February 23, 2026 • 41 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Coming in Worldcome, I med j Marsham.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And I preside over these tales of the macab All
of them are strange and frightening because you have joined
me in a shadowy world. Here we encountered you at
normal sounds that go bump in the night, experiences in
esp apparitions, all manner of the unexplained. I have a
tale to share which begins innocently and then turns into terror.
(00:45):
It begins in the year eighteen eighty five. Ludrith Horace Holly,
a student at Cambridge University, is alone in his rooms
at midnight. He closes his book and rarely leans back
in his chair. Heavens, I can't imagine anyone calling on
me at this hour.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Who is it? Visit the open up.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
To Nahan Holly.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I am boxed here.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Let me have it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Waits a long time for what is it?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Proof of murder? Committed over two thousand years to go.
Our Mystery Story is an adaptation of She from the
classic by h Writer Haggard.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Written especially for.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Mystery theater by Roy Windsor, It stars Gordon Gold and
Gordon Heath. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor
Division and Contact the twelve hour cold capsule.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I'll be back shortly with Act one.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Henry Ryder Haggard, the author, was a Victorian gentleman who
once remarked to a friend that Treasure Island was not
so very remarkable, and accepted a bet that he could
not write anything half so good. In six weeks he
had written King Solomon's Minds, which became a worldwide bestseller.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Shortly thereafter he wrote She.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Again in six weeks. It is the story of She
who must be obeyed, and it is through Horace Holly
that we experience the terrifying adventure. I was twenty two
at the time, studying at Cambridge for a fellowship which
I was certain of being awarded.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
The old friend I had was M. L Didncy, who
was about thirty and wealthy. And there he was at
midnight in my rooms.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Leaning with his hands on a small table, looking very ill.
His gaze fastened on a small iron bark, which somehow
he had carried through the quadrangle and up to my quarters. No, no, Brandy,
I'm a dying man. Holley, No sen and it's it's
it's the truth.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Let me go for a job.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
No, no use, I I haven't much time. Listen to
me as you've never listened to anyone before. What do
you know about me? The old rich came here to
Cambridge to study years after most men. O blessed, and
that you were married, and that you've been the best,
(03:35):
indeed the only friend I ever had. Did you know
that I have a son? No, I have. He is
five years old. He cost me his mother's life. I
have never seen him since Holley. If you will accept
the trust, I'm going to leave you the boy's soul guardian.
What I've known for some time that I could not last.
(04:00):
I had been searching for someone in whom to confide
about the boy and this this iron chest. But my dear,
you know hear me out. My son Leo is the
last descendant of one of the most ancient families on Earth.
His sixty fifth lineal ancestor was an Egyptian priest of
(04:24):
weak origin named Caliquities who was murdered in three thirty
nine BC.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Cour Lord twenty two hundred years ago. Yes, and you
and Leo are the risk descendence of his Is.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Caliquities was a priest of Isis at the time of
the fall of the Pharaohs. He broke his vow of
celibacy and fled to Egypt with a royal princess. Her
name was Amanatas. M what's the significance of what you've
told me?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You know Latin?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
What the the name Lundcy suggests to you? Well, it
could be a corruption of Vindecks, meaning avenger, the avenger
of Caliqrity and avenger who has waited for more than
two thousand years.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Honey, are sorry to.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Be dull witted, but vengeance against whom it is explained
in the contents of the iron chest. You are not
to open it. All I will tell you is that
Callocrities and Amanatas fled from Egypt into the kingdom of
a mighty queen.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
She fell in love with him and murdered him. Why
because he.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Would not give up Amanatus. She escaped to Greece, where
she bore a son named in Greek the Avenger of
Good heaven Man.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That was centuries ago.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
The mighty Queen is still alive.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Oh, that's impossible, I once thought so.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Oh, But after attempting to find her kingdom in the
heart of Central Africa, I am convinced that she still lives.
It is an impenetrable, undiscovered country. I sailed to reach it,
and the attempt broke my health. And this iron chest,
(06:20):
when Leo is twenty five, he is to open it
and to decide what to do about its contents. I
see your skeptical howey I am. Will you undertake this trust, Holley,
to keep this iron chest? And when Leo is twenty five.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Up on her death? Yes, God willing, that won't be
for you.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
God has willed it otherwise I will be dead by morning.
And the next morning Fancy was dead, and I became
the god.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You know this five year old Leo was at delight for.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Golden hair, little boy. We got along from the first
I had my fellowship, and we moved out of my
college to comfortable quarters nearby. I had employed a brown
faced young man named Job as nurse, and the intervening
years were wonderful for all of us. Before we realized it,
Leo was twenty five. And this is a momentous day,
(07:23):
Uncle Holly. It's your birthday. That moment I was thinking
about the iron chest that you did being at London.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yes, with the keys.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Huh, shall we have Joe in for the dramatic opening?
Joe come in here, we're about to open the iron chests.
Or I've been looking forward to this occasion for years, Uncle,
hasn't he thinks it's all nonsense?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Don't you not your history, Leo.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
It's remarkable to be able to trace your roots to
a priest of Isis in the course of the last fellow,
but the queen who was over two thousand years old rubbish.
You can understand my skepticism. Erki oh yess a wooden park,
she'd shie it ebony. And here among the fiber packing
(08:11):
is a letter addressed to Julio. That's a rolled up
parchment in their uncle. It's in Vincey's handwriting, and it's
a translation of the Greek writing on this potsherd, this
fragment of a broken irbin pot And isn't that a scarabus?
A scarab looks like a bato it, Sir Jem cut
to look like a beetle, which the ancient Egyptians regarded
as a symbol of resurrection and immortality. Jo Bah the
(08:34):
letters from my father. The strange legend is on the potsd.
He determined to investigate its truth. He said to the
coast of Africa, some distance north of where his Ambusy
river falls into the sea, and where there is a
headland shaped like a man's head. He learned that far
inland there a great mountain shaped like cups and surrounded
(08:57):
by swamps. Was there that he became ill and had
to turn back.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Kenry.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
That's written on apatud Uncle. I'll try now I know
why Vincey insisted on both of a fternalraby. Does your
father say anything about that fabled queen which he says
here it is? I do not believe this is a feeble.
