They Said Leave The GHOST Alone, She Brings TRAGEDY, But He Couldn’t Resist Trying to SEE HER FACE!

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To Tony at Stations Present Escape, Oh of Fantasy.

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Les sal.

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Present Suspense.

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I am a whistler.

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Speaker 6 (01:50):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents come in.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Welcome. I'm e. G.

Speaker 6 (02:16):
Marshall Amnuences to those shadowy figures whose utre experiences are
so faithfully related here at this point on your dial gambling,
said George Washington is the child of Avarice, the brother
of iniquity, and the father of mischief. But does that

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include a friendly little game? What happens to most friendly
little games? Friends become enemies, little becomes big, and suddenly
it isn't a game anymore. But enough of this moralizing
deal the cards?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Who who are you?

Speaker 7 (02:58):
You know who I am?

Speaker 8 (03:01):
I am the Countess Ana, But yours dead?

Speaker 7 (03:08):
Yes, I am dead?

Speaker 9 (03:11):
Then how can you be standing there look at me?

Speaker 7 (03:16):
Can you doubt time? The Countess?

Speaker 9 (03:19):
But you will buried this afternoon?

Speaker 7 (03:22):
What does that have to do with it?

Speaker 9 (03:24):
What does that have to do with Enough?

Speaker 8 (03:28):
Enough of this meaningless chatter. Let us get down to business.

Speaker 10 (03:35):
What what business?

Speaker 6 (03:47):
Our mystery drama The Queen of Spades was adapted from
the Alexander Pushkin classic especially for the Mystery Theater by
Sam Dan and stars Michael Tolan. It is sponsored in
part by do It Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated
brewers of Budweiser.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
I'll be back.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
Shortly with that one. Let us go back perhaps one
hundred and fifty years to the Moscow of Imperial Russia,
and let us make the acquaintance of some handsome young

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officers who have been engaging in the second most favorite
pastime of handsome young officers, a friendly game of cards.
It is now five o'clock in the morning, and supper
or breakfast, if you will.

Speaker 9 (04:41):
Is being served.

Speaker 6 (04:42):
The winners, of course, have better appetites than the losers.
But the champagne is flowing freely, and soon the entire
company is in good spirits.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Well, now we're off. This should be a lesson to me.
What kind of lesson? Tomsky?

Speaker 11 (04:58):
Never to play with members of the horse, Thank god, Ah,
don't begrudge me a little financial success this evening.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
After all, you're the one who's lucky in love.

Speaker 9 (05:07):
Luck, gentleman, is merely the verdict of mathematics.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
What's this, hermon? Are you still here? Yes?

Speaker 9 (05:14):
It was an interesting evening.

Speaker 11 (05:15):
Well, gentlemen, your attention please, Now, what do you think
of our friend Lieutenant Herman here?

Speaker 2 (05:21):
For example?

Speaker 6 (05:22):
Is it true, herman, that you have never held a
card in your hand?

Speaker 9 (05:26):
It's true.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Is it true that you've never made a wager in
all your life? It's the gospel truth. And yet you
come here every night.

Speaker 11 (05:33):
And you sit till five in the morning and watch
the rest of us play.

Speaker 9 (05:37):
Yes, heron why why? Gambling interests me very much? But
I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary
in the hope of winning the superfluous.

Speaker 11 (05:49):
That's that was spoken like a true German.

Speaker 9 (05:53):
Yes, my father was German and he was a prudent man.

Speaker 11 (05:56):
Herven, I'll wager you still have the first ruble your
father ever heard.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yes, hermn is it true that your father left you
a million?

Speaker 9 (06:04):
But it's all very well for you to talk Tomski.
Your father is a prince, you have estates, you have serfs.
But I must live on my salary.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Oh well, if that's the kind of living that pleases you.

Speaker 6 (06:16):
It's easy to understand our fanatically economical friend here. But
there's one person who has me completely baffled.

Speaker 12 (06:22):
And who is that?

Speaker 11 (06:23):
Tomsky my grandmother, count as Anna Fiedosovna. She absolutely refuses
to play cards.

Speaker 13 (06:31):
Or what is there so baffling about an old lady
of over eighty five who will not gamble?

Speaker 6 (06:35):
Ah, because this particular old lady knows the secret?

Speaker 9 (06:41):
What secret?

Speaker 2 (06:43):
I thought that would pet you? Hermann, know what secret?

Speaker 6 (06:45):
The secret of how to win, the secret of how
to win, how to win each time you play how
to Win, as if you could actually read the back
of the cards.

Speaker 9 (06:56):
There is no such secret.

Speaker 12 (06:57):
Ah.

Speaker 6 (06:58):
Now I'm about to tell secret. Pay attention to everyone. Now,
some sixty years ago, my grandmother paid a visit to Paris,
where naturally she created a sensation. She was hailed as
the Muscovite Venus. The visit was a triumph except for
one little detail. Grandma lost her entire fortune one million

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rubles at a gambling house run by the Duke d'rleon.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Think of it, a million rubles in one night.

Speaker 9 (07:27):
A million rubles in one night. Impossible.

Speaker 6 (07:29):
Ah, that's precise unpractical.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Herman rebelling against.

Speaker 11 (07:33):
The very idea.

Speaker 9 (07:35):
But believe me, it happened.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
Now to continue, There was Grandma ruined, but she had
made the acquaintance of a rather remarkable man. I dare
say you've all heard of the fantastic Prince de sager Man.
He was known to be fabulously wealthy, and he paid
Grandma a visit. He was curious to see the lovely
Muscovite Venus, who was even more more beautiful and distressed will.

Speaker 9 (08:01):
You get to the point of the story.

Speaker 6 (08:03):
Or my grandmother asked him for a loan, and you
know what he said?

Speaker 9 (08:08):
He said no, or you.

Speaker 6 (08:10):
Said no, but he said, your highness, I could adventure
the sum you require, but I know that you should
not rest easy until you had paid me back. However,
there's another way out of your difficulty, a way that
will allow you to win back your money at the
gambling table, and in return for one of your dazzling smiles.

Speaker 9 (08:30):
I shall reveal it to you. Was that all he wanted?
One of her smiles?

Speaker 6 (08:36):
And you forget if this was a Frenchman and those
people invented chivalry. At any rate, he told her a secret.
I almost believe I would sell my soul and all
that secret. But armed with it, my grandmother returned to
the casino, chose three cards and played them one after

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the all three one, and my grandmother recovered.

Speaker 10 (09:05):
Every ruble she had lost. Well, or what what were
the three cards?

Speaker 14 (09:13):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Ah, that's the secrets. You have a.

Speaker 9 (09:17):
Grandmother who knows how to choose three winning cards at
Pharaoh and she refuses to play.

Speaker 6 (09:22):
That's correct, But why that's also a secret.

Speaker 9 (09:28):
Haven't you ever asked her? To tell you the secret? Oh,
I ask her every day, And what does she say?
She says, No, I realize that I am somewhat of
a comedic figure. To my brother officers. I am tolerated
rather than accepted. That is because I am different. They

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call me Hermann, the German, and it's quite a joke.
But I do not mind their laughter, because the things
they laugh at in me are precisely the things they
like in themselves. Seriousness, thrift, practicality and character. Oh, yes, character,
for I also have a weakness gambling. I would love

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to wager on the throw of the dice, the turn
of the cards, the thrill, the excitement, the fever in
the blood.

Speaker 15 (10:22):
But no, I control myself. And yet, if I knew
the secret Komski's grandmother's secret, ha ha, what are those
three cards?

Speaker 9 (10:38):
Suppose I could get her to tell me the secret?
But why should she tell me. She won't even tell
it to her own grandson.

Speaker 15 (10:48):
But is it true? Can there be such a secret. No,
I shall not think about it any longer. I shall
dismiss it from my mind.

Speaker 12 (11:06):
No.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
See, Herman, Oh, I see you are about to go out.
Let me call on you another time. No, that's quite
all right, old man of its organ.

Speaker 15 (11:15):
Well, well, yes, hang it all. I don't know how
to say this, Tomski.

Speaker 9 (11:23):
Could you introduce me to your grandmother, the Countess Anna Fadtna.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
You wish to be presented to my grandmother? Why?

Speaker 9 (11:32):
Well, she is, without a doubt, the most famous noble
woman in Russia. There's arena aside, and she goes way
back to the ancient regime.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
I thought I.

Speaker 9 (11:42):
Would like to pay my respects, and and yes, and
perhaps I could ask her to tell me the secret
of the three winning cards.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
You ask her to tell you all? That would be
a treat. Will you do it, my good fellow. I
wouldn't miss it for the world. As a matter of fact,
I'm going there right now, so go on along.

Speaker 15 (12:10):
I've never seen such magnificence, such splendor, the painting, the
statues of the carpets.

Speaker 10 (12:18):
Oh this is just a hovel. You should see her
palace in Saint Petersburg.

Speaker 16 (12:23):
And so he.

Speaker 17 (12:23):
Gazed deeply into her eyes and saw his own soul,
and he knew that in her lush lad.

Speaker 15 (12:32):
Better wait outside the door. Lizabetta is still reading to her.

Speaker 8 (12:36):
Well, well go on, ELIZABETHA that's the end, your ladyship,
A charming girl, Poor Lizabetta the end?

Speaker 7 (12:45):
How can it be?

Speaker 14 (12:46):
The end?

Speaker 9 (12:46):
A distant cousin. Too bad, she has no dowry.

Speaker 16 (12:49):
I'm sorry you, ladyship.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
So she is my grandmother's companion.

Speaker 7 (12:53):
Buy me a new novel.

Speaker 16 (12:55):
As you say, your ladyship.

Speaker 17 (12:57):
I want to go out driving. Why aren't you dressed well?
I thought we would read this afternoon.

Speaker 7 (13:04):
Order my courage this.

Speaker 9 (13:05):
Moment, yes, come quick before they leave.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Grandmama and Lisaveta, well, you scoundrel, you.

Speaker 8 (13:14):
Have finally decided to favor and ugly old lady with
a visit.

Speaker 11 (13:19):
Grandmama, you are and always shall be the muscovide been.
May I present Lieutenant Alexey Petrovitch Chirman and my grandmother's companion,
Lisaveta iv charm.

Speaker 8 (13:32):
How do you do and what are your duties in
the military service?

Speaker 7 (13:36):
Lieutenant?

Speaker 8 (13:37):
If you are a friend of my grandson's there say
they are wenching, drinking and gambling.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
O Grandmama. Lieutenant Herman is very serious and sober.

Speaker 11 (13:47):
As a matter of fact, I brought him here because
he has a request to make of you. Indeed, well,
you said you wanted to learn a certain secret.

Speaker 7 (13:57):
Secret, secret, what sort of secret?

Speaker 9 (14:01):
Go ahead, you might as well, ol boy, your your highness,
please hear me out.

Speaker 10 (14:05):
I I'm a very sober person, a hard working person.

Speaker 9 (14:09):
Your your nephew will bear me out.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Oh, yes, it's true.

Speaker 9 (14:11):
I was born poor, oh respectable. Indeed, my father was
a member of the merchant class. But he never had
much luck, and therefore I was left with very little.

Speaker 11 (14:23):
And so well, well, on with it.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
On with it.

Speaker 15 (14:27):
I need a considerable sum of money, not just for myself,
but for the chaste and pure woman I shall someday
meet and marry.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Eh.

Speaker 7 (14:36):
And what has this to do with me?

Speaker 9 (14:39):
What has this to do with you? Well, your ladyship highness,
you can make it all come true. Indeed, ha, I
could win my fortune at the gambling table if if
you will tell me the secret of the three cards.

Speaker 7 (14:57):
If I will tell.

Speaker 18 (14:58):
You, I will kill you.

Speaker 7 (15:05):
Too much?

Speaker 12 (15:06):
Please?

Speaker 19 (15:07):
Did you hear him?

Speaker 8 (15:09):
Oh he's a rare burgle, right, But what can you
expect from it from the German?

Speaker 7 (15:19):
Why should I tell you?

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (15:21):
No, no, I must.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
I must control myself.

Speaker 21 (15:26):
But I can't, I can't.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Well, heaven, I'm I'm sorry.

Speaker 9 (15:41):
I thought it was a perfectly reasonable request, and I
don't like to be laught at.

Speaker 6 (15:46):
Well, perhaps if you worked up to it gradually. I
thought I had built up a case.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
But I mean, if you'd waited.

Speaker 9 (15:52):
Until you'd gotten the knower of it, there's no time.
She's an incredibly old woman. Why she could be dead
in a few days. Poor herma, and stop saying poor herman.
But that was my name. I had become poor Herman.
Tomski isn't a bad fellow. But who can resist telling

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a funny story? Well I didn't see anything funny in it,
but everyone else did. I may not have a sense
of humor, but what I do have is a sense
of determination.

Speaker 15 (16:28):
And I have determined to learn the secret of the
three cards. And I shall learn that secret.

Speaker 9 (16:36):
After all. I asked her once, and I asked her politely.
I asked her the way a gentleman should. She laughed
at me. Well, there are other ways, yes.

Speaker 15 (16:49):
Indeed, laugh my lady, laugh my friends. But Lieutenant Alexey
Petrovitch Hermann will yet have the last life.

Speaker 9 (17:00):
Laugh on all of.

Speaker 6 (17:01):
You, and once or twice to throw the dice is
a gentlemanly game. But he does not win. Who plays
with sin in the secret House of Shame. Since we're
involved with gambling here, we thought we'd express some of

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Oscar Wilde's feelings on the matter.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Well, we have the.

Speaker 6 (17:26):
Incredibly old countess who says no, and the incredibly insistent
young herman who says yes. The collision course is set
and ready for Act two.

Speaker 9 (17:48):
Success.

Speaker 6 (17:49):
We are told is a secret, a magical secret, a
mysterious key that unlocks the door to wealth and happiness,
to love and everything the heart will does.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
And so many of us devote our lives to searching
for the.

Speaker 6 (18:04):
Secret, the fabulous formula, the trick, the gimmick. And this
is the present occupation of Alexei Petrovitch Sherman, a lieutenant
in the Engineering Battalion of this hour. Did I say occupation,
I should have said obsession.

Speaker 9 (18:24):
Yes, I was determined to wrest that secret from that
hideous old hag, by fair means or foul. But how
she would no longer receive me, And even if she would,
she would refuse to divulge the secret. I would have
to force it out of her.

Speaker 15 (18:42):
I would have to be alone with her alone. But
how could I ever manage to be alone with her?

Speaker 9 (18:49):
I wrestled with the problem. I even went to church
to pray for the solution. And of course, when one
prays with a sincere and earnest heart, his prayers are
usually answered.

Speaker 15 (19:05):
My prayers were answered, and the how was revealed to me.
She was sitting there, just up ahead of me, the
servant girl. No, not not the servant girl, the companion.
What was her name?

Speaker 9 (19:20):
He's a Veta Ivanovna. She is the how. I shall
make a declaration of love to her. But how do
I do that? I have never spoken of love before?

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Is you in love? Is it possible?

Speaker 9 (19:41):
Well?

Speaker 11 (19:42):
Who is the young lady, the fortunate object of such
overpowering adoration?

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Will you or won't you? Help me?

Speaker 9 (19:48):
Of course I will all Tella? How well, that's it, Tomsky?
How how does one tell a girl one is madly
in love with her?

Speaker 2 (19:55):
One says, I am madly in love with you? Is
that all there is to it?

Speaker 9 (20:00):
Well?

Speaker 11 (20:00):
One either says it directly or one hides it in
the midst of a flowery speech. Which method would you prefer?

Speaker 10 (20:06):
I'm a direct sort of person, but I think I would.

Speaker 9 (20:10):
For the first time use a flowery speech.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Well, here is a novel by the famous Valentinian Protopolos
browse through it. It contains all the ammunition you need.

Speaker 22 (20:29):
The butler sent me up to see you, mademoiselle. He
did why because I have a letter for you for me,
But there must be some mistake.

Speaker 7 (20:40):
You are these a Veta Ivanov Nasurian?

Speaker 14 (20:42):
Are you not?

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (20:44):
But I don't know anyone who would write to me.

Speaker 22 (20:46):
If this is your name on the envelope, and I
was instructed to give.

Speaker 17 (20:50):
Me a letter, well, thank you, thank you very much.
I am touched to the depth of my soul by
your charm, your beauty, your goodness, the life of heavenly
angel shines from your eyes. I am the dirt under
your feet. I am nothing. I am no one, and

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yet I dare to aspire, to dream, to hope. Oh,
my beloved, speak the word that raises me to paradise
or hurls me into the pit.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Please, please, is a better have pity on you? Pity?

Speaker 16 (21:39):
You're the one who should have pity on me. I
am a poor girl.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Poor.

Speaker 15 (21:43):
Your condition of life is even higher than mine. My
father was merely a merchant. Your father was a state counsulor.

Speaker 16 (21:49):
He died pendless.

Speaker 9 (21:51):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 16 (21:52):
It matters.

Speaker 9 (21:53):
I have no doubt, it doesn't matter. I love you,
and soon you would hate me. I swear my soul
there would be no money.

Speaker 15 (22:01):
I swear by my hope of salvation. I must have you,
lizabethy you.

Speaker 17 (22:06):
I think hi a handsome young officer. I could have
made a walthy match. Lieutenant, I am sorry, it cannot be,
my beloved. Your coldness, your indifference, shall not chill my heart.

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The poor flower worships the sun, and if the sun
is unaware of its adorer, does that lessen theater?

Speaker 16 (22:34):
Wish?

Speaker 15 (22:43):
Dear Lieutenant Hermann, what you propose is impossible. I have
the honor to remain Lizaveta Ivanovna's surin.

Speaker 17 (22:56):
How long for you, as one who has spent weeks
in the burn desert, yearance for water?

Speaker 7 (23:02):
Please?

Speaker 17 (23:03):
I beg you cool the fire that flames in me.

Speaker 15 (23:09):
You must forget me because it is impossible for us
to marry.

Speaker 9 (23:20):
Well, Heaven, how goes your secret love? She refuses to
see me, Tomsky, that's to be expected.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
But she is unmovable. That's a good sign.

Speaker 6 (23:29):
How a woman is always at her most yielding when she's.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
At her most stubborn.

Speaker 9 (23:34):
None of my letters seem to have.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
Swayed her in the slightest ah, but she answers them,
doesn't she. Well, as long as you receive an answer,
there is hope.

Speaker 9 (23:42):
But the answer is always no.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
Be determined, keep writing. Something will happen, But what white
or or something anything. She'd be stung by a bee,
or she'll smell a beautiful rose, or someone will say
a kind word to her, or a cross world and
suddenly she'll burst into tears and what and she'll fall
into your arm?

Speaker 17 (24:08):
Oh my, oh my goodness, Well there you are.

Speaker 8 (24:15):
Thank you for deciding to waste some of your precious time.

Speaker 17 (24:19):
I'm sorry, your ladyship.

Speaker 16 (24:22):
I didn't hear you ring at first.

Speaker 18 (24:24):
What's wrong with you these days?

Speaker 16 (24:26):
Forever sighing and mooning about?

Speaker 9 (24:28):
Are you ill?

Speaker 23 (24:29):
No?

Speaker 16 (24:29):
No, no no.

Speaker 8 (24:30):
Your leadership ordered the courage. What sort of weather is it?

Speaker 16 (24:34):
A calm and sunny and you never.

Speaker 7 (24:37):
Know what you're talking about?

Speaker 2 (24:39):
I feel cold?

Speaker 18 (24:40):
It must be snowing and freezing.

Speaker 16 (24:42):
Yes, your ladyship, Now where are you going? You ordered
the carriage, to order the carriage whatever for? But your ladyship,
just let me into your senses.

Speaker 7 (24:53):
Would I want to go driving? About in a snowstorm.

Speaker 16 (24:55):
The sun is shine on you.

Speaker 7 (24:57):
Dare contradict me?

Speaker 16 (24:58):
No, no, no, no, madam? And shall I read to you?

Speaker 24 (25:02):
Read to me?

Speaker 11 (25:03):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (25:03):
Really, my girl, didn't I tell you to order the carriage?

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (25:08):
Oh, oh, Lida Beta, Dona knot you come back?

Speaker 25 (25:12):
Lida Beta?

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (25:14):
Now what's gotten into that hold a girl?

Speaker 15 (25:20):
I am convinced that your intentions are honorable. I believe
your declaration of love, and I see you as the
knight in shining armor I have always yearned for. Oh
how I long to be my own mistress and not
the terrified creature of a tyrannical old woman. Come to me,
save me. Tonight, the Countess and I shall return from

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a ball at the French Embassy at midnight. The servant
shall all be asleep. I will see that the small
gate at the rear of the house will be open.

Speaker 9 (25:53):
Enter, and then go to a rear door.

Speaker 15 (25:56):
Once inside is a staircase that leads up a hallway.
The first door is the Countess's bedroom, The second is mine. Remember,
I love you and rely upon your honor.

Speaker 16 (26:30):
Who is in this room?

Speaker 9 (26:31):
Do not be alarmed. For Heaven's sake, do not be alarmed.
Who are you, Lieutenant Hermann? You remember me? How did
you get in here? It doesn't matter. You can ensure
the happiness of my life.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Go away, Go away.

Speaker 15 (26:45):
You can name three cards, three cards, three secret winning cards?
How to call them? The secret?

Speaker 9 (26:52):
Told you by the fabulous sorcerer, the Princess Saint Germain.

Speaker 8 (26:55):
There are no cards, there was no brain.

Speaker 9 (26:58):
Tell me the secret?

Speaker 16 (27:00):
Who is a joke?

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Do you understand that? Joe't tell me the three winning car?

Speaker 7 (27:04):
There are no car?

Speaker 9 (27:05):
For whom are you keeping?

Speaker 2 (27:07):
The secret?

Speaker 9 (27:07):
Is no secret for your grandson. He's rich enough without it.

Speaker 18 (27:11):
I tell you, your man, there is no secret.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
You're old, as good as dead. Why do you refuse?

Speaker 7 (27:19):
Why?

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Because revealed the secret?

Speaker 9 (27:24):
And not only shall I bless you, but my children,
my grandchildren shall reveal you as a saint. Well speak,
your horrid old hag, speak or I'll blow your brains out.

Speaker 16 (27:38):
Did is no secret?

Speaker 9 (27:44):
You think I said? Take to kill you? I have
a pistol.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
See no.

Speaker 9 (27:50):
All I have to do is pulled back the hammer,
so you hear it cleaner. All I need to do
now is pull the tray, and I will pull the trigger.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
If you don't know, you.

Speaker 16 (28:08):
Tell him what do you do What are you doing
with that pistol?

Speaker 9 (28:14):
I didn't kill her, you can you can see that
she just died death.

Speaker 16 (28:22):
The countess is dead.

Speaker 9 (28:24):
Yes, and I am the cause you.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yes.

Speaker 9 (28:30):
She knew about three secret cards which would always win
at Pharaoh. I came here tonight to make her. Tell
me you came.

Speaker 16 (28:36):
Here tonight, But I thought you had come here to
see me.

Speaker 9 (28:40):
I had intended to see you afterward. Then you don't
love me, No, I do love you. All you wanted
was to gain admission to her bedroom, only to gain
the financial foundation and security for our marriage. So I
had no intention of killing. Look my pistol isn't even loaded.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Now.

Speaker 16 (29:00):
Look at your face. I see the devil himself. Please leave.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
No.

Speaker 9 (29:08):
I hope to have the honor of calling on you
in the future.

Speaker 16 (29:11):
James, I want to see you again.

Speaker 15 (29:18):
I'm sorry it all turned out the way it did,
but one must accept the good with the bad. I
decided that I had better attend the funeral services. My friend,
Lieutenant Tomsky was touched. Sincerely touched.

Speaker 26 (29:34):
Her her own man.

Speaker 6 (29:35):
It's kind of you to take the time. Oh, she
was a great lady.

Speaker 15 (29:39):
I've come to pay my respects may I approach the
coffin with you?

Speaker 6 (29:45):
Of course, I'm I'm very grateful to you.

Speaker 9 (29:52):
Hell yeah, she is.

Speaker 15 (29:57):
Looks just the same as she did in life.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Wh what is it?

Speaker 9 (30:04):
No?

Speaker 2 (30:06):
No?

Speaker 13 (30:07):
Look at.

Speaker 27 (30:13):
Where?

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Where am I in your rooms? What happened to me?

Speaker 14 (30:19):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (30:19):
I I remember, I I fainted, I I saw.

Speaker 9 (30:26):
Well what did you see? You must promise not to
laugh at me?

Speaker 2 (30:31):
I promise.

Speaker 9 (30:33):
She she winked at me. She what she winked at me?

Speaker 28 (30:41):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (30:42):
Oh, you say that as if you think I'm crazy.
I'm not. I'm the sameest person, you know.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
But the old Countess, my grandmother is dead, I know.

Speaker 9 (30:50):
But she winked at me. I if you say so,
I don't care what anyone says.

Speaker 15 (31:00):
I looked at the old Countess lying in her coffin,
and suddenly she darted a kind of mocking look at me,
and with her left eye she winked.

Speaker 9 (31:11):
And that's the truth.

Speaker 15 (31:15):
Is someone knocking at the door.

Speaker 9 (31:18):
Stop your knocking and come in, Come in. The door's open.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Who who are you?

Speaker 7 (31:29):
You know who I am?

Speaker 8 (31:32):
No, I am the Countess son of Edotovna.

Speaker 9 (31:37):
But you're dead?

Speaker 7 (31:40):
Yes I am dead?

Speaker 9 (31:43):
Then how can you be standing there enough?

Speaker 7 (31:47):
Of this meaningless shatter. Let us get down to business.

Speaker 10 (31:53):
What what business?

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Business?

Speaker 6 (32:05):
Isn't it remarkable how much business of all kinds we
can have with each other, and.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
How suddenly it all ceases.

Speaker 6 (32:12):
When one is dead. For the dead have no business.
Isn't that true? And yet here is a lady freshly deceased,
who has suddenly introduced a matter of.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Business to our hero.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
The nature of the business.

Speaker 6 (32:27):
Well, you know you will have to wait for Act three.
Accidents happen, and accidentally, Lieutenant Hermann has caused the death

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of Countess Anna Fedotovna. But seemingly the elderly Countess, or
should we say the late Countess, harbors no grudge, because
here she is visiting him in his wombs the day
after her funeral. It is such a thing possible. Well,
don't take my word for it. Listen for yourself. But

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you're dead.

Speaker 7 (33:10):
We have already established.

Speaker 9 (33:12):
That dead people simply cannot leave the grave.

Speaker 7 (33:16):
Have you ever been a dead person?

Speaker 19 (33:19):
Have you?

Speaker 13 (33:21):
Well?

Speaker 8 (33:21):
No, I have been ordered to grant your.

Speaker 9 (33:26):
Request, my.

Speaker 8 (33:29):
Request, the three secret cards. Yes, your three secret cards
shall be listen three seven ace. They shall be dealt
to you. They shall win for you do.

Speaker 9 (33:50):
You understand three seven ace.

Speaker 7 (33:56):
These are the conditions.

Speaker 8 (33:58):
You must play one card and one card only on
each of three successive nights.

Speaker 9 (34:04):
Understand one card only on three nights in succession.

Speaker 7 (34:09):
How much money do you have my.

Speaker 9 (34:12):
Father's inheritance fifty thousand rubles, very well.

Speaker 7 (34:15):
Cash it in.

Speaker 8 (34:17):
Bring the fifty thousand to the casino.

Speaker 7 (34:20):
Bet on the three. You will then have one hundred thousand.

Speaker 8 (34:25):
The following night, be thee hundred thousand on the seven.
You will then have two hundred thousand. On the final night,
bet the two hundred thousand on the ace.

Speaker 7 (34:38):
You will walk away.

Speaker 9 (34:40):
With four hundred thousand roubles four hundred thousands.

Speaker 7 (34:45):
When I say walk.

Speaker 8 (34:46):
Away, I mean walk away from cards forever. You must
never gamble again as long as you live.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Oh yes, yes, and one more thing.

Speaker 8 (35:00):
Forgive you my death if you marry my companion Lisaveta Ivanovna.

Speaker 9 (35:08):
Of course, of course, remember your three magic cards.

Speaker 8 (35:14):
Your three secret cards are three seven Ace.

Speaker 9 (35:22):
Goodbye you haven't my good friend.

Speaker 6 (35:30):
I came as soon as I received your message.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
You're feeling all right?

Speaker 12 (35:33):
Well?

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yes? Yes?

Speaker 9 (35:36):
Are you playing cards this evening?

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Oh yes, of course.

Speaker 9 (35:40):
Where at the usual place, Captain Lamorros Yes, he attracts
a crowd of good fellows and he sets an excellent table.

Speaker 10 (35:47):
Yes, but I I noticed the stakes are rather low.

Speaker 11 (35:52):
Low a twenty five rouble limit.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
You call that low? I compliment you, my wealthy friend.

Speaker 9 (35:58):
Where can one go to fire the rather well a
game with a higher limit?

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Now I do have a millionaire friend.

Speaker 11 (36:07):
Let's not beat about the bush, So why not let's
go to the top. Let's visit Count Chekolinsky.

Speaker 9 (36:13):
Count Chekolinsky.

Speaker 6 (36:14):
Oh, he spent his entire life at the table.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
He's won millions.

Speaker 6 (36:17):
This is where the true gamblers go, royalty nobility.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Could we go?

Speaker 6 (36:22):
Everyone is welcome, but everyone is expected to play.

Speaker 9 (36:27):
I intend to play, Count Chelinsky.

Speaker 6 (36:35):
May I present my good friend, Lieutenant Hermann ah.

Speaker 13 (36:39):
Ma'am honor, to make your aquaint Now I do not
stand in ceremony at please make my humble hal yours.

Speaker 9 (36:53):
That morning I had gone to the banker who administered
the principal sun of my inheritance, and against his strenuous objections,
cashed in the entire amount. I was so sure of myself,
so full of confidence, that my fortune was made. But
here here, once again I wasn't sure.

Speaker 15 (37:14):
Was it a dream. Did the old lady come back
from the dead? Or was it my imagination? And then
I heard her voice.

Speaker 8 (37:24):
Three seven eighths and all my doubts were conquered.

Speaker 13 (37:36):
Very well, gentlemen, who will join us?

Speaker 2 (37:40):
For this is bank here?

Speaker 13 (37:42):
You general, he is here.

Speaker 9 (37:45):
You and now will you allow me to take a card?

Speaker 13 (37:48):
Count Chekolinsky, Oh, with pleasure, her man, and now, gentlemen,
your steaks, your tennant.

Speaker 9 (37:57):
I stake fifty thousand roubles on cards.

Speaker 13 (38:02):
Gentlemen, gentlemen, please please allow me to inform you, Lieutenant,
you are playing very high am I, if you will
forgive me what no account? While I am quite convinced
your word is sufficient, but for the sake of the
order of the game, I must ask you to put

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your money on the card.

Speaker 9 (38:28):
I have a note of exchange from the banking house
of Rostov. Is that acceptable completely? Let me look at
your card. You haven't dealt a three three, yerman?

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Do you realize you weahed fifty thousand rubles on a three?

Speaker 14 (38:44):
Quiet?

Speaker 2 (38:45):
The Count is about to deal himself to card the
dealer as in use. It's incredible.

Speaker 9 (38:53):
I believe my three beats Your highnesses too.

Speaker 13 (39:00):
Yest, your three has beaten me? And shall we continue?
Or do you desire to settlement?

Speaker 9 (39:09):
If you please?

Speaker 14 (39:15):
What luck?

Speaker 29 (39:16):
What fool's luck?

Speaker 11 (39:18):
Now, look, herman, promise me one thing. You'll never gamble again.

Speaker 9 (39:21):
Oh, I intend to go back tomorrow.

Speaker 11 (39:23):
But why you've won fifty thousand roubles?

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Do you realize that?

Speaker 9 (39:28):
And tomorrow I shall win one hundred thousand more?

Speaker 11 (39:31):
You mean if you intend to double your bed? Of course, herman,
if you don't know what you're doing. I slept the
deep sleep of the just. I awoke late, breakfasted, attended
to a few details, and as evening fell, summoned the

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carriage and returned to Count Chekolinsky's palace. As I entered,
all conversation ceased. Every eye turned and toward me. The
Count himself came forward and took my hand.

Speaker 13 (40:04):
Ah, good evening, Lieutenant Heirman, And what is your pleasure
this evening?

Speaker 9 (40:11):
I wish to wager? Shall you accommodate me? Of course,
at least lately?

Speaker 30 (40:21):
Three seven ace, three seven aces, it's fourdained.

Speaker 13 (40:33):
Ready for the deal, Lieutenant Herman.

