The Hitchhiker: Every 100 Miles, the Same Man Was Waiting

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Speaker 4 (01:30):
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Speaker 5 (01:50):
Come in.

Speaker 6 (01:53):
Welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
I'm E. G.

Speaker 7 (01:54):
Marshall.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
On October twenty four, nineteen twenty nine, an earthquake rocked
the foundations of Wall Street, and by October twenty nine
of the same year, thirty billion dollars of the American
economy vanished into thin air. The Great Depression had begun,
and everyone in the country was affected by the national sickness.

Speaker 7 (02:18):
With the exception of a few.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
To take one prime example, Reb Harrison Kendall, a man
who was impervious to success or disaster, but hung somewhere
in between since he lived solely on his wit.

Speaker 8 (02:34):
The name is Reb. Harrison Kendall. What's that you say,
an ordained minister? Now that I never claimed to be
a natural mistake due to my name it is spelled
Reb with a bee. The common mistake people make about me,
just as they refer to me as doctor. I carry
no degree, simply a wide scientific background. It's simply an impression.

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I trees the last perhaps of a dying breed.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
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One of the most depressing things about the Great depression
was the extra burden of the seventeenth Amendment, known as
the Volstead Act. Because the law made the selling of
liquor illegal, the underworld grew rich and mob violence ruled
much of the land. Red Kendall was not part of this.
He was a man who deplored us and who had

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a healthy respect for the law. However, as befitted a
man who lived by his wits, he had his own
way of subverting it.

Speaker 9 (04:15):
Opened up with me.

Speaker 8 (04:16):
You you be back, my dear boy. My auditory faculties
are excellent. There's no need to shout, Reverend. We got
to get the hell out the heads of nose doubtor's stealing.
They're on the way government agents, and we're just beginning
to distill.

Speaker 10 (04:31):
Well, we'll leave the chinda.

Speaker 8 (04:32):
Then we got to get out, leaving them all that
precious mount and jew not on your tin type, my friend, I'm.

Speaker 11 (04:38):
Telling you, we hang around, we're gonna end up in
the poky Reverend, you promise me if I stuck with you,
I wouldn't get into no trouble.

Speaker 8 (04:45):
Have I ever gone back on my word? I deplore
the inconvenience, But come on, you'll be let's scram I'll
have Lizzie.

Speaker 12 (04:53):
On Old Logan Road.

Speaker 11 (04:54):
We can make her get away.

Speaker 8 (04:56):
That away did give me a moment only, and I
shall join you now.

Speaker 11 (04:59):
It ain't gonna pay the hanger ound.

Speaker 8 (05:01):
I have no intention of leaving this beautiful brew to
federal agents who deny a man the right to make up,
if not totally honest, at least an honorable living. Do
you have to talk so much? A point well taken,
you'll be no further talk, only action. Here. You carry
the drum and we'll unroll it as we go.

Speaker 11 (05:17):
Oh well, what's the wire for?

Speaker 8 (05:20):
This isn't a wire, it's a fuse. Keep unrolling.

Speaker 10 (05:24):
Well, I don't understand ours.

Speaker 8 (05:26):
Not the reason why ours, but to do or die,
or at least do. Here we are at the car
and I see the fuse is completely unrolled. You have
a match, you'll be why?

Speaker 12 (05:36):
Sure?

Speaker 9 (05:37):
Here?

Speaker 8 (05:38):
Yeah? I thank you kindly?

Speaker 10 (05:40):
Are you gonna brew.

Speaker 8 (05:41):
Up the steal the fortunes of war? Now we better
get in the car and move on for safer climbs.
What don't you stopping for just for a moment here
on the ridge to say a long well, well not

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so long perhaps, but farewell, Just the same. I'm loath
to leave North Carolina. It's always been a favorite resting
place for me. But I think under the circumstances we
have better heed Horace Greeley's sage advice. What was that
go west, young man, go west? Or a paraphrase, the

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thingers get to hot in the kitchen, the wise man
gets the hell out.

Speaker 11 (06:36):
He ever where we headed for?

Speaker 8 (06:38):
Who knows where? Faith? Or the dame with a carne
copia major rector us, what did lady luck, my friend,
the bountiful and the beautiful for the president, let us
abandon ourselves to the ure of the open road, the summons,
the high adventure, the challenge of the unknown.

Speaker 11 (06:58):
Well, just forget the unknown. We got enough known challenges
to knock us for a loop, such as we're practically
out of gas, and this old marvel tea is out
of style.

Speaker 8 (07:08):
She's on her last legs. When Lizzie fails to stand
the test of time, then maybe I will despair. But
there's life in the old girl. Yes, oh ye of
little faith on wood and ever upward, in the bright
lexicon of the youthful heart. There is no such word
as failed, No such words failed.

Speaker 13 (07:33):
I'm sorry Harrison. I honestly am, but it just wouldn't
work for us.

Speaker 8 (07:38):
But Sarah, I mean, everyone has always known about us,
They expect us to be married. You can't. You can't
back out on me.

Speaker 13 (07:46):
You don't want marriage reb it would tie you down.
You don't want to share and settle here and Hirem's
corners with me and have babies and love and a long, slow,
lovely future. I don't mean to say you're selfish, it's well,
that's plain what you are.

Speaker 14 (08:06):
You don't want to adjust yourself to living.

Speaker 13 (08:09):
You want it to make it adjust itself to you.

Speaker 8 (08:13):
That's the longest speech I ever heard you make.

Speaker 13 (08:15):
Oh well, you don't know how many hours I've agonized
and practice to make it to you. Why Because you
don't really want to marry me.

Speaker 7 (08:26):
That isn't true.

Speaker 13 (08:28):
You don't want to marry anyone really until you've proved
yourself out. But I can't wait for that, So I'm
marrying Ben Hall.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
You mean you.

Speaker 8 (08:41):
Love him better than you do me.

Speaker 13 (08:42):
Oh, I love him different, is all I can say.

Speaker 15 (08:47):
But I do love you.

Speaker 13 (08:50):
I always have And if any time, anytime at all,
I can help you, please please ask me to anyway
I can can I will, I will.

Speaker 8 (09:05):
Will, Sarah Sarah Sarah?

Speaker 11 (09:11):
Reverend here, reverend, but huh you all right? Why we're
just you would you would cat at mumbling in your.

Speaker 8 (09:20):
Sweep just counted as a passing dream. Where are we? Well?

Speaker 11 (09:25):
According to a sign we just passed coming into town
called Adamsville, population eight.

Speaker 8 (09:31):
Thousand, eight hundred. Ah, excellent. How much stuff do we have? Oh?

Speaker 11 (09:37):
One fourcasion? If you out of a broken runner, I
don't know how many I shall.

Speaker 8 (09:41):
Have to be at my very best to build ourselves
a stake. If you have any money, you'll be I'll say,
I got I got two dollars dollars in change. You're
somewhat more well in doulled than I. We're going to
definitely have to make a score in Haddonsville. In spite
of my laps in the grammar and the split infinitive, Reverend,
could I say something I should hope between us we

(10:03):
can always be frank my sir, Evan.

Speaker 16 (10:06):
It's just.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
I've had it.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I ain't in your league.

Speaker 8 (10:10):
I never have been.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
But you and me and I guess the.

Speaker 11 (10:13):
Whole country of whipping dead horses, we ain't going nowhere
like we are so so I wanted to cut out
on home, you desert a sinking ship. It's no, sir, insisted,
just I can't take this kind of life. I can
always go home and go on the breadline. I wouldn't
be much worse off, and at least I wouldn't have

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no share for the police on my tail.

Speaker 8 (10:39):
My boy, if you must go home, you need a
small steak. You ain't kidding.

Speaker 11 (10:46):
We're running out of gas to take us where we're
trying to go where had thems will if we make it,
we must.

Speaker 8 (10:54):
Trust in the Lord and my pensions for good luck
to see that we do. It may be the last
roll of the dice, and it's gonna be for me.
But you will stick with me till we build a
small steak.

Speaker 11 (11:05):
Yes, sir, I will, But I don't know if old
Lizzie here I will.

Speaker 9 (11:09):
It isn't only just yeaes.

Speaker 11 (11:11):
She's playing war out. If she quits on us, man,
that's it.

Speaker 17 (11:19):
Now what.

Speaker 11 (11:22):
For as I'm concerned, I can answer that easy, Oh,
get out, take out of her what's worth saving, and
shove her in the ditch.

Speaker 6 (11:30):
She's had it, And so if we.

Speaker 8 (11:33):
Never kneel desperandum as a colleague of mind that a
famous writer named Dickens made famous. I echo Micawber and say,
something will turn up? How far is it into the
center of town, oh fight of mianas o. Well, all
we need to do is somehow transport our precious remedy

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to a ready spot where we can draw a crowd,
and once small, we back in business. Not me can
operate without you in the name of old friendship, you
must assist me. Well, all right, but that, yes, there's
once between ourselves. Let me admit it without qualification. I

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am a con man, as my father before me and
his father before him, a distinguished tradition in its way
to live by one's wits and the gift of gab.
In some ways, I'm glad that I will not pass
along my talent, if you indeed may consider it a talent.
The one moment I desired Sarah did not desire me,

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as I say, perhaps just as well. I am not,
I suppose a family man. It is dubious that I
would have made any kind of a husband, not that
I find relationships with people difficult. To the contrary, Just
give me a crowd and I can bring them under
my spell. I have no wish to divert your attention

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from the lights of affair. We are all attending, but
I sound one note of warning to those who wish
to listen. It needs no medicine man to tell all
of you intelligent people listening to me, at the basis
of every man and woman's existence depends on the arterial
and venus systems created by the great Engineer to carry

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to the innermost limits of our bodies the life stream,
that which we term the blood. When this is choked
off or polluted, all of us are common prey for
every one of man's dread diseases. So I come to
offer you paracuraria. This magic elis captured the bottle I

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hold in my hand. Why do I say magic? Let
me cite my own example. This crystal liquid brought me
back to the very threshold of death. Four years ago,
a massive and deadly infection old my wasted body in
its irreversible thrall. My medical colleagues had given me up

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for lost. Then one day, in my laboratory, experimenting with
that magic extract from a rare South African plant, I stumbled,
by the mercy of God on the greatest boon to
mankind since the discovery?

Speaker 17 (14:24):
What is it, sir?

Speaker 18 (14:25):
What is it?

Speaker 8 (14:26):
It's it's my heart, the pastoral? Please if you please,
thank you, excuse me, sir, let me true, the man
needs me. Please something, my dear sir? What seems to
be the trouble? He is an arterial conscious spasm, chronic
conditions beyond manical health. And oh there's nothing you can do,

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as one with the physician's background would to try. What's
the use? No doctor has been able to This is
not my first attack. I just wonder only each time
which which would be my last?

Speaker 12 (15:11):
Not this?

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Won?

Speaker 8 (15:11):
If I have anything to say about it? May I
suggest you drink this?

Speaker 11 (15:17):
What is it?

Speaker 8 (15:18):
A panacea? Developed by myself?

Speaker 11 (15:20):
How could it help me?

Speaker 8 (15:22):
How could have heard? Try it?

Speaker 19 (15:24):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (15:25):
That bend around my chest? It's my advice choking my
life away?

Speaker 2 (15:34):
All right?

Speaker 9 (15:35):
All right?

Speaker 11 (15:37):
Let me try here a.

Speaker 8 (15:41):
Little more advice about your chest is loosening? Yeah, I
can read easier, of course, inevitable.

Speaker 11 (16:00):
Say that that stuff you gave me the drink? Hey,
how can I get some of that?

Speaker 8 (16:05):
Well? The limited amount is available. It is of coursing
you and highly scared drug is yet still waiting to
be marketed. But in your case, I should say, in
your need pray, let me offer you a bottle as
a gift.

Speaker 11 (16:17):
Oh no, no, no, I want pay.

Speaker 8 (16:19):
I can afford it. I like them that you have
a bottle for three dollars, a good deal, less than
most wonder drugs.

Speaker 9 (16:27):
All right, break it, I'll break it up. Let's get
moving here.

Speaker 8 (16:31):
Come on, what seems to be the trouble officer you are? Brother?

Speaker 9 (16:35):
Come on, let's all get moving.

Speaker 8 (16:37):
Nah, this position just saved my life.

Speaker 9 (16:40):
Forget it.

Speaker 11 (16:40):
You don't give me any malarkey. You think I don't
know a con game when I see one.

Speaker 8 (16:45):
A con game?

Speaker 9 (16:46):
Hurt me?

Speaker 8 (16:46):
Okay, a move if you insist? Hey, you know, wait
a minute, where's your partner gone? I haven't the slightest
idea of what you mean by that, and I have
no intention of remaining here and being insulting.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Oh no, not you.

Speaker 9 (16:58):
You don't sneak out. You'll under arrest.

Speaker 11 (17:02):
Arrest?

Speaker 8 (17:03):
What on earth fall?

Speaker 11 (17:04):
I'll figure that one out at the station house right now.

Speaker 9 (17:07):
We'll call it disturbing the peace.

Speaker 8 (17:09):
I warn you, officer, you are obstructing the march of science.

Speaker 11 (17:13):
And I'll warn you bluster that I am instructing you
in the science of marching.

Speaker 20 (17:18):
Now move a.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
Series of minor incidents mounting to a minor climax the
process of life. And yet which one of us knows
or can suspect how the smallest happenstance.

Speaker 6 (17:36):
May shape the pattern of our fate.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
Who could suspect that a train of events has been
set in motion which could lead to Reb's violent debt?
Surely a punishment that scarcely fits the crime, But that,
of course, will have to wait till I return with that.
Two hard times, those depression years, and no American who

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lived through them will.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
Ever forget them.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
Selling pencils or apples was a little solution. Since the
competition was so thick a man couldn't find a corner
to himself.

Speaker 17 (18:18):
Defeat was the norm.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Men simply gave up, hoping or trying, except as irrepressible
an individual as a Red Kendle, who could manage the
loss of anything base, liberty, capital, but who was never
at a loss for words.

Speaker 8 (18:35):
And neither this could all of a sudden, yourself, sergeant,
seems to recognize that I am not a philanderer, but philanthropists,
not Charlatan, but Samaritan, my mission in life is that out, mac,
I'm drowning already.

Speaker 21 (18:50):
Why is it?

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Coupleman?

Speaker 8 (18:51):
Every time I'm on the desk, I collect all the
cons cooks, drifters and dead beat I resent the tenor
of your remarks, so I tell you, but not poor,
I book you. You cannot book me. I stand on
my rights under the Fourth Amendment as a private citizencoll
you are as a public menace. I drop you right
in the pokey if it wasn't standing room only already

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on what charge? Pray what vagrancy would do for owners? Vagrancy?

Speaker 6 (19:18):
You know you ain't got a red sands to your name.

Speaker 8 (19:20):
A temporary embarrassment. My cash reserve happens at the moment
to be tied up in my inventory. Had you given
me the opportunity to distribute my panasy, you may have
built the public. I disliked the word built.

Speaker 11 (19:31):
Would you prefer milk?

Speaker 8 (19:33):
My dear sergeant, you totally misunderstand my motives. Believe me,
Altruism is my middle name, and I pride myself and well, yeah,
I got the lumbaga to begin with, and it's killing me.
He's all I need to finish me off.

Speaker 11 (19:49):
Okay, buncle, let's float well if.

Speaker 8 (19:51):
You insist, so, may I suggest, as a man well
versed in the Hypocritesian art, what the mysteries of Gail
and Metchnikov and their great brothers the art of healing
the practice of the physician? I mean, I suggest that
I could ease your problem. You will ease my problem
by buttoning that lip.

Speaker 9 (20:08):
And taking a powder.

Speaker 8 (20:10):
If you were to take one bottle of my miraculous
paracuaria instead, it could dispill your miseries by the magic
of modern science. For a nominal price of three dollars,
you could throw off the galling yoke of a necessary pain,
and you could walk out of your apartment.

Speaker 11 (20:26):
Will you run him outside and point him for us
at Elemits As for you, doctor, reverend, Indian chief, or
whatever you want to call yourself, If you're not out
of my town within.

Speaker 8 (20:38):
A half an hour, I will clap you in a can.

Speaker 11 (20:41):
But without funds, how can I travel your problem? But
half an hour you walk as fast as you talk,
you'll make it.

Speaker 9 (20:49):
It's a small town.

Speaker 8 (20:51):
And take the sugar water or whatever it is with
you and the rest of you're junk.

Speaker 11 (20:57):
Take Wait a minute, what's this.

Speaker 8 (21:02):
A pocket bible, my daily reading. It will behoove you,
good sergeant, to produce its lambent pages and allow its
heavenly message to start the deep well spring of the
milk of human kindness flowing through your veins rather than
all I got in my veins is blood, and you're
bringing it right to the boy.

Speaker 11 (21:21):
Yeah, hey, yes, sergeant, come on, move it, dark or
whatever you are.

Speaker 8 (21:26):
The title may be essentially a courtesy one, but if
I can say, as a medical missionary, I am profoundly
sorry for your superior officer Kupperman.

Speaker 11 (21:33):
Sure, sure, I'll tell him when he's in a better mood.
That stuff you got in the bottles, There is that
any good for Bunyans.

Speaker 8 (21:42):
My dear boy. The petace, as the ancient Romans referred
to it, the foot, is at the root of all
the problems of Homo sapiens, who the technical term we
use for man himself. You see, he never was intended
to walk erect. As a result, improper circulation of the
blood through the nether limbs creats in its train a

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whole family of disease applied by this river. Its jurisprudence
of the Bunions. But to expand the arteries, free the
blood to bring its nourishment to the affected part, as
my paracuraria does, and pain. Pain becomes only a word,
not a cross we have to bear.

Speaker 11 (22:24):
I'll tell you what. There's a bus at the next corner.
Give me one of your bottles there, and you can
ride out of town.

Speaker 8 (22:31):
By all means you're a wise man. You may have
the one I hold in my hand here. Okay, that'll
be three dollars, please you kidding? I'll give you a
dime for the bus and help you on with your stuff.
A dime, Look, officer, why not take the whole chase
and a dime for one bottle.

Speaker 9 (22:50):
That's a deal.

Speaker 8 (22:51):
I'll take it or leave it, I'll think you.

Speaker 9 (22:53):
I'll also give you some advice free.

Speaker 8 (22:56):
I'm always receptive to suggestion.

Speaker 11 (22:58):
When you get to the end of the you'll see
Mary's diner. It's where all the truckies stopped. Maybe you
can pick up a hitch out of town.

Speaker 9 (23:06):
Here, here's your carton.

Speaker 8 (23:09):
You're sure you wouldn't like to make a bunk deal
or get it? Okay, driver, haul it out of here,
so be it, and his bullet himself would have said.

Speaker 22 (23:18):
Uh uh, harm and dobb.

Speaker 8 (23:20):
Adah wundla run gspa.

Speaker 9 (23:23):
What does that mean?

Speaker 8 (23:25):
Roughly translated, it's always darkest before the dawn. Brave words,
my egotistical friend. Will they buy a brave new world?
Is this the end of the line? Oh, Sarah, Sarah?

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Why didn't I listen to you so long ago? Why
didn't I settle for Hiram's corners and peace and security?

Speaker 23 (23:58):
Because it wouldn't have work.

Speaker 13 (24:01):
You are always what your real name is, a rebel.
You couldn't stay in one place. You had to be
on the go to move on out.

Speaker 8 (24:10):
I wouldn't if you had married me?

Speaker 13 (24:12):
Oh yes you would, and then how sorry we both.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Would have been.

Speaker 8 (24:16):
Don't you ever miss me as I do you?

Speaker 15 (24:19):
Of course I do.

Speaker 13 (24:21):
In one corner of my heart. I still pray for you,
and I will always be there to.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
Help you if I can.

Speaker 8 (24:28):
Then help me now, in my darkest hour.

Speaker 13 (24:31):
I cannot help you now, not yet. First you have
to help yourself, So help you, so help your so.

Speaker 8 (24:44):
All my life I've been a confidence man, my wits
against the suckers. But I have fallen upon evil times
with all my talent, my ready wit, my gift for
gab my basic acumen. I have been dealt out of
the game. Even my one companion has deserted me with
what little steak we had. Oh you be, you be?

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth? Is based in gratitude?
Or where's the effect? But where do I go from here?

Speaker 7 (25:16):
Now?

Speaker 15 (25:17):
Excuse me?

Speaker 13 (25:17):
But is this seat taken?

Speaker 8 (25:20):
Uh? Beg pardon uh no, my profound apologies, madam pray
allow me to move my portmanteau.

Speaker 13 (25:28):
It's sorry to bother you, but the bus is crowded.
It's no other seat.

Speaker 8 (25:33):
It's my shame that I should not have been ready
to come to your assistance. Would you prefer to sit
by the window? But how far are you going to
the end of the line?

Speaker 13 (25:42):
And I'll be getting off before you? So why don't I.

Speaker 24 (25:47):
Sit on the aisle as you prefer?

Speaker 8 (25:51):
My bag is out of the way. Would you like
me to put yours on the rack?

Speaker 5 (25:55):
No need?

Speaker 13 (25:56):
It can just sit here between us.

Speaker 8 (25:59):
Oh what is it?

Speaker 13 (26:01):
I almost sat on your book?

Speaker 25 (26:03):
Oh dear me, the Holy.

Speaker 8 (26:05):
Bible, my constant companion.

Speaker 13 (26:07):
I think it was openness? Have I lost your place?

Speaker 8 (26:12):
If you had? I could find it again with my
eyes closed.

Speaker 25 (26:16):
Such a comfort the Bible.

Speaker 8 (26:19):
You know it well, I should hope so it is
the core of my life.

Speaker 16 (26:24):
Where were you reading.

Speaker 8 (26:26):
The first epistle of Paul chapter thirteen? I never tire
of those words.

Speaker 13 (26:31):
When I was a child, I speak as a child,
I thought as a child, I understood as a child.

Speaker 8 (26:39):
But when I was a man, I put away childish things,
and now they're are by these three faith, hope, and charity.

Speaker 16 (26:49):
Are you a minister?

Speaker 26 (26:52):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (26:53):
A missionary? To be more exact, I'm a sad and
most difficult assignments.

Speaker 15 (27:00):
May I ask what?

Speaker 8 (27:03):
May I first inquire? Your name?

Speaker 13 (27:05):
Sarah Summons?

Speaker 8 (27:07):
Sarah.

Speaker 13 (27:08):
It's quite a common name, not in my life.

Speaker 8 (27:12):
It's a but that's past history.

Speaker 15 (27:14):
May I ask your name?

Speaker 8 (27:17):
Forgive me? Kendall, ma'am Reb Harrison Kendall.

Speaker 13 (27:21):
There, I just knew you were a reverend. Is there
anyway I can help?

Speaker 8 (27:28):
Oh? I doubt it.

Speaker 7 (27:31):
Well.

Speaker 13 (27:31):
I certainly don't mean deprived, but I'd like to know
about this difficult assignment of yours.

Speaker 8 (27:40):
I truly believe you would and it might afford me
some relief. Sometimes even we must seek the blessing of confession.
It all started some ten years ago when the charity
society I am proud to represent, was faced for the
tragic and demanding problem rooted us. So many are in

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financial obligations and the need to fight to bring the
money to the deserving, the.

Speaker 13 (28:07):
Afflicted, and the reberal government burned out your whole mission
and hospital.

Speaker 8 (28:17):
Savagely, unregrettably. Yes, but there remains this one bright hope.
With the change in government, it can be re established.
But to do so, we'll take funds a great deal
of money.

Speaker 13 (28:31):
You make me feel so guilty.

Speaker 8 (28:33):
You I make you feel guilty.

Speaker 13 (28:37):
Because would you believe it? Right at this moment, I'm
carrying one thousand dollars in my.

Speaker 8 (28:43):
Purse good Heavens awards.

Speaker 13 (28:46):
The last of my savings. The rumors are so scary.
Many people think that even banks make clothes with this depression.
So my husband and I determined we were going to
make the last down payment on our.

Speaker 15 (29:00):
So that at least that was free and clear.

Speaker 8 (29:03):
A thousand dollars don't don't work.

Speaker 13 (29:07):
Don't don't say it that way. You make me feel
so ashamed, all that money just for the two of us,
when so many others are starving.

Speaker 8 (29:15):
But every dollar in your bag you deserve.

Speaker 13 (29:19):
Surely we could spare some for a deserving cause.

Speaker 8 (29:23):
Oh, I wouldn't touch a penny.

Speaker 13 (29:26):
Oh, I'll take that as a sign that someone thinks
you do. I want to contribute to your valiant cause,
no need, there is no pressure. No, I want to
and I must.

Speaker 26 (29:39):
Will you accept.

Speaker 13 (29:40):
Twenty dollars toward your crusade dollars.

Speaker 15 (29:43):
Don't try to stop me.

Speaker 11 (29:44):
I want you to have it now.

Speaker 13 (29:47):
I want no thanks, my duty and my stop is coming.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
Oh dear, all this rain.

Speaker 13 (29:54):
I've got to put my pocket book away and gather
all my packages. Thanks, now here is the money if
you just hold my pocketbook while I gather my shopping bed.

Speaker 8 (30:04):
A pleasure, missus Somers. Where can I write to thank you?

Speaker 13 (30:08):
Fifteen pleasant drive right here in town? A holded driver,
I'm getting off.

Speaker 8 (30:16):
Here's your pocket book?

Speaker 27 (30:17):
Thank you?

Speaker 8 (30:18):
You're sure you have every Yes.

Speaker 5 (30:20):
Thanks to you.

Speaker 13 (30:21):
So glad because I only have a second to dump
everything at home and rush away to bring my husband
back from the hospital. Or you've been so much help
and all my hopes go with you. And you're a
good fight.

Speaker 28 (30:32):
And yes, I'm coming, driver.

Speaker 27 (30:35):
I wish I could have done more.

Speaker 8 (30:37):
You have done far more than your dream goodbye, missus Somers.
A nice old lady's a perfect mark. I have taken
her for twenty dollars, not much, but some get away money,

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at least to get me to the next time. Only
one thing clouds my new dawning horizon of optimism. I
am a calm man, an opportunist, a grifter. But one
thing I have never done openly before, I have never stolen.
I have never been a thief. By the window pressing

(31:18):
against my side in my hand where I have lifted
it is a wallet containing the last of a lifetime
saving one thousand dollars less twenty freely given given time,
I could have condered out of a total without a
moment's hesitation. But to steal it, that's something else Again?

Speaker 7 (31:41):
Can I do that?

Speaker 8 (31:43):
Or? Perhaps more important, do I think I can get
away with it?

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Oh? What a tangled web we weave when first we
practice to dis eve to Water's god as he auses
I thought, But as a transpires in our story, the
cop might well have been red Kindles. The complications are
only beginning, and the irony of a special justice is
still to catch up with him. When I return with
the conclusion of this tale and Act three. A driving,

(32:26):
blinding storm has broken, making the roads all but impassable.
A wallet with nearly one thousand dollars is burning a
hole in his inside part, and burning a deeper hole
is the terror and the knowledge that he has made
the mistake of committing, for the first time in his life,
a crime rather than a misdemeanor.

Speaker 8 (32:49):
I am desperate. How long can it be before Missus
Summers discovers how money is gone? And what way out
of this miserable town is available to me? There is
no train, The last bus is gone. I have no car.
I can't ever make it on a foot in a
storm like this. I have my second Sarah to thank
for my stake. But where is my first Sarah, whom

(33:12):
I can always reach in my mind? In desperation, I
rub at the steam inside the window of the men's room,
and suddenly my luck is in again. Right outside my window,
a heavy trailer truck pulls to a stop. Even in
a driving rain. I can read the legend along its side,

(33:34):
Ferry Trucking Company, and the slogan leave it to the
good ferry to deliver an abominable conceit but an omen
of escape. Big rig one driver, plenty of room for
a passenger with luck. I'm going to get away with
it after all. A black coffee please, easy, other sugar

(34:02):
and a slice of apple pie fall weather out.

Speaker 9 (34:05):
Eh, you can say that again.

Speaker 12 (34:07):
Mac?

Speaker 8 (34:08):
Are you the driver with the interestingct slogan?

Speaker 9 (34:10):
And he cracks about that?

Speaker 11 (34:12):
Mac, you've brought yourself a knuckle sandwich?

Speaker 8 (34:14):
Oh well, no offense made, but get it.

Speaker 29 (34:17):
No, just got a saw a head tonight.

Speaker 8 (34:19):
I got a hale right through to the coast. I
got no relief. And how am I gonna stay awake?
I'm lucky out on total somewhere along the line. Do
you mean you could use a companion?

Speaker 9 (34:29):
You can handle a rig?

Speaker 8 (34:30):
No, but I can talk a blue streak. I keep
you awake if you want a hitch. Huh, Well, there's
no other transportation available.

Speaker 11 (34:39):
You're in on one condition. What I think you can
talk for twelve hours straight?

Speaker 26 (34:44):
Brother?

Speaker 8 (34:45):
You have picked the one man who was absolutely guaranteed.

Speaker 9 (34:48):
To so I'll take a chance. You bought a Ryde.

Speaker 8 (34:52):
He got five minutes while I guess up and check
out the rig. And let me warn you, you're gonna
have to hold your hat. We're gonna be rolling because
I got time to make up. Oh miss, you can
cancel a pie, I won't have time for it. The
die is cast and I start my new career from
conman to thief in one easy move. And how easy

(35:15):
it can be to make this score Just five minutes
poor and I'll be away clean. What's to stop me?

Speaker 12 (35:22):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (35:22):
There you are just the man I've been.

Speaker 11 (35:25):
Looking for, Officer Kupleman. I'm sure glad you didn't get away.
I guess I never expected to. Really, I want to
make a little deal with you, A deal.

Speaker 9 (35:35):
I don't know what it is.

Speaker 11 (35:36):
You've gotten them their bottles of yours, but it sure
fixed up my bunions. So you need a steak to
get out of town. I want some long term relief.
That case a bottle you got, I'll offer you ten
bucks for the lock.

Speaker 8 (35:50):
You got to be kidding. That's all you want.

Speaker 9 (35:54):
It's all I got, all I can afford.

Speaker 8 (35:56):
All you want is my elixir? What else?

Speaker 9 (36:00):
So it fixes up them Bungians of mine?

Speaker 8 (36:02):
It will my son, it will take them with my blessing.
And believe in the mighty curative powers of paracararia. Oh
maybe I'm a sucker, but this way we both get
something out of it, me a cure uistate.

Speaker 9 (36:18):
Why don't we got to.

Speaker 8 (36:18):
Lose my kind of mark? The bottles contain water, a
sugar substitute, and a reasonable amount of alcohol. Between that
and the moving power of words, I succor him into
believing that relief for his aching feet is a cure.

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I feel the warm glow as I finger his ten
dollars in my hands and think of a thousand others
in my inside pocket. But thinking of my ill gotten money,
my conscience troubles me. I have committed an unpardonable sin.
I have thirty honest dollars about my standard ten con
from Officer Kupperman and twenty four missus honest. Well, let's

(37:03):
say thirty. I don't need to feel uneasy about the
other nine hundred and eighty. Now that's a different matter.
They will put me on the land for the rest
of my life. Are they worth it? This is the
moment of decision, and I have a few moments left.
Where do I seek help to make up my mind?

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Two bread?

Speaker 16 (37:28):
Return that money?

Speaker 7 (37:30):
How can I a man.

Speaker 16 (37:32):
Of your accomplishment?

Speaker 23 (37:34):
There's away and you will find it, must I okay, Mack,
ready to roll you want to ride, let's go.

Speaker 8 (37:48):
I've changed my mind. You and the good fairy will
have to roll without me whilst I make a delivery
of my own. Ye, yes, missus sommers.

Speaker 13 (38:07):
Why HiT's the reverend Kendo? What are you doing.

Speaker 8 (38:10):
Here throwing myself on your mercy?

Speaker 21 (38:13):
Well?

Speaker 13 (38:13):
I wouldn't want you to do that in all this rain.

Speaker 16 (38:16):
Please come in.

Speaker 8 (38:17):
Thank you?

Speaker 13 (38:20):
What do you mean throw yourself.

Speaker 25 (38:22):
On my mercy?

Speaker 8 (38:23):
Uh? Don't you know?

Speaker 2 (38:25):
No?

Speaker 13 (38:25):
But you can explain as soon as you take off
that wet coat and come warm by the fire.

Speaker 15 (38:31):
How did you find me?

Speaker 8 (38:33):
Ah? Well, you remember you mentioned your address for me
to write to you.

Speaker 13 (38:37):
That's right, of course I did. Now give me that
witcoat and let me hang it up and i'll get
my husband.

Speaker 7 (38:44):
Huh.

Speaker 8 (38:45):
I thought he was just back from the hospital.

Speaker 13 (38:47):
Oh that's where he works as security.

Speaker 27 (38:49):
God, i'd like you to.

Speaker 13 (38:51):
Meet the sheriff. So sheriff retired, of course, but we
still use the old title. You look a little straight, enjoyed?

Speaker 23 (39:00):
What's wrong?

Speaker 25 (39:01):
Reverend boy?

Speaker 8 (39:02):
Had nothing except I I just discovered. Didn't you know
there was a thief on the bus we were off?

Speaker 13 (39:09):
No, Yes, thank heaven, I kept my purse safe right there,
just as I brought it from the bank. But you,
oh poor Reverend Kendall, you were.

Speaker 8 (39:22):
Robbed every cent I had.

Speaker 12 (39:24):
Ah.

Speaker 8 (39:24):
I've wired my church, of course, but I had to
have an address for them to send me the money.
So I took the liberty of giving them yours in
a strange town. It was the only place I could
think of.

Speaker 13 (39:34):
And I'm delighted you did. And of course you'll stay
here till your money comes. Now, you just dry off
at the fire, and I'll hang out your coat and
get my husband and a nice.

Speaker 23 (39:45):
Cup of hot tea.

