March 2, 2026 • 41 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. Find more classic, old-time radio series at Theater of the Mind - OTR | Spreaker | Apple | YouTube
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
S Radio Mystery Theater presents.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Come in welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm e G.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I am mortised and tenoned in granite. And I know
the amplitudes of time, said the poet, The amplitudes of time,
and also of space, infinite, illimitable, with neither an end
nor a beginning, So much time, so much space. And
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we poor, frenzied, crowded creatures. Why are we so hurried
and cramped.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Marcella for you to marry me?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yes, William, I heard you.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Well your answered, Well, the answer is no.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
No, it has to be no.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Why does it have to be no?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Because well I don't love you?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Oh? Is that all?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Is that all?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
I thought you had a good reason.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Our mystery drama Fire and Ice was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Fred Gwynn
and Marion Haley. It is sponsored in part by Contact,
the Twelve Hour Cold Capsule and True Value Hardware Stores.
I'll be back shortly with that one.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The world has changed in many ways. There was a
time when every.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Man's home was his castle, and every man was king.
This doesn't necessarily mean that his wife was a queen.
What it meant was that His.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Word was law, and everyone in the house obeyed it
or else or else.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
What.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, it didn't come up often enough to be very
much of a problem in most places. At any rate,
we're concerned with an autocrat named J. J. Trelawney in
the year nineteen twelve.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Father, who's that? But oh, oh, oh.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
It's you, Yes, father, it's me Marcella.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Uh why it's that on your face? Okay?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Oh no, father, it's powder. Just as bad was Rice's powder. Father.
Even the minister his wife wears it.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
The same rice we eat.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yes, father, come in, come in, come in. Don't just
stand there well, the same rice we eat.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Oh, yes, yes, father, I.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
See you're wearing enough of it to save an entire
heathen village from starvation.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I hadn't thought of it that way.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I don't know what the world's coming to.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Father. May I speak with you?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Of course you can speak with me.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Well, Father, there's this young man.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
But which young man?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
When I met at this concert?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
What did you want to meet a young man in
a concert?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
For father? He's really very nice?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well nice, fine? But what about William William? Yes, William
William is my right hand man. I know that he's
a fellow for you. But father, you must admit he's smart.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, yes, yes he is.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And he's gonna be rich one day, very rich.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Well, yes, yes he will.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well, then what do you want to meet other young men?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
For?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Father?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Edward is so?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh? Edward is it?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Yes, Edward, he's so so what Oh he's just? Yes,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Here's a fella and you see him going on him
And when I ask you why, it's because he's just
And I don't know. But father, no, no, no, no,
that won't do. My girl. William Stillwell's the man for you.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Please, Father, I don't love William still.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Will love love. What's love?
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Rich?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It's it's what I can't find it exactly well.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
In the dictionary, it's a strong liking, a fondness for
a devotion to an affection.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
You see, my girl, I happen to look it up,
like to be sure of my ground. Now you've got
to put your life on a practical basis, do your
great yes, and you've got to do the thing that
makes sense. Yes, which is why I have to choose
your husband for you. As a man of the world.
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I will not be carried away by sentiment. I can
be depended on to make the proper choice. Whereas you you,
you're giddy young thing. And as if that weren't enough,
you're also a woman, which means you simply do not
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have the qualifications for for rational thinking. Isn't that so?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Father, believe me, you'll marry William Stillwell, one day, one
fine day, Belle d Where does that come from? Why
do I remember that?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
It's from the new opera? And mister Puccini, madam Butterfly.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oh yes, And that fellow is in it who has
such a fine voice.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Watch his name, mister Caruso. Father, But he didn't sing me,
are you?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It was the Japanese girl. Yes, well, there are a
bunch of foreigners, and I guess they really know music,
don't they. But what's the point I'm trying to make you?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh, it has to do with this thing you call love.
Why there's the where a Japanese girl kill herself? A
beautiful girl, well off or all sorts of bright prospects,
could have a great future. Why does she kill herself?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Love, that's my point exactly. Love? Oh what is she
needed for? What good did it do her? Where did
it get her well.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
But father, so let's.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Not hear another word about love? All right? Is that clear?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yes? Father, he had a way, my father did of
making things so crystal clear. But she was older, wiser,
more experienced, which made me knew better, and everything was
from my own good. I look back at it now,
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after all these years. The world now is so different.
But back then, I went to the concert that night
to hear a young Russian violinist named Mischa Elman. That's
not why I went. I went because I knew he
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would be there Edwards, and we would need an intermission.
We would need even though nothing could ever come of it.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Marcella, Why do you say that, please Edward? Why do
you say nothing can ever come of it?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Because it's true?
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Why is it true?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I must do what my father tells me.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
And if you don't, if I don't, yes, my darling,
if you don't, what will he do?
Speaker 8 (08:49):
What can he do?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Please? Edward?
Speaker 8 (08:51):
Disinherit? You cut you out of his will? Oh?
Speaker 7 (08:54):
It is that I have a job. I can support us.
You know that, yes, sir, I'm not at your father's money.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
You know that too, Oh, yes, I know that.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Then why don't we just stand up?
Speaker 8 (09:07):
To it.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
We'd better not see each other again, never.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
See each other.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Yes, you call this seeing each other, this hurried ten
minute encounter.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Well, whatever it is, would brief.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Pause during a concert in the midst of a thousand people.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
It's for the best. There is no other way.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
Your father has no right.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
He has every right, why because he's my father?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Is that you, Marcella? Yes, father, did you enjoy the concert?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yes, I I have a surprise for you for me, Yes, Macella.
Williams here.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
William.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Uh, you don't sound at all excited.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
But I'm not excited.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yes, William spent the evening with me. We had some
reports to analyze. William has a brilliant mind. Spend a
little time with William. He's in my study. Talk to him.
You will see how eminently sensible the two of you
would be together. M h William, Uh step in here, please? Uh, yes,
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mister Trelawney. Oh, oh, good.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Evening, Marcella, good evening, William.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I have had Starbuck prepare this little buffet. I know
you must be famished aff the concert, my dear, and
uh you William, you worked hard enough to earn a
little supper.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Why don't you young people enjoy supper? Mm? While uh
I finish up in the study.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
May I help you to some cuve yard?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Marcella, No, thank you, puzzle, I'm not hungry.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Did you enjoy the concert?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Well, I'm not one for music. I find it a
waste of time. Oh you know, I don't find it productive.
