THE FLYING DUTCHMAN: A Cursed Ship With a Doomed Captain With Murderous Intent

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Speaker 7 (01:55):
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Speaker 11 (02:52):
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Speaker 8 (02:57):
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Speaker 7 (03:00):
That's it? Make a girl? Make a girl who died
ten years ago? Could you make an exact duplicate of
a dead girl?

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Our mystery drama One Girl in a Million was written
especially for the mystery theater by Alfred Bester and stars
Michael Tolan. It is sponsored in part by sign Off,
the Sinus Medicines and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back
shortly with Act one. Let me put you in the

(03:53):
picture of a thousand years from now. Take everything you
read about international finance, cartels, monopolies and multiply them by
one thousand planets. You have a business galaxy of incredible complexity,
and the business decisions that must be made by company

(04:14):
presidents are very difficult.

Speaker 7 (04:17):
Generalen doctor Goland has presented Bruxton Biotics with a problem.
He's developed a new technique for molding plastic biotics which
can cut our costs by thirteen percent in a highly
competitive market. But we'll have to retool, reorganize, and give
up three months of production while we're regrouping. Is the
cost saving worth the expense? I have fifty traffic engineers

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and cost accountains on our staff, and none of them
can find the answer on their slide rules. So we
will have to hire John clock. Yeah, John Clark, one
of the most remarkable men of our time. Why because
old Johnny can make decisions with a capital D. It's

(05:02):
a complex world these days, but Johnny Clark can make
big D decisions and the odds are nine out of
ten will be right. You ask any corporation president what
he'd pay for that kind of guarantee.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
The fee, mister Buxton, will be one hundred thousand plus
one percent of the common stock of Bruxton Biotics. Good lord,
it is our standard fee, one percent or the guarantee
that John Clock's decision has nine chances out of ten
of being correct, of course, but how often are your
decisions correct, mister Broxton.

Speaker 7 (05:33):
Any corporate president is lucky if he's right half betime
these days.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Which is why John Clock has retained so often. You're
John Clark's business manager, mister Fisher, I am.

Speaker 7 (05:43):
You speak for him always. We have a complex problem
here at Buxton. Our consultant, doctor e Ta Goland, has
made a brilliant discovery. It's a novel technique for molding
protoplasm on the DNA level, and we.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
May I's seeing my time. The problem must be presented
to John Clock himself. Now, do you wish to retain
him on these stated terms?

Speaker 7 (06:07):
Yes, yes I do. We will have all the data
ready for him when he arrives whoever i'd.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Be let me see, and I have our decision schedule here. Yes,
we have one open date for the last of next year.

Speaker 7 (06:24):
Next year, it's eighteen months from now.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
The only open thing, but this is urgent. They are
all urgent. We can't wait a year half mister Broxton,
John clockers schedules for three decisions a week throughout the
entire business world. He is booked solid for the next
eighteen months, and all the clients say the same thing, urgent, urgent,
But our case is at buston. Here is the list
of our appointments. I suggest you look through it. If

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you know any of our clients, or I fear he
may have clout with any of them, I suggest you
try to coax bully drive them into exchanging dates with you.

Speaker 7 (06:58):
As of now, you're.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Booked for the last of next year, and we will
hold you to it.

Speaker 7 (07:07):
X K one O nine to Greta San Domingo. Hey Greta,
this is Buxton calling, and you owe me. I'm collecting.
I backed your paper. Remember now, you damn will better
back me or else everybody's going to know what went
on between us and the Orion Cluster. I need John
clock real quick. I've got a late date and you've

(07:29):
got an early I want to swap with you in
the arguments. K one seven to Logistics Inc. Buxton Here
on that joint venture we discussed last month. We got
nowhere bang up was a differential between real time and
event time, which would drop Buxton common point on the exchange.

(07:52):
All right, I'll concede it, but I want something in return.
It will cost us, but we can make it up
if you'll exchange your session with John Clarke provided.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
All the fisher to Bruxton Biotics. Your message tells me
you have managed to exchange appointments. Information acknowledged. Your apartment
with John Clark is now the first of next month.
I will make final arrangements with you on the last
of this week. My appointment must be kept. We leave
this planet on the afternoon of that day for our
next contract, and very special arrangements must be made for

(08:26):
John Clark. I think I've got your plant layer Bruxton
pretty well and mine. Now how many on your security stand? No, No,
more than two dozen were not nearly enough. We use
ten ourselves, so John Clark alone. Look, I want your
security state that every entry leading onto the main floor

(08:48):
strict orders. No one exits or enters without my approval.
But why our security stand will cover every move Clock makes.

Speaker 7 (08:56):
About your people. You make it sound likely would want
to work Saturday age.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Well, I think what you like. Our staff will wear
the John Clock O. D. Badge tell the people that
their orders are to be obeyed without question.

Speaker 7 (09:07):
That this fantastic.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
But I'll give a word, all right, and this is
most important. I'd say, you have some eighteen hundred working
you know, plants.

Speaker 7 (09:15):
From nineteen hundred and thirty.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Seven, any of them named Kruger, Kruger, k I, U. G. E. R. L.

Speaker 7 (09:24):
Fisher. I don't know all their names. I'm only the president.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
I don't expect you too. But personnel named Kruger cannot
be here.

Speaker 7 (09:32):
Any personnel named Kruger?

Speaker 11 (09:34):
Can that be?

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Who heard me? No one named Kruger? Maybe inside the
Buston Bionic plant while John Klock is making his decisions.
For sure, I can't put it another way. John Clock
must never meet any man named Kruger. Why I wish
I know?

Speaker 7 (09:54):
So came the Great Day and Bruxton Biotics was wondering,
who's this John Clark, who were in fifteen million a
year and owns one percent of a thousand planets? What
do he look like? How does he act? Came eleven
in the morning. John Clock's personal security force arrived. They
checked everything. They gave orders. This had to be closed,

(10:15):
that had to be locked, and so on. The orders
were obeyed. No one argued with John Clock Bruxton. Biotics
held its breath and waited for him. Came noon, and
a jet gunned in out of the sky and landed
in front of a main gate. The hatch of a
jet slid open. Two rough, tough guards stepped out and

(10:37):
cased the scene carefully. Clock security chief singled, okay, how
did the jet? Came some real pretty secretaries. Then a
kind of thin clerk with papers and tapes clutched in
his hands, looking tired and overworked. After him came a
tall man who looked and walked and acted like a
sort of kindly king. You could love him and trust them,

(10:57):
and it was a pleasure to have one percent of
yourself owned by I am only when old man Bruxton
jumped up to greet him at his office, it was
the beatout, overwork clerk who said, excuse the deceit, mister Broxton,
I'm John Clark. You're John Clark.

Speaker 10 (11:13):
Yes, mister Bruxton.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
The other man's only a decoy, you know, an image
for the media and the public.

Speaker 7 (11:19):
Yes, I think I understand it.

Speaker 10 (11:20):
May we get down to business. Where's your data?

Speaker 7 (11:24):
Oh here, mister clock on my desk.

Speaker 10 (11:26):
Thank you? Would you mind if I used your desk?

Speaker 7 (11:30):
Oh? Not at all said, will you please? But did
it take my desk?

Speaker 10 (11:32):
By all means you're very kind. Thank you. Now let's
have a look at the Bruxton problem. I see very
interesting notes, Miss Simpson read the maximum truncation arab. The

(11:53):
interpret at f from neglecting each order of difference is
less than point five in the unity amnesty of the
target of front. No, it is, mister Kroc, give me
the replacement value of delta.

Speaker 12 (12:06):
If delta squared is replaced by delta equal zero point
one eighty four, the corresponding limit for delta to the
fourth power is raised to one thousands.

Speaker 9 (12:16):
Raise to one thousand, yes, mister Crock. That complicates the
decision because around the interpreting factor B to four decimals,
the required value is the tabular value opposite the interval
in which B lies.

Speaker 10 (12:35):
Mister Bruxton's I've absorbed your data. My congratulations to your
doctor Goland. He's made a most brilliant discovery.

Speaker 7 (12:42):
And you've decided that Bruxton biotic should use it. I
don't know yet.

Speaker 10 (12:46):
Now I must visit your plant.

Speaker 7 (12:49):
Visit the plant, of course, but why to get the
feel of your.

Speaker 10 (12:52):
Personnel in the Bruxton. That's a significant factor involved in
many decisions. I must know how they'll react to a
program chain. Yes, then may we have a tour. This
gentleman will be John Clark, and I, of course will
be his clerk introducing your people to him. You won't
give the secret away?

Speaker 7 (13:13):
Oh no, no, no, secually.

Speaker 10 (13:15):
Not well, then let's absorb the final nuance involved in
the decision.

Speaker 9 (13:23):
This is Lenny Herman, mister Clark, a biomechanic who loves
the job and would love to meet you.

Speaker 10 (13:30):
And this is Dan France, a color metician.

Speaker 9 (13:32):
Who thinks that color is the answer to everything and
wants your opinion. And this mister Clark is one of
doctor Eta Golan proteges.

Speaker 10 (13:40):
He's a medical student and he.

Speaker 9 (13:41):
Wants you to tell him whether to give up medicine
for pure research.

Speaker 7 (13:44):
You're a Bruxton.

Speaker 13 (13:45):
Ah.

Speaker 9 (13:45):
And this charming lady what's your name of wants your
thumbprint in her autograph.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Well, mister Clark, I'll give him time. He's absorbing with
Fisher I'd.

Speaker 8 (14:04):
Give him time.

Speaker 7 (14:05):
You'll give the decision when it comes. We can I
talk to him.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
You've paid for him, mister Clark.

Speaker 7 (14:13):
Yes or no, m.

Speaker 10 (14:17):
Yes, back Golan's discovery. Your profit margin will drop the
zero in the first year, but you'll strip the competition
by nine percent in the next. However, you may have
to fight patent litigation.

Speaker 9 (14:30):
I suggest a raise in salary for your staff to
keep them loyal to you in court.

Speaker 7 (14:35):
Thank you, mister Clark. You give me more than I
bargained for. I'm the chairman of the migration Authority, you know,
and if I can return the favor by helping your
right linuary in any way.

Speaker 10 (14:46):
We finished finished, John, then thank you and goodbye, mister Buxton.

Speaker 7 (14:51):
No, no, I'll see you out, mister Clark, im.

Speaker 10 (14:54):
Lon it well, thank you, But I'm not John Clock anymore.
I'm just the bookkeeper introducing your peace full to the
great man Fisher and sit that we maintain the image.

Speaker 9 (15:10):
Mister Clark, this is Pete Crime who wants your vibes
on his safe recorder.

Speaker 10 (15:14):
Now don't hold mister.

Speaker 7 (15:16):
Clock up broke. He's got to get into the chopper.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh and this is a Daisy scrim.

Speaker 10 (15:21):
Where the wire flax? Since he wants to know if
you've got a favorite.

Speaker 9 (15:23):
Profileline folk, Mister Klock has got to get off the
planet this afternoon.

Speaker 10 (15:30):
And this is what's your name's Erica?

Speaker 9 (15:33):
Mister Clark likes to know people's names.

Speaker 7 (15:37):
What Kruger, Kruger, Cruger, you're murdering. I've been waiting for this.

Speaker 14 (15:48):
I've been hunting you for ten years.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Time stood still, the body crumpled. The Clock staff leaped
into action. They piled John Clock into the helicopter, which
took off and disappeared. The security men quietly vanished. Only
all the fisher remained alongside.

Speaker 8 (16:19):
The body in the.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Center of a horrified crowd. The fool fisher said savagely.

Speaker 10 (16:26):
We warned him, We warned.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
All the Krugers. All right, call the police. I shall
be back shortly with that two. That was John Clock's
sixth murder in six years, and it cost exactly one

(16:52):
million to fix. The other five had cost the same.
Half the amount went to the family of the murdered man.
Half went to a man desperate enough to substitute for
the killer. There were six of them languishing in various
penitentiaries and asylums, and during penal punishment or a psychiatric torture,

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their bank accounts or their loved one half familion richer.
I used the word desperate, so with all the fisher
as he consulted with the John Clark staff in the
hotel al Course Blundide, en route to the next planetary contract.
Six killings in six years, Miss Simpson, we can't keep

(17:34):
it quiet much longer. Sooner or later, somebody's going to
put it all together and ask why John clock always
hires prasy clerks.

Speaker 15 (17:41):
Who matter with him anyway?

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Nicks owner Simpson. He's got a cougar fixation. He meats
a man named Kruger, any man named Kruger. The screams,
he curses, he kills.

Speaker 12 (17:53):
Don't ask me why something buried this past a woman
named Kirker, or never or the man if they've asked him,
how can I It's like.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
An epileptic fit. He never knows it's happened. You'll see
when he wakes up. They'll come in here as innocents
as a baby. Take them to a psychoanalyst.

Speaker 11 (18:13):
Tell a question.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
You're a new one to staff, Miss Simpson. You don't understand,
all right, mister?

Speaker 15 (18:20):
Is it make me understand.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
I'll do it with an analogy. Back in the twentieth century,
people played cards with fifty two cards in the deck.
Those were simple times.

Speaker 15 (18:30):
I've read about that.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
The day everything's more complex. We're playing with fifty two
hundred cards in the deck.

Speaker 10 (18:36):
So what's them are A mind.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Can figure fifty two cards that can make decisions on
that total. They had it easy in the old days.
But no mind is big enough to figure fifty two hundred.
No mind except clocks. It's got computer and they're perfect
when only cards are involved. But when you have to
figure fifty two hundred card players too. It likes this life,

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smote his ambition so on or plot calls the nuances.
Then clock can do what a computer can't do.

Speaker 10 (19:08):
It's unique.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
The psychoanalysis might destroy that, huh, because it's an unconscious process.
In clock, it doesn't know how why does it? If
he did as big d decisions would be one hundred
percent correct. It's an unconscious process, and for all we know,
it may be linked up with the same mensanity that
makes him murder Krugers. We get rid of one, we

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may destroy the other. We can't take the chance, and
then what do We do protect our property. Never forget
that for a minute. I put in too much work
on John Clock to let it be destroyed. We protect
our property.

Speaker 15 (19:49):
You know what, mister fishy, I think he needs a friend.

Speaker 12 (19:53):
Why well, he could find out what's bothering in without
destroying anything.

Speaker 15 (19:58):
People talk to their friends. Mister Clark might.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Talk where his friends.

Speaker 15 (20:04):
No, where his associates.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
You're a shrewd girl, Simpson, as he talked to you.
No any of the other girls, no, none of us.

Speaker 12 (20:17):
He's looking for something he never signs.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
It's all we know. All right, we'll have to hire
him a friend, and I'll have to raise off the
contract schedule to give a friend a chance to make
Clock talk. From now on, we cut the program to
one decision a week.

Speaker 12 (20:34):
Mister fish that's cutting five million.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
And let's got to be done. Let's cut back now.
It's take a total laws later we're rich enough to
standard Yes, oh.

Speaker 7 (20:45):
Yes, what are you going to do for?

Speaker 2 (20:49):
I said, We'll hire one. We'll hire the best to
give him a proposition he can't refuse.

Speaker 15 (20:54):
There ain't no such animal.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Oh yes, there is the friend of this guy in
the world, and he's the kind that can never resist
the challenge not hooking man on the clock problem, and
I'll get him who get on the telepact, tell him
to locate Frankie Falcon and put him.

Speaker 7 (21:11):
Through a urgent hee though, thank you, fuck you did.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
I saw him fight long ago, Jordan.

Speaker 12 (21:19):
I've seen all his films, and well he gets cat
help lovin evvunt even when he's beaten.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Somebody's pay yes, and he's twice at fatal with women.
I'll give him a challenge and a contract he can't resist.
He'll be Clock's friend. As soon as John Clark meets.

Speaker 7 (21:34):
Him, he'll meet who elders? Can I sleep?

Speaker 10 (21:39):
John's very nice, very nice? Whom Am I going to
meet a.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
Man almost as famous as you are?

Speaker 10 (21:46):
Oh am? I supposed to be famous.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
An all out heavyweight champion named Frankie Falcon. Imagine for
an introduction to you? And I can't hold him off
much longer.

Speaker 10 (21:57):
Thankye Falcon, saman I never heard.

Speaker 7 (22:01):
Him, Sure, he never heard of me? Why should he?
Sports were not his thing? Of course I knew about him,
he was real famous, But I got a surprise when
I met him. Johnny and I took to each other
right off. It was like a flash friendship, and I
set to Fisher, No, it really is like friends with us.

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I gotta admit, you hooked me with a brand new
challenge and the contract, and I just went along with
that because it's the only way you feel comfortable. I
don't like to make people uncomfortable. You know, I don't
need the money. The irs interplanetary revenue takes seventy percent.
They can't think any more. No, I don't need the money,
and Old Johnny needs me. Somebody's got to try and

(22:46):
straighten the poor kid out. Kids at his age age
has got nothing to do with it. Anybody in trouble.
I feel like it's my kid.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
It sounds like they're thinking needs a father.

Speaker 7 (22:55):
What's the difference. Look, Fisher, I've torn up your check,
you tear up the contract. I want to straighten out
Old Johnny on my own because he's a friend. So
while John Crock associates zigzag from planet to planet, Johnny
and I enjoyed ourselves while as Detroy gave interviews and
posed for pictures. We went off often as not hitting

(23:18):
the night spots and having a ball, especially on planets
where a night last twenty hours. But I found out
something Funny, And I told Fisher in private, I don't
know how close you've been watching Johnny, but if you
think he's been sleeping every night safe in his little trundle,
you better switch notions. How's that old Johnny? He's been

(23:39):
sneaking out nights when you thought he was getting his
brain rest. The devil. By his reputation, they know him everywhere.
They know Old Johnny and every bistroke from here to Orion.
And they know him in the worst way, by name,
by nickname, wasteland. They call him waste Land, devastation. He

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runs through women like a prairie fire. You don't know
this now, how well? Like we go into a club,
Johnny cases a joint, table by table, looking over the women,
looking for a type that interests him. Man, if there's
a show, he cases the chorus looking for a type.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
The same yep. And if he locates one, I went
around always the same type, yep.

Speaker 7 (24:24):
A girl with jet hair and inky eyes and very
white skin. And then the trouble starts.

Speaker 10 (24:30):
What trouble.

Speaker 7 (24:31):
He moves in on the girl. It makes a pass
that any cop would call assault with intent to kill.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Quack. Oh no, that's a pass.

Speaker 7 (24:38):
I'm sorry, Fisher, he does me. I've been around, but
I'm scared by it. I never saw such a hasty
man and so violent. What happens nothing, that's the crazy part,
Absolutely nothing. That's why you get no complaints from the cops.
But the one that well, some girls fight, others want
to give in, but Johnny's never satisfied. He leaves him cold.

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He pays up like a jet out of his own
pocket and moves on. He could have almost any women
agreeable if he'd slow down. All little body can't. He's
driven by what I don't know. It's like he's working
against time. After Johnny and I were real close friends,
he let me come along with him on a crazy

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treasure hunt. Every time we hit a new planet. He'd
go to the Bureau of Vital Statistics, which has got
everybody computerized. He bribed the chief clerk and.

Speaker 16 (25:32):
Give him specifications.

Speaker 9 (25:34):
Height, size six, weight one ten hair, black eyes, black bus,
thirty four, waist twenty six, hits thirty six, size eight.
Now I want the name and address of every girl
over twenty one who fits these specifications.

Speaker 10 (25:49):
I'll pay you one hundred per name.

Speaker 7 (25:55):
If I tell you fishear that parade of tall, dark
girls makes me dizzy? What happens? Same thing is in
the clubs. He looks, he talks, and nothing, always nothing.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
What's the after?

Speaker 7 (26:08):
Well, I got to figure out this much. He's looking
for a special particular girl, and nobody comes up to
his specifications.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
A girl named Krueger.

Speaker 7 (26:18):
I don't know if the Kruger business comes into it.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Is he hard to play?

Speaker 7 (26:23):
Well, I'll tell you some of these girls me I'd
call him sensational, but he don't pay any mind to him.
He just looks and moves on others real crows. Practically
he jumps. What is it? I think it's a kind
of test, something to make the girls react hard and
natural like. It ain't passionate with Johnny. It's a cold

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blooded trick that we can watch you.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Or what's he looking for?

Speaker 7 (26:46):
I don't know yet, but I'm gonna find out. I
got a little trap I'm going to spring at the
fight Arena tonight, a trap that may give us some answers.
I got all the arrangements set up. I'm taking a
chance of getting myself killed, but old Johnny's worth it.

(27:07):
I think it's ugly frank Yeah, me too, you have
me pretty six. I like the sight of a couple
of juice up gorillas carrying each other to pieces juice.
Sure you don't think those nice, peaceful animals would cover
each other like that naturally, do you? They shoot them
with adrenaline hormone disgusting.

Speaker 10 (27:26):
I'm glad we left.

Speaker 7 (27:27):
Yeah, when I was chaffed, they offered me a fight once.
You know I'm poor animals. They promised to cut down
the shots to make it easy for me.

Speaker 17 (27:35):
I told them to say, Hey, Frankie, good old fat,
old Frankie.

Speaker 7 (27:39):
Hey, don't you remember me? But I guess I should.
Friends' Blooper Davis.

Speaker 17 (27:44):
Remember we were raising the old precinct. Don't you remember, Frankie?

Speaker 2 (27:48):
I was always.

Speaker 17 (27:49):
Spirit for ice bloops and let I got the name,
remember Blooper?

Speaker 7 (27:53):
Hey shot enough, Hey, hey, it's been a long time
since the old precinct. Hey wait a minute, it was Blooper,
David Dolph said, wasn't it? Joe Ashore and you and
Frankie Krueger. Then we like to make our names commercial Krueger.
That's right, Johnny. I had to change my name for
the fight game.

Speaker 10 (28:13):
You silky murdering rack.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
I've been waiting for this. I've been waiting ten years.

Speaker 17 (28:18):
Frankie, he who never told me there was I'm all right, Cooper,
see it quitn't I got a cougar, cougerl right, all right.

Speaker 7 (28:27):
I'm Kruger, mister Klock. Kruger's the name. So what what
are you gonna do about it?

Speaker 10 (28:32):
Killer?

Speaker 14 (28:33):
Stilpi Killer, I'll repute the pizza.

Speaker 7 (28:36):
Don't try to fight me, mister Kluck. I got your
pinned and outweighed, and I'm a pro Why me, mister Klock,
Why Frankie Krueger? What did I ever do to you?
Ten years ago?

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Faulton has John Clark pinned in the stadium corridor while
Clock screams and struggles.

Speaker 10 (29:03):
Now Falcon goes and.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
The probe Clock until he gets the story of what
happened ten years ago in hysterical outbursts. Then John Clock
thinks we'll hear about that past. In Act three, Frankie

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falknflings the unconscious John Clock over his shoulder and carries
him back to the hotel, where he puts him to bed,
and then goes out to report to Aldus Fisher and
the Clock stacks He shows them the laser pistol with
which Clock tried to murder him, and describes the trap
he sets with the.

Speaker 18 (29:48):
Aid of Blooper Davis.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
He tells them about Clock's insane response, and then goes
on to explain the source of the insanity.

Speaker 7 (29:57):
Poor old Joey was the love of a girl of Sila,
and she was in love with him. It was big
rheumatic stuff. They were going to be married. And then
Seema Morgan got killed by a guy named Krueger. Krueger,
so that's the connection. How did tell her this? Krueger
was a drunk sink. He had a bad flying record.
He took his license away, but that didn't make any

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difference to Kruger's kind of money. He bribed the dealer
and bought a jet without a license. But money can't
give One day, he buzzed the school just for the
hell of it. It just blasted the roof and killed
three kids in that teacher. This was back on Earth
in a town called Berlin. Good God, they never got Kruger.
He started playing I think, and he's still loose. The

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family sends him money, the cops can't find him. Clock's
gunning for him. Because the school teacher was his girl,
Seema Morgan.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
How long a girl?

Speaker 7 (30:51):
Answer? There's I can figure from what Johnny poured out.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Ten years, eight months and ten years ago, clocked for
he showed a good night, decisions big, the decisions of
the Then he was a nobody, just another computer programmer.

Speaker 12 (31:07):
And then came the event, not an event, tragedy all right.
Then came the tragedy or whether the hysteria.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
I'm the genius. Don't tell me that one didn't produce
the other.

Speaker 7 (31:18):
Nobody can tell you anything, Fisher.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
All right, So he tells Koger over and over again. Right,
revenge secation. What about the girls and the the the
wasteland business.

Speaker 7 (31:30):
You ever hear the expression one girl in a million?

Speaker 8 (31:33):
Oh hasn't.

Speaker 7 (31:34):
But if your girl was one in a million, that
means there could be nine more like her in a
city of ten million.

Speaker 15 (31:39):
I bet that's just a figure speech, sank Cureman.

Speaker 7 (31:42):
But old Johnny's working on that idea. He thinks he
can find Seyma Morgan's duplicate. Huh. He figures with a
population of a thousand billion today, there's a chance of
finding Sema Morgan's duplicate if he just keeps on looking.
He thinks the odds are his favorite. Oh ridiculous, not
the Journey. He's still in love. He's looking looking. We

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got to do something to help him. Now, we're got
to coax him into believing some girls, the duplicate. We
ought to make him fall in love again.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
No, I know, because the moment Clock finds this girl,
he heals himself. He stops seeing the great John Clarck,
the Decider, He turns.

Speaker 10 (32:22):
Back into a nobody.

Speaker 7 (32:23):
What you care about being great? He ought to be happy.

Speaker 12 (32:26):
Everybody wants to be happy.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Nobody is. Clock's no worse off than many other man.
But he's a lot richer. No, we maintain the status quan,
which you mean you're a lot rich? We maintain the
status quo. I think we better terminate our contract. We
have no further use of your services.

Speaker 7 (32:43):
That you're we terminated, whether I tore up your check.
You're talking to Journey's friend.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
I'm sorry it's talking, but Clock won't have much time
for his friends from now on. I'm stepping up the schedule.

Speaker 7 (32:52):
You'll never pull it off. I'll see Journey when it
where I please.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Am I trying to see the contract it's still in
my Wow. I never part with anything now, how long
do you imagine? How believe in your French factory is
a contract?

Speaker 13 (33:08):
Now?

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Fucking you'll see him when and where I plays.

Speaker 7 (33:17):
So it was a Mexican standoff. Clock associates went into
high gear, big d decisions again. They knew now why
the Krugers had to be protected. The man was sick
and miserable, but that made no difference to all this fissure.
He thought it was a fair price for one percent
of the world. Only I had an idea, and I

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paid a visit to doctor E. T. A. Goland that
bruston biotics. He's the genius who invented new techniques for
molding life.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
But yes, the Moscho solution.

Speaker 7 (33:50):
You could duplicate the girl that died ten years ago.

Speaker 10 (33:53):
Oh, without any difficulty.

Speaker 7 (33:55):
He'd look the same, act the same.

Speaker 10 (33:57):
Be the same, up to ninety five minus boys, ninety
seven fries.

Speaker 7 (34:02):
How would you go about it?

Speaker 9 (34:03):
A complete psychological passion of the girl In the Centauris
master files, they'll tell extra pranscript the brown formal application and.

Speaker 7 (34:10):
Payment of scene. Well, I'll pay it.

Speaker 10 (34:12):
The modern embombing process which she is buried which is
ninety eight percent perfect from hermins and psychological passion. I
reconstruct body and psyche by my molding process. I do
it without any difficulty. We gonna cut good.

Speaker 19 (34:39):
A kind of explosion. What happened?

Speaker 7 (34:43):
Well, that was a that was a while back. This morning,
you know it's mas I a hospital.

Speaker 10 (34:55):
What happened?

Speaker 7 (34:57):
I'm Frankie Falcon, Miss Morgan A And I'll explain later.
But first I want you to look at me real
hard and make up your mind whether you can trust me.

Speaker 10 (35:07):
Yes, I think I can trust you.

Speaker 7 (35:12):
No matter what I say. You've got to trust me.
No matter what I tell you, you do it. Why for
the sake of Johnny Clark.

Speaker 13 (35:23):
Happened to you?

Speaker 7 (35:25):
No, not to him, Miss Morgan, to you. But be patient.
I'll explain. I had it in mind to explain now,
but I can't. I best wait until tomorrow. Doctor Golden
will put you to bed and you get your rest.
I'll see you tomorrow. She's asleep.

Speaker 10 (35:47):
Welcome, thanks, she is in spread the condition of a beautiful,
healthy creature. I'm very proud.

Speaker 7 (35:57):
You should be here.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
You're a genius.

Speaker 13 (35:59):
Good.

Speaker 10 (36:01):
But what's disturbing you?

Speaker 7 (36:03):
But I've got to tell her that she's a duplicate
ten years later.

Speaker 10 (36:07):
Now she can cope with that. What's bothering you?

Speaker 7 (36:12):
It shows?

Speaker 10 (36:14):
It shows, my friend.

Speaker 7 (36:16):
I remember that story about the statue that came to
life a pigmy again. Yes, Sina was just a statue
I wanted to bring back to life for Johnny Clark.

Speaker 10 (36:27):
And now she's alive again.

Speaker 7 (36:29):
And she's only for Johnny. Only. When I saw her alive,
it's crazy. I saw a dozens so much like her
when Johnny was on the search for a duplicate. Why
did I fall for one of them? What's happening to me?

Speaker 10 (36:44):
We both know, But that is not the question. The
question is what are you going to do?

Speaker 7 (36:51):
Be a friend to both of them and get them
together for the happy ending? What else can I do? Yeah?
And it was the toughest fight of my life. On
the ship to Ross Alpha, where old Johnny was making
big d decisions, he was so warm and grateful to me.

Speaker 10 (37:12):
I was telling of the parent and because his same
is that you.

Speaker 7 (37:17):
More notorious like, but Johnny's famous, He's the great man.

Speaker 10 (37:22):
Just sudden, I've been bewildered, and I'm.

Speaker 12 (37:26):
So excited that I haven't had a chance to thank
you for all you've done for me and my chance.

Speaker 7 (37:33):
I'm beholden to you forever. Forget it.

Speaker 19 (37:36):
Oh, I've got to thank you.

Speaker 7 (37:38):
Forget it. You're only way to see Johnny again. That's
all that matters. Are you going to stand there like
I'm all out candidal in former and take a punch
from me? Too late? The bell standard? I thank Daddy.

Speaker 19 (37:53):
He's a greatful punch on the mouth.

Speaker 7 (37:56):
Much but increase. You don't know what you're doing. Look,
you're so crazy happy at the idea of being with
your Johnny again. You please say save your punches for him.
So we put down on Ross Alpha with one girl
in good condition and meil wreck and damned if I

(38:19):
wasn't met by oldest Fisher, an old man Bruxton, who
was chairman of the Migration Authority Mitter Falkon. It has
been brought to my attention by mister Fisher that you
have arrived here on Ros Alpha accompanied by a young woman. Yeah,
he's in the power a lounge getting prettied up for
a feller. She is of illegal status. Oh how would

(38:39):
mister Fisher though.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
You'll fall I've had your followed ever since your left.

Speaker 7 (38:43):
Why the contract was canceled.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Did you think I would let it go at that?

Speaker 7 (38:47):
Mister Fisher informs me that the young woman with you
is traveling under in a still name. Her migration papers
are fraudulent. How fraudulent she Seema Morgan? Her papers say
she's Sema Morgan.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Anam My Morgan died eleven years ago.

Speaker 15 (39:01):
The woman with you can't be Seema Morgan.

Speaker 7 (39:03):
And until the question of her identity can be resolved,
he will not be permitted entry.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
I'll have documentation on Seema Morgan's death. Tell X within
a week, falk And you don't know it, but you're
making it easy for me, Fisher.

Speaker 7 (39:15):
The one thing in the world I'd like most is
to get her out of here and never let Johnny
see her, and never let her see him. It's so
crazy to keep her for myself. Look, withdraw your charge, Fisher.
Now you can't keep him apart, not this way. The
post's interned. Who's the first man I subpoened to establish
her identity? John Clock? Who's the first man I called

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to come and see her? John Clock? You think you
could stop him?

Speaker 2 (39:39):
I'll show him that contract, I'm sure, go ahead and
show it to him.

Speaker 7 (39:43):
He wants this girl at me. Withdraw your charge, Fisher,
stop fighting, you've lost your meal ticket. I took Sema
to the Russ Blundide Hotel, checked her into a suite,
and went looking for Johnny clock. First stop the Bureau
of Vital Statistics, and there he was giving specs as usual.

Speaker 9 (40:06):
I want the name and address of every girl over
twenty one who fits the specifications.

Speaker 10 (40:10):
I've just given you. I'll pay you one hundred per name. Hey, Johnny, Frankie, Frankie,
where'd you been?

Speaker 13 (40:20):
Why?

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Why didn't you let me know you were coming? How
long can you stay?

Speaker 10 (40:24):
I've missed?

Speaker 7 (40:25):
Never mind that, Johnny later right now, I've got a
tip for you. Uh huh. Coming over on the ship,
I met a girl who kind of could fit your specs. Oh,
she's got a kind of half list yes, and a
funny way of tilting her head when she talks.

Speaker 13 (40:40):
She does.

Speaker 7 (40:41):
Oh if she's not girly girly like most, she's more
spunky like. Oh, where is she she's putting up at
the ross Blundee.

Speaker 9 (40:50):
Oh, I've got to see her, Frankie, I've got to
she sounds exactly.

Speaker 10 (40:56):
Can I see that?

Speaker 7 (40:57):
Sure? Nothing easier come on the way. Yes, that's me,
all clear, open up. That's a serious Johnny. I think
you're gonna tell what you're looking for. I'll wait outside.

Speaker 10 (41:23):
H good evening. My uh my name is Clock, John Clock,
my friend. Thanks. Alcon told me about you you met
coming over on the ship. Uh huh here, but he
did tell you about me.