There is a spark where the vital forces of the
world exist. If you find it, you would be ever young,
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defying time and evil. Trant to fort anapatad Uncle. It's
from Anonotus of the Royal House of the Pharaohs, who
fled with his calicrites, wandered for twelve moons on the
shores of Libya.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
They found the headland shaped like a man's.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Head, were captured by a wild tribe and taken to
a horror mountain to their queen, who led them to
the pillar of fire. There she stepped into it and
emerged unharmed and yet more beautiful. Why did you make
a calliquities. The queen invited him to step into the flames,
(10:06):
but he would not, and Amonatus tells him to seek
out that queen and to slay her bathe in the
purr of fire and learn the secret of life. I'm
going to do it, Uncle Leo. You can't be serious.
You don't believe it's nonsense. I have to find out.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Uncle.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I realize now that all my life has been pointed
to this moment. I have all the money I need.
I'm young and strong and good hunter, and my name
is Dincy.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I must go.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Uncle. Well, if you're going to chase this centom, I
just might go along for her shooting.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Always wanted to hunt a big game. May Joe, you
might be the death of me.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Say, but even most you gentlemen are going You're You'll
want Summer to look after you. And I'm not the
man that researcher. After serving it for twenty years at Dato,
Africa swamped magic periods of fire, not so great sare
we must be mad? And so we left England for
(11:18):
a coast of Africa and the Zambizi we had transferred
to a dow An Arab Latin rigged ship with a
long forward overhang and an open waist, and it was
the latter that did her in.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
With the rising wind, we had.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Bordered the specially built whaleboat which we had attached to
the ship. The wind grew to a gale, and the
storm drove our ship onto the breakers and destroyed it.
We had cut free in the whaleboat, rescued the tillerman
Mohammad from the wild seas, and managed to row to
the basin of a narrow, quiet river. And then at dawn,
(11:53):
Oh Lord, love me to far cry from civilization. Do
not tear hands in water, say crack a diile and
like to pat one uncle.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Look down you are mean.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
If they didn't kring a beast himself in the world,
he's been spears and look behind him our gun do
God no ho fire. Hundreds of natives far years they
haven't attacked us, and perhaps they can lead us where
we want to go over my.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Varsh, Professor Uri later Jobe.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
We come as friends, I say, we are friends. Come
to the shore still a Thermohammad. There is quiet as
cats and some mental good features. Peace.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Who are you who comes swimming on the water, speak
or you die?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
We are travelers and have come here by chance.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
You are white four sons ago.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
She who must be your bed, commanded that if white
men come, do not slay them, but bring them to her.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Shammad, our boatman comes, so be it.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I am Bilalah, chief of the Yamahadar of the Kingdom
of core. We Sir, she who must be obeyed, You
will come ashore.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You will not be harmed.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
My warriors will bring thy possessions.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Uncle, you don't suppose that she could be I suppose.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Nothing, My boy.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
We are captives, but we're unharmed, and we have our guns.
They may not even know what they are.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
We must show no fear.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
You are my guests. You are protected by she. Do
not incite my people. They might transgress. They have a
ritual that is most unpleasant.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And who oh Belalah is she.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Thou wilt learn soon enough if it be her pleasure
to see you in the flesh.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
We were carried to a vast cup of green, a green.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Pasture at the bottom of a volcanic combe. The Amahagas
lived in caves on its rim. Balally set out to
inform his queen about our arrival. The night he was
expected to return, I'd feel worried. What's troubling you.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Uncle mischief? Have your revolvers ready.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
And have my knife arm arm Sir, what mischief?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Professor? Watch the ritual down below. Notice the pot.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
It's red hot. My guess is it's being prepared for
someone cook. Two men are holding Mohammed and another is
trying him up with.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
A long moose.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Siah, help all green a white hot pot.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Down on it.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You hate one of the men, Sir, and Mohammad is
down too.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
One part the coming off fire.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
It will those devils won't take me alive. You won't
been hit with a spear pass a bad professor?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Follow me, take you a lot for it job. I'm
saving mine. I won't be taken alive.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
A small iron chest containing a father's legacy, a tale
of revenge for the murder of callequities dead over two
thousand years, and a young descendant who is determined to
slay the queen who.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Murdered his ancestors.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
These are the elements from this story of She White
Writer hanged, a nineteenth century writer whose remarkable imagination created
this incredible adventure. When I returned with up two, we
will learn who has survived the attack by the Amahaga tribe.
(16:03):
Our small party is far upstream and many miles inland,
in a hidden country shaped like a huge cup, the
base of an extinct volcano above and lining the green fields.
Our caves dug deep into the mountain sides. This is
the kingdom of kor Horace. Holly continues his narration, Oh, children,
(16:25):
I had no doubt that we were dead men. When
as suddenly as the attack had begun, it ended because Billali,
the chief, returned from his mission to she ye.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Shall be punished. She who must be obeyed, commanded that
these strangers be unharmed and brought to her. At dawn
we much to her palace there are punishment will.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Be made known to you.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
It was a march of several days before we entered
the cave city.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Of korn Job.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Leo and I were settled into a huge vault. Leo
was feverish from his spioned, and a woman named Eustine
attended him. Sure, yes, Job, I can't get it through
my head, SHERIM about the woman you mean?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
The day before we attack.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
This woman Eustine came up to Leo and embraced him,
and he kissed her Hi. According to custom, they are
now married.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Who he don't cost them.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
But I don't like any part of it, or for
that matter, these knight egens and these.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Caved went let me feel like I'm in a tomb. Uncle, Holly, Yes,
my boy, where are we?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Uncle?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
In the city of cor He still had fever.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I shall make him well.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Eustine's being very good to me.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
You are my husband.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
If I cannot make you well, I shall plead with
she who must be obeyed, and you will be safe.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
More magic, Who is she? You seen, our mighty queen?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
What is she like?
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
No, one knows.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
No one has ever seen her. Nay, but she does exist.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I she has really called for thousands of years.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Holly, it's the same woman who. Yes, but we won't
talk about it. We are merely travelers, uncles. If they
knew the reason for our visit, we'd be dead in minutes.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You seen, eh?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Everyone in Kare lives in these caves.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
I and the dead live on with us.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The dead live on with us, preserve forever as mummies
in their natural state.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
A stranger, how is it possible to preserve? Only she knows?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
She is all powerful.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I bring good news Sir Harry, she who must be
a bed, We'll see you now.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Bilali led me to a huge anti chamber about by
forty feet at the far end of the street. Room
was a curtained doorway. Two women pulled the curtains aside,
and Billali went down on his hands and knees down.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Sir Harry, down, we an taught our presence for she.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I halted afraid, but I remained standing. And then she
came through the door, cut it from head to toe
with a thummy kind of cloth. I stared at the figure,
even though clothed, I could tell that she was an
unbelievably beautiful young woman.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Why art thou so frightened? Stranger?
