November 15, 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 present I'm welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm E. G.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
When the sheltered ladies of the nineteenth century took up
their pens, many extraordinary and suspenseful.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Tales were put down on paper.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I've always had the feeling that these writers' lives, sometimes
very brief, were filled with nightmares. The literary bent seemed
to run in families, none more memorable than the Brownties.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yet Charlotte, Emily.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And Anne had trouble finding a publisher. They wrote under
assumed names, since womens were dismissed as too gentle or
frivolous to be taken seriously, and the Bronchi sisters wrote
heady stuff. Passion runs rampant in their novels, and an
English moor at night is one of their favorite settings.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Mister Heathcliff, mister.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Heathcliff, go back, Lily, get out of the graveyard.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You must not disturb the dead.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
You didn't believe me, did you. I'll show you.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Catherine, Catherine, my love.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
You thought you could leave me, never neverly.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Let me rid the world to my find a way.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Our mystery drama Weathering Heights was adapted from the Emily
Bronte Classing especially for the Mystery theater by Elizabeth Pennell
and stars Paul hect. It is sponsored in part by
Contact the twelve Hour Cold Capsule and Greyhounds Package Express.
I'll be back shortly with that one. Mister Earnshaw, master
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of Weathering Heights, was a kindly man with a reputation
for adapting stray waifes.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Over the years, he.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Returned from London or Liverpool with surprising additions to the family.
One was Nellie Dean, who has become the Earnshaw's housekeeper.
But most upsetting to the household was mister Earnshaw's arrival
with a dirty, black haired boy who seemed more animals
than human, an abandoned child picked up.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
On the streets.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Mister Earnshaw turned him over to Nelly.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
I wanted nothing to do with that dreadful little boy,
so I left him on the landing of the stairs,
hoping he'd be gone by morning. But he crawled to
mister Earnshaw's door and lay there like a dog.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Nelly, Nelly, Dame, Yes, sir, what's the meaning of this?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Why Why isn't this boy with the other children? They
would not let him enter their room.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Take him there at once. He's going to be their brother.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Mister Earnshaw christened the boy Heathcliff after a child who
died in infancy, just Heathcliff. He neglected to give him
his surname, and the master's son hated him from the beginning.
Missus Earnshaw died when the children were young, and heaven knows,
I had my hands full. Although I warned toward Heathcliff,
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the other two drove me frantic with their demands, but
he was uncomplaining as a lamb. I was on his
side when Hindley attacked himself.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
I suppose my father gave you the biggest horse.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
He said I could take whichever I wanted.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
So naturally you took the bed.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
All right, all right, I did, But he's turned lame.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I don't like him anymore. Let's exchange.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I don't want a lame horse which horses with me,
or I'll tell your father about the three times you
eat me up this week.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Go ahead, only i'll give you more than bruises to show.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
I'll tell your father how you both.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
You'll get me out of the house as soon as he.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Dies, and I will too.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
He never belonged here.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I did not ask to come. Your father brought me.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
What a mistake that was.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I want your horse, he him.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
I hope he breaks your neck unless I break it first.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Too much of brains.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
I found him bruised, cotton bleeding, but oh so cool
and calm.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Your hurt, Heathcliff, go away.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
It was Hindley again, wasn't it on your business? Mister
Earnshaw will be angry.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I took Hindley's horse, and he's left with the lame one.
I got exactly what I wanted.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
That's how it was with Heathcliff and Hindley. But with
Hindley's sister it was something else. Catherine could charm a
statue and to bend into her will, and when Hindley
was sent off to college, she had her way with
all of us.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I've waited for you for more than an hour.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Didn't mind waiting, did you, Heathcliff, Not really.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I always mind.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
But it's been heaven these past months, you and me
and all this beautiful more, with no nasty brother to
too meant either one of us.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I don't know why Hindley has all the luck.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
But we're the lucky ones.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Hendley's gone to college, and I'm the one who needs
a book learning.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I never even been to school.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Well I have, and I'll teach you all.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I know that's not enough.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Your father owes me an education, all right.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
He gives you anything you want. Let's go and ask him.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
He's always in the big room by the fire at
this time of the day, in.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
That same old chair where he pretends to read. But
I know he's sleeping.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'll awaken no, let me.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
He may be grumpy father, father. Is something wrong, mister Earnshaw.
His hand is so cold in his eyes. My father's dead.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Yeah, mister Earnshaw was dead, and Hindley not only came
home for the funeral, but he brought a young wife
with him, a silly little thing without a brain in
her head. And Hindley announced they had come to stay.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
All right, you two, I guess you know who's giving
the orders around here.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Now.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
It isn't too bad, is it? He'th CLIs.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
I work in the fields like a slave.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
But Hindley stays out of your way.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
He's banished me to a room worse than a servants quarters.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
But out here we're free. I'll right across the moor.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Have you ever been in that house over there?
Speaker 8 (07:41):
No, but that's where the Lintons live. It's thraashcross grain.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Let's go look in the window, all right.
Speaker 8 (07:48):
As long as they don't see her.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
What a pretty looking boy.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
That's Edgar. And he's a stuck up snob.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Who's a pale, stupid girl.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
His sister Isabella. They're always fighting. See he's pulling her hair.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
I don't blame him, are you glad?
Speaker 8 (08:06):
We don't live cooked up like that? Hat?
Speaker 9 (08:08):
Who's out there?
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Where?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Ghosts?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Where goes?
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Someone's trying to break in?
Speaker 9 (08:18):
Let the dog out run here?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Can't be take my hand, all right, I'll get an offer.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Get off there, Let go Why why you're an of course,
I'm a girl and your.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Dog is bitten her?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Who is it, Edgar?
Speaker 10 (08:37):
I think it's the girl from Weathering Heights.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
And I'm taking her home. Leave us alone.
Speaker 10 (08:41):
Her ankle is bleeding, and she looks as though she's
about to fame.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I can manage you. Go away.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
We know about you. You're that ignorant often going. You're
not welcome in our house.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
Go back to Weathering Heights.
Speaker 10 (08:54):
We'll take care of miss Earnshaw.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
She was close to thing, and I vowed not to
leave her, but they shut the door in my face.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
And where have you been since then?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I watched at the window and if Catherine had called me,
I would.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Have smashed it.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Are you sure she's all right?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
All right? I saw them bade their foot and bring her.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Cocoa and comb her beautiful hair and wrapper and have
been a big blank.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Oh well, I'm glad of that, Nellie.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
They treated her like a princess and she huh, she
purred like a kitten.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
She forgot that I existed.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
They kept Miss Catherine at Thrushcross Grange five weeks, right
up until the day before Christmas, when she was driven
to our door in the carriage and her brother greeted.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Her, this is my little sister.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Why cas Nelly come?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Look they've turned my sister into a lady.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Oh miss Catherine, you you do look grand?
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Hello Nelly, dear? Where's head?
Speaker 7 (09:59):
I saw I am linking around out there.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Heath Cliff, you may come and business.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Catherine welcome like the other servants.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
Darling, Heathcliff. Why how Closs you look? How funny and grim?
Speaker 7 (10:12):
Shake hands Heathcliff like a proper gentleman.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
I shall not. I cannot bear to be laughed at.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
With that, he.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Dashed out, and before long I heard him taking off.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Over the moors.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
He didn't appear until noon next day, when he came
to the kitchen. Well, Heathcliff, this is a fine way
to celebrate Christmas.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Help me get cleaned up, Nellie. If the Lintons are
coming for dinner, A show him. I can be a gentleman.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
What a beautiful Christmas table. I'm afraid we can't match
what you did for my sister.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You've you've tamed our little savage.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
Well, there's nothing savage about the enchanting Catherine.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
I'm delighted at the transformation and hungry.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
Isn't it time to eat? Set? I'm cool, servant boy.
He isn't joining us for dinner, is he?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
He's clear? What are you doing in here?
Speaker 8 (11:09):
By Hindley? He's part of the family, and doesn't he
look nice? I got away so as I could. Hels.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
You've been down there all evening dancing with him.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
Honestly, hethress. I was longing to be with you.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Oh, I'm not thinking about Edgar Linton. That's your brother.
I'm after I'm trying to figure out how to pay
Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I just hope he won't die before I do.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
Nellie, my sister in law is calling for you. I
think her time has come.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Poor thing. I scarcely think she can survive the birth
of her baby.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
Is it really that hard having baby?
