GHOSTS OF THE CATACOMBS: A Seance Among Six Million Dead

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The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.

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Come in.

Speaker 8 (01:53):
Welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:55):
I'm E. G. Marshall.

Speaker 6 (01:58):
There are the philosophers a thousand who hack at the
branches of evil to one who strikes at the root,
the roots and the branches of evil. They form a
species of vegetation that can flourish everywhere, in all kinds
of climate, in all types of terrain. Unlike most growing things,

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they don't need very much.

Speaker 10 (02:24):
I want to thank you, sir, thank me for what
for saving my life?

Speaker 9 (02:30):
For killing your husband.

Speaker 10 (02:33):
It's I'm sorry you had to.

Speaker 9 (02:37):
I didn't kill him.

Speaker 10 (02:39):
But the newspaper said.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
That you were right.

Speaker 9 (02:41):
You didn't kill him.

Speaker 10 (02:43):
You didn't.

Speaker 9 (02:45):
Who did you, ma'am? You're the one that killed him.

Speaker 6 (02:59):
Our mystery, I'm a Departmental Case, was adapted from the
O Henry Classic Especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam
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Speaker 8 (03:16):
I'll be back shortly with that one.

Speaker 6 (03:29):
An author begins a story, carries it to a crisis,
drives it to a climax, then moves it to an ending.
He introduces a set of characters who are in one
condition of life when we meet them, and in another
when we leave them. We spend time with his people,

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but do we really get to know them? Before you
answer the question. There are times when the author himself.

Speaker 9 (03:57):
Doesn't even know them.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
Yes, they are his creations, but they are beings in
their own right, and they have.

Speaker 9 (04:04):
Secrets even from him.

Speaker 6 (04:07):
William Sidney Porter or O Henry, who created thousands of characters,
even he could look back at many of them and say, hey,
wait a minute.

Speaker 9 (04:20):
I was sitting in my workroom I refused to call.

Speaker 6 (04:23):
It a den one morning when there was a knock
on the door, and my housekeeper added, sir, what would
you like to have for your lunch?

Speaker 9 (04:33):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (04:34):
I meant to tell you, Missus Powledge, I'm not having
lunch at home today, no supper either.

Speaker 10 (04:39):
Well, I we should have let me know.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
As a matter of.

Speaker 9 (04:41):
Fact, I should be gone for a couple of weeks,
gone where to Austin, Texas?

Speaker 10 (04:46):
And now, why would any person in their right mind
wish to go to Austin.

Speaker 9 (04:50):
Texas, Missus Poledge.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
I just read this article in this morning's paper, just
a little paragraph from the wire service. Listen Benton show
Arp meets his match, notorious Desperado shot to death in
Gold Front Saloon by Luke Standoff in a magnificent exhibition
of quick draw and shoot. So evidently they didn't print

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the rest of it here in the New York papers.

Speaker 10 (05:15):
Well, I don't understand one hoodlum shoots another in the
Texas saloon?

Speaker 6 (05:19):
What's all the fuss fuss? I know, Luke Standyff, he
must be every bit of sixty five. He need to
be seventy.

Speaker 10 (05:28):
What was he doing in a saloon? A man that
age probably algle in the downfall.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
Girls can imagine a man close to seventy and a
showdown shootout.

Speaker 9 (05:39):
Well, I have to ask him how it happened.

Speaker 10 (05:41):
And that's why you're going to Austin, Texas.

Speaker 6 (05:49):
I got on the train and for four and a
half days I rattled around.

Speaker 9 (05:54):
The rail systems of the southern and western parts of.

Speaker 6 (05:57):
The United States, about which the less said, the better
I found myself Finally in Austin, Texas, I knew Luke
Standarford had a job working for the state. That sign
on the door, looke is that to be believed?

Speaker 9 (06:14):
It's Surrey standard for Commissioner of Insurance, Statistics and history
rewarded at last for a lifetime of clean living and
faithful service to the Democratic Party. But what do you do,
is Louke Well, statistics is keeping tabs and all the cotton, corn, pigs,

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peanuts in the history. Some old lady claims she secured
Old Sam Houston's poppet handkerchief, and I give her papers
to fill out the requests the legislative brash to buy it.
But the work is mostly insurance insurance, riding herd on
the foreign insurance companies that do business down here. Foreign

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insurance company mostly from the state of Connecticut. Got a
rap across the knuckles now and then. But Billy, what
brings you down here from the wicked city of New York?

Speaker 11 (07:07):
You bring me here?

Speaker 9 (07:08):
Luke? I clipped this side of them from the paper. Oh,
I see you still have a lightning draw, I reckon,
I have.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
I know you swore you'd never wear a forty four again, Luke,
never take another human life, That's right?

Speaker 9 (07:28):
What made you do it? You want to talk about it? Well,
it had to be done. I guess there's no other way.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
Benton Sharp, he's a murderer, bully, one of the worst
so called human beings who are on the earth.

Speaker 9 (07:46):
Well, that's true, I guess. Well, how did it happen?
How did it happen? Well? I was sitting here at
my desk, and I was aware of someone come into
the office. She was a faded woman, nobbyously or member
of the numerous Sisterhood of the Unhappy, dressed in black,

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all in black age well, her face had the shape
of twenty the lines of forty. I'd say she grew
very fast. I looked at her and I almost wanted
to cry, Are you the governess, sir? No, ma'am, I'm
not the governor. I have the honor to be the

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Commissioner of History, Statistics and Insurance. Is there anything I
can do for you?

Speaker 10 (08:36):
Well, I don't know. I have run away from my husband.

Speaker 9 (08:41):
Oh well I had to.

Speaker 10 (08:44):
I had to. He would have killed me, killed you.
I shouldn't be saying this, but I'm just so frightened.
I can't help myself. He's become a bruisie. He's a bully, cowardy.
He doesn't support me. I have a job, and he
will if I don't give him every cent I make him.
Then he gets drunk and beats me. Anyway.

Speaker 9 (09:03):
Well, he can't get away with that. I'll tell you what.
I'll direct you to the state's attorney and you can
swear to complaint against No.

Speaker 10 (09:11):
No, that would only make it worse. I've tried that.
I'll tell you what I was thinking. I thought the
state might be willing to I'm so ashamed to say this.

Speaker 9 (09:23):
Oh no, you you just go right ahead, my dear, I.

Speaker 10 (09:27):
Was thinking the state might give me some relief.

Speaker 9 (09:31):
Well, I don't rightly know.

Speaker 10 (09:33):
I heard of such things. Yes, yes, the state will
give money to help the families of the old settlers.
And if I could get some, I could leave my
husband and go somewhere.

Speaker 9 (09:42):
Well, it seems to me I did hear we had
such a statute that was for the men who fought
for independence.

Speaker 10 (09:49):
My father did that. He was one of the first pioneers.
He was entitled to a reward, but he wouldn't take it,
and I need it.

Speaker 9 (09:57):
Well, what's your father's.

Speaker 10 (09:59):
Name, Amos coven Sir.

Speaker 9 (10:02):
Am Colthing? Did you see Coving Yes, sir, you're Amoss
Covin's daughter. Yes, well, ma'am, Amos be with thicker and
two horse thieves for almost ten years. Why you're Amos
Calvin's daughter. Carl We fought kiaways, drove cattle rainer side

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by side all over the state of Texas. Say, I
remember seeing you once before that scene, blonde hair, you
were riding the oh little he had a point. How
we stopped off at your home for a bit of
grubb while we was trailing them the Mexican cattle thieves
through carns and be a great rantlist. You're Amos Colvin's

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little daughter. Well did you ever? Did you ever hear
your daddy mentioned Luke standever? Maybe once or twice.

Speaker 10 (10:57):
I don't remember hearing him talk about much help every day?
Another story about what you and he had done.

Speaker 9 (11:04):
Well, now, who was the infernal rat bigger pardon? I
mean the gentleman you married?

Speaker 10 (11:12):
Benton Sharp.

Speaker 9 (11:14):
Benton Sharp, Oh no, no, no, Benton Sharp, the little
tall headed girl on the pony, daughter of my best friends,
grown up and married the worst killer in the Southwest.

Speaker 10 (11:26):
But I didn't know it. He was so gentle and
loving at first.

Speaker 9 (11:30):
Oh ma'am. You may be his wife, but you don't
know the worst of it. He golds men into drawing
on him for the sheer pleasure of killing him.

Speaker 10 (11:39):
I know everything about him, but he wasn't that way
at first. I mean, he was so handsome and so wonderful.
I just fell in love with him. He was so
good to me, for a whole year, even insured his
life for five thousand dollars in case anything happened to him.
No woman could ask for a nicest, sweeter husband. And
then one day he just turned it became a beast.

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He's done everything but good kill me.

Speaker 9 (12:05):
Now you just rest easy. The State of Texas shown
I forget what it owe was Amos Colvin's daughter. You
leave everything to me.

Speaker 10 (12:13):
Can you help me? Can you really help me? Because
if you can't, this is my last hope, ma'am.

Speaker 9 (12:20):
I'm going to step into the next office. When I
come back, I'm going to have a check made out
of Amos Colvin's daughter. Jim, I want to see you.
Why do you want to see me live? Because you
just happened to be the treasurer or the State of
Texas and I want some money for what purpose?

Speaker 11 (12:42):
Now?

Speaker 9 (12:42):
How much you got on hand? The last time I looked,
it was a million dollars. I don't need that money.
How much is a name you man? You heard of
Amos Calvin?

Speaker 10 (12:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (12:53):
Yeah, and him well, one of the first settlers in
the South wind Well, his daughter is sitting in my office.
She's paying She's married to Benton sharp a coyote and
the murderal I know who Benton Sharp is. He reduced
her to want and broke her heart. How could she
marry Benton Joe? That is neither here nor there. Her

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father built this state, and it's a state's turn to
help your child a couple of thousand to make her
a new life for herself. Now, who just handed over
Jim And we'll fix up the red tape business afterwards.

Speaker 6 (13:26):
Now, Louke out nuke? What and how can I give
you two thousand dollars?

Speaker 4 (13:31):
Well?

Speaker 9 (13:31):
Rite out a change?

Speaker 10 (13:32):
You know.

Speaker 6 (13:33):
I can't pay out a cent from the treasury without
a warm from the controller. Now I can't disperse the
dollar without a voucher to show for I'll.

Speaker 9 (13:40):
Give you a voucher. What am I just a nod
on a mesquite stubbor? Do I have a legitimate department here?
Can't my office stand for it? God's up to the insurance.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
I'd like to.

Speaker 9 (13:51):
Help, Luke, but right, but nothing on history show the
lone Star State never failed a grant relief to the
suffering women and children of those men who meet her
the greatest commonwealth in the Union, Luke, I have to explore,
explain just write a change.

Speaker 12 (14:08):
Every penny's spent by the State of Texas has to
be approved by the legislature. Now the only way for
the lady to obtain relief is to petition the proper
legislative committee.

Speaker 9 (14:18):
What you are saying, Jim, is no. What I am
saying is I don't have the right to say yes. Well,
I see now what a little rag tag bob tail
got your department. I've been put in charge of it.
It's about as important as I as an almanac or
a hotel register. But I'll tell you this while I'm

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running it. It won't turn away any daughter of him
was calling Shamau, History, statistics, and insurance is going to
find a loop for.

Speaker 10 (14:52):
Were you able to sign out anything that?

Speaker 9 (14:55):
Well, just in prison the powers my department seemed to
be a somewhat stream halder. Oh, the statistics seemed to
be overdrawn at the bank, and history isn't good for
a square meal, but insurance, so we may have a
loophole there. Now, if you enough money to hold you

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for the next two three days?

Speaker 10 (15:20):
Oh yes, yes, And I couldn't take charity.

Speaker 9 (15:23):
Right, you just go back to where you're stopping. You
come here again day after tomorrow at.

Speaker 10 (15:29):
Four o'clock understand, day after tomorrow at sarkam, and very
likely by that time we'll have something definite to report.
Thank you, mister Standers.

Speaker 9 (15:38):
By the way, you said your husband insured his life
for five thousand dollars, Yes, sir, well would you know
if he kept up the premiums?

Speaker 13 (15:47):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (15:48):
He paid up for a year about six months ago.
Mister Standarf, I don't have very much hope of getting
anything from the state, but just talking to you has
made me feel so much better.

Speaker 9 (15:59):
All right, all right now, now you just be here
the day after tomorrow at four o'clock sharp.

Speaker 12 (16:13):
How did Jim I come out here as soon as
I got your message?

Speaker 9 (16:16):
I appreciate it. Luke, Luke, you're winning out special shoulder holster.

Speaker 14 (16:20):
You got forty four revolver in it?

Speaker 9 (16:22):
Well for the holsters for her to carry a gun.

Speaker 12 (16:25):
Ain't it is that the short barrel forty four.

Speaker 9 (16:28):
Sure is a short barrel comes out of holster faster
on the draw draw?

Speaker 14 (16:33):
But what are you talking about? Nothing?

Speaker 10 (16:36):
And I don't you say that to me?

Speaker 9 (16:38):
Luke? Now? What you want me to come out here
for Hunhy to watch me to watch you? What you
can't shoot that that bottle sitting on that rock. Uh huh, Well,
I want you to watch me draw and shoot like this, Luke,
what was that for? Jim? Am I as fast as ever?

Speaker 14 (17:02):
What's the powers?

Speaker 9 (17:03):
Answer me? Jim? Never mind anything else? Am I as
fast as ever?

Speaker 15 (17:06):
You look as fast?

Speaker 9 (17:07):
Are you sure? Jim? Are you sure? Thinks so? Well?
I guess I'll have to try the real way to
find out.

Speaker 12 (17:15):
What do you mean, the real way to find out, Luke,
The real way to find out what.

Speaker 6 (17:24):
The real way to find out about anything is when
you do it for real. And the real way to
find out if you can draw and shoot at sixty
five the way you could when you were twenty five
or thirty five, is to draw and shoot at someone
while that someone is drawing and shooting at you. We're

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going to find out how all the drawing and shooting
ends up in just a few minutes. In act, too,
the feats of the body belong to the young. Sharpness

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of eye, quickness of hand, steadiness of nerve. All of
these diminish with the passing of time.

Speaker 9 (18:13):
And yet what have we here?

Speaker 6 (18:16):
An old gunfighter buckling on the holster with a short
barreled revolver, and there seems to be no doubt about
his intentions. Well, it's not a matter here of an
old dog learning new tricks. It's a case of can
he still perform the old ones.

Speaker 9 (18:37):
I'll tell you what's happening today.

Speaker 12 (18:39):
Women rule the world here to tell us even places
where they can vote. Well, the day that happens here
in the state of Texas, I say give it back
to the end. Hey, what's wrong with you? You see
where you're going.

Speaker 9 (18:51):
I'm sorry, sir, Oh, you're sorry. I apologize. You apologize
further than that. I cannot go further than that. You
cannot go. I bumped into you. It was a mistake. Oh,
look at him.

Speaker 12 (19:04):
He's an old cow hand, ain't it, mister Texas? A
big old stats and a string tie. If he ain't
one of the old time settlers himself. And I ain't
know you're out for the night at the old folks home.

Speaker 9 (19:17):
Sir, I must tell you. I take a fence at
your insults.

Speaker 12 (19:21):
Oh, he takes a fence at insults. And you got
a cat fist on that showler ault too.

Speaker 9 (19:27):
I'll bet now, what are you doing in a place
like this? Pop? I am out hunting for yellow dogs,
and I think I found one. Or snarling the happy
dog named Benton Sharp. You always make sure he's two
fifths of a second faster than any man, he challenges. Well, well,
mister Benton Sharp, I'm two fist of the second faster

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in the life. See you have a score to settle
with you cordly wife, Peter, what did you call me?
You are not fit to associate with civilized people.

Speaker 12 (20:01):
I'm going to count to three, and when I get
the three, you either start walking out that door, or
else you go for your forty four. You shut up,
count of three, pop walk or draw one?

Speaker 9 (20:15):
Two?

Speaker 6 (20:16):
Great?

Speaker 9 (20:17):
Oh oh you see you have now you geleman, my life.
You gentleman. Listen, you were witness, said I fired himself defense.
My name is Luke. Standard for notify the sheriff that
he wants me. I shall be at the Cattleman's hotel, Amanda,

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come in, come in, shut down. It's four o'clock exactly.

Speaker 10 (20:51):
It's the standard.

Speaker 16 (20:52):
I heard about it.

Speaker 10 (20:53):
Everybody's talking about.

Speaker 9 (20:54):
What well, there was nothing else to be done. It
was it was him or me.

Speaker 10 (20:59):
But you could have been killed. What were you doing
down there?

Speaker 9 (21:02):
Right? I thought perhaps we could talk things out, but
he's a man who likes to talk from the barrel
of a gun. Well, let's not talk about it anymore.

Speaker 10 (21:13):
I'll never forget you, mister Stanton. It's all over, Yes,
it's all over, and it started so beautifully if only
yes his mother? What about his mother, Coralie? Oh, mister Standerford,

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you didn't kill Benton Sharp, she did.

Speaker 9 (21:37):
What do you saying.

Speaker 10 (21:38):
I shouldn't say anything. It's wrong, I know, to speak
about a person's mother like this. But why why couldn't
she leave us alone? We could have been happy together,
We were in love. So she just drove him crazy
in so many ways. He was still a boy tied
tight to her apron strings. Just could have been so different.

Speaker 9 (21:58):
Or you mustn't think about it anymore.

Speaker 10 (22:00):
Or Amanda, Amanda, it's so long since anyone said Amanda
with love and friendship in their voice.

Speaker 9 (22:10):
The daughter of Amos Calvin will never be without friends
in the state of Texas. Now, I understand from our
records that your husband's policy was with the Security Life
insurance company. They pay all losses within a week. But
I spoke to him personally as commissioner. You know, they

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said they'd do better. They have. Yeah, he has a
check for five thousand dollars right now.

Speaker 10 (22:39):
Oh, mister Standif, I am so great?

Speaker 9 (22:42):
It was. It was a hard case. Yours, a lot
of red tape history, misfired, statistics failed. But we come
our real strong on insurance.

Speaker 10 (22:53):
Mister Standford, you saved my life. A terrible nightmare.

Speaker 9 (22:57):
Has just ended your Amos Called's daughter. Don't you ever
forget it? And that's the story, Lukey, Well, that's the story.
He took an awful chance. Oh, I had no choice.

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It's just just what. Well, I feel bad. Well, it
has to be expected. You killed a man, yell, I
killed man of four. I never felt this way. It
was long ago. Time is different. I don't see how
Billy kill him is killing. He lived in a violent age,

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wasn't much law. Billy, you're the only one I could
talk to about this. What's really on your mind? Luke?
Don't know? Or you're satisfied, satisfied with what the well?
Aren't you no? Why? I can't understand why he didn't

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kill me? Well, you out do him. I wish I
could be sure that. Well, it's obvious you're alive. He's dead.
Billy when he said three, I went from my holster. Yeah,
and I'll tell you it seemed like a full year

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till my hand closed on the butt, drew it clear,
raised an aim that fired it. Well, I can see
if everyone's seen that way in your mind? Maybe maybe,
But it seemed to me, what look well, and maybe
he was letting me I'll draw him. How can you

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say that? What was it? Really? So? Did I suddenly
see something in his eyes? You mean he had time
to look in his eyes?

Speaker 17 (25:02):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (25:02):
Yeah, yeah, it ain't more than a check and a half.
You did draw on fire, but it seems like and
he turned it in. Sometimes when you look into the
other fellow's eyes you can see the whole world in there. Well,
do you think you saw invent and sharps? I don't know.
I don't know how to describe it, but could have

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been oh a look of pain? Pain? Yeah, well could
have been I don't know. Really, what's wrong with me?

Speaker 6 (25:36):
Well, like I said, you just killed a man, and
you're no longer a ranger or a cowpuncher, living on
action and excitement.

Speaker 9 (25:45):
You're older, more settled.

Speaker 6 (25:48):
You lead I thoughtful, quiet life, but you shot and
killed in self defense.

Speaker 9 (25:54):
Well, it's true, but I provoked him into fighting me.

Speaker 6 (26:04):
I couldn't imagine what could be bothering Luke Standyford. When
I went back to my hotel room that evening and
I sat around and smoked a cigar, and suddenly it started.

Speaker 9 (26:17):
To bother me too. A girl, Amanda Covid Was she
telling the truth? After all? Could she have made up
the story?

Speaker 7 (26:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (26:30):
But why.

Speaker 6 (26:32):
Knowing Luke standy her she knew you would go gunning
for Benton Sharp. That it sounded crazy, far fetched. Why
was it bothering me? There was a way to find out.
I decided to take the train for San Antonio next morning.

Speaker 9 (26:57):
Yes, my name is me Border.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
So are you missus Carley Sharp, mother of the late
Benton Sharp. I am, Well, I'm a journalist.

Speaker 10 (27:10):
And you want to write about my bandit outlaws son. Well,
you won't do it. You and the rest of them
leave them in peace.

Speaker 9 (27:19):
I assure you, madam.

Speaker 10 (27:20):
Don't tell me that. I know you reporters. You will
do anything to make a sensation. I've seen the papers,
pack of lies. Everything you read.

Speaker 9 (27:32):
Why are they lies?

Speaker 10 (27:33):
Why are they lies? Because they ain't true?

Speaker 9 (27:37):
Tell me the truth?

Speaker 10 (27:38):
Why you won't write it.

Speaker 9 (27:41):
I can't write it if I don't know it.

Speaker 10 (27:43):
Come inside, I'll tell you this. Benton never had a
chance to do what to straighten himself out. Oh he
was no angel, I admit that. But he wanted to
change change what. Just an ordinary person with a job,

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a wife, a home.

Speaker 9 (28:06):
Well he could have done that.

Speaker 10 (28:07):
He was married to Who to her? She killed him?

Speaker 9 (28:12):
Well, according to the newspapers.

Speaker 10 (28:14):
You know, I know he was in a brawl in
a saloon.

Speaker 9 (28:18):
Well it's true, isn't it.

Speaker 10 (28:19):
But why was he in a saloon? Why did he
have to get drunk? Why did he have to keep
proving himself well? Account of her? On account of that
simple little miss high and mighty, she ruined him?

Speaker 9 (28:32):
All right? Are you saying he didn't beat her?

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Beat her?

Speaker 10 (28:37):
He lived in mortal fear of the victim.

Speaker 9 (28:40):
He never became drunk and mistreated her.

Speaker 10 (28:43):
He never so much as drank one drop a liquor
in this house.

Speaker 9 (28:47):
Well that's not what she said.

Speaker 10 (28:48):
Well I know all about what she says, the angel,
the dear sweet put upon mistreated wife. Well it's a lie.

Speaker 6 (28:56):
Why well, how can you say that? Everybody knows Anton
was a bully and a chiller.

Speaker 10 (29:01):
But does anyone know why it's her fault?

Speaker 6 (29:06):
Well, if there's another side to the story, I'm here
to learn it.

Speaker 10 (29:12):
Well, he come home one day and he said, MA,
I'm gonna get married. Well I never felt so happy
because he was always wild, you know, I mean, no
real harm in him, but wild and a wife. Well,
it meant he was ready to settle down. So I

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asked him.

Speaker 9 (29:34):
Do I know the girl you've heard of him all
everybody has.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
It's a Manda Covid.

Speaker 10 (29:40):
Amanda Covid.

Speaker 9 (29:41):
She is the finest girl in the world.

Speaker 10 (29:43):
Nton Are you sure sure? She I don't know sure.
Seems so so distant, so high above everybody else.

Speaker 9 (29:51):
No, she's not that way at all when you get
to know her.

Speaker 10 (29:54):
Well, so they say, she's always pruning at that family
tree of hers.

Speaker 12 (29:58):
Oh, she's the sweetest, loveliest girl, and you're gonna be
crazy about her.

Speaker 9 (30:03):
Mam.

Speaker 10 (30:07):
I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.
After all, my boy loved her. That she would have
been enough. He brought her home to supper, and I
just happened to be out. I was visiting a sick friend.
I came back and they were sitting in the parlor talking.
I was about to say hello, but I overheard something.

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Your mother hates me.

Speaker 9 (30:31):
Oh, how can you see that, Amanda?

Speaker 10 (30:33):
I know it's the look on her face. She's not
giving you up to any other woman all but Maul
loves you. How do you know, now, ma'am. Every time
you spoke to your ma about a girl, didn't she
find fault?

Speaker 11 (30:45):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (30:46):
And when you told her about us, didn't you find
fault with me? Don't get to see she does hate
me a man, Well it's her, oh me, You'll have
to choose between us.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
That's an ultimatum that's often given to a young man
who is about to choose a bride, but rarely is
it delivered in such absolute terms. Usually it's hinted at,
or delicately stated, or diplomatically presented. However, not here on
this show. We tell it the way it is, and

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just how is it? Wait for the third act. You
can't tell the players without a scorecard, and even that's

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of no help unless you understand the rules of the
game they're playing. Oh, Henry is listening to a story
being told to him by a very old friend. A
veteran gunslinger was having some very serious doubts about the
particular game he seems to be playing. Luke, some girls

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do feel that way about their prospective mothers in law.

Speaker 9 (32:12):
I know it's not really what they say, it's what
they mean.

Speaker 6 (32:17):
A man that might have sensed a certain hostility. Some
mothers feel very possessive towards their son.

Speaker 9 (32:25):
I understand that too.

Speaker 6 (32:27):
My only point is mssus Sharp could have hated a man,
and that might have occasioned some bad blood.

Speaker 9 (32:36):
Maybe maybe, But I better not think about it anymore.

Speaker 6 (32:46):
I was trying to fit all the pieces together what
Luke had told me, and now I call these sharp
Bnton's mother was telling me. Maybe I see through the
puzzle and arrived at the truth in my mind, I
had listened to one and then to the other.

Speaker 10 (33:05):
Oh, I ad met Benton was wild, and he did
ride with a pretty fast bunch. Maybe the dead edge
the law bet it might have been a little cattle
rustling where he did kill men, Yes, in self defense.

Speaker 6 (33:22):
Deliberately for no reason. In many cases it was her fault.

Speaker 10 (33:27):
You keep saying that he took a job in Sanderson's
General Store. Pay wasn't much, but it was honest, decent work.
Sanderson promised him a raise. He was content he'd giving
up all his nrty well cronies. But well, yeah, she
wasn't satisfied. How do you know we all lived under

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this roof. It's a small house. You can't help overhearing
that the dance over at the hotel tonight, Benton.

Speaker 9 (34:00):
We can't go?

Speaker 14 (34:02):
Why not?

Speaker 9 (34:03):
Well, I promised mister Sanderson I'd do the books.

Speaker 10 (34:06):
You mean you take mister Sanderson's books home and do
them here at night? Well does he pay you extra?

Speaker 4 (34:12):
Well, it's part of the job.

Speaker 10 (34:13):
The job.

Speaker 18 (34:15):
What job?

Speaker 16 (34:16):
You call that?

Speaker 10 (34:17):
A job at slavery, That's what it is.

Speaker 9 (34:19):
A man the Amanda, You don't understand.

Speaker 10 (34:21):
I only understand. There's been no fun, no excitement, nothing
at all since I married you. And no money either.

Speaker 9 (34:27):
Well I never said I was ready.

Speaker 16 (34:29):
You always had.

Speaker 10 (34:29):
Plenty of money to spend.

Speaker 9 (34:31):
I know.

Speaker 10 (34:31):
Well what happened to the money? Where did it go?

Speaker 9 (34:34):
It didn't go anywhere. I just don't get to make
that kind of money anymore.

Speaker 10 (34:39):
Why not?

Speaker 9 (34:40):
Why not? Because it's not the right way.

Speaker 10 (34:42):
The right way is to do without, go without, do nothing.
Be nobody is that.

Speaker 9 (34:46):
It now, Amanda? I have a good job Oh yes, yeah.

Speaker 6 (34:50):
Now, now, mam says, mister Sanderson's thinking of offering me
a partner.

Speaker 10 (34:53):
Sure, Ma. She wants her a darling boy to work
just down the street so he can come home for
his lunch every day. And she wants him stuck in
a ten dollar a week position so he can't afford
his own place.

Speaker 9 (35:04):
Now to live with his mama, even though he's.

Speaker 10 (35:06):
A married man. There's enough, Amanda Benton Sharp, the fast gun,
the fast rider, the fast lover. That's what they used
to say about you. That's why I married you, for excitement.
Why you're nothing but a dry goods clerk, nothing but
a mama's boy, dry goods clerk.

Speaker 9 (35:27):
Don't you talk like that to me?

Speaker 10 (35:29):
Oh my, well, you're brave enough to hit your wife. Well,
I guess that's the best you can do these days.
That's how it goes day and night. And finally he

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started to do something he'd never done before.

Speaker 19 (35:52):
Drink.

Speaker 9 (35:54):
You mean he never drank before.

Speaker 10 (35:56):
Oh, a drink or two now and then. But he
they started drinking seriously, staying out laid in saloons, and
that's when you're get into trouble. There was a fellow
named Denny Denny and Benton had written together many times. Well,
they were in the saloon one night and Denny started

(36:18):
to make.

Speaker 20 (36:18):
Fun of Benton.

Speaker 14 (36:20):
Well, well, well, let of his head.

Speaker 9 (36:22):
Oh hello, Denny, hey.

Speaker 12 (36:24):
Bartender, I thought that's placed on our reverend clerk.

Speaker 9 (36:28):
All cut it out, Denny.

Speaker 12 (36:29):
I like clerking in the store, I said, cut it out. Oh,
you never had a chance say you say you was
tied to your mama's apron strings, but now you've got
a wife's apron your lassuit too.

Speaker 9 (36:39):
Will you come on now, cut it out.

Speaker 14 (36:42):
You won't make me.

Speaker 12 (36:44):
Oh, I said, you don't have a hoster, did Mommy
and wife?

Speaker 14 (36:47):
They take away the.

Speaker 9 (36:48):
Gun for the last time, Denny, cut it out.

Speaker 14 (36:51):
Hey, you don't like it, Maybe you better go home.

Speaker 12 (36:55):
Huh, you got to get up early and clerk in
the store.

Speaker 9 (37:04):
Where are you going wearing that revarm Mama, get out
of my way.

Speaker 10 (37:07):
What is all the noise doing down here? You're his wife,
stop him, Stop him from what You're the woman of
the house. You stop him. This is no time for
you and me to argue, Amanda. He is out to
kill a man or get killed himself.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
Keep out of it, both of you.

Speaker 9 (37:24):
No one can say what Denny said to me tonight
and live?

Speaker 16 (37:27):
What did he say?

Speaker 9 (37:28):
Does it matter?

Speaker 4 (37:29):
He is?

Speaker 10 (37:29):
It matters. I was brought up in a house where
honor was held above all. My father never took an
insult in his life.

Speaker 9 (37:35):
I'll be back.

Speaker 10 (37:36):
No, wait, Ben, couldn't can't you stop him? Stop him? Why?
Maybe you don't want a man, but I do.

Speaker 9 (37:56):
Denny looking bad? Yeah, Denny a ribbon clerk. Now the
question is are you going to draw? God?

Speaker 14 (38:07):
God, what a picture?

Speaker 12 (38:10):
Hey, you've bringing some crayons from the nursery.

Speaker 9 (38:13):
No, but I'll tell you what I did bring Colt
forty four.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
Oh.

Speaker 14 (38:19):
Look, and he's wearing it in a hoster. Is it loaded?

Speaker 9 (38:24):
It's loaded. Ain't you afraid it'll go off? It's set
to go off in the next minute.

Speaker 14 (38:30):
I'm going home, rebend, go home or get carried home.

Speaker 9 (38:33):
That's the choice I offer you. Yeah, Yeah, you're wearing
a gun. I'm wearing a gun.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
Reach any time you want.

Speaker 9 (38:42):
You're a move scared scared of a ribbon clerk? Are
you loud in mouth? Thiefn's side?

Speaker 14 (38:51):
Win by, scared of nothing or nobody?

Speaker 9 (38:55):
Draw? Everybody saw now it was self defense.

Speaker 10 (39:07):
That was the beginning, the whole town talked to nothing
else except how he done it, calm cool. He became
a celebrity, and finally old man Sanderson had to let
him go. Besides, he was really drinking.

Speaker 9 (39:24):
Now why was he uh robbing? Also?

Speaker 10 (39:27):
Oh yeah, he may have been in a couple of
hold ups, but he never really kept much of the money.
He'd gambled it away in saloons or drink it up.

Speaker 9 (39:39):
How did you live?

Speaker 10 (39:40):
Well? Amanda took the job in Sanderson's for a while.

Speaker 9 (39:44):
I don't understand what did she want.

Speaker 10 (39:48):
She wanted a man who was glamorous like her father.

Speaker 9 (39:51):
Oh, Benton was glamorous in a way.

Speaker 10 (39:55):
Except Benton couldn't carry it off. You see that man, Denny,
He was right, He was right at heart. Benton really
was a ribbon clerk. Nature gave him a keen eye
and a quick hand, but he really couldn't live with it,
and so he became more and more miserable. The sheriff

(40:20):
was here today, Yeah, he wanted to ask you some
questions about what the bank robbery.

Speaker 9 (40:28):
I know about a bank robbery.

Speaker 10 (40:30):
They say twenty five thousand is missing.

Speaker 9 (40:33):
That's all.

Speaker 10 (40:35):
What did you do with it?

Speaker 9 (40:37):
I don't know the first thing about it.

Speaker 10 (40:40):
I want my share.

Speaker 9 (40:41):
What are you talking about.

Speaker 10 (40:43):
There's another woman. You're giving the money to her?

Speaker 9 (40:45):
You're crazy?

Speaker 10 (40:46):
Where is the money or Amanda?

Speaker 9 (40:48):
Flee?

Speaker 10 (40:48):
Take your hands off. Men, don't touch me, but I
love that. Give me the money, Amanda.

Speaker 6 (40:53):
Let's go away from here, anywhere, back east.

Speaker 9 (40:56):
Why so we can start a new life. I'll get
a job and make.

Speaker 10 (40:59):
One fifteen dollars a week as a clerk. Well, I
can't live that kind of life. I'm not used to it.
Oh why couldn't you be a man like my father?
I thought you were a man like my father. He
took what he wanted. He came in here and took
this country. He killed for it. He killed Mexicans, Indians, anybody,

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everybody he took by force. His name was Amos Coban.
He was no ribbon clerk.

Speaker 9 (41:28):
Please a man. All I want is you. You want me,
you have to deserve I'll do anything.

Speaker 10 (41:37):
Then give me the money.

Speaker 9 (41:39):
By ah, what's the use?

Speaker 10 (41:45):
And that's how it went. You couldn't talk to him.
She was like a disease that drove him wild, made
him into a crazy, ruthless killer. All day he bawled
and stewed night. He was ready to bust. He walk
into a saloon and take out all his anger on
anyone who just happened along for any reason, for no reason.

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And then suddenly something seemed to come over her. We
were sitting at the table. She was reading the paper.
She sounded very thoughtful. Luke Standerfer, Who, oh nothing, who's
Luke's Standerfer? Just an old ranger pile in my father's

(42:33):
He's been appointed to a big government job. It had
something to do with insurance. There was something in the
way she said that word insurance. At the time, I
didn't know what she meant. Looking back on it, it's

(42:55):
clear now, Oh, it's clear. That night she said to Benton,
how much insurance do you have insurance?

Speaker 9 (43:05):
Why would I have insurance?

Speaker 10 (43:07):
Because you say you love me?

Speaker 9 (43:09):
Well, I do.

Speaker 10 (43:11):
Well, suppose something happens to you, what's to become me?

Speaker 9 (43:16):
I never thought of that.

Speaker 10 (43:18):
Why don't you get yourself some insurance?

Speaker 6 (43:21):
I will, and in case anything ever happens to me,
you will be a rich widow. Well, and I gave
you all the facts you heard from, all the principles
who's right and who's wrong? Did she deliberately set him

(43:42):
up for murder. Well, oh Luke Standiff, who seemed to
have some original doubts, finally resolved them completely. I spoke
to him just before.

Speaker 9 (43:55):
I left for New York, and what bothered me was
because I I couldn't believe I could outdraw a man
half my age. But you know that look in his eye.
I'm convinced he suddenly turned yellow. He couldn't believe. I
challenge him, listen, not to beat him. Yep him. I'm

(44:17):
satisfied to load down, wife, beaten, vomited. God, just what
was coming. On the other hand, this is Caraley's sharp.

Speaker 10 (44:30):
In that split second, Benton knew she had arranged it.
She had set it up to kill him, and because
he was so crazy in love with her, he just
let himself be killed because that was what she wanted.

Speaker 9 (44:51):
What do I think? I don't know. There may be my.

Speaker 21 (44:57):
Characters, but they have souls there I wish I knew.

Speaker 9 (45:09):
What do you think?

Speaker 6 (45:11):
Once again, we have a tale for all seasons and
all reasons.

Speaker 9 (45:17):
But this is typical of O. Henry.

Speaker 6 (45:19):
He leads it all there on the page and you
can take it as you like it, which is the
way all good storytellers do it. Shakespeare even used it
as a title.

Speaker 11 (45:30):
I shall be back shortly.

Speaker 6 (45:43):
I know that most people insist on cold, hard answers,
answers that answer not answers that pose further questions.

Speaker 9 (45:54):
Which one of them is right? Could it be? Both? Are?

