THE FEAR THAT CREEPS LIKE A CAT | Old Time Radio Mystery – When Detectives Face the Supernatural - Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:43):
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(01:25):
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Speaker 4 (01:35):
I Love a Mystery.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
A Carphony Morrise audio novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie,
specialist in crime and adventure. Now following the Northwest trail
of a Missing Millionaire, a Killer Cougar, and the Phantomcastle.

(02:19):
This is Fred Foy and producing Jim Harmon's presentation of
Les Tremaine and Tony Clay in an original Carfin Morse
thriller The Fear That Creeps Like a Cat. Five o'clock

(02:48):
in the evening in a Seattle hotel somewhere on the
edge of Lake Union, the three comrades Jack, Doc and
Reggie are at the jumping off place in their new adventure.
The new adventure consisting of a man hunt with a
million dollars at stake. They have been assigned by a
big insurance company to bring back alive Alexander Archer, declared

(03:10):
legally dead by order of the court. The court says
he's dead, the insurance company says he's alive, and the
three comrades have been assigned to the task of proving
the insurance company right. The trio arrived in Seattle an
hour ago by stratoliner and registered at their hotel less
than twenty minutes ago.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
Well, I'll tell you, umber is one thing we're working
for the right people.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Look at the size of this room.

Speaker 6 (03:38):
You could swing a hipnoceris by the tail in here, Hey, Jack,
you're sure this is his hotel?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
We was told to come to this? Is it? We
dog gone?

Speaker 6 (03:46):
If it's going to be like this, I hope o man,
don't go no further than ride here in Seattle.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Not a chance? What you mean? Not a chance? This
afternoon or tomorrow morning, we get a telegram from the
insurance company in New York, and we're on our way,
on our way, yeah, into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest?
Is that all the information we got until the telegrammer?

Speaker 6 (04:05):
I see, duck look here well right over Lake Union,
we are well. I'll be dog gone, Jack, Well on
the second store right here over the lake.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
How about you two getting changed? Changed? But you can't
go down to dinner here? Looking like that is the
vettals we eat on the company too? Oh?

Speaker 6 (04:20):
By all means, Duck well Son, just watch me do
some expensive eating. Say that insurance company don't care how
it spends its money.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Does it? It'll be worth it to them if we
bring Alexander Archer back alive.

Speaker 6 (04:31):
Yeah, imagine, I'm giving one man a million dollars worth
of insurance money.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
But it was all right when they did it. Archer
was one of the most substantial men in New York.
Then last year he lost his pants in a series
of financial disasters.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
Yeah I know that, and I still say a million
smackers has a lot to put on one man.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
If I had, hey company, I'll get it.

Speaker 7 (04:55):
Oh please, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Hey, don't be sorry. Come home in?

Speaker 6 (05:00):
Well, dog on it? What you go rapping on people's
doors for? If you don't want to come in?

Speaker 2 (05:04):
What is it? Doc? A babe? Man? No, honey, what
I mean?

Speaker 7 (05:07):
You're insulting? I made a mistake.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh no you didn't.

Speaker 6 (05:10):
No, No, come all in here, help help there.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
You dog me? Look at what I got me? Jack?
You fellas can fish for you own? Doc?

Speaker 4 (05:24):
Are you crazy?

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Well look at her and ask me that again? But
I see grabbing girls out of the hole.

Speaker 7 (05:30):
What kind of gorilla have you got here?

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Anyway? What's it all about? Anyway?

Speaker 7 (05:34):
I came to your door by mistake, and this.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Sippy Cat's a good word, sugar, Doc?

Speaker 7 (05:39):
If you please open that door?

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh no, you don't, Doc, behave yourself, will you quite?

Speaker 1 (05:44):
This is no time for romance.

Speaker 6 (05:46):
Romance, my grandma, this little she girls are carrying a
shooting pistol.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's not true.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
Look at the shape and sag of her coat pocket
and tell me if it's true or not.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Jack, Why did you come to our door with a gun?

Speaker 7 (05:56):
I tell you it was a mistake.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
You should ought to be ashamed of yourself. Nice girl
like yuca and pistols and tell them lies.

Speaker 7 (06:02):
You Let me out of here?

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Who are you?

Speaker 7 (06:05):
When the management of this hotel? Here's about this?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Never mind the management? Who are you?

Speaker 7 (06:09):
Three men kidnapping a.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Girlie che No, No, guard me get the gun.

Speaker 7 (06:16):
If you don't let me go, I'll scream.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Cream and we'll gag you. Got it, son? Anything else
in a pucket? No, let me alone.

Speaker 6 (06:25):
Yeah, here's a handful of junk. All right, let her go, Reggie,
you'll be sorry for this.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Sit down. See that she stays down, Reggie. I want
to see what docs got here.

Speaker 7 (06:36):
Three great, big, brave men.

Speaker 6 (06:38):
Nevertheless, you had what Jack said, nothing but a lot
of female junk, powder puff wrapped up in a hanky, lipstick,
bunch of keys.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Compact here, let me see that compact? Yes, help here,
keep your hand over her mouth, Reggie.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Quite now sit there and act like a lady.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Find anything Jack? Yes, well it is telegram? Telegram? What's it?
Say from New York to Linda Joyce. It says Packard
Long and York arriving Seattle today. We'll register at Crawford
Arms Hotel. Stop the sign. Nick, Well, what you know?

Speaker 1 (07:15):
But I say, Jack, no one was supposed to know
about his arriving in Seattle.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Apparently everyone knows about it. Take your hand away from
her mouth. Right, you're Linda Joyce. I suppose supposing I
am out of this Nick. Person in New York know
we were arriving in Seattle.

Speaker 7 (07:31):
How do I know?

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Why does he want us stopped? Yeah? And what's he mean? Stop?

Speaker 7 (07:36):
When the police hear about you kidnapping and man handling me?
I think you'll be stopped plenty.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
This will ever get to the police, and you know it.

Speaker 7 (07:42):
You think nothing.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
I know it won't. Who are you spying for?

Speaker 7 (07:46):
I don't know what you mean.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh, yes you do. You came to our door to
be sure we derived and to get a look at us.
That's not true, I think it is. I also think
you felt pretty certain you'd get away with that gag
about coming to the wrong door. Otherwise you'd not be
carrying this telegram around with you. Was it very smarter?
You sugar.

Speaker 7 (08:04):
Smart guys figure everything out.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
I see, Jack, there's one thing I don't like.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
What's that? Reggie?

Speaker 1 (08:10):
I don't like the way she's taking it. We've caught
her with the goods, and yet she doesn't seem a
bit worried.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (08:17):
What does that mean if she thinks of here's your answer? Yeah,
I'm all the same kind of company, Reggie.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Keep her in my chair. Put your hand over a month. Doc,
get behind the door as I open you bet you, yes,
I'm coming, be ready here, coach, Good evening, sir. What
do you want? You're mister packard, aren't you? Yes? May

(08:45):
I come in for them? All that? Why not? Thank you? Okay,
you're in. What do you want? So? My daughter is
in here?

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Your daughter?

Speaker 2 (08:57):
That's right by the way.

Speaker 8 (08:59):
Would you mind having that young man standing behind me
remove himself?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
I'm okay, Grandpa, yes, but it makes me nervous to
have someone behind me. Frisk him, Doc, you bet hold stale, mister.
Pretty desperate treatment, isn't it, gentleman. Nothing bigger than a
pocket knife on him? Jack? All right, but keep an
eye on him. Well, then, who are you? What's your business?

(09:25):
I want you to release my daughter naturally.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
Oh you do.

Speaker 8 (09:29):
Yeah, So would you mind having that young man take
his hand away from my daughter's mouth?

Speaker 2 (09:35):
First? What's your name? I'm Richard Cooper Cooper. This girl's
name is Linda Joyce. Linda Joyce.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Oh, you must be mistaken the heck we are.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
What is her name?

Speaker 9 (09:49):
Then, Laura Cooper? Please have that young man release her?
All right, Reggie, quite my goodness, you came, father, Laura.
How many times have I told you to keep away
from strange men?

Speaker 7 (10:04):
But it was a mistake.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
I came to the wrong door.

Speaker 8 (10:07):
I'm afraid you're a very naughty girl, Laura.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
That's it. You always think the worst of me.

Speaker 8 (10:15):
Past experience, my dear past experience. Now, if you gentlemen
will allow me, I'll take her back to her room.
I assure you she won't annoy you again. You promise that, indeed,
I do well.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
You'd better keep an eye on her. Doctor gonep her
in a big way, and I won't be responsible.

Speaker 8 (10:34):
Oh dear, oh dear, I've had so much trouble with
this girl. Come along, my dear, Yes, father, which one of.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
You is doc?

Speaker 8 (10:44):
That's me Grandpa Red Hair. Laura's very fond of Red hair.
Women are weak, My boy weak. I beg you not
to take it bad each other.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Good afternoon, gentlemen. Well I'll be a two tail hipnoceris.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
But I say, Jack the telegram, that girl's more than
just a flighty female.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Sure, but that was a great act they put on.
Kindly old father and his weightward daughter dog gone.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
If it wasn't the old guy acting like he was
on his last leg, I say he did.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Look on the trembley side. I felt sorry for him.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Sorry may When I went over him looking for a gun,
I felt muscles like steel. That guy could lick his
weight in wildcats. But Jack, why did you.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Let them go?

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Why?

Speaker 2 (11:32):
We got everything we could out of them. We can't
be bothered with prisoners. Sure we know the gangs on
our trader, and we know what to of them look like. Hey,
who you've fallen? To listen to them? You'll find out. Hello,
I want to send a wire ready the Viking Insurance Company,
fourteen forty Broadway, New York City. Who is Nick? He

(11:56):
tipped off gang in Seattle of our presence? The fights on?
Signed Jack Packard? Thank you?

Speaker 6 (12:09):
Why didn't you tell them to rush them? Final instruction?
So we can get out of here.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
What's the hurry. If we stick around, we may meet
some more of the boys and girls. Yeah one, if
they got any more.

Speaker 6 (12:18):
Little old she gows as putty as Lenda Joyce, Lara
Cooper or whatever.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Her name is.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Good looking, but a little bit on the scratch cat
side from me.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
They can be anything they want to be, as long
as they're puddy boy. Do you notice how she fell
out their address? She was away on talk Listen, Hey,
somebody's picking our lock.

Speaker 10 (12:38):
Get over there like a door, Reggie, Doc, get the
craft room. Okay, sir, give me the gun. Okay, Cash,
they've got it open, watch all right, stick them a
few mums. Hello, boys, shut the door.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
What can we do for you?

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Willn't take care of that? Where's the third guy? What
third guy? I got this guy covered, Sam, that's that
guy by the wall with he makes a move. I
see a bit drastic, don't you think? Shut up?

Speaker 11 (13:05):
Mac?

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Look in the bathroom for that out of a month, three
tough boys. Shut up anybody in the bathroom. Mac, I
got him, Jack, get him, get him? Reggie?

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, whoopy got it?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Fella? How you coming Reggie there?

Speaker 1 (13:32):
That doesn't now get to your feet.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Dog gone as far as you please. You shut up? Hey, Jack,
Now we're gone. What we're gonna do with him in
the window? The window? You mean we're gonna throw him
out late? Won't hurt him? Well? Dog? Call? Hey, what
do you think you're doing? Come on? Help me? God?
You're done?

Speaker 6 (13:50):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Hey, I can't swear? How are you going? Whoop? Be man?
Wan to die? Next? How he goes? Who? He's the
man in the breathroom, unconscious? Black alter? I throw him
up in the hall. He might d whizard, Harry, Harry,
let me in quite what do you want? You're going
to kill me? You're greed to kill me.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
The adventures of Jack, Doc and Reggie have come to
you in I Love, A Mystery created and written by
Carlton E. Morse, scripts copyrighted by Morsel Coo Incorporated, Produced
and directed by story editor Jim Harmon. Feature ring Les

(15:00):
Tremayne as Jack Packard and Tony Clay as Doc Long,
with Frank Bracy as Reggie Yorke. Others in the cast
included Jack Lester as mister Cooper, Corey Seaton as Laura.
You're announcer Fred Foy. This presentation has come from Hollywood.

Speaker 11 (15:29):
I Love a.

Speaker 5 (15:30):
Mystery, A Carltony Morrise audio novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie,
specialist in crime and adventure, now following the Northwest trail
of a Missing Millionaire, A Killer Cougar and the Phantom Castle.

(16:13):
Les Tremaine and Tony Clay in an original Carfon Morse thriller,
The Fear That Creeps Like a Cat. Six o'clock in

(16:44):
the evening, in the Seattle Hotel somewhere on the edge
of Lake Union, the three comrades Jack, Doc and Reggie
are launched on a million dollar man hunt. They had
just overcome three gunmen in their hotel room when there
was a knock on the door and the girl's voice
cried out, They're going to kill me. Get that door open, Doc, Reggie, Hey,

(17:07):
what's the matter? Spalling on the floor outside our door?

Speaker 2 (17:10):
I say, is she dead? Where do we get her inside?
Give me a hand, Richie, right, Joe, I on the
hall dock, Okay, we go.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
Easy with her. She's breathing.

Speaker 6 (17:21):
Shut the doortock, Uh huh, nobody in the hall right
here on the bed, Hey, will you look what we
got this time?

Speaker 2 (17:28):
During it? She ain't even prettier than the other girl.
What is it, Jack? What's the matter with her? She
must have fainted. Doesn't seem to be anything else the matter.
Well that's a relief.

Speaker 6 (17:38):
Look you son, did you ever see anything pretty in
their long eyelashes?

Speaker 2 (17:41):
I'm more interested in who she is.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
And why she came screaming to our door saying they
were going to kill her.

Speaker 6 (17:47):
I'd just like to see anybody try killing her, you know, Jack. Oh,
my textis chivalry, Or get.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Your Texas chivalry and go get a glass of water.
Just the same if I can fight for this little
old gal's on her? When you get me a glass
of water? All right? All right, help me get her
out of her coat? Right, hold her up a bit.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
There we are, she much confined in her pockets, dressed
a bit on the expensive side.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yes, look at that diamond on her finger. Water for baby, Jack,
I say, Jack.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Here's a letter addressed to Jeanette Archer.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Archer here let me see that quite Hey.

Speaker 6 (18:21):
Look we're hunting for a guy named Alexander Archer.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Of course, wonder if Curry locks Here's any.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Relation Jeanette Archer. Do either of you remember the insurance
company saying anything about a girl by that name?

Speaker 6 (18:35):
Heck, I don't remember half them. Insurance guy has told us,
poor someone have water on this towel and bay their
fr and dunk.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Now you're talking, son, that's a job I really like.
I wish those final instructions from the insurance company would
get here so we could get out of Seattle. Oh,
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
We ain't gonna find any gals as pretty as this
up yonder in the wood.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
But couldn't we go without the information?

Speaker 2 (18:56):
I'm going to chance it if they don't hurry up.
She ain't showing no sign there coming around.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Give her time.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Haven't we got all the important information we need? We
know that Alexander Archer had a million dollar insurance policy.
We know that, on evidence presented by his estate, he
was declared dead by the courts. That the insurance company
still thinks he's alive and hiding somewhere up along the
Canadian coast.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Yeah, and it's our job bring him back if he
is alive. And no, we know more than that, No,
I say, we do. Well, we know that there's a
group of people might be anxious not to have us
go on with this man. Ain't at the truth. First
that pretty female girl that come in tote a pistol,
and then that old guy. Oh look here, huh, what's
the matter.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
That's Chabby? You knocked unconscious in the bathroom. He's still
in there.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Hey, that's right. There's too many things happening, Reggie, go
throw him out in the hall with pleasure.

Speaker 6 (19:48):
Well, there's one thing, son, We shoe are popular. We've
been in Seattle about an hour, and here at the
hotel about half an hour.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
And look at all the visitors we've had.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Wish I knew worthy girl fits into the picture. If
she don't fit in no place, can I.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
Have it you practically?

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Gunner? Now, I didn't tell you to hold her head
in your lap.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well, dad, bus, it's easier to pay the forward. This
a way. Just jump him out in the hall any place, Jack, yesh,
why not?

Speaker 2 (20:14):
How bad is he hurt?

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, he's just sleeping off the sock in the kisser?

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Throw him out?

Speaker 6 (20:21):
Hey, you know something, Jack, Oh, what's the matter. There's
something kind of indelicate. Maybe I ought to mention indelicate. Yeah,
a real Texas gentleman, don't see what he ain't supposed
to see.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
But when we picked up this pretty little low honey
out yonder in the hall, or what about it?

Speaker 6 (20:35):
Well, fella, to tell you the truth, if you was
to look, not that I think you should, you understand,
But if you was to look, I bet your money
you'd find a little low staber knife straft of this
baby's leg just about her right knee. You're sure it
was an accident. I just couldn't help seeing it. Or
don't be a hypocrite, Jack, I ain't no hypocrite. You
don't say things like that.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
Where's a knife? Huh?

Speaker 2 (20:57):
The Linda Joyce girl carried a gun on.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
This Yeah, looks like all the cats in the Northwest
got claws, don't it.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
She doesn't show any signs of consciousness, No sleeping like
a baby, jack, Jack, I say, Richard Cooper, what about it?
He's coming down the hall? Hey, you mean Grandpa's coming
to pay us another visit.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
I'm not sure. I duck back in the room the moment.

Speaker 6 (21:19):
I saw him one. I should frisk him again if
he has to come in here.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yes, just leave the wet cloth on the girl's brow
and get over by the door.

Speaker 6 (21:27):
Ain't much fun. A hold unconscious girl ahead and you
laugh anyway.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
I was wondering whether that was romance or your mother instinct. Duck,
how would you like a busting eye?

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Duck? You're behind the door, Reggie, you open it, I'll
have him cocked. Company's hair. Open up, Reggie. Gentlemen, I say,
it's mister Cooper.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Jack.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
What does he want? May I come in? He wants
to come in? Jack? All right, please step in, mister Cooper.

Speaker 8 (22:02):
I'm afraid I'm getting to be an awful bother. All steer, fella,
here are you behind me again?

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Looks like it, don't it. Keep your hands out in
front of you, Cooper?

Speaker 8 (22:15):
Am I subjected to this indignity every time I come
into this room?

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Not a bad idea, No, Pia can nothing. Jack.

Speaker 8 (22:24):
What in the world gave you the idea that I
might be armed?

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Everyone else visiting us has been? By the way.

Speaker 8 (22:31):
As I came down the hall, I noticed something rather unusual.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
That's so, yes, the body.

Speaker 8 (22:37):
I'm an unconscious man, but they're out of place in
a hotel of this distinction.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Did you call them management? No?

Speaker 8 (22:44):
I never like to get mixed up in unpleasant matters
of that nature. Besides, the management is upset enough as
it is. Two men dived into the bay from someplace
up on this floor.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
That've been my grandma. We throwed a man. Is that
so they said they dived in? Well, never mind that.
What do you want this time? Cooper?

Speaker 8 (23:05):
I came for my daughter.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
I say, your daughter.

Speaker 8 (23:09):
Yeah, she's a little bit eccentric. She has fainting spells.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Fella, it just allows who with eccentric dollars? Ain't you?
I beg your pardon, that's.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
What I said.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
First, we grab a gal carrying a gun in her
pockets a telegram saying her name's Linda Joyce.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
You come along and say her name's Laura Cooper.

Speaker 6 (23:30):
Next we find the girl outside our door, in a
dead faint after yelling somebody's trying to kill her. And
in her pocket's a letter saying her name's Janette Archer.
And now you say her name's Cooper.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
That's right, Brenda Cooper.

Speaker 8 (23:44):
Now if you'll allow me to carry the child back
to a room.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Hold it, Cooper.

Speaker 8 (23:49):
You mean you're not going to let me have her?

Speaker 4 (23:52):
That's right, But this is outrageous, maybe.

Speaker 8 (23:57):
But the child needs medical attention. Besides, I object to
leaving my daughter in this room with three strange men.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
How do you account for the fact she's carrying a
letter with a name Jeanette Archer? Easily?

Speaker 8 (24:11):
Jeanette Archer is a friend of hers, In fact, they're
roommates at college. Yeah, that sounds silly, My good man.
Are you going to let me take my daughter back
to her room? Or will I be obliged to call
the police?

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Say that's not a bad idea. I see here.

Speaker 8 (24:27):
I don't want trouble with you men. I'll admit my
daughter's are a bit wild. I'm not holding you responsible.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Don't move or open your mouth. Cooper, huh a gun,
it's a gun, Doc, open the door. Crack, there's any
funny work? Cooper is going to be sorry. Okay, fella,
Hey it's a bear. Boy.

Speaker 6 (24:53):
He's got a telegram, Take it and close the door. Sure, thanks, son,
Here are.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Got it? You bet you, Reggie. Look up the number
of the police department. Get them on the phone now. Now,
you don't be hasty. You're the one who suggested it.

Speaker 8 (25:10):
I had no intention of calling, and in fact, I
have every good reason for not calling.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
You ain't kidnapped, mister.

Speaker 8 (25:19):
Yes, my daughter's names have been in the papers before.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Not think serious?

Speaker 8 (25:24):
You understand wild parties? Please save them any further? Notiot,
Here it is.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Jack, get them on the wire for you.

Speaker 8 (25:33):
You're going to insist on it.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
That's right, I say, get me Maine four four hundred.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Please.

Speaker 8 (25:39):
In that case, I shall withdraw suit yourself. I hope
you realize you're breaking an old man's heart.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
I suppose there's a little old gray hair mother with
a shawl around her shoulders somewhere in the background.

Speaker 8 (25:54):
Too good evening, gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
We sure bluff him out of that one. Bluff nothing.
What's the matter, Reggie, haven't you got them yet?

Speaker 1 (26:09):
And they're on the wire. But they asked me to hold.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
The line of moment, doc. Let me see that telegraph.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
Oh yeah, from the insurance company, you think, probably, what's it? Say?

Speaker 1 (26:19):
It's what we've been waiting for. Oh, right to hold
the liner moment. Here they are on the wire, Jack, let.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Me take them. Hello. Listen, there's an unconscious girl by
the name of Jeanette Archer up in room two thirty
two of the Crawford Arms Hotel. Get here quick, of
course you'll be kidnapped. Never mind who this is. Get
here and step on it.

Speaker 6 (26:42):
Hey, Jack, if we stick around here and get mixed
up with the police, are not going.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
To stick around, Reggie, tear all the sheets off the bit,
right o. But look it, fella, doc, will you stop
asking questions start tying these sheets together.

Speaker 6 (26:55):
Okay, fella, but if I'm a flying hip anosser, if
I know, why, be careful of those knots.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
They got to hold our weight.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
I say we're going out the window.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
It's just what we're doing. But don't go to Jack
the lakes down below us.

Speaker 6 (27:08):
Then we'll get our feet wet. I'll say, we will
clean up to our necks here here, move one of
the beds over to the window.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Come on, Reggie, don't gone. If things ain't getting crazier
and a lula take asylum, you fellas, get out of
your coats and wrap some extra clothes in them and
tie them to your backs.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
We're going to have to swim for it. But why
the heck don't we just walk out of the play
huse you crazy fool. Cooper and his gang would see us,
they'd see we didn't have this girl with us, and
they break in here and grab her.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
We ain't gonna take her with us. You bet we're not.
Let the police come and get her.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
There.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
That ought to hold our weight. You ready, Reggie, right?
Then out with you while I'm getting ready. We'll meet
those bushes over there beside the lake. See you later.
So long.

Speaker 6 (27:55):
Hey, you know that water is gonna be cold. Never
mind that.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Watch Reggie. Soon as he drops into the lake. You
go down, Dad, read it.

Speaker 6 (28:03):
I know these britches are gonna shrink if they get wet.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Where do we go from here? Sim there, I'm ready.
There's a motor boat waiting for us down on the
Puget Sound. Reggie is down here. I go. Hurry up,
you bet, motor boat. Huh, Doc, Doc, they're here. Hurry out.
Hey Jack, something's giving away. Look out.

Speaker 6 (28:33):
Oh that's beautiful. Now I've got to die. Well, here
goes nothing. We cut these blame bridges.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
They're choking me to death already.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
you in I Love a Mystery Created and written by
Carlton E. Morse, Scripts copyrighted by Morsel Coo Incorporated, Produced
and directed by story editor Jim Harmon, featuring Les Tremaine

(29:41):
as Jack Packard and Tony Clay as Doc Long consultants
Frank Brazy and David Lloyd. You're announcer Fred Foy. This
presentation has come from Hollywood. I Love a Mystery, a

(30:07):
Cartony Morse audio novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie specialist
in crime and adventures, now following the Northwest trail of
a missing millionaire, a killer Cougar and the Phantom Castle.

(30:48):
Les Tremaine and Tony Clay in an original Carton Morse thriller,
The Fear That Creeps like a cat seven o'clock at

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night on the waterfront of Puget Sound, somewhere at the
foot of Seattle, on evidence presented by the estate of
Alexander Archer. The courts have declared him legally dead, but
the insurance company believes him alive and have hired the
Three Comrades to find him and bring him back alive.
There's a million dollar insurance policy on his life, and

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there is a vicious and well organized gang trying desperately
to block the search for him. Half an hour ago
they dodged members of the gang at their hotel and
are now completely enfolded in fog and darkness on the
Puget Sound waterfront.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Hey, I suppose you know where we're going?

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Jack, Now, we must be almost there. We keep walking
along the dock until we come to a warehouse saying
Belts Iron Foundry loading dock. Well, that's silly.

Speaker 6 (32:13):
How were you going to see Belts Iron Foundry loading
dock when it's so dark you can't even see the hand.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
In front of you.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
That's why I stopped at the drug store. And what
these flashlights?

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Ah? Good they do. We're on our way, on our
way where I don't know. The telegram said we'd find
a motor launch waiting for us at the donk.

Speaker 6 (32:30):
Well, if we ever find it, hey, dad blasted, Oh
I went and stepped into something. Well, if there's anything
for miles around, a step in, I'm the fella that
steps in him.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
Don't take it easy, old boy.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Well blasted all anyway, you don't know where the launch
is taking us.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Nope, we're going to be run across Puget sounds of
some little tonnel. After that, we're on our own. Sounds
a bit indefinite, after all, that's our job. If the
insurance company knew where Alexander Archer.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Was they'd go get him themselves.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Or makes him think he's up in this part because
I don't know, but.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
They must be right, because if we were on the
wrong track, we wouldn't be having so much trouble with
the gang that doesn't want.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
Us to find anything.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Hey, I hadn't thought of that.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
What's this warehouse saying?

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Can you tell me there's something up there? I can't
breath it? Hey, Doc, you're the lightest. Climb up on
Reggie's shoulders. Hunch over, Reggie, Come on, Doc, think I'm
some kind of a squirrel. Hey, hold still, Reggie, I say,
get your knee out of my neck. I'll hang on
to your feet. Stand up. Yeah. So when I fall

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a lot on my head, dark, would you stop horching around? All? Ride?
All right?

Speaker 6 (33:37):
Then you see yeah just a minute, Yeah, it says
Bell Iron Foundry. All right, this is it, jumped on yep.
What we need in this outfit is a trapeze performer.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
There's supposed to be a pier right off the front.
The lunch should be tied up there.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
I don't see no pierps. Well it's there, Come on,
first thing.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
You know we're going to be up to our arm
pits in the Pacific Ocean, not ocean huget sound.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Well, it's just as wet. We would have to pick a.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
Fogging knight stump grumbling, Why, that's all I want to know,
just playing why.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Because I'm tired of hearing you that reason enough?

Speaker 6 (34:12):
Reconcile, son. All you got to do is give me
a reason. Hey, ain't them lights ahead down close to
the water?

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Quite? This must be it?

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Watch out for steps going to uddle the water fall down?
Bust your next. I hope you do well. I probably
will shut up. Hey, you who's that that here? Here?

Speaker 12 (34:32):
You jack packard? That's right, well, launch is right down below.
Watch the steps all right behind me? Blay there, all

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right into the boat with.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
You can't see a darned thing. You just step down here,
all right there?

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Oh yeah, here's a place to sit down, all right?

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Swindle?

Speaker 13 (35:03):
Uh sure, all right? Field, turner over and passed off. Well, fellas,
we're on our way.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
How much of a trip is it? Huh you talking
to me? Yes, how much of a trip. But we
got ahead of it, oh couple, as long as we
got across from behind a hotel and get a good
nice here.

Speaker 8 (35:27):
Hey, hey there, come back here.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
You get the wrong boat. You've got the wrong boat.
Come back, I got the boat you want? Hey, what
does he mean? Yeah? What does he mean? We got
the wrong boat? Crazy old that's crazy French.

Speaker 12 (35:47):
Every time any other boat on this sound takes out
a load of passengers, he acts like that.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Oh it's trying to get a load for his boat.
Is that what it is?

Speaker 1 (35:56):
That's it to acting plenty unhappy.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
And stand here talking right to go back and pay? Jack?
You don't suppose we could have taken the long boat
to you. Let's I just think, Hey, you think, and
I'm also thinking, this is a fine tign to find article.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Well what we're waiting for, let's do something about it.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
But look at let's figure this out. Well, I didn't
mind telling you I don't like it.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
This man in our boat called me a packer, so
he was expecting us.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
All right.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
But see here, Jack, we haven't made a move so
far that coopwer and his gang I haven't known about beforehand.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
I know that. But how could they have found out
about our orders to comfortable waterfront? We only got the
telegram about ten minutes before we left the hotel. Well,
maybe they've seen the telegram before it was brought up
to us. Oh, that chef back in New York might
have lired them. He certainly warned them about us arriving
in Seattle.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
If we've done all right now, well then dog on it.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Let's make these mrees. Turned his boat around, he might try.
What you mean try? There's only two of them and
three of us. If they're part of the gang, they're
a arm we're not.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
They could shoot us down before we could move.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
In the dark, they couldn't hit the side of the barn.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
What do you think, Reggie, I'm for it.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
It's all gone.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Right, all right, here we go, give me over yard
jet man or hey who said that? Give my mind?
Got moved? Well, you long ass? If the cat, what
about it? Jack? And we gonna sit here and take that.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
Looks like it.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
I'll be a two horn blue jay duck. Huh got it?
You mean we ain't gonna do nothing? That's right there.
You're talking shits. Get me an ass and enjoy the ride.

Speaker 6 (37:35):
Well, I don't mind telling you, fella, I just plan.
Don't rock your face adding and now I can tell
by the tonio voice, I don't you talk shoot much.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
I ain't begun to say what I'm a thinking yet? Shot? Yeah,
that's so. And there's something else I just thought of, Jack?
What's that? Well? Look can you see this armre we're
talking to?

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Nope, well neither can I can you Reggie?

Speaker 2 (37:56):
No, I can't And I've bally there, strained my eyes
trying to Okay, if we can't see him, how the
heck's he seeing out, Joe?

Speaker 1 (38:04):
And if he can't see us, how's he gonna shoot it?

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Why are you Joe? Why move? Yeah? What the think's
gonna happen? Come on? Try it? My trick? Bigs just kitching?
You think he's buffing Jack?

Speaker 4 (38:16):
This was as good as mine.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
But why don't we chance it? At least we'll get
some action for our money. You gotta insw your pens start. Yes,
I have bad blame it? How you had ready consist?
They're like a couple of punkins, Jack, that killed the motor.

Speaker 6 (38:34):
This is where your mom's getting over Addie, Like you
get off, I don't see no land.

Speaker 14 (38:39):
He's dead though not a quarter of a mile straight down?
You mean you want us to jump overboard, not kill
You're dressed for it, dressed for it. Yeah, you wouldn't
want to get in.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
The cold water. And she was dressed for it.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Hey, what the heck you talking about? I ain't a
horn to go swilling? Dress and no dress?

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Now you won't mind it with a sack over your egg?
Piece of iron bought hot your feet?

Speaker 6 (39:02):
Not for long anyway, lobby a smelly on you if
they're gonna tiny on bottom my feet?

Speaker 14 (39:07):
All right, Bill, you're ready here, let's dumping and get
out of here with Jack.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
He's bringing up the ropes and the hunts are on
about a little lot to work him.

Speaker 12 (39:18):
No, any passion craft seeing a lot drifting out here
would get nose there? What's keeping Jake?

