaker 23 (01:35:35):
No, no, I don't want it.

Speaker 11 (01:35:36):
Not please Sondra. It'll make it feel much better.

Speaker 23 (01:35:39):
Don't come near me. I don't want it.

Speaker 3 (01:35:41):
Takes it twice a day, there's nothing to no.

Speaker 11 (01:35:43):
I won't take it.

Speaker 6 (01:35:44):
I want.

Speaker 11 (01:35:46):
None. She'll have us up all night. She doesn't take it. Now, Sandra,
stop being a baby and take this medicine.

Speaker 23 (01:35:53):
No, Daddy, do let her make me take it.

Speaker 11 (01:35:55):
Don't letter, sand Are you gonna let me give you
this cat? Or you have to make you take?

Speaker 3 (01:36:01):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:36:01):
No, it don't kill me, it will me old ja.

Speaker 11 (01:36:04):
Head that said no, Sandra, stop cleansing your teeth, your path?

Speaker 17 (01:36:10):
Do you hear?

Speaker 5 (01:36:14):
Then?

Speaker 11 (01:36:15):
Is taking its over? Nothing?

Speaker 3 (01:36:19):
Hello? So you're what's wrong? Tell him called doctor Smith?
Tell him it's an emergency.

Speaker 7 (01:36:32):
Stephen Us, Doctor Smith.

Speaker 3 (01:36:42):
She's been unconscious for ten minutes. Now, doctor, you must
do something. I'm afraid it's too late, mister Hamilton, she's dead.

Speaker 7 (01:36:51):
Oh no, she can't be.

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
I'm sorry, how can she be? We are the game.
The medicine you prescribed for Helen, Yes, sure it is, but.

Speaker 26 (01:37:04):
This medicine wouldn't kill her. It's only a nerve tonic.
You can see, doctor, What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:37:11):
Hey? This is the bottle? All right, But the medicine
in it isn't the medicine I prescribed. It is.

Speaker 11 (01:37:16):
I took some of it last night.

Speaker 3 (01:37:18):
I assure you. This isn't the medicine I prescribed. And
what isn't that bottle? It smells like carbolic acid? Carbolic acid?

Speaker 11 (01:37:25):
That's impossible.

Speaker 7 (01:37:27):
Look at the label.

Speaker 3 (01:37:28):
You can see it's my medicine.

Speaker 26 (01:37:29):
Yes, the label's right, but someone poured out the medicine
I prescribed and replaced it with carbonic acid.

Speaker 3 (01:37:35):
But why, why should anyone want to do such a thing?
Who could possibly want to kill Sandra?

Speaker 11 (01:37:41):
Everyone loved her?

Speaker 3 (01:37:42):
Ask Helen, She'll tell you that, Sandra, Stephen.

Speaker 11 (01:37:49):
Why are you looking at me like that? Sure you
don't believe I poisoned her? Stephen?

Speaker 26 (01:37:56):
No, No, this is the Mysterious Traveler again. Have you

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enjoyed our little trip?

Speaker 3 (01:38:21):
By the way, do you have a child in your home?

Speaker 26 (01:38:25):
If so, I do trust it isn't angry with you.
You can't be too careful with children. I recall another
child who, after being punished by his parents, took a razor.

Speaker 3 (01:38:37):
And oh, you're getting off at the next stop. I'm sorry.

Speaker 26 (01:38:42):
Perhaps you'll join me again soon. I take this same
train every week at the same time. You've just heard
chapter thirteen of The Mysterious, a series of dramas of
the strange and unusual, brought to you each week by

(01:39:05):
Station w o R. In tonight's program, The Good Die Young,
Betty Jane Tyler played Sondra The Mysterious Traveler, written by
Bob Arthur and David Cogan. Is directed by Jack McGregor.
Original music was played by Doc Whipple.

Speaker 1 (01:39:32):
I do apologize. I wasn't really planning on feeling so nostalgic,
but I am an old fool, and I suppose that's
my right. Oh what's that?

Speaker 3 (01:39:46):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:39:48):
I can't say exactly how I wish that I could.
I'm not being coy or hm cryptic. No, no, no,
don't have the information to share with you, my dear.
As time goes on, I realize so many things, so

(01:40:10):
many things that make me happy and make me sad.
But most of all, I've realized that men call me mad.

