HIKERS FIND A TOWN STUCK IN 1920 – The Reason Why Is TERRIFYING - Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

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Dark, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.

Speaker 8 (01:49):
Come in. Welcome. I need you, Marshall.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's not where you've been that counts, they say, but
where you're going white.

Speaker 8 (02:00):
Perhaps it's wise to stop once in.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
A while and take a long look in both directions.
That was indeed a giant step from Kitty Hawk to
the moon. Not so great, however, as.

Speaker 8 (02:13):
The leap from the universe of Isaac Newton to that
of Albert Einstein.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
The first Einstein, like Alice's Rabbit, dropped us suddenly into
a wonder land where space and time and weight have
lost their ancient meaning, a topsy turvy world of technical marvels,
a world of limitless possibilities for good and evil. Our

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be back shortly with that one. There is an unseen

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force that governs our lives.

Speaker 9 (03:16):
Time.

Speaker 8 (03:18):
But what is time?

Speaker 3 (03:20):
A period in which something happens? But suppose nothing happens? Ah,
but something is always happening, you say. The Earth turns
the tide slow. But look away from this tiny universe
of ours. Science tells us there are black holes out
in space where there is nothing in those great.

Speaker 10 (03:44):
Gaps, and where is time.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
It was musing of this sort, coupled with the most
shocking event of his life that brought Fred Mackie to
this quiet room and the attention of two very concerned gentlemen.

Speaker 11 (04:04):
Now listen carefully, because this is the last time I'm
going to repeat it. Okay, So here is all I
know about what happened to Don Wakeman. It was getting
on toward evening. We were tramping upstream, keeping as close
as we could to the river. Dona, as usual, was
some distance ahead. I've never known a man with his

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thirst for adventure and his dogged persistence. Hey, Don, Yeah,
this looks like a good place, doesn't it under this tree?

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Give me stuff for the night already?

Speaker 12 (04:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Why not? Hey, we want to make the car out
of boarder tomorrow.

Speaker 11 (04:42):
Look, I don't want to stumble around in the dark
trying to make camp like last night, So let's knock off.

Speaker 13 (04:47):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Look, I'd just like to see what's around this next curve.

Speaker 11 (04:50):
You know what's around there? Well, what we're looking at
right now, the river a strip of grass if you trees,
low bluff rising on both sides.

Speaker 13 (04:58):
Come on, Why do.

Speaker 11 (04:59):
I always have to be the one to say stop.
Don't you ever get tired?

Speaker 8 (05:02):
Okay, okay, let's stop. Yeah, let's just take a look
at this map. Let's see a figure. We're just about here.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
See me pass this big rock with a two small
ones balancing on top this morning.

Speaker 8 (05:16):
That's called the two system.

Speaker 11 (05:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Look, let's unload the gear.

Speaker 14 (05:19):
Huh okay, Oh wow, it's peaceful, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (05:23):
Yeah, it gets to you after a while, though, what
do you mean the quiet?

Speaker 8 (05:28):
It's too quiet. It's eerie, eerie.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
He's good for the nerves to get this far away
from civilization. You realize we haven't heard another human voice
for oh ten days.

Speaker 11 (05:39):
Well, frankly I would mind hearing another voice about now.

Speaker 15 (05:42):
Nonsense.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
There's nothing like the wilderness to help you get your
head together again.

Speaker 8 (05:45):
Yeah, it's good to get rid of that backpack.

Speaker 13 (05:51):
Hey, where'd that come from?

Speaker 16 (05:53):
What was that a shot?

Speaker 8 (05:55):
It sounded like one strange nothing. The season has an open.

Speaker 11 (05:58):
Yet some guys don't want too much about that once
they get this far away from the law.

Speaker 8 (06:03):
Hey, hey, hey, don wait, where are you going up
the cliff?

Speaker 17 (06:06):
The sound came from up?

Speaker 13 (06:07):
No, no, no, don hold it.

Speaker 11 (06:08):
What's the matter to stick your head up over that
bluff and you'll get it blown off. You know, these
amateur hunters, something moves, they shoot and ask questions later.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
What was that?

Speaker 8 (06:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (06:20):
It sounded like it sounded like a car horn. It
couldn't be.

Speaker 17 (06:24):
Some kind of animal.

Speaker 8 (06:27):
Hey, yeah, it.

Speaker 17 (06:29):
Is an automobile shot. It must have been a backfight.

Speaker 11 (06:33):
No, no, that's impossible. No car could get through this terrain.

Speaker 18 (06:36):
Come on, let's find out.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Hey, hey, watch yourself.

Speaker 8 (06:39):
That's a little shale.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
It's okay.

Speaker 11 (06:40):
You can get a footage and watch it done.

Speaker 19 (06:43):
There's some roots and brush to hang on to.

Speaker 8 (06:51):
Good lay what is it? But there's a roade up here.
I'll be done now.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
In the world did we miss this?

Speaker 8 (06:59):
It runs right back where we came from. You you
can see those rocks the two sisters.

Speaker 11 (07:04):
Yeah, well, why didn't we see the road this morning?

Speaker 8 (07:06):
I say, it's not on the map. I don't get it.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
There's the car.

Speaker 8 (07:11):
Find a scrub oak. Look got that it's a woman.
Look at the car.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Got that shit, she's the.

Speaker 13 (07:18):
Bug beautiful thing I ever saw.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Hey, hey, watch out.

Speaker 11 (07:21):
Its no, no, don't touch that radiator cap you'll get burned.

Speaker 9 (07:24):
That's steam.

Speaker 20 (07:25):
Thanks having I'm helping st me.

Speaker 18 (07:26):
Hear my horse?

Speaker 17 (07:27):
Do you understand motory?

Speaker 8 (07:29):
Well I never had a car like this one. But
uh yeah, that's a packer, isn't it.

Speaker 17 (07:35):
Yes, packer votes.

Speaker 11 (07:36):
About nineteen twenty two, twenty three, i'd say, and in
mint condition.

Speaker 8 (07:40):
Boy, that's beautiful.

Speaker 18 (07:41):
That what's gone wrong with it?

Speaker 15 (07:43):
Well?

Speaker 8 (07:43):
Look, the radiator boiled over you. You'll let to give
her time to cool one.

Speaker 11 (07:46):
Here, I'll raise the hood so the breeze can get
the engine.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well, it'll take a little while, which is okay by me.
It'll give us time to get acquainted.

Speaker 8 (07:56):
I'm don wakeman. This is my friend Fred Mackie.

Speaker 17 (07:59):
Well, I can't wait. I've got to get back to town.

Speaker 8 (08:01):
Uh town, what time?

Speaker 17 (08:05):
Oh aren't you from the town?

Speaker 11 (08:08):
No, No, we're hikers.

Speaker 18 (08:10):
Hikers.

Speaker 11 (08:11):
Yeah, we're on a walking trip. Do you mean you
walked up here all away.

Speaker 8 (08:16):
From Santa Fe?

Speaker 11 (08:18):
But that's man, that's for sure.

Speaker 8 (08:20):
And you walked what h that's a good question.

Speaker 21 (08:23):
Ask him.

Speaker 22 (08:24):
He's the nature of love.

Speaker 8 (08:26):
What town do you come from?

Speaker 17 (08:27):
Silver Strike?

Speaker 8 (08:28):
Super Strike? Well I never heard her.

Speaker 15 (08:31):
That's not on the map.

Speaker 17 (08:32):
Oh, it's just a small mining town. We're mighty proud of.

Speaker 8 (08:34):
It, though. I know a lot of guys who come.

Speaker 11 (08:37):
Up here hunting every year, and nobody ever said anything
about a town.

Speaker 17 (08:40):
Want to see it happened, I'll take you.

Speaker 8 (08:43):
Well, nothing i'd like better. But you're gonna have to
wait for that engine to cool.

Speaker 17 (08:46):
No, I've got to get back immediately.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Look, Fred, why don't we got out of the river
and get some water for the radiator.

Speaker 8 (08:51):
Now, you can't put cold water in there. You'll crack
the block.

Speaker 17 (08:54):
You'll make a fire.

Speaker 8 (08:55):
We'll warm the water.

Speaker 18 (08:56):
You'll come back water.

Speaker 17 (08:57):
You won't leave me here alone. That will be back
like silver Strike.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
It's pretty darm if it's half as pretty as you are.
Creature kiddy, you look kidding, You're you're really something.

Speaker 17 (09:07):
You're some seek yourself.

Speaker 8 (09:10):
But what oh yeah, yeah, we'll we'll be right back.

Speaker 14 (09:15):
Okay, downy, Hey, what's the rock? A be beautiful chick?

Speaker 8 (09:24):
Would you take it easy?

Speaker 11 (09:25):
She's not going anywhere, she can not until that engine cools.

Speaker 9 (09:28):
Hey.

Speaker 11 (09:28):
You know that's a fantastic antique, that car, and it
works a lot of bread.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
You know, you imagine finding a magnificent creature like that out.

Speaker 8 (09:34):
Here in a middle of nowhere. Hey, don you know what?

Speaker 11 (09:38):
She reminds me of an old time movie star, Cloud Bowl?

Speaker 17 (09:43):
You ever see it?

Speaker 8 (09:44):
You ever see a picture of cloud Bowl?

Speaker 9 (09:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (09:45):
I mean, didn't you notice.

Speaker 8 (09:46):
That this girl looks just like her?

Speaker 23 (09:48):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (09:49):
You're right, she does. You know i'd figure in that
her hair.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
That's been crazy about her red hair. Well, look, you
gather up our stuff when I heat the water.

Speaker 8 (09:58):
We are going to spend.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
A couple of nights in Silver Strike, A couple of nights.

Speaker 8 (10:03):
I thought you were set on Colorado by tomorrow.

Speaker 15 (10:06):
Can wait?

Speaker 3 (10:07):
But that girl, man, my fate is calling to me
from a nineteen twenty three packered roadster.

Speaker 11 (10:17):
From the moment he laid eyes on that woman, Don
Wakeman was doomed. We finally got her car started, he
jumped into the seat beside her. I struggled into the
rumble seat with our camping gear. He never took his
eyes off her face during the short drive. But when
we got into Silver Stripe, even Don sat up and

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took notice.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Hey, what is it? The movie said?

Speaker 8 (10:41):
Where did all the model teeth come from?

Speaker 3 (10:43):
And that horse with a milk wagon?

Speaker 8 (10:46):
I bought that an ice wagon.

Speaker 11 (10:47):
Hey, look down there, don Yeah, a barber pole and
a cigar stor in here.

Speaker 17 (10:53):
Hey, I get it.

Speaker 11 (10:54):
You're having a celebrate the by centennial, right, What what Byson, Henny,
you haven't heard of the Bison tennial.

Speaker 8 (11:02):
No, oh, come on, you can't be that far out
of the action up there.

Speaker 17 (11:05):
I guess we are a little bit out of things. Oh,
that's my house on the corner.

Speaker 24 (11:10):
Won't you come here?

Speaker 11 (11:12):
I don't see why not, donn It's it's getting a
little late.

Speaker 8 (11:15):
I don't think I'm coming.

Speaker 13 (11:19):
Well, have your pin.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
I're searching for you.

Speaker 8 (11:22):
So John Roaster broke down, went outside.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Bounds on the first day, completely against regulations, and you
took this pair with you.

Speaker 8 (11:31):
What do you know are they from?

Speaker 17 (11:32):
They are not townspeople.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
You're not about the rules.

Speaker 13 (11:34):
Ella Carl.

Speaker 17 (11:35):
These are visitors, not townspeople.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Oh visitors, Well, welcome to silver Strike. How did they
manage to get up here?

Speaker 17 (11:48):
They walked all the way from.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Sata, say, well, I'll be talk gone.

Speaker 17 (11:53):
I thought that would surprise you. You see, we don't
get many visitors up.

Speaker 11 (11:56):
Here, Nony season, I should think you would.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Well, now, may few fellas walked all the way. You
must be about tuck it out.

Speaker 8 (12:06):
Yeah, that's sure. Now, look it's.

Speaker 11 (12:08):
Really getting late and we better be dark.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Confidentially, I got something special the way of liquid refreshment.

Speaker 8 (12:15):
You know what I mean, I can do with a drink.
Wreck Sure, you could.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Well come on into the house. This is none of
your lousy bootleg roots. I got the real thing and
bottled in bond Fella smuggled it in from Mexico.

Speaker 13 (12:31):
I'll come right on in.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Hey, you can just drop your backpacks here and all.
Yeah a zella honey, run out of the kitchen and
fetch the bottle Jose brought back.

Speaker 8 (12:44):
Bring four glasses.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
You've been a bad girl, but I reckon, you can
have a little snort too, be right by, silly little flapper.
I guess I've spoiled it. Well, come into the parlor,
take a load off your feet.

Speaker 8 (13:00):
Thanks boy my bush.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Here you'll find silver strike a friendly town. I don't
see it back of the shelf on, and it's kind
of tough to get at you, reckon. I better go
myself top shelf on.

Speaker 8 (13:17):
That is one strange pair. You think he's your father.

Speaker 13 (13:21):
Husband, that's hard to tell.

Speaker 8 (13:23):
It's funny that the way they talk, both.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Of them like they're back in the twenty there's a
couple of weirdo and no, wait a minute, I wouldn't
say that.

Speaker 8 (13:30):
That's a sexy little dog. Yeah, you know the town.

Speaker 11 (13:34):
It doesn't look real and it's, like you said, a
fake movie set.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Provision law.

Speaker 8 (13:41):
Maybe all right for them.

Speaker 13 (13:42):
Cookie pushes back.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
He's been when a man has been working all day,
he needs a drink.

Speaker 11 (13:46):
You still have prohibition, Yeah, drives a bone.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Well, here's mutt in your eye.

Speaker 8 (13:55):
For March is to you, lovely lady.

Speaker 11 (13:57):
Wow, liquid lightning, that's what they had in that bottle. Well,
when my breath came back and my eyes cleared, Zella
was smiling her weird little smile, and Karl rambling on
in his nineteen twenty slang. I wanted to say something,
but I couldn't get my head together. I was numb.

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Time stood still. Then Don slumped out of his chair.

Speaker 8 (14:24):
Carl laughed.

Speaker 11 (14:26):
He went over done and turned to me, his breath
hot on my face, and.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
I took care of them for the time being. Well,
when I was Zella, my friend, you have some explaining
to do. You want to do it now? Or shall
we liquidate our visitors first? What have our friends wandered

(14:55):
into in the town time locked in some way serious
way in the second decade of this century. One thing
seems certain. Silver Strike is not the friendly town its
citizens would have us.

Speaker 15 (15:10):
Believe it to be.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
We'll learn more when we return to Act two. In
the wilderness far beyond Santa Fe, there is a sign

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silver Strike, altitude eight thousand feet, population ten thousand. A
casual visitor to the town might think he had slipped
back into the early nineteen twenties. The little boys were knickerbockers,
and the little girls have bows in their hair. The
prevailing mode of transport is a model T But the

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sign goes on to say a friendly town. Fred Mackie
would have quarreled with that description as he struggles to
recover from an almost lethal Mickey finn.

Speaker 11 (16:12):
I think it was the jackhammer in my head that
finally brought me two. Every nerve in my body quivered
and ached the soft chime of a clock striking tents,
and a shiver of pain through me. Moonlight streamed in
the window and fell across dawn sprawl on the floor
with that rotten booze that flung them through the closed

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door of the kitchen.

Speaker 8 (16:36):
I could hear voices hot with anger.

Speaker 17 (16:38):
No, you're not going to kill them, not till I
get the information I want.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
And I know what you want out of them, and
it's not information. This is the last time I accept
a mission with a man. I'm gry female.

Speaker 17 (16:48):
Now you look here. I share this command with you equally,
and don't you forget it.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
You've disobeyed the external security agency. The man you will
distinctly say that, but your.

Speaker 17 (16:56):
Not security has made a botch of this operation with
their faulty information. I'm trying to save it.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
What faulty information is just the point I don't know.

Speaker 17 (17:05):
But one thing is certain. Before we go ahead, we'd
better find out. Buncam Oh, you are such a fool.
I don't know why they sent you on this expedition, because.

Speaker 8 (17:13):
You couldn't have got here without me.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
I'm the only cornoor just who can chart the trick.

Speaker 17 (17:18):
Yes, you know time sequentials and that's all you do.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Know this is a useless argument.

Speaker 17 (17:23):
No, please, Carl, listen to me. There's a big mistake
of some kind, and we can find out from these
men what it is.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
There is no mistake, I know there is.

Speaker 17 (17:32):
They spotted at the moment they got here.

Speaker 18 (17:34):
The town amused them.

Speaker 25 (17:36):
They laugh, they last laugh.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
I am ever follow my orders as given in the manual, Carl.

Speaker 17 (17:43):
We can't just blunder blindly.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Hey, I am going to follow orders to the letter.

Speaker 17 (17:47):
I refuse.

Speaker 13 (17:49):
You refuse to carry out the mission.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
That's mutiny.

Speaker 17 (17:52):
But Karl, all I'm asking is a short delay to
reassess the situation.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Well, I shall pull.

Speaker 8 (18:00):
Gonna be so pigheaded about it. But these men are
not leaving here alive.

Speaker 15 (18:05):
And that's sim.

Speaker 26 (18:10):
That is all I needed to hear.

Speaker 11 (18:12):
I managed to drag down out into the floor. He
was a dead wake A bowl of white flowers.

Speaker 8 (18:19):
Gleamed in the moonlight near the door. I threw them
on the floor and poured some of the water in
his face. He stirred slightly. Don come on, gon, wake up.

Speaker 13 (18:31):
We gotta get out of here.

Speaker 8 (18:34):
Don I hate to do this.

Speaker 27 (18:35):
But.

Speaker 8 (18:36):
Come on, you gotta come out of it.

Speaker 11 (18:40):
Come on, get up, come on, get okay, okay, let's
try something else.

Speaker 17 (18:46):
Now, keet that out?

Speaker 28 (18:48):
Quiet?

Speaker 8 (18:48):
Quiet, got him break my arm. I'll pushed it off.
If you don't wake up. Now, listen, listen to me.
We've got to get out of here now, okay, come on,
get up, get.

Speaker 11 (18:58):
Up, yah as you can come up, okay, okay, I'll
help you all right now, you know me, you know
me do and you're going to kill us.

Speaker 8 (19:09):
They are planning to kill us. Can you walk?

Speaker 21 (19:13):
Okay?

Speaker 15 (19:14):
Okay, come on, come on, there we go.

Speaker 8 (19:16):
Let's this your.

Speaker 11 (19:17):
Knapsack, old on, grab it.

Speaker 8 (19:19):
Let's go where we're going after the river. Come on,
find a hotel. I gotta lie down and say, we've
got to get into hiding. Damn, they're gonna spot us
a mile away in this moonlight. Let's go over here,
over here, in the shadow of the trees. Wait, I
let it go to the police.

Speaker 13 (19:40):
I don't trust anybody.

Speaker 8 (19:42):
This whole set up, this whole town. See seems funny
to me and probably imagine shout if you.

Speaker 11 (19:47):
Don't put yourself together and get tracking, so help me.

Speaker 8 (19:49):
I'm gonna leave you a trying man. Your stay back here.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Got what's going on here?

Speaker 8 (20:04):
Always it's nothing. My friend's been sick.

Speaker 11 (20:06):
He's all right now, thanks for stopping.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Were okay what you fellas doing on the street this
time of night?

Speaker 11 (20:13):
I was just just passing through town. We're backpackers, backpackers.

Speaker 17 (20:17):
Look more like vegrance to me. Andy, you hold everything
till I come.

Speaker 8 (20:22):
Around and get a look at you.

Speaker 29 (20:24):
Yeah, I'm trying to pull any fast ones. I gotta
gun on you sick looks drunk to me. Hey you
the guys been running the bad booze in here. I've
been on the lookout for you.

Speaker 13 (20:40):
I'm a sheriff.

Speaker 8 (20:41):
No, no, sheriff. We're from Santa Fe. Here we have identification.
I'll show you. You are under arrest.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Arrest for what a drunkenness, disorderly conduct, public nuisance?

Speaker 11 (20:54):
Oh look, we were just walking quietly through town.

Speaker 8 (20:57):
Is there a log insict? This is how mister it says,
get in the card. You hear it perfectly. Come on,
don you heard what the man said? Share suf is

(21:19):
Bronson speaking?

Speaker 17 (21:20):
Oh yeah, card I picked him up.

Speaker 8 (21:23):
All right, they're safe in the courer. Oh no, no,
they didn't give me any trouble, none at all. Yeah. Well,
I'll wait I hear from you. Right, goodbye, Sarah.

Speaker 13 (21:38):
Sharaffe.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Quiet back there, tarriff.

Speaker 15 (21:41):
I'm as you overlooked something.

Speaker 8 (21:42):
Well, what's that?

Speaker 15 (21:43):
A small matter of our rights?

Speaker 8 (21:46):
I mean, you fail to tell me my rights?

Speaker 27 (21:48):
What rights?

Speaker 8 (21:49):
But for starter sheriff.

Speaker 11 (21:50):
I have a right to a phone call. I would
like to talk to my lawyer in Santa Fe.

Speaker 8 (21:56):
We could hear you. It wouldn't die yet so much
if I was here. You lousy, But this is a
damn outright up.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
That's the way we lack things and silver Strike nice
same quiet, non.

Speaker 8 (22:13):
We're in a real jam. And that guy called he
really needs to kill us, you know, damn near did
what do you think he put in that boom?

Speaker 15 (22:22):
Listen to me.

Speaker 8 (22:23):
We gotta get a couple of things straight up him here, No,
I gotta lie down.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
You can't.

Speaker 8 (22:28):
And look, this is important. They'll probably separate us to questioning.

Speaker 11 (22:33):
Don't give them any information, you understand, none must have
been rat poised.

Speaker 8 (22:38):
Look, don put yourself together. Did you hear what I said?

Speaker 15 (22:40):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (22:41):
Yeah, yeah, I don't give him any information, right, because.

Speaker 8 (22:45):
If you do, we're as good as dead.

Speaker 11 (22:47):
The only reason we're alive now is because that woman
thinks we know something.

Speaker 8 (22:50):
Something she wants to find out.

Speaker 11 (22:52):
So hopefully, hopefully we are safe till she does find
out whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
I don't think I can't follow all this, gonna lie down,
But they've.

Speaker 8 (23:01):
Made some kind of mistake. She thinks we know what
it is. What she actually said was.

Speaker 11 (23:07):
They spotted it the moment they drove into town.

Speaker 8 (23:12):
H let's think, let's think back. What what was it
we spotted?

Speaker 15 (23:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (23:19):
Uh, there're kooky nineteen twenties earlier. They know all about that.
But I mean, do we say anything she didn't seem
to know about.

Speaker 13 (23:27):
Well, no, we've uh.

Speaker 8 (23:30):
Hey wait a minute, yeah, the brysentennials. That's right, she
never heard of it.

Speaker 15 (23:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (23:36):
Well, what puzzles me is that they talk like they
really are in the twenties, or maybe they are. Maybe
we've slipped back in time. What do you mean slipped back?
I saw this movie once and about a fellow who
slipped back two hundred years and all the women wore
hoop skirts and you must be hungover. Oh no, a
hangover would be a relief compared to this.

Speaker 11 (23:57):
Look there, there's gotta be a perfectly natural expert, and
we'll find it out if we ask ourselves the right questions. Now,
why would anybody want to put up a nineteen twenty
town up here in the wilderness.

Speaker 8 (24:09):
I don't know a thing, you can't. My head feels
like it's been in a meat shopper. Why tourist attraction
up here?

Speaker 15 (24:18):
You know?

Speaker 9 (24:18):
Why not?

Speaker 8 (24:19):
There's that guy moved London Bridge to the Arizona Desert
and tourists flock in by the fence. Yeah, but how
would they get here? The road?

Speaker 11 (24:30):
Yeah, I've been thinking about that road gravel right, Yeah,
but there wasn't a mark on it, not a bump,
not a rut. I'd swear that no vehicle had ever
gone over it.

Speaker 8 (24:41):
And why did we see it when we climbed up
by that big rock? Two sisters?

Speaker 1 (24:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (24:47):
Let me look around you here, I mean, does the
cell look white to you? And I'll tell you the
bunk looks good. I gotta lie down for it.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
I mean, it all looks new.

Speaker 8 (24:57):
I bet we're the only people ever been in here.
I mean, you're right, it's like a bad movie set.
The people they seem unreal somehow.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Not Veella, She's a sexy little doll.

Speaker 30 (25:09):
If I ever thought.

Speaker 8 (25:10):
Even Zella seems strange out of this world.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
Okay, okay, So she's from Mars. They're all from Mars.
Now that is my last word. Now, will you let
me lie down and quietly die?

Speaker 21 (25:21):
Mars Mars marsh.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Man, you're in worse shape than I am. If you
think I meant that and I spaced out, I may be,
but I still don't go for flying saucy.

Speaker 11 (25:36):
Don stretched out on one of the constant passed right
out again.

Speaker 8 (25:40):
The fatigue and the hangover finally got to me too,
and I had to lie down. I didn't wake up
until late afternoon.

Speaker 31 (25:48):
And when I did, I.

Speaker 8 (25:51):
All over looked around and I sat up with a start.
Don was gone?

Speaker 9 (25:58):
Done on?

Speaker 32 (26:00):
Sure?

Speaker 13 (26:01):
Where's my friend?

Speaker 15 (26:03):
What here?

Speaker 5 (26:04):
What?

Speaker 33 (26:05):
Now?

Speaker 2 (26:05):
They can hear you out on the street.

Speaker 13 (26:06):
Now, what's eating?

Speaker 8 (26:07):
Where's my friend? Where your friend?

Speaker 18 (26:08):
He left?

Speaker 34 (26:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:09):
I can see that.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Where is he?

Speaker 8 (26:10):
Well, now I don't recollect him leaving no forward? Man,
But how did he get out?

Speaker 1 (26:15):
He walked?

Speaker 11 (26:16):
If he just opened the cell door and he walked out.

Speaker 8 (26:18):
And that's about the size of it. Okay, okay, well
then let him let me out?

Speaker 11 (26:21):
Then two hope, Sorry, Well you won't let me out
of that's about the size Why not?

Speaker 8 (26:26):
I ain't had no orders let you out?

Speaker 25 (26:29):
Well?

Speaker 3 (26:29):
Who give the orders to let him out?

Speaker 8 (26:30):
Oh? Lady, come down here with an order from the mayor?
They left, they left together. That's about the size of it.
That was when I began to lose hope.

Speaker 11 (26:42):
Don never could resist a pretty woman, and I've never
seen him.

Speaker 8 (26:45):
As hot as he was over this Zella.

Speaker 11 (26:48):
If she got him alone for twenty minutes, I felt
sure she could get anything she wanted.

Speaker 9 (26:52):
Out of him.

Speaker 11 (26:54):
It was two and a half days before I saw
him again.

Speaker 8 (26:58):
Open up, Jerffy's coming with me? Don, Where the devil
have you been here? Sheriff? Here's the order you'll see
it's okay, Yeah, all things in order? All right, Well,
my friend, you're a free ma'am. Yeah, here's your knapsack.
Everything's there. You better take it for yourself, though, Tom, Tom,

(27:21):
what's been going on?

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Eh?

Speaker 5 (27:22):
So long?

Speaker 8 (27:22):
Folks, don't you take no Wooden Nicholas, I'm gonna sue you.

Speaker 11 (27:26):
I'm gonna sue you in this town for everything you've got.

Speaker 8 (27:28):
False arrest. Tell it to the Marines.

Speaker 11 (27:33):
I'd like to push those ugly teeth down his throats.

Speaker 8 (27:35):
Hey, hey, take it easy.

Speaker 17 (27:36):
Where have you been living with Zella?

Speaker 6 (27:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (27:38):
I got it back.

Speaker 11 (27:39):
I suppose you're told her everything you know, I've.

Speaker 8 (27:42):
Told her nothing. Now, Look, you're wrong about Zella.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
She's the most well, most gentle, and most tender woman
I've ever known.

Speaker 8 (27:49):
Oh man, I was afraid of this. You and I
have got to have a serious and a calm toll. Okay,
but let's get out of this pest hole of a
town first. We can't we can't get out. What do
you mean we can't get out?

Speaker 18 (28:00):
You know?

Speaker 24 (28:00):
You what's gonna stop a lot of things.

Speaker 8 (28:01):
The security here is not to be believed. Now, this
is gonna be hard for you to grasp it.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Well, it was hard for me at first. You were
right about silver Strike. This town is only three days old.

Speaker 8 (28:16):
What it's an invasion base? I don't get What are
you talking about? Infiltration from another planet?

Speaker 5 (28:22):
What?

Speaker 18 (28:22):
It's true.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
These people are all part of an invasion force, like well,
like commandos from outer space.

Speaker 8 (28:30):
You're curing.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
No, they are going to take over the Earth and
they can do it without firing a shot. See, they
have orders not to scorch the land.

Speaker 8 (28:38):
They need it.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
They've exhausted the resources of their own planet and five others. Besides,
they are going to take over.

Speaker 17 (28:45):
The Earth and plow it under for farmland.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
An invasion from outer space. I hasten to remind you
that we have only Fred Mackie's word for what happened
that day in the remoteness of the Sangredo Cristo Mountains.
But invaders or not, the citizens of silver Strike are

(29:21):
clearly up to no good. What their intentions really are
we will learn when I.

Speaker 8 (29:26):
Return with Act three.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Two lone hikers in the mountains, not far from the
rise of the Rio Grande, have stumbled into a town
redolent of the atmosphere of the early twenties. To Fred Mackie,
the inhabitants resemble the characters in a silent movie, but
his friend Don Wakeman insists they are invaders from outer space.

(30:05):
It's inevitable, Fred, They're going to conquer the world and swiftly.

Speaker 11 (30:09):
You are asking me to believe that this yokel of
the sheriff and that idiot call or really spaceman from
a flying saucer.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Course not.

Speaker 8 (30:18):
They don't use vehicles, they haven't for centuries. Well, now
did they get here space compression? Space compression? Yeah, Look,
there's a lot.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Of space inside the atom, you know it's mostly space. Well,
they prefabricated a town like silver Strike, compress the component
atoms and reduce it, with all its inhabitants to a.

Speaker 15 (30:37):
Speck of energy.

Speaker 8 (30:39):
Then they send it out on a beam from being.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
A beam that travels many times the speed of light
to any point in the universe.

Speaker 8 (30:45):
Yeah, then I.

Speaker 11 (30:46):
Suppose they pull the atoms back up against exactly.

Speaker 8 (30:49):
Oh look that woman is kidding you.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
This is ridiculous.

Speaker 8 (30:52):
Take a look around you.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
They're stupid.

Speaker 13 (30:53):
They're like hillbillies.

Speaker 8 (30:55):
The car he's completely and well.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Zella agrees with about him. She said, he's basically dull witted,
but he's a trained chronologist.

Speaker 8 (31:02):
What in the world is that a time navigator? You
see when you travel through space, you travel through time too.
It well, it's very involved.

Speaker 11 (31:11):
Come on, you know what I think we stumbled into
some kind of kook commune.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
I told Zella I wouldn't get anywhere with you.

Speaker 8 (31:21):
One last time.

Speaker 15 (31:21):
Friend.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Is it you understand me? This is at the end
of our civilization.

Speaker 8 (31:26):
We can't fight it.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
The technology of these people is is centuries ahead of ours.

Speaker 8 (31:30):
Where did you say? They came from a planet called Agantha?

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Agantha? Yeah, it's in another galaxy. To them, Earth looks
like a lovely little greenhouse.

Speaker 24 (31:39):
You see.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
They've exhausted Agantha's resources. We are the two luckiest men
on Earth, you know, thanks to Zella.

Speaker 8 (31:48):
Well, how do you figure that they need us?

Speaker 9 (31:52):
See?

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Their advance intelligence agents have failed them somehow, at least
Zella thinks they have, and she's afraid to proceed without
better information.

Speaker 8 (32:00):
Cooperate.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
They'll make us technical advisors officers in their army. Otherwise, Yeah,
otherwise Karl wants to blot us out instantly without leaving
a trace.

Speaker 8 (32:13):
You really believe this?

Speaker 17 (32:14):
I believe what I saw?

Speaker 21 (32:16):
All right? All right?

Speaker 8 (32:16):
No, no, Now, wait a minute.

Speaker 11 (32:19):
If they're from another planet, how come they talk like Americans.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
I've been planning this operation for years. They've been trained
for it since childhood.

Speaker 11 (32:26):
All right, but then why the nineteen twenty masquerae?

Speaker 8 (32:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, well, fortunately for us, the operation got fouled up somehow,
somebody goofed.

Speaker 8 (32:37):
Do you know what you're saying?

Speaker 11 (32:39):
We've run into a huge, a cosmic snaffle. Okay, we'll
let them figure the way out of it. They're getting
no help from.

Speaker 17 (32:46):
Me, John Honey.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
Oh uh, his Ella?

Speaker 17 (32:48):
Well did you have a good talk?

Speaker 18 (32:51):
Hello, Freddy?

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Feel better?

Speaker 34 (32:52):
You know?

Speaker 18 (32:53):
I thought you're roostin.

Speaker 8 (32:54):
Yeah, I had one drink with you. I haven't recovered,
thank you.

Speaker 17 (32:56):
Oh that was Karl's idea.

Speaker 8 (32:58):
He's a bungler.

Speaker 17 (32:59):
I hated it haven't included miss mission, but we had
to have a time navigator. I handled the space trajectory myself,
and I'm proud of what I did, not fifteen miles off.
But the time projection is tricky too, so we have
to put up with that dumb bell car. Now, what
we want out of you boys is simple. Just tell
me what it was about this town that struck you
as off.

Speaker 11 (33:20):
No, no, oh no, I'm not telling you anything, all right,
and you get that straight right now.

Speaker 8 (33:24):
Neither is my friend here.

Speaker 11 (33:25):
If I have anything to say about it, I'm darling.

Speaker 17 (33:27):
I'd hoped you'd explain to him. Stready, listen, I'm trying to.

Speaker 18 (33:32):
Save your lives.

Speaker 17 (33:33):
Tell me why doesn't Silver Strike look like your average
American town?

Speaker 8 (33:37):
It must be the time elements that up in nineteen twenty.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
All right, jellah, what have they told you? Look?

Speaker 27 (33:43):
Look up there?

Speaker 35 (33:44):
What?

Speaker 36 (33:45):
God?

Speaker 32 (33:46):
What?

Speaker 37 (33:48):
What he looks like?

Speaker 3 (33:49):
You're fighting ship?

Speaker 38 (33:51):
Its huge?

Speaker 17 (33:53):
What is hed ship?

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah? It's a jet?

Speaker 21 (33:58):
All right?

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Yeah? Get propeled airplane?

Speaker 39 (34:02):
Chat propound Carl?

Speaker 17 (34:05):
Did you hear that? There's your poof Earth has only
small cockpit planes hardly bigger than automobile. That's what we
were told, isn't it. Look look up here? How can
you see that something's wrong? Advance Intelligence told us nothing
of aircraft of that side. Son, What did you say
about the nineteen twenties?

Speaker 40 (34:25):
Look?

Speaker 8 (34:25):
Well the model t forards, all the horses.

Speaker 41 (34:28):
What is the date?

Speaker 8 (34:29):
The date's the fifth or sixth?

Speaker 5 (34:31):
No?

Speaker 3 (34:31):
The year?

Speaker 42 (34:32):
The year?

Speaker 8 (34:34):
What's nineteen seventy six, nine, ten seventy six?

Speaker 18 (34:38):
No, we can't be nineteen seventy six.

Speaker 17 (34:43):
Well that puts another light on things, doesn't it. Call
the Advanced Information Agency didn't say?

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Looks you did?

Speaker 32 (34:50):
You?

Speaker 17 (34:50):
No fumbre, you fool. This is all your fault. You
had charge at the time schedule. You brought us in
fifty years late.

Speaker 27 (35:00):
And see how I go down?

Speaker 3 (35:03):
What will we do?

Speaker 9 (35:03):
Zeedna.

Speaker 17 (35:04):
We'll have to abandon our plans and get back to
again immediately.

Speaker 8 (35:06):
Yeah. They must be wondering what happened to you?

Speaker 18 (35:09):
We can't tell.

Speaker 17 (35:10):
It's this operation Carl. Alert the members of the expedition.
We leave Earth within twelve hours.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
What shall I do with this pair?

Speaker 17 (35:17):
John Darling? You're coming with me, aren't you?

Speaker 8 (35:19):
You know? I am Zella any time, any place. Don No, now,
come on, wake up, man, you can't do this.

Speaker 17 (35:23):
I am going to go with the woman I love.

Speaker 43 (35:26):
We'd better take them both with us.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
We better have something to show on again for all
the money we spent on this expedition. Otherwise they'll tear
us a power.

Speaker 8 (35:34):
Oh no, you're not taking me back, No way. It's
your only hope for survival.

Speaker 17 (35:38):
Freed, They're bound to win.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
I think we'll be the first, the only earth Man
to reach out beyond the stars to see what lies
beyond the Milky Way.

Speaker 11 (35:47):
I don't want to see beyond the stars, and I
sure don't want to be reduced to a spect and
shot out into space with Carl in control.

Speaker 8 (35:54):
Okay, I use the ion ridd actor on him.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
No, no, no, let him go, please, Zella.

Speaker 17 (36:02):
I can't do that.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Don Zella.

Speaker 8 (36:05):
If you destroy him, you don't have to.

Speaker 44 (36:07):
Kill both of us.

Speaker 17 (36:08):
Son, It's impossible. I'm sorry, you know how.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
I feel about your Zellah, but I can't stand by
and watch you kill my friend.

Speaker 8 (36:15):
Just just free him, let him go, and I'll come
with you.

Speaker 17 (36:19):
I can't free him. We can't leave him here to
spread Roman to one the earth.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
People let him talk on, he pleases. Nobody will believe him.

Speaker 11 (36:25):
I promise you nobody will ever believe him, and nobody
has believed me so far. Oh, I understand why. The
region has been thoroughly explored, and there's no evidence of
a town ever having been there, no sign of burned
ground from.

Speaker 8 (36:44):
The blast off either. But you see, you see, he
wasn't like that. There there was no blast off.

