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Speaker 7 (01:30):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.

Speaker 8 (01:50):
Come in.

Speaker 9 (01:53):
Welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
I'm E. G.

Speaker 8 (01:55):
Marshall.

Speaker 10 (01:57):
Do you know that primitive people believe no one died
unless he had been done in by his doctor. It's true,
of course, today we're very civilized, very sophisticated, very enlightened.
We smile at the ignorance, the naivete of the Aborigines.

Speaker 8 (02:13):
Pity them a little man.

Speaker 10 (02:15):
But should we search ourselves closely enough, might we not
find vestiges of the old belief somewhere, the faintly hostile
feeling that the doctor could have saved the patient.

Speaker 8 (02:31):
It must have been around me died. She'd gone to
bed hours before, but I stayed up reading. I read
till my head ached. I thought of getting something to
quiet the throbbing, but before I could, the book slipped
out of my hand. I was not precisely asleep, but

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not really awake either, somewhere in between. So the knock
at the door were sealed fate and far away. The
next time, it was.

Speaker 10 (03:04):
Louder than very loud, very loud, indeed, our mystery drama
Date of Death was written especially for the Mystery Theater

(03:28):
by Elspeth Eric and stars Norman Rose and Larry Haynes.
It is sponsored in part by Greyhound Amerapas and Buick
Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with Act one. Everyone

(03:55):
without exception dies of heart failure. There is that great
muscle inside the chest, a little to the left of center,
keeps pumping away. We're alive, not in very good shape, perhaps,
but undeniably alive. Once it stops doing its work, where

(04:16):
just as undeniably dead. But long before it quits for good,
it may alter, hesitate to act badly. It has been
impeded in its unceasing work. It has been attacked.

Speaker 8 (04:40):
I met Porter, doctor Matthew Porter, Matthew Crenshaw, Porter m d.
But this is the story, not so much of me,
though I do play a part in it, but of
one of my patients. It is his story, is I
have reconstructed it in my own mind. Obviously I could
not be with him at all times, not with him physically,

(05:00):
not with him mentally or emotionally. But he was my patient,
and he was my friend of many years, and I
think I knew him better than anyone, including his wife.
So I have appointed myself to tell his story, the
story of David Jensen. I have to start somewhere, so
it might as well be in his hospital room. On

(05:20):
the day I went to tell him that I had
discharged him and he could go home, all set everybody
just about Matt. I've signed you out, Dave, so anytime.

Speaker 11 (05:30):
Well, I have to finish packing. Need any help missus Jensen? No,
thank you. Then I'll go and order up the chariot.

Speaker 8 (05:35):
And is he glad to be getting out? Oh? Yeah?
Were the book uh somewhere around?

Speaker 11 (05:40):
For Heaven's sake, they're under the bed?

Speaker 8 (05:43):
Yeah? What are all those?

Speaker 12 (05:45):
Just some books he's been reading to pass the time.

Speaker 8 (05:47):
Let me see those day, let me see them their mind, Matt,
You and your heart, the healthy heart, how to live
with your heart? Holy? Have you been reading these days?
But why not? Well I had a heart attack, didn't
either more? I know the better? Anything you need to know?
You asked me, and I'll tell you what I didn't
want to bother. This's not a bother. How many times

(06:08):
do I have to tell you that? You want me
to go over the whole thing again with you? Then
if you think I've left out anything, you can ask me. Okay, Matt,
there's no need. You don't have I want to. I
want to set your mind at rest. My mind. You
had a simple heart attack, something called a posterior infoction,
my old cardial infunction. Oh boy, you've really been reading up,

(06:30):
haven't you now. A posterior infunction is a minor occlusion
of the right coronary artery resulting in the death of
heart muscle tissue. The posterior artery is the one on
the back surface of the heart. One on the front
is the anterior artery. You really don't need me at all,
do you? You know all about it? I know a little.
You know what they say about a little knowledge.

Speaker 11 (06:48):
It's a dangerous thing.

Speaker 8 (06:50):
True words were never spoke or writ whatever. Now. An
occlusion like that can be caused by a thrombus or
blood clot. You have no fraud. It can also be
caused by a spasm. That's what caused your attack. A spasm,
A mild spasm. Matt, I'm only forty two. You can
live to be ninety two if you take care of yourself.
Forty two seems awfully young. Children of six have had

(07:13):
heart attacks. Oh, Matt, No, even younger as young as two.

Speaker 11 (07:17):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 8 (07:18):
It's terrible. Now you are on a mild anticoagulant. Janet
will keep you on a low salt diet.

Speaker 11 (07:23):
You bet, I will.

Speaker 8 (07:24):
No fats check, no booze, and no cigarettes.

Speaker 13 (07:27):
Check.

Speaker 11 (07:28):
We'll tell head doctor Porter. Give me the books. Matt.

Speaker 8 (07:31):
No, no, no, no, no no books, no fats, no cigarettes,
no booze, and no books about heart disease read Dickens
Hemingway read Playboy. I paid a lot of money for
those books, Matt. Now hand them off. No, not on
your life here, nurse, take them out to the charge
desk and throw them in the incinerat Matt, come on,
you're packed.

Speaker 12 (07:49):
Jennetor well, if you mean it about the book, I
mean it, then we're all set.

Speaker 8 (07:52):
All right, let's go.

Speaker 11 (08:00):
She'll be ready in a minute.

Speaker 14 (08:01):
Day.

Speaker 8 (08:01):
Well, whenever you say the word, what's that you're drinking? Oh?
Mostly water? Water? And what else? A few drops of whiskey?

Speaker 11 (08:10):
Dave, you're not supposed to mat.

Speaker 8 (08:12):
Never mind what Matt said. It's his fault anyway, what's
his fault? He shouldn't have taken those books away from me.

Speaker 11 (08:18):
He was absolutely right. You're the kind that can work
a hind nail up into a blood poisoning. You'll always
have been.

Speaker 8 (08:23):
I'm going hot, But let's go back.

Speaker 14 (08:25):
Where are you going?

Speaker 8 (08:26):
I said, I'll be back, missus complin Yah, mister Jensen.

Speaker 11 (08:39):
I thought we'd let you out of here.

Speaker 8 (08:41):
I came back for something. My books. Bo, Well, you
know the ones doctor Porter told you to get rid
of you. You didn't, did you.

Speaker 11 (08:48):
I don't know what I did with you.

Speaker 8 (08:50):
Well try and find them, would you.

Speaker 12 (08:52):
Well, I wasn't nowhere to look, mister Jensen, if you
don't mind me putting in my true sins, you just
made a fine recovery from a mild heart attack. Now,
why don't you just thank God and go about your business,
mister Jensen, Mister.

Speaker 11 (09:09):
Jenson, I didn't mean to offend you.

Speaker 8 (09:14):
Oh well, yes, sir, can I help you? I have
a list of books here. Oh yes, sir, have you
got any of them? But these are medical books?

Speaker 15 (09:26):
You don't carry medical books a very few. These are
all books on heart disease. I'm afraid we don't have
any of these in stock.

Speaker 8 (09:32):
But I'll be glad to order them for you. How
long would that take? At least a week? Or maybe two?
Possibly three? Oh that's too long. I can't wait, Thank
you very much. Excuse me? Yes, where would I find
these books?

Speaker 11 (09:48):
With these?

Speaker 8 (09:49):
A medical book? Yes, I know, But you have them
in the library, don't you.

Speaker 11 (09:52):
Medical books are in a special section. If you just
go out that door down the hall. It's the first
door on the letters.

Speaker 8 (09:57):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 16 (10:02):
Dave.

Speaker 11 (10:03):
You're reading these books?

Speaker 8 (10:04):
How you lead those books alone? Janet? Their library book
and you're smoking. There's a law against doing anything to
library books.

Speaker 12 (10:11):
Do you insist on doing every single solitary thing Matt
told you not to here, I am knocking myself out
to keep your cholesterol down.

Speaker 8 (10:18):
I really do, Janet.

Speaker 11 (10:21):
Then why don't you help me stop drinking?

Speaker 8 (10:24):
I don't drink much.

Speaker 11 (10:25):
Oh wh I drink it all? Why smoke when you're
not supposed to win?

Speaker 14 (10:28):
Matt told you're not well.

Speaker 8 (10:29):
I have to do something to quiet my nerves.

Speaker 12 (10:31):
If you'd stop reading those books, your nerves might quiet down.

Speaker 8 (10:34):
Janet.

Speaker 15 (10:35):
I've had a heart attack. I have to know these things.

Speaker 11 (10:38):
A little knowledge I know.

Speaker 8 (10:41):
Well, I'm going to have a lot of knowledge before
i'm through. Don't you worry about that, Dave read, I'm
going to bed, okay you, I'm going to read a while.

Speaker 12 (10:51):
It's almost twelve o'clock, so what I just try not
to wake me up when you come to bed.

Speaker 8 (10:57):
I won't sleep well, pleasant dreams, and.

Speaker 11 (11:00):
Don't read too long.

Speaker 12 (11:03):
In Egypt, beauty sleep oh, sure, n nice, sweetheart's.

Speaker 8 (11:19):
Oh who's that? Who's there, Dave?

Speaker 15 (11:26):
Who is it? It's Matt, Matt, Matt Porter.

Speaker 8 (11:30):
Let me in, Dave. Now what the I have to
talk to you? I'm Matt. This is a heck of
a time to be making a house call. Yeah, I
know something wrong. Oh you've been reading? Uh yeah, yeah,
a little looks like a lot. All these books? Why,

(11:51):
i'd like to know things. You got them out of
the library to do. Yes, that's right, when you took
them away from me at the hospital. I went back
the next day, but the nurse wouldn't give them to me,
so I went to a bookstore. They didn't have them
in stock and was going to take two or three
weeks to order them. They're pretty esoteric book. Oh I'm
kidding where I can understand them? Oh you are? Yeah? Yeah. Anyway,

(12:16):
I finally got them from the library. I see. Would
you mind if I sit down? Of course? Not you
sit down to Can I make you drink? Who? If
you want to? I might as well tell you I've
had a drink from time to time now and then
you're usual. Oh yeah, I make mine pretty weak. It's

(12:38):
only to quiet my nurse huh uh. Also, I smoke
a cigarette now and then you do. Here, here's you drink? Oh,
thank you? I just set it down. Okay, Matt, I
have to tell you. You surprise me in what way
do I surprise you? I just thought you'd start yelling

(13:00):
at me. Oh, I wouldn't yell at today. That's the
last thing that I do. Well, I just told you
all the things I've been doing there, reading, the drinking, smoking,
I thought you'd be disgusted with No, No, I'm not disgusted.
Sit down, Dave. I have to tell you something. Okay. Shoot,

(13:21):
you know what the aortic artery is. Oh. Sure, It's
like a bicycle tire. It has an inner tube. Yeah yeah. Now,
if that inner tube, the inner wall of the artery
gets injured as the blood pumps through it, well, some
blood seeps through the hole, yeah, the aureole. Yes, that's
the technical name for it. Now, as the blood seeps through,

(13:44):
some of it absorbs. But if enough of it doesn't
absorb the artery, well, it balloons. Yeah. I read about that. Now.
The aortic artery has a y shape. The ballooning can
occur there in the crotch of the why you follow me, Yeah,
I follow you. When that happens, well, when that happens,

(14:05):
you'll have an aneurysm. Oh you know about that, Yes,
of course I know about them. But sometimes this aneurysm
is well, it could be so big as fills the
whole chest cavity. Yeah, and when it bursts, it's goodbye, Charlie.
Well I well, yes, and that's what I've got. Yes, Well,

(14:27):
how long have you known that, Matt, Ever since I
looked at the X ray? Well, why didn't you tell me? Well,
it's not the kind of thing you want to tell anybody,
because the aneurism could burst at any time, anytime at all. Yes,
why are you telling me now? I don't know. I mean,
it didn't seem right to tell you, but it didn't
seem right not to tell you, Dave. I've been agonizing

(14:47):
over this for a long time. Tonight I couldn't get
to sleep, I couldn't relax, so I decided to come
over here and tell you. I know it's a terrible
thing to face, but at least it's the truth. Yes,
I know, Matt, I appreciate it, I really do. I
always want to know the truth. I always have Matt,
do you know that well isn't the kind of thing
you want to tell a patient, any patient, But when

(15:09):
the patient is an old friend like you, that it's
a hundred times as hard. It's damn near impossible. But
I mean it tears you apart at Matt. Don't upset yourself. Please,
don't you see I've known less for quite a while,
or you couldn't, but I did believe me. I did.
I may die tomorrow, I know that tonight maybe day.

(15:32):
Are you just just run along home and get some sleep?
You did the right thing. Tell me about the aneurism.
You just back me up on what I knew already.
Are you just running along home and don't worry about
a thing? Talk a lot about the truth. Heaven knows,

(16:03):
plenty of people have written about it. The search for truth,
our right to know the truth, The truth shall make
us free. Truth is beauty. Beauty is truth.

Speaker 10 (16:17):
Anyone would conclude that man is engaged in an unrelenting
quest for the realities of his existence. But is he,
or on the contrary, is he struggling constantly and desperately
to evade them, in particular the reality of his own demise?

(16:40):
We shall return shortly with Act Too. At the end
of our first act, David Jensen, victim of a recent

(17:02):
heart attack, had a visitor, a visitor who told him
that he had been lied to that his heart attack
had not been a mild one due to a mild
arterial spasm, that it had in reality been the result
of a massive aneurysm, a giant swelling at a crucial

(17:23):
spot in the ortic artery. Jensen listened to the halting explanation,
attentive and oddly unperturbed.

Speaker 8 (17:33):
And when the aneurysm bursts, that's goodbye, Charlie. It could
burst any time, isn't the kind of thing you like
to tell a patient. And when the patient is an
old friend, Matt, I've known this for quite a while.
I may die tomorrow or tonight. I know that day
are you Just run along home and get some sleep.
You did the right thing telling me about the aneurysm.

(17:53):
That you just backed me up in what I knew already.
So you run along that. Don't worry about a thing,
don't Janet. Janet has got to know. That's all there
is to it. Janet, let me wake up. I've got

(18:18):
something to tell you. Janet I mean, I don't like
to wake you up, but this is important. Janet. HM, well,
I've got to talk to you. Dying. I've got something
to tell you.

Speaker 11 (18:34):
Don't learn at life. Okay, what's the trouble.

Speaker 8 (18:40):
No trouble, No trouble. Everything is fine with.

Speaker 11 (18:43):
The What are you waiting me up for?

Speaker 8 (18:46):
Uh? Matt Portal was just here.

Speaker 11 (18:51):
In the middle of the night.

Speaker 8 (18:52):
Yes, I know. I was surprised myself, but he had
something to tell me.

Speaker 12 (18:56):
What I'm going to tell you, daring well tell me.

Speaker 8 (19:02):
You see, it's been a praying on Matt's mind for
quite a while and he had to tell me the truth?
What truth about my heart?

Speaker 11 (19:12):
But we know about your heart?

Speaker 8 (19:14):
That told Darling we thought we knew. At least you
thought you knew. I never thought I did, not, Paul truth.

Speaker 11 (19:21):
What in the world are you talking.

Speaker 8 (19:23):
About, Janet? I have an aneurysm. What an aneurism? A
huge aneurysm in one of my arteries, in a very
crucial spot. It's like a big balloon filled with blood
and any minute that could burst. While I'm sitting here

(19:44):
on the edge of the bed talking to you, it
could burst.

Speaker 12 (19:48):
I don't believe you NTT never told you anything like that.

Speaker 8 (19:52):
No, no, not at the hospital. He didn't want to
tell me because he didn't want to frighten me. But
then he decided it would be it would be better.
It was his duty to tell me the truth. Of course,
I already knew the truth, well, could you, because because
I've been reading up on these things, Janet. So when

(20:14):
Matt told me finally, he was telling me something I
already knew. Poor Mattie, he was really upset. When was
he here just a little while ago? I didn't hear anyone, Darling,
you were asleep.

Speaker 12 (20:26):
I would have heard the doorbell, the door they'll always
wait wait.

Speaker 8 (20:29):
He didn't ring the door bell. He just knocked very softly.
I hardly heard him myself.

Speaker 11 (20:36):
How long was he here?

Speaker 8 (20:37):
Not long? We had a drink together.

Speaker 12 (20:40):
Matt Porter, Let you have a drink.

Speaker 8 (20:42):
And a cigarette there, steady my nerves, Janet. Poor Matt
he needed a drink more than I did to get
up his nerve to tell me.

Speaker 11 (20:51):
Well, I simply don't believe it.

Speaker 8 (20:52):
You don't believe what that. I could die any minute,
die while I'm sitting here talking.

Speaker 11 (20:56):
I don't believe any of it.

Speaker 12 (20:57):
I don't believe you have you have a whatever.

Speaker 8 (21:00):
It is, he said, banneurism, darling is swelling.

Speaker 12 (21:03):
I don't care what it is because I don't believe
you've got it. Well, Matt said, I don't believe he
said it. I'm going to call him tomorrow and ask
him if he said it.

Speaker 11 (21:11):
He'll say no. You'll see what he did say. Whatever
he said, it wasn't that. You just made that up.

Speaker 12 (21:16):
On whatever he did say. You twisted it and distorted it.

Speaker 11 (21:19):
All out of proportion.

Speaker 8 (21:21):
Why would I do that?

Speaker 17 (21:22):
God?

Speaker 12 (21:22):
Nos, I certainly don't. I'll go to bed, get some sleep,
and tomorrow i'll call that and make an appointment to
see him and get this all straightened out.

Speaker 11 (21:32):
Take your clothes off and come to bed.

Speaker 8 (21:34):
Oh no, I don't think i'll do that, Janet. I
think I'll go out for a while.

Speaker 11 (21:38):
Where where are you going?

Speaker 8 (21:40):
Just out for a while, Dave didra Are you hohome?

(22:05):
Stave Chensena, terrible time to come call me.

Speaker 11 (22:10):
Oh I'm a night person, you know that.

Speaker 8 (22:12):
Come on your thanks, drift.

Speaker 11 (22:14):
Sit down, you want a drink or anything.

Speaker 8 (22:17):
I just want to talk to you. Of course.

Speaker 11 (22:21):
Well, I thought you'd put me out of your life.
It's been so.

Speaker 8 (22:23):
Long, I've been in the hospital.

Speaker 18 (22:27):
In the hospital, why didn't you let me know? I'd
have sent you a flower or so.

Speaker 8 (22:31):
Well, I didn't want you to know.

Speaker 19 (22:33):
Why not.

Speaker 12 (22:33):
I'd have been discreet about it. Your wife wouldn't have suspected.

Speaker 8 (22:37):
Any Yes, I know that did You've always been discreet.
I appreciate that. I just didn't want you to know
that I was sick.

Speaker 11 (22:47):
Well, plenty of people could sick.

Speaker 8 (22:49):
Well, I didn't want you to think of me is
less less than a man.

Speaker 11 (22:54):
Well, now, why should I think that.

Speaker 8 (22:58):
I had a heart attack?

Speaker 11 (23:00):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 12 (23:01):
So you see, I've plenty of people have had heart attacks.
I could mean half a dozen of my own acquaintances.

Speaker 8 (23:08):
No, this wasn't just a heart attack. People at first
the doctor said it was. But it was just a mild,
mild cardialinfaction. You wouldn't know what that is. But it's
not really serious. People can live forty or fifty years
after one of those. But what I, what I had?
What what I what I have is? Uh, it's something different,

(23:31):
It's it's very very different. Well, what is it an anneurism?
Do you know what an aneurysm is?

Speaker 18 (23:41):
No, I can't say I do.

Speaker 8 (23:43):
No, of course you don't. Well, it is very serious.
Oh it's it's inoperable, and it means it means you
can fall dead any minute.

Speaker 11 (23:56):
How do you know all this?

Speaker 8 (23:57):
The doctor told me, He said he total, well, that
was a first in the hospital. But he didn't tell
me the truth. We're old friends, you see, and it
was hard for him. But tonight he came to see
me and uh, and he.

Speaker 11 (24:10):
Told me it must have been a terrible shot.

Speaker 8 (24:13):
No, no, no, it wasn't. I knew all about it
before he told me. You see, I've done a lot
of reading, and I just.

Speaker 11 (24:20):
Knew, Dave, I'm awfully so that's all right.

Speaker 8 (24:24):
I just wanted to tell somebody. You see, after the
doctor left, I woke my wife up and I told
her but that she didn't believe a word of it.

Speaker 11 (24:33):
Why not.

Speaker 8 (24:34):
I guess she just didn't want to.

Speaker 11 (24:36):
It is better to think the truth.

Speaker 8 (24:37):
Yeah, that's what I think, Teter. I can't tell you
how grateful I am to.

Speaker 11 (24:45):
Him for what I didn't do anything.

Speaker 8 (24:48):
You believe me, that meant a lot. And now I've
got to get going. You just go, I've got one
more call to make well, mus I really must.

Speaker 12 (25:00):
Well, don't let such a long time go by before
you call me up and come over. Don't be such
a stranger.

Speaker 8 (25:06):
I'll try to remember that.

Speaker 11 (25:07):
I'll see what you do.

Speaker 8 (25:08):
Yes, of course, I probably won't be around much longer.
It's good night, Dadri just the man happy right there? Why? Hello,

(25:33):
O day? Okay to come in? But sure I was
afraid you might have gone to bed. Well I just
got in a minute ago. Oh where have you been? Oh? Around?
You know? Yeah, Well I can't blame me for that.
Come again, Well, you put in a pretty terrible evening.
What would you know about? What kind of an evening
I put in? Matt? Matt, I understand, understand what. It

(25:57):
couldn't have been easy. On the contrary, it was very easy. Well,
of course I tried to make it easy for you.
But even so, telling an old friend he could go
any minute, I know that wasn't an easy thing to do.
I hope that the fact that I'd known it all along.
Maybe hellday, I give you my word. Janet's going to
call you tomorrow. That's why I had to see you tonight.

(26:18):
You see, she refused to believe any of it, or
just what is it? Janet doesn't believe about the aneurysm. Yeah,
the aneurysm. You see, after you left. I woke her
up and told her what you'd said. She wouldn't believe it.
So she's going to call you tomorrow, and Matt, I
want you to tell her the truth. Tell her exactly

(26:40):
what you told me tonight about the aneurysm and what
it means that it could burst any minute, and I'll
be fit. I told him yes at the house. At
the house, man, when did I tell you an hour
a call maybe less? What's the matter with you? I
told you at your house an hour ago, maybe less,
that you have an aneurysm. Matt, It's all right. I
already knew it. I told you to. Dave. Look, they've

(27:02):
just sit down. Please, Dave, please sit down. I'm all right.
I'm perfectly calm. I never felt calmer in my life.
All the same, I'd rather that you sit down, okay,
if you really want me, I really want you to Okay, now, Dave,
I want you to listen to me very carefully. You've
been under a big strain lately, and fine, you have

(27:22):
got things a little bit mixed up. No, I haven't,
but that's all right, Dave. I was not at your
house tonight, not an hour ago, not at any time
now that you were. We had a drink together, and
you told me, you listened to me. I did not
come to your house this evening. I was nowhere near
your house this evening. I'm that you're trying to kit, Dave.

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I spent the whole evening with a girl, the whole
evening up to about twenty minutes ago. Oh, I know,
I know what it is. You're sorry you told me
about the aneurysm. You're trying to take it all back,
pretend it never happened. You've never told me. But you
don't have to do that because I knew it all along.
What are you doing? Man? I'm calling the girl I

(28:05):
spent the evening with, the whole evening. Hello, honey, I
want you to listen to me. Carefully, don't say anything,
just listen. I'm in kind of a bind here and
I need your help. I need to prove where I
was tonight. Now. Did you and I have dinner together
tonight and then go back to your place and stay

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there the two of us until I left less than
half an hour ago. All I want from you was
a yes or a no? Is that true what I
just said about where I was this evening?

Speaker 15 (28:37):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (28:37):
Okay? Now would you mind repeating that word for someone
who is standing right here next to me? Go ahead?

Speaker 13 (28:45):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (28:48):
Thanks baby?

Speaker 10 (28:51):
Well, well, Dave, have you ever met with a flat
denial of something you know to be true? Have you
ever been told you did not see what you saw,

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do what you did, say what you said, and hear
what you heard? Has such a thing ever happened to you?
If it has, you know that your inner response was
too deep for anger and too deep for indignation, for
anything but the most profound and appalling disillusionment. Will return

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shortly With Act three, David Jensen is in the home
of his friend and doctor Matthew Porter. He has come

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there tell him that his wife Janet, did not believe
that matt had come to their home earlier in the
evening to tell David that he suffers from a giant
aneurysm in the aortic artery, which might at any moment
burst and cause his death. Doctor Porter has denied saying
any such thing, in fact, denied being at David's house

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at any time during the evening.

Speaker 8 (30:28):
What are you doing, Mat, I am calling the girl
I spent the evening with the Holy evening. Yes, honey,
listen to me. I'm in kind of a bind here.
I need to prove where I was tonight. Now, did
you and I have dinner together tonight and then go
back to your place and stay there till I left

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less than half an hour ago? Just answer yes or no?

Speaker 12 (30:53):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (30:54):
Okay, Now you mind repeating that word for someone who's
standing right next to me, Go ahead, yes, thanks baby. Well, well, Dave,
how could you do it to me? Matt? Do what
set that thing up with that girl? Who is she anyway?

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A girl? A girl I spent the evening with. How
in the world could I set anything up? Why would
I wanted to spare me? And I appreciate that, Matt.
I know you meant to be kind, kind, But you
were right the first time when you told me about
the aneurysm, when you told me I was gonna die.
I know you regretted it afterwards, and you set it
up with this girl to say that you never told me, never,

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never came to the house, and all the rest of it.
Now you look, Dave, I can see that you really
believe that I came to your house that you did. No, No,
I didn't, but you think I did. So what we
have to do now is figure out why you're so
sure I did. Now, Dave, this is what I think.
The only thing I can think. You had a dream.

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You dreamed the whole thing on. No, this was no dream.
The nightmare is what it was. You see, well, you
had a big shock. Any kind of a heart attack
is a shock, not just a shock of the heart,
but a shock to the whole nervous system. All of us.
We go along with some sort of conviction that we'll
live forever. I don't know where we get the idea,

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but we all have it now. A heart attack is
a reminder that we won't, and that is a shock.
Besides that initial shock, you wouldn't let go of the thing.
You went all over getting books about heart disease and
reading up on this terrible reminder. You know it wasn't
a very bright thing to do, but you did it.
I had to know anything, you had to know. I'd
already told you, but you didn't really trust me, didn't

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really believe me, in spite of the fact that we've
been friends for twenty years. In spite of the fact
that I'm supposed to be a pretty good doctor. Oh
you are, man. I don't think you'd have believed anybody anyway.
You filled your head with a lot of stuff you
didn't really understand, and you began to imagine the worst,
and that brought on the nightmare. That's all it was.
That's all it could have been. Please believe me. I

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gotta be going, Dave. I've got to get home. At
least believe this. You do not have an aneurysm. Do
you want me to show you the X rays? I
can get hold of them tomorrow. Good night, Matt. You've
been awfully kind to Dave. What can I say? What
more can I say? Nothing? You've said it all and
I appreciate it.

Speaker 11 (33:39):
You don't have to bust their quiet. I'm not asleep, darling.

Speaker 8 (33:42):
I thought you might be. Where did you go to
see that? What about what happened tonight when he was here?
Oh you don't hate tonight the whole thing. Can you imagine?

Speaker 12 (33:54):
I knew he didn't say you had an aneurysm. You
simply misunderstood.

Speaker 8 (33:59):
He denied he was ever here. He did, Yes, he said,
I'm he said, I must have had a nightmare.

Speaker 12 (34:06):
Oh well, of course that's what happened. You fell asleep
reading those books and you.

Speaker 11 (34:13):
Had a nightmare.

Speaker 12 (34:14):
Now, why didn't I think?

Speaker 8 (34:16):
No, No, Janet, I didn't have a nightmare. I was
wide awake reading and there was this knock at the door,
very faint at first. He was afraid we might both
be asleep, you see. And then he knocked louder, and
I went to the door and let him in. I
made us each a drink. We sat down and we talked,
and he told me what I told you.

Speaker 11 (34:38):
You each had a drink.

Speaker 8 (34:39):
I made mine very weak. I remember telling him, Oh here,
look look over here, Janet, here are the glasses. There's
Matt's and here's mine. You see I didn't even finish mine.
You see mine as mostly water.

Speaker 11 (34:52):
Matt didn't even touch him.

Speaker 8 (34:53):
Well, now do you see he was here, darling, that's
the proof. How does he DearS there and tell me
he was never here?

Speaker 15 (35:03):
Maybe maybe what jared nothing? Maybe Matt's not quite right
in the head. Is that what you were going to say?

Speaker 11 (35:11):
I was going to say, maybe we want to see
another doctor.

Speaker 8 (35:15):
So I don't think I need another doctor. Matt is
a very good doctor. I just think it was very
hard for him to tell me the truth, and I
think he regretted it afterwards and wanted to take it back,
so he pretended it never happened. Good Lord Channet. He's
probably convinced himself it never really happened. He probably thinks
he's telling the truth. He firmly believes he was never

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here if he's that. And it's all right, darling. Really,
it's just that he couldn't bear the idea that I'm
going to die and he had to be the one
to tell me. But it's all right, really, it is Janet.

Speaker 11 (35:58):
Comfortable.

Speaker 8 (36:00):
Oh yeah, Can I get you anything? No, but you
might try coming over here yourself.

Speaker 12 (36:06):
That might help, Okay, poor overwork doctor man.

Speaker 8 (36:15):
Well, it's not just the work, it's the patients here.
I am beating my brains out to get them well,
and they're making me sick. I swear I'll die if
I'm trying to take care of people that don't want
to be taken care of. You know, when I phoned
you last night, I was with a patient at that

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time of night. Patients don't care about the time. Actually,
this was an old friend of mine, heart case, very
mild attack, no reason he shouldn't make a complete recovery.
Lived to be one hundred. But he kept brooding about it,
reading books and all that got himself really worked up. Morbid.
Last night, Well, he had a dream, a nightmare, that

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I had come to his house and told him that
he was going to die. Oh no, I couldn't shake him.
And that's when I call you.

Speaker 11 (37:08):
Well, I hope that fixed anything up.

Speaker 8 (37:12):
No, as a matter of fact, it didn't.

Speaker 11 (37:15):
Why not?

Speaker 8 (37:16):
Because he is obsessed. That's why you know. I'm going
to send him to a psychiatrist if you'll go, which
he probably won't.

Speaker 11 (37:23):
Honey, try to forget the whole thing. At least while
you're here.

Speaker 8 (37:30):
What would I do without you?

Speaker 11 (37:32):
You'd sign somebody else.

Speaker 8 (37:34):
Patience will be the death of me, I swear, Oh.

Speaker 11 (37:39):
Honey, I'm sorry.

Speaker 8 (37:41):
Think somebody you know I'm not. I'll send him away.
Whoever it is.

Speaker 11 (37:45):
Don't worry. That wasn't somebody here?

Speaker 8 (37:51):
Now, please, Dave? What are you doing here? Mad?

Speaker 5 (38:00):
Right?

Speaker 8 (38:01):
Well? Did he is a friend? A friend? Yes, a friend?

Speaker 11 (38:05):
You two know each ovel.

Speaker 8 (38:07):
I didn't. I didn't know his heart. Tell them what
do I do? The emergency heart unit? I began trying
to revive in myself.

Speaker 11 (38:28):
Thanks for spending so much time with me.

Speaker 8 (38:29):
Now, oh, Janet, was the least I could do, very least.
Do you think you understand now what the x rays show?
There was no aneurysm. Dave died of a massive spasm
like the first one, only violent.

Speaker 11 (38:44):
Yeah, that's what all the other doctors said.

Speaker 8 (38:47):
They were right.

Speaker 12 (38:49):
And I never even knew he knew that, did any.

Speaker 11 (38:53):
Girl like that?

