August 26, 2025 • 43 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a noteworthy attempt to revive in American radio dramas like Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) and Suspense (1942-1962). Radio dramas were widely considered "dead" 12 years prior to this series. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or simply Mystery Theater, was created by Inner Sanctum creator Himan Brown and ran on CBS from 1974-1982. The show, much like older radio dramas, was introduced by a host (E.G. Marshall in this program), who steers us through the creaking door to start the episode. Many voices from the golden age of radio were featured, including Richard Widmark, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead and many more.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Come in and.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I'm E. G.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Marshall, your host for another spine tingling voyage into the
depths of.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
The unknown, the uncharted. In fact, in this story, we're going.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
To the depths of the sea, to the uncharted depths
never explored before by man except one man, David Wells,
who entered a kingdom and the world so strange, so
fascinating and terrifying, it defies the imagination. For the kingdom
of the sea.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Is all encompassing.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
The boundaries of the beaches don't necessarily keep the power
of the sea from exerting its influence into any life
that has touched it. David Wells learned that the hard way.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
David, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's Napoleon. He's fighting with someone. I'm going to find out.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I'm coming with you. I read Napoleon.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
I can help.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Oh Napoleum.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
He did? David done about who could have done this?
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Why he is soaking wet?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Napoleon?
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I wouldn't touch him.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Missus MacArthur. Look here on a.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Fur, Oh, both white fleaks.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yes, the fish scales. His fur smells of salt water.
Salt water. David, in the middle of Texas, our mystery
drama Child of the Sea, written especially for the radio
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mystery theater by Bob Jura and stars Tony Roberts. It
is sponsored in part by Berwick Mortar Division. I'll be
back shortly.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
With that one.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
There are those who say that if God had wanted
us to swim, he'd have given us fins.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And guilds a caution.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Perhaps that man functions best in his own environment. But
man has always yearned to venture forth, defying nature, determined
to overcome.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The barriers that separate the elements.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
David Wells is just such a man. Heir to a
Texas oil fortune, David shuns big business and instead prefers
the high mountains, the ski trails, the open road. The
mysterious ocean is David's fancy of the moment. As we
eat him in the waters off Laguna Beach, California, and
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surfing and scuba diving, I was one hundred yards offshore.
The water was clearer than I'd ever seen it. Graceful
fish swam up to me, their curious mouths, speaking silently,
and then darting off in fear. Suddenly I spot at
a strange formation at the ocean floor. I swam closer
to investigate, and then I plunged and grabbed my arm Before.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I knew what would happen.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It was a squid, huge a tentacle wrapt around my air.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
My air supply was cutting off.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I fought desperately. My lungs were bursting. I was blacking out.
Then I saw swimming around us a huge fish. I
couldn't tell what it was, but through the haze of pain,
I saw it was a girl. Not a fish, but
a girl attacking the squid. That help me. My air
was gone, and the last thing I saw was the
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girl's long flowing hair.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Blacked out completely.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Are you all right now?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Uh? Thought I was finished.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
You might have been.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I can't believe you've got me away from that thing.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well, I've had experience with squid and others.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
How do I say thanks?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
You've already study.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I guess you ought to know who you saved. I'm
David Wells David, and I'm Alanae Alannae.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That's pretty sounds uh Hawaiian.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
It isn't have you lived here long?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I don't really live here. I'm staying at my aunt's
beach house.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
My home's in Texas, Texas.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I don't know where that is.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
That's about a thousand miles from here inland. But how
about you? Have you lived here long?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I've never lived anywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Else Where's your house?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Uh, up on the hill. Maybe we're neighbors.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
No, I don't live on the hill.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh where then I may want to write you a
thank you note.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I live here at the ocean with my father.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yes, well, I want to thank him too for having
such a lovely daughter.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I must go now, you can, I must well. I'll
see you home.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
No, you must raft, I must go. I'll see you again.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I I don't know. She went off down the beach,
and suddenly she was gone, as though she vanished into
thin air. And I dragged myself to my feet and
I head him to the house.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
David, you look awful. What happened?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I was attacked by a squid A squig, Yes, it
got my air tanks. But uh, A girl saved me.
She swam up just as I was blacking out.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
A girl fought off a squid.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yes, it's unbelievable. I know.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Oh, I think you're crazy to go galloping around the
ocean floor.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
That thing was a killer.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
These risks you take could be awfully bad for your health.
They say nothing of your father's nervous system.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
He ought to be used to it.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Fine now, Oh, she'll never get used to his only
son and air risking his neck.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Dad will never get me behind a desk at Wells Industries.
I may be his heir, but i'll be an absentee president.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Oh, speaking of airs is a letter from Ellen.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Oh damn, can't she leave me alone for a minute?
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Not when there's an alliance with Wales Industries at stake.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I knew I was destined to see Alime again. I
spent the next several days walking the coves and rocks
of Laguna waiting, and then the third days I approached
the beach.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
There she was.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Hello, I've been looking for you.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I know I had to wait for a chance to
get away.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
From your father.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yes, he doesn't like me to spend too much time.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Alone on the beach, but you live here.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Why wouldn't you spend time on the beach Now it's
too hard to explain.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Tell me, how are you feeling.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
The hot bath and I was as good as ever
thanks to you. I still owe you in my life.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I'm glad I was there. He really wasn't an accident.
I've been watching you for more than a week, you have.
I saw you swimming along the bottom one day. You
picked up in ABALONEI.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Another day after I got here. Yes, I remember you
mean you were on the water. Of course, Well why
didn't I see you?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I didn't want you to. Oh, but I've watched you
many days. That's how I happened to be there when
a squid attacked you.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You swim without gear.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Yes, I learned how to stay underwater when I was
very young.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You want to mention your father is your mother living?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I never knew my mother.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Neither did I. I was raised by a nurse and
a tutor.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
What are they?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You don't know what a tutor is?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Not exactly?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Hey, where'd you go to school?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You didn't know where Texas is either?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
My father was my only teacher. What did you do
in Texas?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
David HM?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
As little as possible.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I'm usually skipping around the world, trying to keep from
dying of boredom.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
But you're so attractive.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I think you'd have lots of friends, lots of it.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And I have lots of acquaintances, but no friends except
one maybe my aunt Lou you're at. Yeah, she's my
father's sister. But she's been the best friend I've ever had.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
It's strange to think of a relative as a friend.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Not when you meet at Lou and you will, Alane,
I'd like to invite you to the house for dinner,
or your father too.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh that would be impossible. Oh why my father would
never let me come.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Oh well he's invited too.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Oh, but that would be even more impossible. We couldn't
come ever.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I don't see why.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
We can only meet here on the beach, David. I
can't enter your world.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
What do you know of my world.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Enough to know that a few pleasant moments are.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
All we can have together?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh that can change. I want to see you here
every day I can be here.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
We'll swim together. I will show you many beautiful things.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
After that, we met every day and swam through fantastic
underwater gardens I never knew existed. Alane could stay under
for ten to fifteen minutes at a time without any gear,
And it was then that I knew Alime was no
ordinary girl, Dvid.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Why don't you try swimming without those tanks? I can
show you how to breathe underwater.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I believe you can.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I can't enter your world, but maybe you can be
a part of mine.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
What is your world?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
But the sea isn't it of you?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I'm not sure I want to believe what I'm thinking.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I'm let's swim. I'll teach you how to breathe leave
your tanks here.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
We dived into the water and I followed the instructions
Alime had given me, and for two minutes I actually
breathed underwater. But then my lungs filled with water. I
struggled to the surface.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
My lungs Birstie, and I'll help you to show a
badd She'll.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Be all right.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Stick to the I'm not ready for this if you've
had more practice.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Than I have, but you need to try the time.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Oh, you'll learn.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
It's important to me.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Why why should it be exact?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
You know? Someday you'll learn.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
There was something about the way she looked when she
said it, something in her voice that made me know
that somehow my destiny was.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Wrapped up in this beautiful girl.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
And one day, David, I'd like to meet your aunt Lou.