Speaker 9 (40:36):
Ready, I wager one hundred thousand roubles.

Speaker 13 (40:41):
Accepted, accepted your card, My gord, I have a six,
I have a seven.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
I see.

Speaker 13 (40:58):
Shall we continue?

Speaker 9 (40:59):
I should prefer to receive my winnings if you please.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Of course, here you are.

Speaker 13 (41:06):
You are one hundred thousand in cash.

Speaker 9 (41:09):
Thank you till tomorrow, evening till tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
You're not going back there.

Speaker 9 (41:19):
I won't let you my good tomsky by now it
should be a parent and I know what I'm doing.

Speaker 6 (41:24):
Herman, you have two hundred thousand rubles. Isn't that enough?

Speaker 9 (41:27):
It's just half of what I need? Half do you.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Intend to wage of the entire two hundred thousand on
one course? Well, you are a man of iron, a
man of.

Speaker 6 (41:37):
Ice, two hundred thousand rubles on the turn of a
single card. You are also insane.

Speaker 9 (41:45):
My good friend, I simply cannot lose.

Speaker 13 (41:52):
Your steak.

Speaker 9 (41:54):
Tell my steak is two hundred thousand rubles your ten.

Speaker 13 (42:03):
I must remind you this is if i'd wager.

Speaker 9 (42:08):
Can you cover it? Of course, for a moment, just
the fleeting moment, I felt that twinge of doubt. Was
it luck? Could it turned? No? No?

Speaker 15 (42:24):
The old countess had told me about the three cards.

Speaker 9 (42:28):
She was right about the three and the seven.

Speaker 8 (42:31):
Are you afraid to double your fortune?

Speaker 9 (42:33):
You fool?

Speaker 8 (42:35):
Didn't you commit murder for those three cards?

Speaker 9 (42:39):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (42:40):
Three seven, eighth. Stake your fortune on the last card.
How can you lose? You are destined to draw the ace.

Speaker 9 (42:54):
My stake is two hundred thousand roubles.

Speaker 13 (42:59):
Governed your god, my god. My card is a king.

Speaker 9 (43:09):
My ace beats your king.

Speaker 13 (43:12):
Your queen loses my queen.

Speaker 9 (43:18):
I have an ace. I don't have it.

Speaker 15 (43:23):
But you you said I would have an ace.

Speaker 13 (43:29):
I made your father?

Speaker 9 (43:32):
Did I say that an ace?

Speaker 13 (43:35):
An ace?

Speaker 9 (43:35):
I was supposed to have an ace? You have a queen, Lieutenant?
Is he the Queen of spades? It's not the Queen
of spades. It's the countess, the countess, the old countess.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Look at her, Look at her.

Speaker 18 (43:55):
Listen, she's laughing at me.

Speaker 13 (44:01):
Do you know how to win these young fellows?

Speaker 2 (44:05):
But not how to look?

Speaker 31 (44:06):
It's not the Queen of Spades, it's the countess.

Speaker 6 (44:20):
Whoever, whatever it was, poor Lieutenant Harmon went out of
his mind and is now confined in Moon number eighteen
of the Obukhov Hospital, where he constantly mutters three seven
A three seventh queen. As for Elizaveta, she married Lieutenant Tomsky.

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See how unpredictable life can be. We're only sure of
one thing, which is that I shall return in just
a few moments the secret of the Three Cards, the

(45:03):
secret which turned out to be no secret at all.
And if you want to apply that lesson to life,
how many secrets actually do exist? How many mysteries on
closer examination proved to contain absolutely no hidden meanings? Is
life a simple affair that we attempt to complicate well?

(45:26):
Seven times each week we try to answer that question,
and who knows, one.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
Time we might actually succeed.

Speaker 6 (45:35):
Our cast included Michael Tolan and Shepherd, Ian Martin, Bryana
Raeburn and Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the
direction of Hyman Brown. And now a preview of our
next tale.

Speaker 9 (45:51):
Why do you say that for some purpose this land
of science is making a study of you? I know
that look of his.

Speaker 10 (46:02):
I have seen that cold illumination as he bends over
a bird, a mouse of butterfly, which, in pursuit of
some experiment, he has killed by the perfume of a flower.

Speaker 9 (46:16):
If you know him not, how should he know you?

Speaker 15 (46:19):
I I would only be surmising, and it is a
subject I would rather not pursue.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
And an acquaintance.

Speaker 10 (46:28):
You had better not eat her for hit me carefully,
Signor Grovani, I would stake my life that if you
are not already one of Rappaccini's inhuman experiments, you.

Speaker 9 (46:43):
Are marked for it.

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Speaker 6 (46:53):
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Speaker 12 (48:28):
It started it down in a Los Angeles taxi and
wind up that night on a cliff in the middle
of the Pacific, all because of a Dutchman with fifty
thousand dollars, a copse in a lily pond, and an
Oriental with a show for who wanted a cloak made
of nothing but feathers.

Speaker 33 (48:43):
From the pen of ravend Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction,
comes his most famous character and the Adventures of Philip
barlow Oh.

Speaker 34 (49:00):
With Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you
tonight's exciting story, The Cloak of Kamea Maya.

Speaker 12 (49:29):
The message that a repulsively wide awake boy was missing
a tooth front row Center had delivered at six and
the am had come in two parts. The first, scrawled
in black ink on a wrinkle piece of paper, said
marlow get hold of a taxicab, poses the driver yourself,
and at exactly eight o'clock this morning, come past eighty
eight forty north. I've been drive, Signed Paulard Schindler. The

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second half made more sense. It was printed in neat
letters na a green paper and under an engraving of
Benjamin Franklin read one hundred silver dollars, the bearer and
the man. So at exactly eight o'clock I was behind
the wheel of a hired cab leather jacket, peak cap too,
pick and all, and within hey taxi distance of number
eighty eight forty mister Pott Schindler round man in square

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clothes with haircut to match was not laid. Tuchi, are
you there, Tuchy way, Yes, sir cab.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Of course.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Why do you think I'm shouting my head off?

Speaker 12 (50:23):
I want to go to the municipal airport.

Speaker 35 (50:25):
Do you understand the municipal airport at Inglewood?

Speaker 12 (50:29):
Okay, okay, Inglewood Municipal Airport.

Speaker 36 (50:31):
It is.

Speaker 35 (50:33):
Mallow the meter quick, put the flag down. Every minute
I'm being watched.

Speaker 12 (50:37):
Oh yeah, watched by whom, mister Shendley, I do not know.
Now listen carefully Mallow.

Speaker 35 (50:43):
Later you are to go to the Halima Anna Hotel
and wait for a young lady named Lannie Collier. Then
at the hour she designates you go to her house
number forty four diamond Head circle and to pick up
the clock.

Speaker 12 (50:54):
Wait a minute, hollymo and a diamond head all those
places this hotel isn't by any chance in.

Speaker 35 (50:58):
Hawaii is Didn't I mention this in my note?

Speaker 14 (51:01):
No?

Speaker 12 (51:01):
You didn't, or did you mention picking up a cloak?

Speaker 35 (51:05):
That just proves I haven't been myself ever since yesterday
when I received this anonymous letter that's postmark Onnolulu. All
it says is Camea Maya's cloak of golden feathers will
bring no less than death.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Marlow.

Speaker 9 (51:20):
Have you ever been to the islands.

Speaker 12 (51:22):
Yeah, twice. Once business wants pleasure.

Speaker 26 (51:23):
Well, then surely you've heard people speak of King Kameha Mayor.

Speaker 12 (51:26):
Oh sure it was back in the seventeen eighties, right.
They organized the conquer Oahu by driving the defenders over
that cliff that divides the island, the Unali that's Malo.

Speaker 35 (51:36):
The feathered cloak that Kamea Maya war was about one
hundred square feet. And if we intribute a golden yellow
feather a value that more than half a million dollars?

Speaker 12 (51:44):
Really, how come? Well the feathers, Oh, yes.

Speaker 35 (51:47):
So they are from the now extinct black mamo bird, Marlow.
And there was only one yellow feather on each bird.

Speaker 12 (51:53):
And I could explain why they're now extinct. Don't tell
me this is all a game of Klia and a Marlo.
The schendler with a cloak that belongs to me is
no Marlow.

Speaker 35 (52:00):
No, it isn't there with the cloak you speak of.
But Lanny Kahlia has another one less valuable. Of course,
it's one quarter of the size, but it also belonged
to the king, and it also is made of the
priceless featherows.

Speaker 12 (52:11):
And is this a property they having a whole legal
like yeah.

Speaker 35 (52:14):
Yeah, yeah, money is wealthy young, Oh yeah about twenty five. Oh,
you went to a fashionable schools here in California and
as a result cares more about fun and furs from
ij Fox than she does priceless heirlooms. So for fifty
thousand dollars, I have bought the cloak to resell to
a New York millionaire for almost twice that something. Yes,

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she loves island law and veggas mallow.

Speaker 9 (52:38):
I was right.

Speaker 35 (52:40):
I am still being followed. Don't look back, just drive fast.
No no, no, no, do nothing. This is exactly as I
want it. Whoever it is will follow me, not you,
And when I am in Honolulu, they will still follow.

Speaker 12 (52:50):
Me while I take care of the business on hamm.

Speaker 35 (52:52):
Yes, yes, yes, there is a reservation for you on
the next plane. So after you leave me and collect
your cat there, which will be five hundred dollars, you
drive away and then later Mallow get back here board
your plane under.

Speaker 12 (53:03):
Way, and tonight, when I've got the cloak, they.

Speaker 35 (53:05):
Get back to your hotel room at the alimo Anna
and sit on it hard because unless I am a
complete success as a decoy, you will have your share
of trouble too, I'm sure, but Marlow from which specific
direction it will come, I do not know.

Speaker 12 (53:28):
I got the five hundred bucks, which was to cover
expenses for my hand a little trip, and I was
told to keep the change. So after I returned both
cab and costume to their owner, I added tend to
the original hiring price and had him drive me back
to my apartment and wait while I packed me. Then
I got into the cab again rear seat, said Municipal
Airport Inglewood, and settled back to think about the crossroads
of the Pacific, lovely huler hands and what shouldn't be

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too rough a job. But there I was wrong, because
in the next minute and those that followed, everything was
done the hard way. First we ran out of gas,
then got tied up at a traffic jam, and after
that got stopped for speeding, all of which added up
to me at the airport just in time to watch
my plane take off without me. But then when I
told the cherubic clerk and a great flannel and insipid
smile that my name was Philip Marlow that I wanted

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a reservation on the next flight, which was leaving in
an hour, things got even worse.

Speaker 25 (54:15):
But you can't be.

Speaker 12 (54:16):
Philip Marlow, sir.

Speaker 19 (54:17):
That he's not the Philip Marlow who was on Fight
twenty one that just left.

Speaker 12 (54:21):
You have a reason for saying that.

Speaker 37 (54:23):
Life will certainly do.

Speaker 6 (54:24):
There were thirty six feet on that plane, sir, and
when she took off, all thirty six were full.

Speaker 5 (54:29):
Now I know, I checked to myself, and I don't
make mistakes.

Speaker 12 (54:32):
Well, bully for you, boy, But I happen to be
both Philip Marlow and the man who was supposed to
be on that plane also bluster. I'm out of patience.
Now I get the next planet, don't I Come on?
I can't stand in decision.

Speaker 34 (54:42):
Well, I you're what, Well, I think it could be arranged,
mister Mallow.

Speaker 29 (54:45):
It's a better fact.

Speaker 12 (54:46):
I know it can well in that case, my friend,
thank you. When we took off, my flame of mind
left me ready and waiting for at least a crack
up at sea. But an hour later the last of

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California had slipped over the horizon and there was only
a clear sky ahead. I began to relax. My mind
drifted pleasantly. The flavor of the lime life Saver in
my mouth made me think of tall, wondrous frosted Hawaiian
punches ha ha, and the sinuous grace of lovely who
I had. And I opened my eyes again. Diamond Head

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was in front of us, and majestic. In the red
glow of the evening sun. It gave all of the
lush Morner Valley. I could see the texture of thick velvet.
We landed like the airport was made of marshmallows, And
a half hour later I was in the lobby of
the Halimuna Hotel. It was cushioned rat tan and Filipino
mahogany of a cool tile, and everywhere laughing sunburned faces

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wearing bright splashes of color, so smiling both inside and out.
I walked briskly to the reservation desk and told a
good looking Hawaiian and white flannel that I was full
of But at his reply I stopped smiling, both inside
and out. But sir, your reservation was taken two hours ago.
There must be some mistake. I doubt it, But you
are Philip Marlowe of Los Angeles, Sir, that's right. And

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I've been through this before today because of what I
thought was an error at you too, Hey, you two
what sir? Nothing? No, I'll talk to you later. There
was a large circle of mirror on the wall behind
the clerk, and even as we had talked, I caught

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the reflection of a beautiful tan girl in a cocoa
brown silk, white pearls and no stockings, with the mention
of my name, had Donna take that had made a
long blonde hair whip straight out when she saw me
watching as she pivoted sharply on a spiked heel and
hurried total an eye under a Banian tree, where there
was Hawaiian music and a lot of different looking people
drinking at glass top tables under a three quarter moon.

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I stayed near the reservation desk long enough to light
a cigarette, and then I followed her. She was seated
away from the lobby entrance, and on a hunch that
she might be Lanny Kallia, I started for an empty
table next to hers, but the middle aged Chinese and
Greg Gavitty and Panamata matched slipped into the chair that
I was after, so I forgot about being subtle and
addressing her as miss Callia introduced myself as an old

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and dear friend of Paulade Shindler's one Leland Dunn.

Speaker 37 (57:22):
Well, this is a pleasant surprise, mister Dunn.

Speaker 38 (57:24):
But tell me how did you know what I looked at?

Speaker 12 (57:27):
Well, paulad Schindler's accent doesn't happen his vocabulary, Miss Callier,
he used the right adjective to believe me.

Speaker 39 (57:33):
I'd love to believe you, but I can't, mister Dunn,
because Paulard Schindler never saw me in his life.

Speaker 37 (57:39):
All our business was done by telephone.

Speaker 12 (57:41):
Okay, my mistake. I'm Philip Marlow, Lanny, and I want
to know when we rendezvous at forty four Diamond Head
Circle for the Cloak of Kahmeya mayor a cloak.

Speaker 20 (57:50):
Yeah, you and no more Philip Marlow than you are.

Speaker 39 (57:52):
Leland Dunn and if you need a reason, it's that
I just left Philip Marlow upstairs.

Speaker 12 (57:56):
Now wait a minute, baby, there's only one model. That's me.
I can prove it.

Speaker 39 (57:59):
I'll bet you can forged papers and all. I've already
been worned to watch for imposters.

Speaker 20 (58:03):
So quick, wasting both your time and mine, and get
out of my way.

Speaker 18 (58:06):
I talking your way, Lannie, I for what prove that.

Speaker 25 (58:09):
You're neither dumb nor mono.

Speaker 40 (58:10):
But kameamea himself.

Speaker 41 (58:12):
No thanks and goodbye.

Speaker 12 (58:18):
If there had been a door, she'd have slammed it. Well.
Now I had two clues, one an obvious party he
would assume the name of Philip Malo, and the other
Lani Kallier, less obvious but more intriguing. So figuring the
road company Malow would keep, I followed Lennie, who by
this time was getting into a new yellow Nash convertible.
Before I got to her, she stepped on the gas,
through her lights on and lurched from the curb. So

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I ran across the street to what I thought was
a taxi, But I was wrong because it turned out
to be a chauffeurd limousine, and being helped in by
a small swarthy item of dubious lineage in a wrinkled
cotton uniform was the Chinese and Greg Gabadene and Panamata
match who had been sitting near us on the l nine.
What counted more was that he obviously sensed my problem.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
You wish to follow the girl.

Speaker 12 (59:00):
Yeah, it's a lover's spat. You know what I mean?

Speaker 36 (59:04):
I think so quickly?

Speaker 12 (59:06):
Yes, sir, you know where else she's going? I'm not sure.
Maybe diamond Head Circle lady is gaining, sir, Let's make
a diamond Head circle. Is they're fast away? There a shortcut.

Speaker 36 (59:18):
There is no law care Nola, which means what I mean,
never mind diamond Head Circle. Drive past to the factory
in the state and do not move, mister Marlow.

Speaker 12 (59:30):
Mala oh comes the heavy artillery. Okay for man, chill,
what's with the factory? You out of the way until
the cloak of Kamehameha is mine, which won't work because,
believe it or not, clever one, there's another Philip Marlow
with the moment. It's a lot closer to that collection
of fancy feathers than either of us. You lie a
stupid bit for freedom. I bet they will not get her.

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It was my chance. As we hit, I thought that
it's gonna jumped the handle of the door and jumped.
When I got to my feet, I was on the
sidewalk and bruised, but better off than Shina boy. It
was draped over the back of the front seat and
shouting dirty words and a half a dozen Oriental dialects
had both Jolo and the driver of the pineapple truck
that at sideswipers a cloud that included a towering Hawaiian
policeman who promptly told mine hostess shut up. Gathered in

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a hurry, so I ran for a TAXI, gave the
driver ten bucks the address I wanted and took off.
The street on which Lanny Kaye lived was a neat
curving strip that rose sharply from sea level up to
the shadow of Diamond Head itself, and we were there
in less than ten minutes, but finding number forty four

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was something else, and another thirty minutes disappeared before we
finally parked away from the place, which was glass Conawood.
And they can't find the front door without a blueprint
tuck deep behind a thick grove of date palms. I
told the driver back down the hill without using his motor.
Then I slipped into the grounds and carefully moved toward
the house until what I thought was the trunk of
another palm tree stepped into my path.

Speaker 9 (01:01:01):
Fast stop where you are.

Speaker 12 (01:01:05):
At the top, which was over six and a half feet.
It was a shock of flaming red hair. The whole
frame was half covered in dirty yellow shirt. Once upon
a time, white ducks and battered brown sandals and broad daylight,
it would have looked worse. Hew, Who are you, eh,
someone with an appointment to see miss Callier? Why you
belong to this place?

Speaker 32 (01:01:23):
Yes?

Speaker 42 (01:01:23):
And this place belongs to me as well, all of it,
missus Carlier included, She's mine to protect.

Speaker 18 (01:01:29):
You.

Speaker 42 (01:01:29):
Understand that Malahiny Malowitch, Malahine Greenhorn tourists the kind that
I hate kind. It's ravaging all that's beautiful, stealing the
islands from those to whom they belong.

Speaker 12 (01:01:41):
Take it easy, Red, I'm not here to ravage or
stick your pretty island out of my pocket. When you're
not looking, all I want is words with money.

Speaker 42 (01:01:46):
Kallier, you are like the rest of them, trying with
cunning in the seat to turn her head away from
these shores and todd them mainland where you come from.
I won't stand for it.

Speaker 12 (01:01:56):
Look, why don't we break this round table up and
get to the house. I'm in a hurry, all right.

Speaker 42 (01:02:01):
That I'm sure that Glennie will be on my side.
So should in fact, that we really shouldn't disturb the flow?

Speaker 9 (01:02:07):
Should we?

Speaker 18 (01:02:08):
Should we?

Speaker 34 (01:02:12):
Malachini in just a moment the second act of Philip Marlowe.
But first, if mystery and detection are your dish, don't forget.
You can get more of the same over CBS. Tomorrow,
for instance, is the day when two unique and widely

(01:02:34):
differing sleuths make their weekly appearance. One is that well
known character Sam Spade, Dashall Hammett's heart boiled private Eye.
The other sleuth, whose adventures are yours every Sunday, is
Danny Clover, an old hand on that gaudy street called Broadway.
Broadway is my beat, says Danny Clover, and it's a
beat where anything can happen. Both Broadway is My Beat

(01:02:56):
and the Adventures of Sam Spade come to you over
most of these CBS Network station. Now with our star
Gerald Moore, we returned to the second act of Philip
Marlowe and Tonight's story The Cloak of Kameyamaya, a.

Speaker 12 (01:03:19):
Red headed lunatic with a slow, soft voice and fast
hot fist, took me by surprise, and I wound up
plat on my back for I realized it so much
as moved. By the time I got to my feet
and took after Hi Me was sprinting for a bamboo
thicket and had a thirty yard lead, which was all
he needed to lose me completely. When I finally untangled
myself from the jungle, I came out on the road.

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Then I heard a motor behind me, so I dove
for the underbrush again, just as a heavy car roared by.
I'd seen it before, in fact, I'd been in it.
It was the limousine that belonged to the Chinaman. The
back seat was empty, but the half cash show for
Jolo was crouched behind the wheel drove out of sight
like his life depended on it. As I walked back
toward the house, I saw that a door was standing

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open and spilling a shaft of yellow light across the
dark grounds. I started up the walk when it came,
and a second later Lenny Kaya burst into the path
of light and ran for the open door. I went
after a corner. I went on a spunner around.

Speaker 38 (01:04:13):
No, don't let me go.

Speaker 12 (01:04:14):
What happened? Why did you scream?

Speaker 37 (01:04:15):
Lenny there in the pond?

Speaker 39 (01:04:18):
Yeah, I heard annoy, But I came up.

Speaker 37 (01:04:21):
I found him pound.

Speaker 12 (01:04:22):
Oh, come on, show me.

Speaker 37 (01:04:24):
I talked to him just a few minutes ago. I
gave him the cloak.

Speaker 39 (01:04:29):
Now it's gone and he's dead with a knife in
his back.

Speaker 37 (01:04:32):
What there look there in the water?

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:04:39):
Brother, who is it? Lenny? Do you anno him?

Speaker 37 (01:04:43):
Yes? That's Philip Morno.

Speaker 12 (01:04:49):
Scared up my neck crawls. Lennie tagged the thing in
the lily pond with my name. He was face down
in the shallow water, and three inches of crooked steel,
the ugly co the handle of a Chris stuck straight
up between his shoulder blades. Somebody had made a very
grim mistake. But it took five minutes of argument and
the thorough checking of all the credentials I carried to

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convince the badly frightened Lonnie. I dragged the body out
of the water and up onto the grass, and then
I went through his pockets. What did you find a card?

Speaker 37 (01:05:20):
Oh?

Speaker 43 (01:05:20):
Yeah, from the.

Speaker 12 (01:05:22):
Hawaiian Island Art Products Company Limited, Number twelve Harbor Street,
mean anything, No.

Speaker 27 (01:05:29):
I've never heard of it.

Speaker 37 (01:05:31):
What's that on the.

Speaker 12 (01:05:32):
Back flight number of departure, the time of the plane
I was supposed to take out of Los Angeles? Whoever
he is, he's been one jump ahead of me all
the time, right up to your lily pond. Here was
anyone with him when you gave him the cloak? A
half cast in the chauffeur's uniform. Forence, No, No.

Speaker 37 (01:05:47):
He was alone. I gave him the cloak. Justice Schander
had instructed me to it.

Speaker 12 (01:05:52):
Listen, Lenny, there was a down at the heel redhead
here just before you came out. He claimed to be
a friend of yours.

Speaker 37 (01:05:57):
That was Lawrence Cockran, the poet.

Speaker 12 (01:05:59):
That guy's up pull.

Speaker 39 (01:06:00):
Yes, at least he was going to be. He won
great poem years ago about two lovers who leaped to
death over the Polly Oh to keep from being separated,
and their souls turned into birds.

Speaker 37 (01:06:13):
It's still very popular here on the island.

Speaker 39 (01:06:15):
What happened then, Oh, then he got the habit of
drowning himself in gin, and now all the natives call
him Populi, the.

Speaker 12 (01:06:22):
Crazy one that's closer.

Speaker 37 (01:06:24):
Oh, he's always hanging around. I suppose he still believes
he's in love with me.

Speaker 12 (01:06:28):
He's not so crazy.

Speaker 37 (01:06:30):
My mother wanted me to marry him at one time.
Now that she's dead, he thinks he should look after me.

Speaker 12 (01:06:36):
Okay, lone, ain't let him keep thinking.

Speaker 37 (01:06:37):
So what do you mean?

Speaker 12 (01:06:39):
I mean you can use a good watch dog right now.
So when Cochrane comes back, you make him park on
your doorstep and you stay inside and be careful with
guy's named Philip Mallow getting knives in the back. So
I've got a few things to do myself, but fast,
I'd like to borrow that souped up convertible of yours.

Speaker 37 (01:06:54):
Where are you going?

Speaker 12 (01:06:55):
Number twelve, Harbor Straight and the Hawaiian Island Art Products
Company Limited Arba Street was a narrow, twisting alley two
blocks below King Street, a kind of social sagaso where
the derelicts of the Pacific quietly founded and diveds built

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into the damp crevices between warehouses. However, Number twelve turned
out to be practically a blank wall. There was one
small window high up a door with a heavy iron
grill over the glass, on which Hawaiian Island Art Products Limited.
I k Lee President was painted in small black letters,
and a thin passageway blocked by an iron gate at
the side of the building. A light burned inside that

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the door was locked. So after I'd ruined my shoe
shine and skinned all my knuckles, I managed to climb
over the gate and edge down the passageway to the rear,
where I could hear water ling. There was a marble
fountain playing in the center of a walled gardeners Orientali is.

Speaker 26 (01:07:53):
A forbidden city.

Speaker 12 (01:07:55):
I eased across its rigid daintness to an open door,
peeked in, and then reached my gun because sitting inside
at the sleek, white mahogany desk was the Chinaman and
the gray Panama.

Speaker 36 (01:08:07):
Well, this is a somewhat unexpected ton of events. Please
be careful with that gun.

Speaker 12 (01:08:15):
You'll be carefully and you won't have to worry about
the gun. Tell me something, why'd you break your neck
to get Kama Maya's cloak? Anyway? You know it'll happen
if they would try to sell it.

Speaker 36 (01:08:24):
Oh, by good Man, I can sell that cloak every
day for the rest of my life.

Speaker 12 (01:08:29):
A few feathers at a time. Yeah, the world must
be full of feather collectors, but.

Speaker 36 (01:08:34):
It is I manufacture the beautiful feather Las Islanders wear
on their heads. And while the bird is extinct, the
desire for its gleaming feathers is not one or two
golden mammo feathers.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
In each lay.

Speaker 36 (01:08:48):
And instead of a mere one hundred dollars apiece, I
can get double that, triple it. Now, do you understand,
Mitter Malow?

Speaker 12 (01:08:56):
You? You've got things a little mixed up eventually makes
it a powerful boy?

Speaker 32 (01:09:00):
Marlow?

Speaker 12 (01:09:00):
Is there up Atlantic Carlier's place?

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
All that?

Speaker 36 (01:09:04):
No, that was a mister Blake, an easily accessible gentlemen
I hired on mainstream Los Angelis. He only pretended to
be you for obvious reasons to intercept the feather cloak.
I've known all about part of Chindler's plan since the inception.
I followed every move he made. In fact, there was

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I who caused all your trouble on the way to
the airport this morning by means.

Speaker 12 (01:09:28):
Of a bribe to your Drava Auntwer, the one. Yes,
too bad, you won't be able to keep your nest
lined with ka Maya's bathrow Beth allly, because I'm going
to walk out of here with it or big chunks
of your person. Now name it the cloak now, mum hm,
I'm to gather from this.

Speaker 36 (01:09:44):
You don't have it, marlow True observation and the Chindler,
as I suspected, has tricked us.

Speaker 12 (01:09:48):
More Darling, lay morning and start talking.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
That's all I wanted to find out.

Speaker 12 (01:09:52):
Go ahead your long.

Speaker 36 (01:09:55):
That is judo, mister Marlowe. Almost like magic, isn't it.
You'll look and break your back if I tell him
to mollow, so you'll behave Shindla has the cloak, no
doubt about it. So I must find him at once
with no interference from you. So Joel, you have his gun, yes,
lock him inside, keep mallow until I call.

Speaker 12 (01:10:17):
I may meet him later. From something that half cast
had done to my spine with the edge of his hand,
my legs were paralyzed. I felt like the practice dummy
in a school for chiropractice. Oh, every joint my body
ached when I moved, so I didn't move until a
feeling those back into my legs, and then I wobbled

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to my feet and looked around. There was the small
high window at Sainton Street, a heavy chair, a desk
with a lamp, and something like a picture of friends
and bamboo on the wall. I glanced at it and
then and I looked back and kept looking hard for
a long long time until I finally realized what it meant.

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The answer to the whole thing was contained in that
bamboo frame. I had to get out, and get out fast.
I unplugged the lamp, plastered my back against the wall
next to the door, and tapped on the lamp shade
to intrigue Jolo into coming in. It worked, and the
knob turned slowly out through the lamp op at the window.
A crash brought the door open with a jerk, and
Jolo stepped in with my gun in his hand.

Speaker 18 (01:11:21):
What's going on here, mister Martin?

Speaker 19 (01:11:24):
Well, where are you?

Speaker 12 (01:11:26):
Answer? Right here? Come on, get up. I've got some
magic to show you. Now, a trick I learned in
Kansas called a haymaker. I ran down the hall of
the street door and out of the car. There was
no traffic problem at that hour, so I jammed the
gas pedal of the floor and held it there right
through the heart of Honolulu and up the twisting road

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that led to the mountains. Back of the city. The
echoing roar of the motor is a tunnel through the forest.
Lining The road was finally replaced by another raw wind,
the unending gale that shrieks threw a precipitous pass three
thousand feet above the city. I swung the car to
the side of the road and ran the rest of
the way out to where the rocks rose to a
knife edge that drunk the sheer thousand feet to the
valley floor. And I spotted him Lanny, lying stunned at

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the cliff's edge, and standing over her, his red hair
ripped by the wind. Was the mad island point, drunk
as a lord, and flapping around his shoulders like a
pair of huge gold wings. Was the cloak of Camea.

Speaker 32 (01:12:21):
Oh, don't weep thy loud.

Speaker 44 (01:12:23):
I offer you the freedom of the girl, count money,
good line, Olney, you're the mad one tof you could
tell your treasure to leave the island. Your mestony is
here her to one shindlm. But the moon cannod time

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killed his curry of the man. You gave the cloak
to him. I killed thousand times.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
To keep you here with me.

Speaker 44 (01:12:50):
You belong to the Island's money like this Cloak and
I do. We must everly come and Lord be over
soon our sons will come.

Speaker 32 (01:13:00):
The person live.

Speaker 45 (01:13:01):
Forever in this paracond.

Speaker 4 (01:13:05):
No, I don't help me out.

Speaker 45 (01:13:07):
He fell dunk in the beer money money, my love,
my lo he slippy slifty fellow.

Speaker 12 (01:13:19):
I know, I know you all right, Lenny.

Speaker 11 (01:13:21):
Oh yes, I.

Speaker 4 (01:13:24):
Know.

Speaker 12 (01:13:25):
Look, Cloak Hawker must have lost it as he fell.

Speaker 25 (01:13:28):
The wind brought it back.

Speaker 46 (01:13:29):
Here to me.

Speaker 37 (01:13:32):
I don't want to touch it ever again.

Speaker 12 (01:13:34):
I know what you mean. Come on, baby, I'll carry
it for you. Let's get out of here.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
Ah's nothing like ham and eggs.

Speaker 35 (01:14:00):
Put black coffee in the morning sun to make one
forget an ugly night, right my.

Speaker 37 (01:14:04):
Friends, Absolutely right, mister, more coffee here, thanks.

Speaker 12 (01:14:07):
Lonnie s Lee was picked up on the hanolula plate.

Speaker 35 (01:14:09):
Yeah, sure, I had it all set up. He'll spend
some time in prison, and that trudo too. By the way,
he was still unconscious when we got to him. What
in the world did you hit him with? Marl enthusiasm?

Speaker 39 (01:14:19):
Mostly that's when you got away and came up to
the polly. But still, how did you know it was
Lawrence and where he'd be.

Speaker 12 (01:14:26):
Well, it all tied in with that one popular poem
Cochran had written, Lonnie. That anonymous letter you got in
Los Angeles, mister Schindler, was a line from that poem, The.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
Mayor Mayho's croak golden feeder.

Speaker 12 (01:14:36):
Will bring no less than that?

Speaker 26 (01:14:38):
And hey, how did you find that out, Marlow?

Speaker 12 (01:14:41):
Well, when I was locked up in Lee's factory, I
saw a full copy of that poem on the wall
and a little bamboo frame. When I came to the
line you just quoted, it stuck out like it was
pretty neon that peg. Cochran is the killer. Once I
had that, I tried to look at things from his angle.
He was a murderer, sure to be caught, desperately in love,
and sanely possessive of everything thought belonged here on the islands.

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And it was an unbalanced lush as well. So the
rest of it figured, that's all.

Speaker 39 (01:15:05):
And when he was cornered, he went back to the
one important thing he'd ever.