Speaker 8 (39:50):
A dear little old lady, just what my own Sarah,
that I lost might have become with the passing years,
naive and trusting, her pocketbook still resting beside the phone,
This is your lucky day, Red. Take the wallet and
return it, just as if you'd never been tempted. All right, mister,

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just hold it. I there, you dropped that wallet, And
get your hands up over your head. Not just a minute.

Speaker 11 (40:20):
Who shummer, I got a gun on you, my dear sheriff.
Will you just keep your hands over better?

Speaker 8 (40:30):
You know, every since Sarah told me about meeting you
on the bus and hunts.

Speaker 6 (40:35):
You were up to no good.

Speaker 8 (40:38):
You aren't shatis fag with just twenty you had to
have it all. My dear sir, you completely misunderstand my
motor on.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Don't you're under arrest?

Speaker 8 (40:53):
Okay, grip chow time. I should have known you would
end up a guest to the city sergeants. Will No
one listened to me. I wasn't taking the money. I
was only trying to return it. Sure, what did it
take me for another second? Oh? No, After a lifetime
of douking them, I turned up a classic one myself,

(41:16):
who says on the Steve page and yeah, hadn't given
a the world just once I did, Look where it
got me.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
I'm sorry, man, you want to be Are you sure
you promised to help me?

Speaker 13 (41:33):
Wait until you certainly to promise?

Speaker 16 (41:35):
I didn't keep.

Speaker 7 (41:38):
Oh what do you say?

Speaker 8 (41:40):
Nothing? I was just talking to myself.

Speaker 6 (41:43):
I know how you feel.

Speaker 8 (41:45):
I get the same way myself. I got to put
up with guys like a couple of my nott to
be here serving your supper and instead of I, ah, couple, man,
where the time?

Speaker 11 (41:55):
Hell are you being multiple accident on the highway? Big
trailer job Jack? In fact, at the devil's elbow driver
was killed, crushed like a walnut. Yeah, anyone else in
that truck no good thing too. We'd had another death,
and what's the rev doing here? And well he tried
to hist a thousand bucks from Sheriff Summer's wife. Can

(42:17):
you figure a second play like that?

Speaker 8 (42:19):
Now we got a jalum. It might not be a
bad bargain. That wouldn't have been a ferry truck that crashed.

Speaker 11 (42:27):
Why you named it one time the good fairy didn't deliver?

Speaker 8 (42:31):
That may be in the point of view. What's the
most I can get for whatever crime? I committed? Ninety
days in jail, six months a suspended sentence. But if
I'd carried it through and try to get away with it,
I'd have ended up a mangled corpse in a jackknife
trailer truck. I just want to say thank you, Sarah.

Speaker 7 (42:56):
What does that mean?

Speaker 8 (42:58):
I don't know myself or even which Sarah. Just this
Bonham said there's one sucker born every minute. I'm the
one that's lucky even to be alive.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
Harrison Kendall received a six month suspended sentence, and history
doesn't record what happened to him after that.

Speaker 29 (43:21):
Perhaps just as well.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
He was one of a vanishing breed, and one can
suppose that time itself caught up with him, just as
surely as events, the medicine man and the con man
have vanished for our civilization as extinct in today's corporate
living as the bison almost became. I'll be back shortly,

(43:51):
since obviously I will get some fleck from my last statement.
Perhaps I should define the speeder the bunco artist in
a sense a vanishing breed.

Speaker 5 (44:02):
It can be argued that in all.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
Communication fields, in the political arena, they are as alive
as ever, with one difference. Today they do not seek
the individual. The contact is indirect. It is mass appeal.
Men like Harrison Kendall are one with the indigenous population.

Speaker 5 (44:22):
Of our country.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
Individuals a breed of men that are plastic. Society seems
determined to wipe out. Our cast included Howard da Silva,
Bronna Raeburn, Ian Martin and Gilbert Mack. The entire production
was under the direction of Hyman Brown, and now a
preview of our next tale.

Speaker 8 (44:44):
He shall never see one more cent of my money.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
Good day, A good day again, our princess.

Speaker 5 (44:51):
Wait, what.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
Is the my this touch the touch obviously a shady
scheme to cheat.

Speaker 7 (45:04):
You out of your hird earned money.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
Yeah, I know that, but what is it you are
aware of? This ancient king Midas? Everything he touched turned.

Speaker 25 (45:16):
Gold, seems say I did, real boy him.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
Yes, the touch, the Midas touch, it can be achieved
is standing there and saying that you can sell a
man the power to touch something and it'll turn to
gold in a word.

Speaker 7 (45:36):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (45:37):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor
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return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the
macabre until next time, Pleasant Dream.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
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ten years of doing the show. But while it's our birthday,
we want the gifts to go to those who help
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Speaker 24 (47:28):
There is the kind of story where the listener is
aware all the time of an impending doom, a gradual
build up of terror towards a grand climax. Then again,
there is the tale that seems gentle enough, a story
of normal, happy people, recognizable scenes, and not until the

(47:49):
very end, indeed, not until the last minute or so,
does it become apparent. But something is very, very wrong.
My play tonight into this latter category. We present Take
Your Partners by Ronald Blyde, the forty fifth consecutive production
in Beyond Midnight.

Speaker 26 (48:15):
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Speaker 30 (48:29):
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Speaker 26 (48:38):
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Speaker 9 (48:58):
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Speaker 17 (48:59):
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Speaker 30 (49:24):
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Speaker 12 (49:35):
Who had better.

Speaker 25 (49:38):
Nothing in all the world like a log fire this
time of the year. Nothing not coal mine, Coal's not
the same logs. Gotta be logs, Missy staff. Coal twenty
days to Christmas. It's funny.

Speaker 24 (49:58):
Christmas is a never quite the same grown up, never
the same excitement. You grow up and you are allowed
into a new mysterious world, the world of adult people.

Speaker 7 (50:10):
But you pay for it.

Speaker 25 (50:11):
And the price you pay is the surrendering of all
the privileges of the young. You lose the chance forever
of looking into the mirror of childhood.

Speaker 7 (50:22):
I know what you mean.

Speaker 24 (50:23):
If there are compensations, you can stay up late, drink strong, drink,
go dancing, fall in love.

Speaker 7 (50:32):
I suppose you dance, dance nothing spectacular now.

Speaker 24 (50:39):
What passes for dancing nowadays is simple enough. I suppose,
as long as you wind.

Speaker 7 (50:44):
And energy for it.

Speaker 24 (50:47):
When I was young, there dancing was a serious thing,
right enough, a serious thing.

Speaker 25 (50:54):
We all went to balls, that's what they call them.
They're not dances summer and winter alike, are you, young people?
You haven't a notion about those summer balls. The whole
house would be turned upside down for the ball. All
the windows were wide as we danced. The music sounded
all night across the fields we lived in. We danced

(51:19):
for hours, no missy a faffler, then off to a
dark corner for hanky panky. Young ladies were strict to them.
They thought more of themselves, prouder they were.

Speaker 7 (51:34):
Now.

Speaker 24 (51:35):
I don't know what the world's coming to I don't
really I remember one particularly.

Speaker 25 (51:45):
Indeed, I'm hardly likely to forget it.

Speaker 24 (51:49):
Younger than you, I was nomber than eighteen summer ball. No,
this was at Campions. They never gave summer balls.

Speaker 25 (51:58):
Your ignorance is abysmal.

Speaker 7 (52:00):
Campions.

Speaker 24 (52:01):
I know that's the old house by the river roll
the chestnut trees aren't.

Speaker 25 (52:06):
Yes, that's Campions. It's empty now.

Speaker 24 (52:10):
It has rented for a few months a couple of
summers ago, but it's usually empty here s it's empty enough.

Speaker 25 (52:16):
Like all the big houses.

Speaker 24 (52:19):
Once, they were places of light and laughed, mystery and romance.

Speaker 31 (52:25):
Now, oh what a garden.

Speaker 25 (52:30):
Chestnut trees, rustic gods, mossy pans and dianas.

Speaker 24 (52:37):
Rose colored ibs, green and golden ivy covering the walls
of the great house. The swallows built their nests under
the eaves in spring or the river lazy meandering, and
the PUDs died.

Speaker 7 (52:54):
Under the willows and.

Speaker 25 (52:57):
Green green lawns. Campions to Dolly and be Champions were
a haven, a kind of heaven. Now, unless someone rebricks

(53:18):
the chimneys, they will fall down. But I suppose no
one ever will. But I suppose they will fall down.
The gardens overgrow, the roses have gone wild. Great rooms
of Campions are cold now no more after the Pans
and the Dianas are still on their pedestals, but they've

(53:41):
lost a hand.

Speaker 7 (53:42):
Here to foot, There.

Speaker 32 (53:44):
Weeds in the lords.

Speaker 25 (53:47):
The grass is taken rough in flood time.

Speaker 7 (53:51):
The river came too.

Speaker 25 (53:52):
High, a spoiled the beds Campions is empty now.

Speaker 7 (53:57):
Still lovely in the.

Speaker 31 (53:58):
Sand for God, button way.

Speaker 7 (54:02):
Regretful.

Speaker 25 (54:10):
Another log on the fire, I think, Oh, let.

Speaker 7 (54:12):
Me, grandfather? Where's my world? God?

Speaker 25 (54:18):
Where we all carried to another planet in nineteen fourteen?
Yes it is different. It's colder. The sun doesn't shine
for so long in the summer. Sometimes it seems that
the winters will never end. And you went to a
dance a ball there at Campions.

Speaker 7 (54:41):
Yes, it was the first.

Speaker 33 (54:43):
Ball I ever went to. There couldn't have been a
better one to start with. You see, Campions was the ball.

Speaker 25 (54:51):
You can imagine the excitement that was when Dolly and
I got cards.

Speaker 27 (54:55):
Oh, it would be beautiful, Gerald.

Speaker 16 (54:59):
Do you think the powers get in the carriage?

Speaker 13 (55:01):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (55:02):
Chard, are you not so happy to be going?

Speaker 34 (55:05):
The guest list from Campions are always sent to the newspapers.

Speaker 10 (55:08):
Imagine everyone will know, Dolly.

Speaker 34 (55:11):
You realize, of course, that now we've been invited to Campions,
we're safe for the whole year. Tennis, the Bishop's garden party,
no aid, the mother, little beanos.

Speaker 27 (55:19):
Oh really, Jerled, you're positive in volger. I didn't know
what I read, Harry, why Mamma?

Speaker 7 (55:28):
And so we went.

Speaker 25 (55:30):
Now, Father did take us in the carriage. Not a
very grand carriage, but a carriage all the same. And
I remember your aunt Dolly had a new dress which

(55:51):
she'd started putting on after tea, although we weren't to
be there before nine.

Speaker 7 (55:56):
And did you enjoy yourself?

Speaker 25 (55:59):
Not at first, and certainly not afterwards, but between whiles
was the strangest happiness I have ever known. When we

(56:20):
arrived at Campion's, I was so nervous that my gloves
were miserably damp. Even before I'd had a single dance.
My collar rose up and down my neck limply. Dolly
began to dance at once with Micky Trent.

Speaker 5 (56:35):
How you didn't know him as being gone for years, And.

Speaker 25 (56:38):
I was left standing near the old ladies. The ball
swept by like a sea, but every time Dolly passed
by with Micky. She stared at me crossly. She knew
that I had one dance on my card, and that
was with her.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
N chilled me.

Speaker 16 (57:00):
Thanks.

Speaker 35 (57:00):
I will not be responsible for you do something. You
are standing there, the only ting you might do something.

Speaker 7 (57:15):
Oh.

Speaker 25 (57:15):
Yes, the old ones were talking about me behind their hands.

Speaker 24 (57:21):
I felt them talking about me. I was so miserable.
I wished I hadn't come worse.

Speaker 25 (57:27):
I knew that it would only be a matter of
minutes before I was sent on endless errands for forgotten
shawls and turkey sandwiches. So, hardly realizing what I was about,
I went off towards the garden room, and that's where

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it all began. The garden room, the night of the
ball at Campions. The room was empty except for a
girl with her back to me.

Speaker 7 (58:02):
M m m m m.

Speaker 25 (58:07):
She took no notice of me. She was staring out
of the window. She was standing really still. She did
turn round though after a while. I had never seen

(58:28):
any one like her in the whole of my life before,
I have never seen a woman like her. Since her
beauty was a kind of everlasting radiance. She would have
been revered in any land, in any age as a goddess.
Her hair was black and it reached down to her waist.

Speaker 7 (58:51):
Her face was pale, and the enormous.

Speaker 25 (58:53):
Eyes just blinked once, signifying that she acknowledged my presence,
whom she seemed even shy than I was. She didn't speak.
She was wearing a gown that stretched in the fashion
to the floor. It was gathered in a multitude of
folds under.

Speaker 5 (59:12):
Her bosom.

Speaker 33 (59:14):
The neck, and the same startlingly pale quality of the face.
The gown she wore was cut very low, and the
extraordinarily handsome wos of rose and fell scarcely noticeable.

Speaker 7 (59:29):
As she stood unspeaking and faced me.

Speaker 24 (59:36):
My heart sounded like the gunfire.

Speaker 7 (59:38):
That was in a few years later to echo across
the world.

Speaker 24 (59:45):
I searched for words and found two, neither of them
very original.

Speaker 25 (59:56):
Good evening, O, I feel like a new man. It's

(01:00:33):
a lovely day to day. I took a Grandpa.

Speaker 26 (01:00:37):
Headache powder and I'm worlds better when cols and flu
are about.

Speaker 24 (01:00:42):
Grandpa, headache powders are what you need. Grandpa headache powders
work fast because they dissolve almost immediately. Grandpa makes all
those ripple flu symptoms disappear quickly. So whenever you're in pain,
get fast relief, get Grandpa headache powders.

Speaker 7 (01:00:58):
Ah grand.

Speaker 28 (01:01:02):
Oh, darling, Try to look as though you're enjoying yourself.
The party is grief, Yes it wasn't. Ntil I ate
no take a die jel. I always keep some in
my bag, but I already took an ant acid, yes, darling,
but die jel is much more than an ant assid.
Dye jel has double action. There's a lair of antasis
plus a lair of Themeficans. It's the Samefican that releaves

(01:01:23):
that dressful, blueted feeling here.

Speaker 25 (01:01:26):
Try and die jel.

Speaker 7 (01:01:27):
Like they say, when you eat.

Speaker 8 (01:01:29):
Too well, demand die jel.

Speaker 25 (01:01:56):
You know, Ronald, there is an eternity between the man
the boy. No woman, except in kindness, would wish to
spend long away from a gay music filled room throng
with beautiful people, merely to stand in perfect repose looking
at the thin, pale creature that was myself at eighteen.

Speaker 7 (01:02:16):
But she did the minutes.

Speaker 25 (01:02:18):
Passed, and managed to get my heart under control after
a struggle.

Speaker 10 (01:02:25):
It's very beautiful here, isn't it. Do you come here
often to the campaigns. What's your name?

Speaker 16 (01:02:39):
Christ Bell?

Speaker 25 (01:02:42):
The beauty of her voice was matched only by the
loveliness of her appearance. Oh, I was in love with
her at once. Of course, the world could disappear, civilization
pass away from all I cared at that moment in time,
indeed time that ceased to exist. We were suspended in
a bubble that left the Great House and its gardens.

Speaker 24 (01:03:02):
We were floating away away under the moon, and it's
the stars. Have you been dancing tonight?

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:03:12):
I have not danced this evening.

Speaker 25 (01:03:14):
Perhaps perhaps you are hungry, but perhaps perhaps you'd like
me to fetch you some refreshments. The cider cup is
most excellent, I believe.

Speaker 7 (01:03:30):
No, you are.

Speaker 23 (01:03:38):
You?

Speaker 16 (01:03:39):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (01:03:41):
I was going to say you are extraordinarily beautiful. Thank you.
Then I'm not sir.

Speaker 10 (01:03:53):
I mean my name is is Gerald, Gerald Gerrison.

Speaker 16 (01:03:59):
I'm pleased to meet you, mister Beresford.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
What do you? Who do you?

Speaker 10 (01:04:05):
Who care to sit for a while there by the window?

Speaker 16 (01:04:11):
That would be lovely, mister Beresford.

Speaker 7 (01:04:15):
Oh, I beg you call me Gerald.

Speaker 25 (01:04:19):
There was a scent about her, a scent like a
garden at night. Guardianias are the deep red carnations or.

Speaker 7 (01:04:26):
How I don't know. It's difficult to remember.

Speaker 25 (01:04:29):
The years separate me from her, everything with the memory
of her. Whatever it was, it was natural and heavenly.

Speaker 6 (01:04:36):
I do know that.

Speaker 10 (01:04:39):
Did you hear the nightingale?

Speaker 7 (01:04:41):
Or was it the blackbird singing?

Speaker 16 (01:04:43):
The blackbird sings beautifully.

Speaker 10 (01:04:46):
Although the poets always use the nightingale's name in their verses.

Speaker 15 (01:04:49):
Perhaps this is a more romantic bird, although the common
blackbird sings sweetly and yet receives none of the praise.

Speaker 10 (01:04:59):
No, her hands were folded in her lap.

Speaker 25 (01:05:03):
They were without appendages, no ring, no bracelet encompassed her wrist.
She was natural, perfectly so, not a scrap of makeup
upon her face. She needed nothing like that. Suddenly I
was no longer afraid. The words tumbled from my lips.

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I felt in the ballroom, I didn't wish to dance. Well,
there was no one, no one to dance with. I mean,
there are people people there, yes, girls and the many.
But oh, I'm glad I came here. I'm so glad.

Speaker 10 (01:05:39):
I thought i'd be alone.

Speaker 8 (01:05:44):
Well, I wanted to be alone.

Speaker 24 (01:05:47):
Until I saw you, Christopher. But I don't want to
be alone. She appeared to be leaning towards me. I
felt suddenly dizzy. I felt as if I was falling, falling,
falling towards her.

Speaker 25 (01:06:05):
Her face seemed larger, all the beauty of her increased,
and I fell towards her two arts.

Speaker 7 (01:06:19):
Cristal, and my hands found hers, and.

Speaker 25 (01:06:23):
The gunfire hammered in my heart.

Speaker 7 (01:06:26):
My lips found hers once more.

Speaker 25 (01:06:37):
Her arms were around one another, tight, tight, She was
talking to me, but I couldn't distinguish the words. My
hands were in her hair, her long black hair, and
it covered her face and my face, and we were
drowning in her hair. And it was as if I
was suddenly become part of her.

Speaker 7 (01:06:56):
There was no separate me anymore. We were one.

Speaker 25 (01:07:00):
Breaths and our lips and our bodies mingled, were lost
in one another, And.

Speaker 24 (01:07:05):
Again I was falling, it seemed.

Speaker 25 (01:07:08):
I remember smelling those close, earthy smells of wood and
fern and long undisturbed dust.

Speaker 7 (01:07:16):
I heard scene, but from.

Speaker 24 (01:07:18):
Whose lips, I cannot imagine, if indeed it came from lips,
And I was lost, lost forever.

Speaker 7 (01:07:27):
It's quiet.

Speaker 16 (01:07:29):
I love the quiet.

Speaker 7 (01:07:32):
I love you.

Speaker 25 (01:07:39):
She was so calm, serene, She scarcely seemed to breathe.
We were sitting now boat.

Speaker 10 (01:07:46):
Upright in the middle of the round wooden floor of.

Speaker 25 (01:07:48):
The garden house, just like two carvings. And then she
slowly rose, smiled, and held out her right hand to me.

Speaker 16 (01:07:58):
I would like to dance.

Speaker 24 (01:08:01):
At this, my heart stopped. I thought of the floor
of the ballroom, and the darkly flushed males whirling their
women in the intricate.

Speaker 7 (01:08:10):
Loops of the Woltz.

Speaker 25 (01:08:12):
I was afraid, but I bowed and took her hand
once more, and without another word, we left the garden house,
and with Cristoville.

Speaker 8 (01:08:21):
On my arm, I made for the ballroom.

Speaker 24 (01:08:30):
My confidence deserted me when I found myself about to
be borne into that melee. But there was no escape
from the treacherous wastes of chalky floors, s trading out
before me.

Speaker 25 (01:08:42):
Jeer, and suddenly we were part of the dancing throng.

Speaker 7 (01:08:48):
We were on wings.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
Why dancing?

Speaker 10 (01:09:00):
They say, A good dancer is able to take the
poorest around the floor.

Speaker 7 (01:09:04):
Anyone could dance with her.

Speaker 10 (01:09:07):
I wonder what the old ladies are saying now.

Speaker 8 (01:09:09):
Oh, not so close to the card tables.

Speaker 10 (01:09:13):
Oh, we must be dancing faster than anyone else.

Speaker 25 (01:09:16):
On the floor.

Speaker 8 (01:09:18):
Oh, I bet you're all endious.

Speaker 10 (01:09:21):
It's donny Mickey transer. You can't dance not like this.

Speaker 7 (01:09:32):
People are looking at us.

Speaker 10 (01:09:34):
I wonder, Oh sorry, christer l The turn wasn't quite so.

Speaker 7 (01:09:40):
Good, was it?

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
Never mind?

Speaker 25 (01:09:45):
We danced on and on, and then I was aware
that things had begun to change. The band still played,
but the couples on the floor became fewer and fewer.

Speaker 24 (01:09:55):
It might have been from my glorious exertions that I
felt a heaviness, a languor, and.

Speaker 8 (01:10:00):
Would have led my partner to the side.

Speaker 10 (01:10:03):
But as though.

Speaker 8 (01:10:04):
Suspecting my thoughts, she became as.

Speaker 24 (01:10:06):
Wonderfully animated as in that very first moment, and instead
of retiring, we danced more gaily than ever.

Speaker 26 (01:10:21):
I say we danced gaily, That wasn't quite the word
for it.

Speaker 25 (01:10:24):
There was a kind of urgency in our movements.

Speaker 7 (01:10:28):
I might go as far.

Speaker 24 (01:10:29):
As to call it a desperation.

Speaker 25 (01:10:31):
And at last we were the only couple on the floor.
I thought it wise to stop now, and I led
it to the side. She seemed reluctant, as if she
were loath to put an end to our wolzin. I
caught a vague glimpse of Dolly and Mickey.

Speaker 7 (01:10:49):
They looked perplexed.

Speaker 25 (01:10:54):
Suddenly I felt terribly ill at ease. There was only
the one place to go, the garden room, away from
all the people, and so I walked out of the
ballroom with long wooden steps.

Speaker 7 (01:11:12):
I entered the garden.

Speaker 25 (01:11:14):
I hoped everyone had noticed her beauty.

Speaker 7 (01:11:18):
I entered the garden room again.

Speaker 25 (01:11:21):
We felt again the wonder that I had known thew
a short while before.

Speaker 24 (01:11:25):
I realized too, that my life would never be quite
the same again. We stood near the window. She's staring
out into the night, and much as she had been
when I first entered, in what seemed to me then
another year.

Speaker 25 (01:11:44):
We had not moved when Dolly found us.

Speaker 14 (01:11:50):
So there you are, child, Yes, he hell, Dolly, I
like to introduce you know what you've done, But you all,
you silish Dolly. Please, we're going home. You have ruined everything.

Speaker 25 (01:12:10):
I tried, again, by an elaborate mind, to indicate my
late companion.

Speaker 24 (01:12:14):
Who stood partly obscured by the curtains. But even in
the midst of such anxieties, Dolly's temper wasn't nothing to
be easily forgotten.

Speaker 26 (01:12:22):
I can tell you I.

Speaker 24 (01:12:24):
Felt some even stronger emotion dollars rough seemed less terrible.

Speaker 7 (01:12:31):
You see, without looking.

Speaker 31 (01:12:32):
Round, I knew we were alone.

Speaker 10 (01:12:38):
You're drunk, to drunk to run. I didn't have a sip,
not not even beside the cap.

Speaker 5 (01:12:46):
Look, look, tell me to tell me what I've done.

Speaker 10 (01:12:49):
Don't just stand there like a volcano.

Speaker 16 (01:12:52):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 13 (01:12:53):
And what's more, I'll tell Papa.

Speaker 27 (01:12:56):
You don't nearly a whole whar yourself in front.

Speaker 16 (01:13:02):
Of the county.

Speaker 27 (01:13:06):
And if you weren't drunk, then you're mad.

Speaker 7 (01:13:31):
And the lady. Did you see her again?

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:13:35):
But then we weren't asked again.

Speaker 25 (01:13:38):
I saw her name again, though the name where in
the old.

Speaker 24 (01:13:42):
Champion's graveyard where Crystabel Forsyth's The full name was crystabelle Foreside.

Speaker 29 (01:13:52):
She died in.

Speaker 5 (01:13:53):
Eighteen ninety nine.

Speaker 33 (01:13:56):
The ball to which I went took place in the
late ortumn of nineteen hundred and ten.

Speaker 5 (01:14:02):
She was nineteen when.

Speaker 33 (01:14:03):
She died in the village.

Speaker 6 (01:14:06):
Later I made.

Speaker 24 (01:14:07):
Inquiries about her. She was remembered. It was very tragic.
Apparently she loved dancing.

Speaker 33 (01:14:15):
In those days they held coming out balls for the
daughters of the gentry, usually when the young ladies were
about seventeen or eighteen, Christobel Forsyth, a cousin of the Campions,
had been very ill for two years, so it missed
her own coming out ball, and so it was arranged

(01:14:36):
near Christmas eighteen ninety nine that she should share the
big dance.

Speaker 5 (01:14:40):
With another young lady.

Speaker 24 (01:14:44):
She had a relapse and died three days before the
great event. She had set her heart and attending.

Speaker 10 (01:14:53):
That's why it was so said.

Speaker 25 (01:14:55):
But we were never asked to the Campions again, so
I never went to another ball.

Speaker 7 (01:15:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 30 (01:15:53):
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Speaker 26 (01:16:03):
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Speaker 30 (01:16:11):
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Speaker 26 (01:16:15):
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Speaker 8 (01:16:22):
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Speaker 17 (01:16:23):
And you don't stir a finger.

Speaker 30 (01:16:25):
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Speaker 26 (01:16:28):
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Speaker 8 (01:17:39):
Mind w.

Speaker 36 (01:17:55):
Welcome to a half hour of mind works. Short stories
from the world suspected into six. This is Michael Hanson
with the mind Web story from the book Wondermaker's Two,
edited by Robert Hoskins. This is the Evergreen Library by

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Bill Pronzini and Jeffrey Wallman. The revelation that he had
never previously visited the estate of Old Preu at Evergreen
in all the years he had handled the aged and
white haired gentleman's legal affairs struck Simon Graham for the
first time as he guided his Lincoln Continental along the

(01:18:41):
dutch On bordered private lane. Not once had he had
the occasion to make the long drive from Philadelphia through
meandering miles of autumnal colored Pennsylvania countryside, and Graham found
himself wondering at Evergreen's lack of hospitality over the last
three decades. After all, he had represented Old Pruitt mundane

(01:19:02):
and infrequent needs ever since he had begun his practice
prior to the Second World War, carrying out whatever wishes
were asked of him during personal contact at his office
or by telephone. It was ironic Graham thought that this
first visit would undoubtedly be his last, for its causal
purpose was Pruitt Evergreen's death of a simple coronary the

(01:19:24):
previous Thursday. Although he would, after his own fashion, miss
the wry wit and gentle, amiable manner, Graham could not
help but feel Old Pruitt had had a long and
comfortable life, a happy one, and that his passing was
without regrets. In fact, it had almost been as if
Evergreen had foreseen his mortal end, for his last visit

(01:19:45):
to Graham's office had concerned the drafting of a will
and instructions as to the apportionment of his property. That
meeting had been short in business like, since Evergreen had
no living relatives. Was the last of a Pilgrim family
which had settled the area in sixteen thirty. The bulk
of the estate was to pass to the and Caridian Society,
a European group of which Graham knew little, save that

(01:20:08):
it had something to do with books, and Cayridian being
an archaic sort of synonym for book, and that old
Pruet had had a lifelong attachment to it. A representative
of the society was arriving in Philadelphia the following afternoon,
and as Evergreen's duly appointed legal delegate, Graham had decided
on the impromptu visit to make certain everything on the

(01:20:30):
estate was in order. He rounded a gentle curve, now
passing through a thick copse of the Dutch elms, and there,
in a wide clearing one hundred yards distant, he saw
the Evergreen Mansion. It was a true anachronism in the
modern world of high rise concrete and glass and suburban stucco.

(01:20:51):
Constructed of rust colored brick, hand mortared with care and precision,
it had withstood two centuries of natural erosion. It was
hugh of pre revolutionary design, two storied and elongated, with
a sloping gabled roof from which jutted a series of
darkly wood framed dormer windows. A narrow widow's walk followed

(01:21:11):
the width of the dwelling above the second story front
Behind and to one side was a carriage house and
two small outbuildings which had once quartered servants. Graham entered
a circular drive and brought the Continental to a stop
before the porch, grown heavy with scarlet bogan Villiu. He
sighed ponderously as he stepped from the large car. Once

(01:21:33):
the college athlete, he had dined on too much gourmet
food and drunk too much fine wine with the success
of his law practice to retain his youthful pH zeke.
But the extra girth that had come with middle age
only seemed to add judicious solidarity to his bearing. His
conservative herring bone suit and rigidly proper posture gave him
the attitude of ultra respectability, an attitude which he cultivated wisely.

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He had a round, trusting face with penetrying gray eyes
in the firm, resolute mouth that rarely smiled. Life, with
its attendant responsibilities and decisions, was much too sober a
burden for levity. Yet, surrounded as he now was by
heavy wood in the imposing evergreen mansion and grounds, Graham

(01:22:18):
sensed a certain diminishing of his own status. There was
about this place an air of quiet antiquity, which was
at once serenely relaxing and faintly disquieting. It was almost
as if time had somehow ceased its inexorable passage on
the grounds of this estate, allowing it to remain forever

(01:22:39):
as it had been during the era of Washington Jefferson
in the Declaration of Independence. He walked on to the
porch and fitted into the door lock the large brass
key which until last Thursday had belonged to Missus Donnelly Proud,
Evergreen's housekeeper. He swung open one half of the arched
double doors which served as the main entry. They were

(01:23:01):
fastened at either jam by wide triangular hinges, much in
the fashion of New England church doors, and the one
creaked vaguely in the late afternoon stillness. The sound had
an odd melancholy quality in Graham's ears. He stepped inside,
pulling the door closed behind him. He stood in a

(01:23:22):
large vestibule, shadowed, smelling mildly but not unpleasantly, of age
must on his left. The vestibule opened into a massive
sitting room with a high beam ceiling and an impressive
stone and mortar fireplace, which comprised one entire wall. The
furniture was old and heavily ponderous, built solidly by woodcraftsmen

(01:23:43):
whose life span had not nearly approximated that of their creations.
On his right, Graham saw a smaller entrance way, which
afforded him a look into a good sized dining room.
Across its bare polished hardwood floor, he could see through
another doorway into a quakerlike kitchen, functional and without neoteric luxuries.

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At the far end of the vestibule was a wide,
curving staircase of thick, varnished wood with gleaning and highly
ornate banisters. He entered the sitting room and stood for
a moment in the center of the floor. He had
a brief feeling of inconsequentiality, as he had upon leaving
his car outside, but he refused to allow to linger.

(01:24:28):
He thought, as his eyes moved about the room that
if he were to call out, the heavy walls would
send his voice back to him in a series of
reverberating echoes. Pruitt Evergreen had died in that room. Missus Donnelly,
a matronly woman who came twice each week, had discovered
his body sitting peacefully in the ancient colonial rocker. Near

(01:24:50):
the hearth a pipe with blackened dottle in its bowl,
clasped in one hand, his shoeless feet placed comfortably on
the tufted foot rest. If the housekeeper could be believed
there had been a slide and beatific smile on the
old man's lips. Of course, Graham considered this observation to
be feminine of purple. He spent the next fifteen minutes

(01:25:13):
wandering from room to room on the main floor, admiring
with an appreciative eye, the fine old appointments contained in each.
As he passed through a small sewing room, he noticed
a curtain there at one end. He parted the drapery there,
revealing a tiny alcove set into the wall. Opposite was

(01:25:35):
a great oak door with a brass knob and an
imposing key latch. Graham wondered in a perfunctorily curious way
what lay beyond it, and after a moment he approached
the door. He tried the brass knob and found it
locked securely. Odd, he thought, frowning, and then he remembered
the ring of two keys, which Prude Evergreen had given

(01:25:57):
him during that last farewell visit. Graham's instructions had been
to present them to the and Caridian Society representative when
the time came. He had brought them along on to
day's journey, solely because, being a meticulous man, there was
the possibility that they might become necessary. Selecting the large
ear of the two keys, Graham unlocked the oak door

(01:26:21):
and pushed it open. A murky darkness was all he
was able to discern at first, but once his pupils
dilated sufficiently, he determined that the room was a huge library,
though rather a strange sort of library for a private dwelling.
The walls were literally coated with books, unnarrowed, warped, unvarnished

(01:26:43):
wooden shelves from floor to ceiling and extending for as
far as he could see. In the dimness, lines of
similar shelves with narrow aisleways between them, comprised the remainder
of the room, and Graham was reminded of the stacks
in a public or college library. There was, however, no
apparent reading area. There were only books what looked like

(01:27:06):
hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of books. He took two
tentative steps into the room. The ceiling was relatively low,
certainly much lower than those in the house's other chambers,
and Graham concluded that there was at least one other

(01:27:28):
floor above him. As his eyes grew more accustomed to
the gloom, he saw a pair of narrow, spiral staircases
of the type found in public libraries, which wound upward,
infirming his deduction. On his left, Graham saw two thin,
tall windows rising beyond the ceiling to some indeterminate height.

(01:27:49):
Their multi paned glass was so begrimed as to allow
very little light to pass through. What few rays did
manage to penetrate were further diffused by the swirling eddies
of flaking, pale ash dust. His intrusion had disrupted. It
seemed as if the housekeeper, for some inexplicable reason, had
never been permitted into the library for purposes of cleaning.