I can come tonight if you like.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
I'm delighted to meet you Allanae David talks of nothing
else but your days together. Thank you, and of course
we're grateful to you.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'd hope to meet you longer for.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
This Allane is the shy type. I'm afraid that.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
My father finally said it would be all right, and
we're delighted.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
That's a very unusual address. Did you get it in
the village? I wrote it myself some seaweed? Really, what
a sensation that would make it? The Glenwood country Club.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You're not serious, Adam. Could you make me one?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I'll pay you anything you want.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Of course i'd be happy to her.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
I'll hold you to bed. Now you two go out
on the terrace. I'll look after the dinner.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Do I really look all right, David? I've never been
up in the town before.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Of course you do.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. Don't say
things I mean it's anime. I'm in love with you, Dad.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I've loved you from the first time I saw you,
but I knew it was impossible, and then I found
a way. I found a way for us to be together.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Why was that so much of a problem.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Because of my father? I told you I couldn't live
in your world.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Well you can if it's what. Oh, good Lord, Ellen,
I just drove.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Down from La David. You were expecting me, weren't you?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Ellen?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I told you I was coming. She did get my letter,
didn't you?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You are the letter?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
You didn't even open it.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
But here I am, and none too soon, it seems.
Why didn't you introduce me to your friend?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
We haven't met.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And the evening was uncomfortable, to say the least. Allane
left immediately after dinner, and Ellen spent the rest of
the evening trying to find out who she was and
whether to consider her arrival. I didn't tell Ellen how
I felt about Allanae. As the days passed, Ellen never
left my side, and not surprisingly, Allanae was never on
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the beach. One afternoon, while Ellen napped and Aunt Lou
worked on.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
A macro maae, I slipped down to the beach.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
As I stood looking out at the sparkling sea, I
saw a shape.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Moving far out in the water.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
A porpoise.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Perhaps it was a huge fish of some sort. It
swam with terrific speed, and as it came closer I
suddenly saw a long, blonde, flowing hair. Allie was swimming
toward me, undulating her body like a fish.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
She came sweeping in on a.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Giant break when Ramda callie, David, I knew she wasn't
with you today.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
That's why I came.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
But where have you been?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I've looked for you every day?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
How could I come to you? With her around? She's yours?
Your world? But David, did you love me? Really love me?
There's a chance you can live in my world?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Where is that?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
You won't tell me?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I'll tek you there now Today my father said.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
He would meet you.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh please, David, Yes, yes, of course I'll come in hurry, get.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Your breathing things, those tanks, my thanks?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Why?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Because where are going to meet my father?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It's not every young suitor who goes to meet his
prospective father in law wearing scuba gear. But then there
aren't many young men who fall in love with such
a lovely.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Get mysterious girl.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
If you're as anxious as I am to meet Palonay's father,
stay right here.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Welcome back to the beach at Laguna. In the warm
sun and the soft sea air, it's hard to imagine
or feel anything unusual, hard to say think that Alleanae
is anything but an attractive young girl. But as we promised,
we're all going to meet her father, an event for
which David Wells has gone back to the house for
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his air tanks.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You won't need them, though.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Come along and.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Let's join David and Helenae as they prepare to meet
Allanae's father.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Don't be alarmed, David.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
But where are we going?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Why do I need my tanks?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
It's a long swim to my father's home. You haven't
learned yet how to stay underwater without people that will
come in town.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
We swam deeper than we ever had before. I followed
down through the coral, deeper and deeper until there shouldn't
have been any sunlight. But as we swam easily along
the ocean floor, the light seemed to get brighter.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Well, I was completely spelled dound.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I forgot everything except the fantastic beauty around me. Two
large gates boomed in front of us. They swung open
as alone approached, and we swam down a pearl covered corridor,
which opened into a magnificent underwater room. Reclining on a
bed of corn was a Morman mad man, half fish.
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He was ageless stern menacing. Alleenae touched my hand and
drew me closer.
Speaker 11 (17:24):
Father, we indeed, no, you are the mortal words captured
my Alonnaise heart.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I couldn't answer. I couldn't speak under water as they could.
And now I knew the difference between us.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I knew what.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Alleene meant about her father and her world.
Speaker 11 (17:44):
I don't expect words from your mortal man, but now
you know. I agreed to this meeting to prove to
you and to Allenae, the union between you is utterly impossible.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Father, David can man to live here as we do
in your kingdom. Nothing is impossible if you will it.
Speaker 11 (18:04):
You permitted me to venture on the beach, yes, to
see it, to learn of it, but never to make
an alliance with it.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
But will you agree to meet David?
Speaker 11 (18:12):
I thought I told you why I agreed to let
him come here. I didn't have to go to the trouble,
but I wanted you to see what happens to a
mortal man in our kingdom.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
As he spoke, my dear began to give out. I'd
switched to the auxiliary tank much earlier, and now I
was down to the danger level.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I had to get to the surface.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
Alonae, Look at your mortal man.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Already his air.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Is used up. It is finished.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Father.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
You mustn't let me take him back.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
No, it is finished.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Let him go, father, I promise I'll forget him. Don't
let him die.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
What difference should it make to you?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Are the Please let me take him back.
Speaker 11 (18:56):
You stay allowney, I will permit Ishar to show him
the way.
Speaker 12 (19:00):
Hiy hid, David, David, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It's l uh oh, Alan, I'm here, darling. I thought
I thought I was dying.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
My air gave up.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Were you almost drowned?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
How did I How did I get here?
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Well, some people on the beach dragged you out of
the water.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
That they saved your life.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I can't remember.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
They said, some kind of giant fish pushed you to shore.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
David.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Do you want anything? Tea or water?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
A double scotch?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
The doctor said no, No.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
For forty eight hours, you've had a sedative.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You wouldn't believe what I've been through. I followed Alana
to the depths of the sea, to Neptune's kingdom. I
was there, I saw it. I met her father, Dan.
I know you think I'm crazy, but she took me
there to see if I could live in her world.
Her world at the bottom of the sea.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
What was her father like?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Half man, half fish? He sat on a coral throne.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
What am I saying?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Dated.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Hallucinations are common, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
This was not an hallucination. I was there. It happened, Darling.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
As soon as you can travel, were you going back
to Dallas?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I knew i'd never see Alane again, and I was
tired of diving. So two days later we flew back
to Texas. Helen wanted to stay and nurse me, but
I persuaded her.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I wanted to be alone for a while.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Dad was in Europe, and only our housekeeper, Missus MacArthur,
was there, and of course in Napoleon. How's a boy, Napoleon?