Speaker 3 (01:40:31):
Dog fantasy, men call me mad Doctor West. Please close

(01:40:55):
the door suddenly, doctor Tagoon. Now, gentlemen, I have summoned you,
my two trusted and loyal friends, to divulge a secret
that even I myself can hardly comprehend. You made a
new discovery, Charles discovery. Yes, I have found another world.
What another world? You say? Exactly? Would you please snap

(01:41:19):
off the lights? Docture? Now that switched? There?

Speaker 27 (01:41:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:41:21):
Certainly.

Speaker 3 (01:41:23):
Now, by means of this special projection machine, I'm going
to show you something which will astound you beyond words.
I must ask you to remain perfectly still throughout this demonstration.
As the picture I'm about to show you progresses, I
will explain in detail just what I have done, first
of all, to start the machine. Now observe this picture

(01:41:43):
I have taken on color film a picture of the
new moon. Now you will notice that the camera has
picked up a single ray of the moon. It's focused
upon the wall whereon dances a single tiny moonbeam. The
camera approaches the moonbeam closer, closer, still closer, and then

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the special film in my camera reaches the lens. The
scene changes, Doctor Smith, a gentleman, gentleman, please, are.

Speaker 4 (01:42:19):
You see here my other world? My world within a moonbeam, taken.

Speaker 3 (01:42:25):
Upon special color film of my own invention, film that
is constructed to pick up objects within the very atoms,
objects smaller, that is, than atom themselves. And notice, please,
the coloring of this outer world within a moonbeam. See
the hills, the plains with a red grass, their red
leaved trees. Notice that tiny stream at the left a

(01:42:51):
vivid orange.

Speaker 9 (01:42:53):
Notice the yellow of the tree trunks, the orange colored sky,
and the deep blue sun creasing the film quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:43:00):
Now, but first, a rare sight is in store foril.
How much closely there a man? But what sort of
creature is that? He's writing? I don't know. You will
notice the animal approaches the small stream, wades quickly through it,
and vanishes from the camera's sight. As he vanishes into

(01:43:21):
the distance, the film ends amazing, stounding, unbelievable. Are the
lights of your please? Doctor? Oh? Yes, of course, look here, titoo.
Is this a camera trick? Absolutely not. I have shown
you what actually exists within certain or possibly all moonbeams.
What you are theory a that all creation consists of

(01:43:45):
worlds within worlds. Who can say that our world is
not contained within some still larger one, and that within another,
and that still within another, and so on, though suddenly
becomes overwhelmed me. Yes, doesn't it to think that all
around us, within even such tiny substances as the atoms

(01:44:06):
themselves under our feet overhead on all sides, are worlds
of which we are unaware? Yes, if only there were
some way to visit those other worlds. Ah, doctor West,
that is the point we can good heavens man, you

(01:44:26):
mean he's just what do you mean, gentlemen? I plan
to enter that world in the morning. Impossible.

Speaker 28 (01:44:35):
I don't like to say so, Charles, But aren't you
overlooking the laws of dimension, the general medium laws of nature?

Speaker 4 (01:44:44):
There is obvious that, turhume.

Speaker 3 (01:44:46):
But aren't you appearing a little ridiculous on the face
of things. I do not expect you to be convinced
until you have seen we.

Speaker 28 (01:44:54):
In our opervation, are not inclined to take such things
as we are speaking of for granted.

Speaker 3 (01:44:59):
And let's not waste words, my friends, I propose to
convince you beyond all possible doubt. Well, I have no
objection to being convinced, nor right, No, I really believe
to heal is lady's imagination.

Speaker 4 (01:45:13):
Winding up ahead, we.

Speaker 3 (01:45:14):
Shall see, I hear, gentlemen, on this table, you see
what looks like an Eskimaux igloo made of crystal clear glass,
with an opening at one side of the base, much
like an entrance to an igloo or tent.

Speaker 28 (01:45:26):
Yes, it's about ten inches high and about eight inches
in diameter.

Speaker 3 (01:45:32):
Now, when we extinguish the lights here in this room,
when that curtain is drawn from the window over there,
the moonbeam and question will be centered directly through that
little glass case. You want us to assist you exactly?