Speaker 6 (45:59):
Consider if Amanda saw him as a mama's boy, didn't
she also demonstrate that she was a daddy's girl. The
fact is two people like that are hardly good candidates
for a marriage, especially to each other. Our cast included
Robert Dryden, Joe Silver, Terry Keane, Carol Titel, and Earl Hammond.

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The entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown.
And now a preview of our next tale.

Speaker 10 (46:34):
I have twenty five nice one thousand dollars bills and
I count them and I put them back nicely.

Speaker 22 (46:43):
Yeah, but haven't you thought of a bank. I mean,
the bank would pay you inter rut.

Speaker 10 (46:48):
But the money it would be shut up in the vault,
the cold vault. Nobody would love it the way I do.
Nobody would keep it wrong.

Speaker 9 (46:58):
Now, Madame, I like you.

Speaker 22 (47:00):
I do, I really do, indeed, and it hurts me
to see that your heart and money is doing.

Speaker 9 (47:06):
Nothing, which is many supposed to.

Speaker 22 (47:08):
Do work, work as you do, as well, work as
I do. Madam Modely, do you trust me?

Speaker 9 (47:18):
Do you?

Speaker 10 (47:20):
Oh? Yes, michiguespav, I trust you.

Speaker 22 (47:24):
Then let me invest that twenty five thousand.

Speaker 9 (47:28):
Dollars for you.

Speaker 6 (47:30):
Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by True Value
Hardware Stores and Buick Motor Division.

Speaker 9 (47:36):
Missus E. G.

Speaker 6 (47:37):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant.

Speaker 4 (47:49):
Dream appointment with fear, we present Celia Johnson as Anne

(49:02):
in Morning Glory by Charlotte and Dennis Plummer.

Speaker 19 (49:15):
Lay the fifth my cottage dawn, Dear Agnes, when you've
sent me that cassettes, and what a thrill to hear
my own sister's voice from New Segland up so many years,
I too decided the letters were old fashioned, so I
bought a tape recorder. Picture me then here alone in

(49:40):
my garden near the Thames, with forty years of school
teaching behind me, and all around the songs of birds
the dawn course. It's really heavenly.

Speaker 6 (49:51):
Listen.

Speaker 19 (49:57):
The trouble is the mist, one of those springtime mists.
Remember that roll up from the river early in the morning.
I can scarcely see half a dozen yards in the
The sun is trying to shine through, and it's really
rather early.

Speaker 17 (50:12):
What is it, sim Oh.

Speaker 23 (50:17):
Oh my god, it's him again.

Speaker 19 (50:22):
You you are there? Who are you?

Speaker 24 (50:27):
What do you want?

Speaker 25 (50:29):
This is my garden, it's private property. Go away, do
you hear me?

Speaker 26 (50:33):
Go away?

Speaker 25 (50:35):
Go away, go away, go away, go away.

Speaker 19 (50:42):
I can't stand it much longer, Virginia. I simply can't
attend it. Why does he keep haunting me?

Speaker 27 (50:48):
When did you first see a man more.

Speaker 19 (50:50):
Than a week ago at dusk down by the orchard.

Speaker 27 (50:53):
You should have told me sooner, after all, that's what
neighbors are for.

Speaker 19 (50:57):
I didn't want to trouble you. Well, I thought I
was imagining things.

Speaker 27 (51:04):
Tell me, what does he look like?

Speaker 19 (51:07):
I don't know, really. He only comes in the morning
when it's misty or a twilight.

Speaker 27 (51:14):
He's more a.

Speaker 19 (51:15):
Form than a definite shape, and tall, I think, and big,
you know, Brown.

Speaker 10 (51:20):
It's hard to be sure.

Speaker 27 (51:22):
Has he ever spoken to you?

Speaker 28 (51:24):
No?

Speaker 27 (51:24):
Never, He just stands there, and I suppose he stares,
and then then he seemply seems to melt away. And
maybe you are imagining him.

Speaker 19 (51:38):
Not this morning, I wasn't.

Speaker 27 (51:39):
I spoke to him.

Speaker 19 (51:41):
I had my tape recorder on. I've listened.

Speaker 25 (51:45):
You are there, Who are you?

Speaker 29 (51:49):
What do you want?

Speaker 30 (51:50):
This is my garden.

Speaker 25 (51:52):
It's pretty prompt to go away. You hear me go away?

Speaker 27 (51:56):
And and I've never heard you sound. I'm like, did
he run away?

Speaker 19 (52:03):
I don't know because I ran away, and Sam too.
He was as frightened as I was. His tail bristled.
Oh forgive me for sounding his tereico. But I ran
inside and locked the door. You know, Virginia, Sometimes when
he appears like that, I almost wish he would speak,
at least I know he was flesh and blood. And
then I wonder would he sound like a man? Would

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he sound like a goat?

Speaker 27 (52:29):
Living all alone isn't easy. You're not used to it,
you know, that's not it.

Speaker 19 (52:34):
I've lived by myself ever since I was a girl,
as soon as I took my teaching degree.

Speaker 27 (52:38):
But that was in a city. You haven't been back
in the country very long.

Speaker 23 (52:43):
What is it now?

Speaker 27 (52:44):
Four months?

Speaker 10 (52:46):
Five?

Speaker 30 (52:48):
Look?

Speaker 27 (52:48):
Why didn't you come and stay with us for a
few days?

Speaker 19 (52:50):
Oh you're very sweet, Virginia, But no, I wouldn't dream
of disturbing you and George. Besides, I don't intend to
be forced out of my home after all these years
of saving and dreaming of having my own cottage. No,
I'll be all right, Virginia. I'm not just seeing things.

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There is someone, all right.

Speaker 27 (53:17):
Suppose there is a man?

Speaker 14 (53:19):
Then?

Speaker 23 (53:20):
Who is he?

Speaker 27 (53:21):
A worker from one of the farms.

Speaker 19 (53:23):
What's he doing in my garden?

Speaker 10 (53:25):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (53:25):
Now, hold on a minute. I want to show you something. Look,
it's a packet of mourning glory seed. I've found it
on my doorstep, on your doorstep. At first I thought
maybe you'd left it. You've been so kind about bringing
me cuttings and things. And then I remembered I told
you how I feel about mourning glories. They depressed me,

(53:46):
so born fresh each morning and dead by sunset. Such
a sad short life. And then now look at thisish birds,
oh lovely book. I didn't buy either of those things, Virginia.
I found them, both of them, lying at my door.

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What makes you think they have anything to do with him?

Speaker 4 (54:11):
Well?

Speaker 10 (54:12):
Who else?

Speaker 19 (54:12):
I haven't got any friends here, only you and George. Besides,
if anyone I knew wanted to give me a present,
they'd come and hand it to me, wouldn't they or
even note? But this it's it's like his visits, secret
and furtive, unnatural. And dear, if you are frightened, We're

(54:34):
only a few hundred yards down the road.

Speaker 27 (54:35):
I'm really always home. But oh, oh, Papa, I've just
remembered George thinks he may have to go to Amsterdam
for the firm. He wants me to go with him,
Oh when I'm not sure. Probably in the next few days,
but not for long. And dear, do you know what

(54:55):
I'd do if I were you? I talk this over
with the police.

Speaker 24 (55:02):
Yes, yes, miss Howard, I can see your problem. You
are rather isolated out here. It's only mister and missus Price,
and beyond them just those few houseboats along the towpath.
Locks on your doors and windows and all secure.

Speaker 19 (55:14):
Oh yes, yes, I hadn't put on when I bought
the place. But he hasn't tried to break in, at
least not as far as I know.

Speaker 11 (55:21):
Well, that's the difficulty.

Speaker 24 (55:22):
In a way, It's funny the law, you see, if
he had, we'd have something to take action about that.

Speaker 19 (55:29):
He does keep trespassing on my property, Isn't that actionable?

Speaker 24 (55:33):
No?

Speaker 9 (55:33):
It's not.

Speaker 24 (55:33):
I'm afraid trespass isn't a crime. It's a matter for
the civil courts. Now, if he caused any damage, you're
made off with anything.

Speaker 19 (55:41):
No, nothing like that. He's just there. Isn't it a
criminal offense to persecute someone?

Speaker 24 (55:48):
He might merely be crossing the corner of your garden.

Speaker 11 (55:50):
There's a shortcut.

Speaker 24 (55:52):
No, I'm sorry, but I can't see that any hard
has been done. You know it's hard, miss Howard, but
when there's a prowler about, he doesn't usually stick to
the one place. He tends to roam a bit. And
we haven't received any other complaints.

Speaker 19 (56:07):
But there's proof that he has been here. What about
the seeds in the book?

Speaker 24 (56:11):
Again, they haven't caused you any harm, missus Howard? Living
on your own? Well, do you have any relatives?

Speaker 19 (56:21):
Only a niece up in Scotland and a sister in
New Zealand.

Speaker 24 (56:25):
Well, perhaps I'm not quite certain how to put this,
Miss Howard, but perhaps you might be better off living
with other people.

Speaker 4 (56:33):
There's some very nice places.

Speaker 19 (56:34):
He yes, Well, it was good if he had come
seeling exigeant drabins, and I'm most grateful. But if if
you're trying to say that I should go into a
home or something with a lot of other dreary old ladies.
Then I'm sorry. I'm not ready to give everything up.

Speaker 24 (56:52):
Not quite well, no, no, no, no, of course not well.
I wish I could do more to ease your mind.
But well, if you're worried again, don't hesitate to get
in touch.

Speaker 26 (57:08):
Oh Sam, isn't it.

Speaker 19 (57:10):
A perfect morment?

Speaker 30 (57:12):
Now?

Speaker 19 (57:13):
We mustn't let Agnes there where what it must be said,
We just start a new tape for her, as though
nothing had happened. Now, dear Agnes, it's May and sixth,
and such a lovely spring.

Speaker 31 (57:27):
I'm sitting in the garden.

Speaker 19 (57:29):
Tulips are perfect, and the Broccolian spring cabbage are coming
along nicely. I wish you could see it all. You
remember our garden at home when we were girls, and
father used to read poetry to it. Then suddenly you
were married and gone away, and I was teaching after that?
How quickly the year slips by? What did Therese Graub?

(57:51):
Your children up in Birmingham rarely think of the funny,
gray haired teacher who used to be me so prim No,
boy and girls, pay attention, mister Browning wrote this, mister
Robert Brownie, listen, children and picture yourselves in a garden,
the years of the spring, the days of the morning,

(58:14):
mornings at seven, the hillsides uperh fam Oh Sam, what
you doing?

Speaker 25 (58:21):
Same?

Speaker 17 (58:21):
Tam me that baton?

Speaker 25 (58:22):
Stop it, drop it?

Speaker 27 (58:24):
Oh Sam?

Speaker 19 (58:27):
Sa you killed it?

Speaker 26 (58:32):
Oh Sam?

Speaker 27 (58:38):
And I think you're letting things get on top of
you a bit. Cats do kill birds, and people do
wander into other people's gardens. Tell me, is there anything
that's nagging at you from I don't know, maybe years ago.
We've all had something in our.

Speaker 30 (58:56):
Past, even me.

Speaker 19 (59:00):
No, nothing like that, nothing at all. No romances, no enemies,
no adventures. One trip to Italy, to Florence, ages ago.
I wanted to see where the brown names have lived.
I used to have a silly ambition that one day
I'd write a book about them, Robert and Elizabeth. Oh

(59:20):
it was a passionate, so alive. He wrote to her,
I love your verses with all my heart, dear miss Barrett,
and I love you too. I studied their letters until
I almost knew them by heart. Oh virgin I had
tried so hard to write the book. Somehow, the proper
words never came. And then one day I remember, it

(59:42):
was cold and the rain was drifting. That day, I
sadly sword was strong, and it had taken only two
lines of his verse to tell me, do you remember this?
We have not sighed, deep, laughed, free, starved, feasted, despair,
and been happy. We'll let you see is my problem.

(01:00:05):
I haven't done any of those things. So I put
my few chapters away, and I've never tried since. No,
it doesn't have anymore. Lots of people try to write
books and can't. But I went to Florence and I
found the place where they lived. I stood on the
opposite pavement and stared up at the windows. That's been

(01:00:26):
my life, Virginia, all of my life, standing on the pavement,
looking up at other people's windows. Well, I must be
getting back to my cottage.

Speaker 27 (01:00:36):
Why shouldn't you finish it now?

Speaker 32 (01:00:37):
The book?

Speaker 19 (01:00:38):
Oh no, No, besides it where it is finished in
my mind. I mean, I assure you, Virginia, it really
is splendid, compassionate, tender, scholarly, understanding everything a book should
be except one thing written.

Speaker 27 (01:00:56):
And stay and have a bite of dinner with us.
George should be home soon.

Speaker 15 (01:01:00):
Thank you.

Speaker 19 (01:01:00):
But I can't. I must feed Sam. Have you heard
anything more about Amsterdam? When you go?

Speaker 27 (01:01:07):
George is ensure it soon.

Speaker 19 (01:01:09):
I think, oh, why don't you feed Sam and come
back afterwards. No, no, anyhow, I have something that I
want to do tonight, or at least start to do.
I think i'd better tell you what it is. Yes,
I've decided to record everything I know about what's been
going on, all the details. It's meant for the police.

(01:01:31):
Nah no, no, no, let me go on. It's to
be a kind of journal, and if anything happens to me,
I shall leave it beside the tape recorder.

Speaker 27 (01:01:41):
Nothing is going to send to you.

Speaker 19 (01:01:44):
Promise me you'll look for the cassette.

Speaker 15 (01:02:14):
All right, Sam, I know, I know.

Speaker 19 (01:02:15):
Breakfast, breakfast, just a minute.

Speaker 27 (01:02:20):
Good morning Anne, Oh Virginia, And I'm so sorry, but
the Amsterdam trip is on.

Speaker 10 (01:02:28):
Oh when do you leave tonight?

Speaker 27 (01:02:31):
On the late plain? Oh, I see, it's only for
a couple of days. There hasn't been any sign of
you know, of him.

Speaker 19 (01:02:41):
Yesterday he left a book in the afternoon while I
was at your house, and it was a copy of
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and I think
I think I heard him again last night.

Speaker 28 (01:02:56):
Have you told the police?

Speaker 19 (01:02:57):
What's the point They didn't say the same thing, that
he hasn't stolen anything or harmed me. That'll be George.

Speaker 27 (01:03:06):
He's in a bit of a stake this morning. You
know he owns a pistol. Yes, well, he can't find it.
He wanted to lock it away while we were abroad.
He's looked everywhere. He swears that it's been stolen.

Speaker 10 (01:03:19):
Oh, how awful. Yes, I must run.

Speaker 27 (01:03:22):
He wants to go to the village and tell Southern
Province about it.

Speaker 26 (01:03:26):
I'm so sorry, goodbye and dea bye.

Speaker 19 (01:03:34):
To the police. I've done a dreadful thing. It was
I who sold George's pistol. No, no, that's not true.
I didn't steal it. I've bothered it. When I was
over there yesterday and Virginia went to the kitchen to
make tea, I took it. Yes, I took it. I've

(01:03:54):
never killed anything in my life. I don't think I
could even kill him. But if he broke it, I
could point it at him.

Speaker 30 (01:04:04):
He might go away.

Speaker 19 (01:04:04):
Then if I pointed it, he might be prayed and
go away.

Speaker 16 (01:04:09):
And never come back.

Speaker 19 (01:04:16):
Or Sam, did I keep you awake last night on
my twisting and turning. He's no one came. He didn't come,
did he?

Speaker 12 (01:04:28):
Ah?

Speaker 19 (01:04:29):
Such a lovely day again, There couldn't possibly be evil here,
dear Agnes. There are more birds today than ever, the
trees full of them. What are they saying? I wonder.

Speaker 31 (01:04:47):
They've stopped?

Speaker 28 (01:04:50):
Why they stopped? Birds?

Speaker 10 (01:04:53):
Birds?

Speaker 16 (01:04:54):
Why they've stopped?

Speaker 19 (01:04:56):
And they never do that?

Speaker 17 (01:04:58):
They're looking up?

Speaker 30 (01:04:59):
What did they see?

Speaker 23 (01:05:00):
What do you see?

Speaker 19 (01:05:02):
What is it up there?

Speaker 16 (01:05:04):
A speak high in the sky.

Speaker 19 (01:05:06):
It's sucking.

Speaker 33 (01:05:08):
It's a spanawwk.

Speaker 25 (01:05:10):
You've seen my birds. It's coming down inside and at
the foster.

Speaker 27 (01:05:13):
Faster birds high high, go away away.

Speaker 19 (01:05:49):
Everything is rejecting a son eve in the garden. No Virginia,
no George. Only you and me and the birds.

Speaker 10 (01:06:00):
And him.

Speaker 19 (01:06:03):
What we do go to the shops and buy provisions
and lock ourselves in sit here in the shadows. Oh no,
that's cruel. It won't go out now I must think
of something else. Yes, here's Elspie. That's it, my niece
in Scotland. Now here's a telephone number. Will you like her, say,

(01:06:26):
don't you? Yeah, we'll have a holiday and you shall
have kip us for breakfast, lovely adventure. Oh dear, Oh,
come on, know somebody answer?

Speaker 34 (01:06:41):
Hello?

Speaker 19 (01:06:43):
May I speak to missus? Mumlow? Please? Well she's away,
I'm the continent. Oh when will she be back?

Speaker 11 (01:06:54):
Three weeks?

Speaker 26 (01:06:56):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (01:06:56):
No, no, no message?

Speaker 10 (01:06:58):
Thank you?

Speaker 19 (01:07:00):
Why well? Sam? We must just make the best of
each other.

Speaker 35 (01:07:07):
But what we do?

Speaker 19 (01:07:10):
No, not the garden. We can't go out there, not
even when the sun is shining. Does he know that
George and Virginia have gone awayland? Does he know that
it's ourned the two of us? Is he watching now?
A fortress?

Speaker 12 (01:07:26):
Sam?

Speaker 19 (01:07:28):
That's what we'd have, a fortress. We'll strengthen our defenses,
knock the windows, draw the curtains. He mustn't think we're
at home. You can't come to an empty house. No,
that's not right, is he He came before when he
saw my Browning books and the cottage was empty? Now, Sam,

(01:07:58):
why did I put it?

Speaker 18 (01:08:00):
You know?

Speaker 23 (01:08:00):
Pete?

Speaker 31 (01:08:00):
Where what I mean?

Speaker 28 (01:08:01):
The thing?

Speaker 19 (01:08:03):
The thing that I stole, know, not stole, borrowed. We're
not thieves, you and I are. We were decent people
trying to protect ourselves from the powers of darkness. That's
what he is, a power of darkness. How strong is
the lock.

Speaker 36 (01:08:21):
On that door?

Speaker 19 (01:08:23):
I know the writing table. We'll pushed that against the door.

Speaker 9 (01:08:31):
There.

Speaker 19 (01:08:35):
Now, you can't get in even if he breaks the lock.
He's so mean, s'am Sodeed.

Speaker 16 (01:08:42):
Oh no, no, no, no, he.

Speaker 19 (01:08:43):
Won't come to night when he not in the rain. Now,
my report, I must keep my report up to date
to the police. May the night. Mister missus Price have
been gone for two days. I've spent entire time indoors.

(01:09:03):
I don't know if I can stand it much longer.
There's been no sign of him so.

Speaker 34 (01:09:08):
Far, not once.

Speaker 19 (01:09:10):
But I am a little less afraid of him than
I was because of you know, George's pistol. I've loaded it.
It lies beside the tape recorder as I speak. If
he should try to enter, he will have to break in,
and that is a criminal offense, isn't it, Sergeant. I
haven't been able to sleep. I lie on my bed

(01:09:33):
in the dark with my eyes open. I haven't eaten
since mister and missus Price went away. I can't eat,
you see, but.

Speaker 17 (01:09:39):
I've fed Sam.

Speaker 19 (01:09:40):
Of course, rain is heavy outside, and yes, still life.

Speaker 28 (01:09:52):
What's that? What's that?

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
This is sound?

Speaker 26 (01:10:00):
Bare footsteps?

Speaker 19 (01:10:03):
He's out there, sat, here's gun.

Speaker 27 (01:10:10):
He's come for me.

Speaker 19 (01:10:12):
I always knew he would. Surely surely didn't think the
house is empty, Sam, get off the window, signal moving the.

Speaker 37 (01:10:20):
Cat se see.

Speaker 15 (01:10:24):
You are.

Speaker 38 (01:10:27):
Go away?

Speaker 30 (01:10:28):
How can I ron the police? I got a gun.

Speaker 25 (01:10:32):
I'll shoot you. Oh my god, go go away.

Speaker 26 (01:10:37):
I can't come in. I'm wrong.

Speaker 25 (01:10:39):
Your arm shoe, I can't stand die?

Speaker 30 (01:10:43):
Can't dad?

Speaker 25 (01:10:44):
You want? Don't you leave me alone?

Speaker 9 (01:10:47):
What do you want?

Speaker 25 (01:10:50):
Are you trying to drive me there?

Speaker 7 (01:10:53):
Are you trying to drive me there?

Speaker 24 (01:11:17):
And that was when you telephoned the police?

Speaker 20 (01:11:20):
Yes, sergeant, when I saw her lying there.

Speaker 24 (01:11:23):
What I don't understand is why did you keep on knocking?
That's why it seems to have terrified her, because.

Speaker 39 (01:11:30):
Because when she said she had a gutten, I was
afraid she might hurt herself.

Speaker 24 (01:11:34):
Oh what were you doing in missus Howard's garden.

Speaker 9 (01:11:36):
At that hour? I was going to leave her a
letter and then to go away.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
But she heard me A letter is here?

Speaker 24 (01:11:47):
Dear miss Anne. You don't know me, and now you
never will. At first, when I saw that you were
old like me and alone like me, I thought.

Speaker 9 (01:12:01):
We might make friends.

Speaker 40 (01:12:03):
I never had a friend.

Speaker 39 (01:12:05):
I never knew how to talk to people, and then
when I saw you, I hoped this time it might
be different. I thought, if you wanted a reliable man
to help you with the garden or to mend things,
you might let me, not for pay, but maybe you'd
ask me in for a cup of tea sometimes. But

(01:12:28):
then I realized it wouldn't be any good. What could
you have to say to somebody like me? So I
just came and watched you. At the beginning, you didn't
know I was there, and just seeing an old fellow
trudging up the road from the house boats, you didn't
take any notice. But I was always thinking about you,

(01:12:51):
and I bought you The Morning Glory Seeds because I
knew you loved flowers. And then I saw you feed
the birds, so I got you that book. And then
I don't know what.

Speaker 25 (01:13:07):
Came over me.

Speaker 9 (01:13:08):
One evening, when you.

Speaker 39 (01:13:10):
Were down in the orchard looking for your cat, I
went into your house and I saw all your other books.
But that morning, when you called out to me, I
knew i'd frightened you, and I was sorry. So when
I found that name in the bookshop, Browning, I thought

(01:13:31):
maybe that would cheer you up. I'm writing this letter
for two reasons. One is I didn't mean to frighten you,
and I'm sorry.

Speaker 17 (01:13:43):
The second is.

Speaker 39 (01:13:45):
Maybe your laugh because old men aren't supposed to fall
in love. But I did, Miss Ann.

Speaker 9 (01:13:54):
When I knew I loved you.

Speaker 39 (01:13:56):
I knew it was all over. I did everything wrong.
Please forgive me. You won't ever see or hear from
me again. Yours respectfully, Sergeant, Why did miss Anne kill herself?

Speaker 41 (01:14:44):
That was Celia Johnson as Anne, with Helen Lindsay as
Virginia in Morning Glory by Charlotte and Dennis Plumber. Other
parts were played by Timothy Bedson and Walter Hall. Technical
presentation was by Keith Perry. Appointment with Fianna is produced
and directed by Derek hoddenaut.

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Speaker 42 (01:16:20):
It's lovely here, Gran, just as you described it. Look
at that view.

Speaker 43 (01:16:25):
Yes, I love coming back this time of year. The
mountains are beautiful, aren't they. I'm so glad you were
able to come with me.

Speaker 42 (01:16:34):
Yes, it's nice to see where you're from. Has it changed.

Speaker 23 (01:16:38):
Much, Ah, it hasn't.

Speaker 43 (01:16:39):
This hasn't much more traffic above people moving out from Dublin,
I suppose. But the old part of the village is
to say, just how I remember it, The old hotel
there across the square, the old church, the small graveyard
with the stone wall around it, and the wee bits
of woodland down to the river.

Speaker 23 (01:17:01):
This is my village.

Speaker 42 (01:17:02):
Why did you leave?

Speaker 28 (01:17:03):
Grant?

Speaker 23 (01:17:04):
I shall have the country left. There was no work.
The heart went out of this place.

Speaker 43 (01:17:09):
When my mother died and I only twenty one.

Speaker 23 (01:17:14):
My poor dad couldn't cope with just me and Chavonne
left in the cottage.

Speaker 42 (01:17:17):
She still know some people around here.

Speaker 43 (01:17:20):
Few enough. They'd remember Chavonne more than me. Why because
she never left pity It's all she ever talked about, leaving,
seeing the world. She had so many plans. Every evening
I would walk from work down the main street night

(01:17:40):
see her sitting on this church wall, just like you
are now, sitting with Sean, planning her big future.

Speaker 23 (01:17:54):
Don't footge Chevan.

Speaker 28 (01:17:56):
Look, don't do that?

Speaker 44 (01:17:58):
Huh, shouldn't go creep not to the grave word like that.

Speaker 4 (01:18:01):
You're late.

Speaker 45 (01:18:02):
I was testing you, seeing how long.

Speaker 44 (01:18:03):
You'd wait for me forty minutes I'm sitting here. Why
are you so crude? You're often cruel to me.

Speaker 45 (01:18:10):
It was only teasing Sean. I got held up at
the hotel. A bunch of salesmen landed in and I
had to stay them and served them dinner.

Speaker 46 (01:18:17):
But once from England, can't believe all the food in Ireland,
were them still rationed even though the war is over
this past year, there's great work to be had rebuilt
in London.

Speaker 44 (01:18:26):
They say, Oh, do you want to be going over
there for Well, you've got a grand job here in
the hotel.

Speaker 45 (01:18:32):
Hardly making beds and serving tables.

Speaker 46 (01:18:36):
Well you've got me a farm laborer without two pennies
threw up together. We're in the backside out of his pants,
sitting on this wall every day waiting for me.

Speaker 44 (01:18:45):
I might be poor, Shivaba. You'll travel the world and
never find anyone else to love you like I do.

Speaker 45 (01:18:51):
Ash Sean, will you go down by the river.

Speaker 44 (01:18:55):
Having the time, and you're after keeping me late? I
have to get back for.

Speaker 47 (01:18:59):
The meal, the milking, the haymaking, the potato picking.

Speaker 46 (01:19:04):
We should take ourselves away from this place, I'm telling you, Sean.

Speaker 47 (01:19:07):
Somewhere with a bit of gez. One of those English
salesman was telling me about London.

Speaker 42 (01:19:12):
We could go get jobs, proper jobs.

Speaker 28 (01:19:16):
You know.

Speaker 48 (01:19:16):
Well, I can't leave me mother. She needs looking after.
I mean, I'm all she has. Why don't we settle
down here? Huh? You could move into our house? I
mean my mother would love.

Speaker 46 (01:19:28):
That and play second fiddle to another woman in my
own kitchen.

Speaker 44 (01:19:32):
It wouldn't be like that.

Speaker 45 (01:19:33):
Yes it would. You'd have me an old woman before
my time. I've seen nothing of the world. I've never
even been to Dublin. I want more than that, Sean.

Speaker 44 (01:19:42):
Don't I know it? Don't I know it? Look listen,
I better head. Will you meet me tomorrow?

Speaker 45 (01:19:49):
I might or I mightn't.

Speaker 28 (01:19:52):
Well, I'll be waiting here.

Speaker 45 (01:19:54):
Will you take me to Dublin? Sometimes? If I had
the money, you know I would.

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
Well, I see you to tomorrow.

Speaker 45 (01:20:00):
You'll have to wait and see. You always say that,
And have I left you waiting?

Speaker 49 (01:20:04):
Yet?

Speaker 45 (01:20:05):
There's Sarah Sarah away from me.

Speaker 42 (01:20:10):
Mum says you never talked about your sister much.

Speaker 43 (01:20:13):
Yes, well, must be the Irish in me Bury in
the past. It all caused quite a scandal. It's strange
being back here, especially with you me. You remind me
of her. Oh but she would have loved to hear
of all your travels, your time in America. What happened
to Cheburne gran You see that hotel that's where she worked,

(01:20:38):
where she met him? Who the salesman? He was from England?
I don't aware of what he sold as he traveled
around fancy car, hair slipped back.

Speaker 23 (01:20:50):
She was so young, easily led.

Speaker 50 (01:21:01):
So this is where you got to You know, it's
not as enjoyable eating your breakfast without a pretty girl
waiting on you.

Speaker 45 (01:21:07):
I needed some fresh air, mister.

Speaker 50 (01:21:09):
You know you want to be up in the mountains
for fresh air. Why don't you come with me for
a drive.

Speaker 45 (01:21:13):
No, I have to meet someone later. He boy, that's
my business.

Speaker 50 (01:21:18):
Well I hope he knows how lucky he is. I
hope he brings you nice places in his car and
buys you lunches in hotels and spoils.

Speaker 11 (01:21:25):
You're like a princess.

Speaker 50 (01:21:27):
So what does this lad of yours do?

Speaker 9 (01:21:28):
Then?

Speaker 45 (01:21:29):
Well he's on the farm. But someday soon we're going
to leave here and get jobs in England.

Speaker 50 (01:21:32):
Well you should let me bring you for a short
spin up on the hills. Put color in your cheeks.
I'm harmless, I promise, No, I can't. That's a pretty
We could have gone on to Dublin for some lunch.

Speaker 9 (01:21:43):
Dublin just a spin. Come on, is v here?

Speaker 4 (01:21:53):
Sean?

Speaker 30 (01:21:54):
You're through?

Speaker 26 (01:21:55):
Come in?

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
I stay outside, thank you.

Speaker 44 (01:21:59):
I'm so so I can.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
Get no where she's not here.

Speaker 30 (01:22:02):
I thought she was with you.

Speaker 51 (01:22:04):
Two hours.

Speaker 52 (01:22:05):
I waited sitting on that wall with that with the
whole village sniggering at me.

Speaker 3 (01:22:10):
Eh, and not one.

Speaker 33 (01:22:12):
Of them tell me about your sister.

Speaker 30 (01:22:14):
Telling you what what is she done?

Speaker 52 (01:22:17):
She trapped up in the car with some englishman. Missus
Boyle said she was laughing and joking with him in
the car.

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
Said it all looked very cozy.

Speaker 3 (01:22:27):
Ah, everyone knew accept me.

Speaker 2 (01:22:30):
I wasn't good enough for her.

Speaker 53 (01:22:31):
I'm sure it's just some misunderstanding, just idle gossip.

Speaker 54 (01:22:36):
I know she cares so much for you, Sean R.

Speaker 52 (01:22:40):
She could be on the boat England, in some cheap
lodging house for all I know. She has ruined everything,
broke my heart, broke my heart, and for that I'll
never forgive it.

Speaker 10 (01:22:52):
Sean.

Speaker 54 (01:22:53):
I'm sure Chavonne wouldn't hurt you.

Speaker 30 (01:22:55):
She'd never go off with some stranger.

Speaker 52 (01:22:58):
Come in and wait for no tell her to keep
away from me, and you would do wise to fetch
your father.

Speaker 20 (01:23:05):
He drunk again. No good life, Sean, I.

Speaker 30 (01:23:11):
Wait, Shean?

Speaker 42 (01:23:15):
Was she with the salesman all that time?

Speaker 43 (01:23:18):
She was walking home alone in the rain from the
dark of the Devil's Glen, and she never said a word.
When she finally came through the door. I asked her
nothing until she was ready to talk, because she had
the mother of all calls, three days in bed with it,
begging me to go and see Sean for her, because

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the news was that he was bad with pneumonia from
the drenching he'd got.

Speaker 30 (01:23:49):
Did you see him?

Speaker 42 (01:23:50):
Did you explain?

Speaker 45 (01:23:51):
Oh, Chevon, tell me, did you talk to him?

Speaker 28 (01:23:55):
What is it?

Speaker 34 (01:23:56):
Sarah?

Speaker 19 (01:23:56):
Tell me?

Speaker 30 (01:24:00):
Wouldn't let me be in the priest? Was there family?

Speaker 14 (01:24:04):
Only?

Speaker 28 (01:24:04):
They said.

Speaker 45 (01:24:06):
He had breathing complications, he had no strength. No, please,
not Sean. I'm so sorry. I not he was waiting
for me. Don't even think that, Chavonne.

Speaker 55 (01:24:19):
She should never have waited so long in the room.

Speaker 30 (01:24:22):
Don't you see he loved me.

Speaker 46 (01:24:25):
He'd have waited for every If I told him to,
I killed him.

Speaker 23 (01:24:33):
That is his grave.

Speaker 42 (01:24:34):
So sad. He was the same age as me.

Speaker 43 (01:24:39):
It was a terrible thing. Naturally, Chavonne was inconsolable. At first,
she cried uncontrollably. Then she went silent, like she was scared,
like someone else I couldn't see was in the room.
And soon I couldn't keep her indoors because she was
out night and noon sitting by the grave. No one

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could reason with her.

Speaker 47 (01:25:07):
Chavone, come home, you'll catch your death sitting here it's freezing.
You mean death will catch me and punish me for
what I did.

Speaker 42 (01:25:15):
You did nothing.

Speaker 45 (01:25:16):
He didn't die of pneumonia.

Speaker 47 (01:25:18):
He died because he saw who I was and lost
the will to live.

Speaker 23 (01:25:22):
The doctor couldn't save him.

Speaker 47 (01:25:24):
While he was waiting, I had let that salesman talk
his way into kissing me in his parked car, and
I managed to fight off that man's hands and escape,
with him laughing at me.

Speaker 28 (01:25:34):
Like a child.

Speaker 45 (01:25:35):
It took hours to walk back, thinking.

Speaker 55 (01:25:38):
Of Sean waiting.

Speaker 42 (01:25:41):
Think of yourself now. He wouldn't want you to catch
your death.

Speaker 45 (01:25:45):
He wouldn't want me at all, of course he would.

Speaker 47 (01:25:48):
If he wants me, he'll come.

Speaker 45 (01:25:50):
A little thing like death wouldn't stand in his way.

Speaker 20 (01:25:52):
Chevon.

Speaker 42 (01:25:54):
Sean is gone. He wouldn't go without me.

Speaker 47 (01:25:59):
His ghost is watching somewhere by the church wall, testing
my love and patience to see if I'm willing to
wait for him like he waited.

Speaker 28 (01:26:07):
Weeks now I've been waiting.

Speaker 45 (01:26:09):
Why won't he show himself?

Speaker 4 (01:26:11):
Right?

Speaker 55 (01:26:12):
That's it?

Speaker 45 (01:26:13):
You're coming home now, let go me. You're my sister,
and I'll not see you do this to yourself anymore.

Speaker 43 (01:26:24):
I sat by Chavon's bed all that night and watched
her sleep. I barely heard the knock when a neighbor
called to say, my father was rowdy in the pub,
and if I didn't lure him home, the civic guards
had been called to put him in the cells. Chauvonne
was sleeping so quiet. I WI sure it was all
right to slip out, just for a few moments, to

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condole my father into taking my hand and coming home
like a decent man.

Speaker 42 (01:26:52):
And when you came back, chauven was gone.

Speaker 56 (01:26:55):
Yes.

Speaker 43 (01:26:57):
I ran through the dark, calling what part of me
knew I'd not catch her. She'd climbed this wall, passed
through the headstones, and ran to the river. They found
her body a mile downstream, death by misadventure. That world

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has a dozen meanings. Over the years, many have claimed
to have seen her ghost by the river, Some passer
by spotting a young woman walking out from those trees,
staring ahead as if looking into some one's face, with
no sign of fear, until she falls in and disappears.

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Others see nothing but passing at night, they hear a
splash of water.

Speaker 42 (01:27:47):
Where's her grave?

Speaker 43 (01:27:50):
It's beyond that far graveyard wall. The priest wouldn't let
her be buried on consecrated ground, nor let me put
up a stone for her, so I marked her grave
with a mossy rock pulled from the river, one of
the stepping stones that she always loved. Strangers sometimes see

(01:28:10):
a girl skipping across the stones and think nothing of
it until she stops in seeming mid air where that
rock used to be, and stares back at them until
she disappears.

Speaker 42 (01:28:23):
Have you ever seen her?

Speaker 43 (01:28:25):
Grand I've felt her, and feel her still. After Daddy died,
I left home. I've seen the world, America, Australia, places
she used to pin up magazine pictures of. I've come
back here year after year and told of what they
were like. But I'm too old to travel now. That's

(01:28:47):
why I'm telling you. When I'm governed, Gran, you've years
to live. Yet when I'm gone, maybe every few years
you'll come back. Tell away you've been, tell her about
the world outside. I know you'll feel foolish sitting on

(01:29:08):
this wall talking, but she'll be listening, and hopefully I'll
be alongside her. Listening to.