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Is there that about me.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
That should a fight a man?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
It is thy beauty that makes me fear, o Queen,
I see that men still know how to beguile women
with false words.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
How do they call you in thine own country, stranger?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
They call me Holly, oh queen, and I am Asia.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Follow me.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
It was a small room ten by twelve with a
couch and table. The air was perfumed. At the end
of the couch stood a font with water in it.
She motioned me to the couch, and she sat close
to me.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
As yet ye have no cause to fear me. How
comest thou speak Arabic, my own dear tongue.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I have studied it. It is a language still spoken
in Egypt.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
There is still in Egypt that fellow sit upon the throne.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
The Persians have gone from Egypt.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
And the Romans and Greece.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I love the Greek nurse.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
There is a Greece and the Hebrews. They are broken
and scattered.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I am bewildered, Oh, Queen, thou.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Speakest about thousands of years ago? Thou otto woman? Not
a spirit?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
How can a woman live thousands of years? Y? Dost
thou fool me?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Dost thou wonder how I knew you were coming? And
save your heads from the hot pot? I O, queen,
gaze upon the water in that font.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I I see Leo job myself forehammed in the warribolt
on it that narrow river?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
If its magic?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Not magic, stranger, but the knowledge of the secrets of nature?
Tell me about this youth, Leo.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
He is very sick. Canst thou do nothing for him?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Is he perchance thy son, my adopted son.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Have a surety? I can kill him who nurses.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Him my manservant job and the woman who embraced him
and had stayed with him, because I understand it is
a fashion of thy people.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Her name is Eustine hast.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Thou aught to ask me before you go, O, Holly.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
One thing, Oh Asia, I would gaze upon thy face.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Behold, I gazed at her face and shrank back, blinded
and amazed.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I cannot describe No man could her great.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Changing eyes of deepest softest black, her delicate straight features.
Even more, her beauty lay in a visible majestic Christman.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Where didst thou get that scarub on my hand?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I picked it up?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Oh queen, it's very strange.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Once I knew a scarab like that, it hung round
the neck of the one I love.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Huh, girl, do now?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Later, I shall attend to your sick LEO, go, what's
the queen like?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Ucle? Terrifying? It must be a hoax. I cannot have
been talking with.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
A woman over two thousand years old. She cannot be mortal,
and the scarb she recognized the cleo. It hung from
the neck of the only man she has ever loved. Callicrities. Yes,
in the legend, ain't a legend.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But the truth.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Unless I'm mad, We're in a pickle, and a professor
without doubt atobe, I can't see our way out of
this hidious place. We could never find our way back
to the whaleboat. You think sure that has sheen? The
scarab is donishin worse than that, I don't get your share.
That scab hung around the neck of caliqrites in three
(23:55):
hundred and thirty nine BC. It is twenty one hundred
years old. It holds our fate and Lio's is shaman commsieur.
Oh look a woman valued from her to foot woken corpse.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
If she iss your that's her name.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I have recovered. Now, oh hai, where is this deal
of yours?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
And this woman?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
If she Eustine did her Lili?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Thus Eusteine is not willing.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
To leave Leo.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
It is surely the right of a wife to be
near her husband when he dieth door. This Leo has
a noble thou dark, Why didst thou hide this family?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
For what? But chance?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Thou didst not know?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
These lies?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
My lost caliprities.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
He has come back to me at last.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I knew he wrote come look good to this Unless
thou art able to help him. Is sheer? He will die?
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Oo?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Why did I not come before here?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Take a silent poets liquid down his throat? If he'll
kill him? Swiss now, swist.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I forced the liquid down Leo's throat. He gave a
convulsive shudder and began to breathe more easily. As I
watched Leo restored.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
To life, my thoughts were very black.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Indeed, Asha had waited centuries for this moment, the return
of calicuities.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
She was unlikely to give up. We were doomed.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
We would end our days in the hideous kingdom of Koor.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
A day later, you told.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Me, Harry, that this womanly scheme is married to Leo.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
That I am told is the custom of the embrace
and its return, monsieur, Then she must die? What for
what crime?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
She stands between me and my beloved?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
But she is innocent of any wrongdoing?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
All to me.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Is my lord it No, he.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Lives, you seem she hath saved him.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Thou hast done evil in taking this man, who is
a stranger. I spare thee because thou didst sustain for ignorance.
Go back to thy village. If thou breakest this my
law that moment thou diest go.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
That night we were moved to the Queen's quarters. Leo
recovered rapidly, but he still was weak from the fever.
Job and I were with him, and the soul was
Asia when he awoke from a deep sleep.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Reading to THEE, my young stranger Lord. Had I not
save thee, thou wouldst never have stood on my feet again.
But the danger is done, and it shall be my
care that it dost return no more.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Thank you, you are she who must be obeyed.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yes, my name is Asia. Tomorrow all will be explained
to THEE.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
For now, my stranger lord, heh well, what happened to you? See,
Uncle Holly, I I am forbidden to say, forbidden by
whom that mad woman dressed like a mummy, and tend
to find out what happened to you? Seen?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
If you persist, vill, you may be the death of her.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
What why?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
We may find out.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Later, My boy, she's high precious here, mister Leo and
the Lord high executioner. Job's right, Leo, Let's not anticipate
what might happen if we anger Asia, or if she
knows why we have come to this savage place, our
lives are forfeit, but your steem is gone. It does
you credit to be concerned about her. I have a
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right of duty, in fact, to find her or to
have her disappearance explained, not.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
In defiance of Asia, she who must be obeyed.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You now believe than what we read on the potshd
I do impossible? As it is, this woman has lived
thousands of years. She is all powerful. With a toss
of her arms she can kill. Contain your concern.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
We must be careful or we will never escape from court.