Speaker 12 (01:15:09):
Done, exactly baby. He was lost, so he identified himself
with a hero of his poem. And so that is
the only way out.

Speaker 35 (01:15:15):
Amazing cruelly, an amazing thing and a terrible thing.

Speaker 37 (01:15:20):
Too, mister Shiner.

Speaker 12 (01:15:21):
Well, who knows? We all got what we went after,
didn't we, each of us, even Lawrence Cochrane. After Shindler
left to catch a plane for the mainland, and Lane

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said Aloha and left to get ready for our day.
I sat on the lenai of the hotel and watched
the sweep of the Pacific from Diamond Head through the
hills across the harbor, from the white sands of Waikiki,
the green shallows over the reef for the purple depths beyond.
As a warm wind whispered through the ponds, the native

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strums his jukulele under a banyan tree, I heard Lonnie
whisper alone, Hello, What does Helloha really mean?

Speaker 34 (01:16:41):
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe created by Raymond Chandler, star
Gerald Moore and are produced and directed by Norman MacDonald.
Script is by Meldon l A, Robert Mitchell and Jane Levitt.
Featured in the cast was Barry Kroger with lorettehil Brandt,
John Dayner, Paul Freese, Byron Kane and Clark Gordon. The
special music is by Richard o'uran. He surein' me with

(01:17:04):
us again next week? When Philip Barlow says, a.

Speaker 12 (01:17:09):
Thick fog that clung to Los Angeles made searching for
the girl who was going to kill herself slow and easy.
But in the end I'd have settled for that more,
because murder happened twice before I found the lady in mink.

Speaker 34 (01:17:33):
Fifty two thousand dollars. A nice pocket full of chains
to have around, isn't it?

Speaker 12 (01:17:37):
Well?

Speaker 34 (01:17:38):
The chance to win it comes your way again just
a little later tonight, when CBS's giant one hour quiz
show Sing It Again comes to you over most of
these same stations. This is Roy Rowan speaking. Now, stay
tuned for Gangbusters, which follows immediately over most of these
same stations. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

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Speaker 23 (01:18:48):
Welcome to the Black Mass.

Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
Call me monos Anos, you call me Annas.

Speaker 9 (01:19:49):
Six lo.

Speaker 19 (01:20:03):
Our story tonight was written nearly a century before psychotherapy
was invented. If it had been the other way round,
our hero might have suffered a little more and we
a little less. Here is Eric Bauersfeld and Bernard Mays

(01:20:23):
as the Madman and Pat Franklin as the Women in
the Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol, October third.

(01:20:56):
An extraordinary thing happened today. First of all, I got
up rather late hearing your boots arm marther. What time
is it? Just ten o'clock, sir? Ten o'clock? Impossible? I
heard the clock strike ten hours ago, hours ago, yes.

Speaker 16 (01:21:13):
Sir, just tensir.

Speaker 19 (01:21:15):
Oh, I must say, I'd as soon have skipped the
office altogether, altogether cheap, my division. Oh the way he tell.

Speaker 47 (01:21:24):
Me, my good man, why is it you're always in
such a muddle?

Speaker 24 (01:21:28):
You dart around like a hen on a hut griddle
and get you.

Speaker 47 (01:21:30):
Work in such a mester devil himself couldn't straighten it out.
It's just like you will start a new heading with
a small letter over that you've no date no reference number,
your mumble headed muggle head.

Speaker 19 (01:21:42):
This is all grane. I know what it is to
He envies me. He envies me. He envies me because
I sit in the director's office and sharpened his quills. Oh,
if it weren't for the prestige, I really would have
left that department long ago. Well it was poor, So

(01:22:03):
I wore by old ober coat and took an umbrella
and hurried along the arist look away.

Speaker 24 (01:22:09):
There the carriage just stopped in front of the store.

Speaker 19 (01:22:11):
And to recognize it, it's the direct Yes, but what
can he possibly need here?

Speaker 24 (01:22:15):
It must be his daughter, his dog?

Speaker 19 (01:22:19):
Quick against the wall? Is her?

Speaker 23 (01:22:22):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (01:22:22):
Look at her fluttering out of the car like a bird,
like a bird. Oh God, b.

Speaker 24 (01:22:27):
Hid you recognized her on your coat?

Speaker 2 (01:22:30):
What about back coat?

Speaker 24 (01:22:31):
It's stained out of style? Quick in the story, Oh
never mind, she's gone into the store.

Speaker 19 (01:22:36):
Why did you come out in this pawing room?

Speaker 24 (01:22:38):
And tried to deny after this that women have a
passion for buying clothes.

Speaker 19 (01:22:41):
She left her laptop in the street.

Speaker 24 (01:22:43):
She's called Maggie, Maggie.

Speaker 19 (01:22:47):
Then another dog joined her. It was following two ladies. Well,
the two dogs haven't been together for more than one
moment when hello, Nggie, Hello, Will I be damned talk?
See on your nagie.

Speaker 20 (01:23:02):
You haven't real weeks or I've been seekly dead?

Speaker 19 (01:23:06):
What the devil is going on? Dogs can talk, nagy? Well,
cover the lights too, I have got to do. The
dogs can't talk. They can't.

Speaker 24 (01:23:16):
Oh, it's not so unusual. The world has seen similar occurrences.
In England, a fish broke surface and unted a couple
of words.

Speaker 19 (01:23:21):
Well, I've never heard of a dog that could rival.

Speaker 24 (01:23:23):
Of course, not only gentlemen can write correctly.

Speaker 19 (01:23:26):
Anyway, it was all very surprising.

Speaker 24 (01:23:31):
Then, I must confiderably shopkeepers.

Speaker 19 (01:23:33):
Lately I have been hearing things and seeing things that
no one else done. But that's no sort of writing anyhow.
I followed the women and the dog.

Speaker 24 (01:23:40):
Through the rain, no commors, no periods.

Speaker 19 (01:23:42):
I recognized the house liad, terrible spelling.

Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
They went up to the fifth floor.

Speaker 19 (01:23:46):
Well good, I wouldn't go in now. I'd looking over
the place and wait for the first October fourth to
day is Wednesday, And that's why I was at our
director's home in his study. I came in early and

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sharpened all the quills. Ah, our director must be a
very brilliant man. His study is crammed with bouquets such
eludition all over the place. What important shines in his eye?
Quick on the hornor the director?

Speaker 24 (01:24:21):
Stand up of the documents?

Speaker 19 (01:24:22):
Ready, No, no, no, no no. It's all like a swan.
And when she looks at me, it's like the sun.

Speaker 48 (01:24:34):
Hasn't Papa been in here?

Speaker 19 (01:24:36):
What a voice? A canary? An absolute canary.

Speaker 41 (01:24:40):

Speaker 25 (01:24:42):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (01:24:42):
Man, don't have me put to death. But if you
do decide that I must die, let it be by
your own aristocratic little hand.

Speaker 41 (01:24:51):

Speaker 18 (01:24:54):
No, ma'am?

Speaker 41 (01:24:56):
Well, thank you ah.

Speaker 19 (01:25:02):
At home that night, I lay on my bed most
of the time. Then I copied an excellent palm.

Speaker 49 (01:25:11):
That you one hour crept slowly like a year, like
a year? Is my life worth while? I wept?

Speaker 24 (01:25:24):
When you're not here? It sounds like pushkin sounds.

Speaker 19 (01:25:31):
I put on my overcoat and walked over to the
director's house and waited by the gate for quite a
while to see whether she wouldn't come out and get
into her carriage.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
But she didn't.

Speaker 19 (01:25:53):
November six, I don't know what's wrong with the chief
of my division. Well, for instance, for instance, when I
ride at the orchesterday and what I want to know is,
what's the matter with you? What do you mean? Nothing's
the matter with you?

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
Come now, try to understand.

Speaker 19 (01:26:05):
Aren't you ever forty?

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
As well?

Speaker 12 (01:26:07):
Asn't it time?

Speaker 19 (01:26:07):
For you're a wise up a little everybody knows what
they're up to.

Speaker 47 (01:26:10):
Everybody knows you're trying to make the direct late daughter
that you.

Speaker 12 (01:26:15):
Just look at yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:26:16):
Look, look what are you? Nothing?

Speaker 24 (01:26:17):
Absolutely nothing.

Speaker 12 (01:26:18):
You haven't depended to your name.

Speaker 19 (01:26:19):
Look in the mirror, look at yourself.

Speaker 13 (01:26:21):
If you haven't a chance.

Speaker 1 (01:26:22):
In the world.

Speaker 19 (01:26:23):
Stop what do you know? What do you know? I
can see through you. You're jealous, jealous and may begins
to notice the way the director has been favoring me lately.
And who are you anyway? The divisional chief? So what
I can people voted to I'm only forty two in
age when one's career is just beginning. I'll go higher
than you yet, I'll go higher than you yet and
God willing, very very very much higher part of a

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social position beyond your dreams? Do you think you're the
only one of the world, abdignity, give me a coat,
give me a cult and tighlight yours, and you will
be worthy to polish my boot down by boots.

Speaker 24 (01:26:51):
And what, my good man, will you use for money?

Speaker 9 (01:26:54):
Yes?

Speaker 19 (01:26:55):
I mean that's the only trouble, the only November eighth
I went to the theater. There was a vaudeville show full
of amusing things, amusing things and making fun of everybody,

(01:27:17):
even lawyers. So outspoken. I wanted how it got clashed
the senses. He said plainly that merchants swindle everybody, and
that we all need protection from the newspaper. Then a
playwrights write very amusing things. Nowadays I love going to
the theater as soon as I get a few cents.

(01:27:37):
I can't help myself. One actress sang, really, well, what
did it remind me of?

Speaker 14 (01:27:49):
Yes?

Speaker 19 (01:27:51):
Who?

Speaker 7 (01:27:57):
Yes?

Speaker 19 (01:27:58):
Oh what a rogue I am. I'll never mind, never mind.
November ninth. Today I sat in the director's study and
sharpened twenty three e quills. Ah, how brilliant he must be.
How I'd like to have a closer look at these people,

(01:28:20):
see how they live, or they're subtle innuendos and courtly jokes.
Sometimes the door is open and I can see into
their drawing room. Oh, you should see how it's decorated. Mirrors, mirrors, mirrors,
fine pieces of porcelain. How I like to see into
her room, her boudoir, all those little jars and bottles

(01:28:44):
standing there amidst the sort of flowers one doesn't dare breathe. Here,
there's the dress she's thrown off, freaking like air her bedroom. Ah, miracles,
miracles to see the little stool upon which her delicate
foot descends when she emerges from a bit. And see

(01:29:07):
how an incredibly fine, immaculate stocking is pulled up a lake. Oh,
the next stupid laptop came into the room. Oh, Madgie, Maggie. Well, well, well,
little Maggie, isn't Maggie man, we're alone now. We're alone now.
And I'll even lock the door so that no one
will see us. Sir, e Maggie, mat you tell me

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everything you know about your mistress, what she like, what
you like, and everything. Ahi. I swear I would repeat
a thing, not a thing, But the silly little mud
ran off as if she didn't understand what I was saying.
She knew, she knew, And dogs can talk most of
the time, they just choose not to because they're stopping.
They're stopping. Well, anyway, I know what I'm going to do.
I'm going to that house and find the fine dell

(01:29:51):
and get my hands on those leathers matches been writ
into her. Yes, that's what I'm going to do.

Speaker 4 (01:29:56):
That's what I'm going to do.

Speaker 19 (01:30:09):
November twelfth, at two p m. I went out, determined
to find Fidel and question. I found the house. I
found the house and went upstairs. Yes, excuse me, do
you have a dog by the name of Fidel? Yes?
Why I want to have a talk with her? What
I said, I want to have a talk with your dog.

Speaker 24 (01:30:31):
What heard?

Speaker 19 (01:30:32):
The girl was stupid? I could see from the start
how stupid she was. Ah, there's the mut. There's the mutt.
Now that's out. Does out leave her alone? How you
report a little pature? FIGHTE me with you? There's your basket.
There's your basket, just ting for and underneath hard underneath
in the straw. What do I find? What do I find?

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
The letters?

Speaker 13 (01:30:52):
The letter?

Speaker 19 (01:30:52):
I know it, I know it, I know it. Ah,
the letters, the letters, the.

Speaker 41 (01:30:56):
Letters out before I call the police, Get out out.

Speaker 19 (01:31:04):
Now, at lasts, now, at last, I'll find everything out
all about these intrigues and plots, Oh, plots, plots. I'll
find out all the little wheels and springs at the
bottom of the batter. These letters, these letters, they will
explain everything everything. Oh, dogs are a clever race. They're
all about intrigues. Everything is bound to be in the letters.

(01:31:33):
But it was too dark when I got home. I
can't read too well by candlelight. So I lay on
my bed and waited until morning, November thirteenth. Let's see, now,

(01:31:55):
let's see now, this, this letter here looks quite legible,
and there is something Canine about the handwriting.

Speaker 41 (01:32:02):
My dear Fidel, dear fie Del, I'm very glad we
have decided to write to each other.

Speaker 19 (01:32:10):
Spelling is very good, very good. It's even punctuated correctly.
This is considerably better than our diditional chief can do,
though he claims to have gone to some university or other. Well,
let's see further on.

Speaker 41 (01:32:20):
I believe that sharing feelings and impressions with another is
one of the main blessings in life.

Speaker 19 (01:32:27):
The thought is stolen from a work translator from the German.
This name escapes me.

Speaker 41 (01:32:32):
Now I speak from experience, My young mistress, um, it's
crazy about me. Sophie Tafa often pits me too. I
drink tea coffee with cream.

Speaker 19 (01:32:47):
Oh, I must tell you idea that.

Speaker 41 (01:32:48):
I am not in the least tempted by the bones
Fido troops on in the kitchen.

Speaker 25 (01:32:54):
I only like the bones of game.

Speaker 41 (01:32:56):
And even then only if the marrow hasn't been sucked
out by someone else.

Speaker 19 (01:33:00):
Now, what's this? What's this all about? What rubbish? What rubbish?

Speaker 23 (01:33:03):
Is tho?

Speaker 19 (01:33:03):
There one more interesting things to write about. I'd seen
the next page, and there may be something that.

Speaker 4 (01:33:08):
Do with you.

Speaker 41 (01:33:09):
Now I tell you with pleasure, what goes on in
this household?

Speaker 19 (01:33:14):
What was mysteriss sophy?

Speaker 41 (01:33:19):
She's always very active when she's going to leave for
a ball?

Speaker 19 (01:33:23):
What is always very irritable while she's getting dressed for it?

Speaker 41 (01:33:27):
You know, my dear, I personally can see no pleasure
on going to a ball. Sophie usually returns home from
balls at six airs, and I can tell by her
pale and immerciating features that the poor thing hasn't been
given a bite to eat. My confess, I could never

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leave such alive. If I had to go without gaming
source or chicken wings stowes.

Speaker 19 (01:33:53):
I don't know what would become of me. The style
is very jerky. You can see that it's not written
by a man. She starts off all right, and then
she lapses in dogginess. Well let's see, let's see another letter.
This one looks rather long.

Speaker 7 (01:34:06):
No date.

Speaker 41 (01:34:07):
Oh my dear, how strongly I feel the approach of
spring after beats, as though I were waiting for something.
In my ears, there's a constant bass very often. I
listen so intently behind doors that I raised my front paw,
and confidentially I have plenty of sudos. You should have

(01:34:32):
seen the dashing young lover that came jumping over the
fence into our courtyard. His name is Treasure and he
has such a nice face.

Speaker 19 (01:34:45):
Damn, what rubbish this is? How much of a letters
are going to fill up with such stupid stuff. I'm
after people, not dogs, not dogs. I need spiritual food,
and I served these inanities. Inanities. Well, let's keep a
page and then you will find something more interesting.

Speaker 41 (01:35:00):
Sophie was sitting at the table sewing something. Suddenly the
man servant came in and hen aounced someone show him in,
Sophie said, She ugged me out and murmured omergindling.

Speaker 5 (01:35:15):
If only you knew who that is.

Speaker 41 (01:35:17):
He's a God's officer. His ear is black, and his
eyes are so dark and.

Speaker 19 (01:35:21):
So light at the same time, like fire. And Sophie
rushed out an indicator.

Speaker 41 (01:35:27):
A young officer with black side whiskers appeared. He went
to the mirror and smoothed his hair, then.

Speaker 19 (01:35:34):
Looked around the room.

Speaker 41 (01:35:35):
I growled a little gold and settled down by my window.
Soon Sophie came back greeted him gaily, while I pretended
to be busy looking out of the window. In fact, however,
I turned my head sideways a little so that I
could catch what they say.

Speaker 25 (01:35:55):
What these cannot imagine?

Speaker 41 (01:35:57):
FEI the seliness of their Oh no, I said to myself,
this officer doesn't compare to treasure. Ever's what a difference,
really a tremendous difference. I wonder what she finds in
her officer. What on earth can she iron him?

Speaker 50 (01:36:19):
Is here?

Speaker 19 (01:36:19):
I tend to agree something seems wrong. It is quite
unbelievable that this officer, this officer should have swept her
off her feet. Well, let's see, let's see here.

Speaker 41 (01:36:28):
If she likes the officer, I think she'll soon be
liking the cevil service class who sits in Papa study.
That one, my dear, is a real scarecrow.

Speaker 19 (01:36:40):
Scarecrow.

Speaker 41 (01:36:41):
He looks a bit like a teptos caught in a bag.
Ye has a funny name, and he's always sitting sharpening quills.
The air on his head.

Speaker 19 (01:36:53):
Is like strong.

Speaker 25 (01:36:55):
Strong sind him.

Speaker 51 (01:36:57):
On errands like a serf.

Speaker 19 (01:36:58):
I pet the little passing to trying to get even.
Who is my hair like straw?

Speaker 41 (01:37:03):
It's so weak and out controller laughter when she's sees.

Speaker 19 (01:37:06):
It, You wretched, lying little dog. What a fifty poisonous
tongue is? If I didn't know? It's all your jealousy.
You're jealousy. I know strict. These are two. I recognize
the hand of our divisional chief here. For some reason,
that man has one. I'm dying hatred for me. He's
tried to harm me, Yes he is. He's tried to
harm me every bit of the day of night. Oh still,
let's see one more letter. It may it may make.

Speaker 41 (01:37:30):
It clear, my dear, fee forgive me for not writing
to you all this time. I've been going around in
absolute extas. I agree with our reservation with the velosove
who said that love is the second line. Moreover, a
lot of things are changing in Aursle. The officer comes

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here every day. Now, Sophie's madly in love is very good.
I even heard that Greg rig say the wedding is
closer than closer, because Papa always wanted to see Sophie
married to an eye official, to an army office and king.

Speaker 19 (01:38:13):
No, no, no, I can't go on high official senior officers.
They get the best things in this world. You discover
a crumb of happiness, you reach out for it, and
then along cut a high official or an officer and
slashes it away.

Speaker 52 (01:38:23):
Oh damn it, damn it, dabad.

Speaker 19 (01:38:24):
I would so much like to become a high official myself,
Not just to obtain a hand in marriage either, No, no,
I'd like to be a high official just so that
I could watch them jump around on my benefit. I
listened for a while to their courtly jokes in the windows,
and then I tell them what they could do with themselves.

Speaker 24 (01:38:38):
Oh it hurts, though it hurts, Oh.

Speaker 19 (01:38:41):
Damn it, damit, damon fight tallow little talks and.

Speaker 49 (01:38:45):
Lenister's friends.

Speaker 19 (01:38:50):
December third impossible lies. They can't be a wedding.

Speaker 24 (01:38:54):
Well, he has a commission in the garden.

Speaker 19 (01:38:56):
So what does he have a third eye in the
middle of his father or a golden nose? Why am
I a clerck? Why am I a clock? Why should
I be a clerk?

Speaker 24 (01:39:05):
Maybe you only appear to be a clerk. Maybe you're
a general.

Speaker 19 (01:39:10):
Maybe I don't really know who you know.

Speaker 24 (01:39:12):
There are plenty of instances in history when somebody quite ordinary,
not necessarily an aristocrats, some middle class person, even a peasant,
suddenly turns out to be a public figure, maybe even
the ruler of a country. Yes, now, if a peasant
can turn into someone so important, where are the limits
to the possibilities for a man of reading? Ah?

Speaker 19 (01:39:34):
I can see myself entering a room in a general union. Yes,
an epilet on my right shoulder, an epilet on my
left shoulder, across my chest, yes, how that would be.

Speaker 24 (01:39:45):
Well, you can't be promoted to anything like that overnight.

Speaker 19 (01:39:48):
But I'd like to know is why am I a clerk?

Speaker 24 (01:39:51):
Yes? Why are you a clerk?

Speaker 27 (01:39:53):
Why?

Speaker 19 (01:39:53):
Precisely a clerk? Preise December fifth.

Speaker 5 (01:40:00):
I read all the papers this morning.

Speaker 24 (01:40:02):
Strange things are happening in Spain.

Speaker 19 (01:40:04):
I don't understand it all.

Speaker 24 (01:40:05):
They're right at the throne has been vacated, and that
the ranking grandees are having difficulty in selecting an air. Ah,
it seems there's discontent.

Speaker 19 (01:40:14):
Sounds very strange to me. How can a throne be mpt?

Speaker 24 (01:40:17):
They say that some Donia may exceed Donia.

Speaker 19 (01:40:21):
It's absolutely impossible, of.

Speaker 24 (01:40:22):
Course, it's impossible. If Donia can't exceed a throne. A
king should sit on.

Speaker 19 (01:40:27):
A horse, a king should sit on a throne.

Speaker 24 (01:40:30):
They say there is no king.

Speaker 43 (01:40:32):
But that's impossible.

Speaker 19 (01:40:33):
It's impossible that there should be no king. There must
be a king.

Speaker 24 (01:40:35):
Well, he might be hidden away somewhere in any It's
even impossible that he's around here, being forced to remain
in hiding because of family reasons or for fear of
some neighboring country France.

Speaker 19 (01:40:50):
Of course France forced to remain in hiding.

Speaker 24 (01:40:54):
There may be other reasons.

Speaker 19 (01:41:01):
December eighth, I was on the point of going to
the office, but various considerations held me back. I couldn't
get those Spanish affairs out of my head. How can
a Donia possibly become a ruler? They won't allow.

Speaker 24 (01:41:11):
Of course they weren't allowed in the first place. England
won't stand for it. And then they must remember the
political situation of the rest of Europe, the Austrian and Aza.

Speaker 19 (01:41:19):
But of course Hazar must admit I was so worried
and hurt by these events, I couldn't do anything all
day long. After dinner, I walked the streets up hill,
down hill, came across nothing of interest. Then mostly lay
on my bed and thought about the Spanish quest The

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are two thousand April body three. This is a day
of great upilation. Spain has a king.

Speaker 24 (01:41:55):
They found him.

Speaker 19 (01:41:56):
I am the king. I discovered it today. It all
came to me in a flower.

Speaker 24 (01:42:00):
It's incredible ever to have imagined being a civil service park.

Speaker 19 (01:42:03):
Such a crazy idea every human.

Speaker 24 (01:42:05):
Thank god, no one thought of slapping you into a
lunatic asyland.

Speaker 19 (01:42:08):
Well, now I see everything clearly, But what was happening before? Things?
Things lounded me out of a fog.

Speaker 24 (01:42:14):
But now, wouldn't you say that all troubles stem from
the misconception that human brains are located in the head, Yes,
will they're not. Human brains are blown in by the
winds from somewhere around the Caspian Sea.

Speaker 25 (01:42:25):
No give away, give away.

Speaker 19 (01:42:28):
Mather was the first whom I revealed my identity. When
she heard I was the King of Spain, she threw
out her hands almost died terror.

Speaker 24 (01:42:34):
Silly woman, you've never seen a king of Spain before.

Speaker 19 (01:42:36):
I'll cave yourself, Mather, cave yourself. I can assure you
of my royal favor. Come now, by gones A, bygard.

Speaker 24 (01:42:42):
The messes are so ignorant.

Speaker 14 (01:42:44):
True.

Speaker 24 (01:42:45):
She's probably frightened because she thinks that all kings of
Spain are like Philip the second.

Speaker 19 (01:42:49):
Mather, Mather, I'm not at all I Philip the second
or the hell will tight the hell with it there.
I didn't go to the office. I'll never go there again.
I'll never again up in those dreadful documents. October eighty six,
between day and night. Uh, you take it today?

Speaker 24 (01:43:11):
The divisional chief sent someone to make you go to
the office. Yes, you went, well, just for the long
The divisional chief expected you to come, apologizing to him
for not being there for three weeks. Yes, did you apologize?
I did not.

Speaker 19 (01:43:23):
I looked at it with indifference.

Speaker 24 (01:43:24):
And what did you think as you sat in your
usual place and looked around at all these scribbling rabbit Oh?

Speaker 19 (01:43:30):
I thought that only they knew who was sitting there.
Among them. What a fuss they make?

Speaker 24 (01:43:34):
They gave you some papers to abstract it, to do
the world.

Speaker 19 (01:43:36):
I didn't even stir.

Speaker 24 (01:43:37):
And when the director came in, what did the rest do?

Speaker 19 (01:43:40):
They jumped up? They jumped up, trying to be noticed.

Speaker 24 (01:43:42):
Did you jump up?

Speaker 19 (01:43:43):
And never?

Speaker 9 (01:43:43):
Never?

Speaker 19 (01:43:44):
Who says I should get up for him? There's no hawk,
just a cork, the kind they used to stop up
a bottle.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
That's all he is.

Speaker 24 (01:43:49):
But the funniest thing of all.

Speaker 19 (01:43:52):
When they gave me a paper to sign, you know
where they expected to be decided in the.

Speaker 24 (01:43:55):
Corner and the clerk such inside? What did you do.

Speaker 19 (01:44:01):
In the space reserve for the diast.

Speaker 24 (01:44:05):
What name did you say?

Speaker 4 (01:44:09):
I did?

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
And what happened?

Speaker 23 (01:44:12):
Or silence?

Speaker 19 (01:44:14):
But I merely waved my hand and said, graciously, dispense
with the manifestation of allegiance and walked out of the room.

Speaker 2 (01:44:22):
And what did you do? Then?

Speaker 19 (01:44:23):
I went straight to the diactise.

Speaker 43 (01:44:24):
See at home?

Speaker 24 (01:44:25):
No, he was, And you then proceeded straight to her boudoir.

Speaker 19 (01:44:29):
Oh, she was sitting in front of her mirror.

Speaker 24 (01:44:32):
And when she saw me, did you tell how that
you were the kingdom space?

Speaker 19 (01:44:36):
I simply told her, madam, you cannot imagine the happiness
awaiting you. And despite all our enemies intrigues, we will
soon be together, didn't you, idiot?

Speaker 24 (01:44:44):
Women are such perfidious things, really.

Speaker 19 (01:44:46):
Never really understand them, never really understand them. Who is
woman really in love.

Speaker 24 (01:44:52):
With the devil? Of course, of course you can see it.
Just look over there, do you see in the frontier
of the mark says she's raising Colonia.

Speaker 19 (01:44:59):
Yes, she's looking at the fat man over there with
the starf.

Speaker 24 (01:45:01):
No, she isn't nothing of the sortiers tearing at the
devil there hiding behind the fat man's back. Look, he's
hidden himself in the stars. He's beckoning to her with
his finger.

Speaker 19 (01:45:12):
She'll marry him to of course she will.

Speaker 24 (01:45:14):
And as for the rest of them, boot liquors. You
know what they all really want, some more inuities. You know,
some patriots, they'd sell their mother and father and their
God for money. The strutting betrayers of Christ and all
this crazy ambitionless vanity. You know where it comes from,
the little Baba and the of course tiny worm. About

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the silence of the peanhavy.

Speaker 19 (01:45:36):
I think it's all the work of the barber on peace.
I don't remember his name.

Speaker 24 (01:45:41):
You know who The moving force behind all that is.

Speaker 19 (01:45:44):
The Sultan attack.

Speaker 53 (01:45:45):
Of course, I'll bet he pays the barber to spread
more Hamdinism all over the world.

Speaker 24 (01:45:50):
Of course he.

Speaker 19 (01:45:51):
They say that in France already the majority of the
people have embraced the Mohammedan pape.

Speaker 24 (01:45:55):
Of course they have.

Speaker 52 (01:46:02):
No date.

Speaker 19 (01:46:02):
A day without date. Went along Neievsky Avenue incognito.

Speaker 24 (01:46:07):
Riding past everyone's removing his hand.

Speaker 19 (01:46:09):
Well, I went to I don't want to get the
least sign that I'm the.

Speaker 24 (01:46:11):
King of No, it would be undignified to review one's
identity here in front of all these people. Think it
would be more proper to be presented in court first.

Speaker 19 (01:46:18):
What's prevented me so far is the fact that I
haven't yet got the royal span at.

Speaker 24 (01:46:22):
A time, you know, you should get hold of a
royal mantle of some so well, I thought I was
having one made because is so stupid. I'm not really
interested in their trade.

Speaker 19 (01:46:30):
Actually they go in for speculation, mending roads. I know
what I'll do. I'll make a medal out of my
best court.

Speaker 24 (01:46:36):
Better do it yourself.

Speaker 14 (01:46:37):
Of course, I.

Speaker 19 (01:46:39):
Lock my door so that no one sees me now now,
I'll have to cut this coat into ribbons with the scissors.
A mantle, after all, has a completely different style, a
completely different style. I can't remember the day or the month. Damned,

(01:47:03):
I know what's going on. Well, the mantle is ready.

Speaker 24 (01:47:06):
You're still not ready to be presented at court?

Speaker 2 (01:47:08):
No, why not?

Speaker 24 (01:47:09):
Your retinue hasn't yet arrived from Spain.

Speaker 19 (01:47:12):
Let's write my retinue. The absence of a retinue would
be incompatible with my digity. I wait, I'll wait. You
should be here a little time, a first date. I'm
puzzled by the unaccountable delay in the arrival of my retinue.
What can be holding them up? I went to the
post office to inquire whether the Spanish dedicates had arrived.

(01:47:34):
But the postmistress is an utter fool.

Speaker 41 (01:47:37):
No, there's no Spanish steering gets around here. But if
you'd like to make a letter, that will be delighted
to the letter.

Speaker 19 (01:47:47):
What the devil is she talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:47:48):
What letter?

Speaker 19 (01:47:49):
What letter?

Speaker 12 (01:47:49):
Letter?

Speaker 19 (01:47:49):
By foot? Let druggists write letters. Bethick Febro Warri is
the thirteenth. So I'm in Spain. It all happened so
quickly that I had i to realize it. This morning,

(01:48:10):
the Spanish delegation arrived from me and we all got
into a carriage. Ah, it is bewildering how fast we went.
We went so fast that within half an hour we
reached the Spanish border. When I entered the first room,
I saw a multitude of people with shaven heads. A
Dominican or capt Master dubt.

Speaker 9 (01:48:30):
They always shaved.

Speaker 19 (01:48:30):
There come the King's Chancellor, leading me by the hand,
was certainly very straight.

Speaker 24 (01:48:35):
Now you sit part in there and don't call yourself
King Fahrenhead again. I'll pick the nonsense out of your ache.

Speaker 19 (01:48:40):
Oh come now, Chancellor, we are alone. Now I know
that I'm being tested, and I refuse to submit to
this indignity any longer. Won't No. That hurt terribly, but
I didn't let how to cry. I contained myself, remembering
that this is customary procedure among knights on initiation into
an exult. To this day they adhere to the shivro

(01:49:03):
cold in Spain.

Speaker 1 (01:49:04):
An idiot.

Speaker 19 (01:49:06):
Left to myself, I decided to devote some time to
affairs of stay.

Speaker 24 (01:49:11):
Tomorrow, as foreseen by the famous English kingist Twillington, the
earth will mount the moon.

Speaker 19 (01:49:15):
Yes, because I'm deeply worried about that.

Speaker 24 (01:49:18):
Particularly when you consider the moon's extraordinary sensitivity and frigidity.
The moon, of course, is made in Hamburg. I must
say they do a very poor job.

Speaker 19 (01:49:27):
England doesn't do something about it.

Speaker 24 (01:49:28):
It's a lame cooper that makes the moon. And it's
quite obvious that he has no conception of what the
moon should be. He uses tard rope and olive all.
That's why the stench is so awful.

Speaker 19 (01:49:37):
All over the Earth, we are continually forced to plug our.

Speaker 24 (01:49:40):
Noses, and that's why the moon itself is such a
delicate ball that men cannot live there.

Speaker 19 (01:49:44):
Only nos. Certainly, that's why we can't see our own nose.

Speaker 24 (01:49:48):
Of course, they're all on the moon.

Speaker 19 (01:49:49):
And when you think a heavy thing.