Speaker 1 (01:29:39):
This is Basil raft On inviting you to join me
beyond the Green Door. Today we shall meet no lesser
person than Jack the Ripper, the most famous murderer of
all time, whose place of residence is somewhere beyond the
Green Door. Nearly everyone has heard of Jack the Ripper,

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that elusive murderer who wanted the slums of Whitechapel. In
the year eighteen eighty eight, the worst of London was
in a state of terror. The police, even with numerous reinforcements,
were unable to catch that gruesome madman or to prevent
him from claiming new victims.

Speaker 9 (01:30:18):
Some thought there was something supernatural.

Speaker 1 (01:30:20):
About the Ripper, but the truth was discovered by a
London private investigator named Anthony Blake. Like many others, Blake
had his own theory about the Ripper. He studied the
times and places of the previous murders, and he calculated
the phase of the moon for each date, as well
as the positions of certain constellations. He also needed to

(01:30:44):
know the exact hour of sunrise and sunset for each
night of murder, and a great deal of other odd information.
When you put it all together, a definite pattern was evident.
Blake was sure he had penetrated the madman's mind. If
his theory was correct, he could predict the date and
location of the ripper's next murder. When the popa Knight arrived,

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Blake put a loaded pistol in his pocket and set
off to White Chapel. He moved down the gloomy, deserted
streets to the location he had chosen.

Speaker 4 (01:31:19):
He hid in the dark.

Speaker 9 (01:31:21):
Recess of a doorway.

Speaker 1 (01:31:23):
The hours of night dast and Blake's hopes began to fade,
But at last, just when he was ready to give up,
he saw a man moving down the street like a shadow.
The man was dressed a tiny and black or a
black top hat, and carried a.

Speaker 9 (01:31:39):
Small back satchel.

Speaker 1 (01:31:41):
Blake followed him down the street and through a narrow
alley which ended in a store. Then Blake stopped for
the man seemed to have disappeared, and Blake had the
terrible feeling that the ripper had somehow crept behind him,
ready to spring. But when Blake looked up he saw
the man again. There was one was taking that sinister,
top headed figure, now climbing swiftly up the side of

(01:32:04):
the house towards a lighted window. Who was taking the
long curved knife in the ripper's hand, or what he
intended to do with that knife. Blake's moment had come
into his pistol and took careful aid. His finger tightened
on the trigger, and suddenly his hand was pushed aside,
and a man whispered, wait, get away, that's check the ripper.

(01:32:26):
Blake said angrily, I know been following him for months.
The man said, all right. Blake said, we'll share the reward.
He started to raise the pistol again, but he dropped
it when he felt the cold, sharp edge of a
knife glide across his throat. I've been following him, the

(01:32:47):
man whispered, in a thin, mad voice, And I've been
making sure nobody interferes with my brother.

Speaker 9 (01:32:55):
Jack's a bit of fun.

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(01:34:03):
New York. The principles in our cast will be Professor Hendry,
eminent psychical research director Norman Darryl, his aide, Senora Zarelli,
is a medium, and the remainder of our cast will
be Bold, whom Seora de Zarelli brings before us in
spirit form. The weirdest and most spectaculous seance ever held,

(01:34:32):
would deep down in the Catacombs of Roles, amid the
dust and bringing stars of six million early Christians who
were buried in those miles of twissing subterranean labyrinths. The
procuous passages of the catacombs are carved out of solid
rocks one above another's. Who are depths of more than
eighty feet below the surface, many of them fairly wide
enough for a person to flee through the worlds are

(01:34:54):
mine with equipt in which millions of bodies have been.

Speaker 15 (01:34:57):
Up in twos the service ters of the catacomb. This
is our first season.

Speaker 57 (01:35:01):
Professor Henry and his assistant our waiting the arrival Senoras Aurelli,
the medium for whom the Professor intends could conduct his
series of experiments.

Speaker 29 (01:35:19):
You don't suppose there's any chance that the medium will
disappoint as professor.

Speaker 15 (01:35:22):
They see no reason why she should Norman. She gave
me her word. Did I understand you to say that
she was afraid of ghosts? Motterly come of that seems funny?
These seems so to you, my dear boy. But I
can assure you that it was far from funny for
me trying to persuade her to meet us here and
conduct the experiment.

Speaker 12 (01:35:37):
With Just why did you choose the catacombs of Rome
when you've been so successful in your laboratory in London.

Speaker 15 (01:35:42):
As I have said, we have evidence to substantial for her,
commonly known as pontings, that is phenomena appear in some
places and not in others. Yes, so I've heard. Also
there is good evidence of the effects of material things
upon clairvoyant. Here is a police quonted by six million dead. Declare,
why interfect to their boons and graves is potentially to

(01:36:04):
ride it? Yes, sir, I can understand that.

Speaker 35 (01:36:06):
I beg your pardon. Whether Senior is waiting for me?

Speaker 15 (01:36:08):
Oh, if it's for me, yes, yes, of course. Indeed,
Senora the Lily, my assistant, mister Darrel.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
How do you do?

Speaker 56 (01:36:16):
How do you do?

Speaker 15 (01:36:17):
We shall proceed at once that the catacombs below. But
you are selecting this linty, certainly, why not for these sections?

Speaker 35 (01:36:25):
Take it to Saint Agnes the mad Romans britty.

Speaker 15 (01:36:27):
They choose this section particularly.

Speaker 35 (01:36:30):
Oh, sear me, Senor, I cannot to enter here.

Speaker 9 (01:36:33):
Come, come, make good woman.

Speaker 15 (01:36:34):
One section is the same as another, except for the
fact today I'm most interested in what our faintings need
be in the ground of the diagnance.

Speaker 35 (01:36:41):
Oh, Senior, Please I beg of you to allow me
to go home.

Speaker 15 (01:36:45):
This is no time to change your name. Remember your
agreement the many.

Speaker 35 (01:36:49):
It is always the necessity of money.

Speaker 9 (01:36:52):
I will go anywhere.

Speaker 15 (01:36:54):
Norman lay the tapers, and we will go below. Very well,
give me your people. I will go first, The senora
will come next, and you will follow behind. Are you act?
Watch your steps carefully? The stairways badly crumbled in the spot.

Speaker 35 (01:37:10):
Will you not release me from our agreements?

Speaker 15 (01:37:12):
Certainly not follow me?

Speaker 56 (01:37:15):
It's a.

Speaker 37 (01:37:20):
What war there?

Speaker 15 (01:37:31):
Here is nothing, nothing at all that's the best effective
by the light of our tayos and the start to both.
To keep your compulsion. I'm sorry, careful area at the bottom.
This is the last step. We'll have seeze through here there.

Speaker 56 (01:37:48):
Is narrow entrooms from sea.

Speaker 11 (01:37:52):
I'm true.

Speaker 15 (01:37:53):
Follow me?

Speaker 56 (01:37:55):
What else your yep? Oh my head?

Speaker 15 (01:37:59):
Yeah we are Oh look look everywhere? Go who last
red things? Based of six an early Christian?

Speaker 37 (01:38:12):
Do you do you feel all right?

Speaker 15 (01:38:14):
Professors?

Speaker 35 (01:38:19):
I see the meaning.

Speaker 9 (01:38:21):
He's doing the club and this book.

Speaker 15 (01:38:25):
Yes, take down every syllable.

Speaker 35 (01:38:29):
I see a tall, beautiful girl. Their hair thin are grown.

Speaker 56 (01:38:37):
Here's about nineteen years old. Here is this in a
long white robe.

Speaker 58 (01:38:44):
Her hair is drawn together by a stand of twisted wolves.

Speaker 35 (01:38:49):
It is it is Saint Agnes Rement.

Speaker 37 (01:38:53):
Yes, yes, do you do you really eat all that?

Speaker 56 (01:38:57):
You have no evidence, but.

Speaker 58 (01:39:02):
I get a picture of a large crowd of people.

Speaker 56 (01:39:05):
They are angry.

Speaker 58 (01:39:07):
They are rushing through one of the narrow streets that
Skirtoforum Romanums. They are running toward the river. There is
a small wooden bridge. The crowd approaches this bridge. Suddenly
Saint Agnes appears. He stands at the entrance of the bridge.

Speaker 56 (01:39:28):
He talked to the angry mob, why do.

Speaker 15 (01:39:35):
You have him such cases an anger?

Speaker 9 (01:39:39):
Calm yourself, I'd.

Speaker 59 (01:39:40):
Said of you.

Speaker 34 (01:39:42):
You know not what you do when same by the fires.

Speaker 7 (01:39:45):
I'm write your anger.

Speaker 60 (01:39:47):
Return to the feet of your homes and occupations.

Speaker 56 (01:39:51):
I get the hatred that you've taken into your heart.
Lift your eyes and your heart to the Lord, and.

Speaker 60 (01:40:01):
Begs forgiveness for your wrong.

Speaker 35 (01:40:05):
Some change power, this girl processes.

Speaker 56 (01:40:09):
I see the angry made kneeling in prayer.

Speaker 58 (01:40:13):
He is seizing the opportunity to make converts.

Speaker 15 (01:40:18):
The vision says, wonderful, isn't it affected the power of clairvoyance?
This woman remember the evil. He has no proof of
what she has. Diad is a sing.

Speaker 56 (01:40:26):
You a doubt the truth of my visions.

Speaker 9 (01:40:28):
A dear woman.

Speaker 15 (01:40:29):
I told you when I engaged you that this was
being done as an experiment. I do not doubt you
it is well, not a doubt too much.

Speaker 11 (01:40:37):
You have requires boy.

Speaker 56 (01:40:41):
I see the picture of the Appian ways.

Speaker 35 (01:40:44):
There is a group of people.

Speaker 58 (01:40:46):
Headed by Saint Agnes, walking in single file across the
field near the.

Speaker 56 (01:40:53):
Church of Colvadies. It is nice. Saint Agnes is carrying
a lighted hand wall.

Speaker 58 (01:41:02):
A little distance from a stone wall which separates the
field from the road. Near the junction of the audio
Team roadways. The profession is stop. I see two men
at the rear. We seem to be carrying a lead castle.
They bring the casket ballward. He places at the feet

(01:41:26):
of Saint Agnes. The box is open. Saint Agnes reads
from a scroll a list of the things to be
placed in it.

Speaker 60 (01:41:39):
Placed within the paste, these two parchment rolls on Brown's surpass.
Now these bronze sets, He's statuette, the gold chain and medallions,
and the book which the gold binding.

Speaker 18 (01:42:01):
That is all.

Speaker 35 (01:42:03):
Now recase the cover and see it.

Speaker 58 (01:42:06):
I see a vision of a man pasts in all
steps from where the cask is list. He walks four
paces to the large stones, returns and walk six paces
through the roadway. He comes back to the casks and

(01:42:26):
Saint Agnes roorders two men who did a hole the
visions page.

Speaker 15 (01:42:34):
Did you get it all down there?

Speaker 9 (01:42:35):
Own?

Speaker 15 (01:42:35):
I did say the number of pieces didn't make a man's.

Speaker 9 (01:42:37):
Yes, four paces of the large stone, six paces to
the road.

Speaker 15 (01:42:41):
There the epping still runs as it did one hundreds
of years ago when first the road was built, and
doubt it ate a large stone referred two still remains.
If so, we have a discovery far greater than any
antiquarian and religious interest. You mean, of course, if we
get it the spot indicated and find discuss it, it
will pull the because this medium couldn't possibly have known

(01:43:02):
about it by any normal means.

Speaker 58 (01:43:04):
I trust the Signior will find coops of my past
and powers.

Speaker 15 (01:43:07):
I go to before Senora. It is not a measure
of doubting your powers, but I must have escapished text
upon myself and those who may represent I see no,
as long as we're like yeah, I would like to
make one more experiment.

Speaker 9 (01:43:20):
It is the vade.

Speaker 15 (01:43:22):
The Senora is so inclined.

Speaker 56 (01:43:24):
I will see if the powers are working. M hmm,
I see confusions.

Speaker 58 (01:43:33):
A group of soldiers are escorting Saint Agnes to the
gates of Saint Sebastian they are followed by a cooting
mob of people.

Speaker 61 (01:43:56):
Violence one has done. You have been found. You'll be
of worshiping the Christian.

Speaker 57 (01:44:04):
God, of influencing others, and not lawful Christian pratts.

Speaker 9 (01:44:08):
The law of.

Speaker 61 (01:44:09):
Rome is things. The Emperor has decreed that you'll be
given the opportunity to renounce for Christianity. He's from a
loyal Romans, and enjoy the fruits that are Romans.

Speaker 15 (01:44:21):
For failing this, it has been decreed that you are
to be banished from the city.

Speaker 11 (01:44:26):
What for you?

Speaker 58 (01:44:28):
What does he profit a man that he gained.

Speaker 35 (01:44:31):
The whole world and loseth his soul.

Speaker 9 (01:44:33):
Oh, but exchange can a man do for his soul?

Speaker 58 (01:44:37):
For the Son of God will come in the glory
of his Father and render every man according to his work.

Speaker 56 (01:44:43):
Then get to him. Go against twitter to the life.

Speaker 10 (01:44:48):
And you have.

Speaker 15 (01:44:52):
Ve o guess.

Speaker 58 (01:45:03):
Saints, Miss Pink's licensed to the ground, fatally stabbed by
one of the enraged Stosis divisions say.

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Speaker 13 (01:48:18):
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Well, this is great rain, rain rain. I bet even
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Oh no, but not me. I have to write fiction,

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Speaker 9 (01:49:47):
I am mister Holiday copy copy boy?

Speaker 28 (01:49:50):
You Dan?

Speaker 11 (01:49:51):
What do you say?

Speaker 17 (01:49:51):
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Speaker 18 (01:49:52):
I didn't want it?

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Holiday a pretty good How are you?

Speaker 26 (01:49:59):
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Speaker 9 (01:50:01):
Hello?

Speaker 4 (01:50:02):
Susie? Anything in Box thirteen?

Speaker 62 (01:50:10):
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Speaker 4 (01:50:37):
I am standing here in front of the one end
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Speaker 26 (01:50:50):
I said, there's a message in box thirteen for you here.

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Speaker 26 (01:50:55):
It, Okay, aren't you going to open it?

Speaker 4 (01:50:59):
Sorry, I'm not here, Susie.

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You know you got all of us down here at
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You do a lot better with adventure if you ran
your picture with.

Speaker 4 (01:51:26):
The ad and ah, thanks, Just keep on running it
the way it is.

Speaker 26 (01:51:31):
But gee, aren't you ever going to tell us what
you do for a living? Why you keep running that ad?

Speaker 4 (01:51:37):
Susie, Same old question, same old answer. No, Well, if
I'm not doing anything else, at least I've got the
people at the Star Times curious. They think my brain sells.
We're ten feet off first base. If they knew why

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I really run that ad M maybe they are. HM.
You can help a person out of great trouble and
gain an adventure for yourself if you call Chester eight
nine four five and ask for Carla Williams, Chester eight

(01:52:20):
nine or five. Carla Williams mm sounds like an interesting name.
Well it helps you're home.

Speaker 28 (01:52:42):
Hello.

Speaker 4 (01:52:43):
Oh uh, this is the man from box thirteen.

Speaker 28 (01:52:46):
Oh tell me? Are you serious? It was that ad?
Just a joke?

Speaker 4 (01:52:51):
No joke?

Speaker 9 (01:52:52):
Ms Williams.

Speaker 28 (01:52:52):
Are you willing to try anything?

Speaker 9 (01:52:54):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:52:55):
Uh, that depends what's on your mind.

Speaker 28 (01:52:57):
I can't discuss it over the phone. Will you meet me?

Speaker 4 (01:53:00):
Of course?

Speaker 28 (01:53:01):
There's a little French restaurant down on led Street. Meet
me there in the cocktail line.

Speaker 4 (01:53:06):
Oh, what time?

Speaker 28 (01:53:07):
Make it ten o'clock to night? Tellabarton, do you want
to speak to Carlo Williams.

Speaker 4 (01:53:11):
French restaurant on a ledge ten o'clock. Oh, my block number.

Speaker 28 (01:53:15):
The six hundred block. You won't fail me, you'll be there, lady.

Speaker 4 (01:53:20):
Where a winter? I come with bells on. This sounds
like the beginning of a very interesting story. Beautiful woman
in distress calls on struggling writer for help. Only she
doesn't know I'm a writer and I don't know she's beautiful.

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What's yours mess? Oh, I'm I'm looking for a Carlo Williams.

Speaker 63 (01:54:00):
Yeah, she's sitting over there in that front of booth.

Speaker 4 (01:54:03):
Thanks, uh, Carla Williams. Yes, Oh, Carlo Williams could be
material for a love story or an adventure story, or
maybe both?

Speaker 31 (01:54:21):
And do you have a name?

Speaker 4 (01:54:24):
Oh? Yes, Dan Holliday.

Speaker 28 (01:54:27):
I sit down.

Speaker 13 (01:54:29):
Oh thanks, I'm agreeably surprised. I didn't think a person
would get such a satisfactory reply from a waterhead, and.

Speaker 4 (01:54:38):
I didn't think i'd get such a nice replier.

Speaker 13 (01:54:42):
You're wondering about me, aren't you. You're wondering why you're
here naturally climbing blackmail.

Speaker 4 (01:54:51):
That's a very nasty business.

Speaker 31 (01:54:52):
I've been paying black meil for five years. But tonight's
the end.

Speaker 64 (01:54:55):
I'm to medium in fifteen minutes and make the final
payment and get the letters.

Speaker 4 (01:55:00):
Well that sounds like the end of your troubles, but
is it?

Speaker 17 (01:55:02):
I can't be sure. That's why I need your help.

Speaker 4 (01:55:04):
But what can I do?

Speaker 64 (01:55:06):
You can be there as a witness. You can make
sure this is the end. You can see that I
get the letters and get away safely.

Speaker 4 (01:55:13):
Uh, lady, you need the police?

Speaker 64 (01:55:16):
Why to make sure everything I've kept hidden for five
years comes out in the open.

Speaker 4 (01:55:21):
Maybe a friend could do it.

Speaker 31 (01:55:22):
My friends would be the last ones on earth.

Speaker 28 (01:55:24):
I'd want to know.

Speaker 9 (01:55:27):
Are you afraid? No?

Speaker 30 (01:55:31):
You advertised for.

Speaker 4 (01:55:32):
Adventure blackmail isn't my idea of adventure.

Speaker 31 (01:55:37):
I'm sorry if my trouble doesn't measure up to your expectations.
The best I could do on such short notice.

Speaker 4 (01:55:42):
Oh huh, well, I guess I had that coming.

Speaker 31 (01:55:46):
Maybe this isn't your idea of adventure.

Speaker 10 (01:55:48):
But I do need help.

Speaker 28 (01:55:48):
I need help badly.

Speaker 4 (01:55:51):
Let's leave it at head now. That might appeal to
my early boy Scott training.

Speaker 28 (01:55:55):
Then you will.

Speaker 4 (01:55:56):
I always help ladies across blackmail wraps. What happens if
your friend makes trouble.

Speaker 28 (01:56:02):
We can't make any trouble.

Speaker 4 (01:56:04):
He seems to have done all right for the past
five years.

Speaker 31 (01:56:06):
There won't be any trouble if you're alone here, Reach
under the table.

Speaker 65 (01:56:12):
Take this.

Speaker 4 (01:56:13):
Oh, I'll wait a minute. It's a gun.

Speaker 23 (01:56:17):
Put it in your pocket.

Speaker 31 (01:56:17):
Don't let anyone see it.

Speaker 4 (01:56:19):
This is supposed to make everything all right.

Speaker 10 (01:56:21):
Well, you won't need it, Believe me.

Speaker 28 (01:56:23):
I thought it would make you feel better.

Speaker 4 (01:56:25):
It makes me feel like a policeman. And I still
think a policeman is what you want.

Speaker 31 (01:56:31):
But you promised, I said, maybe I have to meet
him in fifteen minutes.

Speaker 30 (01:56:37):
Please help me.

Speaker 4 (01:56:40):
Where do we go? His apartment far from here?

Speaker 31 (01:56:44):
We can make it if we leave now, what do
you say?

Speaker 4 (01:56:48):
Maybe I should never have been a boy scout. I
watched Carl Williams closely as we ride over to the
apartment where she used to meet this man she's been
talking about. She's perfectly groomed, with a certain niceness about her,
except for those twin furrows, a worry between her eyes,

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and a cold look of anxiety. I don't think I
would like to have her angry at me, though.

Speaker 31 (01:57:30):
That's funny.

Speaker 28 (01:57:31):
You should have been here twenty minutes ago.

Speaker 4 (01:57:36):
Huh uh? Why don't you try the door?

Speaker 28 (01:57:40):
It was unlocked.

Speaker 4 (01:57:42):
Might as well wait inside unless you have any objections.

Speaker 18 (01:57:46):
Not at all.

Speaker 31 (01:57:47):
There's a light switch on your right. The living room
is straight ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:57:52):
Say you sound like you're familiar with the place.

Speaker 31 (01:57:54):
Why not, I've been here many times before.

Speaker 4 (01:57:58):
There's a light on him there. Suppose he might have fallen.

Speaker 16 (01:58:01):
Asleep waiting for his money hardly?

Speaker 4 (01:58:05):
Well, this is more I like it. This spot is
nicely furnished with my money.

Speaker 64 (01:58:11):
At least we can sit down and make us it
make us.

Speaker 4 (01:58:15):
Oh no, that's Williams. What's the matter? What happened the
floor by the desk?

Speaker 25 (01:58:20):
Look?

Speaker 4 (01:58:21):
You stay here?

Speaker 28 (01:58:26):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:58:27):
Well, he'd better call the police. He's dead dead, Yeah,
he's been shot once through the heart.

Speaker 23 (01:58:36):
I'm glad.

Speaker 4 (01:58:37):
I'm he's the one, the man who was blackmailing he is.

Speaker 64 (01:58:41):
Would you could you go through his pockets? He must
have some of those letters with him. Look at his
coat pocket.

Speaker 4 (01:58:46):
Just a mina, Miss Williams. You don't understand. This man
has been murdered. We've got to call the police. Murdered.

Speaker 18 (01:58:51):
What makes you so sure there's.

Speaker 4 (01:58:52):
No gun around any place?

Speaker 31 (01:58:54):
Just the same before the police come.

Speaker 10 (01:58:55):
His pockets.

Speaker 28 (01:58:56):
Please, I've got to have those letters.

Speaker 4 (01:58:58):
Okay, but it isn't right at least what you wanted.

Speaker 17 (01:59:06):
Let me see.

Speaker 31 (01:59:08):
Yeah, yeah, they're all here.

Speaker 4 (01:59:12):
Now, where's a telephone. We've got to get the police
up here and fast.

Speaker 31 (01:59:15):
There is no phone.

Speaker 4 (01:59:17):
No, how do you know without looking?

Speaker 31 (01:59:19):
Listen, I told you I've been here before.

Speaker 4 (01:59:21):
Oh yes, I forgot. We'll go downstairs as a paphone
in the lobby. Tell the police come up here right
away and come back and wait for them.

Speaker 16 (01:59:28):
You're not planning to leave while I'm downstairs, are you?

Speaker 9 (01:59:30):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:59:31):
Here, here's a nickel. Just dial O and tell the
operator you want the police.

Speaker 31 (01:59:34):
Hurry, but you'll be here.

Speaker 4 (01:59:36):
Carl I said, I wanted adventures, so I put an
ad in a newspaper, and I certainly found what I wanted.
Only this isn't good. The man is lying dead on
the floor of this apartment, and Carla Williams and I
will have to get down to the police headquarters and

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answer a million questions, all of them embarrassing. I hope
she's made the calls. Say that's funny. Why would there
be a telephone director in a place where there's no phone?
Or maybe there is one, of course right here in

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the hallway. Well know why she said there was no
phone here. Maybe it's been disconnected.

Speaker 9 (02:00:26):
M a.

Speaker 26 (02:00:32):
Operator because he's the operator.

Speaker 4 (02:00:35):
Oh fine, I've written a dozen stories like this, and
whenever I've reached this point, the hear always finds that
he's been framed. Framed the gun and I'm gonna look
at that gun. I gotta find out if it's been fired.

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One shot has been fired. The police surgeon will probably
find a bullet from this gun in a dead man's body.
The police seems like little collar to care that may
I'm going to take care of something else. I'm leaving.

Speaker 62 (02:01:24):
You are listening to box thirteen, starring Allen Ladd as
Dan Holliday. Once Again, Box thirteen starring Allen Ladd as

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Dan Holliday.

Speaker 4 (02:01:52):
All right now, I'm wishing I were half as smart
as the heroes of some of my stories. I've got
a murder, strange woman, a strange apart. I'm in a
strange feeling that this might not work out to a
happy ending. But I needed a cab, a quick flip home,
a short drink and a long long think.

Speaker 18 (02:02:15):
Sure is a rough night to be out?

Speaker 4 (02:02:17):
Yeah, sure is.

Speaker 66 (02:02:19):
I've never seen such rain, not so good taps of shits,
it isn't I.

Speaker 4 (02:02:25):
Sounds like it.

Speaker 18 (02:02:27):
I wonder who they're after.

Speaker 4 (02:02:29):
I wouldn't have any idea.

Speaker 18 (02:02:31):
It could be a murderer, you know.

Speaker 4 (02:02:33):
Yeah, you just could be.

Speaker 18 (02:02:35):
Just a night for a murder.

Speaker 4 (02:02:38):
Perfect.

Speaker 18 (02:02:39):
I'll come.

Speaker 4 (02:02:40):
You got so wet it's raining, I know, but I'll come.
My umbrella needs recovering.

Speaker 18 (02:02:50):
Do you want to know? Many arms?

Speaker 66 (02:02:52):
That's right, that's your building up ahead, and it looks
like you've got lots of company. What do you mean,
man's proud cars, mister all over the place.

Speaker 4 (02:03:06):
Oh this is very nice. Carlo Williams called the police
and must have mentioned my name in passing and the
type of interesting young fella that any cop would like
to meet, especially with a murder weapon in my pocket. Tonight,
mister Holliday, I think you will sleep elsewhere.

Speaker 18 (02:03:32):
I mean to pull right in where all them cops are.

Speaker 4 (02:03:35):
No, they look busy, so maybe we'd better not bother them.
Just keep on driving.

Speaker 18 (02:03:40):
This is where you live in it.

Speaker 4 (02:03:42):
I don't feel like going home tonight.

Speaker 66 (02:03:44):
I could shove them cops aside, and oh this is
legitimate hack.

Speaker 4 (02:03:48):
That would be fun, But don't bother.

Speaker 18 (02:03:50):
Ye're the boss, mister Where two, there's a.

Speaker 4 (02:03:55):
Place down on Franklin Avenue sixteen twelve.

Speaker 18 (02:03:57):
I think I know that place. That's the cheapest hotel
in town.

Speaker 4 (02:04:02):
Yes, I believe it is.

Speaker 18 (02:04:04):
Hey, how do you know about a place like that?

Speaker 4 (02:04:07):
I got information there for a story, but.

Speaker 66 (02:04:09):
A joint like that? What are you going there tonight
for to sleep? You're writing another story?

Speaker 4 (02:04:17):
I'm a living one, living one. Yes, I left my
typewriter at home.

Speaker 65 (02:04:33):
Well, mister Holiday, to what do we owe.

Speaker 9 (02:04:36):
This great pleasure?

Speaker 4 (02:04:37):
Maybe you're just lucky more research.

Speaker 65 (02:04:40):
On the seamiest side of life.

Speaker 9 (02:04:42):
Well, not to night. I'm looking for a room.

Speaker 67 (02:04:46):
Might I remind you, mister Holiday, this ain't d roney pleasure.
Have you got a room, any particular exposure you might like?

Speaker 4 (02:04:54):
The less the better.

Speaker 11 (02:04:55):
I'm sure we can fix up.

Speaker 67 (02:04:57):
That is, if you're willing to pay in advance buck
buck and a half?

Speaker 65 (02:05:01):
How much twenty five dollars, mister Holiday.

Speaker 4 (02:05:05):
Twenty five dollars.

Speaker 65 (02:05:06):
And if you committed the murder, it'll be fifty dollars.

Speaker 4 (02:05:10):
Mister Holiday, Come on, talk straight.

Speaker 65 (02:05:12):
I don't want any trouble with the police.

Speaker 4 (02:05:14):
What makes you think I'll cause your trouble with the police.

Speaker 65 (02:05:16):
A little box called the radio police calls.

Speaker 9 (02:05:20):
There's a lot of.

Speaker 65 (02:05:20):
Fun to listen to, mister Holiday.

Speaker 4 (02:05:22):
Ah bet they are.

Speaker 65 (02:05:24):
You'll be comfortable here and safe.

Speaker 4 (02:05:28):
I'm beginning to wonder if I could afford it with
your money. Don't make me laugh. I wasn't trying to.
How's your phone?

Speaker 65 (02:05:36):
The one on the wall cours a nickel?

Speaker 4 (02:05:39):
Thanks?

Speaker 68 (02:05:40):
You're staying tonight, mister Holiday.

Speaker 4 (02:06:01):
Hello, you got back there in a hurry. You where
are you still in town? What about the police?

Speaker 9 (02:06:10):
They with you?

Speaker 28 (02:06:10):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (02:06:12):
Thanks for putting in a good word for me to.

Speaker 28 (02:06:15):
They made me look I want to talk to you.

Speaker 4 (02:06:17):
I know that feeling. I want to talk to you too.

Speaker 28 (02:06:20):
I can explain everything.

Speaker 4 (02:06:21):
Like a gun with one bullet fire. Yes, I'm missing telephone.
That wasn't that too? Then you're just a little girl
I want to have words with.

Speaker 28 (02:06:30):
Can you come over here right away?

Speaker 4 (02:06:32):
The police there, that's right, blame the police. I'll meet
you the corner of sixth and Victor ten minutes.

Speaker 67 (02:06:38):
Right follow me, mister holiday ill a too your room.
This ain't de Roney Plaza, but this service is.

Speaker 11 (02:06:47):
Just the same.

Speaker 4 (02:06:48):
I've changed my mind.

Speaker 11 (02:06:49):
You know it's staying.

Speaker 4 (02:06:50):
Your rates are too high. I'll drop in again after
I've made a fortune. Now I know how to fox
feels when the hounds are closing in. Someday I'll have
to write a story about a fox. Put that guy
Burgess in his Peter Rabbit out of business. Hey, cap.

Speaker 18 (02:07:17):
Oh at you again?

Speaker 65 (02:07:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:07:18):
I get around, don't I?

Speaker 18 (02:07:19):
I thought you were set for the night.

Speaker 4 (02:07:21):
No running ice water, Sixth and Victor.

Speaker 18 (02:07:28):
Where'd you say you wanted to go?

Speaker 4 (02:07:31):
Sixth and Victor.

Speaker 18 (02:07:32):
There ain't no place to sleep there.

Speaker 4 (02:07:34):
Oh I'm not sleepy. I just want to examine a
fire hydrant.

Speaker 18 (02:07:37):
Okay, mister I'm glad that your money you're not mine.

Speaker 4 (02:07:42):
If we keep on, it will be your money.

Speaker 18 (02:07:44):
Yeah, that's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (02:07:46):
Yeah, say, is that the night's extra lying out there?

Speaker 18 (02:07:50):
Sure? I want to take a look at it. O.

Speaker 4 (02:07:52):
Thanks.

Speaker 18 (02:07:53):
That picture they got of you on the front page
is lousy.

Speaker 4 (02:07:56):
What picture you look like?

Speaker 18 (02:07:58):
He was facing the camera through a green door.

Speaker 4 (02:08:01):
Let me see that. Well, well, well this is just wonderful.
Prominent writer named by police Carlo Williams accuses Dan Holiday
of the murder of Harry Grange. Grief stricken girl witnessed
the murder of her fiance and nice going color. It's

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your word against mine, plus the evidence against me. Now
I know why they wrote that song I get along
without You very well.

Speaker 18 (02:08:33):
Well, there's sixth and Victor.

Speaker 4 (02:08:35):
Cruise on by.

Speaker 18 (02:08:36):
Ain't gonna stap.

Speaker 4 (02:08:37):
I haven't made up my mind.

Speaker 11 (02:08:38):
It's like a.

Speaker 18 (02:08:39):
Couple of cops waiting around for somebody.

Speaker 4 (02:08:42):
That's the way it looks to me. That might be
the law, Yes, they might be.

Speaker 18 (02:08:48):
What do you want to do?

Speaker 4 (02:08:48):
Now, get away from here and find a city directory.
A chat by the name of Harry Granger should have
a home and he should have stayed in it. Oh,
I'm either just ahead of the police or right behind them.
And if this game keeps up much longer, I'll be

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riding with him.

Speaker 18 (02:09:10):
Yeah, Oh, Harry Grange live here? He did you the police?

Speaker 4 (02:09:14):
Well, no, not exactly a reporter I used to be.

Speaker 69 (02:09:18):
Come here you.

Speaker 65 (02:09:20):
I wonder if you're one of them blackmailers.

Speaker 4 (02:09:23):
Just a minute, friend, Mike caught rip seazy.

Speaker 9 (02:09:26):
No, yes, not.

Speaker 18 (02:09:28):
If you were, you wouldn't be here.

Speaker 4 (02:09:30):
Mind if I step in, come in, come in.

Speaker 11 (02:09:32):
This whole thing's got me all upset.

Speaker 4 (02:09:34):
You don't say, oh, you said something about a blackmailer.

Speaker 18 (02:09:38):
That's what I'm here for. I came to help Harry
get rid of those rats.

Speaker 4 (02:09:43):
You mean he was being blackmail for five years.

Speaker 12 (02:09:47):
I lent him most of the money to pay off
with I told him he was a sucker.

Speaker 18 (02:09:50):
But it looks like I got here too late.

Speaker 4 (02:09:53):
You heard what happened.

Speaker 18 (02:09:54):
It starred in the papers. On my way from the station.

Speaker 4 (02:09:56):
He told the police.

Speaker 18 (02:09:57):
Not yet, but I'm going to Who did you say
you were?

Speaker 4 (02:10:02):
I didn't say you know.

Speaker 65 (02:10:04):
Something about this?

Speaker 4 (02:10:06):
I think I do now. I began to see the
light when the city directory listed this place's ranger's apartment.
Can I help am I get into trouble breaking into
a woman's apartment. After this, I'll use a fire escape

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and more of my stories are the most interesting things
about a building from Homicidal go out in the hall
scene that no one comes in here not to work
fast holiday. You'll have to find something that the police
weren't looking for. There must be something tells letters cons

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that's no good look. Look for the obvious. That's that's
what I always have my hero doing. That's what's the obvious?
Or the living room now, let's see that's what he was.
Nothing obvious there on the desk, now the table, fireplace. Hello, Hello, Hello,

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a small frame snapshot, and I think it might be
just what I'm looking for. My old friend the bartender
and Karla Williams. And with your arms around each other,
you know you two make a nice couple of wonderful couple.
I wonder if to let you have your arms around

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each other. In the electric chair.

Speaker 62 (02:11:44):
You are listening to Box thirteen, starring Allen Ladd as
Dan Holliday.

Speaker 4 (02:12:03):
Well, I finally made it. I'm down at police headquarters
in the office of a tall, gangly character named Lieutenant Kling.
Of course, a few things have happened. Carlin and the
bartender were brought in two so much cooler than I am.
Oh those cell bars give you such fine ventilation holiday.

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What's that, Lieutenant? I said you were a very lucky citizen.

Speaker 63 (02:12:29):
After what Carla Williams told us, we thought you were guilty.

Speaker 4 (02:12:32):
She'd have told me that story to believe it myself,
approving that she and the bartender were married. Put a
crimp in her act as the injured fiance.

Speaker 63 (02:12:38):
Yeah, you showed it up as the same old recond
smart woman teams up with smart man to blackmail innocent citizen,
but just the same. I think you should stick to
your writing and let police work alone.

Speaker 4 (02:12:48):
Lieutenant. I'll have that printed and framed in blond walnut
hanging on the wall, nor around my neck. I'm glad
to hear you.

Speaker 63 (02:12:56):
Say that you may not always have a guy like
this Grant who backed up your story.

Speaker 4 (02:13:00):
Oh grangeerous friend, that's still it. Say he's a nice fella,
wants me to visit him on his ranch.

Speaker 65 (02:13:06):
Why don't you do that.

Speaker 4 (02:13:08):
Riding the range all day when I could be cooking
in tom.

Speaker 63 (02:13:12):
Pardon me, homicide pentacling. Oh yes, yes he's here. See
you Holiday.

Speaker 4 (02:13:19):
Oh thanks, Hello, mister Holliday.

Speaker 26 (02:13:22):
This is Susie.

Speaker 4 (02:13:23):
Yes, Susie, can you.

Speaker 26 (02:13:24):
Come down this dot cons right away?

Speaker 9 (02:13:26):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:13:27):
What's the matter.

Speaker 26 (02:13:27):
There's another letter for you in Box thirteen.

Speaker 4 (02:13:30):
Oh no, no.

Speaker 26 (02:13:31):
No, Should I open it and read it to you?

Speaker 4 (02:13:34):
Oh not now, Susie. I've got enough material to last
me for a month, three weeks of which will be arrest.

Speaker 26 (02:13:41):
Tell me where maybe I can come down and help you.

Speaker 4 (02:13:44):
You really want to help me?

Speaker 26 (02:13:46):
Sure I do, mister Holiday.

