November 20, 2025 • 45 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 (00:00):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm E. G. Marshall, a man fascinated by the great
love stories of history. Recall please the tragic story of
Archduke Rudolph of Habsburgs and his inamorata Marie Vetsera. In
the year eighteen eighty nine. They died at Miling, the
Prince's hunting lodge near Vienna. How did they die? No
(00:48):
one really knows what happened at Myling. Multiple theories exist,
not one of them proved David.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
If we can find out what really happened at Myoling
and why it happened, we'll know what to.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Do about us kill ourselves.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Well, that's what Marie and Rudolph did.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
We don't know that somewhere they took a wrong train.
Whatever happened at Myling was because of them. They'll show
us how not to take a wrong training.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Our suspense drama Myerling Revisited was especially written for the
Mystery Theater by Nancy Moore and stars Marion Seldie's and
Paul hat. It is sponsored in part by a Buick
Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with Act one today.
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The Hunting lodge called Myo is a nunnery, but the
room where Rudolph and Marie died by whatever hand is
kept as a shrine. Romantic and curious tourists come there often.
On a day not long ago, there came a pair
of young Americans. Kitty Scott, taught English in a Viennese school.
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David Carlton, on a tour of Europe, met Kitty, fell
in love, and stopped touring on the day they made
their pilgrimage to Miling. Oh, but this is Kitty's story.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I had read everything I could find about Rudolph and
Marie Vetter. From the very beginning. I thought a kinship
with Marie more than sympathy and fascination with what happened
to her, Oh, much more than that. As if I
know it sounds foolish, but as if it had happened
to me. After I fell in love, the feeling was stronger.
(02:57):
On that spring morning, when David and I, holding hands,
stood in front of the nunnery. It was almost overwhelming.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
What are you thinking, miss Kitty Scott with a large
blue and lustrous eyes. Ah, you'd laugh at me, your
hand suddenly cold.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yes, put your arm around me, please.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh, nothing, i'd darling. You're shivering. What's wrong?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Well, it's just Oh if we could just be in
that room together, we might find out what really happened.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
There, sweetheart. It was all so long ago. I mean,
does it really matter.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yes, I can't explain why, but it mattered.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Kit.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
What is with here? You've been here before? I mean,
what's so important this time?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I just want you to see it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
No, it's more than that. And what do you mean.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
We'll find out what happened because we're in love the
way Rudolph and Marie were in love. If we can
find out what happened to them and why it happened,
we'll know what to do about us.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And that's why we're admirers.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
He isn't crazy, honey. We're like him in other ways.
They're a parallel. Your father will try to stop our marriage.
Rudolf's father did exactly the same city.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
There is no parallel. We're just ordinary people. Rudolph was
a prince, his father was an emperor.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, your father gives commands like an emperor.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yes, he even has an empire.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
An empire that you will inherit if you don't marry
a penniless, nobody named Kitty Scott.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I am marrying Kitty Scott. Now, didn't I write him that?
What do I care about his daned oil?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Wells?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You say that, but you don't really mean it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh sure, I'd like a little money. Who wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
There's got to be some way to get around the
old man so he won't completely disown me.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I think Rudolph and Marie will tell us what to do.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Kill ourselves. Well that's what they did.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
They died, that's all we know. But they did take
a wrong turning, and they'll show us how not to
take one.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
How the devil will we find out about wrong turnings
just by standing in a room?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I don't know. I only know they have some thing
to say to us. I know. The Mother Superior smiled
and opened the door to the sanctuary. The very large
room was empty except for the shrine. I closed my eyes,
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trying desperately to understand what had happened there. Nothing came
to me. Nothing. And then then, for every individual, there
is a moment in life when the soul dies. This
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is not necessarily the moment when he reaches his physical end.
How clear the words and how certain I was that
I had heard the voice of Marie Vettza. But I
told David about it. He didn't believe one word.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And let's have that again, Kit. For every soul, well.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
For every individual, there is a moment in life when
the soul died.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Who are an imagination?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh? Swhere, I didn't wait a minute. I can prove
I didn't imagine it. Rudolph's mother said those exact words,
what ket, I read them somewhere I remember now.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Well, well, then, don't you see that? That's what made
you think you heard them? Not a voice from the past,
but something called up out of your subconscious.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Only you mixed it all up. The Empress said it,
not Marie, that'd sir.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
But Mary must have said it too. It's a key
for us to unlock the past.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Come on, Kit, you're trying so hard to identify with
you read to identify.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
But I do I have ever since I first heard
her name, and today more than ever. Could I be
marieves reincarnation?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well if this makes me Rudolph, no thanks. He shot
his girl and then himself.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
We don't know that.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, we do know.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I'm not about to shoot my Dante. Please, you're serious,
good lord, Kit.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Living more than one life. I mean, do you believe
in that stuff when.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I've leaned toward it for a long time. If we've
left something undone in one life, then maybe we've got
a chance to finish it in the next. Or if
we've done something wrong, then we're given a chance to
make it right.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
My Alipha, my little Marie, yours is the face I
was born knowing and shall die see. Trust me now,
Bulgaria is the answer for us?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Or will be well?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Kit Kit?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It happened to you again, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I was with Rudolph. He told me to trust him.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
You believe you're Marie Vesera, Yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I did believe it, and I knew I'd been given
another key Bulgaria. What could it mean? I hadn't the
faintest idea, but I did have the utmost face that
some way the different keys would unlock the past. Driving
back to Vienna, I couldn't stop rehearsing all I knew
about Rudolph. Franz Joseph wouldn't let Rudolph have anything to
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say about politics here or abroad. Some books claimed the
Prince was a week how they say he was a
man of vision, ahead of his time.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Didn't you tell me he believed in World Federation.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
As he did. He had the mind to accomplish marvelous
things for Europe, but his father wouldn't let him be
anything but a puppet. Prince Franz Joseph demanded absolute submission
for everyone, especially his son, like my father, and Rudolph
kept trying to break his chains, but he couldn't. The
last two years of his life, he just.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Gave up, gave up, drank, took more kid.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Is that me?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
No? Thank the Lord? And then Rudolph met Baroness.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Marie, and David met Miss Kitty Scott.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And they tell in love on sight the way we did.
Since just think they'd only known each other three months.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
When they died.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yes, well, we've known each other three months to the day,
and I don't much care for that parallel.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I don't either, But I see them like us, happy,
full of hope, certain they'd been married.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Hold it not like us. I'm not married to anyone.
He was married to Stephanie. Now, how could he and
Marie think they could possibly marry?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
He said?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
The Pope refused Rudolph a divorce and annulo.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh, David, wait Bulgaria. I just remembered coming around that
very time. The Burgars were looking for a ruler. They
wanted a czar from one of the great ruling houses
of Europe, not just for prestige, for protection, and they
sent envoys to Rudolph in secret. They knew he was
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restless and he wanted to get away from his father,
so they came to sound him out. Would he be
interested in the crown? Oh, I know they came, and
that's why he and Marie were the hack kid.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
You don't know any such thing.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Not yet. But we're going to the soccer hotel, to
the room where they stayed. Maybe then i'll know. First
we stopped at David's hotel. He was expecting words from
his parents. He got it a telegram from his father.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Listen to this, Mother and I arriving today from Paris
by car. Reserve suite of rooms your hotel. We'll expect
the girl to meet us there.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
At three You at three point thirty. No excuse acceptable? Dad?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
The girl?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Why didn't you say the fortune hunter? That's what he thinks.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
No excuse acceptable there ever is Oh, why did I
have a writing that we wanted.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
To be married?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
What are your parents. You were honest.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I wasn't honest.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I'm under his thumb like Rudolf was under the Empress.