Speaker 24 (01:49:52):
The earth is, that's right. When the Earth mounts the moon,
all our noses will be crushed through a powder.

Speaker 19 (01:49:59):
What are we to do?

Speaker 43 (01:50:00):
Hurry?

Speaker 24 (01:50:00):
We better warn the captin monks.

Speaker 19 (01:50:02):
Yes, of course, we must warn them immediately, immediately, Hurry, hurry, gentlemen, gentlemen, Ah, gentlemen.
We must save the moon. The Earth is preparing to
mount it. The captain monks were admirable. They rushed at
once to execute my royal wish, and many of them

(01:50:22):
tried to climb the wall to reach the moon in time,
but at that moment the Grand Chancellor entered. Everyone scattered, I,
being the king, remained alone. January of the same year,

(01:50:50):
which happened after Februarius. I still can't make out what
sort of a place Spain is.

Speaker 24 (01:50:55):
Customs and the etiquette of the quarter are hide incredible.
I don't grasping compress.

Speaker 19 (01:51:00):
They shaved my head. They shaved my head even though
I shouted with all my mind that I did not
want to become a monk. They began to drip cold
water on my head. I've never been through such torture.

Speaker 24 (01:51:09):
Who can understand the point of such peculiar customs, But
it's senseless in the irresponsibility of the kings, who never
got around to outlawing this custom. It's quite incomprehensible and
grasp it. There are indications that would make one wonder
whether one hasn't fallen into the hands of the inquisition
inquisition that chancellor, for instance.

Speaker 19 (01:51:29):
The Grand Inquisitor himself.

Speaker 24 (01:51:31):
Yes, but then how could the king be subjected to
the inquisition?

Speaker 19 (01:51:34):
True?

Speaker 24 (01:51:35):
True? Unless this is the work of some other countrue. Yes,
that fellow Polina.

Speaker 19 (01:51:43):
That Polignac is an absolute beast. He swore to drive
me to my death.

Speaker 24 (01:51:47):
Ah, there's no end to his maneuvers, and.

Speaker 19 (01:51:49):
He is himself being led by the English.

Speaker 24 (01:51:51):
Of course, the English of great politicians.

Speaker 19 (01:51:53):
Spread the seas of dissension everywhere, everywhere.

Speaker 24 (01:51:56):
The whole world knows when England takes snuff.

Speaker 19 (01:52:01):
Friend sneezes, sneezes. All right, where are you today? The
grand to enter my room? I heard him approaching, and
idiot im an he couldn't see me. They won't get

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me that way. They'll pour water on that.

Speaker 24 (01:52:32):
Again there spain.

Speaker 19 (01:52:36):
Yeah, he beaten it terribly.

Speaker 24 (01:52:45):
It's all right, come come home. I think think of
your latest discovery that will make you feel better.

Speaker 19 (01:52:51):
Rich discovery, the one about roosters. Yes, every browster has
his own own spain, that's right, of course. But if
I see it, he hight it under his status. Of course,
his day thirty four.

Speaker 1 (01:53:25):
Ear ear.

Speaker 18 (01:53:29):
Ar low.

Speaker 24 (01:53:35):
Three four nine.

Speaker 25 (01:53:39):
Nine.

Speaker 19 (01:53:42):
No, No, I have no strength left. I can't stand anymore.
Oh God, what they're doing to me. They pour cold
water on my head. They don't listen to me, they
don't hear me. They don't see me. What have I
done to them? Why do they talk to me?

Speaker 4 (01:53:59):
So?

Speaker 19 (01:53:59):
What are they want from me? What can I give them?
I haven't anything to give. I have no strength. I
cannot bear the suffering. My head is on fire, and
everything goes round me in circles. Save me, Save me,

(01:54:20):
save me, Take me away from here. Give me a carriage,
Give me a carriage with hosses swift as wind. Yes,
drive armed coatsman. Let the harness spells ring sore up
my horses. Carry me away from this world. Father, father, Father.

Speaker 53 (01:54:44):
Where I will see nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.

Speaker 19 (01:54:49):
Nothing, nothing.

Speaker 25 (01:54:52):
Ah, there's the.

Speaker 19 (01:54:53):
Sky smoking before me, star twinkles far away. The forest
rushes past.

Speaker 53 (01:55:05):
Me with its dark trees and the crescent moon. The
violet fog is a carpet underneath me. Oh, I hear
something through the fog on the one side, the sea
on the other Italy. Russian huts, Russian huts. Maybe that's

(01:55:35):
my house over there, looking below in the distance. Oh,
and isn't that my mother sitting by the window. Yes, Mother,

(01:55:55):
save your wretched son. Let your tears fall on his
sick head and see how they torture him. Hold me,
hold me, in your arms. There's no room for him
in this world.

Speaker 24 (01:56:17):
They are chasing.

Speaker 19 (01:56:18):
Him mother, the mother he could hit. And you've got
a sick Charley. And by the way, have you heard

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Speaker 54 (01:59:51):
There are certain people, often well enough, like penial souls,
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Speaker 1 (02:00:01):
Crutchy was one of them.

Speaker 54 (02:00:03):
It wasn't until his name was mentioned character that evening
at the store gate, but most of us remembered we
hadn't seen him for.

Speaker 1 (02:00:09):
The last year or two.

Speaker 2 (02:00:10):
Yes, I remember I was talking to old crutch at
the time.

Speaker 38 (02:00:13):
Oh, he's a mostly threed.

Speaker 1 (02:00:15):
I always liked him, wasn't Creer?

Speaker 27 (02:00:18):
He didn't. You're not completely out of things the.

Speaker 15 (02:00:20):
Last year or two. He's been living very quietly with
his people in Norfolk. Really, I heard from him many
other days.

Speaker 1 (02:00:26):
Atter fact, I didn't have said himself.

Speaker 27 (02:00:29):
He was rather a lamb in his way.

Speaker 13 (02:00:31):
I stood.

Speaker 55 (02:00:32):
Don't that shiny black hair of his which always maybe
think of Paton's leather.

Speaker 2 (02:00:37):
It's as white as the ceiling.

Speaker 56 (02:00:40):
Son I said, it's as white as the ceiling.

Speaker 27 (02:00:44):
Now, oh no, no, no, no, we're being as diamond.

Speaker 1 (02:00:47):
I mean, so I would cut, but that's lovely sleek.

Speaker 27 (02:00:52):
Care what what happened? Did he have anthers breakdown.

Speaker 1 (02:00:59):
Something like that?

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Speaker 1 (02:02:53):
I wanted to ask you about Rutsley.

Speaker 54 (02:02:55):
Oh, I smell a story a queer, another terrible story.

Speaker 15 (02:03:05):
There's even one bit that he couldn't or wouldn't tell,
so no one but he knows what the sight was
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Speaker 2 (02:03:22):
The night's young yet and I come to my place,
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Speaker 58 (02:03:24):
I'll tell you all I know why m hm.

Speaker 2 (02:03:48):
Away.

Speaker 15 (02:03:49):
He was greatly interested in Joan of Arc, you see,
and decided to go up to France to work, as
it were, on the spot. I don't know if you
liked Roan gradually was delighted with it. He found a
hotel practically undiscovered by the English and American Hotel Davino.

Speaker 2 (02:04:07):
It stands halfway.

Speaker 15 (02:04:08):
Down one of those old world streets near the Gardella
je and dug But she liked it immediately and decided
to stay.

Speaker 2 (02:04:15):
She was out of season.

Speaker 15 (02:04:17):
There were plenty of rooms to the hotel. Will many
ate a few slips crutches and have a choice of
rooms on the first floor.

Speaker 2 (02:04:28):
Yea, mm hmmm. Have I seen a.

Speaker 12 (02:04:37):
A little gardener here?

Speaker 1 (02:04:39):
Here?

Speaker 40 (02:04:40):
The odey very old, it is until the side of
the inn, the dazzle on the gardens.

Speaker 1 (02:04:45):
The story about the seat. I care for this.

Speaker 6 (02:04:51):
Fun whatever, But that's a playing.

Speaker 2 (02:04:58):
Quiet man. His being in a square US four.

Speaker 58 (02:05:04):
Yes, please, I should like this room.

Speaker 2 (02:05:06):
Please arrange my luggage to be sent up. I am
all right, easy and done the work.

Speaker 15 (02:05:12):
It never occurred to our friend that a square enclosed
on all sides by brick and almost completely a star
to sunlight would be something of an unhealthy place.

Speaker 1 (02:05:21):
He was quite fascinated.

Speaker 15 (02:05:23):
Every next day he took pen and writing materials, and
sitting on one of the degrespit paint feeling seats. He
started on his study as the Maid of Our Nail.
To begin with, his writing wasn't successful. I think Crutchley
understood the almost unnatural silence for peace.

Speaker 59 (02:05:40):
Instead, the lack of noise.

Speaker 15 (02:05:42):
Fitted him an indefiable restlessness. It was almost a relief
to break off from his labors and go out into.

Speaker 58 (02:05:50):
The little town.

Speaker 15 (02:06:02):
He Cratchley had five days at the hotel, five fruitless
days as far as work went. When something strange happened,
it was his habit to undress in the dark because
his window was overlooked.

Speaker 1 (02:06:17):
By dozens of others.

Speaker 15 (02:06:19):
One night, he was smoking and stepping into his pajamatrizers
when he wandered over the window and looked at.

Speaker 1 (02:06:35):
Paint.

Speaker 51 (02:06:35):
She might be cause of jade.

Speaker 2 (02:06:39):
He's doing it all.

Speaker 15 (02:06:49):
He looked down to the old green seat where he
tried to work only that morning, with a faint, unreasonable
thrillle and a slight tingling of the nostrils, he realized
that someone was sitting in there. Mm hmm, it's a woman, Yes,

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a woman, she said, with her head turned away. One
arm was thrown along the sloping back of the seat.
He said that her attitude was one of extreme dejection,
of abject and complete despair when this time of night
see I could never see her face on even one

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of the windows on the western.

Speaker 1 (02:07:36):
Side scarcy ring.

Speaker 51 (02:07:44):
Hyes, completely. People tragedy are romantic. Probably when the chamber
made her a tiff adame waiter, yeah, I didn't not.

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And then he went to bed, but made no effort
to sleep.

Speaker 15 (02:08:13):
Instead, he lay there, his mind full of a woman
and her attitude upon the old leaning seat. He had
a definite and urgent temptation to go out and look
at her. Heel was force if necessary, in turning her
face so that he might look into her eyes. Finally
he could bear it no longer. M hmm, she's gone. Yes,

(02:08:43):
I didn't expected to sit their own mind? Did you
crutch me?

Speaker 27 (02:09:14):
A good morning? Here?

Speaker 16 (02:09:18):
You speak well?

Speaker 6 (02:09:19):
I gets up. Well, I'll tell you what you mean
to ask you for the last week? That can I
have a harder pillow? A pillow harder? I'm sorry, my
friend is about as good as my little Wayne in
then and speak that at all?

Speaker 7 (02:09:34):
The pillow this thing here hardly?

Speaker 2 (02:09:39):
Yeah? Thanks? Oh, one more thing.

Speaker 1 (02:09:42):
Who's the lady who sits out there in the garden
late at night.

Speaker 6 (02:09:45):
I mean, I say it sits, which was here last
night anyway, somehow I did have the feeling she.

Speaker 15 (02:09:51):
Might go to offt mhm. Who is she that sort
of sad looking woman the tramber they turned towards the window.
Her friend saw a rapid movement of her right hand.
It was done very quickly, just the touch of her
forefinger on her brow and a rapid fumbling.

Speaker 1 (02:10:07):
Of fingers at her breast.

Speaker 15 (02:10:08):
But he knew she'd made the sign of the cross.

Speaker 27 (02:10:15):
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Kenny asked, monsieur, monsieur, this thing is decking? Will missia
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Speaker 12 (02:10:40):
Darling.

Speaker 2 (02:10:41):
Let's go out and paint that down red.

Speaker 27 (02:10:43):
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Speaker 9 (02:11:43):
The wye.

Speaker 1 (02:11:44):
Listen, monsieur, thank you, Pierre. Thanks. Are you quite comfortable
in your room?

Speaker 2 (02:11:52):
Sir?

Speaker 51 (02:11:53):
Thank you, thank you. There is a very pleasant room
in the front here. It's quite so big, and and
there is the sun. Perhaps you like it better, sir, mm.

Speaker 1 (02:12:04):
Hmm the white wine there? Please? How do you pronounce
your Pierre? Uh the Cromier dames?

Speaker 6 (02:12:11):
Oh, my good choice, very good the room sir, in
the front, yeah, no things. I shouldn't get a wink
of sleep. None of your motor traffic seems to be
equipped with silences. The jams, medal horns and market cars
bumping about all.

Speaker 56 (02:12:25):
Over the place, across those coples.

Speaker 2 (02:12:27):
I should never give me peas.

Speaker 1 (02:12:29):
Very good, monsieur, but I'm treating something.

Speaker 51 (02:12:34):
Cray she made me talking to him obviously, I know
what's wrong, what they think is.

Speaker 9 (02:12:43):
Wrong, crudchally.

Speaker 15 (02:12:46):
I forgot about it for a little while and tucked
into the very excellent food they served at Hotel Davino.
When we had ways to return to his table, though
with the wine, he reopened.

Speaker 6 (02:12:56):
The subject, why do you want me to change my room?
I do not wish for you to change your own.
If you are satisfied and I am not satisfied, I say, sir,
why do you think I may not be?

Speaker 51 (02:13:11):
I only wish for you to be more comfortable. Sir,
there is no sun behind the house. It is better
to beware. The sun comes sometimes. Besides, I think monsieur
is one who sees.

Speaker 15 (02:13:31):
The headwaiter's mast remark seemed cryptic, but our friend let
it go. He didn't feel like discussing the sad lady
he had seen that any length with Pierre. During the
afternoon Leavening, Crutchley had tried to work. He was incapable
of concentration there. He knew that he was angry with
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patience until night came, in the hope of seeing once
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(02:14:24):
he even reached the window, he knew he would see
her sitting in the same place. He was unable to
explain even to himself why he knew it was midnight

(02:14:50):
she was there as before, and gradually felt his eagerness
mingled with an indescribable fear. He seemed to hear a
cry of mourning from the honest, workaday world into which
he had been born. He said, it was like starting
on a voyage, feeling no motion from the ship, and
it being suddenly we have a spreading space of water
between the vessel and the key.

Speaker 6 (02:15:11):
Madam, look at me, Madam, let.

Speaker 1 (02:15:21):
Me see your face, and I must come to you.

Speaker 9 (02:15:44):
Monsieur, where are you going?

Speaker 2 (02:15:47):
So there has got to do with you?

Speaker 9 (02:15:50):
The devil? Where miss you?

Speaker 51 (02:15:54):
I think perhaps you has something to do with it.
You will please have the goodness to turn to your room.

Speaker 2 (02:16:01):
No, not the room which you have left, Serve, that
is not a good room.

Speaker 9 (02:16:04):
But come with me. I should show you another.

Speaker 6 (02:16:07):
Do you mean by inter getting with me? Is not
a prisoner or an asylum? I gainst the garden for
a very fresh air before I go to sleep.

Speaker 51 (02:16:14):
That Serve is impossible. The air of the garden is
not good at night. Besides, the doors are locked, and
the patron you have the key, he said, your blast instant.

Speaker 2 (02:16:25):
That's what you are.

Speaker 1 (02:16:25):
Tomorrow I'll report you. I can get get I'll get
out of.

Speaker 6 (02:16:28):
My way because I in my room at midnight.

Speaker 1 (02:16:32):
Man, thank mister garden from my window. Oh yes, very
man sees.

Speaker 51 (02:16:44):
Monsieur, apont you has si me to save you. I
have to wait tonight because I know you must try
to enter the garden. Have I your permission to enter
your room with you and speak with you as if
you are.

Speaker 62 (02:17:00):
Be you must.

Speaker 63 (02:17:18):
I do not think she is there, sir, because I
am here and I do not see. Misiere is the
one who sees, he says, I tell him this morning,
but you will not see her when he is with
one who does not see.

Speaker 1 (02:17:31):
Talking about who is see who she.

Speaker 59 (02:17:35):
Is, I cannot say, sir, And the headwaiters let.

Speaker 2 (02:17:39):
Themselves for the quickness.

Speaker 1 (02:17:41):
But who she was I.

Speaker 2 (02:17:44):
Can directly.

Speaker 64 (02:17:46):
Can tell me is what they call the operation of
some blast of them.

Speaker 59 (02:17:53):
It doesn't matter what one calls her. She is here
sometimes for certain who are able to see her.

Speaker 1 (02:18:00):
Monsieur wishes very much to see her face Monsieur must
not see it.

Speaker 64 (02:18:07):
There was one who looked five years ago, and another.

Speaker 59 (02:18:11):
Perhaps seven d The first he may die after two.

Speaker 2 (02:18:17):
Or three days. The other.

Speaker 1 (02:18:21):
He is still mad.

Speaker 59 (02:18:23):
That is why I come to save you, Monsieur.

Speaker 64 (02:18:27):
There was in this town a notary of the name
the Boy, and in a village you half way from
here to yet to the grand chapeau in which they live,
the lady in gente with her father and mother. And
the lady was very beautiful but not very good.

Speaker 2 (02:18:49):
Mour h, no, I quite see what is happened.

Speaker 1 (02:18:56):
Earlier, you will please aye, Monsieur.

Speaker 64 (02:19:02):
Le Broyn fell in love with her, and if she
love him too, better as all the others.

Speaker 51 (02:19:08):
So he made application for her hand. That he was
bourgeois and she was aristocrat. She had not so very
much money, and the application it was refused. And so
they find for her another husband who she loved not
and she finds herself someone else, and they are is divorced,

(02:19:28):
and she have many lovers.

Speaker 1 (02:19:30):
For she was very beautiful, but not so very good.

Speaker 9 (02:19:36):
For ten years.

Speaker 51 (02:19:37):
Perhaps she make her beauty to make slaves of men.
And one he may kill himself because of her, but
she does not mind. And all the time, Monsieur Lebroyne,
he does not marry because he could not love another woman.

Speaker 1 (02:19:54):
But at last this lady, she had a rightful accident.

Speaker 2 (02:20:00):
Mhm.

Speaker 51 (02:20:00):
It is a lamp which blow up at her turface.
In those days the sir John's did not know how
to make new features.

Speaker 1 (02:20:08):
Oh, it was tried for Monsieur.

Speaker 51 (02:20:10):
She has been so lovely, and now she has nothing
left except just the eyes. And she go about wearing
a long thick veil because she has become terrible to see,
and her lovers they are no longer love, and she
have no husband because.

Speaker 9 (02:20:30):
She had been divorced.

Speaker 1 (02:20:36):
But it happens.

Speaker 51 (02:20:39):
You mean, she's the well, Monsieur Lebroin. He writes to
her father and once more he make of her for
her hand. The father is willing, because she no longer
very young, and she is terrible to see. But the
father is a man of honor, Monsieur, and he insists
that Monsieur le wan to see her face before he

(02:21:01):
decide if he still wish her in marriage. So a
meet him is arranged, and her father and her mother
bring her hair. To this occay, the lady comes with
him wearing her thick veil. She insists to see Monsieur
Lebarne alone, so she wait out there in the garden.

Speaker 9 (02:21:19):
Love is not.

Speaker 1 (02:21:22):
Always what do we think it.

Speaker 51 (02:21:26):
pH Perhaps Monsieur lebran I think all the time that
his love goes deeper than her beauty, And when he
sees her tribef changed face, he finds out the truth.

Speaker 1 (02:21:37):
Perhaps when she put aside the veil.

Speaker 51 (02:21:39):
She see that he finish. But Monsieur le Braye walk
out alone, and she stays sitting on the seat down there,
And presently her mother and her father come, but she
does not speak or move, and in her hand find

(02:22:01):
a little empty buttons. She all her life she lived
her love. The boy is the last of her lovers.
When he no longer love than that is the last
of everything. She had bring the bottle with her in

(02:22:22):
case he does not love.

Speaker 1 (02:22:28):
It happened a long time ago.

Speaker 51 (02:22:32):
And now perhaps monsieur understand why Perhaps it is better
to sleep in the front of the building tonight than
changes hotel tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (02:22:46):
Mind she can make how do we norm as you?
She's a thing of evil.

Speaker 51 (02:22:52):
When her face was lovely while she lived, she used
it to destroy me.

Speaker 1 (02:22:58):
Now she's still used to destroy.

Speaker 9 (02:23:00):
That are their wise.

Speaker 51 (02:23:04):
She has some great evil power which draw those who
can't see her. They fuel they must not rest until
they have looked.

Speaker 1 (02:23:14):
Upon her face. And that face is not good to
look upon.

Speaker 15 (02:23:29):
Ah Now a drink Handy over.

Speaker 65 (02:23:33):
No thanks, listen, that can't be all for Crutchy. But
that can't be all.

Speaker 56 (02:23:43):
No, it isn't quite all. I wish that it were cratch.
He was scared.

Speaker 15 (02:23:49):
He changed his room and the next day he moved
that went to another hotel, tried to work, but couldn't.
The horror other thing he had a fascination for him,
and the next night, says it started to get dark.
He asked himself why he shouldn't go and look. He
was compelled.

Speaker 2 (02:24:08):
I shouldn't I go?

Speaker 1 (02:24:09):
See, he compared me, and I find look from a distance.

Speaker 9 (02:24:16):
He didn't realize that she was drawing him to her.

Speaker 1 (02:24:20):
He went to the hotel, Hotel Devin.

Speaker 15 (02:24:25):
He walked around the building twice and then walked straight
in through the swing doors, as if he still stayed there.
He went to the first floor and found one of
the doors that led into the walled garden.

Speaker 1 (02:24:33):
It was late and the door was unlocked.

Speaker 15 (02:24:41):
He just stood there staring in horror at that which
sat upon the seat.

Speaker 9 (02:24:48):
He was drawn like a muff to a candle flame.

Speaker 1 (02:24:54):
And he's look at me, and let me let me
see your face.

Speaker 6 (02:25:06):
And he's look at me, and I know your story,
and I pity you allow.

Speaker 1 (02:25:15):
Me to see your face.

Speaker 9 (02:25:21):
He was lost, he knew it.

Speaker 59 (02:25:25):
The power was too strong for him.

Speaker 1 (02:25:30):
He bent over her.

Speaker 15 (02:25:57):
But I mean that the part crutch he can't really describe.
There weren't any features left in her face. But it
wasn't just that. Something much worse, much more subtle, something happened,
I know before his sense left him, thoughtever he couldn't

(02:26:20):
tell me.

Speaker 56 (02:26:23):
He's getting better, though, nerves still in shreds, of course,
and he has one or two peculiar versions.

Speaker 27 (02:26:32):
What are they?

Speaker 9 (02:26:34):
He can't bear to be touched.

Speaker 59 (02:26:37):
Or to hear anybody laugh.

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Speaker 2 (02:27:17):
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Thank you, it's that good.

Speaker 2 (02:30:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:30:12):
I tried to fake sounding sincere as best I could.
I don't think this is gonna work though.

Speaker 26 (02:30:56):
My way. Welcome to a half hour of mind words
short stories from the worlds of speculative fiction. This story

(02:31:34):
is titled A Night in elf Hill, written by Norman Spinrad.
It comes from the book The Farthest Riches, edited by
Joseph Elder. Dear Fred, Yeah, at your brother, Spence, after
all these years, and of course I'm yelling for help.
Spare me that I told yourselves and the psychiatrists' points.

(02:31:55):
So I'm a black sheep and a mis grant and
a neurotic personality. We never could quite stand each other,
even when we were kids, And when you became a
shrink and I shipped out, I'd really tore it. The
reality of inner space versus the escapism of outer space,
maturity versus perpetual adolescents. Isn't that what you said? Sometimes

(02:32:17):
I think you were born speaking that jargon. And if
you will pardon my saying, so, I still think it's
horse hockey. But the bitch is that now I find
myself urgently in need of your brand of horse hockey. See,
I've got something I've got to tell to somebody, something
that's been eating me up for a year, something way
over my head, something you only tell a brother or

(02:32:37):
a shrink, And for all your squareness for it, it at
least you're both. I suppose I've got you good and
confused by now, just like in the bad old days.
But I hope I've got you as intrigued as bug.
I don't go putting things in my mouth, though I've
got no regrets. Seventeen years in space and I don't
regret a minute of it. But you never could understand that.

(02:32:59):
Remember I tell you about the kick of ten new
planets every year, of a new woman on every one
of them, with the greener grass just beyond the planet
beyond the next one. And what I'd get from you
is long luxures on a flight from reality and compulsive sadism.
The only reason I'm raking up these tired old coals,
hair doctor, is that it all bears on the problem

(02:33:20):
that I'm going to do my damnest to try and
dump in your lap. You know how the time limit
on merchant service papers works. At least you should know,
since shrinks like you stuck us with a system. When
you apply for papers, they give youselfid week of physical
and mental examinations, everything and the book and some things
that aren't and they tell you just how long they
figure you can stand the jumping in and out of subspace, accelerations,

(02:33:44):
the pressures, the tensions. They tell you how long they
put it down in your papers. This man certified for
eighteen years in space, and not a millisecond longer, the
moving finger writes, and all that. Actually, I've got no
fair reason to complain. Eighteen years is a good time.
The average is closer to fifteen. Yeah, a good, safe,

(02:34:06):
secure system, Fred. The only thing wrong with it is
that you know you have that date hanging over your head,
and you know that under the rules, the day'll come
when you start collecting that mustering out pension. A nice
piece of change every year as long as you live,
even to a high priced shrink like you, Fred, and
you get that last free ride to the planet of
your choice. Sure you think it's a sweet setup. You

(02:34:30):
would eighteen years of your life in return for financial
security and perpetuity. Why don't you go to Port Kennedy
and take a good hard look at all those old
men sitting in the sun, those guys living off their
nice fat pensions and watching the ships taking off of
the stars like one eyed cats peeping in a seafood store.
Old man of thirty five or forty, ask them if

(02:34:52):
it's such a sweet setup. Man, I'm sure glad this
is a letter, because I can all but hear you
bellowing something like that. I told you so. What was
it you used to call shipping out a night in
elf Hill? Yeah, where a man goes into the hall
of the elves for one night of partying and the
next day when he comes out, one hundred years have passed.

(02:35:15):
He's an old man, an old old man, and his
life's over. I can hear you telling me that I
can't find myself by searching the galaxy that I've got
to look within. And now look at you, Spencer, your
hollow shell, a thirty eight year old adolescent, and I
can see you're shaking your head with infinite sadness and
infinite wisdom. And you should be glad this isn't face

(02:35:36):
to face too, Fred, because i'd kick your sanctimonious teeth
right down your throat. And you know I always could
lick you. Suffice it to say that unless you can
come up with some pearl of wisdom from out of
your bottomless pit of middle aged maturity. And don't get
me wrong, Fred, I hope to God you can. When
I'm mustered out next year, that last trip won't be

(02:35:58):
back to Earth. It'll beat him in. I know, I know,
you've never heard of Mendala, who has It's nothing, little
planet orbiting in a G four sun, colonized about a
century ago, maybe fifteen million yokums living off of peddling
mining industry on one continent. That's Mendela. Ten thousand mudballs,

(02:36:18):
just like it is, scattered all over the galaxy. But
I'm afraid, I'm really afraid that unless you can stop me, Fred,
I'm going back, going back to stay. I made my
first planet fall in Mandella a little over a year ago,
and a freighter from Sidewinder carrying the kind of cargo

(02:36:39):
we just don't talk about. The population small. There's only
one town with nearly enough people to call itself a city.
The outback has been pretty thoroughly explored by air. No
interesting local beasties or natives. The colonies just not old
enough to have really marinated if you did become decadent
enough to appeal to my peculiar taste. But let's not

(02:37:02):
go into that. Still like it or not, I had
three days on this mudball. I knew from long experience
that the planets is just too big a place to
be a total non entity. That's why I went into
space in the first place. That's where it's really at,
not all that crap about the vast spaces between the stars.

(02:37:22):
Space itself is creation's most total bore. What makes a
guy ship out is just being a kid on Earth
and looking up at all those stars and knowing that
they all own whole worlds, and that each of them
is a world. It's full of surprises, as Earth was
when Adam and his chick got themselves booted out of Eden.

(02:37:43):
I guess that's it. You've got to dig surprises. Man
like me hate security as much as you love it.
So fred I knew there had to be something for
me on Mandela. A new taste, a new sound, a
new woman, a nice surprise. Well, I wandered from bar
to bar my usual sop, and to make a long

(02:38:04):
tedious story short, I came up with only two little goodies,
and one of them seemed to be just a fairy
story at first, but the second concerned the Race with
No Name. The race had left one of its weird
ruins on Mendella. Even you must know about the Race
with No Name. Billions of years ago, before man was

(02:38:24):
even a far distant gleam in some dinosaur's eye, Before
the Bodhas or the Drears, or any of the other
races that are around the day ever existed, the Race
with No Name owned this galaxy from the center clear
to the Magellanic clouds. A billion years ago, they disappeared,
died out, or migrated elsewhere god knows what, leaving nothing
but ruins on thousands of planets. But you know that

(02:38:48):
what you don't know, Fred, is what the race means
to spacers. See. It's our own private little nightmare that somewhere,
somehow some of them are still around, and that one
day we're going to run into him in subspace or
in some forgotten planet on the rim. A race of
billion years gone, a race that was young when the
galaxy was coalescing, A race that had as much in

(02:39:12):
common with us as we do with worms. A race
that we can't be sure doesn't still exist somewhere. But
then there was that local faery story. It seems that
a few decades ago and Ndallan, who had been a spacer,
settled down in his pensioneer or something called the Great Swamp,

(02:39:33):
apparently wigged out. Was known to rave about someplace in
the swamp that was the most beautiful city in the galaxy.
Of course, there was no such thing in the swamp,
and one day he he just sort of disappeared and
never found his body. The locals claimed that other men
had disappeared into the Great Swamp, but nobody I talked.
They could name names, just the usual crock you're thinking, Eh,

(02:39:57):
But the Race with no Name had have to ruin
on Mendela, And when you added that to the faery story,
you ended up with something that smelled of artifact. I
guess they found maybe two dozen intact artifacts of the
Race with no Name. I lose count. There's the solid
hole on bow Champ, the time trap on Florid Delci Yellow,

(02:40:18):
and the subspace block, and Misty, that horrible thing they
haven't even named on Channing, a thing that turns living
creatures inside out. No one knows what any of the
damn things really are, and I suppose we never will.
Maybe I hope we never will. But I got the
smell of artifact on Mendela. Somewhere in that swamp was something.

(02:40:41):
No matter how many men have died or worse because
of them, I still never heard of a spacer who
could resist the lure of discovering an artifact. Don't ask
me why why do people pick at scabs?

Speaker 9 (02:40:53):
There? Doctor?

Speaker 26 (02:40:54):
So anyway, I rented a flitter, bought some tinned food
least an energy rifle, whichever, when assured me was about
as necessary as a conversion bomb, and set out for
the Great Swamp. The swamp was where it was supposed
to be, about four hundred miles east of the city.
Great Swamp turned out to be local hyperbole. Of course,

(02:41:14):
you could lose it in the Everglades. I set the
flitter down in a clearing near the center of the swamp.
One weird thing. The trees were lousy, with the kind
of feathery stuff like Spanish moss, long globs of it
hanging everywhere. It was a deep, deep red that gave
you the feeling that you were walking through perpetual sunset.
Kind of eerie maybe, but also kind of soothing. Quite

(02:41:38):
a few critters around, Ugly little lumpy fish like mudpuppies
in the stream, small six legged blue lizards all over
the place, octopoid things swinging in the trees by their
tentacles like monkeys. But nothing big enough to worry about
even without the rifle. But I must admit that I
sort of dug the place, put me at ease. Even
smoke kind of sweet and musky as I went deeper

(02:42:00):
into it, And of course that's when I should have
started the sweat. I don't care how tame a planet is.
It just shouldn't seem harmless if it isn't Earth. Every
planet's different from every other in thousands of ways, and
at least one of those differences should be the kind
that makes a man look behind him. Besides every other

(02:42:20):
extraterrestrial swamp I've ever seen stank like an open cesspool. Well,
I must have just wandered around for hours before I felt,
how do I describe it? A kind of scratchy shiver
in my head, like like running a broken fingernail down
a piece of slate, an awful feeling. But it just
came and went in a moment all of a sudden,

(02:42:42):
things got kind of dreamy, like. I went on in
kind of a daze, and that scratchy feeling came and
went again, and a very funny thing happened. I found
myself remembering all kinds of things women I had known,
the taste of blinding wine and fried prongs, the smell
of sun or afrofume, the sun flashing on the Ruby beach,

(02:43:04):
the carnival feel of good things, A whole life full
of good things, all looking through my mind like someone
that recorded the best moments of my life on tape
and was playing the whole dam thing back a hundred
times normal speed. It was like it was like being
high on mescal and bang and dubrish and all once.
I got flashes of that too, I mean fred memories

(02:43:25):
of what being high was really like mixed in with
the rest of them. I forgot everything, the reason I
was in the swamp, the fact that I had to
be back on the ship in two days, forgot even
my depression at the impending mustering out, And I just
wandered around reliving the best moments of my life at
breakneck speed. And then then I felt that awful nerve tingling,

(02:43:47):
feeling again, stronger. This time it seemed to last four hours,
and it was gone again. And I was standing on
top of a little hill, and there below me, where
it just couldn't possibly be, was a city. The city,
the city the Mendellen spacer had raved about, and he
had been dead right. It was the most beautiful place

(02:44:09):
in the galaxy. Translucent towers of emerald, a mile high,
piercing the clouds like artificial mountains, hundreds of them, and
the streets of the city wand around their feet, streets
jammed with buildings from one hundred planets and cultures, Argolian force, pavilions, mosques, bo'harron,
flower skyscrapers, stadia, all shimmering and flickering in the ever

(02:44:31):
changing light that seemed to come from the towers that
made the sky above the city a great rainbow Aurora.
A river separated the foot of my hill from the city.
A bridge crossed the river, and a road crossed the bridge.
The road was a ribbon of burnished silver. The bridge
was a single, arching, dazzling, living crystal that might have
been diamond. The river was a flow of liquid gold.