Productive On those rare occasions when I'm dragooned to one,
I see people around me sitting in deep silence and
thinking and concentrating.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
It isn't that so?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Well? Yes, I know who I do that.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Well, it requires metal energy, does it not?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Some, Well, shouldn't there.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Be shouldn't there be some reward for this expenditure of
energy and effort?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
There is a reward, is there? Yes? Well, I'm not
sure I can describe it.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Well, then it's a it's a rather poor reward. Oh no, no,
it's rich, rich, And what.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
No things are the hear it thinks.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
The spirit.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Tell me something, Marcella, These things of the spirit, what can.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
One do with them? Do with him?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Can you take these things of the spirit into a
bank and discount them for cash?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Oh no, I don't suppose so.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Who are of what fact?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
You are they well, William, they do things for the mind,
for the heart, for the soul.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
As well as I understand it.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
You spent two hours in Carnegie Hall listening to some
Russian fiddler. Yes, and you gave him all your attention
and concentration. Yes, I did, and as a result you
claim to be richer in things of the spirit.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
I think I have a headache, William. I may have concentrated,
you know, a bit too deeply.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I wonder if you'll excuse me. Yes, of course, good night, William, Yeah,
good night.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Oh, before you go, I had come here this evening
for one purpose.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I know, to work with my father.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
No, no, no, not exactly, but to see you, to
see me. Yes, I didn't know you'd be out. See
the reason I came here what should not come as
a complete surprise to you.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
It was to ask your hand in marriage.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yes, I had discussed with your father.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Oh I know that.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Well. He's quite enthusiastic, So I understand he thinks it's
a splendid idea.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Yes, I'm sure he's all for it. He already told me.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Then it's all settled.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Regardless of my answer.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Your answer, Oh, oh, of course I must have your
answer too.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Oh, it's very sensitive of you to ascertain my wishes.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
William.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I would marry you gladly. However, there's a.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Problem, a problem.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
I don't love you.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
What did you say?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I don't love you?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And that's the problem.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yes, that's the problem, my dear Marcella. I was afraid
it was something serious.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Love, says the popular song Your magic Spell is everywhere, Well,
not quite everywhere, not in the heart of Marcella Trelawney.
Well it's in there, but obviously not for mister William. Stillwell,
so that should be the end of it. Ah, but
don't forget. The year is nineteen twelve, and that was
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another world, and we shall return to it shortly when
I bring you back too. Love is for the poets,
the philosophers, the dreamers, the romantics, and we wonder why sometimes,
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since it seems to have treated most of them quite shabbily.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Well, today, of course.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
We claim to marry for love. A generation or solgo
this wasn't the case. Are we happier than our grandparents?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Who really knows?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
But you don't understand, William, I don't love you.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Is that a reason not to marry me.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Please, William, you must excuse me. I'm very tired. I
went upstairs to my room. I prepared for bed. I
was very tired and confused and unhappy. I didn't know
what to do. There was a knock on the door.
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That was my father. I was sort of expecting him.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I spoke with William, my dear father.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
I don't love him.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
He understands that, and I understand with.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Then, why do you insisted on marry him?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Because you'll make you an excellent husband without love? Love,
my dear only confuses the issue.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Please father, The issue is clear enough for me.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Marriage should primarily be a strengthening of one's position. In
the past, did kings and queens marry for love? Of
course not. It was to unite families, expand territories other
I'm not a queen, ah, but you are. You're the
daughter of a millionaire. It is your duty to protect
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your fortune. My fortune, the fortune you will one day
inherit from me.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Oh, father, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Nobody does one.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Father, I mean it. All I can tell you is
that I don't love williams still Well.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It's unfortunate. William Stillwell is a man who could preserve
your fortune. Well, what's wrong with him?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Well, father, he doesn't like art, he doesn't like music.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
To teach him to enjoy them.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Well, it isn't that either, I mean it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Well, then, what is it?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Well, it's just that there's something you know, something about him?
Speaker 8 (17:31):
I am.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yes, Well, it's just something you were determined not to
like him.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I say, I'm sorry, father.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
And you refuse to marry it?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Will I don't refuse to marry him if you command
me to.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I understand that. I was hoping you could arrive at
the proper conclusion for yourself. It's it's this certain something, yes, father, Well,
it seems to me a man can be as wise
as King Solomon, as handsome as Apollo, as strong as Hercules.
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He could be the paragon of every virtue known to man.
And yet if he does not possess that mysterious certain something,
which the woman herself cannot define or even describe, he
isn't worth her passing glance. Well, this other fellow, what's
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his name?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Edward? Edward Wilson?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Edward Wilson. Well, we'll see what will we see? Father,
We'll see what he's made out of your father. He's wonderful,
that's what we're going to find out, now, my sella.
I'll look this fellow and if I think he can
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cut the mustard, if I think he'll be better for
you than William.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Oh you will.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You will just get me out. I'll give him a
fair trial, and then I'll stack each of them up
against the other and come to my decision. Is that understood, yes, father,
and you will agree with my choice. Yes, father, and
that will be the end of it. You'll obey your
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father with no further nonsense. Do you agree, oh, father, father?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I agree, of course I agree. Such a wonderful man,
my father. He could have simply commanded me to marry William,
but he loved me, Yes, much as he had no
use for that word. He loved me, and he wanted
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me to be happy, and so Edward, my Edward, would
get a fair child. The very next night, Edward was
asked to dinner.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You say you're an astronomer, Edward, Yes, sir, I suppose
it's a great deal of night work.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Well, yes, sir, a goodly amount, Edward.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
How would you like to take a job with me?
A job, sir, Yes, I'm having a ship fitted out.
We're going up into the Arctic, the Arctic, the Arctic,
a voyage of exploration and discovery to the North Pole.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
But the North Pole has already been discovered.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I know, I know, I know, I know by this
fellow Perry and that other one watched his name Almonds,
and he discovered the South Pole. Personally, I can't unders
stand those two.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Can't you?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Well, what was the point of the entire trip just
to go out there and get forst byed? Huh. It's
it's like you you looking up at the sky and
counting the stars. Now where's the application? Now, I'm going
to the Arctic for a reason.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
May I ask the reason, mister Treulonney, to get rich?
But I understood you were rich.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Now this is nothing. I'm going up there to stake
out a claim.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
What sort of plane?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
What sort of claim? Don't you know?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
That's where all the oil is, all the gold, the silver,
the platinum.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
That's true theoretically, No.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
No, no, it's true.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Practically. I'll need two good men. I've already got one,
William Stillwell, will you be the other?