Who is to say that this marvelous adventure contains no
truth whatsoever?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The world, even as we know it, contains remote, hidden
places where life exists Apart from our civilization. Much of
Africa still is shrouded in mystery. Back in eighteen eighty five,
the mystery was even darker. What happens next to hally,
Leo and Joe will be revealed shortly when our return
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with Act three. Since time first was recorded, there have
been many civilizations, many about which we know nothing. Even
today we read about unknown cultures and customs. Early Ethiopian man,
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for example, who dates back three million years. Who then
can dismiss the possibility of the cave city of Kor,
where Horace, Holly, Leo, Vincey, and Job are the uneasy
guests of Asia, she who must be obeyed. Haley continues
his narration. That same night, Eustine, in defiance of facious banishment,
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visited us to see Leo. The visit was foreseen by Asia,
who appeared stood very erect, stretched out her arm, and
Eusteine gave a piercing scream and fell down dead. Leo
sprang at Asia, but she put out.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Her hand and he fell back.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Forgive me, my friend, if I have shot you with justice,
forgive thee that scene heaven.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I will kill THEE if I can't. Thou dost not
understand thou art.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
My love, my calicrities.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
For two thousand years have I waited for THEE, and
now at last thou hast come back to me in
a lie.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
My Mamy buck alycrities, I'm reofancy.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
You have been reborn, and art mine my own, dear lord.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I had sooner been lord of a being from hell,
for she would be better than thurs.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yet within a very short time, thou wilt creep to
my knee and say that thou dost love me? Let
us put it to the proof.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Oh, she's taken off their shroudshirt. Heaven help us, Ah,
great Heaven.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Art thou woman and thine own calicrities. But thou art
a murdering It is not come.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Come to me. She was irresistible.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Leo was hypnotized by her striking beauty, as I had been,
and he declared his love for her. I knew then
that we had lost any chance of returning to England
and home. Asia then led us to a tomb, where,
to our amazement, the man who had been calicrites lay
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perfectly preserved. He and Leo looked exactly alike.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
She kissed the forehead of the corpse.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Sprinkled some white powder on him, and he disintegranted into dust.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
It was horrifying.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Prepare thee for.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
A great adventure. We go to the Temple of Truth.
To reach it, we climb a mountain, descend and cross
the Bottomles Volcano, where the winds howl, until we reached
the cave that contains the spirit of life.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
And their are calibrities.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Thou shalt bathe in the pillar of fire and live
with me eternally.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Oh, the Lord, preserve me, sir.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I can't even imagine what Tom saying, a wall of
fire roaring from the end of the cave, like a
forest being swept flat by a mighty wind.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
I can't stand to watch it come by again.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Look so the queen's this robing.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
What a magnificent woman she looks.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Divine caliprity, Do thou likewise together we shall bathe in
the pillar of fire.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Pasia, I cannot, I feel, exclaims.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Tell me, my caliprites. If thou see, if me stand
in the flame and come forth unharmed, wilt thou also
enter it? Even if explaining I will ever now, and
that will I also?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Howdy?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I thought I care not for length of day.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I do now I desire to taste of the flame
a limo.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
See now I will for the second time staithe in
this living bass.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Horn, the swing coaching hair in the beauty is indescribable.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Uncle ah.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Hook, she turning up es shine, will dying desolutely, have
did this on myself.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
On again, and yet more?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I sway.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Ad how guess to hurry? I feel faith through all
the fire.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
He had collapsed.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
When we recovered, we discovered that Job had died from
the shock. The problem now was how to escape.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
She had left Billalai and his gods at the base
of the mountain. After many hours of gping in the dark.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
We reached the edge of the gorge. What if Blalai
and the guards had left.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
All in good time? If they've gone, we are done.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
For only the Amahaga tribe know how to find their
way through the swamps to the river, and they're still there, Uncle,
stopping it, Lear, what is it our predicament?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Can we lie to Billali about the truth?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
He has fond of you? Uncle, tell him the truth
and take our chance. I agree. If we don't tell
him the truth, he will wonder about she and Job. Yes,
I'll confide in him.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
She who must be obeyed is dead, even in death, Leo.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Hana, even dead, I could love no other woman.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Welcome, oh Holley, thou hast been in the mountain a
long time. And look haggard and the lion, the man
thou callest Leo. His mane was the color of corn,
and now.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Is white like snow. We have had an awful adventure.
And she who must be obeyed dead, and job too.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Dead impossible, she who never dies dead?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
How can it be in good time? Bellally?
Speaker 5 (35:53):
But if this is true, then that danger is very great.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Hug. My children hate thee as strangers.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Can we escape from this country?
Speaker 5 (36:05):
It is very difficult. By way of core he cannot pass.
Speaker 8 (36:10):
But there is a way over the cliff where they
drive the cattle for pasture. Beyond our three days through
the marshes, and then seven days to the river by
dawn tomorrow, and through the marshes beyond this I will do.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I will say, it is the word I'll see.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
And beyond the mosses you must strike.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Out with your own hands.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
And it is seven days to the river through the jungle.
Can we survive with courage and good fortune?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Perhaps, Leo, it's our own sands, oh and rad to
be the last of the Amahagger child. If we should
get home, no one would believe what we've expet And
if it is a big word. We have our guns
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and express rifles, and the compass and ammunition about two
hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
We can give a good accounting of ourselves.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
We head west.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yes, we must strike out for the Zambizi, and hope
we make it there. We might be picked up, poor job, yes,
poor old beggar. If we reach home, we must.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Have a service performed for him. God bless it so well.
Let's set out there plaid, carry a gun at the ready.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Remember we're the hunted.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I will not trouble you with our struggle to survive.
But survived we did, miraculously. We reached the Zambize one
hundred and seventy miles away and turn the southward.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
The last we escaped and reached de'l go Abbey. Eighteen
months after.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
We had emerged from the marshes of Core, we caught
one of the steamboats that round the cape to England,
and at last sighted Southampton. Back again in our rooms,
no one will believe your history if she who must
be obeyed, Uncle, we know it to be true, Leo.
And of course we still have the iron chest and
the lighting on a patchard.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I have wondered something, Leo, for a very long time.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Is it possible that you are really the reincarnation of caliquities?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Always?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Is her deceived by some strange hereditary resemblance. I don't
know she has had a revenge, of course, has she?
That assumes that she is dead. We saw her disintegrate, Leo,
so we did, but somehow, well, it sounds foolish before.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I say it, uncle, what are you thinking?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Caliquity is married the royal Princess Amonatus, But was he
really destined for Asia? And I am somewhere somehow to
meet Asia again, Asia reborn as I was reborn as
Leo Vincey, who is also Calliquities.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
You do believe that you are Calliquities reborn?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I do.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
So do I.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
After what we went through, I cannot settle back into
life in Cambridge. Then after I've finished the history of
our adventure, we'll close up and leave.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
I suggest Tibet. And that is what we are about
to do.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
If le'll there return from our wanderings into Tibet, I
will record them for you. The world is still fel
filled with the undiscovered. In the Miraculous for Lal, goodbye
and bless you. And there's Horace Holly's account of a
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search with Leo Vincey to find the woman who murdered
his ancestor Callacrites in the year three thirty nine BC,
and who herself perished in eighteen eighty five in the
Pillar of Fire. Ally and Leo were never heard from again.