Speaker 4 (02:13:49):
Then put that letter back in Box thirteen.

Speaker 26 (02:13:52):
But mister Holiday, good.

Speaker 4 (02:13:54):
Night, Susie.

Speaker 62 (02:13:58):
Next week, same time. Allan ladds dars as Dan Holliday
in Box thirteen.

Speaker 9 (02:14:14):
Alan Ladd appears.

Speaker 62 (02:14:15):
Through the courtesy of Paramountectures and may currently be seen
in Wild Harvest. Box thirteen is written and directed by
Ted Hedeger. Original music composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager.
This is a Mayfair production.

Speaker 5 (02:14:35):
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Speaker 70 (02:15:30):
Mystery Theater CBC presents Mystery Theater, a series of strange

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tales of the supernatural and the unforeseen, of chills and
thrills and adventures selected from the classics. Here then the
Story of the Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs in
radio version by John Bethune.

Speaker 30 (02:16:22):
Heavens Wasn't Nice?

Speaker 4 (02:16:25):
Herbert Yes mother.

Speaker 71 (02:16:26):
You better wear your muffler when you go off to work.
I will never get your glasses. He's been reading cats
and Dogs in supper time and the roads.

Speaker 2 (02:16:33):
Please, we're trying to play chess. How can we concentrate
if you keep chattering?

Speaker 30 (02:16:39):
I'm sorry?

Speaker 2 (02:16:42):
Now where were we?

Speaker 38 (02:16:43):
It's still your move then I know that.

Speaker 2 (02:16:46):
Oh yes, I got you this time may By.

Speaker 4 (02:16:53):
Yeah, sure, a deep one. All right.

Speaker 30 (02:16:55):
Don't tell me your father's finally beating you, Herbert.

Speaker 9 (02:16:57):
No, not yet.

Speaker 38 (02:16:59):
He's overlooked his kid.

Speaker 2 (02:17:00):
Oh I s yeah, let me have that back life.

Speaker 33 (02:17:02):
Why not all rules of the game.

Speaker 2 (02:17:04):
That I don't know what your scientific rules? You turn
what ought to be an innocent relaxation?

Speaker 30 (02:17:09):
If so much, John, how can have it concentrate if
you keep checking it?

Speaker 2 (02:17:13):
It's all right, mother, listen to that win, would you?

Speaker 72 (02:17:17):
I'm listening.

Speaker 2 (02:17:18):
I should only think Sergeant Major Morris come tonight.

Speaker 4 (02:17:20):
It'll turn up.

Speaker 2 (02:17:21):
Can't say I blame him if he don't. That road
out there's like a bog check. That's our worst a
living way out here. Your friends can't even come to
call Nate lovers Lane Fulham of all the miserable, out
of the way places to live. This one takes that button?

Speaker 20 (02:17:38):
Now, John, it's a.

Speaker 2 (02:17:39):
Disgrace, I tell you, what's the candied council thinking of?
That's what I want to know. Just because this is
the only house in the road that's occupied, I suppose
it don't matter if nobody can get near it.

Speaker 30 (02:17:48):
Have you ever mind, dear prep shall win to month?

Speaker 9 (02:17:52):
What do you mean?

Speaker 10 (02:17:53):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 34 (02:17:54):
So don't pretend.

Speaker 2 (02:17:57):
Can't fool you? A mother always no one I'm up to,
don't you?

Speaker 66 (02:18:01):
Well?

Speaker 30 (02:18:01):
After thirty years they are too all right?

Speaker 9 (02:18:03):
Then?

Speaker 2 (02:18:03):
What am I thinking right now that.

Speaker 30 (02:18:06):
You'd like a glass of grog?

Speaker 2 (02:18:07):
Right again?

Speaker 10 (02:18:08):
Oh?

Speaker 30 (02:18:09):
Shouldn't we wait till the sergeant Major Morris comes?

Speaker 2 (02:18:11):
Yeah, he won't come, even an arden old soldier like him,
I think twice before slugging his way out to a
guard per second spot like this.

Speaker 72 (02:18:18):
Oh come on now, Dad, is not such a bad
place leastways. It's not one of them stucco villas. In fact,
it's one of the few old fashioned houses left near London.
Home like I call it, and so do you, or
you wouldn't have bought it.

Speaker 2 (02:18:31):
And a nice job I made of that to two
hundred pounds still in.

Speaker 72 (02:18:35):
Oh don't worry or work that off in no time.
Matter of three years, i'd say, with a rise, they
promised me. Oh not me, mother, not that sort.

Speaker 71 (02:18:43):
Oh I wish you would, Herbert, the good lad like you,
with a steady job of the electrical.

Speaker 72 (02:18:49):
Works, lots of the time, mother, sufficient for the day,
as they're saying, goes just now. My dynamos at the
plant don't leave me much time for love making.

Speaker 2 (02:18:57):
Most I know. Sometimes I lay away good nights, and
I think if Herbert took a nap on the job
and let them dynamos of his rundown, all Fulham would
be in darkness a joke, that would be joke, some joke.

Speaker 72 (02:19:10):
I'll get sacked on the spot.

Speaker 2 (02:19:12):
I know that must be Morris, after all. I never
thought he'd make it.

Speaker 72 (02:19:16):
I wonder what you are and the old boys got
for us tonight.

Speaker 73 (02:19:18):
He'll slam the door, John, come in, opening, Come in
quick now, can't hold this door much longer.

Speaker 2 (02:19:27):
Oh, let me take your coat. All that wind enough
to blow the air off your head.

Speaker 33 (02:19:32):
All right, I'm ill off the road by the cemetery.

Speaker 2 (02:19:35):
It's even worse you, Sergeant Major Morris.

Speaker 30 (02:19:37):
Jinny, good evening, how are you ma'am. Oh, I'm well
enough to kill. You must be frozen. Come see your
by the fire.

Speaker 33 (02:19:45):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (02:19:46):
Good evening, sir.

Speaker 33 (02:19:48):
Well, Laddy, yourself not on judy.

Speaker 72 (02:19:50):
I see day week, no, sir, night week. But there's
half an hour yet, Henry the kettle.

Speaker 26 (02:19:54):
Will you have it all right?

Speaker 30 (02:19:57):
This is more like it wasn't coming all this rain.

Speaker 33 (02:20:00):
Or you don't know me, ma'am.

Speaker 74 (02:20:02):
This is nothing to what I've seen in India, really, sir,
in the trenches at chit Trup, what a time we
had of it there, sitting in a puddle with the
natives taking pot shots atis and the rain pouring down
in buckets us umbrellas. That's a good one to hear
that white umbrellas, he says. Umbrellas and goloshes are not

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water bottles. Hey, it's plain to see you was never
in the army.

Speaker 9 (02:20:26):
Man.

Speaker 4 (02:20:27):
Mother spoke out of kindness.

Speaker 74 (02:20:28):
Well I know it, laddie. No offense intended, ma'am. For
the hardship is the soldier's lot. I starvation, fever and
get yourself shot. That's the way of it. And all
I've got the show now is one arm and a
blooming medal.

Speaker 2 (02:20:42):
Cheers yeah, try some of this.

Speaker 33 (02:20:45):
What have we got here?

Speaker 2 (02:20:46):
Put your nose in it. You'll see hot.

Speaker 30 (02:20:49):
Whiskey with sugar and a slice of lemon.

Speaker 74 (02:20:51):
Well, now, I don't mind if I do. Here's to
another thousand a year, say.

Speaker 2 (02:20:57):
Do you and many of them?

Speaker 38 (02:21:00):
That's the stuff they give the troops here, laddie, and you're.

Speaker 11 (02:21:03):
Going to join us?

Speaker 72 (02:21:04):
No thanks, my work. Don't go with whiskey, not even
a drop, No sir. I've got to keep a cool
head and a steady eye, and I still hand. If
I don't, the flywheel might double me up.

Speaker 74 (02:21:15):
Don't say such things are you're electricians sort of magicians.
You are light says you, and light it is power,
says you, and the trans goal whizzed knowledge says you,
and the words go.

Speaker 33 (02:21:26):
I'm in to the ends of the world.

Speaker 38 (02:21:28):
It beats me, it does. And I've seen a bit
in my.

Speaker 2 (02:21:30):
Time too, Indian magic.

Speaker 33 (02:21:32):
You mean, hi, fact he is. I've seen him do things.

Speaker 74 (02:21:35):
You wouldn't believe, really, such as what well, I've seen
a cold with no more clothes.

Speaker 38 (02:21:41):
Under the baby, if you know what I mean, ma'am.

Speaker 74 (02:21:44):
I've seen him take an empty basket, empty mind it
and tie it all round with ropes.

Speaker 72 (02:21:49):
While you're in a basket trick. That's just a fake
faith you calling. I tell you, I've seen it, so
have I, and I've read how it's done. Well, I
can do it myself with a bit of practice.

Speaker 9 (02:21:58):
Good, you know.

Speaker 74 (02:22:00):
Well, what do you say to an old fact here
chugging a rope in here in the air, mind you,
and swarming up it the same as if it was ooked.

Speaker 38 (02:22:06):
Then vanishing clear out the side.

Speaker 11 (02:22:08):
That's impossible.

Speaker 33 (02:22:09):
I've seen it with my own eyes. Come on, I'm
me to say. You doubt my word?

Speaker 2 (02:22:13):
Oh no, the lad's only taken your fall in fun.

Speaker 74 (02:22:16):
But it's true, I tell you, And that's not all.
Why if I chose I could tell you things. No,
you don't get any more yarns from me, No nonsense.

Speaker 2 (02:22:25):
Soul friend, You're not gonna get shirty about a bit
of fun.

Speaker 30 (02:22:28):
Let me fill your glass.

Speaker 33 (02:22:30):
Thank you coming me?

Speaker 2 (02:22:31):
Ma'm you know I'd like to go to India myself someday,
just to look around a bit, see them fak ears
and jugglers and old temples and things.

Speaker 33 (02:22:40):
You're better off where you are.

Speaker 22 (02:22:41):
White.

Speaker 33 (02:22:42):
There's things in India. It's best for a man not
to know about.

Speaker 2 (02:22:45):
What was that you started telling me about the other day,
about monkey's poor or something?

Speaker 33 (02:22:50):
Nothing at least, why he's nothing worth it?

Speaker 11 (02:22:52):
And monkey's poor?

Speaker 2 (02:22:53):
All right, come on, Molly's tell us about it.

Speaker 74 (02:22:55):
No, it's nothing, don't go on about it, he said,
you always carried it with you, so.

Speaker 33 (02:22:59):
I do, for fear of what might happen.

Speaker 30 (02:23:02):
Hegan made it.

Speaker 33 (02:23:03):
Thank you, mam.

Speaker 72 (02:23:04):
What's the monkey's poor?

Speaker 75 (02:23:06):
Force?

Speaker 33 (02:23:07):
You wouldn't believe me if I told you I have.

Speaker 4 (02:23:10):
You got it with you now?

Speaker 33 (02:23:11):
Of course, what can we see it?

Speaker 74 (02:23:13):
It's nothing to look at, just just an ordinary little
little paw dried.

Speaker 9 (02:23:18):
Up into her mummy. Here you are.

Speaker 10 (02:23:20):
Oh, it's give us a look.

Speaker 76 (02:23:24):
Oh it's all dried up, I said, so.

Speaker 2 (02:23:27):
And what might there be special about it?

Speaker 33 (02:23:30):
That the paw has had a spell put on it?

Speaker 15 (02:23:33):
Oh?

Speaker 30 (02:23:33):
Dear give it back to hi John, Hi?

Speaker 2 (02:23:35):
Yeah, heah take it? Who was it put the spell
on it?

Speaker 74 (02:23:38):
An old fact? Here if the only man he was
used to sit all doubled up in one spot. Of course,
that like that for going on fifteen years thinking of things.
And he wanted to show that people was ruled by fate,
that everything was cut and dried from the beginning, as
you might say that there weren't no getting away from it,
and that if you tried, you'd catch.

Speaker 2 (02:23:58):
It off to shake.

Speaker 38 (02:23:59):
So we had a spell on this bit of a paw.

Speaker 18 (02:24:02):
Why a monkey's poor?

Speaker 74 (02:24:03):
Oh, it might have been anything else, But he took
the first thing that came, andy, I. He put a
spell on it and made it so.

Speaker 38 (02:24:09):
That three people could each have three wishes.

Speaker 74 (02:24:13):
But mark you, though those wishes were granted, those three
people would of course to wish they hadn't been.

Speaker 2 (02:24:19):
But how could the wishes be granted?

Speaker 74 (02:24:22):
Who didn't say it had all happen so natural? You
might think it as just a coincidence.

Speaker 24 (02:24:26):
If so, dispot, why haven't you tried it, sir?

Speaker 2 (02:24:30):
I have or you had your three wishes? Yes, they
were as anybody else wished.

Speaker 74 (02:24:37):
Yes, the first owner had his three wishes. Oh, yes, yes,
he had his three wishes all right. I don't know
what his first to wear, but the third was for death.
Oh that's how I got the paw.

Speaker 72 (02:24:52):
Well, it seems you've only got to wish for things
that can't have any bad luck about them.

Speaker 2 (02:24:57):
That you don't understand, Laddie Morris. If you've had your
three wishes of pause. No, good to you.

Speaker 11 (02:25:03):
Now, what do you keep it for?

Speaker 33 (02:25:05):
Fancy?

Speaker 74 (02:25:06):
I suppose I did have some idea of selling it,
but I don't think I will. It's done enough mischief already. Besides,
people won't buy. Some of them think it's a fairy tale,
and someone to try it first and pay after.

Speaker 30 (02:25:18):
Well, if you could have another three wishes, would you?

Speaker 33 (02:25:20):
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 74 (02:25:25):
No, No, I'm damned if I would. I've had my
fill of this present part. It's time the world was
rid of it. Not in the fire, Yes, in the
fire there now, Okay, burn, Let.

Speaker 2 (02:25:38):
The infernal thing burn? I tell you, Jody, if I
can help. Ah, got it?

Speaker 9 (02:25:43):
There? We are?

Speaker 38 (02:25:46):
Is it burnt?

Speaker 2 (02:25:47):
No, it's just singed to b Shuck.

Speaker 38 (02:25:48):
It back again.

Speaker 2 (02:25:49):
No, if you don't want to give it to me.

Speaker 9 (02:25:52):
Not I not I.

Speaker 74 (02:25:53):
My hands are clear of it. I threw it on
the fire. If you keep it, don't blame me for
what happens.

Speaker 38 (02:25:58):
But if you have any sense, you'll pick it back.

Speaker 30 (02:26:00):
Yes, do as he says, John, Please.

Speaker 2 (02:26:02):
No, I'm going to keep it. How what are you saying?

Speaker 4 (02:26:05):
I say, keep it if you want to?

Speaker 72 (02:26:06):
Stuff and nonsense anyhow, stuff are nonsense.

Speaker 3 (02:26:10):
Yes, I wonder, I wish I to stop.

Speaker 33 (02:26:15):
Mind what you're doing. That's not the way.

Speaker 2 (02:26:17):
What do you mean?

Speaker 33 (02:26:18):
I mean that's not the right way to wish.

Speaker 2 (02:26:19):
What is the right way?

Speaker 30 (02:26:21):
Oh, don't have anything to do with it, Jones?

Speaker 38 (02:26:23):
What I say, ma'am.

Speaker 74 (02:26:24):
But if I don't tell him what to do, he
might go wishing for something he didn't mean to by accident. Look,
you hold the poor in your right hand first, then
wish aloud?

Speaker 38 (02:26:37):
But I warn you, right, I warn you actively be nice.

Speaker 2 (02:26:41):
What shall I wish for? Jenny?

Speaker 30 (02:26:43):
Let me see you might wish for me? What bad
events do my house for?

Speaker 2 (02:26:46):
Alright?

Speaker 7 (02:26:47):
You are here?

Speaker 14 (02:26:48):
We go?

Speaker 2 (02:26:49):
I wish stop it?

Speaker 15 (02:26:50):
Stop it?

Speaker 33 (02:26:51):
What's the if you must wish?

Speaker 38 (02:26:53):
Wish for something sensible?

Speaker 15 (02:26:54):
All right?

Speaker 2 (02:26:55):
Suppose I wish?

Speaker 9 (02:26:57):
Wait?

Speaker 33 (02:26:57):
Wait, I can't stand this. Where's my child?

Speaker 30 (02:27:01):
You're not going?

Speaker 33 (02:27:02):
Yes, my mind must, My nerves are.

Speaker 4 (02:27:05):
Up to this.

Speaker 33 (02:27:06):
Get my coat with your laddy.

Speaker 2 (02:27:07):
Well, if you wait a bit, sir, I'll come along
with you.

Speaker 33 (02:27:09):
I go your well, Thank you, lad. But I can't stay.

Speaker 2 (02:27:12):
Any longer, not even for another glass and urt anything.

Speaker 74 (02:27:16):
I don't want to be here. When you wish I
wish your will as soon as my back is turned?

Speaker 2 (02:27:20):
Or what makes you think?

Speaker 33 (02:27:21):
Because I know I know?

Speaker 38 (02:27:24):
Pitch it in the fire as your coat.

Speaker 74 (02:27:27):
Thank you, now mine? I warned you, white, I warn
all of you. Remember, Yes, yes, don't worry about us
whole friend?

Speaker 9 (02:27:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 33 (02:27:36):
Yeah, what's this that the monkey's poor?

Speaker 9 (02:27:39):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:27:39):
No, I'll take no money for yes you will?

Speaker 11 (02:27:42):
Well?

Speaker 9 (02:27:44):
Good?

Speaker 72 (02:27:50):
Well what do you make of that poor old sergeant major?
If there's no more in his monkey's poor than there
is in his other stories, we shan't make much out
of it?

Speaker 27 (02:27:59):
Done?

Speaker 30 (02:27:59):
Did you give him something for it? Just tryfle well,
you shouldn't have throwing your money about.

Speaker 2 (02:28:05):
Wonder what I wonder whether we haven't better chuck it
back on the fire.

Speaker 4 (02:28:10):
For why we're all going to be rich and famous
and happy.

Speaker 30 (02:28:13):
Throw it on the fire. Indeed, when you've given good
money for.

Speaker 72 (02:28:16):
It, wish to be an emperor Dad, then you can't
be inpicked anymore.

Speaker 30 (02:28:19):
There'll be enough of that, young man, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:28:23):
When I stopped to think of it, I don't know
what to wish for. And that's the fact I seem
to have got all I want.

Speaker 38 (02:28:28):
If only you'd cleared the debt on the house.

Speaker 9 (02:28:30):
You'd be perfectly happy a dad. Oh that's right. Well,
go ahead, wish.

Speaker 4 (02:28:35):
For the two hundred pounds.

Speaker 9 (02:28:36):
That'll just do it.

Speaker 75 (02:28:38):
Of course, here's the pop.

Speaker 72 (02:28:40):
Take it in your right hand and wish.

Speaker 71 (02:28:42):
No, don't, don't have anything to do with go on,
go on, yes, by jove, I will I.

Speaker 2 (02:28:50):
Wish for two hundred pounds.

Speaker 30 (02:28:55):
Tom, What is it?

Speaker 2 (02:28:56):
It moved because I wish? The poor twisted my hands
like nonsense.

Speaker 72 (02:29:01):
Here, let me see it.

Speaker 2 (02:29:02):
Why it's as stiff as a bone it moved.

Speaker 30 (02:29:04):
Oh it was just your fat.

Speaker 72 (02:29:06):
No, well, I don't see any money anywhere, and I
bet I never shall.

Speaker 2 (02:29:11):
I think, Gord, there's no arm done. But that give
me a shock, and no mistake.

Speaker 10 (02:29:17):
I'll past eleven time I was off and mind you
take your glasses and you won't believe for breakfast with no.

Speaker 18 (02:29:23):
Vin help it.

Speaker 14 (02:29:24):
But I'll be walking.

Speaker 30 (02:29:25):
Home, you know, walking?

Speaker 38 (02:29:27):
Why well, I.

Speaker 24 (02:29:28):
Can't take my bike in this weather, so don't wait
for me after nine?

Speaker 30 (02:29:31):
All right, have you got your scarf?

Speaker 9 (02:29:36):
Good night mother?

Speaker 34 (02:29:37):
Good night dear.

Speaker 72 (02:29:39):
You will find the two hundred pounds tied up in
the middle of your bed, I.

Speaker 2 (02:29:42):
Expect Dad, don't joke about it.

Speaker 72 (02:29:44):
Son and a monkey hanging by his tail from the bedpost,
watching you count your golden sovereigns a bit?

Speaker 77 (02:29:51):
Yeah, nothing, I mean.

Speaker 2 (02:29:54):
Good night, my boy.

Speaker 72 (02:29:55):
It's no dad, what's wrong, top bolt?

Speaker 16 (02:30:03):
It's stiffer game.

Speaker 2 (02:30:08):
I must get Herbert to look at it in the morning.

Speaker 30 (02:30:11):
Well, I'm off to bed. Will you see that the fire?

Speaker 11 (02:30:14):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:30:14):
All right, hey, Jenny, Jenny.

Speaker 16 (02:30:25):
John, what is it?

Speaker 2 (02:30:27):
Stuffing? Stuffing? I just saw faces in the fire.

Speaker 30 (02:30:31):
Oh well, come along to bed you.

Speaker 2 (02:30:54):
John brankfas ready, But you are no sign of herbertain.

Speaker 30 (02:30:59):
No, he hasn't got his bicycle, he said not to
wait after night.

Speaker 2 (02:31:03):
Yes, I've forgotten. Well, he's got a fine day for
walking home, cleared up nicely. Oh, by the way, where
did you leave the monkey's poor last night?

Speaker 32 (02:31:14):
Peace?

Speaker 9 (02:31:15):
Still there?

Speaker 30 (02:31:16):
Silly dirty thing spills.

Speaker 2 (02:31:18):
Indeed, old Monice and his yarns. I suppose all old
soldiers are the same.

Speaker 30 (02:31:24):
The idea of our list into such nonsense. How could
wishes be granted nowadays?

Speaker 2 (02:31:29):
Hasn't he lightly done it?

Speaker 30 (02:31:31):
And all the rubbish about it's making you unhappy? If
if you wish was grunted.

Speaker 2 (02:31:35):
Ah, you've been thinking about it, have you?

Speaker 18 (02:31:38):
No of course not.

Speaker 26 (02:31:40):
But how could you hundred bound it anymore?

Speaker 2 (02:31:44):
Well, I suppose it might drop on your head in
the lump. I don't see any other way now, mind
you Morris said it would happen so naturally that you
might take it for a coincidence if so disposed.

Speaker 30 (02:31:55):
Well, it hasn't happened, that's all I know. And it
isn't going to.

Speaker 2 (02:32:00):
What's that postman? Of course? Yes, there's a letter in
the box.

Speaker 30 (02:32:06):
A letter.

Speaker 2 (02:32:08):
Oh suppose suppose what.

Speaker 30 (02:32:12):
Suppose it's the two hundred pounds?

Speaker 2 (02:32:15):
Yeah, don't talk nonsense. What's going in to you?

Speaker 26 (02:32:17):
Nothing?

Speaker 56 (02:32:18):
I just thought.

Speaker 2 (02:32:19):
Another bill I expected.

Speaker 56 (02:32:21):
No, No, it's.

Speaker 2 (02:32:26):
It's got something, Crispin, who's it for you? Let me see? Hey,
that's odd, all right, don't get excited.

Speaker 32 (02:32:38):
Take care.

Speaker 30 (02:32:38):
I don't get it if it's fake. Fact looks like
some kind of documents.

Speaker 2 (02:32:46):
Miss slipper paper.

Speaker 9 (02:32:47):
What does it say?

Speaker 2 (02:32:48):
It says, sir in closed, please find receipt for interest
on the mortgages of two hundred pounds in your house,
duly receipt?

Speaker 30 (02:32:58):
Where that comes of listening to tipsy old soldiers?

Speaker 16 (02:33:02):
What does thought there was notes in it?

Speaker 2 (02:33:05):
I did not, I said all along?

Speaker 30 (02:33:07):
How Herbert will left when I tell him, you're not going.

Speaker 2 (02:33:10):
To tell him, you're going to keep your mouth shut.
That's what you're going to do. Course, I never hear the.

Speaker 9 (02:33:14):
Last of it.

Speaker 30 (02:33:15):
He says, you're right for trying to frighten us last night.
What do you mean seeing the poor moved when you wished?

Speaker 9 (02:33:21):
But he did? It?

Speaker 2 (02:33:22):
Did move? Now that I'll swear you thought it did? No,
I say it did. There was no thinking about it.

Speaker 30 (02:33:31):
How about you be here by now?

Speaker 32 (02:33:33):
Why can I not?

Speaker 2 (02:33:34):
He's off a date, but he has to change and
wash before he leaves the plant.

Speaker 30 (02:33:39):
This time I look and see if he's coming down
the road.

Speaker 2 (02:33:45):
Your sausages are getting cold?

Speaker 10 (02:33:50):
Yeah, by the garden gate, gentleman, What about him?

Speaker 25 (02:33:58):
He's looking at if he wants to come in?

Speaker 2 (02:34:04):
Oh, go on, you're full of fences this morning.

Speaker 30 (02:34:07):
He's going on.

Speaker 25 (02:34:09):
Now he's coming back.

Speaker 2 (02:34:11):
Well, don't let him see you peep in, John.

Speaker 30 (02:34:15):
He looks like a sort of lawyer.

Speaker 18 (02:34:17):
What of it.

Speaker 15 (02:34:19):
You know?

Speaker 30 (02:34:21):
But I suppose I suppose he's coming about the two
hundred pounds.

Speaker 2 (02:34:25):
Nonsense? Come and eat your breakfast? Where is he now?

Speaker 77 (02:34:32):
He's coming in?

Speaker 30 (02:34:34):
Oh, dear and me all, I'm tidy.

Speaker 2 (02:34:36):
What's imagine he's made a mistake. Come to the wrong house.

Speaker 30 (02:34:40):
Oh, I'll go that, I'll go to.

Speaker 38 (02:34:45):
Is this white?

Speaker 30 (02:34:47):
Yes, come in, sir, I thank you, Please set in.
You must overlook you so untired.

Speaker 2 (02:34:53):
Good morning, sir, Good morning.

Speaker 14 (02:34:55):
My name is Sims.

Speaker 38 (02:34:56):
Won't you please see thank you?

Speaker 2 (02:34:58):
Noah, I could not. You wanted to see me so oh.

Speaker 24 (02:35:03):
Yes, yes, I come from the electrical works.

Speaker 30 (02:35:06):
Oh then it's our Sam, Herbert.

Speaker 32 (02:35:07):
You want to see.

Speaker 30 (02:35:08):
You'll be home soon if you get away.

Speaker 76 (02:35:10):
No, I was asked to call. That is the company
sent me to all.

Speaker 30 (02:35:17):
Is anything the matter?

Speaker 76 (02:35:18):
Yes, I'm afraid, so Herbert.

Speaker 14 (02:35:20):
What's happened is now?

Speaker 11 (02:35:22):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:35:22):
Mother, don't jump to conclusions. Let the gentleman speak. You
have not brought bad news, sir. I'm sure, I'm sorry.

Speaker 9 (02:35:31):
I'm just like this.

Speaker 15 (02:35:32):
It's been an accident.

Speaker 32 (02:35:35):
He's been hurt.

Speaker 77 (02:35:35):
Yes, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (02:35:40):
Is he in pain?

Speaker 9 (02:35:41):
In pain?

Speaker 28 (02:35:41):
Oh?

Speaker 32 (02:35:42):
Thank god, thank you?

Speaker 2 (02:35:43):
But if he's badly editor, good god, you can't.

Speaker 78 (02:35:48):
Mean yes, my my oh no, no, no answer.

Speaker 9 (02:35:58):
What happened?

Speaker 76 (02:36:00):
He was telling his mates a story, something that happened
here last night. He was laughing about it and not
paying attention and the machinery court. I see, the company
wished me to convey their sincere sympathy with you in
your great loss losses.

Speaker 2 (02:36:20):
And I was to say further, he was our only chance.

Speaker 76 (02:36:22):
Please understand, I'm only the company's servant.

Speaker 38 (02:36:24):
I'm only a baying orders.

Speaker 2 (02:36:27):
Machinery courting.

Speaker 76 (02:36:28):
I was to say, the company disclaims all responsibility, but
in consideration of your son's services, they wished to present
you with a sum of money.

Speaker 33 (02:36:35):
Is compensation a ruh?

Speaker 9 (02:36:38):
Right?

Speaker 2 (02:36:42):
How much two hundred pounds to.

Speaker 1 (02:37:12):
Its old gets stre night.

Speaker 2 (02:37:18):
Yeah, well that's that time we got to bed. Jenny, Jenny,
what I said? It's time for bed? What are you
doing at the window looking up the room?

Speaker 28 (02:37:36):
What for?

Speaker 2 (02:37:37):
You can't see anything?

Speaker 32 (02:37:39):
That's okay? The moonlight's a Brichville almost see the cemetery.

Speaker 2 (02:37:44):
Oh, Jenny, please come away from there. You'll get cold.

Speaker 30 (02:37:47):
It's colder where he is.

Speaker 2 (02:37:49):
Ah is it only a week since we laid him there?
We don't take much account of time, do we?

Speaker 32 (02:38:00):
Why should we never come home again? There's nothing to
think about now.

Speaker 2 (02:38:06):
Or to talk about.

Speaker 33 (02:38:07):
It took all our hopes with him and.

Speaker 11 (02:38:12):
H Ganola.

Speaker 9 (02:38:15):
Juhn.

Speaker 2 (02:38:16):
What it is the matter the thought, the monkey's talk?
What about it?

Speaker 30 (02:38:21):
Where is it?

Speaker 10 (02:38:22):
What happened to it?

Speaker 2 (02:38:22):
I don't know why you haven't.

Speaker 17 (02:38:24):
Done away with it.

Speaker 2 (02:38:25):
I haven't seen it since.

Speaker 30 (02:38:27):
We'll find it, find it?

Speaker 2 (02:38:29):
It was it on the mantel piece the last time?
Oh yeah, here it is?

Speaker 9 (02:38:33):
Oh thank god?

Speaker 30 (02:38:35):
I didn't I think of it before? Why didn't you
think of it?

Speaker 2 (02:38:38):
You talking about the.

Speaker 30 (02:38:40):
Other two wishes? What with on the head one?

Speaker 2 (02:38:44):
Who wasn't that enough?

Speaker 9 (02:38:45):
Jenny?

Speaker 30 (02:38:46):
No, we have one law, don't you see? We wish
our boy alive again?

Speaker 9 (02:38:52):
God? Woman, are you bad?

Speaker 30 (02:38:55):
We hit our first wish granted? Why not our second?

Speaker 9 (02:38:58):
Jenny? You don't know what you're saying.

Speaker 79 (02:39:00):
Yeah, he's been dead for more than a week. When
they showed him to me, I only knew him base clothing.
If you weren't allowed to see him, then how could
you bear to see him now?

Speaker 30 (02:39:14):
I don't care.

Speaker 19 (02:39:15):
Bring him back.

Speaker 30 (02:39:16):
Take the pone wish noo.

Speaker 2 (02:39:18):
I didn't touch it.

Speaker 30 (02:39:19):
You must year take it now, Wishney.

Speaker 2 (02:39:22):
Please, God forgive me. I wish my son alive again.
What's happened?

Speaker 16 (02:39:36):
I can't see the pindos?

Speaker 2 (02:39:38):
But how could it?

Speaker 15 (02:39:39):
I didn't right?

Speaker 2 (02:39:42):
Yeh Jenny, where are you?

Speaker 55 (02:39:50):
Shh?

Speaker 2 (02:39:52):
Well, what do you see?

Speaker 32 (02:39:54):
Nothing?

Speaker 11 (02:39:55):
Oh?

Speaker 32 (02:39:55):
Thank god, nothing at all along the whole length of
the room.

Speaker 26 (02:40:01):
It's not a living sea.

Speaker 32 (02:40:06):
It's as empty as our lives.

Speaker 2 (02:40:08):
We still have each other and our memories.

Speaker 32 (02:40:12):
Memories.

Speaker 2 (02:40:14):
Then don't take on. So here, I light the candle
and then we'll go up to bed.

Speaker 10 (02:40:24):
There.

Speaker 2 (02:40:25):
That's better, right, Come along now, mother.

Speaker 32 (02:40:29):
I'm no longer a mother.

Speaker 69 (02:40:31):
Oh but.

Speaker 11 (02:40:35):
What?

Speaker 2 (02:40:36):
Nothing stir? Just a rack in the wall.

Speaker 30 (02:40:40):
It's it's Herbert is at the door here.

Speaker 15 (02:40:45):
What are you going to do?

Speaker 16 (02:40:46):
I'm going to open it so I can't.

Speaker 10 (02:40:48):
Take to let me go?

Speaker 45 (02:40:49):
Are you trying to hold me?

Speaker 2 (02:40:50):
I think you don't open the door.

Speaker 30 (02:40:52):
I must let me go.

Speaker 4 (02:40:53):
What we might see?

Speaker 25 (02:40:54):
Do you think I'm afraid of me?

Speaker 77 (02:40:55):
Your child?

Speaker 28 (02:40:56):
Let me go.

Speaker 77 (02:40:57):
I'm coming, No, tell me, old Jenny, don't do it.

Speaker 2 (02:41:02):
Good God to f the poor, the monkeys, this one.

Speaker 20 (02:41:08):
Wishman, don't come help me.

Speaker 57 (02:41:11):
I can't.

Speaker 20 (02:41:12):
I can't over the top with w did I shop?

Speaker 10 (02:41:16):
It can't help me.

Speaker 2 (02:41:18):
Clat where he's acting?

Speaker 7 (02:41:20):
God, stay when it's.

Speaker 26 (02:41:23):
I tried to open eat the movie moving.

Speaker 9 (02:41:29):
Here it is.

Speaker 2 (02:41:32):
I wish my son dead. I wish him dead.

Speaker 9 (02:41:39):
And at peace.

Speaker 26 (02:41:43):
Have heaven.

Speaker 2 (02:41:50):
There's no one here, It's nothing, Thank God, Who say God?

Speaker 70 (02:42:04):
Mystery Theater has presented The Monkey's Paw by W. W.
Jacobs in radio version by John Bethune Production and direction,
Jean Bartel's in the cast Cosette Lee as the mother,
Alan King the Father, and Jim Bradford Herbert the Son.

(02:42:26):
Glenn Morris was heard as Sergeant Major Morris and Gilly
Fennick Sampson demand from the Electrical Company. Sound effects were
by Alec Sheridan and Technical Operation Henry Dirda. This is
Bill Lorne speaking.

Speaker 11 (02:42:47):
M and J.

Speaker 59 (02:42:47):
Audio Theater represents Cheed Sheeddar's tales from the Morgue.

Speaker 20 (02:43:14):
Hello there, I never mind the water. Just come right in.

Speaker 51 (02:43:21):
It's the way over through and have a seat.

Speaker 9 (02:43:25):
Okay, my name is a shit shitter.

Speaker 20 (02:43:31):
I am the more.

Speaker 7 (02:43:33):
Hidden and the licensed in ball.

Speaker 20 (02:43:38):
Unfortunately I'm not a plumber.

Speaker 80 (02:43:42):
You see, our old rusty pipe just gave out on
us last night.

Speaker 7 (02:43:48):
So the floor is full of water.

Speaker 28 (02:43:51):
M hm.

Speaker 7 (02:43:54):
It looks like the rats.

Speaker 20 (02:43:56):
Could not adapt to their marinel like environment. Many of
them had a droughts, you know.

Speaker 81 (02:44:05):
Now a story to tell y.

Speaker 30 (02:44:14):
Looks like one learn to swim.

Speaker 20 (02:44:18):
It's biful of the fittest, you know.

Speaker 9 (02:44:22):
Yes, now where was I?

Speaker 2 (02:44:26):
Ah?

Speaker 78 (02:44:27):
Yes, Yes, we're returning to Biloxi today, mister Elmacorn, that
Manua halling.

Speaker 82 (02:44:40):
Adventure is out of his backyard feeding the pigs.

Speaker 83 (02:44:51):
Alright, all right, now, now look here, don't you off
each other's ears. There's plenty of rotten tomatoes rowling and jump.
Look here now, don't waller in that if you eat fat.
I sworn too good. They saved pigs.

Speaker 20 (02:45:08):
Is that clean as animals around? And I'm bound you
they've never seen the likes of you.

Speaker 83 (02:45:14):
Come man, that's the worthy bird found cloth? Huh and
hardy's been no closers landing in my pasture.

Speaker 20 (02:45:25):
We'll get the sous on my feathers coming out of that.

Speaker 81 (02:45:27):
Thing dressed to the nice shiny, brand new leather shee
aunt tawan just stepped in a fresh cow patty too?

Speaker 20 (02:45:38):
How they failers? Did you lose your weight?

Speaker 9 (02:45:41):
Well?

Speaker 59 (02:45:42):
If intelligence is correct, this should be the home of
Elmer Corn Intelligence.

Speaker 20 (02:45:47):
Well, sir, and you got it right, you found it?
Did I win something?

Speaker 75 (02:45:52):
I'm afraid not, mister Corn. I represent the state of
Otto J. Williamsburgh. Perhaps you've heard of the name.