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Well, sir, well, I'll think about it.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We'll be leaving next week.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Next week.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I'll have to have your answer no later than tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
It's father's way of finding out about you.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Well, he doesn't have to send me to the Arctic
to find out. My life's an open book.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
But he does have to send you to the Arctic
why to see if you majure up to his standards. Besides,
William Stillwell is going now. He wants to see both
of you together.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
My solla, Why do you have to this absolute domination
by your father?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Please don't say that, but it's true. I can't help
the way I am and I'm not sure it's wrong.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
You're not sure, well, cousin every instinct.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Please, Darling, what do I know about the world. I've
always been sheltered, taken care of. My father's always protected me.
Oh he's wise, Edward experience. I know he loves me.
She wants me to be happy. Now would he insists
on my marriage to William Stillwell if you weren't sure
that that was the best choice? I know? I know
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he only wants what's best for me, and.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
You shouldn't you have anything to say about that.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
I love you, Edward, it is I I think I
love you?
Speaker 8 (23:21):
You think.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
What is it I really have for you? Only a
feeling something. I can't explain why I feel this way.
I don't know. Against this it is my father's wisdom.
I'm only air. My father is solid rough.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
That kind of thinking is wrong?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Is now? I would have to get used to a
new a new way of life, a new way of
looking at things. It can't happen overnight and all at once.
I want to be free. I want to be independent.
I want to be one of mister George, but not
God show women. Oh how much I.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Want to will then become one?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
You just don't do it.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
I want to change it once, then change.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I have already a little falling in love with you,
even though I know my father's intended me for someone else.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
But to go off with your father on this expedition
to the Arctic. Don't you understand? I have a job,
I have a career. I would have to give it up. Well,
it would be a change in my life.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
And yet what you're asking me to do is to
make a change in mind.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Well that's different. We're in love. Shouldn't that be enough
for marriage?
Speaker 4 (24:46):
I don't know. It's enough for some people, but not
for others. I don't know if it would be enough
for us.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Why did I have to fall in love with you? Yeah,
all right, you'll win. I'll go on the trip.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Oh, darling, I know Father will see that you are
the best man.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Oh no, mysell William Stillwell is going to be the
best man. I shall become the bridegroom.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
What do they say?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Sensible intelligent people never fall in love. Well, if they don't,
they do avoid a great deal of grief, but they
also miss out on a goodly amount of fun.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
Why do we marry?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
And whom should we marry?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
The average person faces these problems at least once in
a lifetime.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Of course, there are.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Some who never face them at all, and others who
keep facing.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Them all the time.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Should you marry because he or she is attractive?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Rich?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Should we marry to please our parents?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
To better ourselves?
Speaker 8 (26:12):
For love?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
All through history and all over the world, people have
married and still do for any one of these reasons,
and statistically there is no proof that any one reason
is better than the others.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Er, may I commend myself?
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Please do? Father?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Our ship sails tomorrow. I know, Father, and I must say,
I am rather taken with this young man, Edward. I
knew you would be, but I want to compare him
with William and test them both under some rather rough conditions.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Oh, you will be so proud of Edward.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Well, remember, however it comes out, you agree to abide
by my decision.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
I'll accept it. What a week that was, such hectic
preparations I hardly saw it with it all, and then
just before it was time to leave, each of them
came to say goodbye.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
To me, My darling.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
I'm glad I'm going. It's good sometimes to see someone
else's point of view, and just being with your father
this week is well, it's taught me a great many
things about him.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I knew you'd like him.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
I'm not sure I like him exactly, but I do
know he's a most unusual man, and he wants very
much for you to be happy.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
You know, That's all he's ever wanted.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
And so now that I look at it from his
point of view, he doesn't seem unreasonable at all.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Careful, carefuler, Marcella. Let me take your eye. But gang
playing swedes quite a bit. Yeah, hey here you are.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Well, Hey, what are you doing down here at today?
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Well?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
I just came down to.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Because I know you didn't come to see.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Me when I came to look at the boat.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
You mean the ship?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Huh? I didn't know there was a difference.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
It has to do with size, Marcella. What do you
see in this fellow Edward?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Oh? He has a beautiful soul?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
What is the use I talk to you? And what
do I get?
Speaker 5 (28:29):
I get words that really have no meaning, words like
love and soul?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
All right, what is soul?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
If you even have to ask such a question.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I do. The fact is no one has ever seen
a soul? Have they?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
But now that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Why why is it ridiculous?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Now?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
How big is the soul? What does it look like?
Where can you find it?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
William? May I ask you something? What do you want
with me? I mean? Why you want to marry me?
Speaker 8 (29:01):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (29:02):
I know, I know?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
If you don't beat all?
Speaker 9 (29:06):
If you know, why do you ask?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Well, it's the right, the practical course of action. I'm
a logical choice. But shouldn't there, William be more than
had I need? Shouldn't two people be happy?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
We'll be happy?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Well? How can we be happy, William? If we're not
in love?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
What's long? Oh?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
There you go again?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
What did I say?
Speaker 8 (29:25):
Now?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Oh? If you have to ask? And then the boat
or the ship, the sail. It was quite a day.
Flags were flying in the harbor. The air was filled
with tears. Whistles from all the craft bands were playing.
I mean, there were reporters, and the mayor was there,
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and the governor and important people from Washington, Oh. President
tapped themselves center telegram, and then the ship was gone,
and all that I had were letters.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
I've never seen such brilliant colors. Everyone thinks the Arctic
is white, but when the sun hits the ice, it
explodes into thousands of glorious rainbows. I long for you constantly, Edward.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Nothing much to report.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
One day's pretty much like the other, just ice and
snow and the sun. Soon we're going to lose the
sun and just be stuck with the ice and snow.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Best from William.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Whatever there is to the summer is about to disappear.
We are now going to get into the real Arctic.
Already it's getting to be constant twilight. Soon it will
be night, the night that will last for six months.
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But it's good. It's starting to separate the men from
the board. I'm getting to know things about both of them,
things I could never learn in the ordinary way. Back
at home, all right, more or later your loving father.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
But he never did. He never wrote another letter. The
reporters wouldn't stop ringing my telephone, knocking at my door.
What did they want of me? And knew more about
it than I did?