Speaker 8 (38:54):
I don't think that he knew her very well to
go to her at a time like that, and he
was so worried. Well, didre is just someone to relax with?
You knew it too slightly, yes, but it must have
been more.

Speaker 12 (39:08):
Than slightly for him to have a heart attack when
he found.

Speaker 8 (39:11):
You with it, Janet. It's all over, it's all passed that.
I know Dave was well. He was obsessed, obsessed with
the idea of his own death. He wouldn't let go.

Speaker 11 (39:22):
Because I know you never came to the house that night.

Speaker 8 (39:26):
Of course I didn't. Still, Janet, you know that I didn't.
Dave had a terrible nightmare because he was obsessed, that's
all it was.

Speaker 11 (39:35):
Still, there are the glasses?

Speaker 12 (39:36):
What glasses Dave told me he made two drinks that night,
one for you, one for himself. Matt, there were two.

Speaker 8 (39:45):
Glasses, Janet, listen, have you have you still got the glasses?
I mean, have you washed them?

Speaker 11 (39:51):
I don't know, maybe not.

Speaker 8 (39:53):
Why if you haven't washed them, take them? Have him
gone over for fingerprints. I promise you you won't find MINEO.

Speaker 11 (40:09):
Tired, doctor, man?

Speaker 8 (40:11):
Wait, I feel it's beyond tired, exhausted, beyond that too.
I just left Dave's wife. She still doesn't quite believe
that I was not in their apartment that night you
were with me. They've told her he and I had
a drink together. She said there were two glasses in
the living one his one mind supposedly. I told her

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to have him gone over for fingerprints. I really hope
she doesn't, Matt.

Speaker 11 (40:39):
I wonder.

Speaker 12 (40:42):
Does an incubus leave fingerprints? What an incubus? The evil
spirit that comes at night and lies upon people in
their sleep.

Speaker 8 (40:53):
You mean Dave was visited by an incubus? Why not?
I did? You don't believe in stuff like that? Do you?

Speaker 11 (41:02):
Absolutely?

Speaker 8 (41:03):
You do?

Speaker 19 (41:04):
Well?

Speaker 12 (41:05):
You said he had a nightmare. That's right, don't you
know that? One definition of a nightmare is a fiend.

Speaker 8 (41:14):
Or incubus, No, I didn't know.

Speaker 11 (41:16):
We'll look it up.

Speaker 12 (41:18):
A fiend or incubus that comes at night to sit
upon a person's chest, his chest, Matt, that could be
his heart, couldn't it?

Speaker 8 (41:31):
I don't know, I said, But but why from where?

Speaker 11 (41:35):
Who knows? Uh? Unless you sent it.

Speaker 8 (41:43):
Sent the incupers? Why would I do that?

Speaker 11 (41:48):
Who knows, Matt? Who knows? Unless you do?

Speaker 8 (42:01):
I don't see Deirdre anymore. It wasn't relaxing the way
it used to be. But I can't get the idea
of the incubus out of my head, especially the idea
that I might have sent it to poor Dave in
the dead of night. I'll tell you something, Not because

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you have any right to know, not because I think
you even care, No because I like to say it
out out loud, just this once. I never liked Dave,
not really. I never really liked my friend.

Speaker 10 (43:01):
The mystic and madman William Blake. Believe that a firm
persuasion that a thing is so makes it so. That's
a bit more than I can swallow, though I'm sure
there's a profound psychological truth contained in the observation. But

(43:22):
I prefer the thought of August Strenberg that an obsessional
conviction about supernatural powers causes events that confirm the reality
of those powers.

Speaker 8 (43:36):
I'll be back shortly.

Speaker 10 (43:51):
It's human to think about the future because we're all
so frightened, and the one thing about the future that
is certain that we know.

Speaker 8 (44:03):
Is that it contains death. So while it's only human.

Speaker 10 (44:08):
To think about the future and therefore to consider death,
it's not wise to think about it too much, because
if we do, it may come sooner than it needs
to and cut the future short. Our cast included Larry Haynes,

(44:29):
Norman Rose, Joan Copeland, and E. V.

Speaker 8 (44:32):
Justter.

Speaker 10 (44:34):
The entire production was under the direction of Hymen Brown
and now a preview of our next tale. I mean,
this thing has had a lot of publicity, papers, TV,
radio and all. How come missus Williams hasn't been on

(44:55):
the pipe or worried about a hobby.

Speaker 8 (44:57):
Eh, maybe you're.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Really going to have to dig her up.

Speaker 8 (45:03):
I don't follow you.

Speaker 20 (45:05):
Put it all together, mister Anderson. Guy on a loan
trip to Hawaii. Little woman left behind, big plane crash.
Looks like everyone bought it and her wife doesn't even
check in to see if her hobby did too. And
top of that, hobby turns up alive in a hospital.

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Only he claims he don't know who he is. We
wouldn't you figure there was something screwy.

Speaker 8 (45:34):
Going on here.

Speaker 10 (45:36):
Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in Park by Buick Motor
Division and the Greyhound Amerpas.

Speaker 8 (45:42):
Missus E. G.

Speaker 10 (45:43):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre until next time.

Speaker 21 (45:53):
Pleasant, Here is Bernard Mays to introduce you to a fellow,

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perhaps not quite of your own heart. In Thomas Mann's
story Disillusionment.

Speaker 22 (46:50):
I confess that I was completely bewildered by the conversation
which I had with this extraordinary man. I'm afraid that
I'm even yet hardly in a state to report it
in such a way that it will affect others, as
it did me very lightly. The effect was largely due
to the candor and friendliness with which an entire stranger

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laid himself open to me. It was some two months ago,
on an autumnal afternoon, that I first noticed my stranger
on the Piazza di San Marco, on the wide square.
The standards flapped in the light sea breeze. In front
of that sumptuous marvel of color and line. Directly before

(47:34):
the central portal, a young girl stood strewing corn for
a host of pigeons to her feet, while more and
more swooped down in clouds from all sides. He was
rather under middle height and a little stooped, walking briskly
and holding his cane in his hands behind his back.
He wore a stiff black hat, a light summer overcoat,

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and dark striped trousers. He might have been thirty years old,
he might have been fifty. From time to time he
would look searchingly about him, then stare upon the ground,
matter a few words to himself, give his head a shake,
and fall to smiling again. And in this fashion he
marched perseveringly up and down the square. After that first time,

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I noticed him daily, for he seemed to have no
other business than to pace up and down thirty forty
or fifty times in good weather, or bed, always alone,
and always with that extraordinary bearing of his. On the
evening which I mean to describe, I was sitting at
one of the little tables which spread out into the

(48:42):
piazza from Florian's cafe, and when the concourse of people
had begun to disperss, my unknown, with his accustomed absent smile,
sat down in a seat left vacant near me. The
evening drew up, the scene grew quieter and quiet. Soon
all the tables were empty, hardly any strollers were left.

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The majestic square was wrapped in peace, the sky above
it thick with stars. Her great half moon hung over
the splendid, spectacular facade of San Marco. I'd been reading
my paper with my back to my neighbor, and was
about to surrender the field to him, when I was
obliged instead to turn in his direction, for he now

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suddenly began to speak.

Speaker 21 (49:29):
You are in Venice for the first time, sir?

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (49:32):
Why? Yes?

Speaker 21 (49:33):
Ah a, you are seeing all this for the first time.
Does it come up to your expectation?

Speaker 2 (49:42):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (49:42):
It surpasses the passes them. Ey, you did not picture
it as finer than the reality? No, no, no, you
mean it. You would not say so in order to
seem happy and enviable.

Speaker 23 (49:54):
Now, why surely not?

Speaker 21 (49:56):
Ah?

Speaker 22 (49:58):
He leaned back and looked at me, blinking rapidly with
a quite inexplicable expression. The ensuing pause lasted for some time,
I didn't know how to go on with this singular conversation,
and once more was about to depart when he hastily
leaned towards him.

Speaker 21 (50:16):
Do you know, my dear sir, Yes, what disillusionment is?

Speaker 22 (50:21):
Disillusion?

Speaker 21 (50:22):
Oh, not a miscarriage in small, unimportant matters, but the
great and general disappointment which everything, everything, all of life
has installed. Well, no, of course you do not know.
But from my youth up I have carried it about
with me. It has made me lonely, unhappy, ah, and

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a bit eccentric. I do not deny that. You See.
I grew up in a clergyman's family, in quite a
small town er. There reigned in our home upon tilious
cleanliness and the pathetic optimism of the scholarly atmosphere. We
breathed a strange atmosphere, compact of pulpit rhetoric, of large

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words for good and evil, beautiful and base, which I
bitterly hate, since maybe they are to blame for all
of my sufferings. For me, For me, life consisted utterly
of those large words that I knew, no more of
it than the infinite, insubstantial emotions which they called up

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in me. From man. I expected divine virtue or hair
raising wickedness from life, either ravishing loveliness or else consummate horror.
And I was full of a profound, tormented yearning for
a larger reality, for experience of no matter what kind.
Let it be glorious and intoxicating bliss or unspeakable, undreamed of.

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And I remember, sir, I remember with painful clearness, the
first disappointment of my life. And I would beg you
to observe that it had not at all to do
with the miscarriage of some cherished hope, but with an
unfortunate occurrence that there was a fire at night in
my parents house, where I was hardly more than a child.

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It had spread insidiously until the whole small story was
in flames up to my chamber door, and the stairs
would soon have been on fire as well. I discovered
it first, and I remember that I went rushing through
the house shouting over and over fire, fire, fire. I
know exactly what I said and what feeling underlay the words,
though at the time it could scarcely have come to

(52:43):
the surface of my consciousness. So so this is a fire,
I thought, this is what it is like to have
the house on fire? Is this all there is to it?

Speaker 8 (53:00):
Well?

Speaker 21 (53:00):
Uh, it was serious, Oh it was serious enough. Goodness knows.
The whole house burned down. The family were only saved
with difficulty. And it would have been wrong to say
that my fancy could have painted anything much worse than
the actual burning. Yet some vague, formless idea of an
event even more frightful must have existed somewhere within me,

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by comparison with which the reality seemed flat. This fire
was the first great event of my life. It left
me defrauded of my hope of fearfulness. Eh, well, do

(53:43):
not fear lest I go on to recount my disappointments
to you in detail enough to tell you that I
zealously fed my magnificent expectations of life with the matter
of a thousand books and the works of all the poets.
All the poets are, how I have learned to hate them,
Those poets who talked of their large words on all
the walls of life, because they have no power to

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write them on the sky with pens dipped in Vesupius.
I came to think of every large word as a
lie or a mockery. Ecstatic poets have said that speech
is poor. Ah, how poor our words are?

Speaker 8 (54:20):
They sing?

Speaker 21 (54:20):
But no, sir, speech, it seems to me, is rich,
is extravagantly rich compared with the poverty and limitations of life.
Pain has its limits, physical pain and unconsciousness and mental intorpoor.
It is not different with joy. Our need for communication
has found itself a way to create sounds which lie
beyond these limits. Ah. It is the fault mine. Is

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it down my spine alone, that certain words can run
so as to awaken in me intuitions of sensations which
do not exist.

Speaker 8 (54:54):
Ah.

Speaker 21 (54:55):
I went out into that supposedly so wonderful life, graving
just one, one single experience which should correspond to my
great expectations. God help me, I have never had it.
I have rowed the globe, seen all the best praised sights,

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or the works of art upon which have been lavished.
The most extravagant was. I have stood in front of
these and said to myself, Ah, it is beautiful, It
is beautiful.

Speaker 8 (55:31):
And yet.

Speaker 21 (55:33):
Is that all?

Speaker 8 (55:36):
Is it?

Speaker 21 (55:36):
No more beautiful than that?

Speaker 22 (55:40):
One must have a sense of actualities, of actualities, actualities.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Ah.

Speaker 21 (55:47):
Perhaps that is the trouble. Once somewhere in the world.
I stood by a deep, narrow gorge in the mountains.
Bare rock went up perpendicular on either side, and far
below the water broad passed. I looked down. I looked
down and thought to myself, what if I were to fall?

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But I knew myself well enough to answer. If that
were to happen, you would say to yourself as you fell,
Now you are falling. You are actually falling?

Speaker 8 (56:18):
Well?

Speaker 21 (56:19):
And what of it?

Speaker 22 (56:21):
But what of actual experiences of life? A? Have you
ever been in love?

Speaker 21 (56:27):
A years ago? I fell in love a charming, gentle
creature whom it would have been my joy to protect
and cherish. But she loved me not, which was not surprising,
and she married another. What other experience can be so
painful as this? What tortures are greater than the dry?

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Agonies have baffled lust many a night I lay wide
eyed and wakeful. Yet my greatest torture resided in the thought,
so this is the greatest pain we can suffer?

Speaker 8 (57:06):
Well?

Speaker 21 (57:08):
And what then is this all? Ah? Shall I go
on and tell you of my happiness? For I have
had my happiness as well, and it too has been
a disappointment. No, I need not go on for no
heaping up of bald examples can make clearer to you

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that it is life in general, life in its dull, uninteresting,
average course, which has disappointed me, disappointment, disappointed. Often I
have thought of the day when I gazed for the

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first time at the sea.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
The sea is vast, the sea is wide. My eyes
roved far and wide and longed to be free. But
there was the horizon, the why horizon, when I wanted

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the infinite from life.

Speaker 21 (58:22):
Ah. Oh, but it is dark, and you have almost
ceased to listen to me. It is my favorite occupation
to gaze at the starry heavens at night, that being
the best way to turn my eyes away from earth
and from life. And perhaps it may be pardoned in

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me that I still cling to my distant hopes, that
I dream of a freer life where the actuality of
my fondest anticipations is revealed to be without any torturing
residue of disillusionment of life, where there are no more horizons.

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So I dream and wait for death. Ah ah, how
well I know it already death, that last disappointment. At
my last moment, I shall be saying to myself. So

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this is the great experience. Well, and what of it?
What is it? After all? But it has grown cold

(59:54):
here on the piazzasa that I can still feel. I
have the honasa to bid you a very good night,
A very good night. That was disillusionment by Thomas Mann.

Speaker 24 (01:00:35):
That's her, that's her, sir, Little lie it and we'll
op knock the cove in a bit.

Speaker 16 (01:00:42):
I'm your sir.

Speaker 8 (01:00:43):
I don't say the ship is still there. And if
she is, you're bear in mind.

Speaker 25 (01:00:46):
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Speaker 15 (01:01:05):
They were in the south of Glenny. Far away to
the north showed dimly the grim, weather beaten peak of
the island of Tristan, the largest of the Decuna Group,
while on the horizon to the westward we could make
out indistinctly inaccessible island. Both of these, however, held little
interest for us. It was on Middle Islet, off the

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coast of Nightingale Island that our attention was fixed. We
were looking for a boat, a long lost boat called
the Happy Return. My friend Trenheerne's fiancee had sailed for
Tasmania on the Happy Return, but the craft had never
reached Vandemon's land. It had been lost in the vastness.

Speaker 8 (01:01:44):
Of the ocean.

Speaker 15 (01:01:45):
Only Trenhearne would never believe that the beautiful girl he
had sworn to make his wife would never again smile
at him and sing to him. He searched and searched,
and I accompanied him on a voyage over the edge
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Speaker 4 (01:04:15):
We none of us wanted to have much truck with her.

Speaker 24 (01:04:18):
She hadn't a comfortable feelin' about her, and she were
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Speaker 8 (01:04:30):
Back any pluman minute. You'll say, r what I mean,
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Speaker 4 (01:04:36):
Quick Williams?

Speaker 14 (01:04:37):
Is that the place?

Speaker 4 (01:04:39):
That's it?

Speaker 8 (01:04:40):
Sir? But where's the ship? I see a sign of her?
Where is she?

Speaker 5 (01:04:44):
It's all right, sir.

Speaker 24 (01:04:46):
We ain't far enough up southern yet to open out
the cove. It's narrow at the mouth, and she were
right away up inside.

Speaker 8 (01:04:53):
You'll see in a minute. Excuse me, sir, Favia, ring.

Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
Around, ring around?

Speaker 27 (01:04:58):
Man, What you got?

Speaker 8 (01:05:01):
I feel all of a shake.

Speaker 15 (01:05:02):
I hang on with all one of the boats to
get ready for load.

Speaker 8 (01:05:07):
What if? What if there's nothing? I've built up such hopes?

Speaker 5 (01:05:11):
What if?

Speaker 8 (01:05:13):
What if? You get ready to go?

Speaker 15 (01:05:14):
Shawn, You'll soon know. God's given you a chance. A
man can ask her more than that, a.

Speaker 28 (01:05:19):
Chance that she's alive. It must be the happy return,
and that's better, all right? And he said so yes,
But what.

Speaker 8 (01:05:27):
Get ready? Get a boat load.

Speaker 15 (01:05:35):
We draw a breast of a narrow opening. It ran
a considerable length into the eyelet, and then at last
something came into sight, way up among the shadows within
the cove. It was the stern of her vessel.

Speaker 8 (01:05:48):
You see her, You see her.

Speaker 15 (01:05:49):
There, I see her.

Speaker 14 (01:05:53):
You're ready, gentlemen.

Speaker 15 (01:06:15):
The crew of the yacht and the old whaler steering
we pulled into a small circular sea enclosed by gaunt cliffs.
Trenhan's face was white. He was terribly afraid, afraid of
finding nothing. And then we were under the hull of
the Happy Return. The boat was made fast to the cleat,

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and we clambered up upon the deck of a ghost ship.

Speaker 8 (01:07:04):
See how blue and clean and tiger she is.

Speaker 29 (01:07:07):
They ain't natural, everything as if she were just going
into port and her a blooming wreck.

Speaker 8 (01:07:15):
See her? Do you everything ropes, everything beat clean.

Speaker 15 (01:07:21):
As if her masts have gone sell the bolts. But
the rest this means there was some of them my
life at least when you.

Speaker 30 (01:07:28):
Drive in here.

Speaker 31 (01:07:30):
They may they might be down below.

Speaker 8 (01:07:35):
And sure, how'll come with you?

Speaker 15 (01:07:39):
Feelings strange? Only too quiet?

Speaker 8 (01:07:47):
Hair, Let's go down, tumbler, Please, I.

Speaker 24 (01:07:51):
Ain't going down there by myself.

Speaker 15 (01:07:54):
When coming down as well, will.

Speaker 32 (01:07:55):
Each of us go down? H it's as if, as if.

Speaker 15 (01:08:17):
I mean, everything's exactly nothing disturbed, nothing out of place.

Speaker 8 (01:08:25):
It must be headed, must be no hurry, no confusion.

Speaker 15 (01:08:37):
What happened my rabby, she's laying here dismasted for five months?

Speaker 8 (01:08:49):
She hears her.

Speaker 24 (01:08:49):
Huh, that pair might be the young lady's kevinet.

Speaker 8 (01:08:57):
There's female singers.

Speaker 24 (01:08:58):
I'm up there nothing and there's sort of fictions.

Speaker 8 (01:09:01):
Up on the table day. That's a great.

Speaker 15 (01:09:06):
It's all right, all right, down, all right.

Speaker 24 (01:09:08):
I wasn't going to steal upon thing. I was only
looking try to help, no offense.

Speaker 8 (01:09:14):
Mister hop.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
Wasn't doing nothing bad.

Speaker 24 (01:09:20):
Sure was never going to steal up my drain pine.

Speaker 11 (01:09:23):
No, I never.

Speaker 8 (01:09:24):
It's it's not and it's here, it's hurst. This is
where she well blah blah, what.

Speaker 15 (01:09:35):
Nobody here.

Speaker 28 (01:09:36):
They're gone over land after this see see calendar, calendar,
calendar Read the date.

Speaker 8 (01:09:43):
Read the date.

Speaker 15 (01:09:46):
April twenty seventh, eighteen eighty two. That's today's date.

Speaker 8 (01:09:56):
It's a mistake, it's not. It's been said this y hey,
which dear God can't be find her? What was the day?
Which were said? Quick? Yes, yes, when you came aboard
here before. I've never even seen the brilliant thing before.
I didn't stay no time a part of.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
Her, Ah.

Speaker 11 (01:10:20):
John, Yes, there was a hiding.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
Come on, search.

Speaker 15 (01:10:29):
And we did search. We went through the whole ship,
from stern to bow. There was nowhere any sign of life.

Speaker 29 (01:10:38):
We turned far off Darkshire, and we have to be
getting out of this place.

Speaker 15 (01:10:42):
While lit a bit of daylight, and I persuaded Trenthan
that we had to leave, that we would return, and
reluctantly he agreed, and minutes later we were on the
boat and heading out for the open sea.

Speaker 8 (01:11:17):
Feel nothing, no one on a happy return.

Speaker 28 (01:11:20):
We will land as early as possible on Middle Island, and.

Speaker 33 (01:11:23):
If we find nothing there, then I want to make
a thorough.

Speaker 8 (01:11:26):
Exploration of Nightingale Island.

Speaker 15 (01:11:28):
And what's the other Williams called it the island of
Stoltenkoff stauton Cuff.

Speaker 8 (01:11:34):
Then that is what we do.

Speaker 15 (01:11:35):
And if we still find nothing, no one on any
of the islands, what do you mean what I say?
If there's no sign of any of them from a happy.

Speaker 8 (01:11:44):
Return anyway, no has to abandon the search.

Speaker 15 (01:11:56):
We began just after dawn the next day. H and
I believe it really expected to find the crew of
the abandoned ship returned to her. He clung desperately to
the idea that they'd all gone on a food gathering
expedition and the early morning would find them well and happy,
his sweetheart among them. There was no one on the
hulk that had once been a proud and beautiful sailing ship,

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vanished face of the.

Speaker 8 (01:12:32):
Airth that's vential.

Speaker 34 (01:12:35):
Look see you.

Speaker 8 (01:12:38):
Read the date.

Speaker 15 (01:12:43):
When Trenhan had shown me the calendar. The preceding day,
it had read April the twenty seventh. Now it had
been altered for the twenty eight.

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Speaker 15 (01:13:33):
The party is great, Yes it wasn't July ate.

Speaker 11 (01:13:35):
Well, take a die jel.

Speaker 12 (01:13:37):
I always keep some in my bag, but.

Speaker 15 (01:13:38):
I already took an anti acid.

Speaker 18 (01:13:40):
Yes, Darling, but die.

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Here, try and die jel, like.

Speaker 15 (01:13:54):
They say when you eat too well, demand die jel.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 8 (01:14:14):
What do it mean, Henshaw?

Speaker 35 (01:14:16):
What does it mean?

Speaker 15 (01:14:19):
I'm sure you can alter it yesterday by accidenterfectly sure.

Speaker 8 (01:14:25):
What are they playing about that?

Speaker 15 (01:14:27):
What they trying to do? What does it mean?

Speaker 29 (01:14:31):
You mean someone's been in here since yesterday and it
were dark bluemen ere before we lift here.

Speaker 11 (01:14:40):
Then if something's been here, then there's.

Speaker 15 (01:14:44):
Only one thing it can be, sir. That's not when
it was only one thing and that's plain and that
thing's ghost your tongue, Williams, Where are you going?

Speaker 18 (01:14:56):
I'm did sir?

Speaker 36 (01:14:57):
I did sign.

Speaker 5 (01:15:00):
All?

Speaker 8 (01:15:01):
Listen. They're not living aboard here, that's obvious. They've left
for some reason. They're living somewhere else, in a cave
or something.

Speaker 15 (01:15:07):
What about a calendar then you think that?

Speaker 8 (01:15:09):
Yes, I have an idea. They come aboard here at night.
Why I don't know. Perhaps there's something that keeps.

Speaker 28 (01:15:14):
Them away during the daylight, perhaps animals, something that they
be seen when it's light.

Speaker 8 (01:15:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 15 (01:15:20):
I'm only animal the board ship. There's something that could
get at them on this ship, surrounded by sea, at
the bottom of this pet thing with all those cliffs. Oh,
and they'd never be safe anywhere. Surely they'd stay here
down here during the day. Henshaw, I'm only trying to
find any animals. Nothing dangerous on those islands.

Speaker 14 (01:15:40):
What's the matter with the blasted door.

Speaker 8 (01:15:46):
The calendar though?

Speaker 15 (01:15:49):
Oh well, there's there's nothing here. I can't understand any
of it. We better start our sets for the island. Yes,
we rode to the middle island and began to look

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for something, anything, a sign of life, of survival. Williams
and I took a couple of minute apiece and we
went right round the island until we met. We examined caves, everything,
We found no one desolation. When we arrived back at
the point of departure several hours later, there was no

(01:16:34):
sign of Trenhearne.

Speaker 8 (01:16:36):
We waited. He didn't come.

Speaker 15 (01:16:39):
I went out in search of him. I found him
lying on his stomach with his head over the edge
of the chasm, staring down at the hulk.

Speaker 37 (01:16:58):
Then been done.

Speaker 8 (01:17:01):
I want you to look at something looking so I mean,
no in the water on the starboard side, with a
happy return.

Speaker 15 (01:17:13):
Looking in the direction indicated. I now made out in
the water close alongside the rick, several pale oval shaped objects,
fish what craer one faces? Faces, My dear trend Hanya
for letting the picture. You have sympathy, but they're watching us.

Speaker 8 (01:17:42):
I have it now.

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
If I'm right, it may account for them leaving the ship.

Speaker 15 (01:17:45):
And we never thought of it before. But well, now,
in the first place, those are not faces, you know
very well. They're there the tentacles of some sort of
giant squid or something, a clacken or a devil fish
or something. I can quite imagine things like that haunting
that plays down there. And I can imagine too that
your Sarah and the crew of the Happy Return will
give the place a pretty wide birth. Now this might

(01:18:07):
mean that they're alive, Am I right? And things in
the water down there around the ship, Trenhorn, But the calendar.

Speaker 8 (01:18:15):
Let's go back to the wreck.

Speaker 15 (01:18:23):
We returned to the wreck. Williams and his men came too.
We spent the day there waiting to see if anyone came.

Speaker 8 (01:18:31):
No one did.

Speaker 15 (01:18:33):
The night came, and the old whaler prepared to take
himself and his men off the Happy Return. Trenhorn wouldn't
hear of leaving. Someone he said was going to come
and change the calendar. He told me I was at
Liberty to return to the yacht with Williams. Of course
I had to stay. The man left and came back
in a little while with bedding for us. Tlenhorn gave

(01:18:56):
them orders to come for us at daybreak. They then
after salon there for the night. The prospect didn't please me.
The place was strange and cold and eerie.

Speaker 8 (01:19:17):
Echo.

Speaker 15 (01:19:17):
I mean as if we and the wreck lay at
the bottom of a great jug.

Speaker 8 (01:19:26):
He's a mist coming down, feel it.

Speaker 28 (01:19:31):
But even if we are attacked, we have the weapons.
I'd be pleased to meet the giant squid the good
out with a shell gun.

Speaker 8 (01:19:39):
Gay below. I'll take the.

Speaker 31 (01:19:41):
First point, all right, mm hmm m.

Speaker 8 (01:20:13):
I couldn't much of the cold unpleasant. I'll stay here
with your u sleep. I'll stay awake and wake you
when four hours have.

Speaker 15 (01:20:22):
Pasted very well, and which the morning would come. I
hate to say this, but I know.

Speaker 8 (01:20:32):
I think I've lost her brother. I know, but I
tried so long. I want to thank you for helping
me now.

Speaker 15 (01:20:42):
Man can do more than you, I know, I know, sure, sir,
so beautiful you. I met Sarah once before she sailed
to Tasmania.

Speaker 8 (01:20:59):
I imagine that that day we are last ever. As

(01:21:31):
I slept.

Speaker 15 (01:21:31):
For a long time, dawn could not have been far
away in my work.

Speaker 11 (01:21:50):
M hm tree tree, Oh yes, I heard it.

Speaker 8 (01:22:01):
I heard her.

Speaker 14 (01:22:04):
She was calling train, Tray, Tray.

Speaker 15 (01:22:20):
And then the door that had so annoyed Trinhaan, and which,
unaccountably for there was no wind below dicks had begun
to swing.

Speaker 8 (01:22:29):
Again stopped, and I saw.

Speaker 18 (01:22:36):
Tray.

Speaker 15 (01:22:40):
I saw a most beautiful face, a shadowy body, and
the most wonderful eyes I've ever seen in my life.
I had seen her before, as she was boarding a
ship called the Happy Return, bound for Van Deemon's land.

(01:23:02):
And then and Anne awoke m and I saw her

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arms go about him, and they turned and passed through
the doorway and climbed the companionway. And there was nothing
I could do to stop them. And I knew that
I ought to stop them. I should have prevented him
from leaving, because she was not of this world. I

(01:24:12):
must have slept again. When I woke, it was truly light.
I went on deck. Trenhearne was nowhere to be seen.

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
Haah nothing.

Speaker 15 (01:24:42):
My voice was flung back at me from the high
gloomy cliffs. I ran to the port side and glanced
over nothing. I flew to the starboard side. My eyes
caught something that floated, apparently just below the surface of
the water. I was looking a score of pale, unearthly

(01:25:02):
faces that stared.

Speaker 5 (01:25:03):
Back at me with sad, sad eyes.

Speaker 8 (01:25:07):
They appeared to.

Speaker 15 (01:25:07):
Sway and quiver in the water. I must have stood
for a long time, and then I heard the sound
of oars. You go there, here we are, sir, And
just then, before hailing Williams, I turned and looked along
the deck and what.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
I saw they had proved the mad.

Speaker 38 (01:25:30):
No what's up, sir, heart you never's over?

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
Puts off?

Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
Put off quickly, mister Trey answer, he's dead, puts off.

Speaker 8 (01:25:45):
Take her off and lift take her out.

Speaker 15 (01:25:54):
And they steered for the passage into the open sea.
This took us close past the stern of the wreck,
and as we passed beneath, I looked up at the
overhanging mass. As I did so, a dim, beauteous face
came over the taprail and looked at me with great
sorrowful eyes. The stretched out her arms to me, and
I screamed aloud, for her hands were like unto the

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Speaker 8 (01:28:26):
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Speaker 23 (01:29:07):
Welcome to a half hour of mind wags, short stories
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with a mind work story, this time from the Ninth
Galaxy Reader, edited by Frederick Paul. This is a story
by John Brunner titled Wasted on the Young. The doorbell sounded.
Hal Page had been attending to two final tasks, first
checking around the apartment and making sure everything was ready

(01:29:51):
for this, which was going to be one hell of
a party, and second trying to decide where to put
the notice. He would have liked to destroy it, But
when he came to the mouth of the disposal and
opened it, letting the faintest, faintest whiff of the stink
from the far away incinerators mingle with the heavy perfumes
loading there in the room, Alifandia changed his mind. He

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needed the solid feel of it in his hand, the
crinkly rustle of it in his ears, to drive him
to the completion of his ultimate purpose. At a party
like this, no hiding place was likely to remain secret,
especially in view of his reckless reputation. The guests would
make it a point of honor to seek out and
if possible, ruin his most costly possessions, to make him
break new records when he cleared up the mess and

(01:30:35):
replace the spoiled items. But he dared not have any
one even guess at the motive for throwing such a
party in this randomly chosen day. If any one realized,
word would spread like the rumor of plague, and he
would spend to night alone, staring at nothing and feeling
the cold hand of terror on his heart. Ah demn,

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he said aloud, snatching the notice into a place of
concealment in the front of his loose silk shirt. Automatically,
he consulted his watch. Oh, he knew the bell. It
sounded twenty minutes at least ahead of party times. It
was the most expensive watch in the world. It had
cost him four full years, and sat on the back
of his left index finger measuring the decay rate of

(01:31:16):
a tiny grain of radium. The bell sounded a second time.
He reached his decision. What the hell point was there
in keeping the notice? Every word of it was ingrained
in his mind and could be summed into the single
terrible warning tomorrow. But if he had no intention of
being here, of being alive tomorrow? Why hesitate to have

(01:31:39):
the paper destroyed? He thrust the document into the disposal
as he had originally intended. The gesture brought him a
sense of calm of boats being burnt. He went smoothly
and coolly to open the door, hell early, but come
in anyway, no reason to delay that. He got the

(01:32:00):
at far before he realized that the man facing in
a little older than himself, say, thirty five, slim, saturn
nine bright eyed, was wearing the black of an adult.
And then, with a twisting grimace of disgust, he made
to close the door, wishing it were possible to slam
it with a crash. Wait, the man in black said, softly, wait,

(01:32:24):
remember me? How page hesitated? He made a violent effort
to see the face above the drab black garb as
that of an individual instead of merely as the mask
of an adult, and relays of memory closed, he said, yeah,
why at a party of uh what was the girl's name?
Karen Sattini? But that doesn't matter mine does? I'm Thomas Dobson.

