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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, latency.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
To Tony at Stations present Escape.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Ah of Fantasy.

Speaker 4 (00:16):
I'm gonna thanks to miss.

Speaker 5 (00:26):
Ah Man uh.

Speaker 6 (00:30):
Less Seal.

Speaker 7 (00:36):
Present Suspense.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
I am a Whistler.

Speaker 8 (00:52):
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Speaker 9 (01:51):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.

Speaker 10 (02:11):
Come in.

Speaker 11 (02:13):
Welcome.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I'm E. G.

Speaker 9 (02:16):
Marshall, foreman of this crew of mysterious miscreants.

Speaker 11 (02:20):
Who mingle here at this hour.

Speaker 9 (02:23):
It was King Alphonso the tenth of Spain who modestly remarked,
had I been present at the creation, I would have
given some useful hints for.

Speaker 11 (02:32):
The better ordering of the universe.

Speaker 9 (02:36):
I'm sure that many of us feel, with all due
respect and in all modesty, that we too might have
made some helpful suggestions of our own. But since none
of us was consulted in the arrangement of the world,
we must accept it as it is, or must we shall?

Speaker 11 (02:55):
I help you upstairs with your luggage. That you do
have luggage. My luggage.

Speaker 12 (03:02):
It's outside, somewhere in the street, somewhere in the United States.

Speaker 11 (03:10):
I lost it. Well, the fact is the bus lost it,
or how could a bus lose luggage? I don't know.

Speaker 12 (03:15):
It was placed on the bus when I got on,
it was missing when I got off.

Speaker 11 (03:19):
Or perhaps it was removed by mistake at another stop.
The bus made no other stops. Another passenger might have
taken it by mistake.

Speaker 12 (03:26):
I was the only passenger. No, No, the bus lost
my luggage. We simply have to accept that.

Speaker 9 (03:40):
Our mystery drama, The corn Starch Killer was written especially
for the mystery theater by Sam Dan and stars Robert Dryden.
It is sponsored in part by a Greyhound Package Express
and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with at one.

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The boarding house has become a most familiar literary locale
that it is always, almost always presided over by a landlady. Seldom,
if ever, do we encounter a landlord, except perhaps as
an inferior appendage to a dominating spouse. Since the ladies

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have in our time invaded hitherto basically masculine domains, turnabout
is only fair play. Today we are concerned with a
gentleman who happens to be a landlord of a boarding house.

Speaker 11 (04:44):
Turn with us.

Speaker 9 (04:45):
Now to the first page in the journal of Dennis Truffle.

Speaker 11 (04:55):
Have you ever waited for death? Ridiculous question? If we
all wait for death, don't wait but in the prime
of life. I suppose we wait for death as individuality,
not as an impending occurrence. But here I am starting

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my story at the end instead of at the beginning.
The beginning. It was a rather damn foggy November night moment.
If you please, Oh, good evening. I rang your bell.

Speaker 12 (05:38):
I heard it's the most unusual bell for this day
and age.

Speaker 11 (05:42):
This is the most unusual day and age. I agree
to begin afresh.

Speaker 12 (05:46):
I rang your bell because a sign a rather neatly
left it sign said woombs.

Speaker 11 (05:51):
Do you like the sign?

Speaker 6 (05:53):
Then?

Speaker 11 (05:53):
I wonder if I might speak with the landlady. I'm sorry,
we don't have one. Will the landlord do?

Speaker 12 (06:00):
I'm flexible?

Speaker 11 (06:02):
Oh, won't you come in, mister Dennis Truffle at your command?

Speaker 12 (06:08):
I am miss man Haden maud Man Hayden Men Hayden.
It's the Indian name for a fish. Oh now again
said Indian. The name was given to a convict ancestor
of mine.

Speaker 11 (06:22):
How convicts? Yeah, it's a murderer.

Speaker 12 (06:26):
You see, many of our early settlers here were transported felons.
Evidently my ancestor must have looked like a fish, hence
the name. Now is that settled?

Speaker 11 (06:37):
Well? I was not aware that it was ever an
issue selling the room. I have an excellent room at
the head of the stair. I'll take it, but surely
you wish to see it now?

Speaker 10 (06:48):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (06:49):
The rent is thirty five dollars a week. How much
twenty five? No, thirty five sounds right?

Speaker 13 (06:57):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (06:58):
Then shall I help you up with your luck. What's
that the police car? I should imagine it seems to
be coming this way? Yes, yes, I would assume solf.
Why well, unfortunately the neighborhood has changed. Stopped here? Why

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excuse me? I and dnnis oh, Officer Paderewski, there's something wrong. Yeah,
we had a little contratamp up the street. And that's contret.
A guy was murdered. Do they have any idea?

Speaker 14 (07:43):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (07:44):
I thought I drop in here and check out some
of your creeps donners now see here, Officer Paderewski, And
that's no way to refer to you do have some
real ripe avocados and this joint Dennis, Now, I will
not have my tenants insulted. Okay, okay, I was around. Well,

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unfortunately we have more vacancies than we presently. The second
floor rear I have Professor Bonifat where is he right now?
I ot out where communing with nature, I suppose. And
the second floor front I have just acquired as a

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tenant to miss more men haden here, Miss man Hayden
is his Officer Paderewski, please do not look at me
in that way, officer, in what way? With lust?

Speaker 10 (08:40):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (08:40):
Well, I wasn't looking with What I am doing is
looking at you closely? For what reason? Because that's what
a police officer has to do.

Speaker 12 (08:51):
Why because there's been a murder? Are you saying that
you suspect me of committing the murder?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (08:59):
No, I had the key to my room, mister Truffle. Yes,
of course. To answer your unspoken question, Miss men Hayden,
am I related to the famous pianist? I am sure
of it. Here's your key, miss man Hayden. Now I
say this because I have a little boy who plays
the piano.

Speaker 12 (09:16):
Thank you, mister Truffle. Good night, good night. Of course
he only plays my ear.

Speaker 11 (09:26):
Yeah, that one is built, built, constructed, put together. Oh,
there's a lot of woman there. Does seem to be
of generous purpose? What she doing in a joint like this?
I assume she requires refined surroundings? Sure, should you? Well,

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then just keep me posted. Huh.

Speaker 15 (09:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (09:53):
I gotta hustle around see if I can't catch that killer.
Who was the victim?

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (10:00):
The guy was a manager at the bus depot. You're
just up the block. He was on his way home
from work, and it happened a half hour ago. You say, uh, huh,
a half hour ago, I was in my sitting room
with Chapman's homer. Oh, come on, Dennis, you don't need
an alibi, and a fellow's human being was being stabbed

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to death. Hey, hold on, Dennis, Man. All I told
you was a guy was murdered. How do you know
he was stabbed? But if it happened just up the
block and the killer had used a gun, then I
would have heard the shark. Yeah good thinking, Dennis, see

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you around. How did I know the victim had been stabbed?
My quick lib explanation to opposite Panda rescue may have
sounded convincing. That the fact is it wasn't true. It's
just that the moment I heard of the killing, instinctively,

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I knew it had to be a stabbing. Why tonight,
for the first time, I'm aware of a kind of lightness,
a kind of incisive understanding, a sharpness in my brain.
I can't analyze it. It seemed to enter my mind

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when miss Menhaden entered the house. Well, Miss Benhaden. That
reminds me she had gone upstairs without her luggage. Miss
men Haaden a large woman, but so exquisitely Well, that

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was not a here. No there, I'm sorry to disturb you,
miss man Haden. Yes, do you require assistance with your luggage?
My luggage? You do have luggage? Oh, my luggage. I
didn't see you bring it in. Is it outside? Yes?

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What you mean you left it in front of the house.

Speaker 12 (12:13):
No, I mean it's outside somewhere somewhere. I lost it.
Oh well, the fact is I didn't lose it. Actually
the bus lost it. How could a bus lose luggage?
I don't know. It was placed on the bus when
I got on, it was missing when I got off.

Speaker 11 (12:33):
But surely the people of the bus company weren't like
the people at the bus company. But there is some
official at the bus deeplease there was. But what did
he do?

Speaker 12 (12:44):
He looked at me in a manner that I cannot tolerate.

Speaker 11 (12:49):
What sort of manner is that? A leude manner? Oh? Well, truly,
and I shall not return there. But don't you want
to find your luggage?

Speaker 12 (12:59):
That which is lost shall not be found again, and
that which is missing shall be gone forever.

Speaker 11 (13:06):
A yes, But anything else? Uh? No, no, no, he
except that this man who was murdered a half hour
ago happened to be employed at the bus depot. Indeed
he was the manager. Oh was he the one who
looked at you in what you considered a lude manner?

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I didn't consider it lude. It was lude. Well at
any rate, the poor fellow is dead.

Speaker 12 (13:37):
Now he's been punished, punished. Oh, yes, there's no doubt
about it. But what did he do? Is it possible
you haven't been listening to me, mister Truffle. I told
you what he did. He was also mascivious and salacious.
The sin of lost, mister Truffle, it must be stamped out.

Speaker 11 (13:59):
It will be that as it may, Miss menhaden. Even
if he were sinful, that's hardly the reason he was killed.
I would imagine. Really, why do you suppose he was killed? Well,
he was coming home from work. This is a Friday evening.
He was carrying his pay on lobe, I suppose, and

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some fee. He wasn't robbed. He was struck down for
his sins. You say he was not robbed, he was
not robbed? Good? Ah, how do you know?

Speaker 14 (14:33):
I know?

Speaker 12 (14:34):
But how retribution, mister Truffle. Retribution, the hand of justice
cannot be stayed. Whole cities, Sodom and Gomorrow were expunged
from the earth. What difficulty would there be in striking
down one Harry Perkins, Harry Perty, obscene animal who lusted
after me in the bus terminal office. But the bus terminal,

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with it's right in the middle of the floor, in
plain view, what could he have possibly been able to lie?

Speaker 11 (15:04):
Could read his thoughts?

Speaker 12 (15:05):
Well rise upon him, which I shall send to his widow.
Perhaps she will see fit to make it his epitaph,
Harry Perkins, vulgar of manner, over fed, over dressed, and underbread, heartless, godless,
hell's delight, ruled by day and lude by night.

Speaker 11 (15:30):
Well, I would hardly think she will. And now there
is one less of them them.

Speaker 9 (15:45):
It takes all kinds, as they say, and we seem
to have a special kind right here in Dennis Truffle's
boarding house. Why did mister Harry Perkins die? Probably spinning
your own yarn? So why don't we compare designs when
we meet again in just a few moments for Act two.

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The French, as you know, during the nineteen thirties, constructed
a system of fortifications called the Magineau line. This was
considered an impregnable defense against invasion. We mentioned this because
into the boarding house of mister Dennis Truffle has come
a Miss Maude men Hayden, a lady whose defense of

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her virtue is also seemingly formidable. We read further from
the journal of Dennis Truffle.

Speaker 11 (16:52):
Before I continue, I must digress briefly for a point
of personal information. Since I have never actively courted a
member of the fair sex, certain course and unkind people
have seen fit to question, as it were, my inclinations.

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I shall not dignify this slander by rebuttal. I was
taught by Dad and mother to venerate, venerate. The verb
itself is the Latin roop for love, to venerate the
feminine sex, and to look at woman as a temple
of virtue who contains within herself as well. No matter,

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it is merely that I have never met until tonight,
until Miss men Haden entered my house and therefore my life.
Oh what am I saying? Well, Miss men Hayden frightens me?
What did she say that mister Harry Perkins was not

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killed by a thief? Is it true? I must find out?

Speaker 3 (18:07):
Hey, Dennis, what are you doing out this hour?

Speaker 11 (18:10):
What am I doing? All the same exactly the kind
of neighborhood to take a constitutional Well, I thought, I signed,
I thought, what would that name?

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Dame?

Speaker 11 (18:21):
You're de cagy one, Dennis. I don't know what you're
talking about, Officer Padarewski, that lacious name. That is no
way to refer to miss Menhaden.

Speaker 7 (18:33):
Why there's a why.

Speaker 11 (18:37):
Tell me, Officer Padreski. This man who has killed up
the street, mister Perkins, the manager at the bus depots.
Why was he killed? Why? Or was it a robbery?

Speaker 3 (18:52):
What do you think it was a robbery?

Speaker 11 (18:54):
Well, it must have been Friday night payday. Let me
tell you why it wasn't a robbery, Dennis. Because his
wallet was in his pocket, his ring was on his finger,
his watch was on his wrist. Oh, and he was stabbed, Yeah,
stabed in her back, the back, a nice clean little wound.

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But it did the job. And the killer left no
clue behind at all, not a thing. But then you're
completely in the dark. There's one little item. Nobody can
figure out what it means. The dead man had a
kind of white smudge just above his chin. What kind

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of smudge? I told you, what kind of white smudge?
What was the smudge made of? If I told you,
you'd be even more confused than I am. Corn Starch,
corn starch?

Speaker 7 (19:56):
Figure it out?

Speaker 11 (19:57):
What was he doing with a corn starch smudge? Crossed
his face? Corn star? Well, what are we gonna do?
I'll stand around here all night saying cornstarch? Why didn't
she go back to the house where it's nice and
warm and cozy? And there's this miss men Hayden. So

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she was right, it wasn't a robbery. After all, he
was murdered for another reason? What other reason? Who had
come up behind him and stabbed poor mister Perkins in
the back? Is it possible he had been punished? Why

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had she been so sure? And the corn starch? What
did the corn starch mean?

Speaker 9 (20:49):
Here?

Speaker 11 (20:50):
Was too much? And I went back home and brewed
myself a nice hot cup of tea. Mister Truffle, oh,
you stopped from me. I was very deep in my thoughts.

Speaker 12 (21:01):
I'm sorry to invade the privacy of your kitchen.

Speaker 11 (21:04):
Oh, any time, miss Menhaden, will you join me in
a cup of tea.

Speaker 12 (21:12):
You are a very unusual person, mister Truffle. Oh, you're
a man of the highest sensibilities and finest personal character.
You have a reverence and a respect for womanhood. You
are completely free from sin, as I hope to be
one day.

Speaker 11 (21:33):
One day.

Speaker 12 (21:34):
Yes, I must continue to fight temptation constantly.

Speaker 11 (21:38):
Oh but surely, miss men, hidden love between men and
wimies is filled.

Speaker 12 (21:43):
With traps and pitfalls, snares set by Satan, and furthermore,
this lust, this love, this carnal knowing. I must not
bore you with a recital of my inner most feelings.

Speaker 11 (21:57):
Oh no, please, miss man Haden, feel free. Yes, what trouble?

Speaker 12 (22:00):
You are a fine human being, one of the very few,
perhaps the only one who deserves to be saved, and
I shall do my utmost to save you.

Speaker 11 (22:10):
Oh well, I would certainly appreciate it.

Speaker 12 (22:13):
It came down here for a purpose. Do you have
any cornstarch? Corn starch, cornstarch, ordinary every day cornstarch. Of course,
I realize cornstarch has become old fashioned in this so
called improved world we are afflicted with.

Speaker 11 (22:32):
I have a box right here here. Take it. I
just need a little, use as much as you like,
and return the rest. Well, thank you, mister truffle. No,
don't return it. I rarely, if ever use it.

Speaker 12 (22:46):
Cornstarch has an almost infinite variety of uses.

Speaker 11 (22:49):
For example, do you know what I use it for? No?

Speaker 12 (22:53):
Well, you may find this somewhat difficult to believe, but
at one time.

Speaker 11 (22:59):
Old body, let's have a little drink, Professor A come on, Dennis, baby,
you got the bottle underneath the saints. Now, Professor, you've
had too much for sure, But it's no good if
you don't have too much.

Speaker 7 (23:12):
Ain't that so?

Speaker 11 (23:12):
Baby? Thank you? Miss Menhadden man present, Professor roll or not?

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (23:19):
What bit her? Professor Boniface is your fellow border.

Speaker 12 (23:23):
This hulk, this carry him? Look at yourself, a corrupted container.

Speaker 11 (23:29):
Of lust and sim is that bad?

Speaker 12 (23:33):
You will be struck down in the midst of your obscene.

Speaker 11 (23:36):
Professe, you look tired. It's time you've got the bed.
That's right, Tennis, old boy, time for bed. What do
you say, sweetie?

Speaker 12 (23:45):
You have chosen licentiousness. You have chosen to revel in
the depravity of the flesh.

Speaker 7 (23:50):
Wait, what is she carrying on?

Speaker 10 (23:51):
A bot?

Speaker 11 (23:52):
No, Professor, you are being rather forward. Or watch, A
little lover never killed anybody? Take heed.

Speaker 12 (24:02):
A little loving may very well kill you. Good night,
mis trouble night's Miss Menhaden.

Speaker 6 (24:09):
Good night honey.

Speaker 11 (24:11):
Now, really, Professor, she was highly insulting. Ah, what do
you know about it, Tennis? I know that miss Menhaden
is a highly moralzous men Haiden's a woman, and you
never insult any woman by praisoner? Must you be so indelicate?

Speaker 10 (24:30):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (24:30):
Can I know, Dennis? It's the law of human nature.
From this point on, I must be extremely careful with
my facts lest I inadvertently do someone an injustice. I
permitted Professor Boniface to wheedle several drinks of a rather
strong spirituous liquor, which I keep about the premises, accurring

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for additional purposes. With the result was he passed out.
I then assisted him up to his room, where I
deposited him safely onto his bed. On the way back downstairs,
I passed by Miss man Hayden's door. I paused for

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a moment. I was about to knock to inquire if
she was all right, when it seemed to me I
heard a rather strange noise. What could it be? And
then I remembered where I had heard such a sound before.
It was a knife being sharpened on a whetstone, a smooth,

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marble like stone. I remember it was the sound made
by Dad as he sharpened his razor, the sound one
makes when one carefully and patiently puts a fine cutting
edge on a delicate ste He's played well. Of course,

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it may have been nothing of the sort which brings
me to the next evening. Well, professor, how are you
this evening? Whatever happened to her? Helen of Troy? According
to Homer, she went home to Sparta with her husband,
King Menelaeus, where they say, Dad, ain't the one I'm

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talking about. I mean the lady upstairs. Why do you
call her? Because she's the best looking dame I ever seen.
That's the angle that I'm going to use on her?
What angle?

Speaker 10 (26:39):
You know?

Speaker 11 (26:39):
Feeder? All them classics chicks really go for the country, guys.
I don't think miss Menhadden goes as you say, for
anybody who I've seen her in action, Dennis or that
one is mine? All mine? How can you say that?
Because it's a fact no woman can resist, will perforce

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the body, bunnyface. I am now in stage two as
far as she's concerned. What is stage two? I pray
hard to get you must understand. He believed every word
he said, Poor professor, he'd been in the boxing ring,
you know. He was the Junior light heavyweight champion of Stormfield,

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New Hampshire, and it was said the experience left him intoxicated,
no puns, drunk, well at any rate. He went out
about a half hour later. Good evening, mister Truffle. Ooh,
good evening, miss Manhaden. May I offer you some supper? No,
thank you, mister Truffle.

Speaker 12 (27:46):
The hosts of the Lord must fast before they go
into battle.

Speaker 11 (27:51):
Battle, battle, Well, that sounds gripped. On the contrary, it's glorious.
You say you're going into battle. But where does this
this combat? Where is its schedule to take place? Wherever
I find it?

Speaker 12 (28:06):
Wherever I find some poor depraved wretch who blinded by
error as groveling in sin, I open his eyes to the.

Speaker 11 (28:13):
True glory and thus save his soul.

Speaker 12 (28:17):
Oh, and speaking of depraved wretches, where is Professor Boniface
this evening.

Speaker 11 (28:22):
Out out where? I'm sure it would distress you to
know that he will be going from one low place
of entertainment and refreshment to another.

Speaker 12 (28:36):
Yes, it is distressing, oh, mister Truffle. If only all
men were like you, like me pure.

Speaker 11 (28:49):
Well, she went out, and that was about eight pm.
She returned. I would say at about eleven. There was
absolutely nothing unusual about her appearance or manner. I remember,
I said, good evening, miss Manhaiden, Good evening, mister Truffle,

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I wondered, did you save any souls this evening? I
may have? And with that rather cryptic remark, she went
upstairs to her room, and I heard her lock the
door behind her. I then put on a record of
a sixteenth century Danish composer and was almost lolled asleep

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by the dissonances when there was a loud clanging of
my Doorberey, all right, I'm coming, Dennis, Officer Parewski. Oh, Dennis, Dennis,
I got some bad news for you, so get a
hold of yourself.

Speaker 9 (29:52):
Now.

Speaker 11 (29:53):
I know how fond you was of him. And it's
Professor Bonnetface, isn't it, Yeah, old Boniface, and he's been murdered. Yes, Dennis,
how did you know?

Speaker 7 (30:16):
How did he know?

Speaker 11 (30:18):
We all knew, didn't we?

Speaker 9 (30:20):
We knew that Professor Boniface was not long for this world,
and we could tell by the way Miss Menhaden was
carrying on that she was the one who would dispatch
him on his journey to eternity.

Speaker 11 (30:33):
But is this a fair assumption.

Speaker 9 (30:36):
After all, whatever happened to that good old American dictum
a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Speaker 11 (30:45):
What actual proof do we have?

Speaker 1 (30:49):
We may or.

Speaker 9 (30:51):
May not have some when I return with Act three.
A favorite form of thriller is Jack the Ripper murders,
the psychotic killer who slaughters women at random because they

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do not measure up to his standards of purity and virtue.
In these days of women's live however, we must not
be male chauvinists and make all our killers masculine.

Speaker 11 (31:26):
Is it possible that we are dealing.

Speaker 9 (31:28):
Here with a Jacqueline the Ripper who knows with us
anything is possible?

Speaker 11 (31:37):
Boniface Willberforce, Boniface, that professor dead. Yeah, well, I don't
know what to say. I was hoping you might be
able to tell me something. You know, after all, he
was one of your boarders. He would sleep all day

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and go out drinking all night. I think hard Dennis.
Did they he know Harry Perkins? Harry Perkins, the manager
at the bus depot who was murdered the other night. Well,
I couldn't be sure, but why well we got an
idea at the same person murdered them both the same person.

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Why cornstarch? The professor also had this smudge of cornstarch
across his face and a knife wound in the back. Cornstarch. Yeah, yeah,
that's what I said, And that's what we're calling the
murderer now, that corn starch killer. But why would the

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killer leave cornstarch on the victim's face? Well, we got
nuts in this world like you never dreamed existed. Do
you know anyone who would want to kill the professor?
Kill him the No, anybody in a house who might
have been mad at him in the house. Well, at present,

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there's just myself and miss Menhaden. Maybe i'd better talk
to miss Menhaiden, But she doesn't know anything about Professor Boniface.
Can you be sure of that, Dennis? Tell her I'd
like to interrogate it here, you don't mind Menhaden. There's

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a police officer downstairs, the relative of the famous musician.
He wishes to talk with you in an official capacity.
It seems that there has been another murder, another one,
this one even closer to home. I fear I actually

(33:47):
at home, poor Professor Boniface, the lecturer, whatever the unfortunate
fellow is dead, Officer Paduresky will want to know if
you know anything about it? Yes, I know about it,
you do.

Speaker 12 (34:05):
Professor Wilberforce Boniface was an abomination. As such, he was
removed from this earth, removed. Justice was done, morality was served, Yes,
but who did the doing and the serving? I know
that he was struck down because his time had come where? Yes,

(34:27):
I can understand that point of view, But the police
might press you for specific Why.

Speaker 11 (34:34):
If you say you know who killed poor Professor Boniface,
he will automatically ask who who?

Speaker 12 (34:40):
I should think anyone knows who the Avenging Angel?

Speaker 11 (34:45):
The Avenging Angel? Yes, and now there's one less of
them them And she wouldn't say another word. I unshered
her downstairs to Officer Pederewski. I am ashamed to say
that he was merely using the murder as a pretext

(35:06):
for having a conversation with her. Do you go out
very much? Miss manhaden out out, you know, for a
little fun, fun less What is it you're trying to
say to me, Officer Well, I was wondering if some
night we Officer.

Speaker 12 (35:24):
I dislike the way you look at me, and I
detest the way you talk to me.

Speaker 11 (35:29):
I know a plan. Oh, I dare say, I could
show you a give great time.

Speaker 12 (35:34):
Have you any questions to ask me in your line
of duty as a police officer? Police officer? Indeed, who
shall watch the watchman? Good night?

Speaker 11 (35:47):
Now there is a dish. I'm afraid you angered her,
Officer Pederewski. There's something you must know. Well what is it, Dennis? Well? Well,
what what could I tell him? Could I tell him

(36:11):
that maut Man haden had spoken in a threatening manner
about both Harry Perkins and Professor Bonnante? Could I tell
him that she had been out somewhere when the professor
was killed? And about the corn starch? Why did she

(36:32):
want the cornstarch? Wasn't that something that might be of
interest to the police? And yet I couldn't say a word. Hey, Dennis, oh,
Officer Paderewski, have you found anything new about the murders?

(36:56):
The corn starch killer? It's all over the media, yes,
Yet has anyone reported seeing anyone who might be a suspect?

Speaker 10 (37:05):
Not a rumble.

Speaker 11 (37:06):
But how this guy can manage to sneak up behind
his victim and just slip the knife into the back?
You say, guy, why are you so sure? Are you
trying to tell me it could be a dame? Well,
then you're not a bad guy. But when it comes
to figuring out murder, you've ran over your head. But

(37:28):
suppose I were to tell you, hold it, hold it?

Speaker 12 (37:31):
Who dares she hit?

Speaker 11 (37:33):
Who? Who look across the street? Miss men hate get
the walk on her? And at that moment I saw her.
I saw more men Hayden for the first time. It

(37:54):
was a flash of revelation. I saw her as the
most beautiful and desirable woman in the world. How could
she be a killer, And even if she is, which
is a ridiculous assumption, how can you lose her? I

(38:18):
ran home as quickly as I could. I listened. I
could hear her upstairs in her room. Oh, my darling lord.
I was about to knock on her door and make
my impassionate declaration of love. When I heard the sound?

(38:39):
Was it my imagination? Was she sharply a knife? What
could I do? I went back to my sitting room
to think. I turned on the radio. There was a
program of eighth century Albanian folk music. It put me
to sleep. I woke. It must have been hours later.

(39:04):
The radio is still.

Speaker 16 (39:05):
On and now the news headline on the hour, the
notorious corn starch kill her has struck again. No another victim,
this time an officer of the law. But toldmen Rutherford
Hays Paderewski killed while walking his beat, stabbed in the
back and as the signature, a smudge of corn starch
across his cheek. More details as they come in. Now

(39:26):
we returned to.

Speaker 11 (39:30):
I waited for miss Menhaden to come home, and finally
I heard the front door open and close, and her
footsteps in the hallway heard miss men Haiden. Oh, good evening.
Uh are you all right? Of course? Why do you ask?

(39:52):
Will you? You know? There was another murder, another murder,
the officer bad Arrivski. The police say it was by
the same person, do they He was stabbed in the
back and the usual signature the corn starch was smudged

(40:14):
on his face.

Speaker 12 (40:15):
Well, that's one less of them, then, if you'll excuse me.

Speaker 11 (40:22):
Miss Manhadden, you remember you borrowed the corn starch. Yes, oh,
shall I return it? Oh? You were about to tell
me what you used it for? Face powder? Face powder?

Speaker 12 (40:40):
Well, of course, at one time ladies only used cornstarch
or rice powder.

Speaker 11 (40:46):
Why would you want to use anything at all.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
You're beautiful.

Speaker 11 (40:53):
What are you saying? Desirable?

Speaker 12 (40:56):
Mister truffle? Do not look at me like that.

Speaker 11 (40:59):
Not you, your face, your body, see lust in your eyes.
Don't look at me, dearest Maude. Fool, lou lossibious, fool.
She ran upstairs to her room and slammed the door.
I knew, I knew now how three men had died.

(41:24):
She did not sneak up behind them, No, no, She
approached them slowly, with her mouth parted in a slow smile,
her eyes shining with promise, and she embraced them, which
is how the corn starch powder rubbed off on their faces.
And as she kissed them passionately, she deftly inserted the

(41:50):
knife into their backs, where it quickly found a home
in their hearts. I sat in my chair and I listened.
Did I hear the sound of the knife being sharpened again?
And now the door is opening upstairs, and I hear

(42:13):
steps approaching. Yes, I see her, she's coming down to me.
And her hair, her beautiful golden hair, has fallen across
her shoulders, and her face has a smile, a tender

(42:36):
smile of invitation. And there's a light, a light It
seems to be smoldering in her eyes, and she's wearing
a room I cannot conceal, nor does she mean it
to conceal the soft, beautiful.

Speaker 17 (42:57):
Curves of her body as she's coming closer. Kiss me, Dennis,
Kiss me, Dennis Darling. Shall I let her place her
arms around me? Or shall I stop her?

Speaker 11 (43:12):
Shall I demand to see if she holds a knife
in the sleeve of her robe?

Speaker 12 (43:16):
Kiss me, Dennis Darling, Kiss me?

Speaker 11 (43:18):
Is this how she approached the others? Is this what
she said to each of them before she killed them?

Speaker 10 (43:26):
Hot?

Speaker 12 (43:27):
Dennis, I love you?

Speaker 11 (43:29):
How do I know she killed anybody? I want you now, Dennis, Now, yes, now,
right now. I cannot destroy the magic of this moment.
I must take her in my arms. Now I can't
help myself. I must take her in my arms.

Speaker 18 (43:58):
Did he win?

Speaker 11 (43:59):
All?

Speaker 19 (44:00):
Ose?

Speaker 9 (44:01):
What do you think I regret to say that the
cornstarch killer had struck again?

Speaker 10 (44:07):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (44:08):
In these emancipated days, we are.

Speaker 11 (44:11):
All equal, all the way.

Speaker 9 (44:13):
Equal pay for equal work is what the ladies quite
justly demand. And so it happened with Maude men Hayden,
captured finally by a policewoman. I might add and she
received equal pay for her work. She was sentenced to
a fatal visit to the scaffold. I shall return shortly.

(44:45):
Our friend Dennis Truffle died in the violence of passion,
and yet he probably died happy in the arms of
the woman he loved. It wasn't much of an affair,
perhaps from your perspective or mine, but it was the
great love of his life. And if it was of
only momentary duration, well who is to say longevity is

(45:10):
always for the best in these matters? After all, you
will admit he didn't have time to grow tired of her.
Our cast included Robert Dryden, Marion Selders, and Earl Hammond.
The entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown.
And now a preview of our next tale.

Speaker 20 (45:33):
Hello, Well, I just thought you'd like to know the
grand jury handed on indictments against your clients, doctor Grant
and missus Stafford. I'm just having warrants issued against them,
both for first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

Speaker 21 (45:48):
And you know that's going to be a waste of
time out.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
You don't say, I just did.