Let me Napoleon get Yeah, you're glad to see me,
aren't you?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Mappe.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I was very sick about you after all, and proud,
and I.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Wish she hadn't. I'm glad Dad's in Europe.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
You say, you're all right?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Oh would I be here if I weren't?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Now, why don't you go up and take a nice
hot tub and I put your things away.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Okay, sounds good. Come on, Napoleon, it is good when
you come home. David.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Hello, David.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Oh hi Ellen.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
I thought you were gonna call me yesterday.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I'm sorry. I stayed over in the city.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
And what were you doing in town?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I was checking out a new hunting rifle.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Whatever. We're still going to the theater tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Oh well, yes, yes, of course, I'm I've got the tickets.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
No.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Oh, was I never mind? Okay, I'll I'll pick you
up a dinner.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Joy, I'll stop by.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
I found a painting at the town Gallery that's perfect
for your foyer.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
I'm dying to see how it looks, and we'll go
on from there.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
It's perfect, absolutely perfect, don't you agree.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
With, David, Just the thing for the foyer.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Mm I guess so, hope you don't sound overwhelmed. No,
maybe I'm not, David, Is it me?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Oh no?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Uh no?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
No, Ellen?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Then then what is it? Is it that girl in
Laguna that she mean so much to you?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well? I think about her, yes, but that's over. It's
over completely. I'm not even sure it ever was.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Oh well, I'm glad for that.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Oh, I do hope Armand has loves to tonight.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I'm dying for some really good lust.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I wonder what ail's Napoleon.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
He's such a looser sometimes.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Wait a minute, what is it?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I thought?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I just saw a figure the oud of the path.
It slipped into the shadows.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Missus MacArthur.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Oh no, no, no, no way. It was much too small.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Huh. And it's a prowler.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Right, Look, I'll handle this.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You stay here.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I'm staying with you.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Napoleon's stopped barking.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Then maybe it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Hell, hello, who's there?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I saw you.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Let's get to the car, David.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Okay, if there's someone here, I've got to wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It's a puddle of water in the path.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Well, maybe the garden Charles didn't order here today. Everything
else is dry except that one patch of water. It
hasn't rained for three days.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Why would there be one spot of wet.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Ground when everything else is dry?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
A search of the.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Grounds turned up nothing, and I had our dinner, went
to the theater, and I took her home. As I walked
from my garage to the house, I saw a figure
slip from the shadows, David, what, who's there?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
It's me, David, Alanee. I found you.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I knew I could.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
How did you get here?
Speaker 4 (24:22):
My love for you brought me here. I defied my father.
I too, am gifted with special powers as his daughter.
I had been given certain birthrights, powers to do what
may seem impossible to you. And so I'm here. I
hope you're glad to see me, David.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
I saw you going out with her earlier tonight. That's
why I disappeared.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
That was you in the shadows.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yes, I couldn't approach you when you were with her.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I'll forget her. You're here and that's all that matters.
You can and live in my world.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (25:01):
I know I can, David.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I'll learn, you see, I can live out of water.
All I need to learn is how to please you.
She's a charming child, David. But it bothers me that
she followed you from Laguna.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
I spills, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
What about her parents? She only has a father.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
And Ellen, but she knows he's here.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
No, and I don't want her to know, not now anyway.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Well, it's not going to be easy. Well, David, it's
your life, and you do what you want with it.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I love her, Missus macawthur, we both know it, and
we know it's right. I didn't tell missus McArthur all
I knew about Alime. She wasn't ready for that, and
I wasn't sure I was either. I kept thinking back
to that, and I was at meeting with her father,
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a meeting I knew was real.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
I knew you wanted me, David. I wouldn't have come
to you if you didn't.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I want you Alanne completely.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You've told her not yet.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I'm so happy take it, so happy, but so so uneasy, uneasy?
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Why for defying my father?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I just hope, Oh what.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
That he understands.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I broke off with Ellen, who wasn't happy about it,
but wasn't too surprised either. The weeks rolled by, and
Alan and I fell deeper in love than ever. It
was magic, a magic I never knew or dreamed about it.
And then it began.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
A shadow of.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Terror to spoil our paradise.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
It was late autumn now, and one Friday night, we had.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
All gone to bed early.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
The clock said two a m. When I awoke like
a shot, a sound that sliced through my subconscious. I
jumped out of bed and raced to the hall. Heavid,
what's the matter this Napoleon? Missus Macarthury's fighting with someone
fright cause I'm going to find out you staying here?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
No, no, no, let me come with you.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Raise Napoleon, I come home, Come along there, hurry.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
The sounds came from the gazebo.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Stock does that mean?
Speaker 12 (27:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
No Napoleon.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Ah, he's soaking wet Napoleon.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
He's he's dick dev turn apart.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Who could have done this? Why? Uh?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
He's sucking wet Napoleon? No, I wouldn't touch him.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Die.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
This is macauthin look looked here on his fur h
with white decks. Yes, the fish scales the first smells
of salt war.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Salt Water District in the middle of Taxi.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
It's a fact that the waters of the world cover
more than seventy percent of the Earth's surface. Little wonder
that the power of the sea can make itself felt
far inland from the sparkling beaches. But what effect will
it have on the lives of David Wells and the
child of the sea alone? What killed Napoleon and left
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him soaked with salt water? We'll learn the chilling answers.
When I returned shortly with Act three, it seems as
though the sea has reached out to touch David Wells's
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life again. His dog Napoleon, killed by an unseen force
that left the animal soaked in the sea water and
covered in scales. With things like this happening, I wonder
what's in store for David and Allanae.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
David, whoever did this will still be on the ground.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Now, let's get back to the house past. I'll take
care of Napoleon later. I want you and Allene to
stay inside.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Get my gun?
Speaker 4 (29:29):
I think it's auld call the police.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
No, don't do that right now, but you'll keep Allane
inside if you can.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Allen, I get back to the house.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I told you to.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Thank God, you're all right. He won't hurt you if
I'm with.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
You, go back with Missus McCarthy.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
But you must come with me now. I'm your only protection.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
What do you mean he's after me?
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Oh, he won't hurt me, but he'll kill anything that
threatens him. That's why Napoleon I.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
From the shadows stepped the man covered.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
In a robe.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
The robe was torn and bloodied. The face was.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Hidden deep inside the hood of the rope.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
But the chill that ran down.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
My back it was the man fish that had carried
me out of Alimesee underwater home.
Speaker 11 (30:20):
Your father wants you back, Hallole, I.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Have found a new collar.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
No, now, look here.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Let me, David, tell my father that I am staying here.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Isa, she's staying with me. I have not come all
this way to turn around and leave.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
You're coming with me.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Stay back.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Don't touch her. That weapon doesn't threaten me.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I said, don't touch don't.
Speaker 13 (30:48):
Can't you realize these bullets made nothing to me.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Mortal man, you were always my friend.
Speaker 9 (30:56):
Actor.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Why are you doing this?
Speaker 1 (30:58):
We miss you.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I miss you.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
You are not a child of the land.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
No matter what you think, por se about love.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Let me stay. Tell my father you couldn't.
Speaker 13 (31:11):
Find I can only tell him you refuse to retard.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
But you punish you for not taking me back by that?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Oh me won't.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
But if you insist on this way.
Speaker 13 (31:24):
Then you'll have to take the punishment he plans for you.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
He cannot punish me here.
Speaker 13 (31:29):
Perhaps you'll have to find out for yourself. I'll give
your father your message.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
You're thanking me for nothing.
Speaker 13 (31:39):
You know, if your father wants you back, he'll get
you back.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
I'm sorry, but I tried.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
To stop her.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
It's all right, missus McArthur.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Okay, and I still think we have to call the police.