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Oh? Good, heavens child. Not for a strapping young woman
like you. But missus Hindley, she has the consumption. Yes,
the baby was born, and the mother died, and now
mister Hindley was more of a tyrant than ever. In
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his inconsolable grief, he took to the brandy bottle, and
everyone stayed out of his path, except for me and
a nursemaid who tried to protect the child.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I swell, make my own child, yiss me wears a
little beat.
Speaker 10 (12:29):
Now bring me my son.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Take him to his room. The master's roaring drunk, and
I must hide his gun. He plays with it when
he seized with this insane madness.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yellow away from my gun, Nellie, d r would you
rather I take care of you with this carving knight?
Speaker 6 (12:49):
I'd rather be shot if you please everyone in this house.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I swear I burn it down if I the mind golif.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
About his work as he usual, Nelly, will you promise
to keep a secret?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (13:09):
It worth cheap and yes, but.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
It worries me. You must tell me what to do.
Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him, and I've
given him an answer.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Then why I asked my opinion.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
Because I've accepted him. He quick, Nelly, and say whether
I was wrong?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Do you love mister Edgar Linton?
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Of course I do. Why because he's handsome and pleasant
to be with.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
That's not a good answer.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Well, because he loves me and he will be rich
and I should like being the greatest lady of the neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Then why he looks so unhappy?
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Because in my heart I'm convinced that I'm wrong.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
That's very strange.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
I've no more business marrying Edgar Linton. And if my
brother had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have
thought of it.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Then why not change your mind?
Speaker 8 (14:04):
It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
There's some one in the shadows at the other end
of the room.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
It couldn't have been Heathcliff, could it, Nelly? He shall
never know how much I love him, not because he's handsome,
but because he's more myself than I am.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
He left the room when you said to marry him
would be degrading.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
No, Nelly, No, that wasn't Heathcliff. You told me he
was off in the field.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
I thought you was until I saw him behind the
couch over there in the shadows.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
He couldn't have overheard. He couldn't. I'll find him and
make sure.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
She ran out into the moor without a cloak. But
Heathcliff's horse was not on the stable, and no one
knew where he had gone. Catherine returned after midnight, in
the midst of a thunderstorm, soaked to the skin and
coming down with a severe tu missus trapping, And you
must let me head your tabath.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
He's gone, Nelly, he's gone. And my nightmares are coming true.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Always.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
You'll feel better when you've had some sleep.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
I'll never sleep again. I've been abandoned. Oh it's just
like my dreams. I saw myself tapping on the window, begging,
led me in, led me in a hush chuck, and
no one answered, and my hand broke through the glass,
and the blood was running down my arm. Oh, get
the blood's of Nelly, Get the blood facets off.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I told you those broady sisters wrote with passion. Who
knows what dark thoughts and desperate yearnings they gleamed from
their own lives. Emily's courage and endurance were tremendous, Yet
she only had time to write one book before she died,
like many of her characters of Consumption, at the age
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of thirty.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
We'll return with back too shortly.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Things have changed at Wuthering Heights. For three years there
was peace such as had not been known since old
mister Earnshaw's time. Catherine did marry at gir Linton, moved
to Thrushcross Grange and took Nellie Dean with her. Surprisingly,
Catherine got along very well at the grange, appearing to
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be almost over fond of Begar and affectionate toward his
sister Isabella. On the surface, all was serene until one
day when Catherine came running into the house.
Speaker 10 (16:44):
Oh, Escar sap clips come home, vagabomb the plowboy.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
I know you never liked him, but for my sake, please, Edgar,
you must be friends. Shall I tell him to come up.
Speaker 10 (16:57):
Here into the park of course, it's.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
Wonderful to have him back here is Edgar? Surely you
remember Heathcliff.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
Why I'd never recognized?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Well?
Speaker 9 (17:15):
Sit down, sir Hetgiff.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
You're so different, your dress also elegant. I'm sure it's
mister Heathcliff.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Now does that please you?
Speaker 8 (17:27):
I'm overwhelmed, Edgar. Will you please findally and see if
Tea is ready?
Speaker 9 (17:33):
Of course it'll be a few moments.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
You're more beautiful than ever.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
It all seems like a dream to see you and
touch you and speak to you once more. And yet
you don't deserve this reception. Absent in silence for.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Three years, did you never think of me more than
you thought of me?
Speaker 8 (17:55):
I imagine we must make plans.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Oh my plan was just one glimpse of your face.
Then to settle my score with your brother Hindley, and
afterwards do away with myself. Heathcliff, if you're welcome, has
put these thoughts out of my mind.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
Catherine, come to the table.
Speaker 12 (18:15):
Do you do you have to go far to night,
mister Heathcliffe, Only as far as Wuthering Heights. Oh you're
staying there, yes, Hindley, and sure has invited me.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
My brother he is invited you, Heathcliff.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Times have changed, my dear Catherine.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I've played cards with Hindley, won his money, and so
have a good many others.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
I've had luck these past years, and your brother needs me.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Oh, I thought I heard voices.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
You have company.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I see he's back. Isabella, surely you remember.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
I don't believe I've had the pleasure of meeting this gentleman, but.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I remember you the charming Isabella.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
You've seen Heathcliff every day walking on the moor, and
every time he's here, you tell me to stay away,
and I mean it. Catherine, you want no one to
be loved but yourself. You misunderstand me. I'm trying to
protect you. Take me simply because I find mister Heathcliffe.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Attracted now because he's dangerous.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
I love Heathcliff more than ever you loved that girl.
He might love me if you'd let him.
Speaker 8 (19:23):
Believe me, Isabella, Heathcliff and I are friends. He could
never love a linter.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
You are a poisonous friend.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
I may be the best friend you ever had.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
How can you say Isabella loves me. She's never done
anything that's spit upon me.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
She's lost her heart and mind you, but you watch her, Heathcliff.
She's a tigress. I like her too well to let
you devour her.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
And I like her too ill to attempt it.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
She's her brother's heir, isn't she.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
You always did cover your neighbor's possessions, didn't you remember
this neighbor's possessions are mine, and if they.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Were mine, they'd still be yours. You're giving me ideas.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
I warned you to stay away from Isabella, and yesterday,
he s Cliff, I saw you you kissed her.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I'm not your husband. You needn't be jealous of me.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
I'm not jealous of you.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
I'm jealous for you. If you like Isabella, you shall
marry her. But do you like her?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
I can't stand her.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
But you.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
You treated me infernally, and if I have, I suppose
you are after revenge.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
I seek no revenge on you.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
You're welcome to torture me for your own amusement. Just
let me amuse myself in the same style.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
So you're going to marry Isabella? Wait till Edgar hears
about this.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
I've heard more than I want to hear.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
You were listening at the door.
Speaker 12 (20:55):
I've had enough of Heathcliff's mischief in my house. I
give you three minutes to grause, Catherine.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
This lamb of yours threatens like a bull. It is
in danger of splitting its scar against my knuckles.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
By heaven, mister Linton, I'm mortally sorry. You are not
worth knocking down.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
The gardener and the.
Speaker 10 (21:10):
Coachman are out there, and it will take them no
time to dispose of your will.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
Not call for healthy.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
I lock the door, Give me that key.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Get it from the hottest part of the fire.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Catherine, this is madness.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
You owe Hastliff an apology. I hope he frogs you sick.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I would not strike that shivering thing you prefer to me.
He looks as if he's about to weep. Take your
hands away from your face.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
I will like this.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
Keeps going out of the back door. Give return with
a brace of pistols, and all the healthy.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Can muster that crush his ribs like a rotten hazel.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Not please Hastliff, if you value your life, where is
that scoundrel? He's on his master the lock with a poker.
Speaker 10 (21:51):
Oh Catherine, we've been so happy, but he's destroying us.
Speaker 9 (21:56):
Look at me.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Let me alone.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Edgar.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
I can't stand anymore.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
It's come to a showdown, hasn't it.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
Well?
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Will you give up Heathcliff, or will you give up me?
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Leave me alone? Can't you see?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
I'm so tired and upset.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
I can scarcely stand with Nelly.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Yes, miss Cathy, I I but she's thinking conveniently onto
the couch. This water will bring her around, But there's
blood on her lips. Never mind, mister Linton. I know
this young lady when she puts on exhibitions.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
Are you sure she's pretending?
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Missus Linton barred her door, and although I left tray
the food, they were untouched for three days. What you want?