Speaker 21 (45:52):
Ballistics showed that Missus Grant was killed with a bullet
from a gun other than the one on a scene
of the crime. That gun has disabid al.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Without it, you have no case. You wouldn't want to
bet on that with you.

Speaker 11 (46:04):
I'm not a betting man.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
It's just as well.

Speaker 20 (46:07):
I've got a nice little surprise to spring on you,
just for once see you in a cart al.

Speaker 11 (46:16):
But you got j such me.

Speaker 21 (46:19):
I'm more worried about what I may have got. Like
they say, a bull by the tail.

Speaker 9 (46:26):
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Speaker 14 (46:33):
This is E. G.

Speaker 9 (46:34):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant dreams.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
Dark, glad to say my day, the thirteen and the
thirty R I say, star by Basha.

Speaker 22 (48:10):
Is so aware, Jim, Jim Howard, All in this way, Bill,

(48:32):
Bill Andrews you Ole Hill Rover, Golly, Am I glad
to see you well?

Speaker 3 (48:36):
Jim Howard. Welcome to Kate Howell. You're just the medicine,
the doctor order, and you're the doctor. How are you?

Speaker 19 (48:42):
Bill?

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Never better?

Speaker 13 (48:43):
Say?

Speaker 3 (48:44):
Am I glad to shake hands with you again? You're
the same old Jim. Five years haven't changed you a
single bit. Well, I'm sorry I can't say the same
thing about you. You look tired, almost sick. I say
you aren't ill?

Speaker 11 (48:55):
Are you ill?

Speaker 3 (48:56):
Oh? No, no, I've just been working hard, not much Sleeply.
Come on, I've got a wagon waiting right over here.
Wagon sure, nothing fancy about us. We'll take the wagon
to the boat landing and then we'll row over to
my island. Now wait him at Bill? Are you trying
to rib me? What do you mean your island? Oh?
Didn't I tell you I hadn't lived in kpe Howell
for three years? I? Well, I find it more pleasant

(49:19):
and comfortable.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Out on the island.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
But what island? Boats around herell have another name for it,
but don't mind them. If you hear it, I call
it a chape Hmmm, say that again, Bill, a chapell?

Speaker 14 (49:32):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Scandinavian? Or Esperano the French? Come on, here's the wagon
over here? Young John's waiting on the boat landing? Or
I say, how is young John jem? I I don't know.
I'm worried about him. He's having trouble with his studies.
Doesn't seem to like books in hate's company. Well, I'd
say he's more lonesome than anything else. It's more than

(49:55):
lonesomeness Bill. Ever since Bill Junior died, he he hasn't
been the same. Angela and I were sorry to hear
about Bill Junior. It's pretty sudden, wasn't it. Yes, pretty sudden.
That's the way it is in this country. Though so
much fever, so few conveniences. But by the way, you say,

(50:15):
Angela and the child would be along in a few days. Oh, yes,
you've got my wire, got it yesterday? I didn't know
your sister lived at Laston. Oh yes, she has for years.
Angela wants to visit about a week and then she'll
come on down here to Cape har By Steamer. Oh incidentally,
old man, do you think this country's all right for
the baby? Had us shots?

Speaker 23 (50:32):
Has she?

Speaker 19 (50:32):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (50:32):
Yes, As I did everything you suggested in your letter.
You know that letter you wrote, almost cared Angela out
of coming, she said, if it's that dangerous here, she
doesn't think we should risk the child's life by bringing
her here. Well, there's no danger at all. That the
child's been inoculated against the three diseases I mentioned. I
took care of that, all right. You're sure there's no
other danger. I've taken care of any other danger there

(50:57):
might be. Hmm, what do you mean, just that there's
nothing in the world for your Angela to worry about.
Please believe me, Jane, all right, O, ma'am, all right. Huh.
Hansel and I are on the first vacation we've had
since we've been married, and believe you me, we're here
to make the best of it. Good. That's fine. Come on,

(51:17):
the wagon's waiting. See right over there, fine country, a
marvelous We've enjoyed the whole trip so far and didn't

(51:39):
even get seasick on the way across, not even the baby,
and she only a year old. And say, I'm anxious
to see that girl. How come you named her Sandra? Oh,
that's one of Angela's favorite names. Could your name? I
like it. This is the blameest means of transportation I've
ever had to endure. I thought you would at least
have your own limousine now, Jim, I haven't been doing

(52:03):
so well lately. I hope you'll be able to put
up with what I have to offer you on the island,
rough and rugged? Is it quite I built the cabin myself.
It's not much, but it's comfortable. Oh, by the way,
did you bring the books I wrote you about books?

Speaker 5 (52:22):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (52:22):
Yes, they're in the trunk. They're good. I must say,
that's the strangest collection of books I've ever heard of.
What kind of experimenting you doing on that island? Anyway?
It's pretty serious, Jim, I assure you it must be.
I read your books on the way across you. You did, Yes, indeed,
doctor Haljan Woodward's book on Chanthrophy and Henry Joseph McClure's

(52:46):
Pampered on the disease Lumpus Volgaris and Guy Enders story
Werewolf of Paris, and two other books on werewolves kept
for the life of me, imagine, Andrews, what do you
want with books like that out here in this wilderness?
All right, Jim, here we are, Oh John, here's Jim Howard.

(53:15):
Remember mister Howard. Don't you Johnny?

Speaker 15 (53:17):
What' sure he does?

Speaker 3 (53:18):
How are you?

Speaker 13 (53:19):
John?

Speaker 14 (53:19):
Old boy?

Speaker 3 (53:20):
All right? Glad to see you, sir, I say, was
that old smile I used to see here? Let me
shake your hand. I don't want to shake hands. Oh
come on, now, we're old friends. Alright, we know, mister Hallick. Oh,
I say, Jim, just a minute, let go mister Hallid there,
Jim shake just like old friends.

Speaker 7 (53:40):
Let go my hands.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
Let go Jim, please, I say, the boy's Handbill, Come on,
Jim into the boat with you. Come along, Johnny, Johnny,
get into the boat. Sun, Yes, sir, Jim, all right,

(54:04):
I'm I'm shutting off. All right, Johnny you want to
take the oars for the exercise or you want me
to row? Well?

Speaker 24 (54:14):
Son?

Speaker 3 (54:14):
I told him not to shake my hand. I told him, Johnny,
Can I help?

Speaker 12 (54:18):
It isn't my boart of my hand?

Speaker 3 (54:19):
On? Johnny, you want to row or not? Yes, sir? Oh? Okay, Son,
up to it, Johnny, Sonny, if I did something, come
on down to the other end of the boat. Will
you here?

Speaker 14 (54:42):
Sit here?

Speaker 3 (54:43):
I see Andrews that boy's hand. Quiet. He's upsetting up
with Bill the palm of Johnny's hand. Good lord man,
it's all covered with a thick rope of hair. Okay, Jim,

(55:08):
this is your room. Say this is fine? You say
you built this yourself, Billy, it'll be a bit of it.
How do you like my island? I think it's perfect,
but pretty inconvenient. Oh, I don't mind, Sally, we had
to arrive here so late. I'll show you around in
the morning. Is I'm anxious to see the rest of

(55:28):
your place, Bill. I want to talk to you more
about your work. Yes, of course tomorrow. It's pretty late now, yes,
it is late. I'm afraid i'd rather bored you a
man with my chatter at the dinner table. Oh, Jim,
you heathen. You've never bought me a minute and all
the time I've known you. But that man Raphel of

(55:49):
yours is certainly an excellent cooked. Yes, he's an excellent
tutor for young Johnny too. You'll find him quite helpful
if you want anything. Fine. Oh, by the way, the
people in this part of a superstitious love, Jim, don't
let them bother you with any of their nonsense, nonsense,
a silly rot about well things in the night. Oh

(56:11):
there's nothing, of course, that they take all sorts of
means to ward off well, the evil spirits. Oh, I
see here, I'll set this charm here on your desk.
You won't be using the desk chi, what child, Well,
it's just a simple thing that the people hereabouts always
insist on putting in the room in which a person sleeps.

(56:32):
Here these three bits of green twigs, two of them
standing upright like this. We have it. What is there?
One cross piece on the uprights like this. Then a
lake shore pebble, this little bit of charred word. There
you are. Now you're you're fully protected protected against what

(56:56):
why those evil spirits I is telling you about? And
now just forget about them, James. I just put the
charm here in case Rafael comes in. He's very superstitious
and he'll never rest until he's made a charm for
you himself. Well, all right, but I now just forget
all about it. Just a whim of Raphael's good night,

(57:17):
Jim night or man, see you in the morning, right
bright and early. You need a spare blanket. There's one
in the closets there, right, Bill, good night, nice his dreams?
M a whim of Raphael's. Uh, three bits of green twig?

(57:38):
Make sure pebble, the piece of charred would.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
M.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
That's a strange combination the what are evil spirits? So
Bill claims, But what evil spirit? Great horns? What's that?
What in the world is that?

Speaker 11 (58:02):
Bill?

Speaker 3 (58:03):
Bill? I say, Bill, what's that?

Speaker 7 (58:04):
Haling?

Speaker 25 (58:05):
It?

Speaker 26 (58:06):
Is nothing, mister, Oh you ravel notting about the wild and.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
A man in the night. What that sounded like a wolf? Wolf?

Speaker 26 (58:18):
Mister, Yes, it couldn't have been a wolf. There are
no such the marriage in this country.

Speaker 10 (58:26):
You know, I know that.

Speaker 14 (58:27):
But there you hear it.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
It will be all right, sir. Did mister Andrews give
you the child? Child?

Speaker 13 (58:40):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (58:40):
Yes, the child? It will pro thank you so from
and eating. Wait a minute, Rapiel, don't go just what
is this thing? I'm being protected from?

Speaker 26 (58:53):
Nothing? Nothing, share nothing. The people around these spots on curius,
not the su prestigious you know, and only suite. So
you were by always keeping shoon in the steeping rooms

(59:13):
of rooms.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
Yes, but I don't see why you should worry about
humoring anybody. We are here alone like this, and.

Speaker 26 (59:22):
We're sure it is joy or mister Andrew's araco.

Speaker 3 (59:29):
But he said it was you. He was satisfying by
placing the charm in my bedroom.

Speaker 14 (59:34):
Yes, that is well.

Speaker 26 (59:39):
What I mean is I'll best be going young, Johnny.
Isn't feelings so well tonight? I hope you sleep good, mister.

Speaker 10 (59:49):
Howard, and don't worry about the owling.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Not think will arm you? Hm hm, don't worry about
the howling. That's strange. That how's coming from the east
wing of this cabin right over there by, George. I'm
going to skirt this place.

Speaker 7 (01:00:12):
And have a look.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
Quiet now, the sound a light just went on in
that room. The sounds coming from that windows heavily barred,
and the window grass is frosted and curtained, so no
one can see inside. The how is coming from inside
that room. Yeah, here's the door to the place. Oh, Bill, Bill,

(01:00:38):
are you in there? Bill's some animal in there?

Speaker 15 (01:00:42):
All right? Bill?

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
Andrews, are you in there? Whatever it is it's trying
to get out? Bill, Willow you all right?

Speaker 27 (01:00:51):
Are you in there?

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
Old man?

Speaker 7 (01:00:52):
Will Are you in there?

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
Bill? Yes?

Speaker 14 (01:00:58):
Jim? What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
I just wondered if you were all right? I heard
that animal howling, and I thought that animal animal. Jim,
don't tell me you didn't hear it. You went, by
any chance dreaming already, were you, old boy? But the
howling came from inside that room. Say you have been
hearing things? I certainly have. Just before you opened the door,

(01:01:26):
I heard an animal snipping and whining and scratching at
the door. Oh now, Jim, A joke said joke. I'm
not joking. Well, come on inside and look for yourself. Then,
does anybody use this room? Certainly it's young johnn Is.
He and Bill Junior had the room together before before

(01:01:47):
we lost Bill Jr. Bill, I'd swear there was an
animal in here a moment ago normally, Jim, I'd be
a little confused by what you're saying. Well, the long trip,
worry about your baby, Donald Fair on the door, long
deep scratches like an animal's nails would make. How oh, those, Jim,
those marks are ancient. The boys used to own a

(01:02:08):
collid dog. We don't have him anymore. We used to
shut him up in here sometimes and he'd scratch on
the door for someone to let him out. So what's this, Bill?
What is this? A long, heavy chain securely fastened to
the metal bedpost and a huge leather color on the
other end. Yes, that was the college chain and color.
We well, we've never removed it from the bed. We'd

(01:02:30):
chain the dog here at night to protect the boy.
Look here, fresh blood stains on the collar and little
wisps of grayish fur. Jim, forget it. Those stains aren't fresh.
That dog hair has probably been there for ages. Yeah,
I suppose so. But why the bars on the windows

(01:02:53):
andrews just a protection for the children. Come on the
living room, ode man, and let me get you a drink.
Call it a night, shall we, Yes, I suppose we'd better.
Maybe your little sleep will do everybody a.

Speaker 14 (01:03:07):
Lot of good. Angel.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
I can't tell you how happy I am to have
you and Jim here to visit.

Speaker 12 (01:03:24):
We've looked forward to this for six months. Bill, I
am a gym for having a week head starter.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
Oh, we really like it here, Bill, baby asleep, dear, Yes, and.

Speaker 12 (01:03:33):
It's time we had some rest too, And.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
That's my hand to clear up. Oh, I forgot, I'm
going over to the mainland. I'd be back by morning.
Anything wrong, Bill, Oh no, not a thing. Jim, may
I ask a favor? Certainly that what's charm your wedding?
Solid silver, isn't it? Why? Yes?

Speaker 28 (01:03:57):
It is?

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
Do you think think you could give it to me?
Give it to you?

Speaker 25 (01:04:04):
Why?

Speaker 15 (01:04:05):
Of course?

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
I have a very special reason for wanting it. I
wouldn't ask for it if I didn't have. You are thanks,
old mad.

Speaker 24 (01:04:15):
I.

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
I hope I can return it to you. Well, good night,
see you tomorrow, I Bill.

Speaker 12 (01:04:26):
Jim, why does Bill act so strangely?

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
I don't know, dear, hmm. I wonder why he wanted
that silver watch charm and oh, by the way, you
said you had that wire for me.

Speaker 12 (01:04:47):
Oh, yes, it's here in my purse.

Speaker 25 (01:04:49):
I'll get it for you.

Speaker 12 (01:04:50):
Would you cover standard? Dear, she's kicked her blanket off.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
Oh sure, here you are.

Speaker 12 (01:04:54):
Darling, thanks.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Hmm, answered he, I say, Andrew, yes, dear, listen. In
answer to your cable, I have been able to learn
that the grandfather of William J. Andrews was shot in
France almost half a century ago by an angered mob.

(01:05:24):
His grave was recently opened, and instead of the remains
of a man, investigators found the almost perfectly intact body
of a strange beast somewhat resembling a wolf.

Speaker 11 (01:05:43):
Oh, Jim, no, just.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
Jim, what something's want?

Speaker 7 (01:05:49):
Come on, hurry.

Speaker 12 (01:05:51):
Look look at the doorway, that room with the bars
of the windows.

Speaker 7 (01:05:55):
Some animal running off there near the edge.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Jim.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
I hit that creature three times. I couldn't have missed him,
and yet the bullets didn't even slow him down.

Speaker 12 (01:06:08):
Jim, Now the doorway it's raziel.

Speaker 11 (01:06:12):
Look at him.

Speaker 29 (01:06:15):
Oh his throat.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
Only an animal could have done a thing like that night,
young John.

Speaker 12 (01:06:21):
Eggy looked, Jim.

Speaker 13 (01:06:24):
That heavy chain hanging from the bed.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
Poet collar's gone, chain snap right in two, Angela, you
and I have a job to do. Hi, I hate
to ask you to do this, but I think you've
got the courage to do what Dear, Come along with me.
You will see you're not ready to get the lid

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off the box now, oh, Eddy, Angela, steady, Oh, this.

Speaker 30 (01:07:02):
Thing is terrible, desecrating Bill Junior's grave like this, digging
up the casket.

Speaker 3 (01:07:10):
If I'm wrong about this, well we see. Help me
that bar that's it now, I hold they might over
here now, Angela.

Speaker 15 (01:07:23):
Just love nail two, Jim, just exactly what I thought.

Speaker 12 (01:07:36):
That's not a boy's body in that casket.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
It's it's what was Bill Jr.

Speaker 12 (01:07:43):
What look willy fur all over it and it head
and face like a dog's.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Like a wolf's, Oh, Jim. Young Bill Junior died a will.
His great grandfather before him had the same disease. That's
why Bill Junior died so mysteriously. That's why Andrews had

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to leave the mainland to move out here, and all
the while he's been studying trying to effect a cure.
The hair on the palms of Young Johnny's hands, not
wanting me to shake hands with him. Now I see

(01:08:33):
why Bill was so insistent about the charm of twigs
stolen Charcoalal I watch charm a silver bullet him That
howl again, that's coming from our rooms in Come on, honey,

(01:08:54):
h Look, there's no light in the room. We let
it on. It w you hurry there the light went on.
Look out there.

Speaker 10 (01:09:04):
Let me in there.

Speaker 14 (01:09:07):
So locked.

Speaker 15 (01:09:07):
This door's locked.

Speaker 7 (01:09:10):
Who's in there?

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
Open this door?

Speaker 14 (01:09:12):
Open up?

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Open up, this door, open up.

Speaker 17 (01:09:15):
I dayk.

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
Wh Everything's finished now, Young Johnny, he's dead. Or Fantasy.

Speaker 23 (01:10:21):
Friday the thirteenth, and you have heard Scott Bishop's thirteenth
original tale of Dark Fantasy w.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
Is for Werewolf.

Speaker 23 (01:10:35):
Ben Morris was heard tonight as Jim Howard. Garland Moss
was Bill, Andrews eleanor Nayla Corn took the part of
Angela Howard. Fred Wayne was Raphael, and Don Stoltz played
Young Johnny. Next Friday Night at the same time, listen
to the fourteenth in the series of Dark Fantasy Dramas,

(01:10:57):
an intriguing, exciting story called A Delicate Case of Murder
written by Scott Bishop, a strange, weird tale of a
spiritualistic medium who suddenly finds herself in the midst of
a vicious and well planned murder plot with herself the victim.

(01:11:19):
Murder and fantasy combined to produce one of the most
eerie adventures you have ever heard. In A Delicate Case
of Murder, Tom Paxton speaking, Dark Fantasy comes to you

(01:11:41):
each Friday night from w k Y, Oklahoma to day.
This is the National Broadcasting Company.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
But I oh.

Speaker 14 (01:12:10):
Fate plays no favorite. It could happen to you, Book.

Speaker 18 (01:12:20):
Eighty three, page nine hundred and forty seven in the
Diary of Faith.

Speaker 14 (01:12:34):
Yes, here it is the.

Speaker 18 (01:12:36):
Name Marvin Thomas, occupation secretary. Yes, Marvin, as a male secretary,
you have been successful. Your pay is more than twice
what other men in similar positions receive. But you have
earned it, haven't you, Marvin. And what you've gained in money,

(01:13:01):
you have lost in self respect, For although you and
your employer are of equal age and intelligence, his endless,
humiliating domination has made you so intimidated and obsequious. He
ruled you completely. And now I Faith intervene and because

(01:13:23):
of a little thing, you will be forced through a decision,
a decision or evil. As this man moves through life,
You who listen may take me unfair, but faith is
not cruel, not unmindful of mortal rights. In a moment,

(01:13:45):
it will be time for another entry under the name
Marvin Thomas. When I have written, I will read from
his record in the Diary of Faith. I hope you understand.

(01:14:18):
No mortal is granted foresight to perceive the future. And
now I face look ahead at a single court, pensious instant,
to a dark pitching deck of an ocean liner far out.

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
At the.

Speaker 14 (01:14:36):
What's that, Thomas? Are you drunk?

Speaker 10 (01:14:38):
What?

Speaker 6 (01:14:39):
What?

Speaker 14 (01:14:39):
What are you doing?

Speaker 7 (01:14:40):
Put that iron power down? Thomas, You're out of your mind.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
Don't.

Speaker 14 (01:14:44):
I'm not out of my mind, mister Fielding. I'm going
to be rid of you, Thomas, So don't.

Speaker 18 (01:14:51):
Don't. No mortal has the ability to say what even
the next hour will bring or the consequences of little
things are beyond reckonings. Yes, the countless tifling incidents of

(01:15:18):
everyday life are the tools with which I faith mold
the shape of destiny. I have no choice, But you, Marvin,
were not aware of this, and you sat in the
lavish house overlooking Honolulu and nervously.

Speaker 14 (01:15:37):
Sipped the drink.

Speaker 18 (01:15:39):
Your employer, the very wealthy recluse mister Gregory Fielding, plagued
by arthritis and addicted to cynicism, was talking about you
in the presence of a beautiful woman, Nina Carroll.

Speaker 14 (01:15:55):
And what's more, Timas, it's all your fault. I'm sorry,
mister Fielding, but I'm really not stupid, Thomas.

Speaker 18 (01:16:00):
You're merely simeless. I told you to put a thing
in that letter to Barnes. If you've done that properly,
he wouldn't have dared to lay the shipments. Now it'll
be at least two weeks late.

Speaker 25 (01:16:10):
Oh what does it matter? After all, the copal can spoil, can.

Speaker 18 (01:16:14):
No, Nina, but the market can That lily livered namby
pamby attitude Thomas has will cost me several thousand dollars, right, Thomas.

Speaker 14 (01:16:22):
Yes, sir, I'm afraid that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
You're so timid.

Speaker 18 (01:16:25):
A pat on the wrist is your idea of severity.

Speaker 14 (01:16:28):
And listen to me, Thomas.

Speaker 18 (01:16:30):
I told you to be tough in that letter to Barnes,
and I.

Speaker 14 (01:16:32):
Meant put the pair of the devil in him? Do
you hear me?

Speaker 7 (01:16:36):
Pray your drums?

Speaker 18 (01:16:38):
Here's my not concern. I've got it all over my hands.
Out of the way, Thomas, I'll have to go wash
it off. Excuse me, Nina?

Speaker 25 (01:16:48):
Well what are you staring at? Thomas?

Speaker 11 (01:16:50):
Right?

Speaker 14 (01:16:51):
Sorry? Miss Carol? I will thanks for taking my chide.

Speaker 25 (01:16:56):
Taking your side. Don't be ridiculous. What the matter is
my lipstick.

Speaker 31 (01:17:01):
Gone upside down?

Speaker 25 (01:17:02):
You'll still staring?

Speaker 14 (01:17:04):
Sorry? I didn't mean that is?

Speaker 25 (01:17:07):
Oh good, heavens, don't be ashamed. A woman thrives on
things stir days, ca.

Speaker 14 (01:17:14):
Nina, you're so beautiful.

Speaker 25 (01:17:16):
Careful Thomas, you'll burn your fingers.

Speaker 19 (01:17:20):
Yes, run along now.

Speaker 25 (01:17:22):
Oh but I thought we'd have the evening together.

Speaker 18 (01:17:24):
I'm sorry, but Thomas has made such a mess of things.
I'll have to get to work. Tell Clint to bring
the car around. Thomas's to drive missus Carol home.

Speaker 14 (01:17:31):
It's Clint night all. He's gone to the building tall.
I called car. No, you may as well round yourself.
You'll be no help to me here there, will sir.
I'll get a car, yes, Thomas, a little thing. Still drink?

Speaker 18 (01:17:53):
And now you were driving Nina home And although she
rode in the back seat couver combined with my hatred
you held for mister Fielding made you bold and record.

Speaker 14 (01:18:09):
Nina, Nina, you yourself told me not to be ashamed.
And I'm not beautiful. I'm in love with you.

Speaker 25 (01:18:19):
Why Tom, are you kitty?

Speaker 14 (01:18:21):
You are not kitty. We're away from the house now,
won't you call me? Marvin?

Speaker 25 (01:18:28):
What would Gregory say about this?

Speaker 14 (01:18:29):
I don't care. I despise him. He's a mean, sickly beep.
How can you possibly be in love with him?

Speaker 25 (01:18:36):
What makes you think I am? Why are we stopping?

Speaker 14 (01:18:43):
You're not in love with mister Fielding. I thought maybe
you'd like to write up here in the front seat with.

Speaker 25 (01:18:50):
Me, so you're a man and not a mouse after all? No, Thomas,
I think not. I'll ride back here. You're just doing
this because even must gray.

Speaker 14 (01:19:00):
So that's not true, Nina. I love you.

Speaker 31 (01:19:04):
This has gone far enough. The ghost sign in my
life is the dollar sign. You haven't got it, and
I don't think you will have the nerve to ever
get it. So start driving, Thomas.

Speaker 14 (01:19:14):
All right, but you're seeing I'm going to change things,
do you hear? I sut up with his insults in
his high handed ways long enough for twelve years I've
been led. Well, now I'm going to do something about it.
You just wait, say an idea, once planted gras with

(01:19:40):
sufficient incentive, often takes root and grows. That is why
the next morning you work with your employer. The things
he said formed the strange patterns in your mind.

Speaker 18 (01:19:57):
I much, I have decided to go to Australia myself.
Relia on the core Pack deal with me. I asked,
why they need a vacation. Besides, I want to see
the Corpak brothers squirm. I've arranged to have him pay
the entire amount in cash one hundred thousand dollars. It's
liable to break them. It should be interesting to watch

(01:20:18):
them pay a fortune to a man they've never seen,
whom they know only is a letterhead powerful enough to
crush him.

Speaker 14 (01:20:25):
And besides, I've never been to Australia. Are you blind? No,
I want to sail.

Speaker 18 (01:20:30):
You're coming with me to make all the necessary arrangements
for next Wednesday. Yes, and by the way, called doctor Kimoto.
Tell him my arthritis is bad again. I want a
treatment this afternoon at three. And while he's here, you
may as well have him arrange for a doctor in
Sydney to continue the treatment. Oh and Thomas, yes, please

(01:20:50):
don't bongle that point. Stress the fact that I must
have them on time once a week. Understand.

Speaker 14 (01:20:56):
Yes, mister.

Speaker 18 (01:21:03):
Your idol threat to change things was no longer idle
Marvin thommits now it had begun to grow. An idea
was taking form, And as you went about the petty
routine of the day, the words of your employer echoed
in your mind.

Speaker 14 (01:21:23):
He would pay the entire amount in cash, one hundred
thousand dollars.

Speaker 32 (01:21:29):
He is fortune to a man they've never seen. They
know new movie the letter in Australia. One hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 14 (01:21:50):
Oh hello, doctor Kimoto, come in and mister Feeling, he
is going to make a trip to Sydney. He liked
you to arrange with the doctor there to continue the
treatment for your art writers. Can you do it? Oh, yes, yes,
I can do it. And stress the importance that the
treatment beyond time. Mister Fielding made a particular point of

(01:22:11):
that you're smiling. Is something wrong? No, oh, no care
of it. It isn't really important, is it. That's why
you're amused?

Speaker 18 (01:22:22):
Well, it is not for me to say modern medicine.
Is it a poor combination of drugs and psychology?

Speaker 14 (01:22:29):
Yes? That so you're a pretty slie dofter getting a
fat sea each week for twelve years for your tycology.

Speaker 18 (01:22:38):
Or do not misunderstand me, master Thomas, we are psychology
is important, but the drug, the interjection, and the cabots,
they are most definite proper Yes, smilen. Another item on

(01:22:58):
your list was checked off. Another step taken down a
path new and fraying for you, a desperate, evil path.

Speaker 14 (01:23:09):
On the rules of.

Speaker 18 (01:23:10):
Delivering a package. You went Fornina Carroll's cottage.

Speaker 25 (01:23:14):
Thomas, what are you doing here?

Speaker 14 (01:23:16):
Can to talk to you? Anina is tremendously important to me.
It's about the other night when I drove you home.

Speaker 25 (01:23:23):
I told you that had gone far enough.

Speaker 14 (01:23:25):
But I'm in love with you. I must know how
you feel about me.

Speaker 25 (01:23:29):
I'll see your mardel well. I told you already.

Speaker 31 (01:23:33):
As a person, I like you very much. But there
are other things in the world I like, Noah, things
that money can buy, and under the circumstances I cannot.

Speaker 14 (01:23:41):
For I had money, lots of money, things would be different.

Speaker 25 (01:23:48):
There, decidedly different model.

Speaker 14 (01:23:50):
That's what I wanted to hear you say, oh hello,
sinship line. Yes, I'd like to know what time the
Bendamin B sales for Sydney At nine thirty pm from

(01:24:15):
Pier thirteen. I think I want to make a reservation.
I want to reserve a cabin on Wednesday, first class.
Mister Gregory Fielding, No, no one else. Mister Fielding is
traveling alone. Yes, as far as.

Speaker 18 (01:24:38):
The steamship company would know, mister Fielding was traveling alone.

Speaker 14 (01:24:44):
But that was not the truth.

Speaker 18 (01:24:47):
Or you had every intention of being aboard to Benjamin
B two when she sailed. Only you and I faith
knew that knew the full implication of that unfruit, and
now there was no turning back. You would follow the
road you had chosen to its inevitable end. In a moment,

(01:25:12):
it will be time for another entry in the Diary
of Faith. Yes, Marvin, your plan was simple but daring,

(01:25:43):
and as the day of departure approached, your confidence mounted.
No one knew your employer's habits as intimately and completely
as you. You knew them so well that, given the opportunity,
you would actually become Gregory Fielding. And it was your

(01:26:04):
intention to give yourself that opportunity. On Wednesday evening, you
boarded the ship to arrange the final details for mister Fielding,
and then you phoned him from the docks.

Speaker 14 (01:26:19):
Mister Fielding, this is Talma.

Speaker 3 (01:26:21):
Is everything in order in my cabin?

Speaker 14 (01:26:22):
Yes, I guess checked it myself. It's a very nice cabin,
says Number A twelve. I'll arrive at nine five, very rose.
Would you like me to order a late supper for you?

Speaker 7 (01:26:35):
Not a father, but as in the stateroom.

Speaker 14 (01:26:39):
I've taken care of everything, mister Fielding, everything, mister Bieldings,
the buildings. Oh there you are, in Thomas. I've been
looking all over for you.

Speaker 18 (01:26:55):
Here take this bang, stupid crab, stuffy officials worth my stateroom.

Speaker 14 (01:27:00):
This racer. Ride down this passageway to the.

Speaker 18 (01:27:02):
Lead the way, Thomas. I want to get out of
the citiotic mom. We're under racer. Thank Heaven so many Now,
maybe that mob out there will quiet down.

