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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Well, my dear, how good of you to return. I'm
so glad you're here. Please please have a seat, Relax
those those weary bones of yours. Or what's that? Oh well,
I'm not sure that will be an issue now, will it?

(00:30):
Very good? Very good? Do you ever worry about good things?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I know that seems counterproductive, and likely it is, but
I can't help but wonder or what's that? Oh well,
I have a lot to share with you tonight, no
worries there. But when it comes to the good things
in life, when it comes to the joys we share,

(01:00):
sometimes I can't help but have this feeling I'm on
a deadly honeymoon.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
From the Mutual Studios in Washington.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
I'm Paulden Lewis.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
And that's the top of the news as it looks
from here.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Come in.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Welcome, ire G Marshall. Welcome to the sound of suspense.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Welcome to the fear you can hear, but.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
Mostly welcome to the world of terrifying imaginations. The story
you are about to hear is a love story, but
a love story which begins at the point where many
love stories in it begins after the wedding march has

(02:03):
been played, after the vows of love and fidelity exchanged.
It begins on the honeymoon in a strange and terrifying fashion.

Speaker 6 (02:15):
Don't don't, don't come, Jenny, stay stay away from me,
Dan Susan, are you out of your head?

Speaker 7 (02:23):
So hot?

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Picture?

Speaker 6 (02:24):
Do Ynny? I found her a picture on honeymoon.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Our mystery drama, Deadly Honeymoon was written especially for the
Mystery Theater by Henry Slesser and stars let'sy Von Furstenberg
and Michael Wager. It is sponsored in part by Anheuser
Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser, and by the Kellor Company,
makers of Kellogg Special k Cereal. I'll return shortly with

(03:05):
that one.

Speaker 8 (03:09):
There's nothing wrong with drinking Budweiser. Sip by sip, is there?

Speaker 7 (03:13):
Well? The brewers of.

Speaker 8 (03:14):
Budweiser think there's a better way.

Speaker 7 (03:16):
Sipping's fine if you're drinking wine, But bud is the
king of beers. A hearty drink. Rinse a ten or
twelve ounce glass with cold water, Then open a can
or bottle of bud and pour it right down the
middle so it kicks up a good head of fault.
Now take a big drink and then swallow big, no SIPs.

(03:36):
That's how it should be done. More taste, more beer
drinking enjoyment. Thanks to exclusive beechwood aging, Budweiser has a
smoothness that lets it go down especially easy. Sure, it's
an expensive way to brew beer, but brewing beer right
does make a difference. That's why when you say Budweiser, you've.

Speaker 8 (03:56):
Said it all Anheuser.

Speaker 9 (03:58):
Bush, Saint Louis.

Speaker 10 (04:02):
This is w a R New York. You're thinking for
mystery thiter.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Now shot I just.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
The can can tell and shot my.

Speaker 8 (04:13):
Friend down that bo and Cat's cans for.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Quality that you can track for teasty corners, Cat.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
For kethan bean that gore making too fat.

Speaker 7 (04:22):
All out the treats you know me vegetables that can
compare a shot my friend are better?

Speaker 6 (04:28):
Bot Do you think yourself instead of thinking.

Speaker 11 (04:30):
Off my shelf?

Speaker 12 (04:32):
No time to shop at shoppards, can't can't.

Speaker 6 (04:35):
Last time, last.

Speaker 10 (04:40):
Stop, chop right soda, tell them Kang's for seventy nonsense.

Speaker 6 (04:47):
Potatoes that will make the mealk and bigger peal that
makes the Spanish.

Speaker 13 (04:53):
That won't finish that.

Speaker 12 (04:57):
Ask the stuff so white they wre.

Speaker 8 (05:03):
Slay.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Our story begins thirty six thousand feet in the air
on a flight which departed from New York's Kennedy Airport,
and in another hour we'll be touching down at.

Speaker 7 (05:33):
O'Hare Airport in Chicago.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
There are almost one hundred passengers on this flight, but
an observant stewardess is giving special attention to that handsome
couple in seats eighteen A and eighteen B. Perhaps it's
because all honeymooners have a special radiance.

Speaker 6 (05:56):
Are you sure you wouldn't like more coffee? Oh no,
that's not to me.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
I wouldn't mind it.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
Come here, you are.

Speaker 12 (06:03):
Just ring if you need anything else.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
You'd think we were the only people on this flight,
as far as I'm concerned, we are.

Speaker 6 (06:10):
Oh, Dan, I'd be absolutely drunk with happiness. Is that
a funny word for the way I feel?

Speaker 7 (06:17):
No, it's a great words.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
I was flying hours before we got on the plane.
Oh what time did you say? We land in Chicago?

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Not through thirty?

Speaker 6 (06:26):
Is it far from the airport to the hotel?

Speaker 3 (06:29):
No, Actually it's only about a half an hour from
ore Heir to downtown, about sixteen miles.

Speaker 6 (06:33):
Still, I don't think we'll have time to make Evston today.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Do you m well, it might be better to go
in the morning. You can call your aunt from the hotel.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
Dan, you sure you don't mind going to Evanston. I
just couldn't possibly be a few miles away and not
see Aunt Clara. Besides, I want to show off my
new husband to somebody, and she's all the family I have.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Was he a mother's sister, No, No, my father.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
She came east to when my parents were killed in
that crash, stayed with me.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
For a month or so.

Speaker 6 (07:02):
That was about the most that either one of us
could stand.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
She sounds like a holy terror.

Speaker 6 (07:05):
Oh no, she just crotchety, that's all. But she'll only
be more crotchety if she learned that I passed through
Chicago and didn't even stop buying. Oh and what kind
of work are you in, mister Carrey?

Speaker 3 (07:23):
All right, now, we like to say we're management and consultants,
missus Roland, but we also do quite a bit of
executive recruitment.

Speaker 6 (07:29):
I don't understand a word about Dan helped corporations find
the right people for important jobs than Clara. His friend
is the biggest in the field, is it, Dan.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, it's always hard to measure.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
Business like ours, but It has offices everywhere, doesn't it.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
In most of the major cities.

Speaker 6 (07:45):
Yes, my dad's going to take over the branch in
San Francisco. You're going to manage the entire thing.

Speaker 12 (07:49):
Is that some kind of a promotion? Of course it is,
I asked the gentleman, Susan, speak when you're spoken to.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Oh side, Yes, missus Rowland, it is a promotion. Truth is,
it's a job that everyone in my office has been after.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
Oh, it's just worked out so beautifully for us. I mean,
Dan having to move to San Francisco. We're sort of
combining a business trip with a cross country honeymoon.

Speaker 12 (08:09):
And where do you go from here?

Speaker 6 (08:10):
Well, we're planning to stay two days in Chicago, and
then we're going to Gallas.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Across the Rio Grande in New Mexico. I know a
great little hotel, and.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
We're going to Las Vegas to gamble. I suppose, Well,
it's no if I'm going to Las Vegas. If you
don't gamble a little.

Speaker 12 (08:24):
Your father never gambled for so much as a dime, Susan.
That wasn't the way he.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Made his fortune.

Speaker 6 (08:28):
Well, I promise not to bankrupt the family. Clara anyway,
we're just staying Las Vegas overnight and then going to Los.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Angeles three days later.

Speaker 6 (08:37):
I report to work thoroughly exhausted.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
Of course.

Speaker 6 (08:40):
Who that's your idea.

Speaker 12 (08:42):
Of a honeymoon. I hope you'll enjoy it, Susan. I
suppose lunch is almost ready. You want to help me
bring it out?

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (08:48):
Yes, of course, kitchens this way, In case you've forgotten.

Speaker 6 (08:51):
The truth is I have.

Speaker 12 (08:57):
I'm glad to be able to talk to you alone
for a minute, Susan.

Speaker 6 (09:00):
Did you like Dan and Clara?

Speaker 14 (09:02):
Isn't he good looking?

Speaker 12 (09:03):
Older than you?

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Isn't it?

Speaker 6 (09:05):
What difference does that make? How long did you know him?

Speaker 5 (09:08):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (09:09):
We met at a party at the Williamson's.

Speaker 12 (09:11):
Do you remember my friend Tracy Williamson didn't askual where
you met. I'm asking you when? Well, it was about
three weeks ago. Three weeks.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
That's wet lot of heaven.

Speaker 6 (09:24):
Susan, Aunt Clara, the time you know somebody isn't always
the most important thing. He's practically a stranger.

Speaker 12 (09:30):
How can be sure of anything about a man you've
known for three weeks from.

Speaker 6 (09:34):
The time we met? I saw Dan every single day, Susan.

Speaker 12 (09:37):
When a girl is all alone in the world when
she has independent means, Laddie, don't start.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
In about Dan being a fortune hundred. I don't have
that much money, and it's all in fust anyway. And
I assure you Dan earns enough income to take care
of us both very well.

Speaker 12 (09:52):
No, I'm sorry, Susan. I know I don't have any control.

Speaker 6 (09:54):
Over what you do.

Speaker 12 (09:55):
You're too old for that. But I've seen something with
the world too, you know, And the most important lesson
I've ever learned is never trusted the stranger.

Speaker 6 (10:03):
And Claire, that's ridiculous. Now, can we bring out the lunch?

Speaker 4 (10:21):
I don't know. I just I just have a feeling
that Chicago wasn't all you expected it to be.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
Well, we weren't there very young then, and don't forget me,
we spent half the time with your business associates.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Annie, I am sorry about that. I suppose I never
should have called Bill King k disay in town. Should
have known it insist on getting together.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
Oh, it wasn't that bad. I just didn't know what
he was talking about half the time. All those office politics, Yes.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Well, it loves to gossip. But you can see what
I mean about the San Francisco job. Everybody and the
company wanted it. You don't never get over resenting me
for being fixed. But I am sorry if you were bored, right, Dan?

Speaker 15 (11:00):
Really?

Speaker 6 (11:01):
After all I inflicted Ann Clare on you? He was okay, Well,
I know you didn't find her very friendly.

Speaker 8 (11:07):
Well why should she be.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
I think she's a very protective type.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Anybody you married would get her John to die.

Speaker 6 (11:14):
Yes, I suppose that's true enough, Dan, How long did
you know Terry Williamson?

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Cool?

Speaker 6 (11:22):
Terry my ex roommate? We met each other at her house?
Or have you forgotten that already?

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Tell you the truth?

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Tell me I didn't know who's he got that night?

Speaker 6 (11:34):
Oh so Terry wasn't the one who invited you?

Speaker 3 (11:36):
No, the gun named Bob Chamber is one of the
executive times I got place to General Utilities.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
Tom asked me who invited him? Because I don't know?

Speaker 6 (11:44):
I see, So it was all through the around about.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
What's the difference? Still turned out to be the best
party I ever attended.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
Yeah, okay, Oh no, of course, not nothing at all.
Uh one, where did you say? We was staying in Dallas?

Speaker 3 (12:04):
It's a little hotel called the Lazy Sea Thrustic. But
I think you like it percise. We'll only be there
one night. We'll wait a time in the morning and
drive down to Monterey.

Speaker 6 (12:13):
You really know all the off free places, don't you.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Well, when you travel around enough, I guess you begin
looking for them.

Speaker 6 (12:19):
You haven't done that much traveling on the job, have you.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
Huh? Well, no, not that much. See. Do you know
the name of the airport in Allan?

Speaker 6 (12:30):
I forget?

Speaker 3 (12:31):
It's called love Field. Great name for honeymooners.

Speaker 6 (12:36):
Yes, oh, there you are. I'm starting to worry now.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
I have a little trouble with the phone line back
to New York, but I got through. Okay, everything all right, Yeah, sure,
everything's fine. Hey, can you look a little strange though?

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Oh no, I'm all right. I had a drink while
I was waiting for you.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Hey, you better watch that, Takiyah. It sneaks up on
you like a bandido.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
Actually, something sort of funny happened. What do you dan?
When we were in Chicago, in that restaurant I forget
the name of it, the place we went to with Bill, Yes,
when you and your friend were talking about all the
office politics back in New York. I saw this man
looking at us. What man, Well, he was at the bar.

(13:29):
I'm not even sure why I noticed him. He was
wearing his plaid raincoat. I remember wondering that it started
to rain.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
I guess you were just bored with all our talk.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
Anyway, I saw him turned to look at us.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Probably to look at you. Can't blamember that.

Speaker 6 (13:45):
The funny thing is, as soon as you turned around,
he got up very quickly and left.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Susan.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
I don't remember seeing anyone in a planned raincoat, and
I'm afraid I don't see anything usual about it.

Speaker 6 (13:56):
Well, I guess I didn't either. I probably wouldn't have
given it's another thought, but I think I saw that
same man you're again today in Monterey.

Speaker 7 (14:05):
Oh you're kidding.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
I can't swear with him. I didn't get a good
look at his face the first time. All I really
noticed was the coat.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
And you saw the coat again?

Speaker 7 (14:15):
Is that it?

Speaker 6 (14:15):
Yes, he was carrying it over his arm.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
Oh, Charlie, you know.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
The story about the airport truck.

Speaker 6 (14:21):
Airport truck.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
No, Well, this guy on a plane looks out the
window and see's one of those a little red airport trucks,
you know, feeling the plane bringing food a board, something
like that. Anyway, the plane takes off from New York
and lands in Chicago. Another little red truck comes out
to meet it. The guy next to him says, Hey,
we made good time, didn't we. He says, yeah, but
that little red truck really made time. Well, I can

(14:48):
see that I didn't marry a great audience.

Speaker 6 (14:49):
Oh, I'm sorry, Danni, It's just it bothered me a little.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Forget it and speaking of airports, next time the City
of Angels.

Speaker 6 (15:07):
See. I wonder if they had this week's digest.

Speaker 7 (15:10):
Oh, I think it's me. Yes, you're missus Daniel Carrey,
aren't you what?

Speaker 6 (15:19):
Yes? I am do?

Speaker 11 (15:22):
I know you?

Speaker 7 (15:23):
No, missus carry But I know you saw your husband
leaving the hotel about half an hour ago. You're planning
on meeting him.

Speaker 6 (15:31):
Wait a minute, I've seen you before, have you? You're
the man with the coat, the ploid raincoat?