Speaker 20 (02:45:59):
I know Lliams Bird Dogs.

Speaker 83 (02:46:02):
Ain't that that multi billionaire what bought that Florida amusement
park wacky Land and then just closed her down like
a month later, saying he was.

Speaker 20 (02:46:11):
Bored with it.

Speaker 75 (02:46:11):
Yes, mister Corn, you're correct. You see I and I.

Speaker 20 (02:46:14):
Heard his wife took half his fortune in a divorce suit.
Tedyh what a jump?

Speaker 75 (02:46:20):
Please do not interrupt me, mister Corn.

Speaker 9 (02:46:22):
Sorry.

Speaker 59 (02:46:23):
The reason why I'm here is because mister Williamsburg wants
to meet with you.

Speaker 20 (02:46:28):
With me, jimminy, why in the world I'm not at liberty.

Speaker 75 (02:46:32):
To discuss the details with you, mister Krn.

Speaker 59 (02:46:34):
But mister Williamsburg has a proposition for you, one that
could make you a very rich man. It will all
be explained to you when we arrive at the estate.

Speaker 4 (02:46:44):
Are you ready to go?

Speaker 83 (02:46:46):
Well, sir, I ain't one for taking off with a
bunch of strangers, But well, dog, if you ain't got
my curiosity, row and I always wanted to take a
ride in a helicopter.

Speaker 20 (02:47:00):
Case, here I'll do it.

Speaker 83 (02:47:01):
Let me go dust off some of this dirty and
splash little cologne on my face, and then we'll go.
Let's try to get back before the wrestling match is
on TV, though, if we can.

Speaker 84 (02:47:21):
Welcome to the Williamsburger States, mister Corn.

Speaker 18 (02:47:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 20 (02:47:24):
I trust your flight was an event, for it was
danny fine, sir.

Speaker 83 (02:47:30):
My stomach took a little turn when we took off,
but I managed to keep things man.

Speaker 14 (02:47:35):
Yes, yes, yes, good.

Speaker 20 (02:47:37):
This way, mister Corn, Sir Williamsburgers in the activity room.

Speaker 84 (02:47:42):
I hear gun shots. I didn't come at a bad time.
Oh no, no, no, it is a shooting gallery, mister Corn, sir.
Enjoy is a practice session before noontime tea?

Speaker 28 (02:47:55):
All right?

Speaker 2 (02:47:57):
Begging your pardons?

Speaker 20 (02:47:58):
Uh, you'll get mister Elma Corn has arrived.

Speaker 7 (02:48:04):
Mercy sake, bullseye.

Speaker 20 (02:48:07):
Eh, mister Cord, how we meet it?

Speaker 18 (02:48:11):
Last?

Speaker 2 (02:48:12):
Come in?

Speaker 20 (02:48:13):
Thank you sir.

Speaker 4 (02:48:14):
That'll be all for now, Jarvis.

Speaker 20 (02:48:17):
Very good, sir, And might there's a terrific shooting today's
cow's sakes water game room.

Speaker 83 (02:48:25):
I'll tell you this year meets to death. Fat that
old rickety pool table we got down at the city Hall.

Speaker 7 (02:48:31):
Yes, well, would you believe I'm bored of all this.

Speaker 9 (02:48:35):
Mister Korn.

Speaker 7 (02:48:38):
I search for entertainment, and where do I fight? Television?

Speaker 9 (02:48:43):
Bah?

Speaker 20 (02:48:46):
Oh coming emotion.

Speaker 7 (02:48:48):
Pictures, wallowing and sexual excess Florida mercy. I seek a
human adventure, mister corn Oh, one with were life experiences.

Speaker 9 (02:49:02):
But I am too old.

Speaker 20 (02:49:05):
Too old now I ain't even necessarily Good Lord, what
in the world are you shooting at?

Speaker 7 (02:49:14):
Ancient pottery vases from the Mean Dynasty? I believe, mister Korn.
You wonder why I've asked you here.

Speaker 83 (02:49:22):
Well, yes, sir, I suspect it wasn't just to show
off your shooting skills to me, was it.

Speaker 7 (02:49:29):
Yes, that is right, mister Korn. There is more to
it than that. Very amusing, though I enjoy reading small
town publications, mister Korn, I came across an article in
your Biloxi Gazette recently.

Speaker 20 (02:49:46):
Oh sakes alive. You're right about the mole rats, didn't you.

Speaker 11 (02:49:50):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (02:49:50):
Yes, Oh, you are quite the hero, mister Korn. Well,
the peaceful village of Biloxi is overrun by giant morats.
Elma corn rallies forth to rid the town of its plague.

Speaker 20 (02:50:04):
Oosever mutant morans too.

Speaker 7 (02:50:06):
You are a brave man, mister Kran, a man that
rises to the occasion when trouble is at hand, which
is exactly why I have chosen you.

Speaker 9 (02:50:15):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (02:50:16):
Oh shows me for one to find something, something I
have spent my youth and millions of dollars to search for.
Which is the Book of Absolute Truth?

Speaker 11 (02:50:28):
Book of Absolute Truth?

Speaker 7 (02:50:30):
You say, yes, it is a book or a scroll,
perhaps a tablet, But I believe it exists, mister Corn.
It contains the answers to all of the questions man
has asked in the past and will ever ask in
the future.

Speaker 83 (02:50:48):
Oh, I gin you like what it tell how they
make a styrophone and how they put the cheese in them?

Speaker 7 (02:50:55):
Can no, no, no, I'm talking about secrets of the
Union verse, mister Korn, the answers to the mysteries of life.
Have you ever wondered what happens after you die?

Speaker 20 (02:51:08):
Well, yes, sir, I try not to dwell on it, though.

Speaker 7 (02:51:11):
The answer would be in the Book of Absolute Truth.

Speaker 20 (02:51:17):
Who you reckon wrote such a thing?

Speaker 7 (02:51:19):
Legend has it?

Speaker 9 (02:51:22):
The author is God?

Speaker 28 (02:51:24):
Oh?

Speaker 83 (02:51:25):
I almost figure that out myself. Listen, sir, mister Williamsburg.
Despite what the Biloxi Gazette says, I ain't now Arizona Jones.

Speaker 82 (02:51:36):
You scrape away all the hometown hero junk, and you
just got my newer hauler from Beluck.

Speaker 7 (02:51:41):
I would go myself, mister Koran, But you see these
feeble legs of mine barely carry me across the hallway.
If you would retrieve the book for me, I will
pay you a quarter of a million dollars, that is,
even if you do not succeed. Sound reasonable, Oh boy,

(02:52:02):
quarter of a man I could pay off my mortgage,
have a little bit left over. I would imagine you
would have quite a bit left over. Mister Cordan. You'd
be a fool to pass up this offer.

Speaker 20 (02:52:14):
Yeah, I guess i'd kick myself if I didn't do it.

Speaker 83 (02:52:18):
I guess when you hold that hefty chunk of change
over my head like that, Mister Williamsburger can't say nothing
but okay.

Speaker 7 (02:52:28):
Excellent, excellent. Your plane leaves at five tomorrow morning, mister Cordan.
It will drop you off in a small country near
India called the cash Tar. I believe I have traced
the book to this location. You will find an old
cafe called Idea. The manager's name is Akhmad. He will

(02:52:48):
give you the leads to go on. Have a safe journey,
mister corn, and may you find adventure. So this is

(02:53:21):
cash Tar, Well, lad's a busy little community. I don't
wonder what this sign up nailed up to this tree,
he says.

Speaker 84 (02:53:31):
Beware outsider, as shy is watching you.

Speaker 20 (02:53:37):
Cursed be those who anger him. Huh.

Speaker 83 (02:53:42):
I guess this ashy fella's the local sheriff. Hey, hey,
there's what I'm looking for.

Speaker 20 (02:53:49):
Cafe idiot supposed to ask for a fellow named.

Speaker 85 (02:53:53):
Akhmed or keep that in mind Acmed amedmh.

Speaker 20 (02:54:09):
Well, it's a hopping little jerk. Huh.

Speaker 83 (02:54:15):
I might order me up and drink while I'm here.
I've always wanted to try one man a zombies.

Speaker 56 (02:54:21):
He can't do h with the tail safe?

Speaker 20 (02:54:27):
What's the factors or your sauceless something? No, sir, I
just come. You know why you come here?

Speaker 80 (02:54:37):
You come to get nice tattoo, tail facense one tack
to kissed knife and carve your name or your chest?

Speaker 20 (02:54:47):
Who helen? No, no, sir, I'm a bleeder. I want
kick quieted here, or don't stop things on my account.

Speaker 86 (02:54:57):
I just look who come and to join party? Pale
one say he no one I give him tattoo? No, sir,
it is no good to give me a fence.

Speaker 7 (02:55:11):
Pale one saboo offend me one time. Tell him what happened. Saboo.

Speaker 87 (02:55:18):
Oh, I forget saboo.

Speaker 82 (02:55:25):
No longer can talk since he lose his tongue to
my note, no work, sir, I don't want to.

Speaker 28 (02:55:33):
Scuffle with you.

Speaker 20 (02:55:35):
Jimmy, I would be leaving this man alone, big and
stupid one. The next bullet will be penetrating your head
most of illy.

Speaker 87 (02:55:45):
All right, I will leave, but we made me to
get pale one, and you would not be so lucky
next time.

Speaker 82 (02:55:57):
Eh Lord, if you ain't Heaven's answer, thanks, I'm much obliged.

Speaker 20 (02:56:04):
Oh no, who that man was gonna cut nachies? Aamiliar
with that merchant?

Speaker 9 (02:56:08):
Awful?

Speaker 20 (02:56:09):
He was only trying to fight in you, Heasucson. I
am akhmed.

Speaker 73 (02:56:14):
You said this, my friend ark Man. Well please meet
your acquaintance ark Man. I'm a elma con yes.

Speaker 82 (02:56:22):
Oh and mister Williamsburg informed me that you would be
writing today. So you are seeking the book of absolute truth?

Speaker 9 (02:56:29):
Right?

Speaker 83 (02:56:30):
Well, yes, or he is. I'm saying to look for
at cern. But but it's between me and you and
the lamp post. I'm not so sure this book exid.

Speaker 82 (02:56:38):
Oh yes, yes, the book does exist, my friend, and
many dangers in finding it.

Speaker 20 (02:56:44):
To see. Ashah, the God of Truth, looks over the book.
He gods it well. Our many had searched for the book,
but none had lived to speak of it.

Speaker 82 (02:56:54):
Lord, only the hermit knows where the book exists. Hermy,
you must ask him. He lives at the bottom of
the canyon of Death. You must be careful, my friend,
because the pygmies live at the bottom of the canyon,
as well as kigmas, and they have a taste for
human flesh. The pale humans are a delicacy, you see. Oh,

(02:57:15):
my goodness, I never thought i'd ask this question. Can
you point me the way to the Canyon of death?

Speaker 23 (02:57:36):
It's the Book of Absolute Truth.

Speaker 88 (02:57:41):
Yes, yes, the hermit knows where the book resides, and
the hermit will tell you.

Speaker 55 (02:57:48):
Yes, you must swear.

Speaker 88 (02:57:50):
And oh subsecrecy, my friend. Oh tell anyone what I
tell you now, and I shall well punish you with slowed,
watrous death. Dear blood will boil your brains, little melterr eyes.

Speaker 83 (02:58:07):
Little pas Okay, all right, I ain't gonna tell nobody.
The Lord mystery making me sick.

Speaker 88 (02:58:14):
Where's that the book is located in the cave of
a thousand terrors. Certain death awaits he whose spirit is
not pure. In order to find the cave.

Speaker 55 (02:58:28):
You must go to.

Speaker 20 (02:58:32):
Mercy sakes a lie.

Speaker 7 (02:58:34):
The spears called him right in the chest.

Speaker 15 (02:58:38):
You wonder where that.

Speaker 18 (02:58:47):
I bit him?

Speaker 9 (02:58:47):
There?

Speaker 18 (02:58:49):
Hid me?

Speaker 20 (02:58:51):
Or at him where you ain't talk the way.

Speaker 83 (02:58:52):
Out of this pattie there, fellers, I like that there
fishing that you got gout.

Speaker 82 (02:59:02):
One like that myself over in Biloxi. Use it Miller's
pond to catch shed.

Speaker 20 (02:59:09):
Now lift up here, y'all. Don't want to eat me.
This whole Biloxi hat is tuugher and a wild turkey.

Speaker 30 (02:59:15):
Get no, don't hold.

Speaker 77 (02:59:19):
Now, come on now, feller, get this net off of me.

Speaker 28 (02:59:22):
Get it off me?

Speaker 9 (02:59:23):
Now what?

Speaker 20 (02:59:39):
Oh lord, well, well this is a fine.

Speaker 7 (02:59:44):
How do you do Yesterday?

Speaker 20 (02:59:46):
About this time?

Speaker 83 (02:59:47):
I was slopping hogs? Now I'm I'm hanging by a
rope over a boiling pot of water, and life does
have its twist and turned.

Speaker 20 (02:59:57):
Say say, say, fellers, listen here, y'all promise.

Speaker 73 (03:00:02):
Not to dunk me in that steep hot and I'll
go kill you a nice big old tiger, And heck,
I'll even slaughter the dang thing and chicken.

Speaker 20 (03:00:10):
Find you some steaks and towels. That sounds huh eh,
well that that was wasted.

Speaker 7 (03:00:19):
Breath quiet quiet here, stop those drums.

Speaker 20 (03:00:27):
Where we meet to get a pill? Hear that fellow
from the bar? Howdy where your free? And to save you?

Speaker 11 (03:00:39):
Now a pill?

Speaker 89 (03:00:41):
One?

Speaker 9 (03:00:42):
How you like?

Speaker 20 (03:00:43):
Now I take my knife and carve your name or
your chest, sing? Oh maybe you like better? I court
this rope that you are hanging by, and.

Speaker 7 (03:00:55):
You fall into hot water.

Speaker 14 (03:00:57):
You not be so pale?

Speaker 20 (03:00:59):
Then would you pay a one?

Speaker 11 (03:01:02):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (03:01:02):
I sure brother, you didn't do that?

Speaker 21 (03:01:07):
Hey?

Speaker 82 (03:01:08):
Hey, I'm not mad, haryok mad glue things elm my friend?
I see you are playing with the fleet mees yes,
but playtime is over now. Then you cut my friend
down or I fire at you with the fire stick
of Usha.

Speaker 87 (03:01:25):
Your pigmies will ignore your thrace uck mad the answer
only to me.

Speaker 20 (03:01:32):
I am thinking you are wrong.

Speaker 82 (03:01:34):
The fire stick has a lot of voice than you do,
my friend. Oh lord, yes, now you are reacting appropriate
n us. Yes, Now take my friend down, make sure
that he is unharmed. Easy boy, don't drop me an
extra you part?

Speaker 9 (03:01:49):
You are?

Speaker 20 (03:01:50):
You are feeling all right? My friend? Uh?

Speaker 83 (03:01:54):
Yeah, yeah, some jumbled nerves and some rope burns on
my wrists. Looks like that's too howie.

Speaker 20 (03:02:02):
The day will come ouk mad when you and I
will come to blues.

Speaker 82 (03:02:07):
Yes, that day will come, stupid one. But until then,
go find somewhere else to play. Oh, I would vic
delate you with the fire stealing that then miss the corn.
You've found the location of the book Abo's thelute truth,
I answer. The hermit told me it was in this
place called the Cave of a Thousand Terrors.

Speaker 20 (03:02:28):
But Jesus he is about determine word.

Speaker 7 (03:02:30):
Sayda he got a spear in a.

Speaker 20 (03:02:31):
Chance the cave.

Speaker 82 (03:02:34):
Yes, well, you are being very lucky today, my friend.
I know the location of the cave. Climb up on
my horse. I will take you there now. Although I
must tell you it is it is just a name.
There are no more than a few hundred tables in
the cave. Let us go, all right, I say, we're
gonna ride bareback. I'll tell you a truthful.

Speaker 20 (03:02:58):
Though I ain't very good at handling no more than
a couple of terrors, you are using me greatly, mister
Gordon dead gum.

Speaker 90 (03:03:21):
So this is a Cave of a thousand terrors?

Speaker 82 (03:03:25):
Huh? I'm sure wish Akhmed had come in here with me.
It'd be nice to have someone to hide behind when
the terrors start to crank up.

Speaker 90 (03:03:34):
But he said I had to come in here on
my own. Who you know, It's been fifteen minutes and
I hadn't seen a single terror yet. It's kind of disappointing.
Suffer and I guess this cave would lead to the.

Speaker 69 (03:03:48):
Sinner steel or pole and listen close to qut.

Speaker 20 (03:03:55):
I had to say, where's that burse coming from?

Speaker 11 (03:03:59):
You?

Speaker 69 (03:04:00):
Humans are so stupid. I am a shop and I
am omnipresent. You have common search of the book. Yeah,
and in order to retrieve it you must confront two
life threatening the terrors too.

Speaker 90 (03:04:23):
I thought this was the cave of a thousand terrors.

Speaker 69 (03:04:27):
If you would rather confront a thousand terrors, I can
arrange it.

Speaker 20 (03:04:34):
Oh no, no, no, for toos. Fine, that's more than enough.

Speaker 7 (03:04:38):
It's mattiful.

Speaker 9 (03:04:40):
Then shut up and listen to what I have to say,
or I will destroy you.

Speaker 91 (03:04:47):
Now, First you will confront a pack of rampant monkeys. Then,
if you are still alive, you will find the Piranha pool.

Speaker 3 (03:05:05):
Should you be smart enough to make it across these obstacles.

Speaker 91 (03:05:11):
The book will be yours, and you will be burdened
with the task of escaping this cave, a task that
I will see that.

Speaker 9 (03:05:23):
You will not complete.

Speaker 82 (03:05:26):
Well, sir, there's a door opening up on the side
of the cave, war wanting wing at the mouth.

Speaker 35 (03:05:37):
I ain't studying about.

Speaker 51 (03:05:38):
Getting no raby that who get more to command me.

Speaker 10 (03:05:44):
Out of here? Oh? Man of it.

Speaker 14 (03:05:51):
I'm at the edge of some sort of pan.

Speaker 20 (03:05:53):
There's kind of water at it. Oh sakes, that must
be them. Pay honest.

Speaker 51 (03:05:59):
I gotta get across a fip somehow.

Speaker 11 (03:06:01):
Huh.

Speaker 20 (03:06:02):
There's a fine hanging from a bridge. Oh, I hope
it holds my wife. How can I get a I
gotta swing across this thing?

Speaker 92 (03:06:10):
Here we go, you go across what is all right?

Speaker 14 (03:06:14):
Pose?

Speaker 93 (03:06:15):
Lord, I've made it the cross lear them through terres
and second flash.

Speaker 20 (03:06:27):
And there's there's a book over there on that bee
stone pedestal.

Speaker 18 (03:06:32):
I bet you that's it.

Speaker 20 (03:06:35):
Yes, this is right there on the cover the book.
The backs shoot where I kind of like the thumb
through this.

Speaker 90 (03:06:44):
But I guess I better get out of here.

Speaker 7 (03:06:47):
This book don't look very old.

Speaker 83 (03:06:49):
Well, let's see, I just swing back over that prawana pit.
Take a run and dash past those monkeys and get
out of here.

Speaker 7 (03:06:58):
That's all there is to its book in my pocket.

Speaker 81 (03:07:02):
And radish I swung over at once.

Speaker 20 (03:07:06):
I knew it again, Fred coming in now, Lord Percy,
the lord fro.

Speaker 24 (03:07:16):
I'm in a pool of many fish.

Speaker 37 (03:07:19):
Thank job.

Speaker 20 (03:07:21):
Somebody help me, mister Corny ock Man. I will push
one of the monkeys into the pool. It should have
tricked me.

Speaker 17 (03:07:28):
I do it.

Speaker 56 (03:07:30):
I pushed the monkey in.

Speaker 12 (03:07:31):
Now it's working, oc Man.

Speaker 20 (03:07:36):
The piranhas are going to the monkey y. Grab my head,
my friend, I pull you out.

Speaker 63 (03:07:41):
Now you got it.

Speaker 9 (03:07:45):
All right?

Speaker 20 (03:07:47):
He come, old flame rock man. This third time you
saved my life. Yes, I'm gonna share someone at quarter
a million with you.

Speaker 7 (03:07:55):
No, you will get knocked one red cent, mister corn
mister Amsburg, what the heck are you doing here?

Speaker 26 (03:08:03):
Look?

Speaker 27 (03:08:04):
Look I found the book.

Speaker 7 (03:08:05):
The book, give me that worth of thing?

Speaker 10 (03:08:10):
What are you reading it?

Speaker 17 (03:08:11):
After?

Speaker 10 (03:08:12):
So?

Speaker 65 (03:08:12):
Read it up?

Speaker 28 (03:08:13):
Have you gone an find?

Speaker 82 (03:08:16):
The book has blank plages? My friend, I fear that
you have been cruelly deceived.

Speaker 7 (03:08:20):
My movie has been ruined. I told you not to interfere.
When he entered the cave, uck Man What.

Speaker 82 (03:08:26):
The heck is he talking about? This is our being
a game, mister Cordon. Huh, the Book of absolute truth
does not exist.

Speaker 90 (03:08:33):
What you mean that main fella in the barn, in
the hermit, and them pigmies.

Speaker 82 (03:08:39):
They all work for Sir Ensburg, mister Cordon. This country
belongs to him as well, and I fear.

Speaker 7 (03:08:45):
That I work for him before you do not any more,
rock Man, you can begin looking for a new job immediately.
Everything has been ruined. I'll tell you the truth, mister Cordon.
Cameras have been spread throughout this country. They are, and
they have been videotaping your every move. You were to
live the adventure that I wish I could live myself.

(03:09:09):
I told you how much I despise television and movies.
But this, this was real and it was going perfectly
until our met ruined it.

Speaker 82 (03:09:20):
You had in wanted me, there would be no real dangers,
mister williams Berger. The piranha, the monkeys, they were real,
they were genuine. How can you almost die?

Speaker 7 (03:09:28):
How can you have a real adventure without real dangerous
and yes, perhaps death. Were you to have survived, mister
cor and I would have paid you the amount we
agreed upon it, but as it stands, you get nothing.

Speaker 20 (03:09:42):
I'm a fourteen gold sucker.

Speaker 83 (03:09:46):
I was a little suspicious when that Absolute Truth book
was in paperback in that Asha failure talking to me that.

Speaker 20 (03:09:53):
Was just do you want to speak your wouldn't it?

Speaker 9 (03:09:55):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (03:09:57):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (03:09:57):
But I have an idea. This adventure does not have
to end this way. The cameras are still rolling. I
could have the endings I wished for. What gets back
into the pool.

Speaker 2 (03:10:08):
Mister Cory, what it right for your life? I got
the piranha.

Speaker 9 (03:10:12):
I'll pay you if you survived.

Speaker 77 (03:10:13):
Miss Well, what are you doing? Don't shut he mister
wall Ain't shoving me back into that meat.

Speaker 14 (03:10:18):
Eating fish pool.

Speaker 20 (03:10:18):
Get in here, mister Williams, but watch out. Those rocks
are loose.

Speaker 15 (03:10:22):
Got the fun into the pool.

Speaker 75 (03:10:23):
I'm slippering, my goodness.

Speaker 84 (03:10:26):
Shut he fell in for scrap a hand, Miss whispers
when they overhead to night.

Speaker 20 (03:10:31):
To mister Cordon, you can I save him now, I'm
funning yourself.

Speaker 15 (03:10:35):
Come back here.

Speaker 28 (03:10:35):
Oh.

Speaker 14 (03:10:36):
I wanted to touch his teeth.

Speaker 20 (03:10:38):
In, but I didn't want him to get in at Parana.
He was a lost case, mister Cordon. Some people get
a lot of money, they go crazy.

Speaker 18 (03:10:45):
You ain't fooling it.

Speaker 83 (03:10:47):
The only thing I ain't got out of this is
a story to tell the folks down in Biloxi is
in hell.

Speaker 20 (03:10:53):
They ain't gonna swallow it. They'll come with me to
the Idiot Cafe.

Speaker 82 (03:10:57):
Mister Gordon, we've been drink mini zombie in talk about
good times.

Speaker 20 (03:11:01):
No heck, I'm all for it, and watch out for
the rabbit monkeys. Well that was our story for today.
I'm in a bit of a spot here.

Speaker 80 (03:11:18):
I certainly know what it's like to be caught to
the pool of water myself. Our busted types have gotten
out of control. The water is almost up to the ceiling.

Speaker 15 (03:11:32):
Now.

Speaker 82 (03:11:33):
You may want to leave and return later when we
had this watery miss cleared up until next time.

Speaker 20 (03:11:43):
A pleasant.

Speaker 59 (03:11:56):
You have just heard chut Cheddars tales from the More
Today's installment Elmer and the Book of Absolute Truth. The
names and characters portrayed in this production are fictitious. Any
similarities to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

Speaker 9 (03:12:21):
A production by M and j Io Theater.

Speaker 94 (03:12:45):
It's recorded that in the beginning of time Kines Lewis
brother Abel and then Sporth wandered across the face.

Speaker 10 (03:12:51):
Of the earth, with the mark of the murderer upon
his head.

Speaker 9 (03:12:54):
Those who have.

Speaker 94 (03:12:55):
Followed the original slayer and the footsteps have found their
everlasting regret that murder.

Speaker 24 (03:13:00):
The clock has its.

Speaker 94 (03:13:00):
Own eleventh hour, when the alarm will ring forth like
a fear and of retribution, and the chimes will announce
its horror.

Speaker 9 (03:13:08):
To the world.

Speaker 24 (03:13:10):
I first made up my mind to kill my wife
on the day I left for the South.

Speaker 40 (03:13:16):
I wasn't angry with her.

Speaker 24 (03:13:18):
I was even a little sorry.

Speaker 65 (03:13:19):
As she had to go.

Speaker 24 (03:13:21):
But go she must, because the situation had become unbearable.
As I drove steadily south, I turned the problem over
in my mind. It had to be done with calm deliberation.
As I pondered my destiny, I narrowly avoided striking a
young woman who suddenly appeared in the glare of my headlights.

Speaker 40 (03:13:41):
As she's stood on the side of the road.

Speaker 26 (03:13:46):
Are you all right, I think, sir, But you stashed
to mother my stoke.

Speaker 24 (03:13:51):
I'm terribly sorry. I'll pay you for them.

Speaker 26 (03:13:53):
That's all right? How washable going, sir?

Speaker 10 (03:13:58):
Why? Yes?

Speaker 65 (03:14:00):
So am I.

Speaker 10 (03:14:02):
I just so am? I?

Speaker 40 (03:14:05):
May I give you a lift?

Speaker 26 (03:14:06):
Can't you?

Speaker 24 (03:14:11):
How are you going as far as I'm going to
Palm Tree Beach?

Speaker 26 (03:14:15):
And so am I.

Speaker 24 (03:14:21):
I glanced at her closely for a moment, then started
the car. If she thought she was riding all the
way as my companion, she was very much mistaken. She
was dressed in cheap clothes, and her shoes were misshapen
and in need of repair. Altogether, she looked rather disreputable.

Speaker 40 (03:14:38):
Although I had to admit that in the dim blow
of my dashboard.

Speaker 24 (03:14:42):
Life, her face was pretty in a pathetic sort of way.
Perhaps I would have gone so far as to say
the girl had a sort.

Speaker 40 (03:14:49):
Of animal charm, but not for me.

Speaker 24 (03:14:56):
What are you doing on a lonely road at this
time of the night?

Speaker 57 (03:14:59):
My car broke down?

Speaker 38 (03:15:01):
Your car?

Speaker 26 (03:15:03):
I've really got two of them, but I used the
cattle at to night, and my shoefull is back there
trying to fix it.

Speaker 24 (03:15:09):
Oh, may I ask who you are?

Speaker 26 (03:15:12):
My name is Gertrude, Gertrude Slade. My father is Johnson Slade,
the millionaire.

Speaker 38 (03:15:17):
I'm a gread I've never heard of him.

Speaker 26 (03:15:19):
I'm on my way to a stake in Palm Tree Beach.
We have a wonderful face. Three thousand acres all covered
with palm trees.

Speaker 24 (03:15:27):
Oh, it's so nice to be a rich Yes, I
presume you are one of those wealthy eccentrics. But you're
the first debutant EI ever met with holes in her shoes.

Speaker 26 (03:15:41):
And I'd addressed this way, I'm never credit gotch Why
I've got money enough to buy half the shoes in
this country. You ought to see my wager with home
full of evening rounds and silk underwear and shoes were goodness,
I've got five dozen. Don't you believe me?

Speaker 40 (03:16:00):
Yes, of course, Gertrudey, I believe every word you say.

Speaker 24 (03:16:05):
My friend of the night was obviously a pathological liar.
I'd seen her type before, but she was an advanced case,
perhaps bordering on dementia praecox. She lived only for the
dreams she concocted in her childish mind. Her life was
a succession of unfulfilled wishes, and she compensated for them
by imagining herself to be what she was never born

(03:16:26):
to be. It made her rather an amusing person. But
I suddenly realized that her value to me might assume
a greater importance than I had at first imagined. As
the miles ticked off, she grew drowsy, and soon she
was fast asleep with her head on my shoulder. The
chief perfume she used was rather distasteful, and I noticed, sir,

(03:16:49):
nail polish was cracked and streaked with grime. Not exactly
what i'd call my feminine ideal. But the more I
thought about it, the more I realized wized how useful
she could be. So I drove all that day and
into the night. It's amazing how little sleep you need
when your mind is full of plans and your thoughts

(03:17:10):
are intent on murder. After thirty hours of driving, I
was still as fresh as ever, much to the admiration
of my companion in crime.

Speaker 26 (03:17:22):
You've got a constitution like a horse. I don't see
how you can drive so much.

Speaker 24 (03:17:27):
It all depends on your state of mind. Besides, I
worried my wife that i'd arrived by tomorrow morning at
the latest.

Speaker 40 (03:17:32):
I wouldn't want poor Hilda to the worry.

Speaker 26 (03:17:35):
You are married very much, sir.

Speaker 24 (03:17:39):
Oh, you sound disappointed to gedrude.

Speaker 26 (03:17:43):
I just thought you were a single man.

Speaker 28 (03:17:46):
Oh.

Speaker 24 (03:17:46):
As a matter of fact, I haven't been married very long,
just two years, that's all.

Speaker 40 (03:17:51):
And my wife is an invalid.

Speaker 26 (03:17:53):
You mean she's sick.

Speaker 24 (03:17:55):
She's unable to use her legs. She gets about mostly
in a wheelchair. She took a train down or I
drove the car.

Speaker 26 (03:18:02):
I suppose she's got to have somebody help her around
a lot.

Speaker 24 (03:18:05):
Well, I've been doing that for since we married, but
I'm getting.

Speaker 4 (03:18:08):
Tired of it.

Speaker 40 (03:18:10):
I'm looking for someone to take over.

Speaker 24 (03:18:12):
Unless well, more of a companion than anything else. The
salary would be rather good. You wouldn't consider the job?

Speaker 38 (03:18:20):
Would you go to it?

Speaker 40 (03:18:25):
Ten pounds a week?

Speaker 26 (03:18:27):
Ten pounds a week.

Speaker 24 (03:18:29):
I spend more than that on Come, come, go to
let's tace reality for a moment. You're a millionaire's daughter.

Speaker 26 (03:18:35):
And you know what are you talking about?

Speaker 15 (03:18:37):
You're a poor, dread.

Speaker 24 (03:18:37):
Female who doesn't have the price of a cup of tea.
Stop lying about yourself.

Speaker 26 (03:18:40):
Who's lying?

Speaker 24 (03:18:41):
I'm giving you a chance to earn some money in
an easy way.

Speaker 26 (03:18:46):
My two brothers would course with you for saying that.
Where I come from, a man cheats a lady with respect?

Speaker 24 (03:18:51):
Have you ever been to a mental hospital?

Speaker 9 (03:18:52):
Gotrude?

Speaker 24 (03:18:54):
You're lying again?

Speaker 26 (03:18:55):
I'm not lying. There's nothing wrong with me.

Speaker 27 (03:18:57):
The doctor said, what did the doctor says.

Speaker 24 (03:19:05):
That you could have your freedom as long as you
behaved yourself.

Speaker 26 (03:19:08):
Stop putting into my mind.

Speaker 24 (03:19:09):
Did he say you mustn't excite yourself. Did he tell
you you would have to go back for another treatment
if you stepped out of line.

Speaker 40 (03:19:16):
You needn't be afraid of me, Gertrude.

Speaker 24 (03:19:17):
You can trust me. Even if you ran away from
the hospital, you can still trust I didn't wait.

Speaker 26 (03:19:24):
Don't say that.

Speaker 11 (03:19:27):
There's something wrong with me.

Speaker 24 (03:19:32):
Stop crying, Gertrude, I said, stop crying.

Speaker 40 (03:19:39):
Perhaps I made a mistake.

Speaker 24 (03:19:42):
I suppose i'd better look for someone else to care
for you.

Speaker 26 (03:19:45):
Yes, I suppose you better.

Speaker 24 (03:19:48):
You wouldn't want a.

Speaker 38 (03:19:49):
Job, you wouldn't need one.

Speaker 40 (03:19:52):
No, I beg your pardon again, Gertrude.

Speaker 24 (03:19:54):
The mistake was mine. But I have twenty pounds in
my wallet here that I'll give you in advance if
you happen to change your mind. She looked at the
twenty pounds in my hand.

Speaker 26 (03:20:08):
And licked her lips.

Speaker 24 (03:20:10):
It is probably more money than she'd ever seen it
once in all her life. But her lie is but
precious to her too. She had to find a way
to take the job and still be true to her
other self.

Speaker 40 (03:20:21):
A part of her that lived in a world of
make believe. So I gave her an opportunity and she
took it.

Speaker 24 (03:20:30):
Don't be foolish, skertured. I made a mistake. The least
you can do is to forget it.

Speaker 26 (03:20:33):
I've never been so insulted in my life.

Speaker 24 (03:20:35):
If you want the truth, I was only testing you,
testing me. I wanted to see if you were honest,
and I find you are. If I'm to get someone
who's a companion for my wife, she must have breedy,
she must come from excellent stock.

Speaker 40 (03:20:45):
In that way, you've hit the bill.

Speaker 26 (03:20:47):
Oh that's different.

Speaker 24 (03:20:49):
And as far as money is concerned, it and do.

Speaker 26 (03:20:53):
Need it to my favorite charity.

Speaker 24 (03:21:03):
I arrived at my wife's estate a little after midnight
and parked the car near the beach, just outside the garage.
Only one more problem remained to coax Hilda into accepting Gertrude,
and from that point on the drama would unfold itself.
Who's there, Oh it's Charles, Hilda. May I put on
the lights?

Speaker 56 (03:21:23):
Oh I suppose so?

Speaker 40 (03:21:25):
Did I awaken you naturally?

Speaker 26 (03:21:28):
Why didn't you come down by train as I asked
you to? Why did you insist on driving down I
had some thinking to do.

Speaker 28 (03:21:33):
Well.

Speaker 26 (03:21:33):
If you try to work out how to get hold
of a larger allowance, you're wasting your time, sick and
tired of squandering my money on you, and you're worthless.

Speaker 40 (03:21:40):
Friends, I can understand how you feel here.

Speaker 26 (03:21:42):
Oh okay, now we'll get fip decent of you. And
can you understand that I've discovered at last if you're
only married to my father? Can you understand that as well?

Speaker 40 (03:21:49):
Long me Hilda too?

Speaker 56 (03:21:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 26 (03:21:51):
From now on you won't get fun redcent out of me.
You'll go out and earn your money like other men.

Speaker 24 (03:21:56):
I fully intend to go to work, my dear.

Speaker 40 (03:21:59):
What I've accepted the position with the banking firm I
start next week?

Speaker 4 (03:22:03):
Oh you do?

Speaker 26 (03:22:05):
And what do you know about banking?

Speaker 24 (03:22:07):
May I ask?

Speaker 26 (03:22:08):
You can't even say nothing. All you can do is
just prendd it.

Speaker 24 (03:22:11):
The least you can do is let me prove myself.

Speaker 26 (03:22:12):
I don't believe that you have a job. What are
you doing down here? If you're telling the truth, why
didn't you stay up more?

Speaker 15 (03:22:18):
Well?

Speaker 40 (03:22:18):
I wanted to make certain you'd be taken care of.

Speaker 26 (03:22:20):
The woman who came down with me on the train.
Is satisfactory?

Speaker 17 (03:22:23):
Enough.

Speaker 24 (03:22:23):
It's but you hardly know her.

Speaker 40 (03:22:25):
Fairly harder day before you lift.

Speaker 26 (03:22:26):
She seems to be capable.

Speaker 24 (03:22:28):
I have someone better, someone better. I've never told you
about my cousin, Gertrude. She and I were very close
years ago. What about her, well, she's had an extensive
experience as a practical nurse. She's an excellent companion. I'm
sure you'll get along.

Speaker 26 (03:22:42):
What makes you so concerned about my welfare, Charles.

Speaker 24 (03:22:45):
Perhaps I'm turning over a new leaf. Perhaps I found
out how much you mean to me. Now you can
keep your money, Hilda. I'm going to show you once
and for all that I married you for love. My
job will prove that, and my behavior from now on
will be perfect. I asked you to give me a chance, Darling.