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The front section of the house was immaculate. Automatically, Graham's
hand touched the inside wall in search of a light switch,
but he found none. Not only had the library peculiarly
been denied cleaning, he decided, but the luxury of electricity
as well. He moved forward, slowly, as one does when

(01:28:34):
entering a dark and unfamiliar cellar. His eyes caught on
the floor, near the end of the nearest stack a
volume which had apparently fallen from its place on one
of the shelves. He picked it up and opened it
to the frontispiece Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There
was no copyright dat although the book state of publication

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was clear eighteen thirty seven. While Graham was not by
any means a bibliophile, there was no doubt in his
mind that this was a first edition. It had that unmistakable,
somehow tangible feel of rarity, of fragility, which can only
be associated with genuine antiques. He rubbed some of the

(01:29:17):
dust from the binding with the tips of his fingers carefully,
and then attempted to replace the book on the shelf.
As he did so, his eye caught the printing on
the spine of another of the books there, Twice Told
Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Graham peered at it for a moment.
It was obviously a duplicate, a much later edition. Its
binding was without age cracks, freshly printed. Now that was

(01:29:41):
danned queer, Graham thought, why had Evergreen allowed a new
edition of a work to be shelved, while an extremely
rare first edition was permitted to lie in thick dust
on the floor. He placed the first edition beside the copy,
and then crossed to the far right hand and wall.

(01:30:01):
He scanned the titles of the books on the shelves
there lying carelessly on the floor, and his amazement grew
by leaps and bounds. Evergreen's library contained tomes of incalculable worth,
almost all of which were yellowed, fragile, crumbling. It was
a collection of Americana to stagger the imagination. There, cradled

(01:30:25):
in a mound of ash and dust, the first book
printed in the English colonies at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in sixteen forty,
Bassalm Book that alone was worth a king's ransom, and
there beyond it the New England Primmer sixteen eighty three,
and beyond that Cotton Mather Wonders of the Invisible World
sixteen ninety three. Graham continued slowly along the narrow aisleway,

(01:30:50):
and a certain anchor began to build inside him. First
editions of volumes which had achieved some degree of fame,
whether historical or purely unliterary. Merit had been permitted to
lie to cintegrating on the dusty floor. While obviously new
copies were granted shelf space, dust filled gaps in the

(01:31:10):
rose apparently indicated the original resting place of the rare
First editions Thomas Paine, Common Sense and Original Pamphlet, seventeen
seventy six, Joel Barlow, Hasty Pudding seventeen ninety six. Washington Irving,
History of New York eighteen o nine. What the devil
had possessed Evergreen? Graham wondered, had he somehow not realized

(01:31:32):
the value of his possessions? No, that was highly unlikely.
A schoolboy would have recognized the priceless books which the
library contained. Perhaps he'd simply lost interest in it, had
ceased in his declining years to care whether such literary
treasures decayed into oblivion or not. The saturd Evening Post,

(01:31:53):
first issue, eighteen twenty one. James Fonimore Cooper, Last to
the Mohicans eighteen twenty six. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow but Tremaire,
eighteen thirty three. How had old Pruett managed to collect
such a fantastic storehouse of valuable publications? Certainly he could
not have acquired them alone without help Graham frowned, What

(01:32:18):
of the Enchiridian Society, that rather mysterious European organization to
which Evergreen had willed his estate. Could it be that
he had obtained assistance financial backing from then? It was possible,
of course, But the prodigious amount of labor of money
involved would have taxed any public institution, surely placing such

(01:32:38):
an endeavor beyond the realm of easibility for an obscurely
private group. Why the necessary funds alone would have been
prohibitive for one year, much less a lifetime. Edgar Allan
Poe Tales of the Grotesque in Arabesque eighteen forty Herman
Melville TYPEE eighteen forty six, Henry David Thereau A Week

(01:33:02):
on the Concord in Merrimack Rivers eighteen forty nine. Graham considered,
perhaps the library had been proved Evergreen's heritage, begun ten
score years previously by the first Evergreen, and subsequently handed
down from generation to generation, with each succeeding member of
the family. Adding those books which had achieved some degree

(01:33:23):
of status in American literature during his own lifetime, that
at least made a certain sense, and would explain the
last of the Evergreens, having willed the estate to a
book society.

Speaker 37 (01:33:35):
Two.

Speaker 36 (01:33:35):
There was the fact that those publications remaining on the
shelves had not been arranged by the Dewey decimal system,
or by author, or by any other normal means of cataloging,
but that they were, however, placed in a kind of
careless chronological order. Most of the titles of lesser known
works were passed all decipherability, if indeed the Wogins themselves

(01:33:57):
had not disintegrated partially or completely. Still, the question of
why the newer editions of the most famous, the most important,
the most valuable items had been purchased and then put
on the shelves in their chronological place, while the first
editions lay moldering on the dusty floor, was left unanswered.
Harriet Beecher Still Uncle Tom's Cabin, eighteen fifty two. Walt Whitman,

(01:34:21):
Leaves of Grass eighteen fifty five. Atlantic Monthly, first issue,
eighteen fifty seven. The room appeared to stretch endlessly its
rear wall, but a nebulous outline in Graham's vision, seemingly
no closer than when he had begun. He paused, Surely

(01:34:41):
this house elongated, though it was could not be as
long as it presented itself. It must be a trick
of perspective, he thought, an optical illusion. He moved forward,
and then paused again next to one of the tall windows.
He rubbed at a pane of glass in an effort
to see what lay outside, But the grime had corroded
the glass to permanent frostiness. He could see nothing. Turning

(01:35:06):
frontally again, he spied in a hiatus in the shelving
one of the narrow staircases which led upward to a
second floor. He found himself wondering, if his theory of
a heritage of bibliophiles was indeed accurate, what contributions proved
Evergreen might have made to the library before allowing it
to go to seed. He mounted the wooded stairs. The

(01:35:29):
second floor was an exact duplicate of the main one below,
even the tall, thin windows stretched upward beyond the ceiling.
How many more floors were there, he wondered, certainly, no
more than one at the most two. The house had
only two stories. He started down the nearest corridor, noting

(01:35:50):
by the colorful jackets and modern bindings which decorated shelving,
not quite so narrowed, so warped as that of the
previous floor, that he had advanced more than sixty years
years and literary time, and possibly this was the last
floor of the library after all. Nevertheless, of the dust
here was almost as thick as it had been below,

(01:36:10):
and the most famous, the most acclaimed volumes again lay
strewn profusely about the pottery floor. Sherwood Anderson, Winsburg, Ohio,
nineteen nineteen, f. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise nineteen twenty. T. S. Eliot,
The Wasteland nineteen twenty two, Ernest Hemingway in Our Time
nineteen twenty four. The volumes grew more and more familiar,

(01:36:33):
and Graham saw that a good number of the better
known periodicals of the era now graced the shelves crew
at Evergreen's contribution to his lineage had been no small one.
That was readily apparent, in fact, to have collected even
a representative cross section a relatively large percentage of the
inestimable amount of magazines and books which America consumed was

(01:36:58):
almost beyond comprehension. Titles assailed his eyes, and passing gone
with the wind of mice and men. The male animal,
a bell for adonno the iceman, cometh intruter in the
dust Death of a Salesman. Graham stopped short, his forehead
corrugating as he peered into the dimness ahead of him.

(01:37:20):
Was that a door set into the side wall. He
moved closer. Yes, a heavy oak door, like the one
through which he had first passed into the library downstairs,
set into a projected frame. He approached it, tested the
brass knob, found it locked. Instinctively, he removed the key

(01:37:40):
ring from his pocket and flitted the second of the
two keys into the lock. The key turned and the
door swung inward. Graham stood on the threshold for a
long moment, none plussed at what he saw within. It
was a cavernous room, its ceiling constructed of domed green glass,

(01:38:05):
a kind of arboreating of the type popular in country
houses of past centuries. It had apparently been converted into
an office of sorts, for in its exact center sat
a huge, gleaming gun metal gray desk. It was cluttered
with papers, books, and periodicals. More shelves of strong, unmarked

(01:38:27):
and oddly greenish brown wood lined all four walls. A
large metal cart on casters sat next to one of
the shelved walls. More books and magazines were piled on it.
He entered the room, pausing to scant few places beyond
the door, and then moving forward circumspectly. His leathers old
shoes echoed on the glistening, almost sterile tile floor. In

(01:38:50):
his eyes were on the closest row of shelves. They
were filled with hardcover and paperback books, magazines, pamphlets, every
conceivable manner of literary endeavor. But Graham noticed, as he
drew nearer that they stretched in an unbroken line from
one end of the room to the other, without gaps,
That all the spines of the publications were void of marking,

(01:39:14):
and that they all seemed to be of the same
olive color, some brighter verging on brown or black, some lighter,
almost whitish. Graham reached out a tentative hand to the
nearest shelf and rested his fingers on one of the
larger hardcover books. He attempted to pack it from its place,
but the tomb seemed to protest, as if it were

(01:39:35):
somehow fastened to the greenish brown shelf. Finally, however, it
broke free, and he lifted it down, opened it. The
pages were blank, A coldness pressed between Graham's shoulder blades.
He turned the page after page, finding them extremely unpliable,

(01:39:57):
not at all like the leaves of a book ought
to be. He looked up again at the rows of
olive spines, and the coolness spread vicidly along his back
as a thought passed into his conscious mind, a thought
which had found spawn sometime during his traversement of the stacks,
but which his subconscious had refused to allow him to
then consider. He stared at the shelves, greenish brown, smooth, unridged,

(01:40:22):
like newly blossoming trees in an orchard. The book in
his hand olive spined, stiff, paged, incomplete, refusing at first
to budge, as if it had been attached to the
wood of the shelf by some invisible umbilical stem, like
a piece of ripening fruit almost ready for the picking.
First editions fully ripened fruit, copies of them, A fresh

(01:40:47):
yield from an old but strong tree, obscure titles, a
poor yield rotting into oblivion from.

Speaker 7 (01:40:54):
A weak tree.

Speaker 36 (01:40:56):
Suddenly Simon Graham knew what the enc Iridian society was. Faceless,
nameless caretakers, the guardians of world literature, with a branch
in every nation, bearing native fruit, with roots that were
buried in the centuries past. And he knew as irrevocably
that old Pruet Evergreen had been the last of the

(01:41:19):
lineage which had been the Society's custodian of American letters.
God in Heaven. The implications were myriad. There were no writers,
no editors, no publishers. There was only a masterful delusion,
so carefully cultivated to protect a secret which, if known,

(01:41:40):
would literally destroy the foundations of civilization. A sharp sound
behind Graham sent him whirling about, a small cry building
in his throat, the hairs on the back of his
neck rising. His widened eyes rested immediately on a well known,
widely circulated magazine which had fallen from one of the
nearby shelves, but there was no gap in the smooth,

(01:42:02):
unbroken line to show its original location. Trembling, he picked
it up, multi colored, fully printed, complete. He opened it
at random, and the words leaped out to strike his
eyes with pure force. He recoiled, the cry gushing from
his throat, now stumbling backward, the coldness enveloping him consuming him.

(01:42:25):
The words the revelation that he had never previously visited
the estate of Old prud Evergreen in all the years
he had handled the aged and white haired gentleman's legal
affairs struck Simon Graham for the first time as he
guided his Lincoln Continental along the Dutch elm bordered private lane.

(01:42:45):
His first impulse was to hurl the magazine from him,
as if it were something unutterably alien, but a terrible fascination,
an overwhelming compulsion took hold of him, like a man possessed.

Speaker 12 (01:43:00):
He read on.

Speaker 36 (01:43:01):
He walked onto the porch and flitted into the door lock.
The large brass key, which had until last Thursday belonged
to missus Donnelly, proved Evergreen's housekeeper. A murky darkness was
all he was able to discern at first, but once
his pupils dilated sufficiently, he determined that the room beyond
the door was a huge library. Graham considered perhaps the

(01:43:24):
library had been proved Evergreen's heritage, begun ten score years
previously by the first Evergreen, and subsequently handed down from
generation to generation. Graham stood on the threshold for a
long moment, nonplussed at what he saw within. It was
a cavernous room, its ceiling constructed of domed green glass,

(01:43:46):
a kind of arboretum. A sudden sound behind Graham sent
him whirling about, a small cry building in his throat,
the hairs on the back of his neck rising, tore
his eyes from the magazine page. No, no, no, his
mind screamed, No, God, No, It wasn't possible. How could

(01:44:12):
he be reading about himself in the abstract? How could
everything that he had done, seen, been a part of
on this day rest in neat rows of type before
his eyes. It was almost as if, almost as if
he existed solely in terms of that story, almost as

(01:44:36):
if reality was literature and literature reality. But that was inconceivable.
He was a flesh of blood. He lived and breathed,
and walked, in thought and spoke. He had hopes and desires,
he had memories. He was alive. He was real, wasn't he?
Wasn't he.

Speaker 8 (01:44:59):
The ending?

Speaker 36 (01:45:00):
If this insane possibility were somehow true, then he would end,
when the story ended, he would simply cease to be.
In horror, His eyes flew back to the magazine, to
the last few lines of the story, to the very
last sentence. Graham dropped the magazine Screaming, and Graham dropped

(01:45:27):
the magazine Screaming, and the story time is called The

(01:46:01):
Evergreen Library, written by Bill Bronzie and Jeffrey Wallman. The
Evergreen Library appears in wonder Makers Too, a collection edited
by Robert Hoskins. This is Michael Hanson speaking technical production
on mindwebs by Leslie Hilsenhoff. Mind Webs comes to you

(01:46:23):
from WHA Radio and Madison, a service of University of
Wisconsin Extension.

Speaker 3 (01:46:30):
We all know someone who struggles with depression, whether we're
aware of it or not. It's something those who suffer
tend to deal with in silence, in the shadows. But
the organizations we are supporting with our annual Overcoming the
Darkness Fundraiser this month are working to make it easier
for those in the darkness to come into the light,
to find help, and to learn they're not alone, that
there are ways to overcome the darkness of depression and

(01:46:52):
live in normal lives. I do this fundraiser only one
month out of the year, as October is the anniversary
month for Weird Darkness, we launched in October twenty fifteen.
It's National Depression Awareness Month, and this month is spooky
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(01:47:13):
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Speaker 7 (01:47:24):
Good evening, missus Ewison Wells.

Speaker 26 (01:47:27):
You're producer of a special series of broadcasts presented by
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Speaker 1 (01:47:34):
Of the year.

Speaker 26 (01:47:42):
Ladies and gentlemen, The element of suspense is so vital
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PABs Blue Ribbon Beer, are omitting their usual commercial message
during the intermission between the acts, so that our play
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let's give Ken Roberts his forty five second opportunity right

(01:48:04):
now to extol the merits of that blended, splendid Ken,
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(01:48:25):
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Speaker 7 (01:48:26):
That's right, never less.

Speaker 26 (01:48:28):
Than thirty three fine bruise blend their individual taste tones
to give you that splendid flavor not too light, not
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you with all the paps blue ribbon you'd like, please

(01:48:51):
keep on asking for every single bottle you do get
will live up to the same high standards of quality
and taste. Yes, every bottle will be as always blended,
splendid perhaps blue ribbon.

Speaker 17 (01:49:06):
And now, mister Wells, we.

Speaker 26 (01:49:09):
Have the Mercury reckon that a story doesn't have to
appeal to the heart.

Speaker 17 (01:49:12):
It can also appeal to the spine.

Speaker 26 (01:49:15):
Sometimes you want your heart to be warm, sometimes you
want your spine to tingle.

Speaker 17 (01:49:19):
Well, with tingling, it's.

Speaker 26 (01:49:20):
To be hoped will be quite audible as you listen.
Tonight to a classic among radio thrillers, its author is
one of the most gifted of all the writers who
have ever worked for this medium. Lucille Fletcher who wrote
the greatest single radio script ever written. Sorry, wrong number.
The title of this her terrifying little tale of gruel.

(01:49:42):
For this evening, it's another spine tingler by name the Hitchhiker.

Speaker 17 (01:49:58):
I am in an auto camp en Route sixty six,
just west of Gallop, New Mexico.

Speaker 26 (01:50:06):
If I tell it, maybe it'll help me, It'll keep
me from going crazy. That I must tell this quickly.
I'm not crazy now. I feel perfectly well, perfectly well,
except that I'm running a slight temperature.

Speaker 7 (01:50:21):
My name is Ronald Adams.

Speaker 26 (01:50:23):
I'm thirty six years of age, unmarried, tall, dark with
a black mustache. I drive in nineteen forty Ford V eight,
license number six V sevent nine eight nine.

Speaker 17 (01:50:32):
I was born in Brooklyn.

Speaker 1 (01:50:33):
All this I know.

Speaker 7 (01:50:35):
I know that I am, at this moment.

Speaker 26 (01:50:36):
Perfectly sane, that it is not me who's gone mad,
but something else, something utterly beyond my control. But I
must speak quickly. At any moment the link with life
may break. This may be the last thing I ever
tell on Earth, the last night I ever see the stars.

(01:51:05):
Six days ago I left Brooklyn to drive to California.

Speaker 15 (01:51:08):
Goodbye, son, good luck to you, my boy.

Speaker 17 (01:51:11):
Goodbye, mother. Here, hear me a kiss, and then I'll go.

Speaker 15 (01:51:13):
I'll come out with you to the car.

Speaker 17 (01:51:15):
It's raining. Stay here at the door. Oh hey, what's
this tears?

Speaker 2 (01:51:20):
Oh it's just the trip, Ronald.

Speaker 1 (01:51:22):
I wish you weren't driving.

Speaker 12 (01:51:23):
Mother.

Speaker 26 (01:51:24):
There you go again.

Speaker 17 (01:51:24):
People do it every day, I know.

Speaker 15 (01:51:26):
But you'll be careful, won't you promise me you'll be
extra careful.

Speaker 38 (01:51:30):
Don't fall asleep or drive fast or pick up any
strangers on the road.

Speaker 17 (01:51:35):
Strangers. Don't you worry. There's not anything gonna happen.

Speaker 26 (01:51:37):
It's just eight days of perfectly simple driving on smooth, decent,
civilized roads, with a hot dog or a Hamburger stand.

Speaker 17 (01:51:44):
Every ten miles. I was in excellent spirits.

Speaker 26 (01:51:52):
Drive ahead, even the loneliness seemed.

Speaker 31 (01:51:54):
Like a lark, but.

Speaker 17 (01:52:00):
Without him.

Speaker 26 (01:52:02):
Crossing Brooklyn Bridge that morning, in the rain, I saw
a man leaning against the cables. He seemed to be
waiting for a lift. There were spots of fresh rain
on his shoulders.

Speaker 1 (01:52:15):
He was carrying a.

Speaker 26 (01:52:16):
Cheap overnight bag in one hand. He was thin on
the script of the cap pulled down over his eyes.
He stepped off the walk, and if I hadn't swerved,
I hadn't swerved, i'd have hit him.

Speaker 7 (01:52:29):
I almost did, almost did hit him. Now I would have.

Speaker 26 (01:52:35):
Forgotten him completely, except that just an hour later, while
crossing the Glassky Skyway over the Jersey Flats, I saw
him again. At least he looked like the same person.
He was standing now with one thumb pointing west. I
couldn't figure out how he'd got there, but I thought
maybe one of those fast trucks had picked him up,

(01:52:56):
beat me to the skyway and let him off. I
didn't stop rim. Then late that night I saw him again.
It was on the New Pennsylvania Turnpike between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh.
It's two hundred and sixty five miles long at the
very high speed limit. I was just slowing down for
one of the tunnels when I saw him standing under

(01:53:21):
an arc light by the side of the road. I
could see him quite distinctly, the bag, the cap, even
the spots of fresh rain spattered over his shoulders.

Speaker 7 (01:53:34):
He hailed me the time I stepped on the gas
like a shot.

Speaker 26 (01:53:45):
That's lonely country through the Alleghenies, and I had no
intention of stopping.

Speaker 7 (01:53:50):
Besides the coincidences or whatever it was, gave me the willies.
I stopped at the next gas station.

Speaker 26 (01:54:00):
Yes, sir, kill her up, check your oil. No thanks,
nice night in it. Yes, it has been raining here lately.
Has it not a drop of rain all week?

Speaker 7 (01:54:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 17 (01:54:15):
I suppose that hasn't done your business any harm.

Speaker 26 (01:54:19):
People drive through here, all kinds of weather, mostly business,
though a many pleasure cars out the turnpike this season,
the year, it's not.

Speaker 17 (01:54:26):
What about hitchhikers? Hitchhikers here? What's the man? Don't you
ever see any a guy be a foolho start out
to hitchhike on this road?

Speaker 12 (01:54:34):
Look at it?

Speaker 7 (01:54:35):
When you never see anybody.

Speaker 26 (01:54:38):
Maybe they get a lift before the turnpike starts, I mean,
you know, just before the toll house. But then it's
a bite long ride. Most cars wouldn't pick up a
guy for that long a ride. This is pretty lonesome
country here, mountains and woods. Yeah, you ain't see nobody
like that.

Speaker 16 (01:54:52):
Have you?

Speaker 8 (01:54:52):
No?

Speaker 17 (01:54:52):
No, No, it's just a technical question.

Speaker 6 (01:54:56):
Oh I see, Well that'll be a dollar forty nine.

Speaker 1 (01:55:00):
The fact.

Speaker 26 (01:55:11):
The thing gradually passed from my mind as coincidence. I
had a good night's sleep in Pittsburgh. I didn't think
about the man all next day until just outside of Zanesville, Ohio,
I saw him again.

Speaker 7 (01:55:30):
It was a bright, sunshiny afternoon.

Speaker 26 (01:55:32):
The peaceful Ohio fields, brown with the autumn stubble, lay
dreaming in the golden light. I was driving slowly, drinking
it in, when the road suddenly ended in a detour.
In front of the barrier he was standing. I'd explained

(01:55:53):
about his appearance before I go on. I repeat, there
was nothing sinister about him. He was as drab as
a mud fence. Was his attitude menacing. He merely stood there, waiting,
almost drooping a little, the cheap over night bag in
his hand.

Speaker 39 (01:56:12):
He looked, He looked as though he had been waiting
there for hours, and he hailed me. He started to
walk forward.

Speaker 26 (01:56:22):
Oh, I'd stopped the car, of course, for the detail.
For a few minutes, I couldn't seem to find a
new road. I realized he must be thinking that I'd
stopped for him.

Speaker 5 (01:56:39):
Oh no, no, I'm not just now.

Speaker 17 (01:56:43):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 8 (01:56:44):
Going to California.

Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
No, no, not today, the other way.

Speaker 12 (01:56:49):
I'm going to New York. Sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:56:54):
Sorry.

Speaker 17 (01:57:00):
After I got the car back onto the road again,
felt like a fool.

Speaker 26 (01:57:06):
He had the thought of picking him up, of having
him sit beside me, was somehow unbearable.

Speaker 40 (01:57:12):
Yet at the same time I felt more than ever.

Speaker 7 (01:57:18):
Unspeakably alone.

Speaker 17 (01:57:23):
Hour after all went by.

Speaker 26 (01:57:26):
The fields, the town's ticked off one by one, the
lights changed.

Speaker 17 (01:57:33):
I knew now that I was going to see him again,
and now I dreaded the sight.

Speaker 7 (01:57:37):
I caught myself searching the side of.

Speaker 41 (01:57:39):
The road.

Speaker 17 (01:57:41):
Waiting for him to appear.

Speaker 29 (01:57:50):
Yep, what do you want?

Speaker 17 (01:57:53):
You sell sandwiches and pop here, don't you.

Speaker 9 (01:57:55):
Yep, we do in the daytime.

Speaker 37 (01:57:58):
It close up for the night.

Speaker 26 (01:58:00):
But I was wondering if you could possibly may have
a cup of coffee, black coffee I.

Speaker 42 (01:58:03):
Did this time on that mister, My wife are cooking,
cheating bed.

Speaker 26 (01:58:07):
Listen, just a minute ago, there was a man standing here,
right right beside here, and he was a suspicious looking man.

Speaker 1 (01:58:14):
Henry. Who is it, Henry?

Speaker 29 (01:58:17):
It's no but to mother, these are better things.

Speaker 5 (01:58:19):
You want to cover a coffee? Go back into bay.

Speaker 26 (01:58:21):
I don't mean to disturb you, but you see, I
was driving along when I just happened to look, and
there he was.

Speaker 27 (01:58:29):
What was he doing?

Speaker 17 (01:58:31):
Nothing?

Speaker 42 (01:58:32):
You've been hitting a bottle, that's what's the matter with you?
You got nothing better than do than wake deep and
poke out the hard and sleep.

Speaker 5 (01:58:39):
I'll get doing.

Speaker 4 (01:58:40):
Go on.

Speaker 12 (01:58:40):
He looked as though he was going to rob him.

Speaker 42 (01:58:43):
I ain't got nothing new. Standelude on your way before
I caught out hair of pokes.

Speaker 26 (01:58:52):
I got into the car again and drove on slowly.
I was beginning to hate the car. If I could
have found a place to stop to rest a little bit.
I was in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, though few
resort places there were closed. I had seen him at
that roadside stand. I knew i'd see him again, maybe

(01:59:17):
the next turn of the road. I knew that when
I saw him next, I'd run him down. But I
didn't see him again until late the next afternoon. I'd

(01:59:38):
stopped the car to sleep a little junction just.

Speaker 17 (01:59:40):
Across the border into Oklahoma.

Speaker 26 (01:59:42):
Where the train passed by. When he appeared across the tracks,
he was leaning against.

Speaker 7 (01:59:49):
A telephone pole.

Speaker 26 (01:59:52):
It was a perfectly airless, dry day. The red clay
of Oklahoma was baking under the southwest. Ston's son, yet
there were spots of fresh rain on his shoulders. I
couldn't stand there without thinking blindly I started the car
across the tracks.

Speaker 17 (02:00:14):
He didn't even look up at me. He was staring
at the ground.

Speaker 26 (02:00:17):
I stepped on the gas hard, bearing the wheel sharply
toward him. I could hear the train in the distance now,
but I didn't care. Then something went wrong with the car.
It stalled right on the tracks.

Speaker 17 (02:00:31):
The train was coming closer. I could hear the bell,
heard cries, whistle, crying.

Speaker 2 (02:00:38):
Still he stood there.

Speaker 17 (02:00:40):
Now I knew that he was beckoning, beckoning me to
my dad.

Speaker 7 (02:01:01):
Well, I frustrated him.

Speaker 12 (02:01:05):
That time.

Speaker 26 (02:01:07):
I started had worked at last. I managed to back up,
but after the train had passed, he was gone. I
was all alone in the hot, dry afternoon. After that,

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I knew I had to do something.

Speaker 17 (02:01:38):
I didn't know who this man was or what he
wanted of me.

Speaker 31 (02:01:42):
I only knew that from now.

Speaker 40 (02:01:43):
Long I mustn't let myself be alone on the road
for one minute.

Speaker 12 (02:01:50):
Hello there, Hello, like a ride?

Speaker 43 (02:01:53):
What do you think?

Speaker 17 (02:01:54):
How are you going Amarilla? I'll take you to Amarilla.

Speaker 2 (02:01:58):
Yeah, I'll drive you there. Hey, hop here?

Speaker 15 (02:02:06):
Might if I take off my shoes?

Speaker 1 (02:02:08):
I do show?

Speaker 11 (02:02:09):
No?

Speaker 17 (02:02:09):
Go right ahead?

Speaker 27 (02:02:11):
Oh ghit what a break?

Speaker 8 (02:02:13):
This is.

Speaker 44 (02:02:15):
Swell car and decent guy driving all the way to Amarilla.
All I've been getting so far as trucks, hitchhike, bunch. Sure,
only it's tough sometimes in these great open spaces to
get the break I think.

Speaker 12 (02:02:29):
It would be.

Speaker 26 (02:02:30):
But how bet though you if, if, if you, if
you've got a good pick up, a fast car, you'd
get to place as faster than what we'll say another
person in another car.

Speaker 16 (02:02:41):
I don't get you.

Speaker 17 (02:02:42):
Well, well you you take me, for.

Speaker 26 (02:02:44):
Instancepose I'm driving across the country of the nice steady
clip of about forty five miles an hour. Couldn't a
girl like you, just standing beside the road waiting for
lips beat me to town after town provided you got
picked up every time in a car that was doing
sixty five or seventy miles an hour.

Speaker 1 (02:03:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 29 (02:03:01):
Maybe she couldn't.

Speaker 16 (02:03:02):
Maybe she couldn't. What difference, doesn't make no difference.

Speaker 1 (02:03:06):
It just.

Speaker 7 (02:03:08):
Crazy idea I had sitting here in the car.

Speaker 44 (02:03:10):
I imagine spending your time in a swell car thinking
of things like that.

Speaker 7 (02:03:16):
What would you do instead?

Speaker 45 (02:03:17):
Well would I do if I was a good.

Speaker 27 (02:03:19):
Looking fellow like yourself.

Speaker 44 (02:03:22):
I just enjoy myself every minute of the time. I
sit back and relaxed. I saw a good looking girl
along the side of the road.

Speaker 45 (02:03:32):
Did you see him too?

Speaker 1 (02:03:34):
Bad man?

Speaker 2 (02:03:34):
Stand the barb wire fence.

Speaker 1 (02:03:36):
I didn't see anything.

Speaker 11 (02:03:37):
There was nothing, just a barbed wire fence.

Speaker 1 (02:03:41):
What did you think he was doing trying to run
into that barber?

Speaker 22 (02:03:44):
I tell you, a fim gray man with an overnight
bag in his hand.

Speaker 7 (02:03:49):
I was trying to rute him down.

Speaker 16 (02:03:51):
Rut him down.

Speaker 7 (02:03:52):
Let me too, I'm trying to get rid of him. Heard,
but at least proves that he's real.

Speaker 17 (02:04:01):
But you said you didn't see him back there?

Speaker 23 (02:04:02):
You're sure I didn't see a soul.

Speaker 19 (02:04:06):
As far as.

Speaker 26 (02:04:07):
Watch in the next time and keep watching, keep your
eyes peeled on the road, he'll.

Speaker 1 (02:04:10):
Turn up and.

Speaker 37 (02:04:14):
There the door work.

Speaker 12 (02:04:19):
You didn't see him that time?

Speaker 17 (02:04:20):
You see him?

Speaker 44 (02:04:20):
No, I didn't see him that time, And personally, mister,
I don't expect never to see him.

Speaker 26 (02:04:24):
All I want to do is go on living, and
I don't see how I will very long riding.

Speaker 29 (02:04:28):
I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me.

Speaker 26 (02:04:30):
Please don't go.

Speaker 27 (02:04:31):
If you'll excuse me, you can't go.

Speaker 12 (02:04:33):
Listen, how'd you like to go to California?

Speaker 2 (02:04:34):
I'll drive you all the way to California.

Speaker 1 (02:04:36):
Can's all away.

Speaker 24 (02:04:37):
No time?

Speaker 17 (02:04:38):
Listen, please tuk one minute.

Speaker 37 (02:04:39):
You know what I think you need, big.

Speaker 15 (02:04:41):
Boy, Not a girlfriend, just a good dose of sleep.

Speaker 20 (02:04:44):
There I cut it now.

Speaker 43 (02:04:46):
No, no, you can't go take your half off the media.

Speaker 1 (02:04:50):
Come back here, please come back.

Speaker 7 (02:05:01):
She ran from me.

Speaker 31 (02:05:04):
If I was.

Speaker 40 (02:05:07):
Some kind of monster. A few minutes later, I saw
a passing truck pick her up.

Speaker 7 (02:05:17):
I knew then that I was utterly alone.

Speaker 26 (02:05:25):
I was in the heart of the Great Texas Prairies.
I wasn't a car on the road. After the truck
went by, trying to figure out what to do, how
to get hold of myself, if I could find a
place to rest her, even if I could sleep right
here in the car just a few hours, sleeping just
along the side.

Speaker 7 (02:05:45):
Of the road.

Speaker 26 (02:05:47):
I was getting my winter overcoat out of the back
seat to use as a blanket, just as a blanket,
when I saw him coming toward me, coming toward me,
emerging from the herd of moving steer, and I didn't

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wait for him to come any closer. Maybe maybe I
should have spoken to him then, fought.

Speaker 2 (02:06:16):
It out then and there for.

Speaker 8 (02:06:19):
Now.

Speaker 9 (02:06:19):
He began to be everywhere.

Speaker 26 (02:06:22):
Whenever I stopped even for a minute, for gas, for oil,
for a drink, and pop, a cup of coffee, a sandwich,
he was there. I saw him standing outside the auto
camp in Amarilla that night when I dared to slow down,
and he was standing in the Drinking Fountain, a little
camping spot.

Speaker 7 (02:06:37):
Just inside the border New Mexico.

Speaker 26 (02:06:39):
He was waiting for me outside the Navajo reservation where
I stopped to check my tires.

Speaker 5 (02:06:44):
I saw him in Albuquerque, where I brought ten.

Speaker 2 (02:06:46):
Gallons of gas.

Speaker 1 (02:06:49):
I was afraid.

Speaker 26 (02:06:50):
Now, afraid to stop him, I began to drive faster
and faster.

Speaker 1 (02:06:57):
I was in.

Speaker 26 (02:06:59):
Luna lands Cape, now the great arid Mesa country of
New Mexico.

Speaker 7 (02:07:06):
I drove through it with the indifference of a fly.

Speaker 17 (02:07:10):
Crawling over the face of the moon.

Speaker 7 (02:07:14):
And now he didn't even.

Speaker 17 (02:07:15):
Wait for me to stop.

Speaker 26 (02:07:16):
Unless I drove at eighty five miles an hour over
those endless roads.

Speaker 2 (02:07:21):
He waited for me.

Speaker 7 (02:07:23):
Every other mile.

Speaker 46 (02:07:26):
See his figure, shadowless, flitting before me, still in its
same attitude, over the cold and lifeless ground, flitting over
dried up rivers, over broken stones cast up by old glacial.

Speaker 39 (02:07:47):
Upheavals, flitting in the pure and cloudless hair.

Speaker 40 (02:08:08):
It was beside myself, beside myself.

Speaker 26 (02:08:12):
When I finally reached Gallup, New Mexico this morning, as
an auto camp here it's cold, almost deserted this time
of the year.