Speaker 11 (01:45:44):
But what do you intend to do?

Speaker 3 (01:45:45):
I have here a number of small capsules filled with
a potion whose base consists mostly of radium. What is
this preparation? A substance which will cause animal matter to
decrease itself many billions of times?

Speaker 28 (01:45:58):
In other words, you think it will make you become small, precisely,
but small enough to enter the realm of a single atom?

Speaker 3 (01:46:07):
I hope so.

Speaker 4 (01:46:08):
Well?

Speaker 13 (01:46:09):
Have you tried this concoction only on animals?

Speaker 3 (01:46:12):
First, on rabbits and rats, And just yesterday I sent
a dog into the world of atoms? But granting such
a feat is possible. Don't you think your clothes would
also shrink with you? But I have found that any
object in contact with the animal matter at the time
the capsule is consumed would be caused to shrink in
proportion with the animal matter itself. I found that out

(01:46:33):
yesterday when I failed to remove the dog's color. Well,
suppose you consume too great a quantity of the potion.
I have an equalizer, another mixture which will counteract the
first capsule. By taking particular amounts of it, I can
stop the reaction of the capsule, And then, having stopped it,
by taking another dose of the stabilizer or equalizer. I
can increase my size again. This is all very extraordinary.

(01:46:57):
I tind to be gone quite some time. I'm asking
you too to watch over this little glass case for
a four day period. You can count on me.

Speaker 11 (01:47:05):
On me.

Speaker 3 (01:47:07):
Now, I shall take a capsule. I'll begin to grow
almost immediately. I've reached about two feet in height. I
want you, doctor Smith, to bend down to the floor
and pick me up and place me on this table
here inside this little glass case, putting me directly in
front of the opening or door of the case. Is

(01:47:27):
that clear? Client? Yeah? Good, gentlemen, my hand, good luck?
Tell me Smith will follow.

Speaker 20 (01:47:35):
You are struggling the camp.

Speaker 3 (01:47:38):
Good. I knew I could count on YouTube. Now the capsule.
My head is worrying, my ears a ring. I growing dim.

(01:48:04):
I have a sensation of emptiness in the pit of
my stomach. You notice, and it changed my appearance. Good hands,
he's lost a foot in height.

Speaker 28 (01:48:16):
While you're growing smaller to you, you are man, You're
actually growing smaller.

Speaker 3 (01:48:21):
He's two feet small. Allow. I hope I regained my
eyesight before I become too small. Are my close diminishing too? Yes? Yes, quick,
I cannot describe my sensations. I feel a strange weakness.

(01:48:41):
My senses seem to be deserting me. I find it
rather difficult to talk.

Speaker 13 (01:48:48):
Look, he's just about two feet high now too, As.

Speaker 32 (01:48:52):
He told you, doctor, pick him up, now place him
on the table. Yes, you're so careful. Now there, Yes,
putting closer to that door, so you'll have no trouble
finding it. What your arm, doctor, don't cut off the
moonbeam there, that's good.

Speaker 33 (01:49:09):
Say he's only about six inches high. Now there he
goes into the glass case. See the moonbeam is completely
covering in me.

Speaker 28 (01:49:21):
He's so tiny now you can hardly see him, the
size of a small ant.

Speaker 13 (01:49:26):
He's faded into the light of the beam. Now, I
wonder what you'll discover in there.

Speaker 3 (01:49:33):
I wonder what you'll discover at last. I'm here in
another world, such a strange place, similar to the place

(01:49:54):
I came from. Yet different trees, yet with leaves brilliant
scarlet and yellow bark, the grass also scarlet. Orange colored
sky overhead, the sun of dazzling blue, and the water

(01:50:14):
in the little stream over there not blue but orange. Yes,
the colors all different, everything else correspondingly the same.

Speaker 11 (01:50:27):
Why do you speak so strangely.

Speaker 3 (01:50:29):
Oh, I beg your pardon. I thought I was alone.

Speaker 12 (01:50:33):
You must be a foreigner, otherwise you'd know you're in
the King's gardens, and they are quite private.

