The Golden Portrait That Exposed a Lifetime of Evil

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imagination anticipation of strange and chilling things to come. Our
story concerns Miriam Purcell, a woman who spent her life
amassing a fortune in gold, gold bracelets, gold earrings, gold coins, gold, anything.

Speaker 8 (02:20):
She loved and worshiped gold.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
She loved it so much it meant more to her
than life.

Speaker 8 (02:27):
Miriam. By Miriam, what's the matter, Jason, I can't.

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Most of us have a consuming passion in life. For some,
it may be as simple and loving as the care
of a pet. For others, it may be a job, profession,
a hobby. For Miriam Purcell, it was gold. Gold in
any form it fascinated her, obsessed her, and controlled her.

(03:58):
But Miriam Purcell was growing old. She knew her end
was not far off, and she dreaded the fact that
she would have to leave her gold behind and be
forgotten with the rest. So Miriam Purcell came up with
a unique idea.

Speaker 8 (04:16):
My portrait in gold coins, Rupert, a specially struck commemorative
set of coins.

Speaker 11 (04:21):
Miriam, my father and I have been your attorneys, your counselors, will,
and more than that, your friends for forty years.

Speaker 8 (04:29):
Not let me advise. I don't want advice. I want
you to arrange it.

Speaker 11 (04:33):
You're telling me you want to take your gold, every ring,
every bracelet, every bit of gold you own, and melt
it in a coin.

Speaker 8 (04:39):
Precisely commemorative coins with my portrait on them. I shall
make it a bequest to the city Public Library. I
rather think the city fathers would be happy to honor
my memory in the public library. I've done plenty for
this city. Your philanthropy is a legend, Miriam. But no, no,
Butt's Rupert. I'm paying you to do as I say.
But your gold is worth a fortune, and I've no

(05:01):
one to leave it to.

Speaker 11 (05:02):
The sale would bring enough to what sale. Well, when
you're a state is disposed of exactly, Rupert. I don't
want to be disposed of. I don't want my possessions
thrown to the winds, the auction block or whatever.

Speaker 12 (05:17):
Oh.

Speaker 8 (05:17):
I don't care about the house and the furniture, but
my gold that shall never fall into greedy hands. I
plan to protect it. The moment the idea struck me,
I knew. I knew that it was the right thing
to do. Very well, Miriam, you can handle it, Rupert.
Find a place that does this sort of thing, well, Rupert.

Speaker 11 (05:45):
Well, I found a firm that will make the coins.
But it's expensive. That the cast is the big idea.

Speaker 8 (05:51):
Hang the expense.

Speaker 11 (05:52):
The number of coins depends, of course, on the amount
of gold. They'll have to see it weigh, and then
there's the size of the coins to be considered. The
inscription that, of course your portrait, my.

Speaker 8 (06:02):
Portrait, Yes, that's most important. Can they weigh the gold here?
We don't have to take it all to their office,
do we. I didn't go into that.

Speaker 11 (06:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (06:11):
Well, find out, I'll start getting it together.

Speaker 11 (06:14):
You are determined to go ahead with this, aren't you, Miriam?

Speaker 8 (06:17):
I certainly am, and now that I know it can
be done, I'm going to delight Herbert Wilson and the
other library officials by announcing my intent through the press.
They can hardly turn my offer down, then can they.

Speaker 12 (06:36):
Hello.

Speaker 8 (06:38):
Oh, hello, mister Wilson. Well, I was going to discuss
it with you first, but this seems so much more dramatic.
You are pleased, aren't you. I thought you would be.
I do want to come down and discuss the location
for the display. I don't know yet just how the
coins will be mounted or how many there will be. Oh,
there are a dozen details to work out. I suppose

(06:58):
I call you as soon as my attorney he works
out the final preparations. Splendid, mister Wilson, Thank you so
much for calling her. Somebody at the door, Yes, goodbye,
Now I'll be right there.

Speaker 13 (07:11):
Yes, Missus Purcell, how do you do a pleasure to
meet you at last?

Speaker 14 (07:17):
At last?

Speaker 8 (07:17):
My name is Elliot Roscoe.

Speaker 13 (07:19):
I've heard about your fine works, the children's theater project,
the settlement house work.

Speaker 8 (07:25):
Well, thank you, but what is it that you want
my visit?

Speaker 13 (07:28):
Concerns your offer to the Public Library. I'm an artist,
Missus Purcell, I am an artist, and I am here
to offer to do your portrait, the one which will
appear on the commemorative coins, and I'm prepared to do
it for nothing, no payment at all.

Speaker 8 (07:45):
Well, come in, mister Roscoe, please come in and sit down.
Perhaps we do have something to discuss.

Speaker 13 (07:56):
I read of your offer in the newspaper.

Speaker 8 (07:59):
It intrigued me. I believe my attorney was engaging an artist.
He's handling all the details. But your offer does appeal
to me.

Speaker 13 (08:07):
I'm willing to do the portrait for nothing, a gesture
of thanks on behalf of the public who've benefited from
your philanthropy.

Speaker 8 (08:14):
You do have a way with words, don't you, mister Roscoe.

Speaker 13 (08:17):
Words and with a paintbrush. I've brought some samples of
my work. I thought it only fair to show you
my work before you've committed yourself to have the portrait
done by me.

Speaker 8 (08:29):
Well, I'm delighted to see them, but I'm sure that
we'll it's just.

Speaker 15 (08:32):
Me, Milliam.

Speaker 8 (08:33):
Come in, Come in, Rupert, I have a surprise for you. Indeed, Well,
that's certainly nothing new, Rupert. This is mister Roscoe, Elliott Roscoe.
He's a painter. My attorney, mister Hyatt.

Speaker 13 (08:44):
How do you do my pleasure, mister Iron, He was just.

Speaker 8 (08:47):
Showing me samples of his work. Oh, come you look
at them. To Rupert, he's offered to paint my portrait
for the coins free of charge for nothing.

Speaker 13 (08:57):
Well, that is a surprise, as I said to Missus Purcell,
a gesture of thanks for her kind works in the city.

Speaker 8 (09:04):
These are spectacular, Elliot, I may I call you Elliott.

Speaker 6 (09:09):
I'm honored.

Speaker 8 (09:10):
Look at this landscape, Rupert.

Speaker 11 (09:12):
Hm, damn good stuff. Oh, an excellent still life. I'm
surprised your name doesn't register. I know, stranger to im.

Speaker 13 (09:21):
Well, I'm better known on the continent, actually, but in
a small way, I'm trying to get established here. I
admitted to Missus Purcell. The opportunity to do her portrait
for the coins will be of great help to my career.
That is, if I'm the chosen artist.

Speaker 8 (09:38):
Well, as far as I'm concerned, you're chosen. What do
you think, Rupert?

Speaker 11 (09:42):
Well, I was planning to get Henry foll Let me.

Speaker 8 (09:47):
Talk to him first.

Speaker 11 (09:47):
There are certain specifications the coin company demands, and foul
familiar with them.

Speaker 8 (09:52):
I'm sure Elliott can handle that. What did you have
in mind?

Speaker 13 (09:54):
For the portrait Missus Purcell profile full face torso about.

Speaker 8 (10:00):
It, but I do want to be wearing some of
my gold jewelry. We'll discuss it at the first sitting.

Speaker 11 (10:06):
I'm to assume you want me call us next week
and we'll discuss it further. Mister Rasco, well, I'm glad
you liked my sketches.

Speaker 8 (10:15):
I'll see you out.

Speaker 13 (10:16):
I promise you'll be satisfied. Missus Purcell, your portrait will be.

Speaker 8 (10:20):
An exact likeness like an is sugar Good day, sir?
Are you out of your mind? Miriam?

Speaker 11 (10:30):
Allowing a perfect stranger to boodoze you like that? But
what do you mean, Rupert, He's no painter, he's a
calm artist. Why are you fighting me every step? You're
paying me to look after your interests, and in this
case I am.

Speaker 8 (10:42):
He's simply after your gold. He never painted those pictures
he showed you. Why should you doubt? How can you
believe him?

Speaker 11 (10:49):
A stranger walks in tells you he wants to paint
your portrait for nothing.

Speaker 8 (10:54):
Come on, you're shrewder than that, Miriam. I'll prove it
to you.

Speaker 11 (10:58):
I'll get in touch with Henry Fowl and prove there's
no such artist as Elliott Roscoe.

Speaker 14 (11:12):
Well, I was.

Speaker 8 (11:14):
Wrong, it seems, fall says.

Speaker 11 (11:16):
Roscoe is one of the promising new group of modernists,
and File's too busy to take the job anyway.

Speaker 8 (11:22):
So I wasn't born yesterday. No, there was something about
Elliott Roscoe that made me trust him immediately. I've decided
on a head and shoulder's frontal pose, Elliot splendid, and
I want just the trace of a smile.

Speaker 13 (11:42):
Oh, indeed, I intend to capture the real you, Missus Purcell.
Now look left, please, good? Now right, raise your head slightly, yes, splendid.

Speaker 8 (11:57):
How long do you think it's going to take more
than a week? Now, now straight at me?

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Fine?

Speaker 8 (12:03):
All right, so it just like that?

Speaker 16 (12:05):
Fine?

Speaker 13 (12:07):
When did you acquire your fancy for gold, missus presser?

Speaker 8 (12:12):
Mm? Ever, since I was a child. I think when
an aunt gave me a five dollar gold piece. Oh,
I still remember it, I still have it. In fact,
it felt so warm, so heavy, so solid. I think
I made up my mind then that gold was security.

Speaker 13 (12:30):
Sometimes perhaps head up a little, That's about it.

Speaker 8 (12:34):
Of course, I couldn't afford much until I married mister Pursell.
That changed everything. He was obviously well known. Arthur was
a millionaire ten times over.

Speaker 13 (12:44):
No turn left peace. Those are stunning ear rings.

Speaker 8 (12:50):
Oh they are my favorite of all my jewelry. These
are not going into the melting pot. I want these
to go with me to my grave. They must mean
a lot to you. The first time I saw them,
I knew I had to have them, And then they
were given to me by a dear friend.

Speaker 13 (13:09):
Of course, the sentimental value exceeds the monetary work.

Speaker 8 (13:14):
Yes, I suppose it does. I remember how thrilled I
was when this dear friend offered them to me. Oh
how I remember, and I remember what I went through
to get them. Arthur never knew, Thank God, no one.

Speaker 17 (13:35):
Suspected, least of all Helene. I wonder what this artist
would say if he knew what I was thinking. Thinking
back to that party when Helene first wore those ear rings.

Speaker 8 (13:54):
I wish we'd gotten here earlier.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Arthur.

Speaker 8 (13:56):
The orders are practically gone.

Speaker 11 (13:58):
Uh sorry, my dear, but business is business. I told
you to go on ahead without me and show up
a loan.

Speaker 8 (14:06):
You know me better than god. What is it? Helene
Connors over there talking to Max Longstreet.

Speaker 11 (14:14):
She's our hostess. What's so unusual about I got.

Speaker 8 (14:19):
To know where she found them.

Speaker 11 (14:21):
Well, she spotted as she's heading this way.

Speaker 8 (14:24):
All you have to do is ask. I may have
to do more than a ry Arthur.

Speaker 10 (14:29):
I'm so delighted you could make his business as usual.
Sorry we're late, no matter, Come on and enjoy yourself, Helen. Yes,
where did you ever find those earrings? Aren't they spectacular?
Ed had them made especially for our anniversary? Solid gold
solid I'm liable to have ear loads down to hear
from wearing them, but I don't care.

Speaker 8 (14:50):
I'm envious. I wish they were mine.

Speaker 11 (14:53):
Oh, perhaps we can have a pair made for you.

Speaker 8 (14:56):
I'll find out where it. Oh, Arthur, I'm afraid not ed.

Speaker 10 (14:59):
May I'm sure that these could never be duplicated.

Speaker 8 (15:02):
More too bad for Miriam, that is, yes, too bad.

Speaker 10 (15:07):
There are the ledgers.

Speaker 8 (15:08):
I've got to greet them. Get some champagne. You've got
to drink so I twenty fifth anniversary.

Speaker 11 (15:13):
Well i'll drink to that. I'll get some for us, Miriam.
You circulate.

Speaker 8 (15:21):
I don't remember who was there that night, what we
ate or drank, or when we got home. All I
could think of were those fantastic earrings of Helene's I
simply had.

Speaker 18 (15:33):
To have them.

Speaker 8 (15:35):
It wasn't just a case of admiration.

Speaker 18 (15:37):
It was physical.

Speaker 8 (15:39):
I had to have those earrings the way a starving
man has to have food. I knew Helene wouldn't dream
of giving them to me, or even selling them to me.
I had to think of a way of getting them,
because those earrings had to be mine.

Speaker 5 (16:01):
Those who fail to abide by the tenth commandment thou
shalt not covet, often make themselves miserable wishing for something
they can't add, and if they take steps to get
what they want, they often have to resort to evil deeds.
Miriam Purcell did just that, as we'll see when I
return shortly with Act two. In her Passionate Quest for Gold,

(16:36):
Miriam Purcell is bound and determined to acquire a pair
of ear rings belonging to her dear friend, Helene Connors.
As Miriam herself put it, her desire was a physical thing.
We know Miriam got the earrings because she's worrying them
right now as she sits for her portrait and reflects
on her acquisition.

Speaker 8 (17:02):
Much as I hated to do it, I decided first
to lay my heart at Helene's feet. Try to make
her understand how I felt about those earrings, but.

Speaker 10 (17:13):
They will Ed's anniversary prison to me. I can't possibly
sell them, Helene. I'll trade you any piece of jewelry.

Speaker 8 (17:21):
Of mine for them. Take anything, something worth twice what
the earrings cost.

Speaker 10 (17:26):
You can't understand. It isn't a matter of money, it's sentiment.
Ed wants to see me wear them, and I want
to wear them. But you don't understand how much I
want them, Miriam, I'll never understand. Please, we're such close friends.
Don't spoil it by bringing this between us, all.

Speaker 8 (17:47):
Right, Helene, But make me a promise if I can
promise me that if you ever do decide to sell
them or give them away, you'll let me have them.

Speaker 10 (18:00):
Of course I can promise that if I ever do decide,
because I won't. Nothing could make me want to part
with those earrings.

Speaker 8 (18:11):
And I knew she meant it, but I wasn't finished.
There had to be a way to get those earrings,
and I finally thought of it. Hello, missus Purcell, Yes,
this is Joey fred Oakin said you might have a.

Speaker 6 (18:27):
Job for me.

Speaker 8 (18:29):
Oh, yes, I've been expecting your call.

Speaker 6 (18:33):
I never do business on the phone. Only a moving cars.
I'll pick you up today at once.

Speaker 8 (18:39):
Can't we talk here?

Speaker 6 (18:40):
There's nothing as private as a moving car.

Speaker 8 (18:50):
This is weird.

Speaker 19 (18:51):
I don't know if I can handle it.

Speaker 8 (18:53):
Ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 19 (18:55):
Yeah, that's a lot of loot for not killing someone.

Speaker 8 (18:58):
Well, I guess you got yourself a deal. A woman
and I lunch on Saturday at Trembley's.

Speaker 18 (19:05):
You know it, Oh doesn't.

Speaker 8 (19:08):
We'll say goodbye in front of the restaurant around two.
You can get a good look at her. Then the
rest is up to you.

Speaker 11 (19:14):
Okay, this is one cookie chop, but ten grand is
ten grand?

Speaker 8 (19:20):
Hey, it's not even murder. Hello, Helene, Darling lunch on
Saturday as usual. Of course I'm looking forward to it,
Oh Helene. Oh could I ask you not to wear
those earrings? They make me uncomfortable. Aren't too dressy for lunch?

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Anyway?

Speaker 8 (19:41):
Trembley's at twelve, then you're there. Well, my dear, I
was lunch with E Laie, the same as always.

Speaker 7 (19:52):
Darling.

Speaker 11 (19:53):
You seem so tense this afternoon. You preoccupied. It's nothing, It's.

Speaker 7 (19:58):
Not like you.

Speaker 8 (19:59):
Oh well, I'll get it. Hello, Oh hello, ed what.

Speaker 20 (20:09):
Oh my.

Speaker 8 (20:11):
I can't believe it. What is it?

Speaker 11 (20:15):
Do you want me to come to the hospital, all right, yes,
let us know right away.

Speaker 8 (20:21):
Did they catch him? Oh that's awful. What that's just awful?

Speaker 21 (20:30):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (20:31):
Yeah, well we'll wait to hear by ed what happened?

Speaker 11 (20:35):
Helene was attacked by a mugger on her way home
this afternoon. Oh no, that's not the half of it.
She wasn't just mugged. The maniac cut off her left ear.

Speaker 8 (20:54):
I'm so glad you're getting out and around again, Helene.
I'm adjusting. Oh if it had been me, I don't
think i'd ever gotten over it.

Speaker 10 (21:03):
Oh I'm not over it, not even after these ghastly
three months.

Speaker 18 (21:09):
I'm wearing my hair longer.

Speaker 8 (21:10):
These days.

Speaker 10 (21:11):
You can see him, but the emotional scars take a
lot more time to heal.

Speaker 8 (21:16):
Oh, yes, I imagine. I asked you to lunch to day, Miriam,
for a reason. I have a surprise for you, A
surprised these are for you, Oh, Helene.

Speaker 10 (21:33):
The earrings have no use for earrings anymore. I remember
saying nothing would ever make me want to part with them,
but this has I can't wear them, and sitting in
the jewel box they just remind me of happier days.

Speaker 8 (21:51):
Oh, Haleine, I well, I can't not.

Speaker 10 (21:55):
After fearch I promised you that if I ever got
rid of them, you'd be the one to have them.

Speaker 8 (22:02):
I'm keeping that promise now.

Speaker 10 (22:05):
I want you to have them.

Speaker 8 (22:14):
Such a pensive mood, missus Pursell. Oh, I was just
thinking A penny for your thoughts, not for sale. I
think that'll be all for today.

Speaker 13 (22:27):
I've got a good start, may I see it? Certainly
it's just the rough right now.

Speaker 8 (22:33):
Oh but that's remarkable, Elliot, which it really is.

Speaker 22 (22:38):
Me.

Speaker 8 (22:38):
That's what we're aiming for.

Speaker 13 (22:41):
Same time tomorrow, Same time tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (22:47):
How's the portrait going, Miriam, take a look for yourself.
Remarkable likeness. Ruscie is good, spectacular, one more sitting. We'll
finish it. Good now.

Speaker 11 (22:58):
The coin company says they can make fifteen matched coins
with the amount of gold you have. Oh, they return
this vase. It's not pure gold, it's not I should
think you, of all people would have known.

Speaker 8 (23:13):
No, I I thought it was.

Speaker 11 (23:16):
Well, no matter, there's still plenty without it.

Speaker 8 (23:19):
Yes, oh, fifteen coins, Yes, that's marvelous. Now they want
to discuss the mounting.

Speaker 11 (23:25):
They suggested a velvet background set in a rosewood frame.

Speaker 8 (23:28):
Oh that sounds beautiful. Yeah, they'll send some samples. You
can decide.

Speaker 23 (23:32):
Then.

Speaker 8 (23:33):
I think I'll arrange a dedication ceremony with Henry Wilson.
I mean my presentation should be something special, the Mayor,
the Press, Champagne, don't you think well.

Speaker 11 (23:44):
Of course you can't very well send it over by
parcel post.

Speaker 8 (23:47):
Oh that's Elliott for today's sitting. Come on in, Elliott.
Do you want to stay and watch?

Speaker 6 (23:54):
Well?

Speaker 8 (23:54):
Thanks, but I have some errands to run.

Speaker 11 (23:55):
Hello, mister Hyer, mister Rascoe, Miriam tells me two more sessions.

Speaker 8 (23:59):
Will that's about it.

Speaker 11 (24:01):
I'm pleasantly surprised at the result the port. It's exceptionally good.

Speaker 8 (24:05):
My humble thanks. I'll be in tomorrow with the mounting samples. Good.

Speaker 18 (24:10):
Keep up the good work, mister Roscoe.

Speaker 8 (24:11):
You can depend on it today. Well, missus Purcell to
work out ready when you are Elliott. Oh, let me
get rid of this vase first. It's a handsome piece
of work, isn't it. I was surprised to find it's
not pure gold. I thought it was.

Speaker 13 (24:29):
The design is entirely unique. It's almost a.

Speaker 8 (24:32):
Masterpiece in a way. I'm glad it's not going to
be melted with the rest. Perhaps I'll save it for
my ashes after I'm gone. Oh well, let's think of
brighter things. I'm very fond of that vase. It too,
was given to me by a very dear friend.

Speaker 13 (24:49):
I've no doubt you've had many dear friends, Missus Pursell,
someone as good hearted and generous as you.

Speaker 8 (25:03):
Yes, I've had a lot of friends, I guess, and
Jason was a good one. He was much older Arthur,
and I looked on him almost as a father. I
remember how he'd come to the house and played chess
with Arthur. He is it my move? Yes, good grief.

Speaker 11 (25:24):
I was waiting for you, getting forgetful, Jason getting old?

Speaker 8 (25:28):
Nonsense? What's it about getting old? Jason thinks he is nonsense.
Here's your brandy, gentleman. I laid out some cheese and
crackers too, both very kind.

Speaker 11 (25:38):
But next month I'll hit four score and five eighty five.

Speaker 8 (25:42):
I don't believe it.

Speaker 11 (25:43):
I don't feel a day over eighty. I feel great.
As a matter of fact.

Speaker 8 (25:48):
If it weren't for the shot of mine, I think
could take up tennis.

Speaker 11 (25:52):
Anyone who survived too heart attack shouldn't take up anything
more strenuous than chess.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Your move.

Speaker 8 (26:00):
Oh hey, short is oh Jason, before I go upstairs,
I've been meaning to ask you something.

Speaker 11 (26:05):
Well, certainly, Miriam, it's a favor. Will won't do anything
in my power.

Speaker 8 (26:09):
For you and Arthur. Well, I'm giving a small dinner
party next week, and I wonder if I could borrow
that gold vase of yours for the table. Oh well,
I realize how much it means to you, but I
promise I'll take perfect care of it. It's so stunning.
It's just the thing to well impress Arthur's new partner.
Now that's a family heirloom. Miriam. You can't ask Jason

(26:33):
to do that.

Speaker 11 (26:33):
Miriam, I really hate to turn you down, but Arthur
hit it on the head. I really can't.

Speaker 8 (26:40):
No, not that, bas Well, I understand I hesitated asking
in the first place. I'm really sorry, Miriam. You know
it's all right. You do. Enjoy your game. I knew
what his answer would be, but I thought I might
swayed him. I wanted that vase, and I knew now

(27:04):
i'd have to wear him down. Who is it? It's Miriam, Jason.
Oh double luck? Can't be too careful.

Speaker 13 (27:21):
Come in, come in, Miriam, dear, thank you, this is
an unexpected pleasure.

Speaker 8 (27:25):
I've come to make another plea. Oh about the vase. Yes,
Oh it's so handsome. May I hold it? Of course?
I can just see it now with chrysanthemums and bitter sweet? Oh, Jason,
may I please? Well, Miriam? All right? Or just for

(27:48):
the dinner party? Oh, you're an angel.

Speaker 13 (27:50):
You want it back the very next morning. Tho would
you promise me that, Mariam?

Speaker 8 (27:54):
Well, of course I'll bring it round that night if
you like. Oh, no, the next day. It will be
just by ask again either, Jason. It's just that this
party is so special as it must be. I'll come
by next Thursday about fourig. Here you are, Miriam, and
you'll take good care of it. Oh, you can count

(28:16):
on it, Jason. I'll never let it out of my
sight and you'll have it back first thing tomorrow morning.
I'll bring it round in a cab myself.

Speaker 11 (28:24):
You must, Miriam, and have a good party. It's a
perfect evening, Miriam. You outdid yourself.

Speaker 8 (28:35):
Thank you, my dear Arthur.

Speaker 11 (28:37):
Chrysanthemums in British weed it's beautiful even without Jason's vase
you wanted so much.

Speaker 8 (28:45):
Oh, yes, well it wouldn't have worked anyway. His vase
was really too small for the arrangement.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Hello, Miriam, it's Jesus.

Speaker 8 (29:01):
Oh yes, Jason.

Speaker 19 (29:02):
How is it?

Speaker 8 (29:02):
Inner party?

Speaker 24 (29:03):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (29:04):
Quite a success?

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Good?

Speaker 11 (29:06):
I thought you'd be here by now.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
You did say morning.

Speaker 8 (29:11):
I said what who said you'd return the vase first
thing in the morning? The vase I don't understand.

Speaker 11 (29:19):
Now, Look, Forgetful, I'm talking about my vase you borrowed
for the party.

Speaker 8 (29:25):
But you told me that I couldn't have it. Oh, Miriam,
please stop playing games. Well I'm not playing games, Jason, Miriam.

Speaker 25 (29:34):
Yesterday afternoon you picked up the vase for the party.

Speaker 6 (29:38):
I want it back.

Speaker 8 (29:40):
I don't know what you mean, Jason. I never borrowed
your vase.

Speaker 11 (29:48):
Everyone's raving about the party, Miriam. You certainly made an impression.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
Author. I think Jason's getting more forgetful than you should. Well,
what do you mean. Well, he called me today and
claimed that he lent me that vase for the party,
and now he wants it back. What you heard him
tell me last week? But I couldn't have it. In fact,
you agreed because it's a family ill. That's right. Now,

(30:18):
Why would he say he leant it to you? I
can't imagine. But if he does press the issue, what
are we going to do?

Speaker 5 (30:30):
Miriam got the vase she wanted, and she's put herself
in something of a spot. I don't think Miriam considered
all the aspects before. She really tried to steal Jason's vase,
and that's what she did. Oh, Jason gave it to her,
that's true, but he did so in good faith, and
we've seen that Miriam betrayed that faith.

Speaker 18 (30:51):
Jason isn't going to take this.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
Lying down, as we'll see when I returned shortly with
that three. Having an all consuming interest can be a
healthy thing up to a point, to the point where

(31:14):
the interest takes over reason and a person will stop
at nothing to achieve the goal.

Speaker 18 (31:20):
Miriam Purcell's pursuit of.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
Her golden treasures has driven her to some surprising links.
She's driven an old man to desperation.

Speaker 8 (31:29):
With a lie.

Speaker 11 (31:30):
Jason's getting to be impossible. He called me again today,
insisting he lent you that raise.

Speaker 8 (31:37):
Oh, I feel terrible. He's such an old and dear friend.
What can we do? We can't have him hounding us like, yes.

Speaker 11 (31:45):
Miriam, you are telling the truth. You didn't borrow that vase?

Speaker 8 (31:51):
What, Arthur, how could you possibly think? Oh?

Speaker 11 (31:55):
I know, but I can't see why Jason would make
up such a story.

Speaker 8 (32:00):
What do you think I would do? You think I'd
pretend I didn't borrow it? What reason would I have?

Speaker 11 (32:06):
We've got a problem on our hands. Maybe Rupert can
talk to him.

Speaker 8 (32:11):
Oh, I hate to get our lawyer into this. It
can't be that serious.

Speaker 11 (32:14):
Word might get to be if Jason's lawyer gets into it.

Speaker 8 (32:23):
Jason, I've come to try to reason with you, reason
with me. You wish of Jason? How can you say?
How can I say that? Because that's what you are
old friends. Indeed, you stole my vase? Your father. Well,
I've he believed me. I thought Arthur would. Jason, you're
upsetting yourself. Shit. You don't know how upset I am.

(32:45):
How much more I'm going to be. I'm not letting
this go. Miriam. I know you have that vasion. I'm
going to get it back.

Speaker 19 (32:52):
If I have to take her to court, if I
had to get a search warrant for your house, I'll
go there myself.

Speaker 8 (32:58):
And Jason, it won't do you any good. I don't
have the vase. You never lent it.

Speaker 26 (33:04):
I did, I did, and you.

Speaker 6 (33:09):
Maryam Mary?

Speaker 8 (33:12):
The matter? Jason, I can't get my breath. Do you
want me to patch you on the back? My heart?
My doctor? Your numbers on the front of the floor.

Speaker 27 (33:26):
You can't miss it.

Speaker 8 (33:28):
Don't you think you're making too much of these spells?

Speaker 19 (33:31):
Please marry him?

Speaker 20 (33:33):
Please call the doc?

Speaker 8 (33:36):
Please? Oh, very well, what's the number on the front
or a yeah, has to lie down or something. I'm
getting the doctor. Jason, Jason.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
At market?

Speaker 15 (34:02):
May I help you?

Speaker 8 (34:03):
Jason?

Speaker 7 (34:05):
Hello, May I help you?

Speaker 8 (34:08):
Oh? Sorry, wrong number.

Speaker 11 (34:17):
I'm home, Miriam, Oh you're early. Had a pretty good day,
finished up early and a bander day. It was not
one phone call from Jason. Maybe he's cooling off about
the whole thing. Maybe, Yeah, what do you do today,
my pet?

Speaker 8 (34:34):
I stayed home all day. I did some sewing and
finished that book by Collette.

Speaker 11 (34:41):
No library meeting, no friends of the Philarmoni.

Speaker 8 (34:44):
No I didn't go out.

Speaker 11 (34:46):
I'll fixtures a cocktail or get that William, my.

Speaker 8 (34:49):
Dear, all right, I'll get it. Hello, Yes, this is
missus Purcell. Yes, of course, he's an old friend. Why
oh no, oh, no, oh, what is it, Miriam? Jason's dead,

(35:16):
Poor Jason.

Speaker 11 (35:17):
Well it wasn't totally unexpected. He'd had two heart attacks before.
I'll miss him, though, so will I. I wish we
could see him to say goodbye. I decided to close
the casket. Rupert told me his face was a mask
of pain when they found him.

Speaker 8 (35:38):
Oh, how awful. He had a long and happy life though. Ope,
I lived to be eighty five. Chin up a little,
getting tired. No, not really, I'm almost finished.

Speaker 13 (35:56):
We won't need a session tomorrow. I can finish the
last tales, said by studio.

Speaker 8 (36:02):
How long before the coin's are ready?

Speaker 13 (36:04):
Four to six weeks? Well that does it for today.

Speaker 8 (36:09):
So we're finished. Oh it's a perfect portrait, Elliott. I
knew it would be.

Speaker 6 (36:14):
Thank you.

Speaker 13 (36:16):
There are a few details to add, as I said,
but I'll take care of them later.

Speaker 8 (36:26):
Well which one do you want, Miriam? Oh, it's so
hard to decide. I think the blue velvet, yes, blue
sets off the gold best, and the rosewood frame, of course,
that's perfect. What's holding this up, Elliot? The coin should
have been ready a week ago. We're having trouble getting
the right impression. Well, I don't know anything about it,

(36:49):
but it seems ridiculous to take this much time. It's
not as though we were their first customers.

Speaker 13 (36:53):
Each job has its own problems, Missus pursill.

Speaker 8 (36:56):
I've had to postpone the dedication ceremony once already. I
don't have to do it again.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Ah, but you.

Speaker 13 (37:02):
Do want your commemorative coins to be just right.

Speaker 8 (37:05):
Don't you. Well, yes, that is the importance.

Speaker 13 (37:09):
And leave things to me, Missus purseell Good quality takes time.
Good news, Missus Purcell. They've finally got the impression to hold.
The coins will be ready on Saturday.

Speaker 8 (37:24):
Can I believe that?

Speaker 13 (37:25):
You can believe it? I'm picking them up at ten thirty.

Speaker 8 (37:28):
Well, thank heavens for that. I'll go ahead and set
the ceremony for Sunday. But it's almost noon. Where is
Elliott stuck in traffic? Maybe don't joke, Rupert.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
I'm not in the mood for it.

Speaker 8 (37:46):
Sorry, Rupert. You don't think that he might have what
have made off with them? The coins are all solid gold.
I never thought of that. I trusted him, so it
never occurred to me that he might try to steal them.
Now we don't know that he has.

Speaker 6 (38:07):
Tell you what.

Speaker 11 (38:08):
I'll call the company. See if he's picked him up yet.
I have the number here's somewhere.