Speaker 11 (36:53):
When they were ready to go, Don and Zella walked
with me to the edge of town.

Speaker 17 (36:58):
Don't look back. The light will be too intense.

Speaker 8 (37:01):
For your eyes.

Speaker 11 (37:02):
Don Don, you're sure you won't change your mind.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
I'm standing on the brink of the greatest adventure of
the ages. Nothing in the world could make me turn back.
We'll be back in less than a year. We never
give up, And when we come back, I'll get to
your first thread. I'm going to save you in spite
of yourself.

Speaker 8 (37:23):
So long and good luck. You're gonna need it.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
And you say there was no sign of the town
ever having been there.

Speaker 8 (37:39):
No, doctor, it's the same story you.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
Told me nearly a year ago when you first came
down out of the mountains.

Speaker 11 (37:47):
Well, I was badly shaken by the experience. But doctor,
as you can see, I'm perfectly well now I'm ready
to go home.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Well no, we think we're certain that you feel even
more secure in your recovery if you take a longer
period in a stress free environment.

Speaker 8 (38:10):
No, doctor, I don't need it.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
We've located a splendid place, Mirror Lake. It's run by
doctor Cumberland.

Speaker 45 (38:17):
Now excellent.

Speaker 8 (38:18):
I know my nerves are as steady as yours.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
There's a man here for mirror Linke.

Speaker 11 (38:23):
But never mind, doctor, I'm fed up.

Speaker 13 (38:25):
But do you hear me. I've I've had it with
you people.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
It's Christmas. I'm not going.

Speaker 13 (38:31):
I'm not going.

Speaker 8 (38:32):
No, doctor sider a patient transportation service. The reception has
told it to come right of Yes, come in, I'm
l Freeman.

Speaker 28 (38:40):
Doctor don.

Speaker 27 (38:43):
Don my god, you've come back.

Speaker 8 (38:47):
This is the patient doctor. Here's my proof. Here's my proof.

Speaker 13 (38:52):
This is Doc Wakeman.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
No, mister here, this is mister Freeman.

Speaker 8 (38:56):
This is miss Michaels.

Speaker 25 (38:58):
How do you do it?

Speaker 10 (38:59):
It's her.

Speaker 8 (39:00):
It's the woman from from again, Zarah.

Speaker 15 (39:02):
I told you it's too bad.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
He's been perfectly lucid until now.

Speaker 8 (39:07):
You have the impression we've met before.

Speaker 25 (39:09):
Mister mayor.

Speaker 15 (39:10):
Yes.

Speaker 8 (39:11):
Now we've come to take you with us. You've come
to take me with you. Yes, to a very nice place.

Speaker 9 (39:21):
Oh are you ready to go?

Speaker 8 (39:25):
Yeah? Sure, sure I am ready to go.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Splendid I'll go. Goodbye, doctor, Just just a moment. There
are some papers that must be signed.

Speaker 8 (39:40):
Sure, Uh, give me tenna you are.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Thank you, mister Mackey. I'm sure you'll be glad you
made this decision. Keep in touch with this. We're interested
in your progress. I hope you will let us hear
from you.

Speaker 8 (39:57):
Oh, you'll hear from us, all right, that's sure. You'll
hear from us sooner than you think.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
An immediate invasion from outer space. Well now, with all
its recent probing, science has yet to receive the slightest
indication of sentient.

Speaker 28 (40:24):
Beings out there.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
But before you go to sleep tonight, consider this fact.
Within the area of the sky known as the Bowl
of the Big Dipper, within that area alone, there are
discernible two.

Speaker 8 (40:44):
Million billion stars.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Can you believe that in all that vast array of
worlds there is nobody?

Speaker 28 (40:57):
I'll be back shortly.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
If there's a moral in Fred Mackie's story, it must
be this science provides us every day with greater technical marvels.
But technology can't offer the wisdom or intelligence to use
them properly. For that, perhaps we must look too older

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and more profound disciplines. Some five thousand years ago, we
were given ten precepts, which, carried out to the letter,
would bring us into accord with nature and our fellow beings,
and that would indeed be a giant step, greater by

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far than the leap from Kitty Hawk to the Moon.
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Speaker 3 (42:14):
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Speaker 46 (43:03):
Murder by Experts.

Speaker 47 (43:18):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Murder by Experts with your
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Speaker 5 (43:34):
This is John Dixon Carr.

Speaker 48 (43:37):
Each week at this time, Murder by Experts brings you
a story of crime and mystery which has been chosen
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Those experts who are themselves musters the art of murder
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the innumerable thrillers he has read and enjoyed, mister Ruse
has chosen a story by Robert Foster. To quote mister Ruse,
the story is a fascinating study of an ambitious and
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a whirlpool of violence and death. And now we present

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Carl Weber in two coffins to fill.

Speaker 5 (44:38):
The scene. Nick's Place a popular road house on the
West Coast.

Speaker 48 (44:44):
It's early evening and the dimly lit cocktail lounge is
empty save for the bartender and a couple in a
corner booth.

Speaker 49 (44:57):
Roger, we can't go on like this, Why not, Darling,
I'm tired of meeting you at discreet places, of seeing
you only when you can get away from your wife.

Speaker 5 (45:06):
You just have to be patient to you patient, it's
already a year. How long do you think I'll go
on waiting for you? What would you have me do?

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Leave her?

Speaker 49 (45:15):
Forget about the money?

Speaker 5 (45:16):
We can get along on what?

Speaker 9 (45:18):
Oh?

Speaker 39 (45:18):
No, what do you think you'll get from her?

Speaker 5 (45:21):
I have plans. It'll take time, but I'm very patient.

Speaker 50 (45:24):
Well, I'm not.

Speaker 49 (45:26):
I can't go on waiting, Roger, I won't.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
I'm sorry. Another drink.

Speaker 49 (45:33):
Nothing affects you, does it, Roger? War, famine or love?
You're a man with only one weakness money.

Speaker 5 (45:39):
Why is it that women can never break off without
creating a scene?

Speaker 50 (45:41):
Why you arrogant?

Speaker 18 (45:45):
What a fool?

Speaker 49 (45:46):
I've been all right, Roger off, I'll break off without
creating a scene.

Speaker 5 (45:52):
Goodbye, Roger. I'll have another Steve and put a dash
of bitterers in it.

Speaker 51 (45:58):
Hello, Thuddon, your friend left in a hurry. You're quite observant,
al I'm a student of human nature. Nick's havin a
game in the bank to night? Interested a game, Bolker?

Speaker 4 (46:11):
Yes?

Speaker 51 (46:12):
Since my dates walked out on me, I'll play a
few hands. Tell meck I'll be there. It's amazing how
one small weakness can disrupt an otherwise orderly and well
thought out plan. My wife, Frida's first husband left her

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with a manufacturing plant and holdings amounting to something like
four million. That's a comfortable sum of money, and I'm
a man who likes comfort, or I wouldn't have married Frida.
She was forty and tired and no bargain special in
the marriage market. But I had plans, plans that didn't
include murder.

Speaker 9 (46:54):
Not then.

Speaker 51 (46:55):
I was a patient man, patient until a weakness occurred
and I spent the night playing cards in the back
room at Nick's. Plays that night cost me thirty thousand dollars,
all on my signature. Perhaps that's why Nick's gun happy
friend awl So insisted. A couple of weeks later, I
was sitting at the bar in Nick's.

Speaker 4 (47:17):
Hudon.

Speaker 51 (47:18):
Yes, you're busy, That depends. Nick wants to see you
in his office. Wants to see me about what I
didn't ask him.

Speaker 46 (47:28):
I'll tell him.

Speaker 5 (47:29):
I'll drop back after I finished his drink. Make it
now what I said? Now thought? All right, all right,
let's have it your way. Hello roder, good evening.

Speaker 21 (47:46):
Nick.

Speaker 46 (47:48):
Sit down.

Speaker 51 (47:48):
Before I say down, let's have an understanding. I don't
like the idea of your man here pushing me around
with a gun.

Speaker 46 (47:54):
A gun I kept it covered, Nick, and we don't
want any trouble now nobody's seen me. Don't mind Al Roger.
He takes his work seriously.

Speaker 5 (48:03):
Perhaps someone will take him seriously someday.

Speaker 51 (48:05):
I was a good boy for a price, right, Alan,
that's right. I'm not interested in the merits of your bodyguard.

Speaker 46 (48:13):
Sit down, Roger. You're getting right in the face. Al
makes us a drink, will you, John?

Speaker 13 (48:19):
Nick?

Speaker 9 (48:20):
Coming up?

Speaker 46 (48:25):
Roger? What about that thirty grand you will mean? I'll
pay you when I get it. That's a poor bed, Roger.
I've been checking on you. What do you mean checking
on me? You're a punk. That wife of yours has
got all the dough. You haven't got a dime.

Speaker 5 (48:40):
My personal affairs don't concern you, Nick.

Speaker 46 (48:42):
I'm a right guy. I've never given a right guy
a bum break yet about that, Alan, that's right. I'm
a gambler, Roger. When I lose, I pay off. When
I win. I aim to collect.

Speaker 51 (48:57):
Before you start laying down the law, Nick. That happens
to be an uncollectible.

Speaker 46 (49:00):
Debn Yeah, yeah, I got a lawyer too. When you
say uncollectible, Roger, you want to figure all the angles?

Speaker 5 (49:09):
What angles?

Speaker 46 (49:11):
Well, what do you figure this.

Speaker 5 (49:12):
Guy's worth about thirty grand?

Speaker 46 (49:15):
Which way?

Speaker 5 (49:16):
Either way? What are you talking about? What do you mean?
Either way? Tell them man sitting up for lying down?
Now see see here, Nick, I.

Speaker 46 (49:26):
Can see Roger, and I want you to see me
tomorrow with thirty grand. I said I'd pay you tomorrow.
I don't know if I can get it that so.
I don't like punks like you. Roger. You're crummy. With
all that door you're tied up to, you're still crummy.
I'll I'll do the best I can. When I said tomorrow, Roger,
I wasn't kidding, was I Isle?

Speaker 51 (49:48):
You sure wasn't, Nick. I didn't like Nick calling me crummy.
Whatever I was, I wasn't nixt kind of tramp. I'm
furious with myself becoming so stupidly involved with him in
that card game.

Speaker 5 (50:04):
And Frida. Frida had me tied down as if I
were a child, making me account for every nickel. If
I'd had her then I I could have killed her.
I'd have to have a talk with Frida. When I
got home. She was in the library. You're late, Roger.
I stopped for a drink.

Speaker 18 (50:22):
Won't you have your cocktails here at home?

Speaker 5 (50:24):
You said you were going to the doctors. I did go.
I thought you'd be late, not this late. Is this
going to be another session, Frida?

Speaker 44 (50:31):
No, no, it's not going to be another session, Roger.
We're growing apart. Oh no, please, Roger, you'd stop treating
me like a child.

Speaker 5 (50:42):
Do you know what someone called me to day?

Speaker 32 (50:43):
Do you?

Speaker 5 (50:44):
Frieda?

Speaker 32 (50:44):
No?

Speaker 5 (50:45):
Crummy?

Speaker 51 (50:46):
He called me crummy because I'm well, because I'm tied
to your aprons. Now, how do you think I felt
vice president? I signed my name to half a dozen
letters and that makes me a vice president.

Speaker 37 (50:56):
I'm sick of it.

Speaker 5 (50:57):
I'm sorry, You're sorry. Did you marry me so you
could push a button and have me come running?

Speaker 52 (51:03):
Now?

Speaker 45 (51:03):
Don't be absurd, Roger?

Speaker 5 (51:05):
Why am I put yourself in my place?

Speaker 44 (51:07):
I have put myself in your place to night while
I was waiting for you.

Speaker 5 (51:11):
What do you mean, freddam Well?

Speaker 44 (51:13):
I thought it'd be nice if we could spend the
weekend at the lodge the mountain, Yes, Roger, why oh?
We could we could talk things over?

Speaker 5 (51:21):
Why can't we talk it over now?

Speaker 8 (51:22):
Oh?

Speaker 44 (51:22):
Weekend vacation together would be nice?

Speaker 10 (51:25):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (51:25):
Then you didn't have anything to talk over. It's only
a ruse to get me up to the lot.

Speaker 44 (51:30):
No, no, no, it wasn't a ruse. You've been wanting
to handle the advertising for the plant.

Speaker 45 (51:36):
I wanted to surprise you.

Speaker 51 (51:38):
You mean you're you're turning the advertising over to me? Yes,
I'll control the whole department and everything everything.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
Why, why that's wonderful, darling. Of course it's a surprise,
a charming surprise. Does it make you happy? Right, of
course it does. I have something to do or something
I can sing my teeth into it.

Speaker 53 (51:58):
Then will you go up to the lodge for the weekend?

Speaker 51 (52:00):
Well, why don't you run up by yourself this time, Freda?
You need the rest, you know, and I have something
important to tend to. I wanted you to go, of
course you did, dear, But next time, Freda, next time,
I promise you. Frida's act was more considerate than she realized.

(52:25):
Having access to some funds, I could pay Nick write
it off to advertising. For a moment, I felt almost
kindly toward Frida. But then, as I stared at her
long and hard, wondering if I could care for her
even remotely, my thoughts were revolted.

Speaker 5 (52:42):
I hated her for condescending to place me in charge
of the advertising department. I knew I can no longer
tolerate her standing in the way of everything I was
waiting for. Not until the.

Speaker 51 (52:53):
Next day did I conceive the plan. I was ready
when Nick's bodyguard Al came into my office.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
Nick sent me over alright. I didn't think it was
a social call. I don't like jokes. You're very business like,
aren't you. Well, I work for a living. When you work,
you work hard, and when you play, you you play hard?

Speaker 15 (53:14):
Is that right? Out?

Speaker 5 (53:15):
That's right?

Speaker 13 (53:17):
Uh?

Speaker 51 (53:18):
Could you use say, five thousand to play with? I
don't like chiselers. Chiselers you hurt me?

Speaker 5 (53:26):
Oh you think I'm trying to buy you off because
of the money I owe Nick? What am I supposed
to think? I see, well, here's a check for Nick.
Do you think no, thirty grid? How do I know
this is good? You're smarter than that?

Speaker 9 (53:42):
Al?

Speaker 5 (53:43):
Okay, okay? What's on? What's five thousand worth?

Speaker 15 (53:49):
Do you well?

Speaker 5 (53:50):
Could be worth anything? Maybe maybe Nick doesn't come in
on this. No, no, no, this this is just between us,
how is it?

Speaker 34 (54:00):
It?

Speaker 51 (54:01):
Maybe a bit difficult, but ten grand I might see
ten thousand, he said, yes, or is it no?

Speaker 5 (54:10):
Well, I I don't know yet. I'll I'll give you
a ring tomorrow, Nix. I have to make some arrangements, Frida. Yes, Roger,
are you still planning to go to the mountains for

(54:31):
the weekend?

Speaker 45 (54:32):
No, not without you.

Speaker 5 (54:34):
Well, I've been thinking you do need to rest, you know.

Speaker 44 (54:37):
Oh I can rest just as well right here.

Speaker 5 (54:39):
Yes, yes, I realized that. But well I thought I
might come up to the lodge with you.

Speaker 44 (54:44):
Oh, Roger, do you really mean it? Of course, dear, Oh,
I'm so glad you decided to go with Oh.

Speaker 51 (54:50):
There's just one just one thing, Frida. Yes, I won't
be able to come up until later Saturday evening.

Speaker 18 (54:55):
Oh, I don't mind driving up late.

Speaker 51 (54:56):
You don't understand, Frida, I expect you to drive up early. Why, Roger,
you can check over the repair work that needs to
be done on the lock repair work.

Speaker 50 (55:05):
Yes.

Speaker 51 (55:06):
I ran into an old friend of mine to day,
freda carpenter Al Grayes.

Speaker 5 (55:10):
Well, he's a bit down on his luck, and you
know the lodge could stand some work.

Speaker 18 (55:14):
Oh that's perfectly all right with me, Roger.

Speaker 5 (55:16):
But must I go up early?

Speaker 46 (55:18):
Hell?

Speaker 5 (55:19):
We don't want him hanging around, do we No? No,
of course not good.

Speaker 15 (55:23):
Good.

Speaker 51 (55:23):
Then I'll ride up with Al. Now, when we get there,
we can discuss the repairs. He'll look things over and
then he'll drive on back in his own car.

Speaker 44 (55:30):
And you want me to go up early so I
can make a list of the things to be done.

Speaker 5 (55:33):
Yes, yes, Freda, that's it. Do you mind about the
carpenter on me?

Speaker 18 (55:36):
Of course I don't mind, Roger. I'm just so happy
that you want to go.

Speaker 5 (55:53):
Thanks for the drink, Sharton. You you haven't answered my question.
Now I'm thinking, thank you? What murder's quite a rap?

Speaker 51 (56:03):
Had your proposition? If you want to forget it, I
didn't say that, then he'll do it. Where's the payoff?

Speaker 5 (56:10):
Thousand h nine thousand Saturday night? You want it done
about nine o'clock?

Speaker 15 (56:15):
Just so?

Speaker 5 (56:15):
What happens before I get there and I get a
ride back with you?

Speaker 3 (56:19):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (56:19):
Yes, Maybe you try to pull something like the cops.
I couldn't rink risk, bring the police in. You're smart enough,
know that, smarter than you think thought all right now,
now it has to look like a struggle and a robbery.
Leave that to me? Is everything okay with her wife
for me to ride her up there. It will be
Saturday morning.

Speaker 41 (57:03):
The Thornton residence.

Speaker 5 (57:04):
Oh, Charles, this says mister Thornton.

Speaker 46 (57:06):
Oh, good morning, sir.

Speaker 5 (57:07):
May I speak to missus Thornton?

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Very well, sir, she's out here, Sir.

Speaker 51 (57:13):
Roger, Oh, I was afraid you might have left for
the lodge already. No, no, not for an hour yet, Afrida,
I wonder if you'd mind doing something. What is it
Al Graves, the carpenter who is going to drive me up? Yes,
his car is broken down, it's in the garage. Would
you mind terribly taking Al up with you? Oh, Roger, really,
we could look over the repairs himself that way.

Speaker 41 (57:33):
Well, when will you come up?

Speaker 51 (57:35):
As soon as I'm finished working at the office. I'm
working on the new advertising program.

Speaker 41 (57:38):
Well, I suppose I could have Richard take Al and myself.

Speaker 5 (57:42):
Up in the sedand oh, you don't have to bother Richard.
Why not take your convertible?

Speaker 41 (57:46):
Oh couldn't we have that carpenter come up some other time?

Speaker 15 (57:49):
All right?

Speaker 5 (57:50):
All right, let's just forget the whole thing for you.
If you wish, you can go on up alone now. Now, Roger,
you know that things must always go your way.

Speaker 41 (57:57):
Well, will you drive up your car?

Speaker 5 (58:01):
Yes, all can use it to return.

Speaker 41 (58:02):
To towny Well, all right, Oh, Where'll I pick him up?

Speaker 51 (58:06):
On the corner of Hawthorne and Orange, Hawthorn and Orange. Yes,
I'll tell him to watch for the convertible.

Speaker 41 (58:11):
All right, Roger, I'll see you at the lodge tonight, Darling.

Speaker 5 (58:22):
Things for the past few days had moved so amazingly
fast and remarkably well that I had little time to
reflect upon my emotions. Freda's surprising agreement to my wishes,
I knew was merely a new attack and attempt to
draw me closer to her.

Speaker 51 (58:37):
Yet, as I drove through the lane to the lodge
in the evening, I had an unaccountable fear. The wind
whined through the trees and the earies sound disturbed me.
I I parked the car and sat for a few moments,
watching the lights in the lodge. It was ten o'clock
alf should have been finished long ago. I got out

(59:00):
of the car, walked to the baranda and opened the door.
You finally got here, yes, well, and I said, look,
you're satisfied, I said, to make it look like a struggle, donnet.
I guess it's all right if you got the door.

(59:25):
Where is she in the bedroom? Go ahead and take
a look.

Speaker 46 (59:29):
Turn on the light.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
No, no, I can see. Satisfied thoughting, she said.

Speaker 15 (59:38):
She's partly under the bed.

Speaker 5 (59:40):
She got scared. She tried to hide. I had to
follow shut the door. I said, to shut the door.

Speaker 51 (59:49):
You're a funny guy. Why you figure all this out
and can't stomach your own stuff. Let's let's sit down
and have to drink. Sure, Uh, you've got the dough, Yes,
it's sure. Well there should be some glasses here.

Speaker 46 (01:00:07):
Oh on that shelf.

Speaker 15 (01:00:08):
Yes, I see.

Speaker 5 (01:00:08):
I I'll fix the drinks. When I get that drink,
we're gonna blow. Where's her car garage? Wanna see it?

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:00:23):
Here?

Speaker 54 (01:00:23):
You are?

Speaker 5 (01:00:24):
You need it worse than I do?

Speaker 15 (01:00:25):
Something? Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:00:27):
Well, where you go from here? I'll the trip? Maybe?
How you have nothing to worry about for me that
I know something?

Speaker 9 (01:00:37):
How was it?

Speaker 15 (01:00:39):
How was it done?

Speaker 41 (01:00:40):
Gun?

Speaker 9 (01:00:42):
Did you leave it?

Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
I'll get rid of it?

Speaker 9 (01:00:45):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
Yea, here's to you. Al Yeah, all right, something.

Speaker 9 (01:00:54):
Now, let's have the dough.

Speaker 5 (01:00:55):
I certainly certain I've I've got it right here. You
know I've been thinking about you thought, I think Nick's right,
you're crummy. You shouldn't feel that way. Well, I had
to do it over. You won't say I'm sick? What't
you putting that drake? Nothing?

Speaker 55 (01:01:15):
Hell?

Speaker 5 (01:01:15):
You double crossing? I'll kill you? Well, will you all?
I poured some of the liquorn al and dipped the
bottle over.

Speaker 51 (01:01:34):
Then I carried him out of the lodge, across the
carpet of pine needles, with the bluffe hundred yards away.
I placed one of Freda's expensive bracelets in his pocket
and almost some money and articles of lesser value. I
dropped him over the bluff and heard his body strike
the rocky stream bit three hundred feet below. I went
quickly to my car and drove away. I drove rapidly

(01:01:59):
for an hour till I passed all Night diner, and
I wheeled the car around in the highway, pointing it
back in the direction i'd come, and I ran the
car into a ditch hard. The front fender crumpled against
the wheel and the tire blew out. I couldn't have
wished anything better.

Speaker 5 (01:02:14):
This was it, my alibi. I walked a mile up
the road to the diner. As I opened the door.
A car pulled up. When I entered the cafe, the
girl got out of the car and followed me in.
Well it be folks coffee place, you mister coffee. Say

(01:02:35):
is there a tow truck around? Tow truck? I blew
out a tire and went into the ditch about a
mile down the road, and Jim Parson has tow truck
and him and the missus went into LA. Won't be
back till Monday.

Speaker 51 (01:02:46):
Here you are, miss Monday. Wreck your car bed, smash
the wheel. I don't have a spear. Oh that's too bad.

Speaker 5 (01:02:52):
Going far my lot about fifty miles up the Thornton Place,
Roger Thornton. Maybe you know it Thornton? Okay, say I do.
My wife's there, but I'm sure she's all right.

Speaker 51 (01:03:05):
You don't stand much of a chance of getting a
ride going that way this time night, I suppose not.

Speaker 5 (01:03:10):
If he was a phone there, reverse the charges.

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:03:12):
The phone's disconnected up at the lodge. You might be
able to hitch the la once in a while there's
a car going that way. That's an idea. Anything else
for you?

Speaker 9 (01:03:22):
Miss?

Speaker 52 (01:03:23):
No?

Speaker 41 (01:03:23):
Thanks?

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
How much?

Speaker 5 (01:03:24):
Ten cents? Thank you?

Speaker 46 (01:03:27):
Night night?

Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
I reckon.

Speaker 51 (01:03:32):
The young lady didn't want to passon you, so it
seems say, I think I will use your phone hope self.
Have you got that straight, Charles?

Speaker 41 (01:03:47):
Yes, sir, I'm to call the auto club have him
pick up your car.

Speaker 51 (01:03:51):
It's quite a way to the lodge, so I'm going
to try to get a ride back to town. I'm
perfectly all right. It may be rather late before I
get in, so leave it in the library. Good night, Charles.

Speaker 28 (01:04:04):
Is that an al sir?

Speaker 21 (01:04:06):
Bye?

Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
Yes, yes, that's all very well, sir. Thank you for
the use of the phone. Oh that's okay, mister. Could
you use a drink? I ain't never been known to
turn one down.

Speaker 51 (01:04:21):
I got a bottle in my car. Well, that's quite
a walk. It's nice out, and I could use a
drink myself.

Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
Suit yourself. You don't mind if I sit around after
I get back, maybe I can pick up a ride.
Glad to have you. I'm opening the whole night. God good,
I'll be right back.

Speaker 18 (01:04:38):
Mister.

Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
Yes, do you say you wanted to ride to la Why? Yes, yes,
if you're going that way, well, thank you very much.

Speaker 41 (01:04:53):
I would have asked you in.

Speaker 39 (01:04:54):
There, but I didn't want to give a counterman the
wrong idea. Mister Thornton, as you know my name, he
told the counterman.

Speaker 5 (01:05:03):
Oh, oh, of course, I was just going to get
a bottle out of my car.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
I already got it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:10):
You've got it?

Speaker 39 (01:05:11):
Sure, nice car, thirsty girl. I had a hunch.

Speaker 5 (01:05:16):
Uh how long were you at the car?

Speaker 39 (01:05:18):
Long enough to find the bottle and see your name
on the steering post?

Speaker 5 (01:05:22):
I thought you heard me tell a counterman.

Speaker 38 (01:05:23):
I did so.

Speaker 39 (01:05:25):
Then I knew you was a gentleman.

Speaker 5 (01:05:28):
Have you you drunk much of that bottle enough? Hey,
you shouldn't be driving if you've been drinking too much.

Speaker 53 (01:05:35):
Scared?

Speaker 5 (01:05:36):
Hold no it h's for your own good.

Speaker 39 (01:05:37):
I'm celebraton.

Speaker 5 (01:05:39):
I might have waited till you got in Los Angeles.

Speaker 39 (01:05:42):
Mister Thornton. Yes, why'd you turn your car around and
run it into that ditch? I know all about you,
mister Thornton.

Speaker 46 (01:05:51):
Who are you?

Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
What's your name?

Speaker 41 (01:05:53):
Fella?

Speaker 15 (01:05:54):
Nolla?

Speaker 27 (01:05:55):
What?

Speaker 39 (01:05:56):
Just tella?

Speaker 56 (01:05:58):
Look out?

Speaker 5 (01:06:00):
Why were you never to turn this over? Either? Stop
this car and let me drive her?

Speaker 39 (01:06:03):
Oh what, mister Thornton, stop this car? When we get
to Nicks, did you.

Speaker 37 (01:06:10):
Did you say nix?

Speaker 39 (01:06:12):
I'm Al's girlfriend. No, didn't you think y'all could have
a girlfriend?

Speaker 9 (01:06:19):
Why did you pick me up?

Speaker 39 (01:06:20):
Because I'm not half as tight as you think I am.

Speaker 5 (01:06:23):
What do you want?

Speaker 39 (01:06:25):
I was a punk, a nice punk, but punk's come cheap,
mister Thornton, I want that nine thousand dollars?

Speaker 5 (01:06:31):
Do you think I carry that kind of money around?

Speaker 39 (01:06:33):
And did you think I was stupid enough not to
have somebody cover him? At the lodge?

Speaker 31 (01:06:36):
You there?

Speaker 5 (01:06:37):
You you saw it? Yes, I was there and I
saw You're a very brave girl, ella threatening me.

Speaker 57 (01:06:45):
I don't scare easy.

Speaker 39 (01:06:46):
I know your car, knew you. This is a gun,
mister Thornton. I'm not afraid to use it.

Speaker 5 (01:06:51):
You're a very stupid child.

Speaker 39 (01:06:52):
Do you try anything, I'll wreck this car.

Speaker 5 (01:06:55):
What's that turf?

Speaker 27 (01:06:59):
No?

Speaker 20 (01:07:00):
Stop the coral out till you you're.

Speaker 5 (01:07:06):
Stopping right there? All right?

Speaker 36 (01:07:11):
All right, get down in the car.

Speaker 5 (01:07:13):
Get out.

Speaker 39 (01:07:14):
I'm willing to talk to you.

Speaker 5 (01:07:15):
Get out.

Speaker 46 (01:07:19):
This will.

Speaker 8 (01:07:20):
I was over kidden.

Speaker 36 (01:07:21):
I wanted to scare you.

Speaker 5 (01:07:23):
I didn't mean it. Must type force you.

Speaker 39 (01:07:25):
I won't tell nobody.

Speaker 5 (01:07:27):
My only witness, my only witness.

Speaker 39 (01:07:29):
Please let me tell you, Let me talk to you.

Speaker 46 (01:07:31):
This will do.

Speaker 44 (01:07:32):
Wait, you've got to let me explain it.

Speaker 51 (01:07:42):
When the girl told me she'd seen me kill ally,
I went out of my head. I didn't know what
I was doing. I shouldn't have killed her. I'm stupid,
but I couldn't help it, couldn't stop. I drove the
girl's car into town and left it on the side street.
I dropped the gun down a sewer and caught a
bus home. It was it was almost daylight. I was

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tired and sick. It was all over, and it was
all over.

Speaker 15 (01:08:09):
I unlocked the front door.

Speaker 37 (01:08:11):
Quietly entered the house, my house.

Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
I was too eat up for sleep, but I needed it.
Was a bracer. I went into the library.

Speaker 44 (01:08:21):
Good morning, Roger, Who did you expect?

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 52 (01:08:27):
I've been waiting since you telephone?

Speaker 18 (01:08:29):
Charles.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
I killed him.

Speaker 5 (01:08:32):
I killed them both. You killed them, Hell and the girl,
and you're here, You're right here.

Speaker 41 (01:08:46):
I'm so sorry for you.

Speaker 46 (01:08:47):
I had it off, I did.

Speaker 41 (01:08:50):
I had batman al La Carpenter.

Speaker 18 (01:08:51):
He told me everything, Rochester. I had to pay him.

Speaker 5 (01:08:54):
You and it was the girl I saw. She was
in the bedroom, pretending to be you, pretending to be dead.
I'll fame. The whole thing is a shakedown. He never
intended to kill you. Oh, I'm so sorry for you.
You said that, you said that. Who are you to
feel sorry for me? I'm going to miss you, Roger.

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Then why did you do something? Why didn't you tell me?

Speaker 53 (01:09:17):
I didn't know.

Speaker 44 (01:09:18):
I stayed home hoping you'd come here and we can
talk things over before you did anything.

Speaker 5 (01:09:21):
Rash?

Speaker 18 (01:09:22):
You call it rash?

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
Do you know what I've done?

Speaker 27 (01:09:25):
That's why I'm so sorry for you.

Speaker 5 (01:09:27):
Say that once more, once more, Frida. It was greed,
wasn't it, Roger?

Speaker 18 (01:09:32):
Greed for my money?

Speaker 15 (01:09:33):
I hate you.

Speaker 5 (01:09:36):
And I love you.

Speaker 52 (01:09:38):
Isn't it strange?

Speaker 5 (01:09:39):
Roger?

Speaker 18 (01:09:42):
What I wanted to tell you at the lodge?

Speaker 5 (01:09:43):
Roger?

Speaker 45 (01:09:44):
Or if I only told you sooner.

Speaker 5 (01:09:48):
You do?

Speaker 46 (01:09:48):
What do you mean?

Speaker 44 (01:09:48):
I'll tell you, But it's too late now, Roger, you've
killed two people and you'll hang.

Speaker 41 (01:09:56):
I let you.

Speaker 46 (01:09:58):
What are you doing?

Speaker 18 (01:10:00):
I haven't any money.

Speaker 5 (01:10:02):
Roger, I've been wiped out. That's what I wanted to
tell you. You needn't have killed them, Alfreda.

Speaker 58 (01:10:11):
But I still love you, No, and I won't let
you hang.

Speaker 53 (01:10:17):
Goodbye, Roger.

Speaker 5 (01:10:33):
And so the curtain falls on two coffins.

Speaker 48 (01:10:36):
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famous mystery novelist Miss Helen McCloy. Until then, this is
your host, John Dixon Carr, hoping you'll be with us
next week at this time.

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Miriam Wolfe, and Maurice Tarplin. Music was under the direction
of Emerson Buckley and was composed by Richard DuPage. Murder
by Experts is produced and directed by Robert A.

Speaker 5 (01:11:35):
Arthur and David Cogan.

Speaker 47 (01:11:37):
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Speaker 13 (01:13:08):
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And cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine presents.

Speaker 25 (01:13:16):
Minus minus.

Speaker 59 (01:13:29):
Many of the colonies of this planet here have been
founded and built by myths, its rebels, rejects from their
own societies, the transported criminals, and they've made good men
in those new frontiers. But not all men are good
men in a bad spot.

Speaker 4 (01:13:54):
When you open a new area, whether.

Speaker 59 (01:13:56):
It's a new planet or a new continent, it takes
tough men, men of strength and determination. Among the men
of that type in any culture, many are rebels. They
turn up in the criminal courts. Such men make fine colonists.

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But not all rebels are colonists builders. A lot of
them are just playing lazy, sick, souled criminals. A Mars
is a cold planet. It's nearly fifty million miles further
from the Sun than Earth. It gets proportionately less heat.

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Its air is thin and low in oxygen, Its water
is scarce. It's not an easy place to live. Some
men will live in unpleasant places by choice. Because they
have this pioneering spirit or a sense of adventure. Other
men have very little choice at all. When Robert Black,
who was found guilty of the crime armed robbery, with

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court gave him the usual choice fifteen years in prison
or a permanent exile to Mars, the judge asked him
which he preferred.

Speaker 13 (01:15:11):
I'll take Mars.

Speaker 59 (01:15:12):
It was thwarted, all right, Harrington, I'll see Robert Black. Now, Jenna,

(01:15:38):
what is it this time? Black in trouble with the
mind for him?

Speaker 3 (01:15:40):
And again?

Speaker 13 (01:15:41):
Oh not this time. But if he keeps pushing, don't
start that again. I'm sorry, mister Jenna.

Speaker 59 (01:15:45):
Now, look Black, I'm supposed to be the colonial administrator.

Speaker 13 (01:15:48):
He'll remember.

Speaker 3 (01:15:49):
I have work to do.

Speaker 21 (01:15:50):
Now, what's on your mind?

Speaker 13 (01:15:52):
I want to go home now you're sending me welcome
to you know where your dormitory room is. Go ahead
and go home.

Speaker 15 (01:15:57):
Why bother me with her?

Speaker 13 (01:15:57):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 24 (01:15:58):
I want to go back to Earth.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
Earth.

Speaker 59 (01:16:00):
That's impossible, and you know it. You made your choice
ten years ago. You wanted to be a free colonist
instead of a prisoner.

Speaker 13 (01:16:06):
And you've got what you wanted free.

Speaker 43 (01:16:08):
You call this free.

Speaker 59 (01:16:09):
I woke my hands off put of the elbows in
those freeze and coal mines. I will take ten hours
a day for want for a.

Speaker 24 (01:16:14):
Few dollsi bucks spend.

Speaker 59 (01:16:16):
There's no place I ought to be in jail, no
place to spend it. You seem to do a pretty
good job getting rid of your paycheck.

Speaker 13 (01:16:21):
And the bars and myers for it.

Speaker 18 (01:16:23):
Why not?

Speaker 15 (01:16:23):
What else is there to do with it?

Speaker 8 (01:16:24):
Black?

Speaker 59 (01:16:25):
A lot of men in your position have done something
with it. They saved their money and bought a little
pressure dome of their own. They've got me married and
had kids and tried to.

Speaker 13 (01:16:33):
Make miles pour it into a real city instead of
drinking up every since. They've made me get married.

Speaker 59 (01:16:40):
None of the themes of Mars have anything to do
with a con Oh you mean, they won't have anything
to do with you personally, don't you? Other convicts have
done something with themselves here, but you haven't, and you
never will. You know why, you tell me, because you
can't change your way of thinking. You had to come
here because you couldn't keep out of trouble, and you've
made trouble for yourself and everybody ill since your game

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drunken balls, arguments with your farm and everything someday you'll
get in a real jam. I look, mister Jenner, I
try to get long, honest, I do. I just don't
like being push that's oh sure, everybody picks on.

Speaker 13 (01:17:15):
Look at dinner. I just can't take myrs anymore. Look
at my fingers always cold, My feet are always cold.
I haven't been warm for one minute in the last
ten years. They can't heat up their minds even because
the stinking little planet's cold all the way through?

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
Or what do you want me to do?

Speaker 13 (01:17:30):
Move myrs closer to the sun just to please you, will,
mister Jenny, Please, I'm serious.

Speaker 59 (01:17:34):
Send me back to I'll spend the rest of my
time in prison there. I won't care, just as long
as it's on Earth where it's warm.

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
I just can't do that.

Speaker 13 (01:17:42):
Black, You had your chance to.

Speaker 59 (01:17:45):
Make your choice ten years ago, and you made it.
Neither one of us can change that.

Speaker 16 (01:17:49):
Really fair.

Speaker 13 (01:17:51):
I have just five more years to do time. If
I taken a fifteen year since of me free the
way it is, I gotta find the rest of my life.
It ain't fair.

Speaker 59 (01:17:59):
I couldn't send you back if I want to do.
I'm just a civil service appointee now. I judge of
the court. If you want to spend five years in jail,
I can accommodate you right here on Mars, but I
can't send you.

Speaker 23 (01:18:11):
Back to Earth.

Speaker 9 (01:18:12):
And that's fine.

Speaker 13 (01:18:13):
Well, mister Jenner, that's all black. Unless you have something
else to see me about.

Speaker 15 (01:18:18):
Please go.

Speaker 13 (01:18:18):
I'm busy, Look all right, all right, that's the way
you're going to be.

Speaker 8 (01:18:25):
That's the way I'm going to be.

Speaker 13 (01:18:27):
Goodbye, Black, goodbye.

Speaker 59 (01:18:49):
There are many men who can't take no for an answer,
but they don't all have that characteristic in quite the
same way.