Speaker 40 (02:08:22):
I went inside and asked if there was a telephone.

Speaker 7 (02:08:25):
I had the feeling that if I could speak.

Speaker 40 (02:08:29):
To somebody familiar, somebody that I loved, I.

Speaker 7 (02:08:34):
Could pull myself together.

Speaker 17 (02:08:39):
Number plio long distance.

Speaker 19 (02:08:44):
Thank you, This is long distance.

Speaker 26 (02:08:53):
I'd like to put in a call in my home
to Brooklyn, New York. I'm Ronald Adams. The number is
beach for nine nine seven.

Speaker 19 (02:09:01):
Oh, thank you, thank you. What is your number?

Speaker 17 (02:09:11):
My number is. It's three twelve.

Speaker 19 (02:09:15):
AH Albuquerque, AH, New York for Gallup, New York. Gallup,
New Mexico. Calling a beech wood is nine and nine.

Speaker 37 (02:09:38):
That I know.

Speaker 26 (02:09:41):
I'd read somewhere that love could vanish demons. This was
in the middle of the morning. I knew mother would
be home. I pictured a tall, white haird in a
crisp house dress, going about it tasks.

Speaker 40 (02:09:58):
It'd be enough, I thought, just hear the even calmness
of the voice.

Speaker 19 (02:10:04):
Will you please deposit three dollars and eighty five cents
for the first three minutes. When you have deposited a
dollar and a half, will you wait until I have
collected the money? All right, deposit another dollar and a half.

(02:10:50):
Will you please deposit the remaining eighty five cents? Ready
with Brooklyn go ahead? Please Hello Missus Adams residence.

Speaker 5 (02:11:15):
Hello, hello, mother, This is.

Speaker 19 (02:11:18):
Missus Adams residence.

Speaker 16 (02:11:20):
Who is that you wish to speak to?

Speaker 12 (02:11:23):
Who is this?

Speaker 19 (02:11:24):
This is missus Whitney.

Speaker 2 (02:11:26):
This is Whitney.

Speaker 17 (02:11:28):
I don't know any missus. Is this Beechwood nine nine seven?

Speaker 23 (02:11:32):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:11:32):
Yes, where's my mother? Where's missus Adams?

Speaker 19 (02:11:37):
Missus Adams is not at home. She's still in the hospital.

Speaker 8 (02:11:42):
Huh the hospital?

Speaker 19 (02:11:43):
Yes, who is this calling?

Speaker 13 (02:11:46):
Please?

Speaker 19 (02:11:47):
Is it a member of the family.

Speaker 2 (02:11:48):
What's she in the hospital for?

Speaker 19 (02:11:50):
She's been prostrated for five days? A nervous breakdown. Who
is this calling?

Speaker 7 (02:11:55):
Nervous breakdown?

Speaker 47 (02:11:58):
My mother is nevers all taken place since the death
of her oldest son, Ronald.

Speaker 7 (02:12:07):
Oldest son Ronald.

Speaker 8 (02:12:09):
Hey, what is this?

Speaker 29 (02:12:10):
What number is this?

Speaker 19 (02:12:11):
This is Beechwood nine nine seven. Oh, It's all been
very sudden.

Speaker 47 (02:12:17):
He was killed just six days ago in an automobile
accident on the Brooklyn Bridge. You are three minutes, are up, sir?
You are three minutes are up, sir? You are three
minutes are up.

Speaker 48 (02:12:37):
Sir, sir.

Speaker 19 (02:12:42):
Your three minutes are.

Speaker 13 (02:12:47):
Your three minutes.

Speaker 1 (02:12:51):
And so.

Speaker 26 (02:12:54):
I'm sitting here in this deserted auto camp in Gallup,
New Mexico. And so I'm trying to think. I'm trying
to get hold of myself.

Speaker 7 (02:13:11):
Otherwise otherwise I'll go crazy.

Speaker 40 (02:13:17):
Outside It is night, the vast souls night of New Mexico.

Speaker 39 (02:13:28):
A million stars are in the sky. Ahead of me,
stretch a thousand miles of empty mesa and mountains, prairies, desert.
Somewhere among them, he is waiting for me, somewhere somewhere

(02:13:52):
I shall know.

Speaker 7 (02:13:55):
Who he is.

Speaker 1 (02:13:58):
And who I am.

Speaker 26 (02:14:16):
Austin Wales will be back in just a few seconds
to tell you about next week's production of the Mercury
Summer Theater. But first, the makers of Papst Blue Ribbon
wish to remind you that though you may not be
able to get Paps Blue Ribbon every time you want it,
in these days of grain restrictions, it is well worth
your while to keep asking for every bottle you do
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(02:14:39):
speaking of grain restrictions, not a single grain of wheat
is being used in the brewing of beer and aale.
And the grains that are being used by breweries are
not the grains wanted for famine relief. Now let me repeat.
When you do get Papst Blue Ribbon, you can be
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(02:15:00):
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Speaker 17 (02:15:10):
Now here is horse and wells.

Speaker 26 (02:15:13):
Well next week, ladies and gentlemen, we bring to your
radio another Mercury favorite, we hope, a favorite of yours.

Speaker 40 (02:15:22):
You've asked for it many times, We've performed it many times.

Speaker 26 (02:15:27):
Jane Eyre and Jane will be played by a Mercury
actress who has heard tonight and has been heard so
often on our shows, one of the most gifted people
we know in our business, Miss Alice Frost.

Speaker 17 (02:15:39):
Jane Eyre.

Speaker 26 (02:15:40):
Then with Alice Frost and your obedient servant. That's the
same time, next week, same station. Please join us until then,
speaking for my sponsors, the makers of Paps Blue Ribbon Beer,
for all of us on the Mercury Theater, including Bernard Hermann,
who wrote and conducted the music on this program.

Speaker 7 (02:15:57):
I remain as always yours.

Speaker 26 (02:16:08):
More than one half of all our nations workers make
their living in the food industry or a related field.
One of the largest groups in the food industry are
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Retail Grocers, which represents more than five hundred thousand retailers,
is holding its first post war convention, at which problems
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The makers of Paps Blue Ribbon beer salute the grocer
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(02:16:54):
the Columbia Broadcasting.

Speaker 49 (02:16:55):
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Speaker 21 (02:17:38):
Now, ladies and gentlemen, if you will inspect the forty
seven wax images you see before you, I think you
will admit that they are more lifelike, more startling, lady
real than any of you have ever seen before. But
the greatest interest lies in the fact that each one
of these figures is a fiendish, statistic murderer. But come

(02:18:00):
at the end of the line and describe their horrible crime.

Speaker 29 (02:18:03):
Yes, yes, there he goes.

Speaker 50 (02:18:04):
There he goes again, telling people all the bad things
with it. Oh, it's terrible.

Speaker 29 (02:18:10):
Be nothing. But take us in a wax museum, people
staring at us all day long.

Speaker 50 (02:18:15):
Enough to one of them, not one eversis fects that
we are still alive.

Speaker 49 (02:18:34):
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Speaker 51 (02:18:55):
Mystery in the Air starring Peter lauriy Rock to you
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(02:19:18):
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Speaker 1 (02:19:19):
Yes, your tea.

Speaker 51 (02:19:20):
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proving ground for any cigarette. If your taste longs for
really full, rich flavor in a cigarette, if your throat
would welcome true coolness and mildness in a cigarette.

Speaker 9 (02:19:34):
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Speaker 51 (02:19:37):
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Speaker 1 (02:20:00):
It's oh, Brad, how do.

Speaker 29 (02:20:01):
You like this little fellow?

Speaker 13 (02:20:02):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (02:20:02):
He's nice, Carl. I don't believe he ever did anything wrong?

Speaker 1 (02:20:07):
Are you women always the same? You heard the lecture
say that every one of these figures is the likeness
of a real murder. Maybe this little angel poisoned his wife.

Speaker 27 (02:20:16):
I don't believe it. He is too innocent looking, but
they always are.

Speaker 5 (02:20:20):
Except his eyes.

Speaker 50 (02:20:22):
They go right through mets and morons.

Speaker 29 (02:20:26):
Can't they see him still?

Speaker 1 (02:20:29):
Oh?

Speaker 50 (02:20:29):
I suppose not. But I'd like to be alive again,
or alive again. I'm alive right now, but I'd be
better or dead. I can hear, I can see, I
can feel, I can think that. I cannot move, I
cannot move at all.

Speaker 21 (02:20:49):
No matter, now, lad, If you will regard these recent specimens,
and if I may say so myself, they're masterpieces.

Speaker 29 (02:20:59):
What's the matter, madam, yes, strange looking at watching him?

Speaker 27 (02:21:03):
Can he moved his eyes?

Speaker 5 (02:21:04):
Thank you, madam.

Speaker 21 (02:21:05):
That's a true compliment to my artistry. But I assure
you that gentlemen, did not move his eyes. That would
be utterly impossible. He is made of wax and other
substances known only to myself.

Speaker 1 (02:21:16):
Rubbish.

Speaker 27 (02:21:17):
I'm englishman man, and you can't dambootle me.

Speaker 1 (02:21:19):
I'm sorry if the realism of my exhibits has played tricks.

Speaker 21 (02:21:23):
With your imagination.

Speaker 1 (02:21:24):
Imagination you found that my exhibit is exactly as represented, madam.

Speaker 21 (02:21:29):
May I return your price of admission? Oh here you are,
thank you so much. Now, perhaps if I might suggest
a little fresh.

Speaker 29 (02:21:37):
Air, well, I do feel the big pink ho these
ghastly criinds.

Speaker 27 (02:21:42):
You know, of course, I believe I don't.

Speaker 1 (02:21:44):
Have a cup of tea to resume.

Speaker 21 (02:21:47):
Ladies and gentlemen, if you will step over this way
this way, please, you will see exhibit number three, the
infamous as.

Speaker 29 (02:21:53):
Woman that this way this way, Exhibit three. Just listen
to him day in, day.

Speaker 50 (02:21:59):
Out, west and here while he talks and talks and
talks about us.

Speaker 29 (02:22:04):
Oh he's so boring. Ah. He talks about that our
silly incidental murders we committed. Why doesn't he talk how.

Speaker 52 (02:22:12):
We did them?

Speaker 7 (02:22:13):
Huh?

Speaker 50 (02:22:14):
While he in this room are some of the greatest
artists in their lines the world has ever known. For example,
just look at the ones on each side of me.
Here to my left, that's Paul, Yes, own, he was
the most skillful man with a scalpl in Prague. He
was wonderful even to day. Happy haven't found all the

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pieces of the bodies.

Speaker 5 (02:22:35):
He carved up.

Speaker 50 (02:22:36):
Now and on my riot is the beautiful, beautiful macter.
She always killed with a luger. She used but one
bullet to her husband, and she did away with five
of them. Yes, indeed, it's it's an honor to stand
between such exquisite artists. And as for me, I can
hardly believe it was only three days ago, then that

(02:22:58):
I came in here of my own free will, my
own free will.

Speaker 21 (02:23:17):
Good evening, Greting. You wish to see my wax wax figures? Yes,
all around you?

Speaker 29 (02:23:25):
Oh yeah, yes, of course, And you mean to see
you mean, you mean all these people are wax. But
certainly you know, you know, for a moment I thought
they were alive.

Speaker 5 (02:23:37):
A very natural mistake, by the way, is anything the matter?
You see nervous?

Speaker 21 (02:23:44):
And what's the matter with you? Didn't you hear me?

Speaker 29 (02:23:48):
I don't that's ugly?

Speaker 21 (02:23:50):
Sound like?

Speaker 7 (02:23:51):
What is it?

Speaker 29 (02:23:58):
Yes, it's gone.

Speaker 7 (02:23:58):
I don't like it.

Speaker 50 (02:24:00):
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm late, and I'm sure you want
to close up. I'll go now, perhaps.

Speaker 21 (02:24:05):
Never too late to show my masterpieces. But first I'll
lock the door and draw the shape there Now, then
you don't have to be afraid of being seen?

Speaker 23 (02:24:19):
Right?

Speaker 29 (02:24:19):
Why should I be afraid? Huh?

Speaker 5 (02:24:21):
I don't know. Why should anyone be afraid?

Speaker 50 (02:24:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 29 (02:24:25):
Well, I'm in no hurry.

Speaker 50 (02:24:27):
Well, I suppose since I'm here I marriage to look
over my collections.

Speaker 29 (02:24:31):
Why not?

Speaker 7 (02:24:32):
Good?

Speaker 5 (02:24:34):
Permit me to introduce myself.

Speaker 21 (02:24:36):
I am Meristied Spig, owner of this exhibit, artist and
connoisseur of crime.

Speaker 29 (02:24:42):
Artist and connoisseur of crime. That's an odd combination, not.

Speaker 21 (02:24:46):
At all, as you shall see. I suppose we begin here.
Do you buy any chance? Recognize this one?

Speaker 7 (02:24:53):
This one?

Speaker 31 (02:24:53):
No, but he's very ugly.

Speaker 21 (02:24:55):
Roger Sanders, Englishmen, a poisoner, not very imagin And next
to him here is Nicholas.

Speaker 5 (02:25:02):
Rodriguez when he killed with the night Man and over
what's the matter of these people?

Speaker 29 (02:25:07):
They all have a strange look.

Speaker 5 (02:25:10):
Strange.

Speaker 29 (02:25:11):
Yes, it's it's as if they had just seen so
horrible and.

Speaker 21 (02:25:18):
Perhaps they did see something, something that made them realize
the horror of their crimes crimes.

Speaker 29 (02:25:25):
These are criminals everyone.

Speaker 5 (02:25:27):
All forty six of them murderers.

Speaker 29 (02:25:31):
You must be very interested in murder to get up
a collection like this.

Speaker 7 (02:25:34):
Oh but I am.

Speaker 5 (02:25:36):
It is my mission or your mission?

Speaker 29 (02:25:38):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 21 (02:25:39):
Murder? Murder, that most horrible of crimes. I hate it,
I loathe and despise its perpetrators. It is my mission
to show the world these fiends in human form, to
display them in all their brutal bestiality, that men may
view them, tremble and take heed.

Speaker 37 (02:25:57):
I see, I see in this.

Speaker 29 (02:25:59):
Where do you get your specimen from the Moude?

Speaker 5 (02:26:02):
Not from the more. I get them here there wherever
I can find them.

Speaker 21 (02:26:06):
Usually I have to go out and look for them.

Speaker 5 (02:26:09):
As a matter of fact, there is one now I
would like to have very much for my forty seven specimen. Yes,
he murdered a defenseless old woman quite near here, not
half an hour ago. It was I heard it over
my radio.

Speaker 21 (02:26:24):
He brutally murdered her and took her life savings.

Speaker 29 (02:26:27):
Did to catch him?

Speaker 5 (02:26:29):
Not yet, but they will.

Speaker 21 (02:26:32):
They're watching all the roads and decides that the old
woman's money was in old bills, so old it is
now out of circulation.

Speaker 5 (02:26:39):
When he tries to pass it, they will know. And
if they don't catch him, I will, you will you us?

Speaker 21 (02:26:46):
Yes, murder must be avenged and exposed by one means
for another.

Speaker 5 (02:26:51):
Yeah, but forgive me for going on like this instance,
I get carried away. Let's get back to this next figure.

Speaker 21 (02:26:58):
Most interesting case. This man hunt Schneider who murdered by
air embolism.

Speaker 29 (02:27:04):
This is Schnyder haunts Schneider. Yes, look I knew him.

Speaker 50 (02:27:07):
He disappeared, he was never captured, He wasn't even suspected,
None of them were.

Speaker 29 (02:27:12):
How did you get them here?

Speaker 21 (02:27:14):
I told you, sir, I am an artist. I have
my own methods of reproducing their likenesses.

Speaker 29 (02:27:21):
Is that a model of Schneider or is that Schneider himself?

Speaker 21 (02:27:25):
How in the world did you happen to get You're
my correct, it is Schneider.

Speaker 29 (02:27:30):
This is monster at all.

Speaker 5 (02:27:31):
You just do not understand.

Speaker 29 (02:27:33):
Yes, I do, I understand you.

Speaker 21 (02:27:35):
You dirty hypocrite.

Speaker 29 (02:27:36):
You say you hate murder, and yet you've killed everyone
in his room. You know I didn't kill How did
you do it? Poisoned knife? Or did you dip them
into boiling wax?

Speaker 5 (02:27:47):
Alive?

Speaker 21 (02:27:47):
None of those things. They're not dead.

Speaker 29 (02:27:50):
They're not dead. What did you say?

Speaker 9 (02:27:52):
They're not dead.

Speaker 21 (02:27:54):
They're simply in a state of permanent suspended animations.

Speaker 29 (02:27:59):
You man, are you insane?

Speaker 5 (02:28:01):
It's true. I just let them look, and that's what happened.

Speaker 29 (02:28:05):
Let them look at one.

Speaker 5 (02:28:07):
Did you ever hear of the gorgon's head, the head
of Medusa?

Speaker 29 (02:28:12):
Medusa? Yes, of course.

Speaker 50 (02:28:13):
I went to school and I started Greek mythology of Medusa.
She was a very beautiful woman, and she offended Athena,
and Athena changed her hair into snakes and made her
face very hideous and so horrible that all who looked
on her returned to stone. And later I think Perseus
cut off her head right, and the severed head could

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still turn mendous stone.

Speaker 29 (02:28:36):
Yes, yes, I know, but that was a long time ago.

Speaker 8 (02:28:40):
Would you care to look upon it?

Speaker 29 (02:28:43):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 7 (02:28:44):
What's here?

Speaker 21 (02:28:46):
The mask of Medusa was found long ago in the
wild Lost Grotto in Greece.

Speaker 5 (02:28:51):
Where and how does not matter.

Speaker 21 (02:28:53):
But it has been the means of fulfilling my sacred mission,
the destruction.

Speaker 5 (02:28:57):
The cleansing of the world of those who the fellow men.

Speaker 29 (02:29:01):
Now I know you're mad.

Speaker 21 (02:29:05):
Perhaps I am the only sane one in a world
gone mad?

Speaker 29 (02:29:09):
Oh sure, sure? Tell me, sir, this this mask? What
does it look like?

Speaker 7 (02:29:15):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (02:29:15):
I have never seen it myself. The native who gave
it to me warn me, I do not tell the fool.

Speaker 29 (02:29:19):
No, No, I don't blame you. I don't blame you
at all. Sit listen, Suppose mister trad we talk a
little business, you and me.

Speaker 17 (02:29:26):
Huh, what do you want?

Speaker 29 (02:29:28):
I want your help to get me out of town?

Speaker 5 (02:29:30):
How can I help you?

Speaker 29 (02:29:31):
Well, that's very simple. Nobody suspect you that.

Speaker 31 (02:29:34):
That is nobody but me.

Speaker 29 (02:29:37):
You put me in a crate like one of these
forty six miles you are so proud of, and send
it off and attract simple.

Speaker 5 (02:29:42):
But why why should I do this?

Speaker 13 (02:29:44):
Why?

Speaker 29 (02:29:45):
Because you fear the police as much as I do.

Speaker 5 (02:29:48):
You fear the police.

Speaker 21 (02:29:50):
You are a murderer.

Speaker 29 (02:29:51):
I didn't say that you are a murderer, no more
than you are.

Speaker 21 (02:29:55):
I didn't kill them I told you I didn't kill them.

Speaker 29 (02:29:58):
Yes, yes, you told me to story. But who is
going to believe it?

Speaker 5 (02:30:02):
Police?

Speaker 50 (02:30:03):
No, sir, No, If the police come here, and I'll
make sure that they come here, it would take money.

Speaker 29 (02:30:09):
Money, money, here is money, all the money you need.

Speaker 21 (02:30:12):
Well, I thought so that money, those old bills.

Speaker 7 (02:30:17):
So it was you.

Speaker 21 (02:30:18):
You were the one who murdered the old woman, took
her savings.

Speaker 5 (02:30:21):
I thought so all along.

Speaker 21 (02:30:23):
Yes, I thought so, a.

Speaker 29 (02:30:23):
Bid woman if she hadn't grew away.

Speaker 5 (02:30:25):
Wait, I have something in this cabinet I want to
show you.

Speaker 29 (02:30:28):
Look, no, Trex, you're hear me, or the police comes in.

Speaker 5 (02:30:32):
He didn't want to do this.

Speaker 21 (02:30:33):
I never want to do it, but it must be done.
You don't want to do what rather on the crimson?

Speaker 12 (02:30:41):
Look upon the mask of le uh.

Speaker 5 (02:30:57):
No, I have number forty.

Speaker 49 (02:31:16):
In a few moments, mister Peter Laurie will bring us
the climax of tonight's mystery in the air when Camos
present Act two of the Mask of Medusa.

Speaker 51 (02:31:28):
It's been proved time and time again in work, in sports,
in everything we do, experience is the best teacher. East
midget auto racer Walter Ader proved it conclusively. When two
other cars crashed and almost blocked the track during a
recent championship race. Roaring up at one hundred miles an hour,
Walter Ader squeaked through an opening only inches wider than

(02:31:50):
his car.

Speaker 53 (02:31:52):
Mister Ader said, experience is the best teacher in choosing
cigarettes as well as in auto racing. I've smoked most
all brands. Camels suit me best.

Speaker 51 (02:32:02):
Yes, experience is the best teacher. Smokers learned how true
that is during the wartime cigarette shortage. Smoking so many
different brands when there was no choice made folks experts
on judging the differences in cigarette quality. Well, that proved
the thousands and thousands of smokers that there's nothing like

(02:32:23):
Camel's rich, full flavor, nothing like Camel's cool mildments. Result,
more people are smoking Camels than ever before.

Speaker 1 (02:32:33):
Experience is the best teacher. Try a Camel yourself.

Speaker 23 (02:32:52):
Now.

Speaker 49 (02:32:52):
A new crowd is viewing the attractions of Aristide Swag's
wax Museum, the lifelike, living but not breathing images of
the forty seven murderers.

Speaker 27 (02:33:07):
Coming, Let's go outside.

Speaker 19 (02:33:09):
I don't like this place, Wag, he is the one
we didn't see.

Speaker 54 (02:33:13):
I don't know how you can stand there looking at
them bottles and the face is this little.

Speaker 15 (02:33:19):
One isn't so bad?

Speaker 44 (02:33:20):
If he was alive, I could go for m Come on,
I could crush us.

Speaker 29 (02:33:26):
Call stupid idiots, know it. It is not pleasant to
be stared a day after day by people who know
nothing of life.

Speaker 50 (02:33:33):
Were death, at least not not as we know it,
the living dead. Yes, that's what we are. And here
he is responsible. Or if we could only somehow, somehow
give back to normal, even for a little bit of
what we could do, all of us, what we could do. No,

(02:34:12):
it's midnight, it's very still, but so something odd is happening.
Just a little while ago, man, my mind was blank.
I wasn't thinking about anything. But suddenly the thought came
into my head. Yes, suddenly out of nowhere. Yes, we

(02:34:33):
can pro charities again.

Speaker 7 (02:34:36):
If we try.

Speaker 55 (02:34:37):
Who is what Magda standing next to you? Yes, think,
think hard, If we all think together, perhaps we can
make somebody help us.

Speaker 29 (02:34:51):
Yes, yes, of course. Oh that's wonderful. Man, girl, she
is wonderful.

Speaker 7 (02:34:59):
Of course.

Speaker 29 (02:35:00):
Forty seven minds trained in crime, all concentrating at once,
and somebody who comes in here to look if we try,
if we try, hard enough, we could make him do anything.
Maybe we could get him. Oh that's too much to expect.

Speaker 50 (02:35:20):
But still, yes, another day has started. But to day

(02:35:43):
I have a feeling of excitement. All night long, All
night long, we concentrated, and our thoughts were getting stronger
and stronger. I'm convinced Mactor has gotten through to every one.
I have a feeling that something is going to happen.
And just a little while ago there came a.

Speaker 56 (02:36:02):
Thought, is upstairs in his room, we must watch the door.
When the rite one comes, we shall know it at once.
Be ready, I'm ready. Whatever is going to happen, I'm
ready there there, the door is opening.

Speaker 1 (02:36:20):
Maybe this is right.

Speaker 27 (02:36:24):
I did not wish to look.

Speaker 21 (02:36:26):
Wonder is that you?

Speaker 1 (02:36:27):
You?

Speaker 57 (02:36:28):
Maybe to get over your stupid fears. You look at
these figures, every one of them. Do you understand?

Speaker 26 (02:36:34):
Now?

Speaker 57 (02:36:35):
He said, lecture, he should be here. I will find
him so he can tell you all about these criminals.

Speaker 29 (02:36:41):
Think, think hard.

Speaker 50 (02:36:44):
Yes, yes, there's no doubt of it. This little little
ill say, Oh she is the one. Yes, she's the
one we've been waiting for. She is the kind of
mind we mean. Yes, Oh it's so thinking. How exciting started?
Coming in very strong, keep thinking.

Speaker 1 (02:37:08):
It can't be free.

Speaker 50 (02:37:09):
Unlet Sonning happens to the horrible mask of Medusa over
there on cabinet.

Speaker 29 (02:37:15):
If Sonning could happen to that, the spell might be broken.
Matter what, I you'll think it and fire it matches.
I've got it, of course, I've got it.

Speaker 2 (02:37:28):
Yes, and fire.

Speaker 7 (02:37:32):
Fire all.

Speaker 17 (02:37:41):
I think your pardon.

Speaker 1 (02:37:42):
I have to see my daughter. She was a minute ago,
I thin girl, about sixty.

Speaker 27 (02:37:47):
I have not seen it over there that cabinet.

Speaker 45 (02:37:50):
I think it was.

Speaker 27 (02:37:50):
She had a box of matches.

Speaker 50 (02:38:01):
It's hard, all our trained evil minds concentrating on that
one small mind. Oh, we simply overwhelmed it.

Speaker 29 (02:38:09):
Poor little ill.

Speaker 50 (02:38:10):
Says, she'll live. He know why she started the file home.
But it's a big, wonderful fire. And and the cabinet
is burning. It's it's burning.

Speaker 6 (02:38:19):
And what is that?

Speaker 16 (02:38:23):
Yes, something's happening.

Speaker 50 (02:38:26):
I've just been able to move the little thing in
my left hand.

Speaker 18 (02:38:32):
Yes, yes, we we can move. Yes we are free,
we can move, all of us. We are moving.

Speaker 9 (02:38:52):
We are walking, Dick.

Speaker 18 (02:38:59):
You want every wise.

Speaker 29 (02:39:02):
Movement swiftly through the flames towards the steam.

Speaker 25 (02:39:09):
Yes, we are a horrible company.

Speaker 58 (02:39:12):
Are how excizing white faces clue the flames.

Speaker 29 (02:39:19):
Forty forty seven.

Speaker 50 (02:39:21):
We are murderous, all of us, searching forward to get
the murder the man we hate.

Speaker 29 (02:39:29):
Oh yes he's a murderer, but he's worse than we are.
His victims stay alife.

Speaker 58 (02:39:34):
He contemned all forty seven of us to a horrible,
endless living death.

Speaker 43 (02:39:50):
Behind the door locked.

Speaker 59 (02:39:52):
Come on, break it down, Break it down, your heir, god, exact, Yes,
what have you done to you?

Speaker 43 (02:40:02):
What have you done?

Speaker 29 (02:40:03):
We have taken care of your medusa? Yes, we have
aristeda now no.

Speaker 5 (02:40:07):
We'll take care of him.

Speaker 21 (02:40:08):
No, please, don't help you.

Speaker 2 (02:40:10):
You don't know the mask your boom help you?

Speaker 12 (02:40:13):
You having not had I help you?

Speaker 59 (02:40:17):
The mask and coming, Yes, it's reducing, it's coming up
the stairs.

Speaker 14 (02:40:32):
Carefulous kill why at least because.

Speaker 5 (02:40:34):
You'll be way to me.

Speaker 1 (02:40:36):
I have plans.

Speaker 25 (02:40:37):
Get away from that door.

Speaker 9 (02:40:39):
Let me get there on here, close the line, lock.

Speaker 8 (02:40:43):
Don't look at it.

Speaker 1 (02:40:50):
Too late.

Speaker 21 (02:40:51):
They looked, and now they're all gone.

Speaker 7 (02:40:54):
Oh but you and I.

Speaker 5 (02:40:56):
Yes, everybody's gone back as they were before.

Speaker 1 (02:41:00):
Gone.

Speaker 29 (02:41:01):
Oh God, you and I?

Speaker 58 (02:41:04):
You and what are you going to I'll show you
what I'm going to do. Here look, hairsty, what look
here you hear me?

Speaker 26 (02:41:13):
Yes, yes, y, yes, no, yes, you saw it.

Speaker 29 (02:41:22):
You're looking at the crimson mask of middud Say yeah,
oh look look your feet doing well?

Speaker 5 (02:41:29):
I know it.

Speaker 29 (02:41:30):
Look at your legs, your hands? Oh you can You're
not even able to talk anymore.

Speaker 5 (02:41:37):
Now you have looked upon the mask of Medude.

Speaker 1 (02:41:40):
So are you at you?

Speaker 40 (02:41:44):
I forgot I looked at it too, dude.

Speaker 29 (02:42:04):
Well, well, well here we are back again. Yes, all
of us, the finest criminal minds.

Speaker 17 (02:42:10):
In the world.

Speaker 50 (02:42:11):
Oh, it's the elite, the cream of crime. Now we
are just rax figures in a sideshow. Yes, but now
now there are forty eight of us. Oh, I suppose
we should feel honored to have with us, to grate
our steeds. Five this way he looks quite naturally. Yes,

(02:42:32):
standing over there between Schneider and Paul. And at least
he doesn't bore me anymore with his silly, stupid lectures. No,
now he doesn't talk at all. Someone called Albert is
running the exhibit now, or poor Albert, he's an imbasuon.
Albert doesn't know there was a mask of Medusa. Oh,

(02:42:54):
we are much more intelligent than poor Alberty. He doesn't
even know that there we are still.

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Three leading independent research organizations made a survey of doctor's
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Speaker 1 (02:43:44):
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Speaker 51 (02:43:46):
Hundred and ninety seven doctors were asked what cigarette do
you smoke?

Speaker 17 (02:43:49):
Doctor?

Speaker 9 (02:43:50):
The brand's name most was Camel.

Speaker 60 (02:43:53):
According to a nationwide survey, more doctors smoke Camels than
any other cigarette.

Speaker 49 (02:44:11):
Next week, Mystery in the Air, starring mister Peter Laurie,
brings you an exciting story of gambling and sudden death
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special musical score composed and conducted by Paul Barroon.

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Speaker 8 (02:47:30):
Good evening.

Speaker 26 (02:47:32):
This is Jeffrey Barnes welcoming you to the Molay Mystery Theater,
the program that presents the best in mystery and detective fiction.
Henry Morgan, who was to have been with us tonight,
will appear instead next week Tonight. Our story by Robert
Mitchell and Jean Levitt is entitled Make No Mistake and

(02:47:53):
stars Alan Bexter, well known young actor of stage, screen
and radio, currently appearing in the hit motion picture Close Up.

Speaker 8 (02:48:01):
We'll play the leading role of Dave.

Speaker 26 (02:48:04):
Dave is one of two people neither very good nor
very bad, who find that one mistake can put into
motion a series of events that leads inevitably to disaster.

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Speaker 26 (02:48:54):
This is Jeffrey Bonds again and Act one of Tonight's
Moley mystery Make No Mistake, starring Alan Bexter.

Speaker 6 (02:49:20):
I had to hang on to myself a little longer
because I had one more thing to do. I had
to see her, had to get the Genie and tell
her it was all a mistake, a hideous mistake. And
I had to hurry because I knew the police were
going to get me any minute now.

Speaker 21 (02:49:37):
Watch it, said, Jake, you crossed against the light.

Speaker 22 (02:49:40):
Matt, what's the matter.

Speaker 43 (02:49:41):
Tired of living?

Speaker 6 (02:49:45):
I'm tired of living. No, when you're twenty eight and
in love, you're not tired of living. If you're going
to die, it's for another reason.

Speaker 12 (02:49:53):
Believe me.

Speaker 6 (02:49:54):
That's why I had to see Genie somehow. I had
to explain about the mistake, and that's what was driving
me out of my mind. Even now, I couldn't look
back and say just exactly where the mistake had been made.
I couldn't tell, even now, with death our hands. Maybe
this was a mistake too. Is coming to see Jeanie,

(02:50:15):
but I had to. I had to tell her after that,
whatever happened didn't matter. I went up the steps and
opened the door. Rang an automatic chime someplace inside. So
I closed the door and waited. The room was elegant
and very quiet. In my mind, I'd always imagine Genie

(02:50:38):
surrounded by beautiful stuff like this. Wanted to clear my throat,
but in this place it didn't seem quite right. Then
mister Mundy came.

Speaker 7 (02:50:48):
Out, May I help you?

Speaker 6 (02:50:51):
So I'd like to see Genie. Missus jean Kimball. Oh, yes,
and your name, sir, I'm her husband, Dave Kimball.

Speaker 7 (02:51:01):
You're oh, oh, I see step this way.

Speaker 6 (02:51:11):
As I followed mister Munday down the soundless corridor, I
tried hard to think to frame the words, because this
is the last time I would ever see Jeanie. It
was my last chance to explain, and it had to
make sense. Maybe it happened that night a month ago.
Maybe that's when the mistake was made. It was raining then, too,
and business in the lunch room was slow. I was

(02:51:33):
cleaning up the counter when I looked back toward the
kitchen and saw Jeanie standing in the doorway.

Speaker 15 (02:51:40):
Dava, I guess as it is.

Speaker 6 (02:51:42):
Hey, we can't close up yet. What's for the hat
and coat? Quitting a little early?

Speaker 15 (02:51:47):
Aren't you judging by most marriages? I guess I am.

Speaker 12 (02:51:51):
What was that?

Speaker 6 (02:51:52):
I didn't get that?

Speaker 15 (02:51:53):
I'm leaving you day. I'm going right now. I got
a ticket to San Francisco, I train losing forty minutes.
It's got to be this way, shop and clean. Believe me,
it's best. So it's bye bye, Dave.