(02:44:56):
The capital city of the universe utterly stupefying, utterly impossible.
And yet I had that what do you call it?
Deja vu feeling that I had somehow seen it before. Now,
what can I say, Fred, I must have been out
of my head. It couldn't be there, but it was.
And I couldn't even think of all the impossibilities of
the situation, the sheer insanity of it all. I ran

(02:45:20):
down that hill like a sex starved hermit, toward a
Mexican border town, down the Silver Road, across the Diamond Bridge,
and I was there, totally there. Ever been in Rio
at the height of the carnival? Ever spent marty grand
old New Orleans? You ever heard of how Riano becomes
one great city wide party on the settling day eve.

(02:45:41):
We'll triple that, Fred, raise it to its own power.
Take a big drag of opium, and man, he won't
even come close. It just sucked me in, you know.

Speaker 24 (02:45:51):
Woosh.

Speaker 26 (02:45:52):
The streets were simply boiling with people and beings. Golden
women from topags, tall green jungle masters, frosan stepping folks
from sick free dressed and clinging mirror suits, gleam her
faced cheer bodhas, and women with hair piled into nests
for shimmering, grilling glass, butterflies, beings from a thousand planets,

(02:46:13):
all babbling, laughing, carnival sounds for laughter, singing music, carnival smells, perfume,
frying food, hashish, smoke, wine, women. I felt as if
I had stepped into the Arabian nights. Any minute, the
flying carpet might float by. I felt as if I

(02:46:34):
had been searching for this place, this huge carnival, this
moment in time, all my life. I wanted to laugh
and scream and cry. And then I felt that itching
in my mind again, and I saw her coming toward me,
straight toward me, through that pack throng, which seemed to
drift away before like fog melting away in the sun.
She was wearing those now opaque, now transparent golden robes

(02:46:58):
from Topez. She was almost my height, had exotic oriental features,
but bone white skin, luminous emerald hair cascaded onto her shoulders.
She had a slim but full body, and through a
momentary transparency in her robes, I saw it as her
nipples where an impossible blood red, matching the color of her.

Speaker 1 (02:47:15):
Small, full lips.

Speaker 26 (02:47:17):
She was like no woman anyone had ever seen. And
yet as she stood before me, I had that uncanned
dejahvu feeling again. I knew her, But from where predcatus?
How could any man forget a woman like this? She
touched my hand and a thrill went through me, like
a jolt from a pleasure box.

Speaker 48 (02:47:38):
Hello, I've been waiting for you. We've all been waiting
a long long time just for you. Come, Come join
the carnival.

Speaker 26 (02:47:49):
She laughed, reached up, curled her hands around my neck,
and kissed me. Her mouth was warm and open, and
the taste of her breath made me forget everything. I
moved my body against her, asking the question. She answered
me with a counter pressure. There was more than a compliance,
more certain than an open invitation. She snaked her hands
down my neck, over my shoulders, across my chest, and

(02:48:09):
took both my hands in hers. She nodded toward the choked,
swirling streets.

Speaker 48 (02:48:14):
Come on, the best night of your life is waiting
for you, and the darkness is just beginning.

Speaker 24 (02:48:20):
How long?

Speaker 26 (02:48:22):
How long does all this go on.

Speaker 25 (02:48:24):
Forever for you?

Speaker 48 (02:48:25):
This can be the night that lasts forever.

Speaker 26 (02:48:29):
And before I could say a word, before I could
tell whether I was eager or afraid. She tugged at
my hands and we were off into the carnivaling city together.
She led me through the streets, through the laughing, packed streets,
past knots of humans and boahas and drears, open stands
offering food and wine and drugs from all over the galaxy,
and then finally into I don't know, a house, a room,

(02:48:51):
a place, a great round hall, the walls a circle
of marble columns, past which I caught glimpses of other
halls and rooms and passageways beyond. They seemed to go
on and on and on, a labyrinth of rooms and
hallways packed with people and beings and tables bearing food
and drink, an endless, continuous party that wound through the

(02:49:13):
hall and the rooms beyond, and perhaps the entire city,
without limits, without end. We drifted from crowded room to
packed courtyard. Our dark chamber where naked women danced to
the pounding beat of African drums. An open court by
the Golden River, where we sat on white sands inhaling
mutar from topaz and watched the golden ones do their

(02:49:33):
insidious water dance. A neon lit room where wordly dressed
kids danced to the music of an ancient Terran rock band.
The amorphous building seemed to be the city itself, and
the city was one wild carnival of food and music
and dancing, swirling, laughing, and completely carrying me away. It
seemed that I had but to think of something, a

(02:49:55):
certain food, a wine. I remembered music I had heard,
and it was there anything I ever wanted, ever could want.
And when the time came, when there was only one
more thing I wanted, we turned a corner, stepped through
a doorway, and we were suddenly alone. We were floating
in a dark chamber, floating and nothing at all, a

(02:50:16):
velvet bullying, nothing softer somehow than free fall itself. She
threw aside her robes, and at once her body seemed
to glow with a warm golden light. She plucked at
my clothes, and then I was naked too, and my
body was growing from within like hers. When we made love,
it seemed as if we were alone, and the whole

(02:50:37):
universe the light of our bodies the only light there was.
She was perfect, and I was better. You know me, Fred,
So you know what I mean when I say it
was the best I had ever had and the best
I'd ever been. It made me forget every woman I'd
ever known, And afterward I wasn't tired at all. I
was full of vitamins and ready for another night of partying.

(02:51:00):
We laughed and kissed, and was back to that endless,
fantastic party which wam nude in a pool of gold
and water heated to blood heat under a huge silver,
moving on moonless mandulla. And then we stretched out on
a lawn of bright green grass while a warm, perfumed
breeze swiftly dried our bodies. I reached out and touched
one perfect breast spence. It brought me up short. I

(02:51:24):
suddenly went cold. I never told her my name. That
one impossibility somehow reminded me that I was here in
the middle of a swamp, a swamp where there was
no city where for I was afraid, furious and afraid.
I pulled my hand away and asked, who are you?

Speaker 12 (02:51:43):
What is?

Speaker 26 (02:51:45):
She leaned toward me, kissed me, and the question seemed stupid, trivial,
but something in me was still fighting it. I shoved
her away and asked, what the hell is all this?
What's going on here?

Speaker 25 (02:51:57):
Do you really have to know.

Speaker 26 (02:52:00):
But I wasn't buying. Something was being done to me
and I hadn't know what.

Speaker 48 (02:52:06):
Tell me, tell me, or if you insist, I've got
to tell you. But don't insist. Take my word for it, Spence,
You won't like what you hear? What do you care?
What we are, where you are? Look around you, smell
the air, hear the music? Touch my body? Do you
want to lose all?

Speaker 13 (02:52:26):
This?

Speaker 25 (02:52:27):
Can any place be like this for you again? Will
you ever have another night like this? Ever?

Speaker 26 (02:52:35):
I felt a terrible aching sadness. I knew she was right,
knew that this moment, right now, this night, and no
other past or future, was the best I could ever know.
I was a spacer with less than two years left
on my papers, and suddenly I felt like an old
old man. From this moment, the rest of my life
could only be a long, gray downhill slide to nothing else.

Speaker 48 (02:52:59):
It doesn't have to be this moment, this night, this place,
this carnival never has to end, not for you forever, Spence.
It can last forever and forever.

Speaker 25 (02:53:12):
It's a long long time.

Speaker 26 (02:53:15):
Tell me, I screamed at her, shaking her shoulders, driven
by some savage compulsion, perhaps the knowledge that I was
being offered something that in another moment I would be
powerless to resist. Suddenly, a terrible pain seared through my head.
In the city, the pool her flickered for a moment
and were gone. I was lying on the moist, black

(02:53:37):
swamp earth. I was dressed, my clothes were clamming, my
stomach ached with hunger. It was night, and I was alone,
and heard a voice in my mind saying.

Speaker 48 (02:53:47):
A billion years. A billion years is a long time
to be alone, unused, discarded, like a broken toy.

Speaker 26 (02:53:55):
Who what? What are?

Speaker 25 (02:53:58):
You?

Speaker 26 (02:53:58):
Heard? The city you.

Speaker 25 (02:54:01):
Mostly you, and a little of me.

Speaker 48 (02:54:05):
I looked into your mind, read your memories, your desires,
things you didn't even know yourself, and I gave it
to you. What you wanted, what you really wanted. It
was easy. That's what I was made for doing a
billion years ago.

Speaker 26 (02:54:23):
All an illusion, just reflection of my dreams.

Speaker 48 (02:54:27):
You underestimate the subtlety of the masters, those you call
the race with no name, no mere wish fulfillment. For them,
every world in this galaxy was theirs, but it was
not enough for them. They craved new worlds, subjective worlds,
worlds that lived and breathed and reflected their private whims,

(02:54:50):
but worlds that were still apart from their minds, worlds
that held surprises for their dirty, jaded minds, none of
their mere dreams, but none of them real.

Speaker 26 (02:55:00):
But you you real? You were talking to me now
I'm real.

Speaker 25 (02:55:06):
You would call me an artifact.

Speaker 48 (02:55:10):
They created me out of metal and force and things
you could never understand. They gave me the power to
read the innermost thoughts and desires of all sentient beings,
the power to spin dreams, beautiful dreams without end. A toy,
just a toy. But they wanted more, They wanted passion.

(02:55:32):
So they made me sentient, a living, caring thing, a
thing with a will and only one motivation, the passion
to please a sentient being, any sentient being.

Speaker 25 (02:55:43):
And then a.

Speaker 48 (02:55:44):
Billion years ago they left for I know not where,
and they left me here to rot, flung aside, when
they no longer were amused by their toy. They left
me here to rot and suffer and yearn to please
a sentient being for a billion years, a billion empty years,
till humans came to this planet.

Speaker 26 (02:56:06):
I shivered in the warm night, felt monstrous things staring
at me from out of the black, black night, from
out of the unthinkable distant past. But you are not
a woman.

Speaker 25 (02:56:18):
I can give you every woman you could ever learn
to want.

Speaker 26 (02:56:22):
I want to see you.

Speaker 48 (02:56:24):
I cannot disobey the order of a sentient being, no
matter how much I want to.

Speaker 26 (02:56:30):
There was a movement in the trees, and I saw
a dark shape, a slithering metallic thing, a lump of
darkness blacker than the night, A wet sound, a cold
cold wind across my face, of vortex of something my
eyes could not focus on. I felt myself falling into
a black, black pool, heaten alive by green, squamous things.

(02:56:55):
I screamed and screamed and screamed, and all at once
I was standing in the middle of the Diamond Bridge,
and she was standing before me.

Speaker 25 (02:57:07):
I can't keep you from going.

Speaker 26 (02:57:09):
She kissed me and gestureded toward the great Emerald spires,
the carnival that went on and on and on.

Speaker 48 (02:57:18):
All your spence, your own private heaven, A universe all
for you, a universe that was made for you. Think
of it, being made love to by a whole universe.
A night of pleasure that never ends, forever, spence, a
special kind forever.

Speaker 26 (02:57:38):
What what kind forever.

Speaker 48 (02:57:41):
What does it matter a second, an hour, a day,
a year, a billion years. If it seems like forever,
it is forever, isn't it, Spence? And I can make
it seem like forever? You know I can. I can't
keep you from going, but can you keep from coming back?

Speaker 26 (02:58:02):
Then she was gone, and the city was gone, and
I was alone in the silence of the swamp. I
stumbled forward a few steps, and my feet clattered against
something in the dark, something hard and round. I reached down,
touched it, and pulled my hand back. It was a skull,
a human skull. I remembered the Mendellian spacer, and I

(02:58:25):
felt the gnawing hunger in my guts. And I remembered
that in the city I had eaten and eaten and eaten.
What kind forever? Now you know why I'm writing to
your Fred. Soon my papers will expire, and I'll have
to pick one lousy planet out of a whole galaxy
in which to spend the rest of my life. Please, Fred,

(02:58:47):
look talk me out of it. Say something anything that
will make it seem wrong, But make it good, brother mine,
make it good. Will you say something anything that'll keep
me from going back to me, Spence. You've heard a
story by Norman Spinrad titled A Night in elf Hill.

(02:59:10):
It appears in the book The Farthest Witches, edited by
Joseph Eldeer. This is Michael Hansen speaking reading with me.
This time was Mindy Radner technical production from mind Webbs
by Leslie Hilsenhoff. Mind Webbs is produced at WHA Radio
and Madison, a service of the University of Wisconsin Extension.

Speaker 1 (02:59:44):
Ellery Queens Minute Mysteries.

Speaker 66 (02:59:51):
This is Ellery Queen with the case I call the
Mysterious Hands. I received a call from a Ham operator
in the Midwest who thought he was onto something big
spy stuff. You pick up a voice transmitting they're a
big airbase and the language with one he couldn't understand.
It isn't any language I ever heard of North America,
he said, And it doesn't sound European or Oriental.

Speaker 2 (03:00:09):
I thinks I'll have.

Speaker 66 (03:00:10):
An answer for you once I get a listen, I said,
and quickly I knew it was no spine.

Speaker 1 (03:00:15):
In a moment, I'll tell you who it was.

Speaker 5 (03:00:17):
They've been here for thousands of years, making their presence
known in the shadows. They might be seen by a
lonely motorist on a deserted road late at night, or
by a frightened and confused husband in the bedroom he's
sharing with his wife. Perhaps the most disconcerting part of
this phenomenon boils down to this question, has the government

(03:00:40):
been aware of their presence all along and is covertly
working with them towards some secret end. In the audiobook
Runs of Disclosure, what once was fringe is now reality.
While listening, you'll meet regular people just like you who
have encountered something beyond their ability to explain. You'll also

(03:01:01):
hear from people of great faith and deep religious belief
who continue to have these strange and deeply unsettling encounters.
Author La Marzouli explores these ongoing incidents to discover the
answers to these questions. Who are they, what do they want?
And why are they here? Can you handle the truth?

(03:01:25):
Listen to this audiobook if you dare Rungs of Disclosure
Following the Trail of Extraterrestrials and the End Times by
La Marzouli, narrated by Darren Marler. He're a free sample
on the audiobooks page at Weird Darkness dot com.

Speaker 66 (03:01:42):
In the case of the mysterious ham Our Ham operator.
Friends then realize there are dozens of American Indian languages
still spoken in America, and today more than a dozen
Indian ham radio operators. Heep, Big Business, Listen again to
ellery queens minute, mister, this.

Speaker 67 (03:02:03):
Is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast
from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Tonight,

(03:02:36):
the subject of our FBI file Larceny, its title the
Adapted Thief.

Speaker 68 (03:03:00):
In making the decision to broadcast this series as a
public service, your FBI had several objectives. One of the
most important was to focus the spotlight of publicity on
what goes on behind the scenes in the underworld. For
the more thoroughly you the people are alerted to the

(03:03:21):
stratagems and techniques of criminals, the better able you are
to recognize a crime in the making, to take steps
for self protection, to make the moves that help bring
criminals to justice. There comes a moment in many criminal
acts when, if the intended victim is on guard, the

(03:03:43):
whole plot will fall to pieces. To Night's FBI file
illustrates such a case. To Night's FBI file opens in
a fashionable suburb of a large Midwestern city. In the
living room attractive home, A well dressed, middle aged woman
rises from a chair to answer the polk.

Speaker 4 (03:04:07):
Hello, I'd like to speak to missus Fulton.

Speaker 9 (03:04:10):
Please.

Speaker 25 (03:04:11):
This is missus Fulton.

Speaker 50 (03:04:12):
Missus Grace Fulton. Yes, I wonder if you'd mind giving
me some information.

Speaker 25 (03:04:19):
What is it?

Speaker 4 (03:04:20):
Was your maiden named Thompson?

Speaker 27 (03:04:23):
Why?

Speaker 25 (03:04:23):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (03:04:24):
Then in nineteen twenty six you married a man named Harper.
What you went to Charleston the next year to have
your baby and put it up for immediate adoption. Am
I right?

Speaker 25 (03:04:38):
Who is this.

Speaker 4 (03:04:40):
Your son?

Speaker 25 (03:04:41):
My son?

Speaker 9 (03:04:43):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (03:04:44):
Mother, If you want to see me, I'm in room
seven nineteen at the Hotel Central.

Speaker 25 (03:05:00):
H Hello. Hello, you're the young man who called me.

Speaker 50 (03:05:12):
Yes, I'm Ralph Putnam.

Speaker 24 (03:05:17):
Come in.

Speaker 27 (03:05:19):
Thank you?

Speaker 25 (03:05:22):
Were you telling me the truth?

Speaker 12 (03:05:25):
Are you?

Speaker 24 (03:05:25):
I'm your son?

Speaker 25 (03:05:27):
I can't believe it.

Speaker 19 (03:05:28):
But it's true.

Speaker 50 (03:05:31):
Well, you see, I I was adopted by people named Putnam.

Speaker 19 (03:05:35):
They both died this year.

Speaker 50 (03:05:38):
Mister Putnam left me a letter telling me for the
first time that I.

Speaker 19 (03:05:41):
Wasn't their own son.

Speaker 50 (03:05:43):
He said they'd gotten me from the White Star.

Speaker 19 (03:05:45):
Home in Charleston.

Speaker 50 (03:05:47):
Well, I was very curious to find out who my
parents were. So I wrote to the home, but they
wouldn't give me any information.

Speaker 25 (03:05:54):
How did you manage to find out?

Speaker 9 (03:05:55):
Oh?

Speaker 50 (03:05:55):
Mister Putnam's lawyer arranged that. He got a court order
and had the home open their records. I got your
name and came here and the rest you'll know, My boy,
mother there there, it's all right. Come over here and

(03:06:18):
sit down, thank you. I sent down for some tea.

Speaker 19 (03:06:24):
Would you like some?

Speaker 2 (03:06:26):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (03:06:26):
Please?

Speaker 32 (03:06:27):
Well you just.

Speaker 24 (03:06:28):
Sit there, sugar cream?

Speaker 25 (03:06:34):
Oh, just plain, dear. You said your name is Ralph.

Speaker 24 (03:06:39):
That's right.

Speaker 25 (03:06:41):
I see you're in the army.

Speaker 50 (03:06:43):
Yes, I go overseas next week.

Speaker 25 (03:06:46):
Oh, we've only just found each other.

Speaker 50 (03:06:49):
Well, the army is not very sentimental here.

Speaker 25 (03:06:53):
Mother, Oh, thank you. Would you sit here beside me?

Speaker 12 (03:06:58):
Surely?

Speaker 25 (03:07:01):
Son?

Speaker 69 (03:07:03):
I want you to know one thing. Sometime after I
gave you away, I realized what a mistake I'd made.
But the adoption home wouldn't tell me where you were.

Speaker 19 (03:07:13):
What happened to my father?

Speaker 25 (03:07:15):
He died several years after you were born.

Speaker 9 (03:07:18):
His name was Harper.

Speaker 25 (03:07:19):
Yes, what did he do?

Speaker 32 (03:07:22):
Well?

Speaker 25 (03:07:24):
Nothing? We were very young.

Speaker 50 (03:07:27):
Does the man you're married to now know anything about
me or the marriage no, would you prefer that it
remained that way?

Speaker 3 (03:07:35):
Well?

Speaker 24 (03:07:36):
Yes, Hi?

Speaker 9 (03:07:39):
Oh hi Ardie.

Speaker 43 (03:07:40):
Oh sorry, I didn't know you had anyone here.

Speaker 32 (03:07:42):
It's okay.

Speaker 19 (03:07:43):
This is Fulton.

Speaker 5 (03:07:43):
This is my roommates, Sergeant Worth.

Speaker 50 (03:07:45):
Missus Fulton's an old friend of the family.

Speaker 26 (03:07:49):
Huh.

Speaker 43 (03:07:50):
Maybe you two want to talk someone.

Speaker 25 (03:07:51):
Oh no, that's quite all right. I have to be
getting along, ofteny. Nice to have met you, Sarge.

Speaker 52 (03:07:59):
Say, I'm here, Missus Fault.

Speaker 32 (03:08:00):
I'll walk you to the elevator.

Speaker 26 (03:08:01):
Oh, thank you, go ahead.

Speaker 25 (03:08:04):
Thanks. I gather you didn't tell the sergeant about us.

Speaker 43 (03:08:10):
Oh no, no, outside of the lawyer, no one knows.

Speaker 24 (03:08:15):
Well here we are.

Speaker 25 (03:08:16):
When will I see you again?

Speaker 24 (03:08:18):
Son?

Speaker 26 (03:08:19):
I'll call you tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (03:08:20):
Mother.

Speaker 68 (03:08:31):
Meanwhile, at an FBI field office about one hundred miles away,
special Agent Jim Taylor approaches the desk of Agent Leo Graham.

Speaker 32 (03:08:38):
Hello, Leon, Hi, Jim. I was by looking for you
a couple of minutes ago.

Speaker 14 (03:08:42):
Oh.

Speaker 43 (03:08:42):
I just got back from a music car. Oh I
think I've got a lead on that stolen car.

Speaker 32 (03:08:46):
I haven't had a chance to crack that. Can you
fill me in?

Speaker 2 (03:08:49):
Sure?

Speaker 43 (03:08:49):
There's not much to it yet though.

Speaker 32 (03:08:51):
Where does the music hall fit in well.

Speaker 43 (03:08:53):
After the place closed last night, the manager noticed a
car in the parking lot, and I was still there
this morning. He called the police. Turned out it was
stolen day before yesterday near Pittsburgh. The owner says he
gave two soldiers a lift near the entrance to the turnpike.

Speaker 32 (03:09:06):
Another hitchhike John Yeah, and.

Speaker 43 (03:09:08):
He stopped to make a phone call. They took off
and stranded him. He can't give us a description of you,
the man. All he remembers is they called each other
Ralph and Ardi.

Speaker 32 (03:09:15):
What's the lead.

Speaker 43 (03:09:17):
I examined the car and found a couple of things,
book of matches from the Chelsea Hotel in Pittsburgh, and
some empty beer bottles in the backseat.

Speaker 32 (03:09:24):
Did you check the motel?

Speaker 2 (03:09:25):
Now?

Speaker 43 (03:09:25):
The motel give me the names of two soldiers who
stayed overnight just before the car was stolen. I sent
them to Washington, along with some prince. Where'd you get
prince off the beer bottles? The owner says they weren't
in the car when it was stolen.

Speaker 32 (03:09:35):
Well, with names and prince, we might have a quick iyda.

Speaker 43 (03:09:38):
Now and he comes in. I'll pass it along.

Speaker 12 (03:09:57):
High path.

Speaker 24 (03:09:58):
Oh, hi, artie, sit down.

Speaker 12 (03:09:59):
Yeah, what are you drinking?

Speaker 52 (03:10:02):
We said, no whiskey, t this was over. You can't
call missus Fulton when you mulded.

Speaker 19 (03:10:06):
We have something to celebrate.

Speaker 43 (03:10:08):
What do you mean.

Speaker 5 (03:10:09):
I've been doing some.

Speaker 11 (03:10:10):
Research, waiter, Eh, well you have scotch to scotch and water.

Speaker 50 (03:10:16):
I I got a complete background on mister Harper. Harper,
the man Missus Fulton was married to.

Speaker 5 (03:10:23):
Guess what he did for a living?

Speaker 12 (03:10:25):
What he was a bootlegger?

Speaker 43 (03:10:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 50 (03:10:29):
Two weeks after the wedding, her family got the whole
thing and ouled.

Speaker 19 (03:10:32):
That's why she went to Charleston to have the baby.

Speaker 12 (03:10:34):
That's why she put him.

Speaker 26 (03:10:35):
Up for adoption.

Speaker 43 (03:10:37):
That's very interesting.

Speaker 70 (03:10:38):
I also got a background on mister Fulton, the guy
she's married to.

Speaker 19 (03:10:42):
Now, he's trying to be the next mayor.

Speaker 24 (03:10:46):
He's also very rich.

Speaker 32 (03:10:48):
Gotcha water?

Speaker 50 (03:10:49):
Oh thanks, Well, let's drink the dear old mom and
her nice rich husband.

Speaker 9 (03:11:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 43 (03:11:10):
Anything in from Washington, Yeah, leo, But I don't understand it.
Ident says there's prince belonged. The two men named Paul
Clark and Arthur Worth. Well, oh they're not soldiers and
the owner of that stolen car. So the men call
each other Ardie and Ralph maybe Ralpha Middley ident sast
Paul Clark has no middle initial Woo. I guess we'd
better concentrate on Worth. If we find him, we might

(03:11:30):
get both of them. We have any pictures and they're
on the way. We've got complete descriptions.

Speaker 32 (03:11:34):
How about records.

Speaker 43 (03:11:36):
Uh Clark was arrested three years ago for carth f
Worth was convicted last year for posing as a collector
for a couple of charities.

Speaker 32 (03:11:44):
And now they're both posing as soldiers.

Speaker 43 (03:11:46):
That's it. Teletype also has a note that UH wors
brothers in the army at Fort Andrews.

Speaker 32 (03:11:51):
That's dear Pittsburgh, isn't he?

Speaker 43 (03:11:52):
That's right? They may have gone there to same So
I've wired the Fort Andrews MP.

Speaker 32 (03:11:56):
Outfit covered all the local angles.

Speaker 43 (03:11:58):
No, not completely, Leo. Let's clean them up and then
meet back here.

Speaker 4 (03:12:17):
Hello missus Fulton please speaking hello mother? This is Ralph.

Speaker 25 (03:12:23):
Hello, dear, I have.

Speaker 4 (03:12:25):
Some bad news. What's that I'm leaving? My orders came through.

Speaker 25 (03:12:30):
This morning, but you said you'd be here till next week.

Speaker 4 (03:12:33):
To the army changed its mind.

Speaker 50 (03:12:35):
Oh I, I guess maybe i'd better not be writing
to you why not if mister Fulton sees Mayo from
a soldier overseas, wouldn't he start asking questions?

Speaker 25 (03:12:46):
Well, I suppose he would.

Speaker 4 (03:12:48):
Will you write to me?

Speaker 9 (03:12:49):
Though?

Speaker 4 (03:12:50):
Surely I had a picture taken for you.

Speaker 25 (03:12:54):
I'd love it. Can I come down and see you
before you go?

Speaker 50 (03:12:57):
Oh no, no, I'm leaving the hotel as soon as
I hang up. Oh, but sergeant Worth isn't going till tonight.
I'll give him the picture and my overseas address.

Speaker 25 (03:13:05):
Well, where can I see him?

Speaker 4 (03:13:06):
Oh?

Speaker 50 (03:13:07):
He's keeping the room the one you were in yesterday.
If if you want him to, he'll wait for you.

Speaker 25 (03:13:13):
Oh yes, please dear, ask him to wait. I'll be
right there.

Speaker 52 (03:13:29):
Just a minute. Oh, hello, missus foot, Hello, sergeant won't
you come in?

Speaker 25 (03:13:35):
Thank you? Has Ralph gone?

Speaker 26 (03:13:38):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (03:13:38):
Yes?

Speaker 26 (03:13:39):
He left almost an hour ago.

Speaker 25 (03:13:41):
I hurried over here, hoping that somehow I might still
see him.

Speaker 52 (03:13:44):
He felt very badly about not seeing you.

Speaker 25 (03:13:47):
He said he'd leave his address.

Speaker 43 (03:13:48):
That's right, I've got it right here.

Speaker 25 (03:13:51):
Oh, thank you, And he also mentioned a pictu.

Speaker 43 (03:13:54):
All right, so over here, I'll get it.

Speaker 2 (03:13:57):
Here you are.

Speaker 25 (03:13:58):
Oh, it's wonderful.

Speaker 52 (03:14:02):
I'm so glad he left this there's a real family resemblance.

Speaker 43 (03:14:07):
Huh, he looks just like you.

Speaker 25 (03:14:10):
Oh, you must be mistaken.

Speaker 70 (03:14:13):
You're his mother. Ralph told me all about it. Oh
that's quite a story.

Speaker 25 (03:14:22):
Thank you for the picture, Sergeant in the address.

Speaker 70 (03:14:25):
Don't go, missus Fulton, at least not until you hear
what I have to say about what but you your husband,
both your husbands, So now, Missus Fulton, I'd rather not okay.

Speaker 52 (03:14:43):
Ralph tells me that mister Fulton wants to get to
be mayor.

Speaker 70 (03:14:47):
Now, it seemed to me that anything in the way
of bad publicity would make it a little tough on
that ambition, wouldn't it.

Speaker 25 (03:14:53):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 70 (03:14:54):
I also know about your first husband, Ralph's father. It
was quite a character's day rackets here, bootlegger. Oh, it
wouldn't do anybody much good if people knew you were
once married to him, or if they found out about
the annulment or putting up your baby for adoption before.

Speaker 26 (03:15:11):
It was born.

Speaker 25 (03:15:13):
Where did you learn this from?

Speaker 26 (03:15:15):
Ralph?

Speaker 52 (03:15:16):
He did a lot of research.

Speaker 25 (03:15:18):
He's my son. He wouldn't use any of it against me.

Speaker 70 (03:15:21):
But he's gone overseas. I'm running the store now, Missus Fulton.
I put a very high value on the merchandise.

Speaker 25 (03:15:28):
You mean you want money, that's right, well, I have
about eighty dollars with me.

Speaker 32 (03:15:37):
Eighty dollars.

Speaker 70 (03:15:39):
This isn't Bigan day, missus Fulton. My price is ten thousand.

Speaker 67 (03:15:56):
We will return in just a moment due tonight's exciting case.
From the office files of your FBI, and now back
to the FBI file. The adopted thief.

Speaker 68 (03:16:30):
Fear dulls our senses and our thinking. And the stock
in trade of extortioners and their ilk is fear of exposure.
This thought paralyzing fear prevents their victims from facing one
very obvious fact. This fact is that very few blackmailers
or extortionists are ever satisfied with just one payment. Once

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these criminals have made their first move the most dangerous
for them, they become bolder. They are sure to come
back for more. Finally, many victims do go to the police,
but only after they've been bled nearly white. So once again,
your FBI urges all members of this audience never to

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give in an inch to a blackmailer or an extortionist.
Report any attempt at intimidation to the police immediately. It
may mean personal embarrassment. But sooner or later this must
be faced to Night's case might never have been in
the FBI files in its present form, had missus Fulton

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acted promptly and courageously. Tonight's file continues. Later that day
at the FBI field office.

Speaker 43 (03:17:44):
Le or we might have a break in that stolen
car case.

Speaker 32 (03:17:47):
What have you got?

Speaker 12 (03:17:47):
You remember?

Speaker 43 (03:17:48):
The owner reported that the soldiers call themselves Ralph.

Speaker 32 (03:17:50):
And Artie, and there was no Ralph in the reck.

Speaker 43 (03:17:52):
Well there is now, I think poor Clark's masquerading a
somebody named Ralph Putnam.

Speaker 32 (03:17:56):
Where'd you get that?

Speaker 43 (03:17:57):
The Ford Andrews' MPs just interviewed Worth's brother. My brother
reported to them that the two fugitives had a letter
in their position belonging to a gi in his outfit
named Ralph Putnam. This letter contained some information about the
Putnam boy's real mother. This Putnam had been raised by
foster parents, and he got a lawyer to check his
adoption records, but he was shipped overseas two days before
this letter came for him.