(01:32:47):
Are you going to make me stand here hell where
anyone passing down the corridor might see me? Are you
going to have them start to wonder why an adult
comes calling on hell Page the professional youth.

Speaker 8 (01:32:59):
You see.

Speaker 23 (01:32:59):
I know about the notice you've had and the reason
for the spectacular party tonight. You're not gonna be here,
I said open house, but Hell's name.

Speaker 8 (01:33:08):
I didn't mean.

Speaker 23 (01:33:11):
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half an hour later. Al you know that as well
as I do, Even for a glimpse of the legendary
hell Page, you gambled and got away with it. I
was dragging so many others after him by his example.
So you've come for a sight of me, huh, well,
to see what you missed. I come on in, have

(01:33:31):
what you want at my expense, He waved Dobson and
passed him with a grandiose gesture, indicating the array of
delicacies with which the room was stocked. Antiques and Abjadar
had been thrust aside hastily to make room for them. Champagne,
genuine champagne from France. You want some caviar lark's tongues,

(01:33:52):
take your pick, Dobson. It's all charged to me. Well,
thank you. Dobson selected a sliver of toast which to
dip into a bowl of red caviar, you know, he
said musingly, when he had swallowed the first mouthful. You know,
it's a shame you're not equipped to value this for
what it is. Hell that you should see it only

(01:34:13):
as a gigantic prop for your ego. You're not equipped
to enjoy anything. God, even the first time I met you,
what was it five years ago, you weren't equipped to
get fun out of life. You sat there like a
brooding ghost and poured out second hand philosophical clap trap
that nobody wanted to listen to.

Speaker 8 (01:34:33):
You listened.

Speaker 23 (01:34:35):
Dobson dipped the second portion of the caviar, and the
toast crunched noisily between his teeth. Yeah, I listen only
because I didn't believe you could be real. There you sat,
There was this girl alongside you, the one with pretty
red hair in the mouth that well, i'll skip that,
But I got her afterwards, I know, she told me.

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Dobson swallowed the last of his toast and dropped into
a soft chair. A fugitive smile crossed his face. I
mean she looked at you twice. We got married, a
course of action which probably wouldn't interest you very much. Yeah, Dan, right,
she had a hell of a body, but her mind

(01:35:17):
was all cluttered with the same kind of nonsense that
your spouting that evening. And yet, you know, I guess
I should be grateful to you in a way. After
that time, i'd run with a herd. I'd taken it
for granted, you know, all the pious nothings which I
had had spooned into my ears in school. I looked
at you and I thought, Hell, if they're going to
take me and grind me into the same mold as you, Ah,
I'm going to get my kicks first.

Speaker 8 (01:35:39):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:35:40):
It was right on the following day that I went
out and got myself something which cost a whole year.
For the first time. I felt great when I went
right on from there. Tell me something, didn't you feel
anything when you ran your debt up over a century?

Speaker 8 (01:35:56):
Sure?

Speaker 23 (01:35:57):
I felt I was getting out from under nothing else.

Speaker 8 (01:36:03):
I know what you mean.

Speaker 23 (01:36:03):
You're trying to say. It wasn't I scared that they'd
come along and cut the ground from under my feet.
Hell no, you take yourselves too seriously, dobs, and you
adults a minimum of thirty years free, That's what they
tell you. Granted, I had a bad moment the day
I woke up and found I was a week past thirty.
I'd sort of lost count during the weekend party. But
it kept on, and it kept on, and here I

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am thirty two years, one month, and four days. Stop,
said Dobson quietly, and reached for another bit of red caviare. So,
what's going to be done about it? My dat's up
to three hundred years now and there isn't a damn
thing you can do. It spent or it will be
by dawn tomorrow. And what do you have to show
for it? I have to show what anyone will tell you.

(01:36:47):
I have proof of more guts than you. I have
proof I wasn't scared of the consequences. I didn't turn
around and make myself into an adult. I had a
due date so that when they call for me, I'd
go flunning and saying, look here, I'm already acting like
one of you, Please be kind me. A sudden thought
broke his train of words, like a derailment, he shot
out an accusing finger. Hey, hey, Dobson, how do you

(01:37:10):
know about the The question trailed off in the silence,
colored with more than a little alarm, Dobson said no,
I haven't come to get you, that's what you're thinking.
I am, in fact required to call on you and
make sure you understand the responsibilities which go with all

(01:37:31):
the privileges you've enjoyed.

Speaker 8 (01:37:34):
Sure I understand.

Speaker 23 (01:37:35):
I'm fine. Now. Look suppose you got on your way
and leave me to have my last fling. Sorry, I
have to do the job. Hell, and if I don't
get to complete it before your guests arrive, I just
have to try and do it later. So the choice
is fairly simple. Sit and listen now, or sit and

(01:37:56):
listen later, because there won't be anyone else here to.

Speaker 8 (01:37:59):
Keep you company.

Speaker 23 (01:37:59):
Word will have got around you know how superstitious everyone
in your group is about someone who's been given notice,
as though they had suddenly carried the taint of a
deadly disease. He'd been comparing it mentally to plague earlier
that I've got through pages of annoyance. He dropped into
a chair, facing Dobson inside. I'd rather take you and

(01:38:21):
push your smug face down to disposal, but all right'd
split it out and make it short. Dobson full ofed
his hands calmly on his lap. He said, I doubt
if you've caught up on the classics of literature during
this expensive whirlwind of a life. But maybe if you've
done so, you'd have developed a greater insight into your situation,

(01:38:43):
particularly if you've read a couple of works by the
dramatist Shaw early in mid twentieth century. Mean anything to you?
Come on, come to the point, like I've had my notice.
You know that, And I don't want to be bored
tonight of all nights. Yes, yes, you have rather a

(01:39:03):
marked capacity for boredom, don't you? Seems somehow unfair? Well,
to be precise, what I had in mind was a
beautiful capsule summary of the contemporary economic set up, which
is probably apocryphal, but who can be sure? Reputedly, Shaw
said in his old age that youth was wonderful, what

(01:39:23):
a pity it had to be wasted on the young, For,
in his view is expounded at some length and back
to Methuselam. Only the wisdom which age and trains can
fit an individual to make optimum use of the energies
of youth. Dobson's eyes went once around the room, seeming
to take in some up and dismiss everything for which

(01:39:45):
page AD staked three centuries of existence, Page shivered and
ordered him violently to hurry up with this little chat.
All right, Hell well, even enclosed as you are in
your psychologically incestuous circle of good time chums, it must
have been borne in on you that there has been
progress since the old days, that we have colonized two

(01:40:08):
other planets in the system, that we're reaching out to
explore the planets of other stars. I caught something about
it on three V.

Speaker 8 (01:40:18):
Yes.

Speaker 23 (01:40:20):
Moreover, we enjoy universally high standard of living now, in
which we apply as the only truly dependable economic yardstick
the investment of individual effort. I've spent three centuries worth.
All right, you've got any news that isn't stale? Patience? Hell,
I'm required to do this, as I told you, even
if your interruptions compel me to spend all night at it.

Speaker 8 (01:40:43):
I heard, I heard.

Speaker 23 (01:40:44):
I just don't see the point of the lecture on
current affairs? Are you softening me up to tell me
that I'm to be sent out to Mars somewhere to
sweat on one of those damn construction projects. You caught
that on three V too. Presumably, No, Hell, You're not
to be sent to Mars. The work there is almost
at the point where human effort can be supplanted by machinery,
and only skilled options are likely to remain open there

(01:41:07):
in the future. Do I get the chance to make
my points? Or do you so much like the sound
of your own voice you'd rather hear only it between
now and tomorrow. Morning Page made a disgusted gesture and
leaned back in his chair. Dobson went on, thank you,
Hal in your last year of school, when you should,

(01:41:27):
by rights have been old enough to make a fairly
enlightened decision, you are instructed in the forms of modern society.
You were told, for instance, of the expenditure against credit
which would be made available to you at least until
age thirty, and that the credit was charged, like all
expenditure nowadays, against a standard base scale of individual work.
Only the time counts. There's no question, for example, of

(01:41:50):
someone who's not capable of highly skilled work being made
to return more years of unskilled labor to balance the accounts.
We're pretty rich as a race, we human beings. We
don't have to be petty in such things.

Speaker 8 (01:42:04):
You were told.

Speaker 23 (01:42:04):
The reasoning behind the system hel you were told, and
like most adolescents. You certainly didn't believe that an endless
round of pleasure and self indulgence ultimately would grow boring,
and that by the time you got your notice to
repay to society the credit you had drawn, you'd wish
to make some more constructive use of your life. You

(01:42:27):
were told also that there was nothing fixed or inevitable
about this repayment. There's a certain inalienable minimum available to everyone,
so that by living frugally, a person may continue to
be his own absolute master as long as he wishes.
This course is usually chosen by those with a strong,
rebellious and creative band, who would rather sit on the

(01:42:47):
edge of a desert and paint sunsets and take up
an adult's post in the world. I don't wish to
criticize such people, by the way. Hell, in my view,
that marks the mods among the most mature and self
reliant specimens of the life. Unused to sitting and listening.
Page had begun to fidget. Now he burst out again,

(01:43:08):
angrily this time. Yeah, I was certainly told all this,
but I wasn't convinced, and I still am not convinced.
I'm getting a hell of a lot of kicks out
of live Dobson and the idea of being arbitrarily grabbed
by the neck, and not arbitrarily you were told you
didn't listen? Told what that? How did you put it

(01:43:30):
that an endless round of self indulgence would end up
by boring me? Hell, the only times I've been really
bored had been like now, when some stuff he brings
adults started preaching at me. He jumped up and went
to fetch himself a shot of brandy. And the fact remains,
I'm not fooled as easily as most people.

Speaker 8 (01:43:49):
You know.

Speaker 23 (01:43:50):
They go around almost in awe of me, like I'd
done something special. All I did was see through this
guff about my debt to society. But it consists of
I told you frankly. I had some bad moments when
I realized I'd hit age thirty with a dead already
topping two centuries. Then I caught on, if you jumped
on me right then and there, the first possible moment,

(01:44:12):
the very day I got past the promised limit, you'd
mark yourselves for Scared people would have said it's a fraud.
They jumped on hell page because he took what he
wanted from life and didn't give it them about the
time he used up. Hell, if we're all going the
same way, let's take what we can while we can.
Isn't that the size of it? You're visualizing the whole

(01:44:32):
of your generation spending their credit by the century the
same as you. Hell, do you seriously think that would matter?
I said, we're a rich race. You have no conception
of how rich we are. If every single one of
your guests that you've ever had to all of your
wild parties, if every guest at every party you've ever

(01:44:55):
been to, if every one of your entire generation decided
to sp and as freely and lavishly as you, all
it would take to absorb this would be to reprice
their expenditure down to the productive effort we can reasonably
accommodate during their later lives. We're embarrassingly rich. How these

(01:45:16):
days we seldom even have to send a notice to people.
With the thirtieth birthday come and gone, people tend to
get restless, They lose interest in their round of pleasure.
They turn up one day and ask to be assigned
for some real work. I did that myself, but I'm
not like you. The point I'm making still stands. Our

(01:45:40):
difficulty is in utilizing the resources which make themselves available
to us. Nine people out of ten who reach the
age of thirty nowadays have already lost heart form near
passing amusements. They've taken a course of study, or set
themselves a small research project, or made plans for a family,
done something adult. In short, and we have to cope

(01:46:03):
with this tremendous flow of creative energy. Channel it. Make
the most of it. That's why we're going out to
the stars. It'll be a hell of a long time
before we actually reduce starflight to a routine operation like
a trip to the moon. But we're going to need
that escape route simply for the sake of not wasting
the potential modern human society boils off like surplus heat

(01:46:25):
from an engine. You finished, Hell, drained his glass of
brandy and poured another. Not quite. We can't let things slide.
And this is what I'm trying to put across to you.
We can't raise the age of full credit to thirty five,
for example, simply to reduce the pressure on us to
absorb the would be adults. I'd have no objection, blurted Hell,

(01:46:52):
thinking of the terrible warning notice he had thrust into
the disposal. Your full free credit period germinates tomorrow, but
already people are finding it hard to last hour thirty
years fooling around? Did you not just hear me say so? Hell,
I've heard it all. Yeah, I'm sick of it all.

(01:47:15):
There's nothing more you can tell me? How about using
the door? Page tossed down the second Brandy as though
he hated it. Yes, yes, hell, it's all been sent
to you over and over. You just don't seem able
to draw the conclusions. None so deaf as those who

(01:47:35):
will not never mind. Page watched him move towards the door. Yeah, Stillo.
He died in his eyes as the final question burned
upwards towards full consciousness. Without intending, he found himself starting
to voice it, Dabson, dabson, do you know what? And

(01:47:58):
there it faltered, partly because he was ashamed to admit
to this black carbed intruder that the prospect made him afraid,
partly because he was afraid. The Saturn nine man paused
and looked back. Do I know what they'll make you do?
As a matter of fact, yes, but I'm not empowered

(01:48:19):
to tell you make me. I thought there was supposed
to be a range of free choice, You poor fool.
How many choices do you imagine remain open to someone
who spent more than three hundred years worth of credit?

Speaker 8 (01:48:38):
And he was gone.

Speaker 23 (01:48:42):
But it was a great party. There were just two
bad moments. The first when Meta Tech's had to be
called after a fight developed between two men over some
shit of a girl page and had last year and
didn't think worth the trouble. The second, when he found
himself screaming at the crowd to drink more, eat more,
danced more frantically, and realized that their eyes were on him,

(01:49:05):
their faces half way Frightened at the dreadful intensity of
his manner, he checked himself deliberately and covered his moment
of self betrayal by seizing the nearest girl around the
waist to smother her face and kisses. He must not, dared,
not let it be suspected that he was under sentence
of death tonight, up to the very last minute. He

(01:49:26):
must be with people. He must have the noise and laughter,
and the crash and smash of priceless articles, a soft, hot,
sweat pearled body under his a silk pillow for his
head ringing, with Dobson's calm, terrifying voice echoing in memory.
With the third girl around three in the morning, he
failed to make it, and knew that the time was

(01:49:47):
come abruptly. He pushed her aside and got off the bed.
He went into the bathroom and shut the door behind him.
Luckily there was no one in here just now, though
earlier three or four people had been charmed down together
and writing unseen verse in the tiled walls of the
bar of lavender colored soul. He studied himself with one
hand and gazed at his reflection on the floor to

(01:50:08):
ceiling mirror.

Speaker 8 (01:50:11):
Last time, last.

Speaker 23 (01:50:13):
Time, But they'll remember me, the one who cheated them,
the only ambition he had ever conceived. It wasn't unique
to himself, but others whom he'd heard of, who tried
the same, who found the prospect of being snatched away

(01:50:35):
from this ceaseless, selfish delight and tolerable, had botched the job.
There were whispers that were shuddering rumors and answer to
casual questions, we're so and so lately, I haven't seen moran. Oh.
He got his notice and tried to get out from

(01:50:56):
under cut his throat and they heal. Then I guess
Dobson would accept that Page told his reflection, seeing the
grim lines form around his soft mouth, I guess he'd
say they were warned and had to take the consequences.
The being told in advance doesn't justify it. I don't

(01:51:18):
give a damn for paying back what I've had in credit.
No one asked me when they set up this filthy system,
and I opt out. His voice had piqued to a
loudness that scared him. He didn't want to be overheard
when he went. He wanted the party to continue. Maybe
it would go on till the news came back. How

(01:51:42):
Page made it, How Page got out from under one
final twinge of or resolution Overcanan. Then he recalled the
expression on Dobson's face as he went out, and thought
about the implications of his parting promise no better the

(01:52:02):
silent dark of death, and he he wasn't going.

Speaker 8 (01:52:07):
To batch the job.

Speaker 23 (01:52:10):
The aircar had cost him one and a half year's credit.
It was going to be well worth it, he thought, really,
as he caulped down the five capsules of hypnotic three
hours credit and set the controls to carry him out
to sea. There was just about enough fuel for fifty miles.
By then, he'd be at thirty thousand feet, and hitting

(01:52:31):
water from such a height ought to be pretty much
like smashing into a stone wall. If they even got
back enough to use for prosthetics, they'd be lucky. But
that was the most they could hope to have back
from hell. Page's famous record breaking debt of more than
three hundred Blackness and horror light in darkness, awareness a shocking,

(01:53:07):
horrifying lack of bodily presence, vision, indestructible, without lids to
lower over the traitor eyes. He tried to scream and
FOUNDI had no voice. He tried to rise and run,
and fandi had no legs. He was in a large

(01:53:29):
light room, pale walled without a window, and facing him
on a steel chair was the grim black form of Dobson,
somehow elongated from front to back, as though he was
deeper than he should be. A voice said, on now
had a whitish presence, moved at the edge of vision

(01:53:50):
crazily out of proportion. The woman in a sterile cover all,
I think you have the lenses too far apart. Dobson said,
he's probably getting an exaggerated stereovision. Something monstrous loomed in
Page's field of vision, and the perspectives of the environment
shrank to something nearer normal. I'm sorry for you, Hal,

(01:54:16):
Dobson said softly, and by the way, don't try to talk.
We haven't cut in the vocal circuits yet. The consciousness
of Hal Page withdrew turned into something smaller than a mouse,
began to run frantically around and around in the confines
of his brain, which he knew and could not face.

(01:54:36):
Gnawing was all there was left to him. You may
go insane, Dobson said, but I guess in some senses
you've always been insane, incapable of drawing a rational conclusion
from what you were told, and capable of empathizing to
the point of taking some one else's word. I guess

(01:55:00):
you have to be grateful that people like you still
turn up occasionally. It's our greatest strength as a race
that we can build on our own weaknesses. There was
almost nothing left of you, how but you should have
known from what I told you when I called at
your apartment that you were a rarity, too rare to waste.

(01:55:22):
We're compelled to be strictly honest. How there are unpleasant
tasks to undertake, and we never hide the fact you
elected yourself for one of them, in full possession of
all the information which would have enabled you to back
out if you'd cared to. But you didn't. You went
right ahead. You spent credits founded on other people's efforts

(01:55:46):
until the free choice is open to you as repayment
dwindled to a single possibility. So here I am with
a task of telling you, after you made the mistake
of thinking you could welsh on your debt, we have
to go to the stars hell creeping outward. As I

(01:56:08):
told you, it's forced on us because we have so
much energy to absorb, so much frantic creativity, so much
skill and impatience. One day we'll go at the speed
of light freely and easily. But before that epic arrives,
there must be scouts, explorers, pathfinders. You hell, You are

(01:56:37):
going to Rigel as the commander and the crew of
a slow, slow rocket ship, and the round trip Hell
is going to last just about three hundred years. But

(01:57:00):
story is titled Wasted on the Young by John Brunner.
It appears in the collection edited by Frederick Paul titled
the Ninth Galaxy Reader. This is Michael Hanson speaking technical
production from mindwebs by Leslie Hilton offf mindwebs comes to

(01:57:20):
you from WHA Radio in Madison, a service of University
of Wisconsin Extension.

Speaker 9 (01:57:45):
This is Messa McLoud, the man with the story.

Speaker 39 (01:57:49):
In the stillness of the night, the sound of the
door buzzer seems strident and demanding.

Speaker 9 (01:57:57):
There was a pause, then it rang again.

Speaker 12 (01:58:02):
Tony, Tony, wake up.

Speaker 19 (01:58:05):
There's someone at the door, Tonny. So I answered, Oh,
all right, m.

Speaker 16 (01:58:22):
H I'm coming, I'm coming.

Speaker 40 (01:58:37):
Where is he?

Speaker 34 (01:58:39):
Who?

Speaker 39 (01:58:39):
Don't stole sister? Look, there's blood on the doorsteps.

Speaker 19 (01:58:42):
He came in here. There's no one here, and I'm
going to close the door.

Speaker 36 (01:58:47):
Give me alone. What right have you come in here
like this?

Speaker 39 (01:58:52):
And another squawk out of you and I'll slap your
silly Okay, Joe, I'll sarch the place. Well, I'll tell
you of this midnight encounter in just a moment. Blood

(02:00:26):
on the doorstep.

Speaker 19 (02:00:34):
Who's there?

Speaker 9 (02:00:37):
Sheila sat up in bed.

Speaker 8 (02:00:40):
She listened.

Speaker 39 (02:00:42):
Moonlight poured in through the open window, bathing her bare
shoulders and rippling jet black hair with a silvery glow.
Holding her breath, she listened. Sheila's heart pounded madly. Except
for this intruder, she was alone in the house. Her

(02:01:03):
mother and dad were away on their vacation. Again, there
was a slight noise, this time from the stairs.

Speaker 8 (02:01:11):
She watched the door of her room with dull terror.

Speaker 39 (02:01:15):
For the first time in her life, she wished the
family hadn't bought this lonely house time by the lake.
What good was a lovely garden and the cool lake
breeze if one were going to be murdered? Sheila opened
her mouth to scream and found she couldn't utter a sound.

Speaker 14 (02:01:31):
And now the door opened.

Speaker 39 (02:01:35):
Who The moonlight illuminated a disheveled, swinging, grim faced young
man in the stained white shirt and dark trousers.

Speaker 5 (02:01:46):
Sheila, Sheila, I, Tonny, tell me?

Speaker 8 (02:01:53):
What is it?

Speaker 14 (02:01:55):
Tony?

Speaker 8 (02:01:56):
Sheila?

Speaker 39 (02:01:57):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 9 (02:02:00):
I I have to come here.

Speaker 19 (02:02:03):
Tommy, what happened?

Speaker 8 (02:02:06):
I I've been shot.

Speaker 39 (02:02:14):
Sheila ran into the bathroom and returned with a diamond bandages,
bewildering thoughts racing through her head.

Speaker 8 (02:02:20):
What was her piance running away from? And what's this?
What was Tommy?

Speaker 39 (02:02:25):
The quiet, friendly chief designer of space aircraft doing with
a gun under his arm. She smoothed down the last
piece of adhesive tape, decided that the bleeding had stopped,
and started for the telephone to call the police. But wait,
suppose Tommy was running away from the police. She shuddered
and slipped on a negligey What should she do?

Speaker 19 (02:02:53):
Tommy, Tommy, wake up this dumb me at the door,
Tommy shure, I answered, all right, I'm coming.

Speaker 11 (02:03:12):
Just a moment.

Speaker 9 (02:03:23):
Where is he?

Speaker 39 (02:03:25):
Don't star, sister. Look there's blood on the doorstead.

Speaker 9 (02:03:28):
He came in here.

Speaker 41 (02:03:29):
There's no one here, and I'm going to close the door.

Speaker 19 (02:03:35):
Right after the break in.

Speaker 41 (02:03:36):
Here like this.

Speaker 39 (02:03:38):
An, I'll squall out of you and I will slip
your silly Okay, Joe sets the place.

Speaker 9 (02:03:46):
Now you in there, go on now, switch on the
light that'st it down. You don't have to put you care.
When we get this guy, we'll clear out of here
and you can go back to bed.

Speaker 8 (02:04:12):
This part of the.

Speaker 5 (02:04:13):
Fall chairs, it looks like this state be.

Speaker 23 (02:04:15):
Touching him up there.

Speaker 39 (02:04:18):
Nonsense, go where I and find him if he make
some move.

Speaker 14 (02:04:22):
Shoot.

Speaker 9 (02:04:23):
Okay, so you're in on this too.

Speaker 41 (02:04:29):
What do you mean.

Speaker 9 (02:04:33):
We don't get him?

Speaker 40 (02:04:36):
You're here.

Speaker 39 (02:04:36):
He got cold, all right, God, drag him down here, No,
bring him down, Joe. Okay, we're getting somewhere.

Speaker 18 (02:04:53):
You're chilling, dream like this.

Speaker 39 (02:04:56):
We want them drawings.

Speaker 9 (02:05:00):
Yeah, here we are, Boss, all right, set him? I
heard boss. They're not him.

Speaker 8 (02:05:05):
I got his gun though. He must have given them
to the dame.

Speaker 39 (02:05:09):
Yeah, that's what I've been wondering. Look, babe, give us
them drawings and we'll scram out of here.

Speaker 19 (02:05:18):
But I don't know anything about them.

Speaker 39 (02:05:22):
Probably they have planned it upstairs. You turn a rome
inside and out. You'd save yourself a lot of grief
if you're telling us where they're hidden. Your friend here
will probably come out if he doesn't get.

Speaker 9 (02:05:37):
To a hospital. So how about it?

Speaker 19 (02:05:39):
What makes you think he carries his things around in
his pocket. They locked their drawings up in the vault
at the plant.

Speaker 39 (02:05:46):
He's been working on this design at home in the evenings.
He was working on him tonight when we called on him. Unfortunately,
he slipped through our fingers and took the drawings with him.

Speaker 9 (02:05:57):
Where did he put them?

Speaker 11 (02:05:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 39 (02:06:01):
When he regains consciousness, I'm afraid we might have to
hurt you a bit to force him to be reasonable, providing,
of course, that Joe doesn't look at him as much time.

Speaker 41 (02:06:16):
What are you going to do?

Speaker 39 (02:06:18):
Well, we might have to cut your pretty face up
a bit with a pen knife. That should arouse his chivalrey,
don't you think? How are you making out, Joe? And
that's what I thought? Oh, your friend looks like he's
coming through. I want to see the knife.

Speaker 9 (02:06:41):
There it is. Yeah, I guess we wasted enough time,
all right, sister, come on, no, no, says mess.

Speaker 39 (02:07:00):
I'm glad again, and I'll be back to tell you
the rest in just a moment. Now back to Sheila,

(02:08:31):
Doc and the unconscious Tommy sprawled on the floor. Sheila shuddered,
then she tensed. Had Tommy moved? She tried hard not
to look directly at him. Let's DC notice too, Yes,
he had shifted his arms slightly, Then he sighed. Doc

(02:08:53):
turned and met over him, gun poised. Sheila stealthily reached
out and picked up a heavy bronze book, and she
sprang to her feet and crashed it down on Doc's head.
He sang to his knees in the limp heap the girl, Sheila,
you dish, I'm just a bit gluggy.

Speaker 8 (02:09:14):
That's all.

Speaker 39 (02:09:15):
And that smoothie held you in front of him. I
didn't know what to do, so I pretended to faint.
It seemed to take care of things for the moment.
Got It was mighty hard to keep still when he
was pushing you around. Crack about cutting you upright with me?

Speaker 8 (02:09:28):
Too much?

Speaker 39 (02:09:31):
Passed that bronze book and a pretend doug. He's giving
her the works. Eh, I'll makes slaps.

Speaker 19 (02:09:46):
Oh dave you heard me?

Speaker 2 (02:09:56):
Oh boy, m Well.

Speaker 9 (02:10:03):
That's that now for the police.

Speaker 39 (02:10:09):
You know, Sheila, when we get married, there will be
no heavy objects around me.

Speaker 9 (02:10:14):
You ain't too straight for the woman.

Speaker 39 (02:10:16):
Oh hello, please Russian ambulance and the doctor, as well
as a squad car over to the hall residents out
of the turnpike.

Speaker 40 (02:10:23):
A right.

Speaker 41 (02:10:26):
Tell me, I thought we'd never get out of this.

Speaker 9 (02:10:30):
That's thanks to you.

Speaker 39 (02:10:31):
Here.

Speaker 19 (02:10:32):
Tell me what about that drawing?

Speaker 39 (02:10:36):
I hit them under one of the flag stones at
the front door, one of the flag stones. Yes, I
know which one, because I dripped some blood on it.

Speaker 11 (02:10:57):
Well them, Well, sir, what about those drawings?

Speaker 9 (02:11:01):
That's the matter. I didn't know that I could draw,
or you.

Speaker 19 (02:11:04):
Can draw yourself.

Speaker 8 (02:11:07):
Pretty as a picture.

Speaker 14 (02:11:08):
An't you, I'm not as.

Speaker 41 (02:11:09):
Bad as I'm painted, etching to say that again.

Speaker 9 (02:11:12):
Well, there's always friends.

Speaker 39 (02:11:14):
All characters were portrayed by Rita and myself, And as
Rita says, good, I say, I'll be telling you another soon.

Speaker 9 (02:11:19):
This is yours, truly Mess and the Cloud, the man
with the.

Speaker 42 (02:11:23):
Story Mystery in the Air, starring Peter Laurie, Presented by

(02:11:51):
Camels Cigarettes.

Speaker 15 (02:12:06):
This, dear friends, was the man Philip Gentry, or Reverend Pierce,
or whatever other name he may choose in eternity, the
man whom we bury today. That night, when he stood
above my bed, pouring defiance and bitterness into my ears,
thinking that I was paralyzed, I could both speak and write.

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My paralysis had been gone for many days. But I
did not speak, because I knew what Philip Gentry would do,
what he had to do, criminal and murderer.

Speaker 38 (02:12:39):
Though he was.

Speaker 42 (02:12:48):
Each week at this hour Peter Laurie brings us the
excitement of the great stories, of the strange and unusual,
of dark and compelling masterpieces called from the four corners
of world literature.

Speaker 33 (02:13:04):
The Night Beyond Good and Evil, starring Teter Louring, brought
to you by Camels Cigarettes.

Speaker 14 (02:13:21):
Experience is the best teacher.

Speaker 5 (02:13:25):
Try a camel.

Speaker 33 (02:13:26):
Let your own experience tell you why more people are
smoking camels than ever before. Yes, try a camel. Let
your tea zone decide. That's tea for taste and tea
for throat. You're proving ground for any cigarette. Let your
tea zone decide if camel's rich, full flavor and cool
mildness aren't just made to order for enjoyment. Yes, try

(02:13:47):
a camel, and be sure to have a carton of
camels on hand for the long weekend coming up.

Speaker 41 (02:14:10):
Why Reverend Piers good evening, good evening?

Speaker 14 (02:14:14):
Lucy's Reverend mckillop's still awake.

Speaker 41 (02:14:16):
Oh, yes, we don't put him to bed until later
later evening service over already?

Speaker 14 (02:14:24):
Is it over?

Speaker 43 (02:14:25):
Shame on you, Lucier Parson's daughter, and you forget there
is no service on Wednesdays.

Speaker 41 (02:14:29):
Of course you've come to read the father.

Speaker 14 (02:14:32):
Wow, there's so little I can do if he were
able to let us know.

Speaker 41 (02:14:35):
In some ways I can tell by his eyes whenever
you're here, they fairly glow.

Speaker 43 (02:14:41):
And I suppose that, helpless as he is not able
to speak or even to write, my visits are at
least a diversion.

Speaker 41 (02:14:48):
You're much more than a diversion. You're as hope.

Speaker 43 (02:14:51):
No, Lucy, the Lord is his hope. Oh yes, Lord
struck him down with paralysis, and and in time the
Lord will shoot free him from it. Well, I'll go
in and try to cheer him up. Good evening, Reverend McKillop.
Good evening, good evening, good evening. Yes, McKillop, you hang

(02:15:17):
on my every word, and and you never talk back.
You never have except once, and after tonight you won't
get the chance. Huh, speak up, reverend, Why don't you? No,
of course, the cat's got your tongue. Yes, tonight is
your last chance, Reverend. Tonight is the consummation finished the

(02:15:37):
end at three curtain on a great play about death
and redemption, about good and evil. And I won't shrink
from your eyes, McKillop. See your eyes can't kill, but
I can kill. I have the mind and the will
and the hands. I've killed one man that you know,

(02:15:57):
and tonight, tonight I'm going to kill again.

