THE FAST ONE: Faster Than The Speed Of Life – Unable To Outrun Death - Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
LATENSI Stations Present Escape.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh Fantasy.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'm gonna thank some miss A man us Seal.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Present Suspense.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
I am the Whistler.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
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me into tonight's retro Radio Old Time Radio in the Dark.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.

Speaker 6 (01:50):
Come in.

Speaker 7 (01:53):
Welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:54):
I'm E. G.

Speaker 7 (01:55):
Marshall. The greatest discoveries are not of the new, but
of the old. When the fifteenth and sixteenth century, navigators
discovered that the Earth was round. It wasn't because the
Earth had suddenly decided to turn itself into the shape
of a ball. The Earth has always been round. We

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talk about discovering the secrets of the atom, but all
the forces that make up the atom have always been there. Therefore,
what we call discovery is usually a matter of looking
more closely and seeing more clearly. After all, the Bible
tells us there's nothing new under the sun, no new birds,

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just new feathers.

Speaker 9 (02:41):
But twenty five thousand dollars is all I have.

Speaker 10 (02:44):
In the world.

Speaker 7 (02:44):
Let me invest it for you.

Speaker 10 (02:46):
It is my life's savings.

Speaker 7 (02:49):
I'll make it grow, but I hardly know you. Let
me have a money, madam. Oh, don't look.

Speaker 10 (02:55):
At me like that.

Speaker 6 (02:56):
You just trust me.

Speaker 10 (02:58):
Please, when you look at me like leave me.

Speaker 7 (03:01):
I am hepeless nieces for your own good.

Speaker 10 (03:04):
Oh, you can do with me whatever you want.

Speaker 7 (03:08):
You'll never be sorry you take.

Speaker 10 (03:10):
From me whatever you want.

Speaker 7 (03:23):
Our mystery drama Cherchai la fam was especially adapted from
the Oh Henry classic for the Mystery Theater by Sam
Dan and stars Robert Dryden and Briana Raeburn. It is
sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division. I'll be back
shortly with Act one. William Sidney Porter, or O Henry,

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as he was known to his readers, would have had
a difficult time understanding women's lives. He would ask himself,
why should women want to be equal? Were they tired
of being superior?

Speaker 11 (04:09):
Ah?

Speaker 7 (04:09):
Yes, women, they make your day, and they're not too
bad at night either. Woman the eternal mystery, and at
this time one of the most eternal of all women,
Madame Orterly Tibaut. We shall meet her in a little
cafe in the French quarter of New Orleans, for she
is deep in a discussion with a favorite customer. Oh,

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Henry himself, really, yes, Madame Adelie. You know man A
Gaspar More Gaspar Moran. No, I don't think so.

Speaker 10 (04:42):
Oh he was a goldsmith.

Speaker 7 (04:45):
No, Jewele, I don't think so. He's dead now, Oh
what that doesn't matter?

Speaker 10 (04:52):
Oh how can you say it doesn't matter? He stole my.

Speaker 7 (04:56):
Money, he stole your money twenty dollars? How could he
steal twenty five thousand dollars?

Speaker 10 (05:05):
I let him?

Speaker 7 (05:06):
And what's this you say, Mana Moteley, You you let him?
How did you let him?

Speaker 9 (05:11):
Well, you see, I am a woman, yes, and he
was a man, and a man will a good man
a woman, she will let him do anything, and you.

Speaker 7 (05:24):
Let him have twenty five thousand dollars. What were the terms?

Speaker 10 (05:28):
The terms?

Speaker 7 (05:30):
Yes? What was it a gift? Along?

Speaker 10 (05:32):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (05:32):
Terms?

Speaker 10 (05:33):
When to speak English? It was able? Or how do
you say? Invested?

Speaker 7 (05:38):
More investment?

Speaker 10 (05:39):
So that's what I said. No.

Speaker 9 (05:41):
Anyhow, one night he came in here and he says
to me, He says to me, I remember it like
it just.

Speaker 12 (05:51):
Happened, Madam Mortley. I see the place does very well.

Speaker 10 (05:58):
And what if it does? Monsieur gets?

Speaker 7 (06:01):
You must make a nice dollar.

Speaker 10 (06:03):
Every dollar is a nice dollar.

Speaker 7 (06:06):
May I ask, madam what you do with your money?

Speaker 10 (06:09):
Well?

Speaker 9 (06:09):
You think maybe you can get your hands on some
of it?

Speaker 12 (06:13):
No, no, no, no, madam. I was thinking of your welfare.

Speaker 10 (06:16):
And why should you think of my welfare?

Speaker 7 (06:19):
Because I like you?

Speaker 9 (06:22):
Oh year so, and therefore you wish to propose marriage?

Speaker 7 (06:28):
Would I were free? Madam?

Speaker 10 (06:31):
There is someone else?

Speaker 7 (06:32):
No, madam, there's no one else.

Speaker 12 (06:34):
As I've said, I think only of your welfare. Where
do you keep your money?

Speaker 10 (06:41):
Well?

Speaker 9 (06:42):
Does anything of a person keep their money under my mattress.

Speaker 12 (06:45):
Well, isn't twenty five thousand dollars too important to trust
to your mattres?

Speaker 9 (06:49):
How can you say that I trust myself to my
mattress now is my money more important than me?

Speaker 7 (06:58):
But under the mattress money does nothing for you?

Speaker 10 (07:01):
Oh yes, it makes me happy to know it's there.

Speaker 9 (07:06):
I lie in my bed at night, and my money
is with me much, I think to myself. I have
buried four husbands and I am alone in the world
except for my money. Sometimes I get out of bed
and I take out my money. I have twenty five
nice one thousand dollars bills and I count them and

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I put them back nicely wed.

Speaker 12 (07:31):
But haven't you thought of a bank? I mean, the
bank would pay you any rout.

Speaker 9 (07:36):
But the money, it would be shut up in the vault,
the cold vault. Nobody would love it the way I do.
Nobody would keep it wrong.

Speaker 12 (07:46):
Na, Madam, I like you. I do, I really do, indeed,
And it hurts me to see that your heart and
money is doing nothing.

Speaker 10 (07:54):
What is money supposed to do?

Speaker 7 (07:55):
Work?

Speaker 12 (07:56):
Work as you do as well, work as I do,
Madam Oudeley. Do you trust me?

Speaker 13 (08:04):
Do you?

Speaker 10 (08:06):
Oh? Yes, missie? Gets path.

Speaker 12 (08:09):
I trust you, then let me invest that twenty five
thousand dollars for you. I promise you won't be sorry.

Speaker 7 (08:21):
And do you mean to tell me, Madame Odeley, that
you gave him the money?

Speaker 10 (08:26):
Of course I gave him the money.

Speaker 7 (08:28):
But why why?

Speaker 9 (08:30):
Because he looked deep, deep into my eyes. When a
certain kind of man does that, then.

Speaker 10 (08:39):
I am like a small little baby. I'm helpless.

Speaker 9 (08:43):
So when I gave him the twenty five thousand, a month.

Speaker 10 (08:49):
Later he died. And your money, my money, my money,
it died too.

Speaker 7 (08:56):
Maybe after you gave him the money, did you ever
him again?

Speaker 10 (09:00):
For sure? He come in here every night for a
little drink.

Speaker 7 (09:04):
Or did he tell you what he did with the money?

Speaker 9 (09:07):
But he said, Madame Ottilie, the money is safe and
sound and secure. Is the rock of Gibraltar. What is
the rock of Gibraltar?

Speaker 7 (09:18):
Wy, It's the huge rock that guards the straits between
Africa and Europe. I think, oh, and he bought this
rock for me? I don't think so.

Speaker 10 (09:29):
And the money at my twenty five thousand, it's gone.

Speaker 7 (09:33):
Was there any sign of it in his estate?

Speaker 10 (09:35):
His state? What is state?

Speaker 9 (09:37):
He lived in a room on top of his jewelry
store his state.

Speaker 7 (09:41):
I mean, was there a record of it?

Speaker 10 (09:43):
No? Nothing? Nothing?

Speaker 9 (09:45):
Well, really, you think I can think you can find
the money for me. I'd like to good the money
is as good as found.

Speaker 7 (09:56):
Now, wait a minute, how can I find the money?

Speaker 10 (10:00):
Would you always find things in your stories? People know things,
you find them. People steal things.

Speaker 14 (10:07):
You find it.

Speaker 7 (10:08):
But those are only story I know.

Speaker 10 (10:11):
True stories, so even find it for me? Eh?

Speaker 7 (10:15):
But how can I?

Speaker 10 (10:16):
Oh, man like you? Smart like you.

Speaker 7 (10:20):
I'm afraid the money is gone.

Speaker 9 (10:22):
Look you find the money for me and I'll cook
you up there, get my special buoyard bag.

Speaker 7 (10:29):
But I wouldn't even know where to look. I would
a whole kettleful of your special.

Speaker 10 (10:38):
Yes, every night for a whole week.

Speaker 6 (10:42):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (10:43):
Well, I think the key is share shale A fan
who look for the woman?

Speaker 6 (10:51):
What woman?

Speaker 7 (10:52):
There's a woman in here?

Speaker 10 (10:54):
Woman?

Speaker 15 (10:55):
No.

Speaker 7 (10:55):
Never, he was a man who had away with women.

Speaker 10 (10:58):
He was a bachelor to the day he died.

Speaker 7 (11:01):
He got you to give him twenty five thousand. When
a man gets from one woman, he gives to another.

Speaker 10 (11:07):
It's not true.

Speaker 7 (11:08):
Well, I know your pride is heard.

Speaker 9 (11:11):
You say, chefsilapam, But not for Monsieur Gaspar.

Speaker 7 (11:16):
I still say, look for the woman. You mean he
he never was known to spend time with women.

Speaker 10 (11:23):
Oh, yes, much of.

Speaker 7 (11:24):
His time, I see.

Speaker 11 (11:25):
I'm right.

Speaker 9 (11:26):
You go to the number nineteen on bon Arms Street,
and there you will see the sort of women whose
company he preferred above all others.

Speaker 7 (11:41):
Poor Madam Modily, so good art. It's so trusting, so vulnerable.
How could I even hope to put her into a story?
Who would believe her? And so I made my way
deeper into the French quarter, and finally I came upon
bon M's. The houses were old and close together, and

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here it was fifteen and seventeen and nineteen. I pulled
at the old fashioned bell after weight. The door was opened,
opened by a woman, a tall, tragic looking woman, but
she wore the severe black gown and the stark white
bonnet of a nun. Then I saw in a flash

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the crucifix on the wall, and the faded letters the
little Sisters of Samaria. Yes, oh, excuse me, sister, I
must have come to the wrong place.

Speaker 10 (12:41):
Are you sure this is the wrong place?

Speaker 7 (12:43):
Well, you see, I was looking for number nineteen.

Speaker 10 (12:46):
This is number nineteen.

Speaker 7 (12:48):
Well, then my directions were wrong.

Speaker 10 (12:50):
Why did you say that?

Speaker 7 (12:53):
Because I'm looking for information about a gentleman who most
certainly would never have come to a place like this.

Speaker 9 (13:00):
We must never be certain about things here below.

Speaker 7 (13:05):
I agree, sister, in principle, but I think we may
both be certain that a gentleman named Gaspar Morin would
never come here.

Speaker 9 (13:14):
Gaspar Morian. But he was a dear friend. He visited
almost every day.

Speaker 7 (13:20):
Gaspar Morian, the late Gaspire Morian, the same the Gaspar Morien,
who was a jeweler.

Speaker 10 (13:30):
I know no other.

Speaker 7 (13:33):
Oh well, may I ask you a few questions about him?

Speaker 9 (13:39):
Certainly my name is, sister Felicity.

Speaker 10 (13:42):
But won't you come in?

Speaker 9 (13:48):
He is at rest with the saints, A man most devout.
He would come here each day to pray and talk
with us about God's goodness and mercy. I understand, I hope.

Speaker 10 (14:02):
So how few people understand.

Speaker 7 (14:05):
Him, sister? A certain sum of money was entrusted to
Monsieur Morain shortly before he died. That money is unaccounted for.

Speaker 16 (14:18):
Have you heard?

Speaker 7 (14:19):
Yes, I have heard, Madame Honoley t Bau deserves justice.
But so there's Monsieur Morn. Now if we could clear
his name, prove him innocent of wrongdoing.

Speaker 9 (14:34):
Monsieur Gaspar, He could do no wrong.

Speaker 7 (14:37):
I would have to know his tastes, his habits, what
friends he had, and so forth. I understand in these
cases one always does well to look for the woman.

Speaker 9 (14:49):
Was there a lady, brahps, Yes, there was a woman.
There was one woman to whom he bowed, to whom
he gave.

Speaker 10 (14:59):
His heart completely.

Speaker 16 (15:01):
Yes, who behold her?

Speaker 10 (15:05):
There in front of.

Speaker 7 (15:07):
You, in front of me was an alcove. A soft
light pouring in through a stained glass window illuminated a
statue of the Virgin in a color that appeared to
be the purest gold.

Speaker 9 (15:26):
He made the statue with his own hands and presented
it to the Order the day before he died.

Speaker 16 (15:33):
He made this little statue.

Speaker 9 (15:35):
Oh yes, it was as if he had a premonition
of the end, and this was one work that had
to be finished first.

Speaker 16 (15:43):
I see his death.

Speaker 10 (15:45):
Well, it's it's just as well. He'll never know.

Speaker 7 (15:49):
He'll never know what.

Speaker 10 (15:51):
He loved this order, this little order of ours, so much.

Speaker 9 (15:54):
It would have broken his heart to know that we're
being disbanded.

Speaker 16 (16:00):
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

Speaker 10 (16:02):
You see, we are an independent order.

Speaker 9 (16:06):
We relied completely on the generosity of private individuals, and
Monsieur Moran would give us as much as one hundred
dollars some weeks.

Speaker 10 (16:14):
This kept us alive.

Speaker 9 (16:16):
But now well, this house and all of our property
is being sold at auction tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (16:21):
Oh that's too bad.

Speaker 9 (16:23):
It is God's will. Perhaps we are needed elsewhere.

Speaker 7 (16:28):
Everything is being sold, even that gold statue of the Virgin.

Speaker 9 (16:33):
Yes, of course it isn't really gold, it's lead or
some other metal covered with gold paint.

Speaker 7 (16:39):
Oh of course, Oh.

Speaker 9 (16:41):
Monsieur, Perhaps you will come to the auction, and if
you bid generously, then may be some money left for us,
and we may be able to start anew somewhere else.

Speaker 7 (16:51):
Oh yes, I shall be there, and have no fear
of Sister Felicity. I shall bid generously, and we know
on what you will bid. Did Monsieur Gaspar Moran convert
Madame utterly Tibau's twenty five thousand into gold and then

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construct the statue of the Virgin which he donated to
the Little Sisters of Samaria. If he did, while it amounts.

Speaker 16 (17:22):
To stealing, it really wasn't stealing exactly.

Speaker 17 (17:27):
Or was it.

Speaker 7 (17:29):
Well more on money and theology. When we resume in
just a few minutes. With that too. While all that
glitters may not be gold, there are times when gold

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itself doesn't glitter either. What is and what is not
gold and what price glitter are problems that have plagued
us all since the very beginnings of commerce, and it's
a problem we face as our second act begins.

Speaker 10 (18:06):
What do you mean this statue?

Speaker 7 (18:08):
Or don't you see what he did? He bought twenty
five thousand dollars worth of gold with your money and
made the statue of the Virgin.

Speaker 10 (18:16):
Oh.

Speaker 7 (18:17):
Now the question is what do you want to do
about it? Do you can let matter stay as they are,
or you can decide you want your money back.

Speaker 9 (18:25):
So, mister gestar, he made the gold statue of the Virgin.
I told you he was a man with great holiness.

Speaker 7 (18:33):
Well, yeah, so it was.

Speaker 9 (18:34):
Not for selfish things, not for women, or for drink
or the gambling.

Speaker 10 (18:38):
No, it was for the saints, for devotion. It was
the gift of the heart that was pure.

Speaker 7 (18:45):
You could look at it that way.

Speaker 10 (18:47):
I will have my money back.

Speaker 9 (18:49):
Let him buy his forgiveness, let him buy his glory
with his own money.

Speaker 10 (18:54):
Come, we will get the statue.

Speaker 7 (18:56):
But we can't prove it's yours.

Speaker 10 (18:57):
Hey, everyone knows I gave him twenty five.

Speaker 7 (19:00):
But we cannot prove that this was how he used it.

Speaker 10 (19:03):
Then how can we prove?

Speaker 7 (19:06):
We can't. But we don't have to.

Speaker 10 (19:08):
We don't have to. Didn't give us the statue.

Speaker 7 (19:12):
Oh, they'll sell us the statue. I told you everything
will be sold tomorrow at auction. We'll bid for the statue.

Speaker 10 (19:19):
That will we get you?

Speaker 16 (19:21):
Of course?

Speaker 7 (19:22):
After all, who would want a little lead statue of
the Virgin? I wish I could tell you about that auction.
The auctioneer figured what he had could fetch maybe ten dollars,
and when he got an opening bid from a stuntman
in the corner, he was ready to knock it down.

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But Madame t Bow stormed into the fray like a
ravenous wolf into a chicken coop.

Speaker 10 (19:48):
I see twinty glow, so r twinty fives glows for
the statue like this?

Speaker 7 (20:01):
Well, she kept the pot bubbling and finally permitted herself
to buy the statue for fifty dollars. We hurried out
of the quarter to the busy business district and brought
the statue to a very exclusive jewelers shop yes, this statue, Yes,
we should like to sell it. We do not purchase

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religious statues, even when they're made of gold, gold, pure
solid gold. You wear it? See if it doesn't add
up to at least twenty five thousand dollars? And what
makes you think this statue is gold?

Speaker 16 (20:39):
For?

Speaker 12 (20:40):
What makes you think it isn't? Because I know it
is lead? Lead, gold painted over lead.

Speaker 10 (20:48):
See what the knife? It is the virgin? What are
you doing?

Speaker 12 (20:52):
You see it slices almost as easily as butter all
the way down.

Speaker 7 (20:57):
No, then it is my friend.

Speaker 11 (21:02):
That statement should be engraved in marble.

Speaker 10 (21:04):
But you said this statue it was my gold.

Speaker 7 (21:10):
Well, I was quite frankly puzzled myself. What could he
have done with the money? I decided to abandon all
this hit misspeculation and go about the things scientifically. So
finally I located Monsieur Gaspy Moran's lawyer. But monsieur, what

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may I do for you? Monsieur Pinapass, I'm here about
Madame t bow is twenty five thousand dollars? What used
to be done? When I had to?

Speaker 18 (21:41):
Certainly his state, I discover his assets just barely coover
his liabilities as far as the sum of twenty five
thousand dollars.

Speaker 7 (21:49):
He is concerned. There is no sign of you. But
what could have happened to it? I'm sure I could
not tell you now, Monsieur Pinipass, We had here a
man gaspara Moran who seems to have had no vices?

Speaker 10 (22:04):
Is that true?

Speaker 7 (22:05):
How true? And almost no pleasure either? How could such
a man go through twenty five thousand dollars in less
than a month. It seems to present the difficulty, I say,
chershay la fam mess you guessper Oh, my dear sir, oh,
he held a magnetic attraction for women. Could he have

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been leading a secret life?

Speaker 10 (22:30):
No?

Speaker 8 (22:30):
No, no, no no.

Speaker 7 (22:31):
His life was an open book. Exactly my point. What
do you seem suspect any man whose life is an
open book?

Speaker 12 (22:40):
But, my dear slf, such a man's actions are there
for all to read.

Speaker 7 (22:45):
Now you say his life was an open book, but
could you swear that it wasn't written in a secret language?
A secret language, a code. We use certain words to
mean things that only he could understand. He wanted everyone,
perhaps to think of him as a devout, hard working person.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
Ah, but what who knows?

Speaker 7 (23:09):
What smoldered underneath what dreams, thoughts, desires.

Speaker 12 (23:15):
Ah, this is the thinking of a novelist, of the
writer of stories. This is the stuff of fiction as
opposed to as opposed to this stuff of life. You, sir,
are a man of creative fancies. I'm an attorney. I
deal with the realities.

Speaker 7 (23:32):
But it is the reality of life that is interesting
and dramatic, not the fancies of fiction.

Speaker 12 (23:38):
To even imply that sober, serious, hard working, developed Gasparma
might have been leading his secret life, Well, why is
that so far fast? Why because whig, now that you
mentioned it? Why indeed, who is to say he did
not lead a life that none of us knew anything about?

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Who is to see that were no viruces? Well they
don't necessarily have to be vice.

Speaker 7 (24:07):
They who they do.

Speaker 12 (24:09):
How are we to know that Gaspar Moran was not
the most democed depraveble.

Speaker 7 (24:15):
Well, now I didn't mean to go that far. Now,
you were his attorney, you knew him, Well, it was
his attorney, but no one knew him. Well, think, do
any names occur to you? Names? Try to remember before
he died, did he speak of anyone new or strange?

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You see, you're not sure.

Speaker 16 (24:41):
I know what you mean.

Speaker 7 (24:42):
Did he seem excited in any way excited? No, a
name he might have let drop. How did we know
about the next person, Papa. I know you're an attorney
and that you're not at liberty to discuss privileged information.

Speaker 12 (25:00):
Oh gasp, Gasparo, Oh, you old dog.

Speaker 7 (25:05):
And it might seem to you that I a stranger,
am taking liberty.

Speaker 12 (25:09):
But believe me, why dear, that is the name, the
name who you asked for? A name he might have
affered before he died. This strange name, a new wonder,
a known name. Yes, but you just said it to yourself. Liberty, Liberty,
Miss Liberty.

Speaker 7 (25:30):
Miss Liberty.

Speaker 12 (25:32):
He was dying and emotion for me to bend closer,
and he wink at me, and he said, prinfess, I
have left everything in the hands of Miss Liberty, Miss Liberty,
are pride and pray. Who is Miss Liberty?

Speaker 7 (25:49):
Well, well, who is she? He was about to tell
me what happened.

Speaker 12 (25:55):
Nothing happened, or from his point of you, everything happened.

Speaker 6 (25:59):
He dies.

Speaker 12 (26:01):
Oh, and so I am afraid we shall never know
who Miss Liberty is.

Speaker 7 (26:07):
Our course is clear. We have to find this Miss Liberty. Yes,
and when you find her get the money back. My friend,
howe you.

Speaker 12 (26:18):
Have no paper or no documents, nothing to prove the
money belongs to Madame Tibau. This miss Liberty, whoever she is,
could simply laugh.

Speaker 7 (26:28):
In your face, your penny pass. Do you know Madame Tibau?

Speaker 15 (26:33):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (26:34):
Do you think she would have any trouble getting back
twenty five thousand of.

Speaker 19 (26:37):
Her own dollars?

Speaker 7 (26:38):
Proof or no proof?

Speaker 12 (26:41):
Frankly, no trouble at her. See see I told you
to look for the woman.

Speaker 10 (26:57):
Miss Liberty. But who is miss Liberty?

Speaker 7 (26:59):
Well, first we have to find I don't know anyone.

Speaker 10 (27:02):
Named Leberty, missus or mister.

Speaker 7 (27:05):
Even that's the name mister Pinnipest mentioned.

Speaker 10 (27:08):
Mister Pinnipss. Do you trust mister Pinnipess?

Speaker 7 (27:12):
Is there any reason why I shouldn't? Certainly he's a lawyer,
I mean, any good reason. I have just given you
the best I inquired about mister Pinnipeses. And and he's
very well thought of by whom by are the lawyers?

Speaker 10 (27:24):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (27:24):
These birds flock together.

Speaker 7 (27:26):
He's an honest man.

Speaker 10 (27:28):
Another way of seeing. He has never been caught doing
anything crooked.

Speaker 7 (27:32):
Now, Madam Ardeley, why would he lie?

Speaker 9 (27:35):
Who is to say that she you or miss your
PINNI pass didn't steal the money.

Speaker 7 (27:40):
It is still my theory. There's a woman mixed up
in it.

Speaker 10 (27:43):
That's why.

Speaker 7 (27:44):
Well, because because it's a rule.

Speaker 10 (27:48):
What kind of rule?

Speaker 7 (27:49):
It's one of the two standard rules in a mystery,
and this is a mystery, isn't it? Of course?

Speaker 10 (27:55):
What two rules are you talking about?

Speaker 7 (27:57):
Well, the first rule is the butler the butler, and
the second is share shale fan.

Speaker 10 (28:05):
I don't understand.

Speaker 7 (28:06):
Now, these are the rules that have been passed down
to us by all the great writers of mysteries. Now
you're going to stand there and say it is and so.

Speaker 10 (28:14):
But there is no butler. Do I have a butler?
Did have it? Butler?

Speaker 20 (28:20):
No?

Speaker 14 (28:20):
You move have it?

Speaker 10 (28:21):
Butler? Does mister Fins have it? Butler No? Then there
is no butler and no rule.

Speaker 7 (28:29):
Are true, which is why we are left with rule
number two, share shale fan, And we have a clue,
Miss Liberty.

Speaker 10 (28:40):
But I asked you again, I'm a game. Who is this,
Miss Liberty?

Speaker 7 (28:45):
I'm sure that when we find her, we will have
found your twenty five thousand dollars, Miss Liberty. Now, Madam Modeley,
you know everybody in the quarter. Yes, but now, surely
is somewhere some time you came across the name Miss Liberty,
Miss Liberty. Never no, no, no, no, no, no, don't

(29:08):
close your mind. Think, just think and say, Miss Liberty,
where have I heard that name? Now, go ahead and
say it.

Speaker 10 (29:17):
Miss Liberty? Where have I heard that name?

Speaker 16 (29:22):
Say it again?

Speaker 10 (29:22):
And Miss Liberty? Where have I heard that name? Way?
What name is this we are trying to find, Miss Liberty?

Speaker 7 (29:32):
Does it mean anything at all to you, Miss Liberty?

Speaker 21 (29:36):
This Liberty?

Speaker 14 (29:36):
Sure?

Speaker 10 (29:37):
No, I remember, no, I know, Miss Liberty.

Speaker 7 (29:42):
Of course, maybe this isn't the time you would pick
to lower the curtain on the ending of an act.
But we, on the other hand, want to make sure
that you stay fresh and keyed up for our messages.
So Act three in just a few minutes, she share

(30:13):
fai la fam look for the woman. This seems to
have been the path we've been traveling ever since we
began our story. It's women, after all, who make the
world go round. And it's a certainty we can tell
you right now who is making our story go round
and round? And where we shall stop? Only she knows

(30:36):
at this time, Madam Hodeley, you know who Miss Liberty
is gusse I have heard the name? Where he in
this place? Men talk of her now getting somewhere?

Speaker 16 (30:47):
Who is she?

Speaker 7 (30:48):
Who is Madam Liberty?

Speaker 10 (30:50):
She is a horse, a horse.

Speaker 9 (30:54):
See the men come in here to drink, to get
away from their wives, to gamble.

Speaker 10 (31:00):
I'm to talk about horses.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
She's a horse.

Speaker 10 (31:03):
But the an't speak of this, Miss Liberty.

Speaker 7 (31:07):
She rides at the racetrack a racehorse.

Speaker 11 (31:12):
Can it be?

Speaker 7 (31:14):
Did he bet on Miss Liberty at the racetrack?

Speaker 10 (31:16):
Did she?

Speaker 7 (31:17):
If he did, then your money is surely gone. That's
the end of it.

Speaker 10 (31:21):
Oh no, I will love believe he gambled on a horse.

Speaker 7 (31:33):
It was now a time of delicate negotiations. When one
loses money betting on a horse, one must lose it
to somebody, a definite, actual somebody. And these gentlemen are
all members of a close fraternity. Tight lip given more
to listening than speaking.

Speaker 10 (31:55):
Miss Liberty.

Speaker 7 (31:56):
You want to bet on Miss Liberty? No, no, no,
I don't want a better Miss Liberty.

Speaker 16 (32:00):
Good.

Speaker 7 (32:01):
You ain't gonna die for well? I'm asking because of
a gentleman named Gaspar Morn. Yeah, it's important for me
to know if he lost a considerable sum of money
betting on Miss Liberty. Oh, anybody who bet on that
ice cold Mama would have lost a lot of money.
Twenty five thouars.

Speaker 16 (32:21):
Oooh, now that's a nice round sum. He didn't lose
it with me?

Speaker 7 (32:27):
What could you ascertain if he lost it with any
of your associates?

Speaker 16 (32:32):
Why?

Speaker 7 (32:33):
Well, I'm a curious person.

Speaker 16 (32:35):
Is that a fact?

Speaker 7 (32:36):
I understand? You write stories?

Speaker 17 (32:38):
He yes?

Speaker 16 (32:39):
Would you put me in a story?

Speaker 7 (32:41):
You're in this one already, Gumbo Charlie, and make sure
you got the name. And my customers can always find
me sitting in one eye fillip X fish parlor. Now
that I've published his advertisement, I have to tell you
that a day later, mister Gumbo Charlie came by to

(33:03):
see me scratch Miss Liberty. Oh this gas by Morain?
Why he never bet so much as a wooden nickel
on a horse in his life? You're sure? Well, thank you, Gumbo.
You might also tell my customers I can be found
Sundays at one arm Arthur's chowder House, One eyed fill
a Bay, one arm Arthur. What kind of people are these?

Speaker 16 (33:27):
Careless?

Speaker 7 (33:37):
Well, that idea fizzled out, too, but I kept remembering
Monsieur Pennepester's statement.

Speaker 12 (33:45):
Mische Maris said to me, I left everything in the
ards of Miss Liberty.

Speaker 7 (33:51):
Those were his exact words. Oh, yes, I am Annoyer.

Speaker 12 (33:55):
The exact worlds are of crucial importance.

Speaker 7 (33:58):
So it couldn't have been a race horse, a race
horse named Miss Liberty, because a horse has no hand
that he's correct. And he winked, you said, yes, which man?
He must have been happy, he as a man can
be on his deathbed. So he thought he had found
an ideal solution, Miss Liberty. Who could Miss Liberty be?

(34:23):
That was the first time you ever heard him mention
that name. It's the very first Miss Liberty, the auns
of Miss Liberty.

Speaker 16 (34:32):
Is it possible? Can it be possible? Can what be possible?

Speaker 20 (34:39):
No?

Speaker 7 (34:40):
No, it's too it's beyond the realm of what Who
is Miss Liberty? We have a had to establish he
is a racehorse, a Miss Liberty. Now, please, Monsieur Pinipass,
think of what I.

Speaker 11 (35:00):
Think of New York.

Speaker 7 (35:01):
Why should I think of New York? Of New York Harbor,
Miss Liberty, the great statue, the statue, the Statue of Liberty.
It is called Miss Liberty. Oh, it's that the fact
it's been standing there since eighteen.

Speaker 12 (35:17):
Eighty six, and why was I not informed?

Speaker 7 (35:20):
And it was presented to the people of America by
the people of France for what reason.

Speaker 12 (35:25):
Frenchmen do not normally give things away.

Speaker 7 (35:28):
As a gesture of friendship to commemorate the one hundredth
anniversary of our independence in eighteen seventy six, and it
took ten years before it could ten years. Well, it's
large statue, the largest in the world. It's one hundred
and fifty one feet high. It weighs two hundred and

(35:50):
twenty five tons.

Speaker 12 (35:52):
The entire affair sounds somewhat suspicious to me.

Speaker 7 (35:56):
But Monsieur Pinipet, you yourself said, Moran told you he
had left every thing in the hands of Miss Liberty.
Now that's true, isn't it. Which well, Miss Liberty stands
high above New York Harbor, and I suppose we shall
just have to look at her hands.

Speaker 19 (36:19):
What can I do?

Speaker 7 (36:21):
I'm the prisoner of a logical mind. A man is
entrusted with a sum of money on his deathbed, he
says he left it in the hands of Miss Liberty.
Miss Liberty is the famous statue in the harbor of
New York well like it or not, reasonable or not,
the clue had to be followed to its logical or

(36:43):
illogical conclusion. I boarded a train to New York City.
I discovered that the statue was in the custody of
the War Department. Through a friend of a friend who
had a friend, I was introduced to Colonel Ramrod. Look
at these statues hands, welch, I realize that her hands

(37:05):
are some three hundred feet above the water. Yes, sir,
is it necessary that you look at her hands? Absolutely? Necessarily?
May I ask her for some reason? Well, I'm trying
to recover Madame Tbow's twenty five thousand dollars. You've mentioned
two good reasons, a woman and money. On his deathbed,

(37:27):
he said he had left everything in the hands of
Miss Liberty. How do you get up there to do it?
I wouldn't be able to answer that.

Speaker 16 (37:36):
Colonel.