Speaker 3 (01:50:39):
I'm so sorry. Yes, I am a foreigner. If you'll
forgive me, i'll leave it once I know.

Speaker 12 (01:50:44):
Please, it is our custom to treat foreigners in a
friendly manner, and so I bid you welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:50:52):
I am the Princess.

Speaker 12 (01:50:53):
Elena, Princess, yes, daughter of Kinglandelier. Sure you heard of me, No.

Speaker 11 (01:51:02):
Princess, I have not, But surely my father rules the
world with kindness and justice, and everyone knows him for
his goodness.

Speaker 3 (01:51:11):
Princess, will it frighten you if I tell you something
something most strange?

Speaker 12 (01:51:18):
I think not, sir by you yourself are most strange.
Your clothing, the colors not in the least ordinary, and
your features are so different.

Speaker 3 (01:51:32):
Princess Elena, my name is Charles de Hume. I'm a
citizen of the United States of America America.

Speaker 11 (01:51:42):
I know the world quite well, but never have I
heard of America.

Speaker 3 (01:51:46):
That is why I feel I might frighten you, your highness.
You see, America is not in this world. It is
in another. You're from another world exactly, you see, I
am a scientist in my own universe. I discovered your
world here, so I found a way to come to

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visit you. You don't seemed all surprised.

Speaker 12 (01:52:14):
No, why should I be surprised. We've expected you for
a long time.

Speaker 11 (01:52:20):
Me. Well, not you exactly, but someone.

Speaker 4 (01:52:24):
But what do you mean?

Speaker 12 (01:52:27):
Our scientists have known for many years that other worlds
besides ours exists, but they've never been able to discover
a method of entering one of them. We've been hoping
someone from beyond would find.

Speaker 11 (01:52:40):
A way here.

Speaker 3 (01:52:41):
Amazing.

Speaker 12 (01:52:42):
That is why I asked if you were a foreigner.
Since my father rules the entire world, naturally a foreigner
could only be from another world.

Speaker 3 (01:52:52):
This absolutely as times me, Princess. I must speak to
your scientists, And this is so wonderful that people of
our worlds be much alike, save in a few minor respects.
We look alike, talk alike.

Speaker 12 (01:53:03):
We've often wondered how much we would be like the
people from beyond.

Speaker 3 (01:53:07):
Take me to your scientist, Princess, I must see them.

Speaker 12 (01:53:09):
I'll gladly take you to them, but first I must
warn you you are in great danger.

Speaker 3 (01:53:17):
Danger our world is doomed.

Speaker 12 (01:53:21):
We are falling victims to a strange malady which none
of our doctors or learned men can overcome. It is
slaying our people, but the thousands A plague, Yes, a
mysterious disease, one we've never encountered before in all history.

Speaker 11 (01:53:38):
You would save yourself, use whatever method you have, and
return to your own world before it's too late.

Speaker 3 (01:53:44):
One woman, princess, will you take me to your father?
I I don't know why I say this, but perhaps
I can help. Oh no, no, save yourself.

Speaker 11 (01:53:54):
I beg of you. Do not remain here to pass.

Speaker 3 (01:53:57):
Please, Princess, at least allow me to try to help you.

Speaker 11 (01:54:01):
Lead a very brave or very fool.

Speaker 3 (01:54:03):
Glaborn foolish take me to your father.

Speaker 11 (01:54:05):
Very well that he will only warn you as I
have done.

Speaker 3 (01:54:22):
That, Your Majesty, is how I found your world and
the way to matter it. It's interesting. At one time
I would have said amazing, But with our discoveries where
the world's around us, it's now only interesting.

Speaker 11 (01:54:35):
I've warned doctor to Human to return to his own
universe before he falls victim to the plague.

Speaker 3 (01:54:40):
Yes, miss, but I would like to help. I'm a
doctor where I came from. Perhaps I could do something.
I'm very useless. Our most brilliant physicians are powers to
even make a diagnosis, much less a cure. But I
have a knowledge from another world, your majesty.

Speaker 11 (01:54:55):
That's true, Father, he found a way of reaching us.
You have been unable to reach the other places.