There may be a media car a loose, but he
did to.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Pull on a point.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Oh no, it was probably another dog.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
It's over, Missus MacArthur. Forget it, forget it.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
How can I forget what happened tonight?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Well, there's no more danger.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
They've taken care of Napoleon's body. Let's not have any
more about it.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
No, David, it's he.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
So I couldn't tell missus MacArthur the truth.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
How could I tell her what had happened that night?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I decided that Allanee and I should be married as
soon as possible. I knew the family would never stand
for an elopement, so I called aunt Low and asked
her to come to Dallas.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Of course, I'll arrange the wedding. David, I'm delighted to
be asked.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Don't make it too fancy. Just invite those you think
are a muscle. But you've told your father is we
called him in South America? I've got to admit.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
I'm surprised. Are you sure this is what you want?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Absolutely?
Speaker 7 (32:55):
Following you hear from Lagoona?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
And what about her father.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Aunt Lou? Remember what I told you about my visit
to her father, where i'd been, what i'd seen. Well, yes,
we talked about him, and you thought that it was
a hallucination. Well that was real, Aunt Lou, as real
as Alene is. And now our father's trying to get
her back.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
He's been here.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
He sent a messenger, the same one who brought me
ashore that day.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
David.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Are you asking me to believe this girl is actually
from the sea?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (33:30):
May I come in?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Allane?
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Of course, Missus MacArthur told me you arrived, Aunt Lou.
I'm so happy to see you.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
Again, Helle Allane. It seems we have some important plans
to make.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Oh yes, it's so nice of you to arrange it.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
All.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
My family couldn't possibly do it.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
He is, so I understand.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
We'll leave.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Everything to you.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
What's the matter, Alene, wad getten to put your arms
over your head and look help me, David Water and
look you as fast as you can.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Trouble day as.
Speaker 7 (34:15):
I say, I'll do it, But I don't see how
that help me.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I'll carry you. Put your arm round my neck.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
No, no, I know how you help.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Why to stop talking?
Speaker 5 (34:34):
The girl needs a doctor.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I'll call doctor Lewis.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Hell.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Just go back and don't try too here. It's halfful
out of it. Do you want to start him?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Don't tell you now?
Speaker 5 (34:47):
What are you doing?
Speaker 8 (34:49):
Then back?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
She's she can breathe now.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
She's underwater.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
She breathes underwater. It's full of nut.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Alleannaie's all right now?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
For a while, I.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Helenae floated face down on the tub. The slight movement
of her back told me she was breathing easily, and
I knew that her father was keeping his word. He'd
have Alleannae back, and I was powerless to fight him.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
I think I'm all right.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
You better stay under a little longer and let me
just see.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
If I can.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Yes, I can breathe in the air. Te it. I
was right. My father is stronger than I am. He
will let's let's.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I didn't want to believe it, but I knew Alleanae
was right. The breathing attack was her father's spell, drawing
her back to the sea. We both knew the attacks
would continue. And Allane might possibly die.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
I must go back, David. We tried, but it's not
for us.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I know.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
I'll take you to Laguna.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
That's not necessary.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
The golf is closer.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
I'll sleep in there. The entire sea is my home.
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
No, I want to say goodbye to you where I
first met you.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
We'll go to Laguna.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
It was a dark, gray day. Allane and I walked
to the ocean and stood on a large rock. We'd
shared so many happy times before.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Every time you are near the sea, will be together.
This is the test, David. If our love is really strong,
nothing can keep us apart. Maybe our future is just beginning.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Colonnae, don't go.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
We'll work something outs, special pools for you or something, David.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
I must They're waiting for me. I can feel the
forces now, but our love will when you'll see David.
You'll know when the time comes.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Halloney, you'll know, David.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
You'll know when the time comes.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Hello, Hello David.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
How are you?
Speaker 13 (37:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Pretty good?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Aunt little You want your houseback? Oh not exactly.
Speaker 9 (37:49):
I've got to be on the coast next week for
an artic give it in La and I'll be using
the cottage.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Well, come on along.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Seeing you will be like the first breeze of summer. Well,
i'll be there on Sunday.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
Oh, your father's back from South America. Oh, delighted you're
not engaged anymore, and convinced more than ever you're crazy.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Well, come on out and give me more laughs. And
the past week has been like a week.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
See you someday. You miss her very much, David.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Completely, But like everything else, I'll get over it.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
You wanna come into La with me tomorrow? I can't
promise the swinging time at the art show, but did
a cocktail reception after.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
It could be fun?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
No, maybe I maybe I will.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
I'll see it wouldn't hurt to get out again.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Oh hope, I'm not uh wearing her wearing I'm I'm welcome.
Oh never, I'm just not ready to go back to
stalls yet. Sad.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Sure, short breath all of a sudden.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
Oh it's probably nerves. You've been under such a strain.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Don't know.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
I know it's maybe going into hell a with.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
You is just what I need?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
Loo Loo by it, David?
Speaker 3 (39:18):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (39:19):
I shn't breathe water?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Give you water?
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Sit up, David, no water. I'll get it, David.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
I'll call doctor Harris Water.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
I knew what was happening.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
I staggered toward the bedroom door, through the living room,
and onto the beach. And I have to get to
the water, cold sand, not a black, starry knife. I
have to get to the water. Only a few feet now,
staking to the serf.
Speaker 14 (39:51):
The gentle rollers welcomed me, trying me deep into the sea,
and I breathe easily again, great refreshing gropes.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
As I swim with a light, easy sway to.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
The kingdom where my love is waiting.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Iridescent fish reckon and lead the way alone is waiting
with love. As I approach the gates, the underwater flowers
sway and greeting. The gates swing open, and I swim
into that kingdom.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
That new world, but welcomes me.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Who can say that the force of love, the power
of the gods, and the mysteries.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Of the sea are not eternal, are not real?
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Our story was fantasy, you say, perhaps, But the next
time you're near a beach, look out to see. If
you look closely, you may see two figures swimming and
frolicking in the waters. Corpouses, probably but then again, I'll
be back shortly.
Speaker 8 (41:11):
Hey there, fellers, how you out more jump?
Speaker 5 (41:13):
Nice to see you, sir, Howdy Sheriff.
Speaker 8 (41:15):
Ain't too much you boss on the highway. Lately y'all
have been changing loots. Avoid me now, not me, sir,
No way here sure seayt here tell a lot of
you eighteen winners on them Johnson CB radio.
Speaker 10 (41:27):
You mean the new forty channel Johnson cebes with tapered
automatic noise limiters.
Speaker 8 (41:31):
And due with Crystal fildering that nifty new power bar led.
Speaker 10 (41:34):
Beat electronic speech compression.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
With Johnthon's new range controlled and they're x three hundred
d phase lot now frequency synthesizers.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
No chump.
Speaker 10 (41:42):
The nice trucker's ever heard of the new Johnson CB's
till you mentioned it just now?
Speaker 8 (41:47):
You know, when the trucker hits the road with his
Johnson CBE, he knows he's got a lot going for him.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Why.
Speaker 8 (41:53):
In a recent survey, sixty six percent more independent truck
drivers holding America made Johnson CB to the next leading Brian, Now,
which CBS best for y'all? Go with Johnson c B
clearly the professional's choice.
Speaker 10 (42:05):
Stan Bosh here, oh, FCC license required it's free.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
To Yeah, well it's time we came up for air.
And anyway, David and Allen, they certainly.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Don't want us around anymore.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Two's company and three is certainly not a honeymoon. I
suspect that a marriage ceremony and that mysterious and beautiful
Kingdom of the Sea is something.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
Spectacular to behold.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
And the honeymoon, well, we just have to use our imaginations.