Speaker 7 (15:39):
Are You're having to be right? I do own a
plaid raincoat, but with this nice Sonny weather look, Missus Carrey,
I know it seems as if I'm following.

Speaker 6 (15:48):
Yes it does.

Speaker 7 (15:49):
Well, Okay, it's true, but I've had a reason such
as could we talk about it someplace? There's a coffee
shop in the hotel.

Speaker 6 (15:57):
I'm sorry, I don't even know who you are.

Speaker 7 (16:00):
Maybe it would help if I introduce myself. My name
is Harrington, Lieutenant Gale Harrington, attached to New York City
Police Department.

Speaker 14 (16:06):
Police.

Speaker 7 (16:06):
That's right, miss Cary. So you see what I have
to discuss with you is police business.

Speaker 6 (16:12):
But what am I doing?

Speaker 7 (16:13):
It's nothing you've done. It concerns your husband.

Speaker 8 (16:18):
And what he might do.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
It looks like Dan and Susan Carrey's honeymoon. He's in
for a surprise, or perhaps more than one. Maybe Susan
will soon wonder if Aunt Clara wasn't right about a
number of things, including her cynical advice about trusting no strangers.

(16:58):
We'll find out about the new stranger in Susan's life
when I returned shortly with that too now.

Speaker 6 (17:06):
And out of jail, the Change.

Speaker 10 (17:10):
Special case.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
The last tango in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 10 (17:15):
Was right, tangle out.

Speaker 8 (17:17):
Mighty lord kid, will you tangle with me?

Speaker 16 (17:21):
You're a splendid dancer.

Speaker 7 (17:24):
I was what that sounded?

Speaker 6 (17:26):
A few pounds overweight, and this ball and chain points
out how my extra weight can get in the way.

Speaker 8 (17:30):
I'm pointing you back to you have jail.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
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she was with of the ball and chain and back
at raouls.

Speaker 17 (17:50):
Sorry you're looking fantastic.

Speaker 7 (17:51):
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Speaker 5 (19:13):
In the pleasant, cheerful atmosphere of the coffee shop in
a large Los Angeles hotel, newlywed Susan Carey finds herself

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facing a man she has never seen before, a man
whose solemn eyes look at her over a steaming cup
of coffee and seemed to warn her of nightmares to come.
But so far, Lieutenant Gail Harrington of the New York
Police Department is merely asking questions.

Speaker 7 (19:58):
How long have you been married?

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Now?

Speaker 6 (20:01):
Only about ten days?

Speaker 7 (20:02):
Or was it a long engagement? Did you know your
husband for some time before?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
No?

Speaker 6 (20:08):
No, not very long.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Well could you be more specific?

Speaker 7 (20:12):
How long ago did your medium and where?

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Well?

Speaker 6 (20:17):
It's a month now, just about that?

Speaker 7 (20:19):
A month? And you really don't know much about him.

Speaker 6 (20:23):
You and I'm prig pardon, lieutenant, will you please tell
me what this is about? Has my husband committed some crime?
Is that what you're implying?

Speaker 7 (20:31):
I didn't say that, mister Cherry, but believe me, it
would be helpful to both of us if you could
just tell me a little bit about the circumstances.

Speaker 6 (20:40):
No, I don't see why this has to be so
one sided.

Speaker 7 (20:44):
Please bear with me, all right.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
I met Dan at a party at a friend's house
about a month ago. We talked a lot, We liked
each other, we started dating. I saw him every single day.

Speaker 7 (20:56):
What business did he tell you?

Speaker 15 (20:57):
What?

Speaker 6 (20:57):
I should make it time? As if he lied to me?

Speaker 7 (20:59):
No mean to do that.

Speaker 6 (21:01):
He's a management consultant.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
I know he is.

Speaker 6 (21:04):
He's just gotten a very important job in San Francisco,
head of the entire office we're going to tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (21:10):
So that was the purpose of the trip. Yes, but
since you've been married ten days, I gather it to
a honeymoon as well. Yes, miss Carrett, you know if
your husband was ever married before worried? No, are you
really certain it's police business?

Speaker 6 (21:29):
Tell me that Dan's a bigger mister.

Speaker 7 (21:31):
Summer care is certainly not that.

Speaker 9 (21:33):
What is it?

Speaker 7 (21:34):
I've gotta tell you. But you have to have to
understand one thing now. I am not as signed to
this case anymore. My interest is strictly unofficial. May be
completely mistaken, but you're the only one who can prove it,
one way or another.

Speaker 6 (21:48):
Prove what.

Speaker 7 (21:50):
About whether your husband ever called himself Don Crawford and
once four years ago, David Chase, see all the same
initials like Dan Carrie.

Speaker 6 (22:04):
You are saying he's a criminal, not just a criminal.

Speaker 8 (22:07):
Missus carry a wife killer.

Speaker 7 (22:12):
You're crazy, I hope, so believe me.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
I do.

Speaker 7 (22:15):
Let me start at the beginning. If you still think
I'm crazy by the time I'm finished, I'll be happy
to buy that coffee and go on my way. But
if you think I'm not, if you have any doubts,
and I want you to tell me so and let
me help you, all right, go on.

Speaker 6 (22:32):
I know you're wrong, but go on.

Speaker 7 (22:36):
I first heard of Don Crawford back in nineteen sixty five,
when I was attached to homicide detail in Los Angeles.
Pde Missus Crawford was a former Edith Burdbank. She was
the youngest daughter of a wealthy family in Baltimore. Only
when I saw her, she was never gonna enjoy her
money anymore. She was dead. Her throat had been cut

(22:56):
by one of those quote mysterious intruders unquote that the
papers like to write about her husband done was broken
hearted naturally had only been married four weeks. But her
death also made him some money, not a fortune, really,
there was a mix up about her will and he

(23:19):
ended up with nothing but a handsome payoff from the family.
Missus carry you, Okay, I.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
Can't believe I'm sitting here listening to this.

Speaker 7 (23:30):
I won't be longer, I promise. Anyway, I was a
signed to the Crawford case, and I didn't exactly cover
myself with glory.

Speaker 6 (23:37):
You mean, you never found the mysterious and truth, so
naturally you decided maybe there wasn't.

Speaker 7 (23:44):
Let me go on, Missus Carrey.

Speaker 6 (23:46):
Okay, yes, yes, go on.

Speaker 7 (23:48):
Anyway. I ran into a similar case about four years ago,
the murder of a young bride fresh from her honeymoon,
a broken hearted gruel named David Chase. I thought Chase
and Crawford were one and the same man, but I
couldn't convince the district attorney of the resemblance. But I
am still convinced, Missus Carrey.

Speaker 6 (24:11):
And you think Dan is the same person.

Speaker 7 (24:14):
Oh he's changed again. Of course. His hair is lighter
than Chases. He's thinner and paler. But there's something about
the face I can't forget.

Speaker 6 (24:22):
And even if it's true, you still have no proof.
Is that it You couldn't solve your case, so you're
holding onto your first solution.

Speaker 7 (24:28):
Wait, missus, carry let me tell you why I was
so sure that Crawford and Chase were the same man.
It was because of the honeymoon. What it's my theory
that their honeymoons were identical. A compulsive honeymoon, you might say.
These ridiculous criminals are like that, creatures of habit, most
of them afraid to change a pattern, maybe for fear

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that their luck will change with it.

Speaker 6 (24:54):
What do you mean by it?

Speaker 7 (24:55):
I stumbled on the coincidence accidentally, but as far as
I could trace it, Don Crawford and David Chase took
their brides to the same places, they did the same things,
and I knew that if I ever saw that pattern duplicated,
I would have my killer. I hope I'm wrong, Missus Carretty,
but you are the only one who can tell me.

(25:19):
And my first question is this, Well, your first stop Chicago, Yes.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
Yes, of course it was. And you knew that that's
where we first saw you in Chicago, in that restaurant.

Speaker 7 (25:33):
Okay, okay, I just wanted to make sure you.

Speaker 6 (25:36):
Can't possibly make something out of that. Dan wanted to
see people in the Chicago office, and I thought it
would be nice to visit my aunt in Evanston. She's
my family.

Speaker 7 (25:46):
Was your next stop after Chicago in Texas?

Speaker 6 (25:50):
Yes, we went to Dallas. Dallas is a wonderful place
to visit, Lieutenant. I don't say anything so peculiar about that.

Speaker 7 (25:57):
Both Chase and Crawford went to Dallas. They chose offbeat hotels.
I guess they didn't care to be seen very much.
Where did you stay?

Speaker 6 (26:07):
And it was a perfectly nice hotel. I don't think
you could describe it as.

Speaker 14 (26:10):
Offbeat, all right?

Speaker 7 (26:16):
And then the next step would be Monterey.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
You knew we were in Monterey because that's where I
saw you the second time.

Speaker 7 (26:21):
By that time, Missus Carrey, i'd made up my mind
to follow you.

Speaker 6 (26:25):
Are you saying that these these supposed white killers you're
talking about also went to Monterrey?

Speaker 7 (26:30):
Yes they did, and from Monterrey to Las Vegas.

Speaker 6 (26:33):
Well, then you're wrong, Lieutenant, You're completely wrong.

Speaker 7 (26:38):
You mean you didn't go to Vegas.

Speaker 6 (26:40):
No, So there goes your famous theory, doesn't it. Well,
I I admit we changed our mind about Vegas. We
decided that we might be too tempted to gamble away
all the money we had to the trip.

Speaker 7 (26:53):
So you did have it on the schedule.

Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yes, yes we did, but we didn't go.

Speaker 7 (27:01):
I really think that changes the path, the fact that
you didn't go.

Speaker 6 (27:06):
Please, I can't stand anymore?

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Did I?

Speaker 7 (27:10):
I don't hear anymore, says Carrie Edith Burbank was killed
in Los Angeles in her hotel room. This hotel.

Speaker 6 (27:18):
I'm leading.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Wait, you're wrong, you're wrong.

Speaker 6 (27:21):
You got down except with the one out.

Speaker 7 (27:22):
Let me finish, please, just one more moment?

Speaker 15 (27:24):
No, no, no, let me go.

Speaker 7 (27:35):
Well there you are.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (27:39):
I didn't realize that you were back already.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yeah, I told you I wouldn't be gone more than
half an hour. I thought you'd be in the room.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
I went downstairs to get a magazine.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Didn't they have any?

Speaker 6 (27:54):
I guess I forgot to buy one. I got to
looking in the windows of the dress shops. I forgot
my original purpose completely.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
Susan, are you okay?

Speaker 6 (28:05):
Of course? Why do you ask?

Speaker 4 (28:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
You've you've got that funny look in your eyes again,
have I doesn't matter there's still the two most beautiful
eyes in the world.

Speaker 7 (28:19):
Hey, what is it?

Speaker 4 (28:21):
Don't tell me the honeymoon's over so soon?

Speaker 6 (28:24):
No, why do you say that.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
That was like kissing a snowman.

Speaker 6 (28:30):
I guess I just don't feel like myself today. I
think maybe all this traveling has warned me down a little.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Oh I am, I'm sorry. Well, we don't have much
further to go. There's one more playing trip to San Francisco. Yes, look,
maybe you'd rather not do out tonight. Maybe you ought
to stay in order some dinner in the room.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
I don't mind.

Speaker 6 (28:52):
But you wanted to go to that restaurant, the one
you told me about. You've been looking forward to it.

Speaker 15 (28:58):
For lawn market.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah, yeah, I did want to try the place. We're
supposed to be really spectacular.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
But you've never eaten there before.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Well, so how could I have never been in La before?

Speaker 6 (29:08):
I was speaking today that, well, you seem to know
the city so well. When we drove around you, you
didn't seem to have the slightest trouble.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
The streets are very well marked in this town. It's
really pleasure to drive here. But look, you know what,
I think, I think you ought to take a nap
before dinner.

Speaker 6 (29:29):
Yes, I was thinking of lying down, but I don't
think I can sleep.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Okay, then just read your magazine watty much.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
You haven't got one.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
I'll take care of that. Where are you going going
to get my bride something to read? How about a
nice magazine about cooking? You know I never did ask
you if you can cook?

Speaker 6 (29:50):
Just get me a news magazine if some kind of
a right, uh huh?

Speaker 3 (29:54):
The brainy drivee hasset around. See you in ten minutes.
I'll take the key so you won't have to get up.

Speaker 6 (30:01):
Yes, all right. Oh dear God, it can't be true.
They just can't any truth to what that man said.
He he's made a mistake, terrible mistake. His luggage, his

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initials DC. But anyone could have those initials, anyone.

Speaker 7 (30:32):
I wonder him.

Speaker 6 (30:35):
It's open. Oh Heaven's sake, What am I doing it
sectually my husband's luggage, like like some kind of hotel thief. No,
I won't do it. I won't. I'm not going to
believe anything.

Speaker 14 (30:55):
I won't.

Speaker 9 (30:59):
Who's that.

Speaker 11 (31:03):
Hello, missus Carrey, it's Gail Harrying.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
Leave me alone, stop bothering me.

Speaker 8 (31:09):
Shouldn't have run.

Speaker 18 (31:09):
Off like that, Missus Carrey didn't give me a chance
to finish what I was saying.

Speaker 6 (31:14):
I told you I don't want to hear anymore. Isn't true.
You've made a mistake, Lieutenant.

Speaker 18 (31:20):
Your husband is at the news stand right now, Missus
carry I can see him from where I'm standing at
the house folds, and I'm more I look at him,
the more sure I.

Speaker 11 (31:29):
Am that I'm right.

Speaker 6 (31:31):
No, you're wrong.

Speaker 11 (31:32):
I want you to hear the rest of the.

Speaker 18 (31:33):
Story about Crawford and David Chase and what they did
on their honeymoon.

Speaker 11 (31:39):
Maybe what I told you before it didn't convince you,
but if you heard a few more.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
Things, I'm going to hang up, Lieutenant right now.

Speaker 18 (31:45):
I wanted you to know where darn Crawford took his
wife the night she was murdered in a room.

Speaker 11 (31:50):
She took her to a restaurant called the Landmark. Do
you have it, Missus Carrey, Hey, are you listening?

Speaker 6 (32:00):
I'm not listening out listen.