Speaker 6 (02:52:05):
No, well, Jeanie, wait a minute, you can't.

Speaker 7 (02:52:09):
You can't go.

Speaker 15 (02:52:10):
Don't try to hold me.

Speaker 7 (02:52:11):
But Genie, why you.

Speaker 6 (02:52:14):
Gotta tell me? Why you can't just leave like this
all of a sudden, for no reason. Give me a chance, Genie,
I have.

Speaker 15 (02:52:21):
If I've given you a whole year of chances. You
said if we got married, i'd learned to love you.

Speaker 16 (02:52:25):
You insisted on it.

Speaker 15 (02:52:26):
It was all your idea. Not mind it. Well, it
just hasn't worked out, that's all.

Speaker 6 (02:52:31):
But it will, Jeanie, I know it will. Or baby,
don't leave, please, I love you, Genie. I'll do anything
you say.

Speaker 15 (02:52:38):
Genie, stop it, stop it, don't crawl, Dave, good grief.
It isn't the end of the world. It happens every day.
We tried it and it didn't work. So I'm getting out.
No hard feelings, Dave, and no regrets. Huh, Just goodbye
and good luck.

Speaker 16 (02:52:53):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (02:52:55):
Were you right to me?

Speaker 15 (02:52:56):
I don't think so.

Speaker 6 (02:52:57):
But how are you going to live? What about money?

Speaker 15 (02:53:01):
I'll get by, make no mistake about that. Besides, it's
not your worry anymore.

Speaker 6 (02:53:06):
It'll always be my worry, Jeane. Always. Don't ever forget that.
If you're ever in trouble, if you ever need me,
just remember Jeane. Jeanie. She was gone, just like that,

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She walked out into the dark rain and was gone.
I didn't think I could live without Genie. I loved
her so much, but I lived. The days went by,
and the night's business picked up in the lunch room,
and I hired a fellow to help out, and things

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went along. They went along for almost a month, and
then maybe that's when it happened, the mistake, because then
she came back. I just happened to glance up one
night there she was sitting there watching me.

Speaker 10 (02:54:00):
Hell a deeve, Genie, Genie, Gee, what a surprise?

Speaker 6 (02:54:06):
Why I never expected? Oh Genie, look, let's get out
of here, go someplace where we can talk. Alright, Hey,
Tommy take over for me, will you?

Speaker 21 (02:54:18):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (02:54:18):
Dave, come on, Jean.

Speaker 7 (02:54:24):
Well you you look just the same, Gene.

Speaker 15 (02:54:28):
You haven't changed, haven't ida?

Speaker 6 (02:54:30):
No, you'll look wonderful. I guess San Francisco agrees with you.
How is it, Jeane?

Speaker 12 (02:54:37):
Are you happy?

Speaker 1 (02:54:38):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (02:54:38):
You know how San Francisco is hills and water and
big bridges. What have you been, David in the house business?

Speaker 6 (02:54:46):
Okay, I got a new helper. I suppose you noticed,
and business has been a little better.

Speaker 15 (02:54:50):
Oh that's fine. I'm glad.

Speaker 7 (02:54:52):
Jeanie.

Speaker 6 (02:54:53):
I've missed you, missed you terribly every minute of every day.

Speaker 7 (02:54:59):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:55:00):
Sorry, if I forgot you have an aversion to crawling things.

Speaker 15 (02:55:03):
Oh, Dave, don't that hurts you.

Speaker 45 (02:55:06):
See.

Speaker 15 (02:55:06):
I've come back Jeane to stay.

Speaker 6 (02:55:08):
You want me? If I wanted her, there was nothing
in the world I wanted more. We picked up life
where we dropped it a month ago, and at first
it seemed as though she had never been away. But

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then I began to detect it the change. Jeanie was afraid.
She was on guard, waiting for something to happen. Two
nights later, just before closing time, it did. It happened.
I was in the kitchen when the guy came in.

Speaker 15 (02:55:48):
Sorry, mister, we just closing.

Speaker 2 (02:55:51):
Go ahead and Claus, what do you want?

Speaker 1 (02:55:53):
Cup of coffee?

Speaker 62 (02:55:54):
Well all, that's all you.

Speaker 6 (02:55:56):
Want, just coffee, that's all for now.

Speaker 8 (02:55:59):
Baby.

Speaker 2 (02:56:00):
Hey nice by the way, Baby, where are you from?

Speaker 21 (02:56:05):
What here?

Speaker 8 (02:56:08):
Right here?

Speaker 13 (02:56:08):
Why?

Speaker 15 (02:56:09):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:56:09):
Nothing?

Speaker 6 (02:56:11):
For a minute, she looked like somebody I knew once
in San Francisco.

Speaker 7 (02:56:16):
You ever been in San Francisco?

Speaker 12 (02:56:17):
Baby?

Speaker 1 (02:56:19):
Say uh?

Speaker 6 (02:56:20):
Up around Fillmore.

Speaker 15 (02:56:21):
Street, Dave, Dave, let that out there?

Speaker 6 (02:56:27):
What about him, Geenie, what's the matter? You're white as
a sheet.

Speaker 15 (02:56:31):
I'm not feeling so good, Dave, will you wait on
that guy for me?

Speaker 7 (02:56:35):
Well?

Speaker 6 (02:56:35):
Sure, but hey, look you sit down and take it easy. Hi, mister,
you about finished with your coffee? Where's the girl? She's
through for the night. We're closing up. I'm about a
refill on the coffee. Look, mister, I said, we're closing.
We want to go get out of here and go home.

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We'll let you do where does the girl live. She's
a married woman. I'm sorry, but you'll have to leave.

Speaker 11 (02:57:02):
Man, you won't get me any more coffee?

Speaker 12 (02:57:04):
Is that what you mean?

Speaker 7 (02:57:05):
That's right?

Speaker 6 (02:57:07):
Okay, soll okay, Well, Jeanie, he's gone.

Speaker 1 (02:57:16):
Who was he?

Speaker 7 (02:57:16):
Did you?

Speaker 6 (02:57:18):
Jeanie? Jeanie, where are you? I don't even remember if
I turned out the lights. I just locked the door
and went home as fast as I could. And Jeanie
was there in the apartments, throwing things into a suitcase.
She stopped when I walked in and just stood there

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staring at me with a look in her eyes i'd
never seen before, as though she expected me to step
up and hit her right in the face. Dave, what
are you doing?

Speaker 17 (02:57:47):
Jeane?

Speaker 6 (02:57:48):
Why are you packing? Why did you run out tonight?

Speaker 45 (02:57:50):
Dave?

Speaker 15 (02:57:51):
I've got to get out of here. I've got to
leave town now.

Speaker 6 (02:57:53):
Wait a minute, this is getting to be a habit
with you.

Speaker 15 (02:57:56):
No, No, you don't understand.

Speaker 6 (02:57:58):
Who was that big guy who came in?

Speaker 7 (02:57:59):
Did you know?

Speaker 8 (02:58:00):
No?

Speaker 15 (02:58:00):
No, I never saw him before in my life.

Speaker 6 (02:58:01):
Not lie, Jeanie.

Speaker 15 (02:58:02):
I swear it, I swear I don't know who he is.

Speaker 6 (02:58:04):
And why did you run from him? What happened? In
San Francisco, Jeane.

Speaker 15 (02:58:07):
Nothing.

Speaker 6 (02:58:08):
Why is fell Mar Street so important to you?

Speaker 1 (02:58:10):
It is?

Speaker 6 (02:58:10):
Why are you afraid?

Speaker 15 (02:58:11):
I'm not afraid. Nothing happened in San Francisco. Nothing.

Speaker 43 (02:58:15):
Do you hear.

Speaker 15 (02:58:17):
That guy who came in tonight with only another dirty measure?
And I felt so rotten. I just couldn't take it anymore.

Speaker 1 (02:58:23):
Now leave me alone, would you?

Speaker 13 (02:58:26):
David?

Speaker 15 (02:58:28):
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 6 (02:58:30):
Okay, Jeanie, Okay, I guess we're both on edge.

Speaker 7 (02:58:34):
That's all.

Speaker 6 (02:58:36):
You're not going anywhere tonight. I'll put this stuff back
in the closet where it belongs, and then you're going
to bed and get a good night's rest, and maybe
you'll feel better in the morning. Maybe everything will looked
different when the sun comes up. But I knew it wouldn't.
I knew nothing would be different, because when I went

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over to the window down the blind, I saw the
same big guy standing under a lamppost across the street,
watching our apartment.

Speaker 26 (02:59:25):
Well, a big stranger is certainly interested in Genie's affairs.
But why, that's the question that's worrying Dave. I will
continue with that two of tonight's Moley mystery in just
a moment. Meanwhile, here's Dan Seymour with a question that
worries a lot of men.

Speaker 61 (02:59:41):
Let me ask you this man, when you run your
razor over your face, does it pull? Does it snag?
Does it scrape? Does it tear?

Speaker 8 (02:59:51):
Well?

Speaker 61 (02:59:51):
Mister, chances are you have tough whiskers or a tender skin.
So shave with Molay, the heavier brushly shaving cream. Then
you will say it's smooth, so smooth, it's slick, sol slick.
It's a smooth, smooth, slick slake shave you get with M.

Speaker 8 (03:00:10):
Or L L E.

Speaker 17 (03:00:12):
Molay.

Speaker 61 (03:00:13):
That's right, rich, creamy Moley is made to order for
men who have tough whiskers or a tender skin. Because
it is heavier, Molay not only softens your whiskers, it
sets them up right ready for your razor to take
them off easily and painlessly.

Speaker 2 (03:00:28):
So enjoy a Molay shave tomorrow.

Speaker 26 (03:00:32):
And now this is Jeffrey Bonds again, returning you to
the Mystery Theater and Act two of Make No Mistake,
starrying Alan Bexter.

Speaker 6 (03:00:54):
Next morning, I made Jeanie promise to stay inside and
keep the door locked. Just Tuesday, in the lunchhoom was close,
but I had to go down and work on the books,
so I left. I'd gone about three blocks when I
first noticed him, that same big guy. I don't know
where he picked me up, but he was there following me.

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I decided to play a hunch. When I saw the
police station, I thought I could bluff him. It was
only a few steps behind me. As I crossed the street.
I ran up the station steps and in the door.
But he wasn't bluffed one inch and we walked side
by side right up to the sergeant's desk. Morning, gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (03:01:35):
What can I do for you?

Speaker 17 (03:01:36):
Holah?

Speaker 8 (03:01:37):
I was, well, what is it?

Speaker 1 (03:01:41):
What's on your mind? Look?

Speaker 6 (03:01:44):
Can you tell me where I go to get a
a building permit?

Speaker 9 (03:01:47):
For sure?

Speaker 11 (03:01:48):
City haul at fourth and made you know where that is?

Speaker 12 (03:01:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (03:01:51):
Yeah, thanks? He was here nothing, sergeant.

Speaker 11 (03:01:54):
I'm just here with my friend Dave. You're gonna do
a little building, are you?

Speaker 17 (03:02:04):
Dave? What do you want?

Speaker 6 (03:02:06):
I just want to be sure I got the right party.
What do you want? Was Gene up in San Francisco
last week?

Speaker 10 (03:02:13):
Who are you?

Speaker 6 (03:02:13):
What are you after?

Speaker 11 (03:02:14):
My name's Ragna, Dave Bert Ragna. I was in San
Francisco last week and I found this why that? Yeah,
a little anklet slave bracelet they call it, don't they.
I found it in a hotel on Fillmore Street, and
I just wanted to see it return to its properna,
it's inscribed, says to Genie with all my love, Dave,

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give me.

Speaker 6 (03:02:41):
That way just a minute. Can you positively identify it?

Speaker 7 (03:02:47):
Well?

Speaker 6 (03:02:48):
The class was broken. Once it's been soddered. He you'll
see the Genie gets it, won't you. I'll be saying you, Dave.

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I got a terrible sinking feeling inside then, as if
it were already too late, as if I knew already
how it would end. I started to run after Wagner
to beat some answers out of him, but he was gone.
I turned around and went back to the apartment Insteady,
you're back so soon?

Speaker 15 (03:03:29):
Is everything all right?

Speaker 6 (03:03:30):
I've got something of ours, Geene?

Speaker 8 (03:03:33):
What this?

Speaker 6 (03:03:35):
It's that little hanklet you used to wear here.

Speaker 13 (03:03:38):
Where did you get this?

Speaker 6 (03:03:40):
That guy gave it to me, The big guy, the
one who came in last night. That's right. His name
is Wragner. He says he found it last week in
San Francisco.

Speaker 15 (03:03:47):
What did you tell him? What did you say to him?

Speaker 13 (03:03:49):
Dave?

Speaker 6 (03:03:50):
I identified it, and he returned it to me.

Speaker 15 (03:03:53):
You are dead divided for him? Oh, you blind, stupid fool.

Speaker 43 (03:03:58):
Why did you.

Speaker 6 (03:03:59):
Claim it because it's the one I gave you. Why
shouldn't I identify it? Tell me what you've done that
makes me such a fool for claiming my own property.
Now tell me what happened in San Francisco, jean Tell
me I.

Speaker 15 (03:04:11):
Killed him there, Oh, Genie, last week in a hotel
in film Muste. He was rotten, he deserved. He was
mean and vicious, and he would len me alone, and
he was crazy, jealous, jealous. I tried to get away
from him, but he followed me, and then there was
a fighting. Somehow I got his gun en up, I

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shot him with.

Speaker 62 (03:04:35):
It and I ran.

Speaker 15 (03:04:37):
I got away. I didn't think anybody saw me. I
didn't even miss the slave bracelet until the next allion.
Oh day, Dave, what are we going to do?

Speaker 8 (03:04:48):
Do?

Speaker 29 (03:04:50):
I don't know, Dave.

Speaker 15 (03:04:51):
Do you think Ragnant saw what I did?

Speaker 6 (03:04:53):
Do you think he knows all about it? Believe me,
you can count on that.

Speaker 1 (03:04:56):
Who is he?

Speaker 15 (03:04:57):
What does he want?

Speaker 6 (03:04:58):
You're lying again, Jeanie.

Speaker 15 (03:04:59):
Don't you know where I swear I.

Speaker 24 (03:05:00):
Never saw before?

Speaker 15 (03:05:01):
In my life. What if he's a cop?

Speaker 23 (03:05:05):
Dave?

Speaker 27 (03:05:05):
What do we do if he's a cop?

Speaker 15 (03:05:08):
Let's get out of here. Let's leap now, right away,
or we still got a chance.

Speaker 7 (03:05:18):
Death.

Speaker 15 (03:05:19):
Deeve, don't answer it, Dave, Please.

Speaker 11 (03:05:24):
We have to Jeanie, Well, why, mister Kimball. Is something wrong?

Speaker 6 (03:05:33):
Oh it's you, mister Meade.

Speaker 1 (03:05:38):
You opened that.

Speaker 11 (03:05:39):
Door like you expected the devil himself to be starting here.
You know, usually it's a tenant that don't pay the
rent that look at me like that.

Speaker 5 (03:05:49):
Oh how do you do?

Speaker 12 (03:05:50):
Missus? Kimball?

Speaker 11 (03:05:51):
Sure is nice to have your back. Do you enjoy
your trip? Excuse me, folks, it's about the garbage. Shoot
the man's com the ten cans are getting at the
garbage again.

Speaker 6 (03:06:02):
Yeah, we'll watch, mister Mead. Well, we'll be careful, thank you.

Speaker 11 (03:06:06):
I well, well, I'm sure it's not you anyway, but well,
well goodbye, mister.

Speaker 15 (03:06:13):
I thought it was him. I thought it was Ray.

Speaker 6 (03:06:18):
But if he's with the police, stop crying, Jeane, that
one help?

Speaker 1 (03:06:21):
Do you think he is?

Speaker 27 (03:06:22):
Do you think he's a cop?

Speaker 6 (03:06:23):
I don't know. It doesn't act like one exactly, but
he's sure not afraid of him listen, Geenie. If it
was self defense, maybe we ought to.

Speaker 7 (03:06:39):
Hello.

Speaker 1 (03:06:40):
This is Dave.

Speaker 11 (03:06:42):
I suppose you've been talking things over with Jeane. Well
now I guess it's about time for us all to
get together and decide what's to be done.

Speaker 7 (03:06:52):
Now you.

Speaker 11 (03:06:55):
Listen, I got a room with the Clarement arms, so
tell you know what that is. It's walk up about
five blocks from real place.

Speaker 1 (03:07:02):
I know where it is.

Speaker 11 (03:07:03):
All right, you and GD be over there at eight o'clock,
Room two twelve. I'll be expecting you, Dave, so don't
try to leave town or anything stupid like that. Don't
disappoint me, Dave.

Speaker 6 (03:07:17):
We'll be there, Ragner, both of us at eight right
on time.

Speaker 12 (03:07:36):
Come in.

Speaker 6 (03:07:40):
I want to sit down. No thanks, all right, okay,
I'll be brief.

Speaker 11 (03:07:45):
I'm a private detective and not a very prosperous one,
but I got a break last week. I was in
the next room in that hotel on Fillmore and I
heard the whole business through my open window.

Speaker 15 (03:07:55):
Are you going to go to the police?

Speaker 11 (03:07:57):
That depends on tiny on you. You see, I'm make
my living and other people's trouble, and baby, you are
in trouble. If the san Francisco cops ever got a
line on you. You haven't got a chance.

Speaker 15 (03:08:09):
What do you want us to do?

Speaker 6 (03:08:09):
Get to the point, righter, you'll keep your shirt on.

Speaker 11 (03:08:12):
I'll get there right now. The police are stuck. They
don't even have a lead. If I should come in
with the killer that put me right up there in
the big time. So if I don't turn you in,
it's gotta be made.

Speaker 12 (03:08:27):
Worth my while.

Speaker 11 (03:08:28):
Ohy, you dirty right, don't crowd me If I warn you,
my price is ten thousand dollars ten thousand, I said,
So think it over. Only don't think too long, because
you've only gotten until midnight.

Speaker 6 (03:08:48):
And get out.

Speaker 26 (03:09:01):
This is Jeffrey Barns again. In just a moment, we'll
bring you Act three of Make No Mistake. Now a
word from George Putnam. One thing to remember about the
most common type of dandruff is that many outstanding authorities
say it is not a natural condition, but actually is
caused by a germ called pity rosporomo valley. Now, the
only way you can get real relief is to destroy

(03:09:22):
this germ. And simply washing or brushing away loose dandriff
won't do it, but double danderene will yes, double Dandreene
really works because it gets at the cause of this
dandroff and kills It actually kills the germ on contact.
Results with double danderene have been remarkable, even in many
stubborn cases. And the thing that makes double danderene so
amazingly effective is a special ingredient, an active antiseptic that

(03:09:46):
so wonderfully efficient many hospitals use it in double danderene.

Speaker 41 (03:09:49):
We call it al zan.

Speaker 26 (03:09:51):
So stop trying to combat this dandroff with ineffective methods
that actually are no better than plain water. Use double
danderene and destroy the cause. Get double dandene tomorrow, your
money back if not satisfied.

Speaker 6 (03:10:15):
Jeannie and I walked out of Ragner's room and all
the five blocks back to our apartment without speaking a
word to each other. I glanced at her face once
as we passed a street light. She looked sick. The
fear in her eyes was ugly. That must have shocked
me hard, because I began really to think then clearly,
for the first time since Jeanie'd come back. When we

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got home and the door was closed, I knew what I.

Speaker 12 (03:10:39):
Was going to do.

Speaker 15 (03:10:41):
We can raise the money, can't we, Dave? Ten thousand
dollars and so much is it? We can get it someplace,
can't we.

Speaker 6 (03:10:46):
Dave, No, Jeanie, there's no way on earth for me
to get that much money we've got. We can't. I
went into hock for everything I have. I couldn't touch
ten thousand dollars even if I could. Do You think
that'll be the end of it? Why he'd never quit.

Speaker 15 (03:11:00):
But he's going to turn me into the police if
you don't pay him the money. You aren't going to
let him turn me into the police, are you, Dave?

Speaker 27 (03:11:05):
You can't.

Speaker 15 (03:11:06):
I love you and they'll take me away from you.

Speaker 6 (03:11:09):
You really love me, Jenny?

Speaker 16 (03:11:11):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (03:11:11):
Yes, yes, I've always loved you, Dave. I was wrong before,
honest I what, Dave, don't let him turn me in?

Speaker 6 (03:11:18):
I won't, Jeannie, don't worry anymore. Ragner won't turn you in.

Speaker 15 (03:11:22):
Then you're gonna pay him off, Dave.

Speaker 6 (03:11:25):
Oh, I'm not going to pay him, not in money anyway, Jeannie. Listen,
listen closely. I'm going out now to see Ragner. You
stay in the apartment, do you hear? And when I
come back, if anybody should ask you to swear I
was here with you all the time, that I never left.
Do you understand, Oh Dad, I'm going now, and don't
forget what I said.

Speaker 15 (03:11:44):
I'll get it jee. Hello, ragne, Oh David's Ragnan.

Speaker 6 (03:11:52):
Lie to him, stall him, tell him I'm out getting
the money, and I'll be in his room in half
an hour.

Speaker 15 (03:11:57):
Hello, David's out getting the money now. He'll be up
to your room in a half an hour.

Speaker 6 (03:12:02):
That's right, as she lied to Ragner, setting him up
for me like a clay pigeon. I got a smashing
impulse to hurry and get it over with. And maybe
that was the mistake, because I moved too fast. I
went to the lunchroom and in the dark got the
pistol I kept under the counter. That took twenty minutes.

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It only took me ten more to get to him.
Nobody saw me go into his hotel, and nobody saw
me walk down the hall to his room. And then
there it was his door. I was scared of Ragner.
That's why I had the gun out before I knocked.
I already had the gun pointed as I heard the
footsteps inside. That's why I was already squeezing the trigger

(03:12:47):
as the door swung back, the sound of that shot
slammed into my brain. I dropped the gun and ran
because I knew that that murder, too, was a mistake,

(03:13:07):
a monstrous mistake. And that's why I'd come here now,
to this elegant place to see Jeanie, because the sound
of that shot still echoed in my mind, although twenty
four hours had passed. That's why I was following mister

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Munday down the silent corridor. I had to see Jeannie
once more and tell her about the mistake.

Speaker 8 (03:13:38):
Here you are, so.

Speaker 6 (03:13:41):
I'm here, Thank you, Hello, Jeannie. Well, Jeannie, the police
have already caught Ragner. He's told them the whole story
by now. They'll get me when I leave here. It
was mistake, Jeanie, a bad mistake.

Speaker 7 (03:14:03):
You see.

Speaker 6 (03:14:04):
I forgot that blackmailers always protect themselves, and that's what
you found out. That's why Ragner called our apartment just
as I was leaving, to tell us he had written
a letter about the whole thing, to be forwarded to
the police in case anything happened to him. That's why
you tried to stop me from killing him. Why you
went to Ragner's room and waited for me. That's why

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you opened the door. But I'm not sorry it turned
out this way, Jeanie. This way I did it by mistake.
Some day I would have done it anyhow deliberately. You see, Genie,
the biggest mistake of all was my falling in love
with you in the first place. Well that's what I

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had to tell you. So good bye, Genie.

Speaker 7 (03:15:03):
Mister Kimball, are you Are you going to leave now?

Speaker 6 (03:15:07):
Yes, mister Munday, Well, good night, sir, good night.

Speaker 11 (03:15:22):
Hello the Hillcrest Mortuary, mister Monday speaking.

Speaker 8 (03:15:43):
It's strange, but it's true.

Speaker 26 (03:15:45):
A person can get so tired he can't do his work, well,
can't even get any fine out of life. Now, if
you're that tired and pale, besides, your doctor may find
you have a borderline anemia resulting from a ferro nutritional
blood deficiency. Then take ironized yeast tablets. They help increase
your strength regain your color by building up your red
blood cells. So take ironized yeast tablets to get the

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energy you need to work, to play, to think. Ironized
yeast tablets be with us next week when The Mystery
Theater presents The Inescapable Corpse, starring Henry Morgan.

Speaker 17 (03:16:16):
This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.

Speaker 1 (03:16:23):
Here's that venture.

Speaker 63 (03:16:25):
Here's a man, here's the faggus Robin Foot of the
old Quest.

Speaker 12 (03:16:34):
Cisco show Closer, he made.

Speaker 22 (03:16:38):
A Cisco hip.

Speaker 63 (03:17:21):
Now the Cisco Kid and our thrilling story The Mummy
in the desert. The southwest of the eighteen seventies, with
its vast and lonely spaces, its great frowning mountains, its maces,
and its gloomy caverns, was a region of mystery because
men of all races and all lands came there in
search of gold. It was only natural that they leave

(03:17:42):
traces of their various customs and civilizations behind them. But
our story opens far from the Southwest, in a comfortable
home on the outskirts of Chicago. Professor Emeritus George Carlson noted,
egyptologist is saying to his daughter, we will take.

Speaker 43 (03:17:57):
The train with tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (03:17:59):
Dorothy.

Speaker 27 (03:18:00):
Oh but dad, just on the strength of that letter
you got from what's his.

Speaker 45 (03:18:04):
Name, Addison Powers but you don't even.

Speaker 27 (03:18:06):
Know him, let alone going clear out there just because
he wrote you He's found what he thinks is the
tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh. It sounds to me like
a hoax.

Speaker 43 (03:18:14):
It may be. On the other hand, the story might
be true.

Speaker 20 (03:18:18):
What this man Powers probably does not know is that
some years ago the mummy of one of the greatest
of the Pharaohs was stolen, and the Egyptian government thinks
was brought to this country.

Speaker 15 (03:18:30):
I never knew that either, Dad.

Speaker 43 (03:18:31):
No, I never told you until now, and I am
relying on you, daughter, not to mention it to any one.

Speaker 64 (03:18:37):
Oh naturally, I won't.

Speaker 8 (03:18:38):
Only a few of.

Speaker 20 (03:18:39):
Us were notified and asked to be on the watch
for the mummy. The Egyptian government doesn't want a generally
known because the mummy case has a secret compartment in
which are gems of priceless value.

Speaker 15 (03:18:50):
But how in the world would such a thing get
over here.

Speaker 20 (03:18:53):
In any one of a number of ways, Dorothy, You
may recall my telling you about the camels the army
tested in the desert it for possible use in transportation
and desert warfare. Yes, it's quite possible that one of
the original camel drivers smuggled the mummy over and sealed
it in the tomb his Powers claims to have found.
In any event, it's worth investigating, and please start packing

(03:19:16):
our things immediately.

Speaker 12 (03:19:29):
Storm's coming up.

Speaker 43 (03:19:30):
Powers come are a cover here in this cave.

Speaker 65 (03:19:37):
If you ask me, Roberts, it's a double bud makes
a good looking tomb for his majesty or whatever they
call those old Egyptian kings.

Speaker 12 (03:19:44):
Yeah, look all right, after it's dried out, it'll cry.

Speaker 65 (03:19:46):
Out quickness, he Samnuel professor gets here this afternoon, it'll
be solid.

Speaker 12 (03:19:52):
You fell for it, Huh He sure did, Jack, don't
they just wanted to arrive.

Speaker 43 (03:19:57):
We plastered a little more of that mud.

Speaker 12 (03:19:59):
Right here right. How'd you get ahold of this year
mummy pars?

Speaker 43 (03:20:03):
I bought it from some foreigner down his luck, got
it for almost nothing.

Speaker 12 (03:20:07):
To what good is it?

Speaker 1 (03:20:09):
Oh?

Speaker 65 (03:20:10):
Look, I used to be in the carnival bitness. See,
I'm going in again as soon as I get myself
a steak. Now, this Professor Carlson's what you might call
an authority on these mummies. He finds one buried out
here in the Southwest. Why the news will get every
newspaper in that country, and I can clean up howing
them at.

Speaker 12 (03:20:26):
My carn Maybe you'll want to buy it.

Speaker 43 (03:20:28):
Yeah, maybe. Anyway, I stand to make a lot of money.

Speaker 12 (03:20:33):
He's gonna rain great guns pars.

Speaker 63 (03:20:35):
There's a hole in the roof of this cave back there,
and the slope of the ledge comes right down to
this year too.

Speaker 12 (03:20:40):
If it should rain enough, come on.

Speaker 43 (03:20:43):
Let's get busy and funnish this.

Speaker 12 (03:20:55):
He's called doctor DV. Get wet, no, say Bojo, we'll
get very wet, and let's be sheller. I have never
seen the sky any blacker than that one where he goes.
She'schol might find some sheller the legs that mas over
there either there we can ride for the town.

Speaker 45 (03:21:09):
We may judge the mason ledge. Shanko can come to rains.

Speaker 22 (03:21:14):
Let us our answer me go come, we will ride
for the Mesa.

Speaker 12 (03:21:16):
After Hollo go with the maid and.

Speaker 45 (03:21:22):
I read how this is?

Speaker 12 (03:21:23):
Go bars lady, he went and let us ride faster? Yeah, yeah,
go hey, hey, what's good?

Speaker 1 (03:21:31):
Laugh?

Speaker 22 (03:21:31):
I'm laughing, Pancho because I love this storm.

Speaker 12 (03:21:33):
It's part of nature and anything that nature is.

Speaker 66 (03:21:35):
Good at you, like the sunshine birds. I didn't leah,
how it rain? Now he's wonderful, Pancho. Look, there's a
big cave ahead of us, batch that can see anything.

Speaker 12 (03:21:47):
To these rave follow me. Then there's plenty of room
for our horses than ourselves. Look heavy rain this shellar
just in time.

Speaker 45 (03:22:00):
Yeah, there ain't any more heavies. Just go you got
to swim and parts not no how to swim.

Speaker 12 (03:22:06):
Lightning. Let's lee the horses here on me go and
look in the caves. Because then I thought, comes go
just go.

Speaker 45 (03:22:13):
Someone here and partsy? Who's the way back there?

Speaker 12 (03:22:16):
I see them two punto. Let us wait here and
look it around. What are you Ombrey's water here? We
came here to get out of the storms. Are have
you any objection?

Speaker 32 (03:22:25):
Oh?

Speaker 43 (03:22:25):
No, sit down where you are?

Speaker 12 (03:22:27):
No comedy father into this cave? Is this your cave?
I'll make any difference who it is. I said, sit
down where you are? Yeah, and I'm packing that up too.

Speaker 45 (03:22:34):
I don't do the big ombra ciscol big somebody punch
you ever?

Speaker 8 (03:22:37):
See?

Speaker 12 (03:22:37):
We are not here to cause troubles, say are neither?
Were we avoided? Suppose you keep your distance and we
will keep outs.

Speaker 13 (03:22:45):
See that you do.

Speaker 45 (03:22:46):
They're not friendly ombras.

Speaker 12 (03:22:48):
No they're not. However that does not matter because they are.
Oh what is that over there? I'm sort of an
adobe war I believe it. I've just been pure.

Speaker 45 (03:22:58):
They built a house in here.

Speaker 12 (03:23:00):
I can see no reason for building a house in
a cave. Puncho next more than me, as if they
had sealed something up lightning close a mere look.

Speaker 8 (03:23:10):
At it rain.

Speaker 12 (03:23:11):
Now he's a cloud purse.

Speaker 45 (03:23:12):
Pancho going down to the roof of the cave. Look
he's good, big river.

Speaker 12 (03:23:16):
Come down through seeing he is pouring right under the
wall of adobe. He's washing the water away.

Speaker 45 (03:23:22):
Hey, Jack, top of that hole the roof care two
powersels too big?

Speaker 12 (03:23:26):
All right, come over here, help me patch up this
wall for adobe. Right, you are get out of this
cave hock, get out, or do nothing of the sort
until this rain has passed.

Speaker 67 (03:23:34):
Get about, Jack, go out a sure will of an
ekud for a fight and over you may have.

Speaker 12 (03:23:40):
What the working way they got? Big fox come out
of the jacks the land.

Speaker 1 (03:23:45):
On you.

Speaker 12 (03:23:47):
Did not could be going body art and now rolls
up and ended he the box something. Look at Pancho
math a mere an Egyptian mummy?

Speaker 13 (03:23:55):
Did you?

Speaker 45 (03:23:56):
Did you give him up the way? Why did he
give few mummies?

Speaker 12 (03:23:58):
He's good man or has been dead for thousands of year.
There is Pancho and.

Speaker 45 (03:24:01):
Ten thousands of you. I had the Yorks go Pacha,
let you get wet. Oh wait, wait, wait wait, wait
out in the ranges go not with army death for
a thousand of years.

Speaker 12 (03:24:08):
So this is why you did not want us in
this cave hombre. You did not want us to know
about this mummy.

Speaker 65 (03:24:14):
They ain't gonna do you any good to know about it, stranger,
But you ain't gonna have a chance to tell anybody,
either you or that partner yours.

Speaker 12 (03:24:20):
Do not go here going on much. I won't that
tase me ain't not so big project? Why did you do?

Speaker 1 (03:24:27):
Wait?

Speaker 12 (03:24:27):
From a thousand years dead? O, say Pancho, we will
go now. I do not like this place any better
than you do.

Speaker 65 (03:24:33):
Oh big coy, Hey Jack Jack Roberts, Oh something he said,
mummy case, come on, get up, gotta get this thing
moved to another place.

Speaker 43 (03:24:45):
It's no good doubt they know where it is.

Speaker 65 (03:24:47):
Then we gotta get after them umbries and get them
before they start talking. If you ain't too late already.

Speaker 68 (03:25:03):
A nice day after the storms, see Pancho. It is
a nice day to give Pancho the big appetite.

Speaker 12 (03:25:11):
See Pancho.

Speaker 45 (03:25:13):
To say it again, is he nice days? He's got
to give Pancho, the big appetite.

Speaker 12 (03:25:19):
Appetite, uh huh oh oh, Mago. We are now and
I went to the cafe. It's just about noon.

Speaker 45 (03:25:26):
What she gona think about?