Speaker 13 (01:18:58):
The pioneer, the scientist.

Speaker 59 (01:19:01):
These are men who can't take no for an answer,
and they plow their way through to an answer that works.

Speaker 8 (01:19:08):
But not all men are that that type.

Speaker 34 (01:19:17):
If I then give me another bear, the one that
always rocking me, I'm Jenner, that great shot white guy,
and he'll worry about somebody freeing.

Speaker 13 (01:19:30):
It and his ball eyes not he'll be the homny one.

Speaker 15 (01:19:37):
Shop.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
Give me a blast of beer.

Speaker 13 (01:19:39):
Can h space service uniforms? I wonder what he's doing
the cheap joining Christ. Those guys usually have money to
burn spars your flat.

Speaker 59 (01:19:50):
This low pressure does it takes all the fizz out
of it that shaw. Why at least he's calling out,
Oh everything's called our minds.

Speaker 8 (01:19:58):
You uh been the center?

Speaker 13 (01:20:00):
It's long not three years. This is my first maze run,
so i'd take a look at my sport while they
service my ship.

Speaker 4 (01:20:07):
Your ship.

Speaker 13 (01:20:09):
You don't hardly look old enough to be the skipper
of the spaceship. That's what they all tell me. I
may not be as old as your old timer, but
it's still my ship old time. And right away he
starts riding the guy right over the glass. Yeah, that's
that's pretty good, you know, young fellow like you. With
a crew of ten of the no, no, just the
two of us, Me and my navigator, we're giving the Skyfire.

Speaker 9 (01:20:28):
It's test run.

Speaker 13 (01:20:29):
Uh huh. I've been two men I handle a spaceship.

Speaker 15 (01:20:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 59 (01:20:31):
Look, don't you watch the news cast missing Skyfire is
one of the new models with the markind drive.

Speaker 13 (01:20:36):
That's the spaceship ever built. I get something a little
behind the times new drive. That's right, honest, little thing
in the sky.

Speaker 59 (01:20:42):
Must not be as complicated as the old jobs. If
just two guys can run it, well.

Speaker 13 (01:20:46):
I hate to admit it, but it doesn't take much
training to run one a baby could do it. Oh man,
things should have changed. And the last time I was
down the ship. But that's all. How long has it been?
Ten years? Been in our mars for ten years?

Speaker 10 (01:20:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 60 (01:21:00):
Are you?

Speaker 13 (01:21:02):
I mean, are you convent?

Speaker 32 (01:21:03):
No?

Speaker 59 (01:21:03):
No, no, I can bear my own free will. Got
the old Piemere blood in me again. But while we
don't usually talk about it very much, you know, out
here one fullos because as the next one people hits themselves.

Speaker 13 (01:21:13):
Yeah, that's where it should be. I guess ten years.

Speaker 59 (01:21:17):
I guess you've been here long enough to get used
to this light gravity.

Speaker 4 (01:21:20):
Huh.

Speaker 13 (01:21:20):
Sure, I don't even notice it anymore. And trouble with
being in the Space Service is that you never get
used to any particular gravity. It might be ten g's
one minute and zero the next time. Got she You
can get used to that eventually, a man as you would.

Speaker 28 (01:21:33):
My name is Bob, Bob Black.

Speaker 59 (01:21:34):
I'm pleased to make you a Mine's kish and Peter
Cutt higher. You are going to be here long a
couple of days.

Speaker 13 (01:21:40):
Skyfire will be ready to go in an hour or so.
But my navigators in the hospital for check. I've twisted
his ankle getting off the ship. No bad can I
buy you a beer? We're both done? I sure, sure, thanks,
brought two more here. Hey, if you've been here ten years,
you must know my sport pretty well? Yeah, pretty well?
Oh look, there must be livelier places than this. Maybe

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you could tell me where to find a little segment. Sure,
I know a couple of places.

Speaker 8 (01:22:04):
I'll tell you what I'll do.

Speaker 13 (01:22:05):
I'll think it there myself.

Speaker 8 (01:22:06):
Good enough.

Speaker 13 (01:22:07):
Come on, let's get out of here. We got fired
of going about a quarter of a mile. I stick
a cab man, I don't feel like walking that fine?
This cold wearing an oxygen man? Sure we can pick
one up?

Speaker 15 (01:22:25):
Oh oh my head?

Speaker 13 (01:22:28):
Yeah that kid you really hung one on last night?

Speaker 15 (01:22:30):
Oh and where where am I?

Speaker 13 (01:22:34):
Open your eyes and look around? This ain' the good
chip lollipop? Hey, hey, we're aboard the skyfire a. You're
not supposed to be here. How'd you get to the
guys at the cage?

Speaker 59 (01:22:45):
And it wasn't easy to pal but you helped. Now
you just leaned back and relax. You're in no condition
to try anything funny.

Speaker 13 (01:22:52):
Hey, Hey, that's my gun?

Speaker 9 (01:22:54):
You got there?

Speaker 13 (01:22:55):
That's right?

Speaker 59 (01:22:57):
Earth, beautiful green sunshiny warm earth. I'm thick and tired
of this freezing hell hole. You're gonna take me home, buddy?

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Well on you know administration Jenner speaking.

Speaker 23 (01:23:22):
Jenner's cunnel on the ill space.

Speaker 13 (01:23:23):
So it's oh, yes, colonel, what can I do for it?

Speaker 23 (01:23:25):
Something for the city?

Speaker 36 (01:23:26):
Come up?

Speaker 13 (01:23:27):
Would you check your records and a man named Black,
Robert Black, I might not need to check them.

Speaker 4 (01:23:32):
I know the man personally.

Speaker 13 (01:23:33):
Once he done, now and I take it, then you
wouldn't be surprised if you were.

Speaker 4 (01:23:36):
A couple, not in the least.

Speaker 9 (01:23:37):
Why what happened?

Speaker 23 (01:23:38):
One of our space ships were stolen this morning?

Speaker 13 (01:23:41):
What or how could a man steal a spaceship?

Speaker 25 (01:23:44):
A man couldn't see one of.

Speaker 9 (01:23:45):
The old kind.

Speaker 23 (01:23:47):
But this is a redically new time small competed to operate.
He almost he's stealing a car.

Speaker 13 (01:23:52):
Do you think Black had something to.

Speaker 31 (01:23:54):
Do with it?

Speaker 46 (01:23:54):
Looks like it.

Speaker 23 (01:23:55):
It was a last scene with Peter ks and I
his singaprints on the ladder of the tick off pit,
questioning the gods now but a little if constantly back
took off from.

Speaker 25 (01:24:02):
The sky fire together.

Speaker 13 (01:24:04):
Incredible. Who is Peter Carson, by the way, but just.

Speaker 59 (01:24:09):
A kid.

Speaker 9 (01:24:11):
Him?

Speaker 23 (01:24:12):
The Collegist's still anything like this, what you made?

Speaker 28 (01:24:16):
What's wrong with him?

Speaker 23 (01:24:18):
Likes to claim you something it is not.

Speaker 25 (01:24:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 23 (01:24:21):
Psychologist a compulsive And the two.

Speaker 13 (01:24:24):
Of them stole a spaceship, well they ought to make
a fine pair.

Speaker 23 (01:24:28):
Tell me didn't operate a spaceship, of course not.

Speaker 13 (01:24:31):
The only trip he ever made was ten years ago
when the court sent him here. He doesn't know how
to operate a spaceship. And all right, how's that?

Speaker 59 (01:24:43):
Criminal in jail is more or less forced to admit
that he did make some kind of a mistake. The
curious thing is, if you ask such a man what
mistake he made, he didn have to say something here, Well, yeah,
I didn't see that cop that was hiding down there
in the doorway. He's used it as a mistake in procedure.

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He doesn't recognize that he was fundamentally wrong in trying
to make a living that way. Shut out, smart old
smart boy Jenner goes to show your kid, you can't
keep a good man down.

Speaker 13 (01:25:18):
Yeah, yeah, sure, two hours.

Speaker 59 (01:25:19):
I'll be back home again, back the nice, warm, comfortable earth.
I'm black, I'm scared we're gonna crash. Shut up, you're
still trying to give me that phony line. I tell you, Black,
I don't know anything about space. We took off, okay,
didn't leave ond call us, aren't we?

Speaker 13 (01:25:32):
And you did all the platinum of pilot and then
you swear I.

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
Know is when I read in the.

Speaker 13 (01:25:36):
Textbook at the academy and I watched the captain take
the ship to march.

Speaker 59 (01:25:40):
Any fool can take a spaceship off the ground, but
it takes a tame pilot and lamb over and give
me that stuff that it since we started. And then
I'll tell you something I don't believe it. Please Black,
before so late, let me go on that radio and
call a space serve if they can get a ship
up here a lot, that's what you like.

Speaker 13 (01:25:54):
And I get a space service up here, I see
through you a dodge and I'm not buying it.

Speaker 59 (01:25:59):
And I'm my getting caught on earth because they can't
deport me twice. They're put me in a nice warm
cell and they're not gonna nab me up here and
send me back to that fridgeid hell, I just left.
You understand why they got out my sadden. I let
over the pilots man, I lead over the specifications on
the ship. A baby could I handlid. Remember that's what
you said a baby could handlib And you're right.

Speaker 13 (01:26:19):
I can land this thing myself. They don't get me
any Who wry about.

Speaker 18 (01:26:21):
You not knowing how?

Speaker 25 (01:26:22):
Wait?

Speaker 13 (01:26:22):
Black, we haven't got much shy plead Black.

Speaker 24 (01:26:25):
Let me use the radio.

Speaker 13 (01:26:28):
Ah, now that's better. I must committed to line this crape.

Speaker 8 (01:26:31):
We got to listen to hours go.

Speaker 1 (01:26:32):
I know I gotta do something.

Speaker 59 (01:26:34):
Dip back down and stay away from already I'm gonna calm.

Speaker 3 (01:26:37):
You can't get away.

Speaker 37 (01:26:38):
I called it.

Speaker 13 (01:26:42):
It's super crazy, little punkin. Now, I gotta take the
ship down by myself. Everything okay, it's gotta be calmer.

Speaker 28 (01:26:51):
So check the time.

Speaker 13 (01:26:53):
That's good now, according with the radar on map, I'm
over Wyoming.

Speaker 24 (01:26:56):
No town around.

Speaker 13 (01:26:57):
That's smack in the middle of nowhere.

Speaker 15 (01:26:58):
It's good. I means no cops.

Speaker 24 (01:27:01):
Ship the time again?

Speaker 13 (01:27:01):
Oh rush now chip the instruments, all right, got out?
Three direction all okay?

Speaker 59 (01:27:08):
Time ten seconds back there at boy Knight's warm gleaner.

Speaker 13 (01:27:11):
No more cold red sands. Good time five seconds to
cut off sleeve two one? But hey, what's the falling?

(01:27:33):
I guess I'm okay. Shipped in far more than ten
or fifteen see what's uh.

Speaker 16 (01:27:39):
Radiations?

Speaker 13 (01:27:39):
A tick for them up the broken a shoe and
around the atomic engine. I got a guy, hey, guy
here on this radiation can kill me.

Speaker 17 (01:27:48):
I'll kill me like, oh.

Speaker 59 (01:27:51):
No, I gotta get out of the tell off guy,
gotta go warm all?

Speaker 34 (01:27:58):
Why why.

Speaker 13 (01:28:12):
Colonial Administration Jenner speaking?

Speaker 4 (01:28:15):
This is Colonel O'Neil, Mister Jenner.

Speaker 13 (01:28:17):
I just got word from Earth that our to run
aways had been found. You mean they actually made it
to her?

Speaker 61 (01:28:21):
Well, there wasn't a good landing.

Speaker 13 (01:28:23):
The engines were cut off too soon and the skyfire.

Speaker 23 (01:28:25):
Dropped about fifteen feet. But that ship's pretty nearly full.

Speaker 15 (01:28:27):
Proof of what happened.

Speaker 28 (01:28:28):
I mean, Carson has a bullet in him, doctor says,
in bad.

Speaker 23 (01:28:30):
Shape, but he'll live. And Black, funny thing sat the
ship down in the desert.

Speaker 13 (01:28:35):
Part of Wilding, the fall short of the radiation detext in.

Speaker 23 (01:28:38):
Evidently Black thought the ship was full of radiation. He
got started running and just kept running until he dropped.

Speaker 13 (01:28:44):
You mean he got away, Well he didn't as far.

Speaker 23 (01:28:48):
It's scheduary, you know, winter time in Wilding. If he
ran into the teeth of a howling blizzard, that told
zero temperatures. Yeah, froze to death before they could reach him.

Speaker 13 (01:29:17):
It's characteristic of a man who wants to do things.

Speaker 59 (01:29:20):
The quick, easy way, that he doesn't like to take
the time and trouble to look up the data and said,
what's going to happen when.

Speaker 28 (01:29:29):
He gets there.

Speaker 59 (01:29:31):
It would have been easy enough for Black to shake
and find out if there was winter on Earth.

Speaker 13 (01:29:36):
But you see, Mars doesn't have the same seasons Earth does.
Mars year is about twice.

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
As long as ours.

Speaker 2 (01:29:44):
I guess Black has sort of lost track of what
it was like in Wyoming in January.

Speaker 59 (01:30:00):
You have just heard X minus one, presented by the
National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine.

Speaker 9 (01:30:18):
And now wait, wait for a voice. This is Ken Radane.

Speaker 10 (01:30:34):
I come to you from out of the darkness, into
a single point of light, from out of the darkness

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that walks to this turn of midnight.

Speaker 5 (01:31:01):
And enters the long, lonely road to dawn.

Speaker 10 (01:31:06):
From this deep darkness, the mind accepts a single point
of concentration. The senses I sharpened to it. All else
is blacked out, and from any floating.

Speaker 15 (01:31:30):
Form or.

Speaker 10 (01:31:33):
Shifting shape, the midnight mind will see faces in the window.

Speaker 9 (01:31:47):
I have to think about which my ears.

Speaker 10 (01:31:54):
After that, the sound to the tribunal's voices seemed merged
in one dreamy into ferminine thumb.

Speaker 9 (01:32:01):
And after that nothing.

Speaker 10 (01:32:05):
Yet For a while I saw, I saw the lips
of the black robe judges.

Speaker 25 (01:32:11):
They appeared quite and grow desquely.

Speaker 10 (01:32:13):
Thin, thin with the intensity of their expression of firmness,
their stern contempts of human torture. I saw those lips
fashion the syllable to my name.

Speaker 9 (01:32:28):
I shuddered because they made no sound.

Speaker 10 (01:32:31):
And then my vision fell upon the seven tall candles
on the table. First they glowed with charity. It seemed
like quite slender angels who had saved me. Then all
at once my spirit was filled with the deadly nausea.
They got avery fiber in my body thrilled as if
I had touched the wire of a battery. While the

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angel forms became meaning respectives.

Speaker 9 (01:32:55):
With flames for heads. And I saw that from them
there would be no help.

Speaker 10 (01:33:03):
And then they stolen into my mind like a rich
musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must
be in the grave.

Speaker 9 (01:33:13):
The blood came gently, stealthily, but.

Speaker 10 (01:33:18):
Just as my spirit came to appreciate it. The figures
of the judges vanished, as if by magic. Before me,
the tall candles sank into nothingness, their flames.

Speaker 9 (01:33:30):
Went out, the blackness of darkness set in.

Speaker 10 (01:33:35):
All sensations appeared, swallowed up in a mad, rushing descent,
as of the soul into hell, and then silence, stillness,
and nights.

Speaker 8 (01:33:50):
Of my universe.

Speaker 10 (01:33:54):
They had fallen into a deep, deep paint for aw
long I don't know. But then suddenly it means that
came back to my soul, motion and sound, the heavy
motion of my heart, and in my ears the sound.

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
Of its beating, an applause in which all is.

Speaker 10 (01:34:15):
Blank, and again sound and motion, the teen sensation of touch,
in the mere consciousness of existence without the condition, which
lasted for a long while time, finally, very suddenly.

Speaker 9 (01:34:34):
A.

Speaker 10 (01:34:37):
Shuddering terror and a desperate desire to comprehend my actual
state of being, now full memory of the trial of
the judges, their black robes and the black drapery, then.

Speaker 9 (01:34:54):
Of the sentence of the sickness.

Speaker 10 (01:34:58):
After, and then the entire forgetfulness fall. So far I
had not opened my eyes. I felt that finally over
my back unbound, and I reached out my hand and
I fell heavily on something damned and hard.

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
I let it remain there when I struggled to imagine
where and what I could be.

Speaker 9 (01:35:22):
I longed to see, but I dared not.

Speaker 10 (01:35:25):
It wasn't that I faired look upon horrible things, but
that I grew terrified us there should be nothing to see.

Speaker 9 (01:35:30):
And finally, with a wild desperation.

Speaker 25 (01:35:32):
Of a heart, I quickly opened my eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:35:37):
The blackness, The blackness is eternal, I accomplassed me.

Speaker 9 (01:35:44):
The intensity of the darkness seemed.

Speaker 25 (01:35:46):
To stifle me, and I struggle for breath.

Speaker 10 (01:35:49):
And still there still, I think it appeared to me
a very long interval of time had passed and the trial.

Speaker 25 (01:36:00):
Yet not for a moment did I suppose I was
actually dead? But where in what state was I?

Speaker 10 (01:36:09):
And I haven't placed in a dungeon to await the
next sacrifice of the tribunal.

Speaker 2 (01:36:14):
Which might not be plazed for many many months.

Speaker 10 (01:36:18):
Verifying idea and how suddenly drove the bloody torrents upon
my heart, I almost.

Speaker 9 (01:36:23):
Lost conscious again.

Speaker 10 (01:36:25):
Somehow, somehow I got to my feet, trembling convulsively. I
thrust my arms wildly above and around me in all directions.
I felt nothing, nothing, yet minute to move a step, first,
I should be blocked by the walls of a tomb.
The agony is suspense grew intolerable, and I cautiously moved forward,

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with my arms extended, my eyes straining from their sockets,
in the hope of catching some faint ray of light.

Speaker 9 (01:36:54):
I went on for many places, but still a hole
was blackness and happiness.

Speaker 3 (01:36:59):
Somehow, somehow I.

Speaker 10 (01:37:01):
Breathed more freely, the evidence that mine was not at
least the most tedious fate.

Speaker 9 (01:37:11):
If I moved.

Speaker 10 (01:37:12):
Cautiously onward, I thought of a thousand vague gloomers I
had heard of hers, the tribal move, too ghastly to repeat,
accepting because I left to perish of starvation in this
subterranean world of darkness, or what fate perhaps even more
fearful awaited me that the results would be dead.

Speaker 25 (01:37:38):
I had no doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:37:41):
The manner in the hour were all that occupied my thoughts.

Speaker 10 (01:37:45):
My outstretched hands finally encountered some solid obstruction.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
It was warm, seemingly of stonemasonry.

Speaker 24 (01:37:56):
I smool, find me cold.

Speaker 10 (01:38:02):
I'd followed it from my own. There's no way of
knowing the dimensions of the dungeon. Although wall was so
perfectly uniform that I could have walked around to the
place where I started without knowing it.

Speaker 25 (01:38:14):
This then became my all important problem.

Speaker 10 (01:38:19):
Dre a strip of clouds from the wrapper of course search.
They had exchanged for my clothes and placed the fragments
on the floor at full length and the right ankles
to the wall. I couldn't fail to find this rag
when I had completed the circuit of the dungeon, totally
my thought. But I had not counted on the extent
of the dungeon, or upon my own weakness.

Speaker 9 (01:38:41):
Brown, moist, blippery, I staggered onward for some time. When
I stumbled and fell.

Speaker 10 (01:38:47):
The weight of my fatigue forced me to end, made
prostrates sleep. Sleep overtook me like a heavy cloud. Upon
awakening and stretching my arm, I found beside me a
loaf of bread in the picture of water. It was
much too exhausted to wonder if this peg and drank

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like an animal. Shortly afterward, I resumed my tour around
the prison painfully, and came at last upon the fragment
of search. Now, up to the period when I fell,
I had counted fifty two paces.

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
When I continued forty eight more to the strip of
the cloth.

Speaker 10 (01:39:27):
There were all then a hundred paces, and counting two
paces to the yard, I guessed the dungeon to be
fifty yard.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
In circumference, I could form no guess as to the
shape of the prison.

Speaker 10 (01:39:40):
I hit little object, certainly no hope in this research,
but the vague curiosity prompted me to continue it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:48):
I decided to cross the area of the enclosure. Lore
those solid was treacherous with flime.

Speaker 10 (01:39:56):
I steppt with extreme caution, trying to cross in as
directed line as possible.

Speaker 2 (01:40:00):
I had advanced some ten or twelve.

Speaker 10 (01:40:01):
Paces when the remnants of the torn hem of my
robe became entangled between my legs.

Speaker 2 (01:40:06):
I stepped on it and fell violently on my face.

Speaker 10 (01:40:12):
In the confusion of the fall, I wasn't at first
aware of a remarkable fact. Although my chin rested upon
the floor of the prison. My lips in the upper
portion of my head, although they seemed to be lowered
and the chin touched nothing nothing. At the same time,
my forehead seen vaised in a clammy inger. The culiar

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smell decayed hung the rows to my nostrils. I put
out my arm it shutdered to find that I had followed.

Speaker 24 (01:40:46):
At the very brink.

Speaker 25 (01:40:49):
Circular pis growing about.

Speaker 10 (01:40:51):
The mason races below the rim, I succeeded in just
slatching a small fragment and let it fall into the
apiest for many seconds against the sides of the cantons.
It fell, and after what seemed whatever, there was a
thing creeping wish the scene the land in something soft

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and moist, followed by a scarcely audible kind of noise
scraping some sort that I couldn't recognize.

Speaker 9 (01:41:23):
At the same time.

Speaker 2 (01:41:26):
It came the sound, the quick sound of the door
opening and closing from above, and the faint gleam of light.

Speaker 10 (01:41:38):
I suddenly through the gloom, just to suddenly take it away.
I saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me,
and congratulated myself on the timely accidents which I had excaped.
The more step before my fall would admit the death,
my horrorble life now to the victims of the tribunal,

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the tribunal of terror. There was a choice of death
in violent physical agony, or a death with the most
hideous mental horrors. Apparently I hadn't return for the last.

Speaker 2 (01:42:18):
Shaking way I drove my way back to the wall.

Speaker 10 (01:42:24):
My agitated spirit get me awake for many long hours,
but at length I slept again.

Speaker 2 (01:42:30):
Upon arousing, I found by my side, as before bread
and water.

Speaker 10 (01:42:34):
A burning thirst consumed me, and I emptied the picture
at once must have been drugged. Scarcely had I drunk,
and I became irresistibly drowsy. Deep, deep sleep fell upon me, sleep.

Speaker 8 (01:42:54):
Like that of death.

Speaker 9 (01:42:56):
How long it lasted, I, of course didn't know.

Speaker 10 (01:42:59):
When I opened my eyes again, the object around me
were visible, the kind of wild, selfless light in the dungeon,
though I couldn't tell where it came from.

Speaker 9 (01:43:13):
I looked at my prison. How good it was to
see even me.

Speaker 25 (01:43:20):
I had been mistaken about its size. The comference of
the walls.

Speaker 9 (01:43:24):
Wasn't over twenty five yards.

Speaker 10 (01:43:27):
Apparently, when I counted fifty two paces and had fallen,
I had almost reached the strip of clood. And when
I awoke, I must have walked around in the opposite direction.
So suppose the circuit nearly double what it actually was.

Speaker 15 (01:43:44):
What could be lessen?

Speaker 10 (01:43:47):
Yet it was terribly important that I think of this.

Speaker 9 (01:43:51):
Did I think of something anything?

Speaker 10 (01:43:56):
General shape of the prison was square, but I had
taken for masonry, seemed now to be.

Speaker 2 (01:44:01):
Iron or some other metal in huge plates.

Speaker 10 (01:44:05):
The entire surface of the enclosure was marked with the
figures of fiends and aspects of menace, with skeletal palms
and other more fearful.

Speaker 9 (01:44:13):
Images disfiguring the walls.

Speaker 10 (01:44:16):
I saw the outlines of these monstrosities distinctly, but the
colors seated and blurred, as if by the effects of
the damp atmosphere.

Speaker 2 (01:44:27):
In the center of the floor, yond that, circular fits.

Speaker 9 (01:44:31):
And rose jaws.

Speaker 25 (01:44:33):
I escaped.

Speaker 24 (01:44:36):
No and my sense is cleared.

Speaker 10 (01:44:38):
I was aware that I was lying on my back
on a low framework of wood. I had been securely
bound to this frame by a long strap, which allowed
only my head and left arm to move.

Speaker 9 (01:44:52):
With much exertion.

Speaker 10 (01:44:53):
I could supply myself with food from an earthen dish,
which lay by my side of the floor.

Speaker 9 (01:45:01):
I saw to my heart that the picture had been.

Speaker 10 (01:45:04):
Removed, where again I felt that all consuming thirst, and
here was another point in the plan of my persecutors.
The dish contained meat highly seasoned. Looking upward, I surveyed
the feeling of the dungeon.

Speaker 9 (01:45:21):
Some thirty or forty feet overhead.

Speaker 10 (01:45:24):
I noticed in one of its panels the painted figure
of Time that he is commonly represented, except that in
place of a size, he held what seemed to be
the pictured image of a huge pendulum. Something, however, that

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now caused me to stare at with compelling attention. I
fancy that I sought in motion. Moment born, I was
sure move the pension of move. The general shape of
the prison, as I said, was square, and in the
ceiling ingine sweep was brief and almost motionless. I watched

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it for some minutes, hotly in fear, but more in wonder.

Speaker 9 (01:46:17):
With my eyes grew.

Speaker 10 (01:46:19):
Tired at observing and dull movement, I turned to look
at the other objects in.

Speaker 9 (01:46:23):
The cell.

Speaker 15 (01:46:25):
Like wise attracted me.

Speaker 9 (01:46:27):
Looking at the floor, I saw two enormous.

Speaker 25 (01:46:31):
Racks crossing me.

Speaker 10 (01:46:34):
It had probably come from between some chink in the
large plates of the wall, lured by the sense of
the meats. If I had all my efforts.

Speaker 9 (01:46:44):
And attention to scare them away, might have.

Speaker 10 (01:46:48):
Been half an hour, half even an hour for what
measure had eye of time. And I again looked up
with I saw gundlize me the sweep of the pendulum
had increased by nearly a yard, and the speed of
the sweep was greater. What terrified me was the idea

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that it had perceptibly descend me, And I observed with
monting horror. The face of the pendulum was the form
of a crescent of glittering steel, about a foot in
length from horns to horn, the horns upward, and the
under edge is keen as a razor. It hung from

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a heavy brass rod, and it hissed.

Speaker 15 (01:47:36):
Its one was real.

Speaker 10 (01:47:40):
It could no longer doubt the doom prepare for me.
I had escaped with it that otherments of all held
by the merriest accident. Now a different, milder destruction awaited me.

Speaker 5 (01:47:55):
What does it matter to tell of the long, long
hours of horror.

Speaker 10 (01:47:59):
More than mortal, during which I counted the rushing oscillations
of the steel, inch by inch, fling my lines, descending
at intervals that seened.

Speaker 8 (01:48:08):
Ages down and still down.

Speaker 15 (01:48:12):
It came.

Speaker 10 (01:48:15):
Days may very well have been days before it swept
so closely over me that the odor the sharp steel
was theself into my noscars.

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
I prayed, I wearied Heaven with my prayers.

Speaker 9 (01:48:31):
For wick descent.

Speaker 10 (01:48:33):
I grew frantically bad and struggled to force myself upward
against the sleep of his swinging, gelting, and then my
nerves collapsed, and I felt suddenly calm and lay.

Speaker 9 (01:48:46):
Smiling that glittering death like a child.

Speaker 10 (01:48:50):
That's right, Juel, I fell again into other's been breathing for,
but again lapsing into life. There had been no perceptible
dissens the pendulum. Perhaps the demons who were watching me
had stopped it so as not to deprive me of

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one second the mental touch.

Speaker 9 (01:49:15):
I recovered.

Speaker 25 (01:49:16):
I felt sick.

Speaker 10 (01:49:18):
We even in such agonies as this, the human nature
craved who faint b effort. I reached out my left
arm to the dish and took what small remained the
rats had left me.

Speaker 9 (01:49:34):
If I put it to my.

Speaker 10 (01:49:35):
Lips, they rushed to my mind a half form thought
of joy, of hope.

Speaker 9 (01:49:41):
Yet what business had I told it?

Speaker 38 (01:49:44):
Was?

Speaker 10 (01:49:44):
I say, a half formed thought. My struggle to perfect
it told onto it. Long suffering had nearly annihilated all
my ordinary powers of mind. Bendulum swung at right angles
the my body was obviously designed to cross the region
of my heart. Though going it would pray the search

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of my robe, it would return and repeat its operation again.
Because of its inching descent. Dispraying action would take several minutes.

Speaker 9 (01:50:19):
I grabbed this thought and held it close to me,
but I dared go no further.

Speaker 10 (01:50:26):
At the moment, I forced myself to think of the
sound of that hissing crescence as it would pass across
my garden, the peculiar thrilling sensation which the friction of
cloth produces on the nerves.

Speaker 8 (01:50:43):
This, to my teeths were honey.

Speaker 15 (01:50:49):
Down instead of the down it grip.

Speaker 10 (01:50:52):
I took a frenzied pleasure in contrasting it downward, in
sideward speed, the right.

Speaker 9 (01:51:05):
To the man.

Speaker 28 (01:51:09):
Way, did the.

Speaker 9 (01:51:12):
Way that.

Speaker 10 (01:51:17):
A snake calm toward my heart like a stealthy dyke.
Down and relentlessly, down it came. It vibrated within three
inches of my chest. I struggled violently, furiously to further
free I left arm. I could have broken the bindings

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above the elbow. I would have seized an attempted to
arrest a pendulum.

Speaker 9 (01:51:42):
I might as well have attempted to arrest malench.

Speaker 10 (01:51:47):
Down, still unceasingly, down, still, inevitably down, And I gasped
and struggled at each giant vibration. I call it soumed boom,
the vibrations would bring that keen, glistening axe in actual
contact with my robe. With this observation, there suddenly came

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over me the clear, collected calmness of despair. Then the
half warm thought of hope emerged again for the first
time in many, many hours or perhaps days. I I thought,
I thought, clearly, the first brook of the raider edge,

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any part of the strap, would so detach it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:32):
That it might be unwound from my body by my
free left head.

Speaker 10 (01:52:38):
But how terrorfying lay close the steel would be the
result of the slightest wrong movement would need it. I
elevated my head far enough to see my chest enveloped,
my body close in all directions except in the past.

Speaker 15 (01:53:03):
Now my mind run into sharp focus.

Speaker 2 (01:53:08):
The plan for what it was worth was ready, with the.

Speaker 10 (01:53:13):
Nervous energy of despair, I would attempt to execute it.
The two enormous rats were still in the immediate vicinity
there and in a low framework, and we highlight were wild, bold, ravenous,
their red eyes glaring upon me as if they waited.
But for my motionlessness made me oo right of all

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my efforts to prevent them. They had devoured all but
a small remnant the contents of the dish. I had
been waving my hand back and forth over the dish
whenever they got too near.

Speaker 9 (01:53:50):
But a few times, in their boldness, rat fastened their
sharp things into my thinker.

Speaker 10 (01:53:59):
Oh with the particles of the oily and spicy meat
which now remained. I veroughly rubbed the strap wherever I
could reach it. Then, raising my hands from the floor, I.

Speaker 9 (01:54:10):
Lay breathlessly, still.

Speaker 8 (01:54:13):
No change.

Speaker 1 (01:54:15):
The rat right back.

Speaker 10 (01:54:17):
At the cessation of movements, but only for a moment,
one of them leaped on the framework and sniffed the strap.

Speaker 9 (01:54:24):
It seemed to be the signal for a general rush.
For the other follows.

Speaker 10 (01:54:27):
And then there are two more that I had not
seen before. They clung to the words. They overran it
and leaped heavily on my body.

Speaker 2 (01:54:36):
Measured movements of the pendulum didn't disturb them.

Speaker 9 (01:54:39):
At all, avoiding its troops.

Speaker 10 (01:54:42):
They scurried around the meat, smear strapped, nibbling and lying.

Speaker 9 (01:54:48):
They pressed on me.

Speaker 10 (01:54:50):
They rise upon my throat, and they're dirty, beutly lips
on my own. Disgust, which the world has no name,
swelled in my chest and chilled my heart with a
heavy clamminess. And yet in one minute I felt the

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struggle would be over. I knew that in more than
one place their teeth had already severed the strap with
more than human resolution. I lay still, perfectly still. Or
was I mistaken in the plan?

Speaker 9 (01:55:28):
Or had I endured this margia in vain?

Speaker 2 (01:55:32):
The strap hung in ribbons from my body.

Speaker 24 (01:55:34):
For the stroke of the pendulum already breast up my chest.

Speaker 10 (01:55:38):
It divided the surge of the robe and cut through
the linen beneath twice.

Speaker 2 (01:55:43):
Again it swung. The sharp scent of pain shot through
every nur.

Speaker 9 (01:55:48):
The moment of escapeing arrived.

Speaker 10 (01:55:50):
I waved my hands, and my deliverers scurried away with
a steady movement, cautious sidewards, shrinking and slow, I slid
from the stat beyond the.

Speaker 15 (01:56:03):
Reach, Guilty.

Speaker 25 (01:56:08):
For a moment, at least I was free.

Speaker 15 (01:56:13):
Free.

Speaker 10 (01:56:14):
From that demon's tribunal. I had scarcely stepped from my
wooden bed of horror when the motion of the hellish
machine stopped, and it was drawn up rapidly, as if
by an invisible force.

Speaker 15 (01:56:28):
Through the ceiling.

Speaker 10 (01:56:30):
This was my final list. My every breath was being watched.
There would be no waste to be English mercy. Now
my eyes flashed nervously around the barriers of iron that
hemmed me in something, something unusual, some change which at
first I could not appreciate, distinctly had taken place in

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the dungeon. I became aware for the first time that
the cumpress light which illuminated the cell was coming from
a fissure about a half inchine with extending.

Speaker 25 (01:57:01):
Around the prison at the base of the walls.

Speaker 10 (01:57:03):
And how I saw those fishes in the walls whose
colors had seemed blurred and indistinct, indefinite, Those colors were
now assuming more and more each moment a startling and
intense friency. Demon eyes wild and ghastly glared upon me
in a powerful.

Speaker 2 (01:57:19):
Directions, and gleamed with the lurid luster of a.

Speaker 10 (01:57:22):
Fire that I could not force my imagination to regard
as unreal.

Speaker 13 (01:57:27):
Unreal.

Speaker 2 (01:57:29):
Even while I breathed, there came to my nostrils.

Speaker 10 (01:57:31):
The breath of the vapor of heated iron, the summer
gating odor avad of the prism.

Speaker 2 (01:57:37):
A deeper glow settled each moment in the eyes that
glared at my agonies.

Speaker 10 (01:57:43):
A richer tint of crimson spread over the victen horrors
of blood. I gasped wild lip for breath. I shrank
from the blowing hot metals of the center of a
cell in the fiery destruction that was closing in the
idea of cooms. The coolness of the pit came over
my soul.

Speaker 9 (01:58:00):
Like a bob.

Speaker 25 (01:58:03):
Oh, a voice of sweetly shriek.

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
I buried my face in my hands.

Speaker 18 (01:58:09):
I wept, wept bitterly.

Speaker 10 (01:58:11):
The heat rapidly increased. Once again, I looked up, shuddering
at an a delirium. A second change was taking place
in the cell.

Speaker 9 (01:58:20):
In its form.

Speaker 2 (01:58:22):
The room I said had been square.

Speaker 10 (01:58:25):
I saw the two of its iron angles were now acute.

Speaker 2 (01:58:28):
The square was shifting like a cardboard box being.

Speaker 28 (01:58:31):
Clapped in black.

Speaker 10 (01:58:34):
The fearful difference quickly increased in a low rumbling or
moaning sound. There would be no more dallying with these
kings of terror. I neither hawk nor desired any I
could have clasped the red.

Speaker 2 (01:58:46):
Walls to my chest.

Speaker 25 (01:58:48):
Into a garment of eternal.

Speaker 2 (01:58:50):
Peace death, I said, any death, But that is the pit.

Speaker 62 (01:58:54):
Ooh, might ee not have nun?

Speaker 10 (01:58:57):
The object of the shifting burning iron with urge me
into the mid now, the dungeons pressed flicker and flier.
It's thinner, and it's cry is with just noworthy on me.
It's a rank back with the closing walls rest resistantly onwards,
and the broom burn far for.

Speaker 9 (01:59:15):
Any steered and writhing body.

Speaker 24 (01:59:21):
I constructed the all.

Speaker 25 (01:59:24):
At the image.

Speaker 10 (01:59:26):
The chess thank trying trying to see people, to see
the grave that white me.

Speaker 2 (01:59:34):
The glare from the flaming roof is lit its deeper recesses.

Speaker 28 (01:59:38):
Yeah, fibula.

Speaker 5 (01:59:44):
Falling over the brink.

Speaker 10 (01:59:46):
I can see at the far of the fits perceiving
sea of scraping.

Speaker 2 (01:59:51):
Racks, and then the namie of them, and then.

Speaker 13 (01:59:53):
Along the size of a dog.

Speaker 10 (02:00:11):
The mind at midnight is lonely, and the senses are sharp,
and so from out of darkness of shape or form,
where a single light is focused, the sharp and lonely

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midnight mind will see.

Speaker 9 (02:00:36):
Faces in the window.

Speaker 10 (02:00:44):
You've been listening to Ken Nordine in a reading of
the Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Paul, adapted
by Marvin David, directed by John Hensey, lighting by Lee Bowling,

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camera Biblain Jeffrey.

Speaker 9 (02:01:09):
Faces in the Window.

Speaker 10 (02:01:12):
Was created by Marvin David and George Heinemann and featured
Kendall Dean.

Speaker 15 (02:01:31):
Don fantasy.

Speaker 63 (02:01:42):
I am the Spirit of the demon dream.