Speaker 32 (03:18:17):
How did Clark and Worth get hold of the letter?

Speaker 43 (03:18:19):
That worse brother didn't know he's clean. He also says
they told him. They were going to make a big
score with the letter. You see, it seems Putnam's real
mother is quite wealthy.

Speaker 32 (03:18:28):
Clark uses the name Ralph Putnam and moves in on
the mother.

Speaker 43 (03:18:31):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 32 (03:18:32):
Well let's get there first.

Speaker 43 (03:18:34):
Worse, brother doesn't remember the name of the lawyer who
wrote the letter.

Speaker 32 (03:18:37):
Did he see it?

Speaker 2 (03:18:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 43 (03:18:38):
He says it was from Charleston. The lawyer's first name
was William, but he doesn't remember the last name. Told
the essayc about it, and he wants me to make
the trip so I'll see you when I get back.

Speaker 12 (03:19:00):
Come in.

Speaker 52 (03:19:03):
Well, how are you, missus Fulton?

Speaker 9 (03:19:04):
You're early.

Speaker 25 (03:19:06):
I'm anxious to get this over with.

Speaker 43 (03:19:07):
Oh sure, I understand.

Speaker 52 (03:19:09):
Can I get you something to drink?

Speaker 36 (03:19:10):
No?

Speaker 25 (03:19:10):
Thank you?

Speaker 26 (03:19:12):
He brought the money.

Speaker 25 (03:19:13):
Yes, Before I give it to you, I want to
know something.

Speaker 43 (03:19:17):
What's that?

Speaker 69 (03:19:19):
Was my son telling the truth when he said you
were leaving Provacs tonight?

Speaker 43 (03:19:22):
Yeah, that's right. I leave in an hour.

Speaker 25 (03:19:25):
I want you to promise you'll never ask for any more.

Speaker 70 (03:19:28):
Missus Fulton. You're doing business with a very reliable concern.
I promise here you are.

Speaker 43 (03:19:36):
Ten thousand.

Speaker 25 (03:19:37):
Yes, count it if you wish.

Speaker 43 (03:19:40):
I take your word.

Speaker 25 (03:19:43):
Well, soue, our business has ended?

Speaker 43 (03:19:45):
Yeah, I guess it has.

Speaker 25 (03:19:47):
Then I'll be going.

Speaker 52 (03:19:49):
Oh, missus Fulton, I want to thank you.

Speaker 70 (03:19:52):
You're one civilian who really knows how to keep up
a soldier's morale.

Speaker 4 (03:19:57):
Well, hello, Hi, already any news?

Speaker 26 (03:20:04):
Yeah, she just left.

Speaker 4 (03:20:05):
What about the money?

Speaker 52 (03:20:05):
I got it right here. Where are you calling from
the motel?

Speaker 70 (03:20:08):
We'll stay there. What the alterations weren't finished on your suit?
I told the store to deliver it out there. Wouldn't
it be this afternoon? Okay, I'll meet you at the ferry.

Speaker 32 (03:20:34):
Ah here over here alright, n I can get your
message for a couple of minutes.

Speaker 43 (03:20:38):
Oh, it's okay.

Speaker 32 (03:20:40):
Where are we going?

Speaker 43 (03:20:41):
Madison? I finally looked at it at lawyers?

Speaker 32 (03:20:43):
How'd you find him?

Speaker 9 (03:20:44):
Well?

Speaker 43 (03:20:44):
I went to the courthouse this morning, thumbed through every adoption. Right,
ITTI I found partner. The lawyer's name was William Hughes.
He gave me a copy of the letter.

Speaker 32 (03:20:52):
Madison, where the mother lives?

Speaker 12 (03:20:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 43 (03:20:53):
My name's uh, missus George Fulton.

Speaker 32 (03:20:55):
I think we had a calling.

Speaker 43 (03:20:57):
I did leo when she was out. They made had
no idea when she'd be back. What times are playing
ten minutes, so unless we had bad weather, we'll be
in Madison by noon. This is Folk. Yes, we're special

(03:21:30):
agents of the FBI. There are micad angels.

Speaker 25 (03:21:33):
Oh, please come in, thank you.

Speaker 43 (03:21:39):
This is Fulton. This is Agent Graham.

Speaker 25 (03:21:41):
How do you do?

Speaker 32 (03:21:42):
How do you do?

Speaker 43 (03:21:43):
We'll get right to the point. Have you been contacted
by anyone calling himself Ralph Putnam? Well that's our answer,
I guess yeah, Leo. Are you sure Missus Faulton has pictures.

Speaker 32 (03:21:54):
These the menus?

Speaker 43 (03:21:55):
Sir, Yes, but I don't understand they're not soldiers at all. Ma'am.
May come as a shock to you. But the young
man calling himself Putnam isn't your son?

Speaker 12 (03:22:05):
Is?

Speaker 32 (03:22:06):
His name's Paul Clark?

Speaker 25 (03:22:08):
Then how did he know about me?

Speaker 43 (03:22:13):
He and that man in the other picture there and
a scepted a letter to your son and used that information.
Oh no, your boy didn't get the letter because he's
on his way to career.

Speaker 24 (03:22:21):
This is terrible.

Speaker 69 (03:22:23):
I gave Sergeant Worth ten thousand dollars so he wouldn't
tell my husband about Ralph.

Speaker 25 (03:22:29):
I knew I was wrong.

Speaker 43 (03:22:32):
Where did you give him that money?

Speaker 32 (03:22:33):
Please? Missus Fulton. Every minute may be important.

Speaker 25 (03:22:37):
In his room at the Hotel Central.

Speaker 43 (03:22:39):
Thank you, commanding seven nineteen s the life. See that.

(03:23:01):
I'll be third room dance.

Speaker 32 (03:23:03):
How long ago? The manager say, well, check down.

Speaker 43 (03:23:05):
Two hours, but they haven't cleaned the room yet. It
is Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, I'll take this, saying.

Speaker 71 (03:23:20):
Okay, Jim, I think in the desk, closet's empty.

Speaker 43 (03:23:33):
Two let's checked the waist basket.

Speaker 32 (03:23:36):
Oh yeah, I'll give the desk for a quick look.

Speaker 12 (03:23:38):
All right.

Speaker 32 (03:23:46):
They didn't even leave beer bottles in this place.

Speaker 43 (03:23:49):
There's not much in the basket either. That thing a letter, Yeah,
it's the one from the lawyer to put in them.

Speaker 32 (03:23:55):
Any phone messages and so far.

Speaker 43 (03:23:59):
Wait a minute, what's that? It's a sales slip from
Smith Brother's department store, White shirt, soilp nick times are gossip. Hey,
they're switching to civilian clothes.

Speaker 32 (03:24:11):
That'll make them even tough.

Speaker 43 (03:24:12):
It'll ok maybe, yes, maybe not. Let's use that phone
and find out.

Speaker 9 (03:24:29):
My pal.

Speaker 50 (03:24:30):
Already I've been looking all over for you.

Speaker 43 (03:24:32):
I just got here.

Speaker 25 (03:24:33):
Where's the money?

Speaker 52 (03:24:33):
Got it right here in this package?

Speaker 19 (03:24:35):
A full ten thousand.

Speaker 50 (03:24:36):
Yeah that's real sweet.

Speaker 26 (03:24:39):
Come on, we better make the ferry.

Speaker 70 (03:24:41):
Okay, I'm not used to seeing you in civilian clothes.

Speaker 19 (03:24:46):
Did you count the donor?

Speaker 52 (03:24:47):
Yeah, yeah, it's all there. Hey, you got change, go ahead?

Speaker 43 (03:25:00):
Does she have any trouble with her?

Speaker 52 (03:25:01):
She made me promise we'd never come back, so I promised.

Speaker 19 (03:25:04):
You're pretty good at breaking promises.

Speaker 28 (03:25:06):
Answering.

Speaker 52 (03:25:07):
Yeah, Hey, they're closing the book gates. That's sorry.

Speaker 43 (03:25:11):
I'm afraid you'll have to miss that.

Speaker 32 (03:25:13):
Who are you?

Speaker 43 (03:25:13):
We're special agents in the FBI. You're both under arrest.

Speaker 68 (03:25:34):
Paul Clarke and Arthur Worth were each convicted of violations
of the statutes covering at her state transportation of a
stolen motor vehicle and also illegal wearing of an army uniform.
Each received a five year seven. Special agents Taylor and
Graham were able to find the two deserters at their
motel because Taylor realized that, along with white shirts, silk ties,

(03:25:57):
and argyle socks, Clark and Walker would need new suits.
A check at the clothing department of Smith Brother's store
revealed that the alterations had been completed and also the
address to which they were delivered, and so your FBI
was able to close another case. After the arrests, most
of missus Fulton's money was recovered and returned to her,

(03:26:17):
but not every victim is that fortunate. Sometimes the loot
is gone before the criminals are apprehended. So remember there
is only one answer to a threat of this nature,
call your local police immediately.

Speaker 24 (03:26:35):
This has been a Jerry Divine presentation distributed by the
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Speaker 72 (03:27:38):
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Speaker 73 (03:28:00):
Now, Ladies and gentlemen, if you will inspect the forty
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the greatest interest lies in the fact that each one
of these figures is a fiendish, statistic murderer. But come

(03:28:21):
I begin at the end of the line and describe
their horrible crime.

Speaker 74 (03:28:24):
Yes, yes, there he goes. There he goes again, telling
people all the bad things we did. Oh, it's terrible
being nothing. But take us in a wax museum, people
staring at us all day long, and not one of them,
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Speaker 2 (03:30:21):
Oh, brather, how do you like this little fellow?

Speaker 16 (03:30:24):
Oh he's nice, Carl. I don't believe he ever did
anything wrong.

Speaker 2 (03:30:29):
How are you gimen? Always the same?

Speaker 75 (03:30:30):
You heard the lectures say that every one of these
figures is the likeness of a real murder.

Speaker 46 (03:30:35):
Maybe this little angel poisoned his wife.

Speaker 16 (03:30:37):
I don't believe it.

Speaker 38 (03:30:39):
He is too innocent looking, but.

Speaker 2 (03:30:40):
They always are.

Speaker 1 (03:30:41):
Except his eyes.

Speaker 16 (03:30:43):
They go right through me.

Speaker 74 (03:30:47):
And morons, can't they see how stiff? No, I suppose not.
But I'd like to be alive again, or alive again.
I'm alive right now, but i'd there are dead. I
can hear, I can see, I can feel, I can
think that I cannot move.

Speaker 1 (03:31:07):
I cannot move at all.

Speaker 73 (03:31:11):
No matter now, Lady m if you will regard these
recent specimens, and if I may say so myself, they're masterpieces.

Speaker 1 (03:31:20):
What's the matter of madam?

Speaker 38 (03:31:22):
Yes, pray he's looking at watching him? Can he moved
his eyes?

Speaker 73 (03:31:26):
Thank you, madam. That's a true compliment to my artistry.
But I assure you the gentlemen did.

Speaker 1 (03:31:31):
Not move his eyes. That would be utterly impossible.

Speaker 73 (03:31:34):
He is made of wax and other substances known only
to myself.

Speaker 29 (03:31:37):
Rubbish.

Speaker 38 (03:31:38):
I'm Englishman man, and you can't rambootle me.

Speaker 73 (03:31:41):
I'm sorry if the realism of my exhibits has played
tricks with your imagination, imagination.

Speaker 1 (03:31:47):
You doubt that my exhibit is exactly his represented. Madam?
May I return your price of admission? Oh here you are,
Thank you so much.

Speaker 73 (03:31:56):
Now, perhaps if I might suggest a little fresh air.

Speaker 22 (03:32:00):
Well, I do need to bestake well these ghastly kinds
you know, of course, I believe I don't have a.

Speaker 2 (03:32:06):
Cup of tea to resume.

Speaker 73 (03:32:08):
Ladies and gentlemen, If you will step over this way,
this way, please, you will see exhibit number three, the
infamous woman.

Speaker 1 (03:32:15):
This way, this way, Exhibit three.

Speaker 74 (03:32:18):
Just listen to him, day in day out, we stand
here while he talks and talks and talks about us.

Speaker 1 (03:32:25):
Oh he's so boring.

Speaker 74 (03:32:27):
Oh he talks about that our silly, incidental murders we committed.

Speaker 1 (03:32:32):
Why doesn't he talk how we did them?

Speaker 2 (03:32:34):
Huh?

Speaker 74 (03:32:35):
While he in this room are some of the greatest
artists in their lines the world has ever known. For example,
just look at the ones on each side of me.
Here to my left, that's Paul. Yes, oh, he was
the most skillful man with a scalpel in Prague. He
was wonderful even today, happy haven't found all.

Speaker 1 (03:32:56):
The pieces of the bodies.

Speaker 12 (03:32:57):
He carved up.

Speaker 74 (03:32:58):
Now, and on my riot, the beautiful, beautiful macter she
always killed with a luger. She used but one bullet
to her husband, and she did away with five of them. Yes, indeed,
it's it's an honor to stand between such exquisite artists.
And as for me, I can hardly believe it was
only three days ago then that I came in, you know,

(03:33:21):
my own free will, my own free will.

Speaker 73 (03:33:39):
Good evening, graving. You wish to see my wax wax figures? Yes,
all around you?

Speaker 46 (03:33:47):
Oh yeah, yes, of course you mean to see You mean,
you mean all these people are waxed. But certainly you know,
you know, for a moment I thought they were alive,
A very natural mistake.

Speaker 1 (03:34:03):
By the way, is anything the matter? You seem nervous?
And what's the matter with you? Didn't you know?

Speaker 2 (03:34:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:34:10):
That's ugly sound?

Speaker 14 (03:34:13):
What is that?

Speaker 74 (03:34:19):
Yes, it's gone.

Speaker 18 (03:34:20):
I don't like it.

Speaker 46 (03:34:21):
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm late, and I'm sure you want
to close up. I'll go now, perhaps never.

Speaker 1 (03:34:27):
Too late to show my masterpieces. But first I'll lock
the door and draw the shade there. Now, then you
don't have to.

Speaker 9 (03:34:39):
Be afraid of being seen?

Speaker 46 (03:34:41):
Right, Why should I be afraid?

Speaker 13 (03:34:42):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (03:34:43):
I don't know. Why should anyone be afraid?

Speaker 46 (03:34:46):
I don't know. While I'm in no hurry. Well, I
suppose since I'm here, I marriage look over my collection? Yes,
why not?

Speaker 1 (03:34:54):
Good? Permit me to introduce myself.

Speaker 73 (03:34:57):
I am Meresteed Spig, owner of exhibit, artist and connoisseur
of crime.

Speaker 46 (03:35:03):
Artist and connoisseur of crime. That's an odd combination, not.

Speaker 73 (03:35:07):
At all, as you shall see. I suppose we begin here.
Do you buy any chance recognize this one?

Speaker 2 (03:35:14):
This one? No, but he's very ugly.

Speaker 73 (03:35:17):
Roger Sanders, Englishmen, a poisoner, not very imaginative. And next
to him here is Nicholas Rodriguez when he killed.

Speaker 1 (03:35:25):
The man and over. What's the matter of these people?

Speaker 74 (03:35:29):
They all have a strange look.

Speaker 1 (03:35:32):
Strange.

Speaker 74 (03:35:32):
Yes, it's it's as if as if they had just
seen so horrible.

Speaker 46 (03:35:38):
And perhaps they did see something, something that made them
realize the horror of their crimes crimes. These are criminals everyone,
all forty six of them murderers. You must be very
interested in murder to get up a collection like this.

Speaker 1 (03:35:56):
Oh but I am. It is my mission or your mission?

Speaker 46 (03:36:00):

Speaker 2 (03:36:01):
Murder?

Speaker 73 (03:36:02):
Murder, that most horrible of crimes. I hate it, I
loathe and despise its perpetrators. It is my mission to
show the world these fiends in human form, to display
them in all their brutal bestiality, that men may view them,
tremble and take heed.

Speaker 1 (03:36:18):
I see, I see this.

Speaker 74 (03:36:20):
Where do you get your specimen from the more, not
from the moor.

Speaker 73 (03:36:25):
I get them here there, wherever I can find them.
Usually I have to go out and look for them.
As a matter of fact, there is one now I
would like to have very much for my forty seven specimen. Yes,
he murdered a defenseless old woman quite near here, not
half an hour ago. It was I heard it over
my radio. He brutally murdered her and took her life savings.

Speaker 1 (03:36:49):
Did to catch him?

Speaker 2 (03:36:51):
Not yet, but they will.

Speaker 73 (03:36:53):
They're watching all the roads and decides that the old
woman's money was in old bills, so old it is
now out of When he tries to pass it, they
will know. And if they don't catch him, I will
you will you humps? Yes, murder must be avenged and
exposed by one means or another.

Speaker 1 (03:37:13):
Yeah, but forgive me for going on.

Speaker 73 (03:37:16):
Like this in turns I get carried away. Let's get
back to this next figure. A most interesting case. This
man hunt Schneider, who murdered by air embolism.

Speaker 46 (03:37:25):
This is Schneider, Hans Schneider. Yes, look I knew him.

Speaker 74 (03:37:29):
He disappeared, he was never captured, he wasn't even suspected.

Speaker 2 (03:37:32):
All of them were.

Speaker 46 (03:37:34):
How did you get them here?

Speaker 1 (03:37:35):
I told you, sir, I am an artist.

Speaker 73 (03:37:37):
I have my own methods of reproducing their likenesses.

Speaker 74 (03:37:43):
Is that a model of Schneider or is that Schneider himself?

Speaker 1 (03:37:47):
How in the world did you happen to.

Speaker 73 (03:37:48):
Get You're my correct? It is Schneider. This is monster
at all. You just do not understand.

Speaker 46 (03:37:54):
Yes, I do, I understand you you dirty hypocrite.

Speaker 38 (03:37:58):
You say you hate murder. Yes, you've killed everyone in
this room.

Speaker 1 (03:38:02):
You know I didn't kill How did you do it?

Speaker 14 (03:38:05):
Uh?

Speaker 46 (03:38:05):
Poison knife? Or did you dip them into boiling wax?

Speaker 1 (03:38:08):
Alive?

Speaker 2 (03:38:09):
None of those things.

Speaker 1 (03:38:11):
They're not dead.

Speaker 46 (03:38:11):
They're not dead.

Speaker 1 (03:38:12):
What did you say?

Speaker 9 (03:38:13):
They're not dead.

Speaker 73 (03:38:15):
They're simply in a state of permanent suspended animations.

Speaker 1 (03:38:21):
Are you man?

Speaker 46 (03:38:22):
Are you insane?

Speaker 1 (03:38:23):
It's true. I just let them look, and that's what happened.

Speaker 46 (03:38:26):
Let them look at one. Did you ever hear of
the gorgon's head, the head of Medusa Medusa? Yes, of course.
I went to school and I started Greek. Mythology of
Medusa was she was a very beautiful woman, and she
offended Athena, and Athena changed her hair into snakes and
made her face very hideous and so horrible that all

(03:38:48):
who looked on her returned to stone. And later I
think Perseus cut off her head.

Speaker 1 (03:38:54):
All right, and the severed head could still turn mendo stone.

Speaker 46 (03:38:58):
Yes, yes, I know, but that was a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (03:39:02):
Would you care to look upon it?

Speaker 2 (03:39:04):

Speaker 9 (03:39:06):
It's here.

Speaker 73 (03:39:07):
The mask of Medusa was found long ago in the
wild lost grotto in Greece. Where and how does not matter,
But it has been the means of fulfilling my sacred mission,
the destruction, the cleansing of the world of those who
slay their fellow men.

Speaker 6 (03:39:23):
Now I know you're mad.

Speaker 73 (03:39:26):
Perhaps I am the only sane one in a world
gone mad.

Speaker 46 (03:39:30):
Oh you sure tell me, sir, this this mask?

Speaker 2 (03:39:34):
What does it look like?

Speaker 1 (03:39:36):
Oh? I have never seen it myself. The native who
gave it to me warn me, I do not tell
the fool.

Speaker 38 (03:39:40):
No, no, I don't blame you.

Speaker 46 (03:39:43):
I don't blame you at all.

Speaker 74 (03:39:44):
She's listen. Suppose, mister Tad we talk a little business,
you and me.

Speaker 2 (03:39:48):
Huh, what do you want?

Speaker 74 (03:39:50):
I want your help to get me out of town?

Speaker 1 (03:39:52):
How can I help you?

Speaker 74 (03:39:53):
Well, that's very simple. Nobody's expecture that. That is nobody
but me.

Speaker 46 (03:39:58):
You put me in a crate like one of these
forty six miles you're so proud of, and send it
off in attract simple.

Speaker 1 (03:40:04):
But why why should I do this?

Speaker 36 (03:40:06):
Why?

Speaker 74 (03:40:07):
Because you fear the police as much as I do.

Speaker 1 (03:40:10):
You fear the police. You are a murderer.

Speaker 46 (03:40:13):
I didn't say that you are a murderer, no more
than you are and I didn't kill them.

Speaker 1 (03:40:17):
I told you I didn't kill them.

Speaker 2 (03:40:19):
Yes, yes, you told me.

Speaker 1 (03:40:21):
It's a fine story.

Speaker 2 (03:40:22):
But who is going to believe it?

Speaker 46 (03:40:23):
Police is no, sir.

Speaker 59 (03:40:26):
No.

Speaker 74 (03:40:26):
If the police come here, and I'll make.

Speaker 1 (03:40:28):
Sure that they come near, it would take money.

Speaker 46 (03:40:31):
Money, here is money, all the money you need.

Speaker 2 (03:40:33):
Well, ah, I.

Speaker 1 (03:40:35):
Thought so that money, those old bills. So it was you.
You were the one who murdered the old woman, took
her savings. I thought so all along. Yes, I thought so.

Speaker 38 (03:40:45):
A fit woman if she hadn't grew way.

Speaker 1 (03:40:46):
Bit. Wait, I have something in this cabinet I want.

Speaker 2 (03:40:49):
To show you.

Speaker 46 (03:40:50):
Look, no tricks you're hear me? Or the police comes in.

Speaker 1 (03:40:53):
Hey, why I didn't want to do this. I will
never want to do it, but it must be done.

Speaker 46 (03:40:57):
You don't want to do what murderer on the Crimson
of Maua about you.

Speaker 38 (03:41:03):
Look upon the mask of my leg Look, uh.

Speaker 76 (03:41:18):
No, I have number forty.

Speaker 72 (03:41:37):
In a few moments, mister Peter Laurie will bring us
the climax of tonight's mystery in the air when Camels
present Act two of the Mask of Medusa.

Speaker 75 (03:41:49):
It's improved time and time again in work in sports
in everything we do. Experience is the best teacher. As
midget offer racer Walter Ader proved it conclusively when two
other cars crashed and almost blocked the track during a
recent championship race. Roaring up at one hundred miles an hour,
Walter Ader squeaked through an opening only inches whiter than

(03:42:12):
his car.

Speaker 77 (03:42:13):
Mister Ader said, experience is the best teacher in choosing
cigarettes as well as in auto racing. I've smoked most
all the brands. Camels suit me best.

Speaker 75 (03:42:24):
Yes, experience is the best teacher. Smoke has learned how
true that is. During the wartime cigarette shortage, smoking so
many different brands when there was no choice made folks
experts on judging the differences in cigarette quality. Well, that
proved the thousands and thousands of smokers that there's nothing

(03:42:44):
like Camel's rich, full flavor, nothing like Camel's cool mile myths.

Speaker 78 (03:42:50):
Result, more people are smoking Camels than ever before.

Speaker 2 (03:42:54):
Experience is the best teacher. Try a Camel yourself.

Speaker 12 (03:43:13):
Now.

Speaker 72 (03:43:13):
A new crowd is viewing the attractions of Aristide Swag's
wax Museum, the lifelike, living but not breathing images of
the forty seven murderers.

Speaker 38 (03:43:28):
Coming here let's go outside. I don't like this place.

Speaker 17 (03:43:32):
Wage he is the one we didn't see.

Speaker 46 (03:43:34):
I don't know how you can stand there looking at
hims and your faces.

Speaker 16 (03:43:39):
This little one isn't so bad.

Speaker 38 (03:43:42):
If heave us alive, I could go for long.

Speaker 74 (03:43:45):
Come on, Oh, I could crush us. Call stupid idiots,
know it. It is not pleasant to be stared a
day after day by people who know nothing of life.

Speaker 1 (03:43:54):
Were dead, at least not not as we.

Speaker 2 (03:43:56):
Know it, the living dead.

Speaker 1 (03:43:58):
Yes, that's what we are. He he is irresponsible.

Speaker 74 (03:44:03):
Oh, if we could only somehow, somehow give back to normal,
even for a little bit, of what we could do,
all of us, what we could do. Now, it's midnight,

(03:44:36):
it's very still, but something odd is happening. Just a
little while ago, my my mind was blank. I wasn't
thinking about anything. But suddenly a thought came into my head. Yes,
and suddenly out of nowhere. Yes, we can pro cherities

(03:44:56):
again if we try. Who is what Magda standing next
to you? Yes, think hard, If we all think together,
perhaps we can make somebody help us.

Speaker 1 (03:45:12):
Yes, yes, of course, all that wonderful many girl, but
she is wonderful, of course. Forty seven minds trained in crime,
all concentrating at once, and somebody who comes in it
to look. If really try, if we try hard enough,

(03:45:34):
we could make him do anything. Maybe we could get him.
Oh that's too much to expect. But still, yes, another

(03:46:02):
day has started. But today I have a feeling of excitement.
All night long, all night long, we concentrated, and our
thoughts were getting stronger and stronger. I'm convinced Mactor has
gotten through to everyone. I have a feeling that something
is going to happen. And just a little while ago

(03:46:23):
there came a thought.

Speaker 74 (03:46:25):
Is upstairs in his room, we must watch the door.
When the right one comes, we shall know it at once.
Be ready, I'm ready. Whatever is going to happen, I'm ready.
There there the door is opening. Maybe this is d.

Speaker 37 (03:46:45):
I do not wish to look.

Speaker 1 (03:46:47):
God, wonder is that us? You may be to get
over your stupid fears. You look at these figures, every
one of them. Do you understand? Now? He said, lecture,
you should be here. I will find him.

Speaker 73 (03:46:59):
Sadie can tell you all about these criminals.

Speaker 74 (03:47:03):
Think God, yes, yes, there's no doubt of it.

Speaker 1 (03:47:08):
This little little ill say, Oh she's the one, Yes,
she's the one. We've been waiting for. She is the
kind of mind we mean. Yes, how exciting, how exciting.
Starts are coming in very strong.

Speaker 74 (03:47:26):
Keep thinking, man, it can't be free unless something happens
to the horrible mask of Medusa over the hold cabinet.

Speaker 1 (03:47:36):
If something could happen to that, the spell might be broken.
Matter what are you'll think it and fire it matches.

Speaker 74 (03:47:47):
I've got it, of course, I've got it.

Speaker 79 (03:47:50):
Yes, and fire matches fire.

Speaker 1 (03:48:03):
I think your pardon. And I have to see my daughter.
She was a minute ago, I did, girl, about sixty.
I have not seen over there with that cabinet. I
think it was.

Speaker 20 (03:48:12):
She had a box of mashes.

Speaker 74 (03:48:23):
It's hard, all our trained evil minds concentrating on that
one small mind. Oh, we simply overwhelmed it. Poor little
ill said, she'll never know why she started that file home.

Speaker 46 (03:48:35):
But it's a big, wonderful fire, and and.

Speaker 1 (03:48:38):
The cabinet is burning. It's it's burning it. What is that? Yes,
some manys happening. I've just been able to move the
little thing.

Speaker 16 (03:48:51):
In my in my left hand.

Speaker 79 (03:48:53):
Yes, yes, we we can move. Yes, we are free,
we can move, all of us. We are moving. We

(03:49:14):
the walking gate.

Speaker 18 (03:49:20):
Everyy won.

Speaker 38 (03:49:22):
Every one is move swiftly through the flames.

Speaker 16 (03:49:27):
Oh they can't us towards the steams.

Speaker 38 (03:49:30):
Yes, oh we are a horridly company.

Speaker 18 (03:49:34):
Are how exciting?

Speaker 1 (03:49:37):
White faces?

Speaker 38 (03:49:38):
Clue the flames? Forty forty seven?

Speaker 2 (03:49:43):
We are the murderous, all.

Speaker 38 (03:49:45):
Of us searching forward to get the marrier.

Speaker 52 (03:49:49):
The man we hate.

Speaker 14 (03:49:50):
Oh, yes, he's.

Speaker 38 (03:49:51):
A murderer, but he's worse than we are is pick
and stay alive. He contemned all forty seven of us,
and to a horrible endless living.

Speaker 18 (03:50:12):
Behind the door.

Speaker 1 (03:50:13):
It's locked.

Speaker 38 (03:50:14):
Come on, break it down, break it down your hair?

Speaker 1 (03:50:18):
God, what have you done to you?

Speaker 38 (03:50:24):
What have you done?

Speaker 46 (03:50:25):
We have taken care of your medusa, Yes, we have aristeda.

Speaker 38 (03:50:28):
Now no, we'll take care of him.

Speaker 1 (03:50:30):
No, please don't.

Speaker 38 (03:50:31):
I will tell you. You don't know the mask, your fool.

Speaker 1 (03:50:34):
Help you.

Speaker 38 (03:50:35):
You're having lot, But time'll help you.

Speaker 80 (03:50:38):
The masket coming, Yes, it's reducing, it's coming up the stairs.

Speaker 38 (03:50:53):
Careful why at least because you'll be way to me.

Speaker 1 (03:50:57):
I have a plan.

Speaker 38 (03:50:59):
Get away from that door. Let me get that you
come here, close your eye. Look, don't look at.

Speaker 2 (03:51:05):
It too late.

Speaker 1 (03:51:13):
They looked and now they're all gone. Oh but you
and I.

Speaker 73 (03:51:17):
Yes, everybody's gone back as they were before.

Speaker 1 (03:51:21):
Yes, they're gone.

Speaker 74 (03:51:22):
Oh god, you and I?

Speaker 36 (03:51:25):
You?

Speaker 1 (03:51:26):
And what are you going to fill up house? Show
you what I'm going to do?

Speaker 9 (03:51:30):
Here?

Speaker 1 (03:51:31):
Look asty?

Speaker 7 (03:51:32):
What look here?

Speaker 1 (03:51:34):
You hear me?

Speaker 10 (03:51:35):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (03:51:35):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (03:51:36):
What yo?

Speaker 37 (03:51:38):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (03:51:39):
No, yes, you saw it.

Speaker 74 (03:51:44):
You're looking at the crimson mask of medd say.

Speaker 38 (03:51:47):
Oh look look your feet doing well?

Speaker 18 (03:51:51):
I know it.

Speaker 38 (03:51:52):
Look at your legs, your hands?

Speaker 20 (03:51:53):
Oh you can.

Speaker 38 (03:51:55):
You're not even able to talk anymore.

Speaker 18 (03:51:59):
Now you have looked upon the mask of Madou's Are
you here at you?

Speaker 74 (03:52:05):
I forgot I looked at it too.

Speaker 2 (03:52:25):
Well.

Speaker 74 (03:52:26):
Well, well here we are back again. Yes, all of us,
the finest criminal minds in the world. Oh, it's the elite,
the cream of crime. Now we are just wax figures
in a sideshow. Yes, but now now there are forty
eight of us. Oh, I suppose we should feel honored

(03:52:47):
to have with us to grate our steeds. Five this
way he looks quite naturally. Yes, standing over there between
Schneider and Paul. And at least he doesn't bore me
anymore with a silly, stupid lectures. No, now he doesn't
talk at all. Someone called Albert is running the exhibit

(03:53:08):
now or poor Albert, He's an ambition. Albert doesn't know
there was a mask of Meducia. Oh, we are much
more intelligent than poor Alberty. He doesn't even know that.
Here we are still alive.

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Speaker 2 (03:54:11):
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Speaker 12 (03:54:12):
The brand name most was Camel.

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According to a nationwide survey, more doctors smoke Camel's than
any other cigarette.

Speaker 72 (03:54:32):
Next week, Mystery in the Air, starring mister Peter Lorry,
brings you an exciting story of gambling and sudden death.
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special musical score composed and conducted by Paul.

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Speaker 75 (03:56:08):
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Speaker 82 (03:57:47):
And now the Molay Mystery This presented by Anusly Shaving
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Speaker 12 (03:58:10):
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Speaker 83 (03:58:11):
This is Jeffrey Bondes welcoming you to the program that
presents the best in mystery and detective fiction. A few
weeks ago, we brought you a story written by Joseph ruscoll.