Speaker 18 (41:39):
We're we're all friends.

Speaker 20 (41:40):
But you're not John Clock.

Speaker 10 (41:42):
Yes, yes, I am no, no, no, no, my Johnny young, Mynny.

Speaker 7 (41:46):
You're not Johnny Clock.

Speaker 18 (41:47):
You're not a man.

Speaker 21 (41:48):
He looks like him.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Let him.

Speaker 13 (41:52):
Are you?

Speaker 10 (41:53):
Are you my semer?

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Let me hear you, don't hear you? You're not said?

Speaker 7 (41:58):
Are you a.

Speaker 5 (42:03):
No?

Speaker 13 (42:07):
You're not, you're not.

Speaker 10 (42:10):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'll move on. I won't bother
you again. Gone mistake, you see I make so many
Ah look what what a thousand square here?

Speaker 18 (42:25):
Here?

Speaker 9 (42:25):
Take it, don't I'm moving on.

Speaker 15 (42:33):
He's not of Frankie.

Speaker 10 (42:36):
Nice try and thanks.

Speaker 15 (42:39):
I'll get out.

Speaker 7 (42:40):
Sorry, sorry, all of a steak.

Speaker 22 (42:49):
You want me.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
Nobody with you?

Speaker 7 (42:58):
You've got me, SMA, it's all right right, well test
you buy you in your Johnny, but you've got me.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Falcon takes a step towards Sima Morgan's and hesitates. She
makes the last attempt to quench the love within him
for this lovely lost creature, searching for a way to
bring her and her Johnny Clock together, and he loses
all control and takes the girl in his arms, probably

(43:37):
back shortly. As he held the weeping girl in his arms,
Frank Falcon's thought, she doesn't know what she's doing. She's

(43:57):
so frightened, so afraid of being wrong. She's not mine,
not yet, maybe never. And then all the Fishers won
and Johnny Crofton lost. Our cast included Michael Tolean, Ralph
bell E, v Jester Leon, Johnny and Russell Horton. The

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entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown Radio.

Speaker 10 (44:21):
Mystery Theater was sponsored.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
In part by Anhuser Busch Incorporated, Brewers of Budweiser.

Speaker 7 (44:27):
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Speaker 2 (44:28):
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Speaker 13 (44:49):
Young she go.

Speaker 23 (45:19):
We bring you the Witches Tale written and produced by
Alonzo Dean Cole, and now let us join Old Nancy

(46:28):
Witch of Salem and Satan, a wise black cat.

Speaker 24 (46:40):
Hannah and leave you old. I'd today guess the Hannah
and liven year old and now satan.

Speaker 25 (46:49):
If everybody will just start out them light and make
it nice and dark, we'll get right down to business,
draped to the fire and gave into members, gays into empty.

Speaker 26 (47:04):
And soon you'll see the hands of tying turned back
for Holagia. Soon you'll be up of the ocean, off
the cape of Good Hope.

Speaker 27 (47:18):
That's down in Africa.

Speaker 26 (47:21):
The upper the stormy waters rolls a ship whose captain's
name is fander Decon.

Speaker 24 (47:30):
That's his name.

Speaker 26 (47:32):
Now, but soon he'll be called by Saleman, the flying.

Speaker 28 (47:40):
Dutchman, the flyon Dutchman, Hammer.

Speaker 29 (47:57):
Doctor Berry, be my loss. Send off those top foles here.
I'll go up the club against will not say no, say,
sir nomen I.

Speaker 13 (48:06):
I can see the drumple the yards against this domb.

Speaker 29 (48:08):
It doesn't do to drive Already we lost three, we
lose tomorrow. How round this perfect cape right here we
thrive against the way islands.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
I am master here, I question my commands right aboard.

Speaker 27 (48:19):
I'll bring me to join those mates of holy fright now.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Bend me up those topholes, Hi, sir a.

Speaker 8 (48:26):
Man Malad hey, he demands against.

Speaker 13 (48:29):
Let's win more past. Oh, I run it for the wind.

Speaker 29 (48:35):
Here in here you speaker Lea's conquer.

Speaker 16 (48:39):
Even the men that hadn't spread it on the yard once.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
More will but terrigin no killful funk, whether the scale
or strip the bare.

Speaker 8 (48:45):
Pold my gear, turn night back to the wind and
take a port that.

Speaker 13 (48:49):
I nor Storm can beat.

Speaker 29 (48:51):
John vander Dick and flat on the board the master aware,
Curt Storm, I asked you.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Yet you may take themar and cold.

Speaker 8 (49:03):
But then I sail the hawk to nineteen.

Speaker 14 (49:05):
Nothing fine here, justin yeah, who has good to the
d with a left?

Speaker 29 (49:10):
Go do that work, rammer, Come all hands back to
spare that record. Pither decon rectory man here for gods
and my helsman turn about, let's.

Speaker 13 (49:21):
Run with the way and Singapore. Hey, we go ahead,
we round this cape football.

Speaker 11 (49:25):
Days already know what side and sail and bacon.

Speaker 27 (49:28):
It's not willing.

Speaker 30 (49:29):
God's will must bend for mine.

Speaker 27 (49:31):
So triumph.

Speaker 13 (49:32):
Oh, let's take that power.

Speaker 31 (49:35):
You pulled them supersticient sphere you can see me around
that escape in spite of heaven hell, a man keep.

Speaker 29 (49:42):
Her headed to the wind comes and the others.

Speaker 8 (49:51):
Look at him, quie, there isn't man murd with love himself.

Speaker 32 (49:55):
Murd was lost for power.

Speaker 8 (49:56):
It's been master of minimships so long.

Speaker 30 (49:59):
Now he would come and the.

Speaker 8 (50:00):
Element he resist the song for all man I save him, Mutiny.
I can see a lot of full Oh men of
his arms.

Speaker 33 (50:07):
His felt is built a loaded crystals, and heone helevate
the guild.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
Think you the old priest, We have a patnger to bring.

Speaker 34 (50:13):
Him sweet and play.

Speaker 18 (50:14):
And now yeah, except his.

Speaker 29 (50:15):
Will with God, the presence of God's priests would put
him plame his mind.

Speaker 35 (50:19):
The more I am the priest of someone you care
my greeting his son, Oh, his fathers all love his life.

Speaker 13 (50:27):
Get thee again below before.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Jan vander Deck invented my hon deep.

Speaker 35 (50:32):
And felloway health, get hellowhead his father return me my sons,
I hear not say, captain.

Speaker 30 (50:39):
A.

Speaker 27 (50:41):
Man of God's prow see me pleading today my health and.

Speaker 13 (50:46):
The how does like the winds I muster sends this easy?

Speaker 1 (50:51):
How like the his empty thunders ahead, stay and watched
me best the stormy then watch me around and came
against will.

Speaker 36 (51:00):
For days have I what and seen me said, I
will sail no longer I shall win my.

Speaker 37 (51:06):
Way tonight only he can win whose slaves by.

Speaker 11 (51:10):
Saying faith, I have faith in myself alone.

Speaker 13 (51:14):
No man can live by and go himself alone?

Speaker 3 (51:17):
And shall he live for then another man who establishes itself.

Speaker 13 (51:22):
I know a man, I know my kind.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Perhaps he what faith?

Speaker 8 (51:26):
The women's ten the best of themma devil from their cradles.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
But now DIDs me have faith in God?

Speaker 13 (51:33):
Ahead he is the greatest lie of all.

Speaker 8 (51:37):
He's lash, but no more.

Speaker 27 (51:39):
First will do all me?

Speaker 38 (51:41):
Where his voice clays to thee from the storm.

Speaker 27 (51:45):
Last man it buss thee all upon like these, and
play his.

Speaker 29 (51:49):
Pardon by so then hear the voice of gonsunder that
can answer by the sermon. Shall I show him what
contempt I hold?

Speaker 13 (51:57):
The masters walk.

Speaker 8 (51:58):
Say to the rail priests power going by the board, a.

Speaker 24 (52:02):
Man of God sand back.

Speaker 30 (52:04):
I shoot the man and moves a hands.

Speaker 38 (52:05):
Failing's not thy life from mine?

Speaker 29 (52:08):
My sound rail to stand until I throw thee to
the sea.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
But work now I watch the most terrain above the defiance.

Speaker 13 (52:18):
The life of this nice servant shall be to me
my challenge. And around a thunder.

Speaker 35 (52:25):
I laugh, and I ah rain the oil just shear
me God, it's.

Speaker 13 (52:31):
Might be and all my heaven.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
I shall kill thy man, I shall mess thy storm.
I shall round thy.

Speaker 13 (52:37):
Curs at cape, all.

Speaker 8 (52:41):
Lightning.

Speaker 13 (52:42):
That's what the ship twas in My God died to silence.
Look in the ball a blinding life was some by heaven.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
Oh poor nose, taking sheep and gone.

Speaker 26 (52:59):
As myless God has deigned to answer the John vanderdeckens.

Speaker 24 (53:08):
I did not mean fall upon thy knees and talk
into thy.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Do spamish, spare my life.

Speaker 24 (53:14):
Thou shalt not die? Who live?

Speaker 26 (53:17):
Shall be thy curse in the teeth of a gale,
shall outfly forever, always seeking form, never reaching book.

Speaker 24 (53:26):
A phantom ship of death shall be thy home.

Speaker 26 (53:29):
Thy crew shall be the blackened souls, the sinners of
the sea now their master, and their slaves shall be
a load of flesh and blood.

Speaker 24 (53:39):
Behold thy living tomb, and it rises from the death.

Speaker 8 (53:44):
As a hawk of horror.

Speaker 35 (53:49):
Is thy eternal fault, the night besship like a knight
for sales that you were blood, Please or please bringing
flesh respecters like it's rails.

Speaker 13 (54:02):
Forgive o, Father, Holy priest, powder Man of God, get
a season beg for me.

Speaker 35 (54:08):
Ah, I am forced forced upon his awful part.

Speaker 8 (54:12):
Have pity, have pity, oh, say Messenger of God.

Speaker 13 (54:17):
I pray thee wait.

Speaker 27 (54:18):
No soul is ever lost.

Speaker 25 (54:21):
Even this man's can be saved.

Speaker 24 (54:23):
Redeem mister soul is black with sealthish pride. Only love
and washing leave.

Speaker 13 (54:29):
He will need man's love to find love.

Speaker 24 (54:32):
His hate hath been degreed. What man here will share
his doom to aid him in the search?

Speaker 13 (54:40):
I father, think well, old man, thy is.

Speaker 26 (54:45):
Of earthless strife, for numbered thy reward and breast. And
then if thou wouldst teach him aloud, thou too must
sail upon this ghostly bark, a living man amongst the
death I am.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
I go with you, son, flesh and blood. Thou givest
me the life I would have taken from a polish soul.

Speaker 24 (55:12):
And thou didst say all living creatures were selfish as thyself.
Thy curse was to be eternal. But this good man's
sacrifice at one he again.

Speaker 13 (55:24):
To hope, I shall not have to sail.

Speaker 24 (55:26):
Thou shalt sail.

Speaker 26 (55:27):
Upon your bark, as I have said, But once each
seven years, thy phantom ship may touch a book, and thou, for.

Speaker 24 (55:36):
The space of a single moon, may seek for love
thyself and fleends thy soul of pride.

Speaker 8 (55:47):
Come my son, I.

Speaker 39 (55:51):
Seven years of day heaven, flying into the game, and
have a court for a single moon. Oh Lord, oh Lord,
oh Lord.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
He ready is abating on this Catholic ship of death,
ever flying through the gale.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
Three times and nine have I been in thought for
a single moon. And now the hour draws nigh when
I shall rest on shore again.

Speaker 40 (56:25):
And bitter less is my soul, John, thy heart is still.

Speaker 13 (56:29):
With plans of evil for thy visit.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
A month's lester.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
Nay, I shall employ this moon ashore to bring this
honor death.

Speaker 13 (56:36):
Destruction on my part.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
Have the centuries of suffering taught in nothing?

Speaker 13 (56:40):
By example of thy God?

Speaker 3 (56:42):
They have taught me how to h for I haven't
torn his awful vengeance.

Speaker 18 (56:45):
A vengeance on they has never been his purpose.

Speaker 13 (56:49):
His plan is thy regeneration.

Speaker 36 (56:52):
This loving father destroys his son with a curse of
living death to save him.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
Oh see my life's sopa me. Centuries of pain have
confirmed the truth I knew of old, that.

Speaker 7 (57:03):
Love is but a lie, and that self is all
that matters.

Speaker 41 (57:06):
Yet, for two hundred years of maybe, I hears a
baby I hear the baby, I hear the baby.

Speaker 18 (57:15):
I have been my complete of this fashionship of.

Speaker 42 (57:17):
Den How at first paptionship of then, how at first
nine I believe was love that made me share my
awful fate.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
But my brain at last searched on the truth that
which is.

Speaker 36 (57:27):
Worse than death to me meant to be love worse
than death to me meant to be the lot worse
than death to me meant to be with longer life,
thou at all about to die by seeming sacrifices. Let
thee live almost three centuries beyond thy Spano and I Spano.

Speaker 13 (57:43):
And how more than blind are they who will not s.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
Pity, not listen priests. Thirty times and nine now have
I gone ashore.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
For one great fleeting moon in each long seven years,
Each time I have been humbled.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
Seeking that which now I know that not exists.

Speaker 39 (58:02):
Everywhere I'm mistrusted and listen fear.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Though men know not that I am here, they call
a flying Dutchmen. They s t I am a being
set apart.

Speaker 42 (58:10):
I am of the dead who lived in mine eyes,
and see the horror stand by centuries of pain.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Thirteen times and nine I suffer love and found but hate.

Speaker 42 (58:20):
And now I shall employ my moon ashore to pay
our draws in the court again for a moon.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
I joined the world of men who worship player revenge
for God, and.

Speaker 13 (58:31):
I shall bring this honor death distrusting in my part.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
Just hear me, Godda, Just hear me, Godda, Just hear
me God a vengeance.

Speaker 11 (58:40):
I go ashore to pay me for my curse.

Speaker 27 (58:43):
I go a sord to pay.

Speaker 25 (58:56):
I have about day, Satan, we'll tell fall the flower
in judgment did when he went and saw the.

Speaker 43 (59:03):
Party of.

Speaker 23 (59:55):
We bring you the Witch's Tale, written and produced by
Alonzo dene Co. And now let us join old Nancy

(01:01:08):
and Satan, a wise black cat, and.

Speaker 24 (01:01:18):
Hannah and three year old I be today, yes, sir,
going on a Hannah.

Speaker 25 (01:01:24):
And though now if you folks will just downs out
them lights, we'll spin in the finish of I am
about that famous sailorman we.

Speaker 24 (01:01:35):
Begun the last time you was here.

Speaker 23 (01:01:39):
That's right, Satan.

Speaker 25 (01:01:41):
We told how that fella vander Decon for his blasphemy.

Speaker 26 (01:01:46):
Again, his lord was condemned to sail the seas until
his selfish soul is cleansed by love, which he's allowed to.

Speaker 24 (01:01:56):
Come ashore and look for once each set the year
we'll sir the.

Speaker 26 (01:02:02):
Healthy mines, said a good old priest volunteer to share
his curse.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
But his help didn't do much good.

Speaker 26 (01:02:11):
But when we left them, but draw up to the
fire and gaze into novembers here for yourselves, just how.

Speaker 25 (01:02:20):
We left this van a decondis and nine.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
Now have I come ashore for one brief freaking moon
in each long seven years thirty times and nine. I
sought for eleventh pound but hate, and now I shall
employ my moon ashore to bring this honor.

Speaker 13 (01:02:37):
Death destruction in my path. Do hear me call a vengeance?

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
Hey, go a short to pay thee for my curse.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
I go ashore.

Speaker 26 (01:02:48):
Now gaze intovembers deep, and here the finish of my gown.
About the flying Dutchman, the flying Dutch, Henry.

Speaker 13 (01:03:10):
Listened license year of eighteen ten.

Speaker 23 (01:03:11):
Even such an old sea dog as you can't believe
the folks are yon of the paying Dutch.

Speaker 36 (01:03:15):
From there, I'm their enforcement carbalized hin proof.

Speaker 16 (01:03:18):
That ship is the Dutch were drying the mother's side.

Speaker 24 (01:03:21):
Also, Henry, you merely say that because it's that dingy.
The whole host you didn't see come in last night?

Speaker 15 (01:03:27):
Can't you know?

Speaker 27 (01:03:27):
When shawot ship come in?

Speaker 15 (01:03:29):
And I take it high, recognize it for nine three
hundred year.

Speaker 27 (01:03:32):
If we shave a man upon the seventh seas, you've seen.

Speaker 42 (01:03:35):
That black tool decker fly by him, at least watched it.

Speaker 7 (01:03:38):
Dead come, I've seen it.

Speaker 27 (01:03:40):
Of course? Are boats like rices backwards with ever stay
and sail straight up again?

Speaker 24 (01:03:44):
A gale?

Speaker 7 (01:03:45):
Are we on a human ship?

Speaker 8 (01:03:46):
Cood?

Speaker 13 (01:03:47):
Neema?

Speaker 27 (01:03:47):
Smell a breeze?

Speaker 13 (01:03:48):
You're sure you haven't been sampling the ships from barrow
where you saw that?

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
If they're out there's a natural ship.

Speaker 15 (01:03:57):
Why don't we see hide the hair of any living
creature on frails?

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
Robber yard?

Speaker 24 (01:04:01):
Oh oh, look, uncle Henry, there's a small boat coming
on a course tide.

Speaker 21 (01:04:04):
Now i'll beat when did they launch that?

Speaker 13 (01:04:07):
Why he was so busy talking? And there's two men in.

Speaker 42 (01:04:10):
It too, living men's all the ghost ship is Harry,
but neither of those men are the code.

Speaker 24 (01:04:15):
He looks three centuries old, and you say that's the flying.

Speaker 13 (01:04:18):
That's the Dutchman. Don't go any older.

Speaker 24 (01:04:20):
That's part of his courage he needed just the priest
will traveled with him.

Speaker 27 (01:04:24):
It gets no.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
Clothes when they come to shore every seven years, that
means a.

Speaker 13 (01:04:27):
Land about it.

Speaker 30 (01:04:28):
I think now I'm leaving for they do.

Speaker 44 (01:04:30):
You're judy better?

Speaker 6 (01:04:31):
How soon I stand?

Speaker 11 (01:04:32):
All right?

Speaker 42 (01:04:33):
The time I wanted you to have nothing to do
with a big fellow coming in that small boat, Henry.

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
Said, superstition is un Christian life.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
Show you what I think of You're ridiculous.

Speaker 11 (01:04:41):
Is I'm going to invite those men that they might
get why.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
He got Cooper.

Speaker 21 (01:04:45):
You're gonna take them into your house?

Speaker 13 (01:04:47):
You think to come?

Speaker 8 (01:04:48):
You don't know what you're say Like the detmen, it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
Is a holy devil.

Speaker 24 (01:04:51):
You make me hope that the man in the boat
is your flying Dutchman, Uncle Henry. He founds interesting.

Speaker 36 (01:04:57):
He's come, and I'm on the pod that my eyes
right on me.

Speaker 24 (01:05:04):
Look at your Henry.

Speaker 45 (01:05:08):
Rod superstrability almost discourages me.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
In return.

Speaker 24 (01:05:13):
You're the same of fight speak you well, good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
Gentlemen, greeting to your friends.

Speaker 13 (01:05:19):
I agreed. Wait it's down out, run, it's my approach.

Speaker 34 (01:05:24):
Run.

Speaker 24 (01:05:24):
Why should the d companion did he had an appointment elsewhere?

Speaker 13 (01:05:30):
Gentleman?

Speaker 30 (01:05:31):
And you're saying, who's an all bought?

Speaker 13 (01:05:33):
The thin gone up? Of the best.

Speaker 8 (01:05:34):
I wish to invite you to.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
Be my guest.

Speaker 13 (01:05:36):
Hey, guess, thank you truly, but you do not have
to take I'm only a numble minister, but my daughter
and I will decide to make you comfortable. How I am.

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
Minister, a man of God.

Speaker 13 (01:05:46):
Yes, and now I just daughter a minister and his child.

Speaker 8 (01:05:52):
Thank you, sir, But my comrad like, come on.

Speaker 13 (01:05:55):
Hey, we can we shall?

Speaker 42 (01:05:58):
Hey, thank me worthy service of the Lord. I accept
thy invitation gladly.

Speaker 18 (01:06:14):
Child.

Speaker 27 (01:06:15):
Thou must not have used the hospitality of this woodman's house.

Speaker 24 (01:06:17):
Thou must not harm his child.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
I have merely suggested that she take a walk with me.

Speaker 10 (01:06:23):
I know thou meanest wrong to her, because she is
the daughter of a man who serves the god you hate.

Speaker 13 (01:06:29):
I shall warn her and her father.

Speaker 46 (01:06:32):
Tell them who and what thou really are?

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
The tale of the flying Dutchman they call but idol, superstition.
Thou wilt tell these people nothing. They will not believe
THEE till I prove the words which thou would say,
and then it will be too late.

Speaker 13 (01:06:48):
I can't to thee. My child.

Speaker 42 (01:06:54):
Farewell Christ there, I am back again for seven years
of living.

Speaker 3 (01:06:59):
Death to the God of hate, who have condemned me.
I have to sacrifice to.

Speaker 7 (01:07:20):
Happen.

Speaker 24 (01:07:21):
We shall be later with anymore.

Speaker 19 (01:07:25):
Well, we're completely awful.

Speaker 42 (01:07:27):
I should one die among these trees and thickets, it
might be many months, and every.

Speaker 3 (01:07:33):
Body was found that the part of whole one who
was left alive.

Speaker 42 (01:07:41):
A father, for instance, I suffer long and keen lay
out his uh childs for instance, fate was snow.

Speaker 24 (01:07:51):
If I were lost, it was killed, I call it.
But of course nothing you happen to be with you
here to be ta.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Sow As trusted me so that child. That purity enables
THEE to read men's hearts.

Speaker 24 (01:08:09):
That's what my father said.

Speaker 22 (01:08:11):
And I know your heart is dood because in one
who I show such unhappiness, any evil it was, therefore
must have been completely burned away.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
What would they think if I taught thee different?

Speaker 7 (01:08:27):
Stop?

Speaker 24 (01:08:28):
I think as though you meant to fight me, Captain,
and sit down.

Speaker 30 (01:08:31):
On his eyes, I.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
Said, close beside the Dallas never shown.

Speaker 7 (01:08:42):
Fear of me?

Speaker 8 (01:08:43):
Is that?

Speaker 24 (01:08:43):
Why should I show fear of you?

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
No reason except that people always do.

Speaker 8 (01:08:50):
Captain.

Speaker 26 (01:08:52):
I think someone ought to talk to you what yourself?
I don't think you know yourself at all that think
it's not.

Speaker 24 (01:08:59):
I thinks you're the sort of man who thinks he's
awfully bad and he tries to be bad, or because
he's afraid to let folk see what's really I mean, Yes,
you're exactly like.

Speaker 19 (01:09:11):
A little boy who lives next doors.

Speaker 26 (01:09:13):
When he's outside of with God, he's always praying of
being Indian and scalped.

Speaker 13 (01:09:18):
And I've seen him through the window.

Speaker 24 (01:09:20):
Of his room to night when he thinks he's all alone.

Speaker 38 (01:09:23):
Finding he's just his.

Speaker 24 (01:09:28):
I've seen him stand out in the rain when the
lightning flashed and thunder roart, just to prove properly he is.
And all the time I knew he wanted to hide
his head in his mother's left in private.

Speaker 26 (01:09:38):
Field, exactly like humanity.

Speaker 24 (01:09:42):
That's just the way he glared room and ill.

Speaker 47 (01:09:46):
Now you take a long.

Speaker 24 (01:09:48):
How long since you've seen your mother get? Never have
any says that ever married but in love? Let explains everything,
never been brought up. You've had no one but God.

Speaker 16 (01:10:03):
Go with your troubles.

Speaker 21 (01:10:04):
Now, don't your.

Speaker 24 (01:10:05):
Eyes show such unhappiness? Now God must see him off
prety far away.

Speaker 31 (01:10:09):
Sometimes the water has no other friends.

Speaker 24 (01:10:15):
Yes, how secluded this place is home the lost deel.
It never would be found, O captain, why don't you
kill me as you planned?

Speaker 9 (01:10:33):
You?

Speaker 24 (01:10:35):
Yes, there wasn't eny great you see?

Speaker 22 (01:10:41):
I know they're going.

Speaker 8 (01:10:42):
Next to.

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
Play skelty.

Speaker 24 (01:10:51):
Suppose you suppose you put you hadn't learned?

Speaker 18 (01:10:55):
After every time?

Speaker 8 (01:10:57):
He does sometimes and no.

Speaker 13 (01:10:58):
One else is he all right?

Speaker 19 (01:11:00):
Seems to help.

Speaker 13 (01:11:02):
I don't think why?

Speaker 7 (01:11:08):
Why?

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
Father, forgive thy foolish child?

Speaker 32 (01:11:21):
What give thy foolish child?

Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
Farewell you did?

Speaker 32 (01:11:35):
I can't sorry to see you gentlemen?

Speaker 7 (01:11:36):
Girls?

Speaker 13 (01:11:37):
What girls?

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
What is happiness?

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
I ship away to do but I cannot tearry longer.
But my old friends here will stay shure with me
this voyage.

Speaker 32 (01:11:47):
I take a loan.

Speaker 1 (01:11:49):
I will share my punishment no longer.

Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
Myself.

Speaker 13 (01:11:55):
I don't understand you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
I come and may explain when I am gone. And
now can I have been a last? Farewell mister Cooper
may Hey. I kissed my doctor once as a father
on the grass.

Speaker 24 (01:12:09):
I would ask that John, I love.

Speaker 13 (01:12:14):
Hi.

Speaker 48 (01:12:15):
Oh, I did not mean to speak. I do love
each you that loved it, and I love my age.
I love me not another wilcomey, one of my age
and goodness, one worthy.

Speaker 49 (01:12:25):
Of my want no one but you, John, take me
with you on your Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:12:30):
I cannot take my arms from about me.

Speaker 8 (01:12:32):
I'm a store.

Speaker 24 (01:12:33):
Come back, John, say your bloodship is not ready.

Speaker 35 (01:12:39):
I see no sign of good waiting for my fuck.

Speaker 24 (01:12:44):
He didn't save the book pleadings.

Speaker 13 (01:12:47):
Just twice of the waters. My magic good already's reading
the blockship.

Speaker 24 (01:12:50):
Side board, still.

Speaker 13 (01:12:57):
Just putting off the season. There will my son, my comrade, job,
I love you.

Speaker 7 (01:13:06):
Well.

Speaker 13 (01:13:13):
Is ship is seeking seeking?

Speaker 24 (01:13:16):
When he thought is listle.

Speaker 14 (01:13:22):
Oh, gracious father, my further answer, It's long, boy, I
just don't lend.

Speaker 27 (01:13:29):
So has taken back his soul.

Speaker 26 (01:13:39):
And now you see by the flying dutchment is sed
from the season no more.

Speaker 24 (01:13:45):
Well, that's the end of that Dune Satan.

Speaker 50 (01:14:41):
Con down for blast off x minus five four three
two x minus one. Fire from the far horizons of

(01:15:17):
the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time
and space. These are stories of the future adventures in
which you'll live in a million, could be years on
a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company and cooperation
with Galaxies, Science Fiction Magazine presents Heck Heck Heck minus

(01:15:38):
minus Wong The Night the Lungamina by Gordon R. Dixon
Mm hmm.

Speaker 51 (01:16:04):
Blame Clay Horrorbank if you like, or what happened at
Station five sixty three, or blame Bill Peterborough, the one
we called the kid. I blame no one. I'm a
dor si man. That means I was brought up in
one of those tiny planets a million light years from nowhere.
Being a door sign man is quite a responsibility. We
are a very polite people. We have to be, because

(01:16:25):
when we get angry, we fight to the death. It
all began that evening that Clay Harrorbank began reminiscing about
his home planet lu Lungomina. We were sitting around the
recreation room of five sixty three. There was a card

(01:16:47):
game going on in one corner.

Speaker 11 (01:16:52):
Lu Lungamina. The very name sounds like music.

Speaker 8 (01:16:56):
Doesn't it work?

Speaker 30 (01:16:57):
You know me?

Speaker 51 (01:16:57):
Clay, I'm a door si man.

Speaker 45 (01:17:00):
I've been in the doorside planets. I've seen them all
knocking around this universe for thirty five years. But when
it comes to sheer beauty lu lungo Mina.

Speaker 51 (01:17:10):
How long since you've been home, Clay home?

Speaker 45 (01:17:13):
Twenty years more, twenty stinking miserable years. Well that'll be over.

Speaker 51 (01:17:19):
So another ten days. You're going to miss all five sixty.

Speaker 11 (01:17:23):
Three, miss this scott forsaken little asteroid. Not for a minute.

Speaker 51 (01:17:28):
I will miss your ugly face around here, at least
I will.

Speaker 45 (01:17:32):
I'm going to miss your gloomy, doorsy puss too, mord.
Why don't you get out of it. You've had more
years in space service than any of us. You've probably
got enough credits to get out too.

Speaker 13 (01:17:42):
Me.

Speaker 51 (01:17:43):
I wouldn't know what to do with myself.

Speaker 11 (01:17:45):
Couldn't you go home?

Speaker 51 (01:17:46):
You should know better than that. The Dnebrian trouble, the
Dnebrian trouble.

Speaker 11 (01:17:52):
You could go to Earth? What four ever been there?

Speaker 51 (01:17:56):
Never once? And I've never wanted to. I've seen too
many earthmen.

Speaker 45 (01:18:02):
The kid over there, he's green in service. He's full
of greed and stupid hate like the rest of them.

Speaker 51 (01:18:09):
That's not for me.

Speaker 11 (01:18:11):
Looks if the games breaking up here he comes, well
if it?

Speaker 8 (01:18:16):
This is the big.

Speaker 37 (01:18:16):
Gambler from the windy planet.

Speaker 13 (01:18:18):
What's its name?

Speaker 11 (01:18:19):
Lu lung Gomina?

Speaker 37 (01:18:21):
Yeah, how's the piggy bank coming?

Speaker 13 (01:18:23):
Dad?

Speaker 45 (01:18:24):
The piggy is a gentleman kid. He never overeats, so
he won't ever get into gestion sour grapes.

Speaker 37 (01:18:31):
You see this water credits five hundred? How long you
have to work for? Five hundred credits?

Speaker 13 (01:18:36):
Dad?

Speaker 52 (01:18:36):
How many trips you have to make around this asteroid?
How much closer to fall in your grave you.

Speaker 13 (01:18:41):
Have to come?

Speaker 11 (01:18:42):
You look as if you made a killing.

Speaker 37 (01:18:44):
I always make a killing. I'm a natural born gambler,
and I don't just talk about it like.

Speaker 11 (01:18:50):
Some I think I'll go out and take a turn
around the station.

Speaker 51 (01:18:54):
More fine, I'll go with you. It's stuffy in here, father,
I'd rather be alone.

Speaker 52 (01:19:03):
A big shot knocked around the planets for thirty five years.
He used to have a reputation as the hottest gambler.

Speaker 37 (01:19:10):
In the systems. Comes from the most beautiful planet in
the universe.

Speaker 51 (01:19:15):
Why don't you lay off him?

Speaker 8 (01:19:17):
Kid?

Speaker 51 (01:19:18):
Let me give you a piece of sound advice. Go ahead,
lay off Clay Harbank. He's been around the systems a
lot longer than you have. He may not be any chicken,
but he's a tough baby when the situation calls for it.

Speaker 37 (01:19:31):
You're trying to scare me more. I thought you doorside
guys were smarter than that. I'm beginning.

Speaker 52 (01:19:36):
No, no, look, no, no offense more than you I mean,
I wasn't trying to insault the doorside people or anything.

Speaker 37 (01:19:42):
I gotta go to a flight check. I'll see you.

Speaker 51 (01:19:56):
We were in bad shape. The twenty of us at
Frontier Station five six three, on the very edge of
the human area had gone sour. Half the man had
applications for transfer in already. But I told the kid
about Clay being tough. Well, that was a bluff to
keep him off. Nobody knew better than I did that
Clay was burned out inside like I used up rocket.

(01:20:17):
I put on a spacesuit and went out to join him.
Oh high mad Hi, beautiful night. Huh nice back on
lu Lungomena. On a night like this, the rack eash
flowers open up and you can hear them singing. There
are six moons, and every one of them is like
a yellow lant. My mom and dad and I used

(01:20:40):
to live on the edge of a lotus pool. Here
I go talking about home again. Figures a guy who's
been saving up for ten years to get home is
bound to start thinking about it when the time comes.
I wish you could come with me more. Play tell
me something, Yes, do you ever get the urge too?
Gamble again?

Speaker 11 (01:21:01):
Do I get the urge to gamble.

Speaker 45 (01:21:04):
What you ever watch a man who's been on pon
for a while when he's broken the habit, You can't
get him near the stuff he despises it, And yet
the same man is liable to go back on with
no provocation. Well that's the way it is when you've
gambled all your life. I figured maybe that's why I

(01:21:24):
keep talking about home. Every time I hear the kid
flipping those cards in the recreation room, I start talking
about home.

Speaker 11 (01:21:32):
Have you noticed?

Speaker 51 (01:21:32):
I've noticed?

Speaker 45 (01:21:34):
But this time I'm going to make it more. I
tried three times before. This time I've got the dough
and I know I'm going to make it. I think
you will claim you know what, did it? Lu Lungo Mina.
That's what saved me this time. The thought of that
beautiful planet.

Speaker 51 (01:21:52):
Well, when you get there, you can send me a
photo tape. At the rate we get visitors, that should
reach me in five or six years.