Speaker 15 (02:01:57):
I had three pounds on the Jack of diamonds.

Speaker 55 (02:02:00):
You should tear your money up, Humphreys, it would last
you longer. Perhaps you're right, Crane. Well, this way I
get a sense of honest toil. I say, is there
anyone else betting?

Speaker 18 (02:02:15):
Oh, let's quit. I'm tired of losing.

Speaker 15 (02:02:19):
Oh look here, old girl, could I loan you a
few pounds?

Speaker 18 (02:02:22):
No, thank you, Crane. I'm enough to get me back
to London if we ever do get back.

Speaker 15 (02:02:27):
Now, why do you say that, Clara?

Speaker 55 (02:02:28):
It's only a matter of a stage getting through here
to the resort and taking us out of this beastly place.

Speaker 64 (02:02:34):
Beastly place is right. Why people come here for a
rest is more than I can determine. Honestly, I've never
spent such an uncomfortable week in all my life.

Speaker 15 (02:02:45):
You think of me. I've been here three so have you, Humphreys.

Speaker 55 (02:02:49):
Oh look here, you two. It's three o'clock. They're expecting
the stage around eight tonight. What do you say the
three of us go for a bit of a walk
through the forest.

Speaker 15 (02:02:57):
I say, why not. Well, here comes Danvers.

Speaker 24 (02:03:00):
Perhaps he'll join us.

Speaker 18 (02:03:01):
Anything to get away from this place. Good afternoon, Danvers.

Speaker 24 (02:03:06):
Greeting, good people. I take it you're not happier than
when I left you a while ago.

Speaker 55 (02:03:10):
Now the place is as gloomy as a morgue. We
just agreed to take a walk in the forest back
of the inn. Invite it to come along if you like.

Speaker 24 (02:03:17):
Sounds like a good enough way to pass the time.

Speaker 15 (02:03:20):
Good we all go together.

Speaker 55 (02:03:22):
Besides, I'm quite interested in that forest out there. You remember,
of course, the story of the night clerk told us
last evening.

Speaker 15 (02:03:31):
Yes, I don't like him.

Speaker 24 (02:03:32):
He talks through his nose.

Speaker 15 (02:03:33):
People should talk through their mouth. No, no, I mean
what he told us, not the forest.

Speaker 18 (02:03:40):
What about the forest? I didn't hear it, Canters.

Speaker 55 (02:03:43):
Well, the clerk said it was a gorgeous place, lots
of beautiful foliage, colors, clear water lake.

Speaker 18 (02:03:52):
But nobody goes there so beautiful.

Speaker 15 (02:03:55):
I just did, Clara. You see, people have gone there,
never come back.

Speaker 24 (02:04:04):
Rubbish.

Speaker 65 (02:04:05):
It's a lot of nonsense. Why the clerk is just superstitious,
that's all I.

Speaker 15 (02:04:09):
Am inclined to agree with you, Danvers.

Speaker 55 (02:04:11):
Why he even told us an absurd story about a
tree out there in that forest that's supposed to strangle.

Speaker 18 (02:04:18):
People, strangle them.

Speaker 55 (02:04:21):
Oh, I don't know with its branches. I suppose just
some absurd legend that people around here like to believe.

Speaker 15 (02:04:28):
I believe it's more than just a legend. Crane, and
what makes you say that? Old man here? I talked
to the clerk again later last night. He dug out
this old newspaper.

Speaker 25 (02:04:39):
Clipping for me.

Speaker 15 (02:04:41):
Read it, danvers a lot.

Speaker 24 (02:04:44):
Oh, it is right, almost illegible. Well read it, it says. London, England.

Speaker 65 (02:04:53):
April twenty first, eighteen fifty seven. It is reported that
Sa Horace Wakefield, Earl of Dorsha, was found strangled last
night in Barlow Forest. His body was discovered entangled in
the branches of a huge oak tree.

Speaker 15 (02:05:09):
Ah, go on read the rest of us.

Speaker 65 (02:05:11):
The Earl's death recalls to mind the weird tale of
the Witch of Burlow Forest, who is said to have
lived in the sixteenth century, an evil old hag who,
upon having a falling out with Sir Thomas Holly Wakefield,
cursed him and warned him that any of his descendants
who wintered Barlow Forest would surely perish.

Speaker 15 (02:05:33):
Charming old girl, wasn't it all? Don't scoff until you've
heard the rest of it go on.

Speaker 65 (02:05:39):
She also added that any person or persons with the
Wakefield descendant would also die. She is said to have
planted an acorn sneered with her own blood. The acorn
is supposed to have grown into a towering oak, capable
of moving about from place to place and ballow forest.

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So Horace is the sixth of the Wakefield line who
have perished by strangulation in the forest. Thomas Hurly Wakefield.
I wonder, hm, you wonder what crane? My mother's name
was Wakefield. I was just wondering if she was related

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to Sir Thomas.

Speaker 18 (02:06:26):
Oh, of course not Crane. It's just a story.

Speaker 15 (02:06:30):
What an extraordinary story? Did you say?

Speaker 18 (02:06:33):
Yes, it wouldn't do very well as a bedtimes to
Horrybootie demon.

Speaker 24 (02:06:38):
Try. I wonder if we could find it. Well, let's
have a try.

Speaker 18 (02:06:44):
Don't let anybody say, and let's go.

Speaker 15 (02:06:47):
Humphrey is going along? I say, Humphreys, are you daydreaming?

Speaker 28 (02:06:52):
Mmm?

Speaker 55 (02:06:55):
I was just thinking, wouldn't it be art of the
the whole thing We're true? If we all went in
there and didn't come back.

Speaker 18 (02:07:26):
Well, do you, gentlemen, see any way we can get
into that?

Speaker 24 (02:07:30):
Forests?

Speaker 55 (02:07:31):
Dancers, father times beard doesn't seem to be an opening anywhere.

Speaker 24 (02:07:36):
I think we could get in over here, all right,
coming divers.

Speaker 45 (02:07:39):
There seems to be a footpath over here, only one
along this line of the.

Speaker 55 (02:07:43):
Forest there seem yes, you're right, hey, come on, I leave.
We'd better remember the way back. Be hard to get
out of here if we didn't know where this opening is.

Speaker 18 (02:07:52):
And don't worry, I'll remember it. I'm good at landmark.

Speaker 15 (02:07:56):
Go ahead, Farah. I'm right behind him.

Speaker 24 (02:07:58):
I say, do any of you feel dead?

Speaker 28 (02:08:03):
Feel what?

Speaker 15 (02:08:04):
Denvers? The chill?

Speaker 24 (02:08:07):
I feel like like it's twenty degrees colder in this place.

Speaker 18 (02:08:13):
I feel that way too, so do I.

Speaker 55 (02:08:17):
It's naturally cool in the woods where the sun doesn't shine,
but not.

Speaker 15 (02:08:21):
This much cooler.

Speaker 18 (02:08:22):
I don't like this place. I'm for going back to
the end.

Speaker 24 (02:08:25):
Oh, let's get on ahead a little ways. I say,
it is pretty in here.

Speaker 18 (02:08:33):
Pretty or not? It gives me the creep.

Speaker 24 (02:08:36):
Isn't the kind of cold caused by climatic changes?

Speaker 66 (02:08:39):
Or was that?

Speaker 15 (02:08:40):
Denvers?

Speaker 65 (02:08:41):
I said, it's a different kind of cold. It's the
kind that creeps up your spine when some some evil
comes over your.

Speaker 55 (02:08:52):
Phone out danvers, or just letting that newspaper story play
on your mind.

Speaker 24 (02:08:57):
Wait a minute, eh, Look that tree there in front
of us.

Speaker 65 (02:09:04):
Looks like a human giant off your right Denverse like
squearing moved just a moment.

Speaker 9 (02:09:11):
Ago, it didn't move.

Speaker 18 (02:09:13):
I started to.

Speaker 24 (02:09:16):
That's the strangest looking tree I ever saw. Look at
that bark.

Speaker 15 (02:09:23):
I wonder if.

Speaker 24 (02:09:26):
What's long?

Speaker 9 (02:09:27):
Man?

Speaker 55 (02:09:27):
I just touched the bark of that tree and it
it didn't feel like bark at all. No, it felt
like like human skin.

Speaker 15 (02:09:44):
Yeah, let me feel it. I haven't.

Speaker 24 (02:09:49):
It's true, it does feel like skin warm.

Speaker 28 (02:09:56):
The smooth.

Speaker 67 (02:10:01):
Yes, it feels that way to meet a prize, you
touch it? No, thanks, go ahead, Humphreys, feel it.

Speaker 15 (02:10:12):
I have no desire to you see. I'm sure you're right.
What's that?

Speaker 4 (02:10:21):
I feel that.

Speaker 15 (02:10:23):
That this is the demon tree of Bilo Forest.

Speaker 68 (02:10:28):
I think we've seen enough of this place, haven't we.
Let's get back to the end, all right? Come on, wait,
wait a minute, have you noticed how dark it is?
All of a sudden, the sun's behind the cloud. Probably

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it's impossible to see the sky through this foliage.

Speaker 18 (02:10:54):
It is darker. I can hardly see where I'm walking.

Speaker 24 (02:10:57):
Are you quite sure this is the way?

Speaker 15 (02:11:02):
I don't remember this clearing, I don't either. Wait a minute,
by Heaven, this isn't the way. Must be.

Speaker 43 (02:11:12):
We're on the path, aren't we?

Speaker 25 (02:11:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (02:11:16):
No, I don't think we are so dark? Do any
of you have a flash?

Speaker 15 (02:11:21):
I certainly don't remember this clearing?

Speaker 31 (02:11:23):
I think, h what was that?

Speaker 15 (02:11:26):
What was what? Claim you? You'll think this is foolish,
But I swear.

Speaker 16 (02:11:35):
I felt the branch of a tree brush across.

Speaker 15 (02:11:38):
My face and shoulder. That's that's impossible. There's not a dream.
But in defeat, I felt it.

Speaker 1 (02:11:46):
I tell you.

Speaker 55 (02:11:48):
It mustled like a branch covered with leaves and deth.
It felt warm and soft, like human flesh.

Speaker 28 (02:12:02):
Are you sure?

Speaker 9 (02:12:03):
Yes?

Speaker 15 (02:12:04):
Look we're lost here.

Speaker 55 (02:12:06):
It's dark, dark as night, right in the middle of
the afternoon.

Speaker 15 (02:12:10):
And we've lost the path in that tree. Easy, Crane,
I'll keep your head man, I'm getting.

Speaker 28 (02:12:15):
Out of here.

Speaker 15 (02:12:16):
I'm not going to just stay here and be murdered.

Speaker 3 (02:12:18):
Clane, stay with us.

Speaker 5 (02:12:21):
No, No, I'm going to.

Speaker 43 (02:12:22):
Find a path and get out of here.

Speaker 18 (02:12:24):
Pane, stay here. We'll find a way back.

Speaker 3 (02:12:26):
I don't want to stay here and die.

Speaker 15 (02:12:27):
I want to get away from this fight.

Speaker 20 (02:12:29):
Pray, don't be a fool.

Speaker 18 (02:12:30):
Queen's gone.

Speaker 24 (02:12:41):
Now he's in for it. We're better off by staying together.

Speaker 15 (02:12:47):
I don't know, but we are.

Speaker 18 (02:12:50):
I'm not listen.

Speaker 15 (02:12:53):
It's sounds like he's trangling.

Speaker 18 (02:12:55):
Come on, we couldn't have gotten five right over here.

Speaker 15 (02:12:58):
I think I'll take it easy.

Speaker 43 (02:12:59):
Now, be careful.

Speaker 24 (02:13:01):
Oh very is yes, stretched out on the ground like.

Speaker 10 (02:13:10):
Like it was.

Speaker 13 (02:13:12):
Dead.

Speaker 15 (02:13:19):
Mhm.

Speaker 69 (02:13:21):
Look look at him. Oh, marks on his throat like
hands would make. That wasn't done by hands.

Speaker 32 (02:13:33):
See stained on his skin, green stain. Thomas Wakefield Crane.

Speaker 18 (02:13:48):
Oh, what a horrible way for him to die.

Speaker 15 (02:13:51):
Clara, the tree, this is where we first saw it.
Now it's gone.

Speaker 27 (02:13:59):
This is right.

Speaker 24 (02:14:00):
I'm sure of what's happened to it.

Speaker 15 (02:14:03):
The important question is what are we going to do
with Crane.

Speaker 24 (02:14:08):
We'll have to leave him here if we can find
a way out of this place.

Speaker 15 (02:14:13):
Poor Crane.

Speaker 18 (02:14:15):
It happened so quickly. One minute he was with us,
In the next.

Speaker 15 (02:14:19):
We wanted not to leave us.

Speaker 9 (02:14:22):
Abo.

Speaker 15 (02:14:22):
The three of us had better stay close together.

Speaker 18 (02:14:24):
Oh yes, for heaven's sake, let's not get.

Speaker 24 (02:14:25):
That and don't come on. There's nothing we can do
for Crane. Now, We've got to find our way out
of here.

Speaker 15 (02:14:36):
It just doesn't seem right leaving him there.

Speaker 24 (02:14:39):
It's all we can do.

Speaker 1 (02:14:42):
Come on, how do we know which way to go?

Speaker 15 (02:14:46):
We don't.

Speaker 24 (02:14:48):
All we can do is keep moving and hope to
find about again.

Speaker 18 (02:14:53):
Oh, it's horrible wandering about like this, like like nothing
but a group of marian.

Speaker 55 (02:15:00):
It controlled by what strange properteer? What what's that, Humphrey,
I said, controlled by what strange properteer?

Speaker 18 (02:15:14):
Surely you don't think we've been purposely led into this?

Speaker 15 (02:15:16):
Who can say?

Speaker 25 (02:15:17):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (02:15:17):
Now Crane without the deep end, we've got to keep
out him.

Speaker 18 (02:15:23):
We found a way in, surely we'll find a way out.

Speaker 15 (02:15:27):
Yes, because we did find a way in. But what
about the chill, the darkness.

Speaker 24 (02:15:35):
There's some explanation. Perhaps the storm is coming up. Yes,
that could be it couldn't it.

Speaker 15 (02:15:44):
Storms don't rise that quickly on this part of the country.

Speaker 18 (02:15:47):
And the darkness it came down on this forest.

Speaker 55 (02:15:52):
Like a shroud, Yes, came so quickly. Reminded me of
how a corpse must feel in his coffin when the
lid is put over him. Look at Humphries, I'm about
put up with that sort of talk. Only a fool

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refuses to face the facts. Danvers, You know this isn't
in the ordinary situation.

Speaker 15 (02:16:19):
We're in.

Speaker 55 (02:16:21):
The chill of winter and the summer time darkness and
mid afternoon and a tree that's strangles.

Speaker 24 (02:16:31):
It's probably just an an accident. Crain's dead.

Speaker 15 (02:16:35):
Why don't you stop trying to tell yourself that the
tree was only an imaginary thing. We all know that
it's real, Hungries, and as alive as any of us.
The bark did feel like human.

Speaker 24 (02:16:49):
Flesh, Humphries.

Speaker 9 (02:16:53):
Look, I'm what.

Speaker 15 (02:16:56):
What is it? A girl of light ahead of us?

Speaker 9 (02:17:01):
It's the tree there?

Speaker 55 (02:17:04):
Oh what do you think, Danvers? Look a tree moving
along in a glow of phosphorescent light.

Speaker 43 (02:17:12):
Good, Hyns, it's the same tree.

Speaker 18 (02:17:16):
It looks like a human giant.

Speaker 3 (02:17:18):
It was low well near here, it was back there?

Speaker 15 (02:17:22):
Do you too see what the tree is carrying?

Speaker 13 (02:17:25):
Carrying crane?

Speaker 24 (02:17:27):
It's done him, tucked up under that huge branch that
looks like a human arm. It's fading now, disappearing again,
fading away, Yes, gone.

Speaker 27 (02:17:46):
He's gone.

Speaker 15 (02:17:47):
Now do you believe on now do you admit that
the tree is alive?

Speaker 24 (02:17:52):
What else can I believe?

Speaker 25 (02:17:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 43 (02:17:58):
He's falling into a water pool.

Speaker 18 (02:18:00):
Her humpy, it's got a pretty stinky her.

Speaker 43 (02:18:06):
I end my vae, get me out of hair stands
till dappers, you just sink deeper.

Speaker 15 (02:18:11):
Wait, help me out of here.

Speaker 2 (02:18:13):
That's something I can get out too, pill dna.

Speaker 18 (02:18:17):
Ds grabbed me und of that pole and get at hunt.

Speaker 15 (02:18:20):
Rabbit, Davers, rabbit, Oh that tray girl you are?

Speaker 10 (02:18:24):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (02:18:25):
That's three branch.

Speaker 15 (02:18:27):
Name lord, listen Clara, A three branch when we.

Speaker 19 (02:18:33):
Can't be they don't get me here? The pool, the
brunch keep baging me.

Speaker 18 (02:18:40):
I hunt phree, do something. He's up to his shoulders now.

Speaker 28 (02:18:43):
I don't.

Speaker 27 (02:18:45):
I can't naked, I can't.

Speaker 5 (02:18:47):
He tang me.

Speaker 18 (02:18:49):
Tell me you're going to the big sens chamber.

Speaker 15 (02:18:53):
Davers.

Speaker 43 (02:18:54):
There's nothing I can do that day the Damon's dreams.

Speaker 18 (02:18:59):
It doesn't He's gone.

Speaker 15 (02:19:15):
Poor devil didn't have a chance.

Speaker 18 (02:19:20):
We've got to get out of here.

Speaker 8 (02:19:22):
We're all doomed.

Speaker 18 (02:19:24):
It's the way feel curse to stop it.

Speaker 27 (02:19:28):
We're helpless.

Speaker 18 (02:19:29):
There's nothing we can do to save ourselves.

Speaker 15 (02:19:31):
Clever, stop it. We can't give up.

Speaker 24 (02:19:35):
We've got to find a.

Speaker 15 (02:19:36):
Way out of this place.

Speaker 70 (02:19:39):
Be careful for your step whatever happens, keep your head, Clara,
for heaven sake, Oh.

Speaker 45 (02:20:14):
PRIs, I'm so tired. We've walked for hours.

Speaker 69 (02:20:22):
I say, it's getting a little lighter.

Speaker 15 (02:20:26):
Clara, Up ahead, There isn't that a path?

Speaker 10 (02:20:30):
What?

Speaker 32 (02:20:31):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (02:20:33):
All right, Humphries. It's the path we came in on.

Speaker 15 (02:20:36):
And look there's an opening through the tree.

Speaker 18 (02:20:39):
Yes, I remember the landmark. Oh, thank God for the light.

Speaker 55 (02:20:44):
Come on, Tella, out of this place. There's nothing we
can do for Danvers or Crane now. Yes, I I

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wonder if you feel as I do. I thought we'd
be safe back here in the hotel. I don't know
how to describe it. I have a feeling that this
whole business isn't over yet.

Speaker 18 (02:21:32):
I know I've had the same feeling, a feeling that
we're not finished with the demonry, or.

Speaker 15 (02:21:42):
That it's not finished with us. Yes, exactly, Yeah, my room.
Better go in there and have a drink, Claire. Heaven
knows we need one.

Speaker 18 (02:21:55):
Yes, I certainly do.

Speaker 55 (02:21:59):
What's worrying me is how we're going to explain what
happened to Crave him and Danvers. Yeah, wait a minute,
I'll get the light.

Speaker 24 (02:22:07):
Humphrey, good lord.

Speaker 15 (02:22:12):
The branch of a tree about two feet long.

Speaker 9 (02:22:13):
We touch it.

Speaker 3 (02:22:14):
Look at it?

Speaker 28 (02:22:16):
Look at it?

Speaker 15 (02:22:17):
A fresh living branch.

Speaker 18 (02:22:19):
Hat don oh, Humphrey, I'm getting out of here.

Speaker 1 (02:22:21):
Where are you going down to the lobby and.

Speaker 41 (02:22:23):
Wait for the stake?

Speaker 15 (02:22:24):
Hold on, I'll go with you.

Speaker 43 (02:22:26):
Wait, traider, Wait, it's three flights down. Let's take the elevator.

Speaker 10 (02:22:30):
We can get the thing up here.

Speaker 15 (02:22:32):
It's automatic. Just push the button, it'll come out.

Speaker 18 (02:22:34):
Humphrey. Look, someone let the steal gate open.

Speaker 15 (02:22:39):
I say that's dangerous.

Speaker 25 (02:22:40):
It certainly is.

Speaker 18 (02:22:42):
Humphy. A branch is pushing slummy.

Speaker 43 (02:22:52):
Good lord, Twara, Clara, a branch. It pushed her on
the set.

Speaker 9 (02:23:03):
It's up to me.

Speaker 19 (02:23:05):
Get away, got away, help me, help me, somebody the
three to pay the tree.

Speaker 43 (02:23:13):
It's sharking.

Speaker 63 (02:23:30):
Any descendant of Sir Thomas halliwick Field when does Barlow
forest is doomed to die, and all who enter the
forest with him are likewise doomed.

Speaker 55 (02:24:09):
Darth santasy, You have just heard The Demon Tree, an

(02:24:39):
original tale of dark fantasy by scotch Bishop.

Speaker 15 (02:24:43):
Tonight's cast included.

Speaker 55 (02:24:45):
Eleanor Naylor Coran as Clara ben Morris, who was Humphreys.
Garland Moss took the part of Dan First, and Murilla
Schofield was heard as Cream. Next Friday Night, at this time,
the National Broadcasting Company will bring you another unusual and
fantastic adventure thriller, Men Call Me Mad, A story of

(02:25:08):
another world.

Speaker 15 (02:25:09):
And the people who inhabit it.

Speaker 55 (02:25:11):
An exciting and weird tale of dark fantasy created by
Scott Bishop. Dark Fantasy originates in the studios of Station
w k Y, Oklahoma City dar Fantasy, Keith Payton speaking,

(02:26:02):
This is the National Broadcasting Company.

Speaker 15 (02:26:04):
Fear En four.

Speaker 28 (02:26:07):
The Man in Black introduces Tonight's story. The Next in
Line by Ray Bradbury, dramatized by Bran Sibley.

Speaker 15 (02:26:17):
Welcome.

Speaker 71 (02:26:19):
As you sit back this evening, contemplating the new year
stretching out before you, thoughts will undoubtedly turn to holidays.
But have you noticed how terrible things often seem to
happen when you're just starting to relax, When, as it were,
you're off your guard? An unprepared for Marie and Joseph.

(02:26:43):
It happened on vacation in Mexico only a short while ago.

Speaker 27 (02:26:48):
Are we nearly there.

Speaker 28 (02:26:49):
Stop fussing, Marie. We'll get there when we get there.

Speaker 27 (02:26:52):
It's just that it's so hot. Desert seems to go
on and on forever it is.

Speaker 3 (02:26:57):
And it does.

Speaker 28 (02:26:58):
What's the name of the town again, guaA Wato?

Speaker 27 (02:27:01):
Sound it makes me feel kind of safe. Why do
we have to go to places I've never heard of?

Speaker 28 (02:27:07):
Have to What are you talking about?

Speaker 15 (02:27:08):
We go where we like.

Speaker 27 (02:27:09):
It's a vacation for why Guato?

Speaker 28 (02:27:12):
Pretty little Tom, lots of stuff to see, like what
I don't know? The mummies? Mummy? Sure, real live mummies,
you know, like the Pharaohs, Boris Karloff and only this
lotter Mexican. Let us momeas it'll be fun.

Speaker 27 (02:27:28):
It doesn't sound much like fun to me, Joe. There
will be a pharmacist in town, aren't there?

Speaker 15 (02:27:36):
Sure?

Speaker 28 (02:27:38):
I guess so?

Speaker 27 (02:27:39):
Only I don't want to run out of pills, you know.
I mean, if we're miles from anywhere and I.

Speaker 28 (02:27:43):
Run out of para, get your pills. You're on vacation.

Speaker 17 (02:27:49):
What are you doing, Joe?

Speaker 27 (02:27:52):
A photograph of what are our plans for the day?

Speaker 5 (02:27:56):
See the mummy?

Speaker 27 (02:27:57):
Why would anyone want to see them? Why does he
want to see him dead. Things like that. No one
ought to be allowed to see them.

Speaker 53 (02:28:04):
What's the matter, I'm drying myself, all right, Come here,
don't look and start naked?

Speaker 28 (02:28:13):
Safe? Okay, okay?

Speaker 18 (02:28:15):
What am I supposed to be looking at?

Speaker 28 (02:28:17):
Down there? The procession? So many people, fifty at least
men first, eating some sugarcane, right, sugarcane.

Speaker 27 (02:28:26):
Gnawing at it.

Speaker 28 (02:28:27):
They ripped the bark up.

Speaker 27 (02:28:29):
Yes, and the succulent pump, and the juicy sinews, and
all the time.

Speaker 28 (02:28:33):
Lasting women fallow, black, all in grandmothers.

Speaker 27 (02:28:35):
And pretty young, dark eyed girl chewing oranges, spitting pea
on the cobbols.

Speaker 9 (02:28:40):
What's it for?

Speaker 28 (02:28:41):
Don't you see the man in front?

Speaker 27 (02:28:43):
He's got a package on his head, balanced there, light
as a chicken plume, only supported by one hand.

Speaker 28 (02:28:48):
All that silver, satin, silver fringes, silver rosettes. You really
don't know what it is, dude?

Speaker 25 (02:28:53):
What is it?

Speaker 28 (02:28:54):
A funeral?

Speaker 9 (02:28:55):
Of course?

Speaker 28 (02:28:56):
The package coffin too small child, I don't know, some
little girl or boy gone to a happier place.

Speaker 27 (02:29:03):
Where are they taking her?

Speaker 38 (02:29:05):
Why did I say her?

Speaker 72 (02:29:06):
A tiny fragment, like an unripe from up the hill,
carried up the hill within the compressing darkness, the peach silent,
terrified outside, the father's touch against the coffin, unfelt inside,
gentle and noiseless and firm.

Speaker 27 (02:29:22):
I've seen enough. I've gotta lie down.

Speaker 28 (02:29:24):
She's probably been dead only a few hours hours.

Speaker 27 (02:29:28):
A few hours ago she was alive.

Speaker 13 (02:29:29):
And now you say something.

Speaker 27 (02:29:33):
He looks at me as if at an old sculpture
in a museum criticism, all quiet and easy and uncary.
I don't feel well. Once the clay is become impregnated
with water, it is impossible to shape it again. You
need to warm it with your hands, evaporate the moisture.
But the warmth's all gone. Let's not say here another night, Joe,

(02:29:56):
Why not think.

Speaker 28 (02:29:58):
I mustn't let him think that. Why ever not?

Speaker 33 (02:30:01):
Why well?

Speaker 27 (02:30:03):
Because because we could go on to Patsakoro, make it
in no time.

Speaker 28 (02:30:09):
You won't have to pack.

Speaker 27 (02:30:10):
I'll do it all myself, darling slower. We can get
a room at the Don Pisado.

Speaker 10 (02:30:15):
There.

Speaker 73 (02:30:15):
They say, it's a beautiful little town. Climbs all over
the building, flowers outside.

Speaker 27 (02:30:22):
You like fishing, and I like I like fishing too. Well, well,
i'd learned I would.

Speaker 74 (02:30:26):
I've always wanted to learn, and then from there we
could go to Paracoutine that's near Urapan and they.

Speaker 73 (02:30:31):
Have some of the finest lacquered boxes there. Oh, Joe, Joe,
it'll be fun. I'll pack you just take it.

Speaker 28 (02:30:37):
Let me. Yes, we've traveled three hundred miles. We've been
here one day. You want to rush off somewhere else.
I've already paid the rent.

Speaker 53 (02:30:47):
Please you can get it back.

Speaker 28 (02:30:49):
Why do you want to run away? Don't you like
the town?

Speaker 53 (02:30:51):
It's not that I don't like it?

Speaker 5 (02:30:53):
What is it?

Speaker 15 (02:30:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 28 (02:31:00):
Another day you'll love it. Hm hm, that's settled. Yes, nothing,
excuse me, man, m.

Speaker 27 (02:31:18):
M mmm hree.

Speaker 28 (02:31:25):
The mommies don't worry to they. Was it the funeral there?
Because if you really were afraid, I'd pack in a moment,
you know, glad, don't you darning? No, I'm not afraid,
good girl, Come.

Speaker 25 (02:31:52):
On, so hot, so steep.

Speaker 27 (02:31:54):
If feel washed by the sunlight.

Speaker 15 (02:31:56):
Like a river?

Speaker 28 (02:31:57):
Thereless here we are?

Speaker 14 (02:32:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 45 (02:32:05):
What a mess?

Speaker 28 (02:32:07):
The fiesta?

Speaker 43 (02:32:08):
Why were we here?

Speaker 18 (02:32:09):
Hell?

Speaker 28 (02:32:09):
Dear the play the dead should have been here? They
always do this. Let the tombs and grays with colored ribbons,
tissue paper sparkle.

Speaker 27 (02:32:18):
Pattered and tore and cling to the stones like crazy.

Speaker 28 (02:32:21):
This place would have been a blaze of lights, hundreds
of candles burning through the darkest night of the year.

Speaker 27 (02:32:25):
Thing left with splashes of candle wax on the stones.

Speaker 28 (02:32:28):
You see all those cheap pesel portraits of the dead,
silver charms and trinkets, the flowers.

Speaker 27 (02:32:33):
Because of Guardianias, sprigs of bookavilions strewn everywhere, dead and desiccated.

Speaker 28 (02:32:38):
God, I wish we've been here, dear s your eyes
and your piero veil las, mommie.

Speaker 60 (02:32:46):
See see see senorespans mo stupido as wimla. No, no, senor,
you speak well.

Speaker 28 (02:32:54):
To see the mummies.

Speaker 75 (02:32:55):
One facil these way, please, Senor?

Speaker 28 (02:32:59):
Okay, Marie, sure the first.

Speaker 27 (02:33:07):
These stairs are they sure are hardly wait enough for
a child's feet here for.

Speaker 28 (02:33:13):
Those doors at the end.

Speaker 15 (02:33:15):
Is that word?

Speaker 28 (02:33:15):
Yes, yes, yes, those are the mummies.

Speaker 27 (02:33:18):
And those what are those things over there in the
dark white rods and round white stones.

Speaker 28 (02:33:23):
Those those are the soldiers, so thoughtful.

Speaker 60 (02:33:25):
For the moretos you mean they're bones season your bone
on bones staped like firewood and scorch cheese.

Speaker 3 (02:33:31):
How about that?

Speaker 28 (02:33:32):
There must be hundreds of them, thousands.

Speaker 27 (02:33:34):
One hundred thousand dry skulls. I don't mind skulls and bones.
Everything human has been scraped off them.

Speaker 28 (02:33:42):
You, okay, Marie, not getting the heavy gbs.

Speaker 27 (02:33:44):
No to be horrible. Something's gotta have changed. These haven't changed.
There's still skeletons like they always were. The part that
change is gone.

Speaker 28 (02:33:55):
Isn't that interesting?

Speaker 21 (02:33:56):
I guess?

Speaker 27 (02:33:57):
So there, I feel quite brave now. So I see
the mummies, See see the mmies. They're in there, waiting inside,
beyond the.

Speaker 28 (02:34:14):
Door, waiting cec oh.

Speaker 27 (02:34:26):
All in line, waiting how how many one hundred and
fifteen waiting in line? My preliminary work of a sculpture wireframe.
First tendons of clay, thin lacquer of skin, all unfinished.
They're still intact. Their bodies are complete parchment skin stretched

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as if to dry from bone to bone.

Speaker 28 (02:34:49):
Just the water gun evaporated.

Speaker 60 (02:34:50):
See the the climate he diresorbs them very dry? Here
or some one year, some five s in your some ten,
some seven?

Speaker 28 (02:35:00):
Are they doing here? Ah?

Speaker 60 (02:35:02):
Their relatives did not pity.

Speaker 28 (02:35:04):
Rent are their graves seas and your.

Speaker 60 (02:35:06):
Twenty pasels a year? Or if they desire department and
determined one hundred and seventy percils. But our people, they.

Speaker 15 (02:35:14):
Are very poor.

Speaker 60 (02:35:15):
So they carry their dead year and place them in
the earth for one year, and the twenty paceels are
paid with fine intentions of paying each year and each year,
But each year and each year after the first they
have a borrow to buy or a new mouth to feed.
Now the dead, after all they are not hungry, and
the dead, after all, they can put mixed.

Speaker 28 (02:35:36):
Now, now what happened? Are you listen? What are you listening?

Speaker 27 (02:35:41):
I think so, yes, yes, I'm listening.

Speaker 43 (02:35:44):
Well.

Speaker 60 (02:35:44):
Before then I call on Trajador, and with his delicate shovel,
at the end of the first year, he does dig
and dig and dig down. How did you think we
have to dig, senor to find the towels?

Speaker 28 (02:35:58):
Are the coffin six feet A?

Speaker 27 (02:36:00):
No?

Speaker 5 (02:36:01):
No?

Speaker 60 (02:36:02):
How did we bury them? Depends on what are the
chances we won't have to dig them up after one year?
And the bodies which are dug are placed here against
the wall with the other company e.

Speaker 27 (02:36:15):
Fifty nine, sixty sixty one, sixty sixty three. Look there's
one sixty four, but they are sixty.

Speaker 28 (02:36:25):
Why theres.

Speaker 9 (02:36:29):
This woman here?

Speaker 28 (02:36:31):
She is an interesting one.

Speaker 52 (02:36:34):
Arms falling to her head, hair wildly flourished, mouth wide
wide open.

Speaker 15 (02:36:38):
Why this one?

Speaker 28 (02:36:39):
What's different about her? Or sometimes this happens?

Speaker 60 (02:36:41):
This woman? She is a cataleptic. One day she falls
down upon the earth, but is not really dead, for
deep in hair, the little drum of her heart beats
and beats so dim we cannot hear. She was buried
in a fine, inexpensive box. But one year later her

(02:37:02):
family they have other things to buy, the refuse the rent.
So we dig very quietly down and loosed the box
and took it up, and opened the top and laid
it aside.

Speaker 28 (02:37:14):
And looked in upon her. She was buried alive. That's
real gruesome stuff, real egg around Paul.

Speaker 60 (02:37:25):
She wakened under the earth, Senor. He pleased to observe
the difference between her hands and these other ones, their
peaceful fingers at their hips, quiet as little roses, ye hairs. Ah,
here's a jumped off, very wild. Couldn't Rigamortis do there

(02:37:45):
no no believe me, Senor. Rigormotis pounds upon no lids.
Rigormotis screams not like this, nor twists nor wrestles to
rip three nails. Senor Or, prize boards loose, haunting for
air Senor. All these others have opened the mouth because
they are not injected with the fluids of embalming both.
There's a simple screaming of muscle Senor, the Senorita here, oh,

(02:38:11):
here's his OONA morty horribly.

Speaker 52 (02:38:14):
Sure is shrieking, clubbing at the fox sleep with faces
dying of suffocation in this attitude, hands flung over her,
gaping face, horror eyed hair wild.

Speaker 28 (02:38:23):
Gee, but I'd like a color shot of every one
of these damn freaks. You can put them in a book.

Speaker 5 (02:38:28):
Yeah, We'll not be.

Speaker 28 (02:38:29):
An amazing, an ironical book to publish a picture of
each standing there and their life histories.

Speaker 60 (02:38:36):
You see, they have their names hang around the necks
and you're great.

Speaker 28 (02:38:40):
So you can show the pictures and say who is who?

Speaker 27 (02:38:51):
Stone tongues and jeering, children of.

Speaker 52 (02:38:56):
Highes, pale and lost in up clenched sockets, flesh like
Drumhead's manuscripts, cris Bretto, insane, hair like nests.

Speaker 76 (02:39:04):
Made and unmade and remade, name, place, date, and how
they died.

Speaker 60 (02:39:10):
I fell from a horse, I cast the blood.

Speaker 1 (02:39:13):
I died on my wife's bell. I died alone.

Speaker 18 (02:39:17):
I died in childbirth I costed, stupefied nostrils, paralyzed, loveless,
fleshless loins.

Speaker 52 (02:39:26):
Don't talk, turn away, there was to turn to horror
on horror, sculled skull, ribbed rib.

Speaker 18 (02:39:34):
May beat my wife, I know she walked proudly in
the town when he's marrying my head.

Speaker 28 (02:39:39):
Three lovers. There was me and me, and he thought
cannot be far behind.

Speaker 27 (02:39:45):
I never loved and was ever loved.

Speaker 28 (02:39:49):
And look at them all standing there.

Speaker 77 (02:39:54):
Screaming right screaming as if they'd snapped upright in their graves,
clutched their hands over their shriveled bones, and screamed.

Speaker 52 (02:40:04):
Jaws white tongues out, nostrils flared.

Speaker 27 (02:40:06):
Can't you hear them?

Speaker 28 (02:40:07):
That's there?

Speaker 32 (02:40:08):
I do.

Speaker 28 (02:40:09):
But then maybe their screams are too high for normal hearing.
Maybe a dog could hear them.

Speaker 27 (02:40:15):
I hear them, Joseph, I hear them.

Speaker 28 (02:40:18):
Nonsense.

Speaker 27 (02:40:22):
I must get out, Candy, you need air. I drink
my pills. I must get out.

Speaker 28 (02:40:27):
Okay, okay, it was your idea to come this way.

Speaker 60 (02:40:30):
Please, Senora, thank you.

Speaker 28 (02:40:32):
You have room down here for more, Ye sire, many
more wouldn't want to be next, Amory, What next wouldn't
want to be next in line, next on the waiting list.

Speaker 27 (02:40:58):
What's that? What you get there?

Speaker 28 (02:41:00):
Andy skulls, souvenirs and the death pests. They make all
kinds of things, zaccharine, corpses, sweet sugar, skeletons, wonderful. Everyone
eats that's.

Speaker 27 (02:41:08):
Stretched if they watch No, no, not here, not after,
just now in the category.

Speaker 28 (02:41:12):
But these are good, good alas poor yorick Jo, Please sugar.

Speaker 27 (02:41:17):
It looks raw, sort of poisonous, just because they're skull shaped.