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Miss Trelawney, do you have a statement? My statements tell
us about it's a great tragedy. Tragedy your father is
reported missing in the article?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Well, yes, I know.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
What can you tell us about it?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (31:44):
But surely, Miss Trelawney.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Pease, gentlemen. I don't know what to say. Do you
have any plans?
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Yeah? Plans? What are you gonna do about the troney industry?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
I don't know? Well will you?
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Will you assume personal control? And do you intend to
become America's first great woman?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
I haven't thought anything about like that.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
Your views on woman's suffrage?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Missus SAMSTROTI please, gentlemen, please, There was only one thing
I wanted to do, and I did it. I ordered
a boat or a ship is and I commanded the
captain to sail north along the Atlantic coast, up past
Lavador and Newfoundland, find a place called Baffin's Island and
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the Davis Strait. Then up north, to the very edge
of the frozen polar wastes. Finally I arrived at the
side of my father's base camp. It was a large,
well constructed settlement. It was warm, it was safe.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Why saer, But you shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Have come here?
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Why not, William?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
There's nothing you can do.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Where's Edward?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
He's out looking for your father?
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Yes, he would be. You, of course, are staying here
in the base camp where it's safe.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
I have been looking to It's it's just that you
came here in the day that that he's out.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Where's father gone?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Where trying to find the trail?
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Which trail?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Well, just before the winter set in. Your father had.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
A little camp made for himself, it's not too far
from here, in a hut with a stove and food
and everything he needed, and you let him go.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Well, who could tell.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Your father anything? He wanted to be alone, just for
a little while. He wanted to think things out. I know,
I know he was supposed to come back, but he
was caught in the first storm, in the first terrible
cold in the winter.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
It's it's been a month. We haven't heard from you.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
He doesn't have enough supplies, enough food and enough fuel.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I thought you wanted to know.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
You just have no sensitivity. I'm sorry, and so I
will remain all winter until the light of summer returns,
and then they will be able to see the trail
once again, and then they will recover my father's body.
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And perhaps there will be a letter for me from him,
his very last letter, in which he'll tell me his decision.
But don't I know that decision even now? Don't I
know it? Now that he's seen Edward under these terrible conditions?
Can there be any doubt Edward, the kind, understanding, gentle
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Edward with the beautiful soul. If he didn't choose Edward,
how could I bear it? How could I obey him?
But he did choose Edward. He did, because the very
next day, Edward came back to the base camp with proof,
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the written proof.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
Oh, darling, I'm so sorry, so sorry.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
You found him.
Speaker 7 (35:07):
Yes, I I found him.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
And just did.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
I can't tell you how, but you must, you must
tell me everything.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
He died of of the cold.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
You mean he froze to death? Yes, uh h.
Speaker 8 (35:28):
There was no way I could bring him back here,
and I will have to wait for the summer.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
I understand.
Speaker 8 (35:33):
For some things of his.
Speaker 7 (35:35):
I knew you would want his watch, the one you
gave him for his birthday so long ago, his ring,
and his diary. I diary, yes, he kept it til
the last day. There isn't very much written in it.
For more than a month he was growing weaker all
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the time. Before the cold set in. He wrote long
notes to himself about plans and.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
Projects he was developing.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Even as his fuel and food ran out, he just
kept writing.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Another day, another day, cold bleak. Another day, perhaps you
will bring rescue. They're trying to find me, I know.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
And then pages of nothing until the final day. See
what he writes.
Speaker 9 (36:35):
I don't know how cold it is. The thermometer is cracked.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
It must be one hundred.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
Two hundred below. My fingers are frozen, stiff and solid.
There is no longer any way I can warm them.
So before the recome, I, my daughter, if you will
read this, know that I have.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Chosen Edward, Edward, Edward, my darling.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
I never doubted it. Never.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
In the end, your father became a believer, a believer
in what love, true love, whatever that is. William, her
father made the choice. Do you want to be the
first to congratulate us?
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Okay, if I come in, Oh, William, are you ready
to leave?
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Edward has decided to give up teaching permanently. So he
told me he decided to run father's business for me.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I knew that you did.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
I just told me of his decision this morning.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
Well, I know about it for weeks, eight months, ever
since we got on the ship to sail out here
to me told you, I don't I guess he didn't
have to tell it word.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
But how else could he tell it?
Speaker 5 (38:13):
You asked a question like that, do you believe in
things that don't need words?
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Love, soul and so forth?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
I guess for the first time he saw how it
is to be rich, and how good living is, how
great it is to have power to order people around.
You could see it in his eyes, He could hear
it in his voice.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
I'm sa yes, darling, Oh my dear, you're not packed.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Well, what's a few hours one way or the other.
We'll leave at noon instead of ten.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
But the ship is getting up steam. Every hour that
we stay here is.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Costing us money, Oh darling. We have plenty of money.
Speaker 8 (38:49):
That does not give us the right to waste it. Now.
Speaker 7 (38:52):
Now there I'll send in some of the men to
help you.
Speaker 8 (38:55):
William.
Speaker 7 (38:56):
Yes, we should have a talk about the status of
things as soon as possible.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
Okay with me, Marcello, Darling, I have to run along.
Please don't waste any more time.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
What did I tell you?
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Well, I suppose that underneath it all, Edward was always
cut out to be a businessman, and father understood it.
And that's why father approved of him.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Do you approve of him?
Speaker 3 (39:24):
What a question, but you haven't answered it.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
I promised my father I would abide by his decision.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Well, you could sound a little more enthusiastic.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Oh, what do you know about it? What do you
know about anything?
Speaker 5 (39:41):
I used to know nothing at all about anything, and
then I came out here. I realized how unimportant we
really are in the face of well, we call it nature.
I guess the Arctic does different things to different people.
Showed me how small I am. I guess it convinced
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Edward of how big he could be. You are.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
You're still going to work for the company, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (40:13):
Why not? Edward needs you?
Speaker 3 (40:16):
But I don't need Edward. I need you, though, now.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Will you? My father made the decision, and I promised him.
I would.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Your father didn't make the decision, but he didn't decide
on Edward his diary he wrote it, did he?
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Here? It is his last words?
Speaker 5 (40:38):
He didn't write them.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
How can you say that?
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Can't you see it?
Speaker 5 (40:43):
It's obvious read what he's supposed to have written. Can
it be two hundred below? My fingers are frozen, stiff
and solid? How could he write under those conditions? He
could manage it to maybe he could manage his fingers.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
But how about the ink?