Speaker 7 (37:37):
You look a bit old to climb up and out
onto her hands. Well, not quite as old as hell was.
I'm allowing for that, and you appear somewhat portly. I
have to follow this clue to its logical conclusion. The
army likes to cooperate with the citizenry. We can have
you swung up and out there with blocking tat. I'll

(38:06):
tell you why I did it. True, I wanted to
help Madame Tebau, and I told myself that the Bouia
Bess was more than worth any risk or hardship. Yes,
that's what I told myself. But the truth, you see,
the realists were coming to the fore in literature, demopis

(38:27):
on that crime. And I wanted to show everyone that
old William Sidney Porter could be as real as any
of them. After all, who else would hang suspended three
hundred feet above the cold water of New York Harbor
as he carefully scrutinized the hands of the Statue of Liberty?
And what did I find? Exactly what I had expected

(38:50):
to find. Nothing. But the game had to be played
till the final out in the last inning. And so
I returned to New Orleans, sick at heart, weary and
spirit and hungry for a supper of bouia bass that
I knew I would never get to ease. I made

(39:13):
my way to Madame Ottley T Bow's cafe. Now, Madam,
oddly think we try to think, did Monsieur Moren ever
say anything at all about what he would do.

Speaker 11 (39:29):
With the money.

Speaker 9 (39:30):
Oh, he said this, and he said that, And I
couldn't understand one world.

Speaker 7 (39:36):
And there's a woman in this thing somewhere, but I
can't find it.

Speaker 10 (39:41):
You mustn't bother your head anymore.

Speaker 9 (39:43):
The money it comes and goes, and listen, because you
have been one good friend.

Speaker 10 (39:49):
I have a surprise. You come back with me? Where
to the kitchen windows come, I have a surprise.

Speaker 7 (40:02):
Well it wasn't a surprise. Long halfway to the kitchen,
the most heavenly odor filled the hallway.

Speaker 16 (40:11):
It was the boulia bess. Oh, that booia bears.

Speaker 7 (40:16):
I sat down at the kitchen table, eager, expectant, hungry.

Speaker 9 (40:22):
You work hard, you deserved reward.

Speaker 7 (40:25):
No, you eat boy bears as much often, Madam. Oddly,
what can I say? What could anyone say? In the
presence of such divine bouio bess? All one could do

(40:46):
is eat, eat, and eat until one was ready to burst,
and then rest to ready oneself for a second onslaught.
We're during this brief respite, I let my eyes wander
about Madame's kitchen in the dusky twilight. It was flecked

(41:07):
with gleams of polished, fine woods, and burnished glass and metal,
which he loved so much. The walls were covered with
lithograss and garish colors, advertising posters, theater builds, birthday cards,
everything calculated to stun the optic nerve into complete submission.

(41:29):
Then in the midst of it, some squares with a
gold border and a picture. A picture, was it possible?
A picture of liberty, liberty, the same liberty that was

(41:49):
on the money in my pocket, beautiful standing, miss Liberty.
I looked, agam, and I couldn't believe what I saw
pasted up on that wall. Madam, madam, Since when are
you in the habit of papering your walls with five

(42:10):
thousand dollars United States bonds?

Speaker 22 (42:13):
Bonds?

Speaker 10 (42:14):
Look on the wall, five.

Speaker 7 (42:17):
Five thousand dollars bonds with coupons attached. Well, here here's
your money.

Speaker 10 (42:24):
But that is not money. Those are just pretty pieces
of paper, madam, Miss Morain.

Speaker 9 (42:30):
He gave me these pretty pieces of paper after he
said he would invest the money I gave him.

Speaker 7 (42:35):
What didn't he explain what these were?

Speaker 9 (42:38):
All I know is I gave him money, and he
give me these little pieces of paper with that woman's
picture in it.

Speaker 7 (42:45):
But this is also money.

Speaker 10 (42:46):
How could it be money? Money has a man's picture.

Speaker 7 (42:49):
On it, not a woman's, Madam, not listen to me.
Do you know a good paper hanger? Of course, well
get him de Peel's off there, careful.

Speaker 10 (43:01):
But they hide a hole in the wall.

Speaker 7 (43:04):
With these bonds. You can buy a new wall, a
new house.

Speaker 10 (43:10):
With these pieces of paper with the woman's picture in it.

Speaker 7 (43:16):
That's what he meant when he said it was in
the hands of miss liberty. Madam, when in doubt, churshe lafar, Yes,
churshe lafarm. Look for the woman. Always look for the woman, for,

(43:41):
as a philosopher once said, without a woman, what enterprise
could possibly be worth the trouble. In addition to looking
for the woman, look for me, for I shall return
in a few minutes. Madame otterly Tebau used the twenty

(44:07):
five thousand dollars in US bonds to cover a bad
spot on her walls. And there they were pretty to
look at, decorative, useful. You may say that's rather expensive
for a wall covering, but can you think of many
people who spent twenty five thousand dollars on projects that

(44:28):
brought them far less satisfaction, pleasure, and use. Our cast
included Robert Dryden, Bryna Rayburn, Ian Martin and Bill Griffiths.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
And now a preview of our next tale.

Speaker 18 (44:48):
Well, you see there's such a thing? Is so for protection? Yes,
I'm sure there is? Is there a timelock? Yes, a timelock?

Speaker 7 (44:58):
Well, like I say, I don't really know oh much
about it, but I've heard of bank vaults that had
timelocks as winter dressing, as in men filius.

Speaker 8 (45:07):
I'm sure you're right, So.

Speaker 7 (45:08):
Of course I'm right, And I've bet my life on
this vault.

Speaker 18 (45:13):
And ever hear of a fellow called Jimmy Valentine.

Speaker 7 (45:18):
Jimmy Valentine, No, I don't believe I ever did you
never heard of Jimmy Valentine?

Speaker 16 (45:24):
Know who's he.

Speaker 7 (45:25):
Supposed to be?

Speaker 18 (45:28):
He's only supposed to be the most famous safecracker in
these United States of America.

Speaker 7 (45:34):
Oh, I'm willing to wager that.

Speaker 18 (45:36):
Even the great Jimmy Valentine himself would find it impossible
to break into.

Speaker 23 (45:40):
This here vault.

Speaker 7 (45:42):
Missus E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to our
mystery theater for another adventure. In the macabre until next time,
Pleasant Dream.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
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Speaker 24 (49:23):
Hope, Lights out for the devil and mister oh.

Speaker 25 (49:39):
It is.

Speaker 16 (49:43):
Later then.

Speaker 10 (49:47):
You thing.

Speaker 24 (49:57):
Turn out your light.

Speaker 6 (50:00):
Now.

Speaker 26 (50:03):
We bring you stories of the supernatural and the super normal,
dramatizing the fantasies and the mysteries of the unknown. We
tell you this frankly, so that if you wish to
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urge you, calmly but sincerely, to turn off your radio.

Speaker 27 (50:24):
Now.

Speaker 28 (50:26):
This is mister O. R.

Speaker 26 (50:27):
Joboy, who, among us and you're included, has not had
the dream, at one time or another, of being superior
to his or her fellow beings, to jump higher, to
run faster, to dance better, to be more beautiful, we've
all run the gamut, all of us at various ages

(50:49):
of standing out from the crowd of humanity. That's what
our story is about today, being different in a very
special manner. We begin after a short pause.

Speaker 29 (51:08):
See the leaf right here in my hands?

Speaker 1 (51:10):
Oh yeah, is that new leaf?

Speaker 6 (51:13):
Yes, it is a new leaf here.

Speaker 16 (51:16):
I'm going to turn over a new leaf.

Speaker 14 (51:20):
Get it leaf new?

Speaker 8 (51:22):
What does that mean to turn over a new leaf?

Speaker 10 (51:24):
Well, in serious that you're gonna have a little.

Speaker 30 (51:28):
Change from what to what?

Speaker 31 (51:31):
From bad to good?

Speaker 6 (51:33):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (51:33):
Really?

Speaker 21 (51:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (51:34):
Well, I suppose somebody was crying.

Speaker 10 (51:36):
They could switch some tears to a swim.

Speaker 8 (51:39):
Suppose they were lonely.

Speaker 10 (51:41):
They could go from lonely newness to having somebody to climate.

Speaker 8 (51:45):
Well, suppose somebody wasn't loved. Could they turn over a
new leaf?

Speaker 16 (51:49):
They could go from that loving somebody to love with somebody.

Speaker 8 (51:53):
How did they do that?

Speaker 10 (51:54):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (51:54):
They have to do stry to love somebody.

Speaker 32 (51:56):
Just try.

Speaker 33 (51:57):
Yeah, it's you seem to.

Speaker 34 (51:59):
Love the boy will try.

Speaker 7 (52:01):
Love makes all things to you again?

Speaker 8 (52:03):
Hey, what was that?

Speaker 20 (52:04):
Another sound of love from the Franciscans.

Speaker 26 (52:09):
And now, if you haven't already done so, turn off
your lights now and listen to speed.

Speaker 35 (52:25):
But my dear mister Finn, five thousand dollars, five thousand dollars,
five thousand dollars, what do you think you're doing?

Speaker 36 (52:34):
Bidding at an auction sale?

Speaker 35 (52:35):
I am bidding for your services, and if a five
thousand dollars retainer isn't enough, by name your own price.
I'm not here as an individual. I'm the representative of
a group of casualty insurance companies who handle practically all
of the burglary insurance in.

Speaker 11 (52:51):
This entire area.

Speaker 35 (52:52):
Now I feel that important talk important money.

Speaker 27 (52:55):
Ten thousand dollars cash very well, I write your check.

Speaker 35 (53:00):
Detective Agency FNN, Yes, yes, yes, half a million dollars
stolen in broad daylight. No witnesses very clever criminal, whoever is.
But surely you don't believe only one man has committed.

Speaker 8 (53:18):
All these crimes.

Speaker 35 (53:19):
Whenever there is greatness, even in crime, the answer is
a man.

Speaker 27 (53:25):
One man.

Speaker 35 (53:26):
Twenty five places robbed, both sides of the State street,
twenty five stores robbed in the space of thirty minutes,
And you talk of one man is very clever. No
one man could rob twenty five places, spreading over.

Speaker 32 (53:38):
A distance of three blocks, in the.

Speaker 16 (53:39):
Space of thirty minutes.

Speaker 35 (53:41):
No, of course, not banks and department stores and loan companies,
cash registers cleaned out, and not a clue.

Speaker 7 (53:48):
Not a witness.

Speaker 35 (53:49):
The devil alone knows what this is all about.

Speaker 37 (53:53):
The devil a long.

Speaker 27 (54:02):
City mark.

Speaker 35 (54:04):
Oh hello, Chief, Yeah, he's been here.

Speaker 29 (54:08):
Two days in a row.

Speaker 38 (54:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 35 (54:10):
All he looks at is the bodies of the hit
and run. He listened, Chief, Here he comes now, Yeah, okay,
I'll try to find out. Yeah, I am mister Fenn.
Earlier today, ain't you quickly show me the newlands?

Speaker 39 (54:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 35 (54:27):
Sure, why not the same time?

Speaker 32 (54:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 35 (54:30):
Okay, Now, this one's name is it's on the tag here,
Marris and something Relas ain't.

Speaker 8 (54:41):
Claimed him yet to look at him?

Speaker 1 (54:44):
Mashed up?

Speaker 35 (54:44):
Pretty ay, he never knew what struck him, because I'll say,
didn't the way let's go, Well, I bet you he
went out just like that.

Speaker 27 (54:53):
I no longer interested in this one.

Speaker 26 (54:55):
Where's the next shuming up?

Speaker 27 (54:57):
Well, I'll put this fella back on ice. Let me
see where to put the dame. Oh yeah, yea, she is.

Speaker 7 (55:12):
Shit.

Speaker 35 (55:15):
Whoever the rat was at her must have busted front
end of his crate.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
Look at her.

Speaker 35 (55:21):
Ain't much of her left to tell he who she was.
Only identification on her was her first name in the book.
Let me see h Libby. Yeah that's what he was, Libby.
Gosh if this was my girlfriend and then he hits
the one rat, that just I'd find him even if.

Speaker 27 (55:36):
Mister, what's the matter?

Speaker 28 (55:38):
What are you laughing about?

Speaker 27 (55:42):
The girl's face it?

Speaker 35 (55:43):
It's master, what are you laughing about?

Speaker 9 (55:47):
I know.

Speaker 17 (55:49):
Now, I know.

Speaker 10 (55:57):
Ab all about it.

Speaker 30 (55:59):
Hit the roads up, you know, people read all about it.

Speaker 40 (56:02):
Hitting her rather here paper messer, which wanted visa?

Speaker 27 (56:05):
No, no, I don't want a pepper. I want to
talk to her.

Speaker 34 (56:07):
Here, Oh dance missus sandser.

Speaker 29 (56:09):
What you want to know?

Speaker 27 (56:11):
There was a little accident on this corner yesterday, wasn't that?

Speaker 14 (56:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 40 (56:14):
Yeah, sure, some dame got ahead, almost cut off by
one of them, got hit and run.

Speaker 6 (56:17):
Guys, see you should have seen it.

Speaker 14 (56:19):
Made mister sick, I couldn't.

Speaker 27 (56:20):
Yes, yes, but that doesn't concern me. What do I
want to know is did you see the accident?

Speaker 41 (56:26):
You mean the card we're done it?

Speaker 34 (56:27):
Yes?

Speaker 42 (56:27):
Well no, not what you could really say seeing it?

Speaker 27 (56:30):
No make I spake out, don't get so.

Speaker 40 (56:32):
I'm telling you I was just closing up my stand
ready to go home.

Speaker 43 (56:35):
Seeing I have my back kind of through the street.

Speaker 14 (56:37):
See all at once I hears.

Speaker 40 (56:38):
A woosh in a deem screams and then a whosh again,
like one of them there raised cars at the speedwhere
like she sees in the news music. When I turned around,
there's a deem dying out there. And honest, mister, the
hats out of sight, ready or ready?

Speaker 10 (56:50):
I don't see nothing, know, sir?

Speaker 27 (56:53):
You don't see nothing.

Speaker 41 (56:55):
Why that guy must have.

Speaker 40 (56:56):
Been going one hundred miles an hour.

Speaker 14 (56:58):
He ain't even got life?

Speaker 41 (56:59):
Now you, hey, you all down there? I want to
talk to you.

Speaker 27 (57:09):
Are you talking to me? Copper wise?

Speaker 18 (57:12):
Guys, listen you what's the idea of cross examining everybody
in this neighborhood?

Speaker 16 (57:16):
Now?

Speaker 27 (57:16):
Just a minute before you start using that night stake you?

Speaker 7 (57:18):
But I have a look at this whoy?

Speaker 27 (57:21):
Who are you a private detection man? Brilliant?

Speaker 35 (57:23):
Well?

Speaker 18 (57:24):
Know?

Speaker 7 (57:24):
How was I supposed to know that?

Speaker 20 (57:25):
I do?

Speaker 10 (57:26):
Know?

Speaker 18 (57:26):
What?

Speaker 44 (57:26):
Now?

Speaker 32 (57:27):
Tell me this?

Speaker 27 (57:29):
What do you know about the hit and run cases
in this district?

Speaker 16 (57:31):
Yo?

Speaker 27 (57:31):
That's bad, sir?

Speaker 7 (57:32):
But what can I do?

Speaker 35 (57:34):
Drunken rats driving without light and.

Speaker 32 (57:36):
Giving no warming.

Speaker 11 (57:38):
We'll get them tonight.

Speaker 32 (57:39):
There, believe me, we will.

Speaker 35 (57:40):
What do you mean he's going to be ten squad
cars tour in this district?

Speaker 16 (57:45):
That's the moment.

Speaker 8 (57:46):
One question.

Speaker 35 (57:47):
Have you been hearing any peculiar noises on your beat?
Noises like like an airplane motor when there wasn't anything
in the sky.

Speaker 27 (57:55):
Go now you're a kidding me? Hey, look at the time.

Speaker 35 (57:59):
Better get more over on me, Peter the sergeant will
be shooting his motor. Anything else I could tell.

Speaker 27 (58:04):
You, Yes, this rest of word finer does the good
slice to it?

Speaker 14 (58:08):
Yes.

Speaker 7 (58:08):
Bill Lewis's place is okay.

Speaker 27 (58:10):
He's up in Washington, but his wife's running it.

Speaker 32 (58:13):
Nothing like the.

Speaker 27 (58:14):
Ritz, but it's okay.

Speaker 41 (58:16):
Well, I'll be seeing you.

Speaker 27 (58:18):
You're mistaken.

Speaker 20 (58:27):
Pull your head, sir.

Speaker 32 (58:29):
Nice dinners, uh coffee.

Speaker 45 (58:32):
Piece, a nice face, tie apple, peach, cherry apple, Yes, sir,
right away.

Speaker 32 (58:40):
I beg your pardon.

Speaker 27 (58:44):
Where did you come from?

Speaker 32 (58:44):
I followed you in. I wish to speak with you.

Speaker 27 (58:47):
I don't want to buy anything.

Speaker 35 (58:48):
I am not selling just like you. I am asking questions. Hey,
I have been watching you all afternoon. You have been
asking many questions on that Here.

Speaker 42 (58:56):
I am a buliev here, doctor Berliine, I live in
this neighborhood.

Speaker 32 (58:59):
I am, it's interested in whatever goes on in it.

Speaker 27 (59:02):
I've got to meet you, doctor. Maybe you can tell me.

Speaker 35 (59:05):
Have you heard any unusual noises during a late afternoon
evening hours? A noise you couldn't quite locate or explain?

Speaker 32 (59:12):
Noises? What noises? You are a detective?

Speaker 27 (59:16):
Why do you ask that?

Speaker 42 (59:17):
As a physician, I pride myself for my powers of observation.

Speaker 32 (59:21):
You are a detective, he my friend. Yes, then come
with me. Do not raise your voice. Now, this gun
in my pocket will kill you. Walk slowly toward the door.
Make no noise.

Speaker 42 (59:39):
Now open the door and step outside.

Speaker 32 (59:42):
I addrive discretion. I will be close behind you.

Speaker 42 (59:49):
Now walk beside me down the streets.

Speaker 32 (59:55):
It's gone in your side into laugh? Why do you laugh?
Tell me.

Speaker 27 (01:00:01):
I've been looking for you, doctor Billini?

Speaker 6 (01:00:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (01:00:05):
Why I must know your secret.

Speaker 46 (01:00:08):
I must.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Very well.

Speaker 32 (01:00:12):
But that is a price to pay.

Speaker 8 (01:00:14):
Price?

Speaker 27 (01:00:16):
What is your price?

Speaker 34 (01:00:18):
There?

Speaker 26 (01:00:25):
We leave are the Devil and mister O's story of
Speed for a short message.

Speaker 47 (01:00:31):
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to cut high food costs, and we'd like to tell
you an economical, tasty way to serve top quality wheat dishes.
Today's answer is high protein hamd h A M cracice
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alada poly sham, there's no waste, no grizzle or bone

(01:00:51):
to throw away, and no water added. It's all lean,
flavorful ham, right down to the last tasty bit. You
can even use the small a lot of jelly brought
to make soups more nourishing or to create delicious graviies.
And ham is also perfect for breakfast, lunch, snacks and parties.
It's the easiest food you can prepare because polish ham
is fully cooked when you buy them, so if you wish,

(01:01:13):
you just zip of from the tin, slice, serve, and
enjoy from end to end. In these days of high
food prices, ham is understandably in great demand by economical housewives,
so you may find that your favorite market is temporarily
out of certain sizes of fine imported polish ham. Shippm's
around the way, though, and we thank you for your patience.

Speaker 8 (01:01:34):
And now back to our the Devil and Mister Oh story.

Speaker 35 (01:01:48):
So now we will not be disturbed, mister hen Mark,
friend Mark.

Speaker 42 (01:01:53):
Sad the man who is willing to die to learn
my secret.

Speaker 27 (01:01:56):
And take my chances. Tell me how did you do it?

Speaker 32 (01:01:59):
But first I will ask you questions. You are either
a very clever man, mister Fenn, or a very lucky one.
How did you suspect it was only one man?

Speaker 27 (01:02:07):
I knew it had to be one man?

Speaker 42 (01:02:09):
But how did you correlate the missing money and the
dead in the street?

Speaker 35 (01:02:13):
Thirty minutes to collect half a million and cover twenty
five stars?

Speaker 27 (01:02:16):
I knew you'd have to move fast. I forget someone
to get hurt.

Speaker 32 (01:02:19):
You are very clever.

Speaker 27 (01:02:21):
You did do it, and joy come, I will show you.

Speaker 32 (01:02:23):
You will be the first to know and the last.
Here sit here, now, what do you see in my hand,
Mark Finn?

Speaker 27 (01:02:34):
A bottle?

Speaker 35 (01:02:34):
It's full of oil?

Speaker 27 (01:02:36):
Not oil, you blind fool.

Speaker 15 (01:02:38):
Power the key of the world.

Speaker 32 (01:02:40):
Listen to me, Mark Finn.

Speaker 35 (01:02:42):
One drop of this in the world is mine. You believe,
Mark Frienn, You believe what.

Speaker 32 (01:02:46):
I tell you?

Speaker 8 (01:02:47):
But what does that stuff do?

Speaker 27 (01:02:50):
You've got to tell me speed, that's why it gives speed.

Speaker 12 (01:02:53):
Faster, faster, faster, every atom andy faster.

Speaker 32 (01:02:56):
You do believe, Mark Friend.

Speaker 27 (01:02:57):
You've got to believe, But I don't understand it.

Speaker 48 (01:03:02):
What does that stuff do to me?

Speaker 27 (01:03:03):
Well, you fool, why don't you listen? But I speed,
that's what it gives me.

Speaker 35 (01:03:07):
Speed, every physical process, every mental activity, it speeds them
up ten twenty times the normal rate.

Speaker 27 (01:03:12):
Faster, faster, savery molecule.

Speaker 35 (01:03:15):
Listen, the average man walked three miles an hour. One
drop of this, and I walk sixty miles an hour.
Now you know my secret. It's a chemical which speeds
up my activities until I am a god among men.
A drop of this, one drop and I walk, and
I run, and I talk and I think twenty times faster.

Speaker 24 (01:03:34):
Than any other man in the world.

Speaker 27 (01:03:35):
Oh no, no, that I can't say.

Speaker 20 (01:03:37):
No.

Speaker 6 (01:03:39):
Then watch I drink.

Speaker 27 (01:03:44):
To doctor, doctor Blinia?

Speaker 7 (01:03:49):
Or where are you doctor?

Speaker 27 (01:03:51):
Where are you.

Speaker 6 (01:03:54):
Blin?

Speaker 17 (01:03:55):
I never seen.

Speaker 27 (01:03:58):
Anybody you're talking about?

Speaker 33 (01:04:04):
Love it.

Speaker 27 (01:04:08):
Billiny? You went away? Where what happened to you? Why
do you talk like that?

Speaker 36 (01:04:19):
I to you, our physical mental processes being up.

Speaker 42 (01:04:32):
Wait a second chemical effect.

Speaker 35 (01:04:36):
We're aware of completely that stuff it makes you talk fast,
That it.

Speaker 7 (01:04:43):
There?

Speaker 32 (01:04:45):
In fact, it's worn off and back to normal rate again?

Speaker 27 (01:04:48):
Where did you go?

Speaker 32 (01:04:49):
Where to prove to you what I say is true?

Speaker 34 (01:04:52):
Look what I have in my hand diamonds, diamond necklace.

Speaker 6 (01:04:58):
Where did you.

Speaker 42 (01:04:59):
From the window that jewel restore three blocks away?

Speaker 20 (01:05:02):
You?

Speaker 35 (01:05:04):
You were there and back in these few seconds, twenty
times faster than any man can run. I ran in
those few seconds, twenty times.

Speaker 42 (01:05:11):
Faster than any man can think.

Speaker 32 (01:05:12):
I fought in those few seconds.

Speaker 35 (01:05:14):
Now, Now do you believe my it was you moving
here one hundred miles an hour that knocked down those people.

Speaker 8 (01:05:21):
And killed him.

Speaker 16 (01:05:22):
It was you moving so fast.

Speaker 27 (01:05:24):
They were not hurt. They were hurt, but not you.

Speaker 34 (01:05:27):
Yes, Yes, it was I.

Speaker 35 (01:05:30):
It was you moving so fast I couldn't see you.
Who took that half million in cash in those stores?

Speaker 39 (01:05:34):
Yes?

Speaker 35 (01:05:35):
I need too you, Yes me. All my life, I've wanted, Belini,
the power you've got now, Belini.

Speaker 32 (01:05:46):
I wanted to But why why should I share it
with you?

Speaker 27 (01:05:51):
Because I can help you? Yes, that's it, I can
help you. There's so much to do here.

Speaker 35 (01:05:55):
You can rule the world, but you cannot conquer it alone.

Speaker 8 (01:05:58):
You'll need help, and I'll need help you.

Speaker 35 (01:06:01):
Hear me, belie me, I'll help you. I'll do anything
you say, but you must let me join you.

Speaker 37 (01:06:06):
With the dream of all my.

Speaker 35 (01:06:08):
Life coming true.

Speaker 27 (01:06:10):
Power like you, my God, Let me join your believe.

Speaker 6 (01:06:16):
Me, let me, yes, I need a man like you.

Speaker 27 (01:06:24):
Together we will help the worst.

Speaker 49 (01:06:38):
And I say to you that this great and unprecedented
crime way which is really up today, is due entirely
to the untoly alliance of crime.

Speaker 41 (01:06:47):
And polity with the comfort out above it.

Speaker 20 (01:06:50):
And I say, nice tournament the marror.

Speaker 16 (01:06:56):
I am doing everything I can do.

Speaker 27 (01:06:58):
I've sworn in a thousand.

Speaker 7 (01:06:59):
Next the deputies, I have got the four.

Speaker 49 (01:07:06):
And I tell you, fellow citizens, lit alliance for the
underworld and their mountains can never be broken. And to
we the people take medicine call on hand like the
vales of boat. We must rise in our wrath and
rise about.

Speaker 14 (01:07:20):
Fantity, destroy the.

Speaker 40 (01:07:33):
Resolution, spot only a le crib and policy.

Speaker 6 (01:07:44):
We have done well in these ten days.

Speaker 32 (01:07:47):
Then we have.

Speaker 29 (01:07:52):
Ten million dollars.

Speaker 35 (01:07:54):
It's nobody in the world of a collected money that
this was good.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
Letting you join me.

Speaker 42 (01:07:58):
I told old places where money is, you know, But.

Speaker 27 (01:08:03):
It's not money alone.

Speaker 37 (01:08:05):
We want beliea.

Speaker 7 (01:08:06):
Oh, I know, I know.

Speaker 27 (01:08:07):
We have been just how do you say it?

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
Testing?

Speaker 16 (01:08:11):
Are we?

Speaker 27 (01:08:11):
And now we're ready to go?

Speaker 32 (01:08:12):
Yes, you concentrated my chemical is ready. Today.

Speaker 17 (01:08:16):
We have taken the.

Speaker 27 (01:08:17):
City, the morrow of the world, the world.

Speaker 35 (01:08:20):
But now while the city we have left behind us
boils and the madness we have brought with you and die.

Speaker 24 (01:08:26):
We will arrest.

Speaker 27 (01:08:27):
Then you're laughing there? Why I was thinking of the
fun I had this morning?

Speaker 32 (01:08:36):
Oh you mean when we lik with it at your enemy.

Speaker 35 (01:08:42):
Dead, every mother's son of them, everyone that ever.

Speaker 32 (01:08:46):
Left, Yes, every one of them, and you go on
to new triumphs.

Speaker 35 (01:08:52):
I never knew what hit them. That's the only trouble
with movies so fast, Bolina.

Speaker 32 (01:08:56):
You mean when you struck them at fifty times the
normal way.

Speaker 35 (01:08:59):
Yes, it was like hitting them with a six inch shell.
Skulls smashed in like empty egg.

Speaker 42 (01:09:04):
Then you were disappointed because your revenge was over too quickly.

Speaker 32 (01:09:07):
And Mark fan, Yes, what if I were to tell.

Speaker 35 (01:09:10):
You that my new concentrate, the one we will use
tomorrow when we arrive at.

Speaker 32 (01:09:14):
The seat of your government in Washington.

Speaker 35 (01:09:16):
What if I were to tell you that this new
concentrate is infinitely more powerful than the one.

Speaker 32 (01:09:21):
We have been using, more powerful?

Speaker 8 (01:09:24):
How can I be listen?

Speaker 35 (01:09:26):
The one we have been using increases the physical and
mental rate twenty times.

Speaker 32 (01:09:29):
Is that not so.

Speaker 35 (01:09:30):
Yes, talk, walk, run and think fifty times last. So
there you have it with the new concentrate, talk, walk, think,
and run an infinite.

Speaker 42 (01:09:37):
Number of times faster than not.

Speaker 35 (01:09:38):
You're here, you'll mean there's no limit, no limit. We
move faster as.

Speaker 32 (01:09:42):
Fast as well.

Speaker 35 (01:09:43):
Lie say two hundred, three hundred, five hundred. The limit
will be our desires, a blow of light here or
there the next place, masters of men, because compared to us,
men are snails who crawl while we run.

Speaker 20 (01:09:55):
Master of men.

Speaker 24 (01:09:57):
They have brought the button, the new concent and.

Speaker 27 (01:10:00):
It looks the same.

Speaker 35 (01:10:01):
Yeah, shall we try some Mark Fans, Hey, I don't
know if we must try sometimes. Yes, it is the
same basic formula, as you are sure. I do not
ask you to do what I will not do myself.
We will take equal amounts and compare reactions. How much
were two drops each? I have two medicine droppers ready. Yes,

(01:10:22):
the moment which one of the drops, we will move
toward them. You see that barn across the field. We
meet there and see how fast we can move. You
know your drops, Mark Fan, I purely are not afraid,
my friend afraid me? No, of course, not give meet
our drops we'll bring together.

Speaker 34 (01:10:45):
Yes, Mark Fan.

Speaker 16 (01:11:04):
First, Mark Fan?

Speaker 27 (01:11:10):
Why what haven't I?

Speaker 6 (01:11:14):
I am not quite sure.

Speaker 27 (01:11:18):
That the burn we're lying by the barn. We did
get here, my fan.

Speaker 7 (01:11:26):
Your clothes, my clothes well up.

Speaker 27 (01:11:32):
I'm naked, I.

Speaker 20 (01:11:33):
Too, Mark fen listen.

Speaker 35 (01:11:36):
We moved so quickly through the air, our clothes were
torn up. Can you concentrate infinitely more powerful? We moved
through the air at a tremendous rate, hundreds of miles.

Speaker 50 (01:11:51):
Blinnie, what your lips they're not moving? And yet I
hear you your lips they do.

Speaker 36 (01:12:02):
Not move either, And yet I hear you too.

Speaker 6 (01:12:07):
That cannot be.

Speaker 24 (01:12:10):
What is it, Leinie?

Speaker 6 (01:12:11):
Our reactions?

Speaker 35 (01:12:13):
The concentrate has speeded them up so intensely. Will you
read each other's thoughts?

Speaker 10 (01:12:19):
No?

Speaker 32 (01:12:20):
No, do not move? Why I the concentrate?

Speaker 27 (01:12:23):
It was too powerful.

Speaker 35 (01:12:26):
We must lie quietly until it's effects where off.

Speaker 51 (01:12:30):
Yes, but.

Speaker 16 (01:12:33):
Were Lennie?

Speaker 27 (01:12:34):
Then why are you looking at me like that?

Speaker 24 (01:12:39):
Your face?

Speaker 7 (01:12:41):
My face?

Speaker 27 (01:12:43):
Some things happening to it? But speak up?

Speaker 6 (01:12:48):
What is wrong with my face?

Speaker 20 (01:12:50):
What your your face?

Speaker 16 (01:12:56):
Creases in it?

Speaker 42 (01:12:57):
Lines and yours?

Speaker 35 (01:13:02):
That's what's happening to yours?

Speaker 27 (01:13:05):
Blini?

Speaker 35 (01:13:07):
If you Blinie, what's happening.

Speaker 36 (01:13:13):
Tell me age, that is its age.

Speaker 6 (01:13:17):
Age.

Speaker 10 (01:13:19):
We are aging, we are age changing.

Speaker 27 (01:13:25):
What are you talking about.

Speaker 36 (01:13:27):
Concentrate our physical reactions.

Speaker 17 (01:13:31):
They have been.

Speaker 20 (01:13:32):
Speeded up too much.

Speaker 27 (01:13:34):
Tell me what's that got to do.

Speaker 36 (01:13:37):
Listen to me the concentrate. It has speeded up our
life processes to infinity. Every second is aging us a year?

Speaker 16 (01:13:51):
Every second? No, no, I'm a young man.

Speaker 6 (01:13:56):
Believe you're lying.

Speaker 10 (01:13:59):
I'm not getting older.

Speaker 35 (01:14:02):
I'm God.

Speaker 43 (01:14:04):
I'm red.

Speaker 14 (01:14:06):
Are dying?