Speaker 14 (02:16:09):
Yes, Reverend McKillop, you.

Speaker 43 (02:16:10):
Know who I was before I became the Reverend Howard
peas pastor of this good and godly community. And you
know my real name, it's Philip Gentry. But you never
knew the soul of Philip Gentry, the contempt, the sum
of evil that was in me that night it all began. Yes,
it's now three months ago. What a stormy night time.

(02:16:31):
I was crouching in a swamp with a man named
Mac because we had just escame from prison, hiding like
animals in a deep mud and ooze alien from the.

Speaker 14 (02:16:40):
Whole entire human race? Gentry, who are you going after
the highway?

Speaker 44 (02:16:47):
You hear it?

Speaker 43 (02:16:48):
Got to make time before day life for the rain stops.
We bring out the bloodhounds in the morning.

Speaker 5 (02:16:53):
Okay, okay, you're the boss.

Speaker 14 (02:16:55):
There's the highway. Now they are be young the fence.

Speaker 9 (02:16:57):
Well, so what do we do now?

Speaker 21 (02:17:00):
Oh?

Speaker 40 (02:17:00):
He split up.

Speaker 14 (02:17:00):
I'll meet you in Chicago later. I had Gus's place, said.

Speaker 8 (02:17:03):
Gus's place.

Speaker 14 (02:17:04):
In two or three weeks, when a man hunt cools on.
You won't let me down, will you, Gentry?

Speaker 43 (02:17:09):
I said, I'll meet you. Now, get moving, go on fast.
I walked a mile and then I saw a car.
It it was par close to the edge of the road.
It's its headlights are almost blacked out at the rain.
And then at a glow of what I knew was

(02:17:32):
a flashlight. I saw a man bending into the rain,
struggling change attire.

Speaker 14 (02:17:38):
He was alone, so I walked up to him. Hello,
need help?

Speaker 8 (02:17:46):
You settled me.

Speaker 14 (02:17:47):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 45 (02:17:47):
I didn't expect to see anyone this late. Picked a
bad night for a flat Yes, that's the second today.
I'm going to be awfully late. Come on, let me
hok no, no, no, thank you, but if you would
hold the light? Oh soon, come a long way there? Yes,
from Detroit. I'm on my way to Carton. I was
supposed to get there this afternoon. I am the new
minister there. My name's Pierce.

Speaker 14 (02:18:08):
Did notice you were a preacher.

Speaker 45 (02:18:09):
Yes, I'm taking overall Reverend McKillop at Grace Urvi and
then in bad health.

Speaker 8 (02:18:13):
So I'm taking this place.

Speaker 14 (02:18:14):
Yes, this boat is stubborn. I can't seem to get it.

Speaker 43 (02:18:19):
Come on, let me have to range. No, no, really,
just just all the light, I said, give me the range.
All right, it's awfully good of you give it. No, no, no,
I mean you're going to be eaten later.

Speaker 36 (02:18:32):
And you thought, why aren't you?

Speaker 43 (02:18:43):
I hit him twice and I can't tell you now,
Reverend McKillop what I taught. I had to range Bicky
to flesh him bone or I swear to you that
it was not my intention.

Speaker 14 (02:18:53):
To kill, And and yet I did. I killed. Yes, huh.
When I put my hand on his chest, the heart
had stopped. And the Reverend Howard.

Speaker 43 (02:19:04):
Pears was dead. Yes, Reverend p s was dead, very dead.
So so I buried him. I buried him in my
prison clothes. And soon I was dressed in his clothes. Oh,

(02:19:24):
I had on his decent black and turned around Colin,
and I was rolling this way and at the city
limits of Carlton, my own destiny step, I was stopped
by a traffic car.

Speaker 14 (02:19:44):
Let me see a license, buddy, a license? Where here?
Here is Howard Pearce occupation or minister?

Speaker 5 (02:19:54):
I didn't notice.

Speaker 14 (02:19:55):
Oh what is it? Officer speeding?

Speaker 46 (02:19:57):
No, No, we're checking all cars on this road. There
was a break at the state pen. Two prisoners escape.
They might come this way, I see, but I won't hold.

Speaker 8 (02:20:05):
You up any longer. Reverend you going far?

Speaker 14 (02:20:07):
Oh no, Carlton will say, this is Carlton. Oh, yes,
is the sign?

Speaker 8 (02:20:13):
Say I get it.

Speaker 5 (02:20:15):
Imagine me not catching on right away?

Speaker 14 (02:20:17):
Catching on?

Speaker 8 (02:20:17):
Sure you must be the new.

Speaker 14 (02:20:18):
Preacher for Grace Church. Oh, yes i am.

Speaker 46 (02:20:21):
Well, I'm Charlie. Oh and I sing the Grace Church
choir baritone. You're going to the parsonage now, yes, well
it's a little tricky finding it. I'm going into headquarters
now I have to go right by Reverend mckillops house.

Speaker 14 (02:20:33):
You follow me, Thank your son. It's very nice of you.
Hello her, Lucy.

Speaker 46 (02:20:48):
He guess who I'm delivering to you. It's Reverend Pierce.
He's just getting out of the car. Who are you expecting, Lucy?
The boyfriend?

Speaker 41 (02:20:56):
You mean my fiance, mister Tom Hubbard.

Speaker 8 (02:20:59):
How do you do to get married? Anyway?

Speaker 23 (02:21:01):
You and everybody?

Speaker 46 (02:21:02):
And well, here's Reverend Peers, Reverend Peers, here's Lucy, Reverend
mckillop's daughter.

Speaker 8 (02:21:06):
How do you do?

Speaker 14 (02:21:07):
Oh?

Speaker 41 (02:21:07):
Come in, Come in, Reverend Peers.

Speaker 11 (02:21:10):
Father, and I've been so worried.

Speaker 41 (02:21:11):
We expected you all afternoon.

Speaker 14 (02:21:13):
I had two flat tires.

Speaker 19 (02:21:14):
What a shame.

Speaker 41 (02:21:15):
Well, father's waiting up for you in his study. Father
Charlie Owen brought Reverend Peers.

Speaker 14 (02:21:21):
Reverend Peers, will come in, Come in.

Speaker 15 (02:21:24):
You and mister Owen waite outside for a few minutes.
Lucy sit over here, Reverend Peers.

Speaker 8 (02:21:29):
Thank you.

Speaker 40 (02:21:30):
So.

Speaker 15 (02:21:30):
I can't tell you how relieved I am to see you.
I really couldn't bring myself to sleep tonight without first
talking to you. You see the situation serious, serious, Why
Reverend my health.

Speaker 8 (02:21:43):
I'm a sick man.

Speaker 15 (02:21:44):
I've had one stroke, as I wrote you, I know
well I could have another one at any time. The
doctor says, a worse one, and I feel it essential
that the work of the parish should be in firm hands.
This parish needs a young man Ryan.

Speaker 14 (02:21:58):
I hope to be of service.

Speaker 5 (02:21:59):
I've heard only good of you, Reverend Peers.

Speaker 15 (02:22:01):
Thank you, and you know you're even younger than you
look in the picture you sent darker too.

Speaker 8 (02:22:07):
You're you're here.

Speaker 14 (02:22:08):
I'm afraid it it wasn't a very good like I
had the picture here somewhere on my desk with your letters.
What did you want to talk to me about? The
Reverend McKillop all all.

Speaker 8 (02:22:17):
The work of the parish.

Speaker 5 (02:22:18):
Oh, yes, here's the photograph.

Speaker 8 (02:22:20):
It said.

Speaker 14 (02:22:22):
Something around McKillop. It's not why not? What this isn't
your picture?

Speaker 8 (02:22:26):
Who are you?

Speaker 14 (02:22:27):
I don't think that should interest you something?

Speaker 47 (02:22:30):
What did you do?

Speaker 48 (02:22:31):
What do you think I.

Speaker 8 (02:22:33):
Did you ever?

Speaker 14 (02:22:35):
Come on?

Speaker 43 (02:22:36):
Come on, yes, yes, don't you hear me? Come on,
don't you play with me? You you sanktimonious fool? You
come on, speak up, speak up?

Speaker 14 (02:22:46):
What's the matter with you? Oh, don't tell me you
had another stroke?

Speaker 8 (02:22:49):
Huh? That's all right?

Speaker 14 (02:22:51):
Yeah, you can't speak?

Speaker 8 (02:22:53):
Is that well?

Speaker 14 (02:22:54):
I'll find out.

Speaker 43 (02:22:55):
In any case, I'll take that picture ever a McKillop.
And now if you don't without, Yes, Lucy, something has
happened to your father. We were talking and yes, sorry,
I'm afraid it's another stroke. You can't speak and apparently
you can't move.

Speaker 49 (02:23:12):
Huh.

Speaker 12 (02:23:16):
What can we do?

Speaker 5 (02:23:17):
Lucy?

Speaker 14 (02:23:18):
We will have to wait for the doctor and and
maybe even ben.

Speaker 41 (02:23:21):
I know doctor said to be paralyzed for months and years.

Speaker 48 (02:23:25):
He mustn't die.

Speaker 43 (02:23:28):
If we have faith the Lord will spare him. And
until the Good Lord returns his health, I'll try to
ship at his flock. Yes, and since that first time
wherever I'm McKillop, you have never opened your mouth again.

(02:23:50):
Oh you can stay, Yes, stare as hard as you want.
That doesn't bother me because you stay. I cannot kill.
But but ah, as you know, I can, and I
will Reverend mckilloth.

Speaker 42 (02:24:27):
In a few moments, mister Peter Laurie will bring us
the climax of tonight's mystery in the air when Camel's
present Act two of Beyond Good and.

Speaker 33 (02:24:38):
Ask a sports champion any field what helped him most
towards success, and he'll probably say experience. Yes, experience is
the best teacher. Take Bronk writing champ Jerry Ambler, his
most recently one sports crown is the Saddle Bronc Championship
of the World. Experience, why, say, Jerry's been writing Bronx
for eighteen years. Yes, as he recently said, experience is

(02:25:02):
the best teacher in Bronk riding and in smoking too.

Speaker 14 (02:25:05):
A cigarette for me is.

Speaker 33 (02:25:07):
Camel, and there Jerry's, like thousands and thousands of other
cigarette smokers, is most just about all the different brands.
During the wartime cigarette shortage, well, experience like that was
bound to make people experts in judging the differences in
cigarette quality, And on the basis of that experience, thousands
and thousands of people decided they liked Camel's best. Yes,

(02:25:30):
they learned that for rich, full flavor and cool mildness,
the cigarette for them is camel.

Speaker 50 (02:25:37):
As a result, more people are smoking camels.

Speaker 51 (02:25:40):
Than ever before.

Speaker 33 (02:25:42):
Experience is the best teacher.

Speaker 14 (02:25:46):
Try a camel yourself.

Speaker 42 (02:25:55):
Reverend McKillop, aging paralyzed, unable to speak, listens helplessly as
Philip Gentry, criminal and murderer, explains why he killed Reverend
Pierce and assumed Pierce's clothes and identity, and describes his
first sermon.

Speaker 43 (02:26:13):
And so in conclusion, dear friends, remember the agony of
our lord was shared by two thieves, and they were
crucified beside him, that he might be numbered among the transgresses.

Speaker 14 (02:26:25):
And remember his words to one.

Speaker 43 (02:26:28):
Verily, I say, unto thee today, shalt thou be with
me in paradise. Now we will sing him four hundred
and twenty six, just as I am without one to thee. Yes,

(02:26:58):
that was my first sermon, Reverend kill Oh I saw
your eyes when Lucy told you how how deeply moved
the congregation was. Oh, you couldn't understand. You just couldn't
how such a thing could be done without faith. Oh,
but I have been a lawyer, and I have done
a lot without faith. Yes, I've been the ideal past

(02:27:18):
and you were looking for it. Oh, I wish you
could ask young Hubbard. You don't know what he called them?

Speaker 34 (02:27:23):
Me?

Speaker 14 (02:27:23):
Huh, yes, I mister first there was Reverend.

Speaker 48 (02:27:30):
I thought i'd pay you a call by names Hubbard.

Speaker 43 (02:27:33):
Oh, yes, I know, I know you're in a choir.
Come on, come in, mister Horbard. Make yourself comfortable.

Speaker 8 (02:27:37):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 14 (02:27:38):
What's your business, mister Hobbard. I work at the bank.

Speaker 43 (02:27:40):
I'm chief teller, chief teller. I don a very responsible
job for you. It's a young man like.

Speaker 48 (02:27:45):
You, I suppose it is, But I don't have much
more responsibility than the other tellers except at the end
of the.

Speaker 14 (02:27:49):
Month, and it's the strain end of the month. Well, sure,
that's what I have to Yes.

Speaker 48 (02:27:57):
You know, I've never told anyone about this age, and
so even with you life it's confidentious. No, no, naturally,
not so far as you're concerned, Reverend Peers. You see,
the thirtieth of the month, we move all our deposits
to the Federal Reserve Bank. Yes, two hundred thousand dollars
more so you can see how I wouldn't want some
people to know that.

Speaker 14 (02:28:14):
You mean you have to take the deposits alone.

Speaker 5 (02:28:16):
Oh no, no, gosh, no, that'd be even worse than
it is.

Speaker 14 (02:28:19):
No, there's an armored truck that.

Speaker 5 (02:28:20):
Comes to take the money.

Speaker 14 (02:28:21):
Surely the bank takes adequate precautions.

Speaker 48 (02:28:24):
Well, you have a gun and there's an alarm system.
But well, the thing is, I'm all alone. Sometimes when
I'm sitting there at my desk, I think how easy
it would be quiet. Well, all somebody would have to
do is shoot me through the glass door.

Speaker 5 (02:28:39):
Even if the alarm rang, it would be ten minutes before.

Speaker 14 (02:28:41):
The police got there. Oh, mister Hobart, after all, it's
a very quiet community.

Speaker 27 (02:28:45):
You know.

Speaker 5 (02:28:45):
Well, he's with the directors of the bank.

Speaker 43 (02:28:48):
Figure only possible danger. I can see who it'd be
from too many people knowing what you've told me, I
mean wrong people.

Speaker 14 (02:28:54):
And you say you don't talk. Oh no, no, Reverend Peers,
I've never told a soul except you see. That's faith, mckillopy.

Speaker 52 (02:29:10):
I see.

Speaker 43 (02:29:11):
I did a lot without faith, but not without faith
in my own shining destiny. Imagine, out of all this
community is thirty five thousand people.

Speaker 14 (02:29:20):
How but picked me me to share his secret. He
even told me the truck.

Speaker 43 (02:29:25):
Didn't come for the money until nine thirty at night.
As soon as Hobbard had gone. I wrote a letter
to Mac. You remember I told Mac to wait for
me in Chicago, And in that letter I explained the setup,
and I asked him to be at the bank at
nine p m.

Speaker 14 (02:29:40):
On the thirtieth.

Speaker 43 (02:29:44):
Well, and in the meantime I continued to play my
saintly part on. It was easy, warmed by adulation, warmed
by love. Yes, love, because even you could see what
was happening to your daughter, your own very beautiful daughter, Lucy. Yes,
she fell in love with me. And believe me, Lucy

(02:30:09):
was a great help to me, blinded by what she
called love. If I made a slip, she was there
to help me cover up. And what did I feel?

Speaker 37 (02:30:18):
Love?

Speaker 14 (02:30:19):
Well, Lucy, As long as the word love served me,
I used it.

Speaker 43 (02:30:22):
But last week on Wednesday, when I came in the
evening to read to you, I suddenly realized that it
could also be a source of great danger.

Speaker 41 (02:30:29):
Oh, Harward, Horward, You're all I've waited for all day.

Speaker 14 (02:30:38):
We look at you, Lucy, say, you look so happy.

Speaker 41 (02:30:41):
I would have the most wonderful news.

Speaker 14 (02:30:43):
Yes, how can I guess? Well, I've never.

Speaker 41 (02:30:46):
Breaved the word to father about us, you and me.
You know because you asked me not to, not until
he can talk to her. I'm bless, No, not.

Speaker 14 (02:30:54):
Yet, I haven't.

Speaker 41 (02:30:55):
But the doctor was here today and he told my
father we'll speak again soon any day.

Speaker 14 (02:31:00):
Now.

Speaker 41 (02:31:02):
Doctor doesn't know why he hasn't already. Isn't that wonderful?

Speaker 8 (02:31:06):
Yes? And yes it is.

Speaker 11 (02:31:09):
What's the matter?

Speaker 14 (02:31:10):
Nothing is the matter?

Speaker 41 (02:31:12):
Well there is, I can see.

Speaker 43 (02:31:13):
Well, look, Lucier, and I was going to tell you
before you see, I can't marry you, not ever you can.
Please don't ask me why, because you don't love me.
Believe me, Lucy, you just have to go on and
live your life as if you'd.

Speaker 41 (02:31:30):
Never met me, if I'd never met you. You know
what that means.

Speaker 14 (02:31:34):
Whatever it means.

Speaker 41 (02:31:35):
Means I'll marry Tom Hubbard and you'll form the service.
You'll be the one to make me missus Tom Hubbit.

Speaker 14 (02:31:41):
Who did you say, Tom Hubbard?

Speaker 41 (02:31:43):
I'll be a banker's wife.

Speaker 14 (02:31:47):
Never knew his name before.

Speaker 43 (02:31:48):
Well, no matter what you think, Lucia, I'm sure you'll
be happy. I have to go in and see your
father now, Lucian, try to be brave, good evening. Reverend mckiller,
Oh you poor voiceless brainless, harmless, old Reverend mckillopie. I

(02:32:10):
hear you may be able to talk again. Yes, I
hear somebody you're going to speak. Well, I have only
one week to wait, that's all one week, and you
are a danger. Therefore I are to kill you, Reverend.
I ought to kill you now.

Speaker 14 (02:32:31):
Oh don't ask me why I didn't kill your, Reverend mckillopie.
I suppose it will always be distasteful to me. It's
it's a.

Speaker 43 (02:32:37):
Job for cruder minds. And then if it happens that
my need have it's turning a.

Speaker 14 (02:32:42):
Good deed now, and then that doesn't make me a
voice kyl, does it?

Speaker 43 (02:32:46):
I might not like to think of Lucy only only
two days marriage? Are soon to be a widow? So soon?

Speaker 14 (02:32:52):
In half an hour?

Speaker 43 (02:32:53):
Yes, because in half an hour mag is going to
shoot Tom of it, as he said at his desk.

Speaker 14 (02:33:01):
And in half an hour I'll have two hundred thousand
dollars and I'll be free.

Speaker 8 (02:33:06):
You'll hear.

Speaker 43 (02:33:16):
Well, Reverend, Now that you know the real Philip Gentry,
do you understand you?

Speaker 38 (02:33:21):
You?

Speaker 8 (02:33:22):
No? I doubt it.

Speaker 43 (02:33:23):
I doubt if you, with your good book and your
years of tending the good sheep and a rich green
patches here.

Speaker 14 (02:33:31):
Could ever understand one tenth of what a man like
me feels. Doesn't matter. I don't need your understanding. I
don't Good night, reverend and sleep well. Who is there

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to me?

Speaker 48 (02:33:57):
A reverend Piers Town Oh, let me in, Reverend Pier
a minute. I wanted to make sure you see. This
is the knife in the truck.

Speaker 8 (02:34:08):
Come.

Speaker 14 (02:34:08):
Yes, I remember. That's how I knew where to find you. Oh, well,
did you want something? Yes, Lucy's feeling sick. I came
to sing you home, Lucy, but I can't. I have
to stay. I can stay for you. Gee, I don't
know I'm supposed to stand all the truck. She's calling
for you, Tom, she's really sick. Yes, well, all right,

(02:34:29):
I guess with you here, it'll be all right. Just
tell me what to do.

Speaker 5 (02:34:33):
Well.

Speaker 48 (02:34:33):
Oh, that's the money right there already in those sacks. Yes,
I said here, yeah, all.

Speaker 14 (02:34:38):
Right, at this desk. Gee, I don't know what the
directors want.

Speaker 43 (02:34:44):
Run along time, they'll never know. Even if someone walks
back from the outside, they'll never know if it's if
it's you and me sitting here.

Speaker 14 (02:35:04):
That's gunning right to the head.

Speaker 53 (02:35:08):
Mhm, you're gonna have the money ready, mag who's there?

Speaker 14 (02:35:17):
Come here, man, Gentry, Yes, it's me. What man?

Speaker 5 (02:35:22):
Something screwy?

Speaker 8 (02:35:24):
You're sitting your letter.

Speaker 14 (02:35:25):
Then I didn't have a chance to tell you plans
for change the gentry on this Gentry, I didn't mean
to show. Okay, better go away.

Speaker 53 (02:35:37):
I'm dying, man, I ain't gonna leave your head. Gentry,
what do you think you are going to leave me?
They won't get me, Maga, I'm dying. You're going now,
only he won't be able to take the money. That
the plan is all change.

Speaker 8 (02:35:55):
Okay, that doesn't matter that the money.

Speaker 14 (02:35:57):
Remember me, now comest into that king.

Speaker 5 (02:36:04):
What are you talking about, Gentry?

Speaker 43 (02:36:06):
It's from the Bible, man, you will not It's from
a Bible. Yes, said by thief.

Speaker 15 (02:36:29):
This dear friend was the man Philip Gentry, or Reverend Pierce,
or whatever other name he may choose in eternity, the
man whom we buried today. That night, when he stood
above my bed, pouring defiance and bitterness into my ears,
thinking I was paralyzed, I could both speak and write.

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My paralysis had been gone for many days. But I
did not speak because I knew what Philip Gentry would
do what he had to do.

Speaker 8 (02:37:01):
I knew what he denied.

Speaker 15 (02:37:03):
That to accomplish work as he had in God's vineyard,
a man must have faith, even though he deny that faith.
That is why, in spite of all he protected my
daughter's happiness. That is why he could not kill me.
For the work he did here had molded him, in
spite of himself, into a man who is truly a

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servant of God. To such a man, our Lord would say, verily,
I say unto you today, shalt thou be with me
in Paradise.

Speaker 33 (02:37:55):
Eight week A makers of camels figure at San Fray
Camel's the serviceman's hospitals from coast to coat. This week,
the camel's go to the Veterans Hospital, Wood, Wisconsin, USAAF
Station Hospital, Langleyfield, Hampton, Virginia, US Naval Hospital Memphis, Tennessee,
US Marine Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, and Veterans Hospital aspon Wall, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 54 (02:38:13):
More people are smoking camels than ever before, and many
of those people are doctors. When three leading independent research
organizations asked one hundred thirteen thousand, five hundred and ninety
seven doctors, what cigarette do you smoked?

Speaker 8 (02:38:26):
Doctor?

Speaker 14 (02:38:27):
The brand name most was Camel.

Speaker 50 (02:38:29):
According to a nationwide survey, more doctors smoke camels than
any other cigarette.

Speaker 42 (02:38:41):
Next week, Mystery in the Air starring mister Peter Laurie,
brings you the Mask of Medusa by Nelson Bond, with
a special musical score composed and conducted by Paul Barron.

Speaker 50 (02:39:04):
Why do you smoke a pipe for pleasure? Of course,
then get the tobacco especially made for smoking pleasure, Prince Albert.
Ask for mellow mild Prince Albert. The next time you
buy tobacco for your pipe, and the extra pleasure you'll
enjoy will tell you why more pipe smoke pa than
any other tobacco. Prince Albert's choice tobacco is specially treated

(02:39:24):
to ensure against tongue bite, crim cut to burn, slow,
smoke cool. Ask for Prince Albert. See if Prince Albert
doesn't give you more pipe enjoyment. Listen in on Prince
Albert's Grand Old Opry Saturday Night for half hour of
folk music, and last with Red Folding his Cumberland Valley Boys,
Minnie Pearl, a Gossip from Grinder, switch Rod Brassfield and

(02:39:45):
the rest of the opera gang and as Red special guests.
You'll hear Cowboy Copis and Barefoot Brownie. Remember Prince Albert's
Grand Ole Opry Saturday Night over NBC.

Speaker 33 (02:40:02):
Listen again next week at the same time when the
makers of Camo Cigarettes present mister Peter Laurie in Mystery
in the Air. The artist supporting mister Laurie Tonight for
Henry Morgan is the voice of Mystery, Peggy Webbers, Lucy
John Brown as Reverend McKillop, Howard Culver as mac Jack,
Edwards Junior as Hubbard, and Russell Thorson is Reverend Pierce.
This is Michael Roy in Hollywood, wishing you a pleasant
good night for Camos.

Speaker 30 (02:40:25):
This is ending the national broadcasting covering and now the
Moley Mystery presented by m O. L. L. E.

Speaker 55 (02:40:38):
Moley the heavier brushless shaving cream for tough whiskers or
a tender.

Speaker 14 (02:40:43):
Skin good evening.

Speaker 1 (02:41:04):
This is Jeffrey Barnes welcoming you to the Mowley Mystery Theater,
a program that presents the best in mystery and detective fiction.
Our stars tonight are Julie Hayden, well known stage actress
remembered for her brilliant performance in the play The Glass
Menagerie and Everett's slow stage screen and radio actors soon

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to be featured in the Orson Welles picture Lady from Shanghai.
They will play the roles of Alice and Elbert Winston
in tonight's exciting mystery by Robert Mitchell and Jeane Levitt
entitled The Betrayer.

Speaker 55 (02:41:41):
Well, mister Barnes, I know quite a few men who
commit a crime by doing nothing. I mean men who
mistreat their faces shaving and do nothing about it. To
those men, I say, use Mowley the heavier Brushley shaving cream. Yes, sir,
it's smooth, so smooth, so slick. It's a small, smooth,

(02:42:03):
slick slake shave you get with m O l ali
Bley the heavier brushy shaving cream for tough whiskers or
a tender skin. Enjoy a Molly shave tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (02:42:16):
And now this is Jeffrey Barnes, and that one of
Tonight's Moley Mystery, The Betrayer Starrying.

Speaker 44 (02:42:22):
Julie Hayden and Everett Sloane.

Speaker 1 (02:42:41):
Come in, Ah, it's you, inspector. I want to know
all this about the scott woman being murdered.

Speaker 8 (02:42:48):
That's what I want to talk to you about Chief.
I thought it was suicide, not chief murder.

Speaker 1 (02:42:54):
Look, I want you to listen to these dicaphone records.

Speaker 41 (02:42:56):
Here.

Speaker 8 (02:42:56):
I'll plan them back on your machine, something to.

Speaker 40 (02:42:59):
Do with the case.

Speaker 8 (02:43:03):
To whom it may concern.

Speaker 34 (02:43:06):
In less than thirty minutes, I am going to betray
Albert Winston. Yes, within a half an hour, I am
going to mail these records to the police, and thus
virtually end the life of a man I once admired,
a man I have since grown to hate. And since
only I know all the facts in this case, I
have appointed myself both judge and jury. Moreover, the consequences

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of this betrayal will not matter to anyone, except, of course,
Albert Winston. At this moment, countless avenues of escape are
still open to Winston, and were it not for these records,
his disappearance would be simple.

Speaker 8 (02:43:46):
Simple.

Speaker 34 (02:43:47):
The whole matter started two years ago when Winston lost
his fortunes speculating an oil. He was desperate then he
had to have money to survive, so, although forty and
flat broke, he sailed Toland, where he systematically set about
to marry Alice Sexton, the kiddy daughter of a wealthy
textbool man.

Speaker 36 (02:44:17):
Albert, I'm so happy, so very happy. It was a
lovely ceremony, wasn't it?

Speaker 44 (02:44:21):
Yes?

Speaker 56 (02:44:22):
It was.

Speaker 57 (02:44:22):
Why just a few friends and father and discipline. That's
the way your wedding should be, don't.

Speaker 5 (02:44:26):
You think so, Alpy, Yes, I agree thoroughly, my dear.

Speaker 34 (02:44:29):
Hello, there you do am I welcome, good father. I
must say I'm very happy for both of you. I'm proud, Albert,
proud to have you as my son.

Speaker 1 (02:44:37):
Oh, thank you, sir.

Speaker 36 (02:44:38):
Father. Wasn't a lovely ceremony? Just you and Dishuplannel are
very good friends. That's the way I'm married should be.

Speaker 34 (02:44:43):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, quite right, my dear. Now
run along a moment, William, I wanted to talk to Albert.
I shan't keep him from me a long time.

Speaker 57 (02:44:50):
Well all right, father, of it only for a moment, now,
you see, my boy.

Speaker 34 (02:44:56):
I love my daughter very dearly, but I'm afraid he
has almost no concept of money matters. So read this
over and let me know if you can get satisfactory.
Yeah what, but sir, ownership of the Sexton Mill. That's right,
you and Alice joint ownership forty percent of the yearly

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profit it's quite the sun, my boy, sir, I don't
know how to thank you, what to say, and I'll.

Speaker 5 (02:45:23):
Say anything done.

Speaker 34 (02:45:25):
By the way, I suppose we'll be leaving tonight on
the honeymoon. Well, as a matter of fact, we're not
leaving until the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow's the fourth of July.

Speaker 52 (02:45:33):
You know.

Speaker 34 (02:45:34):
Oh, yes, quite a holiday to you Yankees. Yes, but
we Yankees would hardly delay a honeymoon over it. It's Alice.
She's decided the thing for us to do is celebrate
in the nightclub. She made all the arrangements. I think
it's a bit silly, but I wouldn't hurt her feelings
about it. It is my daughter does have silly notions

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at times.

Speaker 15 (02:45:57):
Well, but luck, my boy.

Speaker 58 (02:46:00):
Oh Albert is the fun, the music, the gay young
people and the two of us celebrating.

Speaker 36 (02:46:15):
Oh, darling, I'm so.

Speaker 57 (02:46:16):
Happy we had our picture taken here and now we
can always remember this.

Speaker 34 (02:46:19):
Here comes the photographer.

Speaker 18 (02:46:21):
Bank are your picture, sir, that's very beautiful, Ducer, you're
the missis and Anthon Pero writer, here's there.

Speaker 19 (02:46:28):
You've been married ten years in me Oh, I know
we are?

Speaker 8 (02:46:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 37 (02:46:34):
The change right?

Speaker 36 (02:46:35):
Oh, and thank yourself. Oh this is a good picture,
but you forgot to smile a little bit.

Speaker 40 (02:46:41):
I know.

Speaker 41 (02:46:41):
I had a splendid idea.

Speaker 36 (02:46:42):
Let's write something on it that.

Speaker 57 (02:46:43):
We will always remember, how we tells tonight.

Speaker 36 (02:46:46):
Here's you best, darling, Come on, I think.

Speaker 19 (02:46:48):
It'll be fun.

Speaker 14 (02:46:48):
Well, all right, let's see.

Speaker 8 (02:46:54):
Here you are when in the.

Speaker 19 (02:46:57):
Course of creolany bank. I don't understand, Albert.

Speaker 34 (02:47:01):
It's from the Declaration of Independence.

Speaker 36 (02:47:04):
Oh, oh, how clever. That was written on a fourth
of July by the rebels, wasn't.

Speaker 34 (02:47:09):
It by the colonists. Yes, now it's your turnel he
is not Let me see.

Speaker 36 (02:47:14):
Oh I've gotten Yes, this would do nice.

Speaker 8 (02:47:16):
Boo.

Speaker 41 (02:47:18):
There you are.

Speaker 5 (02:47:20):
I help Albert celebrate.

Speaker 34 (02:47:25):
H very clever of you, Alice, very clever.

Speaker 36 (02:47:27):
And Albert, you make me so happy, really, you do.
Little things mean so much to me. Oh, this has
been a glorious day. And just think, darling, tomorrow will
be on our Sunday.

Speaker 57 (02:47:47):
Oh, Albert, haven't these three days at the Indian wonderful?

Speaker 11 (02:47:51):
Well?