We should have married and told him afterwards.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
And beat his own I don't care, how darling, you
do care?
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I should have known it. You don't think I'll stand
up to him, do you?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I think Marie and Rudolph will show you how to
stand up to him. Next stop, the soccer hotel. The
hotel room had been kept exactly the same as when
the lovers were there together. David and I stood where
they stood and waited. There was such a stumer, but
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nothing else. David finally said, we might as well go,
and as I turned, it's.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
My angel, Marie.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Do you see what Bulgaria could mean for us? There?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I would be a true prince, all my beliefs put
in to practice.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Would they have me as well?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Yes, my love, Yes.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Bulgaria is Eastern Orthodox, the church recognizes divorce.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And would grant me one. My Marie would reign beside
me as Tsarina. But we must not hope too much.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
The official offer to Bitzar has not been made yet.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
There is not such a thing as too much hope.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
All the same, the Royal Council may not find me acceptable.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Not acceptable?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
You even if I am and my father learns of
the plot, you know what it would mean.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I won't think of it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Not only banishment but trial for treason.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
I would lose Bulgaria and words lose.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
You.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Are you willing to risk it?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
There's nothing in life I would not risk for you.
You know? Yes, enter, your Highness, Yes, what is it,
Imperial Highness? I bring a message from her majesty.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
She will receive ernest letter today at three o'clock alone.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
The Prince is not expected.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Very neat.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Marie has an audience with the Empress at three o'clock.
Kitty has an audience with the Carlton's at three o'clock.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I still think it's all ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Will Marie went over the Empress?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I don't know how could I? But maybe if we
go to Happard Palace. Oh oh please, Darling, please next
stop Hofburg Palace, David, this is where Marie came. Here,
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this room, I feel it all around me. Oh, how
young you are? Seventeen old? Lear, Oh, how young I'm
older than my years, Your Majesty.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I play this is so only a woman could accept
what I must say, I employed to believe me, my child.
Count yourself fortunate that you can never be empress at
the at your Hungary empire. It is a burden from
an empty honor.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
But I have no wish to be empress here, your majesty.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
No, but I thought you want your son, and I
longed for this throne once, perhaps, but no more.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I pray you then believe this also.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Count yourself fortunate too, that the marriage between you and
the archtook is impossible, not because of the empress refusal
or the Holy fathers it is.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
It is because the.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Prince who showed such promise now is I cannot find words.
Surely you cannot want a week dissolent man he has become.
Surely you will give him up.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No, I do not want a week and dissolute man.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
For every individual, there is a moment in life when
the soul dies, but this is not necessarily the moment
when he reaches his physical end.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
My poor son, Rudolf's soul is that your pardon, majesty.
If he were as you say, no, I would not
want him. But I know his true nature. He is
strong and noble of heart, and I will not give
him up.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Well, let us approach this commentary with caution. I think
we are bound to speculate on the gap between reality
and illusion.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
Just what have we here?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Pure fantasy, a trick of memory, history rewritten, bent and reshaped,
emotional odds and ends of a romantic young woman.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Or is this.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Can it be reincarnation? Perhaps? I make no promise will
be answered in act too. I don't mean to suggest
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that Kitty Scott is deliberately tampering with the truth, but
I do have questions.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
For the moment.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Let us accept as fact the Bulgarian proposal. Archduke Rudolph
surely knew that his acceptance would precipitate a constitutional crisis
leading to civil war? Was it not madness for him
even to consider? Wait, there was madness in the Prince's
house on his mother's side. So a brilliant man, but
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emotional unstable. My apologies, Miss Giddy.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
No more questions.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Now, I didn't tell David what the Empress and Marie
had said to each other. They went next to the
Emperor's private quarters. First was spartan monk like sir with
only an iron cart, where a reigning monarch slept, and
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in the adjoining room. Without meaning to, I said out loud,
this is where Marie Vetzara came in secret and saw
the Emperor alone.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Well, if Baroness Vetza, your majesty, your Marie, how is
it to pay homage to your emperor yet refuse to
be as the old eyes sent regarding my father?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
You are my ruler, sire, by the divine right of kings.
Your son is my ruler, by the divine right of love.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Impurin insilence about you, foul that the Prince was loves
you above all else.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Including the all I do he does.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Do you know how many loves he has had.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
He has lost no.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Opportunity to bring shame on this fommer upon his house.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
He cannot wound me, Sire, they were before he met me.
There will be no other, you've said, I also, I
pray you believe ours is a great love. Rudolph is
my destiny, and I his help her.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
And I abhors what trades from to deal with a
chit of a girl. Your great love is finished never,
if not by you, by me, I will take such
measures as are necessary one weekends if my order is
not abid banishment.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I knew what David would say. As soon as we
left the palace, he said it and said it again
while we drank hot chocolate for the sidewalk cafe.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You really are spaced out on this, kiddie, I mean,
don't you see what you did?
Speaker 8 (19:00):
This time?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Hallucinated an eighteen eighty nine version of what you think
my parents.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Will say to you.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I know it's possible, David, maybe I did that. Couldn't
what I heard be a warning to help me know
how to answer your parents?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Now that you've been coached, will you answer like.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Marie in slightly more modern language and edited somewhat.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Hey, when you hear those characters, what language do they speak?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
English? Uh?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I got you. Now, if they were the real McCoy,
they'd speak German.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Not necessarily the court spoke English. It was very.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Fashionable about darned. If you don't always have an answer, God.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
If you don't always have an objection, all.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Right, answer this one.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Marie was seventeen, Rudolph twenty eight, you're twenty two.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
And I'm thirty, cling up hairspitting. Why don't you want
to believe I was?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Marie?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I answer? You fight so hard against it because you don't.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Want to be like Rudolph, And do you blame me?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I don't fight anymore. They're trying to help us.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
They owe us huh oh us.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
We owe them the mistakes they made. Their karma can
be put right by what we do.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yeah, but where's all the big helping hand you claim
they'll give us.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
No, No, I'm sorry, I don't buy any part of it.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Even with that shocker imagination of yours, you'll never crack
the miling mystery because you can't get around the fact
that they just flame died.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And what can that possibly say to us?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
No, I couldn't get around the fact of their death.
But we were meant to understand why they had to die.
I was absolutely certain Rudolph and Marie were trying to
tell us something, send us some message. David and I
discussed it a little more and getting nowhere, and then
it was time for me to see his parents. What
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a relief when I walked into the Carlton sitting room
and only his mother was there. My dear, We're to
have a few minutes alone, and I'm so glad. Frank
often endows me when I ask for things, or when
I ask for this time to my surprise you. He
would not to look at the Danube? Is it as
blue as the song says? Well? I think so that
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David thinks I have a shocking imagination. How pretty you are?
May I call you kiddy? Please? Now tell me how
is my Davy? Well? He was wonderful and happy. And
tell his father's telegram. Well, I can't pretend I'm surprised.
I know mister Carton wants a more glittering match for
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his only son than a penniless school teacher. What does
Davy say of that? Will you know what he says?
He wrote it in his letter that he'll marry you
regardless of anything his father threatened. Yes, Davy had to
know his father would come here. There was time to
marry you before we came. But he didn't. My dear,
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I'm so sorry I had to hurt you. But I
know full well he could have married me missus Carton.
So shall I tell you why he didn't. It's happening again.