Speaker 14 (01:27:19):
If I didn't. They make a suggestion, mister Fieldinger, the
deck will be cool soon. You might enjoy the open
air if your room stays hot. Good idea.

Speaker 18 (01:27:28):
But I'll wait until that getting crowd has gone to bed.
I can't stand him. You know I have had a
chair placed for you on the boat day. It will
be secluded in private there.

Speaker 14 (01:27:39):
Oh we're fine, Thank you for it. Not a dolph,
now you'll excuse me.

Speaker 18 (01:27:47):
Yes, Marvin, Now everything was ready. All that remained was
the deed itself. But you expected no difficulty there, and
so you walked the deck and mingled with the passengers,
waiting until they had retired, For only then could you strike.

(01:28:10):
But at that moment, Thomas, I faith again moved in
your life. In cabin A twelve, mister Fielding was unpacking
a briefcase and the picture fell to the floor. He
picked it up, looked at it, and, on an idol whim,
reached for the telephone. Hello, this is mister Fielding in

(01:28:33):
A twelve. I want to send a radiogram to Miss
Nina Carroll, four twenty kilometer drant Honolulu. Message Nina, take
plain for Sydney. Meet me in my office at five
pm on the fourteenth. Signed it, Gregray, Yes Marvin. Unknown

(01:28:59):
to you, the ship's radio was splashing a message to Nina.
Now you were pleased because you knew the other passengers
would go below all the sooner.

Speaker 3 (01:29:11):
You were right.

Speaker 18 (01:29:13):
The time had come you pulled a heavy iron extension
from its bracket and climbed to the boat deck, and
you stood in the shadows. And what Gregory feeling had
He shifted uncomfortably in the deck chairs.

Speaker 14 (01:29:32):
Fa It's only I said, Thomas.

Speaker 18 (01:29:36):
Why are you lurking in those shadows like a shy schoolboy?
You should be in bed at this tower, I was restlessly.

Speaker 14 (01:29:43):
The should always make me feel that way.

Speaker 19 (01:29:45):
Yes, there's power in the ocean.

Speaker 14 (01:29:47):
You can feel the Thomas, but you'll never understand it.
I'm afraid.

Speaker 18 (01:29:51):
Why do you say that you have no concept of power?
That's why you're weakened, indecisive.

Speaker 14 (01:29:57):
I think you're wrong, mister Fieldina silly.

Speaker 18 (01:30:00):
Here we are two men of the same age and
equal intelligence. Yet look at the difference. You can't make
a decision and act on it, but I can.

Speaker 14 (01:30:09):
That's the difference, Thomas. There's no difference. But that is
how you're talking like a fool.

Speaker 33 (01:30:14):
There's no difference. The people who don't know us will
fail to see in these difference, Thomas, are you're drunk?
What what are you doing? Put that iron bar down? Thomas,
You're out of your mind.

Speaker 19 (01:30:25):
Does not.

Speaker 14 (01:30:29):
I'm not out of my mind. I'm going to get
rid of you, mummers. Oh don't.

Speaker 18 (01:30:44):
Yes, Marvin, the last earthly sound of Gregory Fielding was
swallowed up by wind and water. You felt you were safe,
free and rich for the rest of the voyage. You
if you hurt your new role until it was perfect
at last. When the ship docked Sydney, you were anticipating

(01:31:08):
the business meeting of the Coal Pax Brothers with the
same malicious delight mister Fielding would have.

Speaker 14 (01:31:16):
You went at once the branch offices of the firm.
So you're mister burch our Sydney branch. Well, mister Burch,
I'll require some minor accommodations during my stay here. I
want a private office and a private wire. Your best
secretary at my disposal exclusively. Bring out them as the

(01:31:37):
reports I look them over. Kurts. That's right, mister Birch.
The Coalpac Brothers already been notified as to the terms
of the payment. Have them here in my office at
eight this evening. I'll handle the whole thing myself.

Speaker 18 (01:32:02):
Yes, Marvin. In a matter of hours the transaction would
be completed. You were sure that nothing could stop you now,
But then another little thing happened, and two unrelated elements
in your borrowed life were brought into close conjunction. Yes,

(01:32:27):
what is it?

Speaker 14 (01:32:31):
A doctor Cooper? I don't know any doctor Cooper. But
does he want from a doctor Kalmoto? Oh? Of course
send him in, Miss O'Brien, Good afternoon, mis Fielding. I'm
doctor Cooper. How do you do? Doctor Kimoto wrote me

(01:32:53):
about you. I've wrote all the necessary items with me
for your treatment. Oh well, doctor, as a matter of fact,
I'm I'm very busy ges now, I wonder would you
mind terribly coming to my hotel later in the seeding? Well, no,
certainly not. But doctor Kimoto was so emphatic regarding the
time yet I know, but as it happens, I'm too

(01:33:14):
busy to take it. At the moment, I'll see you
say at nine thirty. Yes, there's a lady here, Oh doctor,
just a moment, mister Brian, where's the lady?

Speaker 3 (01:33:35):
Now?

Speaker 14 (01:33:37):
I see, Tell miss Carol, I'm with my doctor. I'm
taking a treatment. I won't be able to see her.
She's to go back to her hotel and wait until
I call, and Miss O'Brien until the call tact brothers arrive,
I am not to be disturbed under any circumstances. Is
that clear?

Speaker 34 (01:33:55):
Yes, I've changed my mind, doctor, I'll take that treatment. Fine, fine,
So now I rule your shirts for you. At least
tables there are exactly the same as you've been getting
in Honolulu. Doctor Kamoso sent me complete, detailed instructions. Everything
will be just as he would have given.

Speaker 14 (01:34:13):
Fine. Fine, been taking these teatments for over twelve years,
you know, couldn't get along without them. Simoto and I
were students together years ago. I have great faith in you.
He's an excellent position. Yes, I suffer sorry this moment
now that there you are. Injection always thinks a little,
but it does the word only thing that gives me

(01:34:35):
any relief.

Speaker 34 (01:34:35):
It I'll leave my card with you, mister Field, in
case you want to reach me before next time.

Speaker 14 (01:34:41):
Oh fine, thank you doctor, and good day, Good day.

Speaker 18 (01:34:50):
Yes, m Iven, little things often become undelievably important. Had
the doctor not get in your office when Nina arrived,
your whole elaborate plan might have collapsed. But now you
could meet her later and explained it all where her
shocked surprise would not matter. All that was left now

(01:35:14):
was the business meeting. With the coalpax brothers. You sat
at the table, and one by one went through the
steps of the transaction. The coal packs were afraid of you.
You gave them no reason to doubt your identity. At
last you lifted the fortune in your hands one hundred

(01:35:36):
thousand dollars. Very well, gentlemen, amount is correct, Our business
is included. Thank you, and good night. Yes, Marvin Thomas,
it was done. You were rich and free. But although

(01:36:02):
the laws of nations differ, and the philosophies of people's vary,
there remains one in this capable constant in the universe,
the irrevocable law of justice. And you who listen, unless
you think fate a conspiratory and evil aid well this

(01:36:22):
final entry. For a few moments, I will write for
the last time in the record of Myrvin Thomas. When
I have written, I will read from the Diary of Faith. Yes, us,

(01:37:01):
had you carefully placed the fortune in your pocket, you
were sure you now had everything you had ever wanted.
You attributed the spinning in your head and the weakness
in your knees to the sprain the during masquerade. But
your face became drenched with cold perspirations, and the short

(01:37:22):
walk from the elevator to your room left you breathless.
You stumbled inside and locked the door. Everything was spinning
dizzily now, and the floor seemed to roll beneath your feet. Now,
you stumbled to the telephone to call doctor Cooper.

Speaker 14 (01:37:45):
This is doctor Cooper, Doctor mister Balley. Something's row can sake?
I can't bring I've got a cold sweater. Those pills
the tableture gave me? What were they?

Speaker 3 (01:38:00):
Why?

Speaker 35 (01:38:00):
They're the same thing you've been taking right along, sir.
They're quite harmless, I assure you.

Speaker 14 (01:38:05):
But the injection, what about it?

Speaker 35 (01:38:08):
It shouldn't bother human's feeling. I followed doctor Kimona's instructions
of the letter given in strict accordance with a cumulative
immunity you've developed over twelve.

Speaker 36 (01:38:17):
Years, DOCA. What would happen if a man with no
immunity receive injection?

Speaker 35 (01:38:28):
It's antagon effects harmless to you because you've gradually build
a persistence to it. Without the cumulative immunity that DOSAC
gave you, would result in certain death within five hours.

Speaker 18 (01:38:42):
Then hour, and now I close the book. Marvin Thomas
is dead. Another entry has been duly noted on the
pages of eternity and justice has been served in the

(01:39:05):
case of Marvin Thomas, and in the cases of all mortals.
I faith, and but the instrument of a plan, and
the little things that happen unnoticed, apparently trivial, are the
tools with which I work. A still drink that a

(01:39:26):
man on a path of murder, and the casual remarks
led him to his own death. Underwell, the marle you
who listen and remember, there is a page for you
in the Diary of Faith, produced by Larry Finley. Diary

(01:39:54):
of Faith is a Findley transcription brought to you from Hollywood, and.

Speaker 37 (01:41:18):
Ladies and gentlemen, I invite you to spend another thirty
uncomfortable minutes in the company of your friend, the man
in Black. My story this week takes us into that
strange world we all inhabit from time to time, the
world of dreams. It's a strange country, indeed, a country

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from which, of course come nightmares. Stay wide awake, then for.

Speaker 10 (01:41:58):
Dreaming of the.

Speaker 15 (01:42:26):
Lease.

Speaker 38 (01:42:26):
Open the door, please let me come in.

Speaker 39 (01:42:32):
Oh, oh, wake at last? What's your coffee?

Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
Round of coffee?

Speaker 40 (01:42:41):
Mm hmm, it's Monday.

Speaker 13 (01:42:44):
Oh, I get up in time to talk about the shopping.

Speaker 39 (01:42:47):
Do you'll turn this week?

Speaker 11 (01:42:48):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
Now the weather forecast, well, the chilly winders will persist
for a few days.

Speaker 4 (01:42:55):
Yet, well, let she'll be starting in most parts after
the wind.

Speaker 3 (01:42:58):
It might even feel quite much.

Speaker 39 (01:43:00):
Oh I like something now, I meant coffee and brush soap, couple,
kitchen rolls.

Speaker 38 (01:43:07):
Are you writing this down? Yes, you're not, Lorna. I'm writing,
and I'm writing it.

Speaker 41 (01:43:12):
Kitchen rolls look flat only works if everybody mack's in
and chin rolls.

Speaker 6 (01:43:19):
Oh.

Speaker 42 (01:43:19):
I had a postcard from Joanna Donna who Johanna Cranley there?

Speaker 39 (01:43:23):
Who lived here before you?

Speaker 6 (01:43:25):
Oh?

Speaker 39 (01:43:25):
Yeah, I said, why don't you and Laurna come and
stay with us for a weekend?

Speaker 7 (01:43:29):
Sounds great?

Speaker 38 (01:43:32):
Really russical around.

Speaker 39 (01:43:33):
There, cloud feels and long.

Speaker 38 (01:43:35):
Walks sort of.

Speaker 43 (01:43:37):
What's the matter, m.

Speaker 38 (01:43:40):
No, no, nothing, You've just broken my dream.

Speaker 44 (01:43:45):
I dreamt I was walking along the edge of a
plowed field, and beyond the field there was this house.
And as soon as I saw it, I knew I
had to get to it. Hey, yeah, I had to
get into the house.

Speaker 38 (01:44:02):
What happened?

Speaker 43 (01:44:03):
Nothing?

Speaker 38 (01:44:04):
I didn't get in?

Speaker 11 (01:44:06):
Why not? I couldn't.

Speaker 38 (01:44:09):
I knocked and knocked and there was no answer. Empty
house really wasn't empty. I know it wasn't.

Speaker 29 (01:44:14):
There was somebody there, so I.

Speaker 44 (01:44:19):
I just went on knocking and then I woke up.

Speaker 38 (01:44:22):
Listen, I only get enough fish for tu tonight. I
just might not be back if you're in tonight, aren't you?
Oh you bad?

Speaker 44 (01:44:30):
I'm still trying to catch up on last week.

Speaker 38 (01:44:33):
Right, Okay, then maybe i'll see you later.

Speaker 45 (01:44:36):
Maybe I won't, sweet dreams. If I don't, she's opened

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the door.

Speaker 38 (01:45:07):
Please let me come in.

Speaker 39 (01:45:27):
Oh of quarters to wait, Lorna. Oh, come on, wake up.

Speaker 38 (01:45:39):
I am awake.

Speaker 42 (01:45:41):
And do you think you could possibly lend me your
red jacket?

Speaker 3 (01:45:44):
Today?

Speaker 38 (01:45:45):
I was, I was in the country and then I
suddenly heard that police car. I knew that wasn't in
the dream.

Speaker 11 (01:45:54):
Oh my god?

Speaker 38 (01:45:56):
What it was the same dream, same dream as last night.
Because this never happened to you. What You've had the
same dream two nights running?

Speaker 46 (01:46:07):
Oh?

Speaker 39 (01:46:07):
This is the house dreamer.

Speaker 43 (01:46:11):
Well, I mean, you know dreams.

Speaker 38 (01:46:14):
But this is so real. I've got to get into
that house.

Speaker 29 (01:46:18):
Well, let me know when you do.

Speaker 38 (01:46:19):
Oh, don't be silly, I'll forget it. I certainly want
to it. So oh, I don't know chilling.

Speaker 39 (01:46:29):
Was it really the same?

Speaker 29 (01:46:31):
Well, not quite this time.

Speaker 38 (01:46:33):
I heard footsteps.

Speaker 44 (01:46:35):
Behind you from inside the house.

Speaker 38 (01:46:38):
There was somebody in it. I told you there was.
Oh did you see whoever was there?

Speaker 41 (01:46:45):
I heard the footsteps and then I heard them stop.
Then I heard a chain being taken off, and I
think the police car woke me up. Tell you what,
Let's go out tonight the valley at the tech.

Speaker 39 (01:46:59):
Take your mind of things.

Speaker 29 (01:47:10):
My favorite bitness is.

Speaker 3 (01:47:13):
Lorna.

Speaker 25 (01:47:14):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 29 (01:47:16):
Did you know that Vivaldi was a priest?

Speaker 38 (01:47:19):
This is not a Papaldi.

Speaker 3 (01:47:22):
Yes it is.

Speaker 38 (01:47:24):
No, it's Juliani. It's Falde.

Speaker 15 (01:47:32):
M hm.

Speaker 38 (01:47:35):
No, no, no, she's opened the door. Please let me

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come in. For God's sake, I'm sorry, said, don't you know.

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I must have fallen asleep. Let's get out of here.
Excuse me, you're right, get your back, don't go in
the middle of the peace.

Speaker 39 (01:48:53):
I can't stay.

Speaker 47 (01:48:54):
Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm.

Speaker 38 (01:49:06):
Sorry, Cass.

Speaker 10 (01:49:07):
Don't worry about it.

Speaker 38 (01:49:08):
I don't believe it happened. What the hell dreaming about?
Not the same dream as if.

Speaker 41 (01:49:15):
I'm being pushed, I must get into the house, and
at the same time I'm terrified of what's going to
happen when.

Speaker 38 (01:49:22):
I do it is only a dream, Then why do
I go on dreaming it by tonight? You can only
have been asleep for a minute. You're talking to me.

Speaker 41 (01:49:33):
It's as if there's a time sequence. Every time I
dream it, I get that bit nearer to what to
whatever's going to happen.

Speaker 12 (01:49:43):
But what happened tonight? Why did you scream what.

Speaker 38 (01:49:48):
You screamed, Lorna? In a concert? Yes, in the concert.
Why do you think we left?

Speaker 41 (01:49:54):
Oh my god, there's no joking. You're going to start
dreaming and screaming and public.

Speaker 2 (01:50:00):
I know that.

Speaker 38 (01:50:00):
I know it's no joke. I'm sorry, Kass.

Speaker 10 (01:50:04):
I don't know what to do.

Speaker 38 (01:50:06):
The eyes in the dream that the door opened? Okay, okay,
who opened it?

Speaker 14 (01:50:15):
A man?

Speaker 38 (01:50:17):
What sort of man? But my age?

Speaker 41 (01:50:22):
Tall, good looking, I suppose, but frightening. No, that's what's
so odd, I thought, my screaming he opened the door.

Speaker 38 (01:50:34):
Oh god, Cass. He looked as if he was in
some kind of shock. There was this awful icy feeling again.

Speaker 41 (01:50:47):
Look, why don't you have me get the hell out
of here, go and see Joanna and Eddie for the weekend?

Speaker 48 (01:50:53):
Did you bring you wellies, Lorna. Wouldn't you know no
rain for weeks and I'll look at it. We'll soon
be in front of you, old ee log fire with
a cup of tea. Now there should be a right turn.
A minute, keep your eyes up for a fingerpost on
the lefs?

Speaker 11 (01:51:08):
Good lord?

Speaker 38 (01:51:10):
What that over there? Do ser many?

Speaker 27 (01:51:14):
Where?

Speaker 11 (01:51:14):
What up there?

Speaker 38 (01:51:15):
That house? Stop a minute? Go back a bit, just
go back.

Speaker 43 (01:51:27):
That house.

Speaker 10 (01:51:30):
I know it.

Speaker 43 (01:51:31):
I thought you said you know.

Speaker 13 (01:51:32):
I don't mean I know it.

Speaker 38 (01:51:34):
I mean I've been there. There's a gravel drive all
around it.

Speaker 49 (01:51:38):
And from this side you have to approach it over
that field for a plowed field. Oh my god, Cass,
it's the house in my dream.

Speaker 38 (01:51:53):
I should tell me it's pouring down. Stop the engine?

Speaker 13 (01:51:59):
Where am I? Well?

Speaker 27 (01:52:00):
You're not going to go.

Speaker 38 (01:52:00):
Out to Yes, I am.

Speaker 29 (01:52:02):
I'm going over there.

Speaker 38 (01:52:04):
What I've got to see it? I don't want to
see if I'm right now, lot, Lorna. Just a minute,
I'm going.

Speaker 43 (01:52:10):
You're coming with me.

Speaker 38 (01:52:11):
Just listen to me a minute.

Speaker 41 (01:52:13):
You're really upset me with your damn dream. It stopped
and we don't want anymore. Finished, not going to try
and get in or anything. I'll tell the people we're lost,
and i'd ask them if they can direct us to
the village.

Speaker 38 (01:52:23):
Well, then I can get a good squint at it.
I shan't be long, you're crazy. I'll be back in
a minute. We'll just just don't hang about. That's all. Well,
go on, knock you come this far. Actually, there's nothing
like the house.

Speaker 1 (01:52:44):
It's exactly like the house.

Speaker 38 (01:53:05):
Oh oh, I am sorry.

Speaker 10 (01:53:11):
What do you want?

Speaker 38 (01:53:12):
Oh, I'm sorry to trouble you. It's just what do
you want? I just oh, well, I used to live here. Yes,
I know, I know you do go away?

Speaker 1 (01:53:25):
Please, what do you want?

Speaker 38 (01:53:26):
Would it be possible for me to come in for
a minute? It's so wet out, please let me.

Speaker 50 (01:53:31):
Nobody comes inside this house.

Speaker 10 (01:53:33):
But why not?

Speaker 50 (01:53:36):
Because it's haunted?

Speaker 10 (01:53:38):
Haunted?

Speaker 51 (01:53:41):
Who?

Speaker 3 (01:53:41):
Why you?

Speaker 50 (01:53:46):
It's haunted by you?

Speaker 3 (01:53:59):
Hm?

Speaker 1 (01:54:02):
Has your glasses empty?

Speaker 3 (01:54:03):
Oh?

Speaker 47 (01:54:03):
No more?

Speaker 29 (01:54:04):
Thank you, Joanna.

Speaker 38 (01:54:05):
That was delicious. Thank you, Poor Lorna. I'm glad you're
feeling a bit better. Poor Lorna was about poor me
waiting in the sheeting rain.

Speaker 10 (01:54:14):
I thought you were in the car shock.

Speaker 38 (01:54:16):
When I found I nearly died it only fainted.

Speaker 1 (01:54:18):
What I don't understand is why, Oh, wouldn't you, Eddie?

Speaker 52 (01:54:21):
I know I would if somebody called me a ghost?

Speaker 38 (01:54:23):
Please don't it didn't be no ghost like that, didn't
he of course not say a thing like that.

Speaker 11 (01:54:27):
He could have killed her.

Speaker 38 (01:54:28):
If you want my explanation, please no, no more explanations.

Speaker 42 (01:54:32):
We've gone over and over it, and I was for
telling the damn fool as much to his face I
would have.

Speaker 38 (01:54:36):
She wouldn't let me. I just wanted to get away,
back in the car and get here.

Speaker 1 (01:54:40):
You must have met him before somewhere.

Speaker 38 (01:54:41):
I have never seen her before in my life, except
in my dream.

Speaker 1 (01:54:46):
I'm trying to help her. Look, he's a good looking guy.
You see him.

Speaker 53 (01:54:50):
Somewhere subconsciously, you'd clock him, then later you dream about him.

Speaker 1 (01:54:53):
Happens all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:54:54):
I do know he's good looking.

Speaker 1 (01:54:56):
Well, I met him in the.

Speaker 53 (01:54:57):
Pub when he first took the house. It's that house
we know, jo Anna and people rented while they're looking
for a place to buy locally.

Speaker 1 (01:55:03):
Oh, he doesn't live there, Well, nobody seems to want
to live in that place.

Speaker 3 (01:55:07):
Why not?

Speaker 53 (01:55:08):
Well, I suppose it's pretty isolated between nowhere and Behold.

Speaker 38 (01:55:11):
Why did he say it? Why did he say it
was haunted. Why did he say that to me?

Speaker 41 (01:55:15):
Good lord, I've just noticed that photograph, Joanna, which one
you me and Lorna?

Speaker 42 (01:55:20):
When Lorna was moving in and you were moving out.

Speaker 38 (01:55:22):
We just agreed the sharing arrangements. I hope you and
Cass don't mind sharing tonight, Lorna. I'm quite glad. Actually,
I'm rather dreading going to bed in case I dream again? Sorry,
what the light on? Do you mind? You're not going

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to stay awake all night, just in case you can't
not sleep, in case you dream. Suppose I dream, I
get into the house.

Speaker 47 (01:55:56):
I've got to steal wing.

Speaker 10 (01:56:00):
Please God, let me stay awake. No no, I mustn't dream.

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I mustn't dream.

Speaker 1 (01:56:26):
No, no, no, no, it's you.

Speaker 10 (01:56:38):
Yes, I knew you'd come back.

Speaker 38 (01:56:42):
I've got to come inside.

Speaker 10 (01:56:47):
I beg you not, I must you know what will happen.

Speaker 29 (01:56:51):
I'm coming in.

Speaker 11 (01:56:58):
This way.

Speaker 27 (01:56:59):
Stay us.

Speaker 1 (01:57:01):
I can't then, don't.

Speaker 11 (01:57:05):
You don't have to.

Speaker 50 (01:57:07):
You can leave, leave, for God's sake, leave now.

Speaker 47 (01:57:12):
Go I can't.

Speaker 43 (01:57:17):
Come on then.

Speaker 38 (01:57:36):
And wake up, wake up, wake up Eddy.

Speaker 41 (01:57:45):
She was terrified of going to sleep, and I saw
her slumped over like this, and I tried to move
you look at her.

Speaker 38 (01:57:54):
Hyd you had to look so petrified.

Speaker 54 (01:57:56):
What could you ever seen?

Speaker 38 (01:57:57):
She looks frightened to death.

Speaker 1 (01:57:59):
I think she probably was. That concludes the witness's evidence.
Thank you.

Speaker 55 (01:58:08):
We come out of the medical report. It is signed
by doctor A. W. Trent, who finds that the only
outward manifestations of disorder lie in the contortion of the
facial muscles, for which there is no accountable cause. There
is no evidence on the body that violence was inflicted
on the deceased. In view of the medical history of

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a heart condition the legacy of rheumatic fever in adolescence,
my own opinion is that death was caused by heart
failure due to vagual inhibition. My verdict therefore is that
Lorna of Roonica Stuart died from natural causes.

Speaker 44 (01:58:48):
How could I have said anything about her dream?

Speaker 38 (01:58:51):
Dreams aren't exactly evidence, are they? He did tell a
bit of a lie.

Speaker 42 (01:58:54):
I told the police what Lorna had told me that
you went to that guy's house to ask the way.
She said he'd opened the door, scared the hell out
of her, and she'd fainted, apparently denied even opening the door.

Speaker 38 (01:59:05):
Who's the liar, Laura? You don't mean she made it
all up.

Speaker 50 (01:59:08):
How can we know?

Speaker 1 (01:59:09):
Well, you didn't see this guy, did you?

Speaker 11 (01:59:10):
Cares well?

Speaker 38 (01:59:10):
No, I didn't hang about.

Speaker 29 (01:59:12):
I just got back to the car as best I could.

Speaker 1 (01:59:14):
So we don't really know what actually happened? Do we
never shall?

Speaker 15 (01:59:17):
Now?

Speaker 38 (01:59:17):
I suppose yes, But she wasn't lying.

Speaker 39 (01:59:20):
She saw him or she saw something.

Speaker 1 (01:59:23):
Can I get you another, Brandy cass?

Speaker 38 (01:59:25):
Did you know Lorna had a weak heart?

Speaker 47 (01:59:27):
No, of course not.

Speaker 38 (01:59:30):
Oh that guy somehow connected?

Speaker 6 (01:59:32):
I know it?

Speaker 1 (01:59:32):
Better ask him? Then he followed us in here he
was at the inquest?

Speaker 3 (01:59:36):
Was he?

Speaker 38 (01:59:37):
He wasn't called to give evidence?

Speaker 10 (01:59:38):
Coming over?

Speaker 50 (01:59:40):
This is probably not the time, but uh, look, my
name's Bob Cadenia. I just wanted to say I'm terribly
sorry about your friend.

Speaker 38 (01:59:51):
Did you open the door to Lorna?

Speaker 3 (01:59:54):
Yes?

Speaker 38 (01:59:54):
So why did you lie to the police?

Speaker 50 (01:59:57):
Is there anywhere I can talk to you? I've got
to talk to come back to our house. Here's the coffee,
you see. I heard the knocking. I opened the door.
I begged her to go away. Why she wouldn't, so
I slammed the door and went upstairs. There was no

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more knocking. I thought she'd gone and then the next
day the police came. At first, they just asked if
a girl had stopped by to ask the way.

Speaker 38 (02:00:26):
To the village, and you didn't want to get involved,
so you said no.

Speaker 50 (02:00:28):
I didn't make the connection. She hadn't said anything about
asking the way, so I said no. And then they
showed me your photograph, the three of you, and then
they told me she was dead.

Speaker 1 (02:00:41):
That shook me.

Speaker 38 (02:00:42):
You recognized her, yes, said, you've already denied seen.

Speaker 50 (02:00:45):
Oh, i'd seen her.

Speaker 10 (02:00:46):
All right.

Speaker 50 (02:00:49):
Look this mayle sound crazy. I saw her in my dreams.
You dreamed from the day I moved into the house, awful,
frightening dreams. Then they began to crystallize into the same nightmare.

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I was inside the house, there was this girl outside
trying to get in. Always the same dream, the girl
I didn't see her face, walking round and round the
house trying to get in, and me desperate to keep
her out. This went on night after night. Then one
night I dreamed that I did open the door and
I saw her for the first time.

Speaker 15 (02:01:31):
Wash it.

Speaker 50 (02:01:32):
Just after I'd opened the door and seen her, I
woke up in the most got awful sweat. I was
convinced that if I had the same dream again, something
terrible would happen. That was the night before your friend
came to the house. I had spent the morning trying
to shake it off, and then there was this knocking
on the door. When I opened it, God, I got

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the shock of my life. It was far worse than
the nightmares. The girl was the dream was really happening.
She was standing outside.

Speaker 11 (02:02:03):
Looking at me.

Speaker 38 (02:02:04):
Why did you tell her?

Speaker 29 (02:02:05):
She was halting?

Speaker 50 (02:02:06):
She wasn't begging to get into the house.

Speaker 1 (02:02:07):
I was frying it to get rid of her.

Speaker 56 (02:02:09):
I knew she had to go.

Speaker 43 (02:02:10):
I felt if she didn't, it.

Speaker 1 (02:02:13):
Was something awful.

Speaker 56 (02:02:14):
I didn't know what, but I.

Speaker 50 (02:02:15):
Dreaded what might happen.

Speaker 43 (02:02:17):
Something awful did happened.

Speaker 13 (02:02:18):
And it.

Speaker 50 (02:02:20):
Worse than you think. By night, I dreamed what had
actually happened. That afternoon, but the girl had turned up again,
Only this time the dream went on. I didn't stand
the door.

Speaker 3 (02:02:40):
She came in.

Speaker 10 (02:02:43):
I led her up the stairs and.

Speaker 1 (02:02:48):
I murdered her.

Speaker 50 (02:02:51):
What That's why I went to the inquest time of death,
Cause of death.

Speaker 38 (02:02:57):
I had to find out she died of half failure.

Speaker 1 (02:03:00):
How did you with an axe?

Speaker 3 (02:03:02):
Blood everywhere.

Speaker 43 (02:03:04):
On her back?

Speaker 1 (02:03:05):
I feel responsible.

Speaker 50 (02:03:06):
I feel in some way I must have killed and never.

Speaker 11 (02:03:08):
Saw her again.

Speaker 1 (02:03:10):
She died ten hours after your meeting.

Speaker 50 (02:03:12):
Yes, but she died at exactly the time I was
killing her.

Speaker 3 (02:03:16):
In my dream, her dream.

Speaker 1 (02:03:21):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 38 (02:03:23):
She was in your dream, you.

Speaker 43 (02:03:26):
Were in hers?

Speaker 50 (02:03:27):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (02:03:28):
Oh?

Speaker 38 (02:03:29):
Don't you see you shared the same terrible dream.

Speaker 43 (02:03:35):
That's ridiculous.

Speaker 38 (02:03:37):
She was terrified of falling asleep because of what might happen.

Speaker 3 (02:03:39):
So was I.

Speaker 50 (02:03:42):
The thing is, I'm still terrified. Look, if I believe
what you say, Cass, I think people can move in
and out of other people's dreams. What scares me is
that it might happen again. I could dream that I'm
killing somebody else and I don't know what to do

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about it.

Speaker 38 (02:04:13):
Hello, I Cass, How are you doing Anna?

Speaker 57 (02:04:16):
Yes?

Speaker 38 (02:04:18):
Sorry, Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (02:04:20):
Oh you know.

Speaker 38 (02:04:23):
Anyway, it was worse for you in your heart. We're surviving.