They did leave England for the interior of Tibet and
vanished I'll be back shortly. Real Mystery Theater was sponsored
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Speaker 1 (40:44):
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Speaker 2 (40:45):
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And I preside over these tales of the macab All
of them are strange and frightening because you have joined
me in a shadowy world. Here we encountered you at
normal sounds that go bump in the night, experiences in
esp apparitions, all manner of the unexplained. I have a
tale to share which begins innocently and then turns into terror.
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It begins in the year eighteen eighty five. Ludrith Horace Holly,
a student at Cambridge University, is alone in his rooms
at midnight. He closes his book and rarely leans back
in his chair. Heavens, I can't imagine anyone calling on
me at this hour.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Who is it? Visit the open up.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
To Nahan Holly.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I am boxed here.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Let me have it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Waits a long time for what is it?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Proof of murder? Committed over two thousand years to go.
Our Mystery Story is an adaptation of She from the
classic by h Writer Haggard.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Written especially for.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Mystery theater by Roy Windsor, It stars Gordon Gold and
Gordon Heath. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor
Division and Contact the twelve hour cold capsule.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I'll be back shortly with Act one.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Henry Ryder Haggard, the author, was a Victorian gentleman who
once remarked to a friend that Treasure Island was not
so very remarkable, and accepted a bet that he could
not write anything half so good. In six weeks he
had written King Solomon's Minds, which became a worldwide bestseller.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Shortly thereafter he wrote She.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Again in six weeks. It is the story of She
who must be obeyed, and it is through Horace Holly
that we experience the terrifying adventure. I was twenty two
at the time, studying at Cambridge for a fellowship which
I was certain of being awarded.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
The old friend I had was M. L Didncy, who
was about thirty and wealthy. And there he was at
midnight in my rooms.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Leaning with his hands on a small table, looking very ill.
His gaze fastened on a small iron bark, which somehow
he had carried through the quadrangle and up to my quarters. No, no, Brandy,
I'm a dying man. Holley, No sen and it's it's
it's the truth.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Let me go for a job.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
No, no use, I I haven't much time. Listen to
me as you've never listened to anyone before. What do
you know about me? The old rich came here to
Cambridge to study years after most men. O blessed, and
that you were married, and that you've been the best,
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indeed the only friend I ever had. Did you know
that I have a son? No, I have. He is
five years old. He cost me his mother's life. I
have never seen him since Holley. If you will accept
the trust, I'm going to leave you the boy's soul guardian.
What I've known for some time that I could not last.
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I had been searching for someone in whom to confide
about the boy and this this iron chest. But my dear,
you know hear me out. My son Leo is the
last descendant of one of the most ancient families on Earth.
His sixty fifth lineal ancestor was an Egyptian priest of
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weak origin named Caliquities who was murdered in three thirty
nine BC.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Cour Lord twenty two hundred years ago. Yes, and you
and Leo are the risk descendence of his Is.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Caliquities was a priest of Isis at the time of
the fall of the Pharaohs. He broke his vow of
celibacy and fled to Egypt with a royal princess. Her
name was Amanatas. M what's the significance of what you've
told me?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You know Latin?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
What the the name Lundcy suggests to you? Well, it
could be a corruption of Vindecks, meaning avenger, the avenger
of Caliqrity and avenger who has waited for more than
two thousand years.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Honey, are sorry to.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Be dull witted, but vengeance against whom it is explained
in the contents of the iron chest. You are not
to open it. All I will tell you is that
Callocrities and Amanatas fled from Egypt into the kingdom of
a mighty queen.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
She fell in love with him and murdered him. Why
because he.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Would not give up Amanatus. She escaped to Greece, where
she bore a son named in Greek the Avenger of
Good heaven Man.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That was centuries ago.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
The mighty Queen is still alive.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Oh, that's impossible, I once thought so.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Oh, But after attempting to find her kingdom in the
heart of Central Africa, I am convinced that she still lives.
It is an impenetrable, undiscovered country. I sailed to reach it,
and the attempt broke my health. And this iron chest,
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when Leo is twenty five, he is to open it
and to decide what to do about its contents. I
see your skeptical howey I am. Will you undertake this trust, Holley,
to keep this iron chest? And when Leo is twenty five.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Up on her death? Yes, God willing, that won't be
for you.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
God has willed it otherwise I will be dead by morning.
And the next morning Fancy was dead, and I became
the god.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You know this five year old Leo was at delight for.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Golden hair, little boy. We got along from the first
I had my fellowship, and we moved out of my
college to comfortable quarters nearby. I had employed a brown
faced young man named Job as nurse, and the intervening
years were wonderful for all of us. Before we realized it,
Leo was twenty five. And this is a momentous day,
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Uncle Holly. It's your birthday. That moment I was thinking
about the iron chest that you did being at London.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yes, with the keys.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Huh, shall we have Joe in for the dramatic opening?
Joe come in here, we're about to open the iron chests.
Or I've been looking forward to this occasion for years, Uncle,
hasn't he thinks it's all nonsense?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Don't you not your history, Leo.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
It's remarkable to be able to trace your roots to
a priest of Isis in the course of the last fellow,
but the queen who was over two thousand years old rubbish.
You can understand my skepticism. Erki oh yess a wooden park,
she'd shie it ebony. And here among the fiber packing
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is a letter addressed to Julio. That's a rolled up
parchment in their uncle. It's in Vincey's handwriting, and it's
a translation of the Greek writing on this potsherd, this
fragment of a broken irbin pot And isn't that a scarabus?
A scarab looks like a bato it, Sir Jem cut
to look like a beetle, which the ancient Egyptians regarded
as a symbol of resurrection and immortality. Jo Bah the
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letters from my father. The strange legend is on the potsd.
He determined to investigate its truth. He said to the
coast of Africa, some distance north of where his Ambusy
river falls into the sea, and where there is a
headland shaped like a man's head. He learned that far
inland there a great mountain shaped like cups and surrounded
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by swamps. Was there that he became ill and had
to turn back.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Kenry.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
That's written on apatud Uncle. I'll try now I know
why Vincey insisted on both of a fternalraby. Does your
father say anything about that fabled queen which he says
here it is? I do not believe this is a feeble.
There is a spark where the vital forces of the
world exist. If you find it, you would be ever young,
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defying time and evil. Trant to fort anapatad Uncle. It's
from Anonotus of the Royal House of the Pharaohs, who
fled with his calicrites, wandered for twelve moons on the
shores of Libya.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
They found the headland shaped like a man's.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Head, were captured by a wild tribe and taken to
a horror mountain to their queen, who led them to
the pillar of fire. There she stepped into it and
emerged unharmed and yet more beautiful. Why did you make
a calliquities. The queen invited him to step into the flames,
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but he would not, and Amonatus tells him to seek
out that queen and to slay her bathe in the
purr of fire and learn the secret of life. I'm
going to do it, Uncle Leo. You can't be serious.