Speaker 11 (01:21:59):
You will be out. By then you'll be home.

Speaker 51 (01:22:01):
I'll never go home, Clayton never. Well, that's red for screens.
Must have picked up a ship in the galaxy.

Speaker 11 (01:22:09):
Maybe we'll get a visit.

Speaker 51 (01:22:11):
Keep us from going Loco anyway coming in?

Speaker 11 (01:22:14):
No, I think I'll stay out a while.

Speaker 51 (01:22:17):
Well, I'm going to check the screen. See you later.
Red four meant simply that a ship was entering the galaxy.
The chances of it touching down on five point sixty
three were pretty remote, unless it happened to need a
clearance for Earth or Mars. The screen was black by

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the time I got there, but the kid was filing
a report.

Speaker 13 (01:22:42):
Oh, hi, have more.

Speaker 37 (01:22:44):
Hey, what's a hicks Abrod Like? Why we're having one
for a visitor? You don't say, I just came in
over the receiver. What'll he be like?

Speaker 51 (01:22:52):
A hicks of Broad, stiff as a poker, proud as lucifer,
honest as sunlight, and tired as a camel on his
way through the eye of a needle.

Speaker 13 (01:23:02):
What do they look like?

Speaker 51 (01:23:03):
Oh, they're kind of humanoid, but they have a dead
pan face that never changes like a mask.

Speaker 37 (01:23:09):
Oh they're a little scary.

Speaker 51 (01:23:11):
I hear that's a green skin and the scales. Also,
they run about eight feet tall. I wouldn't tangle the
one if I were you. Back on Denebria, once I
saw a hicks Obrod rip a Manda Ribbons with its claws.
Why the man made the mistake of insulting Hisa. That's
one of the twin planets. They come from.

Speaker 37 (01:23:32):
Pretty touchy, aren't not?

Speaker 13 (01:23:33):
Really?

Speaker 51 (01:23:34):
They are a very level headed race. You know the
hicks Abrod reputation, don't you?

Speaker 37 (01:23:39):
No, you don't hear much about him on Earth.

Speaker 51 (01:23:41):
Well, are the first and only mercenary political arbitrators in
the known universe. A Hixerbrod can be hired, but he's
absolutely incapable of being influenced deprived. He tells the cold
truth and nothing but the cold truth. And brother, when
a hicks Obrod tells you the truth, it's plenty cold.

Speaker 37 (01:23:58):
Really, lets you have it, huh.

Speaker 51 (01:24:00):
There are a small race and very much in demand.
If some kind of political dispute comes up from planetary
to inter alien, both sides hire a Hickybrod to represent them.
That way they know the other side is being completely honest.

Speaker 37 (01:24:16):
Oh that's very interesting, you know, very interesting.

Speaker 51 (01:24:27):
I could tell there was something on the kid's mind,
but of course I didn't know what it was. Most
of the talk in the recreation room that night centered
around the arrival of the Hicksabrod. Landing beacons were turned
on and we waited for another radio communication.

Speaker 37 (01:24:44):
Hey, anybody want to sit in on this next hand?

Speaker 30 (01:24:46):
What?

Speaker 51 (01:24:47):
Oh? Thanks?

Speaker 37 (01:24:48):
Well, I know better than to ask the galaxy's foremost gambler.

Speaker 11 (01:24:52):
That's right, kid, Well maybe when.

Speaker 52 (01:24:54):
The Hicks Obrod gets here, we'll be able to work
out a decent game.

Speaker 37 (01:24:58):
Do Hicks Ofbrod's gamble?

Speaker 11 (01:25:00):
No, kid, they don't gamble.

Speaker 13 (01:25:02):
That's too bad.

Speaker 52 (01:25:04):
Wow, we can always sit and listen to you lying
about what a beautiful place La Lungamina is.

Speaker 13 (01:25:09):
Kid.

Speaker 11 (01:25:09):
You just went too far.

Speaker 37 (01:25:11):
Yeah, you're gonna do something about it.

Speaker 13 (01:25:12):
That's right.

Speaker 11 (01:25:12):
I'm gonna punch a little note, break it up. Play
you all right, I'm I'm okay.

Speaker 51 (01:25:21):
You better get to the infirmary. Have your mouth taken
care of. Kid, You get to your quarters.

Speaker 37 (01:25:25):
Since why are you giving artist?

Speaker 51 (01:25:26):
I'm telling you to get to your quarters.

Speaker 8 (01:25:28):
You better do what he says. Kid, he's a door
sign man.

Speaker 37 (01:25:30):
That's all I've been hearing since I.

Speaker 52 (01:25:31):
Got here, when big gamblers come from the Lungamina and
how dorsign men.

Speaker 37 (01:25:35):
Are killing so far, I've seen nothing, but I heard
a lot of time.

Speaker 5 (01:25:37):
You're gonna get to your quarters. I'll give you a
five seconds to start moving.

Speaker 52 (01:25:41):
You better go ahead, kid, Okay, okay, I'm letting your
bluff me out of the game this time.

Speaker 37 (01:25:48):
Just remember there's gonna be other games next time. I
won't be bluffed.

Speaker 51 (01:26:02):
He left the recreation room. I felt a slight and
not unpleasant shiver run down between my shoulder blades and
my eyes were still hot. I'd almost lost my control
that time, and my senses told me i'd better be
careful for the next three days. The tension of five
sixty three was almost unbearable. Clay Harrorbank seemed to age
twenty years after the kid knocked him down.

Speaker 42 (01:26:24):
Now hear this, all personnel, Now hear this, all personnel.

Speaker 30 (01:26:29):
A ship is approaching for flight check.

Speaker 8 (01:26:31):
A ship is approaching for flight check.

Speaker 18 (01:26:34):
Report to central, Report to central.

Speaker 51 (01:26:37):
Well this is it, Clay. We're getting the Hicks abroad.

Speaker 45 (01:26:40):
Seems almost like home, having a Hicks abroad with us.
They're all over the Tazian system.

Speaker 51 (01:26:45):
You know you speak higgsabroad.

Speaker 11 (01:26:47):
You have to l lungomena.

Speaker 51 (01:26:49):
I don't know that. I picked it up during the
third exploration, long time ago. Huh, we're not getting younger, Clay, Yeah,
I found that out. Don't take it so big. He's
just a punk kid, sure, and I'm just a dumb
old man offered, Ah, that's touchdown. You oughta be here

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in a minute. That doesn't he's down.

Speaker 11 (01:27:16):
Look at that ship.

Speaker 51 (01:27:17):
Huh, let's go. You'll need some help with his baggage.

Speaker 13 (01:27:29):
The ship was a.

Speaker 51 (01:27:30):
Silvery, one man job, the kind that have taken the
Hicks of Rods all over the universe. The cabin door
slid back, and the Hicks has stepped out. He was
as green and scaly as a lizard. But there was
a certain unmistakable dignity in his bury. Since I spoke
the language, I was the first to greet him, felt
the Hutch and Hicks abrod. Welcome to this place.

Speaker 8 (01:27:52):
I greet you, dorshy man.

Speaker 5 (01:27:55):
My name is mort Byansky. I am called door Lasses.

Speaker 51 (01:27:59):
Come, I'll show you to your quarters.

Speaker 8 (01:28:01):
Thank you.

Speaker 50 (01:28:03):
How long will you remain here? Only for one night?
I wish clearance for Mars.

Speaker 51 (01:28:09):
And I'm sure it can be handled this way. I
wondered how he knew I was a dorseye man, and
then it seemed obvious. My broken nose, the scars, the
line face. Nobody could mistake a human from the door
side planets. Still, it scared me a little. I kept

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wondering if he had anything to do with interplanetary Police.
I tried to put it out of my mind.

Speaker 8 (01:28:39):
It was no use.

Speaker 51 (01:28:46):
Mind. If I come in, Clay, sit down, have it smoke? Thanks?
Where's the Hicks abroad in his room getting cleaned up
for dinner?

Speaker 11 (01:28:56):
Strange guys, aren't they?

Speaker 45 (01:28:58):
There's something even stranger going on. What's that the kids
in there with him with the Hicks and what are
supposed they're talking about?

Speaker 32 (01:29:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 51 (01:29:08):
I wish I did.

Speaker 11 (01:29:10):
Kids probably trying to get the Hicks into a dice game.

Speaker 13 (01:29:13):
I doubt it.

Speaker 11 (01:29:14):
What's on your mind? Mort Clay?

Speaker 51 (01:29:17):
You've been around? Are there any Hicks abroads in interplanetary Police?

Speaker 13 (01:29:22):
A few?

Speaker 7 (01:29:23):
Why?

Speaker 32 (01:29:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 45 (01:29:25):
I just had a feeling, you know, you're dreaming up
bogey Man maybe. Besides, you're not in any trouble outside
the doors. I saystem I killed a human play not deliberately.

Speaker 11 (01:29:36):
No rage happens all the time on doorside, doesn't it?

Speaker 51 (01:29:39):
Not to an officer of intergalactic Besides, that was twenty
five years ago. There's no statue of limitations in the systems.
Nobody knows but me right, You don't have to be
clairvoyant to wonder why a man hasn't been back to
his own planet for twenty five years. You think the
kid I don't know got no love for me?

Speaker 45 (01:30:01):
Still, he doesn't know anything. How would he know this
Hicks Abroad is an agent. If he is, couldn't say
where are you going?

Speaker 51 (01:30:10):
I think I'll take a look at that message the
kid filed, the one we got when we first picked
up the hicks Abrod on the screens.

Speaker 11 (01:30:18):
Let me know what you find, if anything. I walked
through the.

Speaker 51 (01:30:27):
Empty corridors to the communications center. I went directly to
the files where incoming messages are kept, and flicked the
tab until I got to notices of arrivals. There two
days before was a report of the arrival of door Losses.
I ran my finger down the statistics until I came
to the line that said point of origin of flight.
It read Tarzian galaxy. That was where Clay Harbank's lu

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Longomina was. I read further where it said nature of business.
My blood ran cold as I spelled out the words criminal.

Speaker 13 (01:31:03):
Come in.

Speaker 51 (01:31:06):
Felt the hutch and hecks abroad.

Speaker 5 (01:31:07):
I greet you Dorsay man. Is there anything you require?

Speaker 8 (01:31:12):
Nothing? Thank you.

Speaker 51 (01:31:14):
I came to tell you that we'll have dinner to
night at eight hundred hours.

Speaker 8 (01:31:17):
The Young earth Man has already informed.

Speaker 51 (01:31:20):
Me there's a shortage of raw meat here.

Speaker 8 (01:31:22):
I've brought my own food, Thank you.

Speaker 51 (01:31:25):
I see you came in from the Tarjan planets. Yes,
you didn't happen to be in the Dorside planets before that. No,
I thought perhaps you might have some news.

Speaker 8 (01:31:38):
I came from Intergalactic headquarters.

Speaker 13 (01:31:41):
Yes I am.

Speaker 51 (01:31:43):
I saw your flight check.

Speaker 8 (01:31:45):
Then you know my mission? Yes?

Speaker 32 (01:31:48):
Good?

Speaker 11 (01:31:50):
How long do I have to pack?

Speaker 50 (01:31:51):
I will be leaving at seven hundred hours tomorrow morning.
Can you be ready by then?

Speaker 8 (01:31:57):
Yes? I guess so good.

Speaker 51 (01:32:00):
I don't suppose there's any point in appealing to you.
Hicksbrods is supposed to be totally without emotion.

Speaker 8 (01:32:06):
There's no point in appealing.

Speaker 51 (01:32:10):
Funny thing. I've been running away from this moment for
twenty five years. Now that it's come, I'm glad we'll
be going back to the Dor's house.

Speaker 50 (01:32:21):
Yes, to Intergalactic headquarters for all these years home.

Speaker 51 (01:32:28):
I don't suppose a Hexebrod knows what that feeling is like.

Speaker 50 (01:32:31):
I will expect you at seven hundred hours now, if
you don't mind, I wish to prepare my.

Speaker 5 (01:32:37):
For one thing. Yes, did the young Earthman tip you
off about me?

Speaker 53 (01:32:43):
No?

Speaker 51 (01:32:45):
Funny. I could have sworn it was him. That was
that when a Hixbrod tells you no, you can bet
your life. He isn't lying. I began to wonder how
they located me. I began to wonder what he and
the kid had talked about. I began to wonder a

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lot of things. Well, he's an agent for Intergalactic.

Speaker 11 (01:33:12):
Oh, that doesn't prove he's after you.

Speaker 8 (01:33:14):
He is.

Speaker 11 (01:33:15):
How do you know?

Speaker 51 (01:33:15):
I just talked to him Lord in Heaven. Ah, it
isn't so bad.

Speaker 18 (01:33:20):
Really.

Speaker 51 (01:33:21):
Just think I'll be going home.

Speaker 11 (01:33:23):
I'm going to kill that kid.

Speaker 13 (01:33:24):
Play.

Speaker 11 (01:33:25):
I'm going to kill him.

Speaker 7 (01:33:25):
Play.

Speaker 8 (01:33:26):
Listen to me.

Speaker 51 (01:33:27):
The kid didn't turn me in, you said, I said
he was talking to the Hicks. I just asked him,
and the Hicks told me it wasn't the kid. They
don't lie, So don't go blowing off. It's going to
be hot ten days. It doesn't have to be ten days.

Speaker 7 (01:33:43):
What do you mean?

Speaker 45 (01:33:44):
How many credits do you need to buy your way out?
Another five hundred next payday. Don't wait, don't wait, I
have over nine hundred credits. I'll turn him over to you,
but listen, I don't need him. You can pay off
tomorrow and as far as the Tarzan chain with me.

Speaker 8 (01:34:01):
And the Hicks.

Speaker 45 (01:34:02):
It's a very nice thing, mort will you do it.
I'll think about it. Let you know after dinner.

Speaker 51 (01:34:18):
I thought of running away, but there was really no
place to run once they tracked you down. And the
hicks Abrods were utterly relentless once they had agreed to
bring a man in. Since they had no feelings, they
made no judgments. They were absolutely certain that a man
would get a fair trial. I packed my stuff and
went in to dinner. The hicks Abroad was at the
head of the table, eating his raw chinsu meat.

Speaker 8 (01:34:40):
Past the gravy place.

Speaker 37 (01:34:42):
No olsses.

Speaker 52 (01:34:43):
Yes, they tell me that the hicks Abrod home planet
is a very beautiful place.

Speaker 8 (01:34:48):
It is true.

Speaker 37 (01:34:50):
Well, I'm from Earth myself.

Speaker 52 (01:34:52):
Yes, I'm curious to know what this beautiful planet of
yours looks like.

Speaker 11 (01:34:56):
The kid's pretty talkative tonight. What's cooking?

Speaker 51 (01:34:58):
I don't know, but I don't trust it.

Speaker 50 (01:35:00):
Flora and fauna maintained in excellent natural balance. No local
surplus has exceeded one percent of the normal population for
the last sixty thousand years. Life on Hicks is predictable.
The weather is controlled within the greatest limits of feasibility.
The symmetry of the landscape is without parallel in the universe.

Speaker 52 (01:35:22):
Very pretty picture, very attractive home world. What I regret
to inform you to our losses that I've been given
to understand that it pales into insignificance when compared with
another beauty spot in our universe.

Speaker 8 (01:35:35):
Your Earth.

Speaker 37 (01:35:36):
I wish I could say yes, no, no, This.

Speaker 52 (01:35:40):
Place is so wonderful I doubt if an earth man
like me could get in. In fact, I've never seen it,
but I've been hearing about it for some months now,
and either it's the most wonderful place in the universe
or the man who's been telling me about it is
a rotten liar.

Speaker 11 (01:35:55):
Get your gun, kid, get your gun?

Speaker 37 (01:35:58):
Why guns?

Speaker 11 (01:36:00):
Call me a liar?

Speaker 52 (01:36:00):
Why use guns when it's possible to prove the thing
one way or another with complete certainty. For months now,
you've been telling me two things. One that you used
to be a gambler. Two, your precious little Lungamina is
the most wonderful place in the universe.

Speaker 37 (01:36:12):
The question is is he the statement true?

Speaker 11 (01:36:14):
They're both true.

Speaker 37 (01:36:15):
You'll back them up with my life. I'm not asking
it to back them with your life.

Speaker 52 (01:36:18):
Just back then with that nice little hoard you've been
accumulating all these years.

Speaker 5 (01:36:21):
Don't well, you said.

Speaker 37 (01:36:22):
You were a gambler. Bet with me and prove it.

Speaker 11 (01:36:25):
Suppose I do. How do we prove my statement about Lungomina.

Speaker 13 (01:36:30):
That's easy.

Speaker 37 (01:36:32):
We have with us at this table. At hicks Abrod.

Speaker 52 (01:36:35):
In a conversation with him, I found out that he's
just visited every planet in the Tazi and Shane now
is everyone No, it's a hicks Abrod never lies. You
think you could judge this point door losses. The point
can be judge well, gambler way, it's a trick.

Speaker 13 (01:36:52):
Don't bet.

Speaker 11 (01:36:54):
How much will you bet?

Speaker 13 (01:36:55):
Kid?

Speaker 37 (01:36:55):
All like that the equivalent of ten years pay.

Speaker 11 (01:37:00):
Well, you're on.

Speaker 37 (01:37:04):
To olasis okay?

Speaker 8 (01:37:06):
If I question you proceed.

Speaker 37 (01:37:09):
You've been to the planet Anitazian Shine, which this man
calls his home.

Speaker 50 (01:37:13):
I must ascertain the position of the planet, the fourth planet, Yes,
the one with six moons.

Speaker 11 (01:37:20):
That's it.

Speaker 50 (01:37:21):
I've been there recently, as you well know, since we
spoke of it only this afternoon, we.

Speaker 37 (01:37:26):
Did speak if it that's true? Now, would you tell
me you know the planet? Yes, you know it's geography.

Speaker 8 (01:37:33):
I do not repeat myself.

Speaker 37 (01:37:35):
Is it a large planet?

Speaker 18 (01:37:37):
No?

Speaker 37 (01:37:39):
Is it a rich planet?

Speaker 53 (01:37:40):
No?

Speaker 52 (01:37:42):
Was there not a rain of radioactive fallout from an
explosion of a nearby star only five months ago?

Speaker 8 (01:37:48):
There was?

Speaker 52 (01:37:48):
It did not destroy every piece of vegetation and leave
this planet a gutted, smoking ruins, chod and ugly.

Speaker 8 (01:37:54):
It did, well, gambler.

Speaker 11 (01:38:00):
And asked him the main question, yet, kid, would you
like to ask him?

Speaker 45 (01:38:05):
All right, Hicks abroad, the question to be judged is
this is slu Lungo Mina the most beautiful and the
most wonderful place in the universe?

Speaker 7 (01:38:16):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (01:38:18):
It is?

Speaker 5 (01:38:19):
What well, kid, that's a trick.

Speaker 37 (01:38:22):
It's a rotten trick.

Speaker 36 (01:38:22):
I don't believe it.

Speaker 51 (01:38:23):
The hexes the eyes of the hexapod are narrow and baleful.
As he pushed back his chair, you could almost feel
them burning. As he dragged his scaly feet over toward
the kid. He stopped about six inches from the kid
and held both his hands up palms near the kid's eyes.
There was a clicking sound, and we watched eleven sets
of gleaming, razorlike claws shoot up from the tips of
the Hicksbrod's fingers. Their points were almost against the kid's eyes.

Speaker 5 (01:38:47):
Look at my hands, Earth man, are they not clean?

Speaker 13 (01:38:52):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (01:38:53):
Do you doubt that I have told the truth?

Speaker 53 (01:38:57):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:38:58):
Then there is nothing further to discuss. I bow to you, gentlemen.
I thank you for your hospitality. You will excuse me.

Speaker 51 (01:39:16):
We stood around and watched that proud, frightening figure drag
itself out of the room. The kid was trembling like
a leaf as he drew a bank draft for ten
years pay and handed it to Clay Harbick. The next morning,
Clay and I boarded the Hicks Abroad ship, and four
days later we touched down at the outer planet of
the Tajan Chain.

Speaker 45 (01:39:37):
Well, this is where I get off more. I I
don't know what to say. Really, I guess you know
how I feel.

Speaker 5 (01:39:44):
Think I do play.

Speaker 50 (01:39:46):
Let's just say so long there will be no need
for goodbyes. Why both of you are leaving the ship here?
But I thought I intend to return to intergalactic headquarters.

Speaker 51 (01:39:57):
Empty hand, empty handed. They'll question you or will you
tell them the truth?

Speaker 50 (01:40:02):
Of course, but you have told me nothing. But I
assume I am not interested in your assumption. You asked
me my mission. I told you it was a criminal investigation.
You said you assumed you would go back with me,
and I told you when my.

Speaker 8 (01:40:19):
Ship was departing. There is nothing more to be said.

Speaker 13 (01:40:23):
But surely you know what.

Speaker 45 (01:40:25):
Don't say anything. The Hickserbrot deals only with facts, what
is absolutely known. They're the most literal beings in the universe.

Speaker 8 (01:40:33):
Let it go with that.

Speaker 50 (01:40:34):
Goodbye, gentlemen. I am grateful for the pleasure of your company.

Speaker 51 (01:40:45):
Five minutes later, Clay Harbank and I shook hands at
the exit of the spaceport on Tarsar's ten. But before
we parted, there was one thing I had to know, Clay,
one thing before you go. Yes, how did you know
the Hickserbrad would lie about Lulungomina.

Speaker 11 (01:41:02):
He didn't lie more it The hicks Abrod never lies.

Speaker 51 (01:41:05):
But Lulonga mina.

Speaker 45 (01:41:06):
Mort Let me tell you something. Lulungo mina is a
word in use throughout the Tarsian planets. Actually it's a
hicks Abrod word. It means home. All I did was
ask the hickserbrod if home was beautiful. He simply said yes,
and a Hicks abroad, as everybody knows, doesn't lie.

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Speaker 8 (01:41:56):
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Speaker 18 (01:43:00):
All I ask is that you forget you ever saw me.

Speaker 15 (01:43:02):
I could go to the police.

Speaker 18 (01:43:03):
I'll make it work for a while. I'll pay and
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Speaker 18 (01:43:42):
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Not everyone gets a chance for a fresh start, a
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had fallen, close to the fire break.

Speaker 31 (01:44:23):
Her head had struck against the iron, and iron blood
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Speaker 18 (01:44:29):
I called her name, Helen, Helen. She did not answer.

Speaker 31 (01:44:38):
I hadn't meant to hurt her badly, but now my
wife was dead. I bent over and felt her heart,
and Helen was dead. All right, we'd had our last quarrel,
and now I'd killed her. It took me only a

(01:44:59):
moment beside on my of action. If I called the police,
they'd never believe it was an accident.

Speaker 7 (01:45:04):
I had to get away.

Speaker 16 (01:45:05):
I changed my name.

Speaker 31 (01:45:06):
I'd no longer be Alba tailor. I'd get a fresh
thought in a new city. I grabbed up my hat
and coat, packed a bag, took what money I had,
and slipped out of the house. Two hours and twenty
minutes later, I was standing on the observation platform the
limit of express bound in the All A nice snide,

(01:45:29):
isn't I? Oh, I didn't hear you come out. I'm sorry,
I said it was a nice snive. Yeah, yes, yes,
say you're running for the train where we were pulling out?
Just made it injure, Yeah, kind of close. Been in
Miami long no, no, been.

Speaker 18 (01:45:52):
Fishing off the keys just a weekness all.

Speaker 10 (01:45:54):
I see.

Speaker 18 (01:45:57):
My name's Rickets. I'm glad to know you. I'm Brown,
Richard Brown. Ah are you going up to me? Off Brown? Yes? Well,
I guess I'll be getting in time. That's a good idea.
I'll go with you.

Speaker 31 (01:46:22):
I knew at the a minutely opened his mouth. Ricketts
was a plain post compliment could only be one reason
why he was interested in me. He stayed right behind
me as I walked back through the train from my seat.
I wondered if he'd even sit down beside me.

Speaker 13 (01:46:37):
When I got to him.

Speaker 18 (01:46:39):
And ten feet from my seat hit me.

Speaker 31 (01:46:44):
My luggage was on the baggage rack over the season
with my initials on it in big letters. E. T.
Ricketts was just waiting for me to stop, just waiting
for proof I was out the tailor man. He'd make
the arrest. But I didn't stop. I kept kept on going, Uh, bron, Yeah,

(01:47:05):
isn't this your see why? Uh No, I have a
compartment up ahead. Oh I soon, Wow, good night Brown.
Ricketts dropped into a seat, and I kept right on going.
There's only one place I could go, the club car.

(01:47:25):
At least I could get a drink there and try
to think, Oh Boston and make it a man happen
to drive.

Speaker 18 (01:47:35):
Please, here's a stool next Tomazer fun Oh thanks, thanks?

Speaker 13 (01:47:40):
Okay?

Speaker 51 (01:47:41):
Going to New York.

Speaker 18 (01:47:42):
Yes, ought to be.

Speaker 31 (01:47:43):
Cold up there this time of year, lots of snow
and all the way.

Speaker 18 (01:47:46):
Yes, I suppose you know. I am as excited as
a kid.

Speaker 13 (01:47:49):
I haven't seen.

Speaker 31 (01:47:50):
Snow for an age. Matter of fact, I haven't been
put in America for five years. Great to be bad.

Speaker 18 (01:47:56):
I get a kick out of just talking to Americas again.

Speaker 31 (01:47:59):
Yes, I was sitting in my compartment a few minutes ago,
thinking you've got a compartment. Yes, yes, a couple of
cars ahead. Well, my name's Brown, mister Jamison Lesley, Jameis Jamison.
Oh no, wait a minute, you're not the mystery writer. Yeah, straight,
I am. Oh thanks by jam Well he hissed, who

(01:48:21):
bigger and better mysteries? Okay, So you say you left Wuyeneshiris. Yes,
planned to anyway, but maybe a little earlier in the
com of that nasty business about my assistance.

Speaker 18 (01:48:35):
I see, probably go back in the year or so.

Speaker 31 (01:48:39):
Say you ever read anything of mine, mister Brown. I
can't say I've done much reading in the detective storyline.
You have a serial running in one of the magazines
right now, haven't you. Yes, yes, murder in haste. I
don't suppose you're reading it. I'm sorry if i'd know
when I was going to meet the author, I'd have
put uh on it. Don't apologize it's how about a

(01:49:00):
nightcare before returning?

Speaker 18 (01:49:02):
I'm turning.

Speaker 31 (01:49:03):
Well, it's early at Jameson. Surely you're not going to
give up the ship so soon. I have to confess
I'm pretty tired. I've been rattling on about myself always.
Oh there you are, m say that's beautiful, Brandy, I'm better. Well,
why don't we drink? Oh well, you name it very well.

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Here's the crime A mighty profitable business to me, ugly.
But tell me about your literary agent. You were saying
you'd never met him personally. Oh h Pharaoh. Oh yeah,
great agent. I've often wondered what he looks like. You've
never even been to New York.

Speaker 18 (01:49:45):
Oh well, Miss Brown's close midnight?

Speaker 31 (01:49:48):
I feel at james And what about this? Carry on
your running? Maybe you could bring me up to day.
I'll tell you all about it tomorrow. Right now, I'm
awfully tired. Ye, I'll see here. I hate the rule,
but I'll have to ask you.

Speaker 13 (01:49:59):
Why do.

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
Could he?

Speaker 18 (01:50:02):
What's that kind of top? I hope? When I came
to it was dark. I was lying in a tangle

(01:50:22):
of wreckage all around.

Speaker 31 (01:50:23):
Me, and all around me, I could hear shouts and
cry the hiss of steam, But at the tangled message
steel and wood that had been a pullman coach, I
was miraculously safe. I pulled myself up little match and
saw that Leslie Jamison hadn't been so lucky.

Speaker 18 (01:50:39):
He was dead.

Speaker 31 (01:50:40):
I couldn't do a thing for him, and the hiss
of flames warned me the wreckage was a fire. I
found where the window had been and managed to crawl out.
I was pulling myself through the window when somebody came
running up with a flashlight.

Speaker 18 (01:50:54):
He you, Oh, thanks you, He'll take my hands, are
easy enough? Put half of the broken glass.

Speaker 7 (01:50:59):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 31 (01:51:00):
Thanks, Thanks all right, I think so him. Little dizzy's
shaking up pard, Sure that's natural.

Speaker 32 (01:51:06):
Howd shoe brow?

Speaker 18 (01:51:08):
Oh rickets?

Speaker 31 (01:51:09):
Yeah, hey here, lucky this coach got the worst of
it through that fire.

Speaker 18 (01:51:13):
Yeah, just got out from time. Say that fellow you
were drinking was at the bar. He's still in len.
I'm pretty sure he's help. But Eat Taylor murdered his
wife Miami.

Speaker 31 (01:51:25):
He's still in the fine. No, he left a few
minutes before crash. Ah, well you are Lett to get
on up ahead, Brown, I gotta.

Speaker 18 (01:51:34):
Give him a hand.

Speaker 31 (01:51:35):
Here, can you make it to the crossing? There was
a highway restaurant up there. Sure, I'm okay, okay Brown.

(01:51:56):
For a moment, I stood there, dazed, watching the fire
crawl closer. Then is my mind cleared. I saw what
an opportunity had been given to me. It was a risk,
but I had to take him. I crawled back into
the wreckage to Leslie Jamison's body. I took his wallet,
his ring, his watch. I left my ring and watch
engraved with my initials with him.

Speaker 18 (01:52:17):
I was left of him. Then, as the flames called
steadily closer, I found his briefcase.

Speaker 31 (01:52:22):
And baggage and dragged them out of the wreck Ten
minutes later, with my identity now changed to Leslie Jamison,
I staggered into the restaurant of the Grade Crossing.

Speaker 18 (01:52:32):
Weather derelement had occurred.

Speaker 24 (01:52:35):
Mister, we got a doctor in the doc room.

Speaker 18 (01:52:36):
Come on, no, no, I'm just a little shaken up.
I want to get out of here.

Speaker 31 (01:52:41):
I thought I could hire a car or get a
bus to New York. You're in the wrest, yes, I was.

Speaker 15 (01:52:45):
What's your name?

Speaker 18 (01:52:46):
Uh, I'm I'm Leslie Jamison Kye.

Speaker 19 (01:52:51):
Say, are you a fellow write those murder.

Speaker 15 (01:52:54):
Mystery Yes, yes, that's right, the Cowenski only.

Speaker 19 (01:52:58):
Last night I made it back. Fact, that's my boyfriend.

Speaker 15 (01:53:01):
As to which one.

Speaker 19 (01:53:02):
Would turn out to be the murderer?

Speaker 49 (01:53:03):
That Cereal you're running in.

Speaker 18 (01:53:05):
The house, Well that's very flattering. I wonder if you
could help me about the bus I need.

Speaker 19 (01:53:10):
Sure, mister Jameson. But how about giving me a dance
tip on the murderer hand?

Speaker 18 (01:53:14):
Which one? Well, I don't think it would be fair
to tell you give me a coffee?

Speaker 55 (01:53:20):
Yes?

Speaker 31 (01:53:20):
Say rough out there three car smashed?

Speaker 18 (01:53:25):
How you feel brown?

Speaker 24 (01:53:26):
Wow, that's lovely Jamus and the writer.

Speaker 18 (01:53:30):
H I thought your name was Brown? Well, of course,
I well you know how it is nice? I know,
mister Brown. I don't know how it is? How is it?
Will you she? Because I didn't want to live it? Oh?
Or I get it?

Speaker 25 (01:53:50):
I believe mister Jamison Cereal in the post murdering Hay,
I'm a little.

Speaker 19 (01:53:54):
Death of my boys friend on who the murderer is?

Speaker 31 (01:53:57):
Well, I can tell you that I read the last
and story it last night. Yeah, yeah, got at the
news stand of Miami.

Speaker 19 (01:54:04):
We ain't got it here yet?

Speaker 31 (01:54:07):
Well, mister Jamison, who's well, I don't want to spoil
a story for you.

Speaker 18 (01:54:13):
You want to finish it?

Speaker 38 (01:54:14):
Afraid I won't find another copy of the magazine.

Speaker 2 (01:54:16):
Huh.

Speaker 18 (01:54:17):
Well, it's a matter of ethics, right, A can't Oh
what do you mean ethics? I know how it ends.

Speaker 27 (01:54:23):
Jeez, mister Jamison, I can tell Frank I got a straight.

Speaker 19 (01:54:26):
From New Yorfice. Now, come on, what goes?

Speaker 18 (01:54:32):
I don't want ope beside? There's a car driving the
class I could hire for me. I'm driving up to
New York Jameson.

Speaker 19 (01:54:38):
He wants to get to New York too?

Speaker 18 (01:54:41):
Was that right?

Speaker 2 (01:54:41):
Jameson?

Speaker 18 (01:54:42):
What didn't come to me?

Speaker 31 (01:54:44):
Give me a handle the driving? Come on, we liar, Well, first,
give the young lady a break. Tell her who the
murderer was. But I'm sorry, it's it's against my principal. Well,
it's you're a business.

Speaker 13 (01:54:57):
Come on, Oh, miss, it was the butler.

Speaker 18 (01:55:17):
You got hotel space in New York? Jameson, Well, and
I get I thought I had to arrange you when
I arrived. Ah, you've been away a long time, and
she's probably not a decent room to be here. Oh
is it that bad.

Speaker 13 (01:55:28):
Oh, it's worse.

Speaker 18 (01:55:30):
I mean I might be able to fix you up
at the Midberry.

Speaker 13 (01:55:32):
I know the man.

Speaker 31 (01:55:34):
Oh, I couldn't all forget it. Jameson's glad to help you,
and why aren't we both in the same business?

Speaker 13 (01:55:42):
In a manner of speaking.

Speaker 31 (01:55:58):
Well, I got a room at the Mintire eighth, but
not before the manager had tipped off the reporter that
I was Leslie Jamison, and as I crossed the lobby
I heard her flashlight phone.