Speaker 4 (41:03):
The ink?
Speaker 5 (41:04):
Yes, wouldn't the ink, like everything else that's liquid, be
frozen solid?
Speaker 8 (41:13):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Do you see yes?
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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and also of space, infinite, illimitable, with neither an end
nor a beginning, So much time, so much space. And
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we poor, frenzied, crowded creatures. Why are we so hurried
and cramped.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Marcella for you to marry me?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yes, William, I heard you.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Well your answered, Well, the answer is no.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
No, it has to be no.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Why does it have to be no?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Because well I don't love you?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Oh? Is that all?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Is that all?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
I thought you had a good reason.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
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Speaker 2 (02:04):
The world has changed in many ways. There was a
time when every.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Man's home was his castle, and every man was king.
This doesn't necessarily mean that his wife was a queen.
What it meant was that His.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Word was law, and everyone in the house obeyed it
or else or else.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
What.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, it didn't come up often enough to be very
much of a problem in most places. At any rate,
we're concerned with an autocrat named J. J. Trelawney in
the year nineteen twelve.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Father, who's that? But oh, oh, oh.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
It's you, Yes, father, it's me Marcella.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Uh why it's that on your face? Okay?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Oh no, father, it's powder. Just as bad was Rice's powder. Father.
Even the minister his wife wears it.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
The same rice we eat.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yes, father, come in, come in, come in. Don't just
stand there well, the same rice we eat.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Oh, yes, yes, father, I.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
See you're wearing enough of it to save an entire
heathen village from starvation.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I hadn't thought of it that way.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I don't know what the world's coming to.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Father. May I speak with you?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Of course you can speak with me.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Well, Father, there's this young man.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
But which young man?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
When I met at this concert?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
What did you want to meet a young man in
a concert?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
For father? He's really very nice?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well nice, fine? But what about William William? Yes, William
William is my right hand man. I know that he's
a fellow for you. But father, you must admit he's smart.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, yes, yes he is.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And he's gonna be rich one day, very rich.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Well, yes, yes he will.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well, then what do you want to meet other young men?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
For?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Father?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Edward is so?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh? Edward is it?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Yes, Edward, he's so so what Oh he's just? Yes,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Here's a fella and you see him going on him
And when I ask you why, it's because he's just
And I don't know. But father, no, no, no, no,
that won't do. My girl. William Stillwell's the man for you.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Please, Father, I don't love William still.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Will love love. What's love?
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Rich?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It's it's what I can't find it exactly well.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
In the dictionary, it's a strong liking, a fondness for
a devotion to an affection.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
You see, my girl, I happen to look it up,
like to be sure of my ground. Now you've got
to put your life on a practical basis, do your
great yes, and you've got to do the thing that
makes sense. Yes, which is why I have to choose
your husband for you. As a man of the world.
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I will not be carried away by sentiment. I can
be depended on to make the proper choice. Whereas you you,
you're giddy young thing. And as if that weren't enough,
you're also a woman, which means you simply do not
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have the qualifications for for rational thinking. Isn't that so?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Father, believe me, you'll marry William Stillwell, one day, one
fine day, Belle d Where does that come from? Why
do I remember that?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
It's from the new opera? And mister Puccini, madam Butterfly.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oh yes, And that fellow is in it who has
such a fine voice.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Watch his name, mister Caruso. Father, But he didn't sing me,
are you?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It was the Japanese girl. Yes, well, there are a
bunch of foreigners, and I guess they really know music,
don't they. But what's the point I'm trying to make you?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh, it has to do with this thing you call love.
Why there's the where a Japanese girl kill herself? A
beautiful girl, well off or all sorts of bright prospects,
could have a great future. Why does she kill herself?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Love, that's my point exactly. Love? Oh what is she
needed for? What good did it do her? Where did
it get her well.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
But father, so let's.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Not hear another word about love? All right? Is that clear?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yes? Father, he had a way, my father did of
making things so crystal clear. But she was older, wiser,
more experienced, which made me knew better, and everything was
from my own good. I look back at it now,
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after all these years. The world now is so different.
But back then, I went to the concert that night
to hear a young Russian violinist named Mischa Elman. That's
not why I went. I went because I knew he
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would be there Edwards, and we would need an intermission.
We would need even though nothing could ever come of it.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Marcella, Why do you say that, please Edward? Why do
you say nothing can ever come of it?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Because it's true?
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Why is it true?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I must do what my father tells me.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
And if you don't, if I don't, yes, my darling,
if you don't, what will he do?
Speaker 8 (08:49):
What can he do?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Please? Edward?
Speaker 8 (08:51):
Disinherit? You cut you out of his will? Oh?
Speaker 7 (08:54):
It is that I have a job. I can support us.
You know that, yes, sir, I'm not at your father's money.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
You know that too, Oh, yes, I know that.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Then why don't we just stand up?
Speaker 8 (09:07):
To it.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
We'd better not see each other again, never.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
See each other.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Yes, you call this seeing each other, this hurried ten
minute encounter.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Well, whatever it is, would brief.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Pause during a concert in the midst of a thousand people.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
It's for the best. There is no other way.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
Your father has no right.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
He has every right, why because he's my father?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Is that you, Marcella? Yes, father, did you enjoy the concert?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yes, I I have a surprise for you for me, Yes, Macella.
Williams here.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
William.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Uh, you don't sound at all excited.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
But I'm not excited.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yes, William spent the evening with me. We had some
reports to analyze. William has a brilliant mind. Spend a
little time with William. He's in my study. Talk to him.
You will see how eminently sensible the two of you
would be together. M h William, Uh step in here, please? Uh, yes,
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mister Trelawney. Oh, oh, good.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Evening, Marcella, good evening, William.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I have had Starbuck prepare this little buffet. I know
you must be famished aff the concert, my dear, and
uh you William, you worked hard enough to earn a
little supper.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Why don't you young people enjoy supper? Mm? While uh
I finish up in the study.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
May I help you to some cuve yard?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Marcella, No, thank you, puzzle, I'm not hungry.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Did you enjoy the concert?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Well, I'm not one for music. I find it a
waste of time. Oh you know, I don't find it productive.