What is happening a census deja vus, that all this
has been played out before? You said I'm very young.
I have to answer that I'm older than my years.
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I pray you are because I must hurt you again, lowly,
a woman could bear it, Kitty. David will be very
wealthy one day, know, I know, And one day he'll
be altogether like his father. No, already it has begun.
Davy will have no time for his wife, any wife.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
She will only be a possession, a piece of property.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Valued far less than his oil wells, his stocks, and
his bonds. Would you want such a husband? No, I
wouldn't want such a husband.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Then be glad his father won't permit the marriage. If
he's crossed, he'll disown David, and my poor Davy could
not survive that. Oh, Frank, you're back so soon now.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
The blue Danube is not blue?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Oh, I'm so disappointed, Frank. This is miss Kitty Scott.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Oh, good lord, Liz, I know who it is.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
How do you do, Miss Scott?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Good afternoon, missus Catton. Could I ask if your name
is Elizabeth? All knows it's Liz Best. Oh and mister Cotton,
does Frank stand for Franz Francis?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Used to wish I had a more distinguished name. Now
enough time wasted calling the role, Liz. Will you go
check out the Blue Daniel yourself? Miss Scott and I
can deal with the business of dan oh off with you.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yes, Frank Kitty, I do so hope we meet again.
I hope so too.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
Now, then, miss Scott, you know why you're here. It's
useless to pretend you don't.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I the intention of pretending. But before the business is hand,
I have a message from David. He won't be here
at three thirty. He wants a report from me first.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
It's a very fine show of independence, but I'm not impressed.
He's tried it before. Doesn't work, doesn't last any more
than his fly by night love affair will last.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
He really don't waste time.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Not time, not words, not money.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Then I'll spare you the time and trouble of saying
that I'm a fortune.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Hunter, which you deny, of course.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Mister Carton. I fell in love with David before I
knew he was a wealthy son of a millionaire.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
David is not wealthy, not yet. He has only what
I choose to give him.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And I ask you to believe I don't care about
the money. Please believe I do love him and he
loves me.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
There have been other pretty girls, quite a few. Has
he told you about that.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
They're not important? They were before he met me.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Oh, you flatter yourself.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
He won't love anyone who causes me to cancel his
allowance and change my will.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
What would you say if I told you David is
my destiny.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
And I his theatrical nonsense? We make our own destiny.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You mean to make David, not allow him to make
his own. You order me to give him up.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Unfortunately, I have no authority to command you. I hoped
when you found you weren't acceptable, you'd break off this
affair of your own free working. I'll deal directly with
my son. There I do have authority. The discussion has ended,
Miss Scott.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
The audience is ended, Sire, good afternoon.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Oh David, I was so awful. LI said I might
win him over. I didn't even try to me. He
was Franz Joseph, and I.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Knew it was hopeless.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I was as cold as insulting as he was, and
me seems much much worse.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I'm stopped, Angel. I shouldn't have put you through any
part of this.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Guys, my problem, my family, and I'll handle it. And
while you were gone, I sat here and got my
head together. I don't give a damn what my old
man says, there'll be one answer to everything. Keep your
lousy fortune. I am marrying Kitty.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
She's my fortune.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
God, Oh, don you've never sounded like this before, never
sure like this. I mean the same words, but a
different tune.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Well, thank your mystical friends, fact or fiction? They did help.
I see now that if Rudolph had had.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
The guts to give up the throne, any throne, if
they just walked away, gone too well, America, they.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Could have lived happily ever after.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So kiss me, Wow, you want them more proof that
they aren't fiction? I listened to these names, Elizbeth, Elizabeth,
Francis Franz.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Hey, hey, if your secretly named Mary and my name
turns out to be Randolph, I'm converted to reincarnation.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Well my little name vera will that do for that
set up? No? Wait, wait, wait, the Archduke's full name
was Rudolph Franz, Carl Joseph Carl Carlton. Well how about that?
Oh it's lovely to laugh again.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Oh, it won't be a barrel of last when I
see Dad now and invite his majesty to a wedding tomorrow,
Oh David, tomorrow tomorrow, And nothing honor will stop us,
including a royal decree.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I wanted to plan my wedding. Why did myreln come between?
No need any longer to learn what happened there. Obviously
there was something more we were meant to understand this time.
This time I didn't.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
Just hear them.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I saw Rudolph much handswomer than his pictures. Merry, small, delicate, lovely.
She had just arrived at the hunting lodge, and he
was not pleased. The Bulgarian androids were expected. For some reason,
he hadn't wanted her there. In a moment she knew how.
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On the prince's writing table lay a pistol and two letters,
one addressed to the Empress and the other to his wife.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Ah, yesld you were.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Not meant to see them. Suicide if the Bulgarian offer
is not made. Yes, I pray the gun will never
be used. The letters never read, but in case needed,
they lie ready. If you had not come, there would
have been a third letter to Marie.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
You can't mean this. All we dreamed, all we planned.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
All ended.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
If the Bulgars have decided against me, I have come
too close to a dream to go back to the
old life without you, without an empire.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I have nothing, I am nothing.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Suicide is all that is left to me.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I shouldn't have let you be here alone such black,
black thoughts.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Will you come with me, my angel?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I will follow you anywhere you know I will. But
there'll be no need for dying. I believe with all
my heart there's a future for us. It's not Bulgaria.
Then will we go far away? No, hyal the creed
can stop us? And together? What do we care for
a crown?
Speaker 6 (29:35):
When I see you now, beloved, touch you, hear your voice.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
The black thoughts are black lives.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Only you are truth.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So ding Ring, the farewell letters, the pistol all explained
they did exist there, admirling. But with all the props
for a suicide pact, how can Kitty Scott be right
that the Archduke did not shoot Marie and then himself.
Let Kitty answer if she can, in what has to
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be the last act. This is very likely an unprofitable
line of thought. But does it strike you that the
Archduke Rudolph talks out of both sides of his mouth
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at one moment, the fairy Prince the next. A hamlet
that tortured melancholy Prince, and I'm still of two minds.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
As to what we're dealing.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
With here, fact or fantasy. Well, if the latter, even fantasy,
has its own logic, and within that gossamer framework, Kitty
is remarkably logical. Let's let her continue.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
When David came back, I was so preoccupied with wedding
plans and miling I didn't notice how quiet he was.
Of course, I asked to be told his father about
the wedding. Yes, would his Majesty come to it? No
did David care? No, or neither did I. I began
to tell him about the newest mireling revelation in the
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moment I finished another unfolded. In the main room of
the hunting lodge, Rudolf stood with the Bulgarian deputation. A
spokesman stepped forward and note.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
Our Royal Council you, I'm Belivius. He chose your Imperial
Highness to accept the crown of the House of Sachs corbook.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Excellency, your wishes are those of my own heart.
Speaker 10 (32:03):
Your Highness, thanks vipul God.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
But let my heart speak further of a companion dearly loved.
When last he waited upon me, I told you, I
would have her reign at my side, as Sarina, has
this wish been given consideration by your counsel?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
It has, and what is their conclusion?
Speaker 10 (32:27):
With regret, Your highness? Such an arrangement will not be possible.
The dad is not acceptable, as Sara.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
I see, then, Excellency, my answer to the Royal Council's
offer of the crown is no.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Dismissed.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Archduke stood rigid at military attention until the envoys backed
from the room, and his body slumped, and he walked
slowly to the room. When I really waited, she instantly
ready tormented face and knew the Bulgarian cause was lost.