Speaker 18 (01:56:09):
The next day there were pictures of me and all
the papers.

Speaker 31 (01:56:12):
There was a story on the inside pages of the
paper that Elbert Taylor wanted for killing his wife Miami
had been identified as one of the dead in the
train wreck in Georgia. That should have meant I was safe.
But now five million people had seen my picture as
Leslie Jamison. What if one of them had known me
down in Miami. I waited, with mounting apprehension for the

(01:56:34):
knock on the door that would announce the police, and
I wished Helen was back again alive. Helen would know
what to do. She was a domineering woman, but she
knew how to make decisions. Then suddenly the home land.
It was the manager to tell me that Missus Jamieson
was on her way up my wife. I hadn't even

(01:56:55):
known Jamison was married. I walked up and down, my
mind whirling Frank. I had to get away, and then
the door doesn't rang, It rang again and again, and
I had to answer it.

Speaker 18 (01:57:10):
There's nothing else I can do.

Speaker 19 (01:57:12):
Just a moment, leslie, hellone, what what do you? Maybe
i'd better come in.

Speaker 18 (01:57:27):
Well, well, what what are you going to do about it?

Speaker 27 (01:57:34):
You're an awful simple so i'd acts mister whatever your
name is, I suppose I am.

Speaker 15 (01:57:39):
How did you expect to get away with it? After
all the publicity?

Speaker 13 (01:57:43):
Where is he?

Speaker 18 (01:57:45):
What have you done to him?

Speaker 11 (01:57:46):
Now?

Speaker 31 (01:57:46):
Wait a minute, Missus Jamison, I could explain. Maybe you'd
bet that your husband was killed in that train wreck
in Georgia. I had reasons for wanting to disappear, so
I took his identity. I never meant to keep it.
If you'll just just what, Look, there's nothing we can
do for your husband now he was killed. Do you
believe that?

Speaker 18 (01:58:05):
Don't you?

Speaker 19 (01:58:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 18 (01:58:08):
I'm going to leave town or all I ask is
that you forget you ever saw me? I see?

Speaker 7 (01:58:15):
Well?

Speaker 18 (01:58:16):
Is that all you're going to say, what are you
going to do?

Speaker 27 (01:58:21):
I could go to the police.

Speaker 18 (01:58:23):
No, wait a minute, Wait a minute, I can make it.
Wait for a while to.

Speaker 19 (01:58:30):
Does does anyone know you're here in New York?

Speaker 56 (01:58:33):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:58:35):
Very fortunate.

Speaker 19 (01:58:37):
You see, Leslie and.

Speaker 15 (01:58:38):
I didn't get along. A matter of fact, is being separated.

Speaker 18 (01:58:41):
For some time.

Speaker 19 (01:58:43):
He said he was cutting me out as will so
with Leslie dead, I don't get anything at all. But
with Leslie alive?

Speaker 18 (01:58:54):
Wait a minute, well you wouldn't.

Speaker 8 (01:58:57):
Why not?

Speaker 19 (01:58:58):
He could retire right now, live off his royalties without
doing another link.

Speaker 8 (01:59:03):
You mean you do?

Speaker 31 (01:59:04):
You want me to keep this up? Don't be ridiculous.
There are a dozen reasons why I can't feel discovered
in a week you have.

Speaker 15 (01:59:14):
Yes, I know his signature. I can imitate it, purg
I know his background like a book. You may as
well get used to it.

Speaker 31 (01:59:24):
Mister Jameson, I'll tell you I won't do it, but
it's the most fantastic thing I have heard of.

Speaker 57 (01:59:30):
There's a Lieutenant Rickets down in the lobby being quite
interested in our relationship. If you like, of course, I'll
bring him up to date, all right, missus? Jameson Elber
Darling just call me rule, Ruth, Ruth.

Speaker 13 (02:00:09):
What is it?

Speaker 18 (02:00:10):
I'll tell you this. This can't go on.

Speaker 31 (02:00:12):
You're spending money as as if you had no self
control at all, twenty eight dollars and three months besides
the DEPOSITI tive nator your account.

Speaker 18 (02:00:20):
Here, Look at these bills. Look at them. I haven't
got a penny.

Speaker 19 (02:00:23):
Are you all through?

Speaker 15 (02:00:26):
There's your quarterly royalty check you comork.

Speaker 18 (02:00:28):
Well, that'll only pay part of the bills.

Speaker 15 (02:00:31):
It's not paying any of them done. It's going into
my account.

Speaker 18 (02:00:36):
I see. And maybe you have some clever way of
getting out.

Speaker 15 (02:00:40):
From under these builds that you're worried beer not mine.

Speaker 57 (02:00:55):
Five seventeen fourteen three two having trouble.

Speaker 31 (02:01:02):
Oh, nothing important, just that my accounts over long bout
five thousand dollars.

Speaker 15 (02:01:06):
Well, of course you could finish your books.

Speaker 18 (02:01:08):
Dear, Sure, finish the book writer Leslie Jamison mystery.

Speaker 19 (02:01:12):
Well, then I suppose you have to think of something else.

Speaker 18 (02:01:15):
Ruth, be honest with me. How long do you intend
to carry this on?

Speaker 27 (02:01:21):
Why?

Speaker 18 (02:01:21):
In definitely there's to be no end.

Speaker 15 (02:01:26):
There is if you want one.

Speaker 19 (02:01:29):
There's all of the police.

Speaker 31 (02:01:32):
You could have been decent about it instead of spending
money so irrationally. There could have been plenty without bleeding
me to death.

Speaker 19 (02:01:40):
I think I've been quite free with you.

Speaker 15 (02:01:42):
You've got kept your freedom, freedom.

Speaker 18 (02:01:44):
Freedom, six months now, no sleep, are worry ain't canta?

Speaker 31 (02:01:48):
Can cow good by worrying night and day, trying to
dodge my own shadow, Afraid all the time, an irrational
woman spending money as if she were insane, holding a
dagger of my get hold of and now no way out, Trapped,
run into a corner.

Speaker 18 (02:02:02):
No way to turn, no end in sight, nothing to
do but go on and on the tilight break and
un let's tell the weathers.

Speaker 8 (02:02:11):
What are you doing?

Speaker 31 (02:02:27):
Yes, sir, you're the that's so, that's right.

Speaker 13 (02:02:34):
What can I do for you?

Speaker 53 (02:02:35):
You?

Speaker 8 (02:02:37):
You?

Speaker 18 (02:02:37):
You can take down a stacred.

Speaker 58 (02:02:40):
Hy what's the matter, mister, I'll just killed me my wife?

Speaker 16 (02:03:00):
Yeah, that's how it has the argument.

Speaker 31 (02:03:20):
Then I I wandered around room the streets all night.
I thought about running away. Then it all seems so
so useless to run away again the second time, So
I came here.

Speaker 18 (02:03:33):
No, I can relax for the first time a month.
I can relax. Sure, take it easy, mister Jamison. We'll
take care of you.

Speaker 3 (02:03:43):
Aren't you.

Speaker 18 (02:03:43):
Aren't you going over there and find that we've been there,
found of an hour after you did it, then looking
for you all night. You may as well know she's
not my bide.

Speaker 2 (02:03:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we.

Speaker 13 (02:03:55):
Know, mister Jamison.

Speaker 18 (02:03:57):
She was your assistance Buenos are right, you say she
was shaking you down. What did she have on you?

Speaker 7 (02:04:04):
Huh?

Speaker 18 (02:04:05):
My assistant ways Siles. Yeah, that's right, you're assistance.

Speaker 7 (02:04:11):
Have you uh?

Speaker 18 (02:04:12):
Have you had a lapse of memory or something?

Speaker 59 (02:04:14):
Jameson, the assistant, I remember now, Now tell me, Jameson,
what was she threatening to take you to the police?

Speaker 7 (02:04:22):
Huh?

Speaker 18 (02:04:25):
Okay, but a three year old would have known it
was a blood. That's the last thing in the world
she would have done.

Speaker 8 (02:04:31):
You don't know how.

Speaker 59 (02:04:32):
She wasn't rational, she would have done anything, not but
meant her next fou, Why what's happened to your memory?

Speaker 18 (02:04:39):
Jamison?

Speaker 31 (02:04:40):
It was all over Buenos airea six months ago, every newspaper.
She's wandered down there for murder. This is Don Daud again,

(02:05:03):
your host for Mystery Time. You have just heard Masters
of Mystery Live from New York.

Speaker 54 (02:05:09):
Tonight's play Murder in Haste was written by Eleanor Beeson
and produced by Martin Andrews.

Speaker 18 (02:05:16):
In association with Ronald Dawson Robert Darker.

Speaker 54 (02:05:19):
Featured in Tonight's drama were Richard Jennifer, Ralph bell, Ivor
Francis and Connie Lemkey Text Wednesday and every Wednesday Night,

(02:05:42):
another presentation of Masters of Mystery.

Speaker 31 (02:05:46):
Tomorrow Night, Mystery Time brings you Mystery Classics.

Speaker 18 (02:05:50):
Presenting a searing.

Speaker 54 (02:05:51):
Story by ed Adamson with the eerie titled death Watch.

Speaker 60 (02:05:57):
This is Don Dawd, your host for Mystery Time. See
you tomorrow night. This program came to you live from
New York. This is the ABC Radio Network.

Speaker 13 (02:06:19):
Strange adventure.

Speaker 55 (02:06:22):
Seated around the table in the lounge car of the
Starlight Limited, three men thoroughly enjoyed such talk as passed
between men of the world. Alison Muir, the motion picture producer,
then continued, Now I was saying Lyndon Lane is a
cute enough kid, but she's no actress. Sure, I picked
her up in the Kansas farm and took her to Hollywood. Yeah,
now she's stuck and welcome back home. Keeps begging me
for parts. Jonathan Hawk of a homicide Beer returned to

(02:06:45):
the impeccably dressed movie mogul. You seem to do very
well to do collecting, Miki mure. I understand you also
make a hobby event keep knave.

Speaker 11 (02:06:54):
Ah.

Speaker 55 (02:06:55):
Yes, that's right, mister Hawk. I'd like to show them
to you. Conductor, hand me that letter case now, yeah,
the conductor, the third man of the party, reached across
the aisle for a small case and laid it upon
the table. Mule opened it, displaying a unique collection of
bladed weapons. He lifted each from its place and showed
it to the two men. After a while, the conversation lowed,

(02:07:16):
you're stifled a yawn. Uh, gentlemen, you please excuse me.
Ah see, if I can get some sleep, I'll see
you in the morning. The conductor rose and looked at
his watch. Well, I guess i'd better take off too.
Time to make moran Inspector Hawk picked up a magazine
and nodded to the two disappearing men. The police officer
was starting the second chapter of his mystery thriller when

(02:07:38):
a very frightened porter rushed into the lounge car.

Speaker 13 (02:07:41):
I've been a man killed in his bunk. He's been murdered.

Speaker 55 (02:07:44):
Sir Alison Muir had been stabbed to death. The conductor
stepped to the side of the officer.

Speaker 13 (02:07:49):
I was on my way through the.

Speaker 55 (02:07:51):
Train when I noticed Muller's hand dangling for me. Bunk
Jonathan Hawk noted the clean cut wound in the man's chest.
Conductor to pasengers, the crew, and the car for the
murder weapon. The conductor busily searched the bewildered group of
passengers the members of the train crew. He finished at
last and turned to the inspector. Well, I've searched everybody,

(02:08:11):
but I can't find anything.

Speaker 13 (02:08:14):
I see. You say you searched everybody you share.

Speaker 55 (02:08:17):
That's right, Inspector, just like you told me to.

Speaker 13 (02:08:21):
Thank you.

Speaker 55 (02:08:23):
Now I must start you to allow me to shoot you,
and if I am right in my calculations, I'm going
to hold you for murder. The police inspector was right
in his calculations. In one of the conductor's pockets, he
found a long bladed clasp knife. Hawk infronted the trainmen. Ukey, Conductor,
you said you would searched the people and the car,

(02:08:44):
but you hadn't had anyone search you. Besides being new
to the art of murder, your nervousness and actions have to.

Speaker 13 (02:08:51):
Give you away.

Speaker 55 (02:08:52):
The prisoner looked down at the floor of the swaying
railway car, his face a blank mask. Yes, Inspector, he
was right what he said a while ago in the
lounge car. He took a sweet girl from her home,
and he made promises he never kept. I swore that
some day I'd repay his cruelty and deceit. Wecie, Inspector,

(02:09:17):
Lynn Lane is my granddaughter. This is Pat mcgainn in Hollywood, California,
saying goodbye from my writer Charles Crowder, and inviting you
to listen again to another tale of strange adventure.

Speaker 61 (02:09:33):
Craven came out past the Achilles Statue in the thin
summer rain. It was only just after lighting up time,
but already the cars were lined up all the way
to the marble Che, and the sharp, acquisitive faces peered out,
ready for a good time with anything possible which came along.
Craven went bitterly by, with the color of his macintosh
tight around his throat. It was one of his bad days.

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All the way up the park, he was reminded of passion.
But you needed money for love. All that a poor
man could get was lust. Love needed a good suit,
a car, a flat somewhere, or a good hotel. It
needed to be wrapped in cellophane. He was aware all
the time of the stringy tie beneath the mackintosh and
the frayed sleeves. He carried his body about with him

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like something he hated. There were moments of happiness in
the British Museum reading room, but the body called him back.
He bore as his only sentiment the memory of ugly
deeds committed on park chairs. Peeble talked as if the
body died too soon, that wasn't the trouble to Craven
at all. He remembered a dream he had worken three times,

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trembling from He had been alone in the huge, dark,
cavernous burying ground of all the world. Every grave was
connected to another under the ground. The globe was honeycombed
for the sake of the dead, And on each occasion
of dreaming he discovered anew, the horrifying fact that the
body doesn't decay. There are no worms and dissolution. Under

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the ground. The world was littered with masses of dead flesh,
ready to rise again with their wats and boils and eruptions.
He had lain in bed and remembered as tidings of
great joy that the body, after all was corrupt. He
came into the Edgeway Road walking fast. The guardsmen were
out in couples, great languid, elongated beasts, the bodies like

(02:11:29):
worms in that tight trousers. He hated them, and hated
his hatred because he knew what it was envy. He
was aware that every one of them had a better
body than himself. Indigestion creased his stomach. He felt sure
that his breath was foul, but who could he ask?
Sometimes he secretly touched himself here and therewith scent. It

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was one of his ugliest secrets. Why should he be
asked to believe in the resurrection of this body? He
wanted to forget. Sometimes he trade at night. A hint
of religious belief was lodged in his breast, like a
worm in a nut. That his body, at any rate,
should never rise again. He knew all the side streets
around the Edgeware Road only too well. When a mood

(02:12:13):
was on, he simply walked until he was tired, squinting
at his own image in the windows of Salmon and
Gluckstein and the A. B. C's so he noticed at
once the posters outside the disused theater in Cualpar Road.
The theater had been built in nineteen twenty by an
optimist who thought the cheapness of the site would more
than counterbalance its disadvantage of lying a mile outside the

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conventional theater zone.

Speaker 62 (02:12:37):
But no play had.

Speaker 61 (02:12:38):
Ever succeeded, and it was soon left to gather rat
holes and spider webs. The covering of the seats was
never renewed, and all that ever happened to the place
was the temporary false life of an amateur play or
a trade show. Craven stopped and read the Home of
the Silent Film. The first season of Primitives was announced

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eyebrow prayse there would.

Speaker 62 (02:13:01):
Never be a second.

Speaker 61 (02:13:03):
Well, the seats were cheap, and it was perhaps worth
a shilling to him now that he was tired to
get in somewhere out of the rain, Craven bought a
ticket and went into the darkness of the stalls. In
the dead darkness, a piano tinkled something monotonously, recalling Mendelssohn.
He sat down in a gangway seat and could immediately

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feel the emptiness all around him. On the screen a
large woman in a kind of toga wrung her hands,
then wobbled with curious, jerky movements towards a couch. Sometimes
she seemed to dissolve altogether into dots and flashes and
wiggly lines. A subtitle said, Pompilia betrayed by her lover,
Augustus seeks an end to her troubles. Craven began at

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last to see a dim waste of stalls. There were
not twenty people in the place, a few couples whispering
with their heads touching, and a number of lonely men
like himself, wearing the same uniform of the cheap mackintosh.
They lay about at intervals like corpses. And again Craven's
obsession returned the toothache of horror. He thought miserably, I

(02:14:10):
am going mad. Other people don't feel like this. Even
a disused theater reminded him of those interminable caverns where
the bodies were waiting for resurrection. A slave to his passion,
Augustus calls for yet more wine. A gross, middle edged
Teutonic actor lay on an elbow with his arm round

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a large woman in a shift. The spring song tinkled
ineptly on and the screen flickered like indigestion. Somebody felt
his way through the darkness, scrabbling past Craven's knees.

Speaker 62 (02:14:42):
A small man.

Speaker 61 (02:14:43):
Craven experienced the unpleasant feeling of a large beard brushing
his mouth. There was a long sigh as the newcomer
found the next chair, and on the screen events had
moved with such rabidity that Pompilia had already stabbed herself,
or so Craven supposed, and lay still unbucks of among
her weeping slaves. A low, breathless voice sighed out close

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to Craven's ear.

Speaker 8 (02:15:06):
What happened?

Speaker 62 (02:15:09):
Is she asleep?

Speaker 8 (02:15:10):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (02:15:11):
No?

Speaker 7 (02:15:11):
Dead?

Speaker 62 (02:15:12):
Murdered?

Speaker 61 (02:15:14):
The voice asked, with keen interest. I don't think so
stabbed herself. Nobody said hush. Nobody was enough interested to
object to a voice. They drooped among the empty chairs
in attitudes of wearying attention. The film wasn't nearly over yet,
but the small bearded man in the next seat seemed

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to be interested only in Pompillier's death. The fact that
he had come in at that moment apparently fascinated him.
Craven heard the word coincidence twice, and he went on
talking to himself about it in low, out of breath tones.
Absurdly he come to think of it, and then no
blood at all. Craven didn't listen. He sat with his

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hands clasped between his knees, facing the fact that he
was in danger of going mad. He had to pull
himself up, take a holiday, see a doctor. God knew
what infection moved in his veins. He became aware that
his bearded neighbor had addressed him directly. What he asked, impatiently,
what did you say? There would be more blood than
you could imagine.

Speaker 62 (02:16:17):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 61 (02:16:19):
When the man spoke to him, he sprayed him with
damp breath. There was a little bubble in his speech,
like an impediment. He said, when you murder man, this
was a woman, Craven said, impatiently, That wouldn't make any difference.
And it's got nothing to do with murder anyway, and
that doesn't signify. They seemed to have got into an
absurd and meaningless wrangle in the dark. I know you see,

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the little bearded man said, in a tone of enormous conceit.
Do what about such things? He said, with guarded ambiguity,
Craven turned and tried to see him clearly.

Speaker 8 (02:16:57):
Was he mad?

Speaker 61 (02:16:59):
Was this warning of what he might become, babbling incomprehensibly
to strangers in cinemas? He thought, by God, no, trying
to see I'll be saying, yet I will be saying.
He could make out nothing but a small black hump
of a body. The man was talking to himself again,
he said, talk, Thatt's talk.

Speaker 62 (02:17:20):
That's it. It was all for fifty pounds. That's a lie.
Reasons and reasons.

Speaker 61 (02:17:25):
They always take the first reason, never behind thirty years
of reasons, such.

Speaker 62 (02:17:34):
Simpleness.

Speaker 61 (02:17:36):
So this was madness, so long as he could realize
that he must be saying himself, relatively speaking, not so sane,
perhaps as the seekers in the park or the guardsmen
in the Edgeway road, but saner than this. It was
like a message of encouragement. As the piano tinkled on,
Then again the little man turned and sprayed him.

Speaker 62 (02:17:56):
Killed ourselves. You say that I know that, not of me.

Speaker 61 (02:18:01):
A question of what hand holds the knife? He laid
a hand suddenly and confidingly on Craven's. It was damp
and sticky, Craven said, with horror, as a possible meaning
came to him. What are you talking about? I I know,

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the little man said. A man in my position gets
to know almost everything.

Speaker 62 (02:18:30):
What is your position?

Speaker 61 (02:18:32):
Craven said, feeling the sticky hand on his trying to
make up his mind whether he was being hysterical or not.
After all, there were a dozen explanations.

Speaker 13 (02:18:41):
It might be.

Speaker 61 (02:18:42):
Treacle, a pretty desperate one, you'd say. Sometimes. The voice
almost died in the throat altogether. The little Man began
to titter. Knowingly he was talking to himself again. It
would have been easy to ignore him altogether. It had
not been for those sticky hands, which he now removed.

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He seemed to be fumbling at the seat in front
of him. His head had a habit of lulling sideways,
like an idiot child's. He said, distinctly and irrelevantly. Here's
what a tragedy?

Speaker 13 (02:19:14):
What was that?

Speaker 61 (02:19:15):
Craven said sharply. He had seen those words on a
poster before he entered the park. Ah about the tragedy?
To think they call Cullen mus Bayswater. Suddenly, the little
Man began to cough, turning his face towards Craven and
coughing right at him. It was like vindictiveness. The voice said, brokenly,

(02:19:38):
let me see my umbrella.

Speaker 62 (02:19:41):
He was getting up. You didn't have an umbrella.

Speaker 61 (02:19:44):
Mama, my umbrella, he repeated, maa, and he seemed to
lose the word altogether. He went scrabbling out past Craven's knees.
Craven let him go, but before he had reached the billowy,
dusty curtains of the exit, the screen went blank and bright.
The film had broken, and somebody immediately turned up one
dirt choked chandelier above the circle. It shone down just

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enough for Craven to see the smear on his hands.
This wasn't hysteria, This was a fact. He wasn't mad.
He had sat next to a madman who in some
news what was the name Colin?

Speaker 62 (02:20:18):
Colin.

Speaker 61 (02:20:19):
Craven jumped up and made his own way out. The
black curtain flapped in his mouth, but he was too late.
The man had gone, and there were three turnings to
choose from. He chose instead a telephone box and dialed
with an odd sense for him of sanity and decision
nine nine nine. It didn't take two minutes to get
the right department. They were interested and very kind, yes,

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there had been a murder, and amused color news. A
man's neck had been cut from ear to ear with
a bread knife, a horrid crime. He began to tell
them how he had sat next to the murderer in
a cinema. It couldn't be any one else. There was
blood on his hands, and he remembered with repulsion as
he spoke the damp beard there must have in a
terrible lot of blood. But the voice from the yard

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interrupted him. No, no, no, no, it would say, we
have the murderer, no doubt of it at all. It's
the body that's disappeared. Craven put down the receiver. He
said to himself aloud, Why should this happen to me?

Speaker 8 (02:21:22):
Why to me?

Speaker 61 (02:21:24):
He was back in the horror of his dream. The squalid,
darkening street outside was only one of the innumerable tunnels
connecting grave to grave where the imperishable bodies lay. He
said it was a dream, a dream, and leaning forward,
he saw in the mirror above the telephone his own

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face sprinkled by tiny drops of blood, like dew from
a scent spray.

Speaker 62 (02:21:51):
He began to scream, I won't go back.

Speaker 8 (02:22:00):
I'm the same, a good man.

Speaker 61 (02:22:07):
Presently a little crowd began to collect, and soon a
policeman came.

Speaker 63 (02:22:13):
A little place off the Edgeware Road was written by
Graham Green and read by Joss Ackland.

Speaker 64 (02:22:17):
The producer was Richard Dunn.

Speaker 8 (02:22:19):
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. This is Basil Rathbone inviting you
to join me beyond the green door.

Speaker 2 (02:22:25):
Today we shall follow Henrid Dill on the road to adventure,
a road which sometimes leads beyond the green door. In
August of nineteen twenty seven, Henry Dill was set out
on the world cruise. He was a romantic young man,
and he hoped to find adventure in the mysterious parts
of the world.

Speaker 8 (02:22:45):
But the adventures never came.

Speaker 2 (02:22:46):
Tangier was dull, Algiers was stuffy, and Malaga was a fraud.
Diill found this village disappointing, and when his ship docked
in ran he went ashore and got thoroughly drunk. He
awoke in a strange of room with our monumental hangover.
When he lifted his head he saw a French officer
sitting beside him. Well, what's another, still asked, Did I

(02:23:10):
there's something wrong wrong? The officer said, no, you didn't
have nothing wrong with my friend. Do don't you remember me?
We diked together last night? Oh yeah, of course, Bil
said he could remember hardly anything. Ah, what a night
that was. The French officer said. We sang many songs

(02:23:32):
and we pledged our friendship in a dozen bottles of wine.

Speaker 8 (02:23:34):
Huh. We talked, and you told me of your great
longing for adventure.

Speaker 2 (02:23:39):
That's sounded very silly, Bill said, not at all, my friend,
the officer assured him. A man needs danger under risk.
In the past, you have only seen the dull, civilized places,
but all that has changed. Now for now, my friend,
I personally we send you to adventure. Oh that great deil,

(02:24:00):
said courtiously, what's solo adventure? You will leave around, the
officer said, and go to Sidi Belabez, where the true
Sahara begins.

Speaker 8 (02:24:13):
Then you will proceed southward into the desert.

Speaker 2 (02:24:16):
Your way leads across the mountains of black rock, razor edged,
and hot as lava. One of a thousand Toak warriors
may lie in ambush as you descend once more to
the water is desert. Finally, with luck, you will reach
your destination at Fort Charles. Sounds dangerous, Bill said, trying

(02:24:36):
to make it seem a joke dangerous. But of course,
the officer replied, not one man in ten survives the
trip to Fort Chalet. But that is what makes it
so glorious, that his adventure the real thing, and not
the fraudulent wonders you are promised on your cruise. Even
though the officer's speech was rather than a dramatic and

(02:24:57):
the deal is impressed. For a moment, he's seriously considered
going on the perilous journey, but then his common sense prevailed.
It was one thing to dream of adventure, but it
was something else, entirely to let him mad and send
him off on a suicidal trip. I'm sorry, I'll say
I have to join rejoin my ship, if you see.

Speaker 8 (02:25:17):
Still stopped.

Speaker 2 (02:25:20):
For his daughter had opened, and two armed soldiers had entered.
The officer said, sadly, I had hoped to spare you
this unpleasantness, but I regret to say that you must go.

Speaker 8 (02:25:32):
There is no way out.

Speaker 2 (02:25:34):
I told you that last night, when I spoke of
the hardships and the dangers.

Speaker 8 (02:25:38):
I even begged you to think it over for a
few days, but.

Speaker 2 (02:25:42):
You insisted, what are you talking about, delas What did
I in system.

Speaker 8 (02:25:49):
My poor friend, the officer said.

Speaker 2 (02:25:51):
He insisted right there and then on joining the French
Foreign Legion.

Speaker 8 (02:25:57):
And now there is no way out.

Speaker 2 (02:25:59):
These men are on scott They will accompany you on
the journey to Fort Chalais.

Speaker 65 (02:26:17):
This one's about a murder in which the victim trapped
the killer.

Speaker 7 (02:26:22):
Do you want to hear it?

Speaker 13 (02:26:30):
Now?

Speaker 66 (02:26:31):
Starrying?

Speaker 63 (02:26:31):
Paul Freese is your teller of tales? Another story from
a black book.

Speaker 65 (02:26:42):
Yes, from the world's most fabulous collection of strange and
unusual stories, the Black Book. I've selected a story by
Dorothy Horton. She calls it my favorite corpse. Ardie Paul

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said goodnight to Lil. Then he walked across town to
his hotel. Lil's kiss was still heavy against his lips.
Artie smiled as he remembered the pleasures of the evening. Now,
for tonight it was ended, but there'd be more evenings
like this, many more. At the hotel, he bought a

(02:27:32):
pack of cigarettes, said goodnight to the desk clerk, and
went up to his room. He let himself in, flicked
on the lights, then placed a telephone called Along Island.
While he waited, he whistled softly through his teeth. There
was just one obstacle in the way of complete happiness
for Artie, just one. A voice answered on the other

(02:27:55):
end of the line. Hello, Jenny, this is Artie. Hey
just finished that work for the office.

Speaker 21 (02:28:02):
Oh that's nice, dear.

Speaker 65 (02:28:03):
I didn't realize how late it was until just now.
I've decided not to drive home so late at night.
I'll stay at the Tarletan.

Speaker 21 (02:28:11):
Well, whatever you think, Dear.

Speaker 24 (02:28:13):
If it doesn't seem wise to come home, then you'd.

Speaker 21 (02:28:14):
Better stay in town.

Speaker 65 (02:28:16):
I think it's best, Jenny. I'm pretty tired. Call you
in the morning from the office.

Speaker 27 (02:28:21):
Okay, all right, dear.

Speaker 21 (02:28:22):
Good night and Arthur. Yes, pleasant dreams, darling.

Speaker 65 (02:28:27):
Good night, Jenny. Arthur put up the receiver on the
hook and sat staring out of the hotel window. Somewhere
out there, beyond the lighted city was his wife, Jenny,
his devoted, faithful, understanding wife, whom he was going to kill.

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Arty wasn't sure just when he first planned to kill
his wife, but it was shortly after he met Lil Nelson,
one of those electric things. Artie and Lil had met
a few times for cocktails after he left the office
in the evening before going home. At first, it had
been merely an exciting flirtation, but quickly, frighteningly, it had

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grown to be much more. Now he saw Lil every day,
he knew he was in love with her. Then finally,
one evening, he told Jenny about it.

Speaker 21 (02:29:25):
But Arthur, you're fifteen years older than this girl.

Speaker 13 (02:29:28):
Jenny.

Speaker 65 (02:29:28):
Look, we've been all over this, Arthur.

Speaker 21 (02:29:31):
It simply wouldn't work right now. She seems to mean
a great deal to you, but it's just a crush,
a passing fascination.

Speaker 13 (02:29:39):
Jenny.

Speaker 65 (02:29:40):
I'm sorry, I love Lil. I want a divorce.

Speaker 21 (02:29:43):
You're acting like a schoolboy, Arthur. I don't think we
should talk about it.

Speaker 65 (02:29:47):
Anymore, Jenny, can't you understand what I'm saying. I'm going
to leave you now, Arthur.

Speaker 21 (02:29:53):
We've been through this before. I won't let you make
a fool of yourself over that blonde Jenny.

Speaker 65 (02:30:01):
You're making a mistake, Arthur.

Speaker 34 (02:30:03):
You need me.

Speaker 21 (02:30:05):
This girl wouldn't be good for you. You don't really
love her. It's just animal attraction. It'll pass in a
little while. We can look back on this and laugh.
I'm right you wait and see, Arthur. Are you listening.
I won't let you have a divorce, Arthur. That's final.

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I know what's best for both of us.

Speaker 19 (02:30:32):
Arthur.

Speaker 21 (02:30:32):
Are you listening to me?

Speaker 32 (02:30:37):
Art He was.

Speaker 65 (02:30:37):
Listening, listening to all the things he knew Jenny would say,
all the platitudes, the truisms, the trite sayings that Jenny
understood so well. Oh Jenny loved him all right, but
with a cloying, maternal love, nothing like the consuming, flaming
desire that was Lill's. If there was any particular moment

(02:30:59):
that Jen and he sealed her fate, it was then
half an hour after she went to bed, already left
his house and drove back toward the city.

Speaker 21 (02:31:10):
And Bill, you're really gonna do it, Artie.

Speaker 65 (02:31:17):
Yes, I've got it all playing. There won't be any mistakes.

Speaker 21 (02:31:21):
Pour me another drink, baby, sure?

Speaker 65 (02:31:26):
Funny she never calls me baby always, Arthur, like I
was a little boy.

Speaker 21 (02:31:33):
You're not a little boy to me, not at all.
It would be dangerous.

Speaker 65 (02:31:45):
It'll take time, two maybe three months, but I've got
a plan, and you won't be stuck in this second
floor walk up. You'll live where you want.

Speaker 21 (02:31:56):
Use good enough for me.

Speaker 65 (02:31:57):
We'll travel, have fun, you and me Lil soon soon
three days after he made his decision, already bought a
small thirty two caliber gun. Then he began his period
of stage setting. Lil was never mentioned in his home again.

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She stopped coming by the office to see him. There
were no more cocktail rendezvous in the dark bar. As
time passed, people at the office forgot about her. The
kidding died away. At bridge parties, his friends remarked on
how nice it was to see a couple so much
in love as Jenny and Arthur. They were getting along wonderfully.

(02:32:41):
In the months that followed. Artie sat through countless dull
plays and movies, holding Jenny's hand, all the while he
ate to be with Lil. Artie wasn't certain that Jenny
was fooled by all this sudden affection, but he knew
their friends were. And then, after what seemed to eternity,

(02:33:01):
the night came and Artie was glad. It was to
be a Wednesday night, the night that Jenny went to
a reading club. Should be home around ten o'clock. Hardy
went to work setting up his alibi. He phoned Jenny,
then let it be known around the office he'd have
to work late, might even stay in town. He ate dinner, then,

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with his briefcase under his arm, sat down in the
lobby of the Tarleton in full sight of the night clerk.
It was eight fifteen. Party acted as part to perfection
by eoint thirty. He was nodding. At five minutes of nine.
He raised his head, blinked, and looked around.

Speaker 18 (02:33:42):
Getting up, he.

Speaker 65 (02:33:43):
Walked to the night clerk. That's one for the books.
Fell asleep right there in the lobby. I'm going up
to my room. Nothing short of an atom bomb could
get me out of bed tonight, and the night clerk
laughed with him. Hardy went up to his room, waited

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fifteen minutes, turned out the lights, and quietly, carefully climbed
out the window onto the fire escape. Three minutes later
he was in his car. Forty minutes later he was
climbing in the library window of his own hall. He
looked at his watch, ten o'clock. That was good, Jennie'd
be home any minute. He moved quickly to the hallway

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by the front door and slid into the hall closet,
pressing himself back into the darkness. Jenny, with such a
creature of habit, he knew exactly what she do after
she came in. She locked the front door, put the
key on the hall table, take off her coat and
hang it in the closet. Hardy stood in the darkness,
his hand wet around the butt of the gun he

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held the complete like of any sound was terrifying. But
any minute now it looked the door.