Speaker 28 (02:41:23):
Something's not fast.

Speaker 27 (02:41:25):
Something's written on the skull and golden curly cues on
the brow. What's it say? What's what's written on it?

Speaker 28 (02:41:31):
Just a name? They all have names on them, Jose
or Carmen?

Speaker 27 (02:41:34):
What names on that one?

Speaker 28 (02:41:36):
This one?

Speaker 9 (02:41:38):
How about that?

Speaker 28 (02:41:40):
Marie?

Speaker 21 (02:41:43):
My name?

Speaker 28 (02:41:45):
Coincidence there? All that?

Speaker 74 (02:41:51):
Oh, Joe, I'm so glad you let me change your mind.
I'll start taking these down. He's having Nanjoe, Joe, what
are you doing now?

Speaker 28 (02:42:02):
Just making sure we're not forgotten?

Speaker 53 (02:42:03):
But I haven't, please Joe, I've forgotten nothing, all right?

Speaker 27 (02:42:06):
Fine, what do you mean you don't know?

Speaker 28 (02:42:11):
I mean it's dan late in the day.

Speaker 9 (02:42:12):
To be moving on.

Speaker 27 (02:42:13):
It's three thirty only three thirty, Joe. Joe, okay, okay,
well here we go, Thank you, darling. I'm sure we'll
like g it much better in Guadalajara.

Speaker 28 (02:42:29):
Thank you.

Speaker 76 (02:42:30):
Yeah, it just needs warming. It was a cold night
last night. Well try again next time.

Speaker 15 (02:42:50):
It'll work.

Speaker 28 (02:42:51):
It's no use, Marie.

Speaker 27 (02:42:52):
Something's wrong, but you've gotta tried once more.

Speaker 53 (02:42:55):
It'll work.

Speaker 27 (02:42:55):
I'm sure.

Speaker 8 (02:43:00):
There.

Speaker 27 (02:43:00):
I told you you didn't need to, Joe. I should
have known. Well, they can fix it.

Speaker 28 (02:43:13):
Oh, thank god, thank god?

Speaker 27 (02:43:16):
How long?

Speaker 28 (02:43:17):
At least two days?

Speaker 27 (02:43:20):
Two days, Joe, two days. That's ridiculous. In three days,
anything could happen.

Speaker 28 (02:43:27):
What do you mean?

Speaker 5 (02:43:28):
What I mean is that?

Speaker 52 (02:43:31):
Why can't they fix it till we can just go
on to the next town and have the rest down there.

Speaker 28 (02:43:34):
He's got to do the entire job.

Speaker 27 (02:43:37):
That silly.

Speaker 53 (02:43:37):
That is so silly.

Speaker 27 (02:43:38):
They don't really have to do it all.

Speaker 53 (02:43:41):
Why didn't you tell them that, Joe?

Speaker 27 (02:43:42):
Why didn't you think?

Speaker 33 (02:43:44):
Joe?

Speaker 53 (02:43:44):
Where are you going, Joe?

Speaker 28 (02:43:46):
Try and get the room back?

Speaker 10 (02:43:48):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (02:43:49):
No, oh.

Speaker 53 (02:43:58):
H who's that?

Speaker 27 (02:44:03):
Who's there?

Speaker 9 (02:44:05):
Of course?

Speaker 32 (02:44:06):
What do you think it is?

Speaker 53 (02:44:10):
I'm coming?

Speaker 28 (02:44:17):
Thanks, Well, as I told you, it's going to take time.
What the hell are you doing standing there naked like that?

Speaker 27 (02:44:24):
Why is it going to take them so long?

Speaker 53 (02:44:26):
Why do they need so much time? Why didn't you
hurry them up?

Speaker 3 (02:44:29):
Joe?

Speaker 27 (02:44:29):
Why don't you tell to get a move on?

Speaker 28 (02:44:32):
I told them, But they can't do the job till
they get the parts. It all depends how quickly the
parts come through.

Speaker 27 (02:44:37):
Some parts wear out and can't be replaced.

Speaker 28 (02:44:39):
What Why the devil? You keep staring at yourself in
the mirror and.

Speaker 27 (02:44:43):
Place your limbs in a certain way, and you don't
have any choice.

Speaker 28 (02:44:46):
God's sakes, what are you doing? What are you putting
your hands up that way for over your face?

Speaker 27 (02:44:50):
And then your mouth gapes open and you start to scream.

Speaker 28 (02:44:54):
I'm going out for a beer? You hear me?

Speaker 53 (02:44:56):
Are pretty?

Speaker 8 (02:44:58):
Joe?

Speaker 53 (02:45:00):
Girls in the CANTEENA very young and very pretty.

Speaker 27 (02:45:04):
You always noticed, Joe.

Speaker 28 (02:45:08):
Why don't you get some rest?

Speaker 27 (02:45:10):
Don't knock when you come back, Joe? I wanted lock,
but don't rap call?

Speaker 28 (02:45:18):
What's wrong with I don't know it? It just sounds funny, funny.

Speaker 15 (02:45:28):
When you're.

Speaker 28 (02:45:31):
It sided.

Speaker 52 (02:45:36):
I wish I could have bought some new magazines. The
thing is, I've looked at these, I haven't read them.
But I've looked at them, and once you've looked at
the thing, I don't know it. It's not new anymore.
It's like it's used, second hands, spoiled. That's why I
must read them now, every article and story, page by page,
line by line, pictures, captions, advertisements, cartoons, as if if

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I were turning the pages for the first time. That's important,
only turn over one page at a time. But I've
seen that picture, all these people, so confident, people, people
who were well and nowhere near ready to die. People
places miles from the people who are free to come

(02:46:20):
and go.

Speaker 27 (02:46:26):
Oh no, how to get back from wherever they are?

Speaker 28 (02:46:38):
M hmm.

Speaker 52 (02:46:42):
Hairs, oh my neck, mm hmm. Spending upright, I'm cold, juseph,
like I got ice in the blood.

Speaker 27 (02:46:58):
All right, No, I'm not what if it freezes up?

Speaker 28 (02:47:02):
I'm not well.

Speaker 27 (02:47:03):
I want to be going to Circulated. I'm afraid.

Speaker 28 (02:47:05):
There's nothing to be afraid of.

Speaker 27 (02:47:07):
I want to get on the train for the States.

Speaker 28 (02:47:09):
Now there's a training me on, but none here.

Speaker 27 (02:47:11):
Let's drive there in these taxis. Yes, I want to go.
I must go.

Speaker 28 (02:47:17):
Cost hundreds of dollars to have the car ship.

Speaker 27 (02:47:19):
I don't care I got plenty of dollars in the bank.
I'll pay for it. But please, let's go home.

Speaker 28 (02:47:23):
The sun shines tomorrow. You'll feel better. It's just the
sun's gone now.

Speaker 27 (02:47:27):
Yes, the sun's gone.

Speaker 28 (02:47:29):
The wind's bly.

Speaker 52 (02:47:30):
Listen, what a lonely wind. Mexico is such a lonely country.
These people ever get afraid.

Speaker 28 (02:47:40):
They have a religion?

Speaker 9 (02:47:41):
For that?

Speaker 28 (02:47:42):
I used to have a religion.

Speaker 27 (02:47:44):
No, that was when I was twelve.

Speaker 8 (02:47:46):
I got over that.

Speaker 27 (02:47:46):
I mean later.

Speaker 28 (02:47:48):
He never told me, didn't I I guess I hoped
you'd know what religion plaster saints and the sacristy. Any
special saint you used to pray to?

Speaker 15 (02:47:59):
Yes?

Speaker 28 (02:48:00):
And did he answer your prayers for a little while lately?

Speaker 10 (02:48:03):
No?

Speaker 27 (02:48:03):
Never, never anymore, not for years now.

Speaker 18 (02:48:09):
But I keep praying.

Speaker 28 (02:48:11):
Which saint is this saint?

Speaker 27 (02:48:14):
Joseph?

Speaker 13 (02:48:15):
My name?

Speaker 28 (02:48:18):
Coincidence?

Speaker 8 (02:48:23):
Joseph?

Speaker 77 (02:48:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (02:48:25):
Come hold my hand, will you?

Speaker 15 (02:48:28):
Women?

Speaker 31 (02:48:29):
Will you?

Speaker 78 (02:48:30):
Okay? There, okay, it doesn't matter. It's never as nice
as I can imagine it.

Speaker 52 (02:48:42):
It's really nice, the way I can make you hold
my hand.

Speaker 28 (02:48:45):
In my mind, Hell's teeth, it's still there. Why didn't
tremor inside?

Speaker 52 (02:48:55):
As if every bone in my body had a blue
bottle fly and prisoned inside it, buzzing, shaking, quivering, deep deep, deep, Joseph.

Speaker 53 (02:49:08):
Come here. I want you to promise me something, please,
oh please, what is it? Promise me?

Speaker 5 (02:49:19):
Promise me?

Speaker 8 (02:49:21):
Oh, still doing it.

Speaker 41 (02:49:24):
My heart's still.

Speaker 53 (02:49:25):
Banging, and something pounding itself to bits inside my chest.
If if anything happens, if anything happens to me, you
won't let me be buried here in.

Speaker 27 (02:49:40):
The graveyard over those terrible catacombs.

Speaker 53 (02:49:43):
Promise me, promise, please promise, promise so I can sleep.
I can sleep in morning.

Speaker 18 (02:49:51):
You say you.

Speaker 53 (02:49:51):
Wouldn't let me be put there. I don't want to
be put there. Want you promise, Joe.

Speaker 28 (02:49:57):
Please, because you'll be fine tomorrow, goode. Besides, if you die,
you look very pretty in the catagory that between mister
Grimace and mister Spring of morning glory in your hair.
Don't you think you look pretty?

Speaker 21 (02:50:19):
Don't you.

Speaker 9 (02:50:26):
Written?

Speaker 28 (02:50:26):
Too fast?

Speaker 27 (02:50:28):
That's too fast, going in now, going out out?

Speaker 53 (02:50:36):
Hint, it's too fast.

Speaker 27 (02:50:40):
Next time the air goes out, I won't come in again.

Speaker 28 (02:50:46):
Okay, sure, pretty as hell. You'll be all right in
the morning. I'll be fixed tomorrow, maybe very latest. Next
day you won't mind another night here, will you?

Speaker 9 (02:51:06):
Will you.

Speaker 15 (02:51:10):
Marie?

Speaker 28 (02:51:13):
And sleep?

Speaker 15 (02:51:16):
Uh?

Speaker 28 (02:51:18):
Good night lady. Mm hmmm mm hmmm mm hmm. This room, oh, Blog,
it's black.

Speaker 18 (02:51:39):
It's so like something else, something else.

Speaker 27 (02:51:46):
Black God Blog, you.

Speaker 75 (02:51:55):
No, no, no, oh, this way, Senor, Senorita, Gee, this
place is spooky.

Speaker 41 (02:52:07):
You been here before?

Speaker 38 (02:52:08):
Anything like the guy I knew you or something?

Speaker 60 (02:52:10):
Geez, Senorita. Senor and I are old friends.

Speaker 33 (02:52:13):
I know what you mean, sotererious, but still I wouldn't
have missed this place for the world. Sure better than
any freak show.

Speaker 12 (02:52:19):
I ever saw.

Speaker 33 (02:52:20):
Ooh, real geeks, every one of them.

Speaker 38 (02:52:23):
You look at them. See how old are they?

Speaker 9 (02:52:25):
Oh?

Speaker 60 (02:52:26):
Some of them are many years old, Senorita are others
are more recent?

Speaker 28 (02:52:30):
Ah.

Speaker 60 (02:52:31):
Now, this one, for example, has only been here one year.
A tourists who liked our little tongue so much she
never left.

Speaker 27 (02:52:42):
Never left.

Speaker 38 (02:52:43):
Jeez, but that's creepy.

Speaker 18 (02:52:45):
What happened?

Speaker 60 (02:52:46):
She died and was buried, but her husband never came
back to pay the rent on the burial plot.

Speaker 45 (02:52:53):
That's terrible.

Speaker 60 (02:52:54):
So the Senora is still on vacation.

Speaker 38 (02:52:59):
She looks dreadful, all sagging and wasted. Hotel I don't
end up looking like that. To think that a year
ago she was alive and breathing and everything. That's spooky. God,
it's cold down here.

Speaker 25 (02:53:16):
I'm cold, so cold and lonely.

Speaker 27 (02:53:21):
Please don't please me, To.

Speaker 5 (02:53:26):
Please you, you're.

Speaker 33 (02:53:30):
Not going to take a photograph of her? Oh God,
you know what, Joey, that's really gross.

Speaker 66 (02:53:36):
Look, she's the only one I don't have a picture of. Okay, anyway,
what's it to you? Just so long as you're not
the next in line?

Speaker 15 (02:53:47):
Huh?

Speaker 71 (02:53:48):
And you're far too smart a girl to end up here,
aren't you. Please Let this be a warning to you.
If you happen to be contemplating that little vacation with
a loved one, then maybe you should avoid remote villages

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in Mexico, because remember that in the catacombs there's always
room for more. You could so easily find yourself. The
next in line Joseph was Peter, Marinka, Marie, Carol Boyd,
the Guide Trade of Faulkner, Popsy, Sandra Dickinson, the Corpses,

(02:54:36):
Anne Windsor, Jonathan Taffler, Cyril Jenkins, and David Holt. The
next in line was dramatized by Brand Sibley. From the
short story by Ray Bradbury. The director was Martin Jenkins.
I am Edward de Sousa, the Man in Black.

Speaker 79 (02:55:00):
Another five minute mystery.

Speaker 50 (02:55:32):
Part of the South.

Speaker 79 (02:55:33):
Hidden in the mysterious low country of Cuba. A sugar
plantation house, dimly lighted in the somber dusk. In the
parlor of the house, said a small thin woman.

Speaker 80 (02:55:43):
Less to Lockwood. As my brother inspector, his wife Nidia,
drove him to throw himself off the river bank.

Speaker 5 (02:55:49):
You tell me the whole story.

Speaker 80 (02:55:51):
Two years ago my brother and his wife left their
professor ships in English department at Linnbrook College and came
here to live. And right time went by, media became
fascinated by the native drums. One night she wandered alone
in the.

Speaker 81 (02:56:05):
Jungle and never came back, as I remember.

Speaker 80 (02:56:07):
And then the first of those mysterious notes appeared, written
in blood on dried bark. I have been chosen it
dead for one of the living dead. Come to be
Lester and share my eternity. It was signed Nydia. Lester
watched for her, certain somehow she'd come for him. And

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last night we were standing on the jungle's head.

Speaker 79 (02:56:34):
Judah, the drums they're getting louder.

Speaker 1 (02:56:37):
She will come, I know she will.

Speaker 80 (02:56:38):
Oh, Lester, give up this plantation to.

Speaker 28 (02:56:40):
See it's too late.

Speaker 9 (02:56:42):
She's here. Listen. Did you hear that?

Speaker 15 (02:56:46):
But a movement yonda be on the trees?

Speaker 18 (02:56:49):
Look, oh, list it is Nydia.

Speaker 28 (02:56:53):
It's true, Judith, my wife's one of the living dead,
and save her from this voodoo magic.

Speaker 80 (02:57:07):
He ran off in the darkness, and I went quickly
back to the house to wait, and at last Lester
came back.

Speaker 61 (02:57:15):
I couldn't find her.

Speaker 80 (02:57:16):
I looked everywhere, and you've got to come away from
this place tonight, Judith.

Speaker 27 (02:57:21):
Look here on the window, ledgend another of those terrible notes.

Speaker 79 (02:57:26):
What does it say you are a human? You cannot
know the glory of eternal life. Come to the jungle,
to the drums and share my living death.

Speaker 9 (02:57:36):
Keep this between you and I.

Speaker 53 (02:57:38):
She's trying to destroy you time.

Speaker 5 (02:57:40):
I'm going to a Judah. Lidia was waiting for me
to come come back, come.

Speaker 81 (02:57:44):
Back, And this is the note your brother found last
night on the window Ledge, Miss Lockworthy.

Speaker 80 (02:57:53):
Yes, I suppose he destroyed them.

Speaker 25 (02:57:56):
I see.

Speaker 81 (02:57:57):
And you say your brother's wife was formerly an English.

Speaker 80 (02:57:59):
And struggk She met Lester.

Speaker 81 (02:58:02):
There, your story, Miss Lockwood is interesting, and I think
I know the truth. But the chief at headquarters are right,
I hear it from you, So come along.

Speaker 79 (02:58:12):
What was the clue that led Inspector James to arrest
jud At Lockwood?

Speaker 31 (02:58:15):
In a moment, He'll tell us.

Speaker 27 (02:58:16):
But first.

Speaker 81 (02:58:58):
And now here's Inspector j Under questioning Judith Lockwood broke
down and confessed to the murder of her brother and
his wife. She was a pretty mixed up woman, but
she had imagination. I knew Judith had written the note herself,
because no instructor of the English language is going to
make two grammatical errors and four short sentences. You don't
say human for human being, and nothing is ever between

(02:59:19):
you and I. So if you didn't know, let's keep
it between you and me.

Speaker 82 (03:00:11):
Thy soul shall find itself alone mid dark thoughts of
the gray tombstone, not one of all the crowd to
pry into thine hour of secrecy.

Speaker 36 (03:00:26):
Be silent in that solitude which is not loneliness.

Speaker 5 (03:00:32):
For them.

Speaker 26 (03:00:33):
The spirits of the dead, who stood in life before thee,
are again in death around thee, and their will shall
overshadow thee. Be still the night, though clear shall frown,
and the stars shall not lock down from their high

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thrones in the heaven with light like hope to mortals given.

Speaker 56 (03:01:03):
But their red orbs without beam.

Speaker 83 (03:01:06):
To thy weariness shall seem as a burning and a
fever which would cling to thee forever. Now our thoughts
thou shalt not vanish, Now our visions there to vanish

(03:01:27):
from thy spiriture they pass no more.

Speaker 56 (03:01:33):
Like dew drop from the grass.

Speaker 26 (03:01:37):
The breeze, the breath of God distill, and the mist
upon the hill shadowy, shadowy, yet unbroken, is a symbol
and a token. How it hangs upon the trees, a

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Speaker 18 (03:02:05):
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Speaker 13 (03:02:56):
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Speaker 4 (03:02:58):
Take the Old die Rich by hl Gold. The uniform cop.

Speaker 22 (03:03:22):
At the door told me to get lost, but lou
Pape spotted me and told the man to let me in.
It was a shabby room, they always are, And there
was a woman on the bed, an old woman with
white hair then enough to show the tight drawn scalp.
The medical examiner was going over her as if she
were a sight of beef that she had to put

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a federal grade stamp on. Sergeant, when are you going
to stop taking this ham prend of yours around to
these cases just to satisfy his morbid curiosity?

Speaker 61 (03:03:52):
Forget about Weldon.

Speaker 28 (03:03:53):
Doc, what did she die of?

Speaker 37 (03:03:55):
Not eating?

Speaker 61 (03:03:56):
Melanie Frish Hall? Now, look, Doc.

Speaker 22 (03:03:59):
In the top joe drawer, she had bank books showing
thirty two thousand dollars from.

Speaker 61 (03:04:04):
Five different banks.

Speaker 22 (03:04:05):
She had the price of a meal malnutrition induced by
senile psychosis. They starved because they are less afraid of death.

Speaker 61 (03:04:13):
Than digging into their savings.

Speaker 4 (03:04:14):
Well, I don't know, Doc, it doesn't feel right to me. Listen, Weald.

Speaker 22 (03:04:19):
Just because you get up on a stage or on
some half baked television show and make believe you're seventy
years old doesn't qualify you as an expert on jaronte Well,
maybe not, Doc, But I went bald at twenty five,
and I've been playing old men ever since.

Speaker 13 (03:04:35):
There's a lot more to.

Speaker 22 (03:04:36):
It than just shops than an actor's in suit as well. Maybe,
But the way I work, I have to get inside
the character. I have to decide when we was born,
how he got along with his father.

Speaker 4 (03:04:49):
Where he went to school, what he thinks of women.
Everything about a character.

Speaker 22 (03:04:53):
Hasn't many one of them as days that can make.

Speaker 4 (03:04:55):
Himself hurt best a fit for all A Look, I'm
serious now.

Speaker 22 (03:04:58):
I've tried imagining my self growing weak from hunger. I've
tried to think of not even spending a nickel to
keep me from dying.

Speaker 15 (03:05:06):
Well, I just don't believe it.

Speaker 24 (03:05:07):
It isn't right.

Speaker 13 (03:05:08):
I don't feel it. Well, Lucky for me, I don't
have to feel these.

Speaker 22 (03:05:12):
Things inside of me because I'm a doctor, not an actor.
Sergeant malnutrition induced by senor psychosis, all over to the wicker.

Speaker 4 (03:05:21):
Basket, song Baramar.

Speaker 61 (03:05:24):
Well he's right, Mark. We get a couple of these
cases every year.

Speaker 22 (03:05:29):
Some old Kraja starving to death with seventeen thousand dollars
in old bills pinned.

Speaker 61 (03:05:33):
On his union suit turns up all the time.

Speaker 4 (03:05:36):
Well it doesn't feel right.

Speaker 13 (03:05:38):
Well, he knows his.

Speaker 22 (03:05:40):
Business, yeah, but he doesn't know old people.

Speaker 32 (03:05:43):
I do.

Speaker 13 (03:05:44):
No, It isn't easy to starve.

Speaker 22 (03:05:45):
To death, not when you can buy day old bread
at the bakery, or whether it vegetables if the grocer's
ready to throw out. Now, anyone who's willing to eat
that stuff can stay alive at the day to day.

Speaker 16 (03:05:57):
Well, hunger is a well, it's a pretty and instinct.

Speaker 22 (03:06:01):
Well, maybe they get too sick to go out for
old bread or wilted vegetable.

Speaker 24 (03:06:06):
It takes weeks to.

Speaker 16 (03:06:07):
Die of starvation. Did you ever try starving for weeks?

Speaker 9 (03:06:11):
Lou No?

Speaker 61 (03:06:12):
Did you?

Speaker 21 (03:06:13):
Well?

Speaker 22 (03:06:14):
The point is somebody would find out a janitor, a landlord, somebody,
and they'd get them to a hospital.

Speaker 61 (03:06:21):
Forget about it. Mark can't argue with it.

Speaker 22 (03:06:24):
Here there were five bank books thirty two thousand dollars.

Speaker 4 (03:06:29):
Say she took good.

Speaker 10 (03:06:31):
Care of them.

Speaker 24 (03:06:32):
They look almost new.

Speaker 61 (03:06:33):
Sure she did most important thing in the world to
her pro.

Speaker 22 (03:06:37):
Twenty third, nineteen twenty four, one hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 4 (03:06:42):
That ink's pretty dark, now, shouldn't it be faded?

Speaker 61 (03:06:46):
She probably never took it out in the lights.

Speaker 4 (03:06:49):
Anyone ever think of testing the ink?

Speaker 13 (03:06:50):
What's for banks?

Speaker 61 (03:06:52):
Records? Always check these aren't forgeries. If that's what you're thinking.

Speaker 4 (03:06:57):
Well, I'd like to get a chemist working on this.

Speaker 31 (03:07:00):
I love Mark.

Speaker 22 (03:07:01):
This is strictly against regulations. I got to take these
books down to the squad room and sign them in.
That's pretty dark ink for nineteen twenty four. Oh well,
it's about five o'clock in the afternoon. I guess I
could hold them over tonight and bring them down to
the property clerk in the mall.

Speaker 61 (03:07:19):
Oh good, I know just.

Speaker 16 (03:07:21):
Where I can find a chemist, mister Weldon.

Speaker 13 (03:07:34):
There's no doubt of it.

Speaker 4 (03:07:36):
The ink sample is.

Speaker 86 (03:07:37):
Typical of excused fifty years ago. Nineteen twenty four would
be about.

Speaker 61 (03:07:41):
Right there, you see, Weldon and I was the fo.

Speaker 86 (03:07:44):
But according to the amount of oxidation, it's fresh enough.

Speaker 4 (03:07:47):
To be only a few months old.

Speaker 16 (03:07:49):
There, I was right.

Speaker 22 (03:07:50):
Well, couldn't that be the result of unusually careful handling it?

Speaker 86 (03:07:55):
Yes, I suppose it could in an airtight compartment, perhaps
sealed with one of the inert gases or a vacuum.
That might account for the lack of normal aging.

Speaker 22 (03:08:05):
Looh, you can't keep inert gases in the top bureau
drawer and a four to floor walk up. Yeah, well,
it's probably some simple explanation for fresh ink half a
century old. I've been going out on these cases for

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about a year. It's my specialty playing old people. And
when I'm not working television or the theater, I go
down to.

Speaker 16 (03:08:38):
The homes for the ages or the parks and just watch.

Speaker 22 (03:08:42):
Lou Papes, an old friend of mine. He put me
under these malnutrition cases. But there was more to it
than just picking up color and tricks of the trade.

Speaker 15 (03:08:52):
There had to be a better reason for it.

Speaker 3 (03:08:54):
You can't just.

Speaker 22 (03:08:55):
Starve to death upwards of thirty thousand dollars right at
your fingertips without.

Speaker 4 (03:09:00):
At least buying a bowl of soup.

Speaker 22 (03:09:03):
I had a run of television that kept me busy
for about a month, and then Lou called me up
and asked me to come down to the city hospital.
All perform an autopsy sergeant if you want, but I
can give you the guge of death right now. Nolutrician
due to senile psychosis.

Speaker 16 (03:09:21):
Wow, what's up?

Speaker 34 (03:09:22):
Lou?

Speaker 22 (03:09:22):
Well Mark, an old guy was found wandering around down
on Hester Street suffering from malnutrition. He had seventeen thousand
dollars in cash inside the lining of his jacket.

Speaker 3 (03:09:33):
Or Is he alive?

Speaker 33 (03:09:34):
No?

Speaker 31 (03:09:35):
Not now?

Speaker 15 (03:09:36):
He isn't.

Speaker 22 (03:09:37):
Doc's got him in the room there, but he was
stumbling around when the cop on the beat.

Speaker 4 (03:09:41):
Picked him up. Oh did he say anything?

Speaker 61 (03:09:43):
Well, he talked to the cop.

Speaker 22 (03:09:45):
The CoP's a pretty smart young kid, that seems. The
old man talking about money, about his wife. She must
have been dead twenty years. And then just before he
went out completely, he did say something maybe three or
four times.

Speaker 10 (03:10:00):
Well, what was it?

Speaker 4 (03:10:02):
El greco? You mean artist?

Speaker 22 (03:10:04):
Well that's what Stankowitch said. He's the officer who picked
him up. El Greco, probably some Greek restaurant where he
was bumming his meals.

Speaker 61 (03:10:13):
Now you're sure you want an autopsy surgeon?

Speaker 10 (03:10:16):
It's late.

Speaker 61 (03:10:17):
I won't get it till tomorrow. All right, take your.

Speaker 10 (03:10:20):
Time, Doc.

Speaker 4 (03:10:22):
There's something else, isn't it? A loop made me my market.

Speaker 22 (03:10:26):
They found the old guy's room and there was an
ad sumbtacked over the sink.

Speaker 61 (03:10:30):
Nothing too unusual.

Speaker 3 (03:10:32):
Yeah, here it is.

Speaker 4 (03:10:35):
Men and women wanted light.

Speaker 22 (03:10:37):
Work suitable for old people, no references required. Yeah, well
I checked it out with the lieutenant.

Speaker 13 (03:10:43):
He says.

Speaker 4 (03:10:44):
To Forget says, it figures for an old guy.

Speaker 61 (03:10:47):
To be interested in an ad like that.

Speaker 4 (03:10:48):
An old guy with seventeen thousand dollars in cash.

Speaker 61 (03:10:51):
Yeah, well, I didn't figure i'd argue with the lieutenant.

Speaker 4 (03:10:54):
You mind if I keep it?

Speaker 28 (03:10:56):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (03:10:56):
Go ahead. It was an old brownstone house in the
East eighties. I got the line with the rest of
the applicants.

Speaker 22 (03:11:08):
My face was lined with Clodian wrinkles, and I wore
into these shiny suit and run down shoes.

Speaker 15 (03:11:14):
It was a good makeup job.

Speaker 22 (03:11:17):
I looked more authentic than the rest of the old
timers who were waiting for the interview. I finally came
up to where a woman was asking the question A
Curne Louis Kurnit.

Speaker 18 (03:11:29):
Address.

Speaker 4 (03:11:30):
Well, don't exactly have a place.

Speaker 22 (03:11:32):
I've been staying with a fellow down close Street, a
friend of mine. I met him in a cafetire.

Speaker 18 (03:11:39):
Previous occupation.

Speaker 4 (03:11:40):
Well, I've worked at a lot of things.

Speaker 22 (03:11:43):
It used to be a printer way back.

Speaker 18 (03:11:45):
I could handshit you other references.

Speaker 4 (03:11:48):
Well, oh no, ma'am, I haven't got any family.

Speaker 22 (03:11:54):
I had a cousin in Salt Lake City, but I
haven't seen him thirty years or more.

Speaker 4 (03:11:59):
The head said that it didn't need no referra.

Speaker 45 (03:12:02):
That's right.

Speaker 18 (03:12:03):
Now, will you wait in the other room.

Speaker 4 (03:12:05):
Oh yes, ma'am, Do I get the job?

Speaker 18 (03:12:09):
Just wait in the other room.

Speaker 22 (03:12:19):
I shuffled into the other room and sat down the way.
I concentrated on building a character for Louis Kurnant. If
I was going to carry this through, I was going
to have to play a better performance than I'd ever
given before. About half an hour later, a young woman
came into the room. I wanted them to be dozing
the way an old man would, and so my eyes

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were closed and I heard the door close and I
opened them. I was looking into the barrel of a
thirty eighth revolver.

Speaker 18 (03:12:46):
Are you awake now, mister Weldon? I don't think you
need to carry on anymore. If you need any further convincing,
you are Mark Weldon. You're about forty years old, and
you played the same character on television about six weeks
who played it fairly well.

Speaker 15 (03:13:02):
Thank you?

Speaker 31 (03:13:03):
Now?

Speaker 4 (03:13:03):
Would you mind putting down that gun?

Speaker 18 (03:13:07):
Why did you apply for this position, mister Weldon? You're
not old, not really well.

Speaker 3 (03:13:12):
As a matter of fact, it was a bet.

Speaker 22 (03:13:15):
I was having an argument with another actor, and I
bet him that I could do well.

Speaker 4 (03:13:20):
I could get by off the stage.

Speaker 18 (03:13:22):
Father, you've been very busy recently trying to find out
my senile psychotic star of themselves to death.

Speaker 24 (03:13:27):
How did you know that?

Speaker 18 (03:13:28):
I also happened to know that you've been present at
several police investigations into these cases, and that your good
friend is Sergeant Lou Pape.

Speaker 4 (03:13:36):
I did know a great deal more about me than
I do about you.

Speaker 18 (03:13:39):
Well, I'll be glad to enlighten you. My name is
May Roberts. I'm the daughter of the late doctor Anthony Roberts,
the physicist who was dismissed from the Brookhaven Atomic Energy
Laboratory five years ago.

Speaker 22 (03:13:51):
I assume you're connected with these starvation cases, or you wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (03:13:55):
Have known that I was investigating.

Speaker 18 (03:13:56):
Obvious, isn't it. I'm not afraid of professional detectives, Smith Weldon.
They deal only in facts. But I don't like amateurs.
They guess too much, they don't stick to reality. Consequently,
they're likely to get too close to the truth.

Speaker 22 (03:14:10):
Oh, Unfortunately, miss Roberts, I'm nowhere near the truth. I
haven't the slightest idea how you're tied in with those
starvation cases.

Speaker 18 (03:14:17):
I intend to show you, mister Welldon, I'm happy to
announce that you have the job. Oh no, no, mister Weldon.

Speaker 52 (03:14:25):
Oh.

Speaker 18 (03:14:25):
Incidentally, about fifteen minutes ago, I called Sergeant Pape and
told him I was your sister, just in from Pittsburgh.
I wanted to get in touch with you very badly,
and Sergeant Pape was very sorry. He wished he could
help me, but he didn't have the slightest idea where
you were. All right, mister Weldon, walk ahead of me,

(03:14:45):
please through that door.

Speaker 22 (03:14:52):
She didn't look like the kind of girl would hold
a gun on me without intending to use it. So
I went down the hall and up four flights of
stairs to a large room. There was a maze of
electrical equipment. Pulled it down, transistors and wires and dials.
In the middle of the room was a wire mesh cage.
She kept that gun on me, steady as a rock.

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She began to set readings on the dials and flip
switches on the control down.

Speaker 18 (03:15:18):
It'll take about five minutes for the field to build up,
mister Weldon. Please get into the transmission.

Speaker 4 (03:15:23):
Area wire go ahead, all all right, all right.

Speaker 18 (03:15:27):
I wouldn't advise moving now, mister Weldon. The wire carries
some ten thousand vaults. Now, look, miss Roberts, mister Weldon,
you're curious, and you could turn out to be a
great nuisance to me. As long as you've come this far,
we might as well both benefit by it. You'll find
a suit of clothes on the floor there.

Speaker 16 (03:15:47):
Put it on, after all, it on.

Speaker 22 (03:15:55):
I didn't know whether she was bluffing about the electric charge,
but the revolver looked real enough, so I stripped and
changed into the other clothes. The shoes were a little
too tight and pointed. The color of the shirt was
too stiffly starched, and too high under my chin. The
suit was was too narrow the shoulders, the ankles. I
remember my father had a suit like that, the same

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shiny blue serge.

Speaker 18 (03:16:20):
All right, in your pocket, you'll find a set of envelopes.
You'll find a set of instructions in each follow them carefully.

Speaker 21 (03:16:26):
I don't get it.

Speaker 18 (03:16:28):
You will use the envelopes in the order they are arranged.
So what's this all about, mister Weldon? I meant it
when I said this could be a benefit to both
of us. There's no use explaining anything. You'll find out,
and don't try to escape. It can't be done. All right, now,
the field generators are ready.

Speaker 22 (03:16:48):
Hell, look, miss Roberts, this is that gently follow instructions,
mister Weldon.

Speaker 16 (03:16:55):
No, I blinked, and I was standing outside a bank
on a sunny.

Speaker 4 (03:17:07):
Day in spring.

Speaker 22 (03:17:09):
I stared at the people passing by. They were dressed
like the characters in a nineteen thirty movie. The women
wore long dresses and flower pot hats. The men had
hard straw hats and suits with narrow shoulders. The cars
were square with flat radiators in front. And there was
a trolley car passing by. And suddenly I realized that

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the last trolley stopped running years ago. And I tried
to figure it out. It was my town, all right.
I recognized some of the buildings. At first I figured
it must have been hypnosis. And then I looked at
the first of the envelopes in my pocket. I read
it and walked into the bank.

Speaker 24 (03:17:56):
Yes, sir, mister.

Speaker 22 (03:17:57):
Golden tells me that you wished to open an account.

Speaker 4 (03:17:59):
Yes, well, we're very.

Speaker 16 (03:18:01):
Happy to have a new depositor, very happy.

Speaker 17 (03:18:03):
Indeed, of course, you realize.

Speaker 22 (03:18:05):
The institution is in sound condition, very sound. You needn't
worry about all those rumors in this bank.

Speaker 16 (03:18:11):
No, sir, solid solid, oh, that's good.

Speaker 8 (03:18:14):
Well, now, name Mark Weldon.

Speaker 22 (03:18:17):
You have no address in the city at present, mister Weldon,
and you're depositing one hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 16 (03:18:23):
That's right, alrighty, I'll just check the slip here.

Speaker 87 (03:18:27):
One hundred and fifty dollars, right, and the date May fifteenth,
of course, nineteen thirty one, thirty one the depression.

Speaker 22 (03:18:39):
Now, mister Weldon, this is a very good year for business.
This temporary recession is bound to abate.

Speaker 61 (03:18:44):
Sound banking policies.

Speaker 24 (03:18:46):
Will see us through.

Speaker 16 (03:18:47):
It's just around the corner.

Speaker 43 (03:18:48):
You know what, what is prosperity?

Speaker 16 (03:18:51):
Oh all right, mister Weldon. We're very happy to have
your account.

Speaker 22 (03:19:03):
I went outside the bank and I stood there in
the spring sunlight and let the terror so kind of
the possibility, the entire situation was gnawing at the edges
of my mind. And then suddenly I wasn't there. Wait
was as fast as blinking. I was outside another bank
in the same city, and the date on the next

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envelope was May twenty ninth, and it was still nineteen
thirty one. I made a seventy five dollars deposit there,
and then one hundred dollars at another place.

Speaker 4 (03:19:34):
A few days later, spending a few minutes each.

Speaker 22 (03:19:37):
Time, and going ahead anywhere from a couple of days
to almost a month. In nineteen thirty four, I found
myself inside a broker's office.

Speaker 86 (03:19:46):
M As I understand it, you are buying the stock
for doctor Anthony Roberts.

Speaker 15 (03:19:51):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (03:19:52):
I assume the stock will be in his name. That's right.
I'm just acting as his agent. I follow instructions, of course,
of course.

Speaker 86 (03:19:59):
Well are you sure I can't convince you that you
are making a big mistake?

Speaker 4 (03:20:02):
No, No, these are my instruction.

Speaker 86 (03:20:05):
Well, now, mister Weldon, we are a reputable brokerage house,
and frankly, I feel quite shaky about putting our client's
money in this kind of security.

Speaker 24 (03:20:13):
There's no future in it.

Speaker 86 (03:20:15):
It's a rare metal for which there is very little
use in industrial purposes. However, of your client is Adamiran,
I have my instruction very well. Then, in the name
of doctor Anthony Roberts, one hundred shares of montana uranium.

Speaker 22 (03:20:30):
Most unwise, it went that way about fifty to fifty.
I deposit money in my own name and various banks,
and other times I'd buy stock or make a bet
for May Roberts.

Speaker 16 (03:20:46):
On June twenty first, nineteen thirty two, I.

Speaker 22 (03:20:49):
Bet Jack Sharky to take the heavyweight title away from
Max Schmeling. There was Singing Wood in nineteen thirty three
at Belmont Park and Max spaar over Primal Canara. I
went on skimming through the years, touching here and there
from a few minutes to an.

