The Man Whose Face Matched a 1,000-Year-Old Stone God

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Speaker 6 (01:30):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.

Speaker 7 (01:50):
Come in.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Welcome.

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

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Marshall.

Speaker 6 (01:56):
I hope you're ready for a long journey, because we're
going to take you to a far away place called
Easter Island. It's an island in the South Pacific which
has fascinated the world's explorers for centuries. What makes Easter
Island so intriguing is the mystery of its great stone gods,
carved out of volcanic rock. These gigantic idols, thirty to

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sixty feet high, stand upturned to the sky, perhaps to worship,
or perhaps to wait. What are they waiting for? What
can explain the mystery of the statues? You may hear
the answer in this story of Jobo.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Who is Jobo?

Speaker 9 (02:38):
Daddy? Just look at this photograph?

Speaker 10 (02:42):
Please?

Speaker 3 (02:42):
What's some other time? All right?

Speaker 9 (02:44):
But look at this man. Don't you see what I see?

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Doesn't look very bright, does he?

Speaker 9 (02:48):
Don't you see the resemblance? He looks like an Easter
Island god.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
Our mystery drama Jobo was written especially for the Mystery
Theater by Henry Slesser and stars Earl Hammond. It is
sponsored in part by True Value Hardware stores and Xlex.
I'll be back shortly with that one. The Gods of

(03:27):
Easter Island mammoth figures hacked out of stone with primitive
hand tools, hundreds of them. They were all alike, long eared,
long nosed, thin bodied figures with a top knot of
red stone balanced on their heads. When the Dutch Admiral
Rochovane first landed on the island on an Easter Sunday

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in nineteen twenty two, he met the descendants of the
people who had built the statues. Most of them were
pure Polynesian, and the island was dotted with dozens of
secret caves shelters created a refugees against some unknown invader.
To this day, no one knows what they feared, but

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some people, like the well known archaeologist Professor John Tillotson,
had theories.

Speaker 11 (04:13):
David, it's very good of you to come all the
way from Boston.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
I hope you find it worthwhile.

Speaker 12 (04:18):
If I can get to see your daughter, Professor, that'll
make it worthwhile all by itself.

Speaker 11 (04:22):
Well, Alma's upstairs working on that thesis of hers as usual.
I'm hoping she'll join us for dinner. However, Oh, here's
why I want to show you. It's on my desk someplace. Eh, Yes,
here it is. Yeah, look at it, Dave.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
It's a miniature Easter Island statue.

Speaker 7 (04:40):
Right.

Speaker 11 (04:40):
Well, that's what it looks like to me, only not
made of stones. You can see it's metal. Very nice
if you like ugly looking statues. Ugly, Oh well, yes,
I suppose some people would find these faces grotesque when
I've been living with them for such a long time,
or almost beautiful to me.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Something very unusual about this statue. What's that?

Speaker 11 (05:03):
It appears to be indestructible? Are you kidding? I'm not
a metal regist, of course, so I know nothing about
the properties of the thing. But I've studied it, and
that was the conclusion.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
But that slowed down.

Speaker 11 (05:15):
Now where'd you get this thing in the first place? Well,
it was sent to me as a gift by Everett Klureman.
You know, Professor Klehman, don't you.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Oh sure?

Speaker 12 (05:22):
I met him right in this room a couple of
years ago. Come to think of it, you were talking
about Easter Island that night.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
That's right, I got it all upset.

Speaker 11 (05:31):
I told him that I believed the original inhabitants of Rapanui,
that's what the natives called the island, were indeed Polynesian,
and the red headed types they were the descendants of
an alien invader. Right, Yes, seems only too obvious doesn't it.

Speaker 12 (05:46):
But as I recall it, you thought the invader came
from outer space.

Speaker 11 (05:51):
Well, I suppose I was only joking that night. But
it was possible, wasn't it. The Islanders worshiped the Sun
and venerated birds. That might have been because of the spaceship,
the bird which came from the Sun. I meant it
as a joke until Everett sent me this thing.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
This statue he bought from an Easter.

Speaker 11 (06:16):
Island native who swore in his ancestors that he removed
it from a belly of a large fish like Jon, Dave,
let me read your Sam Shaffer's letter, who an old
schoolmate now head of the Shaffer Metals Laboratory in Chicago.
Dear John, says he, for the love of Heaven, will
you tell me where this thing came from?

Speaker 3 (06:34):
If it's a joke, I give up. Our people could not.

Speaker 11 (06:37):
Melt it, dent it, even scratch it with diamond tools.
It's the hardest metal I've encountered in a lifetime of study. John,
and you must contact me at once.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Sounds weird, all right? Let me see that thing again here.

Speaker 9 (06:52):
Daddy, was there any mail?

Speaker 13 (06:54):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (06:55):
Oh Dave, I didn't know you were here.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Hello, Elma, how are you Fie?

Speaker 9 (06:59):
Sorry I did to interrupt.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Oh that's all right, glad to see you again.

Speaker 11 (07:03):
I was just telling Dave about my new Easter Island mystery.

Speaker 9 (07:06):
Oh yes, statue. Isn't it incredible? Day?

Speaker 3 (07:09):
It is incredible if if it's.

Speaker 9 (07:12):
True, of course it is, Sam Sheaffer said, so.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, even scientists make mistakes.

Speaker 9 (07:16):
See, Daddy, I told you Dave would be negative.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Not Wait a minute, I didn't say it was negative.

Speaker 9 (07:22):
I'm just trying to if I didn't have my darned
thesis to finish, I go on this expedition with Daddy
and he wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Need you expedition. What are you talking about?

Speaker 11 (07:30):
Have tay, I'm afraid that was the real reason I
asked you to come over today. I'm thinking of making
another journey to rap Anuia. I was wondering if you
might care to come along a journey.

Speaker 12 (07:42):
Will Well, there's nothing I'd like better, but well, the
South Pacific is a long way.

Speaker 9 (07:47):
Actually meant to ask about the mill. Was there anything
for you?

Speaker 11 (07:50):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yes, yeah there was. Let's see, it's right on my desk.

Speaker 9 (07:54):
Everything's on the desk of yours, including the breakfast.

Speaker 11 (07:57):
You never did oh here it is used to be
some out of town newspapers.

Speaker 12 (08:01):
Oh good, I've been waiting for this the Tennessee Times Dispatch.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
You have friends in Tennessee, Alma, I might.

Speaker 9 (08:08):
Have excuse me. I have to look for something, Dave.

Speaker 11 (08:11):
I don't expect you to make up your mind on
the spot.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
I'm sure you have.

Speaker 11 (08:15):
Other commitments and there's nothing I can't Yeah, it is.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Here's what the story.

Speaker 9 (08:20):
I was looking for. I saw an ap pick up
on the story in the local paper, but there were
so few details and the photograph was such a blur
that well, anyway, I sent for the original edition.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, what's the story about?

Speaker 9 (08:31):
About a farm boy or something like that. His name
is Job Hayley. Daddy, just look at this photograph. Don't
you see the resemblance. He looks like an Easter Island car.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
The people in this house have got Easter Island on
the braid.

Speaker 9 (08:46):
Well, just look at it closely. Daddy looked at that
long face, the ears, the nose, the hair. Oh, I
knew he'd be read it.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
It is.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
What does the headline say?

Speaker 9 (08:56):
It says Superman in the Backwoods. Question.

Speaker 11 (09:00):
Oh, I know, this is ridiculous. You're so interested in
not wasting time, And here you are.

Speaker 9 (09:05):
Let me read you the story. Okay, it stated last week,
and it says Chief County lies buried in the hills
of Tennessee and develops its own legends and heroes. One
local legend was brought to public attention this week with
the arrest of Job Haley twenty four, a six foot six,
one hundred and eighty pound red headed farm hand whose

(09:26):
unusual strength has long been a subject of local wonder.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Oh that's quite a pase, Daddy, let me finish.

Speaker 9 (09:33):
Job Hayley, known as Job Bowl by the residence of
Chief County, is reputed to have the strength of six
men and proved it to the misfortune of a Nashville
professional wrestler named Lou Dappler.

Speaker 11 (09:47):
Alma, Please, I just don't see the point of this interruption.

Speaker 9 (09:50):
But you do see a point in that statue.

Speaker 14 (09:52):
Don't you.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
One't thing here has nothing to do with another.

Speaker 9 (09:55):
Well, the only reason you want to make this ridiculous
journey to the South, specific bad health and all is
because of a chunk of metal that happens to look
like an Easter Island garden.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
What's wrong with that?

Speaker 9 (10:06):
But Daddy, I am showing you a living, breathing human
who looks like your statue. Doesn't that mean anything to you?
Maybe this farm boys folks came from Polynesia, originally.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
All the way to the hills of Tennessee, KLMA.

Speaker 11 (10:21):
What do you expect me to do about this resemblance.
It's surely just a coincidence.

Speaker 9 (10:26):
And the fact that he's stronger than six men. All right,
you two scientists go on your expedition and I will
go on.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Marsh What are you talking about.

Speaker 9 (10:37):
When you go to Easter Island, Daddy, I am going
to Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Will you sit down, Miss Tillison?

Speaker 9 (10:51):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
My name was doctor Richmond.

Speaker 15 (10:53):
By the way, I'm attached to the psychiatric section of
the Cumberland Hospital. The court asked me to exactly I'm in,
Young job Bailey.

Speaker 9 (11:01):
It was very good of you to talk to me, doctor, since.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Hugh comes such a long way on this matter. Although
I'm not clear what your interest is.

Speaker 9 (11:11):
Oh, I'm not sure myself. I'm simply very curious to
meet job Hailey. You see, I'm writing a paper for
my doctorate and one of the subjects I'm dealing with
is well. I guess you'd call it myth.

Speaker 15 (11:26):
I'm afraid you've been listening to a lot of silly stories,
Miss Tillison, Well.

Speaker 9 (11:30):
You mean it isn't true. I mean about Jobo and
his superhuman strength.

Speaker 15 (11:34):
Oh, I'm sure he's a strong young man, all right,
but I'd say he's definitely.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Subnormal in other ways.

Speaker 15 (11:43):
Oh, it's plainly a form of microcephaly limited cranial development.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Oh, and from what we've.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Learned of his paternity, the trade is recessive.

Speaker 9 (11:52):
Oh you think that he might be a moron?

Speaker 15 (11:56):
Would you like to talk to Jobo yourself? He's right outside.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
What fine?

Speaker 15 (12:01):
I was about to give him one of the standard
intelligence tests. Excuse me, come in, Jobo, Yes, sir, Jobo,
I'd like you to meet Miss Alma Tillotson. She'd like
to hear a little bit about you. How do you
do miss.

Speaker 9 (12:19):
Hello, jobol, I'm sorry to hear what happened. I mean
about that man you hurt?

Speaker 6 (12:26):
Well, I didn't mean to hurt him, That's what I
told him.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Miss.

Speaker 6 (12:31):
I was running to get Doc Blaize on account of
my mall was sick, and that fella was in the
way of it, and he jumped on the and wanted
to wrestle me and I didn't have time for it.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Are you sure that's what happened?

Speaker 16 (12:43):
Jobo?

Speaker 15 (12:44):
The witness to see you attacked first? Do you ever lie, Jobol?

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (12:49):
No, sir, I never lie. The Lord wouldn't like that, Jobol.
You remember anything about your father? No, sir, I don't
know any kinfolks. And now that my mall's dead and
nobody loves me.

Speaker 9 (13:07):
Now your mother's dead, yes.

Speaker 15 (13:11):
She uh died that same day the day Jobo got
into trouble.

Speaker 14 (13:16):
You know.

Speaker 6 (13:16):
Well, that man got in the way, you see, and
that's why I have to hurt him so bad.

Speaker 9 (13:23):
Is it true that you're very very strong?

Speaker 15 (13:26):
You were angry that day. That's why you were so strong,
wasn't it, Jobo?

Speaker 3 (13:31):
If you say so?

Speaker 15 (13:32):
Doctor, Well, now let's take that little test I told
you about Jobo. You see this box full of wooden pieces.
The box is full of holes. Some of them are
square shaped, some of them are round shaped. Now the
square pieces fit into the square holes and the round

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pieces fit into the round holes. Understand, yes, sir, Now
this is a square piece. See now will it fit
into this round hole? Yes, sir? No, Jobo, the answer
is no. It won't fit in the round. Hold yes, sir,
edel fat, All right, Jobo, you try it yourself and see, yes, sir,

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well there it is.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Fit's real fine.

Speaker 15 (14:26):
Good Lord, you just squeezed it a little square, old Well,
did I do wrong?

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Doctor?

Speaker 9 (14:35):
I think he's just as strong as they say, doctor,
and maybe a great deal smarter.

Speaker 6 (14:45):
And so, while her father and his associate prepare for
a trip to the South Pacific, Alma Tillotson has made
a pilgrimage of her own to visit the strange young
man named Jobo. Is his resemblance to the gods of
Easter Island only a coincidence? We'll find out when we continue.
In just a few minutes, a silent ship creeps through

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the darkening blue waters surrounding the lava strewn coast of
Easter Island. At the rail of the trawler, Professor John
Tillotson stands and looks at the shoreline. Even now you
can see the silhouettes of the mysterious stone monoliths that
stand sentry on the island. You've seen them before, But now,

(15:37):
instead of excitement, the Professor feels nothing but gloom outer
space Aliens, How could such a wild notion be true.

Speaker 12 (15:49):
Professor, I found the man who the guy who saw
Professor Klum in that metal statue we sent you.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
His name is Pacar Pakar over here.

Speaker 12 (15:58):
And yet then the reason we had so much trouble
trying to contact the car from the States was because
he was in jail.

Speaker 11 (16:04):
That doesn't sound very promising, doesn't Does he speak English?

Speaker 7 (16:08):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yes, and your I speak English. I have done nothing wrong.

Speaker 17 (16:12):
The charges against me were corpse. I have many enemies
on this.

Speaker 11 (16:16):
I said, it's all right, Pecar, We're not here to
make trouble for you. They've got the statue out of
my gear, right, Pecar. Do you remember a man named Klorman,
a professor. He was an old man with a short
white beard, who visited the island last year.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
You sold him this thing?

Speaker 17 (16:32):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I you remember now what
the price he paid was fair. The sacred things of
our for fathers have great value.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
All we want to know is where you found it.
I cannot remember.

Speaker 7 (16:46):
Well.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
You told him you took it from a giant fish.

Speaker 17 (16:49):
Yes, you have, perhaps that he saw and perhaps it isn't.

Speaker 12 (16:54):
Look Pecar, fifty dollars American? Does that help you to
remember the truth.

Speaker 17 (17:00):
Oh yes, yes, sir, I do remember now this stature
came from the cave of hot To Mattua himself. Is
your at first ancestor. I am the only one on
Rapa Nui who knows where this cave is, and I
have been entrusted with the secret to buy myko.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Your personal spirit told you where the cave is.

Speaker 17 (17:22):
Oh yes, Senor, do not ask me to reveal it.
This cave holds much manners and your sacred magic. The
other secret things of our ancestors are or of stone
and what but the things of Hotu Matua himself are
things of silver.

Speaker 12 (17:40):
You're lying the car There isn't the cave on Easter
Island that hasn't been thoroughly explored by now.

Speaker 14 (17:46):
No one has seen this cave, I swear to you.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
And there are other things of metal in this cave, Senor.

Speaker 17 (17:54):
But my Aku is a jealous spirit and the guards
the cave against all but me.

Speaker 6 (18:00):
Ii god On, I cannot take you there. Well, what
would it take to convince.

Speaker 7 (18:06):
You how much it cannot best in yours?

Speaker 11 (18:09):
If you're not lying to me, Pakar, I'll pay you
two hundred American dollars. And if I find another metal
object in this cave, an object like this one, I will.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Pay you five hundred fife I'm written.

Speaker 18 (18:22):
Well, what are you waiting for? Dear Alma.

Speaker 11 (18:32):
I had to write you this letter as soon as
I could to tell you some astounding news.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Dave and I have made a discovery.

Speaker 11 (18:40):
The cave that we entered today was located within sight
of the old stone quarry of Rono Raraku. It was
the private hiding place of a professional thief named Pacar.
But that wasn't the most interesting part of our exploration,
because our friend Pakar removed a smoothly fitted lock of
stone and led us to an inner chamber. This auxiliary

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room was an archaeologist paradise, my dear Almah. It was
crammed with cave stones, well cut pieces in the shapes
of mythical beasts, the heads of gods and women. But
then pa Car showed us his most important possession. It
was a bright, silvery disc which lay in the stone

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lap of a small seated idol. If it turns out
to be made of the same indestructible metal, I don't
know whether this trip has been a total failure or
an astonishing success, but Dave and I are.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Returning home to find out.

Speaker 11 (19:41):
I hope your o when we get there, and still
not visiting your friend, Jobo, where chilver have you been.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
I've been alright, mass.

Speaker 9 (20:00):
Well, I've just been very anxious to talk to you alone. Jobo.
That first day wasn't very satisfactory. I mean, I still
don't understand what this.

Speaker 19 (20:09):
Is all about.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
Well, I hurt somebody bad, miss, that's what it is.
And the Lord says, and eye for an eye, although
I don't expect they'll take my arm off the way
they had to that wrestler fellow.

Speaker 9 (20:22):
Oh yes, I heard they had to antite. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
Well, I'm sorry too. Like I said, I never meant
to hurt anybody. Usually when people poke fun at me,
I just grinned at him. See, they can't hurt me,
you know what I mean. My Ma used to say
that I don't hurt like other folks. And then when
Ma whipped me in, it wasn't the pain that hurt.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
It was her crime.

Speaker 9 (20:47):
You loved your mother very much, didn't she, Jobo.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
I always did what Ma wanted. I read the Bible
dutiful like she wanted me to. And every Sunday I
heard Patrick quilt to say that God I put us
all down on the sweet hills of Tennessee to love
each other. But see, I see a mighty disobedience all around.
Appears to me that only Mars loved their children. And

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on account of Mars the only one who loved me,
you said Paul loved me too, But I never met Paul.

Speaker 9 (21:19):
They say, the Lord loves you, Joe.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
Well, well that's what Marl told me. Well why did
he make me so big? Why did he give me
such a comical face? And once my mam said to me, Jobo,
the Lord made you different from other folks because he
had his reasons. Your Paul and me knew you'd be
a troubled boy, and that's why we called you job

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after the fella in the Bible. Now you've got to
have the patience of job Son.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
It's his will.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Well, well, I'm trying, I'm.

Speaker 9 (21:53):
Trying, Jobo, tell me about that day.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
Yeah, that day, Well, I woke up with a bad
feeling that morning on account of Mall had the misery
the night before. So I went to her room and
she was still laying on the bed, old, white faced
and looking big eyed. On account of the fever. Well,
you know, I said, with all the fetch doc blaze,

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and she said no. She said, I'd best be hurrying
to the Wernikee place and fanish up the loading job.
Old man Wernickey wanted done on account we needed the money.
So off I went. But when I was coming down
the old road, I hear this, this car.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Chunking along behind me.

Speaker 20 (22:37):
Hein' Jovo, Hey you yo, hold the fair many Hello, Dick,
I know I gotta keep going. Hold on, I said,
he want you to meet a friend of mine, Lou.
This here is Jobo Heley. This is the boy I've
been telling you about, Lou, strongest kid you evers on
your life.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Heeded the droo, Jobo, you gotta be kidding me. This
skinny kid.

Speaker 20 (22:59):
This meet my hondy little Joe Bot, number one wrestler
in Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Right, Lou, so as he wops some mask marvel Saturday.

Speaker 21 (23:08):
This is your idea.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
But Joe dig this.

Speaker 11 (23:11):
This kid looks like a match stick, giving his red
head look like a match stick.

Speaker 20 (23:15):
Yeah, yeah, it's right. I never noticed that before. Jobo,
you look just like an old kitchen match. But he's strong.
Loos helped me Joe Bo can out lift you any
day of the week, right, Jobo, here you showing boy?

Speaker 3 (23:30):
All right, let's see about that.

Speaker 7 (23:33):
Help.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
What you gonna do, Louke, I'm gonna lift this baby right.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Off the ground?

Speaker 20 (23:40):
Watch we look at that, clear off the ground boat
front wheels.

Speaker 22 (23:49):
You think you can do.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
That, Joe Bo, I gotta set this down. Well, what
do you say, strong boy?

Speaker 6 (24:00):
Well that's real good lifting master, That's all I gotta say.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
You do it better, jo Woke.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
Go on.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Let's see you.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
No, sir, I wouldn't do no better.

Speaker 20 (24:09):
Oh, come on, Joe boy, I bet him five bucks
you can outlift him.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Go on and do it well.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
If you really want me to.

Speaker 13 (24:19):
Yes, you book, go on.

Speaker 9 (24:21):
What happened?

Speaker 23 (24:21):
Then?

Speaker 3 (24:22):
I did what he asked?

Speaker 9 (24:23):
What did you do?

Speaker 7 (24:24):
Well?

Speaker 6 (24:24):
I lifted that their car, I mean, clear off the ground,
sort of wrap my arms around it and lift it
all four wheels up, just sort of sort of, you
know what, held it there.

Speaker 11 (24:35):
A while and it want nothing. I lifted wood heavier.

Speaker 8 (24:39):
Now what did they do?

Speaker 4 (24:42):
It didn't do nothing.

Speaker 6 (24:44):
Then it was afterwards, after I got home that afternoon
and found my maw dying. Oh no, I said to her.
Ma don't die, Please, don't die.

Speaker 24 (25:00):
Hush Toibo, hush. Now, you got to listen to me.

Speaker 9 (25:06):
Son. When I'm gone, you got to do something.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
I'll go fetch up placed old Please let me fetch him.

Speaker 9 (25:14):
Give me first, Jobo. When I'm gone, you got to
go out to Paul's grave back of the cabin, and
you got to.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Teach stop dig a Pauw's grave.

Speaker 24 (25:28):
That's right, son, there's a box on top of PA's coughing.
There's something in that box he left for you. You
was supposed to see it when you.

Speaker 9 (25:42):
Was twenty one.

Speaker 18 (25:43):
See what, ma?

Speaker 24 (25:46):
I was scared, Jobo. I was scared that thing he
told me about.

Speaker 14 (25:55):
Then I cool, O cool.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
What that's what it sounded like.

Speaker 6 (26:06):
Miss my mas was scared of something cold the aku aku.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
I couldn't look anyway.

Speaker 6 (26:15):
She got quiet then and I ran off to get
Doc Blaze. Now, I ran as fast as my legs
could take.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
And then I saw that car again.

Speaker 20 (26:24):
He joe Bojo bot sta stah, I can't, I can't,
Oh need Jobo, we want to talk to you.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Oh where's the fat yo?

Speaker 14 (26:33):
Bo?

Speaker 4 (26:34):
My mom said, I got to get to Doc Blade.

Speaker 20 (26:37):
Go on to Louise said, you could take him.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Let's see it now it okay, farm boy, here I
can get on. No, please, now, I got no time
for fooling around. Who's fooling okay, funny face here I came.

Speaker 20 (26:50):
I had a boy lout, rashly rasley for he Joe,
what's your minny?

Speaker 1 (26:55):
When you why don't you fight back? Take you grabby John?

Speaker 23 (26:58):
Don't let it be god?

Speaker 10 (27:00):
Oh do we you'll?

Speaker 9 (27:05):
What did you do to him, Chobo?

Speaker 6 (27:07):
Well, I didn't want to hurt him, Mess, I didn't,
but I had to get help from a moss. So
so I took his arm and I made juice out
of it. Well, and that's when the police came. And
so I never did get to dig up Paul's grave.
And I still don't know what Ma was talking about
when when she said she was scared of the aku Akubo.

Speaker 9 (27:33):
We're going to leave this place right now.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
Leave what have come?

Speaker 9 (27:38):
Well? I paid your bill and that means you won't
have to stay here until your trial. And I make
sure you get a very good lawyer. He'll make sure
that the judge knows that it wasn't your fault.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Well, that's real nice of you, Mess.

Speaker 6 (27:51):
I want over.

Speaker 9 (27:52):
I want to do this, but I also want you
to do something for me.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
What's that?

Speaker 9 (27:58):
I want you to go to your father's grave today
and let me come with you.

Speaker 6 (28:09):
Sure seems like a blasphemous thing to do digging up
Paul's burying place.

Speaker 9 (28:15):
Your mother wanted you to do this Jobol, it can't
be considered wrong.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
I won't have to touch Paul's coughing nothing.

Speaker 7 (28:22):
She told me that.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
She said that what was buried with my paw was
all by itself.

Speaker 9 (28:28):
And you don't know what that thing is?

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Oh no, miss I surely don't.

Speaker 14 (28:34):
I hit something.

Speaker 9 (28:35):
It must be the coughin. Jobo.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Oh, I am scared, miss Allna. I don't like doing this.

Speaker 9 (28:40):
Yes, yes, I know the I.

Speaker 14 (28:44):
It ain't that coffin.

Speaker 7 (28:47):
This this thing I hit.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
It's a box, man, I said, this little wooden box.

Speaker 9 (28:53):
It must be what your mother meant.

Speaker 25 (28:55):
Jobo.

Speaker 26 (28:55):
Can you get it out?

Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yes, miss I got it open.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
I'm scared to know.

Speaker 9 (29:04):
You must open it. Oh here, let me do it.

Speaker 7 (29:07):
You'll be careful now.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
If if it's the aku aku.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
No tell him, no, tell him what it might do.

Speaker 9 (29:12):
It's a little rusty, but it's opened, sho. It looks
like a piece of jewelry.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
My Paul never owned no jewelry.

Speaker 25 (29:26):
But that's what it is.

Speaker 6 (29:28):
Look, oh, it's lovely.

Speaker 9 (29:32):
It's a medallion of some sort a shiny sae medaia.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
It hurts my eyes just looking at it. It hurts
my eyes.

Speaker 9 (29:42):
It is some sort of writing on it, but I
can't tell what it means.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Can you, Joba, No, please, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
I can't look at it.

Speaker 9 (29:48):
I can't.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
It hurts.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
It hurts me to look at that thing.

Speaker 20 (29:54):
Miss Alba.

Speaker 25 (29:57):
Shobo.

Speaker 6 (30:05):
The aku aku a strange word from another world, a
strange silver disc from another time, a gift from father
to son, only, a gift which has caused Jobo Hailey
to fall unconscious to the ground before the startled eyes
of al Ma Tillotson.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
What does it mean?

Speaker 6 (30:27):
We learned the answer when I returned shortly with Act three.
The trial of Jobo Hailey is over. It was a
victory for simple justice, and al Matillotson had her share

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in the exoneration of the defendant. A frightened Deep Conroy
admitted on the stand that Jobo had been provoked into
the assault on lou Dappler's arm. Admitted that the professional
Wrestler had attacked first, and that Jobo was justified in
defending himself. Lou Dappler would never wrestle again, but then

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Jobo would never be the same again, nor would Alma,
who returned to Connecticut and waited for her father's homecoming
that same day.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Hello, my darling, how are you fine?

Speaker 9 (31:21):
Only I'm still mad at you for not letting me
meet you at the airport.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
There was no need for that, Alman at all.

Speaker 9 (31:28):
Oh you look so tired, ye I suppose I am.

Speaker 11 (31:31):
I don't know if it's simple exhaustion or disappointment.

Speaker 9 (31:35):
Oh, then the chip wasn't successful.

Speaker 11 (31:37):
Well, I'm afraid all I have to show for it
is one more bit of mysterious metal. Our friend Dave
doesn't think it'll.

Speaker 7 (31:44):
Prove very much.

Speaker 9 (31:46):
You mean another statue, No, not.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
A statue, Alma. Didn't you read my letter?

Speaker 14 (31:52):
No?

Speaker 9 (31:52):
I didn't.

Speaker 11 (31:53):
I wrote you about it more than a week ago.
Surely that letter must have gotten here by now.

Speaker 9 (31:58):
Well, to tell you the truth, Daddy, I have any
and looked at the mail. I just got home today myself.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
You did before you've been Alma.

Speaker 11 (32:06):
Don't tell me you actually went to see that That
fella I couldn't resist.

Speaker 27 (32:10):
It, Daddy.

Speaker 9 (32:11):
I felt compelled to see him, I really did. The
resemblance was so uncanny. I just felt there had to
be a connection to the natives of Easter Island, or
maybe something.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Immortal for Heaven's sake, Alma, I was so.

Speaker 9 (32:25):
Surprised when I met him. Oh, he is the most
exciting person I've ever met, especially after he dug up
his father's grave and found the disc.

Speaker 19 (32:35):
What did you say?

Speaker 9 (32:37):
It was a bequest of his father, Daddy. You see,
when Jobo's mother died, she told him to dig up
the grave that there was something left for him. It
turned out to be a strange, sober disk and there
was some writing on it.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Alma, where is this disc?

Speaker 14 (32:56):
Do you know? Well?

Speaker 9 (32:57):
Yes, Jobo has it. He keeps it with him all
the time. He's afraid to look at it. The first
time he looked at that disk, he became unconscious. Isn't
that strange?

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Ysh very strange, Daddy, what is it?

Speaker 9 (33:12):
You look faint yourself.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
I have to see that disc, then you'll have.

Speaker 9 (33:16):
To see Jobo. He's here, father, what I brought him
home with me. I'll go upstairs and get him. Jobo,
this is my father, Professor Tillotson, I do, sir.

Speaker 11 (33:34):
Hello Jobo, please please sit on. I want to ask
you something very important. Yes, sir, Jobo. I've just returned
from a journey to an island in the South Pacific.
I found something strange in this island. A metal disk
with peculiar markings, a bright thing that looks like silver.

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My daughter tells me that your father left you something
like that as again.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
Yes, sir, he did.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
It's a round, shiny thing, but I don't know what
it's for.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
It hurts me to look at it.

Speaker 11 (34:07):
And I've brought that other disc with me, Jobo, and
I've been carrying it about since my return from Easter Island.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Will you look at it?

Speaker 11 (34:17):
Yeah, yes, sir, if you want me to well, here, Jobo,
tell me if our disks are twins.

Speaker 28 (34:23):
Oh lord, oh good, sweet lord, Straight, Joba, Clendy.

Speaker 24 (34:35):
It is the same disc, the same, only now it
looks it's killed him.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
Come sailed, doctor. He's all right, mister Tillison.

Speaker 15 (34:50):
I don't know what he was trying to tell me,
but he's certainly not in any physical danger. I don't
think I've ever examined a man with a Constitution like
your friends.

Speaker 9 (34:58):
Well, he's not like a the people.

Speaker 14 (35:00):
Doctor.

Speaker 9 (35:00):
We know that.

Speaker 11 (35:01):
He certainly doesn't talk like other people. Well, he's almost illiterate.
You see, hillbilly. I guess you'd call him, no, mister Tillotson.
That's the last thing i'd call that man. In fact,
from the things he was telling me, i'd say he
was something of a scholar.

Speaker 7 (35:17):
What do you mean?

Speaker 9 (35:18):
What was Jobo saying?

Speaker 14 (35:19):
Doctor?

Speaker 3 (35:21):
I think you'd better go in and hear it for yourself.

Speaker 11 (35:24):
He asked for you both, now, good day, goodbye, doctor, Daddy.

Speaker 9 (35:31):
What do you suppose he meant?

Speaker 3 (35:33):
I don't know. Let's go in and see Jobo.

Speaker 14 (35:40):
Joba.

Speaker 6 (35:42):
It's me, I'm daddy, Yes, Alma, please come in a
you too, Professor Tooba?

Speaker 19 (35:51):
What happened?

Speaker 9 (35:53):
He sounds so different.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
As a doctor told us you were talking to him.

Speaker 6 (35:58):
It's to you too that I wish to see, Professor,
And I'll forgive me for fainting, the effect of the
akuaku is powerful at first, but then it can be withstood.
The first time I saw the disc was too much
for my mind and I could not support the shark.

Speaker 9 (36:16):
What happened to you?

Speaker 3 (36:17):
The disc has released.

Speaker 29 (36:19):
The power in me, Alma, the power which has been
mine from the beginning of my life. Its effect might
be described as post hypnotic.

Speaker 6 (36:28):
I've come into my inheritance, Alma. The aku aku has
done this.

Speaker 7 (36:33):
You mean this thing?

Speaker 6 (36:34):
You No, it wasn't an aku aku in the mystical sense, Professor.
There there is no magic spirit in the disc. It
might have been anything. My ancestors chose to invest with
post hypnotic power. They chose the disc because it was
an ancient emblem of our world.

Speaker 9 (36:50):
Your work, Tubo, You were born.

Speaker 6 (36:53):
Here on a f yes, Alma, I was born here
as my father was born before me, and his father
before for him. But my distant ancestors came from a
planet millions of miles from Earth, a world we called Akliah,
which has as yet no.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
Name in your astronomy.

Speaker 7 (37:12):
Who are you then?

Speaker 4 (37:13):
I am Jobo.

Speaker 29 (37:15):
I am the child of my father who had the
name of Seth, the grandchild of his father, who bore
the name of Ephraim. We lived among the peoples of Earth,
not as aliens, but as humans. We loved and married
and gave birth here where you see, this was our
chosen home.

Speaker 9 (37:35):
And you are different.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
You know our seed is as your seed.

Speaker 29 (37:39):
We can mate with the people of Earth, and so
we are your brothers in life. But yes, we are different.
A child of Aclia is born with a great inheritance memory,
memory that dates back endless generations. All that has happened

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to our race. All that is known to us is
known to that child. Each of us is a living.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Record of our history. Qu It incredible? You mean you
knew you remember everything? Or your father knew your grandfather?