Speaker 34 (02:47:51):
Yes, if I've.

Speaker 57 (02:47:52):
Always told father, there's nothing like a week in the country,
don't you think, sir Albert? Well, good for your health,
don't you think sir Albert, Albert, don't you think so
sesha is good for your health?

Speaker 34 (02:48:02):
Yes, Alice, I think it's wonderful for your health. What
do you say we leave tonight and go back to London?

Speaker 31 (02:48:09):
Albert?

Speaker 36 (02:48:10):
We've only been here three days?

Speaker 34 (02:48:11):
Oh, somehow I got the idea has been much longer
than that.

Speaker 55 (02:48:15):
Really, no, did you, Albert?

Speaker 57 (02:48:16):
Isn't that strange because after all, we came on a Tuesday,
and it's on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday or three days,
aren't they?

Speaker 34 (02:48:22):
Albert and Alice?

Speaker 8 (02:48:23):
Please?

Speaker 34 (02:48:26):
I I think we should go down to dinner Alba.

Speaker 41 (02:48:29):
Oh yes, Albert, that's too.

Speaker 57 (02:48:31):
I think I'm going ahead that wonderful lobster again, don't
you like?

Speaker 2 (02:48:33):
Love?

Speaker 8 (02:48:34):
Help?

Speaker 14 (02:48:44):
Albert? Dear?

Speaker 57 (02:48:45):
Who's that lady over there, the one without re tota?

Speaker 36 (02:48:47):
I think she's a stranger, do you know?

Speaker 8 (02:48:49):
No?

Speaker 6 (02:48:50):
I don't.

Speaker 41 (02:48:50):
She seems to be coming.

Speaker 36 (02:48:51):
Over here, and I beg your pardon, But do you people.

Speaker 34 (02:48:55):
Happen to be returning to London tonight tonight?

Speaker 38 (02:48:57):
No?

Speaker 34 (02:48:58):
We I mean, yes, yes, that's an excellent idea to.

Speaker 36 (02:49:01):
Night, Albert. But Darling, we intended to stay a week.

Speaker 34 (02:49:05):
We're going back to London tonight.

Speaker 18 (02:49:06):
We then could you possibly give me a ride?

Speaker 34 (02:49:09):
I'd be so deeply obliged it will be a pleasure,
Miss missus Scott.

Speaker 11 (02:49:13):
Missus Ternscott.

Speaker 43 (02:49:15):
You see, I came out here early this morning looking
for mister Peter as a friend of my husband.

Speaker 36 (02:49:19):
But well I find he isn't here in London?

Speaker 18 (02:49:22):
Where is your husband?

Speaker 36 (02:49:23):
Why didn't he come.

Speaker 41 (02:49:23):
Out with you?

Speaker 11 (02:49:25):
My husband died two years ago.

Speaker 19 (02:49:27):
I thought that mister Peters could help me.

Speaker 12 (02:49:29):
You see, neither of us had any.

Speaker 36 (02:49:30):
Family, were dreadful?

Speaker 19 (02:49:32):
No inn turnil.

Speaker 12 (02:49:32):
Isn't that tragic?

Speaker 52 (02:49:33):
Over?

Speaker 36 (02:49:34):
But tell me what happened to mister.

Speaker 34 (02:49:35):
Scott, Alice. Doesn't it occur to you that you're prying
not finish your dinner?

Speaker 8 (02:49:41):
And let's be going.

Speaker 36 (02:49:48):
Say goodbye? He's that a double propriel.

Speaker 34 (02:49:51):
But I've already made our goodbyes. Now if you're ready,
let's leave, darling.

Speaker 57 (02:49:55):
But he's so sweet, and his name is mister Chan
Isn't that a peculiar name?

Speaker 16 (02:49:58):
Albert?

Speaker 36 (02:49:59):
No, that's for the get his name chin house.

Speaker 34 (02:50:01):
Oh quaint? Now will you and missus Scott get to
the car?

Speaker 18 (02:50:09):
Oh? Good God?

Speaker 19 (02:50:10):
Teams to go right to me?

Speaker 36 (02:50:11):
Oh you putty, he'll take my coat. I'm perfectly driving.
I seen, I'll be closer and I couldn't think Lauger
he's iron. Don't you think I'm right?

Speaker 14 (02:50:18):
Albert?

Speaker 36 (02:50:19):
Don't you think it's Scott?

Speaker 11 (02:50:19):
She would take my coat off of it?

Speaker 34 (02:50:21):
A brilliant idea, Alice. I'll give missus Scott your coat
and get into the car.

Speaker 36 (02:50:27):
Here you are, Missus Scott. Now you're gonna rock miss
and keep you warm while you might let don't you agree?

Speaker 8 (02:50:32):
Alid you?

Speaker 41 (02:50:33):
She might catch the long yell and I.

Speaker 57 (02:50:41):
I really don't think it's drive so fasty Albert.

Speaker 36 (02:50:44):
I mean you don't have to drive and all that.
But don't you think it's dangerous?

Speaker 1 (02:50:47):
Albert?

Speaker 36 (02:50:47):
I mean a b and a bog and slippery.

Speaker 34 (02:51:21):
Oh oh, oh, I see you've decided not to give
up the ghost after all.

Speaker 8 (02:51:29):
How do you feel?

Speaker 34 (02:51:30):
Oh? I, I'm not quite sure.

Speaker 8 (02:51:33):
We're in the hospital and lucky at that it was
uh well, it was quite a bad accident.

Speaker 5 (02:51:39):
Accident.

Speaker 34 (02:51:41):
Tell me, doctor, what happened to my wife?

Speaker 8 (02:51:44):
I wish now we'll talk about that later. No, tell
me now, doctor. She was killed, mister Winston killed. Here
the car cut fire. She was burned terribly.

Speaker 1 (02:51:54):
I Alice dead you and the other woman where Moraculousty
throne clear.

Speaker 14 (02:52:00):
Are a woman?

Speaker 8 (02:52:01):
What other woman? Don't you know her?

Speaker 34 (02:52:03):
Oh? Yes, the one we picked up at the yell
Uh missus Scott, yes, Jones Scott.

Speaker 8 (02:52:10):
How is she well?

Speaker 1 (02:52:11):
Not too good?

Speaker 8 (02:52:11):
I'm afraid physically it's just a matter of bruises. But mine, well, it.

Speaker 1 (02:52:16):
Was a serious shock, you know, yes, of course got
you'd better get some rest now, mister Winston, you were
you should be out of here in a day or two,
and please accept my condolences and the loss of your wife.

Speaker 5 (02:52:29):
I realized it must indeed be a hard blow to bear.

Speaker 39 (02:52:45):
Well.

Speaker 40 (02:52:45):
Well, well, good calling, mister Vinston.

Speaker 5 (02:52:47):
It looks as though you'll be leaving us today.

Speaker 34 (02:52:49):
Yes, I uh, I'm going to Manchester, you know, to
meet my father in law and tend.

Speaker 1 (02:52:54):
My wife's philal Yes for but before you go, i'd
like you to do me a little favor of favor.

Speaker 8 (02:53:00):
Yes, it's about missus Scott.

Speaker 59 (02:53:02):
You will see to this minute she doesn't.

Speaker 1 (02:53:04):
Remember one single thing beyond waking up here in this hospital.
Good heavens Now, I'd like you to come with me
and if you don't mind, and my plans to Winston.

Speaker 8 (02:53:14):
Is simply this. You are Missus Scott's last definitely with
the past.

Speaker 14 (02:53:19):
I see it.

Speaker 1 (02:53:20):
And if she should see you suddenly and hear your voice,
it's made jar loose.

Speaker 5 (02:53:24):
The barrier that is holding back a memory.

Speaker 8 (02:53:27):
Oh, here we are, this is our room. Now go
in alone and tell her who you are.

Speaker 5 (02:53:32):
I'll wait out here.

Speaker 9 (02:53:34):
Oh I don't do.

Speaker 34 (02:53:42):
No, it can't be.

Speaker 2 (02:53:46):
Alice.

Speaker 34 (02:53:48):
Alice doctor doctor, Yes, mister Winston. After the accident, my wife,
how did you identify her?

Speaker 1 (02:54:00):
Well, as you know, the body was quite badly burned,
but there was enough left of the coach she had on.
I see, mister Winston.

Speaker 40 (02:54:06):
Are you sure you all right?

Speaker 8 (02:54:07):
Perhaps you should return to your room.

Speaker 34 (02:54:08):
No, no, he was just seeing missus Scott. Yes, you see,
Missus Scott brought the whole accident back to me. I
I'm quite all right. Now, all right, let's try your
little experirn if very well, go on speak to it. Yes, hello,

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missus Scott. Do you remember me? I'm Albert Winston. How
do you do, mister Winston?

Speaker 5 (02:54:39):
I'm afraid it's no good.

Speaker 8 (02:54:42):
Her memory is a total blank. Yes, it seems to be,
doesn't it.

Speaker 1 (02:55:05):
Well, mystery lovers to ever run except her husband. Alice
Winston suddenly becomes Joon Scott. Verily, she has forgotten everything
about her past, including Albert Winston. The question now seems
to be how much does mister Winston intend to forget?

Speaker 5 (02:55:20):
In just a moment, we'll find out.

Speaker 1 (02:55:21):
But first, dan Seymour thinks he knows an experience no
old man could ever forget.

Speaker 34 (02:55:27):
And man, that's when you run your razor over your
face and it pulls, snags, cares, or scrape.

Speaker 55 (02:55:37):
Now, if that happens to you, chances are you have
tough whiskers or a tender skin. So shaved with Molay,
the heavier brushy shaving crane. Then you'll say it's small,
so smooth, it's slack, so slick.

Speaker 34 (02:55:54):
It's a small smooth swack slike.

Speaker 55 (02:55:55):
Shave you get with m O L L E.

Speaker 37 (02:55:59):
Molay.

Speaker 34 (02:56:00):
Yes, whitch creamy Molay is made to order for men.

Speaker 8 (02:56:03):
Who have tough whiskers or a tender skin.

Speaker 55 (02:56:06):
Because it is heavier, Molay not only softens your whiskers,
it sets them up right ready for your razor to
take them off easily and painlessly.

Speaker 34 (02:56:15):
So enjoy a Mollay shave tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (02:56:18):
This is Jeffrey Barnes again returning you to the mystery
theater and at two of the Betrayer stirring Julie Hayden
and Everett's son. So this Albert Winston permitted everyone to

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think his wife was dead and veried Inspector why Apparently
Chief he didn't care for the role of Alice's husband.

Speaker 5 (02:56:50):
No, well, you can hardly call that murder, Inspector. No,
you can't. But listen to the second record.

Speaker 34 (02:57:00):
It was the exact moment that Winston walked silently from
his wife's room, the secret intact that I didn't like
the man for. It was then that he gave the
first evidence of the absolute ends to which he would
go for money. He knew that if his wife remained
in England, eventually everyone.

Speaker 21 (02:57:15):
Would discover that she was not Missus Jones.

Speaker 34 (02:57:17):
Scott, so quickly clearing up his affairs, he left for
America and took the supposed Missus Scott with him, convincing
the hospital authorities that since he was responsible for the accident,
he should take care of her, implying also that he
wished to take her to a psychiatrist in New York City.
In America, Winston, using the money that continued to be
sent to him from the Sexton Mills in England set

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up a luxurious Park Avenue apartment, but, goaded by the knowledge.

Speaker 52 (02:57:43):
That his future rested on a precarious twist.

Speaker 34 (02:57:45):
Of his wife's mind, he spent endless hours testing her
in a hundred different ways.

Speaker 8 (02:57:59):
What you uh, please you.

Speaker 34 (02:58:02):
Know, Missus Scott?

Speaker 1 (02:58:03):
I had an odd experience today.

Speaker 34 (02:58:06):
I saw a clergyman on the streets, and for a
moment I was sitting.

Speaker 14 (02:58:10):
On you him.

Speaker 34 (02:58:10):
Really, who did you take him for an old friend?
A bishop Randall?

Speaker 57 (02:58:16):
How uh did he actually look like your friend when
you got up close to it?

Speaker 38 (02:58:20):
No?

Speaker 8 (02:58:22):
No, not at all.

Speaker 34 (02:58:32):
Would you mind handing me the paper, Missus Scott? It's
there on the table behind you, Alice, I.

Speaker 41 (02:58:40):
Beg your pardon.

Speaker 36 (02:58:40):
Did you say something, mister Winston?

Speaker 8 (02:58:42):
What?

Speaker 41 (02:58:43):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (02:58:44):
No?

Speaker 34 (02:58:44):
I I was just thinking aloud.

Speaker 8 (02:58:58):
No.

Speaker 34 (02:58:59):
Winston continued to test the woman he called jo and
Scott in every imaginable way, not once for the result positives.
She even seemed to be another person, quiet, thoughtful.

Speaker 52 (02:59:09):
A little shy, and gradually Albert began to think of.

Speaker 8 (02:59:12):
Her as Missus Scott.

Speaker 34 (02:59:14):
As the month strifted by, Winston almost forgot about the guilt,
which was his Chinhause and mister Sexton and the accident
became less and less real as Winston's life grew more luxurious,
more entertaining, but then came a series of.

Speaker 8 (02:59:28):
Disturbing And.

Speaker 11 (02:59:38):
This pie is certainly delicious, mister Winston.

Speaker 36 (02:59:40):
Are we there a one half to cook?

Speaker 56 (02:59:41):
Missus Briggsy?

Speaker 41 (02:59:43):
Do we have time for more coffee?

Speaker 40 (02:59:44):
Oh?

Speaker 34 (02:59:44):
I think so. I don't imagine the Carter's will be
here for another half hour at least. Oh, incidentally, they
managed to get tickets for that musical you wanted to see.

Speaker 57 (02:59:52):
Oh, Albert, that's wonderful, and want to be splendid, even
just the Carter than you, Alvin.

Speaker 41 (02:59:59):
Isn't that strange, mister winter Night.

Speaker 18 (03:00:02):
I never called you Albert before.

Speaker 19 (03:00:05):
I'm sorry it it just popped up.

Speaker 8 (03:00:07):
Yes, of course it did, Missus Scott.

Speaker 34 (03:00:11):
But don't let it bother you. Under the circumstances, it's
quite natural.

Speaker 41 (03:00:16):
Oh, I'm ready, mister Winston.

Speaker 8 (03:00:25):
Not the carter is here yet, mister Winston.

Speaker 1 (03:00:28):
The Carters what?

Speaker 37 (03:00:31):
Oh?

Speaker 34 (03:00:31):
Oh, I I'm I'm sorry the Carter's no. No, I'm
afraid they're a bit late.

Speaker 8 (03:00:35):
I'm afraid you're a bit tired.

Speaker 11 (03:00:37):
Perhaps you'd rather stay home this evening.

Speaker 36 (03:00:38):
I'm sure I could go.

Speaker 34 (03:00:39):
Alone the carters a take. No, no, no, I'll go
with you. Why I'm as anxious to see this show
as you are. Besides, you look too lovely tonight to
be without an escort. That's a new code, isn't it.

Speaker 19 (03:00:51):
Yes, I was afraid you aren't going to take notice.

Speaker 8 (03:00:53):
Do you like it?

Speaker 34 (03:00:54):
I think it's stunning, missus Scott.

Speaker 14 (03:00:56):
I'm glad you know it's very strange.

Speaker 8 (03:00:57):
I couldn't decide between this plaid and a lovely cart
written ntil I noticed the labels.

Speaker 5 (03:01:01):
And eat labels?

Speaker 34 (03:01:03):
Why what does this one say?

Speaker 3 (03:01:05):
This?

Speaker 41 (03:01:05):
Sexton Mills, Manchester, England?

Speaker 16 (03:01:08):
What did you say, Sexton Mills, Manchester?

Speaker 34 (03:01:11):
What about them? Why should that make a difference? Help me?

Speaker 8 (03:01:14):
Why, mister Winston?

Speaker 49 (03:01:15):
And I'm please your me?

Speaker 8 (03:01:17):
Never mind?

Speaker 34 (03:01:18):
Why did that label matter? What does it mean?

Speaker 8 (03:01:20):
Why? No?

Speaker 36 (03:01:21):
Please mister Winston? That god me the dog? The cards?

Speaker 34 (03:01:23):
Please cards? Oh yes, yes, of course I'll explain later
about this. I was only trying to help.

Speaker 19 (03:01:33):
You, help me.

Speaker 41 (03:01:34):
You you mean about my past? Is that what you're
trying to do? Trying to make me remember?

Speaker 34 (03:01:38):
Yes, yes, my dear that's it exactly. I I was
trying to make you remember, well, Missus Scott, did you
enjoy the performance good?

Speaker 11 (03:02:00):
Did you like it?

Speaker 34 (03:02:01):
Or I thought it was splendid? Of course I can't
go along with Carnor's rabbit praise. Matter of fact, I
find him something of a bore. That's why I preferred
not joining them afterwards.

Speaker 1 (03:02:10):
I hope you didn't my.

Speaker 57 (03:02:12):
Whole no, not know what would be the excitement of
the evening.

Speaker 34 (03:02:15):
I just assumed he headed for whom the rain? Who
does get bothering with Missus Scott? I mean, is there
anything in particular about it that you find annoying?

Speaker 47 (03:02:26):
You know, it's.

Speaker 41 (03:02:27):
Strange, hard to explain.

Speaker 14 (03:02:29):
Why is it strange, Missus Scott? You mean you won't then?

Speaker 36 (03:02:33):
And what's the wrong?

Speaker 34 (03:02:34):
Never mind my riding, Missus Scott, think him out my question,
think think.

Speaker 15 (03:02:44):
What are you talking about, Missus Scott.

Speaker 34 (03:02:48):
There is no bridge.

Speaker 1 (03:03:05):
This is Jeffrey Bounds again. In just a moment, we'll
bring you at three of the Betrayer. Now a word
from George Putnam. Here's something to keep in mind. That
Dandriff is hurting your attractiveness. Many methods are ineffective for
combating dandriff because they merely.

Speaker 40 (03:03:20):
Do what plain water does that is removed blue standreff.

Speaker 1 (03:03:23):
They don't destroy the germ called pity ross Pormo valley
that many outstanding authorities say is the cause of the
most common kind of dandriff. For real relief, this germ
must be destroyed. Now, a scientific product named double danderine
fights dandreff effectively because it kills this germ on contact.
Double danderine is so remarkably effective that even in many
stubborn cases, results have been amazing. And the reason for

(03:03:46):
double Danderine's astonishing effectiveness is a special ingredient, an active
antiseptic that's so wonderfully efficient many hospitals use it in
double danderene. We call it al zaan. So don't waste
time by trying to combat this dandriff with ineffective methods
that actually are no better than plain water. Use double
dandreene instead. If you're not satisfied, you'll get your money
back yet double danderine tomorrow.

Speaker 20 (03:04:21):
Come in.

Speaker 34 (03:04:23):
Well, how do you feel this morning, missus Scott.

Speaker 12 (03:04:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 41 (03:04:27):
I'm very uneasy, trouggle.

Speaker 34 (03:04:29):
I'm worried about you too. Last night in the car.
You seem to have had an hallucination. You were so terrified.
Spoke of a bridge.

Speaker 8 (03:04:35):
I know.

Speaker 41 (03:04:36):
I realized now it was something I dimly remember from
that past.

Speaker 34 (03:04:39):
Oh what's that in your hand, missus Scott, scratch pass
Let me see it. It's covered with scribbling.

Speaker 60 (03:04:47):
I've been so nervous this morning.

Speaker 36 (03:04:48):
I guess I just did it unconsciously.

Speaker 8 (03:04:50):
Yes, I guess we all these two words. Why did
you like them?

Speaker 34 (03:04:55):
Chin House, I don't quite move.

Speaker 57 (03:04:58):
They have to do with the bridge and not part
used to come to me and then escape me again.

Speaker 41 (03:05:03):
I know if I just concentrate, I'll remember.

Speaker 34 (03:05:06):
Yes, I guess you will remember, Missus Scott.

Speaker 8 (03:05:12):
I'm going to help you. Sit down here.

Speaker 34 (03:05:16):
Now, close your eyes and concentrate. Oh, keep your eyes closed.
I have something here on my desk I want to
show you. It might help you. Keep your eyes closed.
Keep concentrating.

Speaker 11 (03:05:29):
To whimsy, Jim House, it's coming back to me.

Speaker 34 (03:05:33):
I think I was there with a man the honeyon yourself.
Open your eyes, missus Scott, gone kill the honey.

Speaker 12 (03:05:41):
Oh, why I do remember?

Speaker 37 (03:05:43):
I do?

Speaker 8 (03:05:44):
Or Albert, Albert? I remember?

Speaker 57 (03:05:45):
The wedding wasn't a lovely ceremony, just you and discipline
on our very good friends.

Speaker 36 (03:05:50):
That's the way of marriage should be, don't you think so, Albert.

Speaker 1 (03:05:54):
Albur Yes, Inspector, I suppose you're right it was suicide,

(03:06:16):
mister Winston. I'm pretty well verified all you've told.

Speaker 8 (03:06:19):
Me with your friends and servants.

Speaker 1 (03:06:20):
She was a metal case. Often desponded, they tell me.
I think the carner's jury will bring in that verdict. Oh,
by the way, mister Winston, do you have a permit
for that gun?

Speaker 34 (03:06:31):
Yes, of course, inspector. It's right here in the desk
door here.

Speaker 31 (03:06:35):
M And what's that what the picture in the drawer there?

Speaker 34 (03:06:41):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (03:06:42):
Well, that's missus Scott and I.

Speaker 34 (03:06:43):
It was taken in a London nightclub shortly after the
auto accident. I took Missus Scott out a few times
too well, to try.

Speaker 15 (03:06:51):
To help her recover, you know, m you know, look
very happy there.

Speaker 8 (03:06:56):
I had just buried my wife's inspector. I'm sorry me.

Speaker 1 (03:07:01):
By the way, that's a that's an odd inscription when
in the course of human events.

Speaker 34 (03:07:07):
Oh, the Declaration of Independence.

Speaker 1 (03:07:10):
I think every schoolboy knows that, mister Winston. I mean,
what's the point of it?

Speaker 15 (03:07:15):
On this picture.

Speaker 34 (03:07:16):
Well, it happened to be the fourth of July.

Speaker 1 (03:07:18):
Missus Scott was helping you celebrate. Well, yes, thank you,
mister Winston.

Speaker 8 (03:07:23):
I guess that's all.

Speaker 40 (03:07:25):
Good night.

Speaker 34 (03:07:34):
For a moment after the inspector left, Winston stood staring
at the closed door and smiling to himself. Then turning,
he started to put away the picture of himself and Alice,
and suddenly he started violently and the picture flooded from
his hand. He had told the inspector he had been
with Missus Scott on July the fourth. He realized the

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mildest kind of police investigation would bring out the fact
that he didn't even meet Missus got until July and ninth.
The police would check with England.

Speaker 8 (03:08:05):
His whole lifetime conspiracy would be exposed. He was trapped hopelessly.

Speaker 34 (03:08:11):
That's why it is now time to send these dictaphone
records to the police and betray Albert Winston before the
inspector returns to arrest him.

Speaker 52 (03:08:22):
For now, his desparation is ultimate and endless.

Speaker 34 (03:08:25):
Now the only thing left for him is a complete concession.
Very coolly yours, Albert Winston.

Speaker 60 (03:08:40):
William Dargan stars as Barry Craig Confidential Investigators.

Speaker 61 (03:09:01):
The trouble with leading a life of crime is that
you could never rest on your laurels. What you usually
wind up resting on is a prison cut.

Speaker 62 (03:09:17):
The National Broadcasting Company presents William Garden in another transcribed
drama of mystery and adventure with America's number one detective
Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator.

Speaker 5 (03:09:44):
Barry Craig speaking.

Speaker 61 (03:09:46):
Have you ever tried reading Confidential Investigator backwards? It can
be done if it's on a glass door you're sitting behind,
But it doesn't get you anywhere. Me it left sitting
in my office on Madison Avenue around closing time, with
nothing to do but wait till I got hungry enough
for dinner. Anyway, That's what I thought, come in until

(03:10:09):
they and it arrived.

Speaker 59 (03:10:11):
Take it easy, fellas, take it really easy.

Speaker 14 (03:10:16):
Easy, sit fellas.

Speaker 63 (03:10:20):
I'll wait downstairs till I get the sky signature. There
we are, lokister, right on the line.

Speaker 5 (03:10:26):
Well, wait a minute, what is it? What's what? That
thing you just dumped in here looks like a tree
in brown wrapping paper.

Speaker 59 (03:10:33):
Maybe it's a tree. Maybe it's a hitching post, hollow.

Speaker 5 (03:10:35):
I know it's not a tree. There's no branches, but
a hitching post.

Speaker 59 (03:10:40):
A hitching post is something you hitch horses.

Speaker 8 (03:10:42):
Tough.

Speaker 5 (03:10:42):
I don't hitch horses anything. I haven't got horses.

Speaker 61 (03:10:45):
So now you got a hitching post, maybe you'll get some.
There's a clause in my lease says I can't keep
horses in this office.

Speaker 9 (03:10:51):
Move.

Speaker 5 (03:10:52):
There's another clause which says, oh, forget it.

Speaker 59 (03:10:56):
Will you please sign this here?

Speaker 61 (03:10:58):
Get the wrappings off that thing first? Okay, hey, don't
look now, but were you wrong? This here came addressed
to Barry Craig.

Speaker 5 (03:11:12):
That's you, that's me. But that's not a hitching post.

Speaker 9 (03:11:16):
Who cares?

Speaker 59 (03:11:16):
It happens to be a mummy? Lay off the baby talk.

Speaker 14 (03:11:20):
Mummy as in embalmed.

Speaker 59 (03:11:22):
Okay, okay, so now you won't have to buy a horse.

Speaker 14 (03:11:24):
I wasn't planning out. You won't even have to move.
But what could I use a mummy for a half rack?

Speaker 8 (03:11:32):
No knob?

Speaker 59 (03:11:33):
So give it away for Christmas?

Speaker 8 (03:11:34):
Mister?

Speaker 59 (03:11:34):
Would you police sign?

Speaker 5 (03:11:36):
Who said it to me?

Speaker 31 (03:11:37):
Mister?

Speaker 8 (03:11:38):
I'm just a trucker.

Speaker 59 (03:11:38):
Nobody tells me the little secrets you don't want to sign?

Speaker 14 (03:11:42):
How hard is at the forger?

Speaker 8 (03:11:43):
And next? Goodbye?

Speaker 5 (03:11:44):
Hey, come back here. He didn't come back.

Speaker 61 (03:11:54):
By the time I got to the door, he was gone.
I wandered back into the office and stared at the
mummy For all I can tell. The mummy was maybe
staring back at me. I don't think either. It's got
much pleasure on it. That was when the girl walked in.
Staring at her was much more fun.

Speaker 14 (03:12:12):
Hello.

Speaker 41 (03:12:13):
Hello, you are Barry Craig.

Speaker 11 (03:12:15):
I am I am the princess Nepartiti.

Speaker 5 (03:12:18):
How do you do?

Speaker 11 (03:12:19):
I am coming for my sister.

Speaker 5 (03:12:21):
I don't think she are there, princess that happens to
be a mummy.

Speaker 41 (03:12:27):
She are mine sister.

Speaker 14 (03:12:29):
But isn't she a bit.

Speaker 5 (03:12:30):
Older than you are?

Speaker 14 (03:12:31):
Say five thousand years older?

Speaker 19 (03:12:33):
It's nothing.

Speaker 5 (03:12:34):
It's a long time between tree.

Speaker 11 (03:12:36):
And five thousand years old.

Speaker 14 (03:12:37):
Well, I don't believe it.

Speaker 38 (03:12:39):
You like a proof it?

Speaker 14 (03:12:41):
Sure, I'm telling you something.

Speaker 41 (03:12:42):
What happens a long time ago?

Speaker 15 (03:12:44):
To proof it?

Speaker 34 (03:12:44):
What you like to hear?

Speaker 5 (03:12:46):
Well? Is it true what they say about Anthony and Cleopotter?

Speaker 19 (03:12:50):
It's true?

Speaker 5 (03:12:52):
Sit down, okay, I are sitting too, and me.

Speaker 11 (03:12:57):
You are marc Antony, I are Cleopatra.

Speaker 14 (03:13:00):
He's over there, denial. It's beautiful music.

Speaker 11 (03:13:04):
Saying it's very nice weather.

Speaker 5 (03:13:07):
I'm glad the weather's nice.

Speaker 19 (03:13:09):
Cleopatra, she makes these with the leaves.

Speaker 5 (03:13:16):
Nice morma. I meant the weather. Look, Clelio Potra.

Speaker 14 (03:13:21):
Somebody j's jumping. It's only the beginning and next in
starm to be something.

Speaker 61 (03:13:26):
Jake, h this is the princess Nephertiti. She came to
get her sister. She was just showing me how things
were between Cleopatra and Mark Antony.

Speaker 14 (03:13:38):
Yep, I do not like him.

Speaker 5 (03:13:41):
This is Jake, the night elevated.

Speaker 41 (03:13:43):
Man on denial. There are not being elevator man, Psychona.

Speaker 8 (03:13:47):
But princess, you are losing up the history.

Speaker 5 (03:13:52):
Say what you did, Jake? Loust up the history? You know, Harry, Yeah,
I didn't I take the elevator down.

Speaker 14 (03:14:00):
I won't. Oh, but Jake, I owe you at dinner.

Speaker 61 (03:14:04):
Yep, come on, I'll buy you one after I find
out where an Egyptian princess five thousand years old goes
when she goes home.

Speaker 14 (03:14:18):
She wasn't, of.

Speaker 61 (03:14:18):
Course, a princess Egyptian or otherwise, and she was a
lot less than five thousand years old.

Speaker 5 (03:14:24):
I didn't have to produce that. She'd sat on my lap. Remember,
but I wanted to know why she put on the
act and where the mummy came in.

Speaker 14 (03:14:35):
Us They had cars in old Egypt.

Speaker 61 (03:14:37):
Then, yeah, looks that way she drives. Well, how's her cooking?
I didn't notice, Jake, behave yourself. Remember she's old enough
to be even your grandmother.

Speaker 8 (03:14:48):
What you think of that one?

Speaker 14 (03:14:50):
Ah, that's enough. She's stopping.

Speaker 8 (03:14:57):
Right in front of a big tomb.

Speaker 5 (03:14:59):
Yeah, inscription over the entrance.

Speaker 15 (03:15:02):
Yeah, Egyptological Museum. She's gone into the grounds, cutting around
the building. Uh, there's a cement path. I must be
an annex to the museum. Uh huh uh I had
a small house over there.

Speaker 61 (03:15:21):
Went inside you following them in? I don't think so,
not yet. Anyway, we'll try the museum first. The other fire, Jake,
the museum might be more interesting.

Speaker 8 (03:15:33):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (03:15:34):
Well all right, but uh, this door might do.

Speaker 15 (03:15:38):
It, as somebody was careless. Even doors something just as well.
Places filled with Egyptian relics and Egyptians. Mummy cases all around,

(03:16:00):
and let's try this one. Oh, mummy case and mummy inside.
Would you expect daddy?

Speaker 5 (03:16:13):
And another one? Uh, it's another case, another mummy.

Speaker 14 (03:16:20):
It's likely go on like that.

Speaker 5 (03:16:21):
Maybe I'm not so sure, though, and I let's take
a look at this.

Speaker 8 (03:16:27):
Yep, sag mummy's moving. Mister Gregg.

Speaker 5 (03:16:34):
Moved fell out and not a mummy?

Speaker 8 (03:16:38):
What is it?

Speaker 61 (03:16:40):
A man who was alive only a little while ago.
He'd still be alive if somebody hadn't buried a knife
in his chest. There was no knife around, proving pretty
definitely the man in the mummy case had been murdered.
Suicides rarely disposed of their weapons after death. He'd been

(03:17:04):
murdered and stuffed into a mummy case. Nice place to
hide a corpse if you like hiding corpses. He had
papers on him live, he'd been a wealthy man named Osgood,
I remember the name.