Speaker 26 (03:23:08):
You haven't called me darling since our wedding day.

Speaker 24 (03:23:11):
Give me a few months, and if by that time
I don't prove you I mean every word I say,
I'll give you a divorce with no strings attached.

Speaker 26 (03:23:20):
Oh, Charles, if only you meant.

Speaker 9 (03:23:23):
To see darling.

Speaker 24 (03:23:25):
But in the meantime to morrow will dismiss the woman
you brought down with you, and Gertrude will take her place.
I don't be personal favor to me, my darling.

Speaker 9 (03:23:31):
Take her off.

Speaker 24 (03:23:33):
She needs the money, and I've always been so fond
of her.

Speaker 10 (03:23:36):
Very well, Charles, may I kiss you good night?

Speaker 26 (03:23:41):
Yes, Charles, you may.

Speaker 40 (03:23:46):
I leaned over and kissed her lips.

Speaker 24 (03:23:50):
I consoled myself with the thought that this kiss would
undoubtedly be the final old man, the kiss of death.

(03:24:12):
Like the moving thing on the poem, time goes ever form,
and our lives are firmly hinged on its pursing seconds.

Speaker 28 (03:24:19):
The future is.

Speaker 24 (03:24:20):
Ours to do with what we will.

Speaker 94 (03:24:22):
It is only the past that is impossible to alter her.
I gave Gertrude a room in the servants quarters for
the night. The first thing in the morning, I dismissed
the woman.

Speaker 40 (03:24:30):
My wife had brought with her.

Speaker 24 (03:24:32):
Then, just before hill, the wheel herself down to breakfast.
I gave Gertrude a few pointers on how to behave Now.
Remember Gertrude, she must be humored.

Speaker 26 (03:24:42):
Satta is she crazy?

Speaker 24 (03:24:43):
It's really just eccentric. I've told her you're my cousin.
I don't say anything about your social background for the
time being. You can tell her about your family later on.
Good morning, Oh, good morning, darling. Let me put you
near the window, you see?

Speaker 26 (03:25:00):
Well, yes, Moder really well? Oh who's this my.

Speaker 40 (03:25:05):
Cousin, Gertrude. You remember I told you about it last night.

Speaker 26 (03:25:07):
Oh, yes, my new companion.

Speaker 10 (03:25:10):
Hmm, well changed my mind, Charles, changed your mind? What
do you mean I've decided to keep missus Kelsey.

Speaker 24 (03:25:15):
After all, but I've already dismissed her. What now, please,
hild be reasonable? How can I get north again unless
I know that you're in good hands?

Speaker 26 (03:25:24):
Can you play a Kenneston Gertrude.

Speaker 24 (03:25:28):
She's an expert, Hilder. Gertrude can do almost ending at all.

Speaker 26 (03:25:31):
Of course I can.

Speaker 94 (03:25:32):
When I went to school in breakfast, please, Gertrude, Missus
Roberts must be rather hungry.

Speaker 26 (03:25:37):
Yes, I've fixed it now.

Speaker 10 (03:25:40):
It was all that nonsense about her school in Switzerland.

Speaker 24 (03:25:42):
Oh she's very well educated. I'm certain you'll find her interesting.

Speaker 26 (03:25:45):
Yes, she's rather attractive too, in a common way. When
did you say you're going up north to take up
your new position, Charles in.

Speaker 5 (03:25:52):
A week or so?

Speaker 94 (03:25:54):
Oh, messieur, And I'll miss you, and I'm anxious to
get to work. Perhaps i'll leave even sooner than I plan.
For the first time since I thought of what I
was going to do. I became a little nervous. These
things have to be done quickly or they can't be
done at all. Besides, everything was said, what was I

(03:26:14):
waiting for? So that very afternoon I sent gerdrud to
down on an errand I took Kildare for a walk
down the beach.

Speaker 10 (03:26:24):
Oh, it was sweeter you to wield me out here, Charles.

Speaker 26 (03:26:27):
You're becoming more considered.

Speaker 10 (03:26:28):
By the minute.

Speaker 24 (03:26:29):
I've decided to change my plans a bit.

Speaker 4 (03:26:31):
Now.

Speaker 24 (03:26:31):
I wanted us to have these last few hours to ourselves.

Speaker 26 (03:26:34):
How have you changed your plans?

Speaker 24 (03:26:35):
I'm going north a little sooner to morrow, perhaps, what for?

Speaker 94 (03:26:39):
It certainly won't let my reputation with my new employers
if I char up a little sooner.

Speaker 26 (03:26:43):
I can hardly believe it's you talking, Charles. It's so
wonderful seeing you this way. Oh are you getting a
little too close to the water, dre Do wheel me
up the beach a bit.

Speaker 24 (03:26:51):
It's a lovely afternoon, Hilda. Yeair is soft, the sun
is warm at.

Speaker 26 (03:26:56):
Charles, Charles, the water the surface reaching my.

Speaker 24 (03:26:58):
Chair, youll find the water very soothing, Hilda.

Speaker 26 (03:27:00):
What's you're talking about? Child, I'm getting wet.

Speaker 24 (03:27:03):
Goodbye, Hilda. It'd be the most uncertained marriage. But in
spite of that, I feel just a little wistful of
seeing you go have.

Speaker 55 (03:27:10):
Charles for Hen's sake.

Speaker 26 (03:27:11):
We'll be back.

Speaker 27 (03:27:12):
Don't tell me, child, do you think when your head
submergers you'll find me past?

Speaker 24 (03:27:26):
I pushed the wheel chair into the pounding surf. Watch
the undertot carry had away. Now all that had to
be done was to make the phone call and summon
the police. Gertrude's background and pathological addiction to lies would
be enough to convince them the girl had taken Hilda
for a stroll and had gone ba Cirque. It was

(03:27:48):
as simple as that, got it.

Speaker 10 (03:27:52):
What are you doing here in the huse waiting?

Speaker 24 (03:27:55):
Where did you get back in town?

Speaker 26 (03:27:57):
I didn't go. I was watching you and missus Roberts
through the windows.

Speaker 1 (03:28:03):
I see.

Speaker 26 (03:28:06):
You shouldn't have done it.

Speaker 24 (03:28:09):
I shouldn't have done it.

Speaker 40 (03:28:11):
Hi, dear girl, Now I know you're out of your mind.

Speaker 38 (03:28:15):
You killed my wife, Gertrude.

Speaker 24 (03:28:17):
You took her to the beach and pushed her chair
into the water. I feel sorry for you, Gertrude. I'd
have to call the police, but they won't hurt you.
They'll take her back to that hospital where you came from,
and I'll send you some flowers.

Speaker 26 (03:28:30):
Isn't that nice?

Speaker 24 (03:28:32):
Why are you smiling at me that way?

Speaker 26 (03:28:33):
I think it's funny.

Speaker 24 (03:28:36):
Stop smiling, Gertrude. This is a serious business.

Speaker 10 (03:28:40):
Stop it.

Speaker 15 (03:28:41):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 10 (03:28:43):
Stopping Gertrude.

Speaker 9 (03:28:44):
Stop it.

Speaker 24 (03:28:46):
And then I saw what she was laughing about. It
was in her hand a small camera he'ld have given
me some months before. Gertrude had been standing by the
window taking pictures of the murder.

Speaker 30 (03:28:56):
You do your camera me.

Speaker 26 (03:28:58):
You won't find the film inside well, I talk about
it and hid it.

Speaker 24 (03:29:06):
Get it out of its hiding place. I don't want
to get it out before.

Speaker 26 (03:29:10):
I've trained you and have no one left to take
the blame for you.

Speaker 24 (03:29:17):
I'll make your proposition. I'll give you a thousand pounds
for that film, and you can leave the heart.

Speaker 26 (03:29:23):
I won't call the police a thousand pounds when your
wife left you a million.

Speaker 24 (03:29:26):
If you won't give in the film, what do you
want tend to do with it?

Speaker 26 (03:29:30):
I haven't made up my mind.

Speaker 10 (03:29:32):
I'll think about it. You're in the next few weeks.

Speaker 38 (03:29:37):
The next few weeks.

Speaker 26 (03:29:39):
Yes, I need to live here in style. I always
told you I was rich, and you wouldn't believe me.
And I said I had a beautiful estate in Palm
Tree Beach. Well I've got one there, haven't i, mister rabbit.

Speaker 24 (03:30:00):
I searched the house like a madman for that film.
Gertrude was mussed as she sat on the den all
day and a chocolate She ordered be around as if
I were a lucky and she was the empress of
the world.

Speaker 26 (03:30:08):
This house is mine, isn't it, mister Rabbits, Yes, this
house is yours. He was left to me by my
dear the party's.

Speaker 24 (03:30:14):
Grandpa, Gertrude, won't you give me that film?

Speaker 26 (03:30:18):
I think i'd invite my aunt and uncle to spend
a few months. Yet, Uncle John is an English baron.
You know all my family comes from very fine style.

Speaker 24 (03:30:25):
The film, Gertrude, where is the film?

Speaker 26 (03:30:27):
Where you'll never find it?

Speaker 10 (03:30:29):
Mister Rabbits.

Speaker 24 (03:30:34):
I went through every room in the house and dug
through all the wardrobes. I opened up the pillows and
cut the mattresses to spreads. She couldn't be that smart.
How could you have hidden the film so well? My
wife's absence hadn't been noticed yet, but I knew I
didn't have much more time. Someone would come there sooner
or later to make an inquiry, and that might lead
to a search. I had to get my hands on
that roll of film before it was too late.

Speaker 26 (03:30:56):
What are you doing, mister Rabbits?

Speaker 40 (03:31:00):
Just looking for something?

Speaker 26 (03:31:02):
You must have gone from those drugs at least a
thousand times for a boy, And goodness what you found
in the ward Jersey?

Speaker 24 (03:31:09):
Where is that film Gertrude?

Speaker 26 (03:31:11):
In a place where it's safe?

Speaker 4 (03:31:15):
Who's that?

Speaker 26 (03:31:16):
I haven't the slightest idea.

Speaker 24 (03:31:18):
You didn't call a police, Gude, You wouldn't do a
thing like.

Speaker 28 (03:31:21):
That to me.

Speaker 26 (03:31:22):
I haven't made up my mind yet exactly.

Speaker 24 (03:31:25):
What I'm going to do? Or excuse me, mister, what
do you want?

Speaker 18 (03:31:38):
Well?

Speaker 24 (03:31:39):
The kids and we were playing on the play to say,
a private property? How dare you check this?

Speaker 4 (03:31:42):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (03:31:42):
But we were just digging for crap and we found
something do.

Speaker 89 (03:31:49):
But yeah, it was out of the pane, so.

Speaker 24 (03:31:50):
Yeah, we have a foot under and we thought it
might belong to you.

Speaker 28 (03:31:54):
What was it?

Speaker 24 (03:31:55):
You've had this rather film in the box?

Speaker 40 (03:31:57):
I couldn't believe my eyes.

Speaker 24 (03:31:59):
He added in the same role. It must have been.

Speaker 10 (03:32:02):
It had to be.

Speaker 15 (03:32:04):
I almost cried.

Speaker 24 (03:32:05):
I was so happy I got my strength returned. She'd
see who was master? Now give it to me quickly? Well, yes, yes,
take this, how pam living with your friends and thank
them for me?

Speaker 14 (03:32:20):
Yes, take them for me.

Speaker 24 (03:32:22):
From the bottom of my heart.

Speaker 26 (03:32:23):
On got our chimes, sir, mister rabbit.

Speaker 40 (03:32:29):
I have a little surprise for you, Gertrude.

Speaker 10 (03:32:33):
But I'm a surprise.

Speaker 38 (03:32:35):
Look what I.

Speaker 54 (03:32:38):
Oh, no, you don't.

Speaker 24 (03:32:39):
It's mine now, and look what I'm going to do
with it. You see, it's no good anymore, Gertrude. The
light ruined it. And just to make certain it's gone,
we'll put a match to it. You were very clever,
won't you, my dear. Well, now you're through, I have

(03:33:00):
and put you in a place with bars across the
window and a thylum. Gertrude, that's where you will go.
You and your crazy dreams. You will have them in
a madhouse from.

Speaker 4 (03:33:05):
Now on, where you belong.

Speaker 40 (03:33:10):
I picked up the phone.

Speaker 24 (03:33:11):
The line was dead and she'd cut the wire.

Speaker 9 (03:33:15):
Without a word.

Speaker 40 (03:33:15):
I turned and left the house.

Speaker 24 (03:33:17):
She had my car key, but there was a neighbor
half a while up the beach, I could call from there.
I started to run.

Speaker 94 (03:33:23):
Time was precious, now she might try to. I didn't
see the piece of drift wood that tripped me, but
I felt the.

Speaker 9 (03:33:29):
Terrible pain in my thigh.

Speaker 24 (03:33:30):
If I hit the thump, it was my right leg.
I knew the bone was broken. As painful as it was,
I started to crawl to the wheelchair that had been
washed back on the beach. If I could reach it,
I could wheel myself alarm.

Speaker 26 (03:33:50):
But my last ounce of strength, I poomed myself into
the sea.

Speaker 21 (03:33:56):
But the pain was.

Speaker 17 (03:33:58):
I couldn't wi the chirp.

Speaker 19 (03:34:06):
Need a little help, mister robitus, it's my leg got fool,
it's proper.

Speaker 26 (03:34:13):
Oh that's too bad.

Speaker 30 (03:34:15):
Here, let me help you.

Speaker 26 (03:34:21):
But well you're pushing the terf You know where, mister Robins.
I'm sure you know where no room your room go.

Speaker 94 (03:34:46):
There's a house that squats atop a lonely crag in
the mountains, inside the ills who have forgotten that time exists.
And in a room near the gable roof, behind the
small bard window, a girl named Gertrud said and smiles
to herself and dreams. Perhaps she is thinking of the
deceased mister Roberts and his late wife Hilda. But more

(03:35:09):
likely she's thinking of the estate she was once mistress
out the one that overlooked Palm Tree Beach. The clock
was written by Lawrence Clean, arrated by Harp McGuire. You
heard John Bouchell as Charles Roberts, Coraline Neville as Gertrude,
with Moira Redmond as Hilda and Rodney Jacobs as the boy.
The Clock, directed by John Saul, was a Grace Gibson

(03:35:30):
radio production.

Speaker 95 (03:35:43):
Hello, I hope I haven't kept you waiting. Yes, this
is the Crime Club. I'm the librarian Death at seventen. Yes,
we have that crime Club book for you. Come right over. Ah,

(03:36:11):
you're here good. Take the easy chair by the window. Comfortable.
The book is on this shelf here. It is Death
at seven ten by HFS mooor The very Intriguing Story
of a beautiful woman who was in love with Death.

(03:36:33):
Let's look at it under a reading lamp. The train
was due to leave at seven ten in the evening,
and at exactly eight minutes after seven. Mark Kent, a
well known mystery writer, was in drawing room B his
own drawing room, when the door opened, and he was
surprised to see a young, beautiful woman. He was even
more surprised at the way she giggled, Oh.

Speaker 17 (03:36:57):
Yourself, and see how you like it. My name is
Susan Ward Steele.

Speaker 4 (03:37:02):
But haven't you made a mistake.

Speaker 17 (03:37:04):
Your ma kn't the mystery rider. I adore mystery writers.
Well your pictures don't do your justice. How about getting
me a drink.

Speaker 4 (03:37:18):
I don't think you've had enough.

Speaker 17 (03:37:20):
I'll be a good boy and get me a drink.

Speaker 4 (03:37:22):
I better get you back to your compartment.

Speaker 17 (03:37:24):
I'm going to Reno, a long trip. I saw you
come on the train. I knew it was going to
be interesting.

Speaker 4 (03:37:32):
I'm not going to Rena.

Speaker 17 (03:37:35):
You should have seen Gerald's face this morning when I
said goodbye to him. He's my husband, such a pain.

Speaker 4 (03:37:43):
Oh look, Susan, do you mind?

Speaker 17 (03:37:44):
And you should have seen Claire Ellis's face when I
told her that I was going to marry Pierce Colin,
and my step brother Robert Ward's face when I wouldn't
let him have the money. So many faces and oh,
so long favorite, please.

Speaker 10 (03:38:02):
Marry me.

Speaker 17 (03:38:04):
You just watch bark in six weeks when I come
back from Reno. He'll never tell me again he's not
the marrying kind. Yeah, yeah, how about that drink? Do
you promised me?

Speaker 4 (03:38:16):
I didn't, Susan, I.

Speaker 17 (03:38:18):
Want to drink.

Speaker 10 (03:38:20):
I've got to have a drink later.

Speaker 96 (03:38:21):
Please anything, Waters, You've never been so thirsty, please Water
Ginger all.

Speaker 89 (03:38:34):
About Chicago, Susan stop at no conductor, conductor holds the
train as a dead woman on part.

Speaker 95 (03:38:48):
Four days later, Mark Kent was in the room at
police headquarters with Captain McNair, his friend. They were comparing
notes the results of intensive investigation and some speculation.

Speaker 4 (03:39:00):
We start with the atropine. Cap that's what killed her. Yeah,
one pill, that's usually enough. Now, here's what the book
says about atropine, an organic alkaloid which causes death in
humans without course, an atomical chain, no pain, that's right.
Symptoms include dryness of mouth and throat goodness. While talk.
Death usually takes place within eight hours. Coroner told me

(03:39:22):
there's no set rule about that. It can happen in
six hours, in four hours, in one hour, it can
happen in ten hours. Well, we know from what Gerald
Steel told us. Susan didn't get up until almost eleven o'clock. Cap,
Are you willing to do some speculating if it doesn't
mess up the fact?

Speaker 75 (03:39:37):
What fact?

Speaker 4 (03:39:38):
All right, go ahead, but remember you're not writing a book.
This was a real murder, and I'm a real policeman.
Now we've got a pretty good idea of the kind
of man Gerald Steel is. There's no record that he
ever had a job. His wife, Susan was very rich.
Oh okay. We know that she left a will giving
him half her a state, and we know that she
was going to renout to get a divorce another man.

(03:40:00):
Now let's combine what Gerald told us about that morning
four days ago, and what, for reasons of self preservation,
he might have forgotten to tell us. Oh ahead, and
I'm listening.

Speaker 9 (03:40:11):
All right.

Speaker 4 (03:40:11):
It's eleven o'clock. Susan Ward Steele has just gotten out
of bed, and after the usual routine, she goes into
the kitchen, where she finds her husband sitting before a
big breakfast. She's a little annoyed.

Speaker 17 (03:40:24):
Goodboring, Joe, enjoying yourself.

Speaker 11 (03:40:28):
Any objections to my being hungry?

Speaker 17 (03:40:30):
Oh no, I thought today you might have a less
of an appetite.

Speaker 11 (03:40:33):
I'm not responsible for today.

Speaker 17 (03:40:35):
Susan ham eggs, toast and coffee is that your first
helping dear, Oh, nuts, you don't say you're so articulate?

Speaker 4 (03:40:43):
Question, massel, I told him to take the day off.
You told him, yes, what's the matter with that?

Speaker 17 (03:40:49):
But Darling, you don't pay his salary.

Speaker 4 (03:40:51):
I had no idea that we wouldn't want any strangers
around the house today.

Speaker 17 (03:40:55):
You're so sweet, but I'm not spending today with you. Oh,
I'm having lunch with Robert, tea with Claire Ellis, and then.

Speaker 4 (03:41:05):
Would you like to guess cocktails with Pierce Cotton and
the great send off?

Speaker 17 (03:41:09):
Don't be so bitter. He works for a living sure, well,
at least he has an office. Put me some coffee, please.

Speaker 11 (03:41:16):
Yes, you want eggs too?

Speaker 17 (03:41:19):
No, just black coffee without sugar, a full cup.

Speaker 11 (03:41:23):
You must have had a big night where it Piers
take you places.

Speaker 17 (03:41:27):
Lots of people. I heard you slept well last night, Susan.
You was snoring when I came in.

Speaker 4 (03:41:32):
Oh, for pity's sakes, first, I get it because i'm
eating now, it's because I slept.

Speaker 11 (03:41:35):
You don't think much of me.

Speaker 17 (03:41:37):
You're a para, sighed Gerald, and you're beginning to look
like one.

Speaker 4 (03:41:41):
You don't care what you say, do you? Oh?

Speaker 17 (03:41:44):
Don't tell me that there's pride under that expanding waistline.

Speaker 11 (03:41:47):
One more word out of you and out Yes, what's
the use? I can't take it. I don't want you
to go.

Speaker 4 (03:41:56):
Really, I'm thrilled if you go through with the divorce.
I don't know what I'll do.

Speaker 17 (03:42:02):
I know one thing you'll have to do. Get a job.

Speaker 37 (03:42:05):
Huh.

Speaker 17 (03:42:06):
Let me sell it for you, jay, Oh, b it's
what people do for money.

Speaker 11 (03:42:10):
Would you ever do for yours?

Speaker 18 (03:42:11):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (03:42:11):
Smart? I picked a family with a rich uncle.

Speaker 11 (03:42:13):
Sure you can talk to you inherit a million dollars.

Speaker 18 (03:42:15):
You're smart.

Speaker 11 (03:42:16):
Well, let me tell you one thing, sus me.

Speaker 17 (03:42:18):
You don't father, honey, I've got something much more important
to tell you. I'm not leaving you any money to
live on what and I'm changing my will. I see
that half of my estate that you've been praying for
will go to Piercecotton.

Speaker 4 (03:42:35):
If I should die, when do you perform the operation?

Speaker 17 (03:42:38):
Have to Pierce and I are married? In the meantime
if I should get hit by a truck, yeah, oh, darling,
don't wish so hard. I'm really very loyal to you.

Speaker 9 (03:42:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (03:42:51):
Oh, well, what time is your lunch date with Robert
one o'clock.

Speaker 17 (03:42:57):
Good heavens, look at the time. I'll have to hurry.
Takes me an hour to get my hair put up.

Speaker 11 (03:43:01):
Do you want some more coffee?

Speaker 28 (03:43:03):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (03:43:03):
I'd love it, but I can't spare a minute. Why
didn't you tell me it was so late?

Speaker 11 (03:43:07):
It's your appointment, Angel, you should You don't want another cup?

Speaker 17 (03:43:11):
Oh dear, I really need it all right, bring it
in the bedroom.

Speaker 4 (03:43:14):
No crime or sugar, yes, ma'am, anything you say, ma'am,
I am please. That is Captain Gerald Steele had motive
and opportunity. You're only guessing, Mark. Well, the will's on file,
isn't it. We got the story the second cup of
coffee from Gerald himself, but the rest of the stuff

(03:43:36):
about the argument about her changing the will, you're speculation
the deductions of a mystery book writer. Now, what about
Robert Ward, the stepbrother. He's about fifteen years older than
shoes and businessman. How's business? Well, we're going to report
from several banks that he's been trying to borrow money.
They'll turn him down. A huh. That makes him an
interesting suspect. Now let's combine fact and fiction again and

(03:43:58):
see what happened. At lunch, Robert Ward told us that
he'd reserved the private dining room for the occasion at
the swank Cafe Aurelia. Susan was very cheerful.

Speaker 9 (03:44:08):
What dam is your trained, Susan?

Speaker 11 (03:44:10):
Oh it's only her past two.

Speaker 17 (03:44:12):
Now I'm meeting Claire Ellis at three o'clock tea and
gossip at her apartment.

Speaker 4 (03:44:17):
Oh you shouldn't have eaten so much, Susan.

Speaker 17 (03:44:21):
Yes, sir Robin, I've been waiting very patiently. What do
you mean you didn't ask me here to a private
dining room to discuss my unimportant life. You're very clever, thanks, darling.
Now what is it that you don't want your servants
to overhear?

Speaker 9 (03:44:37):
I need money you.

Speaker 11 (03:44:41):
I know it comes as a shock, but the truth
is I've how much, Robert one hundred thousand dollars?

Speaker 56 (03:44:47):
Really?

Speaker 11 (03:44:47):
Of course it'll be a loan, Susan. I'll pay it
back in due time. I'll give you a note or
a mortgage, whatever you like.

Speaker 17 (03:44:53):
Business is bad.

Speaker 11 (03:44:54):
I've had a very serious setback. My entire output of
washing machine motors is defective.

Speaker 17 (03:45:00):
Ah, what's the poor housewife going to do?

Speaker 11 (03:45:02):
We know what's wrong and we can correct it easily enough,
But naturally, it can't be done without money. Naturally, I've
never been without cash before, but I expanded recently, and
that took all my liquid assets.

Speaker 17 (03:45:13):
Even when you're in trouble, you talk like a bank statement.
When did this delightful thing happen two weeks ago? Why
didn't you come to me right away?

Speaker 11 (03:45:21):
I didn't want to bother you. I'm a businessman, and naturally,
my first call was at the banks.

Speaker 17 (03:45:26):
Naturally did they turn you down?

Speaker 11 (03:45:28):
They didn't consider me a good risk over expansion.

Speaker 17 (03:45:32):
Darling, you're a skinny as a tooth thing, Susan.

Speaker 11 (03:45:34):
Please don't be facetious. I'm in serious trouble. If I
don't get that merchandise out of my factory, I'll go bankrupt.
I won't even be able to pay my creditors.

Speaker 10 (03:45:44):
One hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 11 (03:45:46):
Yes, it shouldn't mean anything to you. You can spare it.

Speaker 17 (03:45:50):
Oh, I can spare it. But tell me, Robert dear,
when did you ever do anything for me?

Speaker 11 (03:45:55):
No, don't refuse me.

Speaker 17 (03:45:56):
You preached called me a fool for not putting my
money into a good, sound business, A wild, empty headed fool.

Speaker 11 (03:46:04):
I tried to make you realize your responsibilities. Uncle Jeffrey
left his money to ors some good faith. It was
our duty to protect it. I still got mine, and
I've got mine in factories, machinery and merchandise. Now I'm
asking you to help me liquidate it. No good, Lord, Susan,
How can you be so heartless?

Speaker 17 (03:46:21):
I've been practicing.

Speaker 9 (03:46:25):
Very well.

Speaker 11 (03:46:25):
I'm not going to beg you do give up.

Speaker 10 (03:46:28):
Hope, dear.

Speaker 17 (03:46:29):
I've taken care of you in my.

Speaker 11 (03:46:30):
Will thanks to uncle Jeffrey. You have no choice. Half
of your estate must go.

Speaker 17 (03:46:35):
To me, and half of your estate should go to me.
But where is it?

Speaker 11 (03:46:38):
You can look for it after I'm dead?

Speaker 33 (03:46:41):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (03:46:42):
What a name of thunder? Did I do with those things?

Speaker 9 (03:46:46):
My pills?

Speaker 11 (03:46:47):
My box of pickup pills?

Speaker 4 (03:46:49):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (03:46:50):
Here, it is my best pocket.

Speaker 17 (03:46:52):
So you've come to that.

Speaker 11 (03:46:54):
Just these last two weeks doctor's prescription, have been living
in the devil's own basement, tired and depressed.

Speaker 17 (03:47:00):
What do they do for you?

Speaker 11 (03:47:01):
They give me a pickup that's all. Get the tired
feeling out of my system, clear my head, perfectly harmless.

Speaker 17 (03:47:07):
That sounds interesting?

Speaker 9 (03:47:09):
Would you like one?

Speaker 18 (03:47:11):
Why not?

Speaker 17 (03:47:12):
I had a big night when I've got a bigger
day ahead of me.

Speaker 11 (03:47:15):
One pill, we'll keep you going for hours. Flip it
into the back of your.

Speaker 17 (03:47:18):
Mouth and wash it down with water after you, darling,
very well, I never take chances. Well, just do you?
How soon before it starts functioning?

Speaker 11 (03:47:33):
Very soon? And now I think we ought to go, Susan.
I don't want you to be late for your appointment
with Claire Ellis.

Speaker 4 (03:47:45):
Well that's a possibility. Care Oh sure, sure, so's a
trip to them. You better stick to writing mystery books.

Speaker 18 (03:47:52):
Mark.

Speaker 4 (03:47:53):
If you make a mistake, nobody burns, except maybe you're publisher.
Did Robert wad take a pick up pill while you
were grilling them three days ago?

Speaker 70 (03:48:00):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (03:48:00):
Wait a minute, are you trying to tell me he
had a box full of atropine pills when he met
Susan Steve Marritt and that he passed them off his
pickup pill? Maybe, but according to your own speculation, he
took one of those pills himself. Now, why didn't he
kill him? You might've had one in that box. It
was harmless, huh, you know, real pickup pill? Sure, put
that in your next bookmark. He'll read fine. But for

(03:48:22):
the time being, you won't mind if I keep it
a secret from the district attorney.

Speaker 15 (03:48:25):
Will you no?

Speaker 4 (03:48:26):
No, I don't mind you. Shall we go on?

Speaker 18 (03:48:28):
Go ahead?

Speaker 4 (03:48:29):
I'm on twenty four hour UNI. Well, the next stop
that Susan Steele made was Claire Ellis's apartment. What do
we know about Claire? She served tea and ice cream cake,
But not because you like Susan. Oh, you've got a
private line to her in his archer. Didn't you notice
how she was defending Pierce Carlton as you were questioning her?

Speaker 18 (03:48:45):
I noticed it.

Speaker 4 (03:48:46):
Now here's the man Susan Steve expects to marry, and
Claire's in love with him. Now let's see what we
can get out of the situation in which two women
in love with the same man meet for tea a
few hours before one of them dies on a train,
the victim of murdered by slow boys.

Speaker 17 (03:49:02):
I'll get the tea things, Susan. They're in the kitchen.
Oh there's no rush, Claire. I'm not meeting Pierce until five.
The lovely romantic orchid room. Ha I told this week boy,
I must have orchids on our wedding day. Slusan slows
love them.

Speaker 53 (03:49:15):
Susan, you know why I asked you here, of course,
to plead with me. We used to be good friends,
used to be.

Speaker 17 (03:49:24):
I'm sorry to hear that, honey, Susan.

Speaker 10 (03:49:27):
Don't marry Pierce Calton.

Speaker 16 (03:49:31):
He doesn't love you, Susan.

Speaker 19 (03:49:34):
Pearson.

Speaker 53 (03:49:34):
I were practically engaged when I introduced him to you.
Why did you make a play for and you had
a husband? I was you were smissen.

Speaker 17 (03:49:41):
Believe me, darling, I've been living in a delayed paradise
for free whole month.

Speaker 53 (03:49:45):
You've never loved anyone but yourself, and the only reason
you went after Pierce was because he was mine.

Speaker 10 (03:49:48):
He was a conquest.

Speaker 26 (03:49:50):
Does it make any difference?

Speaker 17 (03:49:51):
You'll never be able to keep.

Speaker 10 (03:49:52):
Him, Susan.

Speaker 16 (03:49:55):
Peerce is in some kind of trouble.

Speaker 17 (03:49:57):
You have money? Did he tell you all about it?

Speaker 9 (03:50:00):
Well?

Speaker 17 (03:50:01):
He told me. Doesn't that prove something?

Speaker 4 (03:50:04):
Well?

Speaker 26 (03:50:04):
What is it, Susan?

Speaker 16 (03:50:05):
What's wrong with Peers?

Speaker 17 (03:50:07):
It's confidential, dear, between sweethearts. I'll get the tee if
you still want it? Oh, I want it. I'm a
glutton for punishment.

Speaker 34 (03:50:17):
I hope you won't have to take much more of it.

Speaker 17 (03:50:19):
Ever, why not hello? And don't keep me waiting? Of course,
Gerald are you surprised to hear I'm still breathing. Oh
she's downstairs sweeping the sidewalk. She pays off the back

(03:50:41):
rent that way to her?

Speaker 4 (03:50:43):
Please.

Speaker 17 (03:50:43):
Oh she can't be disturbed, Susan. But I can give
her a message.

Speaker 30 (03:50:49):
No love and kisses.

Speaker 17 (03:50:50):
Not.

Speaker 24 (03:50:51):
I was only thinking we might go for a walk
in the park.

Speaker 17 (03:50:54):
Oh look, how thrilling, Gerald Darling. When did you give
up driving?

Speaker 25 (03:51:04):
You might have tell that phone for me, Susan.

Speaker 16 (03:51:07):
Your call, Piers.

Speaker 17 (03:51:09):
He simply had to tell me how much he loved me.
Good dear, what your manners trace? We meant to be
put down, not dropped.

Speaker 16 (03:51:16):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 17 (03:51:17):
And those exquisite ice cream cakes you almost ruined them.

Speaker 53 (03:51:20):
That one's for you, Susan.

Speaker 17 (03:51:23):
Thanks dear for remembering that I adore blueberries. I never
forget a lot of things.

Speaker 4 (03:51:33):
Motive and opportunity, love and ice cream cake. Hey, Mike,
well that's how it looks on paper. Cap You think
Claire lust buried the atropine in the cake? Oh she did,
she's dyed clever. But I don't know anybody who choose
ice cream if she did. Now, how do you figure
out the business about that phone call? Well, Claire I
was told us that Susan had received the call from Peers.

(03:51:53):
Pierce denied it, but Gerald admitted that he phoned Claire
and spoke to Susan. Claire didn't know about the call
for Susan told her it was from Pierce Carlton. Qed
it's not yet, Cap, We've still got to proven murderer. Now,
what about Pierce Carlton. He's in the stock brokerage business
with his father. Good solid family background, old stock. That
doesn't keep him from being a playboy, doesn't. I'm not

(03:52:16):
interested in what he does, Mark, only in what he
did four days ago and what it did before then.
That goes without saying. My boys are checking. I think
they're going to find that he's in a mess, a
money mess. Anything's possible with you around. Okay, what happened today?
We spoke to Claire Ellis, your eyes popped. You saw
a beautiful woman could be, But she was upset every
time you mentioned Pierce Carlton. She had jitters. Why somebody

(03:52:39):
told me she's in love with the guy I told you, Cap,
I'm sure I knew. I couldn't have gotten it from
the fact. She kept saying over and over that Pierce
was innocent. He had no reason for killing Susan. Cat.

Speaker 9 (03:52:50):
That girl knows some.

Speaker 4 (03:52:51):
So does everybody else in this case except me about
Pierce Carlton. I mean, and I'm sure she didn't know
what the day Susan was killed? Who told her? I
don't know? Mark? Did I hear right? Did you say
you don't know? Let's go on to item number four.
Susan and Pierce at the Orchid Room, dinner before train time,
soft lights orchids on the table, A perfect setting for romance.

Speaker 17 (03:53:21):
Oh, darling, Darling, six weeks, six long weeks without you.

Speaker 4 (03:53:29):
He'll get used to it.

Speaker 17 (03:53:30):
Don't laugh at me, please, I'm gonna miss you.

Speaker 4 (03:53:34):
There's a lot of excitement in Reno and Cowboys, Pius.

Speaker 17 (03:53:37):
How can you say that to me?

Speaker 4 (03:53:38):
Don't you like cowboys?

Speaker 17 (03:53:41):
I like you better?

Speaker 4 (03:53:43):
How was Gerald this morning?

Speaker 28 (03:53:44):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (03:53:45):
I talk about him?

Speaker 4 (03:53:45):
Why not? He's human?

Speaker 17 (03:53:47):
What's the matter with you? You'd rather talk about everyone
but us? So wonder you don't ask me about Claire?
You know I saw her this afternoon too. Oh, don't
you have to ask me about her?

Speaker 4 (03:53:57):
You never could take kidding, could you? Oh? I?

Speaker 17 (03:54:01):
In real life, Peus will be married just as soon
as I can.

Speaker 4 (03:54:05):
Get back from Reno, have some more wine, says, and.

Speaker 17 (03:54:08):
You'll be waiting for me at the station. I don't
want to come back to New York and be alone
for a minute.

Speaker 4 (03:54:13):
Suppose I'm not waiting.

Speaker 17 (03:54:15):
You've got to be why, Because I'm depending on you.
I'm going through a divorce.

Speaker 9 (03:54:19):
For you, for me.

Speaker 4 (03:54:21):
I thought it was because Gerald ate too much peers.

Speaker 17 (03:54:24):
Would this come under the head of what you called kidding?

Speaker 4 (03:54:27):
Put your head on my shoulder, and Diana, I'll tell
you a secret.

Speaker 17 (03:54:31):
I'd rather look you straight in the eye.

Speaker 4 (03:54:33):
I've been doing a lot of thinking. Yes, I've come
to the conclusion that gerald is a nice guy.

Speaker 17 (03:54:40):
What does that mean?

Speaker 4 (03:54:41):
You ought to stick with him? You know, till death
do you part?

Speaker 17 (03:54:45):
You didn't think so last night.

Speaker 4 (03:54:47):
I wasn't thinking last night, honey. The whole process started
this afternoon. I woke up and there was a vision
of a wedding bell. Scared the wits out of me.

Speaker 17 (03:54:57):
You're out of luck, Pius. I'm not letting you out
of your promises.

Speaker 4 (03:55:01):
Look Susan Be's sensible. Marriage and I were never meant
for each other. I'm just not the marrying kind.

Speaker 17 (03:55:07):
No put your head on my shoulder, and I'll tell
you a secret.

Speaker 4 (03:55:11):
I'd rather just keep sitting beside you.

Speaker 19 (03:55:13):
Do you remember a.

Speaker 17 (03:55:14):
Certain crying jag that you had on a couple of.