Speaker 56 (02:34:55):
She was home.

Speaker 65 (02:34:57):
His ear was strained listening stale air of the closet
made him dizzy. Then a sound he hadn't expected. What
was the fool crying about? Now she was walking, just
walking back and forth and crying, crying softly to himself.
Then the crying stopped. She was right outside the closet.

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Now he pressed farther back. Now the door was opening,
and a knife blade of lights sliced into the closet.
The coat slithered off a hang around to the floor,
and he bent down to pick it up, and her
eyes found his shoes. His legs traveled up to his face,
a rasping crying, her eyes wide.

Speaker 13 (02:35:38):
Ardy lunched.

Speaker 24 (02:35:41):
I tell you something I've gotten.

Speaker 65 (02:35:44):
Hardy dragged her into the smothering closeness of the hanging
coats and pulled the trigger. As he drove back into
the city, already knew he'd been very clever. It would
look like suicide. He'd pressed Jenny's lifeless fingers around the

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butt of the gun. It was lying on the floor now,
close to her body. It was all so simple. After
he parked the car, Hardy started for the hotel, but
as he walked, a sudden desire made him hesitate. Phony
he could see Lil for a second. She'd want to know.

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A few minutes later, he was climbing the backstairs to
Lil's apartment. He found the door unlocked and opened it.

Speaker 13 (02:36:35):
Lil, Lil, it's Hardy, right, honey.

Speaker 65 (02:36:41):
There was no answer. He stepped into the living room,
and suddenly something burst inside his head. Lil Lil was
lying on the floor, darl like grotesque. The blue robe
had given a was stained with blood. A gun lay
beside her.

Speaker 13 (02:36:58):
Help me, lil, little baby.

Speaker 15 (02:37:02):
It hurts already.

Speaker 19 (02:37:04):
They could stop hurting.

Speaker 65 (02:37:06):
Little little.

Speaker 13 (02:37:07):
What happened?

Speaker 22 (02:37:08):
She shot me?

Speaker 21 (02:37:12):
She who she came in, said she wanted to talk.

Speaker 31 (02:37:21):
Shot me.

Speaker 65 (02:37:23):
Well, little, I'll call her doctor.

Speaker 21 (02:37:26):
She knew for months, she knew.

Speaker 65 (02:37:31):
About me, baby baby, Please don't try to talk.

Speaker 21 (02:37:36):
She shot me, You wife laughed, already, Oh, Hardy, little.

Speaker 65 (02:37:49):
Already got to his feet. Little was dead. He picked
up the gun. It was his gun, his gun, the
one he'd always had around the house, the one he

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had registered in his name. Now too late, he remembered.
He hadn't seen it for several days. Of course, Jenny
had taken it when she planned a murder of her own.
Jenny had fooled both of them. Gnardie stood there for
a moment, looking down at Lil. Tears filled his eyes

(02:38:34):
and spilled over. After a moment, he walked to the
phone and slowly picked up the receiver. I want the police, please.

(02:38:55):
This is Arthur Paul. I want to report two murders,
one at my home on Long Island.

Speaker 18 (02:39:06):
And the other here.

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Speaker 13 (02:40:59):
Give me a lemonade, make it sweet.

Speaker 67 (02:41:09):
Ain't you're scared the gusts such powerful liquor on such
a hot night.

Speaker 68 (02:41:15):
I take some terrible chances that well, old timer, but
I was raised to it. Dominate your boys. Maybe they
got something here more suited to a gent of your
superior judgment and with the.

Speaker 13 (02:41:27):
Fool like a gentleman. I'll be dead hammered if it were.
And they accepted that. Such me get red ice street dud.
Look out that old diamond, don't you, Bill, and drop
of that stuff on your beard. You do want to
start a conflagration really might save barber bills. I ain't

(02:41:48):
mingled with a barber for five months, working a plain
way out. Now we're being prospected some hereabouts. Not much luck.
Do you figure the light here in our fair city permanent? No, sir,
I'm just fastening through looking for cow country chop hands. Well,
I've been flashed as such. Botimate some folks. He's liberal minded.

(02:42:14):
That a way. Have another drink old hand, no munch beeze.
I drinks it for the taste, never takes from one. Well,
he pretends, bartender.

Speaker 18 (02:42:31):
Why is that all campshair?

Speaker 13 (02:42:33):
Why it's beIN ript the cripples he he ain't everywhere
is needed?

Speaker 11 (02:42:40):
Nobody go wake him up out in his beauty sleep
and tell him.

Speaker 41 (02:42:43):
And I've been rocked. The black ghost has rocked me again. Yes, sir, yes, sir,
the black ghost. He just spread up to my cabin
and demanded my week's clean up.

Speaker 2 (02:42:55):
Welln't have much dirt, I mean crippled like I am.

Speaker 13 (02:42:59):
I I ain't able to wash out much. But when
I bought have given this devil my dust. He took
my crutch away from me and knockman flat with it, walked, threw.

Speaker 27 (02:43:08):
My pockets and took my dust and right away life.

Speaker 13 (02:43:11):
It means that's a shame. I gotta ride nice horse outside.

Speaker 68 (02:43:18):
Maybe I could come up on this pole cat if
you'll tell me what you wear a road, come up
on the black code.

Speaker 13 (02:43:25):
You could collect five thousand from aast Cameron, and another
one from the state picket and that.

Speaker 41 (02:43:31):
But just as long as we got a sheriff that
cools his heels on his desk and won't listen to it, Betters,
we ain't never gonna see them rewards collected.

Speaker 13 (02:43:40):
Uh, here's a sheriff now, boy, Yeah, it's high time
you've got here. Well, what's eating on your loose time,
mister Winsorow.

Speaker 27 (02:43:48):
But as usual you're too late to help matters, Joe Haynes.

Speaker 30 (02:43:51):
That black ghost just rop me again.

Speaker 34 (02:43:54):
Wow, Sorry, mister Winsorp. I'll kill her passing and do
my best to give him.

Speaker 42 (02:44:00):
Is the worst you hanged as a sure if you're
about the forest, excuse I ever seen, mnd.

Speaker 24 (02:44:06):
It funny to me how you never happen to be
around When this year.

Speaker 41 (02:44:09):
Black goes for the hold up, he must give you
a nice cut to keep it a third flum absent.

Speaker 34 (02:44:17):
Well, say, I can't fight a triple mister Winsip. But
if there's any other ten here what has insane views?
I'd admire to have him step out here and expression
they don't let this star hold you back none, because
it's just pin Hey, supposing you come over tomorrow but winsorp.

(02:44:41):
If you got anything else to say to me, you
can say it, thir Come on.

Speaker 13 (02:44:53):
All the time. I gotta put my horse up with
a knife. What's one of them alleged feeds tables dishes
out the best oats for a real horse? Jim Taylor's man, cowboy.
His place is just up the street here, come on,
I'll be with you. Well, thank you, Come on left.

(02:45:15):
Where's your horse?

Speaker 8 (02:45:17):
Well?

Speaker 13 (02:45:17):
Yeah he is? Oh boy, Oh come here star, come on,
shake hands with mister. I forgot your name, old hand.
Well I'm the dead hammered Look at him, raisors Hook
Wollard Sonable dun you what a horse he? Cowboy? This
horse is Kentucky bread.

Speaker 68 (02:45:38):
Out of leading lady inside by a full blood Morgan real?

Speaker 13 (02:45:43):
What do you think of our fair city? Now, stranger?

Speaker 68 (02:45:46):
Well, so this place ain't safe for a man of
my peace loving nature. I ain't locating the places of
a milk and honey. Well, there ain't no un catch bandit. No,
I don't care about your town, my town. You doing,
young fellers trying.

Speaker 13 (02:46:02):
To wish this town on me. She ain't a bad
little place. But from what happened here tonight, I know
it a peaceful gin like me, ain't gonna get no
repose in Cameron, Zeddy, I could see you was trouble
dodger by the way you offered to hunt down the
black you for shrinking Violet. You was the most eager

(02:46:23):
Rannie I ever seen the hunt trouble. That wasn't no
surch of bull down in my noble breast partner. That
was just curiosity.

Speaker 68 (02:46:33):
I'm plumb scared of ghost, but I ain't never seeing
a black one. And I'm so curious that I sometimes forget.

Speaker 13 (02:46:40):
Moselle here well, curious gent like you must have seen
lots go No, can't said, I have but almost seen
him lots of times. A ghost is supposed to be.
Why it ain't that old pens? What did you say
if I told you right here, Cameron else, I've seen

(02:47:01):
one as black as me, and he turned white right
in front of my eyes and then plumb evaporated on
clean ground, horse Low. If you keep on like that,
I ain't gonna get a winker sleep tonight. Uh do
you mean this year black goat? It's all similar, and

(02:47:22):
I'd say it was a powerful smart goat. The witch
is putting it Miles he can do more tricks in
a monkey on a grape vine, and his horse just
seems to drift low while the horses and the fosses
worked the heart out. His neck can show as he
used to the best one here about the whole time.

(02:47:43):
And you gone and got my curiosity all edge wise again.

Speaker 68 (02:47:47):
I doubt that last statement about his horse. That might
have been gospel before Starring Me arrived. But see, I
lost my last job on account of this horse's thieve.

Speaker 13 (02:47:57):
Well, how girl, Well.

Speaker 68 (02:47:58):
He got to running down average jack rabbit, and the
seen they got the poor and pitiful looking that the
boss couldn't stand a sad.

Speaker 13 (02:48:06):
Look in their eyes. So he up and give him
a time. Bosses tender heart of that way, the witch
reminds me that I'm as hungry as them, said jack rabbits.
There's a hand fruit and the sower booso men pour
him over where you see them. NeXT's let's put up
your horse and feed her faces. I don't need to

(02:48:28):
put him up, he'll follow along. Come on, star that's uh,
let's yeh. Black ghosts must be a pretty smart umber.

Speaker 8 (02:48:38):
Yes, sir, he's all of that.

Speaker 13 (02:48:40):
No, I wish you hadn't told me about his horse.
I'ms a curious I will never rest the star gets
a chance to catch it. Uh, what's the set up? Here?
Will hand?

Speaker 27 (02:48:52):
For?

Speaker 13 (02:48:52):
What's mean? Young feller?

Speaker 68 (02:48:54):
Well, I'm a strange in town, just fastened through. But
while I mangle around with the gents here, not to
know who is he?

Speaker 13 (02:49:03):
Well? Ace Cameron is the grand dragon of the round here.
Ace owns the bank, and he owns the Diamond stud
and he owns the Palace hotel. That's it over got there?
Who must have a few dollars touched away? He made
most of it on grub steaks. He grubsteak anybody wants

(02:49:25):
to look for color. Then there's Jim Taylor, who runs
this livery stable ahead here. He's a white man. Bob
Carter runs a general store over there. He's okay reckon
all the rest of the shacks you see here, miners
working in this gus. But the town is always full

(02:49:47):
of boys that work way out. They come in to
spend the cleanup. I'll tell me some more about the
town gardener. Yes, call me Uncle Zach, young fella. Everybody
else there all right, Uncle Zak, My name is Larry,
named after your uncle huh, what's that? My uncle? I

(02:50:10):
on after you have high noses A minute of the
senior ladd. I knew you was Alex Son the minute
of the set eyes on you, But I ain't senior
since you was me hired with Tadpole. Alex and me
went through some trying times together. Well, I can't place you,
Uncle Zak. Surely you're not Zack mellerda stranger. That's me son?

(02:50:36):
Were you old scorpion? You had me plumb fool? Hey
you young bullsnake? Why you were breaking my hand? Well
I remember your name. My guys, Uncle Zach, you look
older than my dad and you're five years younger. There's
a little corn starch on the beard and fuel rags

(02:50:59):
make big difference. Larry Gray gun way'ill I write to
dad about that. Uh listen, Uncle Zach, what are you
doing here? Ross Pekan's son, Just prospecting the same as you.
But getting back to this black ghost again? How long
has he been operating around him? Or for about a year?

(02:51:21):
First to hear the black ghosts when he held up
the bank here about a year ago. He's camera reports
the sheriff for the man wearing a black robe and
riding the black horse and held up the bank and
ridged south out of the ghost. I landed here about
two weeks later, and any more big holds lady stagecoat,

(02:51:46):
diamond study saloon. Why this year pool cat won't stop
with nothing? Shoots man down just to see him die?
Why he even robs crippled like old man Winster?

Speaker 7 (02:51:58):
There?

Speaker 13 (02:51:59):
Why about him? I ago he robbed the old fella
and left him tied in his chair all night. Some
of the boys happened to pass his cabin untired him
or read the star for that. Wow, no, it looks
like this is going to be interesting.

Speaker 8 (02:52:14):
Uncle that.

Speaker 13 (02:52:14):
Yes it has the ear marks, but let's see him.
Whoa oh Jensen didn't see in the dark. Almost run
over it? Hello, Sah, pretty night, ain't it? Yes, sir?
Sure is?

Speaker 7 (02:52:32):
Wow?

Speaker 13 (02:52:33):
Good night Dad, good night? Yeah, good night cheer. Have
you have you got a match?

Speaker 7 (02:52:44):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (02:52:44):
Yeah, sure I have you?

Speaker 3 (02:52:47):
Well?

Speaker 13 (02:52:47):
Uh lighter cigarette? Hmm, I said, uh, light a cigarette?
I want to take a splint of this nose, he
slipped me. No, what no, never mind, just lack that cigarette?
Say what what is I reckon? Uh? We'll have to

(02:53:11):
put off eating for a spell. Son. Something special must
have happened because a sheriff wants to see us at
his office right away. The both of us both star

(02:53:37):
oh boy boot yeah, well, oh morn, we go right
around this way. I assure you've got a key to
this stately abode of evil doers. Uncle za did have.
I'll be dad hammered if keys ain't getting smaller every year.

(02:53:58):
Oh here is mistook it for dime. Quiet, Yes, sir.
When I was coming up, key was a key, and
the jail house key had to be fitted with wheels,
and the look at that thing. And that's what I
called sending a boy on a man's air is it
says office and back? No's up in front. But he

(02:54:22):
didn't want folks seeing us go in. Yeah, hey, i'll
let you know what in I say, A light up
the hall, and the sheriff's waiting for us.

Speaker 19 (02:54:38):
Mhm, come in.

Speaker 13 (02:54:54):
Oh holy uncle Zachy Brian, I'm glad to see it. Well,
thank you, sir, I'm glad to shake hands with you.

Speaker 32 (02:55:04):
Woll ah see you got to quit it with uncle Zak.

Speaker 13 (02:55:08):
It's down, yes, thank you well, Brandon, you're from down
heat away, I understand, yes, And Uncle Zach's about all
my dad talks about nowadays. Dad and Uncle Zack used
to be in the ranger. Yes, your dad had natural
talent for slinging lead, and from what here you inherited

(02:55:29):
the shoot night.

Speaker 11 (02:55:29):
Larry, and not Zack as you and Dad used to
be Uncle Zach.

Speaker 68 (02:55:33):
I can't roll a can without making it, but I
can put six lugs through it before Dad can get
on limbered.

Speaker 40 (02:55:40):
Me faster than Alex used to be. Larry, well something
like that. I'll be Dad hammered. If you ain't dangerous
for that, help.

Speaker 13 (02:55:50):
Destroyer son, Yes, suh.

Speaker 69 (02:55:53):
If you can shoot half as good as you can juggle,
you're the man we need you. And Cameron Goats take
a little your feet.

Speaker 13 (02:56:00):
Well, I'll tell you.

Speaker 32 (02:56:01):
About this limbo of seating called black goats.

Speaker 13 (02:56:04):
Thank you. Mind if I hang the belt up here,
don't do.

Speaker 69 (02:56:08):
It, Brandon, keepmng. I've done got plumb scared tick mino.

Speaker 13 (02:56:13):
Oh that is that? Huh, Sheriff, He's right, Larry, we
don't know who to trusting.

Speaker 32 (02:56:19):
That's right, Brandon.

Speaker 69 (02:56:21):
I've rid ten good horses into the ground, lost enough
weight to make another ordinary size man.

Speaker 13 (02:56:27):
Chasing the black ghost.

Speaker 69 (02:56:29):
Now might just as well have been cheasing butterflies were
all good or dummy.

Speaker 13 (02:56:34):
Uncle Zach, yeah, tells me that nobody even knows who
the black Ghost is.

Speaker 69 (02:56:39):
No, but they don't stop a man from having id's.
Do you ever hear the heeler game?

Speaker 13 (02:56:46):
Why? Yes, But but you don't think.

Speaker 69 (02:56:50):
Remember how the healer bandit had a way of sliding
out and leaving the other gem.

Speaker 32 (02:56:55):
To hold the sact.

Speaker 13 (02:56:57):
Yes, but nobody knows who the heel of Bandon is is?
I mean, was no?

Speaker 32 (02:57:04):
Well maybe some folks, no more than you think.

Speaker 13 (02:57:07):
Who was he? Uncle Zach, Well, blessed, I know it's
all news to me.

Speaker 67 (02:57:13):
He'll a bandit and all his raids never got hemmed
in once some of his men got caught, but he
just seemed to feede away, always had his getaway figured
out doing that syebrow.

Speaker 32 (02:57:26):
Well, does that suggest anything?

Speaker 13 (02:57:30):
You mean the black Ghost is red?

Speaker 9 (02:57:33):
I do.

Speaker 13 (02:57:35):
There ain't two men that clever in one generation.

Speaker 69 (02:57:39):
A criminal may change his deviltry the suit of a
certain section, but he always runs through the form. The
heel of banded down. There was a sidewinder and the skunk.
But the folks remember the way he eluded capture better
than they do those crimes.

Speaker 13 (02:57:55):
The Black Ghost robs and kills rich and poor. Alife
even cripples.

Speaker 69 (02:58:01):
And human life means absolutely nothing to him. But Cameron
City talks about the way he vanishes from sight and
black moonlight.

Speaker 13 (02:58:12):
Then you all think that the Black Ghost is the
heel of bandit. I wish I could be sure of
a seat and glory when a cash in my chips.
Then from now on, I'm riding your height straight out.
Just a question about smartening.

Speaker 69 (02:58:25):
It, Well, there'll be some job Brandon. He's got this
ghost buffalo to a standstill. Why some folks won't speak
his name of bubble Whisper. They half believe he's supernatural.

Speaker 13 (02:58:40):
That's so well.

Speaker 69 (02:58:42):
The first I knew who the Black Ghost was six
months ago when he held up the bank. He's Cameron,
owner of the bank and the whole dang town reported
to me that a man wearing a black hood and
robe had dropped the bank and then ride away in
a cold black horse. There was a Saturday night and
the bank was open late to accommodate Payroll's mines see,

(02:59:07):
and the town was swarming with men, and every man
that owned a horse rode in the posse. He had
plenty of start on us. But when we rode out
of the coat under the lava beds, there he was
in his black outfit, had jogging along ahead of us,
and every man fogged in behind him in a run.

Speaker 13 (02:59:25):
I believe Uncle Zach said it was uh moonlight.

Speaker 69 (02:59:30):
I never seen a full moon is bright. The hills
on the right and Buzzard Butte on the left looked
like a big saucer painted in silver, and it was plumbed.

Speaker 13 (02:59:40):
Season to the eye.

Speaker 69 (02:59:42):
Anyhow, he let us gain on him till he got
about half a mile from Buzzart Butting. Then we saw
a big glare of white, a puppe of smoke, and
right in front of our eyes, horse and rider turned
a pale white, and then they disappeared off the face
of the earth.

Speaker 13 (03:00:01):
I bet half the boss we was scared to.

Speaker 69 (03:00:03):
Death, Brandon for the first time in my life. I
was so scared that Matis started chattering about. Half the
men high tailed it for town, but the rest of
us hunted till daylight. We found nary a track, no
sign whatever, And yet there wasn't a rock on them,

(03:00:23):
lava beds big enough to hide.

Speaker 32 (03:00:25):
A flea under.

Speaker 69 (03:00:27):
Of course, we knew a horse and rider couldn't up
and evaporate like that and plain open moonlight. But them
spooky lava bed It didn't help his none to figure
it out.

Speaker 13 (03:00:38):
I bet you they didn't.

Speaker 69 (03:00:40):
Well, we got back to Cameron sit He a little
after daybreak to find that this rattler had returned to
town while we was looking for him, and stuck up
the Diamond Stud saloon with a hundred armed men present.
Not a man followed him. But that wasn't all just
to keep folks from thinking he shirking. He beat up

(03:01:02):
old man Winthrop. The cripple left him lying on the
floor unconscious. The boys found him there.

Speaker 68 (03:01:08):
Well, now that's what I call a plumbing Dustris Ambras, Yeah,
you ought to have some help dealing with a fellai
like him.

Speaker 69 (03:01:16):
Well, I didn't ask for help right away because I
figured I could.

Speaker 32 (03:01:21):
Take this gentle loan.

Speaker 69 (03:01:24):
But A's Cameron wrote to the governor and offered five
thousand dollars reward for the capture of the Black Ghost,
and pretty soon Uncle Zach showed up.

Speaker 13 (03:01:34):
Yeah, the governor tipped me off. Qush on, you see, Larry,
the trouble was this elusive gent Is that he knows
everything that goes on in Cameron Gust. No matter how
careful we are, if we send out a gold shipment,
he nabs at Toronto while he's actually taking toll from
some of the small miners who operate cleans out in

(03:01:57):
the hills. He leaves so much of each clean up
at a stated place, and those who try to trap
him or fail to leave the dust passes out peaceful
and prompt, so most of them paid. M Well, is
that all your know, sir?

Speaker 7 (03:02:16):
All?

Speaker 32 (03:02:16):
No, Brandon, and that don't help much?

Speaker 13 (03:02:19):
Well, Seff, Can I ask you a few questions?

Speaker 32 (03:02:22):
Yeah, go ahead, I'll do my best to answer them.

Speaker 68 (03:02:25):
When this gent held up the bank the first time,
did A's Cameron report to you in person?

Speaker 13 (03:02:32):
Or did he send you word?

Speaker 32 (03:02:33):
Why he send a note by a nexed kid?

Speaker 13 (03:02:36):
Did as Cameron ride in at first? Pots? No, now
that have come to think of what he didn't, But
you're not a thinker.

Speaker 68 (03:02:45):
I'm not missing any closure, no matter how small it is.
Can Can He's handle the gun.

Speaker 69 (03:02:52):
Best in town and reckon outside of his two lookouts
at the Diamond stud and Uncle Zach.

Speaker 32 (03:02:59):
He's faster than me a whole lot.

Speaker 13 (03:03:02):
Then, it'd make a good man in the boss, wouldn't he.

Speaker 8 (03:03:04):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (03:03:05):
Sure?

Speaker 69 (03:03:06):
But then you got to remember that east Cameron is
sort of a headman in this town.

Speaker 32 (03:03:12):
He's got the well, his dignity to maintain.

Speaker 13 (03:03:16):
He can, yes, uncle Zach tells me. And he owns
the whole town. Whoa just about to wrecky if I recollect?
Uncle Zack said, he owns a diamond stud in the
Palace Hotel. And then there's a bank too, uh huh.
And he made his money grubsteak and min it. That's right,
Larry east Cameron's right generous when it comes to financing prospectors. Well, now,

(03:03:40):
just how many of these hard working prospectors that he
grubsteak they ever struck at rich?

Speaker 69 (03:03:45):
Well, uh, I don't recollect any of them ever made
a big strike. A man of his luck, he can
make them living.

Speaker 13 (03:03:53):
And yet he's Cameron got rich just grubstaking. Yes, Wait
a minute, Uncle zakay sheereff At Cameron was the one
that wrote to the governor and offered five thousand dollars
reward for the black goat. Mmm, it's a fact, five thousand. No,
and his own place of business had been held up
with his Black Ghost like frequent.

Speaker 32 (03:04:14):
Uh huh yeah, just about every soo.

Speaker 13 (03:04:17):
Wophen you know, Jeff, I wouldn't be surprised if it
weren't about time for the Black Ghost to be calling
on As Cameron again. H What's that I said? I
wouldn't be surprised if the Black Ghost wasn't naming the
call on as Cameron again in the near future.

Speaker 69 (03:04:33):
Well, I'll be tnally door Gon say, how'll you know that?
I just guessed it, why, because he's Cameron. Just got
a note from the Black Ghost this evening, a note
saying that he was gonna stick up the Diamond Stud.

Speaker 13 (03:04:53):
Bar tomorrow night. What well, I'll be dead, Henry M. Yeah,
that's why I sent for you. I've got the note
right here. Pull down that window blind there, I'll get it. Yeah, yeah,

(03:05:20):
written on a typewriter. Uh huh. I wonder how many
machines in town. There's just one, and it's on by
As Cameron.

Speaker 69 (03:05:28):
Yeah, but how on earth is the Black Ghost right
there on AS's machine in his office at the Diamond
Stud typewriter.

Speaker 13 (03:05:37):
Ain't at the Diamond Stud It's at the bank and
Cameron's private office. Yeah, eleame ate it says, uh, better
put another five thousand on my head.

Speaker 68 (03:05:48):
A's Cameron, it'll help you tomorrow night when I call
on you at the Diamond Stud.

Speaker 13 (03:05:54):
Be sean have plenty of cash on hand, and it's
not signed. We don't need to be that Rattlesnake sure
has his nerve, so he aims to hold up the
Diamond stud tomorrow night. And the moon's on the increase,
almost full. They were operated except moonlight night. He says,
he put on extra guard.

Speaker 68 (03:06:15):
Well, if you ask me, this black ghost is running
a fine large bluff, no man in his right senses
and try stunt like that.

Speaker 13 (03:06:22):
Don't you be too sure about that? Black ghosts don't
run no bluffs, not niney tall. He'll be here, just
sure shooting. I'd like to see him try. Probably heavy
wish Larry. He's plumb tricky. He'll do it and get
away with it. Maybe he'll get away with it.

Speaker 69 (03:06:38):
But a gent don't always run along without making mistakes.
And this time I think he's made one.

Speaker 33 (03:06:54):
Box thirteen with the star of Paramount Pictures Alan Ladd
as Dan Holliday.

Speaker 70 (03:07:08):
Hello, Hello operator, op Operator. I want to send a
telegram immediately to Box thirteen. Care of the Star Times,
come to room five oh seven, Hotel Belvidere. Please waste
no time, because this is a matter of life and death,
perhaps for dozens of people.

Speaker 8 (03:07:26):
I am doctor Phil.

Speaker 5 (03:07:29):
There's no time because it's a matter of life and death,
perhaps for dozens of people. I am doctor Theodore Miller.
Doctor Miller's telegram reached me at my apartment, special messenger
from the Star Times. It was special, all right, extra
special trouble.

Speaker 33 (03:07:55):
And now back to Box thirteen and Dan Holliday's newest adventure.

Speaker 6 (03:07:59):
The I hear Betton.

Speaker 5 (03:08:05):
Doctor Miller's telegram reached me at five point fifteen in
the afternoon. At five point thirty two, I was on
the fifth floor of the Hotel Belvedere. At five thirty
three I spotted the room number five o seven. Then
I heard, well, what was it? I walked the room
five oh seven. The sound became louder. I knocked at

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the door.

Speaker 8 (03:08:28):
Yes, who is it? Please?

Speaker 5 (03:08:31):
Box thirteen?

Speaker 8 (03:08:32):
Oh good, good, explenty, Please do come in. Thank you
for coming in, Thank you, you're welcome for what? Oh
I will explain excuse me a moment, Oh certainly, Oh

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it's no use.

Speaker 5 (03:08:54):
Oh you're so right, Doctor Miller. Music like that does
seem a little out of place.

Speaker 8 (03:08:58):
You're joking.

Speaker 5 (03:09:00):
I think you're the joke of doctor Mellan. No, no,
please forgive me, but I am desperate. Why don't you
settle down, explain a telegram and this this weird little concert.

Speaker 8 (03:09:09):
I am doctor Theodore Miller.

Speaker 5 (03:09:11):
Yes, I know that, I'm Dan Holiday.

Speaker 8 (03:09:13):
Mister Holliday, do you know what a herpatologist is.

Speaker 5 (03:09:16):
Yes, I know what it is.

Speaker 8 (03:09:18):
A snake expert exactly so, mister Holiday, some place in
this hotel, perhaps on this very floor, there is a
dangerous snake loose.

Speaker 5 (03:09:28):
Are you kidding?

Speaker 8 (03:09:29):
No, No, I'd better explain.

Speaker 5 (03:09:32):
Yes, you'd better.

Speaker 8 (03:09:33):
I'm in town to address the medical Society on the
use of snakes serums in the treatment of homophilia. I
brought a king cobra along. It has escaped here in
this room. I don't know where it is, doctor Miller.
Thank you for the telegram and the music. I'm going
to wait. Please, you're either a liar, are you crazy? Look?

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Look here my cread angels. The hotel manager will verify them.
You yourself can check. You will see that I am
who I say I am. That doesn't stop you from
being insane. I know how all this sounds, but please
believe me. We must find that cobra.

Speaker 5 (03:10:08):
I can understand your concern, but you've got to understand
my position, which is one I don't like. If you
want adventure, this is it, granted. Let's too think this
is a joke it yes, yes, wait a moment.

Speaker 8 (03:10:25):
Hello, will you have mister Larkin come to my room?
Oh this is a dr Miller five O seven. Thank
you Larkin.

Speaker 5 (03:10:33):
Who's hey?

Speaker 8 (03:10:33):
The hotel manager. Look, mister Holiday, I swear to you
that I'm telling the truth. Somehow, in some way, the
cobra escaped. But look, here's the case in which I
usually keep it. You can see for yourself that the
catch is loose.

Speaker 5 (03:10:50):
I'm beginning to believe you. You must it might be
in this room. I don't think, sir, I've trained the
snake or what.

Speaker 8 (03:10:58):
Yes, when it hears a little I play, it comes
because I always feed it immediately after the music.

Speaker 5 (03:11:04):
Oh, but this time it hasn't come back.

Speaker 8 (03:11:07):
No becoming Ah, mister Larkin, have you found it?

Speaker 30 (03:11:13):
No?

Speaker 8 (03:11:13):
I have not. But mister Larkin, this is mister Holliday.
He is the man from Box thirteen. How do you do.

Speaker 5 (03:11:19):
How are you terrible, mister Holliday. I beg you to
help us, but how I don't know a thing about snakes.
When doctor Miller told me what had happened, you should
have gone to the police. If we had, they would
have evacuated the hotel. I can't afford that business isn't
too good.

Speaker 71 (03:11:34):
And besides, doctor Miller assured me he could entice the
snake back with no trouble.

Speaker 5 (03:11:38):
So far he hasn't. Now, wait a minute. You're rescuing
the lives of guests in this hotel. That's a little
more important than the hotel itself.

Speaker 8 (03:11:44):
No, I know, but what guests we have on this
floor and not in their room? And I'm sure the
cobra hasn't gone far, And you think he's on this floor,
I'm positive. Then, for Heaven's sake, find it who suggested
something for me?

Speaker 13 (03:11:57):
I did?

Speaker 5 (03:11:57):
I saw your ad it with just a thought, and
it's one you can get out of your mind right now.
The police ought to be told, but the publicity. You'll
have to risk it, mister Holiday. I don't want to
lose that snake.

Speaker 8 (03:12:08):
Well you have already. I'm sure we can get him
back for five or six hours, he will be somnant.
He ate just before we learned he was gone. Did
you find out he was gone? No, the cleaning made deed. Yes,
that's right, she saw the empty case.

Speaker 5 (03:12:23):
You mean to tell me you allowed doctor Miller to
bring that snake into this hotel.

Speaker 8 (03:12:26):
I didn't know he had it. That is so I've
taken the cobra with me before. I don't mention it
because it is difficult to find the hotel.

Speaker 5 (03:12:34):
I can well imagine, mister Holliday, Will you help us
how I I don't know doctor Miller. Yes, you're sure
there's no danger for about five hours.

Speaker 8 (03:12:45):
I'm positive. All right, let's go to work. Oh, thank you,
mister Holliday. I have the help looking on the other floors.

Speaker 13 (03:12:52):
I'll be back in a few moments.

Speaker 8 (03:12:54):
Mister Holliday, you're very gracious.

Speaker 5 (03:12:58):
Now you be gracious and tell me that with doctor
Millan truth. What do you mean I don't believe that
snake just got away?

Speaker 8 (03:13:05):
You think I'm lying? Yet?

Speaker 13 (03:13:07):
Well?

Speaker 8 (03:13:08):
I go on, all right. I believe someone deliberately freed
the snake. But why so it would strike me? Kill me?

Speaker 5 (03:13:21):
Uh huh. I was wondering why an experienced man like
you are. I would be careless for the dangerous thing
like a king cobra. It's hardly likely you'd forget about
a catch on the case.

Speaker 8 (03:13:30):
You're right, And mister Holliday, I am afraid who freed
the cobra?

Speaker 5 (03:13:35):
I don't know. I think you do.

Speaker 32 (03:13:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (03:13:38):
I swear it. I just don't know, all right.

Speaker 5 (03:13:42):
Meanwhile, the things loose, what are you going to do.
I'll help you look for it, but if we don't
find the snake in one hour, I'll go to the police.
Well I should have gone to the police right away,
but there was something that told me not to. Anyway,
we hunted no snake, so I put in the call

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of the police and went back to my office. There
was something bothering me, but I didn't know what it was.
But I took the trouble to do a little research
with Susie's help.