Speaker 15 (39:26):
Hey, Jake?

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Your bare? You don't see? What's the matter? Well keep
that rod on them fellas there?

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Mighty, you don't here that?

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Hey you punch? Did you hear what? I was sick?

Speaker 1 (39:41):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Hey, you guys, Joe, Jake, come here? Were what the matter? Fill?
Come here? I think they've gone over the side. What
do you mean over the side? Well? Where were you
and your gun?

Speaker 5 (39:54):
What?

Speaker 16 (39:54):
Cat?

Speaker 2 (39:55):
When the dark? Why didn't hear a sound? They were sick?

Speaker 16 (39:58):
Right there?

Speaker 2 (40:05):
I'll give you a hand in what you think. Get him.
Get that man, Hey, jack man overboard, get some rope.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
You can knock him out, Reggie, I don't.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Know ow hell all right here, Tom's Bill, sell it?
Yell it.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
I can't swim.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
I did throw it. Get I got it, I got it.
Pulled me in helping it, Reggie.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
Boys that ship.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
I can hear him. He's right alongside. Give me a hand. Fella,
there you are you yell.

Speaker 6 (40:38):
At tail pole Cat, I can't swim. I don't know
why we didn't hold you under instead of pulling you out.
Tie him up, Reggie, I'm taking care of this other
would be tough guy. Yeah, I sure landed right on
his kiss.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Apparently you did. He hasn't moved since.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Hey, what about the other fellow, the guy they called Jake.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
You don't seem to like our party.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Yeah, I ain't seen.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Hot in to have of it there.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
That's to hold our friend Bill right.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Let's go see what Jake has to say for himself.

Speaker 6 (41:04):
You bet your shucking that other five didn't hardly get
my blood circulated.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Hey, Jay, come on out, you might as well give up.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Yeah, fella, all's out and free.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
Here, Wait a minute, return on some lights. You'll be
easier to find.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Yeah, if we know where they are. Hey, what's making him?

Speaker 6 (41:22):
Big?

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Way?

Speaker 4 (41:23):
Oh tuck?

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Hey, come out?

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Look out Jack Reddy? Everybody all right?

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Well I can't touch bottle.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
That's what you means.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
I say, what hit us?

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Shake traighter right right home?

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Didn't even know what I say? What about Bill and
those other two?

Speaker 4 (41:45):
Well that's their hard. The question is what about us?

Speaker 6 (41:49):
Well, if we got a ground, I don't know any
putty of place in this.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Here huge it sounds.

Speaker 5 (42:27):
you in I Love a Mystery. Created and written by
Carlton E.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
Morse.

Speaker 5 (42:40):
Scripts copyrighted by Morsel COO Incorporated. Produced and directed by
story editor Jim Harmon. Consultants Frank Brazy and David Lloyd.

(43:06):
I Love a Mystery, a Cartony Morse audio novel featuring Jack,
Doc and Reggie, specialist in crime and adventure, now following
the Northwest trail of a missing Millionaire, a killer Cougar,
and the Phantom Castle. This is Fred Foy and producing

(43:52):
Jim Harmon's presentation of Les Tremaine and Tony Clay in
an original Carlton Morse thriller The.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
Fear That Creeps Like a Cat.

Speaker 5 (44:25):
Seven o'clock at night, somewhere in Puget Sound, off the
waterfront of Seattle. Tonight, the three comrades had orders to
meet a launch at the Puget Sound Dock, which would
carry them on the first leg of their expedition.

Speaker 11 (44:40):
Gangsters kidnap them.

Speaker 5 (44:41):
In a second launch out in the middle of the Sound,
they were run down by a big freighter, And at
the moment Jack, Doc and Reggie are swimming around in
the darkened fog trying to keep afloat.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Well, there goes my under drawers. I could be arrested
for what I ain't got on. Save your breath. We're
gonna need it if we keep a float. Me and
Lady Goadona, only she had a horse. Doc, don't you
realize this is serious? Two or three miles out here
in Suga Sound. Not the faintest idea which way to swim?
You know, Jack, I.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Ain't swum naked since I was a tadpole back in Texas.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
You can think of more useless information. Well why not? Here?
We all wait, neither to get rescued or drowned might
as well talking and Joe our fel. We'll go ahead
if you're enjoying it. Well, ain't you never mind me?
I can stick my head underwater when I get floored.
Me and my cousin when he Maine used to swim
in flower sacks when he was kids down in Texas. Yeah,

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what's the matter. You can have any water. Oh you
know what I mean instead of store swimming suit. Uh huh. Yeah.
There was a pond on Hippappa's place. Hauls used to
wall in the mud around the age. Oh that's a
lovely picture.

Speaker 6 (46:07):
No, we didn't mind them, though. We just waded through
them and out into the deep water. It come up
to our pistol pockets in the deepest place. Wonder you
didn't catch something we did, tadpoles, water snakes, things like that,
I mean, disease your jop germs. Heck no, me and
Whinnie May were so tough. Germs couldn't stand aside above him.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Quick yellow, yell your heads off. HELLI ay, Oh did
you hear that?

Speaker 8 (46:41):
Hell?

Speaker 6 (46:42):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (46:44):
I hear keeping her hurry, he says.

Speaker 17 (46:48):
Keep yelling, all right, your first dog, help over this way, hell,
this way.

Speaker 6 (46:55):
This way, hell, I say, he's got the light on
us a doll doll looks like we ain't gonna be
fish state asshole?

Speaker 2 (47:03):
You see us here we are?

Speaker 7 (47:06):
I see you are right.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
The mat all right?

Speaker 18 (47:10):
Don't don't run on downing off cut the j sport
there be lay there were.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Heavy a board nor time. Hey you got a woman
on the board. You get here? One woman one grand sailor.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
That girl oh look here, hey, tell her to hide
her head wasn't naked as babies, Maria.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Those eyes keep them forward. I don't see anything's a
dad blame funny. Oh never mind, climb aboard?

Speaker 14 (47:41):
Okay, yeah, how are you doing, Reggie, I'm already in
jack All right, then you're right come.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Huh?

Speaker 16 (47:51):
This all?

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Eh?

Speaker 4 (47:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Yeah, that's all? Hey, what about them other three? What's
the use? We haven't heard a word out of any
of them? Three? Yeah, crazy, we've been in the water
half an hour. Three start ye circle around, use your
search life. There are three more.

Speaker 7 (48:08):
It is too head, I think.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
So here you wrap up in these blankets, blankets, dog go?
Can I use one of them? You know what's happened?
What you do out here? Our launch was run down
by a big trader. They didn't even know they hit it.
You have light time, No whitter and Trader hit you. No,
we didn't blow anywhere. So then the lights were out. No,

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we'ure no life? What oh moans you study is bad?
Why not? Because the three men you're looking for now
at us? Prisoner quick? Oh my god? To your name
is Jacques by Card. I bet you're alive. Hey?

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Are you the burden?

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Yeah? To us? Just as we pulled away from the doctor,
that is right. When you go another books, I do
not know what to do. Then I follow you. You
certainly did the right thing. If you hadn't come along,
we'd been dead Indians in another hour.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
Hey, Maria, Maria, these are we're supposed to pick up
to night?

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Papa?

Speaker 6 (49:03):
You tell me this?

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Yeah, the felling we look for her? No good, We
don't look no more. We don't look for three other men. No, no,
theay wicked folks. Let them go too short. Best way
you can then, so I said, the course of ba.

Speaker 19 (49:15):
Wait wait, I'm gonna take the health. No, you fellows,
make yourself comfortable. I will send Maria back.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Hey, what's he mean?

Speaker 6 (49:23):
He's going to send Maria back and us with nothing
but blankets own.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
The first time in your life you've been afraid of
with gironel Well, dad busted, I ain't presentable.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
What about you, Reggie, I say, trying to keep away
from me.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
What's a she woman doing on this boat anyway? Hello? Hey,
you boys look like Indian proposer. Have the blanket? Hey?
Would you mind sitting down over yonder by? Reggie? You
make me nervous?

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Oh, I say, not over here?

Speaker 4 (49:49):
Sit down here.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
These are the boys. They are afraid of rumor in
their present state. I think a very good thing.

Speaker 7 (49:56):
We come along when we do.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
I know her.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
You're frinchy, that is so.

Speaker 7 (50:01):
He is a fine man, my proper.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
Well you seek you think you're a pretty good service.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
I am.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
I go with him on his boat everywhere. Hey, was
your papa hired to take us on this trip? Yes?

Speaker 7 (50:12):
Then you'll getting wrong boat by mistake.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
You're telling us this man with red hair, it's talk funny? Hey,
what you mean I talk funny? I think it's funny.

Speaker 6 (50:20):
Well, it's good old United States, And don't let anybody tell.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
You it ain't. This nice boy with his blonde hair,
he is English?

Speaker 1 (50:27):
I think quite.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
Do you mind?

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Oh? No? When I was in content. I wasn't very
much in love with English boy.

Speaker 7 (50:35):
Oh, but I am not anymore. I am not in
love with anybody any mean.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Well, that's all very swell, lady, But will you tell
us where we can get.

Speaker 6 (50:43):
Some clothes or we're gonna have to go around here
with blankets all the rest of our life.

Speaker 7 (50:47):
No, I don't think you would have to hear that.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
You don't know.

Speaker 7 (50:50):
When we reach for cost, Papa, I will go up
to the store and buy yoursel.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Yeah, my way aside thirty eight underdoor, I say, God,
blame it all I do this dark makes me want
to laugh at the time for it. He's a Texish boy,
and you know how a Texas boy is about women,
really and true, that is a very big case.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
You bet your sweet life. It's a big place not
to do.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Yeah, but you have to run them down like you do. Jack,
grab it me. I don't run.

Speaker 7 (51:22):
I don't run away from me.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Are we, Papa?

Speaker 16 (51:26):
This boy?

Speaker 1 (51:27):
She called you give her a drink of bready?

Speaker 2 (51:30):
No, I have not. I have forget Where are your wish?
What kind of folks you think we are? Plenty march?
Can we, Papa?

Speaker 7 (51:40):
I will fix it for you to work.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
He thinks you must have big spot of brandy. I
will get it.

Speaker 6 (51:47):
Hey, you know I kind of like that now. No, well,
don't go on about don't. Wouldn't you know I'd be
wrapped up in a blanket. Something always happened to me
when there's a pretty girl around.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Well know who's the she wrops plenty quick?

Speaker 4 (52:01):
I bet you know.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Maria, you saw your father is taking us up to
Port Forest. Hunt you? Where is this Port Forest?

Speaker 7 (52:10):
Where is the other side of Bellingham on the court.
We will not get it before done.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
I think you Misida, thanks heat sugar.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
You tell your papa. I think you're a swell folks.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
What kind of country is Ooh? Very wild? Not many
folks up there? Huh No, just longer than number jacks
number country very much, lumber, very much trees. It is
very rough place. I can tell you those don't gone.
I like hearing you tell. That's funny.

Speaker 7 (52:39):
I like to hear you talk, and you like to
hear Nisa.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
You know, Maria, me and you have to hit it off,
all right. I mean when I get me a fair bridges,
you'd say crazy things. I think, Oh there, Maria, Yes,
the pa come on forward. Take the hell one minute.
I come. Hey, you're going to leave us hue from
the park. I go, but I will come back.

Speaker 6 (53:04):
When Papa called poof, I go. You know, don if
it wasn't for women, you'd be up top my side kick.
What you talking about? I'm the best dog gone sidekicker
fella ever had.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Look at you? All you've gotten your head? Is Maria? Yeah?
Well what you Armbrey's gotten your head?

Speaker 1 (53:21):
I say not Maria, Well that's your hard luck.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Hey, look I just thought of something. Have we got
any money?

Speaker 4 (53:28):
What do you mean we?

Speaker 2 (53:29):
Well, I ain't. Every cent I had is in my
breeches pocket floating somewhere out there.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
What about you, Reggie, I say, not a set.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Well, ain't that a night picking? I guess it was
lucky I was carrying our bank roll. I put it
in my waterproof tobacco pouch and tied it.

Speaker 19 (53:44):
On my neck.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
Well, Jack's a dog gone smartest disgusting. Sometimes I just
plain don't like you. We'll need that cash if we're
going out in the woods, we'll need to play.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
I know that just makes me mad. You being a
wise guy all the time, And what's your matter with you? Fell,
She mad, No, No, he's just talking through his hat.
What about it? Frenchy Maria says, we won't get to
Port Forest before morning.

Speaker 18 (54:07):
Ah, that's Godria, she wants smart girl, she knows this
country like I do.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Well, what happens when we get to Court Forest? You
ask me?

Speaker 4 (54:15):
Yes, I'm asking you.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
That's just bad? Why bad? Because me? I come back
here to ask you the same question. Oh, I see
you had instructions to take us to Port Forest and
that's all that is? Right? Did I have to get
next information from you? Frenchie? You know what this is
all about us? Why you're taking us up there? Don't know?
I know nothing? How would you like to make a

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fortune for you and live there? Money?

Speaker 1 (54:43):
You talk about money?

Speaker 2 (54:45):
What's money? Huh?

Speaker 20 (54:47):
But you're right for money. I do anything that's a bed.
You stick to us and you will have plenty of money.
Boom boom, Now you're talking. Jack Man, I can fight
my way and Wildcat that little nod, Maria, look at home.

Speaker 5 (55:32):
you in I Love A Mystery.

Speaker 11 (55:42):
Created and written by Carlton E.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
Morse.

Speaker 5 (55:45):
Scripts copyrighted by Morsel Coo Incorporated, Produced and directed by
story editor Jim Harmon, featuring Les Tremaine as Jack Packard
and Tony Clay as Doc. Long consultants Frank Brazy and
David Lloyd. You're announcer, Fred Foy. This presentation has come

(56:05):
from Hollywood. I Love a Mystery, a Cartony Morrise audio
novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie, specialist in crime and adventure,

(56:27):
now following the Northwest trail of a missing Millionaire, a
Killer Cougar and the Phantom Castle. This is Fred Foy

(57:02):
in producing Jim Harmon's presentation of Les Tremaine and Tony
Clay in an original Carlton Morse.

Speaker 4 (57:09):
Thriller, The Fear That Creeps Like a Cat.

Speaker 5 (57:29):
Five o'clock in the morning at the landing dock of
the tiny hamlet of Port Forest, somewhere up the coast
from Seattle, near the Canadian border. In their search for
Alexander Archer the Million Dollar Corpse. The three comrades Jack,
Doc and Reggie have only now arrived at Port Forest.
They were brought here in a tiny motor launch operated

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by Frenchie and his daughter Maria. Last night, the trio
were kidnapped by gangsters trying to prevent them from finding
out Archer and were carried out into Puget Sound in
a small boat. The boat was struck in the dark
by a freighter and Jack, Doc and Reggie thrown into
the water. They were forced to shed all their clothes

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to keep afloat. That's how Frenchie and Maria found them
and rescued them without a stitch between the three of them.
Frenchie gave them each a blanket. And now here they
are docked at Port Forest at the break of dawn,
shivering in their blankets, hearing where's Frenchy and that good
looking daughter?

Speaker 2 (58:32):
Here down like a little hole called a cab?

Speaker 6 (58:34):
Well, dog, don't there. If there's any cabin, we should
have it. We're the ones without clothes. Three of us
couldn't possibly get in it. Well, two of us could
look at the ham my legs rosen stiff, break them off,
like I said.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Well, anyway, it's getting light enough so we can see
where they're young. So that's Port Port.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
Where's Port far Well, at least there's a few buildings
scattered about up there.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Don't look very appetizing to me. Well, don't forget, we're
a long way from civilisation part PORTFOLI is alf o't fast?
I regi the woming? Hey they Maria hop up back
with you? So's she's plenty hungry. I bet you what's
he yelled on the bio. He said, he bet we
were hungry. Of course we're hungry. Well, would you look

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what's coming? Hey? Food? You bet you my life wood Maria,
she won good cook. I think you need something very
hot to ruin you up there. You never said a
true a word movie.

Speaker 7 (59:27):
Then we all got around.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
Plenty she plenty hot bread, plenty.

Speaker 6 (59:31):
Mute boy, howdy, excuse my scanny panties, but I'm hungry.

Speaker 7 (59:36):
I'm quite used to you three in these blankets.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Papa, don't think so. Stop she very gloty, young lady.
She goes to convent.

Speaker 6 (59:47):
Reggie, did you have a taste anything so good in
your life? Mid old Roger that you bet your Sunday bridges.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
It's all right you talk about the breeches.

Speaker 6 (59:57):
You're done too than we are. I swear to my Gramm.
I never did know before how much comfort a pair
of pants was to a fella.

Speaker 7 (01:00:04):
We well, we have finished eating, Papua, and I will
go to the store and buy you some more.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
You mean there's a store up yonder.

Speaker 18 (01:00:11):
Oh, one fine store. She got everything in the world
that store every day.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
This is Port Forest, is me sure? Team? You don't
look like much.

Speaker 7 (01:00:21):
What's up fire, big stunier behind those hills, big general store,
three liquor store for the lumberjacks when they come into
town on Saturday night.

Speaker 19 (01:00:31):
Oh, I see plenty liquor, plenty girls, plenty fun on
Saturday night too.

Speaker 7 (01:00:37):
But you, in my life, we do not stay there
Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Oh my god, what you mean we do not stay
here Saturday night.

Speaker 7 (01:00:44):
No, we put out some insurance. It's boat Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Ah. That is woman for you. I shang you to convents.
And now you say I have no fun on Saturday night.

Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
You know this is a beautiful little cold protected from
the YOCEI.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
Oh, plenty deep water too, lumber schooner, she's come right
up to dock here.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
I say. Then, Port Forest is simply a milltown.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
There it is.

Speaker 7 (01:01:07):
Are the men are at the mill or any woodshow?

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Are there any other towns in this facility? Not for
maybe one hundred miles in any directions. Hey, this place
is one hundred miles from any town and that is
not all by boat. It is only one way to
get in here.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
I say we are isolated one hundred miles from the
nearest town and can only get in here by boats.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
You wasn't kidding Jack when you said we was on
the Friends of the Wilderness.

Speaker 7 (01:01:33):
Papa, we go.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Now, yeah, Maria, there's still tea the part. No, we
leave that for these three here. There's plenty more. No,
we go buy you britches Campasah. What you do with
a girl like that? She thinks she's b poss maybe. Eh, well,
wait a minute, you want some money? Okay, you got
the money. Yes, I managed to save our brood steak.

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How much will it take for three outfits? Er fifty dollars? Papa, Well,
for three ordreds fifty dogs, you give me forty five dollars.

Speaker 7 (01:02:08):
I will bring you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Back to the office. Hey, that's a lot of difference. Yeah,
you see, that's what I get for sending these girls
to convent. Here. You are, Maria, we will not belong. Yes,
someday I show you who's block here. I think I'll
be smelling name. If that old boy wasn't gonna charge
us double only be all right as long as we

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have Maria to keep him in line. Dog gone, ain't
life wonderful? Full stomaching pretty girl?

Speaker 6 (01:02:36):
Hey, doc, bet your life, there ain't nothing else. I
fella good, won't I'm beginning to get the layer of
the land. If Alexander Archer is in this part of
the world, and Port Forres is one hundred miles from
the nearest civilization, then he's got to come here for
his supplying. Hey, then all we got to do is
stick around Fort Forrest until he comes in.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
The boys something. No, it isn't going to be that easy.
Why not, Well, he probably buys supplies for six months
at a time, and then he probably doesn't come in
Port Forrest himself. You think he don't not. If he's
really in hiding, even in this out of the way place,
someone might spot it. At least he'd rose curiosity and
people would talk, and we're just gonna have to track

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him down. Yeah, it looks like it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
I've got one hunch it may not turn out. If
I can get well enough acquainted with the storekeeper up
there to get him to let.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Me look at his books for the past six months.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
Quite find all the people who have bought large amounts
of groceries during the past year might lead to something.

Speaker 6 (01:03:36):
Hey fella, what about the gang. It's been a trying
to stop us. You think we throw them.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
Off a trail.

Speaker 4 (01:03:41):
Well, that's too much to hope for.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
What do you mean too much?

Speaker 4 (01:03:44):
Shuts me.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
I hope we ain't you hope we haven't lost them,
because I do.

Speaker 6 (01:03:49):
The little set to we had with him in Seattle,
and huge it sound last night wasn't even a good beginning.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Oh feeling your oats?

Speaker 6 (01:03:55):
Huh well, all I got to say is get me
a pair of bridges I can put on and let
the fireworks start.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
Jack, I say, someone's coming down the dock, probably one.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
Of the natives.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
Huh well, hey, well, anyway, it's a female native. Look
at docs ears prick up.

Speaker 6 (01:04:13):
Hope she's worth a looking at. Hope she comes down
here where we can get a good look at her.
You're just full of hope, aren't you? Oh God on
clothes that we look like this part of the country. Yep,
she's a coming this way. Hey, Jack, why don't you look?

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Isn't one girl crazy monkey in this crowd or not?
How do you go about meeting a new girl dressed
in a blanket. She's dressed in a blanket. No, but
I am worse luck. Hey, hey, Jack, I can see
your face? No, yes, I can you know who she is? No?
For you, you tall goll right, I do. She's Lynda joways.

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
What's it?

Speaker 6 (01:04:46):
As sure as I'm a standing here barefooted. It's that
little old female we met back in that Seattle hotel.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Well, there we are? What you mean? There we are?
You asked if we were still being trailed by Cooper
and his gang. It looks like they got here ahead
of us. Man, oh man, ain't we got fun?

Speaker 4 (01:05:02):
If she didn't know it was us before she recognizes us?

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
No, yeah, how they honey?

Speaker 7 (01:05:08):
Well, boys, welcome to Poort Forest.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Yes, great flish, isn't it wonderful country?

Speaker 7 (01:05:14):
But aren't you boys a trifle informal?

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
What you mean informal? Ain't this Indian country? So I've heard?

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
Well, ain't you never heard? When in Italy? Do like
the Italians?

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Do? I see?

Speaker 7 (01:05:25):
So you've taken to your blankets.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
That's right? What you leaning up down that rail for?
Why don't you come down and be more sociable? Why not? Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:05:34):
Wait a minute, first, you promise not to try and
take me prismurvy.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Of course not. We'll we jack. No, no, we're not
in the moon all right here I come, look out,
you don't fliplet That plank's full of splinters. There, set down,
have a cup of tea.

Speaker 7 (01:05:53):
No thanks too, glad you boys left the hotel in
Seattle in such a hurry.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
I was hoping to see Morgan.

Speaker 6 (01:05:59):
No, kidd, really, we're seeing more of us up here
at Port Farsty just as well.

Speaker 7 (01:06:05):
Just as well.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
I suppose our old friend Richard Cooper is up here soon.
Oh sure he's here. Look Inlanda. That old grandpa ain't
really your father, is he? Of course not. We did a.

Speaker 7 (01:06:17):
Beautiful father and daughter act, though, didn't we?

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
Yeah? Almost having in tears. Cooper had plenty of gol though,
coming into our room the second time. I'm trying to
tell us that Jeannette Archer was another of his daughters.
Well you'll have to give him credit for try.

Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
Well, she's say from your gang and women. The police
will take care of her.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
Is that so? I think so?

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
But I say, miss Joyce, who is Jeanette Archer? What
relation is she to Alexander Archer?

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
You don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
No, the insurance company said nothing to us about any
relative by that name.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
You want to make a deal, Let's hear what it
is first.

Speaker 7 (01:06:56):
I'll tell you who Jeanette Archer is. If you tell
me what became of the three men who took you
out into the sound and that other launch last night.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
You mean you're admitting that you were in on that
deal to try to murder us.

Speaker 7 (01:07:08):
All's fair in love and war.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
That wasn't war. That was murder.

Speaker 7 (01:07:12):
Apparently only attempted murder. At least the three of you
seem to be in fairly good condition this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
What you mean good condition? We ain't got a stitch
of clothes to our name. You admit that, Cooper and
you and the rest of your gang will go to
any limits to get rid of us. We're getting away
from the subject. What became the three men who took
you out? They're dead.

Speaker 21 (01:07:35):
You murdered them. Don't make me laugh. You won't laugh
very long if you killed those men. All right, we've
told you what happened to them. Who is Jeanette Archer?

Speaker 7 (01:07:46):
She was a plant. Cooper had her put on that
fainting act to get you in the room and listen
to your conversation while you thought she was unconscious.

Speaker 6 (01:07:53):
I say she was one of the gang. Certainly are
there riches purpo shirt? Hey, here comes Frenchie and Maria.
What's your hurry, Linda, I've stayed too long.

Speaker 7 (01:08:04):
Now, Papa and I buy out this store. Oh who
is this woman?

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
Hello?

Speaker 7 (01:08:09):
Frenchie?

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
What you do on this boat? Little cat? You want
me to scut your eyes out? You get off this boat.
Hold everything, I'm going you talk, you talk? I am
so mad I kill you. Hey, Maria, hold it, honey.
That woman is a bad woman.

Speaker 7 (01:08:23):
I will not have her on my boat. She's a
little spitfire boys, you're welcome to her. The bad name,
the witch, the she thing.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
Hey, what's the matter with her? Frenchie? What she got
to be so wild about?

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
She say old women and put for her shed bad women.
She do not like bad women very much.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
I can tell you that it is not funny. She
come back, I kiddo dead? She bad?

Speaker 4 (01:08:49):
You bet she's bad, Maria, Frenchie, watch out for her
and for anybody you see with her.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
What I do is because she's part of the gang
words fighting, one of those who tried to have us.

Speaker 4 (01:09:01):
Killed last night.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
Bye card. She do that and Doc Reggie she lied
about Jannette Archer.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
I say you know that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Certainly I'm enough of a doctor to know that that
girl wasn't shamming, she was really unconscious. Well, boy, Hollie,
we really have got a mess of fight and a
do ain't we?

Speaker 5 (01:09:48):
you in I Love a Mystery creatured and written by
Carlton Scripts copyrighted by Morsel Coo Incorporated, Produced and directed
by story editor Jim Harmon, featuring Les Tremaine as Jack

(01:10:10):
Packard and Tony Clay as Doc. Long consultants Frank Brazy
and David Lloyd. You're announcer, Fred Foyd. This presentation has
come from Hollywood. I Love a Mystery, a Carltony Morse

(01:10:36):
audio novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie, specialist in crime
and adventure, now following the Northwest trail of a missing millionaire,
a killer cougar, and the Phantom Castle. This is Fred

(01:11:17):
Foy in producing Jim Harmon's presentation of Les Tremaine and
Tony Clay in an original Carton Morse thriller The.

Speaker 4 (01:11:27):

Speaker 5 (01:11:51):
Seven o'clock in the morning at Port Forest, a tiny
lumber milling hamlet somewhere up the coast from Seattle, near
the Canadian border. Jack, Doc and Reggie's search for the
missing man declared by his estate to be dead, is
being hampered on every hand by a well organized gang
of men and women. The three comrades have fought their

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way up the coast to Port Forest, the only settlement
within one hundred miles in any direction, and approachable only
by water. Their only allies in this isolated settlement are Frenchie,
who brought them here in his fishing launch, and his
daughter Maria. Frenchie told the trio to meet him at
the jingle store.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
Here she come. Now, boy, how the fellows? Well, here
we are, Franchie. Where Maria? She do not come, No,
she said, you stay on the latch. Oh she mighty fine.
Girls at Maria, Oh, boll those fellows. I will tell
you about this one.

Speaker 8 (01:12:49):
She's Packard, Jacques Packard, Ali will. Any friend of franchise
is a friend of mine.

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
Thank you this year, she Doc long, and welcome. You
are nice. I have you to say, so bull old fella,
and this he is ready, York Hea't now wait a minute, now,
who's doing this?

Speaker 16 (01:13:08):
You're meat?

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
Sorry friend? You bet your bull? White haired kid, she's
ready York. How did you do? Bull? Well, Sonny quite
a lad you are too, And that one she got mushalled?

Speaker 16 (01:13:21):
Poor look out for her?

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
Wow ou what about it? Boys?

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
Poor?

Speaker 16 (01:13:27):
You like a little nip?

Speaker 4 (01:13:28):
I'm fraid not bull a little too early in the morning.

Speaker 8 (01:13:30):
Early in the morning, late at night. It's good whiskey,
that right, French?

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Ye? Are you bet you my life? Well?

Speaker 4 (01:13:37):
I haven't any data then, but right now, Bull, I'm
trying to get some information.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
Well, you came to the right place, my boy.

Speaker 8 (01:13:44):
Nothing that's ever happened in Port Forest, and nothing that's
gonna happen gets away from bull.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Ma me Ginnis.

Speaker 8 (01:13:51):
I know every man, woman and child in these woods
for fifty miles around.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
Well, then you're just the man we want to talk to.

Speaker 8 (01:13:59):
And what that you'd be wanting? Hey, set yourselves up
on the counter and be comfortable.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
Yeah, thanks you keeping a coup book of the sales
in your store?

Speaker 8 (01:14:09):
Carry? Does who's carry? Carries me wife? And be careful
how you speak her name, or you'll have her down
on us mopping broom handle.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
You nothing to laugh at that?

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
Carry she won holy terror.

Speaker 8 (01:14:23):
Hey, you talk about Bull's wife here like that, carries
as fine a set of little woman as ever wore
a skirt. But I will admit a little mite hand
me with.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
A broom handle.

Speaker 8 (01:14:36):
Have bless her contankerous soul?

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
I say, well, look, Bull, I'm very anxious to get
a look at those books. You ain't got a chinaman's chance,
my boy? Why Carrie just won't have it?

Speaker 4 (01:14:49):
Couldn't you get them for us without her knowing it?

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (01:14:52):
My god, you asked Bull to put his head in
the lion's mild, you ask him to face carry mcguinnis.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
Hey, she ain't as bad as that.

Speaker 16 (01:15:02):
Not a chance, be.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
Lad, not a chance?

Speaker 4 (01:15:05):
Well, how about telling us where they are and let
us take care of getting them?

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
What I tell you, boy, these boys she's not afraid
of anything.

Speaker 6 (01:15:15):
Hey, LOOKI jack boy, he says, he knows everything that's
going on around here. Maybe he could tell us what
we want to know about looking at the books.

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
Maybe, So how about it, Bull, Do you remember making
any large sales of groceries and supplies during the past
six months? Lots of them, but I mean really big orders,
perhaps even six months rations.

Speaker 8 (01:15:36):
There's not a lot of the usual prospectors, trappers, all
sorts of folks living off from Port Forest get their
stuff here only place they can get it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
I say, this isn't going to be as easy as
we thought. Well, I guess that's them. Oh wait a minute,
you say you know everyone up in these parts. I
pride myself on it. Well you recall any stranger laying in?
Why no, I can't see that. An Oh get us
there she rolls.

Speaker 16 (01:16:08):
We're shrunk or arts.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
And the captain bullma get us, you know, count irishman. Oh,
I kiss me darning.

Speaker 7 (01:16:17):
Drinking up our shock of lequor.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
Bless your lot of time on the morning. You can
smell me bread.

Speaker 7 (01:16:25):
I'll smell your breath with the whack of my broom.
Handle Harry, whoop outside, all of you come carryon?

Speaker 17 (01:16:35):
No good, oh shame whoop? Be every man for and
say handle hi, this is war enough boys? What this
ain't half barn?

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Now you see that you keep outside of the store.
I say, she belly near broke that broom over my head.
It's a pretty poor footwork written. Man, what a woman?
Where frenchy go? He kept running? You must be done
on the launch by this time. Don't go Hey, Baul,
come here.

Speaker 8 (01:17:05):
Yeah, it's all right, boys, everything's they're control.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
Boy. When your little low walk goes to work, she
means business, don't she.

Speaker 8 (01:17:14):
Best temper I've seen her in In a week. I
only got one black eye?

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
You usually get two. But what's it all about? Bull?

Speaker 4 (01:17:22):
What do we do to make her so angry?

Speaker 8 (01:17:25):
I've been living with that woman for twenty years now
and I still don't know what a riots.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
Well, she sure was robbed, no kidding about that. Well,
let's get back to business. Shelby. You see what I
mean about getting the account books for you? You bet you?
And we don't blame you none either. Hasn't there anything
happened that you thought was queer? Hey, wait a minute,
you got something?