Speaker 8 (38:11):
If he hasn't arrived yet, tell them you'll pick them up.
Tell them not to give them to Elliott Roscoe. Maybe
I should have done that in the first place.

Speaker 11 (38:19):
You see, after my initial contact, Roscoe handled all the
details with the company. Oh well, I never thought to
step in. I'm beginning to think that was Oh hello, Yes,
this is Rupert Hyatt. I'm calling for missus Purcell. You've
done a set of coins, yes, Purcell.

Speaker 8 (38:38):
Tell me.

Speaker 11 (38:38):
Has the artist been there to pick them up yet?
I see, very well, thank you, he picked them up
more than an hour ago. Oh dear, All all we
can do is wait and hope.

Speaker 8 (38:53):
Should we call the police and tell them what? I
don't know? But this, this so called artist may be
his way to Argentina or someplace with all my gold.

Speaker 11 (39:03):
He should have been here in ten minutes if he
came directly from the coin company.

Speaker 8 (39:06):
I'll try his studio. Perhaps he went there. Oh, thank heavens,
come in, come in. Where in the world have you been?
I got stuck in traffic? Sorry, Oh, I've been a
nervous wreck. Well, here they are. I'll be interested in
your reaction.

Speaker 13 (39:23):
Missus Purcell. The mounting is extremely handsome.

Speaker 8 (39:27):
Well, this calls for a celebrations for some brandy roopers.

Speaker 13 (39:31):
Let me help you with the wrapping Brandy for three
coming up.

Speaker 8 (39:35):
How do you think they turned out?

Speaker 26 (39:36):
Elliott?

Speaker 13 (39:37):
Ah, the likeness is the real you, Missus Purcell, Well,
Missus Purcell, No.

Speaker 19 (39:48):
This party, noriamt the whole thing through the word.

Speaker 8 (39:57):
What in Heaven's name is it wrong? Could they no?

Speaker 26 (40:00):
How could they know?

Speaker 8 (40:04):
Mosco call an ambulance. She's collapsed. I don't think that
would help, Miriam. Damn it, man, what you call that ambulance?

Speaker 28 (40:11):
And get the brandy over here quick?

Speaker 8 (40:13):
Yes, Brandy, I think you'll need it, Miriam, Miriam, Mariam.

Speaker 19 (40:17):
We are hurry with that Brandy, Miriam.

Speaker 8 (40:20):
Here's the Brandy, Oscoe.

Speaker 11 (40:25):
She's dead. Miriam's dead. Miriam going like that. I just
can't believe she's dead. With a shock, yes, the shock.
She was opening the coins.

Speaker 27 (40:46):
And then.

Speaker 11 (40:48):
What's the matter with those coins? Roscoe? You know, yes,
I know why I'd forgotten about them. When Miriam collapsed.
She threw them out the window. So upset. I never
gave them another thought. You know they must still be
in the courtyard.

Speaker 22 (41:05):
Come on.

Speaker 6 (41:11):
There.

Speaker 11 (41:11):
They are frames broken, the plastics cracked too, but the
coins seem to be all there.

Speaker 8 (41:19):
And what the devil could be the matter with him?
Take a look?

Speaker 1 (41:25):
What is this?

Speaker 11 (41:28):
That's not Miriam's face. That's not the face you painted.
Quite so, it isn't the portrait I painted.

Speaker 8 (41:35):
Are they somebody else's coins? I don't understand.

Speaker 13 (41:39):
No, no, this is missus Purcell's order.

Speaker 8 (41:43):
Her goal, her coins. But she understood. I don't know
what you mean at all. This is ridiculous.

Speaker 11 (41:51):
It's the face of an old man on these coins.

Speaker 8 (41:57):
A face twisted in pain. Yes, the face of someone dying.

Speaker 13 (42:03):
Perhaps this is ghastly, I refused to Excand do you
notice something else? I look closely at each of the coins,
whether or alike, the same twisted face of an old man. Yes,
but look again, the left ear is missing. No, Miriam,

(42:28):
that's not the portrait I painted. It's the one you
painted yourself, with your greed, your selfishness, your cruelty.

Speaker 8 (42:37):
Oho.

Speaker 13 (42:37):
The canvas was beautiful, the one you saw with the
lovely face, the gentle smile of beautiful ear rings.

Speaker 6 (42:46):
But when the.

Speaker 13 (42:47):
Coins were struck, Oh, Muriel, your precious gold took over
to capture the real you. After all, you'd already sacrificed
your soul gold many times over. So dear Miriam, rest content.
The coins are indeed a remarkable likeness, and your memory

(43:10):
will not be forgotten with the rest you created it
with your heart of gold.

Speaker 5 (43:26):
The faith we present to the world is a mask,
a mask that hides the true self. Oh that's not
to say all of us are villains at heart, but
all of us have some little, deep, dark secret, some
concealed desire, some hidden wish that we want to keep
from the world. Mariam Purcell's mask of goodness fooled everyone

(43:49):
except Elliott Roscoe. Curious he should turn up so suddenly
and offer to do the portrait. I wonder where he
came from. I wonder who he was. We'll speculate further
when I returned shortly. I guess we all know by

(44:16):
now that the personage who called himself Elliott Roscoe was
no ordinary painter, if indeed he was a painter at all.
He takes many shapes and many names. He chooses his
profession to suit the occasion. He found Miriam priscell a
perfect subject for his art. She had all the qualities
that appealed to him. No wonder the portrait turned out

(44:38):
to be such a remarkable likeness. Our cast included Francis Sternhagen,
Bill Griffiths, Russell Horton and Anne Shepherd. The entire production
was under the direction of Hymon Brown. And now a
preview of our next tale.

Speaker 6 (45:00):
And so we did.

Speaker 11 (45:01):
We found the beautiful mirror, seven feet tall, supported by
a pillar on either side and mounted on a pedestal.

Speaker 8 (45:08):
The whole thing carved.

Speaker 11 (45:09):
With cupids and garlands of flowers, and then gilded all over.
You must have seen that mirror, father. You've been in
my house, have I at least once? I have been
in many houses, seen many mirrors.

Speaker 8 (45:22):
But you must remember this one.

Speaker 11 (45:24):
I can't be sure. You must remember me. You've heard
my voice, you've heard it before. I don't know, loud, raucous,
raised in anger, how to tell, hurling awful words that
your father calling you names, blaspheming. You couldn't forget. I
have not forgotten, dear merciful rods, I have not forgotten.

Speaker 6 (45:47):
How could you forget?

Speaker 5 (45:49):
Radio mystery theater were sponsored in part by True Value
Hardware Stores and Buick Motor Division.

Speaker 6 (45:55):
Missus A. G.

Speaker 5 (45:55):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
an other adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
Dream Welcome to Marshport, Maine, a quaint little coastal town

(46:55):
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not a mouse. When a mysterious package arrives on the
doorstep of veteran police officer Matthew Kleine and his family's home,
it seems at first like a harmless holiday gift. However,

(47:16):
there's no tag and no sender. Inside lies an antique
wooden advent calendar with strange engravings and twenty four doors
that each shelters something dark and unspeakable. The line between
reality and nightmare quickly becomes blurred as Matthew races to
figure out the calendar's origin and who sent it. But

(47:39):
as each door is opened and Marshport is thrust into
a sinister nightmare, Matthew realizes the terrifying truth and is
forced to relive the horrors from his past. That refuse
to stay buried. The countdown has begun, and once that
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(48:01):
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Speaker 8 (49:11):
Theater, ten thirty.

Speaker 29 (49:13):
The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury, adapted for radio by James Deneman.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
Stockwell, Wow, it's a fine night. The streets look like
a chessboard, just waiting for us to move. Bob, listen,
I know you're there, Samata, Hell open up, god sake, Glenn,

(49:38):
you'll still whit the dead.

Speaker 18 (49:40):
Oh your friends, nice door, Come on, get in here.
Where were you, Bob? I was? I was in the bathroom,
like hell you were?

Speaker 6 (49:53):
She had you?

Speaker 18 (49:54):
The TV sets this thing? How does it old?

Speaker 19 (50:00):
Pongo?

Speaker 1 (50:02):
Ah?

Speaker 5 (50:02):
Yes, the head of Majuoser lies in my parlor and stairs.
My friends are frozen to statues, mummed by the Juser's glares.
Radiant fuzz collects in our ears, while this new god
pays life on our eyes. Head of Medusa incredible, sob

(50:26):
the new home of the Keystone cop Cathedral of christ
Forth size.

Speaker 30 (50:33):
That's another thing for now.

Speaker 18 (50:35):
Yes, yes, what you really mean is no?

Speaker 19 (50:40):
No?

Speaker 18 (50:42):
Well are you ready ready for what?

Speaker 1 (50:46):
Man?

Speaker 19 (50:46):
For what?

Speaker 31 (50:47):
This?

Speaker 5 (50:48):
The things I brought in the suitcase. But see well
that you should put on your black pants, Bob eh. Oh,
here's the stuff to go with them. Black shirt, black jacket,
black cap. It will be identical twins, almost invisible, all black.

(51:09):
You see your black tennis shoes too, What are they.

Speaker 18 (51:12):
For so you'll walk quiet?

Speaker 6 (51:14):
Bob?

Speaker 18 (51:16):
Black shoes, shirts, pants. You think we were criminals in
a way we are.

Speaker 8 (51:23):
Well.

Speaker 5 (51:24):
I can't keep your eyes off that TV set?

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Can you?

Speaker 18 (51:32):
What's on that's good tonight, Bob? A great show is
Trick Times ten. You should see it, then grab a cherry.
I've seen it, Bob.

Speaker 5 (51:41):
Of course I saw it when it was called fun
Times five sixteen for show to go for broke and
win the place and the show time.

Speaker 18 (51:49):
I said, of course didn't I yes, you did. Sorry,
I've been lectroom again.

Speaker 6 (51:56):
You have been.

Speaker 18 (51:57):
I had better run along. Now we'll do it some
other time, that's all.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
No, no, wait, then go tell me what it's like
out there at night without a car in the open.

Speaker 18 (52:14):
It's hard to say.

Speaker 8 (52:18):
Well, the air is sweet.

Speaker 18 (52:22):
It's autumn.

Speaker 5 (52:24):
The leaves run on the sidewalk and nibble your feet
like a pack of mice.

Speaker 18 (52:29):
There's a good wind, better than march. Boys should fly
depon kites on late October nights. Better weather bowl eyes cold,
dark than.

Speaker 5 (52:38):
Run before the wind and the city well, even with
the house lights off, so many pearls and jewels of
life on the avenues and the beetle cars on the speedways.

Speaker 18 (52:50):
There's a hill not far from here.

Speaker 5 (52:51):
You stand up there and look down at all the
stars in the city and up at all the stars.

Speaker 6 (52:57):
In the sky.

Speaker 18 (52:58):
I feel rich and cry.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
I'll take some of these, some of these lots of rose,
and you go home with fistfuls of diamonds.

Speaker 18 (53:07):
That's how it is, eh, give or take a metaphor, Yes,
that's how it is.

Speaker 19 (53:14):
Len that don't forget your stuff.

Speaker 18 (53:15):
They're black shows and keep it.

Speaker 19 (53:20):
Are you ready for me?

Speaker 18 (53:21):
I sure will, oh sure.

Speaker 5 (53:26):
Me stands on the front porch just outside the door
and lights a cigarette. In the room, stonk Will looks
first at the brown shoes and clothes, and then at
the TV set. He goes over to it, turns it
on and fiddles with it.

Speaker 22 (53:47):
There's more going on here than Gentleen.

Speaker 18 (53:55):
Ernie Harvey McCollough said that he would produce evidence and.

Speaker 11 (54:00):
Wet come on, I'm dry, wait here, come side dry, keep.

Speaker 30 (54:10):
Len, hey, hey, Glen, wait for me, William. I'm gonna
get dressed and come with you.

Speaker 26 (54:17):
Good, good for you.

Speaker 18 (54:18):
Bob need waits in the doorway.

Speaker 11 (54:20):
Miles Stockwell tastes off the white shirt he's wearing and
puts on the black one, tucking the shirt tails into
the black pants he had already put on. Then he
sits down and puts on the ten shoes, jumps quickly
to his feet, and puts on the black jacket and cap.

Speaker 18 (54:35):
Hey how do I look? You look fine?

Speaker 32 (54:39):
Man?

Speaker 18 (54:40):
What are we waiting for? By nothing, mister stock will
nothing at all? Dark? Your eyes will adjust it. Then
he'll see more than you ever saw before. Really, yes,
which way do you want to go? Uh? That way? No? No,

(55:05):
this way?

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (55:07):
This way, okay, this way it is, but just one moment.
Let's check. Check, but check what is there any danger?
A little danger? Wait now I oh no, no it's not,
it's all.

Speaker 12 (55:20):
We're in the clear.

Speaker 18 (55:24):
Well, don't just down there.

Speaker 19 (55:25):
Let's go one to one too.

Speaker 18 (55:29):
Much by so we are you're not afraid? Afraid?

Speaker 20 (55:35):
Not me?

Speaker 18 (55:38):
It's fine. Eh? Yeah, this seems nice. I mean, yes,
it's rather well excellent, it is, of course. I look
up there. Have you ever seen so many stars?

Speaker 6 (56:00):
Stars?

Speaker 18 (56:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (56:03):
Well the stars it.

Speaker 18 (56:05):
Looked drop Now I look down at the front lawns.
Well it is that. Well, it's de billions of drops
of dew in the line. That's right. Hey, listen, what
the the crickets.

Speaker 5 (56:28):
Every night and every night for a billion years before
us and a billion years after We've gone the crickets.

Speaker 18 (56:36):
I'm listening. How do you feel, Bob? I think I'm
ready to walk a little faster. Now, fine, let's scol
so this is what you've.

Speaker 5 (56:48):
Been talking about for the last two years. Eh, to
be a walker in the city. It's better than that
now you're a pedestrian.

Speaker 18 (57:00):
But I don't feel ympty. You shouldn't feel guilty. Yeah,
but no one else is doing it. I haven't look
that way five miles in a treat line. We look
this way ten miles.

Speaker 6 (57:12):
You know.

Speaker 18 (57:12):
That's so that's the tide about the empty I mean, man,
how long is it since they were used?

Speaker 5 (57:20):
But that's where I'm pointing. Here's the contractor's mark. It
shows this stretch of cement was laid in nineteen fifty
years ago. I don't remember my parents are friends ever
using them even then.

Speaker 18 (57:37):
I'll watch you, Bob. There's repairs needed here. You know,
there's hardly a stretch of sidewalk in the whole city
that isn't buckled from three weeks another here and the
grass will cover it all. We'll find our way through
the wilderness. And people use them a lot, and they
will they did. My father said, well, anyway you could

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take my wait for it. The world was once wanderers.

Speaker 5 (58:06):
Men strolled along on Sunday afternoons in a timeless time
over beyond the hills, on paths, boardwalks or cement. Word
wasn't so full of things then, fowlers so much. Things
have to move in order to make room for all
the elbows, all the demands on your time. But once,

(58:27):
oh god, yes, men idled by rivers and said things
that later made easy raising books.

Speaker 11 (58:37):
And they chewed grass any other chewed grass, bottle, No, here,
here's something time.

Speaker 18 (58:50):
That's stranger. I got some of the same grass, and
I thought it tasted sweetly. Yes, it's a long way off,
but it does come this way. Didn't they have one
police card? One mind?

Speaker 11 (59:08):
You to cover fifty square miles of this part of
the city. The chances that will come down this street
are almost You can't hear any it's gone.

Speaker 5 (59:24):
You were saying, it was a well remember things that
can't be remembered. Yes, in the olden times men had
eyes and ears.

Speaker 11 (59:40):
They saw and heard what they wanted, and if they
got bored they had to do for themselves to keep
from boredom.

Speaker 18 (59:48):
Was that time better? They lived short lives and died
miserably and want.

Speaker 5 (59:55):
But life was a va boat then passing the whole
banks lives the rocket today, which we fly so far
and so fast that we've got no time to see
the dust from which we sprang, which we must return.

Speaker 18 (01:00:10):
God, Len, are you drunk? The more I walk, the
drunker I get. Yeah. Yeah, working does get your brain out.

Speaker 11 (01:00:22):
In your fingertips and your feet. Eh, but I'm covered
with goose flesh. Yeah, it's me Flann's. Yeah, someone cut
their lawn today, damn it. Look what the moon were

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right up between those houses. Always been so big. I
have looked at it since I was a boy. Yeah,
I remember something that is to say, the moon has
a banker in his face, or with flower and warn
the summer.

Speaker 18 (01:01:04):
You see, Lena, I'm getting drunk too, But it's all right,
just television voices.

Speaker 11 (01:01:12):
See all the houses dark, just a huge pale lights
here and there, flickering.

Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
The Banshee whales. Our cities are haunted.

Speaker 18 (01:01:24):
Haunted.

Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
Now, look at this house through the window. The people
there are faces all milk quite from the ghost machine.
What do you mean ghost machine?

Speaker 22 (01:01:34):
I think.

Speaker 11 (01:01:37):
Of the actors we watch on our TV screen have
been dead for thirty or forty years.

Speaker 18 (01:01:42):
H that's rudy. For that matter, our whole telephone system
is haunted too, Yeah, yeah it is. I never thought
of that. You can't get hold of a real person
if you wanted.

Speaker 22 (01:01:53):
When it's all.

Speaker 18 (01:01:55):
Robots, isn't it all? Yes, tape voices some other years,
thy the time, the weather, the wrong number, absolutely right, Bob,
as we Astrich said, where is everyone?

Speaker 33 (01:02:09):
Ah?

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
This is lovely voices? Where the women like when they
recorded those takes three years ago? You suppose some of
them were still alive.

Speaker 18 (01:02:20):
Anyway, their voices are mortal.

Speaker 5 (01:02:23):
They'll be giving out wrong numbers for so many more years.
We can't even think how many, Dylan, I was wondering
the family in that house we've been looking here, if
they knew that we were out here, would they be
afraid of us?

Speaker 18 (01:02:38):
Yes? Listen, even their dog's afraid of us.

Speaker 8 (01:02:43):
But why because we're breaking a cardinal.

Speaker 18 (01:02:46):
Rule of all societies that have ever been since time began?
What rule are we breaking?

Speaker 5 (01:02:52):
We're doing what they no longer do. It's as simple
as that. Oh my god, the police are coming.

Speaker 18 (01:02:59):
Let's go make it easy. Now, take it easy. There
it's gone. Tell me len have they ever Have they
ever caught you?

Speaker 27 (01:03:13):
The police? No?

Speaker 8 (01:03:14):
Never?

Speaker 18 (01:03:17):
But I think we gotter go back in my place.
Never gonna have gone two blocks? All right?

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
Bye? Come on.

Speaker 18 (01:03:27):
Glad her heading back? I wonder have they ever miss this?

Speaker 6 (01:03:34):
They?

Speaker 18 (01:03:36):
Oh? I see you mean? Do they ever miss walking?
I don't think so. It's easier to.

Speaker 5 (01:03:43):
Sit while others make shadow play with their hands on
the walls. For you make a rabbit or a wolf,
or a dunce or a demon. A man who has
never had a shadow play show inside his own head
never misses the fun he could have had by then
using himself.

Speaker 18 (01:04:01):
If you had a a sort of theater like that
inside your head.

Speaker 8 (01:04:05):
Or do you like, well, not exactly like that, but but.

Speaker 18 (01:04:08):
What I used to talk myself to sleep in a
dozen voices when I was about twelve, young old men
women sweets Italians.

Speaker 11 (01:04:20):
I still wake up suddenly some nights thinking of a
voice that shouted at me. But there's only me speaking
German in my sleep.

Speaker 18 (01:04:28):
Everyone isn't as lucky as you.

Speaker 34 (01:04:30):
No they're not.

Speaker 18 (01:04:33):
But what good is it thinking that way on me
doing all this look like we're doing now? Would it
just make you more unhappy with our city?

Speaker 5 (01:04:42):
Maybe I'm waiting for the day, what day from the
pedestrians inherit the earth from natural the most unnatural and
back to natural.

Speaker 18 (01:04:54):
That's history. One of these years people will find they're
sick and they're going to the fields the way dogs
do when they're sick and eat sweet grass. But I'm
not sure I know what you mean. The true car.

Speaker 35 (01:05:13):
That's put like blinded quick flaps, this is the pol
car Extra nine yeero reporting boot pottles at eighty nine
own Terrace.

Speaker 30 (01:05:26):
Dolevision night zone gee five two and I'll be sold
for identifications.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
Stand up me hand up?

Speaker 30 (01:05:37):
All right, all right, I'm getting up X nine year
old reporting. One man has stood up. I five with
nine age approximately forty.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
There that.

Speaker 30 (01:05:53):
Do I ray lou far on left cheek bone stucker
medium wait approximately one sixty five?

Speaker 18 (01:06:05):
What is your name? Leonard Mead or your hands.

Speaker 30 (01:06:08):
Out me with the palms up and stay where you are, yo,
the second man get up?

Speaker 18 (01:06:14):
Do what he says?

Speaker 30 (01:06:15):
Bot is its all hands out me palms up and
stand back. Youll that the second man get up?

Speaker 19 (01:06:22):
By that?

Speaker 18 (01:06:23):
Okay, I heard you hold your hands out, palms up.

Speaker 30 (01:06:30):
X A nine zero second man hipy fork eight eight
fifty direction thirty nine those five bone structure light fellow
the eyes second man, yo, eye by jack open them
my glass they are open xc A nine zero ill

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a second man's eye ride?

Speaker 27 (01:06:56):
What is your name?

Speaker 26 (01:06:57):
What is your name?

Speaker 18 (01:06:59):
His name is what Stockwell sco man? What is your name?
I told you his name is Robert Stockwell Man. What
is your name? Promar Stockwell? Robert Stockwell hand out?

Speaker 30 (01:07:11):
Stop well up?

Speaker 18 (01:07:14):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 5 (01:07:15):
Oh need give your address forty two Oak Street. Stockwell
address sixty seven Oak Street.

Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
We call me now.

Speaker 30 (01:07:24):
Everything you would say is common.

Speaker 18 (01:07:26):
Would I say? Would I say?

Speaker 14 (01:07:34):
Is that my voice?

Speaker 18 (01:07:36):
Why did I say that?

Speaker 30 (01:07:38):
I'm so true?

Speaker 8 (01:07:39):
What bob?

Speaker 22 (01:07:40):
Oh, my god, don't be quiet me.

Speaker 30 (01:07:43):
What is your profession?

Speaker 28 (01:07:45):
Uh?

Speaker 18 (01:07:46):
I guess you'd call me a writer?

Speaker 30 (01:07:49):
Get acceptable? What is your profession?

Speaker 18 (01:07:53):
I'm a writer. No profession, as you say, no profession?

Speaker 30 (01:07:59):
Spell yeahs.

Speaker 18 (01:08:03):
I make shoes. I may choose, but nobody ever wants
on them.

Speaker 30 (01:08:09):
What are you doing out this?

Speaker 18 (01:08:12):
I invited him to come out? Yes, he invited me.

Speaker 30 (01:08:15):
We're not run away stock well heat facing too the
front and keeps our hands out, palms out. Are you me?
What are you doing out at this out?

Speaker 18 (01:08:25):
We're walking walking, just walking.

Speaker 30 (01:08:28):
Walking, just walking.

Speaker 18 (01:08:36):
Walking where me nowhere?

Speaker 30 (01:08:39):
There is no such destination as nowhere.

Speaker 18 (01:08:43):
The nowhere is a very fine destination that is unaccessible.

Speaker 8 (01:08:50):
All right, then.

Speaker 5 (01:08:52):
Walking two blocks east, one block north, two blocks west,
one block south, grand tour.

Speaker 30 (01:09:03):
They don't know it made a grand pool for lots.

Speaker 5 (01:09:08):
To breathe the air what he means the fresh air?
I guess you shouldn't have said that, Bobb, because I'm
all upset that.

Speaker 30 (01:09:21):
Were made at your home? Forty two and sixty seven
up stake? Do you do you not have a complete set.

Speaker 18 (01:09:28):
Of air committing yes, yes, yes, of course.

Speaker 30 (01:09:31):
Then the question is repeated, what are you doing out here?

Speaker 18 (01:09:34):
We came out to look at things? Yes, to see.

Speaker 30 (01:09:44):
Do you have television billing free in your home?

Speaker 36 (01:09:47):
Well?

Speaker 18 (01:09:47):
Yes, I have a fine runner I watch every night.
One Well no, no, you didn't tell me that one.

Speaker 5 (01:09:57):
It's it's broken billing spree in on what day was
uh the last April April?

Speaker 18 (01:10:05):
That long ago?

Speaker 30 (01:10:07):
Why did you have a fixed bok in last April?
Are you married me?

Speaker 18 (01:10:12):
No, nobody wanted me, that was.

Speaker 30 (01:10:18):
Collect nobody dead? Stockwell?

Speaker 32 (01:10:21):
Are you mattered?

Speaker 18 (01:10:22):
My wife is dead.

Speaker 30 (01:10:24):
We have yet to explain for what purpose your house?

Speaker 18 (01:10:27):
I have explained. Have you done this off on me
every night for years? And your stock I am responsible
for him being out now, Leonard? You know I am Bob.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
How listen you in the car.

Speaker 18 (01:10:40):
Bob Stockwell has never been out before. I came to
his house just a little while ago. We had just
started out. Bob's house is right there. My house is
down there.

Speaker 5 (01:10:52):
See the only one on the street with all the
lights on, that's mine. Anyway, I put Bob up the coming.

Speaker 30 (01:10:58):
Out, just begun it. You'll be laughing, bock Well, where
where's me? That's to me? The backside of this A
pro car is now open. What is a save in

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the rear of the car?

Speaker 18 (01:11:22):
Get in, don't don't don't worry, Bob. I'll be all
right back.

Speaker 30 (01:11:28):
Well, we'll hold need get in.

Speaker 18 (01:11:31):
I'll call you, Bob. Is that a promise? It's a promise.
But wait, gonna wait a minute.

Speaker 5 (01:11:39):
Where where are they taking you to the Psychiatric Center
for Research on regressive tendencies?

Speaker 19 (01:11:48):
Are you in the car? That's right, isn't it?

Speaker 30 (01:11:50):
That information is not filed? Release that information is not filed.

Speaker 18 (01:11:56):
God, take me careful then, even.

Speaker 5 (01:11:57):
Be careful to Bob No more night, John say don't
stick your neck out.

Speaker 18 (01:12:03):
Well, I'd got I get in this thing now, because
if I don't, so, well, it can't be.

Speaker 37 (01:12:14):
What is it?

Speaker 18 (01:12:15):
What's the matter? But there's nobody in the car.

Speaker 30 (01:12:19):
It's empty.

Speaker 11 (01:12:21):
That's impossible. I tell you, it's empty. I never saw
one of those, the tall cars close up before. I've
had a good look, and it's empty, all right.

Speaker 18 (01:12:31):
Good damned. And it's completely mechanical.

Speaker 11 (01:12:34):
It's a kind of traveling robot, television, tape, film, radio.

Speaker 18 (01:12:41):
I wonder if there's anyone alive at the other end.
Wouldn't it be a joke.

Speaker 8 (01:12:46):
If they'd all.

Speaker 18 (01:12:46):
Died years ago? When the car just goes on all.

Speaker 11 (01:12:49):
By itself, enforcing the law. Oh God, what won't they
think of next?

Speaker 18 (01:12:56):
Anyway?

Speaker 8 (01:12:57):
Here goes.

Speaker 18 (01:13:00):
Wandered, Wow, this When then I told him I want them?
I said it didn't pay to do things like he's

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been doing.

Speaker 8 (01:13:22):
That was right.

Speaker 5 (01:13:25):
What I'm gonna do Noway, I'm going home and burn
the black shirt and my black pants and these black
kind of shoes.

Speaker 18 (01:13:33):
That's what I'm gonna do. And from now on, from
here on.

Speaker 22 (01:13:38):
In mm hmmm, crickets are getting on my nernage, I've
been a fool.

Speaker 5 (01:13:51):
When the fool, the crickets, the stars, and your grasp
be chewing and made me to he said, his brass
tasted sweet mind was real bitter s Over there, N's house,

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lights in all the windows, all the bright.

Speaker 11 (01:14:24):
Let's go and turn them off, turn all of them lot,
someone might notice, Oh, what's the use?

Speaker 14 (01:14:38):
You can't win. You can't win.

Speaker 11 (01:14:49):
Theater at ten thirty has presented The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury.

Speaker 38 (01:14:54):
It was like a terrible nightmare. Even now I sometimes
wait for the dream and find myself of shaking from
the memory of it. I'll never forget when I first
saw him, a man so monstrous, so unhuman, that I
refuse to think it could ever happen again to anyone else.
But who can be sure others have had the same idea.

Speaker 7 (01:15:16):
Oh, yes, the law forbids it.

Speaker 38 (01:15:18):
But laws are broken every day. Will it happen again
to someone else someday in the future, Perhaps, perhaps it will.

Speaker 7 (01:15:28):
Happen the money.

Speaker 38 (01:15:30):
I don't want to see.

Speaker 16 (01:15:32):
You hear the story of this strange monster.

Speaker 39 (01:15:34):
Listen to a moment too.

Speaker 12 (01:15:36):
Two thousand plus.

Speaker 39 (01:15:38):
Adventures in the World of Tomorrow.

Speaker 16 (01:16:05):
Dramatic stories of science fiction on the years beyond two.

Speaker 19 (01:16:09):
Thousand a d.

Speaker 6 (01:16:21):
Today.

Speaker 16 (01:16:21):
An amazing story of science uncontrolled. A giant walks.

Speaker 19 (01:16:43):
Monsters.

Speaker 31 (01:16:44):
Nice what you are?

Speaker 12 (01:16:45):
Monsters?

Speaker 30 (01:16:47):
He fight to fill your slimy stomach.

Speaker 40 (01:16:50):
See theret she got your head?

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
Always see the X.

Speaker 16 (01:16:54):
If you win't big enough already, if I ad my way,
I'd kill you rest for I wouldn't go close to
the margins, all right?

Speaker 19 (01:17:05):
Four feet long?

Speaker 16 (01:17:06):
Cond be quite a messy little thing.

Speaker 15 (01:17:07):
Oh yes, yes, yes, doctor Elsworth.

Speaker 12 (01:17:10):
Is everything ready? Western?

Speaker 16 (01:17:12):
Yes, Doctor Redmorck Barstow, Yes, and open the cage. I've
never seen a rat run a maze or ribbon checked.

Speaker 39 (01:17:23):
That gold gradient?

Speaker 16 (01:17:24):
Western? Yes, doctor, the rats in that food.

Speaker 18 (01:17:27):
Box now let me see eleven point eighth.

Speaker 16 (01:17:32):
There you see Western.

Speaker 19 (01:17:34):
Not an unusual intelligence, just high, well.

Speaker 16 (01:17:38):
Above that of the average rat.

Speaker 12 (01:17:40):
Look at them. The power in those lakes.

Speaker 16 (01:17:44):
Barstow just imagine what they could do with their teeth
if they had the chance. It's stripening to think, well
would happened if all rats were giant rats, if they
got loose? Its evolution barstow merely the scientific elimination of
group barriers. Now that your experiments is success, we can
tell the world. Your theories will be accepted. You'll regain

(01:18:05):
your rightful place in science such at Bustle. Not yet,
I'm already at work on what I consider will be
an ultimate experiment. It's only a matter of calculating, checking,
and verifying data on the rests so we can build
a larger pituitary revitalizer.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
What animal do you haven't.

Speaker 18 (01:18:23):
Mind for this new experiment, doctor Unworth?

Speaker 12 (01:18:25):
What animal?

Speaker 16 (01:18:27):
Well, there's only one that I could possibly be interested in.
Now it's the next logical step.

Speaker 12 (01:18:34):
Surely you can't me, Yes, Bostole a man.

Speaker 16 (01:18:49):
You wanted to see me, Doctor Rolsworth. Here's worse than
I want to talk to you about the experiment or
human beings. I want you to help me with the experiment.

Speaker 7 (01:19:00):
Hi, I hope you are not thinking of me, Doctor Alsworth.

Speaker 16 (01:19:04):
I read I don't think it rather Weston, don't you
think it would be valuable.