Speaker 38 (03:14:15):
Here's what you're looking for, mister Holliday. This article right here.

Speaker 5 (03:14:18):
What does it saying?

Speaker 38 (03:14:19):
I'll read it to you. Miller theodore E noted herpetologists
hear apologists, famous for investigations into use and value of
snake theorem in various diseases.

Speaker 5 (03:14:32):
Let me see that's Miller. Did you think it wouldn't
be I wasn't sure, but that's his picture. That's the
man of the Belvedere Hotel.

Speaker 38 (03:14:40):
Want me to read some more?

Speaker 5 (03:14:41):
Here go ahead?

Speaker 7 (03:14:42):
Uh.

Speaker 38 (03:14:43):
Doctor Miller has been associated for the last seven years
with doctor roy A. Cunningham together Cunningham. H Does that
mean something?

Speaker 30 (03:14:52):
No?

Speaker 5 (03:14:52):
Just makes me wonder where Cunningham is now?

Speaker 24 (03:14:54):
But why?

Speaker 5 (03:14:56):
Miller said he was in town to address a medical convention.
He said nothing about a Cunningham. I just wondered why not.

Speaker 38 (03:15:01):
Oh, here's something about Cunningham. Should I read it? Doctor
Cunningham lost the third finger of his left hand as
a result of snake bite. The finger had to be amputated.
Do you have to read anymore? No, that's enough, susy, Okay,
what are you thinking about?

Speaker 5 (03:15:22):
I don't know, Susie. There's something bothering me, but I
can't put my finger on it.

Speaker 38 (03:15:27):
You'll think of it.

Speaker 21 (03:15:28):
Oh, I'll get it.

Speaker 8 (03:15:31):
Hello, mister Holiday, Please, it's the police department.

Speaker 38 (03:15:34):
Oh yes, just a minute, it's for you. Who is
it police?

Speaker 8 (03:15:38):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (03:15:39):
Okay, hello Holiday.

Speaker 8 (03:15:41):
I thought you might like to hear something.

Speaker 5 (03:15:43):
Oh sure, what.

Speaker 71 (03:15:44):
About a half hour ago you reported that snake business
at the Belvidere Hotel.

Speaker 5 (03:15:49):
That's right, what's happened? They find the snake always they had? Well,
what's happened? What's the matter?

Speaker 71 (03:15:55):
Something strange happened at the Moulten Hotel two blocks away
from the Belvedere.

Speaker 5 (03:16:00):
Oh wait a minute, you're not going to tell me
they found a snake down there.

Speaker 71 (03:16:03):
But earlier this afternoon, when a man staggered into the
lobby before he had a chance to see anything, he keeled.

Speaker 13 (03:16:09):
Over, he died.

Speaker 5 (03:16:11):
What's all that's got to do with me? I'm coming
to that, okay, okay, But when right now you.

Speaker 71 (03:16:17):
Reported the snake business at the Velvetyre. That's point number one.
And just a little while ago, the medical examiner finished
his autop see the dead man at the Molten follow me?

Speaker 5 (03:16:26):
Well, I'm trying my best, okay.

Speaker 71 (03:16:28):
Would you like me to read the report?

Speaker 5 (03:16:31):
Let's go ahead.

Speaker 71 (03:16:32):
A man's death was caused by a powerful poison which
acted directly on the nervous system.

Speaker 5 (03:16:37):
Did you say poison?

Speaker 71 (03:16:39):
Yeah, that's from a protooglypher's snake.

Speaker 5 (03:16:42):
What kind, plain English?

Speaker 71 (03:16:45):
A snake that has fixed poison fangs like.

Speaker 13 (03:16:49):
A king cobra?

Speaker 5 (03:16:50):
Are you sure, I'm reading a report. Who was the
man who was killed? We don't know yet any identifying characteristics? Yes,
stop playing games? Did he didn't?

Speaker 30 (03:17:00):
He?

Speaker 8 (03:17:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:17:01):
He did?

Speaker 8 (03:17:03):
What were they He was missing the middle finger of
his left hand?

Speaker 7 (03:17:07):
Why?

Speaker 8 (03:17:08):
Just what? I thought? What do you mean?

Speaker 5 (03:17:10):
Look? Check and see if a doctor Cunningham is registered
at the Molten. If he is, I think you'll find
that he's your dead man.

Speaker 71 (03:17:18):
Okay, Holiday, And since you know so much, how'd you
like to drop around and tell us how that snake
got two blocks from where he was lost without being seen?

Speaker 5 (03:17:27):
All right, I'll drop around later, but I don't know
any more about it than you do.

Speaker 38 (03:17:32):
Gee, mister Holliday, you look kind of upset.

Speaker 5 (03:17:35):
Yes, I am the man you just read about. Doctor
Cunningham died today from a bite from a cobra.

Speaker 38 (03:17:42):
But I wonder how well you said the snake would loose.

Speaker 5 (03:17:46):
Yeah, but that cobra had to go two blocks it
would have been seen, and even if he did make it,
he'd have to be a pretty smart cobra to pick
out Cunningham.

Speaker 38 (03:17:56):
Oh you mean you think there's some connection between doctor
Miller and doctor Cunney.

Speaker 5 (03:18:00):
It's got to be both men are in town. Millard
admits he had a cobra, then he reports its loss. Now,
why were Cunningham and Miller staying at different hotels if
they were working together? And what and what and Susie,
I just happened to think of what was bothering me?

Speaker 33 (03:18:28):
And now back to the lighter Bitten another Box thirteen
adventure with Alan Ladd as damn holiday.

Speaker 5 (03:18:39):
Sure, I happened to think what it was that bothered me,
but it didn't tie in with anything, at least not
right then. So my first stop was police headquarters for
a chat with the medical examiner. Yes it's correct, Troldy.

Speaker 72 (03:18:54):
The autopsy on doctor Cunningham showed definitely that his death
was caused by venom, possibly that.

Speaker 32 (03:18:59):
Of a coubra.

Speaker 72 (03:19:00):
Uh huh, but no trace of the cobra itself. The
Molten hotel has been searched. I have interns from the
City Hospital standing by with anti venins anti VENs. Yes, yes,
they're made from the venom itself, often efficient in the
treatment of snake bite.

Speaker 5 (03:19:15):
I see, okay, thank you doctor. Where are you going now?
I thought I'd go back to the Dalvedale hotel.

Speaker 7 (03:19:21):
H huh.

Speaker 5 (03:19:21):
Be careful I don't want to go through another autopsy.

Speaker 8 (03:19:24):
Doctor.

Speaker 5 (03:19:25):
I'll do my best to keep from being the next subject. Oh,
by the way, this doctor Cunningham. Know anything about him?

Speaker 19 (03:19:32):
Not?

Speaker 5 (03:19:32):
Not much is specially doesn't interest me. But I know
he was a famous herpetologist work with doctor Miller, I believe,
so they developed a serm for the treatment of homophilia.
Miller said he was to address a medical convention here.
Know anything about that? Yes, yes, a matter of fact,
Cunningham was to speak too.

Speaker 2 (03:19:49):
Oh what about it?

Speaker 72 (03:19:50):
Well, I made some inquiries when I discovered the dead
man was Cunningham. It seems he was about to present
the medical profession with the results of his researchers present
You mean give them away? Yes, why would those discoveries
be worth anything? Well, if they're what I think they are,
there's a fortune in them.

Speaker 8 (03:20:08):
I see.

Speaker 5 (03:20:09):
Why do you ask? I'm just curious, In fact, I'm
very curious. Well, thank you, doctor. If anyone here wants me,
I'll be at the Belvedere Hotel all right.

Speaker 72 (03:20:20):
And remember what I said that clobra is dangerous and
sometimes the anti venoins can't be administered in time.

Speaker 5 (03:20:32):
Well, maybe I should have told the police my idea,
but I wasn't sure. I had to make sure because
I had a hunch I was dealing with a very,
very clever man. I went back to the Belvedere Hotel
and spoke to Larcke and the manager. I don't know
what to do, mister Holliday. They're police all over the hotel.
The guests know there's something wrong. All this will ruin

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the hotel. Maybe not, mister Larkin. Maybe we can prove
there's no Cobra lousen here. What but doctor Miller is
the death at the other hotel, and yes, the death
at the Molton Hotel. But I've got a couple of ideas.
Now listen, could Miller have left the hotel without anyone seeing?

Speaker 8 (03:21:11):
Well, yes, of course. All right, let's let's say did what.

Speaker 34 (03:21:16):
Does that mean?

Speaker 5 (03:21:17):
Look, Miller's telegram to me was delivered at five point
fifteen to day. The medical examiner placed Cunningham's death at
some time before five, no later. The Moulton Hotel is
only two blocks from here, get it.

Speaker 8 (03:21:32):
No, unless you're implying that doctor Miller had something to
do with doctor Cunningham's.

Speaker 5 (03:21:37):
Death, maybe I am there was a motive. Cunningham was
going to announce the results of the discoveries and give
them away. Those discoveries were worth a fortune. It's just
possible that doctor Miller isn't quite the idealist Cunningham was.
He murdered him. I don't know. In Cunningham's room at

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the Moulton, the police found two snakes cobra's. Oh well,
then one of them bid him, maybe, but I don't
think so. Cunningham knew how to handle snakes. Also, he
would have had handed venom ready. Now doesn't it strike
you as peculiar that a man like Cunningham would rush
down into the lobby panic mm hm, No, that wouldn't

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hold water all his life. He'd handle snakes. If one
bit him, he'd moved quietly, get the anti vanity and
use it, not rush around in a panic. But what
you're suggesting is that Millard deliberately, But it'll be hard
to prove. We've got to go to the police with
what my story. No, I've got a better idea.

Speaker 8 (03:22:40):
Oh what is it?

Speaker 5 (03:22:41):
You have a pass kid in Miller's room, haven't you?

Speaker 8 (03:22:43):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (03:22:43):
Of course while you phone h get him out of there.
On any pretext? Why please do it? You want this
skirt up, don't you? Oh yes, yes of course. But
but what'll I tell him? Get him into the basement,
Tell him that one of your employees have seen the snake.
That'll hold him down there at least until you are
through In his room? Is his room, I've got an

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idea we'll find something very interesting. The roosts worked while
Miller went into the basement on a wild snake chase
larked and I searched through his room. What are we
supposed to be looking for, mister Holliday, I'm not sure?
I look the case of anti ven Miller has one.

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Cunningham would have been sure to have one.

Speaker 8 (03:23:28):
Well, now that you've found it, we'd better get out
of here before he comes back.

Speaker 5 (03:23:31):
Not yet, Let's see what's in that closet?

Speaker 8 (03:23:34):
Well, please hurry?

Speaker 5 (03:23:37):
Well, well, well, well, maybe I've found something I've been
looking for. M this leather bag.

Speaker 8 (03:23:46):
What's in it?

Speaker 5 (03:23:48):
Well, it's rather heavy and there are holes in the bottom.
Now why would a bag have holes in the bottom?
Hold three guesses, but take only one. That's all you need, Cobra, Yeah,
locking take a pillow case from the bed quickly.

Speaker 8 (03:24:04):
What are you going to do?

Speaker 5 (03:24:05):
Hurry?

Speaker 56 (03:24:05):
Up.

Speaker 5 (03:24:05):
You get that pillow case.

Speaker 8 (03:24:09):
Here here you are, Now what We're.

Speaker 5 (03:24:11):
Going to dump the snake from the bag into this
pillow case.

Speaker 8 (03:24:14):
You you're crazy. It'll bite this No, no, it won't.

Speaker 5 (03:24:17):
It has to coil the strike and won't be able
to in the bottom of this case. Now hold the
pillow case by the edge where the mouth it's wide
open as you can gether.

Speaker 8 (03:24:24):
You're a fool. You're risking our lives.

Speaker 5 (03:24:27):
Snake won't strike. No, get ready, please be careful. I'll
do my best. I'm here too, remember all ready, I'll
open the catch of the leather bag.

Speaker 32 (03:24:41):
Now here we go.

Speaker 8 (03:24:44):
It was a snake. Hold that pillowcase as far away
from your body as you can. What do we do
with this?

Speaker 5 (03:24:50):
Is there a linen closet close by? Yes, in the
corridor outside. Okay, time on the top of that pillow
case and put in the linen closet and lock the door. Yes, yes,
of course, and want your employees not to go near
that closet, mister Holliday.

Speaker 8 (03:25:01):
But now it's doctor Miller coming back. I won't be
able to get to the linen closet without being seen.

Speaker 5 (03:25:07):
Get back in here. Close the door.

Speaker 8 (03:25:09):
He has the house detective with him.

Speaker 5 (03:25:10):
Well, well, things couldn't be working out any better than
they are, mister Holliday. I'm still holding this cussed under
the bed, fast under the bed. Don't repeat everything I say,
Just do it straight in the bed while I put
this other bag back in the closet.

Speaker 50 (03:25:24):
Go on, if I ever get out of this alive,
I'll personally search all baggage coming into this hotel in
the future.

Speaker 5 (03:25:31):
There, Okay, Now we're all set, said down mister lackin
the tenders though, we're just waiting.

Speaker 32 (03:25:38):
Here for Miller.

Speaker 5 (03:25:38):
I don't feel like sitting down and stand, but try
to look as though nothing's happened, He asked, the impossible.
But wait a minute. Were that extension cord loose on
the baseboard? And I mean that stable that?

Speaker 8 (03:25:49):
Helet You're crazy, I'll ride get out of the way.
What are you going to do with that?

Speaker 13 (03:25:55):
You tack?

Speaker 5 (03:25:56):
Put a right here on the chair, points outward, just
about the height of doctor to Miller's ankles.

Speaker 8 (03:26:01):
There that'll hold it, I.

Speaker 13 (03:26:04):
Hope, Oh, mister Holliday.

Speaker 8 (03:26:07):
Oh, and he lucked down the basement. No, some hysterical
maid thought she saw the snake, but it was not well,
but now we must think that's a good idea. The
house detective here says that there's no other way but
to get everyone out of the hotel. We can't do that.
I'm trying not.

Speaker 5 (03:26:26):
To, doctor Miller. Did you have doctor Cunningham's death this afternoon? Yes,
yes I did. I would have gone to him, but
I cannot leave here the strains that a man of
Cunningham's experience should have been so careless bitten by one
of his own cobras.

Speaker 8 (03:26:44):
It's a chance we take.

Speaker 5 (03:26:45):
But he rushed down into the lobby, doesn't he carry
and I've been in with him, yes, of course. Well
then why didn't he use it? I don't know. He
died at approximately five o'clock this fifteen before your wire
to me.

Speaker 8 (03:27:02):
Yes, that's probably so. But we're wasting time here. We
should be looking for the cobra.

Speaker 5 (03:27:07):
Yes, I suppose we should be. But to get back
to doctor Cunningham. Suppose now now I'm saying, suppose someone
went to him, someone who knew him. Suppose that someone
took a cobra there and allowed to strike Cunningham. Who
would do a thing like that, or someone who hated
him because of what he was going to do throw

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away a fortune for the sake of humanity. You're crazy, maybe,
but it would be natural for the police to assume
that Cunningham was bitten by one of his own snakes,
not by yours.

Speaker 32 (03:27:41):
You know that mine is gone.

Speaker 5 (03:27:43):
Sure to make it look as though it escaped here.
You sent the wire to me so i'd be your alibi. Also,
larking here was part of your alibi. This is fantastic,
I admit that, but it's fantastic enough to be true.
You took the snake to Cunningham when his back was turned.
You allowed to strike him, but first you took his

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aunt of venom. It's is preposterous. I say, the cover
you've been looking for is right here in this room.

Speaker 8 (03:28:08):
Get out of here. You're a madman. That description that
you better than it does me.

Speaker 13 (03:28:12):
Where are you going?

Speaker 5 (03:28:13):
We looked everywhere, but in this room, this class.

Speaker 32 (03:28:16):
Keep out of there.

Speaker 5 (03:28:18):
Watch this leather bag, keep away from the fire. It's
just a bag, and don't look with it. Why not,
it's empty?

Speaker 8 (03:28:24):
Look empty?

Speaker 32 (03:28:26):
You're a liar.

Speaker 8 (03:28:27):
No, no, I'm not looking for yourself the cobra. Don't
you understand it really is loose?

Speaker 5 (03:28:33):
Sit down? Doctor Miller, Sit down, you fool.

Speaker 32 (03:28:36):
What did you do with at stake?

Speaker 5 (03:28:38):
What's nake?

Speaker 8 (03:28:39):
There was a cobra in there, trying to kid me.

Speaker 13 (03:28:42):
Doctor.

Speaker 8 (03:28:43):
You told us that it escaped even help us look
for No, would you pre believe me? There was a
cobra in bear No, no, I don't believe you, And
I said, sit down, what's the matter? It was under
this chair. It struck. Look mark on my late friends. Holiday.

Speaker 5 (03:29:02):
Please hand me the edge of the case on the
dresser that you handed to cunning Ham. Fool, die, cunning
Ham's dead.

Speaker 8 (03:29:08):
Please the case all I want just a minute, Please
please hand me the case. What about Cunningham? Yes, yes,
I killed him. The fool here that locking? Yes, I
heard it? Good the case? Please please the case.

Speaker 5 (03:29:23):
You won't need it, mellow. If you look down at
the leg of the chair, you'll see I backed you
into this. Huh teck, uh huh, just to you tag,
then I'll mellow. You worked up a pretty good crime
when you sent for me. You set me thinking you

(03:29:44):
should have been more careful with your story. Look the snake,
it's loose. Lock and I'll move.

Speaker 8 (03:29:49):
Where mister Holiday. It looks as though we're all hoist
by our own petal.

Speaker 5 (03:29:54):
Yo, I was, detective, get your gunna.

Speaker 8 (03:29:57):
If you move quickly, cobra will strike.

Speaker 13 (03:30:00):
What will we do?

Speaker 8 (03:30:01):
I'm the only one used to handling snakes. Would anyone
else scare to try it?

Speaker 5 (03:30:07):
Locking? Look right at your elbow in the dresser. What
that little pipe, the one Meller plays? Pick it up?
But do it slowly, slowly.

Speaker 8 (03:30:21):
I I can't move. You've got to The cobra is
moving toward you. Holiday.

Speaker 5 (03:30:30):
You're in the same boat, Meller. If you move, he'll
go toward you.

Speaker 8 (03:30:34):
Think your way out of this one. Holiday, Lock and
do as I say.

Speaker 5 (03:30:38):
Take that pipe, reach forward, slowly.

Speaker 32 (03:30:43):
Go ahead. Now, now what do I do?

Speaker 8 (03:30:49):
Play it?

Speaker 13 (03:30:50):
I don't know how.

Speaker 5 (03:30:53):
Go ahead, mister lockin. You've got to lock in. Distract
the snake's attention to the hot detective can get his gun.

Speaker 8 (03:31:01):
Go on.

Speaker 5 (03:31:05):
You'll have to do better than that.

Speaker 8 (03:31:08):
I can't. I I don't have any breath.

Speaker 5 (03:31:12):
Stand still, Try it again. That's it, Logan.

Speaker 8 (03:31:18):
Keep it up.

Speaker 5 (03:31:20):
He stopped crawling. Mill Stand still, good boy, Logan. You've
got him coming towards you.

Speaker 8 (03:31:30):
Keep it up.

Speaker 5 (03:31:32):
Keep it up. Go on, Ah, you get a gun.

Speaker 8 (03:31:42):
M hm. Well that seems to be that.

Speaker 5 (03:31:48):
And Dr Miller, suppose you and I and the house
detective take a little walk, and I'll tell you the
first mistake you made, the one that made your whole
story seemed just a little false.

Speaker 66 (03:32:15):
Uh huh.

Speaker 38 (03:32:16):
So we told you something to set you to thinking. Well,
what was it, mister Holiday.

Speaker 5 (03:32:20):
Well it wasn't much, but it started the ball rooming. Well,
please tell me, okay, Susie. He sent the wire to me,
begged me to help him find a snake because time
was precious. Now, when I got to him, he said
the snake would be quiet for at least five or
six hours.

Speaker 8 (03:32:36):
So what was the big rush to get me there? Oh?

Speaker 5 (03:32:41):
Good night, Susie.

Speaker 33 (03:32:45):
Listening again next week when through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures,
Alan Land stars as Dan Holliday and Box thirteen. Box
thirteen is directed by Richard Sandville and this week's original
story was written by Robert M.

Speaker 32 (03:32:59):
Light.

Speaker 33 (03:33:00):
Original music is composed and conducted by Ruddy Schraker, and
part of Susie is played by Sylvia Picker. Berne Carstensen
is in charge of production. Watch thirteen is a Mayfair
production from Hollywood Watch for Alan Ladd in his latest
Paramount picture.

Speaker 66 (03:33:18):
Mystery Theater this week from Vancouver, The Duel by Alexandre Dumont,
adapted for radio by Howard Griffin.

Speaker 13 (03:33:54):
How do you.

Speaker 73 (03:33:55):
Define and measure that elusive quality of the human spirit
we call age?

Speaker 30 (03:34:01):
Consider, for example, the man who.

Speaker 73 (03:34:03):
Is called upon to face an opponent in a duel,
knowing that only his skill in the chance trembling of
his adversary's hand may saved him from the grave. Lieutenant
Andre de Montignier, for instance, that made a reputation for
himself on the field of honor as a fearless and
skillful duelist by the time he came to Quebec in

(03:34:26):
seventeen fifty nine. Welcome back to Quebec, Lieutenant de Montini.
Thank you, Monsieur Brossac.

Speaker 43 (03:34:41):
This is a happy day for me.

Speaker 74 (03:34:42):
Speaking as a citizen, I feel safer with him. Welcome
back to Quebec, Lieutenant de Montini.

Speaker 43 (03:34:52):
Thank you, Monsieur Brossac. This is a happy day for me.

Speaker 74 (03:34:55):
Speaking as a citizen, I feel safer with brave soldiers
like yourself to strengthen the garrison against the English forces.
And speaking as Marie's father, I'm pleased to see how
happy your arrival has made my daughter frankly. A lonely
old widower is not fit company for a pretty young lady.

Speaker 49 (03:35:12):
Father, you speak much too much.

Speaker 74 (03:35:14):
Marie has been lonely, and not that my little dove
has lacked attention far from a lieutenant.

Speaker 30 (03:35:20):
Oh, you should see the way that.

Speaker 49 (03:35:25):
I have not been seeing anyone else since you were
here last Andre, don't take father's teasing too serious.

Speaker 74 (03:35:31):
Yes, have no fear, as your little Marie has done
little else but talk, talk, talk about nothing else but you.
It's a good thing you've been transferred to the Quebec,
as I'm ready to admit that I'm getting too old
to play chaperone and social functions.

Speaker 43 (03:35:45):
I consider myself lucky to have drawn the assignment.

Speaker 74 (03:35:48):
Oh, you should have seen the way the young blades
flocked about her at the Governor's ball last week.

Speaker 49 (03:35:52):
Which only proves that there is safety in numbers.

Speaker 13 (03:35:54):
Father, Yes, and that holds for the colony.

Speaker 74 (03:35:56):
Also, I'm convinced that the British will launch their assault shortly,
other than europe a long winter siege.

Speaker 75 (03:36:04):
As a military man left tenant, what do you think
the English are foolish enough to attempt to direct assault?
We'll have a field day cutting them to ribbons below
the citadel. And I doubt you've seen the extra cannon
were mounted in the past month. Lu Quebec is now
virtually impregnable.

Speaker 49 (03:36:20):
How can you be so confident?

Speaker 43 (03:36:22):
Andrea?

Speaker 49 (03:36:23):
After looking through a telescope at the British Fleet, I
had a terrible succession of nightmares which oh a brutal
red coated soldier pursued me from room to room. During
one dream, I screamed so loudly that poor father thought
I was being murdered in my bed.

Speaker 74 (03:36:37):
And how did you happen to view the British fleet,
Oh a Lieutenant Valcour spurted it away one fine Sunday
morning after Mass when we were visiting the fortifications.

Speaker 76 (03:36:48):
Tenant Valcour, h I don't think I know him, No,
probably not. He hasn't been here very long more Win,
I'm lieutenant not just now. Well, I'm afraid I must
excuse myself. Business remains as brisk as ever. You will
be dining with us sooner with the greatest pleasures, and
I am please to see you back here. Soldiers like
you do a great deal for our morale.

Speaker 75 (03:37:09):
I'm hoping that the English will continue their siege throughout
the winter. It would be my assurance of remaining here
on more or less permanent duty.

Speaker 74 (03:37:18):
Who knows what tomorrow will bring, come to think of
it tomorrow as the thirteenth of September.

Speaker 30 (03:37:23):
I hope it will not bring this fortune in.

Speaker 5 (03:37:25):
Any form to anyone.

Speaker 13 (03:37:26):
And avoid black.

Speaker 30 (03:37:27):
Cats and the ladder.

Speaker 43 (03:37:29):
I'm not the least superstitious.

Speaker 74 (03:37:31):
Oh, then, please do something for Marie. She sees bad
omens in all sorts of things. But I'm light or
over all aft of it.

Speaker 43 (03:37:38):
Good day, monsieur Rosa.

Speaker 19 (03:37:43):
Will you drink my wine?

Speaker 8 (03:37:45):
Andre?

Speaker 18 (03:37:45):
I have no desire for it.

Speaker 49 (03:37:47):
Don't you feel well well enough?

Speaker 43 (03:37:51):
But I am worried?

Speaker 77 (03:37:52):
What about oh so many things, the war for one
and you.

Speaker 49 (03:37:59):
Yes, Andre, it's wonderful to have you here for more
than just to leave.

Speaker 2 (03:38:04):
But but what am I?

Speaker 49 (03:38:06):
God, I'm afraid. I'm afraid that something might happen to you.
If the English do attack in force, things might go
badly for us.

Speaker 43 (03:38:16):
Nonsense, Mary, we have the advantage of from after all,
we are the ones sitting up here and overlooking this
at Lawrence with hundreds of cannon and General Montcalmen is
more than a match for wolf.

Speaker 49 (03:38:28):
But you can't be sure, Andre, History is filled with
accounts of military reversals. If anything happened to you, rather
than be taken a prisoner, I would kill myself.

Speaker 43 (03:38:40):
God, Darling, stop being an alarmist and an armchair general.
I leave the war to the soldiers.

Speaker 13 (03:38:47):
That's what we're paid for.

Speaker 43 (03:38:49):
Concentrate instead on being pretted, charming and affectionately.

Speaker 19 (03:38:55):
Oh, Andre, I love you so.

Speaker 43 (03:39:00):
Oh I am sorry. I'll see that it's replaced as
soon as possible.

Speaker 21 (03:39:06):
But the glass doesn't matter.

Speaker 49 (03:39:07):
And Andre, he's just it's bad luck to break a
glass given to you by the woman to whom you
are betrothed.

Speaker 43 (03:39:14):
Oh nonsense, they've all the old wives tales. Were to
come true, it will be no end of the problem.

Speaker 13 (03:39:25):
Star, Bring me more wine.

Speaker 4 (03:39:28):
That's the second wine glass Vulcour has dropped.

Speaker 30 (03:39:32):
He's had more than enough.

Speaker 43 (03:39:34):
Come on, Valcour, you're holding up our game of car.

Speaker 78 (03:39:38):
The devil take your cats, you for I've lost too
much this week, sir, Bring me wine last year?

Speaker 13 (03:39:44):
Hurry up?

Speaker 30 (03:39:44):
Roll have you in the SuDS for a week.

Speaker 4 (03:39:46):
Alcour has had more wine today than I drink in
a week. Why the devil is in such a foul mood.

Speaker 43 (03:39:53):
I believe it's his nature of room, and he's in love.

Speaker 4 (03:39:56):
Also, I understand I thought that love was supposed to
make amend in good nature.

Speaker 64 (03:40:01):
It depends on these circumstances. In Valcour's case, the lady
is betrothed already.

Speaker 13 (03:40:06):
What they say?

Speaker 11 (03:40:07):
Do you know?

Speaker 64 (03:40:08):
She is a mademoiselle brossa daughter of a well to
do merchant here in Quebec city. But Valcour, I'm told,
didn't stand a chance against the other fellow.

Speaker 4 (03:40:17):
He had come to Major provo. Valcour had better pull
himself together.

Speaker 30 (03:40:20):
He's been in the Major's band books.

Speaker 43 (03:40:22):
Before good evening?

Speaker 4 (03:40:23):
Did Major you care to join us a friendly game
of current before?

Speaker 30 (03:40:30):
I really needed some distraction?

Speaker 11 (03:40:32):
But don't.

Speaker 13 (03:40:34):
Good evening?

Speaker 7 (03:40:35):
Major?

Speaker 30 (03:40:36):
You care to share my flagon of wine?

Speaker 13 (03:40:40):
Take valcourre?

Speaker 44 (03:40:40):
But I expect have wine at dinner. I don't believe
in over indulge. Major Provo.

Speaker 13 (03:40:45):
What is it, Santierre?

Speaker 44 (03:40:46):
Can you tell us, sir, without being indiscreet, what the
colonel has decided to do about filling the vacancy of captain?
I suppose I can, considering you'll be posted on the
bulletin board tomorrow. A new officer has been transferred from
Montreal to fill the vacancy.

Speaker 8 (03:41:00):
His name is de.

Speaker 64 (03:41:00):
Montigni, de Montigni. Do you know him, not personally there,
but he is supposed to be well placed. I presume
you have met in it.

Speaker 44 (03:41:10):
Oh, yes, the colonel's de Montigni is very anxious to
make your acquaintance. And when I have invited him to dine.

Speaker 64 (03:41:16):
With us, someone remarked only today what a skillful duelist
he is reputed to be, and with a fiery temper.

Speaker 74 (03:41:21):
Demand they say he's quite fearless on the field of manner,
then he should be very well here.

Speaker 78 (03:41:26):
Eh, a duel is a family affair with us, Monsieur
de Montigni will be most welcome, but however quick pissed temper,
you'll have to be careful of it before me, or.

Speaker 4 (03:41:35):
I shall take it upon myself to cool it.

Speaker 64 (03:41:38):
Apparently de Montignii recently inherited an impressive sum of money
from a rich.

Speaker 13 (03:41:42):
Old honor money.

Speaker 46 (03:41:44):
If that's all a man needs to be a success
in this life, courage, devotion to du the ability all
a man like qualities come from nothing with women went
wait against a sack of gold.

Speaker 13 (03:41:54):
Still bring me more wine.

Speaker 44 (03:41:56):
Gervalcour I suggest that you try some food for food, sir,
if I may be permitted to say so, it is
not that must be the mantine crossing the room.

Speaker 43 (03:42:06):
Oh, yes, it is this way Montigi evening. Major, gentlemen,
come and join us.

Speaker 51 (03:42:13):
These are your new regimental comrades.

Speaker 44 (03:42:17):
Perhaps I should say, Captain. They're all good fellows and
brave soldiers.

Speaker 4 (03:42:21):
I am captain of any liberal. Welcome particularly, thank you.

Speaker 43 (03:42:24):
I have long hope to be stationed here, and I
can tell you I.

Speaker 8 (03:42:27):
Am Lieutenant Jean Dufort. Congratulations on your appointment to captain.

Speaker 13 (03:42:31):
Thank you.

Speaker 30 (03:42:32):
I'm Charles Saint Pierre. I hope you'll like it here.

Speaker 46 (03:42:34):
I have no doubts on that score. And this is
liftenant balcore. You, Captain, must excuse me if I do
not shake hands. It would be a clamor if I
were to drop this wine flagen.

Speaker 43 (03:42:46):
Yes, a man should be able to hold his wife. Gentlemen,
I am proud and happy to have been transferred to
your regiment. It was Major Propo who recommended me.

Speaker 8 (03:42:57):
Colonel.

Speaker 44 (03:42:57):
It was the easiest way to avoid treading on the
feelings about you lieutenants, bringing in someone from another regiment
to moves any suggestion of favorite.

Speaker 13 (03:43:04):
Have you located to comfortable enough.

Speaker 4 (03:43:06):
Court, Capta, The city is very gravity these days, and
be glad to assist you.

Speaker 43 (03:43:10):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 75 (03:43:12):
But Monsieur Brossa, a very generous friend, has offered me
the use of a small cottage near his home. I
have my horses there, and an excellent cook, a very
good library, a little garden, and a target.

Speaker 43 (03:43:26):
I'm sure I shall be happy as a king. Are
you fractice shooting?

Speaker 75 (03:43:30):
Yes I do, Lieutenant dot Com. It is my custom
every morning to fire twelve rounds at the talking.

Speaker 30 (03:43:37):
You're very fond of that amusement, then, eh.

Speaker 46 (03:43:40):
I don't understand the use of shooting unless it's to
do battle or to hunt with I think that you
are wrong in calling it lost time to learn to
shoot from the business. Well, you have been with the
regiment only a few minutes, and already you are telling
us what is well.

Speaker 13 (03:43:55):
Pray, go ahead and.

Speaker 43 (03:43:56):
Tell me why and how I am wrong, as you
undoubted know.

Speaker 75 (03:44:02):
In military garrison life, an impudent word often leads to
a meeting between comrades on the field of honor, in
which case he who is known for a good shot
inspires respect among those indiscreet persons who amuse themselves by
making foolish observations.

Speaker 30 (03:44:20):
That's not much of a reason.

Speaker 78 (03:44:23):
In mules, as in everything else, something should be left
a chance.

Speaker 46 (03:44:27):
I maintain my first opinion and say that an honorable
man ought not to take.

Speaker 43 (03:44:31):
Too many precautions, and why shouldn't he?

Speaker 13 (03:44:35):
Do you play it card?

Speaker 43 (03:44:37):
Occasionally?

Speaker 4 (03:44:38):
I will explain to you, and I will try.

Speaker 78 (03:44:40):
To render my explanation clear so that all we'll understand it.

Speaker 30 (03:44:46):
Everyone knows that there are certain card players.