Speaker 5 (32:12):
And so Susan Carey seems to have a date at
the Landmark restaurant in Los Angeles with her loving husband Dan.
If she keeps the date, something tells me that she's
not going to do their cuisine very much justice, because
one needs peace of mind to enjoy good food. Here

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Speaker 6 (34:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
On you.

Speaker 7 (34:54):
Well, what have we here?

Speaker 4 (34:56):
A quiet meal for two? It's a landmark restaurant. No,
we seem to be in a hotel room, the same
room in which we.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
Last saw our honeymooning couple, Susan and Dan Carrey. Obviously
there's been a change of plan. Room service has provided
the meal for the two lovers this evening. Can it
be that Susan Carey has decided that if there is
a pattern, it must be broken.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
Have some more wine, honey, No.

Speaker 6 (35:28):
I really don't think I want any.

Speaker 4 (35:29):
Hey, come on, do you know what this bottle cost?

Speaker 6 (35:33):
You shouldn't have been so extravagant.

Speaker 11 (35:36):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Oh, that sounds more like a wife than a bride.

Speaker 6 (35:40):
Well, eighteen dollars is an awful lot for wine, Dan,
especially why I really can't drink that much of it.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
I just wanted to make up.

Speaker 6 (35:51):
Well, never mind, you mean for not taking me to
the Landmark.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
No, it doesn't really matter.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
I told you it's fundating the room.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
Very elegant.

Speaker 6 (36:01):
I'm sure you were disappointed there.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
No, I really wasn't. Look, we're not going to be
very far from Los Angeles. We'll probably fly down from
San Francisco a few times a year.

Speaker 6 (36:11):
There are dozens of wonderful restaurants in San Francisco, too,
aren't they?

Speaker 7 (36:14):
So they tell me.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
I'll ask the guys at the office for recommendations.

Speaker 6 (36:17):
I think this food is quite good, don't you.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Yeah, sure, it's it's fine, tastes even better with the wine.

Speaker 6 (36:25):
Well, all right, I have some more. I guess that
a girl.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Now, look, I'm not trying to get you drunk, you understand,
So I can take advantage of you. Although, come to
think of, you.

Speaker 6 (36:40):
Almost knocked the table over.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
I guess I got a little carried away.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
You look very delectable in that robe.

Speaker 6 (36:48):
Oh did you really like it?

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Herresistible?

Speaker 6 (36:52):
I didn't take much of a wardrobe with me.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
You said you're going to buy clothes in San Francisco.

Speaker 6 (36:57):
Yes, if I can find out where to go, I'll.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Take you down to your square. I hear that's the place. Oh,
I have told you about the weekend. I have a
nice no, what about it? Well, I thought we'd get
our first look at the town by taking one of
those Circle Line cruises.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
That's okay with you?

Speaker 6 (37:12):
Oh, yes, that sounds lovely. I love to see places
by water, and if we.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Can squeeze it in, we might go picnicking in Golden
Gate Park. They've got this Japanese tea guard and it's
supposed to be very nice.

Speaker 6 (37:23):
Yes, all sounds wonderful, Dan.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Susan night. I just wish you felt better. Maybe you're
to check with the hotel doctor and in case you
picked up a bug or something. I look to you, No,
you look just great to me, darling. Yeah, I think

(37:52):
that'd be a good idea, Andy, we reserve the car
ahead of time, then we can pick it up.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
Right away in San Francisco.

Speaker 6 (37:57):
Whatever you think, Dan, you wait right here.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
I'll go over to the counter.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
I'm sure i'll be back in ten minutes.

Speaker 6 (38:02):
All right, Dan, Missus Carrie, Oh no, not you again.

Speaker 7 (38:11):
I didn't mean to start you.

Speaker 6 (38:13):
Go away, Please go away. I don't want miss you anymore.
Hear anything you have to say.

Speaker 18 (38:18):
I know that I seem to be persecuting you or something,
because you can see you, Kenny, I am in perfectly
good help.

Speaker 6 (38:25):
I was not murdered in my speak in that hotel room.

Speaker 7 (38:28):
Missus Carrey, I've only got a few minutes before your
husband gets back. I just wanted to finish my story
about this other guy, this David Chase.

Speaker 6 (38:36):
I don't care if you are a policeman. I'll call
someone and have you arrested for bothering me.

Speaker 7 (38:40):
David Chase's wife didn't get killed in Los Angeles. She
died in San Francisco.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
Where in a hotel room are not there?

Speaker 7 (38:48):
But they stayed at the San Remo. Is that where
you're staying?

Speaker 6 (38:53):
Yes, but millions of people do.

Speaker 7 (38:55):
No, there wasn't any mysterious intruder this time. In fact,
missus Chase's death was listed officially as an accident. She
had a little too much to drink at dinner and
her feet got tangled up on top of a very
steep ill. The fall broke her neck. It was her
very first day in San Francisco. She and her husband
had quite a day too. They took one of those

(39:16):
boat cruises to see the city, and they went the
Golden Gate Park to the Japanese tea garden. Misscarrier, you okay?

Speaker 8 (39:27):
No, no, I'm.

Speaker 6 (39:31):
I'm not okay?

Speaker 3 (39:34):
How could I be?

Speaker 7 (39:35):
That night, they went to a restaurant coat of von Dome.
That's where the lady dragged too much, at least according
to her husband. Oh dear God, listen, missus carry. I
can't follow you anymore. I've got a job to get
back to it. I want you to take this quiet.
Don't try anyone's attention to us. Just take it. If
I'm wrong and you don't need it, fine, just throw
it away. I don't want I cannot have you on

(39:58):
my conscience. Don't you want to? All right?

Speaker 6 (40:04):
Yes, all right, I'll take you. I still say you're wrong.

Speaker 7 (40:09):
I hope so, but I don't think I am.

Speaker 11 (40:21):
Hell missus Carrie. Yes, this is the message desk. Your
husband left a message here for four o'clock.

Speaker 6 (40:27):
Oh, I can help until now.

Speaker 11 (40:29):
He would you like me to read it to you?

Speaker 6 (40:31):
Yes? Please?

Speaker 11 (40:32):
It says it will be at the office until six.
Should be there no later that six thirty love dad?

Speaker 6 (40:39):
Oh, yes, thank you very much, welcome bye bye six
three six twenty Now, Oh god? Why do I keep
staring at his luggage? Why cat I just forget about it. No,

(41:06):
it isn't dishonest. It's just something I have to do. No, No,
nothing in this one. You're clothing. This one is papers
and things, all his documents, birth certificate. I don't know

(41:30):
if discharge us. Maybe Daniel Eldon's carry that is his name.
It is like Matty Harrington was wrong. Doesn't this mean
he was wrong? What does it just mean that? No,
I'm not going to start thinking that way. He's looked

(41:52):
like photographs. Maybe it's family. I no, wait, this picture's
signs a pretty girl.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
It's damn.

Speaker 6 (42:05):
Oh my love for everything?

Speaker 4 (42:08):
Edith.

Speaker 6 (42:11):
Who's the name? He said that policeman was the name
that man's wife was, wasn't it Eve? Oh?

Speaker 8 (42:19):
No, who is it?

Speaker 3 (42:24):
It's me, honey. Oh uh one second, Hi, sweetheart, Sorry
I forgot to take my key.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
Hi, I'm not late, am I I told him the
test I'd be back at sixth. Was not even that. Hey,
this is so dark in here, Susan.

Speaker 6 (42:45):
Oh I just I just got that myself. I didn't
think of turning on all the lights.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
Susan, I have a confession to make. I wasn't in
the office at all. My new staff felt they ought
to prison the new boss.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
I toeld you one thing about San Francisco. It's a
hard drinking child, Susan. What's the matter?

Speaker 6 (43:16):
I found her picture? What I found her picture? Your
first wife?

Speaker 4 (43:25):
What are you talking about? I was never married.

Speaker 6 (43:28):
There's her picture doing in your luggage?

Speaker 8 (43:31):
Yay?

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Hey, what's going on here? You must be drunk?

Speaker 6 (43:36):
Stay away from me, Dan, Susan, are you out of
your head? I saw a picture, Jemmy, I found her
picture on our honeymoon.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
I wor a minute, wondered a minute.

Speaker 4 (43:46):
Do you mean Edith?

Speaker 6 (43:47):
I know all about her, yes, and about the other one.
She drank too much too, didn't you?

Speaker 15 (43:53):
She was drunk too.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
When you calmed down, how.

Speaker 6 (43:56):
What you were planning to do tonight get me drunk restaurant.
You were going to take me out to dinner tonight,
weren't you?

Speaker 14 (44:04):
Of course I was.

Speaker 12 (44:05):
I asked one of the guys, if you I can
tell you the restaurant?

Speaker 6 (44:07):
He thinks, do you want to tell you the name
of the restaurant?

Speaker 7 (44:10):
Dan?

Speaker 6 (44:12):
It's the bon Dome, isn't it? What?

Speaker 2 (44:15):
What?

Speaker 6 (44:17):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (44:18):
And mean it is?

Speaker 7 (44:21):
How did you know that?

Speaker 15 (44:22):
God?

Speaker 13 (44:23):
I know I know everything.

Speaker 19 (44:26):
No, No, don't welcome here.

Speaker 4 (44:30):
I don't know what the trouble is.

Speaker 7 (44:31):
But you've got to be sick.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
You need help. You've been acting funny ever since we
left you.

Speaker 6 (44:37):
Look, look my god, hosn't.

Speaker 14 (44:41):
Put that down.

Speaker 6 (44:41):
I'm not going to end up like that.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
I'm give read that things.

Speaker 6 (44:44):
Don't oh, don't do don't want to shoot you?

Speaker 20 (44:57):
Mmhmm a second, whoa, mister Harvey, missus Carrie, I didn't
know that you were.

Speaker 7 (45:12):
Look, let me just get a shirt gun. I was
just Jamie.

Speaker 6 (45:15):
I'm sure you're surprised to see me, aren't you.

Speaker 7 (45:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (45:18):
I am.

Speaker 7 (45:19):
I I didn't expect that. You what what brings you
back to La?

Speaker 6 (45:24):
I'm sure you know, mister Harvey, that is the right name,
isn't it not Harrington.

Speaker 7 (45:32):
I guess that means you know all about my little joke.

Speaker 6 (45:35):
The gun wasn't a joke, was it. The gun was
really Look.

Speaker 7 (45:39):
I can tell you're upset, but I didn't mean any harm.
I mean I like Dan.

Speaker 6 (45:43):
I really do despised my husband. Mister Harvey, Why don't
you admit it. You hated the fact that he got
the job you wanted in San Francisco, and all you
got was an assistant manager's.

Speaker 11 (45:54):
Job, And you are wrong.

Speaker 7 (45:56):
I just thought it'd be a good gag, A good
joke gone Danny.

Speaker 6 (46:00):
Boys, I've heard about your reputation, the great practical joker.
You thought of a great one this time.

Speaker 11 (46:08):
But that's all it was.

Speaker 6 (46:09):
You gave Dan the itinerary for our honeymoon trip. You
were just being helpful, of course, you gave him all
the naimes and places, all the benefit of your traveling experience.

Speaker 7 (46:20):
It's a gag, see, I thought it. Dan took you
to all the places I listed for.

Speaker 6 (46:24):
He even knew about Edith, the girl he was once
engaged to, the one who died. She became his murder
victim in your little fantasy. What did you think would happen,
mister Harvey, did I get frightened enough to kill Dan
so that you might get the job he took away
from you?

Speaker 7 (46:39):
Listen? Is dad all right?

Speaker 6 (46:42):
I thought you might walk this back, mister Harvey, your god?

Speaker 7 (46:45):
Oh no, wait a minute, don't do anything stupid.

Speaker 6 (46:48):
Oh you don't have to worry. I found out that
I'm a terrible shock.

Speaker 7 (46:52):
But the dad's alive.

Speaker 6 (46:55):
Good for yourself.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
Hello, aren't dead, Thank Heaven. You're okay.

Speaker 7 (47:04):
Look, Dad, I didn't mean for anything serious to happen.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
See the bandage, Marty, just a flesh.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
Wound in my arm.

Speaker 7 (47:12):
I'll be okay. I'm glad to hear it.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
Daddy arst I am, but I am learning to use
my left hard though.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
Like what not?

Speaker 7 (47:21):
Don't please, I didn't mean it.

Speaker 13 (47:23):
Don't don't hit me again.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
Relax, Marty. I've got better things to do. I've got
a honeymoon to finish, although with any luck, it'll never end.

Speaker 5 (47:43):
So you see, even murder story is gonna have a
happy ending.

Speaker 8 (47:48):
Martin.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
Harvey may have spoiled Susan and Dan's honeymoon, but that
doesn't mean he managed to spoil their marriage. Oh yeah,
that's going to happen. Susan and Dan will take care
of that all by themselves. I'll be back shortly.

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Speaker 5 (49:48):
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Speaker 7 (49:57):
The murders which took.

Speaker 5 (49:58):
Place, we're all in the imagination of Martin Harvey, who
passed them on to the mind of Susan Carry. But
it's a good demonstration of the point we've tried to
make all along. But the most terrifying crimes can happen
within the theater of the mind. Our cast included Betsy

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von Furstenberg, Michael Wager, elspeth Rik and Mason Adams. The
entire production was under the direction of Diamond Brown.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Well, my dear, we've survived a little honeymoon of sorts,
but there's so much more out there. If you catch
my drift. Sorry, I'm in an odd mood tonight. Something
is just in the air, even if the air is

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old and maybe even a bit stuffy, much like yours. Truly, No,
sometimes the thing to be afraid of isn't something up
to scrutiny or interpretation. Sometimes you just fear the.

Speaker 4 (51:17):
Kill arch Obler's lights out, everybody.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
It.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Is later.

Speaker 15 (51:37):
Then you.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Thing.

Speaker 22 (51:47):
This is arch Obler bringing you another in our series
of stories of the unusual, And once again we caution you.
These lights out stories are definitely not for the timid soul.
So we tell you, calmly and very sincerely, if you frighten,
easily turn off your radio.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Now.