Speaker 2 (03:58:22):
And entitled The Case of the Missing Mind.

Speaker 83 (03:58:25):
It concerned a smart, alecately little racetrack character named Kenny
Andrews who got into one jam after another and finally
ended up in an insane asylum.

Speaker 9 (03:58:34):
My You, mystery fans out.

Speaker 83 (03:58:36):
There, apparently took Kennedy to your hearts, as we did
a number of you wrote wanting to find out whether
he did get out of the asylum and what happened then,
So we asked mister ruscoll And tonight he's telling us
in the Further Adventures of Kenny Andrews.

Speaker 18 (03:58:50):
Excuse me, mister blindes, but how about mentioning that other
psychopathic case.

Speaker 83 (03:58:54):
Oh, you mean the ambulance driver who drove himself crazy.

Speaker 82 (03:58:57):
No, no, I'm talking about the fellow who said he'd
rather be put in the straight jackets and shave. You know,
shaving isn't torture to him anymore. He switched to Molay,
the heavier brushless shaving cream.

Speaker 18 (03:59:08):
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so slick. It's a smooth, smooth, slick slake shave you
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Molay is the cream that's heavier, the cream you need
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(03:59:51):
cream for tender skin. Now with Tonight's Moley Mystery, The
Further Adventures of Kenny Andrew Such things should happen to me?

Speaker 18 (04:00:16):
To me, Kenny Andrews, this time, I'm really on a spot.

Speaker 84 (04:00:21):
I'm on a spot.

Speaker 79 (04:00:21):
You're here.

Speaker 18 (04:00:22):
It's mida but crying out a lot. Listen to me, someone, listen,
all right? You remember how I got railroaded in a
squirrel cage by that gang of crooks. Well, hooray, I'm sprung,
maybe his corpus, but no sooner. I'm out and exhil
a few times over a scratch sheet went low. I'm

(04:00:43):
in a jam again. My lawyer, Alexander Fopfle. He wants
his fee.

Speaker 1 (04:00:47):
And I want it quick.

Speaker 18 (04:00:49):
And Kenny stopped trying to pay me off a horse tips?
Nor do I want to buy in on a blind
tape with a showgirl?

Speaker 2 (04:00:56):
What a proposition?

Speaker 18 (04:00:57):
I want my feet, but two at bucks? You want
to cut out my heart. I'm only two hours in
the fresh air, right, golling, mister Biffle, Give me a
little time to work out a few angles.

Speaker 2 (04:01:08):
You and your wrangles angles.

Speaker 18 (04:01:10):
Got me out of the bug house, didn't it.

Speaker 2 (04:01:12):
You mean you mean that riot there?

Speaker 18 (04:01:15):
You mean you mean you plan that sive me.

Speaker 2 (04:01:18):
You made book.

Speaker 18 (04:01:19):
In a nutthouse, got all the attendants and queries to bet,
and then when you.

Speaker 1 (04:01:23):
Couldn't pay you off and that riot started.

Speaker 18 (04:01:26):
You did all that as an angle, certainly so I
could telephone you during the helpless joper, so you could
spring me. H Kenny, Kenny, what's actually carrying that?

Speaker 1 (04:01:35):
That that violin case?

Speaker 2 (04:01:37):
Are you really crazy?

Speaker 18 (04:01:38):
What's with the violin case? It's my suitcase. I wanted
flipping a two headed quarter. It's a long story, but look,
don't you see? And now I'm absolutely up the creek.
So if you'll just give me a little time, I know,
two seats shut up. I look, Kenny, while I repeat myself,
I sprung you from a bird cage. You are a
sharp guy with a million angles, So I'll give you
just twenty four hours to raise me my fee. I

(04:02:00):
don't care how you get it, but if you don't,
I'll bounce you right back from whence you came the nuthouse.
So I'm on the way back to the nuthouse unless
I raise two seas my only assets, won my violin
case and two a blind date I had transacted over

(04:02:23):
the phone for eight o'clock that night with a ravishing
little pancake at the Square Circle Cafe one Nicky passions
by name. Well, I saunt this around the stem, up
and down, down and up, but all my fair weather
pals button up when I mentioned a touch. I even
offer to let blinches Mylloy the bookie buy in on
a piece of my blind date, but no soap. So

(04:02:46):
finally I enters a bar and grilled to avoid the freeze.
And this is where the horrible climax begins. I'm standing
at the bar and suddenly a mysterious looking character slides
up and make two hundred bucks, No kidding, two hundred bucks.
Who do I have to mte it?

Speaker 85 (04:03:06):
Guy named Kenny An, come again, you're an out of
town torpedo.

Speaker 14 (04:03:10):
Humpha to all right, I'm Pinko's show to.

Speaker 85 (04:03:14):
The Corelli You've probably hurd of me big Al Corelli's.

Speaker 14 (04:03:18):
Right hand man.

Speaker 18 (04:03:19):
Oh sure, sure, I heard you.

Speaker 85 (04:03:22):
Two s not another dime to tell the truth. I
was supposed to have bumped the character personally for the
big as Oh but you know, I'm.

Speaker 14 (04:03:30):
Kept pretty busy this than that.

Speaker 29 (04:03:32):
And city Hall.

Speaker 85 (04:03:34):
Personally, I don't know the character. He may be a
real nice guy for all I know.

Speaker 18 (04:03:38):
Oh yeah, that's rights you. You're absolutely right, Pinkle. He
might be a very nice guy.

Speaker 14 (04:03:43):
Yeah maybe, but he threw big.

Speaker 85 (04:03:44):
Al a couple of bumps tips at the track would
set the boss back, Kenny, I give big l the word.
The character is rubbed out, but luck's still running bad.

Speaker 14 (04:03:52):
So big Al would like to visit.

Speaker 29 (04:03:54):
The tipster's grave just to be sure.

Speaker 14 (04:03:57):
And there ain't even a corpus yet, you.

Speaker 85 (04:03:58):
See, I see. I figured it'd be cleaner all around.
Let him outside to a pedo like you do the job.
By the way, what's your name?

Speaker 14 (04:04:07):
What have you from?

Speaker 18 (04:04:08):
I'm I'm Chicago, Louis from Chicago.

Speaker 14 (04:04:12):
No, well to me, Yeah, and you're just the boy
to do the job.

Speaker 18 (04:04:17):
Wait, wait, just just let me just think it over her.

Speaker 80 (04:04:19):
Make it.

Speaker 18 (04:04:21):
Most unusual proposition. But two seas why I'll pay off
that lousy foful.

Speaker 29 (04:04:28):
Maybe I can wangle the fee in advance.

Speaker 18 (04:04:31):
Hey, how as long as I keep gunning for myself
instead of Pinko doing it, I'm alive too, sees maybe
I can hagle this thing somehow.

Speaker 14 (04:04:41):
Well, Louis, what do you say, I'll do it.

Speaker 18 (04:04:44):
Good, Louis, I like it in advance.

Speaker 12 (04:04:48):
Oh yeah, I'll give you a fin balance when the
corpet is shown.

Speaker 14 (04:04:52):
Oh now, put you with the finger.

Speaker 29 (04:04:55):
Who's the finger?

Speaker 85 (04:04:56):
A sleeping prayer at the Square Circuit Cafe. She's one
of the mom that's sugar man, Nikky passion.

Speaker 84 (04:05:02):
Nicky passion.

Speaker 85 (04:05:03):
Right, she's in on the trap. You go there before
Kenny shows up, and she would put a finger on him,
mow him down.

Speaker 18 (04:05:25):
Come in, uh, this miss passion stretching room. Yeah, why,
I'm a Chicago Louis from Chicago.

Speaker 39 (04:05:35):
Oh so you're him.

Speaker 84 (04:05:38):
You don't look like a torpedo. Come on in, Thanks,
thank god, thank God. Just told me you were coming
to do the job part the body and the violin case.

Speaker 19 (04:05:51):
Thanks.

Speaker 84 (04:05:52):
The Sucker's do here in ten minutes. It's a blind date. See,
but I'll know him by his voice when he knocks
all open the door and then let them have it.

Speaker 13 (04:06:02):
Catch.

Speaker 46 (04:06:03):
Yeah, I catch miss Passions.

Speaker 84 (04:06:06):
You're cute, killer five, don'ty wire while I change over
behind the screen.

Speaker 83 (04:06:13):
There no speaking, Louis, did you catch my ass?

Speaker 9 (04:06:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 84 (04:06:22):
You as swell, yes, sweet, you're beginning to do things
to me.

Speaker 27 (04:06:30):
You want to drink kept yourself?

Speaker 84 (04:06:32):
It's on my dressing table.

Speaker 29 (04:06:35):
What the heck am I throwing here? Under the circumstances
I belong in that house after alone, when I'm still
riding those two seas. There must be an angle somewhere.
You know, A good thing? I put on these smoke
glasses from the five and dime.

Speaker 84 (04:06:50):
Well here I am again. Do you like me in
this gown?

Speaker 7 (04:06:55):
Lily?

Speaker 36 (04:06:56):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (04:06:57):
What there is of it?

Speaker 29 (04:06:58):
Mispatience?

Speaker 20 (04:07:00):
Like the material?

Speaker 29 (04:07:02):
Oh, mispassions? I have long desired an interview with you.

Speaker 84 (04:07:11):
Okay, now let's get down the business. He'll be here
in a few minutes. Take it out and set it
up up artillery from the violin case, but going with
the Mattie, your chicken hearted. Take it behind the screen
there and set it up. You can side to the
crack and shoot.

Speaker 85 (04:07:26):
Through the screen.

Speaker 29 (04:07:27):
Oh I see behind the screen.

Speaker 7 (04:07:29):
Huh yeah?

Speaker 20 (04:07:35):
Oh trigger?

Speaker 1 (04:07:37):
Good?

Speaker 84 (04:07:38):
Okay, stay at the table out there. We'll let you
know when we need you.

Speaker 27 (04:07:42):
Who is that just trigger?

Speaker 39 (04:07:43):
Haynes?

Speaker 84 (04:07:44):
One of the boys. Think I'll set him to hang around?
Will you plug the horse player? Then, he'll get rid
of the body.

Speaker 18 (04:07:50):
I think I'll take a walk around.

Speaker 84 (04:07:51):
The bread Come here and have a drink.

Speaker 48 (04:07:56):
We got a minute.

Speaker 18 (04:07:58):
There's actually a guy in a cafe waiting to dispose
my I mean Kenny's body.

Speaker 2 (04:08:02):
There where things lined up.

Speaker 18 (04:08:04):
It's Louis.

Speaker 84 (04:08:06):
Yeah, could be a nerve to Nikki and Louis.

Speaker 52 (04:08:13):
Huh know what I mean?

Speaker 29 (04:08:16):
Nikki and Louie, have you got an ashburn?

Speaker 21 (04:08:20):
Bottomed up?

Speaker 15 (04:08:24):
Yah?

Speaker 16 (04:08:27):
What have you done to me?

Speaker 20 (04:08:29):
You will know well enough?

Speaker 18 (04:08:34):
No, no, And I and me fall in love with you?

Speaker 14 (04:08:36):
You heel, Nikki, I can hardly believe.

Speaker 37 (04:08:42):
In a minute I laid eye dan you.

Speaker 2 (04:08:45):
Oh Louis, will you give me a break?

Speaker 29 (04:08:48):
Oh Nikki, I'm already crazy about you, though you were
so unusual.

Speaker 18 (04:08:53):
Wats his name again?

Speaker 17 (04:08:54):
Travel a lot a drink?

Speaker 27 (04:08:58):
You know, I'm surprised, you very surprised.

Speaker 14 (04:09:02):
Why Nikki, baby.

Speaker 84 (04:09:04):
You got against poor Kenny and we're.

Speaker 18 (04:09:06):
Nothing, nothing at all, honest?

Speaker 37 (04:09:08):
And did you do such a thing?

Speaker 38 (04:09:11):
That's your cool?

Speaker 18 (04:09:12):
Blooded killers?

Speaker 84 (04:09:14):
Bumping off of passion or revenge is so far they
can understand. But you never even laid.

Speaker 2 (04:09:19):
Eyes on him.

Speaker 25 (04:09:22):
I promised me this to be a last job.

Speaker 84 (04:09:25):
Louis and then you'll go straight with me.

Speaker 18 (04:09:28):
Oh sure, I'll even be glad to even skip this
job if you say so. No, no, this last one,
the big als, Nikki. I don't think it will be
necessary to kill this guy Kenny. After all this, I
don't think he'll even show.

Speaker 84 (04:09:43):
Oh yes, yes he will any second.

Speaker 14 (04:09:45):
Now.

Speaker 27 (04:09:45):
It's eight o'clock shot.

Speaker 18 (04:09:47):
I got it straight from my personal grape vine, Nikki show.
Don't worry, Kenny Andrews will never knock at that door.

Speaker 7 (04:09:53):
And you who is it?

Speaker 13 (04:09:56):
Kenny Andrews.

Speaker 83 (04:10:00):
As the curtain falls on Act one of tonight's play,
we find Kenny Andrews about to meet himself face to
face and under the most unusual circumstances.

Speaker 11 (04:10:20):
A dad, Well, not.

Speaker 18 (04:10:21):
So unusual, mister Barnes. There are times when many a
man feels that he's about to murder himself.

Speaker 36 (04:10:27):
Dad.

Speaker 86 (04:10:27):
I don't believe it, but it's true.

Speaker 18 (04:10:29):
For instance, shaving is practically suicide for some men, especially
if they have wiry whiskers or a tender skin. And
yet it needn't be That's right. Men, If you want
a smooth.

Speaker 82 (04:10:40):
Slick shave, use Molay, the heavier brushly shaving cream for
tender skin. Yes, Molay is a heavier cream, the cream
that not only softens your whiskers, but holds them up
straight while your razor cuts them off.

Speaker 2 (04:10:53):
Close and clean.

Speaker 82 (04:10:55):
With Molay, you shave faster, closer, easier, and you shave painlessly.

Speaker 27 (04:11:01):
Try it.

Speaker 18 (04:11:02):
See if you don't say it's smooth, so smooth, it's.

Speaker 2 (04:11:08):
Sleck so slick. It's a smooth, smooth fleck slag.

Speaker 12 (04:11:12):
Shave you get with m l Ali.

Speaker 82 (04:11:16):
Molay, the heavier brushlely shaving cream for tender skins.

Speaker 2 (04:11:21):
Molay.

Speaker 83 (04:11:26):
This is Jeffrey Bonds, returning you to Act two of
the Further Adventures of Kenny Andrews. We left Kenny, who
is posing as Chicago Louis in Nicky Passion's dressing room.
Kenny is startled and confused by a voice outside the
door that has shouted Kenny Andrews, it's him.

Speaker 84 (04:11:44):
Louis watchable a kid's hit behind the screen.

Speaker 15 (04:11:47):
Quick.

Speaker 18 (04:11:47):
What do would I say.

Speaker 84 (04:11:49):
When he comes in?

Speaker 27 (04:11:49):
Mohem, Donald, come in? Kent Hi you.

Speaker 84 (04:12:00):
Yeah, I thought you were hiding out.

Speaker 2 (04:12:06):
Now I had to take that chance.

Speaker 18 (04:12:08):
I had to see my little Nikki again.

Speaker 2 (04:12:10):
I get so I.

Speaker 84 (04:12:11):
Was the idea saying you were Kenny inn Oh.

Speaker 9 (04:12:14):
That just then the plumb pink O plugged.

Speaker 18 (04:12:18):
A little lace track tout for me a couple of
weeks ago. So I'm using up for a disguise slippers
another one?

Speaker 84 (04:12:24):
Hey, hey, wait now look, I might as well ken you.
Pinko told you a little white lie. He ain't even
caught up with Kenny Andrews.

Speaker 27 (04:12:31):
What now?

Speaker 84 (04:12:32):
I told you that because he knew you were so sensitive?

Speaker 18 (04:12:36):
You mean that little viamond? Kenny ain't pushing up daisy?

Speaker 2 (04:12:40):
Why?

Speaker 84 (04:12:41):
And if I was, you eyed lambit quick?

Speaker 18 (04:12:43):
You're howk shut up trying to get rid of me?
Ain't Holwyes, nik I know if I'm playing around with
some no hot rob and when I chap would be
follow you?

Speaker 9 (04:12:55):
Who's that?

Speaker 46 (04:12:56):
Who are you screen?

Speaker 2 (04:12:59):
Who's that guy with a violin case?

Speaker 7 (04:13:01):
Nikki?

Speaker 18 (04:13:01):
What's he going behind the screen waiting for you?

Speaker 12 (04:13:09):
Don't say sure?

Speaker 84 (04:13:12):
I can't go hard into the Kenny Andrews job. It's
a frame now the punk stew here any minute. He
made a blind data over the phone me. So Louis,
here's gonna drop him.

Speaker 2 (04:13:20):
You better blow out Chicago, Louis, eh place.

Speaker 18 (04:13:25):
To make your pal the same for you al, I
could swear I met you somewhere and it wasn't Chicago.

Speaker 1 (04:13:35):
You always wear glasses, pal, just when I'm on.

Speaker 18 (04:13:38):
A job, that's all. Somehow your face reminds me of horses.

Speaker 84 (04:13:46):
That's a good one, said Kenny. Now go and fade
both of you all. Hide behind that door there and
don't show your mug.

Speaker 18 (04:13:53):
Louis.

Speaker 84 (04:13:54):
Put that screen back up and get behind the screen and.

Speaker 27 (04:13:56):
Let him have it.

Speaker 2 (04:14:00):
Huh moumdal LOI.

Speaker 25 (04:14:04):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 18 (04:14:06):
Come in, hi, babe, I'm Blintse's Malloy, Blints malloy. Yeah,
the bookie.

Speaker 27 (04:14:15):
What do you want?

Speaker 18 (04:14:16):
Kenny sent me what Kenny Andrews. He cut me in
on a piece of his blind date. Get it by
the neve that loss of people, you and him too. Oh,
come on, Nikki, let me.

Speaker 22 (04:14:30):
Come here and throw this tramp out.

Speaker 18 (04:14:32):
Nick Hey, I know that Willy.

Speaker 38 (04:14:35):
Come out from behind that screen.

Speaker 18 (04:14:36):
And take care of this fresh air. Hey, okay, I'm
going with that voice.

Speaker 56 (04:14:40):
You sure sound familiar?

Speaker 18 (04:14:42):
Why that low life Kenny Andrews that Corps school caniva summon,
shears in my mind, tear.

Speaker 9 (04:14:49):
Im limb from limb.

Speaker 18 (04:14:51):
A wait wait, Nicky, so he's your boyfriend, Kenny.

Speaker 38 (04:14:57):
No, I'll believe me.

Speaker 20 (04:14:58):
I never even late eyes.

Speaker 18 (04:15:00):
That's gotta be him.

Speaker 20 (04:15:01):
Now get back. You all sit behind the screen, lak.

Speaker 18 (04:15:06):
Mow him down.

Speaker 84 (04:15:10):
MS passions come right in.

Speaker 2 (04:15:13):
You'll knowst be Alexander. Pop, my god?

Speaker 13 (04:15:17):
What now?

Speaker 10 (04:15:19):
Get this?

Speaker 16 (04:15:20):
What do you want?

Speaker 2 (04:15:23):
Kenny sent me you two?

Speaker 22 (04:15:26):
Why is this a home week?

Speaker 18 (04:15:28):
That devil goes down that brings you old wolf before
I commit me? No, no, no no, don't, don't, don't
choose what is this? Can you send me a truck?

Speaker 2 (04:15:36):
Ah that anyway?

Speaker 18 (04:15:37):
Till I get my hands on him, I'll throw him
in a vega something. I'll sink him in the East
River so I'll found him back to what this is
all about?

Speaker 46 (04:15:48):
Oh the screen fear domicant.

Speaker 38 (04:15:50):
That's ten, ten years old. Adam in the window he
signed off.

Speaker 18 (04:15:55):
Would pull out his violin case shake, nighty laundry, come back?

Speaker 14 (04:16:00):
Can you come back?

Speaker 24 (04:16:04):
He made it?

Speaker 18 (04:16:04):
Get away?

Speaker 25 (04:16:14):
Why get away?

Speaker 18 (04:16:19):
Coming magician?

Speaker 15 (04:16:26):
No plane?

Speaker 12 (04:16:28):
Fade it and lay me alone?

Speaker 2 (04:16:30):
Such nighty pool help.

Speaker 84 (04:16:32):
Me, Kenny. The cops broke in the place, such as
juice crammed. They gell me to get away, and he's
gone back and hiding.

Speaker 28 (04:16:38):
It's Okay, strike me a fool for that?

Speaker 18 (04:16:40):
What statue carry?

Speaker 20 (04:16:42):
You're underwear?

Speaker 84 (04:16:43):
Here's all out of your violin case?

Speaker 2 (04:16:45):
Thanks?

Speaker 18 (04:16:46):
What do you want anyhow? My life?

Speaker 7 (04:16:48):
I want you, Kenny.

Speaker 84 (04:16:49):
I told you I felt hot to you, didn't I?

Speaker 1 (04:16:51):
You tollally that not me.

Speaker 84 (04:16:53):
Don't be silly. That was just an act. I knew
you was kiddy all the time.

Speaker 22 (04:16:56):
I was just shielding you your fool.

Speaker 84 (04:16:59):
Look, Henny, I give anything a ditch, big Al. I'm
on the level.

Speaker 18 (04:17:03):
It's you I go for.

Speaker 84 (04:17:04):
Give me a chance to prove it. How you still
need those two seas?

Speaker 75 (04:17:08):
And how what?

Speaker 17 (04:17:09):
What?

Speaker 1 (04:17:10):
Five?

Speaker 18 (04:17:10):
I won't do to me now unless I raise it,
nullify the habeashes something?

Speaker 84 (04:17:14):
And why put your job now?

Speaker 20 (04:17:15):
Stick to it?

Speaker 18 (04:17:17):
What you're talking about Big Al's wife?

Speaker 84 (04:17:19):
The body is Pinko listens, Pinko. Shultz don't know anything
what happened to the cafe, and he won't find out
in a hurry either, because the Alice hold up again.
Not Kenny, I can tell you how to collect them
two seas which can start us.

Speaker 29 (04:17:34):
Off in life together.

Speaker 84 (04:17:36):
How to collect them without bumping yourself off at all?

Speaker 18 (04:17:39):
You can't you really get an angle? I've been trying
to try it.

Speaker 84 (04:17:43):
Follow everything I say, exact.

Speaker 2 (04:17:46):
Word for word.

Speaker 16 (04:17:47):
Blind.

Speaker 20 (04:17:49):
Now go to Pinko.

Speaker 84 (04:17:50):
Shultz to the pot, see and you tell.

Speaker 18 (04:18:01):
So I come to collect my two seats, pinkle. I
took care of it a little rat. I rubbed them.

Speaker 85 (04:18:06):
Out pretty sharp, Operator Luis, ain't you what do you mean?
I mean, how do I know you're telling me the truth?
Unless I see a corpus? Well, I told you, tell
me you're true. Kenny's remains in a bag of cement
and sunk the same in the East River. That's right,
But where's the proof? How do I even know there's
a bag of cement in the East River with a
corpus is stuck in it?

Speaker 9 (04:18:26):
Go away?

Speaker 85 (04:18:27):
Now, I want to listen to a radio program.

Speaker 14 (04:18:29):
I don't get any What are you mumbling about?

Speaker 2 (04:18:30):
Go away? Don't put them a police report.

Speaker 11 (04:18:34):
The ghastly discovery of a human corpse just fished out
of the East River. The body had been encased in
a large sack of cement and then tossed into the
East River by.

Speaker 1 (04:18:42):
Some friend discripman. Oh my goodness, vocation has not yet
been made, nor I'll do the police.

Speaker 29 (04:18:47):
Holy Christopher will love you monkeys uncle, you're doing it.
I'll do this, oh big Air'll be tickled.

Speaker 85 (04:18:54):
Oh yeah, okay, then here's your two seas.

Speaker 2 (04:19:09):
Make what do you read?

Speaker 21 (04:19:11):
Well?

Speaker 18 (04:19:11):
You got don't bother to say, my good man, I'll
buy them all.

Speaker 7 (04:19:14):
Oh sure, why not?

Speaker 18 (04:19:16):
Good morning, young You are a financial slave and I
just consumed the clever.

Speaker 7 (04:19:20):
Business deal last night. What's the headline?

Speaker 18 (04:19:22):
You're looking right at it?

Speaker 2 (04:19:23):
Can't you read?

Speaker 4 (04:19:24):
Not?

Speaker 18 (04:19:24):
With my glasses on read away. Fellow East River body
identified the Torius gang leader beg al Corelli's lane. Big mister, Hey,
what's the matter.

Speaker 27 (04:19:45):
Hello?

Speaker 18 (04:19:46):
Yeah, this is Room Through twenty six. Yeah, this is
Kenny Andrews. Hello, I'm not Oh my gosh, it sounded
like pinkle Don and the lobby.

Speaker 27 (04:19:57):
Coming up to get me.

Speaker 18 (04:19:58):
I'm innocent. They tell him, milicento operate, operate to get
me the police quick. A man's life is at stake.
Who is this the police? Oh my golly, they're gonna
take me for a ride, the mob. They think I
was telling No, of course I wasn't. I was telling

(04:20:21):
Kenny Andrews.

Speaker 7 (04:20:22):
Who's this?

Speaker 38 (04:20:23):
This is Kenny andrew I know it.

Speaker 18 (04:20:26):
Sounds mixed up, but look I'm on a scoop.

Speaker 9 (04:20:31):
And reached.

Speaker 18 (04:20:33):
Don't because don't do it that.

Speaker 2 (04:20:34):
Gun my bus when I'm frisking if I was to.

Speaker 27 (04:20:42):
See as you.

Speaker 14 (04:20:44):
Are it is.

Speaker 18 (04:20:46):
I swear I'm clean. It's a mystery.

Speaker 84 (04:20:48):
This whole thing's.

Speaker 14 (04:20:48):
Gotten sing Now why did you do it?

Speaker 18 (04:20:51):
Oh my golly, I'm not even Louis. Oh no, who then,
I'm Kenny Andrews. Honest, you're gonna believe me, nick he
knows or Vicky was here, she'd bounced for it.

Speaker 14 (04:21:02):
Come on in, Nikki, Nicky, why Louis Nicky?

Speaker 84 (04:21:09):
Nicky, tell him the tell this guy who I really
ought to you trying to pull Louis another fast one?
Why did you kill big Al?

Speaker 4 (04:21:16):
Me?

Speaker 19 (04:21:16):
Kill him?

Speaker 18 (04:21:17):
Wicky?

Speaker 11 (04:21:18):
How can you do this to me?

Speaker 84 (04:21:19):
Plug big Al in my dressing room?

Speaker 18 (04:21:21):
Pink O, poor ell Wicky, poor l was pulling from
my face. Such mighty pool.

Speaker 84 (04:21:29):
Pinko, what are you waiting for?

Speaker 2 (04:21:30):
Let him have it. I'm gonna let him have it, Nikki,
after I finish you, what do you mean?

Speaker 14 (04:21:37):
I know you want to big Al out of the way.

Speaker 85 (04:21:39):
And why I've told me see and this was your
chance with dirty Louis here to oblige anyone for the price.

Speaker 18 (04:21:44):
Your little rat pinko.

Speaker 2 (04:21:46):
Shame on you, up you or you'll go first.

Speaker 18 (04:21:48):
She is no right, She's a lady, you pomp a lady.

Speaker 14 (04:21:51):
Wouldn't you? Why do.

Speaker 18 (04:21:59):
I on the wall first? Come casey, you're all under
a wretch for the murder Big al Corelli.

Speaker 83 (04:22:16):
This is Jeffrey Bonds again in just a moment, will
bring you at three of the further Adventures of Kenny Andrews.
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(04:22:37):
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Speaker 2 (04:22:55):
Now.

Speaker 83 (04:22:55):
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(04:23:19):
buy double Andreine at your druggist. Well, all right, squirrel food,
I'm releasing you before I go nuts.

Speaker 2 (04:23:34):
Beat it.

Speaker 29 (04:23:34):
Thanks you inspect you.

Speaker 18 (04:23:36):
We know who killed Corelli, and it wasn't you, nor
was it any of the Corelli gang. Though we're holding
that bad passions dames and accessory Nicky, She's just bad
from the way the world goes Kenny, much as it
grieves me. I'm forced to tell you that you're in
line for your share of the reward for the capture
of the Correlli gang.

Speaker 2 (04:23:53):
How much too, Seas, don't go on get.

Speaker 46 (04:23:55):
Out of here.

Speaker 14 (04:23:56):
We'll expect to wait a minute.

Speaker 18 (04:23:58):
Who did kill Corelli?

Speaker 7 (04:23:59):
If it wasn't any this gang?

Speaker 18 (04:24:00):
You say, you know? Sure you put the finger on him, Kenny,
mehow by your whole daffy act If it wasn't for that,
we'd never think of comparing the fingerprints on that sack
of plaster with those of the real killer. It wouldn't
have occurred to us because we wouldn't have suspected the
real killer was here in town at the time. Who
was it Nikki Passion's secret boyfriend who she put up

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to it all so she and him could get free
of Big l before Al caught up with him. We're
closing in on the killer.

Speaker 2 (04:24:28):
Now, huh?

Speaker 1 (04:24:29):
Who?

Speaker 18 (04:24:29):
I still don't get it.

Speaker 7 (04:24:30):
Who is the killer?

Speaker 13 (04:24:32):
Chicago Louis?

Speaker 9 (04:24:37):
What a break?

Speaker 29 (04:24:38):
What a wind form?

Speaker 2 (04:24:39):
Two seas?

Speaker 36 (04:24:41):
I think?

Speaker 2 (04:24:41):
What is slamil is?

Speaker 18 (04:24:42):
Inspector Roy is looking to capture Chicago Louis is the killer?
When Chicago Louis is a men? Because I am Chicago Louis.
I was only I am and was Kenny Andrews. So
having a hearty laugh at at all. I just come
back to my hotel room just now. As soon as
I get in, there's a ring on the phone.

Speaker 2 (04:25:01):
Hello Kenny Andrews.

Speaker 18 (04:25:04):
Yeah, say your prayers, your lousy right, you're a dead Jert.

Speaker 1 (04:25:09):
I'm about to get you before the cups get me.

Speaker 84 (04:25:12):
But why what for?

Speaker 2 (04:25:14):
What boy you pasonated me?

Speaker 18 (04:25:16):
What forore?

Speaker 2 (04:25:16):
You put the finger on me?

Speaker 1 (04:25:18):
Your bob? My golly? Who is this ch cargo looie
from Chicago?

Speaker 21 (04:25:32):
You see?

Speaker 2 (04:25:33):
Well, you guys listening to me? You're here.

Speaker 18 (04:25:35):
I'm really are a spot now six things should happened
to a dog.

Speaker 1 (04:25:39):
You're laughing?

Speaker 18 (04:25:40):
Huh, it's something to laugh drop dead lock smighter? Might
I get it? Don't just sit there?

Speaker 38 (04:25:47):
You got an angle?

Speaker 1 (04:25:48):
Forward to me for car d Listen to me.

Speaker 19 (04:25:51):
Someone show me an angle.

Speaker 83 (04:26:07):
And now this is Jeffrey Bonds again inviting you to
be with us next week when we present a hard
boiled crime story by Ray Bradbury entitled Killer Come Back
to Me. Richard Widmark, star of the Broadway Theater and Radio,
will be our guest star. So be with us next
week for a thrilling crime adventure.

Speaker 18 (04:26:34):
The original music for the Malay Mystery Theater is composed
and conducted by Alexander Sembler. The Further Adventures of Kenny
Andrews was written by Joseph Ruskolls. Carl Eastman played the
part of Kenny. This is dan Seymour saying good night
until next Friday. At the same time when the Mystery
Theater presents Killer Come Back to Me. This program came

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Speaker 86 (04:27:53):
I've had a toothpaste. I'm sal Hapatica.

Speaker 11 (04:27:56):
Is that mester Destrict Attorney, champion up the paper, defender
of truth, guarding of our fundamental rights to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.

Speaker 2 (04:28:13):
Mister Destrict Attorney, is brought to you.

Speaker 11 (04:28:14):
By Ipana toothpaste and sal Hepatica, Ipana for the smile
of beauty, sal Hupatka for the smile of health, Ipana
sal Hupatika. And it shall be my duty as District Attorney,

(04:28:38):
not only to prosecute to the limit of the law
all persons accused of crimes perpetrated within this county, but
to defend with equal vigor the rights and privileges of
all its citizens. Unit's case of the unknown source is

(04:29:06):
particularly vital, ladies and gentlemen, because it concerns a lawyer,
or at least a man who was once entitled to
practice law. Here, indeed, is an infuriating and sorry spectacle,
a criminal whose mind was keen enough to attain the
privilege of the bar, but warped to the point of
degrading himself and his profession. We begin in the lobby

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of the Revere House, an inexpensive hotel catering to young
career girls here in our city.