You don't believe it's nonsense. I have to find out.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Uncle.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I realize now that all my life has been pointed
to this moment. I have all the money I need.
I'm young and strong and good hunter, and my name
is Dincy.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I must go.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Uncle. Well, if you're going to chase this centom, I
just might go along for her shooting.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Always wanted to hunt a big game. May Joe, you
might be the death of me.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Say, but even most you gentlemen are going You're You'll
want Summer to look after you. And I'm not the
man that researcher. After serving it for twenty years at Dato,
Africa swamped magic periods of fire, not so great sare
we must be mad? And so we left England for
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a coast of Africa and the Zambizi we had transferred
to a dow An Arab Latin rigged ship with a
long forward overhang and an open waist, and it was
the latter that did her in.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
With the rising wind, we had.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Bordered the specially built whaleboat which we had attached to
the ship. The wind grew to a gale, and the
storm drove our ship onto the breakers and destroyed it.
We had cut free in the whaleboat, rescued the tillerman
Mohammad from the wild seas, and managed to row to
the basin of a narrow, quiet river. And then at dawn,
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Oh Lord, love me to far cry from civilization. Do
not tear hands in water, say crack a diile and
like to pat one uncle.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Look down you are mean.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
If they didn't kring a beast himself in the world,
he's been spears and look behind him our gun do
God no ho fire. Hundreds of natives far years they
haven't attacked us, and perhaps they can lead us where
we want to go over my.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Varsh, Professor Uri later Jobe.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
We come as friends, I say, we are friends. Come
to the shore still a Thermohammad. There is quiet as
cats and some mental good features. Peace.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Who are you who comes swimming on the water, speak
or you die?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
We are travelers and have come here by chance.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
You are white four sons ago.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
She who must be your bed, commanded that if white
men come, do not slay them, but bring them to her.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Shammad, our boatman comes, so be it.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I am Bilalah, chief of the Yamahadar of the Kingdom
of core. We Sir, she who must be obeyed, You
will come ashore.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You will not be harmed.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
My warriors will bring thy possessions.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Uncle, you don't suppose that she could be I suppose.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Nothing, My boy.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
We are captives, but we're unharmed, and we have our guns.
They may not even know what they are.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
We must show no fear.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
You are my guests. You are protected by she. Do
not incite my people. They might transgress. They have a
ritual that is most unpleasant.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And who oh Belalah is she.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Thou wilt learn soon enough if it be her pleasure
to see you in the flesh.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
We were carried to a vast cup of green, a green.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Pasture at the bottom of a volcanic combe. The Amahagas
lived in caves on its rim. Balally set out to
inform his queen about our arrival. The night he was
expected to return, I'd feel worried. What's troubling you.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Uncle mischief? Have your revolvers ready.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
And have my knife arm arm Sir, what mischief?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Professor? Watch the ritual down below. Notice the pot.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
It's red hot. My guess is it's being prepared for
someone cook. Two men are holding Mohammed and another is
trying him up with.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
A long moose.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Siah, help all green a white hot pot.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Down on it.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You hate one of the men, Sir, and Mohammad is
down too.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
One part the coming off fire.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
It will those devils won't take me alive. You won't
been hit with a spear pass a bad professor?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Follow me, take you a lot for it job. I'm
saving mine. I won't be taken alive.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
A small iron chest containing a father's legacy, a tale
of revenge for the murder of callequities dead over two
thousand years, and a young descendant who is determined to
slay the queen who.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Murdered his ancestors.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
These are the elements from this story of She White
Writer hanged, a nineteenth century writer whose remarkable imagination created
this incredible adventure. When I returned with up two, we
will learn who has survived the attack by the Amahaga tribe.
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Our small party is far upstream and many miles inland,
in a hidden country shaped like a huge cup, the
base of an extinct volcano above and lining the green fields.
Our caves dug deep into the mountain sides. This is
the kingdom of kor Horace. Holly continues his narration, Oh, children,
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I had no doubt that we were dead men. When
as suddenly as the attack had begun, it ended because Billali,
the chief, returned from his mission to she ye.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Shall be punished. She who must be obeyed, commanded that
these strangers be unharmed and brought to her. At dawn
we much to her palace there are punishment will.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Be made known to you.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
It was a march of several days before we entered
the cave city.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Of korn Job.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Leo and I were settled into a huge vault. Leo
was feverish from his spioned, and a woman named Eustine
attended him. Sure, yes, Job, I can't get it through
my head, SHERIM about the woman you mean?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
The day before we attack.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
This woman Eustine came up to Leo and embraced him,
and he kissed her Hi. According to custom, they are
now married.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Who he don't cost them.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
But I don't like any part of it, or for
that matter, these knight egens and these.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Caved went let me feel like I'm in a tomb. Uncle, Holly, Yes,
my boy, where are we?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Uncle?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
In the city of cor He still had fever.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I shall make him well.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Eustine's being very good to me.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
You are my husband.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
If I cannot make you well, I shall plead with
she who must be obeyed, and you will be safe.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
More magic, Who is she? You seen, our mighty queen?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
What is she like?
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
No, one knows.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
No one has ever seen her. Nay, but she does exist.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I she has really called for thousands of years.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Holly, it's the same woman who. Yes, but we won't
talk about it. We are merely travelers, uncles. If they
knew the reason for our visit, we'd be dead in minutes.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You seen, eh?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Everyone in Kare lives in these caves.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
I and the dead live on with us.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The dead live on with us, preserve forever as mummies
in their natural state.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
A stranger, how is it possible to preserve? Only she knows?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
She is all powerful.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I bring good news Sir Harry, she who must be
a bed, We'll see you now.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Bilali led me to a huge anti chamber about by
forty feet at the far end of the street. Room
was a curtained doorway. Two women pulled the curtains aside,
and Billali went down on his hands and knees down.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Sir Harry, down, we an taught our presence for she.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I halted afraid, but I remained standing. And then she
came through the door, cut it from head to toe
with a thummy kind of cloth. I stared at the figure,
even though clothed, I could tell that she was an
unbelievably beautiful young woman.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Why art thou so frightened? Stranger?