Speaker 6 (01:19:08):
To give yourself to science.

Speaker 12 (01:19:10):
Well, it's but seem it.

Speaker 16 (01:19:12):
There are so many to choose, for so many, Weston,
who for example, I'm sure that old Hawkins won't do,
and we really can't kidnap them or anyone but doctor Elsworth,
I'd say it would be a great honor to be
the first real superman on earth. Oh, how about Barstow?

Speaker 6 (01:19:32):
Exactly, Western, just what I was leading up to.

Speaker 19 (01:19:38):
You seem relieved.

Speaker 16 (01:19:40):
Yes, in Barstow we have a real physical specimen, and
he seems they are quite a boundless enthusiasm for the future.

Speaker 34 (01:19:48):
Of mankind, an attitude.

Speaker 16 (01:19:51):
You apparently don't share. How could we get him to
agree to it? Psychology, Weston, It's merely a matter of
appealing in the proper manner to his scientific judgment since
their play.

Speaker 12 (01:20:06):
Now here is what I want you to do when
he gets back. Well, glad to see you back bar
Store or elsewhere.

Speaker 18 (01:20:22):
Western tells me you're ready to begin the final experiments.

Speaker 12 (01:20:24):
I'm man, yes, far Store.

Speaker 16 (01:20:26):
I soon hope to be the first of a new race,
a race that will make the man of today look
like a pygmy, puny and insignificant. If the experiment succeeds,
my physical size will double or even triple. I'll be
able to live at least three hundred years instead of
the one hundred or so odd years a man can
expect today. The brain cells will probably also expand, giving
me an intelligence that will make you and Weston look

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like products of the story age I. I don't think
it's fair for you to sacrifice yourself. It's not fairly humanity.
If you die, I'll be nobody to carry on. You know,
these experiments are illegal. We could never find another set.
It would have to be one of us three or nobody.
I've be winning to take a chance.

Speaker 12 (01:21:06):
Doctor has win so and I you can't go through
with this, Doctor elsewhere You're.

Speaker 16 (01:21:10):
Needed to direct the experiments. Gentlemen, gentlemen, I see you
have the true scientific spirit. Since I am unwilling to
give up my right to be the subject, and you
are unwilling to let me be the subject, and there's
only one way out.

Speaker 7 (01:21:25):
What's that We'll draw lots if you agree, leave the
decision of the fate.

Speaker 16 (01:21:31):
That sounds like a good idea, don't you think, sir Barstow?

Speaker 12 (01:21:34):
Why sure, I guess, sir, Well, it's the only.

Speaker 39 (01:21:38):
Way out, my boy.

Speaker 16 (01:21:40):
One of us must be the guinea pig.

Speaker 12 (01:21:42):
Now, I'll tear three strips of safer.

Speaker 16 (01:21:48):
Now the lots are arranged in my hand. Whoever gets
the short one will submit to the experiment, and there
will be no further objection from any of us, For
greed are great right choose, gentlemen, Weston, Barstow.

Speaker 12 (01:22:05):
Myself, h I've drawn the short one.

Speaker 16 (01:22:11):
Yes, i'd like I'd like some time to see Barbara
at doctor Elsworth before the experiment. I'll give you three
weeks to straighten out you're thirst, bar Store. Then i'll
expect you back to get the laboratory contacts a light

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up because the circuit wasn' that's enough. Well, Barstow, are
you ready?

Speaker 12 (01:22:43):
Quite ready, Doctor elswth As you.

Speaker 16 (01:22:44):
Know, it may be painful at first, but after the
primary series, I don't think you'll notice much. I'm not
worry Doctor ELL's west No, of course not well, good luck,
my boy, Thank you, sir. Contacts open Mutton, Yes, doctor,
then pipe the circuit.

Speaker 12 (01:23:01):
No, that's fine, I'll keep it steady. Three thousand.

Speaker 18 (01:23:06):
Prepare for the first ingestion.

Speaker 16 (01:23:09):
We'll give him five electronic human charges over. How are
you feeling bus store pain.

Speaker 7 (01:23:31):
My old body is numb. You've got to stop the experiment,
Doctor Ellsworth.

Speaker 12 (01:23:39):
He's out again, Doctor Else, what do you think we're
doing the right thing. He's hard to be.

Speaker 7 (01:23:44):
Just slow down so much.

Speaker 16 (01:23:45):
I'm afraid of what Weston.

Speaker 34 (01:23:47):
You're not losing a nerve, are you?

Speaker 7 (01:23:48):
Oh no, no, no, it's only that I thought.

Speaker 16 (01:23:51):
Don't do any thinking, Weston. I'll do that part of it.
You just check the regenerator charts very well.

Speaker 12 (01:23:57):
Doctor Esmond.

Speaker 16 (01:23:57):
Nothing is going to keep me from completing the six moment,
and I warn you not to try to interfere. Western
close the circuit. Women checked again. One hundred CC's telved.

Speaker 6 (01:24:23):
Long three weeks.

Speaker 12 (01:24:30):
I can't believe it, Doctor Osworth.

Speaker 16 (01:24:31):
Look at him, twelve feet tall and he weighs seven
hundred and fifty pounds. Of course, Western, as I told you,
there's very little difference really between a.

Speaker 6 (01:24:39):
Rat and a man.

Speaker 16 (01:24:40):
We're all animals, that's doctor. He hasn't give him much
sign of life during the past few days. Do you
think his body can stand the strain of all this? Girls,
certainly right. I think we'll give him the final superinjection
today about five hundred c seas should do it five hundred.

Speaker 12 (01:24:57):
That's five times what we've been giving.

Speaker 19 (01:24:59):
Ess, we're building a new skeletal structure.

Speaker 18 (01:25:03):
New fresh cartilage and bones.

Speaker 16 (01:25:07):
Contacts, open caps, tall youth six thousand.

Speaker 12 (01:25:10):
We've got to provide the final.

Speaker 16 (01:25:12):
Shock for a system.

Speaker 7 (01:25:13):
But that was completely open, Doctor Elswick, All right, now,
luck Western.

Speaker 12 (01:25:32):
We've done it.

Speaker 7 (01:25:34):
He's thirty feet tall of his an inch Farstal.

Speaker 12 (01:25:38):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 19 (01:25:40):
Can you understand what I'm saying? Human slowly? Barstole slowly.
You're not an ordinary human being anymore.

Speaker 12 (01:25:50):
He's getting up this Hey, what's happening to me?

Speaker 16 (01:25:57):
Phrase everything?

Speaker 19 (01:25:59):
Sosm Our experiment is a success.

Speaker 15 (01:26:03):
Bustle, you're a superman.

Speaker 40 (01:26:06):
I've made you a superman.

Speaker 19 (01:26:08):
That I can't move my head?

Speaker 41 (01:26:13):
Is that?

Speaker 40 (01:26:13):
See the skyline sup.

Speaker 16 (01:26:16):
Down, Bustle and the rolling door in the side of
the laboratory. I think you can crawl through last easy, Bustle,
very slowly.

Speaker 5 (01:26:31):
I like it.

Speaker 40 (01:26:35):
Well, how does the world look now that you have
some elbow room?

Speaker 12 (01:26:41):
Small? The world is very small.

Speaker 18 (01:26:46):
Thirty feet of muscle and bone. It's my creation, my creation.

Speaker 6 (01:27:10):
Western.

Speaker 16 (01:27:11):
Let's have the report on our testing. So far as
best I configure, Doctor the subject that lived almost twenty
times as much weight as an ordinary man and run
approximately sixty miles an hour without difficulty. Oddly enough, though,
he appears to get along fine and four or five
hours sleep at night. But he's consuming food at a
rate that's all out of proportion. That's understandable. It is
still making an adjustments go on fatally. Very Superior appears

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to be able to solve the most complicated problems right
in his head, so just as I predicted. But this morning, though,
after I'd just finished giving him the work test, he
pulled up a tree by the roots.

Speaker 26 (01:27:45):
And waited at me.

Speaker 12 (01:27:46):
He was frightening.

Speaker 7 (01:27:47):
I ran and he began laughing.

Speaker 16 (01:27:49):
Sounded more like fund worse than you're letting your imagination
run away with you. It's quite obvious what's the matter.
He's not getting enough exercise. We've got to give him
more physical work to do.

Speaker 7 (01:28:00):
Come on, very Am, sitting on that hill and staring
was so.

Speaker 12 (01:28:14):
Yes, doctor elswth.

Speaker 7 (01:28:17):
I want you to take this special shovel we've made
for you and take a trench weston. We'll wuck it
out for.

Speaker 12 (01:28:23):
You and check your working speed. All right, doctor L's
whatever you say, see it's quite simple.

Speaker 16 (01:28:36):
You just got to keep him occupied.

Speaker 7 (01:28:38):
Doctor Elsworth, h I like to ask you a question,
is what are we going to do with Bosto? I mean,
why are we going to.

Speaker 16 (01:28:46):
Tell the world about it?

Speaker 12 (01:28:47):
We can't go on continuing this way. That's of course
we can.

Speaker 16 (01:28:52):
Once we're sure of ourselves, we'll get on the man.
We'll make giants of them. We're building a race Western,
a race superman with which we can rule the world.
We've only to learn how to control Barstow, so he'll
respond to whatever command, and then we'll build an army.

Speaker 11 (01:29:11):
That's not right, you know, Western, you're a good assistant.

Speaker 7 (01:29:18):
It's only when you think.

Speaker 16 (01:29:20):
That you get into trouble.

Speaker 12 (01:29:39):
Bosto, are you awake? What do you want?

Speaker 16 (01:29:45):
I must talk to you achor Elseweth wants to use
me for the next experiment.

Speaker 12 (01:29:50):
Oh what's that to me?

Speaker 16 (01:29:53):
I don't think you understand. He's working at a method
to control you electronically as a giant.

Speaker 12 (01:29:59):
What he's been waiting for.

Speaker 7 (01:30:00):
And when he can finally control you, you would begin
to make more giants.

Speaker 12 (01:30:03):
Wants to build an army of.

Speaker 7 (01:30:04):
Giants so we can take over the world.

Speaker 12 (01:30:06):
That isn't true.

Speaker 16 (01:30:08):
Doctor Elsworth is interested only in science. You just don't
want to be a freak as I am got off
from everything just because I was unlucky at drawing lots.
Don't not unlucky. Barstoo framed doctor Ellsworth and I agreed
to volunteer just to get you to volunteer.

Speaker 12 (01:30:30):
We were arranged a lot so that.

Speaker 18 (01:30:32):
You would be chosen a police parcel.

Speaker 15 (01:30:36):
That's why I let you know.

Speaker 7 (01:30:37):
I wanted you to do something about it before Julia,
what are you going to do?

Speaker 40 (01:30:42):
Where are you going, doctor Elsworth?

Speaker 19 (01:31:06):
Doctor ELL's Worth, bustle, what are you doing at my window?
I've come to tell you I can't go on with
these experiments. I am through doctor Elsworth, or raving Barstow.
Go back to your quarters in the barn and we'll
talk about it in the morning.

Speaker 12 (01:31:23):
I can't go back to the barn.

Speaker 7 (01:31:25):
Why not.

Speaker 18 (01:31:27):
I'm tired of living in the barn.

Speaker 12 (01:31:29):
I knocked it down.

Speaker 16 (01:31:31):
Calm down, Barstow, Calm down before you do any more
than me. Yes, doctor Elsworth, that's just what you're like.
Isn't it for me to calm down? To become nothing
but a giant rule in your hands, a tool for
conquest and revenge. Isn't that so, Doctor ELL's Worth, I

(01:31:52):
don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 12 (01:31:54):
You know, all right?

Speaker 16 (01:31:57):
And what's more important time know, Doctor Asworth, I know
that you tricked me into volunteering for this experiment. What
if I did, you were the best physical express you
would stop at nothing to carry out your hideous experiments.

Speaker 12 (01:32:16):
Future of mankind?

Speaker 16 (01:32:19):
That's a good one.

Speaker 12 (01:32:21):
You're not interested in mankind at all. You're only interested
in building a super race.

Speaker 6 (01:32:27):
For your own ends.

Speaker 16 (01:32:29):
You want an army of giants so you can take
over the world at bustle.

Speaker 12 (01:32:33):
You are my subject and you have no right to
behave this way.

Speaker 19 (01:32:37):
If I had the control of finishing, you'll knock out
that wall.

Speaker 12 (01:32:44):
Yes, doctor's Worth, and.

Speaker 39 (01:32:46):
That's just what I ought to do to you.

Speaker 16 (01:32:50):
You have no more right to live than I. How
much strength does it take for a thirty foot man
to kill an ordinary man with his fist?

Speaker 12 (01:32:59):
Doctor Elseworth, figure that out.

Speaker 6 (01:33:01):
What are you going to do?

Speaker 12 (01:33:03):
I'm not going to do anything to you.

Speaker 16 (01:33:08):
I am going to let the World Science Counsel know
about your experiments.

Speaker 12 (01:33:14):
Well know what to do about you.

Speaker 30 (01:33:16):
And you can't leave.

Speaker 12 (01:33:18):
You're a monstrosity.

Speaker 7 (01:33:20):
The world will not just change your our soul.

Speaker 12 (01:33:22):
Besides, you have an obligation.

Speaker 7 (01:33:25):
You must start not like yourself for science.

Speaker 12 (01:33:34):
He's gone.

Speaker 6 (01:33:36):
All my plans are ruined.

Speaker 16 (01:33:39):
Yes, Western, you did this to me.

Speaker 7 (01:33:41):
You told him about my plans.

Speaker 16 (01:33:43):
Yes, Doctor Elswa, I know you will ruin the experiment. Western,
you'll betray science. You have the right to live for
you to decide these things.

Speaker 18 (01:33:51):
Come inside, Western, now a gun?

Speaker 12 (01:33:55):
Right?

Speaker 34 (01:33:56):
Come along now, Western, there's.

Speaker 16 (01:33:58):
One last experiment I want to perform.

Speaker 12 (01:34:03):
I'm curious to.

Speaker 16 (01:34:04):
See how a man can stand up against the giant.

Speaker 12 (01:34:06):
Right, No, please, please ask for us.

Speaker 7 (01:34:08):
I'll do anything you want.

Speaker 18 (01:34:10):
Do you want to die, I'll be the project.

Speaker 6 (01:34:11):
I'll experiments.

Speaker 7 (01:34:13):
Western, shut up, follow those things before.

Speaker 11 (01:34:15):
That's so right?

Speaker 41 (01:34:24):
Me?

Speaker 6 (01:34:41):
Gee, Helen, I'm sure glad the old man.

Speaker 12 (01:34:43):
Let me have the jet.

Speaker 1 (01:34:44):
Try tonight.

Speaker 7 (01:34:44):
It's a lovely night to go riding.

Speaker 18 (01:34:46):
With you, Bob, say, Helen, do you hear something?

Speaker 30 (01:34:51):
No, listen, don't hear it now too.

Speaker 6 (01:34:54):
I can't imagine.

Speaker 7 (01:34:56):
Oh, well, I guess.

Speaker 12 (01:34:58):
It looks like a man.

Speaker 15 (01:35:01):
It's a giant standing, the long footless man.

Speaker 7 (01:35:07):
Lifting us in his hands.

Speaker 40 (01:35:09):
Why are you afraid of me?

Speaker 39 (01:35:12):
I just want to talk to you.

Speaker 40 (01:35:15):
I won't hurt you.

Speaker 42 (01:35:16):
What is down?

Speaker 31 (01:35:17):
What is down?

Speaker 15 (01:35:18):
You are monsters?

Speaker 1 (01:35:18):
I am not a monster.

Speaker 12 (01:35:20):
I am not who were back on the road.

Speaker 6 (01:35:23):
He didn't hurt us.

Speaker 43 (01:35:24):
Down to the police. There's got to know about this
giant calling all rockets, Brown and Space.

Speaker 44 (01:35:41):
Patrols and Burke on sixt four seven, immediately strange creature,
molistings and travelers on.

Speaker 18 (01:35:47):
Highway Iron reported human in.

Speaker 1 (01:35:50):
Appearance thirty two forty feet high.

Speaker 30 (01:35:52):
Maybe dangerous repeat maybeerus.

Speaker 15 (01:35:56):
Ah rocket, Jim, it's on me, Sun Luck.

Speaker 8 (01:36:01):
Probably an invader from my All rockets.

Speaker 18 (01:36:04):
Check the more your cons me more morning in the danger?

Speaker 1 (01:36:07):
Ye are you?

Speaker 12 (01:36:07):
Repeat?

Speaker 7 (01:36:08):
Check all weapon.

Speaker 15 (01:36:19):
Say anything intim that moves there? Holme there's something moving
in B seven. Well i'll be it's a man.

Speaker 16 (01:36:27):
But what am I broad at one seventeen to control
Now located preacher moving lapidly in the direction of the
Kansas City.

Speaker 7 (01:36:35):
We're closing the rody hood one.

Speaker 1 (01:36:37):
Keep running, they'll have a whole.

Speaker 15 (01:36:39):
Available rocket cars join you.

Speaker 16 (01:36:41):
Okay, Tim went in and up.

Speaker 15 (01:36:42):
Now save the office.

Speaker 12 (01:36:44):
Dryer runs or fire.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
A couple of warning shots slung down safety office fire.

Speaker 12 (01:36:51):
He's stopping, he's waving his hands.

Speaker 7 (01:36:53):
We'll circling him.

Speaker 15 (01:36:54):
Keep circling.

Speaker 7 (01:36:58):
Jet for control.

Speaker 16 (01:37:00):
On in one seventeen, come in badly time, Prepare to.

Speaker 7 (01:37:03):
Move in for a partial law.

Speaker 15 (01:37:05):
Con Reade Argus repeating.

Speaker 16 (01:37:13):
Dader Control calling one seventeen, Dadrill Control calling one seventeen.

Speaker 12 (01:37:17):
They don't answer. Commissioner, con found it. Why can't we
get a video screen fix?

Speaker 19 (01:37:21):
I'm working on a cert Give me that microphone. All
police jets and air rockets, All jets and air rockets, attention, attention.
Rocket one seventeen has been attacked by the giant. Contact
has been lost. Take battle formation blue. Prepare for attack.
Prepare for attack.

Speaker 12 (01:37:37):
Good luck. We'll last that creature out of existence.

Speaker 7 (01:37:40):
What could it be, sir? A man from another planet?

Speaker 12 (01:37:42):
As possible. We can only get that video fix. I'm
getting it, Commissioner, look there he is good heavens.

Speaker 7 (01:37:50):
What an enormous creature? Yes, I see it.

Speaker 16 (01:37:52):
Calling all rockets take elevation six thousand and prepare to
tie of on target.

Speaker 7 (01:37:57):
Seen nobody's Commisioner, you can it's a battle emergency.

Speaker 16 (01:38:00):
Let you in the control room.

Speaker 15 (01:38:01):
It's about the giant.

Speaker 7 (01:38:01):
You've got to stop your attack. You're crazy.

Speaker 12 (01:38:03):
That creature is a menace.

Speaker 7 (01:38:04):
He's knocked down one of our rockets and now we're
going together.

Speaker 15 (01:38:06):
But you don't another spam, sir, wad runs out of
all of Asians.

Speaker 12 (01:38:09):
Three thousand targets and views.

Speaker 16 (01:38:10):
Look a missioner on the video screens. We're ready to
open up on them, sir, just give the order.

Speaker 12 (01:38:14):
No, no, no, no, You've got to call.

Speaker 16 (01:38:16):
Off the attack.

Speaker 12 (01:38:16):
Missioner.

Speaker 16 (01:38:17):
Look to the right of the giant.

Speaker 15 (01:38:18):
They're that small hills.

Speaker 12 (01:38:19):
Those two men from Rocket one seventeen.

Speaker 7 (01:38:21):
They're walking unmolested door junction nine. Thank god, they're all right.
Now you see he's not dangerous. Stop the attack. That
creature has been running bazaarve.

Speaker 19 (01:38:28):
Transmit the command for all ships to hold their positions
until I give the order unless the giant attacks them.

Speaker 12 (01:38:33):
Yes, sir, here sir, what do you know about that creature?

Speaker 7 (01:38:37):
You from another planet?

Speaker 15 (01:38:38):
Tell you about he gave from a government, had to
be out ex laboratory. He was the subject of an
illegal experiment.

Speaker 16 (01:38:43):
I'm doctor Weston. I work in that laboratory.

Speaker 19 (01:38:46):
Well man or nough. He's a mad man.

Speaker 7 (01:38:47):
We've got to do something about him.

Speaker 16 (01:38:48):
You don't have to do a thing.

Speaker 7 (01:38:49):
It don't all be over in a few minutes. Something's happened.
I don't see the giant anymore.

Speaker 12 (01:38:53):
What do you mean all over, doctor Weston?

Speaker 7 (01:38:55):
Look at the videous screen.

Speaker 16 (01:38:56):
There, that's what I mean.

Speaker 15 (01:38:58):
Good heavens, it's a quarter a liter twenty to control tower.
Something's happened.

Speaker 6 (01:39:03):
Yes, there, I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:39:04):
See the train has disappeared.

Speaker 19 (01:39:06):
All is all, police jets and rockets. Attack canceled, repeat
attack canceled.

Speaker 12 (01:39:33):
So you see, barbery.

Speaker 16 (01:39:35):
I had to thank Western, after all, he's a disagreeable character.
But if he hadn't acted so promptly as soon as
he found out, those rockets would have finished me.

Speaker 30 (01:39:44):
Else hard to kill Weston, didn't he after you broke away?

Speaker 12 (01:39:47):
Yes, With the rats, Western managed to get outside the
cage and they killed doctor elsework in stead. And shortly
after that, the rats fell.

Speaker 19 (01:39:54):
Into a coma and Western examined one by X ray, and.

Speaker 16 (01:39:57):
He discovered that the new bone structure was in the
process of dissolving into cartilage, and that cartilage into flesh,
which would soon mell away. And he realized their size
had only been maintained by the injections, and it'd soon
be back to their original skeletal structure.

Speaker 12 (01:40:11):
That's why he went to the police.

Speaker 30 (01:40:13):
How did he know you shrink too?

Speaker 16 (01:40:15):
Because they stopped giving me the injections.

Speaker 12 (01:40:18):
Oh, seeing you here like.

Speaker 38 (01:40:19):
This, I can't believe all those stories in the paper
about you, the horrible picture.

Speaker 6 (01:40:24):
I can hardly believe in myself.

Speaker 12 (01:40:25):
Barbara.

Speaker 16 (01:40:26):
It's like bad dream.

Speaker 12 (01:40:29):
Oh, yes, here's what.

Speaker 7 (01:40:30):
I came back for.

Speaker 12 (01:40:32):
Right there. Else Worth says, here they are, and here
they go.

Speaker 38 (01:40:42):
You're burning them.

Speaker 16 (01:40:45):
Years of scientific research justin flames.

Speaker 8 (01:40:48):
Hum.

Speaker 19 (01:40:50):
I don't want another man ever to go through what
I did, cut off from humanity would be just a specimen.

Speaker 16 (01:40:57):
And some scientist zooth I found out one thing forever.
Bigness isn't a matter of size. A man can be
thirty feet tall or he can be six feet tall.
That's what he has in his heart that counts. This
world doesn't need bigger, more powerful physical specimens, needs men
with bigness of soul who can love respect their fellow men.

Speaker 45 (01:41:35):
Next week, another exciting story on two thousand plus, the
strange adventure of a man who found nothing and was terrified.

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Be sure to listen next week to alone.

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Speaker 34 (01:42:06):
By Julian Snyder.

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Speaker 49 (01:43:03):
The Unexpected.

Speaker 47 (01:43:10):
Life is filled with the unexpected, romantic, tragic, and mysterious
endings to our most ordinary actions. Dreams come true, or
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Speaker 46 (01:43:33):
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Speaker 47 (01:44:36):
And now Loreene Tuttle, outstanding radio and screen star in
Free Passage, a drama of the unexpected.

Speaker 48 (01:44:49):
Now I had to get out of Marcie. The French
police were no less efficient than the Austrian or the
Swiss that spotted me. How sure that and earlier in
the evening I had been followed my last whoever was
following me along the waterfront, but he would find me again.
And there was nothing I could do nowhere. I could go,

(01:45:12):
no escape at all, unless, yes, unless I could get
to America. And I made up my mind. I was
going to America.

Speaker 50 (01:45:29):
I didn't care how.

Speaker 48 (01:45:31):
I was willing to lie, too, cheat, to steal, even
to kill, but I had to get out of France.

Speaker 51 (01:45:39):
I looked about the gray steamers against the pier.

Speaker 48 (01:45:43):
Surely one of them had room for an extra passenger,
but which one? Then I saw him. He was six
feet tall, with a reddish scar across his hard brown face.
He was standing on a warped gangplank while the lights
of Mars see like a little boy outside the candy store.

Speaker 49 (01:46:08):
Hello, Yankee, lady, you ought to watch you. You're calling names,
but you are in America. Not you not, Nope, I'm
a Texan Tixon. Don't let it bother you, Annie for
your purposes, I'm an America.

Speaker 48 (01:46:22):
Then how about it walk into town.

Speaker 49 (01:46:24):
Maybe I'd drink or I'd like to oblige, but you'll
have to make it some other time tomorrow night, about
a year from tomorrow night. Oh, I don't take it personal.
Ma'am's l I sure like to see you some evening.
But we're pulling out a dog, I see, and that's
the way things are. You better find yourself another sailor.
I ain't got to watch the ship.

Speaker 48 (01:46:44):
You have a strong sense of duty.

Speaker 49 (01:46:46):
Nope, I got a strong sense of ownership.

Speaker 50 (01:46:48):
Ownership.

Speaker 49 (01:46:49):
Yeah, I own this trader and I wouldn't want anything
to happen to her. It is your ball, that's right.

Speaker 32 (01:46:54):
What you call her?

Speaker 52 (01:46:55):
Margaret b?

Speaker 48 (01:46:56):
Oh, how funny. My name is Margot. Who is Margaret B?
You're a wife?

Speaker 49 (01:47:03):
Nope, I'm not married. Now you'll pardon me. I'm going aboard.
Of course, good night, Margot. Sure's I It couldn't last,
but and I guess it never began, did it?

Speaker 5 (01:47:15):
No?

Speaker 48 (01:47:16):
Good night, captain. I watched him go up the gangplank,
and then I followed, making sure that no one saw me.
It was very dark, very quiet. I lifted the canvas
from a lifeboat, crawled underneath it, and went.

Speaker 8 (01:47:35):
Quickly to sleep.

Speaker 48 (01:47:41):
I dreamed that night of America and rich food and
expensive clothes, and of a tall, brown faced man who
caught himself. Ah, what was it? A Dixon? And when
I awoke my dream was ending over me, looking down

(01:48:01):
at my face, with a very surprised expression in his
white clue.

Speaker 49 (01:48:06):
Well, I'll be a ringtailed monkey. What in thunder you
think you're doing going to Oh no, not on this ship.

Speaker 34 (01:48:11):
You're not.

Speaker 49 (01:48:12):
Why because now now listen here, young lady. You're a stowaway.
You got to get out of here.

Speaker 48 (01:48:16):
But I cannot swim, and we already had seen.

Speaker 49 (01:48:18):
Well, we'll just have to take you all back to Marseille.

Speaker 48 (01:48:21):
Oh no, no, no, no, you cannot do that.

Speaker 49 (01:48:23):
I'm sorry, Margot, but I ain't got no room for passengers,
especially none paying passengers.

Speaker 48 (01:48:26):
But I will pay you.

Speaker 49 (01:48:28):
That don't matter. You haven't got a passport, have you?
No imagine what you were thinking of trying to hide
aboard my ship? No passport, nothing.

Speaker 48 (01:48:36):
I had to do a texting. I must get to
New York. Why because because I'm all alone, and there
I have friends who will take care of me.

Speaker 36 (01:48:47):
You must hear.

Speaker 48 (01:48:49):
How would do anything? But you must hear.

Speaker 49 (01:48:51):
I'm awfully sorry, Margaret.

Speaker 48 (01:48:52):
You can tell your crew I have been necessary papers,
and when we reach harbor, I can sneak off the
boat and no one would be the wiser.

Speaker 49 (01:48:58):
You're asking me to break the law.

Speaker 50 (01:49:00):
I know, and I had so little to give a return.
But what I have is yours, all yours.

Speaker 49 (01:49:09):
Well, well we're putting it in Lisbon and a day too.
I'll think it over until.

Speaker 48 (01:49:15):
Oh, darling, darling, hers, you are taking me to America.

Speaker 49 (01:49:19):
Now, now see here. I didn't say I take you
all the way, but you will.

Speaker 1 (01:49:22):
I know you will, and I am so happy.

Speaker 8 (01:49:26):
I'm so great.

Speaker 48 (01:49:32):
The captain was still very doubtful, but by the time
he reached Lisbon, I'd convinced him to give me free
passage to New York. And although his boat was small
and evil smelling, I had a wonderful, glorious voyage. I
was happy every single moment because I knew that Margaret
b was carrying me to a new life and a man.

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One morning, nearly two weeks later, I was sitting cross
legged on the deck Jim Rummy with a member of
the crew I had just knocked with four when the
textan clambered up the companion way. His big shoulders seemed
to fill the narrow passage and motioned to me to
follow him.

Speaker 3 (01:50:13):
Below.

Speaker 53 (01:50:15):
Tim, Tim, where are we going?

Speaker 27 (01:50:18):
Oh?

Speaker 32 (01:50:18):
Just talk?

Speaker 53 (01:50:19):
So forbidding you just.

Speaker 49 (01:50:20):
Watch your step, Margo, and don't ask no questions. About
an hour we're going to be sit in New York harbor.

Speaker 48 (01:50:26):
Jim, how wonderful, How mardless. I can hardly wait to
get my first.

Speaker 49 (01:50:31):
Glimps out of Your first glimps is going to be
from inside the packing case. Less, of course, you'd like
to be caught by the Customs and immigration officials and
sent back to France.

Speaker 48 (01:50:39):
Oh no, no, I cannot go back.

Speaker 49 (01:50:40):
That's sets all right, Margot. I'm not asking questions here.

Speaker 37 (01:50:44):
We are.

Speaker 49 (01:50:45):
See that big crate over in the corner, Yes, but
it's marked olliveboil, but it ain't got no olive oil
in it. Instead, there's going to be some sugar all
nailed up me. That's right. I've cut some holes in
the back of the case. You'll get a little head.
May not smell too good, but I reckon it'll keep
you alive. I go on crawl inside and will commence
operations very well.

Speaker 48 (01:51:06):
Whatever you say. Oh oh, and Tim, Yeah, I don't
know how to thank you except this way.

Speaker 49 (01:51:20):
You're You're welcome, Margot, You're real welcome, all right. Now
get down in there, and when the customs inspector comes
to board, don't move, and don't make any noise. You
hear me, Margo, you can't see why they should be
all this red tape about your wanting to go through York.
I let Yankees into Texas without no trouble.

Speaker 53 (01:51:50):
I must have been two or.

Speaker 48 (01:51:51):
Three centuries later when I heard footsteps on the companion
way and the large joke of your voice filled the
dark cold.

Speaker 21 (01:51:58):
Well, captain, we'll just take a quick check on your
cargo and you'll be able to donload before nightfall.

Speaker 26 (01:52:03):
That's right, nice of you, sir.

Speaker 49 (01:52:04):
Well, let's see if you'll blating as this Margaret be
let in five hundred boats champaign six hundred cases.

Speaker 48 (01:52:13):
Where I could hear them going to the cargo, checking
it case by case, shoving boxes aside, counting recording, always
getting closer to the corner where.

Speaker 33 (01:52:24):
I was hidden.

Speaker 54 (01:52:25):
Well, that seems to be all of a captain, except
for the shipment of volleyball here in the corner.

Speaker 48 (01:52:30):
I froze tightly against the sides of the box, holding
my breath, listening to my own heart beats until I
thought that surely they were loud enough to be heard
all over the boat.

Speaker 26 (01:52:42):
I guess there's no need.

Speaker 27 (01:52:43):
To look at these boxes.

Speaker 55 (01:52:44):
If they really are alive.

Speaker 37 (01:52:45):
That's where they are, sir.