Speaker 22 (52:09):
The voice you are about to hear is that of
a thought of one Daryl Hall, accused murder. He sits
in the courtroom awaiting the return of a jury, which
is to decide whether he is to live or die.
And as he waits, the thoughts in his mind seethe
and swirls.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
See the guilty not guilty, guilty not guilty. Oh why
don't I stop thinking those words words? Those jurymen are
saying he's guilty.

Speaker 16 (52:35):
He's not guilty, he's guilty, not guilty, guilty.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
No, I've got to stop thinking of what's going on
in that room, the juryman, I've got to stop thinking
of them. I've got to keep my head clear. They've
got to figure things out. When did all this start?

Speaker 7 (52:50):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (52:50):
I remember at night Wayne and I were sitting in
my room talking about dreams. I remember he said, come on, Daryl,
don't expect me to read rattle. And I'm certainly telling
you the truth.

Speaker 23 (53:02):
A fellow with your imagination wasting his time teaching biology
to a bunch of co admit which, no, sir, you
should be writing fiction.

Speaker 22 (53:09):
Why, I assure you, my dear wyn, I've told you
the truth.

Speaker 4 (53:12):
Here are you reading seriously?

Speaker 16 (53:14):
An?

Speaker 4 (53:15):
You actually mean that in all your life you've never
had a dream, never, not even when you were a child.
To my knowledge, I've never had a dream in all
my life.

Speaker 7 (53:22):
Oh how do you like that?

Speaker 4 (53:24):
I like it very well. I close my eyes oblivion
and then I wake up. No nightmare, hangovers, thanks if no,
wait a minute, darrel, let me get this straight. You
mean you've never even had a dream, after you know,
eating a Welsh rare bit at midnight, or surrounding a
dozen green apples, or anything like that. Believe me away.
And I've never had a dream of any shape form
of description in all my life. A dream, to me

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is just a word, something that happens to other people
but never to me.

Speaker 7 (53:50):
But everyone was a dream.

Speaker 4 (53:52):
Well, just so happens that my subconscious doesn't work that way.

Speaker 8 (53:56):
I tell you again, I've never dreamed.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
What do you know about that? It's just unbelievable, I
tell you, Yes, that's what he said, was unbelievable, unbelievable
that I'd never dreamed. And then after a while he
went away and left me there. It was early evening,
but I remember that somehow strangely, I was very tired.
I sat down in an easy chair. I was so tired,

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I closed my eyes. I slept, and then it happened,
a strange murmuring in my head. Yes, that's how it started,
the murmuring, as if in warning. And then in the
darkness around me, strange faces lifting and falling, white faces,

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faces without hope, their eyes full of horror, their white,
bloodless lips pleading wordlessly in a way that made the
heart in me cry out in pity. And suddenly I
knew I was asleep and dreaming, yes, dreaming for the
first time in my life. And these faces I was
saying were things of a dream. And even as I

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knew that the dream was gone blackness, and yet I
knew that I was still asleep, and in me there
was a terrible feeling of foreboding, of a horror to
come in that dream.

Speaker 7 (55:21):
What how, I.

Speaker 4 (55:23):
Didn't know that I wanted to stop sleeping. I wanted
to open my eyes quickly before and then I saw
her in my dream, I tell you, I saw her
moving slowly toward me out of the darkness that was
my dream, at first a white wreath like thing, and
then I saw it was a woman, Yes, the body

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of a woman, but the face, that face grows unclean,
the thick vestual brows, the wrinkles of the lecherous writhings
of thin crimson lips lifted from teeth, bright and pointed

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and flaked with blood. Closer closer to me, and then
she spoke one word, shew. Yes, that's what she said, kill.
And as she said, as she moved closer, her hands
went out in her eyes, and in my dream, I screamed.

Speaker 7 (56:32):
I awoke.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
I remember just at that second the clock on the
mantel began striking five, six, seven. I counted each chime
in happiness, since the hearing of it meant that I
was awake, awake, out of the horror of that dream.
When the clock had stopped chiming, I sat there. My

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one thought was if that streaming, may I never dream again?
I heard a sound?

Speaker 7 (56:59):
What was that?

Speaker 4 (57:01):
I said, still afraid to move, and then I laughed.
It was my own heart, my own heart, still pounding
with fright at what I had seen in my first dream.
Oh why do I sit here thinking of what has
been the jury in there? They've got to hang me,
got to hang me. He's guilty, not guilty, No, no, no,

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I mustn't think of them. Better to keep my thoughts
on how it all started, better to figure things out.
There was I, yes, sitting there, listening to the beat
of my heart, thinking of the horror of that dream.
And then suddenly that wordless, pitiful murmur I heard in
my dream was whispering in my head again. His quickly

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as it began, it was gone. How could this be?
I was awake, awake, This was no dream?

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Then?

Speaker 4 (57:55):
Why had I heard that same sound that had come
from those pitiful white faces that had floated before me
while I slept.

Speaker 7 (58:00):
Why why I heard it?

Speaker 4 (58:03):
A sound behind me?

Speaker 13 (58:04):
Who?

Speaker 4 (58:05):
Yes, my friend Wayne, it must be he coming into
the room, standing behind my chair. Thinking I was asleep,
I turned around and I said, Wayne, is that you?

Speaker 13 (58:11):
Why?

Speaker 4 (58:14):
Yes, I screamed, I screamed so loudly there was blood
in my throat. For it was she again, that woman,
that woman out of my dream. But this wasn't a green.
She was standing there, I told her. She was standing there,
close to me, looking at me, and those devil's lips

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said that one word cheer.

Speaker 7 (58:40):
I jumped to my feet.

Speaker 4 (58:41):
No one in the room, No one, I told you.
I remember standing there, my head reeling.

Speaker 7 (58:45):
Who was she?

Speaker 4 (58:45):
Where did she come from? But there was no one
in the room. Had there been anyone there? I didn't
sleep that night and by morning, Yes, by morning I

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had it all figured out. Two dreams, that's what it
had been, and the second had been more vivid than
the first. Yes, of course I had never dreamed before,
and of course my first dream would seem reality. And
yet some measure of uncertainty remained with me. Mary saw
it in my face. When I had dinner with her

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that night, I remember she said, L do.

Speaker 14 (59:33):
You mind if I asked or something?

Speaker 24 (59:35):
Or what?

Speaker 7 (59:35):
A question? Of course?

Speaker 6 (59:36):
Not?

Speaker 14 (59:37):
Is there something wrong with a dinner?

Speaker 7 (59:39):
Why you know this is my favorite restaurant with you?

Speaker 6 (59:42):
Dear?

Speaker 14 (59:42):
Has something gone wrong with the university?

Speaker 4 (59:45):
Why do you ask that?

Speaker 14 (59:47):
The worry in your eyes?

Speaker 4 (59:48):
Oh what is it?

Speaker 14 (59:50):
Dear?

Speaker 6 (59:51):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (59:52):
Nothing nothing important.

Speaker 14 (59:54):
Changed your mind about loving me?

Speaker 4 (59:56):
Mary?

Speaker 14 (59:57):
Now then tell me what it is.

Speaker 15 (59:58):
Please.

Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
There's really nothing to concern yourself over. Just a dream, dream, Darryl.
You dream?

Speaker 7 (01:00:06):
Yes, last night?

Speaker 6 (01:00:07):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (01:00:08):
How marvelous. No, you're normal even when you see.

Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
That's right, isn't it. I'm back to normalcy?

Speaker 25 (01:00:14):
Am I not?

Speaker 7 (01:00:15):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (01:00:15):
And here I thought from the expression on your face
it was something really important?

Speaker 7 (01:00:18):
Oh yes, funny, isn't it?

Speaker 6 (01:00:21):
And I suppose in your first dream you dreamt of
the glorious seductive woman.

Speaker 14 (01:00:26):
Well didn't you?

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:00:29):
Mary?

Speaker 14 (01:00:30):
Oh, so you had a nightmare.

Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
If you don't mind, let's let's not talk about it anymore.
Shall we have our dessert now? I suggest the hot
green apple pie with cheese and Daryl.

Speaker 14 (01:00:41):
Was it as bad as old?

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
Horrible?

Speaker 7 (01:00:45):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (01:00:45):
That's cool?

Speaker 14 (01:00:46):
Your very first dream and unhappy one. Oh well, I'm
sure that if you dream again you more interesting times ahead.
Oh Darrel, look at the time. A minute of seven,
we promised the Armstrongs. We picked them up at seven fifteen.

Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
What is it you say?

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
You heard?

Speaker 11 (01:01:04):
What you do here?

Speaker 7 (01:01:05):
Don't you the voice?

Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
Jara?

Speaker 14 (01:01:07):
What are you talking about? The people in this restaurant
mostly behaved, gone, just the way it was before, Darrel?
Please is it a joke? Please tell it to Daryl.

Speaker 19 (01:01:21):
What is it?

Speaker 14 (01:01:22):
He's doing it? S my chair, Sir Darrel?

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Tell me what the table?

Speaker 14 (01:01:32):
Why did you throw over the table? Darrow?

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
What is it?

Speaker 6 (01:01:35):
What is it? Why did you scream? Why?

Speaker 7 (01:01:45):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
She wanted to know why I had done it? Screamed,
thrown over the table. They all wanted to know. But
how could I tell them? Tell them of her standing
behind Mary's chair, that thing of degradation and those lips,
same pill. I went home, Mary thought I was over work.

Speaker 14 (01:02:07):
It's your nerves, Darling, you've been working so hard. Go
home and rese Darling, it's.

Speaker 15 (01:02:12):
All you need.

Speaker 6 (01:02:13):
Rest?

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
Rest? What good was rest? I had to reason things
out all my life. I'd lived with reason, and now
this horror hallucination.

Speaker 7 (01:02:23):
Yes, that was it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:24):
I had been working hard. They paid so little at
the university and expected so much, and so I rested
through the next day. It was quite dark when I awoke.
The phone rang. It was Mary calling to find out
how I felt. Are you sure you're right, dere Oh yes, Mary, Yes,
I'm fine. Thank you. Your advice was good, dear, rest
apparently was just what I needed.

Speaker 15 (01:02:45):
Then go along back to bed.

Speaker 14 (01:02:46):
I'll talk to you Tom.

Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
All right, dearest, and thanks for calling.

Speaker 14 (01:02:49):
Goodbye, darn sleep well tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:02:52):
I I'm not the receiver. And then the clock on
the mantel behind me began striking, always at seven. Yes,
that was true both times at seven o'clock was when
that horror had happened. And then when the last chime
of the clock, I realized it was seven again seven?

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Would I see her again? I stood there, back against
the wall of waiting, so quiet, I could hear the
clock ticking away the seconds.

Speaker 7 (01:03:31):
Would it happen again?

Speaker 4 (01:03:33):
This hallucination of mine? I waited.

Speaker 8 (01:03:41):
I heard no pitiful number of.

Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
Voices, just quiet, the tick tick tick of the clock.
So dark in the room, I could see the shadowy
emptiness of a chair near the other wall. And then
the chair was no longer empty.

Speaker 7 (01:03:58):
There was someone in it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:59):
And I said, who's there? There's no answer, And I said,
answer me, who's there?

Speaker 7 (01:04:05):
No answer?

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
The strange darkness in the room deeper and deeper. I
could see nothing in them, two swirling pools of flame
red life, closer and closer. I stood there, I couldn't move.
A rumbling began in my head. Fear, I tell you,
fear tearing at my brain, louder and louder, while those
red circles of might came closer and closer. What was it?

(01:04:28):
What was it?

Speaker 6 (01:04:30):
What?

Speaker 8 (01:04:34):
And then I knew.

Speaker 4 (01:04:37):
It was her eyes, her eyes burning closer to mine,
into the brain of me, pounding one thought into me.

Speaker 7 (01:04:47):
Why did she say that?

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
Why kill whom?

Speaker 7 (01:04:49):
Why should I kill?

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
Why should I kill? If I had known them? The
jury coming back, the verdict, what oh not yet still out.
They've got to find me guilty. I've got to hang
if I live. But I mustn't think of that. I
must think of what happened.

Speaker 7 (01:05:10):
What happened?

Speaker 4 (01:05:12):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:05:13):
Where was I?

Speaker 4 (01:05:15):
Yes, that that woman, her eyes pounding that word into me,
and then gone again, but this time as real as
the breath in me. I knew it. I knew it,
And with that realization of coldness as of a wind
blew around me and clutched at my heart. For she
was reality. Somehow I knew I was lost. And so

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it began, night after night, at the stroke of seven,
first that wailing dirge of those lost souls, and then
her writhing lips cheer chill, chill, cheer here, cheer chill, chill,

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kill kill. Those words began pounding in my head, so
that even when she wasn't there, I heard them. I
hid in my rooms.

Speaker 16 (01:06:06):
I didn't go out.

Speaker 4 (01:06:07):
People would see this madness that had come over me.
I went nowhere, and soon I knew they were talking
of me.

Speaker 23 (01:06:12):
My friends tell you, I don't know what's come over.
Daryl eyes in his rooms, won't even talk to me.
Something is wrong, And Mary, please, darl does let me
see you. It's talking over the froon. Oh what's wrong?
What's wrong?

Speaker 4 (01:06:25):
And night after night, the horror of.

Speaker 7 (01:06:31):
And the greater horror of.

Speaker 4 (01:06:34):
Kill, kill, kill, kill chill. Mary pleaded with me.

Speaker 14 (01:06:40):
If you love me, please let me see you.

Speaker 4 (01:06:42):
Talk to you.

Speaker 14 (01:06:43):
Come over to my house tonight, please, Darrel. Perhaps I
can help you, please, darling.

Speaker 4 (01:06:49):
I didn't want to go, but I went that night.
Perhaps she could help is, help me understand the madness
of those wailing voices and drifting white faces. Understand the
horror of that woman, that maddening word. Mary is so understanding,
so gentle. She could help me clear my head of
the madness.

Speaker 14 (01:07:09):
Oh, dell your head last, Mary, help me, you will
help me, Mary.

Speaker 4 (01:07:14):
I don't sit here saying Mary, believe me.

Speaker 7 (01:07:17):
I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (01:07:19):
It's that madness outside of me, those white, drifting faces
moaning me, and that woman out of hell, her eyes
and her lips telling.

Speaker 7 (01:07:26):
Me to the time.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
What time is it?