Speaker 73 (03:44:48):
Who have an enviable knack while shuffling a pack bus
at rightly making themselves master of the winning card.

Speaker 46 (03:44:54):
Now, I see no difference myself between a man who
robs his neighbor of his money and the one who
robs him of his life.

Speaker 73 (03:45:02):
I do not say this to you in particular, Captain Demontaignie.

Speaker 43 (03:45:07):
I'm speak in general. It is too much, as it is, monsieur.

Speaker 75 (03:45:13):
I beg Captain Lebron to terminate this a pair with you. Lebron,
you will not refuse me in this question. I am
sure he will apologize for his rash word. I apologize
for nothing, Captain Lebron.

Speaker 43 (03:45:31):
You refuse to act for me.

Speaker 30 (03:45:34):
So be Captain Demontaigni.

Speaker 78 (03:45:37):
You have told me yourself you practice shooting every day,
while I hold a pistol and fire it only on
the day I fight.

Speaker 4 (03:45:43):
We will equalize the chances. I'll settle the details with
Captain Lebron or Revois.

Speaker 44 (03:45:49):
Gentlemen, gentlemen, we must not allow such a fight to
take place. The most you realize that Balcourt has been
drinking too much. Tomorrow, you're force him to apologize to Major.

Speaker 43 (03:46:01):
I am a newcomer man. You none of you really
knows me.

Speaker 75 (03:46:06):
I have yet, as it were, to win my spurs.
It is impossible for me to let this insult pass
without fighting them.

Speaker 43 (03:46:13):
What I have done to arouse the gentleman. It's evident
that he has some spite against me.

Speaker 8 (03:46:18):
The truth of the.

Speaker 4 (03:46:19):
Matter is that Balcour is jealous of your I happen
to know that he's in love with Mademoiselle Rosa, and
she has rejected his advances and review.

Speaker 43 (03:46:30):
That explains a good deal of rum. But I must
still defend my reputation. Since Valcour has accepted you as
my second, you see him and arrange matters, accept all
his conditions, then meet me and a major provo at
my quarters.

Speaker 4 (03:46:47):
If you really intend to go through with this duel
and had attend to it immediately before General Marcom gets
it till later, Major, I would prevent it, but I.

Speaker 30 (03:46:59):
Know that cour is holiday enough to find a way.

Speaker 13 (03:47:01):
Regardless.

Speaker 43 (03:47:02):
You also seem to have quite a tempered mont Will
you let us know the hour of combat?

Speaker 13 (03:47:06):
Captain?

Speaker 43 (03:47:07):
Certainly, come andpare well.

Speaker 30 (03:47:13):
There are my conditions with the captain.

Speaker 78 (03:47:17):
These two sabers have to be planted at a distance
of one pace apart, only one pace apart. Precisely, Tela
Demontini and I shall face one another, each standing behind
one of the sabers. Each opponent is to extend his
arm at full length and fire at the word three.

Speaker 4 (03:47:34):
You must be mad, valcour Manu prioring yourself with so much.
I am restless. To Montagnier, I feel like a caged animal.

Speaker 13 (03:47:48):
Ah.

Speaker 43 (03:47:48):
This is an excellent volume of Hogarth engravings. Are you
familiar with his work?

Speaker 75 (03:47:54):
The Englishman must one carry a national prejudice into the
field of art as well as the field.

Speaker 44 (03:48:00):
I know nothing about art, only artillery. God knows we
could do with mar it, can I mean our folks,
ah Lebron, I'm.

Speaker 7 (03:48:10):
Sorry to be late.

Speaker 4 (03:48:12):
It was unavoidable. I had the very devil of an
argument with Alcour. His conditions are fantastic. He insists that
both opponents stand behind sabers planted one pace apart, facing
one another, arms raised at full length. They both fire
at the count of three.

Speaker 30 (03:48:33):
Preposterous.

Speaker 51 (03:48:34):
Must be drunken than I thought he was.

Speaker 4 (03:48:36):
Balcour is absolutely serious, sir. However, and this is the
strange part of it, only one pistol will be leaving.

Speaker 43 (03:48:46):
Most unusual conditions.

Speaker 4 (03:48:48):
Balcore insists that this way he won't be a victim
for you, but an adversary. He maintains that all your
skill with the pistol will amount another.

Speaker 44 (03:48:57):
I've told the fool you couldn't accept such unheard of conditions,
protested Major that Balcour is adamant on that point.

Speaker 4 (03:49:04):
Are the Captain de Montoni fight, says he proposes, or
you will not bet at all. But in that case,
Balcour said he would prove that Demondony is brave only
when sure of his own safety, guaranteed by his skill
of acquired marketmanship.

Speaker 7 (03:49:18):
I don't like him.

Speaker 4 (03:49:19):
Demandini did tell me to accept any conditions he might
stick feeling.

Speaker 30 (03:49:23):
Yes, she did the correct thing.

Speaker 43 (03:49:24):
That I had a feeling Balcore might devise something out
of the ordinary to like it. Come in, what are
you doing here?

Speaker 15 (03:49:39):
What am I doing here?

Speaker 8 (03:49:40):
Andre?

Speaker 19 (03:49:42):
Is it you who asked me?

Speaker 49 (03:49:43):
When this night is perhaps the last of your life?
Why am I here to plead with you not to
risk your life?

Speaker 4 (03:49:50):
Don't do about the duosity whose.

Speaker 49 (03:49:52):
Travels quickly among the servants in Quebec.

Speaker 13 (03:49:54):
Gentleman, come is sure to hear of it.

Speaker 43 (03:49:56):
In that case, sir, it might be wise if we
were to make ourselves scarce until the appointed.

Speaker 49 (03:50:00):
No, Andrea, you mustn't risk your life. Stay gentlemen, perhaps
you may be able to help me in what I
am about to say.

Speaker 43 (03:50:08):
Please, Marie, don't make it difficult for me.

Speaker 49 (03:50:12):
I implore you, Andre, do not fight this duel with
Paul Valcour. You can't end two lives by.

Speaker 43 (03:50:18):
This useless act.

Speaker 77 (03:50:20):
You mean, remember what I told you would happened to me.
If you'll be fail you our lives belong to each other. Now, Andrea,
do you hear you can't do it?

Speaker 43 (03:50:32):
The name of heaven. Don't talk sure me this way?
Can I refuse to fight? I shall be this honored
lost if I couldn't do so cowardly. An act shame
would kill me more surely than our course pistol.

Speaker 49 (03:50:48):
Major provo. You are esteemed in the regiment as a
man of honor. You can then judge about affairs of honor.
Have pity on me, sir, and tell Andre he can
refuse such a duel. This will make him understand it
is not a duel but an assassination.

Speaker 15 (03:51:05):
Well, speak to him, Major. If he won't listen to me,
he will to you.

Speaker 43 (03:51:08):
Marie, What do you know about the conditions of the encounter?

Speaker 49 (03:51:12):
I hesitated at the door before entering, and overheard Captain
Lebron explaining them. Oh please, Major, I beg of you
to interpose, or must I go straight to General Montcalm himself.

Speaker 32 (03:51:23):
You wouldn't there.

Speaker 44 (03:51:26):
Spare you in his sorrow, Mademoiselle, I would willingly on
my life, But to counsel Captain of Montinita be unworthy
of his uniform by refusing this duel is impossible. Each adversary,
your betrothed, as well as Valcour, has a right to
propose his conditions.

Speaker 49 (03:51:40):
Then Andre should propose new conditions.

Speaker 44 (03:51:42):
Whatever the conditions He's in, circumstances which render this duel
absolutely necessary, he is known as a skillful duelist. To
refuse Valcour's conditions will be an admission that he counts
upon his skill.

Speaker 4 (03:51:53):
Please marry.

Speaker 30 (03:51:55):
You don't know what you'll demand.

Speaker 43 (03:51:58):
Do you wish me to fall so low that you
yourself would be ashamed of me?

Speaker 13 (03:52:03):
I ask you?

Speaker 75 (03:52:03):
Are you capable of loving a dishonored man?

Speaker 77 (03:52:11):
You will write, Andrea, it is not I who would
love you less, but you who would hate me more.
You must resign ourselves to our fate. Perhaps we shall
never see each other again.

Speaker 43 (03:52:26):
Gentlemen, the time approaches, we'd better both retire. I have
several letters to write before dawn. At five, we must
be at the nival.

Speaker 49 (03:52:36):
Let me stay with you till then, Andrea, I promise
not to make any more protests. I'll sit by quietly
while you write your letters very.

Speaker 44 (03:52:43):
Well, but you must not be upset. Believe then for war,
mademoiselle after you. The ground missed this morning has a

(03:53:05):
penetrating chill.

Speaker 8 (03:53:07):
It would take more than that to dampen our jewelists.

Speaker 30 (03:53:09):
I have a premonition that one of them will not
see the sun rise.

Speaker 64 (03:53:13):
Do you think that Demontigny may take offence because I
have agreed to serve as Valcour second.

Speaker 8 (03:53:18):
It's hardly likely.

Speaker 30 (03:53:20):
Ah, there's Valcour tethering his horse by the bridge.

Speaker 43 (03:53:25):
The others are approaching from the opposite directions.

Speaker 30 (03:53:27):
Morning, gentlemen, I trust I have not kept you waiting unduly.

Speaker 8 (03:53:31):
Time passes all too quickly on a day like this.

Speaker 78 (03:53:33):
Right, So up, did you sleep well, Captain Dermonta and
I always sleep well?

Speaker 30 (03:53:39):
Are you ready?

Speaker 13 (03:53:40):
Alcol?

Speaker 43 (03:53:41):
Yes, and let us proceed without delay?

Speaker 30 (03:53:44):
Gives the words to fire. Captain Lea Boon.

Speaker 4 (03:53:46):
We gave no tho to that detail. Do you have
any preferences?

Speaker 13 (03:53:50):
Dem and your provo?

Speaker 4 (03:53:52):
Will you render the service very well?

Speaker 43 (03:53:55):
We have to indicate our places the load if that.

Speaker 30 (03:53:58):
Will not be necessary.

Speaker 43 (03:54:00):
One of the pistols in this case is loaded, the
other is not.

Speaker 30 (03:54:03):
You know which is which? Falcon, No, what does it matter?

Speaker 4 (03:54:06):
Major Captain de Montoni will choose it is.

Speaker 43 (03:54:09):
Well, let's get on with it.

Speaker 30 (03:54:13):
Make your choice to Moni. Therefore, can they plant these
two sabers in the ground one piece of pard I
don't understand it.

Speaker 64 (03:54:20):
You will be holding the pistols only six inches from
each other's heart precisely, gentlemen, take your positions.

Speaker 4 (03:54:29):
De Montoni seems remarkably calm.

Speaker 30 (03:54:32):
Some possessed cooor isn't easy.

Speaker 3 (03:54:35):
It is I I don't like it.

Speaker 30 (03:54:39):
Something the conditions works. Are you ready, gentlemen, raise your pistols?

Speaker 5 (03:54:51):
Fire the counter three.

Speaker 8 (03:54:53):
One two.

Speaker 13 (03:54:58):
Three?

Speaker 10 (03:55:00):
Can you jous?

Speaker 43 (03:55:00):
The allotted pistol are alcore.

Speaker 30 (03:55:05):
It is not for you to command De Montagnier.

Speaker 73 (03:55:09):
It is I who must decide whether to fire or not,
and that depends on how you answer what I am
about to say.

Speaker 43 (03:55:15):
Speak then, but in the name of Heaven speaking the guy.

Speaker 4 (03:55:18):
Haven't come here to kill you, de Montaigne.

Speaker 73 (03:55:20):
I have come with the carelessness of a man to
whom life o's nothing, has kept.

Speaker 30 (03:55:25):
None of the promise that is made to him. You
are rich, you are beloved, You have a promising future
before you. Life must be dear to you.

Speaker 4 (03:55:34):
But fate decided against you.

Speaker 30 (03:55:38):
It is you who must die another well, Captain de Montignie,
give me your word not to be so prompt the
future to fight jewels, and I.

Speaker 4 (03:55:46):
Will not fire this pistol.

Speaker 43 (03:55:48):
I have not been prompted to call you out. Are
you insulted me by an outrageous comparison? And I will
compel the challenge. Fire then I have nothing to say
to you.

Speaker 30 (03:56:01):
My conditions cannot wound your honor.

Speaker 78 (03:56:05):
Be I would judge Major Brovo, I will abide by
your opinion. Perhaps Captain de MONTAINI will follow my example.

Speaker 44 (03:56:12):
He has conducted himself as bravely as possible. If he
isn't killed, it isn't his fault, gentlemen and de Montigni,
except the imposed condition.

Speaker 43 (03:56:22):
Yes, of course he can, and without staining his honor.

Speaker 13 (03:56:24):
In the slightest.

Speaker 44 (03:56:27):
Captain consents Falcour. In the future he will be less
prompt challenge trade is you speak.

Speaker 30 (03:56:31):
Major Brovo, and not Captain de MONTAIGNI will my words.

Speaker 43 (03:56:35):
To Montigni, y well said, I consent.

Speaker 30 (03:56:42):
That is the happiest ending to any duel.

Speaker 13 (03:56:44):
I have ever winned.

Speaker 73 (03:56:45):
I am more great if than anyone, always ended as
I desired. And now Captain de Montagnier have shown you
that before a resolute.

Speaker 30 (03:56:57):
Man, the art of shooting is nothing in a due
and that.

Speaker 4 (03:57:00):
If the chances are equal, good shot is on the same.

Speaker 7 (03:57:03):
Level as a bad one.

Speaker 30 (03:57:06):
But I did not wish in any case to kill you.

Speaker 4 (03:57:10):
I only had a great desire to see how you
would look death in your face.

Speaker 13 (03:57:16):
A man courage.

Speaker 30 (03:57:19):
Except my compliments.

Speaker 43 (03:57:22):
Oh, by the way, neither pistol was loaded.

Speaker 2 (03:57:26):
Neither.

Speaker 30 (03:57:26):
I will demonstrate what.

Speaker 43 (03:57:30):
This is even more insulting than the first offense.

Speaker 5 (03:57:33):
And now you think it's ended, do you?

Speaker 53 (03:57:35):
No?

Speaker 46 (03:57:36):
No, we must recommence, and this time both pistols shall
be loaded if I have to load them myself.

Speaker 30 (03:57:41):
No, Captain, I am given you your life.

Speaker 71 (03:57:43):
I will not take it right.

Speaker 30 (03:57:44):
Insult me if you wish, I will not fight you.

Speaker 32 (03:57:47):
And it is me whom you will fight.

Speaker 30 (03:57:48):
Why you Major, who acted like a scoundro bucker?

Speaker 8 (03:57:52):
We received a martini at all of us.

Speaker 43 (03:57:55):
If in five minutes your dead body is not lying
at my feet.

Speaker 13 (03:57:58):
There is no such thing as justice.

Speaker 30 (03:58:00):
I don't out of stands.

Speaker 64 (03:58:01):
And if the Major doesn't kill you, I will, all
right the devil.

Speaker 46 (03:58:03):
I can't fight with you all. Choose one among you,
and I'll fight with him. It won't be a jewel,
but an assassination. I'm sure I got into my horse
at more than a few paces.

Speaker 27 (03:58:12):
Let alone, our man.

Speaker 65 (03:58:13):
Have a fear of alcore.

Speaker 44 (03:58:15):
We will do nothing that the most scrupulous honor can
complain of. All our officers are insulted fro.

Speaker 13 (03:58:21):
Under their uniform.

Speaker 30 (03:58:21):
You've conducted yourself.

Speaker 7 (03:58:22):
Like a rascal.

Speaker 30 (03:58:26):
Amounted.

Speaker 44 (03:58:26):
He passed through all the sensations of a man condemned
to death while you were puffet bating. He is knowing
full well that both pistols were not loaded. Finally, you
have refused to fight with a man whom you have
doubly insulted.

Speaker 8 (03:58:37):
Load the pistols, make a load.

Speaker 30 (03:58:39):
I will fight with anyone.

Speaker 43 (03:58:44):
No, no, you will fight none of your comrades.

Speaker 44 (03:58:52):
You have disgraced your uniform. We can no longer serve
with you. Rather than make your divisions. Is know to
the colonel I askuld have given your resignation on the
cause of bad health. I'll see to with the surgeon,
will sign all necessary significates. Today is the thirteenth of September.

Speaker 30 (03:59:08):
You have from now to the thirteenth of October to
quit the regiment.

Speaker 46 (03:59:11):
I will quit it, certainly, not because it is your
des I but mine, and I curse upon a lot
of you.

Speaker 13 (03:59:19):
Majure.

Speaker 43 (03:59:21):
Why did you force me to consent to that scoundrel's
conditions about you?

Speaker 30 (03:59:26):
I should never have accepted them.

Speaker 43 (03:59:28):
Comrades, and I will take all the responsibility.

Speaker 30 (03:59:31):
Acting nobody de Montagnier. I must tell you that you
are indeed a man of honor.

Speaker 4 (03:59:37):
It goes one trouble maker, Egan will be better off without.

Speaker 43 (03:59:43):
Well, gentlemen, this affair has ended more happily than one
could have hoped for.

Speaker 4 (03:59:47):
And Momoiselle Vissa will be overjoyed at the glad news.

Speaker 43 (03:59:51):
I'm sure, yes, yes, I promised to go immediately to her.
Once it didnt end it.

Speaker 18 (03:59:58):
Canon fire me what could be happening?

Speaker 4 (04:00:02):
It must be the signal for the English attacker.

Speaker 44 (04:00:04):
Quickly report your backle Station says on the moment of it,
last time along.

Speaker 43 (04:00:07):
Captain Deman, you don't want to miss any of the
fun coming, San Pierre.

Speaker 73 (04:00:29):
Many years have passed since the tragedy, years of change
in Turmoise. Today is the thirteenth of September, the day
that altered the lives of so many persons. Two opposing
generals died that day on the plains of Abraham, as
did many a brave.

Speaker 30 (04:00:45):
Soldier in their armies.

Speaker 73 (04:00:48):
All call is long, and I knew many of them,
major provos, Captain Lebrun, Lieutenant Saint Pierre.

Speaker 13 (04:00:55):
And as.

Speaker 73 (04:00:57):
On that day also, a beautiful young woman watched Lieutenant
Valcour gallop past her window, since he was alive. She
assumed her betrothed had been killed in the duel, and
she took poison. But here in the monastery we found
a peaceful refuge. Each year for the past three years

(04:01:21):
now I have said a special prayer for our devoted brother,
who toiled for thirty years within these ancient walls. When
he died, we buried him here under the great Elm.
Not once during our years of service together in this
monastery did Brother Andre remind me of the duel we

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once fought on that morning that Quebec fell to the
invading British island.

Speaker 66 (04:02:17):
The duel by Alexandre Duma, adapted for radio by Howard Griffin.
Andre de Montigni was played by Robert Clothier, Marie Brossar
by Linda Sorenson, Paul Valcour by Derek Ralston and major
provo by Roy Brinson. Other parts were played by Bill Buckingham,

(04:02:38):
James Johnston, William Buck and Eric Schneider. Mystery Theater was
produced this week in the Vancouver studios of the CBC,
with sound effects by Lars east Holme and technical operation
by Gene Loverock, direction, Don Mowett.

Speaker 8 (04:03:06):
M and j Audio.

Speaker 56 (04:03:07):
Theater presents Chet chatters tales from the Morgues.

Speaker 27 (04:03:30):
Well, hey, come in, my friend, have a suit, make
yourself comfortable. Allow me to introduce myself. I am chet Chetter,
the morgue attended and the resident storyteller. Yes, today we

(04:03:58):
returned to Bluxe see home of Elma Corn here is
a full time manure hollow and part time adventurer. Well,
it was a hot summer afternoon on a Sunday, I believe,

(04:04:18):
and mister Korn was relaxing on his pooch swing enjoying
a glass of lemonade.

Speaker 34 (04:04:30):
Uh.

Speaker 27 (04:04:32):
Ed, yeah, it is a scorcher today. Shoe off, Yes, sir,
it's just win't no hot, is what it is. I'll
tell you how mos feet as trying to carry me off.
I nailed that one though. H of course, it ain't

(04:04:58):
so much the heat, it's humidity.

Speaker 16 (04:05:00):
It's just it's just outrageous.

Speaker 27 (04:05:04):
It put me in a paddedself. They heard me talking
to myself like this, Elmer huh oh, say, say, uh
what the heck are you doing out in this heating
boy I got his own simple or something. I got
exciting news. Emmer say, can I have a simple of
that lemonade? For sure? Sure, here you go. Thanks boy,
he looks bluster. That's right. This drinker on now and

(04:05:27):
I got plenty help replace that sweat. Thanks Silmmer back
get the spot. Well, I guess I'm off to run
in this hundred plus heat. But I just I got
so excited. You know I want to contest, Elmer. Well,
well jump back, you gonna meet that Ed Fetler. No,

(04:05:49):
not that contest Elmer. I saw this one in a
Bloxi gazette about a month ago. Surprises a cruise in
the Gulf Coast. I sent my name and address, and
danged if I didn't win, Elmor Just dang if I
didn't win. Well, I just got this postcard here from
Galveston telling me about it. Well, you lucky dog. The
only thing I ever won was a big bite at

(04:06:09):
church raffle one time. I tell you, if I as you,
i'd had my chest puffed out like a hen, you
got something to brag about, see, said Oh Emory, I
just got lucky.

Speaker 8 (04:06:17):
That's all.

Speaker 27 (04:06:18):
I wanted to tell you about it. First, because the
postcard says I can bring two friends, uh huh, and
you're the best friend I've got, Emma. I would want
to go without you. Well, I tell you, Cecil, that's
that's that's right thoughtful of you. Things. I feel like
I'm gonna tear up, and I'm do for a vacation too, Dan, dummy,

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I don't want to haul no manure in this heat.
I tell you, hot dung has a powerful stench. Well,
then it's settled, you're coming with me. Now I can
bring one more person. Uh huh. I was thinking about
bringing Bernie Edwards, but you know he can be such
a horses behind when he puts his mind to it. Yes, sir,
he is a can cherry cuss. Well, now how about

(04:06:59):
missus Maddie. You know she's getting on up in years
and this might be the last chance she'll had to
do something special. She's a sweet old lady too, salt
to the that's a great idea. I got to call
her up and told the news right now. But all right, boy,
we're gonna have ourselves a dayny time. Sure are see
Lady Elmer? All right, say so, I'll start packing my
bags right away. The next morning, mister Corning Company departed

(04:07:29):
for Galveston and Alma's pickup truck at noon. As the
trio arrived at a predetermined seaport. Here we are, hell,

(04:08:02):
let me help you out there, Miss Maddie, Come in, well, y'all,
here we are Cawston Island. Oh, just smell that salt?
Are it kind of stings? Elver. It's those tug boats
over there, Miss Maddics.

Speaker 5 (04:08:16):
They're hauling garbage.

Speaker 27 (04:08:18):
Jim, I wonder where they dump it. Oh, they got
plenty of places to take that stuff too. You know,
in nineteen hundred they had a terrible storm down here.
We killed seven thousand people, they estimated. That's horrible. Where'd
you hear about that, Elmer? Oh, a fella earns a
thing or two on the road. You know, I've hauled
cal flop down here a couple of times. People down
here are real friendly that they like to talk about

(04:08:39):
their history. Well you don't think it's gonna storm here today,
do you? Oh? Shoot far, No, Mis Maddics. It's way
too hot for that. It is kind of cloud enough, Elmer.
All those are just human aluminous clouds that the sun
are driving right up. Oh okay, say say Cecel, Yeah,
there's a fellow over there by one of them garbage
boats holding up a sign with your name on. Well,
all but dad gum on what he wants to me? Well,

(04:09:01):
maybe he knows where the cruise ship is at sea,
so well, I know one serfy way to find out.
Let's go ask him. Kind of a seedy looking feller, rainy. Yeah, well,
well I don't mention his wooden legs. See song may
be a self conscious about him. Okay, excuse me, mister.
I'm Cecil Ferris. You've got my name on that little

(04:09:22):
piece of cardboard you're holding there. Eh oh yeah, yeah,
you must be here about the cruise. Yup, where's the boat?
You're standing in his presence, monsieur, and I'm Captain Buford
van Carlton, at your service, please to meet you. Mister
van Coffin. You mean to say we're gonna go in
this yere tug boat. Well, it's a garbage scale. Actually,

(04:09:46):
I call it the dried scale for reasons i'd better
not get into. Eh. Well, ready to go. I have
a bad feeling about this, and now I know it
ain't the cream Mary madam. But it'll float just like
the big ships. Looks kind of ragged. Do you think
they will hold together? And we're as long as you
don't breathe mischief or on the level though, it's just

(04:10:12):
a little humor to break the ice. On the level
of the stab is a fine little tug a fight. Well, well,
I'm sure it is, mister van Coffin. But uh well, heck,
the Times said there's going to be a golf crew.
Well we're going to have to go out into the
gulf to get to the garbage port. You mean to

(04:10:32):
tell me we drove from blocks of the galves and
to ride in a garbage boat to some smelly dark side. Well,
I take it you don't like the idea.

Speaker 13 (04:10:42):
Huh.

Speaker 27 (04:10:42):
Well, it's just false advertising, is what it is. Well,
ride in a garbage boat. Ain't nowhere near a golf crew. Well, now, yes, ma'am, yes,
you're right, it certainly isn't. I guess I should explain myself.
The fact is, I'm an awfully lonely man. I've tried

(04:11:06):
making friends, but who wants to be a round A
man that smells like garbage? And my peg leg and
missing teeth gonna exactly impress the ladies. And so I
I cooked up this contesting and and run adds and
well I don't know how many newspapers across the country.
Uh huh, and I got quite a few responses to

(04:11:30):
just pulled the name out of a hat. You were
the lucky one, mister Ferris. I. I know it sounds
like a fool way to meet people, but well I
just got so desperate. Well that's that's okay, mister van Calfon.
You don't see. So we come all this way and
for heck, I never rolled a no tug bowl before.

(04:11:52):
And I hear you can find a lot of neat
stuff in them garbage dump. What do you say? Heck,
let's go.

Speaker 79 (04:11:57):
However, sounds like fun to me.

Speaker 27 (04:11:59):
Well, I guess it's saddled. Captain. We're ready to take
the crew. Well well, well, fine, fine, yeah, just step
aboard the scab here and we'll set sail. Hey, hey,
let me help you aboard there, madam. Well, now I

(04:12:41):
told you to scab with bloat, didn't I. He's afloat
and you enjoyed the ride? Madam? Well, you look at
tad green around the guield. My stomachs a little bit queasy.
There's a boat usually rode back and forth this night,
where the wings a little high.

Speaker 2 (04:12:55):
Today.

Speaker 27 (04:12:55):
That's all. You'll get used to it, I'm sure. But
if you feel you're gonna lose your breakfast. That there's
a coffee can underneath your seat for just such an occasion.
I'll tell you what. After I unloaded my garbage, I'll
take us down to the ship channel. It'll see some
big ships up that way. It sounds like a waiter,
mister van Cark, Oh, please please call me Beaufort please. Well,

(04:13:19):
all right, sir, Beautiford, you got yourself a real nice
little tug here. Well, it reminds me of my truck.
It ain't exactly party, but well it's got care it
rights you are, mister Cohan, rights your hard Yeah. The
scabs a little hard on my eyes, I know, but
she's a tough little tug. I never once gave me
an ounce of trouble.

Speaker 8 (04:13:39):
In fifteen years.

Speaker 27 (04:13:43):
What's this noise?

Speaker 47 (04:13:46):
Huh?

Speaker 27 (04:13:49):
The motor shut off? What's well, well, I don't know,
she's never done this before.

Speaker 22 (04:13:57):
I know we have fuel.

Speaker 27 (04:13:59):
I can't even get an admission sound out of her.
Now it could be we've got soft water in the engine. Yeah,
go now, there's no need to print, mister. I'll go
check the engine. Just sit tight, now forget the engine.
Look at that cloud ahead of us. Rip my lips off.
That's one mean look at thunderheat well, and that doesn't

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look like any thunderhead either. You see solid black and
there's a heavy missed of it. He's sitting on top
of the water. The boat's moving.

Speaker 21 (04:14:30):
We're heading for the mess.

Speaker 19 (04:14:31):
This madis is right.

Speaker 27 (04:14:33):
We're being pulled right towards it. And there's not a
thing wrong with im overre that I can see, other
than the fact that.

Speaker 13 (04:14:39):
It isn't running.

Speaker 27 (04:14:40):
We're getting off. Were close to that thing, handy bar,
the door. We're gaining speed. Everybody laid out black, laid
out flat.

Speaker 47 (04:14:49):
Now.

Speaker 27 (04:14:50):
I don't know what's pulling us into that miss, but
we're going into it whether we like it or not.
Said come let down, miss Many.

Speaker 47 (04:14:56):
Let me forget word Lord in a hurricane, I.

Speaker 27 (04:15:02):
Don't speak through mister Cord. I ain't never seen anything
like this, you know, all my years.

Speaker 43 (04:15:07):
Look up in the sky.

Speaker 27 (04:15:08):
It's a helicopter. Maybe they can go get help.

Speaker 43 (04:15:11):
I don't think so.

Speaker 27 (04:15:13):
Season that copter's caught up.

Speaker 47 (04:15:15):
That's warm too, and kimminy.

Speaker 80 (04:15:18):
Christmas, the copter place stop turning and it's still up there.

Speaker 27 (04:15:24):
You look, Chump and Jehos are fast locking.

Speaker 47 (04:15:28):
Fast coming from the laugh here hall.

Speaker 27 (04:15:32):
Word, oh and gumming we where am I? H? I

(04:16:43):
must have washed up on the shore. Sure don't look
like Gallston. Looks like some kind of tropical islands.

Speaker 13 (04:16:53):
It's a miracle.

Speaker 27 (04:16:53):
I'm alive after that tidle waven, mercyful heaven, that tidal wave.
Whereas everybody, hey see say so.

Speaker 47 (04:17:04):
Missus maddad.

Speaker 27 (04:17:08):
Now i'm a whoa, we're hearing these bushes. Oh hey, hell, okay,
staysaf I'm coming hay and todd boy huh oh, danks,
Why you're glad to see y'all. I thought y'all might
have been dead. We might just wind up that way.
Look at what's sitting on top of that rock.

Speaker 47 (04:17:27):
Huh uh.

Speaker 27 (04:17:29):
Uh jump back, what a cant hat.

Speaker 79 (04:17:34):
Heck, it's some kind of giant tiger. Me and miss
Maddick went into these bushes looking for you. H We
walked right upon the thing sleeping, and you woke it up.

Speaker 27 (04:17:45):
Huh he and four it's been sitting there on that rock,
looking at us like we're about to be its next meal.

Speaker 24 (04:17:52):
What are we gonna do?

Speaker 27 (04:17:53):
Well, we ain't gonna do nothing to a rally, that's
for one thing. Easy there, kiddy. Hey, you don't want
to eat us. We were all standing bottoms here. I
ain't that kid, he said, a set of tea. But
I didn't know better. I'd swear he's going in prehistorical.
Then it's fat enough. It's got a pam. Oh, Lord
save us a ah bullseye head. Now it's head blowed up.

(04:18:19):
A correction, sir. It was I who woul leave the
beast as at church. Oh, it's a lucky thing. My
gun was operational. Well, I haven't fired it in about
one hundred years, or thank you, mister. You were just
in the nick of time. And mister Buford, you're alive. Yeah.
It was stretching gold here for a while, mister Corden,
but I managed to swim ashore. Yes, mister Ben Cartron
arrived a box an hour before you did. He explained,

(04:18:41):
you had quite an experience with the storm. And yes, sir,
that's an understatement. Sake, Could you tell us where we're at.
I never saw this island on my gallopy road map.
Well that is because it doesn't exist, not in the
real world. In any case, i'll explain it. If in
the lady it come with me, will you I found
a street metallic object and the clearing overrom here. This

(04:19:04):
is strange looking wings around here, y a cobby, Yes
there it is over there. See the object. Heck, heck,
that's that helicarter we saw. So you saw the head
gumb and I we your awright helicopter. What does it do? Well?
It get flying?

Speaker 31 (04:19:23):
Yes?

Speaker 27 (04:19:23):
Yes, it flies right, very amusing, sir. Well, there appears
to be a mad inside the object. I believe he's unconscious.
Head gum. There's a lot of monkeys around that helico. No,
I just hate monkeys. Yes, well, they are not monkeys.
They are prehistoric men.

Speaker 13 (04:19:40):
They're merely curious.

Speaker 27 (04:19:42):
That is all here. Now, can now clear away from
that object right away? They're away shore. I believe the
man is coming in now, Organ Morgan, come here, help
this matters to the cave. Let us all go into
my cave. Shall We will build a nice fire. I
will cook the sabretooth tiger that I shot. It was

(04:20:03):
a pre hysteric animal. I knew it right you are, sir.
I'll explain everything after the mules. Now let us go.
The masterdons come around to drink about this time, and
we would not want to be in no way. Wait
till you hear the story about this. Please, mister Cohen,
you won't believe your e is So you're saying you

(04:20:34):
landed on this island over one hundred years ago. That
is corrected eighteen seventeen to be exact. You see, I'm
an archaeologist. Sepastian Scott is my name. I left you
up on an expedition to the island that you call Galveston.
I had hoped to find some artifacts of the Coronquioas
Indians that had once inhabited that area. I took a

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small sailing vessel and six fellow scientists with me. It
was a long journey, but at last the island was
in sight, and then the storm hit. Over the storm dark,
miss wats of wind exactly, I could see nothing but
that confounded missed and then a great wave just like us. Yes, well,

(04:21:17):
when the wave hit, I blacked out. When I awoke,
I was on this island and I was shocked to
find my ship was unharmed.

Speaker 13 (04:21:24):
There. Yeah, me too.