Speaker 10 (01:14:08):
My friend?

Speaker 21 (01:14:10):
Die?

Speaker 10 (01:14:12):
Die your life?

Speaker 6 (01:14:15):
I won't die.

Speaker 35 (01:14:18):
I won't.

Speaker 20 (01:14:26):
Sad, And yet the solution works on in his flesh.

Speaker 36 (01:14:35):
CKay no, no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 10 (01:14:39):
I cannot die.

Speaker 36 (01:14:42):
Master of men, I cannot die, Master.

Speaker 52 (01:14:48):
Of the.

Speaker 26 (01:15:02):
This is mister o Arjobler about that novel I recently wrote.

Speaker 8 (01:15:08):
Its title is House on Fire, And if you.

Speaker 26 (01:15:11):
Twist your bookseller's arm enough you might get one.

Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
It's all about the.

Speaker 24 (01:15:16):
Devil taking over our world.

Speaker 8 (01:15:18):
You doubt that's possible.

Speaker 26 (01:15:21):
Will stop and think, aren't some of the things that
are happening in the world impossible to answer rationally unless
one considers that perhaps God, disgusted with what we've done
with our world, has left us for a while and
Satan and his cohorts have taken over. And speaking of Satan,

(01:15:45):
he's personified in our next play. More of that after
a message.

Speaker 53 (01:15:55):
On a sun parts desert in a humid, tangled jungle
beneath the stars of a tropical seaport. These are the
places that hopies are found. Hopies, the people of Project
Hope sail to distant ports on a white hospital ship,

(01:16:18):
or take up residence in our own Southwest with this
common goal to help others become medically self sufficient. Project
Hope's mission is not treat and run. It's treat and teach. Hopies.
Teach medical skills to professional counterparts who are eager to
learn new methods, and they teach willing workers with limited

(01:16:38):
education the skills that help them contribute to the well
being of their own communities. Help Hope live on, contribute
to Project Hope, Room A, Washington, d C.

Speaker 26 (01:16:53):
This is mister Ole once more. Next week's play is
titled The Shrinking People. It's a play about a husband,
a wife, a lover, and a man who plays God
or the devil. Next time, then The Shrinking People.

Speaker 20 (01:17:20):
It is.

Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
Later then.

Speaker 28 (01:17:28):
You think.

Speaker 29 (01:17:47):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 46 (01:17:52):
Not diarrage of faith Faith Ware's no favorites. It could
happen to.

Speaker 54 (01:18:02):
You Book ninety seven, Stage eight hundred and fifty four
in the Diary of Faith. Yes, here it is the

(01:18:25):
name Walter Vincent, occupation chemist.

Speaker 1 (01:18:31):
Yes, Walter.

Speaker 54 (01:18:33):
For four years you have been an employee of the
Randall Foundation for Scientific Research, and in that time you
have come to realize how wrong you were you select
science and a life work. Although you were diligent and accurate,
you lack inventiveness. And many times during recent months your

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wife Tarrell has pointed out in no one certain terms,
long and fruitless road which lies ahead of you. This
realization brought you to temptation and a choice. Now for
a moment, I faith look ahead to a single instant

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in your life, an instant of decision.

Speaker 55 (01:19:27):
I don't intend to give up everything now, Walter.

Speaker 11 (01:19:29):
No matter what me good, we still have a chance
if we work together. You see, Kramer is going.

Speaker 56 (01:19:34):
To give Philip that letter at the masquer rate I
don't understand, and that means just one thing. I'll have
to go to the Masquerade in his place, and I'll
have to get rid of Philip.

Speaker 54 (01:19:53):
In that decision, Walter Vincent, you will find your goal
and your instruction. Soon it will be time for a
further entry under your name. When I have written, I
will read from the record of Walter Vincent in the

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Diary of Faith. In the Life of Walter Vincent, an

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infamous decision was made, yet in the final analysis, it
was a little thing, seemingly insignificant to determine the inevitable outcome.

Speaker 33 (01:20:53):
It is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Ever, Thus.

Speaker 54 (01:20:55):
Remember Walter Vincent where it all started. You were driving
home from a funeral of Professor Rudolf Heigman, an associate
of the Foundation, who had died suddenly of a heart attack.
Your wife and Philip Webb, also a chemist at the Foundation.

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
We're talking as you drove through the heavy rains. He
was a great scientist, old Tigman.

Speaker 57 (01:21:24):
The Foundation is certainly going to miss him.

Speaker 58 (01:21:26):
Strange, isn't it, How suddenly an unexpected it can happen
just like that, It's all over.

Speaker 11 (01:21:33):
Yeah, that's right, Carol.

Speaker 59 (01:21:34):
I only hope I can achieve half as much in
my life as he did in his. I'd consider it
a lifetime well spent.

Speaker 10 (01:21:41):
Why how can you say that, Philip, Professor Tigman was
a lonely old man.

Speaker 55 (01:21:47):
He never really lived in his whole life. He never
had any money or fun, Just work and more work,
That's all he knew.

Speaker 57 (01:21:55):
Yes, but look at all the splendid things he accomplished, and.

Speaker 55 (01:21:58):
Where did that get him?

Speaker 39 (01:22:00):
Be?

Speaker 55 (01:22:00):
He wished plenty of times he'd enjoyed life more as
he went along. Believe me, I'm not going to stake
my happiness on a future I may never see.

Speaker 59 (01:22:08):
Oh excuse me, Carol, but this next corner will be fine, Walter, Okay,
pell glad to drive on home?

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
Though, No thanks, But there is one thing. Yeah, I'm
going out to Taigman's lab.

Speaker 59 (01:22:18):
Tomorrow and i'd appreciate it if you'd come along and
sort of help me put his things.

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
In nought out there.

Speaker 59 (01:22:22):
Why sure, Phil, glad to fine, see you tomorrow, then goodbye,
good bye, Waler.

Speaker 55 (01:22:31):
I meant what I said about that feature.

Speaker 56 (01:22:33):
I'm completely set up with the way we live af
Carol Darling, don't talk like that.

Speaker 11 (01:22:38):
We'll get our chance one of these days.

Speaker 60 (01:22:40):
One of these days can be a long long time.

Speaker 55 (01:22:44):
I'm not going to wait much longer.

Speaker 11 (01:22:45):
Well, you won't have to, Honey.

Speaker 56 (01:22:47):
With tige Man gone, Their openings all down the line,
and I'm almost as sich to head my department.

Speaker 60 (01:22:54):
Well, we'll see, Walter, we'll see, yes.

Speaker 54 (01:23:07):
Walter, a pressing impatience in Carl's heart like a whip
to your ambition, because you do anything to make her happy.
But the next morning, when the promotions were announced, the
one you expected went to Philip. It was a humiliating

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shock to you, and you knew how Carol would take it.
By the time you arrived at Tigmann's remote laboratory, you
would regain control of yourself and nothing was said of
the promotion as you helped Philip pack the clutter of apparatus,
supplies and papers.

Speaker 1 (01:23:48):
And then, Walter, a little thing happened.

Speaker 57 (01:23:54):
I guess you can get most of that stuff in
this box, Walter.

Speaker 11 (01:23:56):
Yes, I think so. By the way, what was Tigmund
working un filled? You know, I have no idea.

Speaker 57 (01:24:02):
I used to be his assistant, but for the last
six months they had me back in the office. I
hope there's something in these papers that will tell us.

Speaker 11 (01:24:10):
Yeah, well, I'll make a list of everything I put
in this box.

Speaker 57 (01:24:13):
Fine, I'll go get something to carry the books here.

Speaker 56 (01:24:16):
Yeah, but oh blasted anyway, what happened? Oh my penned
leak smeared ink all over.

Speaker 57 (01:24:22):
Oh, there's probably a blotter in that bottom draw of
the desk.

Speaker 1 (01:24:25):
Be back in a minute.

Speaker 54 (01:24:33):
You opened the desk drawer water, and as you search
for a blotter, your eyes fell on something else, something
destined to change your entire life.

Speaker 29 (01:24:46):
I'm no book.

Speaker 54 (01:24:49):
At one glance you realized what was in it the
results of the last six months of intense research by
the great tide Man, a completely revolutionary method, a cracking
crude oil. You heard Philip returning quickly, you slip the
notebook into your pocket and turn to face him.

Speaker 11 (01:25:12):
By the way, fella, I haven't congratulated you on your
promotion yet. I think it's great.

Speaker 1 (01:25:16):
Thanks Walter.

Speaker 57 (01:25:17):
I appreciate that it was between us, you know, and
where I thought maybe.

Speaker 11 (01:25:23):
You I'd resent it.

Speaker 17 (01:25:25):
No, not me.

Speaker 11 (01:25:26):
You will make a better executive than I. Anyway, I'd
be lost out of the lab.

Speaker 15 (01:25:31):
Oh, thank you, Walter.

Speaker 1 (01:25:32):
I'm taking my vacation sooner. When I get back, let's
get together. Oh, by the way, what are you working on,
Walter Charlim?

Speaker 11 (01:25:41):
Yes, and I think I may have something too.

Speaker 56 (01:25:43):
Or don't say anything about it, Failiaucy. I'm not sure yet,
but if I'm on the right track. It'll be big,
very big, Yes, Walter.

Speaker 54 (01:26:01):
Because of a leaking thousand pen, you will own that
found Pigman's notebook. You could have turned it over to
the Foundational, but you had other ideas. In the days
that passed, you made certain that nowhere else among Tigman's
papers was there a hint of what he had been

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working on. You checked and tested his formula. It was
complete and accurate. Then at last you were ready. The
startling announcement came out that you, Walter Vincent, had devised
a new and revolutionary method for refining crude oil.

Speaker 61 (01:26:43):
This is amazing motor. As the director of the Randall Foundation,
I congratulate you and leave it to me, my boy.
I'll see to it that you get a position at
once where you can really exercise your ability.

Speaker 11 (01:26:57):
Well, thank you, doctor Crahan.

Speaker 1 (01:27:00):
Congratulations Walter.

Speaker 11 (01:27:01):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:27:01):
That's great publicity for the outfit.

Speaker 62 (01:27:03):
And say, I want you to pose with doctor Kramer here,
and then we'll get some individual portraits and action shots
of you in the lab too.

Speaker 1 (01:27:09):
You know the papers are going to eat this up. Yes,
just three.

Speaker 54 (01:27:24):
Short weeks after you had stolen Professor Teigman's notebook Water.
Your world was completely changed. You had a new job,
but more than double your own salary. You were known
in scientific circles as a very promising young man, and Carol,

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of course, will be lacking. But the change Water had
been brought about by your choice for evil, and already
courses were gathering against you. Even as you released your
new found glory, and Carold chattered happily about a forthcoming party,
another little things happened.

Speaker 9 (01:28:06):
Oh older, this will be the first party we've gone
to in years where I can really feel like somebody.

Speaker 11 (01:28:12):
Yes, I know, well, I told you our break would
come one day.

Speaker 55 (01:28:16):
I'm glad it's a nask grade. I've got the most
wonderful idea for a costume, Mariandernett.

Speaker 60 (01:28:21):
But oh well, it's going to be extinct.

Speaker 11 (01:28:24):
Oh, darling, I don't care if it is. We can
afford it now, and if it will make you happy,
oh I'll get it. Care Hello, while eventcent speaking, this
is Dr Green.

Speaker 63 (01:28:35):
Do you know when Philip Webb is coming back from
his vacation?

Speaker 11 (01:28:38):
Oh, the day after the Morrow, I think, doctor, Oh
that's too bad. All right, what's the matter, doctor, I'm
leaving town tonight, and.

Speaker 63 (01:28:45):
I wanted to see you before I left. A very
strange thing gets happened. Is it like guessing a message
from the grave?

Speaker 11 (01:28:54):
A message from the grave, What do you mean, doctor?

Speaker 63 (01:28:58):
A novelope addressed to Philip guess drive it.

Speaker 28 (01:29:01):
Lost in the mail.

Speaker 63 (01:29:03):
You see it gifts from Professor Taxon. It must be
about the work he was doing when he died.

Speaker 54 (01:29:13):
Yes, Walter, A little thing, a misaddressed envelope, a letter
lost in the mail, now suddenly loomed up in your
life as a huge stumbling block. It would topple your
whole world in the ruin. You knew that somehow you

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had to get that letter or you were trapped. But
you realize that the first thing you had to do
was tell Carol, tell her the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
You had to know if you could depend on her.

Speaker 64 (01:29:51):
And that's the way it happened, Carol, that's the whole story. Well,
don't you stand there say something such a shock. I
don't know what to say. You've got to get that letter, Walter.

Speaker 55 (01:30:06):
Some way, You've got to get it.

Speaker 11 (01:30:08):
That's what I wanted you to say, Carol. I had
to know if I could cut on your help.

Speaker 55 (01:30:12):
I don't intend to give up everything.

Speaker 56 (01:30:13):
Now, Walter, No matter what it means good, we still
have a chance if we work together. You see, Kramer
is going to give Philip that letter at the dance.
I don't understand, and that means one thing. I'll have
to go to the masquarade in his place, and I'll
have to get rid of Philip.

Speaker 54 (01:30:35):
Yes, Walter, because of a fountain in at least a
little thing, you were faced with a decision, and your
choice was for evil. Now because of another little thing
i'll misaddressed envelope. You were threatened with exposure and disgrace,

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and that of circumstance was closing around you. Soon there
would be no escape. Soon I will write again under
your name in the Diary of Faith. It was three

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days later, three tenths worried days later, but you, Walter,
finally added the last detail to your method of murder.
Philip had returned from his vacation. He would talk to him.
Then you explained your scheme to Carol.

Speaker 55 (01:31:42):
Oh, Walter, I'm afraid. Are you sure there's no other way?

Speaker 11 (01:31:46):
Positive?

Speaker 56 (01:31:47):
I've looked for that letter every place I possibly could.
Since clime has been gone, I can't find it. There's
nothing else we can all right, No, listen, I've talked
to Philip. He's going to the mass greatest Pinocchio. He's
got a mask that covers the whole head, and it'll
hit me. I told him today that I had to
go to New York. So we think you're going to
the dance with him. I want to be sure a
lot of people know that. That'll be easy. Then what

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Saturday evening. I'll get on the train here and get
off when it stops at Maplewood. You meet me there
with a car.

Speaker 55 (01:32:14):
You bring you back here.

Speaker 56 (01:32:15):
Yes, then I'll take care of Philip. We'll go to
the dance, get the letter from Kramer, and leave. I'll
catch you playing. I've already got the reservation under the
name of Jones. I'll overtake the train and get back
on it. All you know is that phil was a
little high when he took your home. If something goes wrong,
nothing can go wrong, I tell you. If we're careful
and use our heads, the hardest time will be the dance.

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We'll really have to play our parts there and play
them well.

Speaker 54 (01:32:48):
Yes, Walter, No long you'd have to play a part
and play it well. Our murder is a hazardous game
where they would do the most good. You'd drop casual
bits of information about your trip to New York and

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that Philip was escorting Carol to the dance, and finally,
on Saturday night you even fixed it. So David Sloane,
the Foundation's public relations man, was at the station with
Carrol and see you all.

Speaker 1 (01:33:26):
So if you can drop in and see him, it'll
be worth a feature story of the new magazine.

Speaker 11 (01:33:29):
Well, I'll certainly try, David. It all depends on how
much time I have.

Speaker 55 (01:33:33):
Well, mister Vincent's busy, you're not. You better find time
somewhere to write me every day to understand.

Speaker 62 (01:33:38):
Sorry, you're going to miss that masterade tonight. Old boy,
that's the one thing nobody really should miss.

Speaker 11 (01:33:44):
Don't I know it? And I'm sending Carol with Philip Webb.

Speaker 56 (01:33:47):
Sinocchio and Ray Andeltte should make quite a fair Hey,
you think I can trust them together?

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
I think so.

Speaker 62 (01:33:53):
Pinocchio is made of wood. I'll keep an eye on them. Bolder,
have a good job. I'm in the city and hurry back.

Speaker 11 (01:34:01):
I will even better get a board Charrow.

Speaker 56 (01:34:04):
I don't forget one blocks south of the station at Maplewood,
and don't be late.

Speaker 55 (01:34:08):
I won't worry. I'll get rid of David and leave
right away.

Speaker 54 (01:34:18):
As the train traveled a few miles to Maplewood, you
talked with the porter about your compartment, tipped him lavishly,
spoke to the conductor, and made certain that several of
the passengers were aware of your presence and would remember you. Then,

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as the train pull a stop in Maplewood, you stepped
off quickly, quietly melted into the crowd. A few minutes later,
you were with Carroll in your car, speeding back the
way you would come.

Speaker 11 (01:34:55):
Us, little carold, we have to hurry slowed down, I said,
Oh we need right now is to be picked up
for speeding. How to fix things? Fine?

Speaker 55 (01:35:04):
When we get the Phillips, shall I wait for you?

Speaker 11 (01:35:07):
No, go on home, put on your costume. I'll pick
up in his car.

Speaker 55 (01:35:10):
All right, we're almost there. It's down on the next block.

Speaker 11 (01:35:13):
Okay, turn here and stop. I'll walk the rest of
the way.

Speaker 55 (01:35:24):
Older, older, be careful, don't worry.

Speaker 11 (01:35:28):
This will be easy.

Speaker 56 (01:35:29):
The tough part is going to be that dance afterwards.
And don't forget that for a minute. I go on
home and get dressed.

Speaker 11 (01:35:35):
I gotta get going. What it's by, Walter?

Speaker 1 (01:35:52):
I thought you were on your way to New York.

Speaker 11 (01:35:54):
I'm supposed to be here you uh, you're still going
to the dance.

Speaker 1 (01:35:58):
An chair, of course, I'm just dressing now.

Speaker 11 (01:36:01):
Well, let me and Philip forgot to talk to you.

Speaker 7 (01:36:04):
Sure, come in?

Speaker 1 (01:36:05):
What is it, Walla?

Speaker 11 (01:36:05):
What's wrong? Is anyone else here?

Speaker 1 (01:36:09):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:36:09):
No water?

Speaker 11 (01:36:11):
What's the matter, Philip? Are you going to be alone tomorrow? Oh? Yes, yes,
I am Holliday. You're not expecting anyone? Not going on?

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
No, not until nine tomorrow night.

Speaker 6 (01:36:21):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:36:21):
Oh that's fine?

Speaker 11 (01:36:22):
Fine, full up. I'm gonnat you a bad one. I
want to stay here and I could you help me out?

Speaker 6 (01:36:30):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:36:30):
Wait a minute, I think you'd better start at the
beginning and tell me all about it, all right?

Speaker 56 (01:36:36):
Or because that whiskey there in the decunter, I really
need a drink, phil I'll get it for you.

Speaker 1 (01:36:44):
I've never seen you like this water. You're in bad shape?

Speaker 11 (01:36:48):
Here you are?

Speaker 4 (01:36:49):
Thanks?

Speaker 11 (01:36:52):
Well, Philip, it's like this. Oh the glass I'm sorry,
Philip slipped.

Speaker 65 (01:36:59):
Oh forget said. You'd better sit down, Walter. I'll pick
up the pieces. It's nothing, go on, Sitar water, Walter
the poker, what do you think, Yes, Walter, killing Philip

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was simple. For a moment you stared down at him
lying dead in front of his fireplace. Then you moved quick.

Speaker 54 (01:37:31):
You took his keys from his pocket, set his watch
ahead to midnight, and smashed the crystal, arranged the room
to look as if he had fallen, and struck his
head while replacing a light bulb in the chandeliers. Then
you entered his bedroom. When you came out again, you
where Philip webbed, fully dressed in the bizarre costume of Pinocchio.

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A few minutes later, in Philip's car, you picked up
and go to the masquerade.

Speaker 55 (01:38:03):
Well you sure everything's all right?

Speaker 66 (01:38:06):
You?

Speaker 55 (01:38:07):
You didn't make any mistakes?

Speaker 11 (01:38:09):
No, no, I didn't not stop worrying me went in.

Speaker 56 (01:38:12):
You keep watching me in there, And just as soon
as I get that letter from doctor Cramie, you fake
a headache so we can leave, all right, and don't
let me get stuck with anybody.

Speaker 11 (01:38:19):
Well, I have to talk too much.

Speaker 55 (01:38:20):
I won't write.

Speaker 56 (01:38:22):
I gotta go on in and for heaven's sake, like
nothing's happened. Everything depends on this.

Speaker 67 (01:38:27):
Now, Well I'll be Pinocchio. You all rest, Get up terrific.
Oh you're alive it they're.

Speaker 62 (01:38:46):
At the wonderful costume. I gotta get a picture there,
what ahead and what I told you?

Speaker 55 (01:38:52):
It was going to be the best in the place.

Speaker 1 (01:38:54):
Cal it really is. Stay here.

Speaker 28 (01:38:56):
You're rather pretty good yourself, very intimate.

Speaker 55 (01:38:58):
Thank you?

Speaker 41 (01:38:59):
Hit sure too bad water out of mister party.

Speaker 1 (01:39:01):
We're really gonna have a time tonight.

Speaker 11 (01:39:11):
Kramer hasn't shown up yet, Carol, but he should be
here any minute. How am I doing pretty? Comment?

Speaker 55 (01:39:17):
You're doing fine. I don't think anybody suspects a thing.

Speaker 6 (01:39:20):
Just keep it up.

Speaker 7 (01:39:21):
Don't worry.

Speaker 35 (01:39:21):
I will.

Speaker 11 (01:39:22):
We can't just now.

Speaker 62 (01:39:24):
Oh Philip, Philip A pardon me, folks, that phil doctor
Kramer just came and he wants to see you a minute.

Speaker 1 (01:39:29):
He's back there in the corner.

Speaker 11 (01:39:31):
Oh, thanks a lot, drama.

Speaker 1 (01:39:33):
I'll go right away.

Speaker 63 (01:39:34):
Oh here, well, hello there Philip, or should I say Pinocchio?

Speaker 28 (01:39:42):
That certainly is a fine costume.

Speaker 11 (01:39:45):
Oh hello, Arthur Kramer.

Speaker 28 (01:39:47):
What I wanted to see you about, fella is a letter.
It is lost in the mail. Ever do you see?
It's for you from Professor.

Speaker 11 (01:39:54):
Titans from Pardman.

Speaker 28 (01:39:57):
Yes, I have it here. If you want it now,
I can get easily keep it into Monday.

Speaker 11 (01:40:01):
No, no, I'll take it now, doctor, and thank you
very much.

Speaker 7 (01:40:05):
I'll sell it.

Speaker 55 (01:40:07):
Sure me doctor, Just girl, I'm sorry, but my head
is slitty. Would you mind taking me home?

Speaker 68 (01:40:13):
Oh that's too bad, curl, of course, not come along.
I've got a carry, I've got the letter. Now nobody
will ever know how we're stuck for rife.

Speaker 54 (01:40:32):
Yes, Walter, it was all over. Now you had the letter,
the perfect alibi for murder. All you had to do
was leave the.

Speaker 1 (01:40:44):
Dance, get back on the train, and you were safe.

Speaker 54 (01:40:50):
But take heed of you who listen, lest you think
pet unjust a conspiratory evil. In a few moments, I
will write for the last time under the name Walter Vincent.
When I have written, I will read from the Diary
of Faith. Yes, Walter, as you and Carol moved towards

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the door of the ballroom, you were consident that your
masquerade had been successful. Yes, your impersonation of Philip Webb
had been perfect, and now safety lay only a few
feet away. But then, Walter, another little thing happened.

Speaker 11 (01:41:47):
Let's got going, car.

Speaker 55 (01:41:50):
Oh, come, what's the heel of my slip? Had broken,
caught my spirit.

Speaker 11 (01:41:55):
Let me it a time.

Speaker 67 (01:41:59):
That job, ladies, And now here's the life fun of
the evening.

Speaker 1 (01:42:04):
This has been a wonderful party.

Speaker 30 (01:42:06):
And now, hey, hey, wait a minute, don't let that
Pinocchio get away.

Speaker 16 (01:42:11):
I got a big surprise.

Speaker 46 (01:42:12):
Boy.

Speaker 29 (01:42:12):
You can't leave.

Speaker 1 (01:42:13):
Now I'm gonna leave you just.

Speaker 48 (01:42:15):
Committee has elected the outstanding masquerader of the evening, none
other than Pinocchio.

Speaker 1 (01:42:24):
Now votes, now volts.

Speaker 62 (01:42:26):
It's midnight and your first boys will remove your mask, Pinocchio.

Speaker 1 (01:42:30):
And take a bow.

Speaker 30 (01:42:32):
Mister Philip Webb from O Mar No, No, he's man looking.

Speaker 33 (01:42:37):
Your hand, phil.

Speaker 38 (01:42:41):
I got it all.

Speaker 15 (01:42:43):
White.

Speaker 1 (01:42:44):
It's not Phil Webb. It's Walter Vincent.

Speaker 54 (01:42:53):
Yes, Walter, your masquerade was perfect, so perfect that you
won for prize and destroyed your own alibi. And now
is the second tick away inexorably for the moment of
your execution for murder. Your wife, Carol, for her part

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in the crime, sits alone in her prison cell, waiting
hopelessly for an empty future.

Speaker 1 (01:43:29):
Now it is time to close the book.

Speaker 54 (01:43:32):
Another entry has been truly noted on the pages of eternity,
and justice has been served in the case of Walter
Vincent as in the cases of all mortals, I fate,
and but the instrument of a plan, and the countless

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little things that happens are the tools.

Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
With which I work.

Speaker 54 (01:44:01):
Because of a fountain pen that leaked, this man, Walter Vincent,
was given an opportunity.

Speaker 11 (01:44:10):
He chose for evil.

Speaker 1 (01:44:13):
Then, because the heel of a slipper root.

Speaker 54 (01:44:18):
The lady's escape for a few critical seconds, I faith
brought him to justice. Ponder well the moral you who
listen and remember, there is a pace for you.

Speaker 1 (01:44:36):
In the Diary of Faith.

Speaker 62 (01:44:52):
The cast included Herbert Litton, Tom Brown, Gloria Blondell, Peter Leeds,
John Arthur ray Erwinborn, Ivan Ditmars, and Hal Sawyer. Diary
of Faith is a Larry Finley transcription brought to you
from Hollywood, Oh.

Speaker 69 (01:46:44):
Adventures in time and space told in future dimension.

Speaker 70 (01:47:07):
Can you predict what will come in one hundred years,
or in ten or in the next minute? Can you
see beyond the known dimensions of time and space into
the unknown? It was in the year of nineteen eighty

(01:47:29):
two that space men first discovered the Great Galactic Barrier.
In the past ten years, rocket traveled to the Moon
and the mirror planets, had become commonplace, and then men
fixed their sights on a more distant star, the remote planet.

Speaker 1 (01:47:43):
Known as Volta.

Speaker 70 (01:47:45):
Five exploratory ships went out and none came back, each
in turn disappearing mysteriously at the same vanishing point, an
invisible wall somewhere in the vast outer reaches that became
known as the wrecker of space ships, the Galactic Reach,
and yet the explorers refused to admit defeat. It was

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on June the second, nineteen eighty seven, that the rocket
star Cloud made ready for take off the sixth, to
attempt to crack the barrier and win through.

Speaker 8 (01:48:16):
To vota.

Speaker 7 (01:48:22):
Condition boo, one minute till glass stop. Now hear this
condition bloo one minute to glass stop.

Speaker 45 (01:48:33):
Bridge to have control navigation call here. This is Captain Thorson,
ready to down.

Speaker 10 (01:48:39):
We're already.

Speaker 7 (01:48:39):
Captain, of course, is in the integrator for takeoff at
twelve hundred hours.

Speaker 45 (01:48:43):
All right, stand by for acceleration. Bridge to engine room,
Fire up your rocket chambers, take off at exactly.

Speaker 71 (01:48:51):
Twelve hundred hours.

Speaker 45 (01:48:52):
I'll read job thirty second twenty nine, twenty eight, twenty seven,
twenty six rich haul it revoke all orders who turned
in that alarm.

Speaker 7 (01:49:05):
You're gonna travel the Stoway stowaway where I think it's
Sick Bay, not to spit them bombing.

Speaker 71 (01:49:10):
Have him brought up to the bridge engine room. Kill
your rockets stand by h RSHA.

Speaker 11 (01:49:17):
This is Colonel Harrison, had drop control. What's holding you up?

Speaker 71 (01:49:20):
Trouble?

Speaker 27 (01:49:20):
What's the matter with you?

Speaker 45 (01:49:21):
What's the matter with you? There's stowaway of Barstoway? Yes,
I thought your men were supposed to police this space.

Speaker 23 (01:49:26):
What's the matter?

Speaker 35 (01:49:27):
Captain?

Speaker 7 (01:49:27):
Take it easy?

Speaker 14 (01:49:28):
You know what this to like?

Speaker 23 (01:49:29):
And do to us, don't you?

Speaker 71 (01:49:30):
One minute later?

Speaker 45 (01:49:31):
Take off can throw us a million miles off course.
We'll have to reintegrate the whole works.

Speaker 11 (01:49:35):
Carny they're gonna take Don't bother me for a while.

Speaker 71 (01:49:37):
I'm busy here. Stupid idea, come in issues, do a
sa court Marshall.

Speaker 11 (01:49:47):
Charlie can use a good radio man. Skipper.

Speaker 7 (01:49:51):
Oh I see you two have met, Matt the skippery
me made fifty chips to the moon together, didn't we.

Speaker 45 (01:49:56):
Captain Charlie, if you wanted to come along, why didn't
you volunteer?

Speaker 11 (01:49:59):
I did?

Speaker 16 (01:49:59):
Ski They turned me down.

Speaker 7 (01:50:01):
What's wrong with you?

Speaker 15 (01:50:02):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:50:03):
Acceleration bens They said my arteries wouldn't stand another trip.
I'm sorry to hear that they're wrong, Sir, I got
one more good trip in me. I listen, Captain, you
know these green kids don't know the first thing about
space radio operation. You put a man like me on
and I'll be getting your bedtime stories from Marrow.

Speaker 45 (01:50:21):
You know the regulation as well as I do. Charlie,
I can't take you as much as i'd like to.
Colonel Harrison will murder me for this.

Speaker 71 (01:50:27):
I'm sorry, Charlie. I put you a ground.

Speaker 45 (01:50:29):
Tell you what, Charlie, I'll ask Harrison to put you
on his ground radio contact. It will seem as if
you're right here with us. He won't do it, sir,
he better I'll have him busted. The corporate over letting
you sneak aboard. You'd be better off, Charlie.

Speaker 11 (01:50:44):
Follison.

Speaker 45 (01:50:45):
Yes, I'm sending a man down from the bridge. Put
him aground, give him time to clear the launching platform.

Speaker 71 (01:50:50):
Yes, so long, Charlie.

Speaker 7 (01:50:53):
Sorry, well, good.

Speaker 72 (01:50:54):
Luck, Skipper.

Speaker 16 (01:50:57):
Thought you were going to have him drawn and caught it.

Speaker 45 (01:50:59):
And anybody else I would have Smitty, but Charlie. Charlie's
kind of special. He's been with me, since my first command,
and we began the regular run to the moon. He
wanted to come along this time. Well, it's only through
loyalty to me, No, Lewis.

Speaker 73 (01:51:13):
I didn't realize it before, but you're almost human.

Speaker 45 (01:51:18):
Navigation Lieutenant, Collier, Control caller, Lieutenant, how badly we fouled up?
Can you recalculate the course? Or should I cancel the takeoff?
I've already planted a new course on the integrator set M.

Speaker 71 (01:51:30):
That's quick work. Are you sure?

Speaker 63 (01:51:31):
Positive?

Speaker 32 (01:51:32):
Sir?

Speaker 45 (01:51:32):
All right, Collier, putting it in your hands. We'll blast
off from your signal.

Speaker 73 (01:51:36):
Lewis, isn't that a lot of responsibility for a young
green officer.

Speaker 45 (01:51:39):
But if he can't do his job, I'd rather find
out now than at the galactic barrier. Bridge to engine room.
Ready your rockets, prepared to blast off on navigator's signal.

Speaker 71 (01:52:03):
How are we doing, Carlia, coming on the bearing, sir?

Speaker 3 (01:52:08):
Four three two zero.

Speaker 7 (01:52:12):
We've intersected the course vector. That's good work, card course corrected, Sir.
Ready to go into atomic overdrive anytime?

Speaker 71 (01:52:19):
He said, all right, stand by now hear this.

Speaker 45 (01:52:25):
Prepare for maximum acceleration. Redshoe, engine room, Kill your rockets,
rockets out. Fire up number one, cycla tron tumbo one Ready,
Fire up number two. I'mbt already engineering withdraw your dampening
rocks facing chamber.

Speaker 23 (01:52:45):
Ready, last coves.

Speaker 71 (01:52:50):
The Claire Ready, take it on overdrive?

Speaker 6 (01:52:58):
How are we doing?

Speaker 1 (01:52:58):
Klier?