Speaker 5 (03:17:17):
He'd financed archaeologists all over the world.

Speaker 61 (03:17:20):
Dead, he was just a man to whom nothing mattered, Jake,
Unless I am wrong, This museum was one of Ozgood's endowments,
which makes it a more or less natural place for
him to wind up dead.

Speaker 8 (03:17:33):
Makes it a natural place for us to get out
of him.

Speaker 61 (03:17:35):
Whoever killed him took the mummy out of that case
and put Osgood inside, and then maybe ship that mummy
to me?

Speaker 5 (03:17:42):
Why had Ton here give me a hand? Uh, what,
I wanna get him back inside the mummy case.

Speaker 14 (03:17:51):
Yeah, he's factor.

Speaker 15 (03:17:56):
Yeah, body temperature fact that riggers on the starting to
set in indicate she died around six hours ago.

Speaker 61 (03:18:04):
No hurry about informing the police. Let's talk to the
princess about it instead. She knows the mummy out of
that case is in my office. It's possible she knows
more than that.

Speaker 64 (03:18:17):
From what I've seen when I come into your office,
she knows more than that. I think she's a real princess.

Speaker 5 (03:18:25):
No, but she's real.

Speaker 61 (03:18:28):
That's the annex curator's house. I guess you wouldn't do something.

Speaker 14 (03:18:34):
I don't know how it would go.

Speaker 61 (03:18:35):
With your Vermont upbringing. But uh, we're going to do
some eavesdropping.

Speaker 64 (03:18:39):
Favorite Winters Sport up in Vermont. Three people in the news, girl,
little mouse of a man. It's something that could be
a football player. Football player's name is Ted.

Speaker 14 (03:18:53):
I'm not an idiot.

Speaker 5 (03:18:54):
I tell you I had an a point due to
the mister os Good.

Speaker 8 (03:18:56):
Here.

Speaker 14 (03:18:58):
Mister Osgood has somethin here, Ted.

Speaker 2 (03:19:00):
Leave me not for day.

Speaker 63 (03:19:01):
Listen, Lester, Mister Osgood told me to meet him here
this evening hours ago.

Speaker 14 (03:19:04):
Now where is he he couldn't have asked you to
meet him here? Are you calling me a liar?

Speaker 8 (03:19:09):
Oh dear, No, For.

Speaker 14 (03:19:10):
Heaven's sake, Leicester, stop crawling like a man or something.

Speaker 9 (03:19:16):
I'm sorry, Wendy.

Speaker 15 (03:19:17):
The Prince's name is Wendy, it seems, and the mouse
is Leicester.

Speaker 63 (03:19:21):
I want to know why you are so sure he
didn't ask me to meet him here, Lester, we we
quarrel violently.

Speaker 35 (03:19:27):
You quarreled with mister you.

Speaker 8 (03:19:30):
He wanted me to put those Indonesian masters in the museum.
There were fakes, and I told himself, good.

Speaker 36 (03:19:33):
For you, darling, there is something you will fight for.

Speaker 63 (03:19:36):
Maybe it'd escaped your notice that mister Osgood owns the museum.

Speaker 8 (03:19:39):
He doesn't own me.

Speaker 63 (03:19:40):
Well, I'm only the secretary. I take orders from him.
The last orders I got were to meet him here.

Speaker 61 (03:19:46):
Let's try the front door now, Jake. Ye, not a
fascinating conversation we overheard, but considering the corpse in the museum,
it might be important.

Speaker 14 (03:19:59):
Yes, and we can. And mister Leicester, why I suppose so?

Speaker 9 (03:20:02):
Although do I know you?

Speaker 5 (03:20:04):
My name is Barry Craig, This is Jake, and we
are coming in.

Speaker 14 (03:20:10):
This seems to be a mister Craig, and you'd be
ten I.

Speaker 5 (03:20:15):
Am, and you, of course are not exactly a princess.
You've been eaves dropping, You've been accent dropping.

Speaker 8 (03:20:25):
He's true.

Speaker 41 (03:20:26):
Happens to us Egyptians all the time.

Speaker 5 (03:20:29):
We know what's going on here.

Speaker 14 (03:20:30):
It talks like that because he's more or less SMI fiance.

Speaker 5 (03:20:33):
We don't want to intrude. But with the three of you,
mind coming to the museum.

Speaker 14 (03:20:37):
Oh but it's closed at this time. The regular hours
don't be such a stick.

Speaker 22 (03:20:41):
Forget the regular hours and the regular rules and the mouse.

Speaker 5 (03:20:46):
But is engaged a football player.

Speaker 61 (03:20:48):
I think you're right, well all right, but I don't
know what mister Osgood would say.

Speaker 14 (03:20:52):
I don't think you have to worry about that.

Speaker 61 (03:21:06):
I had inside information on that. An inside a mummy case.
Let's see, Yeah, that's one right here. Well this mummy case, yes,
that's what I wanted to show.

Speaker 8 (03:21:20):
You open it.

Speaker 5 (03:21:23):
Why shouldn't he open it, Wendy.

Speaker 35 (03:21:25):
Because because there's blood on the floor.

Speaker 63 (03:21:28):
Girls right since one have mummy started bleeding? They don't
open the case. Lester very well, it's a trick.

Speaker 14 (03:21:35):
It won't prove anything. Anyone could have stapped him stabbed.

Speaker 27 (03:21:38):
Who my dear, in spite of the fact that I've
never before dared to mention it. I happen to love
you very much, but that doesn't fly me to the
fact that you're.

Speaker 8 (03:21:49):
Frequently a fool.

Speaker 15 (03:21:49):
I'll shut up.

Speaker 8 (03:21:50):
Don't talk that way to Wendy.

Speaker 27 (03:21:52):
Are you objecting to my telling her I love her
or that.

Speaker 14 (03:21:53):
She's a fool? I object her both, but she is
a fool.

Speaker 27 (03:21:56):
Althoughhy, she'd realize the only reason you're marrying her is
the money she expects to.

Speaker 8 (03:21:59):
Get from his Osgood.

Speaker 38 (03:22:00):
Do you you're a worm?

Speaker 8 (03:22:03):
I probably am.

Speaker 61 (03:22:04):
I hate to interrupt all this good, clean fun, but
you still haven't opened the case.

Speaker 5 (03:22:07):
Lester.

Speaker 14 (03:22:09):
I'm sorry, I'll do it at once. It's mister, that's good.
He's dead, isn't he?

Speaker 8 (03:22:19):
He's dead?

Speaker 59 (03:22:20):
Wendy, how did you know Osgood was going to be
inside that case?

Speaker 14 (03:22:25):
I suspected it because he had an appointment with you
and didn't keep it, and he'd had had a quarrel
with me some days ago.

Speaker 5 (03:22:33):
I'm afraid your deductions were the obvious ones, Wendy.

Speaker 14 (03:22:36):
Did you have to be quite so sure they were true?

Speaker 63 (03:22:38):
The police ought to be informed. Yes, I'll phone them.
I can't believe all this is real?

Speaker 40 (03:22:44):
Real?

Speaker 14 (03:22:45):
Threell was the blood on the floor.

Speaker 8 (03:22:54):
Came saw.

Speaker 61 (03:22:57):
But before they went, they arrested mister Leicester, so he
went with them. Jake and I returned to my office.
I thought perhaps the mummy might be getting lonely. That
didn't turn out to.

Speaker 5 (03:23:09):
Be the cake, Okay, Jake, whoever took those pot shots?

Speaker 15 (03:23:22):
That us is gone and so is the mummy. I
made a phone call. I wanted to make sure Leicester
was still in jail. That would clear him of shooting
at Jake and me and swiping the mummy. Leicester, I discovered,

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was no longer in jail. The district attorney hadn't admired
the evidence against him, and that means Leicester's loose, Wendy's loose,
and Ted's loose. I watch that loose, talk Jake, please,
I was tempted.

Speaker 8 (03:23:59):
Mister.

Speaker 5 (03:24:00):
We're going back to the museum.

Speaker 61 (03:24:03):
So worried about the worried about I mean, I'm worried
about the person who stole the mummy. And I'm even
more worried about why.

Speaker 5 (03:24:19):
I had an idea, why I didn't linger with it.

Speaker 61 (03:24:22):
I was pretty sure I'd never get fun of it.
I hoped I'd turn out to be wrong about it
and the museum's doc So there's a curators house. Yep,
So we'll go to the museum first. Oh, don't hit
below the belt.

Speaker 5 (03:24:42):
Sorry, I wanted to check that empty mummy case.

Speaker 8 (03:24:47):
What for?

Speaker 5 (03:24:48):
Make sure it's empty?

Speaker 11 (03:24:51):
Uh huh.

Speaker 8 (03:24:53):
Empty mummy case is always.

Speaker 15 (03:24:54):
In except when it isn't. Okay, tain't the mummy's back inside?

Speaker 8 (03:25:04):
That good?

Speaker 5 (03:25:05):
That's bad? Wrong, mummy wrong something? I'm not sure what.

Speaker 8 (03:25:18):
Houses still dark? We'll change that. Thinking about the little
fella lest Yeah, what he's in this up to his neck?

Speaker 5 (03:25:30):
Where's that door?

Speaker 8 (03:25:31):
Though? Hm could be asleep.

Speaker 5 (03:25:38):
You'll have to wake up. Ain't waking up? Well, won't
wait for him?

Speaker 8 (03:25:47):
Then?

Speaker 5 (03:25:48):
Doors locked and solid? We better try the windows one
of the living room we looked through before.

Speaker 15 (03:25:56):
It's around the side here. It was ground level, which
ought to help. Yeah, fastened down.

Speaker 5 (03:26:07):
Get out of the way, Jake, Yep, that it sounded
loud enough to wake the dead. It may have to.
Now most of the glasses out of the way. Now
we go in the light someplace around.

Speaker 14 (03:26:25):
Yeah, living room's empty.

Speaker 5 (03:26:28):
Where would lest his bedroom be?

Speaker 8 (03:26:30):
Right?

Speaker 9 (03:26:30):
And all?

Speaker 8 (03:26:33):
It's a funny smell.

Speaker 61 (03:26:36):
You're right, that's gas, which means the kitchen. The smell
is getting stronger the other end of this hallway, which
should be the kitchen door.

Speaker 8 (03:26:50):
Kind of dark.

Speaker 61 (03:26:51):
Stay away with my switch and he spark might cause
the gas inside the kitchen to blow up. Doors open,
Get to a phone call in near his hospital.

Speaker 14 (03:27:01):
You better see what's in.

Speaker 5 (03:27:02):
The kitchen first. All right, here goes.

Speaker 14 (03:27:08):
It's it's really bad.

Speaker 8 (03:27:10):
It's hard.

Speaker 5 (03:27:12):
Find him.

Speaker 14 (03:27:13):
Yeah, somebody's laying near the ring.

Speaker 11 (03:27:17):
Yeah, I got him.

Speaker 14 (03:27:19):
Let me you better.

Speaker 5 (03:27:21):
The cast is strong, his feet all right outside hallway.

Speaker 14 (03:27:29):
Out here is the living room. Broken window.

Speaker 5 (03:27:32):
That would help.

Speaker 14 (03:27:33):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (03:27:37):
Oh, it's a lot better in here. We put him
down in the window.

Speaker 41 (03:27:41):
Oh m.

Speaker 8 (03:27:45):
Oh, he don't look so good.

Speaker 61 (03:27:47):
He's still alive, though, Get on that phone. We need
an ambulance fast to get to him before death does.
They got to him and took him away. The intern
said he had a chance. Take an ice. Stayed behind

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in the house. I made a few phone calls and
the air got better.

Speaker 8 (03:28:14):
Mister Craig, was he trying to kill himself?

Speaker 5 (03:28:17):
No, there was a bruise on the back of his head.

Speaker 49 (03:28:20):
Well, then it was the same one who killed Oscar.

Speaker 61 (03:28:24):
Yeah, hope to close the case by making it look
as though Lester committed suicide because of guilt.

Speaker 14 (03:28:32):
Rag down here in the middle of the night.

Speaker 61 (03:28:34):
You want as good to murderer court, Sure, but there's
a peculiar odor.

Speaker 5 (03:28:41):
It was Lester out for the moment that ought to
be Wendy. I phoned her too.

Speaker 8 (03:28:49):
Well.

Speaker 5 (03:28:50):
Apparently the cleaning up Hosket's murder, Wendy.

Speaker 8 (03:28:52):
I suppose they needed us here for something or other.

Speaker 11 (03:28:54):
I thought the police decided it was Lester.

Speaker 61 (03:28:56):
They didn't like the evidence too much, and they turned
him loose. Where is he the Samaritan Hospital, condition critical?
Jake and I found him in the kitchen, breathing gas.

Speaker 8 (03:29:06):
He tried to kill himself. You'd like that.

Speaker 5 (03:29:10):
It would close the case, final proof against Leicester.

Speaker 14 (03:29:13):
The only thing, Wendy, you knew.

Speaker 61 (03:29:16):
About Osgood's death before you should have. You warned Lester
not to open the mummy case in the museum.

Speaker 14 (03:29:22):
That was because there was blood on the floor.

Speaker 5 (03:29:24):
You didn't explain how you knew he was stabbed, not shot.

Speaker 59 (03:29:28):
Or when did the right I remember it explained to them.

Speaker 14 (03:29:34):
I can't, but that could mean.

Speaker 41 (03:29:37):
You shut up Ted you never cared about me anyway.
All you wanted was the money.

Speaker 14 (03:29:41):
I didn't hear it from Osgoode.

Speaker 8 (03:29:42):
Well it's likely to be bloodstained.

Speaker 5 (03:29:44):
Now, I don't care for any of that.

Speaker 8 (03:29:45):
I think there's anything more, Craig.

Speaker 5 (03:29:48):
Oh, one thing, this statue at what's it made of?

Speaker 38 (03:29:52):
What?

Speaker 5 (03:29:53):
Granite? And it should be hard enough?

Speaker 8 (03:29:58):
Don't you like ti?

Speaker 5 (03:29:59):
No, he's a.

Speaker 61 (03:30:00):
Murderer, A murderer who had been fingering the gun in
his pocket while I talked. Being hit over the head
by the statuette wouldn't damage him permanently.

Speaker 5 (03:30:18):
The state would take care of that.

Speaker 14 (03:30:24):
Girl was in a real hurry together to the hospital.

Speaker 5 (03:30:27):
You no, what can she see in a mouse like Lester?
Captainet no argument.

Speaker 61 (03:30:35):
Jake Ted's motive was the money Wendy was getting from Osgood.
He killed Osgood shortly after Osgoode had quarreled with Lester.
He figured Lester would be the obvious suspect.

Speaker 5 (03:30:46):
Anybody asked her to explain, No, no, now, why was
the mummy delivered to me?

Speaker 14 (03:30:52):
Simple?

Speaker 61 (03:30:53):
Ted wouldn't have He'd framed Lester and would have left
things the way he'd set them up. So it had
to be Lester himself.

Speaker 14 (03:31:00):
He wanted me to help him.

Speaker 5 (03:31:01):
He gained a little time that she said. Nobody asked,
nobody did.

Speaker 61 (03:31:05):
But I'm telling you now now, Wendy, it seemed less
to So if she came to my office to try
to get the mummy bag, pro.

Speaker 8 (03:31:11):
She was innocent.

Speaker 14 (03:31:13):
And if nobody ask you why you explained, I'm not.

Speaker 5 (03:31:16):
I'm just dropping you off at the building.

Speaker 14 (03:31:18):
Oh okay, I got one question.

Speaker 5 (03:31:27):
What's that?

Speaker 14 (03:31:29):
Is it true what they say about Anthony and Cleopatra?

Speaker 62 (03:31:43):
You've been listening to William Gargan in another exciting transcribed
mystery drama from the Adventures of Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator.
Tonight's story, Never Murder a Mummy was written by Louis Vatt's.

Speaker 8 (03:32:23):
Next Week.

Speaker 62 (03:32:24):
It's the strange story Butler's can be Innocent about which
Barry Craig has this to say, Butler's can be innocent.
Maybe this is a little hard to believe, but the
butter in question proves it the hard way. The National

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Broadcasting Company has just brought you an NBC Radio Network
production with William Gargan starring as Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator,
directed by ANDREWS.

Speaker 8 (03:33:01):
Love.

Speaker 62 (03:33:03):
Our cast included Jonathan Hole, Bibby Janis, Jim Knutser, Henry Hunter,
and Howard Colver.

Speaker 8 (03:33:20):
H m m.

Speaker 18 (03:33:47):
That's a look in his eye as a man kill me,
someone does the other three flying on the florn full
of blood.

Speaker 35 (03:33:56):
Almost twelve o'clock.

Speaker 37 (03:33:59):
And he minute.

Speaker 35 (03:34:00):
Now there'll be a ring or not.

Speaker 8 (03:34:07):
Midnight, the witching hour, when the night is darkest.

Speaker 65 (03:34:11):
Our fears the strongest, and our strength that its lowest.
Then midnight, when their graves keep open and the death strikes.

Speaker 8 (03:34:23):
You learn the answer in just a minute.

Speaker 37 (03:34:25):
In The Creeper.

Speaker 8 (03:34:46):
And now Murder at Midnight.

Speaker 1 (03:34:48):
On this program we bring you the best and most
blood curdling stories ever written. And so now we bring
you a tale which you may have heard before, a
tale which.

Speaker 15 (03:34:57):
We consider a classic in Terror and the de Fence,
The Creeper by Joseph.

Speaker 8 (03:35:03):
Ruscall in the Kitchen that to the New York apartment
man and his wife listened to the evening news podcast
New York.

Speaker 66 (03:35:13):
The unknown killer called the Creeper has struck again, adding
a third female corpse to his toe. Virginia Peters, a
comely waitress, was found strangled to death in her third
floor apartment early this morning, while her radio blared.

Speaker 15 (03:35:27):
As in the previous.

Speaker 66 (03:35:28):
Murders, a note was found scrolled on the wall with
the victim's lipstick and the please, for Heaven's sake, catch
me before I kill more. I cannot control my police insists.

Speaker 8 (03:35:40):
Now, won't you turn it off? Very neighbors, let's hear
the rest.

Speaker 15 (03:35:45):
It's very interesting.

Speaker 18 (03:35:46):
Oh, don't go turning that radio. One against Steve Grant.
But enough of a lot of one mind for hidden see.

Speaker 1 (03:35:53):
That's it, a good solid clue. What is for heaven's sake?
How many men have you used that express?

Speaker 8 (03:36:00):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:36:00):
Shut up, okay, missus Grant? Pass the biscuit, smile of
the pigeon, past the biscuits.

Speaker 12 (03:36:05):
Eating three women in three days, murdered in cold blood
by a mad scene, right here in Washington Heights. I'm
too sick to go out, too scared to stay him.

Speaker 35 (03:36:13):
The rocks broke.

Speaker 18 (03:36:14):
He sits there, eating, eating, eating, past the biscuit.

Speaker 1 (03:36:17):
There's nothing wrong with my appetite, my love.

Speaker 18 (03:36:20):
Of course, that's what costs you you a job on
the police force.

Speaker 1 (03:36:23):
When I even think some men drink to escape, I
eat escape.

Speaker 8 (03:36:28):
What what an ugly tongue?

Speaker 1 (03:36:30):
Beautiful face and a roving eye and short a wife.

Speaker 18 (03:36:34):
So you're starting that again, you and you're crazy jealousy.

Speaker 1 (03:36:37):
Yeah, maybe that's the creeper's way of escaping.

Speaker 8 (03:36:39):
Toe Georgia, who knows?

Speaker 35 (03:36:41):
Go ahead and get a divorce?

Speaker 16 (03:36:42):
Go ahead?

Speaker 18 (03:36:44):
Can I hope it?

Speaker 41 (03:36:44):
If?

Speaker 8 (03:36:44):
Man?

Speaker 18 (03:36:45):
Look at me? Why you come home at all?

Speaker 36 (03:36:47):
Where do you go?

Speaker 11 (03:36:49):
What do you do with yourself?

Speaker 35 (03:36:51):
Where were you this morning?

Speaker 8 (03:36:52):
Why'd you come back to eat?

Speaker 1 (03:36:54):
But someday I'll lose my appetite for that too, And
when I do, my dear, there'll be no escape.

Speaker 8 (03:36:59):
And now I'm off again, just still using stage lipstick?
Wipe it off? How many times must I tell you
you're married? Now? Remember Steve?

Speaker 11 (03:37:09):
Wait?

Speaker 18 (03:37:10):
Yeah, at least go buy my medicine.

Speaker 40 (03:37:12):
Sorry, I got no time.

Speaker 18 (03:37:14):
Don't leave me here alone? Stay home this evening, please,
I'm afraid.

Speaker 8 (03:37:17):
Oh, don't be silly, pet. Nothing'll happen to you.

Speaker 1 (03:37:19):
Got a dorm in here, an elevator boy, miss is
thrown across the hall?

Speaker 8 (03:37:22):
A phone.

Speaker 1 (03:37:23):
You're safe enough, but the night lock it doesn't work.
The pah, Now you can't lock me out anymore?

Speaker 11 (03:37:29):
Doesn't chance?

Speaker 18 (03:37:29):
Something's happened to it since last night?

Speaker 8 (03:37:32):
Steve get a know one.

Speaker 18 (03:37:33):
I can't get a locksmith. I've tried all day.

Speaker 41 (03:37:35):
Steve.

Speaker 18 (03:37:36):
Please, if I want to phone.

Speaker 11 (03:37:38):
You, where would you be?

Speaker 8 (03:37:39):
Poud?

Speaker 40 (03:37:40):
Goodbye?

Speaker 42 (03:37:41):
Take care of your cold.

Speaker 37 (03:37:51):
Well if it isn't all Pearly Chase, how are you?

Speaker 8 (03:37:55):
Hey? You got thrown off the force, Steve?

Speaker 1 (03:37:57):
Yeah, Hey, you got thrown off the news.

Speaker 8 (03:37:59):
Pearly. No, I'd wrong. I wasn't fired.

Speaker 16 (03:38:02):
I was just warm.

Speaker 1 (03:38:03):
I wasn't fired either, just suspended for three days. Eat
the lamb shop at cases when I should have been
ring in from the box of one hundred and sixty second?
Was all that trouble up there on my way to headquarters?
Now for rein statement, I hate too much.

Speaker 37 (03:38:14):
My trouble is I drink too much.

Speaker 16 (03:38:17):
Hey, you're living up at the heights, Steve Man. That's
funny me too. Beah here you're married now to a
beautiful and lovely young.

Speaker 8 (03:38:28):
With admiration that say it again.

Speaker 16 (03:38:31):
I think they knew her, wasn't there stage name Georgia Dixon?

Speaker 8 (03:38:35):
Yeah, that's her.

Speaker 1 (03:38:36):
I love that wenz pview women. How does a guy
handle him?

Speaker 41 (03:38:40):
You know?

Speaker 8 (03:38:42):
Maybe the creeper has the right met.

Speaker 16 (03:38:46):
Thank you for taking the words out of my mouth.

Speaker 8 (03:38:49):
Who's the creeper?

Speaker 16 (03:38:50):
Steve any Angles, You tell me and I'll split the
reward with you.

Speaker 1 (03:38:55):
Say what do you think of Inspector Bradley's inside job?

Speaker 16 (03:38:59):
Yeah, every Janet is a creeper. And as for that
doorman Jim Ellis is because he worked the two of
the three murder apartments.

Speaker 8 (03:39:09):
Pure coincidence.

Speaker 16 (03:39:11):
Anyway, they've released him one thing though, and I don't
think even Bradley's put it together yet.

Speaker 8 (03:39:18):
Eh.

Speaker 16 (03:39:18):
In all three cases, just before the creeper struck, the
door locks had already been tampered with.

Speaker 8 (03:39:25):
You don't say you've got a theory? Well sure, I
mean you take that note on the.

Speaker 15 (03:39:30):
Wall, for Heaven's sake, in every case, for Heaven's sake,
catch me.

Speaker 8 (03:39:36):
Before I kill more. I cannot control my shell right now?

Speaker 15 (03:39:41):
What man uses an expression like that?

Speaker 1 (03:39:44):
You want to low down?

Speaker 8 (03:39:45):
It's just this.

Speaker 16 (03:39:47):
The creeper is a woman, a kimmickerh Like the height
of the message from the floor is a trick six feet.
And yet our layads, the creeper is no more than
a guy. Your heights sake are mine five night, just
like if you were me only crazy? How do you
figure that? How do I figure lots of things. How

(03:40:10):
do I know where the creeper is going to strike next?

Speaker 8 (03:40:13):
You?

Speaker 16 (03:40:14):
Certainly the creepers not so smart.

Speaker 8 (03:40:17):
He's just crazy.

Speaker 16 (03:40:18):
You'll play along crazy and you're one jump ahead of him.
That's the trouble with Inspector Bradley. Why he's up a tree.
You'll expect logical clues from a mad man. You play
along crazy, make out you're.

Speaker 8 (03:40:32):
The creeper, and what do you get?

Speaker 16 (03:40:34):
Go ahead, let's see, all right? The victims are all
red heads. Everyone you've noticed that? Of course three and
three days.

Speaker 8 (03:40:41):
Know what you mentioned?

Speaker 16 (03:40:42):
All lived in the heights, right, Agnes Martin, Jane Krutzky,
Virginia Peters.

Speaker 8 (03:40:47):
Right?

Speaker 16 (03:40:48):
What was the number of the apartment in each case?
Agnes lived in one A, Jane two B, Virginia three C.

Speaker 8 (03:40:56):
Don't ask me the why away for? Don't ask me
the logic? Just playing along crazy? Is? You know what
I mean? Where's he going to strike next? Huh? I
don't catch you?

Speaker 16 (03:41:06):
And ex victim and that craper also lives in their heights.
She's a redhead. Her night lots been tampered ways, he's
going to get hers today in her apartment?

Speaker 8 (03:41:15):
Numbers for d.

Speaker 16 (03:41:18):
Well, why are you looking at me?

Speaker 8 (03:41:20):
Don't you like my arithmetic? Early? My wife's a redhead.
We live in the heights, and our apartment number is
You're just a boozy reporter. Your apartment number for D?

Speaker 19 (03:41:42):
I told you for D.

Speaker 16 (03:41:43):
Of course it's pretty late, but I'll have it delivered.
I was busy admiring your lipstick, Missus Grant.

Speaker 47 (03:41:49):
I have nothing like it in stock for D.

Speaker 1 (03:41:51):
I should have guessed it anyway.

Speaker 16 (03:41:52):
Why, well, a face of a number, believe me, since
you've moved into the neighborhood, Missus Grant, for me, it
has a special number like double Dandy Delicious dreams for
these you see go on?

Speaker 18 (03:42:05):
But you tell that to every customer female.

Speaker 11 (03:42:08):
I'm a ladies man. Like the creeper.

Speaker 8 (03:42:11):
What did I say? What's going on in this block?
Roll nerves?

Speaker 1 (03:42:15):
You can't choke the creeper. The creeper, that's all I
hear all day.

Speaker 16 (03:42:18):
It's methysteria. There ain't such an animal, do you. You
don't think so, I assure you, Missus Grant. It's a
fairy tale for circulation of the tabloids.

Speaker 1 (03:42:27):
I'll send you a prescription up with the boy.

Speaker 11 (03:42:30):
I'll just wait here for well, it'll.

Speaker 37 (03:42:31):
Take some time.

Speaker 1 (03:42:33):
You should go right home and stay there. If you're
just getting over the flu.

Speaker 8 (03:42:36):
I'll tell you what. I'll deliver it myself. It'll be
a flu.

Speaker 37 (03:42:39):
No, no, no, I'll wait.

Speaker 18 (03:42:41):
I may not go right back.

Speaker 11 (03:42:43):
I don't want to.

Speaker 18 (03:42:44):
I want to be there alone.

Speaker 8 (03:42:45):
And I'm afraid very well. Suit yourself and have a seat.

Speaker 1 (03:42:53):
For Heaven's sake, stop me before I kill me. I
cannot control my.

Speaker 14 (03:43:15):
Deal.

Speaker 18 (03:43:15):
Missus Stone, Why yes, but you're hurry here. I just
got such a scare since there's awful murders in this neighborhood.

Speaker 11 (03:43:22):
Who isn't it terrible?

Speaker 19 (03:43:23):
The death myself?

Speaker 35 (03:43:25):
You walking home?

Speaker 18 (03:43:26):
Yeah, I'll go with you.

Speaker 12 (03:43:27):
Do we live in the same hall, mist if I
had a double lot, but the night one doesn't work?

Speaker 18 (03:43:32):
Oh really, well, I have a chain lok that dies
and still as I sit and shiver when there's the
sound of the door. Can't get a lot. Smith tried
all day, but they're all so busy. Mister Frank's on
the corner, promise too, but didn't know when. Why are
they all so busy, my dear, because every woman in
the neighborhoods come from there too.

Speaker 11 (03:43:48):
Simply a nightmare.

Speaker 8 (03:43:50):
But don't you worry. You'll stay together this evening.

Speaker 18 (03:43:52):
Mister Stone out too to think of it. We've never
visited though.

Speaker 35 (03:43:56):
We'll live right across the hall from each other.

Speaker 18 (03:43:58):
Isn't that like a big city for Heaven's sake?

Speaker 11 (03:44:00):
Or would rather I dropped in on you?

Speaker 18 (03:44:01):
Well, I don't make sure it place? Then she is
that horrible? The guesting thinks they're saying the theories.

Speaker 11 (03:44:07):
One doesn't know what to think.

Speaker 12 (03:44:08):
Next, you believe the latest, the latest, and maybe it's
a woman, the creeper.

Speaker 47 (03:44:13):
A woman can't beat it.

Speaker 11 (03:44:14):
I just can't imagine.

Speaker 36 (03:44:15):
How in the world.

Speaker 35 (03:44:15):
Please figure that? For Heaven's sake, can you?

Speaker 18 (03:44:19):
I taken you, miss Grant? Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 11 (03:44:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 18 (03:44:23):
It's just thinking of something, you know. I can see
we're a married woman. Now if her husband was feathless,
well I can understand. That's a theory, because they take
my husband. Now you met mister Stone, hadn't you, mister grandfather?
You're taking me like that, b hadn't sake? Oh, don't
feel well. I'm let's get a home.

Speaker 17 (03:44:43):
I grant.

Speaker 67 (03:44:51):
Something with terror, A woman with ready herens on the
dark street back her apartment on the door.

Speaker 8 (03:44:57):
With the broken lock. That's happens of the clas move
on towards twelve o'clock and murder me.

Speaker 15 (03:45:24):
Now back to murder at midnight, and the creeper back
to Georgia Grant hurrying hysterically to.

Speaker 37 (03:45:35):
The dark streets or the appartment put the broken knock
on the door? Man out laid an't you?

Speaker 14 (03:45:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 37 (03:45:51):
Yeah, good daughter, just relieving Charlie.

Speaker 15 (03:45:55):
Nice night.

Speaker 8 (03:45:58):
He slept mirroring the other made it for you, no
trouble man, yeah, parkment four? D uh.

Speaker 37 (03:46:08):
Yeah, how did you know? It doesn't take long.

Speaker 16 (03:46:13):
When roll is held a coming now, terrible things man,
the happenings.

Speaker 37 (03:46:19):
What the creeper instead of going up?

Speaker 1 (03:46:24):
Yeah, yes, up and down, up and down, the ups
and down the light that's me. I'm a living milkshake,
mister grandson.

Speaker 8 (03:46:35):
Uh huh what Jimmy stuck?

Speaker 15 (03:46:39):
Imagine getting stuck.

Speaker 37 (03:46:40):
Between the third and fourth for the production like you.

Speaker 11 (03:46:44):
That's going sunny? Want me to report you?

Speaker 37 (03:46:48):
Okay, okay?

Speaker 8 (03:46:49):
Can't she take a joke?