Speaker 34 (01:52:46):
No reason to lie about it, no possible reasons.

Speaker 39 (01:52:48):
Not under the circumstances.

Speaker 48 (01:52:53):
I could not believe it. Yes, the inspector had not
even bothered to look at the case where I was hiding.
And in just a few moments I heard the rumble
of heavy machinery.

Speaker 50 (01:53:04):
I felt myself.

Speaker 8 (01:53:07):
Being swung up open to the air.

Speaker 48 (01:53:10):
The box was twisting and turning as it sped through space,
but I didn't care. I was already dizzy with happiness.
And then then the crate came down softly, like a
heavy winter snowflake as it settles against the ground, and
I said to myself, you have one Marco at last, Uffy,

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They will never find you.

Speaker 32 (01:53:35):
Now you are in a maca.

Speaker 33 (01:53:39):
With a new life to you.

Speaker 47 (01:53:51):
You think the story is over, don't you?

Speaker 46 (01:53:53):
But wait fate takes a hand.

Speaker 47 (01:53:56):
Wait for the unexpected, and now for the surprising conclusion

(01:55:05):
of Free Passage, starring Missus Loreine Tuttle Hamiled and Whitney
production written by Robert Libbert and Frank Bert and directed
by Frank K.

Speaker 6 (01:55:13):
Danzig.

Speaker 48 (01:55:18):
I do not know how long I waited in the
packing case. Perhaps it was several hours, and then I
began to get worried. I was I to get out
of the box.

Speaker 50 (01:55:28):
What was the captain?

Speaker 48 (01:55:30):
Why did not come to help me? Then at last
I decided to help myself. I could wait no longer.
I took my shoe off and pounded against the wooden
boards to attract attention.

Speaker 8 (01:55:42):
It's worked.

Speaker 48 (01:55:44):
In a few moments, I heard someone hammering at the
side of the packing case when the buck had been
tried open. It was a matter of seconds before my
eyes became accustomed to the light. Then I saw him,
a man staring.

Speaker 27 (01:56:01):
But what are you?

Speaker 20 (01:56:03):
I say, how did you get in there?

Speaker 48 (01:56:04):
Where am I? What am I doing on another ship?

Speaker 24 (01:56:09):
What's happening?

Speaker 49 (01:56:09):
It appears, young lady, that you're going to France.

Speaker 8 (01:56:12):
France.

Speaker 49 (01:56:13):
Yes, I'm afraid so.

Speaker 46 (01:56:14):
I don't know what you were doing in that case
of ollyboil.

Speaker 27 (01:56:17):
But the customs officials rejected the whole.

Speaker 42 (01:56:19):
Lot, some duty mix up or died. It all sent back,
and since my ship was heading for Marcie, I took
it aboard.

Speaker 1 (01:56:25):
Yes, indeed, my girl, you're headed for France.

Speaker 47 (01:56:36):
Free passage starred Miss Lourene tuttle. Listen soon for another
of your favorite motion picture stars in a drama of
the unexpected. This program was transcribed in Hollywood.

Speaker 9 (01:57:37):
Unsolved Mysteries. Active providence is a phrase so carelessly you

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today as you have almost lost the very significance of
its meaning. But at no time has it held so
much meaning as in the true historical case of the
Crown versus John Applegate, as reported in the Newgate Calendar.

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The scene is the session's Court of the County of Middlesex.

Speaker 8 (01:59:25):
The courthouse spronts, the village.

Speaker 9 (01:59:27):
Green, and the holiday attire of the villagers, the laughter
of children, and the entire atmosphere is.

Speaker 19 (01:59:32):
One of gaiety, a gaiety almost beyond our comprehension.

Speaker 9 (01:59:36):
Since the occasion of it is a murder trial. Laughter
gives way to excited chattering name rumor has.

Speaker 20 (01:59:43):
It that the jury have reached a verdict.

Speaker 9 (01:59:46):
Justice Selden, white wigged and black gowned, mounts to the bench.
A small square of black cloth lying ready to the
sessions Clerk's hand rivets the prisoner's eyes as he is
marched to the dock.

Speaker 19 (02:00:01):
Hey, Hey, the second call of the County of Middlesex.

Speaker 18 (02:00:04):
No incersion, She's just a soul in presiding all signed, while.

Speaker 26 (02:00:07):
A justice in the jury effect their places in the
pot noise.

Speaker 25 (02:00:11):
Then, John Applegate, that you must face the jury and
prepare to abide by their verdict. I'll say you, gentlemen
of the jury, you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty.

Speaker 19 (02:00:22):
We find the prisoner, John Applegate, guilty of murder as
charged in the indictments led by the sesson's clerk.

Speaker 25 (02:00:29):
John Applegate, you have heard the verdict returned against you.
Have you anything to say why the sentence of death
should not be carried out upon you.

Speaker 20 (02:00:39):
I'm not guilty, I swear it. I was never at
the Rose and Thistle tavern.

Speaker 56 (02:00:43):
I never saw the murdered man.

Speaker 20 (02:00:45):
I'm not guilty. I'm not guilty.

Speaker 25 (02:00:48):
Five men and four women have identified you. You say
that you spent the night in company with the gentlemen
of quality, But no gentleman either quality, one of the
common has come forward.

Speaker 20 (02:01:02):
To bear your weakness.

Speaker 40 (02:01:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 20 (02:01:05):
Once you're on I never saw it before. I only
know I'm not guilty.

Speaker 25 (02:01:10):
John n Applegate. Here the sentence of death is to
be carried out upon you. It shall be taken from
this place to the place whence you came, and thence
to the public gallows, where you shall be hanged by
the neck until you be dead, dead, dead, and may

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Almighty God have mercy upon your soul.

Speaker 9 (02:01:40):
In those days, public hangings were regarded as a legitimate entertainment,
and the old man loitering around the gallows being erected
by the public executioner and his assistant discussed previous hangings
they had attended. In his bank cell John Applegate praise
incessantly for deliverance.

Speaker 20 (02:01:58):
His stuttered, broken sentences punk suited by.

Speaker 9 (02:02:00):
The dull ominous thud of the carpenter's hammers as the
gallows grows stick by stick, beam by beam, and nail
by nail.

Speaker 57 (02:02:10):
Oh, it's time to get up?

Speaker 6 (02:02:32):
What's that?

Speaker 12 (02:02:34):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (02:02:34):
Yes, time to get up, odd fish.

Speaker 56 (02:02:38):
It's still dark, you said three o'clock.

Speaker 6 (02:02:41):
I did, did I?

Speaker 14 (02:02:43):
So?

Speaker 20 (02:02:44):
I don't remember where am I going? That I must
need rise this early.

Speaker 7 (02:02:49):
I don't know this.

Speaker 57 (02:02:50):
But he did say, sir, that he had to get
to the village earlier.

Speaker 1 (02:02:54):
Shall be it? Shell?

Speaker 8 (02:02:55):
Be it?

Speaker 20 (02:02:56):
If I did, I did it, But I swear that
it's beyond me. I don't know a thing of it.

Speaker 30 (02:03:01):
Maidie Mabie. Have you waked the master?

Speaker 8 (02:03:04):
Let me see it.

Speaker 23 (02:03:05):
You'll be down directly.

Speaker 58 (02:03:06):
I don't know what's wrong with you, Miss Katy.

Speaker 20 (02:03:08):
What do you mean, Wench?

Speaker 58 (02:03:09):
He swears that he doesn't remember giving up order to
wake Himer and I. He's half asleep yet, wait till
he wakes, he'll remember. Come now, hurry and set table. Yes,
miss Jenny's and remember Wench, though breakfast be in the
middle of the night. Tutor must be clean papale Yes,
Miss Jenny.

Speaker 20 (02:03:26):
I swear I don't know what this is all about.
I never said that I wanted to be about it.
Three in the morning.

Speaker 30 (02:03:32):
Hi, you have forgotten, sir.

Speaker 58 (02:03:35):
He came to my room last night, wake me and said, Janet,
I want breakfast at three.

Speaker 8 (02:03:40):
I must needs get to the village for four nine.

Speaker 20 (02:03:43):
But I have nothing to go to the village for you, Katie.
When did I tell you that I must rise?

Speaker 59 (02:03:49):
Alice last night says late it was Oh, I was
fast asleep, and she came and knocked on the door.

Speaker 8 (02:03:56):
He said, Katy, I must.

Speaker 30 (02:03:58):
Be up and about at dawn.

Speaker 8 (02:04:00):
I'll break fast at three. You've forgotten, sir, Come master
be this is.

Speaker 56 (02:04:05):
Ready Odd's fish I haven't forgotten it.

Speaker 20 (02:04:08):
I tell you what I've not to go to the
village to day or be saddled and ready?

Speaker 1 (02:04:13):
Master?

Speaker 20 (02:04:14):
What's this you too?

Speaker 8 (02:04:16):
Jacob?

Speaker 6 (02:04:17):
Me too?

Speaker 16 (02:04:18):
What ails?

Speaker 34 (02:04:18):
Ye?

Speaker 8 (02:04:19):
Master?

Speaker 20 (02:04:19):
Did I waken you two in the middle of the
night and tell you that I must be to the
village this morning early?

Speaker 12 (02:04:26):
Indeed? And that you did?

Speaker 20 (02:04:27):
Master?

Speaker 56 (02:04:28):
Don't you remember I told you it was fully nice
to be kind out of the stables and.

Speaker 20 (02:04:33):
The cold of the night with no coat on your back.

Speaker 8 (02:04:36):
Art's fish that it seems that I must have done?

Speaker 20 (02:04:40):
Yes, Master, you said that the best horse must be
saddled and ready for the road in free.

Speaker 1 (02:04:45):
Come.

Speaker 58 (02:04:45):
Master, you're not eating enough. If you're for the road,
you can set saddle better on a full stomach.

Speaker 20 (02:04:51):
Jacob, Yes, Master, I never go to the stables and
my slippers, the Master, then if I did last night,
there will be traces on the slippers. Bring them to me. Yes, Master,
it seems that I must, whether I will or not
be off to the village. I would that the good

(02:05:13):
Lord would tell me what for, for I have no idea.

Speaker 8 (02:05:17):
Hi, but you'll remember the master when you're on your way.

Speaker 20 (02:05:20):
Oh, the actors, If my memory were leaving.

Speaker 56 (02:05:23):
Me the slippers, master, and clean as a hound's tooth
and dry as a bone. I'll be bound, yes, Master,
this smacks of witchery, but I'll go.

Speaker 20 (02:05:41):
I'll go to the village and see what befalls.

Speaker 60 (02:05:46):
Come this up, good, down the dark highway.

Speaker 9 (02:05:55):
Rides Kingsley, Strange, feeling half fear, half hang. Anxiety drives
him on and ever and anon. He mutters to himself
about the foolishness of the journey. Three hours later, the
horses pace slackened. The horse knows that around the next
turn is the toll bridge, which he must cross complete
the journey to the village.

Speaker 8 (02:06:21):
What a fool I am.

Speaker 20 (02:06:23):
The bridge will be closed, locked tight, and old Jerry
doesn't open it till nigh on nine.

Speaker 8 (02:06:30):
Mister Kingly, Sir, mister Kingley.

Speaker 20 (02:06:33):
Is that you, Jerry Jerry?

Speaker 30 (02:06:35):
Did it you?

Speaker 15 (02:06:35):
Jerry rid On?

Speaker 27 (02:06:37):
Master?

Speaker 12 (02:06:37):
Ride down?

Speaker 26 (02:06:38):
The Bridge's open?

Speaker 55 (02:06:46):
There he is there, he is riding the horse. The
man the gentleman's quality. I was with the Knight of
the murder. For praises to God, Sir, You've saved my life.

Speaker 9 (02:06:57):
And so John Applegate did not hang mister Kingsley. Gentlemen
of quality identified Applegate as having been with him far
from the scene of the murder. So firmly did Applegate
believe that Providence had intervened because of his prayers, that
he forsook the world and retired to a monastery, where
until his death he was called Brother Jonathan, the man

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whom God had saved. Out of deference to people who
may still be living, character names in some of these
unsolved mysteries have been changed inasmuch as any solution must
have necessity, be supposition, liberties of time, place, and characters
have been taken. In just a moment, you will hear
a solution to the toll Bridge mystery. Ladies and gentlemen,

(02:08:54):
the solution for what you have been waiting.

Speaker 8 (02:08:57):
Do you mean to say that you have an explanation
of the tol mystery?

Speaker 7 (02:09:01):
I believe I have.

Speaker 9 (02:09:03):
Of course, you understand I'm not an authority on the subject,
but in consulting writings by world authorities, such as The
Manhood of Humanity by Alfred Korsinski, the files of the
London Society of Psychical Research and others, I've formed a
definite opinion. I see, in the first place, further investigation
of the mystery disclosed that the toll bridge keeper, Old Jerry,

(02:09:25):
had been warned about twelve the night before by mister
Kingsley and told that he would be wanting to cross
the bridge about seven in the morning.

Speaker 20 (02:09:34):
But didn't the toll gatekeeper think that's strange?

Speaker 25 (02:09:37):
I mean, the idea of mister Kingsley riding that three
hour trip at midnight and turning round to ride home again.

Speaker 20 (02:09:43):
Well, naturally he thought it strange.

Speaker 1 (02:09:45):
But the very strangeness of it provides the solution.

Speaker 8 (02:09:49):
I don't quite follow you.

Speaker 9 (02:09:50):
Well, don't you see it was impossible for mister Kingsley
to be at the toll gate at midnight and at
the same time waken Janet, Katy and Jacob the groom.

Speaker 8 (02:10:00):
Yes, of course Kingsley couldn't have gone home till three.

Speaker 9 (02:10:04):
It is accepted by many, and I think justifiably that
wishing precedes thinking, and wish forms precede thought forms.

Speaker 1 (02:10:13):
Now Applegate, lying in jail and knowing that.

Speaker 9 (02:10:15):
He was innocent, was wishing to be saved as natural.
Applegate knew that the only person who could save him
was the as he said, gentlemen of quality, who would
provide him with his alibi. He concentrated his every thought,
his every wish on Kingsley, although he didn't know him.
Since mind is everywhere, Kingsley's subconscious was aware of the

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dire straits of the man Applegate, and these thoughts, in turn,
were directed toward the persons necessary to assist Kingsley in
getting to the village.

Speaker 25 (02:10:46):
In other words, Applegate's direct thoughts were taken into partnership
with Kingsley's subconscious thoughts, and Katie Janet Jacob and the
Toolbridge Keeper were awakened by the strength of these thought
ways rather than by the physical appearance of Kingsley himself.

Speaker 9 (02:11:02):
You must not lose sight of the fact that neither
Katie Janet Jacob or the toll bridge keeper had any
suspicion that there was an execution impending, much less that
their friend and master, mister Kingsley had anything whatever to
do with it. That is the final proof that the
entire thing hinged on thoughts rather than anything physical.

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the strange impulses which urge them into the unknown.

Speaker 18 (02:12:42):
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Speaker 61 (02:13:45):
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Speaker 29 (02:13:52):
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Speaker 1 (02:14:08):
Nay tongmi On, I'm gonna talk to you nay hi
BiCon nee hi visual.

Speaker 34 (02:14:13):
Come on, come on, you can wrap that Chinese. They
tell me you can speak English. Fine, Oh, now I
see who you are. Go away, No, you don't go away.
Look they tell me what a wise old grandpa around here.
Well look grandpa, you're gonna tell me what's wrong. You're
gonna tell me if I have that choker out of you?

Speaker 27 (02:14:29):
What is it you want to know?

Speaker 34 (02:14:30):
Here's what I want to know. Why am I poisoned everybody?
You'd think I was one of those guys in the
mouth wash ads back in the States. Even my best
friends won't tell me. Old Joe said, once we get
the heral, everything was gonna be Jake, and I sweat
my head off getting here.

Speaker 42 (02:14:46):
And you've got to tell me what's wrong.

Speaker 27 (02:14:50):
All right, I tell you?

Speaker 1 (02:14:52):
So you leave us in peace?

Speaker 42 (02:14:54):
Come in?

Speaker 27 (02:14:57):
So you want the truth?

Speaker 34 (02:14:58):
Do you sure I want the truth? Why won't this
town hide me out? Why won't anybody give me a break?

Speaker 27 (02:15:05):
Do understand that, young man? You must first understand what
has happened to you.

Speaker 34 (02:15:09):
Nothing's happened to me, you don't think.

Speaker 62 (02:15:11):
So you tell me why you came to this part
of the world. And I will explain exactly what has happened.

Speaker 42 (02:15:16):
To you, and as to that, you're doing the talk
and not me.

Speaker 27 (02:15:18):
No, my way is the only way I can help you.

Speaker 42 (02:15:21):
What listen, It is the only way, all.

Speaker 34 (02:15:26):
Right, I'll tell you why not? Yeah, maybe just tell
it'll make me feel better. Before I got in the army,
I was a handy kid back in Ohio. That's in
the States, Cleveland, Youngstown, Cincinnati, Hi jack and smuggle and
stick ups, anything for a quick buck, and brought a

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cops never namy. The draft boards you had did a
good job. Yeah, before I could say, you can't do
this to me, I'm driving a GI truck and making
a China And one day, about a year ago, I
was sitting in a umpy barroom trying to swallow some
warming wine when I feel somebody standing next to me
with a big guy in a white suit, and he
was smiling.

Speaker 19 (02:16:08):
That wine tastes so lousy white drinking. Yeah, try some
of my scotch, Eddie Scotch. Hey, I'll come. You know
my name, I don't know yours. Mind's Joe Hawkins. A
friend of yours who used to work with you back
in Ohio, told me you were stationed out of here,
He said, Look for a tough little redhead with a chip.

Speaker 6 (02:16:27):
On his shoulder.

Speaker 34 (02:16:28):
Yeah, I got a good deal for Eddie.

Speaker 19 (02:16:32):
There's a car outside, some civilian clothes, and a couple
of fake passports.

Speaker 63 (02:16:37):
You won't mind resigning from the army, will you.

Speaker 34 (02:16:39):
I don't get it.

Speaker 19 (02:16:41):
They tell me you're a real tough lad. I need
somebody like that for my racket, which is what oh
dealing with the natives.

Speaker 63 (02:16:48):
Here in China.

Speaker 34 (02:16:50):
Black market.

Speaker 1 (02:16:50):
Huh.

Speaker 6 (02:16:51):
I'm offering your seat in the gravy train.

Speaker 27 (02:16:53):
Eddie.

Speaker 1 (02:16:54):
You come along.

Speaker 42 (02:16:56):
What happens if we get nabbed?

Speaker 63 (02:16:57):
I got an answer for that too, the best hideout
in the whole world. You coming along?

Speaker 34 (02:17:05):
What do you would think? Joe? Joe and I worked
all the cities and towns in that part of China,
and we really rolled in the shekels.

Speaker 42 (02:17:19):
We made a good team.

Speaker 34 (02:17:21):
Joe, get sure, figure things out, and me, well, like
Joe said, in his racket, he needed a real tough lad.
There's the gas struck Joe, behind those trees, like what
you told the drive in the parcket.

Speaker 64 (02:17:36):
Yeah, three thousand gallons of gas. It's ten grand in
the kiddy, little man, Come on.

Speaker 34 (02:17:41):
Ten grand less a thousand for the driver?

Speaker 1 (02:17:43):
Yeah, hey, where is he.

Speaker 37 (02:17:49):
Here?

Speaker 6 (02:17:49):
He is in the cab.

Speaker 34 (02:17:50):
He fell asleep waiting for.

Speaker 63 (02:17:52):
Us, and the jerky could have been nabbed that. I'll
wake him up so we can pay him off and
get out of here. Oh wait, huh?

Speaker 34 (02:17:57):
Don't you have no consideration, Joe? Don't you know it
ain't polite to wig a guy from such a nice sleep?
This ways better.

Speaker 6 (02:18:09):
Get an end it to you?

Speaker 1 (02:18:11):
How do you do it?

Speaker 42 (02:18:11):
Kid?

Speaker 63 (02:18:13):
What do you feel inside?

Speaker 42 (02:18:14):
Help me? Matt, let's get out of here.

Speaker 19 (02:18:22):
Had two hundred cottons of cigarettes, my friend, just like
we promised, very good, very good. It'll be fifty dollars
a cotton American dough, fifty dollars.

Speaker 1 (02:18:33):
I beg your pardon, but I was told the price
was only thirty five.

Speaker 42 (02:18:36):
Dollars and you'll pay up and stop sporting.

Speaker 34 (02:18:39):
I pay thirty five bucks per ten packs of cigarettes?

Speaker 42 (02:18:44):
What do you think?

Speaker 34 (02:18:45):
This is spogging day?

Speaker 19 (02:18:54):
He's a pretty risky kid working a boat like this.
What do you mean smuggling these guys across jack collaborators?

Speaker 34 (02:19:01):
The money's ay one, ain't it?

Speaker 1 (02:19:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 61 (02:19:03):
But pick?

Speaker 42 (02:19:04):
Hey, what's that on the shore?

Speaker 1 (02:19:06):
Lights.

Speaker 65 (02:19:06):
Chinese soldiers were in trouble. Yeah, turn off that motor quick. Hey,
what are we gonna do?

Speaker 34 (02:19:12):
Those jets rolled down in the hole, ain't they sure?
And the hatch is locked?

Speaker 65 (02:19:15):
Yeah, they're all locked in.

Speaker 23 (02:19:16):
You know that.

Speaker 34 (02:19:17):
I'm a pretty good swimmer. How about you? Okay, then
give me that axe quick before those Chinese kind of
machine gun on us.

Speaker 1 (02:19:22):
What are you gonna do?

Speaker 6 (02:19:24):
Yeah, you're gone nuts.

Speaker 65 (02:19:25):
You're scruttling the boat.

Speaker 42 (02:19:26):
We can swim the shore reasy from here.

Speaker 65 (02:19:29):
But what about the guys on the hold frown like rats?

Speaker 1 (02:19:32):
Let's try to turn back.

Speaker 34 (02:19:33):
What are you talking about? They've already paid for the trip. Besides,
you said they were Jack collaborators, didn't you a stomatic? Joe?
Ain't your patriotic? Yeah that's how we lived, Joe and I.
But we ate good and drank good because we get

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paid or what we wanted, and we got a kick
out our wife just the same. I was human and
there were time when I got the shakes thinking what
would happen at the MP's out of there this?

Speaker 42 (02:20:03):
But Joe had an answer for that, and it was
always the same.

Speaker 19 (02:20:06):
Kid when they go and gets tough, we're gonna head
for a place called Harala.

Speaker 65 (02:20:11):
It's that according to the maps.

Speaker 64 (02:20:13):
It's just a little native village a million miles from nowhere.
But like I told you before, it's the best hideout
in the whole world for guys like you and me.

Speaker 34 (02:20:28):
Then, about three months ago, we were in a mangy
little town on the border. We found a room in
a little hotel and was sleeping off a hid trunk.
There must have been about three.

Speaker 19 (02:20:36):
In the morning.

Speaker 42 (02:20:39):
Who's there, Come on through the window.

Speaker 65 (02:20:46):
Hey, look, there's more up and down.

Speaker 64 (02:20:48):
Then well, it's my God, don't be nuts and cuts
to pieces, And what do we do? We opened the door,
like the man says.

Speaker 34 (02:21:04):
The next day, we were in an army transport plane
with an MP god, flying back to the midt of
a stand court martial. This guy was cloudy and a
plane was cold, and I was feeling lousy. Oh why
shouldn't I going back to what I faced? Then I
felt a hand on my shoulder.

Speaker 6 (02:21:18):
Kitty, why do you I.

Speaker 64 (02:21:20):
Gotta keep your voice down. I've been watching that God.
You had to stay awake. But we were having our snoos.
He's so wi Look at him, he's so tired. He's
gonna have to keep his eyes open.

Speaker 34 (02:21:29):
Another one of your big planes.

Speaker 64 (02:21:31):
Tell an Oystown and listen. We can't be more than
four or five hundred miles from Haralla.

Speaker 1 (02:21:36):
There's nobody on the plane but that God and the pilot.

Speaker 63 (02:21:39):
If we're working right, we can take over his plane.

Speaker 34 (02:21:42):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 40 (02:21:44):
How are you guys doing over there?

Speaker 8 (02:21:46):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (02:21:46):
Just talking to keep from falling asleep.

Speaker 65 (02:21:49):
Yes, she makes your drowsy flying this high.

Speaker 27 (02:21:52):
Oh sure does.

Speaker 63 (02:21:54):
Look look guy, he's fighting it. Guy, he's trying to
stay awake.

Speaker 1 (02:21:57):
So what if we did take the plane over?

Speaker 34 (02:22:00):
Wanted good that with those who'd flying.

Speaker 19 (02:22:01):
Kid, I was flying these things when you were still
getting the two am feeding.

Speaker 63 (02:22:06):
Look, God's just about asleep. Start edging toward him.

Speaker 34 (02:22:10):
He said, that's the blow our heads on.

Speaker 64 (02:22:11):
Just keep edging up on them, it said, easy, he's
awake again, freeze, look at his head?

Speaker 63 (02:22:20):
None, Come on, how we find.

Speaker 1 (02:22:24):
Our way to this rat or whatever it is.

Speaker 64 (02:22:26):
Pilot's got maps up there. Don't talk so much, just
keep crawling guards in dreamland.

Speaker 32 (02:22:31):
Yeah, grab.

Speaker 34 (02:22:40):
Was that quick enough?

Speaker 1 (02:22:40):
Joe give me his gun? All right?

Speaker 19 (02:22:43):
Come on, all right, mister flyer, set the automatic pilot
and throw your hands up.

Speaker 65 (02:22:53):
You've just lost your job.

Speaker 34 (02:23:02):
We tied the pilot up and put him in back,
and Joe took over. For a couple of hours, everything
was okay, and to tonight a storm came out. This
guy got dark up than I ever saw before. Joe
started sweating and I thought myself going to pieces inside it.
I tried to hide it, but I couldn't.

Speaker 18 (02:23:21):
Where are we stop bothering me?

Speaker 42 (02:23:23):
Why don't you tell me the truth? We're lost. You
don't know where you are.

Speaker 61 (02:23:27):
It's a storm.

Speaker 65 (02:23:28):
I can't see nothing of the compass is all wrong.

Speaker 27 (02:23:30):
We're going to crack up.

Speaker 42 (02:23:31):
We're gonna die. It't with Joe.

Speaker 27 (02:23:33):
What's wrong with you?

Speaker 65 (02:23:34):
You're the top guy?

Speaker 27 (02:23:35):
I remember.

Speaker 42 (02:23:36):
I don't want to die, Joe. I don't want to die.

Speaker 65 (02:23:40):
Hey, the right motors conquered out, So how are we
going to get out of it?

Speaker 1 (02:23:44):
Wait?

Speaker 65 (02:23:44):
This way with a gun in your hand on the ground,
are you a kidding?

Speaker 12 (02:23:47):
Sure?

Speaker 42 (02:23:47):
Don't ride me.

Speaker 65 (02:23:48):
Get that pilot to bring him up here. Maybe he
can help us out.

Speaker 42 (02:23:51):
Yeah, yeah, I get.

Speaker 65 (02:23:52):
Him and take this pistol with you if he gets gay.

Speaker 34 (02:23:58):
I started back with the pilot. Then I stumbled over
something and bind against the side of the plane. I
saw what I stumbled against the parachutes.

Speaker 42 (02:24:06):
The parachutes.

Speaker 8 (02:24:08):
Joe, Joe, we could fail out.

Speaker 34 (02:24:10):
He couldn't hand me nutstorem. I passed one of the
parachutes around me. I wasn't going to die. The plane
was losing allbetude all the time. I started for the
emergency hatch, trying to batter it over. I had to
get out of the plane. I had to get out,
and I happened to look back for a second, and
I saw the pilot was just sitting watching me, with

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a smile in his face. I raised a gun.

Speaker 42 (02:24:35):
He didn't smile. After that, I got the hatch hoping
and jumped into the darkness.

Speaker 34 (02:24:50):
I must have passed out when I hit the ground.
I woke up with a storm going in the sunshine
and in my face, this line on my back. Looking
around at this wilderness, it made me sick inside. All
alone in the middle of China.

Speaker 1 (02:25:04):
That's all I could think.

Speaker 34 (02:25:06):
I climbed to my feet, all alone. I felt myself
getting penny. I saw something that made me think I
was calling nuts.

Speaker 42 (02:25:17):
No, it was real.

Speaker 34 (02:25:19):
About twenty feet from me was a pitcher of water
and some bread. I went over to where I saw
the bread and water footprints in the dirt. I didn't
care about eating these footprints.

Speaker 42 (02:25:33):
I got followed him.

Speaker 34 (02:25:40):
I don't know how long it took, but after a
while I was standing on a little hill, and down below,
all by itself was a hunt. It didn't seem to
be anybody around, but out of the chin from a
trickle of smoke, I took out my gun. I couldn't
take chances. I didn't know what i'd find inside that hut.

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There was no answer to my neck. I pushed it
open and held my gun ready. I was just a
little bit afraid at first. I couldn't say anything. After
coming out of the sun, and I started to make
a wooden furniture in a little stove.

Speaker 1 (02:26:22):
And then I saw him leave me alone.

Speaker 34 (02:26:25):
So this is what I've been afraid of. A small,
gray haired little guy in rags sitting in the corner.
And as my eyes became more accustomed to the dark guy,
so that one of his arms was gone, I.

Speaker 1 (02:26:35):
Told you to leave me alone.

Speaker 34 (02:26:37):
You speak English, Huh, that's good. What are you supposed
to be?

Speaker 42 (02:26:40):
The old man at the mountain for the last time?

Speaker 8 (02:26:42):
Leave me alone?

Speaker 1 (02:26:43):
Go away.

Speaker 8 (02:26:44):
I like it here.

Speaker 34 (02:26:46):
You're the guy who gave me the bread and water.

Speaker 1 (02:26:47):
Yes I am.

Speaker 34 (02:26:48):
And why you're so impolite?

Speaker 14 (02:26:50):
Now I have a reason, go and leave me alone?

Speaker 42 (02:26:53):
And where shall I go? Chicago? Saint Louis made.

Speaker 66 (02:26:55):
Medica airplanes fly over here every day. Go back where
you were spread your parachute.

Speaker 1 (02:27:00):
One of them will see you.

Speaker 42 (02:27:01):
That wouldn't be so good, mister.

Speaker 14 (02:27:03):
But I tell you you cannot stay here.

Speaker 42 (02:27:05):
Do you know where Harala is?

Speaker 7 (02:27:06):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (02:27:07):
Beyond the mountain?

Speaker 5 (02:27:08):
How far?

Speaker 14 (02:27:08):
Perhaps four hundred miles?

Speaker 42 (02:27:10):
How long would it take me to get there?

Speaker 14 (02:27:11):
For about three months on foot if you knew the way.

Speaker 42 (02:27:14):
Do you know the way?

Speaker 19 (02:27:14):
Yes?

Speaker 34 (02:27:15):
And you're taking me I cannot you're taking me, young man. First,
I want you to listen. I'm in trouble, bad trouble.
If I'm caught, they'll kill me. You know why they're
aft at me because I'm not afraid of the anything
I have to do to get when I want.

Speaker 42 (02:27:28):
Nobody crosses me.

Speaker 34 (02:27:29):
Nobody the toughest guys in the world that's tried it
and they didn't get away with it. And I don't
care what your reasons are. But if you can't take
me to haral I'll kill you. What were You're gonna say?

Speaker 14 (02:27:41):
Nothing? If I told you the truth as you say,
you'd kill me. And even I am afraid to die.

Speaker 42 (02:27:46):
Okay, that's settled.

Speaker 19 (02:27:47):
Thing.

Speaker 66 (02:27:48):
I'll take you to Haradah good because you're an evil
man and must be destroyed.

Speaker 42 (02:27:53):
Yeah, And who's going to do it? And when I'm
a little guy like.

Speaker 1 (02:27:56):
You, yes?

Speaker 11 (02:27:57):
Me.

Speaker 66 (02:27:58):
You may have had your way with everyone else you,
but on the road to Halala, I the weakest man
who ever crossed your path will destroy you.

Speaker 29 (02:28:18):
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has a.