Speaker 29 (38:15):
It was a gift from the creator, mister Tillotson. Perhaps
his compensation for taking away so much from us.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
Ours was a dying race.

Speaker 29 (38:27):
The flight from Aclia to Earth so many centuries ago
was a flight of desperation, not of adventure.

Speaker 6 (38:35):
In the last agonies of our planet. This power was
given to us. And are there others like you on Earth?

Speaker 14 (38:43):
No?

Speaker 4 (38:44):
I am the last of my people.

Speaker 29 (38:47):
If I had never seen the Akuaku, if I had
not wakened to my inheritance, the sole and sacred memory
of my people would have vanished from the universe.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
And you didn't know all this, No, alma, I knew
nothing of my destiny.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
And Easter Island, Jobo, what of that?

Speaker 9 (39:07):
That's why your ship landed, wasn't it.

Speaker 29 (39:09):
There were forty of us on the voyage, twenty men,
twenty women. But when we entered the gravitational field of Earth,
the unexpected happened. An atomic reactor exploded. Half of our
number were killed, and something even worse occurred. The explosion
rendered the women's sterile. They could not have children. The

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life of our race had ended on a primitive island.

Speaker 14 (39:35):
It didn't anger it would have, Alma.

Speaker 29 (39:37):
If there had not been women of this earth willing
to see beyond this ugly face, this clown like body,
Women willing to accept us in love and understanding, and
to bear us the child who would bear the burden
of our race forever. There haven't been many such women
in our history.

Speaker 6 (39:57):
That's why I'm the last, the only survivor, and when
I die childless, we ought no more.

Speaker 9 (40:07):
Joma.

Speaker 7 (40:09):
I'm wait a minute.

Speaker 9 (40:13):
I love you, Jobo, I love you. Come in, David,
come in. I've kept you away from this house long enough.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Much too long, Alma, for an old friend of the family.

Speaker 9 (40:34):
You didn't act much like a friend. Twenty years ago
when you heard about my plans to become this is
Jobo Haley.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
I was jealous Alma, you know that. How's he doing?
By the way, you said he wasn't well?

Speaker 9 (40:47):
Oh, he's well. Jobo is just tired. He took to
his bed three days ago. He isn't in any pain.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
I'm glad to hear that. I was worried when you
told me. What about your son, Alma?

Speaker 9 (41:00):
Jeremiah, Oh, Jeremiah, it's fine. He's in town right now
picking up a new suit.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
It's his birthday tomorrow, you know, is it really?

Speaker 9 (41:10):
He'll be twenty one?

Speaker 23 (41:12):
Dave?

Speaker 9 (41:12):
Would you like to say hello to Jobo?

Speaker 3 (41:15):
Do you think it would be all right?

Speaker 9 (41:17):
Oh, I'm sure he'd like to see you.

Speaker 7 (41:23):
Jobo.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
I'm sorry to hear that you're ill.

Speaker 6 (41:28):
I'm not ill, Dave. The truth is I'm dying hot.
I've known it for three days now.

Speaker 7 (41:37):
It was as if a.

Speaker 6 (41:38):
Voice spoke inside me. It said that my allotted time
was up, that I should take to my bed and sleep.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
When now, wait a minute, If that's really true, Alma
should know about it.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
You should have a doctor.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
No, Dave, there is no cure for a completed life. Well,
that's ridiculous.

Speaker 6 (41:59):
Uh, I'm going to tell her no, sid Alma must
not be told anything yet nor my son.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
I haven't met your son yet, Jobo.

Speaker 29 (42:11):
The time has come for his aku, for his inheritance,
for him to be awakened to the memory of our
ancient race and homeland.

Speaker 12 (42:22):
You really believe that's true, don't you, Jobo? Jobo Alma, Alma,
come up here.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
It's it's your husband.

Speaker 19 (42:37):
What's the matter, Joba, I h.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
I think he's there.

Speaker 13 (42:44):
No, he can't.

Speaker 3 (42:46):
He told me that that he was waiting for death,
that he knew it was about to happen.

Speaker 13 (42:53):
No, no, day, you're wrong.

Speaker 9 (42:55):
You see, there's there's one thing you don't know about
my husband, Jobel.

Speaker 13 (43:04):
He will live.

Speaker 10 (43:06):
Forever.

Speaker 6 (43:11):
There is an old legend that says the earth trembles
when a god dies, but the earth remained quiet when
Jobo Haley, the living god of Easter Island, closed his
eyes forever. But the next day a you god was
born when Jeremiah Haley looked into the gleaming silver disc
that was his birthright and became the inheritor of one

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of the most precious gifts of all, the gift which
makes civilization possible.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
Memory. I'll be back shortly.

Speaker 6 (43:55):
The story you have just heard was fiction, of course,
But who can be sure that the strange gods of
Easter Island are not monuments to visitors from outer space.
And maybe someday the people of our planet will be
landing on the shores of strange islands on other worlds,

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and when we leave, will the natives build monuments to us?

Speaker 21 (44:22):
Can you see yourself as a god of Easter Island?

Speaker 6 (44:26):
Our cast included Earl Hammond, William Griffiths, Russell Morton, E. V. Jester,
and Jackson Beck. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in part
by Buick Motor Division.

Speaker 7 (44:41):
Missus E. G.

Speaker 6 (44:42):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant.

Speaker 30 (44:53):
Dream, Let every Goho signal remind you that you do

(45:39):
go farther with signal gasoline, the Signal Oil Program, the
Signal Oil Company, and your neighborhood signal dealer bring you another.

Speaker 31 (45:57):
Curious story by the Whistler, The Night Death Sees Double.

(46:18):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things, For
I walk by night. I know many strange tales, many
secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women who
have stepped into the shadows. Presently I'll tell you of
nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.

Speaker 30 (46:42):
But First Signal Oil Company is happy to devote this
time to an announcement from the United States Government on
to day's most important event, the opening of the sixth
Warlworn Drive. Many Americans, unfortunately, won't be hearing this announcement
beside their home radios to night. Some are crouching in
rain filled foxholes in the Philippines or Burma. Others are

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slogging through cold and mud in northern Italy or in
France plagued by the new German stratosphere bond. But they're
not complaining. They're just asking for the weapons they need
to get the fighting over and get them home again
as soon as possible.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
That's where you come in.

Speaker 30 (47:22):
It's going to take more B twenty nine s lots
more at six hundred thousand dollars each and M four
tanks at sixty seven thousand dollars each. Yes, millions and
millions more dollars. But you're not being asked to give
your dollars. Just invest them in the world's safest investment,
a United States war bond. Make it a hundred dollar bond.

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This time your war bond dollars not only pay you
excellent interest while insuring your future security. But they say
to the boys we sent over there, you're not quitting,
neither am I, till it's over over there.

Speaker 32 (47:59):
And now the whistler.

Speaker 21 (48:08):
You've heard of identical twins, haven't you?

Speaker 33 (48:11):
He his.

Speaker 21 (48:12):
You don't run across them very often, but once in
a while you'll find two people who look so much
alike that even their own parents can't tell them apart,
and that can lead to all sorts of complications. There's
one case I have in mind, especially the case of
Mona and Martha Spencer, identical twin sisters. They were exactly alike.

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Their friends couldn't tell them apart. Their mother and father
before they died, had trouble distinguishing between them. After their
parents deaths, they were alone in the world, two devoted,
loving sisters. At least that's what everyone thought, two loving sisters, beautiful, popular,
surrounded by admirers. Them Along came Bill Everett, handsome, successful,

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the catch of the season, as they say, and Mona. Yes,
they became engaged, and Mona brought out the stores for
her true soul. And one night she and Martha stood
in Mona's room admiring the beautiful dresses in Monjerie she
had purchased.

Speaker 10 (49:11):
And this dress and this robe.

Speaker 34 (49:13):
And what's the matter, Martha, humh oh, nothing. I think
they're beautiful, all of'em. That's she's dis dressed.

Speaker 19 (49:24):
I wonder how I look A Well, you look lovely, dear,
the same as I will. Why don't you try it on?
You mean it? Of course, it'll be like looking in
the mirror as myself. Go ahead.

Speaker 34 (49:35):
I'd like to see how it will look on me.

Speaker 19 (49:37):
Look, you're sure you don't mind? Of course I don't mind.
Go ahead.

Speaker 14 (49:40):
Tight.

Speaker 19 (49:43):
You're very lucky girl, Mama lucky, be so lovely and
had Bill.

Speaker 34 (49:49):
Well, if I'm lovely, so you. We're both alike, yes,
except for one thing, and Marsa, what is it? We've
never had secrets from each other?

Speaker 19 (50:00):
How aren't we a light?

Speaker 27 (50:02):
You have?

Speaker 33 (50:02):
Bill?

Speaker 27 (50:04):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (50:04):
I do believe you're jealous? Are you in love with Bill?

Speaker 1 (50:07):
Too?

Speaker 19 (50:08):
Nonsense?

Speaker 34 (50:09):
I just can't help feeling a little jealous. Naturally, you
you found your man and I, well, do you blame me?
We're not alike in another respect, Martha you're weak and
I'm strong weak. Yes, I found my man, as you
put it, because I made up my mind to find you.

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Should do the same, delling what's happened to all your boyfriend?
You've been staying home so much lately. Well, I I
just haven't felt like going out, that's all, Matha. Sometimes
I don't understand you. You're so moody lately. Oh oh,
that's probably Bill. Run down and let him in like
a good girl. I'll be dressed in a minute.

Speaker 19 (50:50):
All right, I'm coming hello Bill.

Speaker 35 (51:02):
Hello Mona. Oh, wearing your new dress. Huh oh, yes,
it's beautiful. I'll get your coat well like. But Bill, oh,
I'm sorry I forgot.

Speaker 6 (51:16):
Rutal.

Speaker 19 (51:18):
Well, that's hardly the way to kiss her sister. Huh oh,
I've been trying to tell you Bill.

Speaker 21 (51:25):
Him Martha, Poor Bill can't tell his fiance from her sister. Yes,
it's too bad that incident at the door had to happen,
because it gave Martha an idea. She tried to put
it out of her mind, but she couldn't. She thought

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about it all evening while Mona and Bill were out
having a good time.

Speaker 19 (51:52):
Couldn't kill me? From Mona kissed me, couldn't you?

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (51:59):
That little voice kept whispering to her, over and over
and over again. It wouldn't go away. The thought was there, insistent, growing,
If even Bill couldn't distinguish between them, why not?

Speaker 16 (52:12):
Why not?

Speaker 21 (52:14):
By the time Mona came home, the thought had grown
into a plan, and Martha was waiting for her sister.

Speaker 10 (52:21):
Oh, hello, Martha, he'll are yes.

Speaker 19 (52:24):
I I couldn't sleep. Oh what's the matter I've been thinking?

Speaker 36 (52:29):
Really?

Speaker 10 (52:31):
Oh that's good? Oh, never long to bed like a
good girl.

Speaker 19 (52:34):
I'm dreadfully tired. I suppose you've had a good time
with Bill tonight.

Speaker 10 (52:39):
Wonderful.

Speaker 19 (52:40):
Where did you go?

Speaker 37 (52:41):
It was seventy four o'clock and mazies and I'll tell
you all about tomorrow.

Speaker 19 (52:46):
Tell me now, Martha, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 10 (52:50):
Why are you still up?

Speaker 32 (52:52):
It's late.

Speaker 19 (52:52):
You should have been in bed long ago. I couldn't sleep.

Speaker 10 (52:56):
Oh that's too bad for here?

Speaker 19 (52:57):
Why not take something I was thinking I didn't want
to see. That's a waste of time.

Speaker 34 (53:05):
Now run along and get to bed. I'm certainly not
going to stay and talk to just because you don't
want to go to bed.

Speaker 10 (53:09):
I'll tell you all about to night.

Speaker 21 (53:11):
In the morning, Mona goes on about the absorbing business
of getting ready for bed, but Martha stays in her room,
sitting watching her, and through her mind go the details
of the plan carefully, minutely. She watches her sister's beauty

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preparations with a stoic look on her face, but with
hatred burning and growing inside her. Then Mona is ready.
She climbs into bed and prepares to turn out the light.

Speaker 10 (53:43):
No, Mars, I'm going to bed.

Speaker 19 (53:45):
I'm going to talk. I told you we'd talk in
the morning. Now we won't. What There isn't going to
be any tomorrow for you, Mona?

Speaker 13 (53:54):
What do you mean?

Speaker 19 (53:55):
What are you trying to do?

Speaker 38 (53:56):
Scare me?

Speaker 19 (53:57):
I remember when we were little girl, She used to
try to scare me. We're not children any more, Martha. No,
we're not, are we? But one thing is still the same.
You always get the best of everything. That's the same.

Speaker 34 (54:11):
I've hated you for years, never really known it until now.
Hated having a sister, a sister who always got the
best of everything. And then Bill came along, so I
was right.

Speaker 10 (54:22):
You are in love with Bill.

Speaker 19 (54:23):
Yes, Mona, I'm in love with Bill. You were right
about another thing. I'm jealous of you.

Speaker 10 (54:29):
You're just lucky.

Speaker 34 (54:29):
You always had been lucky. You met him first, so
we fell in love with you. Why couldn't it have
been me? If I'd met him first, you would have
fallen in love with me. Yes, you're laughing at me now,
but you won't laugh much longer. You are right about
several things, Bonna, but you are terribly wrong about one thing.

Speaker 10 (54:47):
You said.

Speaker 34 (54:47):
I am weak and you're strong, But you were wrong, Muna.
I'm not weak, I'm strong. I'm stronger than you. I'm
strong enough to kill you.

Speaker 27 (54:57):
You're a fool.

Speaker 34 (54:58):
You wouldn't get anything by killing me, wouldn't I Now,
stop this nonsense and go to bed. We'll talk about
it in the morning when you're more calm.

Speaker 19 (55:05):
You don't believe me to Yourmona.

Speaker 34 (55:07):
You don't believe there isn't going to be any mourning
for you. But it's true, Mona, You're going to die tonight.

Speaker 19 (55:14):
I'm going to kill you.

Speaker 10 (55:15):
Where did you get that gun?

Speaker 19 (55:18):
That's gun? Why don't you remember, Mona, this was father's gun.

Speaker 10 (55:22):
But I don't.

Speaker 19 (55:23):
You can't order me around any longer.

Speaker 27 (55:25):
I far all up.

Speaker 19 (55:26):
Wait for me, plums the anti Mona. You can't run
away from me. No, no, I'm following your Mona. You
won't go far, just the top of the stairs. Then
you'll be down on your knees begging me not.

Speaker 39 (55:42):
To kill you.

Speaker 10 (55:43):
But it won't do you any good.

Speaker 19 (55:45):
Heaven's name, you see, it's you who's weak, not me.
I'm song.

Speaker 14 (55:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (55:51):
You're making a mistake.

Speaker 37 (55:52):
It won't be any good on the way.

Speaker 19 (55:54):
Please listen to me, you see, Mona. I told you
you'll be begging on your knees.

Speaker 7 (55:59):
You must listen.

Speaker 40 (56:00):
No, you listen.

Speaker 19 (56:02):
You don't think I'll gain anything by killing you. You
think I'll be caught and convicted and die. Well you're
wrong again, Mona.

Speaker 10 (56:08):
I won't be caught and I won't die.

Speaker 34 (56:11):
No one will even know your death, because after I
kill you, I'm going to become you. They'll think I die,
they'll think I committed suicide. What a perfect Mona, perfect
in every respect, isn't it lucky?

Speaker 19 (56:24):
We're twins?

Speaker 34 (56:25):
How fortunate we look exactly alike? How fortunate we sound
exactly alike. You are mean now, Mana, and you're going.

Speaker 25 (56:33):
To kill yourself.

Speaker 19 (56:34):
No do no, struggle, won't do you any good.

Speaker 34 (56:44):
I'm strong, Mona. I'm strong enough to put that gun
to your head. It must look plex you with that, Mona.
The gun close, powder burns on your face.

Speaker 40 (56:54):
Oh still Mona?

Speaker 19 (56:55):
Who a trigger?

Speaker 41 (57:00):
Hah ha.

Speaker 21 (57:10):
So Martha Spencer killed her twin sister Mona. Then, carrying
out her plan, she immediately assumed Mona's identity. She changed
into Mona's dress, arranged the gun in Mona's hand, took
Mona's engagement ring and diamond clip, dressed Mona in one
of her robes, and put her dinner ring on Mona's finger.
Oh yes, it was perfect, perfect in every detail. What

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could the police suspect when not even Bill Everett could
tell Mona and Martha part.

Speaker 34 (57:41):
Hello, police department, I think you better come to fourth me,
seven Oak Street right away. My sister just minuted suicide.

Speaker 14 (57:48):
What.

Speaker 19 (57:50):
Oh yes, I I'm Mona's Spencer.

Speaker 21 (57:54):
Who Yes, it's done now now there's no turning back, Martha,
So don't get nervous. Keep calm and face the police,
just as if it really had been suicide. Nothing is
going to go wrong, nothing not if you keep your head.
Your plan is perfect. When the police arrived, you do

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keep your head. They ask only a few simple questions,
and Bill, who arrives soon after, is with you to
keep you steady, so you carry it off rather well.

Speaker 42 (58:26):
I'm sorry to subject you to these questions, miss Spencer.
I know how you must feel.

Speaker 19 (58:30):
Poor Martha. She's threatened to kill herself, but I didn't
think she'd do it.

Speaker 4 (58:35):
And she'd been depressed recently.

Speaker 34 (58:37):
Oh, yes, very depressed. She seemed to be losing control
of herself. She was never quite the same after our
parents died.

Speaker 42 (58:45):
Do you suppose your forthcoming marriage had anything to do
with it?

Speaker 19 (58:48):
Well, I'm afraid it did.

Speaker 34 (58:51):
You See, Martha and I were always very close to
each other. She had no boyfriends. I couldn't understand it.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
She was very attractive, ye, just as you are.

Speaker 19 (59:02):
Yes, but for some reason no one ever became seriously
interested in her. And then with Bill and I.

Speaker 42 (59:08):
Yes, I understand. By the way, mister Everett, did Martha
Spencer say anything to you that might lead you to
believe she contemplated suicide?

Speaker 40 (59:16):
Well, I oh, I can't say she did.

Speaker 19 (59:19):
It's all right here. You needn't spare me.

Speaker 34 (59:21):
I'm sure you must have noticed how strangely she been
acting lately. M.

Speaker 40 (59:25):
Come to think of it, she didn't quite seem to
be herself. M.

Speaker 42 (59:29):
I see, well, I don't think we need to trouble
you any further, Miss Spencer. These were just routine questions.
The coroner's verdict was suicide. I'm satisfied then, if you'll
excuse me, of course, I'll be running along. Oh, don't
bother to show me out.

Speaker 40 (59:43):
I can find my way.

Speaker 19 (59:44):
Thank you, goodbye bye, goodbye, am, good luck.

Speaker 35 (59:50):
Well Mona, I uh think I better be running along too.
I'll uh, I'll call you in the morning.

Speaker 7 (59:54):
Her.

Speaker 19 (59:54):
How much you go, Bill, I don't wanna be alone
for a while.

Speaker 40 (01:00:00):
Well, yes, I know, but we'll see him, Mona.

Speaker 35 (01:00:02):
I I thought perhaps, in view of what's happened you, well,
you might want to postpone our marriage for a while.

Speaker 34 (01:00:10):
I feel badly about poor Mark. Of course we can't
help her now. We may as well forget it and
enjoy our own happiness.

Speaker 40 (01:00:18):
You wish, Bill?

Speaker 7 (01:00:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:00:21):
You you haven't kissed me since Martha died.

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
Oh?

Speaker 40 (01:00:27):
Sorry, I love you, Bill.

Speaker 19 (01:00:36):
Now you're mine forever.

Speaker 30 (01:00:47):
You were listening to the whistler brought to you by
your friend. The Signal Oil Company marketers are famous signal
gasoline your best buy today. Remember to let every go
signal mind you that you do go farther with signal gasoline.

Speaker 21 (01:01:22):
Well, several weeks went by, Martha thought she'd better wait
a little while to make certain that the cold blooded murder.

Speaker 14 (01:01:29):
Of her sister was not suspected.

Speaker 21 (01:01:31):
Yeah, she was a clever girl. With Martha Spencer posing
as her twin sister Mona. Martha knew she looked exactly
like Mona, but did she talk exactly like her, and
walk and act and make love exactly like Bona? At first,
the possibility bothered her.

Speaker 43 (01:01:48):
Will kiss me, okay, Bill, sir, you sometimes act so cool.

Speaker 19 (01:02:00):
I haven't done anything to make you feel different than you.

Speaker 16 (01:02:03):
Know better than that.

Speaker 40 (01:02:04):
What's eating you, Mona?

Speaker 44 (01:02:05):
Nothing?

Speaker 19 (01:02:06):
Nothing. I just wanted to if i'd changed any So
much has happened.

Speaker 40 (01:02:11):
Oh you haven't changed, Mona. You'll never change, never in
this world.

Speaker 21 (01:02:24):
Yes, everything was going all right. Bill didn't suspect the thing,
neither did the police, and after a few weeks Martha
felt secure. Bill didn't act as she had expected him
to act. There was a sort of a chilly detachment,
and his attitude darterr. But perhaps that was only because
he was shy or reticent to show his feelings before
they were married. So the thing to do was to

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hurry up the marriage bill.

Speaker 10 (01:02:48):
Why should we wait?

Speaker 19 (01:02:49):
Why don't we go ahead and get married right away?

Speaker 32 (01:02:53):
Okay?

Speaker 40 (01:02:54):
I suppose we might as well get it over with.

Speaker 19 (01:02:57):
That's a fun way to talk about our marriage.

Speaker 35 (01:02:59):
Okay, okay, So we'll get married. Drive out to Rawley
tomorrow and get the license.

Speaker 19 (01:03:04):
Yes, might drive way out to a little town like
that together.

Speaker 40 (01:03:07):
You know why as well as I do?

Speaker 19 (01:03:10):
Oh oh, yes, of course, dear anything you say, hmm.

Speaker 21 (01:03:23):
That's strange, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:03:24):
Martha?

Speaker 21 (01:03:25):
You don't know what he meant by that, do you?
There must be some secret between Mona and Bill that
you didn't know about. But never mind. It can't be
very important and he didn't suspect you don't worry about
it as you drive out to Raleigh, go to the
courthouse and sign the application. But now there's something else.
You watch amazed as Bill signs the application for a license.

Speaker 35 (01:03:47):
Will it's all right? I've signed correctly. You can see
for yourself. Will I stopped, Morna? What's getting into you next?

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
Please?

Speaker 41 (01:03:55):
Oh?

Speaker 40 (01:03:56):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:03:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 45 (01:03:57):
Uh?

Speaker 46 (01:03:57):
Here you are m I see now seems to be
all right. I'll be two dollars please, they are, thank you.
I'll have to wait three days.

Speaker 36 (01:04:05):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Oh well, better wait a moment now than later in
a divorce court.

Speaker 7 (01:04:10):
Ha ha ha.

Speaker 46 (01:04:11):
And see, let me check these names here again, miss
Mona Spencer and mister George Garrett.

Speaker 21 (01:04:23):
There was something wrong, something terribly wrong. Why did Bill
sign the license? George Garrett? A cold chill clutched at
MARTA's heart, but she didn't say anything to him. On
the way home, he suggested that they celebrate the occasion
by going out that evening to a little road house
up in the mountains. She accepted, of course, and told
him she'd be ready at seven. She left his car

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and went up the steps of her home, Yes, her home,
now all hers. She opened the front door, and as
she closed it, something on the stairs caught her attention.
She looked at the top of the stairs. There was
nothing there. She shrugged her shoulders and walked up. Just

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her imagination or was it. She paused at the top
and looked at the rug. This was where she had
killed Mona. She could almost see her, hear her.

Speaker 37 (01:05:20):
Not, no, you're making a mistake.

Speaker 19 (01:05:21):
He won't do you any good a waiting spo.

Speaker 21 (01:05:30):
Yes, stop it, Martha, you're beginning to hear things. She
went to her room, Mona's room. It was good to
be alone, to enjoy Mona's trousseau, all those wonderful things.
She slid open the closet door. Such beautiful dresses. Which
one should she wear tonight? She tried to concentrate, sat

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down at the mirror, and there was her reflection, Mona's reflection.
Ah oh, now, isn't that a shame breaking? That beautiful
mirror and that fine bottle of perfume. She got up
and paced the floor. She simply couldn't get it out
of her mind.

Speaker 4 (01:06:10):
Why?

Speaker 21 (01:06:11):
Why why did Bill sign his name George Garrett? And
why do Mona's words keep coming back to her?

Speaker 37 (01:06:18):
You're making a mistake.

Speaker 10 (01:06:19):
It would do you any good.

Speaker 9 (01:06:20):
You want to wait?

Speaker 19 (01:06:21):
Listen to me, take a part.

Speaker 35 (01:06:23):
I won't.

Speaker 26 (01:06:24):
I won't.

Speaker 21 (01:06:32):
That's right, Martha, don't think about it. Get dressed, make
yourself beautiful, as beautiful as Mona was. You should be
happy tonight, Martha. In just three days you'll be married
to Bill. That's what you wanted, wasn't it?

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
Well?

Speaker 21 (01:06:47):
Then be happy, enjoy yourself tonight with Bill.

Speaker 40 (01:06:55):
Bill, h matter mar nothing.

Speaker 19 (01:07:00):
Why you've been so quiet. You've probably spoken a word
since we started.

Speaker 40 (01:07:04):
Oh, sorry, beautiful night, isn't it?

Speaker 19 (01:07:08):
That's no good deal? Something wrong?

Speaker 25 (01:07:10):
What is it?

Speaker 35 (01:07:11):
I look, Mona, I don't remember that part of the
bargain was catering to your whims.

Speaker 14 (01:07:15):
Bargain.

Speaker 34 (01:07:17):
Uh, never mind, Bill, there's something I don't understand. Yeah,
why about the name you signed on the marriage license?

Speaker 40 (01:07:24):
It's okay, I told you.

Speaker 35 (01:07:25):
Once I signed my right name, your rights, sought yourself
for heaven's sakes.

Speaker 40 (01:07:30):
Morning when you cut it out?

Speaker 19 (01:07:31):
Yes, just of course you'll a I'm sorry.

Speaker 40 (01:07:34):
Sorry, that's a.

Speaker 19 (01:07:36):
Hot one, Bill. Yeah, you don't love if you do?

Speaker 16 (01:07:41):
Oh, why go into that?

Speaker 27 (01:07:42):
Because I wanna know?

Speaker 40 (01:07:44):
Okay, I love you, I love you, I love you,
I love you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
Do you have to keep.

Speaker 40 (01:07:47):
Hammering at me?

Speaker 19 (01:07:48):
Sorry, Bill, Please don't shout at me.

Speaker 40 (01:07:55):
Bill, Well, what is it now?

Speaker 19 (01:07:57):
Where are we going?

Speaker 40 (01:07:58):
I told you once to a little road house.

Speaker 19 (01:08:01):
I don't seem to recognize this road.

Speaker 40 (01:08:03):
Where are We're up in the mountains. We'll be at
the top soon.

Speaker 44 (01:08:07):
Bill.

Speaker 40 (01:08:08):
You have to talk Moreach. You're satisfied you've had your
own way.

Speaker 4 (01:08:10):
What more do you want?

Speaker 37 (01:08:11):
I want to know why you don't love me.

Speaker 7 (01:08:13):
I do love you.

Speaker 40 (01:08:14):
I'm crazy about you. Now leave me alone with here.

Speaker 19 (01:08:16):
I'm not a fool's bill. I love the truth.

Speaker 40 (01:08:18):
Well you do, well, just be patient.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
Owner.

Speaker 40 (01:08:22):
We're almost there.

Speaker 19 (01:08:23):
Almost where at the top?

Speaker 4 (01:08:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 40 (01:08:26):
Just around this curve? Eh, we're here.

Speaker 19 (01:08:36):
I don't see any road hids.

Speaker 35 (01:08:38):
No, there isn't any Mona. And why are we stopping
so you can get the truth? You're always getting everything
you want, all right, Mona?

Speaker 32 (01:08:46):
Look over there over there?

Speaker 7 (01:08:47):
Why like?

Speaker 9 (01:08:50):
No, what are you doing?

Speaker 40 (01:08:51):
Just tying your arms?

Speaker 47 (01:08:53):
Now?

Speaker 40 (01:08:54):
I'm gagging you?

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
There we are.

Speaker 40 (01:09:02):
How does it feel to be gagged?

Speaker 19 (01:09:03):
Moona?

Speaker 40 (01:09:05):
No, it's no use. You're going to listen to me now.

Speaker 35 (01:09:07):
You had your own way long enough, always talking, always ordering, commanding,
while I'm not going to go through with it, Mona,
I'm not going to marry you. You can only torture
a man so long and then he does something about it.
And I'm going to do something about it right now.

Speaker 32 (01:09:20):
Yes, yes, I'm.

Speaker 35 (01:09:21):
Going to kill you. I tried to reason with you.
I begged, I've pleaded, I threatened, but you've only laughed
at me. You thought, because you knew my secret, you
could force me to marry you. When you have I'd
rather go to prison than marry you. I won't marry you,
and I won't go to prison because this is going
to look like an accident. I've got a prift alibi,
mon I can count for every minute in this evening.
When they find you, they'll think you took that curve

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too fast, and they'll pronounce it accidental death.

Speaker 8 (01:09:44):
Perfect.

Speaker 40 (01:09:45):
This is your car, and there's nothing to connect me
with even being here this evening.

Speaker 35 (01:09:49):
I'll be rid of you, Mona. I'll be free to
marry Lois. Oh you didn't know Lois, did you. You
didn't even know such a person existed, did you.

Speaker 40 (01:09:59):
Well, she and I'm in love with her. I love her,
not you, and I'm going to marry her.

Speaker 35 (01:10:05):
Won't do you any good to beg I can't trust you.
I trusted your once with a secret, and you try to.

Speaker 40 (01:10:11):
Blackmail me, blackmail me in a marrying you.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
My own.

Speaker 35 (01:10:15):
I can't let you go with the cliff found in
the gag. No, that was just to make you listen,
so I can tell you why you're going to die.
Wouldn't do to have them find you with your arms
tied together. That wouldn't look quite like an accident, would Well,
this is it, mona. Now you won't feel a thing
bruise your pretty little hair.

Speaker 19 (01:10:36):
Now just remove a gag a rope.

Speaker 10 (01:10:43):
It's the break.

Speaker 40 (01:10:45):
Okay, it's the clutch. Stop the engine. Goodbye, moll it
pleasant train.

Speaker 30 (01:11:19):
The whistler will return in just a moment with a
strange ending of tonight's story. Meantime, let's test your memory.
How long has it been since you had the lubricant
changed in your transmission and differential. That's an important question
because the tremendous pressure under which the gears and most
modern cars operate gradually pulverizes tiny metal particles and turns

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even the best lubricant into a grinding, harmful abrasive. That's
why if it's been five thousand miles or over six
months since you had your transmission and differential lubricant changed,
your neighborhood signal gasoline dealer suggests that now.

Speaker 7 (01:11:56):
Is a good time to do it.

Speaker 30 (01:11:58):
Now when you bring your car in and to have
it signal safety chart lubricated for winter protection, your signal
dealer has the equipment to thoroughly flush out the old,
worn out lubricant, and his signal safety chart shows the
exact type of scientific high pressure gear lubricant prescribed by
the maker of your car. It's just another part of

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your neighborhood signal gasoline dealer's complete conscientious.

Speaker 16 (01:12:24):
Service to help your car go farther.

Speaker 40 (01:12:28):
And now back to the whistler.

Speaker 21 (01:12:40):
Poor William Everett, Poor George Garrett, that was his real name.

Speaker 8 (01:12:45):
He didn't get away with it.

Speaker 21 (01:12:46):
His alibi was fool proof enough so far as the
accident was concerned, but he forgot that Inspector Dudley would
check up on the marriage license and see his name
sign big as life, the name of George Garret, an
escape convict. Yes, Inspector Dudley didn't have to pin a
murder on him. All he had to do was send

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him back to prison to finish serving a term of
life imprisonment. Poor Bill, he only committed murder to protect
his secret, and he never knew that it wasn't Mona.
He killed with Martha, and Martha hadn't the slightest idea
that he had a secret, so she would never have
given him away. Too bad Martha couldn't have known the

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truth before she killed Mona. Oh well, that's what happens
sometimes when you're a twin and you're in love with
the same man as your sister.

Speaker 30 (01:14:02):
Next Monday, at nine o'clock, the Signal Oil Program will
bring you another strange tale by the Whistler. The Signal
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Speaker 48 (01:15:10):
We bring you the Witchard's Tale Little Man, produced by
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and Satan's a wise black Cat.

Speaker 49 (01:16:32):
Hannah and seventeen year old i'd be today, Yes, Hannah
and seventeen year old.

Speaker 37 (01:16:39):
We all satan.

Speaker 19 (01:16:42):
If these folks are.

Speaker 38 (01:16:44):
Just us out there lights, we'll spin another of our
little bedtime stories.

Speaker 9 (01:16:49):
The room and nice rest.

Speaker 19 (01:16:52):
That's right, nice and.

Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
Dark and careful. Now draw up to the fire.

Speaker 19 (01:16:58):
And days into them.

Speaker 38 (01:17:01):
Daze into him deep, and soon you'll see an island
in the center of a lake in Michigan. Not so
long ago, the Red Engines owned that land out bar
and ruship. The spirits of his waters and his skies,
And they're what we're gonna hear about tonight, the spirits

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of the lake, the sperrits of the lake.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
Those cope the Indians and tend to keep that racket
going all night.

Speaker 50 (01:17:44):
Surely there chanting doesn't annoy you, dear. I was just
thinking how weirdly beautiful it sounded coming across the water. Oh,
I'm sorry you don't like it. You'll hear it every
evening as long as the new moon cast its reflection
on the lake.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
It's a pleasant prospect.

Speaker 39 (01:17:58):
You're terribly bored here.

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
Unnaturally I'm bored.

Speaker 51 (01:18:02):
I'm not accustomed to living in a wilderness, or I
see no one but stupid savages all day?

Speaker 1 (01:18:07):
Are you saying I'll have to listen to them all night?

Speaker 50 (01:18:09):
For the reason I purchased this island so close to
the Indian Reservation, But the god I thought you'd find
a customs interesting and picture in Roger. Why don't you
take a trippy then come back to me when you're
when you're over your rest business?

Speaker 52 (01:18:23):
Fine idea that would be a friends would crucify me
for leaving you alone?

Speaker 39 (01:18:27):
Is that the only reason you stay here with me?

Speaker 37 (01:18:30):
You do love me, don't you.

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
I'm married to you. Husbands are supposed to love their wives.
I'm a nobode for romance the CID.

Speaker 50 (01:18:39):
I don't suppose an invalid can't expect your husband to
be in a mood for romance. But but I won't
be an invalid much longer. You know, I'm getting better
every day.

Speaker 39 (01:18:50):
True, it's really very seldom that I cough an it
more like that.

Speaker 50 (01:18:55):
But in a little while I'll be completely well and
we can return to New York together.

Speaker 9 (01:19:00):
What traveling?

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
You're of?

Speaker 10 (01:19:01):
Anything you want to do?

Speaker 4 (01:19:03):
Oh?

Speaker 50 (01:19:03):
I mean to give you such a good time to
make up for the breary months you send out here
recording you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
Thanks for reminding me that I have a good time.
I'm depending on your money.

Speaker 10 (01:19:12):
I didn't mean, let you know, I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
All right, let's not talk anymore about.

Speaker 7 (01:19:16):
You and me.

Speaker 39 (01:19:17):
No, we don't be able to talk to me, you and.

Speaker 21 (01:19:22):
God.

Speaker 51 (01:19:24):
I have to listen to that savage savage chattle walling
much longer, I'll go start waiting there.

Speaker 37 (01:19:29):
Perhaps perhaps did you know the reason for the champion is?
It's not interest you a little? The two Horses told
me all about.

Speaker 10 (01:19:36):
It this afternoon. You know, he's the old Indian who.

Speaker 39 (01:19:38):
Comes to see our housekeeper. She's his cousin, I think.

Speaker 10 (01:19:41):
And Roger. It's the funniest thing. But they call me
quite good.

Speaker 1 (01:19:46):
About the chap.

Speaker 37 (01:19:49):
Oh yeah, well, it's a ceremony the tribes hold each
year this time.

Speaker 50 (01:19:54):
To appease the spirit of the lake ben even though
days they call them this is a holy lik to
be and they say that if anyone of country or
hound the friends the even.

Speaker 37 (01:20:04):
Though they take care of with Bengamin two horses.

Speaker 39 (01:20:08):
Books are convincing me.

Speaker 37 (01:20:09):
That Cherris I made a piece of.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
What do you mean?

Speaker 39 (01:20:12):
I cast about of flowers and his orders instead of prayer.
Two horses talking.

Speaker 51 (01:20:18):
No wonder he calls you quite goose another month in
this world and this you'll be going about clothing a blanket. Roger, Oh,
I'm going out. I'll power around the canoe and try
to work my harts off. Nama can said with you,
you'll enjoyed her ding dropping more than you would my conversation. Anyway,
Nama Fama, come in here with missus Benton.

Speaker 37 (01:20:40):
I'm going out, Roger, try not take me with you
in the canoe. We haven't been together on the Lake
of the week.

Speaker 4 (01:20:47):
Some other time, not now.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
Uh, don't wait up for me. I may be late.
Good night, Roger waits.

Speaker 37 (01:20:56):
Well you you're not going to be Johnson's bar again?

Speaker 1 (01:21:01):
What do you mean again?

Speaker 50 (01:21:03):
I know it's bad all right here, but well there's
been a little talk about you and that good really.

Speaker 51 (01:21:08):
That has I'm having an atair with killing Johns, and
I suppose so that's what you're having in mind.

Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
It isn't bad enough, but I have to be cooped
up with you among these dirty Indians. But now I
mustn't even look at a decent looking white woman at all.
How I hate it all this Peaceley Island, these stupid savages.

Speaker 16 (01:21:24):
The slimy lake.

Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
How white, ain't you?

Speaker 7 (01:21:28):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
I I didn't say I hate you. I'll see you later.

Speaker 39 (01:21:35):
Good night, hud oh white.

Speaker 50 (01:21:43):
But my husband doesn't mean anything when he speaks angry
to me now much. He's really a very good man.
He better be good to go out on lake. What
you mean you don't get flower to lake today?

Speaker 1 (01:21:58):
You say?

Speaker 53 (01:21:59):
Engines? Prayer knee by noll Beggs. Now your friends, if
your man look good to your Nieva noll Eggs, nish
knee by Noll Beggs, a.

Speaker 1 (01:22:23):
Yoga yoda. I'm mad insane about you. Why do you
hold me off like this?

Speaker 37 (01:22:28):
Because she hasn't any right to be insane about me.

Speaker 1 (01:22:31):
You're a married man. Oh, we're not children, you know.
I don't care a hang about my wife. Sorry. There's
only a question of time before.

Speaker 19 (01:22:39):
She well, before she'll die.

Speaker 10 (01:22:43):
You mean, yes, she.

Speaker 52 (01:22:46):
Thinks she's getting better. Doctors don't tell her what they
tell me. I'll marry your teller, I.

Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
Swear I will. I can't wish for yourself.

Speaker 44 (01:22:55):
I got to have you tell that.

Speaker 19 (01:22:56):
I'd need go.

Speaker 37 (01:22:58):
Only have me as your wife told you that before.

Speaker 1 (01:23:03):
If you're really man, why don't you stop making a
pool of it. Why don't you stop meeting him? Be
here but this lake each night, playing with me as
a cat does with a mouse.

Speaker 37 (01:23:12):
Because I hope you'll not always be a mouse, but
a man you take what he wants.

Speaker 54 (01:23:17):
What do you mean simply that if you're so mad
about me as you say, you will not let a
woman that your hate stand between us any longer.

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
Well, what can I do? The boss is out of
the question, of course, And now money you'll be taking
from you? Oh, I'm not thinking only of money.

Speaker 37 (01:23:36):
I'm not thinking only of divorce. What are you thinking
of of how mistaking doctors are?

Speaker 55 (01:23:44):
Sometimes your wife may live for years.

Speaker 54 (01:23:50):
Unless an accident should happen. An accident hung his lake,
for instance, it's very deep, and there are sharp rocks
near the surface that can rip her.

Speaker 10 (01:24:02):
To know the pieces, you.

Speaker 56 (01:24:04):
Might be paddling with her in the moonlight, not knowing
those rocks were near. You told me your wife don't swim.
She might drawn before you could save the use est.

Speaker 54 (01:24:19):
I'm only talking, but if such an accident should happen,
you'd inherit our money.

Speaker 39 (01:24:28):
Have need for your.

Speaker 19 (01:24:29):
Wife, don't, No, I won't.

Speaker 37 (01:24:36):
You are a mouse not a man.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
I'm going.

Speaker 10 (01:24:41):
Listen, you're fool.

Speaker 37 (01:24:43):
I'm not satisfied to be just the daughter of a
Swedish farmer.

Speaker 55 (01:24:46):
I want money.

Speaker 37 (01:24:47):
I want to live in a fine.

Speaker 54 (01:24:49):
House like your wife is built in the center of
this lake. I want to be a lady and swallow
it on what people who despise me now because I'm
poor all my life. I've dreamed of that, and I'm
gonna have it for high of youth who looks and prays.
You don't give me what I want? Somebody else?

Speaker 19 (01:25:04):
Will you say I've played with you? Will I played
the longer?

Speaker 37 (01:25:06):
You won't see me anymore?

Speaker 19 (01:25:08):
Goodbye?

Speaker 1 (01:25:08):
I say that, come back. I can't lose you. I'm
mad abo.

Speaker 39 (01:25:16):
Wait, well.

Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
That's you say it an accident.

Speaker 37 (01:25:24):
I can accidents have come.

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
You will marry me if my wife, good guy.

Speaker 37 (01:25:34):
I'll marry you when your wife is dead. Roger, it's
wonderful to be on the lake with you again. It's
been to lose since we've been in the canoe together.
I hed though we were on a second honeymoon. Aren't

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you an joining it too, dear?

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
Yes, yes, Oh, the.

Speaker 50 (01:26:05):
World has never seen so lovely as a girls Tonight
isn't that distant chanting RESTful?

Speaker 37 (01:26:11):
You haven't complained about it this evening, so it must
make you feel as I do.

Speaker 10 (01:26:15):
It sounds the prayer.

Speaker 9 (01:26:16):
It really is a prayer to the diamond.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
That's what they're saying.

Speaker 14 (01:26:23):
Uh.

Speaker 19 (01:26:26):
Yes, this is Indan.

Speaker 9 (01:26:28):
Summer, the moon of.

Speaker 50 (01:26:29):
Falling leaves of dying, falling, dying. Can see are you
you're frightfully nervous tonight. Your hands are shaking as as.

Speaker 1 (01:26:43):
They work the.

Speaker 57 (01:26:46):
Alright, you're not.

Speaker 37 (01:26:48):
You're so unhappy here, But as soon we'll go back.

Speaker 50 (01:26:52):
We'll only come to the island for the days year
so that I can renew my offering to the spirits
of the lake.

Speaker 37 (01:26:58):
I've taken the leave, maybe very seriously, you see, but.

Speaker 19 (01:27:01):
I'm under their protection now.

Speaker 39 (01:27:03):
According to nominal to Oh dear, oh, be careful way.

Speaker 50 (01:27:07):
You guigers, they're close to the shop brooks the Indians
called the spitting telling me, they say, the road to
the villages of the happy day lead over.

Speaker 37 (01:27:16):
Such a rock in the back, rocks with a knifelick edge.

Speaker 50 (01:27:19):
I'm rejoining the good print the badge rollo into an
abyssity to stop.

Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
Talking that savage rock. Stop. I tell you what cap
fight me, you dear, I'm not afraid of spirit.

Speaker 58 (01:27:30):
Stay cappipe me and man will say it was an accident,
your man. An accident, that's what they'll say. An accident
you're making for those rocks.

Speaker 14 (01:27:40):
Load your.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
Jill back where say wow, that's me.

Speaker 10 (01:27:54):
I am.

Speaker 37 (01:28:00):
Oh good, I pads.

Speaker 1 (01:28:03):
Ostillitibl fish first.

Speaker 4 (01:28:10):
M h.

Speaker 59 (01:28:25):
Serrits of the Lake is gonna punish that fellow, all right,
And when next you folks come see me, and second
we'll tell you exactly how.

Speaker 53 (01:28:37):
About the very perticities to this little dead time story.

Speaker 48 (01:29:07):
Bring you the Witch's Tales, written and produced by Alonzo
Dean Coll. Yeah, and now let us join Old Nancy

(01:30:07):
and Satan A wise black cat.

Speaker 49 (01:30:16):
Hannah and five year old Idee Today. Yes, Sir Hannah
and five year old real Satan.

Speaker 14 (01:30:25):
Close.

Speaker 49 (01:30:25):
We get right down to business and finished that cheerful
little story we began when last these folks was here
down south end light, Old Nancy Yon sound death when
heard in bloom and shadow.

Speaker 37 (01:30:42):
Yes, see Satan, what we leave all?

Speaker 40 (01:30:47):
Oh?

Speaker 49 (01:30:47):
Yes, we told about that married couple who was living
on an island in a steric hunted lake. A tribe
of engines worship the white, who was a valid, was
pretty friendly with the Engines, and they taught her to
make friends with a diva Norbades, which is their name

(01:31:10):
for their water Sperris.

Speaker 37 (01:31:12):
We'll sir.

Speaker 49 (01:31:13):
Her husband went a norfl and fell in love with
a girl named Hilda, and this Kilda gave him the
id a drowning his wife, so he inherits her money
and degree to marry again. And as we left off
our story, that's just what this no good fellah went

(01:31:34):
and done, making it look as if her death was accidental.
Now draw up to the fire and gaze into thembras
Hulia has passed since that fella killed his wife and
now he's married to the other woman.

Speaker 1 (01:31:52):
Gaze into themb's deep song.

Speaker 37 (01:31:56):
Youll seel sitting in a stateroom.

Speaker 60 (01:31:59):
On a railroad training. Soon you'll hear more about the
spirits of the lake. The spirit of the lake, let's.

Speaker 1 (01:32:18):
Say only a few miles from now.

Speaker 54 (01:32:21):
Anyone would think something was going to happen to you
on the island the way you're whining about going back there.

Speaker 1 (01:32:25):
Oh, I don't want to go back there, hill you
or anything but a human cake. If I should understand
my feelings about the place.

Speaker 37 (01:32:31):
What the durable conscience you have after two long years?
The accidental death of your former wife fathers you as
much as ever.

Speaker 54 (01:32:41):
God, God, don't worry. I hardly think anyone is listening
at our stateroom door. You pulled a law for so long.
It's not have to get why you know.

Speaker 1 (01:32:51):
Let me forget. It was all your fault anyway you planned.

Speaker 22 (01:32:54):
That you go back.

Speaker 37 (01:32:55):
I have nothing to do with it.

Speaker 55 (01:32:56):
I wasn't even there.

Speaker 1 (01:32:59):
I know nothing about it. Step out.

Speaker 37 (01:33:02):
It doesn't get our bags together for the port. But
my folks are at the station to meet as I
don't want them to see you looking like a fright.

Speaker 1 (01:33:11):
Couldn't we stay with your family while we were here
instead of.

Speaker 37 (01:33:15):
Live in a dinky palm house. When I can swell
it over the neighbors in that big house.

Speaker 19 (01:33:19):
On the island, I guess not, but hid.

Speaker 1 (01:33:22):
I've told you I'd buy you a nicer place, someone
else good. I'll buy you oney thing you wrot.

Speaker 54 (01:33:27):
Don't take me to buy me the most extensive mansion
on Park Avenue, and wouldn't give me that kick off
living on that island, only that big house there? Swelling
it over the people who knew me when I was poor.
You kept it from me for two years, But now
it loss.

Speaker 1 (01:33:43):
I'm going to haven't you don't understand, Oh.

Speaker 22 (01:33:45):
Yes I do.

Speaker 37 (01:33:47):
It isn't just conscience.

Speaker 39 (01:33:49):
Its troubled you.

Speaker 54 (01:33:49):
You're afraid of the place, afraid of an Indian superstition?

Speaker 37 (01:33:53):
Are your other wife?

Speaker 54 (01:33:55):
Major believed there were spirits in that league, some sort
of Indian god, and you would make your pay for
what you did to you, said she called upon them,
as she sank beneath the water, the last breast.

Speaker 1 (01:34:08):
She called on them. Fo h, I'll go where your
build her. Just let's not talk anymore about it.

Speaker 54 (01:34:18):
All right, we're coming in. If my family are waiting here,
they can drive us to two horses place and you
can row us to the island. Get those bags together, coming,
what about.

Speaker 37 (01:34:41):
You're there?

Speaker 1 (01:34:43):
Hold him man, we'll come to your station.

Speaker 37 (01:34:45):
We're ready.

Speaker 54 (01:34:46):
Open the door and help him get the bags. Oh time,

(01:35:07):
the house looks simply great, Norma. Never you would have
been baking for two years away you've kept us.

Speaker 37 (01:35:13):
I've been over every inch, Roger, and it's potless. This
was worth a raising wages.

Speaker 19 (01:35:19):
You like me for a boss, old woman.

Speaker 1 (01:35:23):
The people are singing their prayer to the spirits of
the lake.

Speaker 39 (01:35:28):
From the moon of falling leaves.

Speaker 44 (01:35:30):
Yes, I know a guy.

Speaker 37 (01:35:34):
Run along two horses is waiting for you in his rowboat.
Mind you bring back everything I'm sending.

Speaker 1 (01:35:40):
You for Tooma. Wait a minute, is the is the
canoe in good shape?

Speaker 14 (01:35:45):
It?

Speaker 1 (01:35:47):
Who wanted to leave the island?

Speaker 37 (01:35:48):
What do you mean if we want to leave the island?

Speaker 1 (01:35:50):
Island?

Speaker 55 (01:35:51):
All one, get off?

Speaker 54 (01:35:52):
We go and Jenny, since it all well, you've acted
since we landed here. Even those stupid Indians know you're here.

Speaker 37 (01:36:00):
To the death of the place. You want them to
suspect the reason why?

Speaker 1 (01:36:04):
Oh I think they've always suspected. Nowhere alone here and
what of it?

Speaker 39 (01:36:12):
Get out of this kitchen.

Speaker 37 (01:36:13):
You better lay down a while.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
I'll try where till I put down this window?

Speaker 4 (01:36:19):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:36:20):
I can't stand that noise? Are those drums?

Speaker 7 (01:36:23):
That's channel?

Speaker 54 (01:36:24):
I'm not crazy about it myself. Hmmm, looks like a
storm is blowing up. Come into the living room. Oh,
I forgot.

Speaker 37 (01:36:37):
That's where they brought her when they found her in
the lake.

Speaker 1 (01:36:41):
Later on the van and there I had to go
in and look at her. Okay, you think I'm mad to.

Speaker 52 (01:36:48):
Believe there may the spirits in these waters. As the
Indians say, spirits will love Bernie. Who would punish those
are hurt? There was something queer about the way they
brought her from that lake. What do you mean, as
though the lake had taken care of.

Speaker 37 (01:37:04):
Right, taking care of her?

Speaker 1 (01:37:06):
Yes, you know the slimee that coaches.

Speaker 52 (01:37:09):
Service in this month of falling leaves, dreams topis slime
that rises from the bottom and covers all the touches.
Benisa's clothes were sodden, weeds were entangled in the matter
of hair, the ugly.

Speaker 1 (01:37:22):
Slime and never touched it. The lake had not defiled
one love.

Speaker 39 (01:37:27):
What a booby you are.

Speaker 54 (01:37:30):
Your mind is so filled with crazy notions about the place.
You're only a step above a lunatic. Now that you're hearing,
can see for yourself. There's nothing to be afraid of.
You may come to your senses. Come on, we're going
in that living room.

Speaker 1 (01:37:43):
Right, Oh, you must be right. There can't be anything
to be a product.

Speaker 10 (01:37:46):
Of course there is.

Speaker 55 (01:37:47):
Come on, I heard that, Yes, someone in that room.

Speaker 22 (01:38:00):
The door.

Speaker 37 (01:38:00):
What's the matter with you?

Speaker 25 (01:38:01):
You're right?

Speaker 14 (01:38:02):
Is a she?

Speaker 1 (01:38:04):
That's the way she's crazy.

Speaker 37 (01:38:08):
It's probably Nama, she's come back in the hospital.

Speaker 1 (01:38:11):
Look out the window. Now there's we're two horses in
the middle of the lake.

Speaker 37 (01:38:15):
That's funny. I don't see how anyone else could be
in the house. I inspected every room. I'll soon find
out who card I thought.

Speaker 55 (01:38:28):
So the rumor is empty.

Speaker 26 (01:38:35):
M the next.

Speaker 37 (01:38:38):
Empty too?

Speaker 1 (01:38:39):
Oh, thank god?

Speaker 10 (01:38:41):
Probably if we.

Speaker 37 (01:38:42):
Both should have heard that cough. Right, you talk so much,
you've got me imagine.

Speaker 1 (01:38:48):
Yeah, maybe we imagine it all right?

Speaker 37 (01:38:52):
You are damn has grown suddenly.

Speaker 1 (01:38:55):
Very damn suddenly.

Speaker 37 (01:38:57):
Where did that come from?

Speaker 10 (01:38:59):
I'm all want to go.

Speaker 37 (01:39:00):
This room was clean as the pin.

Speaker 25 (01:39:01):
What do you see?

Speaker 37 (01:39:02):
Look there on my rug a patch of it's slime,
green slide.

Speaker 1 (01:39:08):
The bottom of the lake. Didn't wasn't there a moment ago?

Speaker 58 (01:39:12):
You just said yourself, Look there's more.

Speaker 37 (01:39:17):
That's what wasn't there before. And there's another patch on the.

Speaker 1 (01:39:20):
Day being slim from the bottom of the lake. Kill.
That spot under the van is throwing larger.

Speaker 37 (01:39:32):
There's a natural explanation. But if you gotta find that.

Speaker 58 (01:39:36):
Patch of sign telling my head, I don't know, spoiling
all around this killer spot.

Speaker 19 (01:39:43):
Under the band still growing.

Speaker 1 (01:39:46):
Water so tall over it's on the day she lay there.

Speaker 37 (01:39:49):
She said him veried, it's from something else.

Speaker 9 (01:39:52):
Let's talk again.

Speaker 1 (01:39:54):
She's here though we can't see it.

Speaker 26 (01:39:55):
No, I won't believe that.

Speaker 1 (01:39:57):
Water's losing from the walls. Its slim sli I am
green slime.

Speaker 37 (01:40:01):
Coming from the plumbing, rains, from puffing there.

Speaker 1 (01:40:03):
From the lake. The lake is going to punish it.

Speaker 22 (01:40:06):
I know it's one of the came bad.

Speaker 55 (01:40:07):
I had nothing to do with it.

Speaker 1 (01:40:09):
It was you, feel you who made me on the couch.

Speaker 10 (01:40:12):
Woman first is the start on the proper here, get
me off his eyes.

Speaker 1 (01:40:22):
We need the lamp.

Speaker 37 (01:40:22):
The lake jas There is nothing against I didn't do anything.

Speaker 10 (01:40:27):
Most sign tell on me.

Speaker 37 (01:40:28):
It's driving for the tree.

Speaker 58 (01:40:30):
It's all like all the campsis. It's ball on both
of us and yours was me. Slime, ugris, slime from
the bottom of the can.

Speaker 44 (01:40:38):
Shut off on that lake.

Speaker 1 (01:40:40):
That's what the quants they get beyond the water.

Speaker 55 (01:40:42):
Don't stand here.

Speaker 1 (01:40:43):
I won't go on that lake.

Speaker 19 (01:40:45):
Get behind the woman that we changed off.

Speaker 39 (01:40:49):
Get away.

Speaker 1 (01:40:50):
She's coming together. Yes, well, I'm for reaching out for me.

Speaker 37 (01:40:56):
Reads the waters there.

Speaker 1 (01:40:57):
For the hall old method living from the la. The
slime that covers us is not the file words.

Speaker 54 (01:41:03):
Anyway, you just saddle tudle, little something to.

Speaker 1 (01:41:12):
See, to buy worms worms in the lake.

Speaker 37 (01:41:16):
We're going too far.

Speaker 1 (01:41:18):
Something is pulling us through the water, something we can't see.
You're the spirit talent the road that definitely over rocks
like that.

Speaker 58 (01:41:28):
She told me, oh the good to keep that putting
on them the bad fall off into eternal torment.

Speaker 37 (01:41:33):
I'm not going to be against something.

Speaker 1 (01:41:35):
I'm going to say, I can't save yourself.

Speaker 37 (01:41:39):
She made the lake to punish us.

Speaker 1 (01:41:40):
You will never let us call something the lake beneath
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Speaker 14 (01:41:59):
Cool.

Speaker 41 (01:41:59):
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Covering me forever more.

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Will Satan.

Speaker 49 (01:42:34):
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The engine lake.

Speaker 37 (01:42:43):
For if the law don't get che then the spirits
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Emergency Report is Central Colonial Service subject Planets seven G
sixty three Glade Reporting Dano Marin's Special Assignment from Biological
Control Report consisting of standard universal tapes in special recorded
comment first segment Landing Day plus one six A m
siderial meantime voices on tape myself, Colonial Executive Chip Hafner,

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and Athel, a female member of our crew. Tape commencing.

Speaker 22 (01:47:06):
What's your step on the ramp? Maarn, it's till.

Speaker 44 (01:47:08):
Oh, yes, I will, I will? All right, Well, where
are these people over there?

Speaker 22 (01:47:11):
A few hundred feet? Beat that tree?

Speaker 44 (01:47:14):
Well, come on there.

Speaker 62 (01:47:18):
You know I'm going to have to note in the
log that you cleared the planet for colonization as of
last night.

Speaker 61 (01:47:23):
I understand I'm taping this and of my records. I
take full responsibility for the safety of this planet.

Speaker 22 (01:47:28):
All right, but wait until you see this.

Speaker 9 (01:47:34):
Here we are.

Speaker 22 (01:47:36):
Do you see there in the clearing beneath that tree?

Speaker 44 (01:47:40):
Good lord? They have the stitch of clothes on, none
of them.

Speaker 22 (01:47:45):
That's just what I told you.

Speaker 44 (01:47:46):
Are They all right, they're not.

Speaker 22 (01:47:47):
They're just asleep. You can see them breathing.

Speaker 44 (01:47:51):
O care now, who gave them permission to sleep out
here in the orbus?

Speaker 62 (01:47:54):
Don't wait them yet. I gave them permission, Maron. They've
been cooped up in the ship for over six months.
They wanted to sleep outside, and in view of your clearance,
I couldn't see any reason to refuse permit.

Speaker 44 (01:48:07):
I know, I know you were within your rights. But
the clothing, why they don't even have blankets?

Speaker 62 (01:48:12):
They did have when they vetted down last night. Some
of them even used the standard issue sleeping day.

Speaker 44 (01:48:18):
Well, then what happened to them? There are thirteen people
sleeping around that tree, and there's stark maked all of them.

Speaker 14 (01:48:23):
Last night.

Speaker 22 (01:48:24):
You told me there was nothing dangerous on glade? Do
you still think so?

Speaker 44 (01:48:27):
I know so I have the complete biological service.

Speaker 22 (01:48:30):
Does your survey account for anything like this?

Speaker 44 (01:48:32):
You know it doesn't.

Speaker 22 (01:48:33):
That's what I thought. Okay, now you've seen it for yourself.
Let's wake them up and get them.

Speaker 7 (01:48:39):
Back to the shell.

Speaker 3 (01:48:40):
Way.

Speaker 44 (01:48:41):
You better wake them one at a time. This will
be embarrassing enough of them as it is.

Speaker 22 (01:48:45):
Yes, I suppose you're right. I will wake the nearest
one first. That's a theel or a lamb technician.

Speaker 44 (01:48:52):
Yeah, so I'm here to take my jacket cover her
with it before you wake her.

Speaker 22 (01:48:56):
All right, wake up a deal or if you'll wake
up its executive happener.

Speaker 27 (01:49:04):
H oh, what is it?

Speaker 22 (01:49:06):
I am sorry? I feel something has happened.

Speaker 27 (01:49:09):
My clothes, my my blanket, everything's gone.

Speaker 44 (01:49:13):
I'll be careful, don't don't wake the others.

Speaker 27 (01:49:15):
Oh yes, the others.

Speaker 22 (01:49:18):
Why good, heavens, they're all if we'll just go back
to your cabin on the ship. Everything is all right.
We'll explain it to you when we have the other
safely back.

Speaker 25 (01:49:29):
Oh so foolish.

Speaker 27 (01:49:31):
How could this happen?

Speaker 10 (01:49:32):
What's the meaning?

Speaker 44 (01:49:33):
I'll just get back to the ship. You'll close back
there are perfectly safe.

Speaker 27 (01:49:37):
Yes, it's all right. Well, thank you.

Speaker 44 (01:49:44):
You told her we'd explain it later. Happener. Do you
think we can?

Speaker 22 (01:49:49):
That's your job, isn't it.

Speaker 44 (01:49:51):
This planet is as new to me as it is
to you.

Speaker 22 (01:49:53):
You're the biologist. What destroyed their clothing?

Speaker 44 (01:49:57):
It would have to be something that could destroy both
blankets and clothing without waking the people.

Speaker 22 (01:50:03):
Nocturnal insect.

Speaker 61 (01:50:04):
Ordinarily, I'd say that was a distinct possibility if it
weren't for the fact that our surveys show no evidence
whatsoever of any such insects ungladed.

Speaker 22 (01:50:12):
Your survey could have missed them, couldn't.

Speaker 44 (01:50:14):
It not if they existed in any great quantity. Besides,
if insects were the answer, there should be some kind
of evidence of them right here in the area where
a field was lying. Certainly one or two of them
would be crushed when she rolled over in her sleep.

Speaker 22 (01:50:26):
That sounds reasonable.

Speaker 44 (01:50:28):
Well, look for yourself. There's absolutely no sign of anything
at all here.

Speaker 22 (01:50:32):
But what about some chemical, some vapor oozing from the ground.

Speaker 61 (01:50:36):
No chance at all, I'd rule that out completely. Then what, well,
here's the tree itself. I suppose it could exude some
sort of a chemical that might dissolved cloth.

Speaker 44 (01:50:44):
But I can check that in the lab.

Speaker 22 (01:50:46):
We'd better arouse the rest of these people and get
them back to the ship.

Speaker 44 (01:50:49):
Get wait, wait, what what is it?

Speaker 21 (01:50:52):
Why?

Speaker 44 (01:50:52):
It's some kind of an animal. Just caught a glimpse
through the air. Eh, there he is, you see behind
that bush?

Speaker 22 (01:51:02):
Yeah, looks almost like a chipmunk.

Speaker 44 (01:51:05):
Ass And he's feeding on something.

Speaker 63 (01:51:08):
Why it looks like a piece of cloth, Maren, do
you think that she hasn't hear us? I'll just ease
up to him now, sir, oh, sir, now.

Speaker 44 (01:51:23):
You got all you your little devil.

Speaker 22 (01:51:26):
Watch maronie's got shopped teeth.

Speaker 44 (01:51:27):
You're telling me, easy there, boy, easy, I can have
your head stroked.

Speaker 4 (01:51:36):
Sure you do.

Speaker 44 (01:51:36):
That's a boy.

Speaker 22 (01:51:38):
He's calming down.

Speaker 16 (01:51:39):
Yes, Look at that.

Speaker 44 (01:51:41):
He's nestling in the crook of my arm. Almost almost
like a kitten.

Speaker 62 (01:51:44):
Almost, Maron, I hope you don't mind short sleeves. What
I mean, he's already eaten half the sleeve off your shirt.
I think we found the answer to our problem.

Speaker 61 (01:51:56):
The animal was a small, furry mammal resembling an Earth
type rodent. Its overall length is fourteen centime. It is
weight five hundred and twelve grams for stringing, and sparse
color or light beige, indicating no particular protective coloring. The
animal was placed in a special cage in a biological
laboratory aboard ship for a further study. Next tape landing

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date plus two.

Speaker 22 (01:52:24):
Can we exterminate it?

Speaker 44 (01:52:26):
It's quite a job, how but locally hardly. It's ecologically basic.

Speaker 22 (01:52:30):
Look, Maren, you're from biological control. I've just got an
executive's rating.

Speaker 61 (01:52:34):
Well, look, you know how control works. They send a
survey ship over and record the neural currents of the animals.
They get everything that has a brain, including insects, and
they take a few specimens to check the patterns. Now
here's the report.

Speaker 44 (01:52:46):
I'm glade.

Speaker 61 (01:52:47):
The survey shows that this animal is one of only
four species of mammals on the planet.

Speaker 44 (01:52:52):
It is also the most numerous.

Speaker 22 (01:52:54):
So if we kill them off here, others will swarm
in from other areas.

Speaker 44 (01:52:59):
Yes, it probably millions of them around the planet.

Speaker 61 (01:53:02):
Of course, if you want to put a berry across
the connection to the mainland, you might be able to
wipe them out local.

Speaker 22 (01:53:07):
Look, maren, I've got a tight schedule. I can't spare
dirt moving equipment for that. By the way, what do they.

Speaker 61 (01:53:14):
Eat, Well, as far as I can see anything, insects,
fruit berries.

Speaker 44 (01:53:18):
You could call it an omnivorary. Now that our clothing
is handy, it eats that too.

Speaker 22 (01:53:22):
I thought our clothing was supposed to be vermin proof.

Speaker 27 (01:53:25):
It is.

Speaker 61 (01:53:25):
On twenty seven planets. On the twenty eighth we met
up with a little fellow that has better digestive fluids.

Speaker 44 (01:53:31):
That's all. He's eating a leather belt right now. Are
they likely to bother the crops we plant? They shouldn't,
But I would have said the same thing about our clothing.

Speaker 62 (01:53:43):
All right, Maren, you worry about the crops, find some
way to keep them out of the fields. Meanwhile, everyone
sleeps inside the ship until we can build dormitories.