Speaker 3 (01:55:02):
Yes, yes, daughter, your reason wisely, Please, your majesty, permit
me to see some of the victims. I can't return
home until I've at least made an attempt to help you,
very well as you wish. Come with me. My son
lies dying in a room above. I will permit you
to examine him. Well, don't you tell you, your majesty,

(01:55:37):
heavens man, this is typhoid. Typhoid, we have it on
our earth. Tell us do you know the cure? Yes,
your majesty, I do. Take me to your nearest medical laboratory.
We must prepare a serum, huge quantities of it. We
must send it to all parts of the world immediately.
With a savior people, daughter, these reports more parts of

(01:56:05):
the universe.

Speaker 2 (01:56:07):
The death grow fewer and fewer each day.

Speaker 11 (01:56:09):
It's a miracle, Father, and Charles has unit saved us all.
There's been no typhoid death. Now for three days, I know.

Speaker 3 (01:56:23):
A fight has been one.

Speaker 11 (01:56:25):
The people are clamoring for your doctor. Humans. They almost
consider you a god.

Speaker 3 (01:56:30):
I am no god, Princess, merely a man with a
little knowledge.

Speaker 12 (01:56:35):
But you came to us like a miracle man in
time to work the greatest wonder of all history.

Speaker 3 (01:56:40):
I'm happy that my journey here has been for a purpose.

Speaker 11 (01:56:44):
Anything you ever wish in the world will be yours.

Speaker 3 (01:56:47):
I know, Elena, there is so little I want, yet
so much.

Speaker 11 (01:56:55):
Will you remain here with us forever?

Speaker 3 (01:56:59):
I cannot.

Speaker 11 (01:57:00):
You called me Elena a moment ago.

Speaker 3 (01:57:03):
I cannot, Elena. I must return to tell my people
what I discovered. But if you go now, yes, Elena.

Speaker 12 (01:57:10):
Oh I must.

Speaker 11 (01:57:11):
We always be governed by rules.

Speaker 3 (01:57:12):
Of propriety, Elena. If if you're thinking what I hope
you are, child, Helena, my darling, Is it wrong to
say I love you? Child?

Speaker 11 (01:57:25):
Is it wrong for stars to shine or for flowers
to bloom?

Speaker 3 (01:57:29):
Oh, my darling, Princess, I love you, Elena, and I
love you.

Speaker 11 (01:57:37):
Please don't believe me, my darling.

Speaker 3 (01:57:41):
Just for a little while, I will return to Elena,
I promise.

Speaker 12 (01:57:46):
And I will wait for you, beloved, and when you return,
nothing in this world or any other will ever take
us apart.

Speaker 28 (01:58:07):
It's passed his time almost four days. Look the moment
there in the moon means see no, I yes, look
he is coming back. See there he's out of the
glass case on the tabletop. He's growing rapidly wet. You
better place him down on the floor. Look merger and larger.

(01:58:27):
This is perfectly astounding.

Speaker 3 (01:58:29):
Man.

Speaker 28 (01:58:30):
I wonder what his adventure has been, Doctor Turhune, can
you hear me? Doctor Turyune is almost four feet tall?

Speaker 3 (01:58:37):
Now, can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (01:58:39):
Dtor water water please?

Speaker 4 (01:58:42):
Water?

Speaker 13 (01:58:42):
Weikly wrist quickly over there in that corplet.

Speaker 4 (01:58:45):
Yes, just one moment.

Speaker 3 (01:58:48):
Here we are.

Speaker 17 (01:58:49):
He's all right now full size again here tur Yun
drink this?

Speaker 3 (01:58:55):
Yes, thanks, that's better. Are you all right? Tell you
it's quite all I think you, gentlemen. I have had
the strangest experience imaginable. I have visited a.

Speaker 4 (01:59:11):
World that's amazing and wonderful.

Speaker 3 (01:59:14):
Tell us about it as I will. When I became
small enough to enter the moonbeam, I found myself in
the exact spot you two saw in the picture I
displayed for you. I did not know which way to
go naturally after a moment I heard someone, my friends,

(01:59:35):
is precisely what happened to me. And you say, those
people knew all about the existence of other worlds, but
were not familiar with such a disease as typhoid exactly.

Speaker 13 (01:59:45):
Must have been somewhat of a hero, do you, Yes, somewhat.