Speaker 12 (03:25:28):
I was thinking about that mummy and Migo, all that excitement.
It did not seem quite so strange. It should be there,
But now it does seem very strange.

Speaker 45 (03:25:36):
Indeed, old Pancho think, is the old Indian chief?

Speaker 12 (03:25:41):
No, no, it was not an old Indian chief of mego. No,
if it was genuine, it was a pharaoh.

Speaker 45 (03:25:46):
But the pharaoh's go a game with a gambling.

Speaker 12 (03:25:49):
Oh no, No, a pharaoh was a sovereign, a king
in ancient legion. They were buried with great honor when
they died, and they were never removed from their burial place.

Speaker 45 (03:25:57):
Pancha had wanted to go near that pharaoh again.

Speaker 12 (03:26:00):
I would like to know what int response Ombri's heading.

Speaker 45 (03:26:02):
That mummy faredo king moment. How many names that old
Ombiti Gotchi school.

Speaker 12 (03:26:07):
The mummy is the body after it's been embalmed and
wrapped as you saw it. Oh well, it is strange
and unusual, but other things are more important. It's the cafe.

Speaker 45 (03:26:16):
Pancho over hit the cape looks quiet.

Speaker 12 (03:26:20):
There are horses of this hit way and I'm gonna
go in.

Speaker 1 (03:26:24):
Oh she's cool.

Speaker 12 (03:26:25):
The two womanish I seen them chicken. Hey you mag rorail.
There's plenty of room for your horses at that rail.

Speaker 43 (03:26:35):
You heard what my partner said, up vers, I move
them cayuses.

Speaker 45 (03:26:39):
Over your big omedies.

Speaker 12 (03:26:41):
Just say plenty of room, momento, Pancho, are you looking
for trouble? Omri?

Speaker 1 (03:26:45):
Listen, Either you move the.

Speaker 43 (03:26:48):
Horses or you'll find out if we are looking for trouble.

Speaker 12 (03:26:50):
Our horses stay where they are right then your rest concord.
I would say, you are the what who is doing the.

Speaker 1 (03:27:00):
Watch? You?

Speaker 12 (03:27:01):
You keep hotting it? Your hands on you break your
true see if you do which I don't.

Speaker 5 (03:27:09):
Hold it out.

Speaker 45 (03:27:10):
I could have no problem on the street man, the
big one makers he's got say.

Speaker 12 (03:27:14):
I didn't need the shadow. You know Jack robertson me.

Speaker 43 (03:27:17):
You know we wouldn't pick a fight.

Speaker 45 (03:27:18):
You would tell the through a Pancha get very mad.

Speaker 12 (03:27:21):
I know you powers?

Speaker 45 (03:27:22):
Who are these other two?

Speaker 12 (03:27:23):
I am the Cisco Kids sheriff and this is my companero, Pancho.

Speaker 45 (03:27:27):
So you're the Cisco kid.

Speaker 12 (03:27:29):
I heard you was a trouble maker.

Speaker 43 (03:27:31):
That's what he is, chef, as you would lock them both.

Speaker 12 (03:27:34):
We started no trouble, Sheriff. Pancho and I were just
going into the Capwait when these obodies rode up and
the manner we move our horses. As you can see,
they had plenty of room for that horse.

Speaker 43 (03:27:44):
That's a lie, shadow, you.

Speaker 45 (03:27:45):
Would say, Cisco.

Speaker 43 (03:27:46):
I am partical, I said, I see he just pooved
their trouble makers.

Speaker 45 (03:27:56):
Does look that way doning it?

Speaker 12 (03:27:57):
Powers?

Speaker 45 (03:27:58):
All right, Cisco, you and this home bring get on
him horses and get out of town.

Speaker 12 (03:28:01):
We don't want you here. I told you, Sheriff. We
are going into the cafe. We will eat our meal
and then leave. You will leave now or go to jail.

Speaker 1 (03:28:08):
Take your choice.

Speaker 45 (03:28:09):
And hungry, poor fat Pancho are way.

Speaker 12 (03:28:13):
Happool enough in our saddle bags. And we want to
do as the sheriff said. But I think we will
meet these umbredes again very soon.

Speaker 21 (03:28:21):
Come.

Speaker 63 (03:28:32):
That meeting is to be sooner than even Cisco suspects.
In just a moment, we'll return to our story of
the Cisco Kid. Now back to the Cisco Kid, then

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our thrilling story the Mummy in the desert. When Cisco
and Pancho, seeking shelter from a sudden storm, entered a
cavern at the foot of a mesa, they were met
with open hostility by two men who, unknown to our friends,
had sealed up an Egyptian mummy in the cave with
adobe mud, but the cloudburst washed away the adobe and

(03:29:25):
revealed the mummy. Later in town, the two men picked
a fight with Cisco, then prevailed upon the sheriff to
order Cisco and Pancho out of town on grounds of
having picked the fight with them.

Speaker 65 (03:29:36):
Now, I'm a too bad mbichoff. If they come into
town again, throw them in the lock up.

Speaker 45 (03:29:41):
I sure will.

Speaker 24 (03:29:42):
Powers.

Speaker 21 (03:29:42):
I've heard plenty about Cisco kid, but even so, it
seems kind of funny he'd pick a fight with anybody
as big as Jack Roberts.

Speaker 65 (03:29:49):
Here they had a gone for the guns. If you
hadn't got here just when you did. Well, train's coming,
gotta be get no of the depot Salong.

Speaker 43 (03:29:56):
Sheriff shalong, boys, h that fixes it, so there will
be on the lookout for him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the
old Prof's on this train. Everything. I'll be hunky dory.

Speaker 12 (03:30:07):
Come on, it's suppose Cisco go out to that cave.

Speaker 65 (03:30:12):
I won't do any good he does, now that we've
leave that mummy to another place.

Speaker 45 (03:30:16):
I sure hope the professor will be on this train.

Speaker 65 (03:30:19):
Yes, the only sight beyond. Hey, old geezer are getting
off down that second car.

Speaker 12 (03:30:25):
You've got a girl with him.

Speaker 45 (03:30:26):
Yeah, looks like you might be a professor. Come on,
Professor Crauson. Yes, are you christerph Power?

Speaker 12 (03:30:35):
That's me glad to meet you, Professor. This is my daughter, Dorothy.
How do you do?

Speaker 65 (03:30:40):
And this is Jack Roberts, my partner. Well, we're right
to start out for the cave anytime you are, prof Well,
I really.

Speaker 1 (03:30:46):
Think my father should rest first. It was a long
trip and it tired.

Speaker 20 (03:30:50):
I'm quite eager to see the mmy Dorothy, I believe
i'd like to go right out with these gentlemen.

Speaker 12 (03:30:54):
So why don't you go to the hotel?

Speaker 45 (03:30:56):
You couldn't wait there for me, daughter.

Speaker 64 (03:31:00):
Would you excuse us for a moment?

Speaker 43 (03:31:01):
Sure thing, ma'am.

Speaker 1 (03:31:04):
Dead.

Speaker 64 (03:31:05):
I don't like the looks of those men. You shouldn't
go with them by yourself.

Speaker 45 (03:31:08):
They're all right, Dorothy, just because they're roughly dressed.

Speaker 64 (03:31:11):
Which isn't that it's their eyes. Their expressions are shifting.

Speaker 45 (03:31:16):
You're the one who's tired.

Speaker 1 (03:31:17):
Daughter.

Speaker 45 (03:31:18):
You go to the hotel and I'll join you later
in the day.

Speaker 69 (03:31:22):
All right, but I don't like it.

Speaker 12 (03:31:25):
I believe your letter said you're a prospector, mister Powry.

Speaker 65 (03:31:29):
Yeah, a't some mean jack make aleven prospecting? Shall I
come across this your mummy very interesting?

Speaker 12 (03:31:36):
You can provide a horse for me.

Speaker 65 (03:31:38):
I assume sure I can like this way from very well,
I'll be back, so Dorothy.

Speaker 1 (03:31:44):
Those men are not to be trusted.

Speaker 64 (03:31:46):
I know they're not.

Speaker 15 (03:31:48):
I'm going to run a horse and follow along behind,
just in case.

Speaker 68 (03:31:59):
He's a good view of the town from this Hills's
go see there is leave the depotsco you ride down
and raise the train.

Speaker 12 (03:32:08):
No, no, we will do nothing. Le Those hombreds who
tried to make trouble for us just met two people
at that depot. He met two people in the depot, Senor,
Senorito or Senora you.

Speaker 45 (03:32:19):
Look young, saying you the punch of things.

Speaker 12 (03:32:21):
We will call her a s. Then the two hombres
and the senor rode away on horses. You need to
hurry to the table with her baggage. Huh, And almost
at once she came out again, went to the stable,
and look there it is just riding out of the stable.

Speaker 45 (03:32:34):
She fired the home brason.

Speaker 12 (03:32:35):
The she does. I'm getting more and more curious about
all these businesses. Migo, come, we will meet her. She
rides from the town, meet.

Speaker 45 (03:32:43):
It from the town.

Speaker 10 (03:32:44):
Going on.

Speaker 45 (03:32:56):
He comes to sen You lead.

Speaker 12 (03:32:59):
On, as they say, right.

Speaker 27 (03:33:03):
If you hold up me and I've got a revolver
here and.

Speaker 13 (03:33:05):
I know how to use it.

Speaker 12 (03:33:06):
I have no doubt, Senorita, you look very capable, as
well as very beautiful. But Pancho and I are not
hold up.

Speaker 1 (03:33:12):
Men.

Speaker 12 (03:33:13):
You would like to know if the senor who left
you at the depot knows those ombrees he was with.

Speaker 27 (03:33:18):
What business of yours is there?

Speaker 12 (03:33:19):
Non, Senorita, We are just curious because we know those ombrees.

Speaker 27 (03:33:24):
Well, father doesn't know them.

Speaker 29 (03:33:26):
But you see, Dad trusts anyone.

Speaker 64 (03:33:28):
I'm not so trusting.

Speaker 12 (03:33:29):
I understand that you are suspicious of Pancho and me too.
You naturally would be, But I assure you, Senorita, those
ombres are not to be trusted. One more question, would
you tell me why your father is riding with them?

Speaker 27 (03:33:42):
You men look, honest, who are you?

Speaker 12 (03:33:44):
I'm the Seacol kid, and this is Mi com Bergnero Pancho.

Speaker 64 (03:33:48):
I am Dorothy Carlson Bail. I don't think it would
do any harm to show you this letter my father
got last month.

Speaker 27 (03:33:56):
You may read it.

Speaker 45 (03:33:57):
So they did not give it to Pancha.

Speaker 12 (03:34:00):
I will take it agressive Professor George Carlson, I have
heard of him. Mm hmmm. So these ombre powers wanted
your father to come west just to look at that mummy.
I think there is more to it than just that, Senorita.

Speaker 64 (03:34:17):
That's just what I'm afraid of.

Speaker 12 (03:34:18):
Punch. When I will see what we can do about it,
you would better ride back to the hotel and wait, Senorita.

Speaker 33 (03:34:23):
But is that in any danger?

Speaker 12 (03:34:25):
I do not know. But the sooner Punch when I
catch up with them, the better you will go back
to the hotel. Senorita.

Speaker 27 (03:34:31):
Well all right, I just.

Speaker 64 (03:34:33):
Hope I'm doing the right thing and trusting you.

Speaker 12 (03:34:35):
I think you are, Senorita Alista, come by, Joe Allo
the boat the right.

Speaker 70 (03:34:41):
Oh, that is the place father You're not chall.

Speaker 45 (03:35:00):
M certainly, isn't it here?

Speaker 5 (03:35:03):
Say the least you.

Speaker 43 (03:35:04):
Better come in too, jack.

Speaker 8 (03:35:11):
A right there.

Speaker 43 (03:35:11):
That's so all you can see. It's part broken pluff.

Speaker 1 (03:35:15):
Right.

Speaker 20 (03:35:15):
This wall looks as if it was recently constructed, very recently.

Speaker 65 (03:35:19):
Ah, we had a pretty heavy rain here early in
the day. Some water might have got in here.

Speaker 43 (03:35:25):
Let's get that moment case out of there.

Speaker 45 (03:35:27):
Give me a hand, gentlemen, Jack can get that out
of himself.

Speaker 12 (03:35:29):
Yeah, sure, easy.

Speaker 45 (03:35:31):
Don't drop it.

Speaker 12 (03:35:31):
Whatever you do, don't drop it. I can lift twice
this week.

Speaker 29 (03:35:34):
Prov What do you want me to do with it?

Speaker 8 (03:35:37):
Stand it on in right here, right here?

Speaker 5 (03:35:39):
It is, by jove, I believe it is.

Speaker 12 (03:35:45):
It's let me see it.

Speaker 43 (03:35:47):
Stand aside, please, I want to open it.

Speaker 32 (03:35:51):
It's a real thing in it.

Speaker 45 (03:35:52):
Pro well, amen, I don't even hear you.

Speaker 20 (03:35:55):
I believe it's the missing pharaoh of the Second Dynasty.

Speaker 7 (03:35:59):
Hey, what's that means?

Speaker 1 (03:36:01):
You know?

Speaker 12 (03:36:01):
Everything?

Speaker 20 (03:36:02):
Authentic or authentic?

Speaker 43 (03:36:05):
Now, if the jewel compartment is in this mummy case,
what's this?

Speaker 1 (03:36:12):
What is it? Is?

Speaker 8 (03:36:15):
The missing pharaoh?

Speaker 12 (03:36:17):
Gentlemen?

Speaker 45 (03:36:17):
Do you realize what you have found?

Speaker 12 (03:36:19):
Look?

Speaker 11 (03:36:20):
Great snakes, gents, jewels, I.

Speaker 43 (03:36:26):
Are them real, prophet, they are priceless.

Speaker 12 (03:36:28):
Mister powers.

Speaker 20 (03:36:30):
Quick, let us cover up this case until I can
get the authorities out here. I must notify the Egyptian
government at once. I oh, no, but this is the
property of that government.

Speaker 43 (03:36:39):
It's my property.

Speaker 8 (03:36:41):
Now.

Speaker 43 (03:36:41):
I was going to sell it to you.

Speaker 45 (03:36:43):
But with all them jewels, I gotta be a different idea.

Speaker 12 (03:36:47):
Now, let me out of here.

Speaker 43 (03:36:49):
I must not find nobody gun weapon Jack right, it
takes carry him for now.

Speaker 2 (03:36:58):
But rich Jack, We're rich.

Speaker 12 (03:37:10):
In the quickly, Pacha and passion. I wanted to get
needed money.

Speaker 8 (03:37:14):
Ombre.

Speaker 12 (03:37:14):
You know, I'm not interested in the mummy, Pancho. Right now,
I'm worried about the professor Santo. The mummy cases gone, Pancho.
Know that mummy, Ombre goes he haunted. He woke away
from here. No, it did not walk away, Pancho.

Speaker 68 (03:37:26):
He was taken away, and she just go trail them
and they take the mummy case so much it's go.

Speaker 12 (03:37:31):
That is what we will have to do. Trail them
over here, Pancho. They cared the case to hear and
they loaded on the horse, and Pancho, you're a hero.
Marks where they drag someone, the professors probably they're run
in that direction. Come on, Migo, we will follow us
past as we can.

Speaker 29 (03:37:50):
You're sure you got all them jewels, pars, yes, I.

Speaker 43 (03:37:53):
Got them all in my saddle bags.

Speaker 12 (03:37:55):
Jack, we've got a fault.

Speaker 8 (03:37:57):
Wait a minute, what about the proof?

Speaker 43 (03:37:58):
He's coming to an Let him here in the desert.

Speaker 8 (03:38:01):
We can't leave me here.

Speaker 12 (03:38:02):
I'll tell you all right, all right.

Speaker 43 (03:38:03):
You'll take him up the mountains, kill him hair and
it start an earth slide.

Speaker 12 (03:38:07):
Rhim up.

Speaker 43 (03:38:07):
Nobody will ever.

Speaker 20 (03:38:10):
Missing Pharaoh, the missing phil Hmmm, oh.

Speaker 43 (03:38:15):
My, this won't take long.

Speaker 5 (03:38:17):
Profit.

Speaker 65 (03:38:18):
I can do his feet check ye stand up, Oh
be careful, please, you may as well let him have
it now.

Speaker 43 (03:38:25):
We'll package body to the mountain.

Speaker 12 (03:38:27):
What are you going to do.

Speaker 43 (03:38:28):
We're gonna kill you, so you won't do any talking.

Speaker 12 (03:38:30):
No, no, no, please, Hey.

Speaker 9 (03:38:32):
Powers, Sancisco kid.

Speaker 12 (03:38:36):
Better take lessons and shooting on me and will take
care of your powers see the professors.

Speaker 45 (03:38:41):
All right, right, he calls away.

Speaker 12 (03:38:46):
It's good. I will take that gunomination check.

Speaker 65 (03:38:48):
Nothing, drop it, drop it, I said, break in my arm, right,
all right, I'll drop it.

Speaker 1 (03:38:53):
Now.

Speaker 12 (03:38:54):
We will fight one your face out on your stomach,
and finally one post.

Speaker 45 (03:38:59):
To your.

Speaker 12 (03:39:02):
She's gonna take more time than usual with that fighting entireba,
so we will search them. You're not harmed, Professor.

Speaker 45 (03:39:09):
No, I'm all right.

Speaker 7 (03:39:11):
They were going to kill.

Speaker 12 (03:39:12):
I have no doubt it will be a long time
before they tried to kill anyone else.

Speaker 43 (03:39:16):
I don't know who you mean now, but I'm very
grateful to you.

Speaker 20 (03:39:19):
Need not be s not only for myself, but for
saving one of the greatest relics.

Speaker 1 (03:39:24):
Of all time.

Speaker 45 (03:39:25):
That mummy ombre a great really, one of.

Speaker 12 (03:39:27):
The greatest in the history of mankind.

Speaker 68 (03:39:29):
My friend, Bang, you're bigger than that mummy. That makes
band of the greatest relic No, I know.

Speaker 64 (03:39:44):
Dad, Thanks you, Cisco, but I want to thank you too.

Speaker 12 (03:39:49):
Such things coming from one so lovely are doubly acceptable.

Speaker 64 (03:39:53):
Cisco. I'd like to ask you something.

Speaker 15 (03:39:56):
Why does a man like you stay out here in
this desolate country?

Speaker 12 (03:39:59):
Why I do not find it deathlate, Senorita, I find
it very beautiful.

Speaker 64 (03:40:05):
Yes, I guess it could be beautiful when one gets
to know it.

Speaker 27 (03:40:09):
But if you ever come to Chicago, remember you to
looked at me up.

Speaker 12 (03:40:13):
You have my promise.

Speaker 64 (03:40:15):
Well, goodbye, Cisco, A goodbye. And oh I don't want
to say goodbye like this.

Speaker 27 (03:40:24):
I'm not going to.

Speaker 12 (03:40:25):
If you look very determined, I am, I'm going.

Speaker 64 (03:40:29):
To say goodbye like this, Oh Cisco.

Speaker 12 (03:40:41):
Oh Senorita, please go see fan Joe.

Speaker 45 (03:40:57):
They'll find you by that mummy ombre.

Speaker 12 (03:41:00):
What do you want to know about him, Amigo?

Speaker 45 (03:41:01):
When he a little boy, he like all other little boy.

Speaker 17 (03:41:04):
I do not know.

Speaker 12 (03:41:05):
I suppose he was human nature and the nature of
little boys do not change very much.

Speaker 45 (03:41:09):
He ever put a frog in his sister his bead?

Speaker 12 (03:41:12):
It may be that he did, Bancho.

Speaker 45 (03:41:14):
Why because Pancho put a frog in his his bead
when he a little boy.

Speaker 12 (03:41:18):
Oh no, that was a mean trick, Pancho.

Speaker 11 (03:41:21):
No.

Speaker 68 (03:41:21):
In Banji's Mamaceda, that Banjo was a mean trick in
panjis Papa take a shingle to Pancho.

Speaker 12 (03:41:27):
Well, why did you put that frog in your sister's bed?
And Migo Jesus goes, well, then tell me why did you?

Speaker 45 (03:41:33):
Because Pancha and I could find a mouse?

Speaker 12 (03:41:36):
Oh, Pancho, she's.

Speaker 63 (03:41:56):
And so it's another exciting adventure with Oh Henry's famous
robin Hood of the West the Cisco Kid. Be sure

(03:42:37):
to listen again for another thrilling adventure of the Cisco Kid.
Cisco Kid was played by Jack Mather, Pancho by Harry Lang.

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Speaker 22 (03:44:14):
Murder at midnight.

Speaker 1 (03:44:22):
For the last time, Walt, please let me go nuts
and it has to be this way hap No got
that gun. I'm sorry, world, very sorry. I've known all
along you had to die tonight, but I didn't know I.

Speaker 7 (03:44:41):
Killed you.

Speaker 71 (03:44:47):
Midnight, the witching hour, when the night is darkest, our
fears the strongest, and our strength at its lowest. Ebb midnight,
the graves gape open, and death strikes.

Speaker 6 (03:45:04):
How you learn the answer in just a minute?

Speaker 22 (03:45:07):
In The Man Who Died Yesterday.

Speaker 26 (03:45:46):
And Now Murder at Midnight, Tales of Mystery and Terror
by Radio's Masters of the macab Our story by William
Morewood is the man who died yesterday afternoon On a

(03:46:14):
little traveled highway, strange looking man, threadbare clothes, stands hopefully
by the roadside.

Speaker 22 (03:46:22):
A car comes around the curve, slows.

Speaker 1 (03:46:26):
Up, stunts looking for a lift. Are you headed for
New York? That's me I've been, thank you. It's very
good of you. I'm in a hurry to reach New York.
I haven't much time you've seen.

Speaker 62 (03:46:44):
Yeah, sure, I picked you right off for a big
executive on his way to aboard me.

Speaker 1 (03:46:49):
Nothing like that. It's just that there's something terribly important.
I've got to do a mission. Oh Salvation Army, no
United Nations. I have to see the second Terry General
before midnight tonight. That leaves me only eight hours the
United Are you feeling all right, paw? Yes, I was sick,
but I'm feeling fine now. You don't look so good

(03:47:12):
to me, what as it goes. Of course you could
do with a hair cut too, I suppose. So I'm
afraid I've been out of touch with civilizational long while.
By the way, my name is rather was David Hapgood.
I'm Walt Griggs. Can't you drive any fester? Walt? We've
still got a long way to go, and well, I'm

(03:47:32):
worried about this part of the road. There's going to
be a rock slide. Rock slide? Oh you mean no signs?

Speaker 22 (03:47:39):
I do not to worry about.

Speaker 1 (03:47:40):
They put them up on it. But it's all right,
Keep going, Walt. We got through safely. Yeah, there was
a rock slide, just like you said, of course, But
I did you know? I can see a head Walt
see into the future for twenty four hours.

Speaker 62 (03:48:07):
The guy was nuts, of course, but still, what are
the odds against calling a long shot like that a
million to one a billion? I gave up trying to
figure it. We drove along for about an hour and
then stopped for gas. There was this Hamburger joint right by?

Speaker 1 (03:48:27):
Where are we going walking? Grab a byte? Hope? But
there is some time. I've less than seven hours now,
and by midnight I got a gas up anyway, and
I'm hungry. Come on, hellout, sure, sit on it boys,
hamburger for me, sweetheart with onions? What's yours? Happened? I'm
not hungry? Oh? Busy with your speech for the United Nations? Huh? Well,

(03:48:50):
I've just read this racing form. While you're thinking racing form?
Suare I play the gs all the time?

Speaker 7 (03:48:57):
Got some important though?

Speaker 62 (03:48:58):
In today's meet, fifty bucks and Alistair are winning the
sixth Alistair yep, I'm afraid you lose your money, Walt, What.

Speaker 1 (03:49:07):
Don't get me? Alistairs at favorite it's going to be
a walk away Marble. The third won that race, Marble.
How do you nazis a rank outside aroun hundred? What
do you mean won the race? It hasn't been run yet,
hasn't it?

Speaker 7 (03:49:24):
I didn't know?

Speaker 1 (03:49:25):
Look out, wait a minute, sweetheart.

Speaker 23 (03:49:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:49:27):
Do you think you can get the races in the radio?

Speaker 8 (03:49:29):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:49:29):
Sure, it's all tuned in.

Speaker 27 (03:49:30):
A lot of our customers like to listen.

Speaker 7 (03:49:33):
Welf.

Speaker 1 (03:49:33):
We can't waste time like this who can think about
the horse race. They can remember my fifty bikes.

Speaker 8 (03:49:38):
What a great race. The crowd is going wild with excitement.

Speaker 29 (03:49:41):
They're around the bend now coming into the strait.

Speaker 21 (03:49:44):
Alistairs out in front by two lanes. The rest of
the horses bunch, Alistairs.

Speaker 1 (03:49:48):
Going strong, boy, where's your marble? Half weight?

Speaker 21 (03:49:52):
Entering the restretch.

Speaker 72 (03:49:53):
Now it's to walk away for Alistairs Orleans head and
no challenger.

Speaker 12 (03:49:57):
Wait a minute, Alistairs stumbles, davi agags fight.

Speaker 15 (03:50:00):
It's all the.

Speaker 8 (03:50:01):
Chucky's don't fair, but your the hearts have gone fast.

Speaker 12 (03:50:05):
Demorate is out in front. Memorate Marble, avert.

Speaker 9 (03:50:08):
Marbles, avert marble, avert marble.

Speaker 1 (03:50:11):
Wind we are and that's the most sudden I'll be.

Speaker 62 (03:50:18):
You knew it all the time. You knew Marble had
to win, of course, but we've got to go. Sure,
sure happen anything you say. You're the guy I've been
waiting for all my life. I didn't need no more

(03:50:41):
figure and then tell me happen was a go of mine,
and I had them first before anybody else could get
their hooks in the room. The only thing that worried
me was the way he talked on this about midnight
not having much time, I had to use him while
I had him, even if it meant taking chances. So
while we drove, I worked on a plan.

Speaker 1 (03:51:02):
Walt. We've left the New York road. The signs appointing
the other way. I know I'm taking a shortcut through
a time called hasseck hesseick. Yeah, that nay mean anything
to your happy haaac thank hard. Let me see thes
going to be a hold up there tonight at the factory.

(03:51:22):
Two men involved. It's still the week's payroll, ten thousand dollars,
ten grand.

Speaker 32 (03:51:28):
They get away with it.

Speaker 1 (03:51:29):
There's a chase, but they shake off the police. Great,
couldn't be better? Why where the two men?

Speaker 12 (03:51:35):
Have you and me?

Speaker 1 (03:51:37):
What? No? Wald, No, I'm not a criminal, and I
have something else to do with what little time I
have left. You're coming with me?

Speaker 32 (03:51:43):
Have maybe this will convention.

Speaker 1 (03:51:45):
Your gun doesn't frighten me. Stop the car and let
me out. I've got to get to New York.

Speaker 17 (03:51:51):
All right.

Speaker 1 (03:51:52):
Look, I'll make a deal with you. You can with
me on a stick up and I'll drive you straight
through to New York without stopping.

Speaker 5 (03:51:57):
Yah, But I can't Walt.

Speaker 1 (03:51:59):
My message concerns the whole world. The only way you'll
get to deliver it if it is.

Speaker 7 (03:52:04):
The only way.

Speaker 1 (03:52:06):
All right, there's something more. I've got to tell you.
What's that? We leave a dead man behind. It's getting dark.

Speaker 62 (03:52:21):
When we hit ten I drove down the main street
and under the factory building beyond. It was all dark
except for a light, and the cashiers were sap and
I went in. There was a guy sitting at a desk.

Speaker 27 (03:52:33):
Who who are you?

Speaker 1 (03:52:35):
What do you want at ten grand? And that's safe?
This is a stick up, brother, You're crazy. There's no
tapping up. I'll do the talking. I warn you, man,
you'll be closed. Shut up and start ten in that dial?
All right, I guess you win. Come on, snap into it.

Speaker 29 (03:52:51):
I'm doing the best I can's it.

Speaker 1 (03:52:57):
I'll hand out those green bags. A man, move on,
swtch out, walt. He's turning in an alarm double cross
and wrap cue. He's the guy that had to be
killed half yes, okay, then step on. The cops will
be swarming around like flies. They're gaining on this wall.

(03:53:30):
You can't go any faster. I'm down on the floorboards already.
He'll start shooting soon. You sure we get away there's
no slip up. No, we get away all right? Good?
Where did they get you? Walter?

Speaker 43 (03:53:42):
I am what do we do have?

Speaker 1 (03:53:44):
Keep driving till we hit that bend in the road. Yeah,
there's a clump of willows around the corner. Pull in there. Okay,
here goes. That's a let off. Which ship can happen?

Speaker 8 (03:54:08):
Just like you said?

Speaker 1 (03:54:09):
No, hurry, get back to the New York road. I've
less than three hours left. Okay, but I gotta stop
and see a doctor. A doctor, sure, my arm. Oh,
that's a matter of happened. I'm afraid of that doctor.
Something happens here that I don't understand. What is it?

Speaker 7 (03:54:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:54:25):
That's something I should have explained before. I can see
into the future for you, Wald and for everyone else,
but not for myself. Yes, you're the doctor. What can

(03:54:53):
I do for you?

Speaker 17 (03:54:53):
On my arm?

Speaker 1 (03:54:54):
I had a little accident. I was cleaning my gun
and went off.

Speaker 7 (03:54:57):
Come in my office.

Speaker 1 (03:55:00):
Then, I'm just a friend of mine. Not the matter
with him, I don't agree.

Speaker 7 (03:55:03):
Looks much sicker than you.

Speaker 1 (03:55:04):
No, doctor, really, her face, it's the color of no.
I'm all right, believe me. Please hurry with my friends.

Speaker 7 (03:55:09):
Only take a second, just get my status.

Speaker 1 (03:55:11):
Nope, let's quit kidding around, Doc. I'm the one that
I had.

Speaker 7 (03:55:15):
Mm hmm, good good lord.

Speaker 1 (03:55:21):
What's the matter of Doc? Why are you looking at
him like that?

Speaker 73 (03:55:24):
But it's impossible, of course. But there's no heartbeat. No,
but but that's impossible. If if your heart wasn't beating,
you'd be dead.

Speaker 1 (03:55:36):
Yes, I've been dead since yesterday.

Speaker 71 (03:55:41):
At midnight, staring at him, at the living corpse of
the man who died yesterday, walked the doctor draw back
in horror.

Speaker 12 (03:55:56):
Just who is David?

Speaker 71 (03:55:58):
Hap could perhaps we'll know when the clock strikes twelve
for murder.

Speaker 22 (03:56:07):
Me and now back to murder at midnight and the

(03:56:43):
man who died yesterday.

Speaker 32 (03:56:56):
The goose pimples were standing out on me.

Speaker 62 (03:56:59):
Here I found the I've been with him for hours
through a hole up in a kiln, and now I
was hearing from his own lips that he was dead.

Speaker 7 (03:57:07):
He gave me the creeps. I wanted to take it
in the lamb, but instead I was froze to the floor.

Speaker 74 (03:57:13):
I heard the doc, Sam, you've been dead since yesterday. Yes, doctor,
that's impossible. There must be some explanations, some obscure heart condition.

Speaker 1 (03:57:23):
There is an explanation, but not that kind. You see,
I was cheated out of twenty four hours at the
time of my birth, and I'm just picking up for
it now. How do you mean this will sound fantastic
to you? But nevertheless it's true. I was born on
a ship crossing the International Dayline. I started coming into
the world during the last moments of a Friday and

(03:57:44):
finished up early on Sunday, so I skipped a whole
day of my life. I've always been living twenty four
hours ahead of myself.

Speaker 9 (03:57:52):
But that's sheer gospel.

Speaker 1 (03:57:53):
Doc.

Speaker 62 (03:57:54):
He can call the turn on anything like he was
written tomorrow's paper.

Speaker 1 (03:57:57):
I told you it would sound fantastic, doctor, It is true.
When I realized it, I well. I tried not to
use it for selfish hands. I wanted to help people,
but I never could. People would never listen to me,
believe me. Finally, I realized that there was no place
for me in the world. But man wasn't meant to
know the future. So I went away up into the

(03:58:21):
woods how long ago, about ten years ago. Away from civilization.

Speaker 7 (03:58:27):
It was easier.

Speaker 1 (03:58:28):
I still knew what was going to happen, of course,
but with no way to communicate my knowledge. My conscience
was at rest, that is until last night. Last night
I had caught a cold. It developed into pneumonia. I
was deathly sick. It couldn't breathe and lost consciousness. Then suddenly,

(03:58:51):
at midnight I was well, quite well, not trace of
my illness.

Speaker 45 (03:58:58):
I knew what had happened.

Speaker 1 (03:58:59):
Of course I was dead dull, but I still had
my missing day to live. I knew I must use
it for the benefit of mankind. Oh, there's something I know,
something that involves the feet of millions of people unless
some actions taken within the next few hours. What action?
What is? I'm sorry, but I can't tell you. Doctor.
I can't tell anyone except the Secretary General of United Nations,

(03:59:20):
and I must reach them before midnight, before I'm really
dead at ten o'clock. Now do you understand why I'm
in such a hurry. I'll say, let's get go on
happ Never mind about my arm.

Speaker 17 (03:59:28):
That can wait.

Speaker 1 (03:59:28):
No, listen to me.

Speaker 72 (03:59:29):
Have you can't leave as far as you're being able
to read the future is concerned. Well, it doesn't matter
whether I believe that or not. But that heart condition
of yours, that's something unique in medical history. Now you've
got to let me take you to a hospital where
it can be studied properly.

Speaker 41 (03:59:44):
Off that stuff.

Speaker 1 (03:59:45):
I phone for an ambula. Away from that phone. He's mine, yours.

Speaker 12 (03:59:49):
Do you realize what this can mean to science?

Speaker 41 (03:59:51):
To give me that talk?

Speaker 1 (03:59:52):
You just want to grab MARKI yourself and stop it,
both of you. I don't belong to anyone. I'm not
a specimen to be examined. I've got a mission to
perform for all of civilizations. I've got to get you
United Nations before now.