Speaker 4 (03:55:16):
Weeks ago, Susan, I have never been drunk in my life.

Speaker 17 (03:55:19):
You were that night, and you told me a whole
lot of things that you're going to regret in just
about a minute.

Speaker 4 (03:55:24):
Suppose you tell them right back to me.

Speaker 9 (03:55:26):
Now.

Speaker 17 (03:55:27):
You lost a lot of money on a gambling boat
before I met you.

Speaker 9 (03:55:31):
Huh.

Speaker 17 (03:55:32):
You paid off in IOU's and when the gambler got
tired of waiting for the cash, he threatened to see Papa.
That's when you became a thief.

Speaker 4 (03:55:40):
Good lord, Susan, what are you talking about?

Speaker 17 (03:55:42):
You took bonds out of your father's safe. He's got
so many of them you were sure they'd never be best.
I told you that your conscience was bothering you, that
you didn't know your had one.

Speaker 4 (03:55:54):
It's a sense you haven't, No, dear, I might really.

Speaker 17 (03:55:59):
Like beating your telling him about those bonds.

Speaker 18 (03:56:02):
Eh.

Speaker 17 (03:56:04):
I'm so glad you'll be waiting for me when I
get back from Reno. Yeah, come to think of it,
not every woman wants to marry a thief.

Speaker 4 (03:56:12):
Oh I'm lucky. Huh, all right, let's celebrate with a drink, friends,
what else? You will hold all the aces, then we'll
drink to that. Oh no, don't waste it that way.

Speaker 17 (03:56:23):
What's wrong.

Speaker 4 (03:56:24):
Let's lock arms. Then I'll drink out of your glass
and you'll drink out of mine.

Speaker 17 (03:56:30):
Why, of course, just like real sweethearts.

Speaker 4 (03:56:33):
Yes, dear, there's nothing like good old sparkling Burgundy for
launching a new life properly. There is cap in the
last episode, and you finish it with the old switch trick,
the atropene peel in Pierce Carton's glass. I'm surprised that
your market's coin. Well, that happens to be true poisoner.

(03:56:54):
No poison found out about it only that noon. You
don't say, who told you? Right there in the orchid room,
he saw them locked arms, and he remembered for ten bugs.
You give me the name of that guy, I'll have
him brought in here and i'll him. Oh hello, Captain
McNair talking homicide. That's all right, Finley, go ahead, what

(03:57:16):
are you sure? M hm okay, taking a headquarters and
find a report. I'll take care of the rest. What
sign of the horoscope were you born under? Mark? I
don't know why, and you either very smart and very lucky.
Pierce Carlton lost eighty thousand dollars on Jimmy Brison's gambling
boat four months ago. Finley just got it from Bryson himself.

(03:57:38):
The debt's been paid. That's how it is, cap When
you go by character, it can't go wrong. Maybe I
ought to have a little more respect for you. Eh, well,
just read my books and I'll be happy. Now, let's see,
we've got four suspects. Gerald Steel, the husband who was
going to be left holding the empty bag and who
was still in the will for half of the fortune.

Speaker 9 (03:57:56):
Right.

Speaker 4 (03:57:57):
Robert Ward, the step brother who needed money was turned down.
He's in the will for the other hat. My money's
on him. Maybe Claire Ellis, the love sick rival. And
Pierce Carlton, who didn't want to get married but who
talked too much to Susan. Every one of them had
motive and opportunity. What does your imagination advisers to do?

Speaker 9 (03:58:17):
Now?

Speaker 4 (03:58:19):
I got an idea, Kvin, Can you get me a
sample of Susan Steele's handwriting? Yeah, her signature's on her will.
I've got a copy of it over there in the
case file. All right, let's get the best handwriting man
you've got, and then you and I will go to
work catching a murderer. Does your imagination tell you where?
Of course, at my apartment. Mark. If this works, I'll

(03:58:43):
buy you a new hat and I'll eat your old one.
And I'm supposed to be all alone. Kay, Hello, Gerald Steele, Yes,
this is Mark tent I free to talk. Kind of
a question, is that you'll understand? I was the last
want to see your wife alive, so I.

Speaker 11 (03:59:02):
Read in the papers. You're also a friend of the police.

Speaker 4 (03:59:05):
Only when it's convenient. For example, I didn't tell them
that Susan gave me a note before she died. What
there's a name in it, a murderer's name.

Speaker 11 (03:59:15):
Okay, kid, what's that.

Speaker 3 (03:59:16):
Got to do with me?

Speaker 4 (03:59:16):
It's for sale, Gerald, I had nothing to do with
Susan's dead, of course, But who's going to believe it?

Speaker 11 (03:59:22):
Is that my name is? Is that what Susan's done
to me?

Speaker 4 (03:59:26):
I'll be in my apartment until seven ten.

Speaker 9 (03:59:28):
Gerald.

Speaker 4 (03:59:29):
You're going to inherit a lot of money. I'm sure
you'll want a partner to help.

Speaker 9 (03:59:33):
You enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (03:59:35):
You shouldn't get your nerve with you.

Speaker 9 (03:59:36):
Mark.

Speaker 4 (03:59:37):
I've also got you for protection.

Speaker 9 (03:59:39):
Cap.

Speaker 4 (03:59:39):
Now we'll just do a repeat performance and Robert Ward
and then we'll go down the line. Claire Ellis and
Fierce Carlton. One of them's libel to bite. Stay in
that other room, Cap, and don't wait for gunfire. Don't
worry about me, kidd, Yes, yes, I heard it the

(04:00:02):
first time. Hello, miss Ellis, come right in. Would you
mind if I called you Claire?

Speaker 17 (04:00:09):
I want that letter, mister Kent.

Speaker 4 (04:00:11):
You wouldn't mind, And I thought this is the beginning
of a beautiful French.

Speaker 16 (04:00:15):
All I want from you is that letter.

Speaker 17 (04:00:17):
I got a gun in my handbag and I'm not
afraid to use it.

Speaker 4 (04:00:20):
I didn't think it would be. How much money did
you bring?

Speaker 17 (04:00:23):
I didn't bring any.

Speaker 4 (04:00:26):
Well, mister Kent, I've got the answer, lady, and I'll
take the handbag too.

Speaker 10 (04:00:30):
I didn't kill Susan.

Speaker 53 (04:00:31):
Now, please give me a chance to explain. Sure, sure,
come on, No, No, Pierce told Susan that he wasn't
going to marry her, and I know she put his
name on that letter.

Speaker 4 (04:00:39):
You don't have to protect that guy anymore.

Speaker 17 (04:00:40):
Tell me the whole story.

Speaker 53 (04:00:41):
The day after Susan died about her threatened Why she
threatened him?

Speaker 10 (04:00:44):
I made him tell me.

Speaker 18 (04:00:45):
Yeah, let's go.

Speaker 9 (04:00:46):
No, you're not please.

Speaker 4 (04:00:48):
Somebody wants to come in here? Kay, another one. Here's
a magazine. Take Claire into that out of the room
and read the advertisements to him. Yeah, come on you.
When that guy works in a case, you never know
what's going to pop me. I mean, my in h
with pleasure, but I'd be glad to do it even
if you didn't have a gun. Mister Ward alone, now

(04:01:13):
that you're here practically.

Speaker 11 (04:01:14):
I don't trust you. Put up your hands and walk
toward that other room.

Speaker 4 (04:01:17):
Are you kidding? Aren't you move along?

Speaker 11 (04:01:19):
I'm not going to waste any time on you.

Speaker 4 (04:01:20):
Are right, But since when a blackmailers work with a Naudia.

Speaker 11 (04:01:23):
And just walk directly in front of me and into
that room, I mean, you're a bigger fool than I thought.
Mister Kent, you should have protected yourself with an a lie.

Speaker 4 (04:01:31):
We all make mistakes.

Speaker 11 (04:01:34):
Mister Warren, you made your last one.

Speaker 9 (04:01:36):
I'm going to kill you.

Speaker 4 (04:01:38):
Don't you want that letter?

Speaker 11 (04:01:39):
I'll find it later. I'll burn your apartment out of existence.
I've got to write to my sheriff Susan's estate and
the law won't take it away from me.

Speaker 4 (04:01:46):
Now, so it was you killed it.

Speaker 11 (04:01:48):
Of course I needed money for my business, and she
refused to lend it to me.

Speaker 4 (04:01:51):
The fool no.

Speaker 11 (04:01:52):
Intelligence is she'dn't know when I was prepared for every emergency.

Speaker 4 (04:01:55):
Yes, I saw it, have had that figured out.

Speaker 11 (04:01:57):
This box of pills pick up pill a wonderful tonic.
Unfortunately for Susan, the one I let her pick was atropine.

Speaker 4 (04:02:06):
Don't look now, mister Ward, but there's a man behind you.
Drop that gun, Captain mcner. Yeah, with bracelet, you can't
buy a Tiffany. You should have looked when I told her,
mister Ward, well sure, well, Mark, it gets me how
you figured this whole thing out. I'm a dreamer. Would

(04:02:30):
you like to take care of my old hat? Now?
You old hat? What do you expect me to do
with it? We said you were going to eat it,
didn't you?

Speaker 11 (04:02:38):
Huh?

Speaker 56 (04:02:38):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (04:02:39):
Yeah? But I said i'd buy a new one first. Well,
a deal is a deal. But I hope you won't
mind waiting. I know I won't mind.

Speaker 95 (04:02:58):
And so close as tonight's Crime Club book Death at
seven ten, based on a story by H. F. S.

Speaker 9 (04:03:04):
Moore.

Speaker 95 (04:03:04):
Sedmand Coles did the radio adaptation. Roger Bauer produced and directed.
Raymond Edward Johnson played the part of Mark Kent. Helen
Shears was Susan Ward Steele. Cameron Pudham as Captain McNair,
Ted Osborne played Gerald Steele. Eleanor Phelps was Claire Ellis
King Calder with Pierce Carlton and Rhech Taylor was heard

(04:03:26):
as Robert Ward. Oh, I beg your pardon. Hello, I
hope I haven't kept you waiting. Yes, this is the
Crime Club. I'm the librarian. Yes, come over a week
from tonight.

Speaker 9 (04:03:40):
Good.

Speaker 95 (04:03:41):
We have the very exciting story of a knight that
was made for fun and remade for murder. It's called
Coney Island Nocturne. In the meantime, well, in the meantime,
there is a new Crime Club book available this week
and every week at bookstores everywhere. Yes, yes, it's available now, fine,

(04:04:04):
and we look for you next week.

Speaker 33 (04:04:17):
This program came from New York.

Speaker 24 (04:04:20):
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Speaker 9 (04:05:25):
Things your doctor, Dan your wife.

Speaker 11 (04:05:32):
The human mind is like a cave.

Speaker 9 (04:05:34):
Beyond the light. There are doctor.

Speaker 11 (04:05:35):
Passageways and mysterious recesses. I Doctor Daniel Danfield of Explorer,
those unknown retreats and know their secrets. Doctor Daniel Danfield,
Authority on Crime Psychology, has an unhappy faculty for getting
himself mixed up and hazardous predicaments because of his astonishing

(04:05:58):
revelations regarding the works of the criminal mind. As our
story opens, we find Octor Dan feel in his office
dictating to his pretty young secretary Lofty Fairfact period paragraph
and naturally, I was glad to avail myself of the
opportunity and excitement to studying a criminal mind when the
criminal believed that he was completely free from suspicion. It

(04:06:22):
was four weeks ago today that my secretary, missus Fairfax,
arrived five minutes later work. Good morning, Miss Fairfax? Is
that the package for me?

Speaker 16 (04:06:33):
The postman just gave it to me? Mind if I
open it?

Speaker 11 (04:06:36):
Why not, Miss Fairfax? Does the return address indicate from
whom it was sent?

Speaker 16 (04:06:40):
There isn't any return address?

Speaker 11 (04:06:42):
No? Well in that event, Will is there something wrong,
Miss Fairfax?

Speaker 16 (04:06:48):
There certainly is something wrong.

Speaker 11 (04:06:50):
Look, why George, package seems to contain some excellent samples
of United States currency?

Speaker 16 (04:06:57):
It sure does? There a one thousand dollars bills?

Speaker 9 (04:07:00):
How many are there?

Speaker 16 (04:07:02):
Nine, ten, ten thousand dollars? Dan, Who do you suppose
sent them?

Speaker 28 (04:07:07):
And why?

Speaker 11 (04:07:08):
Possibly some counterfeiter wanted me to see an example of
his work.

Speaker 16 (04:07:11):
These bills aren't counterfeit. Wait a minute, here's a note
addressed to you.

Speaker 9 (04:07:15):
Do you let me have it?

Speaker 11 (04:07:16):
Miss Fairfax? Probably it contains the answer to the riddle, Well,
very extraordinary, was it?

Speaker 18 (04:07:23):
Saye?

Speaker 9 (04:07:24):
Say?

Speaker 11 (04:07:24):
Oh, here, I'll read it to you, Miss Fairfax. Dan Field,
be smart and forget where you were on August thirty first,
most unusual?

Speaker 16 (04:07:33):
Who signed it?

Speaker 11 (04:07:34):
There's no signature, Miss Fairfax?

Speaker 16 (04:07:37):
Well, well, what where were you on August thirty first?

Speaker 11 (04:07:40):
Don't be ridiculous, Miss Fairfax. I haven't the faintest idea
where I was on August thirty first?

Speaker 9 (04:07:45):
Have you?

Speaker 16 (04:07:45):
Of course?

Speaker 9 (04:07:46):
Where were you with you?

Speaker 11 (04:07:48):
Let's not be facetious, Miss Fairfax. The fact that someone
has mailed me this money is highly significant.

Speaker 16 (04:07:55):
And let me see dan I know, no, no, what
Miss Fairfax, August thirty first was. It's a Saturday of
Labor Day weekend. You didn't give your usual lecture at
the university, and I went up to Connecticut to visit
my folks.

Speaker 11 (04:08:06):
That's right, Miss Fairfax. And that proves you're wrong, doesn't it.
You weren't with me after all? As a matter of fact,
no one was with me. I spent the day by George,
think of something. Need I have, Miss Fairfax. There was
a telephone call from a man named Oh what was
his name?

Speaker 10 (04:08:21):
Are you asking me?

Speaker 11 (04:08:22):
Yes, you see, it's very important.

Speaker 16 (04:08:26):
Perhaps that's your mysterious friend calling again.

Speaker 9 (04:08:28):
I doubt it. Hello Danfield speaking. Oh yes, captain, Notice.

Speaker 16 (04:08:32):
Captain, otis that means another case?

Speaker 11 (04:08:35):
I suppose, yes, Captain, I see. Oh what's unusual about
the circumstances. Indeed, what's a gentleman's name? Norman Miles?

Speaker 9 (04:08:48):
That's it?

Speaker 11 (04:08:48):
That's the man's name.

Speaker 28 (04:08:50):
What?

Speaker 65 (04:08:50):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (04:08:50):
Yes, yes, I know you just said it was. I'm sorry, Captain. Yes, indeed,
I will Miss Fairfax and I'll be out to the
Miles home in less than an hour.

Speaker 9 (04:08:58):
Goodbye.

Speaker 16 (04:08:59):
Well, what's it it's all about?

Speaker 11 (04:09:00):
Gentleman named Norman Miles was found dead in his bed
this morning. He was murdered, Miss Fairfax.

Speaker 16 (04:09:05):
What's that got to do with us?

Speaker 11 (04:09:07):
It was Norman Miles who called me on the phone
August thirty first and asked me to investigate free relatives,
one of whom you believed was planning to murder it.

Speaker 16 (04:09:15):
But you're not a detective. You've said so one hundred times.
But I suppose you've got to.

Speaker 11 (04:09:19):
Have your fun YESHU quite write, Miss Fairfax. That's why
I kept mister Miles offer in the back of my mind.
And the details that Captain Notice has just given me
have put an entirely different light.

Speaker 9 (04:09:29):
On the matter.

Speaker 56 (04:09:30):
Oh they have.

Speaker 16 (04:09:31):
Well, whatever Captain Notics told you doesn't prove it was
Norman Miles who sent you this money.

Speaker 11 (04:09:36):
I think it does, Miss Fairfax. In fact, I know
it does. Norman Miles knew he was going to be murdered.
He wants me to apprehend the man who murdered him.

Speaker 16 (04:09:44):
I seriously doubt that statement.

Speaker 11 (04:09:46):
Oh, then I shall prove it to you. You'll get
your notebook and come along with me. I'll introduce you
to one of the most interesting cases we've ever investigated.
In a moment, will return to danger, doctor Danfield. But first,

(04:10:11):
now for the second act all.

Speaker 9 (04:10:15):
Danger, Doctor Daniel, I.

Speaker 16 (04:10:25):
Still think we should have Mario along, do you, misware fact? Yes,
If all three of the relatives are at the Norman
Miles house now and one of them is a murderer,
we need protection.

Speaker 11 (04:10:35):
That's certainly extraordinary.

Speaker 16 (04:10:37):
Dan What are you thinking about things rested?

Speaker 9 (04:10:40):
Just things?

Speaker 11 (04:10:41):
Yes, I believe you're going to find an unusual situation.

Speaker 9 (04:10:45):
I hope you brought along your notebook.

Speaker 16 (04:10:46):
Of course I brought my notebook.

Speaker 11 (04:10:48):
This the house, yes, and there's an officer and God
at the door. Otis is a man of his words.

Speaker 16 (04:10:54):
I don't see why Captain Otis has to call you
every time he gets himself in a gem.

Speaker 11 (04:10:58):
Captain Otis is not in a gem, my dear. He
was very kind of him to give me this opportunity. Hello, officer,
I'm doctor Danfield.

Speaker 18 (04:11:05):
Oh hoo, kid, going in.

Speaker 36 (04:11:07):
They're waiting for you.

Speaker 65 (04:11:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (04:11:13):
I should judge by the pretentiousness of mister Miles' home,
and he was well able to advance us ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 9 (04:11:18):
Wouldn't you stay?

Speaker 16 (04:11:19):
And for the same reason, I can see why his
relatives would want him dead. Well, there they are.

Speaker 11 (04:11:25):
It's been by other expressions. I should say they were
rather unhappy.

Speaker 9 (04:11:28):
Three.

Speaker 14 (04:11:29):
I suppose you are dance for you.

Speaker 36 (04:11:30):
I look here, dancier. We're sick and tired of the
way we're being treated.

Speaker 34 (04:11:33):
I'll say we are. Who does this captain know to
think he is?

Speaker 36 (04:11:36):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, you're too Perhaps this
isn't Danfield.

Speaker 11 (04:11:39):
Give the guy a chance to introduce himself. Thank you. Yes,
I'm dan Field. I suppose you tell me who you are, if.

Speaker 34 (04:11:45):
You're a Danfield and get us out of here. Well,
I was never so.

Speaker 36 (04:11:48):
Humiliated, Judd, Stop crabbing. I couldn't let us out of
here even if he wanted to the cops all over
the place.

Speaker 11 (04:11:53):
They're quite right. I have absolutely no authority. Oh this
is my secretary, Miss Fairfax. I presume that you three
are Norman Miles relatives.

Speaker 4 (04:12:01):
That's right.

Speaker 36 (04:12:02):
I'm Vincent Warren. The old man was my uncle.

Speaker 11 (04:12:04):
I'm Larry.

Speaker 36 (04:12:04):
Can't another Nephield. This young lady is Judith Nelson, a niece.

Speaker 34 (04:12:08):
The idea of saying one of us murdered Uncle.

Speaker 36 (04:12:10):
Norman one of you did murdering Miss Nelson, what do
you mean nonsense? You're jumping to conclusions pretty first.

Speaker 11 (04:12:16):
An't your Danfield not at all? One of you three
murdered him. All of my evidence points to that fact.

Speaker 34 (04:12:22):
What evidence you haven't beeny? At five minutes? How could
you have picked up any evidence?

Speaker 16 (04:12:26):
It came by mail ten thousand dollars worth.

Speaker 11 (04:12:29):
That's enough, Miss Fairfax. For the time being, I'll have
to ask you people to accept my statement and.

Speaker 97 (04:12:35):
Cooperate, cooperate how by signing a confession.

Speaker 11 (04:12:39):
I could hardly hope for that, Miss Nelson. In fact,
I'd be disappointed if one of you did sign a confession.
Why because my purpose in being here is to study
the guilty person's mind while he or she believes himself
or herself free from detection.

Speaker 29 (04:12:52):
Do you mean it merely by talking with the three
of us you can tell which one of us is guilty,
assuming of course, that one of.

Speaker 4 (04:12:58):
Us is guilty.

Speaker 11 (04:12:58):
Precisely, mister Warren, consider the facts. One of you is
a murderer. To a man who has made a lifelong
study of the human mind, it will be quite easy
to determine the identity of the guilty party.

Speaker 28 (04:13:09):
Well, how do you like that?

Speaker 36 (04:13:10):
Wait a minute now, I always say every man to
his own profession. Danfield, I understand, has one of those
mixed master minds, maybe his ideal work.

Speaker 9 (04:13:19):
O kay?

Speaker 36 (04:13:20):
What difference does it make?

Speaker 28 (04:13:21):
You?

Speaker 36 (04:13:21):
Haven't any alternative?

Speaker 4 (04:13:22):
Anyhow?

Speaker 11 (04:13:22):
That's the point exactly, mister warn you haven't. I man
wanted to point out to you that I know one
of you is guilty. You're all fairly warned.

Speaker 34 (04:13:30):
Well, what he want us to do?

Speaker 11 (04:13:32):
First of all. I'd like to have someone tell me
exactly what happened last night. I understand that when mister
Miles's body was discovered, all the doors and windows of
his room were locked on the inside.

Speaker 36 (04:13:41):
Yes, that's right they were. Uncle Norman had a foolby
against an unlocked door window. Couldn't go to sleep unless
he had checked all the locks himself.

Speaker 16 (04:13:48):
Then how did you know he got into the room
this morning and.

Speaker 36 (04:13:51):
By breaking the door down?

Speaker 9 (04:13:52):
Why did he do that?

Speaker 36 (04:13:53):
Well, Uncle Norman was a victim of habit. He did
everything by the clock. When the bed got out eight
meals everything you see this morning.

Speaker 11 (04:14:01):
He didn't appear at breakfast at the regular hour.

Speaker 9 (04:14:03):
Yes, that's it.

Speaker 36 (04:14:04):
We don't come down to breakfast as we're sitting a waiting.

Speaker 9 (04:14:13):
Jude.

Speaker 29 (04:14:13):
If you have to keep yawning and making me sleepy,
oh sorry, darling, I can't help.

Speaker 34 (04:14:17):
But I'm not used to getting up.

Speaker 36 (04:14:19):
In the middle of the night neither am I Sometimes
I wonder if all this is worth it. It's worth
it to me the way things are going in my business,
I could use one third of a million bucks very nicely.

Speaker 29 (04:14:28):
Who couldn't That's what I tell myself every time I'm
ordered down here for a weekend. Thenny I say one
third of a cool million dollars, there's a lot of dough,
quit beef, and and go earn your money.

Speaker 34 (04:14:39):
What killed me is that he picked a weekend orders
to come and see him. I had a party planned
up in the mountain. Oh well, it's worth it, I give.

Speaker 18 (04:14:48):
It, sure is.

Speaker 36 (04:14:49):
Uncle Arman can't live forever. I'm beginning to doubt that.

Speaker 34 (04:14:52):
How old is anyhow?

Speaker 11 (04:14:54):
Seventy three is last birthday?

Speaker 29 (04:14:55):
See, wouldn't it be a joke on us if he
left his door to a home for his stunted summer.

Speaker 14 (04:15:01):
He wouldn't do that.

Speaker 36 (04:15:02):
He's told us enough times that we're his kids.

Speaker 34 (04:15:05):
Say what time is it?

Speaker 11 (04:15:06):
Anyway?

Speaker 4 (04:15:06):
Time alright?

Speaker 9 (04:15:07):
Eight fifteen?

Speaker 34 (04:15:08):
Why why Uncle Gorman would die rather than be late
for breakfast?

Speaker 16 (04:15:12):
He told us last night that breakfast was to be
at seven forty five.

Speaker 9 (04:15:15):
Or maybe he did die in his sleep. Oh well,
I worry about it. He'll be along.

Speaker 34 (04:15:20):
I think one of us all to grow up and
see if he's all right?

Speaker 9 (04:15:23):
What good would it do?

Speaker 36 (04:15:23):
He always keeps his doors locked.

Speaker 34 (04:15:25):
We could wake him up by knocking.

Speaker 10 (04:15:26):
Whyre you kidding?

Speaker 36 (04:15:27):
Uncle Norman? Wouldn't wake up if a bomb explodes under
his bed. He's that this, and I think Judu's right.

Speaker 11 (04:15:32):
We ought to do something.

Speaker 9 (04:15:33):
I'll go up.

Speaker 36 (04:15:33):
No, wait a minute, we'll all go.

Speaker 34 (04:15:35):
What's the matter, darling afraid to let me have a
few minutes alone?

Speaker 36 (04:15:38):
My dear uncle, you bet I am your little sneak.
I don't trust you as far as I can throw
an an for why you too? Let's get going. You
know how Uncle Norman feels about us quarreling. Now, come on.
At least we can do is respect his wishes when
we're in his house.

Speaker 34 (04:15:53):
Oh, don't set yourself up as a model, Larry, you're
no parac.

Speaker 29 (04:15:56):
At least I've got cut it out putting on it?
And why not lay off till we get away from here?

Speaker 34 (04:16:02):
You started there?

Speaker 11 (04:16:02):
Here's Uncle Norman's room.

Speaker 9 (04:16:03):
I shut up, both of you.

Speaker 4 (04:16:05):
Listen to that guy.

Speaker 9 (04:16:06):
Will you.

Speaker 34 (04:16:08):
Try again? Larry nodded, Uncle Norman?

Speaker 15 (04:16:12):
Uncle Norman.

Speaker 36 (04:16:14):
Maybe he's something's happened to the old boy.

Speaker 16 (04:16:18):
He's not that dead.

Speaker 34 (04:16:19):
What are we gonna do?

Speaker 16 (04:16:20):
We gotta do something.

Speaker 36 (04:16:22):
Try to not nic slock. He always watched his door.

Speaker 34 (04:16:25):
He's had another heart attack. I just know he has
Uncle Norman, Uncle.

Speaker 36 (04:16:29):
Norman, we'll never hear you.

Speaker 16 (04:16:31):
What are we gonna do?

Speaker 34 (04:16:32):
Why don't you force the door? We've got to find
out what's wrong.

Speaker 36 (04:16:35):
Raise the old Harry. If nothing's wrong, well we can't.

Speaker 34 (04:16:37):
Just stand around here all day waiting for him to
wake up.

Speaker 36 (04:16:40):
Something's happened to him or he deal wake before.

Speaker 11 (04:16:42):
Now you want to any.

Speaker 36 (04:16:43):
Put your shoulder the door. Okay, only don't forget it's
your idea.

Speaker 11 (04:16:49):
What's going on?

Speaker 15 (04:16:52):
Come on?

Speaker 34 (04:16:54):
Oh, thank heaven, there's Uncle Norman in bed, sound asleep.

Speaker 36 (04:16:58):
Open a window, some i'one's hot as bull, I'll do it.

Speaker 18 (04:17:02):
What's the matter?

Speaker 36 (04:17:03):
Look, but heavens he's dead. He's not only dead, he's
been strangled, murdered.

Speaker 11 (04:17:18):
Well that's a very interesting story, mister Kent. I think
it answers my question.

Speaker 36 (04:17:21):
All right, what do you mean it answers your question?

Speaker 65 (04:17:24):
Why?

Speaker 11 (04:17:24):
It tells me who murdered Norman? Miles, you're crazy?

Speaker 36 (04:17:27):
And if you know who murdered him, why don't you
tell us?

Speaker 9 (04:17:30):
For several reasons, mister Kemp.

Speaker 11 (04:17:31):
In the first place, my purpose in being here is
to study the criminal and his Reactionsmiley still believes himself unsuspected,
Now that I know his identity, my task is going
to be much more interesting.

Speaker 34 (04:17:44):
Why the man's crazy?

Speaker 29 (04:17:45):
Look here, Danfield, If you really think you know who
it is who murdered Uncle Norman, it's your duty to
point out the guilty party.

Speaker 11 (04:17:51):
No, mister Warren, I don't think it is. I'm not
a policeman or even a private detective. If I pointed
out the guilty party, it would only make things more
difficult for the police. Why because I have none of
the concrete evidence that the police require in order to
establish the murderer's guilt.

Speaker 34 (04:18:05):
Another words, you can prove nothing.

Speaker 11 (04:18:08):
Does that relieve your mind? Miss Nelson? Miss Fairfax? Have
you your notebook?

Speaker 9 (04:18:11):
Candy?

Speaker 16 (04:18:12):
I'm all set.

Speaker 11 (04:18:12):
Fine, I'm going to ask three questions. I'd like to
have you jot down the answers for beat him. I
think the nature of the answers will determine at what
point in our investigation we should ask Officer Moriarty, on
guard outside the house, to step inside and make an arrest.

Speaker 97 (04:18:25):
Well, how do you like that this guy kills me?
He's going to ask three questions and bingo, he can
prove who the murder is. Well, I'm not answering any questions.

Speaker 11 (04:18:36):
Neither am I I think you will, because the one
who refuses will immediately be taken into custoday. Let me
see now, mister Kent, I believe.

Speaker 9 (04:18:44):
I'll start with you.

Speaker 11 (04:18:46):
Are you quite positive that all the wheels and doors
in mister Miles's bedroom are locked down the inside?

Speaker 36 (04:18:51):
Yes, I've already told you that I checked them myself.

Speaker 11 (04:18:54):
You mean you checked all but the window that miss
Nelson opened when the three of you came through the
broken down door?

Speaker 34 (04:18:58):
That's an hawkshaw if you think.

Speaker 11 (04:19:00):
Miss Nelson, I'll now ask you your question. Was the
window locked when you went to open it?

Speaker 26 (04:19:07):
Sure?

Speaker 28 (04:19:07):
It was locked?

Speaker 34 (04:19:08):
I unlocked it, and if you don't believe me, you
can look for my fingerprints. You'll find it very well.

Speaker 9 (04:19:14):
Mister Warren, I have the three of you been separated
at any time since you discovered the body?

Speaker 29 (04:19:19):
Well, since the others came through with answers, I suppose
i'd better No. We all came downstairs, called a doctor
and then the police. We stayed in this room until
they arrived. Excellent, that's er effects.

Speaker 11 (04:19:29):
Have you got all that done?

Speaker 16 (04:19:30):
Verbatim? Doctor Danfield?

Speaker 11 (04:19:32):
Thank you now, when you please step to the door
and ask Officer Moriarty to come inside please in a moment,
who returned for the third act of danger, doctor Danfield,
But first, not for the third act of danger, Doctor

(04:19:59):
dan Here we are, Miss Fairfax. Yeah, I certainly demonished
the door to mister Miles's bedroom, didn't they?

Speaker 16 (04:20:12):
Then you annoy me.

Speaker 11 (04:20:14):
Yes, the lock is drown That means the door was
locked when the tin men broke it down, giving.

Speaker 16 (04:20:18):
That big build up about asking three questions and then
not paying at all.

Speaker 11 (04:20:22):
Oh careful, when you stepped in the room, Ruster, you
might pore stuck in one of the.

Speaker 16 (04:20:26):
Never mind my stockings. There we were waiting for Officer
Moriarty to make the arrest, and then all you did
was borrow his flashlight.

Speaker 11 (04:20:33):
These windows are locked exactly as described. Now, let's examine
the open window.

Speaker 16 (04:20:37):
Do you realize that those people downstairs think of you?

Speaker 56 (04:20:40):
Now?

Speaker 16 (04:20:40):
They're laughing at you. When this story gets out, your
reputation will be ruined.

Speaker 11 (04:20:45):
The possibly we'd better check the fingerprints on this window lock,
just to make sure that miss Nelson was telling us
the truth. What's your opinion, Miss Fairfax?

Speaker 16 (04:20:53):
My opinion is that we better get out of here
before we make bigger fools of ourselves than we already have.

Speaker 11 (04:20:58):
Well, look here, look where? Never mind? You don't like
of interest in this case?

Speaker 9 (04:21:03):
Surprises me? Rusty?

Speaker 16 (04:21:04):
Come on, no, Dan, wait, I am interested in the case.
Only only what it's you I'm interested in. You've got
such a good reputation. I don't want to see it ruined.

Speaker 11 (04:21:14):
That's all, Rusty or really a very nice person. Come
on now, in less than fifteen minutes, we'll have found
what we're looking for. I promise it, Dan.

Speaker 16 (04:21:34):
It's actually dark out here. I wish Mario were with us.

Speaker 11 (04:21:38):
You're not frightened, Arian?

Speaker 16 (04:21:40):
Is there something to be frightened though?

Speaker 11 (04:21:41):
Oh yes, yes, I have no doubt that someone will
attempt to take our lives in a very few minutes.

Speaker 16 (04:21:46):
That's a pleasant thought. What's the matter?

Speaker 11 (04:21:49):
But there two depressions in the soft earth beneath the
window of mister Myle's bedroom.

Speaker 16 (04:21:54):
Then those marks were made by a ladder.

Speaker 9 (04:21:57):
Quite right?

Speaker 2 (04:21:58):
Then?

Speaker 16 (04:21:58):
That means that someone could let her here last night
and climbed up to the Dan that window up there's
the one that Judith Nelson said she opened.

Speaker 9 (04:22:05):
So it is.

Speaker 11 (04:22:06):
However, no one climbed.

Speaker 16 (04:22:08):
Up the ladder What do you mean no one climbed
up the ladder.

Speaker 11 (04:22:10):
The marks on the ground restie, they indicate that the
ladder was only three feet from the house. If anyone
attempted to climb up it, he or she would have
fallen over backwards.

Speaker 16 (04:22:18):
I guess you're right. Then why was the ladder placed
against the house at all?

Speaker 11 (04:22:22):
Because someone wanted the police to investigate and discover what
we've just discovered. But why because that would lead investigators
to think that admission to mister Miles's room is not
gained via the window above.

Speaker 16 (04:22:33):
That doesn't make sense to me. The window was locked anyway,
is it?

Speaker 9 (04:22:38):
Well?

Speaker 16 (04:22:38):
Well, look here now, what are you looking at?

Speaker 9 (04:22:41):
A tree?

Speaker 11 (04:22:41):
You notice how that branch extends over the ledger just
below the bedroom window?

Speaker 16 (04:22:45):
What about it? The window was locked, Dan, What are
you gonna do?

Speaker 11 (04:22:49):
I'm gonna climb the tree if you stay here?

Speaker 16 (04:22:50):
Yea, no, I'm coming to Don't be ridiculous.

Speaker 11 (04:22:53):
Women aren't supposed to climb tree.

Speaker 26 (04:22:55):
You come back here, That limb won't hold you.

Speaker 11 (04:22:57):
Old chunks omes fair of facts.

Speaker 38 (04:22:59):
I don't want to be caught up the street.

Speaker 34 (04:23:00):
You don't, well, how do you think that?

Speaker 11 (04:23:02):
I rus?

Speaker 15 (04:23:03):
Rusty?

Speaker 4 (04:23:04):
Hey?

Speaker 14 (04:23:05):
Let's when it breaking and I palling rust.

Speaker 98 (04:23:07):
I say, now just a minute, just a minute, miss
the officers, the law. I got to see doctor downfield.
Never mind, don't say it. I'm going to see him
just the same. Well, I guess you don't know who

(04:23:28):
I am.

Speaker 2 (04:23:29):
Me.

Speaker 98 (04:23:29):
I'm a Mario Condolet you ever hear of me? Well
you're very funny, fellow, mister officer.

Speaker 82 (04:23:36):
All you say is, well, well that's there, you know,
speaking English like me.

Speaker 98 (04:23:42):
Well there you go again.

Speaker 4 (04:23:43):
Well, well, well well.

Speaker 36 (04:23:45):
Let that must have get himself in another pick comment.

Speaker 11 (04:23:48):
No, no, you say hear me?

Speaker 28 (04:23:50):
Law?

Speaker 15 (04:23:50):
I picked because that's all this is.

Speaker 11 (04:23:55):
Me, Mario.

Speaker 36 (04:23:56):
Dark that's going on around here.

Speaker 15 (04:24:01):
We'll chop it down to that tree.

Speaker 34 (04:24:02):
Mario, dance under that tree that the doctor hides.

Speaker 9 (04:24:06):
Him under the tree.

Speaker 28 (04:24:07):
What did this all about?

Speaker 10 (04:24:08):
Mario?

Speaker 14 (04:24:09):
Mario?

Speaker 25 (04:24:09):
Pet me out of here.

Speaker 9 (04:24:10):
Doc.

Speaker 15 (04:24:11):
I'll care, Doc, but don't worry. I'll put you off.

Speaker 14 (04:24:15):
A little careful Mario.

Speaker 15 (04:24:16):
That's all right.

Speaker 11 (04:24:17):
Didn't do me any good.

Speaker 15 (04:24:19):
You're put out of the tree.

Speaker 28 (04:24:20):
Doc.

Speaker 11 (04:24:23):
Hey, maybe you got a shot the pool.

Speaker 9 (04:24:25):
No, no, no, I didn't get shot.

Speaker 11 (04:24:27):
The branch started to break and he missed.