Speaker 8 (01:17:51):
Wait a minute now, now, about three months ago, Jake Sims, Yes,
Jake Sims come in here with a lot of money
and bought enough supplies.

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
To stuff an elephant. Who's Jake Simms?

Speaker 8 (01:18:07):
No catbomb, lives on a log how to wear next
to the timber down at the end of the street.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
But I say, what was strange about that?

Speaker 8 (01:18:16):
Because Jake Sims don't never work, and he's always broke and.

Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
Yet he suddenly comes in and buys a lot of supplies.

Speaker 8 (01:18:25):
Enough for a fellow to live like a king for
oh five.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
Or six months. He bought them for and sale. That's
just it.

Speaker 8 (01:18:33):
Damn supplies melted away after he bought them. He went
on a week's drunk and since then he's been begging
meals around it just like a used to.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
In other words, he bought the supplies for someone else
and got drunk on the money paid him for doing it.

Speaker 8 (01:18:49):
That's the way I figure it. Boo, Where can we
find Jake Sims now up at his place?

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
He never gets up before known noor?

Speaker 4 (01:18:57):
Just where is it?

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
Well?

Speaker 8 (01:18:58):
Not for Just go to the end of the street
here over across that stoppage. You'll see a long hunt
and that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
Thanks wooll. If you see Frenchy again, tell them we'll
be back at the launch in half an hour or so.

Speaker 8 (01:19:13):
Yeah, stop, buy the store on your way back.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
I'd like to buy you a drink with Mother McGinnis
and the broom standing by.

Speaker 8 (01:19:20):
Not me, fella, wish you take it too much to heart?

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
Carries the soul of hospitality, Well, she sure got a
funny way of showing it. Shall we go Jack just
a minute. Whoa Have you noticed any strangers in Port
Forest the last day or so.

Speaker 8 (01:19:38):
Nope, I can't say I have, that is except them
show show folks. Yeah, they're going to put on a
show down at the town hall next week. Couple of women,
half a dozen actor fellas. They're staying down at the
King Charles Hotel.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
Thanks, we'll be seeing you later. Paul. Well, don't forget
to stop buy on your way back.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
I say, Jack, actors up here.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
I suppose it's possible. It might be possible, but I'll
bet money they're not. It's Cooper and his gang just
as sure as shooting fish. We'll have a look. As
soon as we talked to Jake Simmons. Well, here we
are at the end of the street. Some street, just
one good block long, and weeds are growing up in
the middle of it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:23):
There's a long hu huh where over there where the
timber line begins.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
I say, this path looks like it might lead over
to Okay, let's go.

Speaker 17 (01:20:33):
Man.

Speaker 6 (01:20:34):
When you look at them stumps, there should have been
some big trees cut down around here. M h and
all going to waste mm hm, yes, sir, some money,
good burning wood for somebody's fireplace.

Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
Look at that everywhere? What to burn?

Speaker 4 (01:20:49):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
Doc? Okay, okay, Well do you think about this fellow,
Jake Simms? Anyway, Jack, he may be our man?

Speaker 4 (01:20:56):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
I say, it looks like it, doesn't it? Yeah, buying
all in supply we're getting too close.

Speaker 6 (01:21:04):
Yeah, jove, what a pig sty darned if Jake Sims
ain't white trash of the worst sort.

Speaker 2 (01:21:10):
What do you expect? Bull said he was drunk all
the time. Yeah, all this pretty country and a fellow
has to come along and make this kind of a
stinkhole in it. Well, let's see if he's in Hey, Jake,
Jake Sims probably sleeping off a bench. Why don't we
just bust in? Might as well? There's no walk on

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the door? Well, push you open? Is he in there?

Speaker 4 (01:21:35):
That's see him?

Speaker 6 (01:21:37):
Well this fire, let's go on in. Sure doesn't seem
to be Jack Jack. Look there behind the bed. Oh,
I say, move the better way. That's enough.

Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
Too late, he's dead, stabbed in the back with a
bowie knife.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
Ghostly.

Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
Oh, there's one thing. We were on the right track,
but Cooper Gang got here ahead of us.

Speaker 5 (01:22:29):
The Adventures of Jack, Doc and Reggie have come to
you in I Love a Mystery.

Speaker 11 (01:22:40):
Created and written by carlton E.

Speaker 4 (01:22:42):
Morse.

Speaker 5 (01:22:42):
Scripts copyrighted by Morsel Coo Incorporated. Produced and directed by
and Tony Clay as Doc Long consultants Frank Brazy and
David Lloyd. You're an Answer, Fred Foy. This presentation has

(01:23:03):
come from Hollywood. I Love a Mystery, a Carltony Morris
audio novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie specialist in crime

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and adventure, now following the Northwest trail of a missing millionaire,
a killer cougar, and the Phantom Castle. This Fred Foy

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and producing Jim Harmon's presentation of Les Tremaine and Tony
Clay in an original Carlton Morse thriller, The Fear That
Creeps like a cat eight o'clock in the morning in

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the little sawmill town of Port Forest, somewhere up the
coast from Seattle, near the Canadian border. Their man hunt
has taken them to the edge of the Great Northwest Wilderness,
the last outpost of which is the little logging town
of Port Forest. They have had to fight the Cooper gang,
an organization determined to keep them from finding Arch every

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step of the way. The gang's newest atrocity was the
murder of Jake Simms, a native of Port Forrest, whom
the three comrades believed was Archer's contact with the outside world.
At the moment the trio are in the dead man's cabin.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
Well, there ain't anybody ever going to be deader than
Jake Simms is right now. No, it's interesting too, he
hasn't been dead over fifteen or twenty minutes.

Speaker 6 (01:25:26):
I say, yeah, lookie, that winds open over yonder. The
killer might have climbed out of the window and beat
it for the woods and back as we was a
coming up the path from town.

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
He was a man who bought supplies and delivered them
to wherever Alexander Archer is hiding. As long as he
was alive, Archer was in danger of being exposed. Yeah,
and Jake here was double dangerous.

Speaker 6 (01:25:47):
After what Bull McGinn has told us down at the store,
I say, you mean someone of Cooper's gang overheard?

Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
Yeah, ain't that the way you figure it?

Speaker 9 (01:25:56):
Jack?

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
I'm afraid so, But look here, that means that we're
being watched a doubt in the world of it. Queer,
we haven't been aware of it. Yeah, what about that
Jack usually one of the spots a tail two minutes
after his.

Speaker 4 (01:26:08):
Owners or out of our environment. Our senses are tuned
to city life. They don't know how to react up
here in the wide open spaces.

Speaker 2 (01:26:16):
You think that's it, sure enough? Well, we certainly missed
fire this time. Something's the matter? Oh gone? And just
because we wasn't on our toes, Jake Simms is a
dead Indian. There's no use staying here any longer.

Speaker 6 (01:26:29):
Yeah, reckon, we are to go down and report this
dead body. Wonder if they got a police department up here.

Speaker 2 (01:26:35):
We've got something more important to do than report dead men. Huh,
such as what didn't Bull McGinn as say Cooper and
his gang were staying at the King Charles Hotel, Yeah,
passing themselves off as a true actors. Well, and the
King Charles Hotel is our next stop. But aren't we
going to report the body?

Speaker 4 (01:26:54):
What's the hurry?

Speaker 6 (01:26:55):
But looky fella, if somebody else discovers Jake here and
reports it, and then Baul McGinnis remembers we was on
our way up here, the last he saw of us.
Ain't that gonna put us in one sweet spot?

Speaker 2 (01:27:08):
Quite? I don't like it.

Speaker 16 (01:27:10):
Tell you didn't worry about the body, gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (01:27:12):
I say, hey, Jackie, it's Cooper.

Speaker 1 (01:27:16):
Don't move, gentlemen, or one of you may find yourselves
in the same unfortunate state as Jake Simms pointing.

Speaker 6 (01:27:23):
A gun at us through the window. Is that anyway
for a nice old man to act?

Speaker 2 (01:27:27):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:27:27):
I ask you, fella, I hope you'll all use good
judgment because my age hasn't anything to do with my shooting.

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
Ability to All right, Cooper, what do you want?

Speaker 1 (01:27:37):
Just stand quietly as you are. Well, Frankie takes care
of you, what you mean, takes care of us. Frankie,
show them what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
Yeah, you want me to go in through the window?

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
Now you might get into my range of fire.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
Go round by the door. Asher. Now, ain't this a
nice mess of potatoes? This is all pretty silly, Cooper?
I think so. Certainly. We're within one hundred yards at
the main street of Port Parish. It's broad daylight. What
do you think you're going to gain by this sort
of gunplay?

Speaker 1 (01:28:10):
All right, Franky got to work?

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
Hey, you bet?

Speaker 1 (01:28:13):
Then I fuss starts drop to the floor, so I
won't hit you when I open fire.

Speaker 8 (01:28:18):
Sure, all right, you put your hands behind you?

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
What about it? Jack? You better her?

Speaker 1 (01:28:24):
Do as he says, good common sense, Backer, I say, Jack,
he put handcuffs on me.

Speaker 2 (01:28:31):
Hey Jack, are we just going to stand here and
take this? And you think of anything better to do
at the moment?

Speaker 8 (01:28:37):
Yeah, Mike's not carrying them ride all right, take the
next one. Come on, you put your hands behind you,
hey Jack, Or as he says, Doc, well doing it anyway?
Come on, come on, you're wasting time, all right?

Speaker 6 (01:28:55):
But I warn you, fella, don't you ever let me
catch you down a dark alley at night handcuffs?

Speaker 2 (01:29:02):
Now we can't by Jack just as well at the moment.

Speaker 1 (01:29:05):
No Rod on this bozone either, you see, Frankie. You
boys insisted that these three were hard to handle. They're
not only agreeable to get along with, but quite friendly
about it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
I ain't neither friendly, Dad, burn it. I'm mean it
in a he mule in fly time.

Speaker 1 (01:29:24):
All right, packard ear, turn hands behind you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
Why not letting a pack of murderers trust us up
like a passel of chickens without making a fight. What's
eating you, Jack? Anyway?

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
I just don't happen to like Cooper's gun packer. I
must congratulate you on your high type of intelligence.

Speaker 2 (01:29:44):
No gun on him either.

Speaker 1 (01:29:46):
All right, take that rope and tie their feet so
that they can walk decently but can't run.

Speaker 2 (01:29:52):
Hey, the least you could do if we're going to
be your prisoners is the carryers.

Speaker 1 (01:29:56):
No, I'm afraid you'll have to do your own walking.
After all, I'm quite an old man. Darn if you
ain't just a dirty old man, I beg your pardon.
I am immaculate.

Speaker 2 (01:30:07):
Okay, have it your way, an immaculate, dirty old man.

Speaker 1 (01:30:13):
Does this redheaded young man talk all the time? And
doesn't he ever say anything?

Speaker 2 (01:30:18):
Hey, what you mean? Don't I ever say anything? I'm
afraid Doc just likes to talk to here.

Speaker 4 (01:30:24):
His brain's rattle.

Speaker 2 (01:30:26):
Well, that's a nice thing to say about a fella
to his face.

Speaker 1 (01:30:29):
That's unfortunate. I detest useless conversation unless he can restrain himself,
and may be necessary to use a gag.

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
All right, all right, if nobody likes the sound of
my voice.

Speaker 1 (01:30:40):
Not too tight for those ropes, Frank, give them a
chance for a long, easy stride.

Speaker 2 (01:30:46):
Yeah, but then they can run.

Speaker 1 (01:30:48):
Do you ever see anyone try to run with the
ropes tied to their feet? Personally, Packard, you're more my time.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
Thanks for nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:30:57):
Oh, come now, I've been looking over to some delightful
conversation with you on what subject? Well, personally, I like
books and I'm very fond of psychology.

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
I say, an intellectual murder, A.

Speaker 1 (01:31:11):
Very unfortunate appellation, young man, very unfortunate tuist thing that's
been said up to now.

Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
I'll go murder, frank.

Speaker 1 (01:31:20):
Yeah, when you've finished with those ropes, put a gag
in that man's mouth.

Speaker 2 (01:31:25):
Hey, look now that's your reward for talking out of turn. Well,
blame it all. He is a murderer, and there's the
body laying right there to prove it.

Speaker 1 (01:31:32):
As I'm saying, I'm very fond of psychology. But my
real hobby is medicine.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
Oh it's interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:31:39):
Yes, my reports on you, Packard tell me that you
studied medicine at one time.

Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
I never finished. Oh, yes, three years.

Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
Yes, I'm going to be very interested in hearing why
you gave it up. Well, if you got such a
thorough report on my past, you should know why.

Speaker 1 (01:31:58):
I no, I'm afraid it doesn't tell me that.

Speaker 8 (01:32:00):
All right, their feet's done. That's the guy you want gagged, Yes,
that's the one.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
Pay Now wait a minute, I'll steal one dead. Blame
you orra Lodell. Come on, you might as well give up. Doc.
You're not the least bit intelligible.

Speaker 1 (01:32:15):
Ah there, hell, that will take care of him, all right,
heard them out the door and around here to me.
Let it, keep your gun on them.

Speaker 8 (01:32:24):
Sure, come on, come on, you heard what he said.
Round at the side of the cabin with.

Speaker 2 (01:32:32):
You, I say, jack bit on the idea of a
chain gang. Keep going and now talking.

Speaker 1 (01:32:38):
All right, all right, I'll hold them here, Frankie, go
get the body.

Speaker 8 (01:32:43):
Yeah yeah, I'll tie it up in a guinea sack.

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
We're taking the body with us.

Speaker 1 (01:32:48):
Oh yes, yes, of course. If we left it behind,
someone might think you boys had killed him.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
I should think that would be what you'd want.

Speaker 1 (01:32:55):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, then the police would
be hunting you. Just keep the police out of this
as much as possible. Shoots us, I say, you're taking
this all very calmly. Oh, not the least danger. I've
studied the habits of the n eighties pretty thoroughly. The
only ones about at this time of the day are
the mill workers, and they're all at work. Oh, don't

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dally in there, Frankie.

Speaker 8 (01:33:19):
Coming right along. You can get damn started towards the
woods if you want to. Ah, all right, boys, we'll
be moving along. Then you're leading the way now. I
think it's safer if I follow you. See that scard
pine to the north, Yes, head for that, all right,

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mark you. I don't want to shoot it. I don't
have to, so don't give me any trouble. I say,
looks a bit of rough going. Yes, you'll have to
break through the undergrowth. It gets better shortly.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
It's bad. With our hands handcuffed behind us, you can
make it right to feet.

Speaker 1 (01:34:00):
Get tangled in the dryster, standstill it. I'll frik you
or I can free you.

Speaker 2 (01:34:04):
I say, Jack, a bit of a go what kidnapped
in broad daylight? Don't be misguided by what Cooper says.
Be careful, he's dangerous. Quite what do you suppose he
hasn't store for us? I don't know, but I'll bet
it isn't. Sitting in front of a fire discussing books
and philosophy too bad. Your gag? Doc?

Speaker 1 (01:34:25):
Oh, I say, what's the matter?

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
Doc's hobble rope caught on a route and he pitched
headfirst into a bush. Well, no, yeah, we'll take care
of that.

Speaker 16 (01:34:37):
Yeah, up on your feet.

Speaker 1 (01:34:40):
Yeah, now you're all right.

Speaker 2 (01:34:42):
Doc will never be all right as long as he's
got a gag in his mouth, and that fall didn't
help his temper any.

Speaker 1 (01:34:48):
Yes, it does look a bit indignant.

Speaker 2 (01:34:51):
Indignant The things that Texans got stored up in his
mind would inspire a mule driver. No wasting time. No
long at the edge of the timber. Which way do
I go? Now, Frankie take the lead? Yeah? Yeah, you
mugs follow me a lock. The going is easier now on.

Speaker 1 (01:35:11):
Yeah, it isn't far, isn't fought awhere, my boy, the
impatient man wastes the golden present in his eagerness for
the counterfeit future. I say, you're alive and well at
the moment. Let that suffice.

Speaker 2 (01:35:27):
That's pretty uncomfortable philosophy for three men with their hands
and feet tied and headed for uncertainty.

Speaker 1 (01:35:33):
I'd like to discuss that with you in a later time.
The philosophy of living each moment to the fullest without
consideration of the next. But just now, I think we're
coming to the horses.

Speaker 2 (01:35:45):
Horses.

Speaker 1 (01:35:45):
Oh yes, Frankie, tie that corpse on the bay bear.

Speaker 2 (01:35:50):
Yeah, that's just what he's going to do.

Speaker 1 (01:35:52):
Yes, she's become resigned to carrying gruesome cargoes.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
You expect us to mount these horses. I'm afraid you'll
have too. That must mean we've got quite a trip
ahead of us.

Speaker 1 (01:36:03):
Not far, ah, that is not too far for comfort.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
Yeah there, Yeah, that'll take care of the body. Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:36:14):
Lead their own up beside this stump for our redheaded friend.

Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
I say, I was wondering how we were going to
mount with our hands behind us.

Speaker 1 (01:36:23):
Come on, come on, boy, come on, whoa up on
the stump with you? You young man who talks too much?
I say, that's rubbing it in, Frankie, and tie there
up on his feet and then retire it under the
horse's belly when he's on.

Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
Yeah, all right, Texas, hop on, Cooper. You don't really
expect to get away with this, do you.

Speaker 1 (01:36:45):
Oh that isn't a very intelligent question, Packard.

Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
I'm surprised that you. Look, we were sent up here
on a mission. The minute we disappear. The people who
are backing us will have the state police and federal
department down on you like a ton of bricks. Are
you talking a way that makes me realize you don't
know all the facts in this case? You turn up
on the stump, packered, there you go. I'm certainly not

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dressed for horseback rining. You'll do? What do you mean?
I don't know all the facts in the case?

Speaker 1 (01:37:17):
On tire his feet, Reggie. Yeah, you came up here
into these woods to find Alexander Archer.

Speaker 2 (01:37:24):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (01:37:25):
Hired by an insurance company.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
Yes, get on the horse.

Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
I made it, go on, Cooper.

Speaker 2 (01:37:36):
We were hired by an insurance company.

Speaker 1 (01:37:39):
Did the insurance company tell you they'd sent other men
out to find Alexander Archer?

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
Oh? Look here?

Speaker 1 (01:37:44):
Did the insurance company tell you that some of those
other investigators disappear?

Speaker 2 (01:37:50):
What are you implying?

Speaker 1 (01:37:51):
Did they tell you that there's been a great deal
of secret to do in official circles about these men
who have never returned, and that nothing has come a bit?

Speaker 5 (01:38:01):
All?

Speaker 19 (01:38:01):
Right?

Speaker 16 (01:38:02):
Yorick?

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
You turn up on the stump with.

Speaker 6 (01:38:04):
You quite you're a I say, who are you telling
us that we're about to disappear, never to be heard
of again.

Speaker 2 (01:38:11):
Oh there's that possibility. Of course, you must be crazy.
We've left a trail behind us, broad enough for a
village constable to Tarmel.

Speaker 1 (01:38:21):
Yes, officials have followed all those who have come before
you as far as Port Forest. But then somehow the
trail comes to an end.

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
Oh, I say yes.

Speaker 1 (01:38:33):
At this point, the men sent out by the insurance
company seem to.

Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
Vanish and dinner. Oh beautiful thought.

Speaker 1 (01:38:41):
Are we ready, Greggy, Yes, all set up on your horse.
Then we'll take the underground passage.

Speaker 5 (01:39:19):
you in I Love a Mystery, Created and written by
Carlton E. Morse, Scripts copyrighted by Morsel COO Incorporated, Produced

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as Jack Packard and Tony Clay as Doc. Long consultants
Frank Brazy and David Lloyd. You're announcer, Fred Foy. This
presentation has come from Hollywood. I Love a Mystery a

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Cartony Morse audio novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie, specialist
in crime and adventure, now following the Northwest trail of
a missing Millionaire, a Killer Cougar, and the Phantom Castle.

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Les Tremaine and Tony Clay in an original Carton Morse thriller,
The Fear.

Speaker 4 (01:41:00):
That Creeps Like a Cat.

Speaker 5 (01:41:13):
Four o'clock in the afternoon, somewhere high on a ragged
mountain ledge somewhere near the Canadian border, Jack, Doc and
Reggie are in the Pacific Northwest in search of Alexander Archer,
declared to be dead by his estate, but believed to
be alive by the insurance company who holds a million
dollar policy on his life. Every inch of the three

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comrades manhunt has been opposed by a well organized outfit
come to be known as the Cooper Gang. This morning
in the isolated little milltown of Port Forest, they thought
they had found a clue to Archer in the person
of Jake Simms. But when they got to sims cabin,
he was dead, murdered right on top of this. Cooper

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and one of his gang appeared and at gunpoint and
tied them up and loaded them on horses. That was
at seven o'clock this morning. Now at four in the afternoon,
they're riding on a high rocky ledge so narrow the
horses must go single file.

Speaker 2 (01:42:20):
I say, Jack, I feel bad.

Speaker 22 (01:42:22):
A sorry, Doc, Well, I've asked Cooper twice to take
the gag up. He refuses, bloody swine, you'd better sit
still in your saddle. This leg is too narrow for company.

Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
Quite. Doc's horse up the head stumbled a bit of
the go. Oh well, if one of us goes over,
we all go. We're all tied together, Quite Joe. This
is beautiful country, though. Yeah, I'll take my sight seeing
in a different form. My arms have been bound behind
me so long, all the feelings gotten. Why there wonder
how much father they're taking us? You got me? I say?

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The ledge narrows up ahead, narrower than this. Quite, well,
hold your breath. It's a thousand feet straight down. If
it's an inch, here we go. Hang on? You up
up yet? Up there? Jack? Jack? Are you all right? Oh? Yeah,

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I made it is my hair white. Scared the witch
out of me when I heard your horse grambling. I
thought you got over now? So did I? Maybe somebody
likes this mountain goat stuff. I don't call back, if
you will, ask Cooper how much more there? Is of
this probably won't do any good. Hey, Cooper, Yes, I
suppose you know. Kidnappings are hanging a fence, my.

Speaker 1 (01:43:49):
Auren't you informative?

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
How much farther are we going? The worst is over.

Speaker 1 (01:43:54):
We dropped down into a little valley just ahead. Then
you will get the surprise.

Speaker 2 (01:43:58):
Of your life. Doesn't sound very encouraging. Oh you didn't
worry about it.

Speaker 1 (01:44:03):
Nothing's going to happen to you yet, Not yet.

Speaker 15 (01:44:07):
No, No, I have taken better legging to you one
of those beautiful friendships. Uh Jack, the ledge is widening.
We're going down into a tiny canyon. Well that's something.
Getting tired of this eagle's nest department. Cooper says, we
got a surprise in store for us, something gory. No,
he says, not to worry. Ye here, this this path

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taking on the elements of a shooter shoots it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:34):
On the steep side. All right, steady boy, with the
brakes on my horse or good dur I'll run you
down these.

Speaker 1 (01:44:41):
As that are used to this trial.

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
Just let it alone. Here's the car of you. That's
all right, We got our hands tied behind us. I'm
having something of a problem keeping my seat and not
to fall off if you know what's good for you.
Thanks for the warning. Now we'reout.

Speaker 1 (01:45:00):
Yes, it's an easy path to the other side of
the canyon.

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
Well look, how about calling up ahead your old pal
Frank and having him pull up for a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:45:08):
What for?

Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
Well, among other things, how about taking docs gag off.
He's had it on all day and that's pretty brutal.

Speaker 1 (01:45:15):
I'm sorry he brought it on himself.

Speaker 2 (01:45:17):
Then you might be a little humane. It's all part
of the game, you know. But it's so unnecessarily true.
He can't do any harm with his voice here.

Speaker 1 (01:45:27):
He talks too much.

Speaker 2 (01:45:29):
I shouldn't expect anything more from you, icephone. I suppose not, Jack,
we're coming through a giver. Yes, I hear it, Cooper that.
I suppose you know your gang murdered that body Frank's
got on the pack horse up ahead?

Speaker 1 (01:45:45):
What are you sahi mighty about?

Speaker 2 (01:45:47):
What about the three men you killed in that launch
out in Puget Sound. Oh, come on, you're crazy. March
was run down by a freighter. We had. All we
could do is saving ourselves in the vernacular. Tell it's
the Marines, I say, Jack, Thanks pretty well, well, terrently,
we are going to get arrest after all. Oh oh
no boy, Hey hey.

Speaker 8 (01:46:11):
Ready, ry this is where you said to get rid
of the body, mister Cooper.

Speaker 2 (01:46:16):
Oh yes, yes, in the river. Yeah, well hurry up.

Speaker 1 (01:46:20):
We need to be at cabin by four thirty. That's
almost that.

Speaker 2 (01:46:23):
No, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll take me minute minute.

Speaker 1 (01:46:26):
Get these roots off.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
Say where does that river go? There?

Speaker 1 (01:46:29):
It goes underground about a mile down the canyon.

Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
Doesn't he come out again?

Speaker 1 (01:46:34):
If it does, everybody knows where.

Speaker 2 (01:46:38):
I don't care to watch.

Speaker 1 (01:46:40):
Then the Josh will guide you.

Speaker 2 (01:46:42):
Now, yeah there, I'll be with you in just a minute.
And that's that.

Speaker 4 (01:46:55):
That's the end of Jake's suits.

Speaker 23 (01:46:57):
Yeah, just liking you. Never now look at you guys.
We go into a cave up ahead, okay, yeah, that's
what I said. I'll have a light up ahead, but
it won't do you guys much good. Then down over
your horse's necks there you're why will they get you
your head bout cay?

Speaker 4 (01:47:20):
So that's what Cooper meant about the underground passione.

Speaker 2 (01:47:23):
Yeah, never mind about that.

Speaker 4 (01:47:25):
Now just listen to what I'm saying.

Speaker 23 (01:47:27):
You know what I tell you to Because when we
first got in, we follow along the river, and she
makes so much noise you won't be able to hear yourselves.

Speaker 2 (01:47:36):
Think, just bend over in the saddle and the horses will.

Speaker 4 (01:47:39):
Do the rest.

Speaker 2 (01:47:40):
Yeah, that's right, here comes miss Joyce.

Speaker 1 (01:47:44):
Miss Joyce.

Speaker 2 (01:47:45):
I'll keep watching back as we go into the cave.
If anything goes wrong, you signal way with your wife.
So let's go. Can we go into the cave? You
know you're just trying to talk any more. Are we

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through with the river, Linda? Yes, it goes off into
the right. What happens when we get through the cave?

Speaker 7 (01:48:14):
There's a cabin on the other side. Where will spend
the night?

Speaker 2 (01:48:17):
You mean we got more horseback riding to do tomorrow?
Of course, let's great. I'm stuck to us at all
right now.

Speaker 7 (01:48:24):
Yes, friding is bad if you're not used to it.

Speaker 2 (01:48:27):
Great little comforter.

Speaker 7 (01:48:31):
You boys might be interested to know that when you
come out of the mouth of the cave up there,
we'll be out of the United States and into Canada.

Speaker 2 (01:48:37):
So that's what fIF sees. What do you mean this
trail we've been following a smuggler's underground system. We surrounded
on the crags two three thousand. I thought you bought
any Canadian rockies. They have a reputation.

Speaker 18 (01:48:53):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:48:54):
See that smoke down there, that's our cabin. Well that
looks better to me than all the rocky mountains in Canada.
Hey this guy, where does mister Cooper want us to
dump this cargo?

Speaker 7 (01:49:12):
Take him madice?

Speaker 2 (01:49:12):
In front of the main countin. Well, here we are,
Uh shall I dump them off? Yes? On tier feet.

Speaker 7 (01:49:24):
You'll probably have to help him down.

Speaker 2 (01:49:26):
Let him help themselves, all right? You down with you?

Speaker 1 (01:49:33):
Oh look here, you can't do that?

Speaker 2 (01:49:35):
Yeah, yeah, I can. Here. There's no use in that
sort of thing. Ducks bound and gang's. There's such a
thing as decency yanking him off and letting him fall.
Yeah yeah, and your neck here here? What are you doing?
Great guy, aren't you?

Speaker 1 (01:49:53):
Jack? I say, I can't begin to stand, no feeling
at all in my legs. Hey, your neck, get Sally Bruther, I.

Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
Remember that, Franky, my boy.

Speaker 8 (01:50:06):
I'll take the Highsis down to the stables.

Speaker 2 (01:50:08):
Jays. Can you say about these mics? All right?

Speaker 7 (01:50:12):
They don't any of them seem to be able to stand?

Speaker 8 (01:50:14):
Okay, somebody will be out there, give you a hand.

Speaker 2 (01:50:17):
I reckon, come on, you come on, hit for the
bar were certainly nothing a picked condition. You'll get over it.

Speaker 7 (01:50:27):
Line your backs and kick your feet like you're riding
a bicycle. That'll bring back the circulation.

Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
Oh that's going to be a wonderful feeling.

Speaker 1 (01:50:33):
See here, Will you please take that gag out of
Doc's mouth? No, and you call yourself a woman?

Speaker 7 (01:50:39):
Oh stop crying. I thought you three were supposed to.

Speaker 2 (01:50:42):
Be tough guys. Is that brute tied up?

Speaker 7 (01:50:45):
Yes, that's why he's howling. He's only allowed loose when
mister Cooper's around.

Speaker 2 (01:50:49):
You still haven't told us what became a Cooper. Oh
you'll be along, But look here, are we just going
to lie here?

Speaker 1 (01:50:57):
What happens now?

Speaker 7 (01:50:58):
I'll take you inside as soon as you'll to stand.

Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
Oh, I say, circulation's coming back. REGI quite better off
the way I was. I'm beginning to have the same opinion.

Speaker 7 (01:51:09):
Well, you better come along before you get too frisky.

Speaker 2 (01:51:11):
What I don't think I can stand? Oh? Yes, you
can come on, Get up, job, I say, Well, feels right.
I was walking on stilts with slippers in the right.

Speaker 1 (01:51:23):
Oh, good boy, Doc, come on hello.

Speaker 2 (01:51:27):
What's in that enclosure over there? Mountain Lions Mountain lion. Yes,
some more of mister Cooper's pets. Pets huh sort of?

Speaker 1 (01:51:34):
But what does a bladder like Cooper or with mountain
lions that.

Speaker 7 (01:51:38):
She'll probably find out for yourself before Richard Cooper is
through with you.

Speaker 5 (01:52:08):
Carlton E. Morse, Scripts copyrighted by Morsel Coo Incorporated. Produced

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Frank Brazy and David Lloyd. You're announcer, Fred Foy. This

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Carlton E. Morse audio novel featuring Jack and Reggie specialist
a missing Millionaire, a killer Cougar, and the Phantom Castle.

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This is Fred Foy in producing Jim Harmon's presentation of
Les Tremaine and Tony Clay in an original Carlton Morse thriller.

Speaker 4 (01:53:48):
The Fear That Creeps Like a Cat.

Speaker 5 (01:54:12):
Seven o'clock in the evening in a wilderness cabin somewhere
across the Canadian border in the Pacific northwest. Here the
gang murdered the only man who could have given the
trio a clue to Alexander Archer's whereabouts, and then, in
a quick daring move, took the three comrades prisoners. All day,
the Cooper gang traveled by horse with their prisoners by rugged,

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dangerous trails, finally crossing into Canada through a gigantic natural tunnel.
And now, at seven o'clock in the evening, somewhat recovered
from the trip, Jack, Doc, and Reggie sit before a
great fire in a strange wilderness log cabin with their
host and captor, Richard Cooper.

Speaker 1 (01:54:54):
Gentlemen, the necessity for keeping you handcuffed to your chairs
revolts me.

Speaker 6 (01:55:00):
Don't revolt, you know more than does us Cooper.

Speaker 1 (01:55:03):
Yes, yes, sir, As your host, I deplore the whole business.
As your captor, however, it seems only logical. Oh there's
logic in keeping his handcuff to our chairs.

Speaker 2 (01:55:13):
All right? Oh you see my.

Speaker 6 (01:55:14):
Point, you bet, Because if we wasn't changed down here,
we'd bust you wide open and.

Speaker 2 (01:55:19):
Get out of here.

Speaker 1 (01:55:20):
Apparently you haven't yet learned your lesson?

Speaker 2 (01:55:22):
Mister long what lesson? I kept you.