Speaker 10 (02:04:27):
Here's three months ago.

Speaker 47 (02:04:28):
Now.

Speaker 38 (02:04:30):
I wonder how that poor guy's getting on.

Speaker 11 (02:04:34):
He left, you know, after that date, the inquest.

Speaker 38 (02:04:37):
I think about him. Listen, Eddie and I are coming
up for Sue Enderby's wedding. Oh good, we'll meet there.
What are you saying? Well, that's just it.

Speaker 13 (02:04:46):
You out here?

Speaker 38 (02:04:47):
Oh, great, on the floor anywhere. We don't mind Betty yet.

Speaker 42 (02:04:51):
You two can have a big double and I'll move
into the single.

Speaker 38 (02:04:54):
Great, see you then, then see you then?

Speaker 13 (02:04:59):
M Do you remember?

Speaker 11 (02:05:01):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (02:05:01):
You do.

Speaker 38 (02:05:03):
I'm sure you don't mind turning.

Speaker 3 (02:05:04):
Out of your room.

Speaker 1 (02:05:05):
Listen, I've got a better ride here. You girls haven't
stopped yacking all day? Well, why don't I have the
single room? Then you can talk all might? No, Well,
in that case, I'm off to bed.

Speaker 38 (02:05:14):
We're all going to bed. I'm quite looking forward to
having the room to myself.

Speaker 58 (02:06:04):
Please open the door, please, please let me come in,
Please let me in?

Speaker 1 (02:06:20):
Yeah, no, Hello, Cass Loo, I've been waiting for you,

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and we both know, why.

Speaker 10 (02:06:44):
Don't we.

Speaker 3 (02:06:46):
Hello?

Speaker 27 (02:06:48):
Hello, Hello.

Speaker 37 (02:07:02):
Well I hope that little story doesn't give you bad
dreams to night. I'm sure it won't. After all, it
was only a story, wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:07:11):
Wasn't it?

Speaker 59 (02:07:13):
Of course it was.

Speaker 37 (02:07:15):
Those taking part in its telling were Karen Archer as Lorna,
Moya Leslie as Cass, David Googe as Eddie, Joan Walker
as Joanne Dominic, Rickard's as Cadenia, and Michael Deacon as
the colonel and radio announcer. Dreaming of thee was written
by Gwen Cheryl and directed by Jerry Jones. My name

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is Edward de Sousa, and next week my story will
be of special interest to those among you who are
motorists and have experienced the terror of being caught in
a snow storm. It's entitled the Horn, and I hope
you'll join me on that journey. Interfere until then, pleasant dreams.

Speaker 60 (02:08:17):
This is five after the Hour by Less wine Rot.

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Sweep the bows across, the strings, blow softly on the reeds,
mute the brasses, make music.

Speaker 10 (02:08:50):
A man can whistle well.

Speaker 2 (02:08:52):
This is the theme.

Speaker 60 (02:09:05):
This is music composed by Frank Smith. This is music
conducted by Caesar Patrello. This is five after the Hour.

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This is the mystery, the magic, the excitation of flowing water.
This is the song of the River, starring Curly Bradley.

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This is the song of the river. This is the
music of.

Speaker 10 (02:10:20):
Water that finds its way to the sea.

Speaker 60 (02:10:24):
This is the poetry of high banks and levees and
a swift channel.

Speaker 10 (02:10:30):
This is the miracle of nature.

Speaker 60 (02:10:33):
It feeds and nourishes, and builds and gives light and
light and then destroys.

Speaker 10 (02:10:49):
This is the song of the river, Dad.

Speaker 13 (02:11:09):
Where does the river go?

Speaker 5 (02:11:11):
The river sun?

Speaker 2 (02:11:14):
That's a big question, and it'll take some time to answer.
Where does the river go?

Speaker 61 (02:11:23):
The riververse starts in heaven, way up there on high.

Speaker 27 (02:11:32):
The river start in heaven.

Speaker 2 (02:11:35):
Some just like you, A raindrop falls on a mountain top.
It's got to find the sea. It's gone things to do,
just like you.

Speaker 62 (02:12:00):
Ah, wire train drops, wire, brain drops.

Speaker 6 (02:12:16):
You're awful noisy for such little things.

Speaker 3 (02:12:20):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 63 (02:12:22):
Looks kind of parts down there on earth. Maybe I
ought to throw some rain down there might be a
bad idy.

Speaker 6 (02:12:33):
Rain drops, rain drops.

Speaker 62 (02:12:44):
Things look kind of brown, shrivel dry out down there
on earth. Thanks for agreen with you know what's required
of you. You're packed and ready to go cool well,

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lessen journey rain drops.

Speaker 43 (02:13:20):
And they hope you find the seed.

Speaker 64 (02:13:30):
Mh dad, Do rain drops really talk like that? Do
those little things really make a river? How many are there?
A hundred skillion?

Speaker 2 (02:13:49):
Maybe no, there's more than that, son, a scraw trillion
at least right away they start looking for the seed
down that mountain side. They run and skip and tumble,
bumpin' in the stones. A ziggin and a zagging, all
those drops racin' to the bottom all the time. They're

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growing bigger all the time. They're grown stronger. Pretty soon
they make a stream, and that stream says, to those stones.

Speaker 27 (02:14:23):
On my way.

Speaker 2 (02:14:25):
It's on its way, rollin' downward to the sea, with
grass of groin and on its banks, and you gent leave,
be free. It drains the sore in spring.

Speaker 5 (02:14:45):
Time and all overflows.

Speaker 2 (02:14:49):
Its banks, leaving ridgein' fertile land. The faleris his mind.

Speaker 6 (02:15:00):
Thank you, sir, You're welcome, John.

Speaker 2 (02:15:03):
Then skiffs begin to ride, both begin to churn. They
turn away across the tide to stop. From stem to
stern with corn and sweet potato, cotton to and ale

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with sugarcane and black mold, lesses out high.

Speaker 1 (02:15:39):
All the same river.

Speaker 2 (02:15:41):
We're fishing it, the same river.

Speaker 14 (02:15:43):
Sun.

Speaker 2 (02:15:44):
Yeah, take this stone and toss it over the fan.

Speaker 64 (02:15:50):
Guys, look at all those ripples spread.

Speaker 2 (02:15:53):
That's right, Look at them gold old ripples travel all
the way down the river. They see bows of things
that you and I can see a couple hours from now,
when it's night. They're still be a traveling maybe rock
a little canoe with.

Speaker 3 (02:16:11):
Lovers sitting in their faces.

Speaker 2 (02:16:14):
Shining in the moonlight.

Speaker 40 (02:16:25):
Harry, did you ever see a more beautiful.

Speaker 2 (02:16:29):
It was made for the Nightmary, and you and me.

Speaker 40 (02:16:34):
Look how the water shimmering makes the moonbeams.

Speaker 11 (02:16:36):
Dance looks like about a million fireflies telegraphing the beauty
of the night.

Speaker 40 (02:16:45):
Makes you feel like drifting along on the river forever.

Speaker 2 (02:16:59):
Yeah, the moon's being shining on this river as far
back as father time can remember. This river's got glamours. Son,
you know what glamory?

Speaker 10 (02:17:11):
You mean pup girls, No, Son, I mean.

Speaker 2 (02:17:14):
Something more like, well, like the glamor of the show boat. Oh,
there were girls all right, and singing and dancing the movies,
long before there was such a thing as the movie.

Speaker 5 (02:17:29):
Show board on the river.

Speaker 2 (02:17:34):
Stop at all the town showboard bring enjoy and fun
and gals and lovely gowndancer strut and proudly to music
called the band too music, Call the men.

Speaker 5 (02:18:11):
Hurry.

Speaker 65 (02:18:12):
The showboard is hair dancers, singers and music.

Speaker 10 (02:18:18):
Man and the Great Three Street Ray.

Speaker 65 (02:18:25):
Introducing the worlds greatest entertainers who have played before the
groundheads of Europe.

Speaker 27 (02:18:36):
And of allands of Americas.

Speaker 65 (02:18:40):
Harty Entertainer, Part damn Hate and that super extravaganza, That
history yarny hot Rancher, that terror painting teared Rancher, that
majestic Melander, Laura the lovely Landlord Star. Oh the price

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sheep paid for secret shade?

Speaker 10 (02:19:11):
Halla Halla, Oh.

Speaker 27 (02:19:20):
Go on temple, open your big old luckily marm.

Speaker 66 (02:19:23):
That I will bore that, I will. What I want
to know is how old is dad wife? The old
that wife of mine? She two years younger than she
was on the last birthday.

Speaker 6 (02:19:36):
Cook me frying sent me out.

Speaker 43 (02:19:39):
Boy, you show ain't good at compute?

Speaker 10 (02:19:42):
Oh no, no, How old is a person born in
eighteen five four?

Speaker 6 (02:19:49):
Man?

Speaker 29 (02:19:50):
Oh woman?

Speaker 14 (02:19:52):
For your show is them?

Speaker 7 (02:19:54):
He is a miss bone?

Speaker 43 (02:19:55):
You show is the I don't know how you ever
got a wire?

Speaker 27 (02:19:59):
Gotta whate Oh I just sobered up, and that's you once.

Speaker 66 (02:20:05):
Tell me, boy, and tell me how it Is it
true that made men live longer than single life?

Speaker 13 (02:20:12):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (02:20:12):
Uh?

Speaker 27 (02:20:13):
It on the scenes longer?

Speaker 67 (02:20:18):
How long you been married?

Speaker 6 (02:20:19):
Man?

Speaker 27 (02:20:19):
How long I've been married?

Speaker 14 (02:20:21):
Two?

Speaker 6 (02:20:22):
Two years?

Speaker 27 (02:20:23):
Uh huh too long? Miserable?

Speaker 10 (02:20:28):
You're bo miserable, hunger another than you.

Speaker 43 (02:20:30):
I'm gonna have to show you the lies.

Speaker 27 (02:20:32):
Say is that so tamble? I've been doing pretty well
in the dark up to now, or you think you're.

Speaker 10 (02:20:40):
Doing go Why why you is so dumb? Come hard times?

Speaker 43 (02:20:43):
How you gonna make both ends me?

Speaker 27 (02:20:45):
Why that's easy, tamble. I get myself a job in
my brother's sausage factory. What for fool? When you work
in a sausage factory? Both ends gotta be me?

Speaker 3 (02:20:58):
Now, drain behind me of a memory. The meat I
had for dinner last night had two.

Speaker 27 (02:21:04):
Ends, had two nds. How do you mean that? Well,
it was the end of the chicken, and y'all gone
near the end of me. Well, don't feel so bad, mutton. Mind,
I didn't do so good either. I had ham for
supper last night.

Speaker 6 (02:21:23):
Hammer, was it cured?

Speaker 27 (02:21:25):
Well, if it was cured, it don't have to relax.

Speaker 2 (02:21:44):
But the river wasn't only made for fun and dancing
and lover, son. There's another part to it you ought
to know about, the serious part, The part of the
river that grows and harvests the crops, carries them to
all places, to all.

Speaker 3 (02:22:02):
The people, to the world.

Speaker 2 (02:22:04):
The river does all that too, son, How does the
river do all those things? Then? Well, listen, boy, listen
to the sound of that water.

Speaker 5 (02:22:13):
Wood here that we turning water, and the bee the
land has.

Speaker 19 (02:22:26):
God to have of water.

Speaker 6 (02:22:29):
So the crop.

Speaker 2 (02:22:34):
Here, that boy, the all all the river crushes all
the grains that glow inside this food of valley and
from fall plain, you see, son, The river turns the

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wheels that run the country. It turns the little water
wheels and urban dynamos, and gives us power to run
the machines. And it's responsible for the miracle of life, Yes,
the miracle of lights. The light in your room will
let you read all those wonderful books, because you're gonna

(02:23:22):
have to read them before you become president, you know,
I know. And the lights in the homes of millions
of other boys and girls in cities and towns and
owned farms where maybe their fathers and mothers didn't have life.
And the lights in the schools and the shops and
the factors.

Speaker 68 (02:23:42):
Too, And in the clean white hospitals where they're sick
of being children, and where great and wise men are
of finding out how to make your life and mine
fuller safe long, And in the war plans, where men,
women and children are making things to help us win
the war.

Speaker 2 (02:24:03):
Yep, there too, light is helping us to beat an
enemy who wants to take the world back into the.

Speaker 3 (02:24:09):
Darkness out of which we can't Golly, all.

Speaker 2 (02:24:13):
That light comes from the rivers.

Speaker 10 (02:24:15):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (02:24:16):
You can thank the Lord for sending down those little guards.
Thank the war.

Speaker 64 (02:24:23):
It don't hardly soe possible.

Speaker 2 (02:24:26):
That all that comes is one little river, little un eh,
pick up another storm. That's it, Now throw it in
the water. I watch those rivers, watch them first, or
as I can see, I watch them get Yeah, take
the one going that away, going south.

Speaker 14 (02:24:46):
I can't see it anymore.

Speaker 2 (02:24:48):
That's because it's on its way to Saint Louis and Cairo.
That's where Gramah, but it ain't gonna stop there. It's
gonna float right past Brothersville, Missouri, and then blithe little Tennessee,
ride on down through Memphistown, past Mississippi See, and then

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past the Vicksburg.

Speaker 19 (02:25:09):
Letty, you know what happened with Vicksburg?

Speaker 29 (02:25:12):
Son, if you special history, ben Ward, is it gone?

Speaker 2 (02:25:15):
Why into Louisiana, baton Rouge and New Orleans, into the
Gulf of Mexico, and ride on to the Camby. Now
take another Digston. No, no, no, no, not one of
those teazy wheazy things, but a great big rock that'll
make us splash.

Speaker 38 (02:25:34):
Okay now eve ho sorry, oh look at her?

Speaker 2 (02:25:41):
God yeah, watching to the north this time, son, And
see how far she goes through a ball and Quincy
deput Candle Saint Paul, through dav and p and Clinton,
to and Sunny. That ain't all from them, the soul

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to the gold it run through every day.

Speaker 5 (02:26:12):
There's little rever a.

Speaker 2 (02:26:15):
All the It's greater than.

Speaker 6 (02:26:22):
And it knows it too. Resten What under that's not thunder?

Speaker 62 (02:26:32):
Little boy me talking about the river, the mighty conceited river.
It is mighty, temperamental, hard to control. It's roaring, drunk
with power, flies into a rage, and off it goes,
spoiling all the good it's done.

Speaker 6 (02:26:54):
Sometimes I get so mad, ikon.

Speaker 38 (02:26:59):
Past sky looks.

Speaker 2 (02:27:00):
Man, just a little thunder in the east. We'd best
be going in.

Speaker 6 (02:27:08):
Yes, run for cover of good little people.

Speaker 62 (02:27:12):
Run from the river lest it swell again and break
its bonds and ruin what you've built.

Speaker 6 (02:27:20):
Why can't you be all good, proud river? The people
are good.

Speaker 62 (02:27:27):
They build themselves great cities, They build themselves a civilization
and a brand new world. They build themselves a thousand
miles of levee. The kurdl you and then you break
it down.

Speaker 6 (02:27:46):
The name is troubling, right.

Speaker 27 (02:27:48):
Got to get back, help to get the woman. Your
house is tallows like the house. I gotta get back.
I got to get back.

Speaker 62 (02:28:01):
A hundred thousand men tried to hold you back and failed.
Almost a million people homeless, without food, without shelter.

Speaker 6 (02:28:14):
Yes, run for cover, little people every time, and rain.

Speaker 69 (02:28:20):
My family's gone, My stock, my crops, my lands will
never grow a blade of.

Speaker 62 (02:28:27):
Grass, hundreds of millions of tons of precious soil, of
blessed quiver washed into the sea.

Speaker 6 (02:28:38):
I'm just sorry for.

Speaker 70 (02:28:40):
What you've done.

Speaker 64 (02:28:48):
The thunder's not as loud as it was that.

Speaker 2 (02:28:50):
Oh, the skies lighter. Now maybe we won't have to
run for cover after all. Look out, peaceful the river.
Maybe it's sorry for what it's done.

Speaker 64 (02:29:03):
It's just more good than her.

Speaker 2 (02:29:05):
Do it there, It sure does, Sun.

Speaker 10 (02:29:07):
It's short.

Speaker 2 (02:29:09):
All powers got to the hornets, son, ohs it can
do the most good for the most people. And the
river's no different from you or me. We don't ever
want to let ourselves get out of hand. Just remember
that sun, Remember that over, and.

Speaker 61 (02:29:32):
If you were I, we can look up to the
sky or the string he gave the river. Cry to him,
ask him all the power to keep all and.

Speaker 2 (02:29:55):
Come free, priestl this very river.

Speaker 60 (02:30:37):
Yes, this is the song of the river. This is
the music of water that binds its way to the sea.
This is the poetry of high Banks, Saint Levees, and
the Swift Channel. This is the miracle of nature that
feeds and nourishes, and runs and gives light and life.

Speaker 2 (02:31:04):
This is the song of the River.

Speaker 60 (02:31:27):
The Song of the River was written and directed by
Les Weinrod, with lyrical acknowledgments to Sherman Marx and Carol Letterer,
and musical kudos to Frank Smith and Caesar Patrello. Curly
Bradley was heard in the leading room next week at

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the same time, Five after the Hour will bring you
another twenty five minutes of music and drama from WBBF
the Wrigley Building, Chicago. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 71 (02:32:37):
Another five minute mystery. The entrance to the Lawrence House

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on Center Street is lighted by an unshielded bob. Beneath
its stands a policeman. Suddenly, a woman comes running up.

Speaker 3 (02:33:15):
The fourth steps.

Speaker 12 (02:33:18):
What's the matter? Has something happened?

Speaker 11 (02:33:20):
You live here, ma'am.

Speaker 72 (02:33:21):
I'm missus Lawrence's personal maid and housekeeper. I've worked for
her for years, know her pretty well.

Speaker 29 (02:33:27):
Then, of course, what do you mean knew her.

Speaker 3 (02:33:30):
I'm sorry to have to tell you this, man, but
Missus Lawrence was murdered tonight, a couple of hours ago.

Speaker 13 (02:33:35):
Murdered.

Speaker 72 (02:33:37):
Let me go in there, Let me go in.

Speaker 3 (02:33:39):
I'm sorry, man.

Speaker 71 (02:33:40):
Anything I can do to help, I'll be glad to do.

Speaker 72 (02:33:43):
Yes, there is one thing you can do.

Speaker 38 (02:33:45):
Take me to the police station.

Speaker 71 (02:33:47):
Murder?

Speaker 3 (02:33:48):
Is it?

Speaker 13 (02:33:49):
Well? I'll tell a thing or two now.

Speaker 72 (02:33:54):
And that's how it was, Inspector. I went out for
a couple of hours tonight with my regular out and
when I came back, that policeman.

Speaker 13 (02:34:03):
Refused to let me in.

Speaker 3 (02:34:04):
I see, well, miss just call.

Speaker 72 (02:34:07):
Me Agnes, please, sir. People have for so long now.

Speaker 7 (02:34:12):
All right, Agnes?

Speaker 14 (02:34:13):
Now tell me how long were you gone tonight?

Speaker 72 (02:34:16):
Not more than a couple of hours, Inspector. I see,
everything was all right when you left, perfectly, Everything was fine,
except that I never did like the idea of her
seeing him again. I believe she was expecting him tonight
after I had.

Speaker 3 (02:34:28):
Left, and just who is him by her husband?

Speaker 72 (02:34:32):
I mean they were divorced some years ago.

Speaker 3 (02:34:36):
He was a friend, and missus.

Speaker 70 (02:34:38):
Lawrence was seeing her husband again the last.

Speaker 13 (02:34:40):
Few nights, sir.

Speaker 72 (02:34:42):
All of a sudden, unexpected like, missus Lawrence came in
one night and told me her husband was coming for dinner.
I told her then I didn't like it.

Speaker 70 (02:34:50):
Was there any trouble, not a bit, sir.

Speaker 72 (02:34:52):
In fact, things went too well. In fact, I believe
missus Lawrence was getting a bit soft on him again
after all.

Speaker 12 (02:35:00):
All these years too.

Speaker 3 (02:35:01):
Tell me where does he live.

Speaker 13 (02:35:02):
Over in Cranville.

Speaker 29 (02:35:04):
He's lived there for over a year now.

Speaker 70 (02:35:06):
That's about fifteen miles away, isn't it. That's it, sir,
And he could have driven that and been back in
time for an alibi. Tell me, did anyone else know
that mister and missus Lawrence had become friendly again?

Speaker 72 (02:35:18):
Not a soldier. It was a secret that just the
three of us knew. But if you want my opinion,
it was him that poisoned her. Must have been him.
There was a very devil in.

Speaker 3 (02:35:28):
That man, Agnes up to a point.

Speaker 70 (02:35:30):
I believe you're right, but because of just one thing,
one mistake in your story, I'm going to hold you
for the murder of missus Lawrence.

Speaker 71 (02:35:41):
The inspector has a good reason for holding Agnes for murder.

Speaker 27 (02:35:44):
Do you know what it is?

Speaker 71 (02:35:45):
We'll tell you in just a minute.

Speaker 3 (02:35:46):
But first.

Speaker 71 (02:36:30):
And now back to our five minutes mystery and the
murder of missus Lawrence.

Speaker 3 (02:36:34):
Me murderer.

Speaker 72 (02:36:35):
I wasn't even home when she died.

Speaker 70 (02:36:37):
Agnes I know it was you who murdered Missus Lawrence.
When you saw her and her husband becoming friendly again,
you believed it would affect your inheritance.

Speaker 3 (02:36:45):
How do I know you're the murderer? For just one
good reason?

Speaker 70 (02:36:48):
Agnes I specifically gave orders that the method of murder
would not be discussed with anyone. You yourself said that
Missus Lawrence was poisoned. Only one person could have known
that a murderer himself.

Speaker 59 (02:37:47):
Ed was extremely fond of his grandmother, Mabel, who had
raised him after his parents died when he was eight
years old, but she was worried about him. She knew
that he was too young to be spent it all
of his time with books, said an old woman. Mabel
prayed every night for a companion for her grandson, for
she did not want to leave her Eddie alone in

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the earth. One morning, Ed awoke to the clamor of
pouring rain outside his window. He bundled himself up, kissed
Mabel goodbye, and left for the bookstore. Returning home that evening,
he decided to take an alternate route to avoid the
mudslides from the cliffs. As he drove, he spotted a

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young woman standing soaking wet at a bus stop. Ed
offered to give her a ride home. She got into
the car and shook off her long black hair that
was dripping from the rain. My name is Louisa, she said.
She was exquisite or rabed this nymph who had fell

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upon his arms enchanted it. They drove and talked and
laughed and fell madly in love. Every day for two
weeks and Ed would pick Louisa up at the bus
stop and drive her home. Ed was completely changed. His
amorous affections brought him new light. Ed was so in

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love that he decided he would bring Louisa home to
meet his grandmother that evening. When he got to the
bus stop, she was not there. Puzzled, he drove to
the house he had been dropping her off at for
two weeks, he knocked on the door. An old woman
answered in a tired voice, what do you want? Ed

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introduced himself as Louisa's ed, the man who had been
driving her home the past two weeks. The woman was startled,
but invited d in the house. She invited him to
sit and offered him a cup of tea. Ed asked
if Louisa would be returning soon. The old woman showed
add a picture. It was in an old frame and

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the picture looked somewhat outdated. A beautiful young woman was
riding a horse. How ravishing Louisa looks, exclaimed ed. The
old woman laid the picture down on the table and
sat across her head. Yes, she was very beautiful, the
old woman said, sadly. What do you mean it was? Questioned?

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Ed the old woman asked how he had met Louisa.
Ed happily told her his story of rescuing Louisa from
the bus stop on a rainy night. The old woman's
face went blank. She put her tea down and carefully
picked up the picture of Louisa. Staring at the picture,
she told it in a crackling old voice. It was

(02:40:40):
a rainy night. Louisa was waiting for the bus when
all of a sudden, my car came skidding around the
corner out of control. The old woman paused and drew
in a deep breath. She was killed that night, thirty years.

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Speaker 75 (02:42:44):
There will be an airplane crash in Berman next week,
but it shouldn't affect me here in Kalamazoo, and the
fiek certainly can't harm me, not with all my closet
doors closed. No, A big problem is lesnrizing. I must
not less, absolutely not, as you can imagine.

Speaker 7 (02:43:04):
That hampers me. And to top it all, I think
I'm catching a very nasty cold.

Speaker 75 (02:43:11):
The whole thing, including the cold, started on the evening
of November seventh.

Speaker 7 (02:43:16):
I was walking down West Michigan on.

Speaker 75 (02:43:18):
My way to get a sub when I met Charlie Lester,
he's in one of my physics classes.

Speaker 7 (02:43:24):
We were both feeling pretty lightheaded.

Speaker 76 (02:43:28):
Well, I've had some tough exebs by day, but that
was you got a cold, Oh though, I haven't got
a cold. My eyes just water by dose rods and dice.
Because I'm essentially a bad gist, actually psychosabatic.

Speaker 7 (02:43:43):
I hate my mother and my father. Of course I've
got a cold sick gee, well, well, look, don't give
it to me.

Speaker 75 (02:43:51):
Okay, I've got a chance at a Nazareth Junior this weekend.

Speaker 7 (02:43:54):
Bye boy, there's no such take as a jazz at
the Dazzret Junior. Yeah, never mind, just don't blowing he
germs my way. Oh well, as a matter of fact,
I'll leave you completely. I have to go back to
Walda to pick up some books.

Speaker 75 (02:44:07):
So at the moment Charlie left me, I had in
my pocket five coins, three keys, and a book of matches.

Speaker 7 (02:44:22):
Now, just to complete the.

Speaker 75 (02:44:24):
Picture, brought me add that the wind was coming from
the northwest at five miles per hour, Venus was in
the ascendancy, and the.

Speaker 77 (02:44:31):
Moon was decidedly gibbus. You can draw your own conclusions
and wolves I reached the corner of Steers Avenue, and
I began to cross the tark watch out for the
tar walk out?

Speaker 7 (02:44:43):
Huh what what truck?

Speaker 6 (02:44:45):
Woo what?

Speaker 7 (02:44:46):
And there's no truck on the street?

Speaker 78 (02:44:48):
What are you?

Speaker 7 (02:44:51):
Woo?

Speaker 19 (02:44:52):
Oh?

Speaker 75 (02:44:54):
Well, thanks brand if you hadn't warned me, I said, hey, hey,
what are you?

Speaker 7 (02:44:58):
Who said that? Where are you? Can you steal?

Speaker 47 (02:45:01):
Hear?

Speaker 7 (02:45:01):
I mean sure I can? Where are you? Isn't anybody here?
Where are you? Crownish?

Speaker 77 (02:45:07):
Is that the reference creature of insubstantiality? The shadow Nose
Fantastic four?

Speaker 7 (02:45:14):
Did I pick the right one? You're invisible?

Speaker 3 (02:45:17):
That's it.

Speaker 77 (02:45:18):
I knew the concept was somewhere in you. Well, what
are you? A Valeusian der a? What would you mind
opening your larrence a little wider?

Speaker 3 (02:45:29):
Please?

Speaker 77 (02:45:30):
You see I'm using yourself vocalizations to communicate. Now, breathe deeply.

Speaker 11 (02:45:37):
That's it.

Speaker 7 (02:45:40):
Yeah, that's it. That's better.

Speaker 77 (02:45:46):
Well let's see now I'm the Spirit of Christmas Past,
the creature from the Black Lagoon, the Brider Frankinston, the
Silver Sir. I'll now wait a minute, hold on, what
are you trying to tell me that your a goat,
a superhero or a creature from another planet, same thing obviously.

Speaker 7 (02:46:03):
Oh well, that makes it all perfectly clear.

Speaker 77 (02:46:06):
Any pool can see that it disembodied voice must belong
to someone from another planet. Exactly, I'm invisible on Earth,
but my superior sensus spotted approaching.

Speaker 7 (02:46:15):
Danger and warned you of it.

Speaker 77 (02:46:17):
Well thanks, Well, what are you one of those strange
voices that warned Aunt Matilda to stay out of the elevator,
which then crashes into the basement something like that?

Speaker 7 (02:46:27):
Yeah, well, goodbye.

Speaker 13 (02:46:29):
What's the matter?

Speaker 77 (02:46:30):
Well, not a thing, except that I seem to be
standing in the middle of Seers Avenue talking to an
invisible from the farthest reaches about her space.

Speaker 7 (02:46:39):
I suppose only I can hear you? Well that sure, no, great,
Well you know where that sort of thing will land me.
The concept you are so vocalizing is not entirely clear.

Speaker 77 (02:46:50):
Now look, please go back to one of my childhood
and nightmares where you came from and let me alone.

Speaker 7 (02:46:55):
Huh oh, yeah, thanks for the warning about the truck.
Good night.

Speaker 77 (02:46:58):
Where are you going? I'm going to that tavern back there,
enjoying some of my fellow students and something wet and effective.
Won't you talk with me?

Speaker 3 (02:47:06):
Look?

Speaker 7 (02:47:06):
Look, please, will you cut out. There are two girls
watching me, but you must talk with me.

Speaker 77 (02:47:11):
The real sub vocal contact is very rare and astonishingly difficult.
Sometimes I can get across the warning just before a
dangerous moment, but then the connection phase.

Speaker 7 (02:47:21):
You mean that's the explanation of premonitions of danger. That's right.
Conditions might not be right for this kind of contact
for another hundred years.

Speaker 14 (02:47:29):
Now.

Speaker 77 (02:47:30):
Look, this is very interesting stuff for Professor Ryan at Duke.

Speaker 7 (02:47:34):
Not for the physics department at Western.

Speaker 75 (02:47:36):
I've looked firsthand at the overshrouting in our funny farm
on the hill, and I'm not.

Speaker 77 (02:47:40):
Interested in contributing to that condition.

Speaker 7 (02:47:43):
Besides of a cop looking at me.

Speaker 77 (02:47:45):
I appreciate your social situation, but this contact with me
is in your own best interests. I want to protect
you from the myriad dangers of human existence.

Speaker 7 (02:47:54):
Get lost. Well, I can't forshure. I'll just have to
offer my services elsewhere. Goodbye, friend, goodbye, Oh just my
last face. Stay off buses tomorrow between noon and one
fifteen pm. Eh, Why someone.

Speaker 77 (02:48:11):
Will be killed at Mapleville now, pushed in front of
the bus by shopping crowds. You if you're there, Bye, Hey, Hey, Hey, now,
wait a minute, someone will be killed there tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (02:48:22):
Are you sure? Of course it'll be in the herald?
I should imagine, so wait, not the Herald, the gazette,
and you know, all sorts of stuff like that.