Speaker 27 (04:21:26):
Well, the wave capsized my tug, but I found her
about one hundred yards down the shore. After I swam
to this island, there wasn't a.

Speaker 81 (04:21:34):
Scratch order, same thing as my helicopter. I was trying
to fly to the mainland from offshore drilling rig. Then
the storm hit. You wouldn't know anything from looking at
the chopper.

Speaker 27 (04:21:45):
Yes, Well, after we arrived, the men and I went
exploring and found remarkable things, plants and animals. Long believed
it distinct.

Speaker 8 (04:21:56):
I was thrilled with the.

Speaker 27 (04:21:57):
Discoveries, but my fellow scientists became restless and wanted to
return home. I believe the savortooth tigers made them uneasy,
so I let them go to me. This was paradise.
I didn't want to leave, so I stayed here for
several years, and then I realized something very strange. Well

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what was that? Well, I wasn't aging, not a bit,
my bed wasn't growing or my hair. I was exactly
the same as I was five years before. And then
it hit me like a bell ring. This island is frozen,
entire dead girl, the prehistoric men, the animals. It was

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the only explanation. What's more, I believed this island exists
in a dimension unto itself. A few years ago, I
built a small wrath and attempted to find land elsewhere.
Days passed and nothing, nothing but water. Waters seemed to
extend to e tudity. We are in another dimension, and

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the storm is the doorway.

Speaker 13 (04:23:06):
Dead gun.

Speaker 27 (04:23:08):
We're stuck in never never Land.

Speaker 18 (04:23:10):
Not necessarily.

Speaker 27 (04:23:12):
I remember the day after the storm that brought me here,
there was another storm. I took shelter in this cave.
But after a while I began to think, if the
first storm was the way into this world here, then
the second storm behind get it, the second storm the
way out precisely. And I believe there will be another
storm tomorrow. You wouldn't pull our leg mis or this

(04:23:35):
is pretty barrier. No, No, I believe these storms come
in pairs. Look at these markings on the cave here.
They were made by the caveman. I found them when
I arrived here. The cave met are writing about the storm,
apparently as this happened before. And see these wicked lines here.
That is the first storm, and these drawings are themselves

(04:23:59):
cowrowing in and here's the second storm. I don't know
why this island is the way it is, but the
second storm is the way out. Go into it, and
you should be in your own world. Well, I'm a
red and son, hey man, I think we should use
my hanlico. We can fly low into the storm to

(04:24:20):
avoid being cut up in the tidal wave. You know
what I mean? Yeah, sound good to me. I just
hope there's gonna be a storm, say mister Scarr, are
you gonna come with us? Well, no, I do not
believe I will. Well, the modern world sounds interesting with
the flying machines and all that, but you see, I'm
an archaeologist and this place is. But it's like heaven

(04:24:44):
to me. But perhaps if there's another storm in another
hundred years will have changed my mind. Now, then the
second storm should occur about moon tomorrow, and that's the
way it was last time. So let's get a good
night's sleep. We have a big day to get tomorrow,
and I do wish you not.

Speaker 3 (04:25:40):
Five five back back.

Speaker 27 (04:26:01):
I say that it's bad, coffin.

Speaker 31 (04:26:05):
It's time to awaken.

Speaker 27 (04:26:08):
Hey, you are had a breakfast at question barries for
you the strength for the task ahead. You can't fast.
You know where I didn't get a wink asleep. It's
because of them bang out it's allergy free. So well,
how many times I gotta tell you don't drop your ARGs?

Speaker 37 (04:26:26):
Well, I know how it is.

Speaker 27 (04:26:27):
It's damp cave. But don't worry. You'd be back on
your feather pillar for you new. Yes, well, there is
a bit of a problem, aten, I have a spot
of bad news and bits of good news.

Speaker 13 (04:26:40):
Which do you prefer?

Speaker 27 (04:26:41):
Boy, elsir, if I got my brother's brother not here
no bad news or call yes? Well, I'm afraid we
have a dilemma on our hands.

Speaker 8 (04:26:50):
This is the good news.

Speaker 43 (04:26:51):
Is a storm as developing.

Speaker 27 (04:26:53):
As you can probably hear. It should reach the island
about three hours, I would say, And what's the bad news?
I'm afraid to act well, madam. There are hordes of
creatures surrounding the entrance to the cave. Apparently they have
sense the oncoming storm and they're in a panic. How
are we going to reach the helicopter? The flying machine

(04:27:16):
has been trampled by a herd of macedons. I'm afraid
your boats were destroyed in the stampede as well.

Speaker 13 (04:27:22):
Oh that's a pig.

Speaker 27 (04:27:23):
But then you couldn't have gone out there anyway, with
the chaos going on as it is. Bogus, man my helicopter, say,
what are we going to do to get out of this? Man?

Speaker 47 (04:27:32):
Now?

Speaker 27 (04:27:32):
Now, now, let's keep a clear head about this. We
have three hours to think it's something.

Speaker 43 (04:27:42):
We get us some company.

Speaker 27 (04:27:44):
Fellers here, take a gander of whatman, oh dear, go
look at that? Say the tubes were seeking shelter from
the storm blasted. I should have sealed the entrance. Do stop?

Speaker 80 (04:27:59):
And I want saying know how to get aside of
these situations? Easy there, kiddies, where just you to be friends?
You that's gonna work?

Speaker 27 (04:28:12):
What about your good missus contory? You got it with
me inside?

Speaker 8 (04:28:15):
How it with me?

Speaker 27 (04:28:15):
But it wouldn't do any good. I tired my last
show yesterday sa'd gone three of them coming right at us,
say mister Scott, Yes, you don't feed these cats, take
drudges on you see in one of their candy Oh.

Speaker 43 (04:28:29):
On them of course.

Speaker 27 (04:28:30):
And they had no concept of revenge. Now hunger is
that they know about?

Speaker 30 (04:28:36):
That?

Speaker 27 (04:28:36):
Got it like rats? I never tried it in like
you saying work and myself mixed three. Well, I'm with
you all, it's suffer. What in the heck are we
going to do?

Speaker 47 (04:28:49):
Now?

Speaker 27 (04:29:05):
What are they going to do? Mister Corn and company
are and quite a spot are they? They have three
hours to enter the storm that will return them to
the real world. Their transportation has been destroyed, and they
are being approached by three very large prehistoric tigers. I

(04:29:26):
wouldn't trade places with this. Unfortunately, we are pleasantly out
of time. But if you drop in next time, won't you,
I'm sure you'll want to hear the exciting conclusion to
the story.

Speaker 20 (04:29:42):
Until then, pleasant dream, You have just heard chet Cheddar's

(04:30:09):
Tales from the Morgue.

Speaker 56 (04:30:11):
Today's installment, part one of Escape from the Mysterious Island.
For correspondence and to M and J Audio Theater po
Box two five to two ahead in the Xia, Texas
seven six six sixty seven. The names and characters portrayed
in this production are fictitious. Any similarities to actual persons,

(04:30:34):
living or dead is purely coincidental.

Speaker 18 (04:30:43):
A proper production.

Speaker 13 (04:30:47):
By M and J Audio.

Speaker 8 (04:30:53):
Theater.

Speaker 56 (04:31:07):
EM and J Audio Theater presents chet Chetter's Tales from
the Morgue.

Speaker 27 (04:31:38):
A coby in, my friend and delighted to see you. Yes,
have a seat and make yourself comfortable. I am chet Chetter,
the Morguet and Residents storyteller. Last time we began a
story featuring Elma Core, that nice man from Biloxi who

(04:32:02):
is a full time manure haller, and a hot time
adventure and the fruit we left mister cord In a
very precarious physician. But why don't we let Elma tell
you about that. Well, the whole thing started on a
summer afternoon.

Speaker 19 (04:32:23):
It was a scorcher and sultry whoo.

Speaker 27 (04:32:27):
So I was sitting on my porch swing nursing a
glass of lemonade when my best buddy, Caesar Faris runs
up and tells me he's won a contest.

Speaker 82 (04:32:35):
I saw it in the Bloxi Gazana about a month ago,
the prize of the cruise of the Golf Coast.

Speaker 27 (04:32:40):
I said him my name and addressed and thang to buy.
Didn't win. Well, Now, the contest post guard said he
could bring two friends, so he asked me to come
and miss Mannis. She's a sweet old widow woman that
lives down the road from there. Anyway, the next morning
we put on Paliston. That's where we're supposed to meet
up with the cruise shift. Well we got there, we

(04:33:00):
didn't see no cruise shifts, but we did meet up
with this nice one legged feller by the name of
Fewford van Carlton. He had one of them garbage tug poach.
You know, I ain't probably the drag staff, but for
reasons I'd better not get it too well. Now it
turns out that mister Van Carlton made up this contest
thing and put ads in newspapers all over the country.

(04:33:22):
And you see, I even offered. So I've tried making friends.
But who wants to be around a man that smells
like garbage? So there wouldn't no contest to talk really,
you see, it was just his way of meeting people.
He just pulled Cecil's name out of a ham with
all the other responses he got. Well at first season

(04:33:43):
was a little chicked off with this, but we felt
sorry for the man didn't agreed to take a ride
in his tugboat. We got out in the Gulf of
Ways and everything's going fine. Then the bowlder just cuts
off and up ahead there's this big black cloud sitting
just above water, sort of a dark mist and wind
like you never heard, and the tug boat starts moving

(04:34:06):
towards it without the motor even running a tall We
hit that storm and whoa what it was like a
cork in a blender. And up in the sky we
see this helicopter sitting in the air with about the
comfortablaze moving to tall and like it was just roasing
up there, and then a tidal wave hit us. That's

(04:34:26):
when I'm blackday. We woke up on this strange island
and now here right here's probably where you'll think I've
gone simple, because I tell you there were animals on
that island that were at least a million years old.
Them sore d two tigers, cave men, and them prairie elephants.
One of them tigers nearly ate us for wood until

(04:34:49):
this skin looking feather walked up and shot him with
a gun. He said he was an archaeologist from Europe.
Pleased to meet you, Sebastian Scott is my name. Well,
that fella showed us around there out of a bed.
We found that helicopter we saw sitting in the clear,
wasn't a scratch on it, and the man inside was bathed,
but he wouldn't hurt. Mister Scott took us to a

(04:35:11):
cave and told us he had landed on that island
one hundred years ago, he said, exploring Galliston back in
eighteen seventeen, and then he got caught up in a
storm just like we did. And he had an interesting
story to tell us about that eye. We are in
another dimension. It is frozen in time, nothing, ages said,

(04:35:33):
and the storm is the doorway. He went on to
tell us that these storms coming pair. You see that
there was another storm back when he landed on the
island and he took cover in a cave. But he
began to figure that if that first storm was the
way into the island, then the second one was the
way out. Go into the second storm, and you should

(04:35:54):
be in your old work, well, sir. We spent that
night in the cave, and the next morning, sure enough,
there was a storm room. Mister Scott figured did take
about three hours with a storm to hit the island,
so that gave us a little leeway, you see. Now,
What we figured we'd do was take the helicopter and
fly low into the storm. That way we'd avoid getting

(04:36:15):
hit by a tidle one. But there was a problem.

Speaker 31 (04:36:18):
You see.

Speaker 27 (04:36:19):
Outside of the cave, there was a bunch of them
prehysteric animals in a frenzy. They could sense the storm
was coming, you see, and they were kind of in
a pantic and.

Speaker 13 (04:36:28):
In the panic.

Speaker 27 (04:36:29):
I heard of them. Furry elephants stamped on the helicopter,
and they stumped on mister Buffer's drive scamp tug too,
And to add insult to injury, three of them sword
tooth tigers was walking into the cave straight furrest and
we were cornered like rats suffering. Sound, what in the

(04:36:51):
heck are we going to do now? Whatever you do,
don't budget muscle fuilt house at the slightest movement to
get us regardless, aren't they Well, yes, madam, I'm afraid that.

Speaker 7 (04:37:03):
Is the case.

Speaker 31 (04:37:04):
I'm a scarer mail.

Speaker 27 (04:37:05):
I'm with you, sisial old buddy. He looked in, looked
behind the tigers. Huh, excuse me, you're speaking it by
the catch if they gets.

Speaker 18 (04:37:14):
Spears in the head.

Speaker 43 (04:37:15):
Yeah, and the cats don't.

Speaker 27 (04:37:16):
See them either. They're raising the spears up over their hoods.
They're gonna try to.

Speaker 47 (04:37:29):
Look at that cree ball.

Speaker 27 (04:37:31):
They're sneaking them cats. Yeah, they killed themn cats with
the spears. Then a damn cat. Now, good show, good show,
I say, excellent work, my friends, excellent. Oh boy, thank
you so much. And you saved a life.

Speaker 47 (04:37:51):
Amen.

Speaker 27 (04:37:51):
We're not out of this nest yet. Yeah, the helicopter
is still wrecked. That tug out there is still wrecked. Yeah,
those animals are running in a frenzyw there. That is right,
We've got to get into that storm.

Speaker 13 (04:38:02):
Time is we're out.

Speaker 27 (04:38:04):
Well, you have an uncanny nature upsetting the obvious hy
bridd but it just so happens. I have an idea.
Oh yeah, I'm I'm sure it will work. But if
you're willing to take a risk, well, heck, mis sure,
I'd do it naked rain gig at this point, if
they're all inhalfulver, what's the idea. Well, there's a small
opening at the end of the cave.

Speaker 24 (04:38:22):
It is quite a tight fit, but it should be sufficient.

Speaker 27 (04:38:25):
Sky com You mean to tell me there's more to
this cave, And yes, I believe so. How much more?

Speaker 13 (04:38:31):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 43 (04:38:32):
I've never explored it.

Speaker 27 (04:38:34):
However, if we're lucky, it will lead to the other
side of the island. Yeah. My theory is that most
of the dinosaurs on this side of the island because
the storm is hitting this direction. Oh, you're tricked into
it somehow. On the other side, it should be safe.

Speaker 47 (04:38:48):
I see.

Speaker 27 (04:38:48):
Once we're there, we can build a raft out of
cane and fine, you can take a river channel to
the ocean and hit the storm.

Speaker 13 (04:38:54):
That's ahi.

Speaker 27 (04:38:58):
Here's the entrance. Like I said, there is a tight fen,
so you'll have to squeeze, mister Scott. Yes, I certain
feel a hank of a lot better about entering the
unknown of one of them spear carrying and cavemen in
my son. Yes, well, they would refuse to come along.
I'm sure they believe they are evil spirits inside the cave.

Speaker 8 (04:39:16):
That will eat your soul?

Speaker 27 (04:39:17):
Shall we go?

Speaker 4 (04:39:18):
Did he say evil spirits?

Speaker 30 (04:39:20):
The elmer?

Speaker 27 (04:39:20):
It's just superstition, Cecil, it's just the same, I believe.
I'll let you join Henry. Yeah to here now quickly
Connor to the essence coming out Rocker. Well, we don't
crawl through this year opening and come upon this campern
it seens stretch on for quite a while, and there
was water on the floor of the cave and we
had to way through. It was about me high. Old

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Cecil did like that.

Speaker 54 (04:39:45):
Water, Dad comment, why didn't happen to be water where
it's not very deep?

Speaker 27 (04:39:50):
Mister Ferris, Well, you see, Old Cecil's got kind of
a thing about water. No, no, no, I got a
thing about time.

Speaker 43 (04:39:57):
I cleaned like a rock.

Speaker 27 (04:39:59):
Yes, well, just be careful way you walk, and watch
out full says the wee afder say the one after thank.

Speaker 67 (04:40:09):
Got it makes a thank coffee.

Speaker 27 (04:40:11):
Give me your hand. Yeah, you're going in, Give me
your hand, says god.

Speaker 13 (04:40:15):
Have you et that water?

Speaker 18 (04:40:17):
I got his hands?

Speaker 27 (04:40:18):
I got him, I got him, I got him.

Speaker 13 (04:40:28):
I have to fear if you've gone in.

Speaker 30 (04:40:30):
I want to go tall.

Speaker 27 (04:40:32):
Well, well, well we'll get you home, old buddy. We're
all know the reason why. Yes, well we should press
home the time of a essence, like I say, and dude,
watch out because drops yea, watch out hanging out.

Speaker 15 (04:40:47):
I'm getting too old for this.

Speaker 27 (04:40:48):
And I'm with you all the way met him and
just kind just for this sort of thing. My ship. Yeah,
I know what will break the monotony of all this walk.

Speaker 4 (04:40:57):
I don't go thinking little soon.

Speaker 27 (04:40:58):
Want to go along?

Speaker 83 (04:41:00):
Oh come on, come on, fellers, ain't gonna do nothing else,
that's true.

Speaker 27 (04:41:05):
Let's go hang along with them Yellow sixteen.

Speaker 16 (04:41:09):
And the bloody that you get.

Speaker 27 (04:41:11):
I know the rim.

Speaker 65 (04:41:16):
Don't get card because I can't go.

Speaker 82 (04:41:19):
Oh my, how much longer are we gonna have to walk?

(04:41:52):
My fink are starting to hurt?

Speaker 83 (04:41:55):
Well, my dogs are barking two seasons and I'm getting
waterlogs on these day now. But I don't know, really,
I know somebodys kevin can go quite large, and I've
been in a couple of myself and it can go
several miles.

Speaker 13 (04:42:08):
Hey, y see, Hey, do you hear that?

Speaker 43 (04:42:14):
Yeah, some kind of weak, annoyed or something. Yeah, I
think I hear wims. Elma, if those are bats, I'm
gonna throw up.

Speaker 27 (04:42:24):
Oh dear, oh dear, I forgot about the vampire bites.
Vampires will happenating this time of year. They're deadly, poisonous,
and they're quiet hostile. We better, we better start to run.
I'm with you. There they are. I'm going behind us.

Speaker 47 (04:42:41):
Right.

Speaker 19 (04:43:04):
Hey, hey, look a here, y'all.

Speaker 27 (04:43:07):
We made it to the outside. Yeah, whoa, Yes, my
sory was crack. The cave did lead to the other
side of the island.

Speaker 47 (04:43:16):
Rule.

Speaker 27 (04:43:16):
My heart's beat like a rat. Yeah. I thought I
was gonna have a stroke. My shelf had to tighten stuff.
But I'm no long distance runner. Yeah yeah, but when
the heat for it on you, you find the energy,
don't you. If you passed me up like a jack
rabbit with a hand dog on its tail. Yeah. Hey,
wait a minute, guys, listen real close.

Speaker 43 (04:43:38):
You're that rumbling.

Speaker 27 (04:43:41):
Oh oh, Jeremy, no, oh, please say it isn't so.

Speaker 82 (04:43:45):
Well, all right, it ain't so.

Speaker 27 (04:43:47):
But if it were, what would it be? Bison their
early cousins of the buffalo. They're heading for the other
side of the island, and who were right in their path? Quickly,
we have to climb that tree over there at once.
Oh wait, there's no rest for the weird climb.

Speaker 84 (04:44:01):
A tree at drawn back running lease doing Peter that
to go back in there and taking them mad mur
mass Now, come on, boy, let's.

Speaker 79 (04:44:07):
Come ury, Miss Madden, mister Cobb, let's go.

Speaker 47 (04:44:11):
We do we do for me me?

Speaker 19 (04:44:12):
Some couldn't we don't They trying the tree?

Speaker 27 (04:44:15):
They grab holds in the back of my neck, Missmatic,
and don't let go for the snake of your life.
Well we sell that old tree pretty quick. I'll tell
you it's about sixty foot high. But we got to
the top and enough black under put them. Bison and
running to the other side of the idea like their
life depending on them. It mustn't been that storm that
was attracted. Maybe they knew it was something special Anyway,

(04:44:37):
we sat on top of that tree for a while,
catching the bread. Running from bad scaling trees had us
all pretty toughered out. Boy, look at them bison go bigs.
I bet you could get some six states out of them.
Babies probably be tough eat. Yeah, it's quite a few

(04:44:59):
of from up here too, it seemed, mister stuck. Is
there any need for that to matron overday? Oh nobody? Yes, Yes,
that's Mount Sebastian. I named it that to myself. It's
a dormant volcano. Actually, there's a river channel that's the
base of the volcano, and that's where we need to go.

Speaker 43 (04:45:16):
Listen, boy, we don't get into that storm.

Speaker 30 (04:45:19):
You're gonna be eating.

Speaker 27 (04:45:20):
Dinosaur meat for the rest of your life. Yes, yes,
you are right. We should go now. We have about
an hour before the storm. He is, I just hope
getting out of this tree ain't half as bad as.

Speaker 15 (04:45:29):
Getting into it.

Speaker 27 (04:45:30):
Well, don't worry, mismatics, I'll help you out.

Speaker 8 (04:45:32):
Can you just.

Speaker 4 (04:45:35):
Name that's that's am a strong gust.

Speaker 13 (04:45:38):
Y'all feel that.

Speaker 1 (04:45:39):
I don't worry, I'm feel it.

Speaker 27 (04:45:41):
I hear some sort of flapping noise, It.

Speaker 43 (04:45:42):
Lapping noise, lapping noise.

Speaker 79 (04:45:45):
Look, look right ahead, right a bu right a bubbles
right a bubble, big big bird, dow big bird.

Speaker 27 (04:45:53):
No, No, that ain't no birds.

Speaker 84 (04:45:55):
Then I see one of them at on Quell Walsh
movie that there's a real life I'm paradectal in the flat.

Speaker 27 (04:46:02):
Yes, yes, we be better by the creature. Now let's
get down from this tree that interested before alm. We're
help me, help me. It's got alma.

Speaker 13 (04:46:10):
He's off.

Speaker 27 (04:46:11):
Thanks, come, it's got the let its close. Hi, I
got you that tree swaft, turn loose of my buddy.

Speaker 47 (04:46:17):
You find barmit. Ah. Hey hey, somebody grabbed my man.

Speaker 27 (04:46:22):
I'm getting carried off her. Hey got you, mister corn, Hey,
gurt you. Everybody's grabbed mister Corn. Do not that gold.

Speaker 47 (04:46:29):
We can't hold him down.

Speaker 27 (04:46:31):
The birdle carry us all well, just hold on man.
The brdle set us down somewhere here we.

Speaker 8 (04:46:43):
Go.

Speaker 27 (04:46:52):
Boy, it was a sight. I want to give it
my ride arm to clean the ground level, all of
us cleaning on the bottle of that big burder. Dear
lill hat. The thing took us up about a thousand
feet in here, and it started hitting for that big volcano.
We saw her dang it, where's this flying lizard taking us?

(04:47:17):
I think she's coming in for a landing on this
mad it's got that volcano. There's a nest on a ledge.
There's three babies and ornament babies. Them babies are as
big as where we are. Yes, I believe we're about
to be better than he arefrew over the nest. It's
gonna drop us in the nest. Here we go, ye

(04:47:41):
and gumm it.

Speaker 82 (04:47:42):
He's baby sair.

Speaker 43 (04:47:43):
Doctors one hundred minutes.

Speaker 27 (04:47:45):
Hey, quick precking, it makes you ye me, little devil,
thank comet. Trim him by the next, crive him by
the next, bitch of corn. Keep your pigs away, frock it.
Don't bite your heads right off. You know we can't
hold them back for long. We have to get out
of this nest. We have to it up on the ledge.
I don't think they could.

Speaker 63 (04:48:02):
Follow us up there.

Speaker 27 (04:48:03):
I say, all right, miss Madic, let go all that woman.

Speaker 2 (04:48:08):
Let's go.

Speaker 35 (04:48:09):
I herd you vely creature.

Speaker 27 (04:48:10):
Let door heard that jump hard day and I can't
take this normal ever. I'm gonna get out of here. Pleasure.

Speaker 84 (04:48:16):
You get the heck back here.

Speaker 27 (04:48:18):
You gotta help pole back these things. This ain't no
time to turn yeller. People are counting on them. All right,
it's mighty. Can't climb up on the ledge. Hurry, we'll
hope these things back. Man in at the counter. Three,
we all climb out of the mess and get up
on that ledge, all right, right quick? Oh, for everybody
can get a host of you. Okay, Elbert one, go three,
let's go.

Speaker 21 (04:48:42):
Who have we made at e who?

Speaker 27 (04:48:48):
Hey? Listen to them, baby squaw. Yes, they're dropping because
they lost their lun when we've we still got a problem,
mister Cordon, and we have to get on fish lead. Yeah,
that big one's probably gonna be back shooning when we
If you get to that store, well there's only one way.
What's that we'll have to take the plud dad gumming.
It's six hundred feet down there. It's just I know,
but there's a lake down now. I see it. It's

(04:49:09):
connecting to the river channel. I d just say we
can make it.

Speaker 79 (04:49:12):
I dare say I won't. I can't swim. I'll just
stay here and feed myself with them. Baby Terordactyl, you.

Speaker 27 (04:49:18):
Ain't doing no such things, Cecil Ferris, I ain't jumping
without you and I'm a gunna jump. Let go my arm, Elmer,
cheer up, mister Ferris. Once we get to the bottom,
we'll build the raft. You'll go into the storm and
be home in no time. But I can't swim my
in there, old buddy, you just hold on to me.
I won't let you think. Are we ready, ready, mister Cordon,

(04:49:39):
I guess I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm quite ready.

Speaker 24 (04:49:42):
Alright, then y'all let's go. H foud out?

Speaker 27 (04:50:08):
Not what it so bad? Wasn't it?

Speaker 8 (04:50:10):
God?

Speaker 27 (04:50:10):
It was the baby anyway, I tell you.

Speaker 47 (04:50:13):
That was fun.

Speaker 27 (04:50:14):
I used to jump from a tire swing in the
Middle's fun when.

Speaker 34 (04:50:17):
I was a kid.

Speaker 27 (04:50:17):
But it wasn't nothing like that. Just can't like skatech
everyone that a par of shoes.

Speaker 15 (04:50:22):
That's something to skin.

Speaker 27 (04:50:23):
Elk through that again, man, no, sir, once is enough
for me now. It was fun. But uh, diesels, Caesa,
what you crying for?

Speaker 43 (04:50:37):
Elmer? I don't think.

Speaker 27 (04:50:40):
Where ever gonna get off this island. Oh come on, Caesel,
that ain't no way to think.

Speaker 82 (04:50:46):
I don't care, Elmer, in case if we don't make it,
I kind of got something.

Speaker 84 (04:50:52):
I want to tell you.

Speaker 27 (04:50:54):
And all right, anything old buddy, Well.

Speaker 82 (04:50:56):
Remember that rifle I borrowed from you last year, And
I said an elephant.

Speaker 2 (04:51:01):
Stopped on it.

Speaker 27 (04:51:03):
Sure, I remember that?

Speaker 82 (04:51:04):
What about Well, it warn't no elephant, Elmer. The truth
of the matter is I left it in my driveway
and Bernie had words come running over it.

Speaker 56 (04:51:14):
With his pickup truck.

Speaker 82 (04:51:17):
Well, shoot, see, so I knew that did tick Bernie
told me about it.

Speaker 27 (04:51:23):
Size ain't a whole lot of elephants in Biloxi, except
for the occasional circus that comes through. Size. It wan't
even my gun. I burned it from less your plucket.
I don't even my bull run over it. I guess
that makes his bow story Teathers, don't it? Hey? He

(04:51:43):
endition to that.

Speaker 35 (04:51:45):
It's an earth quick.

Speaker 27 (04:51:46):
Oh dear, we're gonna get out of here. No, that's
no earthquick, it's Mount Sebastian. It's a warning trimmer. The
volcano is going to abrupt, suit. I think we better
get out of this lake and get that rap frail.

Speaker 13 (04:51:59):
Yeah, volcano ouside can do a lot of damage.

Speaker 27 (04:52:01):
Man, I'm afraid I did to destroy everything on the island.
I guess we really better scattle. Then we got to
the river, cable and found some wild bamboo cane going
along the edge of it. We used the cane to
build a raft and we tied everything together with vines.
Then we set the raft in the water and we
got on top of it. That is all of us

(04:52:23):
with mister Scott. What do you mean you ain't going
with us? Mister Scott, you said yourself that volcano's gonna
take out the whole island. Yes, but I belong here,
mister Cordon. I've been hit since eighteen seventeen and the
night that's all men of my friends, and you're suggesting
I flee like a coward and let them die along.

Speaker 63 (04:52:43):
This is my destiny.

Speaker 27 (04:52:44):
Now you have better depart. You have about thirty minutes
to get to the storm, and you have to get
off the island before the volcano runs. All right, now,
I'm when a man makes a good point.

Speaker 13 (04:52:53):
Now let's get on out of here.

Speaker 27 (04:52:54):
See, so I can't leave this man behind, mister Scott,
the way I it's just.

Speaker 31 (04:53:02):
Plate.

Speaker 27 (04:53:02):
It's like some sort of freaking nature with dinosaurs and everything.
That's true. Well, it's gonna go with them without you,
so you might as well come along. Going to go
with me mister Corn. I belong here. I been here
for over one hundred years, and it's serious. Commit I
shouldn't be herelith and mister Corn.

Speaker 13 (04:53:19):
They make a decision.

Speaker 27 (04:53:20):
Here the volcano's gonna grove up. Come on, that's going down,
mister Scott, Come on, come on, No, I can't just
leave and let you die here.

Speaker 47 (04:53:29):
You'll have to die.

Speaker 27 (04:53:30):
Yourself, mister Corn. The volcanoes are erupting. Now leave while
you have a chat. Well, God's sway my decision, mister Scott.

Speaker 12 (04:53:39):
You just stay here.

Speaker 27 (04:53:40):
It's gonna be sewifide. Come on, get off the raf
here here comes from Norma. Mister Korn, then shove off.

Speaker 3 (04:53:46):
Now you're not gonna change his Maya.

Speaker 67 (04:53:49):
Let's gold damit.

Speaker 47 (04:53:50):
Now I can tell the heat off lava now I
tell yeah, all right, all right, telp.

Speaker 27 (04:53:56):
Me shove off here.

Speaker 47 (04:53:56):
See he's okay, Elmer, he's got five mister Scott.

Speaker 24 (04:54:00):
Maybe we'll meet again in the afterlife.

Speaker 47 (04:54:02):
Yes, how well, how why now? I trast you think
it fact to you?

Speaker 27 (04:54:08):
What you mister Scott? Tell me here?

Speaker 47 (04:54:11):
Sec I'm pa faster crying right, okay, I know how
juve it?

Speaker 27 (04:54:24):
I of the fact, mister Scott's bills.

Speaker 16 (04:54:27):
I don't in the love thank you, the heck.

Speaker 27 (04:54:31):
Oh my god, the Slova turn in my life. Don't
look at it seas on turn away, miss man. I
don't want to see that.

Speaker 47 (04:54:38):
I'm already seen it, Elver.

Speaker 79 (04:54:39):
I'm gonna have my this for the rest.

Speaker 47 (04:54:41):
Of my life.

Speaker 27 (04:54:42):
I got your horrible meaning horrible keep peddling SSA, am right.

Speaker 8 (04:54:47):
I think that man is drum stupid to stay back
there on that island.

Speaker 11 (04:54:50):
Yeah, I agree with you.

Speaker 27 (04:54:52):
See then again, I don't think he really should judge me.
I mean, after all, he's been around since eighteen seventeen.
I guess it's his time to go. But I wouldn't
want to go that way. Now we're there's that storm
about the same o't be looking black mouth yet?

Speaker 53 (04:55:08):
Now?

Speaker 43 (04:55:08):
Were my knees starting to tremble?

Speaker 27 (04:55:10):
I hope we make it so, do I seesell. I
don't think you need a paddle anymore, and it's starting
to publicly and just lack the first time. Yeah, oh boy,
it would be nice to see Gallagh to get I
hope this works so well. Well wellbut up mine, now.

Speaker 47 (04:55:25):
Here comes that tiddle whah.

Speaker 27 (04:56:01):
Woa, good jummy, where am I Hey me, dude, you're right? Man, Yeah,
I guess so. Say it's this caps right on, dude,
Radical waves to day. Want to crash a party? We've
got sugs, dude. Well, uh I hang on to that
thought for a second, would you? Huh say so, miss Maddie, Yeah,

(04:56:24):
mister van Comfort, everybody wake up. We're back. Oh oh,
I'm so glad to be back. I'll just kiss the
ground me too. I got to call the insurance company
about my tongue. Say, man, you got surfing right on, dude,
Radical crestitamen. We gotta get our surfing done this week
because school starts next week. Bulgers. Yeah, this failer. He

(04:56:46):
was inviting us to a party, and why don't we
join him? First bail and dry out, and then we'll
go home for heck and and why not?

Speaker 18 (04:56:52):
But we got to get home before wrestling.

Speaker 27 (04:56:53):
Well, all right, say dude, you bring a board?

Speaker 47 (04:56:57):
Man?

Speaker 27 (04:56:57):
Well, no, sir, what would I do if I had one?
Classic live?

Speaker 47 (04:57:02):
Dude?

Speaker 8 (04:57:02):
Classic live?

Speaker 27 (04:57:03):
Wait, God tell the dull? All right? You just you
just see it? Way many That was quite an adventure,
wasn't it. And to think it all started when mister
Ferris into the contest, Speaking of which, I've just received
a letter from that nice man on TV. Do you

(04:57:27):
think I should send it it?

Speaker 7 (04:57:29):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (04:57:30):
Now you have to leave? Do you well? Do return
for another story, won't you? Until then, pleasant dream?

Speaker 56 (04:57:52):
You have just heard chut Cheddar's Tales from the Morgue
Today's installment, Part two of Escape from the Mysterious Island.
For correspondence sent to M and J Audio Theater PO
Box two five two Ahea in the Xia.

Speaker 85 (04:58:10):
Texas seven sixty six sixty seven. The names and characters
treading this production are fictitious. Any similarities to actual persons,
living or dead is purely coincidental.

Speaker 8 (04:58:25):
A production by M and.

Speaker 56 (04:58:27):
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