Speaker 1 (01:55:24):
Gagged all day because you talked too much.

Speaker 2 (01:55:27):
Now look here, Cooper. Every man's got a.

Speaker 1 (01:55:29):
Right to stay his piece, not unless he has something
intelligent to say. All right, I can take a hint.

Speaker 2 (01:55:35):
I hope sincerely you can. For your sake, dum pole cat, mister.

Speaker 1 (01:55:41):
Packhard, you seem disinclined to talk, nothing to say.

Speaker 2 (01:55:45):
I realize you, how must be deadly tired.

Speaker 1 (01:55:48):
There's a pretty strangerous trip through the mountains for anyone
not used to horses.

Speaker 2 (01:55:52):
Especially with our hands tied behind us.

Speaker 1 (01:55:54):
And yet you all came through it much better than
some of our other guests. I say, you make a
regular habit of kidnapping people and bringing them up here.

Speaker 2 (01:56:03):
Oh, nothing rager about it. But there are occasions other
investigators before us who have tried to find Alexander Archer.
I take it some of them, yes, some of them.

Speaker 1 (01:56:14):
A bit of an organization you have. I've counted five
men about this cabin, not including myself and Linda Joyce.
Oh yes, five men on dirty at this station station.
Oh yes, this is the midway station on the underground passage.

Speaker 2 (01:56:29):
You know, I've been giving this some thought, Cooper, I'm
not surprised. This thing's too well organized simply to be
a means of disposing of people who get too nosy
about Alexander Archer.

Speaker 1 (01:56:39):
That's logical.

Speaker 2 (01:56:40):
I mean, Archer's only been missing a year. Everything indicates
this setup has been established for a much longer time.
Oh it has, I assure you, am I right in
assuming it's an underground railroad for smuggling goods between the
United States and Canada.

Speaker 1 (01:56:55):
Oh no, no, no, no, dear mean now, that's a
logical assumption. Yes, it could be used for that very well,
but never has been.

Speaker 2 (01:57:02):
I see. There's one thing that puzzles me a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:57:05):
I mean to say, aren't you running a considerable risk
in bringing us over the trail in the daylight and
allowing us to see where you're taking us and how
we get there?

Speaker 2 (01:57:14):
Young man?

Speaker 1 (01:57:15):
That question shows a pitiful amount of simple faith and
youthful optimism. But look here, if we ever get out
of this mess, you know, Bally, well, we'll tune in
the whole business.

Speaker 2 (01:57:26):
Yeah, dar In, certainly will.

Speaker 1 (01:57:27):
Mister Packard, don't you think it's time you explain to
your two comrades the true state of affairs.

Speaker 2 (01:57:33):
What the heck you talking about? What Cooper's saying is
none of us is ever going to be in a
position to give him away.

Speaker 1 (01:57:39):
Well, ain't that a beautiful thought for the day. Quite furthermore,
I'd say, mister Cooper is inclined to be a bit
on the optimistic side myself. Well, that's the human mind,
hope rising eternally, each of us living with his own
personal convictions.

Speaker 4 (01:57:56):
Good of you to allow us our own personal convictions.

Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
Cooper, don't please disunderstand me.

Speaker 1 (01:58:01):
I have no desire to threaten you, to make you
more uncomfortable and necessary personally.

Speaker 2 (01:58:07):
I would never have brought up the subject of your future.
That was done by mister Yorke. Mister Packard.

Speaker 1 (01:58:13):
Here is the only possible one of you who might
have some small insight into the things which go on
in my mind.

Speaker 2 (01:58:19):
Not much beyond the fact that you're a very dangerous man.

Speaker 1 (01:58:23):
Only dangerous because I'm intellectually superior.

Speaker 2 (01:58:28):
Perhaps that's true. All I know is that I sent
something that warns me to watch out. Speaking of sense
and something, what's that raw wild smell? I keep a
smelling quite I get it too, A bit like spoiled meat.

Speaker 1 (01:58:42):
Oh, yes, that's my pen of mountain lions.

Speaker 6 (01:58:46):
Yeah, I was going to ask you about that we
saw when we first come. What the heck did Linda
Joyce mean when we ask her what you kept mountain
lions for? What did she say that we'd.

Speaker 1 (01:58:58):
Probably find our four sales worthy day? That girl is
taking a great deal on herself, Linda, Linda, Linda, Come
up here.

Speaker 2 (01:59:08):
There's that turn wolf dog again.

Speaker 1 (01:59:11):
A fine animal. Now you haven't made his acquaintance.

Speaker 2 (01:59:14):
Chest Well, I made all the queens.

Speaker 6 (01:59:16):
I want to of him when I see him from
our window galloping around the house.

Speaker 1 (01:59:20):
Quite big, ugly looking brute, biggest fans I ever saw
a dog.

Speaker 2 (01:59:25):
He's half wolf.

Speaker 1 (01:59:27):
Here you are, Linda, Yes, opened the door and let
Prometheus in, mister Cooper, Linda opened the door and let
Prometheus in.

Speaker 2 (01:59:37):
All right, hey, Prometheus, he's coming, Promethia. There here he was.
That's York.

Speaker 1 (01:59:48):
Go over and say hello, I say Prometheus over. There's
Long Go say hello you black devil.

Speaker 2 (01:59:58):
Yeah, is this is Packard? Say hello hello Prometheus? Yeah? No, no,
come and lie down. You had a reason for having
him make the rounds and smell each one of us.
I suppose, oh, yes, yes, indeed he's intelligent. He'll never
forget any of you. Watch this Prometheus go to Packard.

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You see, I just mentioned your name to him once.
Come back, come back in lie down now So what well,
if it should ever be necessary to find one of
you in a hurry, that's all I say. Those thanks,
they're positively beeftly.

Speaker 1 (02:00:41):
I've seen him tear the throat out of a full
grown bear with one slash of those fangs. The throat
is a bear, Linda, Linda, you talked with these men
about my pen, those mountain.

Speaker 2 (02:00:53):
Lions, only that they were a hobby of yours. Any
mention of those animals is forbidden, as you have reason
to know.

Speaker 7 (02:01:00):
I spoke before.

Speaker 2 (02:01:01):
I thought.

Speaker 1 (02:01:02):
I'm afraid, my dear, that any more thoughtlessness on your
part will have most unhappy results.

Speaker 2 (02:01:08):
Your threaten nonsense, child, what a thought? Yes, what I thought?

Speaker 1 (02:01:14):
Certainly natural for the human mind to relax. We all
need to have our sense whipped into line now and again.

Speaker 7 (02:01:20):
Yes, yes, naturally, I'll be more careful in the future.

Speaker 1 (02:01:24):
Good, good, and then we can forget about for something
more pleasant. Oh, do you gentlemen play bridge? Nope, Poker
is my game. Poker Oh, splendid, splendid, I haven't had
a good game of poker in a long while.

Speaker 2 (02:01:41):
Just a minute, Cooper, haven't we been given to understand
if we begin another long trek on horseback early tomorrow morning.

Speaker 1 (02:01:47):
Yes, I'm afraid that's right.

Speaker 2 (02:01:49):
Well, I don't mind telling you I'm dog tired. Personally,
I'd like to be taken to my room.

Speaker 1 (02:01:54):
Oh, I'm sincerely sorry. Oh what a bad host i've been.
Shall we all retire then?

Speaker 4 (02:02:01):
Well, very shortly. But I couldn't face cards tonight if
doctor here wants to play.

Speaker 2 (02:02:08):
All the corner? What the steaks are?

Speaker 11 (02:02:10):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:02:10):
I see?

Speaker 2 (02:02:11):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:02:11):
What stakes did you have in mind?

Speaker 2 (02:02:14):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:02:14):
Now, just for instance? Yes, how about us playing for
the limit?

Speaker 2 (02:02:18):
I don't think I follow you. You and me sit
down and play a hand to draw poker. Uh? If
I win, you turn us loose and give us half
an hour head start before you try to catch us again.

Speaker 6 (02:02:29):
And if you lose, well, if it's all right with
Jack and Reggie, we'll guarantee to go along with you
tomorrow without trying to get away a half.

Speaker 1 (02:02:38):
Hour of freedom tonight in return for good conduct tomorrow. Well,
are you a gambler?

Speaker 2 (02:02:43):
Ain't you.

Speaker 1 (02:02:44):
Oh, yes, that's no gamble. I've got everything to lose
and nothing to gain. Sure you have no because you
haven't the faintest possibility of getting away from me tomorrow.
I know, my friend, that's no proposition. Well, what you
got to offer, and let's see how about this. If
you win, you get your half hour freedom, and if

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you lose, you'll lend yourself to a little experiment of mind.
Oh no, Linda, what you mean a little experiment? It
really is a marvelous opportunity for you, lend yourself to
the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Speaker 2 (02:03:21):
Doc. I think you're getting in over your head.

Speaker 1 (02:03:24):
You mean, let myself get bit by malaria, mosquitoes, something.

Speaker 2 (02:03:27):
Like that, something but not quite Linda.

Speaker 1 (02:03:31):
I think you'd better leave the room.

Speaker 7 (02:03:34):
Yes, I I think I'm going to be sick.

Speaker 2 (02:03:38):
Well long, what about it?

Speaker 6 (02:03:41):
Yeah, well, that ain't exactly what I had in mind.
But on the other hand, I'm a pretty dog gone
good poker play.

Speaker 2 (02:03:47):
I won't consider it. Cooper. The consideration is out of
your hands. I absolutely forbid it. Doc. But if Cooper
here was to give us half an hour head start, Jack,
you'd never catch it. Where's your good Saints?

Speaker 4 (02:03:57):
If Cooper's taking all this trouble to bring us this far,
you think he's going to take a chance of losing
us for the funnel plane some one hand of poker.

Speaker 1 (02:04:05):
Oh, I'll release you and give you a full half
hour head snot?

Speaker 2 (02:04:09):
You think you will? Jack? Probably, But there's a catch
in it. Well, all I want to do is get free.
I think my chance is on the rest.

Speaker 1 (02:04:16):
He seems very certain of winning the poker hands.

Speaker 2 (02:04:19):
Of course I'll win, Ain't I told you I'm good
at poker? What you say? Jack?

Speaker 1 (02:04:24):
No, positively, Reggie, absolutely not.

Speaker 2 (02:04:28):
Well there you are, Cooper.

Speaker 1 (02:04:30):
You mean you've decided not to play two game three?

Speaker 2 (02:04:33):
Majority rules of this outfit? Too bad?

Speaker 1 (02:04:35):
Apparently your two companions having the faith in your ability
as a poker player that you have.

Speaker 2 (02:04:40):
Hey, is that what you folks mean? You don't think
I can beat this ten horn?

Speaker 4 (02:04:44):
No, we don't mean you couldn't beat it. We're saying
it's a trick and you've got everything to lose and
nothing to get.

Speaker 1 (02:04:51):
You're saying my good faith.

Speaker 2 (02:04:53):
I'm saying your good faith is only good as far
as it meets your convenience. Now, then if you'll release
us from these chairs. Take us to our room. I'd
like to get some rest.

Speaker 1 (02:05:02):
Yeah, I steel think you never had a thought in
your life.

Speaker 2 (02:05:05):
You want to play that? Have a potra, just to
show off. I'll shut up about it. Hey, fella, you
can't talk to.

Speaker 1 (02:05:11):
Me like that, Sure, I say, Doc, we're all a
bit on the nervy side tonight. Let's just drop the
whole business.

Speaker 2 (02:05:18):
Well dead, blame it anyway, Cooper.

Speaker 4 (02:05:20):
Will you stop fumbling with these cards and take us
into our bedroom.

Speaker 2 (02:05:24):
Oh, certainly, certainly. I'm sorry for all this unpleasantness. Let
it go.

Speaker 1 (02:05:30):
I'll have to go call them in.

Speaker 2 (02:05:32):
We'll go call them.

Speaker 1 (02:05:33):
Eh, too bad, Too bad yourself. I'm afraid I've tried
your patience too far.

Speaker 2 (02:05:40):
Doc. Yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (02:05:42):
But you didn't get the full significance of what he
was saying. There was murder mixed up in that conversation.

Speaker 2 (02:05:48):
Hey what you talking about? I know it.

Speaker 4 (02:05:50):
I saw it in his face.

Speaker 1 (02:05:52):
I say, watch out, somebody's outside the door.

Speaker 2 (02:05:54):
Hey it's Linda.

Speaker 7 (02:05:57):
He mustn't catch me here. But don't ever do that again.
Don't ever ever do that again.

Speaker 4 (02:06:04):
What do you meaning to do?

Speaker 7 (02:06:06):
It's just the chance he was looking for.

Speaker 2 (02:06:08):
Watch out, Ra, him.

Speaker 5 (02:06:41):
carlton E. Morse, Scripts copyrighted by Morsel COO Incorporated. Produced

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as Jack Packard and Tony Clay as Doc. Long consultants
Frank Brazy and David Lloyd. You're announcer, Fred Foyd. This

(02:07:29):
Carltony Morris audio novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie specialist
a missing millionaire, a killer Cougar, and the Phantom Castle.

(02:08:10):
Les Tremaine and Tony Clay in an original Carlton Morse thriller,
The Fear.

Speaker 4 (02:08:21):
That Creeps Like a Cat.

Speaker 5 (02:08:37):
Five o'clock in the evening, in a motor launch among
the Pacific Northwest Islands, somewhere off the coast of Canada, Jack,
Doc and Reggie began this million dollar man hunt in
an attempt to find Alexander Archer. Yesterday morning, they were
taken prisoners by the Cooper Gang and transported across the
border into Canada by horses. Last night, they rested at

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an isolated cabin with Richard Cooper, Linda Joyce, and five
other members of the gang all day to day. Their
horseback trip continued until an hour ago when they came
down to the edge of the Pacific. Here they were
loaded into a launch, and for the last hour they
have been cruising through the innumerable uninhabited islands which mark

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this portion of the coastline.

Speaker 16 (02:09:28):
Oh there, mister Cooper, Linda, conform.

Speaker 2 (02:09:32):
And see what track you want shere Whna.

Speaker 1 (02:09:34):
We're getting close to our destination chartly now and you'll
be rid of these handcuffs.

Speaker 2 (02:09:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:09:40):
But what's a word mean now is if this here
launch you get wrecked or something with us handcuffed through
the rail.

Speaker 1 (02:09:46):
No danger to that, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (02:09:47):
You just the same.

Speaker 6 (02:09:49):
If it should happen, we're gone Goslins.

Speaker 1 (02:09:51):
And no two ways about it. I say. The thing
that interests me, I've never realized before how many islands
there were off this part of the coast. We've passed
so many I've lost counts.

Speaker 2 (02:10:02):
Oh yes, hundreds of them, hundreds of them.

Speaker 1 (02:10:05):
They got white folks on them, Oh, dear me, now, no, no,
most of them uninhabited, some have never known the presence
of white man.

Speaker 2 (02:10:13):
Mister Cooper.

Speaker 7 (02:10:14):
Well, Linda, Frankie says, we're an extreme high tide. We
can make it through the outer reef.

Speaker 2 (02:10:18):
Now if you're ready, Oh, certainly, certainly. What's you waiting
for for your orders? Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:10:23):
Yes, of course, of course.

Speaker 2 (02:10:25):
Tell him to go ahead?

Speaker 7 (02:10:26):
Hi, thank you?

Speaker 16 (02:10:28):
Yeah, what's he saying?

Speaker 7 (02:10:29):
Go ahead, take us through it. That's as possible.

Speaker 16 (02:10:32):
All right, hold on to your hats. Here we go.

Speaker 2 (02:10:35):
What's he mean?

Speaker 3 (02:10:36):
Here we go?

Speaker 1 (02:10:37):
We're going to cross the reef quite rough for a
few minutes. Unfortunately, you gentlemen out here on deck er
gat to get wet.

Speaker 2 (02:10:45):
What about you? Linda and I will go down into
the cabin and leave us three out here handcuffed through
the rail. I'm afraid it's necessary. There's consideration for you,
great hi Jack.

Speaker 4 (02:10:56):
If we're crossing a week and that must be the
island we're heading for over there, Yes.

Speaker 1 (02:11:01):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (02:11:01):
Another five minutes and we'll be in.

Speaker 16 (02:11:05):
Come Linder.

Speaker 7 (02:11:06):
It's beginning to get slopper, see you boys after the flood.

Speaker 6 (02:11:09):
Huh, how do you like them apples. We're going to
get a duck in and we just got to stand here,
handcuffed to the rail and take it. Well, there's one thing, yeah,
what we're apparently penetrating right into the heart of the
Cooper gang strongfold. We're penetrating in, all right, But I
was going to be able to penetrate out a year.

Speaker 2 (02:11:27):
I think you've got something there, Doc, that depends a
lot on what we find on this island. Dimension.

Speaker 6 (02:11:32):
Just remember, we ain't the first folks to be brought
on this island, and we got Cooper's word for it
that nobody that's ever come here has ever left it. Hey,
there's rocks are sticking out of the water.

Speaker 2 (02:11:43):
Look out there we go in the face. Well, handcuffs
to the rail with me. We won't be walking over
the look out. Here we go again.

Speaker 4 (02:12:02):
Well that's all we're inside of me.

Speaker 1 (02:12:05):
I say, Notice how quickly the water grows calm Again,
we seem to be in a sort of a lagoon.

Speaker 2 (02:12:11):
Well, I don't mind telling you.

Speaker 6 (02:12:12):
I could wring out my clothes and start a good
size ocean of mile.

Speaker 2 (02:12:16):
We're all in the same pigs there, Doc.

Speaker 6 (02:12:19):
What is there about me and water? Any of it
in miles and it either gets on me or I
fall in it.

Speaker 2 (02:12:24):
We're just the same. I prefer this to riding a horse.

Speaker 1 (02:12:27):
I say, don't even mention ourses from the seat of
my pants to the top of my shoes.

Speaker 2 (02:12:33):
I'm one long.

Speaker 6 (02:12:33):
Blistering If you think there's this oalt waters are doing
and blisters any good man? Oh man, if you like
the seat and my pants are on fire.

Speaker 2 (02:12:41):
Listen, listen to This may be the only chance you'll
get to talk together long, I say, you think they'll
separate us. I don't know what will happen when we
get on the I all I know is that Richard
Cooper is.

Speaker 4 (02:12:52):
Very dangerous man, and I want both of you. Will
promise me to watch your step?

Speaker 2 (02:12:56):
Right?

Speaker 4 (02:12:56):
Oh, especially you got everything.

Speaker 2 (02:12:59):
You say tagging Mysy just don't fought.

Speaker 1 (02:13:02):
So much well out.

Speaker 2 (02:13:04):
I'd advise you to for your own safety.

Speaker 1 (02:13:07):
But Jack, what's it all about? Do you think Cooper's
bringing us to this island has anything to do with
our search for Alexander Archer?

Speaker 2 (02:13:14):
Yes, it's all tied together some way. In fact, I
wouldn't be at all surprised if Archer is on this island. Hey,
then if we can escape from here with Archer. My
job's done.

Speaker 4 (02:13:24):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (02:13:25):
Dark Huh what you mean? Here we are being brought
to the island in handcuffs, and already you've not only
got us free, but escaping with Archer. Well, ain't that idea?
You're the kind of a nigg who turns.

Speaker 4 (02:13:36):
Back and looks at the answer before he's even read
the problem.

Speaker 6 (02:13:39):
And another thing, I'm wondering about what you suppose, PRINCEI
and Marie think about our disappearing from Port Forrest.

Speaker 2 (02:13:45):
They probably think we've run out of them. I say,
do you think they'll be worried and called the police?
I hope that's what they'll do, but I doubt it.
They don't know enough about what we were injured.

Speaker 1 (02:13:54):
Well, they was hid by the insurance company to take
us to Port Forest. Won't they report back that we
disappeared right we got there?

Speaker 2 (02:14:00):
I hope so.

Speaker 4 (02:14:01):
But Frenchy looked to me like a pretty irresponsible old culture.

Speaker 2 (02:14:05):
Watch it here comes Cooper, all nice and dry. Here
we are wet as drowned rats. I remember when I said,
dunk hold your tongue.

Speaker 1 (02:14:12):
Well, gentlemen, well you appear to have come through with
no ill effects.

Speaker 2 (02:14:18):
Yes, yes, the wedding was just what we needed to
wet our appetite.

Speaker 1 (02:14:22):
Well, don't take that too seriously, Linda. Yes, bring up
that bottle of brandy out of the cabin. I drop
a brandy. We'll rod off the cold three or four
minutes low, and we will have you out of this
and into.

Speaker 2 (02:14:37):
Some dry clothes, still the good hopes. Yes, I pride
myself on it. I got my own opinions.

Speaker 1 (02:14:44):
And man, I find your personality very distasteful. Oh you
dock well dad blasted.

Speaker 2 (02:14:51):
Shut up, Jack. I swear to my grandpa if I don't,
if you don't stop talking so much personally, ring your neck.

Speaker 1 (02:14:58):
A most unfortunate young man. Just listening to his voice
sets my nerves on edge.

Speaker 2 (02:15:03):
So you'd have a very unfortunate time of it in
the state of Texas. Is that what it is?

Speaker 1 (02:15:08):
If I say, Cooper, isn't your pilot taking a bit
of a chance. What's there?

Speaker 2 (02:15:13):
Well, heading is straight for those rocks on the shoreline.
He knows what he's saying. You wanted a bottle of brandy, Oh, Lindy, Yes, yes,
give each of them a drink. They find it a
bit chilling.

Speaker 7 (02:15:25):
Say you do look like well, dunk donuts.

Speaker 1 (02:15:29):
Their hands are occupied. You'll have to hold it for them.

Speaker 4 (02:15:33):
Sure, here dak looks like a pretty dense forest on
the island.

Speaker 1 (02:15:38):
Yes, yes, it's all heavily wounded, mister, I say, thanks.

Speaker 2 (02:15:42):
Is that week we crossed all around the island?

Speaker 17 (02:15:45):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:15:45):
Yes, we're well protected from boats? Well we crossed. Is
the only place a boat can get through, and then
only at high tide.

Speaker 2 (02:15:52):
What do you mean protecting here? Watch?

Speaker 1 (02:15:55):
Am I to see something very interesting in a moment?

Speaker 2 (02:15:58):
I asked, what you meant protectic? Oh did I say that?

Speaker 1 (02:16:03):
Thanks my pleasure, I say, look what's happening. We're running
right into the interior of the island.

Speaker 16 (02:16:10):
I thought that would surprise you.

Speaker 2 (02:16:12):
Where will you look at that? A don't go river?

Speaker 1 (02:16:15):
Oh, not much of a river, but deep enough to
take this launch inland quite a distance.

Speaker 7 (02:16:20):
Well, we're almost there now.

Speaker 2 (02:16:22):
Don't go on.

Speaker 6 (02:16:23):
You look at us chugging up a river with trees
as tall as churches hanging right over us.

Speaker 1 (02:16:28):
I say, beautiful. I certainly do. I've heard about the
natural beauty of the Northwest. But Joey, what's there? Oh
that's frommetheus. I've got him locked up down in the cabin.

Speaker 2 (02:16:43):
You brought him along. Oh, yes, he knows we're almost home.
I was hoping we'd left him behind.

Speaker 1 (02:16:49):
No, no, no, not from atheus.

Speaker 7 (02:16:51):
He's my right hand man right here on the island,
right around the next curve.

Speaker 2 (02:16:55):
It's what a landing pair? Is that what you mean? When? Why? Why?

Speaker 4 (02:17:01):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (02:17:01):
Of course?

Speaker 2 (02:17:03):
Jack. Do you smell something queer? Yeah? I do.

Speaker 1 (02:17:07):
I've smelled it before, raw wild. I say, mountain lions.

Speaker 2 (02:17:14):
Hey, you've got mountain lions on this island too.

Speaker 1 (02:17:16):
A few Linda. Tell Frankly to tie up at the
lower dock.

Speaker 7 (02:17:21):
Frankie, oh yeah, tie up at the lower dock.

Speaker 16 (02:17:26):
All right, I get it.

Speaker 1 (02:17:28):
Right around the ben, gentlemen, is our destination. And here
we go around.

Speaker 2 (02:17:33):
But this here mountain lion business, mister long.

Speaker 1 (02:17:36):
Yeah, isn't it obvious that the matter is closed?

Speaker 2 (02:17:39):
Maybe it's closed to you?

Speaker 4 (02:17:41):
Not for the love of Mike, where's your goodsits hurt?

Speaker 2 (02:17:44):
Well?

Speaker 6 (02:17:45):
All right, have it your way. Here we are around
the bend. I don't see nothing.

Speaker 1 (02:17:49):
I say, you don't see anything. Jack.

Speaker 2 (02:17:53):
Will you look at that stone castle?

Speaker 1 (02:17:56):
A bit medieval, but we find it very comfortable. Tell
frank to cut the engines.

Speaker 2 (02:18:01):
Linda cut the engines, Franky, Okay, all right, wait you
go consoled.

Speaker 4 (02:18:07):
This out of the world island.

Speaker 1 (02:18:09):
The story of how it got here is almost as
amazing as the first sight of it. I must tell
it to you sometime. Hey, that mountain lion smells strong.
Whenever Linda tell.

Speaker 24 (02:18:18):
Frank to come here, hik, mister Cooper wants you, you
better come and take the helm man.

Speaker 2 (02:18:24):
All right, we're jefting in, Doc, I want you. Huh,
what's the matter?

Speaker 16 (02:18:30):
Why do you want? Mister Cooper?

Speaker 25 (02:18:32):
Put a gag in that man's mouth. Hey, listen, I
shut up off and at your mouth. You don't, oh,
I say, I'll hold you all right.

Speaker 2 (02:18:44):
Now, jump up on the pier and tie us up.

Speaker 25 (02:18:47):
Ah, two jakes, Jack, did you ever see a more
desolate pile of stone?

Speaker 2 (02:18:51):
Does? Looking more like a jay over the house. It's
impressive there there she is.

Speaker 16 (02:18:57):
Give me a hand, mister Cooper.

Speaker 1 (02:18:58):
As soon as I'm up, bring up those three men.

Speaker 7 (02:19:02):
Listen to me, Lind humor him if you want to
stay alive, Yes, as long as he finds you entertaining
your safe, Doc, I'm afraid there isn't any hope for him.
I'm crazy even to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (02:19:16):
Watch out, Linda, Yes, release tell me this before you
come up.

Speaker 7 (02:19:21):
All right, that's all.

Speaker 8 (02:19:24):
Be smart, Jeff, What does she mean?

Speaker 2 (02:19:29):
He comes fright? Say? Well, you tell that Linda woman
to keep away from us. Oh what's the matter her
smart cracks about us being getting him? Quite?

Speaker 1 (02:19:38):
What kind of a she thing is she?

Speaker 2 (02:19:41):
Anyway?

Speaker 16 (02:19:42):
Why don't you care? You'll be just.

Speaker 2 (02:19:46):
Watch? Oh you think so?

Speaker 16 (02:19:49):
Yeah? Sure, got your gun out of mister Cooper.

Speaker 2 (02:19:53):
Yes, yes, go ahead, all right, and as I like
you from the rail, put your hands behind it.

Speaker 1 (02:19:59):
SA, Yes, I'm behind you now Ye're next Texas.

Speaker 2 (02:20:07):
Behind you.

Speaker 7 (02:20:09):
It comes from me?

Speaker 16 (02:20:09):
This who come here?

Speaker 2 (02:20:11):
From me? This? Heal? Heal?

Speaker 16 (02:20:15):
All right, that's all of you. Hop up from the dick.

Speaker 1 (02:20:19):
Go ahead, gentlemen, we have arrived. Now on You are
my guests in the Phantom Castle. This castle sank into
the ocean two centuries ago and no longer exists.

Speaker 5 (02:21:06):
you in I Love, a Mystery created and written by
Carlton E. Morse, Scripts copyrighted by Morsel Coo Incorporated, Produced

(02:21:27):
Frank Brazzy and David Lloyd. You're announcer, Fred Foy. This

(02:21:53):
Carlton E Morse audio novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie
specialist in crime. I'm an adventure now following the Northwest
trail of a missing millionaire, a Killer Cougar and the
Phantom Castle. This is Fred Foy in producing Jim Harmon's

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presentation of Les Tremaine and Tony Clay in an original
Carton Morse thriller, The Fear That Creeps Like a Cat

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six o'clock in the evening in the Phantom Castle, on
one of the myriads of tiny islands off the west
coast of Canada, Jack, Doc and Reggie's million dollar man
hunt in an attempt to find Alexander Archer has ended
with the three of them prisoners of Richard Cooper and
his gang. The three have vanished from the outside world,

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exactly as other investigators who have hunted Alexander Archer have vanished.
The minute they arrived. Their handcuffs were struck off and
they were escorted to a huge, musty chamber that apparently
is to be their quarters.

Speaker 2 (02:23:41):
It's utterly and ridiculously impossible.

Speaker 1 (02:23:44):
Ha yag, Well you should all come over here look
at this.

Speaker 2 (02:23:48):
Yeah, you should come over here and look at this. Okay,
what you found? Look at those windows? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:23:55):
All the winners is bar just the same way.

Speaker 2 (02:23:57):
I don't mean the bars.

Speaker 4 (02:23:58):
Look at the architecture, how they're built.

Speaker 1 (02:24:00):
What you mean what I know about architecture.

Speaker 2 (02:24:02):
No, I don't know very much myself. But if this
council doesn't typically Russian architecture of the early seventeen hundreds,
Huh when did you say? I said early seventeen hundred?

Speaker 6 (02:24:12):
Yeah, that's what I thought. What was the Russians doing
over here off the coast of Canada and seventeen hundred.

Speaker 2 (02:24:17):
Out of I know? Besides, it wasn't Canada in those days. Yeah,
it was nothing in seventeen hundred, I mean, nothing but
red Indian, that's right. So why would Russians go and
build a big castle like this here? I don't know
where's Reggie? I don't know, Hi, Reggie? Hello? There? Where
you at coming? He's a comer, you know, Jack, listen

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to huh listen how Reggie's footsteps ring just walking naturally. Yeah,
should be hard sneaking up on a fella in here,
these great chambers that do it.

Speaker 1 (02:24:48):
Jack, This is really amazing this place.

Speaker 2 (02:24:50):
Jack, were just saying this was built back in seventeen hundred.
Well it's certainly been redone since then.

Speaker 4 (02:24:56):
Everything but sits bads and electric lights.

Speaker 6 (02:24:58):
Yeah, they got vent out here for hot air furnaces.
Wonder why they didn't put in electricity as long as
they was going modern on everything else.

Speaker 2 (02:25:07):
Hey, what was that one of Richard Cooper's bad couger's
enough to chill yourmorrow? Well apparently he has them penned
up all over the island, so we'll probably here a
great deal of them. You know.

Speaker 6 (02:25:17):
I'm getting so I can't stand Mountain Lions. Every time
I even mentioned him around Cooper, he slaps another gag
in my mouth, which brings up.

Speaker 2 (02:25:24):
Something I want to talk about.

Speaker 1 (02:25:26):
Yeah, why is Cooper so touchy about his pet cougar?

Speaker 2 (02:25:28):
No, it's about you. I want to talk about me. Yes, Doc,
you've antagonized Cooper to the point where you're in real danger.
No more danger than you too, amm, I more immediate danger.
You heard Linda Joyce whisper to me just before we
were brought in here.

Speaker 1 (02:25:45):
That we were safe so long as we amused Cooper exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:25:49):
Well, Doc, you've annoyed him from the start. So whatever
danger there is, you're facing it first. What kind of danger? Oh,
what's he gonna do? Shoot me?

Speaker 6 (02:25:57):
Stab me in the back if I had some eya.

Speaker 2 (02:26:01):
We're not entirely blind to what's going on. What do
you mean what one thing stands out about everything else?

Speaker 1 (02:26:07):
Absolute isolation from the world, mountainin.

Speaker 2 (02:26:10):
You're both right and there you are. Huh. I don't
get it.

Speaker 1 (02:26:15):
Woh oh oh, I wish he wouldn't do that.

Speaker 2 (02:26:22):
These are the factor We've been kidnapped and brought an
island of which the world is utterly unaware. It seems
that other men have been brought here and have never
been heard of again. You have given me goosebumps, But
go on. Our captor Richard Cooper is a highly intelligent man.
He claims great interest in the psychology and philosophy of medicine.
He has numerous mountain lions and cages, about which he

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maintained the strictest secrecy. Yeah we know all that, Jack,
But what's that got to do with me. What's my danger?