Speaker 29 (04:00:02):
No matter how you've been deluding yourself, young man, you're
terribly sick.

Speaker 12 (04:00:05):
I'm going to phone the hospital.

Speaker 1 (04:00:06):
A you asked for it. I must get away from here.

Speaker 9 (04:00:11):
I have come back here, Come back here, okay that
it won't hurt it.

Speaker 12 (04:00:15):
If you're not, Oh.

Speaker 1 (04:00:18):
Holy smoke, that bullet went right through you and only
knocked you down, then go with me. Walt to try
to run away. I've got to get to New York.
Nothing can stay. You're coming with me. Have I got
plans for us?

Speaker 41 (04:00:28):
As long as you last?

Speaker 1 (04:00:28):
You've got your ten thousand? What more? Do you want
a chance to run it up to one hundred thousand
a week? Can do it. I another place and you
can call the car. There's no time figuring on only
a couple of hours. That's plumbys, I'm asking you for
the last time. Let go do a decent thing for
once in your life. Nuts, But I'm trying to do.
It's for you as much for millions of others. I
never gave a cuss about the others, and I'm not
starting now.

Speaker 15 (04:00:49):
And that's to be this way.

Speaker 45 (04:00:50):
Half drop that gun.

Speaker 1 (04:00:52):
Oh, I'm sorry, wol very sorry. I've known all along
that you had to die to night, but I didn't
know that i'd kill you. Kind of a.

Speaker 29 (04:01:23):
Silent type, ain't you sorry?

Speaker 27 (04:01:25):
Oh that's all right. I don't like fellows a gad
too much.

Speaker 7 (04:01:29):
You know.

Speaker 19 (04:01:29):
It was nice for you to pick me up back
there on the road.

Speaker 1 (04:01:33):
Besides, I well, I needed to reassurance.

Speaker 8 (04:01:37):
How's that?

Speaker 7 (04:01:38):
You see?

Speaker 1 (04:01:38):
I've been out of touch with civilization for some time,
and the people i'd met today weren't inspiring.

Speaker 29 (04:01:46):
You're a strange god, you know.

Speaker 19 (04:01:49):
Yeah, I mean the way you talk and look you
don't look quite real.

Speaker 43 (04:01:55):
Oh.

Speaker 27 (04:01:55):
Now, don't get me wrong.

Speaker 43 (04:01:57):
I like you a lot.

Speaker 1 (04:01:58):
I'm glad.

Speaker 16 (04:01:59):
Well, for instance, we've.

Speaker 15 (04:02:00):
Been driving for nearly an hour now, and you haven't
even made a.

Speaker 23 (04:02:03):
Pass at me once.

Speaker 1 (04:02:04):
I'm afraid that wouldn't do either of us much good.

Speaker 27 (04:02:06):
Yeah, but just the same, A girl appreciates a little
thing like that instant.

Speaker 15 (04:02:11):
What's your name?

Speaker 5 (04:02:12):
You can call me?

Speaker 1 (04:02:13):
Half? Hi?

Speaker 22 (04:02:14):
Half?

Speaker 1 (04:02:14):
I'm Hazel. How do you do?

Speaker 19 (04:02:16):
I guess I ought to tell you something about myself.

Speaker 1 (04:02:19):
Hell, I know a little already. Huh. You're going to
New York to find your fiance, aren't you?

Speaker 27 (04:02:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (04:02:26):
I got called.

Speaker 19 (04:02:29):
Say, how'd you know that?

Speaker 1 (04:02:31):
You're going to look him up in the phone book
and call then you're going to find out that he's married? What? Oh,
you're kidding me.

Speaker 27 (04:02:44):
Jim wouldn't do a thing like that. He'd wait for
me forever, he said he would.

Speaker 1 (04:02:48):
And hey, why are we stopping almost oft of guess?
How did he votes? Fill her up as quickly as possible? Okay,
how far to New York from here? Well, you ought
to be at George Washington Bridge in about ten minutes time.
You folks hear about all the excitement.

Speaker 17 (04:03:07):
On the highway.

Speaker 29 (04:03:08):
No, what happened?

Speaker 69 (04:03:10):
The cots are looking for a crazy killer murdered three people.
One was a sick app The other two was a
doctor and his own sidekick.

Speaker 27 (04:03:16):
Oh what's he look like?

Speaker 69 (04:03:18):
According to the radio, he's got a chalk white face
and mop a hair that looks like it hasn't been
cutt in weeks.

Speaker 43 (04:03:25):
No, hat, and.

Speaker 27 (04:03:28):
What's the matter, Bud? What are you staring at?

Speaker 22 (04:03:30):
Your friend?

Speaker 29 (04:03:32):
I gotta get something out of the office.

Speaker 43 (04:03:34):
I'll be back in a minute.

Speaker 1 (04:03:35):
He's going to fund the police. This is your chance
to get out has Oh.

Speaker 27 (04:03:38):
No, I'm staying with you.

Speaker 1 (04:03:39):
Hat.

Speaker 5 (04:03:40):
Now you better get moving and keep moving.

Speaker 1 (04:04:00):
No sign were being followed. We may make it yet.
Are you frightened, Hazel being with me?

Speaker 21 (04:04:07):
I guess I.

Speaker 27 (04:04:08):
Should be, but I'm not. Thank you somehow, I can't
believe you're crazy.

Speaker 1 (04:04:15):
If you killed.

Speaker 15 (04:04:15):
Anyone, you knew what you were doing and you had
a good reason.

Speaker 1 (04:04:18):
Thank you again. You don't know what that means to me.

Speaker 27 (04:04:21):
Have people always been scared?

Speaker 1 (04:04:23):
You have? Most people? Till I met you. I couldn't
I have met you sooner? Hazel? Well, what's wrong with now?
It's a little late?

Speaker 43 (04:04:33):
Not for me?

Speaker 1 (04:04:35):
You honestly mean that. Sure, we think perhaps it's going
to be all right after all. Perhaps we'll meet again.

Speaker 54 (04:04:43):
What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (04:04:44):
I didn't mean to.

Speaker 7 (04:04:45):
Tell you this.

Speaker 1 (04:04:47):
Perhaps I shouldn't now it may cause you pain.

Speaker 27 (04:04:51):
Go ahead, I can stand it.

Speaker 1 (04:04:53):
After you called Jim your fiance and find that he's married,
you started across the street in the days it texts
is driving too fast and it's got my number on it. Huh, Yes,
I'm sorry. And yet in a way, what did that

(04:05:17):
sign say? Hazel George Washington Bridge, Tu March. Oh, I'm
going to make it. There's still time. The Secretary General
is in his home. But let mean when they hear
my message, I'll do most of an hour with him.
It's not quite eleven yet eleven? Hey, your watch must
have stopped.

Speaker 37 (04:05:31):
What look?

Speaker 27 (04:05:31):
Look there's a clock in the building.

Speaker 1 (04:05:33):
Where up to the right there three minutes of twelve?

Speaker 19 (04:05:37):
Oh, well, what's the matter here?

Speaker 43 (04:05:39):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:05:39):
I can't make it. Oh, i've lost unless a telephone.
There's still time for that. There's no phone in that house.
The family's all and bet upstairs there's a telephone in
the parlor, but.

Speaker 5 (04:05:48):
The door is sure to be locked.

Speaker 1 (04:05:49):
You've gotten to latch the parlor window.

Speaker 27 (04:05:51):
Hey, how do you know all these things?

Speaker 1 (04:05:53):
Never mind? Now goodbye? He No, you better start down
the road. The police mustn't find it.

Speaker 27 (04:05:58):
But when you come back, I'll be here.

Speaker 1 (04:06:00):
Won't be back, Hazel, This is goodbye for keeps.

Speaker 27 (04:06:05):
But you've got to You've got.

Speaker 1 (04:06:07):
To h operator get me the Secretary General of the
United Nations at his home. Hurry, please are certain Hello

(04:06:29):
the Secretary General. Please, it's terribly important now I've got
to speak to him personally. I midnight. Hello, Will you
get him for me? There's no time left, And never mind,
I'll tell you it's it's about.

Speaker 5 (04:06:54):
Yah.

Speaker 1 (04:07:08):
I'll swear to that.

Speaker 12 (04:07:08):
You must have climbed in this window.

Speaker 8 (04:07:10):
Didn't have a look.

Speaker 1 (04:07:17):
There was a girl with him when he left my
gas station.

Speaker 12 (04:07:19):
She ought to be around here.

Speaker 1 (04:07:23):
There he is on the floor, and he looks he's dead,
all right, no wonder. Look at that hole in his chest.
Wait a minute, something funny. That wound never bled.

Speaker 17 (04:07:39):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (04:07:41):
The only way that could happen is if he was
dead before the bullet hit him.

Speaker 67 (04:07:58):
Two men stare bring in a corpse that is finally
still still forever, the corpse of the man who died yesterday.
Well outside, somewhere in the night, the restless spirit keeps
a run to that none can avoid, and the distant
clocks chime the last notes in epilogue.

Speaker 26 (04:08:20):
For Murder.

Speaker 1 (04:08:24):
A maynight.

Speaker 5 (04:08:45):
For Corp.

Speaker 71 (04:09:06):
Remember to be with us again when death brings time
to a full stop, and the clocks strike twelve.

Speaker 70 (04:09:14):
For Murder.

Speaker 8 (04:09:18):
Midnight, the part of David Hapgood was played by Stuart Brody.

Speaker 22 (04:09:28):
Vandal Kramer was walked with music by Charles Paul. Murder
at Midnight was directed by Anton m Leader.

Speaker 26 (04:10:00):
In Visits, Dawson Well speaking from London.

Speaker 31 (04:10:25):
From a black museum, a.

Speaker 26 (04:10:27):
Repository of death.

Speaker 31 (04:10:30):
Yes, here in a grim stone.

Speaker 26 (04:10:32):
Structure on the Thames, which houses scup and yard. He's
a warehouse of homicide. Here everyday objects a silk.

Speaker 52 (04:10:41):
Scarf, for length of twine, a child's toy, all attached
by murder. At this jar, I one of the cheap
stained grass container, the type you find the elaboratory.

Speaker 7 (04:10:59):
What's in it? A colorless fluid?

Speaker 1 (04:11:02):
What of that?

Speaker 7 (04:11:03):
A cleaning spirit? Now?

Speaker 38 (04:11:07):
But just the thing to decompose a body without leading
any treaty.

Speaker 41 (04:11:11):
Exactly.

Speaker 9 (04:11:13):
You'd better take a sample of it, very well.

Speaker 38 (04:11:15):
Inspector the job the shelf.

Speaker 37 (04:11:18):
Here are you sing.

Speaker 8 (04:11:24):
Today?

Speaker 52 (04:11:25):
That jar containing the acid sample can be seen in
the Black Museum.

Speaker 48 (04:11:41):
From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the
London Police.

Speaker 1 (04:11:45):
We bring you the dramatic.

Speaker 48 (04:11:46):
Stories of the crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland
Yard's Gallery of Death, the Black Museum.

Speaker 26 (04:12:08):
And here we are in the Black Museum, Scotland Yards
Museum of Murder.

Speaker 52 (04:12:15):
Hair eyes, death, unseen but ever present, uncatalogued, but orderly,
enveloping the shadows, papering the walls, carpeting the floor, death
for display purposes only.

Speaker 7 (04:12:31):
And he has a.

Speaker 52 (04:12:32):
Hypodemic syringe was once used to inject life preserving syrms, and.

Speaker 31 (04:12:37):
Later used to inject poison.

Speaker 7 (04:12:40):
And that.

Speaker 8 (04:12:41):
His an umbrella ordinate every day.

Speaker 31 (04:12:44):
Umbrella ordered every day up to.

Speaker 52 (04:12:47):
A point that is lot closer, and you'll see just
how sharp that point is, just how lethal or swords
they can be as a weapon of murder. Here I
have the acid jar, sealed ensemble, looking in his place
on the shelf. Once this jar rested on another shelf,
a workshop shelf in Crawley.

Speaker 26 (04:13:09):
But let's not anticipate. Let's begin our story at the beginning,
not on a shelf of a workshop.

Speaker 52 (04:13:14):
In Crawley, but in the dining room of the hotel
in Kensington dinner time. One corner of the room, the
table set fortoos. It's an attractive, fashional addressed woman. She's
joined by another equally attractive and equally fashionable addressed.

Speaker 33 (04:13:31):
Agnes.

Speaker 54 (04:13:32):
Oh lens, I'd almost given you up a last sorry
if I get you waiting, my dear, But just as
I was leaving my room, are running to mister Hart.

Speaker 75 (04:13:40):
Such a lovely man. I simply couldn't resist stopping to
have a few words with him. At the heart A
nice looking when I pointed out to you at lunchtime.
Oh yes, of course she really is the sweetest thing.
And soon freely I thought he looked rather than drinking.

Speaker 7 (04:13:56):
He was introduced us.

Speaker 27 (04:13:57):
I will, my dear, and sooner than you think, I've
asked him to join us when he comes down. You
don't mind, I hope the comfort.

Speaker 17 (04:14:06):
I'm so glad I know you're like you.

Speaker 7 (04:14:09):
It's nothing coming in now, so it is.

Speaker 75 (04:14:13):
Oh wait here, mister.

Speaker 37 (04:14:14):
Hart, forgive mister keeping you so long, missus Reagan, I
had a little bother with my next eye.

Speaker 27 (04:14:21):
Oh please don't apologize.

Speaker 37 (04:14:23):
I only have to ride this minute myself. Oh, i'd
like you to.

Speaker 75 (04:14:27):
Meet a very dear friend of mine, Missus Lansbury, Agnes,
mister Hart, how you do, mister heart?

Speaker 37 (04:14:34):
Delighted Missus Landsbrey, I do hope I'm not intruding. Oh
that's perfectly horrible.

Speaker 27 (04:14:39):
Sod of course you're not, mister Heart.

Speaker 5 (04:14:40):
Do sit down.

Speaker 7 (04:14:41):
They are very kind.

Speaker 31 (04:14:42):
What a thorough gentleman you want? It's so amusing, so
very very amusing.

Speaker 54 (04:14:49):
Oh, mister Hart, I soon declare, it's a long time
since I've lost so much.

Speaker 6 (04:14:54):
Oh enjoyed the.

Speaker 1 (04:14:55):
Meal so much.

Speaker 37 (04:14:56):
Oh save the latter compliments of the hotel cook, miss
and now I really must out.

Speaker 9 (04:15:03):
Excuse me, you won't take coffy with it, as.

Speaker 37 (04:15:07):
Much as I'd like to, Missus Reagan, I'm afraid not.
I have some rather pressing business to attend to, this
evening business that works. Wait even for coffee some other time.
Perhaps we'll hold you to that, you know, please do,
Missus Lansby, please do.

Speaker 31 (04:15:21):
The two ladies, who were both widows, chatted on till
late that evening.

Speaker 52 (04:15:25):
Discussing the numerous virtues and charms of their new found acquaintance,
a topic that was continued the following morning at breakfast
and then again at lunch.

Speaker 75 (04:15:34):
Will you began, missus evening.

Speaker 15 (04:15:36):
I'll ask him when he comes again, as if.

Speaker 52 (04:15:39):
I could, my dear, the annual mister Hart proved only
too ready to accept a second dinner invitation, and the third.

Speaker 31 (04:15:46):
He appeared to enjoy the two ladies'.

Speaker 26 (04:15:48):
Company as much as they did is But it was U,
Promissus Reagan that he centered most of his attention.

Speaker 37 (04:15:54):
I thought of taking a stroll in the country this afternoon,
Missus Reagan. You wouldn't care to join the guys.

Speaker 27 (04:16:00):
Why I'd love you, mister Hart.

Speaker 25 (04:16:02):
I simply adore the country fashion. We all start out
straight after lunch.

Speaker 52 (04:16:07):
The country stroll agreed with Missus Reagan, as proved by
the healthy flush in her cheeks that evening as she
sat down to dinner with Missus Landsboro.

Speaker 54 (04:16:15):
Looking very radiant.

Speaker 27 (04:16:16):
Tonight, my dear, and I your afternoon Johnson. Mister Heart
appears to have brought about a mis decidable effect.

Speaker 16 (04:16:24):
It was rather refreshing.

Speaker 1 (04:16:26):
He's not coming down this evening.

Speaker 75 (04:16:29):
He has another business engagement.

Speaker 16 (04:16:31):
Engagement.

Speaker 37 (04:16:32):
Oh what exactly is his business, my dear, Well, I'm
not sure.

Speaker 65 (04:16:37):
He never really disgusted with you, did you.

Speaker 1 (04:16:40):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (04:16:40):
By the way, I'm after time to do shopping tomorrow afternoon.

Speaker 54 (04:16:43):
I doesn't might be together.

Speaker 75 (04:16:45):
Oh I'm sorry, dear, but I'm afraid I've made other arrangements.

Speaker 13 (04:16:49):
Oh yes, I promised to.

Speaker 37 (04:16:51):
Meet mister Hart.

Speaker 27 (04:16:53):
We're going to Crawley for the afternoons.

Speaker 75 (04:16:56):
How nice toil you do mine?

Speaker 28 (04:16:59):
Of course, did me about at the time the next
week sometime?

Speaker 37 (04:17:02):
That makes that difference to me?

Speaker 26 (04:17:04):
No, it made no difference to Agnes Lansbury, But to
Renee Ashcroft Reagan it made a great deal of difference,
the difference between life and death.

Speaker 52 (04:17:30):
Missus Reagan's not appeared for dinner the next evening, or
didn't to heart, nothing particularly unusual about that, obviously. They
decided to stay and crow for dinner. Missus landers downed alone.

Speaker 31 (04:17:39):
At the hotel the following morning.

Speaker 52 (04:17:41):
Arriving down late for breakfast, she was surprised to find
that there was still no sign of a friend.

Speaker 16 (04:17:47):
Honey, not often to missus breakfast.

Speaker 37 (04:17:50):
Oh, good morning, Missus Lansbury, Good morning Miss Reagan.

Speaker 1 (04:17:54):
Not down yet, not yet.

Speaker 9 (04:17:56):
I'd like her to be late.

Speaker 25 (04:17:58):
She probably stepped in.

Speaker 12 (04:18:00):
Have you had that?

Speaker 37 (04:18:02):
Yes, I came in earlier.

Speaker 27 (04:18:04):
On my way o business.

Speaker 1 (04:18:05):
Again.

Speaker 8 (04:18:06):
That's right, Well, I must be no doubt I'll see
you at dinner.

Speaker 17 (04:18:11):
I won't.

Speaker 52 (04:18:12):
It was almost nine o'clock when Missus Lansburg finally left
the breakfast table, and still no sign of Missus Reagan.
Strange mister Hart did not mention their visitor Croy the
previous afternoon, but perhaps the dear man preferred to.

Speaker 31 (04:18:24):
Keep it a secret. I ever knew what.

Speaker 26 (04:18:26):
Sort of gossip could spread itself about.

Speaker 31 (04:18:28):
A hotel, even a spark of encouragement.

Speaker 7 (04:18:31):
Still, still it.

Speaker 31 (04:18:33):
Did seem rather odd.

Speaker 52 (04:18:35):
Seem even more odd when Missus Reagan did not appear
for lunch. A feeling of uneasiness crept over Missus Lansburgh.
Perhaps her friend was ill. She would make some inquiri.

Speaker 54 (04:18:46):
Oh boy, yes, ma'am, I haven't seen missus Reagan about
it door this morning?

Speaker 75 (04:18:51):
Wiscan no, madam, not, but I can remember. Well, perhaps
you better take me to her room.

Speaker 1 (04:18:58):
Very good, madam.

Speaker 45 (04:18:59):
This way the.

Speaker 52 (04:19:00):
Ballop looked pretty in his blue uniform with a red
braid and brass buttons. Such a fresh young face, so
unspoiled looking, and creep with a quick toothy smile. Not
as engaging a smile as mister fat perhaps, But Mather tho,
that's quite attractive in its way.

Speaker 27 (04:19:16):
You're well, madam, Oh thank you, Oh here, thank you, madam.

Speaker 5 (04:19:22):
Anything else who might be wanting?

Speaker 13 (04:19:24):
Well, well, I'm not surely at that moment.

Speaker 37 (04:19:28):
Must have slipped out for it.

Speaker 16 (04:19:30):
Try the door.

Speaker 27 (04:19:32):
A month, Rennie, Renne, are you in there?

Speaker 1 (04:19:39):
Nothing now?

Speaker 13 (04:19:40):
Madam?

Speaker 21 (04:19:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 37 (04:19:42):
I think, Missus Reagan, maybe you better go and call
the manager.

Speaker 54 (04:19:45):
Intending to bring a pass you betty, good, madam?

Speaker 43 (04:19:48):
What'll you do?

Speaker 52 (04:19:49):
The hotel manager arrived in Duke Court, asked a few
rather pointless questions, fiddled with his large key ring, and
finally opened the door in Missus Reagan's room.

Speaker 37 (04:19:58):
It was empty coase of the our childs were grand
business Is andbreer. She must have gone into towns the day.

Speaker 54 (04:20:04):
That's still doesn't explain why she didn't come down to breakfast.

Speaker 8 (04:20:06):
This Perhaps you didn't feel like it. Still, I'll have
a world with the room maid.

Speaker 41 (04:20:10):
She may have noticed something when she came in to
tidy up.

Speaker 52 (04:20:13):
The roommate was stillly summoned and questioned, No, Missus Reagan
is not in her room when she came in the greener.

Speaker 31 (04:20:19):
Yes, yes, she noticed something unusual, something.

Speaker 52 (04:20:22):
Most unusual as missus Reagan's dead, that nothing slept him
on the previous night.

Speaker 37 (04:20:29):
That's something's happened to her. I can fan it he've
met with some kind of accident. And calm yourself, Missus Lanbro,
I'm sure that can.

Speaker 38 (04:20:37):
I calm myself and my closest friend has disappeared.

Speaker 37 (04:20:39):
In my must be informed a.

Speaker 54 (04:20:43):
Now, miss Let's not be too he doesn't argue with me,
Missus Stewart, I want them contacted immediately, very well if
you insist, But I would ask her to refrain from
mentioning the matter to any of the other guests, at
least until we have something geest.

Speaker 26 (04:20:57):
At the hotel managers request.

Speaker 31 (04:20:59):
Missus Lambsby agreed to keep silent, But being a woman,
she could not keep entirely silent.

Speaker 7 (04:21:05):
She had to.

Speaker 26 (04:21:06):
Confide someone naturally enough, someone she confided in was the
nine mister James Gerald.

Speaker 1 (04:21:12):
But.

Speaker 31 (04:21:14):
His concern was touching.

Speaker 37 (04:21:16):
Dear me, this is most upsetting, Missus Lansbury. When was
the last time you saw missus Reagan?

Speaker 1 (04:21:22):
I talk to lunch yesterday.

Speaker 5 (04:21:23):
She was on her way out.

Speaker 37 (04:21:25):
Did she buy any chance to say where she was going?

Speaker 1 (04:21:28):
Well?

Speaker 27 (04:21:29):
The heart of the latter fact yes he did.

Speaker 54 (04:21:32):
Yes, she said she was going to meet you in town,
that you were going down the corner together.

Speaker 16 (04:21:37):
Did she meet you, mister Hart?

Speaker 29 (04:21:39):
Well, no, she didn't say.

Speaker 37 (04:21:41):
That's just what I was about to tell you. I
arrange to meet her outside the Army and Navy saws
in Victoria Street at two o'clock. I was there on
time and I waited over an hour, but she didn't
show up.

Speaker 12 (04:21:52):
Have the police been contested, well, yes, the.

Speaker 28 (04:21:54):
Hotel managements disturbed.

Speaker 10 (04:21:55):
Gave him the ring shortly after lunch.

Speaker 37 (04:21:57):
They hadn't been here. Well, not that I know, you know.

Speaker 9 (04:22:01):
I rather think it might be an idea.

Speaker 37 (04:22:03):
If we went round to the station and had a
word with them ourselves, we may be able to give
them some leader of it.

Speaker 7 (04:22:09):
What do you think?

Speaker 37 (04:22:10):
I think it's an excellent ideas.

Speaker 27 (04:22:12):
As a fact, I was hoping you'd suggest me.

Speaker 37 (04:22:14):
Good, we can go straight away. I'll get my hat
and coat and join you in the lobby in ten minutes.

Speaker 26 (04:22:19):
And so it was that the disaccurrence of Missus Rene
Ashcraft Reagan was confirmed. Mister Hart repeated his story of
the proposed Crawley visited the police. That's what I was
accepted at that time, there was no reason at all
why it should not have been.

Speaker 8 (04:22:39):
Well.

Speaker 31 (04:22:41):
Today, evidence to the country can.

Speaker 7 (04:22:44):
Be seen in the Black Museum.

Speaker 52 (04:23:04):
At least a dozen women are reported to the police
missing every week. Renee Ashcroft Reagan was only one more
female whose name and description had to be distributed to
every station in the Metropolitan Police Forces area than printed
in the current editions of the Police Gazette's routine. Nothing
more steady patient routine.

Speaker 31 (04:23:25):
At the Chances station, woman.

Speaker 52 (04:23:27):
Police Sergeant Carol Henderson, who duly had work to check
through the daily records of missing persons in the area,
came up on the case of Missus Reagan, and as
a routine step, stayed a visit to the Kensington Hotel
for a brief chat with those who had known her best.
Naturally enough, the first name on her list was that
of missus Agnes Lansbury.

Speaker 38 (04:23:46):
Now, Missus Lansbury, if you could just tell me when
you last saw Missus Reagan, what she was wearing, and
as much as you can remember of any conversation that
may have passed between you on the day of her disappearance.

Speaker 52 (04:23:56):
Missus Lansbury could have had nothing to what she had
already told the police nevertheless, was most helpful and directed
Sergeant Henders into the room of the much concerned but
still charming mister James Gerald Hart.

Speaker 37 (04:24:10):
Do sit down, sergeant, thank him as the heart.

Speaker 6 (04:24:12):
But I perd it's them.

Speaker 27 (04:24:13):
When I'm on duty.

Speaker 37 (04:24:14):
It's not often one has the pleasure of meeting a
lady policeman well as you wish. If she doesn't mind,
I will not at all.

Speaker 38 (04:24:22):
I understand, mister Heart, from what Missus Lansborough tells me
that you were arranged to meet Missus Reagan on the
day of her disappearance.

Speaker 1 (04:24:28):
That's correct.

Speaker 37 (04:24:29):
I was to meet her at two o'clock outside the
Army and Navy stalls in Victorious.

Speaker 38 (04:24:33):
She didn't show up.

Speaker 5 (04:24:34):
No, how long did you wait for them.

Speaker 37 (04:24:36):
Mister Hart, At least a closer to an hour and
a half, I should imagine. And then, well, as you
may know, we intended going to crawl it together. When
I realized she wasn't coming, I drove down alone.

Speaker 27 (04:24:47):
See exactly what.

Speaker 38 (04:24:49):
Did you intended going to crawl it for, mister Harp.

Speaker 37 (04:24:52):
Well, as a matter of fact, I have an interest
in the chemical factory down there, and what you might
call a research chemist. Missus re I was hoping to
purchase some samples of certain plastic fingernails I'm manufacturing.

Speaker 38 (04:25:04):
I see, well, I think that's all I need to
me at the President at heart. Thank you for your
time and your corporation.

Speaker 37 (04:25:11):
No trouble at all, Sargeant. I'm most anxious to have
this matter cleared up. You understand that missus Reagan and
I were close frim and I hate to think.

Speaker 7 (04:25:19):
That anything may have happened to her.

Speaker 37 (04:25:20):
Quite If I can help you in any way and
only be too pleased.

Speaker 1 (04:25:24):
That's very kind of mister Hart.

Speaker 5 (04:25:25):
But I think we'll be able to manage.

Speaker 27 (04:25:27):
If we need any further information from you, you can
rest the shoulder, get.

Speaker 1 (04:25:30):
In touch with you.

Speaker 52 (04:25:31):
Sergeant Henderson returned to the Chelsea Police station. She had
listened to what had seemed a straightforward story, but there was.

Speaker 31 (04:25:38):
A doubt nagging at a hearts man.

Speaker 52 (04:25:41):
I had been very obliging and polite, but there then
something about him.

Speaker 31 (04:25:45):
She didn't like, something that didn't bring true. That's something
to it.

Speaker 26 (04:25:49):
To the office of Divisional Inspector Russell White, to whom
she expressed it doubts.

Speaker 8 (04:25:55):
So you think it's a bit fishies, don't I wouldn't
go so far as to say that, sir, well, I
do think Heart might.

Speaker 37 (04:26:02):
Be checking up on me. Scotland Yard Breeze criminal records
of it.

Speaker 52 (04:26:09):
Within the hour the check up had been made and
the results famed back to Chelsea. The results that stood
by Sergeant Henderson's feminine intuition according to the record, the
plaus of oh, mister Hart, it's two sentences for fraud.

Speaker 37 (04:26:26):
Well, there you have it, sergeant. It appears he's been
up twice in the past ten years.

Speaker 27 (04:26:30):
I can't say it surprises me.

Speaker 37 (04:26:32):
Perhaps not, but I wouldn't let it influence you too much.
Just because a man has a record, it doesn't say
he knows anything about Missus Reagan's disappearance, that's true. I
think of the stage, the best thing we can do
is to forget about half for a while and concentrate
on Missus Reagan herself. Give the newspapers a full description
of it and the clothes she was.

Speaker 1 (04:26:49):
Last seen wearing.

Speaker 27 (04:26:50):
The usual thing, All right, I'll get onto it straight away.

Speaker 52 (04:26:52):
Nuts did the story of Missus renee Ashcroft Reagan's disappearance
receive its first coverage in the London newspapers.

Speaker 17 (04:26:58):
A close up photograph and underneath it her full description of.

Speaker 52 (04:27:01):
The missing woman as she was last seen by Missus
Lansbury prior to her leaving the hotel for her proposed
meeting with James hart.

Speaker 37 (04:27:10):
M That should bring results, Sergeant, Let's help her, Inspector.
The jewelry is nothing. Missus Lansbury is quite sure she
was wearing it when she left her toe.

Speaker 38 (04:27:20):
She was most emphatic about it.

Speaker 37 (04:27:21):
Good every jewel and hackstall proprit in London's been alerted.
If legitimate sale is attempted, we'll hear of it.

Speaker 26 (04:27:28):
Two days past no information was received by the police.

Speaker 52 (04:27:33):
Then on the third day word came through that a
Persian lamb coat very similar to the one one by
Missus Reagan at the time of the disappearance, had been
found in a.

Speaker 31 (04:27:41):
Cleaner sharp near Crawley.

Speaker 52 (04:27:43):
Was later identified by Agnes Lansbourne and brought to the
Chelsea Police station for analysis. Laboratory tests, however, failed to
uncover any further leads.

Speaker 37 (04:27:53):
Nothing more, Inspector, Ohfred not but it went through the
wash before it was noted. Yes, oh, I suppose we
shouldn't complain. At least we know now without a shallow
of doubt. That something has happened to Missus Reagan.

Speaker 38 (04:28:05):
And also that it happened somewhere in the decinative Cruelly,
which is where she was supposed.

Speaker 52 (04:28:09):
To have been going at half A further two days
past then came the information that Inspector White had been
waiting for a report was received that jewelry fitting the
description issued by the police and newspapers had been offered.

Speaker 31 (04:28:21):
For sale to the proprietor the second handster and Horsham was.

Speaker 52 (04:28:25):
Also identified by Missus Landsbery is belonging to the missing
Missus Reagan. Prior to Salah, Jacobs was questioned, I, Inspector White, just.

Speaker 37 (04:28:34):
How long have you been holding this jewel room, mister Jacobs?

Speaker 21 (04:28:37):
One week tomorrow party that he didn't just after lunch.

Speaker 37 (04:28:42):
Well that fits, and this party gave his name as Jones.

Speaker 29 (04:28:45):
You say, well, here's the ticket, John Jones.

Speaker 37 (04:28:49):
You couldn't give us a description of him?

Speaker 26 (04:28:50):
I don't suppose, wow, So let me be remembering like
he was that shot stucky with a dark hair, and.

Speaker 37 (04:29:00):
I think he had a smallert as small as nothing else.

Speaker 22 (04:29:04):
Why not that I can bring to mind?

Speaker 29 (04:29:06):
Now?

Speaker 37 (04:29:06):
Yes, Well, it just so happens, mister Jacobs, I have
a few photographs in my pocket of men who could
fit the de scription you've given me.

Speaker 8 (04:29:13):
I wonder if you take a look.

Speaker 29 (04:29:14):
At them, if I the lose, what about this one?

Speaker 37 (04:29:20):
No, yes, and nothing like him?

Speaker 17 (04:29:25):
How about this one?

Speaker 1 (04:29:28):
Well, Ai, that's it.

Speaker 37 (04:29:31):
You're sure, But as sure as I'm standing here, I'll
never forget a fay. Thank you, mister Jacobs, you've been
very helpful.

Speaker 52 (04:29:39):
Returning to the Chelsea Police Station, Inspector White summoned Sergeant
Henderson to his office, bringing her up to date on
his visit a horse and he produced the photographs.

Speaker 31 (04:29:48):
And has been recognized by Jacobs Jane Gerald Hart as.

Speaker 37 (04:29:53):
He was when arrested in nineteen thirty nine for fraud.

Speaker 5 (04:29:56):
Hasn't changed much fortunately for us.

Speaker 37 (04:29:59):
Can you put hi all in good time? If he's
done away with missus Reagan? His facts seem to indicate
he must have deposited our bodies somewhere.

Speaker 38 (04:30:08):
He's chemical factory.

Speaker 37 (04:30:09):
Well that's as good a place to start looking as edie.
Because I'm cunning him to stand by, we'll pick up
Heart on the waiter.

Speaker 52 (04:30:15):
Twenty minutes later, Inspector White, accompanied by Sergeant Henderson, arrived
at the Kensington Hotel and asked from mister Hart. That
smiling gentleman as smooth and suave as ever, came downstairs immediately,
greeting the sergeant with an airy wave of his hand.