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Is there that about me.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
That should a fight a man?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
It is thy beauty that makes me fear, o Queen,
I see that men still know how to beguile women
with false words.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
How do they call you in thine own country, stranger?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
They call me Holly, oh queen, and I am Asia.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Follow me.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
It was a small room ten by twelve with a
couch and table. The air was perfumed. At the end
of the couch stood a font with water in it.
She motioned me to the couch, and she sat close
to me.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
As yet ye have no cause to fear me. How
comest thou speak Arabic, my own dear tongue.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I have studied it. It is a language still spoken
in Egypt.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
There is still in Egypt that fellow sit upon the throne.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
The Persians have gone from Egypt.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
And the Romans and Greece.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I love the Greek nurse.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
There is a Greece and the Hebrews. They are broken
and scattered.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I am bewildered, Oh, Queen, thou.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Speakest about thousands of years ago? Thou otto woman? Not
a spirit?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
How can a woman live thousands of years? Y? Dost
thou fool me?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Dost thou wonder how I knew you were coming? And
save your heads from the hot pot? I O, queen,
gaze upon the water in that font.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I I see Leo job myself forehammed in the warribolt
on it that narrow river?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
If its magic?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Not magic, stranger, but the knowledge of the secrets of nature?
Tell me about this youth, Leo.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
He is very sick. Canst thou do nothing for him?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Is he perchance thy son, my adopted son.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Have a surety? I can kill him who nurses.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Him my manservant job and the woman who embraced him
and had stayed with him, because I understand it is
a fashion of thy people.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Her name is Eustine hast.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Thou aught to ask me before you go, O, Holly.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
One thing, Oh Asia, I would gaze upon thy face.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Behold, I gazed at her face and shrank back, blinded
and amazed.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I cannot describe No man could her great.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Changing eyes of deepest softest black, her delicate straight features.
Even more, her beauty lay in a visible majestic Christman.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Where didst thou get that scarub on my hand?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I picked it up?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Oh queen, it's very strange.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Once I knew a scarab like that, it hung round
the neck of the one I love.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Huh, girl, do now?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Later, I shall attend to your sick LEO, go, what's
the queen like?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Ucle? Terrifying? It must be a hoax. I cannot have
been talking with.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
A woman over two thousand years old. She cannot be mortal,
and the scarb she recognized the cleo. It hung from
the neck of the only man she has ever loved. Callicrities. Yes,
in the legend, ain't a legend.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But the truth.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Unless I'm mad, We're in a pickle, and a professor
without doubt atobe, I can't see our way out of
this hidious place. We could never find our way back
to the whaleboat. You think sure that has sheen? The
scarab is donishin worse than that, I don't get your share.
That scab hung around the neck of caliqrites in three
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hundred and thirty nine BC. It is twenty one hundred
years old. It holds our fate and Lio's is shaman commsieur.
Oh look a woman valued from her to foot woken corpse.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
If she iss your that's her name.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I have recovered. Now, oh hai, where is this deal
of yours?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
And this woman?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
If she Eustine did her Lili?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Thus Eusteine is not willing.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
To leave Leo.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
It is surely the right of a wife to be
near her husband when he dieth door. This Leo has
a noble thou dark, Why didst thou hide this family?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
For what? But chance?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Thou didst not know?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
These lies?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
My lost caliprities.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
He has come back to me at last.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I knew he wrote come look good to this Unless
thou art able to help him. Is sheer? He will die?
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Oo?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Why did I not come before here?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Take a silent poets liquid down his throat? If he'll
kill him? Swiss now, swist.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I forced the liquid down Leo's throat. He gave a
convulsive shudder and began to breathe more easily. As I
watched Leo restored.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
To life, my thoughts were very black.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Indeed, Asha had waited centuries for this moment, the return
of calicuities.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
She was unlikely to give up. We were doomed.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
We would end our days in the hideous kingdom of Koor.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
A day later, you told.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Me, Harry, that this womanly scheme is married to Leo.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
That I am told is the custom of the embrace
and its return, monsieur, Then she must die? What for
what crime?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
She stands between me and my beloved?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
But she is innocent of any wrongdoing?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
All to me.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Is my lord it No, he.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Lives, you seem she hath saved him.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Thou hast done evil in taking this man, who is
a stranger. I spare thee because thou didst sustain for ignorance.
Go back to thy village. If thou breakest this my
law that moment thou diest go.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
That night we were moved to the Queen's quarters. Leo
recovered rapidly, but he still was weak from the fever.
Job and I were with him, and the soul was
Asia when he awoke from a deep sleep.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Reading to THEE, my young stranger Lord. Had I not
save thee, thou wouldst never have stood on my feet again.
But the danger is done, and it shall be my
care that it dost return no more.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Thank you, you are she who must be obeyed.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yes, my name is Asia. Tomorrow all will be explained
to THEE.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
For now, my stranger lord, heh well, what happened to you? See,
Uncle Holly, I I am forbidden to say, forbidden by
whom that mad woman dressed like a mummy, and tend
to find out what happened to you? Seen?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
If you persist, vill, you may be the death of her.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
What why?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
We may find out.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Later, My boy, she's high precious here, mister Leo and
the Lord high executioner. Job's right, Leo, Let's not anticipate
what might happen if we anger Asia, or if she
knows why we have come to this savage place, our
lives are forfeit, but your steem is gone. It does
you credit to be concerned about her. I have a
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right of duty, in fact, to find her or to
have her disappearance explained, not.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
In defiance of Asia, she who must be obeyed.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You now believe than what we read on the potshd
I do impossible? As it is, this woman has lived
thousands of years. She is all powerful. With a toss
of her arms she can kill. Contain your concern.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
We must be careful or we will never escape from court.