Let me in, miss Catherine.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
I've brought you some tea and toast. I'll drink the tea,
but I don't want anything else.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I want to die. I've heard you say things like
that before. It's foolish, and you know it all right.
I'm not die.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
He'd be glad he would never miss me. Open the window, Nellie.
I want to breathe the clean air of the moor, just.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
For a moment.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
You mustn't catch another cold.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
I want to be a girl again, out there where
life is free. I want to sleep in my old
room at Wuthering Heights.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
I am close in the window, and you'll sleep right here.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
They'll bury me twelve feet under, but I won't rest
until Heathcliff is with me.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
I never will. Mister Linton, you must go to your wife.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Why should i?
Speaker 10 (23:40):
She calls for no one but that black eyed Heathcliffe no.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Longer, sir. She's quite at peace, but she needs you,
and you need her now that you're going to be
a father.
Speaker 9 (23:52):
Nellie, Is that why my wife is like this? I've
heard that women sometimes you.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Must treat her very gently.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Of course, Nellie, of course I'll go to her. At once.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
It was true, the intending motherhood. But I knew that
Catherine was no longer the boisterous, healthy girl she once
had been. And the doctor told me why we must
all take good care of her. Catherine Linton was suffering
from a fever.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Of the brain.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
Nelly, Nelly, who was that horseman?
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Your sister? Missus Isabella, Sir, she's gone, sir, gone where
run off of mister Heathcliff. They're going to be married.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
HI don't believe her.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Bother in Heights is no place for Missusabella.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
I have no one but Catherine on my mind from now.
Speaker 10 (24:49):
I'm Isabella is my sister only in name, not because
I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Of course I didn't let it go with that. I
went to wather In Heights to see for myself what
was taking place. The vast hole was filled with growling dogs.
Henley Earnshaw, in a drunken stupor, was a totally broken man,
penniless and at Heathcliffe's mercy, and the miserable Isabella admitted
her mistake and begged to be taken back to Thrushcross Grange.
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I saw mister Heathcliff in the fields and hurried out
to Pleague with him.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Oh, oh, the long nose Nelly Dean couldn't stay away,
could you?
Speaker 6 (25:33):
What have you done to poor miss Isabella?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Married her?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
You're not treating her like a wife.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
I don't need a wife.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
How cooel you are, mister Heathcliff, whoever showed.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Me anything but cruelty.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
I've always tried to be your friends and be one.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Now I've heard Catherine is ill, I can help.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Now what day is that got away?
Speaker 6 (25:51):
None of your business?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I'll twist your arm until it brings.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Tell me sometimes he's away on Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Right, give Catherine this letter and let me into the
house next Wednesday.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
I have a letter for you, missus Linton. I'll never
get letter for this one needs an answer. Answer it then,
But it's from mister Heathcliff.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Another dream he forgot me long ago.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
He wants to see you, Catherine, my dear dear Catherine.
Speaker 8 (26:33):
If you are real, kiss me, Heathcliff. Even though you've
broken my heart. I can't bear to see you like this,
see you and Edgar both as though you should be pitied.
You have killed me, Heathcliff.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Let me hold you, Catherine. I'll make you strong again.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
I wish I could hold you till we both were dead.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
If you loved me, Catherine, what right did you have
to leave me?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Answer me that you.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
Left me too, Heathcliff.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Mister Heathcliff, you lemt's go. Mister Linton has returned.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
Edgar can't harm and stay with me, Heathcliff. I'm going
to die. Listen to her.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
She doesn't know what she says. All three of us
are be damned for this. You should never have come mercifully, Catherine,
Linton had fainted. From then on, her husband seldom left
her side. That he knew that Heathcliffe kept vigil in
the garden day and night. He took no notice. And
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then two months too soon.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
How is she?
Speaker 6 (27:33):
She's a tiny one, sir, But I know all about babies,
and she's going to be just fine.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
No, no, I mean, Catherine, May I see her?
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Not yet? The doctor is with her. But two hours
later it was over her blessed release, I'd say, but
mister Linton was so stony cold with grief he heard
and spoke not a word. I found mister Heathcliff in
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the woods.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
No need to tell me. How did she die?
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Quietly? There's a lamb?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Did she call for me?
Speaker 6 (28:11):
She has recognized no one since you last saw her.
She lies with a sweet smile on her face, and
I pray she'll wake as kindly in the other world.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
May she wake in torment.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
She's a liar to the end, Catherine Earnshaw.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
May you not rest as long as I am living.
You've said I kill you haunt me, then the murder
do haunt their murderers. Be with me, always drive me mad.
Speaker 12 (28:50):
Only do not leave me in this abyss where I
cannot find you.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
It is unutterable.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
I cannot live without my life. I cannot live without
my soul.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
At the wake, Edgar Linton kept silent vigil by the
open coffin, and during the brief moments he left the room,
Heathcliff was there long enough to open a locket on
a chain around Catherine's neck and put in.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
A lock of his own black hair.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Our Gothic drama is by no means over, and I'll
return presently without three. We now continue by introducing you
to the characters of the next generation. Heathcliff continues to
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live even without his soul. His ill treated wife Isabella,
produced a sickly son whom he abhorred from birth. Heathcliff's
old enemy, Hindley Earnshaw, has died in a drunken debauch,
leaving his son Hereton at Wuthering Heights, where Heathcliff is now.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
In total control.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
At Thrushcross Grange, Edgar Linton lavishes full affection upon his daughter,
named after her mother, Catherine, a.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Sheltered girl who knows nothing of her neighbors.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
No need to follow, Nellie, You're too slow, missus.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Cassy, don't go up on that, cry proposes, and are
nests up there? And I want to see the more
hen's eggs. I'll just climb that rock.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Oh I'm about to catch a little poacher, am I?
Speaker 8 (30:50):
Oh? Stoped me? I thought this was my father's last
not here on the heights.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Who are you?
Speaker 8 (30:58):
I've seen that young man of there before? Is your son?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (31:01):
No, no, he is not my son. But I do
have one, and you'd know him if you saw him.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
Miss Cathy, come away.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
I might have known you'd be here. Nellie Dean, come
along both of you to my house for tea.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Oh I'd like that.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
Then I can meet your son.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
No, mister, this is wrong.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
He he doesn't look like your son, but he is
my dear.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
And when you were a child, your father tried to
adopt him after his mother died.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
Why you you're my cousin, Linton, and you've grown up,
so have you?
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Well? Where have you been?
Speaker 8 (31:44):
It's Nellie's fault. She never brought me here, Linton. You
must come and see me at Thrushcross Grange.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
That's too far to go. I couldn't walk for miles.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
So that renegade Harton covers the distance in no time.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
I'm Hereton. He can't even read or write.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
I've scarcely heard him open his mouth or he talks,
but what.
Speaker 7 (32:08):
He says is not fit for a young lady's ears.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
He rides on the moor, and sometimes I long to
join him.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
Or stay away from him. Kathy, come visit me.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
But why, father, Why can't I go back to Wuthering Heights.
I promise Linton I would.
Speaker 9 (32:27):
That house is evil.
Speaker 13 (32:29):
My sister might be living if it weren't for that
man who twists everything to his own will.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
Mister Hic seemed very cordial.
Speaker 13 (32:36):
Someday you'll understand, but for now I must make a rule.
You may not return, and I've instructed Nellita see that
you don't.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
Oh, Papa, you're not well.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
You are a bad cold.
Speaker 13 (32:51):
I'll be my sweet girl and forget all about your
visit to Weathering Heights.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Miss Cathy, you've been sending books and notes to Master Linton,
and he's been doing the same.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
I promised to go back to see him. I had
to explain why I couldn't keep my promise.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
This much of an explanation.
Speaker 8 (33:13):
Where did you get those letters from your desk?
Speaker 6 (33:16):
And they sound like love letters?
Speaker 8 (33:19):
I'm lonely, Nelly, just as Linton is. What is there
for me to do with my father too sick to talk,
and you're going to bed every evening with the birds.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
I almost felt sorry for her, but I didn't. Not then,
for somehow she got word that mister Heathcliff was away,
and as soon as I went to my room, she
was off on a horse for Wuthering Heights.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
Linton, there are you, Oh Kathy.
Speaker 9 (33:49):
I knew you'd come.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
I'm in here.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
You look better today.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
I don't feel better. I cough all the time, but
now you're here to take care of me.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Poor Linton. I wish you were my brother.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Your brother. Your father says we should get married.