Speaker 4 (03:21:05):
Hour at a time. It was in early October nineteen.

Speaker 22 (03:21:08):
Thirty eight, about five hours after I left May Robert's house,
before I realized what she had me doing. I was
making deposits and winning shore bets, just as those senile
psychotics had done. The ink on their bank books seemed
fresh because it was fresh. It wasn't given a chance
to oxidize.

Speaker 21 (03:21:29):
Why.

Speaker 22 (03:21:29):
At the rate I was going, I'd be back in
my own time in a few hours with fifteen thousand
dollars compound interest in cash. But those old people had
died of starvation somehow with all that cash and banks.
I didn't know how it happened or why, But suddenly

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it occurred to me that I didn't want to be
found dead in my hotel room. So rather than make
the deposit in nineteen thirty eight. I grabbed a cab
and told the driver to step on it. We got
a mile away from the be and then the cab
suddenly disappeared.

Speaker 4 (03:22:04):
I found myself in front of a counter at a
lunch room.

Speaker 22 (03:22:08):
The envelope instruck me to make a bet on the
World Series. There wasn't any way to get out of
the range of the machine. It could pick me up
at least five miles away from where I was supposed
to be. I came back a week later to get
my winnings. I was hungry, so I got myself a
hamburger and went out the door.

Speaker 16 (03:22:27):
And when I hit the sidewalk, it happened again.

Speaker 18 (03:22:42):
Don't touch the cage yet, mister Weldon. I'll have to
clear the charge.

Speaker 22 (03:22:46):
Hey, oh, what happened to my hamburger? The hamburger I
had in here is it's gone?

Speaker 24 (03:22:52):
Hey, I'm hungry.

Speaker 18 (03:22:52):
I'll get you something to eat, mister Weldon before your
next trip. Well you've done pretty well for yourself, haven't you.

Speaker 22 (03:22:58):
Well, yes, yes, I have about fifteen thousand dollars.

Speaker 18 (03:23:02):
Mister Weldon. I want to talk seriously with you now
that you've seen part of what I'm doing.

Speaker 31 (03:23:07):
Part.

Speaker 18 (03:23:08):
My father was discharged from all his research and university
connections because he insisted on publishing his findings on temporal
field research. All the conventional physicists explained that he was
overworked and recommended everything from psychoanalysis to Hapboulian before retiring. Well,
possibly both of these might have been beneficient. But the

(03:23:29):
fact of the matter is, temporal field activities are quite true, and.

Speaker 16 (03:23:35):
You've seen proof.

Speaker 15 (03:23:36):
Well, I suppose I have.

Speaker 18 (03:23:38):
It seems just to be a question of money, and
obviously I can get all I need now.

Speaker 22 (03:23:44):
But sending people back through time to bet on short
things like uranium.

Speaker 18 (03:23:49):
Exchange, I pay well for service, don't I?

Speaker 16 (03:23:51):
Oh, I suppose so, isn't the most important thing.

Speaker 18 (03:23:54):
I've been able to say, things that could have been
lost otherwise. I've send people back to find precious treasures
that would have been destroyed or would.

Speaker 16 (03:24:01):
Have disappeared, like an El Greco painting.

Speaker 15 (03:24:04):
Yes, and the.

Speaker 18 (03:24:05):
Original score of Mozart's Magic Flute that would have been
burned in nineteen forty two, at a Picasso miniature that
would have been lost at sea in fifty two. I
have them all here, stolen, bought with money from the
year itself at a fair price. Well, mister Weldon, I
sent you back because I needed someone to work with

(03:24:26):
me on a regular basis, someone who's faster and more
alert than the old people I've hired until now.

Speaker 4 (03:24:32):
Why old?

Speaker 18 (03:24:33):
It's the function of the field. You can't send somebody
back to a year in which they didn't exist at all.

Speaker 16 (03:24:37):
Hey, I'm hoppy, mister Weldon.

Speaker 18 (03:24:39):
This is very important. My father died trying to prove
the validity of his field theory to conventional scientists. I
don't intend to bother. We can become the most powerful
people in the world.

Speaker 16 (03:24:51):
Well, I don't feel very powerful now.

Speaker 22 (03:24:54):
You haven't got a sandwich hanging around head you.

Speaker 18 (03:24:56):
I want to make you an offer, mister Weldon. I
need someone to help me expand the operation plan, the
projects and research I told you, because I was afraid
that you might hit on the truth by yourself.

Speaker 4 (03:25:08):
Can I come out of this cage now?

Speaker 18 (03:25:10):
Careful, don't touch the context. The field reacts on a
random factor for at least one hour after it's cutoff.

Speaker 4 (03:25:18):
Believe me, I'll be careful.

Speaker 22 (03:25:21):
Now tell me, mister Roberts, why haven't you been able
to go back to the time when your father was
alive and bring him back before he died.

Speaker 18 (03:25:29):
The tissue can't be transported. We've tried it with mice
and rabbits from the laboratory and.

Speaker 16 (03:25:34):
They just disappeared like my hamburger.

Speaker 18 (03:25:37):
Well, then I assume that you're interested and that we
can make our plans without using this revolver.

Speaker 4 (03:25:43):
Well, I hope. So fifteen thousand dollars is a lot
of money.

Speaker 16 (03:25:49):
Of course, you were able to send those old people
back a lot further, some.

Speaker 18 (03:25:53):
Of them as far back as eighteen ninety.

Speaker 4 (03:25:56):
How long would they be gone now?

Speaker 22 (03:25:58):
I mean, in subjective time, for weeks, perhaps a month
or more. There's only one problem, miss Robert.

Speaker 18 (03:26:04):
I'm sure we can work out any details.

Speaker 4 (03:26:06):
Well, this one is a little hard to work out now.
You see, I'm hungry.

Speaker 22 (03:26:11):
I haven't been this hungry since I got lost on
a hunting trip and went without.

Speaker 4 (03:26:15):
Food for three days.

Speaker 22 (03:26:17):
You see, you forgot that I've got an interest in
this business. Because they found some old people dead of
malnutrition and thirty thousand dollars or so tucked away.

Speaker 21 (03:26:26):
In their pockets.

Speaker 22 (03:26:27):
Now, they'd been going a month or more and they
had to eat during that time, didn't they now when
they came back, the food disappeared like my hamburger. It
disappeared all at once, all over their body, and run fast.

Speaker 3 (03:26:39):
Job they starved.

Speaker 18 (03:26:40):
No, no, you don't understand. They just couldn't take the
field transition. They were too old, some of them. They
lied to me about their age to get the job.

Speaker 22 (03:26:48):
Oh no, you can't tell me that, because I know
how hungry I am, and I was only gone about
twelve hours.

Speaker 3 (03:26:53):
They were murdered.

Speaker 22 (03:26:54):
Get back now, you know they say a hungry man
gets mighty desperate.

Speaker 16 (03:26:58):
He'll do almost anyhow.

Speaker 21 (03:27:00):
Let go, Let go that gunner.

Speaker 8 (03:27:02):
Let go on it.

Speaker 3 (03:27:04):
My lookout, look out the cage the contact.

Speaker 16 (03:27:22):
She fell into that cage and disappeared before she hit
the ground.

Speaker 8 (03:27:26):
I didn't know what happened.

Speaker 22 (03:27:27):
I knew she said the field worked in a random factor.

Speaker 4 (03:27:30):
Whatever that meant. I called Lou Papon.

Speaker 22 (03:27:33):
He came to the house just after the fire started.
Something went in the control panel and it turned out
to be a four alarm fire. Before they got her
under control, there was nothing left of the machine. There
wasn't much left of the Brownstone house.

Speaker 4 (03:27:48):
Lou didn't believe the story. I told him, You mean there.

Speaker 22 (03:27:50):
Won't be any more of them, No more senile psychotics starving.

Speaker 61 (03:27:54):
To death with a bank roll in their pocket.

Speaker 13 (03:27:55):
No, I told you, Lou, I'm on now, Mark, We'll
get plenty more.

Speaker 4 (03:27:59):
We always oh. No, I bet you won't.

Speaker 16 (03:28:01):
I bet you a dollar. There won't be another case
like that.

Speaker 13 (03:28:04):
I'll take that bet.

Speaker 15 (03:28:19):
I lost the bet.

Speaker 22 (03:28:20):
There was one more case, and perhaps it was the
strangest one. A woman was found wandering in Bryant Park
just before she died of acute starvation. One strange thing
was that she was young, not more than thirty, and
the other was that she had seventeen thousand dollars stuffed
in her pocketbook and a bullet wound in her arm

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that the medical examiner said was at least two months old.
I guess that's what she meant by the random factor.

Speaker 12 (03:29:08):
WWUK Special Projects has presented The Old Die Ridge, written
by H. L. Gold and adapted for radio by Ernest Kinnord.
Marxpink was featured as Weldon, and Peg Small played May Roberts.
Others in our cast were Robert L. Smith, Richard Neesing,
Martin Kingrig and John Scott. Future Tense is produced and

(03:29:32):
directed by La Siegel next on future tents. We've got
to be quiet now, Garry, this is fantastic. I think
you've got a tunnel right under the whole town.

Speaker 88 (03:29:53):
You haven't seen anything yet. This room, a little further down,
we'll be able to look through a glass in the door.
Is it safe, Yes, unless one of them comes along.
Come on, okay, here Burger looks in the glass. And

(03:30:14):
just so I know I'm not completely insane, tell me what.

Speaker 4 (03:30:17):
You see, good lord.

Speaker 88 (03:30:19):
Well, shit, tremendous panel with dozens of telescreens in front
of each your robot.

Speaker 16 (03:30:26):
They seem to be computing something.

Speaker 88 (03:30:28):
Yes, I watched. They're evaluating data on the screens. Have
you gotten a chance to look at that data on
those screens? No, I've been afraid to go in. There
might be a warning circuit somewhere, and if we knew
what those robots were working on, we could go to
the authorities. I'll risk it if you will, all right,
it's worth a chance were lost anyway.

Speaker 15 (03:30:47):
Okay, open the door.

Speaker 12 (03:30:50):
This is Gerard McLeod reminding you and your entire family
to join us every Monday through Thursday at the same
time for Future Tents.

Speaker 89 (03:31:00):
The boathook by Sheila Hodgson with Michael Williams as m R.
James Brett Usher as masterman and David King as professor anders.

Speaker 37 (03:31:12):
The boathook.

Speaker 36 (03:31:14):
I have an affection for the Scandinavian countries. There is
a particularly fine cathedral in Trondheim, which I discovered in
the spring of nineteen hundred and four. The Norwegian guide
informed me that the original archbishop of Trondheim had been
English and responsible for the spiritual welfare of the Shetland Islands. Well, well,
I see no reason to doubt it.

Speaker 37 (03:31:36):
Oh, I beg a pardon.

Speaker 36 (03:31:37):
We were talking about Scandinavia. Yes, yes, Norway and Trondheim.

Speaker 56 (03:31:45):
And the boat.

Speaker 9 (03:31:48):
The boat.

Speaker 36 (03:31:50):
Oh, dear me, I shall really have to leave you
to make up your own mind about the boat.

Speaker 37 (03:31:57):
In Trondheim Cathedral magnificent.

Speaker 15 (03:32:02):
I agree.

Speaker 37 (03:32:03):
It's a remarkable building.

Speaker 58 (03:32:04):
I should date it.

Speaker 36 (03:32:05):
Around twelve hundred, though whether any of the original stonework remains.
Do look at that vaulted arch just a moment. It's
curious we left a door open.

Speaker 37 (03:32:16):
No, it's is coming from the roof.

Speaker 36 (03:32:18):
I devidely hope that it is not a loose beam
about the crashed down on as I should object to
being discovered dead in a foreign church.

Speaker 37 (03:32:25):
Its difficult to see in the shadows. Only up there,
hanging from the cross bar. It's a model boat, isn't it?

Speaker 56 (03:32:32):
Good?

Speaker 36 (03:32:33):
Heavens, very odd. What a beautiful piece of carving. You
You can get a clear view from this angle.

Speaker 37 (03:32:41):
Yes, I fancy those chains are making the noise as
it swings backwards and forwards.

Speaker 36 (03:32:45):
Must be in a cross draft. I don't remember that
from my last visit. Now, why should anyone hang a
wooden boat?

Speaker 58 (03:32:54):
Excuse me?

Speaker 37 (03:32:55):
Please? Good morning, Good morning sir.

Speaker 90 (03:32:58):
You are speaking English. I'm also speaking English, so we
understand each other.

Speaker 37 (03:33:02):
Yes, I don't think we need a guardhead.

Speaker 3 (03:33:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 36 (03:33:05):
Excuse me, I am sorry, but I hear you asking
what a boat? Yes, indeed, can you tell us?

Speaker 90 (03:33:12):
Of course, the fishermen hang these in church to ask
for protection, a blessing on their sail. You understand now,
they asked the holy saints to keep them safe across them?

Speaker 37 (03:33:23):
What I see?

Speaker 28 (03:33:23):
Interesting?

Speaker 36 (03:33:25):
Are they always so elaborate?

Speaker 1 (03:33:27):
No, that one is important.

Speaker 36 (03:33:31):
That is they paint the name of the boat on
the side. I can't quite make it out. Oh, dear WI,
have I left my glasses back at the hotel.

Speaker 37 (03:33:41):
Can you read it? No, it's just about un.

Speaker 25 (03:33:46):
Yes, that is no good.

Speaker 36 (03:33:49):
Unfortunately I'm shortsighted. All this will give me is a
crick in the neck.

Speaker 90 (03:33:53):
If I may introduce myself, my name is Serlants and
a large silance.

Speaker 21 (03:33:58):
How do you do that?

Speaker 36 (03:33:59):
I'm doctor j and this is my friend George, Masterman
of the Masterman Press. It is my pressure. You have
a holiday, part holiday, part business.

Speaker 30 (03:34:07):
Doctor James is well known for his ghost stories. They
are being translated into Norwegian and we are here to
finalize the contract.

Speaker 90 (03:34:13):
Oh, a translation, good? But who translates? I do translations
from the English myself. Who will be making this translation?
You'll probably know the man.

Speaker 36 (03:34:22):
That can't be so many academics in Trondheim who specialized
in English literature.

Speaker 37 (03:34:26):
This is a professor. And please professor. And have you
not met the professor Jergan and.

Speaker 9 (03:34:39):
Something?

Speaker 37 (03:34:39):
That he's gone over there? He's sitting down in the field.

Speaker 36 (03:34:44):
Very awkward one ought to do. That's a class of war. Yes,
we can get a glass of water and there's a
cafe nearby. This is it's a question of being able
to explain James James.

Speaker 37 (03:34:54):
Somebody coming.

Speaker 30 (03:34:56):
I really think we'd better leave it to them. Oh Lord,
now there's a clergyman looking out of the vestry.

Speaker 37 (03:35:00):
I suggest we go.

Speaker 36 (03:35:01):
As you wish. Poor fellow, this is most unfortunate he has.
Perhaps it would be proven to get out of the
way if the man is seriously unwell. As neither of
us can speak the language. Dear Dear, it is very
little we can profitably do.

Speaker 37 (03:35:17):
Come home.

Speaker 36 (03:35:20):
Later in the day we noticed an ambulance drawn up
outside the cathedral. I cannot say I made any immediate
connection then. Indeed, I thought no more of mister Lars
Surranson until a year later, as I sat in my
study in Cambridge awaiting the arrival of the distinguished professor.

Speaker 37 (03:35:37):
And translator Jogan and us. He's late.

Speaker 36 (03:35:45):
There's plenty of time. We're not due in the lecture
hall till seven thirty. Tell me, do you remember that
strange person we met in Trondhem Cathedral, the old gentleman
who practically choked when I mentioned on it professional jealousy? Ah, my,
dear James, we both know that hell hath no fury
like an academic passed over in favor of somebody else where?

Speaker 37 (03:36:06):
Is the excuse? Lisa, Yes, Missus Credick, this.

Speaker 57 (03:36:09):
Parsle has just come, sir.

Speaker 91 (03:36:11):
It's addressed to Professor Jorgan Anders.

Speaker 56 (03:36:14):
This my soul.

Speaker 36 (03:36:16):
We're in Heaven's name. It gets tripping wet. Oh dear, oh,
dear dear.

Speaker 37 (03:36:21):
Has the person gone?

Speaker 57 (03:36:22):
Wasn't by the postman?

Speaker 28 (03:36:23):
Sir?

Speaker 57 (03:36:24):
I found it on the doorstep?

Speaker 36 (03:36:25):
Is it raining? No, Doctor James, what's a volting sudden mess?
We cannot possibly give that to Professor Anders. I imagine
some clumsy boys dropped it in a bottle and the
ink is running in a Please take it away, missus grubby.
Take it to the kitchen and get it dry.

Speaker 91 (03:36:41):
Near the boiler might do it.

Speaker 57 (03:36:44):
I shouldn't be surprised if.

Speaker 36 (03:36:45):
This brown people can start till it can't be helped.

Speaker 92 (03:36:48):
Just do the best you can.

Speaker 36 (03:36:49):
That, of course, is the man himself.

Speaker 58 (03:36:52):
No, no, missus Kadock, get.

Speaker 37 (03:36:53):
The thing out of here.

Speaker 36 (03:37:11):
Come in, come in, you remember George.

Speaker 37 (03:37:14):
Master put most clearly? How are you set? Pretty fit?

Speaker 3 (03:37:17):
Thank you?

Speaker 37 (03:37:18):
Have you had a good journey at crossing. I'd not
like to see you'll take a class.

Speaker 36 (03:37:22):
Of They don't expect you with the lecture halls you
are speaking.

Speaker 37 (03:37:28):
I believe on Nordic legends a fascinating subject. I find
it is this to be an extended.

Speaker 93 (03:37:33):
I go to several cities. Yes, now, to speak plainly,
you were content with my translation of your work?

Speaker 9 (03:37:39):
Oh?

Speaker 37 (03:37:40):
Yes, yes, perfectly satisfactory, first class.

Speaker 93 (03:37:42):
I've found your stories most curious. Tell me, doctor James,
do you you personally? Do you believe in the supernatural?

Speaker 36 (03:37:51):
My dear fellow, you sualll have the answer I give everybody.
I neither believe nor disbelieve. I merely collect evidence.

Speaker 93 (03:37:57):
You're and the evidence proved nothing as yet, but your
mind will remain. Oh, I certainly hope, so good.

Speaker 28 (03:38:04):
Good.

Speaker 93 (03:38:06):
I put to your suggestion, why do not be possible
to move a solid object by paranormal means?

Speaker 10 (03:38:11):
No?

Speaker 93 (03:38:11):
No, do not think a violent emotion. If you hatred,
some disturbance of the brain might actually cause movement.

Speaker 36 (03:38:18):
It depends what you mean. If I hate you so much,
I pick up this decanter and throw it at your head. Professor, Yes, yes,
my emotion has produced movement. But if you mean, can
I cause the bottle to fly through the air of
its own position?

Speaker 21 (03:38:33):
My friend?

Speaker 37 (03:38:34):
How many things you do not understand in this world?
I agree, But the law of gravity is not one, James, James,
it's twenty past.

Speaker 36 (03:38:42):
Gracious, we shall have to go.

Speaker 56 (03:38:44):
I'm afraid I.

Speaker 57 (03:38:45):
Think it's rather important, sir.

Speaker 58 (03:38:50):
It's about you know what what.

Speaker 36 (03:38:54):
Dear dear dear Massiman. Will you take professor hands across
the legs, all of course, the side of the quies.
I'll be with you in a minute, doctor James. Yes, yes,
I mean a hurry that boss of.

Speaker 91 (03:39:07):
Sir, addressed to your visitor. You told me to get
it dry as only I'm sorry to say the box
burned the pieces. Never mind, I put it on the
kitchen table. I didn't like to touch the thing. Some
kind of animal, would it be?

Speaker 37 (03:39:19):
Surely not?

Speaker 57 (03:39:19):
It's about a foot long, all done up in linen,
and it seems to.

Speaker 37 (03:39:23):
Be heaving good health.

Speaker 94 (03:39:26):
Sure if you wouldn't mind come me to the kitchen
and having a look, sir, the heavening you see my soul?

Speaker 39 (03:39:39):
Do you see what I mean?

Speaker 36 (03:39:40):
Give me or kids in life?

Speaker 1 (03:39:42):
Quick?

Speaker 27 (03:39:43):
Quick?

Speaker 32 (03:39:43):
Yes?

Speaker 56 (03:39:50):
What on earth?

Speaker 31 (03:39:54):
Well?

Speaker 91 (03:39:55):
I never oh, that was in It's only a toy,
a little toy boat.

Speaker 36 (03:40:01):
This is quite extraord.

Speaker 91 (03:40:04):
He may have been frightened by a kid's plaything. Has
the foreign gentleman got children?

Speaker 36 (03:40:08):
Then I have no idea. No, no, no, no, no,
this is credic. This will be a model. Huse not
doud to illustrate some point in his talk. Oh dear me,
he may want it. Get me a carrier bag, please,
A better be delivered to the lecture hall at.

Speaker 9 (03:40:23):
Once, right.

Speaker 37 (03:40:30):
Where the devil is James, I don't know. Still, we
better get on with.

Speaker 58 (03:40:33):
The gentlemen and visitors.

Speaker 95 (03:40:37):
We are honored by the presence of Professor Jogen Anders.
If Professor Anders comes to us from Norway and we'll
speak on Nordic myths and legends, the subject which promises
to be of great interest. He is an expert on
Scandinavian mythology, and as I understand, recently published a Norwegian
translation of the works of our own Dr Montague James. So,

(03:40:57):
without further interruption from me, I give you Professor Jurgen Anders.

Speaker 37 (03:41:04):
Still you'll be here in a minute. He doesn't know
he has to move the vote. Thank, yes, yes, good evening.

Speaker 96 (03:41:10):
I wish to begin tonight by considering the early Icelandic literature,
the fragments of poetry still preserved in the richness of
the Edda.

Speaker 2 (03:41:20):
Before Christian that.

Speaker 96 (03:41:21):
He had brought to the to the influence of the
classical races. The alien mythology of Greece and Rome.

Speaker 15 (03:41:29):
May have the first lanterns like these to apologize.

Speaker 37 (03:41:32):
Missus, have you got there for him?

Speaker 10 (03:41:35):
He needed?

Speaker 96 (03:41:37):
And the northern gods, has shown in the editor, stood
as massive as these Scandinavian mountains. Here they flew over
the waters and rode on the tempest, Professor, little superior
to the elements in different.

Speaker 58 (03:41:51):
They commanded the whole force of the universe.

Speaker 2 (03:41:54):
Yes, yes, yes, what this.

Speaker 37 (03:41:56):
Has come for you?

Speaker 56 (03:41:58):
What the devil is it?

Speaker 28 (03:41:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 58 (03:42:00):
Yeah, get a class, somebody. It's quite all right, professor,
has it got in your papers?

Speaker 1 (03:42:05):
Sorry?

Speaker 58 (03:42:07):
Let me it was my fault.

Speaker 56 (03:42:08):
I'm afraid I interrupted.

Speaker 58 (03:42:09):
You do continue, professor, you were saying, yes, he's lost
his notes.

Speaker 1 (03:42:17):
Let us have the next slide, if you please.

Speaker 58 (03:42:19):
No, that is upside down.

Speaker 36 (03:42:21):
I don't think it is, professor.

Speaker 96 (03:42:22):
No, No, of course nothing here we have a glass
year from this place came a rushing water, hard running
into ice.

Speaker 42 (03:42:32):
And the gods, the gods, as we aid in the involved,
sunga saga the gods, I.

Speaker 56 (03:42:38):
Wish people with colds would stay at home.

Speaker 36 (03:42:40):
It's generally a sign that the people can't hear you.

Speaker 42 (03:42:42):
Yes, gods uncreated an unseen medicaid giant.

Speaker 58 (03:42:47):
Could you speak up a little, professor, anders, What have
I done?

Speaker 10 (03:42:50):
Oh?

Speaker 58 (03:42:50):
No, no, nothing, Could you just speak a little louder?

Speaker 37 (03:42:54):
This was to be the creation of man in Valhalla,
the hall of the.

Speaker 13 (03:42:59):
Chosen slain, find the dead.

Speaker 4 (03:43:01):
I suppose.

Speaker 37 (03:43:03):
Those men while are slain in battle?

Speaker 96 (03:43:05):
Who were the especial favorites of Odin?

Speaker 10 (03:43:07):
Was that hall of the same as the Greek Olympus,
As I explained to Europe, Olympus was the seat of
the Greek gods.

Speaker 37 (03:43:14):
Val Halo is more like the underworld, wasn't it?

Speaker 8 (03:43:16):
Yes?

Speaker 96 (03:43:19):
Opinion was also known as as vot vhy.

Speaker 92 (03:43:23):
What I think?

Speaker 58 (03:43:24):
We had better keep questions until the end.

Speaker 42 (03:43:26):
And the gods also created other maggot like creatures who
lived in the mountains. They were the tolls, and they
were dark and treacherous, and they pursued with spight and
malice anyone they thought but they believed, had had in
some way done them.

Speaker 58 (03:43:44):
Hawk, professors, is something the matter?

Speaker 36 (03:43:55):
But and then he just ran out?

Speaker 37 (03:44:05):
But what do you make of it, sir?

Speaker 5 (03:44:07):
Make of it?

Speaker 36 (03:44:07):
Goodness? Note less, my soul, This is a highly respected
international scholar. I cannot believe he would deliberately let us done.
I feel responsible. I introduced the man to college. I
am highly embarrassed, and I'm also rather crossing. Nice heart
whiskey sir, Yes, that will be splendid. Missus Graddick, thank you.

Speaker 58 (03:44:30):
Let me answer that.

Speaker 36 (03:44:31):
I suspect a deputation complaining about the night's fiasco.

Speaker 3 (03:44:34):
Quite trevorable.

Speaker 97 (03:44:36):
This is quite intolerable, I must feel Yes, doctor James,
what can I say?

Speaker 2 (03:44:46):
I have no idea?

Speaker 5 (03:44:47):
What excuse me?

Speaker 28 (03:44:48):
Please, professor?

Speaker 58 (03:44:50):
Professor, it is nearly midnight. I am in the president
of going to bed. You have wrecked what should have.

Speaker 98 (03:44:57):
Been an event of some importance in the presence of
one hundred student, some several of our more distinguished dogs.
You came here, sir, of my personal invitation. If I
called your extra or don'ty behavior.

Speaker 99 (03:45:07):
To scut your very must have my coat, I beg
your you would have this. I want this my coat,
my papers, found my notebooks I collected to a personal
belonging from the lector. It seemed the only rational thing
to do. Tightly witom there is also you had better
come in.

Speaker 37 (03:45:31):
Oh you're silking wet.

Speaker 1 (03:45:34):
Did you not take a cab or it does not matter?

Speaker 58 (03:45:36):
God, look, please sit down.

Speaker 37 (03:45:38):
You will appear to be ill.

Speaker 36 (03:45:39):
I really think i'd better offer you a bed for
the night. I don't know whos to sleep trouble, I
assure you. My housekeeper is still about. I shall ask
her to prepare the wrong.

Speaker 37 (03:45:47):
No, no, no, I must go from here to answer.

Speaker 36 (03:45:52):
If you insist your whiskey, sir, Oh, would the gentleman like?

Speaker 58 (03:46:00):
No, Missus Creduck.

Speaker 36 (03:46:01):
You will find a pile of things on the chair
in my study, a hat coat, if you could bring them.

Speaker 93 (03:46:06):
Yes, you must forgive me, my dear fellow, what on
earth happened? It is not possible for an inanimate object
to move. You have said this, Yes, it is not possible.

Speaker 36 (03:46:22):
Excuse me, I fail to understand. Oh, missus Credick, thank you.
Your coat hat is a briefcase.

Speaker 57 (03:46:29):
And there was this to serve the little boat.

Speaker 37 (03:46:35):
It's yours. It came by post addressed to you. No, no, no,
my coat please.

Speaker 36 (03:46:42):
That is a present.

Speaker 93 (03:46:44):
Yes, a little gift for yourself, Doctor James. I thank you,
President eh oh, you must have that. You must you
must keep that my briefcase.

Speaker 37 (03:46:52):
Professor and no, no, not at all. You're most welcome.

Speaker 36 (03:46:56):
I was to repay your kindness, so go so kind.

Speaker 58 (03:47:02):
It's still raining. Let me call your cat goodbye like you, sir.

Speaker 96 (03:47:06):
It's such a pleasure. Don't meet with you goodbye?

Speaker 58 (03:47:09):
Wait at least take my hand, red.

Speaker 56 (03:47:13):
Good gracious?

Speaker 28 (03:47:15):
Do you know how begin about it is?

Speaker 14 (03:47:17):
The bad?

Speaker 32 (03:47:17):
Is it?

Speaker 66 (03:47:17):
Say?

Speaker 58 (03:47:18):
Doctor Jesus?

Speaker 70 (03:47:19):
Guys come back.

Speaker 96 (03:47:20):
For God's sake?

Speaker 15 (03:47:21):
He Hi?

Speaker 38 (03:47:25):
What what did you say?

Speaker 57 (03:47:28):
He's gone, sir.

Speaker 100 (03:47:33):
Gone, And I can only suggest you lock up, missus craddick,
Doctor J.

Speaker 3 (03:47:51):
Dtr J.

Speaker 58 (03:47:54):
I don't want breakfast just yet, missus Credick.

Speaker 18 (03:47:56):
It's not reckfast, sir.

Speaker 2 (03:47:57):
You've got a visitor.

Speaker 58 (03:47:58):
What time is it?

Speaker 5 (03:48:00):
Late?

Speaker 57 (03:48:01):
It's a young lady, sir, and she says it's urgent nonsense.

Speaker 5 (03:48:03):
What her name?

Speaker 36 (03:48:04):
Honders?

Speaker 57 (03:48:05):
I think she might be some relation of that foreign
gentleman who girl last night.

Speaker 58 (03:48:11):
But you're in the drawing room and tell her to wait.

Speaker 5 (03:48:13):
She won't like that, sir.

Speaker 36 (03:48:14):
She can scarcely exfect me to come downstairs in my
doesn't gown?

Speaker 57 (03:48:21):
Are you doctor James?

Speaker 46 (03:48:23):
Good morning?

Speaker 9 (03:48:23):
Madam?

Speaker 5 (03:48:25):
What can I do?

Speaker 57 (03:48:26):
My name is Caroline Anders?

Speaker 36 (03:48:27):
Yes, a RELATIONI ticket? And you speak English.

Speaker 15 (03:48:30):
Good?

Speaker 36 (03:48:31):
What is the precise connection between you and Professor Anders?

Speaker 57 (03:48:35):
I'm his wife?

Speaker 56 (03:48:36):
His wife?

Speaker 57 (03:48:39):
I am his wife, Doctor James, and I speak English
because I am English.

Speaker 36 (03:48:45):
Very stupid of me, but I had no idea the
professor was married.

Speaker 57 (03:48:49):
Jorgan has been married twice. I'm his second wife.

Speaker 37 (03:48:54):
May I off you some coffee?

Speaker 57 (03:48:55):
This is not a social called, doctor James, and I
object to wasting time?

Speaker 3 (03:48:59):
Where is he?

Speaker 37 (03:48:59):
Forget?

Speaker 57 (03:49:00):
Where is my husband?

Speaker 37 (03:49:01):
Am I likely to know?

Speaker 57 (03:49:02):
Yorgan gave a lecture at your college last night?

Speaker 32 (03:49:04):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:49:05):
He didn't.

Speaker 36 (03:49:05):
I regret to tell you that his talk was canceled
for reasons which I prefer not to go into. I
formed the impression he was unwell.

Speaker 57 (03:49:12):
My husband has excellent health.

Speaker 36 (03:49:13):
If you say so, it is a thousand pities. You
were not at the lecture on missus Anders.

Speaker 57 (03:49:19):
I had to visit my parents in Cambridge. I can't
watch Yorgan all the time.

Speaker 36 (03:49:22):
With't you respect, Madam?

Speaker 37 (03:49:24):
Neither can I?

Speaker 36 (03:49:25):
Are you sure he doesn't suffer from some nervous complaints?

Speaker 57 (03:49:28):
Certainly not. Why what has he said to you?

Speaker 8 (03:49:33):
Very little?

Speaker 57 (03:49:34):
We have a very important lecture tour. We have to
be in London by the tenth Where did he spend
the night.

Speaker 36 (03:49:40):
At some hotel I imagine.

Speaker 57 (03:49:41):
No, I've been to the Royal Imperial. He checked him
but never came back. He told the desk clock he
had an appointment with you at half past six.

Speaker 50 (03:49:48):
That is correct.

Speaker 36 (03:49:49):
I saw him then and again rather about midnight. Missus Anders,
you are naturally very concerned about this. I suggest we
telephone the police.

Speaker 11 (03:49:57):
No, if he has.

Speaker 57 (03:49:58):
Disappeared, don't be absurd.

Speaker 28 (03:49:59):
There is no need, no no, I.

Speaker 36 (03:50:02):
Really think the police ought to be notified in case
some accident.

Speaker 57 (03:50:05):
But it's your fault. You organize the whole event. You
were responsible when you saw Organ was ill. Why didn't
you send for me?

Speaker 36 (03:50:12):
Because I failed to realize anything was wrong until halfway
through the proceedings. And as for calling you, quite frankly,
I had no idea you existed.

Speaker 57 (03:50:23):
I am staying at the Royal Imperial.

Speaker 36 (03:50:25):
I shall make a note of the address.

Speaker 57 (03:50:27):
Thank you, and call me the moment you have any news,
of course, the.

Speaker 37 (03:50:30):
Why you assume it?

Speaker 9 (03:50:32):
Missus and.

Speaker 37 (03:50:35):
Missus Anders?

Speaker 28 (03:50:36):
What is it?

Speaker 57 (03:50:38):
Where did you get it? What that object?

Speaker 37 (03:50:42):
I beg of pundon?

Speaker 36 (03:50:44):
Oh that small boat? It was a present from your husband.
I don't believe you if you wish me to return
it to No, why.

Speaker 57 (03:50:53):
Should we care about a toy boat? You keep it,
keep it safe, it's nothing to do with us.

Speaker 36 (03:51:07):
And then she departed in a world of fore and indignation. Strange,
you know she came here as well to your office.
Oh yes, in as you so happily describe it, a
whirl of fur and indignation. She seemed to think that I,
or the college authorities or the publishing firm of Masterman
and Son had kidnapped.

Speaker 37 (03:51:22):
Her husband at.

Speaker 36 (03:51:25):
Where the devil is the man gone? I can't imagine
what did you make of her?

Speaker 30 (03:51:31):
She's very pretty and astonishing me young may married to
December and interfeel.

Speaker 36 (03:51:35):
Ladies handsome enough. But I found a lacking in Grayson there,
I said, with a disposition of solid Grecha forgives me.

Speaker 58 (03:51:44):
I really don't see what we can do.

Speaker 37 (03:51:45):
Well, my dear fellow, we can't do anything short of
going to the police, and she won't hear of that.

Speaker 36 (03:51:50):
Why, by the way, we had a very pleasant notice
in the Norwegian press. Would you care to see it?

Speaker 37 (03:51:55):
But yes, thank you, yes, my secretary has the fire.
Did you yell that?

Speaker 28 (03:52:02):
What someone coughing?

Speaker 37 (03:52:04):
In the other office. Missus Lindsey must have shown up
a visitor, Miss Lindsey, busy nobody in the room. That's odd,
miss miss Lindsey.

Speaker 36 (03:52:18):
It doesn't matter, I assure you.

Speaker 37 (03:52:20):
But I definitely had a kind of dry cough.

Speaker 28 (03:52:23):
Oh well, let me find this file for it.

Speaker 36 (03:52:30):
Masterman, bless my soul, I must readily ask you to
explain how in the name of funder did that thing
get here?

Speaker 32 (03:52:35):
What?

Speaker 36 (03:52:37):
There is a model boat on the desk, I asked,
Miss Lindsay. Masterman, I left that boat in my house
less than two hours ago. I can only assume it's
Caroline and has.

Speaker 37 (03:52:46):
Brought it to you.

Speaker 36 (03:52:47):
She must have done confound a woman.

Speaker 37 (03:52:50):
I said you might have it.

Speaker 36 (03:52:51):
I offered to give it back, but to return to
my home, and deliberately steams James.

Speaker 30 (03:52:56):
Missus Anders had nothing in her hand. And and I
have never seen that boat before. I hope that you have,
of course the electure hall earlier. You're studying earlier earlier. Well,
I'm sorry, I'm afraid my memory.

Speaker 36 (03:53:10):
Was hanging in a cathedral at Trondheim. Surely not examine
the carving the shape of the prow and a name
carved on the side. I haven't gotten my closset with me.
Be so good as to read the name.

Speaker 3 (03:53:24):
I have.

Speaker 36 (03:53:25):
It's the most horrid premonition.

Speaker 37 (03:53:29):
It must be a copy a souvenir. It's come from
some gift shop for the visitors me. I do so
hope you are right.

Speaker 36 (03:53:37):
Damn well, put your finger on it. A kind of
electric tinkling, but would does not conduct electricity.

Speaker 9 (03:53:47):
That's it.

Speaker 37 (03:53:49):
The whole frame is shivering vibration.

Speaker 36 (03:53:52):
Perhaps by all means let us call it vibration. Let
me understand you that this boat.

Speaker 37 (03:53:57):
Was in your house least two hours ago.

Speaker 36 (03:54:00):
I gave it to my housekeeper, who very sensibly desired
to wash it on account of the dust.

Speaker 37 (03:54:06):
It feels dry enough now and the shuddering stopped.

Speaker 36 (03:54:10):
Dear God, can such things be? Can't you ask your
secretary to bring me string, the scissors, and quite a
lot of brown people.

Speaker 37 (03:54:19):
Certainly, as soon as she returns that the why I
fear we.

Speaker 36 (03:54:23):
Are in deep waters and meddling with a matter which
could be extremely grave, dangerous. I shall return the boat
to missus Anders immediately at the Royal Imperial Hotel.

Speaker 37 (03:54:46):
Dear, oh dear, this is quite appalling.