Speaker 20 (04:29:34):
Honey, what honey, Parlet's wait up. I just saw you
get out of the elevator. Gee, have I got news?

Speaker 62 (04:29:41):
Oh it's you.

Speaker 20 (04:29:43):
Look I yet you remember, honey, we were talking last night.
We got to front and downstairs. I'm Alice Dratton.

Speaker 27 (04:29:48):
Oh sure I remember, kid.

Speaker 20 (04:29:50):
I'm just in a hurry, that's all.

Speaker 16 (04:29:51):
Oh.

Speaker 20 (04:29:52):
That gentleman sitting over there is waiting for me. Oh
she got a dat.

Speaker 7 (04:29:56):
Gee lucky you.

Speaker 11 (04:29:57):
Huh Oh, well yeah you could say that.

Speaker 20 (04:29:59):
I Well, I'll see you around Alix. Oh, but I
haven't told you. Remember I said I worked in the
District Attorney's office. Oh you remember, honey, I told you
when I came from Sheboygan, I got a job typing there.

Speaker 18 (04:30:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (04:30:11):
Yeah, Well that's just great, kid, But really I've got
to go. Well, this won't take a minute, honey. Well, anyway,
guess what what, Miss Miller. That's the District Attorney's private secretary.
She's gone on a vacation. And what do you think
I'm going to.

Speaker 27 (04:30:25):
Substitute for he?

Speaker 16 (04:30:27):
Isn't it trilling?

Speaker 20 (04:30:28):
I'm going to be the district attorney secretary. H Wait
a minute, you know what can you imagine? I've never
even seen him and I'm going to be right there
in his own private office while Miss Miller's on vacation
the dams.

Speaker 27 (04:30:42):
Are you sure?

Speaker 14 (04:30:43):
Of course?

Speaker 7 (04:30:44):
I'm sure I.

Speaker 40 (04:30:45):
Start tomorrow morning.

Speaker 20 (04:30:46):
Miss Miller came down to the bullpen where all the
type is work and shows me yourself. I see what's
the matter. You don't seem excited about it? Honey, Gee,
A wonderful break like that and everything. I'm just so through.
You've never seen the DA and he's never seen you.
He will tomorrow isn't it wonderful? Yeah, come on, Alice,

(04:31:08):
come on with me, Come awhere, Honey.

Speaker 16 (04:31:11):
I don't understand.

Speaker 20 (04:31:12):
It's just an idea. Oh, Jimmy, Honey, I'm sorry to
keep you waiting.

Speaker 27 (04:31:17):
Jimmy.

Speaker 20 (04:31:18):
This is a girlfriend of mine here in the hotel.
This is Alice, Alice Stratton. Alice Stratton, meet Jimmy. I'm
very pleased to meet you.

Speaker 2 (04:31:26):
Yes, thank you now, then, Honey, shall we be going?

Speaker 20 (04:31:29):
I just wanted you to hear Miss Stratton's good news, Jimmy.
Starting tomorrow morning, she's going to be private secretary to
the District Attorney.

Speaker 16 (04:31:40):
I'm just so thrilled.

Speaker 20 (04:31:41):
His regular private secretary is on vacation and I'm.

Speaker 27 (04:31:44):
Going to substitute for her.

Speaker 2 (04:31:45):
Are you really huh?

Speaker 27 (04:31:47):
I knew you would be interested, Jimmy.

Speaker 20 (04:31:50):
The DA has never seen Alice, and she's never seen him.

Speaker 2 (04:31:54):
You don't say.

Speaker 20 (04:31:55):
I just had to tell Honey about it. Honestly, I'm
so excited why it might lead to just anything.

Speaker 2 (04:32:15):
You're looking for something?

Speaker 11 (04:32:16):
Yes, Harrington, have you any idea where miss Miller keeps
my sunglasses?

Speaker 2 (04:32:20):
Your sunglasses? Yes, usually puts them right here on my desk.
Don't ask me ain't they sending up some girl from
the bullpen.

Speaker 11 (04:32:27):
And no to take miss Miller's place while you're away. Yeah, yes,
I think she did say something about it, and she
said she was coaching the girl during lunch hour.

Speaker 2 (04:32:35):
Yeah, miss Strattoner said something like that. Yes, yes, excuse me,
may I come in? But yes, of course, what is it?

Speaker 27 (04:32:44):
Oh you're the district attorney.

Speaker 2 (04:32:45):
Yes, this is something you wanted.

Speaker 27 (04:32:47):
And you'd be mister Harrington. Oh I've heard about you.
I have, I certainly have.

Speaker 20 (04:32:55):
I'm Alice Stratton from the Bullpen. I wouldn't have been
late my first morning, mister District Attorney. But honestly, this
office is so upside down.

Speaker 11 (04:33:05):
I see you are to work up here while miss
Miller's on vacation.

Speaker 20 (04:33:09):
Yes, although really I don't see how miss Miller got
anything accomplished at all.

Speaker 27 (04:33:14):
Why the files now?

Speaker 20 (04:33:16):
Honestly miss Miller does okay, oh I'm sure she does,
mister Harrington in her way, was there anything.

Speaker 27 (04:33:24):
You wanted, mister district Attorney?

Speaker 11 (04:33:26):
Well, yes, yes, if you will take notes please, I
want to discuss the Nick Venice trial with mister Harring.

Speaker 25 (04:33:33):
Nick Venus.

Speaker 2 (04:33:33):
Yeah, there's a folder on him over on that table,
missus Stratton.

Speaker 27 (04:33:37):
Oh, thank you you are nice.

Speaker 2 (04:33:40):
I am huh yeah, let me see where were we?

Speaker 18 (04:33:45):
Pretty boy?

Speaker 2 (04:33:46):
When's chief? Oh you're going to try on on this way? Yes,
I hope to. I've got just about all our needs. Well,
I ought to be first degree cheap and he sure
put the be on that girlfriend found a folder. Oh yes,
thank you, miss Stratton.

Speaker 12 (04:33:58):
Man.

Speaker 2 (04:33:58):
Now, if you'll just take notes as we talk, yes,
or I will. Yeah. Who's defending him? Chief Venice? Jimmy Appleton?

Speaker 11 (04:34:06):
And he got Nick out on bail on a technicality.

Speaker 2 (04:34:09):
You mean this Appleton Disbard. Yet there's always hope, and
there's for Venice. I think we will have clear Saley. Well,
I'll be glad to check him off my list. Chief.
He gives me the creeps he ought to.

Speaker 11 (04:34:20):
Well, the material I've collected on him is absolutely astounding.
The fellow's ignorant, rude, arrogant, definitely below normal.

Speaker 2 (04:34:28):
And then hell are telling me I was downstairs the
night they booked him cheap? Why that guy even wears perfume?

Speaker 11 (04:34:34):
Yes, I know that's part of the picture. Big gun coup,
ignorant killer dressed in a loud suit. The fifty dollar
necktie and wreaking of cheap violet.

Speaker 32 (04:34:42):
Perfect.

Speaker 11 (04:34:43):
This is going to be some trial that's not underestimated. However, Harrington,
Jimmy Appleton is a tricky defender.

Speaker 2 (04:34:50):
And that's a mild word for it.

Speaker 27 (04:34:52):
Appleton is there.

Speaker 2 (04:34:53):
That's right. You'll find the name in the poler.

Speaker 11 (04:34:55):
Oh, thank you, I promise you. Lis Harrington Appleton can
pull all the tricks he knows in that courtroom. And
I'm still going to nail Nick Venice cold.

Speaker 86 (04:35:14):
Put the food on that table, Nick, No, no, no,
that table over but the girl I know, Jimmy, Yeah,
that's right now. I'm tired, William.

Speaker 2 (04:35:24):
Listen what am I around here? To my client?

Speaker 11 (04:35:27):
Nick, remember in my hands in that courtroom tomorrowize the
answer to whether you live or die?

Speaker 12 (04:35:32):
You're get in paint with shed you amuse me? Nick?

Speaker 86 (04:35:36):
On time's threaton Please, I am excellent. Now the gag
from my.

Speaker 2 (04:35:41):
Mouth if you please? Oh still, baby, get away from me.
You're just untying your baby.

Speaker 14 (04:35:48):
Hey they're okay, you know hey.

Speaker 2 (04:35:53):
You Jimmy, okay, get away from me.

Speaker 86 (04:35:57):
Come now, Alice. I have to think after twenty four
hours would be calmed down.

Speaker 2 (04:36:01):
There's food on that table.

Speaker 27 (04:36:03):
I demand to know the meaning of this.

Speaker 20 (04:36:04):
If you can't keep me here like a prisoner.

Speaker 2 (04:36:06):
Oh, yes he can. Baby, Hey, you're like violent, perfume smile,
don't touch me, natural, Nick, we leave Alice alone in
here to enjoy her dinner.

Speaker 25 (04:36:16):
You can't do this.

Speaker 20 (04:36:16):
I can't.

Speaker 38 (04:36:17):
You let me out of here in due.

Speaker 86 (04:36:18):
Time, Alice. Until then, do try to relax.

Speaker 12 (04:36:20):
Won't you come Nick?

Speaker 9 (04:36:21):
This way?

Speaker 2 (04:36:22):
She's okay, you know, well, he's smooth.

Speaker 20 (04:36:25):
Come back here, then, what she's fussing about?

Speaker 2 (04:36:29):
Now, honey, my dear, I didn't realize you'd come home.

Speaker 6 (04:36:32):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (04:36:32):
Nick, Hey, your girlfriend she's okay? How is she?

Speaker 27 (04:36:36):
Jimmy?

Speaker 11 (04:36:36):
Alice confused, I'd say, I hardly think she realizes what
we've done.

Speaker 27 (04:36:41):
Neither does the DA. Oh it's a tough record being
as secretary.

Speaker 20 (04:36:46):
Again, I've been ed since nine o'clock this morning.

Speaker 86 (04:36:48):
He assumes you're Alice Stratton.

Speaker 7 (04:36:50):
Of course he does.

Speaker 9 (04:36:52):
Good.

Speaker 11 (04:36:54):
Now, then about our client here me. You needn't bother
time to follow this, Nick rest assured eye have your
interest at heart?

Speaker 2 (04:37:01):
A chicken me? You know she's later.

Speaker 27 (04:37:04):
Well, honey, you've worked on next case all day.

Speaker 2 (04:37:07):
Will you shoot with me?

Speaker 27 (04:37:09):
There's the envelope.

Speaker 2 (04:37:10):
It contains what I want.

Speaker 20 (04:37:11):
Yeah, the works, his brief, copies of his notes, copies
of his plan for trial, description of all his evidence, everything,
And I made an extra copy of everything.

Speaker 27 (04:37:19):
I typed for him.

Speaker 2 (04:37:20):
Splendid, honey, splendid.

Speaker 27 (04:37:22):
I I've been a busy girl to me. Do I
get a reward?

Speaker 2 (04:37:28):
My dear child? Can I go in and talk to her?

Speaker 18 (04:37:30):
No?

Speaker 12 (04:37:31):
Maybe she's known Nick.

Speaker 2 (04:37:35):
Ask for your question, honey, The answer is yes.

Speaker 86 (04:37:39):
Keep on being Alice Stratton, my love, and you will
get everything your heart desires.

Speaker 27 (04:37:55):
How you'd be surprised, mister Harrington?

Speaker 20 (04:37:58):
Why I've saved every slipping about you from the newspapers
you have, Miss Stretton.

Speaker 27 (04:38:04):
I certainly have.

Speaker 20 (04:38:05):
Oh you'll laugh. But I've even got a picture of
you pasted on my dresser.

Speaker 27 (04:38:09):
At my hotel.

Speaker 20 (04:38:10):
No kidding, the picture of me bo I told you
you'd laugh. Incidentally, my name's Alice.

Speaker 2 (04:38:18):
Yeah, you're here.

Speaker 27 (04:38:21):
You had some calls, mister district attorney.

Speaker 2 (04:38:25):
Just oh, miss Stretton?

Speaker 11 (04:38:28):
Yes, will you tell me whoever's waiting?

Speaker 2 (04:38:29):
I be delayed?

Speaker 43 (04:38:30):
Please?

Speaker 2 (04:38:31):
I want to talk to mister Harringon.

Speaker 20 (04:38:32):
You'll be delayed, Yes, I'll tell them right away.

Speaker 2 (04:38:36):
You'll worry, chief. Nothing went wrong over that court hout.

Speaker 11 (04:38:39):
Did Harrings And I simply can't understand it. I had
to ask the court of recess until tomorrow morning.

Speaker 2 (04:38:45):
I'm the Nick Venice track. Yes, I thought there was
all set.

Speaker 12 (04:38:48):
Up chairs it was.

Speaker 11 (04:38:49):
That's just the point. And so helped me and Jimmy
Apple was prepared for every move I made. Why, I
tell you it was uncanny, almost as if a man
had read my mind. He even knew I intended to
put the cab driver on this Tand first, what, oh.

Speaker 2 (04:39:04):
Chef, he couldn't it. Boy, he only decided that yesterday.
Oh he knew it.

Speaker 11 (04:39:08):
Yes, and he had prepared notes on his objections. I'll
tell you, harringson he was me, I'm understanding you got
a delay, you said just until tomorrow morning. I don't
get it, Harrington, I just don't understand this at all.

Speaker 86 (04:39:37):
On what he burned up his face was a sight
that's delightful.

Speaker 2 (04:39:42):
And how did he spend the afternoon?

Speaker 20 (04:39:44):
He made a whole new set of plans when coin
opens in the morning.

Speaker 12 (04:39:47):
Do you have a copy?

Speaker 20 (04:39:48):
Yes, I put it on your desk.

Speaker 2 (04:39:49):
Wonderful, simply wonderful.

Speaker 20 (04:39:52):
Oh and this Harrington character. He was telling the DA
about some raid he's going to pull the night.

Speaker 27 (04:39:57):
Oh yeah, he's going to.

Speaker 20 (04:39:59):
Knock over the Green Hat Club at nine o'clock.

Speaker 86 (04:40:02):
That's interesting. Remind me to call lou Woodrup.

Speaker 2 (04:40:05):
I'm almost sure I can sell in that information.

Speaker 20 (04:40:08):
Hi, honey, h well, if it isn't a boy, Nick.

Speaker 86 (04:40:12):
But I told you to stay off the street.

Speaker 2 (04:40:13):
Nick been going on an arm. I was getting the papers,
my pictures all over.

Speaker 86 (04:40:17):
I've seen the papers.

Speaker 2 (04:40:18):
Now will you leave us alone, please, honey?

Speaker 12 (04:40:20):
And I want to work, not in there.

Speaker 2 (04:40:22):
I was just gonna see if she's staighty or something.

Speaker 20 (04:40:24):
Oh, Jimmy, how's the kid by the way, somewhat difficult?

Speaker 2 (04:40:27):
Em Jimmy, I won't bother her nothing, all right?

Speaker 12 (04:40:31):
Oh yes, go on, go on.

Speaker 2 (04:40:33):
She's some dish you know, got a red dress too.

Speaker 11 (04:40:36):
I like her now, then, honey, I think first we'll
go over the eminent sisters attorney's plan for tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (04:40:43):
Hey, hey, little girl, you're your sleep or something?

Speaker 19 (04:40:47):
What do you want?

Speaker 2 (04:40:48):
No need to get on your high horse. Sister just
came in to talk to you.

Speaker 20 (04:40:53):
What do you want in the world is happening to me?

Speaker 2 (04:40:57):
Come on, come on, sit down and be comfortable.

Speaker 86 (04:40:59):
Please, and on, why don't you?

Speaker 2 (04:41:01):
Hey, hey, you like perfume smell.

Speaker 20 (04:41:06):
Your name is Nick, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (04:41:08):
You don't mean you ain't never heard of me. I'm
Nick Vennis.

Speaker 20 (04:41:11):
Listen, Nick, you can help me. Please help me, Nick.

Speaker 22 (04:41:14):
I'm scared.

Speaker 2 (04:41:15):
That's no way to be a little girl like you.
You're okay, you know, kid.

Speaker 38 (04:41:22):
You will help me.

Speaker 20 (04:41:23):
You'll tell me what they're gonna do to me.

Speaker 2 (04:41:24):
You nice kid, you're nice and time.

Speaker 86 (04:41:27):
Please come ob away, I said, don't pull away from
me like that.

Speaker 27 (04:41:31):
You're hurting my wrist.

Speaker 2 (04:41:32):
Go on, go on, pull I can break your wrists
just by squeezing my fingers together. Help I shut up?

Speaker 86 (04:41:40):
You want to get Jimmy soreping you lousy little cat.

Speaker 2 (04:41:43):
Shut up.

Speaker 20 (04:41:43):
I won't shut up.

Speaker 19 (04:41:44):
I won't.

Speaker 12 (04:41:47):
Know.

Speaker 84 (04:41:47):
You'll leave me alone.

Speaker 86 (04:41:48):
You think they slap me in the kid, so when
you come back, get out of here.

Speaker 83 (04:41:51):
Get out nobody slap.

Speaker 2 (04:41:53):
Snickky venace, little girl, But nobody come here.

Speaker 40 (04:41:55):
I didn't mean it.

Speaker 22 (04:41:57):
Please please want to leave me alone?

Speaker 2 (04:42:00):
Going to hit nobody? The dame smacked me with you.
What's the world's going on in here?

Speaker 12 (04:42:09):
Hick, honey, come in here.

Speaker 86 (04:42:11):
Listen, Jimmy, it's crazy, makes you honey?

Speaker 38 (04:42:14):
What's the mare of Jimmy?

Speaker 7 (04:42:14):
Did you want.

Speaker 9 (04:42:17):
It?

Speaker 27 (04:42:18):
What's the idea?

Speaker 7 (04:42:19):
What happened to him?

Speaker 86 (04:42:20):
I've been trying to tell you, guys, got mad as
something Jimmy would be Okay, okay, you blundering boo.

Speaker 12 (04:42:30):
This girl is dead.

Speaker 11 (04:42:47):
Alice Stratton innocent victim and a monstrous plot dead. Well
hear what happens next to this unusual case in just
a moment.

Speaker 2 (04:42:56):
But first, here's an important question.

Speaker 40 (04:42:58):
Tell me who should know best the difference between toothpaste?

Speaker 11 (04:43:02):
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your dentist has become your authority on the care of
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Speaker 2 (04:43:16):
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Speaker 11 (04:43:18):
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Speaker 2 (04:44:41):
Well, then she is cheap. Nobody's touched the body since
I threw a blanket over it. You've been here? How long?
Has twenty minutes? Chief? And I try to get in
touch with you right away.

Speaker 11 (04:44:51):
But Strem girl dressed like that in the district likeness.

Speaker 2 (04:44:56):
Yeah, she's no water front character, Chief to twenty three
or so?

Speaker 14 (04:45:01):
When you see, yes, something like that.

Speaker 2 (04:45:04):
If you checked the labor.

Speaker 7 (04:45:05):
Oder, Hanson, I was doing that when you drove up cheap.

Speaker 87 (04:45:08):
We can't get much on tire marks. All the trucks
in the south end of town. Dump here into the river. Yes,
I know, of course the dame was little, whoever she is,
and somebody could have scared her from that alleyway got
scared and didn't even drop.

Speaker 2 (04:45:22):
Herint the water?

Speaker 11 (04:45:24):
What about because of that?

Speaker 2 (04:45:25):
I don't know your guests as good as mine.

Speaker 9 (04:45:27):
Chief.

Speaker 87 (04:45:27):
Look, she's got a terrific bump here on the back
of her head, and it looks like a broken jaw.

Speaker 2 (04:45:34):
I bet either one of them could have done it.

Speaker 11 (04:45:36):
That's why we will get the examples of penny money
he gets here. What about identification out of thing?

Speaker 2 (04:45:41):
Chief, No purse, no gloves, not even tore the label
out of our jacket.

Speaker 11 (04:45:45):
Oh, and that's another reason I told you I to
have a look.

Speaker 2 (04:45:48):
This is strictly a professional job.

Speaker 11 (04:45:51):
Yes, yes, it seems to be. Well, let's get to
work on it.

Speaker 2 (04:45:55):
Hangs, I tell you I just tapped to a little. Jimmy,
I don't mean no harm.

Speaker 86 (04:46:11):
Arm girl dead. Nick, don't you understand that you're on
file for murdering one girl?

Speaker 12 (04:46:15):
You kill another?

Speaker 11 (04:46:16):
Nobody knows it, Jimmy, we got rid of the body,
didn't we I know it my friend, and don't forget that.

Speaker 12 (04:46:21):
Yeah, so what do I pay you for?

Speaker 86 (04:46:24):
I am an attorney, Nick, not your personal bodyguard. I
resent anything like this happening in my apartment, So go
ahead and resent. I got to that is beside the point.
I've got to come up against the district attorney in
court in the morning.

Speaker 2 (04:46:36):
This kind of thing unnerves me. You'll take care of
the da. Honey got you all adoped, didn't she?

Speaker 11 (04:46:43):
You live a simple life, Nick. How you managed to
survive is remarkable. I got a smart lawyer, my dear boy.
I hope and pray you're right. Yes, doctor, and if

(04:47:07):
I'm not here, Harringson will be yes, yes, call as
soon as you can, will you please?

Speaker 1 (04:47:13):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (04:47:13):
And one thing more, will you send a bad report
you did on the victim of the Nick Venice murdered? Yeah, yes,
that's right the waitress. Yes, thank you doctor. Oh, come in, Harringson.

Speaker 2 (04:47:26):
And I was just going to phone for Chief. I
got something that I haven't much time here. O. Chief
listened to.

Speaker 87 (04:47:32):
This kid we found down by the river last night. Yes,
Skippy took a set of fingerprints off the body. So
I checked him against the master file and get this Chief.

Speaker 2 (04:47:43):
That girl is Alice Stratton.

Speaker 11 (04:47:46):
Alice Stratton, Yeah, harringson, what are you talking?

Speaker 2 (04:47:49):
So help me? Chief, that's true. The kid we found
dead last night is supposed to be your secretary while
miss Miller's on vacation.

Speaker 11 (04:47:56):
That's impossible. Stratton is right outside. I was just going
to send for Chief.

Speaker 2 (04:48:00):
It's a positive identification, you know yourself. All the employees
around here have the printing. The master checked carefully, carefully.
I checked four times. I couldn't believe it myself. Well,
and this girl outside is.

Speaker 43 (04:48:13):
Say wait a.

Speaker 87 (04:48:15):
Minute, she are you thinking what I'm thinking about?

Speaker 2 (04:48:18):
How Jimmy Appleton knows so much about what goes on
in this office lately? Spy done?

Speaker 11 (04:48:23):
If Appleton is connected with that raid then backfired.

Speaker 2 (04:48:26):
Last night, I did, Chief.

Speaker 87 (04:48:27):
Yes, he's a personal friend of Woodriff, the guy that
owns the joint.

Speaker 11 (04:48:32):
This is beginning to come clean, isn't it, Herrington, Appleton's
success in court and the empty gambling club when you
stayed the raid clean.

Speaker 2 (04:48:40):
I'm going to pin that little girl to the wall.
Get her in here, Chief, Let's find out what this
is now. Let's wave Herrington.

Speaker 9 (04:48:47):
Let's wait.

Speaker 2 (04:48:47):
Wait with that dame out there spying on your chief. Why,
there's no telling who she is. We can tell, all right.

Speaker 11 (04:48:55):
I think we will play this young lady right into
our hands.

Speaker 12 (04:49:10):
I can't believe it, honey.

Speaker 2 (04:49:12):
Are you sure you copied this acridly?

Speaker 27 (04:49:13):
Jimmy, I tell you. He said it himself.

Speaker 20 (04:49:15):
He dictated the memo and then went out.

Speaker 2 (04:49:16):
To the courthouse, leaving Harrington in the office.

Speaker 27 (04:49:19):
He's still there.

Speaker 14 (04:49:19):
I guess.

Speaker 27 (04:49:20):
I said.

Speaker 20 (04:49:21):
I had a sick headache and had to come home.

Speaker 2 (04:49:22):
What's it all about, Jimmy, I didn't kill it.

Speaker 11 (04:49:24):
It seems Nick, we're about to have a visit from
the district attorney here. It's your play, so he informed, honey,
when he dictated a memo this morning.

Speaker 2 (04:49:32):
Are you sure, honey, I tell you.

Speaker 20 (04:49:33):
He said he was coming here at eight o'clock tonight
with new evidence against NICKI me, what's.

Speaker 14 (04:49:37):
The bum up with me?

Speaker 2 (04:49:38):
Your life?

Speaker 12 (04:49:39):
NICKI?

Speaker 2 (04:49:40):
I don't like this. I don't like it at all.

Speaker 20 (04:49:41):
You think I do that?

Speaker 27 (04:49:44):
Right now?

Speaker 2 (04:49:44):
You got to slip out the back way, certainly be
confused to find you here?

Speaker 20 (04:49:48):
Confused? Are you kidding?

Speaker 2 (04:49:50):
Hey, somebody's at the door, Jimmy, all right, big comedy,
No don't go matter if someone posted downstairs.

Speaker 20 (04:49:57):
I can't stay here into the other room and keep
the door shut. Go on here, for Pete's sake, watch it, Jimmy,
this isn't close.

Speaker 32 (04:50:03):
What do you want me to do?

Speaker 2 (04:50:05):
Just it's still Nick, And don't say a word.

Speaker 11 (04:50:09):
Eh, Why it's my esteemed colleague, mister district attorney, I command,
mister Revelton.

Speaker 12 (04:50:15):
It's late.

Speaker 11 (04:50:16):
I know eight nonsense. Oh you know my client, of course, vividly.
As a matter of fact, Nick, it's about you and
I've come. What's that means, Jimmy, this is a business call. There,
I'm disappointed, or you won't be apple to. I have
here a rather interesting document, a completely new kind of
evidence against Nick in this sandlope.

Speaker 2 (04:50:38):
May I see it at this time?

Speaker 39 (04:50:40):
No?

Speaker 2 (04:50:41):
Sorry, let Jimmy see it. On Venus, you heard me
hand it over to him.

Speaker 12 (04:50:47):
Pick for down that gun?

Speaker 11 (04:50:48):
Yes, Venus, isn't it unwise to draw a gun in
your circumstances?

Speaker 2 (04:50:52):
I said, hand it over. I'll show you why I
got this gun. Wise guy, I'm getting sick of to see.

Speaker 12 (04:50:58):
Now we're going to play this game.

Speaker 2 (04:50:59):
My way with a gun. That's right, Doc.

Speaker 11 (04:51:10):
They're sure I've been waiting here ever since the chief left.

Speaker 2 (04:51:13):
M Yeah, yeah, I get that right. No, No, that's
all he wants to know.

Speaker 9 (04:51:20):
Huh, do I know what to do now?

Speaker 2 (04:51:25):
Deck? We got this one time to the second?

Speaker 11 (04:51:37):
May I put down my hands neck. I assure you
I'm not arm hiding in the sky. I need hardly
w DA.

Speaker 86 (04:51:43):
I'm not responsible for my client's actions. I washed my
hands in it.

Speaker 2 (04:51:46):
You piped down two? What do you intend to do now?

Speaker 9 (04:51:50):
Nick?

Speaker 2 (04:51:51):
Or May I offer a suggestion?

Speaker 13 (04:51:53):
Huh?

Speaker 11 (04:51:54):
Ask the young lady to come out of that bedroom. Oh,
there's no need to look surprised, Appleton, I mean miss
miss Well, there's a question about her name.

Speaker 2 (04:52:06):
Honey, pick shut up.

Speaker 9 (04:52:07):
I'm sick of this.

Speaker 7 (04:52:08):
I'm pulling out of hip.

Speaker 12 (04:52:09):
But good Hey, don't tell me you got rid of it.

Speaker 11 (04:52:13):
Oh well, missus Tratton, you do seem to get around Jimmy.

Speaker 27 (04:52:18):
What's the idea?

Speaker 86 (04:52:18):
It's making a fool of himself?

Speaker 12 (04:52:20):
Da, I give you my word.

Speaker 86 (04:52:21):
I know nothing of all this.

Speaker 2 (04:52:22):
Nothing, you'll pipe down.

Speaker 12 (04:52:24):
I gotta take a part of you.

Speaker 11 (04:52:25):
Got me go o to what Nick is in the
act of escaping? I think you might say, young lady, Oh,
I have a suggestion, Nick, if you're interested in Yeah what,
there's a rather interesting memo in that envelope I'm brought
with me.

Speaker 9 (04:52:38):
Why not read it?

Speaker 12 (04:52:39):
Nuts to it?

Speaker 9 (04:52:39):
I look shy through.

Speaker 11 (04:52:40):
I want though, you know I ain't got any catch
around here?

Speaker 27 (04:52:42):
Did you say memo?

Speaker 13 (04:52:44):
What?

Speaker 27 (04:52:44):
Memo?

Speaker 11 (04:52:45):
One you couldn't have coped in for mister Appleton? Here,
missus Tratton, I hadn't prepared after you open it, honey,
this yeah, this will interest all of you. I know
you too, Appleton?

Speaker 9 (04:53:00):
What's in? And Honey, some more about me?

Speaker 27 (04:53:02):
Jimmy, listen, dear, what is it?

Speaker 20 (04:53:04):
Memo to James Appleton, Nick Venice and to my secretary?

Speaker 11 (04:53:09):
Yes, that would mean you, miss Trenton, if you'll open
the door.

Speaker 20 (04:53:14):
Mister Harrington is waiting for you. You are all under
arrest for murder.

Speaker 2 (04:53:19):
Here you're going to put away the gun? Nick? Oh, Hangton,
you're outside, I hear no, Halte Joyce.

Speaker 11 (04:53:27):
Well, Nick, that's matter. It's much better, all right, Hanson.

Speaker 2 (04:53:33):
Oh and will you open the door please? Honey, you
know a competent.

Speaker 11 (04:53:38):
Secretary always does and closes it behind her. Your destrict
attorney will return in just a moment with an explanation
of the clues in the Knight's case.

Speaker 2 (04:53:55):
But first, do you know what this is.

Speaker 18 (04:54:01):
Not?

Speaker 11 (04:54:01):
Lots of people that sound says it's morning again with
a good day ahead, But of course that doesn't mean
every morning for now and then most all of us
wake up feeling dull and logi because we need a laxative.
And that's when another sound is so welcome. Yes, that's
the sparkling sound of sal jupatica in a glass of

(04:54:21):
water sal hupatica. Unlike slow acting laxatives, a sparkling glass
of sal hepatica when you get up brings quick, gentle relief,
usually within an hour. That means you don't have to
feel dull and logi all day, waiting until night to
take the laxative.

Speaker 2 (04:54:38):
You need it in the morning.

Speaker 86 (04:54:39):
And if at the same time you're troubled with excess
gastric acidity, chal hepatica helps sweeten your stomach, so keep a.

Speaker 2 (04:54:45):
Bottle of sal hepatica handy. Then anytime you need.

Speaker 11 (04:54:49):
A laxative morning, noon or night, see how much faster
you feel better thanks to gentle speedies sal hpatica. And
now here is your district attorney I'm happy to report,

(04:55:09):
ladies and gentlemen, and all three members of this unusual trio,
Honey Appleton and Nick Venice, will pay the full penalty
demanded for the murder of Alice Stratton. Yeah, and I'm
happy to say that miss Miller will be back their
job next week.

Speaker 2 (04:55:20):
Chief, Why what a dame? Death? Money was misfortunately, Harrington,
we've seen the last of her. Hey, Chief, why don't
you explain just how you put all the pieces in
this puzzle together?

Speaker 11 (04:55:31):
Well, actually, we didn't connect the murder of Alice Stratton
to Nick Venice until the examiner reported traces of strong
perfume on her body, and not a sense she was wearing,
but one that had apparently clung to her arms from
contact with another person. Violet perfume, Yes, exactly, Harrington, the
same cheap scent Venice wreakedau the same I might add

(04:55:53):
that we found on the waitress he murdered some weeks before.

Speaker 9 (04:55:55):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (04:55:56):
And on top of that, there was a nice clean
set of Nikki's prints dug into Alice's wrists. Harrington, Man,
that just about closed the case. I said, oh, hey,
che what about next week? But our story for.

Speaker 11 (04:56:08):
Next week ladies and gentlemen. Is the case of the athletic, loose, timely,
and dramatic. It's one I'm sure you'll enjoy, and I
invite you to join us for and so until then,
thank you and good night.

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