Speaker 3 (01:53:00):
Course, there she's running hot in trup.

Speaker 71 (01:53:01):
All my compliments, Lieutenant.

Speaker 45 (01:53:03):
This job would have done your father credit. He was
the best navigation officer I ever saw.

Speaker 10 (01:53:08):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 45 (01:53:08):
It is doctor Gyro's butt on a robot control. All right,
the ship is yours, mister Collier. You need me, I'll
be in doctor Smithson's office.

Speaker 7 (01:53:17):
Yes, well.

Speaker 71 (01:53:28):
You can thank young Collier for that chip off the
old block.

Speaker 16 (01:53:31):
Oh you knew his father.

Speaker 71 (01:53:32):
Matter of fact, I knew him very well. First rate spaceman.

Speaker 7 (01:53:35):
Is he the one who?

Speaker 45 (01:53:38):
Yeah, he was lost in the galactic Barrier and the
second ship we sent out to bulder lewis.

Speaker 73 (01:53:42):
Just what do you think this galactic barrier is?

Speaker 60 (01:53:45):
Ah?

Speaker 71 (01:53:45):
Your guess as good as mine.

Speaker 11 (01:53:46):
Doc.

Speaker 45 (01:53:47):
All I know is that five ships have gone into
it and none of them have come back out.

Speaker 23 (01:53:51):
You think it's in it?

Speaker 73 (01:53:53):
How about miss Terrovic's theory that it's a time warp
in space? But that the ships reach it and slip
into another dimension.

Speaker 71 (01:53:59):
I think that's rubbish.

Speaker 45 (01:54:01):
My theory is that the galactic barrier is nothing more
than a radioactive layer of some guy.

Speaker 71 (01:54:05):
What makes you say that, Well, we know that.

Speaker 45 (01:54:07):
Radiar signals bounce off it like they were hitting an
invisible glass wall. We know it destroys our ships and
our crews in some way. There's no other logical explanation.

Speaker 71 (01:54:16):
What makes you think we can get through it?

Speaker 45 (01:54:18):
Because we're ready for it. The others weren't. Tire hull
is completely shielded with lead. We can crack through any
radioactive cloud ever detected. Besides, we're equipped with some new
UHF radio devices that should enable us to maintain radio
contact with Earth. Nothing can happen, absolutely nothing.

Speaker 73 (01:54:35):
Who were you trying to convince Lewis.

Speaker 1 (01:54:39):
Myself?

Speaker 7 (01:54:39):
I suppose Smitty five ships are missing, and men like
Prentice and Marketson and young Collier's father. I'm tired of
seeing good men.

Speaker 71 (01:54:48):
Fed into that meat chopper. Then why are we going?

Speaker 45 (01:54:51):
We haven't any choice, Manny. We're in a race, kind
of race where men and ships are expendable.

Speaker 71 (01:54:57):
Well, at least it won't be boring.

Speaker 73 (01:55:00):
I'll have to play physician, morale builder and mother substitute
for one hundred and twelve slightly nervous men.

Speaker 71 (01:55:07):
Your morale doesn't sound too good, Doctor.

Speaker 73 (01:55:09):
As morale officer, I can state without fear of contradiction.

Speaker 71 (01:55:12):
It's terrible.

Speaker 73 (01:55:14):
And something tells me that as we approach that galactic barrier,
I'm not going to be alone.

Speaker 71 (01:55:28):
Hallow Earth, Hallow Earth.

Speaker 45 (01:55:30):
Captain Parson of a star Cloud calling Earth, Star Cloud
dw earth bound.

Speaker 71 (01:55:34):
Can you read me.

Speaker 45 (01:55:35):
Stark Cloudhi you, Captain Charlie. I see they haven't court
martial you yet, thanks to you. Charlie's good to hear you.
You can read us the funny papers on Sunday morning. Right,
how's the segnal the film? Here's our log report for
Colonel Harrison Ready Suck June second, nineteen eighty seven, four

(01:55:58):
weeks out from Earth, running through no radiation operation normal,
still making our approach to the galactic barrier.

Speaker 71 (01:56:06):
That's all Charley, See you.

Speaker 10 (01:56:08):
Later, goodlock. Captain.

Speaker 23 (01:56:09):
I'm sure wait I went win you. How's the morales?

Speaker 19 (01:56:22):
Maybe?

Speaker 6 (01:56:23):
Well?

Speaker 73 (01:56:24):
The men know are getting closer to the barrier. They're
beginning to show a little tension.

Speaker 7 (01:56:28):
Les.

Speaker 71 (01:56:29):
How's their physical condition any sickness.

Speaker 73 (01:56:31):
About half the crew has come down with space blues badly. Oh,
same as usual, lips and hands with the bluish cast
eyes sensitive to infrared.

Speaker 45 (01:56:41):
I don't know when I first started flying these tin cans.
Nobody ever heard of space blue.

Speaker 73 (01:56:45):
Well, there's a new theory that is caused by the
terrific acceleration of these atomic overdrive ships.

Speaker 16 (01:56:51):
The change in gravity.

Speaker 71 (01:56:52):
Affects the circulation.

Speaker 11 (01:56:54):
What do you think, Oh, I think it's psychosomatic.

Speaker 73 (01:56:57):
I've noticed that the same men who get space blues
under tension on a ship tend to get blue coloration
back on Earth when they're upset. I guess it's an
occupational disease if space navigators, do you think it's just nerves?

Speaker 69 (01:57:10):
And I don't know, but young.

Speaker 7 (01:57:13):
Collier has a bad case.

Speaker 16 (01:57:16):
I think it's tension from over work.

Speaker 71 (01:57:18):
Maybe he needs some vitamins.

Speaker 73 (01:57:19):
Lewis, When will you realize that vitamins are not a
panacea for all.

Speaker 16 (01:57:24):
The troubles of mankind?

Speaker 7 (01:57:35):
Come well, oh, lieutenant.

Speaker 11 (01:57:40):
Sir, I understand you relieve me from duty.

Speaker 71 (01:57:43):
Doctor Smithson says that you aren't looking very well. I'm
giving you a rest.

Speaker 7 (01:57:46):
I feel perfectly able to continue sir, your lips are
as blue as men a tanka.

Speaker 69 (01:57:50):
I'd like to remain at my post, Captain.

Speaker 71 (01:57:52):
Don't be foolhardy, Lieutenant. I'm not being fool.

Speaker 11 (01:57:54):
Hearty, Sir.

Speaker 7 (01:57:57):
I have a special personal reason for wanting this expedition
to reach your father.

Speaker 71 (01:58:02):
Yes, sir, do you think he much still be alive?

Speaker 69 (01:58:05):
I have to find out what happens here.

Speaker 71 (01:58:08):
I think I understand.

Speaker 19 (01:58:10):
Very well.

Speaker 71 (01:58:11):
Come here, report back to duty. What's the reading, polism.

Speaker 74 (01:58:22):
We're getting a plus five radar bounce now, it's coming
off the barrier almost as fast as we send it out.

Speaker 71 (01:58:26):
What's the interval?

Speaker 74 (01:58:27):
Three tenths of a second, shortening steadily. At this rate,
we'll hit the wall in the next few minutes.

Speaker 71 (01:58:31):
All right, alert the crew, sound General Quarters, now hear.

Speaker 69 (01:58:35):
This condition red.

Speaker 3 (01:58:39):
We are now approaching the galactic barrier.

Speaker 74 (01:58:42):
All hands to stations, All radiation detectors to be fully mined.

Speaker 7 (01:58:48):
Full security will prevail until further notice.

Speaker 45 (01:58:51):
That is all polism I said. Radar bounces up to
plus six. We better try to make final contact with her.

Speaker 74 (01:58:58):
Spark's still trying to raise the base. Yes, he's not
having much luck. There seems to be some of the fearence.
That's the radio room now, Yes, you've got him. Cut
in the bridge speaker. The Captain will take it from here.

Speaker 71 (01:59:10):
Hello Star Cloud worth bound?

Speaker 23 (01:59:12):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 11 (01:59:13):
Arth? Hello Skipper, I can barely read you.

Speaker 30 (01:59:16):
We're getting heavy steady.

Speaker 71 (01:59:18):
That's not sun squats. We're right on top of the
galactic barrier.

Speaker 45 (01:59:21):
Stick with us, Charlie. We're switching to the automatic center
now so you can track us in.

Speaker 1 (01:59:25):
Okay.

Speaker 71 (01:59:26):
If we crack the barrier and come through.

Speaker 45 (01:59:28):
Still in one piece, I'll try to get back to
you on the high frequency van.

Speaker 11 (01:59:32):
Got the Skipper, don't worry.

Speaker 30 (01:59:34):
I'll be waiting so long, Charlie Cloud.

Speaker 74 (01:59:38):
We must be getting awfully close now, Captain. The echoes
bouncing back so fast it's almost beating the signal.

Speaker 71 (01:59:43):
And they coincide.

Speaker 45 (01:59:43):
Hold under your hat. That's when we run into the wall.
Any second, hold on, well, here goes nothing. Here it comes,
Captain right, Why nothing happened?

Speaker 3 (02:00:04):
We made it? We made it, Captain, No radiation, no
time walk, no.

Speaker 69 (02:00:07):
Nothing had it?

Speaker 3 (02:00:10):
Cru has gone crazy?

Speaker 45 (02:00:11):
Sir, Let them they earn it, say doc, Doc, can
you break out a few bottles of snake bike serum
for medicinal purposes.

Speaker 34 (02:00:17):
You can.

Speaker 71 (02:00:18):
Let's calls for a celebration.

Speaker 30 (02:00:20):
How's your morale now any better?

Speaker 16 (02:00:22):
How's your condition?

Speaker 75 (02:00:24):
What?

Speaker 30 (02:00:24):
Everyone else?

Speaker 15 (02:00:24):
You take it?

Speaker 7 (02:00:25):
Condition?

Speaker 10 (02:00:25):
Read it? Radiation?

Speaker 16 (02:00:26):
Detected?

Speaker 76 (02:00:27):
It good?

Speaker 30 (02:00:28):
Holy macrol, Look at the needle.

Speaker 71 (02:00:29):
I'm not indicating poll pollism.

Speaker 3 (02:00:31):
I see it, Captain.

Speaker 71 (02:00:31):
We're picking radiation like craze.

Speaker 11 (02:00:32):
What's it?

Speaker 16 (02:00:33):
Right?

Speaker 57 (02:00:33):
It's a strong way.

Speaker 11 (02:00:34):
What kind is I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:00:35):
It's too long for cosmic gray and too short for
u ahf.

Speaker 45 (02:00:37):
All right, track it down, triangulated, make it fast. I
want a directional fix.

Speaker 11 (02:00:40):
Yes it.

Speaker 45 (02:00:42):
Engine room. Yes, we're picking up radioactivity? Is it the
fishing chambers?

Speaker 11 (02:00:46):
Holy?

Speaker 71 (02:00:47):
Check your gauges.

Speaker 41 (02:00:48):
Nothing here, Captain.

Speaker 39 (02:00:49):
Let's be coming from outside.

Speaker 71 (02:00:53):
Damage control?

Speaker 45 (02:00:54):
Yes, sir, is our lead shield leaking radiation?

Speaker 38 (02:00:58):
All right?

Speaker 71 (02:00:58):
Keep out it, wallis, and how you're doing? You got
to fix catt What is it?

Speaker 57 (02:01:01):
I have to recheck my figure.

Speaker 48 (02:01:02):
We'll hurry up.

Speaker 3 (02:01:03):
The angle is correct, but I.

Speaker 71 (02:01:04):
Don't go on man for Peach's sake.

Speaker 14 (02:01:05):
It's right.

Speaker 3 (02:01:06):
What's right?

Speaker 30 (02:01:06):
Speak up?

Speaker 71 (02:01:07):
Where's the radiation coming from?

Speaker 28 (02:01:08):
It's coming from inside this ship.

Speaker 45 (02:01:09):
That's impossible, No, sir, I checked it twice. Well then,
there's only one thing left to do. Wallison, get a
Geiger counter. We're gonna start combing the ship Inspian's ready, Sir,
I turn it on now, yes, sir, we'll check the
atomic guns first.

Speaker 71 (02:01:28):
Got through the opposite quarters to wardens. Come on, wait,
it's as signals week and.

Speaker 10 (02:01:36):
Now let's go back.

Speaker 12 (02:01:43):
Hold it.

Speaker 71 (02:01:45):
Seems strongest right about here.

Speaker 13 (02:01:47):
It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 7 (02:01:49):
Who's cabin is Lieutenant Colliers?

Speaker 34 (02:01:52):
Start here.

Speaker 1 (02:01:53):
It's probably down in that control.

Speaker 71 (02:01:54):
So I try to door that's not locks in.

Speaker 3 (02:01:59):
It's in here, all right.

Speaker 16 (02:02:00):
Listen to that counter the strongest, all the hair open.

Speaker 45 (02:02:03):
That wall, cabinet, it's locked, Snycher, all right, shut off
the Geiger counter.

Speaker 71 (02:02:15):
What do you make of this polezer?

Speaker 74 (02:02:16):
It looks like some sort of portable transmitter, Sir, must
be FIGN manufacturer. I don't recognize the calibration symbols at all.

Speaker 45 (02:02:22):
I never seen anything like it, which raises a small question.
What is Lieutenant Collier doing with a transmitter in his cabinet?

Speaker 1 (02:02:28):
I don't know?

Speaker 71 (02:02:29):
Said well, I intend to find out. Policy. Get down
to NAB control, bring Collier up the bridge on the double.

Speaker 74 (02:02:33):
Oh, hadn't we better find some way to shut this
thing off.

Speaker 45 (02:02:35):
First, I know a way, and then, Carlier, I'm going
to ask a few simple questions, and I want a
few simple answers. Yes, what were you doing with a
transmitter in your cabin?

Speaker 71 (02:02:56):
Transmitter?

Speaker 55 (02:02:57):
Captain?

Speaker 71 (02:02:58):
You know nothing about it?

Speaker 16 (02:03:00):
Oh, sir, I don't.

Speaker 71 (02:03:01):
Do you recognize these caliboration symbols?

Speaker 16 (02:03:04):
No, sir?

Speaker 45 (02:03:06):
Can you think of how it might have been placed
in your cabin without your knowing it? No, sir, unless
someone came in while I was on duty.

Speaker 71 (02:03:12):
Would that have been possible?

Speaker 11 (02:03:14):
Why?

Speaker 45 (02:03:14):
I suppose if if someone had a key, I found
your cabin door unlocked, I'm in a key to the wall.
I didn't say the wall cabinet. Who say you, what, Lieutenant?
How could you have known it was in the wall cabin?
I just assumed, Lieutenant Carlier, I find it hard to
believe you would lie, having known and respected your father
and having observed the way you handled your job. However,

(02:03:35):
I intend to get to the root of this thing.
May I have your wristwatch, Lieutenant, sir? Your wristwatch here,
Sir Wllison, turn on the Geiger counter. Yes, hold this
watch next to it.

Speaker 11 (02:03:47):
Yes, it.

Speaker 45 (02:03:50):
I'm saw Lieutenant. If you hadn't any close contact with
that transmitter. How do you explain the radioactivity of this watch?
I don't, sir, I think you'd better to whom are
you sending those signals?

Speaker 3 (02:04:03):
Condition?

Speaker 16 (02:04:04):
Condition readion?

Speaker 7 (02:04:05):
There's your answer, Captain?

Speaker 11 (02:04:06):
What is a spaceship approaching?

Speaker 16 (02:04:08):
A spaceship approaching.

Speaker 71 (02:04:10):
On battle stations?

Speaker 7 (02:04:12):
Collier?

Speaker 71 (02:04:12):
Who's a boy that ship?

Speaker 16 (02:04:14):
All right?

Speaker 6 (02:04:14):
Now?

Speaker 7 (02:04:14):
Talk man very well, Captain?

Speaker 45 (02:04:18):
My mission seems complete or a mission? Are you admitting
that you're an agent of a foreign power?

Speaker 11 (02:04:22):
I am stating what nation? No nation? Captain?

Speaker 7 (02:04:25):
What I am an agent of the Boltan government? What
the government of the planet of Volta?

Speaker 71 (02:04:30):
You're crazy?

Speaker 11 (02:04:31):
Are you so stupid that.

Speaker 7 (02:04:32):
You think your people are the only ones who can
invade another planet?

Speaker 1 (02:04:34):
What do you mean?

Speaker 7 (02:04:35):
We've had agents operating on Earth since nineteen forty? If
I don't believe you, what do you think happened to
those five ships?

Speaker 11 (02:04:40):
Captain?

Speaker 71 (02:04:41):
Where do you suppose we got our information?

Speaker 7 (02:04:43):
Your language, your culture, family backgrounds, your appearance?

Speaker 17 (02:04:45):
Who look like Commander Collier?

Speaker 7 (02:04:48):
Is that so surprising?

Speaker 11 (02:04:49):
Captain?

Speaker 1 (02:04:50):
We had a living model.

Speaker 71 (02:04:51):
I want to kill you.

Speaker 24 (02:04:52):
That would be very foolish.

Speaker 71 (02:04:54):
I would advise you to surrender without delay.

Speaker 7 (02:04:56):
Ad shift coming in ordnance range.

Speaker 45 (02:04:58):
I'll deal with you later, Collier, So put this man
in irons, take him away.

Speaker 71 (02:05:02):
Worry, sir, We'll take good care of him.

Speaker 45 (02:05:03):
Armada, Robinson, gunnery, gunnery, Richardson, what's the range?

Speaker 11 (02:05:10):
Ten thousand meters are closing?

Speaker 45 (02:05:11):
Class, Put your guns on radar tracking tracking coming on
a parent.

Speaker 71 (02:05:22):
Fire fire, Richardson, you hear me?

Speaker 16 (02:05:28):
Fire?

Speaker 71 (02:05:29):
What's the matter down there?

Speaker 68 (02:05:29):
Do you hear me?

Speaker 71 (02:05:32):
Richardson? Answer me?

Speaker 45 (02:05:33):
It's no use to shout. Captain Collier? Yes, Captain, how'd
you get loose? Where's Polison? Lieutenant Polison is dead all stations.

Speaker 7 (02:05:40):
Lieutenant Collier has escaped. Seaton man, don't waste your bread.
Your men can't hear you, Captain. Those still alive are
my men. You're a lying no, Captain, every ship that
has ever left Earth was controlled by a bull Tan group.

Speaker 45 (02:05:51):
That's impossible. Those were hand picked men, hand picked by US.
I don't believe you, then, why not call for help?

Speaker 48 (02:05:59):
Rob Carpenter Robinson.

Speaker 7 (02:06:07):
Yes, see, Captain, it is quite useless. I would advise
you to sit very quietly and do nothing.

Speaker 71 (02:06:16):
It isn't possible. They can't all be dead. Smithy, doctor Smithson,
Smitty Smitty? What have they done to you?

Speaker 11 (02:06:32):
Oh?

Speaker 71 (02:06:32):
Those dirty don't don't talk.

Speaker 73 (02:06:34):
Smitty course don't no time Lewis space blues, face blues.

Speaker 71 (02:06:41):
What isn't smitty? What are you trying to tell me?

Speaker 10 (02:06:43):
Oh?

Speaker 73 (02:06:43):
Men with space bruise vall time here, Let me have
this SMI No Lewis, get message back to Earth voll
time if column watch out for space blues?

Speaker 11 (02:06:59):
Uh uh?

Speaker 71 (02:07:00):
Who's Smitty Smitty?

Speaker 44 (02:07:08):
Hello?

Speaker 30 (02:07:09):
Hello Star Cloud calling hurt.

Speaker 71 (02:07:12):
Dog, Please God, let me get through the ports.

Speaker 45 (02:07:14):
Toay Hello star clouds warthbound come in, please come.

Speaker 14 (02:07:18):
In, Please.

Speaker 17 (02:07:32):
Come in?

Speaker 11 (02:07:32):
Please Hello, Hello Skipper?

Speaker 68 (02:07:36):
Is that you?

Speaker 30 (02:07:38):
It's coming in a little louder now Skip keep sending.

Speaker 14 (02:07:42):
I'm listening to me.

Speaker 43 (02:07:42):
Not much time, get work, Tel Harrison, cruel bost The
crew members hold con what.

Speaker 41 (02:07:49):
Old come hello old hell?

Speaker 30 (02:07:51):
Hold Han, Skipper? Are you all right?

Speaker 27 (02:07:57):
He'll be here an economics.

Speaker 30 (02:08:02):
You don't mean.

Speaker 10 (02:08:14):
He blue?

Speaker 30 (02:08:15):
I get you, Captain, Captain Captain.

Speaker 7 (02:08:25):
Thorkton, Hello, hello stark Cloud, come in watch the trouble saction.

Speaker 30 (02:08:30):
Put your time to racist tark Cloud.

Speaker 7 (02:08:31):
Colonel had any luck?

Speaker 11 (02:08:33):
Eh?

Speaker 12 (02:08:35):
No sir, no contact, no contact, no sir hmm, nearly
an hour since they hit the galactic barrier.

Speaker 1 (02:08:46):
I don't understand why I haven't tried to get back
a message.

Speaker 16 (02:08:50):
No, sir, neither do I.

Speaker 1 (02:08:53):
All right now I'll take over for a while.

Speaker 12 (02:08:55):
Yes, sir, go right ahead. Sir, you had better go
out and get yourself coffee jelly. You look a little
blue around the gills.

Speaker 22 (02:09:17):
You have just heard No Contact, an adventure in time
space and the unknown.

Speaker 77 (02:09:25):
Im Next week, we have a nice, blood curdling little
story that starts with these two sentences.

Speaker 69 (02:09:40):
The last man alive on Earth sat alone in a room.

Speaker 70 (02:09:46):
And then there was a knock on the door, which
raises the question what knocked on the door? Left to
its own devices, the human mind supplies a vaguely horrible answer.

Speaker 69 (02:10:00):
And it wasn't so horrible, really, you'll see next week
when we present.

Speaker 22 (02:10:06):
Knock Tonight, Dimension X has presented No Contacts, an original
story written by George Lefferts from the storyline by Lefferts
and Ernest Cannoy. Featured in the cast were Wendell Holmes
as Captain Thorsonson, Servia's Lieutenant Collier, and John mcgovernors doctor Smithson.

(02:10:31):
Your host was Norman Rose, music by Albert Berman, engineer
Bill Chambers. Dimension X is produced by Van Woodward and
directed by Edward King.

Speaker 69 (02:10:54):
Tomorrow Here Sam Spade.

Speaker 22 (02:10:56):
Now it's Truth or Consequences on NBC.

Speaker 19 (02:11:03):
A strange, doctor, weird, good evening.

Speaker 16 (02:11:15):
Come in, won't you?

Speaker 6 (02:11:18):
You know?

Speaker 78 (02:11:19):
What's the moather? You seem a bit nervous. Perhaps the
cemetery outside this house is upseture. But there are things
far worse than cemetery, For instance, being lost in a wilderness,
a wilderness where of death is never more than a
few inches away, as in the story I want to
tell you tonight, a story I call dead Man's Paradise.

(02:11:52):
My story begins in the wild and desolate swamplands near
the mouth of the Mississippi River, in a small Cajun check,
all but hidden by the overhanging cypress trees.

Speaker 4 (02:12:04):
Andre Morel speaks to his son, Paul.

Speaker 11 (02:12:09):
Boy, your son has been for an over already.

Speaker 7 (02:12:12):
You must see too well to it.

Speaker 11 (02:12:15):
But father, you're real I don't like leaving you here alone.

Speaker 1 (02:12:18):
He'll be all right, Yeah, please king to this press
very well.

Speaker 11 (02:12:24):
Father, I'll be back just as soon as Who are you?

Speaker 42 (02:12:28):
What do you want?

Speaker 48 (02:12:29):
Just find out enough, Oh man, don't get that rifles
over the fireplace. Okay, you must be the two banks.
I was the radio with warning everyone a boss. That's right,
bright boy. And now every coup in Louisian's looking for us.
How far away from New Orleans? Forty miles? Forty miles? Huh,
well you're taking us there and your boat.

Speaker 77 (02:12:46):
But we lend up boat to Pierre de Belle to
Be said, no boat can get school swamp.

Speaker 15 (02:12:52):
Yeah, it's what are we gonna do?

Speaker 48 (02:12:53):
We figured out Sam, I'm right through the New Orleans
with no trouble at all. We have to make it
on foot. That's his Cajun's no ever into the swamp.
So right, boy here will guide us. No, no, it's impossible.

Speaker 15 (02:13:03):
You must if you do not do it.

Speaker 48 (02:13:06):
Yes, that's right kid, your old man's talking sense.

Speaker 11 (02:13:09):
But you don't know the swamps.

Speaker 79 (02:13:10):
We was traveled by narrow Indian trails through bad stretches
of quicksand we're a single misstep means death.

Speaker 48 (02:13:16):
It can't be that bad. Why on my road Maphis
region has listened as Paradise swump.

Speaker 79 (02:13:21):
Yes, but the old name, the name the Indians gave
it was dead Man's paradise because no stranger whoever entered
it came out alive. There's the quicksand pools of it
waiting to trap strangers. And they're the insects, the mosquitoes
that drive men mad. They're the birds whose streaks sound
like the screams of dying men.

Speaker 10 (02:13:37):
Just listen to that.

Speaker 48 (02:13:38):
Hats a lot on molarckey. Right, boy, here's gonna guide us.

Speaker 11 (02:13:41):
And that's that.

Speaker 10 (02:13:43):
I can't leave my father here alone, can't you see?

Speaker 48 (02:13:45):
He's ill. I don't want to leave him alone anymore?
You do, he might talk. So I'm gonna say to
it that none of us have to worry about him anymore.

Speaker 16 (02:13:53):
You mean just this, you've killed him.

Speaker 48 (02:14:01):
Yeah, and that's what's going to happen to you if
you don't do exactly as I tell you. Now, let's
get started. I want to be in New Orleans by
tomorrow night.

Speaker 19 (02:14:18):
He's been working for seven hours.

Speaker 16 (02:14:19):
Now, is how plain we've come?

Speaker 48 (02:14:22):
Hey, blake boy? How far he comes this morning?

Speaker 72 (02:14:25):
Ten miles?

Speaker 48 (02:14:26):
Ten miles?

Speaker 60 (02:14:27):
Hey?

Speaker 48 (02:14:27):
Then, bird, he's what's that? That's just a bird, not
a ghost. Put yourself together. Do not to be scared
of just trees, underbrush and swamp pool.

Speaker 17 (02:14:36):
Yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker 11 (02:14:37):
But every way you're trying everything that's the same.

Speaker 48 (02:14:39):
Yeah, we didn't have that Cajun kid. That guy is
say hey, look, let's try to give us a slip.

Speaker 7 (02:14:43):
Oh he is?

Speaker 48 (02:14:44):
Is he we're a little teaching Hey he hit him? Yeah,
I can hardly miss him at this.

Speaker 11 (02:14:49):
This is come on.

Speaker 48 (02:14:50):
Should have kept a closer watch on him, might have
known him tried something like this.

Speaker 19 (02:14:55):
Uh well, here he is.

Speaker 7 (02:14:57):
His head's all colored with blood.

Speaker 48 (02:14:58):
He's dead, all right, Yeah, you never know one hitting.

Speaker 11 (02:15:01):
Yes, what are we gonna do now, I'll have to
kid the guidance.

Speaker 48 (02:15:03):
I'll just have to go all the rest of the
way by ourselves. But how we find our way of
away of Tina's lump, but swamp, we can't go out
without a guy. Get hollow yourself, your food, you lose
your head.

Speaker 16 (02:15:12):
You're done for cabinets. What chance we shut up with you?

Speaker 48 (02:15:15):
That's what I have to say. By keeping our eyes
on the cell and doing the little figure, we can
keep going in the right direction. As for the quick saying, well,
we'll just have to watch our step. Just keep saying
one thing to yourself. New Orleans is only thirty miles away,
and we're gonna make it.

Speaker 80 (02:15:35):
Doctor, May I comment upon the very similitude demonstrated by
the introductory sections of your dramatic effort.

Speaker 19 (02:15:42):
Explain yourself, young men.

Speaker 80 (02:15:44):
Your story, its design is excellent, such fine style and
expert handling a details. And you know, doctor, it's the
very same qualities that make Adam hat so outstanding too.
That's because the designs for Adam hats are created by
experts and field the smart styles and carefully handle the
tail you see and every atom is the product of

(02:16:06):
years of experience. And just as each listener will find
a different shade of meaning in a story, so will
every man find the shade of color he prefers in
the large selection of Adam hats. Gentlemen, there's only one
logical conclusion to this story about Adam hats. Buy one
for yourself, and Adam hat has character. Now back to

(02:16:30):
doctor weird story.

Speaker 78 (02:16:36):
And now I'll continue my story, dead Man's Paradise. Five
hours have passed, five hours of nightmare for Asian Duke.
The shadowy cypress trees and underbredh seem to become thicker
every mile they pushed on, and they were constantly forced
to detour around swamp pools and lakes, ever mindful of

(02:16:56):
the treacherous creak, says they must avoid.

Speaker 48 (02:17:01):
That's why you think we've heard me since we left
that cadging kid about four or five miles. I guess
the sun's going down. It'll be dark before long, going down. Now,
I will stop putty soon away from dawn. The morning
we'll push on hair.

Speaker 20 (02:17:15):
You will never get out of me.

Speaker 48 (02:17:18):
You hear that, Yeah, that sounded like pleaded murder, and
you musty.

Speaker 11 (02:17:26):
It's the voice of that cadren I can't be, I
I do. That's the voice of a ghost, That's what
it is.

Speaker 48 (02:17:30):
I don't be a fool, the.

Speaker 81 (02:17:32):
One you have died and the way you too must die.

Speaker 15 (02:17:37):
You see, I told you just come back to get us.

Speaker 3 (02:17:40):
Oh though you will die in the quisland ahead.

Speaker 1 (02:17:47):
Of you, a pool.

Speaker 11 (02:17:51):
Sea that is quicksand.

Speaker 30 (02:17:52):
I don't be a fool.

Speaker 19 (02:17:53):
I'll tell you, ladies.

Speaker 48 (02:17:54):
This quicksand that heady borne us just a trick to
get us to walk in another direction where the.

Speaker 11 (02:17:58):
Quicksand really is.

Speaker 15 (02:18:00):
Yeah, I said, I guess you're.

Speaker 48 (02:18:01):
Right, my should I am? Now keep going straight ahead. Okay,
you've still got an hour or so until it gets
too dark to travel. We gotta make the most of it.

Speaker 82 (02:18:09):
Yeah, okay, just the same one.

Speaker 15 (02:18:11):
You take a cut? What's wrong?

Speaker 20 (02:18:14):
Quick?

Speaker 39 (02:18:14):
Saying?

Speaker 48 (02:18:14):
Help me out?

Speaker 20 (02:18:15):
I Duke, try crawling out.

Speaker 72 (02:18:17):
I can't keep taking the taper I held.

Speaker 48 (02:18:19):
If I only had a rope or something. Why do
I look around me?

Speaker 14 (02:18:23):
How can I help you?

Speaker 28 (02:18:24):
Fuck?

Speaker 72 (02:18:24):
I mean god, it's already for my chest.

Speaker 30 (02:18:25):
Give me ahead and pull me out?

Speaker 41 (02:18:26):
And I can't do That's you.

Speaker 36 (02:18:28):
Put me in with you by sucking.

Speaker 48 (02:18:30):
There's nothing I can do without a wrong art.

Speaker 30 (02:18:31):
It must be follow me, but like this for you.

Speaker 48 (02:18:34):
It's only one thing I can do for you, Duke,
and this is it.

Speaker 16 (02:18:40):
Yeah, Duke, he's did it.

Speaker 48 (02:18:44):
Yeah, we play boring crawl?

Speaker 60 (02:18:50):
Whoa you?

Speaker 55 (02:18:52):
No?

Speaker 10 (02:18:53):
No, you may have cut me, Duke, but you won't
get me. You won't get me.

Speaker 78 (02:19:07):
With an effort, Ace pulled himself together, determined not to
suffer Duke's faith. Taking a bearing from the twilight rays
of the sun, Ace continued on his way, cautiously scanning
the ground before him. Time and time again, the voice
of the Cajun Boy came echoing through the swamp, mocking
his efforts to escape, telling him of the quicksand that

(02:19:29):
lay waiting on every side.

Speaker 60 (02:19:33):
M h, no escape for.

Speaker 20 (02:19:36):
You don't have your eyes quit.

Speaker 7 (02:19:43):
And you are going to die.

Speaker 14 (02:19:47):
Shut shut.

Speaker 48 (02:19:50):
Waiting for you in the quick and maybe they'll keep
the quiet. You should have said one bullet for you.
Be quiet, Be quiet, you hear you're dead.

Speaker 14 (02:20:07):
You can't talk, you.

Speaker 72 (02:20:11):
Know the saying.