Speaker 8 (34:10):
Did he make you write those letters to me?
Speaker 7 (34:13):
Not exactly, but but fus stop questioning me. You're making
me cough. Don't leave me today, Kathy. When your letters stopped,
I thought i'd lost my only friend.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
I won't be seeing you for a while. My father
needs more looking after than you do.
Speaker 9 (34:35):
Nelidan.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
You're not welcome at the grange, mister Heathcliff.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
No do I intend to sit for inside. I understand
that Edgar Linton is dying.
Speaker 8 (34:45):
He is bravely ill yes, and we have no more
time to waste.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Get your mistress and come with me.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
We dare not go to wuther night.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
My worthless son.
Speaker 10 (34:53):
Has gone so far as to struggle under the heath.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
You can walk no further and implause Kathy to to him.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
She's at her father's bed, star and get her away.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
This is more important.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Get up a back like a man other.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
I'm so tired.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Help him, Katherine.
Speaker 8 (35:14):
That boy needs a doctor.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Gone, go on, Kathy, help him.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
My father won't allow me back in the house unless
you come with me.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
Stand up to him, Linton.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
I'm too weak to stand up to anyone. Help me. Carefy.
My father shuders if I touched him.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
I'll help you only to the door.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Please, as far as the chair in the big room.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
I'd wait for you out here.
Speaker 8 (35:38):
Miss Kathy, get in there.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Elidin my house is not stricken with a plague.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I'm feeling hospitable.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
You call that hospitality?
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Luck enough in down, I'll get you some tea.
Speaker 8 (35:54):
I'm not afraid of you. Give me that tea. I
wouldn't even drink if I was starving.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Well.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
The wildcat bears its clause.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Stand back, Kathy, Linton or I'll knock you.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Down, Nellie, and I are leaving this house. If you
won't give me the key.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
I'll creature like a man.
Speaker 8 (36:10):
I have the key, Nellie for a long time.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
You're willing to stop that, you say, young lady, you're
staying in this house and tomorrow I'll be your father.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
Let me go home, mister Heathcliff. I promise to marry Linton,
but if I stay now, Papa will be miserable.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Nothing would please me more than will make your father miserable.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
I can give you both prisoners here until.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Your father dies.
Speaker 8 (36:35):
Mister Heathcliff. You're a cruel man, but you're not a fiend.
I'll marry Linton within the hour if you'll let me
go to thrush Cross Grange for a short time afterwards.
Have you never loved anyone in your life, not anybody ever.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Stop looking at me like that. I detest you.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
While we were locked in that house, the marriage contract
was drawn up and Kathy became missus Linton.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Heathcliff, Well, that nasty, complaining invalid is your sole responsibility.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
How do you like being his nest made?
Speaker 8 (37:11):
It's my father gone, Linton is all I have in
the world. I know he loves me, and for that
reason I love him. Mister Heathcliff, nobody will cry for
you when you die.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Late that night I was roused by a frightened servant
who had seen a ghostly light in the family graveyard.
Now I'm not frightened by ghosts, but I was afraid
of what might be going on tonight.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
You won't send me away.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Mister Heathcliff.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Mister Heathcliff, all back snooping, Nellie Dean.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
Heaven, Mister Heathcliff, let's a lie in peace.
Speaker 9 (37:50):
I respected her wishes up till now.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
At this time it's different.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
I don't know what you're doing, mister Heathcliffe, but I
beseech you to stop that digging turn to I've finished,
then i'd go for help. The laws against desecrat and
the grave.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
There are no laws against freeing a soul.
Speaker 9 (38:07):
One soul is already free, not yet, Nelly Dean, but.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
It's so will be.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
You dare not break into the coffin.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Only on one side, facing the spot where I'll be buried.
Speaker 9 (38:22):
I stop it now.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
I'll replace the earth. And if you are my friend,
I charge you that when I am dead, you will
see that my coffin is open on this side toward hers.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Cathy was not much more than a bride when she
became a widow. Mister Heathcliff had complete possessionable water and
heights and Thrushcross Grange, and Cathy had nowhere else to
go besides me. She had but one possible and miss Cathy,
why don't you make friends with your cousin, Hareton.
Speaker 8 (39:05):
Savage creature hate me as much as my father and Lord.
Speaker 6 (39:08):
I've seen him following you have even seen him protect
you against mister Heathy protect me.
Speaker 8 (39:15):
He seldom opens his mouth except for blasphemy.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Oh he's afraid your laugh at his crude speech. Why
don't you lend him some of your books?
Speaker 8 (39:23):
Because he can't read?
Speaker 6 (39:26):
You could teach him.
Speaker 8 (39:31):
No, No, Hereton, you pronounce it this way?
Speaker 5 (39:35):
What the devil are you too doing here?
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Caroton?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
It tending?
Speaker 4 (39:41):
I think you're needed in the kitchen, and that's for you,
Nelly Dean. Yes, mister Haith, you engineered this, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (39:48):
You've made him like yourself, mister Heathclif.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
I've tried my best to crush him, and I will
do everything to keep those two apart.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
He tried, but they grew closer, and suddenly, in abrupt
change came over mister Heathcliff. He became as silent as
Hareton and refused to join us for meals. Finally, he
had not eaten for so long. That are you ill,
mister Heathcliff.
Speaker 7 (40:17):
No, I am not.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
Starvation is an invitation to death.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
I have neither fear nor presentiment, no hope of death.
With my constitution, I'll be above ground until my hair
is white, and you.
Speaker 6 (40:36):
Won't last long if you refuse to eat.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
I want this splace to myself.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
Get out of my way and keep Haroton and that
other one from coming near me.
Speaker 6 (40:51):
We kept out of his way, but I heard him
pacing in his room, uttering strange oaths.
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Until evening there was absolute silence.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
Cathy, just like her mother, was out on the moor,
and it started to rain.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Coffy Covey's coming in.
Speaker 11 (41:14):
Lelly.
Speaker 8 (41:15):
You know that room, you say with my mother. I
look over the door and the shutter is banging back.
Speaker 6 (41:19):
And path over the sea about that.
Speaker 7 (41:21):
To bring the candle.
Speaker 8 (41:26):
You've been allowed in the room.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
Hold the candle higher.
Speaker 8 (41:30):
See the window is open and the rain is soaping
the rail.
Speaker 7 (41:36):
No leap the.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
Rooms coffy drunk and get hurt, and mister Shavecliff was
lying there, stiff and cold, quite dead. I quickly pulled
a blanket over his face, for he had a frightful life,
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likes of wired exhortation.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
We talk about violence, those nineteenth century ladies spared nothing
of human torture. It is said that to this day,
on the heaths and moors near Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff walks.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
And a woman is his constant companion. I'll have a
further comment shortly.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Although her older sister had a vivid imagination, she wondered
how emily conjured up anyone as sinister as Heathcliff.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
She even doubted if it was right or advisable.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
But she did declared, the writer who possesses the creative
gift owns something that, at times strangely wills and works
for itself. If the result be attractive, the world will
praise you, who little deserve praise. If it be repulsive,
the same world will blame you, who almost as little
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deserve blame. Our cast included Paul hect Briner, Rayburn, Russell Horton, ROBERTA.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Maxwell, and Lloyd Batista.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 7 (43:43):
That would be sixteen thousand francs.
Speaker 11 (43:45):
Sixteen thousand francs costwise, sixteen thousand francs.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
That's much too much. The wretch isn't worth that?
Speaker 7 (43:54):
God?
Speaker 11 (43:55):
Is there any other way to beheaded?
Speaker 6 (43:57):
Our Engrish cousins have switch to a Frenchman who does
the job.
Speaker 11 (44:02):
Who is one blow of an x kill a man
with an axe. It's in human, it's Bob Barrick. Well still,
what do you expect from English? M gar tea guilty?
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Let me see.
Speaker 10 (44:20):
You must be able to get.
Speaker 11 (44:20):
One cheata somewhere you mean shop around?
Speaker 1 (44:24):
I know, I know, get in touch with the Italians.
Speaker 11 (44:27):
App All, Italy has a king, and from one king
to another, maybe he'll give us a cut rate radio.
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Mortar Division
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Speaker 7 (44:42):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 6 (44:49):
Until next time, Pleasant dreams.