Our cast included Tony Roberts, E. V. Justter Briner, Rayburn
and Earl Hammond. The entire production was under the direction.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Of Hyman Brown. Missus E. G.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dream
Come in and.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I'm E. G.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Marshall, your host for another spine tingling voyage into the
depths of.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
The unknown, the uncharted. In fact, in this story, we're going.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
To the depths of the sea, to the uncharted depths
never explored before by man except one man, David Wells,
who entered a kingdom and the world so strange, so
fascinating and terrifying, it defies the imagination. For the kingdom
of the sea.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Is all encompassing.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
The boundaries of the beaches don't necessarily keep the power
of the sea from exerting its influence into any life
that has touched it. David Wells learned that the hard way.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
David, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's Napoleon. He's fighting with someone. I'm going to find out.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I'm coming with you. I read Napoleon.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
I can help.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Oh Napoleum.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
He did? David done about who could have done this?
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Why he is soaking wet?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Napoleon?
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I wouldn't touch him.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Missus MacArthur. Look here on a.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Fur, Oh, both white fleaks.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yes, the fish scales. His fur smells of salt water.
Salt water. David, in the middle of Texas, our mystery
drama Child of the Sea, written especially for the radio
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mystery theater by Bob Jura and stars Tony Roberts. It
is sponsored in part by Berwick Mortar Division. I'll be
back shortly.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
With that one.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
There are those who say that if God had wanted
us to swim, he'd have given us fins.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And guilds a caution.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Perhaps that man functions best in his own environment. But
man has always yearned to venture forth, defying nature, determined
to overcome.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The barriers that separate the elements.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
David Wells is just such a man. Heir to a
Texas oil fortune, David shuns big business and instead prefers
the high mountains, the ski trails, the open road. The
mysterious ocean is David's fancy of the moment. As we
eat him in the waters off Laguna Beach, California, and
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surfing and scuba diving, I was one hundred yards offshore.
The water was clearer than I'd ever seen it. Graceful
fish swam up to me, their curious mouths, speaking silently,
and then darting off in fear. Suddenly I spot at
a strange formation at the ocean floor. I swam closer
to investigate, and then I plunged and grabbed my arm Before.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I knew what would happen.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It was a squid, huge a tentacle wrapt around my air.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
My air supply was cutting off.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I fought desperately. My lungs were bursting. I was blacking out.
Then I saw swimming around us a huge fish. I
couldn't tell what it was, but through the haze of pain,
I saw it was a girl. Not a fish, but
a girl attacking the squid. That help me. My air
was gone, and the last thing I saw was the
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girl's long flowing hair.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Blacked out completely.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Are you all right now?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Uh? Thought I was finished.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
You might have been.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I can't believe you've got me away from that thing.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well, I've had experience with squid and others.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
How do I say thanks?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
You've already study.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I guess you ought to know who you saved. I'm
David Wells David, and I'm Alanae Alannae.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That's pretty sounds uh Hawaiian.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
It isn't have you lived here long?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I don't really live here. I'm staying at my aunt's
beach house.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
My home's in Texas, Texas.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I don't know where that is.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
That's about a thousand miles from here inland. But how
about you? Have you lived here long?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I've never lived anywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Else Where's your house?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Uh, up on the hill. Maybe we're neighbors.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
No, I don't live on the hill.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh where then I may want to write you a
thank you note.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I live here at the ocean with my father.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yes, well, I want to thank him too for having
such a lovely daughter.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I must go now, you can, I must well. I'll
see you home.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
No, you must raft, I must go. I'll see you again.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I I don't know. She went off down the beach,
and suddenly she was gone, as though she vanished into
thin air. And I dragged myself to my feet and
I head him to the house.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
David, you look awful. What happened?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I was attacked by a squid A squig, Yes, it
got my air tanks. But uh, A girl saved me.
She swam up just as I was blacking out.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
A girl fought off a squid.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yes, it's unbelievable. I know.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Oh, I think you're crazy to go galloping around the
ocean floor.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
That thing was a killer.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
These risks you take could be awfully bad for your health.
They say nothing of your father's nervous system.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
He ought to be used to it.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Fine now, Oh, she'll never get used to his only
son and air risking his neck.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Dad will never get me behind a desk at Wells Industries.
I may be his heir, but i'll be an absentee president.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Oh, speaking of airs is a letter from Ellen.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Oh damn, can't she leave me alone for a minute?
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Not when there's an alliance with Wales Industries at stake.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I knew I was destined to see Alime again. I
spent the next several days walking the coves and rocks
of Laguna waiting, and then the third days I approached
the beach.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
There she was.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Hello, I've been looking for you.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I know I had to wait for a chance to
get away.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
From your father.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yes, he doesn't like me to spend too much time.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Alone on the beach, but you live here.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Why wouldn't you spend time on the beach Now it's
too hard to explain.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Tell me, how are you feeling.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
The hot bath and I was as good as ever
thanks to you. I still owe you in my life.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I'm glad I was there. He really wasn't an accident.
I've been watching you for more than a week, you have.
I saw you swimming along the bottom one day. You
picked up in ABALONEI.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Another day after I got here. Yes, I remember you
mean you were on the water. Of course, Well why
didn't I see you?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I didn't want you to. Oh, but I've watched you
many days. That's how I happened to be there when
a squid attacked you.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You swim without gear.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Yes, I learned how to stay underwater when I was
very young.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You want to mention your father is your mother living?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I never knew my mother.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Neither did I. I was raised by a nurse and
a tutor.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
What are they?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You don't know what a tutor is?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Not exactly?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Hey, where'd you go to school?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You didn't know where Texas is either?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
My father was my only teacher. What did you do
in Texas?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
David HM?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
As little as possible.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I'm usually skipping around the world, trying to keep from
dying of boredom.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
But you're so attractive.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I think you'd have lots of friends, lots of it.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And I have lots of acquaintances, but no friends except
one maybe my aunt Lou you're at. Yeah, she's my
father's sister. But she's been the best friend I've ever had.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
It's strange to think of a relative as a friend.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Not when you meet at Lou and you will, Alane,
I'd like to invite you to the house for dinner,
or your father too.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh that would be impossible. Oh why my father would
never let me come.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Oh well he's invited too.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Oh, but that would be even more impossible. We couldn't
come ever.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I don't see why.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
We can only meet here on the beach, David. I
can't enter your world.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
What do you know of my world.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Enough to know that a few pleasant moments are.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
All we can have together?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh that can change. I want to see you here
every day I can be here.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
We'll swim together. I will show you many beautiful things.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
After that, we met every day and swam through fantastic
underwater gardens I never knew existed. Alane could stay under
for ten to fifteen minutes at a time without any gear,
And it was then that I knew Alime was no
ordinary girl, Dvid.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Why don't you try swimming without those tanks? I can
show you how to breathe underwater.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I believe you can.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I can't enter your world, but maybe you can be
a part of mine.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
What is your world?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
But the sea isn't it of you?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I'm not sure I want to believe what I'm thinking.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I'm let's swim. I'll teach you how to breathe leave
your tanks here.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
We dived into the water and I followed the instructions
Alime had given me, and for two minutes I actually
breathed underwater. But then my lungs filled with water. I
struggled to the surface.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
My lungs Birstie, and I'll help you to show a
badd She'll.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Be all right.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Stick to the I'm not ready for this if you've
had more practice.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Than I have, but you need to try the time.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Oh, you'll learn.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
It's important to me.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Why why should it be exact?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
You know? Someday you'll learn.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
There was something about the way she looked when she
said it, something in her voice that made me know
that somehow my destiny was.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Wrapped up in this beautiful girl.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
And one day, David, I'd like to meet your aunt Lou.