Speaker 37 (04:30:31):
Good afternoon, Sergeant, I was hoping he'll call again. Yes, yes,
I've been rather anxious to hear what progress has been
made in the search for missus Ringan.

Speaker 38 (04:30:38):
That's been inspected White here that question, he's taken over
the handing of the case.

Speaker 37 (04:30:42):
Oh, how do you do, Inspector. Before I answer your questions,
mister Hart, I have a few I'd like you to
answer for me my own means right away. Sergeant Henderson
tells me that you have an interest in a certain chemical.

Speaker 41 (04:30:56):
Factory at call.

Speaker 37 (04:30:57):
That's correct, and that you were arranged to take Missus
Reagan there on the afternoon of her disappearance. Yes, we'd
rather like to look over this factory if you can advantage,
But just moutly you understand, of course, anytime Inspector will
tomorrow mornings would do the heart bloom is the heart,
It'll have to be this afternoon. Well, I'm not sure

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that that would be convenient, Inspector. You see, I have
a business appointment in Chelsea at three, and then I'm
afraid your business appointment will have to wait, Harley, but
it's to be on our way, shall we. I have
a car waiting outside.

Speaker 52 (04:31:30):
For a fleeting second, they have a present smile almost
faded from the lips of Jane's heart. Then it broadened,
and his perfect white teeth flashed in the sunlight streaming through.

Speaker 31 (04:31:43):
A lobby window.

Speaker 37 (04:31:44):
Lead on, Inspector.

Speaker 31 (04:31:46):
That was said during the trip down to Crawley in.

Speaker 32 (04:31:50):
The vaccine of the police.

Speaker 52 (04:31:51):
Car and either side of heart, Inspector White in Search
and Henderson interested themselves in the swiftly passing countryside, and
in the front Constable Rex Peter said grim hit the wheel,
and beside him equally his grim faced.

Speaker 31 (04:32:03):
Said Sergeant Dennis Cunning.

Speaker 26 (04:32:06):
The silence appeared to amuse mister Hurt, who chuckled audibly
to himself more than one before remarking casually, lovely spot Crawley,
don't you Reinspector.

Speaker 37 (04:32:17):
Huh oh yes, first, indeed, I've often thought how very
pleasant it would be to live down here, next, turning
to the right comfortable.

Speaker 52 (04:32:27):
A few minutes later, the police car came to a
standstill outside the heart chemical factory, which proved to be
a little modern, a glorified workshop fitted up as a laboratory.
Hard remained in the car under the watchful eyes of
Peters and Cunningham, while the inspector and Sergeant Henderson entered
the wooden building.

Speaker 37 (04:32:44):
Plenty of experimental equipment lying about, nothing much else as
far as I can see, certainly no corpus.

Speaker 1 (04:32:50):
DELECTI so love.

Speaker 31 (04:32:53):
What's in those drums over there?

Speaker 1 (04:32:58):
Looks like some kind of oil.

Speaker 37 (04:33:00):
There's a oil behind its acid.

Speaker 52 (04:33:04):
Drums of acid in a laboratory, and nothing very odd
about that, unless unless that acid happens to contain the
undissolved remains of the human body.

Speaker 16 (04:33:16):
Acid.

Speaker 38 (04:33:18):
It's just the thing to decompose the corpse without leaving
any tree exactly.

Speaker 37 (04:33:23):
But in this case, I think it may have left traces.
Look floating on the surface, Look a bone with particles
of flesh still clinging to it. You'd better take a
sample of the acid itself, siphon it.

Speaker 5 (04:33:35):
Out, he inspector.

Speaker 27 (04:33:38):
There's a jar on the shelf here.

Speaker 21 (04:33:41):
I'll use that.

Speaker 52 (04:33:44):
James gerald Hart made no attempt to deny the accusation
of murder that was subsequently leveled at him.

Speaker 26 (04:33:50):
On the contrary, Knowing.

Speaker 52 (04:33:52):
The game was up, he admitted his guilt freely, stating
in the first sharp Missus Reagan, and deprived of her clothing, jewelry,
then deposited her body in the drum of acid, a
sample of which today occupied this position of honor in.

Speaker 7 (04:34:10):
The Black Museum.

Speaker 37 (04:34:16):
Arson Wells will be back with you in just a moment.

Speaker 52 (04:34:20):
The defense, brilliantly conceived, was of cause insanity. To strengthen
this plea, are cheerfully claimed to have done away with
no fewer than nine other victims in a similar fashion
of that in.

Speaker 31 (04:34:30):
Which she had disposed of Missus Reagan.

Speaker 26 (04:34:33):
Whether or not this claim was justified will probably never
be known, for as an established fact. At the time
of his trial, five of those he named as his
victims had been missing from their homes for months.

Speaker 31 (04:34:47):
They have not been found to this day.

Speaker 26 (04:34:50):
However, justified or not, his plea was rejected and he
was found guilty of murder in the first degree. His
subsequent execution relieved the world of a a student who
set up in practice.

Speaker 52 (04:35:02):
Before taking his diploma. But James Gerald Hart was by
no means an accomplished killer. The trailer left behind him
there is out that fact. Rather, can he be described
as a dabbler in the art of dealing there who
dabbled just once, two of them?

Speaker 31 (04:35:19):
And now until we need next time in the same place,
can I tell you another story about the Black Museum?
Eroline is always obediently yours.

Speaker 41 (04:35:57):
A notable broadcasting system presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced
and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Coogan, and
starting tonight too of radio's foremost personalities, Eric Butler and
Brett Morrison and I died last night. This is a

(04:36:23):
mysterious travel inviting you to.

Speaker 52 (04:36:25):
Join me on another journey into the realm of the
strange and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip,
that it will thrill you a little and chill you.
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves,
and be comfortable if you can. For tonight our journey
is one such as no living man ever took.

Speaker 12 (04:36:47):
Before.

Speaker 52 (04:36:48):
We're going to accompany a gentleman named Gregory Raymond across
the very threshold of existence into another world.

Speaker 5 (04:36:55):
It's a story I.

Speaker 52 (04:36:56):
Call I died last night, my friend mister Gregory Raymond,
who is going to tell you of his strange experience.

Speaker 5 (04:37:16):
Is a man of middle.

Speaker 52 (04:37:17):
Age with bushy gray hair and the nervous intensity of
one who's concentrated his whole life upon a single absorbing interest.
As he proceeds with his tale, please overlook the inconsequential
fact that he's dead.

Speaker 1 (04:37:40):
My name is Gregory Raymond, and it is perfectly true
that all my life I was concentrated upon a single interest,
the study of death and to what comes after it.
Even from boyhood, that one interest absorbed me. I made
a thousand efforts to penetrate the raffling veil that separates

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life from death, to affect communication with those on the
other side of the dark curtain. And in this effort
I had no success until I met that man of
great wisdom from the East, the Yogi Krishna. Then I
knew I had found the teacher I needed. I studied
daily for months with Krishna and his other pupils. I

(04:38:22):
devoted my entire fortune to the project, and we were
just on the brink of success when one evening, the
Yogi kept me with him after the others had left.
My friend, Gregory, it is necessary that you and I
should talk. Of course, Yogi, you seem troubled. I am gregory.

(04:38:43):
We have come close to success in our studies here
have we not closer than I ever dared hope we would?
If now we could only tear away the last veil
of ignorance that separates us from the truth, If we
could only see through to the other side of the
wall of death. Patience, my friend. Death is the subject
that has engrossed men's mind for a million years. We

(04:39:06):
cannot expect to solve its dark mysteries in a few months.

Speaker 5 (04:39:10):
No, of course not.

Speaker 1 (04:39:11):
But I've spent a lifetime trying, and I suppose I'm
a little impatient. I too, have spent a lifetime just
preparing to make the study, And now that success is
in sight, it grieves me to say that we must
discontinue our studies. Discontinue them just when we were getting somewhere. Well, no,
we can't, We have no choice. But why why must

(04:39:35):
we stop now when we're so close? For the simplest
reason in the world. We lack the money to continue.

Speaker 5 (04:39:42):
Oh, money is that the trouble.

Speaker 1 (04:39:45):
We need trained assistance, scientific instruments, many things to aid us.
All this requires money, and we do not have it. Well, er,
how much? Many thousands, a hundred thousand dollars, perhaps a
hundred thousand. It's a lot, but we'll get it. We
have to alas, my friend, I do not know where. Listen,

(04:40:11):
my brother John is a rich man. He's head of
the Raymond Foundation, which makes grants for all kinds of
important studies.

Speaker 7 (04:40:19):
Yes, I have heard.

Speaker 5 (04:40:20):
So I'll ask him for the money for a cause
like this. He'll give it to us.

Speaker 8 (04:40:25):
I know it.

Speaker 5 (04:40:26):
It would mean everything to us.

Speaker 7 (04:40:28):
But suppose he refuses.

Speaker 52 (04:40:29):
He won't refuse, and if he does, I'll get the
money from him somehow, I swear it.

Speaker 1 (04:40:45):
The next day I hurried to Hollywood, where John had
his home on top of the cliff that looks out
over the beach and the ocean beyond. When I reached
the house, Old Charles, the gardener, told me that John
had gone for a walk to his favorite spot, a
high point of the cliff that looked far out across
the ocean.

Speaker 5 (04:41:03):
I hurried there and found him alone, smoking and watching
the sunset. Swiftly, I told him why i'd come, and
to my amazement, he refused my request.

Speaker 76 (04:41:16):
Gregory, my answers emphatically, No, I'll not put up money
for any such crackpot scheme.

Speaker 5 (04:41:22):
But John, you're a head of the Raymond Foundation.

Speaker 1 (04:41:25):
Father left it millions to carry on research and every
field of human welfare.

Speaker 5 (04:41:29):
And you consider this wild notion of yours a field
of human welfare?

Speaker 7 (04:41:33):
Who, of course it is.

Speaker 1 (04:41:35):
Don't you understand? We're on the very verge of solving
the greatest mystery of all, the mystery of death and
what follows it.

Speaker 5 (04:41:42):
Indeed, gregory, but it's true. We only need a little
more time and money, tam and money.

Speaker 1 (04:41:47):
And when we've succeeded, when we've definitely established communication with
those who have left this sphere of existence, think what
that will mean to the world. Just what will it
mean to the world. Wish it will mean everything. Think
of the Think of the comfort it will give mankind,
the peace of mind, the tranquility of soul that will

(04:42:08):
result when we know what is to come, what our
future life.

Speaker 7 (04:42:10):
Is to be like.

Speaker 5 (04:42:12):
Can't you see that?

Speaker 76 (04:42:14):
No, I'm afraid I can't. Old fashioned faith is good
enough for me. Furthermore, that can never be such communication
as you're dreaming of. It's impossible, but it isn't. The
Yogi Christian has already achieved it.

Speaker 5 (04:42:26):
Your yogi, My dear Gregory is a fake. I've had
him looked up.

Speaker 76 (04:42:30):
He's nothing but a trickster and a charlatan, running a
nice little racket to get money out of deluted fools
like you. That's not true, I'll tell you it is
while I live. The Raymond Foundation will never furnish a
cent for this fantastic scheme.

Speaker 5 (04:42:42):
No, John, you can't refuse me. You can I do, Gregory.
That's final. I see, I'm sorry you said that.

Speaker 1 (04:42:51):
John.

Speaker 5 (04:42:52):
Let him in.

Speaker 1 (04:42:54):
I see that there's only one thing that I can do.
What the devil are you're getting at is pride must
not be allowed to fail. It means so much that
the life of one man is a small price to
pay for that success.

Speaker 29 (04:43:06):
What nonsense?

Speaker 5 (04:43:07):
And how you talking? When you're dead, I shall become
the head of the Raymond Foundation. Good Gregor get away
from me. Take take your hands off, Old John. You
wouldn't listen to reasons, so I have no alternative.

Speaker 19 (04:43:16):
Draw me.

Speaker 58 (04:43:17):
You're pushing me through the cliff. Believe me, John, I
don't want to do this, but our studies cannot be
allowed to pay.

Speaker 77 (04:43:23):
I'm going to cover your sentence you're out of your mile.
See Johnny, just a moment, you'll know that I'm right now,
far below me.

Speaker 5 (04:43:39):
John lay still.

Speaker 1 (04:43:41):
I felt a fast pity for him, but I had
done the only thing possible, and I was sure that John,
wherever he might be, then agreed with me. I returned
to the house, broke the sad news that John had
had an unfortunate accident, and wired for John's son than daughter,
Jack and Sue.

Speaker 5 (04:44:00):
You were at college to fly home at once. The
next evening, Jack and Susan arrived, pale and upset. I
took them into the library to explain the whole sad
occurrence to them.

Speaker 78 (04:44:15):
Uncle Gregory, you say that father had a dizzy spell
and fell over the cliff before you could catch him.

Speaker 5 (04:44:21):
Yes, Jack, it happened so fast. I could do nothing.

Speaker 27 (04:44:24):
But Father never got dizzy. His health was perfect.

Speaker 5 (04:44:27):
He was smoking a cigar, Susan.

Speaker 1 (04:44:29):
He complained that he felt a little unwell, and a
moment later he staggered and was gone.

Speaker 5 (04:44:33):
I feel terribly about his Believe.

Speaker 78 (04:44:35):
Me, you don't look very upset, Uncle Gregory, or that
I am, Jack, But I know that wherever your father
is now, he's happier.

Speaker 5 (04:44:43):
By far than any of us.

Speaker 27 (04:44:45):
Are you sure that's the reason you're so cheerful, Uncle Gregory?

Speaker 12 (04:44:48):
What do you mean by that?

Speaker 1 (04:44:49):
She means the gardener tells a very different story, the gardener.
What's the gardener got to do with it?

Speaker 27 (04:44:55):
He saw you and father talking at the top of
the cliff, He says, you were.

Speaker 5 (04:44:59):
Arguing, arguing.

Speaker 2 (04:45:01):
Well, that's nonsense.

Speaker 1 (04:45:03):
I was just explaining to John my scheme for scientifically
attacking the problem of communication with the.

Speaker 78 (04:45:09):
Next will Uncle Gregory, the gardener says, he doesn't think
father fell, then what does he think?

Speaker 27 (04:45:14):
He thinks he saw you push father off the cliff.

Speaker 1 (04:45:18):
That is utter nonsense. He saw me try to grab
John as he was falling. That's all I wish I
could believe it, but I can't.

Speaker 45 (04:45:26):
Jack.

Speaker 27 (04:45:26):
You must Uncle Gregory couldn't have pushed father just as
I'm possible.

Speaker 5 (04:45:30):
Of course, not, Susan, And I'm glad that you at
least realize.

Speaker 8 (04:45:33):
I'm not so sure.

Speaker 78 (04:45:34):
He seems awfully pleased about being head of the Raymond Foundation. Though,
now listen to me, both of you.

Speaker 5 (04:45:41):
The coroner says that your father died accidentally, and that
ends matters. Not for me, It doesn't and just what
do you think you're going to do.

Speaker 78 (04:45:49):
Jack, I don't know you, but I'm going to Dad's
lawyers and have you declared incompetent to handle the Raymond Foundation.

Speaker 5 (04:45:54):
I warn you, I'll brook no interference.

Speaker 1 (04:45:56):
I am head of the Foundation, and from now on
it would be run as I say, not if I
can help it. And the first thing I'm going to
do is pour all the resources of the Foundation into
an Institute for the Study of Death.

Speaker 27 (04:46:07):
Gregory, you can't mean that the foundation scientists are on
the verge of a cure for cancer, for tuberculosis. You
can't stop their work.

Speaker 78 (04:46:14):
Now I can, and I will. Now I'm certainly you
killed Dad. You killed him to get control of the
foundation for your crazy schemes.

Speaker 5 (04:46:21):
You get out, Get out, both of you.

Speaker 9 (04:46:23):
Get out.

Speaker 5 (04:46:25):
He swung at me, lost his balance. I couldn't catch him.

Speaker 27 (04:46:30):
He's lying so stupid. He hit his head on on
the fireplaces. He felt it's bleeding.

Speaker 1 (04:46:39):
Jack.

Speaker 16 (04:46:40):
Is he all right?

Speaker 1 (04:46:41):
Just a minute, and I'll see.

Speaker 5 (04:46:49):
Jack bent over me.

Speaker 1 (04:46:51):
I had lost my temper and then trying to hit him,
had fallen. And now I lay on the floor, a
great pain dropping in.

Speaker 29 (04:46:57):
My head in a strange.

Speaker 5 (04:46:59):
Darkness creeping up all around me.

Speaker 1 (04:47:01):
As Jack and Susan leaned over me, the darkness closed in,
and I felt myself drifting away into an unknown land.
And just before the darkness became complete, I could hear
their words.

Speaker 27 (04:47:14):
Jack, how did he He doesn't seem to be breathing?

Speaker 7 (04:47:18):
Is he?

Speaker 23 (04:47:19):
Is he dead?

Speaker 8 (04:47:21):
Yes, Susan.

Speaker 78 (04:47:23):
All his life, Uncle Gregory's been trying to learn what
happens when you die.

Speaker 5 (04:47:28):
Well, now at last he's going to find out.

Speaker 1 (04:47:39):
How long I lay in vast dark nothingness, I do
not know, but at long last, consciousness began to return
to me. First I realized that the sweet, glowing scent
of flowers was heavy in my nostrils.

Speaker 5 (04:47:56):
Then I opened my eyes. I lay on a couch
at one end of a great, dim room with windows
of stained glass, like a church. And then at the
other end of the room I saw three coffins. One
of the coffins was.

Speaker 1 (04:48:15):
Banked with flowers, and candles burned at either end of it.
Dazed and bewildered, I got to my feet and walked
slowly toward them. I reached the side of the one
covered with flowers and stared through the small glass plate
at the man inside, and then I knew the body

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in the coffin was mine.

Speaker 5 (04:48:39):
Oh you mustn't be so upset, mister. Most of us
feel pretty startled at first.

Speaker 27 (04:48:44):
Yeah, Joshua and I were upset just as you are.

Speaker 5 (04:48:47):
But this will pass soon.

Speaker 1 (04:48:50):
I whirled about and saw two dim figures coming toward
me from the shadows. They were smiling, and I knew
that they were trying to be helpful.

Speaker 9 (04:48:57):
Who are you?

Speaker 5 (04:48:59):
I am Joshua Brown. This is my wife Nelly. Our
bodies are in the other two coffins, your buddies. I
don't understand, of.

Speaker 79 (04:49:09):
Course, your stair confused, that's only natural.

Speaker 5 (04:49:13):
Look through the glass in this coffin. That's my body there,
you see. Yes, it looks just like you.

Speaker 1 (04:49:21):
Yes, of course it is me, the earthly me. Well,
then we're really dead, all three of us.

Speaker 79 (04:49:28):
Of course, you died last night. You slipped and fell
and hit your head.

Speaker 5 (04:49:34):
Yes, yes, I remember.

Speaker 13 (04:49:36):
Now.

Speaker 5 (04:49:36):
It's taken you until now to well to become aware
of things, to get over the shock. But where am i?

Speaker 79 (04:49:43):
This is the mortuary chapel of the cemetery. They'll be
coming for you soon to prepare to bury you, to
bury me. No, Oh, you mustn't be upset. Yes, to
bury the mortal you the empty shell you've left behind.

Speaker 5 (04:49:57):
Yes, Nellie and I were killed two nights ago, not
no accidents. But we won't be buried until tomorrow when
our son gets here. But I never dreamed that it
would be like this. Why I can still see and hear,
I still breathe, my heart still be's.

Speaker 79 (04:50:16):
Not really, You're used to those things, so they let
you think there hasn't been much change until you get
over your first shot. They're very thoughtful. They who do
you mean, the ones in charge?

Speaker 27 (04:50:30):
Or you'll know more about them soon.

Speaker 79 (04:50:32):
Mister Benedek will be coming for it, since I expect
he'll take you along to Who's mister Bennedict.

Speaker 5 (04:50:38):
He's our guide. He stopped last night to tell us
not to worry and to wait for him. He'll take
us on to the next place.

Speaker 79 (04:50:46):
Oh, someone's coming.

Speaker 27 (04:50:48):
We must step back here, out of the way.

Speaker 5 (04:50:54):
We stepped back a few paces as a door opened.
Four men entered, pushing a carry and john rubber tired wheels.
Behind them came Jack and Susan, dressed in mourning. They
advanced toward the coffin the coffin that held my mortal body.

Speaker 29 (04:51:10):
All right, men, take it easy, now, that's it all.

Speaker 7 (04:51:14):
Lift together.

Speaker 1 (04:51:16):
They lifted and placed the coffin on the wheeled carriage
that they brought, and a sudden panic struck me, a
sudden fear that made me cry out.

Speaker 5 (04:51:24):
Jack Susan, No, you mustn't.

Speaker 1 (04:51:27):
You can't bury me.

Speaker 12 (04:51:28):
I'm not dead.

Speaker 27 (04:51:29):
I can't be Please, you mustn't give way. It's perfectly natural.

Speaker 5 (04:51:33):
Really, it is no that got me. I've got to
make them understand that I'm not really dead.

Speaker 2 (04:51:38):
That got me.

Speaker 5 (04:51:40):
Jack Susan, please, please you muscle't distress yourself. You see,
they can't hear you.

Speaker 12 (04:51:48):
It was true.

Speaker 5 (04:51:50):
None of them so much as turned. The four men
wheeled my coffin out. Jack and Susan followed, and the
door closed. I was alone again with the Browns. They
didn't hear me. They didn't pay any attention to me.

Speaker 27 (04:52:06):
It was impossible for them to hear you.

Speaker 79 (04:52:09):
We cannot communicate with the living nor day with that.

Speaker 7 (04:52:12):
But it must be possible.

Speaker 5 (04:52:14):
I'm sorry, but really it isn't, mister Bennedict said so.
But all my life I've.

Speaker 1 (04:52:19):
Worked to establish such communication, and now I have so
much to tell the world, the people that I've worked
with Yogi Krishna, I must tell them all this.

Speaker 5 (04:52:29):
I must reach them somehow.

Speaker 79 (04:52:31):
If it is possible, mister Benedict will tell you. I'm
sure not, not please. The only thing we can do
is be quiet and wait for him.

Speaker 1 (04:52:47):
Stoned, I sank into a chair. There was no doubt
about it. I had died last night and this was
what came after. But I knew the Browns were wrong.
That was some way to reach the one that I
left behind. I knew the Yogi had proved it to me,
and so I waited for mister Benedict. I don't know

(04:53:10):
how long it was, but suddenly a strange musical note
signed in my ears.

Speaker 7 (04:53:18):
I looked up.

Speaker 1 (04:53:20):
A shaft of white light shone directly down into the
center of the room, and then it stood a tall
figure hidden in a flowing robe. The light winked out,
and the figure strode toward us.

Speaker 5 (04:53:32):
Are you ready, mister and missus Brown.

Speaker 79 (04:53:34):
Yes, mister Benedict, Oh, mister Raymond, this is mister Benedict.
He's come for us now.

Speaker 5 (04:53:41):
Yes, it is time we must go. But I can't
go yet. I've got to tell people the people that
I've worked with. We've worked so hard to find out
the truth, and now it may not be. Now, mister
and missus Brown, it is time show Benedict. We're ready.

(04:54:01):
But mister Raymond is coming with us, isn't he? He
is not coming, not coming?

Speaker 27 (04:54:07):
But why, mister Benedict, He.

Speaker 5 (04:54:10):
Is doom to remain here on earth for all eternity.

Speaker 7 (04:54:14):
What do you mean?

Speaker 5 (04:54:15):
What are you saying?

Speaker 1 (04:54:17):
This is your punishment to remain forever a spirit that
moves unseen and unheard among men.

Speaker 27 (04:54:24):
But why is he being punished?

Speaker 5 (04:54:27):
Mister Benedict, He knows that is efficient. Now come, we
must go. No, wait, you've got to take me with you.

Speaker 1 (04:54:43):
But they didn't wait. They took a step, two steps,
and were gone. Where they vanished. Heavy curtains rustle against
the wall. I rushed over to them and flung them back.

Speaker 5 (04:54:56):
There was no wall.

Speaker 1 (04:54:58):
I could see straight out into a peaceful cemetery, and
across the green grass, mister Benedict and the Browns were
walking away. I hurried after them, and something stopped me.
An invisible barrier across my path.

Speaker 5 (04:55:12):
Cold, unkneeling like glass, I beat against the invisible barrier with.

Speaker 26 (04:55:18):
My hands I cried out, and no one heard, no
one noticed, and.

Speaker 1 (04:55:23):
At last, exhausted, I ceased. Jack and Susan were slowly
walking toward me. They came down a little path and
stopped that five feet from me. That they did not
see me, and they were talking about me. Well, it's
all over, Susan, Uncle, greg and father are both gone.

Speaker 5 (04:55:45):
We've got to face the fact.

Speaker 27 (04:55:46):
I know, Jack, do you think Uncle really did kill father?
I don't want to believe it.

Speaker 29 (04:55:52):
Oh, I guess we'll never know.

Speaker 5 (04:55:54):
But if he did, he's been punished for it.

Speaker 27 (04:55:57):
Perhaps this punishment is worse than we can ever guess.
Do you suppose that now, wherever he is, he's trying
to tell the world what he knows.

Speaker 9 (04:56:07):
Probably, Susan.

Speaker 78 (04:56:09):
But if only Gregory hadn't become such a fanatic on
the subject, none of this would ever have happened.

Speaker 1 (04:56:14):
They started to move away, and again I cried out
to them, Jack, Susan, listen to me.

Speaker 5 (04:56:19):
You've got to hear me. You've got to But they
didn't turn. They didn't hear. They couldn't. They were alive,
and I was dead.

Speaker 1 (04:56:35):
At last, despairing, I turned and there was mister Benedict again.

Speaker 5 (04:56:40):
Watching me, his deep set eyes expressionless.

Speaker 1 (04:56:45):
Gregory Raymond, do you believe at last? Are you convinced
now that there can be no communication?

Speaker 23 (04:56:52):
No?

Speaker 7 (04:56:52):
No, there must be.

Speaker 5 (04:56:53):
Yogi krishnapproved it to me.

Speaker 1 (04:56:55):
He was a trickster seeking money from you, the most
heartless kind of tricks, praying on your hope.

Speaker 5 (04:57:01):
I don't believe it.

Speaker 1 (04:57:02):
You must resign yourself to the truth. We are not unkind.
We do not wish you to be tormented unnecessarily.

Speaker 5 (04:57:10):
Come with me.

Speaker 7 (04:57:12):
I shall show you.

Speaker 5 (04:57:20):
He took me by the hand and led me across
the room.

Speaker 1 (04:57:23):
The door opened silently before we reached it, and shut
behind us as we passed through. We went down a
corridor and came to a small room where a girl
sat at the desk typing.

Speaker 5 (04:57:36):
We entered, and she did not look up.

Speaker 1 (04:57:41):
She is typing the necessary documents concerning your burial tomorrow,
Gregory Raymond.

Speaker 7 (04:57:46):
Do you wish to.

Speaker 5 (04:57:47):
Speak to her? Yes, yes I do, young lady.

Speaker 45 (04:57:51):
Listen to me.

Speaker 5 (04:57:53):
I'm Gregory Raymond, tear standing beside you. She does not you.
You don't have to answer me. Just just stop typing
anything to show that you know that I'm speaking to you.
You see now, come, we shall try further. We continue

(04:58:17):
down the hallway and we came to another room in
this when a man sat. We paused in the doorway
and watched him. He was telephoning.

Speaker 11 (04:58:27):
Hellay editor, there's the Stonefield Chapel caring.

Speaker 5 (04:58:32):
Will you run an announcement please, saying that services.

Speaker 76 (04:58:34):
For the late Gregory Raymond will be held Thursday at
four o'clock.

Speaker 5 (04:58:39):
That is correct from the chapel.

Speaker 12 (04:58:42):
Well, another family will be present.

Speaker 43 (04:58:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 29 (04:58:46):
You may try to speak to him if you wish.
My friend, can you hear me?

Speaker 12 (04:58:52):
Please?

Speaker 10 (04:58:53):
Just look around?

Speaker 6 (04:58:55):
Hello, evening letter, the obituary.

Speaker 5 (04:58:57):
Editor, please please, you must hear me.

Speaker 1 (04:58:59):
You must.

Speaker 5 (04:59:00):
I have to let the world know all that I've learned.

Speaker 1 (04:59:03):
Ada hitch your editor. This is the Stillfield Chapel.

Speaker 5 (04:59:06):
Call it.

Speaker 76 (04:59:07):
Will you take down and announcement this?

Speaker 1 (04:59:09):
Oh all right, yes a d he cannot hear but
perhaps someone else may. We will try again if you will.

Speaker 5 (04:59:18):
Yes, yes I do.

Speaker 1 (04:59:20):
Someone somewhere will be able to hear me. We went
on down the corridor and another door opened before us.
We stepped through on the green lawn. Mister Benedict led
me across it, through a little gate and into a
small cemetery that lay hushed in the shade of great trees.

Speaker 5 (04:59:40):
There are two men were digging. We paused to decide them.

Speaker 9 (04:59:46):
Do you know what they're digging?

Speaker 1 (04:59:47):
Gregory Raymond?

Speaker 5 (04:59:49):
Yes, a grave?

Speaker 12 (04:59:51):
You're grave?

Speaker 1 (04:59:52):
Were your earthly bodies? You'll race while you roam the
world unsea. Oh no, oh no, Speak to them, See
if they can hear you. I will you two men,
listen to me. I'm Gregory Raymond. Do you hear?

Speaker 9 (05:00:10):
They do not hear.

Speaker 5 (05:00:11):
You've got to listen to me. Just give me some
sign that you hear something. Just stop digging for a minute.
Anything you see, they do not pause. Thus it must
be always.

Speaker 1 (05:00:28):
Your punishment is to remain here on this earthly place,
a lonely soul without hope.

Speaker 5 (05:00:34):
Oh no, oh no, I couldn't bear that. Take me
with you. I don't care what happens to me, but
don't leave me here like this. I am sorry.

Speaker 1 (05:00:41):
It cannot be otherwise.

Speaker 5 (05:00:43):
But what have I done? What am I being punished for?

Speaker 37 (05:00:46):
You know, I do not need to tell you.

Speaker 5 (05:00:49):
You mean because I killed my brother. That is for
you to say, not for me to Jeff.

Speaker 7 (05:00:57):
I did.

Speaker 5 (05:00:59):
I did kill him. I pushed him off the Cliff
when he refused the money.

Speaker 12 (05:01:01):
That I asked for.

Speaker 5 (05:01:02):
Are you confessing to his murder, Gregory Raymond? Yes, yes,
i am. I killed him. It was an impulse. I
didn't plan to do it, but I'm sorry. Now punish
me anyway you want.

Speaker 1 (05:01:12):
Only don't leave me here like this, very well, Gregory Raymond,
you shall be punished an earthway punishment according to the
laws of men.

Speaker 5 (05:01:21):
What do you mean, you two?

Speaker 1 (05:01:23):
You can stop digging now, Gregory Raymond confessed to the
murder of his brother.

Speaker 21 (05:01:29):
Well or a Lieutenant Benedict were sure, glad it?

Speaker 43 (05:01:31):
So what these pick axes are giving us?

Speaker 8 (05:01:33):
Plus us?

Speaker 7 (05:01:34):
They heard us?

Speaker 1 (05:01:36):
Yes, mister Raymond. Now you're under arrest for murder. Under arrest,
but that is impossible.

Speaker 5 (05:01:42):
I'm fraid it is.

Speaker 1 (05:01:44):
You see, I'm Lieutenant Benedict of the homicide Squad.

Speaker 41 (05:01:47):
You're not dead.

Speaker 5 (05:01:48):
You're very much alive.

Speaker 10 (05:01:50):
No, I can't be you're lying.

Speaker 1 (05:01:52):
I'm praid we played a.

Speaker 9 (05:01:52):
Little trick on you.

Speaker 1 (05:01:54):
Not Here in Hollywood, we have some very good actors,
and when you see your nephew, arrange the whole thing
with actors, wax figures and coffins and weird atmosphere. To
see if we couldn't get a confession out of you.

Speaker 5 (05:02:05):
No, I don't believe you.

Speaker 1 (05:02:06):
He figured you had such a one track mind on
the subject of death when you knocked yourself unconscious, he
decided to try and convince you you'd killed yourself.

Speaker 12 (05:02:13):
No, looks as though he succeeded.

Speaker 1 (05:02:15):
Better than we'd hoped.

Speaker 5 (05:02:17):
Now, will you come quietly, mister Raymond. No, you can't
arrest me. You can't arrest a dead man.

Speaker 2 (05:02:28):
And I'm dead.

Speaker 5 (05:02:29):
I know I am. I died last night.

Speaker 17 (05:02:53):
This is the mysterious charmy again.

Speaker 5 (05:02:56):
Oh you want to know whether Gregory really was dead
or not.

Speaker 52 (05:03:00):
But it became a matter of some dispute. The doctor
said he was alive, and he insisted he was dead.
They argued back and forth, and neither side could convince
the other. You know how it is when neither side
will give in. To this day, nobody has convinced Gregory
that he's really alive. It's probably the strangest punishment of
man ever suffered. Which brings me to my story for

(05:03:21):
next week.

Speaker 8 (05:03:22):
S O S.

Speaker 52 (05:03:24):
It's about dream men who find themselves in the most
dreadful predicament any man.

Speaker 7 (05:03:28):
As if all you have to get off here. I'm sorry.
I'm sure we meet again. I take this same train
every week at.

Speaker 31 (05:03:37):
This same time.

Speaker 80 (05:03:50):
You have just heard the Mysterious travel I am played
by Maurice Tartler Others an arcast for Brett Morrison, Eric Butler,
Briana Rayburn and Jack Curtis, all characters in this story.
We're fictious and any resemblance to the names of actual persons.
We got a coincident. Original music played by Milton kay
Race and Mlove speaking. This is the multiple podcasting system.

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