Productive On those rare occasions when I'm dragooned to one,
I see people around me sitting in deep silence and
thinking and concentrating.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
It isn't that so?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Well? Yes, I know who I do that.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Well, it requires metal energy, does it not?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Some, Well, shouldn't there.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Be shouldn't there be some reward for this expenditure of
energy and effort?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
There is a reward, is there? Yes? Well, I'm not
sure I can describe it.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Well, then it's a it's a rather poor reward. Oh no, no,
it's rich, rich, And what.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
No things are the hear it thinks.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
The spirit.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Tell me something, Marcella, These things of the spirit, what can.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
One do with them? Do with him?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Can you take these things of the spirit into a
bank and discount them for cash?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Oh no, I don't suppose so.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Who are of what fact?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
You are they well, William, they do things for the mind,
for the heart, for the soul.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
As well as I understand it.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
You spent two hours in Carnegie Hall listening to some
Russian fiddler. Yes, and you gave him all your attention
and concentration. Yes, I did, and as a result you
claim to be richer in things of the spirit.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
I think I have a headache, William. I may have concentrated,
you know, a bit too deeply.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I wonder if you'll excuse me. Yes, of course, good night, William, Yeah,
good night.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Oh, before you go, I had come here this evening
for one purpose.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I know, to work with my father.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
No, no, no, not exactly, but to see you, to
see me. Yes, I didn't know you'd be out. See
the reason I came here what should not come as
a complete surprise to you.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
It was to ask your hand in marriage.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yes, I had discussed with your father.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Oh I know that.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Well. He's quite enthusiastic, So I understand he thinks it's
a splendid idea.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Yes, I'm sure he's all for it. He already told me.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Then it's all settled.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Regardless of my answer.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Your answer, Oh, oh, of course I must have your
answer too.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Oh, it's very sensitive of you to ascertain my wishes.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
William.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I would marry you gladly. However, there's a.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Problem, a problem.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
I don't love you.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
What did you say?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I don't love you?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And that's the problem.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yes, that's the problem, my dear Marcella. I was afraid
it was something serious.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Love, says the popular song Your magic Spell is everywhere, Well,
not quite everywhere, not in the heart of Marcella Trelawney.
Well it's in there, but obviously not for mister William. Stillwell,
so that should be the end of it. Ah, but
don't forget. The year is nineteen twelve, and that was
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another world, and we shall return to it shortly when
I bring you back too. Love is for the poets,
the philosophers, the dreamers, the romantics, and we wonder why sometimes,
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since it seems to have treated most of them quite shabbily.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Well, today, of course.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
We claim to marry for love. A generation or solgo
this wasn't the case. Are we happier than our grandparents?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Who really knows?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
But you don't understand, William, I don't love you.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Is that a reason not to marry me.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Please, William, you must excuse me. I'm very tired. I
went upstairs to my room. I prepared for bed. I
was very tired and confused and unhappy. I didn't know
what to do. There was a knock on the door.
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That was my father. I was sort of expecting him.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I spoke with William, my dear father.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
I don't love him.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
He understands that, and I understand with.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Then, why do you insisted on marry him?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Because you'll make you an excellent husband without love? Love,
my dear only confuses the issue.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Please father, The issue is clear enough for me.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Marriage should primarily be a strengthening of one's position. In
the past, did kings and queens marry for love? Of
course not. It was to unite families, expand territories other
I'm not a queen, ah, but you are. You're the
daughter of a millionaire. It is your duty to protect
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your fortune. My fortune, the fortune you will one day
inherit from me.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Oh, father, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Nobody does one.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Father, I mean it. All I can tell you is
that I don't love williams still Well.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It's unfortunate. William Stillwell is a man who could preserve
your fortune. Well, what's wrong with him?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Well, father, he doesn't like art, he doesn't like music.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
To teach him to enjoy them.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Well, it isn't that either, I mean it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Well, then, what is it?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Well, it's just that there's something you know, something about him?
Speaker 8 (17:31):
I am.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yes, Well, it's just something you were determined not to
like him.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I say, I'm sorry, father.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
And you refuse to marry it?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Will I don't refuse to marry him if you command
me to.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I understand that. I was hoping you could arrive at
the proper conclusion for yourself. It's it's this certain something, yes, father, Well,
it seems to me a man can be as wise
as King Solomon, as handsome as Apollo, as strong as Hercules.
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He could be the paragon of every virtue known to man.
And yet if he does not possess that mysterious certain something,
which the woman herself cannot define or even describe, he
isn't worth her passing glance. Well, this other fellow, what's
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his name?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Edward? Edward Wilson?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Edward Wilson. Well, we'll see what will we see? Father,
We'll see what he's made out of your father. He's wonderful,
that's what we're going to find out, now, my sella.
I'll look this fellow and if I think he can
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cut the mustard, if I think he'll be better for
you than William.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Oh you will.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You will just get me out. I'll give him a
fair trial, and then I'll stack each of them up
against the other and come to my decision. Is that understood, yes, father,
and you will agree with my choice. Yes, father, and
that will be the end of it. You'll obey your
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father with no further nonsense. Do you agree, oh, father, father?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I agree, of course I agree. Such a wonderful man,
my father. He could have simply commanded me to marry William,
but he loved me, Yes, much as he had no
use for that word. He loved me, and he wanted
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me to be happy, and so Edward, my Edward, would
get a fair child. The very next night, Edward was
asked to dinner.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You say you're an astronomer, Edward, Yes, sir, I suppose
it's a great deal of night work.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Well, yes, sir, a goodly amount, Edward.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
How would you like to take a job with me?
A job, sir, Yes, I'm having a ship fitted out.
We're going up into the Arctic, the Arctic, the Arctic,
a voyage of exploration and discovery to the North Pole.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
But the North Pole has already been discovered.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I know, I know, I know, I know by this
fellow Perry and that other one watched his name Almonds,
and he discovered the South Pole. Personally, I can't unders
stand those two.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Can't you?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Well, what was the point of the entire trip just
to go out there and get forst byed? Huh. It's
it's like you you looking up at the sky and
counting the stars. Now where's the application? Now, I'm going
to the Arctic for a reason.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
May I ask the reason, mister Treulonney, to get rich?
But I understood you were rich.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Now this is nothing. I'm going up there to stake
out a claim.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
What sort of plane?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
What sort of claim? Don't you know?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
That's where all the oil is, all the gold, the silver,
the platinum.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
That's true theoretically, No.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
No, no, it's true.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Practically. I'll need two good men. I've already got one,
William Stillwell, will you be the other?