I can come tonight if you like.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
I'm delighted to meet you Allanae David talks of nothing
else but your days together. Thank you, and of course
we're grateful to you.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'd hope to meet you longer for.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
This Allane is the shy type. I'm afraid that.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
My father finally said it would be all right, and
we're delighted.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
That's a very unusual address. Did you get it in
the village? I wrote it myself some seaweed? Really, what
a sensation that would make it? The Glenwood country Club.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You're not serious, Adam. Could you make me one?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I'll pay you anything you want.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Of course i'd be happy to her.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
I'll hold you to bed. Now you two go out
on the terrace. I'll look after the dinner.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Do I really look all right, David? I've never been
up in the town before.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Of course you do.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. Don't say
things I mean it's anime. I'm in love with you, Dad.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I've loved you from the first time I saw you,
but I knew it was impossible, and then I found
a way. I found a way for us to be together.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Why was that so much of a problem.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Because of my father? I told you I couldn't live
in your world.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Well you can if it's what. Oh, good Lord, Ellen,
I just drove.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Down from La David. You were expecting me, weren't you?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Ellen?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I told you I was coming. She did get my letter,
didn't you?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You are the letter?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
You didn't even open it.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
But here I am, and none too soon, it seems.
Why didn't you introduce me to your friend?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
We haven't met.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And the evening was uncomfortable, to say the least. Allane
left immediately after dinner, and Ellen spent the rest of
the evening trying to find out who she was and
whether to consider her arrival. I didn't tell Ellen how
I felt about Allanae. As the days passed, Ellen never
left my side, and not surprisingly, Allanae was never on
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the beach. One afternoon, while Ellen napped and Aunt Lou
worked on.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
A macro maae, I slipped down to the beach.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
As I stood looking out at the sparkling sea, I
saw a shape.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Moving far out in the water.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
A porpoise.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Perhaps it was a huge fish of some sort. It
swam with terrific speed, and as it came closer I
suddenly saw a long, blonde, flowing hair. Allie was swimming
toward me, undulating her body like a fish.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
She came sweeping in on a.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Giant break when Ramda callie, David, I knew she wasn't
with you today.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
That's why I came.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
But where have you been?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I've looked for you every day?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
How could I come to you? With her around? She's yours?
Your world? But David, did you love me? Really love me?
There's a chance you can live in my world?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Where is that?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
You won't tell me?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I'll tek you there now Today my father said.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
He would meet you.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh please, David, Yes, yes, of course I'll come in hurry, get.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Your breathing things, those tanks, my thanks?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Why?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Because where are going to meet my father?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It's not every young suitor who goes to meet his
prospective father in law wearing scuba gear. But then there
aren't many young men who fall in love with such
a lovely.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Get mysterious girl.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
If you're as anxious as I am to meet Palonay's father,
stay right here.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Welcome back to the beach at Laguna. In the warm
sun and the soft sea air, it's hard to imagine
or feel anything unusual, hard to say think that Alleanae
is anything but an attractive young girl. But as we promised,
we're all going to meet her father, an event for
which David Wells has gone back to the house for
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his air tanks.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You won't need them, though.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Come along and.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Let's join David and Helenae as they prepare to meet
Allanae's father.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Don't be alarmed, David.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
But where are we going?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Why do I need my tanks?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
It's a long swim to my father's home. You haven't
learned yet how to stay underwater without people that will
come in town.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
We swam deeper than we ever had before. I followed
down through the coral, deeper and deeper until there shouldn't
have been any sunlight. But as we swam easily along
the ocean floor, the light seemed to get brighter.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Well, I was completely spelled dound.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I forgot everything except the fantastic beauty around me. Two
large gates boomed in front of us. They swung open
as alone approached, and we swam down a pearl covered corridor,
which opened into a magnificent underwater room. Reclining on a
bed of corn was a Morman mad man, half fish.
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He was ageless stern menacing. Alleenae touched my hand and
drew me closer.
Speaker 11 (17:24):
Father, we indeed, no, you are the mortal words captured
my Alonnaise heart.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I couldn't answer. I couldn't speak under water as they could.
And now I knew the difference between us.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I knew what.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Alleene meant about her father and her world.
Speaker 11 (17:44):
I don't expect words from your mortal man, but now
you know. I agreed to this meeting to prove to
you and to Allenae, the union between you is utterly impossible.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Father, David can man to live here as we do
in your kingdom. Nothing is impossible if you will it.
Speaker 11 (18:04):
You permitted me to venture on the beach, yes, to
see it, to learn of it, but never to make
an alliance with it.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
But will you agree to meet David?
Speaker 11 (18:12):
I thought I told you why I agreed to let
him come here. I didn't have to go to the trouble,
but I wanted you to see what happens to a
mortal man in our kingdom.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
As he spoke, my dear began to give out. I'd
switched to the auxiliary tank much earlier, and now I
was down to the danger level.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I had to get to the surface.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
Alonae, Look at your mortal man.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Already his air.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Is used up. It is finished.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Father.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
You mustn't let me take him back.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
No, it is finished.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Let him go, father, I promise I'll forget him. Don't
let him die.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
What difference should it make to you?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Are the Please let me take him back.
Speaker 11 (18:56):
You stay allowney, I will permit Ishar to show him
the way.
Speaker 12 (19:00):
Hiy hid, David, David, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It's l uh oh, Alan, I'm here, darling. I thought
I thought I was dying.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
My air gave up.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Were you almost drowned?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
How did I How did I get here?
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Well, some people on the beach dragged you out of
the water.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
That they saved your life.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I can't remember.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
They said, some kind of giant fish pushed you to shore.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
David.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Do you want anything? Tea or water?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
A double scotch?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
The doctor said no, No.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
For forty eight hours, you've had a sedative.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You wouldn't believe what I've been through. I followed Alana
to the depths of the sea, to Neptune's kingdom. I
was there, I saw it. I met her father, Dan.
I know you think I'm crazy, but she took me
there to see if I could live in her world.
Her world at the bottom of the sea.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
What was her father like?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Half man, half fish? He sat on a coral throne.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
What am I saying?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Dated.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Hallucinations are common, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
This was not an hallucination. I was there. It happened, Darling.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
As soon as you can travel, were you going back
to Dallas?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I knew i'd never see Alane again, and I was
tired of diving. So two days later we flew back
to Texas. Helen wanted to stay and nurse me, but
I persuaded her.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I wanted to be alone for a while.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Dad was in Europe, and only our housekeeper, Missus MacArthur,
was there, and of course in Napoleon. How's a boy, Napoleon?