Speaker 92 (03:54:49):
We shall be soaked.

Speaker 37 (03:54:50):
We must have walked cutter.

Speaker 36 (03:54:52):
Turn up your coat color, allow me thank you. Oh
there's a cab crab bub well, well, what an extraordinary
piece of which you both have caught A very nastic code, James,
as it is, my socks are the psyched, my jams.

Speaker 37 (03:55:13):
What have you done with the pussel? I had it,
I had it under my arm.

Speaker 36 (03:55:21):
Ear, you put it down when we took shelter from
the ring. You've left it in the doorway. Oh no,
not to it all, kebby, kebby, stupid. Please turn around
and right back right you are, sir, where down the
place where you picked us up?

Speaker 30 (03:55:37):
As long as I remember where that was going loading
It was the doorway of a draperies to an extra
tailor's snuff and tobacco shop.

Speaker 36 (03:55:45):
You want to go, hurry, man, hurry, it's not far.

Speaker 37 (03:55:49):
I must find it.

Speaker 30 (03:55:54):
Oh dear, dear, it didn't long all right, James, it
isn't there?

Speaker 36 (03:56:00):
Good Lord, are you certain? I mean that's the same
doory and possiist. I put the packet up against the
glass window.

Speaker 37 (03:56:06):
The thing has gone.

Speaker 30 (03:56:08):
Oh come, come, comecious much too strong a word, no doubt.
Some passive eyes picked it up.

Speaker 37 (03:56:12):
That is just possible.

Speaker 36 (03:56:13):
I suppose, my dear fellow, it hasn't walked away by itself.

Speaker 37 (03:56:17):
So back to my office.

Speaker 58 (03:56:19):
Yes, where to sir?

Speaker 36 (03:56:20):
They're royal and Pierre have tal at once.

Speaker 1 (03:56:22):
I really want to go there.

Speaker 58 (03:56:23):
That's time, if you please as.

Speaker 37 (03:56:24):
Fast as possible as James.

Speaker 36 (03:56:26):
There's no point why bother you have a certain dreadful
an ease until we find Professor anders With what I
suspect is wrong. If what I feel that is entirely mistake,
then there is no point in.

Speaker 37 (03:56:38):
The journey at all. Thank God?

Speaker 5 (03:56:42):
What water? He said?

Speaker 56 (03:56:44):
It must be kept away from water.

Speaker 37 (03:56:48):
I think you must be catching a feverish cold.

Speaker 36 (03:57:00):
That way, I think, yes, yes, two and two two
one three.

Speaker 37 (03:57:07):
Two one four.

Speaker 36 (03:57:10):
Pray God this is a delusion. I have the most
appalling fear. We must find Professor Anderson. Good morning to you,
bless my soul, but it is quite extraordinary.

Speaker 1 (03:57:28):
You wanted to see my wife? Please, gentlemen, step inside?

Speaker 15 (03:57:32):
Are you well?

Speaker 66 (03:57:33):
Yes?

Speaker 28 (03:57:34):
We've been wondering where.

Speaker 9 (03:57:35):
He was her?

Speaker 15 (03:57:36):
Please?

Speaker 1 (03:57:36):
Why should I be?

Speaker 93 (03:57:37):
I'm staying at this excellent hotel.

Speaker 15 (03:57:39):
There's a problem.

Speaker 37 (03:57:42):
Wife is looking for you.

Speaker 93 (03:57:43):
Oh no, not possible.

Speaker 37 (03:57:45):
Some misunderstanding.

Speaker 93 (03:57:46):
I think Caroline is here with me at the Imperial,
and you're together.

Speaker 37 (03:57:49):
May I ask since one perhaps two?

Speaker 36 (03:57:53):
Well, we've obviously made a mistakes.

Speaker 21 (03:57:56):
Excuse me.

Speaker 93 (03:57:57):
Someone is coughing, idotating. Yes, the person in the next
room has a cold.

Speaker 36 (03:58:02):
Professor Anders, I have no wish to intrude on you
or the lady, but certain curious events make it necessary.
Can either of you explain?

Speaker 24 (03:58:12):
Please?

Speaker 37 (03:58:13):
We wait for Caroline.

Speaker 93 (03:58:14):
That will be better at the moment she's taking her bath,
and you would never drink.

Speaker 37 (03:58:19):
I'm afraid we're inconveniencing you.

Speaker 36 (03:58:21):
This is evidently the wrong time, James, James.

Speaker 37 (03:58:25):
We must call back after lunch, not at all.

Speaker 93 (03:58:27):
You must eat with us. I'm sure Caroline would wish
me to invite you.

Speaker 36 (03:58:31):
Oh, dear God, Caroline, what in Heaven's name.

Speaker 1 (03:58:34):
Caroline, Caroline?

Speaker 9 (03:58:36):
What he did?

Speaker 56 (03:58:39):
It's locked?

Speaker 97 (03:58:41):
You must open the door. Why don't you help me?
Showed it at the top hand. It's all right, missus Hunters.
Your husband is coming. Please calm yourself.

Speaker 15 (03:59:04):
Oh no, oh dear God, what.

Speaker 56 (03:59:07):
Did you say?

Speaker 58 (03:59:08):
I can't see anything. The steam lift her out of
the water quickly.

Speaker 36 (03:59:12):
Must get somebody for pity's sake, Hold ahead, very very please.

Speaker 28 (03:59:23):
No, she's fainted, just fainted.

Speaker 24 (03:59:26):
She's just fainted.

Speaker 36 (03:59:29):
She had not just fainted. Caroline Anders was dead. Particles
of talcum dust drifted across the mirror, and in the reflection.
For one fleeting second, I thought I saw a boat
rocking on top of the bath SUTs. But then suddenly

(03:59:51):
Professor Anders gave a heartrending cry and crashed to the floor,
after which we're all too concerned to check the matter. Then,
of course, that was the question of Caroline Ander's funeral.

Speaker 30 (04:00:09):
Morning, James, sir, have you've seen today's paper? Missus Anders
is to be buried on Tuesday. Gastly tragedy, heart vidure.
I imagine, don't you?

Speaker 36 (04:00:20):
I imagine what I imagine? No, this pointless speculation. And besides,
I could be wrong.

Speaker 30 (04:00:27):
And I suppose, as a matter of courtesy, which will
have to go? You think it necessary for both. I
think it's vital that I should go.

Speaker 101 (04:00:37):
He asked if I believed in it. I beg pardon,
supernatural movement of object, and you said no, rather wittily.
I remember something to do with emotion and throwing things
at your enemy's head.

Speaker 37 (04:00:51):
Why didn't listen to you did.

Speaker 36 (04:00:55):
Why should Professor Ans be so frightened of a model boat?

Speaker 37 (04:00:58):
Well, I presume it means something to him.

Speaker 36 (04:01:00):
Oh yes, oh dear me, yes, master man, it means something.

Speaker 30 (04:01:05):
The parents have a house by the river. I checked
the address. The ceremony is at two thirty. Shall I
call for you at two We can share a cab.

Speaker 37 (04:01:18):
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Listen,
sh someone is coffee. It's cold out here in the churchyard.
Can you see can you see him?

Speaker 15 (04:01:32):
And he's over there?

Speaker 3 (04:01:34):
Not?

Speaker 9 (04:01:34):
And that other what?

Speaker 37 (04:01:37):
I can't see anyone I know, Oh, dear me, and
I so much hope you could.

Speaker 56 (04:01:43):
Why it doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (04:01:45):
And the blessing of God remain with you always?

Speaker 37 (04:01:48):
Amen?

Speaker 15 (04:01:49):
Amen?

Speaker 37 (04:01:51):
Oh they're moving off.

Speaker 30 (04:01:52):
I shall Shall we join the party going to the
house or would you rather look at the floral tributes?
Quite a number of people have sent read James, James,
what is it? Dear God?

Speaker 37 (04:02:04):
I am not hallucinating.

Speaker 56 (04:02:07):
No, either is a trick of the light.

Speaker 73 (04:02:12):
It is there, isn't it?

Speaker 36 (04:02:13):
Well against the wall, between the crosses of lilies and
the brick.

Speaker 56 (04:02:17):
I don't know what you mean.

Speaker 36 (04:02:21):
Oh yes, you can see it too.

Speaker 37 (04:02:24):
The boat that's impossible.

Speaker 36 (04:02:28):
Time to get hold of it. For pity's sake, we
cannot let down the sketch sight of these The people
are watching us, James, don't stand in front of it.

Speaker 37 (04:02:38):
It can't be the same one. No, then we have
two boats called an he tried. Let us be rational.

Speaker 36 (04:02:45):
I left that object in a doorway. It is possible, possible,
mine not probable that some person discovered the think and
carried it.

Speaker 37 (04:02:52):
Yes, of course, of course it is. Why not a
logical theater.

Speaker 36 (04:02:57):
Dear dear passer by happened to no Professor Rounders and
chanced to hear of the funeral, and being no doubt
a fellow Norwegian of benevolent intent, Come, come, come. It
is not even half way reasonable, do you your common
self with the only other explanation?

Speaker 37 (04:03:15):
That's not bear thinking about it?

Speaker 15 (04:03:18):
Quite?

Speaker 37 (04:03:21):
Dear Heaven, he's.

Speaker 93 (04:03:23):
Coming this way, doctor James, you for your god.

Speaker 36 (04:03:27):
Professor Rounders, you have all her sympathy in your great loss.

Speaker 37 (04:03:33):
You need not trouble to hide it from merself. I
beg your pardon. I have already seen it. The flowers.

Speaker 36 (04:03:41):
Yes, yes, it's so many and so beautiful.

Speaker 37 (04:03:44):
Please stand aside. I know the boat is.

Speaker 15 (04:03:47):
There forgive me?

Speaker 37 (04:03:52):
Is there a special meaning?

Speaker 32 (04:03:54):
No?

Speaker 36 (04:03:54):
You can be frank with me to come, Professor Rounders.
I once told you I have an open mind if
we are face to face with some kind of mystery.

Speaker 37 (04:04:03):
No means no, no. I give you my word as
you wish.

Speaker 15 (04:04:07):
I should have.

Speaker 93 (04:04:07):
Preferred a few honest excuse me, you will excuse my english.

Speaker 1 (04:04:10):
I do not always understand you.

Speaker 37 (04:04:12):
I'm not ungrateful for your kind, but.

Speaker 58 (04:04:14):
I'm willing to trust one.

Speaker 37 (04:04:15):
Can I say the boat a private joke? A piece
of childish malice. Caroline would have known what to do.

Speaker 93 (04:04:26):
You are such a strong person, Caroline. Caroline has always
managed my life. You see, Caroline would have told me how.

Speaker 56 (04:04:34):
To But now I understand.

Speaker 37 (04:04:41):
Yes, I have been a foolish, so weak, so stupid.

Speaker 102 (04:04:47):
You know.

Speaker 36 (04:04:47):
It is almost as if Caroline herself was speaking to me. Yes, yes,
at last I realized what it is I have to do.

Speaker 93 (04:04:57):
Please do join the rest of the company. There's a
meal waiting at the house.

Speaker 37 (04:05:09):
Don't you think we should go now? James?

Speaker 36 (04:05:11):
Hey, excuse me?

Speaker 103 (04:05:12):
Are you doctor James?

Speaker 8 (04:05:13):
Yes?

Speaker 103 (04:05:13):
Indeed, I hope you've got a drink. I'm Caroline's mother,
Missus Vickers.

Speaker 37 (04:05:17):
How do you do my friend, George master Madam, I'm
so sorry.

Speaker 103 (04:05:21):
Yes, yes, yes, she's gone, my lovely girl.

Speaker 37 (04:05:23):
I can't cry anymore.

Speaker 103 (04:05:24):
That part of it is finished.

Speaker 36 (04:05:25):
Could I have a word with you in private? By
all means, please follow me.

Speaker 57 (04:05:29):
There's nobody in my husband's study.

Speaker 36 (04:05:35):
I only met your daughter once, missus, because she struck
me as the most beautiful creature. How did you do
it a bigger one and has killed her?

Speaker 5 (04:05:43):
Didn't he?

Speaker 56 (04:05:43):
Bless my soul?

Speaker 36 (04:05:45):
You are and a understanding misconception. Dear, of course, I
quite understand in your present state of grief and shock.

Speaker 103 (04:05:53):
You were there at the time he murdered my darling child.

Speaker 56 (04:05:55):
She's thick.

Speaker 18 (04:05:56):
Just tell me how it was done.

Speaker 56 (04:05:58):
Haven't you must rid yourself?

Speaker 36 (04:05:59):
Immediate this extraordinary delusion. I assure you there is absolutely
no reason to.

Speaker 57 (04:06:05):
Suspect his first wife died, so.

Speaker 36 (04:06:08):
I believe a tragic coincidence.

Speaker 103 (04:06:09):
They said it was a boating accident. She was supposed
to have drowned in a boating accident. I never wanted
Caroline to marry the man. That's because he was rich
and famous. My Caroline could have had her pick. She
was wasted on that dip realize Yorgan Anders was old
enough to be her father. I told her to forget

(04:06:32):
the money all those vulgar Josi kept.

Speaker 37 (04:06:33):
Buying for her.

Speaker 56 (04:06:34):
She was a foreigner.

Speaker 57 (04:06:36):
Why did she ever go to Norway? She had a good.

Speaker 104 (04:06:38):
Homes Because I do sympathize it must be hard to
come to time give her everything. She was my little girl.
Now she was dead, murders.

Speaker 36 (04:06:51):
What I have seen, what you have just told me
confirms my impression. The Professor Hand has adored his wife more.
I am convinced he was totally dependent on her, and
he's devastated by her loss.

Speaker 103 (04:07:03):
He talked to you, I suppose, smooth, cunning lies James,
the old evil hypocrite.

Speaker 37 (04:07:10):
If you insist.

Speaker 36 (04:07:11):
But as for killing his wife, I really must protest.
By the time she died, Professor Unders was in the
room with me and George Masterman here.

Speaker 37 (04:07:19):
Who will confirm the fact?

Speaker 36 (04:07:20):
Isn't that so what when the accident happened, we were
all together.

Speaker 37 (04:07:24):
That's true, Missus, because he never left us even for
a moment. Besides, the bathroom door was locked.

Speaker 58 (04:07:32):
You won't help me, madam.

Speaker 36 (04:07:34):
There is no way in which good Where's that smoke
coming from?

Speaker 5 (04:07:39):
It.

Speaker 37 (04:07:39):
I can smell Burnie, it's something on fire. The gardens
full of smoke. Good Lord, it's getting into the house.

Speaker 58 (04:07:46):
The wind must be in our direction.

Speaker 37 (04:07:48):
I can see flame.

Speaker 36 (04:07:49):
Somebody out there, God, and it must be man.

Speaker 57 (04:07:53):
He's trying to burn down my house.

Speaker 58 (04:07:55):
Stop that stop the most name.

Speaker 37 (04:07:59):
He's trying to burn the boat.

Speaker 36 (04:08:00):
That's euretic.

Speaker 37 (04:08:02):
There'll be an accident if a spark lands on the
wooden fence or near that rubbish.

Speaker 58 (04:08:06):
A stop to this, you'll think.

Speaker 36 (04:08:13):
You, dear God, what is that woman doing now getting
the boat away from unders? She's pulled it out of
the fire.

Speaker 37 (04:08:22):
I chose him. What have come of sense? Is give
you any credit that short of stop the fire?

Speaker 15 (04:08:27):
Not in the water.

Speaker 5 (04:08:28):
Not in the water.

Speaker 58 (04:08:29):
It must not go in the water.

Speaker 36 (04:08:32):
As we've watched, Missus Vickers ran down the garden, cross
the grass and hurled the blazing boat into the river.
There was an acrid smell, and smoke rose hissing from
the surface. Dark oily bubbles drifted downstream, catching and blackening
the weed. With the main source of heat gone, the
bonfire began to subside in collapsing ash and billowing smoke

(04:08:53):
gusting across the lawn in a pulsating cloud. The air
became full of tiny specks, like swarm of malevolent flies.
In the meantime, Handers had gone to the riverbank and
was trying to fish the boat out of the water.
Suddenly he slipped and fell in.

Speaker 37 (04:09:13):
Let me help you get a pole, my rope. Hurry
the current sweeping him away. He's going to try. Well,
here's a rope and they're launching a dinge.

Speaker 36 (04:09:20):
I'm happy able to reach him from here, if you
will hang on to my waistle to prevent.

Speaker 37 (04:09:24):
Me from falling into the water.

Speaker 28 (04:09:25):
Might sound it?

Speaker 37 (04:09:26):
Can you manage?

Speaker 1 (04:09:27):
Not take the rope and.

Speaker 58 (04:09:27):
Professor Anders hold on to this.

Speaker 92 (04:09:32):
He's mystery.

Speaker 97 (04:09:33):
Dear goddle unders, don't struggle, just the airfloat.

Speaker 92 (04:09:37):
They've got the.

Speaker 56 (04:09:37):
Dingy hard home.

Speaker 58 (04:09:42):
I haven's sake. Don't panic, man, there's no danger. You're
going to be all right.

Speaker 37 (04:09:47):
The boat is coming.

Speaker 36 (04:09:48):
Yes, yes, they'll have you waded in a moment. Please
keep The.

Speaker 56 (04:09:52):
Boat is coming for me and.

Speaker 5 (04:09:58):
Alitra.

Speaker 36 (04:10:00):
As I watched, he flung up his arms and disappeared
beneath the water. I cannot to this day understand it,
for of course the ding he was coming for him
it was a bare ten yards away, unless in his
distress Professor Anderes imagined some quite other an alien vessel,

(04:10:23):
but I prefer not to dwell on the notion. A
year later, at George Masterman's insistence, I found myself in
Trondheim again.

Speaker 30 (04:10:35):
Your book has been a great success here, and there's
even some idea of bringing out a second collection using
the rest of your stories.

Speaker 36 (04:10:40):
And another translator.

Speaker 37 (04:10:41):
Well, of course, that's why we have agreed to meet
mister Nielson for organ unders.

Speaker 30 (04:10:46):
Oh, he was very unpopular. I gather the yacht accident
was distinctly suspect. Several people thought Professor Anders had murdered
his first wife in order.

Speaker 37 (04:10:55):
To marry the beautiful English visitor.

Speaker 56 (04:10:57):
Ah, there's Nielssen.

Speaker 37 (04:10:58):
Good morning, gentlemen, Good morning. May I introduce doctor James.

Speaker 92 (04:11:03):
A pleasure, My dear sir, I understand we may work together.

Speaker 36 (04:11:07):
Perhaps you have read the honest translation.

Speaker 92 (04:11:09):
I have a great scholars such a pity he's dead.

Speaker 36 (04:11:13):
And tell me, mister Nielsen, do you think Professor Anders
murdered his first wife?

Speaker 15 (04:11:18):
Yes?

Speaker 36 (04:11:19):
Good gracious, bless myself.

Speaker 92 (04:11:22):
You knew the lady Anitra Anders Little.

Speaker 1 (04:11:25):
She was very timid.

Speaker 92 (04:11:26):
She did not like to see when he insisted she
sailed with him. Missus Saunders hung a small boat in
the cathedral as the fisherman do, praying the good Saints
to protect her.

Speaker 37 (04:11:35):
Hope, it seems to have been misplaced.

Speaker 92 (04:11:37):
I did not know her very well.

Speaker 37 (04:11:38):
I knew her father much better. Lash sirensen large.

Speaker 92 (04:11:42):
Lush upon my word, we met him once so well,
for what it is worth, Sir and s and always
believed his daughter had been murdered.

Speaker 37 (04:11:49):
Now that's very interesting. Did you hear that, James.

Speaker 30 (04:11:53):
Perhaps mister Sanson took the model boat and pursued Andrews.

Speaker 37 (04:11:56):
To England, or impossibly he really hated the man. And
see what you suggest is quite impossible.

Speaker 92 (04:12:01):
Why because Lars Sirenson died in Trondheim Cathedral over.

Speaker 5 (04:12:05):
A year ago.

Speaker 37 (04:12:08):
On what date, mister Neilson, Oh, I am forgetting. Does
it matter?

Speaker 105 (04:12:14):
Probably not, but I have a horrid presentment, all right,
not her father, but imagine some other member of the family,
bent on revenge, carrying the boat to England.

Speaker 37 (04:12:25):
No, you can't be.

Speaker 92 (04:12:26):
Set, I assure you I can, mister Marthaman. The little
boat is hanging in Trondheim Cathedral at this moment. Do
you wish to see it?

Speaker 37 (04:12:35):
If you would be so good, please follow me, but
be careful crossing the road.

Speaker 36 (04:12:42):
He led us through that magnificent building, and there it was,
swinging slightly in the draft, creaking a little, a model
of the boat. Anitra this time, said goodness, I had
not forgotten my classes. We studied a thing in silence.

(04:13:05):
Then we thanked mister Nielsen and left. It would have
been pointless to trouble that good man any further. But
what alarms me? A source of a certain deep unease?
Unders had asked me, would it not be possible to
move an object by paranormal means? I had rejected the

(04:13:27):
idea so emphatically.

Speaker 15 (04:13:28):
But now.

Speaker 36 (04:13:31):
You see there are scorch marks along the side of
that little boat in Trondheim Cathedral, and part of the
howl has been burnt. Upon my word, you could swear
some one had tried to set fire to it.

Speaker 89 (04:13:50):
A Michael Williams played m R. James and Brett Usher
Masterman in the Boat Hook by Sheila Hodgson Sorenson, Peter Tutenham,
Missus Craddock, Joanna Wake, Professor Anders, David King, Caroline Anders,

(04:14:15):
Cyril Jenkins, Nielsen and chairman Eric Allen, students Neil Roberts
and David Lerner. The director was Martin Jenkins.

Speaker 31 (04:14:37):
The tours with a flash on my left shoulder. There
was nothing between him and me now except the tree.
They stood there waiting, with two more shots left in
the gun. I caught the glint of the gun barrel
the moon like then the granddaddy of all firetrackers blew
up in my face.

Speaker 106 (04:15:05):
No Adventures of Michael Shane Private Detective? Is your director,
Bill Rutstone? Why do you listen to Michael Shane, that reckless,
redheaded irishman back at his old haunts and New Orleans?

Speaker 62 (04:15:15):
Another transcribed episode. We call it the Hate that Kill.

Speaker 31 (04:15:32):
Seventy five, eighty five, eighty six, eighty seven, three dollars
and eighty seven cents.

Speaker 21 (04:15:39):
Michael, you old capitalist?

Speaker 28 (04:15:40):
How do you do it? Shane? What's the same.

Speaker 24 (04:15:43):
You've got to listen to me.

Speaker 15 (04:15:44):
You've got to help me.

Speaker 31 (04:15:45):
I do oh Samdison, Hey you look better in the
newspaper pictures. I thought I made it clear that I
wasn't interested in you, Okay, so on.

Speaker 35 (04:15:51):
The telephone you wouldn'tlet me tell you what I want.
I've got plenty of money.

Speaker 21 (04:15:54):
I'm not interested in your money either.

Speaker 107 (04:15:56):
Right on that door, it says Michael Shane, private detective,
doesn't it?

Speaker 8 (04:16:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 31 (04:16:00):
Yeah, it cost me two bits of letter too. You
said something about somebody wanting to kill you?

Speaker 13 (04:16:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (04:16:05):
Why don't you take it trouble to the police. I can't.

Speaker 35 (04:16:07):
I don't have anything to tell him.

Speaker 43 (04:16:09):
Do you think I'm a crank?

Speaker 9 (04:16:10):
Don't you?

Speaker 21 (04:16:10):
Oh? I think you're very charming. It's the sense is,
just keep your voice down.

Speaker 107 (04:16:14):
I know, I know a weak, dissipated body and a
mind that's crazy half the time. But if you live
one day, just one day in the atmosphere, I too, you'd.

Speaker 15 (04:16:22):
Be shaking just like me.

Speaker 28 (04:16:23):
I tell you, I tell you, death is in the air.

Speaker 21 (04:16:26):
Yeah yeah, sure, what's the matter that's scare you?

Speaker 107 (04:16:29):
I suppose you like divorce cases, alimony, spying on women.

Speaker 35 (04:16:33):
I'll bet you like spying on women.

Speaker 21 (04:16:35):
That's enough.

Speaker 35 (04:16:35):
Bus a bye, wait a minute, I tell you I'm gonna.

Speaker 21 (04:16:39):
Die, not in my office. I'm busy.

Speaker 15 (04:16:41):
Beat it.

Speaker 25 (04:16:42):
You don't.

Speaker 4 (04:16:42):
You don't believe me?

Speaker 35 (04:16:43):
Look, look, just tell me. One's the hair. One thing?

Speaker 107 (04:16:47):
Why did the insurance company refuse to sell me any
life insurance from.

Speaker 21 (04:16:50):
Where I sit. You look like a mighty bad risk.

Speaker 15 (04:16:52):
No, no, I've had an examination for my personal position.

Speaker 35 (04:16:55):
There's nothing wrong with me.

Speaker 21 (04:16:56):
That is a matter of opinion.

Speaker 35 (04:16:58):
They wouldn't tell me the real reason.

Speaker 21 (04:17:00):
That was just an out, all right, So what.

Speaker 15 (04:17:02):
Just find out that's all.

Speaker 35 (04:17:03):
Just find out why they refused me.

Speaker 21 (04:17:06):
It'll cost you twenty ath day and expenses.

Speaker 35 (04:17:08):
Here's my address you you'll find three houses on the estate.
Mine's on the on the right of the big house.

Speaker 31 (04:17:14):
I know all about you Sanderson and your famous father.
He died the other day, did nigga?

Speaker 15 (04:17:19):
Yes, yes, he's dead. And he wasn't my father.

Speaker 21 (04:17:23):
He was my stepfather.

Speaker 107 (04:17:25):
That's why I use the name of Mark Sanderson. But
his corruption lives on like something rotten inside you. Let
you can't it out, like something in your blood, in
your heart, and you can't.

Speaker 15 (04:17:36):
Tear it out.

Speaker 21 (04:17:37):
It's cute. You got to send it to music. You
always just generate.

Speaker 15 (04:17:40):
Why shouldn't I be jittery?

Speaker 28 (04:17:43):
You have some water?

Speaker 15 (04:17:44):
Water?

Speaker 21 (04:17:45):
You mean you drink water.

Speaker 35 (04:17:46):
It's my medicine, my capsules, you know my nerves.

Speaker 21 (04:17:49):
You'll find some water down the hall.

Speaker 35 (04:17:51):
He'll he'll let me know tonight.

Speaker 15 (04:17:53):
You'll find out.

Speaker 31 (04:17:54):
Yeah, yeah, I got a pretty good hunch why they
refuse your apology? You do?

Speaker 28 (04:17:59):
Why?

Speaker 5 (04:18:00):
Why?

Speaker 31 (04:18:01):
Because they probably don't expect you to live very long,
mister Sanderson.

Speaker 62 (04:18:14):
We'll return in the moment to the new adventures of
Michael Shane.

Speaker 15 (04:18:17):
And the Hate That Kill.

Speaker 31 (04:18:20):
A He was a fancied client, all right, Mark Sanderson,
stepson of the late Gregory Lawson. He was still young,

(04:18:40):
maybe thirty, but all his stepfather's filthy millions could never
make a man out of him or give him anything
decent out of life. He sat in my office, slobbering
with fear, his eyes dull and empty. I don't need
clients like that. But the insurance company angle intrigue me.
Why have they refused Mark Sanderson's policy. I turned toward

(04:19:00):
my phone, feeling like a Hollywood agent doing his best
for a plan he didn't have much hope for, and
dialed the life insurance company.

Speaker 18 (04:19:08):
I'm sorry, you'll have to speak to miss Bennett.

Speaker 21 (04:19:11):
It was the old chaperon.

Speaker 31 (04:19:13):
Miss Bennett was maybe the thirtieth vice president in charge
of bathtub accidents.

Speaker 64 (04:19:18):
We cannot give off that information, but if you speak
to mister Forresty, he's the branch manager.

Speaker 31 (04:19:24):
All I had to do was mention Mark Sanderson's name,
and there'd be a long pause on the other end,
and then no, So we can't discuss our.

Speaker 15 (04:19:31):
Policy with you, mister Shane.

Speaker 9 (04:19:32):
The matter is closed.

Speaker 2 (04:19:33):
It is entirely within our own discretion whether or not
we choose to ensure mister Sanderson's life or anyone else's.

Speaker 15 (04:19:40):
No, I wasn't kidding anyway.

Speaker 31 (04:19:42):
Nobody was going to tell me the real reason they
refused Mark Sanderson life insurance. I got Dave Sizingbly on
the phone. Dave used to be a private eye and
then went to work as a detective for the insurance company.
He said he'd see what he could do. I waited
about ten minutes and then Shane speaking Mike, Yeah, hush, hush,

(04:20:02):
what's going on. You're beginning to make me think Sanderson
really has something to worry about.

Speaker 15 (04:20:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (04:20:07):
All I could tell you is that it might be
a good idea to see a lawyer by the name
of Almsby who Almsby O L M. S.

Speaker 28 (04:20:14):
B Y in the lead building downtown.

Speaker 21 (04:20:16):
That's all one more thing.

Speaker 9 (04:20:19):
You didn't get the information for me.

Speaker 31 (04:20:28):
Hellop oms be attorney of law. The office was easily
as all his owns. Be himself about seventy, dried up
like a prone His voice was like parchment, dry as dust,
and ready to crack.

Speaker 24 (04:20:41):
A shrewd young madman.

Speaker 108 (04:20:43):
Look like you, if you have in your head the
good sense to avoid a necessary trouble. You were a
desistrument crowing into the affairs of the Losson family.

Speaker 21 (04:20:52):
Well, that's as pretty it turns feat as I've ever heard.

Speaker 24 (04:20:55):
He takes advice, mister Shane.

Speaker 108 (04:20:57):
That's for your question, not at liberty to divulge any
information you mean to me, to you or anyone else.

Speaker 21 (04:21:06):
I realized Marxisteria has caused you some trouble. And as
the family attorney.

Speaker 31 (04:21:12):
Say, I didn't think I was going to take this case,
mister rolsby which you know I'm getting more and more interested.

Speaker 59 (04:21:19):
Then you will get yourself more and more in vun
That's my business, mister Robby.

Speaker 9 (04:21:25):
Mister Shane, you must anticipate a short.

Speaker 21 (04:21:29):
Life could be, mister Roby, at least a happy one.
It's a long time.

Speaker 31 (04:21:39):
Well, I've found out a few things before I went
out of the swamps where the old man had dug in.
After he retreated from the New Orleans reform movement. He
built a large house for himself, a smaller one for
his second wife and stepdaughter, and another for his step son.
He kept his cousin Agatha with him, seems.

Speaker 21 (04:21:56):
He separated from his immediate family.

Speaker 31 (04:21:58):
Kept tight hold on but didn't want him too close.
They finally died two days ago after a long illness.
I went down there to his little kingdom in the
swamp and got a funny feeling a little chill, even
though it was a warm night, little rolling wisps of fog,
night sounds that had a death nellon moon. There were

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lights on downstairs in the old man's house, but I
headed for young Mark Sanderson's place. It was dark, and
I thought i'd mostly around the house to the back
when somebody was playing hide and seek with me.

Speaker 21 (04:22:33):
Okay, take it easier.

Speaker 15 (04:22:35):
Who is it? That's a friend? Though?

Speaker 54 (04:22:37):
A word to the wise thing. All right, I'm listening,
and I wanted around here. Who doesn't want me? Nobody? Okay,
I get the message. Why don't you guys have a listen.
This is for your own good. I don't want to
have to use this black chack. You made a mistake
never took your mick you last for We're pretty fast

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for big guy, but not fast enough. All right, I
got the black sack. Now, come on get up here
and I'll beat it. Yeah, Shane, you surprise me. Must
be something to it, after all the bigger they are.

Speaker 45 (04:23:16):
That was quite an exhibition.

Speaker 21 (04:23:18):
Oh are they wearing revolvers with dinner dresses this year?

Speaker 13 (04:23:23):
Who are you, mike?

Speaker 15 (04:23:25):
Shaane?

Speaker 40 (04:23:26):
There's a flake stone path here. Let's get around front,
out of the shadows, and.

Speaker 31 (04:23:31):
You must be seated here my's sister. But do you
you have to keep pointing that gun at me? Yes,
for a while anyhow, I'm glad to Oh yes, Oh.

Speaker 45 (04:23:47):
It's no matter. Haven't you ever seen a woman before?

Speaker 21 (04:23:50):
Not very often like you? Is that really the color
of your hair?

Speaker 45 (04:23:55):
My hair has been read since today.

Speaker 3 (04:23:56):
I was born.

Speaker 45 (04:24:00):
Nice shoulders.

Speaker 15 (04:24:01):
I like yours better. You're going to catch a cold
on that outfit.

Speaker 45 (04:24:05):
You have what so many men like these days, a
sense of virility and strength.

Speaker 21 (04:24:10):
And that comes from eating all my vegetables.

Speaker 15 (04:24:14):
What are you.

Speaker 45 (04:24:14):
Snooping around here for?

Speaker 21 (04:24:15):
I was looking for Mark.

Speaker 45 (04:24:17):
Oh you're the detective he hired.

Speaker 21 (04:24:21):
Check.

Speaker 45 (04:24:22):
Now you're doing just me? Who's the man you're fighting with,
don't you know? No, I don't, mister Shane, isn't it?

Speaker 15 (04:24:29):
That's right?

Speaker 45 (04:24:31):
Mark and and Agathon. Mother are in the house.

Speaker 40 (04:24:34):
Oh the reading of stepfather's world tonight, mister rumsby the lawyer.

Speaker 21 (04:24:39):
May I come along?

Speaker 8 (04:24:41):
Why not?

Speaker 45 (04:24:50):
Don't go in? And they've a ready store that.

Speaker 21 (04:24:52):
I don't want to hear that one who's in there?

Speaker 45 (04:24:54):
They all off I don't want to interrupt. I'll open
the door.

Speaker 16 (04:25:00):
Again.

Speaker 45 (04:25:03):
Mother.

Speaker 108 (04:25:07):
All my property real and personal owned by me at
the time of my death till that person from among
my four heirs who outlives all others, whether it be
my cousin Agatha, my stepdaughter Celia, my disolttle stepson Mark,

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oh my neglectful wife Margaret. That these goods shall be
bequeathed therefore only after the death of my last year
but one, and in the event my inherito cannot find
law inherit, then these goods shall pass to Philip Arnsbey
are his heirs and desires it.

Speaker 45 (04:25:50):
That's going, mister Shane.

Speaker 28 (04:25:53):
We waited for your miss Celia.

Speaker 24 (04:25:54):
We didn't know where you were.

Speaker 45 (04:25:56):
Thank you, mister Shane.

Speaker 15 (04:25:58):
Did you hear that?

Speaker 31 (04:25:59):
Did you hear there's your answer. Mark, That's the reason
your insurance.

Speaker 16 (04:26:02):
Was refused, as she couldn't stop hating.

Speaker 40 (04:26:05):
It's so obvious, isn't it. Dear father wants us to
kill one another off.

Speaker 9 (04:26:10):
Mother.

Speaker 45 (04:26:14):
He couldn't leave you alone, could he, even after he died.

Speaker 15 (04:26:17):
My mother, mister Shane, and my head Agatha, father's cousin.

Speaker 21 (04:26:22):
Sadly cousin Agatha was bored by the proceedings.

Speaker 16 (04:26:25):
And Agatha is always taken catnaps.

Speaker 35 (04:26:27):
Hageth, he wake up, stop shaking her. Oh, she doesn't
want to wake up by her. She's not moving, she's
she's not breathing for a.

Speaker 15 (04:26:40):
Very good reason.

Speaker 31 (04:26:41):
You're at Agatha has taken a last catnapper.

Speaker 21 (04:26:44):
She's dead.

Speaker 106 (04:26:52):
You'll return in a moment to the new adventures of
Michael Shane and the hate that killed Ah.

Speaker 31 (04:27:03):
I didn't want to take the case in at the
first place, but it was the insurance angle that company.
Why was Mark Sanderson's insurance refused. I couldn't get the
information from the insurance company. I couldn't get it from
the lawyer.

Speaker 21 (04:27:13):
Olms be easy. But then I found out what it
was all about.

Speaker 31 (04:27:17):
The insurance company must have got winded in terms of
the old Man's will and water will Old Gregory Larson's
wife and Mark Concilia and his cousin Agatha. All of
them were heirs in a sort of ten Little Indians routine.
All his wanted to go to the last one to
stay alive or to lawyer Almsby, and the old man wanted.

Speaker 21 (04:27:35):
Him to kill each other off. It was that simple.

Speaker 31 (04:27:38):
I wanted a few words with my client Mark, and
I waited while Sergeant Lavery went through his routine with him,
and then decided to bust it up.

Speaker 28 (04:27:45):
I want protection.

Speaker 4 (04:27:46):
I'm a taxpayer.

Speaker 15 (04:27:47):
I don't care what you have to do. Put me
in jail if you want to.

Speaker 31 (04:27:50):
Sanderson your blog gasking, where do you get interested in?
Like I told you, Sagine, this is my client.

Speaker 107 (04:27:56):
I suppose now you're convinced someone who's going to try
to kill me.

Speaker 31 (04:27:59):
Shane had a talk with your sister, said that Mark,
you didn't tell me you lived here a few days
before your stepfather died, said, and I.

Speaker 28 (04:28:05):
Came here just before he died.

Speaker 35 (04:28:07):
But it didn't mean anything.

Speaker 3 (04:28:08):
You heard his will?

Speaker 21 (04:28:09):
Yeah, Uh, sergeant, why don't you like him up? Maybe
jail is the safest.

Speaker 15 (04:28:14):
Place for him?

Speaker 21 (04:28:15):
Okay, speak a gentleman inside.

Speaker 8 (04:28:17):
Yes, yes, I will, I will, all right, Shane, Your
client's taken care of.

Speaker 55 (04:28:23):
You can go home now now I think I'll stick around, Sergeant,
Why do you think there's gonna be mal killings?

Speaker 31 (04:28:29):
And sergeant, don't you? I was curious about Margaret loss
Mark's money. Why hadn't she been with her husband the
last days of his life? Why had he called Mark
and Celia not her. The more time I spent in
this atmosphere of death and hate, the more jibbery ain't got.