Speaker 4 (02:26:51):
I think he gave a clue to it last night
of the Halfway.

Speaker 2 (02:26:54):
Kevin, Huh, clue of what's going to happen to me?

Speaker 4 (02:26:57):
Yes, you remember him wanting you to play a hand Cooper.

Speaker 2 (02:27:00):
Yeah, and if you're lost, you were to lend yourself
to an experiment for the advancement of science.

Speaker 1 (02:27:05):
Hey, but look here, Jack, you mean Cooper is using
these mountain lions for scientific research, and.

Speaker 2 (02:27:12):
You can see for yourself that they're an important part
of Cooper's life.

Speaker 6 (02:27:16):
If he's a scientist, and you think he wants to
mess me into his cougar experiments, Doc.

Speaker 2 (02:27:21):
I really don't know.

Speaker 6 (02:27:23):
I'm supposing something like holding a stopwatch to see how
long it takes a hungry coogar to chow up and
swallow a red headed fella from Texas. He wants to
give me one of them big cat's brain, So I'll
go around yowling in a spitting dark preda. Well, you
brought the subject up, said, Cooper wants me for an experiment. Oh, Doc,
you don't think I'm looking forward to having Cooper with
a law me, do you?

Speaker 2 (02:27:42):
Will? You take it easy and listen, Doc, we're all
in the same boat. Whatever is in store for you
is probably in store for us at a later date.
That's a comfort. That is, unless we can find some
way of fighting our way out of it.

Speaker 6 (02:27:55):
But we couldn't break out of here, Jack, now if
we had pig axes in twenty years to do it,
not if you had thirty years.

Speaker 2 (02:28:02):
Hey Cooper, Hey Cooper, where'd you pop up from?

Speaker 1 (02:28:06):
Does it matter? I'm here?

Speaker 4 (02:28:08):
I saw you come here, silly trapdoor business.

Speaker 2 (02:28:11):
Yes, peckard, I didn't suppose you'd be impressed. What do
you want?

Speaker 1 (02:28:15):
Why you are my guests? I came up to bring
you down to our evening meal.

Speaker 2 (02:28:20):
You mean word? Free?

Speaker 1 (02:28:21):
To descend the stairs and sit down to your table?
Free men, of course, of course? And what did you
expect of this place?

Speaker 2 (02:28:29):
I reckon you throw some scraping through the bars for
us long?

Speaker 1 (02:28:33):
If I allow you at my table, I must ask
you to keep quiet.

Speaker 2 (02:28:36):
Now what have I said?

Speaker 1 (02:28:38):
I simply despise hearing your voice.

Speaker 2 (02:28:41):
Well, I'll be an over fair hipponocerous doc showing you down?

Speaker 1 (02:28:50):
Then, gentlemen, isn't that that.

Speaker 2 (02:28:53):
Half dog half wolf howling? Yes, that's for me.

Speaker 1 (02:28:57):
It is we time up at meal time? He resents it.
That wasn't your Oh no, no, that wasn't Prometheus. Wait
a moment while I unlocked his door. That fellow seems

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to be a trifle hungry. All right, gentlemen, wait for me. Please,
we'll all go down together. Now follow me, please.

Speaker 2 (02:29:39):
This is rather remarkable, Cooper. What's to prevent us from
turning on you and making you our prisoner? Oh no,
why not?

Speaker 1 (02:29:46):
In the first place, men with loaded rifles are watching you,
will continue to watch you, except when you're locked up
in your own quarters.

Speaker 2 (02:29:57):
Hey, that sounds sally. I spotted one more already.

Speaker 1 (02:30:01):
That's the immediate reason why it would be foolish to
attack me. Now, then, gentlemen, down these stairs if you please,
like a dog gone palace. The next reason for restraining
yourselves is that you could not get out of this
castle if you were free to dry.

Speaker 17 (02:30:21):
Why not.

Speaker 1 (02:30:23):
There's a deep moat completely encircling the castle. The only
means of exit is the drawbridge by which we arrived.
All right, then we'd use the drawbridge.

Speaker 2 (02:30:34):
No, no, no, no, you'd never do that. Why not?

Speaker 1 (02:30:38):
No, no, don't ask me to expand on the reason.
My little secret if you will, but I assure you
you'll never use the drawbridge without my consent. Well that
was a dog gone lot of marble steps, if you
ask me. Yes, that's all of them. Now this way
into the dinner hall. I think Linda has a throw

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rubber too in her quarters, that's all. And beautiful old
tile floors, why should they be covered?

Speaker 2 (02:31:10):
But don't you get a little tired of the click
and clamber up feet?

Speaker 1 (02:31:13):
All the servants wear rubber soled.

Speaker 2 (02:31:16):
You won't hear them here here we.

Speaker 1 (02:31:19):
Are, Well, what you know that's not we're gonna eat anyway.
N Yes, Now, if you'll range yourselves around the board
packered on my right fleees, just pull out the benches
and be seated. Ah there now you go right ahead.

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Oh you'll find the soup delicious.

Speaker 2 (02:31:44):
Just smell that. We you are ready quite eat hotly.
I like to see that. And while you're so doing,
I'll return to the matter of your escape. Yes do
Even if you.

Speaker 1 (02:31:56):
Were free of the castle and loose on the island,
you would not get away, you think, Nah, huh.

Speaker 2 (02:32:03):
I know.

Speaker 1 (02:32:05):
It's been tried before, numerous times before. What's stopped them
the reef that completely encircles the island, a boat would
be dished to pieces. A swimmer I would meet the
same fate. But see here, Cooper, your man Frank brought
us through in the launch. Yes, there's one place at
high tide, but I defy you to find it. Well,

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I bet you I could come pretty close to it
if I had to pretty close. Is not close enough?
It's certain death, and I'm warning you against trying.

Speaker 2 (02:32:35):
It, Cooper. This castle? Is it as old as it
appears to be? Yes, early eighteenth century? Then why doesn't
the world know about it?

Speaker 1 (02:32:46):
The world forgot about it nearly two hundred years ago
when it sank into the ocean.

Speaker 2 (02:32:52):
You're really being serious about them, rse. It's the truth.

Speaker 1 (02:32:55):
Less than fifty years after this castle was completed by
a Russian Noblemindian Islands sank castle, and all for this
history to prove that. But when did it reappear? I
don't know when I first saw it, about thirty five
years ago. Here it was a great ruin, entirely covered
with mold and vins.

Speaker 4 (02:33:16):
Thirty five years you've known about this place.

Speaker 1 (02:33:18):
Ah, Yes, another man and I discovered it on a
fishing trip. We saw its possibilities and immediately set to
work restoring it with numerous modern facilities. Cooper, yes, you
said there were two of you. Oh, yes, that's right.
Of course, we had the help of many dependable men.

Speaker 2 (02:33:37):
And I'm only interested in this other man. Was he
was he Alexander Archer by any chance?

Speaker 15 (02:33:46):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:33:46):
Yes, now you mentioned it?

Speaker 1 (02:33:48):
It was?

Speaker 6 (02:33:49):
Hey, fella, if Arches half on off this here castle, hiatt,
miss Long, but dog go on it.

Speaker 2 (02:33:54):
Archer must be right here in this castle.

Speaker 1 (02:33:56):
Now, don't make it necessary for me to gag you
before the three years over? But Cooper, what's so out
of the way about that? What Long said was perfectly obvious.

Speaker 2 (02:34:06):
It's obvious for Alexander Archers in this castle.

Speaker 1 (02:34:09):
Yes, and I detest hearing the obvious. Express Jack.

Speaker 2 (02:34:14):
Then we've found Archer. You didn't find him. I've brought
you to him. Still, we found him.

Speaker 1 (02:34:23):
Several other insurance investigators had the same honor, but I'm
afraid it did.

Speaker 2 (02:34:28):
Them little good. I wonder if you're telling the truth,
mister Packard. I don't lie. I want to see Archer
with my own eyes. Would you know him?

Speaker 1 (02:34:37):
If you saw him?

Speaker 2 (02:34:38):
I would? Hm? Well, when do I see it?

Speaker 1 (02:34:43):
I am afraid that's impossible. Why Alexander Archer is a
very sick man. I don't think he's going to last
much longer sick, but Jack, if he dies, then the
insurance company is out the million dollar. Yes, yes, yes,
I'm afraid my old friend has it much chance?

Speaker 2 (02:35:05):
Are you murdering Alexander Roger?

Speaker 1 (02:35:08):
Oh, dear, dear, dear, such unpleasant conversation?

Speaker 6 (02:35:12):
Will you admit doing away with him? Insurance investigators?

Speaker 2 (02:35:14):
Don't you?

Speaker 1 (02:35:16):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:35:16):
Long, I'm afraid I do what happened to him? What'd
you do to him?

Speaker 1 (02:35:22):
The same thing that's going to happen to you very
shortly now, my talk to friend.

Speaker 5 (02:36:01):
carlton E. Morse, Scripts copyrighted by Morselco Incorporated, Produced and
directed by story editor Jim Harmon, featuring Les Tremaine as

(02:36:23):
Jack Packard and Tony Clay as Doc Long consultants Frank
Brezzy and David Lloyd. You're announcer, Fred Foy. This presentation
has come from Hollywood. I Love a Mystery, a Carltony

(02:36:50):
Morse audio novel featuring Jack Doc and Reggie specialist in
crime and adventure. Now following the Northwest trail of a
missing Millionaire, a killer Cougar, and the Phantom Castle. This

(02:37:31):
is Fred Foy in producing Jim Harmon's presentation of Les
Tremaine and Tony Clay in an original Carton Morse thriller The.

Speaker 4 (02:37:41):
Fear That Creeps like a Cat.

Speaker 5 (02:38:03):
Seven o'clock at night in the Great reception Room of
the Phantom Castle on an unidentified island somewhere off the
west coast of Canada, Jack, Doc and Reggie are prisoners
of Richard Cooper. Here are the essential facts. The castle,
built in seventeen hundred by the Russians, sank with the island,
only to emerge from the sea some hundred and fifty

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years later. It was found and restored by Richard Cooper
and Alexander Archer. Unbeknownst to the world, about the island
is a vicious reef, preventing any ship from approaching and
anyone on the island from escaping. Immediately about the castle
is a deep moat of swift water, so that the

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castle stands on a tiny island within the main island.
And here within these great rooms, the three comrades are prisoners.
Doc is in particular danger because he is disliked by Cooper,
and whom Cooper dislikes.

Speaker 4 (02:39:00):
He destroys.

Speaker 5 (02:39:14):
The tree win their captor host have just finished dinner
and have retired to the great Reception hall.

Speaker 2 (02:39:21):
Oh that was a very good dinner, Cooper, O, thank you,
thank you. How was it that Linda Joyce didn't dine
with us? Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:39:28):
She prefers to eat in her own quarters. Do sit down,
Sit down, all of you make yourselves comfortable. Look here,
did I see you just now press a button? That's right,
But that means electricity. Oh, yes, yes, we have our
own power plant a little bit in Congress, in an
ancient castle, I admit.

Speaker 2 (02:39:48):
But still we have it. And why not electric lives?
What's that you say? You got electricity? Why do you
have some electric lights there instead of these here smelly
oh lamps?

Speaker 1 (02:39:58):
I beg your pardon. They are not in the least smelly.

Speaker 6 (02:40:02):
Well, that's what my mama always used to say down
in Texas. She used to say, fairness, smelly, smoky, old lamp. Anyway,
I prefer the.

Speaker 1 (02:40:09):
Old fashioned virtues myself.

Speaker 2 (02:40:12):
You consider the oil lamp and old fashioned virtue.

Speaker 1 (02:40:15):
I will certainly do.

Speaker 26 (02:40:18):
Oh yes, just one thought, gentleman, for me, this, I
say that brutal of a wolf dog on God for
me this, just in.

Speaker 1 (02:40:28):
Case any of you, by taking into your heads that
you can avoid my hospitality.

Speaker 16 (02:40:33):
I won't be long.

Speaker 2 (02:40:35):
What's he mean? He won't be long? Where's he going?
I say?

Speaker 1 (02:40:38):
I wish that bloody beast would stop grinning in this direction.

Speaker 2 (02:40:41):
Prometheus, that's no grim.

Speaker 1 (02:40:44):
That's a leader looking at me with those bloodshot eyes.
Things like a bear.

Speaker 2 (02:40:49):
Yeah, more wolf and dog if you ask me. That
bell he wears on his collar is a fine bit
of irony in itself. Well, gentlemen, I haven't been any
longer than necessary. I hope you haven't been bored or
not in the least. Frankie, Oh sif a cat? Never
mind it? Okay, Frankie. Yeah, it's Cooper. You have the handcuffs. Handcuffs?

Speaker 1 (02:41:10):
Hey, yeah, here the I am Oh yes, that's very good. Now,
mister Packard, if you lay your wrists along.

Speaker 2 (02:41:17):
The arm of the chair, what's the idea, Cooper? I'm God, Prometheus,
what's the matter with you? Cooper? Tell that wolf to
lie down now.

Speaker 1 (02:41:24):
Prometheus stands ready until you're all handcuffed to your chairs.

Speaker 2 (02:41:28):
Bless ridiculous. You've shown us that we can't get out
of the castle, let alone off the island.

Speaker 6 (02:41:33):
That's right, then, why handcuffs to watch chairs? In due time,
mister packard, in due time your wrists please.

Speaker 2 (02:41:40):
I refuse to be handcuffed, Frankie. Yeah, why you low down?
Don't move? Look at that dog. Good thing you didn't.

Speaker 1 (02:41:48):
Move, mister long Promethea's would have been at your throat. Yeah,
don't go. Oh, yes, wells, thank you, Frankie.

Speaker 2 (02:41:56):
That's the second dirty blow you've given me. Frankie, my boy,
could the packager that call me never forget it's an
injury now then mister orclock and I could give him
a bit of a battle with that wolf standing over dunk.

Speaker 1 (02:42:09):
Yeah, one with his breath makes me weak at the knee.

Speaker 2 (02:42:12):
But at least we've got a fighting chance. Oh, you
save it.

Speaker 1 (02:42:16):
That's good advice, young man, good advice. Now the other
arm and that's it finally, Well, don't like it. I
can tell you that all right for me?

Speaker 2 (02:42:28):
This it's okay.

Speaker 1 (02:42:30):
Lie down now, and frank hey, bring that table with
the lamp.

Speaker 2 (02:42:36):
On it over here.

Speaker 6 (02:42:37):
Yeah, sure, he ain't you going to handcuff me the
same way you've done Jack and Reggie.

Speaker 1 (02:42:43):
Oh that's right, mister Long.

Speaker 2 (02:42:45):
Oh yeah, but but look here, why not?

Speaker 1 (02:42:49):
Aren't you enjoying your spatial privileges?

Speaker 2 (02:42:52):
That's it? Try put the table right down here between us.

Speaker 1 (02:42:57):
Yeah, look here, Cooper. I don't know what's going on,
but could I ask one favor?

Speaker 2 (02:43:02):
What s call off? Fat wolf dog?

Speaker 1 (02:43:04):
Just long enough for me to get one crack at
that polecat's mug?

Speaker 2 (02:43:08):
What about it? Trank is sure? Why not go ahead
of along?

Speaker 1 (02:43:14):
Nohing's holding you back?

Speaker 2 (02:43:15):
You mean that you won't stick that wolf on me? Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:43:18):
I promise, That's.

Speaker 2 (02:43:19):
All I want to know here, I come, come, come on?
What's why you come?

Speaker 16 (02:43:26):
Huh yeah, that's what I said?

Speaker 2 (02:43:28):
All right? You asked for Frankie, I got your feet,
got your feature here?

Speaker 1 (02:43:36):
How the heck's he gonna get to his feet when
he's sleeping like a baby? I say, doc, good work.
Well what do you think I was doing? Walking with him?

Speaker 2 (02:43:45):
This is interesting?

Speaker 1 (02:43:49):
Shit down?

Speaker 2 (02:43:49):
You about shit out?

Speaker 1 (02:43:50):
So why should I sit down?

Speaker 11 (02:43:51):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (02:43:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (02:43:53):
I just knocked out Frankie, didn't I it's gonna keep
me from treating you the same way.

Speaker 1 (02:43:57):
What is yeah? What is why Prometheus?

Speaker 2 (02:44:01):
Here? I think? Oh? Oh yeah, well I still Now
then will you sit down? Please? Yeah? Okay, sure?

Speaker 1 (02:44:12):
Now then, my boy, we're about to enjoy that little
hand of draw poker we missed out on last night poker.
Oh yes, and here are the cards.

Speaker 2 (02:44:22):
I'll wait a minute, Cooper.

Speaker 1 (02:44:23):
Quiet, packer, you're not concerning this.

Speaker 2 (02:44:25):
Just wait a minute, Cooper. I ain't said i'd play
you a game of poker. Oh but you will, of call,
I don't know whether I will or not. I think
you will.

Speaker 1 (02:44:34):
Now, then sit down and shuffle the cards while I
explain the wager.

Speaker 2 (02:44:39):
No, sir, I ain't touching him cards. Now hear what
we are playing for? It's to be draw poker.

Speaker 1 (02:44:45):
Yeah, you are scheduled to be a part of a
scientific experiment of mine. Don't listen to him, quiet, please,
there's no way out for you. You're my prisoner, and
I shall use you anyway.

Speaker 2 (02:44:57):
I see fit. What's that got to do with this
poker again?

Speaker 8 (02:45:00):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:45:00):
Just this?

Speaker 1 (02:45:01):
You're going to gamble with me on how soon the
experiment takes place?

Speaker 2 (02:45:05):
Do what? Yes? Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:45:08):
Instead of money, these poker chips represent hours hours.

Speaker 2 (02:45:12):
Huh twenty four chip twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (02:45:14):
Oh yes, at this moment, you are twenty four hours
away from your fate. Every chip you lose brings you
one hour closer to the experiment. Every chip you win
from me adds one hour.

Speaker 2 (02:45:29):
To your life. You mean, if I keep on a
winning ships from you, I keep adding hours to my life.
That's right.

Speaker 1 (02:45:35):
And when I went all the chips in front of you,
what happens. Oh I'm the banker. I can keep on
losing chips as long as it suits my uber.

Speaker 2 (02:45:45):
Or what we are waiting for. This is right down
my alley.

Speaker 1 (02:45:49):
Remember if you lose your stack, when those twenty four
chips are gone, it's the end.

Speaker 6 (02:45:56):
Start dealing the cards, Cooper, win, lose or' all. This
is going to be one rit Snawton Polka game.

Speaker 5 (02:46:30):

Speaker 11 (02:46:41):

Speaker 5 (02:46:43):
Morse, Scripts copyrighted by Morsel COO Incorporated, Produced and directed
by story editor Jim Harmon, featuring Les Tremaine as Jack
Packard and Tony Clay as Doc. Long consultants Frank Brazzy
and dab It Lloyd you're announcer Fred Foyd. This presentation

(02:47:04):
Morris audio novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie specialist in
crime and adventure. Now following the Northwest Rail of a

(02:47:29):
missing Millionaire, a killer Cougar and the Phantom Castle. This

(02:48:00):
Tremaine and Tony Clay in an original Carlton Morse.

Speaker 4 (02:48:09):
Thriller, The Fear That Creeps Like a Cat.

Speaker 5 (02:48:47):
Twelve o'clock Midnight and the Phantom Castle on an unidentified
island somewhere off the west coast of Canada, Jack, Doc
and Reggie are the prisoners of Richard Cooper, who has
hindered their search or Alexander Archer from the beginning.

Speaker 2 (02:49:03):
Now that he has brought the three comrades to.

Speaker 5 (02:49:05):
This ancient island castle, they have found out the following
Alexander Archer himself is apparently a prisoner in the castle also,
and at the moment very ill that no one brought
to this island by Cooper has ever left alive. That Cooper,
besides being interested in keeping the outside world from finding Archer,

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is engrossed in some kind of scientific problems which have
to do with experimenting with mountain lions and human beings.
And finally that Cooper enjoys playing with his victims as
a cat enjoys playing with a mouse. Witness the manner
in which he is working on the nerves and emotions
of the three comrades.

Speaker 1 (02:49:55):
Yeah, they're inside with you, but Jack, take.

Speaker 2 (02:49:58):
It easy, Reggie, come on, good night. Well here we
are ready back upstairs in our own special dungeon. Might
we call this a dungeon? Though? Three or four rooms?
His biggest bonds with all modern convenience.

Speaker 1 (02:50:19):
But what about Doc?

Speaker 2 (02:50:20):
Well, what about him? He's downstairs playing poker with Cooper.

Speaker 1 (02:50:24):
But it doesn't make sense. Nothing makes sense around here.
Why did he keep us chain to our chairs down
there from eight until midnight while he and Doc played poker?

Speaker 2 (02:50:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:50:34):
And why did he suddenly decide he didn't want us
about anymore? Why did he order Frankie to bring us
back up here to our rooms while he and Doc.

Speaker 2 (02:50:43):
Went on playing poker. I don't know that either.

Speaker 1 (02:50:46):
I don't know what's the matter with me, Jack, But
I'm afraid what I don't know if I could only
find out, if I only knew. But you sensed, Jack,
don't you. Yes, of course there's real actual danger here.
That's the reason we can't afford to lose our heads.
I don't know what's the matter. I've never felt like

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this before in my life, the sort of a creeping horror.

Speaker 2 (02:51:09):
Come on over here, sit down on the bed, Go ahead,
sit up, quite well, let's try to get to the
bottom of this thing. There's reason behind what's going on here,
a sinister reason perhaps, but nevertheless a good sound reason.

Speaker 1 (02:51:25):
Of course, we started out in search of Alexander Archer,
and this is Cooper's.

Speaker 2 (02:51:29):
Way of stopping us. No, it's more than that. We've
had proof that Cooper doesn't gag at murder.

Speaker 4 (02:51:36):
So if he simply wanted to stop our search for Archer,
why didn't he kill us in Port Forest?

Speaker 2 (02:51:41):
No? No, No, there's something more. The man's insane, in
my opinion, No he's not. No, Cooper's deadly saying. Matter
of think he's so saying. Listening pits, they're part of something.
He's doing, something that's very important in his life. If
we could find out what that is. I don't like

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it here.

Speaker 1 (02:52:03):
I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (02:52:05):
Listen, Let's analyze what Cooper's done to us so far.
Let's see if it doesn't make sense somewhere. Quite, I
know I'm acting like a bloody blighter. First, he kidnaps
us and goes to a great deal of pains to
make sure we're completely disappeared out of the world.

Speaker 1 (02:52:20):
Quite, we're as non existent as Jake Simms body after
Frankie threw him in the underground River.

Speaker 2 (02:52:25):
That's number one he's made us feel utterly in his power.
Not number two. He brought us to a heavily wooded
island in the midst of which is this great, evil
looking medieval castle.

Speaker 1 (02:52:36):
Phantom Castle sank two centuries ago and then arose after
lying on the bottom of the ocean all those years.

Speaker 2 (02:52:42):
So he says, I want more proof than his word.
He says, there's a history, no matter where it's been
the last two hundred years. The matter of its presence
here in this wilderness is too fantastic. We're not only
lost to the world, but we've been plunged into a
well light Mary's fairy leg land.

Speaker 1 (02:53:01):
Of monsters, screaming panthers, great wolf dog with bloodshot eyes
and wicked fangs. Old man Cooper playing with us like
a cat when a mouse there, You hit the key
to the whole business.

Speaker 2 (02:53:14):
He's a sort of god in this world. We're merely
something to amuse him. He can poke us with his
finger and watch us wriggle when he's tired, crush us
under his heel. But that's mania. Jack wanting to be
god to subjugate his fellows, that's insanity.

Speaker 4 (02:53:31):
He likes to dominate, yes, but his real purpose is
something else, something scientific.

Speaker 2 (02:53:36):
Haven't you noticed how he keeps recurring to the advancement
of silence.

Speaker 1 (02:53:40):
You mean in connection with Doc.

Speaker 4 (02:53:42):
Well, he's fixed his attention on Doc right now.

Speaker 1 (02:53:44):
Yes, that crazy mad poker game. Doc down there playing
for his life, each poker chip representing an hour in
his life.

Speaker 2 (02:53:52):
Doc never played better poker.

Speaker 1 (02:53:54):
Whatever possessed Cooper to start a game like that? If
he really intends to use us for experiments, what's the
object of delay? Why sit down at cards and tell
your victim that every poker chip he can win represents
another hour of reprieve for him.

Speaker 2 (02:54:09):
Well, in the first place, real gamblers like high stakes
for Doc's life. He's down there sweating agony, right now.
But if he ever gets out of here, this will
be the one poker game above all others. I think
Cooper is enjoying it, Justice Kingley, you don't think Doc
is in any immediate danger, not now. Remember what Linda
Joyce said, As long as you amuse Cooper, you're safe. Well.

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I think Doc's giving him the time of his black mine,
I hope.

Speaker 1 (02:54:36):
So when Cooper had his handcuffed to our chairs down there,
I thought something beastly was about to happen.

Speaker 7 (02:54:47):
It all right, come in doctor, Hello, Linda, all right,
Guard closing up the door. I'll pound out it when
we're ready to come out.

Speaker 2 (02:54:58):
Evening, Jack read right, oh late evening midnight.

Speaker 7 (02:55:03):
Anyway, Well, mister Cooper thought you boys might like to
meet his assistant while he and doctor finishing up their
poker game.

Speaker 2 (02:55:09):
Oh they are finishing it up.

Speaker 7 (02:55:11):
Yes, they're almost through, Doctor Thorn. I want you to
meet Jack Packard. Mister Packard, and this is Reggie York.
Mister Thorn.

Speaker 2 (02:55:21):
Oh yes, hm, oh he'll do, he'll do. I'll do
for what, doctor Thorne? God? Oh, yes, yes, I see
what you mean.

Speaker 1 (02:55:32):
Just talking aloud, and perhaps you were, but I don't
care for what you said.

Speaker 7 (02:55:37):
Oh, come on, let's try to get along. Everyone.

Speaker 2 (02:55:40):
Sit down, Thank you, missus. You say, Cooper thought we'd
like to meet doctor Thorn. Yes, he's Cooper's assistant assistant
in what by his scientific investigations?

Speaker 4 (02:55:53):
Of course, specifically just what is Cooper investigating? What field
of science is he's so interested in.

Speaker 1 (02:56:00):
Linda, I've was under the impression these men were informed.

Speaker 2 (02:56:05):
Well, you know how it is. Cooper was supposed to
have told him, but I guess he didn't. Very definitely
he didn't. Oh yes, yes, I see. So supposing you
break down and tell us yourself if you wish.

Speaker 1 (02:56:20):
We are particularly interested in the sensation of fear terror,
especially as it is expressed in the human mind, fear.

Speaker 4 (02:56:32):
Terror that leans a lot to be explained.

Speaker 1 (02:56:35):
There's a very interesting experiment going on downstairs at this moment.

Speaker 2 (02:56:40):
You mean that poker game, right, I was down.

Speaker 1 (02:56:43):
Watching a few moments ago. Extraordinary how much zest and
vigor your friend Doc shows, even after four hours of
steady playing.

Speaker 2 (02:56:54):
Oh mind, clear.

Speaker 1 (02:56:56):
As crystal, quick decisions, muscular reaction about normal and all
this because the man is.

Speaker 2 (02:57:04):
Playing for his life, every fiber of mind and body
or life. The super human efforts.

Speaker 23 (02:57:11):
I fear you mean.

Speaker 1 (02:57:13):
Doc really is playing for his life. That business about
each ship representing an hour, Oh, positively the number of
hours until he participates in the most serious experiment, I
may almost say in his final experiment for us depends
on the number of poker chips he hasn't followed him

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at the end of the game.

Speaker 2 (02:57:35):
And when does the game end?

Speaker 1 (02:57:38):
Let's see, Yes, five more minutes, five more minutes, isn't it,
Miss Joys.

Speaker 2 (02:57:45):
Yes, this man isn't being funny, Linda funny. He's perfectly
serious about everything he's saying. Oh, I assure you he is.
I wasn't sure he spoke so glibly about using Doc
in one final experiment. I assume you mean by that
that the experiment will lead to his death almost certain
to So you have joined Cooper in the butchering business

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and make your pa murder butchering your fellow being, Miss Joyce,
that's this man talking about.

Speaker 7 (02:58:16):
Well, after all, doctor Thorne, you can't expect victems to
look upon you as a very high type of individual.

Speaker 2 (02:58:22):
I am a scientist, sure, but no one likes.

Speaker 7 (02:58:25):
To die, even at the hands of a scientist, even
for so noble A cause of the advancement of science.

Speaker 1 (02:58:31):
The layman has a most peculiar point of.

Speaker 7 (02:58:34):
View, Doctor Thorne, If mister Cooper was to throw you
to his panem mountain lions, Miss Joyce, Oh all.

Speaker 1 (02:58:40):
Right, did you say throw him in the den of
mountain lions?

Speaker 2 (02:58:46):
Just a rather gruesome fakre of speech. May I ask
you a question, Doctor Thorne. Certainly you say you and
Cooper are studying fear and its reactions on the mind
and body of human being.

Speaker 1 (02:58:58):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (02:59:00):
What are the mountain lions for?

Speaker 1 (02:59:02):
I better not talk about that, mister Packard.

Speaker 4 (02:59:05):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (02:59:06):
They're a part of your experimental work, aren't they. Yes, yes,
they are that. Well, then why so hesitant to talk
about them? I thought all true scientists were eager to
discuss their work.

Speaker 7 (02:59:17):
Listen, Comisi spelling. He means Cooper's tied.

Speaker 2 (02:59:22):
Him up for the night, and that means the poker
game's over. Yes, co then Doc will be up head
a minute. I don't know why not? What do you
mean you don't know why why?

Speaker 7 (02:59:35):
I imagine it will depend on how many poker chips
he had left at the end of the game.

Speaker 1 (02:59:39):
That was the understanding, wasn't it. He began with twenty
four chips, which represented.

Speaker 2 (02:59:45):
Twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (02:59:47):
Have a chip he won from Cooper added another hour
to his existence, and with every chip he lost deduction
an hour. Oh yes, that's right if he lost earlist chips.
I don't think you'll see your friend again, Linda.

Speaker 2 (03:00:06):
You can do something about that, can't you?

Speaker 16 (03:00:08):
Right?

Speaker 2 (03:00:08):
Right, of course you can. I don't care what happened
in that game.

Speaker 4 (03:00:12):
I want to see Doc again.

Speaker 2 (03:00:14):
I won't take no for an answer. I want to
see Doc again.

Speaker 1 (03:00:17):
You understand, Joey on the reasonable buck up.

Speaker 2 (03:00:20):
I don't care anything about reason. I want to see Doc.
Are you wanting to take us to Cooper?

Speaker 7 (03:00:24):
It's no use, Reggie. If Cooper's decided.

Speaker 2 (03:00:27):
Doctor Thorne, you're a dead man unless hold it hi,
folks here, I am Hey, hey, Reggie, you ain't a choker?
Lead fella? Are you? I was well all gone, close
the door guard. Everything's all right. You're back with us
for the night? Why? Yeah? Sure? What? Well?

Speaker 6 (03:00:48):
We we were just getting a little Hey. He didn't
think I lost in a poker game, did you?

Speaker 1 (03:00:54):
We didn't know?

Speaker 2 (03:00:56):
Shucks? No, look you here.

Speaker 1 (03:00:59):
Thirty two pokers? Yeah, thirty two got them folks, too bad.

Speaker 2 (03:01:02):
It wasn't one hundred and thirty two.

Speaker 6 (03:01:04):
Nope, Google was too smart for that dog. Gone smart
poker player. With your statisfied, then sure thirty two is bad.
A kick in the teeth.

Speaker 2 (03:01:12):
I always say, cut it in thirty two hours to live. Well,
what the heck?

Speaker 6 (03:01:18):
I can do a lot of living in thirty two hours.
Don't gone if I can't.