Come leeply, I will hold you close and warm your
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heart again.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Refused? Not acceptable?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
How could they refuse you? Why?
Speaker 9 (33:22):
Why?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
What did they say? Tell me? I want to know?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I must no, No, I'm too tired now, so tired,
so tired.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Please I beg you what wretched.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
Reasons did take you, your royal hindness.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Such an arrangement is not acceptable, but.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
They could not have done such a one as you.
Speaker 8 (33:49):
Not acceptable.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
I was not acceptable. I have done this to you.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Your name was not even spoken. I was refused.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Archduke Rudolph of the House of Habsburg was not acceptable.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
And there it ends for the Cognac place.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Get a toast. We will drink to a new life
and make new plans, and not weep for the old.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Not acceptable, not acceptable?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Should I love us all as well we have each other.
Shall we drink to freedom? We will go. There are
no trappings of royalty. Can to America, the land of
the free, will be subject to no one. There America
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my own.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
What is finished?
Speaker 11 (34:51):
I tell you I am subject to the Emperor and
will always be a public place.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
I will always be.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
But madness made me find see I could be other.
Speaker 11 (35:00):
What holly made me imagine the Bulgaria could.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Be brought off at you and I in Bulgaria or
any place.
Speaker 8 (35:10):
No, no, no, You.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
And I and life are finished.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
You are a lot too talk a terrible way. You
give me your promise you would got off the world.
You bow you were talking to more. End in your life?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
My life?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
But what life? I care so little for my life.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
It is not worth the ending of it.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
I will be a puppet prince.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
What difference?
Speaker 8 (35:54):
Now?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
God help that, God help.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Medi You have been dearer to me than all els
on the earth.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Forgive me if you can, But I feel nothing now.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Even for you.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Oh look, Kit, I've headed up to here with two
dead people we can't seem to get away from.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
If any of it's true, why don't I see him?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Hear it?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I guess because you won't even consider the incarnation as
a possibility.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
That's right, And I'm fet up to the teeth with
mysticism and common messages that never come.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Can we please just drop it?
Speaker 8 (36:42):
Now?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Give it? Please tell me? Can we have another drink here? David?
Speaker 8 (36:51):
It's all right, I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Oh, you don't need to. I know you gave in
to your father.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
I haven't, well, well not really. All I did was
to agree to a delay, delay of the wedding, that's
all Kit, Dad said, if we really love each other,
we'd prove it by waiting a year.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
And I don't see each other till.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
We'll make a date to.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Meet right here a year from today. I have to
leave Vienna tomorrow for Pete.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Take don't look at me like that. It's better this way,
don't you see.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
I mean if we married tomorrow he'd throw us out, And.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
If we wait, you won't.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
We will will have the best of both worlds.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
I know what you're thinking, Mireling, be fat parallel this time.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Go and go ahead and say it. I'm a puppet
prince too.
Speaker 11 (37:45):
Well, if you think that, I don't think it.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Rudolph gave up, he chickened out. I'm not doing that. No,
a year will pass.
Speaker 11 (37:53):
We'll write to each really think.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Your father will be any different a year from now?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
What is with me?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Why do I lie to myself?
Speaker 10 (38:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
He won't change.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
The question is, well, I'm kid.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Kit, don't give up on me.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
I'm nothing without you.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Do you know who you quoted just then?
Speaker 2 (38:18):
I did, didn't I?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (38:20):
So where's all the help that he and his lady
were supposed to teach us?
Speaker 2 (38:23):
What's the big message?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
I guess we can't learn it without knowing all that
happened at Marling. We still don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
We do know.
Speaker 11 (38:30):
Never mind what Rudolph said about how he wasn't worth killing.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
The poor guy was freaked out.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
He shot there and shot himself.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
No, then, what I'm the one hooked.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
On myeling Now I've got to know what they have
to tell me.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Conjure them up again.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I can't. I've been crying ever since you told me
what you promised your.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Father, And what if we do go to myeling again,
stand in that room again.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
It's our last.
Speaker 11 (38:50):
Chance to know what they did wrong, so we can.
Speaker 8 (38:55):
So I can do it right.
Speaker 9 (38:58):
Next up, admiring, the mother superior said, you've.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Come again, so many come again. And this time she
didn't go with us into the shrine alone. We stood
once more in that fatal roomy. Almost immediately the change began.
Beside me, I heard David gasp I felt his hand
grip mine. This time we would be together in the past.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Murry, please, Murry, don't.
Speaker 8 (39:40):
Look at me.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Faithless to all you believe, love, to dream, us to love.
I'm most sad of all to your slabs. The Empress knew,
but I did not. There is a moment life for
every individual when the soul dies, not necessarily the moment
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when he reaches his physical end of money. United in
love and death, Prince of my heart, there is life
beyond life. We will be together.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
It is.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
A promise.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Kids.
Speaker 8 (40:40):
She to kill him, and that's the message what We
don't end it with.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
A gun, but we end it. I ended. There are
all kinds of death, leading you is one of them.
I don't love you the way you are now or
want you, There comes a moment in life for every
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individu of it.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
That moment hasn't come, and it won't. That is not
the message.
Speaker 8 (41:23):
And what have you forgotten?
Speaker 4 (41:24):
We're supposed to be their second chance if by some wild, wonderful.
Speaker 11 (41:27):
Reincarnation we really are those two and Marie was wrong.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
If we break up, they won't be together in.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
That life or this one? Are you following, kids? The
message was for me, not you.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
I'm to have the courage Rudolph Black, I have it now,
at last, I have it.
Speaker 11 (41:45):
Ah, poor devil, he never got to marry his love.
But tomorrow, tomorrow, miss Kitty Scott, with a large blue
and lustrous eyes, will you marry me? I, Marie take
the Rudolph.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Well? Where have we been in the misty regions of imagination?
Or were the twentieth century lovers once the nineteenth century lovers?
Speaker 9 (42:30):
You decide?
Speaker 1 (42:31):
I promised one mystery love story. I delivered two back shortly.
I've been doing a little reading on miling myself. Marie
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Vetsra may have dispatched the prince, but she didn't follow
him immediately. She wrote notes one, begging her mother to
forgive her. She couldn't live without Rudolph one to her brother,
saying she would watch over him from above. To her sister,
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do not cry, I go happily. My greatest happiness would
be to live in a hut with him. But since
it is impossible to live with him, I shall die
with him. A cast included Marion Seldie's, Paul Heck, Joan Shay,
and Ian Martin. The entire production was under the direction
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of Hymon Brown. And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 12 (43:45):
Kind of scary when you come right down to it.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
What the cat knows?
Speaker 12 (43:48):
The cat is a cat, But the way Dinah feels.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
About it, how does she feel about it?
Speaker 12 (43:54):
Who you know? What a familiar is the alter ego
of a witch suggesting that it don't be ridiculous. But
she read about it somewhere. You know how much she
reads and how suggestible she is. And I swear she's
got this notion that the.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
Cat is well.
Speaker 12 (44:11):
I told have said it already her other self.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
All come on, joan one on earth would give you
the idea.
Speaker 12 (44:18):
She talks to herself, Dave well, who doesn't if you're alone.
Speaker 10 (44:23):
Enough out loud sometimes like to an imaginary playmate.