Speaker 20 (02:20:16):
For if you.

Speaker 30 (02:20:25):
Try not smart me, Well you can't.

Speaker 11 (02:20:28):
I'm going straight ahead.

Speaker 48 (02:20:36):
Quick.

Speaker 16 (02:20:38):
If it was you wouldn't be telling me.

Speaker 17 (02:20:41):
I know, but.

Speaker 16 (02:20:43):
I can't.

Speaker 10 (02:20:44):
It is quick saying.

Speaker 83 (02:20:46):
I'm thinking that it's quick sun and in a minute
you will see beneath the surface.

Speaker 48 (02:20:51):
Then your crimes will.

Speaker 16 (02:20:52):
Be came for you. You're not dead, You're alive. I
didn't do it. No that we'll let you.

Speaker 83 (02:21:00):
Fired at me, only creased. My staff knocked me unconscious.
I recovered in time to trail you get my revenge.

Speaker 48 (02:21:07):
Don't stand Get me out of here. I'll get pressed
to anything.

Speaker 57 (02:21:11):
Get me out of it.

Speaker 83 (02:21:12):
Why should I help you? You killed my father. No,
this is the same pool of quicksand that duke died in.
Now you're going to join him. You've been wandering around
in circle for hours, but I knew you'd end up here.

Speaker 16 (02:21:28):
Oh, don't let me die.

Speaker 35 (02:21:29):
Don't let me die.

Speaker 48 (02:21:30):
The quicksand is up to your neck. Now in a minute,
to reach your mouth, and then it'll be all over.

Speaker 27 (02:21:37):
Shave it.

Speaker 72 (02:21:39):
I don't want to die.

Speaker 48 (02:21:40):
No, my father didn't want to die either.

Speaker 10 (02:21:43):
You killed Helen.

Speaker 48 (02:21:46):
Nobody can help you now.

Speaker 11 (02:21:54):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 79 (02:21:55):
I didn't have a chance to tell you that this
is the only quicksand hole in all the swamp between.

Speaker 23 (02:22:04):
Here and New Orleans.

Speaker 78 (02:22:18):
And Dre said only known there was just one pool
of quicksand he might have reached New Orleans. But you see, Ela,
his imagination run wild, envisioned death on all sides. No
wonder he traveled in circles and ended up day. I
know another case where oh you have to go down

(02:22:40):
too bad. But perhaps you're dropping on me a day
and soon I'm always home. Just look for the house
on the other side of the cemetery, the house of
doctor Weird.

Speaker 39 (02:23:10):
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Speaker 6 (02:23:30):
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Speaker 37 (02:23:52):
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Speaker 6 (02:24:23):
So do coming, do you subscribe to the view that
some of.

Speaker 37 (02:24:30):
Us have power over the life and death of someone else?
John dos he knows when.

Speaker 6 (02:24:41):
People are going to die, and that can be most
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Speaker 6 (02:26:12):
John is not a usual sort of man, although he
has a very ordinary sort of name, John Smith. What
could be more ordinary than that? But he is a
most unusual.

Speaker 37 (02:26:29):
Man who reappears.

Speaker 6 (02:26:31):
I take his blood group for instance, his blood group,
his group a B very rare.

Speaker 39 (02:26:41):
Indeed, as the doctor is pointing out to him, only
two percent of people belong to a group. Baby, mister Smith,
I know my group is very rare, and this young
girl is dying. She must have a transfusion as soon
as possible, otherwise she will die, simply, no doubt about that.
But surely I'm not the only person with this type

(02:27:03):
of blood in the area. And no doubt there are people.
We don't know everyone's blood group of hand. Just like
that really pended. As you know on blood donors, you're
the only registered.

Speaker 7 (02:27:13):
Donor in this area.

Speaker 1 (02:27:14):
But there must be someone else.

Speaker 39 (02:27:16):
Believe me, mister Smith, there isn't anyway giving it. Transfusion
isn't anything to worry.

Speaker 16 (02:27:21):
But there's nothing to it.

Speaker 29 (02:27:22):
I've given blood before.

Speaker 16 (02:27:23):
I know that.

Speaker 6 (02:27:24):
Then you'll help us, You'll help the younger. I can't.
I can't go through that again.

Speaker 39 (02:27:30):
I won't, you know, right, ras, Please mister Smith, calm done.
But I'm marking. Isn't that terrible as it is? But
you said you don't know what you're asking. I can't
do it, missus Smith. Unless young Beryl Rodgers receives a
transfusion of blood type any bee blood, she will must
certainly die. There must be somebody else who can do
it white. They can't mean I've told you why.

Speaker 29 (02:27:52):
Missus Smith, you're the only registered donor in the area.

Speaker 39 (02:27:55):
Then what about outside the area? What about blood bags?
You keep some priers of blood under refrigeration these days,
don't you?

Speaker 7 (02:28:02):
Our own local.

Speaker 39 (02:28:03):
Supplies of ad blood from the blood bank are exhausted.
To find supplies elsewhere and fly them here would take
too long. The girl would die. Hang it all, man,
All I'm asking you to do is give a pint
of your blood. That's all much your life.

Speaker 29 (02:28:16):
Now, that's not what you're asking and you don't know
what you're asking.

Speaker 6 (02:28:23):
I can't do it. I can't.

Speaker 39 (02:28:27):
Very well, and then there's nothing more I can do,
or I can't force you. I'm afraid there is unfortunately
no law which says that one must give blood. But
I hope it's to Smith, that you'll be able to
live with your conscience out to tonight after this young
girl does, because you won't help, and I hope you
can face yourself in the marriage day. It wouldn't be

(02:28:49):
saving her, don't you understand it wouldn't. It would be
only postposing something which might.

Speaker 1 (02:28:55):
As well be ended.

Speaker 39 (02:28:56):
Now this girl's life has already ended.

Speaker 29 (02:29:00):
Yes, you can find someone else.

Speaker 6 (02:29:01):
To help you.

Speaker 39 (02:29:02):
The only one, mister Smith. I told you before, you're
the only one, her only chance.

Speaker 29 (02:29:08):
Real If I'm her only chance, she hasn't got one.
You refuse to help her.

Speaker 7 (02:29:16):
Yes, mister Smith, this is a free country. You have
every right to say that.

Speaker 16 (02:29:24):
You must have a very good reason for.

Speaker 39 (02:29:25):
Letting a young girl go to an untimely death like this.

Speaker 68 (02:29:28):
I have.

Speaker 6 (02:29:30):
Won't you tell me what it is.

Speaker 39 (02:29:31):
You wouldn't believe me. Nobody believes me. I promise I
listen with an open mind. You see, the girl's father
is waiting outside to hear your decision. I'll have to
tell him something, all right, I'll tell you. I'll tell
you what's been making my life a nightmare for the

(02:29:51):
last three years. I first registered as a blood chain
about and a half years ago. As you saved, my
group was the rarest about many donors, but also there
around so many people needing transfusions.

Speaker 29 (02:30:10):
So it was about five months or I was called
on to help.

Speaker 39 (02:30:14):
He was a young man, Derek Evans, I still remember
his name.

Speaker 29 (02:30:20):
He'd been badly cut up in a motor accident.

Speaker 39 (02:30:23):
They've helped me from this hospital at about two in
the morning, I came in on here and gave two
kinds of blood. It saved young Derek's life, at least,
that's what we all thought.

Speaker 16 (02:30:36):
But it didn't save his life.

Speaker 11 (02:30:37):
Really.

Speaker 39 (02:30:39):
It only saved him for a far more horrible death.
Two or three days after I had given the blood eye,
I came along to the hospital to see how he's
getting on. By this time, and he was sitting up
in bed.

Speaker 29 (02:30:53):
Took me quite well.

Speaker 6 (02:30:54):
Again.

Speaker 39 (02:30:55):
I was interested to see the man who's life had
been saved by my bloody spills, but also right I
thought I had to see him. You see, doctor, my
blood was faring in his veins already. I've felt a
strange sort of kinship with him, I said, on the.

Speaker 29 (02:31:17):
Chair beside his bed. He smiled at him.

Speaker 6 (02:31:29):
How are you feeling?

Speaker 16 (02:31:31):
Fine?

Speaker 8 (02:31:31):
Fine?

Speaker 6 (02:31:32):
It's funny to think about it, isn't it.

Speaker 29 (02:31:35):
What word that you're blood is now playing around my
body but through my brain and making me think and breathe, yes,
he is, he it is.

Speaker 6 (02:31:49):
I must confess. I don't feel any different.

Speaker 81 (02:31:53):
Different, gentleman, Come on by, you come on it. That's
my talent, mass what out of the worst, that's what
help help.

Speaker 29 (02:32:12):
I'm thinking coming here out n help.

Speaker 85 (02:32:17):
Your help, I'm seeing.

Speaker 6 (02:32:31):
Are you all right? Oh? Good, heavens, I'm telling what
is it?

Speaker 48 (02:32:40):
What?

Speaker 33 (02:32:40):
What's the matter you? You've got black pale? No, it's
it's nothing. I'll be a light.

Speaker 29 (02:32:53):
But there was something, and I didn't tell him.

Speaker 16 (02:32:57):
As he had been speaking, Suddenly into.

Speaker 39 (02:32:59):
My mind they flashed a picture that's been frighteningly real.
It wasn't as if I had imagined myself somewhere else or.

Speaker 6 (02:33:06):
Anything like that.

Speaker 29 (02:33:08):
I'd been completely aware.

Speaker 39 (02:33:09):
That I was sitting in the hospital ward.

Speaker 29 (02:33:12):
I didn't the front of my consciousness.

Speaker 39 (02:33:14):
They flashed a picture of young Jerry Evans and a
girl walking beside him. It suddenly stepped into a quicksand,
and as I was horrified i'd seen him stuck.

Speaker 1 (02:33:26):
Down into the morass.

Speaker 29 (02:33:34):
I didn't tell him what i'd imagined.

Speaker 39 (02:33:37):
It's not the sort of thing you'd tell a confidence
and patient. But as soon as I could, I made
my excuses and left. I tried to put a remembrance
bubbet from my mind, but at night I couldn't sleep.

Speaker 29 (02:33:51):
The next morning I made a phone call to get experience.

Speaker 10 (02:34:04):
Hello missus Evans speaking who this.

Speaker 39 (02:34:08):
My name is important?

Speaker 6 (02:34:10):
I wonder if you can kill me.

Speaker 39 (02:34:13):
Has your son dad got a girlfriend?

Speaker 20 (02:34:15):
My son's engaged to be married.

Speaker 39 (02:34:18):
Please, this is very important.

Speaker 29 (02:34:20):
Could you tell me what is fiance's name?

Speaker 55 (02:34:22):
Is?

Speaker 35 (02:34:23):
Crazy?

Speaker 39 (02:34:24):
It's very important.

Speaker 20 (02:34:26):
Well, I don't know what businesses can possibly be of yours,
but her name is Jill.

Speaker 39 (02:34:42):
I'd somehow known, somewhere in the dark crusisters of my
mind that that was the name she was going to say, Jill.
It's the name which I heard get it call out
in my my vision.

Speaker 29 (02:34:55):
I was timing a long time. I walked about like
man in days.

Speaker 39 (02:35:02):
Was it possible that the fact that my blood was
flowing and his stains had somehow.

Speaker 29 (02:35:07):
Given me the ability to see in Sythetic's future?

Speaker 6 (02:35:10):
It seemed too.

Speaker 29 (02:35:11):
Unbelievable to contemplate final rea.

Speaker 39 (02:35:15):
I decided to return to the hospital and tell him
the whole story. It might well be nothing but nonsense,
that at least he should be warned, I thought.

Speaker 6 (02:35:26):
I phoned to check when i'd be allowed to see him.

Speaker 40 (02:35:29):
What me was that again?

Speaker 6 (02:35:31):
Evans? Evans?

Speaker 29 (02:35:32):
He was in a matter of accident, oh death.

Speaker 20 (02:35:36):
I'm afraid it will be no use coming to see him, sir.

Speaker 43 (02:35:40):
Why not?

Speaker 20 (02:35:41):
He was discharged from hospital. Two days ago.

Speaker 39 (02:35:49):
I spooned his home, of course, but his mother told
me that he's gone away for a week or so
into the country to convalesce.

Speaker 29 (02:35:56):
She must have been a little suspicious.

Speaker 39 (02:35:57):
Of me making our phone calls by this time, because
she refused to tell me if I could get in
touch with him. But looking back, it wouldn't be any
good anyway. At the time, I told myself that I
was behaving esthetically over nothing and tried to put the
whole thing from my mind.

Speaker 1 (02:36:16):
I succeeded, too, up.

Speaker 29 (02:36:18):
To a point, until a couple of days later.

Speaker 6 (02:36:22):
I bought the evening paper as usual, and.

Speaker 29 (02:36:26):
There it was, staring me in the face.

Speaker 86 (02:36:35):
A young man scared Evans was drawn to stay in
the quick stand not now from the village of mad Sight,
bensing you're working was with escaped an.

Speaker 39 (02:36:53):
So now you see, doctor, why I'm not going to
give this young girl any of my blood.

Speaker 29 (02:36:57):
My blood is evil.

Speaker 39 (02:36:58):
It brings about death on the way, horrible fashion and
written letter.

Speaker 29 (02:37:02):
I know about it.

Speaker 6 (02:37:03):
In advance.

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Speaker 43 (02:38:02):
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Speaker 52 (02:38:05):
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Speaker 43 (02:38:06):
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Speaker 6 (02:38:10):
The rest.

Speaker 37 (02:38:28):
Dear, dear, poor John, Count Dracula down here is getting
quite restless.

Speaker 6 (02:38:40):
He wants John to look into his future.

Speaker 39 (02:38:44):
By giving him some of his blood in a good
old fashioned way.

Speaker 29 (02:39:00):
Then you're quite out of heaven.

Speaker 39 (02:39:01):
Say why can't you leave me alone? You don't seem
to understand what you're asking. I told you it's happened
four times in the past, and each time I've lived
under a terrible shadow of dooman until a person concerns
and died.

Speaker 1 (02:39:13):
But look, if you believe what.

Speaker 39 (02:39:15):
You say to be true, then one can take precautions.
Did Derek Evans, for instance, he could have been prevented
from going away into the country.

Speaker 29 (02:39:21):
The tragedy couldn't have been avoided if.

Speaker 39 (02:39:23):
I sat back with Rose Warwick. But at least in
her case, I was sure that my vision couldn't possibly
come through.

Speaker 6 (02:39:29):
What happened. Rose was a cripple.

Speaker 29 (02:39:31):
I gave her blood, saved her life.

Speaker 39 (02:39:33):
Then I saw her quite clearly in my mind's eyes.
She was screaming there and there was ice all around her,
in ice skating. The more I thought about it, the
more impossible it was. She couldn't even walk lit alone skate.

Speaker 6 (02:39:46):
So whilst I thought, this sequence is going to.

Speaker 39 (02:39:48):
Be broken, I should be free, And what happened She
was in a crowded cinema with a caught fire. She died,
burnt to death, and the film of the showing was
called Winter Wonderland.

Speaker 52 (02:40:00):
All about ice skating. Well, what are you going to
save my door's desireful? Are you going to let her die?

Speaker 39 (02:40:21):
I can't do it, mister Rogers. Maybe your daughter better
will live without biases. That's quite impossible, and we only
have about fifteen minutes later.

Speaker 15 (02:40:28):
The I can't do it.

Speaker 16 (02:40:30):
You're a monster, that's what you are. A monster.

Speaker 29 (02:40:33):
Now listen to me, mister Smith.

Speaker 1 (02:40:34):
I'd promise you one thing.

Speaker 16 (02:40:36):
If you don't help my little girl and she dies,
I'll kill you.

Speaker 39 (02:40:42):
All right, all it's what's the use? You don't want
to understand either, of you. I'll do it good that.

Speaker 29 (02:40:52):
I'm warning you.

Speaker 39 (02:40:54):
I won't be saving your daughter's life, mister Rogers. I'll
just be keeping her alive so that you can die.

Speaker 29 (02:40:59):
And that's more audible fashion.

Speaker 6 (02:41:08):
How that's the respiration?

Speaker 20 (02:41:10):
Normal, doctor, I'm kai, don't worry about.

Speaker 29 (02:41:15):
She's already getting some colorie he cheeks.

Speaker 87 (02:41:16):
All right, nurse, remove the needle. Mister Smith, I can't
thank you enough enough, enough enough, been uh.

Speaker 29 (02:41:27):
Enough been enough.

Speaker 6 (02:41:38):
Bec me No, mister Smith, what is it?

Speaker 29 (02:42:01):
It's never happened his cruciates before.

Speaker 16 (02:42:03):
Wasn't matter.

Speaker 29 (02:42:04):
It's the nurse's removing the needle from her harbor.

Speaker 6 (02:42:07):
I sawry. What did you see? The man was standing
with his.

Speaker 1 (02:42:10):
Back to me.

Speaker 39 (02:42:11):
I couldn't see his face books.

Speaker 6 (02:42:17):
It was terrible.

Speaker 16 (02:42:21):
What what did you see?

Speaker 29 (02:42:24):
This man has his hands round of her person.

Speaker 6 (02:42:28):
He was strangling in her.

Speaker 39 (02:42:31):
I haven't saved this for a girl, doctor.

Speaker 29 (02:42:34):
She's saying, to be murdered.

Speaker 6 (02:42:46):
Well, how are you feeling?

Speaker 20 (02:42:50):
I'm saying, who are you?

Speaker 6 (02:42:53):
Why helped you when you were basic? Oh?

Speaker 20 (02:42:57):
Not a man who gave me some blanets.

Speaker 29 (02:42:59):
That's right.

Speaker 20 (02:43:00):
It's funny to think about it, isn't it. You're blood being.
I'm about inside me. It must be nice blood, because
I'm feeling much better.

Speaker 29 (02:43:08):
I'm read.

Speaker 6 (02:43:10):
How old are you bell?

Speaker 20 (02:43:11):
Sixteen, nearly seventeen.

Speaker 29 (02:43:13):
When are you leaving the hospital?

Speaker 20 (02:43:14):
About a week. The doctor said you you will.

Speaker 29 (02:43:18):
Be careful, won't you. You're such a pretty girl.

Speaker 20 (02:43:22):
Careful But what you mean?

Speaker 6 (02:43:25):
Nothing?

Speaker 29 (02:43:26):
Nothing, Just be careful, pray this is nothing I'm touring
this time.

Speaker 85 (02:43:31):
Hello.

Speaker 33 (02:43:52):
Hello, well, I'm just going to have you come in.

Speaker 6 (02:44:02):
How are you?

Speaker 29 (02:44:03):
I'm very very well and coming here.

Speaker 6 (02:44:07):
Thank you. Sit down?

Speaker 39 (02:44:14):
He can what you've been doing with yourself for the
last four months.

Speaker 20 (02:44:17):
You were very nice to me while I was in hospital.

Speaker 6 (02:44:20):
Nonsense.

Speaker 20 (02:44:21):
He told me that if ever I was in trouble,
if ever I needed any help, there's nothing wrong with
the Well you met my father, didn't.

Speaker 11 (02:44:30):
You, Yes?

Speaker 6 (02:44:31):
Yes I did.

Speaker 20 (02:44:32):
How is he He's dead? He died last month.

Speaker 6 (02:44:36):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 55 (02:44:37):
I don't know what to do.

Speaker 20 (02:44:39):
That's why I came to you. You see, I'm not
quite seventeen yet. Unless I have a respectable place to stay, well,
they're going to put me in a home. That's why
I came to you. You said, if ever.

Speaker 10 (02:44:52):
Have I got a job, but I could pay for
my keep. It wouldn't cost you anything.

Speaker 20 (02:44:57):
I haven't got me relative of friends. My mother has
been dead for years. I tried to worry about what
I should do. You. You're the only person I could be. Come.
Won't you help me?

Speaker 57 (02:45:11):
No?

Speaker 29 (02:45:11):
No, no, no, I don't cry.

Speaker 6 (02:45:13):
Of course I'll help you now.

Speaker 29 (02:45:15):
I think you hear about you quite a lot in
the last three or four months. I keep an eye
on you. Maybe there's time I can make sure that
that visions didn't come to all.

Speaker 6 (02:45:35):
She moved in. I had a big house and there's
plenty of room.

Speaker 39 (02:45:39):
I've never married and never had a family, and it
was wonderful at first, just having someone to care about
and someone who cared about me.

Speaker 6 (02:45:49):
So there is nothing else in it but that.

Speaker 29 (02:45:52):
I know we would be saying, but that was nonsense.
She was like a daughter to me, the daughter I've
never had. You broke my head.

Speaker 6 (02:46:02):
The start.

Speaker 1 (02:46:02):
I didn't ask me.

Speaker 29 (02:46:04):
He was too copy, too competent, and he was evil.

Speaker 20 (02:46:15):
Uncle John, this is.

Speaker 6 (02:46:17):
N not pleased to meet you.

Speaker 29 (02:46:18):
I'm sure how you don't drive? There is of course
from don't be too late back from you.

Speaker 6 (02:46:23):
Oh you're worry, mister space.

Speaker 39 (02:46:25):
I'll bring her back safe and sound.

Speaker 81 (02:46:42):
I don't find me which batt manly nice.

Speaker 20 (02:46:49):
He's showing you some new down.

Speaker 81 (02:46:50):
Steps riding finding it you must set work.

Speaker 29 (02:47:17):
Yeah, just a little kiss.

Speaker 6 (02:47:20):
I ought to go in.

Speaker 33 (02:47:22):
You'll be waiting up forming likes. Not about him, for
he's not your Father's been very good.

Speaker 6 (02:47:28):
To me, be good to you. Well, you may go
away for a few days.

Speaker 55 (02:47:35):
Go away?

Speaker 7 (02:47:37):
What do you mean?

Speaker 6 (02:47:38):
Nothing wrong? We haven't Audiu and me get away from
this guy Smiths.

Speaker 37 (02:47:43):
Telling you what to do all the time.

Speaker 6 (02:47:44):
What I'm becoming? And we go out with what about it?

Speaker 1 (02:47:48):
I'm not going anywhere with you.

Speaker 27 (02:47:50):
I get a bit.

Speaker 6 (02:47:52):
You'll have to see this man again.

Speaker 43 (02:47:53):
I wait a minute, you didn't have me, but I'm
not coming.

Speaker 20 (02:47:56):
I better don't Mike as you tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (02:47:59):
No you won't.

Speaker 39 (02:48:00):
I'll see that you have nothing else to do with that.

Speaker 6 (02:48:04):
Now, then what's the meaning of it?

Speaker 39 (02:48:07):
Like a respectable person that time?

Speaker 29 (02:48:09):
And what are you talking about?

Speaker 30 (02:48:11):
My badsom?

Speaker 39 (02:48:12):
Though like to look at me.

Speaker 6 (02:48:25):
I should have let her go.

Speaker 39 (02:48:27):
She wasn't really my responsibility, but a naggin voice and
science said that if I allowed her to leave, this
Mike was going to strangle her. It had always been
true before. I had to make sure it didn't come true.

Speaker 6 (02:48:41):
This time I had to.

Speaker 39 (02:48:43):
I raised up the says after impler from this all
her room. She had an open suitcase on the basins, throwing.

Speaker 6 (02:48:49):
Clothes into it.

Speaker 20 (02:49:03):
You can see what I'm doing alone.

Speaker 52 (02:49:06):
You're not leaving, and you can't stop.

Speaker 6 (02:49:08):
My dad can't. I I'll see you do it. I
tell you, you little, I'll see that you.

Speaker 15 (02:49:13):
Don't get married.

Speaker 39 (02:49:15):
I'll say, if you in spite of yourself.

Speaker 6 (02:49:49):
I don't know what came over me. I must have
seized her by the friend.

Speaker 37 (02:49:56):
I don't remember anymore.

Speaker 6 (02:49:58):
So she was at my feet. She was dead.

Speaker 88 (02:50:04):
My vision had come true again. She's been murdered, just
as i'd seen, And now I knew why the figure
was back. I've seen, being vaguely familiar.

Speaker 16 (02:50:19):
It's been me.

Speaker 39 (02:50:21):
I've seen to be murder. All right, Sergeant, take him away.
I only hope the judge believes your story.

Speaker 6 (02:50:31):
Is smiff, because I don't. Will policeman can be very

(02:51:00):
suspicious at times, can't they. Anyway, don't worry too much.
We'll make John Smith very cozy down here. I'm sure
he'll find that he has a few blood brothers.

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Speaker 29 (02:53:07):
This is your hostak again.

Speaker 6 (02:53:11):
Yes, a reminder our rendezvous next week where we curry
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Speaker 6 (02:53:48):
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Speaker 89 (02:53:52):
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most faithful moment as.

Speaker 7 (02:54:05):
It slowly strikes the eleventh hour.

Speaker 12 (02:54:30):
It was a city besieged by a rebel army, Barricades
and shattered ruins, the grim plecards of a country torn
and bleeding from war. Muffled guns, echoing in the distance,
an orchestration of violence.

Speaker 1 (02:54:45):
It was a jagged concerto which I remember only too well.

Speaker 12 (02:54:51):
My name is Jeff Nabel. The place where left just
say it was in nineteen fifty eight. In the car
with me were my wife and my friend Michael Murray
of the British candidcy.

Speaker 1 (02:55:03):
It couldn't be a b extra of Jeff. I certainly hope,
sir yeh.

Speaker 15 (02:55:07):
Look out to that rubble across the road.

Speaker 41 (02:55:11):
He told me this was the only clear road through.

Speaker 15 (02:55:13):
But it's not exactly a speedway, is it.

Speaker 1 (02:55:16):
Michael?

Speaker 49 (02:55:16):
Did you find out as the consulate why they wouldn't
get a skirl?

Speaker 48 (02:55:20):
Jeff?

Speaker 10 (02:55:21):
An engineer?

Speaker 41 (02:55:21):
You've ever been.

Speaker 48 (02:55:22):
Involved in politics?

Speaker 11 (02:55:24):
Is that right?

Speaker 15 (02:55:24):
Jeff? Why do you keep asking me that michaels you
know it?

Speaker 12 (02:55:28):
And why would the command Dowt himself issue a special
order for bidding you to leave the country.

Speaker 41 (02:55:32):
I mean, if it's okay for Margaret to go.

Speaker 20 (02:55:33):
Why can't you.

Speaker 29 (02:55:34):
I don't understand this.

Speaker 10 (02:55:37):
All the other British and Canadian brisidents.

Speaker 90 (02:55:39):
Were large of the lead.

Speaker 15 (02:55:40):
Why were we held there?

Speaker 1 (02:55:41):
Well, they must have confused me with someone else, my dear.

Speaker 9 (02:55:44):
But push you've always tried so hard not to get
involved in the uprises.

Speaker 41 (02:55:49):
There was no confusion.

Speaker 7 (02:55:50):
Jeff.

Speaker 41 (02:55:51):
I checked for the common down today.

Speaker 15 (02:55:52):
I placed the full way to the British continent.

Speaker 44 (02:55:54):
Against my inquires, all I received was a noncommittal promise
to see about it.

Speaker 11 (02:55:59):
Man Yanna.

Speaker 1 (02:56:01):
The main thing is to get Margaret away and I'll follow.

Speaker 15 (02:56:03):
Later us here. It's all right, Margaret, that's an army
for Troca.

Speaker 44 (02:56:08):
Having our step on the guest just the same will
be a whole lot safer at the airport.

Speaker 3 (02:56:18):
Following a Michael, this is a diplomatic car.

Speaker 32 (02:56:20):
If it's not funny, funny stuff.

Speaker 15 (02:56:26):
Hold out, Michael.

Speaker 38 (02:56:28):
They're waiting us into the side of the rug.

Speaker 72 (02:56:31):
We'll have to plus our way out of this.

Speaker 3 (02:56:32):
If they rapt you're here, Jeff, you could.

Speaker 15 (02:56:34):
Be involved in one of those accidents on the way
back to headquarters. You know the kind of thing that's
been a carrying these last few weeks.

Speaker 12 (02:56:40):
A couple of shots and that a person's important enough,
a polite note of regrets to his religions.

Speaker 41 (02:56:45):
I'll handle at Michael, and I know they want me.

Speaker 9 (02:56:50):
I'm not lect.

Speaker 41 (02:56:52):
You have to think of Peter.

Speaker 29 (02:56:53):
Need We need you, We need.

Speaker 1 (02:56:55):
The minimum one parent.

Speaker 11 (02:56:58):
You don't do it.

Speaker 1 (02:56:59):
I tell you, Margaret, he's liable to lose both.

Speaker 12 (02:57:02):
Listen, Jeff, if you want to play here, though, I
can think of a lot better times and places than that.

Speaker 1 (02:57:06):
You'll playing here.

Speaker 15 (02:57:08):
I just don't want to do anything to jeopardize my
wife's safety.

Speaker 1 (02:57:11):
Jeff, please don't go look after Michael.

Speaker 15 (02:57:15):
You manage to get our boy over to the States, Tapeley.

Speaker 28 (02:57:17):
And do the same for Margaret.

Speaker 16 (02:57:19):
Then you, Jeff Nagel, that's right.

Speaker 1 (02:57:24):
What's the trouble, Officer?

Speaker 15 (02:57:25):
You and your wife will accompany me to head quarts.

Speaker 1 (02:57:28):
Leously, my wife is under the protection of the British concument.
That's right, Captain.

Speaker 15 (02:57:32):
You only have orders from byer rest.

Speaker 1 (02:57:35):
Isn't that correct?

Speaker 11 (02:57:36):
My order?

Speaker 7 (02:57:37):
Use your head?

Speaker 1 (02:57:38):
Captain.

Speaker 15 (02:57:38):
You don't want to start a diplomatic incident, do you.
I know from the file in my office that it
was only mister Nagel who was ordered to stay. His
wife was free to leave.

Speaker 1 (02:57:47):
Any time she chose.

Speaker 15 (02:57:49):
Who are you, Senor?

Speaker 1 (02:57:50):
On your way, Michael, I'll handle this.

Speaker 12 (02:57:52):
Medior Prio ordered me to bring Senor Nagel and his
wife to head Quart.

Speaker 1 (02:57:57):
Well, that's so. Well, let's say you arrested me at home,
and that my wife had already gone.

Speaker 15 (02:58:05):
You understand, Oh yes, he say.

Speaker 6 (02:58:10):
It's a good deer range.

Speaker 16 (02:58:13):
No je I'm going to stay with you.

Speaker 1 (02:58:15):
Michael, get going, godluck, Jeff Michaels, stop the car.

Speaker 91 (02:58:21):
I can't go.

Speaker 15 (02:58:23):
Don't worry, darling. I'll be with you in a few days.
The commandant he wishes to speak to you. Isn't your commandant?
Feeling a little nervously dead?

Speaker 4 (02:58:35):
From what I hear?

Speaker 15 (02:58:35):
The capital will fall of the rebels, but the rumor
has a thousand pounds and all of them fault. You
will get into car free.

Speaker 12 (02:58:44):
People are supporting the rebels, you know, and as though.

Speaker 15 (02:58:50):
They're getting closer.

Speaker 11 (02:58:52):
Come ten, you're the car.

Speaker 6 (02:58:57):
Quickly, sare?

Speaker 12 (02:58:58):
He's right?

Speaker 15 (02:58:59):
You could ever are you? Why did you be?

Speaker 1 (02:59:02):
Then the police will be here in a moment.

Speaker 15 (02:59:03):
I got you can get into the cafe will.

Speaker 1 (02:59:06):
Be said, come in yours.

Speaker 28 (02:59:07):
There is no time to spare.

Speaker 41 (02:59:25):
Hello, Ken, would you mind telling me where you're taking me?

Speaker 16 (02:59:29):
No time to talk now down the sally, senor, But
I don't want to here.

Speaker 1 (02:59:36):
I read that we could not.

Speaker 90 (02:59:38):
Answer through the front door.

Speaker 1 (02:59:40):
And what's this place?

Speaker 7 (02:59:41):
Travos?

Speaker 15 (02:59:41):
In your caveat there is craggy.

Speaker 6 (02:59:43):
Soldiers and police.

Speaker 28 (02:59:46):
This way you will be safe in here, in yours.

Speaker 41 (02:59:49):
You need to say there are police or sold you
just behind that curtain.

Speaker 90 (02:59:56):
When you wish to be unobserved, shows him as all
your place is here, if you please, would you mind
telling me who you are as you must cover you own,
Senor Naggar, we are rebel parties and please se down.

Speaker 33 (03:00:15):
Your bus is with.

Speaker 12 (03:00:16):
Us in your look. I want you to get one
thing straight. I don't give a tinker's curse what happens
to your country. I've seen this cleary was before, and
they all aim the same way.

Speaker 15 (03:00:26):
A few people get shot on.

Speaker 16 (03:00:27):
In your parson, Signors. But when a man is arrested
by special command of the Commandant, it can only mean
that he has information.

Speaker 6 (03:00:35):
Which could be of a distance the rebels.