Speaker 1 (03:46:52):
Maybe I miscontrued that smile you always give me. Maybe
you shouldn't want to smile that way, or for.

Speaker 8 (03:46:59):
I mean out if I drop in later, will you
be more receptive?

Speaker 13 (03:47:06):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (03:47:09):
Oh, thank goodness, let's be going out of my mind?

Speaker 37 (03:47:16):
Oh myness, done this lot?

Speaker 8 (03:47:23):
Lock?

Speaker 14 (03:47:35):
Hello?

Speaker 18 (03:47:36):
Is a locksmith in you? But I want to know
how soon I can get my lock changed. Yes, I
know it's late, but he promised.

Speaker 47 (03:47:44):
Listen, missus Graham.

Speaker 18 (03:47:46):
Yes, yes, I know you just explained to me, but
I must. Yes, yes, so I won't you.

Speaker 37 (03:47:53):
I've been waiting for you.

Speaker 8 (03:47:56):
Think you a little for it me? Do you want
the whole house? That's better?

Speaker 11 (03:48:03):
What do you do?

Speaker 8 (03:48:04):
I don't worry.

Speaker 16 (03:48:05):
You haven't got a thing to worry about. Now I've
come to protect you.

Speaker 8 (03:48:09):
Give me the food.

Speaker 16 (03:48:11):
Oh, never mind about the lock. Thank you, sit down,
make yourself at home.

Speaker 8 (03:48:18):
Been waiting here for you.

Speaker 40 (03:48:23):
A long time.

Speaker 16 (03:48:24):
You see joint you?

Speaker 8 (03:48:26):
What do you want me?

Speaker 37 (03:48:28):
The headline?

Speaker 16 (03:48:29):
Your husband wants to he wants I should keep an
eye on you. What's the sure You didn't think Stephen
any were acquitted?

Speaker 44 (03:48:38):
Did you?

Speaker 8 (03:48:39):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (03:48:40):
Ash from way back? This mad him a bond.

Speaker 8 (03:48:43):
I don't believe you. What do you mean keep an
eye on me?

Speaker 2 (03:48:46):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (03:48:47):
Just in case the creature?

Speaker 16 (03:48:52):
You heard of the character?

Speaker 8 (03:48:54):
You're mad?

Speaker 18 (03:48:56):
You've always been made pretty Chase Way Steeve, Why should
he send you here? Why should he think the creeper
will come here?

Speaker 19 (03:49:05):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 8 (03:49:06):
Soldier?

Speaker 16 (03:49:07):
Playing along?

Speaker 8 (03:49:08):
Crazy? Got a drink?

Speaker 18 (03:49:11):
You're a drunk now and you're getting right out of here.
Get nothing but a no good rummy, and you.

Speaker 47 (03:49:16):
Are nothing but a no good.

Speaker 8 (03:49:20):
You finished.

Speaker 16 (03:49:23):
When I took the drink, it was to drown you out.

Speaker 8 (03:49:25):
And your note.

Speaker 16 (03:49:27):
I'm still a rum pot angel, which means I haven't.

Speaker 8 (03:49:30):
Got rid of you yet.

Speaker 16 (03:49:32):
Get out a little two time and a redhead.

Speaker 8 (03:49:34):
You're all the same. You're redheads.

Speaker 16 (03:49:36):
Even a wedding ring had change, you would, played Ennison.
My business is snooping. I make a living at it
between drinks, So you are no mottos. Love my neighbor,
mister Stone across the hall, Poor dumb Steve.

Speaker 18 (03:49:54):
If I'm a warning, you get out or I'll call
the police.

Speaker 8 (03:49:57):
Stay where you are?

Speaker 41 (03:49:58):
Really?

Speaker 15 (03:49:59):
What are you doing with that guy?

Speaker 16 (03:50:00):
I wouldn't pick up that phone if I were you.
You see, there's a big reward for the creeper and
a heck of an exclusive, and I don't want to
share it.

Speaker 8 (03:50:08):
I'm riding a hunch.

Speaker 16 (03:50:10):
Now, sit down, darling. Just play along with me while
I play along. Crazy, sit down, Uh shit, like we're
expecting company.

Speaker 37 (03:50:26):
Let's have some music.

Speaker 8 (03:50:29):
Just sit Let's have some music.

Speaker 17 (03:50:31):
I said, turn on the radio.

Speaker 34 (03:50:35):
That ship.

Speaker 16 (03:50:37):
That's a good girl. Uh dance, hear the book. Let's dance.
Give me your wrong Let's dance like oh times, around
and around like my brain? Whyet trembling? I still love you,

(03:51:02):
your little fool, Ask me why I love you. I
love you, your your redhead. I could and you deserve it.
Put the radio on. You could scream and no wanted here.

Speaker 37 (03:51:14):
I could kick my hand on your throat like Disney.

Speaker 8 (03:51:17):
It could spring. Why do you clan and stop it?

Speaker 16 (03:51:23):
I'm here to protect it.

Speaker 44 (03:51:24):
Stop buying, cut it, I said, cut it out.

Speaker 1 (03:51:27):
I can't say it.

Speaker 16 (03:51:27):
I never could. Okay, you want me to leave, well
the chalk you'll know. Am I saving you for anyway?
Where's my hat? In a few minutes, knocked her ring
her Door'll just open. You'll be lying in a pull

(03:51:49):
of blood like the other three.

Speaker 8 (03:51:52):
Good Bye my work. Listen, give my reduitage to the creeps.
What if he comes back?

Speaker 35 (03:52:05):
He wants to kill me, wants to kill me.

Speaker 11 (03:52:07):
Somebody wants to kill me.

Speaker 18 (03:52:11):
Much like that, and it's blitting.

Speaker 11 (03:52:19):
Uh, I ain't gonna frightened me.

Speaker 8 (03:52:25):
Still a spike, let's see, and the.

Speaker 18 (03:52:28):
Other three in a pool of blood like the other three,
Like the other three. Almost almost twelve o'clock.

Speaker 11 (03:52:42):
Any minute now, there will be a knock or a
range suck.

Speaker 17 (03:52:53):
Yeah, this is a doorman, Missus grand Yes, here with
a medicine.

Speaker 18 (03:52:59):
Yeah, yes, no no no no, don't let take.

Speaker 8 (03:53:05):
Men up to bring it up.

Speaker 18 (03:53:07):
No, no, no, no, I'm perfectly all right. I don't
need any I don't need it. You here, don't you there?

Speaker 8 (03:53:13):
Come up? Hm?

Speaker 18 (03:53:25):
Oh please please, I must have it changed right away.
I lock my door locked. Yes, this is missus Graham. Yes,
I do want it.

Speaker 8 (03:53:35):
Of course.

Speaker 18 (03:53:36):
Anyone can get into anyone they want to murder me,
but I don't know who. It's the creeper. Well you'll
come right away. Thank you, thank you, thank you so
much for I hurry please, hurry up, go out of
my mind, thanks Flord.

Speaker 11 (03:53:56):
Let's see other thing? A pool of blood.

Speaker 18 (03:54:01):
Now, a knock or a ring?

Speaker 8 (03:54:07):
Who?

Speaker 18 (03:54:09):
Who's there?

Speaker 11 (03:54:10):
It's me there, missus Stone.

Speaker 35 (03:54:12):
Oh what do you want?

Speaker 18 (03:54:14):
I've been worried about you are you real. No, I'm
all right, missus Stone, I'm feeling fine.

Speaker 11 (03:54:19):
Oh who up?

Speaker 8 (03:54:19):
Dear?

Speaker 11 (03:54:20):
Don't you want me if you come?

Speaker 37 (03:54:21):
No?

Speaker 11 (03:54:21):
No, no, no, thank you.

Speaker 18 (03:54:22):
I would just so still said no, no, please go away.
I'm going to sleep.

Speaker 11 (03:54:28):
Go away. Do you hear me go away?

Speaker 12 (03:54:33):
Hello?

Speaker 18 (03:54:34):
Oh Steve, Dave, I've been frantic, so could hear your voice?

Speaker 11 (03:54:43):
Where are you.

Speaker 37 (03:54:45):
Right?

Speaker 8 (03:54:46):
Sweet?

Speaker 68 (03:54:47):
Is anything wrong?

Speaker 41 (03:54:48):
No?

Speaker 18 (03:54:48):
No, no, not no, not when I hear you, Steve,
I don't know what came over me all day. I've
been imagining things so silpy my nerves.

Speaker 8 (03:54:58):
Sorry about super night, honey.

Speaker 17 (03:55:00):
It wasn't myself.

Speaker 16 (03:55:01):
My job had me down.

Speaker 18 (03:55:02):
But no, of course, forgive me, Steve. I've been bad, wicked.
You knew what I've gone through tonight, the.

Speaker 8 (03:55:11):
Most dreadful state.

Speaker 18 (03:55:13):
And then let Steve, did you send someone here today?

Speaker 8 (03:55:16):
Curly? Yeah?

Speaker 16 (03:55:19):
Keep the company? Isn't he still?

Speaker 48 (03:55:20):
What is?

Speaker 41 (03:55:21):
No?

Speaker 18 (03:55:21):
It's just a riddle of him.

Speaker 16 (03:55:23):
I wish I hadn't.

Speaker 40 (03:55:23):
He's an all right, guys, smart reporter.

Speaker 34 (03:55:25):
Listen the neighborhood too, honey.

Speaker 8 (03:55:27):
It sounds cock guide. I mean, I'm pearly sorry, but
I was kind of worried. But I got the thinkings.

Speaker 40 (03:55:32):
You listen to Georgia.

Speaker 8 (03:55:34):
Yes, don't let anyone in the house to get home.

Speaker 38 (03:55:37):
No, no, I won't see not anyone anyone.

Speaker 37 (03:55:41):
Steve.

Speaker 18 (03:55:42):
Wait, wait, Steve, it's a thank goodness to slash. Now
I can breathe. It's starting just a minute.

Speaker 40 (03:55:50):
George.

Speaker 18 (03:55:51):
Hello, Hello, George, mister pray, Hey, so don't you company
step in. It's a loss on this door.

Speaker 11 (03:56:01):
I want just a moman like my husband's me.

Speaker 8 (03:56:05):
Georgia. Yeah, what happened?

Speaker 15 (03:56:07):
There was something else I wanted.

Speaker 8 (03:56:08):
To take it?

Speaker 18 (03:56:09):
All right, Darling, Everything all right, nasty.

Speaker 11 (03:56:11):
You needn't worry.

Speaker 8 (03:56:12):
Just hear you're talking to someone with somebody at the door.

Speaker 18 (03:56:14):
Oh it's no one, dear mister frankly last Smith. Georgia.

Speaker 8 (03:56:19):
Listen, listen, Georgia. That's what I was going to tell you.
The police run a new trail.

Speaker 17 (03:56:23):
I think maybe a locksmith, Georgia.

Speaker 41 (03:56:25):
You're listening, and they think maybe the creepers a lot.

Speaker 16 (03:56:28):
Get him out quick, but nice.

Speaker 8 (03:56:30):
Let's think you need Yes, Georgia early, let's stay.

Speaker 17 (03:56:41):
George, Georgia, Georgie, Hello, hurry, that's me before I kill more.

Speaker 67 (03:56:54):
For heaven's sake, sword puts its hurrying down the corridor,
waving the door with a broken lock, now standing ajar
blotting of a red headed woman, and still should seem
love known that her only visitor would be death.

Speaker 8 (03:57:15):
The clocks struck twelve four, murder.

Speaker 37 (03:57:22):
Me.

Speaker 15 (03:57:41):
Remember to be with us again when death knocks at
the door, wearing a familiar face, and the clocks.

Speaker 37 (03:57:48):
Strike twelve four, murder.

Speaker 8 (03:57:53):
Me.

Speaker 15 (03:57:58):
The part of Georgia was laid by Anne Shepherd, with
music by Charles Paul. Murderous This Night was directed by
an John m leader.

Speaker 69 (03:58:49):
Missus Jorson Wells, speaking from London.

Speaker 8 (03:59:00):
The Black Museum.

Speaker 70 (03:59:02):
Cheer in a grim stone structure on the Thames, which
hows the Scotland Yard. There's a warehouse of homicide where
everyday objects a simple glass, a piece of rope, a
woman's handkerchief, all all I touched by murder. You take this,

(03:59:31):
this iron bar, It's a familiar object. The handle of
a jack. If you want a car, you have a
jack handle. Maybe you've used it, but never never I
trust like this, Grissy, quick, give me the jack handle.

Speaker 23 (03:59:45):
Yes, let me go.

Speaker 8 (03:59:47):
What do you want today? You will find that a
candle in the Black Museum.

Speaker 68 (04:00:12):
From the owls of the Criminal Investigation Department of the
London Police. We bring you the dramatic stories of the
crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland Yards. Gallery of Death,
the Black Museum.

Speaker 8 (04:00:43):
Here we are the Black Museum.

Speaker 70 (04:00:46):
A few yards from here the Thames Lapse at the
riverside of Scotland Yard.

Speaker 8 (04:00:52):
You never know is in here in this long, dim
stone much.

Speaker 70 (04:00:58):
Room, kind of mecha, a goal to be reached by
students of crime and criminology the whole world over yes
year in this room his death and the momentous and

(04:01:18):
souvenirs of death on these shows, in these cabinets, under
this well dusted glass, the weapons, the key clothes of
every homicide and which Scotland Yard is taking bart Rose
a hundred years And here in this case the small
white box from Edinburgh, whose death was in this box

(04:01:41):
death by poison, a death of a too importunate lover.
And this tiny pistols oil it's in working order, a dallager.
It's called the killer bore it up his sleeve one
morning at eight o'clock. In the British tradition, the trap
was brung. The killer walks on thin air execution and

(04:02:04):
receive the customary ten pounds. And here's something more familiar
with jack handle. It's intriguing once. According to the case book, Yes,
that's the story day which began to distant enough when
London lived in the blackout and many American men found
their after dark amusement and tiny hole in the wall.

Speaker 11 (04:02:26):
Came a weird.

Speaker 8 (04:02:31):
Able keeper tender memory.

Speaker 70 (04:02:38):
We look around, small tables, crowded together, not much like
stuffy in the blackout, b double black outdoor. I don't
help the ventilation much. The girl singing is pretty in
a tawdry sort of way, provocative in the manner of
a cheap thinner.

Speaker 8 (04:02:53):
But the two young men in the American unifies don't
see the vines. How's about a top? Not bad for
a dive? Too bad? Bibill, get your tenants out of bounds. Yeah,
not yet done, just open MPs. Haven't case to joint yet.
A good deal. I don't have to worry about ked.

Speaker 38 (04:03:09):
But who's worried? How can they do six months in
the stock kade? Maybe that's okay with me.

Speaker 70 (04:03:15):
Apparently at least one of these gentlemen is over the hill.
Now our interest is shifted. I'm quite naturally, of.

Speaker 38 (04:03:23):
Course, you think she has to sing for a living.
I can't be much of a living. She's not too bad.
Maybe she dates.

Speaker 8 (04:03:31):
You wouldn't know what to do about it. If she does, Yes,
that does me.

Speaker 38 (04:03:35):
But were your stage side anyway, the parson's son, or
a school teacher working them back?

Speaker 8 (04:03:41):
So what I got along? I did all right? Uh?
Hiding in the army, hiding in the Oh maybe could
be I didn't get it. Still, water runs deep and
all that stuff. Oh, look titty, but you don't know.
Won't hurt you?

Speaker 56 (04:03:56):
See that apply to Gracie. Gracie you mean the babe.
Oh who ell Grace Harwell, the London thrush. We don't
sing half as good as she looks.

Speaker 8 (04:04:04):
You know her? I met her a couple of times.
You want to knock down?

Speaker 38 (04:04:07):
Why not?

Speaker 8 (04:04:08):
Now? Well sure, Gracie, let's see your speed. Son. You've
got a ringside seat? Wow, hey, yank?

Speaker 35 (04:04:17):
You thought he takes so her single handed?

Speaker 8 (04:04:19):
Down? Gracie, what do you have my regular?

Speaker 35 (04:04:22):
Who's your friend?

Speaker 8 (04:04:23):
Oh?

Speaker 56 (04:04:23):
Meet Private Tom Bennett, Gracie Harwell, let me get you drink, Gracie.

Speaker 8 (04:04:28):
Faster that way? What about your ringside seat? I'll be
back in time that fast you can't worry grace. Yeah,
how would you like to help me win a bed?

Speaker 38 (04:04:40):
Well?

Speaker 35 (04:04:40):
This isn't you approach?

Speaker 8 (04:04:42):
Good? Well?

Speaker 38 (04:04:43):
Look, all I need to win is a big wood
U see for tomorrow night. We'll how about it after
the show.

Speaker 35 (04:04:49):
That you want furlough?

Speaker 8 (04:04:51):
Maybe maybe not. I'll be in town tomorrow night.

Speaker 35 (04:04:55):
Got a car with petrol?

Speaker 8 (04:04:57):
No, but I will. Have you said that like you
meant I will have a car and guess when and where?

Speaker 35 (04:05:04):
Well, I'm not saying for sure, but be outside at
one o'clock in the morning. You may when you pay.

Speaker 70 (04:05:15):
So the next that was the beginning, next evening, next morning,
rather times at the appointed place.

Speaker 8 (04:05:23):
Completely cheap and fuel hike.

Speaker 38 (04:05:26):
Grazie, Hello soldier, Come on, climb aboard.

Speaker 8 (04:05:31):
Where'd you get it? Let's say I borrowed it? Shall
we go? Why not?

Speaker 5 (04:05:37):
A boy, a girl, a.

Speaker 70 (04:05:38):
Cheap and a lot of the blackout without benefit of
cherry plays and palms. Are time to relax to make
the impression of the girl.

Speaker 8 (04:05:46):
The former bank.

Speaker 70 (04:05:47):
Clerk maids played with the girl who sang club dates
on the seami side of London.

Speaker 8 (04:05:51):
It's too bad no moon tonight. The moon means bombers
at this point.

Speaker 38 (04:05:56):
That's not too bad. Oh look, bombers means there's a
war on. No war, I wouldn't be here.

Speaker 35 (04:06:02):
What's good about that?

Speaker 8 (04:06:03):
Being here?

Speaker 38 (04:06:04):
I could itemize one I met you. Let's leave it
at that. You started catch the states.

Speaker 8 (04:06:10):
Don't waste time.

Speaker 35 (04:06:11):
You didn't waste time borrowing the jeep.

Speaker 8 (04:06:13):
What's one jeep? More or less? I work in the
car pool. I know my way around.

Speaker 47 (04:06:17):
You went back to get the car.

Speaker 8 (04:06:20):
What are you getting? Insisted?

Speaker 35 (04:06:21):
The car is out without a coast?

Speaker 8 (04:06:24):
So are you smart? Girl? I know my way around.

Speaker 35 (04:06:29):
I want to tell the jeep.

Speaker 58 (04:06:30):
I know a fellow.

Speaker 35 (04:06:31):
Give you a good price?

Speaker 8 (04:06:32):
No, I need it? Fall business?

Speaker 47 (04:06:34):
What kind of.

Speaker 8 (04:06:39):
Jeez? Text? Oh that's no pleasure? A bike this time?
I night? You're the girl on it?

Speaker 35 (04:06:43):
What kind of business?

Speaker 38 (04:06:45):
I have a small problem being out without a pass.
I don't get paid. Money is necessary even in wartime.
I had my ways back in La Most Angeles to you,
But I need a car.

Speaker 8 (04:06:58):
You got it greasy? Now, if you'd like the small demonstration,
we could.

Speaker 70 (04:07:03):
You know, a man boasts to a girl and decides
to make good the boast. This very modern variation on
that scene consisted of stumping the jeep the side of
the road, turning the end, waiting, half amused, half interested.

(04:07:24):
The girls that quietly. As the soldier climbed out of
the car and stationed himself in the shadows along the road,
came the bicycle, the girl on a peddlings with fair
thoughts A thousand miles away.

Speaker 8 (04:07:36):
She drew alongside the park, half hidden. Cheep, okay, just.

Speaker 35 (04:07:40):
Drop a what's the idea?

Speaker 8 (04:07:43):
Get home? I want to fight you get shut up?
You want one across the moat? You need to get
them heed?

Speaker 38 (04:07:55):
How was that, Gracie? As she left her bag, there
ought to be a lot left in it for a
couple of beers.

Speaker 35 (04:08:01):
So that's the way you do it in La. Yeah,
you're all right, Tommy. Only next time, let's crack it
for more than the price of a couple of beers.

Speaker 70 (04:08:16):
Next time. What's the next evening? But early before the
bars closed, Grace the pin upset.

Speaker 35 (04:08:22):
I won't go to work tomorrow night. And I know
a spot by itself with a get we can get
away fast like you did it in La.

Speaker 8 (04:08:29):
And they drove up to the spot, a small pop
on a side road, and Grace.

Speaker 35 (04:08:33):
Says, let's get to it, Tommy.

Speaker 8 (04:08:35):
They've got customers.

Speaker 35 (04:08:37):
That means money in the tail.

Speaker 8 (04:08:38):
But Tommy hesitated, and he said, too many scared. Well,
why take chances? It might even be a cop in there?

Speaker 35 (04:08:45):
Maybe later you promised, you said I'd be the lookout
while you.

Speaker 8 (04:08:48):
Went in pet Later not now.

Speaker 35 (04:08:50):
Well, let's do something, Tom.

Speaker 8 (04:08:54):
We'll find something you want to thrill. We'll find something.
They drove away a well lighted, well populated problems.

Speaker 70 (04:09:02):
Not Tom's liking, even for the dark roads, the byways,
the lone victims.

Speaker 8 (04:09:08):
But Gracie wanted a thrill to unfounded for.

Speaker 71 (04:09:17):
It's really only asked.

Speaker 8 (04:09:18):
You, But Tom, you wanted to thrill? Baby? Would you
get it? Where are you ahead of this pack?

Speaker 12 (04:09:25):
Kingston?

Speaker 8 (04:09:25):
If it's on your way, it's on our way, Elsa.
Let's go.

Speaker 70 (04:09:31):
Two girls and a boy racing along the unlighted road
towards Kingston. Not much conversation whatever it is with a
hit track of the car Tom drove. Gracie waited, river
flow close to the highway, black glass, silent.

Speaker 8 (04:09:46):
And the stylites. What's wrong? I think I have a flat.

Speaker 35 (04:09:50):
I didn't hear it, so I think I have a flat.
Oh oh yes it does feel awful.

Speaker 8 (04:09:55):
Bite me.

Speaker 38 (04:09:57):
I'm like the left rear now, hel But if you'd
get out, miss, you can leave your suitcase.

Speaker 8 (04:10:02):
The tools are under your seat.

Speaker 47 (04:10:04):
What can I do?

Speaker 8 (04:10:05):
I'll eat the jack, the handles on the floor, Gracy, you, miss,
I want your hand bag?

Speaker 11 (04:10:10):
Well hold them?

Speaker 35 (04:10:13):
Yes, there, you keep away back?

Speaker 18 (04:10:18):
Give me from.

Speaker 8 (04:10:22):
Stopping quick, give me the truck handle.

Speaker 47 (04:10:27):
Yeah like that where you hit her again? Come and
kick her of poor she's done.

Speaker 8 (04:10:37):
We got her stuff. I think she's breathing, so give
me in hand. What do we do with that? Into
the river? All do you suppose I picked this place
for get her feet? Now into the drinks? She goes, Well,

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did you gotta throw a out of that? Baby? That's
the way we do it in l A. Nuck them over,
dump them someplace, but I won't be found. Okay, let's
get go on, Gracie. We got places to go and
things to do tonight.

Speaker 70 (04:11:16):
Nice cream fun. The end of that night's work was
a jack candle Jack candle. It lies today in the
Black Museum.

Speaker 71 (04:11:32):
In just a moment, we will continue with the Black
Museum starring Awesome. Well, and now we continue with the

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Black Museum Starring Awesome well.

Speaker 70 (04:12:23):
And it's to be some time before the jack handle
came to rest in the Black Museum, A trail of
blood and misadventure was yet to be plazed through wartime London.
Tom and Grace were amateurs at crime like this, but
they knew enough to cover their tracks. They ditched the
jeep parking in the rubbed street. They took cover during daylight,
but night in the blackout with their cloak as they

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prowl for further victims.

Speaker 35 (04:12:54):
I'm sick of walking?

Speaker 8 (04:12:55):
Does limousine?

Speaker 35 (04:12:57):
I want to ride?

Speaker 44 (04:12:57):
Do you hear?

Speaker 38 (04:12:58):
Tom?

Speaker 8 (04:12:58):
Boys?

Speaker 40 (04:12:59):
Here?

Speaker 8 (04:13:00):
Come on, we'll duck into this vestibule. Something will be along.
Give me a kiss?

Speaker 35 (04:13:06):
Oh you never have in now?

Speaker 8 (04:13:08):
I haven't gives the baby in a doorway since la good?

Speaker 35 (04:13:13):
What's that in your pocket?

Speaker 8 (04:13:16):
You like it? Shell? In the chamber? Full clip?

Speaker 47 (04:13:18):
Where'd you get hit?

Speaker 8 (04:13:19):
The army store? Is natch? Pretty? Throw it away? Are
you kidding?

Speaker 35 (04:13:24):
Do you know what they give you for cutting a
pistol in this country?

Speaker 8 (04:13:27):
What's the difference? We killed that dame, didn't we They
take us? It's the chair anyway?

Speaker 35 (04:13:31):
Well over, here's the rope at eighty top in the morning,
I'm cold, Tommy cold.

Speaker 8 (04:13:39):
Maybe you're the warmest thing in London? What's that? A
car must be? You want to ride, don't you? Hey?
Driver give us a look, be stopping for us, obliging fellow,
isn't he.

Speaker 38 (04:13:58):
Way too?

Speaker 8 (04:13:59):
Heah? Your way towards Shepherd's Bush. My girls got tired
of walking.

Speaker 38 (04:14:04):
It is often a taxi, you know, drivate caw hack
crisis not the charges in their eyes.

Speaker 8 (04:14:09):
But we don't mind, do we? Honey? We've got money,
of money pop in in the.

Speaker 70 (04:14:14):
Back private car with hack licensed driver James Carter. Direction
east through the blackouts, the blue shaded headlights barely glowing
in the gloom.

Speaker 38 (04:14:31):
After a little distance, driver we chased our minds. How
much would it cost me to go a little way further?
I'll as far as Shepherd's Bush. Driver Carter opliged.

Speaker 8 (04:14:46):
It was his job.

Speaker 70 (04:14:47):
They got passengers to live them through the black house,
whether they wanted to go for a price. They're living
in sorts. Driver Carter thought of it as a living.
It's plenty deserted out of here.

Speaker 35 (04:15:00):
The jetty did a ton of job out.

Speaker 8 (04:15:01):
That's right, smooth the docks, isn't it's a good place?

Speaker 35 (04:15:05):
Perfect?

Speaker 8 (04:15:06):
Do you think he's got me money. All right, driver,
stop here, he's nothing given the rubble. You heard me stop.
You know what this is? Service? Do you hold it? Gracy?
I don't move, driver, she's got an itchy finger. It's
he and have my wallet. Keep the coming, Gracy, while
I opened the front door. Give me back the gun.

Speaker 38 (04:15:29):
All right, cute driver, get out on this side. Enough
car too, Just feed me alone, Gracy, did you.

Speaker 8 (04:15:37):
Ever see the whole of forty five makes a man?

Speaker 44 (04:15:39):
No?

Speaker 35 (04:15:40):
Tell me never, No god.

Speaker 8 (04:15:46):
Big enough to put your fists back where it came out.
Let's toss him in the rubble. He'll do it now.
We can ride anywhere you want to go. And it
doesn't take much to kill a man.

Speaker 70 (04:15:58):
He pulled the trigger in the firing pin strikes the
cardries and the powder explodes.

Speaker 8 (04:16:04):
And then a bit of lead tears into the man.

Speaker 70 (04:16:06):
It's all nothing left but a few chemicals which once
were living flesh.

Speaker 8 (04:16:12):
A few rags of clothing. Toss it into the rubble.
Thus to dawn.

Speaker 70 (04:16:29):
Dawn comes to the warring city. The sun touches the rubble.
The sun moves warmly over the cold rubble, over the dead.
The night watchers start home the fire wardens. We're able
to relieved after a quirt night. Take a short cut
toward their breakfasts, a few hours sleep.

Speaker 8 (04:16:49):
Here, what's that body? Seems like there he was clear
are months ago?

Speaker 4 (04:16:54):
He fished up one little look.

Speaker 8 (04:16:57):
Shall we? They had their look. It wasn't pleasant.

Speaker 4 (04:17:05):
Shot, sooner chase, stay here, I'll find a corbox.

Speaker 70 (04:17:08):
The firewarden placed his call. He rank straight through the
scarpenter and a short while later a man picked up
the telephone on his desk. He sighed the gray Stone
building on the.

Speaker 8 (04:17:20):
Thames spect to Mason here, Davis, go ahead, Sagan. The
body found in the east end.

Speaker 72 (04:17:28):
So shot at the large caliber for the size of
the would probably a service.

Speaker 8 (04:17:33):
Pistol identified As yet, no identity.

Speaker 72 (04:17:35):
Papers are still on him. So James Carter text you driver,
private car registration tag number one D.

Speaker 8 (04:17:43):
Seven four four mine the car, no sign of it.

Speaker 72 (04:17:47):
Tire marks in the road to thoroughly bombed area, so
very little traffic.

Speaker 8 (04:17:53):
Another one, very well, Send out the usual teletype the
scription of the car, you know, check for relations fins
of the deceased. That's all we can do for now.

Speaker 70 (04:18:04):
Routine the teletype draw police stations, the Constable's memorizing details
where they go on patrol. A lot of the big
sprawling city, the black cards. Many help, that's all, but

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the wheels have began to turn routine inex rouble never ended.

Speaker 8 (04:18:34):
So another telephone call, Constable Gray, inspector Ladbrook Station. I
believe I have the car that was posted this morning.
Are the seven four four five black today?

Speaker 4 (04:18:51):
It's parked in bush mules, that's what they'd end, sir.

Speaker 73 (04:18:55):
It's facing out, very good, Gray stand by will be
along shortly a sharp back cart.

Speaker 70 (04:19:00):
All in the black out the dark routine inex inevitable.
Cut your engines out usual routine. If there's an attempt
to drive out, turn on your headlights. The driver will
be blinded. Very good, So.

Speaker 8 (04:19:20):
Gray comfortable, Gray, Yes, inspectoration, CID anything yet and no,
not yet.

Speaker 70 (04:19:26):
There's a pin hole in the blackout curtain the second
story window of the house.

Speaker 8 (04:19:30):
Behind the car. There was a light up there.

Speaker 73 (04:19:34):
Nothing now eight wind out A moment ago, sir, I
take pass behind the car, Gray, I cost anyone who
approaches it.

Speaker 70 (04:19:40):
The area has covered the albinos cave yes. The Constable's
footsteps fade and stop. Silence, darkness, the trap is set.
They wait, no movement, no sound other than the glow
of a cigarette, just darker shadows in the darkness the

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depths of the little muse. A door opens and closes.
Footsteps briefly, two pairs of footsteps. The car door opens,
and Constable Gray calls out, don't stop you, all.

Speaker 8 (04:20:16):
Right, sudden you're right, Stobby the coppet, the capost or.
You won't take me pulling Gray.

Speaker 73 (04:20:27):
Never mind that my Da didn't formula. You're under arrest.
I'll be charged with the murder. And I warn you
that anything you say will be taken down in writing
and maybe use an evidence. You can't prove anything from
the rule. And it comes to yes, sir, all this
sir service pistol co good enough? Take them along, all right,
you too.

Speaker 11 (04:20:43):
Can't touch me.

Speaker 35 (04:20:44):
I'll come along.

Speaker 14 (04:20:45):
He made me go with him.

Speaker 35 (04:20:46):
He threatened me with a pistol.