Speaker 61 (01:53:54):
Biological examination of omnivoory pose this question, why only four
species of mammals ungladed, no reptiles, and only a few birds,
and all comparable planets a large variety of species nearest Earth.
Parallel fossil remains from the late Carboniferous show creatures like
the Omnevora.

Speaker 44 (01:54:13):
But I'm glad there appears to be no further evolution.

Speaker 61 (01:54:17):
Next tape segment L plus twenty two place temporary warehouse,
Quartermaster Crone and myself.

Speaker 4 (01:54:26):
Here you armist, Maaron.

Speaker 64 (01:54:27):
They got in every seat, sack, and barrel in this part.

Speaker 3 (01:54:29):
Of the warehouse.

Speaker 44 (01:54:30):
Oh what makes you think it's mice.

Speaker 64 (01:54:32):
Look I've worked in grain elevators for thirty years in Kansas.
Look the way that sack is gnawed, and look over
there droppings.

Speaker 44 (01:54:38):
Wow, it's nice exactly.

Speaker 21 (01:54:39):
I know, I know.

Speaker 7 (01:54:40):
So they're mice like.

Speaker 4 (01:54:42):
I want to know how to get rid of them.

Speaker 44 (01:54:43):
Have you tried poison?

Speaker 64 (01:54:44):
You tell me what poison to use, and I'll use it.
They got into a one hundred pounds sack of arsenic.

Speaker 3 (01:54:49):
They went through it like it was whipped cream.

Speaker 44 (01:54:50):
How did they get in? It's a fused dirt floor,
isn't it.

Speaker 64 (01:54:53):
It should be pestit. Let's see there are cracks along here.
They must have burrowed through. They were loose in here,
and we don't have time to build another warehouse. They've
got to be controlled here.

Speaker 44 (01:55:04):
Well, catch me a few of them alive and I'll
see what I can do.

Speaker 61 (01:55:08):
Next morning, a dozen live specimens of mice like mammals
were delivered to the lab. No two of them were
affected by the same poison, and the poison developed to
control the Omnibera was completely ineffective. Alternate discussed with executive
Hackner and machinist Tully of computer Engineering next tape L
plus twenty four. Hafner, Tully, and myself.

Speaker 65 (01:55:33):
I tried it out yesterday, mister Haffner. I think I've
got all the bugs licked now, Tully.

Speaker 44 (01:55:37):
I don't want any more metal used than is necessary.
This isn't standard authorized equipment. You're not dealing with the
standard authorized problem. Are you ready to activate the device?

Speaker 7 (01:55:46):
Sure?

Speaker 65 (01:55:46):
Thing here, Help me get it down from this assembly
beach down on the floor. All right, he hey, you go, kiddy, Now,
what do you think of her?

Speaker 7 (01:55:56):
A robut cat.

Speaker 44 (01:55:57):
I still think we need at least three of them, Marin.

Speaker 22 (01:56:00):
Inventory on colonial expeditions is always short. One will have
to do, all right, Tully, show us how this mechanical
mouse catcher operates.

Speaker 65 (01:56:09):
You better get out of the way, mister Marrin. If
you've touched any of the mice in the lab, she'll
go for you. She reacts to smell as well as
sight and sound.

Speaker 44 (01:56:16):
All right, Kelly started up?

Speaker 66 (01:56:23):
All right, kitty, go ahead and have a good time.

Speaker 44 (01:56:27):
Cry geez, she moves like a cat.

Speaker 4 (01:56:29):
You know.

Speaker 66 (01:56:29):
I wouldn't better plug Nickel on any mouse in the
same warehouse with.

Speaker 7 (01:56:33):
That baby.

Speaker 61 (01:56:35):
Robot cat device proved relatively successful in warehouse, won rodent
damage hell below danger margin Next tape L plus thirty
seven Tully Hafner and myself.

Speaker 66 (01:56:48):
I can't salvage it, mister Hathner. Just look at that
that skeleton was chrome steel.

Speaker 65 (01:56:54):
Now it's men. The skin was dura plastic, and now
it's cut to ribbons. The computer part, they're all smashed
to bits.

Speaker 44 (01:57:01):
How do you account for it, Tully?

Speaker 65 (01:57:03):
Well, look around the poor thing. You had me build
it for mice. These things weren't mice. They're a good
foot long. They just outnumbered him.

Speaker 32 (01:57:11):
That's all you.

Speaker 44 (01:57:12):
Examined these dead animals, man, not closely. Well, you'll find
your mice have grown.

Speaker 22 (01:57:18):
They ganged up on that cat.

Speaker 66 (01:57:19):
There aren't supposed to be any rats on glade, are there?

Speaker 44 (01:57:22):
There weren't supposed to be any mice either. What are
you going to do? We'll have to build another warehouse
two foot thick fused floors.

Speaker 65 (01:57:29):
Wait a minute, mister halfman. To do that, we'll have
to stop all God of construction, the Atomic General.

Speaker 44 (01:57:35):
Build more robot cats.

Speaker 62 (01:57:37):
You weren't here when we opened the doors, maren a
warehouse was swarming with rats. Tell you how many robot
cats would we need?

Speaker 44 (01:57:46):
Five? Fifteen.

Speaker 66 (01:57:47):
We don't have enough parts to build more than three.

Speaker 62 (01:57:49):
If we need more than that, we'll have to rob
the computer in the spaceship. And that's one thing I
refuse to do. The spaceship is our only link with
Earth until the next wave in two years. All right, then,
I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll flood light the
supplies at night. We'll post a guard with half charged
rifles until we can move to the new warehouse.

Speaker 44 (01:58:08):
That'll take about ten days.

Speaker 62 (01:58:10):
Meanwhile, our fast crops are rightly it's my guess that
the rats will turn to that for food.

Speaker 44 (01:58:16):
Now.

Speaker 62 (01:58:16):
In order to protect our future food supplies, you'll have
to activate your cold storage.

Speaker 44 (01:58:20):
Animals, Stir Halfner. It's against regulations to release any cold
storage animals on a planet until after a complete investigation
that takes.

Speaker 22 (01:58:27):
Ten to twenty years. This is an emergency.

Speaker 44 (01:58:29):
I don't want to be responsible for another rabbit infested
Australia or that planet in the Centauri System that the
snails took over Marin.

Speaker 22 (01:58:36):
I'll take the responsibility your recording, now, aren't you yes?

Speaker 7 (01:58:39):
All right?

Speaker 22 (01:58:41):
If that isn't authorization enough, I'll put it in writing.

Speaker 44 (01:58:43):
Well, the beast I've got for this job won't be
any good against rats.

Speaker 16 (01:58:46):
This side.

Speaker 22 (01:58:47):
You've got hormones.

Speaker 61 (01:58:48):
Houston dead rats were gathered and frozen for further study.
Observed animals a wide variation in size internally a lack
of uniformity in organs. Some specimens had huge fangs and
delicate jaws, others had tiny teeth and massive bone structure.
Obviously the most scrambled species ever encountered by a biologist.

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Reproductive cells were especially battling. Proceeding with hormone treatment on
cold storage earth animals. Next tape L plus thirty nine
lab technician, A feel and myself.

Speaker 13 (01:59:27):
First one is coming out of it, mister Marren.

Speaker 44 (01:59:30):
Yes, it makes eighty five percent viability.

Speaker 61 (01:59:32):
That's not bad, all right, Fellah.

Speaker 66 (01:59:37):
He's a cute little fellow.

Speaker 61 (01:59:38):
He's tough. That's a wire haired terrier. They're small, but
they've been used for rats since the Middle Ages.

Speaker 13 (01:59:44):
Do you think he's nearly ready for the hormone course?

Speaker 44 (01:59:47):
I think so, all right, first pituitari intection.

Speaker 25 (01:59:51):
Ready, All right, now, this is kind of wear just
a little fellow.

Speaker 61 (01:59:57):
Oh it's a dirty trick, isn't it, jabbing you with
a needle and you're fresh out of the deep freeze.

Speaker 44 (02:00:03):
But don't you worry, fellow. You'll be glad you had it.

Speaker 61 (02:00:06):
You'll stand a better chance against those rats when we
work you up to about a Great Dane size L
plus fifty artificially enlarge terriers loosed in the fields of
the fast crops. Following tape field observation of terriers, Executive
Happener and myself.

Speaker 22 (02:00:29):
How long have they been at it there?

Speaker 44 (02:00:31):
Since daybreak? I have to bring the dogs in it,
but I can shoot them full of antibiotics.

Speaker 22 (02:00:35):
Will the dogs last?

Speaker 44 (02:00:37):
Well?

Speaker 61 (02:00:37):
This crop will be harvested in about a week. We'll
make that and there'll be two weeks to rest up
before the next fast crop shows above ground. I think
we've got the rats licked for a while.

Speaker 62 (02:00:48):
Well, when you get a chance, you might ask some
of those PhDs and Central how they happen to hand
us a survey and forget to give us a few details,
like mice and rat.

Speaker 44 (02:00:57):
I have been checking on that, mister Haffner. I don't
think there's any doubt. When that's was made before we
landed there weren't any mice and rats on blade.

Speaker 22 (02:01:03):
Then Where did they come from? How did they get here?

Speaker 44 (02:01:05):
I don't know, but we're going to have to find out.

Speaker 61 (02:01:10):
Research project on pseudo mice and pseudo rats interrupted by
field trip with Biological Survey Officer Whitehead. Tape l plus
sixty three in field geological survey vehicles, Whitehead and myself.

Speaker 4 (02:01:26):
You think you got troubles.

Speaker 7 (02:01:28):
Can you read a sonar map?

Speaker 61 (02:01:29):
No? Here, Look see this scope. It reads straight down
about ten miles. I'm supposed to be out looking for
oil shale, but I got kind of.

Speaker 4 (02:01:37):
Interested in this.

Speaker 6 (02:01:39):
Look.

Speaker 4 (02:01:40):
First few feet down you can find fossils.

Speaker 44 (02:01:43):
After the first few feet that's about.

Speaker 61 (02:01:44):
Twenty thousand years, there are no fossils until you get
way down here. That's about the same as late carbon
nippers on Earth. Then you get the fossils again.

Speaker 3 (02:01:55):
It doesn't figure.

Speaker 44 (02:01:57):
Isn't that usual changes in geological eras?

Speaker 22 (02:02:00):
You don't get it.

Speaker 61 (02:02:01):
Man, I'm not talking about years. I'm talking about years
straight down from here. Twenty thousand years ago this was
a desert, and then three years later it was a jungle.
Five years after that there was a glacier. Earth normal
would be fifty thousand years or more for a change
like that.

Speaker 44 (02:02:18):
What caused it?

Speaker 17 (02:02:19):
Here?

Speaker 3 (02:02:19):
You've got me fluctuations in the sun.

Speaker 8 (02:02:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 61 (02:02:23):
But talk about changeable weather, this planet.

Speaker 3 (02:02:26):
Really has it.

Speaker 61 (02:02:31):
They stun accumulated data theory developed regarding mammalian life on
planet Glade Tapelle plus sixty five place temporary headquarters of
executive Hafner.

Speaker 22 (02:02:43):
Maren, I've got a lot of work to clear up
this morning.

Speaker 44 (02:02:46):
I thought you might like to know where the mice
came from.

Speaker 22 (02:02:48):
They don't bother us anymore.

Speaker 44 (02:02:49):
I've also determined the origin of the rats.

Speaker 22 (02:02:51):
They're under control.

Speaker 44 (02:02:52):
I wonder if they are, mister Haffner, What do you mean,
mister Haffner. I checked this with Whitehead.

Speaker 61 (02:02:58):
Between one hundred million and twenty thousand years ago, this
planet was changing violently and quickly.

Speaker 44 (02:03:04):
The first change wiped out the dinosaur, just the way
it did on Earth. But it kept on changing desert, glacier, jungle,
and all this within the life span of a single animal.
For one million years. This was the norm of existence.
I'm glade.

Speaker 22 (02:03:20):
I've checked geological survey. The planet is stable.

Speaker 44 (02:03:23):
Now, well, that's not what I'm getting at. The point
is survival was difficult. Only one species of mammals managed
to come through.

Speaker 22 (02:03:30):
Now, wait a minute, Maron.

Speaker 62 (02:03:31):
There are four species, ranging in size from a squirrel
to a water buffalo.

Speaker 44 (02:03:35):
One species. They're the same.

Speaker 61 (02:03:38):
If the food supply for the largest animal increases, some
of the smaller so called species just grow up. Conversely,
if the food becomes scarce in any category, the next generation,
which apparently can be produced almost instantly, switches to a
form which does have an adequate food supply.

Speaker 44 (02:03:55):
The mice, the mice weren't here when we got here.
They were born of the squirrel sizedniber and the rats
born of the next larger size. After all, we are
environment too, and they adapt to environment.

Speaker 22 (02:04:08):
Let me get this straight.

Speaker 61 (02:04:10):
The mutations on Earth, it would be mutation. Here, it's
merely normal evolution. These animals have no genes or chromosomes.
I don't know how they pass down heredity, but they
react to external conditions far faster than anything we've ever encountered.

Speaker 22 (02:04:26):
And we'll never be free from pests, unless, of course,
we've rid the planet of all animal life.

Speaker 44 (02:04:30):
Yeah, you mean with radioactive dust. That won't work. They
survived worse.

Speaker 22 (02:04:34):
Oh maybe we could leave the planet, leave it to
the animals. I could exercise authority under close three sixty four.

Speaker 44 (02:04:40):
It's too late for that. What do you mean we
sent back the specimenship The animals are on Earth too.

Speaker 22 (02:04:47):
But those specimens were incageous.

Speaker 61 (02:04:48):
As But the next generation would be small enough to
get out through the bars. They'll be running free in
the cargoes of the space ships. They'll land on Earth
and the first thing you know, a new mutation of
rats will appear. They won't have any reason to connect
it with the specimens from Blade.

Speaker 22 (02:05:03):
They won't be able to furmin proof every building on Earth.

Speaker 44 (02:05:06):
Now we've got to stay here.

Speaker 61 (02:05:07):
We've got to study the animals here and find out
how to beat them if we can. Next state L
plus eighty three place field out post Quartermaster Chron Hafner
and myself.

Speaker 22 (02:05:23):
I saw it, mister Hufner, I saw it.

Speaker 44 (02:05:26):
Are you sure you see that tree?

Speaker 14 (02:05:29):
No?

Speaker 22 (02:05:29):
No, the big one, the white flowers.

Speaker 4 (02:05:32):
That's the one I saw it behind there?

Speaker 44 (02:05:34):
Can you describe it?

Speaker 4 (02:05:35):
Well?

Speaker 22 (02:05:35):
I didn't get a good that's it.

Speaker 7 (02:05:38):
That's why I heard that.

Speaker 22 (02:05:39):
Sounds like a tiger.

Speaker 44 (02:05:41):
I've heard them like that in Indiana.

Speaker 4 (02:05:42):
You watch right by that tree.

Speaker 7 (02:05:46):
It's heading this way.

Speaker 22 (02:05:46):
Give me that right, hurry up, shoot, shoot, try again.

Speaker 7 (02:05:53):
I got it.

Speaker 22 (02:05:53):
Come on, come on, let's take a look.

Speaker 44 (02:05:55):
Not look up, it might be still alive.

Speaker 22 (02:05:57):
Oh no, I hit it square with that second charge.

Speaker 7 (02:06:02):
What the devil is it?

Speaker 22 (02:06:05):
It's a good eight feet long?

Speaker 61 (02:06:08):
What do you make of it, marenh Except for the
lack of markings, it closely resembles a tiger.

Speaker 22 (02:06:14):
Look at those claws. We chase the rats out of
the warehouse, they go to the fields. We hunt them
down in the fields with dogs, and they breed tigers.

Speaker 44 (02:06:23):
That's easier than rats. We can shoot tigers.

Speaker 22 (02:06:25):
Wait a minute, we've been here less than three months, Maren.
The dogs have been in the fields only two and
that tiger's mature. How do you account for that?

Speaker 61 (02:06:37):
I am not sure, mister Happner, but I imagine if
the survival factor is high, the young don't ever have
to be young what they can be born as fully
functioning adults. Development report mice under control, field rats under
control by terriers, Tiger like animals under control with searchlight

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and rifle. Additional complication, the original animal developed an appetite
for electrical insulation. There is no protection except to keep
the power on at all times. The last tiger like
animal was seen at L plus one hundred and thirty.
After that, the attack ceased by L plus two years.
The animal seemed to have been controlled in all its forms. However,

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three months before the next colonists would do a new
animal was detected, food was missing from the fields. Dogs
were useless. The animals seemed to roam the fields, and
the dogs did not attack. Patrols were unable to find
the animal. Tape L plus two years Hafner, Engineer Tully
and myself.

Speaker 65 (02:07:46):
Now here's the way I'm rigging it up, mister Hafner.
Whatever it is, it spotted the photo electric cellery. So
I've worked up an alarm that reacts to body radiation.

Speaker 44 (02:07:56):
You're sure the animal won't spot that.

Speaker 65 (02:07:59):
Well, I'm burying it in the field. Then we'll move
the visible alarms to another field, all.

Speaker 44 (02:08:04):
Right, telling you as soon as the alarm goes off,
notify mister Maren and me.

Speaker 66 (02:08:09):
Do you understand, yes, sir, just as soon as the
alarm goes off.

Speaker 61 (02:08:15):
L two plus fifteen radiation alarm sounded place field station
Hafner and myself.

Speaker 22 (02:08:27):
Look out where you're walking, Maren. We don't want to
scare it away.

Speaker 44 (02:08:30):
When we were dogs in that field, army they.

Speaker 22 (02:08:32):
Were supposed to be, but they didn't bark.

Speaker 7 (02:08:33):
Quiet.

Speaker 44 (02:08:35):
There it is seep in between the rows.

Speaker 22 (02:08:39):
They got to give me a clear shot.

Speaker 44 (02:08:40):
Now, wait, amute, don't shoot.

Speaker 22 (02:08:41):
Look, Maren, I'm the executive here. I say, it's dangerous, dangerous.

Speaker 44 (02:08:44):
That's why you can't shoot. It's more dangerous than you know.

Speaker 22 (02:08:46):
I had quiet. It'll hear you.

Speaker 44 (02:08:47):
We had down wind. Now listen, Affner, this is him.

Speaker 22 (02:08:50):
I don't want any lecture now, Maren, I don't want
to lose the shot.

Speaker 44 (02:08:53):
You've got to listen. That animal could evolve mice. We
stopped mice, and it brought rats, turned back the rat
and provided the tigle.

Speaker 14 (02:09:01):
All right, if we stopped the type.

Speaker 61 (02:09:03):
Not really, there was another animal being formed, the one
that's in that field now. It took the animal two
years to create it. How I don't know.

Speaker 44 (02:09:11):
A million years were required to evolve it on Earth.

Speaker 22 (02:09:14):
He's moving away, Maren. I'm going to shoot.

Speaker 44 (02:09:17):
Don't shoot. We can't destroy the ad. It's on the
Earth now and on other planets. We've never even been
able to get rid of our own rats. How can
we exterminate this animal?

Speaker 22 (02:09:26):
All the more reason to start. Now, get down and
give me a clear.

Speaker 21 (02:09:30):
Shat of it.

Speaker 44 (02:09:31):
Are there rats better than ours? Will there beasts win?
Or ours be stronger? All the two make peace, unite
and interbreed. It's not impossible this animal could do it
if interbreeding had a high survival factor. Don't you see
after the tiger they bred this thing. If we shoot
it down, what will come next? Look at it standing erect,
a posable thumbs, binocular vision, a large brain capacity. This

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one I think we can compete with. It's the one
after this that I don't want to face it.

Speaker 22 (02:10:00):
It must hear us. It's looking this way.

Speaker 44 (02:10:02):
Look at it. Hatnah, he's holding his hands up to
show us he's got no weapon. Drop your rifle?

Speaker 22 (02:10:10):
Are you sure?

Speaker 57 (02:10:11):
Drop your rifle?

Speaker 44 (02:10:18):
He's coming this way.

Speaker 22 (02:10:21):
He's got one of those white blossoms in his hand.

Speaker 44 (02:10:24):
Yes, must be a sign of peace.

Speaker 22 (02:10:27):
But it looks almost like a man. I wonder what's
inside that body.

Speaker 44 (02:10:36):
I wonder what's inside that head?

Speaker 61 (02:10:46):
You have just heard X minus one presented by the
National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine,
which this month features Verbal Agreement by Arthur Sellings, the
story of an unsuccessful who was forced to ask what
it was the aliens could want. It was half as
precious as the skins. They wouldn't sell. Galaxy Magazine on

(02:11:08):
your new stand today tonight. By transcription. X minus one
has brought you student Body, a story from the pages
of Galaxy, written by F. L. Wallace and adapted for
radio by Ernest Cannoy. Featured in the cast were John Raby,
Bob Hastings, Kate Wilkinson, James Stevens, Charles Carruth, and Meril E.

Speaker 16 (02:11:28):
Jowels.

Speaker 44 (02:11:29):
You're announcer Fred Collins.

Speaker 61 (02:11:30):
X minus one was directed by Bob Mauer and is
an NBC Radio Network production.

Speaker 4 (02:11:58):
Here mistery times.

Speaker 67 (02:12:05):
Time now for the best in mystery. To day on
Masters of Mystery, an exciting another drama entitled Death by Proxy.

Speaker 23 (02:12:18):
Sure I can prove I'm bart Lane. What are you
getting at camp? Nothing much, just that you're dead dead,
That's right.

Speaker 7 (02:12:27):
Take a look at this.

Speaker 23 (02:12:29):
You my friend were buried in New Lawn Cemetery a
year ago.

Speaker 7 (02:12:45):
Good evening.

Speaker 16 (02:12:47):
This is Don Daoud, your host for Mystery.

Speaker 67 (02:12:49):
Time back again to introduce another and ABC Radio is
great Monday through Friday line up of mystery drama every
night at this time a new and different story. Our
drama Tonight on Masters of Mystery, presented live from New York,
is written by Jerry McGill. Listen now to the story
of a man who confronted his wife with the ghost

(02:13:11):
of the past himself as Masters of Mystery brings you
Death by Proxy.

Speaker 23 (02:13:29):
I'm Jeff Cobb on the table of the news leaders.
City Desk has me labeled as special feature writer, which
means I get hooked.

Speaker 7 (02:13:37):
For the off beat stuff.

Speaker 23 (02:13:39):
Death by Proxy was plenty offbeat. It started in night
court after bart Lane got out of a disorderly conduct
charge with a fifty dollars fine and cost. He was
a big, handsome guy, sunburned the color of copper.

Speaker 7 (02:13:54):
I was curious. I latched onto him.

Speaker 23 (02:13:57):
And got him into a neighborhood by he had trouble
lot them. Jeff Cob, you're a newspaper guy. Yeah, what's
your lying mining engineer prospector? What were you looking for
in that apartment? You crashed my wife? Oh so that's

(02:14:18):
why you slugged the guy that opened the door. No,
he thought I was after his wife. He got nasty
and I lost my temper. The Amazon jungle makes you jumpy.

Speaker 4 (02:14:26):
Uh huh?

Speaker 23 (02:14:27):
How long were you there? Five years? I got lost
and you came back, and I expected to find your
wife in the same apartment. Yeah, it was foolish, considering
we'd almost called it quits before I left the South America.
But you know some women are like jungle fever and
never really get over it. It goes but usually comes back.

(02:14:48):
I got a finder, find out if I'm cured. Now,
if I drink, maybe I can help you find your wife.
Thank the bar tender. Two more doubles.

Speaker 7 (02:14:58):
Okay, can you help me? Je? Well, it's a lot
harder for people to.

Speaker 23 (02:15:03):
Get lost in the city than in the jungles of
the Amazon. You leave her any money when you went
prospecting five thousand and joint savings and bonds? He closed
the account and sold the bond. Any chance she could
have used it to get a Mexican divorce maybe?

Speaker 7 (02:15:21):
And you still want to find her. I was reported missing,
probably dead, But you want to find her? Yeah?

Speaker 23 (02:15:28):
Okay, but we won't find her here.

Speaker 7 (02:15:31):
Skip the drink.

Speaker 23 (02:15:32):
Let's go dig the Morgue file and see what gives.
I took bart Lane to the news Leader office and
left him in the reception room the coolest heeled while
I dug through the bog file for a lead on

(02:15:52):
his wife. I found it all right, but with a
twist that sent me out of the reception room for
a fast double check on his story. If I anything, Jeff, Yeah,
plenty fosburishing.

Speaker 7 (02:16:07):
First, I want to know when you got back.

Speaker 23 (02:16:09):
In the States yesterday by playing form real why under
what name?

Speaker 7 (02:16:14):
My own name? Say?

Speaker 4 (02:16:15):
What is it?

Speaker 23 (02:16:16):
Can you prove that you're Bart Lane, the mining engineer
who was lost in the Amazon jungle five years ago?

Speaker 10 (02:16:22):
Sure?

Speaker 7 (02:16:22):
I can prove it by my passport. All right, let's
see it.

Speaker 23 (02:16:26):
Picture doesn't look much likely anymore. Here the jungle does
things here?

Speaker 45 (02:16:32):
What's the big una?

Speaker 7 (02:16:33):
Did you were dead?

Speaker 68 (02:16:36):
Dead?

Speaker 69 (02:16:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (02:16:37):
Dead killed?

Speaker 23 (02:16:39):
Oh that sure? Missing and presumed dead in the jungle.
Not many get out?

Speaker 7 (02:16:43):
What's their laws?

Speaker 14 (02:16:44):
No?

Speaker 23 (02:16:44):
No, I don't mean that.

Speaker 7 (02:16:46):
What do you mean here? Look at this. Martin Lane, a.

Speaker 23 (02:16:50):
Mining engineer only recently returned from South America, was instantly
killed when his car went out of control on West Highway.
That's impossible ever came back.

Speaker 7 (02:17:00):
I don know the car.

Speaker 23 (02:17:01):
In spite of the fact that his body was partly
destroyed by fire that followed the crash, the remains were
positively identified by his widow, missus Mildred Lane, of ten
Highwood Avenue.

Speaker 7 (02:17:12):
It's my wife's name, Mildred.

Speaker 23 (02:17:14):
Then you were legally dead and buried in New Lawn cemetery.
When did I die May tenth, nineteen fifty six.

Speaker 7 (02:17:21):
About a year ago?

Speaker 56 (02:17:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:17:23):
Now what goes?

Speaker 23 (02:17:25):
I don't know, but I'm going to find out. Always
that a dress for Milderd was living on a wait
a minute, hold it, you're in a spot.

Speaker 7 (02:17:31):
What do you mean I'm in a spot?

Speaker 44 (02:17:32):
Well?

Speaker 7 (02:17:33):
Stop and think somebody was.

Speaker 23 (02:17:35):
Killed driving a car registered in your name and your
wife identified the body and buried it. Why, that's what
I'm going to find out.

Speaker 7 (02:17:44):
Were you carrying any life insurance when you left five
years ago? Yeah?

Speaker 23 (02:17:48):
Thirty thousand. Who is the beneficiary? Mildred my wife, But
the policies must have lapsed and she could have kept
up the payments. Couldn't wait seven years to have you
declared legally dead?

Speaker 7 (02:17:59):
Yeah? But who was in the car?

Speaker 23 (02:18:00):
Somebody was killed? Ah, now you're getting it. If you're
bart Lane and a line, somebody else died for you
by proxy, and it was probably murdered. It wasn't Mildred.
She wouldn't have the nerve to try uns. You may
have had help thirty thousand, buy a lot of help.

Speaker 7 (02:18:18):
I gotta find her, talk to her. Yeah, and I'm
going along for the interview. But you keep your shirt on.
If you don't, you're.

Speaker 23 (02:18:25):
Liable to trade it in for a sheet on a
slab in the morgue. And I don't mean our newspaper file.
I got my car out of the garage and drove
bart Lane over to the last known address of his.

Speaker 7 (02:18:43):
Wife, number ten Highwood. As you turned out.

Speaker 23 (02:18:46):
To be a fairly plush apartment building, I questioned the
switchboard operator.

Speaker 25 (02:18:52):
I'm selling, But there isn't anyone by the name of.

Speaker 10 (02:18:54):
Missus midded nae leitting here.

Speaker 7 (02:18:56):
How long you been working here?

Speaker 25 (02:18:58):
About six months?

Speaker 5 (02:19:00):
No good.

Speaker 23 (02:19:00):
Lane's husband was supposed to have been killed in an
auto accident about a year ago.

Speaker 7 (02:19:04):
She gave this address when she claimed the body.

Speaker 25 (02:19:07):
I heard about that from the girl who ran the
switchboard before I took the job.

Speaker 7 (02:19:10):
What did you hear?

Speaker 25 (02:19:11):
Oh, just that her husband was killed right after he
came back from South America. The Norse and the Jangle
or something.

Speaker 7 (02:19:16):
That's the woman. What happened she move out?

Speaker 19 (02:19:19):
No, she's still here.

Speaker 7 (02:19:21):
Well I know what name.

Speaker 25 (02:19:24):
Well, I'm not supposed to give out information about our tenants.

Speaker 23 (02:19:27):
How about making an exception to the rule and just
giving us her new name?

Speaker 10 (02:19:31):
But who are you anyway.

Speaker 23 (02:19:33):
Well, I'm a reporter following up the story of her
husband's death.

Speaker 25 (02:19:36):
Who is the other, gentleman, I'm Mildred Lane's dead husband.

Speaker 7 (02:19:40):
Dead husband, No, he's not.

Speaker 23 (02:19:45):
Now do you want to give us her new name
or do you want to tell the police.

Speaker 10 (02:19:49):
She she's married again.

Speaker 7 (02:19:51):
What's her husband's name?

Speaker 25 (02:19:53):
Mister Dean, Malcolm Dean.

Speaker 19 (02:19:55):
They live in the penthouse.

Speaker 7 (02:19:56):
Now what's his business?

Speaker 19 (02:19:57):
He's a builder.

Speaker 10 (02:19:58):
He has a new development out in ten height are now.

Speaker 25 (02:20:01):
Well, mister Dean hasn't come in yet. The missin, I mean,
your wife is.

Speaker 7 (02:20:06):
Do you know when Dean moved into this building all.

Speaker 10 (02:20:09):
About two years ago?

Speaker 7 (02:20:10):
I think I see. Thanks, Well, what do you make
of it?

Speaker 23 (02:20:21):
It could mean that your wife knew this Dean guy
before you died, and it could also mean that he
was in on your accidental death.

Speaker 7 (02:20:30):
So well, that would mean that we're dealing with two.

Speaker 23 (02:20:34):
Murderers, not just one. I don't give her who's I'm
going up to her a partner, sure, sure, but just
let's play this smart. Let's get some proof, then let
the police handle it. Oh well, you go up there
like the prodigal returning for the fatted.

Speaker 7 (02:20:49):
Cats, like you didn't know that you're supposed to be dead?
What good will that do?

Speaker 23 (02:20:55):
You might find out a lot of things. Try it,
keep your shirt on. See how she react as what
she says, what.

Speaker 7 (02:21:01):
She wants to do about it. I don't know if
I can carry it off. Try it. You can always
call the cops and I'll be waiting right here. Well, okay,
I'll try it. Yes, what spot? Hello, Mildred?

Speaker 25 (02:21:36):
Why is it really you? You supposed to be dead?

Speaker 7 (02:21:40):
Yeah, I know, lost in the jungle.

Speaker 25 (02:21:44):
Huh how did you find me?

Speaker 23 (02:21:47):
Compared to getting out of the Upper Amazon? It was
the stinch.

Speaker 25 (02:21:51):
When did you get back in the state yesterday?

Speaker 7 (02:21:55):
Mildred? You don't seem very glad to see me.

Speaker 25 (02:21:58):
I am believe, I am party. It's such a shock.
I thought you were dead.

Speaker 23 (02:22:05):
The report was exaggerated, as they say, Well, aren't you
going to ask me into your swank apartments?

Speaker 25 (02:22:12):
So here's the course to come in for a moment.

Speaker 3 (02:22:16):
But but what.

Speaker 25 (02:22:18):
But it's awful. I don't know how to tell you
I'm married again.

Speaker 7 (02:22:25):
So I gathered from a new name in this place.

Speaker 25 (02:22:28):
You did it all right, but I've got to talk
to you explain.

Speaker 7 (02:22:31):
But not here not now.

Speaker 23 (02:22:33):
I'm afraid of this new guy. You're married Dean Malcolm Dean.

Speaker 25 (02:22:36):
No, but he's coming home in a while.

Speaker 23 (02:22:38):
Good, I'd like to meet it.

Speaker 25 (02:22:40):
No, please pardon, let me talk to him first alone.
Why Well, it's explain to him and it can be
easier that way. Maybe we can work it out.

Speaker 23 (02:22:50):
Work.

Speaker 25 (02:22:51):
What how I feel now that I know you're alive?

Speaker 7 (02:22:57):
Please?

Speaker 25 (02:22:58):
God, please? If you ever love if, if you still
love me?

Speaker 7 (02:23:02):
Hm?

Speaker 23 (02:23:03):
The same, Gal, the same, Mildred? How much time.

Speaker 25 (02:23:08):
Until until tomorrow? What where are you staying nowhere?

Speaker 7 (02:23:15):
I've been looking for you ever since I landed.

Speaker 4 (02:23:18):
You.

Speaker 9 (02:23:19):
I still need that much too?

Speaker 7 (02:23:20):
Part what do you think they do?

Speaker 14 (02:23:24):
So?