Speaker 8 (45:12):
Fye Fye
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater present I'm welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm E. G.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
When the sheltered ladies of the nineteenth century took up
their pens, many extraordinary and suspenseful.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Tales were put down on paper.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I've always had the feeling that these writers' lives, sometimes
very brief, were filled with nightmares. The literary bent seemed
to run in families, none more memorable than the Brownties.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yet Charlotte, Emily.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And Anne had trouble finding a publisher. They wrote under
assumed names, since womens were dismissed as too gentle or
frivolous to be taken seriously, and the Bronchi sisters wrote
heady stuff. Passion runs rampant in their novels, and an
English moor at night is one of their favorite settings.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Mister Heathcliff, mister.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Heathcliff, go back, Lily, get out of the graveyard.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You must not disturb the dead.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
You didn't believe me, did you. I'll show you.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Catherine, Catherine, my love.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
You thought you could leave me, never neverly.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Let me rid the world to my find a way.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Our mystery drama Weathering Heights was adapted from the Emily
Bronte Classing especially for the Mystery theater by Elizabeth Pennell
and stars Paul hect. It is sponsored in part by
Contact the twelve Hour Cold Capsule and Greyhounds Package Express.
I'll be back shortly with that one. Mister Earnshaw, master
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of Weathering Heights, was a kindly man with a reputation
for adapting stray waifes.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Over the years, he.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Returned from London or Liverpool with surprising additions to the family.
One was Nellie Dean, who has become the Earnshaw's housekeeper.
But most upsetting to the household was mister Earnshaw's arrival
with a dirty, black haired boy who seemed more animals
than human, an abandoned child picked up.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
On the streets.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Mister Earnshaw turned him over to Nelly.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
I wanted nothing to do with that dreadful little boy,
so I left him on the landing of the stairs,
hoping he'd be gone by morning. But he crawled to
mister Earnshaw's door and lay there like a dog.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Nelly, Nelly, Dame, Yes, sir, what's the meaning of this?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Why Why isn't this boy with the other children? They
would not let him enter their room.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Take him there at once. He's going to be their brother.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Mister Earnshaw christened the boy Heathcliff after a child who
died in infancy, just Heathcliff. He neglected to give him
his surname, and the master's son hated him from the beginning.
Missus Earnshaw died when the children were young, and heaven knows,
I had my hands full. Although I warned toward Heathcliff,
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the other two drove me frantic with their demands, but
he was uncomplaining as a lamb. I was on his
side when Hindley attacked himself.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
I suppose my father gave you the biggest horse.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
He said I could take whichever I wanted.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
So naturally you took the bed.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
All right, all right, I did, But he's turned lame.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I don't like him anymore. Let's exchange.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I don't want a lame horse which horses with me,
or I'll tell your father about the three times you
eat me up this week.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Go ahead, only i'll give you more than bruises to show.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
I'll tell your father how you both.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
You'll get me out of the house as soon as he.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Dies, and I will too.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
He never belonged here.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I did not ask to come. Your father brought me.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
What a mistake that was.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I want your horse, he him.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
I hope he breaks your neck unless I break it first.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Too much of brains.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
I found him bruised, cotton bleeding, but oh so cool
and calm.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Your hurt, Heathcliff, go away.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
It was Hindley again, wasn't it on your business? Mister
Earnshaw will be angry.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I took Hindley's horse, and he's left with the lame one.
I got exactly what I wanted.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
That's how it was with Heathcliff and Hindley. But with
Hindley's sister it was something else. Catherine could charm a
statue and to bend into her will, and when Hindley
was sent off to college, she had her way with
all of us.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I've waited for you for more than an hour.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Didn't mind waiting, did you, Heathcliff, Not really.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I always mind.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
But it's been heaven these past months, you and me
and all this beautiful more, with no nasty brother to
too meant either one of us.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I don't know why Hindley has all the luck.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
But we're the lucky ones.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Hendley's gone to college, and I'm the one who needs
a book learning.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I never even been to school.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Well I have, and I'll teach you all.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I know that's not enough.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Your father owes me an education, all right.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
He gives you anything you want. Let's go and ask him.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
He's always in the big room by the fire at
this time of the day, in.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
That same old chair where he pretends to read. But
I know he's sleeping.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'll awaken no, let me.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
He may be grumpy father, father. Is something wrong, mister Earnshaw.
His hand is so cold in his eyes. My father's dead.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Yeah, mister Earnshaw was dead, and Hindley not only came
home for the funeral, but he brought a young wife
with him, a silly little thing without a brain in
her head. And Hindley announced they had come to stay.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
All right, you two, I guess you know who's giving
the orders around here.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Now.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
It isn't too bad, is it? He'th CLIs.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
I work in the fields like a slave.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
But Hindley stays out of your way.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
He's banished me to a room worse than a servants quarters.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
But out here we're free. I'll right across the moor.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Have you ever been in that house over there?
Speaker 8 (07:41):
No, but that's where the Lintons live. It's thraashcross grain.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Let's go look in the window, all right.
Speaker 8 (07:48):
As long as they don't see her.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
What a pretty looking boy.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
That's Edgar. And he's a stuck up snob.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Who's a pale, stupid girl.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
His sister Isabella. They're always fighting. See he's pulling her hair.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
I don't blame him, are you glad?
Speaker 8 (08:06):
We don't live cooked up like that? Hat?
Speaker 9 (08:08):
Who's out there?
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Where?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Ghosts?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Where goes?
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Someone's trying to break in?
Speaker 9 (08:18):
Let the dog out run here?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Can't be take my hand, all right, I'll get an offer.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Get off there, Let go Why why you're an of course,
I'm a girl and your.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Dog is bitten her?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Who is it, Edgar?
Speaker 10 (08:37):
I think it's the girl from Weathering Heights.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
And I'm taking her home. Leave us alone.
Speaker 10 (08:41):
Her ankle is bleeding, and she looks as though she's
about to fame.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I can manage you. Go away.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
We know about you. You're that ignorant often going. You're
not welcome in our house.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
Go back to Weathering Heights.
Speaker 10 (08:54):
We'll take care of miss Earnshaw.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
She was close to thing, and I vowed not to
leave her, but they shut the door in my face.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
And where have you been since then?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I watched at the window and if Catherine had called me,
I would.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Have smashed it.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Are you sure she's all right?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
All right? I saw them bade their foot and bring her.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Cocoa and comb her beautiful hair and wrapper and have
been a big blank.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Oh well, I'm glad of that, Nellie.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
They treated her like a princess and she huh, she
purred like a kitten.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
She forgot that I existed.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
They kept Miss Catherine at Thrushcross Grange five weeks, right
up until the day before Christmas, when she was driven
to our door in the carriage and her brother greeted.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Her, this is my little sister.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Why cas Nelly come?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Look they've turned my sister into a lady.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Oh miss Catherine, you you do look grand?
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Hello Nelly, dear? Where's head?
Speaker 7 (09:59):
I saw I am linking around out there.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Heath Cliff, you may come and business.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Catherine welcome like the other servants.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
Darling, Heathcliff. Why how Closs you look? How funny and grim?
Speaker 7 (10:12):
Shake hands Heathcliff like a proper gentleman.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
I shall not. I cannot bear to be laughed at.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
With that, he.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Dashed out, and before long I heard him taking off.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Over the moors.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
He didn't appear until noon next day, when he came
to the kitchen. Well, Heathcliff, this is a fine way
to celebrate Christmas.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Help me get cleaned up, Nellie. If the Lintons are
coming for dinner, A show him. I can be a gentleman.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
What a beautiful Christmas table. I'm afraid we can't match
what you did for my sister.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You've you've tamed our little savage.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
Well, there's nothing savage about the enchanting Catherine.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
I'm delighted at the transformation and hungry.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
Isn't it time to eat? Set? I'm cool, servant boy.
He isn't joining us for dinner, is he?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
He's clear? What are you doing in here?
Speaker 8 (11:09):
By Hindley? He's part of the family, and doesn't he
look nice? I got away so as I could. Hels.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
You've been down there all evening dancing with him.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
Honestly, hethress. I was longing to be with you.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Oh, I'm not thinking about Edgar Linton. That's your brother.
I'm after I'm trying to figure out how to pay
Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I just hope he won't die before I do.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
Nellie, my sister in law is calling for you. I
think her time has come.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Poor thing. I scarcely think she can survive the birth
of her baby.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
Is it really that hard having baby?