Speaker 6 (01:07:32):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
What is this?

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
I didn't know, I lost track. I've got to get
out of here. They're a wait, don't go, don't too late.
What is it?

Speaker 7 (01:07:44):
You hear them, don't you marry? You listen to them?

Speaker 4 (01:07:46):
Their voices is so loud, and I listen, Mary, listen, listen.

Speaker 7 (01:07:50):
You hear them, You hear them?

Speaker 11 (01:07:51):
What are they saying?

Speaker 20 (01:07:52):
Louder and love?

Speaker 11 (01:07:53):
They're trying to tell me something. What are you saying
up there?

Speaker 8 (01:07:55):
What are you telling me?

Speaker 6 (01:07:57):
Don't stop?

Speaker 4 (01:08:02):
Since his voice is gone now she will be here,
Please fight chi you hear her, Mary, you hear her. No, No,
I can't see her, but I hear her words. Thy,
ill go back, I tell you back. I'll make her stop, merry,
make her stop. Head stopped and stop.

Speaker 26 (01:08:24):
You wanted to make stop it stop stop.

Speaker 24 (01:08:26):
And I can't say her any more years olive, don't
kill kill, kill chill.

Speaker 15 (01:08:49):
Mary.

Speaker 4 (01:08:51):
Mary. Yes, I had killed her, my sweet, gentle little Mary,
killed her with my own hands. I opened my hands.
She fell to the floor. I went out into the street.
People all around me hurrying.

Speaker 7 (01:09:13):
I was in no hurry.

Speaker 4 (01:09:14):
What that woman had wanted I had done. I had killed.
I walked all night, it didn't matter where. And in
the morning I found myself on the campus of the school,
before the very building in which a class was waiting
for my lecture.

Speaker 8 (01:09:25):
I went in.

Speaker 4 (01:09:28):
I walked up on the platform and looked down into
their faces, and I said to them, ladies and gentlemen,
my lecture for the day will be on the subject
of the indeterminate factor and the evolutionary I stopped and
murmuring the air. Those voices again, But it was broad daylight.
I had never heard those voices in daylight before. What
did they want?

Speaker 7 (01:09:47):
What were they saying.

Speaker 11 (01:09:48):
There was a strange, as inevitable voice as.

Speaker 4 (01:09:50):
Yes, like a purge, a dirge of tears and sorrow
for someone for me, Yes for me, And then to
her voice.

Speaker 7 (01:10:00):
Gladly, triumphantly. Then I understood.

Speaker 4 (01:10:02):
But the first time I understood everything.

Speaker 7 (01:10:04):
She had triumphed over me.

Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
That was why those lost souls.

Speaker 7 (01:10:07):
Were winning a dirts over me. I was hers hers forever.

Speaker 4 (01:10:12):
I turned and ran out of there like a madman,
ran man, And as I ran, those voices of the
damn were talking to me. You are doomed, as we
are doomed.

Speaker 14 (01:10:23):
Though who murder are dooms? Listen to her murdered.

Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
Now you are one of us.

Speaker 22 (01:10:29):
No peace for those who murder, No rest through all eternity.

Speaker 14 (01:10:34):
No risk for those who murdered.

Speaker 4 (01:10:36):
Through all eternity. I covered my ears with my hands
as I ran, no use. I heard them, and I
heard them only one hope for you, man, one hope.

Speaker 14 (01:10:49):
X behr crime on the gallows.

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
Stay for what you have done, Die on the gallows,
and you shall have the rest.

Speaker 4 (01:11:00):
One hope, man, one hope. So that was him. If
I paid society for my crime, she would fail. I
would be free of her that thing, that essence of evil,
that siren who called men to murder her so that souls,
their souls, would be slaves to her for all eternity. Yes, yes,

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I would pay for my crime. I ran on back
to Mary's house. Yes I would pay, and gladly with
my life to have peace on the rest of the bribon.
I went back into the house. Yes, Mary was still
there cold. I lifted her the same hands that had

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crushed the knife out of her, lifted her and carried
her out into the sun. My eyes were so filled
with tears that I could hardly see where I walked.
People began milling around me. I look like, guy, he's
got a woman in his arm.

Speaker 13 (01:11:57):
Where's he carried her?

Speaker 6 (01:11:59):
She?

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
No, look, she's dead.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
Who kills.

Speaker 13 (01:12:05):
Hey?

Speaker 25 (01:12:06):
Who kill her?

Speaker 7 (01:12:06):
Mister?

Speaker 25 (01:12:06):
Who kill her?

Speaker 13 (01:12:07):
I did?

Speaker 4 (01:12:08):
I killed her with my own hands. I killed her,
and please, I want to die for that. And then
the trial, my friends, they wanted to save me, clever
attorneys and sanity commissions and twists of the laws.

Speaker 7 (01:12:23):
But I wanted to die. I tell you I had
to die if they set me free.

Speaker 4 (01:12:26):
If I lived and died as most men die, whose
death they call a natural one.

Speaker 7 (01:12:30):
Then she would have me.

Speaker 15 (01:12:31):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:12:32):
No, I want to hang by the neck until dead.
I want that noose around my neck, the trap beneath
my feet, the jailer pulls us my feet dancing in air,
the noose murdering me away my hands, committed murder, oblivion.
I'd be free, free of that horror with the writhing
lips and the bloodstained teeth. The jury, they're coming in, guilty.

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They've got to find me guilty, guilty, Find me guilty, the.

Speaker 13 (01:12:55):
Jury, the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree.

Speaker 4 (01:13:04):
If you get another free of you, you seemed you
I crime, You'll never get You'll.

Speaker 8 (01:13:13):
Never get.

Speaker 26 (01:13:18):
Headed.

Speaker 13 (01:13:19):
Let's defend it said it.

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
Get a doctor, someone, ambulance, Call an ambulance.

Speaker 27 (01:13:25):
It's no use. This man is dead, heart attack, horry.
Would you take a look at his face as if
he was looking at the devil himself?

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
Oh it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:59):
Is later.

Speaker 4 (01:14:03):
Then, you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Thing.

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
Perhaps I was a bit intense with that last one.
But well, if we're not here to feel, then really
what are we here for at all?

Speaker 7 (01:14:33):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
What's that?

Speaker 7 (01:14:34):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
My yes, there is something in the air that I
was trying to put it into words before, but I
failed miserably. Something is in the wind going through these
thick concrete walls, and I can't quite put my finger

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on it. The ear, the threat. It almost feels like
the power of the hammer.

Speaker 28 (01:15:12):
You finding life, pretty girl, dreaming again of exotic places,
wishing you were somewhere else.

Speaker 29 (01:15:22):
We offer you escape, Escape designed to free you from
the four walls of today for a half hour of

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high adventures.

Speaker 28 (01:15:45):
Escape with us now to a puppet kingdom in the
heart of the Belgian Congo and a man who challenged
that kingdom because of dream. As Guildoud and Anthony Ellis
tell it in their most unusual story, The Power.

Speaker 13 (01:16:00):
Uphammer, Where.

Speaker 8 (01:16:25):
Play it again?

Speaker 6 (01:16:27):
Say?

Speaker 13 (01:16:27):
I have played it for you ten times already.

Speaker 8 (01:16:30):
It's a joke box, isn't it. I'm paying play it again.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
I like it, So I play it again.

Speaker 30 (01:16:50):
We hear something else side you'll try, mister.

Speaker 8 (01:17:01):
I like that song.

Speaker 7 (01:17:09):
You get some water s.

Speaker 8 (01:17:13):
Felt good one.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
I had.

Speaker 8 (01:17:15):
Hurt my hand off. It's all right, boy, whiskey bowsy
bar BARSI conger. I must be drunk, must be I
am garrigan. You're drunk. I like that song which I

(01:17:40):
was back.

Speaker 7 (01:17:40):
In the States.

Speaker 8 (01:17:42):
I wish I could see Alice, Alice, gotta get out
of here. Hey, yes, sim Yes to a broken table,
Yes to a whiskey.

Speaker 13 (01:17:55):
Enough, it's alright, it's not your fault. I have enough
of your for you next time.

Speaker 8 (01:17:59):
You Where do we go from here?

Speaker 4 (01:18:03):
Boys?

Speaker 8 (01:18:04):
Where do we go from here?

Speaker 12 (01:18:05):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
Sam?

Speaker 8 (01:18:06):
Where you go?

Speaker 13 (01:18:07):
You strong man?

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
You stay with me and we have good time?

Speaker 8 (01:18:24):
Cigarette? Hey dog, you got a friend from me?

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
Yeah, it's the argan. Nah, sure you will come with us?

Speaker 8 (01:18:49):
Please?

Speaker 7 (01:18:50):
What for?

Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
The inspector will tell you?

Speaker 7 (01:18:52):
Come with us?

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
Please, sh inspector fell neck.

Speaker 13 (01:19:07):
Oh yes, you can wait outside. Come in, mister Krrigan
said down please.

Speaker 8 (01:19:17):
What's the charge?

Speaker 25 (01:19:19):
No charge, mister Kellghan Government business. I have received a
cable ordering me to extradite a man named Benjamin Hamma.

Speaker 13 (01:19:26):
Have you ever heard of him?

Speaker 6 (01:19:27):
No?

Speaker 25 (01:19:28):
We believe that he is somewhere in this territory, possibly
west of Muyumba across the Walaba River. Fifteen years ago
he embezzled money in Brussels and incidentally.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
Killed a man.

Speaker 8 (01:19:40):
For a long time, they get him what.

Speaker 13 (01:19:42):
We think we have now?

Speaker 25 (01:19:45):
Have you heard of a white man who calls himself
a king and has made himself responsible for several thousand
Bahuto tribesmen. Rumors that man maybe Benjamin Hamma. I want
you to take me into his kingdom across the larby
not me. You are the only guide in the Belgian
Congo who is familiar with that country. Surely you have

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taken hunting parties in there before.

Speaker 8 (01:20:09):
That's right, and I'm not going back. You will be
well paid, not well enough, sorry.

Speaker 13 (01:20:16):
Just a moment as a guide the hunter.

Speaker 25 (01:20:20):
Mister Kergan, you realize that you are licensed by the government,
and here I am the government.

Speaker 8 (01:20:27):
So I moved to another territory as Lasi Congo is
all the same.

Speaker 25 (01:20:31):
You are an alien, my friend, and without my help
it may be difficult to obtain a license anywhere.

Speaker 8 (01:20:42):
Luck, Inspector. This is for your own good. It's bad
in there, real bad.

Speaker 13 (01:20:49):
You mean the natives.

Speaker 8 (01:20:50):
Yeah, you wouldn't get ten miles beyond the river.

Speaker 13 (01:20:53):
I am aware of the hostility of the natives, mister Kerrigan.

Speaker 8 (01:20:56):
This is my territory.

Speaker 25 (01:20:57):
But we won't be going in alone. There'll be forty
of us. Were band, two boys and two machine guns.

Speaker 8 (01:21:07):
This is funny. You're blackmailing, not at all. You will
be paid, That's what I mean, Okay. At your funeral,

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as your stinking polluted lo a lava river, fran Act,
as your jungle.

Speaker 13 (01:21:40):
I recognize that, mister kell I have been here before.

Speaker 8 (01:21:43):
You've been on my yamba, but you haven't gone across
the river.

Speaker 13 (01:21:46):
We shall unload the trucks now and leave tomorrow at dawn.

Speaker 25 (01:21:49):
The Bantus have instructions not to pratonize with the villagers,
and I wish you too to remain silent about our mission.

Speaker 8 (01:21:56):
Sure, but you lessen to night, you'll hear the drums talking.
There's no such word as secret.

Speaker 25 (01:22:01):
Here one more thingk again, as long as you are
in the employee of the Belgian government, you will try
to remain so far.

Speaker 26 (01:22:11):
The trucks and the god about them.

Speaker 8 (01:22:22):
Sure, be careful of everything. Unload the trucks, boast a guide.
If you really want to be careful, go back to Manona. Boy,
back to Manona. But you won't go back, your fat
little ferneck, and you may lose more than your weight.

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Young all the villages at night, hot stink.

Speaker 7 (01:23:01):
Never sleep.

Speaker 8 (01:23:11):
Wonder if Fernax listening when of these awake you hear
the drums? Fernac, did you ever hear a drum talking? Well?

Speaker 7 (01:23:20):
I did.

Speaker 8 (01:23:24):
Many soldiers with guns crossing the river before the sun.
You come to the kingdom of Hammer and you hear
that furnac. Better have a drink, Maybe.

Speaker 26 (01:23:40):
Sleep the poles up, and I will take a point
in struct them into.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
Mister yeah, where you asleep?

Speaker 8 (01:24:18):
Not just less smoke.

Speaker 25 (01:24:20):
Mister Kean, one of my Bentum sergeants, says that he
understands the language of the drums.

Speaker 8 (01:24:25):
Wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 25 (01:24:27):
He says that they are telling the king that we
are coming.

Speaker 8 (01:24:30):
I figures the king's name is Hammer, and I guess
you were right.

Speaker 25 (01:24:36):
I think that you have known that all the time.
You were too anxious to stop us from coming here.

Speaker 8 (01:24:43):
You've got a suspicious mind for an egg. I told
you why I didn't want to guide. It's dangerous. You
don't know what you're getting into. Better go back to
your desk in your rubber stamp. I have brought my
stamp with me, the seal of the Belgian government. I
am that government on the other side of the river, maybe,
but not here. As a king by the name of Hammer,
I have got forty three soldiers. One of his man

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a more loyal when you're tamed.

Speaker 25 (01:25:06):
Banto's at the pace we set today, How long do
you think it will take us?

Speaker 4 (01:25:11):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:25:12):
With luck, four more days? Maybe five. Remember I've never
been here.

Speaker 25 (01:25:17):
Before, so you said good night, mister character.

Speaker 8 (01:25:22):
Hey Farnach, I wouldn't move around too much in the dark.

Speaker 13 (01:25:26):
Don't be afraid. We are well guarded. I've posted six
men with our machine guard.

Speaker 8 (01:25:32):
Okay, I won't be afraid.

Speaker 4 (01:25:56):
To quiet.

Speaker 8 (01:26:03):
Don't see what happened?