Speaker 77 (02:48:32):
I can perceive all the dangers that radiate toward you
and extend into time. My one desire was to projector
from them. Yeah, well, well look, will you wait till
tomorrow evening? Those two girls are giggling. Now you will
let me be your projector. I'll tell you tomorrow.

Speaker 46 (02:48:49):
After I read the.

Speaker 7 (02:48:50):
Gazette, the story was there, all right? I read it
in my room. A man pushed by the crowd, lost
his balance, fell in front of an oncoming bus. Well,
this gave me a lot to.

Speaker 75 (02:49:10):
Think about while I waited for my invisible protector to
show up. By the time he contacted me, I wasn't
sure that I liked the whole idea.

Speaker 7 (02:49:18):
Don't you trust me?

Speaker 77 (02:49:20):
I just want to lead a normal light, if you
lead any light a tall That truck last night, that
was a freak, a once in a lifetime accident. It
only takes once in a lifetime to die. There was
the bus, too, Well, that doesn't count. I hadn't planned
on taking one today, but you had no reason not
to take one. That's the important thing. Just as you
have no reason not to take a shower in the

(02:49:42):
next hour, why shouldn't I. A brad Flynn who lives
down the hall is now taking his shower, And to
leave a melting bar of soap on the tile of
the bathroom floor, you'd have slipped on it and suffered
a sprained rift.

Speaker 7 (02:49:55):
Uh not fatal, Huh No, hardly.

Speaker 77 (02:49:58):
In the same class with a Oh, let's say a
heavy flower pot pushed from a roof by a certain
unstable professor of English.

Speaker 7 (02:50:06):
Well, well, when is that going to happen? I thought
you weren't interested. I'm very interested. When where will you
let me continue to protect you? Well, now, just tell
me one thing. What's in this for you? Satisfactions from
Valadusian Dirk.

Speaker 77 (02:50:21):
The greatest thrill possible is to help another creature evade dangers.

Speaker 75 (02:50:25):
Yeah, but even there's something else you want out of this,
some trifle like my soul or rulership of the earth.

Speaker 77 (02:50:32):
Nothing to accept payment for protection would ruin the emotional experience.
All I want out of life, all any Dirk wants
is to protect someone from the dangers he cannot see,
but which we can see all too well, we don't
even expect gratitude.

Speaker 7 (02:50:48):
Yeah, what about that flower pot? It will be dropped at.

Speaker 77 (02:50:52):
The corner of Hyde Park and fifty third at ten
thirty tomorrow mornings Hide Park in fifty third.

Speaker 7 (02:50:59):
Where's that in Chicago?

Speaker 11 (02:51:00):
Well, I've never been to Chicago in my life?

Speaker 13 (02:51:03):
Why warn me about that.

Speaker 7 (02:51:05):
I don't know where you will or won't go.

Speaker 77 (02:51:07):
I really perceived dangers to you wherever they may occur. Well,
what should I do now?

Speaker 7 (02:51:13):
Anything you wish? Just lead your normal life. It started
out well enough.

Speaker 77 (02:51:26):
I attended classes, did some assignments, saw the free Wednesday.

Speaker 7 (02:51:30):
Movies, went out, played Ping Pall and got off just
like before.

Speaker 75 (02:51:35):
Yet no time did I let on that I was
under the protection of a Vladusian dird.

Speaker 7 (02:51:41):
Even Charlie didn't notice it, though he had a pretty
good excuse. Oh yeah, you lucky. I got stuck in
that elevator for four hours. Say how come you walk?
And then we saw your volunteer to work fourth lights before. Well,
a little bird told me, Well, I USh I little
bird like that?

Speaker 11 (02:52:01):
Why don't you do something for that cold why should I?

Speaker 7 (02:52:05):
What did every dude fubin?

Speaker 3 (02:52:13):
Not?

Speaker 75 (02:52:14):
Even the DIRG had warned me about Charlie's bad jokes
in times, but he did his best, and once or
twice a day he'd come around and report.

Speaker 7 (02:52:22):
Lose port on the ramp up Toroaldo, don't walk on it.
Once I got used to it, it.

Speaker 77 (02:52:27):
Gave me quite a feeling of security, But the DIRG
soon became over zealous on my behalf.

Speaker 11 (02:52:33):
Began finding more and more dangers.

Speaker 77 (02:52:42):
Look out for an overhanging sign on the hotel where
Mexico City.

Speaker 7 (02:52:47):
Don't go to the basketball game tonight? Where in Toronto?

Speaker 77 (02:52:53):
Look out for the Elm Street Bob's right, Oh maha,
don't go surfing today?

Speaker 7 (02:52:59):
Surfing where Tahiti?

Speaker 77 (02:53:02):
Now, wait a minute, you plan on reporting every potential
danger on earth?

Speaker 7 (02:53:06):
Oh, these are only a few, only a very few,
that you may be affected by.

Speaker 75 (02:53:11):
Mexico City in Tahiti. And why not confine yourself to
the local picture.

Speaker 3 (02:53:15):
Huh?

Speaker 77 (02:53:16):
Southwest Michigan, let's say, lacal means nothing to me. I
must protect you from everything. Well, it was rather touching
in a way.

Speaker 7 (02:53:32):
There was nothing I could do about it, and simply.

Speaker 75 (02:53:34):
Had to discard from his reports the various dangers in
places like Saginaw, Thailand, Kansas City, Angriva, Sarasota, and Paris.
I concentrated pretty much on Kalamazoo. He did save me
from a pretty nasty hold up in Bronson cart in
a four alarm fire.

Speaker 77 (02:53:52):
But he kept stepping up the pace. Tain't had food
at the Union, don't eat there tonight. Champus Cuts three
twelve has bad breaks, don't ride in it. Canoss Hall
has a folly heating system. Exposed him to skip the
free Wednesday.

Speaker 14 (02:54:06):
Night movie this week.

Speaker 7 (02:54:08):
Rabbit Mongrel on the prowl in the valley, Forget the
Girl for tonight.

Speaker 3 (02:54:12):
Soon.

Speaker 75 (02:54:12):
I was spending most of my time not doing things
and avoiding places. Dangers seemed to be lurking behind every
lamp post, waiting for me. I rather suspected the dirt
of patting his reports.

Speaker 7 (02:54:25):
All my reports are perfectly genuine. If you don't believe me.

Speaker 77 (02:54:30):
Try turning on your lights in your sche class tomorrow.
Why effective wiring. Look, I don't doubt your warning. I
just don't think life was as dangerous before you came along. Well,
of course it wasn't. Surely you know that if you
accept protection, you must accept the drawbacks of protection as well,
drawbacks like what protection begets the need of further protection.

Speaker 7 (02:54:54):
That is a universal constant.

Speaker 77 (02:54:56):
Before you met me, you were like everyone else, and
you ran into such risks as the situation offered. But
with my coming, your immediate environment has changed and your
position in it has changed too.

Speaker 7 (02:55:08):
Why because it has me in it?

Speaker 77 (02:55:11):
It's well known that the avoidance of one danger opens
the path to others. Are you trying to tell me
that my risks have increased because of your health? It
was unavoidable? Why you miserable? Extraterrestrial con Now? Look all right,
all right, thanks for everything. I'll see you on Mars
or wherever you hang out.

Speaker 7 (02:55:28):
You don't want any further protection?

Speaker 3 (02:55:30):
You guessed it.

Speaker 7 (02:55:31):
Don't plan the door on your way out. What's wrong?

Speaker 77 (02:55:35):
Your risks have increased, but my capacity for detection is
more than ample to cope with it. I'm happy to
cope with it, so it still represents a net gaining
protection for you.

Speaker 19 (02:55:45):
Yeah, I know what happens next.

Speaker 7 (02:55:47):
My risk just keep on increasing, don't they? Not at all?

Speaker 77 (02:55:51):
As far as the accidents are concerned, You've reached the
quantitative limit.

Speaker 15 (02:55:56):
What does that mean?

Speaker 7 (02:55:57):
It means that there will be no other increase in
the number of accidents you must avoid.

Speaker 77 (02:56:03):
Look, if you leave me alone, my original environment will return,
won't it, and with it my original writ eventually, if
you survive, fine, I'll take that chance.

Speaker 7 (02:56:14):
You can't afford to send me away tomorrow. No, no, no, no,
don't tell me. I'll avoid the accidents on my own.
I wasn't thinking of accident. What then? I hardly know
how to tell you. A gamper is after you?

Speaker 3 (02:56:27):
What?

Speaker 7 (02:56:27):
A gamber is a creature for my environment?

Speaker 77 (02:56:30):
I suppose he was attracted by increased potentiality for avoiding
risks due to my protection.

Speaker 7 (02:56:34):
Now, look, you can take your gamber if he comes.

Speaker 77 (02:56:37):
Try driving him off with mistletoe irons off and effective
if combined with coffer.

Speaker 7 (02:56:42):
You don't get out of here? Are you sure?

Speaker 3 (02:56:44):
Eat it? Leave?

Speaker 6 (02:56:45):
Move?

Speaker 7 (02:56:45):
Get out?

Speaker 11 (02:56:46):
Go on?

Speaker 7 (02:56:47):
All right? All right? Goodbye? Goodbye? Are you gone? Are
you really gone? Good riddance? Wait? Hey, what's that, Dirk?

Speaker 3 (02:57:08):
Is that you?

Speaker 7 (02:57:09):
Hey? Your motor is running?

Speaker 50 (02:57:12):
Dirk?

Speaker 10 (02:57:12):
What is that?

Speaker 3 (02:57:13):
What is that?

Speaker 7 (02:57:14):
The camper?

Speaker 3 (02:57:15):
Good?

Speaker 7 (02:57:16):
Get me out, dur come back camp? Did you call
all the camper mistle toe mistletoe waving at the camper.

Speaker 11 (02:57:23):
The hell am I going to get nipple too?

Speaker 7 (02:57:25):
Iron? Copper, then copper, a belt buckle with my draw
what's he like is iron? Touch it with the copper quick?
You see you needed my protection. The gamper almost got you. Yeah,
it sure did.

Speaker 77 (02:57:41):
You'll need something wolf fame, amarant, garlic graveyard mold.

Speaker 7 (02:57:48):
Yeah, but but the gamper is gone, but the grailers.

Speaker 77 (02:57:51):
Remain, and you'll need safeguards against the leaps, the figs
and the melgarizer.

Speaker 7 (02:57:57):
I'll give you a list.

Speaker 75 (02:58:03):
He gave me a list, and I went shopping. I
ran into Charlie the campus margins, say.

Speaker 7 (02:58:11):
Bob, were you bish?

Speaker 3 (02:58:14):
Goarly?

Speaker 7 (02:58:14):
It must have gone like it's sure they got gone
over over here?

Speaker 3 (02:58:20):
Well, I guess you know what.

Speaker 7 (02:58:21):
I gave it more tissues? What else?

Speaker 9 (02:58:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 77 (02:58:24):
Well, well not let me see a graveyard mold? Graveyard mold?
Do you think they'd have it here?

Speaker 10 (02:58:32):
With you?

Speaker 7 (02:58:32):
You look this? Why is it gone? And why does
a gambler or a grailer or a leap or a
peak like that?

Speaker 3 (02:58:38):
Now?

Speaker 7 (02:58:38):
Please, please, Charlie, don't bother me. I'm busy. Uh who
has the nearest graveyard that would moldy this time of year.

Speaker 77 (02:58:55):
It was a game between these extra terrestrials, and I
was in it. Some of them want to to kill me,
some to protect them. None of them cared for me,
and not even the Dirgs. And it was all my fault.
At the beginning, I had had the accumulated wisdom of
the human race at my disposal, that tremendous instinctive hatred

(02:59:15):
of witches and ghosts, the irrational fear of alien life
from my adventure has been played out a thousand times,
and the story is told.

Speaker 75 (02:59:25):
Again and again how a man dabbles in strange arts
and summons up a spirit.

Speaker 7 (02:59:30):
By doing so, he attracts attention to himself, the worst.

Speaker 3 (02:59:34):
Thing of all.

Speaker 75 (02:59:36):
So I was welded inseparably to the Dird, and the
Derd to me until yesterday, that is, Charlie came to
my room to visit.

Speaker 7 (02:59:44):
Say, boy, how it is I had a female class
fum mind if I hang up like no, no, no,
don't don't open the closet door nothing. That could only
way to hold off the feet by eating posit doors.
Closed leaps are more menacing.

Speaker 77 (03:00:04):
The iotode seems to stop them, and the mulgarizer is dangerous.

Speaker 7 (03:00:08):
Only in the full of the moon, the full.

Speaker 3 (03:00:11):
That's it.

Speaker 7 (03:00:12):
Well, Bob it h's big grad by You're in danger?
What again? What is it this time? Strang? Who presume

(03:00:33):
says us?

Speaker 77 (03:00:34):
Yes, yes, myself as well as you, For even a
dirt must run from risk and danger.

Speaker 11 (03:00:39):
Well is this thrang particularly dangerous?

Speaker 13 (03:00:42):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (03:00:42):
Very well?

Speaker 10 (03:00:43):
What do I do?

Speaker 7 (03:00:44):
Snaking over the door of Pentagon?

Speaker 3 (03:00:46):
Burn?

Speaker 7 (03:00:46):
Infinite?

Speaker 3 (03:00:47):
Of these?

Speaker 77 (03:00:48):
The thrang must be dealt with negatively by the avoidance
of certain actions, right, all right?

Speaker 7 (03:00:54):
What shouldn't I do? You must not lesnarize lesnarize?

Speaker 10 (03:01:00):
What's that?

Speaker 7 (03:01:01):
Surely you know it's a simple, everyday human action. Well,
I probably know it under a different name. Explain it
to lesonarizes?

Speaker 10 (03:01:08):
To is to what?

Speaker 7 (03:01:10):
It's tears?

Speaker 67 (03:01:11):
The thrang?

Speaker 7 (03:01:12):
The thrang is here hurt? Why what should I do?

Speaker 6 (03:01:15):
It?

Speaker 77 (03:01:16):
Has it has me? I'm going don't lessarize, don't lessarize.

Speaker 7 (03:01:23):
Know, So I'm sitting tight now.

Speaker 75 (03:01:33):
There'll be an airplane crash in Burma next week, and
it should affect me here in Kalamazoo.

Speaker 7 (03:01:39):
And the feed certainly can't harm me.

Speaker 75 (03:01:42):
No, not with all my closet doors closed now the
problem is lesnarizing.

Speaker 7 (03:01:48):
I must not lessnarize, Absolutely not.

Speaker 77 (03:01:52):
If I can keep from lessonarizing, everything will pass and
the chase will.

Speaker 7 (03:01:57):
Move elsewhere it must. All I have to do is
weight and out.

Speaker 77 (03:02:02):
Trouble is, I don't have any idea what lessonerizing might
be a common human action. The DERG said, Well, at
the moment, I'm avoiding as many actions as possible.

Speaker 7 (03:02:16):
I've caught up on some back sleep and nothing happened,
So that's not lessonerizing.

Speaker 3 (03:02:22):
I went out and.

Speaker 77 (03:02:22):
Bought food, cooked it and ate it. Well, that wasn't lessarizing.
I'm telling you the story, and that isn't lessonerizing.

Speaker 7 (03:02:31):
I'll get out of this yet, I will get out
of it. I think I'll catch a nap. Now I
think I've caught Charlie's cold. I think I'm going to
have to.

Speaker 46 (03:02:49):
WMUK Special Projects has presented Protection by Robert Sheckley, adapted
for radio by Ernest Kennoy, additional material by Bill row.
Our cast included Greg Boody as Bob of the final
and fatal Sneeze, Bill Rout at his breezy pal Charlie,

(03:03:09):
and John Stopped as the foreseeing dr Future Tests is
produced and directed by Ellie Siegel and next on future tents,
even if the Earth was not attacked.

Speaker 11 (03:03:31):
Just think what an advantage you would give this country
over its enemies.

Speaker 3 (03:03:35):
Young woman, I ask you, what did that buying saucer.

Speaker 11 (03:03:40):
Say to you?

Speaker 79 (03:03:45):
You know that what you're doing is tantamount to working
for the enemies of your country.

Speaker 7 (03:03:53):
I will give you one more chance.

Speaker 19 (03:03:56):
What was the message?

Speaker 11 (03:03:58):
It was personal? Gentlemen, I know that Misscanned Voice be
cited for contempt.

Speaker 7 (03:04:11):
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Speaker 3 (03:04:55):
Now.

Speaker 80 (03:04:56):
In cooperation with police and federal law enforcement departments throughout
the United States, the only national program that brings you
authentic police case history Gangbuster Tonight, the Case of the

(03:05:18):
Dakota Badman who shed handcuffs as a snake shed skin.
But he'll learn that two sudden shots at a federal
agent would be repaid in kind. And now the Gangbusters
in facts that show the operation of our law enforcement
officials in their war against the underworld Gangbusters is asked

(03:05:39):
the Honorable Victor S. Anderson, the United States Attorney in Minnesota,
to narrate by proxy tonight's case.

Speaker 6 (03:05:46):
The inside facts in the case of the Dakota Band.

Speaker 80 (03:05:51):
Mister Anderson, I know the criminal you're going to tell
us about tonight was for a long time at the
top of the list of fugitives wanted by the Federal
Burea of Investigation.

Speaker 79 (03:06:00):
That's right, Don Gardner.

Speaker 80 (03:06:03):
This man, John Frederick Benson didn't know when he'd had enough,
but he was to learn that agents of the FBI
are also noted for their perseverance. Well, where would you
like to begin, mister Anderson, I think the best place
down would be on the outskirts of Houston, Texas. At
three o'clock on a mild February morning, exactly two years

(03:06:23):
ago this week, the all night clerk at the Palace
Grove Modern Tourist camp was fast asleep in his chair
as a lone figure crept by him. The intruder walked
cautiously across a dimly lit court, past cabins number one,
number two, and number three.

Speaker 79 (03:06:43):
He stopped at number four. He looked around and quietly
tried the door.

Speaker 10 (03:07:05):
Why Jack, it's me.

Speaker 38 (03:07:07):
What happened?

Speaker 29 (03:07:08):
How did you get out?

Speaker 10 (03:07:09):
They were taking me to the Federal building for questions
this afternoon I broke away. They couldn't shoot it on
an kind of the people.

Speaker 29 (03:07:15):
Oh, you shouldn't have tried it.

Speaker 10 (03:07:16):
They might have killed you better than rotten the rest
of my life in jail this afternoon. Yeah, I was lucky.
I made for the freight yards. Have been laying out
in a freight car for twelve hours. You sure they
don't know your hair.

Speaker 29 (03:07:27):
I'm pretty sure you just said they would have been around.
You must be Starvejack, I'll get up.

Speaker 10 (03:07:33):
They turned on any lights? Oh okay, I got a
job for you. What things?

Speaker 29 (03:07:43):
Oh Jack?

Speaker 10 (03:07:44):
I don't see yet how I made it? Not with
these handcuffs on. It was lucky to let me wear
a top coat over my shoulders. I used it to
cover 'em.

Speaker 38 (03:07:52):
But how do you get them off?

Speaker 10 (03:07:53):
It's no problem with a hack saw. First thing in
the morning. Walked to a hardware store into the hack.
Saw wish I didn't have to wait that long. Rich
are practically cut the ribbons.

Speaker 29 (03:08:01):
Maybe I could use a hairpin or something. Maybe I
can get them.

Speaker 10 (03:08:04):
I'm too tired right now to try and eat some sleep.
Get that hack so in the morning, and we're going
to work on the cuffs.

Speaker 81 (03:08:14):
Attention Texas Southwestern Authorities. Escape federal prisoner John Frederick Benson
described in first bulletin this man who may still be
wearing handcuffs the escape custody of the United States Marshall
at Houston, Texas. Caution caution, Benson may now be armed
and is known to be extremely dangerous.

Speaker 10 (03:08:41):
Light kiddie, baby, command a little more.

Speaker 29 (03:08:43):
All right, I'm trying a little more almost, that's it.

Speaker 10 (03:08:53):
Thanks, didn't think i'd make it.

Speaker 29 (03:08:56):
I don't see it how you did.

Speaker 10 (03:08:58):
Just luck, that's all.

Speaker 11 (03:09:01):
I guess.

Speaker 29 (03:09:01):
You're the luckiest guy in the world.

Speaker 10 (03:09:03):
Takes some figuring, too, we wrists. I gotta do a
lot more figuring, baby. We're still too close for comfort.
Tourist cabins are okay, but when they're looking that's the
first place on the list. We gotta get out of
here I suppose to be doing. Yeh. Gotta get out
and fast. They won't mean now worse than ever?

Speaker 11 (03:09:23):
Jack?

Speaker 10 (03:09:24):
Yeah, what happens?

Speaker 18 (03:09:26):
Now?

Speaker 70 (03:09:26):
Where do we go?

Speaker 10 (03:09:27):
You gotta get a heater, gotta find someplace to lay
out for a while. It takes doe dough. Everything takes dough.
You got any left, kiddy?

Speaker 3 (03:09:38):
How much?

Speaker 29 (03:09:39):
Three or four hundred?

Speaker 10 (03:09:40):
Good? Good? It'll help some.

Speaker 29 (03:09:41):
Well, you got it in my suitcase, good girl, Jack?
Take the money? Leave me here?

Speaker 10 (03:09:49):
You kidding?

Speaker 11 (03:09:50):
Baby?

Speaker 6 (03:09:50):
No?

Speaker 14 (03:09:51):
Take it?

Speaker 10 (03:09:52):
What's the money? You want to stay here?

Speaker 29 (03:09:53):
I can't go through that all over again.

Speaker 11 (03:09:55):
Jack.

Speaker 29 (03:09:55):
I can't see them get you again.

Speaker 10 (03:09:56):
I can't do you have to go through. I'm the
one they're after. You talk like I don't mean anything
to you.

Speaker 51 (03:10:02):
If you didn't mean anything to me, would you be
here now? Would you have those cuffs off?

Speaker 11 (03:10:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (03:10:07):
I'm sorry, kid, I guess I wouldn't.

Speaker 51 (03:10:10):
I'm I crazy, Jack? Why do I see only good
in you? Everybody else sees bad? If they're right, I'm
crazy because you only say what you want to see.
Let them think I'm bad?

Speaker 10 (03:10:22):
Will you care?

Speaker 29 (03:10:23):
Do you want me with you?

Speaker 11 (03:10:24):
Jack?

Speaker 10 (03:10:25):
I gotta have you along, baby, you're my insurance. They
take one look at the two of us together, and
nobody's suspicious. We can go any place and do anything,
or just an ordinary couple of people.

Speaker 29 (03:10:36):
That's not much of a reason for me.

Speaker 10 (03:10:38):
Look, kid, you know you come first all the time.
But I think for the next couple of weeks, I
can't do much traveling. I gotta light someplace and stay
there where. Well, how about Kansas your sister's place?

Speaker 29 (03:10:52):
No, Jack, I don't want to get her mixed up
in it.

Speaker 10 (03:10:54):
Who does want to mixed up in it? It's a
big farm and far away from everything.

Speaker 14 (03:10:58):
You said.

Speaker 10 (03:10:59):
She needs helps so her husband died.

Speaker 29 (03:11:00):
You won't like a farm, You'll get restless.

Speaker 10 (03:11:03):
You think I was raised down? You wrote, Nora, you
were married. Writer, you're bringing your husband for a visit?

Speaker 29 (03:11:12):
All right, that's what you want.

Speaker 10 (03:11:15):
We can stay there and I get my bearings.

Speaker 3 (03:11:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (03:11:18):
Maybe be a good idea to cool off on a farm.

Speaker 1 (03:11:25):
Yeah, yeah, rotten stuff?

Speaker 10 (03:11:28):
Hey, lets there?

Speaker 29 (03:11:32):
Yeah, I brought you back some cigarettes from town.

Speaker 10 (03:11:37):
Thanks. Of course you might have let me know you
were going. I've been having a wonderful time here pitching.

Speaker 51 (03:11:42):
Hey, Well you were still sleeping and I didn't want
to wake you. You got in so late?

Speaker 19 (03:11:49):
All right, kitty?

Speaker 10 (03:11:50):
So I got in late.

Speaker 29 (03:11:51):
Besides, with knowing the kids, there would have been room
in the car.

Speaker 10 (03:11:54):
Nor the kids are making me sick. But I had
one of this farm, and I can take Three weeks
isn't so long?

Speaker 29 (03:12:00):
And they're still looking for you. They're looking for your heart.

Speaker 10 (03:12:03):
Let him look, I need jail. It'll be better than
breaking your back and this kind of work.

Speaker 29 (03:12:08):
Where'd you go last night?

Speaker 10 (03:12:11):
What do you care?

Speaker 13 (03:12:12):
Well?

Speaker 29 (03:12:12):
You didn't get intil so late?

Speaker 10 (03:12:14):
Okay, I didn't get in until late. I went to
mail a letter. Oh, I see it's the Harry Porter
and Omaha, want him to line up somebody for me?
Good gunman.

Speaker 29 (03:12:27):
Then we're leaving here and you had enough? I guess
you have.

Speaker 51 (03:12:32):
There's big news in town, Jack. Yeah, the state bank
at Cackli was broken into last night.

Speaker 10 (03:12:39):
Oh what do you want me to do?

Speaker 3 (03:12:40):
Body?

Speaker 29 (03:12:41):
You promised, Jack? You promised you laylo and stay out
of things.

Speaker 10 (03:12:43):
I don't go in for safe crackings. I'm a gunman.

Speaker 29 (03:12:46):
How did you know the safe was cracked? I didn't
say it.

Speaker 10 (03:12:48):
Oh don't all banks have safes?

Speaker 3 (03:12:51):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (03:12:52):
What are you trying to make me walk into You
were out late and there's no place to go. I
never broke in any place before. That's not my line.

Speaker 29 (03:12:57):
The talk is it was an amateur job.

Speaker 10 (03:12:59):
You get it had nothing to do with a thing. Now,
let me get finished up here.

Speaker 29 (03:13:03):
Yeah, check, that'll be a good idea. Oh, Norah wants
to fix up early. She's taking the kids over to
the mclachlins later.

Speaker 10 (03:13:13):
Yeah, the kids. They give me a pain in her neck.
Go let me get some hay pitched.

Speaker 3 (03:13:25):
Hello, Sheriff, Oh hayes anything new, Sheriff, This is Special
Agent Dire also the FBI. He was sent down from
the Kansas City Field Office to help out in the investigation.
Sheriff Leaney, how are you, Sheriff, glad to have your
dire We need all the help we can get. Have
you been able to turn up anything, Sheriff, Oh, Well,
like you suggested, it could have been somebody lok home.

(03:13:46):
I had my deputies checking up with the people around here.

Speaker 79 (03:13:48):
Anybody suspicious.

Speaker 10 (03:13:49):
You know how it is.

Speaker 79 (03:13:50):
We know almost everybody in the county on them for years.
There's a few people we might check in without huh.
For instance, out at Lamb's garage to peak a road.
Len took on a new mechanic stranger a week or
ten days ago.

Speaker 3 (03:14:03):
I talked to him.

Speaker 2 (03:14:05):
We could.

Speaker 79 (03:14:06):
And then there's that new couple out at the widow Emmits,
Jack Rogers and his wife. She's Nora im It's sister.
Been there about three weeks. I haven't seen much of him,
but she's been around with Nora and the kids.

Speaker 3 (03:14:18):
Is there anything suspicious about this Jack Rogers?

Speaker 79 (03:14:20):
Well, no, can't say there is. I got a car
and seems to have money. They emits are good people.
Have a look at them too, and there's three or
four others. I've got them listening to here.

Speaker 3 (03:14:33):
All right, Sheriff, we'll check on everybody beginning tomorrow, just
to play safe.

Speaker 10 (03:14:40):
Kitty Kitty in here, Jack in the kitchen crying out,
Where are you when I want you?

Speaker 29 (03:14:46):
I'm just fixing lunch for the kids.

Speaker 10 (03:14:48):
What are your nurse made or something? Let Nora take
care of her own kids.

Speaker 29 (03:14:51):
She went to town again.

Speaker 10 (03:14:54):
She have to go to town every day. She's been
living a life of Riley since we came. I I
pitch the Hey, you take care of the kids.

Speaker 12 (03:14:59):
What is this after all?

Speaker 14 (03:15:00):
Jack?

Speaker 29 (03:15:00):
She's been awfully nice to us.

Speaker 10 (03:15:02):
Well, let her get a couple of hired hands. We're
pulling out anyway, as soon as I hear from Harry porter.

Speaker 29 (03:15:07):
Jack, you promised you could stay until the heats off.
You promised me.

Speaker 10 (03:15:09):
Oh, I had enough farm an car.

Speaker 29 (03:15:13):
Norah, No, she said you wouldn't be back on six.

Speaker 10 (03:15:17):
Take a look out the window.

Speaker 3 (03:15:21):
Who is it.

Speaker 29 (03:15:22):
It's not Laura, it's a man cop.

Speaker 10 (03:15:25):
I'll talk to him Jack.

Speaker 29 (03:15:26):
I'll send him away.

Speaker 10 (03:15:27):
We're the kids upstairs, up and keeping there all hannah us.
Be careful, Please be careful up and take care of
the kids.

Speaker 29 (03:15:34):
Let me talk to Jack. I'm not going to use
that gup.

Speaker 10 (03:15:38):
I got it. Yeah, I'll get up there, meet him
on the porch. You get up with the kids. Yeah,
that's there. How can I do for you?

Speaker 2 (03:15:54):
I want to talk to Jack Rogers.

Speaker 10 (03:15:56):
I'm Jack Rogers.

Speaker 79 (03:15:58):
Oh, my name's Diary.

Speaker 10 (03:15:59):
I'm of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That's so, I
understand you understand too much. Jack sho't going back.

Speaker 29 (03:16:11):
What are you gonna do? They knew he came here.
The must be more of than around.

Speaker 10 (03:16:14):
I'm gonna do. I'm getting not the back way, Jack,
I'll get ready. Oh, kid, this time, I have to
travel light. I'll get a touch with you, but I
want to go there no time. They got nothing one new, Kitty.
Don't tell him a thing. You don't know a thing.

Speaker 29 (03:16:23):
I don't tell him anything.

Speaker 79 (03:16:24):
By you, So don, that was the situation.

Speaker 80 (03:16:31):
The criminal John Frederick Benson, shot and critically wounded an
agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who attempted to
question him. Benson fled the scene and left the Girl
Kitty alone to face the other law enforcement officers.

Speaker 3 (03:16:45):
Now back to Gangbusters.

Speaker 80 (03:16:47):
You were telling us the United States Attorney Anderson that
the fugitive John Frederick Benson shot and critically wounded a
special agent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, then dashed
out of the back of the farmhouse, leaving the Girl
Kitty to face other officers who came to check on
the missing officer.