Speaker 61 (02:28:21):
Word with the men.

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Speaker 34 (02:30:00):
During the next few days, while we got ready for
the trip to Herala, I learned a little about this
strange old duck who lived out here in the middle
of nowhere. His name was Henry Gordon. It was an Englishman,
but it spent the last thirty years here in China.
When he said he was gonna destroy me. I wanted
to laugh in his face, A little runt with only
one arm who didn't weigh a hundred pounds just the same.

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I wasn't going to take any chances. And when we
started our long hike, I kept them ahead of me
all the time. And that night, when we made camp,
he began to understand that he wasn't dealing with any dope.
How's the food coming? How far would you say we
travel today?

Speaker 1 (02:30:41):
Killing me this?

Speaker 34 (02:30:43):
How come you talk so good?

Speaker 1 (02:30:45):
Cambridge?

Speaker 34 (02:30:46):
Why did you become a hermit?

Speaker 37 (02:30:48):
Here's your food?

Speaker 34 (02:30:50):
Okay, hey, kick, wait a second, don't go away?

Speaker 1 (02:30:53):
Said?

Speaker 34 (02:30:53):
Do you must think I'm a pretty dumb guy.

Speaker 14 (02:30:56):
I don't understand.

Speaker 34 (02:30:58):
I ain't forgotten you promised to destroy me. Well, one
good way it would be to poison my food. The
food is not poisoned. Just to make sure you eat
from this plate first.

Speaker 42 (02:31:07):
Look when I say something, don't argue with me. You
eat from this plate first.

Speaker 6 (02:31:11):
All right?

Speaker 34 (02:31:11):
If you wish, yeah I wish. And here's something else
you'd better know, pally, in case you figure on waiting
until I fall asleep and then beating it. In case
you figure that's your way to get me, you can
forget about that too. You see this belt always sleep.
I'm tying you to me. We're going to be real close,
you and I. I see, yeah, I'm playing it smart Pally.

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After that, he didn't try nothing, but I started having
another worry. Every day we hiked a few miles farther
through the wilderness, but even after a week, it didn't
seem like we were getting anywhere. Then I started thinking,
maybe this guy was taking me around in circles. Maybe
that's how you figure un destroying it. Hey, Pally, yes,

(02:32:02):
stop for a minute. I want to talk to you. Well,
how long do you figure will have to hike to
this wild country to get the harala?

Speaker 8 (02:32:13):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (02:32:14):
Three months?

Speaker 1 (02:32:15):
Ten months?

Speaker 14 (02:32:15):
Who can say.

Speaker 41 (02:32:18):
No?

Speaker 34 (02:32:18):
And every time you can be one of them phony answers,
you're gonna get smacked like that. Now, how many days?

Speaker 66 (02:32:23):
If we maintain our present rate, we should be within
sight of heralah in ninety days?

Speaker 14 (02:32:28):
However, I assure you it won't do you a bit
of good.

Speaker 33 (02:32:31):
Now.

Speaker 34 (02:32:31):
Still gonna destroy me, huh okay, but makes you happy
to think, So it's no skin off my nose. I
don't want you to know one thing, Pally. Don't try
to leave me. I am around in circles.

Speaker 14 (02:32:42):
You needn't worry about that.

Speaker 34 (02:32:43):
Oh, I ain't worried, because beginning the day, I'm gonna
start counting days. And when I reach ninety, if we
ain't withinside of Herrala, guess what's gonna happen to you?
But I guess the old guy was on the up

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and up, because on the eighty seventh day I stopped counting.

Speaker 14 (02:33:10):
There it is, there on the horizon. There's your hurla.

Speaker 6 (02:33:14):
Yes, so that's it.

Speaker 42 (02:33:16):
It don't look like much you'll find.

Speaker 14 (02:33:18):
It's what you want, hide away from evil men.

Speaker 3 (02:33:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (02:33:23):
Good?

Speaker 34 (02:33:23):
And what about your threat? I guess you don't make
good on it after all, Pelly.

Speaker 66 (02:33:28):
I'm satisfied. And now that I've taken you this far,
I'll go back to my own home.

Speaker 32 (02:33:34):
Eh.

Speaker 34 (02:33:35):
You look pretty weak with that army yours. You think
it could make it, I think so I don't. I
don't think it could make it in a million years.

Speaker 1 (02:33:43):
Pally.

Speaker 34 (02:33:44):
Besides, I can't really let you go back because there's
just a chance that someday somebody else may come along
and you tell about me. So I'm going to give
you a great big break.

Speaker 27 (02:33:53):
Oh what this.

Speaker 34 (02:33:58):
Who destroyed who.

Speaker 1 (02:34:11):
I guess.

Speaker 42 (02:34:11):
I just about ran the rest of the way to Harala.

Speaker 34 (02:34:14):
But the show wasn't nothing for a picture postcard, A
stinking little town of dark, wooden houses, all crowded together.

Speaker 42 (02:34:20):
I didn't care about that. I had to be a hideout.

Speaker 34 (02:34:23):
Nobody'd ever find me in a million years. That's all
that matted. When I got here, it was already night,
but I found a barroom quick enough. It was pretty crowded,
not with Chinese, but with white guys, every one of
them probably in the same boat as me. I went
in to get a drink and maybe find out where
I could get a room.

Speaker 42 (02:34:44):
Hey, by Tender, you're savvy American?

Speaker 40 (02:34:47):
Yeah, why not?

Speaker 27 (02:34:49):
Let'd you go?

Speaker 38 (02:34:51):
Hey?

Speaker 42 (02:34:51):
What's them oty?

Speaker 27 (02:34:52):
Get out of here?

Speaker 42 (02:34:54):

Speaker 27 (02:34:55):
Get out of here right away?

Speaker 37 (02:34:57):
Get out around he.

Speaker 34 (02:35:09):
I never saw a guy scared like that before, not
even guys i'd knocked off.

Speaker 42 (02:35:14):
I got out of there, all right. The shock of
him acting like that kind of threw me.

Speaker 34 (02:35:19):
But after a while I I started figuring maybe he
was drunk of something, and I started looking for someplace else.

Speaker 42 (02:35:27):
I found what looked like a little hotel.

Speaker 34 (02:35:29):
I went in the clerk. A Chinese guy was throusing
at the desk.

Speaker 42 (02:35:35):
Come on, wake up, I want a wake up a room.

Speaker 2 (02:35:39):
I went a room.

Speaker 6 (02:35:44):
You don't gut.

Speaker 19 (02:35:46):
I was wrong?

Speaker 42 (02:35:52):
What's the matter with you?

Speaker 36 (02:35:53):
But for you?

Speaker 20 (02:35:54):
What's wrong?

Speaker 34 (02:36:03):
That's what I ran into when I first came to Harrala.
And it's been like that ever since. I've been going nuts.
What's wrong with this town? Why don't nobody help me?
Someone told me to see you, that you're some kind
of wise man. Okay, tell me what's wrong? Wise man?

Speaker 42 (02:36:19):
Tell me what's wrong?

Speaker 6 (02:36:20):
That help me?

Speaker 27 (02:36:21):
I'll kill you too.

Speaker 62 (02:36:23):
I told you I would explain, and I shall. But
after I have explained, my advice is that you take
the gun and turn it on yourself.

Speaker 42 (02:36:35):

Speaker 27 (02:36:37):
This town will never shelter you, nor will any other
town in all China.

Speaker 2 (02:36:43):
But why why?

Speaker 27 (02:36:45):
Because Henry Gordon was right? He did destroy you.

Speaker 34 (02:36:50):
You're crazy?

Speaker 42 (02:36:52):
When I got what I wound out of, might kill him?

Speaker 27 (02:36:54):
You kill him too late? Why do you suppose he
was so crippled? Don't get it? Why do you suppose
everyone in Harala runs away from you when they see
your face?

Speaker 42 (02:37:07):

Speaker 27 (02:37:09):
Because on your face, they see the evidence. So you
made him sample your food, So you kept him by
your side the entire journey. How very clever of you.

Speaker 62 (02:37:25):
Yes, the weakest man have all destroyed you, my friend.
Why do you suppose Henry Gordon was the only inhabitant
of that valley because he had what.

Speaker 20 (02:37:39):
He gave you?

Speaker 29 (02:37:41):
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Speaker 52 (02:41:48):
In this cane, by the restless scene, we are met
to call from out the past stories strange and we
bell keeper, pull the bell so all may know. We
are gathered again in the Weird Circle.

Speaker 29 (02:42:45):
Out of the past, phantoms of a world gone by.
Speak again the immortal tale, the duel without honor.

Speaker 6 (02:43:07):
In time to go?

Speaker 67 (02:43:08):
Now, Major alexis he must rest.

Speaker 6 (02:43:11):
Yes, Father, this way. Has he told you nothing then?
About himself? Here at the monastery?

Speaker 14 (02:43:22):
We never ask questions.

Speaker 19 (02:43:24):
How much he's changed, as radically is my opinion of him.

Speaker 6 (02:43:29):
Once I disliked him intensely, Father, Oh.

Speaker 67 (02:43:32):
Not Captain Zodomirski. Yes, sit down, Major, or perhaps you'd
rather not tell me.

Speaker 6 (02:43:40):
No, No, I'd like to tell you.

Speaker 19 (02:43:43):
It was when Zadomirski came to Valleen's from Saint Petersburg, dashing,
self confident, a skilled duellist with pistol and saber, and
he had.

Speaker 6 (02:43:56):
Away with women.

Speaker 19 (02:43:58):
Yes, yes, that brought about much of his disfavor with
his fellow officers. Of course, you're probably unfamiliar with military matters, father,
but we had an unwritten law. Now garrison officers, regardless
of rank, with seniority of service on the post, had

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an unchallenged field with the.

Speaker 6 (02:44:23):
Women of their choice.

Speaker 19 (02:44:25):
Oh, a sort of a method for eliminating squabbles among
the men. Well, there was a lieutenant's stam on the
post who had coveted the vacancy which the captain had filled.
He had known the captain at Saint Petersburg. It happened
that Stamme had courted the most beautiful girl in the region,

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Marianna Ravensky, for months before Zerdomyirski's arrival. So naturally, when
the captain began usurping the lieutenant's place with Mademoiselle Ravenski,
there was bound to be trouble and things couldn't possibly
go on that way for long without stamp taking action,

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which he finally did.

Speaker 6 (02:45:12):
He went direct to Maryanna.

Speaker 36 (02:45:22):
Oh, oh, Lieutenant Stan, good evening, Mariana, good evening. I presume,
Lieutenant you have a pressing thought on your mind coming
here so abruptly.

Speaker 19 (02:45:31):
I have, well, Marianna had to talk to you. Yes, Marianna,
you know how much I love you. I do anything
in the world to make you happy.

Speaker 36 (02:45:40):
You're hurting my hand, Lieutenant, tell me that you love me,
to say you'll marry me, please my hand.

Speaker 31 (02:45:48):
But I don't love you, Lieutenant Stam, you could.

Speaker 28 (02:45:51):
Learn to love me. Don't you have any feelings for
me whatsoever?

Speaker 27 (02:45:56):
As a friend?

Speaker 28 (02:45:57):
Yes, it's someone.

Speaker 6 (02:45:58):
Else, then.

Speaker 27 (02:46:00):
It is.

Speaker 28 (02:46:02):
It's Captain Zudomirsky.

Speaker 31 (02:46:04):
What does it matter?

Speaker 28 (02:46:05):
It is not you, Zadamisky. You've been seeing him again.

Speaker 36 (02:46:09):
I don't see where all this is getting us.

Speaker 19 (02:46:10):
You know what's against garrison rules for a newcomer to
court the lady friend of another officer. Yet you've been
seeing him frequently since he arrived from Saint Petersburgh.

Speaker 31 (02:46:18):
Am I to be tied by ridiculous military rules too?

Speaker 28 (02:46:21):
It is an unwritten law of the garrison.

Speaker 36 (02:46:22):
If Captain Zardomirsky has the courage to break so ridiculous
a regulation, am I to forbid him to see me?

Speaker 6 (02:46:29):
Is that much more to his credit?

Speaker 34 (02:46:30):
He is a sensible man than you have been seeing him,
as I suspected?

Speaker 36 (02:46:35):
How much more of this inquisition must I stand? Of
course I've been seeing him.

Speaker 6 (02:46:39):
I find him a very interesting man and a rich officer.

Speaker 36 (02:46:43):
Yes, but that matters little he is not so ill
mannered as to pry into my private affairs.

Speaker 14 (02:46:48):
You and your spying.

Speaker 31 (02:46:49):
I want no more of it.

Speaker 28 (02:46:50):
You hear now, Marianna, calm yourself, your heart.

Speaker 36 (02:46:52):
You know how much you care about my heart coming
here antagonizing me.

Speaker 31 (02:46:56):
Tell you of your silly garrison rules.

Speaker 27 (02:46:59):
Am I to adjust more?

Speaker 36 (02:47:00):
I like the stupid regulations you soldiers consider honorable you
and your honor.

Speaker 28 (02:47:04):
Please, Marianna, don't excite me.

Speaker 8 (02:47:05):
I will if I want to.

Speaker 36 (02:47:07):
I suppose you consider it honorable to pride to a
woman's secret heart just for your own selfish reasons. It
was honorable of you to cross examine me like this?

Speaker 27 (02:47:15):
It is it?

Speaker 6 (02:47:19):
Uh?

Speaker 41 (02:47:20):
Nothing?

Speaker 32 (02:47:21):
Hi?

Speaker 28 (02:47:22):
Hey, you're so white. I told you your heart wouldn't
stand it here?

Speaker 6 (02:47:27):
Sit down?

Speaker 50 (02:47:29):
Thank you?

Speaker 28 (02:47:30):
Is there anything I can bring you?

Speaker 16 (02:47:31):
No?

Speaker 8 (02:47:32):
Perhaps?

Speaker 59 (02:47:33):
No, no, I know myself it would pass in a moment.

Speaker 27 (02:47:40):
See.

Speaker 33 (02:47:42):
I feel better already.

Speaker 6 (02:47:43):
You must be more careful, please, lieutenants then go now.

Speaker 19 (02:47:48):
But Mary well, all right, Marianna, but let me tell
you something. If I can't have you, no other man
can have you either.

Speaker 28 (02:48:01):
Leave this house very well, Marianna, good night.

Speaker 19 (02:48:11):
Ah, Captains of a Mesqui Lieutenant Stamp, breaking regulations again.

Speaker 6 (02:48:17):
There is no law which forbids me seeing Mademoiselle Ravenski.

Speaker 19 (02:48:20):
Quite right, only a code among the officers. Are you
insinuating what I am reminding you?

Speaker 26 (02:48:25):
Captain gentlemen, I will tolerate no quarreling in my house.
Lieutenant Stamp, please go.

Speaker 30 (02:48:32):
As I asked you to.

Speaker 6 (02:48:32):
Very well, Marianna, as you wish good night, then good night.
Captains of a Mesqui.

Speaker 36 (02:48:43):
Come in, Captains of the Mehsky.

Speaker 8 (02:48:45):
I've been expecting you.

Speaker 6 (02:48:46):
Your hand, Mademoiselle, your pardon. I wanted no scene.

Speaker 31 (02:48:51):
Don't mention it anymore. Dinner is almost ready.

Speaker 19 (02:48:54):
But Marianne, you look so pale. Has anything happened? No, no,
nothing it has that Stamp he did something to you. No,
I assure you, George, he's so much as lays a
hand on you, I'll cut him to pieces.

Speaker 36 (02:49:08):
Please don't say that. I can't bear to think of
you fighting, Marianna.

Speaker 6 (02:49:13):
Fighting as part of my life.

Speaker 31 (02:49:14):
It is only that I don't wish to see you hurt.

Speaker 6 (02:49:17):
I appreciate your concern, My sweeten.

Speaker 33 (02:49:19):
Promise me you won't fight him.

Speaker 1 (02:49:22):
That I can't do.

Speaker 6 (02:49:24):
But I can promise you my love, all of.

Speaker 1 (02:49:27):
My love Marianna.

Speaker 8 (02:49:29):
Oh, my darling, you grow more beautiful every.

Speaker 6 (02:49:31):
Day, I confess.

Speaker 19 (02:49:39):
It was then I became as incensed with Captain Zodomirski's
flagrant disregard of garrison customs as the other officers were.
But Zadomirski went on seeing Marianna. It was inevitable that
the antagonism between him and Lieutenant Stam would break into

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o in hostilities. I remember how bitter Stam was that
night it happened. We were in the officer's quarters pursing
time before dinner. They playing at cards. Hardly think it's
as bad as that Lieutenant Stam. Didn't he come here

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to this very room Major Alexis on his first day
in full dress, and then heard of displaying.

Speaker 6 (02:50:26):
Yes, that's very true.

Speaker 19 (02:50:27):
In that house he bought cost a pretty penny with
its rifle range and its library. Indeed, even one's enemy
isn't titled to his own tastes. You and I wouldn't
be at all surprised to discover money was responsible for
his appointment the captain Here on the post. A careful Stam,
bay your little enmities. We know of your affairs of
the heart. And understand them, but no discrediting the service.

Speaker 6 (02:50:48):
Please.

Speaker 19 (02:50:48):
I tell you the man's are showman nothing more. And
I knew him at Saint Petersburg, a duellist. Well, he's
yet to prove himself in our eyes. I shall personally
see through it that you get that opportunity.

Speaker 15 (02:51:01):
I shall.

Speaker 19 (02:51:02):
Good evening, gentlemen, Oh, good evening.

Speaker 29 (02:51:11):
I came for dinner. If I'm interrupting a game, no,
no nonsense, Captains of the Meski, it comes a down.
But I don't mean to interrupt.

Speaker 19 (02:51:19):
You came at an opportune moment, Captain. We were just
talking about you, oh, about your skill as a duelist.
Of course I had to tell of your exploits at
Saint Petersburg.

Speaker 6 (02:51:31):
I sincerely hope I can live up to any reputation
you have helped build up.

Speaker 8 (02:51:35):
You misunderstand, Captain.

Speaker 19 (02:51:37):
While these gentlemen extole the virtues of dueling, I'm not
quite in agreement with him.

Speaker 6 (02:51:43):
Dueling is an accepted practice here?

Speaker 28 (02:51:45):
Is it not?

Speaker 19 (02:51:46):
When one's honor at the stake, Yes, professional dueling. No,
then I don't think I see what have Let me
demonstrate a pack of cards, please you are thank you?

Speaker 28 (02:51:58):
There, Draw one captain. But what do I draw one?

Speaker 6 (02:52:02):
Go ahead, I'll match it.

Speaker 1 (02:52:05):
That's it.

Speaker 32 (02:52:06):
What have you?

Speaker 6 (02:52:07):
King of spades?

Speaker 19 (02:52:09):
Here's mine an ace of hearts. Too bad for you
if he'd been betting. Forgive me a little trick of
palming I learned long ago. Now do you see what
I mean?

Speaker 6 (02:52:21):
No, not exactly.

Speaker 28 (02:52:23):
But you have a shooting range, captain, haven't you?

Speaker 29 (02:52:25):
I have you practice with the pistol daily, and with
a saber and fool whenever I can find a worthy.

Speaker 19 (02:52:31):
Upon That's exactly the point you practice regularly? Why whoa
Why does a gambler practice card tricks to become proficient,
to be able to outwit amateurs?

Speaker 6 (02:52:43):
And I practice to become a skillful duellist?

Speaker 28 (02:52:45):
Is that it something like that?

Speaker 6 (02:52:47):
Gentlemen? Am I to stand here and being sold?

Speaker 19 (02:52:49):
It's one as skillful as you, Captain Samiski. Dueling becomes
not a redress for an insult your honor. It becomes
plain and simple as fascination. Gentlemen, this man is mad,
you may think, so if you wish. She knows I
will challenge him. I am a match for him in
any of the weapons of individual combat. He knows that
from Saint Petersburg. He knows it would rarely be murdered
to force him to fight me. Major Alexis, I appeal

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to you?

Speaker 6 (02:53:10):
What can I do?

Speaker 61 (02:53:11):
Captain?

Speaker 19 (02:53:11):
I am a newcomer here. I bear no malice toward anyone.
Yet he finds it proper to insult me, knowing I
cannot challenge him banameter as it were, and live with
my own conscience. What have you to say to that,
Lieutenant Stam? I have not refused to accept any challenge
he might give. But the odds are all against you.
If we fight, captains are amisk He's way, Yes, how
else do you propose to fight? Speak up, Stam and

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stop smiling so smugly? I maintain the captain is courageous
only when he fights on his own terms, with his
own weapons, in ways familiar to himself.

Speaker 6 (02:53:42):
Name you ar weapons, name your my Paatians.

Speaker 28 (02:53:44):
That is what I'm about to do. Then we shall
see whether you're quite so eager to fight.

Speaker 19 (02:53:51):
No conditions you impose can stop me from bringing you
to account for your insults. Then I propose that we
use pistols to be fired, with the barrels not more
than six inch, says from each other's heart one of
the pistols to be loaded. The others will contain only
a cap. This is upset.

Speaker 28 (02:54:07):
Those are my condition.

Speaker 19 (02:54:08):
Measure I appeal to you. Is this during it is madness.
I think this poor fellow is well. I know what
has twisted his mind against me. I'm afraid, Captains of
the masque, you have brought this upon yourself. You know
our customs here and your attitude about them. I'm sure
the men will all agree with me. There, you see
very well, I accept. I am afraid of no man living.

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Very well, I shall be your rayed, Lieutenant stem have
I a.

Speaker 6 (02:54:34):
Friend a second for me?

Speaker 19 (02:54:37):
Hold on me, Captain as regimental doctor. I must be
there anyhow, Thank you, Doctor Beliath.

Speaker 6 (02:54:44):
What is the place the.

Speaker 28 (02:54:45):
Tomb of the two brothers?

Speaker 6 (02:54:46):
Very well? The time I presume is done it is.
I shall be there promptly, have done.

Speaker 33 (02:55:21):
So.

Speaker 19 (02:55:23):
The time for this outrageous duel was set, and on
the night before Marianna, a long kate wrapped snugly about her,
knocked on Captain Zadimirski's door. The night was dark, and
from the sky fell sheets of silver rain.

Speaker 1 (02:55:46):
Marianna, well haven't you been to ask me?

Speaker 19 (02:55:50):
In you are yes, just of course come in. You're
drenched here, let me take your coat. Yeah, come inside
as a fine library. I was writing, Oh, George, what
is it, Mariana?

Speaker 1 (02:56:04):
Why are you here?

Speaker 6 (02:56:05):
You will catch your death of cold out in this
weather midnight? Nourse, sit over here ere now tell me
what's wrong?

Speaker 1 (02:56:15):
Please?

Speaker 24 (02:56:15):
George, stop acting? I know no, no, what about you?
And stam about tomorrow? Why didn't you tell me, George?
Why I hope to spare you, spare me when I
may not see you again?

Speaker 6 (02:56:30):
Ever?

Speaker 31 (02:56:31):
Don't you suppose I want every minute with you I
can help.

Speaker 36 (02:56:33):
I only thought good, George, George, I love you so much.
I can't be able thought of anything.

Speaker 1 (02:56:42):
Happening to you.

Speaker 6 (02:56:43):
Please, Marianna, don't upset yourself.

Speaker 8 (02:56:45):
George, Please please don't go through with this. We can
go away from here anywhere, But Darling, my honor?

Speaker 19 (02:56:52):
Is it honor?

Speaker 6 (02:56:54):
What is honor about this so called duel?

Speaker 1 (02:56:57):
There's nothing more than wanton destruction of human life?

Speaker 32 (02:57:01):
Please, George, Must.

Speaker 31 (02:57:03):
I beg you to come away with me?

Speaker 6 (02:57:05):
No, Yanna, I can't.

Speaker 8 (02:57:07):
But your life belongs to be now too.

Speaker 31 (02:57:11):
Didn't you think that much of me?

Speaker 6 (02:57:13):
In the name of heaven Marianna stopped torturing me.

Speaker 19 (02:57:16):
I love you with all my heart, but can't you
see me a skillful duellist to refuse Stam's conditions. That
would be an admission that I fight only when the
artist stacked on my side, and.

Speaker 6 (02:57:28):
That would be cowardly. I I could not live with myself.

Speaker 19 (02:57:32):
It would eat at my conscience until George, I command
you not to go through with it. Ayanna, I love
you even more for what you're trying to do, but
I can't do what you ask what even you would
be ashamed of me? Could you possibly love a dishonorable man?

Speaker 59 (02:57:53):
I suppose you're right, George. I wouldn't love you the less,
but you would come to hate me. George, George, whatever happens,
remember I shall always love you always.

Speaker 22 (02:58:11):
I would think of you any minute.

Speaker 31 (02:58:13):
Maria, goodbye, my love. I'll be waiting for you at
my window tomorrow, waiting and watching for you to write
back to me until tomorrow, then darling, until tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (02:58:35):
Oh oh, are you all right?

Speaker 7 (02:58:42):
Captain?

Speaker 19 (02:58:43):
Yes, I see you Stamming. The others are already here.
Good morning, Doctor Bliah, Good morning Major A Lectures. Captains
of the Mask Jim if you are ready, then, gentlemen,
your sabers plant them here about a face apart.

Speaker 6 (02:59:03):
That's it.

Speaker 19 (02:59:05):
Who gives the word to fire, gentlemen, Major alecxis to Mediana. Surely, Captain,
stand behind your sabers, gentlemen. Lieutenant Stam has finished the pistols.

Speaker 37 (02:59:18):
If Captain Zodomirski is ready, we shall load them.

Speaker 19 (02:59:20):
Oh, that is unnecessary. One has a live ball. The
other is not loaded. Lieutenant Stam, do you know which
is which? It doesn't matter that Amirski can choose first.
This one, then, gentlemen take the other. Stam ready, gentlemen,
we are waiting.

Speaker 1 (02:59:37):
Major, you are very brave, said Amersky.

Speaker 19 (02:59:41):
Who I saw Marianna watching for you at her window.

Speaker 63 (02:59:46):
But she will not see you.

Speaker 20 (02:59:48):
Right back, Captain, Why.

Speaker 19 (02:59:51):
You drew a blank, Captain, said Amisky.

Speaker 6 (02:59:53):
Fire in God's name.

Speaker 7 (02:59:54):
Fire.

Speaker 26 (02:59:55):
That is for me to decide whether I fire or not.

Speaker 6 (02:59:57):
Quick brace, stop this silly talk.

Speaker 61 (02:59:59):
Fire.

Speaker 19 (02:59:59):
I have not to kill you, but I've proven my point.
You are a skilled duellist. But under these conditions your
skill has been useless. They decided that you should die
in that eye. You haven't sulted me. I could have
cut you the ribbons and put a bullet through your
high at twenty paces. But I accepted your terms.

Speaker 18 (03:00:15):
Fire.

Speaker 6 (03:00:15):
I have nothing more to say to you.

Speaker 26 (03:00:16):
Major Alexis judge.

Speaker 19 (03:00:18):
This all I want of him is a promise not
to be so quick to fight duels because of some
silly whim. Tell him acceptance of such conditions cannot mar
his honor has conducted himself bravely. He can accept the
proposed conditions, can he not? Gentlemen, he consents, then it
is you who speaks, Major, not Captain of Themiski. Captain,
it is falling not to accept these terms. Can be

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no staindy your honor accept.

Speaker 61 (03:00:44):
Very well.

Speaker 6 (03:00:45):
I accept.

Speaker 19 (03:00:47):
Sheathe your sabers. Then, gentlemen, my compliments. Captains of the Miski.
You have shown yourself a brave man in the face
of death. The pistol we're not loaded, but either of
them professions this greater than before. Now we must fight,

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and the pistols will be loaded if I have to
load myself in tust me. If you want, I've spared
your life. I'll not take it now, my heart, thank God.

Speaker 26 (03:01:17):
Hold honest man.

Speaker 19 (03:01:18):
If you don't fight so the mask he'll fight me.
This is outrageous to think that I, hey, was your second.
You back to the scoundrel. I will pay. I'll have
your blind if nature doesn't kill you, why surely now
get off your heart. Let me at him right all,
choose one among you, and I'll fight him out of
my right now.

Speaker 26 (03:01:37):
I have other business to attend to at the moment.

Speaker 8 (03:01:39):
Pass then come back, rogue.

Speaker 6 (03:01:43):
He's a disgrace to the uniform.

Speaker 37 (03:01:46):
Major.

Speaker 19 (03:01:48):
I propose we see that he resigns. This is a
serious offense he made of the mask. Go through all
the sensations of a man condemned to death while he
himself was at ease. I I can complete the necessary
ill health certificates or Stam's release. I agree, Doctor, Have

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we any dissenters?

Speaker 6 (03:02:10):
Not at all?

Speaker 19 (03:02:11):
Major Captains that are miski our humblest apologies.

Speaker 6 (03:02:16):
It This is all right, mate, that's scoundrel. He's up
to them.

Speaker 19 (03:02:23):
I should just be retired to quarters with some breakfast.
Look riding toward Mademoisell Ravinsky's doctor. Come with me quickly
before it is too late. Hurry, doctor, hurry, she's not
at the window. Something has happened.

Speaker 6 (03:02:47):
Follow me, Mariana, Marianna Marianna. Speak to me. Stand by, captain,
let me see you.

Speaker 27 (03:03:03):
It's is she.

Speaker 63 (03:03:06):
Yes, her heart some great shock.

Speaker 6 (03:03:12):
It was a chronic ailment. I understand her.

Speaker 19 (03:03:16):
Nor speak to me, Captain, help me lift it to
the bay.

Speaker 6 (03:03:24):
Can't be it's not shoe.

Speaker 7 (03:03:26):
Come away now, captain.

Speaker 19 (03:03:28):
Come He did it, stam, I see it all now,
the duel, the whole thing planned so diabolically.

Speaker 6 (03:03:39):
He never meant to fight.

Speaker 19 (03:03:42):
This was his intention all the time, to ride past
her window, to make her think I was dead.

Speaker 6 (03:03:49):
He knew her heart could never stand that shock.

Speaker 68 (03:03:51):
He knew.

Speaker 6 (03:03:52):
Come away, Captain, Come away.

Speaker 1 (03:03:53):
He knew.

Speaker 6 (03:03:55):
He shall pay for this. I'll make him pay for
this if it's the last thing I ever do.

Speaker 1 (03:04:01):
Come back, captain, where are you going?

Speaker 30 (03:04:02):
I'll make him pay. I'll make him pay.

Speaker 26 (03:04:13):
To the whiskey fine to put up the stable.

Speaker 36 (03:04:16):
Holay ruspent you in the sound.

Speaker 1 (03:04:20):
This month?

Speaker 26 (03:04:23):
Now draw?

Speaker 16 (03:04:24):
Wait?

Speaker 26 (03:04:25):
Wait, I I tricked you only to test your courage.
You killed Marianna. No I did not.

Speaker 12 (03:04:31):
You did?

Speaker 1 (03:04:31):
It was your whole.

Speaker 26 (03:04:32):
Scheme, wasn't it.

Speaker 19 (03:04:34):
Answer me, answer me, yes, yes, I told that all
the man would have her, and I meant it.

Speaker 1 (03:04:46):
I have meant.

Speaker 15 (03:04:46):
Tell me word of it.

Speaker 26 (03:04:48):
And now if it's a fight you want, you'll get it.
Come ahead, we'll see now what just host.

Speaker 12 (03:04:55):
Kill for you are.

Speaker 6 (03:05:00):
Understand you can do better than that. Are you tired already?

Speaker 26 (03:05:08):
Your blood?

Speaker 1 (03:05:09):
Stand?

Speaker 26 (03:05:09):
See it trickles down your arms?

Speaker 8 (03:05:13):
Stop?

Speaker 26 (03:05:14):
Stop my blade, burn the dope, pick it up with mercy.
For the love of Heaven, mercy, mercy.

Speaker 19 (03:05:24):
I'll give you messing no, the same kind you gave
Mariana hod no dop.

Speaker 6 (03:05:31):
Now who is courageous?

Speaker 1 (03:05:33):
So stand up like a soldier.

Speaker 7 (03:05:35):
Don't know, Hurd, It's done.

Speaker 8 (03:05:47):
M h.