Speaker 25 (02:23:24):
What keeth? Did they time?

Speaker 4 (02:23:27):
Wow?

Speaker 23 (02:23:28):
Well, this Dean guy must be pretty good, not like.

Speaker 25 (02:23:32):
You, good, older, different, but he's very kind. I don't
want to hurt him.

Speaker 7 (02:23:39):
You've changed, honey.

Speaker 25 (02:23:41):
But tell me?

Speaker 40 (02:23:41):
Have you any money?

Speaker 25 (02:23:43):
And I mean enough to stay somewhere near here into
like the central things with Malcolm? Yeah, I guess I
can manage to live a few days where there's a
motel down on the highway at the end of the street.
Could could you go there and wait? Life on you?

Speaker 23 (02:23:56):
When Okay, okay.

Speaker 7 (02:24:02):
Mildred, Oh.

Speaker 14 (02:24:06):
All right bye?

Speaker 25 (02:24:08):
Tell me do any of our old friends know.

Speaker 19 (02:24:11):
That you're back?

Speaker 7 (02:24:13):
Just you, honey. I wanted it to be a surprise.

Speaker 25 (02:24:18):
I'm glad. Please go now, Bars, please, I'll call you
at the motel late.

Speaker 19 (02:24:24):
It's not.

Speaker 3 (02:24:39):
Okay, bar.

Speaker 23 (02:24:41):
I told the motel manager you're expecting an important call,
and he'll switch.

Speaker 7 (02:24:45):
It to this cabin. Nice, Jeff, I don't know that
I want to go through with it.

Speaker 3 (02:24:50):
Why not?

Speaker 23 (02:24:51):
I don't know. This is the way I thought it
was gonna be. Well, how did you think it was
gonna be? I thought i'd want to get Mildred back
at any price or killer? And how do you feel?

Speaker 7 (02:25:04):
Sick? Tired?

Speaker 11 (02:25:06):
Old?

Speaker 7 (02:25:08):
Almost as if I were really dead. I'll come on,
snap out of it. You can't stay dead all your life.

Speaker 21 (02:25:13):
Why not?

Speaker 23 (02:25:14):
Look aren't you forgetting that you didn't just die.

Speaker 7 (02:25:17):
A natural death.

Speaker 23 (02:25:19):
It looks like you were murdered to your insurance. It
looks like your wife and this guy Dean are parlaying
your money into a fortune.

Speaker 7 (02:25:26):
I don't care about the money.

Speaker 23 (02:25:27):
Well, then think about the guy they must have killed
to take your place. You owe him something, and I
owe you a story don't. I now, there'll be a
story no matter what you do. I know enough already
to be certain a crime has been committed. Now, if
you don't want to help find out how and why,
I'm calling the cops.

Speaker 7 (02:25:47):
Okay, your wife.

Speaker 23 (02:25:49):
Besides, I would like to know what Mildred is going
to do, and I've got a pretty good notion, and
I don't think we'll have long to wait.

Speaker 45 (02:26:13):
Hello, Sunset Heights Development, Malcolm.

Speaker 7 (02:26:16):
Oh, Hello, Meldred.

Speaker 21 (02:26:17):
Why haven't you come home?

Speaker 7 (02:26:19):
I'm busy. I told you i'd be late.

Speaker 19 (02:26:20):
You've got to come home right away.

Speaker 44 (02:26:22):
Something terrible has happened.

Speaker 19 (02:26:24):
What I can't tell you over the phone, so I'm
afraid to leave your pard.

Speaker 3 (02:26:29):
What's happened?

Speaker 18 (02:26:30):
He's alive.

Speaker 9 (02:26:34):
He didn't die in the jungle.

Speaker 70 (02:26:36):
He's back here in the States, found me somehow, came
here just a while ago alone.

Speaker 45 (02:26:42):
Yes, does he Does he know about the accident? He
didn't act to be How long has he been back?

Speaker 27 (02:26:51):
Only since yesterday.

Speaker 19 (02:26:54):
I'm just waited to give me a chance to talk
to you first.

Speaker 7 (02:26:56):
Alone.

Speaker 25 (02:26:57):
He's gone to the Highway motel and promised to wait
until I called him later to night.

Speaker 7 (02:27:01):
Were good girl, Good girl? I was using your head?

Speaker 61 (02:27:03):
What are we going to do?

Speaker 71 (02:27:04):
What did he find out about?

Speaker 7 (02:27:05):
How did he act? What did he say? Does he
want to meet me?

Speaker 21 (02:27:09):
Yes, he wants to talk to you?

Speaker 47 (02:27:11):
He acted strange?

Speaker 35 (02:27:13):
How at all?

Speaker 21 (02:27:13):
Surprise that again?

Speaker 45 (02:27:14):
They were good? That gives us time a chance to
sound him up. Maybe he buy him off.

Speaker 19 (02:27:21):
He said he had money?

Speaker 45 (02:27:24):
Does he want you to get an annument?

Speaker 7 (02:27:25):
Go back to him?

Speaker 21 (02:27:26):
No, he didn't say.

Speaker 25 (02:27:28):
I made him leave, go to the motel until I.

Speaker 27 (02:27:30):
Could talk to you.

Speaker 7 (02:27:31):
Okay, okay, that's what smart.

Speaker 45 (02:27:34):
Now listen, you call him and get him to come
up here to the development, Get your car out of
the garage, pick him up at the motel, bring him
up here to the office.

Speaker 19 (02:27:42):
What if he won't take money to go away?

Speaker 45 (02:27:44):
In that case, there'll have to be another accident. Now
you call him, no matter what you have to say
or do, get him up here tonight.

Speaker 23 (02:28:06):
And should call back. Take it well, she wants to
come here, and don't let her come. Listen to what
she has to say.

Speaker 4 (02:28:13):
I'll get out.

Speaker 1 (02:28:16):
Yes, are you mister Nane?

Speaker 14 (02:28:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (02:28:19):
Who's calling?

Speaker 37 (02:28:20):
I'm the girl in this witch port?

Speaker 19 (02:28:21):
Is your wife's apartment building?

Speaker 72 (02:28:23):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (02:28:23):
Yes, I don't know if I should.

Speaker 19 (02:28:25):
Be telling you this, because I really shouldn't have been listening.

Speaker 25 (02:28:28):
But your wife called your husband her husband, I mean
her other husband, mister Dean.

Speaker 7 (02:28:33):
Is his office all right? Ms? Why did you call
me missus Dean?

Speaker 26 (02:28:38):
I mean your wife is going to call.

Speaker 7 (02:28:39):
You, Yes, I know that, but she's.

Speaker 25 (02:28:41):
Gonna get you to go up to the new development
John Sunset Height and meet mister Dean.

Speaker 7 (02:28:45):
Good. But why are you calling and telling me this?

Speaker 71 (02:28:49):
Because because I think if you don't take money to
go away, they're gonna kill you.

Speaker 23 (02:29:00):
Once in a blue moon, you run into a yarn
that has more twists than the rope that hangs a
lot of people who think they can get away with murder.
When bart Lane told me what the switchboard operator had
passed on to him, I knew it was time to
call him the long arm of the law.

Speaker 7 (02:29:17):
But before I could persuade, Lane.

Speaker 23 (02:29:21):
Have her mind the cops. That'll be Mildred. Let me
handle this my way. Not a chance, Lane. If you
go with Mildred, it's an even bet somebody will be killed.

Speaker 3 (02:29:29):
Maybe.

Speaker 21 (02:29:32):
Hello, hello boy, listen, I just talked to Mauk in
the office.

Speaker 7 (02:29:37):
What did you say, Well, actually, it was a terrible shot.
How do you take the news I'm alive.

Speaker 25 (02:29:43):
Oh boy, He's so kind, so understanding.

Speaker 7 (02:29:48):
What's he going to do about it?

Speaker 21 (02:29:49):
He wants to see you at his office, need you and.

Speaker 32 (02:29:52):
Talk to you.

Speaker 7 (02:29:53):
I'm willing when.

Speaker 25 (02:29:55):
I'll come for you in my car.

Speaker 19 (02:29:57):
Wait for me on the highway outside the motel.

Speaker 23 (02:29:59):
I'll be there, I like Mildred. I'll be waiting ten minutes. Okay, boy,
you've made your date. Now let me make mine. Who
You're gonna call the homicide squad just in case Mildred
and a new hubby decide to kid you a second time?

Speaker 7 (02:30:30):
How much?

Speaker 25 (02:30:31):
Father, mild I was sent ahead in the woods along
the ridge?

Speaker 7 (02:30:39):
Well, what are you stopping for?

Speaker 25 (02:30:41):
Oh but let's talk a moment?

Speaker 23 (02:30:45):
Why what's there to talk about?

Speaker 25 (02:30:48):
I what really happened?

Speaker 7 (02:30:53):
I got lost?

Speaker 8 (02:30:55):
Died?

Speaker 7 (02:30:55):
Remember, I mean?

Speaker 25 (02:30:58):
Did you find what you went after?

Speaker 4 (02:31:00):
You mean the gold?

Speaker 14 (02:31:01):
Yes?

Speaker 25 (02:31:02):
Did you find any a little?

Speaker 23 (02:31:04):
Might enough?

Speaker 7 (02:31:05):
Or what do you care? You seem to have done
pretty well?

Speaker 14 (02:31:07):
Not really.

Speaker 25 (02:31:08):
Malcolm is rich. He is really state development of speculation.
But that isn't what I'm getting at.

Speaker 7 (02:31:16):
What are you getting at? Oh?

Speaker 23 (02:31:19):
Bart?

Speaker 14 (02:31:19):
You know?

Speaker 25 (02:31:21):
Couldn't we try again? Go away, out of the country,
far away.

Speaker 7 (02:31:26):
What about Malcolm.

Speaker 25 (02:31:28):
No, I can handle him, he would dare say anything.
We might even be able to get some money out
of him. See if you haven't.

Speaker 7 (02:31:36):
Enough, do you do anything for money? Wouldn't you, Mildred?

Speaker 25 (02:31:43):
But I don't say that. I'm only thinking of you.
Oh how you must have suffered all these years.

Speaker 7 (02:31:49):
Stop it, honey, you're breaking my heart.

Speaker 27 (02:31:51):
Oh Pa, don't you believe me?

Speaker 7 (02:31:52):
No, Mildred, he doesn't welcome.

Speaker 45 (02:31:55):
Yes, I saw your headlights from the office. I saw
you park here. In fact, I thought i'd come over
and see how you two were getting on.

Speaker 18 (02:32:03):
Great.

Speaker 45 (02:32:04):
I gather you got an air flow. Yes, yes, quite
an earful lay. And don't bother to get out of
the car. We're going on from here where and I
want to show you our new development. It's quite interesting.
We have several excavations Doug already for the pouring of
the concrete. One of them will make a very nice grace.

Speaker 25 (02:32:22):
Now can you say this?

Speaker 23 (02:32:23):
Too much has been said, my dear. I'll start the motor,
I'll get in the back of the car. Wait a minute,
what's the idea of the gun. Let's have it on
the line.

Speaker 7 (02:32:32):
It's really very simple. Lane.

Speaker 45 (02:32:34):
You're a dead man. You died and the not going
to be a accident over a year ago. Yeah, so
I found out now I can. He knows that I
suspected as much. I think he came here to blackmail us,
lead us white as the price of silence.

Speaker 23 (02:32:51):
Wrong, dead, wrong, And it doesn't matter. What about Mildred,
our loving wife. I haven't quite made up my mind.

Speaker 25 (02:33:00):
I was only leading him on, trying to find out
if he had any money.

Speaker 45 (02:33:03):
Well, well that was greedy, Mildred, foolish. But you've always
been greedy, haven't you, never quite satisfied with what you have.
His insurance wasn't enough.

Speaker 7 (02:33:14):
How well he knows you, my dear.

Speaker 23 (02:33:18):
And by the way, Mildred, who is the guy you
identified who died in the car in my place?

Speaker 7 (02:33:23):
Go ahead telling Mildred it doesn't matter.

Speaker 22 (02:33:26):
You did it.

Speaker 25 (02:33:27):
You arranged it, picked up that hit hiker, make the
car or burn the body.

Speaker 7 (02:33:31):
Oh so that's how it was done.

Speaker 45 (02:33:33):
Yes, But now let's go over to the side of
my first model house, shall we, Being built with your insurance.

Speaker 25 (02:33:41):
Let's not knock him behind you.

Speaker 23 (02:33:43):
That's right, Dean, drop that gunue and without turning around.

Speaker 7 (02:33:50):
That was smart. I'd hate to have to shoot anybody
in the back.

Speaker 23 (02:33:54):
You better get out of that car bought you died
in one last year.

Speaker 7 (02:33:57):
Remember, yeah? Thanks?

Speaker 22 (02:34:01):
Ye.

Speaker 7 (02:34:03):
Where are the cops?

Speaker 28 (02:34:04):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (02:34:04):
I thought they might be a little tardy, so I
tagged along behind when you drove off with Mildred.

Speaker 7 (02:34:09):
They'll be here any minute.

Speaker 25 (02:34:11):
Help me.

Speaker 10 (02:34:12):
Believe me.

Speaker 25 (02:34:12):
I didn't kill that hit hiker. Malcolm did. He planned
the whole thing from the very beginning with his ideas.

Speaker 45 (02:34:18):
It won't do my dear, Murder isn't like your kind
of marriage. We're in this together, Mildred, until death.

Speaker 4 (02:34:29):
Do us part.

Speaker 67 (02:34:49):
This is Don Daud again, your host for Mystery Time.
You're just third Masters of Mystery Live.

Speaker 7 (02:34:54):
From New York.

Speaker 67 (02:34:56):
Tonight's play Murder by Proxy was written by Jerry McGill
and produced by Clark Andrews in association with Ronald Dawson
and Lober. Doctor featured in Tonight's Drama where Everett Sloane,
George Petrie, Kathleen Cordell and Lyle Sudro. Next Wednesday and

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every Wednesday Night another presentation of Masters of Mystery. Tomorrow Night,
Mystery Time brings you Mystery Classics presenting Death Rides the
Storm by John lest See with us, then, won't you.
This is Don Dowd, your host for Mystery Time. See
you tomorrow night. This program came to you live from

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New York. This is the ABC Radio.

Speaker 16 (02:35:47):
Network Strange Adventure.

Speaker 73 (02:35:53):
Dom O'Neil looked up as the stranger touched his elbow,
thereby breaking his reverie of admiration of the art of
crime pardons, Monsieur, I did not mean to startle you.
I was just so glad to see another person.

Speaker 10 (02:36:06):
Bruke it can it be?

Speaker 4 (02:36:08):
Oh?

Speaker 32 (02:36:09):
I did not think to see you again?

Speaker 73 (02:36:11):
And in Polis, Tom was startled at the effusion of
the mysterious stranger.

Speaker 32 (02:36:16):
You recognize me?

Speaker 73 (02:36:17):
Oh, but yes, I recognize you. You are, Monsieur Tom O'Neil,
the writer from Hollywood. You have just so discinema rights
to your book, The Isle of Derelicts. I read about
it in the papers. Do you know if remember me?
I am Philip Darnice. I was but a clerk in
the store in Fairpete where you traded, so it was
easy for you to forget me.

Speaker 32 (02:36:34):
You are here on a holiday and business just for
a few days.

Speaker 21 (02:36:38):
Aha.

Speaker 32 (02:36:38):
Another book perhaps, or maybe it is to sell pearls.
Is that right? That's what you did in for Pete
When I knew you.

Speaker 73 (02:36:45):
Tom O'Neil recalled his days in the South Seas, colorful,
adventurous days that he had written about in his books,
and that the publicity office of the movie company had
also written about in glowing exaggerated accounts. The two men
made their way towards small sidewalk cafe, the Frenchman, chattering
all the while about the Pacific Islands and about the

(02:37:05):
people he had known there. Over a glass of wine
full of Darnie's, told his story. Since coming to Paris,
he had become an investment broker with an office in
the Momarthisty. For the old time's sake, I will let
you in on an investment that will make you a
great puppet. There is a rich silver mine in Peru,
and my officer has put some secret shares.

Speaker 19 (02:37:25):
On the market.

Speaker 32 (02:37:26):
I would not tell you about it.

Speaker 73 (02:37:28):
But while I was a clerk in by Pete, I
founded your adventurous and you became a hero to me.
I was standing on the dock when you arrived in
your schooner after saving those shipwrecked people on that rocky island.
The novelist toyed with his glass as he spoke. You
were there when I came in wii wi. I helped
one of the poor men to the ambulance. Now about

(02:37:49):
the investment. You can give me the money and my
office will do the rest. O'Neil looked steadily into the
face of his companion. Now, Darney, you never knew me
and fat Pete, and I doubt if you've ever been there.
Donney sprang to his feet, his face darkening.

Speaker 32 (02:38:06):
Do you dabt to insinuate to die him?

Speaker 21 (02:38:07):
Nine?

Speaker 32 (02:38:08):
That is an insult.

Speaker 73 (02:38:09):
The man's right hand whipped inside his coat, and a
long bladed knife appeared, as if by magic. He'd lunched
Tod O'Neill. Tom O'Neill lifted the small table as a shield.
At that instant, two men leaped up from a nearby
table and sprang upon Darnise, we are of the surty, monsieur.
We listened to your conversation. This man has a swindler,
this Darnise, and we have been on his tray for
a long time. I say, before you take him away,

(02:38:32):
I'd like to tell him that when he told me
he was on the dock when I came in after
saving some shipwrecked people. I knew he was lying. That
story was written by a publicity man at the studio.
When it comes to dreaming up stories, confidence men can't
hold a candle to press agents. This is Pat mcgeinn
in Hollywood, California, saying goodbye for my writer, Charles Carter,

(02:38:54):
and inviting you to tune in again to another tale
of strange adventure, ye.

Speaker 16 (02:39:16):
Appointment with Fear.

Speaker 74 (02:39:22):
This is your storyteller, the Man in Black, here again
to bring you another story in our series, Appointment with Fear.

Speaker 7 (02:39:33):
Edgar Allan Poe's.

Speaker 74 (02:39:34):
Story The Pit and the Pendulum adapted for broadcasting by
John Dixon Carr.

Speaker 7 (02:39:43):
Jean Delbray, Captain Jean Delbray. Good fathers, gentlemen, will hear you?

Speaker 33 (02:39:51):
My son, I have been confined for many months in
a dungeon. I have been tormented by Nightmaires.

Speaker 7 (02:39:57):
Our conscious one, trust, trace violence, crying told you.

Speaker 33 (02:40:01):
Even now, I have no knowledge of where I am
or to whom my name is speaking.

Speaker 7 (02:40:04):
You are speaking to me, my son. I am Fra
Pedro Deespila, prior of the Dominicans of Segovia and Grand
inquisitor for all space. Is this the court of the inquisition?
It is then God help me. He will help you,
my son, if you trust him. But I am a

(02:40:27):
French officer, that is true, a sould young creature of
the Archerien Napoleon Bonaparte, but a.

Speaker 1 (02:40:34):
French officer, nonetheless.

Speaker 44 (02:40:36):
A prisoner of war.

Speaker 32 (02:40:37):
By what right do you try me in this court?

Speaker 7 (02:40:39):
Let the clerk read the charges against this prisoner. Praise
silence while the clerk reads the charges.

Speaker 2 (02:40:48):
The charges against the prisoner, das follow imprimis that he
is one Jehan albre a captain of artillery in the
army of Bonaparte, so called Empire the fence.

Speaker 7 (02:40:58):
This means nothing, as the prison that says it is
no crime proceed.

Speaker 2 (02:41:03):
I tem that on the fourth day September, in the
year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eight, said John
delbrated with Asparus and Mary, that most noble lady, the
Donna Beatrice Valdez, niece and ward of the illustrious One moment,
your excellency.

Speaker 7 (02:41:17):
Is spoke Briantonio. Was any cheat employed to trap this
girl into marriage against her will? No, we have no
actual evidence of any cheats. Was the girl of a
I believe so, then wherefore is the prisoner here? This
marriage was a deplorable thing. If you like. Bonaparte himself

(02:41:40):
is almost at the gates of Madrid, his general Lasale
menaces our city of Toledo itself. But lawful marriage, however regrettable,
is no sin or crime. There are other matters in
the indictment. I think, then, continue, but give us nothing
that is not material.

Speaker 2 (02:41:59):
That on the of October eighteen hundred and eighty, Saint
Jean Dalbray, being in command of a five gun battery
of light artillery, did direct the par of his guns
against the Holy Church of Saint Martha the Innocent, and
thereby of his wicked malice, destroyed the church.

Speaker 7 (02:42:16):
Captain Dalbray, is this charge true? Yes, you admit it.

Speaker 33 (02:42:23):
Good Father, Here what I have to say? The church
blew up, I think, would you boast of your sin?

Speaker 22 (02:42:28):
Young men?

Speaker 32 (02:42:29):
It blew up.

Speaker 33 (02:42:30):
Because it was stored with kegs of gunpowder for your army.
I had every right to piiment.

Speaker 7 (02:42:35):
And that is all the defense you have to make.

Speaker 33 (02:42:38):
I tell you I had every right to piim it
by military law.

Speaker 7 (02:42:42):
Is military law above God's law.

Speaker 32 (02:42:45):
I don't know I did my you say, long live the.

Speaker 7 (02:42:49):
Emperor, Captain Delbray. Here the sentence of this court, had
your fits been any except this, the holy office would
have been mercy. Mark what I say. No man, however
great his heresy, is ever condemned to be burnt in

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the fire, fire, fire, the fire, if he first rekent
and acknowledge the error of his ways. But for you,
Jean Delbray, there can be no mercy, no pity, no atonement.
The onlyss sentence of this cord can be.

Speaker 8 (02:43:34):
Death.

Speaker 7 (02:43:36):
There the secular or government armed to which we must
release you, has devised two ways of punishment in cases
such as yours. You hear the tolling of bells, I
hear them. It is the procession of the condemned going
to the auto da fey. Soon the yellow light of

(02:43:57):
the flames will stream through the windows and flicker on
floor and ceiling. None, Captain Horror, not.

Speaker 40 (02:44:06):
Just in manners to as dominate.

Speaker 7 (02:44:09):
Most of those condemned out of mercy will be strangled
before they are burnt.

Speaker 14 (02:44:16):
It cannot be so with you, Jean Delbray.

Speaker 7 (02:44:19):
You must die in one of two ways, either with
a diarist of physical agony, a slow fire of green wood,
hest bandages about the head and heart, so that the
fire does not approach too quickly. Silent, I cry your pardon,
Grand inquisitor, or else, Jean Delbrey, you must die in

(02:44:42):
a certain other way.

Speaker 1 (02:44:44):
Have done with this, Pass your sentence and let me go.

Speaker 7 (02:44:47):
Lord does not permit me to tell you now what
this other way is. It must approach you slowly and
force itself into your mind. It must stop you like
a tiger. It must bring you face to face at
last with the King of terrors, the sentence of this court.

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Therefore I had swooned.

Speaker 33 (02:45:29):
Yet still I will not say that all of consciousness
was lost in the deepest slumber.

Speaker 14 (02:45:34):
No in delirium, no in a swoon, No in death,
no even in the grave. All is not lost.

Speaker 33 (02:45:43):
There are shadows of memory which tell me indistinctly of
tall figures that lifted me and bore me in silence, down, down, still.

Speaker 68 (02:45:52):
Down, until a hideous dizziness oppressed me.

Speaker 7 (02:45:55):
But that does sent into the earth.

Speaker 1 (02:45:57):
There was a vague horror at my heart. Stillness.

Speaker 33 (02:46:02):
Thenus consciousness swam back from my wits.

Speaker 14 (02:46:05):
Alone darkness, stone floor darkness.

Speaker 3 (02:46:14):
Oh Beatrice, Oh.

Speaker 14 (02:46:18):
My wife did you call me Jean, Beatrice. Was that
you who spoke? Yes, you here in the dungeons of
the inquisition.

Speaker 10 (02:46:31):
I am not really speaking to you, my poor Jean.
I am only in your imagination.

Speaker 14 (02:46:40):
Am I mad?

Speaker 7 (02:46:41):
Then?

Speaker 27 (02:46:42):
No?

Speaker 10 (02:46:43):
But your brain is fevered. You only think you hear me.

Speaker 14 (02:46:47):
I hear you clearly, as clearly as I once heard
you in the.

Speaker 10 (02:46:52):
Little church near the ebro well we were married.

Speaker 14 (02:46:55):
Yes, I destroyed that church, Beatrice.

Speaker 7 (02:46:58):
I had to it.

Speaker 32 (02:46:59):
That was my commanding officer's order.

Speaker 14 (02:47:02):
Be comforted.

Speaker 10 (02:47:03):
There are those who care.

Speaker 33 (02:47:05):
It is completely dark. There's hardly any air. I dread
to get up, and I dread to stretch out my hand.
Suppose they have buried me alive?

Speaker 10 (02:47:25):
Courage, can you stand up?

Speaker 7 (02:47:31):
I think so.

Speaker 9 (02:47:32):
Then walk, walk as far as you.

Speaker 10 (02:47:35):
Can, measure the limit of the cell.

Speaker 33 (02:47:38):
If this is not a tool, You're right, Beatrice, as always,
I'll try.

Speaker 10 (02:47:46):
Are you on your feet?

Speaker 14 (02:47:48):
Yes? Now pray for a poor devil who always meant well?
One place, two.

Speaker 7 (02:48:01):
Three four?

Speaker 10 (02:48:04):
You are very weak, Shah rest a moment.

Speaker 14 (02:48:07):
Where are you now, Beatrice? In the flesh?

Speaker 10 (02:48:10):
I mean you know that John in the old house
by the Olive grove, scorned of my people.

Speaker 7 (02:48:18):
Yes, I know it.

Speaker 75 (02:48:21):
Each morning I climb to the hilltop and watch go on.
Sometimes I think I hear dunfields rumble in the hill,
and long moving columns with the red dust rising above them.

Speaker 14 (02:48:35):
Go on.

Speaker 76 (02:48:36):
First come the heavy cavalry and plume crested helmets on
their flanks, wheeling like hawks, light huzzards in blue and scarlet,
and behind them in a glitter of bannets as vast
as light points, ill seen rank upon rank, the long
gray coats and tall bust and cats, and.

Speaker 1 (02:48:54):
The old god on the grand novel.

Speaker 10 (02:49:00):
It is only a vision, my dear one. They do
not come, Will they ever come?

Speaker 14 (02:49:07):
Betrius?

Speaker 10 (02:49:09):
I cannot tell.

Speaker 14 (02:49:10):
Then I mu's face.

Speaker 8 (02:49:12):
What has been prepared for me?

Speaker 7 (02:49:16):
Beatrice?

Speaker 14 (02:49:17):
Yes, John, I tried to walk. I took some steps,
four steps, but in which direction I can't remember.

Speaker 10 (02:49:24):
Are you facing in the same way?

Speaker 7 (02:49:26):
I don't know?

Speaker 10 (02:49:26):
Perhaps then walk again. Try keep your hand in front
of this.

Speaker 33 (02:49:31):
This robe impedes me, and the floor has treacherous with slime.
But I try four paces, five, six, seven.

Speaker 10 (02:49:44):
It can't be a tomb.

Speaker 7 (02:49:47):
Eight nine.

Speaker 33 (02:49:50):
Look out, I'm all right. I on my face the
rope tripney, But what is it. My hand is in
front of me, lower than my face, but I.

Speaker 36 (02:50:10):
Feel nothing, nothing, Jean. It's a bit, a circular bit,
and I fell on the very edge of it.

Speaker 10 (02:50:22):
They would have made you walk into it.

Speaker 33 (02:50:23):
Yes, there's a loose fragment of rock just inside the edge,
if only I can dislodge it. Listen, water, there's something
done there.

Speaker 10 (02:50:42):
Rats.

Speaker 14 (02:50:42):
It may be rats, yes, but something else. I had
heard it move, so did I. Accidents saved me.

Speaker 33 (02:50:52):
They would have had me plunge there symbolically liked the
ascent of the soul to keep company with something else,
and quick death forms no part of their plan.

Speaker 10 (02:51:03):
What is in the picture?

Speaker 1 (02:51:05):
I can't say.

Speaker 72 (02:51:10):
Did you say I was saved, Beatrice? Saved from the inquisition?
My torture has been merely postponed. A deep sleep fell

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upon me, a sleep like that of death. How long
it lasted I know not, But when I opened my
eyes once again, I could see. Yes, see, my prison
was large and naughty, its walls formed of massive iron plates,
bolted door joined together a wild, sulfurous luster I could

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not face.

Speaker 33 (02:52:04):
Its origin lit up the dungeon on the circular pit,
and the crudely dagged skeleton figures painted in evil colors
on the iron walls, skeleton figures, demon pillars, gargoyle figures,
their colors a little blurred as from the effects.

Speaker 14 (02:52:21):
Of the damp.

Speaker 4 (02:52:22):
And I.

Speaker 33 (02:52:32):
I now lay on my back and at full length
on a low framework of wood. To this framework, I
was securely bound by a long fastening resembling a surgical bandage.

Speaker 7 (02:52:46):
Bound. But why why why why that's.

Speaker 40 (02:52:56):
Look where at the ceiling of the room, thirty forty
feet up?

Speaker 7 (02:53:03):
What do you see?

Speaker 10 (02:53:05):
I see painted on the ceiling a figure of Father Time?
Anything else, But Father Time carried no side. He carried
instead what looks like a gigantic pendulum from an ancient clock.

Speaker 33 (02:53:24):
About one thing, I swear I am in my right senses.
I saw that pendulum move. A painting cannot move, yet
I swear the pendulum did. It swung a little back
and forth, just like a real pendulum.

Speaker 10 (02:53:40):
Try not to trouble your brain.

Speaker 33 (02:53:42):
Father Time is not like those other paintings daubed on
the walls, the imp and devils and skeletons.

Speaker 7 (02:53:48):
That pendulum is real.

Speaker 10 (02:53:52):
Fet to titter. Take care of what you are not
looking at the pendulum.

Speaker 27 (02:53:57):
Now, take care of the re.

Speaker 10 (02:54:00):
See them. That's warming up and duble.

Speaker 1 (02:54:02):
You can see the eyes one are the run across
the hammer?

Speaker 7 (02:54:05):
God, what do they want?

Speaker 10 (02:54:07):
They have the sin of the mint and they'll not
get it. And move your hand above the plate, John,
move me, PRIs Where are you going?

Speaker 22 (02:54:16):
I can hardly hear you.

Speaker 10 (02:54:18):
You are sending me away. I sending you away, my
poor loved one. You can't bear to see the rats
running about my feet? Can you see? When you know
I'm not here? Their true distrusion?

Speaker 44 (02:54:34):
You tell me, yes, it's true.

Speaker 14 (02:54:40):
You know Settle swarming with vermin brothers.

Speaker 7 (02:54:44):
I had rather see here.

Speaker 14 (02:54:47):
I had rather see.

Speaker 7 (02:54:54):
If you call me Captain Calbray and instead it I
am here? Who are you to recognize me?

Speaker 14 (02:55:03):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:55:04):
I am that second physical Sah and.

Speaker 23 (02:55:07):
Tully unfair at your tire, But we were not unfair.

Speaker 7 (02:55:12):
We adminised to the law. That is all go.

Speaker 77 (02:55:16):
I command you go not until I have first told
you what you already guessed, which is, as the Grand
Inquisitor said, there are two forms of death for such
as you, One death with its daist physical torture, the
other death with its diarist mental torture.

Speaker 14 (02:55:39):
And I have been condemned to the second.

Speaker 10 (02:55:41):
Your guess is good.

Speaker 14 (02:55:43):
Listen, don't hear anything, Yes, I hear something.

Speaker 33 (02:55:53):
Turn your eyes upwards, rock ceiling, the pendulum high, the
pendulum bitters, descending only a photosos.

Speaker 14 (02:56:02):
Yet, as you notice, it is not really a pendulum.

Speaker 7 (02:56:06):
No, no, it's underside is a crescent formed of sharp
a raise a sharp steel.

Speaker 77 (02:56:14):
You mean a ponderous wit, Captain Calbray.

Speaker 68 (02:56:18):
Its movement is slow now, but soon it will take
un momentum.

Speaker 23 (02:56:24):
It will swing.

Speaker 10 (02:56:26):
Why and why the defeat?

Speaker 7 (02:56:31):
Perhaps presently it swings, You will hear it his.

Speaker 14 (02:56:39):
And we each broad movement.

Speaker 33 (02:56:42):
It will creep a trifle low steel is directly above me, yes,
above the.

Speaker 7 (02:56:49):
Region of your heart. Lie still and look up at it.
Oh long before you need have no immediate fear.

Speaker 14 (02:56:59):
It will not be too soon, But how soon?

Speaker 7 (02:57:03):
Who can tell? In the name of Peter, give me
some answer our perhaps days. Its motion can be arrested
while you sleep.

Speaker 1 (02:57:14):
It's beginning to swing wider. I can't take my eyes
from it.

Speaker 10 (02:57:21):
It's glitter fastints.

Speaker 1 (02:57:23):
See how it shines in that wildlight.

Speaker 68 (02:57:25):
And this is your utmost refinements.

Speaker 10 (02:57:29):
And croyls a load.

Speaker 7 (02:57:30):
Captain Telbrey is never coyled.

Speaker 14 (02:57:34):
And now still in spirit, I leave your meditation.

Speaker 7 (02:57:49):
Minutes, hours, days.