Speaker 10 (03:17:03):
That's right, Don.

Speaker 80 (03:17:05):
When Sheriff Laney and Special Agent Haines arrived, they placed
Kitty in custody and rushed Special Agent Dier to a hospital. Later,
at the Sheriff's office, the girl was being questioned by
the officers in their attempt to get a lead on
the whereabouts of Benson.

Speaker 29 (03:17:21):
I'm telling you, I don't know where he is. I
don't I know.

Speaker 3 (03:17:25):
You traveled all over the country with Benson. You were
at the farm together three weeks. He must have mentioned
where he counted on going when he left.

Speaker 29 (03:17:32):
We were going to stay for a while. There wasn't
any thought of leaving.

Speaker 79 (03:17:35):
The FBI agent he shot might die.

Speaker 29 (03:17:39):
I know, I'm sorry.

Speaker 79 (03:17:41):
I'm being sorry.

Speaker 14 (03:17:42):
Doesn't help much.

Speaker 11 (03:17:43):
You want to help?

Speaker 3 (03:17:44):
Tell us where he went?

Speaker 10 (03:17:45):
I I don't know.

Speaker 79 (03:17:47):
He must have given some indications.

Speaker 29 (03:17:49):
I don't know where he went. Please believe me.

Speaker 10 (03:17:51):
I don't, all right, miss, that's all you mean?

Speaker 29 (03:17:57):
I can go?

Speaker 10 (03:17:58):
Yes, Yes, you can go now.

Speaker 3 (03:18:01):
Yes.

Speaker 79 (03:18:02):
As much as we'd like to hold you, there's no
charge we can place against you.

Speaker 11 (03:18:06):
I see.

Speaker 79 (03:18:07):
Have you got any place to go back.

Speaker 29 (03:18:10):
To the farm? I guess for a while, but I
don't know.

Speaker 57 (03:18:15):
All right.

Speaker 79 (03:18:15):
If we need you, we will be in touch.

Speaker 29 (03:18:19):
I'm sorry I couldn't help you, more so.

Speaker 79 (03:18:22):
Are we, hell Sheriff, She's on her way. I hope
you get something out of it.

Speaker 2 (03:18:30):
Haims me.

Speaker 79 (03:18:31):
When I get somebody that belongs in jail, I like
to keep him there, Sheriff.

Speaker 3 (03:18:35):
Benson's a lot more important than she is, and if
he knows she's out, maybe he'll arranged to see her.

Speaker 10 (03:18:51):
Hi, Well, Jack, can will you care? You're drinking up
by your mother? Never mind their names? Makes Harry Porters said,
I might find you here.

Speaker 3 (03:19:08):
You know?

Speaker 10 (03:19:10):
How is Harry? Okay? Cause his here is still giving
him trouble. It's not as here. It's a stomach. That's right,
there's a stomach.

Speaker 13 (03:19:23):
He said.

Speaker 10 (03:19:23):
You was looking for somebody to go in business with.
Maybe I am, but not here. In all my arm
I'm free to travel. Makes h that's a gun boy,
nothing else. Okay, I'll think about it. I gotta think
about it too, Jack, you're a pretty hard customer. There's

(03:19:46):
not many who shoot up g men and are walking
on the street to talk about I never talk about it,
especially in the bars. It's in high squiet place that's
going for a ride. There's not so many years and
automobiles come on. Special Agent Haynes.

Speaker 3 (03:20:13):
Haynes's Marshall. We just got a tele adipe message from Minneapolis.
The girl kitty got there on the train this morning.
I bought a bus chicken Saintish, North Dakota, Santish.

Speaker 2 (03:20:22):
Huh.

Speaker 79 (03:20:23):
Vincent's got relatives there.

Speaker 3 (03:20:24):
Yeah, I know we're already watching him. Okay, let's move
in a little closer. Get playing reservations for Minneapolis. We'll
work out of there.

Speaker 10 (03:20:36):
Okay, Megs, you'll do Thanks, coach. I never thought i'd
make it look. If there's one thing I don't like,
it's wise guys. Take it easy on the cracks and
take it easy on the talk, and let's see you jack.
If a guy's got no sense of humor, he's got nothing.
I got nothing to laugh about. Its strictly business makes
and remember that. Okay, Well, when we get started. Ever

(03:20:57):
worked at Dakota's Dakotas what's up there? Honey? You know
where to find it. Why I take such a trip.
I've got a way of operating, Megs, and includes having
a girl along make things look good. The girl I
went along is up there. Ah, it's not a bad idea.
I got a girl too. One's enough. Yeah, yeah, one's enough,

(03:21:22):
as long as she's yours. If you don't want it
my way, Megs, you can get out right here. Okay,
you're right. You gotta traveler, companion. Don't get excited. That's
the house.

Speaker 69 (03:21:40):
Hans kidding moved in the day before yesterday, I got
a mail check on the place. No letters from Vincent
or what about the phone? Well, that's gonna give us
some trouble. What kind of trouble Bencent? Oh, stop light
a cigarette? I don't want a better look at the place,
all right. It so happens that Benson's aunt is the

(03:22:01):
night operator. I didn't want to plan anyone in the exchange.
If she spots him, it might wear the works.

Speaker 79 (03:22:06):
Okay, but keep agents posted around the exchange every minute.

Speaker 19 (03:22:10):
The Amazon duty we'll do.

Speaker 10 (03:22:12):
The manager of the exchange is no connection with Benson.

Speaker 3 (03:22:14):
Good. I don't think Benson will have nerve enough to
come right to the house. He might figure it's covered,
but I'm almost certain he'll try to get in touch
with Kitty.

Speaker 10 (03:22:23):
And if he does, we want to know about it.
Come on, hello, Kitty, check. I want to make the
short and sweet baby. I'm close. I'm gonna come by
for you.

Speaker 80 (03:22:42):
Check.

Speaker 10 (03:22:42):
Maybe you want to it'll work. It's my at home.

Speaker 29 (03:22:45):
No, she want to see a friend before work.

Speaker 10 (03:22:47):
Okay, I'll get in touch with her when I get in.
She'll tell you where to meet me.

Speaker 29 (03:22:50):
Be careful, check, be careful.

Speaker 10 (03:22:51):
Don't worry about me. I'll be all right. I want
to get off this line so long.

Speaker 2 (03:22:55):
Goodbye.

Speaker 10 (03:23:02):
Okay, make this guy here sit down with your check.
Let me finish my drake. You're gonna have to make
it snappy. Who are you calling that dame here? She
got a friend? She don't live in this town. Oh
who cares if she's got a friend?

Speaker 19 (03:23:17):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (03:23:17):
When do we get this baby?

Speaker 13 (03:23:18):
Us?

Speaker 10 (03:23:19):
And well, I'm getting curious. They don't have a line.
A wait. Now it's a very of a little place
called Sanish, should I have We're driving there right now.
Good good, that's where we take on our extra passenger.
I get finished up. We got fifty miles to drive. Okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (03:23:38):
Haines, as manager of the local telephone exchange, just got
in touch with me.

Speaker 79 (03:23:42):
There was a call to Kitty. It came through from
Bismarck from Benson.

Speaker 10 (03:23:46):
He doesn't know. He just saw the ticket.

Speaker 79 (03:23:47):
He happened to go buy the office and the ticket
had just been Filed's Benson's having on duty at the board? No,
she's not scheduled to come on for another hour.

Speaker 14 (03:23:53):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (03:23:54):
We'll get in touch with the police at Bismarck to
be on the lookout for Benson there, and we'll keep
a double watch here in town all night. Crossman and
Gould on the house. You and I have the telephone
exchange where we can cover any more calls.

Speaker 79 (03:24:05):
Now all back to Gangbusters.

Speaker 10 (03:24:11):
So this is saying share. Yeah, this is saintish. I
can see why you left it at such an early age. Jack,
What do people do around here for excitement? They sleep
when you're driving there stops.

Speaker 1 (03:24:24):
They see it?

Speaker 13 (03:24:26):
Okay, what.

Speaker 10 (03:24:30):
Stop signing? They need their why to see the cows coming.
That's the telephone exchange in the middle of the block.
I mean, your rent's gotta stay on duty all night
the next cause around here at night calling over the Okay,
why don't we go to the dame's house. I'm doing
this all right, turn off the lights. Okay. What do
you need a gun for here? I didn't need it

(03:24:52):
back in Kansas either, but I used it. I'll wait here,
Come on, I said, oh, okay, all right, we'll go
around the back. It's no matter what the front. Nobody said.
But you're right. I'll go around the back, and I
will trouble to see a day and try to shut up.

Speaker 19 (03:25:13):
That's far enough.

Speaker 10 (03:25:14):
Cops off camp suck.

Speaker 6 (03:25:18):
Old Jack the okay, come up, up, up, Okay, take
it easy.

Speaker 19 (03:25:23):
Where do the where do the bullets catch? Benson?

Speaker 3 (03:25:25):
Alight?

Speaker 19 (03:25:25):
I guess he's dead.

Speaker 79 (03:25:27):
Okay, wait here the carner comes. I'll take care of
this one.

Speaker 10 (03:25:30):
Go on, you start walking. Okay, I'm walking.

Speaker 79 (03:25:33):
I'm walking.

Speaker 12 (03:25:38):
Just a minute.

Speaker 14 (03:25:39):
Coming.

Speaker 10 (03:25:43):
Oh, hello, Kitty, he's not here.

Speaker 29 (03:25:46):
I swear he isn't I know he isn't.

Speaker 79 (03:25:48):
Two in the morning, in your all dressed.

Speaker 10 (03:25:50):
You weren't expecting to go out.

Speaker 29 (03:25:53):
I was up reading.

Speaker 3 (03:25:54):
Oh I thought you might be going out to meet Benson.

Speaker 29 (03:25:56):
That's not so.

Speaker 10 (03:25:58):
It is so, Kitty, and you know it.

Speaker 29 (03:26:00):
What do you want? You can't come in here, can I?

Speaker 79 (03:26:06):
I came to tell you, Kitty, Benson's dead. Oh no,
he tried to fight us.

Speaker 19 (03:26:14):
All right, you better come along with me.

Speaker 29 (03:26:18):
It wasn't bad, not really. He was good to me, honesty.

Speaker 13 (03:26:23):
What it was good to me?

Speaker 3 (03:26:25):
I don't doubt it, Kitty. But being good to you
wasn't enough, not nearly enough. He wasn't very good to
his victims, nor to the FBI agency.

Speaker 19 (03:26:33):
Shot.

Speaker 10 (03:26:34):
Come on, let's go.

Speaker 80 (03:26:36):
That Don was the end of one of the most
intensive manhunts in recent years. John Frederick Benson died by
the gun the way he expected to thrive, and the
same finish faces any man who thinks he's bigger than
the law which governs all of us. Thank you very much,
United States Attorney Anderson for this pointed case history and

(03:26:57):
Gangbuster's congratulations to all the lawn Form officers who participated
in the investigation leading to the conclusion of this case.
Tonight's case was dramatized by Stanley Ness and directed by
William Sweets, with Ken Lynch and Charlotte Lawrence in leading roles.

(03:27:21):
Don Gardner speaking Gangbusters is a phillips h lord production.

Speaker 3 (03:27:44):
The Green Hornet. He hunts the biggest of all game,
public enemies that even the g men cannot reach. The
Green Hornet with his faithful valet Tato, britt Reed, daring

(03:29:34):
young publisher matches wits with the underworld, risking his life
that criminals and racketeers within the law may feel its weight.
By the sting of the Green Hornet. Ride with brit Reeds,
he races to another thrilling adventure. The Green Hornet strikes again. Hurry, Tato,

(03:29:56):
We're at the break. A real estate racket fine by proxy.
I want my money back by now, only a few
eggers left.

Speaker 13 (03:30:17):
In fun.

Speaker 3 (03:30:19):
It's a ranker. I want my money back. It's a riker.

Speaker 82 (03:30:31):
Hello, this is a Franklin farn By Proxy company. Mister
Franklin isn't in yet. Hello, you saw ed McLaren. I'm
mister Franklin's assistant. Yes, drop in here anytime, the fine
By Proxy Company.

Speaker 3 (03:30:46):
That's right, mister Franklin, come in yet?

Speaker 83 (03:30:50):
Did you see the sign on the door.

Speaker 25 (03:30:52):
He's out.

Speaker 14 (03:30:52):
I'll wait.

Speaker 83 (03:30:53):
You want to buy to make jo.

Speaker 3 (03:30:54):
Glad, I've already been roped in.

Speaker 14 (03:30:56):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (03:30:56):
You ain't fooling me just a moment, mister Nevan.

Speaker 83 (03:31:00):
Oh yes, I thought you look familiar. You bought to
make each several days ago.

Speaker 14 (03:31:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 83 (03:31:06):
Here it is not on the wall map, Nevin, that's
a fine section. Southern slope is perfect for apple orch.

Speaker 3 (03:31:11):
You can have it something wrong plenty, lady, and you
know it.

Speaker 83 (03:31:15):
I'm afraid I can't do anything about it.

Speaker 3 (03:31:19):
In the hour office waiting for me? Oh yes, the reporters,
reporters from where.

Speaker 30 (03:31:23):
The Daily is sent?

Speaker 9 (03:31:25):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (03:31:26):
So?

Speaker 83 (03:31:26):
This man, mister Evans, wants to see you, mister Facton.

Speaker 3 (03:31:28):
He has some sort of complaint complaint. You saw me
five acres in your farm by proxy scheme, and I
want my money back scheme. I don't like that word,
mister Evans. I suppose it ain't a crowd hold on
the Franklin Farm by proxy company is absolutely open and
above board. You know our proposition. I know it by heart.
We have a large block of land given over to
apple orchards. We plant trees, take care of them for

(03:31:50):
five years, and at the end of that period the
trees are mature enough to bear fruit. You told me
that for your initial investment. Now you stand a good
chance of getting five times your money in five years.
What about the cost of taking care of the land.
Naturally you pay for that. We merely do the work
at your expense. You didn't say nothing about that when
I signed one of your contracts.

Speaker 83 (03:32:07):
You should have read the contract, mister Nevin.

Speaker 3 (03:32:09):
None at all. I went out to see that land.
You went there. It's all rock. You couldn't grow moss
on it, let alone apples. Well, that's your opinion. We
don't agree. Never mind a talk. Do I get my
money back? That's impossible. I tell you what we will do, though.
I am listening where is mister Nevins's property right here.
Mister Franklin, this pin fine. We'll give you a switch

(03:32:29):
to Nevins instead of the five acres here? How about
these five over on the last year matter. Your whole
land's worthless. It's a racket. If you don't give me
back my door. I wouldn't lose my temper if I
were you, sir.

Speaker 83 (03:32:41):
Rest of our clients having any complaints, they.

Speaker 3 (03:32:43):
Haven't seen the land like me. That don't be suckers.
I don't care about them. I'll see a lawyer right ahead.
That's your privilege. Listen, you grabbed five hundred bucks off
of me. Suppose I talked to other folks. Well, what
are you going to pay me not to let on
what I know? Not a cent? You won't even pay
me to keep my mouth shut about a racket. Get
out before I call a police and have you put out.

Speaker 83 (03:33:02):
We have a law abiding business.

Speaker 3 (03:33:03):
You have a contract and we're holding you to it.
Why you are on a break, Try it a gun.
You can't threaten us in our own office, Sally call
a police. All right, all right, I'm going, but I'll
get eaten with you racketeers over the last thing I do, Okay, Sally,
hang up.

Speaker 83 (03:33:22):
I hope he does see a lawyer. That contracts so
fool proof nobody could wriggle out of it.

Speaker 10 (03:33:26):
Too bad.

Speaker 3 (03:33:27):
I had to pull a hardware on him. Can't use
talk all the time.

Speaker 13 (03:33:30):
He was a nasty Frank.

Speaker 3 (03:33:31):
Sure saw five hundred bucks go by by and he'll
have to keep on paying for five years. Besides, he's
no angel. Did you hear the way he talked about
the other suckers?

Speaker 83 (03:33:42):
Yes, that's right. He'd be crooked too if he had
our brains.

Speaker 19 (03:33:45):
Forget him.

Speaker 3 (03:33:46):
We have to camp this map. See those reporters.

Speaker 83 (03:33:49):
You're going to see them?

Speaker 3 (03:33:51):
Sure?

Speaker 83 (03:33:51):
Why not, Frank, They're pretty tough on rackets.

Speaker 3 (03:33:55):
We're on the right side of the law. It can't
prove anything. Besides, we sold practically all the orchard land already.
What can they do? Get those contracts? Bag nobody else
there you are. Let those reporters ask questions. We got
all the answers. Hi, casey, you two backs so soon?

(03:34:22):
How that ain't no crime?

Speaker 77 (03:34:24):
I thought you were out getting a story on that
farm by proxy complaint We got this morning.

Speaker 3 (03:34:28):
Now, Ray, sure me lodly board, that's where we came
from Casey. How about it, Goddy, youngster, what are you
waiting for? Press the button entally and we're back.

Speaker 83 (03:34:36):
What for if you didn't get anything?

Speaker 3 (03:34:38):
One look at your face, Lowry, that's all I need.
I mean, you can look at me face until they
didn't get no school for nothing.

Speaker 27 (03:34:45):
With your face.

Speaker 13 (03:34:46):
Asks.

Speaker 2 (03:34:46):
But I can always tell what you're thinking.

Speaker 3 (03:34:48):
You can. Yep, it's always a blank. This is no
time for repartee the boss, good grief, I'm getting him.

Speaker 38 (03:34:54):
He was on the phone.

Speaker 3 (03:34:56):
Yes, they're back, mystery, Laurie. Did he get anything? Isn't enough?
Mister read Yes, sir, check on the name and address
of the man who made that complaint this morning.

Speaker 18 (03:35:05):
Let me know.

Speaker 3 (03:35:07):
You two get Hey, it's okay, Casey, we heard and
we obey. Hey, reed, it's a racketar right, let's hear it,
miss case right about her? Guess Casey hit it on
the nose, boss. This guy Franklin has a calm game
that's the air tight as a diving bill. Just exactly
what is it this man who called this morning? You
nothing more than a hint? Franklin selling worthless land. Ready
his angle is apple orchards, apple orchard. He's got a

(03:35:30):
nice big map and a smooth line. Franklin and his
dame feed the customers a high powered line about the
profit in apples. Does he make any specific promises? Not him.
That's how he stays inside the lawn. Let me see,
they use clever hints to make people think there's a
profit to be made in the future. Yeah, so they
make him a present of the dove contracts. Nothing there, Boss,
he must have cheated one hundreds of poor people out

(03:35:50):
of the.

Speaker 14 (03:35:50):
Skin one moment.

Speaker 3 (03:35:52):
Yes, miss Case, here's the information you wanted. That fellow's
far more disturbed today than he was the other day.
What's the man's name, Carl Nevin in his address seventeen
Western Drive. I see thanks that the guy who called
this morning and made the complaint. His name is Nevians.
As Case said, he's seemed even matter now than he
was before. Holy Crow, you can't blame him falling for
a line of apples.

Speaker 10 (03:36:12):
Hot.

Speaker 3 (03:36:12):
I want something to set look in print, Laurie. Tell
me how and I'll get it if I have to
dig the china. Have you seen this property, the land
they're selling. Yes, I know where it is, but I
haven't been out to look. I wonder if it might
be worthwhile. You want me to hop out there tomorrow,
me and Lolie. You'll get there early. Will you stop
butting in accidents? But Cally, maybe you lead a man
of action like me? And at this time, Michael, this

(03:36:34):
is at the other extreme. He you don't mean subtitle.
That's my dish lessen you. Big love goes a lot,
but play, say Laurie, huh, if possible, try not to
reveal it, tore from the Daily Seven. Find out as
much as you can, as careful as you can. Boss,
there's no headline out there to take the assignment. I'll
decide on the headline, so long as you get the news.

(03:37:08):
That evening, in his apartment, brit Reed spoke to Kato,
his faithful valet and the only living person to know
him as the Green Hornet. It's an odd situation, Kato.
These confidence racketeers run, doubtedly jipping the public, yet they're
careful to stay within the limits of the law. I
seem to be. Larry's going out to see that land
of Moraw. He's going to keep his identity as secret

(03:37:28):
as possible. Larry believes that's necessary in order to get
information for a story. Actually, my purpose is quite different.
I want Franklin to believe Laurry is there for some
other purpose. What is that mystery here? Kato? Look at
this map, Yes, sir, Right here, circled in red is
the land which Franklin is selling in his farm by
proxy racket. He noticed these wavy brown lines here, and

(03:37:51):
those are contour lines, Kato. They show that Franklin's vicarage
lies along a peculiar rock formation. It's definitely not the
kind of land it would raise good apple orchard, Kato.

Speaker 14 (03:38:00):
I see it.

Speaker 3 (03:38:01):
We can use that formation of land for something entirely
different from apple orchards. We can use it to plant
a certain idea in the minds of those racketeers. I
understand you will say, as we go along, did you
get the money I asked for? Here? Fine, I'm going
to give this money away, Kato. Why I have a
plan which requires the help of someone besides the green Horse?

(03:38:23):
Can I happen to be at the present moment? You're
to stay here. I'm going out tonight to call in
one of Franklin's victims, man by the name of Levin's.

Speaker 11 (03:38:30):
Who is he?

Speaker 3 (03:38:31):
He bought some of that property and he knows he's
been cheated. Get the green horned mask and the gun. Yes, sir,
there's a lot of money here, and I don't know
whether Levins will turn out to be the kind of
man I can trust, but there's no other way here. Well, thanks, Kato.
The gun is loaded. Yes, how about the black beauty?
It's all checks bid, All right, Kato. I'll be back

(03:38:53):
as soon as I turn this money over to Nevins.
M kind of late for anybody to be calling, and

(03:39:14):
been an hour ago, except I can't sleep thinking about
them blasted racketeers taking me in on their scheme and
man as we'll.

Speaker 10 (03:39:21):
See who it is.

Speaker 3 (03:39:25):
What do you want?

Speaker 14 (03:39:25):
It's late?

Speaker 67 (03:39:26):
Your name is Nevin?

Speaker 3 (03:39:27):
Who wants to know? I have some money for a
man by that name? Money? Sure? Sure, I'm Nevin's Come
in where I can see you. I will. You're wearing
a mask, recognize its listen, I know you. I've seen
pictures of that mask in the papers. Here the green
hornet away from this door.

Speaker 7 (03:39:41):
I ain't done nothing.

Speaker 3 (03:39:42):
You saw Franklin this afternoon eleven? You're with them. I
didn't mean them threats on it. I'm shaking and take this.
No wait, I tell you don't. Don't shake it now.
Look I money, didn't I say I had some money
for you? You mean it for me? Go ahead? Sure, sure,
But I don't understand there's a string attached, Nevin Lungs.
It's money. I don't care how many strings M see.

(03:40:04):
You're not especially particular. Why should you ask? You're a
crooked Evans. I don't care anymore for Franklin than you do.
I'd like to get even with that guy and the
dame too. That's what the money's for.

Speaker 11 (03:40:16):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (03:40:16):
I want you to be my agent. Agent for what?
Buy property from Franklin? What are you get in that?
That property is worthless? You ain't no sucker for obvious reasons.
The green hornet can't buy property. I've chosen you, nevering,
but don't be your silent part of me. I want
all of Franklin's land you can get here crazy. That
land couldn't grow apples. I'm not interested in apples? And
what are you after? Look at this letter? But it

(03:40:38):
ain't addressed to nobody. I tore that part off, after all,
I can't reveal my real identity. Read it? I read it, okay?
It says, what what's this oil? You mean there's oil
on that land. That letter tells the story. Oh no,
wonder you want to buy it?

Speaker 10 (03:40:57):
Use that money?

Speaker 28 (03:40:58):
You bet?

Speaker 3 (03:40:58):
I will, I'll buy all I can grab. You would
be Franklin's clover. He carefully, he doesn't get suspicion at him.
He wants to sell. He thinks that's valuable oil.

Speaker 84 (03:41:09):
He'll never let it go.

Speaker 3 (03:41:10):
Has he gonna know he cheated me?

Speaker 46 (03:41:13):
Now?

Speaker 3 (03:41:13):
I remember one thing happens. I have no way of
knowing that you won't double cost me, but I advise
you not to try it. Sure you can trust me
horn it for your sake, I hope, So good night,
good night. Sure you can trust me on it. You

(03:41:34):
can trust me to get that property from Franklin and
maybe capture the Green Hornet in the bargain. The curtain
falls on the first act of our Green Hornet Adventurer.
Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause

(03:41:56):
for just a moment now to continue. After leaving Nevans,

(03:43:02):
britt Reid went to the dark Calley where he had
parked the Black Beauty Neverns. Doesn't seem like the sort
of person would be on the level just because he's
fallen a victim of Franklin's racket doesn't mean that he
couldn't be just as unscrupulous himself. Perhaps I'd better make
certain that Evans doesn't have any chance to double across

(03:43:26):
the Green Hornet. Brit Reid returned to the apartment and
got his valet cato. Then together they drove across the
city to the apartment where the farm racketeers made their home.
On the way, britt Reid stopped to make a phone

(03:43:47):
call first, removing his green Hornet mask. Hello Evans, Yeah,
who is it? I saw you earlier this evening about
a certain preposition. No name is not over the phone. Okay,

(03:44:09):
And what'd you call for? We haven't arranged a place
to meet. You're going to buy that property tomorrow? Yeah,
that's right, I'm going over some time when I mean,
when he's in be it your place tomorrow night at eleven?

Speaker 57 (03:44:21):
What for?

Speaker 3 (03:44:21):
Using my money? Do as I say eleven? You're going
to be here. I want to see the results you
had be there at eleven o'clock. You can expect me.
Who's that we will take the wheel. I spoke to

(03:44:42):
nevins Keto, Yes, mister, I told him to be at
his place tomorrow night at eleven, you'll be there. Evans
expects the Green Hornet at that hour. I was very
careful to let him get that impression. We'll go now,
I'll take my mask, Kato. It is head for Franklin's home.
You know where it is.

Speaker 14 (03:44:55):
He told me.

Speaker 3 (03:44:56):
A lot of innocent people have put their savings in
Franklin's formed by proxy scheme. It's up to the Green
Hornet to see that they get it back. Well, kid,
here's Luck in a couple of days, maybe a week,

(03:45:17):
and we'd get rid of the rest of that land.

Speaker 83 (03:45:19):
Yeah, and I thought she was crazy when you bought it.

Speaker 3 (03:45:21):
Here's Luck crazy like a fox cost us five bucks
an acre, and we're selling it to the SAPs for
a hundred.

Speaker 83 (03:45:27):
What do we do when it's all sold? To get
out with the cash?

Speaker 13 (03:45:30):
What for?

Speaker 83 (03:45:30):
Well, the police might.

Speaker 20 (03:45:31):
Why s up?

Speaker 3 (03:45:32):
We got contracts. The police can't touch us. No, we
stick around. Why do that when you're because we get
more dough that way. You know what those contracts said?
You mean about us service in the land form, Yeah,
farm by proxy. They get jip when they buy it,
and for five years of the years after they have
to pay off whatever we want to charge.

Speaker 83 (03:45:50):
Them because they don't want to pay us for farming.

Speaker 3 (03:45:52):
Un If they don't pay, we take the land back,
get it.

Speaker 83 (03:45:54):
Yeah, we sell it over again.

Speaker 3 (03:45:56):
That's the racket. How are they going to know that
we charge them for repairing fens, business, spraying trees, jabs
that we never do because they squaw at them. That
sucker was in today, he squawked Nevin. Yeah, that's the guy.
He ain't got a snowballs chance in midsummer. The laws
on our side.

Speaker 83 (03:46:11):
I wish I could be sure.

Speaker 3 (03:46:12):
I know it. I've been in plenty of rackets, have
never been caught yet. Why because I'm always careful to
stay inside the law.

Speaker 83 (03:46:18):
You're smart, Frank.

Speaker 3 (03:46:19):
You ain't telling me. Now, come on, canish up that
drink and I'll pour us another. Okay, it's matter with you, Frank. Hey,
you dropped your glass.

Speaker 13 (03:46:28):
Behind you a man wearing a mask.

Speaker 3 (03:46:29):
Don't try anything, Frank, you that mask. Here's a green horn.
You care for this desk? Put a bullet through in
the back. No, you'll don't. Another man behind you the gun.

Speaker 12 (03:46:37):
It's right, Frank too of you.

Speaker 3 (03:46:39):
I thought you might have a gun in here. I'll
remove the bullets just to make sure. What do you
want you own a certain piece of property or what
about it? You've been selling that land. I want a
list of the people you've sold it to.

Speaker 11 (03:46:53):
A list.

Speaker 83 (03:46:53):
You can't do anything, it was legal.

Speaker 3 (03:46:55):
A list you with the names. Do I get the list?
Or do you want to do some cash? Well, you
can't get anything out of those suckers hornets. I already
picked them clean. I'm sure you'll have after that list.

Speaker 67 (03:47:05):
Did you give it to me?

Speaker 3 (03:47:06):
Or I cast you and search for it myself. Take
up your mind. Don't get it either way. I don't
know what you want to fall it? Okay, here it is.
I want to see Franklin you again.

Speaker 83 (03:47:27):
He told you yesterday, mister Devans, you can't get your
money back.

Speaker 13 (03:47:30):
The sailors who.

Speaker 3 (03:47:30):
Said anything about getting it back. I want to see
him for another reason, entirely.

Speaker 83 (03:47:35):
He's in here this you to see you Nevans.

Speaker 19 (03:47:38):
He was arguing again.

Speaker 83 (03:47:39):
He says it something else.

Speaker 3 (03:47:40):
Yeah, that's right, we'll make it snappy. I thought maybe
I could buy some more of that lamb. What Well?
I got to thinking it over, and I figure maybe
your scheme is okay? About the apple orgies, I mean
you're not telling the truth, Nevans me. Something has changed
your mind since yesterday.

Speaker 83 (03:47:53):
We haven't many acres left to tell, frank Why not.

Speaker 3 (03:47:55):
Get rid of of it. I'm handling you gotta sell
it to me for the anxious Huh?

Speaker 19 (03:47:59):
Well will you?

Speaker 3 (03:48:00):
Won't you?

Speaker 9 (03:48:00):
Why?

Speaker 3 (03:48:01):
What do you mean? There's been some funny things going
on lately? Why do you want that land? What do
you care? I got the dough? Well, I'll have to
think it over.

Speaker 19 (03:48:08):
Look, Franklin, if you.

Speaker 3 (03:48:10):
Don't want to give me a list of the other
people who bought it from you?

Speaker 83 (03:48:12):
What did you hear that thing?