Speaker 32 (01:59:49):
You know, if I hadn't seen this demonstration with my
own eyes, I never have believed it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:53):
Well, Doctor West, even though I was the one who
experienced it, I'm still wondering if it actually happened. Appened
all right?

Speaker 28 (02:00:01):
Yes, we saw you grow small right before her eyes,
so small you became almost invisible and disappeared in the moonbean.

Speaker 3 (02:00:09):
I trust you, too, will confer many statements I like
make to the public about this. No, absolutely certainly tell you.
By the way, it's my sister here during my absence. Why, yes,
she was. She acted very strangely too, but we told
her nothing. Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I should have told you
this before. You see, my sister and I jointly own

(02:00:30):
several hundred acres of valuable oil land in the South.
She's a greedy woman. She's tried for years to obtain
full possession of the property. She's tried many ways, but
her latest method is by charging that I'm insane. Oh
less ridiculous, Yes, exactly, but she has preferred the charges. Tomorrow,
at nine, I must appear before a group of alienists

(02:00:54):
who will decide whether or not I'm mentally unbalanced. That
is why I had to make my experiment before tomorrow.

Speaker 26 (02:01:19):
Doctor Turtune, You've been carefully examined by this impartial and
experienced board of alienists at the request of your sister. Yeah,
it's our decision that you must submit yourself to a
series of treatments at whatever sanitarium your sister might choose.

Speaker 18 (02:01:36):
Oh no, stop, this has all been so irregular, so unfair.
You'll think I'm mad.

Speaker 3 (02:01:42):
I was told. I have told you.

Speaker 4 (02:01:43):
It's true. I can prove everything I've said.

Speaker 3 (02:01:45):
Please, doctor Turtue.

Speaker 18 (02:01:46):
My two friends, doctor West and doctor Smith. Ask them,
why haven't you let them testify for me? They saw it.
They'll tell you everything I've.

Speaker 4 (02:01:53):
Said is true.

Speaker 3 (02:01:56):
One moment, yes, oh, yes, he's here with me now
I see.

Speaker 26 (02:02:10):
Hmm, yes, all right, out on him. I'm sorry, doctor Turru,
and I'm afraid I have bad news for you. Doctors
West and Smith were to have testified in your behalf.
But I've just received where that they were both killed
a few moments ago in an automobile accident, and that

(02:02:43):
was the verdict.

Speaker 3 (02:02:46):
Now men call me man, So they've blocked me. Shouldn't
sell till the time they can remove me to a
sanitarium any moment. Now they have come for me. Kah
whisked me off through the night. My discovery will never
be proved. People will laugh for a while, speak of

(02:03:13):
the mad doctor to you, and then I will forget.

Speaker 12 (02:03:22):
And for me.

Speaker 11 (02:03:24):
No escape, howld my line?

Speaker 3 (02:03:33):
No escape, No escape? Oh what a stupid fool. I
am the Moonbeam, of course, the Moonbeam Fantasy.

Speaker 29 (02:04:18):
Men call Me Mad, an original tale of dark Fantasy
by Scott Bishop. Ben Morris was heard as Doctor charles
terhun eleanor Naylor Corn was Princess Elena. Red Waine was
King Londelaire Burrello Schofield was Doctor West, your height was
doctor Smith, and Daryl McAllister was the specialist.

Speaker 1 (02:04:42):
Well, my dear, I suppose we've had another fine evening.
I do so appreciate your company, and I do hope
you'll be back again again very soon. I'll be here
you know, when you know where. Don't worry. I'm going

(02:05:04):
nowhere and fast. But now it's time, as the sun
prepares to rise, for you to go home and place
your head on that soft, delicate pillow, rest that soft
and delicate neck, and drift off into the land of Nod.
But as you make your way home, as you go

(02:05:25):
through the woods, over the river, past grandmother's house, well
all I ask before you lay that head down and
send yourself to the land of Nod, is one thing
aside from it coming back soon. As your eyes get heavy,

(02:05:45):
take a moment and be thankful for what you have,
and I'll be waiting when you need me.

Speaker 12 (02:06:00):
You being a break it for.

Speaker 3 (02:06:04):
You.

Speaker 31 (02:06:05):
You

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