Speaker 33 (02:57:56):
Down, Steadily down it crept, days passed, It might have
been many days before it swept so closely as to
fan me with its acrid breath.

Speaker 14 (02:58:09):
The odor of the.

Speaker 33 (02:58:10):
Sharp steel forced itself into my nostrils, to the right,
to the left, far and wide, with the shriek of
a damned spirit, to my heart, with the stealthy pace
of a tiger. Down, certainly, relentlessly down, I prayed, I

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wearied Heaven with my prayer for its more speedy descent.

Speaker 7 (02:58:39):
I grew frantically mad, and struggled.

Speaker 1 (02:58:42):
To force myself up against that swinging.

Speaker 7 (02:58:44):
Glittering death of no avail.

Speaker 33 (02:58:49):
Down, still, unseatingly, still, inevitably down. The sharp steel flashed
past within three inches of my chest.

Speaker 32 (02:58:55):
And then hold it down.

Speaker 10 (02:59:05):
I heard you calling, Jean, I am here.

Speaker 7 (02:59:09):
Here is a strange thing, beatress.

Speaker 33 (02:59:12):
I am quite calm you I resigned. Then, No, that
is a strange thing too, even now I am not resigned.

Speaker 10 (02:59:21):
Is there no way out?

Speaker 14 (02:59:22):
How can they?

Speaker 33 (02:59:24):
Ten twelve more vibrations and it will free the surge
of my robe? Only likely as a razor and a
delicate hand. There will be many sweeps before it bites deep.
I can't escape it. And yet and yet, ah, if
I could only use my weights, you'll.

Speaker 10 (02:59:41):
Get me away from you, Jean, you locked me out
of your thoughts. If I am here only in your thoughts,
why should I fear the rats?

Speaker 7 (02:59:50):
The rats.

Speaker 10 (02:59:52):
Place?

Speaker 25 (02:59:53):
What is it?

Speaker 10 (02:59:54):
The rat They still swarm you across the floor and
over the meat platter. They have taken it the oil food.

Speaker 66 (03:00:00):
Yes, yes, they are ravings, and they have sharft teeth.

Speaker 7 (03:00:03):
Well, the meat is oil and spice.

Speaker 33 (03:00:05):
If I take what from ends of it, taper burning
and rob that meat from the bandage is supposed he
tie may be too late.

Speaker 7 (03:00:12):
If I move my body a fraction of an in
sharp cry it, I tell you.

Speaker 22 (03:00:15):
Try Lord today, tattle as.

Speaker 10 (03:00:17):
Soon as I do, try, And they are watching. I
can see their eyes glitter. They're creeping back.

Speaker 33 (03:00:23):
And I scan those rats trawling across mare can the
flesh verist?

Speaker 10 (03:00:28):
One of them has eat on the wooden framework, another follows.
They arennoying at the bandage.

Speaker 1 (03:00:35):
Eight more sweets of a pendulum.

Speaker 7 (03:00:37):
Does the bandage a little like ten dozen rats?

Speaker 78 (03:00:43):
Now?

Speaker 7 (03:00:45):
Is death?

Speaker 14 (03:00:45):
I wonder worse from this discussion.

Speaker 10 (03:00:48):
Dozen shark knights could do no better the bandage, the
ribbons sideways carefully and talk to the floor.

Speaker 33 (03:00:56):
Try move my arms the numb there's no power here
A minute more.

Speaker 10 (03:01:03):
They trin.

Speaker 25 (03:01:06):
With all the sight than mare, and I hate fred.

Speaker 68 (03:01:11):
I bear my enemies.

Speaker 7 (03:01:18):
Three second time, three.

Speaker 10 (03:01:27):
Season the tendu himself. They're drawing it back up through
the roof.

Speaker 14 (03:01:35):
Each move I make is watched.

Speaker 7 (03:01:38):
You never doubted that.

Speaker 10 (03:01:39):
No, Yet, with all they could do to you, they
have failed. Tight.

Speaker 33 (03:01:44):
They will not sail a third time, My dear, there
must be no more daying with the.

Speaker 7 (03:01:51):
King of Tellus.

Speaker 10 (03:01:52):
What else can they do?

Speaker 7 (03:01:53):
I can't say.

Speaker 14 (03:01:56):
See how the rats, nor in silence for the bandage
to what food?

Speaker 7 (03:02:02):
I wonder have they been.

Speaker 14 (03:02:03):
Accustomed in the pit?

Speaker 19 (03:02:06):
To escape the pit?

Speaker 33 (03:02:08):
I escaped it once? Listen, what do you hear groaning?
The grindings of metal?

Speaker 9 (03:02:21):
It was only the cog wheels of the pendulum knife.

Speaker 14 (03:02:24):
I think, not Beatrice.

Speaker 10 (03:02:25):
Why not?

Speaker 14 (03:02:27):
It seemed to come from behind these iron plated walls.
It seemed to shake the dungeon as a miller wheel
might shake it. It.

Speaker 10 (03:02:34):
Stand up, my porson, get up, off your knee.

Speaker 14 (03:02:37):
I can't beatrice.

Speaker 25 (03:02:40):
I can't.

Speaker 10 (03:02:44):
The paintings on the walls of this dungeon, keletons and
innocent devils, they seem different.

Speaker 1 (03:02:54):
The colors sharpened and go bright.

Speaker 7 (03:02:57):
The demon eyes.

Speaker 33 (03:02:58):
Lare the stone.

Speaker 7 (03:03:00):
But hands outstretched, don't you catch even yet the odor
of heated iron, eated iron. I have been much humble,
but I won't have you see me in tears. I

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order you to go.

Speaker 35 (03:03:21):
You're in the name of hen Yes, in the name
of Heaven.

Speaker 9 (03:03:24):
Go.

Speaker 4 (03:03:28):
Yah.

Speaker 14 (03:03:43):
A suffocating heat pervaded the prison.

Speaker 33 (03:03:46):
A deeper glow settled in the painted eyes that glared
at me. I could draw no breath of air into
my lungs against the loom of that y destruction.

Speaker 68 (03:03:55):
The thought of the pit and its coolness came like bomb.

Speaker 7 (03:04:00):
I staggered to the edge of the pit. I looked
into it.

Speaker 68 (03:04:02):
The enginer walls and roof lighted it to its depths.

Speaker 33 (03:04:06):
Yet the one wild moment, even then, I refuse to
believe the meaning of what I saw.

Speaker 7 (03:04:17):
Does the pit pease you? Captain talbrey you again? Do
you find its contents pleasing?

Speaker 14 (03:04:26):
Not?

Speaker 7 (03:04:27):
Of pitmurderful God?

Speaker 22 (03:04:29):
Anything?

Speaker 1 (03:04:31):
And how shall you avoid it? The dungeon has changed
its shape.

Speaker 7 (03:04:39):
And it's true all my closing.

Speaker 68 (03:04:42):
In it was formerly a square, and now it is flattening.

Speaker 1 (03:04:47):
Slowly towards the center.

Speaker 68 (03:04:49):
To pat me into the pit, of course, it will
post you along with me again ten.

Speaker 77 (03:04:53):
To yoused, to be told, Captain Talbrey, that you are
speaking only to your own SI fancy.

Speaker 33 (03:05:01):
I am not here at all, wells, and now flatter
and flatter through the red burning walls. With the swiftness
that left me no time report, I shrank back with
the closing walls, testedly resistantly.

Speaker 1 (03:05:19):
Onward at length. For my seared and writhing body, there
was no longer any inso footholds.

Speaker 41 (03:05:24):
I tottered on the edge of the pit.

Speaker 68 (03:05:31):
There was a death tordant hum of human voices. There
was a laugh, a many pumping. The fiery walls rushed back.

Speaker 33 (03:05:46):
An outstretched arm caught my own as I felt, painting
into the abyss. It was that of General Lapal. The
French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the
hands of its enemies.

Speaker 79 (03:06:26):
When murky winter dusk begins to settle over the railway
station at Krewe, its first class waiting room grew steadily
more stagnant. The grimed windows do a little more than
sift the failing light, and the massive black leather furniture
becomes less and less inviting. It appears to have been
made for a scene of extreme and diabolical violence that

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one may hope will never occur. Things like this become
exaggerated in memory, and the after noon I have in
mind is many years distant. But I certainly became more
conscious of the defects of my surroundings when my fellow
passengers hurried out for the down train, leaving me to

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wait for the up and nothing and nobody, as I supposed,
but a drowsy fire for company. The animated talk before
we parted had been occasioned by an account in the
morning's newspapers of the last voyage of the Hesper. She
had come in the evening before days overdue, and even

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her master had not refused to admit that certain mysterious
and tragic events had occurred on board, though he preferred
not to discuss them. He agreed, however, that his ship
was at present in want of a second mate. But
the voyage of the Hesper is now, of course an
old tale many times told, and I myself, having wearied

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of her mysteries had decided, I did to seek out
the refreshment room when a voice behind me suddenly broke
the hush. It was an unusual voice, rapid incoherent. I
shifted my chair and turned to look. Evidently this the
only other occupant of the room had until this moment
been as unaware of my presence as I of his.

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He seemed for a moment to be in doubt even
of what I was. I'm sorry, I said, I supposed merely.
What I was saying, sir, is that those gentlemen who
just left us had no more notion of what they
were talking about than an infant in the cradle. How So,
I said, I'm only a landsman myself. But he shifted

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a little nearer, a smallish man muffled up in a
very respectable greatcoat, at least two sizes too large for him.
You don't have to go to sea for things like that.
But they will find out all right, all in good time.
He glanced around him. You know where you are, and
a plash like this, though it's sorrid, yes, I agree,

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it certainly looks on it, ah looks, But what is
your solid sir?

Speaker 4 (03:09:12):
With that?

Speaker 79 (03:09:13):
He rose and seated himself opposite me, And I must
confess that, now that he was near, I did not
much care for the appearance of the stranger, in spite
of his admirable great coaty. He looked in need of
a barber, as well as of medicine and sleep, a
need that might presently exhibit itself in a hankering for alcohol.

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But I was mistaken. He as for nothing. He just
wanted company, human company. He merely, it seemed, wanted to
talk about himself, suddenly plunged into his past. I was
a gentleman's servant. When I bag answer, he set off,
first brute boy, then footman, and so on. Never married.
Petticoats are nothing but incumbrances in the house. But I

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must say, if you keep yourself to yourself, it sees
you through in time. What you had to be aware
of is those of your own calling domestic. That's the
same everywhere. Nobody's reached much past the cat and dog
stage in that jealousy. And if you don't stay where
you're put, there's precious little chance of pickings when the funeral's.

Speaker 3 (03:10:17):
At the door.

Speaker 79 (03:10:19):
The last situation I was in was with the Reverend
w Somers in the depths of the country, just myself,
a young fellow by the name of George, and a
woman who came in from the village. How long the
reverend hadn't cared for females in the house I never knew.
But he was attached enough to his sister, quite a
nice lady. But we had to look alive when she

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was in the house. Oh yes, but that, thank god,
was seldom. She never took to the vicarage up an
era and now Blake this and Blake that too dark,
too vaulty to shut in. Trees in the front everlastings
though open behind with corn fields you could see for
miles from the upper corn door windows small pains that

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take a lot of cleaning. But George did the windows.
George had come from the village, nothing but a few cottages.
Why the old church lay a mile away from it?
I can't say the reverend had private means, naturally, I
knew that before it came out in the will. He
was a gentleman. Give him his books, and tomorrow like yesterday,
and he gave no trouble, mind you. He liked things

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as they should be. Everything had to be punctual, to
the minute, and the good thing's good. I've never seen
choice of fruit and came from his houses and orchard.
That was here the trouble began, but it was an
easy place and fair prospects too, if you could wait.
The reverend told me himself that it rememdered me in

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his will, if still in his service, you know, these
lawyers put it. In fact, he'd given me to understand
that if in the meantime any of us went elsewhere,
the one left was to have the lot, but not death.
There it turned that I was in error, but not
complaining of enough to see me through, or however long

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I'm left, I might have stayed to this day. If
the old gentleman's gardener cared to stay too, he began
it him gone we all went, and that's where these
fine gentlemen here were talking around their hats. What I

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say is, keep on this side of the tomb as
long as you can. Don't meddle with that hole. They
seem to forget. There may be some mighty unpleasant meetings.
And what about the further shore. It's my belief there's
some kind of faery plying on that river, and coming

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back depends on what you want to come back for. Anyhow,
they said the old house was haunted. A previous vicar
had even had the place exercised candles and only water.
That kind of thing sheer from mummery, I call it.
If at the beginning there was anything in that house

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that was better out than in. It never troubled me,
at least not at first. No, I'm not complaining. Leave
at piece with whom you can, I say, But when
it comes to his crusty, a customer and a scotchman
at that, as was the gardener, then there's a limit.
Mingus he called himself. He lived down at the lodge,

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and his widowed daughter kept house for him, with one
little boy, harmless enough as children go, a bit noisy,
and not for the house. Now, why I ask you,
shouldn't I pick a little of this gentleman's precious fruit
or a cucumber for a salad with our mister Mingus
busy with the frames. I don't hold with all these

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hard and fast restrictions, at least outside the house, though
we wrangled about it week in week out, and him
with a temper which once roused, was past all reasoning,
Not that I ever took much notice of him until
it came to a point past any man's enduring. But
duty is duty, and when a man takes advantage of

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what is meant in pure friendliness, were all one's about
to make a move. What I mean to say is
I used occasionally pantry window wide open, and all that
I used occasionally to offer our friend to drink. But
it came to become a kind habit and to be expected,
which is always a bad conditioning things. Well, I came

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along five years ago. You may remember an extraordinary hot
summer and an early harvest. Necessarily, and gardening is thirsty work.
I will say that for it, which being so better
surely virgin water or a droper cider than ardent spirits,
it stands to reason. Besides, we had had words again.

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Let him get his own drinks with my feeling, and
you can hardly call me to blame if he did.
There was the pantry window hanging wide open, and there
was the ruin of him within arm's reach from outside.
I'd watch him there, though he couldn't see me, being
behind the door. And practices like that, sir, as you
will agree with.

Speaker 3 (03:15:23):
Me, can't go on.

Speaker 79 (03:15:25):
It had gone too far. And then I came down
one morning to find one of my best decanters smashed
to smithereens on the floor, Irish glass and all cats
and sherry you ever heard of it? And out of
revenge he filled the pantry with wasps by bringing in
overright plums, and so things went from padder worse. A

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widower too, with a married daughter dependent on him. No, Sir,
I had to call a halt to it, a friendly.

Speaker 7 (03:15:53):
Word in his ear.

Speaker 79 (03:15:54):
You may be thinking, might have sufficed.

Speaker 3 (03:15:56):
Believe me, not for him.

Speaker 79 (03:15:59):
Then I thought of Jewel, not compromising myself in any way.
Of course, in so doing, I said to him, might day, George,
a word in time saves nine. But it would be
better coming from you than me. You take me, hold
your peace and our friend sober, then hand it to
him a word of warning. I mean, so we're muffling

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things up as well as we can from the old gentleman,
but that if he should hear of it, they'll be
fat in the fire, And no mistake, it'd take it
easier from you, George, the responsibility being mine, Lord. How
I remember, George, he had a way to look at
you as if he couldn't say bo to a goose

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bolting blue eyes as simple as an infant's. But he
wasn't stupid, I know, and now I reflect, I think
he knew how little plan wouldn't work. But there whatever
he might be thinking, he was so awkward with his
tongue that he could never find anything saying till it
was too late.

Speaker 3 (03:17:01):
So I left it at that.

Speaker 79 (03:17:03):
What he actually did say I never knew. But the
very next afternoon our friend came along at the planetry
window and stood there looking in swaying he was, but
not with drink.

Speaker 7 (03:17:14):
Just surey, where is that George of yours? He said?

Speaker 79 (03:17:20):
Fetch him out, I'll teach him to play the whole
emuses to my daughter.

Speaker 3 (03:17:24):
Fetch him out and i'll fantasy here.

Speaker 79 (03:17:26):
And no, I don't want to meddle in anybody's quarrels,
I said, pleasantly. So long as George does his work
as will satisfy my eye, I am not responsible for
his actions in his off time.

Speaker 2 (03:17:40):
How was I to know?

Speaker 7 (03:17:41):
May I ask?

Speaker 79 (03:17:42):
If it was not our mister Mangus who had smashed
one of my best decantas George is a quiet, unbeseeming
young fellow, I said, And if he thinks it's his
duty to report any misgoings on, either to me or
to the Reverend, he doesn't concern anyone else. That seemed sober,
my fine gentleman. Mind you, I'm not saying there was

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anything really wrong with him. He was a first rate gardener,
and I grant you that I noticed he was looking
a bit pinched, hollow under the eyes. Sleepless nights perhaps,
But how was I to know his precious grandson was
out the sorts with a bad throat.

Speaker 16 (03:18:21):
I ask you.

Speaker 79 (03:18:23):
The best thing you and George can do, I went on,
is to bury the hatchet and out of hearing of
the house too. With that, I turned away, leaving him
to think things over. What else could I have done, sir?
There was little light of day left in our cavernous
waiting room by this time, only the glow of the

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fire and the phosphorescence of the gas lights. If he
was anxious about his grandson, I ventured it might explain
his short temper. Well, sir, you'd hardly go as far
as to saying that anxiety over his grandson would excuse
you for what was little short of manslaughter. Keeping facts

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as facts, if you'll excuse me. Our friend waylaid George
by the stables that evening, and a wonderful evening. It
was shepherd's delight and all that, But a judge from
the looks of the young fellow's face when he came
into the house, there hadn't been much of that in
the time that had together. I said, sponge it down, George,

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and maybe the old gentleman won't notice anything wrong. It
wasn't the reason I could let him off his duties.
But as for the reverence not noticing it there, as
luck would have it, I was wrong. For some time
later and George came along with me, snuffling as if
it had been crying, And all that I could get
out of him was that he had concocted some story

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to account for his looks, the like of which nobody
in his senses would credit. And the next thing I
heard was that our mister Mangus had been called into
the house and given the sack there and then well,
our friend came rapping at the back door that evening,
shaken to the marror if ever a man was, and
just livid. I told him, and I meant it too,

(03:20:07):
that I was sorry for what had occurred. I told
him too, that the only hope left was to let
bygones be bygones. Not he he said, And he was
sober enough then, in all conscience that come what may,
here or hereafter, he'd be even with him.

Speaker 7 (03:20:25):
Aye.

Speaker 79 (03:20:25):
And he made mention of me also, but not so Rabbit,
a respectable man too, never a word against him till then,
and not far short of sixty.

Speaker 8 (03:20:35):
And then.

Speaker 79 (03:20:37):
The old creature paused until a man Land train had
gone roaring through. And then though he wasn't found to mourning,
he must have gone straight out said goodbye to nobody.
He must have gone straight out to the old barn
and hanged himself. And it's my belief that it wasn't
so much the disgrace of the affair, but his door

(03:21:00):
and grandson that were preying on his mind. And yet
why he never so much as asked me to say
a good word for him, not one. Well that was
the end of that so far. And it's a curious
thing to me how going back over the past clears
everything up like but at least for the time being.

(03:21:22):
But it's what we were saying just now about what's
solid that sets me thinking I've been told, sir, that
after cremation we amount to know more than what you
could put into a walnut. And my point, sir, my
point is this that if that's all there is to
you and me, we shouldn't need much of the substantial

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for what you might call the mere soul look of things,
if you follow me, if we chose a chance to
come back when gone, I mean just enough. I suppose
to be obnoxious, as the reverend used to say to
the naked eye. But all that being as it may be,
the whole thing had tided it over, and George was

(03:22:07):
pretty nearly himself again when I began to notice something
peculiar at first, maybe a little more than mere silence.
There was a strain, so to speak, as you went
about your daily doings, especially after dark. And I could
see that even George had noticed it, and he had
hardly noticed a black beetle on a pancake. And then

(03:22:29):
came something you could put word to. I've gone out
one evening after a broiling hot day to get a
look there. I was thinking over what a curious thing is,
how one man's poison is another man's meat for the funeral,
over and all that the old gentleman had thanked me
for all I'd done. You see, what had gone before

(03:22:50):
had been a hard break in his trust of a man,
and he'd looked up from his bed at me, almost
with tears in his eyes. He said he wouldn't forget
it the word substantial, sir, And I ought by rights
to have mentioned that he was taken ill the night
of the inquest a sort of stroke, the doctor said,
though he came round, I must say remarkably well, considering

(03:23:12):
his age. Well, I've been thinking all this over as
I walked back to the house along the field path,
when I looked up, as if at a call, and
saw what I take my oath I never remembered to
have seen there before. A scarecrow. A scarecrow in the

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middle of the corn field, at the back of the vicarage.
Nothing funny in that, you may say, But this was
early September, and it didn't look like an old scarecrow either.
It stood with its arms out and hat down over
its eyes, bang in the middle of the field. I
knew that field as well as I know my own

(03:23:53):
face in the looking glass, then how could I have
missed it? The following afternoon, I stepped up upstairs to
have a look at it. From the windows. There was
less heat, haze or something than I could see it clearer,
but not quite clear enough. So I whipped along to
the reverend study in, being still poor gentleman confined to
his bed. In fact, he never got up from it.

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I whipped along. I say it affetched his binoculars and
I fastened them on that scarecrow. He will hardly credit me, sir,
when I say it didn't look quite real. I could
watch it with the glasses as plain as if it
had been in the touch of my hand, even to
the hat bend. It wasn't the first time I'd set

(03:24:37):
eyes on the clothes, either, though I couldn't have laid
name to them. And there was something in the appearance
of the thing which wasn't what you'd expect of mere
sticks and rags.

Speaker 7 (03:24:48):
I called George.

Speaker 79 (03:24:50):
His face was still discolored, though his affair in the
stable yard was now a good three weeks old. Take
the squint through these glasses, George, I said, tell me
what you make of that thing over there. George was
a slow, dawdly mug, if ever there was one, but
he fixed the glasses. At last, Why, mister bleake, it's

(03:25:15):
a scarecrow. There's the air around it. Strike you as
finally at all? I asked him, quivering in a manner
of speaking. Asked the heat, he said, but his lips trembled. Well, George,
I said, heat or no heat, You or me must
have a look at that thing closer, Not this afternoon.

(03:25:36):
It's too late. But we didn't, sir, for lo And behold,
when I got up next morning and went along the
corridor to have another glance at it, it wasn't there.
The scarecrow, Sir, was vanished, some farmer's lout. I thought
to myself, must have moved the old mommit overnight. But

(03:25:57):
that being so, what was it ever put up for harvest?

Speaker 3 (03:26:01):
Done?

Speaker 4 (03:26:02):
And all that?

Speaker 79 (03:26:03):
I didn't go out that day, but all day long,
and I'll vouched for it, the whole twenty acres of
that field lay empty. And when the moon came up
that evening, I took yet another squint through the glasses
from the upper windows, and I'm ready to own that
something inside of me gave a sort of humpster When

(03:26:24):
large as life, I saw that the scarecrow was come
back again. But what I saw the instant before I
began to look, and to that i'd lay my affidavit
was something moving, and pretty rapid too, And it was
only as I clapped the glasses onto it that it
suddenly fixed itself into what I already supposed I should

(03:26:49):
find it to be. I've noticed that before. It's your
own mind that learns you before what you look at
turns out to be what you expect. Else, why should
we be alarmed by this?

Speaker 14 (03:27:03):
Here?

Speaker 7 (03:27:03):
Solid?

Speaker 79 (03:27:04):
Sometimes it all looks so?

Speaker 7 (03:27:07):
But is it.

Speaker 14 (03:27:09):
Well?

Speaker 4 (03:27:09):
Sir?

Speaker 79 (03:27:09):
I must say that from that moment on, I didn't
like the look o things, and never have I shared
a meal so mum as when George and me had
supper that evening. From being a hearty eater, his appetite
was fallen almost to a cipher. It was while we
sat there alone in the servants hall that we heard

(03:27:31):
some words said, not what you can understand, but still
words I couldn't tell from where, except that it wasn't
from the reverend. George stopped munching, his face a little
short of green, but except for a cockling up inside
O me, I didn't make any sign I'd heard.

Speaker 7 (03:27:52):
Lock up.

Speaker 79 (03:27:52):
Time came at last, and George took his candle and
went up to bed, not quite as willing as usual,
I fancied as for me. I gave a last look
in on the old gentleman, all well there, and him
lying as peaceful as if the end had come already. Then,
coming back along the corridor, I blew out my candle

(03:28:14):
and stood waiting at the windows. The moon came streaming in,
and outside was almost as bright as day, but there
was nothing to be seen nor heard neither. Yet it
seemed that not more than one deep breath after I
had closed my eyes in sleep that night, that I

(03:28:35):
was wide awake again. There was something sounding about the
house that wasn't natural, and no mistake. As soon as
I heard it, I was on with my tail coat
over my night shirt. In a jiffy, i'd fetched my
winter coat too, this very coat on my back now,
and with that over my arm, I pushed open the
door and looked in on George. Maybe he'd heard my coming,

(03:28:58):
maybe he'd heard the other. But there he was, sitting
up in bed, the moonlight flooding in on his long
white face. I said to him, what's wrong, George? He
sat looking at me with his mouth open, and I
could see he was shaken to the very roots. Now
what i'd heard might be some animal prowling around outside,

(03:29:22):
or it might not. If not, and the house being exercised,
as I said, I had a kind of trust that
what was there, if it was anything, couldn't get in.
But naturally I was in something of a fever to
make sure, George, I said, it's up to us, our duty, George,

(03:29:43):
to know what's what. So if you'll take a look
around on the outside, I'll have a search through on
the inn. George went on looking at me, though he
had by this time shuffled out of bed and into
the overcoat i'd handed him. You don't think, mister Blake,
you don't think he's come back again. Who's come back? George?

(03:30:04):
I asked, why when we look through glasses at in.

Speaker 8 (03:30:08):
The field, it had his look.

Speaker 79 (03:30:11):
Well, George, I said, speaking as he might to a child,
we know where our dead men tell no tales, let
alone scarecrows. Then all we got to do is to
make sure you do as you bid. Then, my lad,
you go your ways and I'll go mind. I'd believe

(03:30:31):
us not go down, mister Blake, he said, this way,
he's not alone. He said, it be evens not alone,
mister Blake. What have you to fear, George, my lad
man or specter, The fault was nne of yours. George
buttoned up the coat, and the moon on his face
gave him a queer look, far away, like as if

(03:30:53):
all that there was of him this world all the
next had come to keep him company. It was the
last between us. He turned his back on me and
went off out into the passage. As for myself, I
didn't move for a bit. There wasn't any hurry that
I could see. And then presently what I heard was

(03:31:14):
as though a voice had said something very sharp and bitter,
then said no more. There came a sort of moan,
then no more again. But by that time I was
on my way, on my rounds inside the house. And
when I got back to my bedroom again, everything was quiet,
and I took it, of course, that George had got

(03:31:36):
back safe to his Since the fire had faded, the
fish like phosphorescence of the gas mantles had grown brighter,
and this elderly man was looking at me out of
his white, almost leaperlike face in this faint gloom as
steadily as George must have been looking at him a
few minutes before he had descended the backstairs of the vicarage.

(03:31:58):
Never I gathered to return, and he wasn't found till morning.
The old man said, cold for ours, and precious little
to show. Why did you manage to get a little sleep?
He made no answer. Your share, I suppose, was quite
a substantial one share in the will, now, sir, didn't

(03:32:23):
I tell you myself that that, as it turned out,
wasn't so? And I don't know as what I did
get has brought me anything much to boast about. I'm
a free man, that's true. But for how long? He
peered round and out of the door. And though in
this world you may not have one iota of harm

(03:32:43):
to blame yourself for to yourself may still be misunderstandings,
and them that have been deceived by them may be
waiting for you in the next. So when it comes
to what the captain of the hesper. But at this
moment and a tete a tete was interrupted by a
young porter carrying a bucket of coal, which he emptied

(03:33:05):
on to the fire. Then he looked round me he
passed over, but he greeted my fellow derelict as if
he were an old acquaintance. Good evening, sir, he said,
in that slightly indulgent voice which suggests past favors rather
easily earned. I didn't see you when I came in,
and was beginning to wonder where you'd got to. His

(03:33:27):
patron smirked back at him, as if any such trifling
human attention was a peculiar solace. This time, the porter
caught my eye, and his own was full of meaning.
It was as if there was some ironical understanding between
us which this third party was unlikely to share. I
ignored it. Rose to my feet. A train had come

(03:33:50):
hooting into the station. It wasn't mine, but I preferred
my own company.

Speaker 7 (03:33:55):
Just then, when I.

Speaker 79 (03:33:56):
Reached the door, I glanced back at mister Blake, sitting
there his great coat with a mournful look. He seemed
to be deploring the withdrawal of my tepid companionship. But
in that dreadful, gaseous luminosity, there was nothing, so far
as I could see, that any mortal man could, by

(03:34:17):
any possibility be afraid of, alive or dead. So I
left him to the porter, and as yet we have
not met again.

Speaker 7 (03:34:33):
Kenneth Cranham read crew from ghost Stories of Walter de
la Maire. It was abridged by Dori Nestell and the
producer was Lawrence Jackson.

Speaker 69 (03:34:42):
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. This is Basil Rathbone inviting you
to join me beyond the green door. A man who
has faced deaf many times always knows what to do,
even when he awakens and finds himself beyond the green door.
The younger brother of famous matador Francisco de Romero was dead,

(03:35:03):
a mere novalero in the bull ring. The boy had
been gored, killed instantly directly under the box in which
his proud brother Francisco was sitting. Screaming in anguish and
leaping over the rating, Francisco would have attacked the bull
with his bare hands, had not his friends held him back.
Then the impact of what he had witnessed struck him,
plunging him into shock. From the moment he screamed in anguish,

(03:35:26):
his voice was stilled. He could not speak, nor understand,
nor apparently recall a single incident of his past life.
The combined efforts of the finest doctors available met with
no success.

Speaker 7 (03:35:37):
Francisco could recall absolutely.

Speaker 69 (03:35:39):
Nothing, nor could he utter a single syllable, and so
at it's very zenith, his great career seemed ended. He
was removed to a rest home, and day after day
he sat in his room staring out of the windows,
silently studying the beautiful azailures granted along the driveway. Occasionally

(03:36:03):
he walked about the grounds by himself. Despite the shock
from which he suffered, he continued in the best of
health and temperament, smiling frequently and exhibiting his customary friendliness
towards others. His doctors continued to try every possible means
to restore his memory, in the hope that once this
was accomplished, he would regain his powers of speech. On

(03:36:23):
one occasion he was even taken to the Plaza to Torres,
but sight of the bull ring had no effect whatever
upon him.

Speaker 3 (03:36:30):
One of his.

Speaker 69 (03:36:31):
Physicians, a great fan of his, worked day and night
in an effort to get through to the stricken matador
in the hook that might stir his memory. The doctor
ordered the Francisco's room be furnished with all the mementos
and souvenirs of his past triumphs, photographs, medals, trophies, his
favorite sword, the estraquet with its bright red muletta, his
favorite mantera and dress cape.

Speaker 7 (03:36:53):
Indeed, all his fighting clothes hung in his closet.

Speaker 69 (03:37:02):
One afternoon, the doctor even assisted Francisco in getting into
his silken jacket, waistcoat, and knee length skin tight trousers.
Can you hear the crowd, Francisco, The doctor said, they're cheering,
cheering for you.

Speaker 7 (03:37:15):
You will not disappoint them, will you?

Speaker 69 (03:37:17):
Francisco said, dumbly, at the foot of his bed, dying
with his hat, staring into space.

Speaker 7 (03:37:23):
The bull he's entering the ring across the way.

Speaker 69 (03:37:26):
The doctor held his forefingers to his head and crouched,
imitating the charging bull.

Speaker 7 (03:37:31):
El Toro.

Speaker 69 (03:37:35):
El Toro, roared Francisco, and, springing to his feet, snatched
up his sword and, with unerring accuracy, plunged it into
the throat of the unrushing doctor.

Speaker 7 (03:37:47):
Little brother, El Toro is dead. He is dead. I
have avenged you.

Speaker 47 (03:38:21):
I have another story to tell you today. This one
is about a crime in which nature, not man, trapped
a murderer.

Speaker 8 (03:38:32):
Do you want to hear it?

Speaker 61 (03:38:41):
Now?

Speaker 80 (03:38:41):
Starring Paul Freese is your teller of tales. Another story
from the Black Book.

Speaker 47 (03:38:53):
Yes, from the world's most fabulous collection of strange and
unusual stories, the Black Book, I've selected a story by
Nelson Bond.

Speaker 8 (03:39:05):
He calls it unscheduled.

Speaker 47 (03:39:18):
Mister Henry Foster, manager of the Midwestern branch of Updyke
and Updyke Investment Brokers, sat comfortably in the men's lounge
of the club car as the train swayed and rumbled
over the Jersey countryside. He had the quiet air of
the conservative, middle aged business man and held an expensive

(03:39:39):
briefcase on his lap. He sat there gazing out of
the window through the bright noon sunlight at New York's
jagged skyline. It made him think of a huge stock
market graph, and for the hundredth time, mister Foster mentally
reviewed the steps he must take. The wheels beneath him
sang a deeper not as they hit the downgrade to

(03:40:01):
the Hudson Tube. Mister Foster studied his watch and thought
to himself, in one minute and fifty six seconds, this
car will enter the darkness of the tube. It will
be absolute darkness. Or I shall step from the lounge
and throw the master switch. Every light in the club

(03:40:22):
car will be cut off. Yes, my plan is perfect.