Speaker 3 (03:48:14):
Yeah? I heard it. You're the second guy who asked
for the list. I'll pay you twice as much as
he told you to come in here. Why nobody? I
just was too dumb to get a hunch by yourself
as a guy with a mask been seeing Well, no,
of course not.

Speaker 83 (03:48:25):
It's not over your face.

Speaker 3 (03:48:26):
I tell you ain't telling nothing. I'm telling you it's
the hornet. Come on, talk. The green hearted put you
up with this, didn't he?

Speaker 83 (03:48:32):
Yes, Gus for a the same thing you wanted.

Speaker 3 (03:48:34):
I didn't know he told me. Yeah, I got a
good idea. What he told you mean about one of
my boys called in from the property. There's been some
guy snooping around out there. I wouldn't give his name
or state his business, just looking. How are you going
to stall all day?

Speaker 10 (03:48:45):
Reach Nevin?

Speaker 3 (03:48:46):
Now, look, you don't need no gun, Sally. He's got
something in that pocket. He's been singing it since he
came in. It ain't money. I'll let the money the
hornet gave me at home. Whatever it is, get it, Sally,
must be important, or you wouldn't keep handling it past.
Give me that. Get back and it here, Sally, Frank
it is oil.

Speaker 13 (03:49:01):
It's a report from one of them geologists oil.

Speaker 3 (03:49:04):
So that's it. I don't say where it's a fake.
I tell you it's fake.

Speaker 14 (03:49:07):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (03:49:07):
Now after the way you come in here? Now after
the green hornet last night, mad guys snooping around.

Speaker 83 (03:49:11):
He must have been checking over for fast to drill.

Speaker 3 (03:49:13):
Get out, listen, you can't. I'll pay a double three times.
Just gone back and tell the hornet he made a mistake.
He should have picked a front man who's smarter than
you will ever be. I'll give you five times your price.
There's the door, and I'll get going before Hey, I'll
see those others myself. You won't see him because you
don't know who they are taking my idea, just like
to see the hornet. Get that dope outside.

Speaker 83 (03:49:33):
We got to work past bank oil, get.

Speaker 3 (03:49:34):
All the salesman moving. We got to buy back all
the land we sold it. Sure this report don't point
to any particular section. We'll get them all back. Play safe.
I'll have to pay Teddy. We'll give them ten times
as much money as we have to. It's oil. We
better get busy. So Harnet has a list.

Speaker 83 (03:49:47):
Then can't go around people in the daytime.

Speaker 3 (03:49:49):
You'll use Nevan's. Then we got to get those acres
back first. Now get busy. I want every bit of
that land back in my possession by the night. Well,
missus Colston, what do you say.

Speaker 83 (03:50:06):
I don't understand, mister Franklin.

Speaker 11 (03:50:08):
You sold me this land in.

Speaker 12 (03:50:09):
The first place.

Speaker 3 (03:50:10):
I'll give you just what you paid for, Missus Colson,
But you said i'd get a profit. I'll absorb that
three times as much. Well in that case, now just
sign it over to me, and here's your money. Fifty
one hundred, one fifty two hundred.

Speaker 2 (03:50:30):
That's right.

Speaker 82 (03:50:30):
Our company has decided to assume all the risk its
fill instead of waiting five years, we'll give you your
profit now.

Speaker 3 (03:50:35):
Hey, that sounds okay to me. Here's your contract and
here's your money. No one if you will yet, thanks, guess.

Speaker 83 (03:50:50):
None of them know about the oars.

Speaker 3 (03:50:51):
Keep after from Sally. I want all of them, all
of them. I went after that place, boss, but got nothing.
Franklin's property, the acreage he is selling and his farm
by proxy plan.

Speaker 10 (03:51:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:51:08):
I fished around, but there wasn't anything out there. One
of Franklin's men got suspicious. You told me not to
give my name or mention the paper. We were excited
about something, Laurie.

Speaker 14 (03:51:16):
Let's have it.

Speaker 3 (03:51:17):
You know what Franklin's doing? Should I? It's all over town.
He and that dame are buying the land back. What
why should they do that? And search me? I'm not
in the rackets. See if you can find out why,
let me know. Okay, boss, it's scrolly all right. In
about two hours from now, Franklin will get a letter

(03:51:38):
telling him he's allowed himself to be fooled, a report
proving there never was in the oil there.

Speaker 19 (03:51:44):
I never will be read.

Speaker 7 (03:51:46):
Oh god, he this time you have what's wrong.

Speaker 3 (03:51:49):
It's not wrong, Boss, for once. That's what may have something.
It's the harness what we got to kip. He's going
to come to a certain place tonight. Yeah, at the
home of a guy named Nevin. Wasn't he the man
who called a subtle complaining about Franklin's racket. That's the baby,
d Just give me a car from headquarters to give
me the tip about Nevin. He called the police. Holy Claus,
the green Helott must be in with Frankly, thanks so

(03:52:09):
Suffer and Snakes. He must be sounds hot, Boss, seven o'clock.
I will keep the front page clear. This may be
a false alarm, but if the hornet's call, it will
be the biggest headline we've ever had. You said it,
and Edlower's going to be right there for a personal interview.

(03:52:37):
That night, several people gathered in Nevin's home, all tensely
watching the clock. Suffer and Snakes, and you can get
more jittery than the jitterbrug dancer.

Speaker 11 (03:52:45):
If you're sure he's coming, Evans, I know what.

Speaker 3 (03:52:47):
I'm talking about. Listen, door, you have this place surrounded,
and how's he going to get through? They got horrors
to do nothing until they heard from me. Anyway, Lori,
how can they tell he's the green Heart or not? All?
He wears his regular clothes and it's too dark to
see the mask. You don't know. We're waiting for him.

Speaker 14 (03:53:01):
We'll catch him in here.

Speaker 3 (03:53:02):
Cool. Hey, Nevans, what have you got to do with
the hornet in the first place? I told you you
try to rope me into something?

Speaker 10 (03:53:08):
There he is.

Speaker 3 (03:53:08):
Go ahead, Evans, all right, be sure and watch him.
You're the guy I want to see.

Speaker 19 (03:53:14):
Evans.

Speaker 14 (03:53:14):
Hey, he in the green hornet.

Speaker 3 (03:53:16):
That's Franklin and the woman.

Speaker 11 (03:53:17):
What is this?

Speaker 83 (03:53:18):
Him in the green hornet?

Speaker 3 (03:53:19):
Told us it was oil on the land. We brought
it back from the people. What you brought it back?
Holy cow? He's the right out.

Speaker 83 (03:53:24):
There is not there never was oil there.

Speaker 3 (03:53:26):
It's a scheme, Nevans. You ran it with the horn
if you can't put it on me. I did what
I was told, rad Ian Franklin, you fell for it.
All those people you just got the better of you. Golly,
where did the horned vision? I don't know what he's
trying to do, but he hasn't fooled me. No, I
still have the money up. He's eleven o'clough. Hey, look out,
someone turned off the light. Holy, what is he? I

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can't shoot with the reg and sea he's going get him?
Was him put on the lights? He's gone, went out
that door?

Speaker 11 (03:53:56):
Who asked him?

Speaker 3 (03:53:56):
He took your sover? His next took what the money?
He gave me money to help, So that's why he came.
You tried to double cross the hornet, and he took
his dove back and he sure white these racketeers off
the slaves. Hey, Doyle, blow that whistle. Your men are
waiting for a signal, Doyle, Dolly, look do you say
not the floor? He's been guessed now the police will.

Speaker 83 (03:54:13):
Never get there, he does.

Speaker 3 (03:54:15):
Why don't those tops close in? All they catch now
would be dust? Franklin the hornet nature Doyle couldn't blow
that whistle in time. He gets away, and we're left
here holding a lot of worthless property. You got no
better than you deserve. You're and your crooked apple orchard.
Sure the Sentinel gets a headline and you get a
lot of apple sauce.

Speaker 27 (03:54:40):
The free pepper.

Speaker 85 (03:54:44):
Brassy record read all hardy, let's way racketeers get take
it in read horned to the that's the last street Pepper.

Speaker 3 (03:56:37):
The story you have just heard is a copyrighted feature
of The Green Hornet Incorporated. The situations and characters depicted
in this drama are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons
or events of the past or present is coincidental. Presenting

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awesome wells as The Third Man, the lives of Harry
live the fabulous stories of the immortal character originally created
in the story The Third Man with Zipper music by
Anton Karen.

Speaker 24 (03:57:51):
The police of Milan, like the police of any other
down in the world, can sometimes be mistake him when
they got to mistaken ideas about mad and stay out
and put them right. I thought it'd be simply just
to leave town. So I took the morning train down a.

Speaker 19 (03:58:05):
Gentleman and had lunched and recorded charges.

Speaker 24 (03:58:07):
Charlie himself brought me brandy after lunch. Complimenced the house
to an old customer, and we both had our backs.
Turned a fly that on the edge of the glass,
and it wandered off drunkenly along the tablecloth, and I
took up a newspaper.

Speaker 3 (03:58:19):
The neighboring table, folded it and swallowed. I missed the fly,
and I saw the ad.

Speaker 19 (03:58:24):
Printed the top one of the calling them.

Speaker 3 (03:58:26):
The back of the.

Speaker 24 (03:58:26):
Paper wanted it read wanted multi lingual publicist to promote a.

Speaker 19 (03:58:33):
Young lady twenty three.

Speaker 24 (03:58:35):
But I translated that into English and meant that they
wanted somebody who knew a few languages. What I did
as for promoting a young lady of twenty three, might
be qualified there by information.

Speaker 3 (03:58:46):
And by experience. So I topped off the brand.

Speaker 24 (03:58:49):
They said, so long till later to retard the and
went out of the street, out in the street car
and died up the hill. The advertisement had given an
address the street happened to what I knew overlooking general
harm on the hill. Another Melody Johnson wasn't home. When

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I got to the address on the hill of a
Richard Melody Johnson. That was the name given in the end.
I didn't know she was a Dixie land trombonist or
a sheet music company, but god out she was neither.

Speaker 19 (03:59:47):
The old Italian.

Speaker 24 (03:59:48):
Landlady let me in and I was photo of the
melody all over the house. The landlady said it was
very sad, but Melody, though she was so beautiful. I
had to work for a living dancing at the General Palace,
which is where she'd be after eight that night. I
took another look at those pictures, took pity on Melody
and made my plans frustrate me. In the General Palace

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dance floor among those dark Genoa girls waiting for dance partners,
I'd have picked out Melody Johnson even if I hadn't
seen her photos. She had hair the color of red
clover honey, and blue eyes.

Speaker 19 (04:00:22):
And might have been a size or two too big.
Accepted on her that you just right what tickets that
went into a slow room? Br And I ended.

Speaker 13 (04:00:34):
You run by beautifully.

Speaker 19 (04:00:35):
You don't do so badly yourself.

Speaker 13 (04:00:37):
But I had so much training.

Speaker 19 (04:00:39):
You say that as if you had regretted.

Speaker 13 (04:00:40):
I regret to the nice words for corn. Oh, yes,
my trainings can dry thorough. And began back home in
New York.

Speaker 57 (04:00:46):
Wanted to see the world.

Speaker 19 (04:00:47):
So you're joined the shore a dancing troop and came
to Europe up that wind bus. We have just stranded here.

Speaker 13 (04:00:52):
Right that just about how it started. Yes, thank you,
but you you're an American to want, right? Are you
over here in Europe? On business?

Speaker 3 (04:01:03):
My name is Harry Lyme.

Speaker 19 (04:01:04):
All right, I.

Speaker 30 (04:01:07):
Won't mister Lime, I hope you brought an off ticket
so we can have the next day.

Speaker 19 (04:01:12):
Okay, we take if we can dance all the way
to the French.

Speaker 1 (04:01:14):
Fronts here and then let's walk out in the garden.

Speaker 13 (04:01:16):
You'll be dark and we'll be alone. We can talk,
can't we.

Speaker 11 (04:01:31):
Well we actually got down to business after a while.

Speaker 24 (04:01:35):
It seems that Melody Johnson wanted to hire somebody to
promote her interest as a beauty queen.

Speaker 19 (04:01:40):
She looked like a beauty queen.

Speaker 24 (04:01:42):
But as I was kissing Melody Johnson, my sixth sense
told me instinctively that Melody was half key. Give the
joke to the five senses. She was a beauty queen,
all right, but something maybe think there was something more
that didn't meet the eye.

Speaker 19 (04:01:59):
So that's all it is.

Speaker 24 (04:02:01):
He want something to sell you as a beauty motion
pictures man, beauty contest cabaret.

Speaker 13 (04:02:06):
Yes, Harry, Oh, there's just one thing more. The person
will have to be ready to travel very soon, very
very soon. Well, i'll tell you that when you've told
me you'll take a job, will you take it?

Speaker 3 (04:02:18):
Harry?

Speaker 19 (04:02:20):
I suppose you give me a day to think it over.

Speaker 24 (04:02:32):
I was in my usual hangout and geneal charities the
ex accident, thinking it over and reading the papers, and
the fellow was very much the look of him alive.

Speaker 19 (04:02:39):
Police officer came in. Did you know the whereabouts of
one Harry Lyme? He asked for Chardy.

Speaker 24 (04:02:44):
Never heard of a guy that name, I answered, Charlie,
of course in Italian. I went on reading the paper,
lifting a.

Speaker 19 (04:02:49):
Little higher and hide my face. But I remembered what
Melody Johnson had said. The person who took the job
she offered would have to be ready to travel. Oh
I haven't ready to travel very so.

Speaker 3 (04:03:06):
Goodbye to general he that awful job in the.

Speaker 13 (04:03:11):
No not to buy to Italy her, No, not quite.
The ship stopped at Naples on the way.

Speaker 10 (04:03:18):
Cairo.

Speaker 13 (04:03:19):
That's because of the beauty contact. You want to be, mister,
because of the honor and the publicity value. And then
there's a big money prime.

Speaker 24 (04:03:27):
Mentally money reminds me of it. Okay, let's just a
little further on down the ship round you know what
you can overhal what we're saying. Isn't there something you
want to tell me?

Speaker 13 (04:03:42):
I don't understand what you mean.

Speaker 3 (04:03:44):
Well, uh, this is what I mean.

Speaker 19 (04:03:46):
You want somebody to publishize you and promote your interest.

Speaker 35 (04:03:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:03:50):
Natural, But what about this, doesn't it seem to it's
the least bit queer you have to work in a taxi.

Speaker 19 (04:03:57):
Then told to keep yourself away.

Speaker 13 (04:03:59):
I would you about the gambling.

Speaker 19 (04:04:01):
He told me you fell in love at Monte Carlo
with Roulette.

Speaker 24 (04:04:04):
All right, since Roulette proved Bandy of financial health, isn't
it odd that you bought both of us first class
cabins on this ship, very deluxe accommodation.

Speaker 13 (04:04:14):
No, Harry, it's not odd at all. It is there
was nothing else available. All the other space on the
ship was sold.

Speaker 14 (04:04:28):
First.

Speaker 19 (04:04:28):
It was a possible explanation. Maybe it was the real one.

Speaker 24 (04:04:33):
We're spacious up where my statum was a decade high
up we had a steward for every three or four
cabins up there had the best service. Mine was quite
an unusual fella.

Speaker 19 (04:04:42):
My steward. I asked him about himself when we were
an hour or two out of gentleman. He just brought
me in some fresh towel.

Speaker 3 (04:04:48):
Here you are thanks to it.

Speaker 19 (04:04:50):
Hey, you're not Italian? You remember asking?

Speaker 14 (04:04:53):
No tell?

Speaker 19 (04:04:54):
That was his story.

Speaker 24 (04:04:55):
Then in his country's embassy in Brussels and the Russians
lowered the curtain on the world at home and s
then he done one job or another.

Speaker 3 (04:05:01):
Said his name is Balco Magia.

Speaker 19 (04:05:05):
S'such language, Paul in English. I said, that is what
I call him.

Speaker 24 (04:05:10):
Told I probably would be a lot of trouble to
but whatever he will require, so I would.

Speaker 3 (04:05:14):
Be at your service.

Speaker 24 (04:05:15):
Oh thanks, I only mean, Paul, I expect to be
out of the cabin at the time. By the way,
if I'm needed the message or anything of that sort,
you'll probably better try the vicinity of a passenger.

Speaker 19 (04:05:24):
On the upper b deck. That's where I'm likely to be.

Speaker 24 (04:05:27):
The passenger's name a young lady, Miss Melody Johnson. I'm
sort of employed by you can't get it too, said
that mentally.

Speaker 3 (04:05:37):
She's only I have, of course hard Miss Melody Johnson.

Speaker 24 (04:05:41):
If you the Queen of Monte card like that's behind
like me, that's fine, Like that's fine, like that's right,
you on and.

Speaker 28 (04:05:52):
Very fortunate man know how to be employed by her,
And told she's a very beautiful woman.

Speaker 3 (04:06:00):
Never seen a yourself. I have never seen her, but
she has been described.

Speaker 24 (04:06:11):
Paul Stewart wasn't the only one who took a special
interest to Melodie Johnson was up to a certain point.

Speaker 3 (04:06:17):
This was natural.

Speaker 19 (04:06:19):
Melody was probably a beautiful girl.

Speaker 13 (04:06:21):
Float How nice it is up here on the deck,
so nice and lonely. Just think in the morning, will
be in Naples.

Speaker 23 (04:06:28):
Harry, are you.

Speaker 2 (04:06:29):
Listening to me?

Speaker 19 (04:06:30):
I'm looking at Johnny.

Speaker 13 (04:06:31):
Can't you listen to me for a minute?

Speaker 19 (04:06:34):
Provide my attention?

Speaker 30 (04:06:35):
Seriously, I have a confession to me. There's something I
haven't told you. I didn't want to hire only a
publicist to promote my good look. Well, I suppose what
I really wanted was sort of.

Speaker 7 (04:06:46):
A bodyguard, you know.

Speaker 13 (04:06:49):
May I tell you something?

Speaker 19 (04:06:50):
Okay?

Speaker 30 (04:06:51):
Well, the other night, when I learned who you were,
I was frightened a little because of your reputation. Thinks
I'd heard about Harry lying here and there, but now alone.

Speaker 19 (04:07:04):
I'd be happy too if we were alone. Well, when
they built that housing.

Speaker 24 (04:07:10):
Back there, back six raight yards and the other build
a man's head shoulder, I'm looking around the.

Speaker 3 (04:07:16):
Side of.

Speaker 34 (04:07:19):
A man.

Speaker 19 (04:07:21):
Keep right, yeah, may look all right? Will pretending that's
one of my thinking, well my mind, pretend to can
have your faith? So far's a wonderful I kissed her,
and then I left her by the life boats and
turned out and walked back of the deck.

Speaker 24 (04:07:42):
A man pulled in like a turtle, shrinking at the
angle of a housing cleaning after the salt air.

Speaker 3 (04:07:48):
Excuse me exclusive that I have included on yourself and
the lady.

Speaker 4 (04:07:53):
I stopped it only through light night figure.

Speaker 19 (04:07:55):
Well that's all right, no man, I don't apologize it all.

Speaker 24 (04:07:57):
Only take a tip from me to your next time,
and don't write your cigar after it's already lit.

Speaker 19 (04:08:03):
Good man.

Speaker 24 (04:08:08):
When I squire melted to the cabin and attached my own,
somebody had been there before me.

Speaker 19 (04:08:14):
The cabina has looked gone over and one to two
small things about the place.

Speaker 3 (04:08:18):
Had somebody found a way to break here?

Speaker 19 (04:08:20):
A little Italian fellow with a lit cigar of Paul
the steward.

Speaker 3 (04:08:25):
He could have let himself got in trouble.

Speaker 19 (04:08:27):
But what was whoever it was looking for her? What
did he wants? I checked to my thing, having listening.

Speaker 3 (04:08:34):
It wasn't until the next day when we ducked in Naples, and.

Speaker 19 (04:08:37):
I began to get some idea what it was all about.

Speaker 24 (04:08:41):
Stop along here, driver, This is one of the best
views Melody because that is over there. Driver, we didn't stop,
dream Girl for the view that Alfa Romeo right behind
us has been falling. Time we stop and see if

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he stopped, and he did so he's following.

Speaker 19 (04:09:06):
Somebody called we're coming forward this morning.

Speaker 3 (04:09:11):
And.

Speaker 19 (04:09:14):
I don't think it does to take sometimes special interest
in him.

Speaker 24 (04:09:18):
Tagging is now.

Speaker 19 (04:09:28):
Well, now, listens.

Speaker 24 (04:09:29):
We couldn't manage to lose mister Minnelli by calm, and
we can do it by foot.

Speaker 13 (04:09:33):
I know what he wants, Harry, Wait a minute, you
know what he wants?

Speaker 24 (04:09:38):
Well, maybe you ought to tell me if I could
trust you, you better trust somebody.

Speaker 13 (04:09:42):
I've been so scared. I haven't known what to do
every since.

Speaker 19 (04:09:47):
In your position.

Speaker 13 (04:09:49):
I happened in my handbag. Now we only get away
from then, Nelly.

Speaker 7 (04:09:53):
Somehow I'll tell.

Speaker 13 (04:09:54):
You all about it.

Speaker 3 (04:09:55):
I wish you would, Harry.

Speaker 4 (04:10:11):
Lion returns in just a moment, as the ship pulled.

Speaker 19 (04:10:38):
Out of Naples for Alexandria that afternoon, as the tea dancer.

Speaker 13 (04:10:42):
I want to tell you, now, how about the pearls?
Where to start?

Speaker 30 (04:10:46):
Why not try at the beginning and sometimes at the beginning, Well, well,
the beginning was mont Carlo.

Speaker 13 (04:10:53):
I went into the casino and.

Speaker 19 (04:10:55):
He had the bad luck to win.

Speaker 13 (04:10:56):
It wasn't even math. I just fell in love with
her left wheel for not any real reasons, but it was.

Speaker 30 (04:11:01):
So exciting with real whirling all that money of the.

Speaker 19 (04:11:04):
Cause of Hooper, I know, I've had to go to myself.

Speaker 30 (04:11:07):
And since then, since Monte Carlo, I've gambled everywhere, Vienna,
the New Cursall in San Marino, then Doubt Lake Constant.

Speaker 13 (04:11:15):
Those places had.

Speaker 11 (04:11:16):
Met a lot of wicked people.

Speaker 19 (04:11:18):
You might call a crook store.

Speaker 13 (04:11:20):
Yes, that's what it might be called. You see, Harry,
I've got gambling fever, your luck so hot. No, no,
and that's how I fell into the hands of VICKI
that's the whole name. Oh No, he has none pronounceable
person name. He comes from somewhere near Prague.

Speaker 83 (04:11:36):
I'm not sure exactly, but.

Speaker 30 (04:11:38):
It's behind the iron curtain now. Anyway, he got away,
escaped from the Russians and where to Paris.

Speaker 19 (04:11:43):
And you met him in Paris and played two card
parrow with him. I lost your best roots and her half.

Speaker 13 (04:11:48):
No, I didn't need him in Paris. Yes, he's been
in the Ballad of the Countable.

Speaker 19 (04:11:52):
He needs Vallado. That was the county man.

Speaker 24 (04:11:55):
Yes, he rejoined him there.

Speaker 13 (04:11:57):
The count had only two things.

Speaker 30 (04:11:59):
Let his probably and the pearls of Bohemia, the pearls
from the ancient accountable paramedic.

Speaker 13 (04:12:04):
Well, I haven't any idea what there was, but it
must be a fabulous.

Speaker 19 (04:12:07):
Amount I can imagine.

Speaker 3 (04:12:08):
Now, suppose you tell me how these pearls got passed
along to.

Speaker 13 (04:12:12):
You in the first place. VICKI stole them.

Speaker 19 (04:12:14):
Oh, Vicky stole the pearls. And then what did they do?

Speaker 3 (04:12:18):
Nothing For a while.

Speaker 13 (04:12:19):
I suppose he was afraid the moon.

Speaker 24 (04:12:21):
Oh oh, I said, And finally Viki did decide to
try to dispose of the pearls.

Speaker 30 (04:12:26):
I met Vicky and me I'd been losing it last him,
and Vicky let me money to try to recruit.

Speaker 13 (04:12:32):
And then we played cards against each other. And you said,
a minute ago I lost my hat.

Speaker 3 (04:12:36):
The grim victure take shape down zik am I right,
said he'd put you in the way of a means
of paying him off.

Speaker 13 (04:12:43):
Yes, that's what he did say.

Speaker 3 (04:12:45):
You would dispose of the pearls.

Speaker 19 (04:12:47):
Ye, so natural and simple in Egypt, this is supposed
to be right.

Speaker 12 (04:12:53):
There's a Byron Cairade.

Speaker 24 (04:12:55):
Well, you know what, Carol, is the shadier side of something,
all right. If you're going to take the pearls of
Bumia the Cairo and sell them, the money.

Speaker 13 (04:13:04):
Used to be paid to in Italy some kind of bank.
I don't really understand it.

Speaker 24 (04:13:08):
But think you're receiving the money tears up your ioos,
which is what concerns you.

Speaker 13 (04:13:14):
The whole potery story.

Speaker 24 (04:13:16):
That occurs to me, Melody, that you have a little
difficulty getting those pearls into Egypt.

Speaker 19 (04:13:21):
That's the customs.

Speaker 13 (04:13:22):
Oh I thought about that. I lie awake at night
thinking about it.

Speaker 3 (04:13:26):
You don't have to worry at all, honey, I don't
justice mister Manilla.

Speaker 24 (04:13:31):
At least is after those pearls, he or somebody else
they get them before.

Speaker 19 (04:13:34):
We reach Egypt, and you wouldn't have to trouble yourself. Well,
we talked on a little longer about any tangible results.

Speaker 3 (04:13:50):
You didn't feel.

Speaker 24 (04:13:50):
Understandably that losing the pearls to Manila was the right
solution to the problem.

Speaker 11 (04:13:56):
But I want you to be.

Speaker 3 (04:13:57):
Sure of getting them past the Egyptian customs and on
the Cairo.

Speaker 19 (04:14:01):
And tried to question on several ways. It didn't seem
to be a mega fit.

Speaker 24 (04:14:04):
And we left the subject and our drinks and went
out on the dance floor and I took her in
my arms.

Speaker 19 (04:14:10):
That fit was all right. While we were dancing, a
man came into the entrance.

Speaker 24 (04:14:14):
The ship's loud stopped a minute, stood looking around, Melody,
you didn't get a look.

Speaker 19 (04:14:22):
At him up from a deck last night. Only even
gotta go look at him during that chase in Naples today.
But look now there he is.

Speaker 3 (04:14:29):
That's Mendella.

Speaker 19 (04:14:31):
Man, the very one.

Speaker 3 (04:14:35):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (04:14:36):
Hey?

Speaker 19 (04:14:37):
Even a face like yours won't stand that kind of plowing.
Why they're froblem?

Speaker 13 (04:14:42):
Man's name?

Speaker 3 (04:14:43):
Isn't you know him?

Speaker 13 (04:14:45):
I've never met that man, but I remember his appearance.

Speaker 30 (04:14:48):
He was pointed out to me a year or so ago.
Oh yes, somewhere on the Riviera, call the name. Yes,
his name is Victoria. Enchanted Victoria.

Speaker 24 (04:15:01):
Wait a minute, Mary myself, but as an international jewelry Vittoria.

Speaker 13 (04:15:09):
That's what I was told when the man down the
door was pointed out to me.

Speaker 24 (04:15:19):
In Henty, Victoria saw Melody and name, turned on his
heel and disappeared. I left Melody alone, but supplied myself
with the keys who were camping, said chenty Vittorium. I
think of having a look for the purl while Melody
herself was lost in the wonders of Henry Lyon. The
door was locked, but I don't think Melody's stateroom is

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just as she left us. There was a man inside.

Speaker 19 (04:15:45):
Oh sir, Oh, it is you, mister, putting a lady's
dainties back in the wardrobe drawers.

Speaker 20 (04:15:50):
Eyes to him.

Speaker 3 (04:15:50):
Oh, yes, sir, yes, yes, that is just what I
am doing, you know, Paul.

Speaker 24 (04:15:55):
And maybe two or three things wrong with this picture?
Shall I enumerate them for you in order? Okay, this
isn't your deck, this is B deck. And if it
wasn't B deck, this isn't your block of state rooms anyhow,
the pearls of Bohemia, aren't you arawers?

Speaker 19 (04:16:09):
So you're wasting your time, old man.

Speaker 3 (04:16:11):
I understand that I must apologize, but.

Speaker 24 (04:16:14):
You would have to apologize to the lady, not to
me that Maybe you, old man, apologize Or was it
you went through my cabin last night?

Speaker 11 (04:16:20):
Follow man?

Speaker 19 (04:16:21):
Yes, I did that, working to the pearl cower.

Speaker 3 (04:16:24):
Yes, that is what I was doing.

Speaker 19 (04:16:25):
You know, paulist could get.

Speaker 24 (04:16:26):
You into bad color with your employers. Here on the
ship Stewart, who wants to be light fingered, passed his property.

Speaker 28 (04:16:33):
The pearls of Bohemia were stolen from from their owner
by and then man named Zicky. The owner did not
wish to have the foreign police arrest the fedow countryman
of his, but he had Vicky privately watched.

Speaker 19 (04:16:47):
Zicky passed on.

Speaker 28 (04:16:48):
The pearls to miss Johnson, and the owner was very
much surprised to discover himself. And Miss Johnson was sailing
for Egypt from the ship. The owner supposed that she
was going there to dispose of the pearl I think.

Speaker 19 (04:17:00):
Uh, well, look, come out of my cabin and have
a drink.

Speaker 10 (04:17:02):
Shall oh?

Speaker 19 (04:17:03):
I could not do that.

Speaker 14 (04:17:05):
It would not be proper in this toward.

Speaker 19 (04:17:07):
I must decline the chance of telling my grandchildren. I
want to tell a drink with the counter Bohemia. Oh,
come on, cap, drink together, come talk this whole thing.
We made good time. Alexandria Nolody was still worried. Harry, Yes, honey.

Speaker 13 (04:17:27):
What about these pearls?

Speaker 7 (04:17:28):
What am I gonna do?

Speaker 19 (04:17:30):
You're not gonna do anything, honey. You can give them
to me.

Speaker 24 (04:17:34):
I know a trick or to smuggling department. Mind if
I take this stool here, besides you, the use of.

Speaker 3 (04:17:45):
The body the free to all.

Speaker 24 (04:17:48):
There isn't any need for us to be to polite
to each other. Mister Manella, or should I say Victoria,
My business with you is business. See I interest you.
I am listening and already got to do a man. Listen,
pad One thing more that one thing more is pay
me two thousand Egyptians punds. I believe they are getting

(04:18:09):
a cheap price, having the opportunity here on shipboard to
find out the real value of the Bohemia.