Speaker 12 (44:26):
So this isn't exactly the same. The playmate talks back
in another voice. You're kidding, I wish I were.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by Contact the
twelve hour Cold Capsule. This is E. G. Marshall inviting
you to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure
in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant dreams
Speaker 2 (45:18):
By by
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm E. G. Marshall, a man fascinated by the great
love stories of history. Recall please the tragic story of
Archduke Rudolph of Habsburgs and his inamorata Marie Vetsera. In
the year eighteen eighty nine. They died at Miling, the
Prince's hunting lodge near Vienna. How did they die? No
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one really knows what happened at Myling. Multiple theories exist,
not one of them proved David.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
If we can find out what really happened at Myoling
and why it happened, we'll know what to.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Do about us kill ourselves.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Well, that's what Marie and Rudolph did.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
We don't know that somewhere they took a wrong train.
Whatever happened at Myling was because of them. They'll show
us how not to take a wrong training.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Our suspense drama Myerling Revisited was especially written for the
Mystery Theater by Nancy Moore and stars Marion Seldie's and
Paul hat. It is sponsored in part by a Buick
Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with Act one today.
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The Hunting lodge called Myo is a nunnery, but the
room where Rudolph and Marie died by whatever hand is
kept as a shrine. Romantic and curious tourists come there often.
On a day not long ago, there came a pair
of young Americans. Kitty Scott, taught English in a Viennese school.
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David Carlton, on a tour of Europe, met Kitty, fell
in love, and stopped touring on the day they made
their pilgrimage to Miling. Oh, but this is Kitty's story.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I had read everything I could find about Rudolph and
Marie Vetter. From the very beginning. I thought a kinship
with Marie more than sympathy and fascination with what happened
to her, Oh, much more than that. As if I
know it sounds foolish, but as if it had happened
to me. After I fell in love, the feeling was stronger.
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On that spring morning, when David and I, holding hands,
stood in front of the nunnery. It was almost overwhelming.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
What are you thinking, miss Kitty Scott with a large
blue and lustrous eyes. Ah, you'd laugh at me, your
hand suddenly cold.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yes, put your arm around me, please.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh, nothing, i'd darling. You're shivering. What's wrong?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Well, it's just Oh if we could just be in
that room together, we might find out what really happened.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
There, sweetheart. It was all so long ago. I mean,
does it really matter.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yes, I can't explain why, but it mattered.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Kit.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
What is with here? You've been here before? I mean,
what's so important this time?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I just want you to see it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
No, it's more than that. And what do you mean.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
We'll find out what happened because we're in love the
way Rudolph and Marie were in love. If we can
find out what happened to them and why it happened,
we'll know what to do about us.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And that's why we're admirers.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
He isn't crazy, honey. We're like him in other ways.
They're a parallel. Your father will try to stop our marriage.
Rudolf's father did exactly the same city.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
There is no parallel. We're just ordinary people. Rudolph was
a prince, his father was an emperor.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, your father gives commands like an emperor.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yes, he even has an empire.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
An empire that you will inherit if you don't marry
a penniless, nobody named Kitty Scott.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I am marrying Kitty Scott. Now, didn't I write him that?
What do I care about his daned oil?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Wells?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You say that, but you don't really mean it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh sure, I'd like a little money. Who wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
There's got to be some way to get around the
old man so he won't completely disown me.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I think Rudolph and Marie will tell us what to do.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Kill ourselves. Well that's what they did.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
They died, that's all we know. But they did take
a wrong turning, and they'll show us how not to
take one.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
How the devil will we find out about wrong turnings
just by standing in a room?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I don't know. I only know they have some thing
to say to us. I know. The Mother Superior smiled
and opened the door to the sanctuary. The very large
room was empty except for the shrine. I closed my eyes,
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trying desperately to understand what had happened there. Nothing came
to me. Nothing. And then then, for every individual, there
is a moment in life when the soul dies. This
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is not necessarily the moment when he reaches his physical end.
How clear the words and how certain I was that
I had heard the voice of Marie Vettza. But I
told David about it. He didn't believe one word.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And let's have that again, Kit. For every soul, well.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
For every individual, there is a moment in life when
the soul died.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Who are an imagination?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh? Swhere, I didn't wait a minute. I can prove
I didn't imagine it. Rudolph's mother said those exact words,
what ket, I read them somewhere I remember now.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Well, well, then, don't you see that? That's what made
you think you heard them? Not a voice from the past,
but something called up out of your subconscious.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Only you mixed it all up. The Empress said it,
not Marie, that'd sir.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
But Mary must have said it too. It's a key
for us to unlock the past.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Come on, Kit, you're trying so hard to identify with
you read to identify.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
But I do I have ever since I first heard
her name, and today more than ever. Could I be
marieves reincarnation?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well if this makes me Rudolph, no thanks. He shot
his girl and then himself.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
We don't know that.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, we do know.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I'm not about to shoot my Dante. Please, you're serious,
good lord, Kit.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Living more than one life. I mean, do you believe
in that stuff when.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I've leaned toward it for a long time. If we've
left something undone in one life, then maybe we've got
a chance to finish it in the next. Or if
we've done something wrong, then we're given a chance to
make it right.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
My Alipha, my little Marie, yours is the face I
was born knowing and shall die see. Trust me now,
Bulgaria is the answer for us?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Or will be well?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Kit Kit?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It happened to you again, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I was with Rudolph. He told me to trust him.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
You believe you're Marie Vesera, Yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I did believe it, and I knew I'd been given
another key Bulgaria. What could it mean? I hadn't the
faintest idea, but I did have the utmost face that
some way the different keys would unlock the past. Driving
back to Vienna, I couldn't stop rehearsing all I knew
about Rudolph. Franz Joseph wouldn't let Rudolph have anything to
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say about politics here or abroad. Some books claimed the
Prince was a week how they say he was a
man of vision, ahead of his time.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Didn't you tell me he believed in World Federation.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
As he did. He had the mind to accomplish marvelous
things for Europe, but his father wouldn't let him be
anything but a puppet. Prince Franz Joseph demanded absolute submission
for everyone, especially his son, like my father, and Rudolph
kept trying to break his chains, but he couldn't. The
last two years of his life, he just.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Gave up, gave up, drank, took more kid.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Is that me?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
No? Thank the Lord? And then Rudolph met Baroness.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Marie, and David met Miss Kitty Scott.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And they tell in love on sight the way we did.
Since just think they'd only known each other three months.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
When they died.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yes, well, we've known each other three months to the day,
and I don't much care for that parallel.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I don't either, But I see them like us, happy,
full of hope, certain they'd been married.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Hold it not like us. I'm not married to anyone.
He was married to Stephanie. Now, how could he and
Marie think they could possibly marry?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
He said?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
The Pope refused Rudolph a divorce and annulo.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh, David, wait Bulgaria. I just remembered coming around that
very time. The Burgars were looking for a ruler. They
wanted a czar from one of the great ruling houses
of Europe, not just for prestige, for protection, and they
sent envoys to Rudolph in secret. They knew he was
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restless and he wanted to get away from his father,
so they came to sound him out. Would he be
interested in the crown? Oh, I know they came, and
that's why he and Marie were the hack kid.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
You don't know any such thing.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Not yet. But we're going to the soccer hotel, to
the room where they stayed. Maybe then i'll know. First
we stopped at David's hotel. He was expecting words from
his parents. He got it a telegram from his father.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Listen to this, Mother and I arriving today from Paris
by car. Reserve suite of rooms your hotel. We'll expect
the girl to meet us there.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
At three You at three point thirty. No excuse acceptable? Dad?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
The girl?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Why didn't you say the fortune hunter? That's what he thinks.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
No excuse acceptable there ever is Oh, why did I
have a writing that we wanted.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
To be married?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
What are your parents. You were honest.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I wasn't honest.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I'm under his thumb like Rudolf was under the Empress.