Speaker 5 (03:01:52):
The adventures of Jack, Dac and Reggie have come to
Carlton E. Morse, Scripts copyrighted by Morselco Incorporated, Produced and

(03:02:14):
Jack Packard and Tony Clay as Doc. Long consultants Frank
Brazy and David Lloyd. You're announcer, Fred Foyd. This presentation
has come from Hollywood. I Love a Mystery, a Carlton E.

(03:02:40):
Morse audio novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie specialist in
crime and adventures, now following the Northwest trail of a
missing Millionaire, a killer Cougar, and the Phantom Castle. This

(03:03:21):
Tremaine and Tony Clay in an original Carton Morse thriller
The Fear That Creeps Like a Cat Seven o'clock in

(03:03:54):
the morning and The Phantom Castle on an unidentified island
somewhere off the west coast of Canada, Jack, Doc, and
Reggie are prisoners of Richard Cooper, who uses human guinea
pigs in his scientific research into the realm of fear
and terror. Last night, they met Cooper's assistant, doctor Thorne,

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who told them that they were to be used in
combination with mountain lions for the purpose of further research
into the field of human terror. The manner and method
of the experiment have not been revealed. All that seems
certain is that Doc is to be the first victim,
and that he is to face whatever is in store

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for him. Thirty two hours from midnight last night now
at seven o'clock this morning, Seven of those precious hours
are gone.

Speaker 2 (03:04:45):
Hey, Jack, Reggie, you folk awake? What's the matter? Doctor?
You know what them said? He can't's done to me
last night?

Speaker 16 (03:04:52):
Oh what?

Speaker 2 (03:04:53):
Well? Wait, I get my shoes on, I'll come in
and tell you there.

Speaker 1 (03:05:00):
Morning, Doc, listen to my footsteps, will you?

Speaker 6 (03:05:03):
Every time I walk around in here? I feel like
I'm in a big auditorium.

Speaker 2 (03:05:06):
I don't big enough for an auditorium.

Speaker 4 (03:05:08):
What's your trouble?

Speaker 2 (03:05:09):
Well, you think there's trouble because you're up and dressed
at seven in the morning. That isn't natural.

Speaker 1 (03:05:14):
Well, Jack, you know what that passel of polk cat's
done to me?

Speaker 2 (03:05:16):
Last night?

Speaker 6 (03:05:17):
After we went to bed every hour all night long,
one of them guards come in and woke me up.
It made me give him one of my poker chips.

Speaker 2 (03:05:24):
What's that? I swear to my grandma he did. But
I don't get it. What is the object?

Speaker 1 (03:05:29):
Didn't say, just come in every hour and took one
of them poker chips?

Speaker 2 (03:05:33):
You get it, Jack, Yes, I'm afraid I do. Then
do a little explaining, will you. You came up to
bed last night at midnight with thirty two chips you
won in the poker gate, that's right, and each chip
represented an hour. Yeah, thirty two chips, thirty two hours.
I had to go and tell they're going to perform
some kind of experiment on me. According to Cooper, Well,
don't you see each hour they took a chip away

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from you, one of your hours gone. How many chips
you got left? I don't know. I'll go get them
and look.

Speaker 1 (03:06:00):
But Jack, that's childish. What's Cooper's objection?

Speaker 2 (03:06:03):
Not so childish. Cooper knows his psychology. He's trying to
create fear in talk. Oh look here. He knows that
watching those chips disappear one by one, actually seeing his
numbered hours slipping away, will have a much more potent
effect on Doc's nerves.

Speaker 4 (03:06:18):
Hold it, it's coming back.

Speaker 6 (03:06:21):
Yeah, they took seven chips away during the night. That
leaves me twenty five silliest darn thing I've heard of yet.
Taking a chip every hour when they could just as
well be taking all seven of them this.

Speaker 2 (03:06:32):
Morning didn't bother you any of them?

Speaker 6 (03:06:34):
Well, it made me pretty darn sore him awakened me
up that way. When you reckon, they'll call us down
to breakfast, to bring us something up here, whatever they
do for eatch.

Speaker 1 (03:06:42):
Yeah, look here, old fella, do you quite realize what
those twenty five chips represent?

Speaker 2 (03:06:48):
Sure, twenty five hours I got left?

Speaker 1 (03:06:50):
Well, you're taking it with valley little concern.

Speaker 2 (03:06:52):
Huh, Hey, Jack, what's eating Reggiet?

Speaker 1 (03:06:55):
A little on the nervy side this morning? Certainly I'm
on the nervy side. And sleep well. And if you
ask me, I think it's time we got out of
this place. No, yes, I do well. Party you suggest
we go about it.

Speaker 2 (03:07:07):
I don't care. Let's do something.

Speaker 1 (03:07:10):
Oh shucks, now, Reggie, don't you getting all upset and stuff?
And as for you, Doc, you're crazy as the rest
of these bally maniacs around here.

Speaker 2 (03:07:18):
He hold us.

Speaker 1 (03:07:19):
Ah, well, you are playing poker for your life and
then accepting the outcome as though you were paying off
with toothpicks.

Speaker 2 (03:07:26):
Reggie, you're in exactly the frame of mind Cooper was
hoping for. I don't care. You're playing right into his hands.
He's interested in the fear complexes. Now, if you work
up a good, proper fishteria, you're liable to beat the
next experiment instead of Doc here.

Speaker 1 (03:07:41):
Yeah, we can't have air, Reggie, all right, let them
I'm ready for any bloody experiment they can work up.

Speaker 4 (03:07:47):
Reggie, you're going to give us trouble. Cooper is interested
in scaring his man. If Doc doesn't scare, he hasn't
got any experiment.

Speaker 2 (03:07:55):
You're not afraid, Doc up? Now, I ain't say nothing
to be scared of to but the whole.

Speaker 1 (03:08:01):
Belly atmosphere of this place sure smells like some decayed
slaughter house of what the heck? The beds are good,
food ain't bad. Those chips they keep taking from you,
The hours growing shorter just plain silly. Well, if Doc
isn't concerned, I don't know why I should be.

Speaker 2 (03:08:19):
Now you're talking.

Speaker 6 (03:08:20):
You're kind of on the young side. Yet when you've
done as much waiting for the worst to happen as
me and Jack is done, well.

Speaker 2 (03:08:26):
I suppose I look pretty silly to you too. You're
doing all right.

Speaker 6 (03:08:29):
Besides, Son, lookie, twenty five whole hours to go. Well, heck,
that's practically a whole lifetime. More things can happen in
the next twenty five hours, and you could write in
a dozen book quite well.

Speaker 2 (03:08:41):
Look now, if everybody's.

Speaker 6 (03:08:42):
Dressing everything, how about us kicking up a fuss and
see if we can't get.

Speaker 2 (03:08:46):
Some to eat? Just a minute for a stock, Reggie,
do you give us your word about what Jack that
you won't in any way give Cooper the idea that
you're frightening.

Speaker 1 (03:08:56):
If you say so, I do say so.

Speaker 2 (03:08:58):
It's important, right, all right, let's see what.

Speaker 1 (03:09:02):
Hey, he'd here's somebody, Good.

Speaker 2 (03:09:10):
Morning, gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (03:09:11):
Well, if it ain't the old poker player itself, how
are you?

Speaker 2 (03:09:14):
Cooper? Year me so bright and cheerful this morning? Of
course I am. Why not? Yes?

Speaker 1 (03:09:20):
And I see they may watch. And it's time you
turned over another of those chips to me.

Speaker 2 (03:09:26):
Yeah, another hour gone?

Speaker 6 (03:09:27):
Sure, No, I'm afraid it has well then, I reckon,
I got to kiss another old chip.

Speaker 2 (03:09:31):
Goodbye. Here you are?

Speaker 1 (03:09:33):
Oh, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 6 (03:09:34):
Hey, Look, Cooper, how about you and me playing another
game of poker tonight?

Speaker 2 (03:09:39):
What's that? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (03:09:40):
My stack of chips is kind of dwindling. How about
giving me another chance to build it up again?

Speaker 1 (03:09:46):
No, no, no, I'm afraid not.

Speaker 2 (03:09:47):
No, huh No, couldn't do that.

Speaker 1 (03:09:51):
You're much too good a poker player. Oh so you
admit I'm too good for you? Well, you were a
last night.

Speaker 2 (03:09:57):
I was lucky to keep your pile down to thirty
two chips. Your problem in psychology isn't working out very well,
is it, Cooper? I could I was wondering whether you
weren't going to speak to me this morning, I said
to your problem in psychology? Yes, I heard you. That's
got a lot of weaknesses, but one of them isn't
an overactive imagination. Yes, I'm beginning to find that out.

Speaker 6 (03:10:21):
What you mean, I ain't got no imagination In this case,
it's to your advantage. Stock, Yeah, yes, if you were.

Speaker 2 (03:10:27):
Highly imaginative, you should be in the sweat of fear
about now with all the hopeless focus. Cooper here is
set up.

Speaker 4 (03:10:33):
To work on you.

Speaker 1 (03:10:34):
Yeah, dog gone, Cooper had the shame wasting all your
time like this.

Speaker 2 (03:10:38):
Don't mind me.

Speaker 1 (03:10:40):
If I can find a man with a complete lack
of fear, I haven't done so badly. It will make
an interesting note in the appendix of my treatise.

Speaker 2 (03:10:49):
Huh what's he saying? Looks like you're to be an
interesting note in his appendix appendix.

Speaker 6 (03:10:55):
Huh, So he says, well, I'll tell him one thing
he won't like me in this appendix.

Speaker 1 (03:11:00):
He's got to need an app and decoy the minute
he puts me there. You see, Cooper, he's scared the
death sinceres's conversation senseless. What's the matter with you, mister yaw,
I say, younger, what about some breakfast bit mares?

Speaker 2 (03:11:16):
Aren't you, young man? Quite?

Speaker 1 (03:11:18):
Always out of temper before I've had my coffee?

Speaker 2 (03:11:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:11:20):
Well, the way food Oh, yes, just cause food. But
I came up to see if you wouldn't like a
little exercise before breakfast.

Speaker 2 (03:11:30):
What sort of exercise walk about the island.

Speaker 1 (03:11:34):
Well, that's not a bad idea.

Speaker 2 (03:11:35):
Yes, you've had little.

Speaker 1 (03:11:36):
Opportunity of seeing anything but the inside of the castle
so far.

Speaker 2 (03:11:41):
You mean you'll take us across the moat onto the
main part of the island. Yes, that was my thought.

Speaker 4 (03:11:48):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (03:11:48):
Yeah, just a minute. You'll allow me to slip on
the handcuffs first.

Speaker 2 (03:11:53):
Well, what's that for. You said there was absolutely no
way for us to escape from the island. Yeah, you
said we'd be cured if we try to cross the
reef that circles around this island. True, true, that you
might try it just the same. Well, that would be
our hard luck, wouldn't No.

Speaker 1 (03:12:09):
No, no, three fine specimens. Mustn't take a chance of
losing any of you. Besides, once out into the freehair,
you might take it into your hands to attack me, won't.

Speaker 2 (03:12:20):
That'd be silly if we couldn't escape from the island.

Speaker 1 (03:12:23):
Nevertheless, you might do it, And I'm too old a
man to be knocked about. What's your hands behind you?

Speaker 2 (03:12:30):
Gentlemen?

Speaker 1 (03:12:31):
No, I absolutely refuse. Yeah, yeah, now that's not at
all friendly. I tell you I won't not under any circumstances.
What's the matter for Reggie? Yes, Jack, put your hands
behind you. Put your hands behind you quite, Yes, now

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that's better. You're no use to clench your fists like
that there now, mister.

Speaker 6 (03:13:00):
Sure clip mom, it's getting so I don't feel natural
that these here cuffs on?

Speaker 2 (03:13:06):
Now you packered?

Speaker 1 (03:13:09):
Go ahead, But Jack, we could have bashed this chappie
right here, and.

Speaker 2 (03:13:13):
Now you think so. Look at the guard at the door.

Speaker 6 (03:13:16):
Yeah, Nott Alphant gonna hears would have blow a hole
and you sold me.

Speaker 1 (03:13:20):
Yes, Friendliness, good feeling, that's the spirit. Now then, are
we ready? Yeah, come on, let's get started on this
sight seeing tour. Very well, gentlemen, follow me now there
down the stairs to the drawbridge. There helping the door. God,

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doctor Thorne will be waiting for us on the other
side of the drawbridge.

Speaker 2 (03:13:58):
Follow me, please this doctor Thorne. Fella gonna take this
sight seeing trip with us. Oh yes, how about Linda Joyce? Now, hey,
what you're leaving her out for? Don't you like to
go for walks before breakfast? Too?

Speaker 1 (03:14:11):
Now then, gentlemen, we'll lower the drawbridge.

Speaker 2 (03:14:18):
Yeah, yeah, there you come. What's what's making it pumped down?
I don't know, you don't that's my secret.

Speaker 6 (03:14:32):
There now we can cross dog gone crossing a drawbridge
out of our honest to goodness castle. Wonder how many
other folks in our generation's done that interesting hunt?

Speaker 2 (03:14:42):
Hundy?

Speaker 6 (03:14:43):
I suppose so, hey, Red, step out of it, let
me alone, okay, fella.

Speaker 1 (03:14:52):
That brings us across and there is doctor Thorn waiting
for us.

Speaker 2 (03:14:57):
Yeah. Hey, look Cooper, how you tapping? You think it's something?

Speaker 1 (03:15:00):
Well, you didn't answer my question a while ago.

Speaker 2 (03:15:04):
I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (03:15:05):
I asked you if that Linda Joyce gal would like
to walk with us? Yes, I know you did, well,
wouldn't she? And man, I'm afraid you'll see very little
of Linda Joyce in the future.

Speaker 2 (03:15:16):
What do you mean by that? I've just discovered an
interesting fact about Linda? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:15:22):
What, but that young woman got into my good graces
for no other purpose than to discover the whereabouts of
Alexander Archer.

Speaker 27 (03:15:31):
Alexander Arching you mean Linda's on our side? She was
hunting the architude. Yeah, yeah, too bad to very beautiful
young woman. What you lean too bad and too bad
for her, excellent for me. Women make no wonder her

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specimens for.

Speaker 1 (03:15:52):
My work in fear hysteria. Yes, there was wonderful stepsmen.

Speaker 5 (03:16:33):

Speaker 11 (03:16:43):

Speaker 4 (03:16:45):
Morse.

Speaker 5 (03:16:46):
Scripts copyrighted by Morsel COO Incorporated. Produced and directed by
and Tony Clay as Doc Long consultants Frank Brazy and
David Lloyd. You're announcer, Fred Foy. This presentation has come

(03:17:07):
from Hollywood. I Love a Mystery, a Carphony Morrise audio
novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie, specialist in crime and adventures,

(03:17:28):
now following the Northwest trail of a missing millionaire, a
killer cougar, and the Phantom Castle. This is Fred Foy

(03:18:03):
in producing Jim Harmon's presentation of Les Tremaine and Tony
Clay in an original Carlton Morse thriller.

Speaker 2 (03:18:12):
The Fear That Creeps Like a Cat.

Speaker 5 (03:18:39):
Eight o'clock in the morning on a tiny, unidentified island
somewhere off the west coast of Canada. Last night, Doc
won thirty two chips from his captor Richard Cooper, which
represent the number of hours remaining to him before Cooper
performed some mysterious experiment.

Speaker 4 (03:18:56):
On him in his study of fear and fear reactions.

Speaker 5 (03:19:01):
Every hour Cooper takes another chip from him, so that
at eight o'clock this morning, he has but twenty four
chips left twenty four hours to live.

Speaker 4 (03:19:12):
And now at eight.

Speaker 5 (03:19:13):
O'clock Cooper and doctor Thorn, his assistant, have taken the
three comrades hands handcuffs behind them, out of the castle
and across the drawbridge to the main part of the
tiny island for a before breakfast walk.

Speaker 2 (03:19:28):
Now there's that linen. We walk in a straight line through.

Speaker 1 (03:19:31):
The woods to the show.

Speaker 2 (03:19:33):
Anything suits us. Hey, look it though, this is the
funniest part I've ever been in.

Speaker 1 (03:19:38):
In what way?

Speaker 6 (03:19:39):
Well, looky, they ain't a spec of brush of bushes
or nothing like that. Anyway you look, does look more
like a park than the wilderness. Yeah, looky, grass growing
almost like it was planted. And look at the dim
big trees. Ain't none of them got limbs growing lower
than twenty thirty feet.

Speaker 1 (03:19:55):
How you notice things, doctor Zarn, Yes, mi's the Cooper,
Will you please give our guests a dissertation on this
island as we walk along. Castle Island is almost circular
a diameter is not more than a mile in any place.

Speaker 2 (03:20:11):
Not as big as I thought, No, not so large.

Speaker 1 (03:20:14):
The reason there is no low growing bushes is that
they have all been cleared out, the same with low
hanging limbs. Also, old trees of less than three feet
in circumference have been cut out. That is the reason
for the partli like effect.

Speaker 2 (03:20:34):
There was a reason for this reason, I mean, any
reason except for beautifying the island.

Speaker 1 (03:20:39):
Very astute question, doctor Thorn.

Speaker 2 (03:20:42):
Yes, isn't it? Well, then there is a reason. I
can assure you there is. But go on, doctor Thorn,
come on.

Speaker 1 (03:20:49):
Yes, the castle sits almost in the center of the island.
The tiny river that brought your launch yesterday from the
ocean to the castle is not more than a small
inlet portal river at all. It furnishes mother for the
most about the castle and comes to an end. Shults

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back of the castle. Hey, look what's that? Flash into
the trees over beyond? What's that where? Can't see it now?
Look like the shadow of some animal or something. Huh,
that must be Prometheus.

Speaker 2 (03:21:23):
Yes here, Prometheus, come here. Boy. You mean that wolf
dog runs loose out here?

Speaker 6 (03:21:28):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:21:28):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, this is his playground here he is, Yes,
it's come here Prometheus.

Speaker 2 (03:21:36):
He that's it, boy, jel Why do you keep that
bell on him?

Speaker 4 (03:21:40):
Cooper?

Speaker 1 (03:21:40):
Oh, he never makes a sound. That's how I know
when he's about.

Speaker 2 (03:21:44):
Don't make a sound, man, I sure heard him. I
whoop it up last night. Yes, yes, when he's tied up. Never,
when he's loose. It's the wolf in him.

Speaker 1 (03:21:53):
Then if you'll notice the huge trees, you can see
the ocean or.

Speaker 2 (03:22:00):
Yeah, I see it.

Speaker 1 (03:22:01):
We're going down to the beach. Yes see here, Packard.
What's the matter with mister Yorke? He hadn't said a
word since he began this stroll.

Speaker 2 (03:22:09):
Leave them alone.

Speaker 4 (03:22:11):
He's just in a mood.

Speaker 1 (03:22:12):
That's interesting. Is he inclined to more dinners?

Speaker 2 (03:22:17):
Seldom? What? When one comes on? It's a black one.
Can't get a word out of it.

Speaker 1 (03:22:23):
It's too bad. I don't like sulkiness.

Speaker 2 (03:22:27):
I think I can give you the reason if you
want to know, well, certainly, certainly I want to know.

Speaker 4 (03:22:32):
It was what you said about Linda Joyce.

Speaker 1 (03:22:34):
Linda Joyce. What's his interest in her?

Speaker 2 (03:22:38):
Well? Do you have to be interested in the girl
to feel screamish over her prospective murder? Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:22:43):
No, now see here, pat.

Speaker 4 (03:22:45):
Well, isn't that what you indicated? Didn't you say that
she was to become one of your experiments.

Speaker 2 (03:22:51):
Doctor Thorn?

Speaker 1 (03:22:52):
These young gentlemen simply can't get it through their heads
that sacrifice in behalf of the advancement of science is
not murder.

Speaker 2 (03:23:00):
You bet, we can't get it through our head.

Speaker 1 (03:23:02):
There's nothing out of life is murder or and it
is done wantonly, then life is wasted to no purposes.

Speaker 2 (03:23:11):
That may be your interpretation, doctor Thorn, it's not ours.
No murder is the taking of a human life under
any circumstances. Dear, then you call legal execution murder, you
call you're misinterpreting my meaning to justify what you and
doctor Thorn are apparently doing. But my dear pat, I
don't want to argue with you about it. All I

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got to say at the moment is if you and
doctor Thorn kill that girl, or any one of the
three of us for any of your scientific nonsense, you've
a great deal to answer for.

Speaker 1 (03:23:41):
You called what mister Cooper and are doing scientific nonsense.
I do, then I have no passience with you. Well, fella,
I do you think we got any patience with you?
By the way, mister Long, yeah, I'm afraid I'm going
to have to ask you for another of those polka chips.

Speaker 2 (03:23:57):
Hey, you mean another hour's gone already? Or yes it has?
My hours do slip by my friend? Okay, here's your chip. Oh,
thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (03:24:08):
Well, I still got twenty three chips left.

Speaker 2 (03:24:11):
That's right, twenty three more hours before doctor Thorn and
I can commence.

Speaker 1 (03:24:16):
An experiment hours ahead. So you give me some idea
what this experiment is going to be.

Speaker 2 (03:24:21):
No, no, no, no, that would never do, hon You
don't look like a man who'd stand for this sort
of thing. I don't follow you. You do follow me?

Speaker 11 (03:24:30):
You know?

Speaker 2 (03:24:30):
The hour by hour Cooper asked Doc here for those
chips for no reason in the world but to try
to break down his morale.

Speaker 1 (03:24:37):
Or there's no malice behind it, no, none, whatever, simply
a scientific problem, a psychological theory put into practice.

Speaker 2 (03:24:49):
A diabolical attempt to drive Doc into an hystereo fear.

Speaker 1 (03:24:52):
Oh no, no, not diabolical, A well, a well thought
out plan to steerly terror so that we may study
reaction in its progressive statues.

Speaker 2 (03:25:05):
Forget it, Jack, shucks, I ain't no scanning down. I
have been well, I know I've taken about all of this.
I intend to.

Speaker 1 (03:25:11):
That's a silly statement, you think, so certainly there's nothing
whatever you can do about it. So if I make
any pretense there is. Come now, let's not lose our tempers.
We're coming down to the shore.

Speaker 2 (03:25:28):
Hey, wait a minute, what's the matter? Doc? Doc? What's
the matter?

Speaker 24 (03:25:34):
Jack?

Speaker 2 (03:25:35):
Come over here? What is it? Looky? They're in the grass, Skimmerton,
bones of a human being? Cooper?

Speaker 1 (03:25:44):
Ho No, now, packer Cooper, what is this? Scollton?

Speaker 2 (03:25:48):
Another one of your scientific experiments? Year Yeah, doctor torn
I thought all evidence had been removed. Just an unattached
bunch of bones are laying in the grass. You know
you two men aren't from mind mind a pair of
the worst unhummed scoundrels in history.

Speaker 1 (03:26:04):
That is on what happened to mister York. He's over
there leaning against the tree, being sick.

Speaker 2 (03:26:11):
Unfortunate, very unfortunate.

Speaker 1 (03:26:14):
And shall we continue our walk?

Speaker 2 (03:26:17):
Come away? Doc? Looking won't do you any good? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:26:20):
Yeah, I reckon.

Speaker 2 (03:26:21):
What do you suppose happened to him? Though? What's he
doing laying out here in the wood? I don't know,
and I don't want.

Speaker 4 (03:26:26):
To think about it.

Speaker 2 (03:26:27):
You suppose that's what me and Linda Jeorce be. You
doing a couple three days laying out here looking like that?

Speaker 4 (03:26:33):
Are they getting through you?

Speaker 1 (03:26:34):
Don Yes, mister Cooper, bring mister York along, Packard, mister Long,
not too.

Speaker 2 (03:26:42):
Fast, don't pay any attention to him.

Speaker 6 (03:26:44):
Listen to me, Yeah, I am listen, Doc, that's a
plant as sure as we're on this island of what
a plant?

Speaker 2 (03:26:52):
They do?

Speaker 16 (03:26:52):
Me?

Speaker 4 (03:26:52):
Brought us this.

Speaker 2 (03:26:53):
Way so that you'd stumble onto that skeleton. You mean
they didn't murder it.

Speaker 4 (03:26:57):
I don't know about that. Perhaps they did, but they
are doing everything they can to break you down. That
skeleton was put there for no other purpose.

Speaker 1 (03:27:07):
Well son, they almost succeeded that time.

Speaker 2 (03:27:10):
You feel better now, Yeah, sm we'll get hold of
yourself because there's something more in store. There is.

Speaker 4 (03:27:15):
Yeah, I don't know what, but this walk isn't just
for the exercise, So watch out.

Speaker 2 (03:27:20):
What do we do? Just go on? Lock them bones
and even phases?

Speaker 4 (03:27:24):
Can you do it?

Speaker 2 (03:27:25):
Sure? Why not? All right, that's the way we'll take it. Then,
poor old Reggie. Yes, but it's playing it smart. He
knows he can't talk without giving away the fancs. He's scared,
so he's not saying a word. Yeah, here boys, huh
you talking? Ask Cooper?

Speaker 1 (03:27:42):
Yes, yes, taking it too fast. We'll wait for doctor
Thorne and mister Yorke.

Speaker 2 (03:27:49):
Well we're practically on the beach. There's no place else
to go. Yes, well here they are.

Speaker 1 (03:27:56):
Yes, Now, then will you explain about the beach and
the reef? Hey, look it see go, yes, you see
it's low tide. Now notice that saw tooth reef, a
rock out there about two hundred yards.

Speaker 2 (03:28:09):
What about it?

Speaker 1 (03:28:09):
That reef extends around the entire island high low tide.
The farther out there is so tortious neither boat nor.

Speaker 2 (03:28:18):
Man can stand it. Yeah, I know, Cooper's already hold us.
It would be suicide to try to get past the reef.

Speaker 1 (03:28:25):
Well, now you can see for yourself. And now here's
something else. There's a block of wood. Watch when I
thought in the surf, hey where it goes?

Speaker 2 (03:28:37):
It should have floated, but.

Speaker 1 (03:28:39):
It disaffair of the minute it hit the water down
the toy is solcious about this island that a marvading
our toy sneezes would be immediately sucked under. No go
Why do you make such a point of it, because
I don't want to see any of you make the
silly attempt trying.

Speaker 2 (03:28:56):
Why would we if we knew we couldn't get across
the reef any way?

Speaker 1 (03:29:00):
In due time? Packard, in due time?

Speaker 2 (03:29:03):
What do you mean in due time?

Speaker 1 (03:29:05):
There's a reason for everything everything we're telling you. Oh,
you need to know now, is that it would be
so sidal to step feet in that, sirf.

Speaker 2 (03:29:15):
You're certainly making it tough for anyone with an idea
of escaping from this place. No, no, no, we haven't
done that. Nature did that for us.

Speaker 6 (03:29:25):
Man, This here is sure some before breakfast walk. What
else you got to show us that my wet eye
up a tide? Well, yes, yes, let's go ahead. Come
along from me this.

Speaker 2 (03:29:39):
Where do we go?

Speaker 3 (03:29:40):
Now?

Speaker 1 (03:29:40):
Back to the woods again, only on a different route.

Speaker 2 (03:29:43):
Come on, rad, your kid, perk up. It ain't the world.
It's so bad. It's just some of them skunks that
inhabit it. Philosophy from that young man, Well, what about it?

Speaker 1 (03:29:54):
Nothing?

Speaker 2 (03:29:55):
Nothing, at all. Get right ahead.

Speaker 1 (03:29:57):
I've been expecting you to drag that gag out again. Yeah,
what's the matter, Cooper? You like my conversation?

Speaker 2 (03:30:02):
Man? You did, It's a matter of fact I don't.
But you don't need to worry. You won't be gagged.

Speaker 1 (03:30:08):
Anymore twenty three hours more. I can bear with that
darn not of you now, Dan, mister Long. Yeah, it's
to your advantage to keep your eyes open. The more
you know about this island, the better off.

Speaker 2 (03:30:23):
You're going to be.

Speaker 1 (03:30:24):
I don't get you, fella well, in due time, I'm
just wanting you make yourself as familiar with Abanok and
Cranny as is possible.

Speaker 2 (03:30:33):
You mean I'm going to be out here again?

Speaker 1 (03:30:34):
Yes, another very different circumstances next time, such as what I.

Speaker 2 (03:30:39):
Never mind that?

Speaker 1 (03:30:41):
May I point out to you that little araveen down there.
There's no place to hide or defend yourself down there.
It would be a trap for you.

Speaker 2 (03:30:53):
Hey, what you talking about? And over there's a big
hollow stump. Keep a fay from that for the sake.

Speaker 1 (03:31:01):
Yes, yes, never let yourself get in a position with
your back to the wall. Hey, I can't get his
and tear of what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (03:31:08):
Can you Jack? No, But I'm beginning to get ideas.

Speaker 1 (03:31:11):
Don't try to climb trees. It's utterly useless. As a
matter of fact. Your only chance is an out in
the open running fight, all right? If you fellows are
the doctor and out in the open running.

Speaker 2 (03:31:25):
Fight it is. But what the heck am I going
to be a fighter? Better? Tell him about the little
rocky pacifist over to the left.

Speaker 1 (03:31:31):
Doctors on the last man who tried that? Yeah, what
happened to him? Tragic?

Speaker 2 (03:31:39):
Tragic? Wh Ain't that a dog? One? Shame? And I
still don't know what happened to him? He died Cooper.
I want to ask a question, certainly, certainly, why is
it the mountain lions aren't screaming this morning? What's there?
They kept up an infernal racket all night? Why are
they so quiet this morning? Cougar only scream at night.

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I see, Ah, that's it.

Speaker 1 (03:32:06):
In the daylight. There is silent as Prometheus here. Creepy
slinky things, Jack, Jack, you mean treacherous.

Speaker 2 (03:32:19):
Never trust a cougar.

Speaker 5 (03:32:51):
The adventures of Jack, Dac and Reggie have come to
you in I Love, a Mystery created and written by
carlton E Morse scripts copyrighted by Morselco Incorporated, Produced and

(03:33:13):
Jack Packard and Tony Clay as Doc Long. Consultants Frank
Brezzy and David Lloyd. You're announcer, Fred Foyd. This presentation

(03:33:40):
Morse audio novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie, specialists in
crime and adventure, now following the Northwest trail of a
missing Millionaire, a Killer Cougar and the Phantom Castle. This

(03:34:21):
is Fred Foy introducing Jim Harmon's presentation of Les Tremaine
and Tony Clay in an original Carton Morse thriller, The.

Speaker 4 (03:34:31):
Fear That Creeps like a Cat.

Speaker 2 (03:34:43):
Three o'clock in the dark of the morning, in the Great.

Speaker 5 (03:34:46):
Cavernous Castle on a small unidentified island somewhere off the
west coast of Canada. These are essential facts. One, Richard
Cooper is preparing Doc Long for a scientific experiment in
his study of fear and fear reflexes.

Speaker 1 (03:35:04):
Two.

Speaker 5 (03:35:05):
Doc and Cooper played a game of poker, but the
chips represented hours instead of dollars. At the end of
the game, Doc had thirty two chips, which represented thirty
two hours of reprieve before he faced the experiment. Each
hour since the game ended, Cooper has taken a chip
from him, so that now, at three o'clock in the morning,

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Doc has returned twenty seven chips. Twenty seven from thirty
two is five. Doc has five chips left five hours
of suspense before he faces whatever it is Cooper has
in store for him. Every hour during the night, someone
enters his prison room, awakens him and takes another chip.

Speaker 1 (03:35:56):
Mister Long, mister, I say, mister Long, Yeah, mister Long,
wake up? Huh, wake up?

Speaker 2 (03:36:08):
What's the matter? Well? Did I finally awaken you? Yeah?
I reckon you did, all right, there you Cooper? That's right.
Come for another poker chip? Yes, another poker chip? Another hour? Yeah,
well there you are. Now go away and let me

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go back to sleep. Getting a little bit shy of chips,
aren't you? Yeah? Only four laugh? Now, looky here, Cooper,
ain't no use you standing there picking on me. I
know it's only four hours, huh, So why not go
away and let me get my rest and til them
four hours is up? My dear fellow, aren't you worried?

Speaker 1 (03:36:51):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:36:51):
Do I look worried? My, my, such perversity.

Speaker 1 (03:36:56):
You're in real danger.