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Margaret Lawson was sitting in her living room. A low
fire crackled in the fireplace that was the only light
in the room. She sat erect in an old creek
rocking chair by the fire, a light blending on the
dark brown eyes that were just a little too bright.

Speaker 102 (04:29:06):
When will it stop, mister Shane? As long as I
can remember, it's been like this, the fear, the hate.
I don't remember anything else. It's never been normal. His
hatred touched all of us, that horrible sick man inside
his house, never going outside.

Speaker 45 (04:29:26):
But you felt him all the time.

Speaker 15 (04:29:28):
You weren't starting up of him to marry him. That
was my mistake. He hated you all the others.

Speaker 35 (04:29:36):
Yes, mister Shane. Yes, how did I gotta die?

Speaker 15 (04:29:41):
It's poison?

Speaker 24 (04:29:42):
What kind of poison?

Speaker 15 (04:29:43):
I don't know yet.

Speaker 27 (04:29:45):
What about Celia and Mark? What's going to happen to them?

Speaker 31 (04:29:48):
Marked by his own requests in jail or on his
way Jane, Yeah, he said he wanted to protection. Oh Celia,
she's a kind of can take care of herself. Hey, look,
I'm getting the willies or something. Can't we have some
more light in here?

Speaker 15 (04:30:02):
What's the matter, mister shame.

Speaker 102 (04:30:06):
In all the years I've spent in this swamp land,
I've seemed to develop an extra sense.

Speaker 15 (04:30:12):
What you're trying to say?

Speaker 45 (04:30:14):
There's someone in this room.

Speaker 15 (04:30:15):
I don't hear anything I supposed.

Speaker 21 (04:30:19):
Oh the sucker for a left hook my power with
a warning.

Speaker 9 (04:30:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 15 (04:30:25):
I didn't blink your eyes. I got a gun. I'm
not getting too close to you. Come back for a rematch.
I have been answering the phone or not you? Yes, answering.

Speaker 27 (04:30:41):
Hello?

Speaker 18 (04:30:42):
Yes, this is missus Lewson.

Speaker 4 (04:30:47):
Mm hmm, thank you? Such what is it?

Speaker 15 (04:30:53):
Missus Lusk?

Speaker 102 (04:30:56):
Mark is not funny? I can hardly feel anything smart poison? Yes,
the same as Agatha.

Speaker 15 (04:31:06):
In his car.

Speaker 45 (04:31:06):
He stopped to take a drink.

Speaker 24 (04:31:08):
It was poison in.

Speaker 16 (04:31:09):
The same poison the killer.

Speaker 4 (04:31:14):
All right, Shane, this is all very touching.

Speaker 54 (04:31:17):
Come on, let's go wait just a minut's go get
any this place is give me the creeps.

Speaker 21 (04:31:22):
Missus Lawson tells Celia about Mark. She's in danger.

Speaker 15 (04:31:25):
Tell Us that's just so you'll know it's loaded. Shane.

Speaker 54 (04:31:30):
I'm sorry to spoil your rug, lady, Old Shane, I'm
won't him at the rug next time.

Speaker 31 (04:31:38):
He was smile. He kept me at arm's length. Oh
way he handled me, you'd think I had the plague.
It was so calm and so careful. I began to worry.
Give me the nervous guys, Give me the guys who
think they're tough. I can take care of myself with them.
But this bird knew exactly what he was going to do.
He acted like a trapper. Hood caught a wildcat and
was measuring over the kill. We went down the hall

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and out the rear door. I was going to do anything,
it better be pretty quick. It had turned cold, and
a damn fog clung to my clothes, got into my nostrils.
He took a little path led into the swamp.

Speaker 21 (04:32:13):
Funny.

Speaker 31 (04:32:14):
I kept worrying about Celia, about protecting her, not about myself.
It was all strue. He sort of detached, almost a
dream sequence. Things were happening too fast and I couldn't
stop them. I had how much farther into this swamp, Laddie, here, okay,
go stand up against that.

Speaker 4 (04:32:32):
Tree over there.

Speaker 21 (04:32:35):
Here, right there.

Speaker 31 (04:32:38):
It was a big, fat, old cypress tree, and I
loved it. He thought it was going to be like
an execution without a blindfold. But you can tell about
these punks. You can tell when their finger itches before
he lifted his sight. So I was around on the
other side, and his bullets tore a chest high into
the big fat tree.

Speaker 20 (04:32:51):
Trun maybe your fetish ore and Chaine. I got plenty
of time. I got nothing but time. This is the
most important thing I ever did in my life. I'm
gonna do it right now. Careful, Shane, I'm starting to
come around.

Speaker 31 (04:33:05):
It was gonna be a dilly. I ducked my head out,
hold it back in. If I counted right, that made
four and one in the house.

Speaker 21 (04:33:12):
Five.

Speaker 31 (04:33:12):
It was starting to edge around, cut like a knife
with a meat on my shoulder must have been just
a nick because it only burnt. It didn't slug me six.
He was still edging around, coming a little closer, but
he still wasn't taking any chances on my jumping him.

Speaker 43 (04:33:27):
Shane watching. Now I've gotta run which side Shane.

Speaker 31 (04:33:34):
That spun me around? Cut my other on bullet hit solid.
I almost went down seven.

Speaker 4 (04:33:40):
You cut in, Shaine.

Speaker 35 (04:33:41):
I got a couple of more club when it's been funny.

Speaker 4 (04:33:44):
Here I come again.

Speaker 31 (04:33:45):
Who wrote that story about the hunt who wasn't happy
unless he was hunting a human being? He must have
laughed like this punk must have went off his trolley.
I kind of looked at the wazel's face and there
it was like the granddaddy of all fuses blowing out.
I'd heard about people feeling the wind of a pullet.

Speaker 21 (04:34:00):
This wasn't a wind. It was a gentle sigh, a
little puff.

Speaker 31 (04:34:02):
He missed my nose by a thirty second of an inch,
and that was a I dashed out after him, but
he was on his way, fumbling with his gun, putting
a new clip in while he ran, and he wasn't watching.
When he was going, he took over the log I
put up shortly stair well, several locks laid out in a.

Speaker 107 (04:34:17):
Rough circle, sort of protecting a patch of ground.

Speaker 31 (04:34:20):
Crowned hunk and tripped and gone in head first and
started to sink. His body thrashed around. The head came
up covered with what looked like arley mud. Only then
I knew what it was Quicksand it didn't take fifteen
seconds and he disappeared. Even if I wanted to help him,

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I couldn't. It came too fast and looked and he
was gone. A couple of big bubbles came up, slick
and molding, and that was all. On the way back
out to the house, my mind was wrestling with angles,

(04:35:01):
worrying about Celia. So hot I almost forgot I had
a slug in my shoulder. I could see a light
on the second floor missus Lawson's house. Prayed that that
man said you was still alive. I ran in the
front door and began to found me.

Speaker 45 (04:35:19):
Oh, mister Shane, why all the commotions, Oh.

Speaker 21 (04:35:22):
You're still okay? How about your mother?

Speaker 45 (04:35:25):
She's sarsed to sleep in her bed.

Speaker 27 (04:35:27):
Come on in.

Speaker 15 (04:35:28):
Yeah, Oh her cat must have followed me here.

Speaker 40 (04:35:32):
That's good luck, mister shame and only all in superstition.
Sit down, now, what mister Shane were bleeding?

Speaker 21 (04:35:44):
Yeah, I was back.

Speaker 45 (04:35:47):
Let's get that jacket off.

Speaker 15 (04:35:48):
Okay, that's easy.

Speaker 45 (04:35:50):
Sorry, I'll just tear the shoes open.

Speaker 21 (04:35:55):
Ye, get away? Heard about your brother?

Speaker 40 (04:36:00):
Told me in the way up, howd it? Praps is
better off? Never was very happy my stepfather's lot of that.

Speaker 45 (04:36:09):
Sorry, I've got to clean it up.

Speaker 15 (04:36:11):
You sure.

Speaker 31 (04:36:14):
Seeing I'm going nuts trying to big this thing. Your
stepfather hoped you'd kill each other up. He planned it
that way. You and your mother wouldn't fight on that
kind of beat, Thank you. The only other answer was
almost beating. He gets everything as one of you're taken
care of. They don't have anything on him. It won't gel.

Speaker 40 (04:36:31):
I'm afraid this will stay. Oh it's all over until
the doctor takes over. Yeah, have a little of this.
It's from my dear departed stepfather's wine cellar. The problem
in Brandy eighteen twelve.

Speaker 15 (04:36:46):
Don't I can get worth of anything out there? Thank you?

Speaker 45 (04:36:50):
I'm sorry that was clumsy of me. How poor you another?

Speaker 21 (04:36:54):
Anyhow that stray cats can have a good time. He
likes Napoleon Brandy too.

Speaker 45 (04:36:58):
Yes, it does, doesn't he? You know, I think I'll
join you. I have a weakness for good brandy.

Speaker 21 (04:37:04):
I have a weakness for women who have a weakness
for good brandy.

Speaker 3 (04:37:09):
Here you are.

Speaker 45 (04:37:09):
This is same Ike, all right?

Speaker 31 (04:37:17):
See that can't wise good luck. It'll be stiff in
another few minutes. What Yeah, that brandy's spiked enough poison
to kill Gargantua. Where'd you get this brandy city?

Speaker 45 (04:37:30):
I think Miss Rosy gave it to me.

Speaker 62 (04:37:37):
We'll be back in a moment with Mike Shane and
the thrilling climax to our start.

Speaker 31 (04:37:56):
Thinking about all of me almost sent me off on
a tangent. The big idea was slow in coming, but
it paid off. The whole thing fell into place, so
it was kind of hard to see all at once.
It came out gradually, Celia.

Speaker 21 (04:38:10):
Your mother didn't go into your stepfather's house before he dad,
did she?

Speaker 45 (04:38:14):
She hasn't been inside that house in fifteen years.

Speaker 21 (04:38:16):
Mister Shell, That's it, And it's so simple, so very simple. Hey, hey,
let me have that brandy bottle. I'm taking it down
a headquarters for a little fingerprint job.

Speaker 45 (04:38:24):
I don't understand.

Speaker 21 (04:38:25):
I'll be back.

Speaker 31 (04:38:26):
I'll explain it. To you with gestures. Now you probably
don't know it, but you call me Mike a few
seconds ago. It's enough gonna start for me.

Speaker 45 (04:38:33):
But what about mister Elmsby.

Speaker 21 (04:38:35):
It's a payoff for him too.

Speaker 31 (04:38:45):
It's hard to believe. She there's no other explanation. Sergeant
Almsby was the only one who knew the exact terms
of the will. He'd get everything if the family were all.

Speaker 21 (04:38:53):
Out of the way.

Speaker 15 (04:38:54):
Yeah, he had a good idea what would happen.

Speaker 31 (04:38:56):
Andy decided to wait it out. That's why he hired
that character to get rid of me.

Speaker 24 (04:39:01):
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense almost.

Speaker 22 (04:39:04):
He didn't want anybody to get in the way of
the natural course of events.

Speaker 31 (04:39:08):
Yeah, an old man hates so much he can't let
it die with him. He wasn't satisfied until he fixed it,
so his rotten touch reached out.

Speaker 21 (04:39:15):
In the grave.

Speaker 4 (04:39:16):
It's still hard to believe, but you can't argue with fingerprints.

Speaker 15 (04:39:25):
Sure, there was.

Speaker 21 (04:39:26):
Only one answer.

Speaker 31 (04:39:28):
The fingerprints on the bottle of Napoleon Brandy, and the
fingerprints on marched flask and at Agatha's special milk bottle.
They all matched. The plan was simple. He figured all
the suspicion dressed on his wife after Agatha and Mark
and Cilia were dead. Yes, the fingerprints are all matched.
They were the fingerprints of Gregory Lass. He kept right

(04:39:50):
on killing even after he was dead. There's a moral
in all this somewhere, something about evil turning on the
evil door and paying him back. I haven't quite figured
it out yet, but see it is a pretty clever girl.
I think I'll show her how. The other half of
New Orleance Lives take it at dinner tonight and discuss

(04:40:11):
it with gestures.

Speaker 21 (04:40:26):
This should director build ross again.

Speaker 106 (04:40:28):
Our story was based on characters created by Brett Halliday.
Our music is composed and conducted by John Duffy, and
Michael Shane is portrayed by Jeff Channon. The New Adventures
of Michael Shane as a Don W. Sharp production, transcribed
in Hollywood and distributed exclusively by the Broadcaster's Guilt. Next
week you will hear Michael Shane in another thrilling adventure.

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Speaker 9 (04:42:00):
Ah.

Speaker 50 (04:42:03):
And now for tonight's story, an adaptation of Robert Lewis
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that he had committed murder. That's hardly true, for no

(04:42:24):
man can kid his fellow until he first twists the
knife in his own heart.

Speaker 37 (04:42:30):
This is the story of Marcheim.

Speaker 50 (04:42:32):
He was a gambler accustomed to lightning shifts of fortune.
But on the eve of his greatest triumph, He couldn't
resist that final spin of the wheel. It was his
life against the future. He wanted the decision to come swiftly,
as it had always done before, But this time the
wheel turned torturously slow for Marcheim, and once set into motion,

(04:42:52):
no power on earth could halt it. It was Christmas eve.
Markheim was happy to he told along on Angela's little
leash she loved him, or what she knew of him.
Angela was quite aware of the power of her smile,
and Markind was aware of the fact that she'd been
leisurely and charmingly spoiled. But even if it had been
a great chain that had led him into this lovely

(04:43:14):
garden instead of a warm, sweet smile, he'd resisted no
more than he did now, for this leash would lead
him to a fortune, more money than he ever dream
existed in all the casinos in the world. Besides, he
was in love with Angela.

Speaker 109 (04:43:33):
Mark When do you plan to speak to Papa very soon?

Speaker 15 (04:43:35):
Dearest?

Speaker 1 (04:43:36):
There are few things I want to clear it up first.
It won't take long, just a few days at the.

Speaker 109 (04:43:41):
Most, tomorrow, perhaps tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (04:43:43):
Well that's pretty short notice, darling. I'm afraid to know.

Speaker 109 (04:43:46):
I want it tomorrow, Yes, but why what's.

Speaker 1 (04:43:49):
So significant about tomorrow? I had thought to wait just
a few more.

Speaker 109 (04:43:53):
Tomorrow is just as good as any other day. In fact,
it's better it's Christmas. It's tomorrow or never?

Speaker 1 (04:43:59):
Angela, what are you saying?

Speaker 109 (04:44:01):
Oh, don't look so frightened, darling.

Speaker 27 (04:44:03):
I was only joking.

Speaker 1 (04:44:05):
That's better.

Speaker 109 (04:44:07):
Only it will be tomorrow, Mark, won't it.

Speaker 1 (04:44:09):
You always get your.

Speaker 109 (04:44:11):
Own way, always, darling. But I wouldn't have insisted if
I didn't think it would make us both happy.

Speaker 1 (04:44:16):
And you think we'll be happier if I ask your
father tomorrow.

Speaker 109 (04:44:19):
Of course, there's no need to wait.

Speaker 36 (04:44:21):
And I want this for a Christmas present Christmas present?

Speaker 22 (04:44:25):
Yes?

Speaker 109 (04:44:26):
Oh and speaking of Christmas present, I have a very nice.

Speaker 10 (04:44:29):
One for you.

Speaker 1 (04:44:30):
Oh, not too nice, I hope, I mean, I hope it.

Speaker 109 (04:44:33):
Wasn't too costly, I hope, but it was very I wish.

Speaker 1 (04:44:37):
You hadn't, Angela. That is well, I have something for
you too.

Speaker 28 (04:44:42):
You have what is it?

Speaker 3 (04:44:43):
Well?

Speaker 1 (04:44:44):
I will you like it? It's it's yes, it's very nicer.

Speaker 109 (04:44:48):
Now it's my turn.

Speaker 27 (04:44:49):
You shouldn't have done it.

Speaker 1 (04:44:51):
Nothing is too good for you.

Speaker 109 (04:44:53):
Nothing, I hope it isn't too expensive.

Speaker 1 (04:44:56):
Well it was, but it's just a little trinking.

Speaker 109 (04:45:00):
Whatever it is, Mark, it'll be very nice. But if
you weren't such a successful member of the stock exchange,
i'd scold you for spending too much money.

Speaker 1 (04:45:08):
On me stock exchange. Oh oh, yes, quite well, Angela.
I think i'd better be going so soon, Yes, I
really must.

Speaker 109 (04:45:18):
Then I won't detain you, but I want you here
early tomorrow. Come just as soon as you.

Speaker 1 (04:45:23):
Possibly can, the iron rule of Angela. But I love it, darling,
until tomorrow tomorrow.

Speaker 50 (04:45:34):
As Archive made his way through the dark streets, the chill,
damp fog soon dispersed the warmth he felt in the
rich comfort of Angela, and the last word he's spoken
to her as he had taken his leave seemed to
mock him. As he traveled in the night, his feudal
gropings for happiness seemed to slap him foot on the
face with each new wave of the night gray night
missed for a moment, he thought to return to his foul,

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dingy little room, barren and ugly. Though it was thought of,
it made him shudder. Any other time he might have
found some comfort in his hateful little iron bed. Another
night he could have slept and dreamed of fabulous fortune,
of an endless flood of Gambler's luck, making him richer
with every spin of the wheel.

Speaker 15 (04:46:13):
But there was no time for that now.

Speaker 50 (04:46:15):
But tomorrow was he cursed the inconvenience of this moment.
Tomorrow was Christmas. Suddenly, as if some henchman of the
devil had whispered into his ear, Markheim heard the name
that had been synonymous with resentment in his heart. That
name seemed to strike faint but unmistakable sounds in his brain.

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It was very faint at first, like the soft kinkling
snap of an icicle when it breaks, But it soon
became a giant thing that loomed up so forcibly if
it was almost physical. It came without warning out of
the thick fog of his brain, and Markim suddenly found
the name on his lips.

Speaker 1 (04:46:51):
Zigler, Zeigler, Zigler.

Speaker 8 (04:47:00):
What do you want?

Speaker 41 (04:47:02):
Ah?

Speaker 52 (04:47:02):
You?

Speaker 1 (04:47:03):
Markham let me in Zigler and Christmas Eve?

Speaker 50 (04:47:05):
Can't you see I pulse?

Speaker 1 (04:47:07):
Hope it up. I've got to see you right away.

Speaker 10 (04:47:09):
All right?

Speaker 50 (04:47:11):
What kind of trouble are you in this time? Well,
come on in, I don't want all that cold and
damp creeping in of enough ags already he Merry Christmas.

Speaker 15 (04:47:22):
But your hand.

Speaker 1 (04:47:23):
You do a pretty good business here, don't you.

Speaker 9 (04:47:25):
Zigler.

Speaker 50 (04:47:25):
You didn't come to talk about my books. What did
you come for? I told you the last time that
I wouldn't take any more of your stolen goods.

Speaker 1 (04:47:31):
I didn't come to sell anything, Zigler. My uncle's cabinets
are disgustingly empty these days. He's moved his collection.

Speaker 50 (04:47:40):
I don't wonder at that. Your uncle is a remarkable collector.
His items were there. Indeed, it must have been quite
a blow to him when he discovered that they were
disappearing so methodically.

Speaker 1 (04:47:50):
It was more of a blow to me. I assure you.
He booted me clean out of the place.

Speaker 50 (04:47:54):
I was taking an awful chance by self handling that stuff,
an novel.

Speaker 1 (04:47:57):
Chance, but at an awful profit. Zigler.

Speaker 50 (04:48:00):
What good's a profit when you once get the yard
after you? Or if you didn't come here to sell,
what did you come for to buy? I want to
buy a Christmas present for a lady, and you'll pay
daily coming in on me like this, you know, I
put up my shutters and I'm refusing business.

Speaker 1 (04:48:14):
You won't refuse my business, Higle, you.

Speaker 50 (04:48:16):
Won't be getting any bargains either. You'll have to pay
for both my time, and you'd rather a surly man
or young fellow. I suppose you can pay.

Speaker 1 (04:48:24):
Don't worry about that.

Speaker 5 (04:48:26):
Then you can pay it.

Speaker 15 (04:48:27):
Someone's worry.

Speaker 1 (04:48:29):
I've done very well in the stock exchange, and likely
is not I'll do much better soon. My errand to
day is very simple. I'm really quite sorry Zegler that
I have to disturb you this way, but it's a
little matter I overlooked until this late hour. I must
have this little compliment ready before morning. And you know
a man would be a fool to deliberately harm his

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chances of a wealthy marriage.

Speaker 50 (04:48:51):
Well, let that be a tend You've been a good customer,
and if you have a chance, you tell me for
a fortunate marriage. I don't want to be an obstacle.

Speaker 18 (04:48:59):
Now.

Speaker 50 (04:49:00):
Oh, here's a nice object. Good lady is certain to
favor it. It's a hand mirror, guaranteed fifteenth century. It's
from a fine collection.

Speaker 1 (04:49:07):
Whose collection, Zigler, in.

Speaker 50 (04:49:09):
The interest of my customer, withhold the name, if you
don't mind, Evell, Shall we say somewhat like yourself, the nephew.

Speaker 37 (04:49:16):
Of the remarkable collector.

Speaker 50 (04:49:19):
The pointed remarks of this unscrupulous, old deader suddenly flushed
Marcheim's calm with waves of passionate resentment. They passed, leaving
nothing but a slightly emotional residue in a slight nervous
trending in his hands. He took the mirror Zagler held
out to him.

Speaker 1 (04:49:37):
Surely you do not propose this for a Christmas present?

Speaker 15 (04:49:40):
Why not?

Speaker 50 (04:49:41):
Your lady should be very happy to have to fine item,
and every time she looks at herself in it, she'll
think of her sterling husband.

Speaker 1 (04:49:48):
Your manner is likely to cost you something before long, Zigler.
So you suggest a thing like this, look at it,
Look at yourself in it? Though I dare say you'd
look little better any other way, But look at it.
Your future lady must be difficult to please. Sir. I
am buying a lady's Christmas presents, not some monstrous souvenir
of the sins and follies of the past. Certainly not

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that grim thing. You wann't actually serious about pawning that
off on me?

Speaker 15 (04:50:15):
Were you're quite serious? Sir?

Speaker 9 (04:50:18):
What are you made of?

Speaker 15 (04:50:19):
Zagler?

Speaker 1 (04:50:20):
What keeps your dry old heart at work these overtime years.
You certainly must have a few thoughts now and then
of something beside your miserable little existence. Are you joking
with me?

Speaker 3 (04:50:30):
My kim?

Speaker 50 (04:50:31):
You'll find it on the sale price.

Speaker 1 (04:50:33):
If you are everything about you can be found on
the sale price. Zagler, Come, what's the purpose of this talk?
Christmas eve?

Speaker 15 (04:50:40):
Man?

Speaker 1 (04:50:40):
See how the world scurries by outside. They're all touched
with a very warm, friendly spirit. What does your life
consist of tonight? But a hand for grabbing money and
is safe for hoarding?

Speaker 50 (04:50:51):
It is that all you'll dunk too much to the
health of your lady?

Speaker 1 (04:50:54):
I think, Ah, then you have been in love. Tell
me of those golden moments of yours, Zegler, Tell me
all about that.

Speaker 50 (04:51:01):
I have no time for such things. I have no
time for this foolish Do you take the glass or not?

Speaker 25 (04:51:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (04:51:07):
But let's not be hasty. Pleasant talk, pleasant walk?

Speaker 9 (04:51:11):
How does that go?

Speaker 15 (04:51:13):
Well?

Speaker 1 (04:51:13):
Pleasant? It is, Zigler, And I must not hurry away
from any pleasure, even one as doubtful as this. Each
instant is a precipice, Sigler, a very high precipice. If
we hurry, we fall and dash ourselves to a thousand
meaningless pieces. Yes, if we hurry, we fall, Zigler. Let's

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take our time this fine evening. Let us tear away
the masks that hide us from each other. Who knows
we might even be friends.

Speaker 50 (04:51:43):
I have my books to balance tonight, Mark time, either
make your purchase or I have to thank you to
leave the shop to be sure.

Speaker 1 (04:51:51):
There is no time for being friends.

Speaker 15 (04:51:53):
Is there?

Speaker 1 (04:51:54):
Show me something else? Then show me something else, Zigler.

Speaker 50 (04:52:00):
There was something in Markham's voice just then. It couldn't
have been the words themselves. It was a tone or
a light that flashed in his eye, but it filled
the little dealer with an unexplainable terror. He had turned
and was about to climb the small ladder that would
take him to a little object art and a higher shelf,
when suddenly markim poised a little dagger high in the air.
It flashed only a fraction of a lightning bolt.

Speaker 102 (04:52:22):
The sea.

Speaker 1 (04:52:25):
For you, zild and a very merry Christmas.

Speaker 50 (04:52:31):
The Zigler thlashed at the shelves like a chicken when
he fell to the floor, and flesh seemed a telescope
in the flesh. As he settled into a senseless little pile.
Markam stared at it through eyes that had suddenly seen
too much. A single tick of the old clock seemed
almost to buffet him into unconsciousness.

Speaker 15 (04:52:49):
His lips parted to speak.

Speaker 1 (04:52:51):
Must not hurry each instant the precipice, Yes, Zigler, stand up,
Stand up and speak to me.

Speaker 50 (04:53:09):
You are listening to a radio adaptation by Barbe Olson
of Markheim by Robert Lewis Stevenson on the Night's Journey
down the corridors of the Hall of Fantasy, brought to
you by your friends at the Granite Furniture Company with
stores in sugar House, Murray, and Provo. And now back
to the night's story of Markheim. Markheim, the Gambler waged

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his life and became Mark I'm the murderer. In one
swift blow, He'd cut himself away from any part of
the world he'd known. That's why no one can tell
his story now, but Mark I'm himself.

Speaker 1 (04:53:46):
I stood there, my hands still clinging loosely to the dagger,
that hand that seemed to have no relationship to the
rest of my body.

Speaker 15 (04:53:55):
I looked about me.

Speaker 1 (04:53:57):
The candle on the counter caught a chill draft and
was wagging like the tail of an excited buppy. I
steadied myself, for the room was heaving and tossing like
a schooner in a storm. Hundreds of feet away had
seen the door was slightly ajar, and through this opening
a long, slim finger of light pointed accusingly at the
very spot I stood.

Speaker 15 (04:54:18):
I leaped aside.

Speaker 1 (04:54:19):
A shiver of fright chopped through me. As I realized
the stupidity of the motion. I looked at the body
of Zigler, had lay there like a listless sack of sawdust.
As suddenly as had the fright, A wave of calm
came over me. I looked again at the body. It
was nothing, Yes, there was nothing there to be afraid of,

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a hunk of lifeless something that had once been a man.
The clock ticked on, but no longer affected the day
of this thing on the floor, as it was nothing.
It had suddenly lost meaning to Zigler, to the shop,
to everyone but me. But that security didn't last. I

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looked again, saw the deep color forming about this haggard heap,
that blood. It was still alive. What if it found
a voice, What if this flesh should raise a cry
that could be heard all over England, immense where then
it would take up its enda's flight around the earth.
It would never be still again, Never.

Speaker 9 (04:55:22):
Time.

Speaker 1 (04:55:23):
Time, I must have time? Or but time had such
a raucous voice. Yes, what is time? A new precipice?
Each instant, each tick of the clock was a new danger.
I picked up the candle, started about the room, filling
my pockets with the treasures of art that Ziegler had
gained so craftily and guarded so fiendishly. I saw things

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that terrified me, things that turned out to be my
own shadow. I'd catch a reflection of myself in a
rack of mirrors, rich imported glasses that sent a new
fear to wild my nerves. For each time I looked,
I saw a hostile sea of my own eyes spying
on me. A thousand questions flashed across my world hysteria.

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Why had I used a knife? Why hadn't I chosen
a more quiet hour? Why had I killed him at all?
And then there were more? Where was the servant girl?

Speaker 9 (04:56:19):
Now?

Speaker 1 (04:56:20):
When would she be back? How much time did I have? Yes,
how much time? When would the world know of what
I had done? When would Angela know?

Speaker 25 (04:56:30):
Oh?

Speaker 28 (04:56:31):
You fool.

Speaker 1 (04:56:34):
My brain became a racetrack for nightmares. There seemed to
be something terrifying about the normal as ever rhythm of
the footsteps out on the street. They must know about
the thundering riot in this house. How could they help it?
I began to fear nature herself. I expected her to
break her own laws to accomplish my own personal destruction. Yes,

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what if the wall should suddenly fail to hide me,
if the prying eyes of London should gain the power
to see beyond nature's burriers? Then then another vision came
to me in this room that was pulsating so with
clamor and silence alike. Yes, all the old women of
London started to rock feverishly in their chairs and began

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to weave rope with which I was soon to be hung.
I knew I was tottering on the brink of the
final shock that would send me screaming my guilt of
the world if I didn't take hold of myself. But
one thing I was rapturously grateful for. I was alone.

Speaker 61 (04:57:39):
I was alone.

Speaker 5 (04:57:43):
No ciga open up at a.

Speaker 1 (04:57:59):
Thank evens he's gone time. Time, Yes, I must have time.
Others were come the girl. I must get the money,
no time to waste. I walked over to the body,
shoved it with my foot. It rolled over crazily and

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took on a queer, twisted posture. The face was pale
like wax. I remembered the wax museum I'd seen as
a lad, and that memory robbed the scene.

Speaker 15 (04:58:30):
Of its grotesque quality.

Speaker 1 (04:58:32):
I took new courage. I saw myself as a boy.
Here's how horrified I'd been at those realistic reproductions of
famous murders. Even the music came back to me, the
monotonous chant of the calliope. The time came for me
to act or run, but I didn't run. I grabbed
the keys from Ziegler's coat pocket and started up the

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stairs that led to his private apartment. There were twenty
four steps and twenty four separate tortures that led to
the drawing room, where I knew i'd find a safe.
As I walked, I seemed to hear the echo of
another footstep coming from behind me.

Speaker 37 (04:59:14):
Now I was at the top.

Speaker 1 (04:59:16):
I pulled open the door, entered and bolted it behind me.
The sense that I was not alone in this house
was about to drive me mad. I longed to be
in my shoddy little room, away from the eyes that
were constantly dancing about in this house, every man who
walked became an avenger and sought stealthily for some scrap
of evidence that would curse me forever. I thought of Angela,

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not long, just the length of a breath or so.
But I heard her voice in hollow.

Speaker 109 (04:59:41):
Mockery tomorrow or never man tomorrow or never.

Speaker 1 (04:59:46):
Yes, she said she was only joking. She thought she
was only joking. I was before the safe, the finale
of this little drama. I fumbled with the keys. There
must have I've been fifty in all, and again the
rush of time began to made me tremble with uncontrollable anxiety.

Speaker 15 (05:00:06):
Time, time, time.

Speaker 1 (05:00:07):
If I ran out of time, this nightmare could have
no meaning at all. I shot a glance at the door.

Speaker 15 (05:00:12):
Nothing stirred.

Speaker 1 (05:00:13):
Yes, I was satisfied that I must be alone. It
was quiet here. Even my heart began to slow down
a little. Suddenly another sound broke the stillness. It came
from the nearby church. The organ was playing a familiar hymn.

Speaker 15 (05:00:29):
I listened.

Speaker 1 (05:00:37):
Then I heard it a sound to freeze a scream,
and its making the knob on the door was turning.
Someone was going to enter this room. I was got
a device of terror. Slowly the door opened and there
there was a face without a body, staring at me.

Speaker 5 (05:01:00):
Who are you? Did you call me?

Speaker 15 (05:01:03):
I stared?

Speaker 1 (05:01:04):
I could do nothing else. The face seemed to swim
before me. It seemed a familiar face. No, no, it
wasn't familiar either.

Speaker 9 (05:01:12):
Oh what was that face?

Speaker 1 (05:01:13):
It belonged to neither heaven or earth? What do you
want of me?

Speaker 15 (05:01:18):
I came to see you? See me?

Speaker 1 (05:01:21):
How did you know that I was here?

Speaker 9 (05:01:23):
You told me?

Speaker 50 (05:01:24):
I told you not directly? Perhaps then you really do
know me right down to the soul.

Speaker 1 (05:01:31):
Are you the devil?

Speaker 15 (05:01:32):
Does it matter?

Speaker 9 (05:01:33):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (05:01:34):
Yes, better, But you knew me some time ago, Thank Heaven.
You don't know about the.

Speaker 15 (05:01:39):
Murder, Oh but I do.

Speaker 50 (05:01:41):
I came to warn you that the servant girls after
a sweetheart early to night and is.

Speaker 15 (05:01:45):
On her way home.

Speaker 50 (05:01:46):
Now now is Shall I tell you what she brings
with her for your Christmas?

Speaker 15 (05:01:51):
What the gallows?

Speaker 28 (05:01:54):
Now?

Speaker 15 (05:01:55):
You must hurry?

Speaker 50 (05:01:56):
Shall I tell you what the mine?

Speaker 15 (05:01:57):
The money for?

Speaker 5 (05:01:58):
For what price?

Speaker 50 (05:01:59):
It's a Christmas gift?

Speaker 1 (05:02:02):
What are you going to do with me? You know
that I'm really not evil. I had no heart for
these things.

Speaker 15 (05:02:09):
Yours will probably be a deathbed repentance.

Speaker 50 (05:02:11):
I have no concern with that. I'm interested in you
only as long as you are alive.

Speaker 1 (05:02:17):
But why do you do this at all? Can't you
see that my hands are red? Don't you realize that
I've murdered a little dealer?

Speaker 21 (05:02:23):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (05:02:25):
Then why do you stop with me?

Speaker 50 (05:02:26):
Because your name is Marchais?

Speaker 1 (05:02:28):
Yes, yes, yes, my name is Markim. You know that
I'm made up of evil and of good. You'll see
that they don't destroy the good to avenge the evil.
You will help me, won't you?

Speaker 50 (05:02:37):
This money you're about to take, how will you use
it on the stock exchange? That's where you've already lost thousands? Yes,
but this time I have a sure thing you will
lose again, Markueim.

Speaker 1 (05:02:46):
You know I do, But I'll say about half. You
will lose that too if that happens. If I do
lose again, what next? Yes, yes, I'll start over with Angela.

Speaker 50 (05:02:58):
You have lived for thirty six years, Mark, Fifteen years
ago you would have shuddered the thought of stealing. Three
years ago, the name of murder would have made you ill.
Who knows, Markaim, what you might embrace in the.

Speaker 1 (05:03:09):
Next five years, but I still have good in me.

Speaker 50 (05:03:12):
Tell me, have you grown any better at all in
the past few years?

Speaker 1 (05:03:16):
I can remember when I was a boy. Yes, I
still love the things that I love then.

Speaker 50 (05:03:21):
But are you better than you were then?

Speaker 52 (05:03:23):
No?

Speaker 9 (05:03:23):
No, no, no no.

Speaker 1 (05:03:24):
And you still want me to help you get the money?

Speaker 50 (05:03:27):
Remember three years ago, Markheim, weren't you seen in little chapel?

Speaker 15 (05:03:31):
Yes, yes, I was there.

Speaker 37 (05:03:32):
I meant to go back.

Speaker 50 (05:03:33):
And didn't you raise your voice louder than the others
and the hymn?

Speaker 3 (05:03:36):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (05:03:36):
But are you going?

Speaker 21 (05:03:38):
We part company?

Speaker 8 (05:03:40):
Here?

Speaker 50 (05:03:40):
Time has run out.

Speaker 15 (05:03:44):
That's the maid, you see.

Speaker 9 (05:03:47):
The maid?

Speaker 1 (05:03:48):
Oh what shall I do?

Speaker 15 (05:03:50):
Why not do what you did to the dealer?

Speaker 50 (05:03:52):
Here's your last great danger. One more swift blow and
you can finish at your leisure.

Speaker 1 (05:04:00):
Don't don't don't go, don't leave me. He's gone, my
last great danger. Yes, there is nothing left to do.
But I took the little dagger from my coat pocket
and crept down the stairs twenty four steps to where.

Speaker 109 (05:04:24):
Tomorrow or never mark tomorrow or never.

Speaker 1 (05:04:29):
I can do it quickly, I'll tell her Old Ziegeler's ill. Yes,
Now I don't crack a smile. Mark, I'm whatever you do,
don't overact, but curse the thing that made me lose
all this precious time with talk here. It's too late
now though it's too late, too.

Speaker 50 (05:04:44):
Late, too late, there's no more time for you.

Speaker 2 (05:04:46):
Mark, I'm you again?

Speaker 1 (05:04:48):
Who are you anyway?

Speaker 3 (05:04:49):
The door?

Speaker 50 (05:04:50):
Mark, I'm here's your chance?

Speaker 37 (05:04:51):
Opened the door first?

Speaker 1 (05:04:52):
Tell me who you are?

Speaker 51 (05:04:53):
Don't you know?

Speaker 5 (05:04:54):
Don't you know?

Speaker 47 (05:04:55):
Really?

Speaker 32 (05:04:56):
No?

Speaker 15 (05:04:56):
No, I don't.

Speaker 34 (05:04:57):
My name is.

Speaker 1 (05:05:00):
Mar Chime?

Speaker 9 (05:05:05):
No?

Speaker 1 (05:05:06):
Then you're.

Speaker 109 (05:05:13):
Hello, is mister sidlet In?

Speaker 1 (05:05:16):
Are you the maid? Then you'd you'd better go for
the police. I I've just murdered your master.

Speaker 50 (05:05:33):
Soul runs the tale of Marchime. Remember to join us
next week at a new time, put another journey down

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the corridors of the whole of fantasy. Tonight's program was
adapted by Robert Olson from the story by Robert Lewis
Stevenson Her Tonight, where Kyle Grayson is Marcheim, Richard Harcourt
as a narrator, Beth Calder is Angela, and Richard Thorn
is Zeigler. Musical background was provided by Earl Donaldson. The

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engineer was Nephi Sorenson. These programs are produced and directed
by Richard Thorn. Remember be with us again next sundaynad

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HIKERS FIND A TOWN STUCK IN 1920 – The Reason Why Is TERRIFYING

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