We should have married and told him afterwards.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
And beat his own I don't care, how darling, you
do care?
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I should have known it. You don't think I'll stand
up to him, do you?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I think Marie and Rudolph will show you how to
stand up to him. Next stop, the soccer hotel. The
hotel room had been kept exactly the same as when
the lovers were there together. David and I stood where
they stood and waited. There was such a stumer, but
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nothing else. David finally said, we might as well go,
and as I turned, it's.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
My angel, Marie.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Do you see what Bulgaria could mean for us? There?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I would be a true prince, all my beliefs put
in to practice.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Would they have me as well?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Yes, my love, Yes.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Bulgaria is Eastern Orthodox, the church recognizes divorce.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And would grant me one. My Marie would reign beside
me as Tsarina. But we must not hope too much.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
The official offer to Bitzar has not been made yet.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
There is not such a thing as too much hope.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
All the same, the Royal Council may not find me acceptable.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Not acceptable?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
You even if I am and my father learns of
the plot, you know what it would mean.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I won't think of it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Not only banishment but trial for treason.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
I would lose Bulgaria and words lose.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
You.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Are you willing to risk it?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
There's nothing in life I would not risk for you.
You know? Yes, enter, your Highness, Yes, what is it,
Imperial Highness? I bring a message from her majesty.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
She will receive ernest letter today at three o'clock alone.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
The Prince is not expected.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Very neat.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Marie has an audience with the Empress at three o'clock.
Kitty has an audience with the Carlton's at three o'clock.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I still think it's all ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Will Marie went over the Empress?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I don't know how could I? But maybe if we
go to Happard Palace. Oh oh please, Darling, please next
stop Hofburg Palace, David, this is where Marie came. Here,
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this room, I feel it all around me. Oh, how
young you are? Seventeen old? Lear, Oh, how young I'm
older than my years, Your Majesty.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I play this is so only a woman could accept
what I must say, I employed to believe me, my child.
Count yourself fortunate that you can never be empress at
the at your Hungary empire. It is a burden from
an empty honor.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
But I have no wish to be empress here, your majesty.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
No, but I thought you want your son, and I
longed for this throne once, perhaps, but no more.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I pray you then believe this also.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Count yourself fortunate too, that the marriage between you and
the archtook is impossible, not because of the empress refusal
or the Holy fathers it is.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
It is because the.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Prince who showed such promise now is I cannot find words.
Surely you cannot want a week dissolent man he has become.
Surely you will give him up.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No, I do not want a week and dissolute man.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
For every individual, there is a moment in life when
the soul dies, but this is not necessarily the moment
when he reaches his physical end.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
My poor son, Rudolf's soul is that your pardon, majesty.
If he were as you say, no, I would not
want him. But I know his true nature. He is
strong and noble of heart, and I will not give
him up.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Well, let us approach this commentary with caution. I think
we are bound to speculate on the gap between reality
and illusion.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
Just what have we here?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Pure fantasy, a trick of memory, history rewritten, bent and reshaped,
emotional odds and ends of a romantic young woman.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Or is this.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Can it be reincarnation? Perhaps? I make no promise will
be answered in act too. I don't mean to suggest
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that Kitty Scott is deliberately tampering with the truth, but
I do have questions.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
For the moment.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Let us accept as fact the Bulgarian proposal. Archduke Rudolph
surely knew that his acceptance would precipitate a constitutional crisis
leading to civil war? Was it not madness for him
even to consider? Wait, there was madness in the Prince's
house on his mother's side. So a brilliant man, but
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emotional unstable. My apologies, Miss Giddy.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
No more questions.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Now, I didn't tell David what the Empress and Marie
had said to each other. They went next to the
Emperor's private quarters. First was spartan monk like sir with
only an iron cart, where a reigning monarch slept, and
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in the adjoining room. Without meaning to, I said out loud,
this is where Marie Vetzara came in secret and saw
the Emperor alone.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Well, if Baroness Vetza, your majesty, your Marie, how is
it to pay homage to your emperor yet refuse to
be as the old eyes sent regarding my father?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
You are my ruler, sire, by the divine right of kings.
Your son is my ruler, by the divine right of love.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Impurin insilence about you, foul that the Prince was loves
you above all else.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Including the all I do he does.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Do you know how many loves he has had.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
He has lost no.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Opportunity to bring shame on this fommer upon his house.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
He cannot wound me, Sire, they were before he met me.
There will be no other, you've said, I also, I
pray you believe ours is a great love. Rudolph is
my destiny, and I his help her.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
And I abhors what trades from to deal with a
chit of a girl. Your great love is finished never,
if not by you, by me, I will take such
measures as are necessary one weekends if my order is
not abid banishment.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I knew what David would say. As soon as we
left the palace, he said it and said it again
while we drank hot chocolate for the sidewalk cafe.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You really are spaced out on this, kiddie, I mean,
don't you see what you did?
Speaker 8 (19:00):
This time?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Hallucinated an eighteen eighty nine version of what you think
my parents.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Will say to you.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I know it's possible, David, maybe I did that. Couldn't
what I heard be a warning to help me know
how to answer your parents?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Now that you've been coached, will you answer like.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Marie in slightly more modern language and edited somewhat.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Hey, when you hear those characters, what language do they speak?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
English? Uh?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I got you. Now, if they were the real McCoy,
they'd speak German.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Not necessarily the court spoke English. It was very.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Fashionable about darned. If you don't always have an answer, God.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
If you don't always have an objection, all.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Right, answer this one.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Marie was seventeen, Rudolph twenty eight, you're twenty two.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
And I'm thirty, cling up hairspitting. Why don't you want
to believe I was?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Marie?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I answer? You fight so hard against it because you don't.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Want to be like Rudolph, And do you blame me?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I don't fight anymore. They're trying to help us.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
They owe us huh oh us.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
We owe them the mistakes they made. Their karma can
be put right by what we do.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yeah, but where's all the big helping hand you claim
they'll give us.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
No, No, I'm sorry, I don't buy any part of it.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Even with that shocker imagination of yours, you'll never crack
the miling mystery because you can't get around the fact
that they just flame died.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And what can that possibly say to us?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
No, I couldn't get around the fact of their death.
But we were meant to understand why they had to die.
I was absolutely certain Rudolph and Marie were trying to
tell us something, send us some message. David and I
discussed it a little more and getting nowhere, and then
it was time for me to see his parents. What
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a relief when I walked into the Carlton sitting room
and only his mother was there. My dear, We're to
have a few minutes alone, and I'm so glad. Frank
often endows me when I ask for things, or when
I ask for this time to my surprise you. He
would not to look at the Danube? Is it as
blue as the song says? Well? I think so that
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David thinks I have a shocking imagination. How pretty you are?
May I call you kiddy? Please? Now tell me how
is my Davy? Well? He was wonderful and happy. And
tell his father's telegram. Well, I can't pretend I'm surprised.
I know mister Carton wants a more glittering match for
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his only son than a penniless school teacher. What does
Davy say of that? Will you know what he says?
He wrote it in his letter that he'll marry you
regardless of anything his father threatened. Yes, Davy had to
know his father would come here. There was time to
marry you before we came. But he didn't. My dear,
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I'm so sorry I had to hurt you. But I
know full well he could have married me missus Carton.
So shall I tell you why he didn't. It's happening again.
What is happening a census deja vus, that all this
has been played out before? You said I'm very young.