Speaker 6 (01:26:10):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:26:11):
Def you no?

Speaker 7 (01:26:11):
Not mine?

Speaker 2 (01:26:14):
He stick?

Speaker 13 (01:26:14):
What did it?

Speaker 26 (01:26:16):
All of them machine guns?

Speaker 13 (01:26:18):
Show me.

Speaker 7 (01:26:22):
Lucky?

Speaker 8 (01:26:22):
It wasn't you, fat little turnach. I told you it
was dangerous. You wouldn't listen, would you. I hope you
haven't had breakfast yet. You won't like what you see?
Better go back back to Manona for you.

Speaker 7 (01:26:34):
Boy?

Speaker 8 (01:26:38):
What's the matter?

Speaker 10 (01:26:41):
Essentially is dead?

Speaker 7 (01:26:42):
Eh?

Speaker 8 (01:26:43):
You look a little green.

Speaker 25 (01:26:45):
You are possibly more used to it than I am.
Mister Kerrigan. They will be hided. The machine guns was
stolen in the turn back.

Speaker 13 (01:26:52):
No, I want you to take a searching party.

Speaker 25 (01:26:55):
I give you ten men search for what hunt you
can follow?

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (01:27:00):
Right, ken?

Speaker 8 (01:27:01):
And you know what I'll find? Not your machine guns?
Six heads stuck up on poles.

Speaker 13 (01:27:06):
That's what they did it for.

Speaker 8 (01:27:07):
To one us off. They could have wiped out the
whole camp if they wanted. You better go home for
an act.

Speaker 7 (01:27:13):
We go on.

Speaker 26 (01:27:16):
On the column as big as possible.

Speaker 13 (01:27:18):
We're moving on.

Speaker 8 (01:27:30):
Should have gone back that first morning. You've got guts,
though you don't need them. We'll get there, all right.
They haven't hit a white man, and we're saving something
special for us, something special for me. You all right,
fernact is how many? This time?

Speaker 4 (01:27:51):
It's up?

Speaker 13 (01:27:52):
Casual?

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
That leaves three bantos.

Speaker 8 (01:27:56):
You levat and me. Let the matter ready to turn around?

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
Now?

Speaker 25 (01:28:01):
I want to get hammer. If I do go back,
it will only be to get two hundred men.

Speaker 8 (01:28:05):
But get it. This is the last attack.

Speaker 11 (01:28:07):
Or do you know?

Speaker 8 (01:28:08):
Are you a kidding? Why should he be afraid of you?
Now he's left us three banters for porters? How do
you expect to drag Hi back to Manona with an
army like that? He'll let us in.

Speaker 10 (01:28:17):
All right, let's get moving.

Speaker 4 (01:28:32):
There.

Speaker 8 (01:28:32):
It is nothing changed since the last time clearing stockade house.

Speaker 7 (01:28:41):
Here's a room a night.

Speaker 8 (01:28:43):
I can't forget.

Speaker 6 (01:28:45):
Sam, Sam, don't go away unless you take me with you.

Speaker 3 (01:28:49):
I can't stand him, Sam, take me back.

Speaker 15 (01:28:52):
I want to be with you.

Speaker 9 (01:28:54):
He should have thought of that before he wanted ben
You got him.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
Do what you like.

Speaker 15 (01:29:01):
Now I'm afraid of him.

Speaker 31 (01:29:05):
Scam Kerrigan, scared, You're scared, You're scared.

Speaker 9 (01:29:11):
You were right, Alice, I wasn't. I still am now
I'm back.

Speaker 32 (01:29:29):
My name is Benjamin Hammer.

Speaker 16 (01:29:32):
You are inspector.

Speaker 32 (01:29:34):
Yes, the message of the drums was unable to cope
with the name. Mister Kerrigan, love man. I'm surprised to
see you. I thought I made it clear at our
last meeting that I should kill you if you return.

Speaker 8 (01:29:49):
You had your chance. Why didn't you.

Speaker 7 (01:29:51):
I don't understand, Skipper Benjamin Hammer.

Speaker 25 (01:29:55):
I have here a warrant for your arrest on a
charge of embezzlement and murder, to which will be at
responsibility for the death of fifty seven government soldiers.

Speaker 32 (01:30:04):
Responsibility Your responsibility, Inspector, not mine. You should have known
better than to enter Bahutu country. Karagan knows how savage
the natives are. Didn't he tell you? I suppose not.
Mister Kerrigan is a deceitful man. You mustn't trust him.
I don't well before you drag me off to my doom,

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I should imagine that a bath and a cooling drink
would be in order. Come along you too, Sergeant. I
want you to meet my wife. My men will take
care of your bantus, little fat man.

Speaker 8 (01:30:47):
You're not afraid of him? Are you crazy? How are
you going to do it? How do you arrest a king?

Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
Hod bath?

Speaker 8 (01:30:55):
Cool drink, supper than any hour, any day? He wants goodbye,
Sergeant Labat, goodbye, Inspector governmental for anac, Goodbye Kragan. Alice
waiting like a white at the door. Alice, you made

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you smile warm red.

Speaker 9 (01:31:21):
I know those irons.

Speaker 8 (01:31:24):
I know you, Alice, soft dark Guardania's frightened. Who are
you looking at?

Speaker 32 (01:31:35):
You're looking at me, my dear. I should like you
to meet Inspector Fernack. He's come to arrest me. How
do you do and Sergeant Labat Lambert, Sergeant mister Kerrigan,
you know, don't you?

Speaker 8 (01:31:57):
Yes, sir, I run.

Speaker 7 (01:31:59):
Along and prepare food for our guests.

Speaker 32 (01:32:02):
Yes, sir, Inspector I have prepared a room for you
and the sergeant at the end of the corridor. Kerrigan,
I don't imagine your mind going back into your old
room filled with memories.

Speaker 8 (01:32:19):
Show them the way, will you not all mind?

Speaker 32 (01:32:22):
When you've had your baths and feel up to it.
We'll take supper on the brander.

Speaker 25 (01:32:28):
Why did you say you'd never been here before?

Speaker 8 (01:32:30):
What does it matter?

Speaker 25 (01:32:31):
You knew he was wanted, didn't you know?

Speaker 6 (01:32:34):
To me?

Speaker 8 (01:32:34):
He was a guy who paid well for trade goods
and told me to keep my mouth shut about his setup.
I did because it was good business.

Speaker 25 (01:32:40):
How long have you lond him?

Speaker 8 (01:32:41):
Five years?

Speaker 16 (01:32:43):
Six?

Speaker 8 (01:32:44):
Haven't been here for over a year though?

Speaker 25 (01:32:45):
Why did he speak of killing you if you returned?

Speaker 8 (01:32:49):
That's none of your business.

Speaker 25 (01:32:50):
I'll make it my business when we return to Manono.

Speaker 8 (01:32:54):
Yeah, you do that, Farnach when we get back.

Speaker 6 (01:33:00):
About that?

Speaker 8 (01:33:06):
Got to bed Karrigan?

Speaker 6 (01:33:08):
What for?

Speaker 8 (01:33:11):
She calls him?

Speaker 7 (01:33:11):
Sir?

Speaker 6 (01:33:13):
Sir?

Speaker 8 (01:33:14):
He treated like one of the Bahutu's servants. Doesn't need
at the table slave? When did that happen a year ago?
After he found out about us?

Speaker 7 (01:33:26):
Sure?

Speaker 8 (01:33:28):
I wonder if she's with him? Have a drink?

Speaker 2 (01:33:34):
What's the use?

Speaker 8 (01:33:36):
Where are you? Where are you? She hadn't done that, Alice?

Speaker 2 (01:33:48):
Ye?

Speaker 8 (01:33:50):
Well, fat furnac furnac.

Speaker 6 (01:34:02):
No, don't touch me, Alice, Alice, No, you mustn't.

Speaker 15 (01:34:06):
I can't stand being touched. You don't know what it's
been like with him since you left. Oh, why didn't
you take me with you?

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
Then you know why?

Speaker 8 (01:34:15):
He would have had his natives hon us before we'd
gone a mile.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
But why did he let me go? Don't you know?

Speaker 31 (01:34:22):
So that he could do what he's done to me?
So that I could think about you outside, alive and
want you, so that he could do these things that
I can't tell Look at me.

Speaker 8 (01:34:34):
It'd been better for both of us if he'd tried
to run away and he'd killed us.

Speaker 6 (01:34:37):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 7 (01:34:38):
No, yes it does.

Speaker 8 (01:34:39):
We'll try it.

Speaker 7 (01:34:40):
Come with me.

Speaker 15 (01:34:40):
No, I couldn't go with you.

Speaker 4 (01:34:42):
Now.

Speaker 8 (01:34:42):
There might be a chance. Does he know you're here?

Speaker 15 (01:34:45):
I suppose so he knows everything about me. He left
you your guns, didn't he?

Speaker 6 (01:34:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:34:52):
He would?

Speaker 2 (01:34:53):
You know that.

Speaker 15 (01:34:54):
I want you to give me yours.

Speaker 8 (01:34:56):
I can't do that.

Speaker 33 (01:34:57):
I've got to kill him. I've waited a year for
the chance. It's made me want to live, to kill him.
He's been so sure, so safe, because he's so strong.
But with a gun, I can kill him. I'll show
him he's not a god. I'll show the natives he's
not a god.

Speaker 15 (01:35:15):
Give me the gun. No, you loved me once if
you still do do as I ask.

Speaker 2 (01:35:19):
I still do.

Speaker 8 (01:35:20):
That's why I want to take you away.

Speaker 6 (01:35:22):
You're afraid, you're still afraid.

Speaker 14 (01:35:26):
Give me the gun.

Speaker 15 (01:35:27):
I've got to I've got to, Alice.

Speaker 13 (01:35:29):
No, Alice, no, don't touch me.

Speaker 15 (01:35:34):
I can't stand you, filthy.

Speaker 8 (01:35:38):
Dirty hold No, don't touch it another night though, Yes,
Guardanius waiting a year, waiting, not for Sam, not for Sam,
waiting for a gun. Don't go, don't go, don't go, Alice.
I've got to think there may be a way. I'll
talk to Fernack. We'll figure out something. Maybe tomorrow.

Speaker 15 (01:35:55):
He'll kill you all tomorrow, Alice.

Speaker 13 (01:36:05):
How does she know we die tomorrow?

Speaker 8 (01:36:08):
Lay me alone.

Speaker 7 (01:36:11):
I want to talk to you.

Speaker 8 (01:36:12):
Get out of here for I LaVey alone.

Speaker 13 (01:36:16):
What did she tell nothing?

Speaker 25 (01:36:17):
You're lying?

Speaker 2 (01:36:17):
Get out?

Speaker 6 (01:36:18):
What did she tell you?

Speaker 13 (01:36:19):
Why did he leave us with our guns? Why have
we still got our gun? Because that's the way he is,
so we showed him. How do you want to die after?

Speaker 2 (01:36:26):
It won't be easy?

Speaker 8 (01:36:27):
Like being shot. I've seen what the Bohodos can do
to you. He knows I've seen.

Speaker 25 (01:36:30):
I do not want to die, mister Kargan. But the
Belgian government that seems fit to name me as its representative.
If I am unable to arrest Hammer and take him
back for trial, I shall have to shoot him here.

Speaker 8 (01:36:39):
You wouldn't have a chance. You've seen his guards of honor.
He's there, God, the immortal king ben Hammer.

Speaker 13 (01:36:45):
That's how he rules him. I think he can't be hurt,
and he can't.

Speaker 25 (01:36:48):
It's the Karragan knowing this about him. Why did you
come back?

Speaker 8 (01:36:51):
Don't you remember you blackmailed me into I don't believe
that it was the wife, wasn't it?

Speaker 4 (01:36:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:36:59):
The wife.

Speaker 8 (01:37:01):
I guess I would have come back someday. Anyhow.

Speaker 25 (01:37:03):
It's strange, mister Kerrigan. We seem to have parallel missions.
Mine to take him out, yours to take her.

Speaker 8 (01:37:12):
Yeah, too bad?

Speaker 34 (01:37:14):
And more coffee, Inspector, No, thank you, sergeant, I don't
want anymore.

Speaker 32 (01:37:32):
Well, then breakfast is finished, mister Hammer.

Speaker 25 (01:37:39):
I think the time has now come to start back for.

Speaker 6 (01:37:44):
You.

Speaker 34 (01:37:44):
Know, I rather admire you.

Speaker 32 (01:37:47):
You must realize your position here, and yet, with stubborn
zeal you persist with this farce. And please don't touch
your gun. It's all right, a galley. I don't want
to see you killed that way. I have other plans.
Then I have nothing to lose as you wish, Inspector,
dry your gun.

Speaker 8 (01:38:09):
That's better.

Speaker 32 (01:38:11):
It is difficult to set in motion your own execution,
isn't it. Mister Kerrigan knows that. Come we'll go out
on the Branda. I want to show you something. These
natives you see are the chieftains of my kingdom. I
call them together to witness my decree. Hear me wise

(01:38:36):
photos These two white men in uniform have been sent
to dethrone me by a government that thinks itself stronger
than I, Your king eguy, seize them. My reply to
this insolence is to return them to the country and

(01:38:57):
humiliation found and across.

Speaker 13 (01:39:00):
It's the back of a knox.

Speaker 8 (01:39:04):
What about me, Ben, I have something to say about.

Speaker 32 (01:39:07):
This, you Carrigan? Oh yes, you have a gun? No no,
let him a galley. Let him I know, mister Kerrigan.

Speaker 8 (01:39:17):
Do you Ben? Are you sure?

Speaker 7 (01:39:21):
Tell you?

Speaker 8 (01:39:22):
Amanda relis the inspector and the sergeant.

Speaker 7 (01:39:25):
And if I don't, I'll give.

Speaker 8 (01:39:27):
You thirty seconds, and if you don't, I'll shoot you.

Speaker 32 (01:39:30):
You'd like to kill me because of her, wouldn't you?
But it wouldn't do you any good. Now, She wanted
to do that. Go ahead, shoot, shall I tell you
what they'll do to you. Then they'll stake you naked
to the ground and smear honey over you. And then

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the ants will come first, one, then two, then more,
your hand shaking karragan, and when the answer near they finished,
you'll be screaming. Then they'll take sharp little sticks and they'll.