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Oh? Good, heavens child. Not for a strapping young woman
like you. But missus Hindley, she has the consumption. Yes,
the baby was born, and the mother died, and now
mister Hindley was more of a tyrant than ever. In
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his inconsolable grief, he took to the brandy bottle, and
everyone stayed out of his path, except for me and
a nursemaid who tried to protect the child.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I swell, make my own child, yiss me wears a
little beat.
Speaker 10 (12:29):
Now bring me my son.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Take him to his room. The master's roaring drunk, and
I must hide his gun. He plays with it when
he seized with this insane madness.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yellow away from my gun, Nellie, d r would you
rather I take care of you with this carving knight?
Speaker 6 (12:49):
I'd rather be shot if you please everyone in this house.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I swear I burn it down if I the mind golif.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
About his work as he usual, Nelly, will you promise
to keep a secret?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (13:09):
It worth cheap and yes, but.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
It worries me. You must tell me what to do.
Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him, and I've
given him an answer.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Then why I asked my opinion.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
Because I've accepted him. He quick, Nelly, and say whether
I was wrong?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Do you love mister Edgar Linton?
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Of course I do. Why because he's handsome and pleasant
to be with.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
That's not a good answer.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Well, because he loves me and he will be rich
and I should like being the greatest lady of the neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Then why he looks so unhappy?
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Because in my heart I'm convinced that I'm wrong.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
That's very strange.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
I've no more business marrying Edgar Linton. And if my
brother had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have
thought of it.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Then why not change your mind?
Speaker 8 (14:04):
It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
There's some one in the shadows at the other end
of the room.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
It couldn't have been Heathcliff, could it, Nelly? He shall
never know how much I love him, not because he's handsome,
but because he's more myself than I am.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
He left the room when you said to marry him
would be degrading.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
No, Nelly, No, that wasn't Heathcliff. You told me he
was off in the field.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
I thought you was until I saw him behind the
couch over there in the shadows.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
He couldn't have overheard. He couldn't. I'll find him and
make sure.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
She ran out into the moor without a cloak. But
Heathcliff's horse was not on the stable, and no one
knew where he had gone. Catherine returned after midnight, in
the midst of a thunderstorm, soaked to the skin and
coming down with a severe tu missus trapping, And you
must let me head your tabath.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
He's gone, Nelly, he's gone. And my nightmares are coming true.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Always.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
You'll feel better when you've had some sleep.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
I'll never sleep again. I've been abandoned. Oh it's just
like my dreams. I saw myself tapping on the window, begging,
led me in, led me in a hush chuck, and
no one answered, and my hand broke through the glass,
and the blood was running down my arm. Oh, get
the blood's of Nelly, Get the blood facets off.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I told you those broady sisters wrote with passion. Who
knows what dark thoughts and desperate yearnings they gleamed from
their own lives. Emily's courage and endurance were tremendous, Yet
she only had time to write one book before she died,
like many of her characters of Consumption, at the age
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of thirty.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
We'll return with back too shortly.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Things have changed at Wuthering Heights. For three years there
was peace such as had not been known since old
mister Earnshaw's time. Catherine did marry at gir Linton, moved
to Thrushcross Grange and took Nellie Dean with her. Surprisingly,
Catherine got along very well at the grange, appearing to
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be almost over fond of Begar and affectionate toward his
sister Isabella. On the surface, all was serene until one
day when Catherine came running into the house.
Speaker 10 (16:44):
Oh, Escar sap clips come home, vagabomb the plowboy.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
I know you never liked him, but for my sake, please, Edgar,
you must be friends. Shall I tell him to come up.
Speaker 10 (16:57):
Here into the park of course, it's.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
Wonderful to have him back here is Edgar? Surely you
remember Heathcliff.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
Why I'd never recognized?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Well?
Speaker 9 (17:15):
Sit down, sir Hetgiff.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
You're so different, your dress also elegant. I'm sure it's
mister Heathcliff.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Now does that please you?
Speaker 8 (17:27):
I'm overwhelmed, Edgar. Will you please findally and see if
Tea is ready?
Speaker 9 (17:33):
Of course it'll be a few moments.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
You're more beautiful than ever.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
It all seems like a dream to see you and
touch you and speak to you once more. And yet
you don't deserve this reception. Absent in silence for.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Three years, did you never think of me more than
you thought of me?
Speaker 8 (17:55):
I imagine we must make plans.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Oh my plan was just one glimpse of your face.
Then to settle my score with your brother Hindley, and
afterwards do away with myself. Heathcliff, if you're welcome, has
put these thoughts out of my mind.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
Catherine, come to the table.
Speaker 12 (18:15):
Do you do you have to go far to night,
mister Heathcliffe, Only as far as Wuthering Heights. Oh you're
staying there, yes, Hindley, and sure has invited me.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
My brother he is invited you, Heathcliff.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Times have changed, my dear Catherine.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I've played cards with Hindley, won his money, and so
have a good many others.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
I've had luck these past years, and your brother needs me.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Oh, I thought I heard voices.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
You have company.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I see he's back. Isabella, surely you remember.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
I don't believe I've had the pleasure of meeting this gentleman, but.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I remember you the charming Isabella.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
You've seen Heathcliff every day walking on the moor, and
every time he's here, you tell me to stay away,
and I mean it. Catherine, you want no one to
be loved but yourself. You misunderstand me. I'm trying to
protect you. Take me simply because I find mister Heathcliffe.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Attracted now because he's dangerous.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
I love Heathcliff more than ever you loved that girl.
He might love me if you'd let him.
Speaker 8 (19:23):
Believe me, Isabella, Heathcliff and I are friends. He could
never love a linter.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
You are a poisonous friend.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
I may be the best friend you ever had.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
How can you say Isabella loves me. She's never done
anything that's spit upon me.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
She's lost her heart and mind you, but you watch her, Heathcliff.
She's a tigress. I like her too well to let
you devour her.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
And I like her too ill to attempt it.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
She's her brother's heir, isn't she.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
You always did cover your neighbor's possessions, didn't you remember
this neighbor's possessions are mine, and if they.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Were mine, they'd still be yours. You're giving me ideas.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
I warned you to stay away from Isabella, and yesterday,
he s Cliff, I saw you you kissed her.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I'm not your husband. You needn't be jealous of me.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
I'm not jealous of you.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
I'm jealous for you. If you like Isabella, you shall
marry her. But do you like her?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
I can't stand her.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
But you.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
You treated me infernally, and if I have, I suppose
you are after revenge.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
I seek no revenge on you.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
You're welcome to torture me for your own amusement. Just
let me amuse myself in the same style.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
So you're going to marry Isabella? Wait till Edgar hears
about this.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
I've heard more than I want to hear.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
You were listening at the door.
Speaker 12 (20:55):
I've had enough of Heathcliff's mischief in my house. I
give you three minutes to grause, Catherine.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
This lamb of yours threatens like a bull. It is
in danger of splitting its scar against my knuckles.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
By heaven, mister Linton, I'm mortally sorry. You are not
worth knocking down.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
The gardener and the.
Speaker 10 (21:10):
Coachman are out there, and it will take them no
time to dispose of your will.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
Not call for healthy.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
I lock the door, Give me that key.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Get it from the hottest part of the fire.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Catherine, this is madness.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
You owe Hastliff an apology. I hope he frogs you sick.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I would not strike that shivering thing you prefer to me.
He looks as if he's about to weep. Take your
hands away from your face.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
I will like this.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
Keeps going out of the back door. Give return with
a brace of pistols, and all the healthy.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Can muster that crush his ribs like a rotten hazel.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Not please Hastliff, if you value your life, where is
that scoundrel? He's on his master the lock with a poker.
Speaker 10 (21:51):
Oh Catherine, we've been so happy, but he's destroying us.
Speaker 9 (21:56):
Look at me.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Let me alone.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Edgar.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
I can't stand anymore.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
It's come to a showdown, hasn't it.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
Well?
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Will you give up Heathcliff, or will you give up me?
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Leave me alone? Can't you see?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
I'm so tired and upset.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
I can scarcely stand with Nelly.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Yes, miss Cathy, I I but she's thinking conveniently onto
the couch. This water will bring her around, But there's
blood on her lips. Never mind, mister Linton. I know
this young lady when she puts on exhibitions.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
Are you sure she's pretending?
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Missus Linton barred her door, and although I left tray
the food, they were untouched for three days. What you want?