Speaker 2 (03:36:58):
Your mind here is danger.

Speaker 4 (03:37:01):
Don't say you have.

Speaker 1 (03:37:02):
Every reason in the world to be frightened.

Speaker 2 (03:37:06):
Okay, now you had your say, well you know, I
suppose then when you go away and let me get
some sleep, well we'll have to see about this. Whereas
Packard he's sleeping in the other room.

Speaker 6 (03:37:22):
You coming in here every hour to get a poker
chip from me was a spoiling his rest?

Speaker 2 (03:37:27):
Isn't anyone worried upset?

Speaker 6 (03:37:30):
Look, Cooper, we only start worrying about things when we
know what we're worrying about.

Speaker 2 (03:37:36):
Now, will you be good enough to get out of here?
Mister Long, you're coming with me? I'm a doe.

Speaker 1 (03:37:43):
What come?

Speaker 4 (03:37:44):
Come?

Speaker 2 (03:37:44):
Come, get up? Put your shoes on. Hey, look, I
got four hours more. You want me to call the
gods and have you handcome? Oh? All right? Oh gone?
When's a fellow supposed to get his rest and get
your shoes on and then turned lions?

Speaker 1 (03:38:00):
Don't you keep your cats quieted?

Speaker 2 (03:38:01):
Now? Come?

Speaker 1 (03:38:02):
You're wasting time?

Speaker 2 (03:38:04):
Hey, look it maybe I should ought to wake up
Jacket now but supposing I insist.

Speaker 1 (03:38:09):
Mister long, now, don't delude yourself. I will shoot from
the slightest inflection. Now come on, yeah, God close the doors?

(03:38:30):
Which way now to the right?

Speaker 2 (03:38:34):
I mean here? Hey, I don't wolf dog? Where'd he
come from? In? Mike? Outside the door?

Speaker 1 (03:38:39):
All the while?

Speaker 2 (03:38:41):
Come come, come, move along, move along. See you not
only got a gun, but you're bringing thangs along.

Speaker 6 (03:38:46):
Too, cause it seems why that's right. I wouldn't in
the least mind busting.

Speaker 1 (03:38:51):
You'll get the stumps out of your mind a few
times where you are taking me at.

Speaker 2 (03:39:05):
That fella sounds a lot closer than he did.

Speaker 4 (03:39:07):
Yes, it doesn't.

Speaker 11 (03:39:09):
You mean?

Speaker 2 (03:39:10):
Well, visiting one of them pens of lines? Then take
these steps down, I ask you, we are visiting them
the line.

Speaker 1 (03:39:18):
Pay attention to where you're walking here, man, what you mean?
Can't you see there's no rail on the outside of
these steps?

Speaker 2 (03:39:23):
They ain't.

Speaker 1 (03:39:24):
Why ain't you got some light around here? They close
to the wall unless you want to dish your brains out,
But I can't see nothing.

Speaker 2 (03:39:31):
Only not there is is that that they're landing your carry.

Speaker 1 (03:39:34):
Just keep close to the wall. You're all right, boy, we.

Speaker 2 (03:39:42):
Must be right down among ease, we're getting nearer, hey,
and we getting down to the ground level slightly below there.
Now that's all the steps. So this is where you
keep your little playmates. It's part of it. Hey, what's
the matter with that the wolf dog? He doesn't like

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the lions? Yeah, I can understand that. All right, don't
go one, it's stuck down here.

Speaker 1 (03:40:09):
Wait just a moment.

Speaker 2 (03:40:11):
Hey, electric lights, that's right, But why electric lights down
the basement and none upstairs?

Speaker 1 (03:40:18):
We need them down here in our work, saying being
what scientific research? Scientific research?

Speaker 2 (03:40:25):
My boy, man, I don't like that. Here we are
you mean we've reached where you're taking me? And when
I opened the door, is it out there? Hey? That's
the girls boys there?

Speaker 1 (03:40:51):
Hey Cooper, it's Linda.

Speaker 2 (03:40:53):
Yes, mister Long, I'm afraid it is. Hey. Hey, what's
she doing down here? Mister Cooper? Let me out of here?
Let me out of here.

Speaker 1 (03:41:03):
There, my dear, we've come for you, mister Long. Will
you go bring Linda out? Bring her out? Why can't
she come out of self?

Speaker 2 (03:41:15):
She's chained to the wall.

Speaker 28 (03:41:18):
Why you dead gump polk. Now take this key and
go release her. You're blame right, I'll go release her. Oh, doc, doc,
don't you worry, fella, We'll have you out of this.

Speaker 2 (03:41:39):
Hey, hey, Cooper, he brought you in two Cooper, you
doubled deal in two times and skunk my dear mister Long.

Speaker 1 (03:41:47):
It's so simple.

Speaker 2 (03:41:48):
It's a shame to take advantage good evening. Hey, he
turned out the lights. You see you see?

Speaker 6 (03:41:56):
I don't see nothing except I'm mad enough to tear
this whole castle.

Speaker 7 (03:42:00):
Man, I'm scared. I'm so scared that even if I
wasn't chained down, you really are chained to the wall. Yes,
for ten hours.

Speaker 2 (03:42:08):
Now, Well, looky, he gave me a key and see
if I can unlock you.

Speaker 7 (03:42:12):
Yes, if I could just move around, Yeah, here's the lock.

Speaker 2 (03:42:18):
Be just liking to give you the wrong, he to
raise my hopes. No, no, it's the rock key, all right,
And there there you are, really and truly there that
feel better? I don't know my arms and legs are
so numb. Well, you just lay out here and let
me get the circulation going again.

Speaker 7 (03:42:37):
No, no, I know how you boys felt helped. You've
been running horses all day. Yeah, only you didn't give
us a rub down. I'm like I'm a doing for you.
I don't dare what you mean you didn't there?

Speaker 2 (03:42:55):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (03:42:55):
No, no, hey, hey, lint, I thinks right down here
in the room with it, I know, but it can't
get to us.

Speaker 2 (03:43:04):
What you mean it can't get to us? The room's
he byed behind bars.

Speaker 7 (03:43:07):
They reach from the floor to the ceiling.

Speaker 2 (03:43:09):
You mean we're on one side of the bars and
that old mountain lying on the other. Yes, yes, I've
been down here with it for ten hours? Holy cats?
What for? I'm one of Cooper's experiments. Listen, Hey, what's that?
What's he doing? He's been knowing those bones over there

(03:43:31):
for hours?

Speaker 4 (03:43:32):
Son?

Speaker 2 (03:43:32):
No, god, he must have cheese worse than a wolf dog.

Speaker 7 (03:43:36):
Have haven't you seen one up close?

Speaker 8 (03:43:39):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:43:40):
Look, you can see his eyes.

Speaker 1 (03:43:43):
I'm close to the floor, Yeah, green and yellow.

Speaker 7 (03:43:46):
He lies there.

Speaker 2 (03:43:49):
Crunching those bones and watching me, watching and watching.

Speaker 6 (03:43:54):
Hey, let's just turn around here so we can't see
him just playing to ignore?

Speaker 7 (03:44:01):
How can I ignore anything that that's been telling him?
I braving for hours?

Speaker 1 (03:44:07):
Yeah, kind of feel something creeping up my back?

Speaker 2 (03:44:10):
Wonder what kind of bones they are?

Speaker 6 (03:44:13):
I can't stand much more of this, Hey, lookie, try
to forget it for a minute I got to talk
to you, all right. What, Well, it's like this, Me
and Jack and Reggie figured you was part of Cooper's gang.

Speaker 2 (03:44:28):
That's what I've been pretending.

Speaker 7 (03:44:29):
I had too per fooled.

Speaker 2 (03:44:32):
I've been with him for almost four months now. Yeah,
well what happened. I made a mistake.

Speaker 7 (03:44:38):
You remember the other night when well, when Jack told
me that Alexander Archer was here in the castle.

Speaker 2 (03:44:44):
Yeah, I wish you could to stop that.

Speaker 7 (03:44:50):
Well, well, I tried to find where he was being kept.

Speaker 2 (03:44:54):
You mean you've been a hunting Archer too. Yes, I
found him too.

Speaker 7 (03:44:58):
I even got in a room where he was, but
Cooper caught me.

Speaker 2 (03:45:02):
But what you're doing is for what's Archer mean to you?
I'm his niece. You're related to Alexander Archer?

Speaker 7 (03:45:10):
Yes, my sister and I are his only living relatives.

Speaker 2 (03:45:16):
Sister, huh? Where is she? You? You remember the girl.

Speaker 7 (03:45:19):
Who fainted in front of your door at the hotel
back on the mainland.

Speaker 2 (03:45:23):
Hey, she was your sister, the girl we turned over
to the authorities.

Speaker 7 (03:45:27):
Yes, I knew she'd be safe with them, so I
came on with Cooper to try and find my uncle.

Speaker 2 (03:45:35):
Cooper said he knowed Alexander Archer for thirty five years.
How come he didn't know about you?

Speaker 7 (03:45:40):
He did, but he'd never seen us. We were kept
in school in your Hope since we were little girls.
He thanks us where we are now?

Speaker 2 (03:45:49):
He don't know your Archer's niece, even now he's caught you.

Speaker 7 (03:45:53):
No, he thinks I'm just another investigator trying to find
my uncle.

Speaker 4 (03:45:58):
Well, what do you know?

Speaker 2 (03:46:00):
You ain't never been on this island with him before.

Speaker 7 (03:46:02):
No, But but I know what happens to people who
try to find Alexander Archribe.

Speaker 2 (03:46:08):
I've heard him tell it too often.

Speaker 6 (03:46:10):
You mean, you know what he means when he says
he's going to use us for a scientific experiment. Yes,
tries to scape to death or something like that, ain't it.

Speaker 2 (03:46:19):
I think of the first girl he's had.

Speaker 7 (03:46:22):
I don't know what he's.

Speaker 2 (03:46:23):
Gonna do with me. He ain't gonna do nothing to
you if we can help it. I don't think anybody
can do anything. Look what can we do down here? Yeah?
I've been wondering myself.

Speaker 7 (03:46:36):
How how many hours have you got left?

Speaker 2 (03:46:39):
Well? I got four poker chips left.

Speaker 1 (03:46:41):
If he sticks to his bargain, I got four hours left.

Speaker 2 (03:46:44):
And then do you know what what's going to happen
to you? No, but I wish I did. Hey, Linda,
I don't care. I don't care.

Speaker 7 (03:46:58):
I can't hang on any.

Speaker 2 (03:46:59):
More, Linda, Linda, stop it? Do you hear? I want
out of here? I want Hey, I hope I didn't
hit you too hard?

Speaker 7 (03:47:09):
That's all right? What difference does it make now?

Speaker 2 (03:47:14):
Look you, honey, there ain't no use getting all worked
up over there, No use getting worked up.

Speaker 7 (03:47:21):
You say that, you say that when in four hours
you'll be on the island strip to a line clock
with one of those things after you.

Speaker 1 (03:47:30):
Hey, what did you say?

Speaker 7 (03:47:33):
Nothing to get worked up about her?

Speaker 1 (03:47:35):
Hey, it's my hair standing straight up?

Speaker 7 (03:47:38):
Well it should be, if it isn't. All you have
is a knife and it eat its blade, and you
can run and hide or do anything you want. And
all the time that mountain lion will be creeping along
behind you, and it's billy, Hey, but.

Speaker 2 (03:47:51):
Mountain lions are afraid of human being.

Speaker 7 (03:47:54):
Not if they hadn't had anything to eat for a
week or ten days.

Speaker 1 (03:47:57):
And you mean I got to fight a hungry line
out there would up and all funny.

Speaker 9 (03:48:02):
Isn't it?

Speaker 2 (03:48:03):
Out?

Speaker 7 (03:48:04):
We were very, very funny.

Speaker 2 (03:48:09):
Doc Doc I'm So Scared.

Speaker 5 (03:48:44):
you in I Love a Mystery. Created and written by
carlton E.

Speaker 2 (03:48:56):
Morse.

Speaker 5 (03:48:57):
Scripts copyrighted by Morsel Coo Incorporated. Produced and directed by
and Tony Clay as Doc. Long consultants Frank Brezzy and
David Lloyd. You're announcer, Fred Foyd. This presentation has come

(03:49:18):
from Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (03:49:28):
I Love a.

Speaker 5 (03:49:29):
Mystery, a Carltony Morrise audio novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie,
specialist in crime and adventure, now following the Northwest riol
of a missing Millionaire, a Killer Cougar and the Phantom Castle.

(03:50:12):
Les Tremaine and Tony Clay in an original Carfin Morse thriller, The.

Speaker 4 (03:50:23):

Speaker 2 (03:50:40):
Five o'clock in the dark shill of the morning in
the Great Gray.

Speaker 5 (03:50:44):
Castle on a small unidentified island somewhere off the west
coast of Canada.

Speaker 2 (03:50:50):
At last, Doc.

Speaker 5 (03:50:51):
Knows what is in store for him. He learned from
Linda Joyce two hours ago, when the two were locked
down underground in a dungeon, setted from a hungry mountain
lion only by bars. Then he learned that in two hours,
when the last of his poker chips are gone, he's
to be turned loose on the island with a hungry cougar,

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and his only weapon of defense will be a knife
with an eight inch blade. Now he is back in
the big rooms where he's locked up with Jack and Reggie.

Speaker 2 (03:51:23):
Well, dog gone, Jack is the turn this thing yet? Now?
Sit down, Doc and tell.

Speaker 4 (03:51:28):
Us what happened.

Speaker 6 (03:51:29):
Yeah, well, it's just like I said about two hours ago,
while you and Reggie were still asleep.

Speaker 1 (03:51:34):
Why didn't you awaken us?

Speaker 4 (03:51:35):
Doc?

Speaker 6 (03:51:36):
Anyway, Cooper come in here and got me and took
me down into the cellar cellar, Well, anyway, a lot
of underground rooms where he keeps his mountain lion.

Speaker 2 (03:51:44):
Stuff like that. Is that where the cats are live
down in the lower regions of the castle, Well some
of them is anyway, Yeah, go on.

Speaker 1 (03:51:52):
Well, and then he opened the door and there was
Linda down with the mountain lion.

Speaker 6 (03:51:55):
You ain't kidding there, non fella. And what's more, she
was chained to the wall.

Speaker 4 (03:52:00):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 6 (03:52:01):
I'm telling you, Jack, it's just like I said, one
big room with armbars reaching from the floor to the ceiling,
running down the middle of the room.

Speaker 2 (03:52:10):
On one side of the room was Linda.

Speaker 6 (03:52:11):
On the other side a big cat with green and
yellow eyes, laying on his belly, watching her and gnawing
and crunching bone.

Speaker 1 (03:52:18):
And she was chained to a wall down there with
that thing for ten hours. She told me, how was
she taking it?

Speaker 2 (03:52:24):
Who they durned? Bad? Honest?

Speaker 6 (03:52:26):
I don't know when I felt so sorry for anybody.
She's so blame scared. She wishes she was dead right now.

Speaker 2 (03:52:32):
Well, you don't look so composed yourself. Well if you
knew what I know, Well why don't we What are
you holding out on us for now? Jack? Lookie, you've
seen in two poka chips.

Speaker 4 (03:52:42):
That's all you have left.

Speaker 2 (03:52:43):
That's all two chips. Two hours And you know what's
going to happen to me when there's two hours is up? Dunk?
You know? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (03:52:51):
Linda told me. You know what she said, Jack? You
know what that little old gal said to me, Jack?
Down there and the black hole scared so bad she
wished she was dead. And with that cougar thing of
gnawing and crunching and messing with them dead bones.

Speaker 2 (03:53:04):
Oh look here, Dark, stop it.

Speaker 6 (03:53:06):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you what she said. They're stripping
me down, Jack, stripping me as clean as a whistle.
Maybe they'll leave my shoes. I don't know about that talk.
Will you listen to me, No, you listen to me.

Speaker 2 (03:53:17):
It's kind of interesting, fella, Yeah, yeah, kind of interesting talk. Please. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (03:53:21):
When they come and get me in my birthday suit,
that is all except my shoes. Maybe they're gonna turn
me loose out there on the main part of the
island with nothing but a stab of knife.

Speaker 2 (03:53:30):
What do you mean, turn your loose on the main
part of the island. Yes, they are.

Speaker 6 (03:53:34):
And that ain't all they're turning loose out there, No, sir,
you bet you it ain't. They're turning loose a nice, big,
tawny mountain lion that ain't had nothing to eat for
ten days. That's ridiculous, Dark, It ain't ridiculous. It's just
the way Linda told it to me. Scared to death.
Wonder if that's what was gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (03:53:49):
To her too.

Speaker 1 (03:53:50):
It's happened before.

Speaker 2 (03:53:51):
Yeah, Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 6 (03:53:53):
That's why the other folks before us who tried to
find Alexander Archer disappeared out of the world and ain't
never been heard of since, unless you count that skeleton
we've seen out on the island yesterday here and from them, Doc, Doc,
listen to me. I'm scared, Jack, I ain't never been
scared in my life before. I know that now, and
I'm only the first. There's you and Reggie and Linda
after me.

Speaker 4 (03:54:13):
Yes, yes, of course.

Speaker 2 (03:54:14):
Doc. Stop sitting there rocking like that. Get hold of yourself.

Speaker 6 (03:54:18):
Everything fixed out there, so the coup can go any place.
I can sneaking up, crawling along his belly, his mouth
of watering hamburger for a mountain lion. That's all I
am living, walk on hamburger, Jack, You you slap me?

Speaker 2 (03:54:33):
I did? Yeah, yeah, I had to do that to
Linda down there in the cage. You all right now? Yeah?
I think so? Still got the creeping jitters. And that's
exactly what Cooper's been working for. He's finally broken you down.

Speaker 6 (03:54:47):
I was being down there in the dock with that thing,
cracking balls and watching in the smell.

Speaker 2 (03:54:52):
That's that meaty smell. Don't get started again. Are you
sure you haven't been framed?

Speaker 17 (03:54:57):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (03:54:57):
Oh, what you mean? Are you sure? Linda on the
Mountain Lion worked just a setup, but the whole thing
wasn't just another of Cooper's experiments in fear. You mean
Linda was fakan. If you think she was, you're crazy.
They ain't.

Speaker 6 (03:55:10):
Nobody could act like she was unless they meant it. Besides,
she's Alexander Archer's need.

Speaker 1 (03:55:15):
What's that.

Speaker 6 (03:55:16):
Yeah, she's been thrown in with Cooper so she could
reach her uncle. That's why she was so interested last
night when you told her Archie was here in the castle.

Speaker 4 (03:55:24):
So that's where she fits into the picture.

Speaker 2 (03:55:26):
Yeah, and that's why she's in trouble now. She got
to looking around and found where Archer was being Hell,
just as she was getting to the room, Cooper caught her.
That's something to know. But we're getting away from the
subject right now. We've got to concentrate on you and fella.
If anybody ever needed concentrated on it's me.

Speaker 4 (03:55:44):
It's hard to swallow. It seems incredible that Cooper would
do what you described.

Speaker 2 (03:55:50):
I know it's true. If a girl ever told the truth,
Linda georce was a telling it. Well, then we've got
two hours to do something about it. I still want
look at Jack, what.

Speaker 6 (03:56:01):
About that walk Cooper and doctor Thorn took us on
yesterday morning out on the main part of the island,
quite the motive swift water about the castle, so that
once across the drawbridge, neither man nor beast can get back,
and all the brush and undergrowth cut out, and all
the limbs trimmed off the trees up twenty thirty feet.
I failed to have a bad time trying to get

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up a tree away from a mountain lion.

Speaker 1 (03:56:23):
I say, it's all perfectly clear, Jack. Don't you remember
them morning doc not to go down into the little
gully because he would be trapped.

Speaker 6 (03:56:31):
Yeah, And to keep away from hollow stumps, and that
about going on that rocky ledge because one fella tried
to do and that's where he died.

Speaker 1 (03:56:39):
And then they kept repeating over and over. Keep out
in the open. Out in the open. Was his only chance?

Speaker 2 (03:56:46):
Jack, are you listening, Yes, yes, I'm just thinking about
a person's chance of escape by water. But they ain't
a chance, Jack, And undertow that sucker fella under before
he had waited out knee deep all around the island.
They made it pretty plain that there's no escape, that
you're going to have to face that animal. Yeah, such
nice people.

Speaker 4 (03:57:06):
What do they do with Linda Joyce? When they brought
you back up here.

Speaker 1 (03:57:09):
They took out to I don't know what they're doing
with her? But Jack, are we just going to sit here?

Speaker 2 (03:57:16):
Why aren't we doing something?

Speaker 4 (03:57:17):
If you can suggest something?

Speaker 1 (03:57:19):
What about getting that door open?

Speaker 2 (03:57:20):
Doc?

Speaker 1 (03:57:21):
You say you can open any lock that's made.

Speaker 2 (03:57:23):
They go a life like that, not without some tools.

Speaker 6 (03:57:27):
Besides, even if I could, the guard outside the door
couldn't help knowing what's going on.

Speaker 1 (03:57:31):
And the windows barred, and even if.

Speaker 2 (03:57:33):
They weren't fired, it's a good fifty feet straight down
on the moat right below.

Speaker 1 (03:57:37):
We did it in Seattle, tied the bedclothes together. The
water's too swift, and the banks are straight up and down.
It just won't work, Reggie.

Speaker 2 (03:57:46):
Besides, we can't cut to them bars. And that's all
there is about it.

Speaker 1 (03:57:49):
But there's something Jack, Jack, I'm not going to sit
here and let them take Doc out either.

Speaker 2 (03:57:54):
A mind, next time they opened the door, we make
a break. Yeah, you mean we're going into act. It's desperate.
We haven't got a chance in a thousand. What do
we care about that? I feel better already. Why have
we waited this long?

Speaker 6 (03:58:07):
Yeah, that's what's been the matter with me sitting around
doing nothing.

Speaker 2 (03:58:10):
No wonder I got scared.

Speaker 6 (03:58:12):
I ain't never been scared when things is busting. What
we've been a waiting for, we've been waiting for a break.
The odds have been too heavy against us.

Speaker 1 (03:58:20):
Then you've thought of something.

Speaker 2 (03:58:21):
No, but there's nothing to lose now. If Duck's going
out to be eaten the live by a mountain lion,
he'd better die right here and now. Yeah, I'm fighting folks.
I can fight back at I see. But if Doc goes,
you and I will go next. So we might as
well make a fight for it right here now.

Speaker 6 (03:58:38):
Now, you're a talking son. That makes me feel like
Doc long again, Reggie. Yes, see that oak chair over there, Yes, naturally?
Can you smash it up, pull it apart, do what
those oak legs will make? Just about the right science
clubs to lay a man out.

Speaker 4 (03:58:53):
I get it.

Speaker 6 (03:58:54):
I'll take care of it. Hey, Jack, we're a fist fighters.
What we want clubs for? We want something more than
them fists to fight gunman with it. And if you
want to tackle that wolf dog Prometheus with your fist,
oh dog gone, I plum forgot about him. Wait, don't
make kidling wood out of it, Reggie.

Speaker 1 (03:59:15):
No, I'm not just saving the solid oak legs though.

Speaker 2 (03:59:19):
What we're gonna do the minute the door opens, rush
out and lay everybody out inside. No, if we can
pick them off one at a time before they realize,
say here you are beautiful clubs. Oh go, hey, I
want that one all right. Now, each one lay his
club where it won't be seen at first glance, and
yet where he can grab it up quick. Yeah, I

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get you. What do you mean, Jack?

Speaker 4 (03:59:40):
Undoubtedly the next person in here will be Cooper.

Speaker 2 (03:59:43):
Yeah that's right.

Speaker 1 (03:59:44):
Well let him get in.

Speaker 2 (03:59:45):
Let the guard get the door shut before we make
a move.

Speaker 1 (03:59:48):
But I say he'll be armed, and he's bound to
have that wolf dog with him. Wait until he's in
and the guard has closed and locked the door. Hey,
take your signal from me, Good evening.

Speaker 2 (04:00:01):
Gentlemen, God close and lock the door.

Speaker 1 (04:00:06):
Oh right here, I'll be talking to these men quite
a few minutes to hear it from me. This h No,
sit down, sit down, don't stand on ceremony.

Speaker 2 (04:00:21):
What do you want, Cooper? Why? I think it's time
to collect another poker chip from mister Long. Yeah, yeah,
I guess it is, ain't it?

Speaker 9 (04:00:30):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (04:00:30):
Yes, and that will leave you only one? Uh huh
you want I should give it to you now?

Speaker 2 (04:00:37):
Oh, yes, if you will please? Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:00:40):
It is God in Jenner holding me and the dog.

Speaker 2 (04:00:46):
He was the clubs the club. He's gonna jump, He's
gonna go anybody hurt. That brute slashed my arm, but badly.

Speaker 1 (04:01:00):
But when he jumped you dog, I kept Cooper's body
over my face and neck.

Speaker 2 (04:01:04):
He couldn't get it me.

Speaker 1 (04:01:05):
Is Cooper dead?

Speaker 8 (04:01:07):
No?

Speaker 2 (04:01:08):
No, the wolf wouldn't touch him. Yeah, give me your hand, stuff.

Speaker 4 (04:01:12):
Him under the bed.

Speaker 2 (04:01:13):
Huh what are we gonna do now?

Speaker 4 (04:01:14):
If we can't rule the guard in here? Is that
wolf's body on the site from the door? It is
all right?

Speaker 2 (04:01:23):
Hey, God, hey there, Well do you want? Cooper wants
you in here? What does he want? Didn't you hear
the noise? That wolf's gone mad?

Speaker 16 (04:01:33):
He wants you to shoot him.

Speaker 1 (04:01:34):
It's not about that noise was now's heen?

Speaker 2 (04:01:37):
We got him locked in the next room. Hurry up?

Speaker 4 (04:01:40):
Were you.

Speaker 2 (04:01:45):
Did your share? I mean we're added boy Jack, not
so loud here, get his body into the room. Hey,
once you shutting the door for us, And now comes
the hardest part.

Speaker 4 (04:02:00):
We'll be shot on site.

Speaker 2 (04:02:01):
So so we're not giving up no matter what happens, right, right,
everything or nothing?

Speaker 5 (04:02:08):
And won't they be surprised to see me at the
Pearly Gates. The adventures of Jack, Doc and Reggie have

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come to you in I Love a Mystery.

Speaker 11 (04:02:53):
Created and written by carlton E.

Speaker 5 (04:02:54):
Morse, Scripts copyrighted by Morsel Coo Incorporated, Produced and direct
did by story editor Jim Harmon, featuring Les Tremaine as
Jack Packard and Tony Clay as Doc. Long consultants Frank
Brazy and David Lloyd. You're announcer, Fred Foy. This presentation

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Morrise audio novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie specialist in
crime and adventures, now following the Northwest Rail of a

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missing Millionaire, a Killer Cougar and the Phantom Castle. This

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Tremaine and Tony Clay in an original Carton Morse.

Speaker 4 (04:04:19):
Thriller, The Fear that Creeps like a cat.

Speaker 5 (04:04:41):
Six o'clock in the morning in the Great Old Castle
on a tiny unidentified island somewhere off the west coast
of Canada. In just one hour, Doc is supposed to
participate in the scientific experiment prepared for him by Cooper
and doctor Thorne.

Speaker 4 (04:04:58):
The experiment to.

Speaker 5 (04:04:59):
Con of Doc armed with a knife, to battle to
the death with a hungry mountain lion in the woods
of the miles Square little Island. The test is to
measure fear in the human being and what it will
do to help or hinder in an emergency. Can Doc's
fear make him strong and desperate enough to overcome such

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overpowering odds? Which is the strongest force in the mountain lion?
Hunger or fear of a human being?

Speaker 4 (04:05:28):
That's the test.

Speaker 5 (04:05:30):
But at the moment it appears that the test may
never be made, for in their prison chamber they have
knocked Cooper and the guard at the door unconscious and
killed his wolf dog, Prometheus, and now they are on
the point of creeping forth in an attempt to overpower
the rest of Cooper's forces in the castle.

Speaker 2 (04:05:50):
Well, come on, Jack, let's get a going. There's no
use barging out there in the hall until we know
how objective.

Speaker 1 (04:05:55):
Well, that's easy. Our objective is to get off his
island quick.

Speaker 2 (04:05:58):
Yes, but let's know what we're doing. What we have
to do to get away.

Speaker 1 (04:06:02):
Well, for one thing, there's seven or eight gods to
be disposed of.

Speaker 2 (04:06:06):
Hey, they won't all be on the job at six
o'clock in the morning. There'll be enough to give us trouble. Now,
First the guards, Then I think we want to capture
frank who Cooper's handy man, the fellow that's been slapping
us around. We haven't time for revenge now. But he's
the one who piloted the launch in through the reef. Right.

Speaker 1 (04:06:24):
Oh, we need him to take us safely out across
the reef.

Speaker 2 (04:06:28):
Yeah, I hadn't thought of that all right, Then that's
our plan. Put the gods out of commission, capture Frankie,
and make for the launch that suits me. Let's go.
Hey wait a minute, though, what about Landa Joyce. We
ain't leaving her behind White and Alexander Archer. After all,
he's the reason for us being here. They go with

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us naturally, You mean you as a planet that way
all along, certainly, Alvin, let's go and above everything kick together? Yeah,
come on, got your old club readye brother? Shure we
go here. Wait a minute, we're making too much noise.

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Take off your shoes. Try the strings together and sling
them around your neck.

Speaker 6 (04:07:18):
Yeah, okay, only I hope somebody don't go and step
on my toes.

Speaker 8 (04:07:21):
Man?

Speaker 2 (04:07:22):
Do I heat having my toes stepped? All right, what
about it? I'm on set right toe.

Speaker 4 (04:07:28):
Then let's go.

Speaker 2 (04:07:29):
Keep your eyes open.

Speaker 6 (04:07:32):
Did you ever see a gloomier place in this at
six o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 2 (04:07:36):
Half flight of dawn, bit on the dark and dreary side.

Speaker 4 (04:07:40):
Keep it to yourself?

Speaker 2 (04:07:41):
Quite seen anything of anybody? Yet? No neither have I
this here? It takes us down them wide marble steps
to the main floor. Don'tnock, but you keep quiet? Sure?
Why not thuring these stone floors. My feets are getting.

Speaker 4 (04:07:56):
Cold, but you heat as a dag. Now, then we're
going downstairs.

Speaker 1 (04:08:01):
Doesn't seem to be anyone up here, Hey, Jack, let's
put our shoes back on. I fight a lot better
with my shoes on.

Speaker 4 (04:08:07):
Right as well.

Speaker 2 (04:08:08):
It won't make any more noise than your mouth, of course,
not huh what do you say?

Speaker 4 (04:08:13):
Quiet?

Speaker 1 (04:08:14):
Come on, Richie, put your shoes back on, But we'll
make such a belly lot of noise doesn't seem to matter.

Speaker 4 (04:08:20):
Apparently the only guard on Judy was the one we
got in front of our door.

Speaker 6 (04:08:25):
If that's the way it is, then all we got
to do is find Frankie and Linda and Archer.

Speaker 2 (04:08:29):
Sure that's all, well it is. Do you know where
to start looking for any one of the three? Huh?

Speaker 1 (04:08:35):
No?

Speaker 2 (04:08:35):
But well, come on downstairs and see what we can
do about clearing the coast for a quick getaway. You see,
we ain't making so much off of no Jack, duc Wait,
what's matter, Richie? Look down there in a shadow?

Speaker 6 (04:08:51):
Well, well, now gone? A guard sitting down there with
a gun across his knee.

Speaker 2 (04:08:56):
Apparently sound asleep? Jack? How about me a tip toeing
down there?

Speaker 1 (04:09:01):
Nothing of the kind, Doc, I saw him first, And
if any one of us goes down after him, I
go one person.

Speaker 2 (04:09:08):
Would have a much better chance of getting down without
waking him.

Speaker 1 (04:09:11):
Sure, how about me a getting started, Jack, I'll go
myself and settle the argument.

Speaker 2 (04:09:15):
Hey, no, what about a doctor? Okay, let him go,
only smack him? Good, Reggie, you think I won't.

Speaker 1 (04:09:21):
You have a lot of steps to go down. Take
it easy, right? Oh now, then, you bloody blighter, stand up?