Speaker 6 (03:05:51):
Gone, traver, Miriam.

Speaker 37 (03:05:57):
I can't believe it.

Speaker 19 (03:06:00):
I but it was true Marianna who was dead? That's
all the story I know, Father, h How did he

(03:06:22):
come here to you?

Speaker 67 (03:06:25):
One day night long ago we found him unconscious on
the road outside the monastery. We nursed him, and when
he opened his eyes and looked at us, we were
struck with a terrible sadness in them. He secured himself, meditating,
trying to find some solace in his sorrow. Day by

(03:06:47):
day he wasted away. Tearly was the man you've seen
in there?

Speaker 33 (03:06:53):
Er?

Speaker 19 (03:06:53):
How changed he is?

Speaker 6 (03:06:57):
Father?

Speaker 32 (03:06:59):
Will it be.

Speaker 8 (03:07:01):
Only a little while?

Speaker 27 (03:07:04):
Has he any kin.

Speaker 6 (03:07:06):
We can notify.

Speaker 37 (03:07:07):
No, no, he's alone.

Speaker 1 (03:07:11):
Oh wait, try and Chekhov is he.

Speaker 18 (03:07:18):
M hm?

Speaker 19 (03:07:20):
The nod of the head, and that is the final word.
I see it's over for him. Now it lasts somewhere.

Speaker 8 (03:07:36):
They're together again.

Speaker 19 (03:07:39):
I've lost a great friend, father, We've lost a great man.

Speaker 29 (03:07:58):
From the time warn pages the past. We have brought
you the story the duel without honor.

Speaker 1 (03:08:08):
Well, keep all abou.

Speaker 29 (03:09:05):
Let every go signal remind you that you do go
farther with signal gasoline, the Signal Oil program, the Signal
Oil Company, and your neighborhood signal dealer bring you another

(03:09:26):
curious story by the whistler the night.

Speaker 1 (03:09:30):
Beware the bridegroom.

Speaker 44 (03:09:48):
I am the whistler, and I know many things, for
I walk by night. I know many strange tales, many
secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women who
have stepped into the shadow. Presently I'll tell you of
nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.

Speaker 29 (03:10:11):
But first I think you'll be interested in a letter
from Chaptain Joseph E. Bolam, who writes this is to
express the Signal Oil Company my gratitude and that of
literally thousands of men for the abundant supply of salvo games.
Both on the outbound voyage and on the return trip
when we brought back many wounded and battle weary men.

(03:10:34):
You could find salvo games in progress on any part
of the ship, and I noticed that, whereas card and
chess and other games were often interrupted when I walked by,
salvo players were so engrossed they couldn't see anything but
their game. I sincerely hope Signal Oil Company will be
able to continue their generous supply of this excellent game.

Speaker 1 (03:10:59):
Friends.

Speaker 29 (03:11:00):
Weeks ago, we announced on this program that a limited
supply of Salvo games would be available to the public.
There are still a few of these games left at
Signal stations. However, in view of the constantly increasing demand
for salvo games from men in the armed forces, the
Signal Oil Company feels that from now on, every Salvo

(03:11:21):
game should be sent where it's most needed for the
recreation of our boys in uniform. Now the whistler, The
lights are low, the music is soft. It's the cameo bar,

(03:11:44):
one of those dimly lit mist shows in New York
where people come to drink and be happy, where others
come to drink and be said over there in the
corner at the bar, John Lane and Biff Allen.

Speaker 44 (03:11:55):
The city they're morose. New York hasn't been so kind.
New York hasn't even noticed. They're on their uppers.

Speaker 1 (03:12:02):
And they don't at all like the prospect mile bef
drank up.

Speaker 6 (03:12:11):
I don't no worry.

Speaker 1 (03:12:12):
This is probably my last drink in a long time.
I can't afford anyone. Where do we go from here?

Speaker 6 (03:12:19):
Johnny?

Speaker 1 (03:12:19):
I was just gonna ask you the same thing. Oh,
what's the new record gonna be? I'm fresher. Life is sad,
that's lousy.

Speaker 69 (03:12:29):
We had to come to New York. Yeah, bigger pickings,
you said, bigger suckers.

Speaker 1 (03:12:35):
All right, all right, I was wrong. You were one.

Speaker 44 (03:12:38):
Hundred percent wrong. Yes, yes, Money is the root of
all eves. Oh that's wrong then, the love of money,
all right?

Speaker 1 (03:12:47):
Sports, your college education? You know when I feel good
when I'm in the bucks. Life's no good when you're broke.

Speaker 44 (03:12:56):
Whoever said money isn't everything didn't know what they were
talking about. It's everything all right with me.

Speaker 1 (03:13:04):
I'm going back home. You know, if you're not starving's
no fun?

Speaker 26 (03:13:09):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:13:09):
Sure, the same, you bet? Oh now, ain't it. Yeah,
I'm getting told her every minute. The hometown's cooled off
by now it's after elections. Huh, I'm afraid we're remembered. Well,
hey boys, why don't you look what you're doing? Sorry,
Oh you're sorry. That's gonna help my suit ate it clumsy?
He said he was sorry, Johnny, Yeah, I said I wasn't.

(03:13:31):
Don't don't bother me. I'll figure grasses up againe. Thanks,
I said, I was sorry. Jelly. You want to watch
that temperate It was an accident, Yes, I know, I know. Anyhow,
we have to think of something. Nothing now under the.

Speaker 69 (03:13:45):
Sun, Shakespeare said, then could be You know, Johnny, I've
been sitting here looking into.

Speaker 1 (03:13:53):
This glass of scotch. What do you see the reflection
of my right eye? Yeah, it's bloodshine. Oh I'm trying
to think.

Speaker 44 (03:14:05):
Look at the reflection of your right eye. It's more soothing.
I could spit in my right eye. I'm not sore,
No future in it. Now, I'm going back home. I
miss my old lady. She could fix a beef strugg
enough that would melt in your mouth.

Speaker 1 (03:14:20):
You've got exotic tastes.

Speaker 6 (03:14:22):
That's what's wrong with you.

Speaker 1 (03:14:23):
I miss my old lady. She'd throw you out of
the house, you know, Jennny, Maybe we could try to
dream up something sort of legal. I tried that once. Yeah, Hey,
look what that mouse in a red dress?

Speaker 69 (03:14:42):
Well there sitting alone in the boots too, skinny, she's
passing out, So let's give her a hand.

Speaker 1 (03:14:50):
Oh lesson, said Galahad, desperate angling and all time law.
Well I don't get it. Hey, wait a minute, Maybe
I do loves one of this combo. Go ahead, were
the chance maybe faith center. She's got class.

Speaker 44 (03:15:06):
I'm not interested in her social background. It's her money
I'm thinking about.

Speaker 1 (03:15:10):
There's real diamonds on her fingers, and I'm a cross
side kangaroo. Stay here, I make it good, Johnny. Remember
the mortgage, Johnny, old homestead. This isn't chivalry gleaning in
my eye, but it may pass for it. Believe it
at me. Who knows she might pave the way to
a whole acre of beef strogging out.

Speaker 44 (03:15:35):
And so John Allen goes over to the booth and
speaks to the little mouse in the red dress. Presently
they leave the cameo bar, the girl leaning heavily on
John's arm, and heal a taxi, and as it drives off, John.

Speaker 1 (03:15:48):
Gets a chance to eye those diamonds at close range.
They're real, all right? And you fall into something good
here John, Where am I?

Speaker 33 (03:16:01):
What happened?

Speaker 44 (03:16:02):
You're in a taxi, Miss Warren. I'm seeing you home.
Oh you were a pretty sick girl back in that bar.

Speaker 33 (03:16:09):
How do you know my name? Who are you?

Speaker 44 (03:16:12):
I looked in your purse, hoping I might find a
clue to your address, and I only found a clue.
I found the Hall of works, right a miss card,
missus Julie Warren Park Plaza Hotel in New York City.
You are Miss Warren, aren't you?

Speaker 33 (03:16:24):
It was very kind of you. I wasn't sick. I
mean not the way you think. I had only one drink.

Speaker 1 (03:16:29):
Sometimes it takes only one.

Speaker 33 (03:16:31):
Oh no, I I haven't feeling very well. I had
no business being there.

Speaker 1 (03:16:34):
Probably nobody I joint had any business being there.

Speaker 33 (03:16:37):
Er almost to the hotel, aren't we?

Speaker 61 (03:16:39):
Yes?

Speaker 26 (03:16:40):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (03:16:40):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (03:16:40):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:16:40):
By the way, Uh, my name is Lane, John Lane.

Speaker 44 (03:16:43):
How do you do another? By the way, I helped
myself to a small portion of the contents of your
purse too, to ray the expenses of this transportation of
hope you don't mind, not at all, with careless stupidity.

Speaker 1 (03:16:56):
I I left my wallet at home. Oh right, you
know you shouldn't carry so much money around with him dangerous?
Oh haven't you heard there are thieves abroad in the night?

Speaker 33 (03:17:05):
Are you a thief?

Speaker 6 (03:17:06):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:17:07):
Do I look like a high woman?

Speaker 33 (03:17:08):
High women rarely do.

Speaker 19 (03:17:11):
We.

Speaker 1 (03:17:12):
You youd better lie back.

Speaker 33 (03:17:14):
Relax, you'd better take your hand off my arm.

Speaker 1 (03:17:16):
H I just wanted you to be comfortable.

Speaker 70 (03:17:18):
I'm sorry. You have done me a real favor, haven't you.
I thought so, I have to be careful a millionaires
huh several times over? Mm must be convenient, the opposite.

Speaker 33 (03:17:28):
Why My grandfather Josiah T.

Speaker 41 (03:17:31):
Warren made several dozen fortunes by dreaming of a new
kind of soap.

Speaker 33 (03:17:34):
When he died, he left twenty million dollars to me.

Speaker 1 (03:17:37):
So naturally, you have to be careful.

Speaker 33 (03:17:39):
Everyone is after my money.

Speaker 1 (03:17:40):
Oh why attribute base motives to everyone?

Speaker 33 (03:17:44):
Look at me.

Speaker 70 (03:17:45):
My money hasn't made me glamorous, so beautiful. I'm a
plain Jane, and I know it. So and anyone aks interested.
I naturally attributed to the money.

Speaker 1 (03:17:54):
Ah, you've got a complex. You aren't that bad.

Speaker 33 (03:17:57):
Thanks for being galant.

Speaker 1 (03:17:58):
Uh huh ah, here's the park plaza.

Speaker 33 (03:18:02):
Yes, yes, thank you?

Speaker 1 (03:18:04):
May I see you again? Why suspicious?

Speaker 33 (03:18:08):
As always?

Speaker 1 (03:18:09):
I'd like to snap you out of that complex, Poor
little rich girl.

Speaker 33 (03:18:12):
Think you're up to the job. I'm a bundle of neuroses.

Speaker 1 (03:18:15):
My middle name is freud.

Speaker 33 (03:18:17):
Mine is cautious. You know there might be a common.

Speaker 1 (03:18:20):
Meeting ground for the two somewhere along the line. Well,
Friday night, all right?

Speaker 33 (03:18:26):
Sure, as they say in the confession magazines.

Speaker 14 (03:18:29):
It's a date.

Speaker 1 (03:18:38):
Yes, it's a date, John Lane. It was easy, wasn't it.

Speaker 44 (03:18:42):
She may be cautious, but not cautious enough, And so
you take back the good news to your friend lif.

Speaker 1 (03:18:49):
Hello bev Johnny? Well, where set honest break, good hunch?

Speaker 44 (03:18:55):
All that pipe's fo Yeah, he's got millions and she's pore.

Speaker 1 (03:18:59):
Holy cow, what we stepped into? Can you step out
when you want to? Who said I wanted to step out?
What do you mean, Johnny?

Speaker 71 (03:19:05):
I don't say I didn't warn your bits. But you
are now looking at the lucky gent who will shortly
marry and settle down with Julie Warren the soup heires

(03:19:28):
enjoying yourself, Chillie my favorite orchestra.

Speaker 41 (03:19:32):
Will you dance beautifully, Johnny, You're my favorite partner.

Speaker 1 (03:19:36):
I'll bet you say that to all your partners. Happy,
very happy.

Speaker 33 (03:19:41):
Let's never stop dancing.

Speaker 1 (03:19:42):
Show whatever you say.

Speaker 26 (03:20:00):
You're good.

Speaker 1 (03:20:01):
And I was raised in a fire in Michigan. I've
been riding since I was nine. But you gave me
a real race.

Speaker 41 (03:20:06):
Well I should, Johnny, I went to the best riding academy.

Speaker 26 (03:20:09):
I'm not a bit.

Speaker 1 (03:20:10):
Oh you look swell, Julie Radiant.

Speaker 33 (03:20:12):
I owe it to you, Johnny.

Speaker 41 (03:20:14):
You got me out of that shell and into the open.
These weeks have been wonderful.

Speaker 33 (03:20:18):
Come on, come on, I'll race you back to the stays.

Speaker 1 (03:20:20):
Okay, here, I come right after you.

Speaker 44 (03:20:31):
And so the campaign continues, dining, dancing, horseback riding, the theater,
the races, the works, and it's a success. Julie Warren
and John Lane sneak off quietly to Connecticut one day
and are married off to Bermuda for a honeymoon, a
blissful idol, and then return. Make it look good, Johnny,

(03:20:52):
Oh oh we're back. I can't just sit around being
a rich woman's husband.

Speaker 1 (03:20:56):
Why not?

Speaker 33 (03:20:58):
I just couldn't you get bored?

Speaker 1 (03:21:00):
Might yes, you might, then you won't mind, dear.

Speaker 33 (03:21:04):
Of course not Johnny.

Speaker 1 (03:21:05):
Oh good.

Speaker 41 (03:21:06):
I want you to be happy, and if you have
to be busy to be happy, of.

Speaker 1 (03:21:09):
Course, I'm glad you agree with me. Sweet excuse me, yes, sir,
that's pleasure. And so John Lane gets a job, or
so he tells Julie.

Speaker 44 (03:21:26):
So he's not around in the daytime, but by night
there's the theater and parties, weekend yachting excursions, plane clips,
nothing too expensive, but two grands.

Speaker 1 (03:21:36):
Life is easy, life is charming and without care.

Speaker 44 (03:21:40):
The marriage of John Lane and Julie Warren is a
sensational success until one day.

Speaker 33 (03:21:47):
Hello, John, Hi, Darlene back from work so early?

Speaker 1 (03:21:50):
Yes, I'll have to hurry.

Speaker 41 (03:21:51):
And by the way, we're not going to the theater tonight?

Speaker 1 (03:21:54):
Oh why not have some talking?

Speaker 33 (03:21:56):
What do you mean, Johnny?

Speaker 27 (03:21:59):
You love me?

Speaker 1 (03:21:59):
Don't of course?

Speaker 8 (03:22:00):
There?

Speaker 33 (03:22:01):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (03:22:02):
What are you leading up to? Julie?

Speaker 33 (03:22:05):
Sat down, won't you?

Speaker 1 (03:22:07):
Yeah, I'm sure I have something to tell you.

Speaker 72 (03:22:10):
So I gathered comfortable? Quiet, don't stall I'm broke. What
about the soap a lie and the soap millions?

Speaker 33 (03:22:23):
Sheer fabrication? O?

Speaker 27 (03:22:26):
Yes, good?

Speaker 1 (03:22:28):
Why Julie.

Speaker 33 (03:22:32):
I can see your surprise.

Speaker 1 (03:22:34):
Put the set up, your clothes, your jewels. Opt hmm,
you fooled me.

Speaker 33 (03:22:41):
You don't really mind, do you, Johnny?

Speaker 14 (03:22:44):
I love you?

Speaker 23 (03:22:47):
Why?

Speaker 1 (03:22:48):
And how did you do it?

Speaker 33 (03:22:51):
I grew up in Red Wing Minnesota?

Speaker 18 (03:22:53):
Go on?

Speaker 33 (03:22:54):
Have you ever been to Red Wing Minnesota?

Speaker 1 (03:22:56):
Oh?

Speaker 41 (03:22:58):
I wanted to get away. I was an orth When
I was twelve, an old woman adopted me. She wanted
a maid.

Speaker 1 (03:23:04):
Cheap you, yes, a million's the clothes. You'll read that.

Speaker 41 (03:23:11):
This old woman tried to be nice, but she didn't
quite know how to do. She let me go to
night school and rush up on my grammar and things
like that. Last year she died, she left me ten
thousand dollars. I've never been very popular.

Speaker 70 (03:23:26):
Johnny had a very exciting life, and I wanted a
romance and excitement and glamor the husband. So I sunk
the whole ten thousand dollars in clothes.

Speaker 1 (03:23:36):
And jewels, disappartment and you're married with me.

Speaker 33 (03:23:40):
Everything came true, Johnny.

Speaker 1 (03:23:42):
I love you.

Speaker 33 (03:23:43):
I love you terribly.

Speaker 41 (03:23:45):
I know that it's probably something of a shock that
I should practice such a deception, but well, I didn't
want to go out of fooling you any more? Hu Anyhow,
I can't afford to the rent's overdo Now what are
we going to do?

Speaker 27 (03:24:02):
Do?

Speaker 33 (03:24:03):
Yes, Johnny what.

Speaker 1 (03:24:06):
I haven't a sent, but your job haven't any But
I'm going to the races and the money you gave me.

Speaker 33 (03:24:19):
Then we're both stakes and carrot.

Speaker 1 (03:24:24):
That's a laugh, isn't it.

Speaker 29 (03:24:37):
You were listening to the whistler brought to you by
your friend. The Signal Oil Company marketers are famous. Signal
Gasoline your best buy today. Remember to let every go
Signal remind you you do go farther with Signal gasoline.

Speaker 1 (03:25:11):
Well, this is quite a surprise, isn't it. John?

Speaker 44 (03:25:14):
You married Julie because you thought she was worth millions.
Now you find out she hasn't a sent. Two cheeks
caught with each other.

Speaker 1 (03:25:23):
So you go out for a walk to talk things
over and to have a talk with Biff Allen at
his rooming house. No, I'm not kidding, she hasn't got
a scent. The rent's overdue, I would believe it. We
got taken by a mouse in a red dress. I'm
not so sure.

Speaker 37 (03:25:40):
Wear me.

Speaker 1 (03:25:41):
Maybe we'll come out of it, okay, after all? Oh,
the Dame hasn't got any money. I've just remembered something.
An insurance policy.

Speaker 44 (03:25:48):
I'm insurance policy, yeah, for twenty grand I don't get it, no,
but I do if she dies.

Speaker 1 (03:25:55):
Yeah. I ran across it one day and her things.
She said, you'd forgotten about it. But now that we
were married, have me named as beneficiary? And she did? Yeah,
she did.

Speaker 28 (03:26:03):
I saw to it.

Speaker 44 (03:26:04):
But I still don't see. You don't get it until
she dies, that's right, and she's good for plenty of
years yet. Yeah, and we need the money now, right again,
So there's only one solution now what she's got to
die now?

Speaker 1 (03:26:17):
But wait a minute, Johnny. Now, we've done a lot
of things, but we never got into anything like that.
I don't plan to. I'm not interested in murder in
this state. You burn, not me. I'll figure away. I
won't get caught. Hey, listen, plenty of guys have tried
and they got caught.

Speaker 28 (03:26:31):
Don't do it.

Speaker 1 (03:26:32):
We can make money some other way and live to enjoy.
Worry too much, Biff, Now, don't worry. I'll be okay, Johnny.

Speaker 7 (03:26:39):
I mean, you're really good to do.

Speaker 1 (03:26:39):
It, Yes, I am. I'm not going to be made
a sucker. By a mouse in a red dress. Well, Johnny,
you're going to take the chance, are you the big chance?
I think you can get away with it? Do you
well planned?

Speaker 44 (03:27:00):
Carefully figure the whole thing out as you walk back
to the hotel, Get up your nerve as you slip
in the back door and sneak up the stairs. Now
into the apartment, and get it over with as fast
as possible.

Speaker 41 (03:27:17):
Johnny, Johnny, is that you?

Speaker 42 (03:27:19):
Well?

Speaker 23 (03:27:19):
I was too worried about you.

Speaker 1 (03:27:20):
Where'd you go?

Speaker 33 (03:27:22):
Johnny? What's the matter? Why are you looking at me
like that? Johnny? Stop it, Johnny? What are you going
to do? Johnny?

Speaker 32 (03:27:39):
Stop?

Speaker 33 (03:27:40):
John jop.

Speaker 1 (03:27:50):
All right, it's done. Now your plans, the plan you
thought of coming back here, that's it.

Speaker 44 (03:27:57):
Drag out of your drawers, throw the contents on the floor,
knock over chairs. Make it look good, Make it look
like a terrific struggle, like a burglar that tried to
rifle the place.

Speaker 1 (03:28:09):
Yes, that's it. It's a shambles. Now get out of here,
quickly down the backstairs the way you came in. Don't
let anybody see you, and hurry to the cameo bar.
It's not there as you thought he'd be. But the
bartender is, and he's the one you want anyway. Hello,
mister Lane, what's it gonna be? Same as the last one?

(03:28:33):
Last one? But you didn't have any other drinks?

Speaker 37 (03:28:36):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:28:36):
Sure I did, don't you remember about fifteen minutes ago? Hey,
you're joking, mister Lane.

Speaker 61 (03:28:40):
You just came in.

Speaker 1 (03:28:41):
You haven't been here all day.

Speaker 73 (03:28:43):
Mister Allen was here, but he got a phone call
and left about fifteen minutes ago.

Speaker 44 (03:28:46):
Now, Joe, you could be mistaken about that, couldn't you.
Maybe you just didn't see me come in. Maybe you
just didn't notice me sitting back there in the back booth. Yeah,
but I would have thought maybe this will help you
to remember that I've been here for two hours all
afternoon almost.

Speaker 1 (03:29:00):
Hey, that's a one hundred dollars bill. Yeah, but I
could use a hundred, couldn't you? Yeah?

Speaker 44 (03:29:08):
Sure, sure, Okay, it's yours, go on take it. That's right,
Oh Joe, I'll have another one just like the last one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
Miss Laine's got your water coming up? Simple, isn't it, Johnny,

(03:29:30):
Your alibi is all established. Joe's like anybody else, He'll
keep his mouth shut for a hundred bucks. Now all
you have to do is go back to the hotel,
taking your time, stop at the desk for your key,
ride up in the elevator and chat with the operator.

Speaker 1 (03:29:46):
Go into the apartment, find the body, and yell for help. Simple,
isn't it. But it's even simpler when you get there
because the elevator boy has news for you. There's something
doing up on your floor, mister man, something doing what.
I don't know, but there are cops up there. This

(03:30:07):
is even better. Somebody's already found about it. A chambermaid.
Perhaps you get off, go in and there they are. Why.
What's the matter? What's going on here?

Speaker 19 (03:30:20):
Oh?

Speaker 74 (03:30:21):
Here, mister Lane, I'm mister Lane. What all these I'm uh,
I'm sorry, mister Lane. I I have some bad news
for you.

Speaker 1 (03:30:29):
What's the matter? Well, what's happened here? Where's Julie?

Speaker 63 (03:30:33):
I'm sorry, mister Lane. There's been a tragedy. Your wife
is dead dead.

Speaker 75 (03:30:41):
Dead?

Speaker 1 (03:30:43):
Oh, can't be, can't be?

Speaker 7 (03:30:46):
Now?

Speaker 61 (03:30:46):
Please please, mister Lane.

Speaker 6 (03:30:47):
I'll take it.

Speaker 1 (03:30:48):
Hey, Hey, somebody hurry up, bring.

Speaker 26 (03:30:50):
Me some water.

Speaker 1 (03:30:55):
That's right, Johnny, put on a good act. Lay it
on thick. Take a few minutes before you're coherent enough
to ask the inspector question happened.

Speaker 74 (03:31:07):
One of the maids saw a suspicious character breaking into
your room. She called the police, but we didn't get
here in time to save missus Lane. Place was in
shambles and she'd been strained.

Speaker 1 (03:31:16):
You said, a suspicious character, Yes, a burglar.

Speaker 61 (03:31:20):
We got here in time to catch him, just as
he was trying to leave.

Speaker 27 (03:31:24):
You caught him.

Speaker 61 (03:31:24):
Yes, yes, don't worry, mister Lane. He'll be brought to
justice for the murder of your wife.

Speaker 1 (03:31:37):
Now what can this mean? John?

Speaker 44 (03:31:39):
This is really an unexpected twist, but it makes everything
even simpler. There's nothing to it now. But they want
you to go down and take a look at the
man they caught, and so you do. You'd want you anyway.
You're curious to see the man you're sending to the
electric chair only your night quite prepared for the shock.

Speaker 74 (03:32:00):
Here's mister Lane. If al On he's called, he swears
he didn't kill your wife, but he won't say much
else except that he wanted to see you.

Speaker 1 (03:32:11):
I don't know why. Yeah, I wanted to see him
because I figure he'll have something to say. I figure
he'll tell you I couldn't have killed his wife. Go on,
Johnny tell him. You know this man, mister Lane, Why
go on, Johnny tell orm I didn't kill her. I
never saw him before in my life. Honey, he wouldn't
do that to me. I don't know what you're talking about.

(03:32:32):
I don't know you, Okay, if that's the way you're
gonna work it, inspector, he knows me, all right. Only
this afternoon he come to my rooming house. My landlady
will testify to that, and he told me he was
gonna murder his wife. That's fantastic. He's making up a
fantastic story to try to war him out of it.

Speaker 26 (03:32:48):
You know he did it.

Speaker 1 (03:32:48):
You caught him there. I went there to try to
stop you from doing it, but I was too late.

Speaker 61 (03:32:52):
Mister Lane, where were you about three this afternoon?

Speaker 41 (03:32:55):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:32:55):
You don't believe this man, charlletne. I'm not sure, mister Lane.

Speaker 74 (03:32:58):
You see, that's one thing that puzzle is the coroner
says your wife died about three o'clock. We didn't catch
this man until almost four. Why should he get states along?

Speaker 1 (03:33:10):
I was at a far all afternoon. The bartender will
testify that that. I'm sure he will.

Speaker 6 (03:33:14):
Okay, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (03:33:15):
Come along. Things aren't going so well, are they, Johnny.
Now everything depends on Joe the bartender. But you can
depend on him, can't too, Johnny?

Speaker 61 (03:33:35):
You uh the bartender? Hear you been on duty here
on afternoon?

Speaker 1 (03:33:39):
Yeah? Sure, up two o'clock on Okay, did you ever
see this man?

Speaker 7 (03:33:46):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:33:46):
Yeah, sure, that's miss Tullane.

Speaker 61 (03:33:49):
Was he here about three o'clock this afternoon?

Speaker 6 (03:33:53):
No, no, he wasn't.

Speaker 73 (03:33:55):
He gave me a hundred bucks to say so, but
he wasn't. He didn't get here after three thirty.

Speaker 61 (03:34:01):
Here, Take it easy.

Speaker 73 (03:34:03):
I'm sorry, mister Lane. I thought it was just your
wife you wanted to fool. I had no idea was
anything to do with the police. I can't take any
chances like that, mister Lane. I would have told you that.

Speaker 61 (03:34:13):
All right, Lane, now you'd better come along with me quietly.

Speaker 29 (03:34:25):
The whistler will return in just a moment with a
strange ending of tonight's story. Meantime, here's a typical American
success story, the story of Hal Halverson, who opened a
small signal station in East Long Beach, California, ten years ago.
Or hell, this wasn't just another job, As with all
signal dealers. Scientific lubrication of motor cars was his permanent business.

(03:34:48):
He kept doing that job so conscientiously that today Hal
Halverson's signal station has doubled in size and it takes
three assistance to serve the customers who come back year
after years. One of the things they particularly like is
that they can call Hall at home any time they
need help. For instance, recently, a Long Beach customer called

(03:35:08):
that his car was stalled. He thought it was out
of gas. When Hal took out some gas, he found
the trouble was really a cloud gas line, and the
customer was soon on his way again. Well, that, friends,
is typical of the kind of service we have in
mind when we say you're doing your car a real favor.
When you get acquainted with your neighborhood signal dealer, he's

(03:35:31):
not only a trained expert in lubrication, but because that's
his permanent business, your signal dealer is conscientiously interested as
interested as you are in helping your car go farther.
And now back to the whisper.

Speaker 44 (03:35:56):
Yes, Johnny Lane now sits brooding in his South military
sell up the river. You can't blame him for being
unhappy about Biff wandering in and spoiling the set up.
Only what he's really unhappy about it is that Biff
didn't get there a little sooner in time to stop
the murder. Yes, you see, the reason Biff came to
the hotel and broke into the room was to stop Johnny,

(03:36:19):
to tell him that there was no need to murder Julie,
that he had checked up and found out that she
was a long way from being penniless, in fact, twenty
million dollars away from it. She invented the penniless story
to test Johnny's love for it. She really loved him,
and she didn't know what a chance she was taking,
and he didn't know he.

Speaker 1 (03:36:40):
Was throwing away the sweetest chance of his life. Yes,
he's said, all right, but not for long. The State's
going to end his trouble for him. Any day now.

Speaker 29 (03:37:22):
Next Monday, at nine o'clock, the Signal Oil Program will
bring you another strange tale by the Whistler. The Signal
Oil Program is broadcast for your entertainment by the Signal
Oil Company, marketers of Signals Famous Go Farther Gasoline and
Motor Oil, and by your neighborhood Signal Oil dealer was
at your service daily to keep your car running for

(03:37:44):
the duration. The Signal Oil Program, directed by George w Allen,
with story by Victor Kushner and music by Wilbur Hatch,
is transmitted to our troops overseas by the.

Speaker 1 (03:37:55):
Armed Forces Radio Service.

Speaker 29 (03:37:57):
Bob Anderson speaking for your friend, the Signal Oil Company,
and suggesting once again that you let every go signal
remind you that you do go farther with signal gasoline.
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 14 (03:38:42):
We bring you The Witch's Tale, written and produced by
a lambisod Coal.

Speaker 68 (03:38:50):
The Witch's Tail, Hannah and eleven year old I be today, Yes,
Hannah and eleven year old, we'll satan.

Speaker 76 (03:39:13):
This be a night, dark night to tell folks one
of our pertunity yarns. You folks, start out your life
so as we can listen to our tale as we
said it amongst the shadows.

Speaker 2 (03:39:29):
That's the way to hear our bedtime stories.

Speaker 68 (03:39:33):
Now draw up to the fire and daze intervembers.

Speaker 2 (03:39:39):
Gaze into them jeeps, and soon you'll see.

Speaker 68 (03:39:44):
The hands of time charmed back to Hannah year, back
to the days of pirates, stolen goals and sudden death.
Soon you'll see across roads by a legal bay. Across
roads wi a gallows stands from which two coxies hangs

(03:40:10):
in creaking chains.

Speaker 32 (03:40:13):
Below, hit men are covering up a hole which looks.

Speaker 2 (03:40:18):
Like a new made grave. Through the darkness of the night,
off saw shines.

Speaker 68 (03:40:25):
The light of a pirate ship while men nashing here
and h So begins our story of shell and shell alike, Ah,
shell and shell alike.

Speaker 77 (03:40:55):
The whole ownership of their brown bramshi.

Speaker 78 (03:41:00):
They would be for the cask of rum. I gave
them leave to open their way left. They're not that
to be curious about their captains swear about.

Speaker 74 (03:41:08):
You're a slick one bertainly must atturn to them.

Speaker 78 (03:41:12):
They're happy now, but in another hour they'll cut each
other's throat. It should be unfortunate because when they said
the day life, we shall want.

Speaker 1 (03:41:20):
The crew heard, and all of them would overhaul English.

Speaker 2 (03:41:24):
The news we have be true. That should be within
the week.

Speaker 6 (03:41:27):
And she's old.

Speaker 21 (03:41:28):
It was billian be And when we see their our
crews can divide the car. Why you and me their
captains take the goals. Sad to that was fooling in.

Speaker 1 (03:41:40):
Frenchy buried nobody's gibbets gets safe there.

Speaker 2 (03:41:46):
So there we are ever assured of guardians for our treasure.

Speaker 79 (03:41:50):
You mean our.