Let me in, miss Catherine.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
I've brought you some tea and toast. I'll drink the tea,
but I don't want anything else.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I want to die. I've heard you say things like
that before. It's foolish, and you know it all right.
I'm not die.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
He'd be glad he would never miss me. Open the window, Nellie.
I want to breathe the clean air of the moor, just.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
For a moment.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
You mustn't catch another cold.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
I want to be a girl again, out there where
life is free. I want to sleep in my old
room at Wuthering Heights.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
I am close in the window, and you'll sleep right here.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
They'll bury me twelve feet under, but I won't rest
until Heathcliff is with me.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
I never will. Mister Linton, you must go to your wife.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Why should i?
Speaker 10 (23:40):
She calls for no one but that black eyed Heathcliffe no.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Longer, sir. She's quite at peace, but she needs you,
and you need her now that you're going to be
a father.
Speaker 9 (23:52):
Nellie, Is that why my wife is like this? I've
heard that women sometimes you.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Must treat her very gently.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Of course, Nellie, of course I'll go to her. At once.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
It was true, the intending motherhood. But I knew that
Catherine was no longer the boisterous, healthy girl she once
had been. And the doctor told me why we must
all take good care of her. Catherine Linton was suffering
from a fever.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Of the brain.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
Nelly, Nelly, who was that horseman?
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Your sister? Missus Isabella, Sir, she's gone, sir, gone where
run off of mister Heathcliff. They're going to be married.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
HI don't believe her.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Bother in Heights is no place for Missusabella.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
I have no one but Catherine on my mind from now.
Speaker 10 (24:49):
I'm Isabella is my sister only in name, not because
I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Of course I didn't let it go with that. I
went to wather In Heights to see for myself what
was taking place. The vast hole was filled with growling dogs.
Henley Earnshaw, in a drunken stupor, was a totally broken man,
penniless and at Heathcliffe's mercy, and the miserable Isabella admitted
her mistake and begged to be taken back to Thrushcross Grange.
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I saw mister Heathcliff in the fields and hurried out
to Pleague with him.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Oh, oh, the long nose Nelly Dean couldn't stay away,
could you?
Speaker 6 (25:33):
What have you done to poor miss Isabella?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Married her?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
You're not treating her like a wife.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
I don't need a wife.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
How cooel you are, mister Heathcliff, whoever showed.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Me anything but cruelty.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
I've always tried to be your friends and be one.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Now I've heard Catherine is ill, I can help.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Now what day is that got away?
Speaker 6 (25:51):
None of your business?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I'll twist your arm until it brings.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Tell me sometimes he's away on Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Right, give Catherine this letter and let me into the
house next Wednesday.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
I have a letter for you, missus Linton. I'll never
get letter for this one needs an answer. Answer it then,
But it's from mister Heathcliff.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Another dream he forgot me long ago.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
He wants to see you, Catherine, my dear dear Catherine.
Speaker 8 (26:33):
If you are real, kiss me, Heathcliff. Even though you've
broken my heart. I can't bear to see you like this,
see you and Edgar both as though you should be pitied.
You have killed me, Heathcliff.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Let me hold you, Catherine. I'll make you strong again.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
I wish I could hold you till we both were dead.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
If you loved me, Catherine, what right did you have
to leave me?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Answer me that you.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
Left me too, Heathcliff.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Mister Heathcliff, you lemt's go. Mister Linton has returned.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
Edgar can't harm and stay with me, Heathcliff. I'm going
to die. Listen to her.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
She doesn't know what she says. All three of us
are be damned for this. You should never have come mercifully, Catherine,
Linton had fainted. From then on, her husband seldom left
her side. That he knew that Heathcliffe kept vigil in
the garden day and night. He took no notice. And
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then two months too soon.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
How is she?
Speaker 6 (27:33):
She's a tiny one, sir, But I know all about babies,
and she's going to be just fine.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
No, no, I mean, Catherine, May I see her?
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Not yet? The doctor is with her. But two hours
later it was over her blessed release, I'd say, but
mister Linton was so stony cold with grief he heard
and spoke not a word. I found mister Heathcliff in
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the woods.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
No need to tell me. How did she die?
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Quietly? There's a lamb?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Did she call for me?
Speaker 6 (28:11):
She has recognized no one since you last saw her.
She lies with a sweet smile on her face, and
I pray she'll wake as kindly in the other world.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
May she wake in torment.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
She's a liar to the end, Catherine Earnshaw.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
May you not rest as long as I am living.
You've said I kill you haunt me, then the murder
do haunt their murderers. Be with me, always drive me mad.
Speaker 12 (28:50):
Only do not leave me in this abyss where I
cannot find you.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
It is unutterable.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
I cannot live without my life. I cannot live without
my soul.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
At the wake, Edgar Linton kept silent vigil by the
open coffin, and during the brief moments he left the room,
Heathcliff was there long enough to open a locket on
a chain around Catherine's neck and put in.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
A lock of his own black hair.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Our Gothic drama is by no means over, and I'll
return presently without three. We now continue by introducing you
to the characters of the next generation. Heathcliff continues to
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live even without his soul. His ill treated wife Isabella,
produced a sickly son whom he abhorred from birth. Heathcliff's
old enemy, Hindley Earnshaw, has died in a drunken debauch,
leaving his son Hereton at Wuthering Heights, where Heathcliff is now.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
In total control.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
At Thrushcross Grange, Edgar Linton lavishes full affection upon his daughter,
named after her mother, Catherine, a.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Sheltered girl who knows nothing of her neighbors.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
No need to follow, Nellie, You're too slow, missus.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Cassy, don't go up on that, cry proposes, and are
nests up there? And I want to see the more
hen's eggs. I'll just climb that rock.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Oh I'm about to catch a little poacher, am I?
Speaker 8 (30:50):
Oh? Stoped me? I thought this was my father's last
not here on the heights.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Who are you?
Speaker 8 (30:58):
I've seen that young man of there before? Is your son?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (31:01):
No, no, he is not my son. But I do
have one, and you'd know him if you saw him.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
Miss Cathy, come away.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
I might have known you'd be here. Nellie Dean, come
along both of you to my house for tea.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Oh I'd like that.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
Then I can meet your son.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
No, mister, this is wrong.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
He he doesn't look like your son, but he is
my dear.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
And when you were a child, your father tried to
adopt him after his mother died.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
Why you you're my cousin, Linton, and you've grown up,
so have you?
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Well? Where have you been?
Speaker 8 (31:44):
It's Nellie's fault. She never brought me here, Linton. You
must come and see me at Thrushcross Grange.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
That's too far to go. I couldn't walk for miles.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
So that renegade Harton covers the distance in no time.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
I'm Hereton. He can't even read or write.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
I've scarcely heard him open his mouth or he talks,
but what.
Speaker 7 (32:08):
He says is not fit for a young lady's ears.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
He rides on the moor, and sometimes I long to
join him.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
Or stay away from him. Kathy, come visit me.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
But why, father, Why can't I go back to Wuthering Heights.
I promise Linton I would.
Speaker 9 (32:27):
That house is evil.
Speaker 13 (32:29):
My sister might be living if it weren't for that
man who twists everything to his own will.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
Mister Hic seemed very cordial.
Speaker 13 (32:36):
Someday you'll understand, but for now I must make a rule.
You may not return, and I've instructed Nellita see that
you don't.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
Oh, Papa, you're not well.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
You are a bad cold.
Speaker 13 (32:51):
I'll be my sweet girl and forget all about your
visit to Weathering Heights.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Miss Cathy, you've been sending books and notes to Master Linton,
and he's been doing the same.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
I promised to go back to see him. I had
to explain why I couldn't keep my promise.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
This much of an explanation.
Speaker 8 (33:13):
Where did you get those letters from your desk?
Speaker 6 (33:16):
And they sound like love letters?
Speaker 8 (33:19):
I'm lonely, Nelly, just as Linton is. What is there
for me to do with my father too sick to talk,
and you're going to bed every evening with the birds.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
I almost felt sorry for her, but I didn't. Not then,
for somehow she got word that mister Heathcliff was away,
and as soon as I went to my room, she
was off on a horse for Wuthering Heights.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
Linton, there are you, Oh Kathy.
Speaker 9 (33:49):
I knew you'd come.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
I'm in here.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
You look better today.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
I don't feel better. I cough all the time, but
now you're here to take care of me.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Poor Linton. I wish you were my brother.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Your brother. Your father says we should get married.