Who is to say that this marvelous adventure contains no
truth whatsoever?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The world, even as we know it, contains remote, hidden
places where life exists Apart from our civilization. Much of
Africa still is shrouded in mystery. Back in eighteen eighty five,
the mystery was even darker. What happens next to hally,
Leo and Joe will be revealed shortly when our return
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with Act three. Since time first was recorded, there have
been many civilizations, many about which we know nothing. Even
today we read about unknown cultures and customs. Early Ethiopian man,
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for example, who dates back three million years. Who then
can dismiss the possibility of the cave city of Kor,
where Horace, Holly, Leo, Vincey, and Job are the uneasy
guests of Asia, she who must be obeyed. Haley continues
his narration. That same night, Eustine, in defiance of facious banishment,
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visited us to see Leo. The visit was foreseen by Asia,
who appeared stood very erect, stretched out her arm, and
Eusteine gave a piercing scream and fell down dead. Leo
sprang at Asia, but she put out.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Her hand and he fell back.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Forgive me, my friend, if I have shot you with justice,
forgive thee that scene heaven.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I will kill THEE if I can't. Thou dost not
understand thou art.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
My love, my calicrities.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
For two thousand years have I waited for THEE, and
now at last thou hast come back to me in
a lie.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
My Mamy buck alycrities, I'm reofancy.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
You have been reborn, and art mine my own, dear lord.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I had sooner been lord of a being from hell,
for she would be better than thurs.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yet within a very short time, thou wilt creep to
my knee and say that thou dost love me? Let
us put it to the proof.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Oh, she's taken off their shroudshirt. Heaven help us, Ah,
great Heaven.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Art thou woman and thine own calicrities. But thou art
a murdering It is not come.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Come to me. She was irresistible.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Leo was hypnotized by her striking beauty, as I had been,
and he declared his love for her. I knew then
that we had lost any chance of returning to England
and home. Asia then led us to a tomb, where,
to our amazement, the man who had been calicrites lay
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perfectly preserved. He and Leo looked exactly alike.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
She kissed the forehead of the corpse.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Sprinkled some white powder on him, and he disintegranted into dust.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
It was horrifying.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Prepare thee for.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
A great adventure. We go to the Temple of Truth.
To reach it, we climb a mountain, descend and cross
the Bottomles Volcano, where the winds howl, until we reached
the cave that contains the spirit of life.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
And their are calibrities.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Thou shalt bathe in the pillar of fire and live
with me eternally.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Oh, the Lord, preserve me, sir.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I can't even imagine what Tom saying, a wall of
fire roaring from the end of the cave, like a
forest being swept flat by a mighty wind.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
I can't stand to watch it come by again.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Look so the queen's this robing.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
What a magnificent woman she looks.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Divine caliprity, Do thou likewise together we shall bathe in
the pillar of fire.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Pasia, I cannot, I feel, exclaims.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Tell me, my caliprites. If thou see, if me stand
in the flame and come forth unharmed, wilt thou also
enter it? Even if explaining I will ever now, and
that will I also?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Howdy?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I thought I care not for length of day.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I do now I desire to taste of the flame
a limo.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
See now I will for the second time staithe in
this living bass.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Horn, the swing coaching hair in the beauty is indescribable.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Uncle ah.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Hook, she turning up es shine, will dying desolutely, have
did this on myself.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
On again, and yet more?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I sway.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Ad how guess to hurry? I feel faith through all
the fire.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
He had collapsed.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
When we recovered, we discovered that Job had died from
the shock. The problem now was how to escape.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
She had left Billalai and his gods at the base
of the mountain. After many hours of gping in the dark.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
We reached the edge of the gorge. What if Blalai
and the guards had left.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
All in good time? If they've gone, we are done.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
For only the Amahaga tribe know how to find their
way through the swamps to the river, and they're still there, Uncle,
stopping it, Lear, what is it our predicament?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Can we lie to Billali about the truth?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
He has fond of you? Uncle, tell him the truth
and take our chance. I agree. If we don't tell
him the truth, he will wonder about she and Job. Yes,
I'll confide in him.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
She who must be obeyed is dead, even in death, Leo.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Hana, even dead, I could love no other woman.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Welcome, oh Holley, thou hast been in the mountain a
long time. And look haggard and the lion, the man
thou callest Leo. His mane was the color of corn,
and now.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Is white like snow. We have had an awful adventure.
And she who must be obeyed dead, and job too.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Dead impossible, she who never dies dead?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
How can it be in good time? Bellally?
Speaker 5 (35:53):
But if this is true, then that danger is very great.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Hug. My children hate thee as strangers.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Can we escape from this country?
Speaker 5 (36:05):
It is very difficult. By way of core he cannot pass.
Speaker 8 (36:10):
But there is a way over the cliff where they
drive the cattle for pasture. Beyond our three days through
the marshes, and then seven days to the river by
dawn tomorrow, and through the marshes beyond this I will do.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I will say, it is the word I'll see.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
And beyond the mosses you must strike.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Out with your own hands.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
And it is seven days to the river through the jungle.
Can we survive with courage and good fortune?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Perhaps, Leo, it's our own sands, oh and rad to
be the last of the Amahagger child. If we should
get home, no one would believe what we've expet And
if it is a big word. We have our guns
(37:03):
and express rifles, and the compass and ammunition about two
hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
We can give a good accounting of ourselves.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
We head west.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yes, we must strike out for the Zambizi, and hope
we make it there. We might be picked up, poor job, yes,
poor old beggar. If we reach home, we must.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Have a service performed for him. God bless it so well.
Let's set out there plaid, carry a gun at the ready.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Remember we're the hunted.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I will not trouble you with our struggle to survive.
But survived we did, miraculously. We reached the Zambize one
hundred and seventy miles away and turn the southward.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
The last we escaped and reached de'l go Abbey. Eighteen
months after.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
We had emerged from the marshes of Core, we caught
one of the steamboats that round the cape to England,
and at last sighted Southampton. Back again in our rooms,
no one will believe your history if she who must
be obeyed, Uncle, we know it to be true, Leo.
And of course we still have the iron chest and
the lighting on a patchard.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I have wondered something, Leo, for a very long time.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Is it possible that you are really the reincarnation of caliquities?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Always?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Is her deceived by some strange hereditary resemblance. I don't
know she has had a revenge, of course, has she?
That assumes that she is dead. We saw her disintegrate, Leo,
so we did, but somehow, well, it sounds foolish before.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I say it, uncle, what are you thinking?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Caliquity is married the royal Princess Amonatus, But was he
really destined for Asia? And I am somewhere somehow to
meet Asia again, Asia reborn as I was reborn as
Leo Vincey, who is also Calliquities.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
You do believe that you are Calliquities reborn?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I do.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
So do I.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
After what we went through, I cannot settle back into
life in Cambridge. Then after I've finished the history of
our adventure, we'll close up and leave.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
I suggest Tibet. And that is what we are about
to do.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
If le'll there return from our wanderings into Tibet, I
will record them for you. The world is still fel
filled with the undiscovered. In the Miraculous for Lal, goodbye
and bless you. And there's Horace Holly's account of a
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search with Leo Vincey to find the woman who murdered
his ancestor Callacrites in the year three thirty nine BC,
and who herself perished in eighteen eighty five in the
Pillar of Fire. Ally and Leo were never heard from again.
They did leave England for the interior of Tibet and
vanished I'll be back shortly. Real Mystery Theater was sponsored
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Speaker 1 (40:44):
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Speaker 2 (40:45):
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