Speaker 21 (03:41:51):
Bony friends who squeak so in the change, have begat
them the wordness.

Speaker 78 (03:41:56):
It's one suspected that beneath their dead and dangling he
laid something worth taking. He would still hesitate to argue
its possession with such ghostly bankers.

Speaker 32 (03:42:07):
Should come here alone, because you and.

Speaker 78 (03:42:08):
Me I did jack with pistol and cutlass. You have
your points, but you'll never make a gentleman. What do
you mean you'll forget that they're turning the pirates?

Speaker 2 (03:42:19):
I had what is sometimes called breeding.

Speaker 78 (03:42:23):
Think you I would soil my hands by digging in
the earth with a filthy spade, as our cameras that
are doing.

Speaker 26 (03:42:29):
I would have done it alone.

Speaker 1 (03:42:30):
If you must protect keep Dirk from your hands.

Speaker 2 (03:42:34):
Let to the ship. You would have gone looking like
one who had been digging.

Speaker 78 (03:42:40):
At times, My dear Jack, when I don't believe your
brains were made for taking, Let.

Speaker 2 (03:42:46):
These two digs into secrets. Oh, I Trustling and Frenchy absolutely.
They'll never breathe a word.

Speaker 21 (03:42:53):
What's come over you? You'll trust no one. It's finished
tough budget. Does of those kinds of fresh turner say
for your soup jack?

Speaker 78 (03:43:04):
Or if they had not watched it being done, even
those artists who dance the bob would not suspect.

Speaker 2 (03:43:10):
You have done very well, my good boys. Now back
to the ship where warm ramaway.

Speaker 26 (03:43:14):
Mind you're not aware of this, or I'll cut your
gun out.

Speaker 80 (03:43:18):
Check please, I trust these good boys. Hey, go ahead
with your spadesling in, frenchie, we shall follow.

Speaker 78 (03:43:26):
Hid shut them, and my aim was a myth.

Speaker 2 (03:43:34):
One had time to screen.

Speaker 26 (03:43:35):
Both didn't tell me it was that men.

Speaker 2 (03:43:40):
I told you they would bear no tail.

Speaker 8 (03:43:43):
You're a doul and you were a.

Speaker 2 (03:43:46):
Fool, too soft cotted for our profession.

Speaker 73 (03:43:50):
I may be a pull, but I'll never turn my
back to you because those two.

Speaker 2 (03:43:55):
Did you fear me?

Speaker 78 (03:43:58):
You whose huge hands could crush my puny bones to
jelly everyone.

Speaker 26 (03:44:03):
I am sober as an India.

Speaker 2 (03:44:07):
You'll flappen me.

Speaker 78 (03:44:09):
Look you, you're as full of greed as I. Yonder
on the ground lies a king's ransom. It's whereabouts unknown
to all alive, but just we too. I had three
pistols in my belt.

Speaker 2 (03:44:21):
Here on the ground, I throw the one still loaded,
and there are my cutlass. I am disarmed.

Speaker 78 (03:44:27):
If you would have the secret to yourself, as if
I had wished your death, it could now be mine alone.

Speaker 27 (03:44:35):
Take take back your weapons.

Speaker 37 (03:44:37):
Dandy. Oh you truly my friend, because I'm always.

Speaker 2 (03:44:41):
Oh, yes, you a idiot.

Speaker 37 (03:44:44):
I don't know why.

Speaker 80 (03:44:46):
Perhaps it's because you're such a loud a child, my opposite,
because you amuse me and.

Speaker 2 (03:44:54):
And admire me.

Speaker 21 (03:44:55):
Dandy, We'll always be my friend, my brother.

Speaker 37 (03:44:59):
Will your swear.

Speaker 2 (03:45:00):
Intra make you feel any better? Buttually swear by we
who do not feel the devil and have broken all
the laws of God. You wouldn't, oh.

Speaker 21 (03:45:11):
Wait, waited. We'll swear my justice, this thing we both
fear most.

Speaker 2 (03:45:17):
Justice is a silly word for school boys.

Speaker 80 (03:45:20):
Since you wish it very well, we'll swear by justice,
which for you and I means death upon this gallows tree.

Speaker 1 (03:45:29):
The hands upon the chains in which jangolos bleached.

Speaker 2 (03:45:33):
Out better yet with our hands upon the corpses, we
will swear brother of the strets neck. Excuse the liberty.
I grasped what was formerly your foot.

Speaker 21 (03:45:45):
And touched the body to by justice by the gallows tree.
Why death, we swear to the brother's friends inseparable to share,
and shall a life on that or down in hell?

Speaker 2 (03:45:58):
I swear now you, I swear yeah, now it's come away.

Speaker 78 (03:46:05):
The odor of our dancing friends is scarcely that of flowers.
You must put our good boys ling and Frenchy in
the small boat Jack. When we strike deep water, you
can toss their bodies out. No one will see them
in this darkness, we say the English merchantsman and.

Speaker 2 (03:46:22):
Gold, which will share and share alike?

Speaker 26 (03:46:25):
Which will share?

Speaker 37 (03:46:27):
And shall.

Speaker 2 (03:46:52):
Castle Jack? You're getting drunk drum.

Speaker 78 (03:46:56):
Nothing except that drumas after cloud you're usually then judgment.

Speaker 21 (03:47:01):
Everybody worms for the mood corrupting blast. I tell you
call me I am master here as well as dandy burghers.

Speaker 2 (03:47:15):
Now I know you're a drunk jack. Well I bung
up that cast. We do no more drinking this night.
Keepboards grow hard.

Speaker 81 (03:47:28):
Said, we do no more drinking this night, turk board
master girl, as well as you dandy burgess more wrong.

Speaker 1 (03:47:36):
Don't stuck that silence.

Speaker 2 (03:47:39):
I and this pistol say no more. Keep you with you, mesger.

Speaker 80 (03:47:51):
The English merchant from that should be along tonight. She's
on and then this farm win us have our wits
about us take them into the gun. Sick howl, you
han swans say the grappling hooks already your say, sir
when you speak to me, sir, well John.

Speaker 2 (03:48:09):
Captain Dore is getting his ardis obeying.

Speaker 27 (03:48:12):
Please work to me.

Speaker 8 (03:48:13):
You can handle old villain, and.

Speaker 2 (03:48:19):
I'll have one. You've gone your limit?

Speaker 38 (03:48:22):
What do you mean?

Speaker 2 (03:48:23):
Rum makes you over bowl? Very excellent, this rum? You
will not look too long if I have another, Jack, thank.

Speaker 78 (03:48:33):
You, hum God. But liquors, emptiness and song is folly
until the duet becomes a trio with pale.

Speaker 2 (03:48:41):
Women or even the woman. Oh your eyes shine, Jack Kenny,
think you will be women?

Speaker 18 (03:48:49):
All this merchant would we hope.

Speaker 2 (03:48:51):
To see him, may have to see devil looks after
his jown.

Speaker 21 (03:48:57):
And for all your fine clothes and gentleman's I'll get
the same as you, you sworn, will share.

Speaker 2 (03:49:03):
And cheryl like with women that might be inconvenient.

Speaker 78 (03:49:07):
You sworn, do not try to cheat me, and don't worry.
Only we got across that bridge and we come.

Speaker 26 (03:49:13):
To it no crowded.

Speaker 61 (03:49:14):
Now I know you.

Speaker 21 (03:49:16):
You're taking them from me with your handsome We'll cut
these cars and see who gets those.

Speaker 78 (03:49:21):
Joy very well.

Speaker 2 (03:49:23):
I'll shuffle ol shovel. I wronged you gratfully when I
called you a drunk.

Speaker 1 (03:49:30):
One cut hi cons the one against first George to the.

Speaker 2 (03:49:33):
Women on the tree, very well, I've drawn it ten,
I've drawn the knave.

Speaker 78 (03:49:39):
I would you the choices, and I had little women
on that break if Bennet and we cite it.

Speaker 26 (03:49:47):
Got burchas the English merchant for good and the parts.

Speaker 2 (03:49:50):
Just look that she's flying her report and she said us.

Speaker 78 (03:49:52):
All right, you fool, I'm aster flying the flag of Holland.
Tell the cow not to break out the guns this year.
I mean, I'm suspicious we can get close enough to grapple.

Speaker 32 (03:50:00):
Now with bottle of what I love to fight.

Speaker 78 (03:50:04):
To killing when we have prisoners to carment. The sports
agains from me of course, breaking all the grums. She's
afects an you're a bar.

Speaker 2 (03:50:16):
Give her back up, broad time.

Speaker 26 (03:50:18):
Take down that flag of Holland.

Speaker 82 (03:50:19):
And hots for Dolly waters from me from the yard and.

Speaker 2 (03:50:30):
The neck upon the wind.

Speaker 60 (03:50:32):
Hey president for me, A perture me anymore.

Speaker 2 (03:50:52):
I told you no women are abort the ship. I'm
afraid you've forgotten, Captain.

Speaker 80 (03:50:57):
To improve your memory once more, we'll try to spread
hot poker on your naked foot.

Speaker 2 (03:51:03):
For god, it's too bad. He's fainted again.

Speaker 37 (03:51:10):
He couldn't his lines on the pain, like.

Speaker 78 (03:51:12):
Get down and drink your round. And we captured this bread.
You had your fun at killing.

Speaker 1 (03:51:18):
Now I have my.

Speaker 2 (03:51:19):
Sport by making the survivors pray for that kill us.

Speaker 26 (03:51:24):
Now when have an Overwheek, we've got the gold.

Speaker 2 (03:51:27):
He showed us where it was when you're strongest, but
the minuete dance.

Speaker 78 (03:51:33):
Yes, he's given us the gold because he's yet to
show us for the women hide.

Speaker 2 (03:51:39):
Yes, there I found a woman's glove upon the deck.

Speaker 6 (03:51:43):
Woman's glove.

Speaker 2 (03:51:45):
The woman must be how stud you are? And I
thought that like a clock your brain, a friend is
coming to again.

Speaker 37 (03:51:55):
Women, they're all women.

Speaker 78 (03:51:58):
Well, captain, if because it's had time to heat one floor,
is your memory better?

Speaker 83 (03:52:03):
Now use it again. I'll tell you what you want
to know. Two two men kids back of my captain pendle.

Speaker 78 (03:52:21):
Thank you captain very much lost your and my aims improved.
He never murmured like poor friendship.

Speaker 2 (03:52:31):
Two women find the man and I have my joy.
I come, but leave your bottle here, friend Jack. The
ladies might not like a drinking man.

Speaker 8 (03:52:57):
One more bown.

Speaker 78 (03:52:59):
First they wait, young fool women here you're inside the
wall and what they know is coming cold.

Speaker 42 (03:53:08):
Wait.

Speaker 84 (03:53:08):
I can let them fear the long want the christ.
I want old woman, you know the like and ter
have delightable woman in my arm, and.

Speaker 2 (03:53:18):
Die of her tears and back me, gentlemen. Woman's not
you who screamed.

Speaker 23 (03:53:31):
I'm not the kind who screams. My companion is there behind.

Speaker 1 (03:53:34):
That person head enough breast.

Speaker 32 (03:53:38):
She was afraid you, gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (03:53:41):
She preferred to die and you preferred to live with
the spirits.

Speaker 78 (03:53:46):
You have, my pretty one. How I shall delight to
retain this woman and the man, but the other I
chose the living, and there'll be a pool jack. Oh
ye are brothers. We swnder share and share a the
women you.

Speaker 2 (03:54:00):
Said they would be inconvenience.

Speaker 84 (03:54:02):
Dang aside. I want this woman, but I want I
take you by the time. My pistol is you're drunk.
You don't know what you're doing. Yes, I know, this
woman goes to me.

Speaker 1 (03:54:12):
Come on, I go with the master, and that to
me you I am not so drunk, andy Burgers.

Speaker 26 (03:54:22):
You see, if we go through it all, I do
not turn my back to you.

Speaker 23 (03:54:40):
Really, little man, you are too amusing careful do you
think to frighten me?

Speaker 32 (03:54:47):
The week I said, ab all, this ship's quite.

Speaker 23 (03:54:49):
Accustomed me to pirates even here some time like Captain Baughne,
having boys like.

Speaker 2 (03:54:56):
You don't drive me too far. Listen much.

Speaker 80 (03:54:59):
I tell you that till the night we took you
from that English break, jack Bar was my dog. My
claim that I was master here alone.

Speaker 78 (03:55:07):
Profession of yours turned his head so that now he
tries to rule here in my place.

Speaker 23 (03:55:13):
You will be master once again. Why do you not
take me from him?

Speaker 85 (03:55:17):
I go with the master, so you shall, and the
master will be me Hi for Hutton Burgers, you dog.

Speaker 2 (03:55:29):
You to keep away from his woman, you mistress, if.

Speaker 76 (03:55:34):
It come to his his cabin a swig, always facing
the doll with pistol Cuptain.

Speaker 23 (03:55:41):
Ready, he seems unwilling to ever turn his.

Speaker 53 (03:55:45):
Birth to you.

Speaker 2 (03:55:47):
Captain Virgins.

Speaker 1 (03:55:51):
He's laugh as you'll go to him, You.

Speaker 78 (03:55:56):
Always facing me when sorrow we aner nasau bay. I
shall teach him to face always yees see me not,
and you, mistress Kate will find I.

Speaker 81 (03:56:17):
I'm a master, so you Keptain will deliver to me
with evidence of the pirate people that I see your
former camerade.

Speaker 78 (03:56:36):
Yes, Governor Rogers, I will deliver them here in Nasa Bay,
and with evidence and plenty for myself, I claim amnesty
under His Majesty's wise pardon for those who retent their
wrong and inform against the pintle that.

Speaker 6 (03:56:55):
I must grant you. It is the law.

Speaker 1 (03:56:57):
I hope you ask no whether the wall for putting
these men with an.

Speaker 78 (03:56:59):
Our, but I do, and make it part of our bargain.
Our rest easy. It will not affect your treasury. There
is a woman aboard that ship out there. I would
place her in my care and in her company attend
the hanging.

Speaker 81 (03:57:17):
You would attend the execution of the comrades you condemn,
not all.

Speaker 78 (03:57:22):
Of them, only that of Captain Gore, my particular friend.
As the wind turns his body in its gallows chains,
I would watch him face always.

Speaker 2 (03:57:40):
And see me know where.

Speaker 86 (03:57:57):
That you the said jack for see married the prison
from whence you came, and from them to the place
of execution where you must to being hanged by the
next and you.

Speaker 1 (03:58:09):
Shall be dead, dead dead, and God have mercy on
your soul.

Speaker 8 (03:58:18):
You're sware to be my friend, my brother.

Speaker 78 (03:58:23):
Okay, let's get out of here, breathe the air.

Speaker 32 (03:58:30):
I go with the mask.

Speaker 23 (03:58:45):
And early at the crossroads where you say you're very
treasure wise, I see the.

Speaker 18 (03:58:50):
Ji talking along.

Speaker 37 (03:58:53):
It stands by night.

Speaker 23 (03:58:54):
Our friend Jack, who was hanged upon it yesterday, would
be grateful for our company. Yeah, the creaking chains he swings,
he seems.

Speaker 2 (03:59:04):
To cry, Wait, wait, why do you start now?

Speaker 6 (03:59:06):
Let's go back?

Speaker 2 (03:59:07):
If that's dirty work to cliss bade, it goes against
my grain to on my hands.

Speaker 23 (03:59:12):
You want no one else in the secret of the
treasure that you and we buried here so long ago.

Speaker 2 (03:59:17):
Nay, but to dig for that night and dark it
be unaccustomed to work.

Speaker 18 (03:59:21):
I cannot see.

Speaker 23 (03:59:23):
I did not know my master's courage, or I would
think he was a friz.

Speaker 2 (03:59:28):
About to fear that man.

Speaker 23 (03:59:29):
Surely, and in your pocket lies apart and from the king.

Speaker 2 (03:59:33):
Yeah, and I do not stare the dead, very very skill.

Speaker 23 (03:59:39):
How plainly would you hear those lucky changes like that
other night, a night from which you swore by the gallows,
streams and death.

Speaker 16 (03:59:50):
And justice.

Speaker 63 (03:59:57):
Share and shall like.

Speaker 37 (04:00:00):
On my head.

Speaker 80 (04:00:02):
I meant it when I swore that, though I meant it,
though I laughed and mocked to sew you up. When
I did these things, Eppie and I met you, we
were as brothers. Jack was such a cool allout my opposity.

Speaker 86 (04:00:17):
He amused me and and admired me skill.

Speaker 2 (04:00:26):
Can other men have feelings in the lowest beast?

Speaker 37 (04:00:31):
Can I not be one tiny bit of god?

Speaker 6 (04:00:37):
I had not to do?

Speaker 2 (04:00:41):
Who are you who have set my strength and made
me weak?

Speaker 30 (04:00:47):
Long ago?

Speaker 37 (04:00:47):
And that's how you've told me?

Speaker 23 (04:00:49):
Once came you a woman from the cabin of an
English Greek, some wicked.

Speaker 2 (04:00:53):
Pirate, which turned not your back on me and walk away?

Speaker 23 (04:00:58):
Did I turn my back?

Speaker 33 (04:01:02):
Who I was?

Speaker 46 (04:01:02):
Wing?

Speaker 8 (04:01:05):
Things?

Speaker 32 (04:01:05):
Cheese grown now?

Speaker 23 (04:01:07):
And the wait they there swims in the winds.

Speaker 18 (04:01:10):
Here underneath his corpse.

Speaker 6 (04:01:13):
I did not realize we walked so fast, it.

Speaker 23 (04:01:15):
Seems espenial presence. See his body begin to turn so
felful to believe it the fact it's no.

Speaker 2 (04:01:23):
Don't say such things, Jack, Jack, go stop moving like that.

Speaker 23 (04:01:29):
Your slave again, your dog, Kate.

Speaker 18 (04:01:34):
Those suckets plucked back close.

Speaker 87 (04:01:37):
I see a light and they all light and dead,
And I know, Kate, there's a movement of that glooping
Jawston prepared to come for.

Speaker 23 (04:01:48):
Speech, and no speech from dead men's I know.

Speaker 2 (04:01:52):
That too, But.

Speaker 26 (04:01:54):
Kate, whence tons that singing.

Speaker 23 (04:02:00):
Here the favorite song of the comrade train and that
cannot be?

Speaker 26 (04:02:09):
Hey, a change that hold?

Speaker 2 (04:02:11):
This corps are stitching, get that feet on the ground.

Speaker 26 (04:02:15):
This coming for me with ded arms, that quick.

Speaker 82 (04:02:18):
Ju duck door. But God, take you away, don't put
me with your cold dead hands. Okay, say help you
find this change about my net. Don't let him let
me to that fallows. Don't let him let me to
that fallows.

Speaker 32 (04:02:34):
Ll and shell like, huh down, Hey, what she brought
me here.

Speaker 27 (04:02:48):
For death?

Speaker 32 (04:02:50):
I I know who you are now here what I
swore by?

Speaker 1 (04:02:59):
You are.

Speaker 6 (04:03:04):
Justice?

Speaker 2 (04:03:29):
You know them?

Speaker 76 (04:03:31):
Old Greek people had a notion that ideals sometimes walked
the earth in human forms. So maybe that girl was
Justice and now Satan. If these folks were just set.

Speaker 88 (04:03:46):
Still, we'll be back in a minute and tell him
about the thirty yar we're saving for her. Next week,

(04:04:07):
we'll sayan instead up, tell him, folks, what we're gonna
let him see next week, Just a little bit event
of themselves. Gaze into members of our fire, Gaze into
the embers deep and listen, brother.

Speaker 65 (04:04:22):
Here in this room, you can't be Susie, you will
leave alone here.

Speaker 8 (04:04:27):
Alone look at no shadow a head.

Speaker 76 (04:04:34):
Put by young by Rock A Bye Baby, Rock a
bye baby.

Speaker 79 (04:04:53):
Come down for blast off X minus five four three
two x minus one fire from the far horizons of

(04:05:29):
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, in cooperation
with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, resents he.

Speaker 1 (04:05:50):
Minus one.

Speaker 79 (04:06:03):
The Night the Stars are the Sticks by Theodore Sturgeon.

Speaker 37 (04:06:19):
They call me Karen. It isn't my real name, but
it suits my job.

Speaker 12 (04:06:24):
Karen.

Speaker 37 (04:06:24):
You may remember ferried dead souls across the river sticks
of Greek mythology. I ferried dead souls from the planet
Earth out into the unknown of space. My little satellite
station is known as Kerbstone. I've been here for twenty years. Yes, Karen,

(04:06:46):
oh tween, what is it?

Speaker 53 (04:06:47):
There's a ship landing from Earth?

Speaker 37 (04:06:49):
Is it the regular shuttle?

Speaker 27 (04:06:50):
Yes?

Speaker 37 (04:06:51):
Okay, we'll check the candidates. As soon as they're in.

Speaker 53 (04:06:54):
I'll fill out the reports for you.

Speaker 37 (04:06:55):
Thank you, oh tween, Yes, close the door minute, will you?
I want to talk to you. Yes, how long have
you been here on Curbstone?

Speaker 50 (04:07:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 53 (04:07:08):
I think two years.

Speaker 37 (04:07:10):
Approximately, and you've been helping me here in the office
for almost a year and a half. Have you thought
about going back to Earth?

Speaker 53 (04:07:17):
Well, yes, sir, I've thought about it, and well I couldn't.
I'd rather die. I just don't seem to belong there.

Speaker 37 (04:07:27):
You'd rather stay here and wait? Yes, even though you
may never become certified for.

Speaker 50 (04:07:33):
Space, one day it will happen.

Speaker 37 (04:07:36):
Perhaps, I almost hope it won't.

Speaker 53 (04:07:38):
Don't say that.

Speaker 37 (04:07:40):
Well, the shuttle should be coming in soon. Maybe this
trip there'll be somebody aboard for you.

Speaker 53 (04:07:45):
I have a feeling there will be.

Speaker 37 (04:07:55):
I suppose I ought to explain a little about Curbstone
at this point. We're a stopping point, well, a jumping
off place, to be more accurate. We get people from
Earth who, for many reasons, cannot remain there. Some are
around his social criminals of the sort. Some are misfits,
the individualists who cannot adjust to the rigid standardization. Some

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are just different people who are physically different and who
have been ostracized as a result. And a few are poets,
those who have souls too big for the confines of Earth.
They come to Curbstone and wait to be certified for space,
and it's my job to send them out.

Speaker 53 (04:08:39):
They're waiting. How many of the strip, two men and
a woman. One of the men, Yeah, nothing.

Speaker 37 (04:08:46):
Oh, I've known you too well to be fooled. Why
you're practically glowing? Did you speak to him?

Speaker 27 (04:08:53):
No?

Speaker 37 (04:08:54):
But you think perhaps he'll be the one to choose you.

Speaker 53 (04:08:57):
Well, I think perhaps looked at me. Oh, I didn't
think there was anything funny about me.

Speaker 37 (04:09:06):
He just looked There is nothing funny about you.

Speaker 53 (04:09:09):
You're trying to be kind here.

Speaker 37 (04:09:10):
Should know me better. I'm the original Billy goat Griff.

Speaker 44 (04:09:14):
I do know you better.

Speaker 53 (04:09:16):
You have a kind heart.

Speaker 37 (04:09:17):
Enough of that, ask him to come in one at
a time. I watched her walk to the door, and
I thought she was beautiful. She was, but not in
a way acceptable to the eugenics department back on Earth.
Tween was an albino. She had silver skin and hair

(04:09:39):
and ruby colored eyes. If I hadn't been such an old, fat.

Speaker 46 (04:09:44):
Fool this way, please, thank you.

Speaker 53 (04:09:47):
This is the senior release officer. He'll check you in.

Speaker 1 (04:09:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 37 (04:09:50):
Miss your name? Please, why don't you know it. No,
I'm afraid Judd, good Lord, Hello, Frond Judge. All these years,
I understand they call you Karen. Yes, good I'll call
you Karen. Well, what in the name of misery brings
you to Curbstone?

Speaker 46 (04:10:08):
Oh, I'm a candidate.

Speaker 37 (04:10:09):
But you, of all people, you had a good position
and enough money. You didn't get into trouble, did you?

Speaker 8 (04:10:15):
Oh?

Speaker 37 (04:10:15):
The sort of what sort?

Speaker 75 (04:10:18):
When I was your student at the university many years ago,
you taught me to enjoy my individuality. I tried to
teach my students the same thing. The authorities wouldn't stand
for it.

Speaker 37 (04:10:29):
I see.

Speaker 46 (04:10:31):
So I decided to take my chances in space?

Speaker 37 (04:10:33):
Are you aware of the risk?

Speaker 46 (04:10:35):
Not fullier, I probably wouldn't be here.

Speaker 37 (04:10:37):
Then let me acquaint you with the procedure here on Curbstone.
I got that window. What do you see?

Speaker 75 (04:10:44):
It looks like a spaceship and launching platform exactly. That
ship is aimed at the outer galaxies. It has enough
fuel to reach its destination and land, but not enough
to come back.

Speaker 37 (04:10:57):
I see. The people who come here to Curbstone have
to be certified before they can take off in one
of those ships.

Speaker 46 (04:11:03):
How as one go about being certified. There are three requirements.

Speaker 37 (04:11:07):
You must pass a physical examination and a mental examination,
and the third you must find an agreeable partner for
the trip. A partner, a partner of the opposite sex
who is willing to share her life or death with
you from now to eternity.

Speaker 46 (04:11:23):
That could be rather difficult.

Speaker 37 (04:11:25):
When your authorities agreed to Operation Curbstone, it was decided
that it would be a method of colonizing the outer
galaxies with Earth people. Therefore, these ships are built to
carry two people.

Speaker 1 (04:11:37):
I see.

Speaker 75 (04:11:38):
Well, suppose I choose somebody and she doesn't want me.
You wait, Suppose I just suppose I passed the physical
and the mental tests and I even find a partner.

Speaker 46 (04:11:50):
Suppose we get into the ship and are launched into space.

Speaker 6 (04:11:54):
What are our chances?

Speaker 37 (04:11:56):
Come here? This board shows a light for each ship
that is on route in space. There you see that one.
That's a couple named Fort and Mary Ellen. They went
out together last week, headed for the DENIV systems. As
long as the light shows they're all right. They haven't

(04:12:17):
been destroyed by radiation, or piled up on some asteroid
or gotten into a time warp. We know from our
years of launching couples here on Curbstone, that forty six
percent of them never make it, and of those that
make it, we don't know they have the equipment for survival,
of course, but who knows what they'll meet on some
strange planet. And still they go on, Still they go on.

Speaker 46 (04:12:39):
When do I take the examinations?

Speaker 37 (04:12:41):
Where you can start tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (04:12:42):
If you like.

Speaker 37 (04:12:43):
I'd like to talk over old times with you right now,
but I have to check the other two passengers you
came up with. Certainly, Between, would you come in please?
Tween assists me here, she too, is waiting to find
a partner for the trip.

Speaker 33 (04:12:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 37 (04:12:57):
Between, This is Judson. Judgson's an old friend. He's a
student of mine many years ago.

Speaker 1 (04:13:02):
Very happy to meet you.

Speaker 37 (04:13:03):
Yes, I know you are, Tween. Tell the others to
come in, please, yes, sir. A remarkable girl, remarkable looking
at any rate. Well, Tween will tell you where your
quarters are. I hope we'll talk soon. We'll hope.

Speaker 33 (04:13:18):
So.

Speaker 75 (04:13:19):
Oh, by the way, that light on the board Ford
and Mary Ellen, what about it? Well, it just went up.

Speaker 37 (04:13:32):
I was happy to see Judson. My memories of our
association with pleasant ones. As he left, the other two
passengers came in. The man was young, dark haired, and
slick looking. His name was Wald. The woman, well, she
takes some describing. Her name was Flower. Her voice was
like a shallow and her figure was a walking demand

(04:13:55):
for the revival of the now extinct profession of keeping. Tom.
Let me be honest. I didn't like either of them.
That takes care of your documents.

Speaker 89 (04:14:06):
How long will it take us to be certified?

Speaker 37 (04:14:08):
Well, it depends if you pass your tests. It can
happen in a week.

Speaker 50 (04:14:11):
And suppose we don't pass our tests, it.

Speaker 37 (04:14:13):
Might be here a year, two years. There's no limit.
You you can keep taking the test and you can
return to word Earth.

Speaker 50 (04:14:21):
Well, is there anything to do up here? I'm in excitement.

Speaker 37 (04:14:25):
That depends on what you consider excitement.

Speaker 50 (04:14:29):
Anything we haven't already tried. Isn't that right?

Speaker 19 (04:14:32):
World?

Speaker 89 (04:14:32):
We decided to come up here, mister, call me Karen, Karen,
Oh quaint? Anyway, we decided to come up here because
we were bored with a routine on Earth.

Speaker 37 (04:14:41):
You're aware of the risk involved. You mean we might
not make it.

Speaker 89 (04:14:46):
Well, that's life, isn't it ver?

Speaker 37 (04:14:47):
Some for others it's death.

Speaker 50 (04:14:49):
I don't like that kind of talk.

Speaker 37 (04:14:51):
You'll tend an orientation session tomorrow. I'll have my assistant
show you at your quarters. Qrien, Yes, grin Treen, I
want you to meet Flower.

Speaker 53 (04:15:02):
How do you do?

Speaker 89 (04:15:03):
And well, Curbstone is exciting already, something different, Darlold, shut up.

Speaker 37 (04:15:10):
This is Tween. She'll show you where you live.

Speaker 11 (04:15:13):
Oh.

Speaker 89 (04:15:14):
Pleasure, A distinct pleasure.

Speaker 37 (04:15:24):
There was something decadent about Wald and Flower, something almost reptilian.
I couldn't believe that these two would ever step into
a ship and risk the trip to space. Of course
I could be wrong. Boredom drives people to risk many things.
At the session the next day, I watched my three
new arrivals and it was over. I stood talking to Judson, Well,

(04:15:48):
still want to go out? Yes, you got a companion? Oh?

Speaker 75 (04:15:52):
Yes, really, you haven't met anybody yet. I've met the
person i'd like to go with. Mind if I asked
who you're assistant, Tween, you.

Speaker 37 (04:16:05):
Don't disappoint me. I fell in love with her the
first time I met her.

Speaker 8 (04:16:09):
Too.

Speaker 75 (04:16:09):
I haven't even talked to her yet except to say
hello and where's the commissary?

Speaker 37 (04:16:13):
But there's where there's a quality about her, like well,
like a cool breeze on a hot summer's day. Well
you are smitten a my ja can afford to be romantic.

Speaker 50 (04:16:26):
Excuse me, am I interrupting, Not.

Speaker 37 (04:16:28):
At all, Judson, your no flower.

Speaker 90 (04:16:31):
Yes, we met on the ship coming to Kirbstone. I
wondered if you were busy, Well me, you, well, not
really good? Then you can take me down the recreation
room for some lethal caffeine.

Speaker 46 (04:16:41):
Well I don't use it.

Speaker 50 (04:16:43):
That doesn't mean you can't take me.

Speaker 46 (04:16:45):
Well, you're a mister wall I mean well and.

Speaker 50 (04:16:46):
I are just very good friends. Besides, he's busy right now.

Speaker 91 (04:16:51):
He's being shown around the satellite by this gentleman's assistant, Tween.
That's her name, The peculiar one coming, Judson, I guess, so.

Speaker 37 (04:17:02):
You excuse us certainly. When I saw Tween the next day,
there were stars in her eyes. Good morning, Good morning,
you are laughing? Am I your eyes?

Speaker 53 (04:17:23):
I'm happy?

Speaker 37 (04:17:24):
Good.

Speaker 53 (04:17:25):
I think it won't be long now before what before
I'm certified? Oh, I've met someone who.

Speaker 50 (04:17:32):
Really likes me.

Speaker 37 (04:17:34):
I see, Can you guess?

Speaker 33 (04:17:36):
No?

Speaker 27 (04:17:37):
Who is it?

Speaker 53 (04:17:38):
Well, you know the dark haired young man who came
in yesterday with your friend Judson Wald. We went down
to the ship together and he well, he asked a
lot of questions about it, and then we started to
talk about us. He says he's wasted his whole life
flitting from one diversion to another. Really now, he says,
he's looking for something with some meaning.