Speaker 12 (03:00:39):
Whether you like it or no, you have already chosen
size our side.

Speaker 15 (03:00:44):
Why did you commandant refused to allow you to leave?

Speaker 1 (03:00:47):
Why was an order sent out to.

Speaker 20 (03:00:48):
Your I don't know.

Speaker 15 (03:00:50):
I haven't the paintless idea what the commdant wants me for?

Speaker 12 (03:00:53):
Believe me, Signors, in reality we are comrade na, I'm
a British citizen.

Speaker 41 (03:00:59):
I don't want to involved in any of this.

Speaker 1 (03:01:01):
You may not be over us, but you will beat
us just the same.

Speaker 16 (03:01:04):
You must know why you are so important to the commandant.

Speaker 12 (03:01:07):
Oh, if you have a gun at my head and
threatened to pull the figure out, I still couldn't tell
you any more than I have because I don't know.
You tell me why a civil engineer should certainly become
a pawn between two opposing passes.

Speaker 1 (03:01:20):
I think he is speaking in total battle.

Speaker 16 (03:01:23):
I wonder if this man is for some reason he
does not know.

Speaker 1 (03:01:29):
Of value to the commandant.

Speaker 15 (03:01:31):
We must get him out of here as soon as possible.

Speaker 1 (03:01:33):
Now you're talking, bring corn and pere for to me.

Speaker 90 (03:01:37):
They will arrange everything for Senior Nago.

Speaker 15 (03:01:39):
I'm very grateful to you any but I should.

Speaker 72 (03:01:42):
Not advise you to read for your gun.

Speaker 20 (03:01:44):
My client, who are you?

Speaker 7 (03:01:46):
What you want with us?

Speaker 44 (03:01:47):
Why are you It is very simple, a blank wall
and a cloth around your eyes. But by your English friends,
and he's a car waiting to take him to the commandant,
Daniel Nago.

Speaker 41 (03:02:00):
Now see here they made a mistake at headquarters.

Speaker 12 (03:02:03):
I'm a civil engineer, a Brittish citizen. I don't know
a thing that any use your people are.

Speaker 44 (03:02:08):
In the contrary, Daniel Nagel's praid of our city rats
with you, so you're wasting time.

Speaker 15 (03:02:25):
My dear Sena neg I am more distressed than I
can say that your journey here was so eventful.

Speaker 1 (03:02:32):
Oh look, command and if you're going to ask me
the same questions.

Speaker 15 (03:02:36):
As that character in the cat I can only give
you the same answers. I know nothing, nothing at all
he's done for. But the populace seems to regat the
rebels is liberated, or.

Speaker 12 (03:02:48):
Maybe they feel that any change of government is presserable
to the one they have. But I must compliment you
and one thing, senior.

Speaker 15 (03:02:56):
Neighbors there you have held aloof from my little domestic
problems has been admirable compliment you.

Speaker 41 (03:03:04):
Thanks.

Speaker 12 (03:03:05):
Now, perhaps you will tell me why I wasn't allowed
to leave the country a month ago, why I was
arrested today? Why who has been so many I'm glad
you find an amusing commandant. It certainly doesn't strike me
as particularly funny. I have no interest in the local
political set up whatsoever. All I want to do is

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to get out of here and you. At the moment,
I feel as though I'm in some kind of crazy
game where everyone else knows the rules.

Speaker 1 (03:03:35):
It kept me.

Speaker 15 (03:03:36):
I shall personally secret that you escorted to their point.
You shall also receive payment for your services to ass
shall we say, five thousand American dollar?

Speaker 1 (03:03:48):
Look, look, you've got the wrong man, Commandant.

Speaker 41 (03:03:51):
How can I possibly be of any use to you?

Speaker 1 (03:03:55):
Well, let me explain. It's quite simple.

Speaker 15 (03:04:00):
You see, when your company finished constructing the dam over
Beadle Valley, the greater part of the equipment was shipped
back to the United.

Speaker 1 (03:04:08):
States and agari. Yeah, yes, that's right, but I thought
it to.

Speaker 15 (03:04:11):
One truck was unable to reach the walls, and it
tried to detour and take its priceous.

Speaker 1 (03:04:19):
Loads of the airports, but the roads were lost, and
I could.

Speaker 12 (03:04:27):
As you are, and I still don't see how it
affects me very severe. The truck was loaded with natural blisterines.
There was the constant angel of explosion, so.

Speaker 15 (03:04:41):
It was concealed somewhere else the breach of gunzod because
your company was naturally determined that all costs to prevent
any harm to the citizens.

Speaker 11 (03:04:51):
I know all that.

Speaker 1 (03:04:52):
I was on that truck night supervised the unloading of
the nitro bitterine.

Speaker 15 (03:04:57):
Yes, Christ, but you'll see unfortunately the driver was killed
in a street Stunich for the afterwards.

Speaker 1 (03:05:05):
But you are acquaintances thereabout.

Speaker 15 (03:05:10):
Exclusive I know, of course, I am Wait a minute,
is that's why you prevented me from leaving the country.
Little sip that I regarded you as a trunk card
and the times is not yet right to play that guy.

Speaker 41 (03:05:26):
But this is what they kill us like.

Speaker 15 (03:05:27):
I don't want to hear those guns.

Speaker 1 (03:05:29):
And there are the guns.

Speaker 15 (03:05:33):
They will be in the capital bad and the people
will fill the styes develop in them.

Speaker 1 (03:05:40):
There's such a warm sympathy between the Abbans and the populace.

Speaker 7 (03:05:44):
Ah, it's a fully popular.

Speaker 1 (03:05:46):
Comment, am bio. This may be a Michael can turn
to you, but.

Speaker 15 (03:05:50):
It doesn't affect me in the least. All I want
to do is to get out of this country as
soon as posolpania. You will kill me where that makes
sure of Blisty is and how it's may be most
speedily deafenaated.

Speaker 11 (03:06:04):
It's you crazy.

Speaker 1 (03:06:06):
There's enough explosion there to blow up half the capital.

Speaker 7 (03:06:10):
That is, since.

Speaker 1 (03:06:37):
Are you here is about blowing up the capital?

Speaker 41 (03:06:40):
Or is one of the ugly tis.

Speaker 15 (03:06:43):
The tragedy of war is that always the innocence that
and more than the guilty. The people have given their
support to the rebels. They've betrayed the government, and now
the government.

Speaker 41 (03:06:53):
Has no massive art.

Speaker 1 (03:06:55):
This explosion will destroy half the capital.

Speaker 15 (03:06:58):
It will be broadcast to our country and to the rest.

Speaker 1 (03:07:01):
Of the world that the rebels were responsible.

Speaker 15 (03:07:04):
Let's see then, then send the people who look at
the city and the ruins they were riots and fury
and drive out the rebels with their bare hands.

Speaker 1 (03:07:15):
The government will be restored to.

Speaker 41 (03:07:17):
Power by the will of the people.

Speaker 15 (03:07:22):
It's a smart plan. Go today, and all I have
to do is to light the views. You are a
man of weak and some understanding the.

Speaker 12 (03:07:34):
New Let's get this straight, PINERI. You want me to
show you where the knight who is and this payment
I get an escort out of the country inableness of
five thousand dollars plus the deaths of a few thousand
innocent people on my country.

Speaker 41 (03:07:47):
Right yeah, grammatizing the situation.

Speaker 15 (03:07:50):
You are an Englishman.

Speaker 6 (03:07:51):
This is not your word.

Speaker 41 (03:07:54):
If you cooperate with me, you will be in.

Speaker 15 (03:07:56):
The United States tomorrow and all this will be just
the nabo is The whole idea is crazy. I don't
only one thing from you, Senor, the location of that explosive,
and I intend that you shall tell me.

Speaker 1 (03:08:10):
And if I don't be reasonable.

Speaker 41 (03:08:13):
Think of your wife and child, think of.

Speaker 15 (03:08:17):
The years that lie ahead of you.

Speaker 20 (03:08:19):
No I will able to indicate you with this disaster.

Speaker 1 (03:08:22):
All you are doing is saving your.

Speaker 15 (03:08:24):
Life and making a profit on the sign. Come now, Senyor,
let us not quibble.

Speaker 6 (03:08:30):
Where is the explosive?

Speaker 15 (03:08:33):
Sorry, Colonel, I can't tell you.

Speaker 1 (03:08:37):
Yeah, don't force me to persuade you. I know your
method is commandant. I know what you can do.

Speaker 15 (03:08:45):
I don't forget this.

Speaker 12 (03:08:47):
If anything happens to me, the British Consulate will hold
you responsible.

Speaker 41 (03:08:50):
In order Susan to be great incident you will do.

Speaker 6 (03:08:55):
I know him.

Speaker 1 (03:08:56):
That's the way it is.

Speaker 6 (03:08:57):
Eh.

Speaker 12 (03:08:58):
I'm sorry, colonel, and I'm still not going to tell
you where that nitru is.

Speaker 1 (03:09:03):
A man can only die once.

Speaker 12 (03:09:06):
And personally, I think you're bluffing, bling and I've lost
all patience with you, Senor.

Speaker 15 (03:09:12):
I start Recaud said, who live like gentlemen? I did
not wish to involve your wife. My wife, but she
has nothing to do with the hat. She knows I
was like using these methods, senor. But yeah, sentimental fool
and arguments alone are not enough to convince you.

Speaker 1 (03:09:34):
Now we were talking of your wife. If you hurt
my wife hurt he send you?

Speaker 41 (03:09:43):
How could we hurt her? She went through the airport?

Speaker 84 (03:09:47):
Did she know?

Speaker 29 (03:10:00):
You must be because I can't go with us.

Speaker 16 (03:10:03):
Now, listen, Margaret, as soon as I get you on
that plane.

Speaker 15 (03:10:05):
I'll go to the citadel and demand to see the
common game.

Speaker 14 (03:10:08):
But you don't even know why.

Speaker 15 (03:10:09):
Well, with a flap that's been going on these.

Speaker 41 (03:10:11):
Past few days, these things.

Speaker 15 (03:10:12):
Happen, I'll fraighten it out. Now, don't worry.

Speaker 20 (03:10:15):
All passengers for flight twelve will both the plane.

Speaker 29 (03:10:18):
Now, this is it, Margaret, I can't go.

Speaker 52 (03:10:20):
I can't look.

Speaker 15 (03:10:21):
You know what Jeff said, And you've got to think
of Peter. What the devil into the plane?

Speaker 6 (03:10:26):
Would you come on?

Speaker 30 (03:10:26):
Snap?

Speaker 1 (03:10:26):
Antoway? Really what you've called for? A commandant?

Speaker 15 (03:10:40):
Yes, place it on the desk before send your negive.

Speaker 6 (03:10:42):
Very good?

Speaker 41 (03:10:44):
Here is your Now.

Speaker 1 (03:10:48):
What's the idea? Colonel sing your look at the hem bag?

Speaker 15 (03:10:53):
Yeah again, closely open it if you like, I think
you would agree that it belongs to a gon't go
and send your organism I think you will find the
wallet containing her past sports and photos. Oh, such charming photos.
Well where did you get this from your wife? Who else?

Speaker 1 (03:11:17):
You took her off the plane and Fritz.

Speaker 6 (03:11:22):
You arm her?

Speaker 11 (03:11:25):
You will do what?

Speaker 12 (03:11:27):
Well you realize that she was escorted by a British
empathy official.

Speaker 15 (03:11:32):
My dear sen your negrew, that is a small diplomatic
incident at a time like this, Margaret, my my wife.

Speaker 1 (03:11:38):
She had no part in the know.

Speaker 11 (03:11:41):
But if you.

Speaker 15 (03:11:41):
Insist on being so stubborn, so uncooperative genure, you forced
me to use unpleasant methods to that, say.

Speaker 1 (03:11:48):
You, I can't.

Speaker 12 (03:11:49):
I can't stand by and watch thousands of people blown
up in an explosion?

Speaker 1 (03:11:54):
What kind of ever, Senor? Do not lose your tender
you know what sometimes happens to political business. What's the
use of arguing with your type?

Speaker 11 (03:12:09):
Now?

Speaker 15 (03:12:10):
Then another, make your decision quickly, even though nothing will
happen to you, So you are will it may be different.
You are making me responsible to the life of thousands
of people. Are people that you have never met, strangers
and will remain strangers to you.

Speaker 11 (03:12:27):
Will you sacrifice the life of the.

Speaker 1 (03:12:29):
Person you love most? Point and anonymous crimes send your negatives.
Oh now, let's tell me where is the mad through glserine.

Speaker 17 (03:12:47):
It's in the cellar.

Speaker 12 (03:12:49):
In the heart of the capital, and there are crowded
apartment buildings all around it, buildings full of women.

Speaker 15 (03:13:00):
That is un for dinner.

Speaker 1 (03:13:03):
But you have a child of your own. What will
happen to your son if his parents dies?

Speaker 11 (03:13:11):
I come to it.

Speaker 1 (03:13:12):
I won't tell you the location.

Speaker 15 (03:13:14):
If you find out yourself, that's all right. But you
will never force me to tell you. No matter what
you do with me, you understand.

Speaker 41 (03:13:22):
Me, and your money from the prettish point is here.

Speaker 15 (03:13:27):
Sure the canadance. You don't have tantor reconsider your decision
where I attend to this? Gentlemen, do not try to
use DM com. I have disconnected it. No one could
possibly hear you in this room. Think about then propositions
in you. You know in our country we have a

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saying Amend's will is a family. It would be such
a pusy to lose your will easier posts.

Speaker 76 (03:14:04):
So Michael's here, and that's something I wonder if I
could risk trying to get that just come working. MM
must be the next to do a main switch. Al right, Ah,

(03:14:24):
let's see what we can do in the wild running
down a chair, m it pays. Must be a secret
switch somewhere.

Speaker 6 (03:14:38):
HM would have been in there.

Speaker 1 (03:14:40):
Maybe it's.

Speaker 34 (03:14:42):
Where that's it.

Speaker 29 (03:14:44):
Bear those wires and complete the circuit. All about this wire.

Speaker 6 (03:14:52):
Loudly the bear in.

Speaker 8 (03:14:55):
Putting them together.

Speaker 44 (03:14:59):
And yeah, boy, and see it have passed born and
personal belongings.

Speaker 41 (03:15:02):
Your responsible for that.

Speaker 43 (03:15:04):
It must have been a mistake.

Speaker 48 (03:15:06):
Thing.

Speaker 15 (03:15:06):
At all times we respected launatic immunity, embarrassed might use
the States without her leader.

Speaker 3 (03:15:15):
And then as a matter of her husband, Mike, why
aren't you.

Speaker 32 (03:15:21):
Completely had a lot to his.

Speaker 29 (03:15:24):
That's so well, I'm going to.

Speaker 44 (03:15:26):
File a formal complaint, and if you know what's good
for you, you'll let mister Nagel go.

Speaker 1 (03:15:30):
Understand now, what's happened to the confounded thing?

Speaker 15 (03:15:39):
Yeah, at first you have made good use of those
few minutes to arrive at the correct decision. Yes, I'll
give you my answer now, Colonel, I knew that apart
you were rational man. In these days, one must think
of one's self, doesn't one. The answer is no.

Speaker 1 (03:16:01):
Let's see you realize what.

Speaker 41 (03:16:04):
Will happen to your wife.

Speaker 12 (03:16:06):
My wife is safe in the United States, and so
is my son. You shouldn't have let an engineer alone
with that intercom, Colonel.

Speaker 1 (03:16:13):
I didn't have to find the switch to make it work.

Speaker 15 (03:16:15):
I see very well. Pay any price you care to name.

Speaker 1 (03:16:20):
I've already agreed to the price my life.

Speaker 12 (03:16:24):
Are right, Colonel. One should think of oneself. There are
times when one has to think of others. This is
one of those times.

Speaker 6 (03:16:33):
I'll make you talk.

Speaker 15 (03:16:35):
You understand, I made you. You haven't a hope, Colonel.
We shall see then you.

Speaker 11 (03:16:41):
Yeah, a little love to miss it.

Speaker 15 (03:16:46):
Take sen your nagger to the eyes. It's amazing how
clearly a man can see when he has his back
against the wall and his only horizon is the sunlight
on a row.

Speaker 6 (03:16:59):
Of rifles.

Speaker 15 (03:17:09):
Randsma, Senor, and this is your last chance. Where are
the explosives? You'd better get the execution of the colonel.

Speaker 1 (03:17:19):
The rebels come pretty close to me.

Speaker 15 (03:17:21):
Citadel is impregnatory.

Speaker 1 (03:17:23):
I'd like to be outside. I'd like to be outside
there with a few grenade.

Speaker 15 (03:17:28):
That you are here, Senor, and before you there.

Speaker 1 (03:17:32):
Are six men with death.

Speaker 27 (03:17:33):
In their hands.

Speaker 6 (03:17:34):
This is the moment when you're mastifide.

Speaker 15 (03:17:38):
You can't speak or die. Which is it to be
to tell them to fire. I shall get the order
with pleasure, Senior, now ger, and you may be assured that,
if it is necessary, I shall deliver the kuda grass myself, because.

Speaker 30 (03:17:54):
You're good guy, my lovely guy.

Speaker 7 (03:18:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (03:18:12):
Well, yet over here, Mike, I threw myself against the wall.

Speaker 92 (03:18:17):
Turns on TI first, get here, fat, you're looking at
the whole level army trampled over here?

Speaker 7 (03:18:23):
Where on earth did juice ring? Draws you down and
run for cover?

Speaker 16 (03:18:28):
Another minute? It would have been too late.

Speaker 92 (03:18:30):
If the British costle ever hears that I joined in
with an attack on the citadel, I'll be cashier. And oh, Mike,
taw's Margaret and she's fine. We managed to get her
on the plane. You're coming straight over to the ambassy.
We saved there for the worst of this is over. Now,
come on, we better get cracking.

Speaker 93 (03:19:00):
M be listening for another mounting drama with action and

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suspense when next we bring you the eleventh.

Speaker 2 (03:19:31):
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Speaker 11 (03:22:24):
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Speaker 94 (03:22:25):
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Speaker 94 (03:22:49):
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Speaker 95 (03:23:13):
To night, we escape to a placid English village and
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Speaker 3 (03:23:37):
And now, I might say right in the beginning that
I ain't the kind of chap who as a naturally
argumentative disposition, meaning the kind who's always engaging in hostile
discussions with perfect strangers. Quite the contrary, I'm a reasonable
man who always takes proper thought before he speaks, and
one who has due respect for scientific truth. Why I

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ain't never opened my mouth to utter a word that
wasn't a pure ahn diluted a fact.

Speaker 16 (03:24:06):
That's what you say.

Speaker 3 (03:24:11):
Howsoever, when a man of inferior intellect, such as Tuddy
Beamish that showed himself to be more than once, When
a man like that insists upon hearing his ridiculous opinions
in a public place such as the Long brag and Bar,
then I've got no choice but to confound him with
the superior knowledge which I possesses.

Speaker 13 (03:24:31):
That may be well and good, perhaps, but it's only
what you say.

Speaker 3 (03:24:36):
On the contrary, mister Beamish. The statements which I have
just made are such as might come from any intelligent
human being with a true knowledge of scientific a principle,
which same can't be said for some of us here
at this bar. So you say, that's right, So I say.
And if you can't contribute nothing but the same three

(03:24:57):
words to this discussion, I will thank you to admit
that you are defeated and a shut your mouth.

Speaker 75 (03:25:02):
Well now, mister father.

Speaker 71 (03:25:05):
I appeal to you, he does it.

Speaker 3 (03:25:07):
I appeal to your constable When I'm only trying to
enlighten the man from the bug of ignorance. He's a
floundering in and he keeps coming up with his infernal
So you say, well, I'm not wasting my words, that's all.

Speaker 96 (03:25:20):
If the pints of stout and I've flown across this
barther why words to why, then I'd have been retiring
years ago.

Speaker 97 (03:25:28):
Quite right, miss Bridges, I'll have another the same if
you don't mind.

Speaker 3 (03:25:32):
Let's see that was quite a bit of by al right,
study Bisionish. I shouldn't be wasting me time on you,
But doubt of the goodness of my heart, I'll do
it anyhow suit yourself. Now let's take, for example, that
pint of ale that you're holding in your hand.

Speaker 98 (03:25:49):
It's pretty eye empty.

Speaker 3 (03:25:51):
I've paid for the last one, all right. Now suppose,
for instance, if that ale was to turn into wine.
I care much for wine.

Speaker 11 (03:26:01):
I was like dale by.

Speaker 3 (03:26:02):
Now, if that all there was to turn into wine,
then you'd have a miracle.

Speaker 8 (03:26:08):
So you say, so.

Speaker 3 (03:26:09):
Anybody says, perhaps you ain't even aware of the proper
definition of what a miracle is, mister Beamish.

Speaker 98 (03:26:17):
Well, some miracles is one kind and some is another.

Speaker 96 (03:26:22):
If anybody left so much as tuppens on the bar,
is a gratuity for my services, that would be a miracle,
all right.

Speaker 3 (03:26:29):
Be that as it may, miss Bridges. But a miracle
ain't of one kind or another. A true miracle is
something contrari wise to the course of nature, done by
the power of will. So you say something what couldn't
happen without being specially willed to happen? And miracles ain't possible, easy, lad, Easy, now, well, I.

Speaker 98 (03:26:51):
Wouldn't go so far as to say they ain't.

Speaker 3 (03:26:53):
It's your ignorance. It's talking. Look you see that lamp
sitting there on the end of the bar, as bright
as you please. I said, right enough now, that lamp,
in the natural course of nature couldn't burn like that
if it was turned upside down and hanging in the air.
You say it couldn't, mister, Do you mean to tell

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me that you're all right?

Speaker 10 (03:27:16):
All right?

Speaker 3 (03:27:17):
Maybe it couldn't, and if it did, it would be
her miracle. Very well, Now, supposing somebody was to come along,
take me, for instance, And he pointed his finger at
that lamp like this, and said, turn upside down. Now
if the lamp, if it's sides preservice, if it aren't.

Speaker 98 (03:27:38):
Doing it well, now burn and the other visible means
of support.

Speaker 3 (03:27:45):
I can't keep it up there much longer.

Speaker 98 (03:27:47):
Remarkable remark.

Speaker 97 (03:27:49):
Fothering again, stop it, stopp it immediately abouts my official order.

Speaker 3 (03:27:53):
I have a care constable watch out there.

Speaker 10 (03:27:55):
It goes.

Speaker 17 (03:27:58):
Now.

Speaker 96 (03:27:58):
See what you've done, mister fother and got my best
lamp chimney. I scringer more than an hour agoat smesh
in Dismillery.

Speaker 3 (03:28:06):
But I didn't try to do it.

Speaker 96 (03:28:08):
You knew you might have caught the whole place of fire.

Speaker 97 (03:28:11):
Mostly irregular and illegal. Besides, like he's not, we'll have
no more of it, you understand.

Speaker 3 (03:28:16):
But I'll tell you I didn't mean you when you're
silly conjuring trick. It wasn't a conjuring trick, that's what
you said, No doubt you've had a bit too much
to drink. All I'd done was to point my finger
at it like that to stop it.

Speaker 72 (03:28:28):
Now, don't you'll dare?

Speaker 98 (03:28:30):
But that's all I've done in that case, mister father
and gay, you defeat your own argument right out of
your own mouth.

Speaker 68 (03:28:38):
And how is that?

Speaker 3 (03:28:39):
Might I ask?

Speaker 98 (03:28:40):
If it weren't caused by some form of trick ray,
then what happened to that lamp was a miracle? Oh
here now, I ain't hold him with no bloomy miracles
held with them or not, as the case might belay,
mister father and gay.

Speaker 82 (03:28:54):
But you just stood right there.

Speaker 98 (03:28:56):
And performed a real, true, honest, genuine miracle. That's what
you'd done.

Speaker 3 (03:29:09):
It wasn't a matter of being asked to leave the
long greg And you understand I already had my mind
set on going anyhow. A place what's full of hignorant
superstition ain't the kind of place for a man of
rational intellect to be doing his thinking, And thinking was
just what was called for.

Speaker 11 (03:29:26):
On the one end, I.

Speaker 3 (03:29:27):
Weren't ready to swallow no miracle theory. But on the
other end, I wasn't able to recollect no scientific a principle,
but might account for that which had happened. As you
might say, the question had dissolved itself into a dilemma. Oh,
my landlady, missus Tetherington was sitting up in the parlor

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when I come in.

Speaker 21 (03:29:49):
Good evening, mister Fotheringay, but I.

Speaker 3 (03:29:51):
Can't recall saying anything to her. Well, very well, mister,
I went straight to my own room, closed me or
lit the candle, and then I sat there on the
edge of my bed, a grappling with the problem in
heroic fashion and trying to puzzle out the ultimate solution.

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Weren't no easy thing to do. It couldn't have happened,
but it had happened, which ain't logic no matter how
you look at it. Why it'd be the same situation
if I was to point my finger at that candle
there and say, be raised up in the air, and
it was to climby hanging there like a blooming firefly.

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But it's contrary wise that pour up there, it goes,
oh black as your hat. Now where in the tire
nation did that confounded thing get to? At any rate?
There should be some matches around here somewhere, Oh, I say,
maybe I could let there be a match in me hand. Well,

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now just like that, oh safety, imagine a lot of
blooming good that's going to Oh o half a mo,
I'm half the moon. Now, maybe I don't need no match.
Maybe I could candle wherever you are be lighted. Oh here, now,

(03:31:26):
not in the middle of my bed. I will not
be having any of that. Now, Well, come in, you
ain't lot.

Speaker 10 (03:31:34):
Mister fothering guy.

Speaker 99 (03:31:36):
Can't I inquire?

Speaker 26 (03:31:37):
What's coming off?

Speaker 10 (03:31:37):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (03:31:38):
Martinquire and took places with you. Can't you recognize a
man who's got his hands full of terrible tables?

Speaker 99 (03:31:44):
Indeed, I'll have you wonderstand, oh, mister furthering guy, why
you smoke coming out of that bed.

Speaker 3 (03:31:51):
Because it caught on fire? That's why, Oh may.

Speaker 49 (03:31:55):
World comforter with a narrow band in.

Speaker 82 (03:31:57):
It and taking lighted candles.

Speaker 3 (03:31:59):
To bed, I am not taking no candles anywhere, and
I will thank you to leave me the privacy of
my own a bed chamber.

Speaker 21 (03:32:06):
Well, I never you have been drinken.

Speaker 3 (03:32:10):
On the contrary, I have been cogitating upon matters of science,
which is far beyond the range of your feeble hintellect.

Speaker 99 (03:32:18):
And with all the money I have to spend on candles,
I'll let you know that if any candles are going
to be tossed around loose like in this house, I'll.

Speaker 3 (03:32:26):
Do the toutson, missus Teverington. I might remind you that
good steady lodgers such as a man like myself, ain't
so easy to come by nowadayes with which I will
bill you are highly a respectable A good a night.

Speaker 99 (03:32:43):
I've never been so insulted in all my life, and
you can rest assure you ever done the last.

Speaker 100 (03:32:48):
Of this.

Speaker 13 (03:32:50):
Old vulture.

Speaker 3 (03:32:52):
Don't know who she's talking to me, A bloke what's
only got to point his finger and say, be and
it is yymy. If I ain't suddenly got the power
to perform miracles, real genuine miracles like as not the

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result of my long devotion to the true principles of science,
Well I got through the next day without no trouble,
and come evening I went walking down the lane that
leads around Millsdale's Pond, tempting to put my mental processes
into order. As you might say, mostly I kept trying

(03:33:35):
to cogitate on some honest to Betsy miracle I might
up and perform. But it ain't such an easy matter
for a jap who's unaccustomed to goings.

Speaker 19 (03:33:43):
On at that nature.

Speaker 3 (03:33:44):
Oh what I wanted was the genuine article, you understand,
no little shenanigans, one with which to make people stop
and say, blarmin Now, if that ain't a real, downright
miracle for you, all of a sudden I had it.
I just happened to recollect a chat somewhere who stuck

(03:34:06):
his staff into the ground and commanded it to blossom.
So I poke me walking stick into the edge of
the turf our back door a wee bit and pointed
my finger at it. Walking stick become a blooming bush
of flowering posies roses by heaven, I done it, just

(03:34:32):
like that fellow in the hopera? What's going on here, o,
Constable Winch? Confound the man anyhow, say.

Speaker 97 (03:34:39):
And assist whatever it is you're doing.

Speaker 72 (03:34:41):
In the name of the crowd.

Speaker 3 (03:34:42):
You there, rose bush, go back now faster.

Speaker 97 (03:34:48):
Who is your thrown bramble busses a blasted on swipe
into a man severely?

Speaker 3 (03:34:54):
Yeah, confounded, blundering idiot.

Speaker 97 (03:34:57):
I've seen now who's conducting nefarious activities under the cover
of darkness, assaulting an officer and gains in the pursuit
of his natural.

Speaker 13 (03:35:07):
Well, so it's you, mister fothering eh.

Speaker 3 (03:35:11):
The fact being self evident, mister Winch, I will not
bother myself to hans.

Speaker 97 (03:35:15):
Her, so you will not bother yourself to answer. Maybe
you'll also deny that you just threw a great heavy
mass of foliage at me.

Speaker 3 (03:35:23):
I do deny it.

Speaker 97 (03:35:25):
They're no doubt.

Speaker 13 (03:35:25):
It just up and flew through the air.

Speaker 71 (03:35:27):
All by itself.

Speaker 3 (03:35:29):
Constable Winch, you have just hit the nail on the head.

Speaker 97 (03:35:32):
So that's the way the wind blows some more of them,
blasted hanky pink conjuring tricks of yours is at it.

Speaker 3 (03:35:39):
On the contrary, it was merely a small miracle.

Speaker 97 (03:35:42):
You don't say so, in which cases, honor might enjoy
hearing you tell about it.

Speaker 30 (03:35:47):
So come along with you an album.

Speaker 3 (03:35:49):
I will do nothing of the kind.

Speaker 97 (03:35:50):
Oh, resistant an officer, There'll be another charge against you,
chrg inded.

Speaker 3 (03:35:56):
Mister witch. You can take your charges and and go
to hides whoa oh per cossible, Oh, mister wench oh
would blame me if he had gone and disappeared complete
like wonder if he I'm thinking this miracle business ain't all.

(03:36:18):
It's talking up to me why a man might find
himself in a whole peck of trouble before he learns
the knack of the thing. I'm thinking I'd durst go
and get myself some really professional advice right away.

Speaker 13 (03:36:41):
Good evening to you, brother, a very pleasant evening, and
the same to you with many of them.

Speaker 3 (03:36:46):
Mister Maydig, that is your reverence. Oh no, no formality now,
none at all, though, just call me mister Maydig. Wilna,
thank you kindly, or maidig ship, won't you step inside?
Much obliged to you, mister Reverendship.

Speaker 13 (03:37:04):
Just follow me now this way. Mister, I can't say
that I called the.

Speaker 3 (03:37:09):
Name fathering gay a George a w fathering guy.

Speaker 13 (03:37:13):
Oh yes, not from my parish.

Speaker 3 (03:37:16):
Well, yes, our attended services last Christmas. Indeed, so many
people did last Christmas. Well, here we are, mister bothering Bay,
take share. It's a farthering, gayer, nicer diggings you've got here.
Oh adequate, mister motheringway, adequate for my simple wants here

(03:37:37):
now now, just feel entirely free to lay your burdens
upon my shoulders. Well, the fact is, huh, the matter
which I have come here to talk about might be
considered of a somewhat delicate nature. Oh, oll think nothing
of it. You please feel free to speak. We'll speak freely.

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My housekeeper retires very Oh no, your reverendship is nothing
like that. Then, Like what the subject about which I'm
inquiring is miracles?

Speaker 13 (03:38:11):
Miracles?

Speaker 3 (03:38:12):
Oh yes, yes, indeed miracles, any special kind of miracles?
Oh yes, the kind which I perform myself, which you perform?

Speaker 4 (03:38:24):
Let me see?

Speaker 13 (03:38:26):
And what sort of miracles do you perform?

Speaker 3 (03:38:29):
Well, for one thing, I have just finished sending Constable
Winch to hades Haides.

Speaker 13 (03:38:35):
Indeed, oh, that's it very interesting.

Speaker 3 (03:38:38):
Of course, when I realized what had happened, I had
him transferred to San Francisco wherever that is.

Speaker 13 (03:38:45):
Oh, I'm sure sure he likes San Francisco much better.

Speaker 7 (03:38:49):
You don't believe me.

Speaker 3 (03:38:51):
I can't say that I blame you none.

Speaker 13 (03:38:52):
Either, we'll laft or mister duthering leg.

Speaker 3 (03:38:55):
It's fathering guy. Well, very well, there ain't nothing else
to do but for me to go up and perform
a few miracles before we go any farther.