I have to answer that I'm older than my years.
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I pray you are because I must hurt you again, lowly,
a woman could bear it, Kitty. David will be very
wealthy one day, know, I know, And one day he'll
be altogether like his father. No, already it has begun.
Davy will have no time for his wife, any wife.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
She will only be a possession, a piece of property.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Valued far less than his oil wells, his stocks, and
his bonds. Would you want such a husband? No, I
wouldn't want such a husband.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Then be glad his father won't permit the marriage. If
he's crossed, he'll disown David, and my poor Davy could
not survive that. Oh, Frank, you're back so soon now.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
The blue Danube is not blue?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Oh, I'm so disappointed, Frank. This is miss Kitty Scott.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Oh, good lord, Liz, I know who it is.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
How do you do, Miss Scott?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Good afternoon, missus Catton. Could I ask if your name
is Elizabeth? All knows it's Liz Best. Oh and mister Cotton,
does Frank stand for Franz Francis?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Used to wish I had a more distinguished name. Now
enough time wasted calling the role, Liz. Will you go
check out the Blue Daniel yourself? Miss Scott and I
can deal with the business of dan oh off with you.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yes, Frank Kitty, I do so hope we meet again.
I hope so too.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
Now, then, miss Scott, you know why you're here. It's
useless to pretend you don't.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I the intention of pretending. But before the business is hand,
I have a message from David. He won't be here
at three thirty. He wants a report from me first.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
It's a very fine show of independence, but I'm not impressed.
He's tried it before. Doesn't work, doesn't last any more
than his fly by night love affair will last.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
He really don't waste time.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Not time, not words, not money.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Then I'll spare you the time and trouble of saying
that I'm a fortune.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Hunter, which you deny, of course.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Mister Carton. I fell in love with David before I
knew he was a wealthy son of a millionaire.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
David is not wealthy, not yet. He has only what
I choose to give him.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And I ask you to believe I don't care about
the money. Please believe I do love him and he
loves me.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
There have been other pretty girls, quite a few. Has
he told you about that.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
They're not important? They were before he met me.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Oh, you flatter yourself.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
He won't love anyone who causes me to cancel his
allowance and change my will.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
What would you say if I told you David is
my destiny.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
And I his theatrical nonsense? We make our own destiny.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You mean to make David, not allow him to make
his own. You order me to give him up.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Unfortunately, I have no authority to command you. I hoped
when you found you weren't acceptable, you'd break off this
affair of your own free working. I'll deal directly with
my son. There I do have authority. The discussion has ended,
Miss Scott.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
The audience is ended, Sire, good afternoon.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Oh David, I was so awful. LI said I might
win him over. I didn't even try to me. He
was Franz Joseph, and I.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Knew it was hopeless.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I was as cold as insulting as he was, and
me seems much much worse.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I'm stopped, Angel. I shouldn't have put you through any
part of this.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Guys, my problem, my family, and I'll handle it. And
while you were gone, I sat here and got my
head together. I don't give a damn what my old
man says, there'll be one answer to everything. Keep your
lousy fortune. I am marrying Kitty.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
She's my fortune.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
God, Oh, don you've never sounded like this before, never
sure like this. I mean the same words, but a
different tune.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Well, thank your mystical friends, fact or fiction? They did help.
I see now that if Rudolph had had.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
The guts to give up the throne, any throne, if
they just walked away, gone too well, America, they.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Could have lived happily ever after.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So kiss me, Wow, you want them more proof that
they aren't fiction? I listened to these names, Elizbeth, Elizabeth,
Francis Franz.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Hey, hey, if your secretly named Mary and my name
turns out to be Randolph, I'm converted to reincarnation.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Well my little name vera will that do for that
set up? No? Wait, wait, wait, the Archduke's full name
was Rudolph Franz, Carl Joseph Carl Carlton. Well how about that?
Oh it's lovely to laugh again.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Oh, it won't be a barrel of last when I
see Dad now and invite his majesty to a wedding tomorrow,
Oh David, tomorrow tomorrow, And nothing honor will stop us,
including a royal decree.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I wanted to plan my wedding. Why did myreln come between?
No need any longer to learn what happened there. Obviously
there was something more we were meant to understand this time.
This time I didn't.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
Just hear them.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I saw Rudolph much handswomer than his pictures. Merry, small, delicate, lovely.
She had just arrived at the hunting lodge, and he
was not pleased. The Bulgarian androids were expected. For some reason,
he hadn't wanted her there. In a moment she knew how.
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On the prince's writing table lay a pistol and two letters,
one addressed to the Empress and the other to his wife.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Ah, yesld you were.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Not meant to see them. Suicide if the Bulgarian offer
is not made. Yes, I pray the gun will never
be used. The letters never read, but in case needed,
they lie ready. If you had not come, there would
have been a third letter to Marie.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
You can't mean this. All we dreamed, all we planned.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
All ended.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
If the Bulgars have decided against me, I have come
too close to a dream to go back to the
old life without you, without an empire.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I have nothing, I am nothing.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Suicide is all that is left to me.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I shouldn't have let you be here alone such black,
black thoughts.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Will you come with me, my angel?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I will follow you anywhere you know I will. But
there'll be no need for dying. I believe with all
my heart there's a future for us. It's not Bulgaria.
Then will we go far away? No, hyal the creed
can stop us? And together? What do we care for
a crown?
Speaker 6 (29:35):
When I see you now, beloved, touch you, hear your voice.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
The black thoughts are black lives.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Only you are truth.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So ding Ring, the farewell letters, the pistol all explained
they did exist there, admirling. But with all the props
for a suicide pact, how can Kitty Scott be right
that the Archduke did not shoot Marie and then himself.
Let Kitty answer if she can, in what has to
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be the last act. This is very likely an unprofitable
line of thought. But does it strike you that the
Archduke Rudolph talks out of both sides of his mouth
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at one moment, the fairy Prince the next. A hamlet
that tortured melancholy Prince, and I'm still of two minds.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
As to what we're dealing.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
With here, fact or fantasy. Well, if the latter, even fantasy,
has its own logic, and within that gossamer framework, Kitty
is remarkably logical. Let's let her continue.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
When David came back, I was so preoccupied with wedding
plans and miling I didn't notice how quiet he was.
Of course, I asked to be told his father about
the wedding. Yes, would his Majesty come to it? No
did David care? No, or neither did I. I began
to tell him about the newest mireling revelation in the
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moment I finished another unfolded. In the main room of
the hunting lodge, Rudolf stood with the Bulgarian deputation. A
spokesman stepped forward and note.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
Our Royal Council you, I'm Belivius. He chose your Imperial
Highness to accept the crown of the House of Sachs corbook.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Excellency, your wishes are those of my own heart.
Speaker 10 (32:03):
Your Highness, thanks vipul God.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
But let my heart speak further of a companion dearly loved.
When last he waited upon me, I told you, I
would have her reign at my side, as Sarina, has
this wish been given consideration by your counsel?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
It has, and what is their conclusion?
Speaker 10 (32:27):
With regret, Your highness? Such an arrangement will not be possible.
The dad is not acceptable, as Sara.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
I see, then, Excellency, my answer to the Royal Council's
offer of the crown is no.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Dismissed.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Archduke stood rigid at military attention until the envoys backed
from the room, and his body slumped, and he walked
slowly to the room. When I really waited, she instantly
ready tormented face and knew the Bulgarian cause was lost.
Come leeply, I will hold you close and warm your
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heart again.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Refused? Not acceptable?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
How could they refuse you? Why?