Speaker 19 (04:18:15):
Besides that on a quick payoff and get out of
town kind of deal.

Speaker 14 (04:18:19):
So you are offering to sell me the pair who.

Speaker 24 (04:18:21):
Are remarkably as steward old man. And I'm glad to
see you come up your reputation. Ask that's right to
happen here, I see, But ask yourself before you wonder
if you ought to not be able to head and
steal them from me, if you've Vienceeni Vitoria known jewel
Fie for autist taking them through the customs, and I'm
shall I take them to the customs and deliver them

(04:18:42):
to you intact in Alexandria, for the small price of.

Speaker 19 (04:18:45):
Two thousands Egyptian pounds.

Speaker 3 (04:18:48):
Done, Okay, a bargain I thought it would be.

Speaker 57 (04:18:53):
Old man, are there anything to the camera the lime?

Speaker 24 (04:19:03):
Uh customs?

Speaker 19 (04:19:05):
Well, my dragon has got my bags.

Speaker 24 (04:19:07):
But you'll find nothing beautiful in the mind of these pearls, though, yeah,
say sixteen or twenty.

Speaker 3 (04:19:12):
Why did I value, oh.

Speaker 24 (04:19:14):
Not much of a few of your Egyptians fasts and
see if yourself they're not real?

Speaker 4 (04:19:19):
Let me think, Harry Lion returns in just a moment,

(04:19:52):
and now, Hally Lion.

Speaker 24 (04:20:00):
Those pearls were imitation, but pretty convincing. Convincing enough anyhow.

Speaker 19 (04:20:06):
To deceive an expert like the change to Vitoria.

Speaker 24 (04:20:10):
He's an honest man of his particular sort, and promptly
paid me for two thousand Egyptian pounds, and I turned
the pearls over to him a little sidewalk cafe in Alexandria.

Speaker 19 (04:20:18):
The pearls ought to have been convincing, of course, because
they were made for.

Speaker 3 (04:20:21):
A very special use.

Speaker 24 (04:20:22):
When this is asked to build some such Lady and
August the Opera a couple of hundred carrots of diamonds
on her fingers.

Speaker 3 (04:20:28):
They're very likely to be paced, perfect duplicates, fine imitations, and.

Speaker 24 (04:20:31):
The real diamonds they locked up at Homer in the bank.
That's what Fellas liked in change the victory of Dun
to the world the oppo cratses, and the world of
Bohemian counts is just about the same.

Speaker 3 (04:20:41):
So it happened that Count Paul of Bohemia had.

Speaker 24 (04:20:44):
Any Stuart's locker, the imitation set that matched the real
purls ave and I got the real person from Melody.

Speaker 19 (04:20:50):
Well, I just traded. Malady had said.

Speaker 24 (04:20:52):
You remember that Count Paul had only two things left,
his pride in his purls. He kept his pride, and
I might just as well happened girls too. All of
this left me someone under obligation to Melody quite a
few people in Cairo, so I may have had something
to do with her being voted Mispyramids of Gezer.

Speaker 3 (04:21:11):
The prize money got her.

Speaker 19 (04:21:12):
Out of debt to that fellow Zeke.

Speaker 24 (04:21:14):
Anyhow, then there was the dough I got from Victoria
for the phony pearls. Melody and I had a lot
of fund spending those two thousand Egyptian pounds. But that,
as the fellow says, he's another story it's so long
for an now, and remember all that glitters is not gold,
but it ain't hay either.

Speaker 6 (04:22:31):
That's it right?

Speaker 86 (04:22:33):
Better get out of the basement, I suppose not the
safest place in the building, is it?

Speaker 87 (04:22:38):
Some of those waters pretty thick down there, mister Houston.

Speaker 3 (04:22:40):
A lot of good that ado.

Speaker 56 (04:22:41):
The whole bloody building collapsed on top of what I
must say?

Speaker 87 (04:22:43):
Do you think the bombing will get worse, mister Hughes.

Speaker 86 (04:22:45):
Oh, I think a lot of things will get worse
before they get better. Son, hold on, now we go,
namely being cooped up for eight hours with Messieu, Smithers,
Jackson and Conway Motley Crue clambering about it in dungerees
and tin hats, hoping to stop the second file of
London with a bucket of sand and the stir of

(04:23:07):
pump wouldn't give you a decent wash.

Speaker 43 (04:23:08):
It's better than nothing, I suppose.

Speaker 86 (04:23:12):
What do you bet, Raymond that Smithers says that I
opened the door? Well, youres certain the building's empty?

Speaker 6 (04:23:23):
Certain the building's empty?

Speaker 11 (04:23:24):
Yes?

Speaker 19 (04:23:25):
No money over our shelves, I.

Speaker 87 (04:23:26):
Rayon, Yes, mister Smithers, the building is empty. Stirrup pumps
are in position sand buckets filled, and we're all fed, watered,
and fully clad and in our right minds at least
I am, for God's sake.

Speaker 43 (04:23:36):
Don't be an old woman.

Speaker 88 (04:23:37):
It is my job to make sure everything is as
it should be.

Speaker 6 (04:23:41):
Mister Draydon, you sign theduty book?

Speaker 89 (04:23:43):
What if you would be so kind as to tear
yourself away from that novel you're reading?

Speaker 1 (04:23:46):
I asked if you tigned the duty book?

Speaker 43 (04:23:48):
Yes, oh no, I haven't.

Speaker 3 (04:23:50):
No. Anyone got a pen?

Speaker 89 (04:23:53):
You should have brought a fountain pen with you together
with a notebook.

Speaker 11 (04:23:56):
You can get a nice thick one from Woolworth's.

Speaker 43 (04:23:58):
For a pinn, oh, my God's sake. Most we go
through this pilava every night.

Speaker 10 (04:24:01):
Damn it.

Speaker 6 (04:24:01):
There are only six of us.

Speaker 43 (04:24:03):
We all know we're here.

Speaker 88 (04:24:05):
Questions are we all there prancing around in tin hats,
playing with stirrup pumps?

Speaker 89 (04:24:09):
May I remind you, Jackson, that it is nineteen forty
and there's a war on.

Speaker 1 (04:24:13):
Well, I'll tell you something.

Speaker 88 (04:24:15):
If nothing happens by two o'clock, I'm going home. It
is our duty night, Jackson, and here we all stay
until daybreak. There's a full moment to night, and that
could well mean an air.

Speaker 1 (04:24:26):
Raid, a heavy one.

Speaker 88 (04:24:28):
If this place goes up in flames, it'll be our
responsible rubbish. If in scenderies fall on the roof, they'll
most likely burn themselves out. There's nothing we can do
apart from sit here and wait for someone to dig
us out. Always supposing we aren't flattened. You forget that
there's one who watches over us.

Speaker 89 (04:24:44):
So long as we've put our trust in.

Speaker 43 (04:24:45):
Him, all will be well.

Speaker 88 (04:24:48):
A perpetual optimist, it's your intelligence man. At this moment,
people are dying violently all over the world, and he
isn't doing a bloody thing about it, And we're flirting
with death every time we go up in the.

Speaker 43 (04:24:59):
Roo during an ear round.

Speaker 84 (04:25:01):
Look here, I have formed a philosophy that I would
advise you to follow. So long as the war continues.
Look upon yourselves as already dead right now. Then every
day that finds you're still breathing is an unredited bonus.

Speaker 90 (04:25:16):
I think that's an unduly pessimistic viewpoint.

Speaker 56 (04:25:19):
Oh god, do you have to start Conway? Why don't
you keep quiet and let them get.

Speaker 14 (04:25:23):
On with it?

Speaker 90 (04:25:24):
Like me, I'm incitled to express my views as well
as anyone here. Democracies what this was about. As I
was saying, I think what mister Drayton says is unduly pessimistic.

Speaker 88 (04:25:34):
A Christian has no fear of death, as he knows
it's only a doorway to paradise, a place of eternal
just dumb moment. If this place is so good, what
are you hanging around for? Are we to understand you're
looking forward to? Diet is a stupid question.

Speaker 89 (04:25:50):
Of course, I want to live as long as possible.
It to be a mortal sin, to which otherwise, what
I intended to imply was simply that under the circumstances.

Speaker 56 (04:26:00):
Here they come, you won't be going home tonight.

Speaker 1 (04:26:02):
Jackson.

Speaker 89 (04:26:03):
All right, lads, you know what to do. Grab your
gas masks and put your helmets on, and then to
your post.

Speaker 88 (04:26:07):
Young Raymond, you will mana tell if I'm come on,
olvie for forward.

Speaker 3 (04:26:10):
Up on the road.

Speaker 43 (04:26:10):
Oh dumb panic.

Speaker 88 (04:26:12):
There can be anything up to ten minutes between the
siren sounding in the arrival of the first planes. Then
the damn things have got a fineness, which in all
probability they never will. So calm down and stop plancing
around like a fussy old here. Look here, Jackson, I've
had just about enough of you. You're a dam little
d What would the god box meet in?

Speaker 3 (04:26:31):
Say? You know?

Speaker 78 (04:26:32):
I wonder why you take the trouble to come here
if this is the only attitude you can take the question,
I often asked myself, Probably because watching you getting hot
and bothered is better than a tonic breaks the bloody monotony.

Speaker 6 (04:26:44):
Do not get hot and bob it?

Speaker 3 (04:26:45):
Oh?

Speaker 84 (04:26:46):
Please, gentlemen, this continuous bickering is not conducive to peace
of mind, which all of us badly need in these
trying times. Might I suggest that if you can't address
one another in a civilized manner, you declare a non
speaking truths?

Speaker 43 (04:27:01):
But he started it, he always does. Everyone no snats.

Speaker 84 (04:27:04):
Shall we get ready and take up our positions? Unless
I am mistaken? Enemy planes are already overhead.

Speaker 88 (04:27:11):
Yes, you're right right, Come on up the stairs.

Speaker 11 (04:27:13):
Everyone go down.

Speaker 43 (04:27:20):
I've left my guft behind.

Speaker 6 (04:27:21):
Hold on, I've known you don't tracks.

Speaker 43 (04:27:22):
We haven't tied to waist Raymond.

Speaker 3 (04:27:24):
Yeah, okay, I'll get them. Where are they all? The show?

Speaker 43 (04:27:26):
By my borry Raymond? We haven't gone all night.

Speaker 3 (04:27:29):
You can't see them.

Speaker 67 (04:27:31):
Thanks close.

Speaker 3 (04:27:32):
They're getting nearer.

Speaker 15 (04:27:41):
Now get down.

Speaker 43 (04:27:56):
Is everyone all right? My legs was rough? Help me
someone all right? I thought we had it come by
hurry man?

Speaker 27 (04:28:09):
Right there you are?

Speaker 3 (04:28:16):
Can you help me?

Speaker 43 (04:28:17):
Backed out to the basement, please?

Speaker 56 (04:28:28):
Well we all made it then, christ I thought my
time had come.

Speaker 14 (04:28:32):
God saved you.

Speaker 89 (04:28:34):
I should have prayer when I heard that one coming,
and he must have heard me.

Speaker 56 (04:28:40):
But he didn't. Anything right, and send him back where
it came from.

Speaker 3 (04:28:47):
It is?

Speaker 67 (04:28:49):
Where do we go from here?

Speaker 3 (04:28:54):
What?

Speaker 67 (04:28:57):
Only just harry it is one must have glanced off
the outer wall.

Speaker 56 (04:29:03):
The hole is blocked by a fool from higher up.

Speaker 67 (04:29:07):
Sooner or later the arp poison.

Speaker 91 (04:29:10):
Gentlemen, I think we must face fast. The raid is
still going on. I think it must be an extremely
heavy one. No, it's quite possible that no rescue be
ab will be made until after day, if not later.

Speaker 2 (04:29:23):
Now.

Speaker 10 (04:29:23):
In the meantime, it.

Speaker 67 (04:29:25):
May escape your noticeably, ventilation says to me.

Speaker 91 (04:29:28):
Still longer working may be coming down to us through
the ruins, and I wouldn't count on it.

Speaker 89 (04:29:37):
Don't worry, lad, We'll manage somehow. Having been spared from
a blast. It's inconceivable that we should suffocate.

Speaker 56 (04:29:46):
It might be inconceivable, but it's quite possible. Can't you
stop that?

Speaker 13 (04:29:52):
Boy?

Speaker 56 (04:29:53):
Slimling things are no words for him.

Speaker 67 (04:29:55):
Than for the rest of that situation is far worth
him mercy lase of God, what ten years left? It
was very best. He might have got another sixty. He
has every right to borrow tail.

Speaker 56 (04:30:09):
I tend to hang on to whateever times left to me.

Speaker 88 (04:30:14):
I proposed we start shifting some of that rubble outside,
and I did get through the sidewalk.

Speaker 89 (04:30:20):
My very thought, if we get promptly organized, it might
be possible to break through in time.

Speaker 56 (04:30:25):
What do you say, mister Drayton?

Speaker 67 (04:30:27):
Certainly give us occupied and he maybe it's successful.

Speaker 13 (04:30:31):
We are.

Speaker 91 (04:30:31):
We'll have to move with extreme care. I w'll a
lot to be down on top of the right. Now,
let's get cracky. Come on, Rayments to yourself.

Speaker 89 (04:30:37):
Lead you take my box and matches and light all
the hurricane lamps.

Speaker 56 (04:30:40):
We'll need them.

Speaker 43 (04:30:41):
We'll we tunnel through all that rubber.

Speaker 67 (04:30:43):
Yes, yes, yes, mister Smith.

Speaker 89 (04:30:45):
Jackson, you have a shot of trying to raise someone
on the telephone.

Speaker 88 (04:30:52):
You never know electricity is still coming through, so the
phone call still be working.

Speaker 67 (04:30:59):
What that Hello you're doing?

Speaker 10 (04:31:00):
Boy?

Speaker 56 (04:31:01):
Can't you get those hurrican lancelet.

Speaker 3 (04:31:03):
I can't help it, mister Hughes.

Speaker 43 (04:31:04):
I'm shaking all over.

Speaker 56 (04:31:06):
God helping them. If they ever get you in the army,
you'd be hitting a secret.

Speaker 91 (04:31:10):
Well, come on, come on, come on. They don't know
we're gonna act. Come on, I'm suffering for a shop.
I just grab it out underneath blankets and keep warming.

Speaker 4 (04:31:19):
There.

Speaker 67 (04:31:19):
There is enough of us here to do what can
be done without your health.

Speaker 7 (04:31:22):
Hello.

Speaker 43 (04:31:24):
Hello, this is the.

Speaker 56 (04:31:25):
Fire watching post at Mansfield and Hedges.

Speaker 2 (04:31:29):
Listen, will you?

Speaker 92 (04:31:31):
We are trapped in the basement. Oh, for God's sake,
let me get a word in. Hello, Hello, watch the trouble.

Speaker 78 (04:31:41):
If you got someone, Well, I'm not talking to myself,
am I.

Speaker 56 (04:31:45):
There's some girl keeps on asking if there's anyone there.
Seems I can hear her.

Speaker 3 (04:31:51):
She can't hear me.

Speaker 67 (04:31:52):
Give it me.

Speaker 89 (04:31:54):
Hello, Hello, this is the firefighting post.

Speaker 10 (04:31:57):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 7 (04:32:00):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 10 (04:32:02):
Can what's happened?

Speaker 56 (04:32:08):
I'm telling you she can't hear us, but we can
hear her.

Speaker 19 (04:32:11):
The line went dead.

Speaker 89 (04:32:14):
Never mind, we'll try again later. Come on, let's get
to work. Oh, there's not a hope of getting through
this lot. The slidest moving will bring the ceiling and
whatever's above it down on us.

Speaker 56 (04:32:34):
Yeah, but we must try.

Speaker 43 (04:32:36):
We can't give up now, Please yourself. I haven't warned your.

Speaker 6 (04:32:45):
We're not doing too badly.

Speaker 67 (04:32:48):
Six steps of clean.

Speaker 43 (04:32:50):
There's this whole cavity here in the left hold the
lamp city, For God's sake, Drayton, what are you doing?

Speaker 14 (04:32:58):
What's the matter?

Speaker 67 (04:33:01):
There's a body here?

Speaker 43 (04:33:06):
Body you sure? I mean, how could that be?

Speaker 14 (04:33:12):
Well?

Speaker 19 (04:33:13):
Look see for yourself.

Speaker 3 (04:33:17):
But who the hell is it?

Speaker 57 (04:33:18):
Exactly?

Speaker 88 (04:33:20):
Someone standing by the wall outside when the bomb filmed.

Speaker 84 (04:33:23):
No, No, they would have been blown a bit, got
the full blast. No, he must have been on the inside,
on the stairs at the time.

Speaker 3 (04:33:32):
What the hell are you talking about?

Speaker 15 (04:33:34):
Man?

Speaker 88 (04:33:34):
There was only us on the stairs. There couldn't have
been anyone else. The body's still warm, could have been
dead for more than an hour. Maybe he fell from above.

Speaker 93 (04:33:47):
The ceilings to in texts.

Speaker 84 (04:33:48):
They can't have come from that direction. Look, I don't
think there's much point in going on with this fruitless task.
I suggested we'd leave off for a while and give
the matter a full consideration.

Speaker 93 (04:34:06):
Raymond's asleep, lucky sad.

Speaker 88 (04:34:10):
I'm gonna try the phone again. Maybe whatever was wrong?
Was it just been put right?

Speaker 10 (04:34:19):
Hello?

Speaker 3 (04:34:22):
Hello?

Speaker 10 (04:34:24):
Oh damn it not a dicky bird.

Speaker 67 (04:34:28):
Yes, the exchange has been hit.

Speaker 93 (04:34:32):
Oh God, they're going hammer and tongs out there tonight.

Speaker 89 (04:34:36):
Perhaps we're in the best place, after all. The air
doesn't seem to have got any worse.

Speaker 86 (04:34:41):
The light has doesn't seem as bright as it was,
or am I imagining it?

Speaker 84 (04:34:47):
There's one point I'd like to tear up Smithers. Were
you at the top of the stairs. Did you have
the door open?

Speaker 3 (04:34:55):
No?

Speaker 88 (04:34:57):
Hut, my hand on the handle, But the moment I
heard the bomb, I let go and tumble.

Speaker 93 (04:35:01):
Down the stairs with the rest of Yeah, that's my thought.

Speaker 84 (04:35:04):
I suppose there's there's no way the door could have
been blown open and then closed again before the wall collapsed.
I was thinking that if someone had been sheltering in
the upper passage they might have been blown in.

Speaker 56 (04:35:18):
Well, it's most improbable.

Speaker 86 (04:35:20):
I mean, if the door was opened by the blast,
debris would have kept it open.

Speaker 56 (04:35:24):
I mean, what are you getting at, Drayton.

Speaker 84 (04:35:28):
I have arrived at the stage where the possible must
be discarded and the improbable considered. Having confirmed that the
door could not have been opened, and that there was
no one on the stairs except ourselves. I am reluctantly,
very reluctantly, drawn to only one conclusion. What's that, gentlemen?

(04:35:52):
I am going to ask you to consider the possibility
that one of us is dead.

Speaker 88 (04:36:03):
I always thought you were potty trading, bloody crank, out
of touch with reality. By God, you've got too far
this time.

Speaker 84 (04:36:11):
Or I don't offer me another more say in explanation.
You can't, No, none of you can.

Speaker 93 (04:36:16):
I believe me.

Speaker 84 (04:36:17):
I would have kept this diagnosis to myself. But whoever
it is that has left his earthly body back there
on the stairs must be made to realize his position.
That consider the possible fact that it is you lying
out there. That's the horrible part of the entire business.
Whoever it is doesn't know he's dead.

Speaker 43 (04:36:40):
Look, just suppose you're right now.

Speaker 90 (04:36:42):
How can you explain why dead man should walk around
with a normal body when the one he's been born
with he is lying under several tons of.

Speaker 56 (04:36:49):
Breaks or all right?

Speaker 84 (04:36:51):
I will try to answer that as best I can.

Speaker 3 (04:36:53):
Now.

Speaker 84 (04:36:53):
It is quite possible that we all have two bodies,
one of dense material that we use in this and
the other that for want of A better description is
comprised of higher vibrating at us. When there is a
violent death, shock can result in an unnatural phenomenon. The
vibrations can be slowed down and in rare cases exactly

(04:37:17):
match those of the defunct body.

Speaker 1 (04:37:20):
Hold on a moment.

Speaker 90 (04:37:21):
Look, I can quite well see if that is the case.
The poor bleeder doesn't know he's dead. But how long
does he carry on like this?

Speaker 84 (04:37:29):
I'd say, if we can't settle this problem beforehand, devibrating
won't start until someone from the outside enters this room.
What happens then the secondary body will become invisible, but
will still be here, become what is commonly called a
ghost that can be seen by certain people when the

(04:37:50):
conditions are favorable.

Speaker 15 (04:37:51):
Rubbish, exactly.

Speaker 56 (04:37:53):
All of you must be mad just to listen to
him when you're dead. You're dead, finished.

Speaker 1 (04:38:00):
Understand what he's saying.

Speaker 56 (04:38:02):
One of us is a bloody ghost.

Speaker 43 (04:38:06):
I mean, honestly, think about it.

Speaker 88 (04:38:08):
Who gone away? All sixteen stone of you? According to
mister Drayton, you could be a spoke or yos withers
far cry from your nightgowned heart playing angel wing paradise.
Huh what about young ray Overy he's snalling like a peep,

(04:38:30):
and I suppose you haven't ruled him out.

Speaker 84 (04:38:32):
As a matter of fact, at the moment, you are
my number one suspect.

Speaker 93 (04:38:39):
What that might be?

Speaker 84 (04:38:40):
Why you could hear the girl on the telephone but
she couldn't hear you.

Speaker 93 (04:38:45):
This is a local affair.

Speaker 84 (04:38:47):
Figuratively speaking, you wouldn't exist outside this shelter.

Speaker 88 (04:38:50):
My pulse is beating thirteen to the dozen. I'm solid
war with blood streaming through my veins. If I was
to hit you, you'd feel my fist. How the hell
can I be dead?

Speaker 93 (04:38:59):
I have just explained I'm not dead.

Speaker 27 (04:39:02):
I'm not.

Speaker 88 (04:39:04):
If there's any truth in all this, it must be
one of you, Smithers.

Speaker 56 (04:39:09):
You are higher up the stairs than the rest of us.
I bet it's you.

Speaker 3 (04:39:14):
Time to think of it.

Speaker 88 (04:39:14):
You've been acting strangely since we came back down here.

Speaker 1 (04:39:17):
Admit it, man, you must know.

Speaker 10 (04:39:24):
Now he coming me.

Speaker 89 (04:39:27):
I mean, I didn't lose consciousness for a single second,
and Ar'm bruised all over.

Speaker 1 (04:39:32):
Yeah, Wait a minute, come, Why you were up.

Speaker 88 (04:39:39):
First, full of energy, and so far as I can see,
not a scratch on you.

Speaker 10 (04:39:45):
It must be you.

Speaker 90 (04:39:47):
No, If that's my body out there. Then my legs
must have shrunk mine I like tree trunks, right, mister Drayton.

Speaker 93 (04:39:53):
Gentlemen, this is goetting us nowhere.

Speaker 84 (04:39:55):
Earlier I advised you to regard yourselves as already dead. No,
I am suggesting you do just that. Literally, let us
all say I am the one, except that you are
a dead man still functioning among five live ones. Then
whoever it is will be free, free to do what,
free to leave this place.

Speaker 93 (04:40:18):
Ah Raymond's awake. I see, well, now, how do you
feel that.

Speaker 87 (04:40:24):
I feel funny or woozy?

Speaker 67 (04:40:29):
There's any chance of a cup of tea?

Speaker 56 (04:40:32):
You've got some hope.

Speaker 93 (04:40:34):
I don't think why you should feel funny.

Speaker 88 (04:40:35):
You've been sleeping your head off while the rest of
us have been sweating blood.

Speaker 87 (04:40:39):
Had a strange dream. Somehow I got out of here
and was walking down Canberray Street. Bombs were falling everywhere,
but they didn't seem to bother me. It was as
though I knew that they couldn't hurt me. Then I
came to the arp post and went down the steps
into the basement. There were several men seated round a table,

(04:41:02):
including mister Sinclair, who's in charge of our office. But
When I tried to explain what had happened here, he
ignored me.

Speaker 93 (04:41:13):
Do you remember leaving the arp post?

Speaker 10 (04:41:16):
No?

Speaker 87 (04:41:17):
No, I suddenly wanted to be back here with all
of you. Then I was just outside, looking at a
great pile of rubble that completely hid the entrance. There
was a man waiting.

Speaker 93 (04:41:28):
Can uh, can you describe this man? I think so.

Speaker 87 (04:41:34):
Although he wasn't like anyone I'd ever seen before, I
had the impression he was dressed in black, a kind
of long robe, But it was his face that demanded
my full attention, so white it almost shone, and the
eyes were very large, very dark, and bright, with well, pity, intelligence, knowledge.

(04:41:59):
I don't know, brad all three. Then he said only
I don't think he said anything. I just heard the
words in my ed. Don't go back in there. You
belong in another place.

Speaker 93 (04:42:15):
Oh my god, Oh my god.

Speaker 84 (04:42:20):
Doubtless you have no reason to believe that the experience
is anything more than.

Speaker 93 (04:42:25):
A particularly vivid dream.

Speaker 10 (04:42:28):
Of course, not what else could it be?

Speaker 6 (04:42:30):
What?

Speaker 84 (04:42:30):
Indeed, I must tell you that there is a body
half buried under the ruins of the outer wall, and
there is no way its presence can be explained unless
it is one of us.

Speaker 1 (04:42:49):
Is this some kind of joke not of our making?

Speaker 14 (04:42:53):
Mad?

Speaker 94 (04:42:54):
This damn business is getting madder by the second. We'll
settle this matter once and for all. What should have
been done in the first place. Dig the damn body
out and try to find out who it belongs to.

Speaker 84 (04:43:05):
Very well, we will do what must be done, But
every one of you must be prepared accept my word
that the man I will name is the one. No
for an indisputable fact that you are dead and have
no right to be in this place. Should the body
be mine, I will not linger that much, I can promise.

Speaker 56 (04:43:32):
Well, mister Drayton, what did you find out?

Speaker 93 (04:43:35):
Whose body lies in there?

Speaker 88 (04:43:38):
Under it?

Speaker 93 (04:43:39):
I found this?

Speaker 84 (04:43:41):
It is a pocket edition of Pilgrim's Progress. On the
inside of the front cover is inscribed to Harold Smithers.

Speaker 93 (04:43:48):
From his good friend Arthur Brown.

Speaker 15 (04:43:52):
It's you, Smithers.

Speaker 25 (04:43:55):
You did man.

Speaker 5 (04:43:57):
Dead?

Speaker 43 (04:44:00):
Merciful God, I'm alive.

Speaker 10 (04:44:04):
May I be forgiven. I didn't.

Speaker 15 (04:44:10):
Did not believe.

Speaker 43 (04:44:14):
Oh he's gone, he's not here.

Speaker 93 (04:44:30):
I'll have us to be expected. He knew at last
and accepted there was no way he could remain.

Speaker 67 (04:44:37):
After that, he's free.

Speaker 86 (04:44:40):
Maybe his time passes. We'll try to believe that none
of this happened. Pretend we were all suffering from shocked illusions.

Speaker 2 (04:44:53):
Perhaps that'll be for the.

Speaker 43 (04:44:54):
Best, Raymond, it's all over.

Speaker 90 (04:44:57):
Sounds as if they're digging away up there, that you'll
soon be home getting yourself wrap round, powdered egg and
tin baker.

Speaker 56 (04:45:04):
How'd you feel about that?

Speaker 43 (04:45:06):
Fine?

Speaker 87 (04:45:06):
I think, But are you sure it's all over? I
still feel funny.

Speaker 56 (04:45:13):
We all feel funny.

Speaker 43 (04:45:15):
Why do we're not all crawling on all fours.

Speaker 19 (04:45:19):
You must forget all about this.

Speaker 56 (04:45:22):
Take mister Hughes's advice. Pretend none of it happened. Ten
minutes all less should find them down here.

Speaker 93 (04:45:31):
I bet they'll be surprised to find any of us alive.

Speaker 56 (04:45:36):
I suppose there's no point in us giving them a hand.

Speaker 14 (04:45:40):
What's the matter, dright?

Speaker 56 (04:45:42):
What are you looking so miserable about?

Speaker 84 (04:45:44):
And I fear I have to tell you what's the matter?

Speaker 3 (04:45:46):
Man?

Speaker 84 (04:45:47):
When I was in the hole, you may remember, there
was a fall of rubble. It was soon after you left,
and I continued on my own. Well, that fall uncovered
another section.

Speaker 6 (04:45:57):
Of the wall.

Speaker 67 (04:45:59):
It also field four more bodies.

Speaker 1 (04:46:05):
So there are four more bodies.

Speaker 88 (04:46:08):
There's been a damn great air raid and there must
be quite a few bodies lying around. Please don't make
me spell it out, you know, don't listen you start
raving mad with human Joa Smithers.

Speaker 13 (04:46:19):
But this is too much.

Speaker 86 (04:46:20):
I don't understand. What in God's name are you talking
about me. He's suggesting that we've been playing.

Speaker 1 (04:46:31):
The wrong game.

Speaker 56 (04:46:35):
Not who's the ghost, but who's the live one?

Speaker 54 (04:46:42):
And the answer is himself, right, Drayton, Never mind me,
just believe, accept your condition and go, go go before
they breakthrow.

Speaker 56 (04:46:54):
Don't get trapped.

Speaker 52 (04:46:55):
Down here, be forced to haunt this place forever.

Speaker 14 (04:47:00):
I see f you all fell.

Speaker 67 (04:47:03):
On top of me, and then then the blasts lifted
you off again.

Speaker 89 (04:47:06):
Lie down here on the friend the wall must have
crashed down on the floor.

Speaker 4 (04:47:10):
Bastards the one in my dream.

Speaker 3 (04:47:16):
Please listen, please, Moss.

Speaker 77 (04:47:21):
Going out, Hey, Harry, get some light over here, and
I think there's someone alive.

Speaker 93 (04:47:29):
Oh here, it's no good, Raymond, No, m h m hmmm.

Speaker 57 (04:47:43):
You got them light addy, Yeah, that's.

Speaker 52 (04:47:46):
It, Yes, all right, there is someone, hear me, Give
me your hand, that's it.

Speaker 1 (04:48:00):
Yeah, you're the only one left.

Speaker 93 (04:48:07):
I think so, merciful God.

Speaker 14 (04:48:11):
I think so.

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