Speaker 8 (03:40:30):
For the last three nights. Mister Foster had taken this
train from Jersey to New.

Speaker 47 (03:40:34):
York stopwatch in hand, plotting is every move. He knew
that exactly three minutes and thirty nine seconds from the
time the club car entered the Hudson Tube, it would
glide into Pennsylvania's station carrying a dead passenger. Young Prentice,
now so casually lounging in the last compartment smoking a
cigarette with Detective Mooney, would be dead, his throat cut

(03:40:59):
by the knife mister Foster had concealed in his briefcase.

Speaker 8 (03:41:03):
It was rather a shame. He thought that Prentis must die,
but there was no other way to handle it.

Speaker 47 (03:41:08):
Now that had really been no other way right from
the start, from the very day he'd called a young
accountant into his office for a very private conversation.

Speaker 7 (03:41:18):
Come in, you wanted to see me, mister Foster.

Speaker 8 (03:41:24):
Oh, yes, Prentice, have a chair, he recognizes Prentice. Of course, sir.

Speaker 7 (03:41:35):
It's one of our account books right now.

Speaker 47 (03:41:38):
I've made notes here of certain entries in that particular
volume that strike me as Let us say, in error,
what do you mean, sir?

Speaker 4 (03:41:48):
What do I mean?

Speaker 47 (03:41:50):
Prentice turned to page sixty seven. If you will well
go ahead have it, yes, sir, mister Harriman's account, is
it not?

Speaker 8 (03:42:04):
That's right, sir?

Speaker 47 (03:42:05):
Now then look at the entry of June fourteenth. Well, Prentice,
I don't understand, sir.

Speaker 4 (03:42:14):
Do you want me to read it?

Speaker 81 (03:42:15):
No, Prentice, I've read it. If there's an error, mister Foster,
I'll check it immediately.

Speaker 8 (03:42:20):
Too, late, Prentice, three hundred dollars is missing. You're a
fool to have taken it.

Speaker 47 (03:42:34):
Mister Foster sat back and waited for the young man
to deny everything, or at least to think up some
kind of an excuse for having doctored the firm's books.
But Prentice did neither. In fact, it almost seemed to
mister Foster that he was smiling, and this he was
unprepared for.

Speaker 81 (03:42:52):
If you'll agree not to press charges, mister Foster, I'll
pay back the money as soon as possible, Prentice.

Speaker 47 (03:42:57):
I had entertained rather high hopes for you. Seems a pity,
and all for a mere three hundred dollars. May I
go now, sir, you'll resign, Prentice, But yes, you may
pay back the money, and at least remember that if
you must steal, Prentice, make it big worthwhile.

Speaker 81 (03:43:17):
I'll stay down to night if I may, and clean
up the work on my desk if you like. Goodbye, Prentice,
goodbye sir.

Speaker 47 (03:43:34):
It was a pity Foster thought to lose a young
man he'd consider so promising. But at least the young
fool might learn his lesson from it. Next morning, mister
Foster found that he had and learned it well. He
was looking through his mail when the telephone rang. It
was Prentice. He wanted to see mister Foster at once,
and curiously, there was no pleading in his voice, but

(03:43:55):
rather an amused tone of superiority and self possession. A
few moments he was seated in the office with an
account book in his hand.

Speaker 7 (03:44:07):
Do you recognize this, mister Foster?

Speaker 8 (03:44:10):
What is that you wish to see me about? Brendys?

Speaker 81 (03:44:12):
On page twenty in that book you can see where
I made fifty dollars for missus Jackson, the same way
I made three hundred dollars from mister Harriman.

Speaker 8 (03:44:20):
I haven't checked all the books yet, Prentice.

Speaker 81 (03:44:23):
No, if you have anything to say, Prentice saying, oh,
I have something to say, all right, I've been up
all night studying these books, and I've discovered a few
things i'd vaguely suspected, the most important being that the
few hundred dollars I've stolen are chicken.

Speaker 47 (03:44:38):
Feed compared to the thousands that have planted in your pocket.

Speaker 8 (03:44:42):
There's what do you mean, breadys.

Speaker 7 (03:44:44):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 81 (03:44:45):
It took some time to figure out how you've been
doing it, but I know now. I sort of stumbled
on the answer. You might say I were just about enough, Prentice,
Not yet, you haven't.

Speaker 8 (03:44:57):
Here's how it works. A client phones in to a
certain stock. Now this order must have your okay first,
and when.

Speaker 7 (03:45:04):
It reaches your.

Speaker 47 (03:45:11):
Young Prentice talked on for an hour uninterrupted. For Henry
Foster was something of a philosopher, and he found a
certain wry humor in the fact that only through the
cheap dishonesty of a mere accountant had his own really
magnificent thief hed been discovered. He allowed Prentice to finish
and congratulated him on his cleverness, and then he made
the only gesture possible under the circumstances.

Speaker 8 (03:45:35):
At first, Prentice was doubtful, But what.

Speaker 16 (03:45:38):
If we're caught, we'd get twenty years.

Speaker 8 (03:45:40):
At least nonsense, nonsense, it's foolproof.

Speaker 14 (03:45:43):
For one hundred thousand a year, that's too much.

Speaker 8 (03:45:46):
Precisely, and that's why we'll never be caught.

Speaker 47 (03:45:50):
Remember, Prentice, Only petty thieves are caught, three hundred dollars thieves. Yes,
you're right, I'll go along, good good, let's shake hands
on it, my boy. It was a strange partnership, the

(03:46:18):
callow Youth and the state executives, both of them thieves.
But even so it went well for a few months
until suddenly lightning struck. Mister Foster was in his office
when he heard about it.

Speaker 82 (03:46:31):
Yes, listen to Foster, I'm at the corner in a
phone booth. Ran out as soon as they came in.
Huh who came in the home office auditors, three of them.
They just walked into the office unannounced as usual.

Speaker 47 (03:46:45):
Now you listen to me, Brendis, stop your snooling. And
the men now they can discover a thing, not a
thing unless you give it away with your foolishness.

Speaker 4 (03:46:52):
But don't suspect something.

Speaker 8 (03:46:54):
I'm sure, shut up and get back to your office.

Speaker 7 (03:46:56):
Do you hear me?

Speaker 18 (03:46:58):
All right?

Speaker 3 (03:46:59):
But I'm cared.

Speaker 47 (03:47:06):
As it turned out, Young Prudis was right. The auditors
did suspect something, and in the end Foster was summoned
to New York. His employers suspected yes, but they could
prove nothing, and mister Foster soon returned to the Midwest.
His method of thievery was perfect, but so he thought,
until a New York detective At Mooney appeared on the scene.

(03:47:28):
A few days after his arrival. Mooney came to mister
Foster's office with terrifying news. Well, mister Foster, that's the
long and the short of it. Apprentice is not as
stable a character as you were. Apprentices a full money,
and I'll have him in jail for such slender Maybe
you will, maybe you won't.

Speaker 81 (03:47:48):
Meantime, we've offered him privilege of state's evidence freedom if
he'll come to New York and give his information there.

Speaker 8 (03:47:55):
You mean you take the word of a mere boy
before mine.

Speaker 47 (03:47:59):
Oh, we'll check on everything he has to tell, all right,
all right, Mooney, go ahead, check all you'll like.

Speaker 8 (03:48:07):
You'll find nothing.

Speaker 18 (03:48:09):
Nothing.

Speaker 8 (03:48:10):
We'll check in good time. And so it was that
young Prentice must die.

Speaker 47 (03:48:26):
Detective Mooney was assigned to bring him east, and he
was seated beside him now in the compartment at the
end of the club car for the last time, mister
Foster looked at his watch. In ten seconds, the car
would enter the blackness of the Hudson Tube. He rose
and stepped out into the narrow aisle. His hand found
the lights which and jerked it down, plunging the car
into complete darkness. Then he moved through the startled passengers

(03:48:49):
to Prentice's compartment. This, too, he'd rehearsed the night before,
seventeen strides to the end of the eye, a minute
and three quarters in all to reach the compartment, and
a split second to plunge the silencing knife into Pranis.
That left two full minutes to race up to the
car in front, and then the train would be at
Pennsylvania's station. Before anything could be done, Foster would be

(03:49:11):
lost in the streets of New York. Fifteen steps sixteen seventeen.
He turned now and opened the compartment door. His outstretched
hand found the tweed clad figure of Prentis. The knife
bladed staff and twisted, and then suddenly.

Speaker 83 (03:49:30):
Sunlight, fierce and brilliant sunlight flooding the car, revealing everything. Prentices,
horrified and gasping face Foster knife in hand, and Detective
Mooney with a gun already half out of his pocket.

Speaker 8 (03:49:42):
Utterly bewildered, Foster.

Speaker 47 (03:49:44):
Jump back, and the sunlight vanished as quickly as it came.
He turned down the corridor just as Mooney fired Shah.
The bullets smashed between his shoulders, driving him forward onto
the carpet. Mister Foster came too for a moment, just
as the train was grinding to a stop at the

(03:50:05):
station platform, two thick, souled brogns that were Mooney stood
like walls close to his eyes as he lay there
on the floor of the club car.

Speaker 81 (03:50:15):
The fool, a pitiful, murdering fool. If he lives, she'll
get the chair for this. Yeah, it's funny how it
timed out. So's he stabd Prentice Just as we hit
the light of the air shaft. Mister Foster's eyes closed

(03:50:38):
in shame as much as in physical pain.

Speaker 47 (03:50:42):
The air shaft, yes, that's all, it was, an air
shaft full of bright noon sunlight. Is one mistake, the
one flaw in his otherwise perfect plan. You see, he
timed everything on night trains only.

Speaker 80 (03:51:16):
The Black Book stars Paul Freese as your teller of Tales,
assisted today by the noted Hollywood actor John Dayner.

Speaker 44 (03:51:23):
Nelson.

Speaker 80 (03:51:23):
Bond's story on Schedule was adapted by John Meston and
directed by Norman MacDonald. The special music is composed and
conducted by Leith Stevens.

Speaker 47 (03:51:41):
Next week, I'll have another story for you from the
Black Book. It's most unusual and it's called My Favorite Corpse.

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(03:52:31):
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Speaker 16 (03:52:50):
The Strangers my stock and pray. If the job's too
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George Valentine right full to tail.

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The Greystone Ghost another adventure of George Valentine.

Speaker 19 (03:54:43):
Who's there?

Speaker 22 (03:54:44):
What is it?

Speaker 19 (03:54:46):
I'll be right? No, no, it isn't you well there, County?

Speaker 10 (03:54:55):
Your get.

Speaker 19 (03:54:59):
I must be I look at the book where you
get You were there just a month ago? You weren't there?

Speaker 16 (03:55:09):
Will you?

Speaker 19 (03:55:10):
You're dead?

Speaker 25 (03:55:11):
Don't you get it?

Speaker 9 (03:55:13):
You couldn't you just cott.

Speaker 19 (03:55:29):
George, this is the strangest ladder out of the there.

Speaker 16 (03:55:31):
I'm sure we get some strange ones.

Speaker 71 (03:55:33):
What's you say, dear mister Valentine, will will please be
my guest at Graystone for some days. I'm prepared to
pay whatever you ask for your services. Your work will
be to rid me of a ghost that I'm sure
isn't a ghost. Attar when you arrive, please cough from
the telephone at the gatekeeper's lodge, as you won't be
able to get across the moat until I.

Speaker 19 (03:55:53):
Lower the drawbridge. Signed Amanda Gray.

Speaker 16 (03:56:10):
Hey, my mind down comes the drawbridge and excites the imagination.
Permagin the bridge over the motors down where the enter
the palace.

Speaker 19 (03:56:21):
It certainly looks like one.

Speaker 16 (03:56:24):
Yes, Missus Gray coming right in.

Speaker 19 (03:56:27):
Suppose, he says, the bridge back up?

Speaker 9 (03:56:29):
How do we get out of here?

Speaker 16 (03:56:30):
You'll face the problems when we come to it. This
is Ray, This is miss Brooks, my assistant.

Speaker 1 (03:56:35):
How do you do, my dear?

Speaker 9 (03:56:36):
Happy to have you both here.

Speaker 19 (03:56:38):
Yes, right, I.

Speaker 3 (03:56:40):
Think we've finished all of our business for to days.

Speaker 16 (03:56:43):
Oh you have guessed, yes, of course.

Speaker 19 (03:56:46):
Dwight.

Speaker 78 (03:56:47):
I want you to meet mister Valentine and Missus Brooks.
Mister Dwight, oh, my attorney, how do you do? How
do you please come out to help me? Dwight he's
going to help find out about these things.

Speaker 47 (03:56:58):
Oh yes, well, I say, I hope you can, Valentine,
and man is pretty upset about the whole thing.

Speaker 16 (03:57:04):
I hope I can't do, mister Ngry. I just don't
have it. I know what my job is yet. Ah, well, of.

Speaker 3 (03:57:09):
Course you talked.

Speaker 1 (03:57:10):
If you excuse me, goodbye, and man, I'll see you,
yes right now.

Speaker 78 (03:57:15):
If you tool step in a little farther, haven't study please,
I expect you to think.

Speaker 9 (03:57:31):
I'm completely crazy, don't you.

Speaker 14 (03:57:34):
Know?

Speaker 78 (03:57:35):
I won't blame you if you did. A woman living
in a house with a motor around it this day
and the age.

Speaker 16 (03:57:41):
Well there must be a reason for that.

Speaker 19 (03:57:42):
Of course there is a step down.

Speaker 78 (03:57:46):
My husband was an architect.

Speaker 9 (03:57:48):
His name was Garrett Gray.

Speaker 19 (03:57:50):
Oh, yes, I've heard of him.

Speaker 9 (03:57:51):
He was an authority on old English architecture. He loved it.
That's why I had built. His house was a show place.

Speaker 16 (03:57:58):
I can see that.

Speaker 21 (03:57:58):
It was the bridge.

Speaker 78 (03:58:00):
The note was seldom raised before his death, but since
then things have happened. It made it great necessary, I see.

Speaker 16 (03:58:10):
Oh, would you tell us exactly what has happened? Missus Gray?

Speaker 9 (03:58:13):
Certainly?

Speaker 78 (03:58:14):
My husband died a month ago, just two weeks ago,
I was awakened to see his face in my bedroom window.
You you did, of course I didn't. I told him
my husband is dead. I saw him buried.

Speaker 7 (03:58:29):
Well.

Speaker 16 (03:58:29):
And how do you account for this seeming his faith?

Speaker 9 (03:58:32):
It's quite simple.

Speaker 78 (03:58:34):
Some years ago a scoped friend of Garrett's did a
bust of him. Yes, the next morning, after my apparition,
I found the bust on the ground outside my bedroom window.

Speaker 16 (03:58:47):
Some practical joker. I suppose. They seldom have any regard
for personal feelings, I know, but.

Speaker 78 (03:58:52):
My practical joker must have had extraordinary powers. Mister Valentine.
The house was completely locked, the bus was.

Speaker 10 (03:59:00):
In this room.

Speaker 85 (03:59:01):
Ah, I see a who lives here besides yourself, Missus Gray.
Just my niece and nephew, Ronald and Sylvia Gray. They're
really my husband's niece nephew. Of course, there's Stevens. He's
the butler, Missus Gray. Is that when you began raising
that bridge.

Speaker 21 (03:59:19):
Over the moat?

Speaker 68 (03:59:20):
No?

Speaker 78 (03:59:22):
Not until after the second thing happened.

Speaker 16 (03:59:24):
What was that?

Speaker 78 (03:59:25):
A large portrait of my husband disappeared over the metal
in the living room one night. I searched everywhere for it.
And you tell your niece and nephew about it, of course,
and Stephen's tour. They were all as amazed as I.
The next day it was in place again. We still
blood stains on it.

Speaker 16 (03:59:46):
Oh, and they went. No signs that any of your household.

Speaker 19 (03:59:50):
Have been hurt, none at all.

Speaker 16 (03:59:52):
M h well, one thing seems certain, Missus Gray. Somebody's
trying to get you to work, like an explosion of
some kind. Stay here with Missus Gray broke, I'm gonna
see what this is all about. Hello, Well, who are
you and what do you want? I just happen to
be a guest of Missus Gray Valentine's and I imagine

(04:00:15):
you're Stevens. I. Yes, what happened right there? I was
just going to tell Missus Gray about it. There was
an explosion in the kitchen. Come on back, we'll have
a look. Yes, but I must tell Missus Gray knows.
Come on, where's the kitchen? Right through this door? Stre
goinge Oh well yeah, that's that's come on pretty well,
didn't it. Yes, sir, I was in my room, the

(04:00:37):
first one down the hall, and it practically threw me
out of my chair. Tyn one that's served this mode
and burned out. Fuse the wire running right out here.
Come on, Stephens, let's follow this while out the background
and see where it goes. Very well, But I feel
very uncomfortable about this whole business. Things have been happening,

(04:00:58):
That's why I'm here. I think there is a ghost
around Jamster VALENTI. I think there's a live ghost around here, Stephens,
A pretty clever live ghost too.

Speaker 83 (04:01:07):
Here.

Speaker 7 (04:01:07):
Take a look at this.

Speaker 16 (04:01:10):
Why that is my alarm clock. It disappeared yesterday very mistitiously,
and end it's all rigged up to spark that fuse
at exactly this hour. The job was a little lamoratorious,
but it worked, didn't it, Stephens.

Speaker 14 (04:01:24):
Yes, sir, it did.

Speaker 16 (04:01:26):
But what I want to know is who could have
done That's what I want to know, too, So come on,
let's find out.

Speaker 44 (04:01:32):
You mean you have a way of knowing.

Speaker 16 (04:01:34):
I'm not sure. I just don't like all these things
happening to my friend, missus Gray who naturally that all right?
Then do something for me. Will get the niece and nephew,
Sylvia and Ronald, and come to the gam We're going
to see as possible.

Speaker 57 (04:01:48):
I'd like to have a little conference, Adam Manda.

Speaker 19 (04:02:03):
Yes, Sylvia, Stephens says, there's a man here who wants
to see us. That's right, my dear, Come in all
three of us, Mister Valentine.

Speaker 78 (04:02:11):
This is my niece Sylvia and my nephew Ronald, and
you're next, and miss Brooks.

Speaker 16 (04:02:18):
How we're Here's your answer? Yes, but we're also here
to help her get rid of a live ghost.

Speaker 71 (04:02:25):
Mister Valentine, I don't like to say this. Isn't it possible?
Forgive me ada mana.

Speaker 78 (04:02:31):
I don't want to hurt you, right, my dear, You
mean that perhaps I've been imagining things that's.

Speaker 16 (04:02:37):
Possible, isn't it. I feel just as Sylvia does more
for one of you, or Steven's here. Saw the face
in the window, of course, but you more about the
portrait being missing. I must make a confession about the portrait,
mister Valentine. Oh, after Missus Gray told me about it,
I made a thorough search of the house. I found
it in the storeroom and put it back. Quite belongs.

Speaker 19 (04:03:00):
Stains on it.

Speaker 16 (04:03:01):
I expect I shall lose my position anyway, so I
may as well say it. Did you notice the bandage
on missus Gray's finger?

Speaker 21 (04:03:10):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (04:03:11):
No, no, I guess I didn't. But we've got another
thing to think about, Ronald, Sylvia, didn't you hit the
explosion a few minutes ago?

Speaker 19 (04:03:18):
I didn't.

Speaker 9 (04:03:19):
I was asleep.

Speaker 7 (04:03:20):
I heard it.

Speaker 21 (04:03:20):
Of course.

Speaker 7 (04:03:21):
It sounded like a car backfiring to me.

Speaker 16 (04:03:23):
Okay, then, if you want to ask you one thing.
Don't you all think missus Gray should move out of
this house?

Speaker 14 (04:03:29):
I do.

Speaker 1 (04:03:30):
If she doesn't, something really bad might happen to her.

Speaker 21 (04:03:33):
Well, I don't.

Speaker 71 (04:03:35):
If somebody is trying to make a move for some reason,
you can find out who it is. Hand to mister Valentine, Yes, Sylvia.

Speaker 25 (04:03:43):
I think he cares.

Speaker 16 (04:03:44):
How about your Stevens. I happen to have one theory
in mister Valentine, I don't agree with what I'm sure
you are thinking.

Speaker 1 (04:03:51):
If I may say so, I don't think this is
an inside job.

Speaker 16 (04:03:56):
Oh you don't know. And for one, I am happy
to have you here. I just hope nothing bad happens
to you too. Very nicely spoken. Steven's all right, we'll
shows Brooks and into our rooms. We'll freshen up for dinner.
And tomorrow, well tomorrow, we'll see what happens.

Speaker 25 (04:04:27):
Who is it?

Speaker 14 (04:04:28):
Who's there?

Speaker 19 (04:04:30):
What do you want in my room? I can see moving.

Speaker 78 (04:04:36):
I warn you I have a gun, Go away or
I'll shoot.

Speaker 19 (04:04:41):
Keep this room, don't come any close around.

Speaker 16 (04:04:57):
What happens.

Speaker 19 (04:04:57):
Mister Bella is in my room on the floor.

Speaker 10 (04:05:01):
I think I hear somebody.

Speaker 84 (04:05:19):
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care of your car. And now back to tonight's adventure

(04:07:18):
of George Valentine. You're sent for by the widow of
a well known architect to help.

Speaker 16 (04:07:23):
Her dispose of a ghost that isn't the ghost.

Speaker 84 (04:07:27):
You can see nothing supernatural in the face of the window,
the disappearing portrait, or the crude bomb. Someone is obviously
trying to frighten your client out of this strange house
that is surrounded by a moat. If your name is
George Valentine, you suspect that Amanda Gray has solved the
case herself by shooting a nocturnal prowler in her room,

(04:07:47):
and as you hurry with her along the hallway.

Speaker 19 (04:07:51):
Mister Valentine, all in wa like a ghost. It opened
the door and keenan in my room. I shot and
it's down the floor.

Speaker 16 (04:07:58):
Now we'll find out down the books. This is your
own listeners. Yes, by the where's the light switch?

Speaker 19 (04:08:05):
It's right here?

Speaker 16 (04:08:08):
And where did you see this?

Speaker 7 (04:08:09):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (04:08:11):
There was someone?

Speaker 4 (04:08:13):
I know it.

Speaker 19 (04:08:14):
You are right, Missus Gray, Yes, yes, but.

Speaker 16 (04:08:16):
Your ghost left it's white sheet. All right, Missus Gray.
But I'm afraid your aim wasn't so good. He or
she has climbed out of the shroud and left shot.

Speaker 78 (04:08:26):
I didn't fill on the floor.

Speaker 16 (04:08:28):
Wa a minute, let's see your gun. Yes, yes, is
here something sounds pretty funny about this. Yeah, yeah, here's
the answer. All right. You're sure this gun was properly loaded,
Missus Gray.

Speaker 78 (04:08:41):
Yes, the men loaded it for me in the store.

Speaker 21 (04:08:43):
Huh.

Speaker 16 (04:08:44):
Well, I'm afraid something has happened in the meantime, George,
what do you mean miss Gray didn't kill anybody, Brooks.
He she couldn't because this gun is loaded with blank cartridges.

Speaker 78 (04:08:55):
But that couldn't be mister Valentine. I saw him put
in the real bullet.

Speaker 16 (04:09:00):
I'm sure he did, but someone else decided they would.

Speaker 7 (04:09:02):
Be safer this way.

Speaker 19 (04:09:03):
Somebody in this house Jewish.

Speaker 16 (04:09:05):
Well, it's pretty obvious anyone coming in from outside would
have to swim across the moat. I don't see any
signs of water around here. The sheet is perfectly dry.

Speaker 7 (04:09:12):
It is great. This is gray.

Speaker 16 (04:09:13):
I heard a commotion as anything wrong, Well, Stevens, you're
quite well dressed for the middle of the night. I
came as quickly as I could. And if you're trying
to accuse me of something, gathering of the clan, just
one more party to be heard.

Speaker 21 (04:09:26):
From now it's there.

Speaker 10 (04:09:29):
Why are you all here?

Speaker 1 (04:09:30):
And at a man's room?

Speaker 16 (04:09:31):
Your aunt just shot a ghost, Sylvia?

Speaker 1 (04:09:34):
She was, yeah, what's that you said, Valentine?

Speaker 16 (04:09:37):
You heard me, Ronald. Pretty frightful experience for your aunt,
for all of you, in fact, imagine a ghost in
the house.

Speaker 1 (04:09:43):
But but that's nonsense. There's no such thing.

Speaker 16 (04:09:46):
As a real, live ghost. I think there is. I
wonder if any of you would like to try on
this sheet just for size.

Speaker 78 (04:09:54):
Mister Valentine, I realize you're trying to help me, but
now you're casting suspicions on Sylvia and Ronald and ste
They wouldn't do anything like this.

Speaker 16 (04:10:03):
No, no, I suppose not. All right, we've had our
little excitement for tonight. Suppose you all go back to
your arms, eh. I'd like to ask a few questions
of missus Gray.

Speaker 9 (04:10:14):
What are you thinking, George?

Speaker 36 (04:10:15):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (04:10:16):
I was was trying to go along with Stephen's theory
for a moment. You know that this isn't an inside job,
as he so quaintly puts it.

Speaker 9 (04:10:23):
But that is impossible, is it?

Speaker 14 (04:10:26):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (04:10:26):
I don't know, missus Gray. Your husband left a will?

Speaker 3 (04:10:29):
I suppose, why?

Speaker 19 (04:10:29):
Of course?

Speaker 16 (04:10:30):
Well, and tell me. Was there any provision that someone
else would get the house if you moved out of it?

Speaker 78 (04:10:34):
No, nothing like that. He left everything to me outright,
just with a provision that I take care of his
niece and nephew, see that they had a home.

Speaker 16 (04:10:44):
Well, at last, another theory.

Speaker 78 (04:10:46):
My husband left a holographic will, wrote it himself. No,
no one had ever seen it. It was sealed and
in the safe that our attorneys holographic will is an
unusual as a George, that part wasn't unusual, No, just
one paragraph in it. I've never found out what it
meant or what was It said, something like, my beloved Amanda,

(04:11:10):
there is more fortune that I leave you. It is
in Graystow, and you alone will know the key to
finding it. Just remember how well we loved Pennsylvania. Remember
my work. This treasure is for you, and you only
what it means. I haven't the least idea. I've never
been able to figure it out. May I see the world, certainly,

(04:11:31):
but not tonight. I return it right O. You made
him this afternoon he has it?

Speaker 16 (04:11:35):
I remember, yes, Well, tell me how many people know
about this?

Speaker 78 (04:11:39):
Just the people to whom he left something, Sylvia and
Ronald Stevens, his secretary, mister Carver, and myself. Brighthead is
all together when he read it from saying, people keep
propping or don't.

Speaker 6 (04:11:49):
They do it?

Speaker 18 (04:11:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (04:11:50):
With one exception. What about the secretary Carver? Where is
he now?

Speaker 27 (04:11:53):
He's living in.

Speaker 19 (04:11:54):
Town, works for another architect. I believe, Yes, I'll get
it for you good.

Speaker 16 (04:12:00):
And I'd like to see the exact wording of that
clause in the world. Do you suppose you could have
mister Owen bring it out here tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (04:12:05):
Morning, of course, but I think I've puted it almost.

Speaker 21 (04:12:07):
Word for word.

Speaker 16 (04:12:08):
I'm sure you have, But sometimes just one little word
makes a difference.

Speaker 19 (04:12:12):
Very well, Cold Dwight, First thing in the morning, George, Joy.

Speaker 16 (04:12:28):
Here angel in the study of Missus.

Speaker 71 (04:12:31):
Clay and I just run in the morning room together,
and the place is a mess, darling, And the old
Hutch cabinet has just.

Speaker 19 (04:12:37):
Been cried apart and ran the American chair. The cushion was.
I can't understand.

Speaker 16 (04:12:43):
I think I canvas is great. It's probably our fault
because we're here. I mean, those early American pieces might
be from Pennsylvania.

Speaker 7 (04:12:51):
I suppose.

Speaker 19 (04:12:51):
I suppose so.

Speaker 16 (04:12:52):
Well, at least it's a good try, and they might
be What are you talking about, George, Well, just that
with us in the house to check up on what's
going on, somebody getting frantic to find the answer.

Speaker 40 (04:13:01):
First. Well, here's the will, Amanda.

Speaker 16 (04:13:15):
As you asked, I don't quite understand, though we've been
over it many times.

Speaker 19 (04:13:19):
I know I wanted mister Valentine to see it.

Speaker 3 (04:13:22):
Oh that's.

Speaker 21 (04:13:25):
Nice.

Speaker 16 (04:13:26):
I suppose we can save a little time here. I'm
just interested in one clause, the Pennsylvania think.

Speaker 3 (04:13:32):
So that's why you got these people.

Speaker 22 (04:13:33):
Out of here with no Dwight.

Speaker 1 (04:13:35):
Actually it isn't Let me show you.

Speaker 19 (04:13:38):
Let's see it's.

Speaker 18 (04:13:41):
Here.

Speaker 16 (04:13:41):
We are right here, my beloved Amanda. There is more
fortune than I leave you. It is in Graystown, and
you alone will know the key to finding it. Just
remember how well we love the state of Pennsylvania and
what it symbolizes, and remember what I did about it
in my work. This treasure is for you, and you only, Valentine.

(04:14:05):
I must tell you, and I hope you'll forgive me.

Speaker 7 (04:14:08):
Amanda.

Speaker 33 (04:14:09):
And Garrett Gray was a little eccentric about thee and
also a pretty.

Speaker 19 (04:14:15):
Good architect, one of the best.

Speaker 7 (04:14:17):
Huh.

Speaker 16 (04:14:18):
By the way, mister, did you know mister Gray's secretary Carver?
Quite well?

Speaker 7 (04:14:23):
Oh yes, he's a nice sort of fellow.

Speaker 3 (04:14:26):
Any reason if you're asking.

Speaker 16 (04:14:27):
That, Oh no, not at all. I'm just interested in
everybody mister Gray mentioned. Yes, of course, I see missus Gray.
I'm going to look up miss Brooks and then would
you mind lowing the bridge over the moad for us.

Speaker 19 (04:14:38):
You're not going to be here for lunch. It's almost ready.

Speaker 16 (04:14:41):
No, I'm sorry. I have some business of my own
to take care of in town. We'll be back later, though.

Speaker 9 (04:14:44):
I see you stay, won't you do?

Speaker 3 (04:14:47):
I certainly, Amanda, I'd love to.

Speaker 78 (04:14:49):
I hope you will come back, mister Valentine in spite
of everything that happens.

Speaker 16 (04:14:53):
Missus Gray, you don't have to worry about that. And
when I get back, we'll have an answer.

Speaker 4 (04:14:58):
To this thing.

Speaker 19 (04:15:09):
George, I'm sure you know what you're doing.

Speaker 16 (04:15:11):
I think, so proceede.

Speaker 19 (04:15:12):
Well, I don't.

Speaker 3 (04:15:14):
Well, you see, we're.

Speaker 16 (04:15:15):
Up against the paradox. Nobody inside Grays don't seem to
be guilty of those stunts, and nobody from outside could
get in. That's a paradox, all right, And one fact
or the other had to be wrong, and I figured
it must.

Speaker 1 (04:15:25):
Be the second.

Speaker 19 (04:15:26):
Do you mean that somebody could get in somewhere?

Speaker 40 (04:15:28):
Sure?

Speaker 16 (04:15:29):
Then I remembered seeing a pile of planks outside the house,
on the far side of the moat.

Speaker 19 (04:15:33):
Don't you looked at when you came out.

Speaker 16 (04:15:35):
Yeah, that's right. That's when I knew I was right,
after Doc. It wouldn't be hard to throw one of
those planks across the mold and get in the house.

Speaker 19 (04:15:41):
You'd have a hard time improving that, wouldn't you.

Speaker 16 (04:15:43):
I don't think so. One of the planks had quite
a lot of dried blood on it. Somebody'd hurt himself
off edge, so so don't forget. There was also blood
in that portrait that disappeared and then showed up.

Speaker 19 (04:15:53):
Oh yeah, that's right. Well where are we going now?

Speaker 16 (04:15:56):
Make a call in town. With just a little more evidence,
we can tell missus Gray who's got to run her
out of our house.

Speaker 19 (04:16:16):
It doesn't seem to be anyone in the apartment join.

Speaker 16 (04:16:18):
Oh no, that's fine, much easier to find what I'm
looking for.

Speaker 19 (04:16:21):
But suppose he comes in fund with you, you could
have us arrested. I gotta take good.

Speaker 44 (04:16:25):
Yes, I'm doing. We're gonna like this thing.

Speaker 16 (04:16:28):
Yeah, that one got it. I want an angel. Let's
stay right there by the door. Call out if anyone comes.

Speaker 19 (04:16:34):
Yes, all right, please be careful.

Speaker 16 (04:16:37):
M Why would anybody be liable to it?

Speaker 4 (04:16:40):
I'n't try this.

Speaker 69 (04:16:44):
So bad?

Speaker 14 (04:16:46):
Just maybe.

Speaker 16 (04:16:50):
Yeah, yeah, I thought so.

Speaker 37 (04:16:54):
Sorry, George, I'm front.