Speaker 8 (04:20:48):
He made me go along. That's all say the trial
which followed swiftly. That was the plea of the Toddy,
a little pin up on the seamy side of London.

Speaker 35 (04:21:05):
He made me do it. He hit me, showed me
his pistol, He.

Speaker 13 (04:21:08):
Made me do it.

Speaker 8 (04:21:09):
Follow The robbery is the cheap shilling sized robberies.

Speaker 35 (04:21:14):
Yes, I took that girl's purse. I went through the
driver's wallet before before we left his party.

Speaker 47 (04:21:20):
He made me do it.

Speaker 35 (04:21:22):
You've got to believe me.

Speaker 33 (04:21:24):
He might not do it.

Speaker 70 (04:21:27):
There were other far less hysterical witnesses, men who spoke
with a calm, certainty of truth.

Speaker 8 (04:21:33):
That was the ballistics.

Speaker 4 (04:21:34):
Experts, and then absolutely no doubt.

Speaker 38 (04:21:49):
The bullet which killed James Carter, the driver of that
hired car, was found in the thowding of the car.
We've compared it with test bullets fire and the pistol
found they accused the right wing marked are identical. The
dead bullet was fired from that pistol.

Speaker 70 (04:22:20):
Tom Bennett accused of murder, Wanted for desertion by the
United States Army.

Speaker 8 (04:22:26):
Former bank clerk. He played his role defiantly. I tell
her she's framing me. This whole deal was her idea.
You should have seen the banks she got, but she
watched what was going on. Now she's trying to pass
the buck to.

Speaker 70 (04:22:39):
Me, and with customary fairness, Scotland Yard turned up a
surprise witness.

Speaker 8 (04:22:45):
Yes, those are the two.

Speaker 35 (04:22:46):
She gave him the jack handle and.

Speaker 8 (04:22:48):
He hit me with it.

Speaker 47 (04:22:49):
They threw me in the river.

Speaker 35 (04:22:51):
The lorry driver found me. I know them anywhere. He
made me go along.

Speaker 47 (04:22:55):
He made me.

Speaker 8 (04:22:57):
I'll prove it.

Speaker 35 (04:22:58):
I'll show you where we left the jeep the jack in.

Speaker 8 (04:23:07):
Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict? We have, mylon.
Let the prisoners face the jury. What is your verdict?

Speaker 73 (04:23:19):
We find both defendants guilty of murder and had a
recommendation of mercy for the female prisoner.

Speaker 70 (04:23:33):
Yes, juries behave somewhat strangely at times. This one was
impressed with the pree of compulsion, but not quite enough,
it seems to acquit Grace Harwell. Thus it came about
in due course that the judge pronounced the.

Speaker 74 (04:23:47):
Sentence joonas Bin, you have been found guty of murder.
The sentence of the court is that you be hanged
by the neck until you are dead, and then may
the Lord have mercy on your soul.

Speaker 8 (04:24:14):
On Grace Harwell.

Speaker 70 (04:24:16):
The judge pronounced the same terrible sentence, but the jury's
recommendation for mercy led the Home Secretary to commute this
to penal servitude for life a lifetime for Grace Farwell
to remember, he.

Speaker 35 (04:24:30):
Made me go alone. He made me go Alonge.

Speaker 70 (04:24:38):
Jack Capdell that lies today in the Black Musy. So
much for the story of Grace and Tom. Tom's light
ended on the scaffold. The life of Grace Harwell continues
in the drab monotony of Holloway Prison. The service list,

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of course and the jack Handle remain in their places.

Speaker 8 (04:25:04):
There are special places of honor.

Speaker 70 (04:25:07):
On a shelf in that curious room which is now
in Scotland Yard at the Black Museum. And now until
next time, until we meet again in the same place,
can I tell you another story of the Black Museum.

Speaker 8 (04:25:26):
And remain as always obedient for yourys.

Speaker 51 (04:25:54):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious travel written, produced
and directed by Rob Day, author and David Coogan, and
presenting tonight to a radio's foremost personality, Frank Barrens and
Roger de Cook in Death at fifty fathoms.

Speaker 15 (04:26:16):
This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me
on another journey out of the realm of the strange
and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip,
that it will brill you a little and chill you
a little. So settle back, get a good.

Speaker 8 (04:26:33):
Grip on your nerves and be comfortable if you can.

Speaker 15 (04:26:37):
For tonight we're going to venture into the dangerous depths
of the Atlantic with a group of desperate men caught
in a strange dilemma. It's a story I call death
at fifty fathoms. I suppose you've been reading the newspapers

(04:27:00):
last few weeks. He saw those headlines Mystery sub cited
off the Pacific coast and traitor vanishes as mystery sub
is sighted and all the others well. Joe Briggs read
them too, as well as heard the story one evening
when he dropped into the corner bar near the radio

(04:27:20):
repair shopping.

Speaker 44 (04:27:21):
All total damage caused by the bar was close to
a million dollars.

Speaker 52 (04:27:26):
Hi, joam up American destroyer.

Speaker 49 (04:27:34):
Hey, what's that news commentator saying about the mystery sub.

Speaker 75 (04:27:37):
Let me come from the Navy Department, except the statement
we are investigating. One rumor insists that the appearance of
the mystery sub is connected with former German dictator Adolf Hitler.
According to unidentified sources, Hitler is hiding somewhere in South
America and being supplied by submarine. However, official circles regard

(04:27:58):
this story as being fantastic. The summary of the Last
minute News has been brought to you.

Speaker 8 (04:28:03):
By Double.

Speaker 49 (04:28:05):
Mystery Submarines, Hitler, Hyden and South America.

Speaker 1 (04:28:09):
What do they think of next?

Speaker 49 (04:28:11):
Yeah, it's screw you, alright, But I could tell you
his story. That's even screwier. M I know what happened
to Hitler and where he is now?

Speaker 20 (04:28:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 64 (04:28:21):
Yeah, I thought the Russians found his body when they
captured Berlin.

Speaker 49 (04:28:27):
Well maybe they found a body, but it wasn't his.

Speaker 14 (04:28:30):
Whose was it?

Speaker 8 (04:28:31):
A double?

Speaker 49 (04:28:32):
Hitler did try to get away by submarine cee and
this mm nuh. You wouldn't believe it if I told
you train me and see, okay?

Speaker 40 (04:28:43):
Uh?

Speaker 49 (04:28:44):
Only uh I never told it before, you see, not
even to my buddies when I was in the navy.
Why should I be called nuts and sent up for observation?
So uh, don't believe me. Just call it a story
and you can stand me a beer when I finished.

Speaker 40 (04:29:00):
Eh, all right, Joe, it's just the story.

Speaker 38 (04:29:04):
Check.

Speaker 40 (04:29:06):
Well. It began the night after the war and Europe ended.

Speaker 49 (04:29:10):
I was in the Navy then I was a radio
operator on board the destroyer's spindrip. It was late at
night and I was half asleep in the radio room,
the receiver over my ears when I heard it, A
voice the seed to come, whispering out of no place.

Speaker 34 (04:29:27):
Hello, Hello, can you hear me?

Speaker 8 (04:29:30):
Can anybody hear me?

Speaker 2 (04:29:31):
Please?

Speaker 8 (04:29:32):
If you can hear me? Voice faded out again. It
was a German voice talking English. Good.

Speaker 5 (04:29:41):
I turned the controls and it came back stronger.

Speaker 52 (04:29:46):
Hello, Hello, This is Oberlutenant Rhina of the what a
sea boat Wolf. Listen to me. Anybody who may be
picking up this message, please listen. Nobody can help us,
but it makes it easier to talk, easier to face

(04:30:06):
what's coming, Easier to face death.

Speaker 8 (04:30:12):
Yes, death.

Speaker 52 (04:30:14):
We are doomed, and we know it. And yet only
yesterday we thought all danger must past. Yes, just yesterday afternoon,
as we were cruising on the surface recharging our batteries,
we thought our mission was as good as accomplished. M

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Captain Metz was on the bridge with our very special
passenger who called himself a Schmidt, though of course we
all know who he was.

Speaker 44 (04:30:46):
A beautiful day at then, particularly gratifying.

Speaker 14 (04:30:51):
Our car lungs a buss.

Speaker 40 (04:30:53):
Yes, your excellency, padly have me.

Speaker 44 (04:30:56):
You must not take the slightest risk as long as
I am what Mets we have lost?

Speaker 40 (04:31:03):
But I yet ring you hear I say ring, for
it would be disloyal of me to believe anything else.
Here Smith in South.

Speaker 44 (04:31:11):
America, I will make my plans the world, think.

Speaker 40 (04:31:15):
Me, tay, ince head.

Speaker 44 (04:31:16):
I will be hidden where I can direct our rebind quite.

Speaker 40 (04:31:20):
So, your excellency, er pardon me? Is the lookout and
find a something?

Speaker 44 (04:31:26):
Oh yeah, there's a lifeboat fifteen three points off our harbor.

Speaker 52 (04:31:30):
Bough, pitching and tossing on the gray waves of the
Atlantic ahead of us, US a lifeboat crowded with gorne
faced men who watched with hostile eyes.

Speaker 15 (04:31:44):
As we came alongside a dozen yards away.

Speaker 52 (04:31:48):
Captain Metz ordered the engine stop, and then, as our
illustrious passenger looked on with his cloak concealing his face,
Captain Mets questioned the men in the lifeboat.

Speaker 8 (04:32:00):
Oh's the lifeboat?

Speaker 40 (04:32:01):
Hold in?

Speaker 36 (04:32:02):
Char I and last your right?

Speaker 40 (04:32:04):
What's your name?

Speaker 44 (04:32:05):
What ship?

Speaker 40 (04:32:06):
What carboad did you carry? What port for your playing
for top.

Speaker 2 (04:32:10):
Ten water mccaf welf a mountain.

Speaker 16 (04:32:13):
We were on a lead ship carrying prow the medical supplies.

Speaker 44 (04:32:16):
When one of your bathering dogs, so people us set
up that detention.

Speaker 8 (04:32:20):
You might pull away.

Speaker 40 (04:32:21):
Now the nurse land is three hundred miles the rest
of you.

Speaker 8 (04:32:26):
Ay, we'll pull away.

Speaker 44 (04:32:28):
I'm glad to get out of the same pot for
the us and with the well man. Let's where we
come free. They're not contaminated by these stock.

Speaker 8 (04:32:38):
And then.

Speaker 52 (04:32:40):
Just as the lifeboat started to pull away, the wind
whipped aside our passenger's cloak. And in the lifeboat who
Captain McKenzie, a burly giant of a man, who recognized him?

Speaker 14 (04:32:55):
And stop LUs Hell and the conning.

Speaker 72 (04:33:01):
You see that's making rat trying to.

Speaker 34 (04:33:03):
Hide his face.

Speaker 19 (04:33:05):
You know who that is?

Speaker 44 (04:33:06):
Hey, they give me look at him.

Speaker 2 (04:33:09):
It's the master murderer himself.

Speaker 14 (04:33:12):
They are devil will really.

Speaker 36 (04:33:13):
Takes the order to take up.

Speaker 16 (04:33:14):
Come read to the bottom.

Speaker 76 (04:33:16):
He look at him there with his tooth plus to
dash rang a height from us.

Speaker 40 (04:33:21):
I fear you have been recognized. Hel Schmid stopped him.

Speaker 14 (04:33:24):
They must die, all of them.

Speaker 21 (04:33:26):
Turn your guns on them.

Speaker 40 (04:33:27):
That is against international law. Here, Schmidt, I order you to.

Speaker 44 (04:33:30):
Destroy the court capitain. No one can be allowed to
leave to report. See me very well, father gone ready
to fire. Bather God lady, the fire.

Speaker 40 (04:33:41):
Gave them, pour arm over come fire.

Speaker 44 (04:33:45):
Fama, gun fire, We are murdering dogs.

Speaker 14 (04:33:52):
Say you can't started, ask you you.

Speaker 44 (04:33:56):
You are on the cunning tower, less than tunny.

Speaker 13 (04:34:00):
Every one of us will be waiting by her when
your time comes, all us at your house and jack
for the mountain where we're waiting by your jolly in
the dark waters where.

Speaker 8 (04:34:11):
We waiting by her, and it'll come down among us.

Speaker 76 (04:34:14):
Well, get ya remember that we be waiting fire fire, Yeah, god.

Speaker 40 (04:34:26):
Yeah, I'm directly.

Speaker 44 (04:34:28):
There will be no eyewitness to tell of seeing you
aboard a submarine in these waters. Here, Schmidt, the world
must never guess. I have left Germany, the whole future
apart and landon n What is that that sounds farmers?
But drove bombers coming his way. Get below it, run,
we're going down.

Speaker 52 (04:34:52):
We made a crash dive and fled into the concealing
depths of the ocean. A few bombs exploded, but our way.
The patrol planes were too late. Crisply captain Mets keep
the necessary orders, while our illustrious passenger looked on his face, peel.

Speaker 44 (04:35:11):
What our death miller seventy five feet sad we were
too fast for them.

Speaker 14 (04:35:20):
The boots. They are coming closer.

Speaker 44 (04:35:23):
Oh they've lost they're following at random. Now, yes, we're
safely away. The death miller ninety fizza nineties and half
level of level herself.

Speaker 40 (04:35:36):
We'll bet the course.

Speaker 44 (04:35:37):
At one hundred and eight there level, I said, with
phill diving leveling things to de wondrous fans that the.

Speaker 34 (04:35:46):
Cham don't be upgrading motors have broken down.

Speaker 44 (04:35:48):
We had done it. The phones have seven bard fence.
There wasn't a bomb broken off. The wig and a
briller are death one and twenty feet nina or the
half feet ahead half speed ahead lift to hand operation
off the diving plane.

Speaker 49 (04:36:05):
Hands operation of the diving things said.

Speaker 44 (04:36:07):
Now level hair level haath sand.

Speaker 34 (04:36:11):
Well, what's the matter?

Speaker 44 (04:36:12):
Competing opating tea won't turn it won't f The planes
must be chance and the two diving copy don mats.
I demand the two rights to the surface. There's something
wrong and my safety must not be in Dangs Island.
I am captain of this vessel line, giving the orders.

(04:36:33):
All right while leveling planes are jams, reel surface and
clear them.

Speaker 40 (04:36:38):
Enough death banana fifty.

Speaker 44 (04:36:41):
Feet stop the vengeance, stop the angel lord, the forward
Palace tank Lord, the forward ballast tank.

Speaker 49 (04:36:58):
Our bow is beginning to come up, sir, Yeah, they're
leveling off all the resy.

Speaker 40 (04:37:06):
We rah how fast to be going up? Yeah, I'm
not not rising at all times. Not rising.

Speaker 44 (04:37:13):
You must be just still diving.

Speaker 24 (04:37:16):
Twenty feet a minute.

Speaker 34 (04:37:18):
According to the gages.

Speaker 40 (04:37:19):
We are light, not heavy.

Speaker 14 (04:37:21):
We can't still be diving, can't retain.

Speaker 44 (04:37:23):
I order you to take me to the turf's immediately.

Speaker 15 (04:37:26):
Do you here?

Speaker 44 (04:37:26):
I I am just as interested that you in reaching
the surf as hal Smith. Blow the main balance pipe,
blow the main ballace pipe.

Speaker 52 (04:37:43):
For an hour we struggled to reach the surface to
no avare. We threw all our ballast tanks until we
should have shot up like a cork, and still we
continued settling toward the bottom. It was unreal, unbelievable.

Speaker 8 (04:37:59):
In Bass.

Speaker 52 (04:38:00):
The crew stared at each other, white faced, and dared
not utter their fears aloud. Our illustrious passenger raved and ratted,
and Captain Mets screeching about his safety until Mets ordered
into his cabin, white faced, his beating, black eyes wide
with terror. All Schmidt left the control room. We continue

(04:38:22):
trying to raise the kunk sheet boat Wolf for the service.

Speaker 49 (04:38:27):
White non rha, what depth does the job show?

Speaker 14 (04:38:31):
Three hundred feet with the gravel bottom, Sir?

Speaker 44 (04:38:35):
That there's a fat in the ocean bed just east
of our position, a crevass a thousand feet deep here
safely beyond it?

Speaker 40 (04:38:43):
Miller our death?

Speaker 44 (04:38:45):
Who had that faith?

Speaker 20 (04:38:46):
Then?

Speaker 4 (04:38:47):
And we are going down ten feet a minute?

Speaker 8 (04:38:51):
But our tanks are empty.

Speaker 47 (04:38:52):
We should be going off.

Speaker 44 (04:38:53):
Nevertheless, we are going down, and as long as we are,
we will bottom and surface for repair.

Speaker 40 (04:39:00):
Who said that?

Speaker 5 (04:39:02):
Who talk?

Speaker 20 (04:39:03):
And what not?

Speaker 40 (04:39:04):
I don't know, Sir, Mila not, sir.

Speaker 52 (04:39:07):
High up and.

Speaker 40 (04:39:10):
Someone is live. When I find him, he'll go into
a miller. I'll dip.

Speaker 44 (04:39:17):
And that fancy paid.

Speaker 40 (04:39:20):
Its sound as if as if what nothing?

Speaker 52 (04:39:25):
Sir?

Speaker 8 (04:39:26):
Go on?

Speaker 14 (04:39:26):
As if?

Speaker 40 (04:39:27):
What excuse me, sir?

Speaker 14 (04:39:31):
I was going to say, as if something was pulling
us down?

Speaker 15 (04:39:35):
Ha ha?

Speaker 40 (04:39:36):
What use for death or of saying yes, sir?

Speaker 5 (04:39:39):
He is that you continue to think better of that remark.

Speaker 14 (04:39:42):
The same applies to everyone on board.

Speaker 44 (04:39:47):
Na yes, sir, he will bottom in seven minutes. Prepare
to make an inspection of the ship when we do.

Speaker 49 (04:40:04):
Well like none, I have finished the inspections.

Speaker 40 (04:40:07):
Your report.

Speaker 14 (04:40:08):
Everything is in perfect order, sir.

Speaker 44 (04:40:11):
There are no leaks. The batteries are fully charged, all
motors in working order, all funds operating. Obviously, there is
no reason we should not surface when we choose to
do so.

Speaker 40 (04:40:21):
No, sir, Milla, what word of the deployer. I have
had no pupella sam for two hours. Then we will surface.

Speaker 44 (04:40:30):
Blows augiliary tanks low, the auxiliary tanks there, all main
and auxiliary tanks empty.

Speaker 14 (04:40:46):
There, all tanks empty, kept the mess. We have flown
all our.

Speaker 5 (04:40:51):
Tanks, and we have not risen one insight I'm aware of.

Speaker 65 (04:40:54):
It might not high.

Speaker 40 (04:40:55):
Now do you take me for an IMBERTI no, sir.

Speaker 14 (04:40:57):
It's just that it's it's impossible, obre.

Speaker 40 (04:41:00):
We we are stuck on a mud bottom.

Speaker 14 (04:41:01):
But the bottom here is traveled, the chart says. So
the chart is wrong, I say it.

Speaker 40 (04:41:07):
But you're here, yes, sir, But and so we will
have to use the motors to pull ourselves free.

Speaker 44 (04:41:15):
They don't won't be ahead, yes, sir, worse be ahead.

Speaker 5 (04:41:25):
We're not moving.

Speaker 41 (04:41:30):
What is it?

Speaker 14 (04:41:30):
Why have the fool come out tomorrow?

Speaker 40 (04:41:32):
Excuse me, sir, The ends the rule is reporting.

Speaker 14 (04:41:34):
I suppose the idiot to burned out the motor.

Speaker 44 (04:41:38):
No, sir, they say they propeller is powered, how can
it be, Poul It's impossible for it to become pound
and it's bottomed.

Speaker 49 (04:41:44):
Yes, sir, they say it's not entirely powered.

Speaker 14 (04:41:49):
It will turn, but only there slowly.

Speaker 49 (04:41:53):
And see as if what they say it turns, as
if I see a lot of Hey Hans, we're holding
it to keep it from revolving.

Speaker 8 (04:42:03):
Poo the imbeciles.

Speaker 44 (04:42:05):
When we get back to our base, I'll court Marshal
every man aboard.

Speaker 40 (04:42:10):
You got the tangles.

Speaker 44 (04:42:10):
With a little TV, that's all you may be able
to reverse the propeller and prayers pose feed a stern
light natrhina.

Speaker 14 (04:42:18):
Hours speed of stern. Well, now what the edgine room reports.

Speaker 49 (04:42:31):
The propeller still powerser it turns, but as if something
was holding it back.

Speaker 44 (04:42:38):
And to think that I, lutric for mets thought I
had the finest submarine crew in the world, a bank
of mueling infants. Captain Copician mets Mates, Ah, help Schmidt,
I trust you have nothing worried. Everything is quite under control,
Captain mets In.

Speaker 14 (04:42:56):
My Captain, I have been hearing sounds.

Speaker 40 (04:42:58):
Count your excellency, what down.

Speaker 14 (04:43:01):
From outside the submarine?

Speaker 44 (04:43:03):
Scratching sounds tappings on the holiday go on and on
and on. They sound cut it handy. They sound like
someone trying to get into the submarine up to me, stancy,
you have heard nothing except pebble bespecked against our hull
by the car. That is all I tell you. It

(04:43:24):
sounds like hands rapping and tapping on our hulls trying
to get in cavin surface advance, you hear, I order
you to surf this ad once. I am about to
do so.

Speaker 40 (04:43:34):
Now, with all due respect, may I suggest you return
to your cabin. Your present here may impede if.

Speaker 44 (04:43:41):
I very well, but see that you take me to
the surface at once. Have no fear light noneighener. Perhaps
you will assist hell Shmid to his cabin.

Speaker 49 (04:43:54):
Yes, sir, certainly, if I may hold it off for
your excellency.

Speaker 14 (04:44:01):
Competent competents, well, what is it, competent?

Speaker 34 (04:44:05):
We hear them too, sounds coming from.

Speaker 8 (04:44:08):
I hear no sound?

Speaker 44 (04:44:10):
Excuse I can hear them now quite plainly on my
detective forms. They do sound like the rassling and scraping
of a lot of men clambering over our house.

Speaker 40 (04:44:19):
And yeah, I have stuck to bring you to your senses.

Speaker 8 (04:44:25):
Listen to me.

Speaker 44 (04:44:25):
All of you, your temporarily is stuck in the mud.
A current is weeping tebbles against us. You're all acting
like children who think they see a ghost in a graveyard.
You're going to be on the surface in an hour.
You have my word for it to break free from

(04:44:46):
the mud. I'm going to fill the bowel tanks, then
blow them and fill the stern tanks.

Speaker 40 (04:44:54):
Well rocks the ship lose. You understand, you understand. Blood
the forward ballast tang.

Speaker 14 (04:45:01):
Blood the forward balastang, said.

Speaker 34 (04:45:12):
Captain Mets.

Speaker 40 (04:45:13):
Yeah, helloid man.

Speaker 8 (04:45:15):
The pumps are operating again. The failure of us caused.

Speaker 49 (04:45:19):
By Seamen Hans jeger Geger, how he went off his
head and grabbed the pole of the main switch. The
short circuit blew out the fuses and electricukin our.

Speaker 5 (04:45:32):
Ee's authors reacted badly, sir.

Speaker 8 (04:45:35):
They are very nervous.

Speaker 40 (04:45:37):
Nervous, sir they.

Speaker 44 (04:45:40):
I will give them something to be nervous about.

Speaker 14 (04:45:43):
That is scraping and scratching outside our hull.

Speaker 8 (04:45:46):
It's upset the crew bad, Lisa.

Speaker 49 (04:45:48):
I know it's stopped now, but the men say it's
just because they are planning something else. Hey, what do
you mean they the crew says, says that there are
a hundred of men in the water outside trying to
get in at us dead man's light.

Speaker 14 (04:46:05):
Not er, do you wish to be placed in eyeoside.
I'm just trying to explain the crew stank of mind.

Speaker 49 (04:46:11):
In spite of all our efforts, we are still on
the bottom and the men, the men are getting jumpies.

Speaker 44 (04:46:17):
I'll teach them a lesson. They'll not forget. But of
course they're taking it up. Cue from our Lostrius passenger,
if he hadn't come out here with his ravings and huntings.

Speaker 40 (04:46:28):
Never mind that he's quiet now.

Speaker 5 (04:46:31):
I gave him visky that.

Speaker 49 (04:46:32):
Said, if I may make a suggestion, sir, well, what
is it? There is one thing that we have not tried.

Speaker 8 (04:46:39):
We have to try it.

Speaker 14 (04:46:41):
Discharge our torpedoes. Charge our torpedo.

Speaker 18 (04:46:44):
He must.

Speaker 49 (04:46:45):
We have ten torpedoes aboard, each weighing twenty five hundred pounds.

Speaker 14 (04:46:48):
That's twenty five thousand pounds of deadweight. Get rid of that,
and we have to rise.

Speaker 44 (04:46:53):
We have to r see you are beginning to share
the hysteria or the coal. However, I actually your suggestion,
order the discharging of the torpedoes to begin at once, Yes,
sir at once.

Speaker 2 (04:47:08):
Fuck.

Speaker 52 (04:47:10):
We began discharging our torpedoes two three four, and then.

Speaker 38 (04:47:17):
The wolf moved.

Speaker 8 (04:47:19):
It chose to and moved, but not upward, all the surface.

Speaker 52 (04:47:23):
To my horror, as I watched the gages, we began
to move downward fifty feet sixty feet. We slid ever
deeper into the ocean's depths, as if down a steep
slope on the bottom. After we had fired six torpedoes,
we were actually one hundred feet deeper than we had been.

(04:47:44):
And then the discharge of torpedoes snapped, and I went
forward to find out what was wrong.

Speaker 34 (04:47:54):
No use, it is no use.

Speaker 14 (04:47:56):
You're going down, not up down? What's going on?

Speaker 3 (04:47:59):
You?

Speaker 44 (04:48:00):
Yeah, by having the rest of the torpedoes been the
sucks your ma is going on like that, the five tricks,
the pedal to lat and ship us sock diaper right deeper,
all these deeper our plates won't stand. It can be becashed, drowned.

Speaker 41 (04:48:15):
Like rats in a trap.

Speaker 14 (04:48:16):
I'll be quiet.

Speaker 44 (04:48:16):
Should I be quiet? You all know our thanks are empty.
If we should have been on the shelf as long ago.
We're being held down by a thousand dead men crawling
all over us. Scratching it our plates.

Speaker 55 (04:48:28):
Trying to get in.

Speaker 44 (04:48:29):
They've come more over the Seven Seas just to hold
us down, just to see if we don't get away.

Speaker 14 (04:48:35):
Listen, listen to them.

Speaker 21 (04:48:37):
You can hear them now.

Speaker 40 (04:48:38):
Listen, may I.

Speaker 14 (04:48:40):
Come to your senses. It's only our plates groaning under
the press day.

Speaker 41 (04:48:45):
Listen, you know better, We all.

Speaker 44 (04:48:47):
Know better who dragged us down here to the buttom
whose hands are keeping up proparison turning, whose bodies jammed
out diphing planes, whose weight is keeping us in the
bottom today, I order you to be silent.

Speaker 14 (04:48:59):
Too late for waters. There is only one wave.

Speaker 8 (04:49:01):
He can escape.

Speaker 44 (04:49:03):
Give them the dead outside.

Speaker 41 (04:49:04):
The man they want.

Speaker 44 (04:49:05):
They want our passenger, the man who calls himself Hair Smeet.
We all know who is, and so today they've come
to get it.

Speaker 14 (04:49:13):
You are under arrest.

Speaker 44 (04:49:14):
Grab him, you married. Listen, listen, all of you. Let
us go get this hair Schmitt. Put him into the
Piga trooper and send him out to the dead outside.
Let them have him, then they let us go free.
He is out, honey, whole Captain nurse, I heard your
interesting little speech just now, and bris is.

Speaker 36 (04:49:33):
My captain Knight.

Speaker 40 (04:49:36):
But anyone else what the same medicine, and to your station.
Why not? And then you're discharging torpedoes.

Speaker 5 (04:49:50):
That was many hours ago.

Speaker 52 (04:49:54):
We discharged all our torpedoes, and we are still on
the bottom. Every few minutes we'll slip a little deeper
down a slope that is bringing us ever closer to
the thousand foot chasm in the ocean bed. And the
crew truly believes that we are being dragged, taunted by

(04:50:16):
thousands of dead men who have gathered outside, drawn here
by their hatred for our passenger. The hatreds so great
even death cannot bring you. I can't stay all right. Certainly,
air Schmidt believes in himself. He is in the next cabin.
Captain Metz has locked him in. Perhaps if I hold

(04:50:39):
this microphone close to the bulkhead, you can't hear him.

Speaker 40 (04:50:44):
Propy, the mets do something.

Speaker 14 (04:50:47):
I order you to do something fun.

Speaker 36 (04:50:51):
You're clawing with.

Speaker 21 (04:50:51):
The Hunstan, I I mean, Propy.

Speaker 14 (04:50:54):
Don't tell me what.

Speaker 40 (04:50:55):
Honor you do?

Speaker 21 (04:50:56):
You funt let me, don top me, don prop me,
don don grow.

Speaker 38 (04:51:01):
That is enough.

Speaker 52 (04:51:03):
He makes an unlovely spectacle our illustrious passenger. As death approaches. Oh,
no one can save us. There is comfort in knowing
that somewhere some human ear is hearing me. Ah ha,

(04:51:24):
another lurch. Then we must be on the very edge
of the creviss And it is truly as if hands,
many hands were remorselessly pulling us towards our doom, the
hands of the dead. It is a fantastic thought. And
yet when one is hated, as our passenger is hated

(04:51:47):
by hundreds of millions of the living and tens of
millions of the slave, who can tell uh? There is
also the curse Captain Mackenzie in the lifeboat other just
before he died, just a moment ago, a sharp tapping
came against our house, as if someone was stapping against
it with a rock. Listen that tapping is in international code.

(04:52:11):
It's a message from outside, a message from someone outside
the submarine and the depth of four hundred feet, and
no living man could be sending it. What does it say?

Speaker 34 (04:52:22):
I will tell you.

Speaker 52 (04:52:25):
Another lunch and now we're sick in classic we're going
down into the great grass four hundred and fifty feet
five hundred feet in a moment, this submarine will crumple
like a child's toy.

Speaker 14 (04:52:40):
But first the message it says.

Speaker 52 (04:52:43):
We are waiting for you.

Speaker 44 (04:52:45):
I durn hit.

Speaker 52 (04:52:47):
We are waiting for you.

Speaker 41 (04:52:48):
Add our pitland.

Speaker 15 (04:52:50):
That's the message.

Speaker 52 (04:52:51):
We are receiving five hundred feet deep in.

Speaker 44 (04:52:53):
The ocean, and now our our plates are cracking.

Speaker 36 (04:52:58):
We're We're done for.

Speaker 15 (04:53:32):
This is the Mysterious ter Ever again, was Joe Briggs
just spinning a sailor's yarn?

Speaker 8 (04:53:40):
Well he no longer.

Speaker 15 (04:53:41):
Insists it's true, just asks us to consider the story
and nothing more.

Speaker 43 (04:53:47):
But I wondered, after all, if I did disappear, and
it's logical that he I've tried to get away by submarine.
So oh, that brings me to my story for next
week about another individual who suffered punishment.

Speaker 5 (04:54:03):
I call it I died last night.

Speaker 14 (04:54:06):
It's upout a man who woke up to find out that.

Speaker 8 (04:54:09):
He was dead and that nobody would. Oh, but you
have to get off here. I'm sorry, but I'm sure
we'll meet again. I take this same train every week
at the same time.

Speaker 51 (04:54:44):
You have just heard The Mysterious Traveler, which is played
by Maurice Tarplin. In the cast were Frank Barrens, Roger
Di Covin, Robert Brydon, and Robald Dawson.

Speaker 14 (04:54:56):
Original music is composed and played by Alphonella Bob I
might speak. This is a new Tlow broadcasting system.

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