Let me Napoleon get Yeah, you're glad to see me,
aren't you?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Mappe.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I was very sick about you after all, and proud,
and I.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Wish she hadn't. I'm glad Dad's in Europe.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
You say, you're all right?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Oh would I be here if I weren't?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Now, why don't you go up and take a nice
hot tub and I put your things away.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Okay, sounds good. Come on, Napoleon, it is good when
you come home. David.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Hello, David.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Oh hi Ellen.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
I thought you were gonna call me yesterday.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I'm sorry. I stayed over in the city.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
And what were you doing in town?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I was checking out a new hunting rifle.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Whatever. We're still going to the theater tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Oh well, yes, yes, of course, I'm I've got the tickets.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
No.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Oh, was I never mind? Okay, I'll I'll pick you
up a dinner.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Joy, I'll stop by.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
I found a painting at the town Gallery that's perfect
for your foyer.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
I'm dying to see how it looks, and we'll go
on from there.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
It's perfect, absolutely perfect, don't you agree.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
With, David, Just the thing for the foyer.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Mm I guess so, hope you don't sound overwhelmed. No,
maybe I'm not, David, Is it me?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Oh no?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Uh no?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
No, Ellen?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Then then what is it? Is it that girl in
Laguna that she mean so much to you?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well? I think about her, yes, but that's over. It's
over completely. I'm not even sure it ever was.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Oh well, I'm glad for that.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Oh, I do hope Armand has loves to tonight.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I'm dying for some really good lust.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I wonder what ail's Napoleon.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
He's such a looser sometimes.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Wait a minute, what is it?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I thought?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I just saw a figure the oud of the path.
It slipped into the shadows.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Missus MacArthur.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Oh no, no, no, no way. It was much too small.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Huh. And it's a prowler.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Right, Look, I'll handle this.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You stay here.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I'm staying with you.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Napoleon's stopped barking.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Then maybe it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Hell, hello, who's there?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I saw you.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Let's get to the car, David.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Okay, if there's someone here, I've got to wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It's a puddle of water in the path.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Well, maybe the garden Charles didn't order here today. Everything
else is dry except that one patch of water. It
hasn't rained for three days.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Why would there be one spot of wet.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Ground when everything else is dry?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
A search of the.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Grounds turned up nothing, and I had our dinner, went
to the theater, and I took her home. As I walked
from my garage to the house, I saw a figure
slip from the shadows, David, what, who's there?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
It's me, David, Alanee. I found you.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I knew I could.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
How did you get here?
Speaker 4 (24:22):
My love for you brought me here. I defied my father.
I too, am gifted with special powers as his daughter.
I had been given certain birthrights, powers to do what
may seem impossible to you. And so I'm here. I
hope you're glad to see me, David.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
I saw you going out with her earlier tonight. That's
why I disappeared.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
That was you in the shadows.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yes, I couldn't approach you when you were with her.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I'll forget her. You're here and that's all that matters.
You can and live in my world.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (25:01):
I know I can, David.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I'll learn, you see, I can live out of water.
All I need to learn is how to please you.
She's a charming child, David. But it bothers me that
she followed you from Laguna.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
I spills, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
What about her parents? She only has a father.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
And Ellen, but she knows he's here.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
No, and I don't want her to know, not now anyway.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Well, it's not going to be easy. Well, David, it's
your life, and you do what you want with it.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I love her, Missus macawthur, we both know it, and
we know it's right. I didn't tell missus McArthur all
I knew about Alime. She wasn't ready for that, and
I wasn't sure I was either. I kept thinking back
to that, and I was at meeting with her father,
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a meeting I knew was real.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
I knew you wanted me, David. I wouldn't have come
to you if you didn't.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I want you Alanne completely.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You've told her not yet.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I'm so happy take it, so happy, but so so uneasy, uneasy?
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Why for defying my father?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I just hope, Oh what.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
That he understands.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I broke off with Ellen, who wasn't happy about it,
but wasn't too surprised either. The weeks rolled by, and
Alan and I fell deeper in love than ever. It
was magic, a magic I never knew or dreamed about it.
And then it began.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
A shadow of.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Terror to spoil our paradise.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
It was late autumn now, and one Friday night, we had.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
All gone to bed early.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
The clock said two a m. When I awoke like
a shot, a sound that sliced through my subconscious. I
jumped out of bed and raced to the hall. Heavid,
what's the matter this Napoleon? Missus Macarthury's fighting with someone
fright cause I'm going to find out you staying here?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
No, no, no, let me come with you.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Raise Napoleon, I come home, Come along there, hurry.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
The sounds came from the gazebo.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Stock does that mean?
Speaker 12 (27:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
No Napoleon.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Ah, he's soaking wet Napoleon.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
He's he's dick dev turn apart.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Who could have done this? Why? Uh?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
He's sucking wet Napoleon? No, I wouldn't touch him.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Die.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
This is macauthin look looked here on his fur h
with white decks. Yes, the fish scales the first smells
of salt war.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Salt Water District in the middle of Taxi.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
It's a fact that the waters of the world cover
more than seventy percent of the Earth's surface. Little wonder
that the power of the sea can make itself felt
far inland from the sparkling beaches. But what effect will
it have on the lives of David Wells and the
child of the sea alone? What killed Napoleon and left
(28:42):
him soaked with salt water? We'll learn the chilling answers.
When I returned shortly with Act three, it seems as
though the sea has reached out to touch David Wells's
(29:04):
life again. His dog Napoleon, killed by an unseen force
that left the animal soaked in the sea water and
covered in scales. With things like this happening, I wonder
what's in store for David and Allanae.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
David, whoever did this will still be on the ground.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Now, let's get back to the house past. I'll take
care of Napoleon later. I want you and Allene to
stay inside.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Get my gun?
Speaker 4 (29:29):
I think it's auld call the police.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
No, don't do that right now, but you'll keep Allane
inside if you can.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Allen, I get back to the house.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I told you to.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Thank God, you're all right. He won't hurt you if
I'm with.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
You, go back with Missus McCarthy.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
But you must come with me now. I'm your only protection.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
What do you mean he's after me?
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Oh, he won't hurt me, but he'll kill anything that
threatens him. That's why Napoleon I.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
From the shadows stepped the man covered.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
In a robe.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
The robe was torn and bloodied. The face was.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Hidden deep inside the hood of the rope.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
But the chill that ran down.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
My back it was the man fish that had carried
me out of Alimesee underwater home.
Speaker 11 (30:20):
Your father wants you back, Hallole, I.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Have found a new collar.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
No, now, look here.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Let me, David, tell my father that I am staying here.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Isa, she's staying with me. I have not come all
this way to turn around and leave.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
You're coming with me.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Stay back.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Don't touch her. That weapon doesn't threaten me.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I said, don't touch don't.
Speaker 13 (30:48):
Can't you realize these bullets made nothing to me.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Mortal man, you were always my friend.
Speaker 9 (30:56):
Actor.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Why are you doing this?
Speaker 1 (30:58):
We miss you.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I miss you.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
You are not a child of the land.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
No matter what you think, por se about love.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Let me stay. Tell my father you couldn't.
Speaker 13 (31:11):
Find I can only tell him you refuse to retard.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
But you punish you for not taking me back by that?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Oh me won't.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
But if you insist on this way.
Speaker 13 (31:24):
Then you'll have to take the punishment he plans for you.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
He cannot punish me here.
Speaker 13 (31:29):
Perhaps you'll have to find out for yourself. I'll give
your father your message.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
You're thanking me for nothing.
Speaker 13 (31:39):
You know, if your father wants you back, he'll get
you back.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
I'm sorry, but I tried.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
To stop her.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
It's all right, missus McArthur.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Okay, and I still think we have to call the police.