Speaker 16 (04:16:56):
You're right away to the angel. I struck pay to it. Sure,
take a look at this. Those are cartridges, that's right,
A box partly full of blanks, plots and wheel shells. Angel.
It looks as though we had this deal pretty well
penned done.

Speaker 9 (04:17:08):
What's next after we get out of this place on a.

Speaker 16 (04:17:10):
Fast telephone call of our clients, and then a little
later we'll go back out the Graystone and start some fireworks?
All right, Missus Gray, you've got everybody in the study there, well.

Speaker 19 (04:17:29):
Except mister Carver.

Speaker 78 (04:17:30):
I called several members after I talked to you on
the phone, but couldn't find him.

Speaker 16 (04:17:34):
Oh well, that's too bad. I'd like to have had
him here. Well, let's get on with it anyway.

Speaker 21 (04:17:39):
Come on in.

Speaker 19 (04:17:40):
Yes, I'm George. You really found somethings to I'm sure,
Missus Gray.

Speaker 16 (04:17:47):
Well, hello there. Well I wanted you all here so
I could put your minds at rest about these strange
happenings out here.

Speaker 19 (04:17:55):
You mean you've found up?

Speaker 16 (04:17:57):
Yes, yes, I believe we have.

Speaker 7 (04:17:59):
What is it from?

Speaker 1 (04:18:00):
On, Valentine?

Speaker 16 (04:18:00):
Tell us you're sure you want me to on?

Speaker 21 (04:18:05):
I don't know what you mean.

Speaker 16 (04:18:06):
You see, when we first met yesterday, I didn't notice
that your left hand is bandaged, the one that you
heard on those boards across the moat.

Speaker 1 (04:18:14):
You're making an excusition.

Speaker 16 (04:18:16):
That's right. They would have been the same night the
portrait of mister Gray reappeared with blood on it.

Speaker 19 (04:18:21):
Mister, you can't be fraid.

Speaker 16 (04:18:24):
I am missus Gray. You're seeing her. And I took
the liberty of looking around your apartment this afternoon, and
I came across these young people bullets that were taken
out of your aunt's gun, the rest of blanks, just
like the ones that replaced them.

Speaker 9 (04:18:40):
I can't believe to you.

Speaker 16 (04:18:42):
Of all, I don't know what you can do to him.
Of course, get him for prowling, I suppose, maybe if
you're trying to frighten you to death, so he can
have time to search the house for more treasure. Possibly
we can have him disbarred at least. I'm sure he
won't be a attorney any longer.

Speaker 19 (04:18:56):
But George, you still haven't done what's hidden here?

Speaker 25 (04:18:58):
Huh.

Speaker 16 (04:18:59):
We'll find it now, Miss Gray. If you'll call in
a couple of Stonemasons as soon as possible, I think
we can remove this temptation.

Speaker 84 (04:19:15):
If you're missing something in driving pleasure, if a spluttering
motor has you hugging the side of the road, here's
a suggestion before you spend any money for engine repairs,
try a tag full of Chevron Supreme. The balanced gasoline.
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(04:19:38):
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Speaker 16 (04:19:42):
Get top all around performances from your car.

Speaker 84 (04:19:45):
Drive in and fill her up with Chevn Supreme gasoline
at any standard station or independent Chevron gas station where
they say and mean, we take.

Speaker 16 (04:19:55):
Better care of your car.

Speaker 71 (04:20:07):
George Angel, why are you having those men down that
stone arch over the front door.

Speaker 19 (04:20:11):
Yes, mister Valentine, I'm going.

Speaker 32 (04:20:13):
To do what you want.

Speaker 16 (04:20:14):
Why I finally figured out that clause and your husband's
will missus Gray, the state of Pennsylvania and his work,
How did they fit together? Simple? His work was architecture.
Pennsylvania is the keystone state.

Speaker 9 (04:20:26):
George.

Speaker 19 (04:20:27):
You figured that out, and the keystone is.

Speaker 16 (04:20:29):
One of the important parts of architecture. There's only one
in this house.

Speaker 9 (04:20:33):
I should have thought of that.

Speaker 16 (04:20:35):
Probably On would have liked to also, Oh, there, it
looks like they've got into it. It was apparently hollow.

Speaker 7 (04:20:40):
All right.

Speaker 19 (04:20:43):
Keystone was how just as Valentine thought it would be
he's doing anything.

Speaker 57 (04:20:47):
Of course, it's packed with currency, big bills.

Speaker 10 (04:20:50):
Come on, yes, I'm coming.

Speaker 16 (04:20:52):
Brock Well, Angel, I guess we've got rid of missus
Gray as ghost for nothing more for him to look
for George.

Speaker 19 (04:21:01):
Do you know what I'd like? A house just like
this one with a moat around it, and you could
hide something in the keystone from me.

Speaker 16 (04:21:09):
Oh no, Angel, I'm still alive, you know, prove it?
Uh yeah, come on, Brooks see let's go eat.

Speaker 84 (04:21:39):
Good Night's Adventure of George Valentine has been brought to
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Robert Dailey has starred as George, with Virginia Gregg as Brooksy.

Speaker 16 (04:21:56):
Let George do. It was written by Lloyd London and
directed by Kenneth Webb.

Speaker 84 (04:22:00):
Gene Bates was heard as Amanda, Larry Dobkin is on
Tarley Bear as Stevens, Jack Lloyd as Ronald, and Gene
Tatum as Sylvia. The music was composed and presented by
Eddie Dunsteader You're announcer John Hoaston. Listen again next week,
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(04:22:24):
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Speaker 16 (04:22:28):
Forces Radio Service. This is the mutual Don Lee Broadcasting System.

Speaker 86 (04:22:58):
What's thirteen? With the star of Paramount Pictures Alan Ladd
as Damn Holiday.

Speaker 70 (04:23:12):
Box thirteen, Box thirteen, Box thirteen, Box.

Speaker 14 (04:23:23):
Box.

Speaker 4 (04:23:26):
He leaned over the shining halo of her blonde hair
reflected in the soft glow of the new moon. Oh no, no, no,
not that holiday, my boy? Why did you ever decide

(04:23:47):
to write fiction for a living? You know, you could
have gone into something interesting like being a truck driver
with the open road in front of you in a
motorcycle cop and back. Hey, Susie, where you've been?

Speaker 26 (04:24:00):
Don't you remember, mister Holliday? I went down to Star
Times office.

Speaker 4 (04:24:05):
Oh oh, so you did tell me? What's new? And
Box thirteen, Box.

Speaker 86 (04:24:14):
Thirteen starring Allen Ladd as Dan Holliday. Now for Box
thirteen starring Alan Ladd as Dan Holliday.

Speaker 4 (04:24:42):
Well what now, mister Holiday? What's new? And Box thirteen? Yesterday?
A man wanted to sell me a horse for one
thousand dollars and a ranch to go around the horse
for twenty five times that much. The day before my
ad for adventure brought me a reply from a golf
professional who simply wanted to drive golf balls off the
tip of my nose. Mister Holiday, Oh was that, Susie.

Speaker 26 (04:25:06):
I said that when a nice young man like you
runs an ad he should get a whole box full
of answers.

Speaker 4 (04:25:12):
Oh well, thank you, Susie.

Speaker 26 (04:25:13):
He should get bushel baskets full.

Speaker 4 (04:25:16):
Well, thanks again.

Speaker 26 (04:25:17):
The place should be loaded with letters.

Speaker 4 (04:25:20):
All right, all right? Now? What did I get?

Speaker 26 (04:25:22):
One postcard? And from a kid?

Speaker 4 (04:25:25):
At that?

Speaker 3 (04:25:26):
A kid?

Speaker 4 (04:25:27):
Do you mean a child?

Speaker 26 (04:25:28):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (04:25:29):
Uh huh, let me see it. Oh, a postcard from
a youngster. It's probably a gay, some small girl selling
ten cent packages of flower seeds for fifty cents, sell
five thousand packages and she gets absolutely free a Saint
Bernard dog. Well, let's see what really is on this postcard.

(04:25:54):
I wrote to you, Cara, box thirteen, because I thought
you wanted it that way. I gotta see you right
away on a very important matter. I am still doing
business at the old stand, Signed Johnny Moran. Johnny Moran.

(04:26:14):
Why he's a little boy who sells newspapers on the corner. Hey, Susie,
you're Johnny Morana up, you're right away.

Speaker 26 (04:26:19):
I can't do that, mister Holliday.

Speaker 4 (04:26:21):
Why can't you do it?

Speaker 26 (04:26:22):
Are you here already?

Speaker 4 (04:26:23):
Oh mister Holliday, Oh Johnny, how are you?

Speaker 16 (04:26:26):
My boy?

Speaker 4 (04:26:27):
Why didn't you just come up and see me instead
of writing a postcard? First?

Speaker 87 (04:26:30):
Well, I like to do things sort of business like. Besides,
it was fun to answer and add for adventure wanted.

Speaker 13 (04:26:36):
Would you really do anything, mister Holliday.

Speaker 4 (04:26:38):
Saddan, Johnny, tell me what your trouble is?

Speaker 14 (04:26:40):
Well?

Speaker 13 (04:26:41):
Uh, I kind of wanted to see you alone, sort
of private life.

Speaker 4 (04:26:46):
Oh that man, the man stuff.

Speaker 13 (04:26:48):
Huh yeah, that's it.

Speaker 4 (04:26:50):
Well, how would you like to talk?

Speaker 13 (04:26:52):
Well, I thought maybe you'd come down to the corner
with me. I'll buy you a drink.

Speaker 4 (04:26:57):
A drink. You interest me, strangely, Johnny, come on, let's go.

Speaker 13 (04:27:01):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (04:27:02):
Oh, Susane, you'll excuse us, won't you?

Speaker 26 (04:27:04):
Well, I don't know. You better be careful, mister Holliday.

Speaker 4 (04:27:07):
Careful.

Speaker 26 (04:27:08):
I don't want Johnny teaching you bad habits.

Speaker 4 (04:27:17):
Johnny Moran is a very nice boy, can't be more
than twelve, but he certainly seems to know his way
around yes, Holiday, if you were ordering a small boy,
this is just the model you would choose.

Speaker 87 (04:27:29):
But this drinking business, I'm worried about you, mister Holiday.
You sure that lemon coke is enough?

Speaker 4 (04:27:35):
Lemon cokes are always enough for me, Johnny, especially when
I spike him with an ice cube. Say hawja banana split.

Speaker 13 (04:27:42):
Well, this one's got a little too much chocolate. I
like to last one.

Speaker 4 (04:27:45):
Better, better finish it, my boy. You want to talk business, remember?

Speaker 87 (04:27:48):
Oh yeah, Well, I thought you might have read about
it in the newspapers. Of course you could have missed it.
It was way back on page five.

Speaker 4 (04:27:55):
I was on page five here.

Speaker 13 (04:27:57):
I got a clipping of the story.

Speaker 22 (04:27:59):
Read it.

Speaker 4 (04:28:05):
Police announced later recovered a portion of the jewelry stolen
in last Tuesday's rate on Morey Jewelry company held under
suspicion of grand theft is John Moran. John Moran, Johnny
let your father.

Speaker 13 (04:28:21):
Yes, And he didn't do it, mister Holliday, I know
he didn't.

Speaker 4 (04:28:24):
Just a second, a part of the loot was found
in Moran's apartment.

Speaker 13 (04:28:28):
I don't care what they put in the newspapers, mister Holliday.
He didn't do it. That's why I came to see you.

Speaker 4 (04:28:33):
Uh what about your mother, Johnny?

Speaker 13 (04:28:35):
Oh, she died when I was a baby. Pop and
I lived together. But he didn't do it, mister Holliday.
Only they won't believe me.

Speaker 4 (04:28:42):
Oh you've been down to the police.

Speaker 13 (04:28:44):
Sure.

Speaker 87 (04:28:44):
I went there right away, even offered him my eighteen
bucks for bail. You know what what, The old DA
just patted me on the head and told me to
go home. I bet you could get down on top
of that district attorney and make him let my father out.

Speaker 4 (04:28:59):
You can do any I'll not quite anything, Johnny.

Speaker 13 (04:29:02):
Yeah, but this would be easy for a guy like you.
So you're not afraid of anything, not even a policeman.

Speaker 4 (04:29:09):
Well that's very flattering, Johnny. But I don't know what
I can do.

Speaker 87 (04:29:12):
Well, you think of something, mister Holliday. You're a writer,
you're smart. Oh but listen, my boy, how let you
get my father out of jail in time for dinner?

Speaker 4 (04:29:25):
Okay holiday? The boy says, you can get his father
out of jail in time for dinner. But what day?
The story in the paper makes it look like they
caught John Moran cold. You don't find stolen jewelry in
a man's apartment if he didn't do the stealing. But

(04:29:46):
there's a small boy waiting, waiting with all the faith
in the world. So Holiday, do something, Attorney. You'll see
you now as the holiday. Oh, thanks, Holiday. I haven't
seen you for a long time. Yeah, I know, I've
been pretty busy. Uh busy man. Well, then what brings

(04:30:09):
a promising young author down the city hall? Because he's
a promising young author who made a promise, and I
hope he didn't make a mistake. Eh, what in the
world are you talking about about? A man named John Moran.
You've got him locked up in your nice new jail, yes,
and from what we've got on him, he's going to
stay there for a while. His son thinks Moran is innocent.

Speaker 3 (04:30:28):
Plot.

Speaker 4 (04:30:29):
I feel sorry for that boy. He came down talk
to me. But what could I do for him? You've
got the goods on Moran? Then, absolutely. The police found
some of the stolen stuff in his apartment. Well, what's
Moran's story? A woman who works in the scene building
with Moran asked him to stop in at the jewelry
store and pick up her watch. While he was there,
this stick up artist walked in and held up the place,

(04:30:50):
and that makes Miran kill him. Don't be in a hurry.
The stick up artist used him as a shield when
he beat it. Moran claims a man forced him to
drive the getaway car right into the country. Let's still
that doesn't make him kill you. I think you've got
the wrong person. This is where Moran's story went wrong.
He walked into police headquarters and told it, but it
sounded too good to be true. They detained him while
the detective went over and searched his apartment. Oh, the

(04:31:13):
detective found part of the loop Ran couldn't explain where
it came from Luire office. It looks like he pulled
a clever gag. We think he's in with a hold
of men. What about the woman, the one who sent
Moran after the watch, Grace Woodard. We don't have a
thing on her. She's in the clear. I see. So holiday,
better forget about playing don Quixote. Day of fighting Windmills

(04:31:35):
is over, Go home, forget about Johnny Moran. Sure, Holiday,
I just forget all about John Moran right for neath
of the story and take it out of the typewriter.
But how are you going to write the dialogue from
man who has to tell a small boy that his

(04:31:56):
father hasn't got a chance, and described the look in
that boy's eyes.

Speaker 13 (04:32:04):
I don't care what that old district attorney said. My
father isn't a.

Speaker 4 (04:32:07):
Crook, and your father should have been able to explain
the stolen Julia they found at your place.

Speaker 9 (04:32:11):
I bet he could too.

Speaker 13 (04:32:13):
They just wouldn't listen to him.

Speaker 4 (04:32:14):
Oh no, Johnny, if your father is innocent, they'll let
him go.

Speaker 13 (04:32:18):
So you won't help me either.

Speaker 4 (04:32:20):
But I'm trying, my boy. What else can I do?

Speaker 13 (04:32:22):
Earn nothing? I guess see you, lady, mister Halliday.

Speaker 4 (04:32:25):
Oh Johnny, listen to me.

Speaker 13 (04:32:27):
I'm kind of busy right now.

Speaker 87 (04:32:28):
I got to earn a lot of dough, I guess, Johnny,
because lawyers come pretty expensive. If I heard, oh look, kid,
you better go home, mister Holliday, I should have handled
it personally in the first place.

Speaker 4 (04:32:43):
Small boys have that neck, don't they. They can just
vanish into thin air when they want to. They's quite
a character. Holiday. Go home and write this on your typewriter.
Write about the small boy who wanted you to get
his father out of jail, and you'd didn't quite make
the grade.

Speaker 13 (04:33:05):
Hello, mister Holliday. This is Johnny. I'm up at the
place where we live.

Speaker 4 (04:33:09):
Johnny, there's something.

Speaker 13 (04:33:10):
Funny going on.

Speaker 4 (04:33:11):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 13 (04:33:12):
I'm afraid to go into our place.

Speaker 1 (04:33:13):
There's a man in there, you know him.

Speaker 9 (04:33:16):
He's going through the place, so he's looking for something.

Speaker 4 (04:33:18):
Johnny. Listen, run outside, find a policeman. I'll be right over.
I gotta get out of here, Johnny.

Speaker 3 (04:33:22):
Do what I said.

Speaker 13 (04:33:23):
Just walked out the door.

Speaker 22 (04:33:23):
He saw me.

Speaker 4 (04:33:27):
Get over to Moran's place fast, holiday. You've got no
time for fooling. He's not outside. Maybe he's upstairs. Oh, Johnny, Johnny,
where could that boy have gone to? Grace Willard a

(04:33:47):
woman who sent Moran up to the watch and she
knows Moran, she knows his boy. Yes, oh miss Willard, Yes, Oh,
I'm Dan Holliday. Would you know where little Johnny Morana is?

Speaker 19 (04:34:04):
Come in?

Speaker 27 (04:34:06):
Now? What's this about, Johnny?

Speaker 4 (04:34:08):
Well, he phoned me a few minutes ago from his place.
There was a man going through it. He saw Johnny
making the call.

Speaker 27 (04:34:13):
Johnny's disappeared. Yes, you phoned the police.

Speaker 10 (04:34:17):
Do you think he's been hurt?

Speaker 4 (04:34:18):
Well, the police knew nothing about it. I don't know
what happened to the boy. That's why I came over here.
I figured that if you know his father, you knew Johnny.

Speaker 27 (04:34:24):
You know, poor mister Verena. I feel so badly about him.
You know, if I hadn't asked him to get my watch,
this never would have happened.

Speaker 4 (04:34:30):
But that doesn't make it your fault, Miss Willet.

Speaker 27 (04:34:32):
I feel terrible about it just the same. And now Johnny.

Speaker 4 (04:34:36):
Disappearing, he hasn't been here at all.

Speaker 27 (04:34:38):
No, let me think of it. Oh, by the way,
I was just having some coffee. Would you care to
join me?

Speaker 9 (04:34:44):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (04:34:45):
Grace Willard is a very nice person, really worried about
the boy. Perhaps she'll come back with an idea.

Speaker 27 (04:34:52):
Here's your coffee, mister Holliday. Now we're at all well.

Speaker 4 (04:34:56):
Thanks.

Speaker 27 (04:34:57):
Oh did Johnny recognize the man?

Speaker 4 (04:35:00):
No, he didn't have time to say.

Speaker 27 (04:35:01):
Well, perhaps he found a policeman on the street. He
might have gone back to the house.

Speaker 4 (04:35:04):
Oh my god, I called back.

Speaker 70 (04:35:07):
Johnny's cute little fellow. Johnny has a father who's in jail.
Johnny's quite concerned about his father and would like to
set him free.

Speaker 4 (04:35:20):
Grace Willard is starling holiday, waiting for something.

Speaker 70 (04:35:24):
I don't know if Johnny will get his wish or not.
You see his father looks very guilty to the police.

Speaker 4 (04:35:33):
Holiday, you idiot. That coffee was doped, the oldest gag
in the world, and you swallowed it.

Speaker 27 (04:35:39):
You look sleepy, mister Holliday. Are you feeling all right?

Speaker 4 (04:35:45):
She looks like a reflection than one of those amusement parkrs.
She's long and skinny. No, no, she's short, short and fat.
Holiday Holiday, Get up.

Speaker 27 (04:36:02):
You feel, mister Holiday? Are you all right?

Speaker 4 (04:36:07):
Get on your feet? I said, walk Holiday, Walk, Walk
this thing off before it's too late.

Speaker 27 (04:36:16):
You look very tired, mister Holiday. Let me get you
a pill.

Speaker 4 (04:36:20):
Out come on Holiday one pick.

Speaker 27 (04:36:24):
How do you feel, mister Holliday?

Speaker 7 (04:36:27):
Right?

Speaker 4 (04:36:27):
I can't I can't make it.

Speaker 86 (04:36:35):
You are listening to Box thirteen Darring Ellen ladd as
Dan Holiday Box thirteen Darring Ellen ladd as Dan Holiday.

Speaker 4 (04:37:04):
Oh take it easy, Holiday, take it easy. Turn slowly now.
Maybe your head still is connected to the top of
your neck. That's better, better, h What am I saying?

Speaker 3 (04:37:34):
Where am I.

Speaker 4 (04:37:38):
An alley?

Speaker 9 (04:37:41):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (04:37:42):
Fine, Dan Holiday author found lying in an alley between
yesterday's newspapers and tomorrow's trash. What you need right this
minute is a quick change, a fast bath and chat
with a district attorney. I've got a man going up

(04:38:07):
to the Willard woman's place right this minute. Holiday, thanks Clark.
This ties her up with a moranue case. Sure else?
Why would she give me knockout drops and have me
dumped in an alley? I bet anything. She's disappeared, But
why just knock you out? Why not dispose of you permanently?
I don't know unless she was trying to kill time?
Enough time to get something done well, and he can't

(04:38:27):
do anything now. If she's disappeared, she won't stay lost
for long. My men will bring her in. Don't let
her give him any coffee. She'll be out again. Pardon
me Ditrict attorney's Alice Clark speaking yesh? Where when? How
is he? Thanks? I'll see a later, Clark. I want

(04:38:52):
to go over and see Johnny Marion. I don't think
you'll find him at home? Holiday?

Speaker 1 (04:38:56):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (04:38:57):
That was a hospital who just called him. Moran was
brought in a while ago, the victim of a hit
and run driver. And on top of that phone call
about Johnny Moran is another one Grace Weller checked out
of the Wharton Hotel an hour ago. So, mister Holliday,
they got you out of the way long enough to

(04:39:18):
get the little Johnny, A small boy in a hospital,
me with an aching head and an aching feeling that
something is very, very wrong. I think this is the room. Hey,
don't I Johnny? How do you feel? Kid?

Speaker 13 (04:39:45):
Kind of banged up?

Speaker 3 (04:39:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 33 (04:39:47):
I know.

Speaker 4 (04:39:49):
The nurse said you want to do too much talking,
So just let me ask a couple of questions.

Speaker 13 (04:39:54):
It wasn't an accident, mister Holliday.

Speaker 9 (04:39:56):
He did it on purpose.

Speaker 4 (04:39:58):
Are you sure about that, Johnny?

Speaker 13 (04:39:59):
Yeah? I was walking down a side street. He had
to swing way over to the wrong side.

Speaker 33 (04:40:04):
To hit me.

Speaker 4 (04:40:05):
Johnny, did he look like the same man who was
in your place?

Speaker 13 (04:40:09):
I didn't get a good look at him. He was
bent down way behind the wheel.

Speaker 4 (04:40:13):
Well, could you give me just a hint? Was he tall? Short?

Speaker 3 (04:40:17):
Thin?

Speaker 7 (04:40:18):
Fat? Oh?

Speaker 4 (04:40:19):
I know, yes, Johnny, Johnny Johnny passed up, won't be
permitted to talk for a while. Well, that puts it
up to you. Holiday. Come on, you're an author. You
writ hundreds of situations like this one. Lak the Brning

(04:40:46):
Hospital Johnny lives. Maybe the landlady saw the man. I
certainly hope so.

Speaker 27 (04:40:54):
Johnny Morn. Yes, I saw him come home, but it
was quite some time ago.

Speaker 4 (04:40:58):
Oh did you see him leave?

Speaker 27 (04:41:00):
Yes, he went upstairs. I heard him on the telephone.
Then he came running down.

Speaker 4 (04:41:03):
Who was the man chasing him?

Speaker 27 (04:41:05):
Chasing him? There was no one chasing him?

Speaker 4 (04:41:09):
Are you sure of that?

Speaker 27 (04:41:10):
Of course I've been here all the time.

Speaker 88 (04:41:14):
Poor little fella. Don't know what's going to happen to him,
what with his father in law?

Speaker 4 (04:41:19):
This doesn't make sense.

Speaker 27 (04:41:21):
I beg your pardon.

Speaker 4 (04:41:22):
Oh nothing you say, Johnny? Call me tell me there
was a strange man in his place. The man saw him,
he hung up the phone and disappeared.

Speaker 27 (04:41:30):
But I saw no man.

Speaker 4 (04:41:31):
Are you sure?

Speaker 88 (04:41:33):
Only Joe Coxley? But he's one of my rumors? That
is he was was when he moved today, just after
Johnny left.

Speaker 4 (04:41:42):
Was he upstairs while Johnny was there?

Speaker 27 (04:41:45):
Yes, yes he was.

Speaker 7 (04:41:48):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (04:41:48):
Was he a friend of John Moran's?

Speaker 88 (04:41:50):
Oh no, no, He never spoke to anyone, stayed in
his room all day and went out at night.

Speaker 4 (04:41:56):
Uh one of those night fliers.

Speaker 22 (04:41:57):
Huh?

Speaker 4 (04:41:59):
Uh? Could I see the room he occupied? This is
Cochley's room, but it's empty. Well, Holliday. Looks like you're
on the wrong track track.

Speaker 18 (04:42:14):
Or are you.

Speaker 4 (04:42:18):
Stubbed from a dance hall ticket? I'd better talk to
Johnny about this. Johnny, the man who came out of
your room? Was he about my height? Did he have
gray's hair? Did he wear a bronze suit?

Speaker 7 (04:42:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (04:42:35):
Yeah, that's the man, mister Hardy.

Speaker 4 (04:42:37):
I'll come. You never saw him before? You lived right
across the hall from you.

Speaker 13 (04:42:40):
That guy the only way out at night after I
was in bed.

Speaker 4 (04:42:44):
Oh, I'll see you lady.

Speaker 7 (04:42:47):
Johnny.

Speaker 4 (04:42:47):
Hey, where are you going tonight? I'm going dancing? This
is a very nice place. Holiday admission sixty cents, which
includes an evening of dancing, and from the looks of
the customers, they're trying to get their money's worth.

Speaker 13 (04:43:09):
I like the dance fella who me?

Speaker 27 (04:43:11):
He ain't a twins?

Speaker 14 (04:43:12):
Are you?

Speaker 4 (04:43:13):
I'm sorry, I'm afraid I'm a very bad dancer.

Speaker 26 (04:43:16):
Hey, let me be the judge of that.

Speaker 13 (04:43:19):
Come on, kid, you look good to me.

Speaker 4 (04:43:22):
Oh wait a second, say, isn't that Joe Copley over there? Oh?

Speaker 9 (04:43:26):
You know Joe?

Speaker 3 (04:43:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (04:43:27):
And uh and the girl with him, that's his girlfriend,
Grace Willett.

Speaker 4 (04:43:31):
Oh. Thanks, I'll see you later.

Speaker 13 (04:43:32):
Hey, where are you going?

Speaker 4 (04:43:37):
This is that holiday only? What are you going to do?
They're leaving and if you stop to make a phone call,
you loose them. And I wouldn't like to lose that man.
He's the one who had small boys with big automobiles.
They're going into that apartment house. This begins to look
like the final chapter. Now to make a fast telephone

(04:44:02):
call to an old friend, then better to get to
the payoff. That's a very nice store. You can hear
quite distinctly through it. Well, Holiday, here's where you cease
to be a wallflower and become the life of the party.
Hold put up your hands, fellow, sure sure, close that door, grace.

(04:44:31):
Well here we are, aren't we? What are we gonna do?
You finished packing that you? We'll figure out something. We
can't let them stay alt finish the packing, I said.

Speaker 13 (04:44:44):
Too bad.

Speaker 27 (04:44:45):
I didn't use poison in that coffee I gave it.

Speaker 4 (04:44:47):
I noticed you were packing going away someplace?

Speaker 16 (04:44:52):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (04:44:52):
And get away from that bag? Holiday? Oh that's the
stuff that was stolen from the store. Huh any of
your business? Oh uh? Going away together? You and miss Willard?
Maybe mm hm, you pull that got down and pick
up my watch routine in a lot of cities.

Speaker 10 (04:45:10):
Don Joe make him mequiet? Joe?

Speaker 4 (04:45:12):
Hey, uh, Joe? Who was the girl who worked with
you before you met Grace? You know, the one who
lived in Cleveland though was at Chicago? I always forget.
Come on, Joe, what happened?

Speaker 16 (04:45:21):
Shut up?

Speaker 4 (04:45:23):
What happened to her? Joe? Or the girl before?

Speaker 27 (04:45:28):
How do you know there was another girl? Holiday?

Speaker 4 (04:45:31):
Well, missus Willard, you don't think you're the only one,
do you?

Speaker 13 (04:45:33):
You're crazy?

Speaker 7 (04:45:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (04:45:38):
Ask him where he was last night? Don't pay any
attention to him, Grace. He wasn't with you know where
he was?

Speaker 27 (04:45:46):
How do you know he wasn't with me?

Speaker 4 (04:45:49):
The stub of a dance hall ticket I found in
the other room. It calls for only one of missus.
Shut up, I said, Joe, were you down there last night?

Speaker 27 (04:46:01):
Are you dancing with that blonde again?

Speaker 4 (04:46:02):
I suppose I was?

Speaker 14 (04:46:03):
So what.

Speaker 27 (04:46:06):
You have me set up this whole deal. Have me
find John Miranda play sucker for us. Have me frame
the business of picking up my watch? I time it
out perfect for you? What do you do you got
dancing with Grace?

Speaker 4 (04:46:16):
Be quiet? The Spella's up to something me, now, what
would I be up to?

Speaker 27 (04:46:21):
What about that other girl he talked about? What happened
to her?

Speaker 41 (04:46:24):
Jue?

Speaker 4 (04:46:25):
Why don't you tell her you cut it out?

Speaker 3 (04:46:27):
Will you?

Speaker 4 (04:46:28):
Did?

Speaker 27 (04:46:28):
She plants tolen jewelry in a suckers room like I
did a marea grace.

Speaker 4 (04:46:31):
Listen, I'm listening. Go on and explain holiday. Where are
you going? Just opening the door?

Speaker 3 (04:46:39):
You see?

Speaker 4 (04:46:39):
I'd like the district attorney to hear the rest of
your explanation, too.

Speaker 40 (04:47:00):
Well.

Speaker 4 (04:47:01):
This is the last chapter to a story I was
afraid might have an unhappy ending. But Johnny Moran's father
is free, The district attorney has Grace, Willard, Joe Cockley
and the stolen jewelry and Johnny hmmm, Johnny is out
of the hospital. Mister Holliday, What did you say, Johnny?

Speaker 13 (04:47:19):
I said you might have been killed going up to
the apartment like that.

Speaker 4 (04:47:23):
No, I was safe for the DA just outside the door.

Speaker 13 (04:47:26):
Gosh, and you figured it all out by yourself.

Speaker 4 (04:47:29):
No, you helped too when you telephoned me. And I
hate to mention this kid, but did you bring the
eighteen dollars with him?

Speaker 32 (04:47:37):
Sure?

Speaker 66 (04:47:37):
I did?

Speaker 13 (04:47:38):
I pay off you know here.

Speaker 4 (04:47:41):
Oh, thanks, kidd. I was just a little worried.

Speaker 13 (04:47:44):
I was going to pay before, mister Holliday, but I
didn't think you needed money that bad.

Speaker 4 (04:47:49):
I needed it to put with this check.

Speaker 39 (04:47:53):
Here.

Speaker 4 (04:47:54):
There was a five hundred dollar reward for recovering the jewelry,
and it's going to a bank account for you.

Speaker 13 (04:48:01):
Gee gosh, I guess I'm.

Speaker 4 (04:48:03):
Rich, Johnny. What are you gonna do with all that money?

Speaker 13 (04:48:06):
Well, the first thing I'm gonna do is take you
out and buy your drink. How about an idiot's delight?

Speaker 4 (04:48:11):
Uh?

Speaker 13 (04:48:11):
Oh, what idiot's delight?

Speaker 87 (04:48:13):
It's got a pint of ice cream, three bananas, some oranges,
and seven flames.

Speaker 4 (04:48:17):
Oh, Johnny, I don't know, mister.

Speaker 26 (04:48:20):
Holliday, I just throw that. Johnny got out of the
Oh there you are, Johnny. How do you feel you'll swell?

Speaker 10 (04:48:26):
Susie.

Speaker 13 (04:48:27):
I just invited mister Holiday out to have a drink.

Speaker 26 (04:48:29):
He can't go out, Johnny, He's got some very important
work to do.

Speaker 13 (04:48:33):
Oh, she woos.

Speaker 4 (04:48:35):
Thanks a lot, Susie.

Speaker 10 (04:48:36):
Thanks.

Speaker 26 (04:48:37):
What are you thanking me for?

Speaker 4 (04:48:39):
You don't know it, but you've just saved me from
a horrible fate.

Speaker 86 (04:48:47):
Next week, same time, Ellen, Ladd stars as Dan Holliday
and Box thirteen.

Speaker 3 (04:49:03):
Alan Ladd appears.

Speaker 86 (04:49:04):
Through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures and may currently be
seen in Wild Harvest's Box thirteen is written and directed
by Ted Hediger. The part of Susie is played by
Sylvia Picker. Original music was composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager.

Speaker 18 (04:49:20):
This is a Mayfair production.

Speaker 5 (04:49:29):
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