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Well, sir, well, I'll think about it.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We'll be leaving next week.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Next week.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I'll have to have your answer no later than tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
It's father's way of finding out about you.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Well, he doesn't have to send me to the Arctic
to find out. My life's an open book.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
But he does have to send you to the Arctic
why to see if you majure up to his standards. Besides,
William Stillwell is going now. He wants to see both
of you together.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
My solla, Why do you have to this absolute domination
by your father?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Please don't say that, but it's true. I can't help
the way I am and I'm not sure it's wrong.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
You're not sure, well, cousin every instinct.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Please, Darling, what do I know about the world. I've
always been sheltered, taken care of. My father's always protected me.
Oh he's wise, Edward experience. I know he loves me.
She wants me to be happy. Now would he insists
on my marriage to William Stillwell if you weren't sure
that that was the best choice? I know? I know
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he only wants what's best for me, and.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
You shouldn't you have anything to say about that.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
I love you, Edward, it is I I think I
love you?
Speaker 8 (23:21):
You think.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
What is it I really have for you? Only a
feeling something. I can't explain why I feel this way.
I don't know. Against this it is my father's wisdom.
I'm only air. My father is solid rough.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
That kind of thinking is wrong?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Is now? I would have to get used to a
new a new way of life, a new way of
looking at things. It can't happen overnight and all at once.
I want to be free. I want to be independent.
I want to be one of mister George, but not
God show women. Oh how much I.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Want to will then become one?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
You just don't do it.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
I want to change it once, then change.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I have already a little falling in love with you,
even though I know my father's intended me for someone else.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
But to go off with your father on this expedition
to the Arctic. Don't you understand? I have a job,
I have a career. I would have to give it up. Well,
it would be a change in my life.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
And yet what you're asking me to do is to
make a change in mind.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Well that's different. We're in love. Shouldn't that be enough
for marriage?
Speaker 4 (24:46):
I don't know. It's enough for some people, but not
for others. I don't know if it would be enough
for us.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Why did I have to fall in love with you? Yeah,
all right, you'll win. I'll go on the trip.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Oh, darling, I know Father will see that you are
the best man.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Oh no, mysell William Stillwell is going to be the
best man. I shall become the bridegroom.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
What do they say?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Sensible intelligent people never fall in love. Well, if they don't,
they do avoid a great deal of grief, but they
also miss out on a goodly amount of fun.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
Why do we marry?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
And whom should we marry?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
The average person faces these problems at least once in
a lifetime.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Of course, there are.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Some who never face them at all, and others who
keep facing.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Them all the time.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Should you marry because he or she is attractive?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Rich?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Should we marry to please our parents?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
To better ourselves?
Speaker 8 (26:12):
For love?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
All through history and all over the world, people have
married and still do for any one of these reasons,
and statistically there is no proof that any one reason
is better than the others.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Er, may I commend myself?
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Please do? Father?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Our ship sails tomorrow. I know, Father, and I must say,
I am rather taken with this young man, Edward. I
knew you would be, but I want to compare him
with William and test them both under some rather rough conditions.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Oh, you will be so proud of Edward.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Well, remember, however it comes out, you agree to abide
by my decision.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
I'll accept it. What a week that was, such hectic
preparations I hardly saw it with it all, and then
just before it was time to leave, each of them
came to say goodbye.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
To me, My darling.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
I'm glad I'm going. It's good sometimes to see someone
else's point of view, and just being with your father
this week is well, it's taught me a great many
things about him.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I knew you'd like him.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
I'm not sure I like him exactly, but I do
know he's a most unusual man, and he wants very
much for you to be happy.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
You know, That's all he's ever wanted.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
And so now that I look at it from his
point of view, he doesn't seem unreasonable at all.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Careful, carefuler, Marcella. Let me take your eye. But gang
playing swedes quite a bit. Yeah, hey here you are.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Well, Hey, what are you doing down here at today?
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Well?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
I just came down to.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Because I know you didn't come to see.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Me when I came to look at the boat.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
You mean the ship?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Huh? I didn't know there was a difference.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
It has to do with size, Marcella. What do you
see in this fellow Edward?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Oh? He has a beautiful soul?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
What is the use I talk to you? And what
do I get?
Speaker 5 (28:29):
I get words that really have no meaning, words like
love and soul?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
All right, what is soul?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
If you even have to ask such a question.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I do. The fact is no one has ever seen
a soul? Have they?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
But now that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Why why is it ridiculous?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Now?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
How big is the soul? What does it look like?
Where can you find it?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
William? May I ask you something? What do you want
with me? I mean? Why you want to marry me?
Speaker 8 (29:01):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (29:02):
I know, I know?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
If you don't beat all?
Speaker 9 (29:06):
If you know, why do you ask?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Well, it's the right, the practical course of action. I'm
a logical choice. But shouldn't there, William be more than
had I need? Shouldn't two people be happy?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
We'll be happy?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Well? How can we be happy, William? If we're not
in love?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
What's long? Oh?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
There you go again?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
What did I say?
Speaker 8 (29:25):
Now?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Oh? If you have to ask? And then the boat
or the ship, the sail. It was quite a day.
Flags were flying in the harbor. The air was filled
with tears. Whistles from all the craft bands were playing.
I mean, there were reporters, and the mayor was there,
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and the governor and important people from Washington, Oh. President
tapped themselves center telegram, and then the ship was gone,
and all that I had were letters.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
I've never seen such brilliant colors. Everyone thinks the Arctic
is white, but when the sun hits the ice, it
explodes into thousands of glorious rainbows. I long for you constantly, Edward.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Nothing much to report.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
One day's pretty much like the other, just ice and
snow and the sun. Soon we're going to lose the
sun and just be stuck with the ice and snow.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Best from William.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Whatever there is to the summer is about to disappear.
We are now going to get into the real Arctic.
Already it's getting to be constant twilight. Soon it will
be night, the night that will last for six months.
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But it's good. It's starting to separate the men from
the board. I'm getting to know things about both of them,
things I could never learn in the ordinary way. Back
at home, all right, more or later your loving father.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
But he never did. He never wrote another letter. The
reporters wouldn't stop ringing my telephone, knocking at my door.
What did they want of me? And knew more about
it than I did?
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Miss Trelawney, do you have a statement? My statements tell
us about it's a great tragedy. Tragedy your father is
reported missing in the article?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Well, yes, I know.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
What can you tell us about it?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (31:44):
But surely, Miss Trelawney.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Pease, gentlemen. I don't know what to say. Do you
have any plans?