Speaker 9 (04:24:30):
There. I'm all right. Where's Rusty?

Speaker 96 (04:24:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (04:24:32):
Over here, Rusty?

Speaker 56 (04:24:33):
All right?

Speaker 9 (04:24:34):
For sure, she's all right, the doc.

Speaker 98 (04:24:36):
When a woman kind of talk, all right.

Speaker 11 (04:24:39):
Let's not try to be funny at a time like this. Mario,
is me funny? But I haven't rusty.

Speaker 16 (04:24:45):
Somebody came up behind me and hit me. Went out
like a light.

Speaker 11 (04:24:48):
Yes, and then he shut at me. I saw where
he went. Rest of you go back to the house.

Speaker 16 (04:24:52):
No, I'm going with you, Rusty.

Speaker 11 (04:24:55):
Sometimes you try me.

Speaker 9 (04:24:56):
You know this is no time to argue. Mario.

Speaker 4 (04:24:58):
Will you pick up the.

Speaker 9 (04:24:58):
Flashlights, pick up with the I.

Speaker 11 (04:25:01):
Got him when we're going now over to that small
building behind the garage. Our attacker was heading in that direction. Frankly, Mario,
I'm glad you're having along.

Speaker 9 (04:25:10):
Me happened along. That's very funny.

Speaker 15 (04:25:14):
I've been local for you out there. You should not
go off without for Mario.

Speaker 36 (04:25:19):
Doc and on.

Speaker 11 (04:25:20):
Perhaps you're right.

Speaker 16 (04:25:21):
Shouldn't we be a little less noisy If the person
who act in that building, he.

Speaker 9 (04:25:25):
Isn't in the building.

Speaker 11 (04:25:25):
That's fair of facts.

Speaker 9 (04:25:26):
I'm sure of it.

Speaker 11 (04:25:28):
Here we are, pull that flashlight on the door, Mario. Okay, Doc,
life was easy. Throw your flesh light around inside Mario,
will you please, that's fine?

Speaker 9 (04:25:37):
Follow me?

Speaker 2 (04:25:38):
No, no, you better let me go first to do
if that the follow is here.

Speaker 11 (04:25:42):
He isn't here, Mario. I've already told you that the
place is empty, all right? Not quite, Prusty, what.

Speaker 16 (04:25:47):
Do you mean it isn't This is nothing but a
tool shed.

Speaker 36 (04:25:50):
Maybe somebody hiding behind those of boxes.

Speaker 11 (04:25:53):
There's no one hiding behind the boxes. Well, just as
I thought that, doc is all?

Speaker 18 (04:26:00):
Was it?

Speaker 11 (04:26:00):
Pain con Yes, that settles it. Come along we can
return to the house now, and this time we can
identify our murderer without asking any questions.

Speaker 34 (04:26:19):
Well, Judith, where have you been out looking for a
man who fell out of a tree?

Speaker 9 (04:26:23):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (04:26:24):
So you heard it too?

Speaker 9 (04:26:25):
Uh?

Speaker 36 (04:26:25):
You should have seen the expression on Danfield's face when
he hit the ground.

Speaker 97 (04:26:28):
I did see it, and I saw the expression on
your face when you saw the limb halfway through this afternoon?

Speaker 36 (04:26:34):
Snooping again, Judy, Yes, snooping again?

Speaker 11 (04:26:36):
And so were you and so was Larry.

Speaker 34 (04:26:39):
By the way, where is Larry?

Speaker 38 (04:26:42):
You think I'd try to escape?

Speaker 36 (04:26:43):
It would be a sucker to do that, wouldn't.

Speaker 15 (04:26:45):
I This is really very amusing.

Speaker 34 (04:26:47):
We're all actually suspicious of each other.

Speaker 29 (04:26:50):
And if you're asking me, that just what Danfield wants.
He thinks the guilly party will break down on the
strain of wondering which one of us he's going to.

Speaker 36 (04:26:56):
Put the finger on.

Speaker 29 (04:26:57):
You sound worried, then I suppose by that cracking me up,
got something to worry about.

Speaker 17 (04:27:01):
You.

Speaker 34 (04:27:01):
I'll stop it. None of us killed Uncle Norman. If
we keep this up, we'll beat each other's throat.

Speaker 38 (04:27:07):
That's right, Larry.

Speaker 36 (04:27:09):
Sorry I went off the deep endure.

Speaker 34 (04:27:11):
Okay, let's go get Oh here comes a great man.

Speaker 36 (04:27:14):
Now remember whatever he says, We stick together. Oh so
you're back again?

Speaker 18 (04:27:20):
How you, Daniel?

Speaker 36 (04:27:21):
What's it going to be this time?

Speaker 14 (04:27:22):
Is spelling bee?

Speaker 36 (04:27:24):
Maybe he shot up three more questions to ask us.

Speaker 34 (04:27:26):
What I want to know is who's the character you've
brought along with?

Speaker 36 (04:27:30):
She means you Mario, She means hey, lady, what do
you mean by this Kardaker?

Speaker 14 (04:27:36):
This the name you called him?

Speaker 9 (04:27:37):
Mario? Ever? Mind Mario.

Speaker 11 (04:27:39):
Now, if you have all finished with your remarks, I'll
ask Officer Mariarty to arrest the guilty party and we'll
be on our way.

Speaker 9 (04:27:44):
Listen to it.

Speaker 34 (04:27:45):
What are you going to do this time? Borrow the cops?

Speaker 28 (04:27:47):
Gun.

Speaker 36 (04:27:48):
How about the three questions? Don't we get to answer
questions this time?

Speaker 11 (04:27:51):
No, mister Kent, I can prove you killed your uncle
without asking you any more questions. I killed him, certainly,
mister Kent, you killed him. I've known it all along,
but it's been only within the past five minutes that
I've been able to secure enough evidence to establish your guilt.
Definitely I killed him.

Speaker 36 (04:28:07):
Dinny, did you hear what that guy said?

Speaker 18 (04:28:09):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (04:28:10):
I heard him.

Speaker 34 (04:28:11):
Larry too bad, isn't it?

Speaker 24 (04:28:12):
Larry?

Speaker 14 (04:28:13):
Why?

Speaker 11 (04:28:14):
I don't think you'll get much sympathy from your two cousins,
mister Kim. You see, they've known all along that you
were guilty, but they were afraid that Mario.

Speaker 4 (04:28:21):
Don't worry about me, Doc, come already.

Speaker 15 (04:28:25):
How do you like this, funny fellow?

Speaker 56 (04:28:30):
Why do you want?

Speaker 9 (04:28:31):
I don't know how Molly you'll like?

Speaker 98 (04:28:34):
Get you very funny?

Speaker 15 (04:28:36):
I like because.

Speaker 9 (04:28:49):
In a moment, who returned for the conclusion of our story.
But first I'll for the conclusion I'll danger doctor Dan.

Speaker 11 (04:29:10):
New paragraph. I wish to mention that it was through
the courtesy of Captain Otis of the Police Department, and
the able assistance of Miss Fairfax and Mario that I
was availed this opportunity of studying the criminal line under
these circumstances, which Miss Fairfacts, I'm not through.

Speaker 16 (04:29:24):
I'll say you're not. And if you don't tell that
lecture class of yours, how you knew how the murderer
got into Norman Miles's room, I'll write it in myself.

Speaker 11 (04:29:32):
Miss Fairfax, I mean it.

Speaker 9 (04:29:34):
I believe you do. Well. The murderer climbed the tree
to the ledge and got in through the window.

Speaker 16 (04:29:39):
How could he The window was locked. Judith Nelson swear
she unlocked it when she opened it that morning.

Speaker 11 (04:29:44):
Miss Nelson only thought she unlocked the window.

Speaker 56 (04:29:46):
What.

Speaker 11 (04:29:47):
Yes, you see, Larry Kent had loosened the hesp earlier
in the day, so that when mister Miles locked his
window at night, the leavers led over the catch instead
of under it.

Speaker 2 (04:29:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (04:29:57):
Then, of course mister Miles didn't lock his window.

Speaker 11 (04:29:59):
But that's right. Kent later entered the room through the
window and strangled his un However, the next day the
problem of tightening the HASP without detection.

Speaker 16 (04:30:08):
But you established that all three of the suspects have
been together all.

Speaker 11 (04:30:11):
Day, Yes, which meant that mister Kent had to wait
until nightfall to tighten the hasp back into place and
to remove his fingerprints.

Speaker 16 (04:30:17):
And it was Kent who shot at you and then
ran toward the toolhouse.

Speaker 11 (04:30:20):
Yes, he who wanted to return the screwdriver. He didn't
want anyone to find out that tightened the hasp.

Speaker 16 (04:30:25):
But how did you know it was Larry Kent?

Speaker 11 (04:30:27):
I saw him when I was falling out of the tree.
Oh then you did, Oh, yes, yes, I did, miss
fair facts. I knew he was guilty all the time
because of my knowledge regarding the workings of the human mind.

Speaker 18 (04:30:37):
I see.

Speaker 15 (04:30:40):
Dan.

Speaker 16 (04:30:41):
Yes, Rusty, do you buy any chance know what I'm
thinking of right now?

Speaker 11 (04:30:47):
Indeed I do, Rusty. Lift your tin a little higher.

Speaker 9 (04:31:04):
Tonight on deepnight.

Speaker 51 (04:31:09):
H M, Jonathan, wake up, the door is open. Gentaman,
where are you.

Speaker 56 (04:31:25):
You out there?

Speaker 77 (04:31:27):
Answer me? This isn't funny.

Speaker 38 (04:31:35):
How did he go?

Speaker 99 (04:31:39):
M hm, Jesus, my foot looks like a catalog. I
guess he's out getting wood. Jonathan's right, This book is
in great shape.

Speaker 100 (04:31:55):
If I don't take this child with me, thought Alice,
they're sure to kill it in a day or two.
It's fairly violent.

Speaker 3 (04:32:05):
Crap, die on me, Fire.

Speaker 100 (04:32:16):
Something here, besides children's lit anything recipe book.

Speaker 92 (04:32:24):
Very funny, Jonathan, he's that stupid doll alone again in here.

Speaker 101 (04:32:32):
He left the door open. I know he's pros to death.
You think I don't know it's you, Jonathan?

Speaker 9 (04:32:50):
Now are you.

Speaker 3 (04:32:59):
Away from me?

Speaker 9 (04:33:01):
WHI?

Speaker 102 (04:33:26):
There are mysterious whispers in the shadows, the wind, in
the branches, the drifting snow. Perhaps once we leave all
the noise of our daily lives behind, the mystery of
these whispers can also entice. But then again, the enticement
itself may be allure, and the mystery a scrumptious crumb

(04:33:48):
laid out as baked for the tempted but unsuspecting. Here
is Pig and Pepper by Emma Roberts.

Speaker 54 (04:34:26):
Jonathan must be on the wrong road. Is this the
best map you would find?

Speaker 3 (04:34:30):
It's the only map, Laura?

Speaker 103 (04:34:32):
Why aren't we get lost?

Speaker 20 (04:34:34):
Max?

Speaker 3 (04:34:35):
I know exactly where we are. I'm gonna check that
phone out the window.

Speaker 54 (04:34:40):
Max, sweetie, this is a holiday. Remember, holiday means no work.

Speaker 104 (04:34:46):
Just let me tie up some loose ends before I
lose the signal. This is the last call, and swear
you turn the music down. Max turnbullt Max Turnbull, shut up.

Speaker 3 (04:34:57):
Hello, be the missus.

Speaker 54 (04:34:58):
Boy slow like he's really news.

Speaker 3 (04:35:01):
Turnbullncs, turnbulls. Shut up twits.

Speaker 35 (04:35:04):
This is important.

Speaker 103 (04:35:05):
Hello, it's a stay of proceedings. Can't you handle two
days on your own?

Speaker 54 (04:35:11):
No gas stations, no restaurants, nothing but three?

Speaker 103 (04:35:15):
Yeah, I'm going to an eco law.

Speaker 3 (04:35:17):
The elders call this nature urban princess.

Speaker 103 (04:35:21):
No phones, no lights, organic toilets.

Speaker 54 (04:35:23):
What the hell is an organic toilet?

Speaker 11 (04:35:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 103 (04:35:25):
This weekend was my buddy's idea.

Speaker 3 (04:35:27):
It's a calm posting toilet.

Speaker 103 (04:35:29):
I've known it since university. This granola phase is fairly new.

Speaker 54 (04:35:33):
Is it a real toilet or isn't it?

Speaker 3 (04:35:34):
Yes, Laura, it is a real toilet. I hell no
for our honeymoon.

Speaker 103 (04:35:37):
We aren't leaving civilization, thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (04:35:40):
Just tell them to file.

Speaker 69 (04:35:42):
Hello, Hello.

Speaker 103 (04:35:48):
Folks, we're officially out of touch.

Speaker 54 (04:35:50):
Good now, maybe you can navigate?

Speaker 103 (04:35:52):
Let me see the map.

Speaker 54 (04:35:53):
Forget the map. Didn't you bring your GPS thingy?

Speaker 103 (04:35:56):
You said we were back to nature. My NAP's as
full of natural fibers and room stone.

Speaker 3 (04:36:00):
You know, you guys are what's wrong with this planet.

Speaker 54 (04:36:04):
Sorry, okay, I just think we're lost.

Speaker 3 (04:36:06):
Look here it is next turn here here.

Speaker 23 (04:36:23):
You want to chase me through the trees and your winecloth?

Speaker 105 (04:36:26):
Did you remember to pack your wooden Nymph outfit?

Speaker 9 (04:36:31):
Mm hmm, vomit bag.

Speaker 3 (04:36:38):
Get a goddamn room.

Speaker 105 (04:36:41):
You have to carry all this on our backs.

Speaker 106 (04:36:43):
I forgot to pack the SR book, Jonathan, You go
do with the skis.

Speaker 55 (04:36:47):
We'll get the gear.

Speaker 2 (04:36:48):
Fine?

Speaker 90 (04:36:52):
Is it me?

Speaker 81 (04:36:52):
Or is he on a short fuse?

Speaker 105 (04:36:54):
Well you would be too if you found your fiance
under your thesis advisor.

Speaker 55 (04:36:58):
It's too soon. Helena hasn't even moved out yet.

Speaker 75 (04:37:01):
What choice is there?

Speaker 105 (04:37:02):
We booked this weekend six months ago. You want to
lose a thousand bucks?

Speaker 106 (04:37:05):
No, but I'm not thrilled about spending three of my
heart earned vacation days with mister pissed off single guy.

Speaker 20 (04:37:10):
Either.

Speaker 42 (04:37:11):
We should have set them up with someone.

Speaker 49 (04:37:14):
Who I don't know, someone to think about beside Selene.

Speaker 105 (04:37:17):
Which one of your friends? Do you hate enough?

Speaker 10 (04:37:19):
True?

Speaker 9 (04:37:21):
This is our weekend?

Speaker 105 (04:37:22):
Am I right?

Speaker 90 (04:37:24):
You are right, my love?

Speaker 105 (04:37:25):
So stay in, drink ourselves comatose, and pray. Jonathan meets
a nice Greenpeace activist, call his own.

Speaker 49 (04:37:36):
Is there a phone in our cabin?

Speaker 105 (04:37:38):
There's a phone over there by the newspaper box.

Speaker 23 (04:37:40):
Why would you need a newspaper out here for the personals?

Speaker 3 (04:37:56):
How much further an hour hour and a half would
be skiing for three hours?

Speaker 2 (04:38:01):
Or would have rented a snowmobile.

Speaker 54 (04:38:03):
God, it's desolate out here.

Speaker 99 (04:38:06):
Well some hermit didn't think so, looks Ronald Jack.

Speaker 56 (04:38:11):
Big deal.

Speaker 3 (04:38:11):
I don't remember there being a cabin here. A lot
of history in that place, i'll.

Speaker 107 (04:38:16):
Bet Jonathan, Jonathan, come on, you said we have to
check in before three.

Speaker 77 (04:38:29):
Hey, come on, this voice was left in a hurry.

Speaker 54 (04:38:34):
We're freezing to death.

Speaker 77 (04:38:35):
Let's go sense of adventure.

Speaker 20 (04:38:39):
It's frozen just like the rest of me.

Speaker 54 (04:38:41):
The trail is forking, Jonathan, Which way do we go?

Speaker 18 (04:38:45):
Hold on.

Speaker 20 (04:38:49):
Left, right into the trees?

Speaker 77 (04:38:54):
Guys, it's stelen patience.

Speaker 20 (04:38:55):
Where did you get that map?

Speaker 77 (04:38:57):
It's based on my knowledge of the area.

Speaker 107 (04:39:01):
Hey, maybe a map from the lodge would have been helpful.

Speaker 4 (04:39:03):
Huh.

Speaker 20 (04:39:04):
One that was based on fact.

Speaker 77 (04:39:06):
I know exactly where I am inland.

Speaker 55 (04:39:09):
The wind is slicing.

Speaker 20 (04:39:10):
You do this every time?

Speaker 107 (04:39:12):
Remember that map to the cottage up north nearly drove
us into a goddamn laked.

Speaker 54 (04:39:18):
Feature chest indoors. Please, I can't take this wind if
we go.

Speaker 77 (04:39:21):
Inland now, we just have to come back down later.
Sally's right on the water.

Speaker 107 (04:39:26):
Oh it's a chalet. Now sounds mighty capitalist. Don't tree hugger,
sleep on straw and drink distilled compost.

Speaker 77 (04:39:34):
You sound like Helene, misinformed, ignorant, but self righteous enough
to criticize.

Speaker 107 (04:39:40):
You almost married her, Remember, guys, Max, what she was
our friend too.

Speaker 77 (04:39:46):
Let's hope your engagement works out better than mine. Buddy, Max,
let's just skip. You don't know where you're going, neither
do you.

Speaker 20 (04:39:54):
Any direction away from you is just fine.

Speaker 77 (04:39:59):
Oh what happened?

Speaker 55 (04:40:03):
The snow bank dropped out from under him? Max, Max,
where is he? I can't see him.

Speaker 77 (04:40:13):
He's down there.

Speaker 3 (04:40:14):
I'll twisted up like something out of sick to s La.

Speaker 55 (04:40:17):
Is this funny to you?

Speaker 77 (04:40:19):
No, I'm just very inappropriate under stress.

Speaker 55 (04:40:24):
Max will be right there.

Speaker 25 (04:40:25):
Baby, your skis off and help me get him.

Speaker 55 (04:40:29):
Back up here.

Speaker 77 (04:40:30):
I'm coming. Keep your hair on.

Speaker 51 (04:40:35):
Oh I think my ankle broke.

Speaker 3 (04:40:38):
Just relax, Let's get him back to the cabin from
light of fire.

Speaker 55 (04:40:44):
No, we need a doctor who should keep moving. Try
to make it back to the car.

Speaker 51 (04:40:47):
I'm not sure you realize how much this hurts Max.

Speaker 55 (04:40:50):
God knows how long that cabin's been there. It could
be full of animals, disease, you.

Speaker 77 (04:40:53):
Feed irrational, it's it's four walls in a roof.

Speaker 100 (04:40:56):
Take me back to the cabin and then Jonathan can
go back to the parking lot.

Speaker 28 (04:41:00):
Call an ambulance.

Speaker 3 (04:41:01):
It is an emergency.

Speaker 106 (04:41:02):
Fine, I'm veidoed.

Speaker 55 (04:41:03):
Can you carry him on your back?

Speaker 3 (04:41:05):
He's game thirty pounds since first year.

Speaker 108 (04:41:08):
Shut your mouth, pick me up, okay, okay, relax, care
I'll piggy back you.

Speaker 3 (04:41:22):
Oh oh, there goes my kidney.

Speaker 9 (04:41:25):
Sat man, Shut up.

Speaker 54 (04:41:37):
Push him up onto the porch.

Speaker 7 (04:41:39):
Ah, get careful, get weak.

Speaker 3 (04:41:42):
I got okay, I got the railing.

Speaker 2 (04:41:45):
I had the railing.

Speaker 54 (04:41:47):
Are you sure about this?

Speaker 55 (04:41:48):
What if this place is completely rotten? What if you
drop right through the floor.

Speaker 2 (04:41:51):
It's only temporary.

Speaker 54 (04:41:53):
Okay, honey, Let's get you into the side.

Speaker 3 (04:41:56):
Right easy, easy, and I'll look for wood.

Speaker 2 (04:42:01):
What the hell?

Speaker 3 (04:42:03):
Broken plates everywhere?

Speaker 56 (04:42:07):
Do you guys?

Speaker 28 (04:42:07):
Hear that here?

Speaker 2 (04:42:09):
What?

Speaker 3 (04:42:10):
I just heard a dollar something?

Speaker 28 (04:42:20):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (04:42:23):
It's okay, here it is.

Speaker 14 (04:42:25):
Listen.

Speaker 106 (04:42:27):
That doll has been in the snow for eons.

Speaker 35 (04:42:29):
I just heard to talk.

Speaker 3 (04:42:31):
I stepped on it and it talked. Okay, okay, easy, buddy,
lose it yet?

Speaker 54 (04:42:41):
Why don't I get that fire started?

Speaker 3 (04:42:43):
I was not hallucinating.

Speaker 20 (04:42:45):
I heard it talk.

Speaker 54 (04:42:46):
Okay, okay, it talked.

Speaker 77 (04:42:49):
You two think I'm hearing things snow.

Speaker 2 (04:42:52):
No, we're just deaf.

Speaker 106 (04:42:55):
I'll go call the ambulance.

Speaker 3 (04:42:57):
It'll be dark in an hour. Let Jonathan go.

Speaker 54 (04:42:59):
I'm the fastest.

Speaker 9 (04:43:00):
You're not that fast.

Speaker 106 (04:43:01):
And he's the one who got is lost in the
first place.

Speaker 3 (04:43:03):
There's nothing wrong with that map.

Speaker 109 (04:43:05):
Your map belongs in the combustible toilet, composting toilet, same
goddamn difference.

Speaker 106 (04:43:10):
Okay, you guys, yell a bit.

Speaker 4 (04:43:11):
Get it out.

Speaker 54 (04:43:12):
In the meantime, I'm going to be useful, Jonathan, get
the fire going.

Speaker 9 (04:43:19):
Want me to go after her? What makes you think
you'd catch her?

Speaker 3 (04:43:24):
Oh it's freezing in here. Light the fire.

Speaker 108 (04:43:29):
Did you bring any painkillers? I've got Saint John's War,
of course you do. It's the fireplaces in time. This
cherub burn.

Speaker 51 (04:43:41):
There's some kids books on the floor over here.

Speaker 2 (04:43:44):
We can use that for paper.

Speaker 3 (04:43:46):
Oh, where are the matches?

Speaker 18 (04:43:51):
Here?

Speaker 3 (04:43:54):
Can I get home on Tuesday? I have to buy
all new stuff.

Speaker 35 (04:44:00):
How come.

Speaker 108 (04:44:06):
The only thing that's mine is the futon, not the
sheets of the pillows even, Oh, in the dining room table,
that's mine too, But Helene bought the chairs.

Speaker 3 (04:44:16):
She'll take it all too. She won't even leave me
a roll of toilet paper.

Speaker 9 (04:44:20):
It's too bad.

Speaker 109 (04:44:23):
Had all your girlfriends, Helene's the only one I didn't
feel like arming myself against.

Speaker 3 (04:44:28):
That's a hell of an endorsement.

Speaker 110 (04:44:30):
Ah, heat, you got a thing for antisocial women, admit it,
oh please? And one with a bolt through her nose.
It was addicted to cough syrup. I had to get
a tetanus shot.

Speaker 3 (04:44:42):
Naomi had chronic bronchitis and a personality disorder. She nearly
bit my ear off. You shouldn't have poured her cough
syrup down the drain.

Speaker 109 (04:44:50):
Helene was normal, friendly, nice, smart, beautiful. She never gave
me the evil eye when I ate meat, never complained,
not even when you drove us into the lake.

Speaker 3 (04:45:01):
That flood was an act of God. Too bad she
cheated on me.

Speaker 9 (04:45:08):
Yeah, that part does suck.

Speaker 3 (04:45:10):
I thought she was the one. You'll find somebody better.

Speaker 9 (04:45:15):
Maybe I will look at this place.

Speaker 3 (04:45:24):
Toys books, What was this a daycare? It's cutlery resting
in the sink, these dishes have been sitting amiss for years.
Maybe food jars. What's an expiry date? But here's a
good housekeeping from nineteen fifty eight.

Speaker 9 (04:45:41):
Mm delicious.

Speaker 3 (04:45:44):
I have some raisins in my knapsack if you're hungry.
Better than rancid baby mush.

Speaker 55 (04:45:52):
Laura very zaka.

Speaker 28 (04:46:03):
For a.

Speaker 55 (04:46:05):
Door Abe.

Speaker 49 (04:46:07):
Door a son of Imotina, son of the better be
an after dinner howl, son of Mutina, son of le Matina.

Speaker 55 (04:46:26):
Ing dang Dong, Ding dang Dong.

Speaker 111 (04:46:40):
Look at this copy of Alice in Wonderland, beautiful illustrated
mint condition. I should put it on eBay.

Speaker 9 (04:46:52):
It's not yours.

Speaker 3 (04:46:55):
I speak severely to my boy.

Speaker 111 (04:46:58):
I beat him when he sneezed, for he can thoroughly
enjoy the pepper when he pleases.

Speaker 3 (04:47:07):
Hard to believe. It's a kid's buck, though, don't worry.

Speaker 11 (04:47:15):
It.

Speaker 3 (04:47:15):
She'll be fine. Wake me up when Laura gets back.

Speaker 11 (04:47:21):
Did you care that?

Speaker 28 (04:47:24):
Mm?

Speaker 3 (04:47:25):
So I'd like crying.

Speaker 9 (04:47:28):
That stupid doll again.

Speaker 11 (04:47:31):
No, it was.

Speaker 3 (04:47:36):
Wind, I guess Max, Max.

Speaker 77 (04:47:46):
How can you sleep at a time like this?

Speaker 62 (04:47:51):
What is that?

Speaker 9 (04:47:56):
Kid?

Speaker 49 (04:48:05):
Finally, I'm the only phone in a three hundred mile radius.

Speaker 55 (04:48:14):
Hands out of order? You're kidding, right, m h m.

Speaker 51 (04:48:46):
Hm, Jonathan, wake up? Doors open, Jonathan, where are you.

Speaker 77 (04:49:01):
You out there? Answer me? This isn't funny.

Speaker 3 (04:49:11):
How did he go?

Speaker 99 (04:49:17):
Jesus, my foot looks like a catalope. I guess he's
how getting wood. Jonathan's right, this book is in great shape.

Speaker 100 (04:49:30):
If I don't take this child with me, thought Alice,
they're sure to kill it in a day or two.
It's fairly violent.

Speaker 3 (04:49:40):
Oh crap.

Speaker 4 (04:49:47):
It, don't die on me.

Speaker 9 (04:49:48):
Fire.

Speaker 105 (04:49:52):
Gould be something here besides children's lit, anything, a recipe book?

Speaker 92 (04:50:00):
Very funny, Jonathan, leave that stupid doll alone and get
in here.

Speaker 9 (04:50:08):
You let the door open.

Speaker 77 (04:50:09):
I really close to death.

Speaker 3 (04:50:13):
You think I don't know it's you?

Speaker 38 (04:50:20):
Jonathan?

Speaker 20 (04:50:26):
How are you.

Speaker 3 (04:50:34):
Get away from me?

Speaker 33 (04:50:37):
Away from me?

Speaker 73 (04:50:39):
A wait for me.

Speaker 112 (04:50:42):
By I apologize for the phone. This trail doesn't get
much use anymore. Most folks traveled.

Speaker 9 (04:50:57):
The new road.

Speaker 54 (04:50:58):
Ranger.

Speaker 112 (04:50:58):
There's a new road, new by our standards, built six
or seven years ago.

Speaker 23 (04:51:03):
I knew his map was crap.

Speaker 55 (04:51:05):
Nothing.

Speaker 17 (04:51:06):
It's up here on the lake.

Speaker 55 (04:51:13):
There there's the cabin.

Speaker 77 (04:51:19):
Door's wide open.

Speaker 55 (04:51:21):
Max, Max, we're.

Speaker 77 (04:51:23):
Here, mislayth them, Please don't go inside?

Speaker 4 (04:51:26):
Why not well.

Speaker 77 (04:51:27):
This cabin's held together.

Speaker 7 (04:51:28):
With spitt and cobwebs.

Speaker 112 (04:51:30):
One wrong step in the whole thing, a cave in
on your head.

Speaker 55 (04:51:32):
He was fine that we were in there before.

Speaker 112 (04:51:34):
Please, for my own peace of mind, you wait out
here for a moment.

Speaker 4 (04:51:36):
I'll go check on them.

Speaker 55 (04:51:39):
Okay, where are they coming out? Max, Donathan?

Speaker 112 (04:51:46):
My guess is they're both asleep.

Speaker 20 (04:51:48):
Just uh wait here.

Speaker 51 (04:51:50):
Eh, there's no one in here, Miss Latham.

Speaker 101 (04:52:00):
How can you tell standing in the doorway Max Jonathan,
Please don't go in.

Speaker 54 (04:52:06):
Don't be ridiculous.

Speaker 55 (04:52:08):
The fire is still smoldering.

Speaker 54 (04:52:11):
There's a book on the chair, Alice in wonders.

Speaker 9 (04:52:13):
Don't touch that.

Speaker 16 (04:52:14):
Sorry, that's Max's jacket.

Speaker 112 (04:52:18):
They must have tried to make it back to the
car and we missed them somehow on the trail.

Speaker 54 (04:52:22):
That makes no sense.

Speaker 106 (04:52:23):
Max wouldn't leave with out his jacket. All their stuff
is still here, Max's knapsack, Jonathan's mittens.

Speaker 54 (04:52:30):
Something's happened.

Speaker 9 (04:52:32):
Let's not panic.

Speaker 112 (04:52:33):
I'll get on the horn and call search and rescue
right now.

Speaker 11 (04:52:36):
Now.

Speaker 112 (04:52:36):
You can go warm up at the office while we
searched the woods.

Speaker 54 (04:52:38):
Thank you, ranger, but I'd rather be involved.

Speaker 112 (04:52:40):
Call me Bernie I promise I'll do my best for you.

Speaker 54 (04:52:51):
I got your message, Bernie is the news.

Speaker 112 (04:52:55):
Yes, I wanted to see you in person. Three days
of wide outs and minus their we're calling it off, quitting.
I'm sorry, but we turned over every rock in that
bar is so.

Speaker 17 (04:53:08):
That's it, tough fuck.

Speaker 112 (04:53:10):
We might find something once the snow thaws.

Speaker 106 (04:53:12):
The lady at the BnB knows all about that place.

Speaker 9 (04:53:15):
Who Agatha?

Speaker 106 (04:53:16):
She told me the family that owned that cabin took
off and left their kid alone in the woods.

Speaker 112 (04:53:21):
Agatha's an old girl, Laura.

Speaker 9 (04:53:22):
A few cookies short of a jar.

Speaker 4 (04:53:24):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 56 (04:53:25):
She said.

Speaker 106 (04:53:25):
The little girl had down syndrome.

Speaker 112 (04:53:27):
Agatha used to be the librarian. She's read one too
many mystery novels.

Speaker 106 (04:53:32):
The little girl starved to death. I gotta said she
I get to said us. Fogey's in town. Don't go
out there. It's a cruel place.

Speaker 112 (04:53:39):
Agatha doesn't goddamn go anywhere, which is too damn bad
for the rest of us.

Speaker 19 (04:53:43):
Is it true?

Speaker 112 (04:53:44):
It's a small town, Laura, people are pretty similar. Anyone
different tends to draw fire, becomes grist for the gossip mill,
and whatnot. That family all ducks cold didn't mix much.
People like Agatha don't like that.

Speaker 106 (04:54:00):
So you did know them, Laura, I know how hard
this is for it just answer me.

Speaker 112 (04:54:05):
To have them vanished like that, with no word, no sign,
and he kind of leaves you vulnerable, makes you It
makes you lose your faith in logic and some old
biddy tells you a story. Suddenly, any explanation is better
than nothing.

Speaker 54 (04:54:18):
You still haven't answered me, yes or no?

Speaker 112 (04:54:21):
What does this have to do with your fiance and
his free they're missing?

Speaker 26 (04:54:25):
If you have information, let's have it.

Speaker 112 (04:54:27):
I don't know anything more than you do, really, Bernie,
are you sure about that?

Speaker 9 (04:54:31):
Of course?

Speaker 106 (04:54:33):
I think I should go back to that cabin.

Speaker 112 (04:54:34):
No, that's not a good idea.

Speaker 106 (04:54:35):
Why not if the little girl in the wood's going
to eat meat?

Speaker 112 (04:54:38):
I'm sorry for your loss, Laura.

Speaker 4 (04:54:40):
Truly I am.

Speaker 106 (04:54:42):
Isn't that a bit premature?

Speaker 9 (04:54:44):
Minus thirty five? No jacket?

Speaker 106 (04:54:47):
What do you mean just forget about them after three days?

Speaker 112 (04:54:50):
Of course not, but try to accept that things don't
always tie up nice and we'll do all we can
in the spring.

Speaker 20 (04:54:57):
Not good enough, Laura?

Speaker 11 (04:54:58):
Wait, Max, I.

Speaker 56 (04:55:11):
Can't stand it.

Speaker 76 (04:55:13):
What was the last thing I said?

Speaker 106 (04:55:15):
Something banal?

Speaker 55 (04:55:17):
I never should have.

Speaker 4 (04:55:18):
Loved you here?

Speaker 56 (04:55:20):
What was the last thing you touched?

Speaker 32 (04:55:23):
This book?

Speaker 54 (04:55:25):
Jonathan would have loved this.

Speaker 106 (04:55:32):
Alice set the little creature down and felt quite relieved
to see it trot away quietly into the wood.

Speaker 55 (04:55:39):
If it had grown up.

Speaker 106 (04:55:40):
It would have made a dreadfully ugly child, But it
makes rather a handsome pig.

Speaker 112 (04:55:46):
I think I lobbied hard for that new rold Laura Bernie.
I thought she'd stop if there was no one here.
Then the Eco Lodge arrived, wood started crawling with torrism.

Speaker 54 (04:55:58):
What happened here?

Speaker 10 (04:56:00):
You have to tell me, please?

Speaker 112 (04:56:04):
My dad threw her doll into the woods? What my
dad threw her doll into the woods? She went after it.

Speaker 77 (04:56:14):
She was just a little girl.

Speaker 112 (04:56:15):
She didn't understand anything about what she was. Everything was
a game. He threw the doll into the woods, then
pushed us into the car. I saw her running after us.
She was still laughing.

Speaker 24 (04:56:29):
Was she.

Speaker 54 (04:56:31):
Was this your family?

Speaker 112 (04:56:33):
My sister was my father's biggest humiliation. People forgot everything
else about him except her. Agatha called him that poor
man with the mongle Lloyd. He'd come back from town seething.
My sister never caught and down she'd just smile and gurgle.
The only time she ever got upset was when he

(04:56:54):
called her Piggy. He'd show her the picture of the
baby who was really a pig. She'd cry, she hates.

Speaker 106 (04:57:03):
That book, Bernie.

Speaker 55 (04:57:05):
What what is that noise?

Speaker 112 (04:57:09):
She'll be here soon, Laura.

Speaker 28 (04:57:11):
You have to go.

Speaker 55 (04:57:12):
This is insane.

Speaker 54 (04:57:13):
Where's Max.

Speaker 112 (04:57:14):
He's gone, He's never coming back.

Speaker 9 (04:57:17):
You have to go, Laura.

Speaker 112 (04:57:18):
Now, Max wouldn't have wanted you to stay here.

Speaker 54 (04:57:21):
Bernie. Let's get out of here.

Speaker 112 (04:57:22):
I'm responsible for this.

Speaker 54 (04:57:24):
You were just a little boy.

Speaker 9 (04:57:25):
I'm gonna do.

Speaker 112 (04:57:26):
What I should have done forty five years ago. I'm
gonna stay with her, Bernie.

Speaker 30 (04:57:31):
No, stop pushing me, Bernie. I'm not leaving you here.

Speaker 77 (04:57:37):
Out and keep Bernnie.

Speaker 30 (04:57:43):
No, you don't have to do this.

Speaker 9 (04:57:51):
I'm here.

Speaker 102 (04:58:43):
Pig and Pepper conceived and written by M. A. C. Roberts.
In the cast, Tracy Mcliitis was Laura. Ben Carlson was Max,
Dylan Smith was Jonathan, and Dennis O'Connor was Bernie.

Speaker 23 (04:58:56):
The ranger.

Speaker 102 (04:58:58):
Sunday Muse was the Ghost. The casting director was Linda Grierson.
The script editor was Beverly Cooper. Original music was composed
and performed by Kathy Ozzati. The associate producer was Colleen Woods.
The recording engineer was Greg Declute, and sound effects were
by Anton Zabo. Pig and Pepper was produced by Marcia Johnson.

(04:59:21):
The executive producer was James Roy. Next on Deep Night,
Not all the trolls lurk beneath bridges and the dead
of night. Some haunt the radio waves, enticing the unwary

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with offers of brief late night radio stardom, only to
consume them in fiendish gulps. But you know what they say.
What goes around comes around, even for trolls. Especially.

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