Speaker 13 (03:39:04):
Well, that's very interesting. I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (03:39:08):
You just take that jar of tobacco there on the table,
for instance. Suppose I just point my finger at it
like this and become a bowl of violets.

Speaker 13 (03:39:19):
Yes, indeed, it's very inter.

Speaker 3 (03:39:22):
You see, it ain't no tobacco jar, no more, it's
a bowl of pilots. Well, god BlimE, I mean so
it is. Of course, it ain't nothing very spectacular, you're opriendship,
But it is the sort of a miracle a man
can pass without tangling himself up in a mass of trouble. Extraordinary, very.

Speaker 13 (03:39:43):
Extraordinary.

Speaker 3 (03:39:45):
You can see for yourself they're real violets.

Speaker 7 (03:39:47):
Indeed, yes, indeed.

Speaker 3 (03:39:50):
Now take this, for example, become a bowl of fish. No,
not that kind eye fish in a goldfish bowl swimming around.
Now that's better.

Speaker 13 (03:40:07):
It's amazing. How did you do it? You just told
it to That's that's all.

Speaker 11 (03:40:13):
That's all.

Speaker 3 (03:40:14):
When I tells the thing to do it, it does
it incredible? Come on with something like you might say,
And I'd like to know if it's a real, genuine
miracle or if it ain't. Well, seeing as our miracles
ought to come under your reverendship special Province.

Speaker 13 (03:40:30):
More or less, yes, yes, yes, indeed.

Speaker 3 (03:40:33):
However, usually in somewhat more academic fashion, these are more
more astonishing. As far as I can tell, there ain't
no limit to it, like, for instance, sir, owl of
fish turn into a pigeon. What heavens, look at the
thing here here? Now none of that? Or you stay
away from mister maydig up. Perhaps I'd better become that

(03:40:57):
jar of tobacco again. Huh, well, Reverend, what do you
think about it? Amazing? It's the most extraordinary thing I've
ever seen in my life, ever expected to see.

Speaker 13 (03:41:11):
No, no, no, I've got to think about it too,
consider the possibilities.

Speaker 3 (03:41:15):
Well, I might come back in the morning. Oh no, no, no,
no no, wouldn't hear of it. I was about to
dine when you rang. I wonder if you join me.
Of course, I'm afraid there's only a cold mutton more. Well, now,
maybe there's something else you might like better anything. Frankly,
I've grown to hit the sight of eh, you don't
mean why not just name it pheasant? I haven't tasted

(03:41:39):
pheasant in year, and now is the time. Let there
be a pheasant on the table.

Speaker 82 (03:41:45):
Then hello, no, no, no, no, no, luck might not
like that.

Speaker 3 (03:41:48):
Let it be dead and wasted and ready to eat.

Speaker 10 (03:41:52):
Look look at it.

Speaker 3 (03:41:54):
What's beautiful?

Speaker 4 (03:41:56):
Smells good too.

Speaker 3 (03:41:58):
Maybe we'd best, uh, let there be two pheasants and
traffley ain't truffles. It may be some oyster, two dozen oysters,
you better make it three dozen, and some cheddar. We
must have some cheddar, a pound of cheddar. And what
to drink your reflection, champagne?

Speaker 6 (03:42:13):
Will?

Speaker 13 (03:42:14):
I really shouldn't you know, but will?

Speaker 3 (03:42:17):
That's a small bottle of ose Hills, six bottles of
moselle a keg of stout and a case of champagne.
There wasn't no mistake about it. I had come to
the right place for said. Once miss Amidi got over

(03:42:38):
his first astonishment, he turned out full of ideas for
brand new miracles, things even I might never have thought of,
Like as not.

Speaker 27 (03:42:49):
Well.

Speaker 3 (03:42:50):
We polished off that meal in no time at all,
as easy as a cat frying eggs, And an hour
later we was out walking in the dark streets of
the village, turning out miraculous job so fast I fairly
wore out my finger appointing with it. I couldn't begin
to tell you all the wonderful things we did in

(03:43:10):
a couple of hours. Installed a new railway line, drained
flinders swamp, turned it into a meadow, cured the vicar's warts,
paved all the roads he limited, eliminated taxation, reformed the
Lord mayor, and made all the girls in the village beautiful. Ah,
these weren't none of.

Speaker 4 (03:43:29):
Your eightney miracles.

Speaker 13 (03:43:30):
All of these were big.

Speaker 3 (03:43:33):
We went right on turning him out, won every two minutes,
just as regular as clockwork. By midnight we passed clean
through the village and were walking along the lane By
Millsdale's pond. Fairly tired out by all that thinking and
pointing and performing of miracles. Mister Fotheringay, I've just thought

(03:43:55):
of another one, indeed, and what might it be?

Speaker 13 (03:43:58):
The village clock there there in the steep Listen, listen
to it.

Speaker 7 (03:44:03):
It's terrible, true.

Speaker 3 (03:44:05):
Enough, it ain't got a very melodious sound to it.
Then let's give them a good clock, a great, rich,
blooming one, all right, mister maydi. Let that their clock
become a genuine London style cathedral clock.

Speaker 13 (03:44:28):
Oh much better, much better.

Speaker 3 (03:44:32):
Hold, the people of this village are going to have
a big surprise when they wake up in the morning,
after all we've done for them tonight. I might say,
there's one or two things we've done that I ain't
so sure about, Oh like turning every drop of alcoholic
beverages into plain waters. Nothing to worry about, mister Follingay,
you can always turn out a miraculous pint or two

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for your own purposes and it will reform.

Speaker 13 (03:44:55):
All the drunkards in the village.

Speaker 1 (03:44:56):
Maybe so.

Speaker 3 (03:44:57):
At any right, we might as well waite and see
what comes of it. Well, what do we perform next?

Speaker 13 (03:45:05):
I really don't know. I can't think of another single
miracle that we haven't already half a moment, mister.

Speaker 3 (03:45:11):
Maydig, I just thought of one of my own. I'd
best take care of. Let Constable Wench be right back
in San Francisco again. He might be catching a boat
or a train or something, you understand. I think the
best idea is just to keep sending him back there
every once in a while. I don't you have any
anything to worry about. San Francisco is some distance away, you.

Speaker 32 (03:45:34):
Know, is it.

Speaker 3 (03:45:36):
Oh, I'm glad to hear it. I keep trying to
think of one more miracle, the big one, something worthy
of ending the night with, But I just don't. Oh, well,
now I see there is one, you know, such as Hey,
you see that moon, mister Fotheringay naturally almost full by

(03:45:58):
the looks of it. You remember, Joshua, Joshua, Joshua, Oh,
come off it now.

Speaker 13 (03:46:08):
It would be an one rest thing to see.

Speaker 3 (03:46:11):
Well, now, that's a pretty tall horder making the moon
stand still. Actually it only appears to stand still. What
really happens is that the Earth stops rotating. You don't
have to inform me about scientific principles of which I'm
already familiar, mister maydi house. However, I think we'd best
not go monkeying around with the universe. Well, you probably

(03:46:32):
don't have the power to do it anyway. It's really
a superior class of miracle, you know. I got the power,
all right, But I ain't so sure it's a good idea.
I could do it if I wanted to.

Speaker 13 (03:46:43):
Oh, of course of course you could.

Speaker 3 (03:46:45):
Well, perhaps we'd better get along home half a mon now.
I I might just leave it stopped for a little
while if you couldn't stop it at all. Oh well, now,
if that's the way you feel, you just take a
look at this.

Speaker 48 (03:47:01):
The old blinking world stop rotating?

Speaker 10 (03:47:07):
We are now?

Speaker 3 (03:47:07):
Who once all this? I didn't order no wind? Bringay?
What did you done? I don't rightly know? The look
out things is starting to blow, Ruth, Oh you confound
a blundering idiot. Duck your head. There comes a cow
through the air, missed.

Speaker 15 (03:47:24):
M there.

Speaker 3 (03:47:25):
You better lie down in the ditch before it gets
blown away. It's getting worse all the time, and I
can't see the pomie Witz together. Oh, I got it.
When the earth stopped rotating, everything on the surface kept
right on moving five six hundred miles an hour, houses, cows,
the wind, everything. It's a scientific principle. Lot of good

(03:47:46):
that does a stop it? Man stopped, do something to
war mister Maiding, Oh, mister Maiding, Oh blimey, if he
ain't blown clean away? Gor Oh, now I got myself
in a fine kettle of fish for certain only there
weren't so much confusion. Maybe I could oh whoop, I say,

(03:48:08):
Now that's it. It's the only answer, all right now.
Let nothing happen until I say the word go, And
when I do, let everything go back exactly like it
was just before I turned that bloomy lamp upside down
in the long dragon bar. And at the same time,

(03:48:30):
let me lose to see a miraculous power complete like
forget all about it? Have you got it?

Speaker 17 (03:48:36):
Now?

Speaker 3 (03:48:37):
Everything just as it were, no more miracles, And let
me forget the old thing?

Speaker 30 (03:48:45):
All right?

Speaker 14 (03:48:45):
Then?

Speaker 13 (03:48:46):
Ready go?

Speaker 98 (03:48:56):
That's only what you say.

Speaker 3 (03:48:58):
And the same as anybody might say, who's got the
least bit of scientific knowledge inside of their thick heads?
Ain't I right, constable witch?

Speaker 97 (03:49:06):
You could rightly say, mister Fothering a subject, ain't exactly
in my problems, you know?

Speaker 13 (03:49:11):
And all of the same, Miss Bridges, are.

Speaker 3 (03:49:13):
Constable here Regardless, mister Beamish, miracles ain't possible, so you
say so, I say, maybe you don't even know what
a miracle is. Maybe if I was to point my
finger at that lamp there on the bar and tell
it to turn upside down, I suppose you think it
might do it. Well, I wouldn't say it would You

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wouldn't say it wouldn't, mister be Mish. You ain't got
a brain in your head, and I'm only wasting my
time trying to enlighten you, which I ain't going to
do any longer. Here you are, Miss Bridges.

Speaker 96 (03:49:47):
I thank you kindly, mister father and guy.

Speaker 3 (03:49:51):
I'll be dropping in again when the place ain't quite
so crowded. I bid you all a respectful hug. Hanaight.

Speaker 97 (03:50:04):
I'd say you got the best of the argument tonight
I ever saw, sir, Will you talk a look at this?

Speaker 11 (03:50:10):
What's hop?

Speaker 16 (03:50:11):
Miss Bridges?

Speaker 55 (03:50:12):
Sixpence?

Speaker 96 (03:50:13):
He left me a sixpence right here on the bob.

Speaker 17 (03:50:16):
Big is anything, and so he did.

Speaker 96 (03:50:18):
The lack of a die never happened before Science Preservacy
be dyed A downright lumin miracle, that's what it is
a bloomin miracle.

Speaker 95 (03:50:38):
Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Tonight, we
have brought you The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H. G. Wells,
adapted for radio by Less Crutchfield, with editorial supervision by
John Buckle. Featured in tonight's story was Ben Wright as
Mister Fotheringay, with John Dayner's Mister Maydig wilms Her as

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Toddy Beamish and Jeff Corey as Constable winch Eleanor Audley
was Missus Tetherington and Constance Cavendish was Bridges. Special music
by Ivan dit Mars. With tonight's program, we bring to
a close the present series of the world's best stories

(03:51:22):
of high adventure by the world's greatest authors, presented as Escape.
Next week, Get This Time, Lomon Abner returned to the
air in a new half hour program You'll want to hear.
Be sure to listen. Roy Rod speaking for CBS the
Columbia Broadcasting.

Speaker 101 (03:51:38):
System, October nineteen Suddenly Peace was a fraud from overseas.

Speaker 24 (03:52:04):
The agony of the innocent massacred.

Speaker 101 (03:52:07):
Was rising, darkening the light of the world, making a
mockery out of the wily stratagems of temporal political alliances.

Speaker 24 (03:52:15):
To me, the issue became a simple one. Freedom.

Speaker 101 (03:52:20):
I wrote a play, and the distinguished actor Raymond Massey said, yes,
of course, I'll do it anywhere, anytime. But the radio
network said, sorry, we're not at war, we have no enemy.
We still do business with all customers. So mister Massey
and I flew to New York from California, pounded on
tables until the microphones that were given us.

Speaker 24 (03:52:42):
In small Surrender.

Speaker 12 (03:52:49):
Every Man's Theater, written especially for radio by Arch Overler.
Tonight our star is the celebrated actor of stage and screen,

(03:53:11):
mister Raymond Massey, in an adventure of our times. This
Precious Freedom the second of an exciting series of plays
especially written for radio and brought to you each Friday
at this time and over this station by Oxidoll. And
I'm mister Obler to tell you more about Tonight's program
in every Man's Theater.

Speaker 6 (03:53:29):
This is a.

Speaker 16 (03:53:29):
Fictional story, a play about it tomorrow, which would never
happen here, Margaret, Yes, sir, dan't to make this cred

(03:53:55):
of mine go fast, dude, Sorry, missus Stevenson. We're bucking
a pretty stiff headwind. Now, don't tell me the heavens
are conspiring to keep me from getting back to work.
Open her up, Morgan, I've had enough vacation.

Speaker 7 (03:54:06):
Yes, sir, that's better.

Speaker 16 (03:54:14):
You know, Morgan, I should think you'd be as eager
to get back to the city as I am. After all,
a young fellow like you month up in the woods
with nothing around but those overstuffed squaws. Well, I, for one,
I'm gonna be glad to get back in harness again. Choys,
I'm not going to admit that of missus Stevenson. I
talked to her for the last ten years about cutting
myself off from the civilization, having a real vacation.

Speaker 32 (03:54:36):
Morgan, what's the matter?

Speaker 16 (03:54:38):
Oil line, my choice. Take it easy, mister Stevenson. Okay,
just fashing your safety belt and where are you going
to land?

Speaker 15 (03:54:45):
Feel the head hold on?

Speaker 16 (03:54:47):
Don't be afraid, don't be a fool. I've been on
forced landing before. All I want to do is to
get down there fast. I've got to get the city,
got to get back to my business.

Speaker 7 (03:55:14):
I guess there's no one home, mister Stevenson.

Speaker 16 (03:55:17):
No one in the fields, no one to help us. Fine,
endo a vacation.

Speaker 48 (03:55:20):
I guess we'd better try to flag a ride in
the town.

Speaker 16 (03:55:23):
Wait a minute, huh someone coming? Wow?

Speaker 11 (03:55:28):
How do you do?

Speaker 16 (03:55:30):
W has had a force landing out in one of
your fields?

Speaker 11 (03:55:32):
What do you want?

Speaker 16 (03:55:33):
I'm trying to tell you we had a force landing
out there in your field. Could I use your Telewen
a minute?

Speaker 30 (03:55:38):
Who are you?

Speaker 16 (03:55:39):
I don't see what earth the difference that makes? All
I want is to use your eye. Why are you Morgan?
Did you see that sign the door in my face? Yeah?
In my face? Infernal pool. Mister Stevenson, you know that
guy was awful scared.

Speaker 1 (03:56:12):
This is the main road, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (03:56:14):
That's what the sign says.

Speaker 16 (03:56:15):
Then where's the traffic? He stood here for an hour?
Does it make sense that on the main road. Hey wait,
mister Stevenson, here comes a truck all about time. If
you don't stop, we'll make him stop.

Speaker 72 (03:56:27):
Driver.

Speaker 82 (03:56:28):
Driver driver, Hey driver, ciber stop stop.

Speaker 6 (03:56:33):
Driver.

Speaker 16 (03:56:34):
My plane. I had a force landing out here. Would
you drive me into the city?

Speaker 11 (03:56:38):
Did you hear me?

Speaker 16 (03:56:40):
I'll give you twenty five dollars? Okay, jump in, Morgan,
you better stay here with a plane. I'll send someone back. Yes,
I hope you're a fast driver.

Speaker 84 (03:56:54):
Fast enough?

Speaker 45 (03:57:00):
Well, for a while there, I thought there weren't any
trucks on the road anymore, an't many, but this is
the main highway now it's practically empty. Why, mister, I'm
just a driver, ah sam sort of labor disturbance, and
you're kidding me?

Speaker 1 (03:57:15):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 16 (03:57:16):
I'm not talking, mister, you are Look here, I've been
vacationing up in the woods for weeks, I deliberately. I
haven't read a newspaper or heard a radio in all
that time. But now that I'm back, oh well, I
might as well start taking it again.

Speaker 1 (03:57:31):
What's up? Well?

Speaker 16 (03:57:33):
Why don't you answer me?

Speaker 6 (03:57:34):
Mister?

Speaker 7 (03:57:34):
I'm just driving?

Speaker 16 (03:57:35):
What is this anyway? All I want is a civil answer.
I don't know any answers, mister. You'll find them out
for yourself in twenty twenty five?

Speaker 1 (03:58:01):
They are okay, Well, I.

Speaker 16 (03:58:03):
Certainly didn't get any conversation for my money.

Speaker 1 (03:58:06):
How you getting off, mister?

Speaker 16 (03:58:07):
Yes, of course, man, I certainly haven't improved while I've
been away.

Speaker 82 (03:58:12):
Goodbye paper, mister paper.

Speaker 15 (03:58:23):
Yes, yes, of course.

Speaker 6 (03:58:24):
Boys.

Speaker 16 (03:58:24):
Let me have one of each, I said, one of each?
Each newspaper? Oh you kidding?

Speaker 15 (03:58:30):
Say?

Speaker 16 (03:58:30):
What's come over? Everyone here? Give me a Tribune, the
News Times, all of them. Well, don't stand there. I'm
in a hurry, mister. Don't you know? No?

Speaker 56 (03:58:40):
What?

Speaker 21 (03:58:41):
What?

Speaker 14 (03:58:43):
Boy?

Speaker 30 (03:58:45):
Boy?

Speaker 16 (03:58:45):
Come back here? Where are you going?

Speaker 38 (03:58:47):
Come back here?

Speaker 19 (03:59:08):
Uh?

Speaker 16 (03:59:08):
At least my office is still here? Doors stock fine business.
Can't get into my own office?

Speaker 11 (03:59:18):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (03:59:20):
Hope not hope not.

Speaker 27 (03:59:24):
No one in there?

Speaker 16 (03:59:26):
Door locked? Where's my key? Nice business? Eleven thirty and
they haven't even opened the office. That's loyalty. Boy, didn't
expect me back to soon, nice book. So our office
st have decided to take a vacation.

Speaker 1 (03:59:41):
Well what in the desk?

Speaker 16 (03:59:46):
File's gone? Office?

Speaker 1 (03:59:49):
Emp?

Speaker 72 (03:59:50):
Where looking for something?

Speaker 16 (03:59:53):
Breagan? Reagan? Reagan?

Speaker 7 (03:59:57):
Don't you know me?

Speaker 16 (03:59:58):
What's going on here? Mister Stevenson? What's happened to my office?
Where are all my things? What's going on here? Don't
stand there with your mouth? Don'tn't tell me? Did I
taught you was dead? What are you talking about? Everyone
knew I was going on a vacation. What's happened to
my things? Where are all my people? Answer me?

Speaker 6 (04:00:16):
You don't know what?

Speaker 16 (04:00:19):
Talk words?

Speaker 1 (04:00:19):
Man?

Speaker 16 (04:00:20):
What's happened to my business? Mister Steevenson? I I can't
tell you what do you mean you can't tell me
you're the manager of the building who moved out my office?
Where are all my things? Answer me?

Speaker 1 (04:00:29):
You hurt me?

Speaker 16 (04:00:30):
Answer me? Can't ask questions? Mister Stevens.

Speaker 10 (04:00:35):
What's go home?

Speaker 51 (04:00:36):
Missus Stephenson, Please go home quick, Jean Jean, where are you?

Speaker 1 (04:01:06):
Jean Jeane.

Speaker 6 (04:01:10):
To somebody?

Speaker 16 (04:01:11):
Fella who stands still?

Speaker 6 (04:01:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (04:01:15):
Your mouth shut?

Speaker 16 (04:01:16):
Oh damn you get out of my house. Start walking walking?
What do you mean somebody wants to talk to you?

Speaker 11 (04:01:22):
What are you?

Speaker 16 (04:01:23):
Please?

Speaker 11 (04:01:24):
Sure?

Speaker 6 (04:01:24):
Start moving?

Speaker 11 (04:01:25):
But why mister get going?

Speaker 57 (04:01:28):
No?

Speaker 16 (04:01:29):
If you're please, where are your warrants?

Speaker 8 (04:01:31):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (04:01:31):
Where are your warns?

Speaker 10 (04:01:33):
No?

Speaker 6 (04:01:49):
Ahead?

Speaker 11 (04:01:52):
Room?

Speaker 1 (04:01:54):
Where?

Speaker 18 (04:01:56):
What?

Speaker 66 (04:01:59):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (04:02:01):
Man?

Speaker 11 (04:02:02):
What did he?

Speaker 33 (04:02:09):
Mm?

Speaker 48 (04:02:09):
Hm?

Speaker 6 (04:02:10):
You all right? Yes?

Speaker 20 (04:02:13):
No, no, no, you better not try to stand up.

Speaker 66 (04:02:15):
Take it easy?

Speaker 11 (04:02:18):
Hi?

Speaker 16 (04:02:18):
They please?

Speaker 7 (04:02:20):
Yeah, in a way.

Speaker 16 (04:02:23):
Someone made a mistake, No mistake, mister ste.

Speaker 66 (04:02:29):
You know and I used to do business with your
company once. Always treated me fine?

Speaker 11 (04:02:36):
Are you me?

Speaker 66 (04:02:38):
Nobody?

Speaker 10 (04:02:39):
Just so they know where I am, mister Stevenson, some
things I can't tell you.

Speaker 11 (04:02:49):
Stay.

Speaker 16 (04:02:51):
Horrible mistake. I'm John Stevenson, I'm respectable citizen. Right my wife.
I got to get in touch with Jeans. Should be
worried one home and not take it easy. Now the mayor, Yes,
the mayor, you know he's a friend of mine. Steve
gets to tell him to keep if they come in here,

(04:03:13):
to get them coming. I've got nothing to be afraid of.
I've done nothing. Come into my house without a warrant.
They've got no right now, mister Stevenson, you don't understand. Please,
mister Stevens, understand what tell me?

Speaker 6 (04:03:27):
Jes different?

Speaker 16 (04:03:29):
Different?

Speaker 55 (04:03:29):
What do you mean?

Speaker 16 (04:03:30):
What's it got to do with this with me?

Speaker 66 (04:03:33):
Mister Stevens, It's something I don't understand.

Speaker 16 (04:03:38):
Been out of the city in the woods. Don't waste time. Man,
call up them there, tell him, But that won't do anything.
Why not there's been a mistake.

Speaker 66 (04:03:45):
It has been no mistake, mister Stevens. Yeah, Hey, I
guess maybe you're the only one in the whole country
don't know the man. Well, I'm trying to.

Speaker 29 (04:03:58):
I don't know exactly how.

Speaker 6 (04:03:59):
To say it.

Speaker 16 (04:04:00):
Well, Well, first, the well, that part of the constitution
they threw it out. What the devil are you talking about?

Speaker 66 (04:04:10):
That part of the constitution? You know about rights?

Speaker 16 (04:04:15):
Threw it up?

Speaker 66 (04:04:17):
And the way I got it figured out when another's
ganged up on us, all them battleships, airplanes. Well there
wasn't much we could.

Speaker 20 (04:04:26):
Do, now, was that?

Speaker 16 (04:04:28):
And just sort of well, throw in the towel. Are
you trying to tell me that while I was away
there's been an invasion? Invasion?

Speaker 60 (04:04:38):
Well, now they ain't gone all the way, I mean,
just this piece of the coast.

Speaker 16 (04:04:43):
Get out of here. You hurt me?

Speaker 11 (04:04:45):
Get out?

Speaker 16 (04:04:45):
Haven't I had enough to day without listening to you?
You have crazy old food, mister Stevens. I tell you,
listen someone out there. I got this crazy old fool
out of here. If this is a jail, get me
my lawyer.

Speaker 71 (04:04:55):
What am I being held here for?

Speaker 30 (04:04:56):
What are the charges?

Speaker 72 (04:04:57):
Get be my lawyer?

Speaker 51 (04:04:58):
Get be my lawyer.

Speaker 16 (04:05:09):
So you still insist on having a lawyer, certainly if
there's some criminal charge against me, I have a right
to have a lawyer, right, right, right? What right are
you talking about?

Speaker 6 (04:05:22):
You?

Speaker 16 (04:05:23):
You're obviously some sort of police official. Well, let me
tell you a horrible mistake has been made. I'm no criminal.
I'm John Stevens, and an ordinary businessman. Call Mayor Alden,
who tell you tell us nothing? The man is of
no importance, no important but the mayor, the mayor of
what the worms worms? The man is dead?

Speaker 58 (04:05:44):
Oh, but that too is of no importance. What is
important to me is you and your activities. I don't
know what you're talking about, your so called vacation, drip meet.
What do you don't ask questions? Answer them?

Speaker 16 (04:05:58):
You've been out of the city for weeks, suddenly return
the way you fun on my vacation?

Speaker 11 (04:06:04):
Of course?

Speaker 16 (04:06:04):
Is there any law against that? For the last time,
don't try to be clever with me once and for all.
Will you tell me what the charges are against me?
There's been some kind of terrible mistake, all right, but
tell me what the charges are. Give me a chance
to clear myself. I have wasted quite enough time with you,
mister Steven be postpond.

Speaker 7 (04:06:22):
Let me call my lawyer.

Speaker 16 (04:06:23):
You have no right to keep me here. My wife
she wasn't home, and I was taken away. To be worse,
of course, your wife. Have you any idea where your
wife is, mister Stephens?

Speaker 29 (04:06:33):
Home?

Speaker 16 (04:06:33):
I suppose yes, she must be there now if you
have me not home, believe me, Why do you say that?

Speaker 11 (04:06:40):
All right?

Speaker 16 (04:06:40):
Sergeant mare Geane Geane Jean, what are you doing here?
What is it? She's stopped crying. I'm all right, there's
been some crazy mistake, Jean. Why should you cry like this?
You never cry, Jean. Children, I'll mean all right, Jean.

Speaker 11 (04:07:04):
Talk to me.

Speaker 16 (04:07:04):
Stop crying and talk to me. She knows better better.
What are you talking about? Lift your face? What's happened?
What's wrong? Take her away? No? You stay here, Geene,
you tell me what this is about. Has everyone gone crazy?

Speaker 20 (04:07:17):
What? No?

Speaker 10 (04:07:18):
Let over you.

Speaker 14 (04:07:21):
Me bring it back? You bring it back you.

Speaker 102 (04:07:23):
I'll kill you, Jean, Jean, you will be quite calm now.

(04:07:46):
Eighties just leaves. Yes, yes, I'm sure you will. We
have quite a technique for calming down unreasonable people.

Speaker 6 (04:07:54):
Haven't we.

Speaker 58 (04:07:57):
So you're still persistent talking. So discipline That is the
first lesson you must learn in this new state of ours.
Discipline always discipline. It is very strange, mister Stephenson. You've
been here now over an hour, and yet there is

(04:08:19):
very little fear in your face. I wonder why. Astonishment? Yes, yes,
a sort of astonished wonder in your faces. If you
can't believe, could you possibly be ignorant of the facts,
this glorious new state that we are planting here, This

(04:08:39):
fulfillment of the dream some of us have had since
the day we heard a voice telling us of our destiny,
a dream that will come true. This will soon be
our nation now, mister Stephenson, ours all of it. Wo
men are fighting, Yes, but we will win.

Speaker 20 (04:09:00):
In your face.

Speaker 16 (04:09:01):
Yes, sometimes I ask myself, can it be true? The
wonder of it?

Speaker 32 (04:09:06):
Yet?

Speaker 6 (04:09:07):
No wonder of it?

Speaker 16 (04:09:08):
The plan, mister Stephenson, the plan. Always it was there,
and always we followed it. We poured our propaganda in
on you. Yes, we used your own weaknesses against you.
We probably let us speak.

Speaker 7 (04:09:17):
It is all right.

Speaker 16 (04:09:18):
How simple it was to use your own rights against you.
So now you have no right, Stevenson. No one has right,
but you are leaders. I was quite carried away, wasn't I.
I must not forget to let you speak. We want
to know many things, every detail of your airplane trip.
Whom you saw? Which of our enemies are hiding up there?

Speaker 11 (04:09:40):
Where you were?

Speaker 16 (04:09:41):
How are you answer quickly? Stephenson? Who are your friends?
Which of our enemies did you meet? Who were your friends?
Whom did you meet? Where did you go you meet?

Speaker 27 (04:09:50):
Where did you go?

Speaker 22 (04:10:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (04:10:03):
Put him here?

Speaker 6 (04:10:04):
Yeah? Did yet? Oh?

Speaker 7 (04:10:09):
Not yet?

Speaker 6 (04:10:14):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (04:10:20):
Did yet.

Speaker 7 (04:10:22):
No, not yet.

Speaker 11 (04:10:25):
Who said that?

Speaker 16 (04:10:27):
I can't see? All mixed up vacation enemies of the state,
A plan I don't know, uh huh, all mixed up.

Speaker 103 (04:10:53):
No, No, got to stop, got the thing pain, No,
got to think things out. What's happened to me? What
our glorious news state?

Speaker 66 (04:11:09):
We who are the leaders?

Speaker 16 (04:11:10):
This will be our nation soon?

Speaker 104 (04:11:12):
Voices in my head? All mixed up? Think things out.
I've got to go crazy from the start, Yes, from.

Speaker 16 (04:11:23):
The start, vacation, coming back from my vacation land playing. Yes,
that farmer, that guy was awful, scared awful. Yes, Morgan,
you said that.

Speaker 7 (04:11:39):
I don't know any answers.

Speaker 39 (04:11:39):
You'll find him up for yourself.

Speaker 16 (04:11:41):
Yes, truck driver, mister, don't you know?

Speaker 27 (04:11:44):
Mister don't you know?

Speaker 38 (04:11:45):
Yes, newsboy, he too.

Speaker 7 (04:11:47):
You can't ask.

Speaker 16 (04:11:48):
Questions, mister Steven stings a different You can't ask questions. Yes, Yes,
they said that. Everyone said that. Everyone talking to me,
trying to tell tell me.

Speaker 20 (04:12:01):
I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (04:12:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 16 (04:12:04):
This will soon be our nation. It isn't true. No,
it's all in my head. Gene, Gene, where are you?

Speaker 55 (04:12:17):
Gee?

Speaker 33 (04:12:19):
Where are the children?

Speaker 61 (04:12:21):
Gene?

Speaker 16 (04:12:24):
Did I just cry out, cry out? Why should I
cry out? My name is John Stevenson. I have a
business in the Central Building. I have a house in
Arcade Street. I have a wife, two children, a boy
and a girl. We have good light, a good light,

(04:12:46):
that shad Why do I keep thinking that? Who said
it to me?

Speaker 20 (04:12:52):
Dead?

Speaker 6 (04:12:53):
Dead?

Speaker 32 (04:12:54):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (04:12:56):
I know, I remember going to kill me. I'm an
enemy of the state, our glorious news state. But it's
so funny. John Stephenson eight three two Arcage treat enemy
of the state. I went on a vacation, I came
home and I am an enemy of the state. Yes,

(04:13:16):
my wife, the children.

Speaker 38 (04:13:18):
That's what he said, everyone, enemies of the new State.

Speaker 16 (04:13:23):
Oh, it's madness.

Speaker 38 (04:13:26):
I'm me.

Speaker 16 (04:13:27):
I can do what I want. I can get up
out of here. Yes, I will get out of here.
And John Stephens, you hurt me blood? Yeah, no, I
will get out of here. You can't accuse me and
not give me a trial. You can't come into my house.
You can't take away my business. I'm a free man,

(04:13:51):
I'm an American. This will be hardy and soon ours hours.

Speaker 11 (04:13:55):
How could that be?

Speaker 66 (04:13:56):
Seeing great? There wasn't much good do. No, that's mine
own business.

Speaker 6 (04:14:00):
Nothing to do with us.

Speaker 16 (04:14:01):
Who who said that, that's mind our own business, nothing
to do with us. I remember I said that, Yes,
all the time I said that, And I know none
of my business we been, our freedom, none of my business.
Why none of my business? Our leader, our people, none

(04:14:27):
of my business? How could I Why did I don't antagonize? Well,
have to do business with them?

Speaker 29 (04:14:34):
Let them talk kind o?

Speaker 16 (04:14:35):
All the things I said, seen as.

Speaker 55 (04:14:38):
We weren't ready, there wasn't much we could do that way.

Speaker 16 (04:14:41):
Oh, hey, dead yet he will be dead. Yet he
will be. I do understand, he will be. I wanted everything,
and I didn't want to risk anything to keep what
I had.

Speaker 30 (04:14:55):
What I had, what I had.

Speaker 16 (04:14:59):
Your home is your king, your own God is your god.
Say what you want to say, what you want to write,
trial by Jurian sanctity of first who process of law.