Speaker 9 (33:22):
Why?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
What did they say? Tell me? I want to know?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I must no, No, I'm too tired now, so tired,
so tired.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Please I beg you what wretched.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
Reasons did take you, your royal hindness.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Such an arrangement is not acceptable, but.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
They could not have done such a one as you.
Speaker 8 (33:49):
Not acceptable.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
I was not acceptable. I have done this to you.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Your name was not even spoken. I was refused.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Archduke Rudolph of the House of Habsburg was not acceptable.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
And there it ends for the Cognac place.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Get a toast. We will drink to a new life
and make new plans, and not weep for the old.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Not acceptable, not acceptable?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Should I love us all as well we have each other.
Shall we drink to freedom? We will go. There are
no trappings of royalty. Can to America, the land of
the free, will be subject to no one. There America
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my own.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
What is finished?
Speaker 11 (34:51):
I tell you I am subject to the Emperor and
will always be a public place.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
I will always be.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
But madness made me find see I could be other.
Speaker 11 (35:00):
What holly made me imagine the Bulgaria could.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Be brought off at you and I in Bulgaria or
any place.
Speaker 8 (35:10):
No, no, no, You.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
And I and life are finished.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
You are a lot too talk a terrible way. You
give me your promise you would got off the world.
You bow you were talking to more. End in your life?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
My life?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
But what life? I care so little for my life.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
It is not worth the ending of it.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
I will be a puppet prince.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
What difference?
Speaker 8 (35:54):
Now?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
God help that, God help.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Medi You have been dearer to me than all els
on the earth.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Forgive me if you can, But I feel nothing now.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Even for you.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Oh look, Kit, I've headed up to here with two
dead people we can't seem to get away from.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
If any of it's true, why don't I see him?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Hear it?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I guess because you won't even consider the incarnation as
a possibility.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
That's right, And I'm fet up to the teeth with
mysticism and common messages that never come.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Can we please just drop it?
Speaker 8 (36:42):
Now?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Give it? Please tell me? Can we have another drink here? David?
Speaker 8 (36:51):
It's all right, I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Oh, you don't need to. I know you gave in
to your father.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
I haven't, well, well not really. All I did was
to agree to a delay, delay of the wedding, that's
all Kit, Dad said, if we really love each other,
we'd prove it by waiting a year.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
And I don't see each other till.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
We'll make a date to.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Meet right here a year from today. I have to
leave Vienna tomorrow for Pete.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Take don't look at me like that. It's better this way,
don't you see.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
I mean if we married tomorrow he'd throw us out, And.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
If we wait, you won't.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
We will will have the best of both worlds.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
I know what you're thinking, Mireling, be fat parallel this time.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Go and go ahead and say it. I'm a puppet
prince too.
Speaker 11 (37:45):
Well, if you think that, I don't think it.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Rudolph gave up, he chickened out. I'm not doing that. No,
a year will pass.
Speaker 11 (37:53):
We'll write to each really think.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Your father will be any different a year from now?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
What is with me?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Why do I lie to myself?
Speaker 10 (38:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
He won't change.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
The question is, well, I'm kid.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Kit, don't give up on me.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
I'm nothing without you.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Do you know who you quoted just then?
Speaker 2 (38:18):
I did, didn't I?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (38:20):
So where's all the help that he and his lady
were supposed to teach us?
Speaker 2 (38:23):
What's the big message?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
I guess we can't learn it without knowing all that
happened at Marling. We still don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
We do know.
Speaker 11 (38:30):
Never mind what Rudolph said about how he wasn't worth killing.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
The poor guy was freaked out.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
He shot there and shot himself.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
No, then, what I'm the one hooked.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
On myeling Now I've got to know what they have
to tell me.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Conjure them up again.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I can't. I've been crying ever since you told me
what you promised your.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Father, And what if we do go to myeling again,
stand in that room again.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
It's our last.
Speaker 11 (38:50):
Chance to know what they did wrong, so we can.
Speaker 8 (38:55):
So I can do it right.
Speaker 9 (38:58):
Next up, admiring, the mother superior said, you've.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Come again, so many come again. And this time she
didn't go with us into the shrine alone. We stood
once more in that fatal roomy. Almost immediately the change began.
Beside me, I heard David gasp I felt his hand
grip mine. This time we would be together in the past.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Murry, please, Murry, don't.
Speaker 8 (39:40):
Look at me.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Faithless to all you believe, love, to dream, us to love.
I'm most sad of all to your slabs. The Empress knew,
but I did not. There is a moment life for
every individual when the soul dies, not necessarily the moment
(40:08):
when he reaches his physical end of money. United in
love and death, Prince of my heart, there is life
beyond life. We will be together.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
It is.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
A promise.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Kids.
Speaker 8 (40:40):
She to kill him, and that's the message what We
don't end it with.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
A gun, but we end it. I ended. There are
all kinds of death, leading you is one of them.
I don't love you the way you are now or
want you, There comes a moment in life for every
(41:17):
individu of it.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
That moment hasn't come, and it won't. That is not
the message.
Speaker 8 (41:23):
And what have you forgotten?
Speaker 4 (41:24):
We're supposed to be their second chance if by some wild, wonderful.
Speaker 11 (41:27):
Reincarnation we really are those two and Marie was wrong.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
If we break up, they won't be together in.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
That life or this one? Are you following, kids? The
message was for me, not you.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
I'm to have the courage Rudolph Black, I have it now,
at last, I have it.
Speaker 11 (41:45):
Ah, poor devil, he never got to marry his love.
But tomorrow, tomorrow, miss Kitty Scott, with a large blue
and lustrous eyes, will you marry me? I, Marie take
the Rudolph.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Well? Where have we been in the misty regions of imagination?
Or were the twentieth century lovers once the nineteenth century lovers?
Speaker 9 (42:30):
You decide?
Speaker 1 (42:31):
I promised one mystery love story. I delivered two back shortly.
I've been doing a little reading on miling myself. Marie
(42:52):
Vetsra may have dispatched the prince, but she didn't follow
him immediately. She wrote notes one, begging her mother to
forgive her. She couldn't live without Rudolph one to her brother,
saying she would watch over him from above. To her sister,
(43:13):
do not cry, I go happily. My greatest happiness would
be to live in a hut with him. But since
it is impossible to live with him, I shall die
with him. A cast included Marion Seldie's, Paul Heck, Joan Shay,
and Ian Martin. The entire production was under the direction
(43:36):
of Hymon Brown. And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 12 (43:45):
Kind of scary when you come right down to it.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
What the cat knows?
Speaker 12 (43:48):
The cat is a cat, But the way Dinah feels.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
About it, how does she feel about it?
Speaker 12 (43:54):
Who you know? What a familiar is the alter ego
of a witch suggesting that it don't be ridiculous. But
she read about it somewhere. You know how much she
reads and how suggestible she is. And I swear she's
got this notion that the.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
Cat is well.
Speaker 12 (44:11):
I told have said it already her other self.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
All come on, joan one on earth would give you
the idea.
Speaker 12 (44:18):
She talks to herself, Dave well, who doesn't if you're alone.
Speaker 10 (44:23):
Enough out loud sometimes like to an imaginary playmate.
Speaker 12 (44:26):
So this isn't exactly the same. The playmate talks back
in another voice. You're kidding, I wish I were.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by Contact the
twelve hour Cold Capsule. This is E. G. Marshall inviting
you to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure
in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant dreams
Speaker 2 (45:18):
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