There may be a media car a loose, but he
did to.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Pull on a point.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Oh no, it was probably another dog.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
It's over, Missus MacArthur. Forget it, forget it.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
How can I forget what happened tonight?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Well, there's no more danger.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
They've taken care of Napoleon's body. Let's not have any
more about it.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
No, David, it's he.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
So I couldn't tell missus MacArthur the truth.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
How could I tell her what had happened that night?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I decided that Allanee and I should be married as
soon as possible. I knew the family would never stand
for an elopement, so I called aunt Low and asked
her to come to Dallas.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Of course, I'll arrange the wedding. David, I'm delighted to
be asked.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Don't make it too fancy. Just invite those you think
are a muscle. But you've told your father is we
called him in South America? I've got to admit.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
I'm surprised. Are you sure this is what you want?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Absolutely?
Speaker 7 (32:55):
Following you hear from Lagoona?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
And what about her father.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Aunt Lou? Remember what I told you about my visit
to her father, where i'd been, what i'd seen. Well, yes,
we talked about him, and you thought that it was
a hallucination. Well that was real, Aunt Lou, as real
as Alene is. And now our father's trying to get
her back.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
He's been here.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
He sent a messenger, the same one who brought me
ashore that day.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
David.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Are you asking me to believe this girl is actually
from the sea?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (33:30):
May I come in?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Allane?
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Of course, Missus MacArthur told me you arrived, Aunt Lou.
I'm so happy to see you.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
Again, Helle Allane. It seems we have some important plans
to make.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Oh yes, it's so nice of you to arrange it.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
All.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
My family couldn't possibly do it.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
He is, so I understand.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
We'll leave.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Everything to you.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
What's the matter, Alene, wad getten to put your arms
over your head and look help me, David Water and
look you as fast as you can.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Trouble day as.
Speaker 7 (34:15):
I say, I'll do it, But I don't see how
that help me.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I'll carry you. Put your arm round my neck.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
No, no, I know how you help.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Why to stop talking?
Speaker 5 (34:34):
The girl needs a doctor.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I'll call doctor Lewis.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Hell.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Just go back and don't try too here. It's halfful
out of it. Do you want to start him?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Don't tell you now?
Speaker 5 (34:47):
What are you doing?
Speaker 8 (34:49):
Then back?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
She's she can breathe now.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
She's underwater.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
She breathes underwater. It's full of nut.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Alleannaie's all right now?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
For a while, I.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Helenae floated face down on the tub. The slight movement
of her back told me she was breathing easily, and
I knew that her father was keeping his word. He'd
have Alleannae back, and I was powerless to fight him.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
I think I'm all right.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
You better stay under a little longer and let me
just see.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
If I can.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Yes, I can breathe in the air. Te it. I
was right. My father is stronger than I am. He
will let's let's.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I didn't want to believe it, but I knew Alleanae
was right. The breathing attack was her father's spell, drawing
her back to the sea. We both knew the attacks
would continue. And Allane might possibly die.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
I must go back, David. We tried, but it's not
for us.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I know.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
I'll take you to Laguna.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
That's not necessary.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
The golf is closer.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
I'll sleep in there. The entire sea is my home.
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
No, I want to say goodbye to you where I
first met you.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
We'll go to Laguna.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
It was a dark, gray day. Allane and I walked
to the ocean and stood on a large rock. We'd
shared so many happy times before.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Every time you are near the sea, will be together.
This is the test, David. If our love is really strong,
nothing can keep us apart. Maybe our future is just beginning.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Colonnae, don't go.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
We'll work something outs, special pools for you or something, David.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
I must They're waiting for me. I can feel the
forces now, but our love will when you'll see David.
You'll know when the time comes.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Halloney, you'll know, David.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
You'll know when the time comes.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Hello, Hello David.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
How are you?
Speaker 13 (37:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Pretty good?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Aunt little You want your houseback? Oh not exactly.
Speaker 9 (37:49):
I've got to be on the coast next week for
an artic give it in La and I'll be using
the cottage.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Well, come on along.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Seeing you will be like the first breeze of summer. Well,
i'll be there on Sunday.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
Oh, your father's back from South America. Oh, delighted you're
not engaged anymore, and convinced more than ever you're crazy.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Well, come on out and give me more laughs. And
the past week has been like a week.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
See you someday. You miss her very much, David.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Completely, But like everything else, I'll get over it.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
You wanna come into La with me tomorrow? I can't
promise the swinging time at the art show, but did
a cocktail reception after.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
It could be fun?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
No, maybe I maybe I will.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
I'll see it wouldn't hurt to get out again.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Oh hope, I'm not uh wearing her wearing I'm I'm welcome.
Oh never, I'm just not ready to go back to
stalls yet. Sad.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Sure, short breath all of a sudden.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
Oh it's probably nerves. You've been under such a strain.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Don't know.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
I know it's maybe going into hell a with.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
You is just what I need?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
Loo Loo by it, David?
Speaker 3 (39:18):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (39:19):
I shn't breathe water?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Give you water?
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Sit up, David, no water. I'll get it, David.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
I'll call doctor Harris Water.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
I knew what was happening.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
I staggered toward the bedroom door, through the living room,
and onto the beach. And I have to get to
the water, cold sand, not a black, starry knife. I
have to get to the water. Only a few feet now,
staking to the serf.
Speaker 14 (39:51):
The gentle rollers welcomed me, trying me deep into the sea,
and I breathe easily again, great refreshing gropes.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
As I swim with a light, easy sway to.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
The kingdom where my love is waiting.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Iridescent fish reckon and lead the way alone is waiting
with love. As I approach the gates, the underwater flowers
sway and greeting. The gates swing open, and I swim
into that kingdom.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
That new world, but welcomes me.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Who can say that the force of love, the power
of the gods, and the mysteries.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Of the sea are not eternal, are not real?
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Our story was fantasy, you say, perhaps, But the next
time you're near a beach, look out to see. If
you look closely, you may see two figures swimming and
frolicking in the waters. Corpouses, probably but then again, I'll
be back shortly.
Speaker 8 (41:11):
Hey there, fellers, how you out more jump?
Speaker 5 (41:13):
Nice to see you, sir, Howdy Sheriff.
Speaker 8 (41:15):
Ain't too much you boss on the highway. Lately y'all
have been changing loots. Avoid me now, not me, sir,
No way here sure seayt here tell a lot of
you eighteen winners on them Johnson CB radio.
Speaker 10 (41:27):
You mean the new forty channel Johnson cebes with tapered
automatic noise limiters.
Speaker 8 (41:31):
And due with Crystal fildering that nifty new power bar led.
Speaker 10 (41:34):
Beat electronic speech compression.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
With Johnthon's new range controlled and they're x three hundred
d phase lot now frequency synthesizers.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
No chump.
Speaker 10 (41:42):
The nice trucker's ever heard of the new Johnson CB's
till you mentioned it just now?
Speaker 8 (41:47):
You know, when the trucker hits the road with his
Johnson CBE, he knows he's got a lot going for him.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Why.
Speaker 8 (41:53):
In a recent survey, sixty six percent more independent truck
drivers holding America made Johnson CB to the next leading Brian, Now,
which CBS best for y'all? Go with Johnson c B
clearly the professional's choice.
Speaker 10 (42:05):
Stan Bosh here, oh, FCC license required it's free.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
To Yeah, well it's time we came up for air.
And anyway, David and Allen, they certainly.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Don't want us around anymore.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Two's company and three is certainly not a honeymoon. I
suspect that a marriage ceremony and that mysterious and beautiful
Kingdom of the Sea is something.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
Spectacular to behold.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
And the honeymoon, well, we just have to use our imaginations.
Our cast included Tony Roberts, E. V. Justter Briner, Rayburn
and Earl Hammond. The entire production was under the direction.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Of Hyman Brown. Missus E. G.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dream
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