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Yeah? Plans? What are you gonna do about the troney industry?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
I don't know? Well will you?
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Will you assume personal control? And do you intend to
become America's first great woman?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
I haven't thought anything about like that.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
Your views on woman's suffrage?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Missus SAMSTROTI please, gentlemen, please, There was only one thing
I wanted to do, and I did it. I ordered
a boat or a ship is and I commanded the
captain to sail north along the Atlantic coast, up past
Lavador and Newfoundland, find a place called Baffin's Island and
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the Davis Strait. Then up north, to the very edge
of the frozen polar wastes. Finally I arrived at the
side of my father's base camp. It was a large,
well constructed settlement. It was warm, it was safe.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Why saer, But you shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Have come here?
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Why not, William?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
There's nothing you can do.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Where's Edward?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
He's out looking for your father?
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Yes, he would be. You, of course, are staying here
in the base camp where it's safe.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
I have been looking to It's it's just that you
came here in the day that that he's out.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Where's father gone?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Where trying to find the trail?
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Which trail?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Well, just before the winter set in. Your father had.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
A little camp made for himself, it's not too far
from here, in a hut with a stove and food
and everything he needed, and you let him go.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Well, who could tell.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Your father anything? He wanted to be alone, just for
a little while. He wanted to think things out. I know,
I know he was supposed to come back, but he
was caught in the first storm, in the first terrible
cold in the winter.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
It's it's been a month. We haven't heard from you.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
He doesn't have enough supplies, enough food and enough fuel.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I thought you wanted to know.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
You just have no sensitivity. I'm sorry, and so I
will remain all winter until the light of summer returns,
and then they will be able to see the trail
once again, and then they will recover my father's body.
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And perhaps there will be a letter for me from him,
his very last letter, in which he'll tell me his decision.
But don't I know that decision even now? Don't I
know it? Now that he's seen Edward under these terrible conditions?
Can there be any doubt Edward, the kind, understanding, gentle
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Edward with the beautiful soul. If he didn't choose Edward,
how could I bear it? How could I obey him?
But he did choose Edward. He did, because the very
next day, Edward came back to the base camp with proof,
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the written proof.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
Oh, darling, I'm so sorry, so sorry.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
You found him.
Speaker 7 (35:07):
Yes, I I found him.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
And just did.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
I can't tell you how, but you must, you must
tell me everything.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
He died of of the cold.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
You mean he froze to death? Yes, uh h.
Speaker 8 (35:28):
There was no way I could bring him back here,
and I will have to wait for the summer.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
I understand.
Speaker 8 (35:33):
For some things of his.
Speaker 7 (35:35):
I knew you would want his watch, the one you
gave him for his birthday so long ago, his ring,
and his diary. I diary, yes, he kept it til
the last day. There isn't very much written in it.
For more than a month he was growing weaker all
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the time. Before the cold set in. He wrote long
notes to himself about plans and.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
Projects he was developing.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Even as his fuel and food ran out, he just
kept writing.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Another day, another day, cold bleak. Another day, perhaps you
will bring rescue. They're trying to find me, I know.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
And then pages of nothing until the final day. See
what he writes.
Speaker 9 (36:35):
I don't know how cold it is. The thermometer is cracked.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
It must be one hundred.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
Two hundred below. My fingers are frozen, stiff and solid.
There is no longer any way I can warm them.
So before the recome, I, my daughter, if you will
read this, know that I have.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Chosen Edward, Edward, Edward, my darling.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
I never doubted it. Never.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
In the end, your father became a believer, a believer
in what love, true love, whatever that is. William, her
father made the choice. Do you want to be the
first to congratulate us?
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Okay, if I come in, Oh, William, are you ready
to leave?
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Edward has decided to give up teaching permanently. So he
told me he decided to run father's business for me.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I knew that you did.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
I just told me of his decision this morning.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
Well, I know about it for weeks, eight months, ever
since we got on the ship to sail out here
to me told you, I don't I guess he didn't
have to tell it word.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
But how else could he tell it?
Speaker 5 (38:13):
You asked a question like that, do you believe in
things that don't need words?
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Love, soul and so forth?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
I guess for the first time he saw how it
is to be rich, and how good living is, how
great it is to have power to order people around.
You could see it in his eyes, He could hear
it in his voice.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
I'm sa yes, darling, Oh my dear, you're not packed.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Well, what's a few hours one way or the other.
We'll leave at noon instead of ten.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
But the ship is getting up steam. Every hour that
we stay here is.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Costing us money, Oh darling. We have plenty of money.
Speaker 8 (38:49):
That does not give us the right to waste it. Now.
Speaker 7 (38:52):
Now there I'll send in some of the men to
help you.
Speaker 8 (38:55):
William.
Speaker 7 (38:56):
Yes, we should have a talk about the status of
things as soon as possible.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
Okay with me, Marcello, Darling, I have to run along.
Please don't waste any more time.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
What did I tell you?
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Well, I suppose that underneath it all, Edward was always
cut out to be a businessman, and father understood it.
And that's why father approved of him.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Do you approve of him?
Speaker 3 (39:24):
What a question, but you haven't answered it.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
I promised my father I would abide by his decision.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Well, you could sound a little more enthusiastic.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Oh, what do you know about it? What do you
know about anything?
Speaker 5 (39:41):
I used to know nothing at all about anything, and
then I came out here. I realized how unimportant we
really are in the face of well, we call it nature.
I guess the Arctic does different things to different people.
Showed me how small I am. I guess it convinced
(40:03):
Edward of how big he could be. You are.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
You're still going to work for the company, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (40:13):
Why not? Edward needs you?
Speaker 3 (40:16):
But I don't need Edward. I need you, though, now.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Will you? My father made the decision, and I promised him.
I would.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Your father didn't make the decision, but he didn't decide
on Edward his diary he wrote it, did he?
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Here? It is his last words?
Speaker 5 (40:38):
He didn't write them.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
How can you say that?
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Can't you see it?
Speaker 5 (40:43):
It's obvious read what he's supposed to have written. Can
it be two hundred below? My fingers are frozen, stiff
and solid? How could he write under those conditions? He
could manage it to maybe he could manage his fingers.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
But how about the ink?
Speaker 4 (41:03):
The ink?
Speaker 5 (41:04):
Yes, wouldn't the ink, like everything else that's liquid, be
frozen solid?
Speaker 8 (41:13):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Do you see yes?
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