Speaker 37 (04:18:00):
You like him.

Speaker 53 (04:18:02):
He isn't afraid of me. He doesn't see anything wrong
with my being different.

Speaker 37 (04:18:08):
I thought he was with Flower.

Speaker 53 (04:18:09):
Oh, he says he and Flower travel together because of habit.
They're both bored and looking for something or someone.

Speaker 37 (04:18:19):
Well, as long as it makes you happy.

Speaker 53 (04:18:21):
He he kissed me. Do you know that no man
has ever kissed me like that?

Speaker 37 (04:18:28):
You enjoyed it?

Speaker 14 (04:18:30):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (04:18:30):
Yes?

Speaker 37 (04:18:31):
Did he say anything about going out into space with you?

Speaker 53 (04:18:35):
He said he could think of no one he'd rather
go with.

Speaker 37 (04:18:39):
And when is he going to sign the certification?

Speaker 53 (04:18:43):
Well, he felt we ought to get to know each
other better for a while. Anyway, he's right, don't you think?

Speaker 7 (04:18:50):
Yes?

Speaker 37 (04:18:51):
I think it would be better, Karen.

Speaker 53 (04:18:54):
Yes, I I love you very much.

Speaker 37 (04:18:59):
Why did just that?

Speaker 53 (04:19:00):
Because it's true? I mean, there's something so kind and
understanding about it.

Speaker 37 (04:19:07):
Underneath. I'm the same as anybody else.

Speaker 53 (04:19:09):
No, I don't believe it. Why they picked you for
this job? Because you you have such compassion. You could
never hate, could you?

Speaker 8 (04:19:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 53 (04:19:22):
I never have, but now I don't know.

Speaker 37 (04:19:25):
That's because you're in love. You can't love really unless
you can hate.

Speaker 53 (04:19:30):
I don't believe that.

Speaker 37 (04:19:33):
It doesn't invite it to sounds if I knew the answer.
Come on, I buy your drink to celebrate the big event.
I watched your ship to drink, the tones of her
skin coming and going with a pulse. I thot to myself,

(04:19:57):
you're going to be twined. You're going to be every return,
And I wondered if perhaps she didn't know, Well, tween
another couple out into space, Maria and Clint, when you
record it and have another ship brought up to the launching? Uh? Tween?

Speaker 27 (04:20:18):
What?

Speaker 32 (04:20:20):
Sorry?

Speaker 53 (04:20:20):
I was thinking of something else.

Speaker 37 (04:20:23):
So I have how long has it been? Now?

Speaker 53 (04:20:26):
Three months?

Speaker 37 (04:20:27):
Long time?

Speaker 14 (04:20:30):
Well?

Speaker 50 (04:20:30):
He wants to be sure, and you are you sure?

Speaker 14 (04:20:34):
Oh?

Speaker 37 (04:20:34):
Yes, nothing to do? But wait then I have to
go over to the whole division. Will you take over?

Speaker 53 (04:20:40):
Yes, sometime I too will be speeding through space and
I'll be a tiny light on this board.

Speaker 1 (04:20:54):
Hello.

Speaker 89 (04:20:55):
Then do you mind if I came in?

Speaker 53 (04:20:56):
I'm not at all?

Speaker 50 (04:20:59):
Was fun?

Speaker 53 (04:21:00):
Karen he isn't that fat.

Speaker 37 (04:21:03):
He's fat enough where he.

Speaker 53 (04:21:05):
Went over to the whole division.

Speaker 89 (04:21:07):
This is a nice layout.

Speaker 53 (04:21:08):
Would you come to see me or the layout?

Speaker 89 (04:21:11):
You know, I can to see you. Matter of fact,
I wanted to talk to you about something. Well, the
party tonight at the rec center?

Speaker 53 (04:21:19):
Well, what about it? We're going, aren't we?

Speaker 89 (04:21:22):
I can't make it something wrong, I'm meeting somebody else.
Oh Flower, I see. Oh come on, I don't look
so hurt. Flower and I have bummed around together for years.

Speaker 53 (04:21:35):
I thought she and Judson.

Speaker 37 (04:21:36):
Oh, don't be ridiculous.

Speaker 53 (04:21:37):
Well they spend all their time together.

Speaker 89 (04:21:39):
Oh you don't know, Flower. She likes to experience new things.
When they get to be old, she tosses them away.
All except me, and.

Speaker 53 (04:21:49):
You do like to experience new things and toss them away.

Speaker 37 (04:21:53):
Work.

Speaker 89 (04:21:53):
I'm sorry, Twin, but just the way I am like Flower,
Like Flower, we're two of a kind.

Speaker 53 (04:22:00):
Would you do me a favor? Why not make it
a clean break? Don't try to see me again or
tell me any more lies, even though I want to
hear them.

Speaker 89 (04:22:12):
Okay, and thanks, thanks for these.

Speaker 53 (04:22:17):
Three months, even though they've been make believe at least
I've had them.

Speaker 89 (04:22:23):
Well, I'll see you around.

Speaker 53 (04:22:26):
Yeah, I'll see you around.

Speaker 37 (04:22:42):
Just let him flow.

Speaker 53 (04:22:43):
He doesn't care about me, he never has. He's going
back to Flower.

Speaker 50 (04:22:51):
What will I do?

Speaker 53 (04:22:52):
He's the only one who ever.

Speaker 2 (04:22:54):
Wanted me, No, not the only one.

Speaker 37 (04:22:58):
Now there are two of us. The question that kept
going through my mind was what next? How long was
we all going to hang around Curbstone before he decided
to go back to Earth. I couldn't believe he'd have
the guts to go out into space, but I had
underestimated Flower.

Speaker 32 (04:23:20):
Were well.

Speaker 50 (04:23:21):
The prodigal returns don't make funny, reminds.

Speaker 91 (04:23:24):
I tell me, darling, what brings you to my room
at this late hour? Could it be that you missed
me or had little miss Tweet given you the heaves?

Speaker 89 (04:23:31):
Shut up and give me a drink, and don't act
so self righteous. You've been having your fling with this
Judson character.

Speaker 50 (04:23:38):
Mama jealous too.

Speaker 91 (04:23:41):
I thought you and I agreed a long time ago
we'd never make any claims on each other.

Speaker 89 (04:23:45):
That was a long time ago. Frankly, I'm getting bored
with a satellite.

Speaker 46 (04:23:49):
Let's go back to Earth.

Speaker 50 (04:23:51):
I'm bored with Earth.

Speaker 91 (04:23:53):
Well, we'll go someplace else then, I am going someplace
else where out space.

Speaker 46 (04:24:01):
Oh, come on, I don't be ridiculous.

Speaker 50 (04:24:03):
Oh, I am not being ridiculous.

Speaker 89 (04:24:04):
So you know that only forty six percent arrive. And
if you get there, Heaven only knows what kind of
monsters or poison atmospheres get you.

Speaker 50 (04:24:12):
I know, but there's a certain thrill in the risking.

Speaker 89 (04:24:15):
Oh and when did you start feeling poetic.

Speaker 50 (04:24:18):
Since I started talking to Judson.

Speaker 89 (04:24:20):
Listen, Flower, don't try to trick me.

Speaker 18 (04:24:23):
I know you too well.

Speaker 89 (04:24:24):
You're one hundred percent too selfish to risk your pretty
skin for some poetic feeling.

Speaker 91 (04:24:28):
Well, listen to me. You and I have been together
for years. We're very much alike. Now I'm telling you
that I intend to go out. I want you to
sign my certification and come with me. Your may No, No,
I think maybe if we get away from everything out there,
we'll find each other.

Speaker 50 (04:24:46):
Oh, we'll have a chance to love and be decent
like ordinary human beings.

Speaker 91 (04:24:51):
Oh, Weld, I'm jesty. We've been destroying ourselves for years.
We're getting older. Now, please please try to see it
a clean start in you life.

Speaker 89 (04:24:59):
Huh, Well, this fellow Judson has really been filling your
ear hasn't he He's.

Speaker 50 (04:25:06):
A kind person. He doesn't think I'm a well worthless.

Speaker 18 (04:25:15):
You kill me, girl?

Speaker 50 (04:25:17):
What would you come with me?

Speaker 89 (04:25:19):
If you want to wreck yourself?

Speaker 20 (04:25:20):
Go ahead?

Speaker 89 (04:25:22):
And who prates hell thinks enough of a cheap character
like you to sign a certification?

Speaker 50 (04:25:27):
Judgson? What he said he would go out with me,
and I intend to go.

Speaker 37 (04:25:40):
I said, if I had Judging on Flower that same evening.
Are you going to leave at midnight? I was working late.
Come in well, Flower, I thought, you and Judge.

Speaker 50 (04:25:53):
We're not going at least?

Speaker 11 (04:25:56):
Oh?

Speaker 50 (04:25:57):
Judgson decided he didn't want me along.

Speaker 26 (04:26:00):
He did.

Speaker 91 (04:26:02):
He left this note for me, the story of my life?
Nice girl, But who wants to marry anybody like that?

Speaker 37 (04:26:09):
You see, I'm going alone. Don't try to stop me.
It wouldn't work. I'd always looked down on you. Judson.
It doesn't sound like him.

Speaker 91 (04:26:20):
Sounds like every man I've ever known, except Wall doesn't
judge me?

Speaker 37 (04:26:26):
Except where's Judson? Now?

Speaker 50 (04:26:29):
Locked in the ship he's leaving at midnight?

Speaker 37 (04:26:31):
Three minutes? Listen you wait here?

Speaker 50 (04:26:34):
Where are you going?

Speaker 37 (04:26:34):
See if I can reach that ship offor it's too late.
A man of my tires and age shouldn't run, especially
when he has a bad valve in his heart. But
I covered the distance of the takeoff ramp like a
track star. Because I hit the edge of the ramp,
I heard Tween's voice screaming at me from the control car.

(04:27:04):
I reached the door. That's the rockets. We're beginning to
warm up inside the ship. There wasn't any way to
get in except the blast. There's only one way to
stop the ship from taking off. Once the combusted chambers
are operating. You have to get the dampening routes into
the chambers and stopped the chain reaction.

Speaker 65 (04:27:28):
It took a lot of beef, but I've got a lot.

Speaker 37 (04:27:39):
I looked around the control room.

Speaker 27 (04:27:41):
The ship.

Speaker 37 (04:27:43):
Judgments strapped into the pilot's chair. The controls were preset
for automatic takeoff. I went over to him. He was dead,
his head cracked like an eggsh judd. I know you

(04:28:06):
can't hear me, but I swear to you I'll get
the one who did this.

Speaker 1 (04:28:13):
Really move, I have a gun on you.

Speaker 37 (04:28:17):
Well, you're a pig. You're a living human pigs. For
the company to take the life of a man who's
only hacked against you, was it? He wanted to help Flower.

Speaker 46 (04:28:29):
I can't afford to lose Flower.

Speaker 37 (04:28:30):
Don't you think you've lost her already?

Speaker 1 (04:28:32):
Not at all.

Speaker 89 (04:28:33):
She thinks Judson is going out into space without her.

Speaker 37 (04:28:36):
I knew he wasn't capable of writing a note like that.

Speaker 50 (04:28:38):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 37 (04:28:39):
How do you expect to get away with this?

Speaker 53 (04:28:41):
Quite easily?

Speaker 89 (04:28:42):
Judson isn't going out alone after all.

Speaker 37 (04:28:46):
Meaning he's going to have a companion.

Speaker 27 (04:28:50):
You.

Speaker 37 (04:28:52):
It won't work.

Speaker 89 (04:28:53):
Once the ship is headed for the stars, there won't
be a shred of evidence.

Speaker 37 (04:28:57):
Okay, you've got it off and that's right.

Speaker 2 (04:29:03):
Now turn around.

Speaker 37 (04:29:05):
You have the gun. All I've got is this stop
it flatman can move amerzingly fast.

Speaker 27 (04:29:16):
Wald, What are you going to do?

Speaker 37 (04:29:19):
Nothing much. I'm just going to certify you WLD for
a flight into space. There are things you can do
to a man if you know enough physiology pressures on
the nerve system that can immobilize him for ours. I

(04:29:43):
did them to Wold. Then I set the controls of
the ship again, went out. I was breathing hard. It
took me a long time to make it up the
steps for the control tower where Tween was waiting.

Speaker 53 (04:30:01):
Karen, Oh, Karen, I was so worried. I thought you'd
be burned.

Speaker 37 (04:30:06):
And then when Walwick, okay, that's let me sit down
a minute.

Speaker 53 (04:30:14):
What happened?

Speaker 37 (04:30:16):
And he much had to stop Judgson from leaving alone,
that's all. But why well Wall decided to live with him.
What that's right? He finally repented. He he knew that
to be stayed around he just make you unhappy again.
And so he asked me to stop judging until he
could join him. You mean he did any second? Now

(04:30:40):
there go the engines.

Speaker 53 (04:30:43):
He had a spark of decency in him, after all,
I knew it.

Speaker 37 (04:30:48):
Yes, in a way, he's a sort of hero.

Speaker 8 (04:30:53):
The ship is trembling.

Speaker 53 (04:30:54):
Now here they go.

Speaker 37 (04:31:07):
Maybe she knew maybe not. Anyways, she had loved a man,
and now she could love another. She came over to
me and leaned over and kissed my mouth. Her lips
were cool. Then I knew that I could live with
the viciousness of what I had done. When you're old

(04:31:31):
and fat, as I am a kiss to the younger
to make you human again, they call me Karen. They
forget what it feels like to be denied two worlds
instead of one, and they forget something else too, Karen
was more than a book pilot. He was an executioner.

Speaker 79 (04:32:08):
You have just heard X minus one, presented by the
National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine,
which this month features a story by Theodore Sturgeon, The
other Man, which tells of the hardest decision a man
could face to do his job well and thereby aid
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(04:32:32):
tonight by transcription, X minus one has brought you The
Stars Are the Sticks, a story from the pages of Galaxy,
written by H. L. Gold and adapted for radio by
Ernest Canny. Featured in the cast were Craig McDonald, Patsy O'Shea,
Dick Hamilton, Charlotte Manson, and Bob Hastings. You're announcer Fred Collins.

(04:32:52):
X minus one was directed by Bob Mauer and is
an NBC Radio Network production.

Speaker 6 (04:33:10):
I'm Rod Serling.

Speaker 92 (04:33:11):
You're listening to The Zero Hour. Rest your eyes, exercise
your imagination to the glen Walk Heelers Fighting System's Thriller.

Speaker 37 (04:33:35):
In the Night.

Speaker 11 (04:33:41):
And starring Melvin in a Mutual Broadcasting System presentation.

Speaker 6 (04:33:49):
Of The Zero Hour.

Speaker 54 (04:33:56):
Rouds You by the makers of General motors, parts by
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by the makers of Contact on Mutual Radio.

Speaker 92 (04:34:18):
A little north of the town of Mariposa, California, stands
over Cocoa Victorian House, a relic of the old rush
days of the last century. The house once rang with
the laughter of the Schofield family, but today only Audrey's
Schofield and her granddaughter Karen are shouted.

Speaker 8 (04:34:33):
Beneath a steep pitched roof.

Speaker 92 (04:34:35):
A ten foot post stands next to the RFD meilbox
from a blacket is suspended as sign which reads tourist Accommodations.
In summer, Audrey and her grandmother derive a comfortable income
from tourists. But this is the fall season, and on
the Saturday night, Audrey and Karen are alone in the
living room. Audrey is knitting in a chair before the fireplace.

(04:34:58):
Karen sitt string at the fire a general calmly. He
sleeps in the warmth of the heart.

Speaker 8 (04:35:03):
Karen, Dear, why are you so glum? Tonight?

Speaker 51 (04:35:06):
It's not a cheerful night. Sometimes the rain's warm and friendly,
but tonight it meets out feel cold and clammy. It's
the way I imagine a tool of.

Speaker 8 (04:35:15):
The man's face.

Speaker 93 (04:35:23):
Oh, I don't see anyone, dear, for Heaven's sake, child,
it's just someone at the door.

Speaker 8 (04:35:34):
Someone who was looking in the window. I'm scared, nonstand.
Probably someone wanting.

Speaker 30 (04:35:41):
A room for the night.

Speaker 8 (04:35:45):
Okay, funny, I don't see anyone here.

Speaker 18 (04:35:50):
I'm I'm sorry, ma'am. I didn't mean to frighten you.

Speaker 8 (04:35:53):
These old eyes, young man. For a moment, they didn't
adjust to the darkness out there. May I help you?

Speaker 18 (04:36:01):
I thought you might have a vacancy.

Speaker 8 (04:36:03):
Yeah, it's a matter of fact.

Speaker 22 (04:36:04):
We do.

Speaker 8 (04:36:04):
Look Come on in.

Speaker 93 (04:36:07):
Just set your suitcase down anywhere, get away from that
suitcase can get stout there, get away. Why don't you
come on in here by the fire, mister Lewis, Steve.

Speaker 18 (04:36:21):
Lewis, I'm sorry I spoke to the dog that way.
He startled me.

Speaker 8 (04:36:26):
I'm missus Kofield. This is my granddaughter, Karen.

Speaker 11 (04:36:30):
Howdy, Karen, Hello? Say this is this is real nice
and cozy. I love an open fire.

Speaker 1 (04:36:38):
Why are you looking at me like that?

Speaker 51 (04:36:40):
I was wondering why you were peering in the window
before you knocked.

Speaker 11 (04:36:44):
Oh, mother house reminded me of one that I saw
in an old Boris Karloff movie. I thought i'd see
something spooky instead of a sweet old lady.

Speaker 18 (04:36:52):
I'm a pretty girl.

Speaker 8 (04:36:53):
Would you like to put your car in the garage?
So what I have already? How long will you be staying?

Speaker 18 (04:37:00):
I'm not sure yet. Will the room be available for
a few days?

Speaker 8 (04:37:03):
Well, you stay as long as you like.

Speaker 18 (04:37:05):
Oh, that's just fine.

Speaker 8 (04:37:06):
Fine.

Speaker 18 (04:37:07):
By the way, I haven't told anyone where I'd be.
I just had to get away from everything for a
few days.

Speaker 27 (04:37:13):
You know how it is.

Speaker 18 (04:37:15):
But I appreciate it if you didn't mention anybody that
I'm here.

Speaker 93 (04:37:17):
I understand the body has to get away from his
troubles once in a while.

Speaker 8 (04:37:22):
But don't you were a young man. We won't say
anything to anybody.

Speaker 18 (04:37:25):
Oh it's great, thank you.

Speaker 8 (04:37:27):
Now your room is a far into the hall on
this floor.

Speaker 12 (04:37:31):
Good.

Speaker 18 (04:37:31):
I'll put my suitcase in there right now.

Speaker 8 (04:37:33):
Would you like me to picture a little suffer?

Speaker 11 (04:37:35):
I appreciate that very much.

Speaker 7 (04:37:38):
Is this the way to the room.

Speaker 8 (04:37:39):
Yes, I'll get the key and be right with you.

Speaker 11 (04:37:46):
Tell me, Jerry, how come our Mariposa County sheriff is
mixed up in a murder that happened and stocked it. Well,
brief it you is, Sam, but you got to keep
it out of your paper until I give you the
word not to fil you. And it's home, miss Start.
In Oakland early this afternoon, a six foot guy wearing
a gray suit knocked over a movie theater in Oakland.
He forced his way through the door to the back

(04:38:07):
of the cashier's booth, threatened him with a heavy tie on.
He pocketed his take, made a getaway in the Saturday crowd.
At any time he comingdeer. A traveling jewelry salesman's car
forced him to drive him to Stockton.

Speaker 8 (04:38:21):
Body was found near there.

Speaker 32 (04:38:23):
How do you know all this?

Speaker 54 (04:38:25):
We don't have the actual proof yet, but the jewelry
salesman's head was dashed in his body had been dragged
into some bushes. In addition, a quarter of an inch
fragment of a gray suit material was found on a
branch nearby.

Speaker 18 (04:38:37):
Now the murdered man had been robbed, of.

Speaker 11 (04:38:39):
Course, as fairly evident. He found the salesman's sample case
near his body.

Speaker 8 (04:38:44):
It was empty.

Speaker 18 (04:38:45):
Why do you think he might be in this area?

Speaker 8 (04:38:47):
We have a description of the guy. Cashier furnished that
in the glove.

Speaker 11 (04:38:51):
Combined, we found a new automabile in the shurance policy
number with a make, model and license number of his car,
the owner of a station.

Speaker 8 (04:38:58):
And cult of ville on the highway.

Speaker 11 (04:39:00):
For remember the guy in a gray suit who got
out to get a drink of water and ask about
the road to Mariposa.

Speaker 92 (04:39:06):
He was driving a car just like the salesman's. I
hear the victim was in terrible shape.

Speaker 11 (04:39:11):
Oh, as an understatement, this guy must be out of
his good a sayas or something he carbed him.

Speaker 8 (04:39:17):
I don't know how many times.

Speaker 93 (04:39:23):
I know it's late for us to be washing dishes,
but it did my heart good to see the way
that young.

Speaker 8 (04:39:28):
Mister Lewis cleaned his plate. I wonder what he's got
in that suitcase? Clothes, silly?

Speaker 22 (04:39:34):
What else?

Speaker 8 (04:39:35):
That's what I'm wondering. What else?

Speaker 6 (04:39:38):
You saw?

Speaker 93 (04:39:39):
The way he acted when Angus started sniffing it, Oh
my goodness, carrying that imagination of yours. Angus wasn't imagining.
He smelt something he didn't like. And I don't like
the idea of us being alone with that man in
the house, so we can't turn him out in the rain.
And I know I'll call Uncle Matt and.

Speaker 8 (04:39:58):
Ask him to spend the night with us. You'll laugh
at you. I'll get him over here.

Speaker 18 (04:40:02):
Don't worry.

Speaker 51 (04:40:16):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, the phone is dead, Grandma.
What do you suppose happened to it? If I know
what could have happened to it? And I'm going to
go find out.

Speaker 8 (04:40:45):
Well about this as seeing as we have a real
hot one on our hands.

Speaker 7 (04:40:49):
What is it, Jerry?

Speaker 11 (04:40:51):
Well, if there's some prints off the sample case we
found near the body, I would transmitted them to Washington
according to this tele time for our tire Iron of Virtue.
So is a Harry Hanford thirty three, six feet half
an inch tall, one hundred and eighty five pounds, black
hair serve term for a silver robbery. Here's a topper

(04:41:12):
wander from murder in Houston.

Speaker 18 (04:41:14):
Sounds like a charming fellow. I want to take a
ride with me.

Speaker 11 (04:41:17):
Do you know me anything for a story, especially if
he'll get me a good obituary.

Speaker 54 (04:41:22):
No one's reported seeing the cars us. He left that
service station at court Tho.

Speaker 92 (04:41:26):
I think he's gone into hide in some places he left,
which means it almost has to be this area.

Speaker 8 (04:41:31):
So so I'm going.

Speaker 54 (04:41:32):
Update the APB that's already out, and check out every
tourist camp, motel and guest house from Mariposa to Cultivot.

Speaker 8 (04:41:38):
Let's go, Grandma vans chair. And why did you go
out through that way? My unt's right. I checked the
telephone wires on the side of the house. They've been cut.
He did it.

Speaker 1 (04:41:56):
I know he did.

Speaker 8 (04:42:00):
I only know he's evil.

Speaker 22 (04:42:03):
Oh my god, Oh.

Speaker 1 (04:42:06):
Pardon me.

Speaker 11 (04:42:06):
I'll get settled down shortly, and I won't disturb you anymore.

Speaker 18 (04:42:10):
I have to get something from my car.

Speaker 8 (04:42:12):
I won't be wrong.

Speaker 51 (04:42:19):
Come Grandma quick, queer too. I'm going to look in
that suitcase. Money comes back and catches this, he said,
there's this suitcase. Oh I want that cheer over here. Good, well,

(04:42:43):
look at all that joey. Oh nah, he's just talking
on top of his clothes.

Speaker 8 (04:42:49):
It must be worth times of money. I wonder what
else is in here?

Speaker 14 (04:42:54):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (04:42:56):
What's this wrapped in his shirt?

Speaker 51 (04:42:58):
Whatever it is, it's heavy.

Speaker 8 (04:43:02):
There, rapid, be quick, he's not going to get back
and suck.

Speaker 16 (04:43:08):
There's blood on it.

Speaker 6 (04:43:09):
You're right, you're right, lady.

Speaker 18 (04:43:11):
That is blood. It's a man's blood.

Speaker 20 (04:43:16):
I killed him.

Speaker 18 (04:43:17):
You don't seem surprised, young lady.

Speaker 8 (04:43:20):
Young man, we are not going to let you high
to this house.

Speaker 18 (04:43:26):
And where do you think you're going?

Speaker 8 (04:43:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:43:32):
Let go.

Speaker 7 (04:43:33):
And you picked that up and.

Speaker 18 (04:43:35):
Put it back when you got it, I said, pick
it up, damn it.

Speaker 8 (04:43:42):
As quiet.

Speaker 18 (04:43:47):
Now, then that's all understand each other.

Speaker 11 (04:43:49):
Okay, until I'm ready to leave, you'll do exactly as
I say, or I may just have to show you
how well I can handle that tire runner.

Speaker 8 (04:44:00):
That may be another tourist I really got to answer.

Speaker 18 (04:44:04):
I'll answer it. You roll that tire iron up in
that shirt again and hand it to me.

Speaker 8 (04:44:08):
What are you going to do with it?

Speaker 18 (04:44:09):
I'm going to tuck it under my coat while I
answered the front door. You can't think i'd leave it
here with you?

Speaker 28 (04:44:14):
Did you?

Speaker 18 (04:44:16):
Thank you?

Speaker 7 (04:44:17):
Both of you.

Speaker 11 (04:44:18):
Both of you be quiet as baby mice. I'm just
lock you in here while I take care of my
late caller.

Speaker 8 (04:44:28):
Coming.

Speaker 18 (04:44:36):
Yes, I hate to bother you at the how off
the night, but I saw you.

Speaker 61 (04:44:39):
A sign and hope you weren't hold fed on.

Speaker 11 (04:44:42):
Oh I'm I'm terribly sorry, but I'm afraid I'm going.

Speaker 8 (04:44:45):
To have to turn you down.

Speaker 11 (04:44:46):
Oh there's sickness in the house. All right, I guess
I just have to push you into my opposa and.

Speaker 18 (04:44:51):
Find my locked their.

Speaker 11 (04:44:53):
Thanks anyway, good night, Well you behave very nicely. Yes, sorry,
I had to turn away some tourist business, but I'm
sure you understand only too well. Now, Look, you must
know this can't.

Speaker 18 (04:45:13):
Go on indefinitely. I can't stay here forever, and I
can't very.

Speaker 8 (04:45:18):
Well leave you here. You could kill it. Karen.

Speaker 20 (04:45:21):
What a thing to say, she say, isn't it?

Speaker 18 (04:45:25):
Especially when I have better use for you?

Speaker 53 (04:45:27):
What do you mean?

Speaker 18 (04:45:29):
Well, nobody will suspect.

Speaker 11 (04:45:30):
A nice young man like me if I'm traveling with
a sweet old lady in a pretty young girl, especially
if I'm driving a car the police I'm looking for. Now,
then hand over the keys to your station wagon, get.

Speaker 18 (04:45:42):
Your coats on, and let's get out of here.

Speaker 8 (04:45:54):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (04:45:54):
Well do you know customers?

Speaker 39 (04:45:56):
Hi?

Speaker 18 (04:45:56):
Suref Hi saying where is everybody?

Speaker 42 (04:45:59):
Well?

Speaker 18 (04:46:00):
They sureman staying away from.

Speaker 94 (04:46:01):
Here tonight, except for that guy at the end of
the counter.

Speaker 1 (04:46:03):
To coffee, Shorty.

Speaker 8 (04:46:05):
Anything with it, Jerry, Ah, Coffee's fine things.

Speaker 31 (04:46:08):
You know.

Speaker 11 (04:46:08):
Seeing you two together at this hour makes me figure
something's cooking. Besides my chowie.

Speaker 8 (04:46:13):
Oh yes, a snoop and shorty.

Speaker 54 (04:46:15):
Hey tell me are there any houses north here close
by that is a taken tourists?

Speaker 8 (04:46:19):
Well, it's a good place a few miles north, the
Schofield House. Did you say the Schoolfield House?

Speaker 18 (04:46:26):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 94 (04:46:27):
It excuse me for buting in, but I thought you
ought to know that. I was there a while ago
and got turned down. The fellow that came to the
door said that someone was sick.

Speaker 11 (04:46:37):
Follow you must be talking about another place. There ain't
no man lives at the Scofield House, just an old
lady and her grandfather.

Speaker 8 (04:46:46):
It was the Schofield House, all right. I saw the
name on the mailbox. What does guy look like?

Speaker 18 (04:46:51):
Mister?

Speaker 94 (04:46:51):
While I'm afraid I didn't pay much attention. He was
a tor fellow had on a gray suit, as I remember.

Speaker 8 (04:46:59):
Why, come on, Sam, let's get the hell out of here.

Speaker 11 (04:47:07):
Into the backseat, Gramma can't come on and you go
kick your hands off me.

Speaker 18 (04:47:12):
You a young lady, Get in the front seat, No,
I said.

Speaker 22 (04:47:15):
Got in there.

Speaker 18 (04:47:16):
I'm losing time. I'm sorry young has had to miss
the trip. But a dog is such a responsibility.

Speaker 8 (04:47:22):
You wait in the car coming here. I see it.
It's going to turn in our driveway.

Speaker 18 (04:47:33):
That's too bad because you're gonna have to wait for
us to drive out first.

Speaker 8 (04:47:37):
It's the shirt's car, dear, Why.

Speaker 18 (04:47:44):
Hold on here, hat Sam, you have to fly this thing.

Speaker 8 (04:47:57):
I gotta figure a way to grab him without here.
They will leave you the girl, get the residents, hoary,
will you all right?

Speaker 18 (04:48:04):
And you catch up and pours him off the road.

Speaker 8 (04:48:06):
Maybe I don't want to crash. We can it on him.
Get that suit.

Speaker 18 (04:48:13):
They'll fasten just in case something happens.

Speaker 1 (04:48:15):
Okay, how about you?

Speaker 8 (04:48:19):
Oh god, we trucks ninety eight miles an hour.

Speaker 18 (04:48:25):
You were kidding about flying this here? Now the two
miles an hour, and we will be here for you.

Speaker 39 (04:48:30):
How we cot?

Speaker 18 (04:48:31):
I'm pass and calling him out to her shoulder.

Speaker 8 (04:48:34):
Race just so, just so chase.

Speaker 18 (04:48:35):
I'm funk my drym's taste, Oh my god, we make.

Speaker 8 (04:48:49):
Please hand, thank god, get out of the car with
your hands up. Land him on a car roof.

Speaker 18 (04:48:55):
I spread him right, all right, take it easy, a
dumb kig.

Speaker 8 (04:48:58):
You got me.

Speaker 5 (04:49:00):
Stop him on a poor and back my car and
you can drive ladies home and your ladies all right.

Speaker 8 (04:49:04):
Yes, thank you, but I'll sell you something.

Speaker 93 (04:49:07):
This first thing I'm going to do after I get
a good night's rest is take down that tourist accommodation sign.

Speaker 8 (04:49:14):
I don't blame you and it.

Speaker 11 (04:49:16):
Sometimes a person will be too damned to accommodating. Okay, great,
let's go.

Speaker 6 (04:49:27):
I'm rod serving.

Speaker 92 (04:49:29):
Close your eyes, exercise your imagination, and join us again
on our next presentation of the Zero Hour.

Speaker 54 (04:49:42):
Terror in the Night was adapted for radio by Glenn Hall.
Hillor Meltourmer was heard as the killer. Featured in the
cast were Luke Krugman, Peggy Weber, Sam Edwards, Diane Hale, and.

Speaker 18 (04:49:50):
Bill Ke Zero Hour, created by J. M.

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Coullis directed by Don Hills, is produced in Hollywood for
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and conducted by Stanley D.

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Hoffman.

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Rochelle Sherman Associate Producer. This has been a presentation of
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