Speaker 8 (34:10):
Did he make you write those letters to me?
Speaker 7 (34:13):
Not exactly, but but fus stop questioning me. You're making
me cough. Don't leave me today, Kathy. When your letters stopped,
I thought i'd lost my only friend.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
I won't be seeing you for a while. My father
needs more looking after than you do.
Speaker 9 (34:35):
Nelidan.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
You're not welcome at the grange, mister Heathcliff.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
No do I intend to sit for inside. I understand
that Edgar Linton is dying.
Speaker 8 (34:45):
He is bravely ill yes, and we have no more
time to waste.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Get your mistress and come with me.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
We dare not go to wuther night.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
My worthless son.
Speaker 10 (34:53):
Has gone so far as to struggle under the heath.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
You can walk no further and implause Kathy to to him.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
She's at her father's bed, star and get her away.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
This is more important.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Get up a back like a man other.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
I'm so tired.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Help him, Katherine.
Speaker 8 (35:14):
That boy needs a doctor.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Gone, go on, Kathy, help him.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
My father won't allow me back in the house unless
you come with me.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
Stand up to him, Linton.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
I'm too weak to stand up to anyone. Help me. Carefy.
My father shuders if I touched him.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
I'll help you only to the door.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Please, as far as the chair in the big room.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
I'd wait for you out here.
Speaker 8 (35:38):
Miss Kathy, get in there.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Elidin my house is not stricken with a plague.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I'm feeling hospitable.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
You call that hospitality?
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Luck enough in down, I'll get you some tea.
Speaker 8 (35:54):
I'm not afraid of you. Give me that tea. I
wouldn't even drink if I was starving.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Well.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
The wildcat bears its clause.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Stand back, Kathy, Linton or I'll knock you.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Down, Nellie, and I are leaving this house. If you
won't give me the key.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
I'll creature like a man.
Speaker 8 (36:10):
I have the key, Nellie for a long time.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
You're willing to stop that, you say, young lady, you're
staying in this house and tomorrow I'll be your father.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
Let me go home, mister Heathcliff. I promise to marry Linton,
but if I stay now, Papa will be miserable.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Nothing would please me more than will make your father miserable.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
I can give you both prisoners here until.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Your father dies.
Speaker 8 (36:35):
Mister Heathcliff. You're a cruel man, but you're not a fiend.
I'll marry Linton within the hour if you'll let me
go to thrush Cross Grange for a short time afterwards.
Have you never loved anyone in your life, not anybody ever.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Stop looking at me like that. I detest you.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
While we were locked in that house, the marriage contract
was drawn up and Kathy became missus Linton.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Heathcliff, Well, that nasty, complaining invalid is your sole responsibility.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
How do you like being his nest made?
Speaker 8 (37:11):
It's my father gone, Linton is all I have in
the world. I know he loves me, and for that
reason I love him. Mister Heathcliff, nobody will cry for
you when you die.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Late that night I was roused by a frightened servant
who had seen a ghostly light in the family graveyard.
Now I'm not frightened by ghosts, but I was afraid
of what might be going on tonight.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
You won't send me away.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Mister Heathcliff.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Mister Heathcliff, all back snooping, Nellie Dean.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
Heaven, Mister Heathcliff, let's a lie in peace.
Speaker 9 (37:50):
I respected her wishes up till now.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
At this time it's different.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
I don't know what you're doing, mister Heathcliffe, but I
beseech you to stop that digging turn to I've finished,
then i'd go for help. The laws against desecrat and
the grave.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
There are no laws against freeing a soul.
Speaker 9 (38:07):
One soul is already free, not yet, Nelly Dean, but.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
It's so will be.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
You dare not break into the coffin.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Only on one side, facing the spot where I'll be buried.
Speaker 9 (38:22):
I stop it now.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
I'll replace the earth. And if you are my friend,
I charge you that when I am dead, you will
see that my coffin is open on this side toward hers.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Cathy was not much more than a bride when she
became a widow. Mister Heathcliff had complete possessionable water and
heights and Thrushcross Grange, and Cathy had nowhere else to
go besides me. She had but one possible and miss Cathy,
why don't you make friends with your cousin, Hareton.
Speaker 8 (39:05):
Savage creature hate me as much as my father and Lord.
Speaker 6 (39:08):
I've seen him following you have even seen him protect
you against mister Heathy protect me.
Speaker 8 (39:15):
He seldom opens his mouth except for blasphemy.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Oh he's afraid your laugh at his crude speech. Why
don't you lend him some of your books?
Speaker 8 (39:23):
Because he can't read?
Speaker 6 (39:26):
You could teach him.
Speaker 8 (39:31):
No, No, Hereton, you pronounce it this way?
Speaker 5 (39:35):
What the devil are you too doing here?
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Caroton?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
It tending?
Speaker 4 (39:41):
I think you're needed in the kitchen, and that's for you,
Nelly Dean. Yes, mister Haith, you engineered this, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (39:48):
You've made him like yourself, mister Heathclif.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
I've tried my best to crush him, and I will
do everything to keep those two apart.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
He tried, but they grew closer, and suddenly, in abrupt
change came over mister Heathcliff. He became as silent as
Hareton and refused to join us for meals. Finally, he
had not eaten for so long. That are you ill,
mister Heathcliff.
Speaker 7 (40:17):
No, I am not.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
Starvation is an invitation to death.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
I have neither fear nor presentiment, no hope of death.
With my constitution, I'll be above ground until my hair
is white, and you.
Speaker 6 (40:36):
Won't last long if you refuse to eat.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
I want this splace to myself.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
Get out of my way and keep Haroton and that
other one from coming near me.
Speaker 6 (40:51):
We kept out of his way, but I heard him
pacing in his room, uttering strange oaths.
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Until evening there was absolute silence.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
Cathy, just like her mother, was out on the moor,
and it started to rain.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Coffy Covey's coming in.
Speaker 11 (41:14):
Lelly.
Speaker 8 (41:15):
You know that room, you say with my mother. I
look over the door and the shutter is banging back.
Speaker 6 (41:19):
And path over the sea about that.
Speaker 7 (41:21):
To bring the candle.
Speaker 8 (41:26):
You've been allowed in the room.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
Hold the candle higher.
Speaker 8 (41:30):
See the window is open and the rain is soaping
the rail.
Speaker 7 (41:36):
No leap the.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
Rooms coffy drunk and get hurt, and mister Shavecliff was
lying there, stiff and cold, quite dead. I quickly pulled
a blanket over his face, for he had a frightful life,
(41:59):
likes of wired exhortation.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
We talk about violence, those nineteenth century ladies spared nothing
of human torture. It is said that to this day,
on the heaths and moors near Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff walks.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
And a woman is his constant companion. I'll have a
further comment shortly.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Although her older sister had a vivid imagination, she wondered
how emily conjured up anyone as sinister as Heathcliff.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
She even doubted if it was right or advisable.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
But she did declared, the writer who possesses the creative
gift owns something that, at times strangely wills and works
for itself. If the result be attractive, the world will
praise you, who little deserve praise. If it be repulsive,
the same world will blame you, who almost as little
(43:24):
deserve blame. Our cast included Paul hect Briner, Rayburn, Russell Horton, ROBERTA.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Maxwell, and Lloyd Batista.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 7 (43:43):
That would be sixteen thousand francs.
Speaker 11 (43:45):
Sixteen thousand francs costwise, sixteen thousand francs.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
That's much too much. The wretch isn't worth that?
Speaker 7 (43:54):
God?
Speaker 11 (43:55):
Is there any other way to beheaded?
Speaker 6 (43:57):
Our Engrish cousins have switch to a Frenchman who does
the job.
Speaker 11 (44:02):
Who is one blow of an x kill a man
with an axe. It's in human, it's Bob Barrick. Well still,
what do you expect from English? M gar tea guilty?
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Let me see.
Speaker 10 (44:20):
You must be able to get.
Speaker 11 (44:20):
One cheata somewhere you mean shop around?
Speaker 1 (44:24):
I know, I know, get in touch with the Italians.
Speaker 11 (44:27):
App All, Italy has a king, and from one king
to another, maybe he'll give us a cut rate radio.
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Mortar Division
and Contact the twelve hour Cold Capsule.
Speaker 7 (44:42):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 6 (44:49):
Until next time, Pleasant dreams.
Speaker 8 (45:12):
Fye Fye
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