Speaker 7 (04:15:07):
What I had?

Speaker 38 (04:15:10):
Gee, is that you now in my head so dark,
there's blood in my so dark.

Speaker 35 (04:15:22):
He will be.

Speaker 16 (04:15:26):
I'll tell you something very funny. I'm not afraid to die. No,
I'm afraid to go on living. If all this isn't
really a dream, bad dream, then I don't want to
go on living. Everywhere i'd turn, they'd be there.

Speaker 11 (04:15:44):
Shut them.

Speaker 16 (04:15:44):
You can't do that's come with that? We accuse you,
watch them out give us. I can't live with that.
All my life I lived with freedom, Geane. We did
know it was freedom, did we? Living in our house,

(04:16:04):
a good life, our neighbors, not hating anybody, and driving
in the country with the kids wherever we wanted to go,
and feeling sure the future for the kids because whatever
was wrong here, we ourselves could fix with work and
with our votes, and with what we knew was right

(04:16:26):
in our hearts. I never said this is freedom, but
it was.

Speaker 6 (04:16:34):
It was.

Speaker 16 (04:16:36):
When they talked to me about losing it, I said,
don't be fools, no one will take it from us.
I thought freedom was like the air, all was with
me as long as I lived. I thought I didn't
have to do anything about it.

Speaker 1 (04:16:50):
Geane. I was wrong.

Speaker 16 (04:16:53):
I cut the words now to say it. What I
had wasn't a gift, is a victory and I can't
live without it. Do you hear me out there? I
won't live without it to say what I think is right,
to do what I think is right. That's the only
life I want.

Speaker 7 (04:17:14):
It is life.

Speaker 30 (04:17:15):
I'll live for it. I'll fight for it.

Speaker 16 (04:17:20):
This precious freedom.

Speaker 1 (04:17:50):
This is arch Obler.

Speaker 26 (04:17:52):
May I present the leading actor of our play tonight,
mister Raymond Massey.

Speaker 16 (04:17:57):
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm to say this. At the opening
of tonight's drama, arch Obras said, this is a play
of a tomorrow which should never happen.

Speaker 7 (04:18:09):
I know all of you agree with me that this.

Speaker 16 (04:18:11):
Kind of a tomorrow must never happen, and it can
never happen as long as we all dedicate ourselves to
live for the freedom of our father and the future
freedom of our children.

Speaker 12 (04:18:31):
Every Man's Theater written especially for radio by arch Obler.

Speaker 2 (04:19:05):
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Speaker 31 (04:20:39):
Murder by Experts, a mutual broadcasting system, presents murder by
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(04:21:00):
world famous mystery novelist whose books have been published in
seventeen languages, have sold over ten million copies, and who
was author of the recently published detective novel below, Suspicion.

Speaker 28 (04:21:12):
Good evening, This.

Speaker 75 (04:21:13):
Is John Dixon Carr.

Speaker 25 (04:21:15):
Each week at this time, Murdered by Experts brings you
a story of crime and mystery which has been chosen
for your approval by one of the world's leading detective writers. Tonight,
our guest expert is the noted mystery novelist Frank Gruber.
From the many thrillers he has read and enjoyed, mister
Grober has selected a tents and gripping story by George

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and Gertrude Fass. And now we present Larry Haynes in
It's Luck that Counts.

Speaker 105 (04:22:00):
When you're down on your luck, can't expect things to
break right. You see a dime lying on the street,
you go to pick it up and get swiped by
an auto. Or you snatch a bag from a rich
looking dame and all your finding it is six cents
and a lipstick.

Speaker 17 (04:22:14):
You know what I mean? So in the bartender in
this Pittsville Dive told me to scram. I guess I
should have listened.

Speaker 91 (04:22:22):
I look crop and keep your hooks out the free lunch,
cutting bottom the customers.

Speaker 7 (04:22:26):
Nobody's gonna buy your drinking.

Speaker 17 (04:22:27):
Not bothering anybody.

Speaker 91 (04:22:28):
Just your standing there bothers me just because I'm near
the freight yards. Every bundle stiff in the county thinks
I run a club for wholeboards or something.

Speaker 7 (04:22:36):
I told you once.

Speaker 72 (04:22:37):
I told you a dozen times to shove off with you.

Speaker 38 (04:22:42):
Alright, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (04:22:43):
Well, the cops coming here for.

Speaker 72 (04:22:45):
All right, folks, stand right way, yo heard?

Speaker 48 (04:22:48):
What is this?

Speaker 72 (04:22:49):
Keep your shirt on? Delaney? This is a raid commissioner's orders. Hey,
you there, come over here. Hi, din't do nothing?

Speaker 7 (04:22:58):
All right?

Speaker 72 (04:22:59):
Search you falcker?

Speaker 60 (04:23:00):
What for?

Speaker 6 (04:23:01):
What am I?

Speaker 72 (04:23:01):
God never buy?

Speaker 34 (04:23:05):
Hey?

Speaker 72 (04:23:06):
You you're in the brown suit. Get over there with
the other one and you there, rad go on, get
over there.

Speaker 7 (04:23:16):
Hey you.

Speaker 72 (04:23:19):
You're a new face.

Speaker 75 (04:23:21):
What's your name?

Speaker 10 (04:23:23):
Me?

Speaker 21 (04:23:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (04:23:24):
You Matthews? Dan Matthews.

Speaker 19 (04:23:27):
Where do you live?

Speaker 17 (04:23:28):
I'm uh, I'm just passing through.

Speaker 72 (04:23:31):
Get over with the others, Matthews.

Speaker 17 (04:23:33):
But I haven't done anything.

Speaker 100 (04:23:34):
Here's an exce one, lieutenant.

Speaker 17 (04:23:47):
His name is Dan Matthews.

Speaker 75 (04:23:49):
All right, Dan, now here's your chance to come clean.
Why did you kill him?

Speaker 106 (04:23:56):
Kill I didn't kill anybody. I swear I did all
as I told you. Were seeing near the old lady
shack just about the time she was killed. What old lady,
Sarah Grimes names familiar reason it?

Speaker 75 (04:24:08):
No, I never heard of her.

Speaker 28 (04:24:09):
I never was near he where'd you hide the money, Danny?

Speaker 17 (04:24:11):
What money?

Speaker 75 (04:24:12):
The seventy five grand you stole from the old lady
after you've killed her?

Speaker 17 (04:24:17):
Seventy five grand?

Speaker 33 (04:24:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 105 (04:24:20):
You think if I stole seventy five gees, I'd be
hanging around to Laney's bomb watching a drink.

Speaker 107 (04:24:23):
I'm asking the questions, Matthews. Where were your Tuesday night
between eight o'clock and midnight?

Speaker 105 (04:24:33):
Well, if that's when it happened, that lets me out. Lieutenant,
I was in Delaney's bar all that time.

Speaker 11 (04:24:38):
Ask him.

Speaker 17 (04:24:38):
If you don't believe me, he'll tell you.

Speaker 107 (04:24:39):
All right, Matthews, if Delaney backs you up, that'll clear
you and you'll let me go. Oh no, no, no
matter what Delaney says, we're holding you for vagrancy vacancy. Yeah,
you're a big, good looking guy, Matthews. Why haven't you
got a job. Well, this city does like bums, Matthews,

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especially bums from out of town. We got enough of
our own, Hey, sergeant, take Matthews back to the cell
and bring in the next one.

Speaker 105 (04:25:18):
They all gave me the big double low and I
got shoved back into the cell, but I just grinned
at him and flopped onto a cat. They still had
it coming. All of them were guys like me, all
except one. He was about forty big and he wore
a neat pin striped suit. I could see he was

(04:25:38):
really sweating under the cool front he was putting up. Presently,
he came over to me, Hey, fella, Yeah, what are
they looking for? Listen they question you? What are they
trying to find? I don't even know why they arrested me.

Speaker 17 (04:25:57):
You mean they just picked up and pulled you in
without telling you what for.

Speaker 4 (04:26:00):
Yes, I was just opening up a pulled parlor when
the cops came. Hould me up without a word?

Speaker 9 (04:26:06):
And what for?

Speaker 17 (04:26:07):
Why?

Speaker 32 (04:26:08):
You know what they want?

Speaker 6 (04:26:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (04:26:10):
Sure, I know.

Speaker 94 (04:26:10):
They're looking for a murderer. Murderer who was killed some
old crow name of Grimes, Sarah Grimes. Yeah, you know her,
of course, I know. She was a friend of my
old lady.

Speaker 17 (04:26:23):
Well she's dead, head smashed in blood all over everything.
According to the cops.

Speaker 105 (04:26:28):
She had seventy five thousand bucks sitting in that tumble
down shackers, maybe.

Speaker 4 (04:26:31):
More seventy five thousand.

Speaker 7 (04:26:34):
What am I to do with this?

Speaker 4 (04:26:36):
Why do you arrest me?

Speaker 17 (04:26:37):
The same reason they arrested me? To ask questions?

Speaker 1 (04:26:40):
Tell me?

Speaker 60 (04:26:42):
What?

Speaker 20 (04:26:42):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (04:26:44):
What questions do they ask?

Speaker 17 (04:26:46):
Lots of questions?

Speaker 60 (04:26:47):
You know?

Speaker 10 (04:26:48):
Do we.

Speaker 4 (04:26:50):
Do they do anything else?

Speaker 17 (04:26:52):
What do you mean?

Speaker 4 (04:26:54):
He said you's having your clothes?

Speaker 17 (04:26:57):
They didn't, but I decided to give the guy a ride. Yeah, sure, sure.

Speaker 105 (04:27:02):
They go over you from head to foot, examine your
clothes under ultra violet for bloodstains, looking to your cuts,
your shoes.

Speaker 4 (04:27:08):
Socks, everything, Why nothing, nothing? Listen. Denny's the named Danny Matthews. Danny,
I'm Fred Bruno. You look like a nice guy. Guy
I can trust. Sure everybody can trust Danny. I want
you to do me your favor.

Speaker 17 (04:27:26):
I'll be glad to me. I'm not getting badty here,
so I can't call you a lawyer now.

Speaker 94 (04:27:30):
It's it's not that I'm a married man, see I see,
but sometimes I go to New York on business, you know. Yeah,
I don't like to carry a lot of baggage with me,
so I keep a bag in the city suit taste.
I got my clothes in it.

Speaker 4 (04:27:43):
You know.

Speaker 17 (04:27:45):
You know two I know New York.

Speaker 4 (04:27:47):
You know that check room in Times squaen in or subway.

Speaker 17 (04:27:49):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 4 (04:27:50):
I got the suitcase check there, I got the baggage
check with me.

Speaker 94 (04:27:53):
Well that's no crying. Yeah, but you see, it's like this.
If they find that baggage check on me, they'll investigate.

Speaker 4 (04:27:59):
Won't they.

Speaker 17 (04:28:00):
Yeah, they'll investigate.

Speaker 4 (04:28:01):
That's what I'm afraid of.

Speaker 94 (04:28:03):
I've got a girlfriend in the city. My wife finds
out about that, it's going to be trouble. So you see,
I don't want them to know. You understand, Yeah, sure,
sure not just how you feel. They're not gonna search
you again, No, no, they're not.

Speaker 4 (04:28:18):
Would you.

Speaker 17 (04:28:20):
Sure out hold it for you? Just give it here.

Speaker 4 (04:28:22):
I'll give you ten dollars for the pay. That's all
I have on it. Thanks, I'm glad to do it
for you.

Speaker 94 (04:28:26):
A good guy, Danny. You give it me when I
come back. Well maybe you're not coming back. Maybe they'll
let you go. You needn't worry about that. I'll be
around to pick it up. Okay, whenever you want it,
you can have it back.

Speaker 4 (04:28:39):
Again, it's fine, Yeah, here it is.

Speaker 19 (04:28:42):
Take care of me.

Speaker 17 (04:28:43):
Oh sure, you're han't a thing to worry about.

Speaker 105 (04:28:54):
Well, Fred Bruno didn't come back to the cell, so
I knew the police didn't have enough on him to
hold him. A couple of hours later, I was hauled
in to night court and was handed a thirty days
stretch for vagrancy. I hadn't been in a week when
they told me I had a visitor. Fred Bruno, you
didn't waste any time getting down to the business.

Speaker 1 (04:29:17):
Where is it?

Speaker 4 (04:29:18):
Well, it's what that baggage check?

Speaker 94 (04:29:21):
What baggage chick? I don't know what you're talking about.
I would fool around with me, Matthews. I want I
tell you, I don't know what you're talking about. I
warn you, Matthews, I want that check. I don't get it.
You're not gonna like what happens to you. Maybe I
better call a screw. You're threatening me. Maybe i'd better
tell me you want a baggage check. Suppose they were

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to find that check, doll no, and find the suitcase
in your girl's picture, and that your wife isn't gonna
like that? All right, Matthews, you're asking for it and
you're gonna get it right on the neck.

Speaker 17 (04:30:00):
Then I had to do some planning.

Speaker 105 (04:30:02):
I wasn't letting my check slipped through my fingers, not when,
for the first time of my life, my luck was
beginning to change.

Speaker 17 (04:30:07):
I ain't dumb. I know it was in that suitcase.

Speaker 105 (04:30:12):
It was a seventy five g's Bruno got when he
knocked off his old lady friend. I know I had
to get that baggage checked to a safe place. I
got an envelope and a stamp and addressed it to
Dan Andrews's care of General Delivery, New York, and I
got friendly with a stude who was in for ten
days on a D and D charge. I gave him
ten bucks to mail a letter for me when I

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got outside. I know it was taking a chance, but
what else could I do?

Speaker 44 (04:30:38):
Well?

Speaker 105 (04:30:39):
When my thirty days were up, I walked down the
jail house steps, expecting to find Fred Bruno waiting for me.
He wasn't there, but that didn't mean he wasn't having
me tailed. I walked down the street and then turned
off toward the main highway out of town. As I
hiked along, I kept thumbing cars. The fourth one slowed

(04:31:01):
down and stopped.

Speaker 21 (04:31:05):
Would you like a lift?

Speaker 10 (04:31:07):
You bet?

Speaker 17 (04:31:08):
Oh? Thanks, thanks a lot.

Speaker 21 (04:31:11):
You're welcome. You're going far?

Speaker 17 (04:31:14):
Uh New York? You going that for it?

Speaker 68 (04:31:17):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (04:31:17):
No, no, I'm not sorry. But I can take you
about twenty miles on your way. Well, every little good helps, Yes,
I guess it does.

Speaker 17 (04:31:27):
She smiled at me.

Speaker 105 (04:31:30):
She was a luscious blonde with blue eyes that really
set you back on your heels. She looked at me
about twenty five, and there was class written all over.
I sat next to her, smelling that wonderful perfume and
cursing my clothes.

Speaker 17 (04:31:47):
And the luck that made us meep like this. You're
not scared picking up a guy like me? And I
dressed so well?

Speaker 21 (04:31:55):
Should I be scared?

Speaker 6 (04:31:56):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (04:31:56):
No, no, well I'm not. Matter of fact, I didn't
look at your clothes when.

Speaker 60 (04:32:01):
I stopped for you.

Speaker 17 (04:32:03):
I looked at your face, looked done this.

Speaker 28 (04:32:07):
Not only that?

Speaker 105 (04:32:09):
Oh say, I I sure wish you were going to
New York. We could have a great time there. Could
Or you may think because I'm dressed like a tramp,
i am a tramp broke. But that's where you're wrong.
I've got lots of money waiting for me. I'll have
it just as soon as I get to the city. Yes, sir,
I've got a steak there waiting for me, A big steak.

Speaker 21 (04:32:28):
That's nice. Somebody die and leave.

Speaker 17 (04:32:32):
Your fortune, they might say that, Sure, you might say that.

Speaker 21 (04:32:38):
Well, I'm sorry, I'm not going to New York. I'm
on my way to my country place. I've got a
little place near Gloucester.

Speaker 17 (04:32:46):
Oh, you staying there all along most of the time,
isn't it lonely?

Speaker 21 (04:32:54):
Well, yes, it might be a bit lonely.

Speaker 17 (04:32:59):
Well, Look, I don't have to get to New York today.
I could get in tomorrow of the day after.

Speaker 21 (04:33:06):
Are you angling for an invitation?

Speaker 17 (04:33:08):
Well, I just thought if you want a company, I
don't know.

Speaker 21 (04:33:14):
I don't know. Well, I guess you could come to
lunch maybe and stay for swim.

Speaker 17 (04:33:20):
I could, And that's swell.

Speaker 21 (04:33:23):
Yes, I think it is too. And since we'll be
spending the afternoon together, I guess we'd better get to
know each other's names. I'm Alice.

Speaker 17 (04:33:32):
I'm Danny. Danny Matthews.

Speaker 21 (04:33:34):
Glad to know you.

Speaker 17 (04:33:34):
Danny, You're not half as glad as I am. Alice.

Speaker 105 (04:33:47):
It took us about an hour to get to that
summer place of ours. It was all all by itself
in the woods. Right near it was an old quarry
filled with sparkling cold water. I hoped to lug a
cart and the groceries from the car into the kitchen,
and we stowed them away together and took the covers
off the furniture.

Speaker 17 (04:34:04):
I could feel a building between us.

Speaker 6 (04:34:05):
All the time.

Speaker 21 (04:34:07):
It's on eleven o'clock. Would you like to go for
a swim?

Speaker 10 (04:34:10):
Now?

Speaker 17 (04:34:11):
The quarry's fine for sure, Only I don't have a suit.

Speaker 21 (04:34:14):
Oh you can wear my brother's trunkie just about your size.
I'll show you. Wait and change, then i'll meet you
in five minutes in front of the house.

Speaker 105 (04:34:24):
I was ready in three and I waited for her
on the porch. She came out in a white swimsuit,
and when I saw just about lost my breath. She
was the dreamiest dame I have laid eyes on. She smiled,
and I just coped.

Speaker 21 (04:34:41):
Come along, we go down this path.

Speaker 10 (04:34:53):
Do you swim? Well, it's very very deep.

Speaker 17 (04:34:55):
Like a fish. Come on, let's get in. He's what
is great?

Speaker 21 (04:35:03):
My goodness, you are a good swimmer.

Speaker 72 (04:35:05):
I was born near the East River.

Speaker 21 (04:35:08):
Can you die?

Speaker 15 (04:35:08):
Oh?

Speaker 57 (04:35:09):
Sure?

Speaker 21 (04:35:10):
Can you touch bottom, but I don't know how thirty feet.

Speaker 17 (04:35:13):
Oh, we like, get on the sledge now, watch me.

Speaker 105 (04:35:18):
Water was so clear I could see the bottom coming
up at me as I kicked myself down.

Speaker 17 (04:35:23):
I grabbed a handful of gravel and started up.

Speaker 11 (04:35:27):
Here's a present for you.

Speaker 10 (04:35:28):
Thanks.

Speaker 21 (04:35:29):
I can't do that. I've tried, but I never get
all the way down.

Speaker 17 (04:35:32):
It's easy.

Speaker 21 (04:35:34):
Come on, stand here on this rock and catch your breath. Oh,
isn't the water wonderful?

Speaker 17 (04:35:40):
You're wonderful.

Speaker 21 (04:35:42):
You're nice too.

Speaker 17 (04:35:45):
She turned to face me.

Speaker 105 (04:35:48):
I let my arms float around her and closed them,
and then she floated up close to me. Her lips
were soft and cool, and then suddenly the cool us
was gone, and she was warm and close. She looked
at me for a long moment with those beautiful eyes,
and then she slipped away and swam to the other

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end of the quarry. I swam after it. We climbed
onto the rocks, and she sat down and pulled off
a bathing cab.

Speaker 17 (04:36:16):
I was like, I lose. I know it's crazy, just
meaning a couple of hours ago, but I'm nuts about you.

Speaker 21 (04:36:22):
You're very nice, Danny.

Speaker 6 (04:36:24):
It was so very nice.

Speaker 17 (04:36:26):
Doesn't come to New York with me. I got a
pilot door there just waiting for me to pick it up.

Speaker 105 (04:36:29):
I know, I'm talking like them out of my head
and me without a cent in my pocket, dressed in rags,
and well, it's.

Speaker 17 (04:36:34):
True, but we'll really start living, get married.

Speaker 60 (04:36:36):
I was.

Speaker 17 (04:36:39):
You know, you don't know what you do to me.

Speaker 60 (04:36:41):
The house.

Speaker 105 (04:36:46):
We went back to the house. I followed her inside
into the living room. Somebody was standing there with a
rod in his hand. Bruno, Move, Matthews, I'm mover. I'll
plug you.

Speaker 21 (04:37:04):
Danny, Danny, this is my husband.

Speaker 17 (04:37:08):
Oh, I get it. I get it now.

Speaker 21 (04:37:11):
Did you find it?

Speaker 4 (04:37:12):
No, it's not on a clouds. It took them apart.

Speaker 11 (04:37:14):
I haven't got it.

Speaker 21 (04:37:15):
Oh maybe maybe he hit it in the bit.

Speaker 4 (04:37:17):
I looked everywhere. Talk Matthews, where is it? Talky? Wishing
you were dead?

Speaker 17 (04:37:24):
I having a thing to say.

Speaker 4 (04:37:26):
Y Wait, before I get through with her, you talk plenty.

Speaker 17 (04:37:32):
Save it.

Speaker 21 (04:37:33):
Give it to him, Danny. Give it to him and
you can go.

Speaker 28 (04:37:35):
That's to you.

Speaker 4 (04:37:36):
You have my mind. Not talk upstairs, Matthews.

Speaker 105 (04:37:43):
We went upstairs and Bruno told her tiny to a chair,
and she did a good job too. I was tied
to that chair so tight I could hardly breathe.

Speaker 17 (04:37:50):
You go outside, Alice, Danny, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (04:37:59):
Well, this is your last chance. Are you going to talk?

Speaker 6 (04:38:07):
Guys just the.

Speaker 17 (04:38:11):
Beginning really did a good job too.

Speaker 105 (04:38:20):
When he was through, I knew I'd been schillacked by
an expert, but I didn't talk. I know I'd be
signing my own death warrant by spilling. He wouldn't kill
me as long as he thought you could get me
to sing. I was alone in the room, still tied
to the chair.

Speaker 7 (04:38:37):
Downstairs.

Speaker 105 (04:38:38):
I could hear the two of them moving around talking.
I had to get my hands free. I pulled and
jerked until my blood came. When I passed off, must
have been hours later. When I came to it was
dark and the house was quiet. I tried again to
loosen my wrists, and I finally got my right hand freak,

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but almost useless. I rested flexing my fingers. An hour passed,
maybe more. I was picking up the knot that tied
my left hand when the door quietly opened. The room
was as dark as the inside of a camera.

Speaker 1 (04:39:15):
But I know who it was.

Speaker 17 (04:39:17):
I'd know the smell of that perfume anywhere.

Speaker 20 (04:39:20):
Danny awaking.

Speaker 17 (04:39:22):
I'm awake.

Speaker 21 (04:39:24):
He mustn't hear you whispering, for then he's going to
kill you.

Speaker 75 (04:39:28):
I know what.

Speaker 17 (04:39:29):
I don't want you to die me, would you.

Speaker 21 (04:39:31):
I'm going to untie you and let you go.

Speaker 10 (04:39:34):
I do mean it.

Speaker 21 (04:39:36):
Just tell me where it is that baggage check? Please, Danny,
you're keeping it? Won't do you when he could? Believe me?
Freddy killed that old woman, and he'll kill you too.
I don't want him to. No, let him have a
baggage check, Danny, and then we'll go away. You when
I I hate him, I hated.

Speaker 17 (04:39:55):
You're not kidding anywhere, baby, Oh Danny.

Speaker 21 (04:40:00):
I want to get the money. Don't you you think
I'm lying just to get the money. Well, I'll tell
you something, Danny. There isn't any money in that suitcase.

Speaker 17 (04:40:10):
Where is it a fad in a suitcase?

Speaker 33 (04:40:13):
I have it?

Speaker 21 (04:40:14):
You have it, Yes, I have. I took it out
of a suitcase and we put something else in.

Speaker 17 (04:40:21):
All right, all right, you have the money.

Speaker 16 (04:40:24):
Why didn't you take a.

Speaker 17 (04:40:24):
Power with it?

Speaker 21 (04:40:25):
Because I can't get at it.

Speaker 7 (04:40:26):
That's why you have it, but you can't get at it.

Speaker 17 (04:40:28):
That makes sense.

Speaker 21 (04:40:30):
The knight that Freddy killed her he came here with
the money. I didn't know he was going to kill her. No,
I didn't know a thing about it until he showed
me the money. He put it in a suitcase so
we could drive down to New York and check it. Well,
while he changed his clothes, I took the money out
and put something else in what you do with the door.
After he left, I put the money in a big

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mason jar and dropped it in the quarry. Yes, I
was sure that I'd be able to dive down and
get it up again.

Speaker 60 (04:40:58):
Well.

Speaker 21 (04:40:58):
I tried, but it was too deep for me. That's
why I asked you if you could touch bottom, you see?
So please please tell Freddy where the check is. He'll
go to get it, and while he's gone, we'll get
the money and go away. It's quite a iron, but
it's true, Danny, Please, it's true.

Speaker 4 (04:41:16):
All the time she talked, I kept working on my
left hand, pulling to free it.

Speaker 17 (04:41:21):
Finally it slipped out of the rope.

Speaker 21 (04:41:22):
Oh, Danny, we can go out west, someplace where you'll
never find this. Please, please, You've got to believe me, Danny.

Speaker 10 (04:41:31):
I love you too.

Speaker 21 (04:41:33):
If I didn't, I wouldn't tell you all this, I'd
keep the money for myself, wouldn't I.

Speaker 10 (04:41:40):
Trust me?

Speaker 21 (04:41:41):
Please? Please tell me where the baggage check is?

Speaker 1 (04:41:44):
Got me free?

Speaker 11 (04:41:45):
First?

Speaker 21 (04:41:48):
You don't trust me?

Speaker 6 (04:41:49):
Do you sure?

Speaker 17 (04:41:50):
Trust you? If I haven't had an army?

Speaker 1 (04:41:52):
You know that?

Speaker 60 (04:41:53):
Where is it?

Speaker 11 (04:41:53):
In New York?

Speaker 17 (04:41:54):
In a safe place mine.

Speaker 21 (04:41:55):
I'll tell Freddy and he'll go for it. When he
does pick up that suit case, there'll be a surprise
waiting for him. While he's gone. We'll get the mission
job in the bottom of the quarry and we'll be
on our way west in the morning.

Speaker 17 (04:42:09):
Does he know you're in here now?

Speaker 7 (04:42:12):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (04:42:14):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (04:42:15):
I asked him to let me try talking to you, Danny.
He thinks that I'm trying.

Speaker 17 (04:42:21):
To fool you, but you wouldn't do that with Journey.

Speaker 21 (04:42:24):
Oh, Danny, can't I make you understand?

Speaker 108 (04:42:27):
I could feel ennominous leaving fingers on my left hand.
Now I had both hands free and shoes within my reach.

Speaker 105 (04:42:33):
Lying her full head off to get me to give
up the seventy five grand to give her and Freddy come.

Speaker 108 (04:42:38):
Closer, kiss me, just to show me your leveling with me.
She came close, her lips pressed against my.

Speaker 109 (04:42:49):
And then one hand on that salt. Lying let Martha
hers with all my strength, pulling it down on my knees.
Suddenly she was limp, but I didn't let go. Minutes
went by. Finally I took my hand off or not,

(04:43:13):
she wasn't breathing anymore.

Speaker 11 (04:43:16):
She was dead.

Speaker 105 (04:43:20):
Slowly, I let her body down on the floor, and
I untied the knots that held me to the chair.
I reached for her, and carefully, with stiff fingers, I
took off a jacket. The perfume she drenched it with
came off in waves, and I got a holding the
jacket ahead of me like a bull fighters cape. I
walked down the pitch black.

Speaker 4 (04:43:34):
Hall, Alice.

Speaker 17 (04:43:42):
I tell you I stopped.

Speaker 105 (04:43:44):
He'd been waiting there all the time. The perfume and
that jacket food him the way I thought it would.
It was just a couple of feet from him. The
next time he spoke, I jumped, well did he talk?
My first while punching the dog put him out. After that,

(04:44:08):
he wasn't any more trouble than she was. There was
a lot for me to do before daybreak. First, I
got rid of both the bodies, tying weights to them
and sinking them to the bottom of the quarry.

Speaker 17 (04:44:19):
Freddie had a fat wallet.

Speaker 105 (04:44:20):
I helped myself to that. Next, I changed into one
of his suits that was in the house. I closed
the place, locked it, and got into the cars. The
first streaks of light began to show in the east.
By afternoon, i'd be in New York. When I reached
New York, I got a shave and a haircut and

(04:44:41):
had some lunch. Then I went down to the main
post office. Well that it was there, and at ten
minutes I was at the Times Square subway station with
the baggage check in my hand.

Speaker 11 (04:44:54):
Here are one.

Speaker 17 (04:44:56):
Suitcase, yessure B one thirty one. What are you waiting for?

Speaker 75 (04:45:04):
B one thirty one? This was checked over thirty days ago.

Speaker 17 (04:45:08):
Oh, whatever it, I'll pay the charges.

Speaker 75 (04:45:09):
We don't keep baggage up here after thirty days. Your
suitcase is down in the storage room.

Speaker 17 (04:45:14):
B this way, please and sure, just lead the way.

Speaker 105 (04:45:19):
We took the stairs down to one of the cellars,
walked along some dark halls, and then stopped in front
of a locked door.

Speaker 75 (04:45:30):
It's in one of the beings down this way. Eh,
here we are B one thirty one.

Speaker 17 (04:45:42):
Is it that looks like it?

Speaker 11 (04:45:44):
Okay?

Speaker 50 (04:45:45):
Take it?

Speaker 16 (04:45:45):
Back.

Speaker 17 (04:45:46):
Oh, hey, bud, let's fear trouble. No nothing, come on,
buy a stup a drink.

Speaker 75 (04:45:52):
No, I don't want it.

Speaker 17 (04:45:55):
All right, suit yourself, let's go.

Speaker 105 (04:46:01):
As we walked back to the door, I wondered why
the guy should refuse a tip. When we got to
the door, I found out he opened it and I
walked out right into the arms of a big guy
in a bronze suit. He grabbed my wrists and before
I knew what was happening, he had a pair of bracelets.
All right, mothere's you're under arrest a wrist What forth?
The murder of Sarah Grimes in Pittsville, Massachusetts. I didn't

(04:46:23):
kill that old say it brother. You can do all
your talking down at headquarters.

Speaker 17 (04:46:32):
For all it talking I did down at headquarters.

Speaker 105 (04:46:34):
There are a lot of things I couldn't explain away, like,
for instance, the bank books belonging to Sarah Grimes they
found in the suitcase.

Speaker 17 (04:46:42):
My having the baggage checked for the suitcase.

Speaker 105 (04:46:47):
One thing the cops didn't know, and that was what
happened to the seventy five grand which should have been
in the suitcase and wasn't.

Speaker 17 (04:46:57):
Yeah, there wasn't a diamond that suitcase.

Speaker 105 (04:47:01):
The cops told me that two days after old Lady
Grimes was knocked off, they got an anonymous letter telling
him to look into the suitcase. Checked in Times square
on the number B one thirty one. The note said
the man who'd call for that suitcase was the murderer
of Sarah Grimes. So now they're hanging me in half

(04:47:22):
an hour. Yeah, yeah, I'm getting the surprise that was
meant for fred Bornou. And when I think it all over,
two things stand out. Down in that quarry there's a
mason jar with seventy five thousand.

Speaker 17 (04:47:42):
Dollars in it.

Speaker 105 (04:47:45):
And down there too is a gorgeous blue eyed dame
with a rock tied around her neck. See what I
mean by the break's going against you. I could have
had them both, Yep, I could have had them both.

Speaker 25 (04:48:14):
And so the curtain falls on its luck that counts,
which was chosen by guest expert Frank Ruber, whose latest
mystery thriller.

Speaker 75 (04:48:23):
Is The Leather Duke.

Speaker 25 (04:48:26):
Next to Week You, this time Murder by Experts brings
you the story of four people trapped in a bus
in a driving blizzard and faced with a realization that
one of them is a murderer selected for your approval
by Helen Riley. Until then, this is your host, John

(04:48:47):
Dickson Carr, hoping you'll be with us next week at
this time.

Speaker 31 (04:48:54):
It's Luck that Counts. Was written by George and Gertrude Fass.
In the cast were Larry Haynes, Miss Leslie wood, Us Artega,
Bill Smith, and Ed Latimer. Music is under the direction
of Emerson Buckley and was composed by Richard du Page.
Murder by Experts is produced and directed by Robert A.
Arthur and David Cogan. All characters in our story were fictitious,

(04:49:18):
and any resemblance to the names of actual persons was
purely coincidental. This is Jack Farron speaking. This is the
Mutual Broadcasting System.

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