Speaker 24 (04:09:34):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (04:09:35):
I said? Stand up? Quite?

Speaker 1 (04:09:38):
I don't like bashing a sleeping man, but I don't
in the least mind tapping a man on his feet.

Speaker 2 (04:09:46):
Reggie, Reggie, look out, what's the matter? Jack? Get back upstairs? Here,
get back upstairs? Not very well? Or shoot?

Speaker 1 (04:09:57):
I say, Reggie, you shot? I slipped and fell.

Speaker 6 (04:10:02):
I'm all right, good boy, Reggie, good boy. Fella from
the who shot at me? Our friend, Doctor Thorne?

Speaker 2 (04:10:10):
Yeah, durn his hide? Hey, you thorn fella? What's the idea?

Speaker 1 (04:10:14):
I say, there's dozens of them. Where did they come from?

Speaker 2 (04:10:17):
Doctor Thorne? I warn you not to come any further
than the foot of those stairs.

Speaker 16 (04:10:21):
Shall we go up and get them?

Speaker 2 (04:10:23):
Doctor? How are you, Frankie, old kid? New frank?

Speaker 1 (04:10:27):
I want to talk to them first?

Speaker 2 (04:10:29):
How did you men get out of her own? My
knocking out? Cooper and the guard comean. Cooper entered your
room and bent out his wolf dog, Shuck, And we
took care of him too, And he's about the deadest
wolf dog you ever seen. There's no yoshoe men making
all this trouble.

Speaker 1 (04:10:46):
You haven't got a chance of getting away, Reggie, I could.
Did you hear what I said?

Speaker 2 (04:10:53):
Give us a minute, will you? We're talking it over.

Speaker 1 (04:10:56):
Go ahead, Lataria.

Speaker 2 (04:10:57):
What about the furniture jack, Pull it all over here
by the head of the stairs. We're going to need
it for ammunition if they rush us. Now you're a
talkin fellows.

Speaker 4 (04:11:07):
Hurry, doc, and I'll stay here at the head of
the stairs and keep them occupied.

Speaker 2 (04:11:11):
Right o, All right, doctor Thorne, you're ready to surrender
all not until we've asked you some questions there? That
is it? Will you make me a deal? But sort
of a dear. You had every intention of using us
for guinea pigs. We were to die. Now we've got
Cooper in our hands. Maybe he's going to die. You

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men would murder mister Cooper? Why not? You and he
were going to murder us.

Speaker 1 (04:11:38):
But we're scientists.

Speaker 2 (04:11:41):
If you kill mister Cooper, it's a vantom vest of life.
I won't argue the fine points of morality. Death won't
embarrass Cooper anymore than it will. Ask Now, then, if
we save Cooper's life, what can you guarantee us?

Speaker 1 (04:11:55):
I don't intend to guarantee you anything. I've got nine
men here can overpower you before you can touch Cooper.
All I'm doing is giving you a chance to so
run before you'll get hurt.

Speaker 4 (04:12:07):
He's Reggie coming.

Speaker 2 (04:12:08):
He's got chairs and tables and benches piled up and
more coming. This is your last chance I thought you're
going to do. I'm afraid you'll just have to come
and get us. Start with Thorn. Give me your gun,
doctor Thorn, ud.

Speaker 1 (04:12:22):
No circumstances are these men to be shot, Frank if
we want them.

Speaker 2 (04:12:26):
Alive, yes, you can feed us to the mountain lions.

Speaker 1 (04:12:28):
I suppose all right, frank, take your men and go
get them.

Speaker 2 (04:12:32):
Yeah, okay, all right, come on right here, then come Reggie.

Speaker 1 (04:12:37):
Right Ho, give them this Chesterfield to start with.

Speaker 2 (04:12:41):
Grab a hole, Jack, let her go down. Gone.

Speaker 6 (04:12:55):
We should have busted up to charge of the light
Brigade that time, right, Ho, Looking at them.

Speaker 2 (04:13:01):
Three guys ain't on the feet yet. Come on, doctor Thorn,
what's the matter with your gang?

Speaker 6 (04:13:06):
Send them up again, Frankie, go up and get those
men with them throwing furniture at us.

Speaker 2 (04:13:12):
You heard what I said, Go up and get them.
If you give me that gun of.

Speaker 29 (04:13:15):
Yours, absurdly not now, I ain't going up them stairs
and have them for furniture and me.

Speaker 2 (04:13:21):
How about the rest of you.

Speaker 1 (04:13:22):
Mug Hey, what's the matter down there?

Speaker 2 (04:13:26):
You got mute on the hands, doctor Thorne?

Speaker 1 (04:13:29):
Now then, gentlemen, up with your hands. Cooper, what's all
this nonsense, Doctor Thorn?

Speaker 2 (04:13:35):
It's the Cooper. It's not you.

Speaker 1 (04:13:37):
Certainly, certainly, I've got these men covered.

Speaker 2 (04:13:39):
Come up and get them.

Speaker 1 (04:13:40):
Hey, Flank, did you hurt up?

Speaker 2 (04:13:42):
Go up and get them? Sure, sure, come on you,
marg hey Jack, are we gonna take this?

Speaker 3 (04:13:47):
No, get dor up on you.

Speaker 29 (04:13:49):
I'll shoot the go ahead and shoot. Get that min yourks. Well,

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mister Cooper, that's all of them. We shouldn't have let
mister Yorke roll down those.

Speaker 2 (04:14:15):
Stairs like that? Is that conscious?

Speaker 1 (04:14:18):
How about Packard and mister Long Doctor Thorn and both
unconscious but not badly hurt. Packard's got a cut on
the head that will need three or four stitches. Take
care of it. I want these men kept in good health. Frank,
you and one of the men go down and bring
mister Yorke's body up here. Sure, sure, come on you margs.

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The rest of you men go back to your posts.

Speaker 2 (04:14:43):
Ash.

Speaker 1 (04:14:43):
Yes, three fine fighting men here, Doctor Thorn, different than
any specimens we've ever had before.

Speaker 4 (04:14:50):
Dangerous, very dangerous.

Speaker 1 (04:14:52):
They said they knocked you unconscious, and they did.

Speaker 2 (04:14:56):
I recovered.

Speaker 1 (04:14:57):
Made the mistake of not tying me up. You have
certainly saved the situation.

Speaker 2 (04:15:03):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (04:15:03):
Laying down over there, easy with him, that's all sure?

Speaker 2 (04:15:08):
Sure, come, I.

Speaker 1 (04:15:11):
What did you find, Doctor Thorn? How was mister Yorke
nothing broken? Good, that's very good. That blow on the
head that knocked him unconscious.

Speaker 2 (04:15:22):
No, might be a slight conclussion, but I doubt it.

Speaker 1 (04:15:26):
As a fine figure of a man, doctor, A fine
figure of a man, a youth and courage and spirit. Yes, yes,
you know, doctor Thorn. If we can create real fear
in that magnificent body, his feats of strength would be prodigious, prodigious.
What about Doc Lorne here? He has just a half

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hour moren till we should begin preparing him for the experiment.

Speaker 4 (04:15:53):
Yes, the experiment.

Speaker 1 (04:15:55):
Will he be fully recovered by that time I can
get him ready, he'll have his full strength and the
clear mind.

Speaker 2 (04:16:02):
Positively good. Good.

Speaker 1 (04:16:05):
Then I'll go along and tell Frankie to prepare cougar
You're using the Tony lionis hunt you? Yes, gaunt, hungry,
viciously hungry.

Speaker 5 (04:16:53):
carlton E. Morse, Scripts copyrighted by Morsel COO Incorporated, Produced

(04:17:14):
as Jack Packard and Tony Clay as Doc Long. Others
in the cast included Jim Harmon as Frankie, Jack Lester
as the rustic Mister Cooper, Art Hearn as Captain Frenchie,
Corey Seaton as Laura, and Barbara Gratz as Missus McGinnis.
Consultants Frank Brezy and David Lloyd. You're announcer, Fred Foy.

(04:17:38):
This presentation has come from Hollywood. I Love a Mystery,
a Carltony Morse audio novel featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie

(04:17:58):
specialist in crime, an adventure now following the Northwest trail
of a missing millionaire, a killer cougar, and the Phantom Castle.

(04:18:35):
Les Tremaine and Tony Clay in an original Carlton Morse thriller.

Speaker 4 (04:18:45):
The Fear that Creeps like a Cat.

Speaker 5 (04:19:06):
Seven o'clock in the morning, and the Great Old Castle
on a tiny unidentified island somewhere off the west coast
of Canada. The time has come for Doc to face
the fate that Richard Cooper and doctor Thorne have prepared
for him. The three comrades Jack, Doc, and Reggie made
one daring attempt to fight their way out of the castle,

(04:19:28):
but were overwhelmed by sheer force of numbers. All three
of them were unconscious before the battle was over. That
was an hour ago, and now at seven o'clock all
three have been restored to consciousness and are seated in
the Great Reception Hall, their wrists handcuffed to their chairs.

Speaker 2 (04:19:47):
Well, if I gotta go, why don't I go and
get it over with it?

Speaker 1 (04:19:50):
All in good time, mister Longe, All in good time.
Gotta take me out there and toss me to a
mountain lion.

Speaker 2 (04:19:56):
Huh oh no, no, no, no, that isn't the idea
at all.

Speaker 6 (04:20:00):
Huh You mean me and one of them cougars ain't
gonna fight it out among ourselves out there on the island.

Speaker 2 (04:20:06):
Doctor Thorn's coming with his instruments.

Speaker 1 (04:20:08):
Hey, what instruments?

Speaker 2 (04:20:10):
Oh? Yes, yes, are you ready, doctor Thorn? Yes, yes,
I believe, mister Cooper, I believe. I am.

Speaker 1 (04:20:16):
I see you have mister Long stripped to the waist.

Speaker 2 (04:20:20):
Now you look at here. What's going on here? White?

Speaker 1 (04:20:22):
You got there? Just sit quietly, mister Long.

Speaker 2 (04:20:26):
I'm not going to do anything else for my wrist.
Handcuff to my chair.

Speaker 1 (04:20:29):
Yes, now, if you just take this thermometer into your mouth.

Speaker 2 (04:20:33):
Hey, I don't know whether I thank you.

Speaker 1 (04:20:36):
Just close your lips now, then, mister Cooper, do you
make notations?

Speaker 2 (04:20:43):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:20:43):
Yes, yes, certainly, doctor Thorn. Pulse normal normal, eh, yes,
Respiration slightly over normal, some slight sign of agitation, doctor Thorn.
Oh yes, reflected greatly sharpened coopers of eyes slightly enlarged.

Speaker 2 (04:21:00):
Reflects his sharping pupils and lars.

Speaker 1 (04:21:02):
Now there, and.

Speaker 2 (04:21:03):
Let's have that thermometer.

Speaker 1 (04:21:05):
Yeah, you should order flavor your thermometer, doctor Thorne.

Speaker 2 (04:21:08):
Make it more interesting to suck on temperature very slightly
on the eyes. Will you tell me what you all
doing this for?

Speaker 1 (04:21:15):
Hubrit signs of nervousness expressed in continued shifting of feet.
What do you mean shifting the feet, yes, doctor, and
increased stident quality and voice dog gone you fella? Yes, yes,
And wouldn't you put down that startle curiosity which he
shows in each of our statements.

Speaker 2 (04:21:34):
Wouldn't you put that down to a rising fear? Oh? Definitely, Jack, Jack.
I can't stand it any longer. I tell you, I can't.

Speaker 1 (04:21:43):
I can't sitting here like this and watching them make
cold blooded analysis of dark Will.

Speaker 2 (04:21:48):
You cut it out, Reggie? You're certainly not helping Doc's
morality with your hysteria. What do I care? What do
I care?

Speaker 1 (04:21:55):
I'm afraid.

Speaker 2 (04:21:56):
Do you hear me? I'm afraid, Hey, Reggie, cut it out?
Will you No?

Speaker 1 (04:22:00):
I won't if you think I'm going to sit here
and like it while those two inhumane jackals sniff about
for living human flesh to destroy. Ready, you're crazy for here,
mister Cooper. It appears a fine case of hysteria as
they've ellyptote on the our noses. Yes, yes, interesting, interesting.

Speaker 2 (04:22:21):
Get away from me, Get away from me? Do you
hear now? My boy?

Speaker 1 (04:22:25):
I warn you don't come near. Don't come near. I'll
sink my teeth into the first one who comes within range.
The fear of the trapped animal, courage of terror, desperation. Well,
what else are we but trapped animals? Cage examined, talked
about to our faces as impersonally, as though we didn't understand.

Speaker 2 (04:22:45):
Monsters, you monsters.

Speaker 1 (04:22:46):
Do you understand, mister Cooper? This specimen is developing into
a much more interesting case than the earth. Hey, how
isn't that specimen interesting case? Doesn't it occurred to you
that we're living human beings like yourselves?

Speaker 2 (04:23:04):
No, no, not like that. No.

Speaker 1 (04:23:06):
I'd rather die like this than be contaminated with the
stain of blood on your hands. I think we should
send mister York out this morning instead of mister Long.

Speaker 2 (04:23:16):
Now, look what you went and done, readie.

Speaker 1 (04:23:17):
Send me out, Go ahead, send me out. I'd rather
be any place than chained to this chair, tortured in
mind and body, waiting waiting. No, go away, don't.

Speaker 2 (04:23:29):
Come near me. Get behind his chair.

Speaker 1 (04:23:30):
Doctor Thorne put a gag in his mouth. Then he
can't bite. No, no, I tell you keep away, keep
there there. That'll take care of his desire to bite. Now, then,
mister Cooper, will you write down these new observations.

Speaker 2 (04:23:47):
Well, let's see.

Speaker 1 (04:23:48):
I think he's in our files as a specimen age
twenty four, isn't he?

Speaker 2 (04:23:52):
That's right? Yes? Jack? What's eating? Ready? Anyway? None of
us is showing up to a very good advantage on
this adventure. I'm afraid some.

Speaker 1 (04:24:00):
I think queer here, mister Cooper. Eh, now what's that?
Well's normal respiration?

Speaker 2 (04:24:05):
The normal? What good?

Speaker 1 (04:24:06):
Heavens, doctor Thorne? A man couldn't be in this fit
of hysteria and show normal heart and long action. I
know at the pupils of his eyes nervously flexus perfectly control.

Speaker 4 (04:24:19):
What's he here?

Speaker 2 (04:24:20):
Doctor Thorne?

Speaker 4 (04:24:21):
What does it mean?

Speaker 2 (04:24:22):
Mister York? Now you're a fraud? What's that?

Speaker 1 (04:24:26):
What did you say for your friend?

Speaker 2 (04:24:28):
Your kids?

Speaker 1 (04:24:28):
Apparently trying to assume the role of a hysterical man
for some purpose of his own take the gag out
of his mouth?

Speaker 2 (04:24:36):
Yes? Yes, so that worth it? What do you mean? Jack?

Speaker 1 (04:24:39):
So that was it? There you are?

Speaker 2 (04:24:42):
What's the idea, mister York that you think you could
fool me? For one minute?

Speaker 1 (04:24:46):
I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (04:24:47):
I hoped I could. But why, young man? Why what
was your object?

Speaker 1 (04:24:51):
I thought if I could sell you on the fact
that I was in a sweat of terror, you would
send me out instead.

Speaker 2 (04:24:58):
Of doc Hey, what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (04:25:01):
You are trying to muscle in on my date with
that the mountain line, if you want to put it
that way. But during your ornery hydride, apparently the spirit
of altruism is pervading the halls of science.

Speaker 2 (04:25:12):
And I don't suppose you'd understand that, would you, Cooper? No, No,
I don't think I do. That's another nice little paragraph
for your treatise on fear that in the ordinary human
the desire to come to the aid of a hell
of being and distress is stronger than fear, even the
fear of death.

Speaker 1 (04:25:29):
Mister York's wasting our time. I think we have a
complete record of data on mister Long.

Speaker 6 (04:25:35):
All right, all right, I'm going out and face a
mountain line.

Speaker 2 (04:25:38):
What else?

Speaker 1 (04:25:39):
The problem in fear psychology, which we're studying today is twofold.
First to what heights, what super strength?

Speaker 2 (04:25:48):
What cunning?

Speaker 1 (04:25:49):
Can the mind, the human mind and body be raised
when stung by delish of fear?

Speaker 2 (04:25:55):
Yeah? Number two? In know that the mountain lion is
a cowardly beast.

Speaker 1 (04:26:00):
They are interested in finding God where a hunger is
a stronger horse in a cowardly animal, or where a
fear will dominate even the annoying pangs of hunger.

Speaker 4 (04:26:13):
An interesting experiment, vital to our study.

Speaker 2 (04:26:15):
There's only one trouble with your experiment. Yes, but's that
isn't a free I wonder I have wonder Cooper.

Speaker 1 (04:26:23):
Perhaps this would be a good time to tell him
the rest. Yes, yes, y, Yes, we have a little
surprise for you, mister Long.

Speaker 2 (04:26:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:26:32):
Yes, we've decided at the last minute that you are
not to go on this last adventure alone. I say,
will you send me?

Speaker 2 (04:26:41):
Oh no, that's not.

Speaker 1 (04:26:43):
Possible, mister York You you mean Jack. No, I'm speaking
of Linda Joyce. Hey, you don't mean yes side of
mister Packard. Linda joyous. But a girl you can't do that.
She won't have a chance. It will give heroic young
friend here more incentive chance to stroll through the woods

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with a beautiful young woman.

Speaker 2 (04:27:06):
It ain't fair. That's take an advantage. Go ahead, send
me out, but don't send her. I can't do it.
You can't dial with on.

Speaker 1 (04:27:13):
I'll go bring Linda in. Yes, yes, I'll release mister
Long from his chair. Yes, I'll be right.

Speaker 2 (04:27:20):
Back with her. Jack Jack at he said, we can
do to stop.

Speaker 1 (04:27:24):
There tell's nothing, mister Long. Now, then when I release
one wrist, let over on the other. One hand is
still cut to the chair and your ankles to the
legs of the chair. Don't try to be heroic.

Speaker 2 (04:27:37):
Yeah, hopefully there now you death like me.

Speaker 1 (04:27:42):
Good work.

Speaker 2 (04:27:42):
Dog kind of staggered him, even if I was sitting down.
Put your wrist upon the other one.

Speaker 1 (04:27:47):
You'll just leave both hands cut to one about my ankle,
I'm going to release them now.

Speaker 6 (04:27:54):
Well anyway I can stretch. My legs begin to get cramped. Hey, oh, yes,
my dear, Yes, hell, let along, Hello.

Speaker 2 (04:28:03):
Linda, Hey, hey fella, it ain't as bad as that.
Well that, mister Long, up off of your chair.

Speaker 1 (04:28:10):
Yeah, LOOKI fella, we're gonna be all right.

Speaker 2 (04:28:13):
I'm not afraid. I just can't help crying. I just
can't help it.

Speaker 1 (04:28:18):
All right, let's get started, huh, Come along.

Speaker 6 (04:28:22):
Jack, Reggie. I can't go out like this. I'm not
ready bringing in Linda like that. Throw me all out
of stride.

Speaker 2 (04:28:30):
This ain't the wait to do it. I tell you,
I'm not ready. I ain't even said goodbye to Jack
and Reggie.

Speaker 1 (04:28:36):
Ugly, ugly Jack, ugly, everything's Uglyie. Yes, I've got one
of my hands loose. I think I broke my fun
but I got what good's that?

Speaker 4 (04:28:46):
Gould?

Speaker 17 (04:28:47):
You do?

Speaker 4 (04:28:47):
If I can break the arm off this.

Speaker 2 (04:28:49):
Chair before they get back, that's what I got to do.
Break the arm off this chair before they get back.

Speaker 1 (04:29:01):
Now, then down these steps to the drawbridge. Just a minute,
doctor Thorn. When you open the door, come now outside
to the drawredge. Wait now we'll know the drawredge right across.

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Now I lead the way, Doctor Thorn.

Speaker 2 (04:29:35):
This should do.

Speaker 1 (04:29:36):
I'll release you first, Miss Joyce. Now you'll, mister Long
keep your gun on him. Mister Cooper, Ah, there you are,
mister Long. You'll find a knife with an eight inch
blade stuck in that first tree over there. You'll have
five minutes before the lioness is released. I like, mister Cooper.

(04:29:57):
Back across the bridge. Good violin, then good luck, Miss Along.

Speaker 2 (04:30:01):
There's the drawbage, mister Cooper.

Speaker 1 (04:30:06):
Hello, man Ella, I reckon. My mama was rather. She
always said I'd come to a badian.

Speaker 5 (04:30:52):

Speaker 11 (04:31:03):

Speaker 4 (04:31:05):
Morse.

Speaker 5 (04:31:05):
Scripts copyrighted by Morselco Incorporated, Produced and directed by story
editor Jim Harmon, featuring Les Tremaine as Jack Packard and
Tony Clay as Doc Long consultants Frank Brezy and David Lloyd.

(04:31:37):
I Love a Mystery, a Carlton E Morse audio novel
featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie specialist in crime and adventure,
now following the Northwest trail of a missing Millionaire, a
killer Cougar and the Phantom Castle. This is Fred Foy

(04:32:23):
and producing Jim Harmon's presentation of Les Tremaine and Tony
Clay in an original Carton Morse thriller, The Fear That
Creeps Like a Cat seven o'clock in the morning and

(04:32:56):
the Great Gray Castle on an unidentified island somewhere off
the west coast of Canada. Doc and Linda Joyce have
been turned loose on the island outside the castle with
a hungry mountain lion. In Richard Cooper and Doctor Thorne's
scientific research into the realm of fear and terror, the

(04:33:16):
drawbridge has been drawn up and Doctor Thorn and Cooper
are on their way back to the Great reception hall
to await the outcome of their experiment. Thorn had left
Jack and Reggie with their wrists handcuffed to the arms
of their chairs. But while they are out of the room,
Jack and Reggie have been taking things into their own hands.

Speaker 1 (04:33:38):
Hurry, hurry, Jack. We can't have much time left.

Speaker 4 (04:33:40):
Yeah, there there is.

Speaker 2 (04:33:47):
You're free, Jack, you bet, I'm free. Now let's see
about you.

Speaker 1 (04:33:51):
I'm handcuffed to a solid oak chair.

Speaker 2 (04:33:53):
I care Let me see. Don't wait for me. You've
got to help doc. If I can break the arm
of chair that we can set the handcuffs right off.
I'm gonna tip the chair over on a side with
you in it. What's that for? So I can get
more leverage to care those times? Here goes.

Speaker 4 (04:34:12):
Sorry, no time to be careful now then, Yeah, those
arms were put on there to stay.

Speaker 2 (04:34:21):
Get up and jump on it. If it breaks, I'll
come down on you. It'll be a place. Well it goes. Yeah,
Now look over yourself, right ho.

Speaker 1 (04:34:38):
I say that?

Speaker 4 (04:34:39):
Did it?

Speaker 2 (04:34:40):
Yeah? Did I hurt you?

Speaker 1 (04:34:41):
Not at all? Now the other side, turn the chair over,
you go.

Speaker 2 (04:34:47):
The time doesn't seem to be a solid all right,
Here goes I hit on the back of my neck.
Hurt you.

Speaker 4 (04:34:57):
It's all right. Listen, Cooper, doctor Thorn coming back great
by the door when I'm inside.

Speaker 2 (04:35:07):
One shot on the jawer piece, don't miss.

Speaker 4 (04:35:11):
I'll get the word.

Speaker 2 (04:35:12):
Hold it now, get ready. Doctor Thorn has the keys
to these handcuffs.

Speaker 1 (04:35:22):
Which only goes to prove Richard Cooper and doctor Thorn
didn't have anything. A solid clip on the chin wouldn't
cure God.

Speaker 2 (04:35:29):
Let me hung at the cuffs. Dangle it from your wrists.
Now the other.

Speaker 4 (04:35:35):
Now unpassing money? Now that or Cooper up? Now I'm
the same with Thorn. Yeah there, and that takes care
of the two masterminds. Now do we go after Doc?

Speaker 2 (04:35:47):
Yeah? These are what we've been needing.

Speaker 1 (04:35:49):
Revolvers, I say, splendid after Doc now huh yes, Wait.

Speaker 2 (04:35:56):
Let's take these extra handcuffs along. Wait, they need them. Hurry.
Doc's out there with that mountain lion. Come on, hold it,
get back. What is it. Frankie's coming this way, Keep
her on the corner.

Speaker 4 (04:36:10):
He's like me twice, this is my part.

Speaker 2 (04:36:13):
Hold it now, hello, Frankie. My comments.

Speaker 1 (04:36:18):
Perfect Jack, here's a pair of handcuffs.

Speaker 2 (04:36:20):
All these arms are run. We'll cut him to this pillar. Well,
that takes care of Frankie. What about the other guards, though, Jack,
I heard Cooper say they were all down in the
servants quarters at breakfast, but they won't be there long.
Do you suppose there's any way we could lock them
down there? Keep them there, I wonder.

Speaker 4 (04:36:37):
Let's go see.

Speaker 1 (04:36:38):
But Doc and Linda Joyce out there, Jack.

Speaker 2 (04:36:41):
I know it. There's so many things that should be done,
but let's mop up as we go along. If the
guards get on the job, we'll be right back where
we were before. This is the way of the servants quarters.
Come on down me steps, listen all.

Speaker 4 (04:37:03):
Right here, All right, come on, John, never were down.

Speaker 2 (04:37:16):
Don't a man move or make a sound. We just
assumed shooters. Look at you, Reggie. Go over there at
the other end of the room and lock that door. Right.
You'll be interested to know if the Cooper and doctor
Thorne are in chains along with your fellow dog, Frankie. Jack.

Speaker 1 (04:37:31):
Yes, I can bar this door from the outside, the
same as that other one.

Speaker 2 (04:37:35):
Well ahead, then come around here through the passag You
man are prisoners. You'll remain in here until we get
this situation cleaned up. Thank you for your attention, good morning.

Speaker 4 (04:37:49):
Shoot the bars into place. Want more.

Speaker 2 (04:37:56):
There now, chain them into place.

Speaker 1 (04:38:01):
That's already quite No one will ever get out that door,
No this one.

Speaker 2 (04:38:07):
I think we got him all too. I counted eleven
in there.

Speaker 1 (04:38:10):
Now can we go after Doc?

Speaker 2 (04:38:11):
You bet? And on the run.

Speaker 4 (04:38:13):
Come on up the steps. This way, Reggie, This way
to the draw wrick.

Speaker 2 (04:38:20):
There, this is the door, reading up to the draw brick,
and there she is. Yes. Yeah, Wait a minute, how
are we going all ower it? Jack? We haven't time
to wait for that. Well, if you can tell me
how we're going to get across the moat? Wait a minute,
what did Cooper do? He didn't press up button? I
was watching him. He said, watch this, and as he

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raised his hand, the bridge began to descend, just being dramatic, like, hey,
maybe that's it.

Speaker 4 (04:38:48):
Maybe he's using a magic eye. Raise your hand, Reggie,
and walk back and forth along the rampart. Everything else
that's happened is on a part. So that says, sick
a magic tie.

Speaker 2 (04:39:04):
Here we go. She'd be gone, empy, But that's why
I'm shot. You're bound to hear us dark dark Yah.
Ready here we are, let's get the direction. Here we
are here. We are.

Speaker 24 (04:39:23):
Hi, flee this wait ready? Oh hi, Hi, We're getting
you here this way, this way, let's that's Why didn't

(04:39:51):
you come sooner? You come sooner?

Speaker 2 (04:39:55):
Let it works? Stop?

Speaker 7 (04:39:56):
Why didn't you come sooner?

Speaker 9 (04:39:58):
Here?

Speaker 2 (04:39:59):
Well, be kind of sweet.

Speaker 7 (04:40:00):
I think he's going to die.

Speaker 2 (04:40:03):
Die here, Let me go, Katy. He's a long way
from being dead. I say, you mean it lattered up?
Some pulse is good? Not much else of blood. He
isn't going to die, certainly, he's not going to die. Oh,
thank goodness. Oh he was wonderful, wonderful.

Speaker 1 (04:40:21):
I say, where's the mountain lion over there?

Speaker 2 (04:40:25):
Dead?

Speaker 4 (04:40:26):
What's up? You're killa?

Speaker 7 (04:40:28):
Yes, you never saw anything like it.

Speaker 2 (04:40:32):
It was awful.

Speaker 4 (04:40:33):
Catch, Reggie.

Speaker 2 (04:40:36):
Feel ready. We got to get them back to the castle.
All right, now you're getting free live the castle.

Speaker 4 (04:40:45):
No, not a chance.

Speaker 2 (04:40:49):
The conquering hero is always right home on the shoulders
of the happy front. How about it, Reggie?

Speaker 24 (04:40:54):
Right?

Speaker 1 (04:40:54):
So?

Speaker 7 (04:40:55):
But but how did you get out here?

Speaker 2 (04:40:58):
That's a long story. You'll hear all about it. What
I want to know from you is where is Alexander Archer?

Speaker 4 (04:41:04):
The hell of prisoner?

Speaker 7 (04:41:05):
There's there's a suite of rooms, right off the great
reception hall.

Speaker 2 (04:41:08):
He he'll be awfully glad to see you. Well, that
pleasure is coming to it within the next ten minutes. Right, yeah,
this is the key, all right, and there we are,
come along, Linda. Yes, yes, is that you Cooper? That's him,

(04:41:29):
that's him, Cooper. Why don't you answer? Oh, Uncle Alex,
Uncle Alex, what who are you? Linda? The hurling Linda Lunda, Linda,
my child, Linda.

Speaker 7 (04:41:45):
Oh, uncle Alex. We've worked so hard trying to find you,
and now you're safe.

Speaker 2 (04:41:51):
See. Oh no, no, not in this castle.

Speaker 8 (04:41:55):
Not when Richard Cooper, Richard Cooper who is a prisoner,
Linda who is business man.

Speaker 2 (04:42:01):
Jack Packard, He and Dak and Reggie found you. They
did it all, Uncle Alex, thank you, Packard, thank you.
How do you happen to be here bedridden like this,
mister Roger? A year in confinement by my health is broken?
Oh you'll be all right now, Oh yes, my dear,
I'll be all right.

Speaker 8 (04:42:21):
It was that miserable million dollar insurance policy. Richard Cooper
used to be my best friend. Then he got mixed
up with that fellow doctor Thorne, quite completely unbalanced on
the matter of probing into people's minds.

Speaker 2 (04:42:37):
Then they began to need money. I had made.

Speaker 1 (04:42:41):
Cooper executor in my estates.

Speaker 2 (04:42:43):
We were that close.

Speaker 8 (04:42:44):
But when he began to show signs of unbalance, I
decided to take things out of his hands.

Speaker 2 (04:42:51):
And that's when he turned against you. That's right.

Speaker 1 (04:42:54):
He and Thorn got the idea of kidnapping me and
pretending I was dead.

Speaker 8 (04:42:59):
A million dollars on my life would go to the
estate which Cooper was executor of.

Speaker 2 (04:43:05):
It's surprising the insurance company didn't suspect Cooper from the start.
In the outside world. He has a very fine name.

Speaker 1 (04:43:13):
He was a fine man before he got mixed up.

Speaker 2 (04:43:15):
In all this.

Speaker 7 (04:43:16):
Let's don't talk about it now. Let's get out of here.

Speaker 2 (04:43:19):
You think you can be moved, mister Archer, You'll mean
we can get out of here. As he's getting the
launch ready, Cooper and doctor Thorne are aboard the reef.
Frankie is the only one who can take the launch
through the reef. Don't worry about that. Frankie's down there
at the wheel now with a gun at his head.
He'll take us through the reef, all right.

Speaker 5 (04:44:04):
you in I Love a Mystery created and written by
Carlton E. Morse, scripts copyrighted by Morselco Incorporated, Produced and

(04:44:26):
Jack Packard and Tony Clay as Doc Long. Others in
the cast included Jim Harmon as Frankie, Jack Lester as
the Rustic Mister Cooper Arturn as Captain Frenchie, Corey Seaton
as Laura, and Barbara Gratz as Missus McGinnis. Consultants Frank
Brezy and David Lloyd. You're announcer Fred Foy. This presentation

(04:44:51):
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