Speaker 13 (01:40:17):
Yo a gully.

Speaker 2 (01:40:18):
Let them go.

Speaker 8 (01:40:24):
Don't look at me, Look at them. They aren't doing anything,
just watching.

Speaker 7 (01:40:31):
King King. You stand up and not stand up. I'm
not dead.

Speaker 8 (01:40:47):
Say he cannot die.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
No man, kill him.

Speaker 32 (01:40:51):
Tell us when he come here, show us he drink
poison from our arrows.

Speaker 8 (01:40:57):
He was no got a gully.

Speaker 2 (01:40:59):
He was no o King. He's dead.

Speaker 8 (01:41:02):
Go look at him.

Speaker 7 (01:41:06):
He no God, he no King?

Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
He did.

Speaker 6 (01:41:30):
Wrong. Man.

Speaker 15 (01:41:31):
You come sick with me. We have good time.

Speaker 35 (01:41:36):
For yourself. You've come back. Yeah, I didn't forget your song.
You've come back so soon. I play you another.

Speaker 2 (01:41:50):
You're like, okay, your friend.

Speaker 14 (01:42:06):
You're still a bread Give me the gun.

Speaker 15 (01:42:09):
I've got to.

Speaker 8 (01:42:10):
I've got to, Alice, did you try anyway without a gun?
You know he was stronger than you. You were lying
there broken. I touched you don't touch me.

Speaker 15 (01:42:25):
I can't stand you.

Speaker 8 (01:42:27):
But did Hammer kill you? Because you came to see me?
But it wasn't me, it was it. It was a
gun a lot a year ago.

Speaker 4 (01:42:35):
I should have killed him.

Speaker 15 (01:42:36):
Then why didn't you take me with you?

Speaker 4 (01:42:38):
Then?

Speaker 15 (01:42:39):
Why didn't you take me with you?

Speaker 9 (01:42:41):
Then?

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
Yeah, like you don't Sam?

Speaker 8 (01:42:43):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (01:42:44):
Fine?

Speaker 13 (01:42:45):
Can I bring you something?

Speaker 5 (01:42:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
A bottle.

Speaker 8 (01:42:50):
I'm gonna get drunk and get on my.

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(01:43:23):
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Speaker 1 (01:43:28):
Well, my dear, I suppose we have time for one
more before we must part ways once again. But I
do hope he'll be back sooner than later. That feeling
in the air that we are both experiencing, I wonder
if it's not psychosomatic, if not some kind of shared hysteria.

(01:43:52):
Oh what's that?

Speaker 7 (01:43:53):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:43:54):
Well, I am I am quite capable of imagining things.
I suppose hasn't been tested, but I guess we'll find out.
But now I want to take a moment and go
away from such inten scents, harmful things, such brutish things.

(01:44:16):
I want to focus on something that's more like murder
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Speaker 15 (01:45:41):
I didn't want to hurt him. I didn't want to
hurt him, but I couldn't do it. Willy lay there
sleeping so peacefully. He had to be awake when it happened.
He had to be awake. Bob, Bob, Bob, get up,
Get up. Well, we have an audition.

Speaker 7 (01:46:02):
What time is it?

Speaker 15 (01:46:03):
Twenty minutes to eleven?

Speaker 8 (01:46:04):
An audition in the middle of the night.

Speaker 15 (01:46:06):
There's a club over on Eighth Street needs a dance team.
Table just phoned me, said to get over there right away.

Speaker 25 (01:46:11):
I did fall.

Speaker 15 (01:46:12):
You were asleep, U wakes me?

Speaker 16 (01:46:15):
All right, all right, I'll get dressed.

Speaker 25 (01:46:18):
I suppose I wanted to go on tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:46:20):
I'm not gonna be much good.

Speaker 16 (01:46:21):
I think you could wait till morning.

Speaker 15 (01:46:26):
That was step number one. While he was dressing, I
stepped out to the paphone in the hall. I could
hear him in the bathroom. I looked at the watch.
I didn't have to rush. I had time enough time. Yes, hello, Jimmy, Yes, Jimmy, Jimmy.

(01:46:53):
We're battling again. I think this time is the end.
He's going to leave me.

Speaker 11 (01:46:57):
Oh, no, that's silly. Is he there now, Yes, I'll
put him on, I'll talk to him.

Speaker 15 (01:47:02):
Oh, he's in the bathroom. He wouldn't come to the
phone for me anyway. Perhaps it's best we split up.
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:47:08):
No, No, you're the best thing that ever happened to
that kid, brother of mine, and I won't let him
do anything.

Speaker 11 (01:47:13):
You'd be sorry for it. I suppose I drop up
there now and see you.

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
No, Jimmy, I'll be right over. Kid.

Speaker 11 (01:47:19):
You just sit tight, leave it to me. I've been
managing that spoil little bread for years. I'll be right
up there.

Speaker 15 (01:47:25):
Yes, Jimmy, step number two. The big brother was going
to step over and straighten everything out. I looked at
the watch again. It was a quarter to eleven. He'd
get there at eleven. Just the time, just the right.

Speaker 8 (01:47:44):
Time, all right, and we're going around.

Speaker 15 (01:47:46):
Oh you got ready quickly?

Speaker 16 (01:47:48):
Was that on the phone?

Speaker 15 (01:47:49):
Wrong number?

Speaker 7 (01:47:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:47:50):
You tell a wrong number.

Speaker 16 (01:47:51):
You couldn't go out with a little.

Speaker 15 (01:47:52):
I said it was a wrong number. You don't believe me, You're.

Speaker 13 (01:47:55):
Going to get ready to go out arger.

Speaker 15 (01:47:59):
I didn't like to have it that way, but that
was how it had to be violent, angry, like there'd
been an argument.

Speaker 3 (01:48:05):
That was how it was going to have to look.

Speaker 15 (01:48:07):
Turned his back to me and started lifting our costumes
into a little suitcase. I slipped the knife into my hand,
cold cold, Even the wood handle was cold. What would
the steel feel like to Bob?

Speaker 39 (01:48:19):
I came very close to.

Speaker 15 (01:48:20):
It, and he started to turn, and I jumped forward
quickly and lost the knife somewhere in his throat. I
hadn't meant to let the knife slip out of my
hand that way. I stood quietly until he stopped driving.

(01:48:41):
When I reached down and lifted the knife up and
wiped the handle off.

Speaker 14 (01:48:46):
I had to do that.

Speaker 15 (01:48:48):
When I dropped it again. For a moment, I watched
the blood soaking across the rug. I couldn't take my
eyes off it. I was fascinated by it. Then I
snapped awake. I looked around the room. I don't know
what for I'd taken care of everything, but I looked anyway,
and then I saw it. Her little pocket brushed that

(01:49:09):
George had lonely for the timing. Because everything had to
be timed right, just right. I must have put it
down there. When I did it, I slipped into my handbag,
put on my hat and coat. It was ten to eleven.
That was when he died, ten minutes to eleven.

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Speaker 15 (01:51:13):
It was ten minutes to eleven when I slipped out
of the apartment. The timing had to be right, just right.
That was when I'd killed him. Ten minutes to eleven.
I had to get away quickly. Now it had to
be the backstairs. I went down them as quickly as
I could, my heart beating wildly. If anyone saw me,
it was the end. I died a chair.

Speaker 9 (01:51:29):
For what I do?

Speaker 2 (01:51:31):
I go down?

Speaker 12 (01:51:37):
I think he wants to go down the stee thinking, oh,
very well.

Speaker 15 (01:51:55):
I was trembling violently when I hit the street. Nobody
had seen me. Nobody had seen me. I lost myself
in the Broadway crowds. But all of a sudden, I
didn't want lights. I wanted quiet and shadows. I cut
across the park. I passed the apartment house once there
was no one around. I came back and dove down
a stairway mark service entrance. I walked through the cellar

(01:52:22):
here over here, Oh George didn't want you come in?
No one, I'm sure no one did.

Speaker 40 (01:52:28):
Come on up the stairs here. I thought we might
use a sel service elebrator, but it's too risky. It's
only one slight up steady, Pard is clear, come on, come.

Speaker 7 (01:52:38):
On there there. It's all over. It's all over there.

Speaker 15 (01:52:50):
George told me.

Speaker 16 (01:52:51):
I'm shipping so well. It's all over there. It's all
over now.

Speaker 15 (01:53:02):
There were no more things to do now, no more
steps to take cautiously carefully. I was on the top
of the ladder now, and I could reach out and
pluck the stars right out of the sky. I had
to stay up there. I had to stay up there.

(01:53:23):
I wasn't nervous at all, while you'd have thought I'd
been doing that sort of thing all my life. I remember,
is the blood on the carpet. We will have to
be cleaned.

Speaker 2 (01:53:32):
You know.

Speaker 15 (01:53:34):
We will be happy now, won't reach Georgia.

Speaker 8 (01:53:38):
Oh that that will be the police.

Speaker 4 (01:53:42):
That's for button.

Speaker 15 (01:53:43):
I was thinking it was all over.

Speaker 16 (01:53:44):
It's just this a little more.

Speaker 15 (01:53:48):
I'm all right, dear, I'll be fine. You'll see I
won't throw it all away.

Speaker 6 (01:53:51):
Now.

Speaker 15 (01:53:53):
Open the door.

Speaker 2 (01:53:57):
Is read.

Speaker 15 (01:53:58):
Yes, we're from the police departm in Red the police department.

Speaker 8 (01:54:03):
Well, Miss Reid, my husband's had an accident.

Speaker 16 (01:54:06):
Bob, tell me, tell me he's been stabbed.

Speaker 8 (01:54:10):
Man, he's dead, Bob. I would like to have him
own a headquarters to identify him.

Speaker 6 (01:54:15):
And oh, no, no.

Speaker 15 (01:54:19):
No, I cried. Then it was sort of a release.
I was tired and lost all of a sudden, and
I cried, real tears. I knew they would be impressed.
I was crying because I was tired, and they would
think I was crying because of because of Bob, and

(01:54:43):
that was good, that was good. I thought we might
go downtown in a police car. Instead, they had a
cab waiting, and they were considerate, and they drove slowly.
Only they drove slowly along Broadway, and I couldn't ask
them not to. And I had to close my eyes
to keep up the light, to hold down the memories.

(01:55:04):
And that was good too. They thought the pain I
was having was grief over Bob.

Speaker 8 (01:55:12):
He'sian hair the store, here.

Speaker 15 (01:55:18):
On the table, here, just a lump under a white sheet,
just a long lump under a white sheet. All that
was left of Bob, all that was left of the
man who had been my husband.

Speaker 11 (01:55:33):
I'll have to take the sheet off his face.

Speaker 8 (01:55:35):
Now I'm his reading steady.

Speaker 4 (01:55:39):
There's your husband.

Speaker 7 (01:55:41):
Yes, yes, that's steady, steady, that'll.

Speaker 1 (01:55:45):
Be all in here.

Speaker 8 (01:55:46):
You'll come with me, You'll come in here'll only be
for a moment. I'm sure there's Lieutenant Melgrim in charge
of the case. It was miss Reed.

Speaker 7 (01:56:02):
Oh, miss I won't you sit over here?

Speaker 15 (01:56:06):
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (01:56:07):
I am.

Speaker 41 (01:56:07):
I know you must be under a terrific strain, and
I won't keep you any longer than I have to.
Missus Raid, I'll make things as easy for you as
I can.

Speaker 8 (01:56:14):
Well, this is George Lee.

Speaker 7 (01:56:15):
How how do you do?

Speaker 8 (01:56:17):
We've all been terribly shocked by this.

Speaker 15 (01:56:19):
Who would want to kill Bob? He had no enemies?
Was it robbery or no?

Speaker 7 (01:56:24):
I'm afraid there was no robbery? But then what you
went out? Yes? Early?

Speaker 15 (01:56:29):
Yes, seven, I don't know the exact time, close to seven.
The door met with no.

Speaker 41 (01:56:34):
As we asked him, he said seven, when did you
return to your pardon?

Speaker 15 (01:56:38):
I hadn't been home all night?

Speaker 8 (01:56:41):
Well will you?

Speaker 7 (01:56:42):
Well? She was at my place.

Speaker 8 (01:56:43):
You must know that your men picked us up there.

Speaker 7 (01:56:47):
Yes, yes, she was with me.

Speaker 40 (01:56:49):
Oh, on business. I assure you, mister and Missus Reed
were two of my dearest friends. I'm a dance director.
I was working with them on a routine.

Speaker 15 (01:57:01):
He had wanted me to say I'd been in another
man's apartment. He had wanted me to come right out
and say it. Cops thought it was unnatural to be
too good. It became suspicious if you were too good.
It was a leaky water forcet that kept dripping somewhere
in the room.

Speaker 41 (01:57:18):
And you stayed in the apartment till now. Yes, of course,
I see what time did you get to mister Lee's
apartment of seven fifteen? I guess, no man affair. Yes,
I suppose he saw you goin.

Speaker 12 (01:57:30):
Yes.

Speaker 40 (01:57:31):
Oh, look, inspector, Lieutenant, I'm sorry, lieutenant, you're.

Speaker 16 (01:57:35):
Not thinking that that Edith here could have had anything
to do with this horrible thing.

Speaker 7 (01:57:38):
I didn't say so, did I.

Speaker 40 (01:57:39):
Well, I can assure you that missus Reed did not
stir for my apartment all evening.

Speaker 41 (01:57:43):
Oh before you left your own place, Missus Reed, you
asked a neighbor to go into your apartment at eleven
o'clock and wake your husband up.

Speaker 7 (01:57:50):
Didn't.

Speaker 15 (01:57:50):
Yes, Bob was supposed to come with me to mister Lees,
but he had a headache and said he would lie
down for a while. Try to sleep it off and
join us later. I asked Missus Ryan to drop in
on him at eleven, wake him. I knew he would
sleep it out if I left him alone, and I
did want to get this routine finished. Missus Ryan didn't
didn't stab him.

Speaker 7 (01:58:09):
No, no, Missus Ryan didn't stab him.

Speaker 41 (01:58:12):
She went in at eleven, as you told her, and
she found mister Reid lying on the rug and someone
standing over him with a knife in his hand. Who
y'all ask one of the boys to ring in the
You know, m hm.

Speaker 15 (01:58:31):
The timing had been perfect, everything had gone well. I
was aware that I wasn't shivering anymore. I was complete
master of myself now. I had nothing to be afraid of.
Now why he'd even picked up the knife.

Speaker 16 (01:58:47):
Or he'd thank heaven?

Speaker 39 (01:58:48):
Jimmy, would you tell these guys what's what they seem
to be in some kind of a fog? They think
I killed Bob. I don't know what's.

Speaker 16 (01:58:56):
Happening to me.

Speaker 7 (01:58:58):
You don't mean he is the fellow? Is Ryan farn
with a knife in his hand his own hunting knife?

Speaker 15 (01:59:04):
No, that's impossible. Bob was his brother. Jimmy, I know
you didn't do it well.

Speaker 39 (01:59:09):
Of course I didn't do it. Tell him about the quarrel.

Speaker 15 (01:59:12):
Tell him about the phone call, about the quarrel, the
phone call.

Speaker 39 (01:59:16):
I tell him that I was sort of a misfixed
for you too when things got out of hand. Tell
him how I felt about Bob and you.

Speaker 15 (01:59:23):
What quarrel, Jimmy, what phone call?

Speaker 39 (01:59:26):
What quarrel? Well, the one you had with tonight with Bob.
I that's a matter. Tell him about calling.

Speaker 15 (01:59:34):
Me up, Jimmy, what are you talking about?

Speaker 39 (01:59:37):
What am I talking about? You called me the knight
from the apartment and said you and Bob were splitting up?

Speaker 7 (01:59:42):
And why are you shaking your head?

Speaker 15 (01:59:46):
I just don't know what you're talking about, Jimmy. Bob
and I didn't quarrel. I didn't call anyone.

Speaker 7 (01:59:52):
What time did the call come? About?

Speaker 39 (01:59:55):
Quarter eleven? Around that I said I'd be over and
try and straighten things out.

Speaker 7 (02:00:00):
Missus Reid was with you at the time?

Speaker 13 (02:00:01):
What?

Speaker 4 (02:00:02):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (02:00:02):
Yes, yes, certainly making any calls?

Speaker 16 (02:00:04):
No nothing, edith, For heaven's.

Speaker 7 (02:00:07):
Sake, anybody with you when you got the call.

Speaker 25 (02:00:09):
No, No, I was in bed.

Speaker 7 (02:00:11):
It was your knife, wasn't it, Mike?

Speaker 6 (02:00:12):
Oh?

Speaker 39 (02:00:13):
Yes, but I don't know how I got to Bob's apartment.
It was then when I got there. Bob was dead
when I arrived.

Speaker 7 (02:00:19):
You quarreled with your brother on occasion, didn't you quarreled?

Speaker 39 (02:00:23):
No, I was the older brother. I had to straighten
him out once or twice.

Speaker 7 (02:00:26):
And missus Ryan says you often quarreled with him.

Speaker 39 (02:00:29):
Ah, they weren't quarrels. She used to crawl up when
things went wrong, and I hustle over and help out.
I had a lot of influence with Bob.

Speaker 16 (02:00:37):
I tell you, Oh, Ed, that's your kidding with me.

Speaker 39 (02:00:41):
Tell him, tell him how I felt about Bob.

Speaker 16 (02:00:44):
Oh, I tell him you.

Speaker 7 (02:00:47):
You killed him.

Speaker 15 (02:00:49):
You killed him. I told you I loved him. I
told you got the last time you asked me to
leave him and go with you. I told you got
the last time, and the time before that, the time
before that.

Speaker 7 (02:00:59):
It is you mean he and your husband called over you.

Speaker 15 (02:01:02):
Yes, well you don't know what you say. You had
to kill him. I love you, I hate you, I
hate you, I hate.

Speaker 39 (02:01:23):
I did it well.

Speaker 15 (02:01:24):
I did it suberbly. I was sorry for Jimmy, but
he didn't count. Really, it was him or me. I
was after happiness and nobody was going to stand in
my way. Nobody, nobody. They drove me home in a
police car. George went home alone. I suddenly remembered I
hadn't a chance to give him back his watch. It

(02:01:46):
was a foolish little thought to have.

Speaker 7 (02:01:47):
Now, night there, I'll make you feel better.

Speaker 4 (02:01:52):
Cool.

Speaker 7 (02:01:52):
You know, yes, your uh, your husband was a fairly wealthy.

Speaker 4 (02:01:57):
Man, wasn't I don't know.

Speaker 15 (02:02:00):
Yes, I suppose he was.

Speaker 7 (02:02:01):
I didn't use much of it, did he?

Speaker 4 (02:02:03):
Why?

Speaker 15 (02:02:05):
Well, he wanted to be a great dancer. Show business
was in his blood. He said he was going to
become as great as a stare of bulger of Kelly,
and he was going to do it the way they
did it, the hard way. He wasn't going to buy success.
He insisted, we live on our club earnings and ignore
the other.

Speaker 13 (02:02:23):
The other.

Speaker 7 (02:02:25):
Well, you will be quite a wealthy woman, though I don't.

Speaker 15 (02:02:27):
Want to think about it.

Speaker 7 (02:02:28):
There we achie. Well, good night is reading? Oh it's
almost to all clad? Good morning read?

Speaker 15 (02:02:35):
Good morning?

Speaker 7 (02:02:36):
Want me to see you when no.

Speaker 42 (02:02:38):
No, I'll be all right, Thank you for everything, alright,
evening man. Hello Joseph six Please, I'm uh, I'm sorry, Joseph,
You're you're not going to sleep up.

Speaker 15 (02:02:57):
There are yes, Joe. There's nothing to be afraid of
when you love someone the way I love bob It.

Speaker 7 (02:03:06):
Oh yeah, I understand, ma'am, that you're right.

Speaker 16 (02:03:11):
Out here. Oh yeah, ma'am.

Speaker 15 (02:03:14):
Thank you, Joseph. I stood in the doorway for a
moment before I snapped on the light. I thought I
could smell the death in the air they do in novels.

(02:03:37):
But there was nothing. Nothing. I snapped the light on
and closed the door. The police had cleaned the room nicely.
There was only the spot on the rug, only the
blood on the rug. There was nothing here to be
afraid of.

Speaker 2 (02:03:55):
No voices, no ghosts, nothing.

Speaker 4 (02:04:00):
I was tired.

Speaker 15 (02:04:02):
I needed sleep badly. I went into the bedroom and
locked the door and tried to sleep. Can you be
so tired that you can't sleep, can't even force an
eyelid down.

Speaker 2 (02:04:16):
Over your eye?

Speaker 15 (02:04:17):
Can you be that tired? In the blackness from the quiet,
they seemed to be smothering me. And then and then
I heard it. At first I didn't know what it was.
I wasn't frightened. I just didn't know what it was.

(02:04:37):
George's watch, of course, the little pocket watching blow me
in my handbag on the bedside table. How silly the
sounds so loud in an empty room at night, I
slept on the light. It wasn't that I was afraid.
There was nothing to be afraid of, not really. But
suddenly I was just a lonely little girl. I didn't

(02:05:00):
one quiet.

Speaker 6 (02:05:00):
Now.

Speaker 15 (02:05:01):
I wanted to hear voices, happy sounds, happy noises. I wanted.
I wanted George. I needed to be with him. I
need it terribly to be with it now. Mm hmmm, yes, George, Edith,

(02:05:24):
what's the matter? I forgot to give you back your watch?

Speaker 11 (02:05:28):
Oh, don't be silly at a time like that.

Speaker 15 (02:05:31):
I know it isn't really bad.

Speaker 11 (02:05:32):
Well, what is it.

Speaker 15 (02:05:33):
I've got to see you. I'm coming over.

Speaker 11 (02:05:35):
No, no, no, wait, wait at this hour, it's silly,
it's dangerous.

Speaker 15 (02:05:39):
I can't help it. Oh, I've got to see you.

Speaker 11 (02:05:41):
Wait a minute. Not here.

Speaker 40 (02:05:42):
There's a there's a little place on Seventh Avenue, an
all night lunch place near fortieth Village.

Speaker 15 (02:05:47):
I think it is right away, all right, all right.
The place looked empty when I got there, only a
little man at the countess slicing some kind of meat.
Then I saw George at the back at one of
the few tables in the place. I ran back, ran back,

(02:06:10):
eat it.

Speaker 7 (02:06:10):
No, no, no, no, no, it's not smart.

Speaker 15 (02:06:12):
I just want you to hold me home, me for
a moment, and it's just so.

Speaker 40 (02:06:16):
Please the waiter, the waiter, Oh, let's stop trembling. You're trembling. Eh,
Two coffees please? Do you want anything else?

Speaker 4 (02:06:24):
Eater?

Speaker 6 (02:06:25):
Just you?

Speaker 7 (02:06:26):
Eh?

Speaker 15 (02:06:27):
I bought him tonight.

Speaker 16 (02:06:29):
Get two coffees, just two coffees.

Speaker 6 (02:06:31):
Please?

Speaker 4 (02:06:31):
Sure you're overwropped?

Speaker 6 (02:06:34):
Why?

Speaker 15 (02:06:34):
Because I said I bought you? When will we get married?

Speaker 4 (02:06:38):
Dear?

Speaker 6 (02:06:39):
Soon?

Speaker 15 (02:06:39):
Soon?

Speaker 40 (02:06:40):
You should be home sleeping.

Speaker 15 (02:06:41):
I suppose we will have to wait a little while
for appearance's sake. But set a date, dear, now, go ahead.

Speaker 8 (02:06:46):
Please, the waiter, The waiter.

Speaker 16 (02:06:47):
Two coffees.

Speaker 15 (02:06:50):
Next month, perhaps in June, Edith.

Speaker 40 (02:06:53):
Please, let's discuss this whole thing tomorrow in the sunlight.
When when things are normal in July?

Speaker 15 (02:06:59):
Then sometimes in July. It's the matter at George, When
then I can wait, Darling, I've waited this long.

Speaker 8 (02:07:07):
Let's get out of here.

Speaker 15 (02:07:08):
No, no, George, I'm not going to move until you
answer me. George, when are you going to marry me?

Speaker 4 (02:07:17):
Never?

Speaker 7 (02:07:18):
I'm not going to marry you.

Speaker 15 (02:07:20):
We're joking. Don't joke with me, George.

Speaker 40 (02:07:23):
I'm not going to marry with you now. I don't
want to tell you this now, but maybe it's better.
Maybe the quicker we get things straight.

Speaker 15 (02:07:30):
The better get things straight.

Speaker 40 (02:07:32):
Please please listen to me, Edith, you're a rich woman now.
You've got a lot of money out of tonight. You
got rid of him at a nice prophet, so why
not look at it as a good business deal and
nothing else. I don't understand a good business deal.

Speaker 8 (02:07:47):
For both of us.

Speaker 4 (02:07:47):
We both don't cancer, George.

Speaker 40 (02:07:49):
I don't I want half of what you inherit the
insurance and such for my silence and my lies and
my general help.

Speaker 7 (02:07:56):
I'm not in love with you. Eat it that I
never was.

Speaker 15 (02:07:58):
I needed the money with someone else, Yes, there always was,
even while yes, yes, do you want a blackmail half
of my money to finance you and someone else? A
business deal? The whole thing was just a business deal.

Speaker 4 (02:08:20):
Please.

Speaker 15 (02:08:21):
It's very funny. Bob wouldn't give me a divorce, and
even if we had, I'd have gotten no money, and
you and I would have needed money to live on.
So I killed him. All that terror and all that
blood for a business deal. A business deal. It's very funny.

Speaker 4 (02:08:41):
It's really very funny.

Speaker 15 (02:08:49):
I got out of there somehow and back to the apartment.

Speaker 2 (02:08:54):
Oh, I knew what I was going to do.

Speaker 15 (02:08:57):
I knew exactly what I was going to do. I
took the little watch out of my handbag, the little
pocket watch that George had lung me so that everything
would go right.

Speaker 6 (02:09:09):
Just trotted the.

Speaker 15 (02:09:11):
Little watch with his initials on it in the inscription
from his father. I held in my hand a moment, listening.
Then I set the hands back to ten minutes of eleven,
the exact time, the time he died, the time I
killed him. And I put the little watch down on

(02:09:33):
the floor and ground it under my foot. I picked
it up and listened. It was stopped, broken and stopped,
stopped at ten minutes to eleven. Lieutenant Milgram, Please, Lieutenant,

(02:09:56):
this is Edith Reid. I lied to your lieutenant George.

Speaker 6 (02:10:01):
Did it.

Speaker 15 (02:10:02):
We planned it together. Why am I telling you he'll
be conscious? I suppose, Oh, you can prove it all right.
I found his watch under a corner of the carpet.
It was broken during the struggle. Yes, it had stopped
at ten minutes to eleven. Yes, that was the time.

(02:10:23):
Ten minutes to eleven. It's terrible to love someone as
much as that. I wonder if the other one loved
him that much, but he'll never know now, and I

(02:10:47):
suppose he'll never forgive me. George will never forgive me.

Speaker 37 (02:11:07):
So I spend murdered by an expert starring Lynn Berry
plays at It by Roma Wines.

Speaker 16 (02:11:13):
That's r M. A Roma California Wines.

Speaker 1 (02:11:18):
Well, my dear, I suppose it is getting rather late
in the evening, but I appreciate you spending this time
here with me, helping me sort out what it is
that drives us, what it is that is envelops us
as time goes by. I'm always happy to see you,

(02:11:40):
my dear, and I look forward to seeing you here again.
I'm going nowhere and fast, I can assure you of that.
But now it's time for you to head back to
your beautiful home before the sun comes up, so that
you can make your way over the river through the woods,

(02:12:02):
well past grandmother's house. And as you go through the
doorway of your beautiful home in your beautiful town, as
you head into your comfy bedroom and you lay your
head on that soft pillow before you doze off and
head to the land of Nod For me, please take

(02:12:25):
one moment and remember to be thankful for what you have,
and I'll be seeing you soon

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